Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Princess Mercury: her past and her promise ❯ Sailor Venus vs Sailor Universe! ( Chapter 5 )
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By: The Mysterious Traveller 
In a bid to rescue Amy from the clutches of the enemy Sailor Venus takes on the evil Sailor Universe...but does the spunky Venusian actually have a chance?
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.02.2002 | Pages: 4 | Words: 1.9K | Visits: 211 | Status: Completed
In a bid to rescue Amy from the clutches of the enemy Sailor Venus takes on the evil Sailor Universe...but does the spunky Venusian actually have a chance?
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.02.2002 | Pages: 4 | Words: 1.9K | Visits: 211 | Status: Completed
Chapter Six
Sailor Venus vs Sailor Universe!
The door opened and Merula walked into the room.
Amy looked up from where she sat, Merula had brought in a tray with a plate of food on it and a smirk.
Amy was sitting in her bikini on a luxurious bed in a room in one of the upper floors of the hotel wearing the Anti-Planet Power handcuffs.
Mu hadn't ordered for this but it had given Merula great pleasure so that had been that.
"Lunch time! And how is the bride to be?" Merula smirked placing the tray down next to Amy.
Amy ignored the food completely and focused instead on Merula narrowing her eyes.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked quietly.
"Doing? Oh you mean all of this?" Merula replied. "Believe me Amy it's not personal."
"You're lying." Amy cut in immediately. "You're a Sailor Scout. Why are you following the orders of someone like Mu?"
Merula shrugged. "Emperor Mu saved my life in the Moon Kingdom. I owe my life to him and am sworn to him unto death. Besides who else would I work for? Should I run around after that pompous moggy like you and the others?"
Amy couldn't think of anything else to say after this.
She was struggling with two problems at once.
One was fighting not to agree with Merula's evaluation of Luna. It was a real effort for after all Amy had been given enough reason to agree after her last meeting with Luna.
But the second was one that she just couldn't figure out.
In the vision Mu had shown her of her past Amy was certain that she had heard Artemis say that Princess Universe was dead along with Princess Charon and Estrella the third cat advisor of Queen Serenity.
Merula's very presence here now was a contradiction to this.
How had Sailor Universe survived and what had happened to make her the way she was now?
Merula was now bored with the conversation and turned to leave the room.
"Wait." Amy snapped. "You haven't answered my question!"
"Question?" Merula turned to face Amy again. "What question was that?"
"Why do you hate me so much?" Amy asked simply.
Merula's face twitched and wavered for a brief moment. For the shortest of seconds Amy thought that she could finally see past the mask and to the girl beneath.
But then the weakness was gone and Merula's resolution returned.
"You're an idealistic little know-it-all!" she snapped. "That's reason enough for me!"
"That makes you hate me enough to betray the Scouts?" Amy was disbelieving.
Once more a weakness tugged at Merula's smirk. Then it was gone again and the smirk reasserted itself.
"Ah I get it! I understand it now!" Merula laughed and sneered. "You want me to help you escape. That's the reason behind all this isn't it?"
"I wouldn't leave here if I could. I made a promise and I have to keep it. Even to someone like Mu." Amy said quietly.
"The Scouts aren't coming for you babes. They don't give a damn about you and you'll see that when you realise that they've turned their backs on you."
With that Merula spun on her heel and the left the room leaving Amy on her own to get as much sleep as she could after that.
~*~*~
"This is the place girls." Fargo pointed at the hotel at the bottom of the street. "That's the place."
Fargo slowly cancelled his levitation spell and dropped onto the roof with the Scouts.
The Sailor Scouts stared at the large building in the near distance.
"Man that looks like a real top-class dive!" Sailor Mars said her eyes full of awe. "It'd take a decade's worth of temple donations to get reservations there!"
"That's Amy's luck all over!" Sailor Jupiter agreed. "Trust her to get kidnapped by an enemy with money to burn!"
Fargo's eyes had gleamed as he had listened to all this.
