Senshi Academy of Zephyrus Prime Chapter one New Senshi, New Enemies

Disclaimer: The concept of Sailor Moon and Sailor Senshi is copyright Takeuchi Naoko and whomever else holds the copyright. The new characters are copyright, so to speak, Erin-hime (me). I'm not making any money off of this, as you generally know.

"Sweetheart, I'm giving you this locket for safe keeping. I don't want anything to happen to it while I'm gone, you see? Once I return, you can give it back to me."

The little girl stared up at her mother with tear-filled, wide brown eyes, and took the proffered necklace. The little girl had envied the piece of jewelry for years, and now it was hers to watch, finally. It was unfortunate that the circumstancing in which she received the locket wasn't so hard. "I promise I won't let anything happen to it, Mommy."

The little girl fell into the embrace her mother held out for her, letting her tears out in streams. She felt a little warm wetness on her shoulder, and looked up to see her mother crying. "I love you, my little mouse. Remember, I will always love you."

The little girl then felt strong arms pull her away, and looked up in time to see her father and mother kiss one finally time before she ran to get onto the transport ship. The little girl waved, although she knew her mother couldn't see her, as the ship fired up it's engines and left the port.

She felt a strong hand reach out and grab her own. She turned her head, red hair slapping gently across her face as she looked up at the kind green eyes of her father. "Come on, Erin. We don't want to keep Eurus waiting any longer, now do we?" She smiled at her father's strong, kind voice, and started walking with him.

She looked up once last time to see the glowing light jump into hyperspace. Little did Erin know, but that was the last time she would see her mother alive.

Erin O'Colley sat on her bed cross-legged, twirling her locket between her fingers. She held onto that locket with her life, even after the reports came of pirate ships attacking her mother's ship, and after her mother's officers came to their tiny home with the body of Mrs. O'Colley so they could have a proper burial. She heard the light rain pang against her stained glass window, being her out of her reverie and remembering the reason she was in her room in the first place.

Training classes were usually held outside during the warm months, and the inside training room is usually closed for whatever repairs were needed from the cold season training. So, when it rains, class gets cancelled, and they are sent to their rooms with some sort of assignment that the professor forgets about for the next class. Usually, students take this time for leisure activities, like her roommate Jenna McHaley was doing. Her soft snores made Erin smile.

Jenna was two years older than herself, and was two years higher in class rank. However, they ran out of rooms, and stuck those tow together because Erin was of a high rank in her class, and Jenna's old roommate had lost her powers randomly the previous year. Jenna was Sailor Aegir, much the same way Erin was Sailor Aeolus. However, unlike Erin, Jenna had a twin brother who also attended the Academy. And he was pretty hot.

Erin shifted on her bed so that her arms were behind her, and she smiled. She liked lazy days like this, where no one came come and bother her, where she could think and read and study without one of her friends popping in a disturbing her. Her guardian cat Eurus was curled up asleep in her lap, her kitty tummy moving slowly with the rhythm of her breathing, and Erin's legs were falling asleep. She just shook her head.

A knock up on the inner door caused Erin to jump, and the door, which apparently Jenna had forgotten to lock when she stumbled in after Erin, opened a creak. Erin's light brown eyes met with a one green one, and Erin knew it was Jenna's twin, Patrick.

"Hey there, O'Colley. My sister awake?"

Erin all but threw the pillow she was leaning on at him. "No, she's not. Go away, Patrick!" She was actually the only who was allowed to call him that. She didn't know the reason, but she overheard him once telling Jenna that her voice was like the calling of the guardian angels that protected their planet. She assumed that was saying her voice was soft and soothing, but it has just caused her dislike for the boy to grow slightly.

"Woah, chill out, Negumi. I was just checking. You know if she has her biology homework finished?" Erin glanced over at her roommate's desk, where she could plainly see the finished assignment.

"No, I can honestly tell you she hasn't. I don't even think she's started it yet." Erin hated moochers.

Patrick humphed. "Fine. Tell her to meet me by the garden door whenever she gets around to waking up." He was still standing in the doorway, which allowed him to slither out in his normal way.

Erin glared at the door, listening to the slight snores of both her roommate and her cat. While the encounter was hardly anything to get riled up about, she was still annoyed for some odd reason, and she felt her adrenaline pumping through her veins. Feeling a bit restless, she grabbed Eurus fully, causing the cat to wake up started, and headed out of room.

