[Episode 210362] [Episode 210362]Sitting up on the bed suddenly, Rei panted for breath, strands of hair hanging down the front of her face as beads of sweat trickled down the sides of her head. It had happened again. She had seen the end. Just like before, she had seen the atrocities committed by the Silence. Everything frozen in time and turned to stone in a crimson landscape, everything except for her... except the Silence. A tall woman clad in silk robes. Her long flowing purple hair stood out in contrast with the woman’s extremely pale skin as she stood there menacingly while holding onto an ornately-designed and imposing glaive. She just looked down at Rei with deep purple orbs that glowed with a hate-filled red-light that pulsated in time with the power that hung heavily in the surroundings.
At least... that was how it normally went. There were the changes the same vision from yesterday afternoon had to it. The crimson miasma that practically choked her was being hard-pressed with a purple one that crawled in from the east. Slowly, Rei turned around... and her eyes went wide. Standing at the center of the purple miasma was a massive, hideous inhuman monster; a massive, spherical cocoon-like insect standing at almost three-times the Shinto priestess’ height. Covered in a densely armored ebony exoskeleton that was marked at intervals with markings that were the color of dried blood, its face was a monstrous horror, with wide, blue-crystal insectile eyes and a fanged and mandibled mouth. Long, powerful legs kept the creature suspended while the rest of its cocoon-like body stretched out for a distance behind it.
Both great beings stared at each other, ignoring Rei for a moment. Suddenly as if from nowhere, other, smaller but just as deadly creatures started to appear around the respective sides and let off a visible flow of power coordinating with their allegiance. Around the Silence were these bipedal blobs of violet-covered liquid that were vaguely feminine in style and features; the red miasma of silence just coming off of them like steam. Around the huge insectile creature were smaller female, (definitely female) beings of all various shapes and sizes, all looking like animals or just incredible, reminiscent to the numerous Youma and Daimon they’d faced in the past; each one was glowing with a light of a color that seemed to respond specifically to them, even if they let off the purple fog that allied them to the monster.
It all went to hell as the two forces started to charge at one another; the Silence’s creatures destroying everything in their path; breaking the statues that had been people... had been her friends with just overwhelming power. The female monsters of the insect being rushed forward without hesitation, roaring and stampeding as they climbed over everything in the path to reach the Silence’s kindred... with Rei stuck smack in the center of the contact point.
As the armies of the two entities came closer, the was suddenly a silvery-white light shining behind Rei, one of shrine priestess knew to be the Messiah. Yet as before in her dreams, even as she begged the Messiah to help, the only response she got was the great crystal shaping into the symbol of some sort of emblem: it reminded her of a Senshi symbol, the female gender symbol with extended lines and a line on the bottom that curved up, all contained within a bell-like shape. The light shimmered brighter suddenly before breaking up into three smaller balls of light before they just flew off into the distance, leaving the raven-haired psychic behind...
And then all hell broke loose.
Yet as Rei thought about it, it was that emblem at the end that really stood out in her mind... she had seen it before, yesterday as a matter of fact. When the Hikawa Shrine got its latest guest...
Her vision of the Silence coming to a close, Rei’s eyes snapped wide-open and awareness was brought back to the world of the waking. Upon regaining her senses, she saw that Usagi still had her head on the table as well, drool trickling out from the side of the girl’s mouth and pooling... around the Hino girl’s face.
Lifting her head, Rei’s eye twitched as her cheek that had been resting on the table was feeling rather clammy thanks to the blonde’s saliva. Dear kami, it was revolting!
Noticing her friend was twitching and looked ready to blow, Ami Mizuno lowered her book and turned to fully look at the girl that was letting them use her home for a study session. “What’s wrong, Rei?” She asked, trying to ignore the thick liquid the woman was wiping off the side of her face.
“You seemed to be having a nightmare,” Makoto interjected. Then again, she found it understandable considering the woman has practically been swimming in Usagi’s drool.
Rei blinked her eyes, realizing the other three women now had their attention on her. “Oh, um...” Rei gnawed on the bottom of her lip, wondering for a moment if she should tell them or not. Deciding to keep quite for the moment, she replied, “Sorry, it’s nothing. I just had a strange dream is all.”
Leaning over from the opposite end of the table from Rei, Minako curiously asked, “A strange dream?” She ignored how Usagi was now waking up, blinking her sleepy eyes, until the girl just laughed.
“Heh heh heh!” Usagi giggled as she raised a hand to her mouth. “I had a weird dream too,” she proclaimed excitedly. “I dreamt I went to the hospital because I ate too much ice-cream. And then, it turned out they brought Mamo-chan in on a stretcher because he ate too many moon-cakes! And then we bumped into each other in the kitchen of the hospital...” she trailed off as she saw as the other four women had begun to sweat-drop. “Isn’t it funny?”
