Chapter Six
Sunday morning, the Jerusalem Post's English-language version had a report on the foiled Arab terrorist attack of the day before on its front page near the lower right-hand corner. About a hundred words were on the front page in two columns before the article cut off to jump to page 5 of the paper's front section. It jumped to page 5, where the rest of the article continued for about another 1,900 or so words, more or less, in several columns positioned to the left of and below a few pictures of mostly moderate size. Those pictures and the rest of the text for the related article took up about 75 percent or so of page 5. Among the pictures on that page, related to the article in question, were pictures of the bus that Skyhorse had kept from being destroyed. However, no good enough pictures showed up in the paper showing Skyhorse, Pilgrim, or Serenade in action, much to the dismay of the paper's reporters and photographers.
Previous attempts by various other people to photograph them in action had to date proved completely futile, for that matter. And hopefully for their sakes, that'd always remain the case whenever they were having to fight evildoers in their lives, of course. Or at least for a long time in them, if not forever, in fact.
While Nigel Wakefield was still reading the Sunday paper before church, he soon asked, "Do any of you have any ideas about who these people might be who are fighting monsters or terrorists, by any chance?" He asked this as he and his family were having their breakfasts in the Wakefields' kitchen area as they then saw fit to here, by the way.
They were now all running about fifteen minutes later than normal, so that was why they were each having their breakfasts in the Wakefields' kitchen area. It was now just after 7:10 in the morning for Sunday, September 16, 1990, and they all usually left for church by 7 in the morning on a typical Sunday for them all.
They had all woken up about ten to twenty minutes after they usually each rose from their beds, so that was why they were now late. At least in terms of their usual departure time for church on Sunday mornings, anyway.
Esther said, "No, I don't, Nigel. I wonder who they are, in fact. I don't know who they are, in actual reality. And I hope they won't cause trouble around the area due to their presence, of course, for our country sure doesn't need any more than it normally has."
Sylvia's siblings wondered basically the same things here, for that matter. Not Sylvia, of course. For she knew much more about things related to Skyhorse and Pilgrim, for instance, than they did. And she hoped that'd always remain the case, for all the obvious reasons. When her parents asked her what she currently thought about Pilgrim and Skyhorse, she said she hoped they could stop the people and monsters who were now trying to wreak as much havoc as possible in the local area. They accepted that, quite naturally enough. Though they didn't actually know she was part of that very situation, just the same.
Some time later, then, all the Wakefields left their residence in the family's van. Not the one that Sylvia would normally drive all over the area, in actual reality, but another one entirely. They went to their usual church on David Street, and stayed there until just after 11 am, more or less. After church, they soon returned home, and split up as they saw fit after doing that.
Sylvia took her van to the underground cavern that she and Serenade had earlier found, once she'd loaded it up with certain things from her bedroom that she could currently spare from it. After doing that, she eventually set off for the aforementioned underground cavern. She dropped those things off in the cavern as she saw fit to drop them off in it, and then left the cavern again. She went shopping again, and this time for assorted items that could possibly double as secret communicators of a sort. Several hours later, then, she'd bought several watches, among other things, and brought them to the cavern as well, if she didn't put them in her pocket of sorts, of course. After doing that, she then did whatever else came to her mind on the current day.
Such as returning home and taking a short nap before resuming work on her latest quilt, for instance. She napped from about 3 to about 5 or so, before rising from her bed, and resuming work on her latest quilt. Sylvia primarily worked on that quilt from about 5:30 to about 7:30. Then she set aside her quilting-related work, and started working on her almost-due homework, if she'd not finished it yet. From about 7:40 to about 9:40, then, she worked on that homework, stopping after receiving a call from Liz. After working on it for about two hours, she told her parents she was going over to Liz's place to see what Liz wanted. They let her go.
She soon drove off in her own van, after suddenly getting the urge to bring another set of clothes with her at that time, and went to Liz's place. When she got there, Liz said, "I'm currently having some trouble with this Chemistry homework of mine. I can't seem to figure out this Chemistry-related stuff right now. I was wondering if you could possibly help me out with it."
So for about the next half hour or so after 10 pm or so, Sylvia helped Liz out as much as possible, within logical enough reason. She didn't do Liz's work for her, of course, but she still did help her with her Chemistry homework, just the same. After Liz thought that she could do the rest of it without more help from Sylvia at the current time, she eventually let Sylvia leave her house again. But not before giving her some treats for herself and for her family that Liz and her mother had made within the last day or so. Sylvia left Liz's place again by 11 pm local time.