She had to be sneaky, since you had to have a legitimate reason to be out of your room while you were supposed to be in class. Placing her back against the wall, Erin walked slowly and quietly down the hall, and into the Lower Upper class hall. It looked sort of like a Terran hotel or something, with many doors guarded by two windows. From personally experience, and because her room was set up similarly, Erin knew that each room at a small living area, a bedroom, a bathroom, and a kitchen pretty much in the living room.

Coming up to her desired location, Erin didn't even bother to knock, knowing her best friend, Terra Fitz, all too well. She was probably either also asleep due to extreme boredom, or some was using the punching bag set up in her room at was a present from the group of friends she and Erin belonged to. Erin creaked open the door, just in case Terra was asleep, and found a shock within.

Terra, tomboy Terra, was standing in front of her full length mirror, her hair down, and examining herself in a very revealing dress. Or at least revealing for Terra, because, actually, it was a very pretty dress, even on Terra.

"Terra?!?!" Terra turned around, taken totally by surprise at the voice, and blushed in such a way Erin had never seen. The blush eased a little once she saw who it was.

"My Goddess, Mousie, you gave me heart quite a jump there, lass." Terra brushed back a little piece of jade green bang that had fallen in her green eye.

Erin grinned. "That's very...becoming on you, Terra." Terra glared, and Erin, laughing to a point of near incapacitation, had to dodge a very hard pillow throw just as hard at her.

Picking up the pillow from the hallway, Erin walked into the room and sat on Terra's bed while Terra slipped into the shower with her normal clothes. Erin let Eurus go, who yawned, and curled up next to Erin, but with her light brown eyes focus and unwavering. "So, Mousie, what brings you to me humble abode?"

Erin giggled. "Nothing, I was just bored, and felt like coming down here to talk to be best friend? Is that such a crime?"

Terra opened the shower door wearing something more Terra-esque. "Ah, Pat came by your room just now, and your pissed, and you have no clue why."

Erin shifted her gaze downward. "Yeah."

Terra sat down beside her friend. "Well, it seems to me, not matter how much you deny it, that he either likes you, or you like him, and are just in denile."

Erin glared at her, and heard Eurus puring. "Oh, and I bet you think so to?"

Eurus shrugged, or did as close the shrugging as a cat could do. "He does like to come into our room, even when Jenna isn't there."

"Smite you! He may like me, but I'll never like him like that, especially when he knows just what brings me to my boiling point."

"Mmm hmm. In any case," she glanced at the window at the dwindling rain, "it seems like this isn't going to be an all day thing. Sad, isn't it."

"Hai. I really didn't really want to go to evening training, but I guess we can't have everything, eh?"

Terra giggled, one of the few things most people wouldn't expect of her. Naturally, Erin blamed Angelica for this monstrosity. The jade green haired reached over and started stoking Eurus. "I'm being to wonder, though, if this repetitive training's actually going to help us in the long run."

Erin looked confused. "What do you mean?"

"Well, think about it. After a while, we'll get comfortable with our partner's attacks, and, even if we keep switching around, we'll start adjusting our attacks to specifically match our partner's strengths and weaknesses. That means our attacks will eventually be useless against anyone but our partners."

"Do you enjoy torturing your soul with this kind of talk, or are you really that bored?"

"A little of both, actually."

"Ah, ok, just making sure I wasn't going nuts for a sec there."

