Chapter Three

"Ow…"

"Usagi-san! Yer okay! It worked!"

Said Moon Princess sat up, rubbing her aching head. Looking down, she found her fuku ripped and torn, blood stained but there was no blood on her skin. In fact, there weren't even scars. She ran her hands over the opened fabric and felt nothing. Slowly taking off one glove, she repeated the gesture. Nothing. No raised skin, no dried blood, not even a bruise.

Looking up, her eyes met those of her team mates in a likewise position. Chibi Uranus, Neptune and Pluto looked the worst with their fukus all but gone but the only sign they'd been thrown into a wall or injured in any way besides their clothes was their frazzled hair. Mars and Mercury looked better and Jupiter and Venus were more than ready to take on the enemy again. As for Saturn, she looked completely ecstatic and she was the one who answered her Princess' questioning look.

"A boy came in and saved us! He's fighting Buu now."

"Who?"

"The enemy, his name's Buu."

"That's a stupid name," Chibi Venus remarked.

"Oh and I'm sure the enemy cares what you think of his name," Chibi Jupiter remarked. The daughter of Venus gave her a growl through clenched teeth. Saturn stood between the two.

"Is that important? Don't you think we should help him?"

This information promptly dissolved any conflicting feelings. Almost as one, the group of girls fled back towards where the gravel and glass was exploding. Emerging, they found the injured people that could still move were swiftly crawling out of range. As for their friend…

"HYAH!"

The boy was flung back into the hard ground, leaving a tremendous crater, about the size of an RV. Chibi Mercury was about ready to call her mother on her communicator but then the rubble stirred and the golden haired preteen walked out of the pit casually, as if he were taking a stroll out of a park. His face was cold and still, no emotion in his dark green eyes. If anything, he walked like a machine, an unfeeling machine.

He made his way onto level ground and eyed the enemy again, speaking slowly and low. The tone made Chibi Uranus shudder.

"Why do you insist on killing? Why does everything insist on killing? I've seen enough death. I've seen enough….I've SEEN ENOUGH!"

That said, the boy curled his fingers into a curled open circle behind his back. He focused his eyes, wind sending his golden hair into his bright green eyes. A flicker began in the boy's hands which made especially Chibi Uranus stare. The stronger the attack, the more she was interested in it. She listened and watched with an intensity that would have raised her marks a grade level if she applied the same attention to school work.

"Ka…me…ha…me…ha!"

Chibi Mercury darted behind Cosmic Moon. The ball of white light that sprung out from the boy's hands was at least twice as big as she was, probably about the size of Cosmic Moon herself! But the boy's arms did not waver nor did his cold, merciless gaze. At the last word of his command, he thrust his hands forward and the ball of light turned into a stream of white. It expanded and imploded as it met its target, sending stone and gravel behind it into the atmosphere, a shower of steel and fire as five, no, ten blocks each way from the blast met their end. By the time the light cleared, a fourth of the city was vanished, gone from sight in less than a half second.

Yet this Buu remained.

Bruised yes and hurt but in an instant, the creature's body expanded and the bruises and cuts vanished as dents in a car are popped out. Now, his dark eyes scanned the remaining bits of the city before focusing back on the boy, an evil smirk spreading over his face. "Buu no like you. You be chocolate."

The boy's lightning reflexes allowed him to dodge the bright white light that ignited from the pink knob atop the creature's head. The pieces of gravel remaining turned to chocolate chunks which this creature walked over and scooped up. The girls shuddered at this. They generally had sweet teeth but seeing chocolate achieved like that…knowing what his original target had been was too creepy.

Buu eyed the boy again, "You too fast…Buu wants chocolate." He half turned, eyeing the frightened citizens who were scurrying as far away from the battlefield as they could. They were used to enemies who came in with energy capturing devices or minions. Seeing the "head honcho" so to speak right off the bat was very new to them. The previous enemies weren't afraid about attacking children but they always left their victims alive…

Always…

"BUU WANT CHOCOLATE! BECOME CHOCOLATE!"

