The Lone Sailor T H E L O N E S A I L O R prologue: Let me introduce myself, my name is... Wait, I can´t tell you that yet. Let me tell you about my personality. Mainly I´m an outgoing person who always appears to be really happy. The thing is that looks can be deceiving, I´ve seen a lot in my 14 years on this planet, experienced a lot of pain, fear.... And I tend to keep all of these negative feelings inside of myself and hide them with jokes and other things. Sometimes all of the bottling up of my emotions catches up on me and I just have a kind of mental break down, let me tell you, it´s not a pretty site. These are the times that I usually end up seeing and remembering things about my past. When I crash, I tend to be kind of a drag for sometimes even months at a time, but hey all people have to deal with problems in their lives, this one´s mine. Onto other topics, I am well organized and do well in school. I´m ranked second in my class, the only person who has a higher grade point average than me is Ami Anderson (and it´s only a hundredth of a point!) Well, since I can´t tell you about my normal identity, I´ll tell you about my senshi identity. Let me tell you about my uniform, it´s not exactly like the traditional senshi uniform, the style is the same but when it comes to colors it´s in a totally different category. The main body suit along with my gloves are a pale turquoise color. My gloves come up the usual distance, approximately just a little higher than my elbow. My shirt and rings at the top of my gloves and my collar are a midnight black color. I have boots similar to Sailor Mercury´s, except for the fact that mine are the same color as my body suit and have a miniature version of... well, let´s just say my planet, at the top. I have a tiara just the same as everyone else, except for the fact that it is silver, not gold and has a black stone in the center of it. (I think that the color of the stone along with my unusual colors of my uniform greatly contributed to why the scouts believe that I´m from the Negaverse) Just like the other senshi, I have a transformation pen but it can be used not only for me to transform but also it can be used with the result of the luna pen. When I transform, I just hold my pen above my head and beams of turquoise light form around me and disappear into the ground, a second later, a flash of aqua light encompasses me and when it disappears, I am in my senshi outfit. My hair well I guess that it can closely be compared to a tie-died tee-shirt. It has many different shades of blue in it along with some turquoise and comes down to about my knees. Most consider me the most powerful senshi (besides Saturn that is) because I can defeat anything that is sent my way. I am very powerful because I can gather energy from anything and anyone from the planet that I am on at the time. I try to use only my own power as often as possible, but when it is necessary I try to take energy only from the planet that I am and not it´s inhabitants. I have a aqua colored crystal similar to Sailor Moon´s crystal which contains almost an unlimited amount of power if a person can harness it. As a senshi, I am suppose to not be afraid of anything but I must say that there is one thing at the moment that really frightens me. I am afraid that either the inner or outer senshi will recognize me, therefor I speak as little as possible when I am transformed. I cannot let them find out who I am just yet, Pluto said that the future of the universe as we know it depends on it. I must keep my identity a secret as long as possible and may only let the senshi know who I am when the time comes (whenever that may be). I am there only to aid the senshi in their fights and can only assist them when they are in dyer need of assistance. Most of the time I just sit in a nearby tree and watch them battle against evil. In some ways I am a guardian of both the senshi and their guardian, Tuxedo Mask. I must protect them for the present and for the future. I am able to keep track of them when they are transformed because I have a one-way communicator. In other words, I can see and hear them but they cannot see or hear me. I never told you about my attacks did I. Well I can´t really tell you much about them because none of them have names and I can´t describe them all that well, I just know what to do and do it. But, you´ll see some of them as I go on, until then you´ll just have to take my word that they can really do a lot of damage. Just like Sailor Moon has Tuxedo Mask, I also have my own person who I am destined to be with. He is from the moon like Princess Serena and I have a feeling that he is the Moon Princess´s brother, but he has never really told me that it was so. He also is a protector of the senshi, but he mainly protects me. His name is Mi... Wait! I can´t tell you his human form name, he is known as Tuxedo Aqua. He uniform is like Tuxedo Mask´s but it is a turquoise color and matches my outfit perfectly in color. He throws roses, which are also turquoise in color. You could say that he is the Tuxedo Mask of the moon I guess. We are destined to be together forever but I have not seen him for over a year and the last words that he ever said to me were “I don´t love you anymore and I never want to see you again, ever!” It seems that nothing can last forever, not even love. There is so much to tell, I am far more advanced than any of the other senshi. I have only told you one of my four forms that I can take on as a sailor senshi. Maybe there will be enough time later to go into detail on them all but there is not enough time at the moment. Besides just being a regular senshi, I can be a super senshi, an eternal senshi, and a super eternal senshi. The last one is my most powerful transformation when I transform into my princess form. This is the only time that I have to speak for a transformation to happen. I must say “Super Eternal Princess” when I am in my Eternal form to change into Princess ..... There I go again almost destroying the world by saying information that should be left unknown, forget about the last thing that I was talking about. You know, just forget that I told you about my other transformations even. What I really should be doing now is thinking of a way out of the mess that I seem to have gotten myself into at the moment, a way to save my.... I can´t say who, can I? I´ve really got to go and fix my mistakes before the world as we know it exists no more. I´d better start at the beginning of this whole ordeal so you at least have some idea as to what I am talking about. Now wait a second, I never did tell you my senshi name, how rude of me. I am Sailor Aquablade, the sailor senshi from the planet earth. Chapter One: The Birth of Sailor Aquablade Hi my name is Michelle Jones and I´m on my way to Japan all the way from North America. Let me tell you a little about myself, well you already know my name, so what else is there? Oh yeah, I´m fifteen years old and my birthday is October 30. (I´m a Scorpio) I´m an orphan and have been practically one my own for the past five years. I stay with friends the majority of the time, for a week or two at each house. I grew up in New York and have lived there practically all my life. What am I doing going to Japan you may ask, well I´ll tell you. I was lucky enough to be involved in an exchange program and get to go live in Tokyo Japan for a whole year! I get to do a study on Japanese schools and report my findings when I return home. I´m boarding with this guy, I believe his name is Darien, .....Darien what?, oh yeah, Shields, Darien Shields. He has a two bedroom apartment and since he wasn´t using one of them, yours truly gets to stay absolutely free of charge, cool huh? If you couldn´t already tell, I´m a very outgoing person and make friends very easily. If I had to tell you one thing about myself that I think is pretty cool, I´d have to say that it´s my eyes. I personally think they´re really pretty, but they tend to creep some people out. The color of them ranges from a dark blue when I´m mad, an aquamarine color (which is the color they generally are, to an almost translucent blue when I´m trying me best to focus (or when I´m really ticked off at a person/thing). Since they tend to scare some people, I solve my problem by wearing colored contacts so my eyes are always an emerald green color. The rest of me is pretty boring. I have long black hair and an approximately 5”5´ tall. My favorite colors are turquoise and black, my favorite food is pasta, and a hobby of mine is swimming. I have a little musical talent and enjoy playing the piano, flute, and the oboe. It´s been really nice talking to you, but I´ve got to book-it and locate Darien´s apartment. C-ya. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let´s see, the apartment is right and this is the room, so here goes nothing. Darien: “Hello, may I help you?” “Hi my name is Mich...........” Hey, this guy seems really familiar, have I met him before? Those eyes, they´re so blue, it seems that you could almost get lost in their depth.... -FLASH- Woah, what happened? If fell like I´ve been here sometime before, but I can´t remember when. Hey look, there´s a figure in the distance. Strangely, she also seems really familiar but I can´t place exactly why. Wait, she´s walking this way! It looks like she has long, dark green hair, and is carrying a.....staff? It also seems that she is wearing some sort of strange uniform and has something gold colored on her forehead. “Who are you?” “I am Sailor Pluto, the guardian of time and space.” “What do you want with me?” I still can´t shake the feeling that I know her. “Your power is needed once again.” “What do you mean by ‘power´? I have no power. I´m just an ordinary high school teenager.” The woman who is know as ‘Sailor Pluto´ slowly begins to advance towards me, until she is only a few feet away. She extends her hand which is not holding her staff towards me, and a silver pen- like object with a globe on top of it appears as if out of nowhere. She motions for me to take it, which I do. After it is in my hand, I raise it above my head almost automatically as if it was meant to be a part of me. Turquoise beams of light explode from the top of the pen then arch down and disappear into the ground. I wait, and a second later, a brilliant flash of now aqua light engulfs me. What power I feel flowing through me, coursing through my veins. But, along with the power comes the memories. The memories of joy and peace, love and despair, doom and destruction. Memories from a century ago, from the Silver Millennium, all of these memories that were not suppose to be remembered. The memories that I had been determined never to want ever again. The memories of the Sailor Scouts, watching and waiting to be of assistance to them from the shadows, never seen, never appreciated. The memories of loneliness and emptiness, for alas, my true love had become true no more and had left me for another only this past year. It´s hard to believe that it has only been that long since he left me for it feels like centuries. There are memories of the last great battle, against Queen Beryl and the Negaverse. The memories of dying because of it. No no! I don´t want to remember, take it back, I just want a normal life! All of these memories rushing back, I know not whether it took hours, minutes, or ever seconds. The only thing that I know was that after the energy subsided, the poor innocent, weak, and frail human that I had once been, was no more. Once again, only Sailor Aquablade in all her glory remained. Chapter Two: The Mission Aquablade: “Hello Sailor Pluto. It´s been a long time. What may I ask is the purpose of this visit?” Pluto: “You are needed to protect the future of your world. If you fail, not only will the history of this planet be changed, but that of the whole universe. You must protect the future rulers of this world along with their companions.” Aquablade: “Who are those who I must protect?” Pluto: “You must protect the Sailor Senshi and their guardian, Tuxedo Mask. You must at all cost keep them from knowing your true identity until the time is right.” Aquablade: “How will I know when the time has come for them to know my true identity?” Pluto: “You will know, that is all I can say. Do your best to remain unnoticed by the scouts for they will not accept you until you have proven that you are needed on the side of good and justice. Do not interfere with their battles unless harm is to happen to one of them.” Aquablade: “Will I know when they are in danger?” Pluto: “Yes, you will know deep inside when one of the scouts is in danger, but if one of the future rulers is in danger, you will automatically transport to their location prepared for battle.” Aquablade: “What should I do if I become wounded in battle and are unable to fight?” Pluto: “If you become so injured that you are unable to fight, you will be transported here.” Aquablade: “What will become of the Senshi if they do not have my aid when it is needed in battle?” Pluto: “If you are injured and unable to fight, your soul in senshi form will take your place until you are capable of fighting once more. You must be prepared for the scouts to think of you as an enemy, if you do not accept that then you will be