Author's Notes: Welcome back for round two! I know these chapters are kinda short right now, but they will get longer and more exciting in the future, I promise ^.^. I'm just working on introducing the characters right now.

Disclaimer: *temporarily eats the Sailor Moon copyrights to regurgitate later*. I don't own any these characters, with the exception of the two leading characters.

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Episode 1: Just the Beginning

Chapter 2 - New Friends

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The next day during class, Usagi leaned over and jabbed Kori with her pencil. Kori almost yelped, but covered her mouth to prevent herself from doing so. She rubbed her arm angrily, and glared over at Usagi. "What do you want?!" she whispered harshly in the blonde girl's direction, leaning a little into the isle so she could be heard better.

"You wanna eat lunch with me and my friends today? They said they wanted to meet you," Usagi replied, raising her eyebrows in question.

Kori pondered on the thought. She didn't have any friends yet, and she might not have any for a while if she didn't take this opportunity. 'Wait a minute,' thought Kori, 'she was talking about me??' Kori looked back at Usagi, who was still bobbing her head around with her eyebrows raised, waiting for Kori's reply. "Yeah, I guess I could. See you then," she whispered quietly. Kori leaned back into her desk from the isle and continued her work.

Usagi, on the other hand had wanted to keep talking and kept leaning into the isle. Eventually, she lost her balance and fell into the skinny isle with a loud thud. Everyone in the class turned to look at the twitching Usagi on the floor, even the boy Kori had met the day before, Luke. Kori's face turned red, and buried her face into her books.

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At lunch later on that day, Kori quietly sat with Usagi and her friends. She quietly munched away at her food not saying a word, remaining unnoticed by the group of people around her. By the time she had almost finished her lunch and was about to leave, someone finally said something concerning her, "So Usagi! When are you going to introduce us to your friend? She's been sitting here the whole time and she hasn't said a word!" It had been the tall, brown-haired girl that spoken. The one that she had seen yesterday looming over everyone else.

"Oh!! Yeah! Of course," said Usagi dumbfounded. Her friends put their heads in her hands and sighed as Usagi yelled loudly. Loud enough for the whole courtyard to hear, of course. "Kori this is Makoto Kino, or Mako-chan for short," said Usagi, pointing to the brown-haired girl. Usagi continued, "And this is Ami Mizuno, the brains of the group." Usagi pointed to the shorter blue-haired girl and the girl replied by looking from her books with a smile. Usagi then pointed to the two boys situated between Makoto and Ami, "Those two there are Greg and Ken. There's also a few more others, but they attend different schools. Like Rei, Minako, Chibi-Usa, Chad, Antonio, and of course Mamoru." Usagi's eyes lit up with sparkles as she pronounced Mamoru's name, and she went off into her own little dimension to think about him.

"Hello everyone. Pleased to meet you all," replied Kori with a small wave. She nodded her head to each and every one of them, giving a small hello.

"Aren't you going to tell us her name Usagi? We're not all psychic like Rei is!" said Ken jokingly, looking to Kori with a large grin.

The group broke out into laughter, and Kori laughed along with them. It was the first time in a long while that she had laughed with friends like this. Friends.....Kori had friends now. No longer did she feel so alone. "My name's Kori," she said in between laughs.

"Hi Kori!" chorused everyone around her. Kori gave a grin wide enough to fall off her face.

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Kori packed up her things, stuffing all her schoolwork into her leather bag. She left the school promptly, and headed for the sidewalk that led to her home. She sighed. She didn't want to walk to her new house five blocks away. She didn't like it as much as her old one in California. It was much smaller. Everything here seemed more expensive and much smaller than things had been back at home. She never did quite understand.

As she was walking down the sidewalk, she heard a voice behind her, "Hey Kori, wait up!" Kori stopped to look behind her.

"Hi Lucas!" she replied when he caught up to her.

"Hey, mind if I walk home with you? I'm heading this way too," said Luke, somewhat out of breath from running to catch up with Kori.

"You're more than welcome to," said Kori with a shy smile. She was overwhelmed when he smiled back. His smile was so broad and you could tell he meant it when he grinned. That grin made all her problems melt away. Not that she really had any, but she pretended she did just so she could see him smile again.

The two were silent for a few moments as they walked down the sidewalk, cars whizzing by. Finally, Luke broke the silence, "Hey Kori, where did you live before you moved here? The teacher never asked you yesterday in class."

"Well, I was born in California in the United States, but my parents were married here in Japan. I'm not sure why they moved to the U.S. in the first place, but they ended up staying there and I was born. We moved back here though because my parents wanted to be back in their home country. I don't think they ever took into consideration that America was my home country." Kori heard his mouth hit the concrete sidewalk. She laughed and said, "It's not that big of a deal you know..." She pushed his chin back where it belonged, and was surprised at how soft his skin was. She longed to touch it again, but didn't dare.

