Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)
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				Title: <strong>Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Angie</strong> on <strong>01-05-2015, 02:27:29</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/flat550x550075f.jpg)</div>It was a dark and stormy night...<br><br>The streets of Tokyo seemed dim tonight. The rain clouded vision, making the usually lit streets of the great city dark and dreary. You watch the city from above, catching a great eyeful of the unusually deserted night. <br><br>A clock strikes midnight. A bell tolls. The primitive brass device echos the chime throughout the city. And on the 12th ring...the rain slowly stops. <br><br><div class="floatleft">(http://th07.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2010/349/4/4/shadow_creature_by_seco_angelus-d34ybjy.jpg)</div> And then, they come.<br><br>Creatures of pure shadow flood the streets of the city, their howls sending chills up your spine. Like a pack of wolves straight from hell, they search. For who or what, who can say? All you can see from your privileged vantage point is that where they go, darkness follows, covering the streets, crawling up the great buildings like ink spilled onto canvas. <br><br>Were it to end there, it would be a nightmare. But it does not. Instead, massive military vehicles (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/JGSDF_APC_Type_96_at_JGSDF_Camp_Shimoshizu_02.jpg) contribute to an almost 'counter flood'. Top hatches are opened, and mysterious machines rise, generating a strange, blue field. Other doors on the sides and back open, and the people inside come out fighting. Some wear heavy armor and wield blade and bludgeon, others use lighter armor and modern firearms, and still others weave the fires of what can only be called Magic. <br><br>The creatures charge for the blue field, only to be disintegrated as they attempt to do so. The field noticeably warps when a creature strikes it, however, and the flood is not stopping. These men, brave as they are, will not succeed...<br><br>Their fortunes change as well. A massive blue circle appears, and when it fades, three mysterious figures stand. One carries a sword in his right hand, and a ball of magical fire in his left. Another holds a futuristic weapon in both hands (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/xcom/images/1/1c/XEU_Heavy_Plasma.png/revision/latest?cb=20130324180716). The third carries an oaken staff that ends in a 'flower' pattern, with a beautiful diamond serving as the plant's 'bulb'. They join the fight, and blow through the shadow creatures...but even they are not enough.<br><br>You blink. Suddenly, you are on the ground...but your clothes are not your own, and you hold mysterious weapons...and you feel a great power coursing through your veins...<br><br><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Sailor Moon</div><div class="spoiler_body">A staff, cut from pure diamond, rests in your hands, the head ending in a crescent moon. The moon's radiance is not spoiled by these shadow beasts, and it courses through you, wanting to punish these enemies of the Light.</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Terra Knight</div><div class="spoiler_body">A beautiful sword, with a handguard made from silver and roses, is held in your right hand, with platinum gauntlets protecting your hands. The earth beneath your feet 'speaks' to you, urging you to fight to protect those around you.</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Sailor Mercury</div><div class="spoiler_body">Though you are not as high as you were, you are still above the streets, surfing on a wave of water that you find is controlled by the rather large trident you carry. In your mind, there is no other course of action: The shadow creatures must be destroyed!</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Sailor Jupiter</div><div class="spoiler_body">The storm still rages, but the storm is not your enemy, rather, YOU are the storm's Master! The sword in your hand reacts to the lightning, ready to channel the storm's fury into your own strikes. Will you let this shadow stand?</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Jupiter Knight</div><div class="spoiler_body">In a flash of lightning, you appear, making the creatures of shadow recoil. The power of the storm is in the palm of your hands, with the gauntlets you now hold. The crowd of monsters stares you down and charges...a mistake.</div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button" class="spoiler_header">Sailor Pluto</div><div class="spoiler_body">Black wings are rather becoming of you. Though you have your own, shadowy specter, you know which side you are on. And it's not the side of these dark bastards! The scythe in your hands seems ready to leap out and attack them itself-these creatures defy existence within time and space, and must be destroyed before they destroy all of reality.</div></div><br>You have heard the call, heroes. What do you do?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Yukina</strong> on <strong>01-05-2015, 03:00:28</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://24.media.tumblr.com/72d6270ca9bcd7039305c7a3cabbe460/tumblr_mre4u5VfpS1qzg0xao1_500.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Satomi Miyazaki<br><strong>Location:</strong> Tokyo<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> <br><br><hr><br>Satomi suddenly opened her eyes, flailing around in utter panic before realizing the fact that she hadn't fallen a micrometer after finding herself in this strange position. Even after regaining a bit of composure after her realization, a chill went down her spine as hoards of the beings of shadow rampaged through the streets with their dread-inducing howls. She watched as the action surged below her, pitying the humans as it was soon clear how they were fighting a losing battle. With a sudden blink, Satomi found herself upon a wave, finding herself garbed in an outfit similar to the magical girls she occasionally cosplayed at anime conventions. Nonetheless, the (now magical) girl knew she needed to help the doomed army despite how confused she was, directing her wave over the shadow creatures and leaving ice in its wake. She had no idea how she knew how to do that, but she could only guess it was the same reason she was riding the wave with such ease.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Wolfy</strong> on <strong>01-05-2015, 03:17:45</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/Wolfy4225/anime-girl-with-dark-brown-hair-and-blue-eyes.png~original)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Jikan Kurai<br><strong>Location:</strong> Tokyo<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> <br><br><hr><br><br><br>Blinking in the inky darkness of night, Kurai stumbled for a moment. She felt the weight of something in her hands, and looked down to see a massive scythe (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Wolfy4225/media/304088-scythe_4.jpg.html) in her hands, darkness beading on the head as blue orbs seemed to pulse with ethereal light. Black wings flexed, spreading out to an impressive wingspan, and Kurai knew what she had to do as she saw the enemies pounding away at the energy barrier separating them from the military machines that generated them, and saw others fighting against them. She was here to take the darkness back for the light, for without one there could not be another. Balance was needed, and it was time to tip the scales back in light's favor. <br><br>A clock illuminated under her feet, hands suddenly speeding up to an impressive speed as Kurai, Sailor Pluto, took suddenly to the skies on her raven black wings, soaring away from the barriers. She was a warrior of darkness for the light, she had no fear of the inky black...the dark was her domain, her home, her playground, and these wretches were spoiling her fun. A distance away from the others, Sailor Pluto soared over the roaring hordes and dove down into the inky blackness that surrounded them, become engulfed in darkness. For anyone else aside from perhaps Sailor Saturn, they would have been swallowed instantly, but Pluto found the darkness comforting, welcoming, and warm. She grinned to herself as red eyes flashed, her scythe blade turning and twisting through the bodies of monsters around her as she slashed outwards in a circle, a dome of energy forming over the area where she fought.