******************************************************** Fulfillment of Destiny Chapter 7: Test of Love By Sailor Bluestar aka Crystal-san "This plan better work." Master says. "Don't worry, it will. Just sit back and watch." Soldier Bluestar says. ***** Crystal glances at the other members in the room. Setsuna, Hotaru, Michiru, Mary, Shawn, Cleo, Chester, Luna, Dragon, and Artemis are here. Seiya, Taiki, Yaten (the Starlights), Orbum, Daystar, and Fireball (the sun senshi/soldier's guardian falcon) just arrived a few minutes ago. They are all worried about their senshi. Yet she doesn't care anymore, especially when she doesn't have the love of the only man she ever really cared about. How can she live without him? "Crystal-san?" Hotaru asks worriedly. "Hmmm?" Crystal replies. "Daijobu?" Setsuna asks. "Daijobu. Just tired." Crystal answers. "Why don't you go get some rest. We'll fill you in, in the morning." Mary suggests. "Okay." Crystal says getting up and going to the bedroom. "If you guys want to, you can stay here, it's pretty safe for now. As long as they don't try anything." "Okay." Shawn says. "Has she always been like this?" Mary asks. "Hai, every since Joseph dumped her, she's been out of it." Michiru answers. "One thing is for certain. We cannot kill him. She must be the one if it comes to it." Artemis says. "Why?" Hotaru asks. "Yeah, why Artemis? And what can we three do against Soldier Bluestar?" Yaten asks. "And what about us?" Daystar asks for both herself and Orbum. "Because it is the only way to get her to be normal besides having him on our side again. At least then she'll be able to move on. Without any reminder of the past." Artemis explains. "Why you guys are here is because if Sailor Universe is captured by Master, then the whole universe is in danger. Since the universe is in the balance, you must be here. And besides, I believe that you care for the safety of the captured senshi." Shawn explains to Yaten and Daystar. "What do you know about Sailor Universe?" Luna asks Mary. "Is she what those guys are after?" "Hai. Sailor Universe is the strongest, but she is only the last line of defense and will only appear to fight when all the senshi have tried and failed to defeat an enemy. Even her consort has to fight before she does or else if she fights before him and dies the whole universe goes with her." Mary explains. "So Sailor Universe does exist." Setsuna says in awe. "Hai we must find her before they find her. She is the key element in this besides Crystal-san." Shawn says. "Whoever has Sailor Universe has control of the universe." "What does Crystal-san have to do with the legendary warrior of virtue?" Seiya ponders. "Well Master sensed long ago, during the Silver Millennium that Crystal-san has great power locked within her. There maybe a chance that Sailor Universe dispersed herself within people. Thus creating more powerful beings than ordinary planetary senshi." Mary explains. "Perhaps, but then why does Crystal-san have two star seeds?" Luna asks, suspiciously. "That we do not know." Shawn admits. "It is really weird. Two star seeds? Are you sure?" Mary questions. "Hai. When we were battling Mistress Nine's lackeys, one of them took Crystal-san's star seed that has a crescent moon in the very center. She was suppose to die, but she lived. She also changed in appearance and attitude. More of a warrior." Michiru explains. "Please describe her. We may know something about her." "Well she has long dark green hair, her over-ear bangs are braided back and held by a bow. She has orange eyes. Her senshi suit has a white body suit, orange skirt and cape, golden strip of fabric above the skirt instead of white like the ours, golden tiara with topaz crystal in center, light green bows, and a topaz crystal in center of the front bow. Her hair bow is orange with a topaz gem in the middle of bow, she wears red lipstick, a green mask, dark green boots that goes up to the knees and are laced up with a topaz crystal on above the opening where the lace ends, topaz earrings, white gloves with orance strips that reach elbows, and an orange choker She calls herself Sailor Topaz." "Hmm. She sounds familiar." Setsuna declares. "Wait here. I need to check