The StarLit Scout



Proluge

A long while ago, farther than anyone can remember, there were two Kingdoms in a Time Period called the Silver Mellinum. The Moon Kingdom, and The Starlit Kingdom. Each Kingdom had a daughter. The Moon Kingdom, Princess Serena. The Starlit Kingdom, Princess Katrina. Both rarely were apart, and Princess Serena rarely was with out one of the Sailor Scouts with out her. But a terrible war issued, ending that happy time. Both Neo Queen Serenity and Queen Kanta, locked away the remaining Sailor Scouts, their Advisors, and each had their own dead daughters set to be reborn, in a mellinnia. This is where our story begins. For Katrina, is just beginning her journey.

End Prolouge



Present Day



*TRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR* "I'm awake!"Cries a sleep groggy voice. Sitting up, Katrina Junta groggilly. Running a slender hand through her long red and black dyed hair, she throws her legs over the side of her bed. This would be it. Her first day of School. Sort of, she had just moved here and was starting a new school day here. Fumbling on her nightstand, she picks up a pair of thickly smoked glasses. Her eyes had always botherd her, eventually flat giving out and making her legally blind. But somehow, the glasses that she had found, had made her vision better slightly. But under her mothers word, she promised to use the cane that was given to blinds. Sleepilly, she walked over to her closet, and pulled out a High School Uniform. Rolling her green eyes, she stripped herself of her PJ's. Slipping on the outfit, she donned a pair of white knee socks, and a pair of black flats. Running a comb through her knee length hair, she braided it and tyed it back with a blue scrunchie. Running down stairs the best she could, she kissed her mother good bye, grabbed her books and her lunch, tucked them into her satchel and dashed out the door. Walking down the sidewalk, she sighed. "Why did I have to move here? It's not like this is the best place in the world."She muttered. Flipping her braid over her shoulder, she felt it hit something. Or rather someone. "Ow!"Cried the voice. Whirling around, she faintly saw a blue haired girl tending to a blonde who was sprawled on her rear on the sidewalk. "Ohh! I'm sorry!"Kat cried. The blue haired girl looked up at her, and gasped. Kneeling down beside her, Kat asked, "Miss? Miss are you alright?". The blonde sat up and looked Kat straight in the face. "Listen. I'm really really sorry. I didn't mean to hit your or anything....". She broke off, confused. "Uhh, my names Katrina. What's yours?"She asked quickly. Afther the fallen had stood, she said, "My name's Serena Tuskino.". The blue haired girl said, "Amy Anderson.". Kat put out her hand, and she felt them shake it. "Judging by your uniform, I think you go to out school. Domino High. Right?"Amy asked. She nodded. "Could you show me the way? I just moved here and I don't know my way around yet." Katrina asked. Amy and Serena both nodded. Amy gently picked up Kat's fallen bag and said, "Serena, take her other hand so she won't fall.". Serena cocked her head slightly. "Why Amy?". Amy put a hand to her forehead. "I'm almost blind."Kat filled in. Quickly taking Kat's left hand, Kat slowly moved her cane around. It, even with the glasses, was it getting hard to see. Tapping along the ground, she apologized, "I'm sorry if I get you guys in trouble.". Amy laughed gently and put a hand on Kat's shoudler. "Don't worry. Miss H will clearly see out reason why we are so late.". Nodding, they reached up to the school, and made it to class.

Upon reaching the class room, the teacher stood there, ready to explode. "Serena! How many times must I keep you---" She cut herself short at the sight of Katrina. "Katrina Junta?"Miss H asks, checking the piece of paper on her desk suddenly. Upon hearing her name, Kat looks tward the voice. Amy walks foreward and whisperes into her teachers' ear, "she's blind. Serena and I helped her to school.". Miss H nodded. "Amy, please show Katrina to her desk.". Amy put Kat's bag down on an empty desk. "Class. We have jsut recieved a new student. This is Katrina Junta." Miss H says. Kat waved at bit. "Umm hi.". Amy walked foreward and gently took Kat by her wrist. At the touch, Kat stiffens, then relaxes as she realized it is Amy. Pulling her gently, she lets Kat poke her way around through the rows of desks, so she knows where hers is and then helps her to sit down. "My desk is behind yours, if you need any help, let me know."She says into her ear, and Kat nods.