<br><br>The same ethereal clock that had sped up her movements also formed again, though this time the hands slowed to a stop, and at precisely the moment that they did stop everything within a ten meter radius of Kurai instantly stopped with them, the ground becoming frozen from the chill of having every single molecule within that radius instantly stopped dead in it's tracks, save for her own. Her own movements sped up, she became a tornado of blades as her scythe weaved and cut through every enemy in reach, though they all stayed frozen in place even as they were cut through and she weaved through them like a dancer in a complicated series of lethal steps. <br><br>"Darkness, Time, and Space....all of these are my domain..." Pluto said to the monsters as more tried to enter her circle of power but had their arms and other limbs frozen solid as soon they entered. Starting time again within her area, she whipped her scythe around overhead and created a torrential tornado within the rain, as monster body parts were swept up into her furious storm created by the speed at which her body moved, and rained down as heavy frozen meteors upon the other monsters in the ground. Pluto had moved far enough away to avoid friendly fire, having always preferred to be distant. She looked back at the other Sailors fighting on their own, and smiled softly, "We've got this won..." She said with a small laugh, slicing another monster in half and using it's upper torso to teleport away from another attack.&nbsp; "Mmmm...Let's mix things up, shall we?" She said to the dark beasts around her, as darkness flowed through her scythe.<br><br>Laughing and cutting through the very fabric of space in front of her, Pluto opened a void before her that quickly closed with explosive force, something that she was immune to..however the monsters around her were sent flying into the air, and she quickly leapt up, on raven black wings, and sliced through all of them in a mad dash, kicking off each dead body to stay in the air, laughing as the consuming darkness made her go into a frenzy of violence away from the other scouts.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MaiMizzu</strong> on <strong>01-05-2015, 04:58:02</strong>
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				<strong>Name:</strong> Mesu&nbsp; <br><strong>Location:</strong> Somewhere that isn’t.. <br><strong>Tagging:</strong> N/A<br><br><hr> Thunderstorms are so awful. Why does it always have to be so loud and… lightningy? Eh, let the thunderstorm continue, she has her choco-koalas. So all is right in the world for now. <br><br>While crunching on the little chocolate filled koala shaped cookies, she looks down at the world below. Tokyo seems.. quiet.. despite the storm. Why? It’s late.. it’s raining (go away thunder!), but there should be people down there. A lot of people, right? She crunches on another choco-koala… and then she freezes. Mesu watches the world below with wide eyes.. Something isn’t right. Something’s wrong. The rain slows, and the cookies are gone from her hands as she watches the street, a certain dread filling her heart. ‘No’ she whispers somewhere in the back of her mind. She can <em>feel</em> something awful. <br><br>Her big brown eyes snap right towards where the shadows move.. and those shadows are seek something out. Or someone. Mesu watches in dread as they move through the city, as that darkness consumes all it roams over. This is horrid.. why is this happening? They have to be stopped.. and just as that thought comes into existence, her eyes dart towards the military vehicles. She squints a little to see them better in this darkness, and gasps as the blue light suddenly emanates from the hatches of the vehicles. What the heck is all that.. she’s never seen such things.. Mesu watches with bated breath as the people now try to fight the darkness. <br><br>But Mesu <em>knows</em> they will fail. She knows it. She doesn’t know how she does, but she does. She shakes her head as the creatures of the black shadow attack relentlessly, and Mesu screams at the top of her lungs for them to stop, for those poor people to get away! She feels tears trickle down her cheeks as she tries to call out to them.. but her voice has no sound, no substance whatsoever. She goes unheard as she watches in horror. She draws in a deep breath and cups her hands around her lips, trying to scream at the top of her lungs towards the unfortunate ones, trying to get them to hear her. Her pleas go unheeded. <br><br>Another flash of blue, and Mesu gasps loudly as it scares her with its sudden appearance. She finds a small, hopeful smile amidst her tears of sorrow for the fallen… perhaps now they’ll be okay! Those three people certainly <em>look</em> like heroes! Though she is hopeful they can help… once more Mesu knows they won’t be able to. She doesn’t know how she knows this… she just does. Slowly the three newcomers start to get overwhelmed… and Mesu shakes her head fearfully, clutching her heart. She has to help… she has to help!<br><br><strong>She has to help!</strong><br><br>Her perspective changes.. she is changed.. and she is suddenly changed. She stares unflinching into the oncoming darkness.. and she feels fear. She feels.. invigorated.. but she is scared. Wait, she’s holding something. She looks down a little at the elegant staff, and as her eyes lay upon it.. the staff starts to give off a gentle glow. It’s.. beautiful.. She finds herself smiling a little. And abruptly she looks up.. she looks up towards the moon shimmering in the night… and she smiles a little more. <br><br><em>~When we are together…~</em><br><br>Her eyes fall slowly closed as she grasps the lovely staff in her now gloved hands, and she draws it up in front of her. She can feel the energy flowing through her body.. oh what wondrous thing… she can feel the dress she wears swaying in the night’s winds, fluttering against the cascading energy around her slim form. <br><br><em>~When we are together…~</em><br><br>Now her eyes would flutter open, and she glances around. She can see others.. they are here to fight this darkness too! She knows it.. she doesn’t know how she does, but she knows it. There is a connection here, between them all. And it’s the moonlight that connects them! No the encroaching darkness seems to take notice of her, and the shadow creatures are in sudden rush towards Mesu. The hate there.. the anger.. No, don’t let it sway you! You are together now!<br><br><em>~When we are together… <br>When they approach us, we are scared. But if our hearts become one, the love will win!~</em><br><br>Mesu’s delicate form is engulfed in a shimmering light, for just a moment seeming to cascade from the heavens themselves. The diamond staff she clutches before her raises up in her hands, and a white light pulses from it. The creatures that are caught in its lovely light howl in pain for only a moment, and then they cease to be. Another pulse of warm, loving light and more of the encroaching creatures are banished from this place! She now holds the staff aloft in one hand, the look upon her features one of determination.. she won’t let them down, she won’t let down her friends! The ones she loves! Rays of white and gold energy emanate from the staff’s crescent end, annihilating any shadow that it passes over. <br><br><em>~For all you have done.. for the evil you have incurred.. we will punish you!~</em><br><br>The shimmering light from her staff gains intensity… cleansing all around her in basking and warm light. Her form is clad in a long white and gold dress, her long now strawberry blond hair sways and flutters as she banishes the darkness… as the light of Love itself fights this evil.<br>
