The Death Scout
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Chapter 1 – The New Fighter
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"Hi. My name's Serena. What's your name?"
"Hello, Serena. My name is Sakura." It was the first day of school at Juban High school. The first class of the year was just starting and the teacher was giving the students a few minutes to catch up on things and meet anyone they didn't know already.
"Are you new to this area?" Serena knew everyone except Sakura.
"Yeah. I'm from Chiba. My parents just moved here for work purposes, and there was no family I could stay with back home. We'll be here for only a year or so." Sakura, who was normally as outgoing as anyone could be, was being as kept to herself as possible.
"Cool and not cool. I bet you miss your friends." Serena was bound and determined to make this new girl her friend.
"Yeah. We write back and forth, but it's not the same." Sakura went back to what she had been working on before Serena interrupted her.
"Do you want to hang out with me and my friends?" Serena offered.
"Not today. I have to tell my parents where I am, or, in other words, I have to go straight home. And, I have to finish unpacking some of my things." Sakura got herself out of what she knew would be an embarrassing afternoon, "Maybe tomorrow?"
"Sure." Serena was bummed about the new girl not being able to make it.
"What's got you so bummed?" Another girl walked up.
"Oh, hi, Amy. Sakura can't hang out with us today." Serena answered her blue-haired friend.
"Who is Sakura?" Amy hadn't met Sakura yet.
"This is…" Serena stopped mid-sentence when she realized that Sakura had disappeared, "Where did she go?"
"Where did who go?" A brown-haired boy had followed Amy.
"Sakura. She was just here a minute ago." Serena twirled one of her blond pigtails around her finger.
"Maybe you scared her off." The boy suggested, "With that ugly face of yours." The boy then took off with Serena on his tail yelling after him.
"Loopy." A girl with hair matching the color of the boy's stood next to Amy.
"Molly, have you met anyone by the name Sakura?" Amy asked her friend.
"If that new girl is Sakura, no one's going to be able to meet her." Molly said, pointing to a semi-short, brown-black haired girl standing against the back wall, just watching everyone.
"Why do you say that?" Amy looked inquisitively at Molly.
"Because she disappears every time she's approached." The boy ran by with Serena still on his tail.
"Get back here, MELVIN!" Serena was following close behind.
"If that's so, how did Serena talk to her at all?" Amy was thinking of trying to approach the 'unapproachable' girl.
"Probably came up from behind and started talking before she could get away. Knowing Serena, that's what happened." A tall brown-haired girl answered for Molly.
"Oh, hi Lita." Molly and Amy said at the same time.
"O.K., class. Time to take your seats again," the teacher announced the end of 'free time' and added, eyeing Melvin and Serena, "Now!"
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That day, at lunch, Serena looked everywhere for Sakura, but whenever she would see her, Sakura would disappear into the crowd.
"You still bummed about that new girl?" Lita guessed the reason for her friend's long face.
"Yeah. I was going to invite her to sit with us for lunch today, but I couldn't get near her. Then, she just vanished, I couldn't find or even see her." The normally cheerful Serena sat down across from Molly, next to Amy.
"Told you so. I said she was unapproachable this morning." Melvin sat down next to Molly.
"Where do you think she took off to?" Amy looked around to see if she could see the new girl anywhere.
"Why does everyone want to know where this new girl is?" Melvin was getting a plan started on how he was going to talk to Sakura.
"I don't really care." Lita finished her sandwich, "If she wants to talk to anyone, she should be left to decide when."
"Since when have you cared about anyone other than your friends and yourself?" Melvin said sarcastically.
Before Lita could respond, the matching watches that Lita, Amy, and Serena all shared went off with a small, quick beep. Serena pushed a button and whispered, "Just a sec." Then announced, "You two can turn your alarms off and I'll be right back." Serena walked off toward the bathrooms.
Once in the girls bathroom, Serena opened the watch up to see Sailor Mars looking as if her attack had been turned on her. "Good afternoon. Sailor Scout hotline, can I be of any service?" Serena answered in her best operator voice.
"Enough with the jokes! I need your help, now!" Sailor Mars yelled over the watch.
"Where are you?" Serena questioned.
"In front of the temple!" Sailor Mars closed the connection.
Serena ran back to the others and said in a hushed tone, "Mars needs back-up, now!"
"We'll be right back, Molly." Amy sighed.
"Just stay alive, all of you." Molly smiled, knowing what was going on.
"Break your neck, Serena. Literally." Melvin teased.
"Go jump off a cliff, Melvin." Serena shot back over her shoulder.
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"Mars Flame Sniper!" An arrow of fire sped toward the creature.
"Missed me! Missed me! Now you have to kiss THIS!" An egg-shaped metal ball sped through the air to explode half way between the two and let Mars' attack lose on her.
'The others better hurry up!' Mars thought to herself while dodging the attack.
"Poor, poor, fire-child, have you any fire? No, no. No, no, cause I've got it all!" The monster laughed, then used all of Sailor Mars' attacks on her.
"Rhymes aren't meant to be used to steal attacks! They're meant to cheer up little kids! So, on behalf of the Moon, I will punish you!" Sailor Moon and two of the other Sailor Scouts appeared in the opening.
"Oh, my! I'm soooo afraid!" The monster said sarcastically, "Mother Goose is not afraid of anyone!"
"(Moon's Eternal Attack)!" The attack hit it's intended target, but, after the lights faded, Mother Goose was still there.
"What?!" Everyone exclaimed all at once.
"What the…" There was someone sitting up in a tree, just watching everyone. "Looks like their going to need some help!"
"Mercury, what's going on?!" Sailor Moon was dodging attacks from the monster, who was now using all the attacks that Sailor Mars and Sailor Moon had ever used.
"She absorbs the attacks and, from the attack, steals all your attack power. Try attacking again!" Sailor Mercury directed Sailor Moon.
Sailor Moon dodged her Moon Scepter Attack and tried to attack again, but failed. "Mercury!!" Sailor Moon yelled, panicking.
All of a sudden, a black sphere of pure energy pierced Mother Goose's back and then, she exploded.
"What's going on?!" Sailor Moon whined.
"The … monster's … gone!" Sailor Jupiter stated the obvious.
"But why?!" Sailor Moon went on.
"Because you must live." A voice came from the trees, "You must live so that this planet may live. We will meet again, chatterbox."
The scouts heard their new friend take off through the tops of the trees.
"Ohmygod! We have to get back to class, now! We have five minutes!" Sailor Mercury's eyes popped out of her head. The three girls raced off toward school.
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