Author's Notes
I do not own the original Sailor Senshi, they were created by Naoko Takeuchi. However, I did create the new Sailor Senshi who appear in this story. This is an alternate universe story set in a fictional city in the USA. In this story, new people I created are the Sailor Senshi instead of the ones in the original series. There are also a few differences in their powers and roles as well as some completely new Senshi, and some things about the Silver Millennium story are different too. However, a few of the characters from the original Sailor Moon series will appear in this story as well. I also have a list of Senshi like I usually do.
Jeanette Potter is Sailor Moon
Diana Murphy is Sailor Mercury
Lily Summers is Sailor Mars
Amanda Anderson is Sailor Jupiter
Lyra Flowers is Sailor Venus
Spectra Magic is Sailor Uranus
Mirabelle Sparks is Sailor Neptune
Crystal Kelly is Sailor Pluto
Stephanie Roberts is Sailor Saturn
Violet Riverton is Sailor Earth
Melody Summers is Sailor Sun
Shannon Autumns is Sailor Comet
Brittany Taylor is Sailor Spring
Katie McDonald is Sailor Summer
Skyla Green is Sailor Autumn
Robin Frost is Sailor Winter
Chapter 1: Moon and Neptune
A black cat walked along the sidewalk, looking up at the college campus buildings around her. This was no ordinary cat, however, this cat was named Luna and she was on a mission. She knew that the person she was searching for was here. She could sense it. She needed to find Sailor Moon and the other Sailor Senshi, or else the world would be plunged into darkness and possibly even outright destroyed.
"Do you sense it too? Sailor Moon is here on this campus, and so is at least one other Sailor Senshi." Luna looked to where the voice was coming from, and she smiled as a white cat walked up to her. He was the one who had spoken. He and Luna were not ordinary cats, as they could talk like humans.
"Let's find Sailor Moon first, Artemis. I can sense that she's in that building," Luna said, pointing to a dorm building with her paw.
In the dorm Luna was pointing to, two students were sitting together. They were named Mirabelle Sparks and Jeanette Potter, and they were roommates together. They were both from England, although from different regions, and they were also both starting their first year of college. However, at this point in time, they were not studying schoolwork. They had been doing that earlier and were taking a break. Mirabelle was instead working on one of her favorite hobbies, which was writing fanfiction stories based on her favorite Japanese cartoon series, Pretty Cure. Unfortunately, she was having a problem that was commonly called "writers' block."
"Jeanette?" she asked her roommate nervously, "Do you know anything about writin' stories?" To anyone who knew about English regional dialects, it would be obvious that she spoke with a Liverpool accent.
"Tha' knows more than me," Jeanette said with an impish grin, "If it's about Pretty Cure, I've only watched it with thee." Her speech had a very thick Yorkshire accent that always reminded Mirabelle of the book "The Secret Garden."
"I'm having trouble figuring out how Cure Galaxy should get her powers. I know she gets her powers from Rocket, that's the little mouse character, but I don't know what she should be doing when she meets Rocket," Mirabelle admitted, "I want to make mine unique, there's other people who write fanfiction about Pretty Cure and I'm afraid if I do something too common, I'll be accused of copyin' someone else."
"What if Rocket climbed into her room through the window? Like that cat," Jeanette suggested, pointing to Luna, who was sitting on the windowsill and looking at the girls curiously. She could sense that one of them was Sailor Moon, but being a cat, she was unable to open the window without help. Artemis hopped onto the windowsill alongside her, and he pawed at the window, hoping the girls would let him and Luna in.
"There's two cats. Do they belong to someone in the dorm?" Mirabelle wondered. Flower City University allowed students to keep pets as long as they were well-behaved, but Mirabelle didn't think she had seen any cats that looked like those two, especially with those strange golden markings on their heads that looked like crescent moons. Of course, as both she and Jeanette had just started attending the college a week ago, it was likely that there would be pets they wouldn't have met yet. She walked over and opened the window, and Luna and Artemis hopped into the room.
"Thank you. We really need to talk to the two of you about something important," Luna said, surprising both girls.
"A talking cat! I...Jeanette? Am I hallucinating from watchin' too many magical girl anime series?" Mirabelle worried. Jeanette was less hesitant and she reached out and picked up Luna with a big grin.
"She's real! Tha'rt not dreamin' because I couldn't touch her if she was a dream! What did thee want to say, cat?" Jeanette asked excitedly, setting Luna on her lap.
"I wanted to tell you that you're Sailor Moon and your friend over there is Sailor Neptune. You're both Sailor Senshi, magical warriors with special powers who are destined to fight evil," Luna announced.
"Do you mean like the Pretty Cure? They're called Senshi too, but I don't know about the Sailor part. Does that mean we're goin' on a boat trip?" Mirabelle asked, still shocked but now more certain that the talking cats were not a dream, given that Jeanette could see and hear them too.
