Okay here we go with the re-writing of chapter 2. I hope you like it. Please read on.
The Beginning of Tuxedo Jessi
I walked along an invisible path with black swirling around me. I had just walked through the opening of a black time hole. As I walked along I could see a light forming ahead of me. I rushed toward it. I was ready to leave this place, all the swirling was making my head spin.
Soon I had reached the light. I paused for a moment before I stepped into the light. I had no clue to what was on the other side, but I knew that I had to walk into the light. I took a deep breath and walked into the light. I closed my eyes against the brightness. I continued to walk forward even though I couldn't see. As I stepped one more step forward I felt nothing under my feet. With a shrike I fell.
As I fell I opened my eyes. The bloody(1) time hole had opened up all right, but not were I was accepting it to. It had opened up 20 feet in the air, right above a lake. I was falling toward water. The cat in me hated water, the human I was now had no idea what to do. I started to scream about 10 feet above the water. I closed my eyes just before I hit the water.
The second I hit the water my breath was taken away. The water was cold, freezing even. I struggled to reach the surface. My head finally broke the surface, I sucked in air. I was struggling. I couldn't swim. Great, I wasn't even in the past for 5 minutes and I was already in trouble.
"Hel..p!" I tried to scream but wound up with a mouthful of water instead.
"There's someone drowning!" someone yelled. I think it came from shore.
"I don't think they can swim!" Someone else yelled.
Do you think that if I could swim that I would be drowning? Hello some help here would be great, I thought as I tried to stay above water. I heard a splash. Just as my head went back under, I thought to myself, Mother I'm sorry. I blacked out.
When I came too I saw people standing above me. The sky was behind them. I was lying on my back, on the ground. As I blinked two people leaned down closer to me. It was two girls.
"Are you okay?" the one on my right asked.
"I think so. Thanks." I said trying to sit up.
The two girls helped me sit up. I looked around. I was in a park. I looked at the two girls. The one who had spoken to me was a dirty blonde. Her hair was cut around her shoulders. She had gray/blue eyes. I turned and looked at the other girl. I sucked in my breath. She had red/brown hair that went a bit past her shoulders. Her eyes were gray. she looked like Jessi. I had to know if it was Jessi.
"Thank you for saving me. Can I ask your names please?" I glanced at both of them.
"Sure. I'm Sara." The blonde said.
"And I'm Jessi." The other girl said.
I looked at her closer. I looked into her eyes. She blinked a few times while giving me an up raised eye brow (2) look. I blinked myself and than looked away. I started to get to my feet. I wobbled a bit. Sara grabbed my arm, holding me up till I stood firm on my feet. I threw her a great full smile.
"What's your name by the way?" Sara asked.
"My name is Stella." As I said this I glanced at Jessi out of the corner of my eye. She looked like she was thinking.
"Stella? Hum…that's different." Sara shrugged her shoulders.
I was still glancing at Jessi. She didn't look at me any different, like she knew something or me. Maybe I found the wrong Jessi. I sighed to myself. I looked up and around. The sun was starting to go down behind some trees. The colors in the sky were turning pink and orange. I turned and started to walk away. My steppes were shaky at first. I soon reached the path. There I stopped and turned back around. Sara and Jessi were standing on the grass were I had left them. They looked at me with wide eyes.
"Thank you for your help today." I said bowing low to them. My hair fell forward.
When I straighten back up they both looked at with weird looks. I gave them one last smile, turned and walked away. I soon heard footsteps behind me. I picked up my pace. Who ever it was also picked up their pace. I started to run, well try to run. Soon I was tripping over my own two feet. Just as I was about to crash on my face a hand grabbed the back of my dress and caught me. I looked over my shoulder and saw Jessi. She had caught me.
"Oh…Hi…can I help you?" I asked as she let go. I turned to face her.
"I have this weird feeling like I've meet you before. Have I?" Jessi got right to the point.
When she asked me this I felt my heart beat faster. Could she be remembering me than? But I had to know one thing first.
"Do you remember anything before you helped me from the lake?" I asked. I tried not to get excited. I didn't want to scare her.
