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Chapter 8: The Concert

Katori looked at the case in Tenshiko's hand. Her senses were telling her that the scroll within the case was vital to defeating the evil that had been attacking Starr City. She had no idea how she knew this to be true but she hoped that it was real.

"We have the scroll, but now the Starr City Police Department believes that we are thieves!" Hikari said as she paced in front of Tenshiko's bed.

"We are thieves, Hikari. We did take the scroll, but that doesn't mean we are going to be keeping it forever. We are going to keep it safe for a little while." Tenshiko said calmly as she opened the case and unrolled the scroll. Her eyes scanned the scroll a few times as Katori and Hikari watched. A frown came onto Tenshiko's lips.

"Well, Tenshiko, what does it say?" Hikari asked impatiently.

"It says that 'only the Descendent of Atlantis can protect the Earth from the evil that lies beneath the waves.' "

Hikari and Katori stared at Tenshiko with shock. "Atlantis? As in the Atlantis?"

"Atlantis is just a story, Tenshiko." Katori said as she dismissed it with a wave of her hand.

"Says a girl who possesses magic powers and fights monsters!" Hikari pointed out.

Katori frowned. "All right, maybe there is an Atlantis, but all the stories say that it was destroyed and that it sank to the bottom of the ocean."

"Yes, but that doesn't mean no one survived." Tenshiko said as she reread the scroll.

"Does it say anything else?" Katori asked as her gaze lingered on Tenshiko.

"The rest of it is in code that I can't decipher." Tenshiko said after a moment and then she rolled the scroll up and placed it back in its case. "We can not allow the enemy to get this scroll. We must keep it in a safe place."

"I know a place where it shall remain safe." Katori said.

Tenshiko nodded her head. "Very well. We don't want the enemy to find it or any of our relatives for that matter; it wouldn't be easy to explain."

"All right, but now we have to wait for you to decipher the code to find out who is the Descendent." Hikari said.

Tenshiko frowned at the case that she held in her hand. Her mind began to search through darkened memories but nothing came toward the light for her to find out what her senses were trying to tell her. She couldn't help but wonder whether the Descendent, Atlantis and the 'evil beneath the waves' had something to do with the strange sensations and hazy memories that had been going through her for the last six months.

Tenshiko looked up at her friends, deciding that the answers would come to her as time progressed. "It may tell us who or what the evil is that is beneath the water."

Hikari sighed. "All right, but we are going to the concert tonight, right?" Hikari asked hopefully.

"Yes, Hikari we are going to the concert. To patrol." Tenshiko said as she handed the case to Katori.

Hikari groaned. "What? But we need to have some time off."

"I said we were going to patrol, I never said we couldn't have any fun." Tenshiko said as she gave Hikari a smile.

Hikari smiled and jumped up and down a couple of times. "I can't wait! I have to figure out what to wear!" Hikari said as she began a rapid search through her clothes.

Katori looked at the case in her hands and then she looked at Tenshiko. Her eyes widened when she saw a white glow surrounding her friend. As soon as she saw it, the glow faded.

Tenshiko's gaze went from Hikari to Katori and gave her friend a questioning look but Katori just shook her head.

Tenshiko understood that her friend wasn't ready to tell her anything yet. She stood up and went to her closet pick out an outfit for Hikari to wear. Hikari accepted the outfit and went to try it on at that moment.

Katori looked at Tenshiko discreetly but didn't see the glow again.

Tenshiko, Katori and Hikari entered the park. Thousands of people were walking around, playing various games and enjoying the rides before the concert was to start. Tenshiko scanned the people around her and kept her senses on alert.

"This is so awesome. My first concert in the U.S." Hikari exclaimed as she took in the sites. Mostly all of the teenage boys that were running around.

"Yes, it will be a fun night, but remember, we must be on our guard." Tenshiko warned as she followed Hikari.

Katori frowned as she matched her friend's pace. "Do you think that they will attack so openly?"

Tenshiko gazed across the thousands of people that had come to the event. "Yes, I believe that they are desperate to find the Descendent and to gather energy."

"Oh, let's go on some rides." Hikari said ignoring her friends' conversation as she headed to the ticket booth.

After a couple of hours of going on the rides and playing some of the games, it was thirty minutes until the concert. They all decided that they wanted to get something to eat before the concert started.

"A monster!" A man yelled as he ran past the girls.

