Warning: Things are going downhill from here.
Chapter 12
They did not make it to the time gate.
In fact, in the middle of them trying to get to the time gate, someone interrupted their journey, and instead, dragged them to this castle.
It was quite a sight. The castle had black and dark grey decorations. It made the castle itself seem more dark then it was, really. Angel appeared five minutes before they came and introduced herself as Tenshi Sakura. Pluto did not miss the mask Constellation slipped on to hide her emotions when Angel appeared, nor did she miss the look of pain that flashed in Nessa's eyes.
Somewhere, in the dark castle, a crackling laughter broke the silence. Then, everything changed. It turned chaotic. The group of five got split up and lost each other.
Pluto tried. She had tried staying close to at least one of people in the group, but the agony caused by whatever the Mistress shot them with made her lose sight of where everyone else is.
r-r
Meteor felt fine a second ago. They were all discussing a plan to find the rest of the Mistress's team in Moon's living room, transformed, when suddenly, Meteor felt it.
It was as if someone was trying to rip her soul out of her. As if someone was bashing her entire body against a rock repeatingly, and if someone is stabbing her repeatingly, at the same time. She fell on one knee while clutching her chest. Hot tears wet her cheek as she sqeezed her eyes shut.
She could faintly hear others calling out to her, but all she was focused on was the image in her head. It was blurry, but becoming clearer and clearer as her pain increases.
It was a blob of blue. Wait, what? No, a figure dressed in blue. Then, another blob of color appeared. It stretched its arms out and choked the blob of blue?!
She sighed of relief as the pain stopped. But the image faded from her mind. She tried to get it to become more clear, but it completely disappeared from her mind. She breathed in and out, slowly at first, but becoming more normal by the minute. She wiped her tears away and looked around.
When did she fall? She wondered to herself as she stood up, Nebula helped her along the way. They made a space on the sofa and let her sit down.
"Nessa. Nessa, can you hear me?" A soft voice asked, probably Mercury. Meteor's vision was still blurry when she felt someone grab her wrist. She gasped but didn't pull away. She knew this hand.
"Nessa..." Asteroid groaned as he mumbled, holding Meteor's right hand tightly. His other hand was at his temple, trying to get rid of a headache. Everyone stared between the two of them in wonder.
"What in the name of love happened?" Venus muttered. Meteor shook her head slightly and looked toward the window.
"I don't know. There was this image, my mind was trying to make me see. But it became more painful as the image became clearer amd clearer. I never saw the whole thing. A blob of black choking a figure of blue, I think," Meteor said, not meeting anyone's eyes. She suddenly felt terrified, scared, panicked as Asteroid let go of her hand.
"Something happened to him," Asteroid said suddenly. It didn't make sense to them as to why both of them felt something when neither of them had a soulmate in the group though.
Meteor gasped. If something happened to him, something must've happened to the whole group!
"Comet, you mean?" Jupiter asked gently. Asteroid nodded. Meteor stood up and rubbed her arms with her hands.
"We need to go to them, right now. We can't lose Pluto, or Angel, or Comet, o-or.. o-or..." Meteor said, running a hand through her hair.
"Or Constellation," Nebula finished. She sighed. Things really need to change.
"Can you locate them?" Asteroid asked, his eyes showed fear. Moon simply shook her head.
"If it was me who went, then maybe. But I don't think we can locate them. We could try Sailor Teleport, but we haven't done that in some time. And we haven't done it with the Star Lights and you three before," Moon answered, she bit her lips.
"But it is worth trying..." Mars added with somewhat of a shrug. Meteor nodded.
"You three had been oddly quiet. What do you think?" Uranus asked, slightly glancing at the Star Lights. Healer raised his eyebrow but ignored Uranus's out-of-character-ness.
"I think we should go and rescue them." Fighter stated. Uranus snorted in response.
"There it is." Both Maker and Meteor said at the same time. The group then stood in a circle, linking arms. One by one, they closed their eyes and colors start to fill the room.
"SAILOR TELEPORT!" Everyone yelled at the same time. Meteor grabbed on to Saturn and Asteroid's hands harder as the process forcefully tried to pry everyone's hands apart.
A blindingly shiny white light blinded Meteor's vision. She shut her eyes tight. Then, everything stopped. Her ears started ringing.
Then, there was silence.