Chapter 1

"Anarchy Arising"

As the first period bell rang a female with long flowing golden hair walked into Psychology 101 and took her seat. "Students, as you know spring break is tomorrow, and you have a party to go to in a few minutes, but I have one more thing to do before you're free to go, I'm going to introduce a brand-new student, Andrew Dien." Said the teacher as she walked over to the student to introduce him. He was tall, and thin, with purple hair. As he stood there, everyone's eyes were drawn to his beautiful azure eyes, that seemed to glow. " Now class, dismissed." Said the teacher and everyone rushed out of the room.

"Hey, Mina check out the twig on stage." Said Jocko a large football player who had been trying to get Mina's attention since she first walked into school. But her attention was on that Andrew character, she had a strange sensation as if she knew him deeply from long ago.

"Hello, since you already know my name I was thinking you could tell me yours."Asked Andrew as he came up to Mina, and kept step with her.

"Her name is none of your business, cause she's with me."Said Jocko.

"I believe I asked the young woman here, not you." Andrew pointed out.

"Hey, I'm not going to say it again. Bug off before I get angry." Yelled Jocko.

"Jocko shut up and go away! You know I'm not your girlfriend and you also know that I never liked you."Practically screamed Mina. Jocko's facade of greatness shattered as the words registered. Jocko slowly stalked off, his pride broken.

"Hi, my name is Mina. So where did you come from?"

"Central, but I found a nice apartment down here, so I choose to come here, I would like to get used to college before I start sleeping here."

"Cool. Hey, are you doing anything after school?" asked Mina.

"No."

"Great, you want to go get something?"

"Sure, why don't we go to the "Cherry Hill Chateau"?"Asked Andrew quite bluntly.

"But isn't it incredibly expensive, I mean it costs about $100 just to get in?"said Mina quite sadly.

"Oh, don't worry. I work there." Said Andrew.

"So you're a busboy?"

"Nope, wrong. You know their best dish, the "white horseshoe crab ala peach"?"

"Yes, it's their most expensive. $89 I believe."Said Mina off the top of her head.

"Well I make that."Andrew said quite nonchalantly.

"What!? You work there and you're the top chef?!"

"Yup."

"I don't believe you."

"What would be the point of lying, if it wasn't true, then I wouldn't be able to get you in and feed you now would I?" Said Andrew too calmly.

"Okay, I believe, how about we go at 7:00 p.m.."

"Okay.".........

"Uh, table for two, "Said Mina to the Door man.

"Your name?" He asked.

"Mina Aino."

"Ah, yes! Let me escort you to your table."Said the garcon. " Mr. Dien will be with you shortly, he is busy preparing food for a hot customer."Said the garcon as he left. She sat for a couple of minutes until she smelled the most delicious food ever, coming toward her.

"Here is your meal madam, and it is on the house." Said a voice from behind.

"Andrew! What's that you've got?" Asked Mina.

"Why the specialty of the house my friend, and it's totally free, so what would you like to drink?"

"Hold on a second, I thought the waiter said you were cooking food for a hot customer?"She asked.

"You are very pretty, you know."Quipped Andrew.

"Cute. I'll have a glass of non alcoholic Cherry Hill champagne." She answered.

"Garcon, a bottle of Non-alcoholic Cherry Hill champagne and two glasses."Said Andrew.

"Oh, you drink non alcohol too? I thought I was the only one." Stated Mina.

"So did I, the only time I'll even drink real champagne is at the most important events." Explained Andrew.

The Garcon came back with the bottle and glasses.

"Here you are Mr. Dien." He said mechanically. The Garcon popped out the cork and poured the bubbly stuff into the glasses.

"So how is school going for you?" Asked Andrew as he sipped.

"Quite well. My average is an A." She answered. "So, what are you majoring in Andrew?" Mina asked back.

"Advanced writing. I am quite handy with a pencil and the imagination." He replied, turning his head slightly."Do you hear someone shouting? It sounds like Demon, or something."He turned around and saw Mina walking away briskly."Did I say something wrong?" He asked himself.

She transformed in a dark alley and went to find out what all the commotion was, only to find a man being ruffed up by a strange looking humanoid, "Thing".

"Ah, god damn it. Why can't the forces of Darkness ever take a break, this is starting to lick into my social time." She said angrily as she prepared to confront the creature.

"Ah, Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon I presume. I was hoping you would come." The creature said in a clipped, but formal type of speech. At a closer view it seemed to be very humanoid but it had some very scarred features. Mina was slightly angry that all these new "Things" never recognized her.

"I am Pretty Soldier Sailor Venus and I am here to make you pay for what you did to that poor man." She said in a variation of what Serena said.

"Oh, you're not Sailor Moon, well then I can't waste my time with you." He said quite bluntly, then started to walk away. This infuriated Mina."This Thing thinks I am not worthy of fighting it, well I about to give him a rude awakening." She thought, then launched herself into action trying to give it a swift kick to the jaw. But it turned incredibly fast, grabbed her leg and threw her against a wall."So you wish to fight the great warrior Starflash. Fine then, I will oblige you." And with that he jumped on top of her and began beating her mercilessly. Then he had a knife sticking out of his arm."Ahrrrrrr, you little son of a bitch! Show yourself!" He yelled. Then a voice came back.

