Sailor Moon Chronicles

Born from Pure Imagination

The Hero of Zoey's Dreams

The skies were as clear as the crystals in a lovely chandler hanging over a magical ballroom. The grasses' fragrances passed along the breeze. The stream that passed through Ordon Village exhibited a clarity only matched by finest of sapphires. The trees were tickled by the gentle breeze. The leaves giggled upon feeling the breeze's touch. Every leaf on every branch made exemplary use of its chlorophyll to make itself gleam with flawless verdant coloring. Zoey sat on a hill over looking the village with her Gallade, Harutomo, and observed all of these things with wonder. Everything she saw looked like something from the imagination. The quaint wooden homes of the villagers looked so simple to Zoey, who had her home in Tokyo, almost like they were draw with crayons by a child. The curious Ordon Goats too seemed like things from a child's fantasy. With fur as blue as the sea, horns that arched so much to completely connect in a circle, and a size rivaling a cow, they added to the fantasy world. As the goats grazed in the pastures, the people of the town lived their lives in untarnished simplicity in rustic clothing. To Zoey, wearing a green sweater, khaki shorts, and sneakers, this was amazing.

"This place doesn't seem real," Zoey said in wonder to Harutomo. "I feel like I jumped into a children's book. Do you remember me reading them to you and the others back on our journeys? Each one had that classic formula." She brushed her short, raven hair behind her ear. "Once upon a time, there was a princess. She was captured by a ruthless monster. Then, a handsome hero came to save her. After fighting through hordes of monsters, the hero fought the villain and saved the princess. The princess thanked him with a kiss, and the two fell in love and lived happily ever after. I love those stories. Ever since I was a little girl, I want to meet the hero who would save me. He would be strong, handsome, and have a Gardevoir for you." Zoey laid down one the grass. "That's the dream."

Galactic Corporation, the galaxy-wide corporation now called Sailor Scout Industries after the previous own gave its ownership to Princess Kakyuu, had managed to create a dimensional gate to a different dimension. In this new dimension varieties of worlds with varying technology levels were discovered. One in particular was the plant known as Hylia. On this primitive world, comparable to the Dark Ages of Earth, magic was rule. One region of the world was known as Hyrule. Here is where the tale begins. The Sailor Soldiers of Earth found the idea of seeing a new dimension to be absolutely fascinating. Zoey Yuki, the newly awakened replacement for the previous Sailor Saturn, chose to travel to Hyrule to learn what kinds of Pokémon were native to the world. With permission from the Jedi Council and the other eight Sailor Soldiers of Earth, she flew to the world for a weekend for an expedition in the land of Hyrule with a new team of Pokémon at her side.

"Isn't this place just wonderful?" Zoey said to Harutomo. Zoey and her Gallade were on their way to Ordon Spring, a magical place described to her by one of the villagers. "I can't remember the last time you and I traveled together in the forest. Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh just seem so long ago." Harutomo agreed. "I wander what this spring is going to be like."

Harutomo, who walked in front of her at the moment, stopped upon exiting the shrubbery. Zoey met him and found him transfixed by what was in front of his eyes. "What is it, Harutomo?" Zoey turned to see what had captivated him. She nearly fainted in amazement. Ordon Spring lay before her. It was like nothing Zoey had ever seen before in her life. The waters were gold with the sun's light. Beautifly and Butterfree pranced around the flowers. Bellossom danced and sang. In the water, Azurill, Marill, and Poliwag basked, spraying water into the air, creating rainbows as the light passed through the mists while Goldeen decorated beneath the surface with their pretty tails. Not a single plant was wilted or brown. Everything in the spring was alive and beautiful. It was so flawless that Zoey could not believe it was living outside of her dreams, for she envisioned a place like this as a little girl.

Zoey walked forward close to the spring with her hands over her heart. Her heart became lightened to the point that she just had to show the spring's impact on her. To do so, she sang her favorite song, Pure Imagination.

