AUTHOR: JediSenshi
minap@zwallet.com
DISCLAIMER: Star Wars belongs to George Lucas, Sailor
Moon belongs to Naoko Takeuchi (I hope they forgive us) and Julia, Gayle and
Leanne and others belong to themselves.
AUTHORS' NOTES: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE FORCE IS ALWAYS WITH US- YOU MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND THIS - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. This is a totally new one (well, the
amalgamation of a few old ones + new plotline) so please read and
enjoy!
DISTRIBUTION: PLEASE! ^-^ anywhere with my names on
it!
Sailor Warriors
Julia, Gayle and Leanne
left the Great Hall along with the rest of the newer trainees after one of Luke
Skywalker's tri-daily lectures. Artemis lay draped over Julia's left shoulder,
keeping an eye on his charge, "Is it just me, or are those speeches getting
longer?" Julia asked.
"Definitely getting longer," Leanne sighed.
"Naw," Gayle replied as they made their way to the mess
hall, "The novelty's rubbing off. At least it was the last one for the
day."
"Do you think they'll have pizza for lunch today?" Leanne
asked.
"Doubtful," Julia commented. They entered the mess hall and
got in line. Now faced with the decision of what to eat (there was no pizza) the
three girls were quiet for a moment.
"Hmm, what to eat?" Julia pondered aloud.
"What do you mean?" Gayle asked with a laugh, "you have
fruit every day!"
Julia stuck her tongue out at Gayle and pulled down on her
bottom eyelid, "I refuse to be predictable," she stated hotly. After another
minute or so of contemplating, Julia chose a fruit salad and went to take a seat
at the usual table with Jaina, Jacen and Lowie.
"Hi," Jaina greeted as Julia sat, Gayle and Leanne close
behind her.
"Where's TK?" Gayle asked. Jacen shrugged in
reply.
"I'm sure she'll be around in a few minutes," Leanne
commented. A few minutes later, Tenel Ka came running into the mess hall, just
as Leanne had predicted.
"Where is Master Skywalker?" she asked as she tried to catch
her breath, "There is a monster outside!"
"He was heading for his office," Leanne said, "at least, I
think he was."
Julia and Gayle rose from their seats. Jaina, Jacen, Lowie
and Leanne following, "He could be anywhere," Gayle stated. Then, knowing her
best friend was the one to handle this, and not Master Skywalker, she added,
"let's split up and look for him."
The group walked out of the cafeteria so as not to alarm
anyone else. Once they were clear of the crowd, the six friends broke into a
quick jog. With a quick nod to Gayle, Julia turned away from the group and found
a secluded area.
"Lucky thing Gayle and I planned for situations like this,"
Julia muttered under her breath.
"Hurry up and transform," Artemis instructed as he jumped
off her shoulder. Julia nodded as she took out her transformation
pen.
JULIA, BE CAREFUL came the voice from the pen. Julia jumped
at the voice, then sighed. WE STILL DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS ENEMY.
"I know Boss," she rolled her eyes. Julia could never get
used to the fact she owned a talking pen. She raised it into the air. "Moon
power make-up!" in the blink of an eye, Julia had transformed into Sailor V. She
had her white boots and blue pleated skirt, both of which had red bands on them.
She had her trademark red bow and mask and her nifty shirt with mega
shoulder-pads.
"Okay Artemis, let's go!" and with that, she jumped out the
nearest window and using a gloved hand for balance, surfed down the side of the
temple. Sailor V landed about ten meters away from the monster and posed, "You
are disturbing the peace of the Jedi Academy, for that, I cannot forgive you!
Codename: Sailor V! For love and beauty I am the sailor suited pretty girl
solder Sailor Venus!"
The monster laughed and shot spikes at Sailor V. V jumped to
the side and landed just in time to dodge again.
"Attack!" Artemis instructed as V continued
dodging.
"I can't!" she shouted in reply, "it's too fast!"
Suddenly, cards came flying though the air and struck the
monster. The cards were all Ace of Hearts. Sailor V looked to where they had
come from and saw a tall blonde guy in a mask surfing down the side of the
temple, just like she had done earlier except that he could keep his balance
without a hand to steady him.
"Sailor V, now!" he yelled. V regained her head and turned
towards the monster.
"You are so busted," she muttered, "crescent super
beam!"
"Talk about overkill," Gayle said with a raised eyebrow as
the beam hit the monster and disintegrated it. Sailor V turned and looked over
her shoulder at the gathering crowd. She grinned, love of attention getting the
best of her, until someone called her name.
