Prologue - The beginning of the beginning

Hello everyone, this is Akio, or as most of you know me, Sailor Sol! As this is supposed to be an autobiography of my early years, ie that which occurred before the freeze, I should probably start at the beginning.

While most would start these things in there early childhood, and I will get there, I thought it might be interesting for you to know about the "source" of my powers. Not the true source of course, that would be Sol, but more how I ended up as a Sailor Senshi instead of just your everyday human being.

My mother told me some of this at an early birthday and expounded on it later on when asked. Those things that my parents wouldn't know come from Sol herself.

It all began in the late 1970s . . .

Late September, 1978

A large, metallic asteroid is moving through space within Mercuries orbit heading straight for the sun. It was this asteroids poor luck to be knocked out of its orbit in the asteroid belt by a passing comet causing it to head towards our nearest star. However this asteroid was about to get a lucky break. A few moments after the asteroid breaks up due to the sun's gravity a solar flare begins heading straight for the cluster of rocks that is left of the original. As the solar flare gets closer and closer most of the pieces are melted and vaporized into their base elements. However one small piece, about the size of a cinder block, suddenly begins to glow. As this piece is overtaken by the flare it melts, but does not vaporize. Instead it reforms after the flare passes, into a softball sized sphere that glows a bright red. Because of the flare the surviving piece of the asteroid is thrown onto a new course, flung towards a future meeting with the Earth.

Janurary 13, 1979

After many months of flying through space, at what are much faster than normal speeds for a tiny space rock, the last bit of the asteroid finally enters Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the south-eastern Atlantic ocean. It heads in a north westerly direction over the Atlantic losing no mass in the process. Finally it touches down in a not-so-violent nature in a small town northwest of Charleston South Carolina called Summerville.

It is an average summer day in Summerville South Carolina, in other words hot and humid, when Susan hears a loud THUMP from the front yard at the same time that a small rumble passes through the frame of her house. Not knowing what caused the noise and vibration, she stops cleaning and heads outside into the oppressive heat. She sees a small smoking crater in the short, unpaved driveway right where her husband would park the car.

"Glad Roland isn't here, or else the car would have a new sunroof," she says as she moves towards the hole. Bending down, Susan looks into the hole to discover a glowing piece of rock embedded into the ground.

As she is about to remove the meteorite from its hole, her neighbor, Jill, comes out of her half of the duplex.

"Hey Sue," says Jill, "Whatcha' got there?"

"Don't know. But it sure did make a heck of a noise."

"Well, you gonna pull it out?"

"Yep. Just gimme a minute."

"Now, now, don't hurt your self. You're pregnant so I'll get it for you."

"I'm still in my first trimester Jill. I can get it without a problem."

"Oh no you don't. Roland told me to keep an eye out for y'all. So I'll pull it out."

Jill moves around Susan to go and pull the meteorite from its resting place. As she bends down and reaches for the rock she is suddenly flung back by what seems to be a bright light.

"Oh no," exclaims Susan. "Are you OK Jill?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a bit shaken up. Guess the rock doesn't like me."

Jill picks herself up and moves back to Susan's side. "Looks like we'll have to wait for Roland or John to get home so one of them can pull it out."

"Nonsense," says Susan. "I'll get it."

"But what about your pregnancy?"

"It's not so far along that I can't do most of the housework. This won't be any harder than checking behind the stove for roaches."

"But what if you get pushed back like I did?"

"I'll just have to take that chance. But just in case why don't you get in position to catch me if I get tossed back."

"OK," says Jill as she moves behind Susan.

Susan then moves closer to the small hole to pick up the meteorite. As she bends down a reddish glow begins and slowly gets brighter.

"Oh, no," whispers Jill. "Look out Sue, that's the same light that threw me back!"

Just as the light reaches full intensity, it suddenly goes very dim before it encompasses Susan. Looking back at her friend Susan just shrugs and pulls the meteorite out of the hole.

"Look Jill, its fine," says Susan as she holds up the small spherical rock in her hand. "Hmm. It's not nearly as heavy as I thought it would be. I wonder why it's glowing?"

As Susan looks at the meteorite, the glow quickly dissipates and only a reddish brown rock is left.

"Do you think it's safe to hold it like that?" asks Jill as she comes up next to Susan to look at the meteorite.

"It should be fine. It looks kinda weird, doesn't it?"

"Yea. Look at the surface, it's smooth, like a beach ball. You would think it would be more roughed up being in the ground like that."

"Well, I'm gonna go back inside where it's at least cooler. Thank the Lord for AC, right Jill?"

"Definitely. I'll drop by later with John after dinner and the four of us can discuss what to do with this rock. That OK with you?"

"Sure. Stop by after seven. Me and Roland will be done with dinner by then."

"See you then."

Jill and Susan then go back into their own sides of the small duplex, both wondering where the rock came from. Within the hour, Susan's husband Roland gets home, parking right over the small hole in the driveway without even noticing it.

Susan informs him of the rock and that their neighbors will be over after dinner to discuss it.

After some discussion it is decided that Roland and Susan can keep the strange rock, it did fall on their driveway after all, and they decide to give it to their unborn child at a later date.

Unbeknownst to any of them Susan's still unborn child, barely a fetus, had been giving off a dim red glow since she first touched the meteorite.

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Sailor Sol - Prologue
by: MonsterRideOp
June 13, 2013
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