arianna2344: Well, so long as you like secrets…
Sorry this one took so long. I had it sitting here for ages and forgot to upload it. This one's REALLY short and rushed… The last two deals haven't been all that important to the storyline, they just had to be shoved in, so here they are.
Naoko owns Senshi, not me. All hail Naoko.
But I DO own the Fate Senshi. Brogan, Cara, Amanda, Minty, and all my other characters are mine.
THE FATE SENSHI
AUTHOUR: Jetster
EMAIL: G
1st Round (Practice Round)
5th Deal: Checking the Hand
Sailor Diamonds looked around. She was surrounded by a lush rainforest. It a little sticky, hot and… Familiar. It took her a few minutes to realise- it was the Daintrees in Cairns.
"Sweet. I love this place" Sailor Diamonds tried to figure out exactly where she was, and made the conclusion that the river was to her left. So she ran down the track to her left…
♦
Sailor Spades blinked as she stepped into the bright sunshine. There were cars everywhere. A horn caught the her attention,
"GET OFF THE ROAD YOU NUTCASE!" a car narrowly missed hitting Spades as she dodged and ran to the side of the road. People were staring, understandably. The fuku wasn't exactly conservative, and it looked strange. One little kid called out,
"Mummy, mummy, look! It's Sailor Moon!"
"It's just someone dressed up honey. Come on"
Sailor Moon? The name sounded familiar. She would have to ask one of the other Senshi about it later. Right now, she had to figure out exactly what she was meant to do next to the big fountain in Bendigo. She crossed the road again, and headed towards the town hall…
♠
Sailor Hearts stepped into a location she recognised and despised immediately. Her school. Luckily, it seemed that she had arrived at a good time. All the students were in class. None of her friends would see her like this.
But then, the bell rang.
Students poured out from every direction, before coming to stop and stare at Sailor Hearts in her fuku.
"Oooh, crap"
Sailor Hearts ran, towards the school gates…
♥
Sailor Diamonds caught sight of the river, glittering behind through the trees. She laughed and began to run towards it, forgetting her mission.
A loud horn interrupted her.
Sailor Diamonds got out of the way of the car and ran over to the footpath, where a strip of shops were.
It did strike her odd to have been running in a rainforest one moment and then be in the middle of a city the next. She checked out her surroundings. There was a large fountain in the middle of the roundabout. That didn't really help her though. Diamonds didn't recognise the place at all. People were beginning to make snide comments about her as they walked past her.
"What a freak.."
"Is that some kind of fashion statement?"
"I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore" Diamonds whispered to herself, and began to walk up the road, trying to figure out where she was.
♦
Spades looked around in surprise. She should have been looking at the Deborah Goldmines entrance. Instead, she was being looked at strange by students in a school. The students weren't wearing any uniform she recognised either.
A teacher approached her, "Excuse me, but do you have a reason to be on the premises?"
Spades grinned.
"Er, no. I just… Kinda got here"
"Can I please ask you to leave then, or I will have to call the police"
"Sorry. I'll… Be going now"
Spades shook her head and wondered what was up with this situation. It was going to be seemingly harder to find the others.
♠
Hearts stared around her. She had appeared at the doorway of a gymnasium. She walked backwards, and looked at the school gat, then walked forwards.
She was back in the gymnasium. Kids were doing all sorts of things, the Roman rings, flipping on double bars, floorwork…
"What's going on here?" Hearts whispered to herself. She saw there was another door on the other side of the gym, and walked towards there, ignoring the stares she got.
♥
Sailor Diamonds took another step and found herself to be in the middle of what looked… To be a school yard of all places.
"This is getting ridiculous," she went behind a building and became Cara again, "I need to sit down and figure out what's going on here"
She went out and sat out in the middle of the yard. The only problem was that she wasn't in the school's uniform. She just hoped a teacher wouldn't notice.
♦
Spades looked around the gymnasium.
"OK, I've had it with this simulation. Spades walked back out into the school yard, making sure to jump behind a bush and transform into her normal self before emerging.
As Brogan came away from the gate and into the yard, a bell went. Students began to slowly mill away, and Brogan spotted Cara within the masses.
"Well, at least I found one person." Brogan grinned as she approached her friend. Cara grinned in response.
"What took ya so long?"
"Well, it's not like you went walking back the way you came to try find someone. Come on, now that us two have found each other, we should go find the others." Cara nodded. Now that the school yard was empty, they could transform again.
"SPADES DRAW POWER!"
"DIAMONDS DRAW POWER!"
Spades and Diamonds ran the school gate and into the gymnasium.
♠
Hearts groaned. Now she was in a rainforest, of all places. She kept walking, hoping that maybe one of the other girls was here. On that note, how would she recognise them… It would have been a better idea to have the four meet in a more controlled situation, wouldn't it?
"HELLO?" Hearts began to walk slowly, looking around for any signs that someone might be in the rainforest area.
"Hey! I think that's her!" Hearts whipped around at the sound of someone's voice behind her. Two girls in similar fukus ran up behind her.
"Sailor Hearts, I presume?" The girl with red colours on her fuku asked. Hearts nodded. The other two gave each other high fives. The girl in red put out her hand, offering it to shake.
