Chapter 3: Inner and Outer Guardians/Notes A:
Mako, Setsuna, and Rei stood in a line in front of the thing. They were ready for anything. Mako's thunder rod came out of her tiara and was ready, Setsuna held her staff close and prepared herself for the battle, Rei placed her hands for her "Fire Soul" attack and nodded, and the thing looked at them with a blank stare and slowly began walking towards them.
"Ready?" Rei asked.
"Ready." Mako replied.
"I'm ready." Setsuna added.
"Alright." Paused Rei, "Let's go."
"Could you use your "Mars Snake Fire" again?" Setsuna questioned, wondering if it was even possible.
"Unfortunately, that was a one time thing." Rei answered, "Your lives were all in danger . . . and that was the time I could do that."
"That sucks." Mako sighed, "Anyway, let's just get this started."
Both Rei and Setsuna nodded their heads and the battle had begun. The thing had batted at them, trying to give them a good scare. But, the three Sailor Guardians had none of it; they weren't scared of him and fought back. Rei looked over at Setsuna who had a cut on her arm.
"You okay?!" She asked.
"I'm fine." Setsuna replied.
"It's time to bring in the fire." Mako replied.
Rei nodded her head and turned to the monster. He swiped his hand at them, knocking them to the ground.
"YOU WON'T ESCAPE!" He hissed.
Rei brushed the attack off and stood back up, with Mako and Setsuna following her lead.
"Mars!" Rei paused, "Burning Snipper!"
The monster took the blow and sent an attack back.
"Jupiter!" Mako followed, "Oak Evolution!"
The monster took the attack and sent another one back that knocked the two Inner Guardians to the ground. Setsuna had glanced at the two of them as the monster attacked too; knocking her to the ground as well.
"YOU CAN'T ESCAPE!" He hissed again.
Mako held her bruised arm as she glared at the monster with her green eyes.
"This thing is starting to get on my nerves." She stated as she helped Rei to her feet and then Setsuna.
"Starting?" Rei asked.
"We should finish this soon." Setsuna answered, "Chronos Typhoon!"
The monster took the blow and was severely injured by the attack. Rei looked over at Mako and gave her a slight nod.
"Let's finish this, Jupiter." Rei said.
"Right." She answered.
"Fire Soul!"
"Sparkling Wide Pressure!"
The monster was defeated and vanished.
"That was harder than expected." Rei paused with a sigh, "It's getting stronger."
"Was that your second time fighting that thing?" Asked Mako, looking at her.
"Fourth." She answered as Setsuna followed a small ticking sound.
"Oh, what happened the first two times?" Mako asked another question.
"The first time was in the library on the first floor when I was trying to look for some clues about this place." Paused Rei, "The second time was with Mamoru, Minako, and Usagi on the third floor."
Before Jupiter could reply to Mars, there was a shattering glass sound. Rei and Mako looked over at Setsuna and gave her a questionable look.
"Sorry, I heard a ticking sound and broke a clock." She answered.
"Oh, no worries." Mako replied as Rei grabbed onto her arm, she turned to see Rei lost in thought, "Rei? You okay?"
She didn't answer, she could see Usagi standing in front of a door with herself, Mamoru, and Minako in the room with her.
"I'm sorry there wasn't anything I could do to help you guys." Usagi's voice began to echo.
"We know you did your best." Minako replied.
"I'm afraid it wasn't enough." Usagi said, sadly.
"What does Usagi mean?" Rei asked herself.
"What do you mean, Usagi?" Rei asked.
"I couldn't stop it from its rampage." Usagi paused, "I might as well give it what it wants."
"You can't give it . . ." Began Mamoru.
The thing stood behind Usagi and slowly began to wrap it's arms around Usagi protectively. Usagi didn't seem to be frightened by it. The others were though. They had a horrified look deep within their eyes.
"The thing!" Rei exclaimed, "What does it want? Why is it behind Usagi?"
"Usagi!" Rei yelled.
"Sailor Moon!" Minako yelled as well.
"Usako!" Screamed Mamoru.
"I'm sorry, guys." Usagi paused, smiling at them, "You all should be able to escape this mansion."
The memory started to fade black.
"Usagi!" Rei screamed.
"Lost Sailor Moon." A voice stated.
"Sailor Mars!" Yelled Mako.
"Huh?" Rei snapped out of it.
"Are you okay?" Setsuna asked.
"I saw something . . . I don't know what happened." Rei paused, "It was like a memory."
"Do you want to sit down for a minute?" Asked Mako.
"No, we should probably see if the others have found anything." Rei answered.
"Okay." Mako stopped as Setsuna's communicator started going off, "Pluto, I think that's your communicator."
"Odd, I thought that there wasn't any reception here." She answered, "But, I'll answer it."
"She answered the beeping communicator on her wrist.
"Pluto here . . ." She began.
There was a small sound that came through before the line went dead.
"What the heck?" Rei began.
"What was that?" Setsuna asked.
"It sounded like a piano chord, didn't it?" Mako said.
"Yeah, it did." Rei paused, "We should keep that in mind and find the others."
"Let's go." Setsuna added as they left.