Chapter One: The Fall of a Kingdom, the Rise of a Warrior
The kingdom was under siege, the Palace soon to be engulfed in flames. The Senshi, all defeated against the powerful strength of the invading army, were sent into the sky with the fallen star crossed Prince and Princess by the beaten Queen who now used her entire power to send them to safety on Earth. And with all her self to protect the important few, the Queen fell. All that was now left to protect the Moon which had already fallen, was the small military academy just outside the palace walls where new potential senshi had been training, the supposed future security of their kingdom.
"Mai! Get your ass over here!" A girl student shouted angrily as she pressed her back against a wall, grasping her sword within her hands. Mai, an averaged height girl with short spiked gray hair and blue eyes, ran to her side with her own samurai blade within her grasp.
"What the hell is going on?!" Mai shouted, holding on tighter to her sword handle. An explosion erupted beside of large facility and shook the walls and floor. Debris fell from the ceiling and crashed into the flooring around them, but they paid no mind, they had more important things to deal with.
"The Senshi, Princess, Queen, everything is gone! Their army is coming after us now!" the girl cried out as her composure cracked into pieces. Mai's eyes opened widely at the news, all gone? Even Jupiter, the Senshi who had trained her for years now, was gone? How? They were supposed to be the strongest, the undefeatable. Or at least they were in their eyes, but now- now things were different.
Around from the corner, a large group of men of grey armor leaped out and swung their swords, aiming right for their heads. The girl who had panicked previously lost her sword when an opposing soldier thrashed in out from her grasp, and another soldier took this opportunity to slice her across the middle, leaving a trail of blood crossing across the small hallway.
"Tracy!" Mai cried out as she deflected a powerful strike from a soldier's blade. Anger arose from inside of her from the death of the girl and gave her enough strength to gracefully cut away through the small mass of soldiers attacking from all angles. She had never been so tired in her entire life, her arms felt as if they could fall off if lifted another time.
Mai fell to a knee, panting and holding her sword further on in front of her. Blood from the soldiers stained the walls and her blade. She had never killed this many men before in her life, and it didn't upset her. They deserved their deaths, they destroyed her world. She rose again, catching her breathe, and began running further down the hall to help aid the others who were also struggling to keep alive.
Another explosion erupted, this time in the room beside her as she ran, throwing her against the opposite wall with such a force that it knocked her through the tiling and into a storage room.
Pain rang loudly all throughout her body and ached her bones and muscles. She laid across the flooring with her sword just inched from her fingertips, and not caring. She groaned in agony as she attempted to lift herself from the ground, but no success. She managed a smile across her face, she knew this would be her grave, she knew she could now die. She couldn't even bare lifting herself off the ground, let alone her sword to fight. She tilted her head to the side to examine the hole where she had been thrown through; it had been completely enclosed with the ruble from the explosion, and shut out all light from peeking into the room. With a last sigh of desperation, she closed her eyes to fall into a deep, almost death-like sleep.
It must've been hours later when Mai heard a voice speaking to her, "Wake up! Wake up! You're not allowed to die here." She opened her eyes. No one was there speaking to her, there was only herself inside the storage room. She attempted to move; she still ached but accepted it to lift herself from the ground. She painfully grasped onto her bloody sword and limped towards the jammed door.
"Open.Open god Damnit!" she shouted angrily as she attempted to open the door by pressing the 'open' button against the wall. 'Screw it' she thought as she built strength up within her to ram her shoulder powerfully against the door to bust it violently open. It was sent flying across the hall to crash against the wall and fall onto the ground. When she stepped out into the hallway, she found that the air was heavy and dark. A fog-like darkness hovered in the hall, making it difficult to see. She ignored her obstacles and began stepping over the various dead bodies and parts to find her way out from the maze of an academy and into the open air.
Outside wasn't any better than inside the academy. The air was heavy and musky, making it even more of a struggle to breath as well as see. She walked, rather limped, past the battleground of the kingdom dragging her sword lazily behind her. She observed in utter awe at the large amount of casualties that populated the field, this countless amounts of death stretched as far as the palace steps themselves.
