All standard disclaimers that I have already used so far with any of the three stories that I now
have on fanfiction.net will apply. For your information, all of the Masbogarins in this story are original
characters of mine, in fact. I didn't say so earlier, but they are most certainly mine, just the same, and
just in case you're wondering here, readers. So please don't steal my original characters from this
story or any others, for that matter.
Now without further ado, back to the story. And I hope that you'll all enjoy it, of course.
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The Inverness Chronicles
Book One
Chapter Two
The following morning, Robert was up and ready to go to school at 7:20 am local time. And
three of his siblings were already up. His mother was putting together four bags of lunch for her four
oldest children, when he entered his family's kitchen/dining room area so that he could get some
breakfast for himself. He had his uniform on when he came there, and got himself some cereal, toast,
milk, and apple juice for breakfast, of course.
It took him about twenty minutes to consume his breakfast, as he talked to his mother and three
nearest siblings. Both sets of quints were still quite soundly asleep, which pleased his mother
considerably at the current time. His mother was a still-attractive auburn-haired woman at the age of
38 or so. And she still often wore her hair down to at least the middle of her back, if not even farther
than that here. At the current time, she had on a mostly white-trimmed olive green apron. For she was
now in the process of making some pancakes, bacon, and eggs for Trevor, Wade, and Sara's
breakfasts, as well.
Both Wade and R.T. had quite black hair just like their father did. But Wade's hair was less
bushier than R.T.'s currently was, in fact. Wade normally wore his black hair in a crewcut. While R.T.
normally wore his already-somewhat bushy hair roughly at shoulder-length, if not even longer than that,
and normally unbound. As for Trevor, his hair was of a shade at least a little bit lighter than medium
brown. And it was normally worn at a little more than about chin-length. And Sara's hair was quite
blonde, quite wavy, and normally worn at about shoulder-length, if not just a little bit longer than that.
R.T. was now twelve years old. Wade was now ten years old. Sara was now eight years old.
And Trevor was now six years old. The female quints were just past their shared fourth birthday. And
the male quintuplets were almost four months past their shared second birthday.
Robert would be entering his seventh-grade year of school, while his school-age siblings would
be in fifth, third, and first grades, respectively. Wade, Sara, and Trevor would be attending school this
coming year at Crossroads Elementary in the middle of town. While Robert would be attending school
near the westernmost part of Inverness, when he went to Eagle Mountain High School, which was often
referred to as simply EMHS. Crossroads High School was essentially in the middle of town, and quite
adjacent to Crossroads Elementary. While Inverness Heights High School was in the easternmost area
of town, quite near where the Makonta River ran between various nearby hills in the local area.
Eventually, all of them finally finished eating their respective breakfasts in their family's
kitchen/dining room area, and they set off for school as needed. Robert would walk to school at
EMHS, while his mother Syltosha would take the rest of his school-age siblings to school at
Crossroads Elementary in the family's main car. His father normally handled things during the day at
home with their children. For he normally would work on his work projects at home, whenever
possible. Robert's mother would then report to work at a local bakery, where she was one of the five
bakers who'd work there most often, whenever the bakery was actually open at all.
Not the main one there, however, for she'd only begun working there just about the time that
Trevor had earlier been born in a nearby town that was somewhat larger than Inverness was. She'd
actually given birth to Trevor Chancellor Masbogarin about six or so weeks premature of his expected
due date, so she and Trevor had spent about the first two or three months of his life in the Parkersburg
General Hospital, for all the obvious reasons. He'd been given quite good care while in the hospital.
And by the time that he'd become three months old, he was about the size of an average Munrodan
male baby about six or so weeks of age, at the very least, in fact. Both sets of quints had also been
brought into the world in Parkersburg, Scolvakin, as well, under the quite expert care of several good
doctors, when their times to be born came to pass in actual reality. And if any more children came to
be for her and her husband, then that might very well be where they'd later be born into the world, as a
matter of fact.
Robert left for his new school about ten or so minutes before his school-age siblings did the
same with their common mother, so as to be able to get there on time, of course. He arrived outside his
new school's main building about five minutes early, in fact. And when he did so, he eventually
encountered one of his best friends who was actually living near enough to him to allow them both to
attend the same school here.
This friend of his was Jason Akerstine. And he'd known Jason for more than three years, since
Jason's family had moved into the area from another province of Munrodoste. When Jason saw that
Robert was in front of their new school, he soon came up to Robert, and he said, "It's good to see you
again, Robert."
"It's good to see you too, Jason. I just wish that the rest of our friends could attend the same
exact school that we're going to be attending here, at the very same time."
"Well, maybe we'll be able to see them still at the Crystal Spheres Arcade, Robert. Maybe
not as often as usual, but maybe enough to be able to remain good enough friends with them, just the
same, hopefully enough."
Just then, a siren sounded for about a minute. Which then meant that whoever was still outside
had just five minutes to get to their respective homerooms, at the very most. Including, of course, both
Jason and Robert. Jason and Robert wouldn't have the same homeroom. So they had to part for at
least the time being, if not for the rest of the current school day.
Robert arrived in his assigned homeroom about twenty seconds before the first bell would ring
to start his first class. When he did, it was now almost 8:20 am local time. He spent roughly the next
45 minutes in his first class of the day. And while he was there, he encountered a pink-haired girl with a
rather strange hairstyle on her head. This girl that he saw had two buns that looked a lot like either
rabbit ears or meatballs on her head near her temples, in fact. And where her hair wasn't in those buns,
it mainly fell to her waist, at least, if not even farther than that.
He asked her name, and she said her name was "Serena Abigail Shields", in actual reality. But
that her friends and family would often call her "Small Lady" or "Rini", in fact. He asked her where she
was from, and she said, "I'm from Kemaris City."
"Where is that?"
"That's a city in Padorscyske, Robert."
"I've never heard of either place."
"Both places are quite a long way away from here, Robert. My family and I just moved into
the area about six weeks or so ago. As did the families of several of my friends, in fact."
"Where are you living now?"
"Near the Cherry Hill Diner close to the northern outskirts of town."
They continued talking to each other even after the end of his first class, at least until they both
had to go to each of their lockers. Before they did that, though, they compared class schedules. And
they saw that their next class with each other was two periods away. They'd normally have three or
four classes together, depending on the current day of the week, in fact. Some days, they'd have three
together. While others, they'd have four together.
They soon parted from each other so that they could then go to their respective lockers in the
school, at least, if not also to their next classes for the current day. Little did they both know that they
might be seeing quite a bit of each other in the future, if things worked out well enough to make that
possible for both of them here.
The next period, Robert met three more new classmates of his. All three of them either had
blonde or had often bluish-looking black hair. The blonde triplet was a girl with mostly shoulder-length
hair, and she introduced herself as "Cassidy Thurston". One of the other two triplets was a girl with
often bluish-looking mostly chin-length black hair, while the other was a boy a few inches taller than
either of his fellow triplets. The blonde triplet was wearing a pendant in the approximate shape of a
rocket, and she was also wearing clip-on earrings that looked almost like miniature art palettes, in fact.
Her fellow girl triplet, "Melody Thurston", was currently wearing a pair of glasses and a pair of
chess rook-like earrings that were also of the clip-on variety. A locket that was lockets just above the
knot in her mostly navy blue neckerchief completed the current look of her jewelry or similar enough
items here. Like all the other seventh-grade girls in the school, her school blouse was mostly white with
red and navy blue piping. Like her sister Cassidy Thurston and Rini Shields, and all the other girls in the
same grade of the school, she also had to wear black open-toed and silver-buckled sandals as part of
her uniform, whenever she wasn't actually in gym class. Weather permitting here, of course. This,
quite naturally, would be for all the obvious reasons here.
As for the Thurston boy triplet with often bluish-looking black hair, his name was "Garrett", and
he was at least a few inches taller than both of his currently-present triplet sisters. He wore his hair
basically at chin-length, whenever possible, just like Melody normally would wear her own hair in her
life, as well. Garrett wore a mostly navy blue uniform blazer over a white shirt, navy blue trousers, and
business-style shoes, whenever possible. His tie was just like all the other ties of Robert and their
fellow seventh-grade boys at EMHS. For it was mostly navy blue with red and white diagonal strips on
it, as well. On the left front chest pocket of the uniform blazer, the circular school logo was present in
navy blue, white, and red. The red formed the outside border of the school logo, in its entirety, while
the rest of the logo was either in navy blue or white, as necessary.
