Chapter One:

The Unstoppable Legend is Born!

She was curled up in the fetal position in her bed, trying to sleep in as long as she could. Everything about her was purple, from the walls to her blankets, and even her clock. She had her blankets pulled up around her ears even though she went to bed on time the night before. But she just loved her sleep that much.

I wish I could just lie in here all morning on a cold, fall morning like this. My Aunt would open the door and say-

"C'mon, MOVE IT! LET'S GO! This is the third time I've had to call you!"

Aunt Robin's voice made Christina cringe this early in the morning. But she finally got up. She didn't want to leave the warmth and comfort of her bed that morning after it had been raining all weekend. Waiting for the bus was going to be murder.

Her shoulder length dark chocolate brown hair stuck up at odd ends that morning, and a sleeve from her violet night gown had slipped off her shoulder a bit as she looked at the clock. Her Aunt always liked to get her up early like this because she was such a slow riser. She picked out a new outfit that she'd gotten on their trip to Spokane the previous weekend, when they did their back-to-school shopping. She also spent her allowance on that trip as well. She'd been enjoying what she bought for a week before school was going to start.

The outfit she picked out was a layered black and purple t-shirt with a v-neck line, black jeans, black and purple tennis-shoes, and a belt around her waist. She put her hair back in a matching purple hair tie.

Grumbling as she made her way downstairs, she made sure not to trip over her cat who liked to be under foot wherever she went.

"Good, you're finally up!" Aunt Robin smiled brightly now that her niece was up and about, even if she wasn't the most lively of people in the morning.

"Oog..." Christina grumbled at her Aunt as a plate of breakfast food was put in front of her at the dining table.

"Eat up quickly before it gets cold!" Robin said. Unlike her niece, Robin had shoulder length blond hair and blue eyes.

"Where's Uncle Dan?" Asked Christina once she was a little more awake from the breakfast.

"Well, his fishing season started today, so he's going to be gone for the week. He left about two ish in the morning today. He said that he wishes you luck this week, though." Smiled Robin.

"Have a good day at school, honey!" Robin waved at her niece from the door as Christina walked down the path. Before Christina knew it, she was standing by the light post in front of the drive that led to her families' farm, backpack slung around her shoulders. She had to put on a purple jacket as well due to the wind that morning, and she leaned against the pole, unaware that her cat was watching from her bedroom window with an odd look on its face.

A half an hour of solid boredom later, the bus arrived, and Christina found a spot alone at the back where she sat in the corner against the window in the cramped yellow school bus as she imagined herself incinerating the school building. Unfortunately when the bus pulled up in town, the school building was still there. This did not improve her mood that morning.

She was nearly late for her first class. Not from getting to school late, but finding out where everything was. Even though they'd been given the tour of Okanogan Junior Senior High School, that had been three months before.

Her first class would prove to be her favorite- Astronomy, which included the history and the Myths and Legends behind the planets and their moons.

"Um, excuse me, is this Astronomy?" She asked a blond boy who looked three years older than she was.

"Yeah. You one of the new kids?" He asked, and she nodded. "Name's Eric Hendrikson. I work at that arcade down the street part time." He held out a hand to shake hers.

"You're that nice guy who's always there when I am!" Christina said, then her face went red when she realized she'd been thinking out loud again.

"Oh, Eric, I forgot to warn you-" A boy in the line waiting for the class on the other end of the hall said suddenly. "She's the weird one I was told about. I wouldn't start talking to her or you'll catch some of that weird."

"I'll talk to whomever the heck I want, David." Snapped Eric. "I happen to like hanging around with her. At least she's not rude."

David shook his head, the look on his face making it quite plain what he thought about the whole thing- like Eric was getting himself into trouble on the popularity chain by hanging out with Christina.

"So, Christi, there's a new video game at the arcade. Is your Aunt going to be late picking you up again? Cause I could show it to you after school." Eric said.

"As a matter of fact, she did stash some arcade money in my back pack... So I'm taking that as a hint that she's going to be late." Christina grinned broadly as the door to their classroom opened up.