"Hello?!" She cried out in pain, desiring deeply to hear a cry from any survivors like herself who had made it past the attack. She listened- no one called back. Only silence. "HELLO?!" she cried out again, tears rolled down from her eyes. She didn't understand why this had happened, why so many people which she had only seen alive a few hours previous, had now been dead; coldly killed by outside forces who desired god knows what.
Mai looked up from the carnage and stopped dead, her eyes became empty and dead as she looked upon the sight she had just discovered. Queen Serenity, still beautiful as ever, lay dead on top of a broken pillar from the palace. Even as she was dead, it only seemed as if she had been in a deep sleep or been in a state of unconsciousness, but Mai knew better. She walked, almost zombie-like, to the Queen's side and fell to her knees.
"Serenity." her voice quivered as she whispered quietly. She couldn't control the tears from falling from her eyes and only bowed her head in distress and hopelessness. She buried her face into her hands and wept so loudly that it echoed through the silence of the bloody fields. Soon however, the sadness and depression that she felt in her heart soon turned to hatred and loathing. All she could think of at the moment was revenge on whoever had caused the countless death and destruction she had just witnessed. She began to tremble, she couldn't control the anger, she couldn't control the pain-
Mai tightly clenched her fists and threw her head back violently to let out a loud, anguished cry into the night's sky. The cry rang throughout the silence and echoed off the walls of the palace and buildings.
As she cried, a bright light immersed from inside her and lit up the sky, blinding the stars themselves. Mai rose her fist into the air and threw it down with such a force that the ground cracked underneath its pressure. As the light slowly disappeared from around her, it revealed Mai to have now been wearing a coal-black Senshi fuku with blood-red bows on her chest and lower back. On her legs, she wore long black boots that ran up to her mid-thigh. A new Senshi had been born, she was no longer a mere student, she had now graduated.
Mai sadly stood from beside Queen Serenity's side and walked lazily towards where her sword laid across the ground, stained with blood. She paused at the base of her sword handle and knelt down to grasp loosely onto the handle. She stood again from the ground and stared at the handle of the sword and tightly grasped onto it. As she looked up into the night's sky, the light reflected off from the bloodied blade revealed her eyes to no longer be the bright blue that it had been before; but a dark, blood red.
The kingdom was under siege, the Palace soon to be engulfed in flames. The Senshi, all defeated against the powerful strength of the invading army, were sent into the sky with the fallen star crossed Prince and Princess by the beaten Queen who now used her entire power to send them to safety on Earth. And with all her self to protect the important few, the Queen fell. All that was now left to protect the Moon which had already fallen, was the small military academy just outside the palace walls where new potential senshi had been training, the supposed future security of their kingdom.
"Mai! Get your ass over here!" A girl student shouted angrily as she pressed her back against a wall, grasping her sword within her hands. Mai, an averaged height girl with short spiked gray hair and blue eyes, ran to her side with her own samurai blade within her grasp.
"What the hell is going on?!" Mai shouted, holding on tighter to her sword handle. An explosion erupted beside of large facility and shook the walls and floor. Debris fell from the ceiling and crashed into the flooring around them, but they paid no mind, they had more important things to deal with.
"The Senshi, Princess, Queen, everything is gone! Their army is coming after us now!" the girl cried out as her composure cracked into pieces. Mai's eyes opened widely at the news, all gone? Even Jupiter, the Senshi who had trained her for years now, was gone? How? They were supposed to be the strongest, the undefeatable. Or at least they were in their eyes, but now- now things were different.
Around from the corner, a large group of men of grey armor leaped out and swung their swords, aiming right for their heads. The girl who had panicked previously lost her sword when an opposing soldier thrashed in out from her grasp, and another soldier took this opportunity to slice her across the middle, leaving a trail of blood crossing across the small hallway.
"Tracy!" Mai cried out as she deflected a powerful strike from a soldier's blade. Anger arose from inside of her from the death of the girl and gave her enough strength to gracefully cut away through the small mass of soldiers attacking from all angles. She had never been so tired in her entire life, her arms felt as if they could fall off if lifted another time.
Mai fell to a knee, panting and holding her sword further on in front of her. Blood from the soldiers stained the walls and her blade. She had never killed this many men before in her life, and it didn't upset her. They deserved their deaths, they destroyed her world. She rose again, catching her breathe, and began running further down the hall to help aid the others who were also struggling to keep alive.