Sylvia left Liz's place again, and then set off for Serenade's stable complex. For she'd decided to check in on Serenade before returning to Wakefield Castle, while still at Liz's place. So she went to Serenade's stable complex to visit a little while with him, arriving there by 11:30 pm local time.
As a matter of fact, the Shermans' stable complex was called "Sweet Musicalisti." And it had been in existence for about 40 years, more or less, after it had been created by Jonah and Danielle Sherman around the time of Israel's refounding.
Jonah and Danielle Sherman were both in their early to middle seventies, but both looked at least ten to fifteen years younger than that, in fact. And they'd both been born in Australia to missionary parents who often ministered to the Aborigines there. Jonah's parents had come from the United Kingdom, while Danielle's had come from Israel. In the course of time, they moved together to Israel, after first attending school in the United States for several years, to get all the necessary education related to horses they'd need in order to run an excellent stable in the future. After they finished their schooling in the United States, they settled in the Jerusalem area of Israel, and had been where they were now ever since.
They'd married just about two years after their first meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jonah and Danielle married each other in St. Louis, Missouri, one July day in 1945, during a summer-long break from their schooling. They finished their undergraduate schooling back in Philadelphia, then went after the necessary graduate degrees in Kentucky until they both earned them all on an accelerated scholastic schedule for both of them. After doing that, they moved to Israel, and set up their stable complex over time. They started small, of course, and gradually improved their stable complex as their current situations permitted them to do so at any time. Now, their stable complex was quite extensive, covering several hundred or so acres, if not more, in Jerusalem's local area. Not all in the same place, but still quite extensive, just the same.
For the past several years, they had even been entering horses in various races all over the world, whenever possible. Most of them older than three years old, in fact. But they had periodically entered younger horses than that in said races. Not very often, but they'd still done it, just the same.
When she got to Sweet Musicalisti, in order to visit with Serenade, Mr. Sherman was sitting near his stall, making notes in a spiral-bound notebook he had with him right now. He was making notes about possible breeding combinations for the horses he and his family could possibly breed for themselves, when she walked up to him here. She asked him, "What are you doing, Mr. Sherman?"
As soon as he recognized she was speaking to him, he looked at her, and said, "I'm considering several breeding possibilities for the horses we can possibly breed for ourselves, Miss Wakefield. It's a surprise to see you around here so late, in fact."
"Well, I felt I needed to spend some time with Serenade at the current time, Mr. Sherman."
"Say no more. If you wish to ride him, go right ahead. Just make sure that when you bring him back, you do all the necessary things, of course."
"Obviously, Mr. Sherman."
"Take all the time you need, then."
"Oh, before I forget, have you been able to get any more horses that I might possibly be interested in since we last talked about such things?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, we have. We were able to purchase Princess Caralina, for instance. She is a rather good-looking horse as well."
"Please tell me about her, if you can."
"Her mother is the daughter of Glorious Conquest and Crystal Dream, with the mare of the pair being Crystal Dream. Her mother's name is Promised Dream, and her father's name is Royal Favor. Crystal Dream and Glorious Conquest were well-known horses once owned by a British General Simon Termilicus, a friend of an American writer named Isaac Barnard. Isaac Barnard had given General Termilicus several horses in payment of a debt for services rendered. Among those horses were Glorious Conquest and Crystal Dream, to name just two of those horses."
"I see. What else do you know about her?" Sylvia finished preparing Moonlight Serenade for another ride as she asked Mr. Sherman that.
"She has the characteristics of an excellent racer, through her father Royal Favor and his side of her pedigree. Most of the horses on his side of her pedigree were racers, in fact. Most of those racers were of considerable note, at the very least. If not even more note than that, by the way, Sylvia." He helped her, if needed, onto Serenade's back, and went with her to the complex's main gates, of course. When the need arose for him to do so, then, he opened those gates, and let them ride away, in very short order. After they left, he returned to what he'd been doing when she showed up near him on the complex's grounds.
