Chapter 1: When Stars Collide
Silently, Sarah opened her door and tiptoed to her father's office. 12 A.M. the clock read as she sat down in his chair. Immensely glad that her father leaves his computer on during the night, Sarah got onto the Internet. When she was in the system she began to hack into the school's system.
"Damn it!" she whispered to herself. "So, Dr.Haruna, you are getting tougher to break." Continuing typing a little box popped up.
Vulcn: your up late now aren't you Sarah?
Hakr: not now Cally! I'm busy!
Vulcn: I heard that the Doctor put in a new system, they say it can track hackers.
Hakr: I really doubt that Cally, if it could a little symbol would pop up on my screen that looks like a pocket watch.
Vulcn: a pocket watch?!
Hakr: Yeah, yeah, I know that it is corny…it is so that if my dad looks in my files he wont be able to figure out the fact that I… Oh CRAP!!!!!!!1
Vulcn: what? what?
Hakr: I was detected… you won't get me Haruna!
Sarah then began to type and creating all of these different roadblocks as she called them. Laughing she logged off after leaving her trademark on the last roadblock. A simple symbol, well she thought it was. To her it meant Chaos. It looked like the planetary symbol for Mercury, only across the head part there was a ~. After making double sure that no one could trace her back to this computer she tip toed back to her room and fell into bed, asleep.
*
"Sarah Lake! In my office right NOW!" yelled Dr. Haruna.
Sarah looked at her classmates and shrugged. Sarah was the smartest person in the school even if she was only 14 and going into the ninth grade. With short dark brown hair and about average height, everyone considered Sarah a genus. All of the people in her class couldn't think of a thing that would cause Sarah to get into trouble.
Knocking on the principal's door, Sarah opened it. "You wanted to see me Dr. Haruna?"
Dr. Haruna nodded, "Yes, Sarah, sit down."
As Sarah sat down she saw that the room seemed to be in shambles, especially her desk. Plaques no longer were on the wall and papers were littered everywhere. "Is something wrong?"
"Sarah," Dr. Haruna looked at Sarah, "I am going to be frank, you can solve almost any problem put in front of you correct?" Sarah nodded. "You see, there has been some problems of late of hackers trying to get into the school mainframe. Well, we have been able to put in a program in the schools computers to try to keep hackers out and to track them.
"Last night a hacker was able to get into the school's computers and we were not able to trace them." She leaned in a looked at Sarah closely, "We need your help to trace them."
Sarah almost fell off her chair because of what she was being asked to do. She was being asked to trace herself! "So," Dr. Haruna looked at her, "will you help us?"
Standing up, Sarah offered her hand, "I will do my best!"
*
Later that day Sarah walked into the computer lab. She felt like she was in heaven. The principal said that she could take as much time off during the next few days to get aquatinted with the computers and to try and find the hacker, little did the doctor know that she asked the hacker to find herself. Sarah laid her books down and sat down at a computer. Just as she was about to lay her hands on the keyboard she heard a commotion behind her in the hall. Turning she looked at a group of girls in uniforms walk into the computer lab.
A beautiful girl than sat down next to Sarah. She had long raven colored hair and was also about average in height. Quickly Sarah wrote down a note to the girl.
Hey, what is going on here? I was pretty sure I was going to be alone in the computer lab today.
The girl looked at the note and frowned.
The computers at my school all got a virus, so we have to come here to use the computers, now leave me alone!
"That wasn't very nice," Sarah muttered to herself as she continued to play around on the computer and pretended to look for a way to find the 'hacker'. After a few minutes the raven-hared girl wrote more on the paper.
Why are you here and not in class?
Sarah tried to hold back her laughter. She rolled her eyes and wrote back.
I was asked by the principal to locate a hacker who has been hacking into the school's main frame.
Why you?
They all say that I am the smartest person in the school…I guess that is why.
Oh.
Just then a nun walked by the two of them and they both started to go back to their work. When she passed them they both giggled and smiled at each other.
I'm Sarah Lake, who are you?
I'm Debbie Troy, call me Deb.
Cool, do you like going to an all girls school?
Um, it is okay. I really am glad though that I can work at my Grandfather's fortune shop. Other wise I don't think I would be able to stand it.
They both giggled and agreed to meet after school at the ice cream shop.
