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All the Sailor Scouts are going to be very similar to, though not exactly like, their original Sailor Moon counter parts. I will try not to chop them up to much. Basically they are going to be very similar though, no complete attitude turn-around's or personality transplants. They will be very much as they always were but with a few minor adjustments because of their altered family situations and experiences. Also note that they are not the original scouts reborn or anything. The scouts are chosen from birth by the power of the planets ((corny saying).
Song of the New Cosmos
By: Liquid_Goddess_Reformation
Chapter two: Mercury's Awakening Melody
"So you do it like this?" Daemian asked her.
"No, see, you've got the basic idea but you're still making minor mistakes. You have to follow all the steps. See lets try it again.," Selece told him, and they went over the math problem one more time. Selece Aisu Seikano, known as Se-le to Daemian, was a student at Mercury's top school of the sciences and eighteen years old. At the moment though, she was tutoring Daemian, fifteen year old son of Princess Mercury.
It was rather stressing since he barely paid attention and never did all the proper steps of followed the formula's in his math problems or asked off topic questions on science. Today it was especially stressful since she was at the Mercury estate attached to the governing office of the planet. Even more stressful was the fact that they had news of the attack on the Moon's capital which happened a few days ago. The staff was running around in a subdued sort of panicking mob. Everyone wanted to know if anyone got hurt, who attacked them, if Her Imperial Highness was going to cancel the traditional Crowning Progress, and if Mercury was still going to be the first destination.
Her Most Honored Majesty Princess Mercury had her office right next to the room Selece and Deamian were using as a study room and every so often someone would run into the room with news or announce something on the intercom or send a call or collective e-mail that popped-up on the computer screens in every room. One even had annoying sounds added. That was the one that announced that, if the Progress was decided to continue despite the attack, than Mercury would indeed be the first stop.
As they were in the middle of continueing the Math problem, Deamian's mom came in to check on them.
"How are you guy's doing?" she said. She was rather tall and had long dark blue hair and crystalline light eyes.
"okay mom." Daemian said.
"Very well, your Majesty." Selene answered more formally.
"You really don't have to be so formal."
"Sorry, I just keep forgetting."
"Contesta!" a staff member, came running to the Princess. "Contesta, Her Imperial Highness is requesting to speak to you via video messaging, would you like us to send the message here or in your office?" he said looking at Deamian and Selece. She considered for a moment then said with a smile, "here is fine." The staff member ran out of the room and a minute later a video message appeared on the glass, video screen, showing a woman clad in black standing behind her Imperial Highness Neo-Queen Serenity Mashiro.
"Good Day, your Majesty Princess Mercury Contesta." The Queen said.
"Good day to you, your Imperial Highness." The Princess answered.
"I had considered postponing or even canceling the Traditional Grand- progress to limit the danger it would place on the people. But my Chief advisor has warned me of the distress it would also cause to the people who would believe the situation to be more urgent then it is or possibly over react. So I have decided to continue the progress with heightened Military Security. We will, of course, not visit any places that would not like the added security or added danger. So I will now ask permission to visit your Planet on the Grand Progress, Princess Mercury." At that she gave a slight bow.
"Of course, we would be delighted to have you, your Imperial Highness. I do agree, to abstain from the progress would lessen the peoples belief of the stability of the crown. And the people of Mercury are always honored to have the Queen here with us. We appreciate your concern for our safety but it is not necessary. Please come, your Highness." The Princess said. The Queen gave a great sigh, as if of relief.
"Thank you very much for your understanding your Majesty. Until the day of the progress," and she waved goodbye after a bow.
"Until then, you highness." The video message cut out and the princess also gave a sigh. "I was almost worried that she wouldn't come." She said to no one in particular. "The people would panic." Selece didn't know what to say, so she said nothing.
---
Terasu stepped of the transport vehicle and onto the ground. He hadn't really been to Mercury since she was very small. The sky was a purplish- blue due to the magical and mechanical protections that blanketed the planet. It kept out radiation, heat, and light, so that the planet was more livable, the atmosphere was made up of various gases but it had more water than anything else, making it very humid, but fortunately it was always cool enough that it didn't bother you that much.
Seraph had insisted she come on the progress and had even bullied her into accepting an invitation to be one of the Moon's Representatives on the progress; she thought Seraph had dropped something to Mashiro to make that happen too. Terasu almost grumbled about. Seraph knew what was needed, or at least what she thought was needed, and she made it happen, even if she had to run you over with a Cavalry of the Guard to make you cooperate. Terasu thought a moment on that. Seraph could probably negotiate enough to actually do that, she decided.
All the planets had three representatives in the progress and the representatives were chosen as they came to the planets. Old Zenken, the Chronicler, was one of the other Moon representatives. He was not quite there, really. He always had a vague look, as if he didn't see what was going on. His great-grandson Geoffrey, who was very nice and good-looking too, had come with him though and so he was his great-grandfather's main spokesperson. Everyone thought he would take over Zenken in a few years anyways.
The other was a craftswoman, the top silversmith in the capital, Tenria Salmekai. She did lots of artistic silverware and other silver sculptures. Terasu didn't know how the representatives were chosen but she didn't know them at all so she stayed away from them.
She saw Seraph walking towards the Princess of Mercury, Contesta Traynia, a few steps behind Mashiro so she walked towards them. Though she didn't really like Seraph, she didn't dislike her, and at least she knew her. As she came towards them, she noticed a boy and a girl that stood a little behind the Princess. The boy was about her age and was probably Daemian, The Princess's son. She didn't know about the girl though.
The girl was a bout five feet, eight inches with shoulder length, straight, blue hair. She had light indigo eyes and was about eighteen. She seemed very uncomfortable compared to Daemian, who seemed to be rather bored.
The Princess, who had been talking to Mashiro and Seraph, noticed Terasu looking at them. "Oh yes, this is my son Daemian and his tutor, Selece. Selece is a student at our school of science." Everyone inquired about her schooling politely and asked Daemian how he was doing and then they went inside the Estate, the girl trailing behind. Terasu stayed back to talk to her.
