*Theme
song: Never Surrender, by Stan Bush*
Christine
paced back and forth, her arms crossed in front of her chest. Her expression was that of one quite
annoyed. Chris Allot sat a few feet in
front of her, working on a laptop.
Christine gritted her teeth as she continued to walk impatiently back
and forth in the shade of the tree that they were underneath. Finally, she turned to Chris.
Christine:
How long is it going to take you to do this?!
Chris:
Well, I'm sorry, I'm just trying to assess the damage done by those damn
gypsies. Are you sure that today was
the day that we'd all reestablish contact?
Christine:
Yes.
Chris:
Well, then we now... Have contact!
Christine
walked over to him and crouched down, looking at the four window screens that
suddenly appeared. In the center,
Oracle's 3-D face was shown. In the
upper left, Reuisu and Michelle were side by side, trying to get into the
camera shot. Behind them were
dilapidated surroundings coming from the area of Paris they were in.
In the
upper right, Anna sat in Miya's lap, the lighting quite apparent, being
somewhere in a desert far from Lut Gholein.
On the
lower left, Davros and Lucy were also struggling to get both of themselves in
the shot, the area behind them being some sort of forest.
For the
longest time, none of them spoke to one another. Finally, Chris broke the ice.
Chris:
Miya, I love you beyond my wildest dreams, and I should be castrated for the
mistake I made.
Miya
blinked for a moment.
Miya: Yes,
you should be.
Chris
winced. However, Miya immediately
smiled.
Miya:
However, since it's an imperfect universe, I'll have to settle for just being
in love with you.
Chris
smiled widely, and almost hugged the laptop that was in front of him. Everyone else laughed with delight.
Reuisu:
Well, as much as I'd love to hear about all the things that have happened since
we separated, we have more pressing concerns to worry about. I'm assuming you all know about the
Eternals?
Everyone
nodded.
Reuisu:
Well then, Oracle, please update us on any new information you have.
Oracle:
Thank you, Reuisu. Now, I've been
studying the scans of the Sailor Wars books that Reuisu sent me, and I've
managed to uncover a map for the locations of the Eternals buried underneath
the normal print of the paper.
Unfortunately, it doesn't give us an exact location, but a general area
to search in. There are two Eternals
near the northern city of Harrogath, one near the Rogue Encampment, and one
near Lut Gholein.
An
image flashed on the screen, showing a map of the land of sanctuary. Each of them examined it closely, blinking
lights on the map indicating the locations of the Eternals.
Reuisu:
All right, what is everyone's position?
Miya, Anna, are you still near Lut Gholein?
Miya:
Unfortunately, no. After I decided to
rejoin the Titans, Anna and I immediately started heading out. We're currently northwest of Lut Gholein,
about a couple hundred miles. According
to the maps we have, we should arrive in Harrogath in a day or two.
Chris:
Come to think of it, we tracked those gypsies down for a couple hundred miles,
and we should be close to Harrogath, too!
We could meet there and go for the two Eternals there!
Reuisu:
Excellent! Now we're working as a
team! Lucy, what's your position?
Lucy:
Well, if the maps we got from that airport we landed at after arriving from
London are accurate, than we are currently on the Rogue's pass, about a couple
hours walk from the Monastery where the Sisters of the Sightless Eye are!
Reuisu:
Then head on that way! Michelle and I
are still in Paris, waiting for the Special Forces teams to arrive and retake
Paris. It'll take a few days, so we'll
try to get to Lut Gholein ASAP, but I can't promise anything. Now, after we've all retrieved the Eternals,
we'll meet up at Kurast. Okay?
Everyone
nodded.
Reuisu:
On one more note, there's something I'd like to say. This team split up a while ago, and when that happened, I'm sure
a lot of our lives seemed crumbled. I
for one was crushed for a long time. I
think it's pretty obvious that we need each other. I hope to see you all again, and I love you all.
Everyone
smiled and was brought to tears by Reuisu's statement.
Reuisu:
Now let's get out there and kick some demonic ass!
Lucy
stirred the ladle in the soup pot that was over the fire that she and Davros
had started. She raised it out of the
soup and brought it to her lips, drinking a little. She smiled and turned to Davros, who sat nearby on a bench.
Lucy:
Soup's on!
Davros
smiled and picked up a bowl, walking over to the soup to get some.
Davros:
Soup, rice balls, and ramen. Breakfast
of champions, eh?
Lucy
giggled a little at the comment.
Lucy:
Yeah, I definitely like you better when you're on our side.
Davros:
Well, regardless of my past, I'm here now and we're going to find that Eternal.
Lucy
smiled and looked over at the fire, noticing that it was beginning to die down.
Lucy:
I'm going to head out and get some more firewood, okay?
Davros:
Take your time, I'm fine here.
Lucy
nodded and walked off into the forest.
Davros began eating his soup, loving the tomato taste and thinking that
the concept of eating was still very new to him, not having done it for so
long. He closed his eyes and savored
the sensations in his mouth. However,
his savoring ended when he suddenly heard someone in the grass. He opened his eyes and saw a girl in raggy
leather approaching the soup tray.
Davros stared at her, and the girl saw him. She gasped and pulled out a knife from a sheath at her side.
Davros
jumped into the air, catching her by surprise as he came down upon her,
slamming her into the ground and forcing her to drop her knife. He held her by her arms, and she struggled
furiously. Davros reaches over on a
table and grabs a riceball, about to offer it to her as a truce piece. He pulls her up, still holding her. However, over her shoulder, Davros saw a
dozen or so more women in the same type of clothing all pointing bows and
arrows at them.