"Well if that's what you girls like in a man…I have a few yen flying about the place ya know!" he dug some spare change out of his pocket and threw it over the roof. "See?"
Jupiter rolled her eyes but didn't reply.
"How do we get in?" Sailor Venus interjected hurriedly.
"One of us ought to go in from the back." Fargo decided. "I'll go first and call…"
"No way!" Jupiter snapped grabbing him by the sleeve and dragging him round to face her. "You're staying here where I can keep an eye on you chumly!"
Fargo glared at her so angry that he had actually been rendered speechless.
"I'll go!" Venus cut in again before an argument could break out. "I'll contact you with my communicator when the coast is clear."
"Go for it Sailor V!" Sailor Moon approved.
The other two Scouts as well as Fargo nodded and with that Sailor Venus began to make herway toward the hotel.
~*~*~
"Merula! Come here!"
Merula stopped in the middle of the stairway as Mu appeared on the balcony and called to her.
"Yes emperor Mu?" Merula asked walking back up to the balcony.
"I just used my telepathy to learn the thoughts of those interfering cats and the Sailor Scouts.
They are on their way here at this very moment!" Mu told her.
Merula's eyes widened.
"Are you sure?" she demanded.
Mu's eyes blazed into their golden glow as his anger flared up.
"Never question me again!" he hissed.
Merula lowered her eyes acting like she was frightened at having aroused her masters wrath.
"Your pardon emperor Mu." Merula whispered. "I was only."
"We'll discuss this later Merula. Right now Sailor Venus is trying to enter the building through the back way. Take care of her."
Mu turned and departed.
Merula breathed hard as her heart throbbed with concentrated rage as she watched him go and her heart beat returned to normal.
Soon you won't have to put up with that any longer, she promised herself grimly, soon...
Then she spread out her arms and fingers.
"Universal Planet Power! Make up!"
There was a crackle and the room was plunged into darkness as Merula transformed.
Her dress and shoes fade away and were replaced by a sailor shirt, black skirt, gloves and high-heels.
Her hair was twisted into a long braid behind her.
Sailor Universe braced herself and made her way downstairs.
~*~*~
"Yep! There she is!"
Sailor Moon, Fargo and the other two remaining Scouts were gathered around the Planet Power Detector.
One moment they had been watching Sailor Venus's progress and the next their attention was claimed by a second bleep on the small glass screen.
"That's Sailor Universe." Fargo nodded. "Sailor Mercury's reading would have been blue. That one's black."
"I sure hope Sailor Venus can handle her!" Sailor Mars breathed.
Fargo drew out a bottle of something fizzy and opening it he took a long tug.
Noticing the disgust on Sailor Jupiter's face Fargo grinned.
"Care for a drink sweet thing?" He offered.
A minute later Fargo was leaning back heavily against the wall rubbing his concussed bleeding nose with one hand and clawing at his soaking head as the now empty bottle lay on the roof.
"That's a no then?" he called after Jupiter who had went to the other side of the roof-top.
~*~*~
The air rustled through Sailor Venus's hair as she stood on the wall overlooking the pool courtyard.
The place was totally devoid of people.
Or so it seemed.
It looks safe enough, she thought.
Sailor Venus dropped lightly from the wall and landed lightly in the courtyard.
No-one seemed to hear her so Venus stepped toward the double-doors at the far side of the courtyard feeling pleased with her success…
"Hello Sailor Venus. It's been too long!"
Venus spun around and saw Sailor Universe sneering at her from a few yards away.
Sailor V's mouth was agape as she stared still hardly believing that there was a sixth Scout.
"I wish I could say that its good to see you again but that's just because I'm an incurable liar." Universe continued.
"You might be a Scout but if you're determined to harm our friend then I have no choice!" Venus declared. "Let's rock!"
Universe grinned delighted to get the chance to fight a Scout she didn't have to hold back against.
"Venus Love Chain!" Sailor V cried creating a chain of energy which she whirled in the air like a nunchucka.
"Galactic Star Whip!" Sailor U called creating a similar chain.