"Hello." The girl, who had been walking with her head down, jumped in surprise. Then she realized Terasu must be a descendant of Serenity Usagi, with her white and gold dress, and did a kind of flustered half curtsy-half bow. "Please don't bow, I don't really like formal things. I am Terasu." The girl recognized her name and almost bowed again.
"Selece." She whispered.
"Hello Selece." They stood for a moment in silence then Selece seemed to gather her courage and spoke again.
"Uh, where are your advisors? I thought all the descendants had seven advisors."
"I am serving as representative for the moon, they have paid leave until I return."
"Oh." Terasu was a little disappointed, she had hoped the girl might talk informally with her. She did enjoy informal conversation, but she looked to scared.
"Goodbye then, Selece."
"goodbye." The girl practically ran away and Terasu walked into the estate.
---
Seraph had seen Terasu's conversation with Selece but in a slightly different light. She had been in the foyer of the Mercury estate and had seen them through a window. When Terasu had noticed the girl when they had been talking with the Princess, she had blazed a bright white-silver in Seraph's vision. Seraph had found that Terasu had gained a white-silver aura after first transforming into Sailor Moon, and the crescent moon could always be seen on her forehead and the air around her swirled into symbol- like shapes. Of course no one else could see this, only her. When Terasu and Selece were talking, the Mercury native had flashed an indigo-blue aura but then it subsided. There was, however, the faintest aura around her now.
I knew bringing Terasu was a good idea, she thought. Most of the people who had been in the palace now knew that Terasu was Sailor Moon but it was one of those things that everyone knew but no one really talked about. It was accepted.
As they were being shown around the estate, a shout was heard in the distance, then another. The princess walked to the window to see what was going on and shouted herself. The shadow beasts, it seemed, had followed them to Mercury. The Mercury military scouts escorted them to a safe room where they were to be locked in until it was safe; but not before Seraph slipped away.
---
Terasu had just found her room and was about to change into some normal clothes when she heard the shouts of Military officers. She ran to the window to see the swarms of Shadow creatures. Terasu sighed, not these guys again. She said the words of transformation and found her self in her sailor suit outfit, white bodysuit, skirt and ties, with silver and gold accents with silver front and back bows and an iridescent whitish sparkling layer over the skirt. Her back bow also had long, thick iridescent fabric falling almost to the floor (like super sailor moon's ribbony, back bow stuff but whitish.) She wore white sandal-like high heels with straps almost to her knees. In her hands were the Glass Flute and the Moon Scepter.
Once again she dropped the flute and it disappeared. She jumped out the window onto the grass of the estate's lawn and she ran to a shadow beast infected area and began shooting beams of searing light causing a massive death-toll among the shadow creatures. She was in deep concentration as she aimed her beams carefully as not to hurt the soldiers fighting among the beasts. In her deep concentration she almost didn't hear the foot steps behind her and even so she barely ducked in time as cold steel swept where her head used to be. She smacked a shadow beast to get far enough away from her attacker to turn around without getting cut apart. What she saw was very strange.
A being that looked like a human but with a black, scaly hide and bone white hair. He, for it was in the shape of a male, had black breaches and a tunic made out of some prismatic scaly leather, his black gloves were fingerless, showing retractable, white claws and his eyes were black orbs. He took a step toward her with steel-toed boots in the same scaly leather as the gloves.
Who are you to have such power? He said. She heard him as speech in her mind, not sounds or ideas or pictures. Her understanding was more determined by what didn't come into her head than what did. His voice was an absence of all sound and light.
"I am Sailor Moon, why do you ravage our system? Why do you torment our Queen?" she answered.
The lights return once again to stop our efforts. I did not foresee this.
"Will you not answer? Please, do not hurt us any longer. Our new Queen is good. She would not begrudge you if you wished to live with us. You need not fight!"
Oh, but we do.
"We?"
Yes, we. We do not wish for your land, we wish for your destruction. Be warned, either you can surrender yourselves to the silence or you will be forced into it by death. He swung his sword at her but she dodged just in time as the swords momentum created a crack in the ground where she had been just a second before.
A second dark being manifested itself in the air above them. This time it was a female. She had the same skin and hair and claws but she wore a long black dress with silver sheer fabric with strange designs overlaying the black silk.
Come, we go. You need no longer play with the little light. She said, referring to Sailor Moon as a "little light". Then they vanished. The shadow beasts stopped appearing leaving only those that had managed to survive since they had come. Sailor Moon shivered.
---
"And they just left?"
"Yes, they just.vanished." Terasu was trying to explain to Seraph what had happened during the attack and the strange beings that had come with them.
"Hm." And Seraph just stood completely immobile with her eyes closed for a few moments then she said. "Now that they know of you, they will most likely send more creatures next time. You will need more help. We should find the other scouts as soon as possible-," Seraph went on talking and Terasu listened with half an ear. As a descendant she had go to all royal functions and meetings, even when doing so was very boring. She had learned to listen and remember what was said while putting her main attention on other thoughts. Mostly she was thinking of the Silent Man. He was so strange, when she had told him that he didn't have to fight, he'd had such a strange look on his face but it had vanished again so quickly that she wasn't sure if she had seen it. She continued to both listen and ponder but then she spotted Selece walking across a hall.
"-and I think that the scout of mercury is actually very close at hand. I believe she-,"
"There is Selece! I must ask her if she is alright! Please, we will continue our conversation later," Terasu bowed, and then ran down a corridor to catch up with Selece, leaving a slightly seething Seraph in her wake. "Selece! I am glad that you do not seem hurt after the attack! Where did you go?"
"Oh, I.I was an unused room with Daemian." She said. "Then the military came and helped us." She said quietly. Selece didn't say how she had been caught unawares with Daemian while studying and that they had to protect themselves with the little magic and martial arts they happened to know until a squad came to help them. They gave Daemian and her swords, though she could barely use one properly with her limited skills, and she just tried to help Daemian, who was very good really, as best she could while feeling she should be able to do more to help. "Sailor Moon and the Military did most of the work; they saved us. I got to see her fight a little bit. She is so good with magic. I wish I could help like she does." Selece was rather confused as she saw the expressions on Terasu's change from inquiring to embarrassed to uncomfortable. Selece thought she might be ill. "Are you okay? Do you need to see a doctor? I might be able to help I know some anatomy and things, biology too." Terasu didn't know what Selene was talking about.
