SailorStar9: Nya? Chapter 15 goes up and only one review! No one else is reading this fic?
Hellboy: Uh guys...walls're startin to warp...
Major: Not good...ve need to get her to calm down.
Wesker: Alright...how?
Hellboy: Ah Crap, she's gone all limp Bizkit on us.
Wesker: Be ready to grab her if she decides to break stuff.
Kakashi: That's an out hole! AN OUT HO-LMPGHLE!
Orochimaru: Ooooh! Tentacles!
Disclaimers: I own nothing, well except the pairing.
Chapter 16: On Our Way To Become The Best Of Japan
"Here we go." Tsubasa stepped out of the bench.
"You're always into it, Tsubasa." Ryo noted.
"Of course." Tsubasa beamed.
"By the way, your father is going on a journey, right?" Misaki voiced.
"Yes." Tsubasa nodded.
"So he's not coming to see you today?" Urabe wondered.
"Of course he is." Ryo corrected. "Tsubasa's parents are always here."
"How do you know that?" Urabe demanded.
"They'll come, I tell you." Ryo insisted.
"Tsubasa." Koudai shouted from the stands. "We came to support you."
"See?" Ryo smirked.
"You were right." Urabe blinked.
"You have time?" Tsubasa inquired.
"Yes." Koudai replied. "Tsubasa, Roberto told me about your deal. You won't go to Brazil if you don't win the Championships. It's my turn to make a deal with you. Score three goals during this match."
"A hat trick?" Tsubasa confirmed.
"Yes." Koudai replied. "If you manage that, I'll let you go to brazil."
"Understood." Tsubasa nodded. "I will score three goals."
"Tsubasa." Natsuko held out the score book she had. "I will write down the scores."
"So, Wakabayashi?" Murayama inquired. "Are you going? How's your leg?"
"It's alright." Genzo confirmed as the announcement came on, signaling the start of the match.
"It's worrying." Ryo stated. "If we win, everyone will know our play. Don't you think so, coach?"
"This is to be expected." Ami noted. "And hence the saying 'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.'"
"And that's why she's the team strategist." Murayama added. "It doesn't matter who is watching you, you have to give it your very best."
On the field…
After the whistle was blown, the match began, with the newly-formed Nankatsu starting the kick-off.
"And one!" Tsubasa scored the first goal.
On the bench…
"Superb, Tsubasa." Ryo cheered. "Continue like that."
On the field…
"Well played." Urabe praised as the team clustered around their ace striker.
The match restarted with Fuji FC taking possession of the ball, when Urabe slide-tackled the forward, letting Teppei claim the ball. Teppei then passed the ball to Mamoru who then made a long overhead pass to Tsubasa.
"Yes!" Tsubasa leapt into the air, along with the three Fuji FC defenders and winning the aerial fight over the ball, "And two!" he sent the ball into the net with a header. "Yeah, I did it." He cheered. "And two!"
On the bench…
He only has Brazil in mind. Ami mused.
On the field…
I was worried about my leg. Genzo thought, watching the match from his post. But it seems that I won't have to play, Tsubasa.
"Misaki!" Tsubasa passed the ball to his 'Golden Combo' partner, before the Fuji FC players cornered him.
Misaki then passed the ball back to Tsubasa, the 'Golden Combo' dissolving the mid-fielders' defense.
Tsubasa then fired a long shot, scoring his third goal.
And the final score: Nankatsu victory, 7 to 0. The team continued to breeze through the next 5 matches.
On the bench…
"It looks like it's in the bag for tomorrow." Ryo boasted, the team having won the quarter-finals.
The next day…
"What?" the team chorused. "Wakabayashi won't be playing?"
"Why, coach?" Ryo pressed.
"His leg is still in pain." Murayama supplied.
"Don't worry." Genzo assured. "I will play if you really need me."
"The finals will take place tomorrow." Ami added. "He's only taking a day off." She gave the goalkeeper a 'behave-or-else' glare.
"Rest well then, Wakabayashi." Ryo stated. "We won't need him today."
"Yes." Urabe agreed. "Even with Ishizaki on the field, this will be a piece of cake. Kami knows what hell will arise if our team manageress gets mad."
"I heard that." Ami growled, a hint of mirth in her voice.
