Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Centauri ❯ Chapter 4

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

As always, Sailor Moon is property of Naoko Takeuchi/Kodanshsa. Not me.

SAILOR CENTAURI
CHAPTER 4

Noriko stood in the now familiar blasted landscape of Centauri. She felt
a presence up in the sky and looked up. A silver light was passing over
the ruins, and as it passed, it healed!

She watched in amazement as wrecked structures were restored to their
former glory, trees and plants sprung up from the soil and the planet
possessed the vibrant life she remembered once again.

The light passed over her and she felt her power increasing, she didn't
need to look to know she had changed into Sailor Centauri.

The light continued on, passing over the horizon as it restored her
home. Sailor Centauri waited.

Soon, the light returned, and came down from the sky to her. Up close it
was nearly blinding, but without a doubt it was the most beautiful thing
she had ever seen. It oscillated slightly, becoming even brighter before
it faded completely. In its place stood a woman.

Sailor Centauri gasped. It was like looking into a mirror - only
different. The woman standing before her was like an older version of
herself. Instead of her usual fuku however, she was wearing an armoured
silver fuku, similar to Galaxia's.

"What's going on?" Centauri asked mechanically, not quite sure she
understood.

The other Sailor Centauri smiled. "Centauri lives on in you. Only you
can avenge your people."

"But how?" Centauri asked, the memory of her battle with Galaxia playing
through her mind. "What can I do?"

Her older self stepped forward. "Remember." She said simply as she
hugged Sailor Centauri.

***

Noriko sat bolt upright in her bed, sending Hermes flying off of her
with a startled meow and eliciting a gasp from Hotaru, who was watching
over her.

"Noriko! You're alright!" Hotaru leapt forward and hugged her tightly.

Noriko took a second to realise where she was before hugging Hotaru
back. "Never better." She replied.

"You've been out for hours. We were really worried." Hotaru gushed.

"Hours?" Noriko repeated incredulously before letting it go with a
shrug. Then she looked at Hermes, who had jumped back onto the bed. "I
remember Hermes."

The cat looked puzzled. "Remember what?"

"Everything." She let go of Hotaru and picked Hermes up. "I remember my
past life. The Sailor Wars, Galaxia, you, all of it."

"What does this mean?" Hotaru asked.

"It means I'm ready." Noriko replied grimly.

"For what?" Hotaru asked, still not sure what this was all about.

Noriko gave her a look "Ready to face Galaxia."

"No!" Hermes cried out, "You can't! Please Noriko, what you're talking
about is suicide."

"I have to Hermes, you don't understand." She tried to reason with her
guardian cat.

"What's to understand?! You'll die!!" Hermes was becoming hysterical
now. "I can't lose you again..." he sobbed.

She picked the small white cat up and held him to her chest. "It's
okay." she soothed. "I know I can win."

Hermes continued crying without reply.

Hotaru considered all that she had heard carefully before speaking up.
"I'm going too."

"Hotaru, this isn't your fight." Noriko said calmly, hiding how shocked
she was at Hotaru's decision.

Hotaru remained steadfast. "Galaxia threatens us too. I can help. I have
to help." She pleaded.

"I won't allow it." Noriko said firmly.

Hotaru looked at her incredulously, then broke out into evil laughter,
something Noriko did not enjoy hearing one bit. "You won't allow it?"
She repeated. "Well that's tough. I am the senshi of destruction, the
Messiah of Silence, and I will allow it." She said dramatically.

"Hotaru, you don't have to risk your life like this." Noriko attempted
to convince her.

"Yes I do. I'm not letting you fight Galaxia alone." Hotaru was starting
to lose her patience.

Noriko held Hotaru's shoulders, but before she could say anything, she
was flung backwards off the bed. Hotaru was breathing heavily and her
eyes were completely black. Energy crackled in the air around her and
her hair started to float upwards. "I'm going and that's final." she
said in a voice that made Noriko wonder if she had been possessed again.

Climbing back onto the bed, Noriko relented. "Okay fine. But it'll be a
while before we make our move, we have to wait for the animamates to
attack again."

Hermes just looked at them like they were insane.

***

Noriko and Hotaru were watching some anime on the TV a few days later
when Hotaru's communicator beeped. She had asked to be kept more up to
date on animamate attacks by the other senshi, although she hadn't
mentioned what they were planning.

"Haruka, what is it?" Hotaru asked as Sailor Uranus's face appeared on
the screen.

