The Untrustworthy Princess

(Chapter was written by Japananimegirl. Minor editing done by myself)

Next day was Rei and Yuuichirou's child, Christen and Makoto's daughter Ariel's turn to face off in battle practice! After Crystal's stunning victory all the original Sailor Senshi agreed that they're daughters should start training harder too. Of course Christen couldn't wait.

So the minute school let out Christen transformed into Neo-Sailor Mars! Her catchphrase was "In the continuing name of Mars, I let her fire flow freely" Neo-Sailor Mars's outfit was a gray shirt, black bow, ruby pendant with a golden chain the jutted out at certain angles, gray gloves with black cuffs, black skirt, and black high heels.

Christen was almost as beautiful as her mother but nothing like her father and she always managed to ruin her natural beauty with too thick black make-up.

Chibiusa and the rest of Neo-Senshi has some minor problems with Neo Mars's attitude which wasn't nice to put it in polite terms. She'd be quite mean, cold, cruel, and callous at times. This was because deep down she'd the burning belief she'd be a better leader then the true leader which was Chibiusa.

She went as far to even making up reasons why Chibiusa was incapable of being a decent leader which of caused friction within the group and made practicing and training very difficult. Their mothers had tried to resolve this some but their fathers felt it was something they needed to work out on their own if the Neo-Senshi were to ever become a cohesive team.

Even so Christen still had a strong desire to show just how different she and her beliefs were and how she saw a darker world then this cheery perky world she was being asked to defend. Consequently she'd would dress in a gothic style right down to the make-up and always trying to act superior to everyone else

However, even she wasn't foolish enough to speak ill of anyone in front of the King and Queen or the original Sailor Senshi knowing the serious consequences that would land her in.

Her outfit before transforming into her Senshi form truly showed her darker persona then her more cheery and happier personality teammates.

For all her makeup; eye shadow, lipstick and nail polish was jet black. Her necklace was silver and spiked and she wore a floor length black gown with black knee-high boots.

No-one really knew what Christen's hobbies were. Because even though she participate in some activities with the other girls, she gave the impression she didn't enjoyed them even in the slightest. Deep down in Christen's dark brown eyes a gleam of malicious intent glowed as she ran towards the Crystal Palace courtyard, being the first one to reach it!

"See? I'm still the fastest. Sailor Mars and her descendants-or whatever-must have blazing speed." Neo-Sailor Mars flipped out her black hair in a haughty show.

"And arrogance." Gracie joked and hid her giggles behind her long hair that chose that moment to conveniently fly in front of her face.

Chibiusa, Crystal, Holly, Alexis, Trisha, and Emily simply ignored Christen trying to not let her conceited attitude bother them. Gracie liked to make fun of her self-importance nature showing it didn't bother her. However Ariel was the only one, who could put Christen in her place!

"Be lucky I'm not battling you or you'd be one sorry crispy, little, red-head!" Neo-Sailor Mars yanked Gracie's hair hard until she felt a strong shock on her hand.

Christen yelped loudly and winced a moment in pain before letting go of Gracie who dashed quickly to her friend's comfort and rubbed the spot on her gray glove hoping she wasn't marked or anything.

"That was only a fraction of what I'm going to do to you if you don't stop being so egotistical!" Ariel shouted furiously at the gothic warrior's smug face.

"You attacked me! You're going to get banned from our team maybe even executed!" Neo-Sailor Mars screamed like a banshee at the girl who'd challenged her. However she ceased immediately when she perceived their parents gathering on the balcony once more to watch their daughters' training session.

"Don't be so dramatic. For the future of Jupiter! Pendant Power! Make up!" Ariel transformed into Neo-Sailor Jupiter. "In the continuing name of Jupiter, I summon the storms!"

"Fireball!" Wasting no time counterattacking, Neo-Sailor Mars created a small ball of flames from her fingertips and hurled it at Neo-Sailor Jupiter.

"Electric CRASH: ZAP!" Neo-Sailor Jupiter leapt over the fireball and threw an electrified disk-shaped bolt.

Neo-Sailor Mars neatly ducked avoiding the disk, nevertheless Neo-Sailor Jupiter flicked her wrists and the bolt turned like a boomerang and hit Neo-Sailor Mars in the back, shocking her!

Furious for the sneak attack and yet not seriously injured Neo-Sailor Mars continued with rage scorching in her eyes to take down her opponent in a fiery inferno of pain and humiliation!

"Flaming TRIANGLES!" From her hands she shot rows of triangle shaped flames.

