Sailor Christian Soldiers

Book One: Sailor Savior

Chapter Three

By Sere G

Rah'eesa knelt there, mourning her parents, for an indeterminable amount of time. When she finally stood, she turned to the cat, who was sitting there still. "You're the one sent to help me, aren't you?" Her voice was quiet and devoid of emotion as she asked this rhetorical question, not really expecting an answer.

The cat nodded and answered, in a female voice, "Yes, that I am. I am Rael. Are you ready, Rah'eesa?"

Rah'eesa attached the broach to her collar and picked up the chest. "Yeah. I'm ready. Where are we going?"

"To accustom you to your powers. I scouted while you were unconscious… it seems that the DEDs got to the family living next door to you, when they wouldn't surrender to the mark. That should be a good place to start." The cat looked solemn. "These bodies have only just been taken, so they shouldn't be too hard for you to purify them."

Rah'eesa stood there, tapping her foot. "And I do this how?"

"I'll explain when we get there. Let's just go. Take this." Rael did a strange flick with her tail and a simple wooden cross appeared out of nowhere above Rah'eesa, falling down to where she caught it in her hands.

Just a couple of minutes later, Rah'eesa was at the next house over. She'd decided to take the direct way, and rang their doorbell.

The little boy of the household, Tommy, answered the door. When he saw Rah'eesa, a delighted grin broke over his freckled face, and she couldn't help but wonder whether Rael had been wrong; was the family really possessed? Maybe they had just submitted to being branded with the dark mark, and were still themselves… still, she had to know for sure…

The silly grin still on his face, Tommy called out to his parents. "Mom! Dad! Reesa's here!" Poking his head out slightly, he looked around. "Are your parents here, too, Reesa? Have you guys come to visit again? Come on, I wanna show you this new picture I drew!"

Wordlessly, Rah'eesa held up the wooden cross given to her by Rael. When Tommy saw it, he let out a hiss and backed up, his face taking on an angry expression. Just for an instant, his face seemed to flicker to a demonic visage before turning back to his cherubic face once more. He pouted, and there was a weird throaty tone to his voice. "Why ya gotta be mean like that, Reesa? I just wanted to play…"

Rah'eesa took a step back, shaking her head slightly. "Oh, Tommy, I was hoping she was wrong…" She glanced back at Rael, who was behind her. "What now?"

Rael nodded, seeming to come to a decision. "Touch your broach and say the words, 'holy savior power'."

Rah'eesa nodded and, sticking the bottom part of the cross in her pocket, did what the cat told her. "Holy Savior POWER!"

Rah'eesa's body glowed blindly bright, and all that could be seen were her eyes, which were closed. The light focused in and materialized as a sort of white leotard on her, with long white sleeves that ended in points on her middle fingers.

A fat drop of blood fell and landed on Rah'eesa's forehead, becoming a bloodred ruby from which sprouted a golden tiara that graced her forehead. The ruby bled, the blood flowing down to her neck, waist, and fingertips, forming a bloodred chocker, collar, skirt, and gloves. The last of it flowed down to her ankles, where it formed bloodred leather lace-up boots that went up to mid-calf on her.

A pink silk sash flowed from either side of the locket to behind her and joined together, tying behind her waist into a bow.

She brought her wrists up and crossed over each other an inch under her chin, and strange-looking metallic red cuffs appeared on them.

Golden shimmers appeared on her tiara ruby, ears, choker, arms, wrists, and middle fingers as these appeared: On her ruby, a small cross. On her ears, cross dangly earrings. On her choker, a golden cross. On her arms, armbands engraved with crosses and set with drop-shaped rubies. On her wrist cuffs, a small golden cross for each. On her middle fingers, small cross-engraved rings which the tips of the sleeves were attached to. Red and gold hair ties now adorned her pigtails.

Finally, her rabbit red eyes opened to stare at the demonic little boy, who now looked scared. He ran into the house, and Rah'eesa made as if to follow him before Rael stopped her.

"Wait, Sailor Savior. You'll need this." A red wand appeared in Rah'eesa's hands, tipped with a large golden cross with a ruby drop set into its center. "This is your Wand of Salvation. This is what you use to channel the power you need and purify these people."

Rah'eesa gave her a weird look. "Sailor Savior? Is that… my name?" The cat nodded. "In this form, it is."

