Chapter 7: Fire and Ice!  A Dungeon Maze as Well!
    Hotaru opened her eyes and sat up.  Ami was lying beside her.  
“Huh?  Are we in that game daimon’s dimension again?  Or did we get in a 
different jungle?” she thought to herself.  Ami woke up too, and seemed 
to have the same disorientation.  She reached into her pocket, and 
pulled out...nothing.  “Hotaru-chan, do you know where my Mercury 
computer is?” she asked.  “No, maybe you’ll get it when you transform,” 
said Hotaru.  “Yes, that’s it!  Mercury Crystal Power!”  “Saturn Crystal 
Power!”  “Make Up!”  Even with the two Senshi transformed, there was no 
trace of the computer, and even Sailor Saturn’s Silence Glaive was 
missing!  “I wonder where they could’ve gone.  Maybe we’ll find them 
here,” said Sailor Mercury, looking under a large flower blossom.  “Um, 
Mizuno-sempai?” Sailor Saturn said, tapping the blue-tressed Senshi on 
the shoulder.  “Not now, Hotaru-chan, help me search,” said Sailor 
Mercury as she crawled along the ground, looking under leaves.  “Please 
look up,” said Sailor Saturn, pulling a little harder and sounding a bit 
scared.  Sailor Mercury finally looked up, and nearly screamed, because 
a vine was snaking down the tree directly towards them!

    But Sailor Mercury was not without a plan.  “Shine Aqua Illusion!” 
she shouted, freezing the vine, which stopped moving.  “Huh?  How did 
you do that, Mizuno-sempai?” asked Sailor Saturn.  “Didn’t you know that 
plants are vulnerable to ice?” gasped Sailor Mercury.  “Didn’t you know 
that ice can be melted by fire?  Eat my fire, Sailor girls!” taunted a 
voice from the top of the tree.  It was Catzi!  “Catzi?!  I thought you 
had been turned good!” exclaimed Sailor Mercury.  “That was a long time 
ago!  Mystina gave me a new way to live that’s even better!” laughed 
Catzi.  “Who’s Mystina?” asked Sailor Saturn.  “Why get an answer when 
you’ll just die here!  Dark Fire!” shouted Catzi, shooting a blast of 
fire at them.  As before, Sailor Mercury was ready.  “Mercury Aqua 
Rhapsody!” she called, shooting out a stream of water that put out 
Catzi’s fire.  “Well, then!  Do you want this?” Catzi asked, holding up 
the Space Sword.  She cut the tree with it, but it landed on top of her 
when they both hit the ground, and she was killed by the fall and the 
tree landing on her.  As Pluto and Moon had done before, Mercury and 
Saturn were teleported back to their houses.

    Elsewhere, Rei sat up, spitting sand out of her mouth.  Looking 
around, she noticed she was in some sort of desert temple.  She could 
see Taiki’s 6’ 10” form in the dim light of the torches.  “What the?!  
Where are we?!” she called out.  “I’m not sure, Hino-san,” came the 
soft-spoken reply.  “Well, we’ll never find an entrance just standing 
aroun--AAAAAAAH!!!  What’s that rumbling sound?!” screamed Rei.  The two 
of them turned and saw a gigantic ball of rock rolling towards them.  
“I’ll handle this!  Mars Crystal Power, Make Up!”  “Maker Star Power, 
Make Up!”  Taiki transformed as well, though she wasn’t sure what the 
hot-headed psychic meant to do.  “I’ll blast the ball to pieces!  Mars 
Flame Sniper!” shouted Sailor Mars, shooting a fire arrow at the ball.  
Instead of blowing it up, though, the attack merely set the ball on 
fire, so now they had an even worse problem!  “Use your attack, 
Taiki-chan!  Blow up the ball with Star Gentle Uterus!” called Sailor 
Mars.  “No, Hino-san.  We could be killed in the explosion.  Climb on my 
back and we can escape by running,” said Star Maker.  She pulled Sailor 
Mars up to her huge, muscular shoulders, and then took off running, 
escaping from the giant flaming rock ball.  Squinting in the dim light, 
Sailor Mars could make out a trap door ahead.  “Let’s go through that 
door!  Maybe the ball won’t fit through the hole!” she exclaimed, 
jumping to the ground and running towards the hole.  Star Maker followed 
her, and tried to slide down after her, but because of her big muscles, 
she got stuck.  Shouting “Star Gentle Uterus!” and using the attack like 
a rocket, she pushed herself through the hole, escaping just as the 
attack blew up the the ball and an explosion rocked the temple.

    “Woah, Taiki-chan!  I thought you said you weren’t going to do 
that!” gasped Sailor Mars.  She and Star Maker had landed on a lower 
level.  The ball was gone, but they weren’t safe yet, as Star Maker’s 
attack had started an earthquake!  Sailor Mars climbed back onto Star 
Maker’s shoulders, and they took off through the tunnel again, dodging 
falling rocks.  Suddenly, a vine whipped out, knocking Star Maker 
unconscious.  Sailor Mars leaped to the ground, calling out “Who did 
that?!”  “I did, little firebug,” said a familiar voice.  A green-haired 
woman was standing on a ledge, holding Chibi Moon’s magic bell.  “What 
the--how did you get Chibi-Usa-chan’s bell?” asked Sailor Mars.  
“PallaPalla gave it to me.  You have to fight me to get it!  Take this!” 
shouted Tellulu, shooting a vine at Sailor Mars.  The psychic Senshi 
dodged it, and, calling “Mars Flame Sniper!”, shot a fire arrow at 
Tellulu.  The witch was thrown into the wall, killing her.  As she faded 
out, she said “Curse you, Taiki!  You are diseased!”  “Taiki-chan!  Wake 
up!!” cried Sailor Mars, as the two of them were teleported back to 
their own homes.