It is strange, it feels so familiar but Rei has never been like this before, it is a sense of danger that comes to her yet it didn't bother her as much as usual. Rei has just come out of a trance yet it is one of the weirdest. She has seen a boy who has long blonde hair that is put back by a ponytail and pale gray eyes standing in front of her. On his forehead is the symbol of Mars written in a glowing red color. Yet boys couldn't be senshi...right? It is all too confusing, yet somehow it makes sense. Rei stands up and turns around, it is just about sunrise and although she has been up a good amount of the night, she isn't that sleepy.
She knows something is up, but she didn't know what it could be. It didn't matter at the moment, she has to get ready for her friends to come over, and thank goodness it is a Saturday. Rei has the whole weekend to look forward to, a weekend of talk and fun with Usagi, Minako, Ami, and Makoto. Nothing in the world is like having a time without fighting some evil thing that is out to kill them all and take over the world. That just grew mentally boring after a while like trying to find the same thing all the time but it is her job when the youmas come to take them down, one by one or by the millions it didn't matter. Plus, she could use some thing to do since it has become quiet the last several weeks. Rei walks over to her room and lies down onto her bed, not knowing that by the end of the day she will learn more than she wants to.
Kameko walks up the steps to Cherry Hill Temple at around eleven o clock in the morning, she has been here before, a long time ago but it seems like yesterday since she last put her feet onto the steps to the Temple. She gently touches her shrunken staff with her fingers and holds onto it lightly, trying to calm her nerves as she continues walking. It is time again to show herself, as she makes it to the top of the temple, she could hear people talking inside. Kameko smiles, the senshi are here. They were obviously in long talks about life and how kawaii certain band members were on the cover of magazines as well as other cultural stuff that Kameko didn't understand.
She freezes in place as Rei opens the door, it is easy to see that Rei has felt Kameko coming and has come over to see who or what it is that is coming towards the temple. Makoto comes out after Rei, her henshin pen in hand incase it is some monster unknown to any of the senshi. Then Rei's eyes turn to Kameko, who naturally jumps and falls backwards when Rei finally sees her. Rei walks quickly and swiftly towards Kameko, her eyes looking at Kameko questioningly.
"What are you doing here and who are you for that matter?" Rei asks, glaring at Kameko. Kameko stutters for a moment, not knowing what to say to the intimidating girl as a voice yells out to Rei from the doorway of the temple.
"Rei-chan! Leave Kame-chan alone!" Says a hyper and panicky voice that Kameko recognizes instantly. Usagi runs over to Kameko and to the other's surprise helps her up and hugs her with an almost bone-crushing force. Luna, who is right at Usagi's feet, looks up at Usagi in confusion.
"Usagi? Who is this?" Luna asks, her confusion showing in her voice as she speaks.
Usagi looks at all of them, in confusion as well, and Kameko whispers into Usagi's ear softly hiding her lips from the others incase they could lip-read, "They don't remember, I erased their memories of me and Keniko. Only you were supposed to remember," She says and Usagi nods her head. Usagi smiles and looks over at everyone, improvising what she should tell the other girls.
"Sorry, I must have forgotten that you never met her. This is Demetrius Kameko, she is a friend of mine I met a while ago," Usagi says while the others look at Kameko in amazement and curiosity.
"Usagi-chan, you never mentioned her before," Makoto comments as she looks up and down at Kameko, sizing her up, "Yet I hate to say it but she looks familiar...like I saw her somewhere else before."
"Yes, she is very familiar," Minako, says as Ami nods her head in agreement. Kameko turns around quickly, looking up at the sky like it is more interesting than what is going on with the girls.
"Well, you wont be the only ones curious about me...more are coming with me," Kameko says and the others stare at her in amazement and in Rei's case, anger.
Rei glares at her, "What do you mean more? Who are you inviting over to my house?!" Rei screeches at her, her eyes still glaring coldly with pure anger.
Kameko smiles, looking up at Rei sweetly, "Easy Mars, you don't want your temper to flare up for you guests," She says as the others gape and turn to look at Usagi, each obviously wanting a straight answer for Kameko's knowledge.