She'd wanted to use 'Flame Bow and Arrow' or 'Phoenix Strike" on the other hand she didn't think she'd need such power to beat Neo-Sailor Jupiter.

Neo-Sailor Jupiter knew she couldn't avoid this attack now that Neo-Sailor Mars knew you could send an attack back around like just like a boomerang.

'Oak Leaf Wave' wouldn't do any good against a fire attack and she'd already shocked Neo-Sailor Mars twice, so doing it again with "Supreme ELECTRIC CRASH" wouldn't be worth it. Without any other options, Neo-Sailor Jupiter started charging up her thunder…

"Here it comes!" Chibiusa, Gracie, and Alexis cheered as the girls leaned forward with both anxiety plus enthusiasm as the training duel was reaching the zenith of power and skill for their friends.

"Let's end this! Electric DRAGON!" A long scaly toothy serpent-like dragon seemingly made from pure lightning, roared across the courtyard and devoured Neo-Sailor Mars, electrocuting her, and dropped her to the ground in a heap as it disappeared into the air!

The other girls were thrilled! They'd hoped to see either 'Phoenix Strike' or 'Electric Dragon' as they were the most powerful and impressive-looking attacks on hand!

Unlike Crystal; Christen won here and there, dealing critical hits to enemies easily, but her superior-acting attitude got in way more often and her hot-headed temper didn't help matters.

Despite the fact her parents didn't mind she'd lost she didn't acknowledge she had lost by not talking to anybody as she worked the numb feeling out of her muscles from the electrocutions. Thankfully watching anime always did cheer her up slightly.

Not the family-oriented type, Christen didn't spend much time with her parents or even her team. She much preferred to stick only to her closest supporters those who viewed her as a sort of a leader.

Yeah, she didn't really have any friends, on the other hand that didn't seem to bother her all that much. After homework and dinner which is the only time she'd ever really spent time with her parents and even then that was short-lived the dark gothic child went to her "special place" to think.

Her special place was across a dam and up an old tree, leaning dangerously low over the lake, to an abandoned, run-down tree-house! It looked so gnarled with half the steps missing, one completely gone, missing roof tiles, and other pieces that the previous owner must have taken to order the same type of materials to build a new one wherever they'd moved to. She'd known right away "No one, but a moron, would give this place a 2nd glance."

She'd snuck things like a mattress, blankets, pillows, food, drink, matches/lighter, and pots/pans up here, in case she needed to hide out for a while. At first, she was worried the floor wouldn't hold all this, considering how torn apart the rest of this tree-house was.

Nevertheless it proved sturdy, despite half of a board from one of the walls missing! Once the dark youth got settled, she started thinking about the student, who got murdered. On the other hand she didn't know the student as they'd been a classmate of Gracie, Crystal, Ariel, and Alexis's.

However, she'd have loved to catch the murderer, another reason she'd use to argue why she ought to be leader of the Neo-Sailor Senshi, not Chibiusa! Perhaps even be on TV for it!

All of a sudden an insane idea struck her as she rushed to a large cardboard box in the corner, full of books, mostly on gothic rituals and the like, she rifled through them for a particular one.

She'd heard the student had no visible wounds, but was definitely dead. Why hadn't she considered this before?! Maybe it was because this kind of death was so rare, even impossible, you only witnessed it once in life, if you were lucky-or more likely unlucky-to see it.

Christen found the peculiar book she was looking for: Vampires and Succubus. Although most people knew exactly what a Vampire is, even in fictional views, it was not widely known how a Succubus differs from it.

Vampires and Succubus were both members of the breed known as the undead, beings, who had died and come back to life or had never died, yet they couldn't stand certain elements that the living needed such as water and sunlight. Both were also susceptible to holy objects like; a cross. The only crime you could label them with would be sexual predator and murderer.

Vampires preferred beautiful, young women, while Succubus preferred handsome, young men, on the other hand it was not unknown for them to attack the opposite sex or animals, if provoked by extreme hunger. However, the form of attack is what separates the two species: Vampires drain the blood of their victim, until said victim dies, and comes back as another vampire, which can be male or female.

Succubus suck out life energy and just leave the victim dead. So the student had had the life force sucked out of him! Even if she was a Goth, she still doesn't really believe in these kinds of things.

Over-confident in her abilities she immediately transformed into Neo-Sailor Mars and headed toward the school. As very few activities went on at this time, Neo-Sailor Mars would've less of a chance being spotted snooping around and this was the best time for a Succubus to attack for a second time for clearly it had been extremely ravenous and no doubt it needed to feed again. Given how it had attack them it must be starving!