The two girls gave each other silly grins before lying back and stretching out on Terra's bed, getting comfortable, and dreading the inevitable bell to signal the start of the next class.

~~~~@

"Blast these infernal senshi." The raven haired senshi cracked her whip at some charging senshi, causing black electricity to fry the poor soul. "There's too many of them."

The senshi turned to her lieutenant, who blasted a few 'good' senshi away with a massive fireball. "Mistress, we can't possibly win this one, we have to pull back!"

The raven haired senshi growled. "I don't want to except defeat. To do that means weakness in our strategy, and you know that Lord Beserk would never let that happen." She glanced over at her lieutenant who was looking at her with large, scared red eyes.

"Mistress, there's a saying on my world that may come in handy with this situation. Leave a battle to fight another day."

The raven haired senshi stopped for a moment, thinking about what her senshi said. "Yes, yes, I think I may be able to convince Lord Beserk of that. Pull out!" The senshi fighting them screeched to a halt as the warriors they were fighting all disappeared in several flashes of light.

The raven haired senshi cringed when she realized she was in her lord's chambers. "Nemesis! What is the meaning of this! I know you haven't finished your battle!"

"There was a flaw in the plan, your Lordship. Something leaked, and the senshi knew we were attacking!"

"Yes, yes." The huge man placed a hand on his chin. "I caught the traitor, but I wasn't sure what leaked out before I devoured his soul. Alright, Nemesis, I'll let this slide this once, but, mark my words, unless you think of an even better plan, your soul shall become my next meal."

Nemesis was sort of shocked that the confrontation went so well, but didn't hesitate in his order. She quickly ushered her 'troops' into her own command portion of the castle.

"Alright, Eris, we're going to have to think of something better than that to get back in his good graces. Any suggestions?"

"I'll all out." Eris was an odd looking senshi, with deep blue skin, pointed ears, a long, forked tail, and two black antennae constantly feeling the air. Nemesis was shorted than Ate, and had reddish raven hair and brown eyes.

"I think I may have thought up something." They all turned to the new comer, someone who hadn't been in battle with them. She was the tallest of the three, with long, long brown hair hanging straight down her back to her knees, and black eyes that seemed to glow in the darkness.

"Discordia! How dare you show your face abandoning us before the battle."

"Dear, dear, Nemesis. You didn't expect me to get my hands dirty in a little battle you surely weren't going to win, were you?"

Nemesis growled. "What is your plan, Discord? Tell me before I rip your head off."

"Tsk, tsk, mistress. You shouldn't lose your head like that."

"NOW Discordia."

"Alright, alright, I just figured why go for the fully trained senshi base? Why not get rid of them all before they become all might and powerful."

"Are you suggesting time travel again?"

"Good heavens, no. I'm suggesting attack that little Academy they had set up. After all, Beserk did say he didn't care when his plan was carried out, as long as it was carried out eventually."

Nemesis thought for a moment. "Now I remember why I keep you around. Lotus, tell Lord Berserk we have our new plan ready!"

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"Ok, tell me again why we're skipping class?" Mickel Tallis, a young black haired boy, looked sharply at Patrick. The red and orange haired boy just gave him a mischievous smile.

"Ah, come on now, Tallis, you know Pat would never reveal his plan to us until we're finished with it. It's just how the dolt is." Jake Majire, a blond with light brown eyes, crept up a little closer.

"What did you just call me?"

"Wait. Pat, we aren't scaring Jenna again, are we? Because, remember, the last time we did it, she threatened to tear our skin off the next time we did it."

"No, no, it's not that."

"We're not scared anyone else, are we?"

"No, this isn't a scaring mission!"

"Then what is it! And why did you whisper that?"

"Because Professor Madison just walked by!"

"Oh. Don't I feel stupid."

Patrick glared at Tallis' dry comment, and peeked around the corner again. It was afternoon class for the trio of boys, and they weren't all that worried about getting caught. Most of the professors were teaching, and wouldn't have time to patrol the hallways. "In any case, we need to figure out the quickest to the library."

"Down the hall, to your right, past the cafeteria, and down those stairs."

Patrick and Tallis raised an eyebrow at Jake. "Spend too much time down there?"

"Meh." Tallis and Patrick gave him odd smiles, then slowly started heading down the hallways.

"Mr. McHaley, Tallis, and Majire! I do hope you have a good excuse this time!" All three boys stopped and cringed at the sounds of their headmistress' voice.

"Headmistress! How...nice to see you out and about." They all cowered under the piercing green gaze of the headmistress.

"Mr. McHaley. Come with me to my office. We'll have a little...chat. As for you to..." the two boys shrank , "I'll except you had nothing to do with this, and I simply am going to tell you to get back to class."

Tallis and Jake sighed in relief, and walked as quickly as they could to their class. Upon entering, they found all eyes turned on them suddenly, and they slank to their seats.

