Hikage was asleep, in a dream filled world. She was watching herself, but it wasn't her. Or was it? She couldn't tell....But, anyways, she wore a uniform, one she couldn't quite place. She watched herself walk up to... Herself. "Here, you'll need this." The other her handed her something. She looked down. A rose? She cupped her hands around it. It wasn't real, it was crystalline, and golden. And so very very beautiful. In a glimmer of light, she watched a compact form around it. The compact was white, banded with gold. Around a clear orb, their were eight gems-blue, red, yellow, green, purplish grey, deep blue, blue green, and black. She looked up at herself and.....
She woke up, yawning. She turned over, trying to stay comfortable. It was still night. She tried again, and again, to get comfortable, but she couldn't get it right. "I'm laying on something...." She mumbled. She sat up, and searched around. Her hands found a cool, circular object. She picked it up, and glanced at it in the pale moonlight. "A brooch? Hmmm...." Yawning, she tossed it aside, onto her nightside stand. I'll look at it in the morning.....
"He only has one chance left, hime-sama." Corundum said, sighing.
She hadn't wanted Calcite to fail, she wanted the Sacrifice so the Revival
could begin.
"I know, Corundum." Chalcedony sounded bored.
"We'll have to summon Tremolyte, since we'll have to destroy Calcite." Yes, we will. Are you really that eager for death, Corundum? But thats not what she said.
"Yes, we will...But, don't forget. He has one last chance. He COULD
suceed." Corundum nodded, but Chalcedony noticed the look in her eyes.
Even if she didn't, wouldn't, say it, she wanted Calcite to die.
"True, hime-sama." Chalcedony sighed, bringing her staff down to
lay across her lap.
"Well, lets see if he suceeds..." She sighed once again, and leaned
back. Corundum nodded her head, and bowed.
"I can't wait, hime-sama." Oh, no you don't......
"Shido-chan, Hikage-chan!" Usagi ran up to them at school, waving.
The two girls turned to her.
"Hi Usagi-chan!!" Shido waved happilly, though Hikage just nodded
in acknowledgement. She was shy, as usual. Usagi looked at her, sympathetic.
"Are you feeling alright, Hikage-chan?" The golden haired girl nodded
her head, smiling nervously. "You shouldn't be so nervous, Hikage-chan."
The girl bowed her head in shame.
"Gomen nasai..." Usagi grimaced.
"And don't apologize!" Hikage looked up, about to cry.
"I-.....!" Shido turned to Hikage.
"Hikage-chan, don't worry." Shido put her arm around her friends
shoulder, and Hikage calmed down almost immediately.
"Well, off to class." Usagi said bitterly, changing the subject.
Shido nodded, and, Hikage following, the three went to class.
The woman had blood red hair, and black eyes. And, currently upon her
face, was a look of bitter annoyance. "How dare Alessandrite!" She slammed her fist into the wall, then recoiled in pain. "Itai!" She blew on her pained
fist. "Itai, itai, ITAI!"
"Arachne, whats wrong?" Pandora appeared, clutching her box, holding
in her laughter. She gazed sympathetically at her crimson haired companion.
"Alessandrite," Arachne spat the name out. "Alessandrite, that, that,
THAT BITCH!"
"What did she do THIS time, Arachne?"
"She's trying to steal the Doctor from me!" Pandora recoiled in
fright, though she didn't show it.
"That cad!" Arachne nodded.
"Pandora, HELP ME get the doctor!!" Pandora grinned.
"Sure, if YOU help ME first!"
"What... What do you need?" Arachne blinked-blinked.
"Just a little thing, a token action I want, and need, you to do...
Its really trifling, quite simple."
"Well?"
"Kill Sailorearth."
"Shido-chan?" Shido and Hikage were walking home from school, and
nearing their house.
"Hai, Hikage-chan?" She looked over at her golden haired friend.
"I feel so strange." Hikage sighed.
"I know the feeling...." She touched the black rose pinned to her
front bow.
"We have to leave for Sei Gogyu Gauken in two days." Hikage touched
the brooch, which she held in her pocket.
"I know..." They arrived at their house, standing outside the door.
"Why are we...You even caring about making friends here, Shido-chan?"
"I...I really don't know." She opened the front door, and the two went into their house.
"Okay, Hali, Orphim, Realgar. This is our LAST chance. We wait,
watch, and see when the Sacrifice is at her weakest. Then, we take her.
And we don't get obliterated by the hand of our fair princess."
