Sailor Mars stiffened. "I sense... dark and sinister magic!"
Everyone was doubtful until Sailor Neptune nodded. "I sense it too. Powerful energies that have been stirred recently and are stirring again. Though this seems less malicious than the traces from the first one. Less - idiotic?"
"Hey, I forgot, what about your Neptune Mirror?" asked Sailor Moon. "What does it say?"
"We shouldn't use it for trivial purposes," said Sailor Neptune, but drew the mirror out. "When it was Artemis perhaps up to tomcattery, it was trivial. This evil magic though..."
"There's a fat man in a gi, and another man in a gi," noted Sailor Venus, peering over a shoulder. "There's Artemis in a net. He's..."
"He vanished in a puff of smoke when they threw him into that cauldron," said Sailor Mars, momentarily puzzled. "That means EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!"
"THEY KILLED ARTEMIS?!" screeched Sailor Venus.
"OHMIGOSH! IT'S A NEW DARK KINGDOM!" declared Sailor Moon.
"Actually I think it's just a couple of idiots with a power focus," said Sailor Pluto, looking into the mirror herself. "I... where'd everyone go?"
Sailor Mercury wasn't even aware at what point she'd ended up holding the mirror, so she just shrugged.
Back To The Present:
"AIIYYYEEEEE!" yelled Genma as the shrine priest, shrine maidens, some long haired boy with a spear, some ghostlike monster, and now a bunch of girls in short skirts were chasing after him. "You've got the wrong person!"
"Quite right! Quite right!" called out Soun, running in step with his compatriot. "Maybe if we give these scrolls back?"
"CRESCENT BEAM!" ZWOP!
"WAHHHHH!" said Soun, running a little faster after some chi attack sliced through one of his boxes. "Quick! We'll lock the door behind us!"
Soun and Genma jumped over the compound wall, ducked through the front door, slammed it closed, and gave a relieved sigh as they leaned back against it.
"Safe at last, eh, Saotome?" asked Soun.
"Do you smell smoke, Tendo?" asked Genma.
BOOM! went the front door, sending two martial artists sprawling.
"GET HIM!" declared a sailor-suited warrior of love and justice.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" attacked Sailor Mars, who stared as the flame went curving off to land in a cauldron?!
"Deep Submerge!" tried Sailor Neptune, only to see the same thing happen.
"World Shaking!" attacked Sailor Uranus, this time targetting the large cauldron steaming away in the common room. Again it curved, snaking up to go inside the way the previous two attacks had.
"Try this! Crescent Beam!"
"It can't do that with this attack! Thunder Attack!"
"It did it with that attack," observed Sailor Moon.
Genma and Soun picked themselves up, looked at the cauldron, then at the girls standing in the hallway. Then they looked at the boxes being reclaimed by the various shrine personnel.
"Well, all's well that ends well," said Soun, rubbing the back of his head.
"Hah, I knew that spellbook was working out well," said Genma. "We're invincible with this around."
Sailor Uranus decided that was a challenge. "Try this, Space Sword Blaster!"
Again the odd curving flight of the attack as it went curving around to land in the cauldron.
"I think we should vacate immediately," said the long haired boy.
"I got a bad feeling about this," said the partly transparent catlike being with him. The two looked at each other, nodded, and then fled with all due haste - the various shrine personnel remaining apparently deciding this was a good idea as well.
"Try at once," said Neptune as reinforcements arrived.
"Oak Evolution!" "dead... scream." "World Shaking!" "Flame Sniper!" "Love and Beauty Shock!" "Aqua Rhapsody" "Deep Submerge!"
Bloop! Burble! Blurp! went the cauldron.
"This does not bode well," said Sailor Uranus.
"Moon Princess Halation!" tried Sailor Moon.
Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmble, went the cauldron.
Nodoka stepped close enough to the cauldron to throw a final ingredient in there. This just might work out well.
Genma and Soun ran, this time going through the assembled martial arts cheerleaders (obviously a school that relied heavily on chi attacks) and accidently throwing one towards the cauldron in their haste to get away.
BA-KOOM! went a geyser of pink-purple smoke.
Things got... weird.
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