"What does 'okay' mean?"
"Okay? You don't know what that means?"
"No one in the palace uses that word."
"Um, okay, let's see. it means, like, um-"
"It means like?"
"No, it sort of means 'alright'. Yes, it means 'alright'. As in: are you okay. It would be: are you alright."
"Oh."
"It can also be: I get it. Or: I see. Like when you said 'Oh' just a moment ago. You could say 'okay' or 'Oh, okay'. Does that make sense?"
"Yes. It makes sense. Okay means: I see, I get it or alright."
"Okay."
"'Okay'" they looked at each other and laughed. Selece didn't seem so afraid of her any more for some reason. They talked some more until Selece said she had to go back to her dormitory, at school.
---
After Terasu had run off to talk with Selece, Seraph followed them. After Terasu started talking to Selece, Selece's aura did a slight brightening and then dimmed again. Then, as they continued to talk, her aura grew and grew. She was continuing to watch them as they were standing in the hall or out on the lawn or in an unused room when she felt a tap on her shoulder and nearly gave away her position. She turned to tell off the person who had startled her and saw Emmett.
"What are you doing here?!" she hastily whispered so as not let her let terasu and Selece over-hear.
"I could ask you the same question."
"What?! I am working!"
"Oh, sure. Stalking Terasu and a girl is 'working'"
"I am not stalking."
"Over course you're not stalking anyone! Stalking is only following someone without their permission, and you are definetly not doing that!" Emmett said sarcastically.
"Actually, stalking is following someone with ill intent. I have no ill intent."
"It's still stalking." He said. Seraph just gave him an "I really don't care for your opinions" look and continued the conversation.
"But why are you here?"
"Her Imperial Highness herself called for my squad to be your bodyguard." He said, looking very pleased with himself.
"Bodyguards? I don't need any body guards."
"Yes, well, Mashiro theorized that since the attacks look to be continuing and since you seem to be snooping around in places without many guards, then you might need some protection."
"We've only had two attacks! How can you people prove that when we've only had two attacks?!"
"She knows how sneaky you are."
"I am not sneaky! I have never sneaked in my life! Oh, wait.that's not true, I am sneaking right now. But I don't do it on a regular basis!"
"Yes, like you didn't sneak out of having to be locked in a safe house during the attack."
"It wasn't sneaking, everyone knew I was gone."
"Yes, after they had locked the doors."
"It's not my fault they are inattentive." Emmett shook his head, still disagreeing.
"What happened after you sneaked off anyways?" he asked.
"Oh, I don't know. I found one of those weird beings and followed-,"
"Stalked is more like it!"
"-Followed without being seen! I followed her until she noticed me and attacked me, than after a bit of fighting, she vanished."
"Than why did you seem very skeptical while talking to Terasu about the vanishing thing?"
"Now who's the stalker?!"
"Fine, but a fourth of my squad is your personnel guard and the rest are the guard for the representatives."
"How many is that?"
"Well, my squad was depleted by the attacks. I had forty originally, I lost about six members, you do the math." Seraph did a couple of simple math equations in her head to come up with a quotient.
"About eight guards than."
"Yes, eight will do."
"I suppose I can deal with that, it's not as bad as it could be, I guess. But only if you are one of those eight! I can't deal with any of those other military fools! And not all of them at once! Four at one time is sufficient, well actually none is fine with me."
"Take it up with the Queen, my lady." Emmett said mockingly.
"Yes, well leave me alone to finish my 'stalking'."
"I would but your victims are gone." He said sardonically. Seraph turned to look down the hall, to find it empty.
"Oh, so they are."
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After school the next day, Selece took the public transport to the Mercury estate and walked up to the gate, showed her clearance card, and ambled across the lawn to find Daemian playing some sport with a few other boys who's parents worked in the government. She got him to finish and let him talk her into doing the tutoring outside while the other boys played their game. It didn't work very well though as Daemian kept paying more attention to the game than the work. She did as much as she could to ground the information in his head without being forceful but in the end she gave up and just let him play.
Later, as she watched the younger boys play, Terasu saw them and came to sit by her on the grass. When suddenly there were cries heard from the gate and a rift opened in the air and Shadow Beats came pouring out from the opening along with the two strange beings. Terasu didn't bother to transform someplace no one would see; half of Crystal Tokyo knew she was Sailor Moon by now anyways, right? She once again dropped the flute and took up the scepter.
"You again? Why won't you leave us alone?" she called to the Silent people. This time it was the woman who spoke to her, not the man. Foolish child. She said, and held up a strange, glowing orb. This orb that I hold in my hand is not powerful enough to affect thee, but it will still aid in our conquest by putting most of your soldiers into slumber. She tossed the orb into the sky and it dissipated into the air. Most of the soldiers that had been running to her aid fell in mid-stride, possibly asleep, as the strange woman had said. The few that remained were most likely strong in magical ability. She turned to find that, for some reason, Selece was still awake despite her plead of having little magical ability and skill. She was sitting on the grass with a shocked look about her.
"Selece! Run to safety! Quickly!" Sailor Moon yelled. But Selece just looked at her then at the creatures, then at the beings, and back again. She was defiantly in shock, or something.
Hm. This one is still awake and yet she flees not. Perhaps we should destroy her first?
Perhaps, but what of the children behind her?
Yes! Kill them first! I did not know such good ideas could come from you!
Indeed. Upon hearing of the beings plans to kill Daemian and the other boys behind her, Selece snapped out of her state of shock.
"No! Leave him alone! He is like my little brother!" Selece cried as she leapt from the ground to plead with them.
Little brother? I do not care of your relation to him, or any of the other sufferers, I only care that they are destroyed. The woman said and she gathered a great ball of energy to throw at the boys and Daemian.
"No!" Selece screamed as Terasu saw the astrological sign of Mercury appear on her forehead and shine a bright indigo as words of power flowed from her lips.
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What will happen now? What can I do? Selece asked a strange person standing in front of her. She was disoriented and barely knew what was going on so the first questions she asked were not the most logical.