something at the time gate." Setsuna disappears into the void of time. "Do you think she knows who Sailor Topaz is?" Luna asks. "I don't know, but Sailor Topaz is suppose to be dead. Her system was destroyed." Mary informs the group. "What? So you're telling us we saw a ghost that can kill youmas?" Hotaru asks. "I don't know if she was killed or not. I just know that her system no longer exists and when a planet no longer exists, the senshi guarding the planet usually dies for failure to protect the planet." Mary says. "Then what of Sailor Moon?" Taiki asks. "She doesn't count because she is the tsuki princess. She was sent to the future long ago and the tsuki wasn't blown to pieces like Sailor Topaz's system." Shawn informs. Setsuna pops back in. She says, "I think I know who she is. She is Sailor Topaz. Her system was destroyed by evil, but she protected her planet by using the true power of the Holy Grail. (Holy Grail is a magical object that was summoned forth by the three talisman from Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. It was given to Sailor Moon as a power booster.) She is the true keeper of the Holy Grail." "She is?" Michiru asks. "Hai. Since she used most of her energy protecting her planet from the evil blast, she used the last of her strength to send her planet to another system to be safe. It accidentally collided with Bluestar long before anyone was living on it. Strangely enough the planets didn't explode as it should of. Instead they melded together. Sailor Topaz lost her life, but the Holy Grail preserved her star seed, waiting for one of royal blood born on or near that planet to have the star seed. Once Crystal-san was born, the star seed entered her body and lay dormant within her until anything happened to her original one. The Holy Grail created the three talisman and split its power into it, making the Holy Grail disappear. Right now the Holy Grail is in her possession, safe and sound." "So what are we going to do? How are we going to rescue them?" Hotaru asks. "Well here's the plan..." Shawn says leaning close. ***** Crystal just couldn't sleep. Images of Joseph hurting her friends are terrifying, disturbing and betraying. She slashed about her bed, and awoke, screaming. She saw Setsuna, Michiru, Hotaru, Mary, Shawn, Luna, Artemis, Cleo, and Chester by her bed. They are all worried. "Hey you guys. Finish planning? Gomen nasai if I disturbed you." Crystal says weakly. "Iie problem, we are done anyway. We heard you scream and though it was Joseph-san coming to take you away." Mary says soothingly. "I had a terrible nightmare about him hurting the others in brutal ways. It was so disturbing." Crystal says as she sits up. "Try to get some sleep princess. See you in the morning." Shawn says. "That's right, get plenty of rest, you'll need it for tomorrow." Mary says. "Sleep well." Cleo, Luna, Artemis, Fireball, and Chester says. "Sleep princess. You must rest for tomorrow." Dragon and Orbum says. "Rest for tomorrow princess. It is going to be a big day for you." Taiki says. "Don't let silly nightmares keep you up." Yaten says sarcastically. "Yaten-kun, be nice. Sleep well princess." Seiya says bonking Yaten on the head with his fist. "Sleep child." Setsuna and Daystar says soothingly. "Time to sleep." Michiru says softly. "Sleep peacefully princess." Hotaru whispers, placing her hand on Crystal's forehead ridding her of nightmares to come. For the first time in years, she slept peacefully without worry for the future, thanks to Hotaru's help. ***** In the morning at breakfast, the seventeensome filled her in on the plan. "Do you guys think it will work? What if there is a trap laid for us when we get there?" Crystal questions. "We'll take the risks." Shawn informs. "Are going to do it then?" Hotaru asks. "Lets go." Mary says. "Um. Before we go, when I gave the newest powers to the girls, a transformation stick was left for a unknown senshi. I kept it and now I think it was for you Mary. All you have to say is 'Earth Crystal Power Make-up and you'll be like the others. You will become a super senshi." Luna says giving Mary another transformation wand. "Arigatou Luna." "Lets get this over with. BLUESTAR ETERNAL CRYSTAL