The Fight for Crystal Tokyo
Author's Notes: Sorry this took so long to put up. I was actually thinking about how to continue this story, but now I do thanks to someone's ingenious idea. Enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 7
Tide-Changing Crystals
"Ouch!" Usagi said closing her big red eyes as the needle punctured the skin of her arm. The other three members of Neo-Queen Serenity's court sat and watched as Ami gave an antibiotic shot to Usagi who was sitting on a couch in the living room. "I still don't see what the problem is." she said opening one eye as the needle left her person.
"What if you would have been hurt?" Neo-Queen Serenity asked rhetorically pacing in front of the couch. "How do you think I... I mean your mother would have felt if we returned you home hurt!"
"It's no big deal." Usagi said sitting up allowing Ami and Makoto to sit on either side of her.
"No big deal!" Serenity repeated. She was shocked even more by what Usagi had said that she stared straight at the young lady. Deep, blue, motherly, concerned eyes met red, ambitious, now regretful eyes. "If you would have just told us that Chibi-Usa was at Ryoku's place instead of Momoko's we would have been alright with that and we would have sent somebody to pick them up." Serenity explained.
"But that would still leave the problem with the guy named Shei, he was there to..."
Interrupting her child, Serenity said, "That isn't any of your concern, Chiba Usagi!" The silence was deafening. All eyes were on everything but Neo-Queen Serenity and the future appearance of her daughter. Even Neo-King Endymion couldn't stand to look. He understood that this was something that could only be solved between mother and daughter. Neo-Queen Serenity looked at her friends and her husband and sighed heavily. "You were sent to help me in the way that I dictate to you. All I need you to do is help me uphold the light and energy of the Silver Crystal. Anything outside of that is something you should let the rest of the Senshi handle." Serenity was to leave the room and as she turned to do so, she heard the girl call out by name.
"Serenity-sama!" Usagi shook with anger and looked at the floor, her eyes and most of her face shadowed. "You don't understand! If I would have let that guy come in, he would have destroyed the building. Ryoku and I... Ryoku and Chibi-Usa would have barely escaped."
The room was silent again and Neo-Queen Serenity looked away from the room and replied rather coldly, "You're not to leave the palace grounds. In the morning, as long as you stay, you will report directly to me." Tears hit the ground as Neo-Queen Serenity left the room.
The room was left in another deafening silence until Video Communicators from Rei and Minako began to go off. "What's going on?" Rei asked the magistrate of her Point. "Giant Crystals?" she asked shutting the V.C. off as the man continued talking. "Usagi, do you know anything about..."
"Tide-Changing Crystals!" Usagi exclaimed. "They're crystal structures that are going to change the tide of energy in Crystal Tokyo. We have to get on it, let's go!" she said touching the brooch on her red bow.
"Sorry Usagi," Neo King Endymion said blocking her access to the exit. "You heard what she said."
"You can't be serious!" Usagi exclaimed taking a seat on the couch.
The women looked at the girl sit down with a huff and took a moment to send sympathetic looks her way. After the moment ended, they all shouted "Senshi transform!" Before Neo-King Endymion were four Sailor Senshi ready to take on the battle before them. "I say we split up." Sailor Venus suggested to her comrades.
"Good idea, Venus," Sailor Jupiter agreed. "I'll go with Mars to Point 3."
"And I'll help you in Point 5, Venus." Sailor Mercury stated nodding at Sailor Venus.
"I'll have Tuxedo Kometto and Tuxedo Asteroid meet up with you." Neo-King Endymion told them. "Go do what you do best, Sailor Senshi." He said smiling as they ran out of the room. "And I think you should go help Serenity with the crystal."
Usagi looked into Endymion's eyes and shook her head disappointedly. "I cannot believe you take her side on this! I'm a Senshi! A full-blown Senshi and now I can't even fight as one! You both are not fair!" Usagi shouted, running past the hurt King Endymion.
How could he not be hurt at her words? All he and his wife were doing was protecting the future picture of their daughter. Endymion sat down on the couch and found a carnation-colored, sealed envelope left where Usagi had been sitting. It had his name on it in kanji except it looked like a child had written it. He opened the letter to find a letter from Neo-Queen Serenity. Endymion blushed as he read the first few words, "You're future self is helping me write better kanji." He almost laughed out loud reading that, remembering the last letter the queen had sent.
"Please take care of my daughter," the letter read. "From the last time you sent her home, she has been working hard on becoming a Senshi just like Sailor Moon. We are proud of her but sometimes are overprotective. She is a blossoming young woman now so please treat her accordingly. Tell Serenity to take it easy on her... I know how hard it is to see your baby grown up. Thank you Endymion. With love, Neo-Queen Serenity."