Usagi giggles nervously, "Did I mention she is a senshi too?" Usagi says looking at Kameko.
Rei is about to pounce on Usagi for not mentioning that earlier when two twin boys who both have blonde hair and light gray eyes walk up to them. The one on the right has his hair up in a ponytail so to tell them apart. The boy without a ponytail smiles at Kameko, moving beside her quickly.
"Konnichiwa Kameko!" Kenji says, as he took her hand gently like his hand is magnetically sticking with hers. Rei glares at both of the boys coldly, until she looks at the one with the ponytail, which looks a lot like the boy in her vision, whom she looks at with interest as well as anger.
Rei coughs as she looks at a very cheerful Kameko, "Who are they? Don't tell me they are 'my guests'," She glares with pure rage at Kameko as Minako looks at the twins, almost drooling at how kawaii they both look to her. Kameko sighs as she lets her hand go from Kenji's, which makes him frown slightly.
"They aren't here yet, not all of them. We are missing two of them," Kameko says as her eyes look down the stairs, waiting for the others to arrive at the bottom to walk up towards the top.
Rei growls at her, "More?! WHY THE HECK ARE YOU INVITING ALL THESE STRANGERS TO MY HOUSE!?" Rei screams, as she tries to pounce on Kameko but Minako and Makoto grab onto her to spare Kameko from losing a few fingers to Rei.
"Rei, stop it right now!" Makoto says trying to hold her away from Kameko as best she can, "This girl obviously needs our help if she came here. So what if she brought some people over, maybe this has something to do with them too?" Minako nods her head as well as Ami, who has been watching this whole event play out silently.
"Yes Rei, Kameko might need us. I have been wondering when something else would happen. She also seems to know a lot about us as well as Usagi knowing about her, " Ami says, her eyes watching Rei calmly as if trying to psychically tell Rei to cool her temper. Rei glares at Kameko one last time and turns away, acting as though Kameko is nothing more than a speck of dust that has been troublesome.
"All right, but she better explain as soon as the others are here or there will be some kicking out," Rei says hotly. Kameko smiles at her, as she turns to Rei.
"I was planning on doing so Rei, I would hate to leave you uninformed," Kameko says, still watching the stairway below her, " and here the others come now." Kameko points to the bottom of the stairs and everyone else watches; as two other boys appear that look very different from each other. The one to the right has short, spiky teal hair and light blue eyes with a tall body. The other one has flaming red hair and bright green eyes. Koji smiles at boy with the teal hair, obviously recognizing him as a friend.
"Hiroshi! Nice to see you again, I was thinking you weren't going to make it," He says, giving Hiroshi a high five.
Hiroshi smiles, "Yeah right! And miss out on all of the fun? So how are the lovers?" Hiroshi says as he and Koji look at Kameko and Kenji.
"Kenji can't keep his eyes off of her, the poor feller is smitten," Koji says, his eyes now turning to Kameko who glares at him. She looks around at everyone, smiling.
"Let's all go inside, its time most of you find out what is going on," Kameko turns quickly, her hair swishing lightly as she moves towards the temple. Usagi runs, unnecessarily, after Kameko with Luna following quickly behind her as the others walk inside.
Kameko sits down onto the floor beside the table, as did everyone else. Kenji and Usagi sat next to Kameko with Koji sitting next to Kenji as Minako sits down next to Usagi and they wrap themselves around the table. Kameko sighs, looking over at Usagi.
"Should you or I explain what happened?" Kameko asks Usagi, unsure how to handle this and she isn't that adapt at explaining things to other to begin with.
Usagi smiles at Kameko," You can tell, it is your story," she says, the others watching their every move. Kameko sighs, looking at them.
"I wont tell you...I will show you..." Kameko says and before a single one of them can blink, the table they were sitting in front of flashes an image of two senshi, each wearing green and blue uniforms, the one is obviously Kameko and another is a girl a bit younger than Kameko with blonde hair and blue eyes. The image fades away quickly to leave a few faces looking in amazement at each other, and the inner senshi acting like they were just remembering something that they have forgotten about a long time ago.
