Black Dawn Black Rose Ladynorose@hotmail.com ~*~*~*~*~*~ I just have to say, before I get this started, that SINATO IS SOOO MINE!! *Kunquat comes flying at Rose.* Ack! I've had it! *Rose stomps over from center of dark stage and flips on lights. The audience is now in view... but the stands are empty... except for...* SETSUNA?! *Setsuna has mountain of fruit beside her* Setsuna: Sinato is MINE, girl! Rose: I don't think so! *Setsuna begins throwing fruit. Rose jumps out into the stands, to tackle her, dropping script on stage. After a few minutes of fighting, a little girl with lilac hair pulled up in a ponytail and big dark violet eyes comes out and picks it up.* Iris: Since Rose-chan and Suna-chan are too busy, looks like I'm reading the story. Here you go.... ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "Usagi? Usagi?! Wake up!!" Seiya said, shaking the silver-haired woman. "Come on!" It had been a few minutes after the light display and Usagi hadn't budged, or even given a sign she was alive. "Ugh." Usagi's hand flew to her forehead. "Asprin. Asprin." She muttered. "You're alive!" Seiya yelled, hugging her. "Wha? Why wouldn't I be, Seiya-baka?" She asked. "Dude! About twenty *thousand* lasers just kicked your butt, and you ASK why?!" He half yelled. "Calm down. I'm fine. See, no problemo-- OW!" Usagi whimpered, as she sat up. "Deja vu!" Seiya muttered. "Usagi, what happened?" "It was nothing... my sisters sent their energy... and I wasn't prepared." Usagi explained. "They are helping me... they say the time of Blood is near." "Oh, wonderful." "Get a life, buddy-boy." Usagi slugged him in the arm, lightly. "OWWW!" "I think I am going to have to use the sword." "Sword? WAIT! Don't show me. It's probably big and nasty. And with my luck, you'll end up *accidently* chopping off my gorgeous head." "Oh, if that happens, it won't be an accident." She teased. "I'm hurt." ~*~*~*~*~*~ Mamoru was in turmoil. He knew he had probably just lost his true love to another man. He was tearing apart roses, letting the petals float to the ground. Makoto and Rei watched him, while Ami typed on her computer. Tap Tap Tap. "I'm almost afraid to go back to our room." Yaten half joked. "Not funny, Yaten." Taiki said. She was watching Ami. "I'm going back. Sorry, peoples, but you guys aren't exactly the peanut gallery. At least not when you're mad/sad." Sinato said. Quickly, he henshined and ran off. Yaten stood up, and tugged at Taiki's arm. "You can stop staring at Ami now, Taiki. We have to go." he said, annoyed. "Wha?" Taiki asked, his face bright red. Ami pretended she didn't hear anything. "Heh heh." Yaten backed away slowly as Taiki's face went dark and an evil glint came in his eye. "AHHHHHH! HEEEEELLP MEEE!" He shrieked, running. Taiki chased after him. "Interesting." Makoto noted. ~*~*~*~*~*~ "Usagi-- Usagi-chan!" Minako knocked on the door. She heard a miffled giggle and blushed red. She turned to leave. "I guess I'll come back..." She muttered. The door swung open. Usagi stood there, in a pair of shorts and a tank top. "Mina-chan!" She giggled. "Come on in... hehe." Minako noticed the paintbrush in Usagi's hand and nodded warily. "Where's Seiya?" She asked cautiously. "In the... hehe... bedroom..." Usagi laughed. "Seiya, it's only Mina-chan... come out." She yelled. Minako turned around, ready to cover to her eyes. Before she looked, she turned back around and looked at Usagi. "Did I... interrupt.... anything?" "Nothing important. SEIYA! Get out here!" Usagi yelled. Minako turned back around, and her jaw hit the floor with a clunk sound. Seiya... was a woman?! SHE was wearing a long dark violet satin evening gown, her hair out of the long braid and in a bun. SHE had make up on and looked... well, good. "Oh... my... god..." "Yeah. Seiya-chan let it slip that he and his brothers can return to their natural forms. So I forced him to turn girl and decided to play dress up with HER. Come on, Minako. You're a lot better with make up than I am." "Okay!" Minako lost her suspicions and grabbed her purse, that was one of those huge hand bags that could hold an elephant. She dumped it out on the couch. Every single shade of any and all make up was in that pile. Seiya cringed. "I agreed to the dress and hair!" She whined. "And how did you fit all that into that purse, anyway?!" "In my purse? No way! It was in my sub- space pocket. I've got a lot more, but this is just the basics." Minako