Chapter 11: The Final Morning--Part III--Revealing the Truth and Showing True Emotions… Slightly
Meanwhile, while all of this was happening at the Lane, we come upon Double D's house, where we see Double D and Ami sitting on Double D's front lawn, with their legs spread out onto the lawn's green grass. They were discussing about what happened on the day they met.
Double D then finished off explaining how everyone thought he was the toughest kid in school, which lead up to the fight in the Pit, "But as we were going to get our backpacks before they were taken up, we saw you falling from the sky," he then laughed at a thought, "We all thought you were a meteorite at first; Eddy was sure disappointed when he found out."
Ami laughed at his statement about Eddy, "Well, I would've thought the same thing too," she then made a peaceful sigh and went into a thought, 'I wonder how long this would last before something major will happen here…?' she closed her eyes into a even more deeper thought, 'I just hope no one here gets hurt or killed… I won't allow that to happen.'
"… A penny for your thoughts, Ami?" questioned Double D, noticing her peaceful, thinking expression.
"… Well, I was thinking about those… strange monsters that have been showing up," Ami said with slight hesitates; maybe she should tell him about herself; about Sailor Mercury.
Double D arched an eyebrow; why would she think about something like that? "Oh… really?"
"Yeah; I just… hope they don't come here," Ami continued to say, "I don't want them to hurt anyone here; you, your friends or your neighbors… I need to protect you all."
"Wait… W-What are you trying to say?" Double D started to ask nervously, "W-What do mean by 'protect'?"
Ami made a sigh as she turned to the hat-wearing Edd, "Double D… there's something I need to tell you."
Double D could feel small beads of sweat forming on the visible part of his forehead, "Y-Yes Ami; what is it?"
"I need you to stand up for a moment," Ami stated as Double D quickly rose to his feet. She soon got up from where she sat as she stood not too far away in front of Double D, ready to reveal her secret.
Ami started to reach into her right front pocket of her pants and grabbed out a baby blue-colored stick that had a dark, blue-colored jewel in the top. It had two wings on each side of the jewel and a gold engraving of the astrological sign of Mercury on the front of the jewel.
Double D immediately noticed the sign on the jewel.
"… I'm sure you know what this sign means on this jewel," Ami said, noticing that it was what he was looking at.
"Yes… it's the astrological sign of the planet Mercury," Double D stated as he then widened his eyes and gasps in realization; it couldn't be…?! "Ami… Are you Sailor Mercury?"
Ami nodded her head, "Yes," she paused at what she was about to say next, "And all of my friends are a part of the Sailor Senshi."
Double D was also surprised to hear this, "You mean the group of girls that guards Tokyo; that Sailor Senshi? I remembered reading about them once in the newspaper…"
"Yes, that's us," Ami stated as she then made a somewhat sad sigh, "The reason why I'm telling you this is… well, just in case if you run into trouble with the youmas. You'll know who to call for help…"
"Oh… Y-Yes, of course…"
There was a few second of silence between Double D and Ami as Ami looked up at the sky and made a deep, happy sigh; clasping her hands together as she did.
Double D looked at her for a second before looking away from her in a shyly way, blushing slightly as he did, 'Oh goodness; there's that feeling again,' his heart seemed to be slightly racing faster than before, 'Why do I keep having this weird feeling?' he glanced back at Ami before looking away again before coming to a simple conclusion, 'No… It can't be that… B-But I think it is…'
"Double D?"
"Y-Yes?" Double D stated quickly to Ami as he turned to her.
"I haven't seen my friend Rei today; while I've seen everyone else at the Lane," Ami stated, "I'm a little worried."
"Do you think she might still be at Eddy's?" Double D asked, "Because I haven't seen Eddy this morning either."
They look in the direction of Eddy's house down and across the street. They saw smoke steadily coming from the chimney of Eddy's house. Suddenly, a large amount of smoke comes out all in one puff.
Double D arched an eyebrow, "Strange, why would Eddy start a fire in his chimney this early in fall?"
Ami soon came to a reasonable conclusion to that, "It must be Rei doing a fire reading."
"Fire reading?" Double D questioned, "You mean like a psychic?"
"Yes; Rei is a psychic," Ami stated, "I wonder what she's trying to do…?"
"Let's go see, shall we?" Double D said as they started to go over to Eddy's house.
