Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Looking Up To You ❯ The Masked Warrior Emerges! ( Chapter 11 )

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Sailor Moon or any of the characters, blah, blah, blah.

NOTE: This story takes place after Sailor Stars, however, I haven't seen Sailor Stars, so forgive me if I miss a plot point or two. Also, I'm gonna go for American attack names here… *begs forgiveness from the purists*

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Tuxedo Mask pointed at Dreadima.

"Are you ready to fight someone your own size?" Tuxedo Mask yelled.

"Hey, I'm his size too!" Sailor Jupiter yelled.

"I'm ready to kill you, you fool!" Dreadima said angrily. "How dare you interfere!"

Dreadima ran at Tuxedo Mask, scythe in hand. He slashed at Tuxedo Mask, but Tuxedo Mask swung his staff in the way, parrying the attack and holding back Dreadima's scythe.

"Darn it!" Dreadima yelled, trying to push his scythe forward. "He's too strong…"

"Now, Sailor Moon!" Tuxedo Mask shouted. "Finish him off!"

"Right!" Sailor Moon said. She pointed her henshin stick at Dreadima. "Moon… Blessed…"

"No!" Dreadima yelled. He leapt back from Tuxedo Mask before Sailor Moon could finish her attack. "Take this!"

Dreadima fired a bolt of black lightning at Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon gasped, unable to stop the lightning rushing toward her.

"I'll help you!" Sailor Jupiter yelled, dashing in front of the blast. "Jupiter… Oak… Evolution!"

The burst of rocks, leaves, and lightning pushed Dreadima's black bolts back at him and knocked him off of his feet.

"Argh!" Dreadima yelled, dropping his scythe.

"I'll freeze him!" Sailor Mercury said, seemingly recovered from Dreadima's near-fatal attack. She pointed her arms at Dreadima. "Mercury… Ice Bubbles… Freeze!"

Dreadima, unable to dodge or stand, was helpless as he was hit by the freezing bubbles and encased in a block of ice.

"Yes!" Sammy whispered, still hiding behind the bush. "Ami did it!"

Sailor Moon pointed her henshin stick at Dreadima again.

"Moon… Blessed… Hallation!" Sailor Moon shouted, blasting the helpless Dreadima with a large blast of Moon energy. The energy waves hit Dreadima and washed over him, disintegrating the evil warrior once and for all.

"Alright!" Sammy cheered. "Too bad I wasn't needed though… I'd better sneak home before they see me!"

Sammy, still in his superhero costume, ducked down and ran toward his house before anyone could see him.

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Meanwhile, in the dark headquarters of Scion's evil forces…

"Dreadima utterly failed," Letine said. "I told you I should have gotten to face the Senshi!"

"Dreadima picked up some very important information about the Sailor Senshi," Scion stated. "It seems that they transformed just outside a small temple in Juuban."

"Really?" Letine asked. "Did you find out their secret identities?"

"No," Scion said. "We know where they transformed from, but not who they transformed from. Your latest mission is to go to that temple and see what you can find out."

"Oooh!" Letine cooed excitedly.

"But don't fight them if you don't have to," Scion said.

"You can count on me!" Letine said. She laughed, and then she teleported away.

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Meanwhile, in Rei's temple, the Senshi, now transformed into normal, were recovering from the battle.

"Whew," Serena breathed, brushing her hair back. "That was some fight!"

"Yeah," Ami said. "Good thing Tuxedo Mask came when he did!"

Rei smiled and sipped her tea.

"We could have beaten that scythe carrying freak without Tuxedo Mask's help," Rei said. "But he did save you, Ami."

"Yeah!" Mina said. "Think of how angry Sammy would have been if he hadn't come!"

The Senshi giggled.

"Guys, I'm with Greg, I told you that!" Ami said, giggling. "Tuxedo Mask is kinda cute, though…"

"Hey, he's mine!" Serena yelled.

"I was just kidding!" Ami said. "You guys are so cute together!"

"Just like you and Sammy!" Mina said. "Er, I mean Greg."

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Meanwhile, in a small park near the temple, Sammy, who was now out of his costume, was walking around, talking to himself.

"Crap, crap, crap!" Sammy yelled. "I can't believe that loser Tuxedo Mask showed up before I could help Ami…"

Sammy shook his head.

"What's wrong with me?" Sammy said. "At least she didn't get hurt. It doesn't matter who saved her. She got saved, and that's all that matters."

Suddenly, a large flash of fire appeared in front of Sammy. Sammy ran behind a bush and crouched down.

"What was that?" Sammy whispered. The fire dissipated to reveal the evil witch Letine, who had a devious expression on her face.

