Chapter Two: The Priests?!?                               


The Sailor senshi were all meeting at Rei's temple and everyone but Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus were there. Gathered in a small group, they were all talking among themselves as they waited and Super Sailor Uranus sighed, looking around, "We were all supposed to be here at nine sharp. Where could they be?"

"Jupiter said she had something important to tell us." Super Sailor Moon quipped and blinked at her, playing with one of her ribbons of hair in her hands. Super Sailor Venus finally came running up followed by Super Sailor Jupiter and everyone looked at them anxiously, "Where have you guys been?"

"We had to stop off somewhere for a sec."

Super Sailor Uranus crossed her arms lightly and leaned back against a tree lightly, "Where was more important than this urgent message you had?"

Before anything could come of it, Luna stepped forward in the middle of them and looked up to Super Sailor Jupiter, "Jupiter, what was it you had to tell us?"

Blinking down at the little cat, she thought a moment, then snapped her finger and nodded, remembering what she knows, "Well, I had a weird dream last night. I saw Kage. He entered my dream and told me there's a new threat."

The name did put a different look on Super Sailor Uranus's face and she became more attentive, as Luna nodded slowly, "What kind of threat?"

"He didn't say, just that it would be very difficult to defeat them. He said only Sentaku knew, but he wouldn't tell them." The news made Luna look to Artimus and blink, and it caused some murmuring in between the senshi. Meanwhile, Super Sailor Moon started to think deeply and spaced away as the others talk, her face tightening a bit. Her mind wandered to all sorts of things and she sighed lightly, right until Super Sailor Mars yelled at her.

"Usagi! Did you hear what I said?"

She blinked wildly and looked to her with a nervous grin, "What?"

"Ugh! What an odango atama!" Despite the hollering, Luna saw the look of concern on the face of Sailor Moon. In response, she looked concerned also and tilted her head a bit, looking at the masking smile on her face.

"What's wrong, Usagi?"

Super Sailor Moon blinked a little and looked down, "I was just thinking about what the Omega Master said just before he was imprisoned in the Dark Prism." She then sighed a bit and all of the other senshi stopped talking and listened to her, "He said I would be destroyed by the ones I love the most."

Placing a comforting hand on her shoulder, Super Sailor Venus smiled a bit and looked at her, "That won't happen, Usagi-chan. Who could that be?"

"I don't know, my family, Mamoru, you guys. I just don't know."

Artimus added his thoughts as he sat down on a small stone pillar, "He was just trying to get in your head, just angry that you defeated him."

"Yeah, maybe."

Super Sailor Mercury looked up from her computer and her search for Kurai, "Do you think this new threat could be after the Prism?"

Artimus looked at her and shook his head lightly, "There isn't a person besides Sailor Moon that can take the Dark Prism out of the Silver Box. Only someone that uses the Ginzuishou can open the box." She nodded in agreement and Super Sailor Moon looked back to the temple, glaring in contempt.

"And there's no way I'm ever going to take that thing out of there."

Suddenly, an explosion in the city startled all of them and they peered at the tall buildings in the distance, a column of smoke rising between them. Super Sailor Neptune blinked and took a few shallows breaths, "What was that?"

"We'd better go check it out!"


"So do you think that will get them away?"

Fukusha peered at the raging fire from a destroyed car and smiled wickedly, nodding his head lightly as the clones around him continued the spree of destruction, "Those senshi are probably running over here right now. Get ready." The clones nodded and hid in the rubble from the explosion, waiting for the Sailor senshi to arrive. Fukusha pulled his glasses from his nose and wiped them clean, then looked around the destruction, "Remember, don't attack them head on, we only need to distract them."

A few moments later, nine figures came running up into the rubble and chaos. The police would certainly take a bit longer and they hoped to find out what happened before them. After spanning out a bit into the smoke and dust, Super Sailor Venus covered her mouth with her hand and coughed a bit, "What could have done this much damage?"

"Well, well, the Super Sailor senshi. What a pleasant surprise."

The nine of them turned to find a single figure in the dust, grinning at them wickedly. Super Sailor Moon stepped forward and clenched her fist at the figure, "Who's there?" All of the clones jumped out and surrounded them, then Fukusha stepped out of the dust and slowly pushed his glasses back onto his nose.

"You Sailor senshi are finished."

Without another word, the clones attacked viciously and as the Sailor senshi defended themselves, the clones swerved away so the senshi couldn't hit them. Every punch, kick and energy attack just missed the clones as they charged and retreated in waves to keep them confused, "What are they up to? They're coming at us but they aren't attacking full force." Super Sailor Jupiter growled and narrowed her eyes as she tried to attack a clone. The clone quickly leapt back and took shots at her, but only enough to keep her on her defense. The group of clones continued to do this strategy while the senshi could only wonder what they are doing.