(Rewind Time: 15 Minutes Ago…)
Eddy was starting to wake up from his slumber, stretching a little as he did. He noticed what time it was now; seven o'clock. Eddy made a little smirk to himself; time to think of a scam for the kids to fall for. He then proceeded to get himself dressed for the day without any hassle on time (AN: Probably took him 13 minutes to do that; leaving the other 2 minutes for something else…).
But when he was going to his kitchen to fix himself his famous omelets, he stopped dead in his tracks before he entered his living room. There, sitting Indian-style in front of his now-lit fireplace, was the girl he saved yesterday; Rei.
Eddy's heart almost skipped a beat; how the heck could he forget about her?! He peaked around the corner to see what she was doing. She looked like she was praying in front of the fire.
"Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, zai, sen…" Rei chanted as the fire grew slightly bigger, "Show me what will happen today, o sacred flames…"
Suddenly, the flames in front of her started to produce an image; it was a picture of her as Sailor Mars, crying for someone in dark, red-tinted armor, who was lying on the ground in a peaceful way. (AN: Eddy widens his eyes at the site of Mars, of course, because he can see the images as well). Though she could not see the boys face in the image, she felt like she knew him her whole life.
Soon that image disappears as another image shows itself in the fire. It was a boy who had short, bushy red hair and unusual, red-brown tinted eyes. He wore some type of uniform that was gray, wore black boots and a red cape across his broad shoulders. He was laughing like a maniac on a killing spree.
Soon the flames died down and eventually disappeared, leaving a surprised Rei and a very stunned Eddy. Both of them had the same question on their minds, but they were worded differently.
'W-Who was that boy in the image…?' Rei thought with a bit of worry, 'And why was I crying for him…?'
'Why was Mars crying like that…?' Eddy thought with worry at what he saw, 'And who was that kid she was crying for…?'
That was when Rei noticed Eddy spying on her from the hallway, "You can come out now, Eddy; I know you're there."
Eddy froze in his place a little before coming into the living room with Rei; busted, "So, uh, Rei… what was that hocus pocus just now?"
"… I was just doing my usual fire reading; like I do every day," Rei replied as she got up from where she sat.
"Oh… really?" questioned Eddy.
"Yeah… It was a vision of the future," Rei continued to say as Eddy looked at her, slightly confused, "… Though I don't know when it will happen; it'll happen sometime today…" she continued to say, the last part was mostly to herself.
"… Rei?"
"Yes?"
Eddy paused for a moment before saying, "There's, well, something I need to, umm, ask you…"
"What is it?" Rei asked, batting an eyebrow.
"Well… you, uh, remind me of someone that I've, uh, been dreaming about and…" Eddy muttered a little before taking in a deep breath, "Are you, uh… related to Sailor Mars?"
Rei turned a bit pale in the face at what he said, "… How on earth do you know her?" she asked with a shocked voice.
"Well… when I was knocked out, I had this weird dream that had her and someone else at some snowy place; kinda like the North Pole or something," Eddy explained, recalling his dream, "… It wasn't a pretty sight to see."
Rei's race grew even paler, "I… need to sit down for a moment," she stated with her right forehead on her head. She soon walked over and flopped down on Eddy's couch.
Eddy looked at her with slight confusion at her reaction, "… Was it something I said?"
"No… no; it's not you," Rei said, shaking her head, "It just brought back some bad memories about that day; that's all."
"Wait… memories?" Eddy questioned, "You mean… you were there?"
Rei nodded her head, "It was the day we went after the Dark Kingdom; the final fight. Queen Beryl sent out these witches called the Doom and Gloom Girls to get rid of us; one by one."
She lowered her head down in shame, "Jupiter was the first one; then Mercury and finally Venus. Only Sailor Moon and I were left there for a moment… that is, until I faced my fate."
Eddy felt his stomach drop to the floor as he widened his eyes with shock; the realization of what she was saying hit him like a ton of bricks.
"No…" he said while shaking his head with denial, "That couldn't have been you, could it?"
Rei nodded her head, "Yes, it was me."
Eddy made a face of total shock, "But… B-But how? How are you even living today?!"
