Finally, the last day of school came from the students of Brentwood and nothing could top off a wonderful year of amazing grades than none other than a festival filled with food stands, game booths, a few tents rented out for some performers, and some blow-up rides instead of the roller coasters, Ferris wheels, and tea cup rides the students wanted but the budget couldn't afford. But it seem all fine when over 80% of the student body was standing in line to get on one of the blown-up water slides.
It was a beautiful day for the 24th of May, everything seemingly perfect with the clear blue sky and bright sun making it to be a little too hot for the students, causing the school board to let girls were short-shorts and basically bikini tops in bright colors, while the boys wore khaki shorts and t-shirts with the sleeves cut off. The laughter and cheers of the students made the festival seem more like a day at the beach as all of the money spent on games, rides, food, and seeing the performers went back to the school board.
At the moment, Serena and her friends were watching Janelle and Ellie face off at a game of shooting water at plastic, moving ducks which was ran by a random older man that was watching them in a creepy manner.
The six high school girls decided to be matching and wear the same acid wash short-shorts and black sneakers, but they all wore different shirts; Marisol wore a multicolored t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, Janelle basicaly wore a red sports bra-like tank, Keiko wore a purple tank top, Adina wore a midriff baby blue top, and Serena wore a pink bikini top while Ellie wore an orange bikini top.
"Ya will nevah beat me, Sparky!" Janelle said with excitement as she shot wildly, her Irish accent thickening.
"Yeah right! I am more pumped than a uniorn flying through a stack of rainbows to Candy Island!" Ellie said as she randomly said the first things that came to her mind.
Janelle looked at her confusion, as did the other four girls around them, which was Ellie's plan all along. She began shooting like a mad woman and began stacking up points, getting ahead of her Irish friend. Janelle noticed the trick after a second and went back to shooting, but it was way too late for her.
Ellie shot down the final duck as she screamed, "YES!" and grabbed the huge stuffed panda she won for only $5 to play the game. She snuggled with the toy animal as Janelle dropped her gun and placed her chin in her hand, looking like she was about to punch a hole through the booth.
As Janelle looked pissed off, Adina and Marisol pulled her away from the shooting booth as they headed off in the opposite direction while Ellie jumped up and down in joyfor her prize. Serena was eating a corn dog while Keiko led the group to a new booth that had very little customers but it had a very familiar face working behind the counter.
Winona was working at the festival for some community service hours for her college, where she is studying to be a fashion designer. She wore distressed blue jeans with bash cowboy boots and a low-cut, white tank top that had Melinda Russo on the front. She smiled as she saw the other Neo Soldiers, whom she got to know over due to Serena introducing her and letting her come to the meetings now.
"Hey, guys. Welcome to my magic booth, filled with mystical treasures and wondrous objects filled with spiritual energy." Winona said in a stereotypical psychic's tone as she waved her fingers is a voodoo-like gesture.
"I am guessing you don't believe in all that voodoo and magic stuff?" Adina asked in a sweet tone.
Winona laughed as she said, "Of course I believe in that stuff, but this crap my teacher is making me sell is useless. So, I added a few of my own things." The older girl winked as she pulled out a box and opened it, pulling out a small, white glowing jewel sphere nestled in a sliver clasp surrounded by a curlicue of shining metal.
"Wow..." Serena said as she touched the necklace lightly. "What is this, Winona?"
"This is an old treasure called the Lover's Cradle. Deep inside, it holds the powers of love and purity that will lead the wearer to their one and only soulmate instantly. My grandmother wore it when she met my grandfather and my mom wore it when she met my dad, both couples still happily married to this day." Winona said with a smile.
Then she noticed that her blonde friend was smiling dreamy at it, touching it with a single finger as she watched the necklace swing back and forth. Knowing the heartbreak Serena suffered back in Tokyo, Winona took the blonde's hand and placed the necklace in it as she closed it and said, "Take it."
"What?" Serena asked as she snapped out her trance.
"Take it. It doesn't matter how much money I made as long as I meet my community hours. I doubt that I will meet anyone because I want a successful career and will be too busy for a man, but I know that you need to more." Winona answered with a warm and motherly smile.
Serena was still in shock, but she nodded her head as she turned around and slammed her face right into someone.
Everyopne gasped as the blonde pulled herself off the person she ran into, looking up to see that it was Orion looking down at her. Instantly, her feet ran back to Winona's booth as her heart raced a thousand miles per hour. Her friends looked at her with shocked faces, not knowing what to do or say as they did not want to embarrass their friend even worse.
But Orion smiled as he said, "Nice to see you again. I'm sorry for running into you, but I never got to say my name and I had no idea who you were basically."
"Oh, I know that you are Orion Ishaan. Um... and that is because my friend told me your name after I fell into your arms last week. So... My name is Serena Tsukino and I am going into the 10th grade. I'm sorry for running into you multiple times." Serena rammbled on, her face dark red as she looked at the ground.
Orion gave an awkward smile as he said, "It's no problem. I don't mind running into such a beautiful girl." He blushed as he realized what he had said, turning around on her heels as he rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Um, nice to see you again." Then he walked away quickly with his head down in shame.
With her heart now bursting through her chest, Serena felt her knees go weak but she got steady when she grabbed the edge of the counter behind her. She looked around to see Winona, Janelle, Marisol, and Ellie smirking at her red face as Keiko and Adina gave ehr looks of pity with understanding smiles.