"I'm guessing Patrick had something planned for you?" Erin leaned over a little from her desk, which was next to Tallis', and looked him in the eye. He blushed.

"Yeah. We didn't find out what, though. Professor Madison caught us this time before we could weasel it out of him."

Erin giggled silently, then turned to listen intently to what the professor had to say, leaving Tallis to be listen to the droning voice of the history professor. He was talking about something which Tallis could care less about, the Alliance Senshi, the only senshi group in this particular galaxy. Unfortunately, the group disbanded several centuries ago, so Tallis really didn't care.

On the other side of the room, Jake was looking uncomfortable while Sunny, Terra, and Melody poked him with their writing utensils. It seemed to be an unspoken agreement between the three that they would do that whenever he came in late for class. Which actually was hardly ever, besides when Patrick gets them into trouble.

Jake turned in his seat. "Do you mind?" He hissed, causing the girls to jump back a little, and start giggling. Jake slumped in his seat, and folded his arms, deciding that he'll never get girls and their annoying little habits.

The rest of the class time went like this, with the professor not paying attention to the antics of his students. He was too used to it, and knew there was nothing he could do to stop it other than to turn and face the class. He did that several times when things got out of control, but he mostly stood at the board, writing stuff down.

When the bell rang, it was like a blessing to the students, who where all out of the room before the bell stopped ringing. "Gah, why did he have to be so monotonal?" Terra stuck a finger in her ear and twisted it. "I feel like my brain is mush."

"Your brain is mush, Terra. You seem to keep forgetting that." Terra swatted at Erin, who just gave her a big grin. The five girls walked in a big group to lunch, which was fairly early for them this year. The Lower Class has theirs early, and the Middle Class had theirs really late. The Upper class has it in the middle, the perfect time slot. Erin had always thought it odd that they did it that way.

Heading to their usual table, a big one for the large group that ended up sitting there, they set down their books and things and headed for the lunch line. They always ate in the cafeteria, while most opted for lunch in their rooms, so there weren't too many people in line. The girls talked and laughed over an event for the day before as they got their personalized trays, and then headed back to the table.

Erin stopped as she approached, as did the other girls. Four other people were occupying the table, in the extra spots available. "Hey there, O'Colley. Mind if we join you?"

Erin felt her face go red in anger, but the other girls giggled and started heading over to the table. Erin held out a hand to stop them. "Yes, we do mind, McHaley. Maybe if you asked after we had sat down, then I might have said yes, but..."

Terra cut her off. "Aw look, she's blushing. Chill out Mousie. It's just for one day." With that, she pushed by Erin, and sat in her seat.

Erin was now seeing red, and just stood there as her friends went to their seats. Oddly, Jake had positioned himself next to Sunny, and Sunny looked happy about that. Jenna was sitting next to Terra, having a nice conversation with her, and Patrick was sitting next to his sister. Tallis was sitting next to Erin's empty seat, looking like he really didn't want to be there and make her mad. She sighed, and gave in at his scared smile.

"So, Patrick, what were you doing before last class?"

Patrick looked at her with sly green eyes. "Nope, confidential information."

Tallis leaned over. "I don't even think he knows what he was doing."

Erin mouthed an 'oh' while Patrick interjected with a "Hey!" Tallis just smiled.

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The girls' smiled as they waved their good-bys to one another, each having a different class after lunch. Erin, Melody, and Tallis had the same class, and Patrick had a class in the same hallway, so the four started heading in the same direction, with Tallis shooting evil looks to Patrick as he walked a little too close to Erin. Erin didn't see this, but happily talked to Melody.

Patrick glanced over at Tallis and caught the look before Tallis adverted his eyes. "What's you're problem?" He hissed at him.

"What do you mean?" Tallis responded, a little too harshly, giving himself away.

"Well, whenever I walk near Erin, you give me this nasty looks."

Tallis humphed. "I just don't want to see her hook up with someone like you, and get herself hurt."

Patrick blinked at the statement. It sort of clicked, but Patrick didn't fully understand it. But he was taken back none the less. "What makes you think I have feelings like that for Erin?"

This took Tallis back, and he opened his mouth several times before accepting defeat. "It's ok, man. Just have to make sure you're not going to bite my head off at any point." Patrick placed an arm around Tallis and punched him in the shoulder. Melody turned as Tallis started rubbing his arm.

"Aw, isn't that sweet." Tallis stuck his tongue out at the girl. Erin just kept walking, a little ahead of the group, ignoring like she always did the banter about her.

They turned the corner, about the send Patrick off, when a flash of light caught them off guard. "What the...?" Erin removed her arm from in front of her eyes, and had to stare. There, right in front of them, were three senshi, all standing in a menacing pose.

