"You managed to really hurt it, now it's ticked!" she shouted as loudly as possible to get its attention. Good, now it was ignoring the others and lurching in her direction.Waitaminute, did I just say that was good?
"Yeeeeeeeeeaaahhh!" she screamed, releasing the energy from her sword. It wasn't much; she had not been actively gathering energy when Cassandra had fired her spheres. It was just enough to make the thing recoil and then come at her again, this time really mad. Just about as mad as she was beginning to get...
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"Oh Setsuna..." Zeo whispered. She'd just been following along, running when everyone else ran, hiding when they hid, and in general tried not to be a nuisance. But this...thing was about to attack Krys. And Krys had had more than her fair share of attackers and battle.
Zeo's hand flew to her long red earrings. "Showtime, Setsuna...and I mean push it!" she exclaimed.
A beam of black energy shot through Zeo. Her sailor fuku blast out into silver and green ribbons, anchored to her by the heart-shaped crystal on her chest. Her hair lengthened, flowing to her knees, taking on a distinct green hue. The ribbons took on a brief form of flowing robes, reminding those who had seen this before of her Pluto no Miko form. Zeo's eyes opened, no longer aqua, but the glowing red of Sailor Pluto, Zeo's Megami no Setsuna, Goddess Setsuna. The ribbons melded to her longer, leaner body, forming a black and white fuku, black ribbons at chest and waist, a silver chain of keys girded about her hips. The heart crystal on her chest pulsed with energy.
Pluto opened her hands and a long, key-like staff topped with a glowing red orb and a silver heart-shaped flourish appeared. "Time is of the essence," she said in a low, husky voice. "This creature must be stopped."
As the others watched, Pluto spun the staff, spinning herself around, gathering a cloud of purple energy that boiled and swirled around her, collecting in the tip of the staff. She pointed the staff at the bulette about to charge the berserker.
"Dead-o.....scream," she whispered, releasing the energy. A planet-shaped ball of purple energy hit the creature, detonating in a shower of gore.
Krys looked at the pile of parts that had been a bulette and turned around in time to see Pluto collapse. The staff disappeared; the fallen goddess faded away. The hair returned to its normal hue, the eyes, paler now but their original aqua. The goddess's fuku had dissolved again into a mass of ribbons surrounding the weakened senshi.
"I only have a little time," Zeo whispered. "I used a lot of energy calling on Setsuna like that. Eric knows; I told him about this before. I need to recuperate. When I change again, someone watch out for me." Her eyes closed as a blinding flash of light illuminated the chamber. When the others cold see again, a glowing, pulsing heart crystal was where Zeo had been.
Anna-Moe Lee picked up the crystal, slipping it into her bag. "I'll watch out for her," she told the group.
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((Anna-Moe e-mailed me first, saying she'd carry my crystal. Thanks, Anna-Moe! I hope to recup soon, but ya never know...this way, I'm here, but I'm not. 
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