The Astro Senshi

By: Andrea MacFarlane aka Serendipity/Serenity Night/Night

Chibi-Serenity@ChibiUSA.org

(c) July 2000

Konnichiwa! Please don't take my characters! At least ask first! In this Chapter, 4 new senshi arrive. You'll never believe who finds them either! Lynne is very happy about one of them. All I'm saying is that it is one of the people she knows. Just to remind you, things in {_____} are thoughts, things in [___] are whispers.

Dedicated to: Celina Dawkins (My best buddy!)

Chapter #6: Surprises and Demises

**Another Physical Plain**
"The queen is becoming very tired with your antics Azlava. You will ready your next attack and Azair will asist you. No arguments either!" Azurage said as he walked into Azlava's chambers.
"FINE! Where is the little prude anyway? I haven't seen her in months!" Azlava retorted angrily.
"Right hear dearie. Ready to go? This should be fun." Azair sneered when she entered behind Azurage.
**Price Arcade**
Lynne sat in the cafe part of her favourite hangout and sipped her latté as she waited for Jason to show up. {I hope no one sees us.} she thought as she sank lower in the booth.
A tinkle of the door chimes and much laughter caught her attention. Who should be the perfect people to walk in, Channon, Cheryl, and Himeko. Channon just had to see her too.
"Hi Lynne! We haven't seen you since Saturday!" Channon said cheerily as she dragged herself and her friends into the booth with Lynne.
"Oh. Hi Channon, aswell as you Himeko and Cheryl. What brings you here?" Lynne asked nervously.
"We just came to get lunch. What are you doing here?" Cheryl answered.
"I'm kinda waiting for someone so I was wondering, not to be mean or anything, but can you leave please!"
"Ooooohhhhh! It's a guy isn't it! Tell us who and then we'll go!" Himeko squeaked excitedly and the other girls nodded their heads in affirmation of the deal.
Lynne thought deviously as a plan formed in her head. "Alright fine. But you have to keep to yourselves." she answered.
The trio leaned forward and nodded vigoriously. "Of course Lynne." Cheryl agreed.
"Okay I'm meeting Travis here. You know the guy I helped to not get in trouble that I told you about." Lynne whispered to them.
"Oh he's dreamy!" Himeko yelled before she clamped her hands over her mouth.
Lynne sighed in frustration and annoyance. "So will you leave now .... please!" she begged.
"Alright already. We're going. But your going to give us all the juicy details after!" Channon connived before jumping up with the other girls and racing out of the arcade before any protests could be made on Lynne's part.
"What am I doing? I'll never hear the end of this from anyone, and if Travis finds out I used him as a decoy he'll never forgive me." Lynne berated herself before looking once again at the clock.
"Well I hate being a decoy so this will have to become a real date and you'll have to either ditch the guy your supposed to meet or tell him why you don't want anyone to know that the two of you are going out." A sly, familliar voice said from behind Lynne's left shoulder.
"Travis!" Lynne squealed as she flew out of booth to see his laughing face in the booth behind hers.
"Hello Lynne. So what's your choice? It's either ditch or tell, pick one. And if you don't tell him, I will." Travis said as the smile turned into a smirk.
"Oh please Travis don't make me choose. PLEASE!" Lynne begged as she sat back down in the booth.
Travis put his hand on his pretending to contemplate the situation. "Gee, let me see here. If I let you off the hook then the people at school will think I skipped out on you and that wouldn't be good for my rep. Or I can blackmail you by making you go out with me and the guy your seeing never has to find out. The last posibility is that I ruin your rep by telling him that you don't want to be seen with him. Which would you say is the best choice to benefit us both?" Travis asked smoothly as he slid into the booth beside her.
"Fine you set a date and I'll go out with you. But not right now, he could come in anytime now and if he sees me with you then I'm doomed." Lynne said hurriedly.
"Too late."
Lynne looked up to see a VERY angry Jason looking at the two of them. Travis' arm just had to be draped around her shoulders to.
"Well I'll just leave the two of you to discuss this matter privately." Travis said weakly before he slid out of the booth and left the arcade.
Jason sat down across from Lynne and folded his arms across his chest. They sat for a few minutes before Jason spoke up, "Well I'm waiting for an explanation as to why he had his arm around you and why you wanted it to be kept secret. Don't lie to me either. I absolutely despise liers."