Rubiella had been to the North Pole, searching for any sign of her past. Something that would tell her who she really was. Her deep red hair, middle of the back length, and naturally looking like she had a perm, was kept out of her face by a thick canary yellow piece of velvet cloth that wrapped around her forehead. She wore a canary yellow and silver winter outfit that kept the cold out, but she'd be easily spotted by her team mates if something happened.

Her brilliant green eyes were squinting through her protective goggles, and the small parts of her skin felt like they were frozen solid. She'd found a part on the North Pole called "Point D" by some people. Where a lot of strange things had been happening the last several years. At one point in time, strange black waves of energy could be seen coming from here, then, later on a powerful earth quake shook the whole North Pole region. She wanted to find out what was going on, and it was ironic that only Rubiella was nimble enough to traverse these regions.

It turned out there was a cave after she'd slid down a partially collapsed tunnel. The cave went on, and on. To a point where her satellite transmitters stopped working, and her communications devices went berserk. It was frigid cold even down here as she landed after jumping from an ice ledge to a rocky cave floor. She wasn't surprised how smooth it was, though.

What she came across moments later, however, surprised her beyond words. Her pale skin went even paler as she looked at the ruins of an old civilization that had clearly been hidden below the earth's surface for centuries.

A voice started speaking to her, and it sounded oddly familiar.

"You come here seeking the truth of who you are..."

"Who are you?" Rubiella demanded.

"I am the one whom you have been seeking all these years..." A figure in the form of a silhouette appeared before her, bathing everything in a deep, evil feeling shadow that sent chills down Rubiella's spine. It was the shadow of a woman with incredibly long hair. The only other thing that Rubiella could tell about this figure was that she probably normally had a staff, or scepter in her hands.

"What is your name?" Rubiella demanded.

"My name is Queen Beryl... I am the true ruler of this planet you call home. None of what you know or believe is true. The memories that have been implanted in your brain are false. Only I can unlock your true potential... Because you are my daughter, my one true heir who can unlock my legacy and make these people suffer for what they have done to me." The woman answered slowly.

Rubiella then saw Queen Beryl pointing at something on the floor.

"Only my heir can use that staff. I no longer have the power to wield it." Beryl told her.

"How do I know I can trust you if you are claiming to be who you claim to be?" Asked Rubiella.

"Pick up the staff... Then you'll know what I say to be true!" Said Beryl with a hint of impatience this time.

"Ok, ok...sheesh..." Rubiella shook her head, before walking over. "I still don't see what the big deal is."

She bent down, and the moment she touched the fallen staff of Queen Beryl, a reaction started. The staff was glowing, and Rubiella could hear the Queen laughing manically, the laughter echoing eerily around her in the ice chamber. She let out a yell, but could not let go of the staff as the light blinded her before she blacked out...


Christina sat in math class, yawning. It was still two hours before lunch, but her stomach was already grumbling. She hadn't eaten anything since six that morning.

"Since Miss Bartell seems to be enjoying the lesson, why don't we have her demonstrate the next problem?" Asked their teacher upon spotting her yawning, and she gave a mutinous glare before slouching up to the black board beside the Math Teacher.

It was a division problem, her least favorite. It took her twice as long to figure it out. During which there was a lot of snickering and giggling from her classmates as she tried to work it.

"You don't know the answer? Then sit down." Said the teacher with a sigh.


When Rubiella came around, it was with a new sense of understanding and purpose to her life. She now wore a floor length, flowing gown. The source of her dreams and nightmares for the last was explained. Sure, she could go after the Silver Imperium Crystal. But that's been attempted already by her mother, and her mother's successors. There was another crystal she had remembered while she had blacked out, something that was just as powerful... if not MORE powerful than the Imperium Crystal.

Her first task was to find the place the crystal was hidden, then the trick was figuring out who possessed it. And she had to gain some subordinates as well. That part was easy.

