Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Tiger Trio ❯ Crystal Future ( Chapter 6 )

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Tiger Trio

Rating:
PG, for fantasy violence

Hallo! Here's part two of my Tiger Trio Mini Series of the Sailor Moon Saga.
Now, from her on, all disclaimers are shouting out cause the more well known
scouts will be apearing from here on in. Now, i'm only borrowing them for this series
and i'm not offering this for sale. This fan to fan only.

Note: It's a mix of anime and magna, so bear along please.

Other than that, enjoy!

And now, on with the show!

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6) Crystal Future

While all that love making was occuring TigerHart, Shadow Lord and Shadow Knight; the Senshi are in their secret base under the Crown Arcade. There, Mercury and Desmo (now in his human form) are working out a plan while Sailor Moon tends to Tuxedo Mask's wounds and Sailor Mars tends to a reluctant TigerStar's wounds.

"Ow!" TigerStar yelped at one point.
"Well, stop fidgeting or it will hurt," Mars snapped.
"Well if you did a better job it wouldn't hurt," TigerStar snapped.
Mars let out a frustrated growl right then, "I give up," she said and handed the anticeptice to Lil'Tiger who quickly stepped in to finish dressing his wounds as she threw a scowl at Mars.

"We've found her, she's being held in the woods just North of us...and they have a Time Crystal," Desmo said.

"Great! Just great!" Jupiter said as she threw her hands in the air.
"Do you have a plan?" Mars asked.
"Yes, we do," Mercury said as she pocketed her mini computer.
"Good! Now that we're done babying the guys we can go and rescue her," Mars said and everyone looked at her in dropped jaw shock.

"What?" she asked, a bit annoyed.
"I'm afraid that's going to be easier said than done," Desmo said solemly.
"Why's that?" Venus asked.
"Because Shadow Lord and Shadow Knight have the power to create an vast army out of the shadows themselves," Pluto said.

"What!? How can they do that?" Moon exclaimed.
"They've gained access to dark powers which are as old as our powers...in fact, they were the first enemy your predecessors faced...as well as I," Pluto said and the other planetary Senshi gasped, getting an real idea of just how old Pluto is now.

"So we have to think with our heads when we go in there," Mercury said.
"So let's go already," Mars said, tapping her foot.
"Desmo, are you coming?" Lil'Tiger asked, turning to her gaurdian who nodded.
"Yes, you will need all the help you can get," he said and turned to Pluto who nodded, help up her Garnet Rod and they all vanished from the base in a crimsion light...

...the same red light appeared in the court yard of Shadow Castle and the group phased into being as the light fadded away.

"Wow Pluto, I didn't know you could do that," Moon said with admaration for the Senshi of Time who smiled back at her.

"There's a lot about me that you don't know," she said and then her expresion changed,"Huh?" she gasped and looked to her right just in time to see a couple shadows move, "Everyone, be on your guard," Pluto said as she and the others went into defense mode as they heard the low laughter of Shadow Lord.

"I see you have found my humble abode, I congratualte you for all your wasted eforts," they heard his disembodied voice said before letting out another low laughter.

"Grrrr! Where's TigerHart?" TigerStar demanded angrily.
"In the heart of the castle with me. So why not and come up and join in the throne room. It's not too hard to find, just follow the black carpeted steps," Shadow Lord said as the front doors swung open for them. The Senshi looked at each other causiously before they moved towards the open doors...but no sooner had they moved towards them, they were beseiged by an wave of Shadow Ninjas.

"Oh, by the way. My army of Shadow Ninjas will be doing their best to get in your way every step of the way. Try to get here in one please will you?" Shadow Lord asked with an amused giggle and that was the last they heard of his voice in the courtyard. Curseing under their breath, Desmo and the Senshi drove their way through the wave of Shadow Ninjas as they use their strongest powers of light to turn them into nothing more than dust which our heros coughed on as they made their way closer to the throne room. Once they arrive at their destination, they burst through the heavy black doors and they are no longer attacked by Shadow Ninjas. The Senshi are glad for the break but find that Shadow Lord is waiting for them as he sits in his throne with this very amused look on his face while a woman dressed in an slinky black dressed dripping with black gems as a silver crown peppered with even more black gems. Her long black hair hung lossely around her and her head hung down so as shadows hid her eyes. There seemed to be no emotion in her as she just sat there, not looking at the Senshi...yet Desmo knew who she was all the same.

"I see you have finally made it, I applaude you," Shadow Lord said to the nearly breathless Senshi.

"Enough of these games, where's TigerHart?" TigerStar demaned as he brandished his Tiger Daggers.
"In due time, but your fight isn't over with yet enemy of old," Shadow Lord said as he stood up.
"Enemy of old?" Venus asked as Desmo frowned at this reference as Shadow Knight came out of the darkness to stand by his Lord.

