Modern Sailor Scouts
Chapter 9:
Jupiter's Thunder
A/N: Yay, chapter 9 ^^ Jupiter, now hmmm… ^^ anyway, this is the third one for my four chapter forgiveness thing. Hope you enjoy
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon but I do own pretty much everything in this story XD ENJOY!
Cassie stared out the window of her school, watching the black storm clouds rolling in. Rough winds rattled the windows against their frames but no rain fell and no lighting flashed, there wasn't even a single sound of thunder. She began to wonder if the clouds would just pass over with nothing as a raindrop falling. She sighed and turned back to her math book, solving some of the many problems that were assigned.
Heidi walked up to Cassie as they walked home, "I have a weird felling about this storm" she told Cassie.
Cassie sighed, "Like something big is going to happen?"
"Exactly, I can't put my finger on it but I know something's going to happen, one that will majorly change our lives"
"It's not like their changed much to begin with" Cassie groaned, remembering how Harasu had escaped her attack.
"True, turning into the 'Saviors of our World' is pretty big as well"
"I just hope nothing happens, it likes to be like a bad storm coming in"
"I have to agree, I wouldn't want to be in that storm, let along fighting in it" Heidi shivered.
"Let's just hope that Harasu's smart enough not to plan any attacks with this kind of weather on the way" Cassie sighed.
"Yeah, anyway, see you at school tomorrow" Heidi turned down her road.
"Right, see ya" Cassie called as she turned down hers.
Harasu was looking at the many photos of potential people who might have the silver crystal. "Where are you my Crystal?" he muttered staring at them. On photo seemed to pop out at him from under another. He pulled it out, staring at it and smirked, "Got ya"
"Lord?" a female voice called behind him.
"What is it, Mikiyo?" Harasu turned to her.
"The Prince requests your appearance" she explained, she had raven hair and orange eyes. Her slim pale figure wore tight black clothing that showed her shoulders and back. Her heels clicked the ground as she shifted from side to side.
"Then I shall go" he stood from his seat, slipping the photo into his jacket and walked over to her, cupping her face with his hand. She closed her eyes. "I think this is my last time, if I fail again, it'll be better to never come back"
"I know" she muttered, "But I'll be with all the way, please let me help this time" she opened her eyes.
Harasu nodded, "I'd gladly take it" he brushed some hair out of her eyes, looking deep into them.
She looked into his and raised her hand, brushing her fingertips to the scar under his left eye, "We will make Sailor Moon pay" she muttered.
He grabbed her hand and nodded. He leaned down kissed her lips, "I'll call you when the time comes" he whispered to her.
She smiled as they parted and he vanished from her arms with a burst of black fire.
Harasu appeared before the throne that was shrouded in shadows with a figure that had red eyes. "My Prince? You called my appearance?"
"I did, do you know why, Harasu?" the figure, known as the Prince spoke.
"Would you explain to me, my Prince?" Harasu bowed deeply.
The Prince sighed, "I am tiring of all your failures, Harasu. Your failures in retrieving the Silver Crystal as well as your attempts to rid us of those Sailor Scouts" the Prince turned his red eyes on Harasu, "I don't approve failure. Failures result in weak men which make weak armies, this resulting in making me seem weak. I am not weak, Harasu"
"Oh course not, my Prince. You are the strongest of all the Dark Moon as well as the Silver Moon. No one can match your strength and power" Harasu praised.
"True, but I am believing that your use is beginning to wane and I have considered killing you right now"
Harasu flinched as he began to think of his new find.
"But I was reasoned to give you one final chance"
Harasu sighed with relief.
"One more failure…well, let's just say you better hope the Scouts finished you. For if you come back as a failure, you would regret ever joining me"
Harasu nodded with that thought in mind, "I understand, my Prince. I will not fail you again"
"You better, you're dismissed"
And with that, Harasu disappeared in his black flames.
Cassie watched as rain fell, pounding against her window. She began to imagine the wounded Midnight Guardian she had left behind. "Why did I go?" she asked herself as se laid her head in her arms, tears forming in her eyes, "That's the second time he's kissed me" she muttered, feeling the lingering warmth on her lips. She sighed as she turned from the window and took out a book.
Before she could even open it, her detector phone peeped. She set the book on her bed and grabbed the phone, a red light flashed on it.
"Great, just what I need, an attack in this weather" Cassie muttered as she glared out the window. Her mother was beginning to get suspicious about her leaving at night. She couldn't leave through the front door this night. She pulled out her moon brooch and sighed, "Moon Prism Power!" she shouted but not too loud.
She transformed into Sailor Moon and picked up her phone, pressed a button that should alert Heidi. She then pushed a few more buttons and a hologram appeared. She tucked it under the covers and a sleeping Cassie was seen under the covers, "There" she crept to her window, turned out the lights and opened them. She glanced at the ground and jumped, rolling across the lawn. She got up and jumped over the fence, running down the street to meet Mercury at the fountain in Central Park.
