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Sailor Storm: The Lost Element
Ch. 2: Out of the limelight, into the fire
Things were going pretty well for Kyle around this point in time, but it's like the saying goes: All good things must come to an end. What it meant for Kyle as himself and Sailor Storm was that he was about to reach a point in his life where the path he was taking was about to take a drastic turn. However, to those who have the power to see beyond the present and into the future, they would see that Kyle's life is actually just beginning. The "good things" he was experiencing at this time was the fact that he had no knowledge of the truth and was able to live a close-to-normal life. Not after this night.
Kyle just came home from school and saw Zeus working on his computer. At first, Kyle wondered how a cat could work something like this. Then he remembered; Zeus was some sort of a magical cat and Sailor Storm's guardian.
"What are you doing, Zeus," Kyle asked as he threw his school stuff onto his bed.
"Oh. Hi, Kyle. I'm making a list of all of your special attacks and weaponry. I hope you don't mind," Zeus answered.
"Okay. Let me take a look."
Kyle looked at the list and seemed a bit shocked, even though it was pretty accurate. He did feel that the list was a bit unnecessary. The list went as follows:
Weapons:
1. Double-etched ninja sword (strapped vertically on back behind head; disappears when not in use; hilt has technological appearance and contains machinery to produce a lightning-plasma field to envelope the blade; called Lightning Sword)
2. Twin sub-machine gun style sidearms (resembles MP5 SMG model minus bullet clip; gun structure except handle is slightly wider, taller, and 1 and a half times longer; has quick-aim scope attached to top, green laser sight on bottom in front of trigger; fires .50 caliber sized blue laser blasts at fast rapid fire rate)
Attacks:
1. "Star Tiara Glave" (Storm takes off tiara, charges it, and throws it; turns into an eight-inch wide, five bladed energy throwing star; somewhat counts as weapon also)
2. "Lightning Storm" (a furious blast of at least 10 lightning bolts fired at target; does high electrical damage; can also stun targets)
3. "Lightning Groundstrike" (Storm jumps up in air, charges sword with electrical and star energy, lands, drives sword into ground; causes electrical and star damage around Storm at a radius of 20 feet; attack performed without saying name)
4. "Ultra Gun Rush" (Storm brings both barrels of guns together, charges them with power, and fires an unstoppable 2' 6" wide blue laser blast; attack performed without saying name)
5. "Ultra Star Ray" (blue star energy attack; blast is 2 feet wide)
6. "Time Control" (ability to slow down or speed up time; Storm prefers speeding up time on herself, causes less strain on space-time continuum; ability performed without saying name)
7. "Lightning Defenses" (defensive ability; lightning constantly travelling throughout Sailor Storm's body; can project a defensive force-field when manipulated; always activated)
After Kyle read the last entry, he looked back at Zeus while rubbing his eyes.
"Nice list, Zeus, but don't you think that this is unnecessary? I mean, who's going to read this," Kyle asked.
"I'm trying to create a database about you just in case we need it. Have you ever thought that you might not be alone out there," Zeus asked.
"Actually, I have. Why do you ask though?"
"There's a rumor I heard. I'll tell you about it later. Anyway, I know the list looks long, but you know as well as I do that you have all of these abilities when you became Sailor Storm. Besides, I thought you guys like it when you have more weapons at your disposal," Zeus said.
"Funny. Still, who was Sailor Storm to have all of this? It kind of makes me look 'overpowered'. Is there something about to happen that I don't know about?"
"I don't know, Kyle. There are possibilities of you running into something much more stronger and powerful, and then you're going to need all of these powers."
"Whatever it is, I'm hoping it doesn't get anybody killed."
"If you keep up the great work you've been doing ever since I found you, then I'm confident that you won't ever let that happen. By the way, the last Sailor Storm according to my knowledge only had half of your powers. I'm not sure what the reason is for that because not all of my memories have returned yet, but I am working on getting to the bottom to it for you."
"Thanks, Zeus. Now can you please finish up so I can do my homework?"
