Sailor Moon:

The Tal Senshi

Chapter 1

The day had begun as any other day for Yochino Reikon. The 14-year-old Juuban student didn't have much of an exciting life. Rather, this student was like any other student, save for the fact that Reikon wore a male student uniform when a female uniform would be more suiting. Reikon was a girl, but a peculiar girl in many ways. Not one of her peers knew her secret, and sometimes even her own parents were fooled.

As said, the day had begun for Reikon as any other day. Her day had been going as normal until it came time for class. It was then that things began to become strange. Many girls in Reikon's class had brought their new pets to school with them. The pets were called Shaneeras and the girls were obsessed with them. They had placed their Shaneeras on their desks and were staring at them as though they were hypnotized. Reikon assumed this was just another frivolous girl thing.

Reikon took her seat and proceeded to stare at her desk as though she didn't exist. She did this because she wasn't very social, and also because the girls in her class like to stare at her bi-colored eyes. Reikon had one green eye and one brown eye and adding to the fact that no one knew she was actually girl, many girls tried flirting with Reikon. She was, however, very cool and very good at letting the girls down nicely.

One of those girls Reikon had let down was Naru, a nice girl with rippled brown hair. Naru's mother owned a jewelry shop, the very same jewelry shop where Reikon and her father went in search of a birthday present for her mother. It was there that Naru had become attracted to Reikon, who was at the time wearing sunglasses.

For the next week Reikon had to avoid Naru and her best friend, Usagi. Reikon was able to let Naru down nicely, and she didn't seem to suffer any damage from it. Reikon hadn't been able to avoid Usagi, however. Usagi followed Reikon around for a week and bother her for breaking Naru's heart. Reikon knew, however, that she hadn't done so. Usagi eventually forgot the whole ordeal.

"They are very popular now," said Naru. Reikon glanced up toward Naru's direction. She was standing at Usagi's desk and they were looking at the Shaneeras. Then the door opened and Haruna-sensei came in. Usagi hurried and told the girls to put their pets away. Reikon shook her head as she proceeded to continue staring at her desk.

As class went on, Reikon noticed how the girl next to her was fidgeting a lot. Then the girl took her Shaneera out of its hiding place. Reikon was shocked when the other female students took out their Shaneeras. Haruna-sensei noticed that something was wrong as many of her female students were looking down. She approached some and saw the Shaneeras that the girls were trying to keep out of sight.

"That does not belong in school," she said. She reached to take away the Shaneera of one of the girls. Then something happened that thoroughly shocked Reikon. The girl pushed Haruna away and sent the teacher crashing into several other desks. Then all of the female students with Shaneeras stood up and left with their pets. Reikon had never seen anything so surprising happen in the classroom.

During lunch Reikon learned where the Shaneeras were bought. She found it odd that they were sold in a shop called Perfume, but nonetheless went to the store. Her plan was to investigate the peculiar creatures that suddenly had students in rebellion.

When she got there, Reikon didn't take off her sunglasses. She had made a habit of wearing her sunglasses when out and about due to the coloring of her eyes. Reikon avoided the woman behind the desk, feeling very uncomfortable under the woman's stare. As Reikon was looking at the Shaneeras, she was surprised to see Usagi enter the shop.

"Yochino-san!" Usagi said excitedly. "What are you doing here?"

Still feeling the woman's eyes on her neck, Reikon looked at Usagi and said, "This place is causing trouble with all of these Shaneeras." Usagi nodded in agreement. Reikon hadn't wanted to say it directly to the woman, but still said it loud enough for the woman to hear. "I'll see you later Tsukino-san." Reikon nodded her head to Usagi and quickly left.

Two days later at school, Reikon expected to see even more Shaneeras around. However there wasn't a single Shaneera to be seen. When Reikon asked one of the Shaneera owners about it, the girl claimed she had never heard of a Shaneera. Then the girl proceeded to flirt with Reikon.

Reikon never saw another Shaneera again. However, this was only the beginning of strange incidents. The next, and most important, began one evening when Reikon was sitting on the balcony to her family's apartment. She was staring out into the night sky when the image of a man with blond hair suddenly appeared over the horizon of the city. Reikon instinctively jumped to her feet and was soon joined by her mother and father. The image suddenly spoke.

"Listen Sailor Senshi!" the man said in a booming voice. "It's time to settle this. At 1AM tomorrow night, come to the F runway of Haneda airport. If you don't coming, I'll…" Reikon's mother screamed when all of Tokyo seemed to catch on fire. Then it was suddenly gone and Tokyo was as it was supposed to be, except for the image of the man. "That was an illusion, but if you don't come I'll make Tokyo a sea of fire." Then the man's image disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.

"What was that?" Reikon's mother asked faintly.

