The Chibi Sailors

Episode 1

A good while into the future there is a well known family which is mostly taken for granted that they are happy. They do rule the earth after all. They had two daughters, the older of which was married and happy with her only daughter. The younger daughter however was NOT content with life as it was. She looked more like the beautiful Neo-Queen Serenity, and yet her older sister would be the one to inherit, because she had inherited her mother's power as Sailor Moon.

The younger daughter had been named Chisaki. She was pretty, with long blond hair pulled into what her father called "The Family Odangos". Chisaki wore the two buns on each side of the top of her head. The strangest part of poor Chisaki (or Saki as she was often called) was that her stunning green eyes didn't seem to fit with the rest of her family.

Her older sister had been dubbed Sailor Chibi Moon, and when her daughter's power had awoken she was called Sailor Chibi Chibi Moon. They all wielded the silver Imperium Crystal's power in their own time. But poor Saki had no crystal to wield, she had no power and so she despaired.

"Saki!" It was Tomoko who had come to try to cheer her up…again. Tomoko had inherited her mother's power as Sailor Chibi Mercury, so she was no comfort even though she was very smart.

"Oh…Hi Tomi," Saki said tiredly.

"Akako's coming over soon, she promised she'd come over from the temple as soon as she had time," Tomi said happily.

"Ah, Tomi, you know we'll just start fighting again, the two of us are just too much like our mothers for our own good," Saki sighed worriedly.

"I heard that!" A light breathy voice said from behind. It was Asako; her bangs were longer in the center of her head than at the sides. She had inherited her mother's slightly reddish black hair; she even kept it long like her mother. Her Mother was one of the Inner Senshi, Sailor Mars. She didn't help cheer Saki up much more than Tomi. In fact because they always fought she was probably even worse than Tomi, of course she'd never tell that to either of them.

"Of course! You always listen in on other people's conversations!" Saki cried out. Then she promptly stuck her tongue out at the Chibi Scout. At that particular moment Saki noticed the slim staff Asako was carrying with her that day. She ducked under the swing regretting her words. Asako had trained with a staff literally since she could stand (she had found a fairly long stick and started swinging it around).

"Saki! Asako! Please stop!" Tomi was crying out when suddenly they heard a scream. Asako and Tomi looked at each other and nodded. They promptly transformed, their planets' symbols mocking her from their foreheads. They ran off and a few steps behind Saki followed.

When Saki got to the scene Tomi and Asako were attacking a monster along with Saki's niece, Choko, who had transformed into Sailor Chibi Chibi Moon. A young woman only about fourteen or fifteen who Saki knew well lay on the ground. She was a daughter of her sister's friend. Her name was Chiharu and it angered Saki that she had been the target, could they not have picked someone she didn't like? Maybe Asako?

The monster was rather snake-like and Saki, watching through crowded bushes, had to wonder where it had come from. She knew that with the old Outer Senshi guarding the outer fringes of the Solar System it had come from within. But that too was unlikely with the old Inner Senshi (the queen's guardians) and her sister's guardians all guarding Earth and the New Moon Kingdom. Perhaps they didn't have enough power?

Suddenly the monster struck much like a cobra and knocked Choko through the bushes on the opposite end of the clearing where the girls fought. Tomi attacked with some kind of ice based attack. It didn't seem to affect the monster at all. It picked Tomi up and flung her across the clearing not too far from where Choko had been knocked through the bushes. Asako attacked with her staff (which was now topped by a blue flame that didn't seem to scorch it). She stabbed with the flaming end. The creature burst into green flames. But it still fought and flung Asako away. She landed in a tree.

The Earth started rumbling at that point as Saki began to giggle. But as soon as she felt the quaking it subsided. A wind blew up through the park and the bushes around Saki began to grow up around her! The green branches twined their branches around Saki and the leaves thrust through her odangos and mussed her pig tails. It ripped the red bow on her sailor outfit. The hem of her skirt frayed and the skirt seemed to slip away. But so did her top. Saki's hair fell completely out of her odangos and surrounded her shoulders, chest, stomach, hips and thighs.

