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Star Senshi, Book 1.

Chapter 2: "Trouble In Tokyo! The Enemy is Testing Sailor Solaris!"

By Telraven. (telraven@ywave.com) [With some great help from Sailor Wind on the fight scene.]

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This part is rated: hmmm, I don't know, G or PG, something like that. This story takes

place when the girls are just about 18 and are almost finished with high school. Usagi and

Mamoru are waiting to get married until after she graduates. BTW text in these: indicate

thought.

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There was a flash of light and a portal of mist opened up in Setsuna's living room. The

Senshi stepped out of it, and this time they had a blue cat with a golden sun on his forehead

along with them. They detransformed.

"Now will you please tell me why you've brought me here?" Apollo said impatiently.

"Oh yeah, ummm well you see; We really need Sailor Solaris here in the future, and you are

her Guardian cat so you belong with her, but we sort of forgot about you when we first picked

her up." Usagi summarized quickly.

"Ok...so how long 'til we get to go back?" Apollo asked, after he recovered from the speed

of Usagi's summarization.

"We don't." Liana replied tonelessly, and headed up the stairs to her new bedroom.

"I have to stay here?! Well... at least I won't be alone. So where do I go to meet some

other magical cats? There *are* other Magical cats here, I trust?"

"Just Luna and Artemis." Hotaru replied cheerfully from the couch.

Apollo sweatdropped. "Great, just great. Artemis doesn't even *like* me." He muttered,

then he looked up the stairs toward the door Liana had gone into. "I think I'll go see if Liana

needs me, she must be pretty torn up about being separated from Tarellan..." He told the others.

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"Come on Liana, or you'll be late for school." Setsuna said.

"Why do I have to do this? I was finished with my studies last year." She grumbled

sleepily as she got out of bed.

"Because you don't understand enough about this time and place. Besides, Usagi could use

the company, she's all alone at school now that Minako's been taken." Setsuna told her.

She sighed. "This really isn't fair." She got dressed in her new school uniform and came

downstairs.

"I'll drive you to school today so that you know where it is, and I need to see to your

classes." Setsuna told her over breakfast.

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"Jilana, report! What have you found out about that new Senshi?" Prince Alaric asked.

"Only that she is living with Sailor Pluto, we can't see anything that goes on in her

house, so I haven't been able to find out anything more." Jilana said humbly.

He tapped his fingers on the arm of his throne. "Then we'll just have to draw her out.

Jilana, send one of your youma to draw our quarry into the open. Have it gather some energy

while you're at it, we might as well have it do something else useful at the same time."

"Where should I send it, my lord?" Jilana questioned.

"That's up to you, I trust your judgment." He answered.

"Yes, my lord." Jilana bowed and left.

"Are you quite sure we can trust her, my lord?" Hadrian asked after she had left.

"She knows what she is doing; and she knows the penalty for failure. Hadrian, I want you

to question Sailor Venus to see what she can tell us about this new Sailor Senshi. It might prove

useful."

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When they got to the high school, Setsuna took her to the principal's office to introduce

her. "She is my niece from England." She told the principal as Liana waited outside the door. "Her

parents recently died and she has been put into my care until she is old enough to receive full

control of her trust fund. I decided to enroll her here to give her some distraction from the

accident, her parents' death hit her pretty hard."

"Very well I'll call in my secretary to bring you her class schedule." The aide came in and

gave Setsuna the list of classes. She took it and made a few changes. "If you don't mind, I made a

couple of changes. She only has one friend here so far and she really should be in classes with

someone she knows." She said as she gave the list back to the aide.

"I understand completely." The principal said. In a few minutes the aide returned with an

updated class schedule.

Setsuna said her farewells to the principal and went out to the waiting room and gave the

list to Liana. "Here's your class schedule. I'll made sure you'd be in all of the same classes as

Usagi."

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Liana was on her way home from school after parting ways with Usagi. This school is so

stupid. She thought to herself. They don't even teach magic! Or very much else useful for that

matter... Suddenly she heard a scream from nearby and went to investigate. She looked around the

next corner she saw a youma attacking a young couple.

"Golden Solar Power, Make Up!" She called out. She transformed and went around the corner.

"Hold it right there! I am the Protector of Life & Love, Sailor Solaris! How dare you attack this

innocent young couple! In the name of The Sun, Prepare to be Burned!" Where did that come from?

It sounds so corny... She thought.

The youma turned away from the couple and attacked Solaris with blinding speed, but she

dodged it.

She whirled about to see what the youma's next move would be. But she didn't turn quickly

enough and something hit her in the side. She winced and held her side for a moment before

straightening. The youma had her trapped in a corner.

Solaris raised both hands above her head and began to spin. "Golden Solar Flare!" She

shouted, and a beam of gold light shot out from between her upraised hands.

"Arrgghh!" the youma shouted angrily as the light blinded it.

Sailor Solaris jumped over the youma and turned around to face it. The youma was rubbing

it's eyes and as soon as it could make out where Solaris was, it lunged for her. Solaris punched

the youma in its face. As it stumbled toward her she knocked it down with a kick.

Sailor Solaris spun around, with her hands at her sides, as sparkles of golden light flew

all around her. While she spun a small many rayed sphere of light formed in each hand, then she

stopped and yelled: "Burning SunStar Revolution!" as she shot a barrage of golden energy spheres

at the youma from the palms of her hands. The youma screamed as the golden energy vaporized it.

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Later as she stepped in through the door of Setsuna's house she was greeted by Hotaru.

"Where were you?! We were so worried."

"I ran into a youma that was attacking a couple in the street, and I had to help them."

Liana answered.

"What? This enemy hasn't done anything like that before." Hotaru exclaimed.

"Well he has now." Setsuna said. "I wonder what brought this on?"

"I don't know, but I don't like this one bit." Liana replied. "The youma I fought today was

sucking the energy out of the people when I came across it!"

"That's what our other enemies did...I thought that these guys didn't do that..." Setsuna

said.

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Prince Alaric frowned at the image on the viewscreen. "She is more formidable than I

expected. Jilana!"

"Yes, my lord?" Jilana answered.

"Next time you will send a more powerful youma to test her abilities."

"As you wish, my lord." She said humbly.

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Author's note: I would like to give a huge extra-special thank you to Sailor Wind, without

whom the fight scene in this episode would have really, really sucked. This episode is quite a bit

shorter than I would like, but I was having a lot of trouble with this episode so I decided to just

make it a short one. I promise I'll work really really hard on episode 3 (which by the way will

have a little bit of a surprise, for some people...) and try to get it out as soon as possible.

Note #2: This is the new revised chapter 2, I changed Solaris' attack & tweaked a few other

things so they'd sound better.