Hey everyone! Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up. I really hate exam time at school. ::sigh:: But School's over with now!! (Yes!! I'm now a senior!) So I'll be able to get the rest of the story up soon! Enjoy!

Diclaimer: Okay people, you know the drill. I don't own Sailor Moon (I wish i did though) Sailor Moon is own by some big company. I do, however, own the Neo Scouts. okay! Cya and enjoy!



Chapter 7: The Journey Begins

Melissa looked around her. She was sitting in the field full of beautiful wild flowers. The bright blue sky above her did not have a cloud in it and butterflies were dancing around the small girl. Small girl? Melissa looked down at herself. She looked like she was about 1 year old. She was in a white dress with a blue ribbon on it. She tried to get up, but had trouble lifting herself up.
"Come on sweetheart," a man's voice filled the air. Melissa looked up to see a young man, with red brown hair and brown eyes staring at her, his arms out.
Melissa immediately recognized the man. "Dada," she squealed in a baby voice. She picked herself up and ran over to him as fast as her little legs could go. But before her could get to him, there was a huge blast behind him. Melissa fell down and looked up. Alexandrite was standing there, holding her father, who was unconsous. Melissa then noticed that she had returned to her normal age and had become Sailor Earth.
Alexandrite laughed as she began to slowly float backwards.
"NO!!!" Melissa screamed, as she got up and ran, "BRING HIM BACK!!!" She ran as fast as she could, tears flying off her face. It seem that the faster she ran, the farther they got. "LET HIM GO!!"
Suddenly, Melissa tripped and fell hard onto the ground. She winced as she lifted her head up. Then she saw she father go threw a portal with Alexandrite. "NO!!! DADDY!!!" she screamed as they disappeared. She laid her head down on the ground and began to sob.
"Melissa?!" a voice said.
Melissa opened her eyes to see Faith standing over her, shaking her. Kimmy, Megan, Saria and the cats were standing off to the side. Melissa slowly sat up. She looked at the room around her. She was sitting in a huge canopy bed. One the wall she could see a huge painting of Neo-Queen Serenity. Melissa gave a sigh as she swung her legs over the side.
"Are you okay?" Megan asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just had a nightmare."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
Melissa shook her head. She slowly got up and walked over to a window in the room. She looked outside at the ruins. "We have to stop the evil that caused this. They must pay for the destruction they caused."
The others nodded in agreement.
Melissa turned and faced her friends. "Let's get going."
"Yeah!" the others shouted in unison.

~A few minutes later~

The five girls and three cats were walking though a dense forest. Luna and Artemis were leading the way while Diana, who was still a little weak from the night before, was being carried by Melissa.
"Luna?" Saria asked, "Where are we going?"
"We are heading towards the Forest Shrine. It's the nearest shrine to the palace."
"Well, where are the others?" asked Megan, typing on her computer.
"The Volcano shrine is in the other direction, the Water Shrine is south of here, and the Sprit Shrine is to the north." Artemis said.
"Do you know which scout is in which shrine?" Kimmy asked.
"No, not really." Luna said, "We have a general idea."
"We know that the scouts have been placed in the shrine that connects with their scout powers." Artemis told them.
"So," Megan mumble, typing faster than ever on her computer. She gave a few sighs and "hum's" but stared at the computer.
"So, are you ever going to get off that computer?" Faith asked, glancing at the computer.
Megan glared at her. Megan was always called the computer nerd of the group. So what if Megan liked computers, Luna had told her last night that her mother was the same way. Megan then glanced back at the computer. "Well, I have a good idea of which shrine each of our mothers are in."
Faith, along with the others, looked at Megan is shock. They stopped in the middle of the path they were following. "What!?"
"Yes. From my calculations, Sailor Mercury is in the Water Shrine along with Sailor Neptune," Megan said, knowing that both scouts had powers over water, "Sailor Venus is in the Sprit Shrine, Sailor Mars is in the Volcano Shrine, which means…"
"Sailor Jupiter is in the Forest Shrine!" Faith yelled in happiness. Her eyes were beginning to fill with tears.
Melissa saw this and glanced at her friend. She could feel Faith's happiness of finally reuniting with her mother fill the area around them and at the same time, feel the emptiness of not know where her father was. She glanced down at Diana, who looked at her in confusion, then looked at the others. "Then what are we waiting for!"
"YEAH!!" Faith said, pumping her fist into the air, "Let's Rock!"
The others laughed quickly and soon ran after Faith, smiling the entire time.