She felt her face get hotter she she murmured, "Shut up. Bumping into him doesn't mean that he is my soulmate."
She began shuffing off, still looking down at the ground. Keiko and Adina followed as the blunette paid for the necklace to Winona. While the Native American girl smiled at her friends, Janelle with Marisol and Ellie followed their friends as they saw that Serena was heading off into one of the tents.
As they entered the tent, all of them realized that it was an empty one with only three or four white lawn chairs scattered around and with left behind equipment of performers; torches that were long put out, juggling pins and balls, hula-a-hoops, and tight ropes still strung across the top of the tent. Some spray paint from where some students were goofing around with decorated the inside of the white tent, and the grass was soaked with soda that was dripping from plastic cups on the ground.
Keiko tip-toed around the trash left around the ground as she said with a crinkled nose "This is disgusting. Does anyone at this school have a shred of pride in how your school looks?"
"What about nature? Everyone left a mess and trashed this beautiful ground, destorying the purity of our planet. Why did they harm this beautiful grass? Don't they have any shame?" Marisol said in despair, kneeling to her knees as she agreed with Keiko in her own way.
As the girls wondered why they came into this tent, a pair of clicking heels were behind them. They turned to see a beautiful, eighteen-year-old girl grabbing a black backpack that had aqua blue lining and light purple, seashell-shaped buttonon the front. She blinked a few times at the girls as a handsome eighteen-year-old boy came behind her, with a curious look on his face as the girl smiled.
The girl was tall and slender, being a little taller than Janelle. She had smooth pale skin, along with waist-length, wavy green-blue hair that had fluffy bangs and it was in a side braid. She had striking light violet eyes, delicate facial features, rosy cheeks, high and thin eyebrows, a motherly smile with her full light pink lips, and a slightly wide forehead with a small chin. She wore a short, white dress with a sleeveless black vest, which draped down behind her into two tails. She had a purple tie undernearth her vest and purple cuffs on her elbows to match. Both the vest and the elbow cuffs had gold buttons on them. The bottom of the dress was filly and loose, On her waist was a thick, black belt and she wore a black bracelet on her left wrist that matches the belt. Her shoes were black, heels that lace up like ballerina heels to her knees and outlined in gold. She wore aquamarine stud earrings and her braid was held by a pearl-studded hairbow.
The boy was tall, slender, and softly shaped with a mild face. His body seem less msucular than the other boys at school, having a lanky and slender built. He had thick, layered messy dirty blonde hair that went mid-way pass his ears with soft bangs, tied behind in a short ponytail for the hot day. He had blue-green eyes, and fair skin with dirty freckles across his cheekbones. He wore a button-up white shirt with the sleeves rolled pass his elbows, black skinny jeans with a dark blue belt around his waist, black dress shoes, black woven bracelets on each wrist, and a green tie around his neck done in a messy style.
"Oh, I am sorry. Were we interuppting something?" The girl asked in an elegant tone that sounded like she was from the North.
"Um, no! We just got lost and ended up here." Serena said quickly, covering up her mistake of bringing her friends in here. Then she smiled at the girl and boy as she said happily, "My name is Serena. Can I ask who you two are? I don't think I have seen you around, even though I am relatively new at this school."
The girl smiled as she said in her elegant, New Yorkern accent "I am Hannah Wesser."
Then she looked at the boy, who looked a little stoic. But he nodded his head as said in a rough, Southern accent "I'm Charlie Fletcher. We go to a neighboring school named Monarch Private Academy, so that is why you don't see us a lot maybe." He grabbed Hannah's hand as he turned around in a huff. "Now, if you excuse you, annoying little-"
"HEY!" Charlie turned around to see Janelle staring him down. She had her hands on her curvy hips as she sneered at him in an almost animalistic way, still bitter about her lost to Ellie. As the blonde boy cocked an eyebrow up, Janelle said "Listen, Lightweight, I ain't goin' to stand here and ya make a snide comment to me friend. Let's settle this like we should."
"Please, like I am getting into a baking contest with some girl." Charlie snapped rudely.
But all Janelle did was smile as she pointed to the nearest game booth, which was a ring toss game. Her smirk was more much noticable on her plump lips as she said, "A bet for the first one who wins. If I win, then ya have to tell Serena ya're sorry. If ya win, then ya can take your scarwny ares out of here."
For a moment, the boy was quiet before a smile cracked upon his face. Hannah looked a little embarrassed, like she knew what was about to happen, as Charlie walked back towards the Irish girl and said, "Sure, girly. Fair game."
They both shook hands, then walk towards the ring toss game. Their friends followed them as the two instantly placed $5 on the counter and picked up their respective rings before the person running the booth started the timer.
Janelle got a good head start, throwing a ring at a time per second. Charlie was only a half of a second behind her, two of his not even hitting the pole. Even the Irish girl missed a few, but that only made her go even faster with better aim precision. Charlie finally caught up as him and Janelle were now neck-to-neck.
But, in an instant, Janelle threw her last two rings at once, hoping for victory. Even her friends thought she was going to lose as Charlie threw his last ring as well, believing that Charlie would get ahead with his last ring if both rings didn't hit the stick. But instead, it was the ither way around when Charlie's ring fell to the ground and both of Janelle' rings caught on the stick.
