"Is she. . .?" asked Eriæ, who was staggering over to where
Minako and Sailor Pluto stood. Minako raised her right arm, to
warn the younger Sailor Venus back.
The rubble shifted. Then it exploded upwards as a shaft of
lightning arced up into the air. Velasca shot up and hung
suspended in the air ten feet off the ground. Her right arm was
hanging at an odd angle, and she looked thoroughly battered and
somewhat charred. Even her face looked somewhat singed. Her eyes
were white and wild.
In a voice echoing like thunder, she snarled, "I pulled myself
out of a spiked pit and crawled back to the Amazons to show them
their weakness. I am a goddess now, and you cannot stop me!"
Despite her words, Velasca did look somewhat unsteady. Sailor
Pluto raised her staff threateningly. "You are not immune to my
power; I will see you cast into Tartarus for what you've done to
my home!" she said.
Velasca made a sweeping gesture with her left arm and snapped an
arc of lightning at Moment, who hesitated near-fatally.
"Block it!" hissed Sailor Venus; Moment lifted her staff
hesitantly. The staff caught the edge of the arc and turned a
measure of the power away; the rest slammed into the young
warrior and blasted her aside, sending her flying into the
wreckage of a large house.
Sailor Venus seethed. Golden light crawled across her skin and
gathered to her face. She raised her right hand to her lips,
making the gesture of blowing a kiss.
"Love and Beauty ... SHOCK!!" she announced as she gathered the
energy into her hand and flung it at Velasca. The attack took on
the form of a spinning golden heart, scintillating with golden
beams of light. Velasca gaped in surprise and the shock attack
struck her square on. She screamed as the blast ripped through
her.
"What is this power?!?!" she cried out in confusion.
"It doesn’t matter, ‘ally’" said Callisto, who appeared in blast
of steel-gray light, twirling Ares’ sword through attack arcs
with just the strength of one hand. "So, little Gabrielle, it
seems you’ve done some growing up? What did you do, save a little
ambrosia? It doesn’t matter. As soon as Xena is here I will kill
you before her very eyes." She laughed, a cold, dead laugh.
Fire gathered into her left hand. "Perhaps a few burn scars would
be a good start," she mused. Her smile widened, a sick and
twisted thing, almost like an insane marionette. "I’m going to
kill you this time," she said quietly.
Sailor Venus had stood transfixed for several seconds, confusion
passing across her face while Callisto postured and threatened.
"This is for Perdicus!" she yelled and unleashed a golden blast
at Callisto, surprising her by not yelling out her attack first.
The golden light splashed towards Callisto’s face and she
reflexively brought up Ares’ sword to block. The gold solidified
into a Love Chain wrapped around the sword. Sailor Venus yanked
for all she was worth and Callisto let out a startled
exclamation. A moment later, Sailor Jupiter grabbed ahold of the
chain and wrapped her arm around it. Melissa was strong, and her
additional strength showed. Sailor Mercury started running over
to them.
"Enough! Away with you!" screeched Callisto. She brandished the
entwined sword and the chain snapped and went flying back into
Melissa and Minako. There was a crunching sound as it hit Melissa
and the Spartan gritted her teeth at the pain. She and Minako
tumbled back several feet.
"MIST SPRAY!" screamed Sailor Mercury, weaving an obscuring cloud
between the goddesses and the sailor god-warriors.
Sailor Mercury then dashed over to Sailors Venus and Jupiter.
"Good timing, Mercury!" said Minako as Mercury helped her to
stand.
"You’re welcome; Jupiter, you’re hurt, we’ve got to get you out
of the line of fire! My mist won’t stop them long!" Mercury
exclaimed as she and Minako helped Jupiter to stand again.
Minako silently cursed the low power levels of these warriors;
the Sailor Mercury she knew would have had a decent chance of
encasing one of the goddesses in a block of ice.
"I’ll fight on!" protested Jupiter, who winced and grabbed at her
right arm, which was hanging at a funny angle.
"You *can't!*" protested Mercury. "Your arm--!"
The sailors had been backing up as they argued; but Minako now
saw that their time was nearly up.
"Mercury! Your fog!"
"I’ll renew it! Mist Spr--"
A blast of fire roared out of the twilight and burned away the
last of the fog. Amica gasped in surprise and aborted her attack
to duck.
