Chapter 4: The Star Cat Appears
By: Sailor Deneb
Rated: PG for violence and language


“Well, from what you’re telling us Serina.  It sounds
like the Negamoon
is back, and they have their eyes set on the Sailor
Star Scouts and
won’t stop at anything to get them.”  Amy said
smartly.  Lita looked at the clock.

“How long have we been here?”  She thought.  “4 hours.
 This is one of
the longest meetings we’ve ever had.”  She changed
positions on Rei’s
bed from sitting to lying.  She looked around.  Mina
was brushing her
hair.  Serina was now reading one of Rei’s favorite
comics.  Rini was
fast asleep.  The only two still carrying on this
conversation was Rei
and Amy.

“Well Rei.  Tell us if Georgia shows up for work.
Ladies, are you all
ready to call it a night?”  Amy asked.  The girls all
paid attention.
The door exploded open.  Three girls walked in.  It
was Julia, Auriga
and Mei.  Mei was wearing her usual black dress pants
and a black
trench coat.  Her jet-black hair was down as normal.
She was a
frightening looking person if you didn’t know her.
Auriga was wearing
an athletic looking winter coat with blue jeans.  Like
normal nothing
was done with her short blonde hair.  Julia was
wearing expensive gap
jeans with a designer fur coat.  Her chin length hair
was combed neatly
in place and looked like it hadn’t changed at all in
the wind.  Julia
took off her jacket to reveal an Old Navy sweatshirt.


“We’ve come to warn you.”  Julia said urgently.  “They
have Denise and
Georgia.  After two fall it won’t be hard for the rest
of us to fall
either.”  Mina stood up.  Her voice woke Rini up.

“Why are you warning us?”  Mina asked.  The star
scouts began to leave
again.  “Why do you always leave when we ask you a
question?”  Mei
turned around.

“Cuz, we can’t tell you about our selves. We won’t be
here much
longer.”  Mei said coldly.  Her eyes were two piercing
knives.  The
stare had a way of getting into your soul.  She could
stare right
through a person.  The two older stars walked back.
They gently
grabbed her arms and pulled her away.  “Just don’t
show any mercy when
you fight Denise and Georgia or us for that matter!”
They left.  The
scouts were all quiet.

“Serina,” Rini started.  “What happening?” Rini looked
up at Serina
with pleading eyes.  “Why won’t they help us?”

“I don’t know Rini.  I don’t know.”  Serina’s voice
trailed off.


The Star Scouts were walking down main street.  People
stared at them
as they walked by.  They were a rather interesting
group.  A Goth, a
prep and a jock.

“So we’re all agreed.  If Denise and Georgia attack
us, we’re gonna
fight them till the end.  No letting up!”  Julia
asked.  Mei looked at
her with her bright, sharp, blue eyes.

“Yes.”  Mei simply said.  Auriga didn’t say anything
she just nodded.
“So that’s settled.  I have an art class to go to.
I’ll contact you
guys if anything happens, so leave your communicators
on.”  The girls
nodded and they left Mei.  Mei turned and walked down
1st street.  She
opened her pocket and took out her big, heavy black
work gloves.  Mei
put them on.  The street grew quieter and less busy as
she walked down
it.  Her art class was in a big house at the end of
the street.  It was
a great house for an art class.  It was old and
falling apart, but
there was plenty of creativeness that flowed through
it into the
students.  Mei reached the house’s tall black gates.
She had to use
all her weight to open the doors.  She picked up her
pace and ran
eagerly to the house.  “I can’t wait to finish my
painting!”  She took
off into a sprint.  “I haven’t ran like this for a
year now!  It feels
so good to just let it all go and run hard!”  She slid
to a stop almost
crashing into the steps, then quickly ran up the
stairs.  Her friend
Myrrh ran to greet her.

“Mei!  How are you?”  Myrrh asked her friend.

“Oh, I’m okay.”  Mei said quickly.

“How’s school here?”  Myrrh asked.  Mei shrugged.
Myrrh went to Mugen
School.  Mei went to International school.  So they
really never saw
each other.  “Why are you ignoring me!”  She demand.

“Sorry, I’m just preoccupied.  I wanna go finish my
painting.”  Mei
said and ran off.

“Well, excuse me for wanting to talk to you!”  Myrrh
followed her.

Mei looked at her painting hardly.  It was a beautiful
portrait of
Sailor Deneb.  “I love this painting.  Julia’s gonna
love it too!  I’ll
give it to her for her birthday, if we live that
long.”  Mei added the
finishing touches to her painting; she fixed the
skirt, touched up the
tiara and finished the waterfall behind her.  Finally
she added a thin
single-handed sword, called The Hard Edge.  “Julia
said, Sailor Deneb
holds a thin sword.  She also said, she didn’t know if
she’d ever be
able to handle a sword.”  Mei stepped back and her
teacher came up from
behind her.

