Enter Seika
Seika walked into the ice cream shop determined to try a root beer float. "Seika!" the high pitched voice that she knew too well called to her. She turned with a slightly stiff smile on her lips. Serena waved to her and somewhat reluctantly she walked over to her and her group of friends. A blue and black haired girl scooted over in the seat to make room for her and she sat down uncertainly beside Serena.
"Hey," Mouko said with his trade mark grin, his arm around a brunette with what Earth Youths called a "Pony Tail". She sighed silently as she felt the tension drain from her body.
"Hello," she said with a small smile, one eyebrow cocked in approving question. He smirked back at her and pulled the girl closer. She blushed.
"I'll go ahead & introduce myself again," another brunette said with a sigh, before giving Seika a smile. "Ello, I'm Chewy Takahashi. I'm new around here."
"It is nice to meet you," she said smiling back.
"Great," Serena says loudly, slamming her hands down on the table, making Seika flinch fractionally. "Now we all know each other."
"It'd defiantly be a party if Aisu was here," a long haired blond girl said with a far off look in her eyes.
"And Kyoufuu," Chewy added her eyes clouding too. Seika's head sapped to Chewy so fast that she felt her neck crack. She glared at chewy. Kyoufuu, she thought with mild panic. He was here? Chewy paid no attention to Seika's dark stare, her mind elsewhere and continued on her giggling rampage with the blond. Seika's mind drifted to all the possible reasons that Kyoufuu would be on this planet, so far away from his own galaxy, and her mind only locked on one thought. He was here to collect women, but how did these girls know him? He must have targeted one of them, maybe them all. She would have to stick close to these girls. She groaned inwardly. More time with Serena. As Earthlings said, the girl had a voice that could shatter concrete.
"Seika," Mouko said solemnly, his face uncharacteristically serious. "Look out side." Snapping from her thoughts Seika glanced out the large glass windows to the gray sky beyond. They shared a glance. He felt the energy too. Seika nodded almost imperceptibly and Mouko blinked his confirmation. Seika rose with her customary grace, her long black hair, tied back in a single braid, slipping over her shoulder as she stood.
"I think that I better be heading home now," she said calmly. She waved her goodbye and walked swiftly out the door. As soon as she had cleared the ice cream shop's huge windows she was off at a dead run homing in on the dark energy. She ducked into an ally way quickly and looked around for any possible observers. Whipping the shoulder length black rod like earring from her left ear with her right hand in a flourish that left visible red line in the air she twirled it between her fingers swiftly. "Eternal Eclipse Power," she said and black flames immediately spiraled up her body then dissipated, leaving her in classic red sailor attire with black flames licking up the fabric of the skirt and gloves and red ones up her torso. Her glossy black hair had come unbraided to land in shimmering masses near her shoulders, continuing down to mid calf.
A small delicate black choker depicting a black orb almost completely covering a red sphere clung to her throat, matching her dangling earrings. Her sensible flats had transformed into red high healed pumps with black flames dancing up them, red ribbon entwining around her ankles, and small black wings on the back of the shoes. Finally, the rod earring spinning in her fingers elongated into a staff with the same eclipsing black orb covering red sphere on the end, red wings flanking its sides, and black star burst with ruby center at the top. Her transformation complete, Seika took off pulsing black fire behind her to speed her along to the point when her feet no longer touched the ground, the hot air keeping her afloat.
Coming to a halt near a green haired woman sucking people's energy into a black globe, she quickly assessed the cackling woman then started to twirl her staff over her head, black flames pouring from the orb, forming into a giant fire ball. Quickly she lowered her staff so that the winged ball pointed at the woman. "Eclipse Dark Inferno," she said and felt the staff kick back as the gigantic fire ball shot away from it, jarring her body with the force of the separation.
The woman turned and gasped in surprise as she was engulfed in the dark flames. Her loud screech of pain could be heard, echoing hollowly through the nearly silent street. "Over did it just a little bit, Eclipse?" she heard from behind her, the low throaty voice one she knew well. She cocked her head to the side, not taking her eyes off the fire ball, knowing that it wouldn't last much longer.
"It is my weakest attack, Tiger," she said evenly, using a childhood nickname as five girls in suites similar to hers came into sight, if not hearing distance. The giant half cat half man strolled along beside her, circling her, its slitted amber eyes studying her.
"Kyoufuu," he said softly. She shook her head.
"I am not sure but I think that it is him." His fur stood on end.
"What do you plan to do about him?" he asked softly, feeling her rage starting to boil over.
"Flush him out. Then incinerate him." At that moment the fire ball died down to ash and the woman, burned and battered, but still standing stood in a puddle of melted asphalt.
"Just who do you think you are? Another Sailor Brat?" The woman asked acidly.
"We're not brats!" A high pitched voice yelled in indignation. Tiger actually winced and clapped his claw like hands over his sensitive cat ears. She sounded like Serena. Seika shook the thought from her head quickly. Serena didn't seem the type. But they did have the same energy. Similar, she reminded herself. No one had the same energy. It was what made people unique.
"Good Joutei!" Tiger hissed, his voice fraught with pain. "Is she calling dogs?" Seika turned fractionally to bring the girls into her line of vision but kept her eyes on the green haired woman.
"We are Sailor Soldiers! We are the champions of love and justice! In the name of the Moon-" she said being cut off by the other girls around her as they added to her little speech.
"Mars."
"Mercury."
"Jupiter."
"And Venus."
"We will right wrongs and triumph over-"
"Yes, yes. I know. We've been through this once before," the green haired woman cut her off. "Can we get on with this? You girls-"
"Then you'll remember eating this!" A brown haired girl in red and yellow said. "Super Solar Siren!" A red wave of light streaked towards the woman as the girl waved a wand. Shooting off an energy blast of her own, the woman neutralized the girls attack.
"Eating what darling? That was about as filling as-"
"Do you people ever fight or do you just argue back and forth," Seika asked annoyed. The woman's face scrunched in rage.
"You shut up!" she yelled and turned back to the girls to see a fire arrow flying at her.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" A raven haired girl in red yelled as she attacked. Panicking slightly the woman moved out of the way, barely missing being struck dead on.
"You insolent little-" she was cut off as she saw two attacks come at her. She squealed as she scuttled out of the way.
"Jupiter Oak Shock!"
"Venus Love and Beauty Shock!" Those attacks coming from a brunette in green and a blond in orange.
"Hey, hey! This is tag team not double team! One at a time!"
"Moon Face! You're up! Finish her already," the raven haired girl snapped.
"Okay! Okay! And don't call me Moon Face!"
"You girls really believe that you can beat me?" The woman cackled. "You-"
"Talk entirely too much," Seika snapped finally losing her patience with the whole battle. Leveling her staff at the woman she shot off a small fire ball that stopped just short of the woman before fizzling out.
"That's it?" she asked in surprise. "That's it?" her voice taking on confidence. "After that first attack this is all you've got?" She made that cackling laugh again.
"Eclipse Fire Ball Detonation," Seika said calmly and suddenly the woman exploded, engulfed into black flames in the blink of an eye. The woman leaped out of the flames, panting hard. Suddenly a black hole opened behind her.
"This is by no means finished!" she shouted before jumping into the hole and disappearing. Seika cocked her hip in annoyance and tapped the base of her staff on the ground. She could try to go after the woman but she turned to the others and saw them starring at her. She tilted her head in question.
Written By: Seika (BlackRoseTD)