"Usagi, transform now!" Luna snapped.
Usagi shook out of her horror expression, her face becoming one of determination. "Right. Right.." She took a deep breath in and exhaled, she slapped her cheeks as she swallowed her fear. Holding up her pink brooch, she yelled. "Moon crystal power, Make up!"
Scarlet turned her attention towards Usagi, watching her transform into Sailor Moon, a grin played across her lips as she snickered. "Oh do go on, transform. Go on, I have all day to play with my food."
Makoto got up to her feet as she groaned, she shook her head and glared dagger-like eyes at Scarlet. "Stop playing with us, you're either taking us seriously or you're not." She gritted her teeth and clinched her fists.
Scarlet chuckled softly. "You really think you can give me orders huh?" Her crimson red eyes glared at Makoto. "Well, I have to tell you. You're not the boss of me, no one is."
Makoto let the anger get to her. She rushed toward Scarlet, her balled fist thrown back to land a punch on her. "Shut up!"
"Makoto no!" Nia yelled, but her warning fell on deaf ears.
Scarlet grinned widely, stopping time with her semblance. Everything around her frozen, she maneuvered her way around the frozen area. Positioning Makoto, to have her facing Usagi. Where her fist would punch her in the face. She then walked towards Nia. Posing her and positioning her to where she would fall face first into the ground. Then, before blinking. She climbed up onto the roof of Usagi's house.
Once time had resumed after Scarlet had blinked. Makoto's fist made contact with Usagi's face. Knocking her back right after she had finished transforming into Sailor Moon. Nia fell onto the ground face first as both girls groaned in pain.
"The hell?" Makoto asked. "I didn't even mean to do that." She glanced around, looking for Scarlet as she didn't see her at first. Until she looked up seeing her casually sitting on the roof. "Get down here!"
Sailor Moon rubbed her cheek as she whined. "Ow....that hurt Mako!" She puffed her cheeks and pouted. But when she saw Makoto glance up at the roof of her house, her eyes went wide. "Hey, no fair. That's cheating!"
"Cheating? Oh please. This would be cheating." Scarlet spoke raising her hand up. "Zafkiel!" The giant golden clock appeared behind Scarlet as the clock ticked. "Let's see what to do? What to do?"
Nia stood up as she wiped her face clean of dirt, she took her glasses off and cleaned them before putting them back on. "Two can play at that. Rasiel!" She held her hand out as the book appeared in her hand. "I may not have much skill in combat like the rest of the spirits. But I won't let you hurt another person."
Scarlet smirked and threw her head back. Letting out a chilling laugh, she grinned widely and glanced down at Nia. "Out of all the spirits I have to deal with here, it's you. Listen. You're more of an appetizer...or something smaller, while the main course." Her eyes went towards Sailor Moon and Makoto. "Is just starting, but I can't have a full course meal. When there's so much missing."
Sailor Moon shivered as she hugged herself. "Ew, no. I'm not food!"
Nia scoffed as she waited, wondering what Scarlet was going to do. Her hand reached for her pen, she studied Scarlet carefully. Waiting for her next move, then all of a sudden.
"World Shaking!" A yellowish orange sphere with a light ring around it came zooming towards Scarlet, making contact with her.
"Uranus!" Sailor Moon shouted as she looked joyful and full of hope, she turned to look behind Nia, seeing Neptune and Uranus standing there. "You made it....."
"Now isn't the time to get all sappy." Makoto spoke as she held her transformation pen up. "We have bigger fish to fry." She turned her head to look back at the group. "Buy me some time, I don't want to be knocked out of mid-transformation again."
Sailor Moon, swallowing her fear again. Nodded her head. "You heard her girls. That means you as well Sister Nia."
Nia chuckled as she shook her head. "Way ahead of you on that." She ran to the back of Usagi's house and stopped, glancing around the area for a moment. "Tch, she's not back here. Then where?"
Scarlet grabbed Nia from below as she pulled her under the ground. Nia let out a startled yelp as her head was the only thing sticking up from the ground, she struggled as Scarlet's shadow loomed over her. Nia glanced up at her, her eyes looking into Scarlet's. Then the Grimm girl knelt down, grabbing Nia by the head, yanking her out of the ground and tossed her through the window of the house.
The glass shattered and broke, Nia quickly got to her feet as she went to hide. "Darn it, if this keeps up..." She then stops, her mind raced for a moment as she grins. "Actually..." She turned around, facing the broken window. Wondering if Scarlet would climb through it or not. "What's wrong, can't get me now can you? So much for being scary."
Scarlet snickered, not needing Zafkiel anymore. The giant clock vanished from behind Scarlet. She did however, take Black Rose and swing it at the wall of Usagi's house, tearing a hole into it. Right as she took a step forward. Nia grinned widely from ear to ear. "Gotcha!"
Scarlet rose an eyebrow up as she looked down at her feet. Seeing a mucky red and black quick sand like substance below her feet, she looked up at Nia as she looked confused.
"Oh right, you don't know this one. Well, sucks to be you." Nia spoke with another grin. "Ashufiriya!" The pages in Rasiel began to flip violently as the pages in the book came to a stop. "This one will do." She closed the book and chuckled. "Have fun in a fairy tale! Because this is one story you won't be escaping from."
Scarlet growled as the mucky substance pulled her down, more and more. Until it engulfed her before it vanished. Nia laughed and dusted her hands off. With a prideful smile and a twinkle in her eye, she marched out of Usagi's house looking bold and proud. "She's taken care of girls, now then...we should discuss the funeral arrangements for the fallen Sailor Scouts."