"Sailor V," she turned to the young man who had helped her,
"well done," he turned to leave, and Sailor V caught his sleeve.
"Wait, who are you?" she asked.
"My name is Kaitou Ace," he replied. Then he gently pulled
away from Sailor V's grip.
"Thank you," V called after him, she couldn't just let him
walk away.
"It was an honour to help," he told her. V watched as he
walked away, then disappeared into the forest.
"Kaitou Ace," Venus whispered, staring after him. Artemis
jumped onto her shoulder.
"I think we should go now, the crowd's getting bigger," he
whispered into her ear. Venus took a deep breath and exhaled, then turned around
and waved to the crowd.
"No worries Jedi Academy," she grinned at them, "you'll be
safe from monsters as long as I'm here!" then, as the mob cheered for her,
Sailor V jumped away into the forest to return to her normal form.
~**~**~**~**~
"Venus, help me!" a voice cried out through the
darkness. Arms reached up through an all enveloping mist.
Julia sat up in bed with a jerk. She lay back down, and
started petting Artemis, who was still asleep on her bed. This was the second
night in a row she'd had this dream, it was always that short, there was nothing
more to it. Julia had no idea who the figure was, who she was supposed to help
and it was driving her nuts.
~**~**~**~**~
The next morning during one of the assemblies for new
trainees, Luke Skywalker added something extra to his speech, "I sent the
symptoms of our strange virus to Coruscant, and the doctors were not able to
diagnose it. To stop this virus, several doctors have just arrived from
Coruscant, and they are going to be taking blood samples for analyzation. If you
want to go on the overnight training hike I mentioned earlier, I suggest you
give a blood sample as soon as possible. A sample will be taken from every
trainee, so you might as well get it over with now."
"Blood sample?" Julia flinched, "maybe I don't want to go on
that hike after all."
"Oh, come on Jules," Gayle rolled her eyes.
"Yeah," Tom smiled, "it's not like anything bad will happen
to you. It's just a blood sample."
Julia approached the temple where
the people who had caught the virus were staying, and where the doctors had set
up their laboratory. She did NOT want to get her blood taken, "I hate needles!"
Julia told Artemis. As usual, he was draped across her shoulder.
"I'm getting a weird feeling from that place," Artemis
replied to her.
"Oh, how to assure someone in one easy step," Julia retorted
sarcastically. Artemis simply jumped off her shoulder and turned to face
her.
"Disguise yourself and then we can enter the building and
look around," he instructed, "oh, and here," the cat handed Julia a packet of
small cards.
"What are these?" Julia asked, inspecting the cards. They
were business cards with the symbol for Venus on them and the words Venus
Laboratories.
"Your new item," Artemis said, "they will detect the enemy
by proximity. Hand them out to as many people as possible."
Julia nodded, then pulled out her crescent compact,
"Crescent moon power transform! Change me into a doctor!" Julia was transformed
into a sophisticated looking doctor. She walked around the entire temple,
handing out her business cards, and not one went off.
Outside the temple, she all but collapsed, "Artemis, I went
through the entire temple, the operation is legit!" she insisted. Then she
noticed another trainee leaving the blood booth with some juice, "That's what I
need!" Julia sat up and headed over to where the blood samples were being
taken.
"Hi!" she greeted the doctor with a big smile. He was pretty
cute.
"I've just got to go hand in these samples," he told her,
standing up from the chair he was sitting in, "I'll be right
back."
The doctor laughed to himself he
left the tent. Yet another victim was waiting eagerly in his chair, ready to
give blood. They all thought it was for blood samples, little did they know, the
dark agency had replaced the original doctor charged with taking blood samples.
Blood was the life-force of humans, it contained vast amounts of untapped
energy. Energy their boss, Danbright could use.
"Argh! stupid bugs!" a trainee in line swatted at a
mosquito. The doctor smiled to himself.
"Yeah, they're so bad this year!" another agreed. The
mosquitoes hovered around the doctor, but none went to bite him.
"Ah, my little minions," he said to them, "soon we will have
enough blood. Soon."
The doctor came back to the tent and
started chatting with Julia to relax her as he took her blood. After he was
done, Julia stood up and grabbed the jacket she'd been wearing as a part of her
disguise. Her last card fell out of her pocket, and Julia picked it
up.
"Heh, he'll remember me if I give this to him," Julia
muttered to herself.
"Pardon me?" the doctor asked. Julia blinked.
"Oh!" she extended the card, "here-" she was interrupted by
an insistent beeping sound, coming from the card.
The doctor ran, and suddenly, a swarm of mosquitoes
surrounded the tent and started attacking everyone. They were so many that the
sun was nearly blotted out. Julia started to run after the doctor, but
collapsed.