unable to fulfill your destiny. Their attacks can not harm you. Remember your power, do not fight it, just let it come to you. Throughout this long battle between good and evil you will remember more than what was revealed today. Do not despair at the hardships that you face for in the end ‘time solves all problems´. Do not, I repeat, do not let the scouts know who you really are. No matter what, you shall not reveal yourself until the time is right. Promise me this Sailor Aquablade for it is the basis of the whole mission.” Aquablade: “I promise Sailor Pluto that I will not reveal who I am to the senshi no matter what until it is extremely necessary and there is no other option.” Pluto: “Even after you remember who they really are and all the times good and bad that you spent with each of them?” Aquablade: “Even then, I will not break my vow to you and to the people of this universe.” Pluto: “Do you remember about the crystal?” Aquablade: “The Silver Crystal?” Pluto: “No, never mind, you will remember about it when the time comes for its need. Good luck and remember, you must protect them at all costs, even having to give up your own life so they may survive and carry out their destinies. In the end, everything will work out.” Aquablade: “Thank you Pluto.” Pluto: “For what?” Aquablade: “For giving back to me my real life instead of the phony life of an ordinary human, which I may say, is not the destiny I was meant to fulfill with this life. Maybe someday the universe will be at peace once again but until then, I, Sailor Aquablade will destroy all evil that threatens my planet, the planet Earth.” Pluto: “I will help you all that I can, but for the moment, you´re on your own. Good-bye Sailor Aquablade, you´re my only hope.” Aquablade: “I will not let you down. Good-bye Pluto.” By putting one arm above her head, in a flash of aqua light, Sailor Aquablade transports back to the present. Chapter Three: The Beginning of It All Darien: “Are you all right?” Who is this girl? One moment she´s about to introduce herself and then next she´s sprawled out on the floor. Weird. Michelle: “I think so.” Oh boy, there goes my dull boring, normal, I might say, everyday life, once again. Those are the breaks. Darien: “You never did fully introduce yourself, so I once again ask my original question, ‘How may I help you?´” Michelle: “Well, my name is Michelle Jones and I´m the exchange student from the United States. I was told that you had a room which I could use while I stay in Japan for the next year. That is correct information, is it not?” Uh oh, maybe he doesn´t have an extra room, this could be a problem. Darien: “Oh yeah, I forgot that you were coming today.” Smooth move Darien, she must think that you are so stupid. Wait, why should I care what she think of me? Well, let´s see, she´s only the person who is going to be boarding with you for the next year. Stupid, stupid, stupid. “If you´ll come this way, I´ll show you to your room.” Michelle: “Thank you. I´m sorry if I´ve inconvenienced you in any way.” Darien: “Oh, no, not at all.” I feel as if I´ve met her before, but where........ Maybe I´ll think of it later. “Are you sure that you´re fine?” Michelle: “Thank you for asking, but I will tell you again that I´m fine. It´s probably just jet-lag. I´m sure I´ll be fine by tomorrow.” No, I don´t think that I will ever me the same again. But Darien, that is not something that you can change, or anyone else for that matter, no matter how hard they tried. Still looking at all of the possibilities, I don´t think that I would want it any other way. “I´ll see you in the morning Darien, and thanks for everything.” exits into her bedroom ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michelle: Wow, what a day. Not only am I now in Japan instead of the United States, but also I remember a whole part of my life that had been totally forgotten. If I am going to succeed at my mission, I´m going to have to try and remember everything that I can about life on the moon kingdom and about the other sailor scouts. But, at the moment, I need some sleep, maybe tomorrow......................... Aquablade: “Just your normal everyday life. Nothing ever happens around here.” Mercury: “We should be grateful for that. Trust me, you would not want to have to fight.” Aquablade: “Oh come on Mercury, it would be fun. Wanna go duke it out on that nearby asteroid?” Mercury: “No thanks ‘blade I particularly would like to keep my body in one piece. We all know that you could beat anyone of us scouts with your hands tied behind you back. We´ve all seen you take out those dummies at training practice. You know, they are intended to withstand significant amounts of power, not get blow into oblivion by one small blast.” Aquablade: “I´m not that good.” Mars: “Wanna bet, I agree with Mercury and, I´m glad that you´re on our side instead of the enemies.” Aquablade: “Enemy, what enemy? I didn´t know there was an enemy. Why didn´t anyone tell me!” Mars: “Calm down, we just we notified of its existence. A message from one of their warriors said that they would attack tomorrow, we m u s t be prepared.” Mercury: “Did they give a name?” Mars: “Yes, our enemy goes by the name..... Beryl. She is said to be the Queen of the Negaverse and wants to destroy the moon so she can control the universe with her evil power. It´s time for a scout meeting. Call Jupiter and Venus, this cannot wait long.” At the meeting------- Venus: “So, what´s this meeting all about?” Jupiter: “Yeah, I was in the middle of a date and the guy looked kind of like my old boyfriend.” Mars: “I have called this meeting because we have a new dangerous enemy on our hands and........” Venus: “What, an enemy!” Jupiter: “No way!” Mars: “If you´ll let me finish, we have an enemy who goes by the name of Queen Beryl of the Negaverse. From the information I have gathered, I have learned that she is very powerful. Her goal is to take over the moon so she can conquer the whole galaxy and fill it with evil power from this place from the Negaverse. I have heard that she will attack tomorrow, but we must be on our guards until this crisis has passed.” Mercury: “Yes, we must be as attentive as possible. It is our duty to protect the princess, the heir to the throne.” Aquablade: “Speaking of the princess, where is she?” Mercury: “She´s.........” Luna: “Under attack, we´re under attack!” Aquablade: “Come on scouts, that´s our cue to kick some Negabutt.” Mars: “Let´s go.” The battle------- Mercury: “Aquablade, guard our backs, you must be prepared to run and guard the princess if we fail.” Mercury: “Mercury Bubbles Blast!” Venus: “Venus Crescent Beam Smash!” Jupiter: “Jupiter Thunder Crash!” Mars: “Mars Fire Ignite!” Mars: “Hey, why didn´t anything happen? My power didn´t even put a dent in that shadow creature.” Mercury: “It appears that Beryl´s monster is immune to our powers.” Venus: “What should we do then? How can we...... Watch out it´s attacking!” a combination of all the senshi attacks is fired right back at them! Jupiter: “That was close, we were almost blown to bits.” Mercury: “It seems that it is able to harness all the energy that is aimed towards it and redirect it.” Mars: “Well if we can´t attack it, then how are we suppose to protect the kingdom?” Mercury: “I´m thinking, just give me a minute. Wait, I have it.” Venus: “What?” A huge wave of turquoise energy flies past the scouts and hits the enemy without any effect. Mars: “Aquablade you moron.” Aquablade: “What, what´d I do?” Mercury: “You just gave the shadow enough energy that it could easily destroy this whole kingdom.” Aquablade: “Woops.” Mars: “That´s all you can say, ‘woops´? You just set the fate for us all, we´re all going to die. Watch out, it´s attacking again!” Aquablade: I need a force field like I´ve never had to produce before. I need to protect the princess, where is she, oh no, she´s dead! Along with the prince of earth. NO! I´ve failed! I must save the queen and the rest of the kingdom. (Blast) There goes the blast from that evil beast. The dust is clearing, now, let´s see just how much damage that blast did. No, my force-field wasn´t big enough! The scouts, all dead, no, it can´t be, it´s all my fault. The princess is dead, the scouts are dead, and the prince of earth is dead too. There is no hope for this galaxy anymore, Beryl will take over without any resistance. And, it´s all my fault, all my fault........ Michelle: But, she didn´t take over because Queen Serenity gave her life by using the silver crystal so we could all live our lives. I failed my Queen once by not protecting the princess, but, I WILL NOT, I repeat, will not fail again. Chapter Four: First Encounter with The Meat-Ball Head The following morning (Saturday) Michelle: All right, let´s see. I have the pancakes all made and the fresh orange juice is on the table. Oh, I need butter and maple syrup. There. Is that all I need, I hope so. I´d better start cleaning up, there, all done. Now all I need to do is pour the coffee and I should be all set. There perfecto. Here comes Darien now, I finished just in time. Darien: “Wow, did you make all this yourself?” Michelle: “Yeah, since your not charging me for staying with you, it´s the least that I could do. I hope you like it. At the moment, I´ve got to go finish unpacking my stuff. I´ll see you later.” Darien: “Hey Michelle, do you want me to show you around Tokyo this afternoon? I have a few hours free.” Michelle: “Sure. Thanks. I´ll see you then. Bye.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michelle´s room: Michelle: I think I´ll have my work cut out for me until this mission is complete. Let´s see, I have the future king and queen of crystal Tokyo to protect, four sailor scouts, and tuxedo mask. That´s a pretty decent number of people. I´d better practice my powers so I will be ready when they are needed. I failed the sailor scouts once while on the moon because I acted without thought or reasoning, I will have to work on preparing my actions before doing them as often as possible. But, I´ll have to work on that later. At the moment I must work on obtaining my memories of my past so that they can help me now in the present. Now let me see, how to I create that orb of power again, oh yeah. I have to hold my hands in a cup like fashion and think about what I want to know. nothing, no wait, I see a picture of a guy with aquamarine hair wearing a, a tuxedo? Yeah, he´s wearing a tuxedo which is also turquoise and is holding, I think it´s a rose but I´m not sure. Shoot, the picture disappeared. Well it´s a start maybe I´ll learn more later. Time to unpack. What fun........ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darien is showing Serena around but at the moment they are in a cafe. Darien: “So Michelle, what do you think of Tokyo so far?” Michelle: “It´s so big, I don´t know how I´m ever going to remember where everything is.” Darien: “Don´t worry, after a few weeks I´m sure you´ll know this place like the back of your hands. I´ll have to introduce you to my friends. There´s about your age. Speaking of them, here comes one now. Hey Serena, how´s it going?” Serena: Not again, he´s found someone else. Why does this always happen to me? It´s not fair. I think I´m going to cry. “I see you´ve found someone else Darien.” Michelle: “Take a chill pill Serena, Darien´s just showing me around Tokyo.” Geez, what a flake. I wonder what Darien sees in her. Serena: “Oh, wait a second! Who are you, and how did you know my name?” Michelle: “My name is Michelle Jones and I knew your name because Darien said hello to you when you first came up. I highly doubt that he would call you something other than your real name.” Now I´m certain that she´s a flake and a ditz. What a meat-ball head, look at that hairstyle. Man, someone should tell her about something called ‘fashion sense´ which she is severely lacking. dang, there goes that communicator that Pluto gave me. Serena: “What was that?” Michelle: “Uh...... nothing, just my alarm reminding me that I, I have to be somewhere, bye Darien I´ll see you later. Bye Meat-ball head.” Woops I just called Serena meat-ball head, that was really mean of me. I´ll worry about that later at the moment I have a mission to fulfill. Serena: “DON´T CALL ME MEAT-BALL HEAD!!!!!!!!!” Michelle: “Sorry, it´s just your hairstyle. C-ya. I´ve really got to go.” Whew that was close. Now let´s see no one´s around so now it´s time to figure out where I have to go. Let´s see here I open the face like this and.....there. ‘Mercury: “Mars, Moon, Jupiter, Venus to the park fast there´s a monster there and it´s attacking everyone and draining their energy. Hurry.” Mars: “I´m on my way.” Jupiter: “Ditto.” Venus: “Two shakes, Artemis let´s book-it.” Moon: “Do we have to I´m having so much fun at the moment.” Everyone: “Sailor Moon!” Moon: “All right, I´m coming, I´m coming.”