"Jian-kun?"
"I raised him, you know. He was mine until you and your sister took him from me. 'Oh, Neko-chan seems so nice! Oh, I think I might be starting to like her sister! Whatever will I do?' Give me a break! If you two hadn't interfered, he would've completed his task and I would be in charge of the Negaverse. Instead you robbed me of my most loyal servant and of my chance to rule. For this, I will make you pay. Rozetoge appear!"
Eryx watched as a yoma shaped like a red rose appeared. She reached for her communicator watch (which she realized she probably should have used as soon as she got there) and opened it up. But before she could call the team, the rose yelled "VINE WHIP" and shot a vine at her, grabbing her watch wrist and closing the watch in the process.
"Oh, yeah, did I mention that this yoma is just a bit stronger than that daisy thing you fought last week."
Rozetoge pulled the vine so that Eryx was pulled towards her. She was twirled around so that she was totally wrapped up in the vine. She couldn't move her arms or legs.
"You poor girl. You have so much pain, so much confusion," the Rose yoma said sympathetically. "Let me take that away from you." It stroked her hair with its other vine.
"DAME!" Eryx suddenly realized what Tanzanite intended for her. She had seen something similar happen to Chibi. She fought against her restraints, but couldn't break free.
"Stop struggling!" commanded Rozetoge.
*HELP! ELECTRA!*
"Sailor Eryx, you will replace what you have taken from me. You should be grateful. Rozetoge could have killed you already if I had wanted. This should be quite painless, comparatively."
She heard her watch beep, but couldn't do anything about it.
"Now hold still," said Rozetoge. "Just one little kiss and you'll feel so much better."
"Iya!" Eryx moved her head so that Rozetoge couldn't kiss her.
Rozetoge slapped her with her other vine arm. "That's not very nice! I'm being totally kind to you and you're rejecting me. Hold still!" Still Eryx resisted. She screamed for help.
"Yamate!" demanded Rozetoge. She grabbed Eryx's chin with her free vine. *I don't want to be evil* Eryx thought and closed her eyes. But she couldn't stop the rose's kiss.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Dracona, also known as Chibi, made his way through the music store he was checking out. For some reason the lights were on in this shop even though the front glass was shattered and nobody seemed to be there. Yet he couldn't find any sign of evil.
"Hey, check it out. They have the new Cham CD!"
Suddenly he heard a noise behind him. He turned quickly and saw a gorgeous woman standing behind him. "Uh, h- hi. Do you work here?"
Then he noticed that there was something wrong with her eyes. They didn't gleam the way a normal person's did. He backed up a little, running into the CD rack with the Cham CD and knocking it over. *Well, I hope she doesn't really work here.*
Suddenly she lunged at him. He ducked and somersaulted out of the way, miraculously avoiding knocking anything else over. He looked around the store and realized that there were a lot more possessed people around. "Akuryo Taisan!" He hit a couple with ofuda, and they collapsed, but there were many more than he could handle alone. He opened his communicator watch up. "Minna! I found the victims. They're possessed in the music store. Come quickly!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Electra was searching through the rubble in the shoe store she was in. She would have to remember to come back here because there were the cutest shoes that would go perfectly with her new dress. But for now, she didn't see any sign of evil. And she suspected that this wasn't the place for it.
She started out of the store and turned to go back to where she told Chibi and Phoenix she'd meet them.
*HELP! ELECTRA!*
Eryx's cry for help stopped her in her tracks for a split second. She tried to get through to Eryx, but her mind was so frantic with fear that Electra couldn't get through. She started to run in the direction of where Eryx and Night Angel had gone in, but then her watch beeped. She hoped it was Eryx.
It was Chibi. "Minna! I found the victims. They're possessed in the music store. Come quickly!"
"Shimatta!" As she got closer to the store, she saw Chibi ran out throwing ofuda scrolls at the people following him out of the store. She noticed Phoenix running from the other direction.
"Chibi, is Eryx here?"
"No, why would she have beaten you here?"
"Shimatta!" She looked at the people and at her siblings. "Can you guys handle this? Eryx and maybe Night Angel need help."
They looked at each other and nodded. Electra didn't skip a beat. She barreled through the two yoma-possessed people that had just moved in her way and concentrated on finding Eryx.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Night Angel stopped and listened. He thought he had heard Eryx's voice. But after a minute he decided that he was wrong.
Until he heard a scream from the direction that Eryx had gone. *Koneko-chan!* He turned and ran back towards the warehouse.
He ran in and looked around. *Now where?* He listened and thought he heard voices. *Please let me have perfect timing like Tuxedo Kamen-sama* he thought as he ran in that direction.
When he got there, Eryx still seemed alive, to his relief. She was confined by the vines of a Rose yoma and her eyes were closed, but she was alive. Instantly he threw a rose at the vines. It hit with great accuracy, releasing Eryx who fell to the ground.
