Mini Moon and the Zodiacs
By: Lovely girl 10
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the story and my villains.
Chapter 3- Sailor Quartet
Mini Moon groans as she stands up to rub her head and her body after that horrible fall she got. "Ow! My head..." She couldn't have imagined that the perpetrator who got her into this mess was Sailor Jupiter of all the scouts. But as she thought about it, she wondered if Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask got possessed by the Zodiacs then the rest of the scouts fell victim to the possession as well. She knows that Jupiter would never want to hurt her, neither would the other scouts.
Ceres' voice calls out to her from behind, "Rini! There you are!" Mini Moon turns to see the Quartet coming up to her on the street.
"We got so worried when you left without us Rini!" Pallas said as she quickly runs to embrace the girl in relief.
"Why did you run off to the temple girl? You know that the Sailor Scouts can take care of that mission." Juno narrows her eyes in suspicion as she looks from Mini Moon to the temple and back again.
"Juno! The Sailor Scouts needed my help! The Zodiacs got to them and they need rescuing." Mini Moon snaps in annoyance. "I thought I could handle them myself but I just don't have enough manpower to go up against them."
"What? The Sailor Scouts are held hostage by the Zodiac spirits?" Vesta blinks her eyes in surprise and cups her hands over her cheeks.
"Um.. more like possessed Vesta." Mini Moon explains. "The symbols from the Sailor Scouts have been taken over by the Zodiacs and I bumped into three of them before I was knocked outside back at the front door here."
"Oh no! That is not good at all!" Ceres said as she walks over to the door. "Well girls we should get ourselves back in the temple and help get the Scouts back one by one." Ceres raises up her yellow ball as she says out loud. "Asteroid Ceres Power Makeup!"
Pallas joins in saying, "Asteroid Pallas Power Makeup!"
Next was Juno, "Asteroid Juno Power Makeup!"
Finally Vesta finished, "Asteroid Vesta Power Makeup!"
Mini Moon watches in amazement at the transformation sequences of her friends. First she watches Ceres moving around in three circles with her yellow ball before placing it on her chest, a bow pops up from the ball like a flower bud blooming at the rays of the sun. After the bow was complete, a shower of petals cascades down the rest of Ceres' body giving her the Sailor Suit and the accessories that Mini Moon is familiar with from the rest of the Scouts. Ceres' colors were pink on her skirt, collar, and on the rims of her boots. There was some star shaped symbols on the bow and on the boots as well. The bow looked to be a light purple color. Once her transformation is done, Ceres poses with her left arm in the air and crosses her right arm to her heart as if she was ready to bring out her sickle to strike.
Next she watches Pallas, seeing that her transformation sequence has called upon a snowstorm. Mini Moon found this odd at first but sees that Pallas is not affected by the cold. All that is shown is the blue ball crystalizes on top of the girl and encases her in a ice statue before shattering completely. Her Sailor Suit became a icy blue color with a dark blue bow on her top. Much like Ceres, Pallas had star shapes on her boots and her bow. Sailor Pallas posed with her arms raised in the air as if cheering for her favorite team to win. It reminded Mini Moon of Sailor Mercury's pose, but Pallas arms were raised up.
Juno had the grace of a peacock as her green ball bounces to touch her back, transforming into a set of peacock feathers that rose up toward the sky and then falls down to cover her up for a few seconds. The feathers vanished revealing the sailor suit with green stars on the edge of her boots and on her brown bow. Her clothing colors almost looked identical to Sailor Jupiter's only more of a jade color. Her brown bow on her chest stood out against the rest of her suit. She ended her pose with stomping her feet into the ground and opening her arms out as if they were wings, making the nearby birds caw at her arrival.
Vesta had fire going around her much like how Sailor Mars does whenever she transforms, but while Mars had fire that blazes like the sun, Vesta on the other hand has fire oozing onto her body like lava. Her red ball hovers for a moment on top of her head and then it bursts, showering the girl in hot oozing lava. Mini Moon just about looked away for she feared her friend was going to get hurt, but amazingly she wasn't harmed. The lava instead gave her the Sailor Suit showing the bright red colors and a black bow on her chest. Like her sisters, Vesta had red star shapes on her bow and on her boots. She ended her pose by crossing her right leg over her left and raises her arms up in the air like she is holding the world underneath her fingertips.
Once they were finished transforming, the Sailor Quartet called out each of their names one by one. "Sailor Ceres! Sailor Pallas! Sailor Juno! Sailor Vesta! In the name of the Asteroids, we will punish you!"
Mini Moon didn't know what to say as she stares at the new looks on the girls. Sailor Ceres decides to break the ice as she said, "What do you think of our new looks Rini?"
"I-I'm more surprised that you didn't copy the inner Sailor Scouts' transformations." Mini Moon admits, acting a little shy at the thought.
"Oh yes, that..." Sailor Juno said sarcastically while narrowing her eyes in a tease. "Well, we first thought about doing those when we discovered our planet powers, but we wanted to make ours more unique, something a little bit different from the way our mentors did. So I went with my look on the peacock. Vesta did hers with lava. Pallas with ice. And Ceres with the flowers."
"It took me and Pallas a while to perfect our lava and ice tricks." Sailor Vesta said as she flips her bangs a bit. "They were a bit tricky to perfect our timing to break away from to get our suits."
"We will get use to it in time. Not to worry!" Sailor Pallas said smiling as she flexes her arms in the air.