Davros
winced, looking at them. He put the
riceball to the girl's throat.
Davros:
Drop your weapons, or I'll kill her with this deadly riceball!
Some of
the women wince, flinching slightly.
The lead woman, however, merely had her arms crossed and narrowed her
eyes at him.
Woman:
Kill her, then.
Davros
stared at her, taken aback.
Davros:
What?
Woman:
Kill her, then.
Davros
put his eyes to the corner of his eye for a moment in thought, then narrowed
them at the woman.
Davros:
I don't take orders from anyone.
Davros
took a bite out of the riceball, releasing the girl.
Davros:
Take me to your leader!
Voice:
Hratli?
Everyone
turned themselves out in the direction of the forest, where they saw Lucy
standing there, holding a pile of sticks and broken off wood. She was gaping at the sight before her, and
the lead woman's eyes got wide and lit up.
Hratli:
Lucy!
Lucy
dropped her firewood and ran out to Hratli.
The two girls hugged one another in happiness, and the Rogues dropped
their weapons.
Davros:
You know her, Lucy?
Lucy:
Of course! She was in charge of the
Rogues at the Sisters of the Sightless Eye!
Davros:
Oh. Why did you come here?
Hratli:
We'll explain it back at the Encampment.
This way.
Lucy:
So why are you back in the Encampment?
I thought after Andariel had been defeated you returned to the
Monastery.
Hratli:
We had. However, shortly after Charsi
escaped from prison after Kingdom Come, demonic forces began springing up once
more. We fought them off a lot stronger
than we had the first time, but they were still too much for us so we fled back
to the Encampment. We've been there for
about two months, now.
The
group was finally approaching the Encampment.
As Lucy looked around, her thoughts brought her back to the time when
she had first come to the Encampment with Reuisu and Michelle. She had been traveling as a mobile doctor,
which actually seemed like a high profession in the land of sanctuary considering
how many knights and warriors there were trying to fight the demons, but most
of them were slain in combat far away from the places that Lucy traveled.
She
especially smiled when she noticed that they were approaching an old woman who
sat near a fire, staring into it. Her
clothes were mostly purple and black, and she appeared to be some kind of
witch. However, she was something more
than that. The woman looked up at Lucy,
and she smiled widely.
Akara:
Lucy!
Lucy:
Hello, Akara.
Akara:
You're just in time! I've uncovered
something that may be of great value to you.
Where are the other Titans?
Lucy:
I'm afraid that for now, it's only Davros and I.
Akara:
A pity, considering what I have to tell you is very important!
Davros:
Oh?
Akara:
Yes. I've been having visions, visions
of Andariel and Duriel being raised from the dead and brought back to become
new Prime Evils...
Lucy:
Raised from the dead?
Akara:
Yes. Two demons calling themselves
Osmoudon and Belial...
Davros:
Belial?! Where is this resurrection
taking place?!
Akara:
I believe it is the Monastery.
Davros:
Take us there!
Lucy:
Why? Who's Belial?
Davros:
A demon who was involved in the events that first led to the Hell rebellion
that got me to become Sailor Centauri!
Now, let's go!
Sailor
Centauri winced and breathed deeply in the helmet he wore. About four rogues were running along with
Sailor Cephiros and Hratli.
Hratli:
We're coming up on it now! Demons
ahead!
True to
her word, there was a platoon of fallen ones readying themselves with axes and
swords to fight the group.
Hratli:
Prepare to take offensive-
Centauri:
GIGA CANNON!
Before
Hratli could finish her command, Centauri's giga cannons came out of his backplate
and rested on his shoulders. They fired
out six rapid shots of yellow energy balls that slammed into the red imps and
annihilated them. Hratli smiled.
Hratli:
Can you bring the door down, as well?
Centauri
just nodded and re-aimed the cannons, now at the large steel doors that served
as the entranceway to the Monastery.
Shouting out the attack name once more, the cannons fired once more, the
energy balls exploding on contact with the door, blasting the door off of it's
hinges and to the floor of the Monastery.
The group jumped inside, each one a weapon at the ready. On the other end of the dilapidated building
stood two large demons. One was quite
obviously Belial, whereas the newcomer seemed to be Osmoudon.
Belial
snapped his gaze to their direction and gasped. However, Osmoudon just stood and laughed.
Osmoudon:
Well, well, well! I meet the Titans at
last.
Centauri:
Osmoudon, I presume?
Osmoudon:
Very astute. I suppose you're going to
give a little song and dance about being agents of love and justice, and how
you're going to punish me?
Centauri:
No, I'm just going to ram a giga missile so far up your ass-
Voice:
Oh really? And what about us?
Centauri
turned his head to the direction of the male voice. It had come from the shadows next to the door, and his head was
met by a scythe arm that sent him flying ten feet away. Cephiros was about to run over to him to
help, but she was suddenly restrained by four hairy, spider-like arms that
wrapped themselves around her arms and legs.
Voice
2: What's your hurry?
Out of
the shadows still carrying the Titans was a woman standing about eight feet
tall on feet like hooves. Her hair
stood up and pointed like a Frankenstein's bride, and colored black as pitch. The tarantula-like arms that came out of her
back indicated who she was.
Duriel
and Andariel were already alive.
Belial:
Sailor Nothings, allow me to introduce you to the new PRIME EVILS!
To Be
Continued...