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				Post by: <strong>Sinestra</strong> on <strong>01-05-2015, 19:13:08</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/0CvLLEj.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Amanda Johnson<br><strong>Location:</strong> ...perchance...to dream...<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> <br><br><hr><br>A swift bolt of lightning illuminated the sword-wielding woman's body for the briefest of instances, the light casting a dark shadow across her eyes and towering form. She focused, resilient against the shadow that threatened to devour the world around her. Amanda's mind, torn in the moments before, reached out to waiting energy above, feeling it's power and immense potential awaiting not the vague chance of weather, of a rising lightning rod to call it to action. No, it was her will, her power, that was the storm. Her muscles tensed as she stood, unmoving, her skin leaping with bolts of electricity along it's length, flowing towards her heart. With each passing second more jolts passed over her skin, emitted by some unseen force or perhaps simply pulled from the air around her itself. Her body, this outfit which was not her own, dripped of the storm's passing rain. Her hand gripping tight to the blade she found in her hand. In her mind she could hear a thunderous noise begin to build, a storm within the sky and within her heart. Both raging to be let loose.<br><br>When suddenly they were upon her, shapes and masses of shadowed horrors, able to tear at the mind yet gave the american amazon no pause. Her lips slowly cracked a wicked smile, she had always wanted to be set free like this. A half dozen shapes leaped from all sides of the soaked woman, their bodies hanging in the air as each brought it's body to bear against her. But like the bolt of lightning in the sky a moment ago, so too did the towering woman move. With speed unfathomed she dashed forward, slamming her electrically-laced fist into the vague black form. In an instant the creature burst from within as the fury of the rolling storm erupted from her clenched fist, shards of shadowed miasma fading into nothingness around her. Quickly turning with her sword extended, a great bolt of lightning descended from the sky with a magnificent crack, striking her sword itself and leaping to touch each of the remaining five shadowed shapes that were now leaping past her. Much as the first, the electricity ever so briefly built up within before erupting from within, sending the dark forms in all directions, shattered as if made of glass.<br><br>But so many more of the horrors extended out in all directions, she needed more... more time to gather the storm within herself. With each passing moment the arcs of electricity across her skin flowed towards her heart, charging her, fueling her wrath at the audacity of the darkness around her. In her mind she was vaguely aware of others, down sidestreets and alleys, men and women fighting the battle that she too fought, but she knew that none would match her this day, not shadow and not horror. Stabbing her crackling sword into the pavement beside her, Amanda bent down and grasped ahold of a nearby military vehicle. With the unfathomable strength belonging only to a force of nature itself, she stood and lifted high the heavily armored machine. Energy flowed from her body, up along her arms and into the vehicle itself. It's surface coarsing with the same arcing bolts as her body, feeding power into the vehicle for an instant before with a single step, Amanda hurled the great weight forward down the street. Slamming into a large group of the shadow-fiends, the charged vehicle erupted in flames, the detonation, the release of just the tiniest of imbued energy, blowing out windows and battering down doors for nearly a block in all directions, and obliterating nearly as many shadows along with it.<br><br>Yet still the power built within her heart, Amanda's hand once more gripping her sword tightly, pulling it free. Even as the collateral damage around her began to sink in, never did the wicked grin fade from her face. She was enjoying every minute of the release, of finally letting her power grow. Stepping forward slowly, step by step saw shadowy shapes leap to assault her, and yet with bursts of speed and power, like the lightning strikes in a storm, Amanda's sword swung and impaled her enemies, each erupting from within with electricity and light. In the sky above the storm clouds darkened, almost invisible to the shadowed streets, the loud rolling thunderclaps of a storm, a storm that was building to something catastrophic and powerful began to ring out across the city as the amazonian woman continued to step forward unequaled. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>TheBlackThrone</strong> on <strong>02-05-2015, 22:13:23</strong>
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				<strong>Name:</strong> Sagawa Bunji<br><strong>Location:</strong> Dreamland Tokyo<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> N/A<br><br><hr><hr><br><em>Where the hell am I…</em><br><br>The sky was overcast by black, ominous clouds, churning with the flashes and rumbling of a storm. He was in a city…Tokyo…and surrounding him were creatures bipedal and quadrupedal, barking, snarling, and shrieking their hatred at his presence. His wide, blue eyes took in his surroundings as he turned in a slow circle. Everything felt so real…the cool air pungent with the odor of a fire somewhere nearby. He felt the rumbling of the storm above vibrating throughout his core.<br><br><em>Was this a dream?</em><br><br>One of the quadrupedal creatures lunged from the crowd, and a few monsters had felt a brief spurt of courage to follow it, shrieking and squawking. The black creature resembled an earless dog with the wide, tooth jaws of a muzzle-less pit bull. Its eyes and throat glowed like a furnace as its claws gripped the earth, stopping a meter short of the dream realm intruder. The dog was barking crazily, while at the same time cowardly creeping backwards not desiring to be the first to take on the stranger. The two creatures that had followed it flapped their winged arms and kicked their bird-like feet. They resembled harpies, their breasts exposed and thick manes dancing between their long, devilish horns like a flame. There were various other dark species surrounding him, and as frightening as they were he strangely didn’t feel an ounce of fear.<br><br>The circle was slowly narrowing as the fiends were beginning to suspect the knight’s obliviousness. Bumping shoulders and crawling all over each other in their eagerness to kill, caution was becoming thicker in the air. One of them would lunge.