Little did Robert know that he might often find himself with at least one of the three Thurston
triplets, whenever they weren't all in school as well. But that was still yet unknown both to him and to
them, for all the obvious reasons. He spent his second class period of the day with them and about
twenty more students, for another 45 minutes. At 9:55 am, then, the next class bell rang here. Five
minutes later, then, he'd have t be at his next class, quite naturally.
His 10 o'clock class was another class that he'd share with Rini and several other classmates of
his, as a matter of fact. When he arrived there, about a minute or two before the next bell, Rini said, "I
just got this feeling that I'll possibly be seeing a good deal of you outside school, Robert. I wonder
why, in fact."
"I don't know, Rini. I don't yet have that feeling, though, if I ever will."
"Robert, have you met Emara Hickerson yet here?"
"No, I haven't. Why do you ask, Rini?"
"I have this feeling that we'll be somehow be seeing a lot of her here. From what I've heard of
her, she's got long black hair, and she seems to be an altar girl at one of the local synaurches, if I'm not
too mistaken here."
"What are synaurches?"
"They're sort of crosses between synagogues and churches, if not totally. I've heard of them at
least once before in my life, if not more, Robert."
"I see. And do you like her, from what you've heard so far?"
"She seems to be nice, from what Melanie Keyes and several other girls have told me since I
came here some time ago, Robert."
"Never heard of her."
"She's another altar girl at Emara's synaurch, in fact. She's the daughter of one of my mother's
closest friends, Robert. And I have a feeling that we, or at least I, will also be seeing a lot of her as
well."
"Who else do you know of that you think we might be seeing at least a little bit outside of
school here, for at least a little while?"
"Well, I believe that we'll be seeing the daughter of at least one more, if not more than one
more, of my parents' closest friends, if not anybody else as well. I can't explain just why yet, I believe.
But I still believe that we'll do that periodically, just the same, Robert."
Then the bell rang, and they both had to be quiet for at least a little while, so that their teacher
could then teach them as needed here. After a lecture of about twenty or so minutes in its length, the
teacher then let her students work on all their new schoolwork, and chat at least a bit amongst
themselves. She did this just so long as they all behaved themselves, and kept quiet enough in class for
the rest of the period, quite naturally. The bell to mark the end of the period eventually rang at 10:45
am. And then she soon dismissed her new students, as she saw fit, once it did so. This, of course, was
for all the obvious reasons.
Robert followed Rini out of the appropriate classroom. And then the both went to their
respective classes as needed for the next period. They wouldn't have their next class together, though.
And that class period would then begin at 10:50 am local time, for all the obvious reasons, of course.
Robert eventually went to his next class. And he soon encountered Melanie Keyes there.
They met as he was trying to find a good seat near the front to sit in. And they accidentally collided
with each other as they were each moving to different seats in the necessary room of the school's main
building. All their respective books nearly went flying from their hands, but they were both somehow
able to avoid dropping any of them, as a matter of simple enough fact here. She said, "You seem to be
familiar to me, stranger. Though I don't know why just yet, if I ever will."
"I've never met you before, I think. But you seem to be someone who I'll be seeing at least a
bit of in the future, for some yet-unknown reason to me."
Melanie looked him over, and said, "You seem quite good-looking to me. I wonder if there is
a chance that you have a bunch of siblings."
"As a matter of fact, I do. But how do you know this?"
"Call it a feeling. My name is Melanie Keyes. And what's yours, if I may ask you this here?"
"Robert Masbogarin. Do you by any chance know Serena Shields?"
"Which one? I know of two people by that name, at least, Robert."
"The one that's in our grade?"
"Yes, I know of her. She's the daughter of one of my mother's closest friends."
"Who's your mother, if I may ask you this here?"
"My mother is Raye Keyes."
"I don't recognize that name. What does your mother do?"
"She's a singer of music. Mostly in terms of popular music, in fact, Robert. She was an altar
girl too, when she was my age. But no longer, for all the obvious reasons."
"Describe her, if you please." Just then, the teacher entered the classroom, just seconds before
the bell to start the period then sounded. She set her things down on her desk, or near it, as needed,
just before she took out an attendance/grading book, so that she could then take attendance for the
class now in question here, of course.
As the teacher began taking attendance, Melanie continued speaking rather quietly, so that the
teacher would be able to hear all the students before Melanie and Robert here say they were present.
She said, in a barely perceptible enough voice to him, as she sat near him, "She's about 5'9" tall, and
about 158 pounds, I think. And I look a lot like she did at almost the same age that I am now. But not
entirely, for I'm still only twelve years old, in fact. I had my latest birthday on July 27, Robert. I'm still
a young twelve."
"Rini was talking about you and Emara being altar girls at a synaurch around here. Is that true
for the both of you, in fact, Melanie?"
"Yes, Emara and I are altar girls at the Cherry Hill Synaurch near the Cherry Hill Diner. I live
next door to the Synaurch. While she lives about a mile or two away from me near Sunset Hill, which
is to the east of Cherry Hill here, Robert. She's been here for a number of years already, and so have
I. But we only met each other about a year ago, once she and her family started attending our
synaurch. I have two brothers that remind me a lot of Dad when he was younger, in fact."
Just then, the teacher called Melanie's name, and she said, "Present, Mrs. Chesterfield."
Mrs. Chesterfield then nodded approval, and moved on to the next student in her class list,
which was still a few students away from Robert's last name. So Robert would still have a few
moments left to quietly chat with Melanie, hopefully, before he'd also have to report that he was now
present in the room as well.
Eventually, his turn had to come, and it did. When it did, he then quite naturally reported his
presence in the room. And soon after he did so, Mrs. Chesterfield then put away her book, and picked
up another one. For about fifteen or twenty minutes, she then lectured her class, as she then saw fit,
before eventually giving all her students some schoolwork to do for the rest of the period, in fact.
When the period finally ended, it was then 11:35 am, and it was lunch time for all the school's
students who were now in seventh and eighth grades there. Robert soon left for lunch, with Melanie
following him quite closely at the same time, in fact. As she did so, Melanie also encountered Rini. Rini
called her aside for a few moments. And Rini suddenly said, when she was sure enough that they were
both quite alone behind a rather large tree, "Trouble near the Baines and Updike Jewelry Store,
Melanie. I've already notified Melody and Cassidy, and they're on the way there."
"Are we going to need to rumble there, possibly, Rini?"
"Possibly. There are three rather large monsters that are wreaking havoc there right now."
"Who else is responding?"
"Sailors Rising Sun, Spyglass, Tranquility, and Millennium, I believe."
"Should we power up to our Scout states, Rini?"
"Let's check in with our mothers, first."
Rini then pulled back the left sleeve of her uniform blouse. And she then touched the face of
her watch. The top of the watch opened to the bottom. When it did so, a holographic screen was then
projected from the watch to about eye level for Rini at the current time. Rini then touched the screen
with her right hand for a few moments, until the faces of her and Melanie's mothers appeared on it, in a
nine-square grid of sorts. The faces of the Thurston triplets' mother also soon appeared on the nine-
square screen, as did the faces of two other women, in fact. Four squares were currently blank, but
that didn't mean that they'd always be here, during the current conversation.
Rini then said, "Trouble at the B&U Jewelry store, Mother. Sailor Rocketara and Super Sailor
Mercury Minor are inbound, as are Sailors Rising Sun, Spyglass, Tranquility, and Millennium, Mother."
"Rini, do you really think you need to fight the monsters right now?"
"Mother, I don't think that we can avoid fighting here. As you know, Mrs. Updike is usually
there with her mother at this time of day, and they're often with Marvena and Mitchell too. Someone's
going to have to protect them, for you know that if the monsters find them, they might all be in serious
trouble."
Rini's mother thought about that for a brief moment. And then she conversed just as briefly
with Dr. Amy Thurston and Mrs. Raye Keyes. She then said, "Very well, Rini. But please try to be
careful, Small Lady. Take Super Sailor Mars Minor with you then. Mrs. Keyes insists. We'll be
monitoring the situation as needed, so that we can help you all out if the need arises."
"Thank you, Mother. I might need to borrow your Crescent Moon Wand, though."
"We'll see. Try not to take too long in taking care of things, though, Rini. For if I'm not
mistaken here, you only have about 25 or so minutes left of your current lunch period."