Later that evening, Zeus felt an unusual presence somewhere in the main urban area of the city. It was in a somewhat bad neighborhood in the west side of the city, but it seemed like something was going to make it worse. As it turns out, there was a ragged looking man roaming the streets looking like he was drunk, but he had what seemed like a dark aura surrounding his body, making him very hard to notice. The people who did notice however, they got their life essences literally sucked out of their bodies. Afterwards, the man left them for almost dead. Zeus felt it the entire evening, but he couldn't feel it strongly enough for it to be investigated. At 10:45 at night, that's when he felt it the most and could now pinpoint it. He woke a somewhat timid Kyle, who just started sleeping 15 minutes before.
"Zeus, *yawn* you better have a good excuse for waking me up," Kyle said.
"Kyle, there's something going on tonight. However, this is different from all of those other times. I'm getting not only bad feelings, but dark feelings as well. You must check it out," Zeus trying desperately to get Kyle further awake.
Kyle looked out his window and saw the full moon shining in all of its brightness. At first he didn't care, but then he noticed that not only it was supposed to be overcast tonight, but also that the moon should've been a half moon. That's when he woke up completely and looked at Zeus.
"How long have you felt this feeling?"
"For almost 4 hours now, Kyle. I would have told you sooner, but I just now was able to fully pick up on it."
"I take it you know where it is then?"
"Yes. Transform and head towards the main urban area of the city. I'll guide you from there."
"Great. One of the struggling neighborhoods of this city. This is not going to be fun. Lightning Star Power!"
Sailor Storm, after finishing the transformation, jumped out the window and ran towards the heart of the city. She didn't tell Zeus who was riding her shoulder, but she could start to feel the dark presence as well.
At the particular part of that neighborhood, an 80's Buick filled with black teenagers were cruising the streets, on their way back home from a local club when a drunk-looking white man stepped out in front of their car. Needless to say, they stopped the car and all got out to confront him.
"Hey, man! What the hell you trying to do? Get yourself killed," the guy who sat shotgun asked.
"C'mon, man. Get out of the way and go home before we call the cops on your drunk ass," the driver asked waving his hand around.
Another one was about to talk when the man started laughing evilly. He started getting louder as he looked at the driver.
"Yes. Such four young humans filled with life. Your life energy will do nicely," the man said between laughs.
"Hey, man. You better back the off before I shoot your ass," the driver threatened shakily while his friends look at him shocked that he has a gun.
Suddenly, the man lunged at him. The driver shot him twice, causing the man to stop, but he didn't fall. The man just looked down at the wounds, which closed immediately, and looked at the driver again with an evil grin.
"Oh my God!"
The driver never got to finish as the man grabbed him and sucked his life essence out of his body. When he was done, he dropped the lifeless body to the ground and turned to the other three. He managed to suck out two of them and started on the last when he heard something that made him stop.
"HEY," Sailor Storm yelled before she kicked him in the chest.
The man slid ten feet back, and finally put a scowl on his face. Storm turned to the scared teenager, and told him to get the hell out of here. The teenager nervously nodded, dropped his gun, and ran off.
"Alright, pal. Since you're new in town, I'm going to let you know that I'm the new law enforcement here. I don't know who the hell you are, but you're about to get a whole lot of hurt," Storm said glaring at the guy.
The man, looking like he's staring at someone who really pissed him off, suddenly growled like a large animal. Then he grew two new arms under his normal ones, his hands turning into claws, two large beetle shells out of his back going down to behind his knees, and grew fangs. Then he growled again, this time much louder. Storm's glare quickly turned into fear and shock.
"What in God's name," she asked herself.
The monster beetle made a swipe at Storm with a claw, but Storm jumped out of the way. The monster then attacked again and kept attacking until he would hit her. Storm just kept dodging, for it was the only thing going through her mind.
"Zeus, what the hell is this thing," she yelled.
"Storm, this isn't a human. It's a Youma," Zeus answered.
"A what!?"
"A monster from the Negaverse. It's a dimension filled with these things. You have to destroy this monster at all costs."
"But I don't know how," Storm said almost getting hit again.
"Just use your powers like I told you. This is why you have them in the first place."
"But which one should I..," Storm tried to say if she didn't trip backwards over a curb. She fell on her back and was getting when the Youma lunged for her.
"Sailor Storm!"
Storm held up her hands in defense, but she involuntarily used her Lightning Storm attack against the monster. The Youma then staggered backwards, but started moving forward again when Storm got back on her feet.
"That's it. I've had it with this damn thing. DIE," Storm yelled.
