Chapter – 6 At last the Negaverse appear
The next morning Ami, Makoto and Mamoru ring the bell on the Tsukinos house at 6:00 AM, and a still sleepy Daisuke answer the door. It took a few seconds for him to recognize them and to remember why they did come.
"Good morning kids, I knew that you'd come early, but not so early."
"We're sorry to wake you up this early Daisuke-san, but if we really need to get Usagi-chan in shape and be ready to protect you, her family and help us to keep peace around, then she must train everyday, at last for one hour before school and two hours after it." Makoto answered.
"Oh well, with that I must agree, but I wish you good luck in getting Usagi out of her bed, please come in." Daisuke open the door and let the kids in. They all get in and soon meet with Yuka before heading to Usagi's bedroom.
Once there they try to wake her up the 'normal way'. Since that failed they opted by 'their way'. Mamoru filled the bathtub as the girls pick her up and take her to the bathroom.
Mamoru leave and close the door and keep guard on the other side of it. Soon a loud splash is heard followed by Usagi yell, and her parents and Mamoru's laughter. A few minutes later Usagi is wearing gym cloths and warming up along side with Mamoru, Makoto and Ami.
They warm up for a few minutes before teaching her the first kata of their school; they repeat it several times until she gets the hang of it. Sure the majority of the time was helping her with her equilibrium.
At 7:15 AM they stop the exercises and go clean up with the girls first, followed by Mamoru. When the clock hit 7:45 AM they are well into their way to school, with Usagi 'walking' to school for the first time in many years.
At lunchtime the girls had join under their normal spot after a "joyous" morning.
"Man I can't believe that the simple fact that I'm on time today, and had my homework done would freak Haruna sensei like that." Mutter Usagi as she starts to eat her lunch that miraculously survived until now.
"She's not the only one usa-chan. Heck you scared the whole class by not zoning out, answering questions, etc…" commented Naru.
"Oh come on Naru-chan I'm not that bad."
"Yes you are. If it wasn't by that klutz attack near the end of the class we would have wondered who you were and what did you do with the real Usagi."
"*Sigh*…Naru-chan I'm still me, only that yesterday I got a really close call with life and reality. This call made me realize that if one day I'm to take care of my little brother and the legacy of my family, then I need to grow up"
"Who do I need to give the medal for such miracle?"
"That would be me and my mother" answered Ami.
"Girl you need to tell me your secret, if it could turn Usagi upside down from one day to the other then it can help thousands of students world wide."
"I don't know Naru-chan Usagi's problem were unique."
"Oh I agree about that"
"I heard that!"
While the girls continue to chat freely, on the artic another group of beings are starting to make their move.
"JADEITE COME FOWARD!" A female voice boomed.
"What I may be of service my queen?" said Jadeite as he appear kneeling before a woman with gray skin, blood red hair seated in a dark throne.
"The cursed barrier that Serenity caste upon us is weak engulf for you to go through and start to withdraw energy for us to reawake Mettalia."
"I'll go there immediately my queen"
"Also try to find and get the silver crystal. With it in our hands we will have power over the galaxy."
"I'll go at once my queen".
With that Jadeite vanish from the throne room. But he and his queen weren't the only ones there. A black shadow with red eyes approaches the woman.
"What do you want Iasoppah, my loyal servant." The queen asked
"I'm worried your highness, my ex-toy did demonstrated silver powers in the lasts day of my old form on earth, also I fear that the inners had awaken."
"All of the senshis, or just a one or another?"
"I fear that all of them. But Venus is nowhere near her friends."
"This can become an annoyance…very well go to Earth and keep me informed, if that ex-student of yours starts to create trouble finish him. Also if Jadeite mess things up because of those girls, I want you to take whatever energy he got and send to me immediately."
"As you wish."
When the shadow vanish Beryl hear the voice of Mettalia. "Do you think it's wise to trust that troll?"
"He was faithful to me since our last battle with the accursed Serenity. He was my back up plan in the improbable case that Serenity miraculously turned the tables of the war. He's been corrupting Pluto since our victory was stolen from us. And thanks to him we got a hole in the barrier three decades early."
"Yes he has proven his worth time and time again. Very well if he succeeds where your generals fail then I would like to promote him to be our heir."
"My thought exactly."
After school the girls plus Kodachi, Shampoo, Nabiki, Mamoru, Usagi and her family, Luna, and Mousse gather together on the Cherry Hill temple to train under the supervision of Cologne, that after learning about the unwanted attention that they might have from a certain unbalanced senshi, had erected more wards around the temple.
Cologne had requested the young ones to transform and to demonstrate their powers, after gauging their potential she started to give hints and katas that they should work on. For the novices she started with the basics, especially with Usagi.
By the fall of night Ranko appeared and help them, specially her daughter and Usagi, but her teachings were cut short when her pager beeped. Usagi and Ami went with her to accompany her and exchange notes on today's training.
"You guys sure know how to pass us through the meat wriggler. I'm dead tired, and I ache all over my body." Mutter Usagi
"Don't worry usa-chan, if you keep this up for while you'll be in fighting shape witting a month." Ranko said.
"You really think so?" Usagi questioned.
"Yes I do. You do have potential and energy, what you lack is focus."
"Thank you Ranko-sensei."