"Understood, Mother."
Then Rini signed off. About two minutes later, then, after both she and Melanie had gotten far
enough away from the main school building, and behind a large enough wall, they both transformed into
their respective Sailor Scout states of being. Melanie became Super Sailor Mars Minor, while Rini
became Super Sailor Crescent Moon. And then they set off for the necessary part of town where the
trouble was currently in progress, of course.
When they got there, Sailor Rising Sun was in the process of attacking one of the monsters, as
Sailor Millennium was trying to help her out on the same monster. Sailors Tranquility and Spyglass
were already in the process of engaging another one of the monsters. As they both arrived, they heard
sounds of panic and battle.
When they were both within their respective ranges for their various powers and weapons,
Crescent Moon said, "Stop your destruction in the name of God's Universe, or prepare to die at all our
hands. I am Super Sailor Crescent Moon, and you shall not terrorize these innocent people any longer
with your wreaking havoc in this place."
"And what makes you think that you young girls can stop us here from wreaking havoc in your
town?" asked the middle one of the monsters now causing trouble in this place.
"We've done it to numerous others in our lives already. Leave or die!"
"Make us," said the largest of the three monsters, who was the one who'd just spoken
moments before to Crescent Moon and Mars Minor.
"As you wish. You leave us no choice then. You should pray to your false gods before we
destroy you, and then prepare to die."
"We'll see who dies, then, Rabbit Face!"
"Just for that, you all will die, most likely, monsters. Engage and destroy at will, Scouts!"
Ten seconds or so later, then, a rather thick fog surrounded all three of the monsters now in
question here for a while. This was mainly, if not entirely, courtesy of Sailor Tranquility and Super
Sailor Mercury Minor, in fact. Mercury Minor said, "Mercury Ice Fog Spheres, Blast!" as Tranquility
combined one of her own powers with that one of Mercury Minor's here.
She did this by calling out, as she held a suitably-sized recurved bow at arm's length in front of
herself, "Cometary Bubbling Flares Surround, Strike!" When she did so, a quiver quite full of arrows in
the shape of comets immediately appeared on her back, and an arrow materialized as well already
nocked on her bow. Ten seconds later, that particular arrow was fired. Two minutes later, at most,
she already had at least two dozen arrows beginning to rain down on all of their enemies, if she'd not
aimed those arrows directly at them when she fired them here. And her quiver was refilling itself
periodically.
As for Crescent Moon and Mars Minor, they were in the process of attacking the largest of the
monsters with some anti-evil scrolls and other powers and items then at their disposal. With some help
from Rocketara, whenever possible, in fact.
Several times, at least, Crescent Moon would call out, "Crescent Moon Tiara Action." And
that then would allow her to generate glowing discs with the help of her own Sailor Scout tiara, which
she'd normally wear on her forehead whenever she was in any of her Sailor Scout states of being. That
was supposing that she could access that particular power of hers, of course. For it at least sometimes
would drain her energy considerably during a battle that she might fight as a Sailor Scout in her life.
Her mother had used a similar power, if not the exact same power, that Crescent Moon was
now using here. Her mother had used this certain power of hers to often destroy various monsters
when she was about the age that Rini/Crescent Moon was now, but just a bit older than her daughter
was now.
Rini had been a Sailor Scout for several years, in at least two different time periods, if not more.
And that was one reason why she wasn't now just a Sailor Scout, but specifically was a Super Sailor
Scout. When she'd gotten old enough in her life, she'd begun to gain at least some of the powers that
her mother had once had, to at least some degree, if not totally. When she'd first become a Scout,
she'd just been a Sailor Scout. But now, after many battles in at least two different time periods, she'd
earned herself a promotion to the rank of Super Sailor Scout, with the help of at least a few other
people in her life.
It had been a while since she'd last seen one of her friends from a long way away in her life.
She hoped that she'd eventually see him again someday. But she didn't know if and when that might
actually come to pass for her in her life, though.
She sent several discs toward the monster that she, Mars Minor, and Rocketara were now
basically opposing here. But she still couldn't destroy that monster yet. For it was still too strong at the
current time, in fact. Even after Rocketara had then fired several good-sized missiles of various kinds at
it, which had combined somehow with Mars Minor's current Fireballs Charge and Crescent Moon's
Crescent Moon Tiara Action attacks to become even stronger still, the aforementioned monster still
survived well enough here.
Eventually, the monster that Millennium and Rising Sun were now opposing here was killed.
Rising Sun had left several good-sized slashes and other injuries present on that monster. Millennium
had also generated several kinds of weapons with the help of whatever jewelry-related items that she
currently had with her here. And then Millennium had thrown those weapons directly into the places
where Rising Sun had slashed and otherwise injured that monster. Which soon made the monster
largely either turn into ashes, or vaporize at least partly, if not entirely, if it didn't actually turn into ashes
here, in fact..
With that done here, then, Rising Sun and Millennium began moving toward the one that
Mercury Minor, Tranquility, Spyglass, and Rocketara were now periodically either attacking or
defending against. The fog that Tranquility and Mercury Minor had created several minutes before had
eventually begun to dissipate to at least some degree, several seconds before. But by the time that it
began doing so, Mercury Minor said, all of a sudden, "Rising Sun and Millennium, don't attack this
monster. I think that we can recover the humanoid being inside it well enough here. So please don't
attack it. We need to wear out this monster, for there's a humanoid that has been turned into a monster
inside it." She said this because a small data computer that she also had with her at the current time had
detected the presence of a humanoid somehow inside the monster, in fact.
"Then what do you want us to do?" asked Rising Sun.
"Cause a distraction that will buy us some time to figure things out here well enough."
"This monster seems to want to take down a building complex here, real bad, Mercury Minor.
What do you suggest we do for a distraction?" These things were just said by Millennium, in fact.
"Do the first thing that comes into your minds, I suppose."
"Just so long as we don't attack it?" asked Rising Sun.
"Yes, I believe so."
"As you wish, Mercury Minor. But if this doesn't work, then we may still have to destroy it,
just the same."
"Understood, Rising Sun."
Rising Sun and Millennium ran in opposite directions for about fifteen or so seconds, before
they each entered nearby telephone boxes. And they both dialed a certain number on the phones in
each box. The number was exactly the same, in fact. And when they stuck their fingers in the
appropriate coin return slots, they didn't find coins there. Instead, they found pens that'd allow them to
disguise themselves periodically, so as to look like other people or things, even while still remaining
exactly as they were at certain times in their own lives. They took the pens, of course. And they
decided to disguise themselves as dancers of either the tap dancing or ballet kind, in fact. They then
disguised themselves as dancers while they hid themselves temporarily in the telephone boxes. And
finally, they had completely changed their apparent looks, at least as of the current time. They exited
their respective phone boxes at the same exact instant. And then they yelled at the monsters still in front
of them, so as to get their attention, hopefully enough. The monsters then stopped whatever they were
then doing, just to look at them. When they caught Mercury Minor's eye, she very briefly winked at
them both. That was the signal for them both to begin causing their distraction, if they hadn't already
done so, here.
Millennium began to tap-dance in the middle of the street, while Rising Sun began to execute
various kinds of ballet moves, so as to hopefully draw away the monsters' attentions from whatever
they'd just been doing before. Which was to attack whatever they could attack at the current time, of
course. Both monsters then sat down almost immediately in the middle of the street just to see the
rather impromptu dancing that Millennium and Rising Sun were now doing here, in fact. As did several
other people, whether they were Scouts or not, at the current time.
As they did so, Crescent Moon then called her mother briefly on her watch communicator, and
moments later, a Crescent Moon Wand appeared in her hands. Her mother had just sent it to her by
teleporting it to her daughter, who'd then hopefully be able to change the monster or monsters that had
at least one human inside each of them. When Mercury Minor said, "I think that you can change them
both back, Crescent Moon," Crescent Moon then faced the largest of the monsters first, for all the
obvious reasons.
At a nod from Mercury Minor, then, Crescent Moon said, "Moon Healing Activation!" Which
then would hopefully change that monster back into a mere humanoid being well enough, if at all
possible. Crescent Moon did a little dance of sorts, before she then pointed the wand directly at the
larger of the two still-surviving monsters. And she was soon enough rewarded by the shrinking of the
monster in size, and the monster changing back into humanoid form again, as it had been, before getting
turned into a monster. When the monster turned back into a human, a card with a crystal on it fell to
the ground and stuck in it, briefly, before the crystal fell off the card and hit the ground, shattering into
any number of uncountable pieces.