There was a flash of light from the scepter she held in her right hands, and she reappeared above the wind blown, ice tundra surface of Point D. The cold did not reach her any longer, even in her new outfit, as she walked towards the camp her team had made.

One of the men looked up when another said that someone was approaching.

"Rubiella! There you are! We were just getting ready to go down after you!" He said. "Why the hell are you dressed like some masquerade ball goer?"

Rubiella just smiled in response before raising her scepter.

"You are now my servants, my slaves... And will do as I command..." Her voice was deeper than it had been before as the four workers became engulfed by varying colors of light and shadow. "Queen Metalia is destroyed... but there is still another from beyond who will aid in our conquering of this world and the galaxy. Once we have the location of the Crystal... then we can proceed in finding and obtaining it." She explained as the four former workers reappeared as completely different beings.

The first had shoulder length lilac hair and deep violet eyes, and was the only woman in this group apart from Rubielle. Her name was Morgani. The other three men were quite different as well. The man to the woman's immediate right had dark blue hair with small streaks of green, with deep but glowing green eyes and pale skin. He was called Lazuli. The man on his left had straight black hair, brilliant neon deep blue eyes with a dog-like look to his eyes and face. He was named Wolfani. And the man on Morgani's other side was taller than the rest, and thinner too. His hair was short and purest of white, and his eyes were multicolored- the left being green, the right being blue- and he was known as Analci.

"Please, madam, what IS this Crystal we're searching for?" Asked Morgani in a high voice when she bowed to Rubielle.

"For now, Morgani, let's just refer to it as the Mystical Jovian Crystal. Once you locate the area that it's been placed in, then we can proceed with the rest of my plan."

The four figures bowed to their Mistress.


Christina was glad it was finally lunch time, and that she'd gotten all of her least favorite classes out of the way as she stood in line at the cafeteria in the center of the school. After she got her lunch, she found a table by herself in a far corner where she sat, and from her pocket pulled out a Sailor V manga to read while she ate her school provided lunch, swinging her feet as she ate and read the comic book. She ignored the eyes that she felt on her for pulling out such an unpopular story in the high school cafeteria.

I wish I could be like Sailor V... She thought as she read the book. It would certainly be more exiting than this life.

"Hey, little weirdo, whatcha reading?" Asked one of the older boys who'd been sitting nearby watching her.

"I didn't think middle schoolers were allowed to like something as lame as Sailor V." One of his friends leaned forward.

"Hey! Give that back!" Christina said as the boy in charge grabbed the book right from her as she started to turn the page.

"The pictures aren't even in COLOR. What, are you from another planet or something?" The boy asked, flipping through the pages.

"Is there a problem?" One of the teachers in charge of keeping the peace during lunch came forward.

"Jack stole my book from me!" Christina said before the boys could say anything.

"I was just looking." Jack frowned, tossing the book back to her. She caught it before it landed in her lunch tray.

"You boys stay away from her. I won't have any trouble in this school, understand?" The teacher said. In response, the boys blew raspberries at her before sitting back down at their table. "Sorry about them. You're Miss Bartell, right?" The teacher sat down. "Just call me Mrs. Spittle. I'm teaching your physical education class after lunch. I saw your name on the register this morning."

"Thanks for helping, Mrs. Spittle." Christina said, looking embarrassed at herself.

"Don't mention it. Those three are notorious for picking random fights when things get too quiet around here. I'm not supposed to pick favorites, but I'm sure I'm not the only one to see the backs of them at graduation next year."

Christina couldn't help as she laughed.

"There we go, that's the smile I'm looking for. Now, if you need any help with anything, let me know. Ok?" Mrs. Spittle smiled before she left Christina to her book again.

"Thanks Mrs. Spittle!" Christina waved at the teacher as the teacher went back to her spot at the teacher's table.

She had to hurry, she'd felt the disturbance earlier that morning, and he knew time was running out. The cat called Bootsie wished Dan and Robin lived closer to town, but beggars couldn't be choosy. And she certainly had no choice in the time for her Princess' revival. No doubt they would strike soon. The enemy was after the same thing she was.