Do not worry. You have the strength and the swiftness to over come this dilemma. The strange person in front of her said. And for the first time since arriving at this place Selece looked at her answerer. She looked just like her. But she was wearing a sailor suit outfit like Sailor Moon. A shimmering indigo skirt was covered by a shear, iridescent white layer. Her bow was a light, ice blue and her color was also indigo. The outfit was accented with silver symbols of Mercury on the collar, brooch and where the skirt met the body suit. She also had an opaque, whitish ribbon of fabric flowing from her back bow. She held a Japanese lady fan, a Shukusen, in her right hand and a harp that looked made of ice and swirls of water. She looked like an Ice queen.
Who are you? Selece asked.
I am the second hope, Sailor Mercury, the hidden power within you. The fates have witnessed your light and acknowledge you as the Soldier of Mercury. Now you must protect your home from the shadows and save those you care for. She said.
What must I do?
You have already said the words of power. The rest is up to you how you use your powers. The Frozen Harp and the Shukusen are yours to command. Go now and rid our world of these spirits of emptiness.
Yes! Selece opened her eyes only a moment later to find no time had passed. In her hands were the Shukusen and the Frozen Harp. She held on to the Harp; she would need it later and took the fan in hand. She waved it in a wide arch and a powerful razor of freezing water and wind rushed toward the Lady.
"Selece!" Sailor Moon called.
"It's Sailor Mercury right now! Listen! I can wake everyone up but I will need a moment to play the song! Will you cover me?"
"Of course!"
"Okay!" Sailor Moon giggled a little and turned to the shadow beasts and the dark beings.
She could scarcely believe it. Selece, the Sailor scout of Mercury! It sort or fit, though. Sailor Moon blasted all the Shadow creatures around them as Sailor Mercury blasted a few to give her room before dropping the fan, which disappeared, and took up the Harp that looked made of ice and cascades of water. Sailor Moon saw creatures coming at them at the corner of her eye and swirled around to blast them. Then the Dark beings came at her together. The woman shot a ball of energy at her, which she deflected with her scepter before dodging a sword thrust from the man. Unfortunately, the woman had another ball of energy ready for her and when she dodged a second sweep of the man's sword she was hit her square in the back.
"Ahh!" she screamed in agony and she fell on the ground, half unconscious until she heard a song, music, beckoning to her. Saying, "Awaken! The time of sleep is done!" A soft melody that at another time would make her sleep, did the opposite and she started waking up. It grew louder, infiltrating into her brain, ringing through her ears. She looked up and Sailor Mercury was playing her Frozen Harp with unsurpassed grace. She remembered the Beings and wondered why she hadn't been diced to bits. She looked up to find them Sheilding themselves from blasts of magic power, sword thrusts and bullets shot at them from the now awakened sentries. The Man looked into her eyes and gave her a look that said "I shall return." And then he vanished along with the woman who had been floating in the air and projecting a magic shield.
She now looked over to Sailor Mercury and saw her Sigh with relief. She dropped her Harp and it disappeared along with her sailor suit and she reverted back to her original clothes. Sailor Moon looked over at her scepter lying a few feet from her position on the ground and "mentally" dropped it. It disappeared as well and she too reverted to her former clothes. She got up and walked over to where Selece was slumped on the ground.
"You were great! You woke all of them up, by yourself!"
"Don't forget though, you lasted out quite awhile against those to bad guys while I was doing it! We were great!" Terasu sat next to Selece and they rested while the soldiers searched for straggling Shadow creatures. They were just relaxing when a voice startled them.
"There was another battle? And I missed it! Hoy!" They swung there heads around to see a girl even taller than Selece in a Black and grey, plaid skirt, and Long sleeved Black sweater. She had long black hair with a Plaid head matching the skirt and deep blue eyes. She had on high black boots with silver zippers and looked to be about seventeen, a year younger than Selece. She was surrounded by five of the Moon guard. Terasu thought she looked kind of familiar. Selece, thinking she must be some important person with the small group of Moon Soldiers around her, got up very quickly to bow and tripped, falling on her face.
"Are you okay" Terasu asked.
"Yah." Came a muffled reply. Terasu helped her up and asked the girl "who are you?" while Selece rubbed her nose and tried not to look embarrassed. The girl looked very confused and then seemed to come to a realization and she sweat dropped (if you don't know, a sweat drop kid of has the equivalent of "I can not believe this." or "Oh, god."). For some reason all the Guards burst out laughing.
"Ahh." Terasu said while Selece grew red in the face. Terasu recognized one of the Guards as Emmett, Seraph's soldier, friend. The girl turned around and put her hands on her hips and yelled at Emmett.
"It's not funny!"
"Yes.haha.it.haha.IS!!" Emmett said between laughs. The girl looked ready to hit him and a vein started poking out of her head while Emmett's face turned red from lack of oxygen while laughing. Then Terasu's face turned red as well but in embarrassment. That was Seraph! She blurted it out upon realizing it and Guards, just now getting their breaths back, broke out in cackles again.
"But I thought you were older than me?!" Selece blurted out as well and then turned even redder.
"Since when do you wear real clothes?" terasu asked innocenty,
"Whah?.I wear real clothes! And shut up back their already! It's annoying!" she cried in indignation.
"Where did you go?"
"I shall with hold that information and you shall hear it upon my decision to reveal it." Terasu's face dropped. Back to her old self with her formal talking. Her answer was as evasive as it could get. It basically meant "Shut up and keep your nose out of it." Seraph turned to Selece and said, "Hello, Sailor Mercury, Selece, I look forward to having you as a representative of your planet on our Progress." She bowed and left in a huff, like she usually did, but the effect was slightly strange with real clothes. Emmett was shaking his head the whole time, trying to hide a smile. Selece was frozen in place and looking as embarrassed as ever, trying to figure out how Seraph new about her identity. Terasu just sighed, how did seraph know anything? It was probably better not to ask.
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Hello! Sorry it took so long. I have just been kinda busy lately. You all like Selece? Well, I hope so. She is slightly different than Amy/Ami/Sailor Mercury, ne? And now we know what the Instruments do! Well, kind of anyways. But questions remain. What will the other sailors be like? Who are these beings? Where was seraph? And will Emmett ever shut up? Who knows.