The revealed humanoid was a young man with what appeared to be a robe and sandals, as well
as a sword of light, at least. This man was not apparently from this world, in fact, but from what
appeared to be a desert planet, for his skin was at least a little tanned and a little weather-worn, most
likely. Crescent Moon asked his name, and the stranger said, "My name is Luke Skywalker of the
Jedi."
"We are Sailor Scouts. We've never heard of the Jedi. How did you get here?"
"I have no idea. The last thing I knew, I was battling a Hutt on another world in the Universe.
And the next thing I knew, I was here. Wherever here is, of course."
"What's a Hutt?" asked Crescent Moon.
"A huge land-based slug, for your information. May I ask your name here?"
"My name is Super Sailor Crescent Moon, and the rest of the girls that look enough like me
here are also Sailor Scouts, Mr. Skywalker."
"I see. Perhaps we'll talk later?"
"Maybe, if my parents agree, I think I might like that at least a bit here."
Just then, Super Sailor Crescent Moon then turned toward the other monster still watching the
nearby dancers, and she also turned that monster back into their normal humanoid state of being. A
woman with somewhat wavy black hair soon appeared to everyone's view here. She was wearing
what appeared to be some sort of uniform, and it was a mostly medium blue and black uniform with
three round pips on the collar. Mostly, it was black, but there was some medium blue on her shoulders
for the aforementioned uniform. She also wore what now appeared to be a mostly silver vest with
some pink and/or red on it, as well.
When Crescent Moon asked her name, as well, the female stranger said, "My name is
Commander Deanna Troi Riker. I was on an away mission with several of my shipmates. And the
next thing I knew, I met you here like this, when you asked me who I was just now, Crescent Moon."
"Where are you from, if I may ask?"
"I don't remember. I do know I was on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D or E, but I don't remember
much more than that at the current time. I believe that I was the Ship's Counselor on my ship, and I
was off my ship on some sort of away mission for it."
"Well, maybe we can find a way to get you each back to wherever you actually belong
elsewhere in the Universe, people. In the meantime, if you see any other people that look enough like
us, then don't be afraid of them. I noticed there was another monster here, too. Do you have any idea
whether there was actually a human inside it as well, Commander?"
"No, I don't. I don't even know how I got here."
Mercury Minor then said, after having checked out what little still remained of the monster that
Rising Sun and Millennium had been forced to destroy, "The other monster didn't have a humanoid
inside it, Crescent Moon. It was all monster, and it was from the Dark Spheres, from what I can gather
from these ashes and other nearby things still here. It was all monster, with some cybernetic implants,
evidently. And it would've destroyed us all, if it'd had the chance. It was quite large, in fact, and it was
about to take down several buildings when Rising Sun and Millennium killed and destroyed it," said
Mercury Minor.
Just then, several other Scouts materialized in the area near the recent battle site. Among them,
of course, was Crescent Moon's mother. Crescent Moon soon found her mother, and she returned the
Crescent Moon Wand she'd just been lent back to her. Her mother smiled, as Dr. Thurston, who was
also Crystal Sailor Mercury, then began to check everyone for injuries who was sufficiently near and
had been around when the battle had been raging, in fact. She did this with the help of another Sailor
Scout who was now basically in a mostly purple Sailor Scout uniform.
After a while, Dr. Thurston reported, "No permanent injuries to report, Crystal Sailor Moon.
Everyone here should be fine enough in the near future, I think, if they aren't already."
"Good, Crystal Sailor Mercury. I think we can take things from here, then, so that the kids can
get back to school, if the need arises here."
"I agree. It's almost noon now, anyway."
"Sorry you had to fight during your lunch period, Crescent Moon and all. Crystal Sailor Jupiter
thought you girls might be hungry after having to fight here, so she quite quickly put together some
lunches for you to eat before you have to get back to class. Crystal Sailor Pluto will slow down time as
needed, for you, so that you have enough time to eat, I think. But let's try not to have to fight during
your lunch period here, if at all possible, Crescent Moon." She handed one lunch bag to all of the
necessary Scouts here, before smiling at them all again briefly.
"Understood, Crystal Sailor Moon."
Two minutes later, then, all the younger Scouts had somehow managed to get far enough away
from the battle location here, and transform out of their respective Sailor Scout states of being. After
they did this, they all then ran back to their school or schools, as needed, even while Crystal Sailor
Pluto was now slowing time down for at least them, if not others as well, of course. They all had their
lunches on the run, as Crystal Sailor Pluto was slowing down time at least for them, if not others as
well. But to anyone else, they all were quite blurry in terms of being able to see them clearly enough, in
fact. If not totally invisible instead to everyone else who didn't yet know of them here to a sufficient
enough degree, at least, as well.
Needless to say, they all arrived back at their school or schools in time for their first class of the
afternoon, of course. And none of them got in enough trouble for them to be late to those very classes,
in fact. Robert didn't see them arrive, but by the time that he'd returned to the area of his locker,
Melanie Keyes was already near her own locker, if not also his as well.
When Robert saw that Melanie was apparently a bit more tired than when he'd last seen her
here on the school's campus, after first getting close enough to her to talk to her, he asked, "What's the
matter, Melanie?"
"Nothing you need to worry about here, Robert. I decided to get a little exercise around here
for a while during lunch. That's all." Melanie somehow knew that might not answer his question here
well enough. But she still hoped that it'd buy her and maybe others at least a little more time to think of
a better thing to say about such things here, if the need arose for her and them to do so, eventually.
"Fine. If you really don't want to tell me right now, then don't. But I now have this feeling that
there's at least something that you're not actually telling me here, Melanie. I won't push on it right now,
at least. But be aware that eventually, I might want to know what's going on here with you, Melanie.
And maybe other people around here as well, if the need arises for us all here at the same time."
"Understood, Robert."
The rest of the day at school was rather uneventful, in fact. And the school day ended for all
the students at the school who had nothing else to do there afterward at 3:10 pm. After which Robert
eventually began walking back to his family's current residence for at least the next few hours, if not
longer than that. Before he could get out the main doors of the school's main building, though, Melanie
and Rini asked him, "Robert, how would you like to get something to eat sometime elsewhere in town?"
"Let me think about it, girls. I'm not really looking for company right now. I just remembered I
have other things that I must do for the next few days, if at all possible."
"Any time, then, if and whenever possible, Robert." This comment was from Melanie.
"I'll consider it, girls, if you and your friends give me enough time to do so well enough to suit
me here."
"Understood, Robert," said Rini, in very short order.
Then Robert parted from both girls almost immediately afterward here. And he then went
home to his family's residence elsewhere in town. The girls didn't follow him, either, as a matter of
actual fact.
When he got there, his father met him in the kitchen/dining room area of their residence, and
asked him how his day was. Robert said, "Fine, Dad. I had an okay day of school for my first day of
high school today."
"I heard there was some excitement near the B&U Jewelry Store today. But some young
people who appeared to be roughly your age evidently took care of it, from what I learned on the radio
today."
"Oh, is that so?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, it is. Your mother even saw at least some, if not all, of it on her lunch
break today. She said some young people destroyed one monster and transformed two others into
humans somehow. One of the girls appeared to have at least some pink hair on her head, if not a lot of
pink hair there, in fact."
Robert thought, "That sounds weird. I don't understand how that could be the case yet, if I
ever will. But if Mom's right, then there has to be at least one pink-haired girl who now's living in this
town, somewhere."
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The next chapter will introduce more of the Scouts, at least in their civilian forms, and it will be
significantly related to Scouts from Jupiter, in fact. Lita and Ken and their family will be largely
mentioned in it, in actual reality. Another battle will take place during Chapter Four, as well, which will
involve several Scouts and several more of my original characters. Both who are Scouts and who
aren't actually Scouts either. When that chapter comes, I will let you know which characters are from
my original series work, and which are from my fan fiction stories that I may or may not have already
put up here, for the obvious reasons. Until then, you'll just have to see what's coming up soon enough.