Lynne eyes started to water as she explained, "He was trying to blackmail me. I told Channon, Cheryl, and Himeko that it was him I was meeting here instead of you." She paused and looked at his hurt eyes at her first of many revelations. "He overheard me and said that if I didn't go out with him then he'd tell you I didn't want my friends knowing about you. It's not that I don't want them to know.....it's just.....just that I'm scared of being hurt and losing you. It's happened to me before, two years ago I was going out with someone, we had a fight before the christmas holidays and I went on a ski trip still mad at him. I came back and went straight to my friends at school. Before they could even speak I started to talk badly of him. They looked at me in utter shock... they asked me how I could be so creul and uncaring. I looked at them amazed and astounded. I asked them what they meant......they said that he was dead. He had been coming home with his aunt, uncle, and brother from a christmas party..." Lynne took a big gulp of air and sniffed before she continued. "He wasn't wearing his seatbelt and they crashed into another car, he flew out the back window and slammed against a nearby fence. There was so much blood loss...he went into ICU and the next day he died. There was a day during my vacation that I felt a tugging on my heart but I thought nothing of it. I should have apologized before I left. He died still mad at me." The tears started to flow then, Lynne sobbed uncontrollably until Jason slid in beside her to give comfort.
Lynne stopped a few minutes later and wiped the remaining tears from her swollen red eyes. "I'm really sorry Jason, please don't be mad at me!" Lynne begged as she curled up beside him and clutched at his chest.
"I'm not mad anymore Lynne. Cheer up okay! No more lies though, deal? Let's get some lunch now." Jason reassured her and then waved down a waiter to order their lunch.
**Hewick Park**
Celina sat on a bench thinking about her best friend. {Lynne what is happening with you?} she thought dismally.
A scream filled her ears and she saw a couple being attacked by a monster.
"You have a lot of energy within you. You'd be perfect to help out our cause. Azlava, why don't you call up another of your creatures. Mine is busy at the moment." A voice from behind Celina alerted her.
"No problem Azair. Maybe a nice fire will brighten my day." Another voice added.
Celina turned quickly just to see two women disappear. One was wearing an white halter top with ice blue slacks. Her hair was an cloudy white colour down to her shoulders with a tinge of blue, and her eyes were like sapphires. This one must have been Azair. She disappeared in a magical tidal wave of water. The other one must have been Azlava, she wore a tight and short dark red, almost fiery, dress. Her hair was dark red like the coals of a fire and her eyes were black as pitch. She disappeared in a blaze of fire that could rival the sun.
A low growl made her whip around. A large fire beast stood directly in front of her.
"Get away from her!"
Celina peered around the monster to see three guys. They each wore strange attire but with signified colours.
The one who had called the monsters attention spoke again, "Under the first Zodiac sign of Spring, I am Sailor Aries!"
The others followed suite, "Under the second Zodiac sign of Autumn, I am Sailor Scorpio!"
The last one seemed younger than the two but was taller than both, "Under the second Zodiac sign of Spring, I am Sailor Taurus!"
"Not fair, new players on the playing field." the fire monster hissed as it fully turned away from Celina and towards the three newcomers.
"I think it's perfectly fair when your picking on defenseless young women." S. Scorpio said as he refered to Celina.
{So he thinks I'm defenseless does he.} Celina thought indignantly.
Something landed on Celina's shoulder and she looked up. It was Archimedes, Lynne's owl.
"Time to change Celina. Your no longer defenseless if you look inside for the right words." Archimedes explained before flying off again.
{This has got to be a dream. Better folow it though.} Celina thought before shouting out the first words that came to her mind.
"Virgo Star Power!"
Celina twirled gracefully around once before a flower bud came up from beneath her and swallowed her up. It started to bloom a second later and there stood Sailor Virgo.
Her shorts were a lavendar colour aswell as her wrist length gloves, shoulder flap and knee high boots. The bow adorning the front section of her white shirt was a bright yellow, almost like a ray of the sun.
"I am Sailor Virgo, on behalf of all the innocents of the universe, I shall seek their vengence upon you." S. Virgo stated.
The other male senshi stared at her in shock before S. Aries righted himself and put them back on track, "Alright then, Taurus and Scorpio you go deal with that monster across the field, Sailor Virgo and I can handle this beast."
"Right!" they affirmed before rushing off to face the monster who seemed to have the power of tornadoes and other wind elements.
"I will not be so easily defeated. Though that ninny of a windbag may." the fire beast defiantly shouted as he let loose a barrage of fire balls.
