Chapter Six

"What happened?  Wait, Uranus, slow down!"  Mercury said into her communicator watch.  
From the excited, high pitched voice Uranus was speaking in, she figured someone was in 
trouble.

There was a pause as Uranus took a deep breath.  "Moon, Mars and Jupiter are in trouble!  
Whatever's attacking them is way too strong.  We have to help them!"

"Where are they?"  Mercury replied, brushing a strand of long black hair behind her ear.

"Downtown Crystal Tokyo, hurry please!"  The communicator went dead.

Mercury turned to the other two senshi and one Princess near her.  The vortex of the Gate 
of Time swirled around them as Princess Setsuna gazed into a black pool.  "I've found their
location," she said, pointing at an image which had formed on the pool's surface.

What they saw horrified the senshi.  Mars, Moon, Jupiter, and two of the Elysium Knights
were battling something that they couldn't clearly see, and loosing badly.  Setsuna pursed her 
lips, then grabbed the Garnet Rod from her daughter's hand.

"I can open a gate directly there, but then I'm afraid you girls are on your own.  Good luck, 
and take care."  She pointed into empty space with the rod, and a doorway suddenly formed. 
She handed the rod back to her daughter, kissed her on the forehead, and watched worriedly 
as the senshi stepped through the portal.



"Alright, they're on their way," Uranus announced to everyone gathered.  After the distress call 
from Mars, everyone who had been napping was woken up.  Neo-Queen Selenity slumped on
her throne, her husband standing by her side.  Hotaru paced the room, obviously frustrated 
that she no longer had her Senshi powers.  

"Then we should leave, now.  They need our help too!" Helios cried, starting towards the door.
 Terran and Luke shrugged and followed their Prince, knowing that he was more than likely to 
get himself into a heap of trouble without them.  At least, that's what they kept telling themselves.  

"Persephone, Morgan...be careful," Hotaru said.  Her daughters nodded and gripped their 
weapons tightly for a moment.  Then the three senshi turned and ran out the door.


The battlefield was complete chaos.  North Wind had summoned minions, small whirlwinds 
which were completely immune to the Senshi and Knight's attacks.  Backup arrived, but 
immediately more whirlwinds were summoned, keeping everyone's hands tied.  North Wind
floated above, laughing.

Sailor Saturn and Phoenix Knight fought together against one of the whirlwinds.  They were 
both battered, Saturn's Sailor-fuku ripped and torn, and blood gushing from a wound on her 
leg, and Phoenix tiring fast.  

"We can't keep this up!" Saturn cried above the roar of battle.  Phoenix shook his head

"What else can we do?" he shouted back

Something big suddenly landed on Saturn's back.  Sailor Mercury had been thrown over ten 
yards by her whirlwind, but luckily - for Mercury anyway - Saturn broke her fall.  

"OWWW!"  Both girls howled in pain.  The whirlwind, however, sensing a weakness, dove
towards the prone girls.

"No you don't!" Phoenix cried.  "Phoenix Flame!" 

A huge wave of fire shot from his hands, striking the whirlwind, not hurting it, but knocking it 
back for a minute.  Phoenix quickly helped the girls to their feet.

"This isn't working!"  Mercury stamped a foot in frustration.  "Everyone!  We need to combine 
our powers if we're going to do anything!"  Her mini computer was in her hand in a flash, as 
well as her visor.  "If we can take out that wind daemon..." she mumbled to herself.

"Everyone!  We need to attack the wind daemon!  Hurry!  Elysium Knights, cover us!"

The Knights and Helios nodded and stepped up their attacks, drawing the attention of the 
whirlwinds away from the Senshi.

"Mercury power!"  The stone in Mercury's tiara began to glow with a blue light, which 
surrounded her body.

"Jupiter power!"  Jupiter's stone glowed green

"Mars power!"

"Neptune power!"

"Saturn power!"

"Uranus power!"

"Venus power!"

"Pluto power!"

"Moon Ginzuishou power!"
The lights surrounding the senshi combined.  "Cry of the Solar System!" they cried as one.

If a person was allowed to witness this attack from space, they would be beyond awed.  A 
light grew from every planet, streaking towards earth.  The lights converged on one spot, the
figure of North Wind.

"Nani!?  What the hell is..."

The rest of his words, if he ever got to say them, were lost in the resulting explosion.  Each
planet's beam exploded on him with the force of an atomic blast, were it to be contained in a 
very small area.  Whatever forces held the shape of the wind together were immediately lost, 
and the figure dissipated for good, taking the whirlwinds with him.

The senshi, bruised, battered, and so exhausted they would have gladly slept for a week, 
stared at where the figure used to be, waiting for their vision to clear from the blinding 
spectacle of the raw power unleashed.  Not speaking, they turned and headed home, those 
too tired to walk being carried by one of the knights.



"Blast him!"  Rhea screamed from atop her throne.  She had seen the entire battle from her 
scrying pool.  She was winning!  What had happened?

"South wind!  Come to me!" she screeched into the air.  A form materialized before her

"Yes, Rhea-sama."

"Kill those senshi!  I don't care how you do it, just get rid of them!"  

South wind bowed and dissipated, scheming.  Rhea sat on her throne and steamed, glaring 
wickedly into the pool.