Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Ronin Warriors Fan Fiction ❯ Silent Warrior Inferno: SuperB ❯ StarFire, the Horse that couldn't be Tamed ( Chapter 4 )

“Marcy, what are you so worried about? What, some cute thug flirted with you? He said you would be bait to catch that horse? Come on now girl, a horse's bait is a carrot! I won't forgive anyone who uses Marcy as bait! In the name of the Phoenix, I will punish you!”

Silent Warrior Inferno: SuperB

Episode 131

The Cruxius Circus' freaks are all talking about the new mystical armor that StarFire has given to Silent Warrior Inferno and Xero Warrior.

"Quiet all of you, now!” Pronyma yells at the freaks. "Amazon Trio, step forward. Why haven't you captured the flying horse yet? I don't understand. You've witnessed her powers many times, yet you fail to capture her and bring her back."

"May I explain, Pronyma?” Hawk's Eye asks. "Thank you. What the others and I have been doing is warming up. Capturing StarFire will be a piece of cake."

"Do you swear it?” Pronyma asks.

"Of course!" and with that the trio bows and leaves.

StarFire, the Horse that couldn't be Tamed

The trio is sitting at the bar.

"Elliott, have you found a new target yet?" Jacoby asks.

"Check this out," Elliott replies, flipping him a photo.

Jacoby takes a look at it: it's a picture of Marcy.

"Do you really think this girl might be the one?" Jacoby asks. “She looks pure, but plain.”

"If I knew that Coby, we wouldn't be in trouble, now would we?" Elliott yells, chugging his drink.

"Oh, but you aren't mad at me are you?"

"Of course I am! You knew we were having problems finding the StarFire. Why did you have to go and promise Pronyma that we would capture it?"

"Yeah, really, as soon as you said that, I almost died," David says, thinking about what had just happened earlier.

"Don't worry guys, I have a wild card," replies Jacoby.

Elliott, a little annoyed, walks away with the picture of Marcy in his hand.

* * *

Marcy is downtown, waiting for Melvin at Cone Zone. Tiger's Eye, in his human form, is around the corner.

"I'm so perfect, it should be a crime," he says to himself, looking in the reflection of a store window. "Whenever I look at myself, it's always so perfect! Now, where's my target?" he wonders, turning the corner. "There she is, talking to herself."

"Where is that Melvin?" she's saying. "Hey, you're late..." she starts to say as she sees a shadow.

She stops when she realizes it's not Melvin. It's Elliott.

“Sorry, I thought you were someone else,” she apologizes.

“Even if it were by mistake, I'm honored to have someone as beautiful as you talking to me,” Elliott replies. “She can't help but admire my looks!” “If you don't mind, how about we go for a dink.”

"Oh, there you are,” Marcy says, spotting Melvin.

“Gross; what is this rude and ugly thing?”

“You're late,” Marcy says, running over to him.

Melvin apologizes, and they walk off, leaving Elliott by himself

“She chose that ugly boy over me?!” Elliott asks, enraged. “Is that what this means…is that what all this means?!”

* * *

"And then, her boyfriend appears out of nowhere and I had to leave," Elliott is saying, back at the bar.

The other two guys burst out laughing.

“The sure-shot flirt is left standing all on his own,” Jacoby laughs.

"Shut up you two, you guys are just spoiled,” Elliott moans, cracking his whip.

“So serious,” David smirks, taking a shot. “You haven't been doing well lately. Perhaps you're in a slump.”

“I give up. If she can't appreciate my fine ass, then there's no way StarFire is living in her soul.”

“You can't be sure about that though. Are you going to take responsibility if you're wrong?”

“Even if she's not in there, we can still use that girl,” Jacoby says.

“And how's that?” David asks. “Oh, you mean that final tactic trump card you talked about yesterday?”

“Yup! You want to see it?”

“I'm already uninterested.”

“And what about you, Elliott?”

He doesn't answer, and Jacoby grabs both of their arms and drags them to another part of the tent.

"Ok guys, here's our ticket to Pronyma's good side,” Jacoby finally says.

"This...thing?” Elliott asks.

"This thing, as you put it so, is an inter-dimensional cage. I'm sure, as you know, StarFire doesn't exist with a real body in the material world. So I thought about it, and decided to run negative energy through material. When I do, another dimension appears and I can trap her there. The trick is to lure StarFire into battle, and then capture her like you would any other magical being. That girl Marcy is only there for the bait."

“I get it,” Elliott says. “So basically, you don't even need to find the owner of a pure soul, you can just get right to it and capture her.”

“But, will this work out that well?” David asks.

“When someone with a beautiful or pure soul is in danger, StarFire appears out of nowhere. So, using the soul as bait, we entice her, and eventually capture her.”

* * *

Marcy is at Borders Books Music and Café, looking for a book on how to be a nurse. Elliott is watching from the corner.

"This girl will be easy to capture because of her wanting to be a nurse," Elliott says to himself. “A girl like that is a sucker for a weak young man who doesn't have much time to live.”

On the street, Marcy is walking when Elliott approaches her.

"It's nice to see you again," he says to her.

"I don't remember seeing you before," Marcy replies.

“She's so lucky we need her for bait,” he thinks madly. "You may not remember, but from the moment when I saw you in the streets, I couldn't forget about you at all!"

“In the light, he looks pretty good!”

“I know this is sudden,” he continues, grabbing his chest, “but I'm dying!”

"Wha wha wha what?!?"

"I only have three months to live. I'm sure you're surprised that someone you just met would even tell you something like this,

He then falls to his knees, and Marcy rushes up to him.

“I've got her now!” he thinks to himself. “The first impression is all I needed!” “I have no time left. It would be too cruel for me to end my young life without knowing what love feels like…don't you think?”