"Of course, Calcite-sama." Hali said, bowing. She didn't want to
die, she was so young.....
"We won't fail THIS time, Boss." Calcite sighed, as Realgar echoed
his action, and Hali rolled her eyes. Orphim was SO annoying.
"Believe us, we'll suceed. We know what rests on our actions."
"Good, any ideas?"
"I have one...."
"What is it, Hali?"
"That girl at the Sacrifices house.... If we capture HER, then we
can force her to give her self up to us."
"Great idea, Hali."
"Arigato, Calcite-sama."
"Shido-chan, I'll go make us some tea, ok?"
"That'll be great, Hikage-chan. I need to call Usagi-chan. Our last
meeting was...."
"Weirder than it should have been."
"Yes, weird beyond belief." Hikage then left the room, and went into
the kitchen. Shido picked up the phone, and dialed Usagi's number.
"Moshimoshi, Tsukino residence?"
"Hello, may I speak to Usagi-chan?"
"May I ask who's speaking?"
"Hai. Shido."
"Alright, let me get her."
"Arigato." Shido sighed, and waited.
"Hello?"
"Hi Usagi-chan!"
"Hi Shido-chan! Whats up?"
"Well, our first meeting didn't go so well, so I'm inviting you over
again... This time, with all your friends, ok?"
"Sounds great, Shido-chan. When will it be?"
"Tomorrow afternoon, after school."
"Ok, I'll get ahold of them...."
"Ok, ja, Usagi-chan!"
"Ja, Shido-chan!" Shido hung up the phone, and smiled. "This is
great! I can't wait!"
"Ok, she's in the kitchen...As usual, it seems."
"Good. Lets go...." Then, in a vortex of swirling snow, ice, and
bitterly cold mist, they vanished.
Hikage was pouring Shido's cup of tea, when she felt bitter cold
behind her. She turned, quickly, holding in her scream. The woman from
before, she'd returned.... With three others, all male. "wh...Who are YOU?"
"We're the Ice Trio, and our Lord, Calcite." The woman said, smiling
icilly.
"And we're here...." The first of the three men said, grinning.
"For you." The third man grinned lecherously, fininshing his
companions sentence. Hikage began to scream. But, she didn't have time. The
man who hadn't spoken raised his hand, and blasted her with ice. She was
frozen stiff instantly.
"Well, we got our hostage."
"Lets go get our Sacrifice."
"I wonder whats taking Hikage-chan so long?" Shido glanced at the
door to the kitchen. "She's been in their a long time." She sighed, and
shook her head. "I'm just worrying....."
"And with good cause."
"What the!" She saw the four, three men, and one woman. And Hikage,
motionless.... "Hikage-chan!"
"Oh, her?" The woman asked, motioning to the frozen, yet still living, body.
"What have you...." Shido felt tears threatening to fall, then falling, like rain. She touched her brooch.
"I wouldn't do THAT if you don't want her to be PERMANENTLY frozen,
Sailorearth." Shido's eyes widened.
"How did you...." Calcite grinned.
"I have my ways, Sailorearth. Now, just surrender, and we're let
Hikage-chan here go, unharmed."
"Do you mean that, really?" He nodded. He seems sincere.... What am
I saying! She gripped her brooch. "I...I.... Earth Shadow Power, Make Up!"
Shido held the crystal rose out before her, then brought it to her chest as it gave off a burst of shadowy light. Her body began glowing, glowing swirls of black and white. Ribbons came from the rose, and wrapped around her. Rose petals flashed by, and she held out her hands. A spear appeared, a shining blade at each end. She posed, holding the spear threatiningly.
"Bad, bad idea, Sailorearth."
"Because it'll be YOUR end! Tranquility..." She held the spear
out. Calcite nodded to Orphim.
"Destroy our hostage." He grinned, and nodded eagerlly.
"Of course!" He cried, holding out his hands. A ball of blue icey
light formed.
"Spear....." She span the spear around, pointing it at the four.
"Cold Fire!" The blue globe expanded around Hikage, and she began
screaming.
"Utili...." Suddenly, their was an explosion of golden light, and the
screaming stopped....
Hikaritoyamino Hikage.
"Who is that?"
I am you.
"Me?"
I am here to awaken your destiny....
"My destiny? I have a destiny?"
A great destiny. Wake up.
"Wake up?"
WAKE UP!
"Sol Celestial Infusion, Make Up!" It had all happened so fast.
The explosion had knocked Calcite, the Ice Trio, and Sailorearth back.
