Sailor moon

Court of Stars

Chapter 3: Path's collide.

To say that Setsuna was pissed off with the prince was an understatement. He was working very quickly to unravel all her years of planing and he knew what he was doing to. Despite the fact that she couldn't feel the gates being used. Marching up the stairs to Rei's temple the impaired senshi stopped to regain her composure and entered the temple. The inners where all there by the steps, talking animatedly to each other as they waited. The outers stood to one side by the trees all looking tense, it wasn't often that Setsuna called a meting of the senshi and when she did the news really didn't bode well for them. As she stopped before them Usagi was the first to speak.

"So why did you call us here Setsuna?" she asked, looking up at the green haired senshi from her seat on the stairs. Setsuna looked down and bowed slightly to the princess.

"There is a new problem arising as we speak, your highness." She started formally, conveying her seriousness. "Another from the silver millennium has surfaced and it is no less than the prince of the moon kingdom." The senshi all looked at her, shocked.

"What!?" Half of them said together, Haruka found her voice first and nearly yelled at Setsuna.

"You mean to say there really was a prince and now he's running around reincarnated?" Setsuna frowned.

"No, he wasn't reincarnated, I would have known if he was. He vanished when he was barely a year old, I tried to find him but I didn't, now he's back and I'm afraid that this time he comes as an enemy." Some of them started to protest but Setsuna held out a hand to stop them. "He's already begun to destroy crystal Tokyo, and he's sealed me out of the time stream and away from the gates so I can't see what he's doing, but I am certain that he's already started to gather allies, and now he has two senshi at his side, One the senshi of earth and the other the senshi of the sun." Everyone gaped at her.

"There where more senshi and they never came to us?" Usagi, asked standing. Setsuna nodded.

"They are not connected to the silver crystal like we are; they are bound to the star lords as champions for other systems." She was cut off by a new arrival, Moramu.

"You said that there was a senshi of Earth." He started. Setsuna got what he was trying to say.

"Yes, you where related in the silver millennium as far as I can tell, she was a younger princess......... and the chosen one of Gaia." The young man who was Tuxedo mask had a strained expression on his face as he nodded. The other senshi looked from one to the other, obviously not understanding the conversation.

"I don't think it would be wise to let her get a grip on the earth, we have to assure crystal Tokyo." Maromu said slowly, sounding more desperate than ever before. Pluto nodded,

"It will be done, your highness."

Kotori was late, after the night she'd stayed at Dante's things had begun to get strange. She was hyper aware of her surroundings and kept seeing small creatures out of the corner of her eye wherever she looked. This morning she'd slept in because one of these creatures had thought it funny to set back her alarm clock to make her late for school, it was a prank that wasn't appreciated by the recipient. She'd just reached the gates and was paying to much attention to the little people around her so she didn't notice that she was on a crash course with two humans until she ran into them and crashed to the ground.

"Ohhh!" She moaned and looked up to see another girl sitting on top of a large young man who had been following her to closely. Holding her head she began to apologise as she got to her knees and gathered the paper that had gone flying from her book bag. "I'm so sorry, I was late and I wasn't paying attention to where I was going, are you alright?" The red haired girl looked up at her with bright blue eyes and held back a gasp at what she saw. Quickly nodding she bounced to her feet and helped Ryoga to his feet.

"Uh, we're alright." Ranko assured Kotori. "We were late to, Ryoga and I just enrolled here." Kotori gave a faint smile and accepted the hand to help her up. She felt a shiver run down her spine as she came into contact with Ranko. "The name's Ranko, Ranko Hibiki." She introduced herself. "I guess well be seeing you around then huh?" With that she gave a little wave and nearly dragged Ryoga into the school. Kotori stood there a few more moments until the warning bell rang to knock her out of her stupor. Looking at her watch she began to run once again toward the school entrance but as she slid into her seat in the classroom on time she couldn't help but think about the energy that had come from the new girl Ranko.

Lunchtime at Jubban high was a lot less eventful than that of Furinkan. Students milled around the gardens talking and laughing without a care in the world. Ranko and Ryoga sat under one of the large trees in the area behind the school watching as the blonde girl they'd run into that morning dutifully went about replanting the flowers that someone had dug up recently. As she worked an aura had begun to build up around her invisible to all but those trained to see them. It shimmered brightly with all the lively swirling colours of the rainbow. Parts of it sank into the earth around her, making the flowers around her burst into bloom into life looking more vibrant than they had a few minutes ago. The plants gave off their own energy as the girls power integrated with her surroundings almost completely.

"Ryoga," she started, looking up at the bandana-clad boy's face. "what do you think that girl is?" She asked nodding her head slightly toward Kotori. Ryoga watched her and frowned.

"She is human if that's what you're thinking." He shifted slightly and looked around at the other students. "No one else seems to notice the flowers though." He was right, all the other students hadn't noticed the flowers blooming. Ranko made a little noise that meant she'd figured something out.

"It's the environmental ki." She said in a hushed voice. "She must have a genuine connection with the earth to be able to call that kind of aura. I knew the earth was alive but the aura is exactly the same." Ryoga's eyes widened suddenly.

"You don't mean like an extension of the planet itself?" he guessed correctly. Ranko nodded excitedly.

"That's exactly what I mean, it's no wonder that this garden grows so well, and she also has the potential to become one of the most powerful people on the planet with that kind of power." They looked back to see Kotori's aura withdrawing from the earth and back into herself. The bell rang a few seconds later and Kotori vanished into the buildings. They followed her lead and went into the building both thinking about the powerful girl. Neither realised that they themselves where being watch by none other than Dante' from across the gardens. His golden eyes flashed in a brief moment of power that made all those sensitive to it shiver and finally turned away, walking through the school doors without a backward glance at the glowing pattern the garden now made.

The sign of the earth.

Well.............................. I think it's a bit short, I guess that I'll need to try and get more time on the computer in the future so I can make the chapters longer. That's another thing I need to mention, I'm sorry if my updates are slower than usual, as I put in my profile I didn't do my homework and now I'm paying for it......... Not to mention having to waste a fair bit of time erasing my tracks on the net.

Well, anyway......... Don't forget to review!

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