The calico hurried down the street, making sure not to be seen by any cars as a stray.

Finally the final bell had rung for the day, and Christina was headed down the street from the school to the video arcade where she was to wait for her aunt when she saw it. A flash of light in the sky caught her eyes, and when she looked up at it, she saw a meteor crash in to the hills just outside of town near her home. When it crashed in to the ground, however, it shook the earth for miles around, nearly causing her to topple over.

That was weird... She thought before continuing to the arcade.

"Hey, Christi! Did you feel that quake just now?" Asked Eric when she came through the door.

"It was a meteor, it struck just outside of town." She explained as she dug around in her back pack for the change her aunt had left her. "Ah!" She said when she found the stash.

"Man that's bizarre... we never get things like THAT happening here." Eric scratched the back of his head as he looked out the arcade window.

"HEY ERIC! Quit flirting and get back to work!" A much older man shouted from behind the kitchen windows at the other end of the room.

"Right! Sorry!" Eric gave a wave, before running back in to the kitchens where Christina could hear him being told off about 'lack of attention spans'.

Christina looked around at the video games, and she saw a new one that caught her attention right away.

The new Sailor Moon game! I get to choose who I wanna be too! Sweet! She put her backpack on the floor next to her stool, then put a quarter in the machine. She noticed that it gave out prizes as well if you got at a high enough skill level.

The calico cat was hidden behind the machine, an odd look in her eyes as her owner started to get engulfed in the game.

After a few moments, Christina chose Sailor Venus and started to play. It wasn't until half an hour later when Eric was on his break that he came out from the kitchens again and saw that she had gotten farther along the game than anyone else had so far.

"Wow, I didn't realize you were such a gamer!" He said sounding impressed.

"Don't be so surprised, Eric! I bought the home version of this game last week in Spokane!" Christina replied before going back to biting her tongue as she focussed on the game until... "NO!" She screamed as she lost at the twentieth level.

"Wow... you had almost two hundred thousand points!" Eric said, pointing at the screen.

The cat was listening to every word with perked up ears. Then her amber eyes flickered.

"Hey, a prize came out!" Christina heard the clunk from the slot where change usually came out. When she pulled out a beautiful pen with a star cap. The pen was purple, trimmed with yellow while the cap was shaped like a golden star, with a violet peace sign in the center. Around the points of the star were little pearls, each a different color- red, yellow, spring green, ultramarine blue, and silver. "Neat... it's so pretty!"

"I didn't realize that game had prizes..." Blinked Eric, looking at the pen in a confused sort of way.

"Apparently. Maybe it's if you get to a certain level?" She shrugged as she put it in her pocket.

"Here you are!" Her aunt's voice came from the door. She didn't sound angry, fortunately, but she made Christina jump and fall off her stool. "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. But there's something I want you to look at." Smiled Robin as Christina sat up again.

"Just... Please don't do that again, ok?" Christina sighed as she grabbed her backpack.

"Thanks for waiting so patiently, sweetie." Robin was fighting hard not to laugh as her niece waved goodbye to the boy she'd been talking to. "He seems nice." she said as they went down to the red mini van that Robin drove, and was parked in front of the towering red brick arcade building.

"Yeah, he is." Christina nodded as she got in to the passenger seat of the van, completely missing the fact that her aunt had just been trying to tease her.

"Well, at least you found a fun place to hang out while waiting for me. And now it's time to go look at what I wanted your opinion on." Robin sighed at how dense her niece could be.


"So... the mistress wants us to find the Mystical Jovian Crystal... And its in this God Forsaken town?" Lazuli frowned as he leaned against the wall of their new mansion that had sprouted up after they arrived.

"Yeah... But how do we find it? There's nearly five hundred people here..." Sighed Morgani, running her hand through her hair.

"Well, we start by looking, for one..." Wolfani snickered.

"Smart ass." Grumbled Morgani.

Analci couldn't help it as he snorted in to his glass of wine.

