Chapter 6: Battle #1
Schuldig heard Rei's thought and then saw Ami, Makato and Minako push the children toward him and the guys.
"It's dangerous now. Stay close." Ami whispered to Abigail before running toward the stage through the hysteria.
"MAMA!" Abigail screamed as the stage blew up.
"You two are to stay here and protect what people you can understand? And if you don't follow orders I know your mother wouldn't be happy Sakura and you better listen to me Aurora!" Makato yelled before pulling something out of her pocket and running toward the now flaming stage.
"Sakura! We might need to henshin to bring up a shield." Aurora said.
"Wakata! Demo…..mom will be mad if we reveal our identities." Sakura said.
"Let's leave it as a last resort. Crawford-san, Farfarello-san, Schuldig-san, Nagi-kun. Please follow us." Abigail said to the four assassins before another explosion shook the earth.
Right as the girls nearly had the guys in range to make a shield they heard screams and looked behind them. There were Rei, Minako, Makato and Ami tied to a pillar, the minion of their enemy laughing.
"I BROUGHT THE SACRIFICIAL LAMBS TO YOU MY LADY! THE MILLENNIUM CHILDREN ARE READY FOR DEATH!" The minion yelled before a bolt of lightening struck the pillar.
"MOM!" Sakura screamed.
"Oh fuck." Aurora gasped.
"We have to help them." Abigail said quickly.
Schuldig and Crawford looked at the children as they nodded their heads and turned to look at them. They then did something very interesting. They got to three different points around then and extended their arms out before symbols of planets formed on their foreheads.
"In the dept of darkness and hell we bring forth the light to cast over the shadows of crying and dying mortals. Onegai, merciful goddesses of war, ice and lightening form a shield to which to protect these mortal men who are tied to the future, our future, and the future of our holy lands. EXPAND!" Sakura, Aurora and Abigail screamed before a shield of unparadox power formed around the Schwarz and many people.
"There, now……time for battle!" Sakura yelled before pulling out a crystal from the brooch on her ribbon.
"I've been itching for a fight." Aurora said.
"Lets do it! MERCURY STAR POWER…." Abigail started.
"MARS STAR POWER…." Sakura started.
"JUPITER STAR POWER…." Aurora started.
"MAKE UP!" The shouted in unison as their transformations quickly started and ended leaving them in their senshi fukus.
"Hehehe I found you. Future children of Mars, Mercury and Jupiter!" Another minion yelled before launching itself toward the three soldieresses.
"ENGEL!" Rei screamed before she saw two red hints of light block the attack.
"Thank the goddess we got here in time. Lady Engel Sakura are you alright?" Deimos asked while kneeling to her future queen.
"H-Hai." Sakura shakily said before seeing that Phobos was scolding Abigail and Aurora.
"Your mothers put us in charge of watching you whenever their past forms are in battle. Now you are to remain in your civilian forms!" Phobos was yelling at Abigail and Aurora.
"WATCH OUT!" Abigail yelled toward Deimos as the enemy launched another attack.
"You really piss me off……MARS FIRE SURROUND!" Sakura, Engel, shouted before launching an attack at the minion.
"Hey don't take away all the fun Engel! MERCURY AQUA MIRAGE!" Abigail yelled aiming her water-based attack at the minion.
"JUPITER THUNDER CRASH!" Aurora yelled making contact with the enemy.
"As future goddesses of our planets and balancers we cannot allow you to destroy the past!" Abigail yelled.
Farfarello looked at the children in front of him and noticed something strangely familiar within Aurora and Abigail. They seemed to contain some part of a similar essence.
"WE'RE COMING MOM!" Aurora yelled before green wings came to her back.
"IIE! STAY BACK!" Makato yelled before more bolts of lightening came down from the heavens.
"Ah, so the twin sisters of the Martian moons are here following their queen's orders. What a pity that we're going to not only kill your queen but also your future queen." The minion holding Rei and the girls' hostage said.
"You shall not defeat our highness nor her allies you scum!" Phobos growled before ancient robes came onto her body, ones that Schuldig saw on Rei when she was meditating.