“It’s... funny...” Ami allowed, every trying to be supporting of her friends. “But this is no time for us to be having dreams like that,” the bluenette told her in all seriousness.
To help Ami make her point, Makoto asked, “Usagi? How did you do on the exam we had two days ago?”
The odango-headed blonde with twin ponytails went stock-still for a moment, twitching violently. She then tried to cover it up with a nervous laugh as she scratched the back of her head. “Well... I don’t think I got zero points...” she trailed off at all the stern looks she was getting from her friends.
Sighing, Ami shook her head in exasperation before she looked at her friend with a saddened expression. “We’re in the ninth grade now, Usagi. We have less than a year before the high school entrance exams!” She told her in all seriousness.
“No kidding...” the blonde with long hair and a bow agreed. Crossing her arms over her chest, she admitted, “We have to catch up academically. We’re behind because of our battles. As they say, ‘don’t regret the fish eggs from before’!”
Usagi nodded her head to what Minako said. It made a lot of sense.
Seeing the look on her friends face, Ami leaned forward and shouted, “Wait, Usagi! Don’t memorize that! It should be, ‘no use crying over spilt milk’!”
Considering that for a moment, the blonde with long flowing hair laughed. “Oh yeah! That is true!” She laughed nervously for a moment. “But I find ‘the fish eggs from before’ just sounds so much better! Like, when Artemis ate the fish eggs I was looking forward to snaking on. I was thinking, ‘oh why didn’t I eat them sooner’?”
“But you’d get it wrong on the English portion of the exams remembering it like that!” Ami pointed out.
And so as the squabbling amongst friends continued, Rei just looked off the side, feeling a bit of nausea in the pit of her stomach. Before her eyes she could see flashes of the dream from before. She’d been having dreams similar to this before for the past week but this time... the large insect thing, the various animal/vegetable/mineral women and that symbol had been prominent where before they simply hadn’t been. What did it all mean? What was this destruction coming?
The Shinto priestess of the Hikawa Shrine was taken from her musings with a sudden sensation that went straight up her spine and caused her to lean forward onto the table, slapping her hands onto the top to keep from falling over completely. The intensity she felt from her sixth sense indicated that the source was VERY close; possibly on shrine grounds!
“Rei-chan?” Usagi asked slowly, feeling very nervous all of a sudden. Rei normally didn’t become tense like this unless there was a good reason. Could there be... a new enemy involved!? Oh shit! They just got through with the Black Moon Family and the entities of the Nemesis Moon! Why would there be a new threat already?
Ignoring Usagi for the moment, the Shrine Priestess got to her feet quickly and started heading out of the room. She was making a beeline for the door on the veranda.
Sitting up, Makoto spoke up, “Rei! What’s going on?” Moving her knees back from under the table, the tallest of the girls pushed herself to her feet before the other three could and started to run after her friend. “Rei!”
Storming over to the sliding door, Rei gripped the side of it just as the other girls were coming up behind her. Sliding it open suddenly, the Shrine Priestess came to a pause at the sight that greeted her.
Standing not too far away was a man with long black hair and crisp blue eyes. He was in a uniform of some sort; cotton pants and sleeveless sweater that were a dark navy blue in coloration with thick brown leather cloves and boots including a wide belt. But what really stood out about this individual were the iron armor shoulder-guards and the very large broad-sword strapped to his back. Definitely not the attire of someone that would be walking the streets...
Yet, during that pause in time, Rei just stared at his belt. That very same image from her vision: the elongated female gender symbol with base and within a bell shape. This was no coincidence!
The man stared at the group of women for a moment before blinking his eyes in surprise and sudden recognition, the man grinned widely. “Oh WOW!” He shouted in surprise. “Mineko and the Pussycats?! Can I get an autograph? Aerith is a big fan of you guys!”
“Eh?” asked several of the girls as they just stared at the man before them who was looking at them with awe and excitement.
“Oh come on! I know you guys!” The guy said before he pointed to the blonde with long hair. “Mineko!” His hand moved to the bluenette. “Amiu!” Over to the girl in the white and red robes. “M’Rei!” To the tallest girl. “Meowkoto!” And finally to the blonde with twin ponytails. “Mewsagi! Mineko and the Pussycats!” He then looked around. “So where are the rest?”
Rei’s eye twitched. “The rest?”
Nodding his head, Zack shouted, “Of course! The non-feline members. Hotaru, Setsuna, Maya, Sakura and Honey...” he let off a deep sigh. “Sweet, sweet Honey...” he practically whispered in a daze. By the thousand gods, was that ever one wonderfully skilled and incredibly erotic Titto.
As the man’s eyes were glazed over as he became lost in his daydream, Usagi carefully whispered to the others, “Mineko and the Pussycats?”
Scratching her chin, Minako considered it for a moment. “I think it has a nice ring to it.” She then let out a yelp as Makoto bopped her atop her head.