<br><br>The creature flew through the air, its equine legs stretched out as it soared over the heads of the fiends to land on massive hooves in the center of the circle. The centaur’s scorpion tail whipped back and forth as it gazed upon the knight from behind two, massive curved swords. Bunji whirled around to stare at the creature with his brows lifted in concern, and that look had been enough to convince the enemy that he had no idea what was going on.<br><br>The centaur flipped its swords as it outstretched its arms and thrust out its neck as it bellowed a low roar. The fiend charged, hooves tearing up the asphalt and its tarry arms flexed as it brought its swords in an X to either sever the knight in half or trample him into the pavement. Suddenly, Bunji had moved. It had started so fast, but then things seemed to slow down. He then didn’t feel in control anymore. Face contorted in rage, the knight jumped straight up into the air, raising his legs above the centaur’s crossing blades. His feet then came down to perch upon the centaur’s crossed wrists before once more leaping into the air. His body twisted around, the heel of his right foot whirling as chains of electricity gleamed off his leg. His heel met with the side of the centaur’s face with a thunderous <em>thoom!</em> that flashed with light. The monsters were allowed a second to witness the creature’s skeletal head crumpling inwards before it exploded with black icker and the fire that had burned its skull.<br><br>Bunji landed gracefully on the ground, becoming visible once again in what seemed like a flash to the creatures. The headless centaur continued to charge, its arms lolling and dropping its blades as its hooves crunched and stomped the bodies of the wall of fiends it galloped through. The beast soon collapsed upon its side, crushing more creatures unfortunate enough to be in the way and smearing their remains like black ink across the street as its corpse slid to a stop.<br><br>For what felt like a full minute, the ring of demons had fell silent in awe. Not a single snort, grunt, or squeak was heard as their burning eyes gazed upon the hole in their ranks and the path of carnage that had torn through it. Bunji was staring down at his arms and legs in shock, finally taking notice of the weapons he wielded. They crackled with electricity and upon clenching his fists the glowing generators on his arms began to spin. A crackling cloud of energy billowed from his gauntlets until the sky flashed and volt of lightning shot down to strike the warrior. All generators on his arms and legs began to turn, charging the power that surged through his being, and illuminated his skeleton as it flickered. He felt…so good. There was so much power flooding through his muscles, veins, everywhere that he felt that he could do anything.<br><br>The fiends’ attention was drawn to his crackling form as the monsters bristled and charged. Tongues of lightning lapped from Bunji’s eyes as he peered over his shoulder at the creatures that cowardly sought to attack him from behind.<br><br><em>Best dream ever…</em><br><br>The knight turned to charge the creatures with a cry of his own. His shoulder met the jaws of a jaguar-like creature, shattering it as he rammed it and brought his fist hooking around to connect with its face. <em>Thoom!</em> Amidst the rippling darkness that surrounded him like an ocean were flashes of light as one fiend exploded after another from the thunderous punches and kicks of the knight.<br><br>A winged devil hovered over the fight, its red eyes trying to keep track of the flashing hero. With lance in hand, the devil whipped its wings back and dove, seeking to run the knight through. The lance was met with resistance that sounded on a loud, reverberating <em>clang!</em> At the end of its lance was the knight’s foot, having caught the blade. Bunji was standing on one leg, his other extended toward the lance and his arms raised defensively. His eyes crackled with malicious intent as he gazed up at the devil, who quickly retracted its lance and frantically flapped its wings in an attempt to flee. Dropping his leg, Bunji launched into the air after the creature.<br><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="bbc_size"><span style="font-family: times new roman;" class="bbc_font"><em>Thoom<em>-<em>Thoom</em>-<em>Thoom</em>-<em>Thoom</em>-<em>Thoom!</em></em></em></span><br></span><br>What looked like a pearl necklace streaked the night sky, raining the limbs and entrails of the monster as Bunji landed back on the ground in a crouch. Rising slowly, the knight’s generators were humming again as the blue light they emitted shifted red as he charged them as high as they could go. Fiends were already beginning to run when he turned around to face them with a wicked grin clenched on his face. Raising his fists as his legs bent into a stance, the knight roared:<br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span style="font-family: arial black;" class="bbc_font"><em>SHOCKING PUNCH!</em></span><br></span><br>The warrior winked out of existence and a white orb blossomed amongst the sea of darkness, instantly shredding the beasts caught in its immediate blast radius and sending others convulsing through the air on arches of lightning. All it had taken was for his fist to connect with one of the fiends to detonate the pent-up power. Another orb followed as Bunji’s other fist detonated, uprooting the black menace and sending them scattering through the air on a wave of screams.<br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><span style="font-family: arial black;" class="bbc_font"><em>SHOCKING KICK!</em></span></span><br><br>His shout reverberated through the air as the explosions continued. Left foot and then right. The knight was elated, and laughing through the carnage he wrought.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Angie</strong> on <strong>05-05-2015, 00:12:32</strong>
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				Some music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eSpyCtKYAM)<br><br>The many soldiers take a brief moment from fighting to gaze in awe at the newcomers on the battlefield. Even the trio of badasses in the center have to stop for a minute. The one wielding sword and spell laughs in triumph. "I welcome you, heroes!" He calls out. "Come, continue the fight!" <br><br>The soldiers get back to fighting, and several orders are shouted. "Bring the generators forward!" "Secure the area!" "Recon, search for civilians!" These guys are clearly no strangers to supernatural warfare, moving forward in a methodical pattern that starts to bring the many forcefield generators closer together. The shadow monsters are backing off, hammered by the magical assault of the Sailors and Knights. <br><br>Sailor Jupiter: A man in blue and yellow armor approaches and waves you down. (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/payday/images/d/de/Pheavyswatfix.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130823190516) "Careful with collateral damage, we don't know if there are civilians on site!" He's not angry, that much is certain, more like he's giving the standard 'be careful!' speech to a new recruit. "That being said, keep up the fight!" He concludes, before raising his firearm and blowing away a shadow monster sneaking up behind you.<br><br>The shadow monsters begin their assault anew, and bullets are starting to run low, forcing gunmen to retreat to the APCs to restock their ammo. The woman with the staff notices this. "Cover them!" She shouts to any Sailor or Knight who will listen. "Don't let them hit our back line!"
