Senshi Kurai
Part 10: Solar Eclipsed
Jackie Chiang
http://sailorneptune.simplenet.com

Quick Copyright notes: This is a fanfic based on Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon,
 an anime/manga created by Takeuchi Naoko.  Characters belong to her and
 all others associated with rights [Toei, Bandai, Kodansha, etc], but the storyline,
 ideas, and any other characters are created by me.  1997 - Jackie Chiang



"They went to the dark side, my Queen," Hecate murmured, tears 
brimming in her eyes.  "They left me... us.  Why would they do that?"

"Hecate," Metallia answered, "they are being manipulated.  They have 
been corrupted.  The only way to uncorrupt them is to..." She paused.

Hecate glanced up, shocked.  "But Metallia!"

Metallia glared.  "You are starting to bore me, Hecate.  Do as I say!" 
She waved her hand in front of Hecate.

A black mist enveloped the girl.  The other's eyes glowed as she laughed
 maniacally.  "Hai.  We must kill them."

Metallia nodded approvingly, and Hecate left.  Laughing, Metallia 
glanced at the viewer, her link to the outside world.  After all this time 
of waiting, she could now complete her task.  Beryl had been a fool; she
 knew that, and that is why before giving her her power, Metallia had 
copied herself.  She had cloned herself into the shape of a girl, who, if
 needed, would carry on her mission.  She was this girl, and she knew 
what had to be done.  Soon, the universe would be hers, and she could 
get rid of the Senshi Kurai _and_ the Sailor Senshi!


"What a lovely day for a picnic," Hotaru said, scanning across the park.  
There were people everywhere, eating and talking and laughing.  
Fortunately, there was enough room so that they would have privacy anyway.

Airashii nodded.  "It's nice and warm out." She flipped her dark blue hair
 over her shoulder.  The others watched and privately compared her hair 
with Michiru's.

Both girls had lovely, wavy hair that fell past their shoulders.  Michiru 
liked wearing a headband, and Airashii preferred a small bow in back.  
The odd side effect of being twins was, well, odd.  Whenever Michiru's 
hair was dark green, Airashii's was dark blue.  And when Michiru's was 
dark blue, Airashii's was dark green.  On occasion, their hair were the 
same colors, but it was one of the strangest things any of the others had 
seen in their lives.  They both liked gorgeous, elegant clothes.  To be 
honest, they could have worn paper bags and still would have looked 
beautiful.  (Yes, there is a bias here...)

Seikyu and Haruka looked almost exactly alike.  They too liked the same
 style of clothing- fashionable, male clothes generally, or comfortable, 
stylish, feminine ones.  The only way to tell them apart was the fact that
 Seikyu wore her gold hoops in public, while Haruka did not, and that 
Seikyu's hair was more white than blond.  Both were arrogant, take charge, 
irrational girls.

Usagi was silent.  She felt better, now that she knew that there was a 
chance that they could rescue their friends, but she was still uneasy.

Airashii smiled reassuringly.  Pushing her hair out of her eyes, she 
smiled gently.  "Princess, we will get them back."

"All of them," Shizuka added.  Seikyu and Nintai regarded her, knowing
 who else she meant.


Airashii and Michiru were playing a duet; it was so lovely that people
 walking by stopped to listen.  Soon a crowd had gathered by, enjoying 
the sound of the music flowing over them.

"They're wonderful!" one woman exclaimed to another.

"Hai," the second girl answered shortly.  The first one, put off by her 
unenthusiastic mood, went to talk to another person.

Pushing her shades higher up on her nose, the girl frowned.  She brushed
 her golden hair off her shoulder.  It was too bad that they were Sailor 
Senshi.  She would have liked to have listened to them some more.  
Well, that was life.  Her job was to kill them, as soon as possible.  
Then she could be free again, free from her wretched imprisonment that bound her to the princess Hecate...


Seikyu looked up suddenly, her glance moving from the two girls 
to the crowd.  Someone was there...  Haruka too was watching the 
crowd with a controlled expression on her face.  They were discreet, 
as not to alarm the Prince and Princess, who were peacefully listening 
to the music.

The other two Sailor Senshi and two Magic Senshi knew something 
was wrong as well.  Setsuna narrowed her eyes, her gaze falling onto
 a girl with shades, obscuring her eyes, and her golden hair streaming
 down back, held back with a yellow bow.  That was the presence 
felt...  Who was she?

The girl frowned, as if knowing that she was spotted.  She slowly turned 
away, disappearing into the crowd.