But I promise you more crossover elements will be added to the story as well within the next few
chapters, at most, readers. So please read, review, and enjoy, if at all possible. Until later, then, this is
now "The Universal Storyteller" signing off here. Happy reading, and God bless, and all that, of
course, readers! Over and out!
have on fanfiction.net will apply. For your information, all of the Masbogarins in this story are original
characters of mine, in fact. I didn't say so earlier, but they are most certainly mine, just the same, and
just in case you're wondering here, readers. So please don't steal my original characters from this
story or any others, for that matter.
Now without further ado, back to the story. And I hope that you'll all enjoy it, of course.
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The Inverness Chronicles
Book One
Chapter Two
The following morning, Robert was up and ready to go to school at 7:20 am local time. And
three of his siblings were already up. His mother was putting together four bags of lunch for her four
oldest children, when he entered his family's kitchen/dining room area so that he could get some
breakfast for himself. He had his uniform on when he came there, and got himself some cereal, toast,
milk, and apple juice for breakfast, of course.
It took him about twenty minutes to consume his breakfast, as he talked to his mother and three
nearest siblings. Both sets of quints were still quite soundly asleep, which pleased his mother
considerably at the current time. His mother was a still-attractive auburn-haired woman at the age of
38 or so. And she still often wore her hair down to at least the middle of her back, if not even farther
than that here. At the current time, she had on a mostly white-trimmed olive green apron. For she was
now in the process of making some pancakes, bacon, and eggs for Trevor, Wade, and Sara's
breakfasts, as well.
Both Wade and R.T. had quite black hair just like their father did. But Wade's hair was less
bushier than R.T.'s currently was, in fact. Wade normally wore his black hair in a crewcut. While R.T.
normally wore his already-somewhat bushy hair roughly at shoulder-length, if not even longer than that,
and normally unbound. As for Trevor, his hair was of a shade at least a little bit lighter than medium
brown. And it was normally worn at a little more than about chin-length. And Sara's hair was quite
blonde, quite wavy, and normally worn at about shoulder-length, if not just a little bit longer than that.
R.T. was now twelve years old. Wade was now ten years old. Sara was now eight years old.
And Trevor was now six years old. The female quints were just past their shared fourth birthday. And
the male quintuplets were almost four months past their shared second birthday.
Robert would be entering his seventh-grade year of school, while his school-age siblings would
be in fifth, third, and first grades, respectively. Wade, Sara, and Trevor would be attending school this
coming year at Crossroads Elementary in the middle of town. While Robert would be attending school
near the westernmost part of Inverness, when he went to Eagle Mountain High School, which was often
referred to as simply EMHS. Crossroads High School was essentially in the middle of town, and quite
adjacent to Crossroads Elementary. While Inverness Heights High School was in the easternmost area
of town, quite near where the Makonta River ran between various nearby hills in the local area.
Eventually, all of them finally finished eating their respective breakfasts in their family's
kitchen/dining room area, and they set off for school as needed. Robert would walk to school at
EMHS, while his mother Syltosha would take the rest of his school-age siblings to school at
Crossroads Elementary in the family's main car. His father normally handled things during the day at
home with their children. For he normally would work on his work projects at home, whenever
possible. Robert's mother would then report to work at a local bakery, where she was one of the five
bakers who'd work there most often, whenever the bakery was actually open at all.
Not the main one there, however, for she'd only begun working there just about the time that
Trevor had earlier been born in a nearby town that was somewhat larger than Inverness was. She'd
actually given birth to Trevor Chancellor Masbogarin about six or so weeks premature of his expected
due date, so she and Trevor had spent about the first two or three months of his life in the Parkersburg
General Hospital, for all the obvious reasons. He'd been given quite good care while in the hospital.
And by the time that he'd become three months old, he was about the size of an average Munrodan
male baby about six or so weeks of age, at the very least, in fact. Both sets of quints had also been
brought into the world in Parkersburg, Scolvakin, as well, under the quite expert care of several good
doctors, when their times to be born came to pass in actual reality. And if any more children came to
be for her and her husband, then that might very well be where they'd later be born into the world, as a
matter of fact.
Robert left for his new school about ten or so minutes before his school-age siblings did the
same with their common mother, so as to be able to get there on time, of course. He arrived outside his
new school's main building about five minutes early, in fact. And when he did so, he eventually
encountered one of his best friends who was actually living near enough to him to allow them both to
attend the same school here.
This friend of his was Jason Akerstine. And he'd known Jason for more than three years, since
Jason's family had moved into the area from another province of Munrodoste. When Jason saw that
Robert was in front of their new school, he soon came up to Robert, and he said, "It's good to see you
again, Robert."
"It's good to see you too, Jason. I just wish that the rest of our friends could attend the same
exact school that we're going to be attending here, at the very same time."
"Well, maybe we'll be able to see them still at the Crystal Spheres Arcade, Robert. Maybe
not as often as usual, but maybe enough to be able to remain good enough friends with them, just the
same, hopefully enough."
Just then, a siren sounded for about a minute. Which then meant that whoever was still outside
had just five minutes to get to their respective homerooms, at the very most. Including, of course, both
Jason and Robert. Jason and Robert wouldn't have the same homeroom. So they had to part for at
least the time being, if not for the rest of the current school day.
Robert arrived in his assigned homeroom about twenty seconds before the first bell would ring
to start his first class. When he did, it was now almost 8:20 am local time. He spent roughly the next
45 minutes in his first class of the day. And while he was there, he encountered a pink-haired girl with a
rather strange hairstyle on her head. This girl that he saw had two buns that looked a lot like either
rabbit ears or meatballs on her head near her temples, in fact. And where her hair wasn't in those buns,
it mainly fell to her waist, at least, if not even farther than that.
He asked her name, and she said her name was "Serena Abigail Shields", in actual reality. But
that her friends and family would often call her "Small Lady" or "Rini", in fact. He asked her where she
was from, and she said, "I'm from Kemaris City."
"Where is that?"
"That's a city in Padorscyske, Robert."
"I've never heard of either place."
"Both places are quite a long way away from here, Robert. My family and I just moved into
the area about six weeks or so ago. As did the families of several of my friends, in fact."
"Where are you living now?"
"Near the Cherry Hill Diner close to the northern outskirts of town."
They continued talking to each other even after the end of his first class, at least until they both
had to go to each of their lockers. Before they did that, though, they compared class schedules. And
they saw that their next class with each other was two periods away. They'd normally have three or
four classes together, depending on the current day of the week, in fact. Some days, they'd have three
together. While others, they'd have four together.
They soon parted from each other so that they could then go to their respective lockers in the
school, at least, if not also to their next classes for the current day. Little did they both know that they
might be seeing quite a bit of each other in the future, if things worked out well enough to make that
possible for both of them here.
The next period, Robert met three more new classmates of his. All three of them either had
blonde or had often bluish-looking black hair. The blonde triplet was a girl with mostly shoulder-length
hair, and she introduced herself as "Cassidy Thurston". One of the other two triplets was a girl with
often bluish-looking mostly chin-length black hair, while the other was a boy a few inches taller than
either of his fellow triplets. The blonde triplet was wearing a pendant in the approximate shape of a
rocket, and she was also wearing clip-on earrings that looked almost like miniature art palettes, in fact.
Her fellow girl triplet, "Melody Thurston", was currently wearing a pair of glasses and a pair of
chess rook-like earrings that were also of the clip-on variety. A locket that was lockets just above the
knot in her mostly navy blue neckerchief completed the current look of her jewelry or similar enough
items here. Like all the other seventh-grade girls in the school, her school blouse was mostly white with
red and navy blue piping. Like her sister Cassidy Thurston and Rini Shields, and all the other girls in the
same grade of the school, she also had to wear black open-toed and silver-buckled sandals as part of
her uniform, whenever she wasn't actually in gym class. Weather permitting here, of course. This,
quite naturally, would be for all the obvious reasons here.
As for the Thurston boy triplet with often bluish-looking black hair, his name was "Garrett", and
he was at least a few inches taller than both of his currently-present triplet sisters. He wore his hair
basically at chin-length, whenever possible, just like Melody normally would wear her own hair in her
life, as well. Garrett wore a mostly navy blue uniform blazer over a white shirt, navy blue trousers, and
business-style shoes, whenever possible. His tie was just like all the other ties of Robert and their
fellow seventh-grade boys at EMHS. For it was mostly navy blue with red and white diagonal strips on
it, as well. On the left front chest pocket of the uniform blazer, the circular school logo was present in
navy blue, white, and red. The red formed the outside border of the school logo, in its entirety, while
the rest of the logo was either in navy blue or white, as necessary.
