Hi!

This is something that had been festering in my mind for a few days now...

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   "Naru's in trouble?" asked Usagi, AKA Sailor Moon. The black cat who
shouldn't be able to talk nodded. This was an odd activity in itself, but
it was punctuated by what came out of its mouth.

   "Yes! What you heard was the voice of those menaced by the Dark
Kingdom," Luna, the cat, said. "Quickly now!"

   Sailor Moon didn't ask at this point; she just did.

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   Naru was afraid. Very afraid.

   Her mother (or what looked like her mother) had turned into a monster
before her very eyes. Then she was pinned against the wall by said monster.
The monster, the youma Morgas laughed, and began to drain energy from her
victim.

   As Naru felt herself getting a little weak, she became aware of the
energy draining from her. In her mind's eye, she saw heliotropic ribbons
arc out away from her and into the youma.

   /*No...NO, DAMMIT!!*/ Naru burned with absolute conviction that this
would not happen. She focused on the ribbons, grabbed onto them with her
will, and started tearing them away from her adversary and back into
herself. Morgas' grotesque smile turned into an equally grotesque
stupification as the human energy was drained out of her and into this
girl.

   "What in Metallia's name..." the youma growled, as Naru drew back her
own energy and then some. Naru was on a roll; she drew more and more energy
into herself. Already, half of what the youma had stolen was now hers. "You
little..."

   "Stop it!" came the cry from the front of the store. Morgas turned and
dropped Naru, foolishly ignoring Naru, who was still draining energy...
Quintessance, Naru decided without knowing why, from the youma. Sailor Moon
started posing and made her speech, "Jewels are there to make us look
pretty; perverting them into a thing of evil is unforgivable! For love and
justice, I am the pretty sailor-suited warrior, Sailor Moon! In the name of
the moon, I shall punish you!"

   "NO!" ground out Naru, causing Sailor Moon to look astonished at her
friend. An aura was glowing around her. Her voice rang out powerful and
assertive, "This bastard's MINE!!!" She spread her hand, and a red-glowing
sigil apeared on its palm. It was a horizontally skewed vertical bar with
two short horizontal bars crossing it, and a longer bar with a curl at the
end at the bottom crossing in the same manner. It was the sigil for the
Sphere of Forces. Her hand crackled with energy, and she thrust it in front
of her. "DIE!!!" she shrieked.

   A bright flash exploded from her palm as a bolt of pure destructive
energies roared from her hand. Morgas screamed as the energies tore her to
shreads. The remnants turned to dust.

   Sailor Moon articulated her mouth without making a sound. Underfoot,
Luna bigsweated. "N-Naru-chan?" Sailor Moon stammered, in somewhat of a
shock.

   Naru turned toward Sailor Moon, and saw her, not so much with her eyes,
but with her mind and spirit. More properly, she sensed Sailor Moon's true
self. "Usagi-chan? Is that you?" she asked. Then she glanced toward Luna,
and saw the almost-human spirit inhabiting the deceptive shell. "You
wouldn't happen to talk, would you Kitty?"

   "I do," Luna spoke without thinking. Then she mentally kicked herself
for not playing dumb. "How were you able to do that? Make that blast? You
don't seem to be a Senshi, but now that I look, you have a powerful
aura..."

   "The little Sleeper has Awakened, I see..." came a voice from the corner
of the shop. All three turned to see a well-built man in a grey
business-suit. "To answer your question, she is a Mage, and she used the
Spheres of Prime and Forces to turn Quintessance into the blast of pure
heat and light you saw." He shook his head. "Of course, when a Mage first
Awakens, they tend to do very vulgar magick."

   "Who are you?" asked Naru.

   "Lynel Grath, Order of Hermes," said the man and bowed. "A Mage like
yourself. I must say that I have never met anyone with such a powerful
Avatar. That's probably why you were able to vaporize that fector."

   "You mean the youma," Luna said.

   "Call it what you will. The plain fact is that you blasted it into
smithereens." He eyed Naru. He grinned. "Why, that's amazing! Her Avatar
seems to have given her some knowlege of its past selves. She can
manipulate ALL the Spheres with some competance, but she excells at Forces
and Prime!"

   "Naru-chan..." Sailor Moon whispered, then began to sob.
"*WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH* I didn't get to use my powers!
*WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH*"

   Lynel and Naru bigsweated. Luna sighed. It was going to be a long battle.

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This is, of course, a fusion between Sailor Moon and Mage: the Ascention.
Neither of which are my works. Don't sue, pweeeze....

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