Hotaru shook her head.  "Whoever she is, we will find out soon enough," she 
said softly.  The others nodded.


"Name?" the woman didn't look up.

The girl frowned, her golden eyes flicking , annoyed.  "Apol-" She paused.

"Nani?"

"Taiyo Asa (morning sun)," she amended quickly.

"Take a seat." The woman flicked her hand disinterestedly to the full room of 
people waiting to get tickets to the concert.

"No," Asa said, her voice oddly fierce.

"Nani?" the woman finally looked up.  The girl smiled, leaning forward.

"Why don't we just skip all of this?" Asa murmured soothingly.  The woman's eyes 
grew hazy.

"Hai." The woman printed out a ticket for Asa, giving it to her.

"Arigato." Asa nodded, walking away, while others started to argue with the confused 
woman on why the other girl had gotten a ticket for free.


"A quartet?" Nintai said dubiously.  "You, Seikyu, Airashii and Michiru?"

Haruka shrugged, grinning.  "The tickets are all sold out, and they haven't even
 been on sale for five hours.  Michiru and I are well known."

Seikyu reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out six tickets for the rest
 of them.  "It's tonight at 6."

Usagi smiled excitedly.  "This is going to be so much fun!  Right, Mamo-chan?"

Mamoru smiled.  Usagi was finally cheering up.  "Hai."

Hotaru gazed thoughtfully at Usagi, but said nothing.  It was better this way; it 
was better that Usagi not discover what the rest of them knew.  She was in 
enough pain already.


"Suiren Airashii (captivating water lily)," Poseidon said, pointing to herself after 
things had settled out.  "That's my Terran name."

"And I am Kaze Seikyu (impetuous wind)," Sunaru added.

The two girls detransformed into their now normal Earth forms.  They made 
a striking pair, Seikyu tall and handsome, Airashii elegant and beautiful.

Usagi looked at them cautiously.  "Do you know how to get our friends back?"
 she asked quietly.

Seikyu and Airashii exchanged glances.

"They are being held captive in a cell in the castle.  I put the spell on it myself," 
Airashii explained.  She turned red from embarrassment at her role in what
 had happened.

Shizuka gave her a comforting hug.  "It's all right, Airashii," she murmured.  
"We understand."

Nintai nodded.  "Hai."

Seikyu continued.  "They are going to expect us, and until we find another way 
to get there, our help is useless."

Usagi looked deflated.  Mamoru put his arm around her.  "We'll find a way, 
Usako," he said.

"Why don't you take Usagi-chan home, Mamoru-san?" Hotaru said suddenly.  
She knew that there was much more to be said; Usagi was not prepared 
emotionally for this though.

Mamoru led Usagi away, and the others watched until they disappeared.

They then went to the Crown Fruit Parlor to have some tea.

Michiru, Airashii, Setsuna, and Nintai had red tea; Hotaru and Shizuka 
had herbal tea; Haruka and Seikyu were trying the hibiscus tea.

Sipping daintily, Airashii paused.  "We didn't want Usagi-chan to know 
that this is much more dangerous than it seems."

"How so?" Michiru asked thoughtfully.  She ate a cookie that she had bought.

"It's not so simple to get in," Seikyu said.  "Since Shizuka-chan and 
Nintai-chan left, the castle defenses have been upped twenty times.  In 
order to break in, it would take a massive amount of force; a force which 
we do not currently possess."

Nintai and Shizuka were shocked.  They knew that this would have 
happened, but 20 times stronger??

"We are also most likely being watched by the Senshi Kurai," the girl 
continued.  "So we must be prepared for any attack.  Now they won't 
spare us; they attack to kill."

They allowed the others to take in the impact of what they had said.  
The girls sipped their tea, thinking.

"We also don't want her to know about Gaia..." Airashii murmured.  
She exchanged a glance with the Magic Senshi.

"Gaia?" Hotaru asked.

"She's one of the commanders," Nintai said, looking uncomfortable.  
"I think that Shizuka-chan and I forgot about her."

"Who is she?" Haruka demanded.  "Why is this important?"

Shizuka looked down into her swirling tea.  "Gaia isn't exactly a regular
 commander...  She's a normal human.  We brainwashed her."

"Brainwashed?" Michiru repeated, startled.  "That means that her 
evil is superficial..."

"Hai." Her twin nodded.  "But what you don't know is that she 
was one of your friends."

"Nani??"

"She's Terra," Seikyu said flatly.  She set her tea cup down.  "Yukiru Terra.  
She has no memory of her past, and she only knows that she hates all of you."