Little did Robert know that he might often find himself with at least one of the three Thurston
triplets, whenever they weren't all in school as well. But that was still yet unknown both to him and to
them, for all the obvious reasons. He spent his second class period of the day with them and about
twenty more students, for another 45 minutes. At 9:55 am, then, the next class bell rang here. Five
minutes later, then, he'd have t be at his next class, quite naturally.
His 10 o'clock class was another class that he'd share with Rini and several other classmates of
his, as a matter of fact. When he arrived there, about a minute or two before the next bell, Rini said, "I
just got this feeling that I'll possibly be seeing a good deal of you outside school, Robert. I wonder
why, in fact."
"I don't know, Rini. I don't yet have that feeling, though, if I ever will."
"Robert, have you met Emara Hickerson yet here?"
"No, I haven't. Why do you ask, Rini?"
"I have this feeling that we'll be somehow be seeing a lot of her here. From what I've heard of
her, she's got long black hair, and she seems to be an altar girl at one of the local synaurches, if I'm not
too mistaken here."
"What are synaurches?"
"They're sort of crosses between synagogues and churches, if not totally. I've heard of them at
least once before in my life, if not more, Robert."
"I see. And do you like her, from what you've heard so far?"
"She seems to be nice, from what Melanie Keyes and several other girls have told me since I
came here some time ago, Robert."
"Never heard of her."
"She's another altar girl at Emara's synaurch, in fact. She's the daughter of one of my mother's
closest friends, Robert. And I have a feeling that we, or at least I, will also be seeing a lot of her as
well."
"Who else do you know of that you think we might be seeing at least a little bit outside of
school here, for at least a little while?"
"Well, I believe that we'll be seeing the daughter of at least one more, if not more than one
more, of my parents' closest friends, if not anybody else as well. I can't explain just why yet, I believe.
But I still believe that we'll do that periodically, just the same, Robert."
Then the bell rang, and they both had to be quiet for at least a little while, so that their teacher
could then teach them as needed here. After a lecture of about twenty or so minutes in its length, the
teacher then let her students work on all their new schoolwork, and chat at least a bit amongst
themselves. She did this just so long as they all behaved themselves, and kept quiet enough in class for
the rest of the period, quite naturally. The bell to mark the end of the period eventually rang at 10:45
am. And then she soon dismissed her new students, as she saw fit, once it did so. This, of course, was
for all the obvious reasons.
Robert followed Rini out of the appropriate classroom. And then the both went to their
respective classes as needed for the next period. They wouldn't have their next class together, though.
And that class period would then begin at 10:50 am local time, for all the obvious reasons, of course.
Robert eventually went to his next class. And he soon encountered Melanie Keyes there.
They met as he was trying to find a good seat near the front to sit in. And they accidentally collided
with each other as they were each moving to different seats in the necessary room of the school's main
building. All their respective books nearly went flying from their hands, but they were both somehow
able to avoid dropping any of them, as a matter of simple enough fact here. She said, "You seem to be
familiar to me, stranger. Though I don't know why just yet, if I ever will."
"I've never met you before, I think. But you seem to be someone who I'll be seeing at least a
bit of in the future, for some yet-unknown reason to me."
Melanie looked him over, and said, "You seem quite good-looking to me. I wonder if there is
a chance that you have a bunch of siblings."
"As a matter of fact, I do. But how do you know this?"
"Call it a feeling. My name is Melanie Keyes. And what's yours, if I may ask you this here?"
"Robert Masbogarin. Do you by any chance know Serena Shields?"
"Which one? I know of two people by that name, at least, Robert."
"The one that's in our grade?"
"Yes, I know of her. She's the daughter of one of my mother's closest friends."
"Who's your mother, if I may ask you this here?"
"My mother is Raye Keyes."
"I don't recognize that name. What does your mother do?"
"She's a singer of music. Mostly in terms of popular music, in fact, Robert. She was an altar
girl too, when she was my age. But no longer, for all the obvious reasons."
"Describe her, if you please." Just then, the teacher entered the classroom, just seconds before
the bell to start the period then sounded. She set her things down on her desk, or near it, as needed,
just before she took out an attendance/grading book, so that she could then take attendance for the
class now in question here, of course.
As the teacher began taking attendance, Melanie continued speaking rather quietly, so that the
teacher would be able to hear all the students before Melanie and Robert here say they were present.
She said, in a barely perceptible enough voice to him, as she sat near him, "She's about 5'9" tall, and
about 158 pounds, I think. And I look a lot like she did at almost the same age that I am now. But not
entirely, for I'm still only twelve years old, in fact. I had my latest birthday on July 27, Robert. I'm still
a young twelve."
"Rini was talking about you and Emara being altar girls at a synaurch around here. Is that true
for the both of you, in fact, Melanie?"
"Yes, Emara and I are altar girls at the Cherry Hill Synaurch near the Cherry Hill Diner. I live
next door to the Synaurch. While she lives about a mile or two away from me near Sunset Hill, which
is to the east of Cherry Hill here, Robert. She's been here for a number of years already, and so have
I. But we only met each other about a year ago, once she and her family started attending our
synaurch. I have two brothers that remind me a lot of Dad when he was younger, in fact."
Just then, the teacher called Melanie's name, and she said, "Present, Mrs. Chesterfield."
Mrs. Chesterfield then nodded approval, and moved on to the next student in her class list,
which was still a few students away from Robert's last name. So Robert would still have a few
moments left to quietly chat with Melanie, hopefully, before he'd also have to report that he was now
present in the room as well.
Eventually, his turn had to come, and it did. When it did, he then quite naturally reported his
presence in the room. And soon after he did so, Mrs. Chesterfield then put away her book, and picked
up another one. For about fifteen or twenty minutes, she then lectured her class, as she then saw fit,
before eventually giving all her students some schoolwork to do for the rest of the period, in fact.
When the period finally ended, it was then 11:35 am, and it was lunch time for all the school's
students who were now in seventh and eighth grades there. Robert soon left for lunch, with Melanie
following him quite closely at the same time, in fact. As she did so, Melanie also encountered Rini. Rini
called her aside for a few moments. And Rini suddenly said, when she was sure enough that they were
both quite alone behind a rather large tree, "Trouble near the Baines and Updike Jewelry Store,
Melanie. I've already notified Melody and Cassidy, and they're on the way there."
"Are we going to need to rumble there, possibly, Rini?"
"Possibly. There are three rather large monsters that are wreaking havoc there right now."
"Who else is responding?"
"Sailors Rising Sun, Spyglass, Tranquility, and Millennium, I believe."
"Should we power up to our Scout states, Rini?"
"Let's check in with our mothers, first."
Rini then pulled back the left sleeve of her uniform blouse. And she then touched the face of
her watch. The top of the watch opened to the bottom. When it did so, a holographic screen was then
projected from the watch to about eye level for Rini at the current time. Rini then touched the screen
with her right hand for a few moments, until the faces of her and Melanie's mothers appeared on it, in a
nine-square grid of sorts. The faces of the Thurston triplets' mother also soon appeared on the nine-
square screen, as did the faces of two other women, in fact. Four squares were currently blank, but
that didn't mean that they'd always be here, during the current conversation.
Rini then said, "Trouble at the B&U Jewelry store, Mother. Sailor Rocketara and Super Sailor
Mercury Minor are inbound, as are Sailors Rising Sun, Spyglass, Tranquility, and Millennium, Mother."
"Rini, do you really think you need to fight the monsters right now?"
"Mother, I don't think that we can avoid fighting here. As you know, Mrs. Updike is usually
there with her mother at this time of day, and they're often with Marvena and Mitchell too. Someone's
going to have to protect them, for you know that if the monsters find them, they might all be in serious
trouble."
Rini's mother thought about that for a brief moment. And then she conversed just as briefly
with Dr. Amy Thurston and Mrs. Raye Keyes. She then said, "Very well, Rini. But please try to be
careful, Small Lady. Take Super Sailor Mars Minor with you then. Mrs. Keyes insists. We'll be
monitoring the situation as needed, so that we can help you all out if the need arises."
"Thank you, Mother. I might need to borrow your Crescent Moon Wand, though."
"We'll see. Try not to take too long in taking care of things, though, Rini. For if I'm not
mistaken here, you only have about 25 or so minutes left of your current lunch period."