Storm grabbed her sword and lunged forward. The Youma tried to defend itself, but Storm used her Time control to speed up her body, getting past the Youma's defenses and drove her sword right into the center of the Youma's torso. It let out a yell that turned from a growl to a man's scream. At the same time, the Youma's extra "appendages" disappeared, making it look like a man again. Unfortunately, it was at this time that a panicky woman saw them and called the police. Storm pulled her sword out, jumped up in the air, and sliced him in half. The man's wound suddenly had a bright white light coming out before the man exploded into dust. Storm let out a loud exasperated sigh.
"Man, I'm glad that's over," she said to Zeus.
"You did good, Storm. You did good," Zeus said.
At this point, Zeus sensed something else that was wrong. It was the Police. He could hear their radios going off with the following message: "Calling all cars. Calling all cars. We have a code 187 on the street of Broadway. Suspect is a white female dressed in a sailor version of an ice skater's uniform. Arrest on sight. Repeat. Arrest on sight. Requesting air unit at same location."
"Uh oh. Storm, we've got to get out of here, NOW," Zeus said quickly.
"What's going on," Storm asked, but the very quickly approaching sirens answered her.
"Someone called you in thinking that you killed a person. We have to leave immediately."
"What about those guys over there?"
"They're recovering, but we don't have time for this now. If we get caught, they'll throw the death penalty on us!"
"Alright, we're getting out of here then."
Storm grabbed Zeus just as the Police were showing up from both sides of the road. She ran towards one of the cars, jumped on top of it, then jumped off of it running away. Zeus made his way onto Storm's shoulder and held on for dear life. Storm then cut through a narrow alleyway to shake off the cops. When she got through, she walked into a trap and was surrounded immediately.
"GET DOWN ON THE GROUND NOW! GET DOWN ON THE GROUND AND GET YOUR HANDS UP ON TOP OF YOUR HEAD," various cops yelled with their guns pointed at Storm.
"THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING!"
Storm had no intention of being arrested. Two cops suddenly rushed her from behind, but were instantly knocked out by a rotating kick she gave them. The cops started firing, but were hitting nothing but air as Storm dodged them. Storm rushed the line and jumped over them to get away. She was running at a speed of 40 mph while she kept constantly getting blocked by cop cars. One car she jumped over had K-9 on it. As she predicted, a dog was now pursuing her. Finally she managed to get all of her senses back, as they were slowing her down before, and started picking up speed and hopping buildings. She managed to get away from all of them except one, the air unit that just showed up. They were keeping her under infrared as they pursued her. The pilots were astonished to see that Sailor Storm was going at a good 70 mph jumping houses, but they had a job to do. Finally, Storm reached the St. John's river. She jumped in it and, using her lightning powers, was instantly transported to the other side. That was where she de-transformed and called a taxi to take him close to home. The cops had lost their suspect.
Kyle were just making it back to his house when Zeus figured out that they couldn't stay here anymore.
"What do you mean we can't stay here anymore? What are you saying," Kyle asked as they got back into his room quietly.
"I mean that Sailor Storm is now considered a fugitive on the loose. We can't chance this anymore. We have to leave this country."
"You're insane, Zeus. What about my family and friends?"
"Once this is over, they'll think that you are in the foreign transfer student program."
"So how am I supposed to talk in a foreign country? I don't know any languages except English."
"Whatever country you pick, you will instantly learn the language to its full extent and it would be like speaking English. The same goes with reading and writing. It's one of the given abilities as a Sailor Element such as yourself."
Kyle gave this some good time to think it over. He knew Zeus was right. He won't be able to become Sailor Storm here anymore.
"When do we leave," Kyle asked finally.
"Now. Tonight. I can easily work us into the next flight to head wherever you decide to go."
Storm had absolutely no idea where to go. She didn't know any relatives who have visited any foreign countries, let alone live there. She was getting desperate when a location had entered her brain, aching for her to consider it. Thinking that she didn't have much of a choice, she decided to go with it.
"Well, then I've decided."
"Good. Where are we going, Sailor Storm?"
"Tokyo."
End of Chapter
A/N: I cut out some parts and elements in this chapter that were not needed and were borderline stereotypical. I hope my actions have made this chapter a little more "friendly" to read. Thanks