Saturn in front, holding her glaive ready. Up until it got completely black in the tunnel at least. "Uhm. I don't suppose we have a Sailor Flashlight do we?"
"Not quite," said Sailor Venus, producing a handheld unit. "I just took a torch from Target and slapped a couple of Sailor V stickers on it."
"A torch? Oh, a flashlight," said Sailor Moon, attempting to look all around her and incidently not touch anything too gross and disgusting. Which was getting more difficult the further they went in.
"We shouldn't have to go far," said Sailor Venus. "After all, it's always darkest before the cookie crumbles!"
"Ehhh?" Moon asked, trying to figure out what the heck that was supposed to be.
"Four way intersection," said Saturn. "Right, left, or straight ahead?"
"Which is the least messy?" Moon asked.
"Right," said Saturn after inspecting the paths.
"Then lets go right!" Moon proclaimed.
"Good idea," said Venus. "The villain will want his torture chamber to be clean, right? Even a samurai wears a square hat in April!"
"Uh huh," said Moon, trying to figure that one out. "Oh. That's 'Wear a square hat in Osaka, a round hat in Tokyo' isn't it?"
The splashing through the tunnels went on for a few minutes.
"Isn't that it, Venus-chan?"
Saturn stopped. Moon looked behind her into the darkness. "Venus-chan?"
"I'll go back and look for her, stay here," said Saturn, hefting her Glaive.
"In the dark?!" Sailor Moon had some problem with this.
"Let's try this," compromised Sailor Saturn. "Silence Glaive Surprise!"
The ball of crackling mana receded down the tunnel, eventually hitting something.
"That got it?" asked Sailor Saturn, hopefully.
"What's that rushing noise?" asked Sailor Moon. "It sounds like a lot of... water?"
Tuxedo Kamen tried to pick himself off the floor, but knew already he was in trouble. The girl had superhuman strength and wasn't making a lot of sense. Therefore she was a youma or Dark General. Glowing meant likely she was a Dark General. Unfortunately his attacks were just not "front-line fighter" sort of things. He could occasionally hold his own for brief periods but he was someone who supported himself by working odd jobs while going to college, and he didn't get a lot of workout time to build up endurance beyond what he got bussing tables.
"Would it help if I apologized?" Tuxedo Kamen asked, throwing one of his energy-disrupting armor-piercing roses at the Dark General.
Unfortunately, this reminded her of Kuno and she had a lot of experience batting roses out of the air. Akane got angrier. "It'd help if you hold still just a moment."
Tuxedo Kamen scrambled backwards, seeing the Dark General leap down the stairs in a flying front kick that had his name on it.
"World SHAKING!"
A yellow ball of mana went through the Tendo front door, slamming into Akane's outstretched foot and then exploding in a manner that took out a fair amount of the staircase.
Above, a computer screensaver clicked off as the noise was picked up. (Yes, her speaker/microphone collection was a cheap variety.) Uh oh. That sounds like trouble?
Akane zipped back up the hallway and into her room in the manner of an unbalanced projectile and managed to completely obliterate a large ceramic Hello Kitty that she'd just gotten two days previously.
The sight of the airborne Akane had disturbed Ranma but he felt a curious ambivalence on seeing what her landing had destroyed. He was then distracted by the fact that he was wearing that battle-gi again but he couldn't remember doing so since changing to his boxers for bed.
"Akuryo Taisan!" could be heard in the yard below, but Ranma didn't have time for that. Instead he had to deal with the guy with the blonde hair coming up through the dust cloud obscuring the stairs.
"Moko Takabisha!" declared Ranma, throwing lightning at his opponent. Then staring at it because that manuever usually didn't produce a bolt of lightning that picked up the intruder and threw him back down the stairs. He could easily sum it up though. "COOL!"
Uhm, excuse me? Hello?
Uranus picked herself up and produced her Space Sword. "Okay, they've got some fairly powerful youma here. Mars, did you finish off that fanged one?"
Mars shook her head. "He got away somehow. I lost track of him and ended up scorching someone's pig."
"That explains all the pained squealing running around the neighborhood," said Tuxedo Kamen. "I think we've confirmed its a nest of youma. We'll have to get the others and return."
(Posted Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:02)
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