"Too bad you die now. HAHAHAHHAHAHAA!" The minion yelled releasing the electrocuted civilian senshi to the earth in dead heaps.
"PHOBOS! DEIMOS!" Sakura screamed as the minions then aimed at the two guardians that were guarding her, Abigail and Aurora.
Rei sat up weakly as she heard her enemy go toward her guardians. She felt a panic flood her. She felt the control on her power slip as tears of fire started to fall down her face, quickly she got to her feet and mustered strength to get toward her guardians.
'I don't care if my identity is revealed. My guardians………IIE!' Schuldig heard Rei think before the minion quickly changed its attack her.
"PRINCESS! WATCH OUT! AAAHHHHHH!" Phobos and Deimos screamed before shielding their princess with their own bodies.
Rei's eyes widened as their blood splashed onto her body and face. A distant memory emerging in her mind, unknown to her Schuldig could see it.
Memory
'My dear daughter, these two are to be your guardians. Phobos, Deimos this is my daughter, your future queen Rei. Please teach her the proper etiquette of a queen as well as befriend her.' Aries said with Rei next to him holding onto his pant leg.
'We are pleased to meet you your majesty. I am Phobos and this is my twin sister Deimos. We are under your service as of this day." Phobos said while bowing to a seemingly 6-year-old Rei.
'You promise to not leave my side, not even if death is to come to try and claim you?' Rei asked maturely.
'We solemnly swear your highness.' Deimos said.
End of Flashback
As the enemies laughed, Rei fell to her knees and looked at her dead guardians as their bodies started to glow. Right then spirits emerged from the bodies and bowed before Rei in the garbs that were in her memory.
"Hime-sama. Onegai, take the treasures we leave to let you know that you are not alone in your journey of claiming your throne." Deimos' ghost said before her body changed into scythe and floated in front of Rei.
"We leave our queen's life and protection in your hands Schuldig-sama. Onegai. Protect our beloved queen……for the sacred powers within her are to change this war. Forgive our failure as your guardians sweet child of fire." Phobos' ghost said before her body also changed into a scythe.
"…..sou na…….it's…..not……..IIE!" Rei screamed before the earth around her started to shake and crumble as the flaming tears came more rapid from her eyes before she clasped her slender fingers around the scythes and black flames surrounded her.
"Oh shit. Henshin now!" Crawford heard Makato yell.
"MERCURY CHAOS POWER MAKE UP!"! Ami yelled before a tsunami covered her form and then a fuku of ice blue appeared on her thin frame, first her pale white body suit and then the icy bows and skirt before the insignia of Mercury appeared on her forehead and her eyes changed to a very light baby blue that of ice, her boots to her knees and a staff made of ice in her hands.
"JUPITER CHAOS POWER MAKE UP!" Makato yelled before a large bolt of lightening swallowed her form and then a fuku of forest green appeared on her chistled frame, first the pale white body suit then the deep green bows and skirt before the insignia of Jupiter appeared on her forehead and her eyes changed to a deep deep green like the green in a fresh leaf of the spring , her boots to her knees as well and a staff in the shape that of a thunderbolt.
"No! Those pests were still able to transform even in the barrier!" The enemy shrieked before black flames surrounded her.
"MARS CHAOS POWER MAKE UP!" Rei's voice could be heard in a painful yelp as black flames consumed her before exposing her in a black and red fuku, first the deep blood red bodysuit and then the black bows and skirt appeared on her lithe frame, her eyes the deepest and reddest shade that of blood, her boots black up to her knees and a staff of fire in her hands the flame at the tip changing from pure to black.
"MAMA!" Sakura yelled seeing the fire changing.
'The consumption! Someone poisoned her mind, NO!' Sakura's loud thought penetrated the minds of all the mortals near her before the seemingly grief-stricken Martian goddess merged her staff into one of the scythes and hit the earth hard making the earth break in half in front of her.