"I'm right above you." He looked up to see a person wearing a wanderer's jacket, the kind of thing you'd expect to see on a hero.

"Starscream, is that you? Why have you attacked me? Never mind, I will kill you for that insult, and that injury." He said as he leaped to the building top that "Starscream" was standing on. They engaged in mortal combat, the one calling himself "Starflash" was using some strange scythe blades that had appeared out of his arms, then "Starscream" did a spinning motion with his arms and suddenly two wicked looking swords were in his hands.

"Alright then, if you're so anxious to kill me than let's go." He was very brave from what Mina had seen of this "Starflash" creature, then they clashed and Mina almost missed the first blow because of the speed of these two titans of the battlefield. "Starscream" slashed his sword in an upward ark which almost caught "Starflash" off guard but he was just barely able to get his scythes up in time to deflect. Then "Starflash" threw one of those curving scythes which was narrowly dodged by "Starscream", when the other one came whistling in and buried itself in his shoulder. "Starscream" didn't cry out in pain or anguish and was not surprised when it disappeared from his arm and appeared back in "Starflash's" hand with the other one. Now it was "Starscream's" turn to act and he threw six of those little daggers which overwhelmed "Starflash's" defenses, one caught him near where a heart would be placed in a human.

"You win this round but next time, you won't be so lucky." With that statement finished, he pulled the dagger from his chest, threw it away then created a portal and stepped through. Mina got one last glimpse of "Starscream" before he vanished into the night.

"Man, that guy is good! I wonder if he is another Knight like Tuxedo Mask." Thought Mina aloud, she then reverted and went back toward the restaurant. But when she got back Andrew was gone. She asked the other chefs and they said that he left shortly after Mina left. Knowing Andrew was back at his apartment, Mina went back to her dorm to go to bed.

She woke up the next morning to find Serena cooking breakfast.

"Oh, Mina you're awake. Well it's a good thing because we don't have much time before we're going to have to leave for morning classes."She said as she put the finishing touches on the omelettes she was making for breakfast. They both took them and ate pretty quickly then dashed off to their classes. Mina noticed that Serena was heading to her class. "Serena, what are you doing going toward my class?"Asked Mina who had already guessed the answer.

"I looked into the class and decided that it was the one for me."She stated firmly. Mina retorted,

"Let me guess, it's the one for you because of all the cute boys in it."

"Of course, what did you think, that I actually wanted to study psychology." This didn't surprise Mina and secretly she wished that ol' Meatball head would change just a little bit more. Then she realized that Serena had already left and that she was going to be late and Serena was not.

"You know I think the world got a whole lot weirder when we went to college." She thought aloud then scurried off to class.

When she made it to class the teacher scolded her for being late, suddenly Mina noticed that Jocko wasn't there and that Andrew wasn't there either. Andrew then walked in, or more accurately stumbled in. He looked terrible, his face gaunt, and his skin was very pale. "Andrew, are you alright? You don't look so good." Whispered Mina to Andrew. Then he collapsed right onto the floor.

"Oh my god!?"Shouted a confused girl sitting next to him. Mina rushed down to hold him and felt an intense amount of cold coming out of him, as

if he were a block of ice."Someone call an ambulance!" Shouted Mina as she slowly sat Andrew down on his side, that's when she noticed the blood on the shoulder of his uniform."Oh my god!" Thought Mina, "Andrew is Starscream." And it dawned on her, the doctors could not help Andrew because it would be mystical poison and they would need Raye for this.

The ambulance got there pretty fast and hauled Andrew off. Mina rushed to her friends classes and told them to come with her. They all hopped into Mina's van and sped off toward the hospital. When they got there, Andrew had already been taken inside and when they checked with the head nurse. They found out which room he was in and went to go see him. When they got in, they saw his pale and prone form almost instantly. Raye walked forward, and whispered a couple of luck incantations. Raye began running through the symptom checks for all the earthly poisons. Then when she had gone through all of them, she checked for all the unearthly poisons."I know what he has." Said Raye.

"What is it Raye?" Asked Serena as she began to make those googily eyes at him and secretly she thought that he was kinda cute. Raye gave a long dramatic pause, then said,

"It is a sleeping potion and he will be out for a few more hours." She stated as the other girls fell down from shock.

"Mina, this was what was so urgent that you had to tear us away from our classes." Said Lita while she cracked her knuckles menacingly.

"Well he got hit with a scythe last night and this morning he collapsed so I thought it was a lot more serious." Mina said while getting ready to run.

"That reminds me Mina, exactly how did this guy get hit with a scythe coated with mystical poison?"Asked Amy. Mina thought for a moment then answered.

