Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Deity
The Origin of the Sun Child
Act 02: The Sun's Powers Seen; Sailor Sun Appears
The skies were clear over Juuban, Tokyo. A warm sunny day, people went to and from along the bustling cities, most unaware of the dangerous threat nearby. Sailor Jupiter was battling against what looked like a Will-O-Wisp, an normally white limbed beautiful female that blanched and fangs widened the mouth to a horrible proportion.
"Jupiter Oak Evolution!" Sailor Jupiter brandished the attack, sending it back. It was wounded as it reared back, hissing sharply as it glared out of glowing red eyes.
"Makoto-sama!" Mashiruko shouted, landing lightly on top of a building. Her voice was unheard as Jupiter was too preoccupied. "That's… a dream spirit!" She recognized it from having battled those from her own time. They were rare and if left alone, did not exist to most people since they didn't believe in it. So how it was seen by everyone made her think quizzically.
Jupiter reared for another attack. "Stop!" Mashiruko had to try to reach the creature. She landed heavily in front of it as Jupiter's eyes bugged out. "It's not what you…"
A slash at her back made her shriek as she fell forward several steps. She flipped around with a easy step, looking up at the spirit whose eyes glowed a lightening red till it swirled into pink. "Sun Child.." The voice, or the rough translation of the throaty scratch, made her wince and want to hold her ears.
"Oh boy…" Mashiruko jumped back, keeping in the air by the wings before she felt the energy suddenly dissipate and she fell into the ground. She groaned on impact, rubbing her bottom. She should've realized she was out of reserved energy.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Mercury's voice made her hurry to her feet. Fingers wrapped around her as she thrown back as the Wisp's fangs returned.
"It's not bad!" Mashiruko began. She grasped an arm without thinking. She looked up at Sailor Moon with pleading eyes. "It's a poor creature being controlled!"
"It's a monster!" Jupiter protested.
"It's from Elysion! It's a part of dreams! You destroy it and you hurt Elysion!" Mashiruko cried out.
"It's all right," Super Sailor Moon patted her head. "I'll take care of it."
The quintet of soldiers stood together in her front. A small shadow bypassed Mashiruko's from the side. Sailor Chibi Moon looked up at the girl with a frown. "How did you know that?"
She didn't get a chance to respond when she looked up at the spirit lunging at her. Instinct kicked in, causing her to shove Chibi Moon away from her and the creature. Her hands pressed up in the air as she shouted. "Sun Prism Power, Make Up!"
Her necklace turned into red light that filtered into orange. Wings rippled into view, becoming all sorts of color like a rainbow lightshow as her clothes disappeared and she moved nude, caught in the rainbowed colors. The brooch fell to her breasts as it turned to pure white and then the gems formed around it, a total of eight, that sent out strands of white light that wrapped around her to form in her bodice. The residue energy was swept upward to drift down over her, forming her 'odango', collar, choker, all the way down to her boots where her heels clicked soundly on the ground as she raised her right arm to summon her weapon. Known as the Silver Staff, it was a slender canary yellow metal staff with a white diamond end tip that had a trail of white beads ending with a canary yellow crescent moon facing away from the beads. The top was a rounded silver diamond, with the front covered by a butterfly-like crimson red metallic design with the top wings being elongated and curving out while the bottom curve shorter and toward the inside. In the center of the butterfly was a blue-violet crescent moon. A few inches down from the top was another butterfly like design, fully integrated into the staff handle as in it still was the staff handle but molded. In this center was a red oval gem.
Her outfit was unlike anything the others had seen. Her metal hair ornaments had warped to a white metal cover with a smoothed red center, a yellow crescent moon at its bottom with two yellow metal curved like seagull wings in flight. Upon her brow was a yellow crescent moon, surrounded by seven white beads and a single white bead along the inside of the crescent. Her choker was crimson red, the ornament at her throat a red heart clasped in a yellow rim. On each side were three beads with a pointed metallic white wing jutting out. Her collar was white with a stripe of blue-violet just away from the edge. Her brooch was round and red, rimmed in yellow with eight round beads, the three on the sides with white metallic sharp feathers.
Her bodice had no shoulder padding, her gloves reaching to cover two-thirds of her arms, with three red bands that each had a bead attached to the side with a metallic sharp white feather. Her waist was covered in a white sash, clasped in the front with a large red heart, rimmed in yellow with a single round yellow orb in it's center. Soft blue-violet feathered bits jutted out, four on each side. Her back bow compromised of three beads with attached sharp white feathers jutting to one side and another doing the same. Twin tails of red ribbon, a total of four, fell down to nearly her feet.
Her boots were short heeled, white, and thigh length. It had a blue-violet protector, stretched across the top of her foot and heel to climb and end at her knees. At the center was a round gem rimmed in yellow metal, with a red center and yellow crescent moon on the inside, five beads with attached metallic white sharp feathers. At her ankles were a metal bracelet-like item, with a red oval gem rimmed in yellow at it's center.