“Mei that is a really beautiful painting.”  He told
her.  She looked up
at him.  “Sailor Deneb am I right?  I would like to
know something.
When you’re done with it, can I keep it here for my
art gallery?”  Mei
stood there shocked.

“I was going to give it to a friend.  She likes Sailor
Deneb a lot.”
Mei answered back politely.  Her teacher looked hurt.

“Mei come with me, I want to show you my gallery.
Your have talent
that deserves to see it.”  The teacher told her.  She
followed him.

They came to a long and tall hallway.  Mei gasped when
she saw this.
“Oh my gosh.  It’s beautiful.”  She spun around in a
tight circle.  She
wanted to absorb all the beauty around her.  The
paintings' beauty
filled the room with happiness and gave it a
sophisticated feeling.
Her teacher put his hand on her shoulder.

“I would like to put your painting here with them.”
He said.  Mei
backed off.

“Wait a minute.  You’re giving off strange vibes!”
Mei screamed.

“Oh so you are Sailor Algol, Queen Beryl will be very
pleased.”  He
said.  He took his ponytail out.

“Nephlyte!”  Mei gasped.  “Algol Celestial Power!”
Black, dark purple
and dark blue ribbons swirled around her body.  She
posed.

“So Queen Beryl was right.  Sailor Algol possesses
superior artistic
ability.  Too bad it doesn’t help you in a fight,
girl!”  Nephlyte
said.  Algol ignored him and popped open her
communicator.

“Julia, Auriga I need help.  I’m at my art class in a
back room!
Hurry.”  Algol said.

“Okay Algol.”  Said both their voices.  She turned off
her
communicator.

“I’m ready!”  Algol said.

“You’re much braver than you Sailor Scout friends!
They won’t fight
unless they have a whole posse here.”  Nephlyte said.
“And you’ve only
got one attack that hurts people!”  Algol looked at
him.

“Damn!  I forgot about that!  Sealing him won’t work.
I’ll have to
dodge him till they get here.”  She thought.  “I can
still beat you!”

“You’re a very brave sailor.  One of the bravest.  But
let’s see how
brave you are when you fight, these two.”  Two girls
appeared.  He
disappeared.  Algol didn’t recognize them.  One was
about 10 years old.
She was wearing a blue dress with red trim and high
cuts so you could
see white puffy leggings.  She had fiery red hair and
yellow earrings.
She flicked her wrist and a staff with a large
sapphire ball appeared.
The other girl was about 17.  She had on what appeared
to be a bikini.
It was a purpley blue with dark green straps.  She had
on tall purpley
blue boots and puffy sleeves.  She had a staff in hand
with a purple
star on top.  She too had fiery red hair.

“Come, come Algol.  Don’t pretend like you don’t know
us!”  The older
girl said.  She walked over to Algol.  “You can’t have
already
forgotten you friends and fellow scouts.  Polaris,
give me a shock wave
attack!”

“Shock Wave!”  Polaris screamed.  Her sapphire staff
shined a bright
blue.  A bolt of lightening struck it.  She lowered it
to the ground
and a huge wave of electricity shot after Algol.  The
wave hit Algol
before she knew what was happening.  She was thrown
backwards in to the
wall.  Algol got up slowly, holding her arm tightly.
She raised her
arm.

“I call upon the holy powers of Algol.  Supreme Heaven
Heal!”  Algol
screamed.  A soft white light shot away from her.  It
hit the two girls
and did little damage to them.  “Who are you?”

“Funny you should ask!  I’m the true Sailor Rigel!
This is the true
Sailor Polaris!”  Rigel answered.  “Gusty Wind!”  A
strong wind built
up behind Rigel.  Slowly her hair began to blow.  In a
few seconds the
wind was full force and flying at Algol.  The wind was
too strong to
fight.  It blasted her back into the wall.  She stood
up again.   She
saw faint shadows of two more Sailor Stars.

“You are our friends not enemies.  Friends don’t treat
friends like
garbage.  You are going to face the justice of the
Sailor Star Scouts!”
Deneb said.  “Psy Thunder!”  Her tiara shined yellow.
A huge bolt of
psychic lightening built up.  She brought her right
hand up and caught
the energy.  Her hand glowed with the strength of the
power.  Deneb
threw it into older evil sailor.  The bolt
electrocuted Rigel.  The
shock shot threw her and she fell down.

“Rigel!”  Polaris screamed.  She ran to her sister.
“You’re going to
pay for that!  Earth Quake!”  The small girl raised
her sapphire staff
into the air.  The staff glowed a brilliant blue.  She
let it charge
and then she hit it on the ground.  The quake spread
around quickly
toward Capella and Deneb.  Capella managed to get out
of the way but
Deneb wasn’t as lucky.  She was lifted up in the quake
and then dropped
down.  She landed with a bone-crunching thud.  Algol
ran over to her.

