Part 4: Revelations
"Welcome back" the blonde said to the tall dark haired woman.
"Thank you" she replied, looking at the pair that had waited for her.
"What did you find out?" the other one asked her.
"It is as we feared. Things on earth are getting worse. What has been happening here while I was away?"
"We have allies here now. However, they are not very strong yet, and have others that still have to join them. According to the prophecy, one other must join them before she can be found."
"The enemy attacked a few times when the first ones were awakened, but they haven't attacked in about a week." The blonde added to the Virgan report.
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Misu took a deep breath before approaching her friend. She hadn't had the courage to stop by Aiko's house over the week break. Luckily for them there had been no more attacks since they found Mars.
"Aiko-chan" Misu said softly to her friend as she took her seat at the desk next to her. She hoped the use of Japanese would cheer Aiko up.
"Konichiwa Misu-chan" Aiko smiled back at her.
"Are you feeling ok?"
"I'm fine, sorry I over-reacted the other day."
"Mornin Aiko" Nariko waved as she breezed by to take her seat in the back.
Misu's eyes widened and she waited until Nariko was out of range before whispering, "You're friends with Nariko?"
"Ya, why?" Aiko looked genuinely confused.
"I'm impressed. She can be violent, and I think I'm the only one to ever talk to her."
"She's nice to me. She saved me from getting hit by a bus the other day" Aiko sweat-dropped remembering her lack of attention.
"We get along all right, I help her with her homework, and she keeps the bullies away" Misu winked.
"Want to go to the palace after school, we haven't been in awhile."
"Sure, I'll walk over with you."
Just then the teacher came in and started lessons, ending further conversation between the two teens.
'I'm glad Mom has plans tonight' Misu thought as she watched the teacher. 'She just had to take time off on my break so I couldn't find out about my birth mother.' Misu sighed thinking about the lost opportunity.
A clacking sound of a dropped dry-erase marker from the front of the room brought Misu back to the present. Everyone was staring at her, including a very upset teacher.
"Hall now Minerva! Everyone pays attention in my class."
Misu shuffled out into the hall, face-faulting the whole way.
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"Ignore Virgo, attack earth" Morrisa muttered, echoing Kali's instructions to her. "Screw that. I want some of the energy on Virgo, Earth is almost dead. Kali is so busy with Earth she won't notice a Yoma on Virgo. Besides, should get those guardians out of the way before the get any stronger."
Morrisa chuckled as she thought of a plan. (And yes she wins stupid villain of the year award)
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Aiko sighed as she walked to the palace along. Since Misu had detention she would meet Aiko there.
A scream form down the street made Aiko's heart skip. 'Must be a yoma. I feel something, and that scream sounds familiar.' Aiko ducked into an alley and Venus ran towards the source of the scream.
"VENUS ROLLING HEART VIBRATION!" hit the side of the Yoma causing it to back away from its current victim. She jumped over to the girl to check on her when she was caught off guard by an energy blast from the yoma.
'Damn, my attack should have stopped it, or at least stunned it.' Venus stood up to face the monster.
"VENUS…." She screamed as another blast hit her before she could finish the attack, and ended up on the ground. 'Damn this thing is more powerful then normal.'
Venus winced because of the pain as she stood up, leaning on a nearby building. The Yoma looked at her with an evil glee as it powered up for another attack. Venus swore she could her evil laughter from in area, and it almost sounded like "goodbye guardian"
"FLOWER HURRICANE!" a green blast of energy with what looked like pink flower petals hit the yoma. It snarled as it faced the newcomer; moving slightly slower then it had been thanks to the attacks it took.
"JUPITER COCUNUT CYCLONE" sent the yoma into a wall, cracking the cement. Jupiter stared at it before jumping down from her perch, the kanji for 'protection' glittering on her bow-gem as she landed.
"You ok?" she asked Venus while keeping and eye on yoma making its way up.
"Ya, I think, thanks."
"MARS SNAKE FIRE!"
"SNOW ILLUSION!"
The yoma screamed as it disintegrated, the two opposing attacks were too much for it after the previous ones.
"Sorry were late" Mercury said running over to Venus.
"Looks like everything is set here. I'm Guardian Jupiter, by the way" were her words as she departed.
"I still sense evil around here" Mars glanced around as she spoke.
"You haven't heard the last of me, frail Guardians," Morrisa growled from the shadows just loud enough for them to hear before disappearing.
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"This feels so much better" Aiko remarked as she sipped some ice tea. Ardianna and Misu had helped her back to the temple and made her comfortable on Ardianna's bed. She flashed the "V" sign as she felt her energy retuning.
Nokomis landed on the bed next to Aiko after coming in the window. Ardianna and Misu gave her a detailed description of the previous events. When they finished the cat had about as much information as a bystander would have.
"I felt so powerless" Aiko moaned after hearing the tale again.
"Well did you make sure you had a good hit before ignoring the yoma?" Nokomis asked.
"Gomen nasi Nokomis" Aiko murmured.