"Enough of *that!*" said Callisto. Velasca stood slightly behind
her, still shook up by the earlier attacks.
"BURN!" screeched Callisto. She opened her left hand and a huge
swirling fireball launched at them. Minako tensed to throw
herself in front of the younger warriors. She figured she had the
best chance of taking the hit dead on; besides, Callisto wanted
her to suffer--she might hold back on her attack to prolong
things.
Just then, Xena’s battle cry rang through the deepening twilight
and a shrieking, whooshing sound heralded the arrival of her
chakram. Callisto was distracted and turned her concentration to
Xena; her fireball began to dissipate mid-air, and the chakram
ripped through it, weakening it further.
"*Mist Spray! FREEZING!!*" screamed Sailor Mercury, unleashing
everything she had. There was a crackling sound as her fog spray
hit the unfocused fireball and flash-froze the air. The fireball
was neutralized and a cloud of frozen ashes dropped to the
ground.
"I ... I did that? " she said in wonder, to herself.
"Ah, Xena," said Callisto in a voice of ice-sweet poison. "Just
in time to see your little friend burn to death ... *just like my
village!*" she screamed as Xena tumbled through the air and
landed on the ground near the edge of the clearing. Xena raised
her hand to catch her boomeranging chakram.
"This is old ground Callisto. I’ve confessed my crime in public,
your mother’s shade nearly spit on you for using her death as a
justification for growing up a homicidal bitch; when are you
going to get a new line?"
"Mock me if you wish Xena; soon, you will feel the caress of
molten fire, the same kiss you sentenced me to! Do you know what
it’s like to be buried alive in flaming rock? You WILL soon
enough!" Again, fire blasted into existence in Callisto’s free
hand.
"Ares’ sword?" Xena said to herself as she noticed Callisto’s
prize. That was...worrisome.
Meanwhile, Mercury and the two Venuses had helped the badly
injured Jupiter to the side of the field. "Minako, take ... take
my sword!" she ground out. Minako’s eyes widened in surprise; the
other two sailor god-warriors gasped.
"Melissa..." began Amica.
"Take it!" Jupiter fumed. "I know you’re worthy. You lead them in
your time, don’t you?" She turned to let Minako have access at
her sword’s scabbard.
"Well, I have," Minako answered as she reached out and took the
leader’s sword. At her touch, it flashed with light and an orange
aurora crackled around it. The twin golden oak leaves that formed
the hilt guard blurred; the sword’s outline blurred and twisted;
in a moment, it was normal again, but now the hilt guard was a
crescent. All of the sailor warriors’ eyes widened in surprise.
"It changes, I didn’t know that!" Minako said more to herself
than the others.
She looked at them, a deadly serious expression on her face. "I’m
going to help my friend Xena. Eriæ, if you get the chance to
snipe, do so; Amica, get Jupiter to the princess. Maybe she has
enough strength to heal the wound. If not, get her away. Damn
Ares! We NEED Sailor Mars! We could combine our powers..." She
darted forward, still grumbling slightly, as every second
counted. She saw Pluto had gotten her wind back and picked
herself up out of the rubble. "Sailor Pluto! Are you up to
attacking?"
Moment hesitated and then nodded strongly. "Yes!"
"Alright, your powers scare Velasca at least. Fling Dead Scream
at them from here, where you can dive for cover if you’re
attacked. Can you spin a baton? A quarterstaff?" Sailor Pluto
shook her head. "Darn! you could block a typical attack with
your staff that way. Well, try it if you’re cornered. Now, I need
covering fire."
"I’m with you, Sailor Venus!" said the newly recruited Outer
Senshi. She stepped forward.
"DEAD SCREAM!!"
The sphere of power sailed through the air, forcing Callisto and
Velasca to shift their positions and holding them off from Xena a
few moments longer. A blast from Eriæ added to to the mayhem.
Sailor Venus dashed forward several steps and then launched
herself through the air in a Xena-style leap. "Sailor Veeeeeee!"
She gleefully in an imitation of Xena’s own warcry as she flew
through the air.
Both Callisto and Xena noticed the move. Velasca was paying
attention to neither. She was still focusing on her arm and
trying to restore it to normal functionality and dodging another
of Moment’s Dead Screams. She was slowly regenerating the limb.
Sailor Venus landed beside Xena, about ten feet away from her and
about twenty from Callisto. She brandished the Crescent Moon
Sword menacingly. Xena’s eyes nearly popped out of her head.
