Dawn rose quietly over the soon to be busy city. It stretched lazily over the roof tops of the high rise buildings. It seemed that the whole city was just waking from a dreamless sleep, after a long and dark night.

One stood alone on a roof top, her day was not beginning, in her mind it should have ended long ago. She like the rising sun, stretch lazily and yawned. With a quick shake of her head, and one last stretch the woman started jumped down from the roof.

Continuing to leap from roof top to roof top, she finally stopped and transformed back into her normal school uniform and ran down the flight of stairs. It was going to be a long day, to add a very long night.

"Li, LI!" Artemis Li or Li as she was known as in her new home country frowned at the homeroom teacher, wondering what she missed. " Li-san? Are you alright? I called your name from the list three times. Do you need to see the nurse?"

The homeroom teacher looked concerned at her new student, the girl with silverfish-gray hair that reminded the teacher of her ageing mother, but it was the black eyes that worried the teacher the most about her student's appearance.

Li's eyes were like a black void, nothing seemed to be able to touch those emotionless black holes, the only thing that seemed to reach them was a deep sadness. A sadness that nothing seemed to be able to break it.

Li had only arrived in her classroom a few days ago and already she had proven a concern. Artemis pulled a fake smile and said with her usual musical tones; " Sorry, Sensei, I was daydreaming, It won't happen again. "

The homeroom teacher shook her head and started the lesson, the day passed quickly to Artemis. It was gone and the night came, time for her nightly duty.

Artemis looked around and slipped into an empty alleyway. " Ante Iron makeup.."

And once more Artemis a normal Japanese high school student was transformed into her true form, a sailor senshi. Gray top with black highlights, gray boots black trim, gray gloves also with gray trim, at the center her compact stood a cracked blood red heart against the muted tones of her Sailor senshi uniform.

In her hands, she held her mask, she stared sadly at it and put it on. The night called to Sailor Iron heart, and she answered the call with a swift jump to the nearest roof top looking for trouble, something to distract her from the memories which haunted her.

A scream, Iron heart ran towards the sound and jumped down from her world of rooftops to below where a girl laid on the ground a monster sucking something from the girl's wide and open mouth. The girl was unconscious unaware of the beast feeding on her, Iron heart sighed it was the third this week.

Iron heart took her battle stance; " In the name of the Forgotten kingdom, I will punish you vile demon of the underworld. " She flicked her wrists, allowing her pair crossed blades, now as deer mantle blades.

The monster turned to Iron heart with a sneer; " You human, you think that you can defeat me? Alone no less, Ha I laugh at the thought." Iron heart bowed her head and changed her stance to a wider range, lifting her head. " I'm sorry," She whispered.

"Twisted Thorn Attack..." Iron heart ran swiftly lanching her twin paired blades, they glowed red, and black, transforming into the blades into thorns.

The blades tore into the monster's chest, making it howl in rage. It forgot the girl, that had laid on the ground and lumbered towards Ironheart growling. It slashed at Iron heart using its huge claws, it narrowly missing her by inches.

The beast slashed again this time tearing at Iron heart's chest, causing Iron heart to stumble backwards. She stood one arm clutching her chest and the other arm down, in a fist. "Midnight bloom.." At those words the monster felt a deeper pain, the beast tried to tear out the cursed blades out but it was too late. BOOM!

The monster exploded with a blast of heat, all that was of the monster was a charred circle where it once stood. In the circle laid her pair of twin blades, perfectly shining waiting to be picked up.

Iron heart stumbled over picking up the blades with one hand, the one arm still clutching her chest holding against the wound. She fell to her knees and sat there until she heard the noise of the girl waking, upon hearing the noise, Iron heart stood quickly and started to walk away slowly disappearing into the night.

The girl on the ground, stood up and looked at the disappearing figure of her saviour, wondering if she would ever see her saviour again, to properly thank her.

Iron heart leaped from rooftop to rooftop, trying hard not to pass out, she was almost there dammit. Home or rather the place that now was her home was a small apartment in the lower half of the city.

"There.." Iron leaped down from the roof into an empty alleyway beside her apartment complex, and stood. " Reverse Makeup.." Transforming back into her normal school girl self, she walked out of the alley and into her building, up the stairs and into her apartment.

The one bedroom apartment seemed to welcome Artemis in, she stumbled to the bathroom, barely making it. She started Tearing through the medicine cabinet, looking for the first aid kit. Artemis bandaged herself up and walked a shaky couple of steps to her bed and fell into a dreamless sleep.


The edited version of Iron heart ch.1, I hope that this is easier and clearer to the reader. Thanks for reading :)