POWER..." "NEPTUNE CRYSTAL POWER..." "SATURN CRYSTAL POWER..." "PLUTO CRYSTAL POWER..." "EARTH CRYSTAL POWER..." "SUN CRYSTAL POWER..." "FIGHTER STAR POWER..." "MAKER STAR POWER..." "HEALER STAR POWER..." "...MAKE-UP!" "MOON SOLDIER POWER!" "SUN SOLDIER POWER!" The transformed senshi and soldier clasps their hands and teleports to evil headquarters with Luna, Cleo, Chester, Dragon, Fireball, and Artemis. ***** "Boss the other senshi have teleported in." a youma informs Soldier Bluestar. "Proceed as planned." "Hai." ***** The senshi, guardians and soldiers wanders the halls searching for any signs of the others. They kept close to each other while Eternal Sailor Neptune watches her mirror for any signs. They encounter the evil soldiers instead. "Well look at what came our way." Soldier Venus sneers. "Indeed, nine senshi and two traitorous soldiers." Soldier Mars snarls. "Too bad you're on the wrong side Soldier Moon. You're on the loosing side." Soldier Neptune growls. "This is your last chance Super Eternal Bluestar, surrender and we will kill them swiftly and without pain." Soldier Uranus offers. "Arigatou but iie arigatou boys, I prefer to stay good instead of evil." Super Eternal Bluestar declares. "If ya want her, you'll have to go through us." Soldier Moon declares. "Our pleasure." Soldier Mercury sneers. "SUBMARINE REFLECTION." Super Sailor Neptune shouts. "DEATH RIBBON REVOLUTION." the senshi of silence shouts. "CHRONOS TYPHOON." the time guardian shouts. "SOLAR FLARE." Soldier Sun shouts. "SOLAR ECLIPSE." Super Sailor Sun shouts. The attacks took out most of the soldiers, except for Uranus, Jupiter and Mercury who dodged it. But Soldier Moon and Super Sailor Earth took them out easily. "LUNAR STORM." "EARTH INTERTWINE." The storm knocks them out and the vines ties them all up. They continue to search for the missing senshi. ***** "Boss, the remaining senshi have brought Soldier Moon, Sailor Earth, their guardian CATS? And DRAGON? And FALCON? And five strange warrirors with them. Except Sailor Earth is a bit different." the youma reports. "Of course she's different, she is a super senshi now like the others." Soldier Bluestar informs, annoyed. "And those three are the Sailor Starlights and those two are the Sun Senshi and Soldier. Their guardians have always been cats and a dragon and a falcon." "Well anyway, they beat up the other soldiers again." "Incompetent fools they are those soldiers." Soldier Bluestar mumbles. "If you want things done right, guess you have to do it yourself." ***** They found them in the holding cell, in shackles and chains. "Oh thank God you guys have come. Get us out of here." Eternal Sailor Mercury says when she sees them. "Okay." the others reply, freeing them. "Too bad, it's time to meet my Master." Soldier Bluestar says teleporting them all to his Master. ***** "Welcome senshi and soldier. At last I can see the fighters who beat up my other warriors. Soldier Moon, Sailor Earth, you traitorous fiends, you had the chance to be here by my side, but now it is lost. You shall witness the greatest achievement of all time." Master replies. "Oh? And what might that be?" Eternal Sailor Moon asks. "The control of the most powerful being, next to Sailor Universe and her consort and Soldier Topaz and Sailor Topaz who are now dead thanks to me, Super Eternal Bluestar." Master informs. "What? She is the third most powerful being in the universe alive?" Dragon questions. "She is because of the fact that Bluestar is the only planet-star in the whole universe. All the power is locked away in that fragile body of hers." Master replies. "Come child, come with me and we shall rule together forever." "I will never..." Super Eternal Bluestar starts, only to be in a trance. She slowly walks towards Master. He reveals himself to be a black hooded, tall man who has extended a normal human hand towards Super Eternal Bluestar. Once they touched hands, they disappear in a flash of black light. Soldier Bluestar gasps in pain as an object drops out of his chest. He lay quite still. Almost deadlike. Eternal Sailor Mercury analyzes the object to be a controlling device for Master to control him. Eternal Sailor Saturn heals Soldier Bluestar after taking a