Hauntings
Lady of the Black Rose
Ladynorose@hotmail.com
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Part 9.
Heyyas! Here's part nine! Woo, this is a long 
series, huh?
Sailor Moon ain't mine, and neither is *sniff 
sniff* Seiya! WaAAaaAaAaAaAaAAAAaaaaaa!!!
BUt if you wanna sell, I got $4.47!!
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	"Okay, there it is. The big, the bad, and 
the ugly. All shoved in the blender and we have 
this *lovely* product." Sailor Thunder motioned 
to the youma who was prowling around the park, 
looking for someone to drain.

	"Ya know, it'd be funner if we waited until 
he attacked someone." Aqua said, and was answered 
by Pyro smakking her unside the head. "IT 
WOULD!!" She protested. 

	"Um, how bout I go back and hide under the 
couch? I mean, there's so *many* of us, you don't 
need lil' ol' me!" Sailor Moon pleaded. Mars 
rolled her eyes.

	"Okay, minna. We're doing Plan F, with a 
double wammy. Got it?" Mercury asked. Everyone 
nodded. The inner senshi had changed all the 
plans around to accomidate the extra senshi, and 
had explained each one. "NOW!" Aqua and Pyro went 
up in the trees. Thunder and Melody went left. 
Mercury and Venus went back. Mars and Moon went 
right.  Jupiter was behind the bushes. She, Aqua, 
Pyro, and Venus were back-up. The cats hid. Good 
plan, huh? 

	"You know, I think that if we went to that 
tree right beside *it*, maybe we'd be better 
'back-up'." Pyro suggested. Aqua shrugged and 
began moving through the trees. They positioned 
themselves carefully in the tree that was to the 
left of the youma, preparing to drop in, anytime.

	"Hey! Freak-face! Over here!" Thunder 
yelled. "Ya, me! In the ridiculous costume!"

	"OVER HERE!" Mars yelled. The youma was 
whirling from side to side to look at the senshi.

	"Behind you, pretty boy!" Venus called. It 
spun around. 

	"Lookie here!" Jupiter stood up. The 
monster had to be dizzy!

	"RAAAAA!" It roared, and began to fire 
small ice shrands that were very sharp. The 
reason we know this is because one went through 
the tree that Aqua and Pyro were in.

	"Hey hey hey! You're supposed to submit 
quietly while we kill you! WAAAAaaaaAAAAAaaaaA!!" 
Sailor Moon whined.

	"SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE!" Jupiter yelled, 
trying out her new attack. The youma avoided it, 
but that put it right in Melody's sights!

	"RINGING HARMONY!!!" Another miss.

	"Dammit! Die! CRYTALLINE THUNDERBOLTS!" 
Tunder chanted as the youma nearly fell on top of 
her. She got a point blank hit, and the youma 
screamed in agony. It threw it's ioce thingies in 
a rage. Two of them ebedded themselves in 
Thunder's arm. Blood began to flow freely.

	"BURNING MANDALA!"

	"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!"

	"VENUS LOVE ME CHAIN!"

	"HURRICANE INFERNO! !"

	"FIRE RAIN!!" The atacks were released 
simotaniously. The youma was left, just clinging 
to life. Sailor Moon began to power up.

	"MOON PRINCESS HALUTION!" She shouted, and 
the youma didn't scream like the others. It just 
melted into dust. Meanwhile, Thunder had lost a 
lot of blood.Aqua jumped down from the tree and 
walked over to her. Jumbled emotions shone in her 
eyes. Mercury knelt beside her, while Artemis 
mumbled about tempers.

	"Are you okay, Michelle?" Pyro asked.

	"Who, me? I'm fine. Did you see that hit?" 
Thunder smiled weakly. "Point Blank Range."

	"Move aside." Aqua said, after looking at 
the pool of blood Thunder lost. They all looked 
at her strangely. 

	"Huh?" Mars asked.

	"Just do it!" Aqua sighed. They inched away 
from Thunder, who had a look of surprise and just 
a tad of fear on her face. She knelt on her knees 
beside Thunder. Both her hands hovered over the 
wounds.

	"Whacha doin?" Thunder asked.