By 11:45 pm, they were both just about a mile or two away, at the very least, from Sweet Musicalisti's grounds. And they were going wherever the desire or need for them to go struck them both at the present time. Sylvia rode him for a while, often talking with him whenever and wherever possible, before she brought them both into a currently-dark alley. Moments later, with a very brief, and very muted, flash of light, if any at all, she was again Skyhorse.
They patrolled the Jerusalem local area for at least an hour after she transformed into her Scout state around local midnight. If not even longer than that. Seeing nothing happening that shouldn't happen wherever they were both patrolling at the current time, they eventually decided to return to Sweet Musicalisti, in rather short order.
On the way back there, she suddenly asked him, "Do you know of an eagle called Isaiah or a girl named Kiena Jacano right now, as far as you can recall, Serenade?"
"Both names seem somewhat unfamiliar to me, at least in terms of them being attached to an eagle or a girl with those names, Skyhorse. There was, however, a Japanese Prince by that name, if I remember correctly enough, during the days of the Silver Millennium."
"The Silver Millennium?"
"Long ago, there was an interplanetary society based on the Moon, by the name of the Moon Kingdom. And the other known planets of this solar system were part of that society as well. All except the Earth, that is. Before it was destroyed or conquered by the Negaverse, there was a time for that Moon Kingdom called the Silver Millennium. There were many people who were friendly to the Moon Kingdom and its inhabitants, and you were one of them. Others who were friendly to them included some Princes from assorted places on Earth. Including one that the Moon Kingdom's expected future ruler really liked in her life, in fact. This Prince she liked wasn't Prince Isaiah, by the way. But Prince Isaiah was related, I believe, to that certain Prince the Moon Princess really liked. To make a long story short, the Kingdom in question was destroyed or conquered by the Negaverse and its assorted beings. At least until the Moon Kingdom's Queen acted, that is. She trapped a lot of sentients and other things inside countless globes and things, and sent them to the future. Including you and me, just so you know. Time passed, and we emerged from whatever containers and things we'd been placed in when she saved us, Skyhorse."
"How many other sentients are there around from that time, thanks to this Queen you mentioned to me just now?"
"I really don't know yet, if I ever will. I just know that you and I are awakened at least partly from our long time of dormancy now. If not completely from it. There are many things I don't yet remember from that time period, for instance."
"And do you think the same thing is true for me, and for anyone else who this Queen might have saved a long time ago?"
"Yes, I do, Skyhorse. But I don't know how this eagle and this girl you just mentioned tie into things here yet, if I ever will."
They talked at considerable length with each other for most, if not all, of the rest of their ride back to Sweet Musicalisti. Eventually, just before they got back there, she powered down to her civilian state as Sylvia Wakefield. They arrived back there just a few minutes before 1:15 in the morning of Monday, September 17, 1990, in fact.
It took her about half an hour or so, at most, to take care of Serenade and herself in the required manners. After doing so, she eventually parted from Serenade again. And she returned to Wakefield Castle by 2 in the morning. Five minutes or so later, she was in her room again. And by 2:15 or so, she was quite soundly asleep in her bed again, dreaming there, whenever possible, in fact.
She didn't yet know this, but she would have many opportunities to see Kiena and Isaiah in her life, in the future. God willing, of course. For Kiena was eventually going to be a Scout, and Isaiah would be a guardian animal for her, in actual reality.
As for Moonlight Serenade, he and Princess Caralina would serve as guardian animals for Skyhorse, though she didn't yet know that either, in her own life. Other Scouts would have their own guardian animals to help them, if and whenever possible in the future. Some might not, if their situations didn't permit them to have them at all. But at least for a few, there would be certain animals who'd serve as guardian animals for them in their lives. Whether or not those lives were their civilian lives or their Scout lives, that'd be the case for them, just the same.
A few days later, on Thursday afternoon, Jeddite was just about ready to unleash another monster in the local area here. He was just finishing his work on his third monster created in his Jerusalem-area base of operations, while still wearing his Negaverse uniform in his work area of sorts there.
As he was putting the final touches on that monster, he was suddenly visited by another high-ranking Negaverse soldier. A soldier who came from the Negaverse to where he now was through a portal of some kind, in fact. This soldier was called Valthusa, and she asked him, "How soon do you intend to release another monster into this area here, Jeddite? Queen Beryl wants to know. What should I tell her?"
"Tell her that my third monster is about to be unleashed. Hopefully the Sailor Scout who's destroyed my first two monsters will be unable to defeat this one, with or without help from anyone or anything else, of course."
