DISCLAIMER: I don't own Sailor moon or any of the characters except the ones I'm making up.
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The Origin of Sailor Pheonix: (Part One) Meeting of new friends, warning of new enemies.
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Planet, Earth
Year: 2001
USA, Davis California
March
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Corta walked down the hallway talking to her friend, Serena Tsukino. They entered their meta-physics class and listened as the professor lectured while the students took notes. Corta's metallic yellow hair had been pulled up into a topknot with lose curls hanging around her face framing it. She had also bought a pair of contacts that made her almost glowing orange eyes seem a liquid amber color. She paused in her note taking, remembering back three and a half months before. To when the Flyer had crashed on Earth.
* * * *
Corta was jerked awake by a vicious shaking. She hurried into the cockpit and sat in the pilots' chair.
" Flyer, What's wrong?" She asked checking the systems
" Good morning, Corta." The ships' computer said.
The greeting caused Corta to smile. In the four almost five years since Alsiana's destruction, the Flyers computer had been polite even in a crisis. It had also been Corta's only companion besides Portan.
" Good morning, Flyer. Can you please report the problem?" She said returning her ships politeness.
" Very well Corta...frankly we are about to crash into the Earth's surface. I would advise that you strap yourself in."
Corta fastened her seatbelt and grunted at a particularly vicious jolt.
" Why is it so rough, Flyer?" She asked. A space map appeared on the view screen showing a satilight image of Earth.
" Because of the Earth Atmosphere, the Flyers' main thrusters have gone off line. I hope to bring them back online after we clear the Atmosphere."
Corta Frowned, " What are our chances of doing that?"
" 59.9%"
Corta nodded, " Good enough for me." she strapped herself more securely into her seat. The next four hours were filled with the Flyers crash landing in the Sierra Mountains and the disappearance of Portan. Corta waited while Flyer downloaded its self into the portable computer. Then she left the shell of the Flyer, her now too short priestess robes brushing the middle of her shins as she walked.
* * * *
Serena poking her with the end of her pencil shook Corta out of her memories.
" Corta, look at the hunk!" Serena said nodding toward a man that had entered the classroom and was speaking quietly with Professor Cortez. He had long orange/yellow hair that reached his waist and was pulled back in a ponytail. His eyes were hidden behind a pair of small silver wire framed glasses but Corta thought that they were a deep brown. She watched as the man nodded and left the classroom.
" Do you know who he is, Serena?" Corta asked the Japanese girl next to her. Serena shook her head and started taking notes again.
" Iie...I mean no. He's cute though, ne?"
Corta nodded and went back to taking notes also. But, her thoughts kept drifting back to the man. The class ended and Serena parted company with Corta heading for the student parking lot. She wanted to get home so she could call Darien, at Harvard.
Serena drove through the streets of Davis and turned onto Commons Rd. and pulled into the drive of the duplex that she shared with two other students at UC Davis. She missed all of her friends, but had wanted to be out on her own for a while. So she had signed up for a two-year foreign exchange program at Azabu University. She walked up to the front door and frowned noticing the strange car across the street. She entered the house smiling at Rachel York a junior at UC Davis.
" Hey Rach, who's car is out front?" Serena asked while crossing over to her bedroom. Not noticing the man that Rachel was talking to. She dumbed her bag onto her bed.
" It's Yukio's, Serena." Rachel replied
Serena who had been picking up the phone to call Darien, frowned and let it fall back into the craddle. She walked slowly back into the room. " Yukio?"
She asked and finally noticed the man standing next to Rachel, it was the same man from her physics class.
" Hello," Serena said
Portan/Yukio smiled at the blonde girl, her hair was done up in two buns and pigtails.
" Konnichi Wa," He said bowing slightly from his waist.
Serena broke out into a huge grin,
" You're from Japan?" She asked leaning against the wall, her arms crossed over her stomach.
Yukio nodded, " Hai, from the Nerima district."
Serena continued to grin, happy that there was another Japanese person in the house that she could talk to.
" I'm from the Juban district. Welcome to our humble home." She said bowing. Rachel watched this with an amused look.
" Serena, Yukio has also joined a forgien exchange program with his college back in Japan. And the Deans board put him in our home because you were here."
Serena smiled, " It's a pleasure to have you here, Yukio-san."
Yukio bowed again mischief dancing in his eyes, it was then that Serena noticed that one of his eyes were a deep chocolate brown and the other a dark green one. Darker than Lita's eyes when she was mad.
" I'm sorry that I can't help you move in Yukio, but I must make a phone call."
" It is okay Serena-san, I will manage, please go make
your call."
Serena put her hand over her mouth to smoother her
laughter,
" Hello?" She said still giggling.