"Gabrielle! How? That outfit? And a sword? What is...?"
"Not NOW Xena!" Sailor Venus urged. "Callisto! You’ve killed half
this town for your own selfish amusement! The powers of the gods
are not to be used for wanton destruction. You’re a mass-murderer
without a repentant shred in your heart and for that I can’t
forgive you! In place of ... well, Aphrodite, actually, I am
Sailor Venus!"
She raised the longsword over her head and it began to glow.
"Crescent Beam, METEOR SHOWER!" she cried out; a beam of
starlight lanced up the blade and into the night sky, where it
exploded like a star and sent a myriad of rays falling back
toward the earth. Callisto raised her hand to shield her eyes
from the blinding flare of light overhead.
Xena suppressed her questions, assuming that Aphrodite had placed
a spell on Gabrielle similar to the one she’d used on Joxer a few
months before. With the time her magical attack bought, Xena
pulled out the box containing the Scythe and opened it. Within
was a huge black sickle, almost a dark twin to Selene’s Crescent
Moon Wand, but larger. It was about 12" across; the crescent was
a circle 3/4 complete, with the handle not being quite at the
bottom of the arc. Thus, the top of the scythe was a huge cutting
blade, while the bottom made a minimal hilt guard.
Xena charged Callisto. Callisto grinned and at the last second,
sidestepped with godly speed, saying, "look out Velasca!" in a
laughing tone. After all, their agrement prohibited her from
attacking Velasca directly, but if her partner fell in combat
after she had been warned...
Velasca shrieked as she saw Xena bearing down on her with that
great, black ... THING. It was too much for her. Power exploded
and Velasca turned herself into a lightning bolt and shot away
from the warrior princess. She traveled the distance to the
forest in the blink of an eye, hit a tree, and reformed her human
seeming. She was a bit woozy, but she immediately noticed that
had reflexively reformed her body in an uninjured state--her
instinct had healed the wound that her conscious mind could not.
She laughed at the irony of it.
"Pain first, death second!" screeched Callisto. She transformed
into a pillar of flame and vanished.
"What the Hades was *that*?!?!" yelled Xena, pointing at
Gabrielle/Minako’s sword. Minako looked at her as if she threw
energy blasts every day, shrugged, made a sheathing motion with
the sword, and released it. The sword vanished into thin air.
"What was what?" she said, grinning.
"Gabrielle, you -- you are Gabrielle, aren’t you?" Xena asked,
unsure.
Across the battlefield, Joxer helped Princess Serenity to stand
and walk. "Who is that?" she asked Joxer.
"That? It’s *Xena*!" he said.
"Is she also a champion of justice?" the moon princess asked.
"She ... well, a long time ago, Xena was an evil warlord. But she
saw the error of her ways and became good. I understand that
Hercules helped set her on the path of right," he answered.
"I see," Serenity answered. "And do you know why she’s here?"
"Gabrielle, er, Sailor Venus, is her travelling companion. She’s
been helping her keep from backsliding into her old, dark ways.
That blond woman, Callisto, blames Xena for the destruction of
her village when she was a little girl; it’s made her crazy. She
doesn’t feel anything, except she enjoys causing pain. Callisto
doesn’t care who she hurts. She just wants to see Xena suffer.
She killed Gabrielle’s husband just so that Gabrielle would be
consumed with rage and try to kill her in anger, corrupting her--
because she knew that seeing Gabrielle lose her innocence would
hurt Xena more than just killing her. She’s the most evil thing
I’ve ever met," he finished.
Serenity shook her head. "Joxer, in your opinion, Xena is good,
then?"
"Yes! She’s tough, and she can be nasty, but she’s good. I
believe that, firmly. Why?"
"Help me to her. I have to talk to her about that ... *weapon*
she’s got. She has to know the price."
Joxer’s eyes rather bugged out at this comment, but he said
nothing as he helped Princess Serenity work her way toward
Gabrielle and Xena.
Meanwhile, Gabrielle answered Xena’s question. "Yes, it’s me
alright Xena but ... more of me." Xena nodded for her to
continue, her attention rapt. "A long time ago, in a far away
land--"
"Gabrielle," Xena interrupted, "No offense, but, is this going to
be one of your *long* stories?"