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Yukina</strong> on <strong>05-05-2015, 02:46:11</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://24.media.tumblr.com/72d6270ca9bcd7039305c7a3cabbe460/tumblr_mre4u5VfpS1qzg0xao1_500.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Satomi Miyazaki<br><strong>Location:</strong> Tokyo<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> <br><br><hr><br>Satomi didn't find herself alone for long, as she soon found three other girls (and a lone guy) beside her, displaying grander displays than her own of various elemental attacks. The one she was most impressed by was the girl that appeared to wield darkness, as despite how disturbing her demonic display was, it definitely exhumed great power nonetheless with how time and space just seemed to be a simple toy in her hands. Her mind flooded in awe, the meek water warrioress was soon shot back into "reality" as the sword-wielding man shouted out to greet the magical force that had suddenly leveled the playing field with ease (if not had completely overtaken it all together). As much as she though they were winning against this plight though, Satomi quickly realized the fight was not over as the shadow monsters charged and the humans were forced to quickly scramble for more supplies in the battle. Not wanting to let anyone down, she quickly got to releasing a another large wave of water and freezing it solid into a thick wall of magical ice to hold the current evil at bay. The girl may have been weak, but that didn't mean she couldn't be very resourceful. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>apygoos</strong> on <strong>05-05-2015, 05:38:55</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://www.wikimoon.org/images/pgsm/shibby.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Hideki Daichi<br><strong>Location:</strong>Dreamland Tokyo<br><strong>Tagging:</strong>???<br><br><hr><em>Strength of the Mountain</em><br>Hideki didn't know what to make of this. His dream's weren't usually this vivid. The premise of it all confused him, making him unsure what to think of believe. It was like something out of an action film. Chaos was ahead and there was uncertainty in his heart, but then he looked down to the Rosed blade in his hands.<br><br><em>Thorn of the Rose</em><br>He felt the blade was familiar, yet not. He was sure he felt he had never seen this sword before, but here he was, swinging it like it was second nature. It was a light, but strong blade, strong&nbsp; enough to give him confidence to step forward with the weapon<br><br><em>Support Unwavering</em><br>Each step he took felt like a leap, the earth coming up beneath him and supporting his movements. He was there though, there with these people. He held his hand out, not knowing how, but fathering strength from the earth. He felt his mouth move, but it was empty words. He could not tell what he was saying, but he launched a powerful blast at the attacking shadow legion. With sword in hand the blade had a bright glow as he began to cut through any shadows that would attempt to have at him<br><br>It wasn't done yet though, more were coming, and the heroic figures around him weren't either. He then actually noticed the rest of his attire. A mask, a cape? When did he look into the antics of being a vigilante? It didn't matter, as several walls came forth from the earth, seemingly at his command, protecting the back line as it was commanded, and then sticking his blade into the ground and and spreading his arms out. Once again, he was saying something, but he couldn't hear anything. Soon enough however his foes were consumed in a plume of magma, trying to ease the other heroics efforts.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MaiMizzu</strong> on <strong>06-05-2015, 05:43:40</strong>
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				&nbsp;<div class="floatleft">(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc446/ffxivghost/SMR002.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Mesu&nbsp; <br><strong>Location:</strong> The Space Between <br><strong>Tagging:</strong> N/A<br><br><hr>The brilliant glow of her very form is enough to banish this oncoming darkness, but it still tries to engulf her. Over and over. The soldiers, they seem to be regrouping.. but it still won’t be enough. They aren’t prepared. Slowly Mesu lowers the staff she holds, the creatures of darkness now going after the others. Her eyes follow the creatures… seeing the others now. Well kind of. She can’t make them all out.. but she knows they are there. And she knows they are friends.. more than that. <br><br>It is their destiny, once more, to be more than friends. Closer than family. <br><br>She gazes at them, smiling a little. She knows she is safe with them around. She just knows it. <br><br>Now her gaze befalls her own being, and she sees the elegant dress she is wearing. She.. has never worn something like this. Long and white with gold accents.. the sort of thing you would only find in the most regal of people. Something that is way out of her league. It almost feels like a silk material, but sturdier. The gold accents almost seem like real pieces of gold.. <br><br>She looks up suddenly, as if being pulled out of her daydream within this dream.. hearing the woman shout ‘cover them!’. Her brows furrow now as she sees the APC’s, and she sees what surmounts as a legion of shadow beings begin their descent towards it. No, she won’t allow it. Her knees bend slightly, and her form suddenly simply blurs out of existence, only to reappear a moment later atop one of the APC’s. She seems to just appear, alarming some of the soldiers there. But they quickly continue their own work as she goes to hers. <br><br>She sees the encroaching darkness, it’s after these soldiers. With a resolve she has never known, she raises her diamond staff over her head and twirls it abruptly. It glows abruptly as she does, and she calls out.. <br><br><span style="font-size: 15pt;" class="bbc_size">"New"</span><br><br>She can see some of the creatures of darkness land upon the same APC she is upon now, and a few even grab for the soldiers as they try to defend themselves. <br><br><span style="font-size: 15pt;" class="bbc_size">“Moon”</span><br><br>She cries out, and she stops twirling the diamond staff over her head. She slams one end of the staff upon the APC she stands on, holding it tightly in both of her hands. She glares at one of the darkness creatures as it roars and leaps for her, intent on tearing her asunder. <br><br><span style="font-size: 15pt;" class="bbc_size">“PROCLAMATION!”</span><br><br>With that final word, ribbons of pulsing light explode forth from her staff in all directions. The white and gold colored light moves fluidly, dancing around obstacles. As one, the dozens of glowing ribbons slash down the creatures of darkness, causing them to simply dissipate in place. The soldiers that were being attacked are safe, the ribbons of light seeming to have no effect upon them at all. The ribbons of light continue to pour forth from her diamond staff as she raises it, the light almost seeming to be long tentacles. Attacking the darkness creatures one by one, obliterating them. A look of determination is upon her young features as she strikes down this evil, keeping the area around the APCs clear of darkness,&nbsp; keeping the soldiers safe, keeping the darkness from getting towards the back line. The tendrils of light extend passed her immediate area, whipping around the others. The light would come into contact with them, and they would feel a.. warming, soothing energy from them. Like brushing your hand against the hand of someone you care about. But whatever agent of darkness the light finds, it is instantly banished... <br><br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Sinestra</strong> on <strong>09-05-2015, 22:53:12</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/0CvLLEj.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Amanda Johnson<br><strong>Location:</strong> ...perchance...to dream...<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> <br><br><hr><br>The arcs of lightning playing across Amanda's body continued as she stepped forward towards the encroaching darkness. No matter the number or size the shadows came in, Amanda's body would twist and spin with her sword, slashing through their very being and banishing them from existence with a thunderclap of noise and flash of brilliant light. With every attack the arcs dancing across her body grew stronger, the power flowing across her form to her heart where a power was growing moment by moment. Without fear she stepped forward into the maw of darkness, the spear tip of the offensive. Pushing the darkness back with all her power.