This was quite outside the normal scope of adventures that the Sailor Senshi engaged in. The type of investigations they involved themselves in were usually much more straightforward, like 'missing persons' or 'energy drain victims'. Normally they didn't go on an archaeological adventure.
Hrm, on consideration, Ami felt that might be for the best. The other girls in their group didn't quite have the patience for that sort of matter. In which case, her teaming up with the Starlights was perhaps the best option available to her. Not only would they be free of Libra's influence, but they would be able to stay focused a lot more clear on their task.
"Pardon me for enquiring, Sailor Mercury, but was your uniform always so... translucent before? It almost looks as though it were made of a thin layer of water rather than enchanted fabric."
“Hmm.. I don’t see what is the matter.. is something different?” Ami asked, remembering the confusion over her clothes being so.. so skimpy in the library. She wasn’t sure why she had put on something so revealing, but after they had left the library she had quickly transformed into her Senshi form.
Sailor Mercury gave herself a once over and.. Nope, everything was in order. There was the miniskirt that showed off her string panties. The bikini top of her uniform showed off the normal amount of underboob.. Maybe it was a little more see-through than normally? It was a bit frustrating, she honestly hadn't noticed until they pointed it out.
"Ahem, well, I can't do anything about this right now," Sailor Mercury said. She tried in vain to make the skirt not cover as much, but it was a wasted effort. "We should investigate this supposed temple to Libra you've helped me find."
Mercury took a step forward, felt the stone beneath her foot shift, then held up her hand and froze the air around it, blocking a nasty, very old looking dart that came out right for her.
"Probably poisoned," Starlight Maker said, carefully plucking the needle out to examine it. "Though considering its age, the poison is probably no longer effective. The decay inside the needle is likelier deadlier than the poison originally was at this point."
"Are you sure it was poison?" Starlight Fighter asked. "It might have been an aphrodisiac, based on what we've seen of Libra so far."
“Maybe? Though again, given the age it would probably no longer work as intended regardless of what it was.” Maker said, looking the needle over a little more. “Can you find anything with your computer Mercury?”
“Ahh.. one moment..” Ami said, summoning the Mercury computer and moving to analyze the arrow. “No, the decay is far too advanced.”
“Shame, an ancient aphrodisiac sounds like the sort of stuff that could lighten up any party.” Everyone stared at Star Fighter as she said that before the Senshi giggled. “What, it was a joke.”
"Please upgrade your sense of humour," Star Healer said. "Come on, let's get this over with. Oh, and please don't be so coy with the traps, Mercury. You should be avoiding the use of these upgraded powers, not revelling in them."
To that effect, the Starlights went about swiftly, yet efficiently, removing all the traps surrounding the entrance. It was quite exhilarating to behold. The teamwork, the precision, the expertise... It was quite jarring to observe them in action while comparing it to how her team operated.
"That should be everything," Star Fighter said, dusting off her hands. "Alright, let's check this place out. I'm much more excited to see what's inside now that we've found all those traps!"
"Indeed," Star Maker said. "There wouldn't be this many if there wasn't something inside worth seeing."
"Careful now," Star Healer added. "You almost make it sound lewd when you put it that way."
The door opened up, and they snuck carefully inside. With flashlights in hand, they studied the immediate interior. A large room, by all appearances. With a stone wall at the back that, to Mercury's eyes, looked like a door of some kind. Though the Starlights were more focused on the walls than the door.
"Hot," Star Fighter quipped.
"Not the time, nor the place," Star Healer admonished.
"Still, this might be the oldest example of inscribed pornography yet discovered," Star Maker said. Huh? Ancient smut. "Fascinating. These inscriptions could tell us quite a great deal about this Libra character..."
But Mercury's attention remained on the tablet at the back of the room. For some reason, her instincts were telling her, that was the important part. This was what mattered the most. She could see chains hanging from the ceiling, attached to the top and looping around. One set of chains heading off left, the other to the right.
"You want to open that up, huh?" Star Fighter asked. "Alright, let me pound my way through - "
Both Mercury and Maker pounced on her right then. "Let's not disturb this place any more than we have to," Mercury said.
"We might accidentally destroy a valuable clue," Maker added. "Archaeological digs are usually very careful for exactly this reason."
While they patiently explained this to Star Fighter, Healer advanced and looked along to the left and right, following the source of those chains. "From what I can tell, we need to activate something that will pull both chains at once." Healer shrugged. "I hate to say it, but we'll need to split up to open this."