The two Sailor Scouts lunged at one another with their energy whips.
As the two energy chains connected there was a brilliant flash of light and the air crackled with energy.
~*~*~
Far away on the roof of the Hino Shrine Luna and Artemis screwed up their eyes to avoid being blinded by the burst of light which lit up the sky.
"The Scouts are really going for broke out there!" Artemis remarked.
"I hope Amy is alright." Luna murmured.
Artemis looked over at his fellow feline wondering if he had detected just a faint trace of guilt in her voice.
"Yeah." A serious note entered Artemis's voice. "But you know Luna that was a very stupid bloody thing you did to her yesterday."
"I know" Luna whispered remembering with shame the hurt she had seen caused by her in Amy's eyes. "I only hope she can forgive me…"
~*~*~
Ducking a lash from Universe's Star Whip Sailor V made a quick cut at her leg.
Sailor Universe growled in pain as the Venus Love Chain curled around her leg and tugged her leg causing her to drop the Star Whip.
"Retribution Thunder Shot!" Universe cried striking the ground with her clenched fist.
Before Venus could do anything the ground around her was electrified and she gave a scream of pain and dropped her chain.
Both breathing heavily Sailor V and Sailor Universe stood in a face off.
"We're even Universe!" Venus declared.
Universe just smirked. "Ah not quite Sailor V! Watch!"
She held out an outstretched hand which crackled with Planet Power.
"Hell Fire!"
Sailor V jumped back as the air became scorching hot and she had to make a real effort to stay on her feet.
This was the chance Universe needed.
"Arrow-Snake!" Universe cried.
Before she had time to move a pair of Anti-Planet Power handcuffs surrounded Sailor V's wrists!
These had been created with Sailor Mercury in mind but they worked just as well with Sailor Venus.
As her Planet Power faded Sailor V felt herself transform back into Mina.
With a devilish grin Universe gathered together all her energy at once to finish off the powerless and defenceless Mina with a Hell Fire blast…
- No Universe! -
She stopped as she heard Mu's voice in her head.
"Emperor Mu we agreed…" she protested.
- Do not slay Sailor Venus! That is my order! -
Scowling Universe dropped her energy and turned to face Mina.
"You're not taking me anywhere!" Mina snapped.
"C'mon! Shift your butt!" Sailor Universe growled grabbing her by the wrist and beginning to drag her away.
Sailor Venus vs Sailor Universe!
The door opened and Merula walked into the room.
Amy looked up from where she sat, Merula had brought in a tray with a plate of food on it and a smirk.
Amy was sitting in her bikini on a luxurious bed in a room in one of the upper floors of the hotel wearing the Anti-Planet Power handcuffs.
Mu hadn't ordered for this but it had given Merula great pleasure so that had been that.
"Lunch time! And how is the bride to be?" Merula smirked placing the tray down next to Amy.
Amy ignored the food completely and focused instead on Merula narrowing her eyes.
"Why are you doing this?" she asked quietly.
"Doing? Oh you mean all of this?" Merula replied. "Believe me Amy it's not personal."
"You're lying." Amy cut in immediately. "You're a Sailor Scout. Why are you following the orders of someone like Mu?"
Merula shrugged. "Emperor Mu saved my life in the Moon Kingdom. I owe my life to him and am sworn to him unto death. Besides who else would I work for? Should I run around after that pompous moggy like you and the others?"
Amy couldn't think of anything else to say after this.
She was struggling with two problems at once.
One was fighting not to agree with Merula's evaluation of Luna. It was a real effort for after all Amy had been given enough reason to agree after her last meeting with Luna.
But the second was one that she just couldn't figure out.
In the vision Mu had shown her of her past Amy was certain that she had heard Artemis say that Princess Universe was dead along with Princess Charon and Estrella the third cat advisor of Queen Serenity.
Merula's very presence here now was a contradiction to this.
How had Sailor Universe survived and what had happened to make her the way she was now?
Merula was now bored with the conversation and turned to leave the room.
"Wait." Amy snapped. "You haven't answered my question!"