giggled. "BASICS?!" Seiya backed away nervously as the other two girls cornered her. "Grab hi-- her arms! I'll put on the foundation!!" Usagi yelled. ~*~*~*~*~*~ "Hmm. I guess Seiya must be in Usagi's room." Taiki said, surveying the empty room before them. "Doing what?" Yaten grinned wickedly. "Hentai! Come on, Yaten! You've been around those senshi too much-- you're beginning to act like Makoto and Minako!" Taiki whimpered. "Well-- we did catch them kissing a few times-- and Usagi *was* upset---" "Yaten. There are many large, blunt objects in the hotel." Taiki warned as they walked into the elevator. "They're not doing *anything*." He went up to the door. "Listen, and see for yourself." "Alright." Yaten put his ear up to the door. After a few seconds, his face was bright red. "Um, Taiki? Listen." He said. Taioki looked at him quizzically but stepped closed and leaned against the door. "Seiya! Don't do that!" "But that outfit has to go!" "No way. Come on, let me take that off-- it doesn;t look right." "Usagi, please? Just let me throw it away. I don't need it." "You're wearing this and not that. Take it off." "I don't wanna." "Take it off or I'll take it off for you!" Taiki and Yaten both jerked away from the door. Their faces couldn't have gotten any redder. "SO maybe I was wrong." Yaten murmured. "I'm knocking." Taiki said. Yaten reached to stop him. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!" Seiya and Usagi ran into the bedroom. Minako straightened herself up and opened the door. "Minako?!" Yaten and Taiki both asked, looking at the disheveled girl. "EW EW EW EW! I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!" Yaten shrieked. "What?" Minako asked. "Oh. Seiya, it's your brothers. Can they come in?" "YES!" Usagi yelled. "NOOO!" Seiya screamed at the same time. "And don't get any ideas, it's not what you think." Minako told them as they sat down. "I thought so too, but it's worse than you think." "If it involves a riding crop and handcuffs, I'm leaving." Yaten muttered. "Get a life, hentai." Minako grinned. "Seiya! they're gone! Usagi, get her out here so wecan finish." She had a wicked glint in her eye as Taiki and Yatne feared what they would see. Seiya came walking out, pushed by Usagi. Seiya froze when she saw her brothers. SHE was now wearing a light blue silk gown with spagetti straps that swept the floor. Make up had been carefully applied by Minako's skillful hand, while Usagi had fastened a dark blue star shaped locket around Seiya neck. Usagi broke up in laughter as Seiya stared at her borthers, while her brothers stared at her. "I'm dreaming." Yaten said simply. "Just dreaming. Has to be dreaming. Uh-huh. Even when Seiya was a princess she never wore dresses. This is impossible." "Yup. Come on, wears the camera, or the real Seiya?" Taiki asked. "You. Said. They. Were. Gone." Seiya was taking deep breaths as her face colored. "Well..." "MINAKO!" Seiya exploded, and ran after Minako, who had snapped a picture with a camera that had appeared out of no where. Love those sub-space pockets. "HAHAHAHA! BLACKMAIL!" She shrieked, holding the camera out of Seiya's reach as she was chased around the room. Seiya stopped running and fled into the bedroom, where a few minutes later, HE emerged, no make-up, but the jeans and shirt he had been wearing eariler. "I'm going to kill you." "Ah, come on, Seiya. You made a good girl." Usagi pouted. "I'M GOING TO BURN THAT CAMERA!" ~*~*~*~*~*~ A few days later, after only one youma attack, Usagi became more and more supicious, and as so, she became more and more hard to find. Sometimes she'd disappear for hours at a time, to come back sweating and exhausted, but the moment she caught her breath, unless someone stopped her, she was gone again. She went to a small, secluded place in the park that few knew about. In fact, she had only seen one person since she had discovered it, a small boy of about eight. She gave him an autograph and made him promise not to tell anyone about her. He agreed, but only if she let him come back. Anyways, she practiced there, and everything she had increased it's power as she practiced. She knew her mother and Pluto were probably helping her, but it still made her happy that she was no longer the clutzy ditz that used to be Usagi. BEEP BEEP BEEP. BEEP BEEP BEEP. Her communicator went off just as an overwhelming sense of panic hit her. "Yeah?" She answered it shakily. "Usa-chan, we've got