"Those who kill those close to me…..shall die the most painful of deaths and burn in the abyss of the deepest and hottest hell." Rei hissed as her hair changed to red and black wings formed on her back before she jumped up and stabbed her scythe into one of the minions and ripped their heart out, their blood spraying onto her face as she held it in her hands and then combusted it.
"Pyro…….iie, megami no hi….." Minako whispered before Motoki grabbed her and made a run for the barrier.
"Koshii!" Motoki yelled as the love goddess stood firm at where she stood in front of the Schwarz.
"I must help. It's my fate as a megami and a senshi. Keep an eye over the others. I'm sure that something might happen in this battle, especially if what Sakura yelled is true. If her mind is poisoned, we'll be facing the locked potential that Lady Rhea sacrificed her life to seal. Gomen ne, my love." Minako smiled before a crystal came out of her chest and glowed a golden color.
"Minako…." Motoki whispered before his goddess crossed her arms over her chest and chanted out her henshin.
"VENUS MEGAMI MAKE UP!" Minako yelled before she was wrapped in golden light and revealed in a golden fuku with the insignia of Venus on her forehead.
The Schwarz were wide eyed at the revealing of the warriors of whom they watched for the past few days. As they were seeing this battle unfold in front of them they, out of nowhere, heard the cry of a baby and felt trembling of the earth. As they were about to investigate they noticed that action around them started to slow down.
"Time I command you to stop!" They heard a familiar voice yell as the events except for the senshi's movements freeze.
"Sets!" Sakura, Aurora and Abigail yelled before the time goddess came from the vast gates of time.
"Goddess of destruction. Hotaru……..I give thee to your guardian until the necessary awakening comes." Setsuna whispered as the baby who was Hotaru reborn floated down to Schuldig's arms.
Schuldig looked at the child in his arms as she screamed and the dark purple insignia of Saturn hauntingly glowed on her forehead before he saw something flash into his mind.
There she stood, Hotaru in her deadly glory holding a scythe with a large black orb burning on its tip, her eyes dark and void of emotion.
'I the senshi of destruction shall end all of creation again. At the drop of this scythe will we no longer exist.' Her voice sounded devoid of neither emotion nor compassion as the enemy closed in on her.
'Shine megami no shi!' The enemy yelled.
'Death Rebirth Revolution!' Saturn yelled before the enemy disintegrated and the world around her started to break apart.
'Imoutou-chan!' He saw what seemed to be Rei yell before grabbing the younger girl's hand.
'Nee-san. Gomen nasai. We failed again. The earth is dying again.' Hotaru sadly said.
'Our mission isn't over yet. We will join again and find them this time.' rei smiled before fading into the darkness.
'Koshi shinigami. Doko no? I'm waiting for your return my beloved. Onegai let me awake to my true self and see your eyes. The promise of eternal silence and death to fade away from earth.' Hotaru whispered before she dropped the glaive and faded into nothingness.
Schuldig looked at Crawford as he looked at the soldieresses. Crawford looked at the reborn goddess and took her into his arms. After a moment of what seemed to be silence he heard another explosion and the cry of pain come from Ami as she was thrown into a cement wall.
"MERCURY!" Makato yelled before launching an attack.
Time had resumed its normal flow unknown to the assassins. Their eyes watching the deadly battle in front of them. But it seemed that Ami didn't have the best offensive powers and she was being ganged up. Ami formed a water shield in her struggle to cough up the blood that came from the harsh hits to her stomach. After a moment she dropped the shield, flipped over the enemy and formed her ice daggers. The many daggers piercing the enemy numerous times.
"Alright Ami-chan!" Minako yelled.
"Koi, look out!" Motoki yelled, now in his armor grabbing his goddess and shielding her from the attack that was aimed at her.
"Arigatou Motoki-kun!" Minako yelled.
"Ready! We're going to team attack!" Ami yelled.
"Hai!" All the senshi responded.
"Mom needs our power. Come on!" Sakura yelled before sprouting black wings.
"Yes, come on cousin!" Aurora said before sprouting pale green wings.
"Oh you senshi think you're so smart. Team attacks won't work. That's how you shall fall in the future. In the future I created!" The enemy shrieked.