"Question?" Merula turned to face Amy again. "What question was that?"
"Why do you hate me so much?" Amy asked simply.
Merula's face twitched and wavered for a brief moment. For the shortest of seconds Amy thought that she could finally see past the mask and to the girl beneath.
But then the weakness was gone and Merula's resolution returned.
"You're an idealistic little know-it-all!" she snapped. "That's reason enough for me!"
"That makes you hate me enough to betray the Scouts?" Amy was disbelieving.
Once more a weakness tugged at Merula's smirk. Then it was gone again and the smirk reasserted itself.
"Ah I get it! I understand it now!" Merula laughed and sneered. "You want me to help you escape. That's the reason behind all this isn't it?"
"I wouldn't leave here if I could. I made a promise and I have to keep it. Even to someone like Mu." Amy said quietly.
"The Scouts aren't coming for you babes. They don't give a damn about you and you'll see that when you realise that they've turned their backs on you."
With that Merula spun on her heel and the left the room leaving Amy on her own to get as much sleep as she could after that.
~*~*~
"This is the place girls." Fargo pointed at the hotel at the bottom of the street. "That's the place."
Fargo slowly cancelled his levitation spell and dropped onto the roof with the Scouts.
The Sailor Scouts stared at the large building in the near distance.
"Man that looks like a real top-class dive!" Sailor Mars said her eyes full of awe. "It'd take a decade's worth of temple donations to get reservations there!"
"That's Amy's luck all over!" Sailor Jupiter agreed. "Trust her to get kidnapped by an enemy with money to burn!"
Fargo's eyes had gleamed as he had listened to all this.
"Well if that's what you girls like in a man…I have a few yen flying about the place ya know!" he dug some spare change out of his pocket and threw it over the roof. "See?"
Jupiter rolled her eyes but didn't reply.
"How do we get in?" Sailor Venus interjected hurriedly.
"One of us ought to go in from the back." Fargo decided. "I'll go first and call…"
"No way!" Jupiter snapped grabbing him by the sleeve and dragging him round to face her. "You're staying here where I can keep an eye on you chumly!"
Fargo glared at her so angry that he had actually been rendered speechless.
"I'll go!" Venus cut in again before an argument could break out. "I'll contact you with my communicator when the coast is clear."
"Go for it Sailor V!" Sailor Moon approved.
The other two Scouts as well as Fargo nodded and with that Sailor Venus began to make herway toward the hotel.
~*~*~
"Merula! Come here!"
Merula stopped in the middle of the stairway as Mu appeared on the balcony and called to her.
"Yes emperor Mu?" Merula asked walking back up to the balcony.
"I just used my telepathy to learn the thoughts of those interfering cats and the Sailor Scouts.
They are on their way here at this very moment!" Mu told her.
Merula's eyes widened.
"Are you sure?" she demanded.
Mu's eyes blazed into their golden glow as his anger flared up.
"Never question me again!" he hissed.
Merula lowered her eyes acting like she was frightened at having aroused her masters wrath.
"Your pardon emperor Mu." Merula whispered. "I was only."
"We'll discuss this later Merula. Right now Sailor Venus is trying to enter the building through the back way. Take care of her."
Mu turned and departed.
Merula breathed hard as her heart throbbed with concentrated rage as she watched him go and her heart beat returned to normal.
Soon you won't have to put up with that any longer, she promised herself grimly, soon...
Then she spread out her arms and fingers.
"Universal Planet Power! Make up!"
There was a crackle and the room was plunged into darkness as Merula transformed.
Her dress and shoes fade away and were replaced by a sailor shirt, black skirt, gloves and high-heels.
Her hair was twisted into a long braid behind her.
Sailor Universe braced herself and made her way downstairs.
~*~*~
"Yep! There she is!"
Sailor Moon, Fargo and the other two remaining Scouts were gathered around the Planet Power Detector.
One moment they had been watching Sailor Venus's progress and the next their attention was claimed by a second bleep on the small glass screen.
