Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Her Battle ❯ Battle in the Park ( Chapter 4 )

I'm really sorry this part took so long in coming out, college and work sucks. I'm not getting as much time as I would like to work on this. Plus I had a small case of writer's block, but the weird thing is that I know how the story will end; I just don't know how to get there, if that makes any sense. I hope it's not too bad overall and that people out there that enjoying reading this. I guess I should warn that this chapter will have some strong language at times. Anyway, on with the story.

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Chapter 4 - Battle in the Park

"Quit pouting over there Odango atama! I need to concentrate to read the fire." Rei said to Usagi. Rei told her before she could come into the sacred room when she was reading the fire only if she remained quite and did not move much, but Usagi had forgotten that when she came in there tonight. As soon as she remembered, Usagi quickly stopped her pouting to give Rei an opportunity to clear her mind and focus on what she needed to do.

Before Usagi knew it Rei was chanting something, but Usagi couldn't make out what she was saying. What ever it was the fire seemed to understand and the once low flames shot up kissing the ceiling. Rei was transfixed on the flames and soon images started entering her mind. The images were blurry at first, but they got clearer as Rei focused more. The blurry images turned into flashes of a battle soon to be, there was a large youma attacking the senshi and senshi seemed to losing this fight. Attack after attack had little or no affect on the monster and then the three senshi battling it fell and with that the vision was gone. When the vision faded Rei dropped to the ground trying to catch her breath. When Usagi sees this she runs over to her.

"What's wrong Rei? What did you see?" Usagi asked with concern while still trying not to sound scared. "We have….to go find….them!" Rei got out. "Find who?" Usagi asked. "Ami, Makoto, and Minako. They're in trouble!" Rei says getting up.

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"So, Ami what part of the city do you think we should patrol first." Makoto inquired.

"Normally I would say that we spilt up and each that different parts of the city to cover more ground, but I think it would be a good idea for us to stay together and investigate the north because Haruka and Michiru are already to the south." Ami said.

"That seems fine to me." Minako agreed.

So with that the three began their patrol. It all began quite uneventful, there was no sign of any youma or any evil presence for that matter, but they remained on their guard. It all appeared to be waste of time until Minako heard something.

"Did you guys hear that?" Minako asked her companions.

"Hear what?" Makoto asked.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The three turn to the direction of the scream, realizing it is time to fight. "I guess it's time to get to work." Makoto says turning to her friends and they nod in response.

"Mercury crystal power, make up!"

"Jupiter crystal power, make up!"

"Venus crystal power, make up!"

"Hey youma, leave that woman alone and fight someone who can defend themselves!" Sailor Venus yelled to the youma. The youma then dropped the woman and turned to his new targets.

"You….fight….me?" the youma croaked out.

"No, we're going to kill you!" Sailor Jupiter responded. Then she ran at the youma and threw her fist at the side of the youma's head. When it connected the beast took a step back from the force of it, but he seemed unfazed by blow. So Jupiter tried to follow up with a punch to its stomach, but the youma caught her hand and tossed her across the ground back to where friends stood.

"Damn you!" Jupiter cursed. And she stood back up to charge the youma again, but Mercury grabbed her arm to stop her.

"What?" Jupiter asked Mercury. "We need to attack this youma differently. Look at it." Mercury told Jupiter. Jupiter looked at the youma again and saw that its body was surrounded by a thicker skin than was normal even for a youma, it made it almost like its body was incased in full body armor. "Sorry, I guess I just jumped into the fight without thinking." Jupiter said realizing her mistake. "At least the youma didn't hurt you." Mercury said as she put her hand on Jupiter's shoulder.

"Mercury, could you analyze the youma for its weakness. While Jupiter and I distract it." Venus called to Mercury. "Sure, I'm on it and be careful not to get to close to it, its strength is obviously close combat!" Sailor Mercury said while she put down her goggles and took out her mini super computer.

"Venus Love Me Chain!" Sailor Venus shouted and held the youma in place for Jupiter. "Jupiter Oak Evolution!" And hundreds of razor sharp leaves shot at the restrained youma. Instead of crying out in pain the youma just laughed, "HA HA HA. You can't hurt me!"

"What the hell?!" Jupiter said shocked that her attack did nothing at all. The youma began to flex the muscles in his arms and then raised them, braking Venus' attack as well. "My turn…." He spat and then showed speed that seemed impossible for a creature of his size to have and ran to Sailor Venus. He grabbed her tightly by her right shoulder and punched her hard in the stomach with his free hand. Venus spit out some blood and hunched over after the punch. Before she had a chance to recover he gripped harder onto her shoulder and flung her over his shoulder, sending her head first into a tree.