"Well…um…" Jessi closed her eyes tightly in thought.
Meanwhile high above the city, above the clouds was a floating tower. A single window like a bubble covered the top of the tower. Light bounced off the window but couldn't make its way inside. Behind the glass bubble was a round room. Two chairs sat on a dark floor. The two chairs were coppiced.
A man with bright orange hair and bright red eyes was sitting in one. He wore a green shirt and black pants. No shoes. The finishing touch to him was the black star in a circle in the middle of his forehead.
The other chair facing him held none other than the Water Buffalo. She curled a red ringlet around her finger. She wore a look of hatred on her face.
"Neon, you must find the brat." The Water Buffalo was still curling the ringlet.
"Yes my lady." The man, Neon, nodded his head. "It should be no problem when she shows up at a fight."
"Oh that's were you are wrong. When I pushed her into the time hole I managed to wipe her memory of being a heroine in training. She has no idea about who she is past her name." The Water Buffalo finally looked at him, "I do not know where in the city she fell too, but I know she is here. I can feel her energy. But I can't pinpoint it cause she had not waken yet."
"Than how am I to find her?" Neon didn't want to hunt and pick through every girl in the city who looked like the girl.
"She'll show up. Send a monster and I can almost granite it that she'll be drawn to it." The Water Buffalo got to her feet. Neon followed suit. He knew better than to sit when she was not. "I know that she has family here in the city. Look for them. For some unknown reason to her she will be staying with or close by."
"Yes my lady. Is there anything else my lady?" Neon bowed and held it.
"Yes I can feel another energy like hers here. I wouldn't put it past Neo-Queen Serenity to send someone after her. I want her found as soon as possible. To not fail me Neon." With that the Water Buffalo winked away.
Neon walked over to a wall, which was really the glass bubble. The glass cleared, showing an image of the city below. Neon grinned, pointing down at the city. Something streaked from his finger and flew toward the city.
I was still watching Jessi as she tried to answer my question. Whatever she was thinking about was making her hurt. She kept wincing. She finally sighed and opened her eyes. She looked at me.
"Are you new in town?" Jessi threw a question before I ready.
"Yeah. I just got here from…" I trailed off. What could I say? I'm from the 30th century. "I'm staying with some family." Bloody hell I didn't know where I was going to stay.
"Cool. What school are you going to go too? That is if you're here for school." She asked.
"Yeah I'm going to school. I'm in middle school but I can't remember what school though. What school do you go too?" I asked needing to find out her school in order to stay close to her.
"I go to Cross Roads Middle School." That was the school I need to enrollee in than. "I live with my Aunt and Uncle."
Aunt? Uncle? Could she mean her Aunt Serenity and her family? I didn't know. Hell I didn't know when I was. All I knew was that I was in Tokyo.
"Um…don't think I'm crazy or anything but what's today?" I asked. If I knew the year I could figure out what was going on.
"April 14th 1998." Jessi answered like she answered that type of question every day.
1998 (3), that would mean that Neo-Queen Serenity was going by the name of Usagi. Could she be living with her grandparents than? But before I could ask Jessi another question a scream ripped through the air.
I looked around wildly as people stared to run. I was nearly knocked over by some guy. As I caught myself on the side of a building fog started to roll around us. Someone screamed again.
"Help!" the person screamed again.
"I know that voice. Sara!" Jessi yelled as she took off running. She pushed past me.
"No wait!" I cried as I tried to run after her. Man running on two feet is hard. I couldn't catch Jessi, hell I was lucky that I could keep her in sight as she ran deeper into the fog.
I saw Jessi stop and look around wildly. I rushed toward her, breathing hard.
"What's…wrong?" I gasped out the question. Before she could answer me Sara screamed again.
We turned toward the sound. It was coming from our left. We hurried toward the sound. As we got closer the fog started to swirl and lift a little. We could see Sara. She had been thrown against a wall and covered in what looked like plaster. The monster in front of her had it's back to us.
"Jessi! Help!" Sara yelled as she spotted her friend.
When Sara had said the name Jessi the monster started to turn. The monster had blue/black skin and yellow eyes. Her head looked like it had a funnel growing out of it. A yellow jacket and pants was all the monster wore.
