Chapter 8: The Test
Serena, Ami, Kagome, Lita, Rei, Akane, and Mina all came back into the main castle room wearing different color ceremonial dresses. Their dresses resembled the Greek dressestight fitting and sexy. The main room was decorated as an obstacle course. All seven girls looked around the castle room, trying to figure out a way to escape.
Mina whispered to Serena. "Serena, there are guards all over these castle walls. How are we supposed to escape without using our powers?" Earlier in the room, the five sailor scouts made an agreement not to use their powers without Kagome and Akane finding out their secret identities.
"Don't worry Mina, Darien will find a way to rescue us." whispered Serena.
"Serena, wouldn't you listening earlier. Prince Yukio said that no one can get through the dimension gate." Whispered Rei.
"What are you guys whispering over there?" asked Kagome.
"Nothing, Kagome. We are trying to figure out a way to escape, but there are too many guards around." Stated Mina.
Kagome stood their looking at her friends, knowing there is one way to escape, but she knew it was hopeless. "With InuYasha in his human form, he couldn't survive a battle with the seven royal brothers and besides he wouldn't be able to pass through the dimension gate."
"Are you ladies ready for the test?" asked Yukio as he approached the girls. "My brothers and I are desperately waiting to make all of you our brides."
"Listen creep, you can't make us take this test and force us to marry you and your brothers." Yelled Lita, as she approached Yukio ready to use her fighting skills on him, while her friends were holding her back.
"Well, you have a lot of spunk, cutie. I think you would be perfect for my brother Rai. Would you agree brother?" stated Yukio as he looked at Rai.
"I would agree with you brother." Answered Rai and he looked at Lita with seductive eyes.
Ok, enough stalling. The first test is archery. All seven of you will take one shot and whoever comes closest to the target will determine who has a good eye and steady hand. Yukio went back to his throne, sitting next to his six other brothers.
"You with the two ponytails, you go first." Said Yukio, pointing to Serena.
Serena approached the archery range and pick up a bow and arrow. Serena had trouble keeping the bow and arrow steady. She pulled back the arrow and released. Unfortunally, she missed the target completely and almost hit one of the guards. Yukio and his brothers started laughing, thinking it was very comical. Serena ends up crying like a crybaby.
"You, the spunky one, your next." Yelled Yukio, as he pointed at Lita.
Lita picked up the bow and arrow and she hit the upper part of the target. Next was Akane. She hit the far left of the target. Next one that was chosen was Rei. She came very close of hitting the bull's eye. Mina was chosen next after Rei. She hit the far right of the target. Ami was next, but she had trouble placing the arrow correctly on the bow and could not get a decent shot. Kagome was chosen last. Kagome picked up the bow and arrow and without hesitation, she hit the bull's eye. The brothers were very impressed with Kagome's archery skills and so were her friends.
"Kagome isn't it?" asked Yukio. Kagome nodded her head. "Well, Kagome you have won this round. Both you and the other black hair girl (Rei) determined your qualities are good for battles. This test proves that you would be a great bride to a warrior. Now, on to the next round.
"This round will determine your martial art skills. One of my servants will fight each and every one of you in this round." Stated Yukio. A muscular man approached the floor mat wearing a ninja suit. "He has been trained with the best martial skills in this dimension. Now who wants to go first?"
"I'll go first." Yelled Lita as she approached the floor mat. Lita got into her fighting position ready to fight. The man approached her, swinging a punch, towards her, but Lita ducked and grabbed the man's arm and flipped him. The man got right back up, used a 360 flip technique, and brought Lita to the ground. The match was over. Each girl went on the floor mat, each one failing until it was Akane's turn.
"You are going done, jerk. No one throws my friends around." Yelled Akane as she approached the floor mat. The man came at her first, but Akane used her fighting skills to jump over the man and used her high kick to throw the man in the air and onto the floor. The man got back up and tries attacking her again. Once again, Akane brought the guy back down by using her 360 Scissor kick technique. The match was over. "All those fighting exercising with Ranma really paid off." Thought Akane as she walked off the floor mat.