After a few hours, the lunch bells ring through the entire school. Serena takes Kat to where she and the others eat outside by the cherry blossom trees. Lita looks up at the girl Serena is tugging behind her. "Hey Amy, who's that Serena's got?"She askes. Amy swallowesd a mouthfull of salad and said, "that is Katrina. She's going to eat with us for now. Just don't say anything about her eyesight. She's blind.". Lita and Mina both nod. Poking her way Serena helps her sit and Kat fumbles in her bag, not for her lunch, but an odd looking pointed device, a long narrow piece of plastic with rows of little squares, and heavy paper. Curious, the other girls watch. Kat begins to poke bumps into the paper at what seems like random. When she reaches the end of the first line, she moves the plastic strip down. Fianally Mina asks, "what are you doing?". Kat, not prepared for the interruption, jumps, and accidentaily stabs her hand with the pointed device. "Ouch!"She yelps. Shoving her bleeding finger into her mouth, she tries to locate where the mystery voice is. "Where are you?"She fianally asks. Mina reaches forward, and turns her head to face her. "I'm right here. My name is Mina Aino. Your name is Kat, right?"She asked. Katrina nods, unsure. "And I Lita Kino!"Comes another voice. "Let me see your hands."She says fianally. "What? What do you need my hands for?"Mina blurts. Amy looks up from a book, one about blinds. "She wants to memorise the way your hands feel, so when she hears you coming, when you hold your hand out, she'll know it's you. Quite frankly, I think this should be done for all four of us. Including Raye when we see her. What do you think Kat?"Amy asked. Kat nodded as she took her finger out of her mouth, and dried it off. "Hold out your hands."She repeated. Carefully, Mina held out her hands, and guided Kat's hands to them. Immediatly, Kat's small fingers began to trace the lines and parts of Mina's hands. Feeling how long her fingers were, the way her palms were shaped, the mounds on her hands. "Thank you." Kat said as Mina withdrew her hands. Kat repeated the same thing over again for all of the girls. "Now what were you doing before?"Mina asked. "I was writing.". Mina made an odd face. "But you were punching holes into the paper. That's not writing.". Kat giggled as she pulled for her bag. She pulled out a book with the same kind of paper, covered with the same bumps. "It's called Braille. It's the language of the Blind. I was writing."Kat expained. Lita ran the tips of her fingers over the paper and knitted her brows. "What ever floats your boat Kat.". The bell rang, signalling the end of lunch. Amy reached forward, pulled Katrina to her feet, and guided her back to class.