"What is this infernal Scout's name?"
"Sailor Skyhorse, it seems. At least, that's what the local news media people seem to think she was calling herself at the present time. Someone else was aiding her earlier, it seems, during both of the battles in which my monsters were destroyed. Some guy in a tuxedo, if I remember correctly enough here. Also a horse has shown up during two of the battles that she's fought recently as Skyhorse, from what recent news reports have seemed to say around here."
"You've only released two monsters, Jeddite."
"True, Valthusa. Sailor Skyhorse somehow disarmed a terrorist bomb earlier, and took out several Arab terrorists with the help of the strange man and horse that I told you about, it seems."
"So how many battles has she apparently fought, that you know of so far?"
"Three, I believe. Though I can't quite be sure of that at the moment, in fact."
For a little while longer, then, the two of them conversed as needed or desired with each other. Eventually, though, Valthusa had to leave him alone again, so that he could go release a monster in the local area again. She opened a portal back to the Negaverse, and was gone just as fast as she'd earlier come to Jeddite's Jerusalem-area base of operations.
After he was completely satisfied with his work on his next monster, he took care of it as needed, including by putting it in a cube if it wasn't already there. That done, he soon stored it away under his usual Arabic-style outfit, before leaving his workshop again, of course. After which, he soon left his hideout again, so that he could search for a suitable enough place to release the monster at in the area.
Jeddite soon hailed a taxicab, and had the cabdriver take him to a college in the local area. He secretly left a cloaked cube on the college's soccer field on a bench there. He did so without anyone else seeing him there. And Jeddite eventually slipped off the field to make his escape from the immediate area of it. As soon as he detected enough people on the field from about a half-mile away from it, he released the monster as he'd earlier released his first two monsters. And he waited for the inevitable presence of Sailor Skyhorse, at least, if nobody or nothing else as well, quite obviously enough. It was about 4:15 pm local time when he released the monster and began waiting for Skyhorse, at least, to show up later, as he expected would be the case soon enough.
As he waited, the still-invisible monster soon sneaked up on a coach talking to a bunch of players on that field, and secretly took him over. The players didn't know this, and they likely never would. Or at least they'd not know this until the monster finally showed itself later on, if at all, for the obvious reasons, of course.
As he waited, he also had the monster secretly start to drain energy from the players and other nearby people very gradually. And do that so that they all wouldn't pick up on what was going on too soon, hopefully enough. So the monster began doing so while still hiding within their host body, per his just-given instructions from Jeddite. And they didn't do it too fast at all, if they could possibly avoid it as they did so, in fact.
While Jeddite was heading toward the soccer field of the college he was going to, Sylvia was visiting briefly with Serenade, and several other people were near them at the same time. Suddenly, he tensed. And Sylvia got another feeling that something else was about to happen that'd require her to go fight again, as well. She quickly saddled him, and said, "Serenade wants to go out again. Reuben, I need you to let us out of the main gates as quickly as possible."
"Understood, Miss Wakefield." Reuben helped her mount Serenade, if needed, and then they set off for the main gates again, of course. Not too much later, Serenade and Sylvia were off Sweet Musicalisti's grounds. And they were heading for wherever else in the area their feelings were going to draw them to, just as quickly and as safely as possible for them both. On the way there, they hurried to her house briefly, and went in back of it, making sure not to be seen while doing either of those things by any of Sylvia's siblings or her parents. When it was safe enough for her to do so, she then leapt up onto her balcony from his back. Sylvia made it quite safely up to her balcony when she leapt up there, and soon accessed her room from the outside. She used a piece of plastic she'd found earlier that day to gain access to her room, for she'd locked it from the inside, quite obviously enough. Slipping into her room, she checked on Isaiah, who was actually starting to get rather restless here, for some yet-unknown reason. When she opened the cage he was then in, he flew out of it, and hovered briefly near her balcony's doors. Isaiah did this as she made sure that she had everything with her that she'd need to have in order to fight again as Skyhorse, in fact. As soon as she did so well enough to suit her, she moved back toward her balcony's doors. And she made it so that they'd be secure again, once she'd left her room again for a long enough time for her balcony through the necessary doors, quite obviously enough.
