"Well, looks like you two already took care of our little problem," a female voice said behind them.
A voice that sounded VERY familiar to Rei...
They turned around. Rei stared. "Setsuna? Haruka? Michiru? Hotaru? What are YOU of all people doing here in the rainforest?"
Setsuna smirked. "The same as you, I'd guess. We were searching for some energy that somehow felt like it contained the powers of a Senshi..."
Michiru smiled and held up her mirror talisman. "I could see that something important was hidden here in Brazil, so we came here to investigate."
"But why didn't you tell us?" Rei didn't understand it. "We already knew about the Zodiac Senshi from a dream I had. We could have helped you."
"Zodiac Senshi, eh?" Haruka asked as she looked over Nabiki's fuku. "So I suppose you would be 'Sailor Scorpio', right?"
"That's right," Nabiki replied. "And you are?"
Haruka smirked. "Sailor Uranus, at your service."
"I'm Sailor Pluto, but you can call me Setsuna. This is Michiru aka Sailor Neptune, and this little girl..."
"I'm not that little anymore, Setsuna-mama," Hotaru said. "And I'm Sailor Saturn. Nice to meet you!"
"So it was you guys that had been in the village before us, not some enemies," Rei realized. "But still... why being so secretive about it?"
Setsuna sighed. "Well, I could see a glimpse of the future... and I can't tell you everything... but we wanted to make sure if there really were new Senshi before worrying the princess... If we knew about your dream, we would've told you, of course."
"We were just searching in another part of the valley," Michiru explained. "We have been here since yesterday, and those scorpion monsters have attacked us several times, but we never got the chance of defeating them."
"How did you find the amulet so quickly?" Hotaru wondered. "Did someone tell you where it was hidden?"
Nabiki grinned. "Well, you could say that..." She raised the lid of the bag she was carrying.
Sting looked out and waved around his little pincers. "Howdy! Hey Pluto, what's up? Good to see you again after all those years..."
Pluto groaned. "Sting... of course... I was already wondering why we didn't find a trace of you."
"So, um... Where are Usagi and the others?" asked Haruka. "Did you two came here all by yourselves?"
While Nabiki told them about the other Zodiac Senshi from Nerima, Rei looked around the clearing. The scorpions were gone, but... she had the feeling that something else was still here. Something evil, inside this valley...
Hotaru noticed Rei's uneasiness. "What's wrong, Mars?" she asked.
"I... just have the feeling that we are being watched," the Senshi of Fire replied.
The others stopped talking and looked around.
"Now that you say it," Setsuna murmured. "I had this chilling feeling since we got here... If there is a force that controlled the giant scorpions..."
Then it happened.
A dark shape shot out of the trees, flew past Nabiki, snatched away her amulet and disappeared into the treetops.
Without her source of power, Scorpio was being stripped off her fuku, and she turned back to her regular self.
"What the...?" she shouted.
"Quick, transform!" shouted Setsuna. "Pluto Crystal Power..."
"Uranus Crystal Power..."
"Neptune Crystal Power..."
"Saturn Crystal Power..."
"MAKE UP!"
Within seconds, the Outer Senshi had transformed.
Uranus raised her own talisman. "Space Sword Blaster!"
The energy wave cut through the treetops and hit something that let out a screech. A dark shape fell out of the trees.
"What's that?" Saturn asked in bewilderment.
The figure stood up. It was a caricature of the human body, clothed in filthy rags. It's skin was dry and wrinkled, and its face a demonic grimace.
"So you found me out, huh?" asked the creature with a grin.
"A Youma?" Mars gasped. "That cannot be! They have all been wiped out when we defeated Beryl!"
"Fool!" the Youma snarled. "You may have beaten the queen, but you never destroyed all of her loyal servants. I stayed hidden, to make sure the Zodiac Senshi would never reawaken again. And now that I have Scorpio's amulet..." She held up the golden trinket with a grin. "It will never leave this valley again. You may have killed my guardians... but you have no chance against me! I, Youma Duplicas, will destroy you!"
The Outer Senshi pointed their weapons at her. The Youma snarled as she was facing a sword, a staff, a glaive and her own hideous face in Neptune's mirror.
"We'll see about that," Sailor Mars shouted and summoned her fire bow.
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(Posted Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:20)
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