The Outer Senshi sat in stunned silence.

"Terra-chan is..." Hotaru whispered.  "I don't believe it..."

"Yet it all fits together..." Michiru said thoughtfully.  "That is why she 
acted so strangely around us.  She must have been brainwashed at that time."

"And it would explain why we never see her around school any more," 
Haruka added.

"Usagi is at a point where she can't receive any new bad news." Nintai's 
voice was firm.

"Hai." The girls acknowledged that they would not tell Usagi anything 
that she did not need to know.

"I've been wondering..." Shizuka said.  She stirred her tea around.  "Who 
was that girl who helped Airashii and Seikyu?"

"Yes, this she a mystery." Michiru propped her chin upon her hands.  "Who 
was she?  Why was she helping us?  Where did she come from?"

Nintai shook her head, her green hair falling into her eyes.  Pushing them away, 
she stared out the window.  "Another enigma..."

They, by tacit agreement, began to talk of other trivial things, and the twins 
started to rediscover each other.


"Well, well." Ares's voice was mocking.  "The perfect Outer Senshi Kurai 
have all left us.  Says a lot, ne?"

"Shut _up_," Hermes snapped angrily.  She slapped the girl across the face.

Zeus and Aphrodite stared in shock.  Hermes rarely lost her temper, and 
she never hit anyone in her life.

Ares started to cry.  "How could you hit me?" she whined.  "Hermes, 
you were always nice to me!"

Hermes looked in bewilderment at what she had done.  "I don't know...  
Gomen nasai, Ares!" She ran out of the room.

Hecate ignored the scene.  "Minna-chan," she said, her voice tilting 
oddly, to the rest of the girls and the two cats.  "I have sent Apollo 
to deal with our enemies right away."

"You want her to capture them?" Zeus asked, assuming that this 
was the case.

"No," Hecate laughed strangely.  "She won't be so kind."

Aphrodite looked up, aghast.  Even Ares was shocked.

"You don't mean...?"

Hecate giggled.  "Of course.  She'll kill them."

"Hecate..." Aphrodite said.  "Are you all right?  You're not acting 
like yourself..."

"Then what am I acting like?" the girl titled her head, smiling as if 
Aphrodite had said something amusing.

Cynthia frowned, speaking for the first time since she had entered 
the room.  "Hecate, you should get some sleep."

Phoebe nodded.  "Hai, Cynthia is right, for once."  He twitched his 
tail, agitated.

"I feel wonderful," Hecate murmured, laughing.  "And soon we _all_ 
will be happy."


"Haruka, get a _grip_ on yourself," Michiru said.  She literally 
dragged her partner away from the boy who she was hitting.  The 
boy had simply started talking to Michiru, and Haruka took that he was 
flirting with her.

Airashii giggled.  "Haruka, you're too possessive."  Then she spied a girl 
talking to Seikyu.  Angrily she marched over there and pulled Seikyu 
away, giving the girl a stay-away-from-my-girlfriend look.

Seikyu was bewildered.  "What did I do?" she asked.

"She was flirting with you!" Airashii snapped.

Haruka and Michiru laughed.  Anyone else would have seen that Seikyu 
hadn't been interested in the girl, except for the jealous Airashii.

Hotaru smiled, and she watched as a butterfly went by.  Turning to see where 
it would go, she noticed out of the corner of her eye the same girl whom 
she had seen the day before.  Her lovely golden hair swirled around her face, 
and her smile was contemptuously amused.  Her eyes were shaded by her 
glasses, and she wore a gold dress.

"She's there." The voice was calm.  Hotaru glanced at her sister.

"Hai, I know."

The girl smiled maliciously and walked away.

"What does she want?"

"Us."


She stood still, her eyes perfectly calm, watching the girls.  Amusing, 
that was the word.  They were _amusing_.  So naive, so innocent.  
One of the girls, Saturn, turned.  She knew that she saw her.

They both knew.  She smirked.  Well, well, well.  They _were_ bright, 
after all.  Saturn's eyes flashed dangerously.  Her smirk didn't fade.  
I do believe I have met my match in these Outer Senshi.  Turning on 
her heel, she disappeared.


Nintai, Setsuna, Shizuka, Hotaru, Usagi, and Mamoru stepped off the bus
 in front of the music hall.  Nintai wore a black strapless dress, while Setsuna
 went for one with the spaghetti straps (whatever they are).  Shizuka had on a
 cute purple dress, and Hotaru's was more violet.  Usagi wore a pink strapless 
dress, and Mamoru had on (no, not a dress, baka) a black tuxedo.