"Lead Crow's at the Juuban shopping district, get here fast." she
replied before turning the communicator off.

Noriko looked expectantly at Hotaru. "Juuban shopping district. It's
only a few minutes away if we run. Lets go." Hotaru answered the
unspoken question as she leapt from her seat. They both hurried out the
door.

"Noriko wait!" Hermes rushed to the door as Noriko and Hotaru were
almost at the gate. They stopped and looked at the cat. "Good luck." He
said simply.

Noriko gave him a thumbs up then ran off with Hotaru.

***

"Space Sword Blaster!" Sailor Uranus attacked Lead Crow with her Space
Sword, but missed again. They had been fighting toe to toe for nearly
five minutes with neither gaining the upper hand. But the other Outer
Senshi would arrive soon to help her.

Hotaru and Noriko arrived and seeing the battle underway, began their
transformations.

"Saturn Planet Power, MAKE UP!" Hotaru transformed into Sailor Saturn.

"Centauri Star Power, MAKE UP!" Using her new transformation wand
Noriko transformed into Super Sailor Centauri. It was the first time she
used her ultimate transformation in this lifetime, and she was amazed at
the incredible power she now possessed.

Saturn saw the new look Sailor Centauri and whistled. "I'm impressed."
She said in admiration.

"Wait till you see what I can do." Centauri grinned at her.

The pair entered the battle against Lead Crow. "For love and honour, the
sailor suited beautiful fighter, Sailor Centauri will punish you!"
Centauri did a few moves to go along with her speech.

Sailor Lead Crow looked at Super Sailor Centauri and the colour drained
from her face. "S-super Sailor Centauri?"

Ignoring her, Centauri did the next part of her speech. "I will right
wrongs and triumph over evil. And that means you!"

Thanks to the cheesy speech, Super Sailor Centauri seemed less
intimidating and Lead Crow managed to regain her composure. "Eat this!"
She fired her bracelet blasts at Centauri and Saturn, but Saturn was
more than ready.

"Silence Wall!" Her defence blocked the salvo of fireballs, but
maintaining it against the ferocious attack took a lot out of Saturn,
and she had to drop it to recover.

Seeing her opportunity, Lead Crow followed up with another attack.
"Galactica Tornado!!"

Centauri disdainfully raised a hand and absorbed the full force of the
tornado. "Nice try. Now it's my turn."

Sailors Pluto and Neptune had now arrived and were shocked at Super
Sailor Centauri's power.

Concentrating for a second, Centauri unleashed a beam of incandescent
light at Lead Crow.

She screamed as it hit her, full force. Barely hanging on to
consciousness, she summoned the phone booth to escape.

Saturn saw the opportunity they had been waiting for and rushed forward,
using her glaive to sweep Lead Crow off her feet before she could
escape, she smiled proudly at Centauri as she approached to phone booth.
"I'm sorry Hotaru." Centauri said sadly looking down at the smaller
senshi.

Saturn frowned. "Sorry? What for?"

Without answering, Centauri karate chopped Saturn's neck. Catching her
before she fell, she gently set the unconscious girl down. "Goodbye
Hotaru. You were a good friend." She stepped into the booth.

By now Pluto understood what was going on. "Noriko wait!" she yelled
after her as the phone booth disappeared.

The Outer Senshi ran to Saturn to see how hurt she was. Which also
provided a handy distraction for Lead Crow to run off.

***

Sailor Tin Nyanko sensed the phone booth approaching and wandered over
to where it would arrive. "Another stunning failure Karasume?" She asked
sweetly as the door opened.

Super Sailor Centauri stepped out of the booth confidently.

"Y-you're not Lead Crow!" Tin Nyanko exclaimed.

"What are you, the narrator?" Centauri asked sarcastically as she
punched Tin Nyanko in the face, knocking her out. She could sense
Galaxia's power nearby, following her instincts, she made her way to
Galaxia's throne room.

She strode in without hesitation and looked at Galaxia sitting on her
throne. Galaxia got up and stepped down to face Centauri. The two senshi
appraised each other. One in a gold armoured fuku, the other in silver.

"We meet again. For the last time." Galaxia said cooly.

"This ends today." Centauri responded grimly.

Galaxia nodded slightly. "It does..." She agreed. "For you!"

A smile played across Galaxia's lips, though it didn't reach her eyes,
and she quickly raised her hands and launched streams of black lightning
at Super Sailor Centauri.