"YES! FESS UP LIGHTWEIGHT!" Janelle yelled in her victory, the sting of losing to Ellie now gone.
Even Hannah began giggling a little as Charlie rubbed the back of his neck. He looked at Serena with sorry eyes, but the blonde girl gave him a geninue smile as she stepped closer and placed a hand on his shoulder. He looked down at her as she contained a giggle but smiled anyways at him.
"You don't have to say anything. Losing to Janelle is bad enough." Serena said calmly.
"HEY!" The Irish girl snapped back.
"I meant it in a kind way." Serena said back to her Irish friend. Then she looked back at Charlie and continued. "Anyways, I forgive you."
At first, Charlie looked a little shock as so did Hannah. But he smiled back at the blonde girl a a real, charming smile came on his face and met his eyes. As Serena took her hand off his shoulder, Charlie snickered and said, "I guess you're right about losing to Janelle is bad enough."
As the two talked, Hannah looked at the time on her watch and gasped a little with her eye widening. She walked up to the two blondes as she waved her hand in the air, catching Charlie's attention right away.
She tapped her watch and said, "Charlie, we need to head out. He needs us home and it is five minutes before two."
Charlie looked shock as he looked down at Serena and said, "It was nice meeting you and your friend. Hope to see you again." Then him and Hannah ran off to the exit as the six high school girls watched with interest.
After Hannah and Charlie exited the festival, Ellie and Janelle were still enjoyed at their victories today. But as Marisol looked at Ellie's stuffed panda and Adina was reading the romance book she brought along to the festival, Keiko saw the interested look on Serena's face as the blonde looked in the direction where the two older kids left.
"Serena, please don't tell me you are thinking what I think you are thinking." Keiko begged her friend, not really wanting to go on an adventure today.
But Serena had a shining look in her eyes as she said, "I'm sorry, Keiko, but I am thinking what you think I am thinking." Keiko sighed in defeat as she heard, "Let's follow them!"
~0~
The Millennium Biltmore Hotel was a four-star residentance for thousands of celebrities and rich families. It was very exclusive and expensive, to the point where only rich families who actually something to their name could get in without a problem. The 100+ floors were bigger than most homes, with rich gold and green colors decorating each room beautifully with vintage furniture and French windows that had a beautiful view of the city. The best part of the hotel is that there was a beautiful swimming pool in the back and a tennis court actually on top of the roof.
On the 50th floor is where the Fletcher family lived at. Not only did Charlie's family came from hundreds of years of old money from back in Alabama, but the current heir to the fourtune were famous in their own right; Mr. Fletcher was a classical music producer while Mrs. Fetcher was a painter, with their son wanting to be a football player and their youngest daughter to be a race car driver.
Hannah was waiting in the living room, which was basically the size of the lobby, on one of the three white couches. She was studying up on violin muic sheets, having a performance in only a few days. Ever since she could remember, she had looked up to Mr. Fetcher and his beautiful classical music he made. And coming from a rich family herself, she was able to afford to go to a music academy when she was younger.
But after her parent realized what a music prodigy their daughter was, they assigned her the best education for both academics and music reasons a family could buy. With their money, Hannah became a top student and was on her way to become a music sensation if she didn't have the urge to stay at school longer. Even though she never saw her parents, whom were wealthly business people, she still loved getting a note card from them every so often when they were away on month end, leaving her at home with the maids and butlers.
Finally, after an hour of waiting, a girl who looked exactly like Charlie came from the bathroom. She wore a white button-up shirt with the sleeves rolled above her elbows and the first buttons undone to how her breasts slightly, a pair of black leather short-shorts, black kitten heels, a sleeveless black vest, and a transparent black scarf with white pokla dots around her neck while small, multiple gold hoop earrings were in each ear.
"Finally. How he is?" Hannah asked the girl as she jumped off the couch.
"Pretty good but he is still weak. I just hope Chase will get the treatment he need, but Mom and Dad can't find a doctor yet to fly cross-country." The girl said sadly as she sat down, with her shoulders slumped over.
Hannah sighed as she kneel down to the girl's level. She gave a cold yet understanding look as the blonde girl looked at her. "Charlie, your brother needs you." The girl shook her head as Hannah stood back up and wiped off her skirt. "Now, I will go get some black coffee. What anything from the kitchen?"
"A soda please." Charlie said as she watched her friend walk into the kitchen. Then she leaned her head back as she thought about how she got here, with her brother sick with lung cancer and her trying to be strong for him.
It happened after their father, Stan Fletcher, was able to find a school that gave his kids scholarships to Monarch Private Academy. Since he was busy in Los Angeles, he kept his family in Alabama until he found a way to provide for them with his kids in a good school and his wife making money. Finally, he found a way after two years and the family came right over.
At first, it seem fine. Charlie learned how to be a race car driver and cut her hair to fit the hemlet she wore, Chase began a top student and a football sensation as he signed with Alabam University, and their mother, Samantha Fletcher, became an successful artist with a small business already up and running within a month.
But then it all came crashing down. Chase started to get sick so he was taken to the hospital, days before his second season, and they found out he had lung cancer. Even though his family was able to get him good treatments, his cancer was in Stage 2 and they told the family that he needed a lung transplant just so his health can be 100% safe. So far, neither Stan or Samantha has found a doctor willing enough or open on certain days to fly cross-country or international to do the transplant.
