Setsuna's New Job. Indigo Graces the Scene.
"This is how it has been decided," The beautiful queen of the sun began. She wore an elegant yellow gown trimmed with periwinkle and cyan blue. Her medium blonde hair was done in two small buns on top of her head, the signature of royalty at the time of the Silver and Golden Millenniums. The rest of her hair hung down to just below her shoulders. Two elegant sky blue wings were displayed majestically on her back and a crown of two wings, miniature versions of those on her back, framed the golden sun-star symbol of the Golden Millennium. "You, my daughter, will take your soldiers, the Sun Color Senshi, to the city on Earth called Tokyo. You must find Sailor Moon, the princess of the moon and possessor of the Imperiem Silver Crystal. She will help you purify your sister, her soldiers, and your lost soldier of the evil of the Negaverse. The princess has a kind heart and she will help you. I will follow shortly, for I much wish to see the lost senshi of our kingdom, my daughter, and the Princess Serenity. You are dismissed." The elegant queen waved to them and sat back down on her golden throne.
Sailor Spectrum and her seven soldiers exited the grand throne room.
"Princess Enogu?" Sailor Gray Sun asked politely.
"Yes?"
"I was thinking," she began quietly, "We will need a very strong shield to get through the fiery atmosphere of the sun and out into space... and we need it to last long against the coldness and lack of air."
White Sun nodded. "It is a long way to earth."
"You are correct. It would be best if we launched off the High Turret. There we will be able to gather the most power, for that is where the Sun Prism lies," The purple-haired princess agreed and started down the long golden corridors, her loyal guardians behind her.
"Helia!" A girl with shimmering lavender hair pushed through the bushes near Juuban High during lunch hour. "Solara! Apollo!" she called.
Makoto sighed, a new girl to the area, Shinwano Itazura, was looking for her lost cats everywhere. She took a slow bite out of one of her rice balls as she watched the loud Itazura crawl through the bushes.
"Mako-chan?" Usagi asked hopefully, "Are you going to eat the rest of that?"
"No, go right ahead," she said absently, still watching Itazura in the bushes.
There was a rustling ahead of her in the leaves and a yellow tail swished by. "Solara?" she asked and grabbed at the tail.
"MEOOW!!"
"WAAIIII!!!"
Meioh Setsuna surveyed her new patient with an amused yet critical look. She had recently become a nurse at Juuban High and she had never seen anything this interesting. "Shinwano Itazura, what exactly did you do to yourself?"
"Umm... Well...." She started sheepishly, "I was looking for my lost cats and I thought I saw one of them in the bushes...but I guess I was wrong." She giggled nervously. Her shiny indigo hair that usually hung to her mid-back was matted and had many sticks and leaves prodding out of it. Her face and arms were covered in scratched from, apparently, cat claws and her legs had been scratched by the bushes when frantically tried to escape the cat. Her clothes were slightly shredded from both the bushes and the cat. The majority of her scratches were bleeding lightly.
"First we need to get you a different uniform for the time being, then we will clean up your scratches," Setsuna concluded. She bent down and pulled a spare uniform out of a box lying near by. She passed the neatly folded clothing to the scratched up girl. "Now, go put this on in that bathroom over there, then we'll fix up your scratches," she pointed to the door and smiled sweetly.
"Okay," Itazura grinned and hurried into the bathroom.
The tall, green-haired woman's smile faded as the girl shut the door. There's something about her... I just can't say what. She sighed. There is both definite evil energy in her and definite good. She pondered for a moment more and the girl came back.
"Now sit down," she urged gently and Itazura complied. Then she took a towel and put some soap and water on it and proceeded to wash the beautiful girl's scratches. Itazura winced. "I know it stings," Setsuna said calmly, "but you're going to have to tough it out. Otherwise, some of these might get infected."
She nodded.
After a long silence of cleaning scratches, the tall dark-haired nurse asked, "About your cats, how did they get lost?"
"Well," Itazura tried to come up with a reasonable answer, "They like to wander, but I haven't seen them in a long time, so I'm getting worried."
"Why don't you make posters?" Setsuna suggested as the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch and beginning of afternoon classes.