As soon as she opened the doors to her balcony well enough, Isaiah flashed out through them. And he then winged his way toward another part of the area, not yet knowing where he was being drawn to here, of course. Sylvia tried to stop him, but was completely unsuccessful, in fact. When she realized he was too far away for her to catch up to at the current time, she soon jumped off her balcony, and landed as needed on Serenade's back again. She did that so that they could then hopefully be on their way again in a very short time.
"Where do you think he's going, Serenade?" asked Sylvia, once it was safe enough for them to talk to each other again here.
"Perhaps to find his target, I'd think. Perhaps he has to find the girl we talked about earlier with you, Sylvia."
"I wonder why, if that's actually the case here."
"Perhaps they might have a similar mission to ours, Sylvia." A few minutes later, she brought them to a deserted alley behind an abandoned warehouse. This warehouse wasn't more than about three blocks away from the nearest part of the college's campus, in fact. When she thought it was now safe enough for her to become Skyhorse, she powered up as quickly as she could do that here. A minute after beginning her transformation, then, she was completely Skyhorse again in her life. As soon as she realized that was now true enough for her, she climbed back up on his back, and they continued on their way to somewhere near the location of the problem, or soon-to-be problem.
Two minutes after leaving the area of the warehouse, then, they hid briefly behind the soccer field's bleachers on one side of the field. That done, Serenade slipped away, just as soon as Skyhorse told him to do that well enough. When he was gone, Skyhorse climbed up the back of the bleachers hopefully out of complete sight of the still-invisible monster. She made her way to the top row of those bleachers in a part of them very carefully, for the obvious reasons, of course, as she did so.
Eventually she reached the top of them, and slipped through a window of sorts into a nearby press box without being seen by anyone well enough at the current time. At least not by anyone who she might then have to fight, anyway. She waited for the proper time to show herself, while she calculated the likely odds of her succeeding in the current fight, as well. There were now about four dozen players and several coaches then on the field, as necessary at the current time. Skyhorse didn't like those potential odds much, by the way.
Eventually, when she could wait no longer, she showed herself, by exiting the press box through its main doorway, and began walking down the stairs in front of it. When she was close enough to do so, she then said, "I am Sailor Skyhorse, servant of the One True God. You have come to a place where people can often compete against each other for fun or sport, or watch those who do! And for this, you shall not be forgiven! I stand as Sailor Skyhorse against all who seek to do evil in His Universe. Leave now, or suffer the justified consequences of your actions, evil being that you are! This is your last warning!"
The monster soon revealed itself to be male, bearded, and with many soccer balls at his disposal. He revealed himself as a four-armed soccer coach apparently wearing a German soccer uniform with the number 6 on it. His name was on the back, and his name was Pyruchio, apparently. In both his left hands, he had soccer goal-like nets. In both his right hands, he held soccer balls of regulation-size, more or less. As she neared the crowd gathered on the field below, he suddenly began shooting soccer balls at her with many kicks. He did this while also hoping to knock her out of the fight before she could put up enough of a defense against him in it.
She used her sword and shield to try to protect herself from those balls where possible. But she took several hits, just the same. Even while still making her way down the bleachers to field level, she did so.
Eventually, she'd made her way down to field level. But not without getting hit by at least a few dozen soccer balls, more or less, was she able to do so well enough. Those soccer balls often hurt when they hit her in various places all over her body. She was able to defend herself against several others by slashing at them with her sword or blocking them with her shield, though. While she was trying to get to where the monster was, she also had to defend herself against many of the other people there, after the monster made them go after her as well. She defended herself as best as possible against them, and somehow managed to do so well enough. But that still hadn't allowed her to get close enough to the monster to meet them in close-quarters combat. The monster shot several more balls at her in a very short time, and knocked her to the ground. She shielded herself as best as she could when that happened, but still took a few hits, just the same.
At least until Pilgrim and an unknown girl showed up, anyway. Pilgrim was on the other side of the field from where Skyhorse had shown herself. And the yet-unknown girl was standing on the crossbar for one of the goals there. Pilgrim interrupted Pyruchio's attacks on Skyhorse in the same way that he'd interrupted other attacks, saying as he did so, "The Pilgrim seeks the true lights of the world! And many, if not all, of the people who play or watch games of soccer on this very soccer field may very be among them. The Pilgrim will not allow any such light or lights to be snuffed out if he can possibly avoid it at all while he still lives. Cease and desist, you evil demon who now seeks to wreak havoc on this soccer field! And return from whence you came, or you shall most certainly die!"