To the Chibi Senshi absolute horror, the citizens left alive were being lifted into the air at a dramatic speed, like one would pluck up rocks from the ground. Cosmic Moon stared in disgust and repulsion as her subjects, man, woman, child and even baby were ripped up from the ground and lifted until they were floating about twenty or forty feet above this Buu.

Evil smirk illuminating his face, the knob atop his head lit up. "BE CHOCOLATE!"

The pink shaded blast overwhelmed every single human in the sky. Chibi Mercury lit up her visor, investigating what was happening. The readings she received made her screech "NO WAY!"

"What Mercury? What is it?" Saturn demanded.

"The molecular structure is being dramatically altered!"

Chibi Jupiter blinked. "So what does that mean?"

She got her answer when the screaming of the people stopped. Looking upward, she cursed "What the hell! No way!"

In a burst of pink dust, man, woman and child vanished and what remained was a small chocolate ball, a color coated candy. Buu grinned as about fifty or sixty small orbs appeared in the sky where the people had once been. "Buu hungry."

He pursed his lips, forming a circle. Sucking inward, the group of fifty or so candies, who had once been people, was rolled into his mouth as one would roll marbles into a hole. He grinned; let the orbs puff out his cheeks and then bit down, harshly. Red liquid spilled out of the orbs which made the Chibi Senshi sick. That looked too much like blood. Chibi Mercury trembled,

"Cosmic Moon, does that mean they're-"

"They're dead."

Cosmic Moon turned.

The boy who'd been fighting against their enemy approached her. He was about a half head taller than her and his eyes looked a lot older but something about him told her that he wasn't nearly as old as he looked. Suddenly, his golden hair turned back to midnight black and his green eyes faded back to dank black orbs. His hair fell slightly but still stuck out quite a bit. "Buu just ate them, crushed their bones and organs. They're dead. End of subject." His eyes said that he was hurting for them even if his voice didn't. "But unless we wanna join them, we better be getting out of here."

Chibi Venus spoke up "Run!"

"You have a plan to defeat him, kid?"

Gloria blushed, "…uh…no."

Ears and eyes at full attention, the boy suddenly grabbed all the girls in a grip, the inner Senshi on one arm and the outer Senshi on the other and pulled Cosmic Moon onto his back. The ground beneath him trembled and in a lighting quick blaze, they took to the air. Cosmic Moon squealed and tightened her grip on his neck, closing her eyes. The younger girls however, stared in pure shock as the city moved by so fast that not even the individual colors could be made out.

"Look out!" Chibi Pluto announced, looking ahead.

Just in front of them loomed the intersection where now there was mayhem because of this enemy's presence.

For a moment, the girls saw a teenaged boy in those bright eyes. He grinned, "So?"

He focused his eyes, trusting his own speed. He was far faster than any car.

"We're gonna die!" Cosmic Moon screamed as the speeding cars came so close she could almost touch them. But at the last possible second, the boy's speed quadrupled and he breezed through the intersection so quickly that there was not even an upset among the traffic. It was as if he had never been there. Chibi Uranus, the resident daredevil, grinned.

"AWESOME!"

"What, that?"

"Yeah!"

The boy looked genuinely baffled. "Why aren't you guys able to fly like that anyway? That was slow for me."

Chibi Uranus replied "We aren't birds!"

"Well, neither am I."

Uranus looked down, wind blowing her hair as she realized as did the rest of the girls, save Chibi Saturn who was already aware of this, that they were indeed…flying. The ground was a good ten feet below. Yet, this boy had no additional wings like Eternal Sailor Moon nor was it a teleport. He was flying with, seemingly, no support at all. Yet, he acted like it was as natural as walking.

And his speed….

Well, Chibi Mercury's visor couldn't even measure how fast they were going except that it usually took them about fifteen minutes to reach the palace and they hadn't even been flying two minutes when the Palace came into view.

Silence for a moment and then Chibi Saturn spoke up,

"Who…who are you anyway?"

"Call me Gohan."