"Well it all started last night. I was on a date with him when some guy outside started yelling "Demon! Demon! ." So I left the restaurant and went into an alley where I changed then I confronted the beast and saw that it was vaguely humanoid and then he spoke to me and thought I was you Serena, then I intro'ed myself and he tried to insult me by saying I wasn't good enough to take him on and just walk away so I tried to attack him but he saw it coming and grabbed me, then threw me against a wall and started punchin the shit out of me, when some mysterious guy throws a knife in the things shoulder and then the thing calls the guy Starscream.

Oh, and the thing it self was called Starflash, but any ways, he jumped up and shot two scythes out of his arms and caught them while Starscream spun his arms and made two swords appear in his hands then they started fighting and it was poetry, just so good that I can't describe it but in the end Starscream got a Scythe in his shoulder and Starflash caught a knife near the heart and left, as well as Starscream and when I went back to the restaurant for Andrew he was gone and the chefs said that he left a little while after me."Said Mina with sporadic drinks of water in it.

"So he is another Knight?" Asked Lita.

"Yes Apparently." Answered Mina.

"Well let's ask him about it when he wakes up." Piped in Serena. Then from behind them a deeper voice said.

"Ask me what when I wake up?" Said Andrew. All the girls jumped back, but when they realized who had said it they moved forward.

"Andrew, you're awake. I was so worried about you, or should I call you Starscream?" Asked Mina as she hugged him.

"What do you mean "Starscream", I don't know anybody by that name." He said, sounding slightly annoyed.

"It's okay Andrew we know who you are, you don't have to fake with us. Don't you remember the girl you saved last night?" Mina asked him again getting more serious. His brow creased and he thought for a moment.

"No, I don't. Right after you left the restaurant I went to my apartment and went to sleep." He said angrily. Then he turned over in the bed and said."Why am I in a hospital?" He asked. The girls turned to each other and whispered.

"You know, I don't think he has any memory of what he did."Said Mina melancholily.

"Mina, I think you should ask Darien about this 'cause I think I heard him saying that something like this happened to him." Said Serena quickly. Mina made up her mind.

"Okay, I'm going to go talk to Darien and the rest of you make sure he doesn't leave." Said Mina and she strode off briskly then paused."Serena, did you ever get this weird feeling that you knew Darien from a long time ago before you knew he was a Knight?"

"Actually, I did, why do you ask?" Serena asked.

"No reason but thanks." And with that she walked off.

Mina Arrived at Darien's apartment pretty fast and climbed the stairs even faster. She rapped her knuckles on the door and heard Darien say from inside."Hold on I'll be right there."When he opened the door, Mina had to stifle a chuckle. Darien had not been in college for a long time and so he wasn't used to waking up so early. He had one of those funny looking morning faces on and needed a shave."Uh, Darien. I need your help."

"What do you need Mina?" Asked Darien grumpily.

"I think I have found another knight but he doesn't remember anything he's done, so can we talk?" Asked Mina outrightly.

"Sure come right on in." Darien walked over toward his counter."Coffee?" He asked politely.

"No thanks, I already had some." She answered. He brought a steaming cup of the stuff over with him to the table.

"So, what is it again that you need?" Asked Darien again. He had a bad memory in the morning.

"I think I found another Knight but he doesn't remember anything he's done, did the same thing happen to you?" She asked.

"Well actually yes, but I finally got my memories back when I held my first Rainbow crystal in my hand," He replied pausing for a moment."But we don't have a rainbow crystal this time or any other thing that might have the same effect for that matter." He finished. Mina thought for a little bit then she had an idea, it was a little off base and probably wouldn't pan out but it was worth a try.

"Darien, I need you to find Rini because she isn't staying with Serena."

"Already done." Darien pursed his lips and whistled loudly. Rini came running out of the extra bedroom in the apartment.

"Hey, Darien. Why did you wake me up?" Asked Rini perkily. Now she was about 11 but the whole sleeping thing hadn't happened to her yet so she was still able to wake up all nice and perky like this.

"Hey Rini, I need your help. Can you make me a Skeleton key with your Lunaball?" Asked Mina, while the plan was starting to come together.

"Hey Mina, I didn't know you were there, and what is a skeleton key? Is it some kinda key made of bones?" She also hadn't gotten past the annoying perpetual question asking phase either.

"No, it's a key that can open any lock. She needs it to find out if one of her friends is a Knight like me." Remarked Darien. Rini got a slightly puzzled look on her face then shrugged and pulled her Lunaball closer.

"Kitty magic, make a Skeleton key." Shouted Rini as she threw the kitty ball into the air and when it came back down it was a small golden key.

"Here you go, take good care of her and bring her back soon."Mina took the key and walked out of Darien's apartment, "Now I can see if my plan is crazy enough to work." She thought to herself. Then she walked down the stairs and ran into the morning light.

"What do you have to report Starflash?" Said a gruff and large sounding voice from the shadows.

"The sailor scouts will try to interfere, also Starscream has apparently joined them, my lord." Said Starflash in a slightly quavering voice. A message popped into his mind, "Kill them all." He would follow the order.