Role Model
Disclaimer: I don't own the Sailor Moon characters. Naoko Takeuchi does. But I do own the idea, as well as the second generation of Scouts that I created, and this excludes Rini/Small Lady/Serena because I didn't create her. ^_^ Got it?
Notes: This is set right after the season where Helios shows up. I will use American names and spellings because I don't know the others. And to further confuse you, I'm gonna call Rini Serena from chapter 3 until the end. (O.o) If you can't keep up, I'll switch it back.
Warnings: Character death. I'm not sure if there are any more, except for maybe language and some violence. Usual couples...including Amara and Michelle. (In my little world, the American versions aren't cousins) And, of course, some Serena (Meatball head Serena, not cotton-candy head, as Rini is so lovingly referred to) bashing. ^_^ Oh, and I hope this doesn't come up but maybe some OOCness.
Chapter 7: A Friend Not Lost
"Something seems so familiar about Rini's friends," Amy muttered.
"Hey Lita, the brown-haired girl looks kinda like you," Mina pointed out.
"Yeah, you're right," Lita agreed.
"I could see the resemblance," Amy added.
"So who do you think they are?" Raye asked.
"Rini never introduced them. That weird lady showed up before she got a chance," Lita said.
"She called them Sailor brats," Serena muttered.
"When did she say that?" Lita asked. "I didn't hear it."
"Me neither," Amy agreed.
"Maybe you just imagined it," Lita told her.
"But I-"
"Serena, stop. You probably imagined whatever the lady said," Raye told her with a grin. "It wouldn't be much of a stretch…"
"HEY!!! What do you mean?!"
~*~
"They fight just like me and Sere…I mean Rini," Celia thought. She was currently standing outside of Serena's room, occasionally looking in at the Scouts. "Mom. She's right there…right there, and I can't do anything because it'll mess up the future."
"Whatcha doin', Celia?" The mini-Scout jumped nearly a foot in the air and glared at the young girl who had startled her.
"Anna, be quiet!" she hissed.
"What're you looking at, Celia?" Anna asked, quieter than the last time.
"Look," said Celia, pointing at Serena's room.
"Yeah, so?"
"It's my mom."
"Hey, yeah, she's alive in the past!" Anna cried happily. Celia clamped a hand over her mouth.
"Did you hear something?" came Raye's voice from inside the room.
"I told you to be quiet!" Celia growled. She heard footsteps and then saw Raye standing in the doorway.
"What're you two doing out here?" the older Scout asked.
"Um, we were just, uh…" Celia stuttered. "We were…"
"We got lost," Anna blurted out. "Where's the kitchen?" Then Raye smiled.
"I'll take you. Serena probably gave you some bad directions."
"I HEARD THAT!! JUST WAIT TILL I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, RAYE!!!"
"C'mon, let's go." Raye led them downstairs to the kitchen. "Y'know, I don't think you got the chance to introduce yourselves yet."
"My name's Anna," said the younger child.
"I'm Celia."
"That's a pretty name," Raye told her. "I'm Raye. Who are your other friends?"
"The jerk with the blond hair is Allen. The blue-haired girl is Farrah, and her brother is Justin. The girl with the brown hair is Carmen, and you already know Rini," Celia said.
"Celia, I just remembered! I haven't seen Pi-chan since this afternoon!" Anna suddenly cried.
"Don't tell me that you lost him! It's not that easy to lose a dog!"
"Uh-oh, I don't think Serena would let him in anyways," Raye said. "Her cat, Luna, isn't really partial to dogs." But Anna's obvious sadness made her sigh. "We'll go look for him, okay? What does he look like?"
"Well, he's kinda small and his fur is yellow and he has a crescent moon on his collar," Anna said.
"Wait a minute while I go tell Serena, and then we'll go look for your puppy, okay Anna?" The young child nodded, her blue eyes as large and innocent as she could possibly make them.
Raye came back moments later. "Let's go," she said. Then she put on her jacket and went out the door. The girls followed behind her, but Raye looked at Celia disapprovingly.
"You can't be coming out without a jacket! Don't you have one?" Celia shook her head.
"It's at home…y'know, in the future," she explained. Raye sighed.
"You can take mine. I'll just borrow Serena's." Raye gave her jacket to Celia and grabbed Serena's, and then they left.
~*~
"Pi-chan!! Where are you?!" Anna cried into the dark night.
"We should try the park," Raye said. "Dogs love places where they can run around a lot."
"Hey, good idea!" Anna praised. Celia was strangely silent. Raye looked at her.
"Why so quiet?" she asked. Celia shook her head.
"Nothing, I'm just thinking," she answered.
"…about what?"
"Not much."
"You're, what, eleven? Twelve?" Raye wondered.
