Chapter 3
That weekend the guys retreated to Mia's as they promised her they would
while she was in the states on some sort of business for the collage. Thank
god that Yuli went with her. They all had a lot of homework and a ton of
more school related stuff to do.
Early Saturday morning, Ryo and Cye found them selves looking up
information on the two girls that saved them a few days before hand. They
had called Mia as soon as they got to the house the evening before and she
gave them permission to raid her Grandfather's old disks and books that she
had lying around.
So far everything was in a dead end. All of the diskettes were filled with
useful info, yes, but none on what they were looking for. Between the two
of them, they covered all of the hundreds of disks that were in the house
and several hundred more from the collage in one night. They had it down to
about 50 disks total to finish. They had to hurry if they wanted top keep
their deal with Jenna to come and see the Temple.
"Have any more Tylenol on you Cye?" Ryo asked as he cast another one of the
disks aside and rubbed his right temple as he popped one more disk in the
drive of the laptop.
"Yeah. I think there's one or two left." He then tossed his friend the
bottle before doing the same disk exchange.
"Thanks." Ryo caught it and took two. He knew that both of them would need
a good nights sleep tonight. If they didn't finish now, they would have to
continue tomorrow before going back to the house that the all six Ronins
were renting out together in town.
"Oh my god." Cye murmured under his breath. His computer screen had gone
ballistic with information after he typed in the phrase 'Sailor Senshi'.
Ryo got up and looked over Cye's shoulder at the screen. A legend had
showed it's self with a picture of a wand with a gold crescent moon
adorning the top of it faded in the background.
"In the time of the Silver Millennium, all of the planets were at peace.
All of the planets held their respective kingdoms, but the one of the Moon
was the most renowned." Cye read off aloud in a low whisper. "Queen
Serenity was the ruler of the Moon and was training her daughter, Princess
Serenity to follow in her footsteps. But the Princess's ruler-ship was
never to be."
"At the peak of this time of peace, Evil broke through into the dimension
of the Silver Millennium. One by one, all of the kingdoms fell and their
people and respective Princesses, being apart of Princess Serenity's court,
were sent to the Moon kingdom." Ryo took over the reading as the others
gathered in the doorway and listened silently. "Then the time for the Moon
to fall came. The Princesses of Serenity's court were known as the Sailor
Scouts, guardians of the Moon Family and the Universe, fought for the
peace."
"But they failed. The kingdom was over throne, and the Evil still existed."
Cye began to read again in a louder voice, realizing that the others were
there. "Using her last powers, Queen Serenity sent the Princesses and the
other children of the moon to the future Earth, where they would at last be
safe, after sending the Evil back to the place that they came from in a
extremely weakened state. Yet, if this Evil was to raise again, the Sailor
Senshi would be able to call upon their powers to stop it."
"But what do these Sailors have to do with us?" Rowen spoke up after about
five minutes of total silence. The clock on the wall chimed 10 am.
"They couldn't be the ones from our dream? You know? The ones that come in
the power of the Moon?" Sage asked.
"We'll find out soon I guess." Ryo said as he began to walk down stairs.
"We better head for the Temple guys."
@@@@@@ At the Cherry Hill Temple, Tokyo @@@@@@
"Hey every one!" Jenna said as she and her Grandfather greeted the Ronins
at the gift shop near the Temple entrance. "I am so happy that you could
come. Grandpa. This is Ryo, Sage, Cye, Anubis, Kento, and Rowen. Guys. This
is my Grandpa."
"It's nice to meet you good sir." Sage said as they bowed.
"No formalities please. Just call me Grandpa like I wish for all of Rei's
friends to do."
"Rei? I thought your name was Jenna?" Ryo said as he looked at her.
"You see, Rei is my middle name. It's a nickname that he uses and him
only." She explained as the others asked her Grandfather questions. She
really did prefer that all of her friends and family call her by her real
name. But Grandpa refused.
"So. You want to give them a tour all at once or in groups?" Grandpa asked,
looking up at his much taller grandchild.
"I can handle it Grandpa." With a small bow, she turned and led them all
around the place.
It took a good hour, but they finally found them selves in the gardens.
Jenna had been the one to work in it. Everything had her sweat poured over
it. It was a way to commemorate Chad's death, for this was the place that
it had taken place.
"Wow. This is so amazing." Rowen said as he and the others starred at the
roses, Cheery Blossom trees and other flowers that seemed to be centered on
a lone weeping willow that had light green colored ivy growing on it's
trunk.
Everything was of a bright color and arrangement. Nothing seemed to clash,
but rather blended in either like an ancient painting or a landscape from a
dream. About ten feet in front of the Weeping Willow, was a porcelain water
fountain of a youthful angel spreading his silkened wings and looked as if
he were about to take off into the heavens. The water poured out of the
wings and cascaded down the angel's back and then flowed down the rocks
that it seemed to stand on before landing in the basin. A little spurt of
water came from each of the five roses that it held out from its body.
"Its truly amazing Jenna." Cye said as he took everything in again, not
wanting to miss anything.
"I worked on it all summer after I got home from studying in the USA. The
fountain was one of Mina's greater ideas. Everything in this place is
dedicated to the hard work that Chad put forth into the Temple over the
years that he worked and lived here." Jenna explained with a smile. For the
first time in months, she didn't cry at the sound of his name. It was a
real shock.
Suddenly Jenna broke the silence that had become between all of them, being
that they were in different parts of the garden, with a few sneezes. "Oh
great."
"What's wrong Jenna? You okay?" Ryo placed a soft hand on her arm, near her
hand.
"Yeah. I'm fine. My allergies have been bothering me all day and my
medicine for it never helps." She then tried to cover her mouth for several
more sneezes.
"Well then you better go and lay down for awhile, Rei. I'll take things
from here." Grandpa said as he entered the garden upon hearing her third
sneeze attack that day start up.
"Okay. Thank you Grandpa." She bowed slightly before walking to her room.
Once inside, Jenna left the door part of the way opened before stretching
out on her queen sized bed. Pretty soon she had drifted off into a deep
sleep.
As she slept, a vision took over her dream world.
~ All that was around her was in either flames or darkness. The Sailors
stood around her, all wounded. She herself was on the end of her rope. The
female enemy that they were up against was too much this time.
"We are doomed this time if we do not get help soon." A girl beside her,
that she could not define, said. She had long raven hair that flowed to her
ankles and wore a Sailor Fuku of black and crimson. "If my brother and the
other Ronin do not hurry, then this evil will get the better of us. We must
protect the Princess!"
An all out attack of the elements that the Sailors had then flew through
the air. But still it was not enough. The Enemy's counter attack wiped them
all out. Then nine armored warriors came from the shadows just as the scene
began to go dark. One in red seemed to be blocking her from the next on
coming attack of black energy from the enemy.
"You were to late warriors! The Moon will now die with you!" Those were the
last words that reached her ears as the scene went completely black. ~
Jenna sat up in bed with a start. The sun hit her body from the opened
window beside her as she took several deep breaths.
"What does it mean?" She asked to herself out loud. * I will have to
consult the Great Fire later today. *
After calming down, she lie back on the bed and fell asleep.