Seeing this Jupiter charged the youma in a fit of rage. When she was close enough to the youma she jumped into the air to deliver another of her attacks. "Sparkling wide pressure!" Jupiter flung the attack straight at the youma's head catching him off guard and snapping his back his head, any other youma would have been dead, but the attack only seemed to piss the youma off.

The youma regained its balance and turned to Jupiter a spat out some green liquid towards the spot she had just landed. "MOVE!" Mercury yelled to Jupiter and she dodged to the right just before the green stuff could hit her. "That liquid is a powerful acid. It will burn anything it touches!" Mercury explained. "Great" Jupiter said sarcastically.

"Mercury, Jupiter!" Sailor Moon called running up to them with Sailor Mars. "Where's Venus?" Mars asked when she looked around and didn't see her friend. "She's over there." Jupiter answered motioning toward the unconscious warrior. "I don't think we can get to her until we deal with the youma, but she doesn't seem to be seriously hurt at least." Mercury added. "So how do we kill it then?" Mars questioned. "As best as I can tell, attacks to its body have no affect and he will spit a powerful acid if you are out of reach. But there is one point we could take advantage of. Before he spits we need to hit him with an attack in his mouth; which, based on my analyze of him, seems to be his weakest point." Mercury explained.

"Alright, so all we need to do is get him to open his mouth right?" Mars asked. "Yes, but it can be dangerous. If your timing is off you won't be able to avoid the acid." Mercury responded. "Ok, then I'll need someone to get him to prepare that attack and before he can fire it, I'll hit him with my "Flame Sniper" attack." Mars said. "I can do that." Said Jupiter. "And I'll back her up." Mercury added. "You can go to Venus and check on her when we confront the youma." Mars said turning to Sailor Moon. "I can help fight too." Moon said. "I know, but someone needs to check on Minako. If we get overwhelmed you'll be our backup, ok?" Sailor Mars said. "Yeah, I guess your right." Sailor Moon stated somewhat somberly, but also realizing Rei was right, someone really did need to see how Minako was doing.

"You ready to fight yet!" called out the annoyed youma. "Oh yeah! Let's start round two!" Jupiter shouted back with that three senshi surrounded the youma. "Supreme Thunder!" Lighting showered down upon the youma leaving it little room for it to move. "I thought I told you already, you can't hurt me!" shouted the youma as he began walking towards Jupiter, breaking her attack in the process. "Not so fast. She is not your only opponent here! Fire Soul!" and a fire ball formed at the tip of Mars' fingers and she sent it flying into the youma's back causing a circular burn mark on him and making him to stumble forward. Once the youma regained his balance he turned his head to Mars and gave her a cold angry stare. Now he started to head towards Mars. "Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!" Mercury called forth her attack and shot it at the youma. The attack collided with its legs, freezing it were it stood. "So, it's going to be three on one now." the youma snared as he smashed his hands down on to the ice the incased his legs shattering it. "I thought you would have realized by now your efforts are futile!"

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As Mars, Jupiter, and Mercury ran toward the youma, Sailor Moon ran over to where Venus was lying on the ground. "Minako!" yelled Sailor Moon as she reached her, but Venus still didn't move. "Minako! Minako are you alright!" Moon said as she grabbed Venus' arm and turned her on to her back. "Minako come on, wake up." Sailor Moon as she shook her slightly. Finally Venus began to stir, "Agh…" she said grapping her head. "Where am I? What the heck is going on?" Venus asked looking up at Sailor Moon. "Well, were in Rikugien and before you got thrown into a tree and were knocked out you were fighting a youma. Rei, Makoto, and Ami are still fighting it actually." Moon tells her as she looks back to where her other friends are currently fighting. "You stay here while I go and help out, ok." "I don't think that will be a problem." Venus responds as she makes an attempt to get up, but lays back down when she when she feels dizzy and nauseous. Sailor Moon gives her a small smile and runs off to join the others still fighting.

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"Aren't you going to try any thing different." the youma complains. He follows up his remark by slamming his fists into the ground sending a shockwave that throws the senshi off balance. While the senshi are trying to get their footing again the youma runs to near-by tree and up roots it. With the tree in hand he begins swinging it as if it were a baseball bat. He hits Jupiter first, sending her flying it to the air and through a park bench about 20 meters from where she stood previously. The youma then swings his `bat' towards the next closest person him, Sailor Mercury. Mercury having seen what he just did to Jupiter knew he was planning to do the same thing to her, so she jumped as high into the air as she so the tree would miss her and it did. However once she landed the youma was already taking his second swing at her and this time she didn't have the time to avoid it. She was hit straight on by the tree and was sent in the same direction Jupiter was laying. Mercury landed hard onto the ground, ripping up patches of grass as she skidded to a stop.