"Wow!" the idea struck the blue-eyed girl, "You're a genius Meioh-san!"
Setsuna blushed, "No, I'm not, but I love cats. I know three absolutely wonderful ones, myself."
"What are their names?" the girl asked innocently.
"Luna, Artimis, and their kitten Diana," the beautiful nurse answered.
"Hmm... They all have to do with the moon..." Itazura pondered quietly to herself.
A few moments later, a terrified scream was heard from out the window. Setsuna dropped the rag she had been using and rushed to the window. Nine hideous monsters were circling in on a helpless group of students. "Youmas" Setsuna sighed, frustrated. Then to Itazura she said, "I'll be right back, someone is hurt out there. You just stay put."
The girl nodded.
Setsuna hurried from the room, pulling out her henshin pen as she went. There's something about that girl... She ducked into an empty classroom. "Pluto Crystal Power, Makeup!"
Shinwano Itazura moved over to the window. Negaverse Youmas, she thought, they're everywhere! She fished the indigo heart-shaped compact from the bow on the back of her head. It had a dark silver, up-side-down crescent in its center: the symbol for the Nega-Moon.
"Curonos Cyclone!" Sailor Pluto yelled as her attack blasted two of the Youmas into oblivion. Two more blasted her with dark energy. She hoped that some of her fellow senshi would realize the danger soon. She was blasted against a tree. She moaned and reached for her staff, which had been blasted in another direction. Three of the creatures closed in hungrily around her while the other four moved closer in on the students. One blasted her again and another leapt for the staff.
"Indigo Invisible Beams Beat Down!" An indigo and black clad senshi, Sailor Indigo Sun, leaped into action. The three monsters surrounding Sailor Pluto vanished as the barely visible indigo energy struck them. Her bodice and gloves were of two shades of black. The rest of her uniform was a darker and lighter shade of indigo. Her broach and the compact on the bow in her shiny, shoulder-length, indigo hair bore the sign of the Negaverse. Her boots were mid-calf height and indigo. "Let's get rid of these brutes!" she said energetically with a wry smile on her face.
Pluto nodded and attacked. "Pluto Dead Scream!" Her indigo sphere of energy shot towards the group and destroyed one.
Sailor Indigo Sun, stared, concentrating, at her all the while. Then she turned and attacked as well. "Indigo Dead Scream!" This attack destroyed the last three.
Pluto stood there, dumbstruck. "How did you do that; imitate my attack?" she asked in disbelief.
The indigo senshi let out a loud, playful laugh. "I'm your Golden Counterpart," she answered and laughed some more.
Sailor Pluto still stood there, trying to comprehend what the senshi had meant.
"Glad to be of service Meioh-san!" Indigo Sun said and leaped off.
Usagi, Minako, Ami, and Makoto walked slowly home from school. Luna trotted beside them and Artimis rode on Minako's shoulder.
"Those Spectrum Senshi, from the sun, still puzzle me," Ami commented.
"Very true," Luna agreed, "I feel like I'm on the verge of remembering something, but it never comes."
"Those Youmas still bother me as well," Makoto said, "They could be anywhere, hurting anyone. Too bad we don't still have to moon stick to tell us if they are around."
"Let you're intuition do that," Artimis said, "You have grown much more powerful since then. Destroying minions of your first enemy should not be a challenge. You also know how to sense their presence."
Minako paused and turned to see Usagi staring at a flyer on a telephone pole, "Usagi?"
"You guys, look at this," she said and signaled for them to come.
They all walked over and Luna hopped onto Usagi's shoulder for a better look.
"Hmm..." Luna pondered when she saw it.
"Lost," Ami read, "Three cats. Answer to Apollo, Solara, and Helia. If found please contact Shinwano Itazura."
Also on the poster was a hurried drawing of three cats; one light orange, one midnight blue- almost black, and the third was the same yellow as Minako's hair. Each had a dark silver 'bald spot' in the shape of an up-side-down crescent on their forehead.
"Negamoon," Luna shuddered when she saw the symbol on their foreheads. "They must be related to the Sun Senshi. All their names have to do with the sun.
Artimis gasped. "Apollo!"