Okay here we go, 4th chapter. I hope you guys are enjoying this story. Please read on.
Help if You Can.
I saw Jessi wanting for me at the front doors to the school. I picked up my pace. She wasn't looking my way but outside. I stopped next to her and looked outside as well. Nothing new to see. Just kids leaving to go home for the day.
"Hi Jessi." I finally said. She jumped slightly and glanced at me.
"Oh hi Stella. Have you heard about the new girl?" Jessi was looking outside again.
"No what's up?" I asked her.
"They say she just moved here. She's in my class with me. When she speaks you can barely hear her." Jessi was saying. She was about to go on when someone called her name.
We both turned and saw boy hurrying toward us. He had blond hair that was long and kept falling into his eyes.
"Oh no." I heard Jessi say under her breath.
"What's wrong?" I whispered as the boy came closer.
"It's Mike from class." Jessi whispered back as the boy stopped in front of us.
"Hi Stella." He greeted me. I said hi back but he had already turned to Jessi, "Hi Jessi. I was wondering if you'd like to go a movie with me?" he looked so desperate.
"No Mike. I'm kind of busy so sorry." Jessi said with out emotion.
"Oh sorry than. Sorry to bother you than." Mike sighed as he left us standing there.
"What was that all about?" I asked as Jessi pushed opened the doors.
"He's got this huge crush on me." Jessi sighed. She titled her head back to catch some sun.
"Oh." I said, watching the people around us, "Hey is that the new girl?"
I was pointing at a girl. Jessi looked where I was pointing. The girl was slowly walking out the gates with her head down. She had brown hair that was about shoulder length, it was falling into her face. She looked like she was really tall. I wanted a closer look but she had already walked out the gates.
"She looked kind of sad." I said.
Neon was up in his tower thinking. Water Buffalo was not happy with him. True he had gotten some engery but once again Tuxedo Jessi had slipped through his fingers. He need a new plan. He suddenly grin, knowing just the plan.
"Dark Singer I summon thee." He said looking toward the middle of the room.
Something was oozing its way through the tile on the floor. When it had finally taken form it bowed.
"Here master Neon." It said in a wispy kind of voice.
"Go to work. Sing everyone's engery away." Neon growled. Dark Singer bowed once again and left.
I had just left the bookstore where I worked after picking up my paycheck. I was on my way to meet up with Jessi. It was my turn to buy ice cream. I glanced up and noticed someone. It was that brown hair girl from school I made up my mind right than and there to talk to her. I hurried after her.
"Hey! Wait up for a moment." I called.
She stopped and turned around. She looked surprised that someone was talking to her. I rushed over to her.
"Is something the matter?" She asked down at me. She was really tall. Taller than I had first thought.
"No nothings wrong. Hi I'm Stella. I go to the same school as you do." I held out a hand. She looked at it for a moment than broke out in a grin.
"I'm Kristen. I just moved here. I have one question for you." Kristen asked.
"And that would be what?" I cocked my head at her, which caused my hair to fall to one side.
"Is that your real color or did you dye it?" Kristen pointed at my hair.
"It's my normal color. Why did someone say something?" I was kind of surprised at this cause Sailor Neptune's air is aqua green (1).
"Well I just moved here and I've never seen someone with such color hair." She grinned. I couldn't help but grin back.
"Hey do you like ice cream?" I asked.
"Yeah." Kristen nodded slowly.
"Want to join me? I'm meeting a friend and we're going to get some ice cream. Come." I grabbed her arm and started to pull her behind me.
"Okay." She laughed.
We made our way down the street and around the corner. The ice cream store was right in front of us. Through the window I could see Jessi sitting at a booth. Sitting on the table in front of her was a huge dish of ice cream. I sighed. I would have to pay her back now, oh well. I held the door open for Kristen and followed her inside. I walked over to Jessi. I sat down across from her. Kristen sat next to me.
"Hey." I said as I picked up a menu and handed it to Kristen.
"Hi." Jessi said through a mouthful of ice cream. She glanced up and looked over a t Kristen. Her face went white. She still had all that ice cream in her mouth and she wasn't breathing. I thought for a moment that she was going to choke.
"Jess?" I asked.
"Hi." Jessi finally swallowed her ice cream.
"Hello. My name is Kristen. Aren't we in the same class?" Kristen smiled.
"Yeah." Jessi nodded.
A waiter finally appeared at our table. Kristen and me gave him our orders. When he came back he set milk shake in front of me and dish of peach ice cream in front of Kristen. We sat there and talked about different things. Jessi complained about a math test that was coming up. I told them about a report that I had to write about. We were all laughing when Kristen looked at her watch. She suddenly jumped up, rocking the table.