As for the as-yet-unidentified girl, she was wearing a red and white sweatshirt, a purple pair of slacks, and purple ankle boots. A gold necklace hung just over the collar of her sweatshirt, and it had a removable medium-sized locket hanging from it currently. A moderately-sized quiver with two crossing straps in an X-pattern hung from her back, full of several dozen arrows. In her left hand, she held a compound bow, and in her right, an arrow with three feathers on the end that would be nocked on appropriate strings for the bow, as needed. Two of the feathers were purple, while the third was red, to show where the top of the arrow should be when shooting it. All her other arrows were so marked, in like manner, for all the obvious reasons here.
When the people began to attack Pilgrim, the unknown girl shouted, "Halt, you monster! Release these people from your control, or else! The spirit is strong in this one, and it speaks of a rebirth of the soul granted by the One who made the Universe! With a true and humble heart, this one's spirit is strong, and it deserves to remain so, if and whenever possible, for many more years into the future!"
"What do you know of rebirth, and why should I release these people from my control? Why should I leave this one's spirit alone, young babe that you are?"
"Because you have no right to it, evil monster that you are! By God's holy light, you have no right to it, nor to wreak havoc in this land or on this world! Go back from whence you came, or prepare to die at our hands, in righteous justice directed by the One who made the Universe!"
"Then try to make me, you foolish baby of a girl!" shouted Pyruchio.
"Very well. But you will come to regret calling me such things, if you live long enough to do so!"
Just then, an eagle, specifically Isaiah, flew out of a nearby tree, to her shoulder, and secretly whispered in her right ear a very few brief words. She heard those certain words, quite secretly. And she then nodded at him, just as secretly. Isaiah then flew back to where he'd just been hiding, as she nocked her bow as needed. She then held the arrow in place with two of the fingers on her left hand, pointing the arrow straight up above her head as she did that here. With her right hand, she touched her round locket, and said, in a rather loud voice, "Renaissance Crystal Power!"
A pillar mostly, if not entirely, of red, white, yellow, and purple light shrouded her almost immediately. When her head became visible again from behind that pillar, as the pillar began disappearing as needed, she had hair in a similar style to her normally-preferred civilian style. Her mostly red hair was roughly shoulder-length, with a few purple streaks in it. Like in her civilian state, her eyes were round, green, and moderately-set. On her forehead, there was a gold tiara with a green stone at its base. A purple choker was around her neck about halfway between her chin and her shoulders, when it became visible enough here. She had a purple neckerchief with a single yellow line of piping around its edges as needed that appeared just after her choker did. The girl's new power locket was round and mostly yellow, wherever possible, when it appeared after that. It was just above a knot in that neckerchief, and above a red bow as well. When her shoulders were revealed, they turned out to be three red rings, wherever they could be. The girl's sailor suit uniform blouse was soon revealed to be mostly, if not entirely, white, and so was her belt at her waist. Her upper arms between armbands at her elbows and her uniform's shoulders were completely bare. Her armbands were purple, and they were quite similar to her shoulder rings. She had white elbow-length gloves. In the small of her back, or just above it, there was a bow that matched the one just below her locket as much as it then could do so here. A purple skirt that was roughly the same length, more or less, as Skyhorse's skirt was soon appeared to everyone's view here. From the hem of that skirt to the top of her boots, then, her legs were completely bare. Her boots were soon revealed to be ankle boots. And they were both made of purple leather, just like the ones that she'd come to the field wearing, in fact.
When the pillar around her completely disappeared, and she realized that well enough, she hollered, "I am Sailor Renaissance, servant of the One who made the Universe! To help the light shine again in the world that once was hidden is to be one of my missions as a Scout! You seek to destroy or conquer the light that is meant to shine in the world. And for that, you shall certainly not be forgiven! Prepare to face the wrath of Sailor Renaissance, who seeks to help bring God's light and life back into a world that needs both greatly, you evil monster!"
Several people began moving toward her, in very short order, including Pyruchio, of course. She shot several arrows toward them, hoping to help Skyhorse and Pilgrim out as much as she then could here, so that they could do whatever they had to do during the current battle. Several arrows hit those people, knocking them out for the rest of the fight. She shot her arrows as she saw fit, while Pilgrim and Skyhorse were still trying to recover from the attacks that'd earlier been sent their way during the fight.