Centauri responded by firing her own beam of light at her nemesis.
The two immense powers battled against each other, vying for supremacy.
Pure white light annihilated the dark lightning, before being absorbed
into more darkness. Occasionally a blast would be deflected and damage
the walls of the throne room.

In spite of the vast amounts of energy being thrown around, both
combatants knew this was only a prelude to the real battle. They knew
each others strengths almost as well as they knew their own, and they
both had a lot more left in reserve.

"Enough!" Galaxia called out, halting her attack, Centauri did likewise.
"I had forgotten how powerful you really are. Our battle on Centauri
made me underestimate you." She smiled evilly and held a hand out to her
side, a golden broadsword appeared in her hand, and she brought it round
to hold with both hands. "Let us end this like true senshi."

"You will lose." Centauri said as she summoned her Astral Axe and held
it with both hands.

Galaxia's eyes flared with red light. "We will see."

Both sailor senshi charged each other. Centauri swung her axe down at
Galaxia, but Galaxia blocked it with her sword and flipped Centauri over
her head with it.

Landing gracefully on her feet, Centauri spun her axe around
threateningly before swiping low at Galaxia's feet. Galaxia jumped over
the attack, but Centauri followed through by bringing her axe round to
hit Galaxia's chin with the other end of it.

Galaxia did a backflip and rubbed her chin upon landing. Glaring evilly
at Centauri, she stepped forward again and tried to stab Centauri
several times with her sword, but each time Centauri managed to evade
it. Then she slashed her sword diagonally down, an attack which Centauri
again evaded, but she followed up by doing a cartwheel and kicking
Centauri's face twice, using both her feet. Upon landing, she faced her
foe again.

Centauri executed a series of fast slashes with her axe, but Galaxia
grabbed the axe handle just below the blade and held it fast. Centauri
tried to tug it free, but Galaxia wouldn't release her grip, even when
the blade reached her hand and drew blood. With her free hand, Galaxia
thrust her sword out, stabbing Centauri in the gut.

Sailor Centauri staggered backwards, letting go of her axe. She looked
down in disbelief at where Galaxia's sword had pierced her armour,
taking her hand away from where she had instinctively covered the wound,
she saw the mangled silver and ruptured flesh. Blood oozed out, and she
saw her hand was also covered in her blood.

Galaxia threw the Astral Axe aside disdainfully and looked at her own
hand, which was had a long cut down her palm from where it had rubbed
against the axehead. She raised her ichor stained sword and prepared to
finish off Sailor Centauri. "You should have joined me." She said almost
sadly.

Centauri grunted in pain "You're evil. The Galaxia I knew would never do
what you have done." She raised her right hand and blasted Galaxia in
the face before diving over to pick up her Astral Axe.

Galaxia staggered from Centauri's blast, but recovered quickly to swing
her sword down at Centauri. But Centauri had recovered her axe and held
it up with both hands to block the swing as she knelt on the floor.
Galaxia smiled and kicked Centauri viciously in the stomach.
Centauri buckled at the kick, but stood fast in blocking the sword.
Galaxia kicked again, and again.

On her last legs already, the kicking was almost more than Super Sailor
Centauri could bear. She spat out a mouthful of blood and rolled to the
side, twisting the axe to pull Galaxia's sword to the ground with her.
It worked, Galaxia's firm grip on her sword led to her tumbling down
with Centauri.

Using her axe for support, the brutalised Sailor Centauri picked herself
up. "For Centauri!" She cried out as she swung the Astral Axe down to
decapitate Sailor Galaxia. But Galaxia had only fallen, she wasn't
injured and was able to react instantly, her blade flashed out and
severed the axe head which flew through the air and imbedded itself in
the floor, leaving a stunned Sailor Centauri holding what was now just a
fancy stick.

Standing up, she thrust her sword into Sailor Centauri again, and held
her shoulder as she twisted the blade around inside of her. Looking into
her enemy's eyes as the life drained out of her, she whispered one word.

"Die."

Galaxia let go and allowed Super Sailor Centauri to slide off her sword.
As she fell to the floor, a flower appeared on her forehead, as it's
light faded, it unfolded and the star seed floated out. Galaxia reached
out and grabbed it. It's light shone brightly at her and she grinned
maliciously back at it.

With unseeing eyes, Sailor Centauri stared up at her own star seed and
died.

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END CHAPTER 4