She smiled and shook her head. "No, it’s pretty simple. Somewhere
else, I was a guardian, with magical powers. I was fighting an
ancient evil that was too powerful for me, and it banished me
here, to this place and time, where my memories were sealed away.
I grew up as Gabrielle, but I was someone else, someone ...
fairly similar ... first. Now, I’ve remembered who I really am,
and now there’s more of me." She paused and looked very sad,
wistful even. "I’m sorry Xena, but I’m not the old me anymore.
I’m the older me who’s the new me, you see?"
Xena blinked. She didn’t understand this. It was too much, too
soon, and too confusing. But, she knew what her heart told her;
and she knew what Gabrielle would have said, to follow her heart.
A glimmer of a tear sprang to her eyes. This woman was not the
innocent Gabrielle had been. She was a seasoned fighter; she had
probably killed. Xena was sure of it. She moved like someone who
had looked death in the eye in close combat before.
"So, you’re a bard, an Amazon princess, and now a warrior. Does
this mean I have to get a new sidekick?"
Minako laughed. "No Xena, we--" she broke off. "Actually, I’m not
sure if I can stay with you after this," she said soberly. "I’d
like to."
Xena lunged forward. The two friends embraced, wordlessly. Minako
felt Xena’s strength flowing into her, supporting her. Even now
that she was a senshi, part of her felt like Xena could protect
her.
"Do I still call you Gabrielle?" Xena asked quietly, not quite
choked up.
"Sure, or you can call me Minako, or Sailor Venus..." She broke
the hold. "OH! My allies, the Sailor Senshi! You’ve got to meet
them!" She gestured across the battlefield. Joxer and Princess
Serenity were visible. The other Sailor Venus was talking to
Sailor Pluto. Mercury and Jupiter were coming out from behind a
wall. "That’s the princess of the moon, and her guardians,"
Minako explained. "I’m her descendant’s guardian."
"The MOON?" asked Xena incredulously. "I’ve never heard of a
realm on the moon. Who’s the ruler?"
"Our queen is the Titan Selene," replied Mercury.
"Oh. My. Say, that other girl has an outfit in colors like
yours." Xena pointed at Eriæ.
"We’re both ‘a’ Sailor Venus. There’s only supposed to be one
warrior for each planet that’s linked to a god, but I’m from ...
far in the future. I’m also more experienced and powerful than
these novice warriors." She nodded at the senshi as they
converged on them. "But, they’re very brave," she said quietly,
with great pride in her voice. She turned back to Xena. "That was
Ares’ sword Callisto had, wasn’t it?"
"It appears so. I think she stole it. And it’s going to make
things that much trickier. I need to hit her with a clean blow
from this thing," said Xena.
"Minako-chan!" yelled Artemis, bounding into Venus’ arms.
Xena nearly dropped the Scythe of Chronos in surprise.
"Gabrielle, did that ... cat ... just talk?"
Minako scratched Artemis behind the ears. "Why, yes he did.
Artemis, meet Xena, Xena, meet Artemis (no relation to the
goddess of the same name). You two are my closest friends and
trainers!"
"You can talk! And what’s that funny crescent mark on your head?"
she asked, bending over the cat.
"You can see my mark? How odd! Usually only people strongly tied
to the moon notice it. Do you worship the moon goddess?" Xena
shook her head.
"No, I’d say Athena was my patron if anyone."
"Hmm. Well, anyway, thank you VERY much for guarding Minako while
she didn’t have her memories. If there’s anything I can ever do
for you, it’s yours!"
Xena smiled. "Help her to be happy," she said.
Artemis looked very puzzled. "Sure, of course I’d want the best
for her, she’s like my own daughter!"
Xena looked up at Sailor Jupiter. "You look like your shoulder’s
dislocated. Want me to fix it?"
"You’re a healer too?" asked Sailor Mercury in surprise.
"I have many skills," Xena purred. Minako was unable to resist
the temptation to mouth the words at the same time. She had to
have heard that line almost as many times as "Oshioki yo!" out of
Usagi’s mouth. That thought alone set her grinning.
Xena examined the shoulder and arm. "Hmm, looks like a clean
dislocation, no breakage," she commented. Jupiter nodded in
understanding. "Are you a Spartan?" she asked.
"Why, yes, I’m from a small village ca--argh!" broke off Melissa.