After school let out, Kat had left a few minuets earlier so she wouldn't be trampled. One problem though, she couldn't remember which way she had come. She walked aimlessly on the side walk, or what she felt was the sidewalk. Poking and tapping, she stopped suddenly. She heard water, she HATED water. She couldn't swim if her life depended on it. She heard other voices. "Would you lookit this? The little blind girl from school!". Kat whirled at the sound. But it seemed to be coming from all directions. There was more than one! "Just let me be, I've done nothing to you."She said angrily. She let out a yelp as her sense of balance was knocked off course. She was being picked up! "Please! Put me down! You don't understand! I can't---"her cry of alarm was cut off, they were trying to toss her over the bridge! She let out a scream as she held on with one hand. "HELP!"She cried. "I wonder if Blinds can swim?"Chorteled the same voice. Dread filling her chest, she felt her fingers be pried loose from the bridge. As she begins to fall, her voice echoes, distorting her hearing and judgement. "HELP!"She screams again. She hits the freezing deep water with a solid splash. Shoving her cane up, she struggles to find which way if up. Suddenly, someone grabs the top, and pulls her up. She vauely heard Serena's voice cry out, "Darien....It's Kat!". Shivering crazilly, she feels a thick jacket wrap around her, and she being brought out of the water. She beings to struggle instantly. "Don't worry. I won't hurt you."Comes a voice, it was comforting. When she gets closer, she heard familar voices. One hand grasping her cane, the other stretching out. "What is she doing?" Come the same voice, obviously this is Darien. "She's trying to find one of us."Comes Amy's voice. She feels someone take her freezing hand within their own. She let her fingers stray over it, feeling the fingers, the palm. It was Amy. Almost immedaitly, Kat throws her arms around the older's neck. "Kat, tell us what happened."Comes Serenas' voice, heavy with worry. "She lives at 18 Sakura Lane. We should help her get into dry clothes first."Lita says, reading Kat's address off of the bracelt on her wrist. She feels herself being picked up again, and she shiverd. Darien feels this, and wraps the jacket tighter around her. "But my bag...."Kat fianally voices. "You left it on your desk."Mina says, but then adds, "but I grabbed it before the bell rang. Katrina feels someone take her cane, and she can tell it's Lita, just by the sent of the perfune she was wearing. She feels someone else, someone unfamilar by her side, but ignores it. "My family is not home, the key is under the mat."Kat says to Mina.



She heard the 'click' of the lock and Kat knows she home. Just the feeling of it. "I'll bring her up to her room with the girls. Darien, put some hot water on."Comes Litas' voice. She feels her self being shifted gently. Up the stairs, to the left, second door to the right. She hears someone open it, and Lita sets a shivering Kat down on her bed. "If someone would shut the shades, I could take my glasses off and be more helpfull."She fianally says. She hears the 'whoosh' of the shaded being closed, and Kat reached up to take off the glasses. She reveals her emerald green eyes. When she does, her eyes sting for a moment, but her vision clears slightly, she is able to see all of the figures slightly. With a hand she says, "which one is Mina? I know who Serena and Amy are already." A pretty girl with long blonde hair and a read hair ribbon raised her hand. "Hi Kat!"She says cheerfully. "And that means your Lita."Kat says, turing to her. The older nods. Kat sees another girl. "And you are Raye. I heard Amy say something about you at lunch."She says. Raye nods. Serena emerges from Kat's closet, with a long blue skirt, and a white sweater. "How is this Kat?"She asks. "Bring it closer."She replied. Serena comes to her side, and Katrina fumbles for the hems of the skirt and shirt. "Okay. It's a blue skirt and white sweater. It's perfect.". All the other girls look awed. "How do you know that?"Mina asks. Katrina grins slightly. "On the inside of all my clothes, I've sewed little pieces of metal. Or rather almumium. And it's written in Braille what it is. On the inside of my skirt it says 'Blue ankle length pleated', and my sweater, I do it on the bottom inside. It says 'White hip sweater'. And so that way I know what I'm wearing."Kat explaines. Fumbling behind her changing screen, she strips herself of her wet clothes, and emerges warm and dry, and a clean pair of knee socks. "I think Darien says that the water is hot."She says. She fumbles for her cane, replaces the dark glasses, and bumps down the stairs. Awe struck at this little girl, younger than them all, could acomplish so much in such little time.



End Chapter One



A\N: This is my FIRST Sailor Moon story, and I know.....No Sailor Scouts were used, for gawds' sake, I didn't even use Luna, Rini, the Outers, or Artimus yet! But They took SM off the air a while ago, so if I got anything wrong, PLEASE tell me! Also, what is the real name of Serena's school and teacher? I kinda took the Domino High thing off Yu-Gi-Oh! But please, NO FLAMES!! I innocent!! I not know what I do! Tell me what you want and I'll try to put it in! I hope that I didn't make any of the characters to OOC!~Peace~Love~Happinees~And Cherry Cokes For All!~Kittie~