´ Michelle: That´s my cue, the wonders of being a scout. Now onto my first battle, a battle for the future. Chapter Five: The Battle Begins At the Park---------- Mercury: “Shine Aqua Illusion!” Mars: “Mars Celestial Fire Surround!” Jupiter: “Jupiter Thunder Cloud Zap!” Mars: “Your turn Sailor Moon. SAILOR MOON!” Moon: “What, oh yeah. Moon Scepter Activation! Totally Moon Dusted! Way cool.” Aquablade: (from the trees) That was way to easy, no enemy would send an enemy that easy to defeat unless it was just a diversion. Or, no that couldn´t be it, they couldn´t be smart enough for that. That´s just an insane idea. What if they´re trying to get a lock on the scouts so their energy will be useless against their minions. That would just be inhumane, but it´s exactly what anyone intelligent would do. Oh I really hope that´s not what´s going to happen because then all of the scouts would be in grave danger and I would be left alone to defeat the enemy myself. Wait, what am I saying? It´s always been that way I´ve always defeated any enemy alone. I´m the Lone Sailor fighting evil in the name of goodness and justice. Why do I have a feeling that it really wasn´t always this way? No time to think about that now, I´d better keep an eye on the scouts until this whole event is over. Mercury: “Do any of you think that was just a little too easy?” Mars: “Yeah, the whole battle only lasted a few minutes.” Venus: “Do you think we´re being tested?” Jupiter: “No way, but I do think we have a new enemy that we need to defeat.” Moon: “I´m with you on that though Jupiter. Geez it´s almost midnight I´ve really got to get home before my mom totally freaks.” Mercury: “I have to go study for that history test we´re having next week. Good-bye Guys.” Mars: “Yeah, let´s get home. Remember meeting at my house at three o´clock sharp. Be there on time all of you.” (Serena and Ami head home) Venus: (looks up in the trees) Aquablade: No way, your not going to see me today or any other day Venus, I´m out of here. (teleports back to Darien´s apartment) Venus: “Did you guys just see a flash of light up in that tree?” Mars: “No Mina, I think you´re imagining things.” Venus: “No really, I saw something.” Jupiter: “Sure Mina. I´m sure you did. I´ve got to go, bye.” (Rest of the scouts exit) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michelle´s room: Michelle: Who could this new enemy be? Was I always a lone fighter? So many questions and no answers at the moment. Why does life have to always be so harsh? It´s just not fair. I wish I knew who that guy in the Tuxedo was. I think I know him but I don´t know where from. It´s after midnight I guess I´ll just have to wait until tomorrow to figure out my problems......... Aquablade: “My dear Aqua Tux what will I do without you?” Tux: “What do you mean my love?” Aquablade: “Our two planets are on the verge of war. I must stay away from you until the crisis has passed. If I am caught even talking to you like I am now, my father has threatened to kill me for disobeying his orders. I´m going to miss you so much.” Tux: “We can run away to the distant planet Pluto and get married.” Aquablade: “You know I can´t do that, I wish I could but know I cannot. I love you with all of my heart, you must remember that. I will never stop loving you no matter what happens. I will always be true to you. Please take this necklace, it has my planet on it, I had it made especially for you. The back has our two names engraved into it.” Tux: “Thank you, it´s lovely. I have a necklace with my planet on it for you. What a coincidence.” Aquablade: “It´s so beautiful, I will never forget you. Now I must be getting back to my planet. I will miss you so much. Good bye my sweet.” (Vanishes in blast of aqua light) Tux: “If the time comes, I will fight with you until the bitter end.” The following morning: Michelle: Maybe he fought with me. That would make sense because he said he would fight with me until the bitter end. Hey wait, what´s this, a necklace with a crescent moon on it. It must be the necklace that Tuxedo Aqua gave me. I wonder why I just now have it again Dang there goes that communicator again. Oh well, no time to think of why now I´ll just wear it for the time being. ‘Mars: “Hurry guys there´s an attack at the Temple. Sailor Mars out.”´ Michelle: Oh what fun, the second attack in the past twelve hours, Aquablade: off to the temple I go. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mars: “I´m glad you guys could all make it, this fight is going to be tough. So far my power has been useless against it.” Mercury: “Where is it?” Mars: “I don´t know, it disappeared a few seconds ago. Where´s Sailor Moon?” Jupiter: “Her family left for their vacation today, remember?” Mars: “Oh yeah. Where´s Venus?” Venus: “Right here. Where´s our opponent, I´ll slaughter it, I´ll really slaughter it good.” Mercury: “At the moment it´s location is unknown. Mars can you describe it?” Mars: “You won´t believe me but it looked similar to one of Beryl´s shadow demons.” Jupiter: “No way, we defeated them years ago when we retrieved the seven rainbow crystals. Come on you monster, show yourself.” monster: “As you wish. I am a warrior one of the many of my kind. Be prepared for defeat for you cannot possibly defeat me.” Venus: “I beg to differ with that statement.” monster: “Silly girl, I´d like to see you try.” Venus: “Venus Love Chain Encircle!” monster: (jumps out of the way) “Woops it looks like your puny attack missed. Whatcha gonna do now Venus. Prepare to face the wrath of evil. EVIL VENUS POWER TRANSFORM!!! Aquablade: (once again in a tree) No way! That monster can´t change into Sailor Venus. That´s not fair. There are a few differences though. The parts of the uniform that should be white are black, the stone in the tiara is also black, and the eyes are glowing red. Well at least they aren´t identical that would be really bad. I will most likely have to intervene but I think I´d better judge the opponent before attacking. All right how do I get that computer visor of mine again? Oh yeah, just touch my earring. There now I can judge that monsters power. Venus: “Hey you can´t be me that´s not fair! It can´t do that, can it?” Jupiter: “Looks like it can to me. Let me help. Jupiter Thunder Crash!” Evil Venus: “Silly scouts, no one can defeat me, I´m immune to your power only Venus could defeat me but she´s way to wimpy to do that.” Venus: “Who you calling wimpy? I´ll show you. VENUS LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE!!!” Evil Venus: “Nice try, care to try again? No? My turn then. Venus Evil Chain Destroy!” Aquablade: please block the blast, I can´t afford to have anyone injured. A second before the blast was going to hit Venus an aqua colored almost transparent dome surrounds her and then disappears almost as quickly as it had appeared once the blast hit it. Thank god it worked. Evil Venus: “Hey, that wasn´t suppose to happen. You´re suppose to be dead.” Venus: “It takes more than one blast to defeat a Sailor Scout. Now I´m going to make you pay in the name of Venus, I will punish you.” Aquablade: “Now´s the time to attempt to have my power combine with Venus´s. I´ll have to plan this just right.” Venus: “V E N U S...................... L O V E C H A I N.............................” Aquablade: “If I´m going to get it right, I´ll have to combine my power with hers......... Venus: “E N C I R C L E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Aquablade: NOW! Venus´s love chain encircle instead of being the normal gold color is an aqua color and upon impact it completely destroys the Evil Venus. Mars: “Good job Venus, I didn´t know you had it in you.” Venus: “That wasn´t right.” Jupiter: “What do you mean it wasn´t right? You turned that impostor into dust.” Venus: “The attack wasn´t right. First off, I´m not capable of that much energy only Sailor Moon is able to with the aid of the silver crystal. Second, my attack is yellow not aqua.” Mercury: “She´s right, it seems that another force logged into your energy and supplied you with enough to defeat the enemy.” Mars: “Do you have any idea as to where it came from?” Aquablade: That´s my clue to high jack it out of here. (disappears in a flash of aqua light) Venus: “Hey, there´s that light again, I swear I saw it.” Jupiter: “Where? I didn´t see anything.” Venus: “Up there in that tree. Wait, it´s gone now.” Mars: “You must be imagining things Venus there´s nothing there.” Mercury: “Quite the contrary I think that Venus did see something because that´s the exact place that my computer said the extra energy came from.” Venus: “Could it be another scout?” Mercury: “I don´t think so. All of the planets have their scouts. Mars has Rei, Mercury has myself, Earth has Darien, the moon has Serena, Jupiter has Lita, Venus has Mina, and Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto all have their Sailors as well. Whoever it is, I hope they´re on our side.” Chapter Six: Memories Aquablade: I was really lucky, another second or two and they would have seen me for sure. I totally forgot that if I combined my power with someone else´s then the attack would change to an aqua color. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Now they know there´s someone there helping them. They WERN´T suppose to know that yet. Dang I haven´t detransformed yet. There. “Who´s there?” Darien: “It´s me Darien. Can I come in?” Michelle: “Sure. What´s up?” Darien: “Well since tomorrow´s your first day of school I was wondering if you want to meet some of my friends. You´ve already met Serena and she along with a bunch of her friends are attending the same school that you´re going to.” Michelle: “You mean Serena as in Meat-Ball Head? I personally think she´s kind of a ditz.” Darien: “Well she can be a flake at times but once you really get to know her, she kind of grows on you. She´s at the Temple on Cherry Hill at the moment. I was heading over there now, do you want to come along?” Michelle: “Sure.” This is going to be interesting. What fun. At the temple---------- Mina: “I didn´t like what happened last night. A new enemy with minions who can morph into sailor scouts and copy the scouts power, only in an evil way.” Rei: “Yeah, that´s bad news. Also who was that figure up in the tree? We don´t even know what side they´re on, only that they are very powerful. I don´t like this one bit.” Lita: “Chill Rei, I think that whoever it is, is on our side. They did save us all from that Evil Sailor Venus.” Rei: “But, for all we know they could be the enemy.” Mina: “That´s not likely, why would the enemy save us? It´s just not logical.” Rei: “Maybe they just want to catch us off guard. You know, befriend us and then wipe us out when we least expect it.” Lita: “That´s just too complex of a plan for anyone to think of besides you Rei. No way would the enemy do it would take more thought than they have brain cells for. Hey Ami what do you think about this, you´ve been really quiet today?” Ami: “I really don´t know. I have no idea what-so-ever. Maybe.....” Darien: “Hey guys, how´s it going?” Serena: “Darien!” Darien: “Hey Serena I missed you so much yesterday while you were gone.” Serena: “I missed you so much too Darien.” Michelle: Ick! Mushy. I think I´m going to hurl if this continues. Darien: “Guys, I just wanted to introduce you to a friend of mine. She´s staying with me for the next year and is going to be attending the same school as most of you. This is my friend Michelle.” Michelle: “Hi.” Serena: “No way, it´s the jerk from the cafe.” All: “Serena!” Serena: “I meant, ‘Hey, it´s the girl from the cafe.´ he, he, he.” Michelle: “Nice to see you again too, Meat-Ball Head.” Serena: “DON´T CALL ME THAT!” Michelle: “All right Serena, calm down. So Darien are you going to introduce me to the rest of the gang?” Darien: “Sure. That´s Ami, that´s Mina, that´s Rei, that´s Lita, and you´ve already met Serena.” Mina: “Hi.” Lita: “‘Ello.” Ami: “Pleased to meet you.” Rei: “So, you think that Serena´s hair looks like meat-balls too? That´s exactly what I thought when I first saw them.” All: “Rei!” Rei: “Woops, sorry Serena didn´t mean to make fun of you.” Ami: “So Michelle, what do you think of Tokyo?” Michelle: “It´s a cool place. Really big, but cool. I´d really love to stay guys but I´ve got to get back to the apartment ‘cause I still have things to do. Bye.” (exits from the temple) Rei: “Strange girl.” Lita: “You can sure say that again.” Back at the apartment---------------- Michelle: Why do I feel like I know them? It just doesn´t make sense. I´ve never even met them before, unless you count that run in with Serena. I just wish I knew where I knew them from. I think I´ll take a nap, maybe it will help me sort things out.......... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ami: Come on you guys, we´re going to be late for practice. Mina: Oh come on Ami chill we have a whole ten minutes before we have to be there. Ami: I know but we do still have to transform. Lita: You know as well as I do that it only takes 30 seconds for us all to transform. Ami: Yes but it´s best to be prepared you never know when something could come up. Don´t you agree Michelle? Michelle: Nah, I prefer to wait until the last possible second. Rei: Yeah that´s why you ended up getting the ends of your hair fried at our last practice. Michelle: Ok I admit it, I have to work on my judgment for distance Rei but don´t forget when you scorched my hair you also managed to catch your uniform on fire as well. Rei: It wasn´t my fault. Mina: Sure it wasn´t Rei. Rei: It wasn´t, I just didn´t have my aim down perfectly. Lita: Oh come on you guys give it up. We all need to work on things. I almost managed to electrocute myself while trying to practice in the rain. Mina: Ha ha ha, I remember that. Ami: You guys we really have to go class starts in two minutes. We really have to transform, this can be discussed later. All: Fine Ami. Rei: Mars Power! Lita: Jupiter Power! Ami: Mercury Power! Mina: Venus Power! Michelle: Venus: I still don´t understand why you don´t have to say anything to transform ‘blade, it´s not fair. Aquablade: I´m just special I guess. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michelle: That was really weird. Could it be that the Ami, Lita, Mina, and Rei I met today are the scouts from the moon kingdom time? If so then who is Sailor Moon? If we were all going to practice then wouldn´t she have been there also? The more I find out the more questions there are to be answered. Not fair, NOT fair. I hate having to wait but that´s all I can do. Wait and see. All I really know is that I must protect the Scouts and their guardian. Who I haven´t even met yet! That is going to be just a little difficult. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Seven: Another Evil Scout? Ami: “Rei, Lita, Mina? Do you guys copy?” Lita: “Yeah Ami, what´s up?” Ami: “There´s another attack taking place.” Rei: “Where?” Ami: “The old factory on tenth street.” Mina: “We´re on our way. Wait a second, where´s Serena?” Ami: “She´s here with me we had a study session......” Serena: “Hey guys!” Ami: “Hurry everyone Serena and I will try to hold it off until you guys can get here.” Lita: “We´re coming Ami.” Michelle: Guess that´s my cue to go too. I guess my notion was right. They are really stupid to use their communicators when they aren´t transformed, anyone could just intercept the signal and find out who they really are. I´d better book it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mercury: “Are you ready Sailor Moon?” Moon: “Ready for what?” Mercury: “What do you mean “ready for what”? We have to keep that monster at bay.” Moon: “What monster? I don´t see any monster.” Mercury: “Up there. It just jumped up there a few seconds ago. We must be prepared.” Moon: “Ahhhhh!!!!!!! Here it comes!” Mercury: “Who are you?” Monster: “I´m your worst nightmare. I am just one of the many of my kind....” Moon: “Cut the whole speech just tell us who, or what you are.” Monster: “Fine, have it your way. I am a morpho. One of the many of my master´s creations.” Mercury: “Who´s your master.” Monster: “A brilliant person who out-talents all of you puny scouts combined. We will triumph, evil will prevail!!!! Ha, ha, ha, ha.” Jupiter: “Jupiter Thunder Crash!!!!” Monster: “Oh, I think you broke my fingernail. Who dares challenge me?” Jupiter: “I, Sailor Jupiter. On the behalf of my planet, the Planet Jupiter, I will turn you to dust.” Monster: “I´d like to see you try. Well since your so eager to fight, prepare to meet your match sailor wimp. EVIL JUPITER POWER TRANSFORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -the monster does Sailor Jupiter´s transformation sequence but the end result is different. The evil scout has a black uniform instead of white and her eyes glowed the same red color as evil Venus´s had.- Monster: “Are you ready to rumble Jupiter? I sure hope so. You´d better be prepared to get the beating of your life for no one can beat me, Evil Jupiter. Go ahead, give me your best shot. No? Well here´s my warm-up coming at ya. EVIL JUPITER THUNDER!!!!” -Jupiter jumps easily out of the way- Jupiter: “JUPITER THUNDER CLOUD ZAP!!!!!!!!!!! Come on guys, I need your help.” Mars: “MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!!!!!!!!” Mercury: “SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!!!!!!!!” Venus: “VENUS LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE!!!!!!!!” Moon: “Not even a scratch, what now Mercury!” Evil Jupiter: “Oooo, let´s see if you can protect yourself and your leader at the same time EVIL THUNDER ANNIL.........” -a single red rose makes the scene- Evil Jupiter: “Who threw that?!” Mask: “It was I, Tuxedo Mask. It is not right for evil to impersonate good and justice. The scouts are a symbol used to fight the evil not create it. Hey, it looks likes it´s going to rain to me, wouldn´t want to get caught out in a shower would you? I know I wouldn´t. Keep in mind that evil always gets doused by goodness. I´m outta here.” -exits- Moon: “Now what in the world was that suppose to mean? I think I´ll have to have a talk with him later about his mental health.” Mercury: “I think he was trying to say that since she attacks with lightening that maybe together Jupiter and I can defeat her by electrocuting her.” Jupiter: “Hey, that might actually work. Let´s give it a try Mercury. Ready?” Mercury: “Ready. Shine Aqua Illusion!!!!!!” Jupiter: “Jupiter Thunder Cloud Zap!!!!!” Evil Jupiter: “Ahhhh!!!!! That really smarts. I´ll get you little brats.” Aquablade: Wow, maybe they´ll be able to do this all on their own. But then wouldn´t they have been able to defeat her on the first try? I guess I´ll have to lend a little helping hand next time Jupiter does her attack again. Moon: “Wow you guys, you almost defeated it. Do it again, do it again!!!!!” Mercury: “Do you think we should try again?” Jupiter: “Why not, let´s do it.” Moon: “Come on Jupiter and Mercury I know you can do it.” Jupiter: “JUPITER THUNDER CLOUD ZAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Mercury: “SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Aquablade: There, that should just about do it. Evil Mercury: “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I´m dust!!!!!!!” Moon: “Totally dusted, that was so cool.” Aquablade: That´s all for now. At least I went unnoticed, this time. I´d better go before I end up jinxing myself. Well now I know what Tuxedo Mask looks like that´s one problem solved.” -exits- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Eight: Not Again! Ami: “Something about this whole ordeal just doesn´t seem right.” Lita: “Whadda you mean Ami?” Ami: “Well, someone´s helping us yet we don´t even know who they are. It just doesn´t seem right Something´s missing.” Rei: “I get what you mean Ami, it just doesn´t all fit together, like there´s a piece missing from the puzzle. If only we could figure out what it was.” Mina: “What´s it matter. I´m sure they´re on our side just like Tuxedo Mask was and still is. There´s nothing to worry about.” Rei: “Still..........” All: “What?” Rei: “I´ve been getting this vision about someone who looks like a scout but it´s too dark to see more than the outline of the suit. The odd thing was that I felt the presence of extreme evil AND extreme goodness at the same time.” Mina: “Are you sure there was only one person? Maybe there were two.” Rei: “No, I´m sure there was only one. It was all just really disturbing. The only thing that was really clear was a staff with some kind of crystal on top giving off an aqua glow.” Lita: “Wow, this sounds serious. Wonder who it is?” Serena: “Could it be Sailor Pluto?” Ami: “Highly unlikely. Why would Rei have a vision about Sailor Pluto when we already know about her? The most probable solution is that it´s that person we saw up in the tree last week.” -off in the distance numerous screams are heard- Lita: “WHAT was that?!” Luna: “Hurry girls transform, another one of those morphos is attacking!” Rei: “Mars Star Power!” Lita: “Jupiter Star Power!” Mina: “Venus Star Power!” Ami: “Mercury Star Power!” Serena: “Moon Crystal Power!” -The five scouts rush off to the battle that awaits them.- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michelle: “Ahhhhhhh!” What´s happening? What´s going on? Aquablade: Oh great, I guess that´s what Pluto meant by me changing when the scouts are in danger, when they don´t use their communicators. Guess it´s off to another battle, wonder who´s the lucky scout this time. -teleports- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morpho: “Ha, you think that you puny scouts will be able to defeat me? Ha, I laugh at you. Out of 1 million battles I have never ever lost. And, this battle will be of no exception.” Mars: “Don´t count on it. We, the sailor scouts of justice will destroy you and all other evil on this planet.” Morpho: “You? Little Princess Mars challenges me? My master has told me all about you. You couldn´t fry me with your little fire no matter how hard you try. Give it a try, I dare you.” Mars: “WHAT!!!! Just watch what my puny fire can do to you, I´ll show you puny.” Moon: “Ooo, now you did it you Morpho, you really got Mars ticked. You´d better watch out.” Mars: “MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!!!!!!!!!” Morpho: “Oh, I think you gave me a slight tan. Care to try again, or are you too wimpy?” Mars: “I´M NO WIMP!!!!!! I call upon the power of Mars, FIREBALLS CHARGE!!!!!” Morpho: “No go. My turn. Evil Mars Power Transform! Prepare to rumble Sailor Mars. Glowing Sphere of Fire Annihilate!” Mars: “Ow, ow, ow!! That smarts. Hey! You just scorched my favorite skirt.” Mercury: “Mercury Bubbles Blast!!” Mars: “What´d you do that for?” Mercury: “Your hair was kindda on fire Rei.” Mars: “WHAT!!!!!” -red rose makes the scene- Moon: “Tuxedo Mask!” Mask: “Mars, you´re getting off the matter at hand. We must destroy this morpho and you are the only one capable of doing it. We´re all counting on you.” Venus: “Yeah, come on Mars I know you can do it.” Jupiter: “Yeah, go for it girl.” Evil Mars: “Cut all of this mushy friendship stuff, back to business. Prepare to be toast sailor brats. EVIL FIREBALLS DESTROY!!!!!!!!!” Mars: “I won´t let you injure my friends, in the name of Mars prepare to die!!” Aquablade: That´s my cue to prepare to help. Pretty soon....... Mars: “MARS.............CELESTIAL.....................FIRE.........................SURROUND!!!!!!” Aquablade: Now! There that was very successful. Evil Mars: “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” Moon: “Totally dusted, good job Mars.” Mars: “Thanks.” Aquablade: Now to make my exit. All I need to do now is transpor.......... “Ahh!” That kind of hurt, mental note, ‘don´t ever fall out of a tree again.´ Wait if I fell out of the tree, then......... Mars: “Who are you?” Aquablade: Uh, oh. This was not part of the plan. They weren´t suppose to see me. This can´t be a good thing, not at all. Venus: “Where are you from?” Moon: “What are you here for?” Jupiter: “Are you the person we saw up in the tree last week?” Mercury: “Wait guys, let´s only ask one question at a time. First off, who are you?” Aquablade: Great, I get to play dumb and not say anything at all. -A black mist encloses the battle field- Jupiter: “Hey, what happened?!” Aquablade: My thoughts exactly. “He, he, he ,he. Silly scouts, prepare to meet your doom!" Chapter Nine: Multiple Blasts “He, he, he. Silly careless scouts. You should learn to never leave your guard down. Now your gonna get it and get it good.” Mercury: “Who´s there?” “Your worst nightmare Mercury.” -figure emerges from the black mist- “I´m Evil Mercury, morpho created by my master....” Jupiter: “Who´s your master?” Evil Mercury: “My master goes by the name Mistress Evil. With the help of us, her morphos, together we will rule this crummy planet called Earth. With our help she will conquer the whole universe and fill it with evil energy. He, he, he, he. And, there´s nothing you scouts can do to stop us. You could just do us all a favor and sit back and let the inevitable happen, you know evil will triumph.” Moon: “Fat chance. Everyone knows that good always conquers evil and it will always remain that way.” Evil Mercury: “But you are wrong Sailor Moon, we will rule this universe by destroying our enemies, starting with....... YOU!” Aquablade: NO!!!! I can´t let Sailor Moon get injured. It is my mission to protect her, to protect them all. I leap through the air, can I make it there in time? Please let me make it there in time. That evil scout´s blast is only two feet away from Sailor Moon, she can´t get injured she just can´t. It´s going to be close, can I make it? I don´t think I can! No, I must there´s not a second to waste. How can I get there faster? I´m not going to make it! NO!!!!!!!!! Ughhhhhhhh. Ouch that really hurts, now way! I made it, I really truly actually made it I saved her, she wasn´t injured. But instead I took the blast. That really stings, right in the leg. Dang that monster made me get blood on my favorite pair of boots. Can I stand? I must attempt to, no it hurts so much, it shouldn´t be so painful but it is. I see Sailor Moon´s lips moving what´s she saying? I shake my head to clear it. There much better. Moon: “Are you all right, speak to me, can you hear me?” Aquablade: I nod my head to acknowledge that I heard her. Moon: “Who are you. What´s your name?” She´s wearing a mask just like Tuxedo Mask´s except hers isn´t white, it´s turquoise. I wonder where she´s from? Aquablade: I have to get away I can´t just stay here like a sitting duck. I´m outta here. Where can I go? Up, yeah that´s it, up in the tree. I jump and make it to the lowest branch barely. I could have fallen flat on my face like Serena now that would have been a site to see. Ouch my leg really hurts from that attack, I hope no major damage happened. No time to worry about that now, I have to attempt to try and see how the battle below is going. Mercury: “I will not stand for you trying to hurt my friends. Prepare to be punished. In the name of Mercury I will punish you.” Evil Mercury: “ ‘In the name of Mercury I will punish you.