"Hello there, children. Care to have a little...fun?" The middle one, who was also the shortest one, gave them an evil stare. Erin, Tallis, Patrick, and Melody just stood there in shock. After all, people don't usually appear in a flash of light in the middle of the hallway, right?

"Who...who are you people?" Erin couldn't seem to get her voice working. None of them could move, for the shock seemed to have immobilized their nervous system.

"tsk Haven't you heard of the most powerful faction in the universe, the Dark Coalition? Probably not, having been coped up and naïve to the universe around you. Oh well. I am Sailor Discordia, mistress of chaos, and destroyer of senshi!"

"I am Sailor Eris, senshi of turmoil, and destroyer of worlds!"

"I am Sailor Nemesis, senshi of revenge, and, um, destroyer of peace!" They all struck dramatic poses, and the four civilians still stared on in shock.

Melody leaned over to Erin. "Aren't we supposed to be the ones striking dramatic poses?"

"Maybe they hadn't read the rule book yet?" The three new senshi just stared at each other, blinking.

They shook their heads. "No matter, transform, or you shall die a rather painful death as you are!" The one who called herself Sailor Eris pointed at them, a small fireball forming at her fingertip. The foursome decided it was best to follow their instructions other than getting their instructors to help.

"Aeolus Wind Power, Make-up!"

"Draco Dragon Power, Make-up!"

"Not Knight Power, Transform!"

"Aegir Knight power, Transform!" With a very flashy light show, all four teenagers transformed into their true forms, protectors of their planets, and prepared for their first real battle.

"You will regret ever telling us to do that! Prepare to taste the ground!" Aeolus stood with her hands on her hips, a determined look on her face. No matter how many times she transformed, she could never get use to the bandages on her stomach, forearms, and forelegs. She just prayed they wouldn't get in her way.

"Small words from a small enemy. We'll just see how powerful you really are. Eris Sun Spot!"

The four easily jumped out of the way of the fire ball thrown at them, Aeolus bouncing off the wall she rammed into. Making sure her friends weren't hurt, she was caught unexpected of the next attack. "Nemesis Thunder Whip!" The whip wrapped around Aeolus' neck, and gave her quite a shock.

"Aeolus!" Draco ran to her friend, who had fallen to her knees, gasping for breath. The boys glanced over to see if she was all right.

"I'm.....fine...." She looked fine, and sounded fine, as if the attack only affected her breathing. The boys gave a small relieved smile, then turned back to the fight.

They each took a defensive position. "Ok, I'll attack first, then you attack immediately afterwards."

"Ok, sounds like a plan." Aegir Knight prepared for his part, which was actually something hard to do. Sending their attacks at the precise moment to be most effective.

"Blinding Darkness!" The four younger senshi adverted their eyes as Nott sent out his attack towards the 'evil people'. It actually took Nemesis and Eris by surprise, but Discordia caught what the others were doing, and adverted her eyes as well.

"Aegir Frozen Water!" Aegir Knight drove his attack towards the Dark Senshi, freezing and further immobilizing Nemesis and Eris. Discordia, however, being the most strategized of the group, leaped out of the way, and landed fairly close to Nott and Aegir Knight,

The boys were taken by surprise, and Discordia was able to hit them perfectly with her attack. "Chaos Reign!" The boys were hit by a black void, and sent flying into the wall behind them, knocking them unconscious. Discordia looked over to where Aeolus was still gasping in the hold of Draco.

"Don't you want to play too, my dear?" Draco was looking in shock at Nott and Aegir Knight not really sure what to do.

She then glanced at Aeolus, who looked up at her with strained eyes, and a calm came over Draco. "I don't know who are really are, and where you came from, but no one comes and hurts my friends without just cause. Now you will face my wrath, and you'll be lucky if you survive. Draco Energy Dragon!"

Her eyes almost glowing red, Draco placed her hands by her ruby brooch which started to glow. A small vaporous thing started to form from her brooch, and Discordia somehow couldn't take her eyes off it. It slowly formed into a dragon, a golden one that was almost blinding, and it gave a mighty roar. Before Discordia had a chance to respond, it jumped at her and lightning speed, and Draco smirched at her terrified scream as it slammed into her.

However, her smile faded as she saw her disappear, along with Nemesis and Eris, in the middle of the attack.

The attack faded fairly quickly, and Draco stood, still ready to fight, in a scorched hallway. Aeolus stood up, her breath back but still hand to throat, and walked up to her friend. Placing a hand on her shoulder, Aeolus looked at Draco. "Don't worry. I have a feeling that this won't be the last we see of those three."

Draco nodding, and looked over to the fallen boys, who were moaning, and trying to get up from the jumbled up heap of arms and legs that Discordia's attack left them in. "I guess we should tell Headmistress Madison about thins one. I mean, who couldn't see the scorch marks from my attack?"

Aeolus simply smiled, and walked over with Draco to help the boys to the imfirmary.