'He remembers...they both do,' Desmo thought, not even bothering to conceal the worry on his face.

"To get to her, you must get through us first," Shadow Lord said.
"But know this, we will not be so hard to defeat and I will die defending my Lord an Lady," Shadow Knight said.

"So be it!" TigerStar said and led the attack. Both Shadow Lord and Shadow Knight grinned at this as they withdrew their swords and raced head on into the battle while the woman only sat on the throne, not bothering to look up and watch the resulting battle which would determine her fate.

TigerStar ran forward with Tuxedo mask to led up the attack against the other two men, but were quickly surprise when an dark aura made itslef known on their adversaries and it created an electric barrier which threw the two male senshi away and into Venus, Jupiter and Mars, making them all land in one neat yet noisy pile of bodies.

"Burning..."
"Shiny Aqua..."

Mars and Mercury attempted to initiat their attacks while Sailors Moon, Pluto, Venus and Lil' Tiger tried to rush the two men who quickly neturolized their attacks in a heart beat with a wave of watery black energy that flung them all against the walls.

"Girls!" Desmo shouted as he and the guys rused to the girls' sides while Jupiter and Venus stood on defense for the time being.

"We're...cough cough...all right," Venus said as Desmo helped her up.
"Desmo, what in the Nine hells is he talking about?" TigerStar asked with a feirce glare. Desmo looked at him surprised by this tone of voice. But when he saw the look on his Senshi's face, he knew that he couldn't hide the truth.

Desmo started out with a heavy sigh before looking his senshi back in the face, "This isn't the first time you faced Shadow Lord...and the same goes for TigerHart." All of the senshi save for Pluto looked at him in total shock when they heard this.

"But how is this possible?" Lil' Tiger asked.
"Your parents were the Tiger Senshi who first faced Shadow Lord and his army...but in the end they didn't survive the great battle. They lost their lives to stop Shadow Lord and they were brought back by Saturn with no memories of the battle. So I returned with them back to the Islands of Time and raised them all over again," Desmo said.

"So, that's how it happened," Shadow Lord said with a wicked grin.
"Yes, remind me and my lady to thank you when we're done wiping her kin and friends all over the floor," Shadow Lord.

"Kin?" Mercury asked.
"That's TigerHart up there guys, she's under his spell," Desmo said with a frown.
"What!?" Tuxedo Mask shouted.
"No, it can't be," Lil' Tiger gasped, tears beading in the corner of her eyes.
"Oh but it is, isn't my lady?" Shadow Lord said, the last part over his shoulder. It was with this that the lady in black looked uo for the first time and revealed that she was in deed, Sailor TigerHart. Shock hit the Senshi like a typhoon when they saw her face, confussed as how one of their own fell to the darkside and became this souless doll who sat above them.

"And now, you die!" both Shadow Lord and Shadow Knight said at the same time and created an hurrican of dark energy which blew around the room hard enough to pick up any furniture that wasnt bolted down and blow it around the room.

"Hit the floor!" Pluto shouted and the senshi imedditally kissed dusty olod floor and did their best to keep from being swept up by the winds.

"Great, what now?" Mars asked over the wind.
"Something...fast," Moon shouted back as the two men of the shadows laughed, thinking triumphant to be in the palm of their hands. But after a moment of silent debate, Lil' Tiger came to an drastic decesion which resulted in her getting up from the floor and bolting towards her mother.

"Lil'Tiger!" TigerStar shouted as Shadow Knight shot black lighting at his daughter. She reacted by pulling her wand out of thin air and twirling around to create an mini shield.

"Cover me, I have a plan!" Lil' Tiger called out over the winds to her fellow senshi who looked at each other in wonder.

"Trust her, we have to," Desmo called out. With these words, the senshi gained an resolve and all shot their powers at once at the two shadow nobels. This distracted the two men long enough for Lil'Tiger to dash past them and get to her mother.

"Mother! Mother, wake up. It's me, Lil'Tiger," Lil'Tiger shouted as she knelt by her mother, holding onto her skirts for dear life as the winds continued to howl around them. Yet no matter how loud Lil'Tiger screamed, her mother wouldn't look down at her.

"Mother please! You have to wake up or all is lost," Lil'Tiger shouted out in anguish.
"She won't hear you little one, and never will she again," Shadow Lord said with a snear as he aimed a single lighting bolt at Lil'Tiger. She took the attack in the back and screamed bloody murder as the electricity coursed through her body.