All the Sailor Scouts are going to be very similar to, though not exactly like, their original Sailor Moon counter parts. I will try not to chop them up to much. Basically they are going to be very similar though, no complete attitude turn-around's or personality transplants. They will be very much as they always were but with a few minor adjustments because of their altered family situations and experiences. Also note that they are not the original scouts reborn or anything. The scouts are chosen from birth by the power of the planets ((corny saying).
Song of the New Cosmos
By: Liquid_Goddess_Reformation
Chapter two: Mercury's Awakening Melody
"So you do it like this?" Daemian asked her.
"No, see, you've got the basic idea but you're still making minor mistakes. You have to follow all the steps. See lets try it again.," Selece told him, and they went over the math problem one more time. Selece Aisu Seikano, known as Se-le to Daemian, was a student at Mercury's top school of the sciences and eighteen years old. At the moment though, she was tutoring Daemian, fifteen year old son of Princess Mercury.
It was rather stressing since he barely paid attention and never did all the proper steps of followed the formula's in his math problems or asked off topic questions on science. Today it was especially stressful since she was at the Mercury estate attached to the governing office of the planet. Even more stressful was the fact that they had news of the attack on the Moon's capital which happened a few days ago. The staff was running around in a subdued sort of panicking mob. Everyone wanted to know if anyone got hurt, who attacked them, if Her Imperial Highness was going to cancel the traditional Crowning Progress, and if Mercury was still going to be the first destination.
Her Most Honored Majesty Princess Mercury had her office right next to the room Selece and Deamian were using as a study room and every so often someone would run into the room with news or announce something on the intercom or send a call or collective e-mail that popped-up on the computer screens in every room. One even had annoying sounds added. That was the one that announced that, if the Progress was decided to continue despite the attack, than Mercury would indeed be the first stop.
As they were in the middle of continueing the Math problem, Deamian's mom came in to check on them.
"How are you guy's doing?" she said. She was rather tall and had long dark blue hair and crystalline light eyes.
"okay mom." Daemian said.
"Very well, your Majesty." Selene answered more formally.
"You really don't have to be so formal."
"Sorry, I just keep forgetting."
"Contesta!" a staff member, came running to the Princess. "Contesta, Her Imperial Highness is requesting to speak to you via video messaging, would you like us to send the message here or in your office?" he said looking at Deamian and Selece. She considered for a moment then said with a smile, "here is fine." The staff member ran out of the room and a minute later a video message appeared on the glass, video screen, showing a woman clad in black standing behind her Imperial Highness Neo-Queen Serenity Mashiro.
"Good Day, your Majesty Princess Mercury Contesta." The Queen said.
"Good day to you, your Imperial Highness." The Princess answered.
"I had considered postponing or even canceling the Traditional Grand- progress to limit the danger it would place on the people. But my Chief advisor has warned me of the distress it would also cause to the people who would believe the situation to be more urgent then it is or possibly over react. So I have decided to continue the progress with heightened Military Security. We will, of course, not visit any places that would not like the added security or added danger. So I will now ask permission to visit your Planet on the Grand Progress, Princess Mercury." At that she gave a slight bow.
"Of course, we would be delighted to have you, your Imperial Highness. I do agree, to abstain from the progress would lessen the peoples belief of the stability of the crown. And the people of Mercury are always honored to have the Queen here with us. We appreciate your concern for our safety but it is not necessary. Please come, your Highness." The Princess said. The Queen gave a great sigh, as if of relief.
"Thank you very much for your understanding your Majesty. Until the day of the progress," and she waved goodbye after a bow.
"Until then, you highness." The video message cut out and the princess also gave a sigh. "I was almost worried that she wouldn't come." She said to no one in particular. "The people would panic." Selece didn't know what to say, so she said nothing.
---
Terasu stepped of the transport vehicle and onto the ground. He hadn't really been to Mercury since she was very small. The sky was a purplish- blue due to the magical and mechanical protections that blanketed the planet. It kept out radiation, heat, and light, so that the planet was more livable, the atmosphere was made up of various gases but it had more water than anything else, making it very humid, but fortunately it was always cool enough that it didn't bother you that much.
Seraph had insisted she come on the progress and had even bullied her into accepting an invitation to be one of the Moon's Representatives on the progress; she thought Seraph had dropped something to Mashiro to make that happen too. Terasu almost grumbled about. Seraph knew what was needed, or at least what she thought was needed, and she made it happen, even if she had to run you over with a Cavalry of the Guard to make you cooperate. Terasu thought a moment on that. Seraph could probably negotiate enough to actually do that, she decided.
All the planets had three representatives in the progress and the representatives were chosen as they came to the planets. Old Zenken, the Chronicler, was one of the other Moon representatives. He was not quite there, really. He always had a vague look, as if he didn't see what was going on. His great-grandson Geoffrey, who was very nice and good-looking too, had come with him though and so he was his great-grandfather's main spokesperson. Everyone thought he would take over Zenken in a few years anyways.
The other was a craftswoman, the top silversmith in the capital, Tenria Salmekai. She did lots of artistic silverware and other silver sculptures. Terasu didn't know how the representatives were chosen but she didn't know them at all so she stayed away from them.
She saw Seraph walking towards the Princess of Mercury, Contesta Traynia, a few steps behind Mashiro so she walked towards them. Though she didn't really like Seraph, she didn't dislike her, and at least she knew her. As she came towards them, she noticed a boy and a girl that stood a little behind the Princess. The boy was about her age and was probably Daemian, The Princess's son. She didn't know about the girl though.
The girl was a bout five feet, eight inches with shoulder length, straight, blue hair. She had light indigo eyes and was about eighteen. She seemed very uncomfortable compared to Daemian, who seemed to be rather bored.
The Princess, who had been talking to Mashiro and Seraph, noticed Terasu looking at them. "Oh yes, this is my son Daemian and his tutor, Selece. Selece is a student at our school of science." Everyone inquired about her schooling politely and asked Daemian how he was doing and then they went inside the Estate, the girl trailing behind. Terasu stayed back to talk to her.
