Sailor Moon Awakening
and the fire reader will end the old evil and the older good will return to
take its place as
lord of the winged ones...
-Prophesy of the Sol Codex
Chapter 10, The Breath of Fire
She knew it was this one. She cold sense the evil emitting from this place.
Of all
of the islands she had passed only this one stood out. An almost tangible
evil hovered
around the slopes of the now dormant volcano. Rei rowed right into the cave,
a tunnel
trough which lava once flowed, one could only guess how long ago. As she
moved
further into the dark tunnel she ran aground. Rei transformed and continued
on foot. As
she went down into the deep cavern the temperature rose to an unbearable
level, but it
did not bother her. In fact as the heat grew so did her strength.
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There was a knocking on the door. Kioku sat up startled as he strained to
sense
who it was. The power he sometimes tried so hard to suppress had now left
him. It came
and went in the most annoying fashion. He had learned to focus this new
sense, to be able
to use it for what he needed and not to be distracted by unimportant
information that
concerned him not. But he could not use it now, why? What had his father
said so long
ago.
"You must be calm at peace. Beware anger fear aggression darkness are
they,
quickly do they join you in a fight, a great cloud they create, confuse your
thinking it
will, but let it rise and it will dissolve away."
Fear that was what he
felt, and why not?
Such power should cause fear. He did not know to what extent his powers
went. Or if he
could contain them. The knock came again. No time to clear his mind Kioku
just went to
the door. It was Urawa Ryo. He was dressed in gi, but instead of the
traditional white his
was dyed blue. He carried a sword wrapped in a cloth so as not to draw
attention to it.
"I have come to continue my training."
"So we meat again my old friend." Kioku answered. Old friend indeed Kioku
laughed, a thousand years was a long time to wait.
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The monster lay sleeping on its bead of ill-gotten treasure. Sailor Mars
moved
quietly into the cavern past the sleeping dragon's nose. Unfortunately
either she did not
know or she had forgotten how keen a dragons sense of smell was. The beast
rose at once
blowing fire straight at her.
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Kioku and Ryo sat talking to each other. Booth tired from the long training
session.
"How do you deal with it?" Kioku asked. "You ability to see the future."
"A good friend once told me that a person makes there own destiny, I only
see
what current events may lead to." Ryo smiled
"I was wrong once, and I'm glad of that. To know that what I see is not
always
certain, that is what allows me to deal with what I know."
"I see." Kioku answered. "I stopped trying to see my own future, always in
motion
is the future, It is difficult to see and I know little about the it, but I
can sometimes know
what is happening now, and sometimes I would rather not know."
"I do not understand."
"Well lets say I know that two bad things are happening and that I can fix
either
one, how do I choose?"
"Perhaps it is not for you to fix everything. Maybe you should talk to Rei
or her
Grandfather about this. They both can sense things at times."
"So that's how he knew!" Ryo just nodded as he stood to leave.
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Rei flinched as fire poured around the bolder she was hiding behind. She
had used
every attack she knew and they did no damage to the dragons scaly hide.
Almost like iron
the scales seamed to shine in the dull red light.
"Well no use hiding." She jumped out from behind the rock. "Burning
Mandala!"
rings of fire rushed towards the huge lizard. When the smoke cleared the
dragons hind
paws and tail were stuck in the rubble from a collapsed wall. Rei ran for it
but the dragon
was too fast. It grabbed her in its fore claw and picked her up. Rei managed
to grab a
long curved stick as she was lifted into the air. She almost feinted from
the smell as the
beast opened wide its jaws and placed her in its mouth. Rei looked in horror
as it began
to close its mouth, two large fangs heading down towards her. She looked at
the stick in
her hand than jammed it back into the creatures throat, propping open its
mouth. It began
to gag running in circles as it tried to dislodge the annoying staff. Rei
looked closely at it
realizing that it was a bow, and it was already strung. Rei held out her
hand to find that a
long arrow had materialized out of nowhere. It had red feathers attached to
a ruby shaft
and a head that appeared to be made of fire. Rei fitted it to the string and
looked down
the creatures throat. She pulled back and let the arrow fly down into the
dragon's lungs. It
gagged and coughed. Rei fell out of its mouth and hit the ground. She
drifted quietly into
unconsciousness.
Far away over the Pacific the flying hordes lost strength
and fell forever
into the depths of the sea.
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Slowly Rei got up. How long had she been out? She looked over at the
smoldering scaly skin, all that was left of the evil demon lord of the
dragons. She tried to
un-transform but she couldn't.
"Well I should have known." Rei said out loud. She walked over and picked
up
the bow. It's wood was of a red tint and it shrank in her hand until it fit
nicely into the bag
she had brought with her. The crystal itself glowed and flickered like it
was burning on
the inside. She put it into her bag, and got out a change of clothes and the
white bandanna
that Ami had given her. She walked back to the opening of the cave only to
find the
canoe gone.
"Great now what do I do!" She sat down to think but she sensed something.
Something large right behind her. She spun around. It was another Dragon
white as snow.
Its scales looked like feathers, except for the ones on it's head that were
orange and
looked like hair. This was the Mystic White Dragon, and it was Rei's ride
home.
Author: Greg of the 3rd Rainbow Crystal