The youma began eyeing his next target now, but unlike Mercury and Jupiter she had a better shot at defending herself because the small quake the youma created had finally ended. "You are the only one here to have caused me pain and for that you will die first!" the youma roared to Mars. "There's a lot more where that came from!" Mars said with a smirk on her face, "And don't think you're going to get away with hurting my friends like you have!" she continued, but with a more serious look than before. The youma began bring the tree back to swing it at Mars now when there was something yelled in the distance. "Moon Tiara Action!" Sailor Moon yelled as she threw her tiara at the youma. The golden object flew straight at the youma, he made an attempt to dodge it, but it caught him in the arm and cut a long, deep gash running from its shoulder to its wrist causing him to drop the tree and scream in agony. "For love and justice, I'm the pretty soldier Sailor Moon. In place of the moon, I'll punish you!" Sailor Moon said as she caught her tiara and placed it back on her head. "YOU LITTLE BITCH, YOU ARE GONNA PAY!!!" the youma shouted and began opening its mouth getting ready to spit something at Sailor Moon. Mars saw this and guessed that he was going to spit that acid at her so she charged the youma and shoulder blocked the youma to the ground. Mars heard a popping sound as she collided with him, but that didn't matter to her right now; all she was thinking about was changing the direction that acid was going land so that it was away from Usagi and she succeeded. The acid hit a tree to the left of Usagi.

Mars got up quickly and stood over the youma pointing her hand only centimeters away from the youma's face preparing her attack one-handed. "Even if you are to kill me know this, I am one of many and they will be coming you too. The sons and daughter of darkness will kill everyone on this poor excuse of a planet." the youma said. "What the hell are you talking about?" asked Mars. "You'll see." said the youma not giving anymore information and now he seemed to like the frustrated look on Mars face because he started laughing. "Fine! Mars Flame Sniper!" Mars yelled putting the heel of her left shoe into his head and firing her fire arrow into his open mouth, killing him rather quickly.

"You ok?" Sailor Mars asked turning around to face Sailor Moon. "Yeah, what was that youm…." Sailor Moon stopped in the middle of what she was saying when she saw Mars' right arm hanging lifelessly on her side, "What's wrong with your arm Rei?!" Moon questioned. "It's nothing. I think it's just dislocated, I'll be fine. How is Minako?" Mars said changing the subject. "She's alright, but probably has a concussion. What about Ami and Makoto?" Sailor Moon replied. "I haven't gotten a chance to go check on them yet. Come on lets go do that now." Mars said motioning for Sailor Moon to follow her with her good arm. Moon merely nodded in response and began following Mars.

As Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars reached their friends, they saw Jupiter helping Mercury to her feet. "Hey, how are you two doing?" Mars called over to her friends trying to quickly inspect her friends' condition for herself. "Not bad, all things considered. I saw you two took care of the youma." Jupiter answered Mars. Neither Jupiter nor Mercury seem to hurt to bad, they had a lot of minor cut and looked like they would be bruised and sore for a little bit though. "Yeah, he wasn't really as tough as he thought he was." Mars said and afterward heard sirens in the distance. "It might be a good idea us to detransform and get out of here, but we need to get Minako first, I'm think your right about Minako having a concussion Ami." Sailor Moon said what was on everyone's mind.

"Hey, about time you gals came back, I thought you had forgotten about me." Minako said, apparently feeling at least a little better since the last time Usagi had seen her, she was even sitting up a little against the broken tree trunk. "Come on Minako you need to detransform so we can get out of here, the police are coming." Usagi said offering her a hand. "Alright, but does anyone have an aspirin the size of truck, my head is killing me!" Minako complained rubbing the side of her head. Her friends only laughed at her antics while helping her to her feet and proceeded to leave the park.

End Ch. 4

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I wanted to do this battle different than how it turned out, I feel like started to drag on. If anyone if thinks it could have been done better tell me. I debated whether Uranus and Neptune be in it or not obviously decided against it for no reason other it would have prolonged a fight that already seem long enough. I never even considered Pluto to be in this chapter because she was doing something important. Thank you to any who may still be reading this any I hope it's enjoyable. Again I would like to say I am sorry this took so long in coming out. Till next time.