So, to help out her brother, Charlie cut her hair to her brother's length when he was healthly and she used her androgynous body to disguise herself as a male. The reason for this is because his coach came over to Los Angeles to check up Chase, not knowing he was sick at all. So, Charlie pretended to be a boy until her parent found a doctor and she told the coach that (s)he was not able to play because of a foot injury, pretending to have a broken foot.
As Charlie rubbed her eyes, Hannah came out with their drinks as six loud yells came from outside. Charlie grabbed her drink and both ran to the window, seeing six girls being man-handled by the security guards. Charlie and Hannah realized who those girls were as they ran to the elevator inside the apartement.
[Downstairs]
Serena and her friends had just walked on the property of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel when twenty security guards came out of nowhere and man-handled the teenagers. Janelle and Ellie were screaming on the top of their lungs, while Keiko, Adina, and Marisol tried to reason with the guards. Only Serena seem calm as she slipped out of the guard's grip and held her hands together, the Silver Crystal appearing.
After a second, the guards let her friends go as they had blank looks on their faces. They wandered off a Janelle and Ellie wiped off their pants, looking a little pissed, as the other three girls looked both impressed and surprised.
"That was impressive Serena. But don't you think the Silver Crystal should be used for emergencies?" Adina said in a reasonable tone.
"Yeah but it seem like an emergency right now." Serena saw the subtle shock on Adina's face, so she added "But I promise not to do this again."
"Oh good. I thought you were going to be a power-mad she-witch." Adina joked, making her blonde friend smile as they both giggled.
As the guards finally were long gone, two figures came runing out of the building. It was Hannah and Charlie, whom the girls did not it was Charlie at the moment. Serena smiled as she ran up to the girls and said, "Hey, Hannah! Who is this?"
For a moment, the New Yorkern seem caught off guard as she looked at her best friend since she known since preschool, with their mothers being old friends themselves. Then she looked back at Serena and her friends as she said, "This is Charlie."
"HUH?!" All six girls said at the same time.
Charlie looked embarrassed before locking eyes with Serena, saying "Can we just talk to you in private? It will make more sense if we tell you everything and you can tell your friends, so that way there is no interruptions."
"Um, sure." Serena answered as she followed the two girls back into the hotel, grabbing her denim jacket so she won't look indecent at such a beautiful and elegant place.
As she entered the hotel with the two girls, they stood in a ballroom-sized lobby made out of clean white marble with a gold tile floor and a high ceiling held by huge pillars, and a huge diamond chandelier hanging on the ceiling with huge glass windows on the wall. Employees went about their jobs, wearing black and red uniforms, and the people walking around in stylish, high-end clothes looked like they belong here instead of three teenagers.
The blonde was in shock and awe as Hannah placed her hands on the girl's shoulders and led her to a set of plush white chairs. They all sat down, with Serena in one chair and the other two girls sitting on a couch across from her.
Then Hannah looked at Charlie with worried eyes as she asked, "Was Chase asleep when we left? I don't want to leave him all helpless."
"Yeah, he was asleep. The medicine knocks him out just like that." Charlie said as she snapped her fingers to prove how quick the medicine was.
Serena listened to the conversation, not to be nosy but because she was still sitting across from them. She finally raised her hand, interrupting the two talking about Chase as they looked at her, while she was still completely confused about what was going on here in the first place.
"Um, who is Chase?" Serena asked.
Charlie sighed as she rubbed the bridge of her nose. She looked at the golden blonde-haired girl as she said, "Chase is my older brother. You see, we came here from Alabama two years ago because my brother and I got scholarships to Monarch Private Academy. Chase wanted to and I wanted to be a race car driver. Then it all came crashing down a few months ago." Even though that last line sounded fearful, hearing what Charlie's profession was made shivers run down Serena's spine even more. That sounded too much like how Amara wanted to be.
But Serena got the courage to ask, "What happened?"
For a moment, the lanky girl looked upset and her green-blue eyes began to shine like there was tears forming. But she must of had the same courage Serena had seconds as she said, "Chase got lung cancer. But none of his teammates or coaches knew, so I took it upon myself to look, talk, and act like my brother while my parents are searching for a doctor to fly cross-country or even international if we have to. I told his coach that Chase, or me, had a broken foot and the doctor said that Chase, or me, couldn't play this season."
Those words hit Serena like knives were stabbing her heart. She never consider if she was in that position, with Sammy sick and her having to find ways to deal with it. But the fact that Charlie was actually pretending to be her brother until they found a doctor so the drafting people will still pick him was amazingly selfless.
Tears well up in the blonde's eyes, burning her vision as Charlie kept her own composure. Hannah look as equally upset as the other tow girls, but she kept an icy look on her face so in case Charlie broke down, she could be the strong one for her friend.
After a second, Serena stood up in silence as she went over to the couch and hugged Charlie. The older girl seem shocked at first by the sudden hug, but she patted Serena's back and smiled. Hannah was also smiling at the scene when Serena let the older girl go, tears streaking her pretty face while trying to keep her smile in tact.
"That is so brave and selfless. I don't think I can ever do that, and trust me when I say I face a lot of hardships as well." Serena said thruthfully, playing with her words as careful as she could to hide her secret.
Charlie smiled kindly at the girl as she said, "Thanks. I guess it's people like you and Hannah that keeps me going with the whole switching genders thing."