"Well, there's this jewelry store on Main Street that could be a good start..." Wolfani said, pulling out a photo he'd taken upon their arrival earlier.

"Right, the ONLY jewelry store." Grumbled Lazuli as he looked over his friends' shoulders.

"Looks like a job for you Morgani." Sneered Wolfani.

"HEY! Why do I have to be the first one to get their feet wet?" She asked, nearly spitting out some of the smoothie she'd been drinking.

"Well, for one, you like fancy jewelry, Morgani... and another, isn't it always polite to let the ladies go first?" Smiled Lazuli.

Morgani frowned but sighed, finished the last of her smoothie, and stood up to go check out the jewelry store.

"Smooth move, bro." Said Wolfani once Morgani was gone.


In the Okanogan Jewelry Store, the clerk was busy cleaning the fragile glass cases which contained not only jewelry, but hand blown glass figurines. The store glimmered in the windows from all the fine merchandise. There was the jingle at the door as it opened, and she turned. But instead of it being Robin and her niece, it was a different costumer. There were already a group of girls in the store as it was, so it was a little bit crowded.

"Hello, and welcome! Can I help you find something?" The clerk blinked at the woman's lavender colored hair pulled back in a pony tail, and wearing shades.

"Yes, I'm here looking for something specific. I heard that this might be the one place for it in this town." She said kindly.

"Well you've come to the right spot! I've got the finest wares in the area." The clerk said cheerfully.

"So I see." Morgani was looking around. "Would you mind if I browse a bit?"

"Not at all. Not at all. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!" The clerk replied.

Morgani looked around. She saw the group of kids gathered around something. None of these jewels were what she was looking for, and she was getting impatient and frustrated.

Christina was now leaning against the outside wall of the jewelry store while her aunt went in to double check on something before bringing her in. The moment her aunt went in the store, something strange happened.

The door clicked in to a locked position even though no one was near it.

"Hey!" She tried shouting in to the door, but the shutters were suddenly all pulled down when Morgana saw someone trying to get in.

"Christina!" A female voice with a new york accent said somewhere at her ankles.

"Huh?" She found her cat looking up at her with a harried expression on her face.

"Bootsie? How'd you get here?" She asked.

"No time to explain... and for future reference, my real name is Rinoa!" Snapped the cat at the ridiculous name she'd been initially given.

"What are you doing here?" Blinked Christina, at a total loss.

"Listen, you still have that pen you won from the game?" Rinoa looked impatient already.

"Yeah, of course." Nodded Christina, pulling out the pretty thing from her pocket.

"Good. That's no ordinary pen. Hold it out and shout "Callisto Moon Power- Make Up!". It will help you save everyone in that building!" Rinoa's New York accent was heavy when she got anxious.

"How will imitating a comic book help me save them?" She asked. "Shouldn't I just call the police?"

"JUST DO IT!" Snapped Rinoa.

"Ok, ok... Sheesh..." Christina held up the pen, feeling rather stupid as she did so. "Callisto Moon Power, Make Up!"

There was a brilliant flash of violet light that generated from the pen right after she called out the phrase.

When she reemerged from the light, her shoulder length brown hair had grown waist length, and it was held back in a flower like poppy-red bow. Her t-shirt had changed completely, with a purple v-neck sailor vest, a pink sailor bow in the front, and a broach that held it all together. The broach was heart shaped, with a purple amethyst tear drop hanging from it. The broach was lined with canary yellow, and had a pink peace symbol in the center. The t-shirt itself was white, while the sleeves were lined with yellow trimmed in gold. She wore the Sailor gloves that were elbow length, and lined with purple, while at the wrist were the purple triangles. Her skirt was a mini skirt with a canary yellow upside down triangle in the front, lined with a thin golden trim while the rest of her skirt was purple, and the bottom was trimmed with a trio of pink, blue and red lines, the blue line being in the center and the smaller of the three. Around her neck was a purple collar, with the peace symbol in the front. Her shoes were high heeled, and violet with a single strap around the ankle. At her ears hung two diamond shaped inch wide earrings. Then there was the mask that she felt at her face, which was purple and hid her face from onlookers, and the tiara on her forehead with a peace symbol shaped jewel in the center.

