AN: Okay guys… my quick rant…
Replies to reviews: yeah, Sere's mad at the senshi… is she mad at Dare? Maybe, maybe not… you'll have to read for that… And, quick preview – yes, she will have lots of power when she comes back ;)
Thanks again for all the reviews… here's chapter THREE!!!!!!!!
Oh, one last thing… be aware, I ain't gonna keep getting the chapters out this quickly… be aware!!!! This is just a warning ;-) hehe… enjoy people!
{from chapter two…}
Sighing deeply. Kamen raised his head slowly towards the moon. Feeling the moon light comfortingly shinning on his face. The young man wordlessly prayed to the moon. With a feeling of tranquillity washing over him, he became a little more confident. Opening his heart, his mind and his soul, the young prince of earth pleaded to the moon for assistance. 'Help me.' He whispered. 'Please Selenity, send your daughter back to me. To us. We need her, for we cannot survive much longer without her here.'
As Kamen brought his mind back to the present time and place, he noticed three things. One, the warriors were back up and fighting. Two, they were on their last wind, and giving everything they had to this monster. Three, though they were hurting it, they would be long gone before it was. Sighing, the prince decided to join them, in what could be their last fight.
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[AN: Just to get this straight, Selenity is the old Queen. Serenity is the Princess. Just so we don't get them mixed up. I like this slight difference in the translations, it makes things easier to understand.]
{{{ Chapter Three }}}
"Bubbles," whispered across the battlefield as the blue-clad warrior dropped to the ground, her final energy spent.
Mars was already on the ground, though still throwing the occasional fireball in the direction of the monster.
Jupiter gathered all her energy about her for a final blazing attack. "Jupiter… Thunder… CRASH!"
Looking around the clearing, Venus noticed that there would be no more attacks coming from any of her warriors. Looking to Kamen, who was standing near to her she said. "I don't have much left, and neither do you. They're all done. I guess I was kind of hoping we might get some outside assistance."
"Smoking Bomb." Glancing at the young warrior he asked, "In what form?"
"Serena, perhaps. Our princess? I don't know. I asked. I prayed. All fight. But she still didn't come…" "Crescent Beam."
"Earth Blast!" "Hasn't come," he corrected. "Have hope Venus. I do."
"You do?" She asked quietly.
"Always." Answered Kamen with conviction.
"Smoking Bomb."
"Crescent Beam."
"Smoking Bomb."
"Crescent Beam."
"Smoking Bomb."
"Love and Beauty Shock." "My last one…" Came a quiet whisper as Venus collapsed to the ground.
A lone warrior stood in the clearing facing the now battered, but still standing and attacking monster. Dodging another blast, Tuxedo Kamen almost screamed in frustration. "Serena… please…" he called. Jumping out the way of yet another blast, the lone warrior realised that he would be a moment to late. As searing pain blasted up his body from his left thigh, the warrior collapsed to the ground. 'Serenity,' he thought before he lost consciousness.
As soon as the last warrior fell, a soft white glow began to drift through the clearing. Stopping the monster in its tracks as it began to make its way towards its most recent victim. In a bright flash of light, another figure suddenly appeared on the battlefield.
The lone figure of a slim young woman stood tall and proud between the monster and the collapsed form of the only male warrior. Dressed in black from head to toe, her silver hair drifted softly in the breeze.
"No-one, nothing… touches my prince." She said in a quiet voice full of conviction that managed to carry across the entire battlefield and to the semi conscious warriors spread around the grove. "Back off furball." She began in a louder voice, glaring at the monster. "Or I'll have to kill you." Before the monster even made one move, she continued her tirade, "fine, your choice. I warned you."
As she finished her last words, the young warrior lifted her hands above her head, palms facing up, towards the moon. The grove was eerily silent as she began to chant a few words under her breath. The quiet sound of her chanting could be heard, but not the actual words. Suddenly and with no prior warning, except perhaps that the monster began to move forward again, the woman brought her hands down in a swift movement. As a blast of white light erupted from her hands, the monster was seemingly paralysed as the light sped towards it. The creature uttered not a single sound as it disintegrated the moment the powerful white light reached it.
Then, as the silence settled again over the grove, the figure took one final glance around the clearing. Perhaps to assure herself the evil was gone. Or to check that there were still people living. Her eyes fell once again on the form of the only male warrior. As she slowly began to fade from sight, Tuxedo Kamen opened his eyes. Looking directly into his eyes for a moment, she nodded slightly before disappearing completely.
"NOOOOOOOOOoooooo," he yelled. Struggling to rise, the warrior collapsed again as the white light faded completely from the grove. "Please don't leave me again. No Sere… not again. Please don't leave again. I can't live without you any longer…" He mumbled quietly, before falling unconscious.
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Life slowly began to stir again in the shrouded grove. Groans of pain and mumbled curses could be heard coming from various places around the grove as Venus slowly, painfully sat up. Glancing around the dark clearing, she decided to try her voice. "Guys," she whispered. Trying again she called out softly, "any of you still alive?"
"Maybe…" came back to her from her right, where she had seen Mercury fall.
"No," came Jupiter's grumbling reply.
"I am so tired," was Mars's response.
Laughing lightly at their characteristic reply's Venus was happy to know that they were each well enough to be able to reply, considering the fact that by rights, they should all be dead. Pushing that thought aside for the moment, she tried again for the last response. "Kamen?" She called quietly.
Realising that she was closest to where he should have been, she carefully got up when she heard no reply. Stumbling over to the prone form that she assumed was Kamen, she called softly to the others. "Okay guys, we've rested long enough. Get up. We need to call an ambulance for the two victims because I don't think we can carry them to the ER." Pausing momentarily as she fell to the ground next to Kamen she then asked, "Time anyone? How long have we been out?"
"Close on four hours we've been out. We fought for near on three hours, it now almost 2am." Came Mercury's sure reply.
"Is Darien okay?" Asked Jupiter.
Having checked for his pulse during Mercury's answer, Venus replied in the positive. "But we all have to get out of here now."
As the others got up and headed towards where Mercury and Jupiter had left the victims earlier, Venus began to shake Darien. "Hey Kamen… Darien… Wake up. Please?"
Having called the police and moved the unconscious forms back near the park bench, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter headed back towards Venus. "Are we going to have to carry him?" Asked Jupiter. "Coz, I think my arm might be broken."
"No." Came a slurred but welcome answer. All eyes now focussed on him, Kamen, with Venus's help managed to slowly stand.
The five warriors slowly hobbled out of the grove together. A sorry sight, but welcomed by those involved, considering the fact that they had all worried that they would never be able to see the sun rise again, let alone walk away from the fight.
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