Hannah nudged Charlie on the shoulder and said, "Oh, you liar. You are perfectly fine without me when I go off to performances." Her best friend broke into laughter as she pushed Hannah back, a playful pushing contest beginning betwen them.
But, yet again, they were interrupted when Serena looked at the New Yorkern and asked, "Performances?"
Hannah looked at Serena with her striking violet eyes as she said, "Oh, that's right. You see, I am a violin player and I do a few shows when I can. Of course, why they pick me is beyond even my intelligence."
"Come on, you modest little liar. You know you are a great violinist, which is why you get gigs." Charlie said as she pushed back her friend, starting up the pushing contest again when Hannah pushed her back playfully. Serena began laughing before she felt chills go up and down her spine.
She looked at the lobby door to see her friends gone. The two older girls stopped their playful contest to see Serena staring outside with a serious, cold look on her face. They both got up right when Serena ran to the door and bursted through it, standing outside as she looked back and forth for something.
Hannah and Charlie ran after her, right when a combination of different colored lights painted the world for a moment before their vision finally set in, seeing five girls in front of two beautiful monsters that looked silimar to regular human girls but with some major differences.
"Neo Sun!"
"Neo Mercury!"
"Neo Mars!"
"Neo Jupiter!"
"Neo Venus!"
"We are the Neo Soldiers and we are here to deliver punishments to evil beings like you! In the name of the Solar System, we shall punish you!" All five girls said to the two monsters across from them on the road, which was now empty due to the monsters themselves.
Both girls had long hair in soft ringlets, deathly grey skin with black markings, aqua blue eyes with cat-like pupils and purple eyeshadow, full blood red lips, fourteen-feet black wings, and long black nails. They were both tall with bodies of supermodels. But one girl had black hair with white streaks and the other had white hair with black streaks. They had black stripes all over their bodies, but the black-haired one had stripes on her right arm and left leg, whereas the white-haired one had stripes on her left arm and right leg. They both wore a leather black cloak with a hood over their heads and sharp shoulder edges, and there was a circular black/red jewel set in a gold plate that attached the whole thing together. They both wore a black, leotard-like long-sleeved dress with cuffs at their wrists of a dark violet color. The dresses had a short mini-skirt with a dark silver belt with the same jewels around it, and the dress had a low V-neck with a frontal coutout with fishnet openwork in it. They had fishnet stockings with gaters, leather black golves that were fingerless and only cover half of their hands, golden earrings, a black choker with a golden bat pedant, and black ruffled ankle-boots with grey soles. In their hands were long, twisted silver staffs with a violet jewel.
The girls giggled at the Neo Soldiers as the black-haired one said, "I am Jessamine and this beautiful girl besides me is my sister, Elisa." The white-haired girl giggled louder as they both held their staffs high in the air, as the purple jewels began to glow.
Serena held her arm out in front of Charlie and Hannah, who were confused as can be. She looked at them with a blazing stare as she said, "Stand back." With her other hand, she held it out as the Silver Crystal appeared. Then she moved forward as she called out, "Silver Moon Soldier, Make-Up!"
The Silver Crystal began glowing as it transformed its holder, while the two girls looked in awe. While Elisa and Jessamine began fighting with other Neo Soldiers, the two girls began having visions in their minds.
"Now I remember... How we met." Hannah said to Charlie, a dreamy look in her eyes.
"Me too." Charlie agreed, but instead she had a cold look in her eyes like she was trying to remember something.
They were in the Crystal Palace, waiting for Queen Serenity and Princess Serenity to arrive to begin the initiation of the two Princesses into the Neo Soldiers. But they seem perfectly fine with the wait as they were enjoying the conversation they were having with each other.
"By the way, I am Princess Amphitrite. I am so very sorry for the late introduction, but the conversation was just too much fun." The Princess of Neptune had beautiful hair that was voluminous and wavy. She wore a floor-length, off-the-shoulders mermaid-styled aqua blue gown, with the transparent overskirt being a sky blue color as well as her long, puffy sleeves and petticoat being a sea green-bloe color. The hem of the overskirt had designs of starfish and waves. She wore a pair of navy seashell earrings with matching brooch on the front of the dress. On her head was a silver sea coral-made crown and on her feet were a pair of simple silver high heels that has three blue pearls on the toes. She also carried a large, aqua blue fan had wave designs and pearls going down a straight line of the stick.
"No problem. I'm Princess Kalani." The Princess of Uranus wore a pair of navy metallic Arabian shoes, an off-the-shoulders navy metallic badlah shirt that showed her cleavage and entire stomach, and a pair of dark gold metallic badlah pants that were loose on her slender figure. She wore mutliple gold hoop earrings in each ear, and she had a gold brooch on her chest with a navy brooch over her navel. She had light navy, organza sleeves that loop around each biceps of her bandeau top and her billowed pants had a clear, long, transparent overskirt that has navy Fleur-de-lys designs all over the overskirt, which was opened at the front. Her hair was in a high ponytail with a navy wrap and she wore a huge, navy belt around her waist to hold up her pants and hold her two daggers. She also has pale gold, sparkling wrappings from her wrists to her elbows.
They blinked a few times before looking down at their hands, each of them holding a beautiful stone in a Patience II Cut. While Charlie held a benitoite jewel, Hannah held an aquamarine jewel.