Neo-King Endymion folded the letter up and put it in his pocket. When he turned around he saw Ryoku and Chibi-Usa at the doorway, with childlike innocence in their eyes, knowing what had just happened. "Who wants some ice cream?" Neo-King Endymion asked.
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The evil man with cotton-candy blue hair named Tei took off the sling that was suspending his arm. "Black Crystal Power!" When the curtain of darkness ceased to surround him in front of him stood shadows of two Sailor Senshi.
"I hope you weren't the one that tried blowing up my building." The first said, back-to-back with another Sailor Senshi. "Because you should've known, to mess with me is to mess with fire." Finally a streetlight came on and there was Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter back to back. "I am Sailor Mars!"
"And if you mess with Sailor Mars, you're messing with me, Sailor Jupiter! And in the name of the moon, we shall punish you!" The two Senshi struck fighting poses ready to battle the villain. Tei smiled as his cotton-candy blue hair waved in the light breeze. He merely opened his hand and in it was a small neon-green diamond-shaped crystal. "Is that the tide-changing crystal that Usagi was talking about!"
"Evil comes in all shapes and sizes so let's not take a chance!" Sailor Mars took a stance ready to invoke her power. "Mars Fire Soul!"
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"Pluto Dead Scream!" the planet-shaped power was sent flying and Shei barely dodged the attack. Joining Sailor Venus and Sailor Uranus were two other Senshi.
"Fighting for the sake of this kingdom and time, I am Sailor Pluto!"
"Summoned to silence evil, I am Sailor Saturn!" Sailor Saturn announced.
Shei looked at what was before him. Sailor Venus, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Saturn, and Sailor Pluto stood ready to fight. Sweat began to gather on his bald head and he gritted his teeth until he relaxed his body and smiled.
"I see nothing to be smiling about!" Sailor Venus shouted. "Venus... Love and Beauty Shock!" the spinning heart hit Shei backwards and he fell. "That's for attacking my son and the princess... the princesses of Crystal Tokyo!"
Shei didn't seem injured. He merely took a knee and stuck his hand into his pant pocket to pull out a shining, neon-green, diamond-like crystal. "Once I plant this into the ground, you won't be so powerful, Sailor Idiots."
"Stand back, Sailor Senshi!" Sailor Saturn said pointing her glave at the evil, bald-headed man. 'If worse would come to worse,' Sailor Saturn thought. 'I'll destroy the darkness along with myself to save the kingdom.' As she thought this, a dark aura collected around the green crystal and the crystal began to brighten as dark energy began to gather around it.
"I feel the presence of evil rising." Sailor Mercury said to the Senshi bracing herself a small earthquake began beneath them.
"Then we must stop it!" a male voice said from behind her. She turned to see a blue-haired man in a tuxedo, "Tuxedo Asteroid!"
"I got here as quick as I could." He said smiling. "Now, to stop him before damage is done... Asteroid Belt!" Tuxedo Asteroid took his extendable cane out and it turned into a whip. He harnessed the whip unto Shei's arm telling him, "Don't move!" But Shei began to laugh as he dropped the green crystal onto the ground. Tuxedo Asteroid pulled his whip and Shei fell onto the ground. However, he continued to laugh.
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Tei smiled as he recovered from Sailor Uranus's World Shaking. Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and Tuxedo Kometto had joined Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter.
The green crystal that Tei had planted continued to collect dark energy. The black mist that was gathered from the sky looked as if it was getting sucked into a vacuum within the crystal. "Now watch the crystal grow... and with the crystal, my power!" Tei shouted. Tei threw an invisible energy blast which sent Sailor Jupiter flying backwards, but because of the heavy winds she managed to land on her feet. The neon-green crystal began to grow, until it was as tall as Tei but it didn't stop there.
"We have to destroy that thing!" Sailor Jupiter said as the green crystal grew taller and taller now looking like a giant, neon pencil-like monument. They could see the dark energy grow around Tei but Tuxedo Kometto would not let that happen.
Tuxedo Kometto ran towards Tei despite the winds. Tei looked at Tuxedo Kometto with a neon-green tint in his eyes. Tei laughed maniacally as he sent a force-field straight for Tuxedo Kometto. Tuxedo Kometto saw that it was coming and threw his extendable cane, twirling at the field but it merely reflected it sending his cane shooting off into the air. The force-field hit Tuxedo Kometto and he flew backwards skidding on the ground.
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"Tuxedo Asteroid!" The Senshi exclaimed as Tuxedo Asteroid tried to stand after being punched and thrown backwards by the hands of Shei. Shei had already called upon the Black Crystal for power, so he was a Tetsu-Fighter but this giant crystal gave him unimaginable fighting power. The crystal had grown to 170 meters and dark clouds began hovering overhead as dark energy continued to be sucked into the giant Tide-Changing Crystal.