On the field…
At the whistle, the match started.
"Shit, we have to go back and defend!" Urabe cursed as the defenders dashed back.
On the bench…
"Morisaki, what are you doing?" Genzo barked. "It's you who has to defend your territory."
On the field…
"Yes." Morisaki replied.
"Morisaki!" Urabe and Mamoru shouted after Nakai trapped the long shot Fujisawa fired to him.
Morisaki jumped to block the shot, only to have the ball miss his hand by millimeters, the ball entering the net and earning the Shimada team a goal.
I won't lose. Tsubasa swore. I will defeat Hyuuga and go to Brazil.
Back in the present …
Ami was in her dorm room, the Sapphire Starfire Gem, the equivalent to Sailor Moon's Ginzuishou, between her palms. The said jewel flashed, revealing a vision from the past.
Flash
Selenity almost didn't believe she had done it. Now drenched in the red blood of the Planetary Rulers, she almost missed her one chance to seize all the power of their Starfire Gems.
Reaching down and snatching the crystal pyramid, she held it before King Chronos' face, still skewered on her sword, and cracked it between her first, letting her blood join the lake of blood she had already split that hour. She said the incantation that trapped it all, giddy in the rush of white fire and lightning as the eight crystals' magic became her own. She let the shards of the broken crystal loose from her hand, and it rose and hovered above them. Streaks of magic and broken power rushed upwards into it and into her, lifting her out of the ankle-deep sea of red.
She began to scream as the pain took her, the unbelievable agony. The sword was forgotten, and the dead King of Pluto was released and then drawn in again by the magical vacuum. His body sank to into the red, the sword making an inaudible crack as it hit the floor, followed by his body, then the corpses of the other Planetary Rulers.
Selenity's every nerve ending felt attacked, felt like they were searing and burning as the onslaught of magic consumed her, and remade her. She screamed and screamed as she too died, and was reborn from the incredible fire.
Finally it was done. She fell to the stone floor, the Pearl Starfire Gem falling beside her. From the height they fell, both should have broken, but both remained whole.
The room had been cleansed wholly by the display of sheer, raw, forceful energy. The circle that had given birth to them was now an empty crater in the floor, a crater that now cradled them. No blood remained, not a bone or a shred of fiber remained as evidence of the bloodshed and ultimate betrayal she had committed.
For a day, the door to the unholy room remained bolted and the woman inside remained deathly still. The only proof she was anything but dead was one perfect white hand, tightly enclosed around her shimmering Starfire Gem that now was perfectly round and pulsing with power to the exact rhythm of her heart.
As the moon began to rise on that second day, finally, Selenity stirred. One cornflower eye opened, and blinked.
The next instant beheld her standing, naked and draped by hair that had been burnt silver-white by her power. Her laughter was an assault on the walls that had seen only silence since that final explosion. It was hysterical, peals and peals of mad laughter as she crooned over the crystal in her hands.
"I have done it, I have done it! And you, and you my lovely, my shining Gem of power, shall be my Imperium Crystal... my Ginzuishou."
It continued to pulse at her, a beautiful violet hum that made her dizzy with glee.
SailorStar9: This omake came to me when I was re-watching 'Naruto' last night.
Omake
"Even with handicaps there's no contest between us." Orochimaru taunted through the bite, a rather unsettling feeling in Jiraiya's opinion "Give it up, I've won." He smirked "Unless of course, you want to watch the Kyuubi vessel suffer."
"Suffer?" Jiraiya growled, glaring at his former teammate coldly. "You won't know the MEANING of the word till I get through with you!"
"Is that so?" Orochimaru snorted, looking into the Sennin's eye mockingly "And just what do you expect to do to me tied up like this?" he snorted as Jiraiya struggled again "Just like old times, hm?"
He blinked as Gamakichi hopped onto Jiraiya's head and held what appeared to be a nudie magazine in front of the toad Sennin. His eyes widened as he felt the Sennin's muscles expand.
(Cue 'Popeye the Sailor Man' music)
"PERV POWER!"
Orochimaru swore as Jiraiya literally exploded out of his clothes, sending the serpent flying backwards, gaping in horror at the hulking mass of muscle and testosterone glaring down at him
"Who's a little bitch now huh?"