"Beautiful, aren't they?" Hannah asked her best friend. They both looked up to see Neo Moon joining the fight, attacking Jessamine with Neo Sun and Neo Mercury while Elisa was fighting against Neo Mars, Neo Venus, and Neo Jupiter.
"Yes, they are. Wanna join the fight?" Charlie asked, ready to beat up the twin monsters.
"Of course." Hannah said as she agreed with her best friend for once on the subject of fighting.
As Jessamine and Elisa pinned the Neo Soliders to a building, Neo Moon held her bleeding arm as she said, "These two are not like the others. We need a way to defeat them, but they already hurt us too bad even when we used our best attacks." The others agreed as they held their bruised bodies.
But then, like a saving grace that caught the attention of everyone including the twin monsters, two voices cried out "Neo Uranus Soldier, Make-Up!" and "Neo Neptune Soldier, Make-Up!"
The Uranus Benitoite began to glow before it disappeared and Charlie was surrounded by a column of air that appeared around her, turning her nails yellow and her hair turning an almost white color. The air rushed around her body to create her leotard, skirt, shoulder armour and collar appeared, then the same air rushed by and formed her front chest bow. Translucent yellow ribbons appeared at her back and combined with more energy to wrap around her waist to create her ribbons. She stamped her foot, causing air to stir up into small cloumns to create her shoes, gloves, choker, glove and cape. She slowly crossed her hands in front of her forehead as a yellow swirls of air create the Uranus symbol on her forehead. After a swirl of bubbles brush against her lips, she then assumed her final pose as yellow energy swirled about her feet.
The Neptune Aquamarine began to glow before it disappeared and Hannah was surrounded by a column of water that appeared around her, making her hair longer and turning her nails navy blue. Water rushed around her body to create her leotard, skirt, shoulder armour and collar appeared, then water rushed by and formed her front chest bow. Translucent navy ribbons appeared at her back and combined with more water to wrap around her waist to create her ribbons. She stamped her foot, splashing water upwards and stirring up small cloumns of water to create her shoes, glove, choker, bracelets and cape. She slowly crossed her hands in front of her forehead as water swirls against her forehead to create the Neptune symbol on it. After a swirl of bubbles brush against her lips, she then assumed her final pose as navy energy swirled about her feet.
As the glowing lights died down, the other Neo Soldiers smirked at the twin monsters, who were frozen in shock as two new Soldiers appeared.
"Guarded by Uranus, planet of skies. I am the Princess of Fury, Neo Uranus!"
"Guarded by Neptune, planet of deep oceans. I am the Princess of Embrace, Neo Neptune!"
Uranus' fuku consisted of a white leotard with a white skirt that is boarded with navy and an Uranus symbol brooch in the middle. She had filly and transparent white shoulder pads. Her choker was navy with a yellow jem pendant. The yellow, crystal-shaped brooch was on her navy, transparent, and butterfly-shaped front bow. She had yellow, shallow-tail pointed frontal ribbons that went around her waist, then tied in the back and extended to the floor. Her collar was white with a navy boarder and a single yellow stripe. The Uranus insigna was on her forehead, she wore loose navy blue boots, her earrings were the same as her civilian form, and she had one wrist-length white glove on her left hand. She wore a thigh-length, light navy transparent cape. On her right calf was golden garter that have wind-like patterns. Her hair was now light blonde, almost white.
Npetune's fuku consisted of a white leotard with a white skirt that is boarded with sea-green and a Neptune symbol brooch in the middle. She had filly and transparent white shoulder pads. Her choker was sea-green with a navy jem pendant. The navy, crystal-shaped brooch was on her sea-green, transparent, and butterfly-shaped front bow. She had navy, frontal ribbons that went around her waist twice, then extended almost to the floor at the front. Her collar was white with a sea-green boarder and a single navy stripe. The Neptune insigna was on her forehead, she wore sea-green heels that had criss-crossing straps up her knees, her earrings were the same as her civilian form, and she has one wrist-length white glove on her right hand. She wore a thigh-length, aqua transparent cape. She had two bracelets on her left wrist, with one pearl bracelet on her upper right arm. Her hair was much longer, reaching almost to the floor, but it is still in its braid.
Jessamine and Elisa looked at the new Soldiers in shock, but they had evil smirks on their faces. "New killings, sister." Jessamine said as Elisa giggled evily. Then they charged at the two Soldiers.
But Neo Uranus crossed her arms over her chest as the Uranus Daggers appeared in her hands. The bright yellow-gold circular hilts were decorated with tony benitoite gems that went in a straight line around the middle of the hilt; the handles were wrapped with black leather and on top of each dagger was a small circular benitoite. The curved blades were made of silver and at the base of each blade, on each side, was an engraved symbol of Uranus.
At the same at, Neo Neptune placed a hand near her face as the Deep Aqua Mirror appeared. It was 14-karat gold, oval-shaped handle mirror with the back dusted with tiny white pearls surrounding an engraved, aqua blue symbol of Neptune. Small aquamarine gems encrusted and framed the smooth pale silver glass surface that had a pale aqua glow. The handle was dusted with a twirling line of white pearls.
"Sky Dagger Buster!" Neo Uranus slashed both Daggers in the air as they both glowed a bright gold color, causing multiple slashes of air to head towards the twin monsters.
"Submarine Reflection!" Neo Neptune held her Mirror at the twin monsters as it glowed a bright aqua blue light, causing a huge amount of water to shot out from the Mirror and towards the twin monsters.