"Julia!" Artemis ran to her side.
"I," Julia stuttered, "I'm so weak. I must have given too
much blood."
"Here!" Artemis kicked several cans of juice towards her.
Julia chugged them all one after the other.
"Alright!" she stood, "that scumbag impostor doesn't stand a
chance now, Moon Power Transform!" Julia transformed into Sailor V and rushed
after the enemy.
At the top of the temple being used
for research, V caught up with the doctor who had drained her of blood and sent
the mosquitoes after everyone residing at the Jedi Academy, "Listen here creep!"
she called to get his attention, "I gave 800ccs of blood and you didn't even
give me any juice! You're not only an impostor, but a bad one and for that I
will not forgive you! Codename: Sailor V! For love and beauty I am the sailor
suited pretty girl soldier Sailor Venus!"
"Ah, Sailor V, I thought I might run in to you," the doctor
pulled away his outfit to reveal a female form with wings, "I am
Mosquitaz!"
"Ah! You crossdressing freak!" V exclaimed, upset that the
cute doctor had been female all along, "I hate it when the badguys do
that!"
"Go my pretties!" Mosquitaz ordered. Mosquitoes seemed to
appear out of nowhere and started stinging V and Artemis.
"You son of a-" V started, "Venus citernellia typhoon!" a
mosquito coil shaped power shot through the mosquitoes straight to
Mosquitaz.
Mosquitaz convulsed a few times and then screamed,
"Danbright I have failed you!" as she turned into a normal mosquito and fell to
the ground.
Sailor V went up and squished her.
"Well done, Sailor V," V looked over to see Kaitou Ace
standing at the edge of the pyramid, "looks like you didn't need my help after
all."
"Kaitou Ace," she ran over to him, "Why? Why do you come
help me all the time?"
Kaitou Ace smiled, and put his gloved hand to V's cheek, "I
look forward to our next meeting," he started to jump off the roof, but V
grabbed his arm and pulled him back down.
"That's NOT answering my question!" she insisted, looming
over him. Ace shook his head to recover from the shock of being thrown onto his
back. He laughed lightly as he stood.
"Always strong," he smiled at her, "Alright I'll tell you.
It's because," he bent over and kissed her lightly on the lips, "I Love
you."
V went bright red and her jaw dropped. Kaitou just smiled at
her and then jumped off the roof of the small temple and into the jungle as he
had originally planned.
~**~**~**~**~
From a tree, someone watched the entire thing. She narrowed
her eyes as Kaitou Ace disappeared. She did not trust the masked man one bit, he
gave her bad vibes. She only hoped that Artemis could feel them as
well.
~**~**~**~**~
"I don't think you should go on this hike," Artemis said as
Julia repacked all her gear, trying to get it all into the small knapsack she
was given.
"And why not?" Julia asked indignantly, swinging around to
face her pet cat and guardian and putting her hands on her hips, "I have a life
you know! I am in the middle of training to become a Jedi Knight, for your
information!"
"Yes, but with all the enemies attacking, you've battled
dozens since the mosquito incident, and none have given us any leads. That means
there's still a boss out there somewhere," Artemis replied, "it's dangerous for
you to leave. You know that supposed virus going around is because of
them!"
"And I haven't told Master Skywalker a thing about it,"
Julia growled, "just like you said. I hate having to keep information from him
like this! I think he knows too!" she threw her arms up in the air, then turned
around and went back to packing.
JULIA
Julia sighed and rolled her eyes. Then took out her
transformation pen and pulled on the star at the top. An antenna extended, so
she could communicate with Boss, whoever, or whatever, he was.
"What is it now?" Julia sighed impatiently.
YOU MUST TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY. THESE ENEMIES POSE A REAL
THREAT TOWARDS THE GALAXY.
"No," Julia's voice dripped with sarcasm,
"really?"
I'VE TRACED SOME OF THE ENEMIES AND THEY COME FROM A VAST
DIMENSION. THERE IS MORE TO THEM THAN MEETS THE EYE. IF THIS ORGANIZATION IS AS
BIG AS I THINK IT IS, THEN YOU'LL HAVE YOUR WORK CUT OUT FOR YOU.
"Yeah, well," Julia fastened her sleeping bag to its proper
spot with lashing cord as she finished her packing, "it won't be anything a Jedi
Knight won't be able to handle, and I'll be one step closer after going on this
hike. See, win win situation. I'm really doing this for my training, not because
Tom's going and he's a real babe."
