Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Victory

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Victory

Chapter 2: The Team Assembles

By: Jennifer Cleary

"Argh! I hate learning foreign languages!" a girl cried in English. She had hazel-brown hair and eyes. She slammed an English-Japanese dictionary shut and laid her forehead on the thick leather binding.

"I know Liz, but since Sailor Mercury told us that we're needed in Japan, we have to learn at least basic Japanese to get ourselves accustomed to Tokyo and the other senshi that live there." Another girl said, she was Liz's exact twin.

"Rachel, why do have to? Just because Miss-blue-head said so?" Liz asked.

"Look, we're both senshi," Rachel began, "and it is our destiny that the world rest on our shoulders from impending evil. You saw how powerful Mercury was last night, don't you want to be just as powerful as her?"

"But, she's in MEDICAL SCHOOL! She's much more experienced than us, because she's had at least more training than the both of us combined! She worked with Sailor Moon! She's seen Galaxia and did harness the power of the Shadow Galactica, it was for a short time, but it showed her how to grasp her energy and make it flow powerfully, without draining it so fast! Compared to her, we're pathetic!" Liz complained.

"Duh, why do you think she's sending us to Tokyo?" Rachel snapped, "Because she wants us to be powerful like her and Sailor Moon, so we can defeat the enemy. We've only been senshi for a short time, and that's one of your problems, you're not patient enough to let your powers emerge from within and become more powerful over time. Liz, please, the fate of the world rests with us and the other new senshi. Before she took off, Mercury said to me that another senshi from Britain is coming to Tokyo on the same flight that we're taking to get there and that's in two weeks…she's just as new as us so don't be complaining so much…" Rachel then sipped on some coffee and continued to study in the dictionary.

"You're impossible sometimes, Rachel." Liz commented and flicked a paper football at her sister.

"Cresta!" a young girl cried into the woods. "Where are you?!" The girl was fairly tall and had long blue hair. "I'm sick of playing games with you! Come out or I leave for home without you!"

A great horned owl swooped over the girl's head and landed on a branch nearby. "What is it now Fumito? Did you leave something in the woods again?" the owl spoke.

"No, we have to get your papers ready so that the customs guys don't seize you as an undeclared animal. Come on! And I really don't want to go through all that red tape just to get you back to help me fight the enemy." The girl said.

"Well that wouldn't be my fault would it?" Cresta said sarcastically.

"Yes it would, and if you do anything that real owls don't do normally, then were would we be? Under a microscope, donating our brains to science, trying to find out how you and I can communicate." Fumito explained, getting frustrated.

"Well that doesn't sound too fun…" Cresta grimaced and stretched her wings.

"I have all my things packed, and most of your stuff is ready to go too. Now the problem is the foreign exchange family I have to deal with. I told them there was an emergency at home and I have to leave as soon as possible. This is a mess. They're so kind to me and I have nothing to pay them back with."

"I don't know what to do about that Fumito, after all, all I am is an owl, I have to just flap and screech and eat mice to my heart's content." Cresta said.

"Your sarcasm astounds me…for an owl…" Fumito said and disappeared into the house that was not too far from Cresta's perch.

Jen pulls her car up in front of Mamoru and Usagi's apartment behind Mamoru and Usagi. Jen, Minerva and Shouni get out of the Beetle and they follow Usagi and Mamoru up to their apartment.

"Please sit," Usagi said.

"Hello Luna," Minerva said, seeing the black cat sit on the couch.

Luna looked confused for a moment and then stared at Minerva for a short time. Artemisu then came along and recognized Minerva.

"It's been some time Minerva, how are things going?" Artemisu asked.

"Not well since I had to revive a senshi in this girl." Minerva said, referring to Jen.

"Minerva…" Luna mumbled.

Minerva shook her head at Luna. "Poor Luna she doesn't seem to recognize me at all. Luna, do you remember this?" Minerva paused and turned away from Luna for a few seconds and then turned back, her face all disfigured. "Booga booga booga!" This surprised Luna into remembering who Minerva was in the past.

"Ahhh! That's right! You're were the clown that always goofed around, and somehow got to protect the Goddesses!" Luna exclaimed, surprised.