Sailor Moon nods lightly, but her. Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus didn't revert to their normal selves. Something told her, that changing back would only make it more of a challenge for later. "Yeah, we should go to Mamoru's apartment. But we shouldn't revert back to normal. I have a gut feeling something bad will happen later."
Nia, listening to what she said. Pondered for a moment, but nodded her head. She knew that Scarlet wouldn't give up on trying to find a way out of the Fairy Tale story she was in.
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"So....they're all dead..." Mamoru spoke, crossing his arms. "Chibiusa and Setsuna should be fine in the future for the time being. But making a private funeral for the girls will do. Until things are sorted with this situation."
"Agreed." Luna spoke as she sat down, her tail swaying lightly. "We should find a place to do so." She looked up at Sailor Moon. "For now, you are right. Staying in your transformed states...We need to be kept on our toes, we don't know what other chaos will be happening."
Nia, who was sitting on the sofa. Looking at the TV, her mind was racing with different scenarios on what would or may happen. Still, she couldn't let her guard down, even if it took longer for Scarlet to find her way out of the story she was trapped in.
"That little punk is going to pay for what she's done, the next time I see her. I'm going to smash her skull in." Uranus spoke with clinched fists.
Neptune silently nodded her head. "Yes, she will pay tenfold. But right now we have other matters to attend to." She closed her eyes and hummed softly.
Jupiter was angry at herself for not double checking to make sure Scarlet was dead during their first battle. She gritted her teeth and slammed her fist on the counter. "Damn it! This is all my fault! I should've double checked to see if her goose was cooked!"
"You girls don't seem to understand." Nia spoke, turning her gaze to look at the girls and Mamoru. "I may not know her personally. But, she's an immortal being. Which I assume you all figured out from fighting her, but the point is. She can't be killed, no matter what you try. Sure we're safe for now, just because I trapped her in a fairy tale story. But even then, she isn't gone for good."
"Then lets just shred whatever pages of the story she's in and be done with it." Jupiter spoke, her eyes sparking with electricity.
Nia shook her head. "That's not going to help. Even if you do rip the pages from Rasiel. It won't stop her from escaping the book."
"So what, we're just sitting ducks?" Jupiter asked. "Waiting to be roasted over an open flame and be...be, food? No thanks. I'm not going to be some freaks meal."
Nia sighed. "That's all we can do, just sit and wait."
Jupiter scoffed. "Well if one of us goes missing. Then we'll know where one of us vanished." She crossed her arms and curses under her breath.
Suddenly the room began to shake violently. The building creaked and swayed as the windows cracked and busted. Glass shattered and fell inside and outside the building, the glass rained down from the building to the street below. Damaging the vehicles, motorcycles and bikes, the civilians outside however, ran and screamed as the glass rained down.
"Please don't tell me she's back that fast..." Sailor Moon whined as she looked upset and frustrated.
Nia bit the nail on her thumb as she chewed it, but not enough to bite it off. She looked around almost in a panic. "It might be...but we can't be sure just yet."
The shadows in the room stretched out into one spot. Morphing, bubbling, rising up slowly. Mamoru quickly transformed into Tuxedo mask, throwing a red rose at the spot. The rose popped it but another one appeared. The scouts quickly began to attack each one, that appeared in the room, each time they attacked the spots and popped them. More would appear. Nia was starting to put the puzzle together as she realized something.
"She's trying to tire us all out!" Nia yelled out as she jumped back. "She's toying with us. This has to be some kind of trick she's playing."
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More and more came, but nothing came out of any of them. Not even the ones that were fully whole. But Nia remembered something, her eyes widened as the air was filled with a terrifying roar.
"The hell?" Uranus asked. "What was that?"
Sailor Moon coward as she hides behind the sofa. "A monster, but one we haven't faced before."
"A Grimm." Nia spoke. "Creatures of darkness drawn in by fear and negative emotions." She went towards the broken window and looked out. "But how?"
The room was silent, then out of the blue. Scarlet dropped down from the ceiling and landed right on top of Jupiter. "Surprise!" She pinned her down and leaned over, her tongue licking her cheek and down to her chin. "Delicious."
Jupiter struggled to get Scarlet off of her. "Damn she's heavy. How can she be so heavy for someone so small in frame size?"
Scarlet snickered as she opened her mouth and was about to bite down into Jupiter's neck. But Sailor Moon quickly rushed over and did her Sailor Moon kick. "Sailor Moon kick!" She did her flying kick as she kicked Scarlet in the head, knocking her back and off of Jupiter. "Don't you dare go eating my friends...um...I mean....no, don't eat anymore of them!"
Scarlet stumbled back and snapped her neck back into place, with a sickening crunch and crack. She regained her footing. "Oh? And here I was hoping for an electrifying treat. And yes Nia, those are Grimm...you see, I may have the ability to use Kurumi's angel. But I can still summon Grimm to my will, Salem isn't the only one who can." She watched as Jupiter got up to her feet, backing away from her to gain some space and distance.
"So, what will you do? Stop me, knowing damn well you can't, or....save those poor souls from the Grimm? Tick-Tock." Scarlet spoke as she laughed. "Now's your time to pick. Focus on me and let billions die...or save them all while I lurk in the shadows, plotting."
Uranus looked at Neptune and nodded. "We'll deal with this punk. The rest of you go save those people!"
Sailor Moon wanted to protest, but lightly nodded. Jupiter, Nia and Tuxedo Mask jumped out of the window, Sailor Moon soon followed behind them. Leaving Scarlet with Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Scarlet snickered and licked her lips, her crimson eyes glowing with a predatory look.