Then the bushes compressed on her. They were drawing the breath out of her. She couldn't breath! She couldn't breath! Saki felt that she was going to die as the world around her slowly began to turn black. But then it seemed the bushes weren't there suddenly she was floating in green. Flowers were growing around her. A young man stood there.

"Ah, you have come to claim your heritage? Yes…You must be awoken," The young man walked forward and set a golden colored stone against her breast. The air was knocked from her and she was again hiding in the bushes. But now she wore a compact on her bow, much as her mother had told her she once had.

Words seemed to be floating in her head but most prominent were the words 'Terra Power! Transform!'. Unable to keep them in Saki called them out loudly.

Saki was wearing a sailor uniform much like her friends. In her hand was a tall staff with a green circle with a green cross inside. Staring at the symbol more words popped into her head.

"I am Sailor Terra! In the name of the Earth I will punish you for attacking my friends!" Saki's voice sounded lower to her than normal, as if she spoke with the Earth's voice.

"The Earth's Rumbling Power!" She cried out as she leveled the staff so it touched the ground. The still flaming snake monster disappeared in a sparkle of green light.

"Is it you Aunt?" A voice inquired from the bushes. Sailor Chibi Chibi Moon was standing in the bushes with leaves all through her six odangos she wore.

"Saki?!" Sailor Chibi Mars cried from the spot where she was stuck in the tree.

"Of course it is!" Sailor Chibi Mercury Called out smiling pulling leaves from her long wavy blue hair.

"Yeah…I guess it is!" Sailor Terra cried out happily.

"Don't un-transform yet. My mom and yours will wish to see this," Sailor Chibi Chibi Moon said as she untransformed her wavy pink hair growing shorter and her features growing younger and more childish. Sailor Chibi Mars un-transformed her bangs growing longer at the forehead, her hair longer. Sailor Chibi Mercury' hair grew shorter and her sailor suit turned into a navy blue dress with the sign of mercury embroidered on it. Asako was in her temple outfit and Choko in a metallic silver skirt, tall aqua socks a matching colored shirt and an aqua colored butterfly clip.

"Hey what do we do about Chiharu?" Sailor Terra asked confused.

"We'll carry her to the palace. She'll be fine there," The eight year old Choko answered.

"Okay," Sailor Terra said picking up her friend.

The trek to the palace was not particularly fun. Chiharu was heavier than she looked, and sailor Terra was getting funny stares. No one had ever seen a Sailor Terra before that day. Besides that Sailor Terra realized that if not for the heels on her boots her blond hair would be dragging on the ground, because hers had grown longer when she transformed as well.

The palace loomed over the city it's crystal walls sparkling with reflected sunlight. Its walls threw multicolored shadows on the ground all through the city. Every time they came near one Sailor Terra glanced up at the palace that she called home without really belonging there.

"Who is this? Have you come from beyond the solar system?" King Endymion asked as they entered the palace.

"No father! I have power after all it seems!" Sailor Terra was quite happy about this fact. She had long been assumed to have no power at all due to the fact her sister had inherited and she had gone so long without her power awakening.

"Chisaki?! No…But it is. It is my younger daughter. You have awoken. But by what planet do you gain your power dear one?" The King seemed very confused.

"I'm Sailor Terra, my guardian planet Terra gives me the power to fight against the new enemy that has appeared and attacked my poor friend Chiharu," Saki said as she un-transformed. Her hair grew shorter (only to her knees), her short green boots had turned into tall green socks and short white moon boots. Her sailor uniform (which had been in a combination of dark and light greens) was now a simple dark green tunic with a three-quarter sleeved white under shirt, and a long light green skirt. This was not the outfit she had been wearing before and she stared at it in consternation. The Terra symbol compact was pinned on a light green bow that was tied on her wrist. Saki had to admit this outfit was much more stylish than the old sailor outfit she had worn before.

"Ah, so the ruling of the Moon passed to Chibiusa and that of the Earth to you. I should have known that Chibiusa could not also possess my power, for she passed only the power of the Moon to Choko over there," The King then hugged his daughter headless of how her staff she still carried was shrinking into a scepter. It was a very pure gold color. But it had winding vines twining all over it. At the very top there was a blue ball with a silver crescent moon surrounding it.