"I had connections, besides, the Goddesses liked me…" Minerva bragged.

"Be quiet, this isn't the time to reminisce!" Jen shouted, thumping Minerva in the ear.

"Sorry," Minerva said, rubbing her ear.

"What is the meaning of all this? Talking cats? The short skirts? What am I doing here?" Shouni asked. Jen sighed and patted Shouni on the shoulder.

"You're in for a LONG explanation girl…" Jen sighed again and sat on the floor.

"You can sit on the sofa if you'd like." Usagi offered to Jen. Usagi sat on the couch.

"Nah, I find myself all comfy on the floor for some reason." Jen replied.

"Would you like something to drink? I can make some coffee." Mamoru said, looking to Jen and Shouni.

"Water, I need to recover my strength from the last battle, I did lose a lot of blood didn't I?" Jen said.

"I'll have some coffee." Shouni said and Mamoru went into the kitchen.

"Where do we begin?" Jen asked, waiting for a response.

"Well, what's your name?" Artemisu asked.

"I'm Jen, don't call me Jennifer or I rip your head off…" Jen said, playing a false threat, making Artemisu stand up straight, his fur on end. "Well, I won't rip your head off, I guess they say my bark is worse than my bite…heh heh!" Jen scratched the back of her head.

"I'm Shouni." Shouni said and sat on the couch, next to Usagi.

"She just became a senshi like half an hour ago. Poor kid, don't know if we'll make it through or not." Jen commented as Mamoru returned with the coffee.

"Well, how long have you been a senshi?" Mamoru asked, handing Jen a glass of water.

"Let's see I'm seventeen now, and I was around 12 when Minerva came about, so almost five years, somewhere in that ballpark." Jen responded, "Ok, mister, how long have you been a knight?"

"About six or seven years, Usako has been a senshi just as long as I have." Mamoru responded.

"Veterans…" Shouni observed.

"I guess you could say that…" Usagi said smiling. She looked at Jen and then asked a serious question. "So, what do you know about the enemy?"

Jen's face turned ghost white and she gulped. "W-w-well, not a whole lot, that lady that we fought earlier is only the start of a massive cavalry that's hiding in some other dimension that is joined to our world at certain times of day. I know that they can attack every nine hours, that's when the portals between the worlds is stable enough to travel through. After that, my mind is a total blank after that, I don't know how to access the portals, but I could probably track the locations of the next stable portal; but it drains my energy faster than I could say I know where it is. You have to be incredibly fast in tracking it otherwise I'm out like a light for a few hours." Jen explained.

"Every nine hours?" Usagi gasped, she leaned toward Jen, "Does that mean that they're trying to merge our world with theirs?"

"I don't know what they plan to do with the Oracle Stones, and if they do get one, we're…I guess you could say we're screwed." Jen confirmed.

"This is all so much." Shouni said, getting confused, "Exactly what are the Oracle Stones?"

"Gems that have the power of the Goddesses—" Usagi said, but got cut off by Minerva.

"Not only they have the power of the Goddesses, they control an aspect of life here on Earth, and the whole Galaxy." Minerva said.

"They also contain the souls of the goddesses themselves." Jen chimed in.

"Oh my…" Shouni gasped, nearly dropping her coffee, "So we can't let the enemy get these Oracle Stones or we're screwed?"

"That's the idea. I heard from a little birdie, who will remain nameless," Jen pointed to Minerva, "Well, I heard that the rest of my team is arriving in a week."

"What do you mean by your team?" Luna demanded.

"Exactly what I'd like to know…" Mamoru said.

"Well, obviously I am the leader of this new team of Sailor Senshi, I've the most experienced of the group and I assign myself as leader." Jen declared, "I see no problems in that situation do you Shouni?"

"Well, you do know what you're doing most of the time…" Shouni admitted.

"I have no complaints from my other team member…" Jen said.

"What about the others?" Minerva demanded.

