Sailor of the Ram

Disclaimer: I do inot/i own any of the original Sailor Moon characters. Those characters belong to Naoko Tenshi, not myself. The only characters within this fan fiction that I do rightly own are Jade, Syno, and Jade's parents.

Author Note: I'm sure you've all heard of plenty of people creating their own Sailor Moon characters, or even their own characters for many other types of fan fictions. Sailor Aries is my own creation; more than likely some other person or persons on the Internet have created their own version of a Sailor Aries. If that is the case, I did not steal from that person, this is my own creation and I apologize if anyone is lead to believe that. On a lighter note, I greatly encourage your reviews, tips, flames, or whatever else you have to say about my fan fictions.

Thank you, and please enjoy reading my fan fiction!

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Regaining her Powers

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With a yawn, Jade stretched her arms up above her head and relaxed. Her green eyes half-open, she rolled to her side and squinted at the bright green digits on the alarm clock. "8 o'clock.... excellent!" Jade's eyes twinkled and widened with excitement as she leapt from her bed.

Hurriedly she took a shower and dressed, now standing before her mirror. Jade smiled at the fourteen year old girl that was reflected to her, tall and thin with irish green eyes and long auburn hair that now had rich redish streaks through it from spending so much time outdoors. Jade looked over at her socks laying on the bed and shook her head with a wide smile on her face.

"I've only been living here in Japan since I was six, and yet I still don't feel like I'm used to it." with a sigh, Jade put her socks on and stepped into the slippers resting neatly beside her door. Steathly she poked her head out of her bedroom door and peered up and down the hallway before slipping out of her room and sliding down the banister. Jade spotted her father (well, techinically he was her adopted father because her real parents were killed in a car crash when she was young) at the breakfast table reading the Saturday morning paper and fixing his jet-black hair.

"Daddy?" Jade asked innocently whilst she stood behind him with her arms folded behind her back.

"What is it, Jade?" Her Father asked, folding his paper and looking up at his daughter.

"Can we please go to the pet store so I can get a cat? Please? You said we could go this weekend!" Jade blurted out all at once, her cheeks flushing pink when she realized how foolish she must have sounded. Pressing her fingers to her lips she looked down at the ground and blushed harder, "Sorry..."

To Jade's surprise, he simply broke into laughter and stood up, "Of course, Jade! We'll go right now!"

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As they entered the pet store the various animals within squawked and barked and meowed at the bell on the door, but Jade ignored this. Right away her attention was drawn to the section of the store with wall-to-wall cats in their own personal cages, most meowing or sticking their paws through the bars as if to beckon to her.

Cooing at the cute little kittens bunched together by their mother, Jade moved from cage to cage until she stumbled across a cat that truly intrigued her.

This cat was black with a white patch on her chest, but the odd thing about her was that she was meowing and moving about frantically within her cage to get Jade's attention. Also, this cat had a band-aid on her forehead, which Jade thought was odd. Apparently the cat was not all too happy about this bandage either, and would attempt to remove it by butting her head up against the bars or scratching at it.

"Daddy... can I get this kitty?" Jade turned and faced her father, whom looked at her and nodded with a bright smile.

"Yes, of course! Assistance, please?" He asked the balding man at the counter. The clerk nodded and grunted gruffly, pulling a set of keys off a tack on the wall and limping towards the cage Jade had indicated, he unlocked it and removed the cat gently and placed her in a carrier to ring her up.

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"Hmm... " Jade was laying on her stomach on her bed, glancing at the clock from time to time for no apparent reason. Scribbling down the last of her homework she pushed herself up and sat cross-legged on her bed. Jade's eyes lingered on her new so-far nameless cat finally poking her head out of the cat carrier two hours after she was brought home.

"Finally you've decided to come out of there!" Jade laughed excitedly, crawling off her bed and sitting spread-legged before the carrier. "Come on out, kitty. I'll take that bandage off for you."

As if the cat knew and understood exactly what Jade had promised, the cat uneasily crawled from her cage and meowed at the girl, butting her head up against Jade's extended hand.

Allowing the curious cat to sniff her hand for a moment, she reached over and carefully peeled off the band-aid. "Oh my... " Jade furrowed her brow in thought as she carefully picked up the cat, looking at the spot beneath the bandage. It looked as if someone had somehow put the Aries' zodiac symbol upon the cat's forehead in gold. "Who did this to you, kitty?" Jade wondered aloud to herself.

"That has always been there." the cat replied casually, blinking her large, lamp-like yellow eyes at Jade.