Hikage, however, stood their, still, freed from her icey prison. And then,
she did the unexpected. From her pocket, she took out a gold and white
brooch, with multiple colored gems. She held it up, and began to transform.
The cover of the brooch faded away, revealing the golden crystal inside.
It gave off a pulse of light, covering her body, and enveloping her in a
golden glow. Pale yellow, and purple petals, swrirled around her, forming her
fuku, and she was fully transformed. "I am the Guardian of this Solar System,
the Planets Powers are my own! I am Sailorsol!"
"Ooh, I'm SO scared." Orphim replied dryly, sarcastically, as he
stood up.
"You'd better be....I have a special attack for you, hentai."
"Bring it on."
"I will." She grinned, and held out her hands. "Saturn...." A greyish
purple globe appeared, as her tiara vanished momentarilly, replaced by
the sign of Saturn, glowing purplish grey. She moved her hands, as if she
wore holding something and.... And the Silence Glaive itself appeared,
grasped in her hands. "Crystal...." She moved the glaive up, and a pinpoint
of purple light formed at the point of the blade. She whipped the glaive
around, the purple light trailing. Then, she brought it down. "Storm!" A
flurry of pale crystal shards then shot at Orphim, striking him in his
shock. Sailorsol grinned, as the shards tore him to pieces, and he vanished.
The tiara was replaced on her forehead, and the glaive faded away. "Next?"
"OOOH! How dare you! I may have HATED him, but you CAN'T
destroy one of the Trio with out paying! IIICCCEEE!" The icey storm
came hurtling at Sailorsol. She just stood their, waiting.
Sailorearth opened her eyes. That explosion was bad.... Hikage! "Hikage!" She sat up, holding her head at her folly, and saw a yellow and purple clad Sailor Senshi destroy the short dark haired man. "Hi..Hikage?"
"Mars...." Once again, her tiara vanished, this time replaced by the symbol of Mars. She lifted her arms, and a red globe appeared. "Firestorm..." A swirling mass of fire shot out, colliding with the oncoming ice. "Explosion!" Then suddenly, the fire expanded, boiling out. Hali screamed, as it consumed her. She was gone. Sol grinned once again, her tiara replaced.
Sailorearth picked up her spear, and started over to the three. So involved with the new Senshi, they didn't notice her. She got within distance, and lifted up her spear.
"You're gonna get it, Senshi. Ice STORM!" The snowy mass converged on
Sol, but she once again stood their calmly.
"Venus...." She held out her hands, her tiara vanishing as before,
replaced with the symbol of Venus, glowing gold. A golden globe formed around
her hands. "Lovelight....." The globe grew brighter, pulsating with light.
"Expand!" The globe expanded out, striking the ice, destroying it, but going
even further. Realgar took a step back, but it was too late. The golden light
consumed him. Calcite cursed. Realgar was gone. Sols tiara was replaced.
"Now you're gonna..." A grey wave of energy hit him, knocking him
foreward and too the ground. He stood up, shaking his head in pain. "Well,
die here, or at Chalcedony's hands..... SHI-NE!" Ice erupted from him,
spiraling out like a snake, striking both Sailorsol and Sailorearth, and
knocking them to their feet. "I won't let you win!" The spiraling cold coiled, keeping the two Senshi at bay.
"What are we going to do?!"
"I have an idea...." Sailorearth spoke calmy. She held the spear out,
blades horizontal. "Shadow Abosorbtion...." Then, she span the spear around.
Grey light formed, and shot out in a vortex. It hit the ice, and.... And
swallowed it. "Now, I'll give you the honor."
"Why, thank you...." She held out her hands. "Moon...." She formed
a silver globe of light at her hands, as her tiara vanished and was
replaced with a silver cresent moon, the symbol of the moon. "Illusion...."
The light rippled out, in pink, silver, light blue, and pale violet bubbles.
"Song." She lifted up her hands, and brought them together in prayer, as the
bubbles of light converged on Calcite, and he was gone.... Moon dusted. Sols
tiara reappeared.
"Okay, that was fun..... As fun as a root canal......" Shido said,
grimacing. She was SO tired.
"I know what you mean." Sol sighed, as she brushed back her bangs.
"So, Hikage-chan?" Earth asked, eyebrow raised.
"Shido-chan?" Sol nodded. Earth giggle.
"Hai.... Wow, we have some real secret secret identities, ne?"
Sol nodded.
"Well, lets clean up......" Light rippled, and they were once again
Shido and Hikage.
The End Episode Four
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