"By Sailor Moon's bravery to save us all; her friends," Rei simply concluded for him, "After all, we are her protectors; the Sailor Senshi," she then made a sigh, "But if we did not come back to life that day, we would be reborn into someone else; which I wouldn't want at the moment now…"
"Re… born?" Eddy stated slowly to himself, his strange flashback from last night slowly coming back to him. The person that was with the princess had to be someone related to him… or was it him the whole time?
Ring! Ring! Ring! The doorbell suddenly started to ring from the front door.
"Hmm, must be Double D and Ed," Eddy said to Rei as he left the room and went to his front door not too far away.
At the door was Double D, Ed, and even Ami and Hotaru, "Hello Eddy!" both Double D and Ed greeted in their own way (AN: Let's say that Ed and Hotaru saw the smoke from the chimney as well and came over with Double D and Ami, kay?).
"Hey guys," Eddy greeted back as he lets them all into his house, "What brings you all over here?"
"Nothing much," Double D replied. "We've just noticed smoke coming out of the chimney."
"Was Rei doing her fire readings?" Ami asked.
Eddy nodded his head, "Yeah, she was."
Soon everyone talked about what they might do today. Surprisingly, while everyone was suggesting their ideas, Eddy never mentioned anything about doing a scam of any kind. This was noticed by Double D and Ed in particular.
'Strange, he would usually have an idea by now,' Double D thought, 'I wonder why he's being so passive today?'
He then remembered what Ed whispered to him yesterday night; how Eddy was acting strange because of Rei. Double D made a smile, 'Funny; it seems that we, the Ed's, have been bitten by the little love bug.'
But little do they all know that they would be put to the test; both mentally and physically. The whole Cul-De-Sac will feel the pain as well.
It was almost time to invade and destroy.
Chapter 11 1/2: Preparing
It was now eight o'clock in the morning here in the little community of Peach Creek as we come upon the woods between the trailer park and the Cul-De-Sac. In the woods, we see an unseen path just past the sinister-looking trees and into the moss-covered cave. This is where we can find Lady Ultima's castle of darkness. And inside the castle's walls were the General's Quarters, where the generals of the Soul Busters's rooms were located. One particular room was currently occupied at the moment; it was the planning room, located at the end of the hallway.
In the room, there were six preteens; each of them was sitting in a color coded chair. It was white (Weiss), red (Russo), gold (Kin), blue (Azure), green (Midori), and finally orange (Alani).
"Okay, so who do we get out of the way first?" Russo asked Weiss.
Weiss thought about it for a second before saying, "… I think you and I should take care of pasts, don't you think?"
"Yeah, exactly what I thought as well," Russo said with a smirk, "And we'll need another general there too; just in case if things get too messy, you know?"
"Right," Weiss said with a nod as he turned to the four other generals, "Okay, which one of you rookies want to come with us… Or else, we'll do 'Enny-Mini-Myni-Moe' again."
The four generals gave nervous glances at each other; they definitely didn't want to do that picking tactic again!
"… I'll go," Midori said as she got up from where she sat, "I don't want my friends to get hurt, so I'll do it instead."
"Nice choice," Russo stated, "Okay, the other three generals will go after everyone else. We'll leave as soon as--"
"Come, Generals of the Elements!" boomed a voice from the throne room, "I need all six of you at my side!"
The four rookie generals made a sigh. How did they get involved with the Soul Busters anyway? It was all because they got lost in those woods two years ago…
"Hey! Quit slacking off; Lady Ultima called us!" Russo snapped at the four as he and Weiss disappeared with a flash of dark red and white lights.
The four looked at each other and made a sigh; they soon disappeared by their colors…
… And soon, all six of the preteens appeared before Lady Ultima and bowed to the woman, "Yes, Lady Ultima?"
"It is time; time to attack this pathetic neighborhood," Lady Ultima said as the black sphere in front of her showed an image of six preteens; Double D, Eddy, Ed, Ami, Rei and Hotaru, "Mercury, Mars and Saturn will be your first targets. They're presenting tremendous amounts of soul energy; energy to activate my inner self," she then paused before she spoke, "… And remember; I need them here… alive."
"Yes Lady Ultima," stated all of the preteens in front of her as they disappeared in their represented colored flashes; heading to the neighborhood of the Cul-De-Sac…
Hmm... as you can see, I combined the old Chapter 12 from the first RiB to this Chapter 11... I hope no one is confused by this move... ^^;