The air and water combined and created a huge tornado, propelling at Jessamine and Elisa before it attacked the twin monsters. They were thrown against a building, while the other Neo Soldiers watched with interest. Both of the twin monsters were bleeding heavily from just that attack.
As Jessamine and Elisa got back on their feet, they saw that Neo Uranus and Neo Neptune had new weapons in their hands and ready to attack again.
Neo Neptune had the Marine Cathedrale, which was a beautiful, sea blue-green violin decorated with prescious sea pearls at the edges on the top and outlined in gold swirls on the sides. There was a slight craving in the left side that had inward, curled designs that looked like waves. The thin, thigh strings were pitch black and the long, slender stick was the same pitch black color. "Submarine Violin Tide!" She began playing as waves came out of the violin and attacked the twins, surrounding them as the waves slapped them and caused deep cuts.
As the twins were surrounded and being attacked by the wall of wave, Neo Uranus held her hand out as the Heaven's Spear appeared. It was a five-feet long spear that was entwined with the colors of pale gold and navy blue. The sharp, triangular spearhead was dark bronze and the staff had engravings of the Uranus symbol. At the end of the spear, there was a long pale gold chain with asmall black ball. "Air Destructive Carnival!" She slammed the spearhead to the ground as yellow energy combined with the air and headed towards the twin monsters.
When the wall of water disappeared, the twin monsters got attacked heavily by Uranus' attack. They screamed as loud as they could as they dropped their staffs, the items breaking into thousand pieces as their owners were turned into dust with nothing but their robes left behind.
As the twin monsters disappeared, all of the Neo Soldiers transformed back with the Serena, Ellie, and the Inner Soldiers bleeding heavily. Charlie and Hannah ran to them, trying to hold Serena up the most as she took the most attacks for her friends.
"Are you okay? What happened back there?" Hannah asked in a worried tone.
Serena nodded her head as she said, "I will tell you guys in a minute. But can I ask Charlie something?" The Southern girl looked at Serena as the blonde teenager asked, "Are you able to be a Neo Soldier? With you brother and all? I don't..." She flinched in pain as she grabbed her side. Charlie looked at her as Serena caught her breath and said, "I don't want to take you away from your brother when he sick."
Charlie's eyes widen as she began thinking for a moment. She looked at Hannah, who looked as conflict as her best friend did. For a second, she thought about saying no and screaming at the blonde for even suggesting that. But then she realized that what she did out there, defeating those monsters, was what she was meant to do. Finally she found her voice as she said, "I can try to be a Soldier, but my brother will still need me."
"Don't worry. My parents are doctors and they can help him maybe." Adina suggested.
"And we will understand if you can't make it to a battle. Just try to be there if you can, but if you can't then it is fine." Keiko said in her lovely voice.
"That's right, Lightweight! Me sisters can come over sometimes if ya need a sitter to go out with galfriends!" Janelle said with her usual cocky smirk.
"Also, I have some great herbal redemies to ease your brother's pain." Marisol said as she spun on her right foot, holding her hands together in a dreamy-like state as Keiko shook her head at the hippie's flightiness.
As Charlie heard these suggestions, Ellie kneel down to the level of Charlie and Hannah with a serious yet smiling look on her face. "Guys, we need you. Serena needs you to help create a world better than the one we live in now. But with helping us, we help you with whatever you need and will become your friends. That even means helping you and your brother through whatever he is going through."
At hearing these suggestions and offers, things her parents could never buy nor could even Hannah do, Charlie began to see blurriness in her vision as tears well up in her eyes and slide down her face. But as she wiped the salty liquid away, she smirked anyways as she looked Serena in the eyes.
"Count me in, girly. I can fight away my pain with these monsters you deal with." Charlie said in a cocky tone, despite her voice breaking.
Hannah was also smiling as she placed a hand on her friend's shoulder and looked at Serena, saying "I will also join. Nobody messes with my best friend when she is hurting, and nobody is going to mess with my new friends either."
Serena smiled hopefully at the two as she held her hand out. The Silver Crystal appeared and began showering them in a sparkling light, healing the wounds her and the other girls got. As she called back her Crystal, she looked up at Ellie and murmured in a comedical way, "Too much energy... I'm going to sleep..."
As her friends giggled at her toneof her voice and helped her up, she smiled at how good she had it before darkness covered her vision and she felt numb while falling into a deep, happy sleep.
[MEANWHILE IN TOKYO]
As the Galleria of Shiba Koen closed down to the public for the night, a sleek black limo pulled away from the front. A cruel-looking man and stiff woman stood in front of the doors of the Galleria, watching the limo leave with angry eyes. They talked in hushed, angry voices to each other that only the words "Michelle" and "fired" could be clearly heard.
While they talked and returned to inside the building for some paperwork, the person inside the limo sighed unhappily. Michelle Kaioh looked at her violin case with cold eyes and a straight, hard mouth as she pushed it on the the floor so hard that it opened the case and her violin went under one of the seats. But she didn't bother to get it as she was too weak anyways, using the last bit of her strength to push her violin away.
For the past few days, she has been so worried about her performance at the Galleria, where multiple music producers where going to be there to sign her upto their company. But Akuma poked at Michelle's figure and talent, saying her playing was terrible and she was a little overweight for her height. So, respecting her leader's comments despite how cruel they were, Michelle began "training" for huge performance.