As she was distracted by the question, Xena simply wrenched the
arm back into place. It was what was needed to be done, but the
pain still shocked her. She paled, gasped, gritted her teeth, and
nodded once in appreciation. Xena nodded back.
"That’s a bad cut," she idly commented to the younger Sailor
Venus. Eriæ blanched at the suggestion of care from Xena’s hands.
She pulled her left arm closer to her body. She’d improvised a
bit of a bandage from the hem of her toga-like uniform, but there
was obvious red leaking out. "I can sew that up for you. And it
won’t hurt much," she said, grinning. She put her first two
fingers of each hand together. "I can suppress your pain by
striking pressure points in your arms, then sew it. It needs to
be closed."
"A healer as well as a warrior, that is indeed, a rare
dichotomy," said Princess Serenity. Xena, sensing something
noble about her, gracefully inclined her head.
"But unneeded." She put her hand on Eriæ’s arm, but Sailor Venus
stepped back.
"No, highness. Save your power. Let Xena sew the wound; you can
heal me later."
Serenity and Jupiter blinked in surprise.
Pluto and Mercury were prowling around the little group, keeping
an eye out for the renegade goddesses. The night had fallen
completely by now, but the moon was full and rose as the sun set;
it gave them light to see by. In fact, the night sky seemed
ablaze with more stars than usual.
Serenity and Xena locked gazes for several moments. Serenity’s
blue eyes opened wide and the pupil shrank, as if she was gazing
on some far distant vista. Xena whitened, but did not break eye
contact. Several moments passed. Serenity smiled, and broke
contact.
"Xena, you must know this--"
"I know everything I need to know!" she insisted, cutting off the
princess and glancing nervously at Gabrielle.
"The scythe will cost you your life!!" insisted the princess.
"What?" exclaimed Minako.
Xena smiled and tossed her head a bit. "Persephone said that
using it would shorten my life, but someone has to so ...!"
Minako was aghast. "I’ll do it! I’ve lived a longer life than
you, you have so much more good to do!"
"No, YOU have more potential for good! Gabrielle...!"
"Sailor Venus! Super Sailor Venus, actually!" she replied
indignantly. The four Mycenean Senshi mouthed the adjective and
looked at each other in puzzlement, the trio of guards in one
group, Pluto hesitant to join them.
"Why are you so determined to do this? Is it because Callisto is
doing this to get to you?" asked Serenity.
"I’m doing this because I’m responsible for all this," said Xena
strongly.
"Xena, you can’t blame yourself for everything Callisto does!"
protested Minako. "Yes, you were an influence on her, but she
chose the path she took!"
Xena shook her head and turned back to Serenity. "It’s not that.
I died, princess. My spirit wasn’t content, and I got Gabrielle
to bring a taste of ambrosia to my body, and reunited my spirit
with it. But because of that, Velasca got some. And because of
that, we released Callisto from her imprisonment in an attempt to
use her against Velasca--she already had a taste of the golden
apples of the Hesperides, so she was immortal but not a goddess;
then she got ambrosia from Velasca. I sealed them away but," she
gestured around the village. "Don’t you see?" she said turning
back to the assembled group. "It was my greed for life that
brought on this devastation! If my life can help stop this, then
so be it. I don’t believe that it’s enough to balance the scales,
but it’s all I have to offer."
"No, Xena, you can do more good if you live--" began Minako
again.
"Gabrielle, with these two loose the debt just keeps piling up! I
have to stop this cycle now!"
Princess Serenity’s face hardened. "This *is* a great debt you’re
talking about. I’m not sure if I agree with your culpability or
not but--"
Joxer butted in, "Guys! I think that fireball means they’re
back!"
Everyone looked up and saw what he was talking about.
"Joxer!" yelled Minako.
"I know, I know, guard the princess." He moved to Serenity’s side
and took her hand, intent on leading her to safety.
"Wait!" she said. She took a deep breath.
On Olympus, Lachesis suddenly jumped back away from the great
tapestry, and hissed in surprise. The other two fates looked at
her and then bent to read the newest tangling of the threads of
destiny. Atropos grinned, while Clotho blanched fearfully.
Aphrodite, Hephaestus, and Cupid looked up from the viewing pool
at the disruption. "Uh-oh," said Aphrodite.