´ I´d like to see you try. I could beat you with two hands tied behind my back. Your little bubbles and water shower are useless against me. Try this on for size: Evil Water destroy!” Mercury: “I´m not that easy to injure. My turn: Mercury Bubbles Blast!!” Evil Mercury: “Don´t think so.. Evil Bubbles Spray!” -An enormously think dense encompasses the area so that it is impossible to see anything.- Aquablade: Oh just great. Let´s see where´s my computer visor? There now I can see the concentrations of energy. The most powerful one must be evil Mercury. Where is she? There over by that tree, now if only I could get Mercury to find her so we could do a combined attack. Fat chance, even if we did one it wouldn´t be enough to destroy this monster, Mercury´s attacks don´t have enough energy in them to begin with. What! I didn´t just hear that. Who´s there? How can I do that? That´s all I have to do? Thanks Pluto. Now all I need to do is follow her advice, I hope it works. Mercury: Who´s there? How? But where is that morpho? Wait. Should I try the attack? What if it´s a trap....... Evil Mercury: “Come on ya wimp, show yourself. I don´t have all day to hang around here ya know. I have places to go, people to meet, you know the deal.” Mercury: I guess it´s my only chance. Strangely I feel like I can trust that person who spoke to me, I wonder why? No time for thinking about that now. There, that monster is over by that tree, I must catch her by surprise with my attack. “S U P E R S H I N E A Q U A I L L U S I O N ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ” Please let it work, please. Aquablade: According to my calculations I just need to supply Mercury with a 20% increase of energy to destroy the monster. To time it just right, I´d have to aid her.....now! Evil Mercury: “What, you can´t do that, ahhhhhhhhhhhh!” Mars: “How´d you do that Mercury.” Mercury: “I don´t think I really can explain. Let´s just say I had a little help from an old friend.” Aquablade: That´s my cue to leave, but yet I feel quite light-headed............ Mask: “Ugh, got-ya.” -Tuxedo Mask catches Aquablade in mid-air, but by the time he lands she is disappearing!- Tuxedo Mask: “What?!” She´s gone, she just totally completely disappeared into thin air. Did I just imagine her? “Did anyone else see that?” Moon: “See what Tuxedo Mask?” Mask: “Nevermind, it was nothing, nothing at all.” Pluto: “So Aquablade, how are you feeling?” Aquablade: “What? Oh high Pluto, what happen?” Pluto: “You were injured and were brought here. Sailor Saturn just left, she was helping to heal you. How´s your leg feeling now?” Aquablade: “It´s been better. Pluto, what am I going to do? The scouts saw me, that wasn´t suppose to happen.” Pluto: “Don´t worry, that actually was suppose to happen.” Aquablade: “How am I doing with my mission so far.” Pluto: “You are doing well, you must trust your instincts though. If you feel that you must show someone your scout identity do so. Do not be afraid to talk to the scouts, they will not be able to determine that you, Michelle are Sailor Aquablade. But, you must be prepared for them to doubt whether you are on their side. Do not let their opinions faze you as long as you succeed in your mission, that is all that matters.” Aquablade: “I understand. Are you sure they won´t recognize me?” Pluto: “Yes. Back to the subject at matter, can you walk?” Aquablade: “Let me try. Ugh, no, I don´t think I can. Wait.” I´ll just form a brace around my leg, there. “I think I´ll be able to get around now with the help of this brace.” And a pair of crutches. “What should I tell Darien?” Pluto: “It would probably be best to just tell him that you sprained your ankle when someone tripped you on your way home.” Aquablade: “Will he buy that? It seems kind of lame.” Pluto: “He´d probably believe that more than he would if you said you fell out of a tree and got attacked by a monster.” Aquablade: “I must ask you to confirm something for me.” Pluto: “What?” Aquablade: “You must tell me if I know the scouts identities. Lita is Sailor Jupiter, Ami is Sailor Mercury, Rei is Sailor Mars, and Mina is Sailor Venus. I do not however know who Sailor Moon is or who Tuxedo Mask is.” Pluto: “What?! How´d you know that? You weren´t suppose to know that yet!” Aquablade: “It came to me in a dream of us during the Silver Millennium. We were all going to practice and had to transform before we got there......” Pluto: “I´d really love to talk to you more Aquablade but you really should be getting back to your apartment room.” Aquablade: “All right Pluto.” -detransforms- Michelle: “Good bye Pluto.” flash of aqua light and she vanishes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter Ten : Who IS That Scout? Ami: “Hey you guys, we have a real problem here. We have an enemy who goes by the name ‘Mistress Evil´ and we have another scout who we don´t even know their name.” Lita: “So what? Like I said before, I´m sure she´s on our side. I bet she´s the one who´s saved our butts multiple times already.” Mina: “Could this new scouts be the person Rei saw in her vision?” Rei: “I personally don´t think it was, she didn´t quite fit the description of the person I saw and she definitely did not have a staff.” Serena: “Maybe she just doesn´t always carry it around with her.” Mina: “Now why in the world do you think she´d do that? If she even has a staff, wouldn´t it be the source of her power? Wouldn´t she take it with her everywhere?” Rei: “Chill Mina. We´re not getting anywhere just arguing whether she´s the scout from my vision or not. We need to figure out who she is to begin with, then we can worry about my vision. I still think she could be our enemy. She didn´t even identify herself to us when she practically fell right on top of us. Serena: “Hey Darien, what are you thinking about? Earth to Darien!” Darien: “Huh?” Serena: “What´s the matter?” Darien: “I was just thinking, it feels like I´ve met that scout before but I just can´t place where it was. Maybe she didn´t introduce herself to us because she doesn´t even know who she is. When I first became Tuxedo Mask, I didn´t know who I was either.” Rei: “That´s not valid Darien. You knew you were Tuxedo Mask when you were Tuxedo Mask, you just didn´t know that you were Tuxedo Mask when you were Darien. Face it, she´s hiding something from us.” Mina: “Maybe she´s deaf and couldn´t hear us asking her name? It could be true.” Ami: “Yes, but if she was deaf then how would she have known that there was trouble? The only way we knew was because of the loud screaming, and besides, if she were deaf then she should have at least some capability to lip read.” Serena: “Maybe she´s blind?” All: “SERENA!!!” Rei: “That´s one of the dumbest ideas I´ve ever heard in my whole life.” Mina: “Yeah, if she were blind, then you´d be like not in very good condition right now. You would have been really injured by that blast she saved you from. If she was blind, then she wouldn´t have been able to see you which means she couldn´t have pushed you out of the way which equals one battered and bruised and bloodied Sailor Moon.” Serena: “Fine, I get the point, no need to harass me to death.” Rei: “I still says she´s our enemy trying to get on our good side so all of a sudden BAM no more scouts and victory for evil.” Lita: “And, I still object for she´s saved us way to much to be evil, let alone be our enemy. There are plenty of times where if she hadn´t saved our hinds that we´d all be dead. I don´t care what any of you say, I´d trust whoever she is, with my life, no questions asked.” Ami: “I agree she has saved us many times. I think that until we have some evidence against her that she should be trusted.” Serena: “Yes, everyone should be given a chance. I think the saying is ‘innocent until proven guilty´, right?” Rei: “Fine, but don´t come crying to me if she ends up beating up on you, I don´t trust her in the least. And, I won´t until I know who she really is.” Darien: “Rei, why are you being so harsh on a girl that you haven´t really even met?” Rei: “It´s just something about her that I can´t really explain........” Michelle walks in..... Michelle: “Hey guys.” All: “” Michelle: “Did I, interrupt something?” Ami: “No, I was just, uh, just..... helping Serena with this math equation, wasn´t I Serena?” Serena: “Ouch! Yeah, that´s it, she was helping me with my math.” I sure hope she didn´t hear any of our conversation. It can´t be a good thing for non-scouts to learn scout identities. Darien: I hope she wasn´t listening to us before she came in. If she was then she´ll probably be able to figure out that we´re all the scout team. Woah! Wait a second here, why in the world is Michelle on crutches? “Hey Michelle?” Michelle: “Yeah Darien?” Darien: “What happened to you, why are you on crutches?” Michelle: “Well, I um, I.......” What did Pluto tell me to say happened? Oh yeah. “You see Darien, when I was on my way home last night someone tripped me and I tried to catch my balance but ended up twisting my ankle when my foot got caught on a crack in the sidewalk.” Rei: “That sounds like something Serena would do, only without being tripped.” All: “REI!!!!!” Rei: “What?! It´s true and you all know it.” Michelle: “QUIET!!!!!!” Everyone looks at Michelle in shock. Rei: Didn´t know she had it in her. Wow. Michelle: “If you all with just let me say what I came here to say, you can get back bickering like little children. Are you guys finished for the moment.” Everyone nods in agreement. Michelle: “Good. I just came to tell Darien that I´m not going to be at the apartment tonight because I have to work on a project with one of my friends for school.” Ami: “What project? Our teacher doesn´t have a project planned for at least another month.” Michelle: Woops, careless error on my part. Mental note never talk about stuff dealing with school assignments because Ami knows about all of them before hand. “Well, you see, it´s an assignment that the teacher just assigned me because I haven´t lived in Japan all that long. I have to do a detailed report on the similarities and differences between my school in America and school here. I´vereallygottogobye.” Darien: Why do I feel like she´s hiding something from us, something important? Chapter Eleven A: More of the Past Returns, Surprises in Store (flashback) Michelle: “But Rei, why do I have to accompany him to the ball? It´s not fair.” Rei: “You know why as well as I do Michelle. All of us Scouts have to take the Princes´ from out respective planets to the ball on the moon. It is just to show respect...” Ami: “And, we must be there to protect them should some attack occur.” Michelle: “Yes but I don´t want to. I have better ways to spend my time than baby-sitting the Prince of Earth.” Mina: “But who knows, maybe you´ll meet the man of your dreams.” Lita: “Fat chance, Michelle´s never even had a boyfriend.” Michelle: “Hey, that´s not true!” Prince Darien walks up....... Darien: “Hello ladies.” All: “Good Afternoon Prince Darien.” Darien: “Michelle, are you ready to go?” Michelle: “On second Prince Darien, I just need to transform.” Aquablade: “All right, I´m ready now.” Darien: “Good, let´s go. ” Aquablade: Why do I have to take care of Darien? He should be the one taking care of me saying that I´m his younger sister. Wouldn´t it be funny if I actually had to save him? Yeah right, who am I kidding, Darien can take care of himself, he doesn´t need some little teenager hanging around to bug him. The only good thing about this whole ball is that I get to go to the moon for the first time in my life. That I can remember that is. Darien: “Michelle? Hello, Earth to Michelle. Are you listening to me?” Aquablade: “I´m sorry Prince, I must have been daydreaming. What were you saying?” Darien: “I was telling you that you´re going to have to explain the symbol on your forehead when they remove your tiara. It is kind of odd you know.” Aquablade: “Hey, I personally don´t find anything odd about my symbol. Just because it´s not the same as yours doesn´t mean it´s odd. Wait a second, what do you mean when they remove my tiara? It doesn´t show then, it only is visible when I wish it to be.” Darien: “It´s a security measure, don´t ask me how it works. Even though the universe is at peace they don´t want uninvited planets to be at the ball tonight.” Aquablade: “You still did not answer my question Darien, what´s so odd about my symbol?” Darien: “It´s not that it´s odd, but the fact that you have two symbols. You have to tell them why and how the second one got there.” Aquablade: “Fine, but I still don´t see why it´s such a big deal. Just because I have a gold crescent moon underneath an Earth doesn´t mean that I´m not from the galaxy. I´m from Earth just like you. Besides, shouldn´t they already know the story? After all, it did happen here.” Darien: “It happened a long time ago Michelle. If I hadn´t been there I probably wouldn´t remember it myself. You must remember that a lot has happened between then and now. It´s likely that everyone on the moon has forgotten all about it by now anyway.” Aquablade: “But I was just two at the time. Truthfully I don´t really remember what happened myself all that well.” Darien: “Just do your