The King slumped in his daughter's hold. He then fell completely out of her arms.

"Papa!" Saki cried out dropping the scepter to the floor. She knelt by her father. She grasped his head in her hands and her power flowed into him. He quickly revived and sat up. But at that point Saki was sobbing and muttering incoherently in some foreign language.

"What happened?" Choko asked. Choko had been kneeling at the King's other side .

"I think the power I have from Earth was poured into Saki. I think I have lost my powers that I once controlled. I believe they were passed on to Saki in a different form. I'll need to access the Moon Kingdom's database. They tended to know about this kind of thing in the Silver Millennium than we can now call claim to. Come Saki we need to tell you mother. Get your scepter," The King lifted himself and helped his hiccupping daughter to stand up.

Saki lifted the heavy scepter from the crystal floor where it had been dropped so carelessly in her panic. She let her niece and father lead her up flights of stairs through corridor which were all beautifully decorated to her mother's rooms. There they stopped and knocked at the doors.

"Oh! Saki, Choko, Endymion. Come in everyone. Where did you get those clothes? And what is that…That's a scepter. Why do you have a scepter?" Neo-Queen Serenity looked between the three unsteadily for a minute as Saki was still regaining composure.

"Saki, I think you should show your mother," the king said quietly. Saki nodded, and touching the green compact on her bow cried out "Terra Power! Transform!"

Once again she stood in a Sailor Uniform in dark and light greens. She wore tall light green socks and short dark green boots. The Light green bow in the back was very big, and very stiff. It was much bigger than it looked to be on Choko, Tomi, or Asako. And it was most definitely bigger than her mother's.

Neo-Queen Serenity dispensed with all dignity and rushed forward pulling her daughter into a suffocating embrace. I should have known…What Planet? Honey?"

"Terra, Earth itself," Saki said forcing the words from her squashed lungs.

"Oh? You really are your Father's daughter," The Queen released her daughter and Saki took the chance to un-transform.

"I think I like this style more than the Moon inspired clothing that we normally wear. It's…Much more Terran," Saki said fiddling with the globe on the top of her scepter. Saki had discovered it would spin and zoom in and out to show different parts of the earth. The crescent moon also showed an almost reflected looking version of the Palace on the Moon where her mother had spent her first childhood.

"Well that is the point, my natural dress is this, because it reflects the moon. The same for your sister and niece, we are in control of the Silver Imperium crystal, whereas you and your father will have control over Earth's golden crystal. May I see your compact?" Neo-Queen Serenity reached out her hand for it. Saki hesitated, she didn't really want to give it to anyone, or even let anyone touch it, not even her own mother. But Saki knew a command when it was given she handed over the compact and the ribbon around her wrist unraveled. Saki watched as it drifted to the floor with out even trying to retrieve it.

The Queen had opened the compact. Inside was a golden colored stone that shone brightly in the queen's hands. When Choko looked away from the glare Serenity smiled, "I can tell it would be much brighter in your grandfather's hands, and even brighter yet in those of your aunt. Saki has the power to control the crystal. Your and Saki's together will be a strength so great that you cannot be defeated by any enemy that I have ever come across, but I fear there may be more enemies yet for the new-what was it you called yourselves?-Chibi Sailor Scouts? Yes that was it. The Chibi Sailor Scouts will have to awaken those who will fight by your side in the days yet to come."

"Selene!" Saki cried out as she rushed into her own rooms. The small gray dog looked at her with interest.

"What is it Princess?" Selene was always very respectful, even though she was not even yet a year old.

"I'm a Sailor Scout! A real one! The Sailor Scout for the Earth! Isn't it wonderful? I'm not an outcast anymore," A tear dripped down Saki's cheek, she was too happy for her own health. She was likely to prance herself down the stairs, fall, and break her neck.

"Oh Chisaki! Is that what those strange clothes are for? They suit you…But they don't seem to be from the Moon Kingdom," Selene never called her Saki. Maybe one day she would be able to convince her that Saki was just as respectful as Chisaki.

"That's because they aren't. They are 'Terran' that's my word. I like it. Because the guardian planet is Terra, that is earth," Saki explained to Selene as she retied the big poofy bow on her wrist. She pinned the brooch on so that it wouldn't fall back apart as soon as she let go of the two ends of the dark green ribbon.