"What's wrong?" Jessi asked as she grabbed her dish.
"I'm going to be late. I'm sorry but I have a concert that I need to get too." Kristen said grabbing her book bag.
"Concert?" I asked.
"Yeah. I'm singing with a choir at a concert tonight and if I don't book it I'm going to late." Kristen started to edge toward the door.
"Oh." Jessi said.
"I've got two extra tickets if you want to stop by. Here." She handed me two tickets, while she pushed open the door. "Sorry. Thanks for the ice cream Stella!" and with that she took off down the street.
Jessi and me stood at the door watching her run down the sidewalk when some guy bumped into her. She dropped her book bag for a moment, said something to the guy, grabbed her bag and took off again. I had been rushing over to her the moment I saw the guy bump into her but slowed when I saw her get up. I walked over to the guy who had bumped into her. He was picking something off the sidewalk. He was holding some papers.
"I can take those if you want me too sir." I said stopping next to him.
"Oh do you know that girl?" he asked.
"Yes sir. She's a friend. I can give those back to her for you." I held out a hand. He handed me the papers.
"Thank you." He nodded and walked off.
I looked down at the papers in my hand as Jessi walked over to me. She looked over my shoulder. I was holding sheet music. Kristen had dropped some music. As I held the music I had this weird feeling come over me. Something that I hadn't felt when Kristen was around.
"Stella? You okay?" Jessi was shaking my shoulder.
"Huh? Oh sorry Jessi. I'm okay. I just got this weird feeling is all." I tucked the music in my book bag.
"Weird feeling? Is something going on?" Jessi looked at me.
"Never mind. I'll tell you later. Now what time is it?" I shook my head.
"It's about 5pm. Why?" Jessi said looking at her watch.
"The time on these tickets is 6:15pm. We need to hurry if we're going to return Kristen's music to her before the concert starts. Come on." I said leading the way.
Kristen had just arrived and was opening her bag when a woman with short blond hair walked up to her. Kristen looked up at the woman, while still looking for her music.
"Ah there you are Kristen. I was worried about you. Are you ready?" the woman asked.
"Yes Miss Cal." Kristen nodded her head.
"Good. Than please go get changed." Miss Cal nodded her head in return and left Kristen standing there.
Kristen stood there for a moment that dug into her bag again. She couldn't find her music.
"Darn it. Oh well I know the music by heart anyway." Kristen shrugged her shoulders than left to go to the dressing room.
We made it to the concert site with 45 minutes to spare. We showed the man at the door our tickets and he let us in. We walked around for a few moments.
"Where do you think the backstage door is?" Jessi asked as she looked around.
"How about through the door that reads 'Backstage'." I pointed to the door.
Jessi stuck her tongue out at me. I just stuck mine out at her back. We pulled the door open and walked back stage. Right away I noticed something was wrong. There was no sound coming from anywhere back here. It was dead silence. There should have been some noise, shouldn't there?
"Stella, I don't like this. There's no one around and the air feels dead back here." Jessi was taking small steps.
"You're right. Lets look around but be careful." I said following her.
We walked around, looking in the shadows. No one was around. I was looking at some sets when I heard Jessi softly call my name. I went over to her. She was pointing at something.
"Look. Stairs." Jessi whispered.
Jessi had found some stairs that went under the stage. There wasn't any light coming up from the bottom of the stairs. Jessi looked at me, than started slowly making her way down the stairs. I followed behind her.
When we reached the bottom we looked around. The darkness made it hard to see. I edged down the hallway. As I walked I saw a light on under a door. I hurried over to the door with Jessi right behind me. I paused a moment than opened the door slowly.
I wasn't expecting to see bodies on the floor. Adults and teens were lying all over the place. I stepped into the room and stopped. I held a hand up to my head. I was getting that weird feeling again. But before I could say anything to Jessi a side door opened.
"Stella? Jessi?" It was Kristen who had opened the door. She stepped out toward us.
"Kristen? Why?" Jessi stepped back, almost stepping on someone.
"What?" Kristen started to ask when she looked around and noticed that people were lying on the floor. She gasped and stepped back.
I still had the weird feeling when a hand shot out from behind Kristen, fingers wrapping around her throat. Kristen's eyes opened with surprise. What ever was attached to the hand was coming closer. As the thing stepped out behind Kristen we saw a monster.