Darien flushed when he heard Serena's voice.
" Hello Serena." He said and moved to his bed laying
down, he was worn out.
Serena was sitting at her desk and turned on the
computer, " Hey Darien, how was your day?"
Darien smiled, " It was good. But, I am totally worn
to the bone. We got to dissect a cadaver today."
Serena opened the microsoft word program while
listening to him,
" A cadaver is a corpse isn't it?"
She asked and reached over opening her art notebook.
Darien nodded then realized that Serena couldn't see
it, " Yes, the man died of a drug over dose."
Serena shuddered, " Darien can you hold on a minute?"
" Sure," He said
Serena laid the phone on it's side and plugged in her
headset phone into the jack on the side of the cradle.
Then slipped it on, " Back." She said while typing.
She had a paper on the history of Greek Art due in a
couple of days.
" So how was your day Serena?" Darien asked
Serena finished typing her paragraph and sat back.
" It was interesting, Porfessor Cortez gave a lecture
on meta-physics that you would of loved. Oh and a new
exchange student moved in today. His name is Yukio, he
says he's from Nerima."
Darien smiled, it was still weird to hear Serena talk
about things like Meta-Physics. After he father had
died in her junior year of high school, Serena had
suddenly buried herself in her books. And surprised
all of the scouts including the outters by competing
with Amy, for top of the class.
" Darien?" Serena said
Darien blinked realizing that he had zoned out on
Serena, " I'm here," He said and mentaly went through
what Serena had told him. He blinked, " there's a guy
from Nerima living with you?"
" yes, I think he's also in my Physics class."
Darien smiled, he'd been worried about Serena going
all the way to California for two years. Suddenly his
roommate Mikhail walked in, " Serena I have to go.
Mikhail needs the phone." He said
Serena sighed sadly, " Okay, give my love to Luna."
Darien smiled one eyes drifting toward the sleeping
cat on his windowsill.
" I will, I love you Serena."
" I love you too, Darien. I'll see you in a week, my
flight lands at the airport at noon eastern time."
Darien had written down the landing time and flight
number so he wouldn't forget. " Bye Serena," He said
then remembered something, " Oh! Amy called and said
that you were supposed to call the girls."
By now Mikhail was practicaly jumping up and down.
Darien held up a hand.
" Yea, I'm going to call them as soon as I get off the
phone with you. Last time I talked with Amy she said
that we were lucky a new enemy hadn't attacked while
you and I were in the states."
" She's right," Darien sighed, " Serena I really have
to go. Mikhail is about to jump me if I let him use
the phone."
" It's okay Darien," Serena said glancing at her
clock. It was almost five p.m.
" Bye Serena,"
" Bye, Darien," Serena said then hung up the phone.
She took it off its cradle again and dialed Amys'
number in Japan. She listened to it ring while typing
up some of her paper.
" Moshi, moshi?" Amy's voice came through the line.
Serena grinned, Amy sounded wide awake which ment that
the blue haired girl had been up studying.
" Hey, Amy." Serena said in English
Amy blinked at her clock and sighed, " Serena?" She
asked
" Hai," Serena said switching to Japanese. " I'm sorry
to call so late but, Darien said that I was supposed
to call you."
Amy yawned she'd been ready to go to bed, when the
phone had wrung.
" Hai, Raye, Mina, Lita and I wanted to know when
Darien and you would be landing at the airportnext
week."
Serena, glanced at her calander, " around six p.m."
she said suddenly Serena didn't want to hang up with
Amy. She had a bad feeling that if she did something
bad would happen.
" Amy please talk to me, for a while!"panic edging her
voice. But, Amy was too tired to hear the panic in her
friends voice, " Serena, I have classes early in the
morning."
Serena shook off the strange feeling and said, " Of
course Ames, I'm sorry I'll let you get some sleep,
bye."
Amy yawned again, " Bye Serena, I'll see you and
Darien in a week."
Serena hung up the phone and sat back in her desk
chair. She couldn't shake the feeling that something
was about to happen. She wished that Luna were with
her, the cat might of nagged sometimes but always had
good advice. Luna had wanted to come to California
with
Serena but Serena had left her in Tokyo and Luna had
ended up travel to Harvard with Darien when he went.
Serena stood and picked up her wallet and car keys and
left her room. Rachel and Yukio were sitting on the
couch playing Campcon vs Marvel.
" Hey Guys, I'm going to grab a bite eithe rof you
wanna go?"
Rachel groaned when Yukio effectively killed her
players, then looked at Serena.
" Naw, I have a Chem test tomarrow."
" Let's go, I think I'm going to go to Cams. You like
chinese food?"
