~* The Light of the Future *~
By DarkWriter Jay
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~* Chapter 2 : Icy Ideas *~
*CRUNCH*
*SLURP*
*CHOMP*
*BREATHE*
Diana was in heaven. Food! Tons of it, too! She hadn't eaten in a very long time, which made the food that much better.
"Boy, you don't waste much do you?" teased Carrie, as Diana finished eating her third helping of a delicious turkey and milk dinner.
"Well, you're not the one who had to go for days without food. I've waited a hundred years for the scouts to show up, and take care of me," said an indignant Diana.
"Anyway, we need to talk about-"
*SLAM!*
"Hi, I'm home! Any messages, tricks, or jokes?" Alex asked as she waltzed right into the room. "Oh, a cat! When did you get a cat Carrie? What's her name? Is she ours to keep?" Diana jumped into Carries' arms before Alex could get a hold of her.
"She's my cat and her name is Diana. You will not play any jokes or tricks on her like you've done to all the others. Understand?" Carrie glared at Alex, trying to intimidate her. As usual, it didn't work.
"Anything you say, cous." her grin stretched from one ear to the other.
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*CRASH*
*BANG*
*THUMP*
"Where is it!" *CONK* "It must be here somewhere!" Krad was throwing everything in the room. "She always forgets things, so she had to have written it down somewhere!" she paused, and as she looked around the room, her eyes landed on the old lamp that their father had given them when they were younger. "AHA! That's where it is!" She ran across the room and up to the lamp.
"GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!!!!"
Krad jumped a mile high and bolted out of the room. She had almost gotten it! But, no, her brat of a sister had to spoil her plans, just like always! Ssertsim was consistently getting her into trouble, or taking credit for something she didn't do.
"But not this time..." Krad whispered fiercely. "This time I will not take the blame!"
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Ssertsim was really furious that her sister would sneak around behind her back. "She'll spoil my plan! I have to get rid of her. Soon!" And with that, she flew out of the room to see the ELK.
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"I was beginning to think we'd never get rid of her!" huffed Diana.
"She isn't all that bad though...once you get to know her," laughed Carrie. Alex had tried to pull about a dozen or so tricks on the 'new, unsuspecting little kitty cat.' They had finally escaped after Diana had fallen into an open bag of flour and caused a big mess for Alex to clean up.
They went back to the park where Diana had first fallen asleep earlier that day. There was some business that they had to discuss - mainly the missing senshi. Both were quiet for a while, trying to think of ideas to find the others.
"Maybe we're not supposed to find them, but their supposed to show up on their own..." wondered Carrie out loud. "That's how they always did it in the history books..."
"But it didn't take them this long before... We have to at least try to find them... What if they don't show up at all?" asked a fearful Diana.
"They will show up Diana. It will take time though," Carrie didn't like seeing Diana in this kind of mood. "Why don't we take a break. There's a swim meet at the school today. Want to go watch it?"
"Sure, why not."
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"Go Katie!!"
"You can do it!"
"Come on Sis!"
Three boys were...rather noisy, when the last race started. They must have been one of the girls' brothers. Carrie and Diana pretended not to notice them; they wanted to see who won. There were only three girls racing; one had short brown hair, and was in the lead. The second place girl was a blond, and the one in last place (so far) had auburn-colored hair that reached down to the middle of her back. She seemed to be a good swimmer though; before long, she had pulled ahead of the second girl and was catching up to first place quickly.
"Alright Kate!"
"That's it Katie!"
"You show 'em Sis!"
The boys obviously were in favor of this girl, Katie. The race finished with Katie in first, the blond in second, and the brown-haired one in third. Cheers erupted through the bleachers.
This girl must have a lot of friends, thought Carrie.
But the cheers quickly turned to screams as another monster seemed to appear out of nowhere.
"Quickly Carrie! Hide and transform!" Diana took off to see if she could do anything. Carrie, though, was trapped. There were too many people around to transform, and they were blocking her way out.
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"This is perfect! It's working perfectly! We've been here for a full two minutes and no scout!" Ssertsim had weaseled her way into another chance, and was watching over her minion this time. She couldn't be defeated, the ELK might not give her another chance. The creature that he had given her was better than the last one, he could really attack (which was a good thing); a lot of people were being hit, too.
"Hang on there! I didn't just win this race for it to be torn apart! You get out of here! I want to have some fun, but I'll gladly wait and deal with you first!" Katie had stepped forward, angry that her championship race had been interrupted.
Ssertsim, surprised that anyone would dare to step forward against them, only stared at her with two unbelieving eyes.
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Diana, watching from beside the pool, noticed Katie's outburst. Having drawn her attention, she also noticed Katie's forehead. The sign of Mercury! Another scout!
"Katie! Wait! Take this and say the words!" Diana handed her the transformation stick and waited. Katie stood there, open-mouthed, staring at her.
"A-A...talking...cat?!?!?"
"There's no time! I'll explain later! Hurry!!!"
Katie tore her gaze from 'the strange, alien cat' and finally transformed, shouting words that seemed to have come to her from no-where.
"Mercury Power!" Sailor Mercury took the place of Katie. "Hey, cool! I'm one of the scouts! Wow! Does this mean-"
"Not now, Mercury! Destroy that...creature!"
"Right. Mercury...Ice...Sphere!!!!!" A circle of blue ice rose from her hands and flew at the monster, blinding him and scarring his 'flesh'.
"Uranus Wind Extreme!!!" The golden wind swept him off his feet.
"Together!" Shouted Uranus.
"Mercury Ice Sphere!"
"Uranus Wind Extreme!"
And the creature disappeared.
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"So what's the idea? Why am I a senshi? And you can't be Luna or Artimas...Diana? But how'd you get here? And why-" Katie was on a roll. It was question after question, as if they were in a criminal investigation.
"I can't explain everything yet. I don't know who these guys are, or what they want. I only know that I'm supposed to find the senshi and bring them back to power. I cannot explain anything else until we find all the senshi." Diana paused, out of breath. She didn't like this any more than they did, but she couldn't do anything about it.
"So, until we find all the other senshi, we're left in the dark. This is going to be real fun..."
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"You cannot do anything to me...I am the only on who knows the secret! You destroy me, and you lose your chance of life!" Ssertsim fought the ELK's wish to be rid of her.
"True. But it won't be long before Krad finds out what you are hiding...Then you will be history..."
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Author's Notes : Here's another chapter… Kay let me put this one up… ::looks around:: She's not around so… I haven't gotten any reviews yet, so please, someone, REVIEW! I'd like to say thanks to Slytherin Supporter, tho, she reviewed… ::Checks again; sees Kay walked her way:: Gotta go! Kay's coming!
More to come! As soon as Kay gets done with them… ::runs away::
Jay