Nodding, Sailor Savior stepped through the door, only to be intercepted by Tommy's parents. The father spoke. "So nice of you to visit." His eyes flickered red, and then he and his wife both leapt at her. She dodged easily. "Is that all you got?"

Raising her wand, she cried out the words which she already somehow knew. "Salvation Purification!" Golden light shot out of the wand and into the adults, who promptly started screaming and fell to their knees, their hands in their hair as they doubled over in agony.

An alarmed look coming over her face, Sailor Savior started to lower her wand; she didn't want to kill them! But when she started to, Rael stopped her with a sharp 'No!'

Finally, when the adults had stopped moving, Sailor Savior lowered her wand, tears in her eyes as she feared that they were dead. As she did so, she felt two sharp pinpricks at her lower back, as though someone had shoved two hot needles deep into her.

She winced in pain, and then something caught her attention. The two adults were moving! Wait… no, they weren't. There were two shadows rising from them, forming into faceless humanoid black forms with claws and glowing red eyes.

Rael sounded alarmed. "Sailor Savior, those are the demons! Be on your guard!"

Sailor Savior turned to her to answer. "No duh." A second later, she regretted it as one of the demons slashed at her side, raking three vicious scratches. "YEOWCH!" She leapt away nimbly, alarmed and clutching her side. "Rael, what do I do!"

The cat seemed to be struggling to remember, then she answered, "Bang your wrists together and do what your instinct tells you!"

The girl did what she was told and, surprisingly, the two wrist 'cuffs' flew from her wrists and into the air, whirling a quick circle around her before landing back in her hands, unbent as boomerangs with strange slots in the inside triangles.

She stared at the boomerang for only an instant before clutching them and yelling the words that came to mind. "Salvation's Fury Slicers!" She threw the boomerangs with all of her might at the demons and, surprisingly, two razor-sharp blades unfolded from the inside of each as they went towards the demons. The demons were rent in two and Sailor Savior felt a bit of fear as the razor-sharp boomerangs came back towards her, but the blade shlooped back in just before they snapped back around her wrists on their own, transforming into cuffs.

She stood there, breathing heavily, thinking it was over, but then…

Sailor Savior let out a scream as wave after wave of pain washed through her, leaving her weaker after each wave. She was covered in dark energy, Tommy standing near her, his hands out as they emptied energy into her, a malicious demonic grin on his face.

She fell to her knees, unable to stand any longer, and she couldn't even raise her wand or speak the purifying words to stop the boy. Was she to die before she'd even truly started?

Nope.

Tommy let out a yell of anger as Rael leapt out of nowhere, sinking her fangs into his arm and distracting him, stopping the flow of the energy. She let go and ran before the boy could do anything to her. "Sailor Savior, now!"

Sailor Savior raised her wand and spoke the words again, barely able to get the words out. "Salvation… purification…" When the little boy had finally stopped screaming and collapsed on the ground, Sailor Savior lowered her wand and fell to her knees, barely aware of another needle-pinprick on her lower back. She stared down at the wand. "Rael… they're not dead, are they?"

Rael shook her head. "No, don't worry, they're not. They're simply weak from their ordeal and won't awaken for a little bit."

Sailor Savior nodded and wearily got to her feet, aware of several aches and pains, and holding the scratches at her side. "Alright… let's get out of here…"

QS: Things aren't going too well for Rah'eesa, eh? First, she loses her parents, and her house… then, she gets hurt by a bunch of demons. Nice day, huh?

If you're wondering about those pinpricks she feels, you'll find out what they are next chapter. Any guesses? Well, bye for now, people!

PS: I just now reposted this chapter because, as I was going over it, I saw so many spelling and grammar errors that it was ridiculous. That's what I get for writing at 2AM, ya know? Anyway, I fixed all the errors, I think.

PPS: Believe it or not, this isn't really supposed to be a story that's all preachy and stuff. See, liked I said in the last chapter's author's notes, I wrote the first draft for this when I was a really religious eleven-year-old. Now, though, I'm not really all that religious… I mean, I still believe in God, but let's just say that a bunch of stuff happened that shook my faith, and caused me to lose faith in the church, if not in God. And even with God, I'm not always what you'd call certain… but when I found this story, I thought it'd be a challenge, and maybe give me my spark back, ya know?