But turns out the "training" wasn't as it seems; after every meal, Michelle would make herself throw up to become as skinny as Akuma and Ashley, or she would skip meals to practice. And instead of getting the rest she needs, she would stay up all night practicing to become the perfecti violinist Akuma and Ashley wanted her to be.
It got so bad that tonight, she forgot about her performance and was late by an hour. But instead of making up a convicingexcuse or telling her sponsors she was sorry, she made cruel remarks and said she would not perform unless she was given a proper dressing room with delicatable meals, even though she had a living room-sized dressing room already and world-class chefs were making her meals as it was.
She took out her phone and began texting Amara, saying: I just got fired probably. Who cares? Those people who sponsor my show were beneath my class and intelligence anyways. Those pieces of trash would not seen true talent if it was playing in front of them because they are such low-class, worthless pieces of scum.
Right after she sent the text, Amara texted her back: You're right, beautiful. Those pieces of scum would not known class if it slapped them in the face. You are a treasure and you know you're better than that.
Michelle smiled at the text, even though she broke it off with Amara weeks ago. But the blonde racer was useful to her as Michelle told her things and she let her ex said them, as Michelle wasn't going to confess that she said them and Amara was ready to still take up for her old girlfriend.
Then, Michelle finally texted back: I will arrive at the location because I am heading that way anyways. Ashley and Akuma will be picking you up and bringing you there. Also, make Ashley knows how I feel about her, but pelase don't say my name. I shall be waiting.
Michelle's smirk only grew wider as her ex texted back: I love you. I will make sure I tell Ashley and I will see you there, baby.
But all the violinist didn't say she loved Amara back as she threw the phone back into her back and laughed at her ex's stupid, narrow-minded still thinking of that so-called happy future she made up for them.
[Meanwhile]
The Tokyo Racecourse, which was across town from the Galleria, was empty for the night with all of the lights turned off. The only light still on was the street lamp near the enterance and the only person still at the racecar track was Amara Tenoh, who was leaning against the street lamp as she was making out with some random brunette girl.
The girl and Amara stopped kissing as the brunette girl said, "Oh, Amara. I am so happy you broke up with Geoff to be with me. We can have such a happy future together, you can get back to work and we can be rich and famous, and we can adopted such beautiful children so we can have a family. This can be so great and we can-"
'Yeah, about that. I think we should break up, you filthy slut. I have a new girl in my mind, so we're done." Amara said cruelly as she pushed the brunette away harshly. "By the way, you are so not my type, being a slut and all. So, run along and don't bother coming back her again."
The girl had tears in her eyes as she screamed, "BUT WHY? YOU BROKE UP WITH GEOFF TO BE WITH ME, DIDN'T YOU? AND I AM NOT A SLUT! I NEVER BEEN WITH A GUY BECAUSE I LOVE WOMEN AND YOU ARE MY FIRST KISS ANYWAYS! WHY?! EVERYTHING THEY SAID ABOUT YOU IS RIGHT! HOW YOU'RE A SLUT AND WOMANIZER AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN! I HATE YOU AND NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!"
Amara watched the girl run away with tears streaming down her face, smirking and looking at the brunette with cold eyes. As the brunette girl disappeared into the night, the blonde racer instantly pulled out her phone and looked at her conversation she had with Michelle earlier for the fifth time that night.
Like Michelle, the blonde racer was fired that night because of her attitude. She told her boss, Geoff, at Tokyo Racecourse that she refused to race unless she got paid a higer wage than she was supposed to. Then she snapped at Geoff, whom she was dating for more money, saying how gay and stupid he was, causing her to be fired right then and there. But the blonde racer just stomped out and grabbed the brunette she was just kissing to get over Geoff.
Before she got fired though, her ex-girlfriend finally texted her. Amara was angry at first because Michelle didn't text her on top of the hour for the last two hours, which was their deal when they broke up. She threw her phone and cussed, charging into Geoff's office so angry that she got fired and didn't care.
Then after she got out of Geoff's office, she broke down crying in front of the brunette and screamed that Michelle didn't love her. She sobbed and curled into a ball on the floor, screaming Michelle's name as the brunette tried to comfort her. But then, she got angry again as she started to text Michelle's old manager, Akuma, and even Ashley to know where Michelle was at with no avail. So, she took out the brunette to dinner than came back to Tokyo Racecourse to show Geoff her new "girlfriend", making her boss cry like a little boy.
After ten minutes of wistfully looking at her phone, a limo pulled up as the door opened. In the backseat was Ashley and Akuma, who were drinking the finest champagne Ashley's family could buy, which was of course the finest in the world. Akuma seem a little drunk, but she was sober enough still were she beckoned for Amara.
As the blonde racer came towards the limo, Ashley giggled as she said, "Triple A. How funny."
"Yeah, adorable." Amara snapped at the Scout of the Sun.
"Now, now. We don't need an attitude here, Miss Tenoh. Michelle is already at the location and I don't want to be in a limo with sassy racer." Ashley said as she sipped the champange, being able to hold her liquor very well.
At hearing her ex-girlfriend's name, Amara shut up as she got into the limo. The racer, who was dressed in baggy jeans with boots, a baggy t-shirt, and a letterman jacket, seem undress compared to the two girls on each side of her, both whom were wearing elegant cocktail dresses. But she took the champagne anyways as the limo rode off to its mysterious location.