"Of course..." Minako says, as she looks the others.
"We helped Kameko and her sister..." Ami whispers as she looks out a window.
"Keniko..." Makoto says, as she looks at Rei who is blinking in bewilderment but not happy with Kameko at the same time. The boys look around at each other in confusion until Rei speaks.
"Okay Kameko, tell me now, what are you doing back and why have you brought these men here?" Rei says very coldly, glaring at Kameko growing to dislike this girl more and more every second. The guys look at Kameko as she pulls out four orbs; a red, green, yellow and light blue one, and set them down on the table. The red one rolls to Koji, the green rolls towards Takeshi, the yellow rolls to Kenji and the light blue rolls over to Hiroshi. Takeshi looks at the orb then at Kameko.
"What is this?" He says, his eyes not leaving the orb as he moves it around gently in his hands. Kameko smiles looking at him gently but speaking so that all of the people and the two guardian cats the room could hear her.
"That is your henshin orb, Takeshi. It will turn you into the Guardian of Jupiter," Kameko replies as Artemis, who has been sitting on the floor quietly when everyone went outside, blinks.
"Guardian of...how?" He asks, looking at Kameko in confusion. Kameko smiles at Luna, then looks to Hiroshi.
"Hiroshi, Guardian of Mercury..." Kameko says, her brown eyes moving to Kenji, "Kenji, Guardian of Venus..." Kameko says, finally turning to Koji, " And Koji, and Guardian of Mars. All of you are gifted with powers similar to your counterparts, Hiroshi is ice, Kenji is friendship, Koji is fire and Takeshi is thunder," Kameko adds, as Rei looks at Koji, realizing that he is the boy from her vision. Rei shakes her head quickly and glares at Kameko, trying to see if she can have a question that the girl with the brown, curly hair can't answer.
"Okay. You managed to answer one question about who these bakas are, but what are you doing back?" Rei retorts at Kameko. Kameko smiles in her all knowing way; she did know what she is talking about despite her lack of explaining experience.
"I have come back to save you," Kameko says, her eyes looking at all of them, showing a bit of sadness in them, "There are some out for your senshi powers. The Guardians are immune to their stealing as far as I know so they are here to protect you from them. These people are very dangerous and you all should be very careful. I have a few pictures of them here...I will get them out for you," Kameko replies as she glances up at the window ledge where a bird with brown feathers and strange teal eyes is sitting, holding a few pieces of paper in its beak.
Kameko walks over and the falcon flies onto her right shoulder. Kameko grabs the pictures and walks back over to the table and the falcon rests on her shoulder. She lays them down on the table, a girl medium length black hair and red eyes to the right, a girl with long brown hair and blue eyes in the middle and a girl with short green hair and bright pink eyes on the left. Everyone moves up closer, looking at the pictures of the girls. Usagi looks up at Kameko.
"Who are they?" Usagi asks as the others look up from the pictures at Kameko curiously, all wondering the same thing.
"Mika, Akako and Midori, the three henshin stealers. They might seem weak but they can use the powers they steal, so don't be surprised if you see them using another senshi's powers. Just get the henshin pens back as soon as possible, if they steal them that is, we don't want to lose any senshi," Kameko says, her voice emotionless yet not monotone.
"Yet who is hiring them? I mean, it couldn't be that they are doing this on their own, could they?" Kenji says, his voice speaking up for the first time. The others look at him in amazement, almost like they forgot that he is there. Kameko looks at him, trying to think about this and sighs, not remembering of the one who may have been hiring them's name.
"That is what we don't know and need to find out fast, last thing I want is for our powers to be in the hands of someone out to rule the world," Kameko says sadly and the others nod their heads in complete agreement.