"Hello." The girl, who had been walking with her head down, jumped in surprise. Then she realized Terasu must be a descendant of Serenity Usagi, with her white and gold dress, and did a kind of flustered half curtsy-half bow. "Please don't bow, I don't really like formal things. I am Terasu." The girl recognized her name and almost bowed again.
"Selece." She whispered.
"Hello Selece." They stood for a moment in silence then Selece seemed to gather her courage and spoke again.
"Uh, where are your advisors? I thought all the descendants had seven advisors."
"I am serving as representative for the moon, they have paid leave until I return."
"Oh." Terasu was a little disappointed, she had hoped the girl might talk informally with her. She did enjoy informal conversation, but she looked to scared.
"Goodbye then, Selece."
"goodbye." The girl practically ran away and Terasu walked into the estate.
---
Seraph had seen Terasu's conversation with Selece but in a slightly different light. She had been in the foyer of the Mercury estate and had seen them through a window. When Terasu had noticed the girl when they had been talking with the Princess, she had blazed a bright white-silver in Seraph's vision. Seraph had found that Terasu had gained a white-silver aura after first transforming into Sailor Moon, and the crescent moon could always be seen on her forehead and the air around her swirled into symbol- like shapes. Of course no one else could see this, only her. When Terasu and Selece were talking, the Mercury native had flashed an indigo-blue aura but then it subsided. There was, however, the faintest aura around her now.
I knew bringing Terasu was a good idea, she thought. Most of the people who had been in the palace now knew that Terasu was Sailor Moon but it was one of those things that everyone knew but no one really talked about. It was accepted.
As they were being shown around the estate, a shout was heard in the distance, then another. The princess walked to the window to see what was going on and shouted herself. The shadow beasts, it seemed, had followed them to Mercury. The Mercury military scouts escorted them to a safe room where they were to be locked in until it was safe; but not before Seraph slipped away.
---
Terasu had just found her room and was about to change into some normal clothes when she heard the shouts of Military officers. She ran to the window to see the swarms of Shadow creatures. Terasu sighed, not these guys again. She said the words of transformation and found her self in her sailor suit outfit, white bodysuit, skirt and ties, with silver and gold accents with silver front and back bows and an iridescent whitish sparkling layer over the skirt. Her back bow also had long, thick iridescent fabric falling almost to the floor (like super sailor moon's ribbony, back bow stuff but whitish.) She wore white sandal-like high heels with straps almost to her knees. In her hands were the Glass Flute and the Moon Scepter.
Once again she dropped the flute and it disappeared. She jumped out the window onto the grass of the estate's lawn and she ran to a shadow beast infected area and began shooting beams of searing light causing a massive death-toll among the shadow creatures. She was in deep concentration as she aimed her beams carefully as not to hurt the soldiers fighting among the beasts. In her deep concentration she almost didn't hear the foot steps behind her and even so she barely ducked in time as cold steel swept where her head used to be. She smacked a shadow beast to get far enough away from her attacker to turn around without getting cut apart. What she saw was very strange.
A being that looked like a human but with a black, scaly hide and bone white hair. He, for it was in the shape of a male, had black breaches and a tunic made out of some prismatic scaly leather, his black gloves were fingerless, showing retractable, white claws and his eyes were black orbs. He took a step toward her with steel-toed boots in the same scaly leather as the gloves.
Who are you to have such power? He said. She heard him as speech in her mind, not sounds or ideas or pictures. Her understanding was more determined by what didn't come into her head than what did. His voice was an absence of all sound and light.
"I am Sailor Moon, why do you ravage our system? Why do you torment our Queen?" she answered.
The lights return once again to stop our efforts. I did not foresee this.
"Will you not answer? Please, do not hurt us any longer. Our new Queen is good. She would not begrudge you if you wished to live with us. You need not fight!"
Oh, but we do.
"We?"
Yes, we. We do not wish for your land, we wish for your destruction. Be warned, either you can surrender yourselves to the silence or you will be forced into it by death. He swung his sword at her but she dodged just in time as the swords momentum created a crack in the ground where she had been just a second before.
A second dark being manifested itself in the air above them. This time it was a female. She had the same skin and hair and claws but she wore a long black dress with silver sheer fabric with strange designs overlaying the black silk.
Come, we go. You need no longer play with the little light. She said, referring to Sailor Moon as a "little light". Then they vanished. The shadow beasts stopped appearing leaving only those that had managed to survive since they had come. Sailor Moon shivered.
---
"And they just left?"
"Yes, they just.vanished." Terasu was trying to explain to Seraph what had happened during the attack and the strange beings that had come with them.
"Hm." And Seraph just stood completely immobile with her eyes closed for a few moments then she said. "Now that they know of you, they will most likely send more creatures next time. You will need more help. We should find the other scouts as soon as possible-," Seraph went on talking and Terasu listened with half an ear. As a descendant she had go to all royal functions and meetings, even when doing so was very boring. She had learned to listen and remember what was said while putting her main attention on other thoughts. Mostly she was thinking of the Silent Man. He was so strange, when she had told him that he didn't have to fight, he'd had such a strange look on his face but it had vanished again so quickly that she wasn't sure if she had seen it. She continued to both listen and ponder but then she spotted Selece walking across a hall.
"-and I think that the scout of mercury is actually very close at hand. I believe she-,"
"There is Selece! I must ask her if she is alright! Please, we will continue our conversation later," Terasu bowed, and then ran down a corridor to catch up with Selece, leaving a slightly seething Seraph in her wake. "Selece! I am glad that you do not seem hurt after the attack! Where did you go?"
"Oh, I.I was an unused room with Daemian." She said. "Then the military came and helped us." She said quietly. Selece didn't say how she had been caught unawares with Daemian while studying and that they had to protect themselves with the little magic and martial arts they happened to know until a squad came to help them. They gave Daemian and her swords, though she could barely use one properly with her limited skills, and she just tried to help Daemian, who was very good really, as best she could while feeling she should be able to do more to help. "Sailor Moon and the Military did most of the work; they saved us. I got to see her fight a little bit. She is so good with magic. I wish I could help like she does." Selece was rather confused as she saw the expressions on Terasu's change from inquiring to embarrassed to uncomfortable. Selece thought she might be ill. "Are you okay? Do you need to see a doctor? I might be able to help I know some anatomy and things, biology too." Terasu didn't know what Selene was talking about.