"This is the place." Shizuka's voice held a great deal of interest.  This was her 
first time to such an elegant event in over 1000 years.

"Let's go inside," Hotaru said excitedly, dragging her sister by the hand 
towards the front entrance.

Shizuka and the others laughed, following Hotaru inside.


"This color really isn't me," Airashii said doubtfully.  She twirled around, the 
blue silk swirling around her ankles.

Michiru walked into the room, laughing softly.  She wore the same style dress 
as her sister, except it was made of green silk.  "You look beautiful, Airashii," 
she assured her sister.

"Hai," Seikyu said, moving to her partner's side and giving her a kiss 
on the forehead.

"Let's get going," Haruka said after straightening her jacket.

"Hai," the others agreed.


Asa grinned, watching the building wearing a long, strapless white dress.  
"Show time..."  (Yes, this is copying Eudial's line.  So what?)


The audience was full of elegantly dressed, rich music lovers from all across 
the world.  Haruka and especially Michiru's talents had been talked about by 
the elite in Japan and other places.

"Sugoi!" Usagi exclaimed when she saw how full the theater was.

"There are so many people!" Hotaru said.

"Our seats are over there, near the front," Setsuna said, pointing to the 
second row.

They went to their seats and sat down.  The lights dimmed, and the four girls 
walked onto the stage.  Haruka and Seikyu sat down at separate pianos, and 
Michiru and Airashii already had their violin and viola ready.  They started to play.

The audience was silent, enthralled by the beautiful music.  Lovely sounds 
floated throughout the entire theater, and the four girls wove a spell over
 the audience.  Haruka and Seikyu stopped, and Michiru and Airashii 
continued to play alone, a stringed duet, a soft, warming melodic piece.  
Then Seikyu and Haruka rejoined them.  Michiru and Airashii stopped, and 
Haruka and Seikyu played their duet in an incredibly moving, fast piece.  
It was a wonderful contrast of gentle elegance to rash, daring impetuousness, 
characterizing Michiru with Haruka and Airashii with Seikyu.

When they had finished, they received a standing ovation.  Roses and
 other flowers were thrown onto the stage, and the four girls bowed.  The 
audience sat back down as the musicians left the stage, except for one 
person.  Everyone around her started whispering.

"What's going on?" Nintai said, turning around.

"It's that girl!" Hotaru gasped, immediately recognizing Asa.

Asa smiled, laughing mockingly.  She stared directly at the Sailor Senshi.  
With a wave of her hand, all the people around her started fainting and 
falling asleep in their chairs.

"Minna, henshin yo!" Usagi said.  "Moon Crisis, Make-Up!"

"Saturn Crystal Power, Make-Up!" Hotaru yelled, holding up her 
henshin stick.

"Cronus Crystal Power, Make-Up!" Shizuka yelled, her henshin stick 
in the air.

"Pluto Crystal Power, Make-Up!" Setsuna yelled, grasping her henshin
 stick.

"Hades Crystal Power, Make-Up!" Nintai yelled as she held up her 
henshin stick.

"Tuxedo Kamen Power, Make-... Errr..." Mamoru blushed and ran off
 to wherever the heck he usually goes.

(Usagi did her usual SuperS sequence, so no need for description.)

Hotaru's Silence Glaive appeared in her hands, and she was nude and a 
faint purple.  Thousands of purple ribbons emerged from her Silence Glaive, 
wrapping themselves around her as she spun around, her eyes closed.  
The ribbons formed her Sailor fuku, and with a flash of purple light, she 
was fully clothed.  She smiled gently and opened her eyes, flipping her 
short hair over her shoulder.  The light purple lipstick glimmered and 
vanished off her lips, and she landed saying, holding her Silence Glaive 
in her left hand, "Sailor Saturn!"

Shizuka's transformation was similar, beginning with her Tranquillity Spear in 
both hands in the air.  Darker purple ribbons flew out of the tip as she spun the 
Spear around her nude body.  They covered her, and disappeared with a burst of 
dark light.  She smiled softly, the purple lipstick glittering, then floating off her 
lips.  She landed with the Tranquillity Spear held at an angle (about 60 degrees) 
with both hands.  She said, "Sailor Cronus!"

Setsuna whirled her henshin stick around her body as she whirled, causing a 
funnel of liquid to rise up.  As the funnel surrounded her, she crossed her 
arms over her chest, and the funnel closed at the top.  When she reappeared, 
her Time Staff was in her left hand, and her eyes were closed.  Her green hair 
floated around her and the lipstick glowed on her quietly calm smile.  She 
landed on the ground saying, "Sailor Pluto!"