"Hey, you're just a cat, can you fight evil all the time while you nap on my computer chair all damn day?" Jen snapped, "and besides, they're not here yet, I still have a week! I am the leader of my group and I take full responsibility for any actions that are made during a battle with the enemy." Jen paused in her speech when she noticed a positive aura drawing nearer. "Do you guys feel that? A really positive aura coming from outside…" Jen then set a spell on her eyes that made her see on the outside. "A girl, outside, I think she's a senshi, I can tell by the way her aura is from here. I'll get her. Come on Minerva, you can confirm this one for a change…" Jen and Minerva then rushed out into the hall and down the elevator. The girl outside had a long braid streaming down her back and she was wearing a TA Girl's School Uniform.

"Hey!" Jen called to the girl, the girl turned and looked at the American and then continued on her way. Jen growled a little and then tried again. She bounded up to the girl all bubbly and perky. "Hi, I'm Jen, what's your name?" Jen shot out.

"Mei." The girl replied, and kept walking.

"I like your hair, how do you get it so smooth in that braid?" Jen asked, trying to get some small talk out of the girl. "Do you use a lot of gel?" Mei didn't respond to Jen's question and kept walking. "Aw, come on, I'd like you to be my friend, don't make me embarrass you in the middle of the street by breaking out into song…" Mei stopped and looked at Jen, who had an aw-come-on-talk-to-me-pleeeeeeeease look on her face.

"You are a persistent person, you know that?" Mei said, making Jen grin from ear to ear.

"Oh, I know, it's a gift." Jen smiled and cocked her head to one side playfully ^_^.

"I see. Well, Jen, I guess I should be going home now, I have to make dinner and do my homework." Mei said.

"OH! I'll come with you and we can do our homework together! I swear it'll be a blast! Just let me go upstairs and tell my friends that's I'm going with you! You wanna meet them real quick?" Jen jabbered energetically.

"I guess…" Mei said quietly, and Jen yanked her arm toward the apartment building. They went in the elevator and up to the fifth floor. They reached the door.

"Um, I'll poke my head in and tell them that you're here, kay?" Jen asked.

"All right." Mei said.

Jen opened the door and shoved her head in the crack. "Hey, this is the girl I felt that was a senshi earlier, be nice, she's really shy…" Jen said and slid her skull out. She looked at Mei who was playing with her braid. "OK, we can go in now."

Jen opened the door wide and chauffeured Mei in the apartment. Usagi, Mamoru and Shouni all greeted her with smiles, which made Mei really nervous.

"Um…………Hello," Mei finally managed to say.

"Everyone this is Mei, Mei this is Mamoru, Usagi and Shouni. Shouni is sleeping over at my house tonight, we're good friends already, huh?"

"Yes," Shouni nodded, "I'm glad to have met you Mei, would you like to join our little slumber party at Jen's home tonight?"

"Um, I don't know…" Mei stuttered.

"It'll be fun…" Jen sang.

"Oh, I guess I will, I need to have some fun for a change." Mei finally gave in.

Jen smiled in delight and then apologized for not staying as long as she hoped she would to Mamoru and Usagi.

"You're welcome here now, come back anytime if you need help on anything." Mamoru said as the three girls walked into the hallway.

"See ya!" Jen called as they stepped onto the elevator.

On the elevator was a girl of about 14 with bright reddish-pink hair, it was very spiked and she wore a trenchcoat and sunglasses. Jen was staring at her for a little bit until they reached the bottom floor. As Mei, Shouni and Jen stepped off, the weird girl ahead of them, Jen said: "I thought I saw her somewhere before…"

"Me too," Shouni said, shaking her head, which confused Mei.

"What do you mean by that? She's a complete stranger, and you act like you've seen her before…you are odd…"

"Odd?" Jen raised an eyebrow as the girls walked through the front door of the building towards Jen's car. "Girl, it seems that I have to teach you some slang…"

"Slang?" Mei questioned.

"Yeah, slang, it's a teenager thing nowadays in the states, it confuses the adults so they can't understand ya."

"Why would I want to do that?" Mei asked, making Jen fall over with shock, she then got back up and hung herself on Mei's shoulder.

"Because, if adults can't understand what you're saying, they won't ask anything without getting a yammerin-jammerin answer from us. Ya see my point?" Jen explained.