"What does 'okay' mean?"
"Okay? You don't know what that means?"
"No one in the palace uses that word."
"Um, okay, let's see. it means, like, um-"
"It means like?"
"No, it sort of means 'alright'. Yes, it means 'alright'. As in: are you okay. It would be: are you alright."
"Oh."
"It can also be: I get it. Or: I see. Like when you said 'Oh' just a moment ago. You could say 'okay' or 'Oh, okay'. Does that make sense?"
"Yes. It makes sense. Okay means: I see, I get it or alright."
"Okay."
"'Okay'" they looked at each other and laughed. Selece didn't seem so afraid of her any more for some reason. They talked some more until Selece said she had to go back to her dormitory, at school.
---
After Terasu had run off to talk with Selece, Seraph followed them. After Terasu started talking to Selece, Selece's aura did a slight brightening and then dimmed again. Then, as they continued to talk, her aura grew and grew. She was continuing to watch them as they were standing in the hall or out on the lawn or in an unused room when she felt a tap on her shoulder and nearly gave away her position. She turned to tell off the person who had startled her and saw Emmett.
"What are you doing here?!" she hastily whispered so as not let her let terasu and Selece over-hear.
"I could ask you the same question."
"What?! I am working!"
"Oh, sure. Stalking Terasu and a girl is 'working'"
"I am not stalking."
"Over course you're not stalking anyone! Stalking is only following someone without their permission, and you are definetly not doing that!" Emmett said sarcastically.
"Actually, stalking is following someone with ill intent. I have no ill intent."
"It's still stalking." He said. Seraph just gave him an "I really don't care for your opinions" look and continued the conversation.
"But why are you here?"
"Her Imperial Highness herself called for my squad to be your bodyguard." He said, looking very pleased with himself.
"Bodyguards? I don't need any body guards."
"Yes, well, Mashiro theorized that since the attacks look to be continuing and since you seem to be snooping around in places without many guards, then you might need some protection."
"We've only had two attacks! How can you people prove that when we've only had two attacks?!"
"She knows how sneaky you are."
"I am not sneaky! I have never sneaked in my life! Oh, wait.that's not true, I am sneaking right now. But I don't do it on a regular basis!"
"Yes, like you didn't sneak out of having to be locked in a safe house during the attack."
"It wasn't sneaking, everyone knew I was gone."
"Yes, after they had locked the doors."
"It's not my fault they are inattentive." Emmett shook his head, still disagreeing.
"What happened after you sneaked off anyways?" he asked.
"Oh, I don't know. I found one of those weird beings and followed-,"
"Stalked is more like it!"
"-Followed without being seen! I followed her until she noticed me and attacked me, than after a bit of fighting, she vanished."
"Than why did you seem very skeptical while talking to Terasu about the vanishing thing?"
"Now who's the stalker?!"
"Fine, but a fourth of my squad is your personnel guard and the rest are the guard for the representatives."
"How many is that?"
"Well, my squad was depleted by the attacks. I had forty originally, I lost about six members, you do the math." Seraph did a couple of simple math equations in her head to come up with a quotient.
"About eight guards than."
"Yes, eight will do."
"I suppose I can deal with that, it's not as bad as it could be, I guess. But only if you are one of those eight! I can't deal with any of those other military fools! And not all of them at once! Four at one time is sufficient, well actually none is fine with me."
"Take it up with the Queen, my lady." Emmett said mockingly.
"Yes, well leave me alone to finish my 'stalking'."
"I would but your victims are gone." He said sardonically. Seraph turned to look down the hall, to find it empty.
"Oh, so they are."
---
After school the next day, Selece took the public transport to the Mercury estate and walked up to the gate, showed her clearance card, and ambled across the lawn to find Daemian playing some sport with a few other boys who's parents worked in the government. She got him to finish and let him talk her into doing the tutoring outside while the other boys played their game. It didn't work very well though as Daemian kept paying more attention to the game than the work. She did as much as she could to ground the information in his head without being forceful but in the end she gave up and just let him play.
Later, as she watched the younger boys play, Terasu saw them and came to sit by her on the grass. When suddenly there were cries heard from the gate and a rift opened in the air and Shadow Beats came pouring out from the opening along with the two strange beings. Terasu didn't bother to transform someplace no one would see; half of Crystal Tokyo knew she was Sailor Moon by now anyways, right? She once again dropped the flute and took up the scepter.
"You again? Why won't you leave us alone?" she called to the Silent people. This time it was the woman who spoke to her, not the man. Foolish child. She said, and held up a strange, glowing orb. This orb that I hold in my hand is not powerful enough to affect thee, but it will still aid in our conquest by putting most of your soldiers into slumber. She tossed the orb into the sky and it dissipated into the air. Most of the soldiers that had been running to her aid fell in mid-stride, possibly asleep, as the strange woman had said. The few that remained were most likely strong in magical ability. She turned to find that, for some reason, Selece was still awake despite her plead of having little magical ability and skill. She was sitting on the grass with a shocked look about her.
"Selece! Run to safety! Quickly!" Sailor Moon yelled. But Selece just looked at her then at the creatures, then at the beings, and back again. She was defiantly in shock, or something.
Hm. This one is still awake and yet she flees not. Perhaps we should destroy her first?
Perhaps, but what of the children behind her?
Yes! Kill them first! I did not know such good ideas could come from you!
Indeed. Upon hearing of the beings plans to kill Daemian and the other boys behind her, Selece snapped out of her state of shock.
"No! Leave him alone! He is like my little brother!" Selece cried as she leapt from the ground to plead with them.
Little brother? I do not care of your relation to him, or any of the other sufferers, I only care that they are destroyed. The woman said and she gathered a great ball of energy to throw at the boys and Daemian.
"No!" Selece screamed as Terasu saw the astrological sign of Mercury appear on her forehead and shine a bright indigo as words of power flowed from her lips.
---
What will happen now? What can I do? Selece asked a strange person standing in front of her. She was disoriented and barely knew what was going on so the first questions she asked were not the most logical.