"Time to kill some Senshi!" Letine said, cackling to herself. She started walking off in the direction of Rei's temple.

"Oh no!" Sammy gasped. "I have to help them!"

Sammy quickly changed into his costume and started to follow Letine.

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Meanwhile, back at the temple…

"Well, I'm ready to go home," Serena said. "I gotta go and cheer up my brother…"

"Maybe I should come too, Serena," Ami said. "Telling Sammy not to risk his life might mean more coming from me…"

"That's a great idea, Ami!" Lita said. "Poor kid, he must feel terrible right now…"

"Yeah," Ami said sadly.

"Guys, don't go yet!" Rei said, standing up. "I sense another great evil… it's nearby…"

"Not again!" Serena shrieked. "Do they ever give up?"

The five Senshi transformed and ran outside the temple.

"It's coming!" Sailor Mars shouted.

"It's here!" a loud voice cackled in the distance. The Senshi gasped and began looking around.

"Guys, that sounded like Letine!" Sailor Mercury said.

"Right you are, Sailor Jerkury!" Letine shouted, hopping down in front of the five Senshi. "This time, I'm going to kill you all!"

"We've beaten you twice already," Sailor Moon said. "Why don't you ever learn!"

"You can't beat us!" Sailor Mars shouted.

"And in the name of the Moon… we'll punish you!" Sailor Moon and the other Senshi declared.

"We'll see about that!" Letine yelled. "Take this! Arrows of Hellish Flame!"

Letine pointed her fingers at the Senshi and began to fire bursts of small flame arrows at the Senshi. The arrows hit the ground and exploded on contact, blasting the Senshi in all directions.

"That was a nice trick, but it won't work!" Sailor Venus yelled, landing on her feet and pointing at Letine. "Venus Love Chain Encircle!"

The golden magical chain rushed at Letine. Letine put her hand up in front of the chain and knocked it away with a ball of fire.

"Bwahaha!" Letine cackled. "That was so weak! Spiraling Ball Of Flame!"

Letine pointed her hand at Sailor Venus. But before she could attack, she was struck from behind by a powerful kick to the head. Letine staggered forward.

"Who did that?" Letine yelled, turning to see who attacked her. "Ah, Sailor Jupiter!"

"Jupiter Thundercloud Zap!" Jupiter yelled, firing a disk of lightning at Letine. Letine simply stepped to the side, dodging the disk. The disk continued to fly, eventually crackling out in the air.

"No worries!" Letine said. "Now see what I was about to fry your friend with!"

Letine put out her hand and fired a huge fireball in Jupiter's direction. The fireball turned into a snake of flames, which spiraled toward Jupiter in the form of a beam.

"Yikes!" Sailor Jupiter yelled, tumbling out of the path of the spiraling beam.

"Darn, I wanted to have fried Senshi for dinner!" Letine yelled. "Oh well, guess I'll have to wait a little bit!"

Just then, Letine stopped dead in her tracks. Her eyes turned upward, and Letine noticed that she had a sticker on her forehead.

"What's this thing?" Letine asked, pointing to the sticker with the Kanji symbols on it. Sailor Mars smiled.

"My Ofuda scrolls stop all evil!" Mars yelled. "You're finished!"

Letine gazed at Mars with a look of surprise.

"Excuse me?" Letine said, trying to stifle her laughter. "This thing?"

Letine began to cackle insanely, and was engulfed in flames.

"What did she do?" Sailor Mars screamed. "I didn't know my scrolls were THAT effective!"

"Mars, look!" Sailor Mercury shouted, pointing at Letine.

The dark witch continued to cackle as flames danced around her in a hellish inferno. One of the edges of the Ofuda scroll on Letine's forehead slowly began to burn away. Sailor Mars and the other Senshi watched, terrified, as the entire scroll burned away and the ashes circled around her. The blaze began to die down, and the ashes of the scroll circled around in front of Letine. Finally, the flames disappeared, but a very strange thing was happening. The pieces of the scroll began to come back together.

"What's she doing?" Sailor Moon yelled. Letine held out her right arm, and the reformed scroll appeared in front of it, floating in the air. The letters of the scroll glowed with a bright red flame. Four flaming Kanji symbols began to circle around Letine.

"I bet you haven't seen this technique yet, but it's quite a doozy!" Letine yelled, pointing her hand at the stunned Sailor Mars. The scroll floated in front of Letine's hand.

"What's she doing?" Jupiter yelled.

"Mars, look out!" Sailor Moon screamed.

"Too late!" Letine said. The scroll flew at Sailor Mars with incredible speed.