"Nope." Mei shook her head and climbed in the backseat with Shouni.

"Put on the straps, I's don't need no angry parents suing my ass for giving you guys whiplash, aright?" Jen ordered and Mei and Shouni strapped themselves in and Jen put the pedal to the metal and screeched away from the curb.

"Well, now, Clothos, it seems that you didn't get the Oracle Stone did you?" Sailor Omega asked.

"No, it was the wrong target, Omega-sama…" Clothos stammered.

"IT WAS THE RIGHT TARGET! YOU WERE THE ONE WHO SCREWED UP! You attacked the boy instead of the girl I told you to get. Don't be confused by their names, I wanted the girl called Shouni, not he boy named Shinji!"

"I-I-I'm sorry…" Clothos said.

"YOU'RE SORRY?! Is that all, you're sorry?! I do not care for a incompetent demon working for me…" Omega nearly threw a vase at Clothos when she began to calm down. "I'll give you another chance, if you prove yourself, I'll let you live, got it?!" Omega ordered, "You'll find your own target and steal their soul. Then you shall bring it back here and Sacrifice it to the great Queen Cerridwen. Then I might let you live, it all depends on how well of a job you've done, understood?"

"Yes madam!" Clothos saluted and disappeared in a puff of red smoke.

"Lachesis, step forward." Omega ordered.

In a swirl of green bubbles, a young woman of about 19 appeared. "Yes, you called for me your grace?" Lachesis asked, she had green hair with a few blonde wisps that were braided and hung in loops across her green hair.

"Watch your dear sister, make sure that she fails, I do not wish to see her fail over and over again…" Omega waved her hand and Lachesis disappeared in a flurry of green bubbles again.

"Heh, same house, new target…" Clothos muttered from the bushes in front of the Kearnes's residence. She watched Mei nibble at some cucumber slices while Shouni stuffed her face with sushi and Jen fed her face with a double cheeseburger, with extra everything.

"So I said to the guy, 'what do you think I am, your sex machine and you can take me whenever you want?!' Then I slugged him hard in the teeth and then we broke up, I was glad to get away from that guy, I tell ya, being single is like a dream, nobody to tie you down when you wanna hang with your home girls!" Jen said, chunks of her burger were flying out of her mouth about halfway through her story.

"You are such a independent person!" Shouni complimented.

"Well, not entirely…" Jen admitted, "after all I still am living with my mom and my cousin is mooching off of us until he graduates…then after I'm done with high school, I'll have to start paying rent! That is if I don't move back to NYC and get on Broadway… Mei, how ya holdin' up over there? Need some more dip? My cousin is upstairs…" Jen commented. Mei smiled at Jen's comment about her cousin being a dip. "Maybe I should go and check on him…" Jen got up and left the room and went up to Shinji's room.

"Mei, how long have you lived in Tokyo?" Shouni asked.

"All my life, or at least what I can remember of it…" Mei replied.

"Oh, I see, then you don't remember going to the park as a kid and playing around in the sandbox and scraping your knees and all that?" Shouni asked.

"No…not a thing…" Mei replied. Suddenly the doorbell rang and Jen nearly fell down the stairs trying to answer the door. She opened the door to find the girl that was in the trenchcoat.

"Good evening," said the trenchcoat girl.

"Yeah, hi, um, may I help you?" Jen asked.

"Well, I'm doing a survey of this neighborhood, and I was wondering if I could come in?" the girl said.

Jen gave the visitor the evil eye and simply said: "No, the place is a total wreck, and you just annoy me."

"Oh, I do huh?" the girl threatened.

"Yeah, now get off my property before I contact the authorities." Jen ordered.

"That won't be necessary…" the girl said and ripped off the trenchcoat she was wearing.

"Clothos!" Jen gasped.

"Oh, well now it seems that you know me by name, don't you?" Clothos replied and summoned a fire golem to restrain Jen.

"Wind Barrier!" Jen called and blocked the golem from reaching her skin.

"Mei, get out of here!" Shouni ordered and shoved Mei out the back door.