"Sara!" Jessi took a step forward.
"Wait!" I grabbed her shoulder stopping her.
"I can read your thoughts little girl. I know what your fears are." The monster's voice was high pitched. The funnel on her head started to smoke.
Jessi paled as something started to form from the smoke. She tried to step back, tripped and fell into me. We glanced up at the smoke only to see it take shape. It was a huge snake. It slithered toward us. Jessi let out a small scream, crawled over me, got to her feet and started to move away. I got to my feet also and backed up. As the snake started to hiss Jessi screamed and took off running.
"You can run but you can't hide." The monster was yelling after her.
I glanced at the snake than at Jessi's running back and followed her. We had gotten lost in the fog again when Jessi stopped, again. I crushed into her. She was holding her side, taking deep breathes. We were still standing there when we heard Sara let out a blood curtly scream.
"I just can't leave her there." Jessi mumbled to herself. She started back the way we came, shaking like a leaf.
I followed her through the fog. We soon stepped out into the small clearing of fog. The snake was poised to strike Sara, who by this time had passed out. The monster was watching us come forward. As Jessi took another step forward the snake was starting to lose its form. And as it loosed its form I saw Jessi stop shaking. The snake was vanishing cause Jessi was standing up to her fears.
As I watched this I felt something come over me. The moon on my forehead, which had disappeared when I turned into a human, reappeared glowing. The necklace the queen had given me was also glowing. I held up a hand as a purple rose appeared in the air before me. As it touched my hand, a light flashed and the purple rose turned into a senshi pen. The handle of the pen was royal purple. A small crystal orb sat on the top. Engraved into the crystal was a rose.
"What's that glow?" the monster was growling at me. I looked up to see it closer to me than it had a second ago.
"Jessi!" I yelled throwing the senshi pen at her as she turned. She quickly caught it.
"What this?" She asked holding it close to look.
The monster had turned from me when I thrown the pen ad was moving toward Jessi.
"Jessi hold it up and shout Rose Power Make Up!" I yelled. She looked up to see the monster coming toward her. She stepped back. "Jessi!"
"Rose Power Make Up!" Jessi held the senshi pen above her head.
A flash of light blinded me. When I looked up I saw purple roses spinning from the ground rose around Jessi. She had her head tilted back and her eyes closed as the roses covered her. As they landed on her body they started to form into an outfit. With another flash of bright light it was over. The person in front of me wore purple and black knee high boots, short black skirt that had a purple strip around the bottom, white tuxedo shirt under a black jacket, a cape of purple with black lining the edges. A purple mask covered her eyes.
"Tuxedo Jessi." I breathed a sigh of relief. I had been right when I first meet her.
"Your evil thoughts and actions have earned you a one way ticket out of here. On the mighty rose gardens of Elysion and Earth, I Tuxedo Jessi, will send you on your way! (4)" Tuxedo Jessi yelled making a sign with her fingers. Her thumb and pointer finger formed a circle while the rest of her fingers stuck up.
After she was done with her little speech the monster bowed its head and shot gray plaster out at her.
"Look out!" I yelled. Tuxedo Jessi jumped away from the attack. As she came down, she tucked into a role. The monster shot more plaster at her. I was pretty much being ignored which was fine by me.
Tuxedo Jessi leaped to her feet only to hit the wall behind her. The monster grinned evilly at her, think she had Tuxedo Jessi cornered. I saw Tuxedo Jessi struggle with something inside. She held her left hand down by her side. A purple rose appeared there. She crushed it as she closed her hand around it. She held her right hand out in front of her, like she was going to hold the monster back. The monster grinned at her once more and bowed its head to blow plaster at her. With the monster not paying attention to her, Tuxedo Jessi brought her left hand up. She clapped her left hand, with the crushed rose, into her right. With the rose petals between her hands she pulled her arms back. Her right elbow stuck out at an angle while her left elbow crossed her chest.
"Rose.." with the first word spoken her hands started to glow, "Power Strike!" she threw her arms forwards and opened her hands. The crushed rose had turned into purple energy. It shot toward the monster and slipped inside the funnel. With all that power inside the monster she blew up.