"You're…." Suddenly both Ranko and Ami went rigid and start to look all around. Usagi was about to ask what is wrong, when she too felt it. A dark feeling filled with malice and lust.
Then Ranko switch to her neko senses and tried to pinpoint the source of this awful feeling. After a moment she spots it near a jewel shop. She was about to charge it when a hand on her arm stop her.
"Mom let me and usa-chan takes care of that thing. While you go to the hospital, a lot of people need you there."
"Ok but call reinforcement, that thing is tricky and dangerous; also there is another one a lot weaker then that thing inside the shop."
"Oh no that's Naru's mother shop and she is inside it."
"Usagi you deal with the monster inside the shop I'll deal with that shadow."
"Good luck girls, and if you take more then an hour to finish that thing I'll come straight away to kill it." With that Ranko took to the roof and jump away, while Usagi and Ami transform.
'Endymion, Melina the Negaverse is on the loose again, I and Mercury will run interference until you got here, bring Jupiter and the BIG guns with you, I have the feeling that we'll need them' Moon said telepathically
'We're on our way hang in there Sere-chan'
"They're on the way Mercury."
"Roger that. Moon I got a plan you go in there and help Naru as soon as Endymion get here I'm sending him on your way."
"Ok and take care Mercury"
Sailor Mercury activate her visor and scan the area to pin-point exactly were the evil boss is. Once she got a lock on it she rise her ice mist and strike it using her Amazon techniques, plus Anything Goes, plus her recent rediscovered memories of Silver Millennium age techniques.
Iasoppah was about to jump in and take the energy from Jadeite when his vision and senses where blinded by the ice chilling mist, that's when his danger senses rose and he found himself on the defensive. "Who ever you are you're good, I'll give you that, but it won't be engulf"
"Don't bet on it leach, MERCURY HYPER FIST REVISED: ICE METEOR STORM!!!" Mercury start to deliver thousands of punch per second, and as she burns more and more ki, plus her mercury power, her speed increase until it borders the light speed.
Her punches crackle with concentrated cryogenic energy, it indeed starts to harm the demoniac troll, and he is temporally fazed by it. But such attack takes a toll on mercury as she fall to one knee laboring her breath.
"Girl that hurt, and I congratulate you senshi of mercury, it has been centuries since someone made me work this much. As a reward I'll let you catch your breath while I …go give a fellow co-worker a little hand." The troll laugh as he jump to Jadeite position, and in the nick of the time pick the energy sphere and send it to Beryl.
"Who are you? What did you do with Beryl-sama energy?"
"Sent it to her you fool, a second more and it would have been lost as your youma has been killed. As to whom I am, I am Iasoppah Beryl-Sama special agent. And I'll tell you now I only answer to her and to Mettalia-sama"
"Why you little…"
"JADEITE!!!"
"Beryl-sama!!"
"Iasoppah if he almost fails seven more times you can kill him and feed his life force to Mettalia."
"With pleasure my queen"
"As for you Jadeite you shall obey Iasoppah to the letter do I make myself clear"
"Crystal clear, your highness"
As Beryl presence vanish Jadeite turn a hateful gaze to Iasoppah, and see the little troll snickering "One day you'll pay for this"
"While both of us have more or less the same age, I keep training since then but it appear that you become lazy counting only with you magical power that come from Mettalia-sama. In other words when the license to kill you comes you are dead"
Jadeite was about to strike the little troll when he felt the thing power and involuntary gulped as the little troll has as much power as Mettalia-sama. "Well, well, looks like there is still a chance for you." Using lighting speed Iasoppah create a portal and send Jadeite and himself through it, leaving behind a youma.
The youma is found by the senshis shortly after Iasoppah and Jadeite leave. When Mercury, Shampoo and Kodachi see the thing they gasp and Mercury involuntary speak her thoughts aloud.
"Hinako sensei…"
At hearing her old name the thing had a spark of memory and it mutters a name
"A-Akane…"
"What happened to you?"
"Happosai…now I must obey his orders, since he enslaved me in body and soul"
"No one can enslave a soul" Sailor Moon retorted angrily
"When it is removed from your body and used to feed the demon it can, now you'll die or kill me, there isn't another option."
"I can heal you from this darkness."
"Do that and my human body die, since it won't have a soul to feed it. Oh I almost forgot, Kodachi they are telling me to tell you that it was from Happosai order that you were raped; and Akane...He *AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGG* he *AARRGG* control…Pluto."
After this last bit all traces of humanity disappear, and the youma body becomes a gaseous dark form, instantly recognized by Mercury, Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Endymion. "IT'S A SOUL EATER!!!"
Quickly Endymion and Mars take their mothers away from the thing, Mercury create an Ice Sphere around it, as Jupiter and Moon start to gather energy. Mars come back quickly and strap many wards around the Ice in an attempt to hold the thing.
"MOON HURRY!!! I can't hold it much longer"
"JUPITER! DO IT NOW!!!" Sailor Moon yells
"JUPITER THUNDER DRAGON REVISED: SPECIUM BEAM!!!"
"MOON PRINCESS HALATION!!!"
Both beams merge and collide with the Ice Sphere; the crystal effects of the ice amplify both powers, as it literally dissolves the Soul Eater.