"Eleven," Celia answered quietly. "Why do you ask?"
"Oh, I was just wondering."
"So, um, you knew Rini when she was my age?" Anna piped up.
"Yeah," Raye told her. "And let me tell ya, you guys behave a lot better than she did…she and Serena were always fighting!"
"Kinda like you and Serena?" Raye looked down at Anna.
"It's strange, I've only just met you two…how do you know so much about us?"
"Uhhh…! We're friends of Rini's," Celia answered. "She talked a lot about you guys."
"Just how much do you know, anyways?"
"Only that you're friends of Rini's," Anna explained.
"And hey, any friend of hers is a friend of ours!" Celia added. Unbeknownst to them, the three girls were being followed. And finally, their stalker revealed herself.
"Hah, found ya." The three girls turned around; Celia and Anna gasped.
"You again!" Celia growled.
"Who…" Raye trailed off.
"Marenda, why don't you just leave us alone?!" Anna shouted.
"So this is Marenda," Raye thought.
"Please," Marenda spat. "I have to eliminate all of the guardians of Crystal Tokyo, don't ask me again." Then she turned to Raye. "And some of them just won't stay dead." Raye gasped.
"They're guardians of Crystal Tokyo? Are they…?"
"Hey! What do you mean by 'some won't stay dead'?" she asked aloud.
"Don't play dumb with me, I know that you're Sailor Mars," Marenda said with a grin.
"Well then," Raye retorted. "Guess there's nothing to stop me from transforming." She held up her transformation stick and yelled,
"MARS PLANET POWER!!" Anna and Celia grabbed the chains around their necks, each had their respective planet's symbol on it.
"MERCURY POWER!"
"MARS POWER!"
"Hey, you're-" Sailor Mars stopped as Marenda laughed.
"You think that you three have enough power to stop us?" she asked, obviously amused. "Don't make me laugh. I'm not going to waste my time here, I've got other things to do. Soriaa, Roith, get out here!" Two large shadows appeared from behind Marenda, and then they formed monsters.
"We're heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!" they yelled in a singsong voice. "Now…you called?" Everything they said was in unison.
"Get rid of these twerps."
"Yes ma'am! Soriaa and Roith are on the case!"
"Mini-Mars, let's get rid of these dork-faces," Mini-Mercury suggested.
"Right! MARS FIRE…IGNITE!" She clasped her hands and then opened them again, palms out. A fireball shot out from her palms and spiraled around until it hit Soriaa, but she held up her arms and it bounced off. Mini-Mars jumped out of the way as the attack hit the spot where she had been standing. "No fair!" she cried. "She's got some kind of shield!"
"Maybe I can help a little," Mini-Mercury suggested.
"Go for it!"
Meanwhile, Mars was facing Roith all by herself, although she was mostly just dodging attacks.
"Let's see how well you take my Marble Bombs!" Roith sniggered. She took out something that greatly resembled a marble and threw it at Mars, who narrowly escaped being hit by it. Instead it hit a tree and exploded, hence the name, 'marble bomb'."
"Mars flame shooter!" she shouted. The attack was a hit, but did hardly any damage to the monster.
"MERCURY ICE BUBBLES BLAST!"
"Hey, what is this?!" Soriaa cried. "I can't move!"
"Mars fire IGNITE!!"
"Hey! That almost hurt, ya little brat! That's it, no more kiddie games! VINE SLASH!" Mini-Mars flew back, large red gashes grazing her cheek, stomach, and left leg.
"Mini-Mars, no!" Mini-Mercury shouted.
"Damnit," Mars cursed. "She's too strong…I can't fight her all by myself. Anna and Celia aren't doing well, either."
Sailor Mini-Mars gasped…the pain was so intense…she took out a small watch-like object and flipped the top open. Then she pressed some of the symbols and multiple faces appeared on the screen.
"Mini-Mars? Hey! You're hurt…what's happening?" came Rini's voice.
"I-it's Marenda," Mini-Mars gasped. "She ambushed us…"
"WHAT?! That witch! Where are you? We'll be right there!"
"We…we're in the park. Please hurry…and bring the other Scouts."
"I'll be right there! Just hold on, okay?! I don't wanna lose you!" The link was closed and Mini-Mars put the communicator back where it came from.
"Please get here soon…"
"Mini-Mars, just hold on! We'll get outta here, I promise!" Mini-Mercury shouted to her friend. Suddenly, Soriaa and Roith stopped their attack and looked at each other.
"Tiiiime to jooooooin!" they said together, in their singsong voice. And then they slammed into each other, merging to become one being.
"Ha-hah! Super Roith!" it shouted.
"Waitaminute! Super Roith? As if! Super Soriaa sounds soooooooooooooo much better!"