"Lil'Tiger!" TigerStar and Desmo called out at the same time as there was a slight change in TigerHart's eyes as they slowly moved down to see her daughter in the end effects of the attack. TigerHart stared at her own child as the electricity wore out. Lil'Tiger proceded to kneel there, gasped for breath as the smell of burnt toast clung around her smokey form.

"Mother...you have to...you have to..." Lil'Tiger began to mumble under her breath as tears beaded in the corners of her eyes once more, "YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP NOW!" Lil'Tiger shouted as she looked up at her mother. TigerHart gasped as her eyes widen in surprise while her daughter looked up her, the tears flowing free. From these tears came a shining white light from which came the 3rd Time Crystal, the Crystal of Future.

"The crystal! Claim it!" Shadow Lord shouted over the dying winds, which he himself had weakened so as TigraHart could succesfully grab the crystal...but she never lifted a finger. She only bowed her head as her daughter claimed the crystal.

"What are you doing!?" Shadow Knight shouted.
"My duty...as a Sailor Senshi," TigerHart said as she lifted her face to reveal that she was free of the spell that Shadow Lord had placed on her.

"What!? How can this be?" Shadow Lord demanded as TigerHart stood up and her cloths changed back to her Sailor Fuku.

"Easy, my love for my kin will always be more powerful than any spell you cast. Now, I believe you have something of mine," TigerHart said as she held up her right and performed an come here motion with her hand. Within moments, the Crystal of Present glowed through Shadow Lord's cloths. He gasped in shock as the crystal shot out of his cloths like a bullet and it flew over to TigerHart who grabbed it in one try.

The moment the crystal is in her hand, all three crystals gave off a flash of silver light which negated the evil winds and caused them to be no more. As the light began to fade away, the Crystals of Time hovered in front of the Tiger Trio with their pens. The pens changed to compacts which encased the crystals and changed their uniforms.

TigerStar gained an star shapped compact. His fuku has been tradded in for an orange suit with black accents and a black mask as stripes were added to his hair.

TigerHart gained an heart shapped compact as she outfit remained the same save for the fact that her front bow changed to an tie and everything that was orange gained stripes.

Lil'Tiger gained an diamond shapped compact and she wore an similar version of her mother's outfit but hers kept th bow in the front. On top of that, her name had changed from Lil'Tiger to TigerHope.

With this transformation over with, all three of the time crystals glowed once more.

"Sailor Moon, you have to join the power of your crystal with theirs," Desmo said. Moon nodded and detached her compact from her bow. As she held the compact, it opened up to reveal the Silver Imperium Crystal which glowed a pure white light. As all four crystals glowed around them, Shadow Lord and Shadow knight cowered in fear of this ligth which rapidly drained them of their dark powers.

"By the powers of our four crystals, we vaniquish you for good," Moon, TigerHart, TigerStar & TigerHope all said at once as the power of their crystals flowed out at once and engulfed the two men in their power. The two scream in agony as this purity invades every cell of their body and time begins the rapid process of catching up with them. As they begin to turn to dust, the two men turn to each other and die in one another's arms. When it was all over, the light fadded once more to reveal the senshi standing in the forest.

"What happened?" Venus asked.
"Simple, the castle vanished once Shadow Lord was destroyed," Desmo said happily.
"You mean, it's over?" Mercury asked.
"Yes, Shadow Lord and Shadow Knight are no more," TigerHart said with a warm smile. With this news, the other senshi gave a loud cry of celelbration that echoed through the woods as the Tiger Trio simply smiled on at this.

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Back in Tokyo, the Senshi have gathered at the Hiwaka Shrine where they have just finished an victory celebration.

"I'm afraid to say this but I must return to my post in time," Pluto said.
"As must we," TigerStar said.
"Awwww, so soon?" Serena asked.
"I'm afraid so. We guard the most forbidden treasures of time and Shadow Lord isn't the only one to seek them out. Yet now that the Crystals of Time have joined with our powers, we will have a better chance of not lossing any more treasures," TigerHope said.

"Will we ever see you again?" Ami asked.
"Maybe...some day in the future I may come to visit. I can't say the same for my parents though," TigerHope said playfully.

"Hey!" TigerStar shouted and went after his daughter to give her a nogee while TigerHart giggled. Once the rough housing was over with, the group gathered outside in the backyard, away from prying eyes. There, the senshi said their good byes and parted ways. First, Pluto left via an time portal. Then Tiger Trio left via an swirling silver vortex which showed the Islands of Time on the other side.

"Maybe someday, you can come to visit us," Bengal said to Minako as his charges walked through the portal.

"Someday, we just might," Minako replied with a gleefull smile. Desmo returned this smile and he followed his charges through the portal. The moment he stepped through it, the portal closed and the Tiger Trio were gone from Tokoyo...possibly to return again in the future...

The End?