<br><br>As the frequency of the shadows increased, so too did Amanda's attacks. Soon she was even punching and even kicking at shadows as they came. Each blow accompanied with a burst of lightning and sound as each was banished one after the other. She had stepped so far forward into the Darkness as to draw it's attention, to keep the shadows from pushing beyond her, wanting them to focus on her rather than their forward momentum. She could feel it within herself that she had finally, after the countless shadows and bursts of power, had drawn enough energy to let slip something terrible and powerful. Turning her mind inwards she could feel the raging storm that had gathered in her heart, the power demanding to be unleashed. Perhaps feeling it was growing even too strong for her body to maintain she paused in her strides and let her control of the power go. Her lips began to move of their own accord, words being screamed out with such force and power as a rolling thunderclap in the storm.<br><br><br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"JUPITER!!"</em></strong></span><br><br>With both hands gripping her sword she thrust arms upwards to the sky, the gathered energy, the dancing arcs across her body all flowing through it at once in a great burst of power, an enormous bolt of lightning erupting from her blade and striking the clouds above. The storm suddenly flared and an intense light formed within the clouds, like a great stored bolt of lightning waiting to be released.<br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"THUNDER!!"</em></strong></span><br><br>All at once bolts of lightning began descending from within the stormclouds above, striking all across the city and banishing dozens of shadows in every moment. It was as if something, the light within the clouds that now began to move and flow through the clouds themselves, was summoning the bolts down to attack Amanda's enemies. The repeated thunderclaps rang out with each passing moment, each rapid strike as finally the bolt of lightning from Amanda's sword ceased, and with ferocity she extended her sword with a single hand indicating the very darkness before her. She spoke a final word.<br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"DRAGON!!"</em></strong></span><br><br>In that single moment the flowing light within the clouds was revealed as a massive dragon suddenly burst from the clouds. Made entirely of lightning the 'creature' let slip a roar that beared the sound of a great thunderclap. Swooping down to obey Amanda's point the thunder dragon streaked across the sky, opening it's great mouth and spewing forth countless bolts of lightning as it strafed the length of the street on which she stood. As it passed the seemingly random strikes of lightning from the storm above continued, banishing the shadow wherever it struck. To those unfortunate shades trapped within the lightning dragon's path, banishment or death was immediate and certain. Each shadow destroyed erupting in lightning which leaped from itself to those near it, chaining countlessly down side streets and alleys to clear a massive swath of her foes.<br><br>When its strafing run had been completed, the dragon rose once more into the sky and vanished within the clouds, unleashing one final thunderclap-like roar before the noise of it's passing rolled across the sky, the light of it's existence passing from the moment. Amanda stood, having also been engulfed by the dragon's lightning, entirely untouched, lowering her sword as she took in a deep breath, relieved to have unleashed the stored power within.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Wolfy</strong> on <strong>09-05-2015, 23:49:31</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/Wolfy4225/anime-girl-with-dark-brown-hair-and-blue-eyes.png~original)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Jikan Kurai<br><strong>Location:</strong> Tokyo<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> <br><br><hr><br>The dark creatures around her continued to surge forward even as Kurai floated in the air on her wings, flapping them lightly to stay hovering. The creatures were starting to get to the barriers despite her best efforts, and Kurai knew that she would need something much bigger to take them on and wipe them out, buying time for the other soldiers. Taking flight and zooming down, her scythe struck the ground with a powerful force that knocked back all of the dark creatures as it razed the ground before the barriers and APCs, slicing through any in her path and forming a spatial barrier that literally divided the ground between the two sides of the scythe wherever she cut. "You'll still be able to fire across this, but don't physically cross it." Kurai said to the woman who had shouted for her help, before turning her attention to the dark creatures around her. She took in and exhaled a deep breath, knowing that what she was to do next would take the utmost concentration. <br><br>Flying quickly to the skies, Kurai let her scythe fade into darkness, leaving her hands open. Her wings, raven black, also melted down into a cloak around her shoulders, and she plummeted to the earth and the dark horde around her. Rather than striking the earth, however, she plunged head first into liquid darkness, swallowed up by it. Eyes closed, she steadied herself with a few deep breaths of the dark 'water' around her, filling her lungs and body with the liquid darkness that surrounded her. She could feel everything, ever little movement of the dark army, every little droplet of darkness that they called their own...they had stolen it from her, stolen it from the light where it belonged, and she would have it back. The dark was hers to control, and now was her time to show it.<br><br>As the darkness crept into her body, Kurai felt that familiar falling feeling as she plunged deeper and deeper into the heart of the dark sea around her. Everything was swallowed in that dark abyss, and as her body slowly melted away into shadow, her heart remained, shining brightly despite the darkness around it. It pulsed, beating slowly and shaking the darkness around it. Kurai took another deep breath, and began to take control. Dark threads entwined around her arms and legs, slowly moving up her body and wrapping around her, constricting and pulling at her body.<br><br><span style="font-size: 18pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>"Pluto!"</strong></span><br><br>Her voice rang out against the darkness, her heart singing as the threads of darkness attached to it, allowing it to form a core around which her body began to reform, but on a much larger scale. The Darkness around her slowly began to harden, the threads encasing her within a cage of bones created from the darkness around her. Kurai lost herself within the massive form as it began to take shape.<br><br><span style="font-size: 18pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>"BLACKHOLE!!"</strong></span><br><br>Hands of white bone suddenly burst from the ground, massive hands that crashed down on everything around them, though they were far enough away to not strike the soldiers. They crushed the dark creatures under them, and seemed to pulled at the earth itself, a massive figure rising from the darkness that littered the ground, Kurai protected behind a massive rib cage as a skull and body rose from the ground on thin, hard legs of bone. The creature held out it's hand, and a cloak of darkness, dotted with shimmering stars on the inside, formed in it's hands, and it placed it around it's shoulders, racing a massive hood. All light seemed to move towards the dark creature's cloak, fading into it as it moved and crushed more dark creatures under foot. The massive skeleton then held out it's hand, and a new scythe, like Pluto's but much more massive, formed in it's hand out of shadows.<br><br><span style="font-size: 18pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong>"REAPER!!!"</strong></span><br><br>The skeletal creature raised it's scythe, facing away from the soldiers to not catch them in it's wake, and swung with such power that the wind from the strike knocked creatures flying...and then they were plunged into darkness as a massive black hole rose where the slash had hit the ground, sucking in everything around it save for the very buildings that civilians were no doubt hiding in. The effect ended as quickly as it came, leaving a sizable chunk of earth missing along with a sizable chunk of the dark army, but the skeleton wasn't finished with it's destructive wake, moving away from the soldiers and other sailor scouts as it slashed and slammed into dark creatures left and right, scattering and killing all in it's path as Kurai lay suspended within it's rib cage, the core to the massive skeleton.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Angie</strong> on <strong>10-05-2015, 01:46:43</strong>