"Akane, you are the winner of this round. You and the spunky girl (Lita) are the only two that was able to bring my servant down. This test proved that you would be a great fighter and mother when it comes to protecting you and your husband's child.
The next round is cooking. All of you will prepare a dish for all of us with the food ingredients we layed out for you. About an hour later, each of the brothers tastes the girl's dishes and they all passes, except for Akane, for she was the worst cook out of all of them. Each brother got sick, except for Ryu.
"Akane's cooking is not half bad." Stated Ryu as he ate more of Akane's cooking.
"You really like it?" asked Akane.
"Don't get to excited Miss. Remember he is the son of fire. If he can handle fire in his system, then he can handle your cooking." Chuckled Toru.
"Well it seems that all of you can provide good cooking for us, so all of you past. This test determined all of you could provide a healthy food environment for your husbands. "Well some of you." Stated Yukio.
"How many more test are there?" asked Serena, breathing from exhaustion.
"There is one more and this will determine the final results of which one of you will be my bride and the rest of your marriages."
The girls stood frozen in their spots, terrified that this might be the end for them, being force to marry someone and not being able to go home.
"The final test will be……………."
The girls waited terrified of what the last test may be.
"Us decided which one of you we feel more attracted to, becoming our brides."
"All seven girls fell down in their place, stunned from the final results. Akane stood up from her spot with a lot of anger behind her words. "Then what was the whole point of the other tests?"
"Nothing. Just for our pleasure." Chuckled Yukio.
"I hope you are not expecting to have children, because you will get a free vasectomy, once I am done with you." Yelled Akane, as she charged towards Prince Yukio, until she was force back by Ronin's energy force.
"Brother, I think I will take this one as my bride. Not only is she attractive, but she has a lot of spunk behind her, which I find very entertaining." Stated Ronin as he approached Akane and pick her up bridal style. "I think we will have a lot of fun in the bedroom, my bride."
"I'm glad you have chosen her and not the one I am interested in, or there would have been hell to pay, my brother. Now the one I found most beautiful and interesting is Kagome. Stated Yukio as he approached Akane. He grabbed her hand and place a gentle kiss on it. "I think you and I will make a good team."
"Now, my brothers, chose the rest that your heart desires for." Said Yukio as he watch his last five brothers approached the girls they wanted to marry. Toru chosen Ami, KIN chosen Serena, Ryu chosen Rei, Kenshin chosen Mina, and lastly Rai chosen Lita.
"Now that the test is finally over, I want you ladies to get a good night sleep, for we will all wed tomorrow before sunrise. My servants will show you to your bedroom. "Until then, sweet dreams." Stated Yukio as he and six brothers left the main castle room.
----In the girl's bedroom----
Luckily, Yukino put all seven of them in the same room to talk among themselves, hopefully to come up with a plan to escape before the wedding ceremony.
"Alright, we need a good escape plan if we are going to save ourselves from marrying them tomorrow. Any ideas?" asked Akane
"I want Darien." Cried Serena.
"Snap out of it Serena. Darien won't be able to save us, so we have to do this by ourselves." Stated Rei.
"With seven of us, I am sure we can pull it off." Said Kagome.
Serena, Ami, Rei, Lita, and Mina looked over to were their original clothes were laying and they knew the only way to escape is to become the Sailor Scouts. However, they all knew they couldn't expose themselves to Kagome and Akane.
"Maybe the tests can help us." Stated Kagome.
All of her friends looked at her, wondering where Kagome was going with this. "I mean the test obviously showed us what we are good at. With Rei and me, good at archery, Akane and Lita good at martial arts, and Serena, Mina, and Ami, well…I'm sure you three can think of something that will help us escape."
"I think we know what you are getting at Kagome." Said Ami. "I am sure we can pull this off. Now let's get to work and plan our attack."
"YEAH!" yelled all seven of the girls while they started brainstorming a plan to escape.