"Wow! This is so cool!" Christina looked at her reflection in the mirror. She'd never seen a better disguise, even on Halloween. She saw in the reflection that there was a back bow that was pink, just like the front.

"It's not just a pretty little costume, Christina. You are a Sailor Senshi, and it is your destiny to fight the beings that are currently attacking your aunt and the people in that store!" Rinoa said hurriedly. "Now, throw your tiara at the door and say "Star Tiara Go!" "


"It's not in this part of the store... so maybe you can tell me..." Morgani frowned as her true form was taking shape. Her lavender colored hair fell out of its pony tail, and her jacket vanished to reveal a single piece blue knee length dress with a strange, round broach in the center of the neck line.

She turned to the Store Clerk, who was shaking on the floor.

"What are you t-talking about?"

"The Mystical Jovian Crystal... This is the only jewelry store in this town... now... you should know something about it, dear." Morgani reached for her broach and unhooked it from the dress.

"I've never heard of anything like that before." The clerk said in a tremulous voice.

"We'll see if you're telling the truth or not..." Morgani raised her broach, which began glowing a brilliant shade of blue that all the stones and figurines in the store reacted to. A high pitched sound caused the people in the store to hold their hands over their ears as they screamed in protest.

There was a sudden loud crash at the door, and Morgani turned on the spot to see what had dared intrude on her search.

"Let them go!" The voice of a young girl declared as the door had been forced open. She held what appeared to be a glowing, yellow gold star in her hands like it was a frisbee.

"Who the hell are you?" Demanded Morgana.

"Erm...I'm...a...um..." The girl stammered as her brain froze.

Rinoa, who'd been standing off to the side, gave a soft meow of encouragement, since the people were still watching and very aware of what was going on.

That little meow gave her the courage she needed for her first speech. She knew generally what to say, from all that she'd read in the books and saw on the video game.

"I'm Sailor Callisto, champion of justice! In the name of the moon Callisto, I will punish you!" She said at once.

"Sailor Callisto, huh? Well, I'd like you to meet a friend of mine... Come Forward, Puppet Jiyuka!" The broach Morgani held was glowing again as a figure started emerging from it. First the head, then the torso, and finally the whole body.

"Puppet?" Blinked Sailor Callisto as a chill went down her spine.

"Don't back away, stay resolute!" Rinoa advised, now standing next to her.

"An upstart little brat who thinks she's a heroine and guided by a cat? Oh this is rich!" Laughed Morgani as the group of people sat huddled.

The three kids who were still trapped in the shop were staring with wide eyes.

"Sailor Senshi are real?" The center girl asked.

"Yeah, I guess so..." Her friends replied, both just as shocked. "I thought they were just a stupid comic book tale."

Sailor Callisto felt a twinge of annoyance as their words reached her ears.

"Ignore them!" Rinoa hissed as the Puppet Jiyuka took a more solid form. The limbs, even the head, reminded Callisto of a mannequin. Jiyuka was deathly pale, almost like a ghost as the puppet prepared to attack.

"Time for the first act of my puppet show!" Jiyuka said as Morgani turned back to the store clerk with her broach. Her fingers turned in to knives as the puppet crossed her arms over her chest, then directed her hands at Sailor Callisto, who braced herself.

"Careful!" Rinoa said.

Then at least ten knives with thin, clear wires were attached. Callisto had to dodge, something she was not good at, which wound up with her on the floor in an awkward position as the knives dove in to the glass cases all around her. She saw the threads gleaming as they moved and were withdrawn from the cases before shooting after her again.

"Oh, that was close..." She mumbled.

Soon she felt like she was a monkey being put through its paces in a circus as she dodged the threads.