“Julia!”  Algol screamed.  Deneb sat up.  A pale man’s
figured
appeared.  It was Malachite.

“Denise, Georgia.  Queen Beryl wants you.”  Malachite
said.  He picked
up Denise.  Georgia followed him back into the warp.
The three scouts
changed back to normal.

“That was a close call Mei.  They could’ve taken you.”
 Auriga said.

“Yah, I know. But you guys made it here just in time.
Thanks!”  Mei
answered back.  Mei’s arm burned with pain.  Mei
pushed up the sleeve. She moved her left hand to it.
She was bleeding profusely.  There was
a long gash on her arm from when she hit the wall.
“Julia help me!”
Julia looked at her.  She was abnormally pale.  Julia
ran over to her
friend.

“We have to get you to a doctor.  This is serious Mei.
 It’s broken.”
Julia said concerned.  Julia pushed up the sleeve
farther and found a
jagged break, the bone was starting to push through
the skin.  She felt
a little lower on the arm, and found another break.
“Mei this is
serious.  Auriga, help me.”  Auriga came out of her
corner.  “Okay go
get me a canvas please.”  Auriga left to get a canvas.
 While Auriga
was gone, Julia applied pressure to the break to stop
the blood.  This
hurt Mei even more, but she didn’t want to admit it.
She began to feel
weak, very weak. Auriga came running back in with the
canvas.

“The students are wondering what’s going on.  They’re
gonna come in
soon!  Then they’ll know we’re sailor scouts.”  Auriga
said urgently as
she gave Julia the canvas.  Both younger girls ignored
Auriga.  Julia
took out her pocketknife and tried to cut the canvas
with it.  It
didn’t do a very good job.

“God darn it!” Julia screamed in frustration.  Auriga
was now at the
door so people couldn’t get in.

“It’s okay.  I’ve put them all to sleep.  Let me.”
Said a tenor
male’s voice.  Auriga looked confused.

“Julia what should I do?”  Auriga asked her.

“Like Hell I know!  Lead yourself!”  Julia screamed
angrily at her.
Auriga decided to open up the door.  Out side was a
small calico cat.
The cat walked in.

“Maybe I should get more sleep.  A talking cat?”
Auriga said.  The cat
looked at her.  His colors were very, very beautiful.
He had an all
black head except for his orange ears.  In the middle
of his forehead
was a star.  His neck was a mixture of black, white,
brown, and orange.
The majority of his body coat was brown with a few
blotches of orange,
white and black.  His paws were white and his legs
were mostly brown
with black splotches.  His tail was black with brown
and orange
splotches.

“Let me introduce myself.  I’m the your guardian
feline, Orion.  Looks
like I found you ladies just in time!”  He ran over to
Mei.  She was
now unconscious.  He lowered his head to her arm.  His
star glowed a
bright yellow and Mei’s arm healed itself right in
front of them.  She
stood up.  She looked at the cat.

“Who’re you?” Mei asked.

“He’s our guardian cat.” Auriga answered quickly.
“Remember when we
vowed we wouldn’t have a gimpy cat.  Well here’s our
gimpy cat!”  Orion
glared at Auriga.

“I’m way stronger than Luna, Artemis or Diana.  That’s
why I’m your
cat, strongest cat for the strongest scouts.  Good
plan right?  I’m
here to fill you in on what you’re doing here.  Your
goal is to stop
Queen Beryl’s generals.”  Orion said.

“Ooooo, something I hadn’t already figured out yet.”
Julia teased.

“You’re not taking me seriously!  You five ladies are
all goddesses,
because you really can’t be the princess of a star.
Julia is the
Goddess of our Supernatural selves, Mei is the Goddess
of Healing
forces and prayer, Auriga is the Goddess of War,
Denise is the Goddess
of Intelligence, and little Georgia is the Goddess of
Beauty and Hope.
The five of you were worshiped all around the
universe.”  Orion stopped.

“Well, if we’re goddess, why don’t we head back to our
cloud and make
mortals fend for themselves?”  Auriga asked.  Orion
sighed.

