Well heres the next instalment of Indigo, sooner than I predicted which is a good sign, go me , go me Well to make up for all the unexplained things left unsaid in the last chapter (my apologies) an extra long chapter !!!!!
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Chapter 18 – The Compass
Miadora looked up at the sixteen spheres circling her and grumbled in annoyance, their looks annoyed her.
"Who are these people Mabus" she snapped angrily,
"They are the royals of the system" he responded submissively, knowing best not to anger his queen,
"I see" she responded with an intrigue, turning around and walking to her solid black throne, taking a seat.
"Mina!" Usagi cried banging on the sphere in desperation, tears streaming down her eyes, what had happened to her friend?
"Silence" she whispered just loud enough for the scouts to hear, she had no idea what this girl, this woman was ranting on about. Who was this Mina?
"But Mina please, it's us" pleaded Rei,
"I said silence" Miadora snapped raising her hand in one quick swipe, clicked her fingers sending a surge of dark energy, much like Red shot Artemis with before, into Rei's sphere, she cried in agony.
"Stop it you hear me Mina, STOP" Makoto yelled, Miadora clicked her fingers again and smirked, stopping the surge of energy in Rei's sphere; she was intrigued by this green suited fighter.
"Or what" she asked coyly, Jupiter just sighed in relief seeing Rei prop herself up to recover.
"My Queen, it is time" Mabus bowed gently, Miadora looked at him and nodded abruptly in response, standing up and following Mabus into the abyss of the realm.
"What's happened to her?" Rei groaned,
"It's not Mina, when she opened Pandora's box and transformed, she became the box, it's like the silver crystal, alive in a sense, she infused with it, now she is part of it" Hotaru explained, turning around to lean on the sphere curve.
"So it's like what happened to Galaxia?" Ami deducted sensibly,
"Who's Galaxia" Nephlyte asked curiously,
"That's a story for a different time Nephy" Makoto winked playfully at her boyfriend,
"Well that's all good and proper but what do we do now?" Kunzite grumbled angrily, trying his best to remain as passive as possible, although feeling completely helpless.
"Well we could always teleport?" Michiru suggested,
"But we can't leave Mina like this" Usagi whispered miserably, the outer's sighed at their queens compassion,
"Trust me, helping her is not our biggest problem, stopping her is" Hotaru sighed, cringing,
"What?" Rei gasped,
"According to what I remember, each time Pandora was awakened she brought with her the destruction of a world, and then would retire back to her chalice for a thousand years once again" Hotaru completed,
'Well what world will she destroy" Haruka asked,
"I'm thinking the only one that has any life on it" Makoto mused,
"so let me get this right, you're telling me that Mina will destroy earth and then be released so that this evil will sleep a thousand years again" Haruka snapped angrily,
"That pretty well sums it up" Ami responded warily,
"Only if Pandora retreats back to her chalice, Mina will in all probabilities die, just like Queen Selenity did during the attack on the moon kingdom" hotaru mouthed painfully,
"so
Mina will die?" Usagi gasped, she had in no way taken that into
consideration, saving the world was easy, saving the world while a
friends life was on the line, now that was a different story.
"That's after Pandora is finished" Hotaru nodded in
confirmation,
"Ok we're dead" Chibi Moon spoke in anguish.
"Well if we could get out of here, we could stop her, the queen could cleanse her from the crystal and we could be home for dinner" Jaedite spoke, overly chipper for such circumstances, however taking in accord his personality it did not seem such a stretch.
"You know he does have a point, after all you did cleanse Galaxia Usagi chan" Rei spoke with an unusual optimism at her lovers comment,
"Why thank you Rei" Jaedite beamed happily,
"Shut up"
"Make me"
"Oh I will, just wait"
"Suddenly I feel so grateful for these spheres" Jaedite gulped in retreat, everyone giggled lightly.
"I wouldn't be so hasty to get out of those spheres" a foreign voice called from a distant,
"Who's there?" Makoto spoke intimidating, on full awareness now,
"hold your horses Jupy" the voice responded, it sounded so familiar, suddenly at once they all saw the source of the voice, in the centre near the throne emerged a familiar face, Sailor V.
"Mina?" Usagi asked curiously, cocking her head remembering her childhood where she had practically idealised Sailor V, before learning that she was destined Queen of the Universe and Sailor V was actually Sailor Venus, her guardian and best friend.