"I don't know," Reikon said, "But I intend to find out. I'm going to the airport tomorrow."

"Reikon no!" her mother cried. "Don't do that! I forbid you!"

"As do I," Reikon's father said. "The Sailor Senshi will take care of things."

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The incident in the sky was the main topic of discussion at school the next day. Per usual, Reikon was resided herself to her desk and was intensely reading a book. Or rather, she appeared to be intensely reading it. In truth, Reikon was listening to everyone's discussions.

"What do you think Tsukino-san?" a girl named Asanagi asked Usagi. Reikon glanced up at the two as Usagi responded.

"I think it's a joke!" Usagi laughed. Reikon noticed how Usagi seemed nervous, or caught off guard.

"It must be aliens!" brainy Umino Gurio shouted. Reikon smiled, loving how Umino would jump up out of nowhere to enter a conversation.

"Don't mind him," Naru said. "He's been watching too many trashy SF movies."

"I want to go and see it for myself," Asanagi said. Just as Asanagi had said that, Haruna-sensei walked into the classroom.

"You most certainly cannot go!" Haruna said. Reikon rolled her eyes, and then looked up as Usagi spoke.

"Yeah!" she interjected. "If you have time to be playing at night, you should be home studying."

Haruna instantly placed her hand on Usagi's forehead to see if she was sick. "Are you ill?" Haruna asked. Usagi said know and asked why Haruna had asked. "Because you said something logical!" Usagi started to cry.

Meanwhile, Reikon was staring at the crying girl and was suddenly suspicious. Usagi never said anything smart, and this was certainly a first that Reikon could recall.

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That afternoon after school Reikon was under "house arrest" by her parents. Neither trusted their daughter to not go out that night. Reikon, however, was clever and, after blocking her door with her bed, climbed out of her window. She used many years of knowledge in rock climbing in order to scale the wall to the roof. She had propped open the door that morning before school, expecting resistance from her parents. After quickly vacating the roof Reikon was on her way to the airport.

Reikon had been to Haneda airport twice, once on her way to a vacation with her parents and once coming home. While she wasn't overly familiar with it, she knew she could hide in the bathrooms until night came.

As Reikon expected, the airport was emptied. She was lucky that the guards didn't check the bathrooms. While she was hiding she continually checked her watch. While she was doing so, a foreboding feeling suddenly gripped her chest. In pain she doubled over onto the floor. Images suddenly flashed before her eyes. They were all of the Sailor Senshi, Sailor Moon, Mercury, and Mars. She saw them running away from an airplane. Then the images suddenly disappeared. Gasping to regain her breath Reikon climbed back to her feet using a sink as leverage. She risked exposure by splashing water on her face. Then the foreboding feeling returned. Reikon felt like she was being draw to the door. Against her better judgment she pushed the door open a crack and looked out. She gasped as she watched the guards drop to the floor. Reikon debated, and then lunged out of the bathroom and into the airport. All she could hear in her pounding ears was that there was no turning back now.

Reikon stopped running and hid behind a corner as the guards suddenly disappeared, and then reappeared. Not wanted to risk being seen, Reikon crouched down and waited. Not long after, Reikon would hear the sound of running feet.

She poked her head around the corner just as Usagi appeared. She was running after two other girls, one of which Reikon knew to be Mizuno Ami. Reikon didn't recognize the third girl. Reikon suddenly gasped as Ami lifted up her hand and was surrounded by a flurry of bubbles. Reikon was, to say the least, surprised as Ami transformed into Sailor Mercury. The girl Reikon didn't know then proceeded to do the same. She was surrounded by fire before becoming Sailor Mars. Reikon realized the guards had been attacking the three. The guards all stopped in front of Sailor Mercury and Mars and Usagi lifted her hand. Reikon then witnessed the transformation of Usagi into Sailor Moon.

All of this was too much to Reikon to bear as more images came to her. They flashed through her mind in a furious cadence that sent Reikon into a spiral. She fell unconscious where she was crouched. In her unconsciousness Reikon saw images of blood, death, and fire. She saw images of happiness and peace as well, but they were few and far between.

When she awoke, she felt as she had not felt in her present life. Rather, she felt awakened. She sat up and took in her surroundings before standing fully. She then lifted her hand.

"Birthright of Daichi, I summon thee!" she shouted in a voice filled with power she hadn't felt in ages. A soft green light suddenly filled her hand. The light vanished, nestling a small green leaf in her hand. "Daichi Element Transform!" The green leaf radiated in a green light as leaves made of green energy surrounded Reikon from her head to her waist. Earth made of brown energy then appeared and surrounded Reikon from her feet to her waist. The two energies melded in the middle and spread all around. Then it all exploded, revealing Reikon to be in a senshi uniform of green, black, and pink. The green crystal leaf then appeared. It floated to the front bow of the uniform, placing itself in the middle, and then blossomed into a pink rose.