I heaved a huge sigh as the fog around us rolled away. My moons stopped glowing and the one on my forehead disappeared again. Tuxedo Jessi rushed forward and caught Sara as the plaster holding her to the wall fell apart. I looked up at the night sky, for by this time night had finally rolled in. the moonlight was gentle. As I looked back at Tuxedo Jessi and Sara a shadow fell over me. I quickly turned and looked back at the sky. A man with bright orange hair was floating there. His red eyes burned from the shadows of his face.
"So you've awoken. But that won't help you. You'll soon be mine." He snarled.
A purple light flashed past me with a cry of "Rose Power Strike!" Tuxedo Jessi had powered up another attack. But her attack hit nothing but sir as the man had disappeared. I watched the air for a moment than turned back toward Tuxedo Jessi, who was starting to turn back into her normal cloths. She laid Sara gently on the ground and stood. She looked at me for a moment; pulled a cell phone from her pocket, where she got it I had no clue, punched in a number, talked for a moment and than hung up. She turned away from me and started to walk away. I followed her as fast as I could.
I followed her around a corner, down two blocks, around another corner, down a couple more blocks only to see her stop in front of a house with a gate in front. She looked back at me, as if she was waiting for me. I walked up to her.
"I still don't understand everything. But I do know that I know you. That I've known you for a long time. Am I right?" she had started talking.
"Yes." I was nodding, "You've known me since you were a little girl."
Before I could say any more the door to the house opened and a boy with brown hair stepped out. The light from inside the house outlined his body.
"Jessi! Dinner time!" he called.
"Be right there Shingo!" Jessi called back.
So it was her grandparents she was staying with. Only she was calling them her aunt and uncle. (5) She looked at me for a moment.
"I'll talk to you tomorrow." She softly said.
"Don't tell anyone what happen." I said.
"Like they'd believe me." She mumbled as she turned away from me.
I stood out in front of the house for a few minutes after the door had closed. I than walked away. As I walked I was running thoughts threw my head. How do I get her home if she can't remember anything? I sighed thinking that I had to teach her the basics all over again. But the main thought I had was where was I going to stay. I couldn't stay with Jessi. With five people already living there it would be a full house. I looked up to see where I was going only to fine that I was back in the park. I walked over to a railing and looked down at the water. The moon reflected back at me, just above my head. As I continued to look at the water my face started to change. I gasped as I saw Sailor Pluto looking at me.
"Stella." Her voice sounded far away. "Stella, go to Cross Roads Apartments. Your home is there."(6)
"Sailor Pluto! Don't leave!" I yelled leaning over the railing as her face started to vanish.
"Teach Jessi her training." Sailor Pluto's voice seemed to whisper to me.
I stood there watching my face reflect back for long moments. Than leaned back. I sighed and brushed a tear away from my eye. Cross Roads Apartments huh? Well a bed was a bed. I walked out of the park and out to the main street. I crossed the street and saw a place that was still open. I went inside and asked for directions. Soon I was on my way. Walking down the street toward my 'home' I thought about Crystal Tokyo and my family.
Okay I got this from () thing from Silver Sailor Ganymede. (Hope you don't mid that I borrowed your idea) I was having a hard time getting the thing on the 8 to stay during uploading.
This(1) isfor bloody.My word of the moment. I think I've read Harry Potter too many times.
This (2) is amovement that something the real Jessi, one of my best friends, gives me a lot. Especially when I've done or asked something silly.
Cause (3)I want my story to be during the sailor senshi high school years. Oh and Sailor Moon and the sailor senshi will not being showing up here. Just passing through. K? I have a hard enough time keeping all my characters straight with out having to add to the number.
I (4) thought that this would be a cool speech, since Tuxedo Jessi uses rose attacks.
Kind (5)of like what Chibi-Usa does.
Heck (6)Stella needs someplace to live. I don't know if there is a place called Cross Roads Apartments. And the reason why Sailor Pluto talked to her that way was cause she didn't have any other way to talk to Stella. Stella doesn't have someone like Luna-P.
Enjoy this chapter.