Artemis lowered his head, and even Julia's pen seemed to be
a tad embarrassed for her. Julia's doors swooshed open and Gayle stuck her head
in the room, breaking up the silence.
"Hey, it's almost time to go, you ready?" she asked. Julia
swung her backpack onto her back, stumbled a few steps as she adjusted to the
weight, then gave Gayle the V is for Victory sign.
"All set! Let's book it!" the two girls giggled at the
cheesy Sailor Moon saying and then dashed through the Great
Temple.
"Who's he?" Julia whispered to Tom
once they got to the docking bay, where the rest of the newbies going on the
hike had gathered. The leader of the hike, the man in question, was a bearded,
graying, spindly old man. Both Julia and Gayle had the feeling that his wiry
frame was more powerful than he let on.
"Streen, one of Master Skywalker's first students," Tom
replied.
Julia nodded, "A hermit from Bespin," she added, thinking
back to the Jedi Academy Trilogy. Gayle glanced around at the small
group.
"Well, so long as there aren't too many of us, it makes
sense that he would lead the hike," she said.
"Okay, we're all here," Streen said, after a quick count of
heads, "Let's get going. I may seem to be walking a little slow at first, but
we've got a lot of ground to cover, and we have to pace
ourselves."
An afternoon's worth of walking
later, all Julia could do was concentrate on not complaining about how much her
feet hurt her. She had inherited very sensitive feet from her father's side of
the family, and right now, it was not doing her any good.
"Alright everyone," Streen spoke up as they stopped, "I'm
going to check around, but so far, this looks like the best place to setup
camp."
Everyone sat down and several contented sighs escaped from
the trainees. "Ah, sitting," Julia sighed happily.
"Oh, come on, it can't be that bad," Gayle rolled her eyes.
She was quite used to her friend's complains.
"Are you crazy?! My feet hurt so much my lower back is
starting to hurt!" Julia stated. Gayle simply shook her head.
"Poor girl," Tom said as he sat down beside her. Julia
smiled at him and blinked a couple of times. As Tom looked over towards where
Streen had vanished into the forest, Julia squinted at his profile. He reminded
her of someone.
"Hey, Jules," Gayle whispered into her ear, "Tom kinda looks
like Kaitou Ace, doesn't he."
Julia's eyes widened as the recognition hit her, but she
didn't let on, "naw," she shook her head and turned to her friend, "Ace is way
more built," she grinned.
Just then, Streen came back into the clearing and announced
that everyone should set their tents. By the time everyone was set up, the sun
was half hidden behind Yavin. Once everyone had their tents set up, they were
sent out to go find wood for campfires.
Julia inspected the fallen tree branches for size, and
dryness. Wouldn't do to have wet logs for their fire unless they wanted to smoke
signal the rest of the trainees at the Great Temple. Julia straightened from
picking up a suitable log, and saw Tom not to far away, engrossed in trying to
find more firewood.
"Kaitou Ace," she called to him. Tom looked up, then blinked
in surprise. Julia smiled at his reaction, and her stroke of luck. The two guys
she liked were in actuality the same person.
"So," he said, approaching Julia. He stepped behind the
trunk of one tree, and when he stepped into view again, he was Kaitou Ace, "you
figured it out, Venus."
Julia's eyes went wide, but she had no time to react to the
fact that he knew who she was, for the branch off one of the trees cracked and
started falling, "Look out!" Julia barreled into him, and pushed Kaitou Ace out
of the way. The two landed hard on the ground, Julia on her hands and knees
above of Kaitou Ace.
"How- how did you know who I was?" Julia asked him. She took
a deep breath and tried to use some Jedi calming exercises that Luke had taught
her. Kaitou Ace touched her cheek with a gloved hand.
"I told you," he replied, "I love you. I know everything
about you."
"Everything?" Julia squeaked.
"Being protected by you, it's like a dream come true,"
Kaitou Ace told her, "Will you always protect me?"
"I will always protect you," she told him. The words echoed
in her head and she knew she'd said them before. Her dream flashed before her
eyes. Arms reaching up through the mist. Kaitou Ace touched her cheek with his
gloved hand, and brought Julia's face closer to his own.
"Venus! Help me!"
Something about it didn't fit. The figure had long hair. It
wasn't Kaitou Ace that she was supposed to be protecting. They were about to
kiss. Julia pulled backwards and broke free of Kaitou Ace's arms.
"No! You're not the one I'm supposed to protect!" she
screamed.
"How dare you treat Master Danbright in such a manner!"
Streen came out of nowhere. Now Julia was completely and utterly
confused.