problems. As in big problems." Minako whispered. "We're stuck in the mall, we meaning all of the inners. We've got a really big, really nasty youma and can't do a thing. Mamoru, Sinato, and Taiki are here too. That leaves you, Yaten, and Seiya." "Damn!" "Yeah, I know. And you better get here soon, because Mamoru and Sinato are going to henshin." "Damn again! I'mm be there in a sec, Minako. Tell them if they transform U'll never forgive them." She turned the communicator off and prepared to transform. "MOON COSMIC POWER MA--" "Princess!" A voice interrupted her. She turned. annoyed. Sailor Pluto stood there, something concealed in her hands. "Sailor Pluto, I'm trying to save a few lives. What is it?" "My princess..." A troubled look was in Pluto's eyes. "Please, may I see the silver crystal?" "The silver crystal? Why-- oh, here." Usagi produced the stone and handed it to the senshi of time, reluctantly. Pluto pulled the object from behind her back. It was a double edged sword, with a handle of a goldish substance that looked oddly like crystal. Right where the sword and handle met, a crescent moon was engraved into the gold crystal. "What's that?" Usagi asked stupidly. She felt she should recognize it. Pluto sighed heavily. "It is the sword of your brother, Apollo." She took the Silver Crystal and placed it on the crescent moon. It vanished in a flash of light. The crystal of the handle was now silver. "Lo gave me his sword?" Usagi asked, feeling tears well up in her eyes, remembering how Apollo loved that sword... "Yes, My Queen." Pluto hesitated before handing her the weapon. "Usagi, do you realize what will happen when you touch it? You will actually BECOME ARTEMIS. Her outfit, her arrows, the sword, they will be at your despense. Not to mention all the abilities you have as Queen, Princess, and Sailor Moon. All will be melded." "That would make me..." Usagi gasped. "The most powerful person alive or dead in the history of the universe. But to use all the power at once-- you will die." ~*~*~*~*~*~ "I'm counting to ten, and if Sailor Moon doesn't show, I am fighting." Makoto said. Sinato agreed with her. "1... 2..." "No, Makoto. She'll never forgive you. She'll show. She won't let Fighter and Healer fight alone." Ami motioned to the two senshi. "I hate this." Rei muttered. They were at the back of a huge crowd of people, unable to push their way through it. "6... 7... 8...." "Mako!" Minako whined. "9... 10! JUPITER STAR PO--" A arrow whizzed through the air and struck the youma in the chest. It was made of silver, and had been well aimed. The crowd turned to see who had shot it. The woman that stood tall wore a black body suit that was skin-tight all over with with strap sleeves and long legs. A quiver full of silver arrows was slung across her shoulder, a bow in one hand. Her eyes were silverish-blue and her hair was silver, hanging in a half bun not unlike the senshi of time's. A sword was at her waist, in a gold scabbard that stood out from the rest of her fuku. "I am Artemis." She said, in an icey cold voice that made Minako think of the time when Usagi was furious at Mamoru... just a few days ago... "It's Usagi." She whispered. As soon as she said it, the rest of them saw it too. "As protector of this planet, in place of my sister, Athena, you shall be punished, youma. Such acts of definace in the name of good shall not be acceptable. As in such, as the only god left in the Olympus Kingdom, I am the one that shall punish you." She said in a voice that didn;t quite feel like it was her's. She was a different person. "Who are you?" The youma stuttered. "Your worst nightmare!" Artemis yelled. The bow disappeared, and she took the sword. She lept for the youma with a scream, thinking of all the wrong doing and pain it's Master had caused her. "Never!" The youma screeched, dodging and lashing out, managing to create a crimson slash across her abdomen. Artemis ignored it, and returned the blow. One of the youma's arms feel to the ground. "STAR SERIOUS LASER!" Sailor Star Fighter yelled, distracting the youma for a split second. It was all Artemis needed. "MOON CRYSTAL ELIMINATE!" She yelled. The youma went up in smoke. Only then, she she acknowledge the wound, that was bleeding freely. ~*~*~*~*~*~ Iris: Wow, that was freaky. Rose: SETSUNA! STOP BITING MY ARM! Setsuna: HE IS MIIIINE!! Iris:*sweatdrops* Um, I think we'll leave you guys now, Rose and Suna are acting childish. ^_^