	"Something." Aqua mumbled, and concentrated 
on her energy. A slight blue light glowed from 
her hands. The senshi watched in shock as the ice 
shrand fell from the cuts and the cuts closed, 
wthout any trace of a wound. Thunder stared at 
her arm like it was an alien.

	"Gee, thanx." She whispered. Aqua stood up, 
her legs a little shaky. Healing takes energy, ya 
know!
	
	"There goes that secret." Aqua muttered and 
powered down. She turned to look at her audiance. 
"WHAT?!"

	 "Um, er, Iris? How--?" Pyro asked.

	"I taught her. I hope you don't mind, 
Vulcan. Nor you, Iris. But I think it's time they 
knew about me." The all too familar black figure 
stepped out of thin air. As usual, her face was 
concealed by the hood.

	"Mystic!" Iris gasped. Pyro got a jealous 
look on her face, and turned away. Only Venus and 
Jupiter noticed this, however. The others were 
busy starng at Mystic.

	"Who the hell are you?" Thunder demanded.

	"Still have such a temper, Michelle. You'd 
think you'd learn after a while. but at least you 
are not as bad as Uranus. Now that's trouble. 
With a capital T." A soft peal of laughter came 
from the girl.

	"H-how do you know her name? And who are 
you?" Mercury asked. Mars held an anti-evil charm 
behind her back, slowing chanting, under her 
breath. She threw the charm at the girl. Black 
was a sign of evil to her. Mystic held up a 
gloved hand. The charm stopped and dropped in mid 
air. A gasp came from Mars.

	"Geez, Rei. Give me a chance to tell you 
who I am before you start flinging those annoying 
pieces of paper. Just because I like black! 
Geesh!"

	"You can trust her." Iris said.

	"Who are you?" Luna asked. Sailor Moon 
glared at her from her hding place behind 
Jupiter.

	"My name is Mystic. I am one of the few 
original survivors-- hell, it's just me and 
Pluto. And the occasional baddie." Mystic said. 
Venus was behind her, slowing moving up. Mars 
rolled her eyes. Melody was studying her, like 
she knew her.

	"Original?" Artemis asked. "And Venus, stop 
that. You look like a fool." Venus shot him a 
dirty look.

	"Geez. What do I have to do? Spell it out? 
Come on, Vulcan. YOU remember who the leader of 
the Celestial Senshi was, right?" Mystic asked. 
Iris could almost imagine her rolling her eyes.

	"Sailor Ice." Vulcan replied.

	"BINGO! Give the kitty a prize, Jonny!" 
Mystic yelled. Thunder reached up, and before 
Iris or Mystic could react, she tugged on the 
black hood. It fell down, revealing a cascade of 
long white hair with a bluish tinge. A face that 
was pale and doll-like. Big light blue eyes, 
silver almost. A mark was in the center of her 
forehead, a silver snowflake. 

	"You're Sailor Ice?" Jupiter asked.

	"Mystic?" Iris asked.

	"Dammit, Thunder! You never could stand 
suspense!" Mystic turned and glared at Thunder, 
who shrank away under her cold glare.

	"Wow." Pyro muttered. This was her leader? 
But Mystic looked like a china doll. Fragile. But 
then again, look at Sailor Moon. No one would 
expect she was the most powerful being in the 
Universe.

	"By the Goddess Selene." Luna murmured. 

	"Try the spirit of Ice! ICE STAR POWER MAKE 
UP!" Mystic called. She transformed, and her fuku 
was different. Her skirt was purple, and her bows 
were white. She had no tiara. The snowflake 
remained just as it was, and she had a staff, 
like a sorceress's, in her hand. They all stared 
at her for a minute, until Thunder broke the 
silence.

	"Geez, girl. Why didn't you want me to pull 
that hood down? You're gorgeous!" Everyone 
laughed at that. Sailor Moon hugged her, and 
everyone stepped forward to learn more about Ice.

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	"Ya know, I just realized somethin. We 
don't know anythin about Iris OR Mystic." Usagi 
comented. Iris, Michelle, and Mystic and gone to 
talk about something. They had been very 
mysterious about it, with Michelle looing 
confused as they dragged her off. The remaining 
senshi and cats were lounging around Iris's 
apartment.