She asked him grinning, Yukio nodded and slid a pair
of green sunglasses on. Serena lead the way out to her
car and they left heading for downtown and the
resturants. Serena and Yukio were just getting out of
the car when she saw a familaur head of metallic
yellow hair.
" Corta, wait up!" She called rushing to catch up with
her friend.
Corta paused smiling at Serena, then her smiled seemed
to freeze in place when she saw the strange man from
the physics glass.
" Hey Serena," She said still looking at the tall man.
" Who's your friend?"
Serena paused looking from Yukio to Corta and back, '
Man they could be related.' she thought to herself and
smiled, " Corta Gor'Dona this Yukio Tsuma, Yukio this
is Corta."
Corta smiled cooly, while Yukio bowed slight from his
waist, " Konban Wa." He said and winked.
Corta jumped at little at the wink, she knew Japanese
because it had been spoken on Alsiana. For some reason
it had been the native lanuage. Her mother had told
her that it was because, thousands of years ago all
the planets spoke the lanauge. During the silver
millenium.
Suddenly screams filled the air, Serena, Yukio and
Corta swung around to the direction the were coming
from. Downtown wasn't that far from the Campus.
" It's coming from the college," Serena said and
smiled.
" You guys go one ahead, Call the cops." She said and
she took off running in the direction of the screams.
As she pushed herway through the small mob of people
that were running from the campus Serena pulled her
brooch from her pocket and held it up.
" Eternal Moon POWER!" she yelled. There was a brief
period where she felt suspended in the air then she
was running again only as eternal salior moon. Serena,
knowing that she was the only one that wore their hair
in 'meat-balls' willed the magic around her to change
her hair. In a small flash of light her hair was short
and crimped looking almost curly. Serena had learned a
few years ago that while transformed one of her
abilites was to willfully change what she looked like.
She entered the quad to the campus and skidded to a
stop. A large monster stood tearing up the steps by
the library.
" Hold it right there!" She yelled " I am Sailor Moon,
in the name of the Moon i will stop you!" she had also
learned to cut down her speeches and posing because it
tended to get her hurt.
The monster was over eight feet tall and had firey red
eyes. Instead of hands it had two sword like blades.
'Yipes...' she thought and pulled out her rod. "
Eternal spiral meditation!" She called out and
flinched when the monster dodged the attack and sent
her crashing into a tree. She looked up to see a woman
with long black hair floating about her laughing
softly. " Stupid moon twirp. You have no idea what I
am looking for and yet you seek to stop me." The woman
said
Serena struggled to her feet and started fight off the
monster while the woman above watched in amusement.
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Corta frowned and looked at Yukio before running into
the resturant to use their phone. When she came back
out the man Yukio was gone. Corta slowly reached up
touching the Pheonix pendant under her shirt. She
turned and ran behind the building and pulled it out.
" Pheonix Star POWER!" She called and resisted the
urge to cover her ears at the loud roaring that was
part of the transformation. Suddenly fire engulfed her
and she felt her clothes ripped away. Only to be
replaced by new ones. To people watching it would look
as if she were standing in the middle of a firey bird.
The flames flared and melted back into a pair of
folded firey wings. The looked like the wings of a
large bird.
Corta looked down at her fuku and blinked, it was
different than her mothers had been. She was wearing
black boots that came almost to her thighs and stopped
at a point which had little orange pheonix's on them.
Her skirt was layer after layer of gauzy Red, yellow,
orange and silver matrial. She was wearing a skin
tight body suit of white and had a bow on the front
that was flaming literaly. She had a long black and
silver bow in the back the ends of it reached past her
knees. She also had the firey wings in the back. Her
yellow hair was a flaming tail of color and was
literaly one fire. her orange eyes were glowing pits
with no pupils. She consitrated and realized that the
wings could unfold and be used for flying. Corta
lifted into the air and flew off toward the campus.
Her wings span she guessed had to be close to 13 feet.
Her eyes narrowed when she saw the other person
hovering above the quad. Corta stopped mid flight and
mimicked the the other girls stnace. Then her wings
came forward.
" Pheonix STORM!" She said and the flames that were
her wings shot out and toward the other woman. She
then noticed another sailor scout on the ground
fighting a monster. Corta blinked watching the short
haired scout. Then she looked back at the woman who
dodged the attack laughing.
" It's good to see that you survived the explosion
Mariana...or are her daughter? I wonder." She said
before dissapearing.
Corta hovered there for a minute before landing a few
paces off from the other scout. But before she could
help she heard the words,
" Solar Flare."
Out of nowhere a huge wall of fire erupted from some
bushes and disetigrated the monster. Sailor Moon and
Sailor Pheonix stared at eachother before Sailor Moon
turned and ran off. She knew that she had to tell the
others about this new Sailor.
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