The green light filled the clearing, making everyone shield their eyes for the intensity of it.
Sesshoumaru dropped Makoto, forcing one of his eyes open so he wouldn't loose track of her. What he saw was yet another shock to him.
Streaks of lightening fell from the sky, surrounding the girl. Her clothes disappeared, and were replaced by a strange white and green outfit. A white body-suit with a pink bow, elbow length white gloves, a skirt that was scandelously short, long pink ribbons trailing behind, and green hiking boots. A glowing sign on her forehead as well, the sign of Jupiter, though Sesshoumaru did not know this.
When the light cleared, it revealed Sailor Jupiter, standing tall against the demon lord.
"What are you?" Though his face was as impassive as ever, inside, Sesshoumaru was puzzled. How could one human girl hold so much power? For indeed, now that she was like this, he could feel the power, crawling along his skin like static electricity, making his hackles rise.
"I am Sailor Jupiter! If you wish to do harm to Inu-Yasha or any of the rest of my friends, you will have to go through me first!"
He was still puzzled, but that was all she said before she attacked.
Her moves were even quicker now, and stronger, and he had a hard time dodging them. It seemed she got fed up, though, because she stopped suddenly.
He was about to take advantage of this and attack her, but she put up one hand and started spinning.
"Jupiter Oak Evolution!"
Rei watched the attack, and breathed an inaudible sigh of relief. So, Makoto was going with her strongest attack after all. None of her other ones would have likely affected this Sesshoumaru guy much anyway.
Thousands of razor sharp leaves with electricity dancing along their edges seemed to be spinning with Sailor Jupiter. All of a sudden, they shot out, whipping towards Sesshoumaru.
He weathered them, his only show of any sort of weakness was when he brought his hand up to protect his eyes.
When it was over, he straightens again...
But the damage had been done. His white outfit was covered in minute rips, and blood was beginning to stain it. The cuts were all over, too many to count, and he actually looked suprised for a brief second before the expression disappeared, and he jumped at her again, attacking.
They traded blows back and forth, at one point becoming so fast that only Inu-Yasha could still see them, and barely at that.
Makoto's punches aren't pulled at all; in fact, if anything, she was hitting harder than normal, and it showed when she finally connected with Sesshoumaru, a straight punch to the gut, under his defenses.
It sent him flying back, and he managed to stop himself before slamming in to a tree.
The look he turned on her then was almost feral, a far cry from his usual calm mask. Sailor Jupiter just looked at him calmly, though, raising one hand to prepare another attack.
He stood, pushing his long, white hair back over his shoulder, and turned an icy glare on Inu-Yasha.
"I will go, then. Make no mistake, though..." his glare directed at Makoto now, "I will be back, and I will beat you next time."
Yes, she had not beaten him. This was merely... a tactical retreat.
Before Sailor Jupiter could get off another attack, he was up in the air, flying away on his cloud at a fast speed.
She placed her hands on her hips, glaring daggers at his retreating figure. "Just like a man to run away when the fight starts to get good..."
Inu-Yasha broke out of his stupor then, striding up to Sailor Jupiter.
And it seemed he spoke for all of them (minus Rei) when he grabbed her by the shoulders and asked,
"What the hell just happened?!"
Makoto got out of his hold, detransforming and sharing a look with Rei.
"It's a long, long story..."