"I have to be quick, I can't make it long here" Sailor V groaned, crippling under one leg,
"Mina" everyone spoke in worry,
"How is this possible" Zoisite was the only one to add,
"Shouldn't you know by now Zoi that there are two sides to every coin" Sailor V laughed taking out her old moon compact,
"So are you Mina's soul?" Rei was the first to ask, being a priestess held a natural curiosity for such things,
Mina chuckled, "not quite Rei, I'm Mina's will if you please, her consciousness in body form, she's been trying to run for Mabus for some time, she was just to weak to face her past, until he sent her on assignment to kill Usagi, since he had been trying to turn her back to the side of Saturn, but something always held her, kept her from losing her entire humanity" Sailor V explained,
"And what was that" Usagi asked intrigued,
"She always wore ti around her neck, a locket you had given her for her birthday. It held a picture of a group photo that had been taken on her 21st birthday and a picture of Kunzite and herself on a swing, as well as her engagement ring, and it always reminded her of the good times" Sailor V continued. Everyone nodded understandably.
"So why are you here" Haruka snapped judgmentally, wanting to know how Mina's consciousness was in all likeliness going to help them get out of their prisons,
"to stop you from hurting yourselves" Sailor V smiled with a scepticism, it was true that Sailor Uranus aka Haruka had a strong personality, often misconstrued wrong but Mina knew better.
"How are you going to do that" Mercury asked curiously, still trying to comprehend how a consciousness could take human form,
"Well let me guess, so far Sailor Saturn would have explained to you that Mina plans to destroy Earth, and then by chance she'll die, so by now you're all deciding on how you're going to get out of the spheres, which will lead to someone, probably Haruka to decide to blast your way out of the spheres which in turn would leave you bare in the realm of Saturn, with no way to escape and ultimately be barraged by dark lightening, all but Sailor Saturn, who ultimately could not use any attacks to save the people she loves" Sailor V spoke entirely coy, making sure to take several timed pauses.
"You know for Mina's consciousness you sure are cocky" Haruka grumbled, knowing that she did have a point on her most probably course of action; Mina just ignored the comment and opened the compact.
"Hopefully this has enough juice in it still" she laughed, knowing she was wearing a bit out; after all she was all but a consciousness now, the consciousness of Venus.
"Moon Sparkle Atonement" she shouted and the compact began to glow, with rays of moonlight and light from Venus, Sailor V closed her eyes and began to focus, everyone looked in both amazement and fear, fear that whatever Mina's consciousness had planned it wasn't going to work.
After several seconds, Sailor V's head shot up and from the compact focused beams of light shot at each sphere, each person jumped back, startled.
"Don't worry" Sailor V soothed gently,
"Well if you tell us what you're doing there would be no need to worry would there" Jaedite cringed, much like a small girl in Sailor V's opinion,
"Be quiet Jed" Rei commanded, noting the light beam that had been focused into a small circle that had entered her sphere and was gradually turning into a necklace. A black leather cord, with a small onyx heart attached, it was the same necklace which each person got, excluding Sailor V.
"Wear these necklaces, they'll protect you from the realm but that's all I can do" and in a flash of light she disappeared, leaving nought but the sound of the moon compact clashing on the floor in her stead.
"Mina?" Makoto asked curiously, the necklace already around her neck, like it was with everyone else,
"You know these things could be a trap" Nephlyte mused, staring at the heart around his neck,
"Doubt it" Rei spoke happily,
"Well if you're sure, let's get out of these things then" he completed,
"Alright" everyone spoke in sync.
"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody"
"Mars Celestial Fire"
"Jupiter Oak Evolution"
"World Shaking"
"Deep Submerge"
"Dead Scream"
"Silence Wall"
"Pink Sugar Heart Attack"
"Crystal Moon Therapy Kiss!"
the scouts yelled, and in a blaze of light they were out of their spheres, the generals and Artemis summoned energy into blades and forcefully cut their way out of the spheres.
"Ok so where to now?" Mars asked curiously, all the while Kunzite had decided to pick up the moon compact that Sailor V had held previously.
"Mina" he breathed softly, he cringed, he had only recently got her back and now she was taken from him again, suddenly the compact began to glow.
Kunzite walked over to the scouts who stared at it intently, slowly the compact rose from Kunzite's hand and once it had gotten a clear foot in mid air, a bright light shone, blinding everyone.
Once the light died down everyone had a look at the compact, it had transformed into a compass and began to gently float back into Kunzite's hand,
"Mina" Usagi smiled gratefully,
Kunzite smiled at the compass, she would help her friends no matter what, even when she was the bad guy, he had to smile,
"May it be the light in otherwise dark places"
he could hear her voice whisper gently, he nodded in assurance, he would get his Mina back, that he was sure of.
That was a long chappie writers cramp ha-ha, well hope your liking the story to date and all your reviews have been so awesome to read. Thank you so much!