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				With the heroes now working in some degree of harmony, some providing defense and others providing the other kind of defense, the soldiers were able to resupply and regroup. Additionally, the units moved forward, able to pull the few civilians found within the area to behind the forward moving, APC generated barriers. Once the civvies are out, the soldiers light up the night with the use of much more explosive weaponry and spells. Pushing the shadow monsters back becomes a lot easier, especially after they got rocked by the massive assaults being handed out.<br><br>The shadow monsters seem to originate from an old, decrepit shrine. A barely legible sign announces the place is the "Hikawa Shrine". The leading trio of badasses approaches first, signaling for the soldiers to wait. As they get close, some...THING (http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/monster/images/0/00/Shadow_Demon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110830094950) bursts from deep within the shrine. "So here you are..." It says in a deep, gravely voice. "You have come to die!" <br><br>The trio say nothing...but the man in armor reloads, the sword swinging wizard prepares a spell, and the woman's staff glows with light. It looks like the many of you are about to join battle...and then the dream ends.<br><br>The Sailors wake up...but was it only a dream?<br><br><div align="center">Continued in Chapter 1: Sleeping Giant</div>
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Angie</strong> on <strong>22-05-2015, 00:10:29</strong>
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				<div align="center">Reopening for Sailor Venus and Mercury Knight</div><br>It's cold. Very very cold. As your vision comes to you, you find yourself in the middle of what appears to be a massive spaceship that's crashed down in the mighty tundra. The two of you are the only ones there, aside from a man wearing a heavy suit of futuristic armor. He's trying desperately to fix a broken gun, but has no luck. "Piece of junk..." He grumbles, before grabbing a sword-the thing is as long as he is tall, but he spins it around like a toy. "Good, you're awake." He says, turning to the Sailor and Knight. "We've been compromised and shot down. I've got an SOS broadcasting, but it'll be some time before reinforcements come. They'll make it here before backup does. We need to protect the pod."<br><br>The pod he refers to is a large, human sized cryopod in the middle of the wreckage. Inside is a sleeping woman, and at the top of the pod is a symbol (https://img0.etsystatic.com/002/0/7272248/il_570xN.399078710_b85h.jpg) in gold. <br><br>However, the "they" he referred to? Worse. Foul creatures (http://i.imgur.com/mZE9f45.png) are charging across the tundra, heading right for your position. And there's a lot of them. "Good luck." He says, as the first wave reaches the pod. He gets to work slicing through them. But what do you do, heroes?
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>22-05-2015, 05:27:10</strong>
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				<strong>Name:</strong> Nakamura Seiichi<br><strong>Location:</strong> Tokyo<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> Dying monsters<br><br><hr><br>Seiichi blinks, disoriented for a moment.&nbsp; This definitely isn't any outfit he remembers owning or wearing...but the mail-and-plate armor feels oddly <em>right</em>, and he most certainly does know what to do with the bow he finds in his hands.<br><br>He straightens, sparing only a brief glance at the young lady -- a comrade in arms, he knows, even though he's equally sure he's never actually <em>met</em> her -- before turning, the left side of his body facing the oncoming horde as he forms his posture and readies his weapon.<br><br>He's bringing down the bow and drawing it back long before it ever occurs to him that he doesn't actually have any arrows, and a long, thin icicle shimmers into existence as he reaches <em>kai</em>.&nbsp; A heartbeat later the icicle-arrow is embedded in the nearest monster's chest, and Seiichi's hands blur faster and faster, flowing through the eight stages with impossible speed as a storm of razor-sharp ice tears into and through the dark creatures.&nbsp; As the creatures press forward, he pauses just long enough to stomp the ground with one foot, sending a massive geyser at a low angle to hurl them backwards in an undignified heap before resuming his withering hail of 'arrows.'
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MelisaArtemis</strong> on <strong>22-05-2015, 07:45:16</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w124/Twin-Dragon/e62b47f05519a247d585d3800a8b90f4_zpsz16quyqu.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Sailor Venus<br><strong>Location:</strong> Tokyo (Dreamscape)<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> <br><br><hr><br>A blonde woman wearing a bright orange school uniform stepped next to the two men, her luscious golden hair was played by the wind as she looked at the two people with her, both are unknown to her yet she felt a sense of familiarity with them. Looking at her own fashion, she couldn’t help but blush at how… skimpy her outfit is. As the man spoke of protecting the pod, she turned to the side to look at the device before speaking as if it was completely natural, “I have no need for a reminder. My duty is to protect her, always was, always will and no matter what.”<br><br>As the creatures showed up, the blonde had no hesitation as she lifted her left arm and a golden bow materialized in her hand. She aimed toward the incoming horde and pulled the string as golden sparkle of light gathered at the golden jewel at the center as it started to glow, “Venus… Golden… ARROW!!”. She released the string and a thin golden beam of light escaped from the jewel at the center of the bow, not unlike a laser, before impacting the center of the horde followed by an explosion, literally blowing a hole in the incoming army. The “hole” however is quickly filled by more creatures and they got closer by the second.<br><br>She repeated the same attack over and over though it didn’t look like she was going anywhere with it as the “army” get closer and closer still without any visible long lasting effect from her attacks. Soon, the mob reached them as one of the creatures got tried to swipe at her, she ducked under the attack and grabbed the offending arm before twisting it followed by a leg sweep that sent the creature spinning airborne. <br><br>Before the creature managed to fall or catch its bearing, she put her bow in front of it with her bow already glowing, ready to fire. She released the string once again and shot the creature straight on its body, the force of the golden arrow beam sent it&nbsp; careening toward the rest of the creatures behind it before exploding, taking another group of creatures with it, “Who’s next?”
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Angie</strong> on <strong>22-05-2015, 08:05:18</strong>
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				"Good to have you by my side. Both of you." The man shouted as he continued to hack his way through monsters. "Should we fall today...it has been an honor!" As the only melee fighter of the group, he is surrounded on all sides and about to be overrun...until he suddenly takes to the sky on leathery wings, and lets loose a gout of firey 'breath' at the crowd that nearly undid him. <br><br>The mob temporarily dispersed, clearly affected by...fear? Perhaps flame didn't agree with them. Noticing something, the man plunges his arm into a creature's chest and pulls out a black, still 'beating' heart. "Oh no...they're here." He said. "The Three Kings. Or one of them, at least. There's no way they could have known who we were transporting..." A loud roar as a new mob begins to charge. <br><br>"We've never figured out a way the beat the Kings...and their guards are tough. Looks like...this may be the end." A hideous beast comes into view. (http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xqG_cDdwLu0/hqdefault.jpg) And calmly, the man readies his blade. "Take as many as you can down. Who knows. Maybe we'll hold out long enough for extraction to get here..." His tone suggests that he doesn't think it'll happen. <br><br>The charge begins.