Back at Rei's temple, the four hooded figures approached the door, sliding it open and walking inside silently. They began to look around and one of them placed its hand on a wall, sliding it open to a secret room. In the room, a brilliant silver box sat on a table surrounded by some of Rei's anti-evil scrolls and a few candles to light the dim room. The box glowed intensely and had what appears to be an indention in the lid that resembles the Ginzuishou. The four figures walked up to it and, as one of the figures tried to touch the box, a burst of energy shocked the figure's hand. They looked at each other in defeat, but a voice suddenly spoke from inside the box, a distorted sound of the Omega Master.

"So, you are finally here. I hoped I had enough time to finish the project." The figures shared a telepathic link to the box and the voice laughed lightly, "So I see, I didn't have the time to completely finish. Not to worry, once you find the Sailor senshi, you will be able to gain all that you need." A moment of silence passed as they linked to him more and the voice spoke again, "I am aware of the box that keeps you from obtaining the Prism. Sailor Moon, no matter how incompetent she is, is very powerful and in this case, very clever. Only she can remove the Prism from the box." The flames of the candles flickered lightly and another moment of silence passed, "I have a plan to remedy the situation. A familiar force will soon be returning to this world and I have an ingenious plan to serve both of our needs. In three days, you will need to go......"


The Super Sailor senshi were getting a little frustrated because of these clones and stressed out a bit, glaring at them as they regroup, "What are they doing? How can we beat them when they won't even get close enough for us to attack them?!" Super Sailor Jupiter's yelling made Fukusha grin and get ready to attack once more when a telepathic order entered his mind. He suddenly waved off the others and stood normal, waving a bit to the senshi.

"There, that will do. Wee you around, senshi."

All of the other clones suddenly disappeared into the alleys and streets of the city, and Fukusha laughed a bit, stepping backwards into the smoke and disappearing from their sight. The Super Sailor senshi stare in disbelief and stand normal a bit, though very confused. Super Sailor Jupiter looked at Super Sailor Moon and punched her hand, "Those guys are making me mad! They wouldn't even get close enough to fight."

"They're acting very strange. Almost as if they were distracting......." Super Sailor Moon trailed and suddenly realized something, her blue eyes widening greatly, "The Prism!"

She suddenly started to run towards the temple and the other senshi blinked a bit. The other senshi suddenly ran after her and Super Sailor Uranus caught up to her easily, "They can't get the Prism out of the box, right? Only you can open the box."

"I know, but I don't want to take any chances!" Super Sailor Moon sucked it up as she ran and they all reached the temple finally. They ran into the room with silver box to found everything as it should be, a bit surprising to them all.

Letting out a quick breath, Super Sailor Uranus looked annoyed and crossed her arms, "After the Prism, huh?"

Super Sailor Moon narrowed her eyes and stared at the box, "What are you plotting?" That same voice floated into the air from the box and had a sarcastic tone to it.

"Me? Plotting something from inside this cursed Prism? I don't know what you are talking about."

Super Sailor Mars didn't like the tone he was using and abruptly stepped in, "We were attacked by the last of your clones, but they were only attacking us enough to keep us away from the temple."

"Attacked by my clones? Oh, how terrible. I hope you aren't too upset with me."

"Ugh! If you weren't in that Prism I'd...." She couldn't finish her sentence and glared at the box, obviously very annoyed by the Prism and its inhabitant.

That only brought an amused tone into the voice and the box glowed a bit, "You'd what? Teach me a lesson? Feel free to let me out and I'll be happy to learn." She clenched her fists and stormed outside, leaving the voice to chuckle lightly, "I hope I didn't upset her."

The rest of the senshi walked out after her and Super Sailor Moon closed the door quietly, then followed also. They went outside and found Super Sailor Mars storming about, "I don't see why we don't just bury that stupid Prism in the deepest hole."

Super Sailor Pluto rested her hand on her Garnet Orb staff and watched her, "The only way we can make absolutely sure he stays in that Prism is to keep him where only we know where he is."

"Well, I'd sure like to send him to the moon." Super Sailor Venus added and then smiled at Super Sailor Moon, "No pun intended."

She just smiled back and then looked back to Super Sailor Mars, "We still need to figure out what those clones were up too." Just then Luna and Artimus came walking in with horrified looks on their faces, making them all look to the small cats. Super Sailor Moon blinked and set a hand on her hip, "What is wrong with you two?"

"While you were gone, we had four intruders that went into the Silver Box room."

Super Sailor Moon just laughed and put her hands on her hips proudly, "I told you the Omega Master is up to something!"

"That's not all." The girls looked at Artimus and he gave Luna a sideward glance before looking back at them, "They were dressed in hoods and cloaks. The exact same as the Priests wore."

"What?"

Super Sailor Mars shook her head in disbelief and threw her hand through the air, "How can the Priests still be alive? We each saw the Shadow senshi destroy them!"

Luna only shook her head and sighed, "I don't know. And it looks like they'll stop at nothing to retrieve the Omega Master."





    > Next Chapter: A Force to be Reckoned With