"No, not that kind of sailor. I think you're called that because the uniforms the Sailor Senshi wear have sailor collars. I don't know what Pretty Cure is, are they magical warriors you've met already?" Artemis asked.
"They're not real, they're TV and comic book characters. I thought talkin' cats were fictional too until I met you two," Mirabelle said.
"What are your names? I'm Jeanette Potter and this is Mirabelle Sparks," Jeanette announced.
"My name is Luna and that is Artemis. We are searching for other Sailor Senshi like you, there are at least 14 others. We can sense that they're in this city, though. We'd like to have a place to stay, but if you don't want us we can look to see if the other Sailor Senshi will take us," Luna said.
"We would be allowed to keep both o' you. There are other people in this dorm building who have pets, there's even another cat but it doesn't talk," Jeanette said, "I don't know much about cats so I would have to go to t' library and read about them first."
"Before you girls do anything else, I want you to take these," Luna offered. She and Artemis both did flips in the air and two objects appeared. One was a yellow brooch with a crescent moon on it and the other was a turquoise pen that was topped with a golden oval. In the middle of the oval was an engraving of the sign of Neptune, the trident. She and Artemis nudged these objects to the girls, Jeanette receiving the brooch and the pen being for Mirabelle.
"We should get things for these magical cats now. Will you be all right in our room, Luna and Artemis?" Mirabelle asked them.
"Sure. We won't be searching for more Sailor Senshi just yet, our powers have to recharge for a bit before we can create more transformation items," Luna shrugged. She and Artemis got comfortable on Mirabelle's bed as the two girls headed for the library. They easily found some books on caring for a pet cat and started to read when they heard a scream coming from the receptionist's desk. When they looked up, they saw another strange sight. Bianca, the librarian, had collapsed on the ground, and a girl with short red hair was standing over her, holding what looked like a reddish-orange crystal globe. Fiery red energy swirled around Bianca, transforming her into a giant book monster. It looked like a human-sized dictionary with arms and legs and a scowling face in the middle of the cover. Mirabelle squeaked in fright and started to run out of the room, like many other people were doing, but Jeanette grabbed her arm.
"We have to transform, like Luna and Artemis said. Be brave like the Pretty Cures," Jeanette said, holding her brooch. Mirabelle stopped trying to run away, but she didn't transform yet. Instead, she stared at the red-haired girl fearfully.
"Why did you hurt her? Why did she turn into a giant book?" Mirabelle whimpered. The red-haired girl just glared at them and then disappeared in a flash of fiery light. The book monster roared and spun around, sending sharp sheets of paper flying. Both girls ducked under the table.
"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" Jeanette called.
"Neptune Power, Make Up!" added Mirabelle nervously. She knew they were supposed to fight that book monster, it was probably one of those evil magical things Luna and Artemis had mentioned, but wouldn't that hurt the librarian? Wasn't it originally human? As if to answer her unspoken question, she then heard Luna's voice.
"I thought something like this would happen. You girls need to defeat that thing. It will turn back into a human when it is weakened enough. You have to attack it with your powers. I promise you, you won't hurt whoever was turned into that book thing. She will be back to normal, just go out there and...EEEEK!" Luna shrieked as the book monster reached under the table and grabbed Luna by her tail.
"No! Don't hurt Luna!" Sailor Neptune cried, and she lunged at the monster. It struck back with the other hand and knocked her back into the desk, narrowly missing Sailor Moon, who had started to come out too.
"Moon Tiara Action!" she called. She grabbed the tiara off of her forehead and it turned into a glowing yellow disk, which she then threw at the monster. It roared in pain and dropped Luna, but then spun around again, shooting huge books everywhere and knocking Sailor Moon down too. Both Moon and Neptune got back up, and this time, Sailor Neptune tried her powers too.
"Deep Submerge!" she called, flinging a swirling ball of water at the book monster.
"Moon Tiara Action!" Sailor Moon tried again. The book monster roared again and then glowed. As it glowed, it shrunk, turning back into the librarian, who was surprisingly unhurt.
"We didn't kill her...I'm so glad," Sailor Neptune whimpered, sinking to her knees, overcome by relief.
"Tha' needs to trust our magical cat friend. It's what the Pretty Cures would do, right?" Sailor Moon reminded her, and then they both detransformed.
"That's right. I told you it would be okay. That monster seemed rather weak, but there might be stronger ones in the future. Artemis and I are going to have to search for more Senshi tomorrow, so we might be gone a lot. But we'll tell you if we find more allies. You can use these to communicate with us," Luna said. She then did another flip and two objects that looked like wristwatches appeared. One was white with a yellow crescent moon on the cover, while the other was turquoise with a Neptune symbol. "These have buttons in them so you can talk to the other Sailor Senshi and me and Artemis. Our symbols on the little screens inside are the black and white crescent moons, and more symbols will be added for more Sailor Senshi as we find them."
"Thank you, Luna. Thank you for helpin' us," Mirabelle said, and she hugged Luna gently.