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(Crimson blood and dark design.)
(A bond is written over blood red wine)
(Desires awaken when you leave your sign.)
(You wish fulfilled, and your soul is mine.)
	"DAMMIT! The stupid screen has been on the fritz for so dam long! Can't
you fix it please?" the imp pleaded with her cute voice.
	"Sorry, it's Holy interference. We can't see what's happening so long
as they are on holy ground or a priest who has the favor of a god is
within twenty feet of them. That's the way of Demonic spells." the Demon
off handedly replied as he typed away on his screen. 
	"So how did you get the cool scenes of him and that idiot priestess
that time?" the imp retorted.
	"Just wait for the interference to clear and then track the retained
memory of the object or in this case, the person. So stop wining and let
me work." the demon retorted, filling the semi transparent windows
screen with program code and spell combinations.
	"Fine then. Just ignore me and continue puttering away at your computer
you big creep." the diminutive imp said, sulking in annoyance. "This dam
job is so boring!" 
	"Ok." he said, before the imp started another round of protests yet
again. 'hmmm. Whose life should I mess with now?' he thought as he
considered interfering with the Magical moons realm's Magic test. 
	
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(Back at the cafe.)
	A dark man stands behind the counter. With a deft flick of his wrist,
he flicks on the coffee maker and a thick brew floats out of the nozzle
before settling onto the bottom of the cup. A little real coffee is
added and the concoction sits black and ready for it's next victim.
'It's time to start drawing the customers. into the Megaverse.' the
person thought to himself as he inhaled the rich fragrance of the
Megaverse beans. 
	"Hey master.!" the waitress called to the man. "That kid ended up
making me spill coffee over that cute customer over there. Can you make
me another mocha?" 
	"Sure thing. It'll be done in one minute. Oh yes. The order of one
Expresso for that British gentleman is ready." 
	"Thanks boss. In any case, do you think we can close early today?"
	"Why?"
	"It's this rain. When it's raining, not many people go out because of
the rain so I thought we could just close early today and save ourselves
the hassle." 
	"Hmm, I'll give it some thought." he said as he started the coffee
machine. 'not many people come out when it's raining so less probably of
the Sailor scouts coming around and messing things up.  It's going to be
raining for a quite a while anyway so it should be better to cut our
losses and just gather energy from the people here now.' 
	"All right! DARK BREVERAGE!" he shouted as a black liquid coated the
windows and doors sealing everyone in the room . With a slight smile, he
reverted to his true form, that of a liquid. His glistering form
shimmered in the dim light of the cafe as a few customers screamed,
recognizing the Yoma 
from the rumors that circulated around Juuban. Then, one by one, the
people collapsed in exhaustion as energy was sucked out of their bodies.
Even the waitress was affected as the Yoma drew her energy into himself. 