~Meanwhile~

Queen Alexandrite sat on her throne. She waved her hand over a panel on the arm of her throne and a scream materialized in front of her. It showed the five teenage girls running though the woods. "We must stop them from releasing the scouts," she said.
"Leave it to me, my queen," a female voice said from the darkness. A woman stepped out and bowed to the queen. She was wearing a general's suit with green stripes on it. Her long, waving brown hair nearly hit the floor as she bowed. When she looked up, he brown eyes sparkled with evil. "My servants will take care of them at the Forest Shrine."
"Very well, Tsavorite." Alexandrite glanced at her arm. "And Tsavorite, make sure you kill Sailor Earth."
"Yes my queen," Tsavorite said, bowing again. A pale green portal opened behind her and she disappeared.

~Later~

The group arrived at a huge stone building covered with vines. The building was almost hidden from view if it were not for the huge marble doors that the girls now stood in front of.
"Wow, this palace is huge!" Kimmy said, as the other stood in awe to the size of the shrine. The shrine was as big as the Crystal Palace. "So how so we get in?"
"We're not sure," Luna said, looking over the door.
Melissa walked up to the door. She rubbed her hand over some of the different symbols engraved on the door. She glanced at the last one she rubbed. It looked very familiar. "Hey Faith, isn't that your symbol?"
Faith walked over and examined the symbol. "I think so." She took out her pen and compared both. "It is!" Faith placed the symbol on the top of her pen so that it touched the symbol on the door. There was a flash of light as she girls screamed in surprise. Faith dropped the pen as the door slowly opened to reveal a monster guarding another pair of doors.
The monster looked almost like a wolf, but was a tinted green and had bright red eyes. On its chest was a cloud pendent with a green sign in it, but the girls couldn't tell what the sign was. "So, you want to get into the shrine?" he growled, glaring at the five girls. "Well, you have to defeat me in order to enter." He ran forward and jumped at Faith. Faith rolled out of the way, but missed grabbing her pen as she hit a tree.
"SCOUT! TRANSFORM NOW!!" Diana and Luna shouted.
"EARTH CRYSTAL POWER"
"ARCTIC CRYSTAL POWER"
"INFERNO CRYSTAL POWER"
"DREAMS CRYSTAL POWER"
"MAKE UP!!"
Soon the four scouts replaced the teens.
"Come on scouts!" Earth yelled as the wolf monster stood over Faith's pen. "We have to get the pen!"
"Fiery Inferno Twisters!"
"Sweet Dreams Beam!"
The two attacks hit the wolf, but they had little effect. He just stood there, letting the attacks hit him, then growling at the two scouts. He leapt onto the girls as they screamed.
"Howling Arctic Wind!"
The wolf looked up just in time to see a blizzard of snow and ice hit him and throw him in to a wall.
"Faith grab your pen NOW!!" Arctic yelled, help Dreams up.
Faith ran over to grab her pen but was knocked over by the wolf. "You want this?" he growled as he picked up the pen.
"NO! Put that down!" Faith yelled. She ran towards the wolf and tried to grab her pen, but the wolf did a roundhouse kick and Faith went flying into a tree.
"FAITH!!!" Earth screamed. Arctic and Dreams ran over to check on her while Earth squared off with the wolf. "You're going to pay for that!"
"Sailor Earth?" Inferno said, grabbing her friend's shoulder.
"Stay out of this," Earth replied. She shook her hand off and stepped forward. She closed her eyes. "NEO!" Her right hand brushed her brooch. "CRYSTAL!" A beam of light seemed to follow her hand as it moved away from the brooch. "SWORD!" The Crystal sword formed in Earth's hands as she pointed it at wolf and snapped open her eyes.
"What's this?" the wolf said in shock of the huge sword.
"You're going down!" Earth screamed as she ran towards the wolf and slashed the sword downwards.
The wolf howled in pain as the hand clutching the pen fell to the ground. Earth, who was now glowing again, picked up the severed hand, pulled out the pen, and threw it to Faith. "Transform now!" she told her.
Faith stood up, almost afraid of Earth. Then she held up her pen "LIGHTNING CRYSTAL POWER, MAKE UP!" Soon Faith had become Sailor Lightning.
Earth nodded then turned back to the wolf. It was on his knees, nursing his arm. "Had enough?" she asked, glaring at it.