Eventually, Pilgrim and Skyhorse both felt strong enough to resume active participation in the battle. And they both went to work on their current opponents as needed, until Pyruchio was left alone among them, in terms of beings they'd have to fight here. For all the others had been dealt with as needed by the three fighters opposing those beings.
After Pilgrim realized that well enough here, he said, "Skyhorse, you should be able to take care of the rest of this battle now. Do your righteous duty, and destroy this demon for the glory of God above! He will not survive, once you do so!" As with Morga and Pallia, Pyruchio began looking for a means of escape. But just like with Morga and Pallia, such a means of escape didn't appear to him here. Skyhorse's sword glowed as usual, and Skyhorse prepared to do what she needed to do here now, of course.
"Right, Pilgrim." Twenty seconds or so later, then, her current duty here was completely attended to as was actually necessary for her. Before it was, however, the Pilgrim departed again from her sight and hearing ranges, in very short order. And the applicable host body was soon restored in the exact same manner as the host bodies her two previous Negaverse opponents had taken over had been, after she destroyed Pyruchio's cube, if not before then, of course.
As before, Jeddite saw yet another ball of energy disappear from his possession, in like manner as his previous two energy balls had. As it did, he also detected the presence of another Sailor Scout in the area where he'd left Pyruchio's now-destroyed cube. When he did, he soon realized that his current task to gather sufficient amounts of energy for the Negaverse's leaders had just become considerably more difficult, for all the obvious reasons. Queen Beryl would most certainly not be pleased to learn of the presence of another Scout in the local area, in fact.
Jeddite soon teleported back to his base of operations again, without being seen in the process of doing so, and began work on yet another monster. He'd probably not finish it for at least a few days. That was due to the simple fact that he now had two Scouts he'd have to take into account as he worked on that monster, of course. As soon as he got there, he started immediately on the task of creating another monster as needed, in fact.
Back on the field, however, Renaissance was quickly approaching Skyhorse. Skyhorse was now sitting near a sideline of it on the ground. And she was now examining her legs for marks left by the many soccer balls she'd not been able to shield herself from well enough during the just-ended battle, for example. As Renaissance came over, Skyhorse said, "I thank you for your assistance during the fight, Renaissance. It bought me time to recover at least partly from the demon's attacks he made on me during it."
"My pleasure. He really marked you up, it seems," said Renaissance, as she began trying to help Skyhorse attend to her various bruises, et cetera, received in the fight.
It took both Scouts at least a little while as best as they currently could in order to attend to the various bruises, et cetera, that Skyhorse had received during the fight. And by that time, Moonlight Serenade had shown up again near Skyhorse, once he realized it was safe enough for him to do so here. Skyhorse had several bruises still at least a little visible on her legs and arms. But they weren't as bright as they had once been, in fact. For Renaissance had helped her out by healing as many bruises as she could at least a little bit, if not a lot, with the help of her power locket. Not all of those bruises, by the way, but at least some of them, if not many or most of them at all here.
A little while later, then, Renaissance helped Skyhorse up onto Serenade's back, as needed here. Skyhorse and Moonlight Serenade soon set off for Sweet Musicalisti's grounds, just as soon as they could do so well enough here, unlike Sailor Renaissance, who chose to remain where she was for at least a little bit longer. It took Skyhorse and Moonlight Serenade at least twenty or so minutes, if not at least an hour, for them to return to Serenade's lodgings in the area. This, of course, was for all the obvious reasons, in fact.
They passed through the main gates again by 7:15 pm local time, after Skyhorse had once again become just Sylvia Wakefield in her life. Ten minutes after that, they were back in his stall, and she was taking care of him as needed at the current time, with a good deal of help from Reuben and Timothy, where appropriate or required.
After Serenade was hopefully settled for the rest of the night, she soon showered and dressed where needed elsewhere on the complex, before leaving for her home again in the area. She left Sweet Musicalisti's grounds by 8:30 pm, and eventually arrived back at Wakefield Castle by 9 pm, local time. She soon went right to her room, and stayed there for the rest of the night. Sylvia retired to her bed at 11, which was earlier than she normally did. And she was soon quite soundly asleep in it, lost in dreams of the past again.