"Come with me, and you'll be in a world of pure imagination. Take a look and you'll see into you imagination." Her voice was soft into the intro. The Pokémon and other creatures at the spring noticed her beautiful voice with blissful curiosity. "We'll begin with a spin travelling in a world of my creation. What we'll find with defy explanation." She reached the shallow shore of the spring where the water barely wet the soles of her sneakers. "If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to do it, want to change the world, there's nothing to it." Suddenly, the Pokémon joined in her performance and matched the mood she created. Suddenly amongst the jubilation, from the rainbows, small beings of light began to form. Once complete, they appeared to be balls of light with butterfly wings, fairies. They were every color of the rainbow. They two joined Zoey in her fantasia. Zoey welcomed them by spreading her arms out. The fairies encircled her as she slowly twirled. Her mind was clear. The bonds of earthly concerns were abandoned, for she was living in a dream created by her imagination. Her voice soared into the song's climax. "If you want to view paradise, simply look around a view it! Anything you want to do it, want to change the world, there's nothing to it!" She became still. The fairies slowed their flight around her. The Pokémon and animals matched her calm as well. In her eyes, tears glistened and fell down her cheeks. She had never felt such a lovely ecstasy. Her voice went soft again. "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be."

She fell silent, and everything around her was silent as well. She placed her hands over her heart and closed her eyes. "This is such a beautiful place. I feel like I'm in a fairytale. There is a handsome hero, and maiden in need of rescuing from a monster. The hero comes and saves her. If this place is from my dreams, from my imagination, from my heart, my hero will come. I wish to see the hero who will sweep me off my feet and win my heart." She opened her eyes but only found an empty forest. Her Gallade sat on the grass enamored by his trainer's elegance.

After her stay in the Ordona Province, Zoey made her way to the Faron Province, a heavily forested region in Hyrule. It was not too different from the forests she encountered on her previous journeys on Earth. However, the guide book given to her by the company guards noted that Faron Forest is home to man-eating plants called Deku Babas. Zoey was reluctant to believe it and assumed someone exaggerated after being attack by a Carnivine. The forest was becoming increasing eerie as she progressed. Harutomo was very close to her side. Things became more foreboding when the leaf canopy above became so thick that it was almost as dark as night on the forest floor. Zoey remedied the problem by pulling a flashlight out of her backpack. At one point, her light fell upon a peculiar blue flower. The flower looked to be in its bud stage, but the bud was the size of a pumpkin. Zoey approached it with curiosity.

"This is a freaky looking plant," Zoey said to Harutomo, who was standing back.

Once Zoey was close enough, the blue bud shut up, still attached to the long, green stem. The bud split open to become a set of jaws. The plant's mouth clapped up and closed rapidly. It was a Deku Baba. Then it lashed out at Zoey. Before it could take a bite, Zoey jumped back and took a pokeball from her purse.

"Go, Hanataro!"

A Weepinbell sprang forth from the pokeball.

"Hanataro, use Razor Leaf!"

Hanataro swung its leaves forward and fired several sharp, projectile leaves at the plant. The leaves cut through the stem of the plant. The head fell to the ground with a plump and withered away.

"I guess they weren't talking about a Carnivine," said Zoey. She held Hanataro in her arms just in case other plant monster sprouts up when Harutomo is not looking or close enough to help.

Zoey began to think that it was a bad idea to carry on with the expedition. She then remembered that out of the all the Sailor Soldiers from Earth, she was the only one that had not achieved her Super Form. Sailor Moon and the others Inner Soldiers were upgraded to their Super Forms by Helios. Sailor Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto found their new powers in themselves. All that was left was Sailor Saturn, Zoey. She went on this journey to help her find her inner power.

Her nerves came back to her when she came to a great tree. It was a mountain of a tree. Zoey appeared to be on a cliff, and the tree's base was shrouded by fog. The diameter of the tree was similar to that of a huge office building. It reached high into the air. Unfortunately, it appeared be dead. A winding bridge made out of what appeared to be one of the tree's roots reached to the cliff.

"That is a big a** tree!" Zoey gasped. She walked backwards away from it. She activated her communication watch. "Could someone -" Before she could ask for a ride, wind spiraled around her, and her watch was carried away. The wind followed the path of a large boomerang. The boomerang was stopped by its master, a big, ugly baboon. The baboon grabbed the watch. It let out a laugh as he stared at his shiny, new prize.

"Give that back!" Zoey called.

The baboon answered by shacking his horrid, tomato red rear end at her.

"Harutomo, use Psycho Cutter!"

Harutomo sliced the air with one of his bladed arms. A shockwave came forth in the form of a blade. The baboon awkwardly dodged it and threw his boomerang at Harutomo. The boomerang's speed was too much for Harutomo to anticipate. The boomerang struck him in the shoulder with such force that he went flying into a tree and was knocked unconscious.

"Harutomo!" Zoey cried. She saw the baboon run up the bridge to the tree and disappear. "This cannot get worse."