"Whatever! Roith is better!"
"Noooo, Soriaa is!"
"Roith!"
"Soriaa!"
"Roith!"
"SORIAA!"
"I never liked you anyways!" Meanwhile, the Scouts sweatdropped.
"VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!!"
"OWWW! That hurt, ya little twerp!" The monster growled. "Who the hell are you?!"
"I am the champion of justice, Sailor Moon!"
"No, no, not you…the one who attacked me," Super…uhhh…Roith-Soriaa snapped.
"Uhhh…me? I'm Sailor Venus, the soldier of love and beauty!"
"Wimp," the monster muttered before seriously backhanding the 'soldier of love and beauty'. She flew backwards, through the wall surrounding the park, and into a tree.
"Sailor Venus!" the others cried. Sailor Moon was about to attack when Mini-Mercury stopped her.
"Be careful, it's got a shield!" she warned.
"So what do we do?" Sailor Moon wondered.
"Someone distract it, and then attack," Mercury suggested. Without hesitation, Jupiter attacked.
"JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!"
"JUPITER THUNDER CRASH!!"
"What the…Mini-Jupiter!" the older Scout of Jupiter whispered. And the other Mini-Scouts were with her.
"Now, Sailor Moon!" Mercury yelled.
"Right," Moon said quietly.
"MOON MILLENNIUM REVOLUTION!!"
"Hey! You can't do that to us! We'll be baaaaaaaack!!" Super Roith-Soriaa-whatever screamed before the attack totally destroyed it.
"What the…Sailor Neo-Moon!"
"Too many moons," Mars whispered.
"I told you that I'd be back," said the mysterious Scout known as Sailor Neo-Moon.
"Who are you?" Moon asked.
"Well…I suppose it's time to tell you," she mused. Then she took the brooch from the front of her uniform and pulled it off. Her uniform was instantly replaced with normal clothing. "My name is Andrea…you probably don't remember me." Her voice was meek and quiet; she sounded very shy.
"No," Moon said. "I don't think I've met you before."
"Why don't you transform back?" Andrea suggested. "All of you." So all of the Scouts reverted back to their regular selves. They were very surprised to learn the identities of the Mini-Scouts.
"Rini, why didn't you tell us that-" Serena began.
"Because they shouldn't have done that," Rini answered, glaring at the Mini-Scouts.
"But Raye already knew who we were," Celia objected.
"You shouldn't have let her find out, idiot! And anyways, don't tell them any more about yourselves," Rini whispered to her friends.
"Andrea, explain who you are, and where we've met you before," Serena suggested.
"It was back in the Silver Millennium. Princess Serena was lonely in the palace, all by herself. So she created an imaginary twin sister to be her friend. But…as she got older and met the others, she forgot all about her imaginary sister, who still hung around. Her sister wished to be a human, so that no one could forget about her. So that she would really exist. That was right before the final attack on the Moon Kingdom, when Serena, her mother, and the Scouts all died."
"What does that story have to do with anything?" Serena asked.
"Relax, I'm not done," Andrea said. "The imaginary friend waited for a long, long time, but her wish wasn't granted. She still stayed near the moon, even though its kingdom was gond and the Silver Millennium had come to an end. One day she sensed Princess Serena's energy from the Earth and went to investigate. And there, she found Sailor Moon…and she knew that it was Princess Serena. She wished very hard to be human, to be able to reunite with her sister. So slowly, her form collected energy…enough to make her a person. But only now was she able to be seen."
"Is that it?" Rini wondered. "What was the point?"
"I guess I forgot to mention that I was that imaginary person," Andrea told them. "I wished so much to be human, but I couldn't tell you last time we met because I wasn't completely whole. Now I'm real, and I could tell you my story."
"So…you're my sister?" Serena wondered. "Why didn't Luna tell me about this?" She looked down at the guardian cat, who had insisted on coming to investigate the new enemy.
"I didn't know," Luna explained. "If I had, I would have told you."
"Do you know anything about our new enemy?" Mina asked.
"No, I'm afraid not. They didn't exist in the Silver Millennium, and I've never heard of them," Andrea explained.
"We know," Anna said.
"Yeah," Rini added. "And I think it's time to tell you the whole story."
To be continued…
Hoo, that was a long one. I didn't find a good place to break it off, so I just made it one chapter. Well, you learned all about Sailor Neo-Moon. She was Serena's sister in a weird way. Hope you liked this chapter!
In chapter 8:
The Mini-Scouts explain everything that they know about the Multiverse, and Anna lets it slip that they're the children of the present Scouts. Then Serena recalls something that Celia said when Marenda first appeared…This and more in Role Model: Chapter 8!