“Well, there were other goddess with you, the Zodiac
Goddesses.  You

five, the Celestial Goddesses, cared about what
happened to you
believers and the Zodiac Goddesses didn’t.  You were
sent to the moon
kingdom to help protect it.  Sadly, you made it there
too late and
found the kingdom in ruins, with Queen Serenity dying.
 She sealed you
five in crystals too, only to be awakened by me when
you’re truly
needed.  But you were so spread out, I just sent
summoning sprits to
awaken you all.  Then I appeared before Julia and told
her to summon
everyone.”  He paused.  The star scouts were all
dumbfounded and
confused.  “Now, that I found you all, I can give you
your weapons.
Julia, The Hard Edge.”  His star twinkled and a thin,
long sword
appeared before her.  She picked it up.  It was an
elegant weapon.  The
sword itself was lightweight despite the heavy jewels
and engravings in
the pommel.  “Auriga, The Demon Slayer.”  His star
twinkled and a large
broad sword appeared.  She picked up the heavy looking
sword easily.
The sword was easily six inches wide or more.  It was
roughly two and
half feet long.  The sword had light engraving on the
blade just before
the hilt.  The pommel had a large garnet on the end.
It was less
beautiful than Julia’s but much stronger than hers.
“Mei, The dark
star scythe.”  His star twinkled again and a six-foot
tall scythe
appeared.  Mei didn’t pick it up.  The shaft was made
of dark, solid
mahogany.  There was a raised vine that traveled up
the whole length of
the shaft and ended on the blade.  The blade was
lightly curved and it
started wide and came to a sharp point.

“How am I expected to carry that?  It’s way too big
for me.”  Mei said
surprised.

“You’d be amazed with what you can do.  Pick it up.”
Orion said.  Mei
walked forward and picked up the tall weapon.  She
could easily lift
it.  “Now for new morphing pens.”  His star twinkled
and three morphing
pens appeared.  One pastel purple for Julia, another
dark blue for Mei
and the last one dark red for Auriga.  They each
picked up their
appropriate pen.  “When you morph say, you star’s name
and ethereal
power.”

“That’s a mouthful.  So I say, Deneb Ethereal Power?”
Julia asked.

“No, you say Deneb Divine Power.  I forgot the leader
says something
different.”  Orion said.  The girls looked at each
other skeptically
then they looked at Orion.  None of them could believe
the load of junk
Orion was feeding them.  They girls looked at each
other again.
“You’ll believe me when you first morph.  You also
have two new powers, one involving your weapons and
one involving you element.  You’ll automatically know
them when you morph.”

“So who do you live with?”  Julia asked.  “Let me
guess, me.”   Orion
gave her a mean looked.

“No, not you.  It’s actually Denise and Georgia, but
they’re not here.
So I’ll need to come home with you, Julia.”  Orion
said.  Julia picked
up the cat.  They walked out of the back room to find
the artists hard
at work on their paintings.  Mei walked over to her
easel and picked up
the painting.  She looked at it with sad sorrowful
eyes, her normal
expression.  Put the painting in its’ sack and ran to
catch up to Julia
and Auriga.


In the Negaverse home…….

“Your majesty, Denise and Georgia were doing a good
job.  Why did you
pull them out?”  Malachite asked Queen Beryl.  The
Queen looked at her
general.

“Well, Malachite since you think they were doing such
a good job, why
don’t you take the punishment for their failure?”  He
asked her
general.  Zoycite ran out.

“No don’t punish him!  Those two ditzy scouts failed
you not him.  They
were not trying hard enough.  I don’t see why you’d
want to use them in
the first place?”  Zoycite challenged.  The queen
stood up.  She
narrowed her eyes at Zoycite.  The fear flared up in
Zoycite’s body.
Zoycite could feel the fear course through her veins
and bones.  “I’m
sorry majesty.  I don’t know what came over me.”
Zoycite stammered.

“Very well Zoycite, just see that it doesn’t happen
again.”  Beryl
said.  She sat back down.

“Thank you, your majesty.”  Zoycite said.

“You and Malachite are dismissed.”  She said quickly.
Zoycite and
Malachite left quickly.  Once out of the room,
Malachite grabbed her
shoulder hardly.

“Zoycite, what were you doing?  You know the queen
doesn’t like you
much.”  He said harshly to her.

“But Malachite, all I was trying to do was save your
life.  It’s not
fair she wanted to kill you because the Skimpy Scouts
failed.  Since
when do we punish a good fighter for a bad fighter’s
actions?”  Zoycite
protested.  Malachite looked down on her.

“Thank you Zoycite.  Nephylite and Jedite didn’t do
anything for me.”
Malachite thanked her.  Zoycite wrapped her arms
around the lower part
of his chest.

“So Zoycite, you think we’re wimpy huh?”  Denise said.
 “Well we know
exactly what we’re doing!  Georgia and I were simply
setting ourselves
up as weak but we’re gonna get ‘em.  Their gonna wish
they’d never ever
treated us like they did today!”  Zoycite looked at
Denise she had
bandage wrapped around her stomach and her foot was
bandaged up.
Zoycite left Malachite.

“So you have a plan Skimpy Scouts?  This is too much.
Sailor Scouts
aren’t known for their intelligence.”  Zoycite said.

“Well we know exactly how to trick Mei into joining.
We’ll be a step
farther than you in Queen Beryl’s book and you’ll be
closer to the
chopping block, you and your boy toy to be exact.”
Denise said with a
slight smile.  “Ta ta, wusses.”