Meanwhile... high above the
world, Nehelenia
[whom Sailor Moon had defeated at the end of SuperS series] floated in
a
dark void. Her only thought was that her beauty would
be preserved forever in this timeless place. Suddenly Nehelenia heard a voice. It said that her beauty should not be locked away. "Who's there," exclaimed Nehelenia. "The one who will grant your wishes," came the reply. |
The seal around Nehelenia shattered and she found herself floating free above the city lights! | Back in the park, Artemis was crying because Diana was leaving with Rini. Rini held up the Time Key and invoked its magic. A pink column of light started to shine down around her. |
Nehelenia saw the beam of light and realized it was a Sailor Soldier power. Using her own powers she looked down at the park and recognized Serena and Darien. Nehelenia was furious. Until now, she had believed that Sailor Moon and Sailor Mini-Moon had died from their long fall at the end of their last battle. | The strange voice came to
Nehelenia again. It said that only Nehelenia deserved be the Queen of
the Earth. Nehelenia wanted revenge on Sailor Moon. Nehelenia screamed
in anger and her own dream mirror came out of her chest (just like
in SuperS series). The strange voice said that Nehelenia should
shatter the mirror. Nehelenia did so and thousands of mirror shards
showered down towards the Earth. Nehelenia looked down towards the
surface with an expression full of hate. |
Down in the Juuban park the sky was filled with what looked like shooting stars. Rini and Serena thought they were pretty but Raye said they gave her a bad feeling. Amy and Darien thought there were too many to be a normal meteor shower. As everyone looked up, one of the tiny shards fell straight towards them. Suddenly Darien felt something fall into his eye. |
Seeing Darien react, Serena asked if he was okay. Darien assured her that he was, but for a second Serena thought she saw a strange golden glint in his eye. Just as Serena was about to press the point, the time tunnel magic suddenly failed. The column of light around Rini wavered, then flickered out completely. Everyone was left wondering what had happened. | In another part of the city, Amara and Michelle were at their favorite spot- the indoor aquarium. They decided to go up to the rooftop patio. When they got there, people watching the strange meteor shower. Most thought they lights were beautiful but Amara and Michelle sensed some dark power in them. In her talisman mirror Michelle saw a dark shadow moving over the moon, but then the image was gone. | Suddenly people began to cry out
in pain. They had been struck by the tiny mirror shards. A shard
clipped Amara and cut her hand. Michelle sucked on the wound and spat
out a crystal shard into her hankerchief. Instinctively, Amara
knocked the crystal shard away. The shard began to grow rapidly! |
From the piece of mirror shard,
a dark blue figure- gleaming as
though made of crystal or glass- began to form. The shape of the
figure resembled Nehelenia. Other crystals also sprouted from where
they had landed on the rooftop and soon a dozen crystal figures
surrounded
Amara and Michelle in a threatening manner. "Dead.... Scream..." A sphere of purplish light cut across the night and shattered the sinister crystal figures. |
Sailor
Pluto appeared before them! In her arms she held a small bundle.
Michelle
and Amara were astonished to see Sailor Pluto as they had believed her
lost. Sailor Pluto said that she had seen a terrible distortion in the
timeline and so had returned to the normal world. Then Amara spotted
the bundle in Pluto's arms and realized it was baby Hotaru. Sailor
Pluto
said she had retrieved her from Professor Tomoe. Pluto said they would
soon need Hotaru's power. However, there was a more pressing
problem. The shattered crystal figures had begun to regrow! |
Sailor Pluto said that Amara and
Michelle should
transform immediately. The girls drew their transformation wands
and changed into Sailor forms. Pluto carefully laid baby Hotaru behind
herself in a nearby flowerbed. Sailor Pluto, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Uranus battled a seemingly endless onslaught of crystal figures. Whenever they destroyed one, new figures were generated from the broken shards! The three Sailor Warriors were quickly becoming outnumbered. Continue... |