	I noticed the dark person turn even darker and the black stuff covering
the exits. Perhaps it's a floorshow I thought as I looked directly at
him. Most of the people around me screamed and promptly fainted like
something was really weird. Even Rei slumped onto the table after
looking around for a second. This would be interesting if my date hadn't
fainted. So I just stood up and walked to the counter  "Look, I don't
know what the hell you're trying to pull here but you had better stop it
right now before I get angry and you don't want to get me angry." 
	"It's Impossible! You should be weak! HOW?" the Yoma said, a little
startled. 
	"Getting weaker? Is that right?" I said frowning at this thing. With my
mind, I released my senses and felt the auras of the people around me
slipping into his form. Well, it's definitely not that Happy ten yen
thing a ma bob of Hayaku sensei so it must be a leech monster.
	"If you're such a troublesome customer, I'll to handle you personally.
Coffee!" he cried trusting his hand at me. I just ducked as a stream of
the black liquid spewed at my head. Somewhere behind me, the black
liquid splattered against the wall, and the smell of burnt paint and
plaster filled he room. 
	"Stop playing around or I'll be forced to hurt you." I said as I moved
away from this idiot. 
	"So I see you're quick enough to dodge the coffee stream. Let's see if
you're quick enough to dodge this. Bean Barrage!" he cried out, swinging
his hands out, shooting the dark coffee beans in my direction
	"Dam" I said as I leapt backwards, toppling over a table and pushing a
couple of patrons onto the floor as I fell The deadly seeds bit deep
into the toppled table before exploding in a flurry of splinters.
	"Good of you to save them, their energy will be well received by, The
Megaverse!" He shouted, leaping over the counter. With my TK, I pushed
everyone onto the floor except Rei who was crawling towards the
bathroom. 
	"Perhaps I should teach you a lesson in manners. It is not nice to pick
on others, whatever the reason may be." I said as I slid forwards to
meet him.
	"What use is manners if you are dead." he called before leaping upwards
"Now taste the bitter wrath of a Yoma warrior!" he shouted slamming his
arms downwards towards me.
	I dodged to the left as his fist crashed into the floor besides me.
Rolling behind him, I scooped the tray off the ground before slamming
plastic tray edge first into the base of his neck. I stood still in
horror as the tray passed through his neck, decapitating him and sending
his head to hit the ceiling above. The semi-liquid body wobbled for a
moment as the head fell downwards, landing back on the neck. I just
stood there in shock and eerie fascination as the neck slowly melded
together with the body like clay or, gel. 
	He whirled around and landed a backhand into my face, sending me
crashing over the counter and onto the floor amid a flurry of falling
bottles. [*OH SHIT!*]
	"That's for taking me lightly." the yoma smirked. 
	'Plastic?' I thought as the last bottle bounced off my forehead.
Rolling to my feet, I noticed that Rei had made it to the bathroom and
was just getting behind the door. An evil thought came into my mind as a
smile crept onto my face. "You May be a liquid opponent but liquids have
their disadvantages too." I 
said getting up. 
	"And what might that be?" he taunted, spreading out his arms in what
looked like a crane stance from Karate kid 1. Lame stance, but effective
when you have no need to block. 
	"This!" I shouted as I charged him. Striking out in a flash of 50
strikes, I burrowed a large hole in the center of his chest and popped
out through the other side to land on the table. He stood behind me
trying to draw back into his original shape as I leapt towards the side.
Positioning myself, I cupped both hands besides me.
	Within the bathroom, someone called out "Mars"
I gathered my TK and suppressed aura into a ball of power.
	"star" 
Throwing it forwards, I released the explosive charge contained within
the TK bubble one inch from his discorporate form, the force of the
explosion slamming the Yoma backwards. 
	"pow *EEP!*" she cried as the door exploded into splinters before her.
The sudden explosion ruining the transformation before it even started.

	 I leapt forwards after the monster, skickering inwardly at the shocked
expression on Rei's face. Gathering some of my KI in my right fist, I
stuck it onto the moving brown liquid as it gathered itself together.
Closing my eyes, I reached out with my Ki and merged the stolen KI into
mine. Then I just 
retracted the KI back into my body and out of his. This made me glow
with a multicolored aura of power. With no more power in his unholy
form, he disintegrated into a fine black dust, which slowly
disintegrated further, into nothingness.
 	The wall of black covering the windows slowly faded, spilling light
through glass windows as the sun peeped through the thinning clouds
outside. Sweat covered my face as I exerted my will and gathered the KI
signatures in a rainbow colored ball before me. With a sigh of relief, I
released the ball, letting it flow around and through me as the auras
sought their owners. 
	Wobbly looking up, I saw Rei in her weird cloak. "Hi'ya Rei, what'cha
doing in the male bathroom?" I said before toppling to the ground. 

	I just looked at the person in shock as he toppled to the ground. The
other customers were only just starting to wake up from the energy drain
while this person was unconscious on the tile floor. I looked around for
a second before bringing up my communicator. "Err. Amy? Usagi? Someone
has taken care of our problem for us." 

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	A gray mist shrouded the room in tones of light and dark. A single red
door stood at the corner of the room while a covered table stood in the
center. On the black tablecloth stood a single crystal ball, clear and
shining in the dim room. Hunched over the crystal was a handsome man in
a gray uniform, his golden hair falling over his frowning eyes. 
	 Calcite was a little bothered. The latest energy collection point was
not responding to his summons. No sudden decrease in the power field
like what was usually experienced when sailor moon did her thing, so the
sailor scouts were not the problem. So what happened? "Caffeine, are you
there? Caffeine, 
report." *Static* "Dam nothing. What happened?"
	"Having trouble Calcite?" an insulting voice asked from the shadows. 
	"Don't bother me Nephrite."
	"Oh and why not? You could surely use the help since your coffee
machine was broken by a mere human." 
	"A human has destroyed Caffeine?" 
	"Hmm. I did say that, didn't I? Looks like you failed in your latest
endeavor. Now, how will Queen Berryl reward you Hmm?" he said as he
walked towards the door.
	"Dam, now if only I could see what happened." he trailed off. in
response, an orange crystal appeared on the table before him, a single
speck of black inside. 
	"A gift, O' great general." came the mocking voice. "Perhaps you should
see why you failed so dismally." 

