"REI QUINNELLA HINO!!!! REPORT TO THE OFFICE NOW!!!!!!!!!!" The loud speaker crackled as a voice echoed though the hallways of Rei Hino's new school, Crossroads high. Rei dragged herself up from the cheap plastic chair and, without looking at anyone, left the classroom. She felt seven pairs of male eyes follow her out of the room.
She wanted to be back in her old school. Her old school; even with all the nuns and alters around every corner it would be better than this. *I don't like having all these boys staring at me. How do all these girls stand it? * She thought to herself. * Why am I being called down anyway? I've only been here two days now. What could I have done wrong? *
She soon found out if wasn't what she had done, but a product of another's arrogance and stupidity. When she arrived, the tall student behind the counter was waiting for her. He had red-brown hair that fell freely into his brown eyes; his smirk was the kind to make your skin crawl; and his nose was slightly hooked in his tan face. He leaned on the counter, obviously trying to be seductive. He knew the way to look at a girl; you know that look that makes your back shiver. He was defiantly the ladies man. Of course, Rei wasn't your average lady. She stood at the door looking everywhere but at his eyes. After a moment of this he frowned, hopped over the counter and dragged the girl out of the room by the arm.
After rounding a few corners he stopped and spun her roughly around to face him.
"Ya know you should be thankin' me for gettin' ya out of ol' Seaber's class!" He hissed in her face.
"And you could use a Tic-Tac! Will you remove your talons from my arm so may get back to 'ol' Seaber's class?' " She tried to yank her arm away. When his grip proved too tight she sank her long red fingernail into the tender skin beneath his thumbnail. Cursing he snatched his hand back. "She's a delightful old lady with an eye for mischief is all, but seeing you couldn't live a honest day to save your life I suppose you wouldn't like her now would you?"
She faltered a moment at the darkness in his eyes before she spun around, her knee-length; midnight-black, violet highlighted hair lashing out at his face. He seemed rooted to the spot in maniac rage. Crazily, with ice edging his voice, he growled after her, "Nobody talks to me like that, and than just prances off."
She defiantly turned her head to call over her shoulder in a mock-southern ascent. "Well then, I reckon you can call me 'Nobody!' "
But to be completely honest she was terrified at that moment. If Grandpa hadn't insisted she go to these annual violations some people call "public schools" to learn 'People skills' She would burn this hell-plagued place.

~*~*~ Four pretty females and a handsome male walked bouncily down the sidewalk, on their way to Cherry Hill Temple. The first girl, known as Serena, was clinging to the arm of the handsome male. She had blond hair, pulled into an annoyingly cute and always original style of meatballs and pigtails; her dreamy eyes were a starry blue and locked on the man who held her in a loving embrace as they walked; an aura of love and brightness hovered around her. The second, Lita, was tall and firmly muscular; she had brownish-red hair that was pulled into a tight high-ponytail; her green eyes glittered as she looked on; and her slightly thin lips were pulled into a becoming smile. The third was also a blonde, called Mina, her hair in a half-ponytail; her large eyes, also blue, told you she was the kind who's sharp tough and sharper wit earned her enemies, though her soft heart won her friends. She wore a thoughtful expression and a smile. The forth girl, and the most attractive, known to all as Ami, smiled at her company. She had soft blue hair, cropped short and framing her face; her long-lashed, aqua eyes held a well of knowledge far beyond her years; and her nature was shy and gentle. The man, who acted as the eyes for his arm-warmer of a girlfriend, had deep ocean-blue eyes and coal black hair. He didn't look the match for the blonde, although they obviously had a bond. The group was not the type to walk in silence either. "Are you sure Ami? Is she really the one? 'The scout who will bring the answers to all our questions' as Queen Selene put it?" The man, Darien, asked.
"Yes. She's in all my advanced classes so I studied her all day. Even through all her anger and frustration it was obvious."
Serena looked away from Darien for the first time in ten minutes. "AMI!? You did something other than stuff your nose in a book during school?"
"Serena!" Darien reprimanded his girlfriend; "This is serious. Stop joking. And keep in mind that Ami's a much better student than you are and it wouldn't hurt you to spend some one-on-one with a novel every now-and-then!" Serena grumbled but shut-up. Darien's attention drifted back to Ami, who was still blushing, "Why was she so mad, Ami?"
Ami's blush was renewed." Well... She's really beautiful, and she was still wearing the uniform from her old school..."
"Ami, I haven't the slightest idea what that means."
"Well, the boys wouldn't leave her alone. I mean none had the nerve to talk to her, except for this one boy; I'll tell you about him later, and, her old school, it was an all girls' school of the Gods. The skirt was really short because they teach all the fighting arts and dancing there and since it's all girls the skirt length didn't matter."
"I see. And what about this guy who did have the nerve?"
"It was so scary. She was called down too the office, and since I could tell it wasn't a teacher over the intercom, and usually only teachers have access to it, I followed her. I was right. It was Aaron Bassin. I had always known that he was rotten to the core but the look in his eyes was pure, evil, hunger when she rejected him. I could tell she was terrified but she never even flinched. That was when I was sure it was her."
Darien looked extremely concerned. "I'll have to do something about that."
"Why, Darien?" Serena injected.
"Because, she's a representation of the force of the light. If this boy is as evil as Ami says then he might try something that could be harmful to her and we can't let that happen."
"Why don't you let us handle it Darien? We're the one's who go to the school." Lita joined in.
"That would be fine it you were a guy. We need to scare this guy off and unless we're going to convince him that she's a lesbian I don't think that a girl is right for the job."
"Oh. I see," Lita blushed, then grinned.