"Understood, Mother."
Then Rini signed off. About two minutes later, then, after both she and Melanie had gotten far
enough away from the main school building, and behind a large enough wall, they both transformed into
their respective Sailor Scout states of being. Melanie became Super Sailor Mars Minor, while Rini
became Super Sailor Crescent Moon. And then they set off for the necessary part of town where the
trouble was currently in progress, of course.
When they got there, Sailor Rising Sun was in the process of attacking one of the monsters, as
Sailor Millennium was trying to help her out on the same monster. Sailors Tranquility and Spyglass
were already in the process of engaging another one of the monsters. As they both arrived, they heard
sounds of panic and battle.
When they were both within their respective ranges for their various powers and weapons,
Crescent Moon said, "Stop your destruction in the name of God's Universe, or prepare to die at all our
hands. I am Super Sailor Crescent Moon, and you shall not terrorize these innocent people any longer
with your wreaking havoc in this place."
"And what makes you think that you young girls can stop us here from wreaking havoc in your
town?" asked the middle one of the monsters now causing trouble in this place.
"We've done it to numerous others in our lives already. Leave or die!"
"Make us," said the largest of the three monsters, who was the one who'd just spoken
moments before to Crescent Moon and Mars Minor.
"As you wish. You leave us no choice then. You should pray to your false gods before we
destroy you, and then prepare to die."
"We'll see who dies, then, Rabbit Face!"
"Just for that, you all will die, most likely, monsters. Engage and destroy at will, Scouts!"
Ten seconds or so later, then, a rather thick fog surrounded all three of the monsters now in
question here for a while. This was mainly, if not entirely, courtesy of Sailor Tranquility and Super
Sailor Mercury Minor, in fact. Mercury Minor said, "Mercury Ice Fog Spheres, Blast!" as Tranquility
combined one of her own powers with that one of Mercury Minor's here.
She did this by calling out, as she held a suitably-sized recurved bow at arm's length in front of
herself, "Cometary Bubbling Flares Surround, Strike!" When she did so, a quiver quite full of arrows in
the shape of comets immediately appeared on her back, and an arrow materialized as well already
nocked on her bow. Ten seconds later, that particular arrow was fired. Two minutes later, at most,
she already had at least two dozen arrows beginning to rain down on all of their enemies, if she'd not
aimed those arrows directly at them when she fired them here. And her quiver was refilling itself
periodically.
As for Crescent Moon and Mars Minor, they were in the process of attacking the largest of the
monsters with some anti-evil scrolls and other powers and items then at their disposal. With some help
from Rocketara, whenever possible, in fact.
Several times, at least, Crescent Moon would call out, "Crescent Moon Tiara Action." And
that then would allow her to generate glowing discs with the help of her own Sailor Scout tiara, which
she'd normally wear on her forehead whenever she was in any of her Sailor Scout states of being. That
was supposing that she could access that particular power of hers, of course. For it at least sometimes
would drain her energy considerably during a battle that she might fight as a Sailor Scout in her life.
Her mother had used a similar power, if not the exact same power, that Crescent Moon was
now using here. Her mother had used this certain power of hers to often destroy various monsters
when she was about the age that Rini/Crescent Moon was now, but just a bit older than her daughter
was now.
Rini had been a Sailor Scout for several years, in at least two different time periods, if not more.
And that was one reason why she wasn't now just a Sailor Scout, but specifically was a Super Sailor
Scout. When she'd gotten old enough in her life, she'd begun to gain at least some of the powers that
her mother had once had, to at least some degree, if not totally. When she'd first become a Scout,
she'd just been a Sailor Scout. But now, after many battles in at least two different time periods, she'd
earned herself a promotion to the rank of Super Sailor Scout, with the help of at least a few other
people in her life.
It had been a while since she'd last seen one of her friends from a long way away in her life.
She hoped that she'd eventually see him again someday. But she didn't know if and when that might
actually come to pass for her in her life, though.
She sent several discs toward the monster that she, Mars Minor, and Rocketara were now
basically opposing here. But she still couldn't destroy that monster yet. For it was still too strong at the
current time, in fact. Even after Rocketara had then fired several good-sized missiles of various kinds at
it, which had combined somehow with Mars Minor's current Fireballs Charge and Crescent Moon's
Crescent Moon Tiara Action attacks to become even stronger still, the aforementioned monster still
survived well enough here.
Eventually, the monster that Millennium and Rising Sun were now opposing here was killed.
Rising Sun had left several good-sized slashes and other injuries present on that monster. Millennium
had also generated several kinds of weapons with the help of whatever jewelry-related items that she
currently had with her here. And then Millennium had thrown those weapons directly into the places
where Rising Sun had slashed and otherwise injured that monster. Which soon made the monster
largely either turn into ashes, or vaporize at least partly, if not entirely, if it didn't actually turn into ashes
here, in fact..
With that done here, then, Rising Sun and Millennium began moving toward the one that
Mercury Minor, Tranquility, Spyglass, and Rocketara were now periodically either attacking or
defending against. The fog that Tranquility and Mercury Minor had created several minutes before had
eventually begun to dissipate to at least some degree, several seconds before. But by the time that it
began doing so, Mercury Minor said, all of a sudden, "Rising Sun and Millennium, don't attack this
monster. I think that we can recover the humanoid being inside it well enough here. So please don't
attack it. We need to wear out this monster, for there's a humanoid that has been turned into a monster
inside it." She said this because a small data computer that she also had with her at the current time had
detected the presence of a humanoid somehow inside the monster, in fact.
"Then what do you want us to do?" asked Rising Sun.
"Cause a distraction that will buy us some time to figure things out here well enough."
"This monster seems to want to take down a building complex here, real bad, Mercury Minor.
What do you suggest we do for a distraction?" These things were just said by Millennium, in fact.
"Do the first thing that comes into your minds, I suppose."
"Just so long as we don't attack it?" asked Rising Sun.
"Yes, I believe so."
"As you wish, Mercury Minor. But if this doesn't work, then we may still have to destroy it,
just the same."
"Understood, Rising Sun."
Rising Sun and Millennium ran in opposite directions for about fifteen or so seconds, before
they each entered nearby telephone boxes. And they both dialed a certain number on the phones in
each box. The number was exactly the same, in fact. And when they stuck their fingers in the
appropriate coin return slots, they didn't find coins there. Instead, they found pens that'd allow them to
disguise themselves periodically, so as to look like other people or things, even while still remaining
exactly as they were at certain times in their own lives. They took the pens, of course. And they
decided to disguise themselves as dancers of either the tap dancing or ballet kind, in fact. They then
disguised themselves as dancers while they hid themselves temporarily in the telephone boxes. And
finally, they had completely changed their apparent looks, at least as of the current time. They exited
their respective phone boxes at the same exact instant. And then they yelled at the monsters still in front
of them, so as to get their attention, hopefully enough. The monsters then stopped whatever they were
then doing, just to look at them. When they caught Mercury Minor's eye, she very briefly winked at
them both. That was the signal for them both to begin causing their distraction, if they hadn't already
done so, here.
Millennium began to tap-dance in the middle of the street, while Rising Sun began to execute
various kinds of ballet moves, so as to hopefully draw away the monsters' attentions from whatever
they'd just been doing before. Which was to attack whatever they could attack at the current time, of
course. Both monsters then sat down almost immediately in the middle of the street just to see the
rather impromptu dancing that Millennium and Rising Sun were now doing here, in fact. As did several
other people, whether they were Scouts or not, at the current time.
As they did so, Crescent Moon then called her mother briefly on her watch communicator, and
moments later, a Crescent Moon Wand appeared in her hands. Her mother had just sent it to her by
teleporting it to her daughter, who'd then hopefully be able to change the monster or monsters that had
at least one human inside each of them. When Mercury Minor said, "I think that you can change them
both back, Crescent Moon," Crescent Moon then faced the largest of the monsters first, for all the
obvious reasons.
At a nod from Mercury Minor, then, Crescent Moon said, "Moon Healing Activation!" Which
then would hopefully change that monster back into a mere humanoid being well enough, if at all
possible. Crescent Moon did a little dance of sorts, before she then pointed the wand directly at the
larger of the two still-surviving monsters. And she was soon enough rewarded by the shrinking of the
monster in size, and the monster changing back into humanoid form again, as it had been, before getting
turned into a monster. When the monster turned back into a human, a card with a crystal on it fell to
the ground and stuck in it, briefly, before the crystal fell off the card and hit the ground, shattering into
any number of uncountable pieces.