	"I don't know anything either!" Daphne 
defended herself as everyone turned to look at 
each other.

	"We know everything about one another. 
Becca, Michelle, and you have been very open 
about your lives and pasts. But Iris hasn't said 
anything. And we just met Mystic, although Iris 
seems to know her. So..." Makoto said, looking at 
Daphne.

	"I met Iris the same day we discovered we 
were senshi! She hasn't said anything! Geesh." 
Daphne shrugged. Her expression changed. 
"Whenever I asked her about her family, she just 
clammed up and walked away. Maybe she just has a 
few skeletons in the closet." 

	"We Sailor Senshi must know everything 
about one another so we can guess how they will 
react. If you haven't noticed, Sailor Aqua has a 
very different fighting style. She fights ... 
different. Like no one else is there. It's just 
her. She imagining something else in place of the 
youma. And she seems to hate that person." Ami 
said. "I've been watching all of you fight. 
Defense and observation are my main things. The 
rest of you, and us, see the youma. We attack the 
youma. But she-- somethings wrong with the way 
she fights. Like she's been used to fighting."

	"So maybe they took Karate." Minako 
suggested.

	"No. Ami's right. I can tell any of you 
here how you would most likely react in a crisis. 
But everytime, Iris doesn't hesitate, but she 
doesn't go head on into battle." Rebecca replied.

	"What's that supposed to mean? She beats up 
people?" Rei asked.

	"No, it's not that kind of aggressive 
fighting." Ami threw up her arms. "I dunno!"

	"I sorta see what you mean. Like I fought, 
when I first joined up with you guys." Minako 
said.

	"No, it's different. You fought with the 
experience of a senshi. She fights with the 
experience of a person. Of a hurt person." Ami 
explained, gesturing.  "She knows who she wants 
to hurt, and the youma isn't it. Haven't you seen 
her face when she realizes it's *just* a youma? 
She's disappointed. Whoever she places with the 
youma-- let's just say, I would want to be him."



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	"Okay, sup?" Michelle asked. Iris and 
Mystic, once again clothed in the black robes, 
only without the hood, had dragged her through 
some type of black portal, and know she was 
walking around in some kind of void.

	"Sailor Thunder, you are a different 
senshi. Like I am with wizardry, and like Iris is 
with healing. You hold a telepathic power." 
Mytsic said. Iris was sitting down, looking at 
Michelle carefully.

	"Tele-what? Are you crazy?" Michelle 
laughed.

	"Oh yeah? Okay, do me a favor. You see that 
rock over there?" Mystic asked. Michelle looked 
around. 

	"What rock?"

	"That one." Iris pointed to a rock that 
Michelle could have sworn wasn't there before.

	"Okay, try to move it. No no, don't touch 
with your hands. Close your eyes and concetrate. 
Picture the rock moving." Mystic said. Michelle 
shrugged and closed her eyes. After a few 
seconds, the rock began to fidgit. It picked 
itself up and zoomed towards Iris, who just 
barely had time to duck. She growled. The rock 
dropped as Michelle opened her eyes.

	"What the hell didja aim it at *me* for?!" 
Iris demanded. Mystic had a hand over her mouth, 
concealing a grin, and a giggle.

	"You mean it didn't hit you? Damn." 
Michelle laughed.

	"Why you little--"

	"Iris! Michelle, if she wasn't expecting 
that it really coulda hurt." Mystic chided.

	"Ha! She deserved it!" Michelle mumbled.
		
	"Oh yeah? And just *what* have I done to 
you? Huh?" Iris challenged.

	"You and what's-her-name dragged me down 
here!"
	
	"Number one, it's UP here, and number two, 
it's for your own good!"

	"You airhead!"

	"Ditz!"

	"Baka!"

	"Konoyaro-- dude, we've been around Rei and 
Usagi WAAAAAAY too long." Iris broke up laughing. 
Michelle stared at her for a minute before 
joining in.

	"Geez! You two never change! Come on, 
Michelle. Let's try this again. And next time, if 
you try anything funny, I'll throw you in the 
time warp."

	"What's that?"

	"Trust me, girl, and I speak from 
experience, you don't wanna know."

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No cliffhanger today. Yeah, I know how much you 
guys luv em!
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