"But you never split the party!" Fighter protested. "That's how you get picked off!"
"We should be fine, so long as we're alert," Mercury said, though internally she agreed with Healer. Watch each other's backs, and call for help if something happens."
None of them liked this idea, not a single one. However, even when they checked the devices themselves, they came to the same conclusion - they had to be activated simultaneously. They checked for traps and secret passages, Mercury even scanned the surroundings. While there was some ambient magic in the air, it wasn't anything that would be a major concern to any of them.
However... They were so focused on the temple itself that they didn't consider the true threat. Ami Mizuno is a very pretty girl. One would hardly think so, but that's largely because of her shy demeanour and sometimes seeming cold attitude. Like her friends, when she had the confidence to show off she was absolutely stunning, and her body wasn't lacking in any appeal.
The trouble was, right now she - a girl being heavily influenced by Libra - was standing in a temple devoted to him. Could there be any surprise, any at all, that she would find herself being influenced by the mere act of standing here?
The magic in the temple mistook her for a high-priestess, and acted accordingly. It sensed that these three others were unknowing of Libra's 'benevolent' perversion, and so it acted accordingly. It marginally weakened their willpower, while running itself over Sailor Mercury's body, giving her a variety of enhancements to her figure.
The first changes hit her thighs. Normally slender and velte, they gained a touch more meat to them than they had before. Then, her skirt swirled around her hips as the magic did its work, finding glutes that needed a bit more sculpting to make absolutely perfect -there. Though, with this work done to her thighs, hips and butt it did mean that the skirt now didn't quite fully cover everything it was meant to. Oh well, since it was about as translucent as water, it wasn't really covering anything anyway.
"I suppose you are with me then," Star Healer said, gesturing for Mercury to come to the right.
"O-Of course," Sailor Mercury said, her eyes trailing up and down her partner's form. Mmm... Partner. That was quite the term to use. That black spandex like uniform was really working for her. She bit her lip, and stepped forward, not noticing the way that she was walking was quite a bit different from usual. Each step seemed calculated to make her skirt move in a peculiar way, that would inevitably attract attention. After a few steps, Mercury licked her lips, and there was a fresh gleam in her eyes like a predator on the hunt.
The two of them came across what looked like a sacrificial altar. Not too unusual for an ancient temple. Except, well...
"It looks like there's some kind of groove here," Mercury said. She stepped in front of Healer and leaned over to better examine it. She pushed down on it as hard as she could, and behind her a piece of the wall slid open to reveal a crank.
"Right, Maker mentioned something about this," Healer said. "It looks like one of us has to lie down here, while the other turns the crank that appears."
"I'll turn the crank, you lie down," Mercury said.
"Fine, fine," Healer dismissively replied, then lay down flat on the altar. Her body weight made the crank appear. Mercury gripped it in one hand, and gave it a turn, then looked back at Healer laying on the altar. "Something wrong?"
"We should watch each other," Mercury said. "If something sneaks up on us from a blind spot, we should be covered if we're watching each other."
"Hrm, yes, that does seem quite sensible," Healer replied. "Alright, I just need to lie here and watch you turn that crank."
That was right. That's all she needed to do. Meanwhile, Ami would be looking over her shoulder at the <s>sacrificial victim</s> beautiful form of Star Healer. She began to turn the crank, and her breath quickened. Without noticing it, she started to put some work into her hips too, grinding them, shaking her butt, making her skirt billow around in a carefully controlled, completely eye-catching pattern.
"Do you hear music?" Healer asked.
"No," Mercury lied. Actually she did hear music, but for some reason she didn't want to admit to it. "I don't hear anything."
"Are you quite sure about that?" Healer asked. "It's quite a catchy tune. Faint, but catchy, and it almost looks like you're dancing to it."
"You are imagining things," Mercury replied, though actually she probably was. It was important to, for some reason. She couldn't put her finger on it, but it was very, very important that she continue dancing to this music while Healer very blatantly stared at her butt, swaying back and forth while her translucent skirt swished around and her thicc booty jiggled from every single little movement that she made.
- Usagi is having fun with Mamoru
- Rei, Makoto and Minako continue their own analysis
- Libra finds Healer's door opening up.
- Back to the villains.
- Mercury continues hypnotising Healer with her butt.
- Something else
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