Taken out of his reverie by the sudden violence, Zack looked around at the girls, eyes going wide as a realization hit him like a sack of bricks. “Hey!” He shouted. “Where’s your ears and tails? And the fur? Aren’t you supposed to be Cat-type pokégirls?”
Turning to the dark-haired male as her friends bickers, Ami looked at him with a curious expression. “Pokégirls?” She asked. She looked to meet the man’s blue eyes before asking, “What are ‘pokégirls’?”
Blinking his eyes once, twice, Zack asked, “You don’t know what pokégirls are?” Getting a sudden Twilight Zone vibe going up his spine, the SOLDIER Second Class gulped nervously. “Looks like I’m not in Indigo anymore...”
Brushing her teeth, Rei would’ve sighed if her mouth wasn’t filled with toothpaste. There had been much confusion... and annoyance when he’d started feeling her up, trying to see if what was going on was some joke and if she had ‘her’ tail and ears hidden in her clothes and hair... although she wasn’t sure if she was annoyed more over having been molested or that Minako was complaining about not getting such attention when she was apparently the main focus of the group.
Spitting into the sink, Rei couldn’t help but smirk. That was rather amusing watching Usagi and Makoto dog-pile the Senshi of Venus...
The miko’s smile disappeared as she remembered when they finally got the ‘truth’ behind the man and his story of what happened; the whole deal about a giant insectile woman bothered Rei greatly. It sounded too much like what her vision had shown her. It was what made her more ready to hear him out and listen to what he had to tell them.
And in listening, that brought more trouble. To verify his incredible story, Ami had to leave for a moment to shift into her Senshi guise for before changing back and returning with the Mercury Computer which she could only retrieve in that form. Linking it up with Zack’s own handheld computer-thing, that... ‘PokéDex’ was really disturbing. He just wanted to share information about what he was doing and get things going and get them believing him faster but what they got had been most disheartening... and freaky!
Poor, poor Mercury Computer...
Plugging in a uplink cable between her pink handheld with the Mercury sigil and the man’s own red palm pilot-like device, Ami sat down on the steps to the building. “Let’s see if we can get this going.” She then started typing a few keys and before pressing the ‘enter key’.
And then the Mercury Computer started to go through a whole series of flashing lights and loud beeping noises.
OMG!!! read the text on the screen. THE PORN! SO MUCH FUCKING PORN! OMFG THE PORN!!!!!!
Freaking out a little at getting a response like this, Ami shook the device a little. “Computer! Computer, respond please!”
OMFG! IT’S RAPING ME! THIS SHOULDN’T BE PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE! IT’S RAPING MEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! was the message the screen gave right before it went black, smoke seeping out from between the plastic casing of the unit and the computer screen itself.
Turning his head to look at the suddenly frazzled-looking blue-haired girl, the SOLDIER leaned in and asked, “It-it’s not supposed to do that... is it?”
Oh yeah... Gotta Fuck ‘em All.
Everyone just stared at the screen of Zack’s screen before turning to look at the uniformed warrior. “What the hell? I know that’s not supposed to do that!” He shouted in horror, just as bewildered by the response his PokéDex gave.
Tying her robes into place, the Shinto Priestess let off a deep sigh. Ami was frantic about the Mercury Computer; what had occurred shouldn’t have even been possible! Obviously that man’s tech had an underlying level of magic to it, much like Sailor Mercury’s computer and scanner. At first it made them consider that he might have been a new kind of Dark General or something...
Until it turned out his PokéDex had a video function and he remembered his girlfriend Aerith had made him download a music video.
A girl that looked much like Minako white cat-ears and furred tail and a very cat-like and purple-furred and feline Rei were standing side-by side on the center of a stage. Off to the left n Ami look-alike with cat-ears and similar to Minako’s was standing behind an electric keyboard while to the right of the stage was a cross between Makoto and a tiger was holding a large electric guitar. Finally, behind the cat-like Minako and Rei was Usagi... if she were an equal mix rabbit and cat sitting behind a set of drums.
There was a bit of cheering going on from the audience as the Catgirl Mineko and the Cheshire M’Rei held their microphones to their mouths and began singing.
Mineko and the Pussycats,
Long tails and ears for hats,
Guitars and marital stats,
Hot, sweet, super-cool,
Don’t you know,
Our titties rule?
Hurry, hurry!
If was then Catgirl and Cheshire each brought a free hand to their zippers, showing off considerably cleavage, not once missing a beat in the song and singing with their beautiful voices.
We’ve been going,
Over the master plan,
Driving in a custom-painted van,
Practicing for hours,
Don’t you know that,
Soon no matter,
Where you go,
We’ll be on the radio!