They looked up and saw a monster draining people's energy and knocking down the tents that had been set up.

They rose from their seats and headed to a deserted tent to transform. They headed toward the monster but then Sailor Soul saw another one to the far right of them.

"I'll take the monster over there. I think you two can handle this one." Soul said as she took off.

Guardian and Sun took several steps toward the monster but several police officers stood before them with their guns pointed at them.

"You are all under arrest." A blonde haired police officer shouted.

Guardian looked from the monster to the police officers that had their guns trained on her and Sailor Sun. "We have to deal with this monster first, then you may attempt to arrest us." Guardian said as she turned her back on the officers and ran toward the creature, sending her Guardian Feather Strike at it.

"I totally agree with Guardian." Sailor Sun said as she followed Guardian.

The police officers glanced at one another with bewildered looks on their faces. They turned to look at the monster when it had screamed. They didn't follow as the two Sailors headed off to help Sailor Soul battle the monster that she was fighting.

Sailor Soul dodged the mini clams that were being thrown at her by the creature. She sent her attack but the monster blocked it with a large shield that was in the shape of a clam.

"Guardian Feather Strike." Sailor Guardian yelled as her attack struck the monster's raised clam-hand that was about ready to send another attack.

"Sun Beam Flash." Sailor Sun screamed as her attack struck the monster directly in the torso destroying the monster.

Sailor Sun was about to speak but the sounds of people screaming reached their ears as well as a horrible screech.

"How many monsters did they bring to the concert?" Soul asked as she sent an attack at another monster that had sprung up on their left.

"We must split up." Sailor Guardian said as she dodged an attack.

"All right, I'll head toward the wheel." Sun said as she took off in that direction dodging around the people who were running away from the monsters.

"I'll handle this monster." Guardian said as she dodged another attack and sent one of her own destroying another monster that had come from behind a crafts tent.

Soul nodded as she took off in the opposite direction that Sun had gone.

Guardian ran toward the sound of someone screaming. She past a group of people huddled together inside a tent. "Run!" Guardian yelled as she spotted a creature holding onto to Medea and draining her energy.

The people huddled together didn't protest and took off toward the direction that Guardian had come from.

Guardian jumped into the air and tackled the monster. The monster released Medea and she fell to the ground with a groan.

Guardian threw half a dozen punches at the monster but the monster grabbed onto her and began to drain her energy. Guardian's head began to drop but she managed to gather a small portion of her attack in her hand and sent it into the monster's face.

The monster dropped Guardian and clutched at its face, screaming in rage and pain.

Sailor Guardian gathered another attack and sent it toward the creature, praying that it would be powerful enough to destroy the monster. It wasn't strong enough and the monster leapt at Guardian.

Guardian dodged the creature and sent another attack but it was too weak. Guardian began to feel lightheaded and jumped to the left barely avoiding the monster. Guardian looked behind the creature and saw a box that powered the Zipper ride.

Guardian sent an attack at the monster but the monster easily dodged it. "That is the best you can do?" The creature mocked as it stepped closer.

"Actually, this is the best I can do." Guardian said as she jumped and sent a kick at the monster. The force of her kick sent the monster into the power box and the monster screamed as electricity flowed through him. He turned into water and Guardian fell, all of her energy gone.

Sailor Guardian sensed someone to her right and turned to look. She saw Lady Dhuam standing there with a grin on her face.

"Well, I hope you Scouts enjoyed the event." Lady Dhuam laughed as she held up a glowing blue sphere. "I certainly have had a wonderful time. I hope that we shall get together again soon." She said as black water swirled around her like a tornado and she disappeared.

Soul walked over to Guardian, limping from the wound on her leg. "Those creatures were different than any of the other ones we have ever faced before." Soul said as she grabbed Guardian's hand and pulled her onto her feet.

"Yes, we should leave now before we are arrested." Guardian said as she scanned the destruction that they and the monsters had caused. She wiped away the blood from her forehead that was dripping into her eyes.

Sun just nodded and ignored the pain of her dislocated shoulder. She followed Guardian and Soul out of Starr Center.

Dozens of ambulances arrived to take the people who had been drained of their energy to the hospital. Firefighters began to search through the debris, but thankfully, no one had been buried. The police searched Starr Center for the Sailor Scouts but didn't find a trace of them or of any of the monsters that had attacked the people gathered for the concert except for the destruction that had been caused by the battle.

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