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>22-05-2015, 17:51:30</strong>
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				<strong>Name:</strong> Nakamura Seiichi<br><strong>Location:</strong> Tokyo?<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> Even more dying monsters<br><br><hr><br>"Don't be such a defeatist," Seiichi replies urbanely.&nbsp; Admittedly, the situation does look pretty awful, but just because your odds may not be great is no excuse for giving up.&nbsp; "We're not done yet.&nbsp; Now <em>stand clear!</em>"&nbsp; Hopping back, closer to the pod, he leans backward and looses one icicle-arrow high into the sky and out of sight...<br><br>...and dark clouds begin to gather above with unnatural speed, as he raises his open hand to the sky.<br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"MERCURY!"</em></strong></span><br><br>A light rain begins to fall, centered mainly on the incoming mob, as the HUD in Seiichi's goggles triangulate the best possible targeting position.&nbsp; The downpour intensifies rapidly, more and more clouds coming together to darken the skies.<br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"DILUVIAL!"</em></strong></span><br><br>It's a full-on cloudburst now, and he zeroes in on the largest, grotesque monster, eyes narrowing behind his goggles.&nbsp; Seiichi's hand clenches into a fist, and he yanks it downward, as if <em>pulling</em> --<br><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"STORM!"</em></strong></span><br><br>The result can hardly be called 'rain' any longer.&nbsp; A massively wide <em>column</em> of water roars down from the heavens, as if someone far above had decided to pour out an ocean, and smashes down upon the oncoming horde like a giant's hammer.&nbsp; The constant impact goes on and on for long moments, until finally, the Knight makes a sharp gesture with one hand and the flow cuts off -- leaving the crushed, broken bodies of numerous monsters either washed away or frozen to the ground, as the clouds begin to slowly disperse.<br><br>"Besides, even if we can't <em>beat</em> them here," he adds in a more normal tone of voice, as if nothing exceptional had just happened, "that doesn't mean holding them off for a while is impossible."&nbsp; Without further ado, Seiichi raises his bow again to target the remaining creatures...
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MelisaArtemis</strong> on <strong>23-05-2015, 04:49:05</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w124/Twin-Dragon/e62b47f05519a247d585d3800a8b90f4_zpsz16quyqu.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong> Sailor Venus<br><strong>Location:</strong> Tokyo (Dreamscape)<br><strong>Tagging:</strong> <br><br><hr><br>Sailor Venus, rolled her eyes in almost all too careless manner despite their situation as she spoke, “What are you even talking about? If you’re going to fight, then fight to win. Otherwise, don’t bother fighting at all.” She saw that the washed out army were already starting to regroup with the new creature at the center. Even from the distance, it didn’t take much of a brain power to know that the new creature most likely was the “commander” of the mob.<br><br>She raised her bow once again and pointed it toward the monster as she concentrated her power once again though this time instead of just the gem on her bow, she look as if she is gathering power with her whole body as sparkles of light gathers on her. It obviously took more time to prepare than the previous attacks but the effect couldn’t be mistaken as the girl’s entire body glows brighter and brighter until she almost turned completely white, bow and all. <br><br>She raised the weapon further as if she was trying to shoot and invisible target on the sky.<br><br>“<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"VENUS!"</em></strong></span><br><br>The glow around her starts to abate but the gem on her bow visibly got hundreds of times brighter as if it was absorbing the energy. The warrior pulled the string of her bow, this time an arrow made of pure energy was clearly visible.<br><br>“<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"GOLDEN!"</em></strong></span><br><br>She released the arrow as it travelled in a straight like a meteor to the sky as if trying to divide the sky itself clean in two.<br><br>“<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"ARROW!"</em></strong></span><br><br>Suddenly the beam of light exploded in the air and split into hundreds of separate beams as it rained unto the enemy mobs.<br><br>“<span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="bbc_size"><strong><em>"SHOWER!"</em></strong></span><br><br>Series of explosion rocks the air as every single beams of light explodes with the force of a missile. Once can even be forgiven for comparing the vision of almost unending explosions to Armageddon. Just as soon as it began, the explosions abruptly stopped, leaving thick layer of dust in the air.<br><br>As the dust settled, it was easy to see that though she had taken a massive chunk of the army if the craters where the army had been was any indication… However, the new creature still stood there as if it had simply shrug off her attack as if it were no different that mosquito bites. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: Sailor Moon: Infinite Dreams: Dreams of Darkness (Prologue)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Angie</strong> on <strong>23-05-2015, 20:12:46</strong>
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				"Ain't always about winning. Sometimes it's about giving the next guy a chance to win." The man proclaimed as the creatures began to rush the pod. He kept close, cutting through them with his blade, as the massive "King" slowly came closer. "And sometimes evacs are made with seconds to spare-every second we buy here is damn important!" He's shouting encouragement over the howls of these nightmarish beasts...<br><br>The King comes closer...<br><br>And closer...<br><br>He is close now, one more step and it could crush the pod. The most powerful attacks barely slow it down. It seems all is lost...<br><br>Until a voice booms out over the battlefield. "DUCK!" It screams. Assuming everyone does, something has launched a massacre's worth of missiles, but not at the creature. Instead, the missiles pound the ground. The shockwaves and newly made craters cause the King's back legs to slip, giving the heroes a precious few moments. <br><br>Turning around, a massive space age dropship has arrived. It comes down and spins as it opens up, allowing the three entrance. "GO!" The dragon-winged man screams, as he sheathes his sword, and with a massive effort, lifts the cryogenic pod and <em>sprints</em> with the massive thing. The dropship itself has guns mounted on the back, and it lets loose with a wave of suppression fire, letting the heroes slip in under the cover. <br><br>Once on the ship, the dragon man puts the pod down, clearly exhausted from his effort, but satisfied that they managed to get out. "Couldn't have asked for a better result." He says to the two of you. And with that, the dream comes to an end.
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