"Look out!" S. Virgo shouted as she pushed S. Aries out of the way with her.
"Whew that was close. Thanks!" S. Aries said as he helped S. Virgo up.
"No prob. Come one it's time to rid the world of this menace." S. Virgo replied as she readied her attack.
"Virgo Virgin Bloom!"
S. Virgo clasped her hands out in front of her and they melted into a flower bud. When she said the word bloom the flower started to open up. When it finished blooming it shot out a pure white light that weakened the monster. After the blast finished her hands reverted back to their normal form and she dropped them to her sides.
"Nice one! I'll finish it off." S. Aries whistled.
"I won't go out without a fight!" the fire monster declared.
It shot out another barrage of fireballs. S. Aries cleared free and thought that S. Virgo was right behind him when he heard an ear piercing scream fill the air. He turned to see S. Virgo lying on the ground clutching a very badly scorched ankle.
She looked up at him with pain filled eyes. "I'm fine, just get rid of that thing!" she shouted at him when he continued to just stare at her.
He nodded in agreement as he readied his attack.
"Aries Whirlwind Blast!"
As Sailor Aries speaks his attack, he brings his right fist back, as if to punch the fire demon. A swirling white mini-whirlwind then envelops his hand. On the word 'Blast', he thrusts her fist forward, launching the mini-whirlwind, which turns into a larger version and strikes the enemy, lifting it up and slamming it into the ground. Upon impact the fire demon is so weak that it disintegrates into a pile of dust before being blown away by the wind.
A weak cry averts S. Aries' attention back to hic wounded ally. He picks her up and she begins to protest that she can walk perfectly fine.
"Oh really?" he asks, "This I've got to see." and he puts her back on her feet gently.
S. Virgo lifts her head high, takes one step onto her scorched ankle and, "EEEEOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!! !!!!" she screams as she crumbles back to the pavement.
"Just as I thought." S. Aries surmises, "It's probably a 2nd degree burn. Your coming with me to the hospital. Now I suggest you detransform now along with me so that we won't attract as much attention." and detransforms as he starts to carry her out of the park.
S. Virgo sighs and detransforms. {Alright I guess I should thank him or at least introduce myself if he's going to be taking me somewhere.} she thought. "My name is Celina Dawkins. What's yours? I don't want to have keep calling you Aries." Celina introduced herself with a bit of humour.
He chuckles and replies, "I'm Egan Ohitsujiza. Pleasure to meet you Celina."
"Same to you Egan." Celina grins back at him and they continue to talk and walk towards the hospital.
**Just outside the gates of Hewick Park**
[Hey Saggitarius! Isn't that your friend Celina? Her ankle looks pretty badly burned and that guy is carrying her somewhere.] S. Pisces whispered as they were running for the park and the danger that Archimedes had reported.
"I'll ask her about it tomorrow. Right now we've got a monster that's hurting people." S. Saggitarius replied as she continued to run faster.
**Inside Hewick Park**
"Scorpio you get those people to safety. I'll hold the airhead off until Aries and Virgo get done with that firebrand." S. Taurus said as he delivered another roundabout that didn't really distract the monster much.
S. Scorpio nodded and helped the young couple hobble off to a safe distance.
The monster threw S. Taurus to the ground and began to gather his energy and focus it into a large tornado.
"Oh no you don't!" S. Taurus yelled and summoned up his own attack.
"Taurus Firestorm Barrage!"
As Sailor Taurus speaks this attack, a burning red aura envelopes both his hands. On the word 'Barrage', he alternatively thrusts both fists at the enemy, repeatedly pummeling it with numerous fireballs. As the fireballs hit the tornado the wind begins to disperse because of the heat. As the last fireball hits the tornado it disappears into thin air.
Without warning the wind beast rushes forth and picks up S. Taurus by the shoulders and begins to slowly apply large amounts of pressure.
"Centaurus Saggitarian Hoof!"
"Pisces Tidal Wave Crash"
S. Saggitarius feet began to glow purple as she did a backflip in the air. As Sailor Pisces speaks his attack, he begins to raise his right hand into the air. When her feet began to touch the ground she ground her heels into it. Behind him, you can see the huge tidal wave rise into the air. The glowing of her feet go right into the ground. As the ground erupts the S. Pisces thrusts his hand forward sending the tidal towards the enemy. The combined attacks make the wind demon trip, let go of S. Taurus, and fall into the pulsing light behind him and the tidal wave crashes over him. When the water settles nothing is left.