best, we´re almost there.” -at the main gate to the moon kingdom- guard: “Welcome to the Moon Kingdom Prince Darien, nice to see you again. Who´s the person with you?” Darien: “This is Sailor Aquablade, the sailor senshi from my planet.” guard: “Come over here please Sailor Aquablade.” Aquablade: “Yes sir.” guard: “Now please remove your tiara.” Aquablade: “As you wish.” Great here it comes. guard: “What?! What planet are you from.” Aquablade: “Earth sir.” guard: “Then would you please explain your planet symbol? You must do so before you can enter the Moon Kingdom.” Aquablade: “Yes sir. It all started about 13 years ago............” --Flashback to 13 years ago on the Moon Kingdom Queen Serenity: “ Thank you King Endymion for coming. I have an important favor to ask of you. Did you bring your daughter with you?” King Endymion: “Yes, but what do you need her for?” Queen Serenity: “As you know I have been unable to bear a daughter to take over once I have passed on. All I have is a son who is about the same age as Prince Darien. I brought you here to ask if I could place the responsibility of being the next queen of the moon on your daughter.” King Endymion: “I do not know, she is only a child. How could she become the queen of the moon when she was born on Earth?” Queen Serenity: “It is possible for the queen of the moon during her reign, to invite on person who was not born on the moon and “adopt” them into the family. I would do this to insure that my kingdom lives on after I´m gone.” King Endymion: “But why Michelle?” Queen Serenity: “She shows great promise. With the proper training she could become a great ruler and leader.” King Endymion: “This is a big decision, I cannot make up Michelle´s mind for her. Please ask her this question yourself. Make sure she understands all of the responsibilities that come along with this position.” Queen Serenity: “Thank you so much King Endymion.” King Endymion: “I will not guarantee anything, but you can at least try. Michelle, come over here please.” A two year old Michelle walks over to where her father and Queen Serenity are. Michelle: “Yes father?” King Endymion: “Queen Serenity has something to ask you dear. I will leave you two alone for a while.” -exits- Queen Serenity: “Michelle, I have a great favor to ask you.” Michelle: “How can I help you Queen Ser....Seren.......Serenity?” Queen Serenity: “I was wondering whether you would be interested in becoming a member of the Moon Kingdom family? You see, I need a female to take my place once I pass on. I have no daughters of my own and your father said that if you wanted to, you could be the next queen of the moon.” Michelle: “Really?!” Queen Serenity: “Does that mean you´re interested?” Michelle: “YEAH!!, I mean ‘yes.´” Queen Serenity: “You must understand that there is a great amount of responsibility that comes with this honor. You must be respectful to others and kept everything in order. Do you think you can do this successfully?” Michelle: “I promise that I will perform to the best of my ability.” Queen Serenity: “Very well, come over here Michelle.” Michelle, a little girl with black hair down to her ankles, haunting aquamarine eyes, wearing a pure white dress, walks over to Queen Serenity. Queen Serenity then places her hand on the young girl´s head and a golden dome encompasses them both. When the light fades, in the spot where Michelle had once stood was a young girl. Her hair was black and still the same length, the eyes were still aquamarine yet the outfit was different, it was what today is considered a senshi uniform. She had white boots with gold trimming that went up to just below her knees. Each boot had a small crescent moon with the two tips pointing upwards at the top. The body suit was snow white and the skirt, which was very, very short, was the same gold color as the trim of the boots. The gloves were also the snow white color and came up to just above the child´s elbows. Each glove had three rings of gold around the top. There were two bows on the outfit, on the back of the skirt and one at the bottom of the collar which were a metallic gold color. The finished touches to the outfit were a choker, which was snow white with a crescent moon on it, and finally a tiara which was gold and bore a diamond in the center. Michelle: “What?! What happened to me?” Queen Serenity: “It is all part of the process to prepare yourself in becoming queen of the moon, or any other planet for that matter. To help preserve the peace in our galaxy, each planet supplies one female fighter who is known as a Sailor Scout. These scouts train their whole lives to protect the galaxy until it is time for them to take the throne of their respective planets. From now on, when you train and fight you will be known as Sailor Moon. When you need to transform, hold your right hand above your head and say “Moon Power”, and you will be transformed into your sailor outfit. Remember, this transformation power is a gift not a toy, and is to be only used when necessary. Now to make sure that everything went properly.......Planet Reveal!” Queen Serenity raises her hand and places it a few inches away from Michelle´s forehead. Where the center of the tiara had been was replaced by a small earth resting inside the inner portion of a crescent moon. Queen Serenity: “What?! Oh no matter, you have the symbol of the moon family and that is what´s most important.” -end flashback- Aquablade: “So you see sir, that is why I bear both marks.” guard: “But there is one thing about that story that is not accurate, Queen Serenity does have a daughter, Princess Serena.” Aquablade: “I am well aware of that sir. You see that is why I bear both marks, I was somewhat adopted into the moon kingdom family yet at the time Queen Serenity was pregnant with Princess Serena, yet she was unaware of it at the time. You can ask the queen yourself, everything that I have told you should be for the most part accurate.” guard: “I will let you through since you are here with Prince Darien, but believe me, I will check your story with Queen Serenity. If you are wrong, trust me, it will not be a pretty site.” Darien: “Thank you very much sir, come on Sailor Aquablade, I do not wish to be late for the ball.” Aquablade: “Yes your highness.” The rest of the night passes by uneventful. No evil attacks what-so-ever. Prince Darien spent the majority of his time with Princess Serena. Around 10 o´clock Sailor Aquablade spotted a man out on the balcony. Not knowing who he was she decided to go investigate. Aquablade: “Excuse me sir, but what are you doing out here all by yourself?” The man turns. He has short blond hair and deep blue eyes. A golden crescent moon is clearly visible on his forehead. Aquablade: “Oh, I sorry Prince Michael.” -bows- “I did not mean to intrude.” Michael: “It´s quite all right. I just came out here to take a breather from the ball. Too many people for my taste. What are you doing at a ball without a date?” Aquablade: “Oh, well I´m here to protect the prince of my planet in case there is an attack during the evening.” Michael: “What planet are you from?” Aquablade: “I am from Earth.” Michael: “Oh, so you´re here with Prince Darien, correct? He seems to have fallen for my sister Serena.” “ Would you like to dance with me...., I never did catch your name.” Aquablade: “I am Princess Michelle, also known as Sailor Aquablade. And, I´d be glad to dance with you.” Michael: “Wait, before we dance Princess Michelle, I must show you something. Please follow me down to the garden.” The two walk down to the garden. When they reach the center of it, Michael reaches over and picks an aqua colored rose from a rose bush. Michael: “Please take this rose to remember me by.” Aquablade: “It´s beautiful. We don´t have roses of that color on Earth.” Sailor Aquablade reaches out to take the rose, when her hands touch the rose, beams of light explode from it. The two are surrounded by the aqua colored beams of light. When the light fades Michelle is wearing a floor-length aqua dress and her hair is now black instead of tie-died. Michael is wearing an aqua colored tuxedo and has an aqua colored cape with black on the inner side. His hair is now aqua, just a shade or two darker than his tuxedo. In his hand is the aqua rose, except now it has black tips. It almost looks like someone took the rose and dipped the tips of its petals in black ink. Aquablade: “What happened to us?” Michael: “I don´t know, but I think it´s a sign. This must have been meant to be.” Aquablade: “I think you had better keep the rose, I believe it had something to do with what just happened.” Michael: “How so?” Aquablade: “The sailor scouts have pens which we use to transform. I think that rose is your method of transformation.” Michael: “All right, I´ll hang on to it. Tell me one thing Michelle.” Aquablade: “What Michael?” Michael: “Do you think this was meant to be? What are the odds that you would be the one to come out to the balcony, there are hundreds of people here.” Aquablade: “I think it really was meant to be, it just feels so...so....so right.” The two lean forward and share their first kiss with the setting sun on the horizon. Michelle: Woah, that was some dream. That was like learning practically all about my past. Let´s see, I was the princess of the Earth yet I almost became the next queen of the moon. I bear both planet symbols since I had been technically “adopted” into the royal moon family. Prince Darien was the prince of Earth therefor Prince Darien is my brother and oddly enough he reminded me of Darien with those eyes of his. I had the same feeling that I got when I saw Darien for the first time when I looked at the Prince of Earth. Could Darien be the prince of the Earth? Nah that would just be too weird, it´s gotta be just a coincidence. Let´s see what else did I learn. Oh yeah, I did have a crush back during the silver millennium on the prince of the moon, Prince Michael. When we went to the garden and............and we transformed somehow and he was, he was...... No way! He was the guy that I called ‘Aqua Tux´, he´s the one who promised to always protect me! This is way to weird for me. Wait if I really was adopted into the Moon Kingdom family and was the original Sailor Moon wouldn´t that mean that I´m able to transform into the outfit I saw in my dream? Oh well it can´t hurt to try. “Moon Power!” A gold light surrounds Michelle and inside the light Michelle performs the same transformation sequence as Sailor Moon but the result is the same as when she was younger except for the fact that the outfit was made for an older and more mature body. She had white boots with gold trimming that went up to just below her knees. Each boot had a small crescent moon with the two tips pointing upwards at the top. The body suit was snow white and the skirt, which was very, very short, was the same gold color as the trim of the boots. The gloves were also the snow white color and came up to just above her elbows. Each glove had three rings of gold around the top. There were two bows on the outfit, on the back of the skirt and one at the bottom of the collar which were a metallic gold color. The finished touches to the outfit were a choker, which was snow white with a gold crescent moon on it, and finally a tiara which was also gold and bore a diamond in the center. Michelle: That was really cool. There goes that blasted communicator again. “Jupiter: Everyone hurry to the mall on tenth street, there´s another morpho attacking. Mercury: Who´s the target this time? Jupiter: I don´t know. I guess it hasn´t decided yet. Mars: What do you mean ‘it hasn´t decided yet´? How could it not have decided yet? Jupiter: At the moment it´s just a dark mass looking for its next victim. Venus: I´m on my way. Come on Serena we´ve got to book it. Jupiter: Good. Everyone please hurry I don´t want it to get away.” Michelle: Great now I have to transform. I don´t have time to detransform and transform again so I´ll just have to transform over my Sailor Moon transformation. Woah, how´d that happen!? Chapter Twelve: A New Discovery Instead of the usual result when Michelle transforms into Sailor Aquablade, something different happened, a totally new a different outfit resulted. The boots were the same style, yet instead of being aqua in color they were snow white. Each trim had a ring of gold thread at the top. Instead of there only being one planet at the top of the boot, either a crescent moon or the Earth, both were represented. They were represented in the same way as Michelle´s planet markings. The Earth rested in the inner portion of the crescent moon. The same representation of the planets was present on the choker, which was also snow white. The main bodysuit of the outfit and the gloves were the same snow white color as the boots. The rings at the top of the gloves and both of the bows on the outfit were the aqua color that the gloves would have been had Michelle transformed directly into Sailor Aquablade. In the center of the bow on the front of the uniform, instead of there being a round stone, the earth and crescent moon design was present. Her hair was no longer the tie-died mixture of blue´s and green´s that it had been, but was a solid aqua color with pieces of gold hair intermingled. Also it was not loose