Sailor Moon Aeons.
Book 2: Rebirth.
Act 7: The Senshi of Chaos.
Episode 104: Three times the fun.

By Razor Knight
Last update: July 7, 2015
Last edited: June 13, 2017

Two days had passed since the battle against 'Sailor Mind,' and things were not as bad as everyone had guessed, even though some civilians were upset with what Nova had done. Still she was glad she had kept her identity a secret. Hana was now watching Shingo and Usagi train, inside the base. Pluto had taught him how to use his sword, and also unarmed combat, but he was still not having any luck beating Usagi. "You should just give up."

Shingo leapt away, barely missing one of Usagi's chakrams, and chuckled. "Why should I, this is fun."

Usagi smiled at that, then recalled her chakram. "By the way, Shingo... What were those constructs you were using in our last battle? They were destroyed too fast, so I couldn't see them clearly."

Shingo nodded. "I'll show you. Lunar Wolf!"

Hana stared at the white, humanoid wolf Shingo had summoned - a werewolf? "Wow. Can it fight?"

To answer that, Shingo swung his fist forwards, and the werewolf mimicked that. He then leapt at Usagi, without warning, and the werewolf followed his move. Usagi, however, rolled to the side, tossing one of her weapons at him, but he blocked it with his arms. "It can fight, yeah."

Usagi laughed. "That's nice, but if all it does is mimicking your moves..." She phased right behind Shingo, "it won't beat me." She sensed something as she was about to hit Shingo from behind, and ducked, barely missing the wolf's claw slash. "Oh."

Shingo turned to her. "It can fight on its own, too. Still, I guess Hana is right, you're out of my league, sis. I give up."

"There is no shame in losing against a much stronger enemy," Terry said. He had been silently watching the fight, and he had to admit he was impressed by how well Pluto had trained the youngest Dragon. Impressed, but not surprised.

Hana walked to him. "Terry, there was something that Siren girl said during that fight. She said I also use mana. Have any idea how that could be?"

"Ever since I met the Senshi and saw what they could do, I had that suspicion, myself," Terry admitted. "But I never had any proof. I still don't, honestly. If you are manipulating and gathering mana, it may be like the 'Dream' mana, different enough that our scanners can't measure it."

Usagi had been staring at Hana since she asked her question, and the others looked at her questioningly as they noticed. "Uh, I was... Trying to see her power."

"You can-"

"At first I was confused by my 'magic sense' as Ami's called it a few times, but... I've been trying to figure it out for months now. At first I couldn't do a thing, but then I found I could amplify its range and accuracy by using it actively."

"That's how you could tell where Galaxia's goons are attacking from."

"Yes. Anyhow... Hana, I can see mana in you, it's a kind I had never seen before. I'm not perfect at sensing mana, but I can guess it's a type of mana that can only be manipulated with one's mind."

"Heh, so I'm a 'Magical Girl' after all," Hana mused.

"That's one mystery solved," Terry said, "but the mystery of the Star Seeds remains."

"We know what they are, we know they're looking for a special one, but who's got it?"

Hana was looking at Usagi. "If it's special, it should be in the strongest magical being of our generation, right?"

Terry nodded. "That's a good guess, but why-" He finally noticed who Hana was looking at, and slapped his forehead. "Shit, I should have figured that out myself."

Usagi flinched. "You mean I..."

"We won't know until the enemy targets you. We don't even know why this enemy wants it."

Usagi nodded. "I'm sure it's for nothing good. I don't care who has that seed, we won't let them get it."

"Of course we won't," Terry said, "even if this Galaxia is the one the legends speak of, even if her power is infinite, power isn't everything in a fight. We'll defeat her."

Usagi flinched and looked up. "Speak of the devil... I can sense Siren moving, she's heading for... The Hunters!"

"You've improved a lot."

Yukiko smiled at her friend. "Yeah, I did. But I'm still upset that I can only compare to Usagi if I throw all my mana out in one single attack."

"Only way you would be like her would be being her," Emi said. "We've been training our mana gathering, maybe you should try that."

"How does that work?"

"You force your body to hold more mana than it can. It's painful at first, but once you get used to it, you can keep training and improving."

Maria shrugged. "Unfortunately, while our reserves went up a lot, our recharge speed hasn't changed much."

"Sounds like fun," Yukiko said. "Let's- Oh, damn it."