Just then, she heard a weird noise coming from around the trees. Two ugly goblin-like creatures immerged from the think forest. They had wide mouths housing sharp teeth. They had long, flapping, pointed ears, and purplish-blue skin. Each one carried a machete. Zoey let out a shriek upon sing making contact with their beady, little, green eyes. They approached her slowly. She was terrified because she was alone. Harutomo was out cold, and she was too shell-shocked to transform or send out another Pokémon. She backed away slowly until her back hit a tree. She sank to her knees. The monsters came closer.

Someone had come. Someone was there to save her. It was like flash of green. A sword cut the monsters down, causing them to die and vaporate. The angle of the sun's rays obscured the clarity of the image. It was a man for sure. Zoey looked at him but could only make out his silhouette. She squinted her eyes to see better, but the light did not allow it. It was almost like the light was protecting this man.

"Are you all right?" he asked.

Shock had disappeared, and now Zoey could clearly see him. She went back into shock, but it was lovely shock. The man who stood before her was like nothing Zoey had ever expected to see. He matched her imagination's creation of a hero and even shifted the image to look like him. He carried a wooden shield baring the symbol of Ordona Province and sword that shined in the light. He was dressed a green tunic, a green so perfect that it looked like it was made from the green of the trees she saw earlier that day. Chainmail was sandwiched between the tunic and white underclothes. He had brown leather boots and matching leather gauntlets. A green windsock-shaped hat was on his head. His skin was flawless and smooth. His hair looked to me spun from gold. His eyes were a cerulean that was too perfect for reality. She loved to look into those gorgeous eyes. Even his ears were magical. Judging by them being pointy, he was a Hylian. As Zoey looked at this seraphic man, she could her cherubs sing the chorus a familiar tune. Light seemed to radiate from his being. When he smiled at her, Zoey nearly fainted. When he led out his hand to help her up, she was reluctant. He could not be real. He had to be from her imagination. If she reached out to discover that he was not real… She didn't want the dream to end. But what if he was real? Zoey put out her hand. The sensation of someone's touch traveled through her nervous system and into her brain. He wasn't pure imagination; he was real. He lifted her up to her feet. He must be around seventeen or so. A lucky age since she was sixteen.

"You saved my life," Zoey said. "Thank you."

"It is a bad idea to be this deep in the Faron Woods unarmed," the boy said. "What were you doing?"

"I was just exploring a bit," Zoey answered shyly. "I'm not completely unarmed. I still have my Pokémon. I was on my way out of here, but a baboon stole something important from me and injured my Gallade. Then he ran up that bridge to the tree." Zoey looked to Harutomo. He had regained consciousness, but his right shoulder was injured. Zoey went over to him. "You need to rest. I'm sorry to have gotten you into this." She placed him back in his pokeball. The only time Zoey places Harutomo in his pokeball is when he is injured.

"You're in luck," the boy said. "I need to go to that big tree. The sun is going to set soon. More monsters like those Bokoblins get more active at night. It is best you come along with me. We'll find that baboon and get back what he stole from you. How does that sound?"

"Thank you," she said. "What is your name?"

"Link," he answered, "You?"

"My name is Zoey. You know why I need to get to that tree. What do you need to go there?"

"I'm on a quest," Link answered somberly. "I need to enter the Forest Temple, that tree, and two others to retrieve three magical items. Hyrule is under attack from the Twilight King, and I'm the only one who can stop him."

Zoey couldn't believe what he just said. He is a hero. "You're kidding, right?"

"No," he answered. "The Twilight King has infested the regions of Hyrule with Twilight."

"This is news to me," Zoey said, bedraggled. "No one told me about this."

"We should get to the Temple, Miss Zoey," Link said. He began walking to the bridge.

Zoey thought if she should transform now, but she was unsure. She was still new at using her powers and would hate it if she got in the way of the noble hero's quest. "Wait!" He stopped and turned to her. "I can help you in the Forest Temple. I might not be too good in a fight, but my Pokémon can help us. I don't want to weigh you down though." She looked down to avoid his eyes. "If you don't want me to follow you anymore, you can tell me."

"I would never send you away," Link said. Zoey looked at him and saw him smiling at her. "You are in need of help, and I can't ignore that. Don't worry. You are safe with me no matter what."

With me, Zoey repeated in her head. She was so happy to hear those words. She lightened up and went to him. The two start up the bridge to the door of the Forest Temple.