so that it hung to her ankles but was in a high ponytail which was then braided so that the hair only came down to mid thigh. Super Sailor Aquablade: How´d that happen? It doesn´t make sense. Whenever I transform with regular cloths my scout uniform just takes complete dominance and none of my original outfit is there. Why should it be that when I transformed over my childhood transformation that the two morphed into a single, more powerful unit? Wait, what am I just standing around here for? The rest of the scouts are in danger I can´t waste time thinking about why this just happened. But, on the other hand I can´t just go like this. Great I have to detransform. There is a flash of light and the new sailor outfit turns into ribbons and disappears into the floor. In replace of the Super outfit, the Sailor Moon outfit is still present. Sailor Moon (Michelle): Oh great, I have to detransform twice. I do not have this kind of time. The Sailor Moon outfit fades away and Michelle stands in her normal cloths. Michelle: Time to transform. With my luck the battle´s going to be over by the time I get there. Off I go. There is another flash of light when Sailor Aquablade teleports to the mall on tenth street Chapter Thirteen: When Will All the Insanity End? The setting is the tenth street mall. Sailor Jupiter is perched on the balcony of the building adjacent to the mall, waiting for the rest of the scouts and Tuxedo Mask to arrive. She is watching the shadow that is darting back and forth inside the mall, waiting for just the right moment to attack. Jupiter: When is it going to make its move, when? If only I knew who the next target was. Who´s left even. Let´s see, those morpho´s have disguised themselves as ever scout except..... SAILOR MOON!!!! Oh no, that must be who they´re after this time. I´ve gotta warn Sailor Moon..... Moon: “Hey there Jupiter.” Mercury: “Sorry it took us so long to get here.” Venus: “We got here as fast as we could.” Jupiter: “I think I know who the next morpho target is.” Mars: “Who?” Jupiter: “Sailor Moon.” Moon: “What?! Why me? I didn´t do anything.” Jupiter: “It´s just a guess, but it all follows a pattern. All of the scouts have be targeted except for Sailor Moon. It´s the only possibility that makes sense.” Mars: “The enemy must being saving their most powerful warrior for last. This is it, the final battle.” Mercury: “We do not know that for sure everyone. There is the possibility that the other scout we saw is even more powerful than Sailor Moon.” Venus: “That´s not possible! Sailor Moon is the leader of the Sailor Scouts, of all the Sailor Scouts. No one is more powerful than she is.” Mercury: “But how do we know that for sure? We have not even really met the new scout. We do not know what her abilities are. We don´t even know who she is or where she comes from. Nothing can be certain until we obtain more data on her.” Jupiter: “I still think we should keep a close eye on Serena until this battle is over. Agreed?” All: “Agreed.” Unknown to the sailor scouts, Sailor Aquablade has joined in. Watching from the very top of the building she is keeping a very close eye on the shadow down below. But also, at the same time, listening in on the inner scouts conversation. Aquablade: So, they think Sailor Moon will be the next target. That is a very likely possibility. But, as for the battle ending tonight, no, this battle is far from being over. Just when all of the scouts thought that the shadow, which was known as a morpho, was about to attack, it suddenly went scurrying out into the darkness of the night. And, all of the scouts jump up and start to chase after the creature. Moon: “Where´s it going?” Jupiter: “Keep an eye on it, we can´t let it get away!” While the five inner sailor scouts are chasing after the creature, Sailor Aquablade lifts one hand and touches the aqua earring on her right ear. A moment later a visor appears across her eyes. After a few seconds a blinking white light appears on the screen. After another moment, five more lights appear. One yellow, one orange, one green, one red, and one blue. Aquablade: Good, I´ve been able to pinpoint the exact location of that morpho. And, I´d bet almost anything that the other five lights are the scouts. Let´s see, where are they heading? Into the forest?! Why into the forest? It´s so easy to get lost in there. Terrific, guess I´ll meet then there. There´s a flash of aqua light as Sailor Aquablade teleports to an area close to where the morpho was heading in the woods. All five of the inner scouts have surrounded the morpho deep in the woods. Numerous attempts have been made to destroy it, but none have been successful. It is strange because this morpho has yet to take on the shape of one of the scouts, but just as this thought crosses the minds of the scouts, a thick fog surronds the morpho, encompassing it. By the time the fog had cleared, the morpho was gone....... Moon: “What happened?” Venus: “Where´d it go?” A rustling noise is heard coming from behind the scouts. Jupiter: “Who´s there!” A figure steps out from behind the bush. Moon: “Tuxedo Mask!” Mask: “Sailor Moon, how are you this fine evening? My you look very lovely tonight.” Moon: “I´m fine.” Mask: “I feel that the enemy is going to make a move tonight, I´ll be watching from the trees.” -jumps onto the lowest branch of the closest tree- Venus: -to Sailor Moon- “There´s something different about Darien.” Moon: -defensively- “What do you mean Venus.” Mars: “ Venus´s right, Darien rarely calls you Sailor Moon, he normally just calls you Serena.” Moon: “Your point?” Mars: “I don´t know, something about him just didn´t seem right.” Moon: “I don´t care what either of you think, he´s my Tuxedo Mask, and I don´t think there´s anything wrong with him. Besides, if he´s not himself then who is he.” Just as this conversation is coming to a close, a rose is heading straight for Sailor Moon and it´s aimed at her heart. Jupiter: “Sailor Moon! Watch out!” Sailor Mercury jumps towards Sailor Moon, and pushes her out of the way right before the rose would have hit Sailor Moon. Instead, the rose ends up hitting Sailor Mercury in her right arm. Moon: “Mercury! Are you all right?” Mercury: “Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. That really hurt. I´m fine Sailor Moon.” Venus: “What did I tell you, there´s something wrong with Darien.” Moon: “NO! No, Darien couldn´t have done it. Look, this rose is black, his roses are red.” Mars: “The enemy must have gotten to him, it´s the only possible solution. It´s happened before, it must have happened again.” Moon: “I don´t believe you, Darien is on our side. He´d never side with the enemy. He´s stronger now, he couldn´t have been changed. He couldn´t have! ” Tuxedo Mask jumps down from a tree. Mask: “What´s the matt......” Sailor Jupiter charges at him and kicks him hard enough in the side to make him double over in pain an fall to the ground. Jupiter: “Traitor. You evil piece of nega-scum. Get up if you value your life.” Mask: “Jupiter, what´s the matter with you?” Jupiter: “Don´t play innocent with me you piece of trash. How could you do it? How could you betray us again? After all we´ve been through. We never should have trusted you.” Mask: “What did I do.” Jupiter kicks him again because he is still sitting on the ground. Jupiter: “Get up traitor” Tuxedo Mask still doesn´t stand up so Jupiter keeps kicking him. Aquablade: How can I just sit here and let Jupiter him up? He can´t be evil. I HAVE to protect him.... wait a second, why do I have such a protective feeling over him? Well duh, you have to make sure that nothing happens to any of the scouts or Tuxedo Mask. I don´t have time for this right now, I´d better do a scan. -touches right earring and scans Tuxedo Mask- Nope, he´s not evil, but if he didn´t throw that rose, who did? Oh no! The first Tuxedo Mask must have been the morpho, but he was identical to the real Tuxedo Mask by appearance. This is bad. I´d better do some further testing. Tuxedo Mask eventually stands up, but not after having been battered and bruised by Sailor Jupiter´s beating. He goes to take a step, but his balance wavers and he falls onto his hands and knees, A single solitary, RED rose falls from his jacket. Mars: “A RED rose?!” Jupiter: “Oh no! Darien, oh my gosh, I´m so sorry. I thought you were evil.” Mask: -looks up at Jupiter from his position on the ground with pain showing in his eyes- “Why would I be evil? I haven´t done anyone any harm.” Jupiter: “Well you see, before when you arrived and talked to Sailor Moon, and left to sit up in the tree......” Mask: “What do you mean by ‘before´? I just got here two minutes ago, and you started beating me up for no apparent reason.” Venus: “But if you weren´t here before.....” Mars: “.......who was?” Jupiter: “It must have been the morpho. Didn´t the evil Tuxedo Mask appear soon after we lost track of the morpho?” Mercury: “Yes but this morpho doesn´t fit the pattern of the others. Previously we´ve seen the morpho change into an evil scout, this time we didn´t see that happen. Also, before there have always been differences between the original scout and the morpho replica. Here there are none.” Moon: “Except for the rose.” Mercury: “Right, except for the rose. That minor difference will not be very helpful to us.” Mask: “Why not? I think it is a great enough difference to distinguish the two of us.” Mercury: “No really. If you are battling the morpho and end up jumping all around the place trying to defeat it and keep yourself from getting hit, the only time we will know which one is you would be when either yourself or the morpho threw a rose. Even so, we would only know for a short period of time who was who until we lose track once again.” Moon: “Come again?” Mars: “Mercury means that it would be almost impossible to just rely on the color of the rose to know which Tuxedo Mask was Darien, dummy.” Moon: “Oh.” “Wait a second! Who are you calling a dummy Rei?” Mars: “You, stupid.” Moon: “I am NOT stupid!” Mars: “Are to.” Moon: “Am not!!” Mars: “Are to.” Moon: “Am not!!! I am NOT!!!!!” Mars: Mask: “I am not going to stand around while they´ -points to Serena and Rei- ‘act like babies. I´ll be waiting up in that tree to the left. If, or when I come down, I´ll make sure I have one of my roses in plain view so you´ll know it´s me. Bye.” -jumps into a tree to the scouts´ left- Moon: “Now look what you did Rei, Darien´s mad at me.” Mars: “What ‘I´ did? Fat chance, you´re the one whose fault it is, not mine.” Mercury: “Both of you stop. We don´t have time for this. Everyone keep a look out for the morpho, we must be prepared when it attacks.” All: “Right.” Mask: This is just wonderful, I´m the morpho´s target and all Serena can do is argue with Rei. If she was in trouble, I´d stay right by her side until the enemy was defeated. But yet, I still love her with all of my heart. No matter what happens I´ll always love her. Still sometimes I wish she.... -there´s a large amount of movement coming from above Darien- What was that?! -A large black figure falls on top of Darien an tries to knock him off the branch- “Stop!!” *note* while this conversation between the morpho and Tuxedo Mask is taking place, the two are fighting because obviously you don´t just stand around and chit chat with your enemy. Morpho: “Ah, so finally I get to meet my match. I don´t think this will be too much of a challenge. I could easily defeat you with one, or even both hands tied behind my back.” Mask: “What do you want?” Morpho: “To take your place of course. If you hadn´t already noticed, I´m identical to you in every way, shape, and form...” Mask: “Except for your rose. The scouts will never believe that you´re me. Never.” Morpho: “Oh but they will. Once I dispose of you, I will take over your life and destroy the scouts one by one. Then I will replace them with my evil warriors.” Mask: “You aren´t Mistress Evil, are you?” Morpho: “No, my master is far more powerful than you could imagine. Compared to her power, mine is nothing. But it is more than plenty to destroy you. Enough talk, prepare to die” -draws out a sword- The two fight one another. Attacking and then blocking. Attacking then blocking. It seems that the two are a perfect match. No one is winning and no one is losing this fight to the death. Eventually the two end up jumping to the ground. All the inner scouts can do is watch in terror wondering what will happen to their beloved guardian. After a few minutes of fighting on the ground, the two separate and jump into different trees. Aquablade: Which one is the real Tuxedo Mask? They´ve been fighting for so long that I´ve lost track. Let´s see, where´d they go. -touches right earring so her visor appears, then scans the area around her- They´re not here. Wait, they must be, but the light would be black. I just can´t see them because it´s too dark. I´ve got it. All I have to do it change the program so that all of the lights are yellow. -pulls out a small computer like mercury´s and types quickly on it for a few seconds- There. -seven yellow dots appear on the visor- So since all of the scouts are on the ground, the two dots in the trees are Tuxedo Mask and the morpho. But, which one is the real Tuxedo Mask. One of them is five trees over to my right and the other is four trees over to my left. What?! The Tuxedo Mask pulled a rose out of his pocket. Now all I have to do is zoom in on it and....... No! It´s black. The morpho´s got it aimed right at the real Tuxedo Mask! I´ve gotta save him. Sailor Aquablade touches her right earring again to make the visor disappear. In it´s place is an aqua colored mask -like Tuxedo Mask´s-. Then she moves as fast as she can to the tree that the real Tuxedo Mask is in. Fearing that she will be too late, Sailor Aquablade jumps and pushes Tuxedo Mask out of the tree. Her impact caused his mask to fall off. A split second later the black rose hit the tree where Tuxedo Mask´s heart would have been only a second earlier. The tree exploded into splinters of wood and flew in a million directions. The two of them fall to the ground. Darien lands on his feet, but then sinks down to his knees. Sailor Aquablade, as graceful as she is, does a flip and manages to knock her mask off, but still lands firmly on her feet. Aquablade: He needs to defeat the morpho with his roses, it´s the only way. “Give me one of your roses.” Mask: What a strange eye color. I know I´ve seen it before, but where? Aquablade: -a little louder- “Give me one of your roses.” Mask: “What?” Aquablade: “I said ‘I need one of your roses.