"It seams to me to be more a lack of training then power. Never turn your back on an undefeated enemy Aiko, and make sure your attacks are on target. A powerful off target attack is not as good as a weaker on target one." Nokomis tried to soften the blow somewhat, but not too much. This was an important lesson, and her charge was lucky to be alive, especially after such strong a yoma.
"I have to get going. I want to run some programs on my laptop while my mom is still at work, and I don't know how long it will take." Misu looked at her friends as she spoke. "As long as Aiko is feeling better"
"I'm fine" Aiko protested.
"My Grandfather is on a pilgrimage for the next week or so. Why don't you both stay overnight tonight? Aiko can rest up without her family's questioning, and Misu, you can run programs all night if you have to."
"What about clothing? Neither Aiko or myself have anything to wear to school tomorrow." Misu worried.
"Why don't you stop by yours and Aiko's to get something?" Ardianna suggested.
"My Grandmother would wonder why someone else was picking up stuff for me." Aiko added.
"You are about my size, Aiko, so I can pick out something from home for you when I get something for me."
"Sounds good" Aiko said.
Misu was back from her house soon enough with cloths for both her and Aiko. She had even brought pajamas for the other girl. She started up her laptop and took out her Mercury computer. After she had the right program running on the laptop, she used the Mercury computer to make the program check databases that were supposed to be impenetrable from the outside.
"I guess that network security is no match for the magical power of my Mercury computer" She joked, drawing smiles from both her friends.
"What are you breaking into?" Aiko asked, having not been around when Misu told Ardianna about being adopted.
"Misu is adopted." Ardianna started, then quickly continued seeing the confused look on Aiko's face. "Which means that her birthparents could be dead. Think about it, both you and I live with our Grandparents after the death of a parent."
"But I thought it was your father that died" Aiko was starting to understand, but not quite.
"He died protecting her mother" Misu took over. "Your mother died in mysterious circumstances, Ardianna's father was killed protecting her mother, and who knows what happened to my birth mother."
"Then maybe the enemy can sense our power," Aiko finished starting to understand. "The first night here, Sailor Venus came to me and told me that I was descended from her. But why did they never go after us?"
"Maybe our power was hidden before we awakened" Misu surmised. "If you think about it, your mothers were older, so maybe their power was stronger and not hidden as easily. Especially if they didn't know they were guardians, they might not be able to try to hide it."
"The line of power is probably maternal" Ardianna continued. "That why they were after mother's and not fathers."
"This makes way to much sense." Aiko spoke up. "If the enemy is the one that killed my mother, they better prepare to be destroyed." Aiko stood up with an angry look on her face as if to emphasize her point. The gem on her necklace started to glow slightly as she clenched her fists in rage.
"Calm down Aiko, there is nothing we can do at the moment except find the truth." Misu put a hand on her shoulder, and the two sat down next to each other.
Just then the laptop beeped, signaling the completion of the program. Misu picked it up and read the screen, looking more surprised as she looked at it longer. "It says that my birth mother lives on earth, in Japan. She still alive, and is named," Misu gasped "Naiya Mizuno. I can't believe her family carried the Mizuno name that long. It says she still alive, I want to talk to her. I need answers"
"I just thought of something else" Misu had Mercury computer working with the laptop again before she finished speaking.
"What are you doing this time?" Ardianna asked.
"Just checking to see if I can get any information about crystal Tokyo, since that is the last era of senshi."
The three of them sat in silence for what seamed like ages, sensing that something major was coming. Four pairs of eyes watched the screen, one pair knowing what programs were running, and another pair belonging to a certain feline.
The completion beep finally came, and Misu once again read out the results from the screen. "The prophecy tells how to find the princess. All of the guardians have to be gathered before the seal on her powers will be released. She can not waken as her true self before then. The guardian powers of love, wisdom, war, protection, revolution, affinity, flight, and rebirth must be together to break the seal of the final guardian power, sanctity."
"I have the Guardian power of love." Aiko said holding up her necklace and pointing to the Kanji on it. "This is the Kanji for love. Let me see yours" She nodded as she saw the other two. "Misu is the Guardian of wisdom, and Ardianna of war. Jupiter has the power of protection, I saw her Kanji while she was fighting the yoma."
"But I have the power of fire, and Mercury the power of water, just like in your manga" Ardianna looked puzzled.
"Well, there is the part in the Manga when NeoQueen Serenity called each of the senshi by our guardian powers, like Sailor Mars was Soldier of War." Aiko figured out.
"We need to figure out a way to earth" Misu looked hopeful as she spoke
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Later that day in another part of Virgo……
"Well it looks like they are almost finished gathering, and they have learned of the prophecy" the dark haired one spoke first.
"Soon we can join them" the Aqua haired one spoke next. "I can see images of everyone together in my mirror." The blonde took her hand and smiled at her as the three contemplated the mission yet to come.
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Next time: All together? Misu's past part 2. yes I'm evil, but hey, I'm making this up as I go. I have a general idea of what I want to happen, but I don't have an outline. ~_^
Hope you like it so far.