"Shouni! Call for help!" Jen screamed trying to fight off Clothos and her golem. "Wind Mirage!" Jen called and created a picture inside Clothos's head. The image was that Jen's soul was successfully taken.

"Trickery, ha! I've seen better!" Clothos shouted and broke through the Wind Barrier. Slowly she began to suck away at Jen's soul.

"Hey you!" a figure with a staff cried.

"Nani?" Clothos stopped sucking and Jen dove away to transform.

"Stealing souls because you don't have your own is unjust! I hold my friends dearly in my heart and I won't let their souls be taken! For light and love, I am the pretty sailor-suited soldier of justice, Sailor Solaris! With the power of my righteous light, I shall vanquish you to the depths of darkness!"

Clothos began to clap slowly smirking. "What a nice speech, I'm sure your friend loved hearing it. But I'm afraid that its already too late, I've already taken her soul and now I'm going to sacrifice it to the Great Queen, so have fun battling my friend Flamzio, he'll burn you away! Flamzio, attack!"

Flamzio grunted and sent fireballs toward Sailor Solaris, who dodged them successfully.

"So you like to play with fire huh?" Sailor Solaris asked, "then try this! Solar Flare!" Solaris sent her Solar Flare attack at Flamzio and hit him hard on the shoulder. "Take that, smoky!" Sailor Solaris said when Flamzio went down and disappeared into a wisp of smoke. Flamzio then reappeared behind Sailor Solaris without her knowing.

Mei was watching from the kitchen. "LOOK OUT!" she tackled Sailor Solaris and barely missed Flamzio's punch which was aimed at Shouni. Mei burned her leg on Flamzio's waist when she tackled Shouni and screamed in agony, this caused a small locket to appear out of the air in front of her.

"Saving those who you care about takes courage and strength, Sailor Comet, transform yourself and fight with us," Sailor Nebula said.

"How?" Mei was confused.

"Call out 'Comet Star Power, Make Up', but not here, in the kitchen, where the monster can't see you, QUICKLY, we can only hold him off for so long!" Sailor Solaris cried, dodging the attack from Flamzio.

"But my leg…" Mei said, scrunching her face in pain.

"Wind Barrier!" Sailor Nebula cried and put up another protective shield so she could heal Mei's leg from the burn. "Healing Metamorphosis!" Sailor Nebula said and a white glow emitted from her hand. The wound healed and Mei took off to the kitchen.

"Come on! You can fight better than that!" Sailor Nebula cried, seeing Solaris and Flamzio struggle with the Sun's Rod between them. "Wind Shot!" Sailor Nebula cried, holding her hands mere centimeters from Flamzio's back. Many small green blades shot from Sailor Nebula's hands and hit Flamzio at point blank range. This caused Flamzio to fall to his knees in agony and screams for mercy.

"Mercy for you?" Sailor Comet entered the scene, "Not from what I've experienced. Not for you. Do you really think you deserve our mercy? You are a demon golem which must be banished to the far reaches of the catacombs of darkness."

"Nice speech." Sailor Nebula thought.

"For the strengths of friendship and the courage to love, I, the pretty sailor suited soldier, Sailor Comet, shall send you there!"

"Ha, a novice like you? You make me laugh!" Flamzio jeered and threw a fireball at Sailor Comet, who just flung it out of her way, putting it out, giving Flamzio the evil eye. "Comet Spin!" Sailor Comet sent four comets hurtling toward Flamzio. Three hit him in the abdomen and the other in the face.

"How do we get rid of him?" Sailor Solaris asked, panicking.

"Evil that has invaded our world, be gone to the farthest reaches of space, know of this world and this defeat, Akuryou taisan!!" This spell that was cast made Flamzio shrink into a little ball and disappeared into the far reaches of space.

"Every nine hours?" Sailor Nebula complained, turning back into civilian form.

"Yeah, every nine hours," Sailor Solaris confirmed, also changing back.

"Every nine hours? What does that mean? And how do you change back?!" Sailor Comet demanded.

Jen and Shouni sweatdropped and they told her how to turn back, Sailor Comet did so and turned back into Mei.

