Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Vision Of Escaflowne Fan Fiction ❯ The Return of the Past ❯ The Battle ( Chapter 6 )

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Chapter 6: The Battle

~Earth~

Luna and Artemis had split up so that they could find all of the Senshi. Luna went to the Hikawa shrine, and Artemis went in search of Mina. After dodging in between pedestrians, avoiding a car or two and escaping from a dog, Luna arrived at the steps to the shrine. Taking the steps several at a time she ascended them quickly and ran towards to back side of the shrine where Rei's room was. 'My suspicion was correct,' thought Luna as she arrived outside the room, 'all of the girls are here except for Mina. I only hope that Artemis can find her.' Luna looked through the crack in the doorway and watched as Rei hesitantly told Ami and Makoto about her vision.

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~Rei Room~

Rei, Ami and Makato were sitting around the low table in the middle of the room. All three of them had troubled looks on their face as Rei reluctantly told them of her vision. The snacks that Makoto had made were left untouched in the middle of the table. Even Ami's books were left unopened, sitting on the table in front of her.

"What do you think it means?" Makato asked worriedly as she looked from Rei to Ami.

"I don't know," replied Rei.

"Well I do," a voice said out of nowhere. The girls jumped looking around the room in confusion.

"Who said that?" asked Rei as she began to reach into her Miko uniform for her extra ofuda.

"I did," replied the voice as a cat entered the room from the sliding door and jumped up onto the table. "My name is Luna," the cat said. The girls jumped back looking at the cat in shock.

"Is it me, or did that cat just talk," said Makoto in disbelief.

"But that's impossible, cats can't talk," said Ami.

"Well I assure you Ami, that I can talk and that I'm here to tell you all something very important," Luna said as she looked at the three of them.

"Tell us what?" asked Rei.

"I'm sorry but I can't tell you yet, at least not until Artemis arrives with Minako," she replied as she sat down and began licking her front right paw.

"Luna; how is it that you know are names?" asked Ami, as she settled back down at the table, still a little wary of the talking cat.

"Well Artemis and I have had our eyes on you all for some time, but I think that you all remember us both as being your friend Serena's cats," Luna said. Just then the sliding door opened all the way to reveal a girl with thigh length pale blond hair carrying a white cat.

"Well now that Artemis and Minako are here, we can begin," stated Luna. Artemis Jumped onto the table next to Luna, as Minako Sat opposite Makoto. Seeing that everyone was settled, Luna and Artemis began to explain to them about whom they were and what Rei's vision meant.

"So you're saying that you are from a kingdom on the moon, and that we're all reincarnated warriors from 1000 years ago, but where's the proof," said Mina. Luna and Artemis exchanged glances before both doing a back flip in the air. When they completed the flip four pens appeared in mid air before falling with a loud clatter on to the table. They noticed that each pen had a symbol on it to represent what planet they were from. Luna and Artemis pushed the pans towards their respective owners.

"Ami you are Sailor Mercury,” said Luna, as she picked up the blue pen with the symbol of Mercury on it, “Rei you are Sailor Mars, Makoto you are Sailor Jupiter, and Minako you are Sailor Venus said. Rei picked up the red pen with the symbol of Mars, Makoto picked dup the green pen with the symbol of Jupiter, and Mina picked up the Orange pen with the symbol of Venus. "Now, if you still don't totally believe us, then I would like each of you to repeat after me. Ami, call out Mercury Power Make up, Rei, call out Mars Power Make up, Makoto call out Jupiter Power Make up, and Mina, call out Venus Power Make up." Looking at each other with skepticism and caution, they each began to call out what they were told.

"Mercury Power," shouted Ami.

"Mars Power," shouted Rei.

"Jupiter Power," shouted Makoto

"Venus Power," shouted Minako

"Make up!" they shouted as one. Their respective colors began to surround them as they were lifted up off the ground. They twirled around in the air, their clothes melting away to slowly be replaced by the Sailor Fuku's. Ami was surrounded by bubbles, Rei was surrounded by fire, Makoto was surrounded by fire, and finally Minako was surrounded by s swirl of Heart shaped lights. For the first time they each transformed in to their senshi counterparts. They all turn to Luna and Artemis with looks of Bewilderment on their faces.

"Ok now that I'm sure you all believe us, we need to leave,” Luna said. Artemis then stepped forward to take charge.

“Right then,” he said, “Everyone gather together in a circle and hold hands. He and Luna jumped off the table and joined them in the middle of the circle. “Now Concentrate your energies and clear your minds, we will do the rest.” He watched as they each closed their eyes and began to concentrate on their powers. Slowly they each began to glow their respective colors and the air became charged with energy. Luna and Artemis closed their eyes and concentrated on where they large amount of negative energy was coming from. In a flash of multi colored light, they were gone.

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~Gaea~

The fight on Gaea wasn't going to well. It appeared at first that Van and the others were winning but looks can be deceiving, very deceiving. It turns out that the enemy was much stronger then the last time. As they continued to hack their way through the youma, more seemed to appear out of nowhere. The battle was looking grim as more soldiers fell at the hands of the youma.

"They just keep on coming,” Allen grunted as he deflected the claws of a particularly vicious looking youma and decapitated it.