Reikon's body suit was black with two black shoulder bands, but the belt that went around her waist was as pink as the rose brooch that was situated on her green bow. The back bow was green as well. She had wrist-length black gloves with three green bands each. On her feet and up to her knees were green boots with pink laces. Her choker was green as was her collar. Her collar had three black stripes and her tiara was blackish silver with a green gem.

After inspecting her uniform Reikon proceeded to a window that faced the runway. She looked out and saw one of the airplanes chasing after the three senshi. She watched as they separated. Reikon became furious as Mars and Mercury left Sailor Moon to be chased by the airplane. Then she saw it was their plan as Mercury used her Shabon Spray to blind the entire runway. A short while later the bubbles dissipated. Jadeite was gone and the senshi were at the edge of the runway, looking out into the ocean. Reikon smiled.

"Well done, Odango Atama," she said as she turned and walked away. "You didn't get killed."

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Reikon kept her distance from the senshi for as long as possible. She was often alerted to an up-and-coming altercation between the senshi and the Dark Kingdom by a vision foreseeing the event. Reikon made it a point to watch these altercations, just in case the senshi needed help. One time, the senshi were in a dire situation under the hands of Kunzite and Zoisite. Reikon, as Sailor Daichi, was ready to jump in when the fourth senshi, Sailor Venus, suddenly appeared and came to their aid. Then there came a battle that Reikon could not witness.

Reikon was wandering aimlessly around one day when she saw a man named Chiba Mamoru. Reikon recognized the man as the one who would always pick on Usagi. Just as Reikon was thinking about this fact Usagi appeared out of an alleyway. She was chasing after Mamoru and yelling after him. Reikon found this to be highly surprising. Then a force field suddenly appeared around the two and lifted them up. Before Reikon could do anything the force field took them to the nearby tower.

Reikon looked down solemnly and said, "This is not good." Then she broke into run and ran down the street. When she reached some trees she leapt into them and effectively disappeared. Her destination was the Hikawa Shrine, where Reikon knew the senshi would meet. As she was running and leaping through trees Reikon transformed into Sailor Daichi. She stopped several trees away from the opening of the Hikawa shrine. She debated her appearance before picking up a leaf and changing it into a black mask. She placed it upon her nose as the girls, now acquainted with Aino Minako, talked about Usagi. They had said that they couldn't reach Usagi on her communicator and Minako suggested that she might have gone to Starlight Tower by herself. Daichi couldn't help but to shake her head as Luna, Rei, Makoto, and Ami said almost instantly that Usagi wasn't that kind of girl. Daichi sighed as she stepped into the clearing.

"You should never underestimate Odango Atama," Daichi said. "At this moment your friend is in great danger." The four girls looked at each other as Daichi approached them. "If I were you, I would re-evaluate your image of Usagi. That, however, can wait until another time." Before anyone could say anything to the peculiar senshi before them Daichi ran at them and leapt up onto the roof of the shrine, disappearing from sight. Reikon wouldn't witness the transformation of Usagi into Princess Serenity, but she already knew who the Moon Princess was. Reikon didn't worry about Usagi's safety, either. She trusted the senshi and knew they would come through.

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Reikon saw little of the senshi for a long while after that. It wasn't that she was purposefully avoiding them, but she found an unwanted follower. Kunzite became obsessed with the mysterious Sailor Daichi after the incident at the lake. Reikon and her parents had been vacationing there at the same time as Usagi and her family. That being the case Reikon had been available to help the senshi in battling the monster from the lake. Sailor Daichi fought against Endymion, thoroughly perplexed at his condition as a pawn of Queen Beryl. Daichi hadn't fared well against Endymion, as he was much more powerful due to his allegiance to the Dark Kingdom. Daichi commented on the fact that she had beaten him fairly regularly in their past lives. Kunzite over-heard this and vowed to reveal the true identity of Sailor Daichi.

That evening, Reikon had to explain where she had been and why she was bruised and limping. Seeing no reason to lie, Reikon explained that she was a senshi reborn from a previous life. Her parents hadn't taken well to it, but they found that it was pointless to reason with their daughter.

Aside from battling the very evil Prince Endymion, Reikon assisted the senshi very little at the lake. After that, Sailor Daichi was useless in battle because of Kunzite's interference. Reikon received a premonition one night of the four senshi dying in a snowy wasteland. She saw an image of Prince Endymion dying, and of Princess Serenity battling and defeating a very freaky woman before, herself, dying. Reikon didn't understand it. She hadn't noticed when the senshi went on to fulfill her premonition. She hadn't noticed when the Dark Kingdom was defeated. It wasn't until Reikon realized that the five of them and Mamoru had no memory of each other that she realized that her premonition had been fulfilled.

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