For that reason tonight was the ideal time and place to feed a second time as there were only a few teachers and a handful of students who went to 'night school' as they normally worked during the day.

Also, some students had seen a creature attack the last student who died. Then again they didn't know who or what it was, even when it was still light enough to see outside. As she passed a set of double doors, which stood a little bit ajar, she peeked through them and saw what she didn't expect.

The room looked like one of the gothic ceremonies she practiced. There were tall, large windows and flaming candles around the room, but they were in black, floor-mounted candle holders, throwing a slightly haunted-looking shadows against the white walls, while the floor remained an unreflective black and white tile. A girl, who she recognized as her classmate and friend, Josie, stands on a raised platform with the look of someone, who is drugged and half-asleep.

Then a familiar looking red hair girl in a skintight black leather and gold provocative outfit with bloodstone jewelry came into view and Neo Sailor Mars watched silently as she crossed the room and the next set of events unfolded.

Suddenly the red-headed girl started glowing purple there was a strange energy being pulled from Josie. A minute later with a low moan Josie collapsed to the ground lifelessly! Thankfully Neo-Sailor Mars could feel she was still alive!

Cautiously Neo-Sailor Mars stepped into the room ready to say her catchphrase, when the red-headed girl whirled around and spotted her with her cold, cat-like, golden eyes! With her voice caught in her throat, but too proud to admit it, that she was terrified she had to face this evil on her own.

"Who are you?!" the blood red haired girl hissed with such venom at the terrified half-trained Senshi.

"Neo-Sailor Mars. Who are you?" Neo-Sailor Mars demanded as bravely as she could but it was clearly she was still scared by this being looking at her.

"Oh, you must be Sailor Mars's daughter. I don't remember my real name, but you might know me better as Demetria "Demi" Lilith Morgan." The girl smile widened when she saw Neo-Sailor Mars's shocked look.

"Demetria…?" Neo-Sailor Mars couldn't believe it! It was such a complete contrast! Demi was so feeble and pathetic on so many levels!

She'd seen that for herself on first day of school when Chibiusa had to help and stand up for the weakling.

But the girl standing before her now? She wasn't weak, pitiful or pathetic at all. She was powerful, beautiful, dangerous, cunning and strong. How could it possibly be the same girl? There was no way it was the same girl.

"You must have a human name too." Demetria smiled sadistically.

"I do, but I wouldn't be likely to tell you what it is since you attacked my friend, Josie, no matter how cool your dressed!" Neo-Sailor Mars snapped trying to hide the fear inside her building.

"Thank you for the compliment, but I simply do what my kind has to survive. If you won't tell me your real name, I'll just find out for myself." Demetria dashed toward Neo-Sailor Mars to attack her.

"Flame Bow and ARROW!" Neo-Sailor Mars formed her fire into the shape of a bow and arrow and shot one of the fiery arrows at Demetria! Somehow, Neo-Sailor Mars attack didn't do much more than just graze Demetria's skin!

How? Had she misfired? "Phoenix STRIKE!" This attack, even at close range, only proved as effective as a harmless wave of heat! Demetria took down Neo-Sailor Mars pinning her on the floor! "What did you do to my attacks?!"

"Nothing. You simply aren't as powerful as you thought. If you were more like me, you'd be stronger." Did Demetria know Neo-Sailor Mars desired to be stronger?

"Make me stronger…" Neo-Sailor Mars replied coolly.

"Join me." Demetria cooed.

"We'll see. IF you let Josie go and let me up!" Neo-Sailor Mars didn't care about Josie anymore at all. With more power she wouldn't need followers; nevertheless she thought about Josie's single mom and how distraught the woman would be if she lost her only daughter.

"I don't need any more of her energy right now, so she can go." Demetria got off Neo-Sailor Mars and let Josie stumble out.

Neo-Sailor Mars knew trusting a creature like this wasn't very smart, so she didn't de-transform, she simply said, "My real name is Christen."

This shocked Demetria because while she didn't really know Christen the human Demetria did as Christen had teased her when all of the other members of Chibiusa friends had been kind to her.

Well, well, the Succubus thought looking at Christen it seems it wasn't "One for all and all for one" when it came to the Neo Senshi. How delightfully perfect for her! This girl would help her ultimately make her plans come to full fruition in ways she never even dreamed possible!