"Wait a minute!? Ace, you're with them!?" she asked him,
betrayal playing across her face, "and aren't you supposed to be a Jedi
Knight!?" Julia turned to Streen.
Something in Streen's face changed, and it became evil and
dark, "Ah, but I am not who you think I am," he replied, "Now show me your true
face, Sailor V."
"Isn't that supposed to be a SECRET!?" Julia shouted to no
one in particular. She took a deep breath, and set her jaw, "Fine, you asked for
it. Moon power transform! Codename: Sailor V! I will not allow you to abduct
helple- well, unsuspecting Jedi Knights! For love and beauty I am the sailor
suited pretty girl soldier Sailor Venus! In the name of the planet Venus, I will
punish you!"
"Pretty words," the evil Streen told her, "I look forward to
jamming them down your throat! Dragon boomerang!"
A large crescent went flying and Sailor V, and with a
screech, she caught it on the flat part with the palms of her hands, just before
it gouged into her, "Sailor V!" Artemis yelled, as he bounded onto the scene. He
unfortunately bounded a little too far, and was suddenly trapped in a cage by
the enemy.
"Mmm," Streen licked his lips, "what a plump cat, I'll be
having a good bbq tonight!"
"Artemis!" V yelled. "That does it you... Crescent super
beam EXPLOSION!"
The power hit the evil Streen and there was a large
explosion that rocked the ground. It cleared a good portion of the trees around
them, and set fire to the remaining kindling. V surveyed the carnage around
her.
"Uh, maybe I went a little overboard."
~**~**~**~**~
Gayle was just about to return to the campsite, when a
tremor ran though the ground, and an explosion erupted not so far from where she
was, "Don't tell me," she muttered to herself, hoping her friend was
alright.
"Gayle, Sailor V needs your help," came a voice, Gayle
looked around and saw no one, "Down here," the voice specified. Gayle looked
down, and saw a black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead.
~**~**~**~**~
logs fell on Artemis' cage, trapping him dangerously close
to the fire. Tears welled up in V's eyes as the destruction took the form of a
ornate building, a palace, she'd seen destroyed a long time ago.
Ace was standing amidst the destruction, "Now I will fight
you," he said.
"Look out!" Sailor V cried, more falling branches. V
couldn't see either of them, there was too much smoke and ash kicked up by the
falling branches.
"It's starting again!" a vision flashed before Sailor V's
eyes, a princess and a palace, "STOP!" V yelled. Her body was filled with light
as she fell to her knees, and suddenly, she remembered.
She remembered the moon kingdom, her friends. The other
Sailor Warriors, and the destruction. She was now Sailor Venus, her body suit
the normal fashion, her skirt orange, her bow a navy blue.
Ace stepped out through the destruction, and removed his
mask to reveal the symbol for the planet Venus on his forehead, "This was how I
knew," he told her, "My name is Adonis. I have been waiting for you for a long
time."
Venus raised her eyebrow, "Adonis, you're from the planet
Venus as well?"
"Back in our previous lifetime, I was but a common soldier,"
he told her, "and you, you were the warrior in the castle, illuminating us all.
Then war came, I was serving directly under Prince Endymion, and got a look at
you up close. Beautiful and deadly, protecting the princess of the moon. You
never gave me a second glance, you were so preoccupied by one of the four
generals of the Prince, but I knew then," Adonis held Sailor Venus, "that we'd
be together one day."
"Adonis," Venus whispered.
"But there is only one true destiny," Adonis pulled away
from her, and a card appeared in his hand, "I was ressurected to fight you, for
the Negamoon."
Tears sprung to Venus' eyes, "I can't fight you! You've
helped me all this time! You've saved my life!"
"Odd isn't it," he replied, "I've saved you, only to kill
you in the end."
"Over my dead body!" came a third voice. Venus and Adonis
turned to see another sailor warrior standing amidst the ashes and fire, "For
love and justice I am the sailor suited beautiful girl soldier Sailor Moon! In
the name of the moon of Earth, I will punish you! Moon tiara action!"
Sailor Moon attacked Adonis and he began to turn to dust,
"I'm sorry, Tom," Venus whispered, "One last time," she called, "Venus power!
Moon crescent shower! Rain pour down!"
With the cleansing rain, Adonis' body dissapeared, and the
fire caused by Venus' explosion was extinguished. Sailor Moon cautiously
approached Sailor Venus, who was standing rigidly with her head lowered so her
hair blocked her face.
"Sailor Venus, are you alright?" Moon asked. Venus took a
deep breath.
"Fine!" she turned to Moon and, with a big smile on her
face, extended her right hand, "Welcome to the team."
The End