Aki saw the blue-haired Senshi walk to them and sighed. "I was wondering if we would be targeted. Which one of us is she after, though?"

Siren looked at them in turns and smiled. "The only answer I can give to that is 'Yes.'"

Yukiko flinched. Was this girl really saying she could turn all three of them at the same time? "Damn it... Girls, I'll cover you."

Maria frowned. "They would just come back for us. Demon..."

Aki smiled. "We may not be able to beat her, but we can still try. ... Magic..."

Yukiko saw the three girls were shining with light, and their hands were wrapped in mana. She then noticed Siren was just standing there, arms crossed. "Siren, was it? You should run."

"Fool, their power is not-"

Emi glared at Siren. "Our individual power is not enough, but let us show you what the three strongest Demon Hunters can do when they combine their power. Spell Fusion, Demon Magic Armageddon!"

Yukiko could have sworn she saw Siren flinch before the large energy blast hit her. And after the light around the area was down to bearable levels, she noticed two things. One, her friends were on their knees, exhausted. And two, Siren had a line of blood running down from her mouth. "Wow..."

"Looks like... You're not invincible, freak."

Siren glared at Maria, then chuckled. "Not the first time I'm hurt in battle, but I must thank you."

"Huh? Why is that?" Aki asked.

"It's been too long since we faced enemies who could hurt us. Thanks for reminding me I should not take victories for granted.

Yuki saw Siren vanish, then saw her right behind her friends, who were all lying down on the ground. "Damn it..."

Siren looked at the three seeds. "Seriously, three duds? I thought being this powerful, one of them would have it. Oh well..."

"Wait!" Yuki shouted, but the woman was gone. She knew she couldn't help her friends until they transformed, so she decided to take care of something else first.

"Uh..."

Yuki looked at the woman. She had teleported right next to where this 'spectator' was, and didn't mind her being much stronger than her. "You bitch... Why are you even here?"

The black-haired woman shrugged. "I have no time for-"

"Witch Spark."

That made her enemy glare at her. "Hey! We've done nothing against you, don't make me attack you."

"That's the problem, you've done nothing, you don't help us at all. If you're not going to help us, go away."

"Hmph. Humans can be so annoying..."

Yuki glared at the spot the woman had been standing on. "Coward."

"You should..."

"... be paying more..."

"... attention to your surroundings."

Yuki turned to the side and saw three women standing there. It was obvious they were Aki, Emi and Maria, but they were all wearing a Senshi outfit - at least the top of it looked like one, the 'skirt' was knee-long and full of runes. "I fear asking, who are you?" she asked as she transformed. She didn't need that to use her magic, but she also didn't want anyone to see Yuki, not Warwitch, throwing elemental attacks around.

"We..."

"... are ..."

"... Sailor Magi."

"Oh, great, these three talk like those twin Witches."

Warwitch smiled. "Hi guys. How did you get here so fast?"

"I learnt how to teleport thanks to the Hunters, and I've been trying to teach everyone."

The witch nodded at Moon. "It's useful. Anyhow... There's three 'fake Senshi,' this will be a tough fight."

Moon looked at the others. "We can handle them."

"It may be hard, they managed to hurt that Siren girl."

"They what?" Phase nearly shouted. "Uhm, I mean... How?"

"Using a triple spell, it left them without energy, but Siren wasn't too happy about it."

Mercury flinched. "I hate it when I don't see the obvious. We could use our own combined techniques to hurt those women."

Moon smiled, looking at the three evil 'Senshi' who were apparently waiting for their attack. "We should, but first let me take care of these. Cosmic Flash!"

Dragon Moon had been about to ask why she had shouted her attack out loud, but then noticed something. Moon had shot a wave at the three, then shot a wide beam up, without calling it out. "What-"

Dragon Mercury saw the three mages fall near them, and chuckled. "The old decoy trick, huh?"

Moon smiled. "Can't fool me with that so easily."

The Sailor Magi staggered up, glaring at Moon. "We..."

"... will..."

"... defeat you. Demon's..."

"... Darkness..."

"... Sword!"

Moon didn't need to read data, like Mercury, so she could sense the power the three 'Magi' had as they leapt at her. If she dodged it, they could destroy the whole area, and if she attacked them hard enough to disrupt their attack, she could kill them. As usual, she took a third choice.

Nova picked herself off the ground and looked around. The explosion had been quite strong, but if what she had sensed of the trio was right, Moon had somehow made it much weaker than it should be. She looked in the direction Moon had been, and gasped. "Usagi!"