"Oh, so you like Asako and Tomoko have one of the other planets. Not like your mother and sister or Princess Choko," Selene seemed to be quite content that it was 'one of the other planets', she didn't even care that it was planet Earth, or that Saki wasn't an outcast in her own home anymore. Selene curled up for a nap as Saki threw her hairbrush from her nightstand at the puppy. She hit her squarely and Selene howled.

"That's what you get. Aren't you supposed to be my friend and councilor or something like that? You're so MEAN!!" Saki screamed as she stormed out of her rooms. She heard Selene call out to Saki's back.

"Hey Chiharu! Are you feeling better?" Saki asked entering the small guest room that had been given to the girl. Chiharu Had purplish black hair she kept in a VERY blunt bob cut. She had bluish violet eyes and very pale skin. She was truly her mother's daughter in looks. The problem was she (like Saki had seemed herself) had not inherited her mother's power, and if she had it was still dormant. Which in the grand scheme of things might be better that she was dormant than awake. Her mother was often the bearer of bad news, simply because she was the scout of death and rebirth.

"Oh, hi Saki! I saw the new Sailor Scouts, I was nearly out. But I saw Chibi Mars, Chibi Mercury, and Chibi Chibi Moon. But then I passed out. But…I think I might have seen a scout from a different system…She was all in green. She didn't have any pink so she couldn't have been Chibi Jupiter's awakening," Chiharu trailed off and lay staring at the wall opposite her bed.

"I know what scout it was! It was a new scout," Saki was very happy that someone had seen her.

"Who as it?" Chiharu inquired. When Saki didn't answer right away she looked over at Saki for the first time, "Where did you get those clothes? They don't fit with…No!"

"I got them earlier today, aren't they cool?" Saki fiddled with the bow and compact at her wrist.

"Are you the scout I saw? What planet are you? You can't be a moon scout, we already have too many of those," Chiharu seemed excited.

"I'm Sailor Terra!" Saki exclaimed happily.

"Terra? As in Earth?" Chisaki asked incredulously.

"Yeah, I got Papa's power," Saki said a little (but not by much) more subdued.

"Really? I didn't think it could work that way," Chiharu said quietly. Saki was about to answer with some snide remark when she heard Selene calling.

"Chisaki! Princess Chisaki! I'm sorry your highness! I really am! Please forgive me!" When the puppy entered the room Chiharu looked over at her friend. Selene had Saki's silver backed hair brush that had been made just for Saki. The bristles had been dyed green to match Saki's preference for color. A rose was engraved on the back of the brush and Saki had scratched a circle with a ring around it into the surface of the handle.

"What? What happened Saki? Why's Selene so distressed?"

"I threw a brush at her because I was mad that she didn't seem to care that I have power now, that I'm not just an outcast in my family anymore," Saki said a bit upset and she was staring at the floor as she said this.

"Oh Saki! You shouldn't lose your temper like that!" Chiharu exclaimed loudly.

"But I did, and I'm sorry Selene," Saki said gently pulling the brush from Selene's mouth. Selene tugged on it a bit playfully and released the brush. Saki tapped the brush on her hand and felt impatient.

"Go! Go do something Sailor-ish!" Chiharu encouraged happily.

"Are You sure?"

"Yes!"

"So who's the leader now that my aunt is a Sailor Scout?" Princess Choko asked her mother. Princess Choko had changed her clothes so she was now wearing purple instead of aqua.

"I think Saki's energy is stronger than yours. You know Sailor Mars told you that she had a vision of eleven scouts fighting a powerful enemy led by a scout in green with long blond hair. From how you described Saki's transformation…She fits the bill," Princess Chibiusa looked a little worn after having felt the slow awakening of six scouts, and the completion of one scout's awakening. And she felt a new scout begin to awaken. This new scout was less powerful than the scout who had finished her awakening that day, and yet stronger ever than her daughter (who was the strongest among the Chibi Scouts).

"What?! I can't follow her. I simply can't. Besides aren't we supposed to follow the Sailor Moon of that generation? She's not even a chibi scout!"