Chapter nine!

Introductions...

Authors note:

Hey I'm not doing too bad at the moment. I've got the ninth chapter of this finally written up. I finally got round to writing up the first chapter of Ill met by Starlight and the first chapter of Starlight, Star bright. The second chapter of the latter should be up soon, as I've been working on it off and on for the past week.

Now on with the story and no peeking at the character notes that I put up earlier.

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Yuriko ran down the corridors of the Blackmoon citadel searching for Hana, her shoulder length sky blue hair swept behind her like waves beating on the seashore. She had felt the energy waves of this planets guardians attacks, but was unsure as to whether she should join them. She hadn't received any communication of an attack and so was now looking for Hana; hoping against all hope that the younger girl would know what to do.

BANG!

Suddenly she found herself seeing stars and looking up into deep chestnut eyes just visible beneath long strawberry bangs.

"Hana!" She shouted, "thank the Kami's I found you! Did you feel it as well?"

"Hai. I was looking for you..." Hana responded in a soft lilting voice very much like her mothers. "Umm...ehh...s..s..sssorry about running into you. But Amber-chan said that her brother Sinel was missing again. SSSoo I had to look for him."

Yuriko smiled warmly at the younger girl. Chiba Hanako* was only thirteen years old and so was quite unsure of herself in more ways than one.

"Yuriko-san!" A small shrill voice called.

Looking further down Yuriko made the mistake of looking directly into the golden eyes of one Amberlite re'Turquoise, Blackmoon, daughter of Jade~Spheria daughter of Adamant, and thus this made her the neice of Demando re'Adamant, Blackmoon the shiroi oujisama of Nemesis. Though she looked very little like him, not that Yuriko could really remember Demando for he was dead by the time she was born. It was always a bad idea to look directly into the small girls eyes as you could instantly become lost in lost in those whorls of gold. Luckily...?, the six year old proceeded to step on her foot to get her attention back.

"Itai! Jeez Amber-chan for such a small girl... your heavy!"

"But Yuriko-san, Sinel-kun's missing...again!"

"I'm sure he's fine Amber-chan, you know full well that your brother can get out of any trouble."

"Hai." She grudgingly admitted, "but why didn't he tell me?"

Hana began to giggle softly to herself. Yuriko had to admit Amber pouting was pretty funny.

"O.K. Amber-chan lets go find your brother." She laughed offering her hand to the small girl; who rewarded her with a beaming smile, that could have lit up all of Nemesis had it been much larger.

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"Shimatta!" Neo-Nemesis quietly cursed, before turning back to face the people who were following her.

"Whats wrong?" The small man... Daniel? asked her.

"I can't take you through the main doors, the guards may not ask questions outright. But questions will be asked at a later date. If one of the others were here as well we could teleport, but I'm not strong enough on my own. So that leaves the old side entrance. Right!" She suddenly shouted, "follow me closely onegai?"

"O.K." O'Neill replied, obviously not liking being ordered around, but what could he do?

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Sinel watched in amazement as Neo-Nemesis led the quartet around to the old side entrance. It was heavily warded but nothing that she couldn't handle. Thats it! He decided, I want to go meet them now!

And with that thought Sinel re'Turquoise, Blackmoon ran quickly through the halls of his ancestral citadel towards the connection where the side door would open out to.

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"Stop!" Neo-Nemesis commanded.

"What the...?" O'Neill silently cursed. "What is it?" He snapped irritably.

"We're being followed....the aura is very familiar...but...I..."She mumbled to herself. Suddenly her eyes widened in realisation, as she spun on her heel and marched around the bend of the last corridor. "Sinel re'Turquoise, Blackmoon! Get your sorry behind out here now! She bellowed.

She heard her...guests start in shock as a small midnight blue haired boy crept out of the shadows. His eyes lowered in submission.

"Nani o shite imasu ka?" She snapped.

"Gomen nasai Neo-Nemesis-sama watashi...demo...."

"Iya! No, excuses Sinel-kun, I do not want to hear them. You are supposed to be in bed."

"Hai, Neo-Nemesis-sama."

"Demo... I can't send you there now. So you'll have to stay here with me while I find out where the others are!"

And with that she grabbed Sinels' hand and pulled him after her as she marched back down the corridor, with the humans following bemusedly.

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"Stop here!" Yuriko ordered, thrusting Amber behind her.

"What's wrong?" Hanako asked.
"I'm not sure... but I don't recognise the footsteps coming down the corridor and what with the power manifestations I don't want to take any chances."

"Agreed."

Yuriko smiled inwardly at the small girl, 'she may be young, but she sure knows how to stay calm'.

Quickly she knelt by the frightened Amberlite re'Turquoise, the girls innocent golden eyes were as wide as saucers and she was nervously biting her thumb.

"Amber-chan...?"She asked gently, the girl looked up meeting Yurikos' eyes with her own.

"Hai?" She whispered.

"Hold onto Hanako-san alright, and stay with her no matter what... alright?"

"Alright."

Nodding towards Hanako, Yuriko positioned herself in front of the younger girls, before they slowly began to creep down the corridor.

Then she saw who it was...

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"Neo-Nemesis-san!" Amber screamed in glee as she broke away from Hanakos' grasp and ran towards the senshi.

"Yuri-chan..." Neo-Nemesis smiled in recognition, before bending down and hugging the golden girl who was clamouring for attention.

"Now look what we have here..." Hana giggled, "a pair of blue and gold twins."

The giggles ended abruptly though when Colonel O'Neill spoke.

"You know each other?"

"Of course we do." Yuriko replied, sounding as though that was the strangest thing she had ever heard uttered in all the galaxy.

"Oh, gomen nasai, where are my manners?" Neo-Nemesis apologised, "Colonel O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Captain Carter, Teal'c. I would like you to meet; Mizuno Yuriko, Princess of the planet Mercury. Princess Amberlite re'Turquoise, Blackmoon, second princess of the Blackmoon clan and sinels' twin. And finally I would like to introduce Chiba Hanako..." Then with a wry grin added... "of Earth!"

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Haha. Took me long enough to write.

Chiba Hanako = She is no relation to Endymion/Mamoru. Her mother was the princess of Atlantis on Earth, while Endymion was the prince of another kingdom.

Chiba Hanako literally means Flower child of the Earth.

Mizuno Yuriko = Yes she is Ami's daughter. Her name means White Lilly of the waters. Or as I say Lilly of the water.

More notes,

Nani o shite imasu ka? means, 'what are you doing?'

Iya, means, no, but is a very forceful way of saying it.

Gomen nasai, means, very sorry.

Watashi, means, I.

Demo, means, But.

Shimatta! means, Damn it!

Oh and one more thing, in the prologue I mention Sailor Star, ignore that 'coz if she is in this fic it will be a lot later on, and so she was not present when the experiment took place. So the Sun and Moon cat Starlett was also not present.