"So may I ask what powers do you have from your transformations?" Mini Moon asks curiously.
"Oh! You remember that I used to control my plant Lemures to find the golden mirror?" Ceres points out. "I can still do many kinds of attacks with plants. Although I still have yet to perfect them when I am not around my sisters. I do occasionally end up getting trapped inside of the plants at times when I am trying to attack an enemy."
"Sailor Pallas still likes to battle against multiple people, but Pallas has learned some new tricks with ice magic." Pallas said, making Mini Moon confused by what she said.
"Uh, Pallas, are you referring to yourself in third-person?" Mini Moon questions, earning a whispered answer from Ceres that she does, but the sisters are trying to get her to speak in first-person.
"As we were saying," Juno interrupts the group, bringing them back to the point of the conversation. "I discovered with my Sailor powers that I can communicate with the animals in nature. Though I think it is rather a useless ability to have and I wanted to use Ceres' plant powers." She rolls her eyes as she makes Ceres look at her in a glare.
"Just be grateful that you have something as useful as communicating with animals Juno!" Ceres argues in her aristocratic tone. "You can make the animals listen to you and they can give you advice on where to find your way back home if you get lost in the woods."
"While my mentor has control over fire, she can't handle lava like I can." Vesta replies, demonstrating for Mini Moon with her hand that she can touch lava without wincing in pain. Mini Moon wasn't sure whether she should risk touching the lava Vesta saved from her transformation sequence or not.
Mini Moon sighs in relief, feeling like she is ready to take on anything with the girls by her side. "Okay girls, lets head on inside and see what we can find out on the Zodiacs and how to get them out of the Sailor Scouts." With this in mind, the Future Sailor Scouts open the doors and head inside of the temple. Briefly in her mind Mini Moon wonders if the Sailor Quartet is the future inner Scouts for her, then who would be the future outer scouts for her. It still is pretty far away to plan it out in Crystal Tokyo, but when she gets home she will have to make a plan.
Back inside of the temple, Mini Moon was watching the open windows like a hawk, thinking that Sailor Jupiter was going to show up again at any moment to shoot her. However Vesta calls to the girls to check out the Zodiac clock in the first floor. "Of all the..." Vesta huffs in annoyance as she knocks on the clock a bit to see if it was busted or something. "I think I recognize this exact design from in Crystal Tokyo."
"You have seen this clock before Vesta?" Mini Moon asks curiously.
Vesta nods her head. "There are bits and pieces I remember of it, but it is kind of hard to remember what exactly I know about it from before. It is said that the clock moves depending on the month or the accumulated time of the day when the Zodiacs would come out from their rooms and roam the building or put them into a deep sleep. For example if the month right now is July then one of the Zodiacs is free to move, but if it changes to November then the Zodiac goes back to their room and wait while the next Zodiac comes out."
"But the one thing I want to know is this..." Mini Moon asks. "How can a Zodiac possess someone? And how do we exorcise them out of the possession?"
"We don't know how to exorcise spirits. That's not our specialty at the moment. But I do have a feeling that something was touched in order to wake up the Zodiacs in the Sailor Scouts' bodies." Ceres said, trying to think up a plan of action. "If only we had psychic abilities instead of flowers, ice, thunder and lava for our abilities." She moaned over the difficult situation at hand.
"Well, let's see what we have to contend with right now." Juno leans over the clock and sees the glowing Zodiac marks on the sides.
Pallas puts her hand on the clock hand to see if she can turn it to some other symbol, but can't budge it from where it stands. "I think the clock is broken girls. Either that or one of the Zodiacs has made it impossible to move the clock to where we want it to go."
"What do you propose we do in the meantime?" Mini Moon asks looking right and left to make sure that they are not watched.
"How about we go find a library in the temple?" Ceres suggests as she points to the stairs. "Mini Moon do you remember if you saw a library around here?"
"If I had to guess it would be somewhere at the top of the temple. I didn't look up there when I spotted Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask getting possessed. I ran the other way." Mini Moon answers honestly.
"Well, we are here with you now Mini Moon, so all five of us shall stick together and get through whatever comes our way. I personally hope that we can free my future mentor from Aries, if I have it right from which Zodiac had a ruling planet according to the Zodiac list." Vesta said as she proceeds to lead the way upstairs with the girls following behind.
"Pallas has a feeling that Aries is going to be tougher than we think. Pallas really wants to go find her future mentor and free her." Pallas said, getting back into her old habit of talking in third person.
"I really think we should go save my future mentor and free her from whoever is possessing her." Ceres replies to her sisters calmly. "That is if we can find her first."
"Take it easy on looking at the windows Mini Moon," Juno said, trying to comfort her friend. "You look like you are expecting a ghost to come out from the dark."
"Your future mentor is out there Juno and I don't know when she and the Zodiac possessing her will show up again..." Mini Moon takes a breath to calm herself. "She almost killed me before I escaped to meet up with you."
"For now lets focus on getting some information about the Zodiacs and then we will deal with whoever we can find in the temple." Juno reassures by patting Mini Moon's shoulder. Mini Moon squeezes her hand to get some reassurance.
Up, up they went on the stairs to the top of the temple where they saw the image of a water pitcher on a door that led to the library. The girls turn the door open and walk right in...
A/N: I hope your ready for some eventful fights between Mini Moon and the Zodiacs. Let me know if you are enjoying the story so far.