Heidi had been working on an extra credit project when her Mercury pendent let out a beep. She set down her paint brush and pulled her pendent off which was in the shape of a teardrop. It beeped again and she glanced out the window, seeing rain pounding down and lighting flashing. She sighed as she glanced at the time. She packed up her supplies and turned out her lights, climbing out her window. She ran down and turned down an alley. She nodded as she looked around, to find no one around. She raised her pendent, "Mercury Power!"
A girl with short black hair with had a purple streak down the side walked through Central Park, glancing over her shoulders every now and then in the pounding rain. After she was sure no one was around, she walked over to a tree near the fountain. She took some gram crackers and a few grapes from her bag, placing them at the bottom of the tree, she turned and walking away.
After a bit, she heard a sound behind her, turning around, she looked and saw nothing. She shrugged and turned but stumbled back. She was surprised to see a man with black raven hair and cold blue eyes appearing out of nowhere, at least, that's what she thought happened. His outfit was quite strange, really formal by the looks of it.
"I apologize for startling you" he bowed with his hand to his chest, "But I am in desperate need of your heart" he looked at her with a smirk on his face.
"In your dreams, pervert" she got up and took a fighting stance.
"Far from it" he told her and snapped his fingers. A being formed from her shadow and took her hands, pulling them behind her back. She grimaced in pain. "I just need to see your heart crystal"
"Stop right there!" a voice shouted.
"Must you always interfere?" he shouted as she turned to Sailor Moon.
"Who?" the girl whispered.
"I am Sailor Moon, Champion of Truth and Justice. And in the name of the Moon, I shall punish you!" she pointed at Harasu.
"Blasted Sailor Scouts! Such an annoyance. Now is the time, Mikiyo, I request your assistance!" he shouted as a hole made of black fire appeared and a girl jumped out.
"I'm here, my Lord" she said as she pulled a whip out.
"Take care of this mess"
"With pleasure" she whipped at Sailor Moon's feet, who jumped out of the way.
"You crazy, lady? That could hurt someone" Sailor Moon shouted at her.
"Glad you see the point!" she told Sailor Moon as she snapped her whip again.
'Where's Mercury when I need her?' Sailor Moon thought as she dodged the whip's strikes. Suddenly the whip wrapped around Sailor Moon's wrist.
"Too slow" Mikiyo muttered as she threw the whip's handle over a branch and grappled the handle, pulling Sailor Moon closer.
"Damn, it's caught tight" Sailor Moon muttered as she tried to pull back.
Mikiyo pulled out another whip and flicked it at Sailor Moon's other wrist, which also caught tight. She did the same as she did with the other whip and tossed it over the same branch, pulling Sailor Moon closer still, "A little help, my Lord!"
Harasu nodded with the girl's heart crystal in his hand and the girl laying on the ground, "Hidoka, go help"
"Of course, Master" Hidoka said, who looked like a woman with feline features. The two woman pulled one whip, trying their hardest to pull Sailor Moon, so she could dangle helplessly from the tree.
But something cut the whips, causing all three girls to fall backwards. Sailor Moon glanced around to see what had cut the whips and saw a white rose, she gasped.
A caped man landed behind Sailor Moon and pulled her to her feet, "You alright, Sailor Moon?"
"I'm fine, thanks to you" She looked up at him and he stared deeply into her violet eyes. She looked away with a blush forming to her cheeks. Suddenly he stumbled and Sailor Moon caught him, "Are you alright?" she asked.
"Fine, just a little dizzy" he said as his hand went to his head. He pulled it away and blood was smeared on his gloved hand, blood began to flow down the left side of his face. His eyesight got blurry and he fell to his knees.
"Midnight Guardian!" Sailor Moon shouted, knelling beside him.
"Pity, such a pity you both have to die. You two look to charming together" Said Hidoka as her claws grew longer.
"You better stay away from them!" shouted a voice, "Mercury Double Slash!" two spirals of water threw Hidoka back as it slammed into her. Sailor Mercury ran up behind Sailor Moon.
"Mercury, you made it!" Sailor Moon exclaimed.
"Like always, let's take care of these freaks"
"Right!"
The two girls turned to the two women. "Shine Aqua Pressure!" two walls of water slammed into them.
"Moon Cosmic Crash!" Sailor Moon shouted as both women turned into moon dust by the silver bolt.
"Mikiyo!" Harasu shouted. He glared at the two girls and dropped the heart crystal, forget all about it.
The Midnight Guardian glanced over at the girl, "Wait…is her heart crystal glowing green?" he muttered to himself and stood up, walking over slowly.
"You'll pay for this!" Harasu growled as black flames appeared in his hands.
"Maybe attacking the girls first was a bad idea" Sailor Moon muttered to Mercury.
"Probably" Mercury muttered back.
The girls looked at each other and began to dodge Harasu's flaming ravens. But it soon became difficult to do with the flames coming faster and faster.
The Midnight Guardian knelled down next to the black haired girl, picking up her crystal. Aries ran into the park, seeing the crystal, "Wait, don't put it in!" she ran over to him.
"What?" he questioned, glancing at the talking cat.
"I can't believe it, it Jupiter, and I never even sensed her" Aries exclaimed while looking at the crystal, "Okay, before you give it back to her, place it over her forehead.