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(Somewhere)
	An officer walks out of the police box and into the sunshine outside.
His eyes are closed as he basks in the first sunshine he's seen in days.
Around him, people seem to be out, enjoying the reprieve from the
continual downpour. Maby it's the presence of the couple strolling their
children through the wet 
roads, or a young child racing to meet his friends at the park. Perhaps
it's even the young couple enjoying the fading rainbow on the bridge,
but the day seemed peaceful and serene with the sun shining through the
crystal clear air. 
	"Ah! The air is always clearest after the storm. It's always after
something is taken away that you appreciate it the most." the cop said
to the world in general. Filling his lungs with the clear air, he stayed
quiet, content in this beautiful world. 
	Behind him, a little girl sat up on the wooden chair. Her brow furrowed
as she looked at a large leaf on the table. Looking back out the door,
she saw the policeman as he stretched his arms over his head, enjoying
the end of the rain. Her brows relaxed as she saw yet another child
running past the box. Suddenly 
the boy was back and looking into the police box. "Hey! do you want to
join us? we're going to play football. (Soccer)" with that, he ran off
towards the park eager to join his friends. The little girl looked out
the open doorway and back to the large leaf. With a twist and a hop, she
turned around and landed on the ground only to run out the door.  
	"Look after my leaf for me, I'll be back for it later Ok?" she asked
the policeman.
	"Sure sure." he said distractedly, enjoying the clear cool air too much
to pay any attention. 
	She looked to the man and back at the leaf, with a shrug, she ran off
to play in the muddy park with her new friends. 

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(Cherry Hill Shrine)
	Three girls, a white cat and one sleeping guy were in the confines of
the temple room. They were Rei, Ami, Usagi, Luna and GuoGuang Yu.
(A.k.a. Kaku Komei). Guo was laid out in front of the fire with Rei
slowly chanted prayers before him. Behind her, her audience sat watching
the proceeding with various 
degrees of interest. Usagi and Luna watching the mumbo jumbo with rapt
attention while Ami was busy typing away on her computer. Suddenly,
Rei's eyes shot open as she said the last word of the prayer. A shudder
ran through her body as a vision before an unseen force seemed to grip
her, lifting her up to her 
feet and onwards half a foot from the ground before dropping her back to
the floor.
	"Rei! What happened? Are you all right?" Ami called out in concern.
	"Wahhh! Rei! Don't leave me!" Usagi wailed in her high voice.
	"USAGI! Stop shaking me!" Rei shouted over the wailing. 
	"You're all right!" she cried, hugging Rei a little too tightly.
	"Let go Usagi! Thanks."  She said straightening her robe
	"Rei, What happened?" Ami asked.
	"Well, he's pretty strong mentally, I can tell you that."
	"You mean he lifted you with his mind?" Usagi put in.
	"I guess. He actually is one of the few people who should be able to
see spirits unaided, he also has some form of water related curse on him
and," she paused looked at his sleeping form. "He's not from this
world."
	"You mean, he's an Alien?" Usagi whimpered. 
	"No, that's not what I mean. He's a human being all right. But it's
like he's from another dimension or something."
	"He is a human all right, but he does have certain abnormalities within
him. Nothing that's impossible for a human but strange nevertheless."
Ami added bringing her computer before them. "He has a higher glucose
and adrenaline levels in his bloodstream then a normal human. He also
seems slightly more sensitive than normal, registering touches that are
on the threshold level for people like us." 
	She typed a little more into her computer "His mind seems to block out
a certain portion of the sensations he feels. It's like the habituation
model on the mental scale. In any case, his muscles are exceedingly well
developed for his size. Looking at him, you wouldn't guess it but I
think he could break cinderblocks in his bare hands." 
	'Mm a sensitive man with pecks of steel and biceps of iron. Hard rigid
muscles flexing under the sensitive skin. Wait a minute! I'm starting to
sound like Usagi!' Rei thought, shaking her head in disgust. 
	"He also has a very strange biology, Apparently he has a longer
intestine and a smaller stomach. This could be the reason he has the
high sensitivity. His IC is a definite fake. he has the identity of Kaku
Komei, born Kohanji Kohan. The main problem here is, Kohangi Kohan died
two weeks after birth 
according to the Tokyo hospital reports."
	"Ohh this is so cool! He could be a spy who is. . Err guys, look at his
forehead."
	A sigil was lightly glowing in the flickering light of the fire. One of
a horizontal line with a spearhead shooting up from the very center
	"What is that?" Usagi asked as her friends fell silent besides her. 
	"That's strange. It isn't a sensei symbol." Ami said typing away on her
computer "It seems like, the twelfth century Chinese character for up."
	"No it's not Ami" Rei quietly put in. "It's the original Kangi for. .
Earth."
	Ami looked back to her computer and typed a little more. . "Sixth
century Bc. . Chinese root character. It is earth." 

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