Chapter 5
Hikaru- San: In case ya'll are wondering, these chapters were previously published on a different website so I have to do the author notes from scratch. Please R&R!
Monday on the way home from school
"Why didn't you guys call us if you needed help?" Rei snapped at Usagi and Minako.
"Well, we really didn't have time to do that! We were too busy dodging those lasers!" Minako snapped back.
"Besides, the Zodiac Senshi and Sailor Earth arrived to help us out." Usagi said.
"Even more the reason to call us." Ami said. "For all we know, they could be trying to deceive us into trusting them and then might use that against us."
"Ami, you're over analyzing again." Makoto said.
"Well anyway! What's in the past is in the past. So let's go to Crown!" Minako said.
Everyone gave her blank looks. Did Minako actually say an old saying right?
at crown
Take, Satsuki, Rumiko, and Neko were sitting at a table in the corner of the café. They were joined by a woman the same age as Satsuki, but she had long brown hair that reached her waist, was wearing khaki dress pants, with a white blouse and a black vest. She was also wearing a brooch as red as her eyes, with a crow feather.
"The enemy seems to be getting more active." The woman said.
"Yeah, they're attacking people in crowds now rather than the usual one by one strategy, Akane." Satsuki said, as she looked into her glass of water. The water swirled and formed a vision of the last battle.
"We have to find the princess soon. If we don't, we may face a calamity that will be worse than Galaxia." Neko said.
"But where are we going to look first?" Rumiko asked. "We can't just go door to door and ask people if they'd seen her."
"If you ask me," Take said. The other four turned to listen.
"The sailor senshi might be helpful to us. The enemy is trying to find the two crystals that form the key to finding the princess. It just so happens that the senshi seem to be at the scene of the crime almost every time."
"If you're saying that we should team up with the sailor senshi, think again! They don't have the power at all to even scratch any of those gem guardians." Akane snapped at Take.
"Then, maybe we just need to give them a boost." Take said, and then took a long sip of her green tea.
Rei's Shrine
"I thought I said 'let's go to crown…' not, "Let's Go Study!"" Minako whined.
The five inner senshi were gathered in Rei's room for a study party.
"Who knows how much time fighting this enemy is going to take from our school time, so we got to study more than usual." Rei said, really annoyed with Minako's constant whining.
"Usagi, I think you have a rival on who can whine longest!" Rei said, looking towards Usagi. But instead of a remark to fight back with, Rei was instead greeted to a loud snore.
"Oh geez." Makoto said, as she placed her fingers on her temples.
"Three, Two, One…" Minako counted down.
"Odango Atama!!!!!!" Rei shouted off the top of her lungs.
Usagi jumped about a good five feet in the air.
"What did you do that for!?" Usagi shouted.
"You fell asleep again!" Rei shouted back. "It's almost four and you haven't gotten any work done!"
"Four!?" Usagi shrieked as she ran to Rei's living room.
The other girls looked confused as to why Usagi took off like that. They walked into the living room to find Usagi in front of Rei's TV.
"Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon is on." Usagi explained.
The four other girls groaned.
Then Minako looked at the screen.
"How do they make me look so cool?" Minako asked, as Sailor V foiled yet, another attempt at crime, with stuffed Luna trying to catch up to her.
"This is the episode where we awoke Rei with her senshi powers." Usagi said, trying to catch everyone up in the story line.
"Oh brother…" Rei muttered to herself, as she and Ami went back to the table. But the two of them looked over their books ever so often to see what was going on in the show by far.
Then there was a person calling out. Rei slipped on her priestess robes and went outside.
Two women, one blonde with a long ponytail, and one with long wavy black hair were looking around the shrine.
"May I help you?" Rei asked.
The two women turned their matching blue eyes at Rei.
"I think you might be able to help us." The blonde said, in a cool tone of voice.
"We're from Japan Magazine. We're doing a project on Shinto Shrines around the Tokyo area so tourism could come up, and we were wondering if you'd give us a tour of the shrine and allow us to photograph it." the dark haired woman explained.
"Um, sure. Please follow me." Rei said.
The two women talked among themselves.
"I think this one might have a crystal," the blonde said. "I feel a strong aura around her."
"Just leave her spiritual powers to me, Ruby." The black haired woman said.