Another explosion erupted, this time in the room beside her as she ran, throwing her against the opposite wall with such a force that it knocked her through the tiling and into a storage room.
Pain rang loudly all throughout her body and ached her bones and muscles. She laid across the flooring with her sword just inched from her fingertips, and not caring. She groaned in agony as she attempted to lift herself from the ground, but no success. She managed a smile across her face, she knew this would be her grave, she knew she could now die. She couldn't even bare lifting herself off the ground, let alone her sword to fight. She tilted her head to the side to examine the hole where she had been thrown through; it had been completely enclosed with the ruble from the explosion, and shut out all light from peeking into the room. With a last sigh of desperation, she closed her eyes to fall into a deep, almost death-like sleep.
It must've been hours later when Mai heard a voice speaking to her, "Wake up! Wake up! You're not allowed to die here." She opened her eyes. No one was there speaking to her, there was only herself inside the storage room. She attempted to move; she still ached but accepted it to lift herself from the ground. She painfully grasped onto her bloody sword and limped towards the jammed door.
"Open.Open god Damnit!" she shouted angrily as she attempted to open the door by pressing the 'open' button against the wall. 'Screw it' she thought as she built strength up within her to ram her shoulder powerfully against the door to bust it violently open. It was sent flying across the hall to crash against the wall and fall onto the ground. When she stepped out into the hallway, she found that the air was heavy and dark. A fog-like darkness hovered in the hall, making it difficult to see. She ignored her obstacles and began stepping over the various dead bodies and parts to find her way out from the maze of an academy and into the open air.
Outside wasn't any better than inside the academy. The air was heavy and musky, making it even more of a struggle to breath as well as see. She walked, rather limped, past the battleground of the kingdom dragging her sword lazily behind her. She observed in utter awe at the large amount of casualties that populated the field, this countless amounts of death stretched as far as the palace steps themselves.
"Hello?!" She cried out in pain, desiring deeply to hear a cry from any survivors like herself who had made it past the attack. She listened- no one called back. Only silence. "HELLO?!" she cried out again, tears rolled down from her eyes. She didn't understand why this had happened, why so many people which she had only seen alive a few hours previous, had now been dead; coldly killed by outside forces who desired god knows what.
Mai looked up from the carnage and stopped dead, her eyes became empty and dead as she looked upon the sight she had just discovered. Queen Serenity, still beautiful as ever, lay dead on top of a broken pillar from the palace. Even as she was dead, it only seemed as if she had been in a deep sleep or been in a state of unconsciousness, but Mai knew better. She walked, almost zombie-like, to the Queen's side and fell to her knees.
"Serenity." her voice quivered as she whispered quietly. She couldn't control the tears from falling from her eyes and only bowed her head in distress and hopelessness. She buried her face into her hands and wept so loudly that it echoed through the silence of the bloody fields. Soon however, the sadness and depression that she felt in her heart soon turned to hatred and loathing. All she could think of at the moment was revenge on whoever had caused the countless death and destruction she had just witnessed. She began to tremble, she couldn't control the anger, she couldn't control the pain-
Mai tightly clenched her fists and threw her head back violently to let out a loud, anguished cry into the night's sky. The cry rang throughout the silence and echoed off the walls of the palace and buildings.
As she cried, a bright light immersed from inside her and lit up the sky, blinding the stars themselves. Mai rose her fist into the air and threw it down with such a force that the ground cracked underneath its pressure. As the light slowly disappeared from around her, it revealed Mai to have now been wearing a coal-black Senshi fuku with blood-red bows on her chest and lower back. On her legs, she wore long black boots that ran up to her mid-thigh. A new Senshi had been born, she was no longer a mere student, she had now graduated.
Mai sadly stood from beside Queen Serenity's side and walked lazily towards where her sword laid across the ground, stained with blood. She paused at the base of her sword handle and knelt down to grasp loosely onto the handle. She stood again from the ground and stared at the handle of the sword and tightly grasped onto it. As she looked up into the night's sky, the light reflected off from the bloodied blade revealed her eyes to no longer be the bright blue that it had been before; but a dark, blood red.