vote if he was evil or not. They wait for the two to return with troubled minds. Usagi and Daystar embrace as sisters would. They wonder how Crystal will fair against such odds. They remember the times when she was captured by their enemies. She was captured by her half-brother, he thought that she should stay with her remaining blood family, instead of the senshi. Then she was captured by Wiseman and turned into a mistress of evil, much like Chiba Usa. (Reni for you NA dub people.) Then she had her star seed stolen for a while by Professor Tomoe, Hotaru's dad, before the senshi rescued her and got her back in time to aid them when Tuxedo Kamen was kidnapped and imprisoned in ice. Usagi will never forgive Minako for trying to impersonate her. She was captured a couple more times after. She also disapeared at the same time with Mamoru when Chaos started attacking. They never found out why she never helped them. They decide to talk to her later for that. ***** Master is having a tough time converting Super Eternal Sailor Bluestar into being on his side. He gave up trying for the umpteenth time to convert her and removes her star seeds. After removing both star seeds, dark energy instantly swirls around her. Master wonders who is doing such a strange phenomenon for it isn't he who infusing her. Crystal's body starts to move as a different star seed glows within her, freed from the internal prison Crystal and Denise formed against her. She opens her eyes and sits up. Her clothing transforms into a dark blue dress, a type of dress that covers up the chest and neck and shows off her arms and her shoulders. It is nice and tight around her like Queen Serenity's and Neo Queen Serenity's. She wore Persian blue opera gloves. She has a choker around her neck, Persian blue backing with dark crystal studs decorating it. Much like Black Lady's choker. She has a lavender bow on the back of her dress, like Queen Serenity's and Neo-Queen Serenity's. She wore a tiara crown of blue and black crystal. The blue crystal is in the center of her forehead with a black upside-down crescent moon in its center. On the sides of the crystal are black crystal to complete the tiara. With black pearl barrettes decorating her hair, much like Princess Serenity had. Master gasps at his empress and bows respectfully. It is time to show the others. ***** The senshi didn't know what to do when the evil soldiers teleports in and didn't start a fight. They didn't have to kill them, for in walks Crystal in her new garb. The soldiers bows and hails their empress. They all couldn't believe their eyes as she sits on a black crystal throne which came out of the ground. "Crys-chan?" Soldier Bluestar asks. "Crystal-sama is no more. Her star seed has been replaced by a greater one. She was too infuriating and too much trouble to convert. But her body wasn't." Master replies. "Iie, I refuse to believe you," Soldier Bluestar says defiantly, "Crys-chan would never give up without a fight. I now her. I love her so much. I have watched her every move, her every action. I know that she wouldn't just give up. You can't take her away from me. You hear. I will get her back." "A fight she did put up, except here is her fight." Master says holding up a jar with the two extracted star seeds. Everyone gasps as they try to free themselves of the jar. "Let me introduce her new form. Empress Darkness, daughter of Chaos and Evil." Master says formally. "I am your worst nightmare." Empress Darkness says coolly. "Bow down to me and I might let you die quickly." "Crys-chan no, don't do this. Aishiteru." Soldier Bluestar says, dropping to his knees. *Humph* "Crystal-sama is dying in that jar. Her body is now mine. I am in control." Empress Darkness says standing. "Time to die little warriors. Darkness I command you, envelop these pitiful warriors in your void." Dark winds picks them up and throws them into a portal, all except for Soldier Bluestar, Tuxedo Kamen, and Eternal Sailor Moon. The others are gone. "Where are they? What have you done with them?" Eternal Sailor Moon asks, crying softly. "They are in the endless void of forever darkness. Soon their star seeds will be eliminated forever and when all Sailor Universe's warriors