Back in Hellespont, Serenity had made a hard decision. "Xena,
take my staff," she said. "It’s filled with the power of life and
healing. It may preserve you through the coming battle ... or it
may blast you for wielding the opposed forces." She pursed her
lips and shook her head as she held out the staff toward Xena. "I
really don’t know what will happen; but it’s a chance for life
and I think you deserve it. I wish you well!"
Xena’s eyes widened in surprise at the possible, sudden reprieve.
After all, even a slim chance was better than none. She tightened
her jaw and nodded once, and reached out for the staff with her
left hand.
"Highness, no!" exclaimed Sailor Mercury.
Another huge ball of fire arced into the night sky and fell
toward them, flanked by several fist-sized balls of lightning.
Sailor Jupiter took a deep breath, crossed her arms in front of
her and sent up the lightning rod on her tiara.
"*Guardian Zeus,*
*king of the sky,*
*lend me the power of your mighty shield!*"
Clouds rolled above her in the darkened sky, and the undersides
were lit by flashes of lightning.
"*Jupiter! SUPREME THUNDER!*"
A stream of lightning poured to the ground, surrounding her in a
crackling aura of greenish-whiteness.
"*Aegis*!" she cried out, flinging her arms wide.
Lightning crackled out from her and spread into an arc in front
of her companions, then the electrical energies danced and
twisted and abruptly wove into a net of lightning. Velasca’s ball
lightnings struck it and were absorbed, increasing its charge;
Callisto’s fireball hit it and was stopped, the lightning
containing the goddesses fire for several heartbeats before both
lightning wall and fireball collapsed. Jupiter staggered back,
winded but proud of her feat.
"Enough of you!" screamed Velasca, who appeared out of a blast of
lightning, grabbed Melissa by the throat with one hand, lifted
her a foot off the ground and began trying to snap her neck one-
handed.
"You’re not even an Amazon, how dare you fight me?!?"
Xena grabbed the White Moon Staff from Serenity and somersaulted
over Velasca, the staff in one hand the scythe in the other. She
landed flanking the mad goddess and with one mighty stroke of her
arm delivered a death blow. The Scythe’s blade seemed to almost
cut into the air itself, leaving a livid dark streak in the pale
light. All the light bleached out of the air around the trio; all
the sound stopped, instantly muffled. Velasca screamed,
wordlessly, dropping Sailor Jupiter from fingers gone limp. Polar
opposite powers, beyond description as mere lightning, exploded
out of the staff and the scythe, blasting into Xena as warring
darkness and light. She also screamed without a sound leaving her
mouth as the twin forces swirled around her. Her eyes rolled back
up into her head as she lost feeling in her body under the
onslaught of the warring primal forces in her hands.
In her mind’s eye, she saw something that existed before darkness
explode into darkness and light; she saw a ball of swirling
lights; visions of a black-cloaked figure with eyes like dying
embers and a body like shimmering oil-slick rainbows reaching out
to grab the ball of lights. She saw bright spirits in every color
of light pouring up out of a vast chasm like prismatic
butterflies; she saw seeds of light gathering together in a
corner of the darkness and from them huge spheres grew into
existence. She saw the gods arise and gather over one blue-white
swirled sphere. And she felt at last the source of her own
terrible strength.
The others saw the aura around Xena become coruscating, then it
thickened and became burning bright like focused lightning; but
Minako squinted and kept her gaze on her. She saw Xena somehow
move her arms and suddenly the scythe and staff which had
repelled a moment ago flew together as if pulled by a lodestone.
The Scythe’s small handle sank into the socket atop the White
Moon Staff with an audible click; then the brightness kept her
from seeing anything else, but it seemed as if the Scythe was
bending under the blasting energy. The white brilliance wiped
everything away.
Suddenly, it was dark, and Minako was nearly blind with the
afterimages. She heard a mournful song, and realized that Xena
was singing wordlessly, almost a dirge, as she did sometimes when
she was moved beyond mere words.
Light blasted from the ground and rose up, tracing the outline of
Xena’s body as the darkness dissipated before the light of the
new power that had manifested. Xena turned slowly in the geyser
of power, and was glowing with a soft white light; as she turned
back toward them, Minako could make out a sigil in purple fire
tracing itself, anticlimactically. Minako had seen what had
happened to the Moon Staff. She knew what mark was appearing on
Xena’s forehead.
"Oh my God!" she said to Artemis. "*Xena is Sailor Saturn!*"
The cat’s eyes bulged wide. "The Senshi of Destruction has
awakened!"
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