"You mean what the bitch has created." Aurora yelled before glowing a green and changing into a gown, her hair freely flowing behind her and a seemingly baby blue color with streams of brown, her eyes now a forest green.
"Take on thy truest form!" Abigail yelled before her hair changed to a more beautiful blue like her future mother's and her eyes changed to a deep brown.
"Lets get her!" Sakura yelled as her hair grew in length and her eyes changed to a blue.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! The future goddesses are so quickly throwing their lives away to try and defeat us isn't that grand sister? Well the future now has no chance!" The enemy yelled before shooting an attack toward the three girls.
"LEIBLING!" Rei screamed.
"AURORA!" Makato yelled.
"ABIGAIL, IIE!" Ami cried as the attack swallowed the three girls.
The Schwarz watched as the three girls were consumed by the attack. Ami, Rei and Makato fell to their knees as the enemy laughed.
"Sou na……" Ami gasped.
"So easily….." Rei covered her mouth.
"We're royally fucked now." Makato said.
"MAKATO!" Rei and Ami yelled.
"Gomen." Makato sheepishly sighed.
As the three senshi were about to get up they then noticed a blend of lights coming from the large attack that was suspending in the air. They then heard very mature feminine voices come from the attack and the attack being nullified.
"SUGOI! NOW WE CAN KICK YOUR CANDY ASSES BACK TO HELL!" Sakura, Leibling, seethed while her whole body was glowing a deep red and a black mark on her thigh shined.
"Yes, you're going to wish you never hurt my mother or father!" Abigail yelled as her body glowed a deep blue and a black mark on her thigh also shined.
"I've been waiting for this………..JUPITER CRISIS MAKE UP!" Aurora yelled while glowing a deep green and a mark on her thigh also glowing.
As if time sped up the three girls' seemingly immature bodies grew in the light and now they looked like their mothers. Their eyes set on the enemy before them.
"Impossible!" The Schwarz jumped at the voice of Setsuna.
"What is?" Farfarello asked.
"The ladies. They gained their power over 4 thousand years premature!" Setsuna said.
"What do you mean Setsuna-sama?" Nagi asked.
"The royal heiresses of each planet are not to be blessed with their mothers' powers until they're over 6 thousand years old. The ladies are only nearly 1000." Setsuna said in shock.
"Well Setsuna-mama. It's because we are the forbidden children." A new voice started the group.
"Mirana." Setsuna said surprised.
"Who are you?" Nagi asked.
"I am the future goddess of silence, death and rebirth. Daughter of the queen goddess and king god of Saturn, Mirana Tokshi Tomoe." Mirana said kneeling.
"Hey she's pretty hot." Schuldig snickered toward Nagi.
"Shut up!" Nagi said flustered.
"Hn. Hard to believe a playboy like you becomes our leader lady goddess' king. I shall ponder on that after the enemy is disposed of. NE! COUSIN! NEED HELP!" Mirana yelled toward Sakura.
"It would be appreciated so get your slow ass up here!" Sakura yelled.
Right as the battle was now getting to its climax the shield around the Schwarz shattered. The enemy noticed and sneered.
"Oh hell!" Rei gasped before with Ami trying their hardest to fly down to build another shield.
"Too late!" The enemy yelled zapped at the assassins.
"Iie!" the girls yelled
"DAD!" The four now grown up senshi yelled toward their respective future father. (I'm not gonna tell)
The Schwarz were wide eyed at the shock on their bodies.
"Have fun in the past!" The enemy yelled before they vanished.
"CRAWFORD-SAN!" Ami yelled barely touching his hand before he vanished.
"MINNA!" Rei cried while reaching for Schuldig and Nagi's hands, her sister wailing in the German's arms.
In an instant the assassins and the reborn Hotaru were thrown into the vortex of time to the past. Through the abyss of time the Schwarz saw flashes of the girls seemingly younger.
Now over 10 years into the past they were dumped to the ground. They all stood up and looked at their surroundings. They heard many people murmuring and realized where they were.
TBC in Chapter 7