"Sailor Callisto, what are you doing?" Asked Rinoa when she saw Callisto hiding behind a tall, metal case with jewelry gleaming in its display boxes.

"Trying not to get sliced apart! What does it look like?" Demanded Callisto of her cat, still marveling at the fact that it could talk.

"What's the matter little Senshi? Thinking about retiring from your occupation?" Asked Jiyuka.

"Not a chance!" Retorted Callisto in spite of herself.

In the meantime, Morgani had used her broach to test the stones and crystals in the store.

"Nothing... it's not in here. I'm so disappointed." She sighed. "Jiyuka, I'm done here. Feel free to kill them all. Starting with that annoying pest."

She tossed her broach in to the air in front of her, where it grew large enough to engulf her, but then opened up what looked like a portable black hole in to which Morgani vanished.

Seconds later, the threads had wrapped around Callisto, tying her to the display case she'd been hiding behind while trying to think of some kind of plan.

"No where to run and hide now, little brat!" Jiyuka sneered, appearing right in front of Callisto as she was struggling.

But she noticed something as she struggled, the threads were getting tighter every time she moved, and it felt like knives digging in to her flesh. She needed help, she couldn't do this on her own. She could barely repair a shirt for crying out loud!

As Jiyuka was raising her hands again to reveal the fingers that were made in to knives, something happened as though it were in answer to Callisto's silent plea for help. A flash of white that cut through the wire that was holding Callisto hostage, and then she saw what looked like a white rose in full bloom as it landed on the ground, like it had been there growing all on its own.

Callisto fell face forward on the floor, then looked at what had cut her free.

"A white rose?" She blinked, then stared in the direction it had come from.

The silhouette of a man stood in the doorway now. When he stepped forward what he looked like came in to view. He wore all white, and had a pure white cloak. Around his waist was a black belt with a sword strapped to it, and his face was hid behind a white mask and Arabian style desert hat. He reminded Callisto of an Arabian knight.

"Who the hell are you?" Asked Jiyuka.

"I am the Moon Shadow Knight... Sailor Callisto, do not be afraid, you CAN defeat this puppet!" The man announced, his blue eyes seeming to pierce right through her mask, and in to her own green eyes as they stared in shock at him, but she nodded, standing up again.

"Quickly, Callisto, now's your chance! Point the palms of your hands at Jiyuka, and then shout 'Callisto Phoenix Fire Strike!' " Rinoa said, grateful for the man's assistance.

"Right!" Callisto directed her hands at the puppet as she looked like she was getting ready to attack once more. "Callisto Phoenix Fire...STRIKE!" She shouted.

What looked like six spheres of fire appeared around Callisto, then shot towards Jiyuka, turning the knives that were shooting right at Callisto once more in to ashes, and engulfed Jiyuka in a pillar of fire. When the pillar had vanished, so had Jikyuka and the damage the puppet had caused to the store.

"Wow... I did that?" Blinked Callisto in astonishment.

"Not too shabby at all..." The Moon Shadow Knight said as he turned away. "But don't let your guard down, this is only the beginning, Sailor Callisto."

The last she saw of the Moon Shadow Knight was his white cloak and Arabian style hat as he vanished with a flash of brilliant white light.

"Callisto, we'd better get going too you know." Rinoa said as the group of people were standing up now that the danger had passed.

"Right." Nodded Callisto.


Later that evening, Christina sat in her room in a daze as she was trying to read, but unable to focus.

"You did very well today, Christina, I was very proud of you." Rinoa jumped on to the girl's bed.

"Yeah?" Blinked Christina.

"And don't worry, I've modified everyone's memory, so you can call me Rinoa out in the open, and with your disguise, they'll never notice it was you." Rinoa sat down on the bed next to Christina.

"So... you really can talk..." Blinked Christina.

"Yes." Nodded Rinoa.

"And I really AM a Sailor Senshi, like in my comic books?"

"Yes."

"And none of what happened was just a dream from playing too many video games?"

"I'm afraid not."

"And you really do have that crazy New York accent?"

"HEY!"