Nintai twirled her henshin stick around her body, and a black mist floated 
around her, covering her until she was unable to be seen.  The next second, 
she was back, her sweet smile being done with red lipstick, and her Chronos 
Staff was held up above her head with her right hand.  "Sailor Hades!"

"I am the pretty sailor suited soldier, Sailor Moon.  Tsuki ni kawatte, oshiokiyo!" 
Sailor Moon said, doing her pose thing.

"Sailor Senshi," Asa said, smiling.  "I'm glad you are so compliant."

"Who are you?" Cronus snapped.  She held her Tranquillity Spear pointed
 at Asa.

"I am the last of the Sun Quintet," Asa answered, "Apollo!"  Holding her 
hand in the air, she was encased in a golden beam of light, and was soon 
wearing a gold fuku like the ones that the Senshi Kurai wore.  In each hand 
was a long, agile sword.

"Now, I'm afraid that I have to kill you.  A pity, really, since you are rather kawaii... 
But no matter.  Solar Burning Sun Flare!"  Apollo crossed her swords, and a 
hot burst of golden flame shot out from them towards the senshi.

"Aaaah!" Sailor Moon screamed, narrowly being hit.  She fell into one 
aisle of chairs.  The tips of her ponytails were burnt.

Apollo laughed, for she seriously found it incredibly humorous.  The 
Sailor Senshi stared at her oddly.

"Why are you laughing?" Hades demanded.  It irked her that this 
enemy was _laughing_ at them.

"I have no idea," Apollo said truthfully.  Then realizing what she had said, 
her manner changed instantly.  "No!  I must defeat you!  Proministic Flaming 
Solar Kiss!"  This time several balls of burning energy sped towards the senshi...

And were disintegrated by two energy balls.  Cherry blossoms floated by as 
violin music played from nowhere, and the outlines of four girls filled, 
giving the others views of Uranus, Neptune, Poseidon, and Sunaru on the 
stage.  Leaping down, they all stanced arrogantly.

"In the name of the planet where the skies rule, I am the magnificent Sailor 
Uranus!"

"In the name of the planet where the seas reign supreme, I am the maternal 
Senshi, Sailor Neptune!"

"In the name of the magic of the planet of the crashing waves and tides, I 
am the graceful Sailor Poseidon!"

"And in the name of the magic of the planet where the heavens rumble and 
shake, I am the majestic Sailor Sunaru!"

"Kaiousei/Tenousei ni kawatte, oshiokiyo!" they said together.

Apollo blinked.  "Twice in one day...  Never mind!  I will defeat all nine 
of you, nevertheless!"

"That's suicide," Sunaru said flatly, her sword in her left hand, ready to be 
used.  "You have no chance of defeating all nine of us."

"Ten!" Tuxedo Kamen said, landing next to Sailor Moon.

"Where were you?" Pluto asked, wondering why he was unusually late.

Tuxedo Kamen sweat dropped.  "There was a long line in the men's room..."

"We know," Uranus said, indicating herself and her sister.  Everyone else
 sweat dropped around them.

"AHEM," Poseidon said, coughing.  "Where were we?  Oh, yes.  Why are 
you willing to go against uneven odds?"

Apollo glared.  "That's none of your business, is it?  Proministic-"

A yellow rose sliced through the air, causing Apollo to drop 
one of her katanas.  Everyone looked up to see Sailor Earth 
sitting nonchalantly on the stage.  She flipped her hair over her shoulder.

"Earth!" Moon said.

"It's a pity to see one of the best Sailor Senshi reduced to this.  In 
the name of the planet where memories and the past intertwine, I am 
the senshi of remembrance, Sailor Earth!"

"Nani?!" the Sailor Senshi said.  (They've been saying this waaay too 
much;P)

"Apollo is a Sailor Senshi?" Neptune said.

"Liar!" Apollo shrieked vehemently, her voice suddenly hysterical.  
Her self control simply shattered away.  "I am part of the Sun Quintet!  
I always have been!  You're wrong!"

She grabbed her katana from the ground, flipped forwards, and landed in front
 of Earth.  Earth had the good sense to move out of the way, and Apollo's 
slashes cut air.

"Earth Rock Crash!" Earth yelled, and rocks barely hit Apollo, who 
lept partially out of the way.