"That's Sailor Universe." Fargo nodded. "Sailor Mercury's reading would have been blue. That one's black."
"I sure hope Sailor Venus can handle her!" Sailor Mars breathed.
Fargo drew out a bottle of something fizzy and opening it he took a long tug.
Noticing the disgust on Sailor Jupiter's face Fargo grinned.
"Care for a drink sweet thing?" He offered.
A minute later Fargo was leaning back heavily against the wall rubbing his concussed bleeding nose with one hand and clawing at his soaking head as the now empty bottle lay on the roof.
"That's a no then?" he called after Jupiter who had went to the other side of the roof-top.
~*~*~
The air rustled through Sailor Venus's hair as she stood on the wall overlooking the pool courtyard.
The place was totally devoid of people.
Or so it seemed.
It looks safe enough, she thought.
Sailor Venus dropped lightly from the wall and landed lightly in the courtyard.
No-one seemed to hear her so Venus stepped toward the double-doors at the far side of the courtyard feeling pleased with her success…
"Hello Sailor Venus. It's been too long!"
Venus spun around and saw Sailor Universe sneering at her from a few yards away.
Sailor V's mouth was agape as she stared still hardly believing that there was a sixth Scout.
"I wish I could say that its good to see you again but that's just because I'm an incurable liar." Universe continued.
"You might be a Scout but if you're determined to harm our friend then I have no choice!" Venus declared. "Let's rock!"
Universe grinned delighted to get the chance to fight a Scout she didn't have to hold back against.
"Venus Love Chain!" Sailor V cried creating a chain of energy which she whirled in the air like a nunchucka.
"Galactic Star Whip!" Sailor U called creating a similar chain.
The two Sailor Scouts lunged at one another with their energy whips.
As the two energy chains connected there was a brilliant flash of light and the air crackled with energy.
~*~*~
Far away on the roof of the Hino Shrine Luna and Artemis screwed up their eyes to avoid being blinded by the burst of light which lit up the sky.
"The Scouts are really going for broke out there!" Artemis remarked.
"I hope Amy is alright." Luna murmured.
Artemis looked over at his fellow feline wondering if he had detected just a faint trace of guilt in her voice.
"Yeah." A serious note entered Artemis's voice. "But you know Luna that was a very stupid bloody thing you did to her yesterday."
"I know" Luna whispered remembering with shame the hurt she had seen caused by her in Amy's eyes. "I only hope she can forgive me…"
~*~*~
Ducking a lash from Universe's Star Whip Sailor V made a quick cut at her leg.
Sailor Universe growled in pain as the Venus Love Chain curled around her leg and tugged her leg causing her to drop the Star Whip.
"Retribution Thunder Shot!" Universe cried striking the ground with her clenched fist.
Before Venus could do anything the ground around her was electrified and she gave a scream of pain and dropped her chain.
Both breathing heavily Sailor V and Sailor Universe stood in a face off.
"We're even Universe!" Venus declared.
Universe just smirked. "Ah not quite Sailor V! Watch!"
She held out an outstretched hand which crackled with Planet Power.
"Hell Fire!"
Sailor V jumped back as the air became scorching hot and she had to make a real effort to stay on her feet.
This was the chance Universe needed.
"Arrow-Snake!" Universe cried.
Before she had time to move a pair of Anti-Planet Power handcuffs surrounded Sailor V's wrists!
These had been created with Sailor Mercury in mind but they worked just as well with Sailor Venus.
As her Planet Power faded Sailor V felt herself transform back into Mina.
With a devilish grin Universe gathered together all her energy at once to finish off the powerless and defenceless Mina with a Hell Fire blast…
- No Universe! -
She stopped as she heard Mu's voice in her head.
"Emperor Mu we agreed…" she protested.
- Do not slay Sailor Venus! That is my order! -
Scowling Universe dropped her energy and turned to face Mina.
"You're not taking me anywhere!" Mina snapped.
"C'mon! Shift your butt!" Sailor Universe growled grabbing her by the wrist and beginning to drag her away.