“Yes I do, but…”

“Then you'll help me, right?”

“How could I do something like that?”

“Say you'll be my girlfriend! If you can't be my girlfriend, then I don't see anything worth living for.

"Well, I, um..." “He is a looker…”

Later, Marcy is headed to Manchester Farms, to talk to the others about what had happened, and what she should do. Everyone is telling her that she shouldn't do it.

“He said he only has three months to live? That sounds pretty dramatic,” TJ is saying to her.

“It sounds like a soap,” Tyrone adds.

“Who is this guy?” Tyrese asks.

“I don't really know,” Marcy answers.

“You didn't agree to be his girl did you?” Damon asks.

“Well…” Marcy starts.

“I don't believe it! What about Melvin?” Tyrone says.

“I couldn't help feeling pity for him. I told him that I had a boyfriend, but he said it would only be for three months…”

“That sounds real romantic,” Timmy says. “Wanting to use what little time you have left for love. Wow, I can't wait till I get there!”

“You won't be hitting there for a while,” TJ cuts in.

“Marcy, love and sympathy are two different things,” Styve says. “That's the problem with you females now.”

“I'm aware of that!” she defends. “I just felt so bad for him; I couldn't say no.”

“You're so full of kindness, unlike TJ!” Timmy states.

“I'm loaded with the stuff,” TJ growls.

Timmy and TJ start fighting about it, and Marcy decides to leave because she doesn't want to get involved.

“I think we made her depressed,” Tyrese says.

“It wasn't the intention, but there's something fishy about this,” Damon says.

All the guys, except for Timmy, follow her, and Prometheus and Athena, who were napping on a pillow on the porch, decide that it's a good idea to check it out as well.

Marcy, now at a bridge, is thinking to herself about it, when Melvin appears and asks her what's wrong. She tells him the whole story, and then he runs off, sad, and mad at the same time.

"It's ok Marcy, don't worry about him," TJ says to her as he approaches.

"I'm a little worried about Melvin though," Tyrone says.

Timmy happens to be walking by Cone Zone, when he spots Melvin chugging down milkshakes.

“!5 milkshakes?” Timmy notices. “I feel sick just thinking about it!”

* * *

That night, Marcy calls Elliott and tells him to meet her at Great Falls Park.

“What seems to be the trouble?” he asks, walking up to her. “Such a serious face isn't like you.”

"This isn't the best idea, for us two to start going out," she starts. "I think that we should just be friends."

He goes to kiss her.

"No, Elliott, I'm serious."

“Just relax sweetie, and enjoy this fleeting moment with me,” he responds in a low voice. “Just focus on things that feel good.”

Marcy then pushes him off of her, knocking him on the ground.

“I'm sorry, but I can't be your girlfriend,” she says.

“At this point, it really doesn't matter,” he says as the curtain comes and he changes. “Did you really think that I would really fall in love with someone like you? I only have need for your soul!”

“Oh great, Marcy's in trouble!” Prometheus says from behind a pole. “I need to find TJ and the others.”

"One, two, three."

Down the road, Timmy has caught up to TJ and is telling him about Melvin.

“That makes me sick,” TJ says.

“Does this mean that it's over for those two?” Timmy asks.

“Why are you always interested in these adult things?”

“TJ, quickly, Marcy is being attacked!” Prometheus says, coming from around the corner.

“Good lord, if it's not Melvin it's her.”

"Wildfire."

"Inferno."

"Armor up."

"There's no StarFire in this soul," Tiger's Eye says. “Damn it; why is this girl's soul so beautiful?”

Two daggers fly by.

"So you really were fooling Marcy this whole time! We can't allow you to take advantage of her feelings!

"I don't think you know the difference between right and wrong, but it's time we returned the favor with vengeance!

"We are the fighters of all that is good, here to banish evil."

"Yeah, evil like your sorry carcass."

"Silent Warrior Inferno."

"Xero Warrior Wildfire, here to take out the garbage."

"In the name of Virtue, we will banish you!"

"Not you two again," Tiger's Eye complains. "Remless Juggler, Otedamako-chan!"

The monster appears, and goes directly after Silent Warrior. Otedamako begins juggling balls, which she then tosses to Silent Warrior. He drops one of them, and it explodes. She then throws flaming pins at him, which set him and Xero Warrior on fire.

"We've got to do something," Xero Warrior says. "StarFire please come, come and protect this person's soul. Call of the Flame!"

StarFire appears, and Tiger's Eye and the Remless watch.

"You two foolish Brothers have fallen for my trap," Tiger's Eye taunts. "StarFire return to your domain. I confine you to the insides of my inter-dimensional trap."

"StarFire, watch it!” Wildfire and Inferno call out.

Too late, the cage has touched StarFire. Instead of being trapped, however, she flies right through the cage.

"What's this?” Tiger's Eye asks. "It didn't have any effect on her."

"That's right, it didn't," StarFire says. "I'm not just some ordinary flying horse that can be caught against its will."

"You think you're so smart huh? Otedamako, get them!"

"Star Slinger! I won't forgive someone who tries to tarnish the feelings of an innocent girl!”

“I never asked for your forgiveness in the first place!” Tiger's Eye cries.

"Rage of Inferno!" [Author ID1: at Sat May 12 21:34:00 2001 ]

The Remless is destroyed and Tiger's Eye disappears. As Marcy gets up, she sees Silent Warrior, Xero Warrior, and Yellow LightStar all looking up. She looks up too and sees StarFire flying away.

* * *

"Oh Melvin, it was really silly of you to go running off like that. You should know that I will always be your girl," Marcy says, later after arriving at Café Mileto. "Let's have a shake to celebrate."

"A shake? Oh no, I'm gonna be sick."