Dragon Mercury, or rather, Dragon Saturn, was already checking on her. "Damn it, she took a lot of damage. Aiko!"

Phase nodded. "Hotaru, this is Phase, we need you-"

"No need to tell me," Saturn said as she appeared near them.

"How-"

Saturn smiled at Dragon Saturn, and this time didn't tell him to move out of the way. "I was already heading this way when you guys called me. Terry, I'll need help for this, she's quite injured."

The three Magi laughed as they floated up from the small crater their attack had left. "Too bad for you, Senshi, but you won't defeat us so easily!"

Just as they were done saying that (speaking in unison, rather than splitting the sentence between them, Saturn noted,) one of them was trapped in a sphere of flames. The other two Magi turned to the attacker, only to be greeted by a lamp post to the chest, and a light chain, respectively.

"That's for hurting Usagi," Mars snapped at the three as they fell.

"Is she going to be okay?" Venus asked, walking to her fallen friend.

"She took a lot of damage and used her own life energy to cancel most of the mana of those three-"

"That's not what she asked," Jupiter noted, arms crossed.

"... Uh, sorry, I guess. If you want a short answer, yes, we can heal her back to normal."

"You sure? I have no idea what I'm doing," Dragon Saturn admitted.

"Keep on using your healing on her, I'll work on what needs to be healed faster," Saturn said.

"I thought you would just shout me out of the way again."

Saturn sighed. "That was... I must admit I might have been too harsh last time. My mood's been quite rotten lately."

"I can understand why," the Dragon said.

Moon suddenly coughed and opened her eyes. "Ugh... That was a stupid move."

"That was brave," Saturn said, turning to her, "you knew you could get hurt, or worse, but you managed to save a lot of lives, and I'm not just talking about us."

Mercury smiled. "Guess that attack they pulled is a nice reminder of what combining our powers can do."

Moon sat up and winced. "Yeah, it was." She saw the three Hunters were already up, and staring at her. "Hi, girls."

"Usagi, we- We did this, right? We almost killed you?"

"It wasn't you." Moon said, "don't worry about it."

"It's quite annoying, though," Jupiter said, "these 'fake' Senshi are all as strong as a Cosmic Senshi."

"It's never easy for us, Mako. It just means we have to grow stronger."

Later that day, the three Hunters were inside the Senshi base, listening to what the Senshi were planning. "... But why would you need more combined spells? You have that Planet Attack thing."

"A technique which hurts whoever is the catalyst, and could be interrupted by the enemy easily."

Aki looked at Rei and nodded. "Guess that's true. Anyhow, why did you want us to know that?"

"You've got more experience than us with those techniques. Know a way for us to use them without shouting out the spells?"

"Sorry, but I don't think that's even possible. In the heat of battle, you need to make the other user, or users, aware that you're casting that spell."

Uranus and Neptune were also there, and had already been practicing for a while. "What if two people have a... Special connection?"

Aki looked at Maria, then back at Neptune. "I suppose that could be possible, but it may take a long time to be able to do it right."

Uranus smiled as a sphere of wind appeared in front of her, shooting straight at Neptune. Uranus chased after the sphere as it flew.

Neptune pointed her hand at the incoming attack and closed her eyes. The others saw a circle of water shoot from Neptune's hand, clashing with the wind blast and creating a sphere of water and wind. Both Uranus and Neptune were reaching their hands out to the sphere, and they both swung their arms to the side, to the far wall of the room.

Emi stared at Uranus and Neptune in turns as the sphere of water and wind crashed into the far wall of the base, leaving quite a visible dent in it. "How the heck..."

Uranus laughed at that. "Sorry, we kind of cheated. We practiced that combination for weeks - and once we learnt we could use spells without calling them out, we started trying to do it that way."

"Oh. Still, that attack had more power than the one we used to hurt Siren."

"We may be able to defeat them, then," Usagi said, "if we defeat her troops, then Galaxia will have to face us herself."

"Enraging a godlike Sailor Senshi sounds suicidal. I like that plan," Kage said. Mako punched him softly in the arm... And sent him rolling on the ground for a few meters. "Ow! Mako, what the heck..."

Mako cringed. "Ugh, sorry, I'm still getting used to controlling my strength."

"You two really get along," Hotaru said with a smile.

"If you say so," Kage muttered, but then smiled at Mako.