*
Debbie was walking to the ice cream shop when she saw a small black cat on the side of the road. "You poor, poor thing!" She picked it up and looked at the cat. It had a Band-Aid on its head. "Now, why do you have that on your head?" Removing the Band-Aid, Debbie saw a crescent moon shape on the cat's forehead.
The cat jumped down and trotted off, "That was weird," Debbie said as she ran the rest of the way to the ice cream shop.
Sarah looked up as Debbie walked in. "You're late! I ordered sundaes for us both."
Debbie smiled and sat down, "Thanks. I found this cat on the side of the road, the poor thing, it had a Band-Aid on its head and under was a crescent moon."
Sarah didn't say anything; she was looking under the table. "You mean like this cat?" She picked up the cat and it looked from Sarah to Debbie.
She just nodded and dropped the spoon of ice cream she was lifting to her mouth on to the table. "Yeah, that is the cat."
Suddenly Sarah put the cat down and looked over at Debbie, "I just had a really big case of déjà vu!"
"Yeah," Debbie touched the cat, "me too."
All of a sudden there was a scream outside and people started running past the windows of the ice cream shop. "I wonder what is going on," Sarah said as the two of them ran outside as the cat followed them. The cat meowed and Sarah picked it up. They saw what they thought was a woman, but she was incredibly tall and had vines shooting out of her arms. She had a green bikini on that was covered with leaves and her skin was yellow.
"Hahahaha!" She yelled, "Give me your energy!"
"Not again!" the cat sighed.
Both girls jumped and looked at the cat in Sarah's arms. "Did you just say something?" Debbie asked.
"Of course I did! And just so you know, my name is Luna!"
"Okay Luna," both girls said in chorus.
"Now, you two, we need to get out of spying eyes and into that alley!"
The three of them went into the alley and Debbie stood there, her arms crossed. "Now, Luna, what is going on? Why is there a woman out there yelling for energy, and why can you talk?"
Luna sighed and jumped out of Sarah's arms. She ran behind a dumpster and came back out with two transformation sticks. Giving one to Debbie and the other to Sarah she started to talk. "I must do this quickly, but you two are the re-incarnated star seeds of Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury. Or as we all called you, Ami and Rei."
The two girls looked at each other. Sarah said the first thing that came to her mind, "Cool!"
Luna smiled. "Good, now, Sarah, shout out: Mercury Power! And Debbie, shout out: Mars Power! And shout: Make Up! together."
Nodding the Sarah through up her transformation stick and shouted, "Mercury Power!"
Debbie also through up her transformation stick and shouted, "Mars Power!"
Together they shouted, "Make Up!"
Both felt warm energy surround their bodies and what felt like ribbons. When their vision cleared they had on Japanese fukus on and white gloves that came up to their elbows. Debbie's skirt and main color was red while Sarah's was blue. Tiaras appeared on their foreheads and Sarah had on boots that came up to her knees while Debbie had on high heels. But one dramatic change was that Sarah's hair turned blue.
Turning to a window Sarah looked at herself. "Um, Luna? Why do I have blue hair now?"
"It is because Ami had blue hair when she was alive," Luna explained.
"Blue hair?" Luna nodded. "Well, we win some, we loose some!"
"Now quickly, both of you!"
The three of them ran out and looked at the monsters. Sarah and Debbie looked at each other and nodded. They both struck a pose and began to talk.
"What do you think your are doing?" Sarah began.
The monster turned around and looked at them. "Excuse me?"
"Yeah! We can let you steal innocent people's energy!" Debbie yelled. "In behalf of Mars."
"And Mercury!" Sarah added.
Together they shouted, "You're punished!"
Sarah began to spin around, "Mercury Bubbles," She stopped and aimed her hands at the monster, "Blast!" A thick fog enveloped the entire area.
Yelling the monster began to cry, "My vines! They are wilting!"
"Arg! I can't see a thing now!" Debbie muttered, "Thanks Mercury."
Sarah shrugged and touched her earlobe out of a nervous habit. Suddenly a visor appeared in front of her eyes, she could see everything! "Look out Mars! She is right in front of you!"
Debbie stood her ground and shouted, "AKU RYO TAI SAN!" A blast of fire shot out at the monster and it disappeared with a yell.
Sarah giggled and looked at Debbie who was looking at her hands. She looked over at her new friend and partner and smiled. The two of them powered down and laughed. Luna then came trotting up.
"Now that you two know of your powers, you must keep those transformation sticks safe."
They found that the sticks were in their hands and could double as pens. "Cool!" they both shouted and started to laugh together.