´ And I mean it. If you want to survive this, give one to me.” Mask: “All right.” -reaches into his coat and pulls out a red rose. then he gives it to Sailor Aquablade- Aquablade: “Thank you.” Sailor Aquablade takes the rose and holds it in front of her using both hands. Then she closes her eyes. There is a flash of aqua light and the rose has been transformed. Now it is not plain red rose but a red rose that looked like it had been dipped into aqua ink at the tips. After she changed the rose, Sailor Aquablade gave it back to Tuxedo Mask. Aquablade: “Throw this rose at the morpho when it is off guard. It is the only way to defeat it.” Mask: -holding the rose- She´s powerful, I can sense it from this rose. “Who are you?” Aquablade: “It is of no importance, just do as I said.” By this time the scouts were really mad and decided they were going to do something to help. The morpho had jumped down from its tree and was heading in the direction of Tuxedo Mask. Venus: “That´s it, I´ve had enough of you morpho. How dare you pretend to be one of us. Venus Love Chain Encircle!” A chain of hearts flies towards the morpho but the morpho stopped it with just the raise of a hand. Morpho: “You think that your puny powers can come even close to mine?” Mask: Now´s the time, he´s distracted. Morpho: “Prepare to di.......” The rose makes contact with the morpho. Morpho: “Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!” Aquablade: It worked, I´m so glad. Mask: Why did I just trust a person I didn´t even know? I guess it doesn´t really matter as long as this battle was won. I wonder where she went anyway? -looks up in the direction of Sailor Aquablade- Oh well, I guess I´ll know someday. Aquablade: Wait a second! Those eyes, they´re.........That´s Darien! No way! Darien is Tuxedo Mask. I should have guessed. He does after all hang out with the rest of the scout team, except Sailor Moon. I still need to figure out who she is. One more problem to add to my growing collection of problems. I believe the time has come to properly introduce myself to the Sailor Scouts. From what I´ve seen so far it appears that all of the scouts admire and trust Tuxedo Mask so I guess that means Darien will be the first. The time has come for a proper introduction.......... Chapter Fourteen: A Proper Introduction Michelle: What do I do now? Sailor Pluto told me to reveal my identity to no one, but I feel this is what has to be done. Of course I´m not going to tell Darien that I´m Sailor Aquablade but rather let him know that Sailor Aquablade is the mysterious sailor who´s been helping them out lately. The problem now is how exactly can I talk to him so the other scouts aren´t around to hear too? The only way I can think of is entering his dream. But, in order to do that, I´d need Sailor Pluto´s help. I want to do this all on my own. What am I saying? There is no other choice. I must seek Sailor Pluto´s assistance. I can feel an evil energy increasing. The enemy is planning for total destruction, I must do this now! What time is it anyway? Almost one in the morning. Darien must be asleep now, so I must seek Sailor Pluto´s help. Michelle reaches into her back pocket and takes out her henshin stick. Then she kneels down on the floor. Holding her henshin stick just below her chin with her head bowed, she concentrates on thinking about Sailor Pluto. After several minutes of doing this, a faint light begins to grow around the top of the henshi stick. Growing at an amazing rate it moves away from the henshi stick and floats a few inches off the ground. Suddenly it explodes and a full sized holographic image of Sailor Pluto stands in its place. Pluto: “What is it Michelle? Did something happen?” Michelle: “No...... well at least not yet.” Pluto: “Then what is it?” Michelle: “Well, I´ve come to a conclusion as to who Tuxedo Mask is and I feel deep down inside that I must let him know who I am.” Pluto: “What?! You´re just going to tell him who you are?” Michelle: “No, nothing of that sort. I want to let him know that the mysterious scout´s name is Sailor Aquablade, scout of Earth. I feel that I can trust him to be the judge at determining whether I´m on the side of evil or on the side of justice. I´m not sure why, but I just know he will make the right decision. The other scouts seem to respect his opinions on matters and take him seriously, Sailor Moon especially. If the scout´s leader feels that I am a friend, the rest will as well.” Pluto: “How exactly do you expect to come into contact with this person without having any of the other scouts see you too?” Michelle: “That´s where I ask for your help Sailor Pluto. You are the guardian of time and space and promised that you would help me whenever possible. I need you to let me enter his dream world so I can talk to him alone. Please Pluto, this is very important to me. I must talk to Darien tonight. I feel that the final battle is nearing. The enemy is preparing to destroy us all. I must have the scouts on the same side as me! Time is of the essence, you must understand what I mean. If this doesn´t happen now, it´ll be to late! Please Sailor Pluto, Sesunta it must happen tonight.” Pluto: “All right, but be careful. While you are in the pri...., I mean Darien´s dream you could be attacked at any time.....” Michelle: “What did you call Darien? A prince?” Pluto: “No, of course not. I just almost called him by a name he went by long ago.” You almost blew it Sesunta. Michelle must figure that out herself. Michelle: “And what name would that have been?” Pluto: “Uhh... There´s no time to go into past history, you must be on your way. Transform now, but careful though for any injuries you receive while in Darien´s dream you will receive in real life. Now hurry, as you said yourself, there is not much time. Now go!” Pluto raises her staff and with a flash of purple light they are both gone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darien´s Dream: A lone figure stands in the midst of a room filled with darkness. This person is either wearing a sailor uniform or a really short shirt. A faint glow appears to be coming from the east and the person begins to walk towards the light. The only sound is the echo of the person´s footsteps on the marble floor. Eventually after a long period of time, the person arrives at a gate guarded which is guarded by two guards. Upon hearing the arrival of footsteps, the two guards quickly assume a fighting stance. They yell for the person to show themselves. Obeying to the order, the figure steps into the light to reveal.........a sailor senshi, but who is she? Guard 1: “Who are you and what is your business here?” senshi: “I am here to see Darien, I wish to have a word with him.” Guard 2: “How dare you call the prince of earth is such an informal manner. Prince Endymion does not stand for such things.” senshi: Prince? Darien´s the prince of Earth? That means that he´s...... Darien: “What seems to be the trouble here?” Guard 1: “This young lady is here to see you...” Guard 2: “...yet she will not identify herself and she spoke of you as if you were a friend.” Darien: “Bring her here so I may see her myself.” The two guards grab the senshi and begin to drag her over to where the Prince is standing. senshi: “Hey! Let me go, you have no right to do this to me.” They hold her in place a few feet from the prince. Once she is in view, the prince takes a good look at her and gasps.... Darien: “It, it´s you? It´s all right, I need to talk with her. Alone.” The guards leave to go attend the gate once more. Once the prince is sure the guards are gone, he motions for the senshi to follow him. The two walk through many well furnished rooms and finally come to a door which the prince stops at. Darien: “This is my favorite room in the house.” The prince opens the door and motions for the senshi to enter. Once they are both inside, he closes the door behind him. This room is small in comparison to the others they had passed through on their way, yet it was also the most beautiful. The far wall was one huge window which overlooked the ocean. Also, it gave an outstanding view of the golden moon above which looked like a perfect circle of light against a black background. The curtains around the window were an outstandingly bright red. To the right was a fireplace complete with a blazing fire, giving a certain effect to the whole room. Above the mantle for the fireplace was a single portrait, and elegant head to toe picture of the moon princess--flowing gown and all. The room must have been a bedroom since there was a canopy bed with the same color red as the curtains for the quilt and canopy over the bed. The only other furniture in the room were two oak dressers and two snow white reclining chairs. A single chandelier can be seen hanging in the center of the room. After a moment, the prince speaks: Darien: “Identify yourself please.” senshi: -gets down on one knee- “I am Sailor Aquablade, the mysterious sailor senshi, also known as the “Lone Sailor.” (not spoken)-I am the guardian of all sailor senshi, their guardian cats, Tuxedo Mask, and the future rulers of Crystal Tokyo. It is my duty to ensure all of their safety.- Darien: “Why are you always coming to the scouts rescue? How do you know when they are in need of help?” Aquablade: “I come to the scouts rescue because it is part of my mission.” Darien: “And what mission may that be?” Aquablade: “I can´t tell you that yet, the time is not right.” Darien: “Once again I will ask, ‘How do you know the scouts are in trouble?´” Aquablade: “I could ask you the same question Tuxedo Mask. I just do because I have to know.” Darien: “How do you know who I am? Tell me!” Aquablade: “I know because it was intended that I would know. Prince Endymion, Tuxedo Mask, Darien...no matter who you are I will always know you, and I will always know Rei and the others too. The time and age makes no difference on who a person is.” Darien: “How do you know who we are?!” Aquablade: “It was intended to be. Please understand and accept it. Do not worry, everyone´s secret is safe with me.” Darien: “What are you to us? A friend or a foe?” Aquablade: “I am not the one who can decide that.” Darien: “What are you talking about?” Aquablade: “I just do what has to be done. It is up to you and the scouts to determine whether I am a friend or not. I trust you all will make the right decision. Here take this. Good bye.” Sailor Aquablade´s figure flickers and then slowly fades out of existence. Darien: She must be on our side, no villain would ever put their judgment in the hands of another. What? It´s all of us, Sailor Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Queen Serenity, Princess Serenity, me, Luna, Artemis, and the scout who called herself Sailor Aquablade. I wonder why she always is wearing that mask? It completely blocks view to her eyes. I wonder what color they really are. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darien: Woah, what a dream, or was it not really a dream? Could that mysterious scout really be called Sailor Aquablade? I guess I´ll never really truly know. What´s this, an envelope? Darien picks up the envelope, reaches inside, and pulls out three pictures. The first one is the one Sailor Aquablade gave him in his dream. The second, a head to toe picture of Sailor Aquablade, without her mask on so her nearly transparent aqua eyes are in full view. The third is a picture of Prince Endymion and Sailor Aquablade where Sailor Aquablade is standing in front of Endymion, and he has his hands around her waist. Darien: I guess it really wasn´t just a dream. Wow, those eyes give me the creeps. It´s like she´s peering straight into my soul. But why don´t I remember her? It looks like we were really close. But, what if, we were more than just close friends back then during the Silver Millennium? There is a lot that I still need to remember from that period. I hope she wasn´t my girlfriend before Serenity. What if, what if I was engaged to her? No, if that was the case I´d remember her, I hope.....