"What the-" was all Sailor Mars was able to say before the burning scroll affixed itself to Sailor Mars' mouth. The Senshi flew up into the air and began burning with a bright red flame before flying back toward a large tree and slamming into it. Sailor Mars moaned, and then slumped down against the tree, unconscious. The scroll fell off of Mars' mouth and fluttered to the ground, burning up on contact. The other Senshi rushed to her side.

"I hope you liked it," Letine said. "I can take one of my opponent's techniques and turn it against them, only it's much stronger when I use it because I'm so much stronger than Sailor Useless Pieces Of Paper over there!"

"That's enough!" Sailor Mercury said, turning from Mars and stomping toward Letine. "You've hurt my friends one too many times!"

"Oh, it's Sailor Pedophile," Letine said viciously. "I've got a joke for you. Who's the only person who likes little boys more than a Catholic priest? It's Sailor Mercu-"

Letine's insensitive joke was cut off by Mercury's fist slamming into Letine's stomach. The dark witch gasped and doubled over, coughing up blood.

"I like, Greg, not Sammy!" Mercury yelled. "Oops, I mean… this is for Sailor Mars!"

Sailor Mercury pointed her arms at Letine. A watery harp appeared in Mercury's hands.

"Mercury… Aqua… Rhapsody!" Mercury shouted, causing several waves of water to rush over Letine. Letine stood up and blasted the waves into nothingness with another large fireball. Mercury gasped.

"You really didn't think that pathetic attack would hurt me!" Letine yelled, laughing. "And your punches are weak too!"

Letine leaped up and kicked Mercury to the ground. The Water Senshi screamed in pain.

"Sailor Mercury!" Moon, Jupiter, and Venus yelled.

"Time to finish you off!" Letine shouted.

"Not so fast!" a boyish voice yelled from behind Letine. Letine turned around to face her challenger. What she saw caused her to laugh again. Letine was facing a boy not much taller than Sailor Mercury, dressed in a cape, a jumpsuit, and a brightly colored hood that concealed his entire face except for his eyes and mouth.

"Who the heck are you?" Letine yelled, staring at the new warrior in contempt. She began to giggle. "And where did you get that ugly costume?"

"Ugly?" Sammy said, offended. "Grrr… I'm Sa-"

Sammy stopped.

"Can't reveal my true identity. That's the first rule of being a superhero! But I haven't had time to think of a cool name…oh man…"

Sammy put his finger to his chin, trying to come up with a superhero name on the fly.

"Well, uh…" Sammy stuttered. "I'm… uh… I'm the Masked… uh… the Masked Warrior! I am the Masked Warrior!"

"Man, that was lame…" Sammy thought. "Oh well, too late to change it now."

"The Masked Warrior?" Letine said, trying and failing to stifle another giggle. "That's the most pathetic name for a superhero that I've ever heard!"

"Oh yeah?" Sammy said. "I am the hero that fights for love, justice, and the Japanese way! I am truth! I am stronger than a speeding bullet and faster than a locomotive!"

Sammy pointed to Letine.

"ALLY TO GOOD! NIGHTMARE TO YOU!" Sammy shouted. "Oh yeah, that was great! I rule!"

Letine burst into fits of laughter.

"Bwahahaha! Ally to speeding bullets, nightmare to the Japanese way? What's that crap?" Letine cackled. "You fight for cheese and justice? Huh?"

Sammy growled and unsheathed his sword. He pointed it at Letine menacingly.

"Want some of this?" Sammy shouted.

"I've seen that sword before," Sailor Mercury thought, rising to her feet and brushing herself off. "Oh no… he didn't! He's not that crazy!"

Letine stared at the blade and frowned.

"So you're really serious about fighting me?" Letine yelled. "So be it!"

Letine lit up a fireball and threw it at Sammy. The fireball nailed Sammy and knocked him back with such force that the teenage boy skidded across the ground for about fifteen feet before coming to a rest, lying on the ground.

"Oh no!" Sailor Moon shouted.

"Looks like the new guy just got a crash course," Jupiter said. "Wait a second… you don't think…"

Mars slowly began to wake up. She groaned and sat up, both of her hands on her head.

"What's going on?" Mars asked.

Letine walked toward the fallen Sammy, smiling and holding a ball of fire in each hand.

"You dead, kid?" Letine asked. "Aw, not already. I was gonna have some fun with you!"

Letine walked right next to Sammy and smiled.

"Time to cremate the wanna-be superhero!" Letine yelled. Suddenly, she felt a leg sweeping under both of her legs, sending her crashing to the ground. The two fireballs fizzled out, and Sammy staggered to his feet.