"I'm Sailor Diamonds, or Cara, and this here is Sailor Spades… Better known as Brogan"
"Hey" The girl with black on her fuku… Sailor Spades waved to Hearts. Hearts mustered the biggest grin she could. So these were the other Senshi.
"Hi! I suppose you can call me Amanda then" the three girls grinned at each other stupidly.
"Well now we just have to find Sailor Clubs… Wherever she may be" Spades mused. A realisation suddenly dawned on Diamonds.
"This is the Daintree Rainforest again!" the other two looked at her, "It's a big circle! This is where I came in!" Hearts and Spades looked at her, "and if you go that way… You come to a city area"
"That would be Bendigo I'm guessing. And if we go back the way we came there's a gymnasium, and through the door across the room from that is a school"
"That's my school. Did you guys like it?" Hearts piped up. Spades and Diamonds looked at her, but ignored the question.
"So maybe… If we go this way…" Diamonds pointed to the path heading of to their left.
"It might take us to the centre of the circle. I bet if we were to go to the right we'd either hit a wall or find the door." Spades noted. Hearts decided to take action.
"Well, let's go this way then." She started to walk off to the left. Spades and Diamonds looked at each other, shrugged, and followed.
♥
The young girl looked up at the big, white door. It bore a single black club at the top. Slowly, she turned the door handle. The door opened this time. The others must have finally found their way in or something. She considered going around the circular hallway to meet them before entering the room she knew nothing about…
Then again, they were all meant to fight the same enemy in this simulation, so they'd have to meet up in here anyway, right?
Minty Gordons walked through the door, and closed it behind her.
♣
The three girls were only walking a little way before they found themselves in a curving white hallway.
"Where are we?" Diamonds' voice echoed throughout the hallway.
"Well… We're in a hallway. And I bet that door leads to some room" Spades raised an eyebrow at Hearts, but she wasn't going to say anything. They were meant to be a team and it was no time for sarcasm. Diamonds meanwhile was looking at the door Hearts had been talking about. It was quite big, and white like the rest of the room. But at the top there was a single, red diamond.
"Let's go!" Hearts went to turn the door handle… It wouldn't budge, "hey… it's locked"
"I'll give it locked…" Spades stepped forward and aimed her pistol at the door handle. Diamonds grinned.
"Wait a second, let me try." Diamonds pushed down on the door handle, and it opened easily, "let's go!" Diamonds walked through, while Spades looked on a bit annoyed. Hearts tried to follow, but was stopped as she reached the door frame.
"Oof!" Hearts was knocked to the floor and rubbed her nose. Spades couldn't help laughing, "don't laugh at me! There's like some invisible wall there!"
"Well, I would assume that considering only Diamonds could open the door, only she could walk through the door. Come on, I bet there's big white doors with our symbols on them too"
Spades began to walk off.
Hearts sat on the floor for a few seconds pouting before she followed.
♦
Spades stopped suddenly in the middle of the hallway, and looked to her left.
"Well, whaddaya know?" Spades grinned. Hearts blinked.
"Did you find my door?"
"Nope" Spades opened a door in the wall and walked through, closing it behind her. Hearts frowned as she looked up at the white door with the black Spades symbol.
♠
Hearts moseyed down the hallway, upset at being the last Senshi left in the long hallway.
"I bet they don't even care about me…" Hearts looked to her left. To her surprise, there was the large white door she had been looking for, just there. Hearts looked up at the red heart symbol at the top and grinned, "my turn!"
♥
Clubs looked over to her right. The dark room had gotten lighter each time one of the other Senshi had entered. Now it was bright and she could see everything. It was hard to make out the walls of the room. The whole place was patterned with black and red check, and the doors were even indistinguishable from the wall or floor. Clubs noticed it was still dark in the middle of the room. The other Senshi watched her as she walked towards the middle, and followed suit.
As they drew closer, Clubs could make out a dark clump in the centre. She watched as Spades glanced over to Diamonds, and drew out her pistol. Clubs, Diamonds and Hearts did likewise.
"What is-" Hearts was cut off as the thing opened one big, yellow eye. Clubs walked forwards.
"Cool…" The thing opened another eye and screeched.
Then it lunged itself at Clubs.
"Watch out!" Spades ran, and threw herself over Clubs, just as the thing was almost upon her…
"BANG!"
A/NOh, how I love to annoy you people with these cliffhangers!
"It took her a few minutes to realise- it was the Daintrees in Cairns."
This is a rainforest in the Northern part of Queensland, which is a really beautiful place. I remember going there during the winter (our family friends who live up there thought we were crazy for going out in T-shirts and shorts when they were getting all rugged up… Victoria is seriously freezing compared to Queensland), it was the most fun. My family met some Irish tourists and we went down this sort of natural waterslide made in the river. It was great.
It's a bit sticky and hot for Diamonds, 'cos the simulator is showing the Daintrees during a summer period.
"Right now, she had to figure out exactly what she was meant to do next to the big fountain in Bendigo"
I love the Bendigo fountain. It's gorgeous. If you would like to see an image, you can have a look here: http/