The wolf looked up at the scout. "Funny, I was about to ask you the same thing."
Earth took a step back as the wolf stood up and his hand reappeared on his arm. "What in the world?"
The wolf smiled, and then attacked Earth before she knew what hit her. He grabbed her throat with one hand and her sword arm with the other and slammed her against the wall.
Earth let out a scream as she dropped her sword. She winced in pain as she saw blood trickle down her arm. The wolf clutched her throat tighter as she gasped for air.
"Fool!" the wolf laughed, "Only one who is connected with the shrine can defeat me!" He laughed even harder as Earth used her left hand to try and pull the wolf's hand off her throat. He released her right arm and slashed her left arm.
Earth screamed in pain as she clutched her arm trying to stop the blood. Her vision became blurred and her head began to spin from the lack of oxygen.
"We have to stop him!! He's going to kill her!" Diana screamed.
"But how?" Dreams said, "Who here is connected with the shrine?"
They looked at each other until Inferno said, "Lightning!"
"What?" she replied.
"Your sign was on the door, right?"
"Yeah."
"So, that means that you are connected to the shrine. Your mother is one of the scouts trapped in side!"
Lightning looked at the ground, letting this sink in before she nodded. "Alright, this is my fight." She walked over to the wolf. "Hey you!"
The wolf looked up at the brown haired teen and narrowed his eyes. He tightened his grip on Earth.
"Let go of my friend now!" she yelled. When the wolf only sneered, she charged at the wolf.
The wolf looked up in surprise and let go of Earth, who crumbled to the ground.
"Sailor Earth!" the other three cried out as they ran to her, making sure she was okay.
"She passed out!" Arctic informed Lightning.
"You're going to pay for that!" Lightning screamed. "Giga Lightning Bolt."
The wolf tried to get out of the way of the attack but was still hit with such a force that it threw up in to the branches of a tree, giving him deep wounds. He jumped out of the tree, steadied himself and charged at Lightning.
Lightning charged at the wolf and the two began to spar with each other. Finally, Lightning landed a solid punch on the wolf's jaw. The wolf then slashed Lightning's shoulder. They broke away, Lightning holding her left shoulder. Her eyes narrowed in hatred.
Earthy slowly regained conciseness to see Lightning, still holding her shoulder, glaring at the wolf, who was massaging his jaw. She coughed as she tried to sit up right, then winced as she felt pain shoot up both her arms. She slid back down.
"Don't move," Luna told her as Arctic was dress her wounds.
Earth nodded slowly then noticed Lightning glowing. She watched in amazement, t he glanced down at the sword beside her. The blood from the wolf had started to dry on the blade. She then saw that the sword was slightly glowing, the same yellow glow as Lightning. She glanced at the others. They were too busy taking care of her cuts to notice this connection. Then she figured out what she had to do. She grabbed the sword and before the others could say anything she sat up. "Lightning! Catch!" Earth tossed her the sword then clutched her arm in pain.
Lightning grabbed the sword with such ease that she surprised herself. She had never even touched a sword before; much less catch one in mid air. She saw Earth screw up her face in pain then turned back to the wolf.
Suddenly, there was a flash of light from the sword as Lightning charged at the wolf. The wolf stood there, startled, not moving as Lightning stabbed the sword at the pendent. The pendent broke as a flash of yellow and green light was emitted from both the sword and the pendent.
Lightning backed off as she and the others shielded their eyes from the brightness.
"What's going on?" Inferno asked.
"I have no idea," Artemis said.
When the lights dimmed, a gasped escaped the five girls. Standing there, in place of the wolf, was a Sailor Scout.



So what do you think so far. Getting intresting. I wonder which Outer Scout is with Jupiter. Guess we'll have to find out! ^.^ Someone asked if the outers have kids too. The anwser is, I don't know yet. They might but we'll have to see how the story goes. Please R&R, It makes this little writer very happy. Thanks!