are gone, I shall have my revenge." Empress Darkness hissed. "What did she do?" Tuxedo Kamen asks, holding the weeping Eternal Sailor Moon. "She destroyed my body. Luckily my star seed escaped her wrath and was left wandering the universe in search for the perfect body. That was when I saw Crystal-sama. She had dark blood within her but was raised in the light. Over the centuries I watched over her, infusing her with me in time. Each family death brought me closer to her. After your fight with one of those Amazon Trios, I was fully infused within her, only to trapped by her and her inner companion. But now I am free to spread chaos and evil to the universe." Empress Darkness says gleefully. Then all in the room could see the star seeds become transparent people. They could see them clasp hands and light illuminate the room. "Iie. Stop them before they free themselves." Empress Darkness orders, but it is a futile effort, the jar shatters into a million pieces and the two figures grew into their full size. "Give us back our body." the figures demand. "You are in iie condition to demand anything little ones." Empress Darkness sneers. "We will see when you have iie allies. TOPAZ RESTORE." Sailor Topaz shouts, healing the evil soldiers of any evil that was given to them by Master. Together they freed the others and teleported out of there. ***** They teleports into Mamoru's apartment. Crystal and Denise detranforms and collapse. The others also detransform and rushes to their sides. "We need bodies to survive." Denise explains. "We will get your body back, hang in there." Usagi promises. "Usagi-chan, don't make promises you cannot keep." Crystal says weakly. "Empress Darkness is stubborn and powerful. It took the two of us a week to gain enough power to trap her. Even after then we were in iie shape to even function. That was when I didn't show up like I always do to save you guys from that monster you couldn't handle in the reign of the Amazon Trios." "Oh Crys-chan, don't talk like there is iie tomorrow." Joseph says. "Why would you care?" Crystal asks harshly. "Because aishiteru." "Then why did you do the things you did?" Crystal asks. "Because I was controlled by him. I would die if I didn't do as he says. I was hoping to betray him, but he took over my body and used me." Joseph explains. "He controlled all of us." Mark says. "That's not a reason." Crystal shouts, slightly coughing. "Please Crys-chan, don't do this. Aishiteru and only you. I couldn't stand being apart if he happens to take you. I thought that it would be better if you and I split apart. It might have been better. I thought I lost you to Master. I was so worried for your safety. Aishiteru so much, it hurts sometimes. Please forgeive me." Joseph pleads. "Why don't we talk about your relationship later." Setsuna says impatiently. "Hai. Right now you two need bodies to thrive on before you two fade out." Michiru says. "Who's body are you two going to stay in?" Haruka asks. "You two can stay in mine, I won't mind." Joseph offers. "Sure, but who will be in control?" they asks. "Let's vote. Hands up for Joseph-san." Mamoru says, counting 9. "Hands up for Denise-san." Mamoru says, counting 9. "And hands up Crystal-san." Mamoru says, counting 9. "Uhh. You guys, it's a tie. Iie one wins." (the advisors all chipped in as 2 votes, the felines in 1 vote, the dragon and falcon in another, so that is why it adds up to be 28) "You haven't voted muffin." Usagi says. "Why must I be the tie breaker?" Mamoru whines. "That Muffin, is my characteristic. Whining. Don't copy." Usagi reprimands. "Odango atama, do you have to do that?" Rei snaps. "You guys, quiet. Because you didn't vote Mamoru-san." Ami answers. "Fine, Crystal-san, you're incharge. Since Denise-san knows what it's like to be dormant, and Joseph-san can learn what it's like." Crystal and Denise changed back into star seeds and enters Joseph's body. Joseph's body changes to be like Crystal's original body. That way, no girl in a guy's body. (Eww. That would be disgusting.) ***** "Do you have a plan to destroy those senshi and soldiers?" Empress Darkness asks Master. "I do but it will take time to carry out." Master says. "All right." To Be Continued...