The revealed humanoid was a young man with what appeared to be a robe and sandals, as well
as a sword of light, at least. This man was not apparently from this world, in fact, but from what
appeared to be a desert planet, for his skin was at least a little tanned and a little weather-worn, most
likely. Crescent Moon asked his name, and the stranger said, "My name is Luke Skywalker of the
Jedi."
"We are Sailor Scouts. We've never heard of the Jedi. How did you get here?"
"I have no idea. The last thing I knew, I was battling a Hutt on another world in the Universe.
And the next thing I knew, I was here. Wherever here is, of course."
"What's a Hutt?" asked Crescent Moon.
"A huge land-based slug, for your information. May I ask your name here?"
"My name is Super Sailor Crescent Moon, and the rest of the girls that look enough like me
here are also Sailor Scouts, Mr. Skywalker."
"I see. Perhaps we'll talk later?"
"Maybe, if my parents agree, I think I might like that at least a bit here."
Just then, Super Sailor Crescent Moon then turned toward the other monster still watching the
nearby dancers, and she also turned that monster back into their normal humanoid state of being. A
woman with somewhat wavy black hair soon appeared to everyone's view here. She was wearing
what appeared to be some sort of uniform, and it was a mostly medium blue and black uniform with
three round pips on the collar. Mostly, it was black, but there was some medium blue on her shoulders
for the aforementioned uniform. She also wore what now appeared to be a mostly silver vest with
some pink and/or red on it, as well.
When Crescent Moon asked her name, as well, the female stranger said, "My name is
Commander Deanna Troi Riker. I was on an away mission with several of my shipmates. And the
next thing I knew, I met you here like this, when you asked me who I was just now, Crescent Moon."
"Where are you from, if I may ask?"
"I don't remember. I do know I was on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D or E, but I don't remember
much more than that at the current time. I believe that I was the Ship's Counselor on my ship, and I
was off my ship on some sort of away mission for it."
"Well, maybe we can find a way to get you each back to wherever you actually belong
elsewhere in the Universe, people. In the meantime, if you see any other people that look enough like
us, then don't be afraid of them. I noticed there was another monster here, too. Do you have any idea
whether there was actually a human inside it as well, Commander?"
"No, I don't. I don't even know how I got here."
Mercury Minor then said, after having checked out what little still remained of the monster that
Rising Sun and Millennium had been forced to destroy, "The other monster didn't have a humanoid
inside it, Crescent Moon. It was all monster, and it was from the Dark Spheres, from what I can gather
from these ashes and other nearby things still here. It was all monster, with some cybernetic implants,
evidently. And it would've destroyed us all, if it'd had the chance. It was quite large, in fact, and it was
about to take down several buildings when Rising Sun and Millennium killed and destroyed it," said
Mercury Minor.
Just then, several other Scouts materialized in the area near the recent battle site. Among them,
of course, was Crescent Moon's mother. Crescent Moon soon found her mother, and she returned the
Crescent Moon Wand she'd just been lent back to her. Her mother smiled, as Dr. Thurston, who was
also Crystal Sailor Mercury, then began to check everyone for injuries who was sufficiently near and
had been around when the battle had been raging, in fact. She did this with the help of another Sailor
Scout who was now basically in a mostly purple Sailor Scout uniform.
After a while, Dr. Thurston reported, "No permanent injuries to report, Crystal Sailor Moon.
Everyone here should be fine enough in the near future, I think, if they aren't already."
"Good, Crystal Sailor Mercury. I think we can take things from here, then, so that the kids can
get back to school, if the need arises here."
"I agree. It's almost noon now, anyway."
"Sorry you had to fight during your lunch period, Crescent Moon and all. Crystal Sailor Jupiter
thought you girls might be hungry after having to fight here, so she quite quickly put together some
lunches for you to eat before you have to get back to class. Crystal Sailor Pluto will slow down time as
needed, for you, so that you have enough time to eat, I think. But let's try not to have to fight during
your lunch period here, if at all possible, Crescent Moon." She handed one lunch bag to all of the
necessary Scouts here, before smiling at them all again briefly.
"Understood, Crystal Sailor Moon."
Two minutes later, then, all the younger Scouts had somehow managed to get far enough away
from the battle location here, and transform out of their respective Sailor Scout states of being. After
they did this, they all then ran back to their school or schools, as needed, even while Crystal Sailor
Pluto was now slowing time down for at least them, if not others as well, of course. They all had their
lunches on the run, as Crystal Sailor Pluto was slowing down time at least for them, if not others as
well. But to anyone else, they all were quite blurry in terms of being able to see them clearly enough, in
fact. If not totally invisible instead to everyone else who didn't yet know of them here to a sufficient
enough degree, at least, as well.
Needless to say, they all arrived back at their school or schools in time for their first class of the
afternoon, of course. And none of them got in enough trouble for them to be late to those very classes,
in fact. Robert didn't see them arrive, but by the time that he'd returned to the area of his locker,
Melanie Keyes was already near her own locker, if not also his as well.
When Robert saw that Melanie was apparently a bit more tired than when he'd last seen her
here on the school's campus, after first getting close enough to her to talk to her, he asked, "What's the
matter, Melanie?"
"Nothing you need to worry about here, Robert. I decided to get a little exercise around here
for a while during lunch. That's all." Melanie somehow knew that might not answer his question here
well enough. But she still hoped that it'd buy her and maybe others at least a little more time to think of
a better thing to say about such things here, if the need arose for her and them to do so, eventually.
"Fine. If you really don't want to tell me right now, then don't. But I now have this feeling that
there's at least something that you're not actually telling me here, Melanie. I won't push on it right now,
at least. But be aware that eventually, I might want to know what's going on here with you, Melanie.
And maybe other people around here as well, if the need arises for us all here at the same time."
"Understood, Robert."
The rest of the day at school was rather uneventful, in fact. And the school day ended for all
the students at the school who had nothing else to do there afterward at 3:10 pm. After which Robert
eventually began walking back to his family's current residence for at least the next few hours, if not
longer than that. Before he could get out the main doors of the school's main building, though, Melanie
and Rini asked him, "Robert, how would you like to get something to eat sometime elsewhere in town?"
"Let me think about it, girls. I'm not really looking for company right now. I just remembered I
have other things that I must do for the next few days, if at all possible."
"Any time, then, if and whenever possible, Robert." This comment was from Melanie.
"I'll consider it, girls, if you and your friends give me enough time to do so well enough to suit
me here."
"Understood, Robert," said Rini, in very short order.
Then Robert parted from both girls almost immediately afterward here. And he then went
home to his family's residence elsewhere in town. The girls didn't follow him, either, as a matter of
actual fact.
When he got there, his father met him in the kitchen/dining room area of their residence, and
asked him how his day was. Robert said, "Fine, Dad. I had an okay day of school for my first day of
high school today."
"I heard there was some excitement near the B&U Jewelry Store today. But some young
people who appeared to be roughly your age evidently took care of it, from what I learned on the radio
today."
"Oh, is that so?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, it is. Your mother even saw at least some, if not all, of it on her lunch
break today. She said some young people destroyed one monster and transformed two others into
humans somehow. One of the girls appeared to have at least some pink hair on her head, if not a lot of
pink hair there, in fact."
Robert thought, "That sounds weird. I don't understand how that could be the case yet, if I
ever will. But if Mom's right, then there has to be at least one pink-haired girl who now's living in this
town, somewhere."
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The next chapter will introduce more of the Scouts, at least in their civilian forms, and it will be
significantly related to Scouts from Jupiter, in fact. Lita and Ken and their family will be largely
mentioned in it, in actual reality. Another battle will take place during Chapter Four, as well, which will
involve several Scouts and several more of my original characters. Both who are Scouts and who
aren't actually Scouts either. When that chapter comes, I will let you know which characters are from
my original series work, and which are from my fan fiction stories that I may or may not have already
put up here, for the obvious reasons. Until then, you'll just have to see what's coming up soon enough.
But I promise you more crossover elements will be added to the story as well within the next few
chapters, at most, readers. So please read, review, and enjoy, if at all possible. Until later, then, this is
now "The Universal Storyteller" signing off here. Happy reading, and God bless, and all that, of
course, readers! Over and out!