sm_monthly Jan 23 theme
I have been wanting to write this crossover for so many kinds of forever. I often feel like I should be writing more "death" aspect Sailor Pluto's associations as well as "time" stuff. Plus it's Garth Nix, and he's always made of awesome.
Title: Of Hades
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Guardian Senshi--Death
Genre: Drama
Version: Manga, crossover with Old Kingdom series
Rating: PG-13
Setsuna swung Ranna, the tiny bell sounding like rain on a window late at night. Too late. “Damn.”
The Princess yawned and even the Clayr shook their heads to shake the Sleeper off.
“Go after it, Abhorsen.”
“The necromancer…”
“We have seen worse coming of Gnathul if it is not banished now.”
“The Princess…”
“We’ll protect her.”
“I’ll get the wards set up.” Ami must have meant some odd Wallmaker thing, because Minako of the Clayr was already setting up the diamond of protection.
“Death or Princess?” the Abhorsen asked the Remembrancer, hoping for the latter but nothing made one long for company more than the river.
Rei considered. “Princess, if it is permissible, Abhorsen, Voice of the Watch.”
Minako nodded. Setsuna sat down with naked sword in her laps and icicles grew on her body.
Death was as it always was and Setsuna strode through the river with the confidence of an experienced Abhorsen. She’d be glad to find the necromancer here but doubted she would and would settle for the Greater Dead.
It couldn’t have run far yet. If it had gone sideways and back into Life there was no sense in the Clayr sending he here. So, she guessed it had gone deeper into Death to throw her off the scent.
She spoke the free magic for the first Gate and made her way to the Second Precinct carefully. It couldn’t have been that far ahead, which meant it was close.
She looked around through the mist. A few shades and Lesser Dead creeping around but nothing she would bother with even if she weren’t busy. Only her intimate and unconscious familiarity with the movement of the river alerted her something was wrong in time to throw herself back as the Greater Dead exploded upwards with claws spread from one of the holes of the Second Precinct.
Setsuna spit out a Charter mark for freezing as she fell into the river. The water tried to sap her strength, but Setsuna had always been rather morbid even for an Abhorsen and was perfectly happy swimming anywhere it was deep enough to. She swam out of the hole rather than going deeper though because she could not swing a sword underwater.
She blocked the creature Gnathul’s claws with her sword, but went for her bells. It shook the ice off its other hand and raked her sword arm as she wasted time swinging Dyrim. She felt a moment too late Dyrim’s distaste for her awkward ringing and she thrust it under the water to muffle its back-swing, which would have taken the words from her mouth. She shouted the flash-bang Charter mark.
She dropped Dyrim into her boot and used both hands on her sword to push the Greater Dead back. Her right arm was burning and bleeding faster as she kept using it.
With her left hand she loosened two bells in her bandolier and grabbed the first and dropped her sword and reached for the second in the same motion. The sword fell far enough away to not cut off her feet but it was still awfully stupid, even if her necromancy would prove as good as she was trusting it to be.
Saraneth rang out loud and pure in the mist. “I bind you to my will, Donniel.”
“No!” The Dead thing tried to yell and ended up hissing around the binding of its true name extracted by Dyrim.
With her other hand, Setsuna rang Kibeth’s jolly tune in a figure eight as she continued to ring Saraneth. “Walk beyond the Ninth Gate without tarrying and never return, Donniel.”
The Greater Dead fought with its feet but they led it unerringly through the Second Gate’s whirlpool. Setsuna put her three bells away and picked up her sword. Nothing better have happened to her Princess Usagi back in Life, and they had a necromancer and free mage to go after.
Title: Of Hades
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Guardian Senshi--Death
Genre: Drama
Version: Manga, crossover with Old Kingdom series
Rating: PG-13
Setsuna swung Ranna, the tiny bell sounding like rain on a window late at night. Too late. “Damn.”
The Princess yawned and even the Clayr shook their heads to shake the Sleeper off.
“Go after it, Abhorsen.”
“The necromancer…”
“We have seen worse coming of Gnathul if it is not banished now.”
“The Princess…”
“We’ll protect her.”
“I’ll get the wards set up.” Ami must have meant some odd Wallmaker thing, because Minako of the Clayr was already setting up the diamond of protection.
“Death or Princess?” the Abhorsen asked the Remembrancer, hoping for the latter but nothing made one long for company more than the river.
Rei considered. “Princess, if it is permissible, Abhorsen, Voice of the Watch.”
Minako nodded. Setsuna sat down with naked sword in her laps and icicles grew on her body.
Death was as it always was and Setsuna strode through the river with the confidence of an experienced Abhorsen. She’d be glad to find the necromancer here but doubted she would and would settle for the Greater Dead.
It couldn’t have run far yet. If it had gone sideways and back into Life there was no sense in the Clayr sending he here. So, she guessed it had gone deeper into Death to throw her off the scent.
She spoke the free magic for the first Gate and made her way to the Second Precinct carefully. It couldn’t have been that far ahead, which meant it was close.
She looked around through the mist. A few shades and Lesser Dead creeping around but nothing she would bother with even if she weren’t busy. Only her intimate and unconscious familiarity with the movement of the river alerted her something was wrong in time to throw herself back as the Greater Dead exploded upwards with claws spread from one of the holes of the Second Precinct.
Setsuna spit out a Charter mark for freezing as she fell into the river. The water tried to sap her strength, but Setsuna had always been rather morbid even for an Abhorsen and was perfectly happy swimming anywhere it was deep enough to. She swam out of the hole rather than going deeper though because she could not swing a sword underwater.
She blocked the creature Gnathul’s claws with her sword, but went for her bells. It shook the ice off its other hand and raked her sword arm as she wasted time swinging Dyrim. She felt a moment too late Dyrim’s distaste for her awkward ringing and she thrust it under the water to muffle its back-swing, which would have taken the words from her mouth. She shouted the flash-bang Charter mark.
She dropped Dyrim into her boot and used both hands on her sword to push the Greater Dead back. Her right arm was burning and bleeding faster as she kept using it.
With her left hand she loosened two bells in her bandolier and grabbed the first and dropped her sword and reached for the second in the same motion. The sword fell far enough away to not cut off her feet but it was still awfully stupid, even if her necromancy would prove as good as she was trusting it to be.
Saraneth rang out loud and pure in the mist. “I bind you to my will, Donniel.”
“No!” The Dead thing tried to yell and ended up hissing around the binding of its true name extracted by Dyrim.
With her other hand, Setsuna rang Kibeth’s jolly tune in a figure eight as she continued to ring Saraneth. “Walk beyond the Ninth Gate without tarrying and never return, Donniel.”
The Greater Dead fought with its feet but they led it unerringly through the Second Gate’s whirlpool. Setsuna put her three bells away and picked up her sword. Nothing better have happened to her Princess Usagi back in Life, and they had a necromancer and free mage to go after.