*Gomen, Tanzen-san, but I'm not going to go away that easily!*
He just hoped that Eryx would fight him hand to hand, not with powers that he didn't have. He didn't want to really fight her because he didn't want to hurt her (or Electra through her).
He knew her fighting would be better than when she was Neko-chan, but he was normally better than her and he'd mostly be defending. He just hoped that that would give him enough of an edge to keep her occupied while the others fought Tanzen-san..
He ran up to her as if to attack her, but instead faked her out. Now she would make the attack. After that he could stay on the defense, while she was on the offense. She took the bait and started fighting him. He prayed that it would last.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Night Angel threw the bag to Electra. "Here, I don't know if you need them." He seemed to pull a b� out of thin air. Electra guessed that that was his Knight weapon, like Chibi's shirukens.
She watched as he started to attack Rozetoge, but she was worried about the general, who she suspected had lots of power too. It had taken a few combined attacks to kill Jadeite, but there was only her and Night Angel here. Making sure Night Angel had a handle on the yoma, she focused on Tanzanite. "Dazzling Bolts!"
Tanzanite easily avoided the attack. She sent down some lightning of her own upon Electra.
"Makinai!" She would make this monster pay for messing with her sister. She opened Jian-kun's bag, briefly wondering why he had weapons in there, and took out the first thing she saw. It was a shiruken.
Electra briefly wondered about the sense of d�j� vu she was getting, but ignored it.
*Shouldn't be too hard to attack with this. It's like throwing a Frisbee.*
The general had gotten distracted by the fights going on around Electra. Electra stood up and got ready to throw the shiruken at her.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Evil Sailor Eryx was not in anyway dumb. She knew that Jian-wa, the traitor, was just stalling for time, but she wasn't too worried. She could "Celestial Force" him anytime she wanted. But this was better than attacking Sailor Electra because that tended to hurt.
Even as she fought Jian-wa, she was keeping an eye out on the battles around her. She watched as Night Angel fought Rozetoge and as Electra failed at attacking Tanzanite. But suddenly she saw Electra pull a shiruken out of Jian-wa's bag.
*Shimatta!* The general wasn't paying attention. Eryx quickly "Celestial Force"d Jian-wa and ran towards Electra. She couldn't let her throw that shiruken. She reached out with her left hand and grabbed for Electra's nearest arm.
As she grabbed Electra's left wrist, Electra turned to look at her. Their eyes met�
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
�and time stopped.
The world dropped out around them.
The shiruken clattered to the ground, forgotten.
Electra felt the scar on her wrist burn. It was perfectly lined up with the scar on Eryx's hand, which also burned. Yet neither of them moved.
The symbols of their planets glowed on their forehead and their hair began to fly slowly around them.
"M- Mi-chan?" Eryx's eyes softened.
"Neko-chan?"
Both of them were flooded with memories of the battle on night of the dance. Their actions, emotions, everything came back to them.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Iie!" Tanzanite felt her grip on Sailor Eryx disappear. She glared at Night Angel and Rozetoge, but they were still engaged in battle. Rozetoge was fine! Eryx should have still been hers!
She turned her eyes to where the twins stood. What had been an eternity for them, hadn't even been a minute in the real world. Tanzanite threw a sphere of negative energy, three times as powerful as any Jian-wa had ever had, at them. "Die!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The connection between Eryx and Electra was shattered by a violent force that knocked them apart.
Eryx looked up from where she had been thrown. Electra had been thrown into the wall and seemed to be in a state of shock.
*Electra* she thought at her sister, but there was no response.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Tanzanite floated down and landed a few feet from Electra. She was glaring at her in pure hatred.
"You!" she screamed. "This is all your fault!" All this time she had been blaming Sailor Eryx because she was the one who had made Jian-wa question his mission in the first place. But now that she thought about it, it was Electra that had convinced him that the Sailor Scouts were good. And it was Electra that had somehow managed to heal Eryx.
Well, this was the last time. She raised her hands to attack Electra. "I'll make sure that you never ruin my plans again."
"NO!!!!"
Tanzanite turned towards the sound of the screams and found herself face to face with an attack from Sailor Eryx.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Jian-wa opened his eyes and waited for his vision to clear. He had been knocked out by the hit he had taken from Eryx, but was slowly coming to.
He recovered just in time to see the twins standing together. He couldn't be sure if he was seeing clearly, but it looked almost like they were glowing. He also wondered why their hair was flying. As far as he could tell, there was no wind.