When they rounded the corner t0 Cherry Hill Temple a man with hair longer than Ami's greeted them at the gate. His eyes were barely visible beneath the dark mass but every time Mina glimpsed the black gems set beneath his eyebrows it took her breath away. "Hello. Who may I help you? OH, DAMN! I mean how can I help you. I'm sorry. I'm really bad at this job. Usually Rei's here doing her chores and she greets the people but ever since they she started going to that public school she's been loaded with homework to do when she gets home." He stopped abruptly as he remembered he had a job to do, " Welcome to Cherry Hill temple. How may I help you?"
Mina giggled in her high airy voice that always meant she was falling in love with something. Everyone in the party recognized that voice and turned to look at her. Did she like this man? He was such an idiot. As they all looked at her they in turn created a clearer path of vision between her and the man. The two used it until Darien decided the group needed to see their person of destination. He had a feeling these two would stare all freaking day it he let them. *How can people be that taken will anyone. I don't even like my mother that much. And to be insane about Serena I'd have to be insane period. Sure, I love her, but I'm not that crazy about her. *

~*~*~ Rei threw her too-full pack onto the purple-carpeted floor of her room and herself into the high, wing-backed chair to the right of her bed. She had so much homework to do. She was caught in a living black hole that was choosing to rip her apart slowly. It would have been bearable if every guy didn't have a pointer mid-way down when they approached her. She was in hell. The gods were punishing her. Otherwise what in the name of the Goddess was the purpose of her being here? Little did she know that her question was about to be answered.
There was a knock on the door. A moment latter the shaggy head of the temple resident, Chad, popped into the room. She threw a pillow at it, hitting it square between the eyes. "Don't you ever knock BAKA!?"
"S-Sorry Rei. There are some people here to see you."
She sighed. "Well don't just stand there, send them in."
A moment later there was a party of five in her room. Four of which were wearing the uniform of Crossroads High. *Great. * She thought *Not only must I deal with these people at that torture chamber of a school but they have to follow me home like a puppy who want's an owner. *
"Yes? She asked them as a whole.
The man, who was not in a uniform, answered the question for them. "We are here to show you the path of your destiny."
"Is that some new pick-up line?" She retorted
The blonde, whom Rei recognized as the girl who acted as if Physical Education class was physical desolation, giggled from behind him.
"Of course not. Darien is mine," Darien flinched as Serena flung herself at his neck and swung like a horseshoe." Aaaaaaall mine!!!!"
"I see. Then would somebody mine telling me, in English please, why you are here."
Lita Decided that Darien's noble-scout approach wouldn't work and therefore, it was time for her to step in. "Rei- That is your name right? - Your destiny has been written in the stars. We came to offer you this," She took the red wand with a ruby, inlaid in black onyx and surrounded with black opals, forming the most unusual shape of an angled heart with an arrow jutting out for the point, out of her breast pocket and presented it to Rei. ", You can take it or you can leave it behind. But remember: if you take it your life will be changed for all eternity. You will become Sailor Mars, the scout of fire.
"You will have great power and eventually you will regain memories from your past life as the princess of Mars and protector of the Moon princess. You will not want some of the memories, but most will be worth having.
"Our mission, and yours too, should you choose to accept it, is, first and foremost, the protection of earth and the moon princess." She started in a fit of fake coughs. Somewhere in her display of bad acting said something that sounded like 'Serena' as she pointed at the foolishly grinning blond by her side.
"Yes, I've actually already regained some of those memories, they are quite eerie. But are trying to tell me that my mission would be to protect her?!" She pointed a blood-red nail at Serena.
"HEY!" Serena protested. ", What does that mean!?"
"It means the memories I have of Princess Serenity are all of a mature youth woman. You are not that woman."
"I know," She giggled. Rei rolled her eyes and took the wand. There was no turning back now. She was Sailor Mars.