"Don't mess with the Masked Warrior!" Sammy yelled. He stomped on Letine's back with his shoes, causing the witch to scream in pain. "Oh yeah!"

"Look out!" Mercury yelled, running over to Sammy. "She's dangerous!"

"I know what I'm doing," Sammy said. "I just-"

Letine swept her leg under Sammy's, sending him crashing to the ground next to her.

"Oh no!" Mercury yelled. Letine slowly stood up.

"Nice trick, kid," Letine said, looking down at Sammy and smirking. "But now you're mine!"

"No, he's not!" Sailor Moon yelled, pointing her henshin stick at Letine. "You're mine!"

Letine turned around to face Sailor Moon. She laughed again.

"Geez, these odds aren't very fair," Letine said. "But oh well. You're dead, Sailor Moon!"

Letine pointed her hand at Sailor Moon. Sammy sat up.

"No one… beats the Masked Warrior," Sammy yelled. He raised his sword and stabbed into the back of Letine's leg. Letine shrieked and collapsed to the ground on her knees.

"Wha?" Sailor Mercury said, looking behind Letine to see Sammy, standing up again. "How can you-"

"I'm the Masked Warrior!" Sammy said. He ran around to the other side of Letine. Letine growled angrily and pointed her arm at Sammy. She charged another fireball.

"How dare you!" Letine shrieked. "Whoever you are, you're history!"

"Masked Warrior, look out!" the Senshi shouted.

"I've got it covered!" Sammy said. He took his sword and slashed hard across both of Letine's knees. The Senshi gasped as the fireball Letine was charging disappeared, and the dark witch collapsed to the ground on all fours.

"That hurt…" Letine moaned. "How dare…"

Sammy raised his sword above Letine's back.

"I'll put you away for good!" Sammy shouted. But just before Sammy could strike the fatal blow, Letine teleported away, causing Sammy to stab through air and strike the ground with his sword, sending kinetic shockwaves through his body.

"Uhuhuhuh!" Sammy yelled as the waves shook his body. He collapsed to the ground, holding his sword. The five Senshi ran over to him.

"You okay?" Sailor Moon asked.

"Wow, you're tough!" Sailor Venus said.

"So, you're the Masked Warrior, huh?" Sailor Jupiter asked. "What a cool name!"

"I must have been knocked out," Mars said. "I didn't see him coming!"

"You missed a lot!" Sailor Mercury said. "His speech is even better than Sailor Moon's!"

"No, it's not!" Sailor Moon yelled.

"Ally to good, NIGHTMARE to you!" Sailor Venus said, mimicking Sammy's speech. "Awesome!"

"Well, girls, I have to be going now!" Sammy said. "But next time evil strikes, the Masked Warrior shall be there to fight it!"

Sammy put his sword in the small sheathe that he had strapped to the back of his costume and hobbled off. The girls began to exchange looks.

"There's no way that's you-know-who," Sailor Moon said. "That guy can fight!"

"You mean Sammy?" Sailor Venus asked. "That's not Sammy…"

"No way!" Sailor Mars said. "But he's too short to be Tuxedo Mask…"

"I guess it'll be a mystery for now!" Sailor Jupiter said, smiling. "But it'll be fun to find out!"

Sailor Mercury turned from the group and looked down at the ground in thought.

"That's definitely Sammy," Mercury thought. "He's a very determined fighter… I found that out first-hand when he saved me from Alexis a couple of weeks ago and defended me from Tiger's Eye two years before…Sammy… I know you want to protect me… but you don't know what you're getting into!"

"Ami?" Sailor Moon said, tapping her friend on the shoulder. "What do you think of the Masked Warrior?"

The Water Senshi turned to her friend and smiled.

"He's definitely strong," Mercury said. "And he's even cooler than Tuxedo Mask!"

"He is NOT cooler than Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon whined.

"He's cuter than Tuxedo Mask," Sailor Mars said.

"Argh, I can't win!" Sailor Moon shrieked. The other Senshi laughed as the sun began to set in the sky.

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Well, looks like Sammy… er, the Masked Warrior DID get to save the day! And if you can't tell from Sammy's speech, yes, I am a HUGE DBZ fan. By the way, I mean no offense to Catholics at all by the crack on (a SMALL percentage of) Catholic priests. I'm actually a Protestant myself, but I respect Catholics very much! We're all Christians, ya know! (Except for people who aren't Catholics and Protestants, whom I also respect!) If you were offended by the joke, I'm VERY sorry, and feel free to tell me. >_< But enough about religion! Please review if you want!