"The nine hours thing is how often the enemy may attack and I'm pretty sure that they'll take advantage of it." Shouni explained to Mei.

"Hey, you sound like a veteran already!" Jen laughed.

"Time to die, dear sister…" Lachesis said, pointing a lightning ball at Clothos's head, in her chamber.

"I failed…my success was an illusion, DAMN YOU, YOU LITTLE WITCH!" Clothos said holding her head in shame.

"Ready, aim, fire…" Lachesis mumbled softly, but Clothos disappeared, leaving a small red light on her bed, alongside a short letter. Lachesis flew down to the small light and read the letter:

To whoever this may concern:

I, Clothos, the first fate, resign my duties as a minion of the Shadow Moon Empire, upon finding this letter, I have already left for my new home on Earth, there I will earn myself a life, and not live to the beat of succeed or die.

You can try and hunt me down by tracking my powers but I no longer have them as you now see.

So long suckers!

Clothos, no longer.

"That little bitch shall pay for this!" Lachesis screamed and in a flurry of bubbles, went to Earth to search for the traitorous sister.

Now a week after Sailor Comet's awakening…

"Ok, they said that the flight would be here at two right?" Jen asked Mamoru who was waiting with her at the Narita Airport.

"Yeah, Ami and Rei sent pictures of them last week. They should be here soon." Mamoru said.

"Good, because I'm sick of holdin' this sign…" Jen grumbled.

"You always have something to complain about don't you?" Mamoru asked as the passengers began to pour in the terminal.

"Yes, I do, thanks," Jen snapped, "Just keep your eyes peeled for them would ya?!"

"Do you see them?" Usagi asked, walking up with a bundle of flowers for the new arrivals that they were taking to Tokyo.

"Not yet." Mamoru said.

"I hope that they didn't miss their flight…" Mei hoped.

"No, they couldn't have," Shouni argued, "They're senshi, they're dependable people who can be relied on for most anything!"

"I see them!" Mamoru said.

"Hey, Rachel, you see that guy with the black hair yet?" Liz asked, trying to make her way past all the passengers.

"No! But I do see a meatball head!" Rachel called back to her sister.

"Did someone say meatballs? I'm starving!" some squeaky-voiced teenager asked.

"Move it midget!" an angry lady shoved Fumito into the wall.

"Ow, that hurt!" Fumito cried.

"Look, Jack I told you to not call me on my vacation no matter how important it was!" a angry man followed the angry woman, "Sorry miss, we didn't mean to shove you… Jack, don't make me cut you off…"

"Are they coming?" Usagi asked.

"Yeah." Mamoru said trying to find Fumito.

"Are you Tsukino Usagi?" Rachel tried to say in Japanese.

"Yes." Usagi responded in English.

"Thank God! Liz! I found them!" Rachel called to her sister.

"Great! I'm coming!" Liz called from way down the tunnel.

"She's trying to get more airline peanuts from the steward…" Rachel muttered, ashamed of her sibling.

"You are Usagi, right?" Fumito asked when she finally made her way up to the group.

"Yes, and you are Ami-chan's cousin Fumito?" Usagi asked.

"Yes." Fumito said.

"Let's get the show on the road already!" Jen complained.

"Not without my sister you pushy, overbearing, whiny little American!" Rachel yelled at Jen.

"Eeesh, sorry, did I push a button on your bitch board?" Jen asked acting a bit offended.

"Yes you did!" Rachel snapped and waited for her sister, who came bounding up, her arms full of peanut bags.

"Look, I'm tired, hungry and really sick of this place!" Jen said and began to leave.

"Wait! I have to get my owl!" Fumito said.

"Well, looks like you're riding with me, beware of my cat though, she gets mean when she's hungry." Jen warned.

After about another half hour of waiting for all the procedures to be done and the owl was safely in Fumito's hands, the group left and went to their cars. Jen took Fumito, Shouni and Rachel in her car, and Mamoru and Usagi took Mei and Liz.

"I hope you like fast food, because that's where I'm stopping for lunch, and its my treat!" Jen said and zoomed out of the parking lot toward a fast food restaurant.

Continued in Chapter 3…