Lucas laughed and shoved his hands into his pockets, "I've always wanted to go to California, or any other warm state on the coast. I wish I could learn how to surf." His eyes stared off into the distance as he thought of the beaches and coarse sand. He loved the beach. He envied Kori for once living there.

"Really? I'd lived there all my life until recently. I really wish I could go back, though. I miss my friends back at home." Kori's head hung low. She stared at her feet as she walked down the busy sidewalk.

A few more moments of silence ensued. "So...uh, Kori," Luke stuttered. Ever since the first time he had caught her staring at him in class yesterday, he had wanted to ask her out on a date. She was so pretty and really nice too, and the way he felt around her...it was different. He had never felt like this around any other girls before. Then again, he had never had many serious relationships. Just lots of....girls. He glanced sidewardly at Kori.

"Oh sorry, did you say something? I kinda lost my train of thought there for a 'sec." Kori looked over at a fidgety Luke and smiled. Luke stopped in the middle of the sidewalk and Kori stopped with him, staring into his cerulean blue eyes.

"Uh...do you ever wanna....do something with me? On a date? Would you even considerate it? I mean, I know-" Luke was hushed by a slender finger over his lips.

"Of course I'd go out with you! Did yah think I'd say no or something?" Kori giggled and removed her finger from his lips, letting it hang back at it's side where it had originally been.

"Heh heh, thanks Kori. I promise you I'll make it worth your while." Luke chuckled nervously. He flashed her that grin again, and Kori simply replied with a beaming smile.

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Usagi looked around at everyone sitting around the small table in Rei's temple. Rei and Mina-chan themselves were fussing over a Sailor-V comic book, and Ami (as usual) had her nose stuck in a book. Chibi-Usa stood with Luna-P by her side, trying to see over Rei's shoulder to nose into the comic. Mako had her elbows propped up on the table and was staring at Ken, and Greg was helping Ami study. Mamoru and Antonio were arguing over which was better - physics or girls. Chad was the only one not doing something. Rather, he was trying to figure out was going on in a mass of confusion. Luna and Artemis were yelling profusely at the others to try to get them to pay attention, but gave up after having no luck whatsoever.

Usagi on the other hand..."HELLOOO!" Everyone in the room stopped what they were doing and looked at Usagi with surprise. Before she knew it though, everyone had gone back to what they were doing and had completely forgotten about Usa's outburst. Usagi sighed with aggravation, "So, what'd you guys think of Kori today?"

Mina, Chibi-Usa, Rei, Mamoru, Antonio, and Chad looked up with questioning faces. Chad flung his hands in the air and muttered to himself with utter confusion.

"Who's Kori? A new friend of yours Usa?" asked Mina, tapping her finger on her chin as she spoke.

"Ohhh yeah! You six didn't get to meet her today did yah!" said Usagi cheerfully, pointing at Mamoru, Antonio, Rei, Chad, Chibi-Usa, and Mina.

"Well Usagi if you told us, then maybe we'd know!" yelled Rei with aggravation.

"Yeah Meatball head!" said Mamoru jokingly, reaching over to tickle his Usa.

Usagi squealed and ran out of reach of Mamoru's wriggling fingers, meanwhile trying to relay the story of Kori to her friends.

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Varisite looked into his dark purple mass called a portal. The portal shifted and glistened in the dim light. The man needed a plan. A plan to gather enough energy for his attack on Crystal Tokyo, and a plan to collect the pure energy crystals from five lucky candidates. Lucky enough for him, he had a small pouch full of black crystalline powder. This powder was very powerful, it was not like your everyday average powder makeup. It could conjure the power to locate people, and it had the power to summon powerful magic.

He took the small pouch from the inside pocket of his large trench coat. He took a small pinch of the black dust in his fingers, and tossed it in the portal's direction. "Show me the first victim holding a pure energy crystal!" he shouted. His voice echoed in the void surrounding him.

The purple smoke wavered and an image began to form in it's depths. Slowly, the image of a raven haired girl with platinum streaks appeared.

"So...this is the first holder...How interesting. It'll be a pity to kill her. She's damn hot..." The man turned and disappeared into the darkness surrounding him, meanwhile letting out a hysterical laugh.

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Chad, Greg, Ken, and Antonio are the sailor senshi's respective knights and boyfriends. Chad, Greg, and Ken all appear in the TV series, but don't play a big part. Greg is the guy that liked Ami, Ken is Mako's friend, and we all know who Chad is. ^.^ I decided to use their American names because their Japanese ones are kinda....wierd. ^.^' Anyhoo...

For better understanding of some of the upcoming chapters, I highly suggest reading Sailor Knights at www.sailorjupiter.com. It doesn't take too long to read, and it's pretty interesting. Anyways, please leave a review!