The Midnight Guardian sighed, glancing behind him at the scouts fighting Harasu, "She can help them?"
Aries nodded.
"Alright" he held the heart crystal over the girl's forehead. A green light flowed to her forehead and the symbol for Jupiter appeared on her forehead with a green glow. It soon changed into a small green lightning bolt which formed a gold chain and the symbol for Jupiter in black on the bolt.
Aries sighed, "Now put it back"
He nodded and held the crystal over her chest and it was absorbed.
The girl opened her eyes and looked up at him, "Who…who are you?"
"A friend" he grunted in pain, "Help…Sailor Moon…Sailor Jupiter"
"Sailor Jupiter?"
"Yes" his vision blurred, "Please" he begged.
The girl nodded, "Alright, I will, just…just relax"
He sighed in relief.
"Sailor Jupiter, you have to take the pendent and shout 'Jupiter Power', do you understand?" Aries told her.
The girl nodded and stood up, she turned to see the Scouts start to get hit by the fire birds Harasu was shooting at them, "They tried to save me, just like my parents" she closed her eyes, "No…not again" she bit her lip, "No one will because of me!" she said as she felt the pain of forgotten memories.
Sailor Moon and Mercury shouted in pain as they slammed into trees.
"Not this time…I won't…" she opened her eyes suddenly with what looked like sparks shining in them, "I won't stand by this time!" she grabbed the pendent floating in front of her. She raised her arm and shouted out "Jupiter Power!" her body exploded with power.
Lightning struck from everywhere and formed a ball around her. As her clothes disappeared, she felt sparks flow over her, forming new ones. The ball burst with the sound of thunder as she stood there in her new found uniform, with her green skirt and collar. Both bows on her chest and her back were pink, her green high-heeled fighting boots with it laced up with black laces. Her white gloves with their green arm grab as well as her now violet eyes that crackled like lightning as her short black hair settled around her face. She snapped and her tiara appeared on her forehead with a green gem that seemed to spark.
Harasu raised his hands as a large ball of black fire formed. He was about to hurtle it towards Sailor Moon and Mercury as a final blow.
"Hey, beakface!" Jupiter called.
The ball disappeared as he turned to her, "What? Who are you!" he growled.
Sailor Jupiter smirked and pointed at him with the flare of green and pink, "I am the Champion of Thunder and Courage, Sailor Jupiter!" her eyes sparked with lightning, "And in the name of planet Jupiter, I shall punish you!"
Harasu groaned, "This again?"
"You betcha!" Jupiter smiled and clapped her hands together as a small rod formed from her tiara, sparks formed in her hands as she pulled them apart. The sparks formed a blinding ball that sparked and sizzled in the rain. She raised her hands over her head, "Great Thunder…" she spun and threw the lightning ball at him, "Clash!"
It hit him dead center in his chest, causing a large sparking and bright explosion.
"Sailor Moon!" Mercury called.
"I know" Sailor Moon said as she pulled out her scepter, "Let's finish this!"
The dust settled and Harasu was holding his side which was bleeding, he coughed at the dust.
"Great Thunder…"
"Mercury Double…"
"Moon Cosmic…"
Harasu looked up to see that the girls had surrounded him, he groaned in defeat.
"Clash!" a ball of bright lightning hurtled towards him.
"Splash!" two spirals of water sped towards him.
"Crash!" a bright silver crescent moon shot towards him.
All three attacks crashed into him as the same time and a very large and silver explosion brought up dust all over them as they heard a terrible scream from Harasu lips. Once it cleared, all that was left but a large crater covered in silver moon dust.
"We…defeated him?" Mercury asked.
"I…I think so" Jupiter commented.
"Oh…" Sailor Moon groaned as she fell to her knees.
"Sailor Moon!" the two scouts shouted as they rushed to her side.
"I'm alright, I just used a lot of power in that last attack, I think it might have wearied me down. But I'm good now" she stood up.
"If you say so, Sailor Moon" Mercury said.
"Wait, what about the Midnight Guardian?" Sailor Moon cried.
"You mean that guy in the mask?" Jupiter asked, "He's right over th-" she cut off when she didn't see him with the talking cat.
Aries walked up to them.
"He's hurt, he needs help!"
"Sailor Moon, he's long gone" Aries told her.
"But…" she stopped herself, sighing, she glanced up at the moon which looked like half a circle. 'Why did you go?' she thought.
A guy in a white cape leaned against a wall in an alley. He breathed heavily, seeing everything fading and spinning. He slipped him mask off and looked up at the half moon between the buildings, "Sailor Moon…" he slip down the wall and blacked out.
A/N: I have to say, I liked the way this chapter turned out. I think the ending of it was a good touch (EVIL!) I love torturing you guys with cliffies XD Anyway, tell me what you think about the story so far, is it getting better? Oh, and I think I have outdid myself on this story, this chapter was over 3,000 words long ^^ I am so proud of myself. I would love your ideas for some chapters cause I'm kinda running out XD Anyway, thank you for reading and I hope to hear from you and that you continue to read!
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