"Ya I think that we already know the obvious pretty boy so why don't you shut your mouth," Said Dilandau as he cut through another youma, blood covering his face. His eye's still held the slight madness and thrill of the kill in them as they did during the war, but it wasn't as noticeable as it had been back then.

"Dilandau, shut up. We don't need your wise cracks right now," said van as he slashed trough one youma after another. It was the truth though, because no matter how many they killed more came and took they're place.

"This battle is probably worse than our previous ones," said Allen.

"No really, you just figure that out," replied Dilandau sarcastically.

"Will you guys just quit it and keep fighting our enemy, we've already lost a lot of men, so please stay focused," Van Said just before he received a hard blow to the stomach.

"Hey Van, why don't you go get Escaflowne?” asked Allen, “We can keep them busy while you go get it.”

"No Allen, I made a promise that I would never awaken Escaflowne ever again and I'm not about to break that promise," replied Van. He slashed through another youma just in time to deflect an attack from another.

~Meanwhile, back in the city~

There was a flash of multicolored lights over the city of Fanalia, and if one were to look up at the palace roof they would see that light was coming from there. Unfortunately the streets of the city were bare so there was no one there to witness it. All of the City's occupants were sheltered in their homes waiting anxiously for the battle to end. When the light died down you could clearly make out the figures of four teenage girls and two cats. As the girls got their wits about them, they looked around.

"So where are we?" asked Jupiter.

"We are on the Planet of Gaea, but as to the country, I'm afraid I don't know," Luna replied.

"Luna look," said Venus. She pointed out towards the fields where a battle was talking place. It looked like a large mass of darkness was moving, almost like a wave, over the red and silver of the soldier's armor. It also looked as if the soldiers were losing the battle.

"I sense a lot of negative energy coming from that battle field," said Mars.

"Luna what are those things that the people are fighting?" asked Jupiter.

"Those are youma; they were created by our enemy the Queen of the negaverse." She said.

"You girls better go help those people in the fight, we'll go look for Serena," said Artemis. The girls nodded and took off, hopping over the roof tops of the buildings to reach the fields outside of the city. Luna and Artemis took off down a set of stairs off to the side in search of their char, Serena.

"So where do you think she should be?" asked Artemis, as they ran down a hall.

"Well I don't know but if we concentrate, we should be able to sense her energy," Luna replied as she closed her eyes. About a minute later her eyes snapped open. "I found her," she said as she turned the corner heading down another hall, with Artemis on her tail. Fifteen minutes later they were standing in front of a door that was slightly ajar. Luna made her way in, while Artemis followed right after her. There in the room was Usagi, her new friend Hitomi, and a cat girl.

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~In the room~

The battle had begun a couple hours ago and they were getting restless. Hitomi sat on one of the cots as calmly as she could, while trying not to snap at Merle who was pacing back and forth mumbling what sounds like, “oh lord van,” over and over again. Usagi was at one of the windows watching with worried eyes, the battle that was taking place. Suddenly Merle stopped pacing her tail twitching as the fur stood on end.

"Someone's here," said Merle.

"Merle there's no one here but us," said Hitomi as she looked around the room.

"No Hitomi, she's right you aren't the only ones in here," said a voice. Just after the voice spoke two cats jumped up onto the cot that Merle were standing by. Serena gasped.

"Luna, Artemis, but how," Serena trailed off.

"That will be explained later right now you need to go help you friends in battle," said Artemis. After he said this Luna did a back flip and a brooch appeared. Serena eeped in fear, jumping to one of the corners furthest from the cats.

“Y-you can t-talk,” she stuttered staring at the cats in confusion and slight fear.

“We have no time for this Serena,” said Luna sternly, “everything can be explained later. Right now your friends are in danger. That brooch is your transformation brooch. Hold it up and shout Moon Prism Power Make up.” Serena hesitantly did as she was told, reaching out to pick up the brooch. She held the brooch up and repeated what her cat had said, and was surprised when a strange uniform replaced her clothes.

"How?" She asked looking down at herself.

"As Artemis and I said it will be explain later right now your friends are fighting in a battle that might kill them and they need your help," said Luna, repeating what she had just said a moment ago. Serena nodded still unsure of what to do as she ran out of the room to help her friends.

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~Back to the Battle~

Van was having a tough time, but then again he wasn't the only one. Just as a youma was about to slash him in half, a fireball saved him. He looked in the direction that the attack had come from to see a girl, but he didn't have time to stop and gawk. Mars, satisfied with her attack pull out a hand full of charms, and called out her attack. "Aku Ryu Tai San." The charms lit on fire as they flew through the air to land on the youmas, which they burst in to flame. The Surrounding was suddenly covered in a thick fog that froze the youma's in place.

"Thanks Mercury," said Jupiter.

"No problem, but you might want to hurry and attack because I can't hold this fog up forever.

"Sure." Jupiter said as she unleashed her bolts of lightning. "Jupiter thunder!" the youma's crumbled to dust.

"Rolling Heart Vibration!" shouted Venus. They were starting to win the battle now. A majority of the Youma that had filled the field were gone. The continued to come in droving wave, that is until a voice rang out trough the air.

"Moon Tiara Magic," the voice yelled and a girl who was throwing a golden discus soon followed it. Everyone watched as the discus cut threw youma after youma, never stopping. The other scouts immediately followed up that attack with their own. Finally the enemy began to retreat. The battle was over finally, but now explanations were in order.