"Enough of this!" Apollo snapped.  "Arashi (rising sun) Rings Flame!" 
The magical attack flew from her hands, which she held out stretched 
on both sides, taking out the Sailor Senshi it encountered, which was 
all of them except for Earth.

"Apollo," Earth pleaded softly, "please stop this mad destruction!  You 
are a Sailor Senshi!"

"YOU ARE LYING TO ME!" Apollo screamed.  "YOU'RE JUST LIKE 
HECATE!"  Like a crazy fiend, she leapt at Earth once again, her 
katanas in kill position.

Tuxedo Kamen, who was still up, threw a red rose that struck Apollo 
in her fuku, which protected her from serious damage, but knocked 
her down anyway.  Apollo fell off the stage, landing on the ground, her 
katanas spinning away from her grasp.

"Why are you doing this?" Earth asked gently, moving towards the girl, 
who was watching her with wary anger.  Her Crystal Rose floated 
out across the auditorium until it stopped in front of Apollo.  It glowed, 
and Apollo's eyes shut slowly, defiantly.

"All I remember is that I want to be free from Hecate," she whispered 
slowly, the words tumbling from her mouth.  "Hecate enslaved me, 
and I must kill all of you to be free...  But I want to remember so 
much more...  Who am I?  Why am I here?"

Tuxedo Kamen gasped.  The others, looking up from their places 
on the ground, saw the girl in the white cloak standing next to 
Earth.  She had appeared from nowhere...  She lifted up her staff, 
and Apollo's body floated in the air.  Her fuku was transformed 
into a Sailor Senshi fuku, but the body suit was a bright gold 
while everything else was a darker shade.  A bright gold, sun 
shaped mark was feverishly lit on her forehead, but soon faded away.

When Apollo landed, her eyes were shut, and she was limply on 
her side.  Saturn, Neptune, Poseidon, and Hades went to her side.  
The mystery girl had disappeared yet again, and only Earth stood 
on the stage.  The Crystal Rose floated back into her hand.  
Turning to leave, she stopped when called.

"Earth," Uranus said, her voice harsh, "why do you hide yourself 
from us?  You _are_ our ally, ne?"

Earth turned her head slightly, her eyes hidden by her mask.  Her 
answer was soft, only loud enough for Pluto, Sunaru, Uranus, and 
Cronus to hear.  "Why are you hiding what you know from the 
Princess?  The truth hurts more when covered by deception."  
With that, she vanished.

The Outer Senshi looked at each other significantly.

"Heal," Cronus said, waving her hand over Apollo's head.  The 
purple magic flew from her hand, like a wave of dust.  Neptune and 
Saturn watched with interest, while Poseidon and Sunaru looked on 
with something akin to pride.

The magic mist covered Apollo's face.  Her eyes fluttered open.  The 
others moved a little away from her.  Her face was not malicious; 
instead, it was oddly confused with hope... yes, hope in her eyes.

"I am Sailor Sun," she whispered wonderingly.

The others stared at her, equally surprised.

"This web becomes more and more tangled..." Pluto murmured, 
clutching her Time Staff tightly.  "When will we all discover the truth?"

"When time stops..." Hades answered cryptically, glancing at Sun, 
who was watching all of them with a look akin to awe.


"Hecate," Metallia said, her black eyes focused on the dark haired princess.

"Yes?"

Hecate's voice was devoid of all emotion.  Excellent.  The little 
innocent had been so easy to manipulate, so easy to brainwash it was 
laughable.  Too bad the Senshi Kurai weren't so easy...  They suspected 
something...  Stupid Beryl, to concentrate all her energies on the 
twin of her rival, rather than where the power _really_ lay, in the 
Senshi Kurai.  That's why they Outer Senshi Kurai had been so 
easily turned back to the light.  Foolish, foolish woman.  Ah well.  
She was dead now.  Metallia smirked, her lips turning up into an 
evil grin.  Hecate was going to receive quite a shock...

Hecate stood impassively, waiting for Metallia.

"There's someone I'd like you to meet...  Chikyuu?"  A man with white 
hair walked in, his eyes a vicious blue, piercing, like knives.  He wore 
white armor, and a long black cape.  On the shoulder was a white rose 
sigma.

"Chikyuu..." Hecate's mind reeled, and she fell to her knees, groaning.

"Hecate?" Metallia's voice was mocking.  "Don't you remember him?"

Hecate grabbed her chest, her eyes wide, breathing harshly.  "Chikyuu," she 
repeated.

"Don't you remember your lover?  Endymion's brother..."

To be continued...