"Too true, but..."Koji says but is unable to finish as a scream is heard just outside the room. Everyone stands up and glances over towards the scream, having been caught off guard by it. They run over to a window, peeping out it and seeing Yuuichirou staring at a strange girl with chin length straight black hair and bright red eyes. She is wearing a white skirt with a shirt that had one sleeve baby doll like and another reaching her elbow. It didn't take long for each of them to recognize her from the pictures Kameko has shown them.
Kameko glares at the girl and mutters under her breath, "Mika..." The others look up at her and nod their heads silently as a few of them also glare at the strange villainess. Artemis, who has been listening quietly while they were talking, looks up at them, and says in a worrisome tone of voice.
"Henshin but please be careful girls...and guys," Artemis adds, remembering that there were guys here, trying to fix his mistake quickly so it went unseen. Minako looks down at him sweetly with a smile on her face.
"Of course we will Artemis, I'm not that dumb," Minako says as she gets out her henshin pen. The other senshi each grab theirs, getting ready to henshin into their sailor forms.
"Moon Eternal Power!"
"Venus Crystal Power!"
"Jupiter Crystal Power!"
"Mars Crystal Power!"
"Mercury Crystal Power!"
The inner senshi all say together in unison, "Make up!" Kameko looks at the boys who stare at their orbs unsure what to do and smiles gently at them.
"Raise it in the air and say what seems right, don't worry about seeming baka," Kameko says as she releases the henshin pen from the chain on her necklace and raises the henshin pen up into the air. The boys follow her instructions quickly, each trying not to be the last boy to henshin.
"Earth Aurora Awakening!"
"Venus Friendship Awakening!"
"Mars Pyro Awakening!"
"Mercury Ice Awakening!"
"Jupiter Electric Awakening!"
They all scream together at the exact same time, "Light!" And with that final word, a bright light in colors corresponding with their orbs color, except Kameko's, her colors are blue and green, surround each of them. All five of them stand, all having henshin into their senshi forms that are different from each other's counterpart.
Each of them has no gloves and wears a shirt that is sleeveless with an almost kimono like front yet it is tighter fitting than a kimono would be. They each have pants that reach down to their ankles, the boys having to different styles of shoes between them. Guardian Mercury has light blue boots that look like army boots, Guardian Venus has orange tennis shoes on with white trimming, Guardian Mars also has tennis shoes but they are a bright red and Guardian Jupiter has those boots like Guardian Mercury's but green in color. Around the edges of their clothing, they are bands that have pretty much the only colors in their uniforms, each being different for each boy. Hiroshi's is a light blue, Kenji's is an orange color, Koji's is red and Takeshi's is green. Each of the boys look at their uniforms in awe, not believing this is happening.
"Wow, this is cool," Hiroshi, says, looking himself up and down. Koji looks at his twin and smiles.
"I guess we aren't as alike anymore right Kenji?" He says, poking his twin lightly with his finger.
"I guess," Kenji grumbles softly just as all of the girls shush them.
Kameko stands quietly in her sailor uniform as her henshin pen turns into a three-foot staff, the others looking at her and wondering secretly what powers and attacks she has. Kenji smiles at Kameko, noting how beautiful she looks in her sailor uniform.
Everyone jumps out from inside the building and Mika turns around to look at them, her face in a smirk, "Oh lookie here, just who I wanted to see. Kameko and her little friends. Won't this be fun?" Mika says, her red eyes watching their every move.
Author's note: Muhhaa...cliffhanger... people love me!!! I can't believe it! Okay now I should write comments to those who wrote me comments:
Relyan- Yes I use the same symbol of Earth, it isn't shown much in this fanfiction but in others with the same Earth it is. I think I overuse that symbol actually. "
Crylita- Shut it, editors should be silent little hobos who work only as slave drivers and never reveal themselves. Writers get all the credit!
The Nightdragon- Thanks thanks, Crylita gave me a choice because I kept playing tense change with the thing and said I could either do past or present, so I went for a challenge and did present.
Sailor Mini Earth- Kawaii! Chibi Earth is here, just wait till I get to your fanfiction! Yours is more interesting and I likes it more, but I have yet to write it. I might sometime, if people force me.