"Hey that was some pretty cool moves! So your a part of the team to huh." S. Taurus said as he walked towards them.
S. Pisces jumped in front of S. Saggitarius and settled down into a fighting stance. "Who are you and what are you up to. Don't lie to me either."
S. Taurus took a step back and raised his arms. "Take it easy man! I'm just as much a part of the astro senshi as you are."
S. Saggitarius rolled her eyes and stepped around S. Pisces. "You must excuse my comrade. He's....a little protective at times. I'm Sailor Saggitarius the leader of the Astro Senshi, and this is Sailor Pisces. Welcome to the team Sailor Taurus." she said as she outstretched her arm towards S. Taurus.
S. Taurus shook her hand in return. When he turned towards S. Pisces for them to shake hands S. Pisces seemed quite regretful and grumbled something undistinguishable under his breath.
"You missed one of my other friends, but here comes Sailor Scorpio. I'm sure he'll be glad to meet you. We've been looking for you guys for a long time. Just over 6 months I believe." S. Taurus explained as he motioned for the other senshi to hurry up and join them.
"Hi! My name's Sailor Scorpio. Don't bother introducing yourself though cause I saw you guys fight in your last battle against that horde of fire demons. Very impressive I might add. Well we better get to the hospital to check on Aries and Virgo. You won't mind if we all detransform to look less conspicuous do you?" S. Scorpio asked in a slew of almost indefinably speedy english.
S. Saggitarius shrugged and was the first to detransform. "I'm Lynne Centaurus and my grumpy boyfriend here is Jason Uozaki."
"Well I'm Ken Sasoriza and this guy over here is William Oshizaka. But we call him Will for short." S. Scorpio/Ken said cheerily as he detransformed and introduced himself and S. Taurus/Will.
The foursome walked out of the park as Jason came between Lynne and the other two males.
**Credit Valley Hospital**
"Hi, I admitted a young woman earlier for treatment. I was wondering how she was doing? Her name is Celina Dawkins and I'm Egan Ohitsujiza."
The receptionist answered him in a nasal voice, "She'll be out in a minute. She just finished getting her leg wrapped up so you'll have to wait in the lobby for her."
"Okay thanks a lot!" he affirmed.
**In the Lobby 5 minutes later**
"Hey Egan! Over here!"
Egan looked up to see his two best friends and two other people he'd only seen. "Hey guys what's up?" he answered.
"We came to see how you and that chick were. I saw you guys split when I was helping those people to safety and she looked pretty bad." Ken replied.
"Well before I tell you would mind introducing your guests?" Egan smirked.
"Oh sorry Egan! Egan this is Lynne Centaurus and Jason Uozaki. They're the two we saw a couple of days ago if you catch my drift." Will smoothly intervened.
They shook hands and when they were about to continue a soft guilt ridden voice broke the air.
"Hi Lynne...um...what are you doing here?..he...eh..he.he."
"Celina!" Lynne shouted, "It was you! What the hell were you thinking! I mean..I..I.." then she fainted.
**20 minutes later**
"Lynne? Lyynnneeee???"
"Shh! I think she's waking up!"
"Ugh! What happened. Oh hi Celina. You wouldn't believe the strangest dream I just had. You were actually a crime fighter with me and you got hurt and...and..." Lynne saw that she was surrounded by the people she just met, she was still in the hospital, and Celina's ankle WAS bandaged. "OH NO! It really did happen!" Lynne dropped down to her knees in front of Celina, "Please forgive me! I meant to tell you REALLY! I was going to tell you...HONEST! Wahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" Lynne started to wail really loudly.
"ALRIGHT I FORGIVE YOU IF YOU JUST STOP WHINING!!!" Celina shouted over the din as she covered her ears.
The wails ceased abruptly and Lynne jumped up and gave her best friend a huge bear hug of gratitude.
"Well now that that's settled. Let's go home and tomorrow we'll introduce you to the rest of the LARGE scooby gang." Lynne said cheerily and she picked up Jason's hand and was about to walk out of the hospital when Celina's hand on her shoulder stopped her.
"When did the two of you become an item?" Celina demanded.
Lynne smiled as sweetly as possible at her friend before nudging herself and Jason towards the door. When Celina began to hobble after her Lynne tirned to Jason and yelled, "RUN!!" Run they did, until they were out of site.
"What a wierd girl." Will commented as he scratched his head in confusion.
"She'll grow on you." Celina replied before they all cracked up in laughter and left the hospital.

Stay Tuned for Chapter 7: One Less Worry

Now wasn't that a happy note to go out on? Any flames, comments, or praises? Send them to Chibi-Serenity@ChibiUSA.org Thanks for reading and remember that Love conquers all. I don't know why I said that. I just felt like saying it. If you don't like it. Tough luck! It's my fic.