"How misfortunate, Sailor Senshi; only two Tide-Changing Crystals have been put up, and you are having trouble beating me. How much harder do you think it will be when we put it in every point of Crystal Tokyo!"
"Every point!" Sailor Venus asked in horror.
Sailor Mercury was shocked. "That'd mean all evil would soon centralize on..."
"You're stupid Crystal Palace." Shei finished for her. "The palace itself will become a conductor of dark energy and with each and every Senshi out of the way, the world will fall into the hands of the Kin of the Black Crystal!" Shei began laughing again this time with emphasis and evil that the Senshi could bare to hear. This laugh would make children cry, women squirm, men doubt their manhood, and people as a whole hide in fear. There was a confidence in his voice that began swaying the Senshi and they began to deform, ribbons surrounding their person.
"With that kind of power... how can we win?" Sailor Venus asked out loud as her fuku broke into ribbons.
"There's only two Tide-Changing Crystals up, there is no way to stop them..." Sailor Mercury added as her fuku broke into blue ribbons.
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"Maybe the prophesies are meant to come true. Maybe the palace and the kingdom are meant to fall." Sailor Mars stated as red ribbons surrounded her person.
Sailor Jupiter's fuku broke into green ribbons. "Maybe we just aren't strong enough to beat them this time; why should we continue?"
"Michiru... maybe its time we just stop fighting." Sailor Uranus suggested as golden ribbons overtook her.
"Hai; no matter how it ends, we'll be together. Isn't that all that matters?" Sailor Neptune asked, as her fuku broke into aqua-marine ribbons.
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"Has the time finally come that evil will reign?" Sailor Pluto asked as dark-green ribbons shielded her naked body.
"Maybe, it's time for peace to silence and evil to come. Even I can't bring myself to go on one other second knowing that in the end, we'll lose." Sailor Saturn said with purple ribbons all about her."
The Senshi fell to their knees as ribbon after ribbon came from them. Evil was taking over their minds. Black mist emitted from all eight of their heads and went into the big Tide-Changing Crystal. Their doubtful thoughts was strengthening Shei and Tei and feeding the Tide-Changing Crystals.
"Minna-san, don't think like this." Tuxedo Asteroid said shaking Sailor Mercury's shoulders. "Mercury-san, don't let the evil cloud your mind." Suddenly a white aura began protecting Tuxedo Asteroid.
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"Sailor Jupiter, you have to wake up; this is what he wants you to believe!" Tuxedo Kometto managed to say as a white aura surround him as well.
"Shut up." Tei said. "Let the evil take over your mind as well." Tei shot a huge blast of energy at Tuxedo Kometto blasting him backwards. "The Senshi have admitted it; why can't you?" He said blasting him again.
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Shei punched Tuxedo Asteroid sending him flying into a building. "When their dark energy has satiated the Tide-Changing Crystals then you can have them back, but for now, they are ours!"
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Nise smiled as she watched the two men in tuxedoes being beaten and hammered by two of her strongest warriors from images on a wall. She was in an empty, dark room, sitting on a chair watching the images of both battles displayed on the wall she was facing. She seemed hypnotized, almost possessed. "Soon I will rule?" she asked.
The way she said her statement was as if she was talking to somebody other than herself. Suddenly a low, evil, almost robotic male voice answered her. "As long as I get what I want."
"And what do you want master?" Nise whispered back staring at the wall, observing the Senshi saying more doubtful things and the two men hurt by her warriors.
"I want you to be happy." The voice replied, now human. There was a charm to the man's voice; an evil, mature charm that could tempt good women to leave their husbands. There was also a sanctimonious, demonic confidence that could make even the manliest of men bow.
This voice soon was accompanied by a translucent image of a man who stood behind the chair Nise was sitting in. To the trained eye, one could see the man was naked but the chair covered him from his waist down. Nise did not turn to see the man for even she had not seen his face before. He tried to touch her cheek but his hand went right through her as if she was air. "You can be happy again, Nise, if you make me happy."
"I can't remember what happy means." Nise said monotonously, deeply hypnotized.
"You remember Nise," the man said convincingly, almost lovingly as he walked around the chair to get a better look at the images of the Senshi fighting. The man had long, blonde hair reaching his ankles. "Should I help you remember?"
"Please do, master." Nise said.
"Very well then," the man answered. Keeping his back to Nise, he merely stretched out his arm towards her and the iris of her eyes began to glow a cyan-blue. "Remember how happy you were before Neo-Queen Serenity ruined your life."
The cyan in Nise's irises flickered off and on until they stayed on. "I remember."
So how'd you like it? 170 meters is the height of the Washington Monument, if you all didn't know. Well the school year is about to start so I hope I can get Chapter 8 up for you guys to read. Ja!
Rikou Kyohaku