"How- What- When-... ?" Tuxedo Mask stuttered, confused and concerned for his best friend, as Meteor looked down at Constellation's currently lifeless body.
"That was their plan. To capture Moon's soul, in order to create a illusion of her to manipulate the rest of us," Nebula explained with a sigh, crossing her arms.
"We have to get her soul back. Now. They can extract her star seed from her soul. And once they get a half of the copper crytal, they will stop at nothing to get the other half," Angel said, the urgency in her voice was real.
To Moon, Angel had always been that one person of the group that no matter how bad things got, they would still have a poker face and their voice would be as calm as possible. So hearing Angel panic was making Moon nervous as well.
They all ran for it, deeper and deeper into the castle, occasionally stopping to take a few breaths. They made it into the throne room, where Mistress sat, with a glass bottle in hand that had a blue glowing orb in it.
Moon skit to a stop as Mistress seemingly raised the bottle mid-air and was about to smash it on the ground.
"Mistress, hand it over," Angel said, her voice calm as steel. Moon silently sighed in relief. At least one of them are calm enough to speak, because Moon can't right now. Not after seeing the electricity burn the life out of Constellation's eyes while forced to fight when all she wanted to do was to scream and cry in frustration. Mistress's giggle pierced sharply through Moon's ears.
"Sure, why not?" Mistress replied. "I don't think you understand the risks of putting one's soul back into one's body after a certain time and the risks if the procedure is done wrong."
Moon narrowed her eyes. What risks? And why is Mistress being so... easy?
"Of course we do. We are not some idiots, unlike some people," Nebula replied with a smirk. Mistress snorted then threw the bottle carelessly. Moon caught the bottle. The bottle zapped Moon's hand, but she ignored it. She handed it to Comet. But the bottle zapped him too and burned Comet's hands. An instinct immediately told Moon that this wasn't Constellation's soul.
Somehow.
Where is she learning all this information from?
"Where's the real one?" Comet asked, furious. Mistress raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" Mistress replied, playing innocent.
"Only a soulmate can touch another's soul in a case like this. If it zapped both Moon and Comet, then that's not the real one," Venus said, then her face scrunched up in confusion as if she's wondering what she said and why she knew this information.
"Are you sure the problem is the soul? Maybe Comet isn't Constellation, or rather, Princess Galaxy's soulmate," Mistress replied with a innocent grin. Moon tsked at Mistress with a knowing smile.
"That's a man's soul, isn't it?" Moon asked. She saw Mistress paused. Jackpot.
"Your love once, perhaps?" Moon continued.
"Once," Mistress replied. Moon's eyes softened. She could tell, from the fact that Mistress's hands didn't have any burn or zap marks, and when the bottle didn't burn her but did to Comet. Probably because the man was interested in women and the soul reacted drastically.
"Where's her real soul?" Moon asked, serious. Mistress laughed carelessly and stepped toward them.
"I've hidden it around this castle. Her body will adapt to the fact that it doesn't have a soul anymore before you can find it! Good luck!" Mistress replied before disappearing.
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Finding the soul took them longer than all of them expected. When they finally did, they all ran back to the place where they left Constellation's body. Miraculously, Mistress and her team of people didn't touch the body at all. The soul seems fully attached with the star seed as well.
"Angel, you can insert it back, right?" Meteor asked, talking about the soul. Angel nodded as reply and got into. position.
"I can do it, but Meteor, you need to make sure you don't pass out during this or else..." Angel added. Meteor nodded. She sighed and stretched her arms out.
Meteor watched as Angel took the baby blue colored soul orb and placed it on top of Constellation's chest. It floats on top almost ominiously.
As if on cue, both Angel and Meteor's spells hit the orb at the same time. The white and pink spell makes the glow being casted by the blue soul orb turn into a soft lavender color. The rest watched, both the body, and the nearby doors to make sure that no one interrupts them, in silence. Meteor felt her breath quicken, as if someone had knocked all the air out of her lungs, but kept going anyways. She's not some weak glass doll. She can do this.
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Meteor sighed in relief as they finally finished their spell and Constellation jolt up into a sitting position. She made her way toward one of the doors guarded by the senshi. She fist bumped Asteroid, who stood near one of the larger doors leading to the room they were in.
"You okay?" he asked. She nodded, slightly out of breath. Ever since Meteor has noticed her side-effects, it appears to be different every single time. Which makes her wonder if it has to do with who she was healing.
"You don't look okay," he replied. For a second, Meteor wondered if he was joking...
"Well, thanks," Meteor replied sacrastically. Asteroid chuckled dryly. They both waited in silence as the group embraced and welcomed Constellation back to life.
