Chapter 11: Price of Possession, Plans, and Peridot

"So did you tell him?"

"Of course Morganite, my dearest."

"Good. Those Sailor brats are going to pay for wrecking my fan."

"Don't worry darling, let Peridot handle them for now. In the mean time…" Alexandrite said putting his hand behind his back to pull out another fan, similar to the last but this one had a morganite crystal on the bottom of it.

"Oh Alexandrite, you brought me another one?"She smiled taking it from him.

"Of course, a spare never hurts does it?"

"No but those brats did. Peri darling, oh Peri?" Morgan called into the darkness while admiring her new fan.

"Yes Morgie?" Peridot appeared from the darkness. She had a high pitched voice and ran out playfully.

"It's your turn. When those Sailor Scouts get a little closer go get them ready for me…"

"Awesome. I have just the thing." Peridot said smiling excitedly.

"Just be careful." Alexandrite warned.

"Oh I will, I saw what they did to your little fan. They won't do that to me."

"That's what we're counting on." Melanite entered the room.

"I'll go now!" Peridot then disappeared from the room.

"So rumor has it Diamond has the silver crystal?" Alexandrite asked.

"He's got more than that. He's got the future moon queen on his side." Melanite answered. "That's why I told you to bait the scouts over here."

"Ouu, how did he manage that?" Morgan asked surprised.

"How would you be won over?" Melanite asked. Alexandrite perked up.

"Hmm…something expensive that's for sure." Morgan said now fanning herself with her new fan.

"Exactly. He used a ring."

"A ring? We're depending on a ring?" Alexandrite asked.

"Yes, our dear Prince is using a ring." Wicked Lady entered.

They all heard the twinge in her voice. "My dear, do you not like our new Princess?" Melanite walked over to the pink haired mistress.

"She's incompetent. That's all."

"Isn't she your mother or something?" Morganite blurted out, fanning herself again.

"Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts are pathetic. They abandoned me. She's not worthy to be a queen." She said this with such normality; no resentment, as if it was second nature.

"Then again, both of your powers should suffice for defeating them." Melanite struck his point.

She thought for a moment. Seeing the sailor scouts die by their leader's hand. She'd love to see Sailor Moon's face after she destroyed her own scouts. It made her smile. "True." Was all she said.
Melanite watched her face. Something had dawned on her. He would ask her in private.

"Either way, Peridot will amuze them in the mean time."

"And I'll get them back after." Morganite said, looking at the scratch on her wrist from that damned rose.

"And myself soon after… maybe I will join you?" Alexandrite said grabbing her same hand.

"It seems it may be wise. After all, this fan is quite beautiful."

"Only the best for you." Alex answered quickly. Morganite smiled. The two disappeared.

"Seems we are alone again." Melanite said smiling to Wicked Lady.

"Yes we are."

"It seems that you are not keen on being under the new Dark Princess' rein?"

"I'm not so sure anymore."

"Why is that?" He circled the girl. She was thinking hard again.

She just smiled and shrugged to him.

He thought for a moment. If he could find a way to turn this all around maybe just maybe…

"Wicked Lady, we could use her power you know…"

She looked over slightly surprised that his mind was on similar things. "Of course we could."

And with that the two walked away into the darkness, arm in arm, to conspire.

In the mean time…

"Look, the dark portal's not emitting any more energy! It's like they don't plan on using it! " Mercury said scanning the portal as they got closer.

"So they weren't lying when they said Wise Man really was dead." Mars deducted.

"If that's true then they really are planning to take over the Earth." Tuxedo Mask said.

"We won't let them. We'll have to stay strong and get Serena and Rini back." Pluto said.

"Yea because that's gonna happen!" A small sarcastic high pitched voice rang out in the air.

"Who are you?" Jupiter yelled out.

Then a girl with bright green hair and a long sleeved dress came out of the darkness. "I'm Peridot, but you can call Peri." She snickered.

"What do you want?" Venus asked.

"Simple; just a little fun." She smiled and somersaulted down to the ground. She put her left hand out and an orb of energy that glowed a pale green and appeared as a ball. "Do you guys like catch? Maybe dodge ball?" She smiled a wicked smile and then threw it at the scouts. They all scrambled as it just missed them hitting the ground in an explosion.

"Young girls shouldn't be playing with such dangerous power." Tuxedo Mask warned.

"Yes, well you don't seem to know much about young girls do you?" Peri said.

"Look we just want to get to the portal, is that so much to ask?" Venus asked.

"Yea, but don't you want to have a little fun first?" Peri said turning her attention to Venus gaining another green ball of energy in her hand and throwing it in her direction. Venus tried to dodge it, but she realized that it followed her, and hit her hard in the back causing her to arch being flown into the ground.

"Sailor V!" The scouts cried. Jupiter went over to help her up.

"She's powerful for such a young girl." Mercury deducted.

"Yea but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't use all we got to defeat her." Mars continued.

"Mars Celestial Fire Surround!"

Peri dodged the attack but not quick enough for one of her shoulder-length pony-tails to get a little singed. She grabbed her hair and blue on it frantically. "You're going to pay for burning my pretty little
hair!" She made another Peridot colored orb and threw it at Mars which caused a her to be thrown into the ground.

"I don't know what we are going to do. We cant dodge the attacks if they follow us." Pluto deducted, helping Mars.

"You've got that right!" Peri laughed at them. She stuck up her hands over her head and suddenly a large orb was glowing. "Dodge this or I win the game!" She giggled before letting the power loose and suddenly six balls of green energy were flying after all of them, and hit them each one by one.

"Opps. Looks like I win!"She said laughing a girly giggle.

"Not yet." Tuxedo Mask got up and threw a bunch of roses in her direction and that caused an electric circle around her and gave her a shock."

"Ahh! That's not fair you cheated." Peridot whined. "I'm leaving.I dont want another singed pony tail. Morganite will be happy to get rid of cheaters. We'll have a rematch another time." Then she flipped backwards into the darkness.
The scouts all got up and dusted themselves off. They had sure gained quite a few cuts and bruises by now but they didn't care.

"Let's get going." Mars said, impatient to continue.

"Wait." Pluto said. She looked like she was thinking hard.

"What?" Venus asked.

"Something's wrong. I can sense it."

"What do you mean?" Mercury asked.

"Sailor Moon. Something's happened to her. I don't feel her presence the same way. Rini and Serena are getting more distant."

"Then we need to get to there quickly." Tuxedo Mask said.

They nodded quickly with worried minds, running farther into the dark city of Tokyo.