Rei and the two women were a good distance away from the house when….
"Now Sapphire!"
A scream was heard.
Usagi heard Rei's scream, despite how loud the TV was.
"Rei!" Usagi shouted.
"Mercury Crystal Power!"
"Jupiter Crystal Power!"
"Venus Crystal Power!"
"Silver Moon Crystal Power!"
"Make Up!"
Sapphire held a red crystal, Ruby (the blonde), who was now wearing a red bikini top with red heeled boots and flared pants, with a jeweled belt, held Rei with her black whip.
"This is better that I thought." Sapphire said.
"It's almost as good as finding one of the Earth crystals. It's the Sailor Crystal of Mars." Ruby said.
Suddenly, a purple rose struck Sapphire in the hand. A black whip wrapped itself around the crystal.
"Sorry, but to have this rare ruby, you have to pay full price." Sailor Earth said.
She and the Zodiac were up in the sacred tree. Sailor Libra now had Rei's crystal.
"You again!?" Sapphire said.
"Friends of yours?" Ruby asked, sarcastically.
"Hardly." Sapphire said, as she released an orb out of her staff.
Meanwhile, the Sailor Senshi were just coming in on the battle scene.
"Look! Sailor Libra has Rei's Sailor Crystal!" Mercury shouted.
Jupiter cracked her knuckles. "I knew we shouldn't trust them."
Sailor Aquarius, meanwhile, ran over to protect Rei.
"Aquarius Starlight Tsunami!"
A giant wave that would have rivaled Sailor Neptune's Deep Submerge, blasted Sapphire.
Libra went to Rei's side and returned the crystal.
Sailor Earth then took Rei's transformation pen.
The others saw this and went to try to stop Sailor Earth.
"Hold on Sailor Scouts!" Ruby shouted as she whipped the Sailor Senshi in different directions.
"We have yet to have our fun." Ruby said. Her whip split into three and, with another whip from Ruby, had Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury pinned.
"Leave them alone!" Sailor Moon shouted, pointing her Moon Tier at Sapphire and Ruby.
"Leave them to us Sailor Moon!" Aries shouted. But Sailor Moon refused to move.
"Starlight Honeymoon…"
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Sapphire said. Her staff glowed, while the Sailor Senshi screamed from pain as they were shocked by Sapphire's power.
"Leo Claw Brigade!"
Sailor Leo tried to set the senshi free with her lasers, but her attack was reflected back at her.
"Now for your turn Sailor Moon." Ruby said, as she released a second whip and got Sailor Moon tied up in it. Sapphire took the Moon Tier that Sailor Moon dropped and destroyed it.
"I think I made a mistake to have one of the youki finish you off. I have to take care of you myself. Ruby, could you take care of the other sailor brats."
"Absolutely." Ruby said.
"Over my dead body!" Sailor Earth shouted.
She and the Zodiac gathered around the group.
"Selene of the Moon, grant the senshi their true form…
"Earth Star Power!"
"Leo Star Power!"
"Libra Star Power!"
"Aquarius Star Power!"
"Aries Star Power!"
Then, the Sailor Senshi were surrounded by an aura of their distinguish color (Venus orange, Mercury blue, Jupiter green, Mars red).
"What's happening!?" Ruby said, loosing her grip on the whip that had the senshi.
All four opened their eyes.
"Planet Eternal Power!"
"Make Up!"
The four auras grew into a bright light, blinding Ruby, Sapphire, Sailor Moon, Sailor Earth, and the Zodiac.
Instead of their super forms, their fukus were now like Sailor Moon's, but a double layer skirt rather than the triple and instead of wings, they had ribbons along with their back bows. They each had white boots with the border with their own color.
"What's this?" Sailor Venus asked.
"The ultimate forms of the Inner Planetary Guardians." Sailor Earth said.
Sapphire was not impressed at all.
"While you all have your special powers, we have Sailor Moon." Sapphire said.
But before she was able to hurt Sailor Moon, Sailor Libra freed Sailor Moon.
"Libra Scalene Attack!"
Libra's attack blasted Ruby and Sapphire away.
"We'll be going now." Ruby said. "But don't think you've seen the last of us!"
Then Ruby and Sapphire disappeared.