"Astral Repel!" She wove her right arm with force, the sudden surge of energy in her driving the creature to fall backwards to a good distance. "I don't want to hurt you! Please, you need to go home." She tried to talk as soothingly as possible. As it reared up, the ugliness disproportioning its usually beautiful features, Mars moved to attack. "Mars Flame Sniper!"
The spirit screamed in pain, once more falling back. It struggled up and for a moment, it's eyes were crystal blue before the red returned in a hot glow of rage. It looked at Mashiruko with a hateful glare.
"Why aren't you listening to me?" She screamed at Mars and the others. "Can't you tell it's being used?"
"It was about to hurt you!" Mars began.
"I won't let you do this anymore!" She swung the staff high as she felt the sunlight gather upon her skin. Her aura peaked, turning her a shimmering white as she called out. "Solar Refraction!"
The spreading arc of rainbow streamed lights went through the creature as it turned in surprise. "Reverie!" Came the resounding cry as its eyes cleared of red to the original crystal blue. It floated for a moment before it faded from view.
"What did you do?" Mercury asked sharply.
"I took out the nightmares it was poisoned with," Mashiruko shrugged.
"Who are you?" Mashiruko wasn't used to being faced with such hostility. Her eyes welled up.
"Papa told me.. I'd find allies… you're nothing like what I know! You're mean!" She shouted angrily as she turned and ran. She rubbed at her tearing eyes, sniffling as she hiccupped.
"I don't need them," She told herself weakly but she could taste her own lie. "Don't need them at all."
"Mashiruko.." Sailor Moon's voice was gentle. "Please, let me help you."
Mashiruko's eyes continued to fill with tears. "I didn't know this would happen! So fast and dangerous! I was only just introduced to the Room and automatically I had to go back because I was in danger but I don't know how when I'm not even born and.."
Arms wrapped around her as Sailor Moon murmured gently. "It's all right, you're safe. We can help, I promise. I'm sorry if we hurt your feelings."
"Are you sure?" She pushed away to stare up at the familiar eyes. "They weren't all that into listening to me!"
"I know the feeling," Mashiruko couldn't hide the small smile as Sailor Moon winked at her. "Come on." Fingers in laced in her fingers, Mashiruko spoke up before they had taken a dozen steps.
"I'm Sailor Sun."
Sailor Moon blinked and frowned. "I see…" Her hand brushed against the symbol. "How?"
"I don't know. But I'm still like you," Mashiruko was quick to point that out.
"Of course! We're allies!" Sailor Moon roped an arm around the shoulders. "How is it that you're taller than me?"
"Just by a few centimeters," Mashiruko said brightly. She took a deep breath as her henshin receded. Usagi stood beside her, looking at the 'odango' with a curious gaze.
"Nice, that looks different from the usual style."
"My own twist. My hair wouldn't stay up properly for I had someone help me construe the metal ornament for me." Mashiruko explained with a wide smile. It dimmed faced with the others. She shifted nervously before rubbing the back of her neck.
"So, how do we help you?" Rei asked finally, pointedly. Mashiruko focused on the tops of her sandals, watching her toes wiggle.
"Rei, gently," Ami murmured. She smiled as she moved toward Mashiruko. "Mashiruko, please. What happened? Can you tell us anything, anything else at all?"
"I was in the Prayer Room. It was a newly revived tradition of Elysion that those of age would be placed. It was supposed to be helpful to tell us of something of value. Most of the time, it would tell small information, like the type of person you would marry or a hint of a path you could take in education and work or even the simple things like if you went in with a question on your head, it would give you a choice that you were thinking of ignoring. It's helpful, always helpful."
"Today was my time. I just turned fifteen and so I went in. Inside of just a voice, I saw someone who told me that I was in some sort of danger in the past. In order to fix it, I had to go back myself but I don't anything else. It's supposed to be some Goddess."
"Goddess?" Ami asked, encouragingly.
"If I had any guess, it would be related to Elysion." Mashiruko nodded smartly. "Yep, it would make sense."
"What about that creature?" Makoto asked, waving her hand in a general drive. "That…"
"A Dream Spirit, a living creature. Some are animals, others are plants. It's supposed to something that nearly all humans cannot see in their lives unless they are more connected to their spirituality."
"But that one was warped, the eyes were different colored. I think it was possessed by Nightmares."
"Who creates Nightmares?" Ami asked finally. Mashiruko shrugged. "Well, I'll do some research. If there were a way to reach Helios, that would be beneficial and vital to this problem."
Everyone was quiet for a moment.
"I could get him," Mashiruko offered weakly. She didn't really want to but she seemed to have no choice. She wondered why she didn't bother asking her father in her time about the issue. Then again, she was kind of shoved into this destiny.