"Stop!" Sting shouted. "You're standing right on it!"
Nabiki skidded to a stop and looked down. At her feet, there was a big pile of earth. She sweat-dropped. "You buried it THERE?"
"Hey, I'm just a little scorpion," Sting defended himself. "And I was in a hurry..."
Nabiki sighed. "Never mind..." She bent down and scooped the dirt away with her hands.
Only after several scoops, she found a small, silver chest. She opened it and pulled out the golden pendant with the scorpion motive.
"It's really a miracle that it hasn't been washed away by the weather yet..." she mumbled and shot her 'advisor' a dark look.
When they heard Rei's scream, she quickly jumped to her feet. "I hope for your sake that this works," she told Sting.
She quickly donned the golden amulet and grasped it. "Um... what do I do now?"
Sting shrugged. "Say what comes to your mind!"
Nabiki closed her eyes...
"SCORPIO ZODIAC POWER, MAKE UP!"
A flash of light followed, and the silhouette of a scorpion in the background...
Sailor Scorpio was ready!
Nabiki looked down at her yellow skirt. "Neat! Now, let's hurry!"
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Sailor Mars sweated as she slowly backed off. Holding up her Flame Sniper bow, she altered her aim from one of the two approaching monster to the other.
"Dangit Nabiki, where are you?" she said through gritted teeth.
One of the scorpions raised his pincers...
"MOSQUITO SWARM, ATTACK!"
And a cloud of the nasty little insects flew right into the eyes of the giant scorpion. He screeched and flailed around with his appendages.
Sailor Scorpio entered the clearing and grinned. "So, I can control all kinds of insects after all."
"Sailor Scorpio," Rei shouted with glee. "Man, am I glad to see you."
She shot her fire arrow at the second monster and ran over to her teammate.
"Hey, I may look like a frigid bitch, but I do care about my friends," Scorpio replied with a smirk.
She concentrated her powers on the two scorpions. "Stop this senseless fighting and leave us alone," she commanded them.
Now, fully powered up, she could feel how her magic surrounded the scorpions... but sadly, it didn't do anything.
"My powers are not working on them," she gasped. "Why's that?"
"Hmmm..." Mars watched the giant scorpions as they came closer. "Let me try something."
She held up one of her wards. "Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, zai, sen..." she murmured. Finally, she threw the ward at one of the monsters.
"AKURYOU TAISAN!"
The ward hit the scorpion's forehead and got stuck to it. After a screech, it got paralyzed.
"I knew it," Mars shouted. "They're not normal scorpions... they are evil creatures. No wonder your control doesn't work on them."
"Then we have to beat them the old-fashioned way," Scorpio said. She raised her arms. "Scorpio Scissors!"
And her forearms got covered in a coating of silver; shining gauntlets that ended in nasty-looking pincers!
Nabiki raised her weapons and grinned. "Good thing this amulet gave me the original Sailor Scorpio's fighting experience... Here we go!"
She rushed the non-stunned monster, and they met each other with a clash of pincers.
Meanwhile, the other scorpion had recovered from the stunning effect of Rei's ward and shook the little paper off his head. He roared and stretched out his stinger.
Rei stepped back and shouted: "Fire Soul!" Instantly, the tail was set aflame.
In the meantime, Scorpio was successful in cutting off one of the second monster's pincers. She jumped back to her friend.
"Let's end this," Scorpio said. "I'll lend you my powers..."
She closed her eyes. "Scorpio Power!"
On her forehead, the Zodiac sign of Scorpio lit up. Mars could feel the other Senshi's powers flowing through her body.
She aimed her outstretched palms towards the two monsters.
"RED SCORPION!"
The fire streaming out of her palms flew together and formed a big shape... a scorpion made of fire.
While it was by no means setting the forest on fire, its flames were most harmful for its two evil counterparts, as one of them painfully realized when he tried to attack it with his tail.
The fire scorpion just lunged at the two monsters.
And in seconds, only two piles of ashes remained.
Mars panted heavily as the powers flowed back into Nabiki's body.
Scorpio let out a sigh of relief. "Lucky thing you can control your flames like this," she moaned. "Otherwise we would have started a nice forest fire..."
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