Disclaimer: I
don’t own Sailor Moon or any of the scouts, or any plot parts I may use; they
all belong to Naoko Takeuchi. However, the idea for the plot and changes to any
characters is mine (forgive me, Naoko-sama!). If you are offended by non-PC
jokes about religion, then don’t read this.
Prologue: Oy Vey
Four giggling
girls pushed a sled down a park hill covered in snow. The girl they were
pushing was protesting, her blond pigtails snapping in the wind. Across the
street, two crones stood in front of a trash can fire watching them, high
cackling voices raised against the winter wind that threatened to topple them.
“Oy, that Amy!
So smart, but the hair! What boy would like a girl with hair shorter than his?”
“And that
Lita, getting into those fights with the goyim boychiks all the time! It’s
lucky she can cook, or she’d never get a nice boy!”
“But look at
that Rei, all grown up and working at the shul now! Someday, she’ll be
leading the women, making her zeyde proud!”
“And Mina, so
beautiful! Ya know, last Tuesday I overheard Shlomie at the bakery asking about
her? The poor boy, he doesn’t have a chance!”
A loud crash
interrupted the two women. The pigtailed blond had fallen from the sled and
face-first into the snow, and was now bawling louder than the shofar on
Rosh Hashanah services. The women looked at each other and sighed.
“And then,
there’s Serena.”
“Yeah, there
is. Oy vey.”
Chapter 1
True, the
blond was ditzy. And yes, what the crones were saying wasn’t just a wives’
tale.
But what
nobody in the
About a
thousand years or so ago, Earth’s moon was inhabited by humans and their chosen
queen Serenity. The solar system lived in peace for decades, until the
Negaforce, ruled by Queen Metallia, invaded the
She was wrong.
Serenity knew
that revenge is a powerful motivator, but she had no way of knowing that a
thirst for revenge would spur Metallia to reawaken and attack more fiercely
than before. The girls, reborn as Orthodox New York Jews, were awakened by
their guardians Luna and Artemis, and learned of their past powers. Together,
they destroyed Metallia forever, but new enemies followed soon. The Doom Tree,
in need of human energy, attacked Earth, but was destroyed and reborn in order
to start life anew. The Black Moon clan, banished by the future Neo-Queen
Serenity, sought to destroy the past in order to pave their way to power in the
future. With the help of her daughter Rini, traveling from the future to save
the past, Sailor Moon defeated the clan, only to be confronted soon after by
the Heart-snatchers from the Tau Nebula, who took the pure heart energy from
innocents to feed their master Pharaoh 90. All of these enemies were destroyed.
Rini returned to the future, only to return targeted by the Queen Nehellenia,
from the dark side of Earth’s moon, who stole Rini’s dream and the golden
crystal of Earth. Eventually, Nehellenia was banished, but brought back by the
Scouts’ most powerful enemy.
Sailor
Galaxia, contaminated by evil Chaos, roamed the galaxies in search of the
Sailor Star Seeds, the essence and power of the Sailor Scouts throughout all universes.
Galaxia was ruthless, killing hundreds of Sailor Soldiers before battling
Sailor Moon and the Scouts on Earth. In a strange and wonderful twist of fate,
Sailor Moon defeated Chaos and banished it back to its rightful place: inside
the minds of humans. Sailor Moon and her scouts, while retaining their scout
identities, returned to their normal lives and adopted the personae of their
pre-Scout days.
Amy Anderson,
the short-haired genius, was the most intelligent girl in the five boroughs.
Scoring perfect 100s on all of the Regents exams in every subject, she had been
offered internships at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and New York University. But
the blue-haired guardian of the planet Mercury didn’t have time for that, for
Amy was too busy guarding and protecting the earth from foreign enemies.
Rachel Hines
was a politician’s daughter and a rabbi’s granddaughter. She lived with her
grandfather, who was in charge of the local synagogue, B’nai Yisroel. She
preferred to be called Rei, and so she was known in the community, as well as
for being a responsible granddaughter and a pious woman. Yet the princess of
Mars had grown up lonely, ostracized by her peers for her constant prayer and
odd habit of talking to the two ravens which frequented the courtyard of the shul.
She was taunted for her love of fire and her ability to light the Sabbath
candles by thought. Besides her daily routine of working at the shul and
attending school, Rei worked alongside the other Scouts by night, protecting
the earth from foreign enemies.
Lita Cohen
lived by herself in a small apartment off Ocean Avenue, half a mile from school
and the shul. She had lost her parents in a plane crash when she was ten
and had since lived alone. Naturally, her status intrigued the neighborhood
gossips, who did not approve of a young girl living by herself. The warrior of
Jupiter was hurt, but created a shell around herself that none could crack in
order to see her emotions. Lita channeled her energy and used her unusually
tall frame in karate (the gossips had not approved of this, either). Until a
chance encounter with Serena and Amy, Lita isolated herself from her peers.
Mina
Ahronovich lived with her parents, although with the amount of work they did
for the community, she might as well have been living by herself. Mina had no
siblings, and, before meeting the other Scouts, no friends. The sad girl was
originally the heroine Sailor V, but in truth was the guardian of the planet
Venus. Mina had lived for three years in England as Sailor V, in which time she
had missed Boro Park immensely and but had returned only after retaining
serious injuries in a house fire caused by a tormented youma. After regaining
her health, Mina put away her Sailor V disguise and concentrated on living a
normal life.
These four had
been separated by a thousand years and thousands of miles. Now they would be
reincarnated into young women in an Orthodox Jewish community in
Serena Weiss
lived with her brother Shmuel and her parents in a small house four blocks from
the shul. She was a decent student in school, and was a daughter any
Jewish mother would have loved, for Serena ate more than both of her parents.
Serena loved her parents, but longed for her home of the Silver Millennium of
the past, and her true love, Daniel. Serena was the Princess reincarnate, a
fact which at first she had been loath to believe. But as the years passed
Serena came to realize her fate as future ruler of the world, and already had
made great strides to eradicate all evil that had tormented her universe.
But the fates
of the five young women were about to change, in ways that would transform them
forever.
Hope you liked
this; it was a bit long and took two weeks to write! More to come soon!