Do not worry. You have the strength and the swiftness to over come this dilemma. The strange person in front of her said. And for the first time since arriving at this place Selece looked at her answerer. She looked just like her. But she was wearing a sailor suit outfit like Sailor Moon. A shimmering indigo skirt was covered by a shear, iridescent white layer. Her bow was a light, ice blue and her color was also indigo. The outfit was accented with silver symbols of Mercury on the collar, brooch and where the skirt met the body suit. She also had an opaque, whitish ribbon of fabric flowing from her back bow. She held a Japanese lady fan, a Shukusen, in her right hand and a harp that looked made of ice and swirls of water. She looked like an Ice queen.
Who are you? Selece asked.
I am the second hope, Sailor Mercury, the hidden power within you. The fates have witnessed your light and acknowledge you as the Soldier of Mercury. Now you must protect your home from the shadows and save those you care for. She said.
What must I do?
You have already said the words of power. The rest is up to you how you use your powers. The Frozen Harp and the Shukusen are yours to command. Go now and rid our world of these spirits of emptiness.
Yes! Selece opened her eyes only a moment later to find no time had passed. In her hands were the Shukusen and the Frozen Harp. She held on to the Harp; she would need it later and took the fan in hand. She waved it in a wide arch and a powerful razor of freezing water and wind rushed toward the Lady.
"Selece!" Sailor Moon called.
"It's Sailor Mercury right now! Listen! I can wake everyone up but I will need a moment to play the song! Will you cover me?"
"Of course!"
"Okay!" Sailor Moon giggled a little and turned to the shadow beasts and the dark beings.
She could scarcely believe it. Selece, the Sailor scout of Mercury! It sort or fit, though. Sailor Moon blasted all the Shadow creatures around them as Sailor Mercury blasted a few to give her room before dropping the fan, which disappeared, and took up the Harp that looked made of ice and cascades of water. Sailor Moon saw creatures coming at them at the corner of her eye and swirled around to blast them. Then the Dark beings came at her together. The woman shot a ball of energy at her, which she deflected with her scepter before dodging a sword thrust from the man. Unfortunately, the woman had another ball of energy ready for her and when she dodged a second sweep of the man's sword she was hit her square in the back.
"Ahh!" she screamed in agony and she fell on the ground, half unconscious until she heard a song, music, beckoning to her. Saying, "Awaken! The time of sleep is done!" A soft melody that at another time would make her sleep, did the opposite and she started waking up. It grew louder, infiltrating into her brain, ringing through her ears. She looked up and Sailor Mercury was playing her Frozen Harp with unsurpassed grace. She remembered the Beings and wondered why she hadn't been diced to bits. She looked up to find them Sheilding themselves from blasts of magic power, sword thrusts and bullets shot at them from the now awakened sentries. The Man looked into her eyes and gave her a look that said "I shall return." And then he vanished along with the woman who had been floating in the air and projecting a magic shield.
She now looked over to Sailor Mercury and saw her Sigh with relief. She dropped her Harp and it disappeared along with her sailor suit and she reverted back to her original clothes. Sailor Moon looked over at her scepter lying a few feet from her position on the ground and "mentally" dropped it. It disappeared as well and she too reverted to her former clothes. She got up and walked over to where Selece was slumped on the ground.
"You were great! You woke all of them up, by yourself!"
"Don't forget though, you lasted out quite awhile against those to bad guys while I was doing it! We were great!" Terasu sat next to Selece and they rested while the soldiers searched for straggling Shadow creatures. They were just relaxing when a voice startled them.
"There was another battle? And I missed it! Hoy!" They swung there heads around to see a girl even taller than Selece in a Black and grey, plaid skirt, and Long sleeved Black sweater. She had long black hair with a Plaid head matching the skirt and deep blue eyes. She had on high black boots with silver zippers and looked to be about seventeen, a year younger than Selece. She was surrounded by five of the Moon guard. Terasu thought she looked kind of familiar. Selece, thinking she must be some important person with the small group of Moon Soldiers around her, got up very quickly to bow and tripped, falling on her face.
"Are you okay" Terasu asked.
"Yah." Came a muffled reply. Terasu helped her up and asked the girl "who are you?" while Selece rubbed her nose and tried not to look embarrassed. The girl looked very confused and then seemed to come to a realization and she sweat dropped (if you don't know, a sweat drop kid of has the equivalent of "I can not believe this." or "Oh, god."). For some reason all the Guards burst out laughing.
"Ahh." Terasu said while Selece grew red in the face. Terasu recognized one of the Guards as Emmett, Seraph's soldier, friend. The girl turned around and put her hands on her hips and yelled at Emmett.
"It's not funny!"
"Yes.haha.it.haha.IS!!" Emmett said between laughs. The girl looked ready to hit him and a vein started poking out of her head while Emmett's face turned red from lack of oxygen while laughing. Then Terasu's face turned red as well but in embarrassment. That was Seraph! She blurted it out upon realizing it and Guards, just now getting their breaths back, broke out in cackles again.
"But I thought you were older than me?!" Selece blurted out as well and then turned even redder.
"Since when do you wear real clothes?" terasu asked innocenty,
"Whah?.I wear real clothes! And shut up back their already! It's annoying!" she cried in indignation.
"Where did you go?"
"I shall with hold that information and you shall hear it upon my decision to reveal it." Terasu's face dropped. Back to her old self with her formal talking. Her answer was as evasive as it could get. It basically meant "Shut up and keep your nose out of it." Seraph turned to Selece and said, "Hello, Sailor Mercury, Selece, I look forward to having you as a representative of your planet on our Progress." She bowed and left in a huff, like she usually did, but the effect was slightly strange with real clothes. Emmett was shaking his head the whole time, trying to hide a smile. Selece was frozen in place and looking as embarrassed as ever, trying to figure out how Seraph new about her identity. Terasu just sighed, how did seraph know anything? It was probably better not to ask.
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Hello! Sorry it took so long. I have just been kinda busy lately. You all like Selece? Well, I hope so. She is slightly different than Amy/Ami/Sailor Mercury, ne? And now we know what the Instruments do! Well, kind of anyways. But questions remain. What will the other sailors be like? Who are these beings? Where was seraph? And will Emmett ever shut up? Who knows.