Both Cat-type pokégirls raised their hands and were waving them, letting out soulful ‘Oooooooohs’ as the Tigress Meowkoto was jamming even harder on her guitar. There was the small musical solo with the feline females on instruments playing. Fortunately, before the Cabbit on drums fell back and out of her seat, their solo instrumental portion was finished as Mineko and M’Rei continued singing.
Mineko and the Pussycats,
Hot lips, we’ll give you that!
Soft bottoms,
That’s a fact!
Mineko and the Pussycats!
“I love this part!” Zack told the girls leaning in to watch. The scene on the PokéDex screen showed the blonde Catgirl and the deep-purple furred Cheshire turn about face, showing their one-pieces to be thongs in the back. They each gave their butts a slap, the camera-view going in to catch the jiggle expertly.
“This...” Makoto gasped in surprise. It was good music, but... she knew she should’ve been disgusted, should have been horrified even. So why was so she actually intrigued with how ‘Meowkoto’ was very much an interesting and powerful-looking feline girl?
Blushing like crazy, Minako whispered, “I don’t think I want to be famous anymore...”
“I could’ve told you this was no good...” Ami grumbled as she tried to work on her poor computer and found difficulty in doing such. Damn think was made as one whole unit; she couldn’t find an opening in the case to try and work on it.
Sighing in annoyance, Rei shook her head as she tried to fight down the embarrassment she was feeling. Kami, this was a nightmare... but with all they had to learn had to learn from Zack’s words and his PokéDex, there was much to it. A SOLDIER Second Class, a world of monster-women that followed the elements and then some... and atop of that, there was the fact the ‘pokégirls’ needed to have sex to stay sane, lest they regress into terrible animal-like state known as being ‘Feral’.
Zack didn’t have any pokégirls himself; only three empty PokéBalls he was supposed to use when he saw a rare one; it was his duty to bring them in so they could be sold off for funding the group he was part of. It annoyed the Shinto priestess that women could be used like currency in his world of origin but there were greater, more pressing matters at hand. The possibility that what brought him to this world brought far much more.
Walking across the shrine grounds, Rei considered the possibilities of what was going on. Zack was pretty sure Cocooner had been brought along with him, and possibly even the others that had been part of his group... and any cocoons that had been close enough. It was obvious enough they were scattered. They could be endangered or worse, becoming the source of danger. She did not want to think of the chaos that could be strewn about but she had to consider her visions now. There was no ignoring it.
Shaking her head to try and clear it of the bad vibes she was getting, the Shrine Priestss of the Hikawa Shrine made her way over to the small booth on the grounds known as the omikuji or ‘sacred lottery’. Reaching over to a shelf, she held a box and shook it a few times before placing it down. Thinking about the dangers that would be facing her and her friends, he reached into the box and pulled out an omikuji. Unrolling the piece of paper to reveals the fortune written on it, the raven-haired woman winced as the paper held the kanji of dai-kyo or ‘great curse’.
“Well, crap...” Rei grumbled in annoyance. This really wasn’t her day, was it? Looking over to the building she knew Zack was currently housed at with Yuuichiro, (after meeting him, her grandfather had been oddly insistent he stay) the Shrine Priestess decided this really had to be all his fault before she made her way for the pine tree where many people had tied their bad ‘omikuji’. After all, when a prediction was bad, it was a custom to fold up the strip of paper and attach it to a pine tree in the temple grounds, the idea being that the bad luck would wait by the tree rather than attach itself to the bearer.
Making her way to the pine tree, the Shrine Priestess carefully folded her paper into a strip before choosing a space on the already covered tree to place her bad fortune. “I hope everyone will get through this okay without anything bad happening,” she whispered her prayer as she tied the slip of paper.
Unfortunately for Rei, her prayer would go unanswered. As soon as she finished tying her omikuji on the chosen spot, the tree itself began to glow with a bright yellow light, casting shadows of its branches everywhere. “What!?” The Shrine Priestess gasped as she took a few steps back from the tree, watching it in shock and horror as it... transformed.
It was an incredible and horrifying sight to behold. Branches lengthened and twisted as the truck itself became uprooted and split down the center. The tree moved itself closer to Rei as a collected of branches near the top took on a shape resembling a human face, complete with glowing red eyes. “MIKUJI!” The mutating tree seemed to roar.
Finally, the light intensified greatly as it took on a definitive female form. Purple-skinned, pointed eared and wearing a yellow robe with stirrups on her legs that were an even darker purple. While there was short orange hair close to her head, the majority of it was covered with a pair of jingle bells, each with a long red and white Shinto rope attached to them.
The creature chuckled darkly as she stared down at the Shrine Priestess with intense yellow eyes. “I will have your pure heart that worries about your friends!” The creature proclaimed before it laughed darkly.
Her arms lowering to her sides, the raven-haired woman took a deep breath. “Fuck me,” she muttered in annoyance. With the way things had been going, this was par the course, really...
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