"Why is it that you are still up and moving?" the monster snarled. As it stepped out into the room it pushed Kirsten in front of it.
The monster was female form the looks of it. She wore a long blue over coat and black boots. Her hair was sticking out at all angles. Her eyes were ice blue and cold.
Jessi stepped back some more and I followed her. I was shaking with a sick feeling. I had never felt this way before. I had two different feelings going on at the same time. One was the feeling of something great would happen, while the other was a feeling of dread.
"Well, well what do I have here? Two more for my collecting." The monster had a wispy voice.
"We won't help you with anything." Jessi snapped. She held a hand up. "Rose Power Make Up!"
I wasn't watching Jessi transform, I was watching Kristen and the monster. Kristen wore a look of surprise but the monster on the other hand was wearing a wicked grin. That couldn't be good.
" For the mighty rose gardens of Elysion and Earth I, Tuxedo Jessi, will send you on your way!" Tuxedo Jessi said as she stepped up beside me.
"Goody. Now Tuxedo Jessi I want you to sing a B flat scale." The monster grinned as it held Kristen up. Kristen was trying to unwrap the fingers from around her neck.
"I can't sing!" Tuxedo Jessi hissed, her face growing a bit red.
"Too bad. I, Dark Singer, will be your down fall." Dark Singer drew Kristen close. She wrapped her other hand around Kristen's neck.
We just stood there in shock, not knowing what to do. As we watched Dark Singer held Kristen up to her face. She looked like she was going to suck the life engery from Kristen. As Kristen's eyes widen with fear something appeared on her forehead. This caused the monster to pause and stare at Kristen.
"What is this?" Dark Singer snarled. She just looked at Kristen and than threw her across the room at us.
We didn't try to duck but readied our selves to catch Kristen. We caught her all right, falling over in the process. Tuxedo Jessi pushed Kristen off herself and jumped to her feet. She rushed toward the monster. As Tuxedo Jessi was doing that I helped Kristen up. I finally got a closer look at the thing on her forehead. She had a small sign glowing there. It was a tiny set of scales (2). Kirsten was a scout?
As I stared at her I felt the moon on my forehead reappear. The moon around my neck was also glowing (3). Kristen was staring back at me. As she stared at me a stick started to form in front of her eyes, mine too. It was pink with a tiny star on the top. When it was done forming it fell into Kristen's out stretched hand.
"What is this?" Kristen asked but before I could say anything a blast of engery shot at us. We both ducked and rolled away from each other.
I looked around to see Tuxedo Jessi gasping from her knees. She had been hit with some type of attack. I was about to rush over to her when Dark Singer stepped in front of me, blocking my way.
"Your turn." She hissed.
"Kristen, hold that senshi pen up. You can help Tuxedo Jessi." I said as I stared at Dark Singer.
"What do I say?" She asked.
"What ever comes to you!" I stepped back as Dark Singer came toward me.
Kristen looked at the pen for a moment, closed her eyes than held the pen up.
"Libra Power Make Up!" She shouted. Dark Singer looked her way when Kristen had started shouting.
A pale pink light was wrapped around Kristen. She was surrounded by shooting stars that were spinning around and around her. As the circles got tighter Kristen leaned her head back and closed her eyes once more. The stars landed on her body and started to take shape into something else. With one final brust of pink light Kristen was standing in front of us in a sailor suit. Her collar, skirt, back bow and mid knee high boots were all pink. The bow on her chest was white but the button in the center was the same pink as the rest of her outfit. On her forehead was a tiara with a pink stone set in the middle.
"I hold the scales that weigh the rights and wrongs of the world. I'm Sailor Libra." Sailor Libra held both arms up slightly, as if she herself was a set of scales.
"Sailor Libra huh? No matter you'll die too." Dark Singer had turned toward Sailor Libra. Dark Singer opened her mouth and a blot of engery shot out.
Sailor Libra jumped out of the way. When she landed she folded her arms across her chest, her hands closed into fists. She closed her eyes for a second than flashed them open again. She opened her hands but kept her arms crossed.
"Zodiac…" Sparks of flashing light appeared around her hands. "Equal…" the lights grew more in number. Sailor Libra closed her hands around the lights. "Sparks!" as she shouted the last word she flung her arms out, opening her hands. The sparks of light went flying toward Dark Singer.
Dark Singer tried to turn away but was caught in mid turn by the attack. She screamed in high pitch as she died. With a final burst of light and scream the monster was gone. We stared at the spot were the monster had stood. Groans and moans were heard from all around us.
"We need to get out of here." Tuxedo Jessi said as she edged toward the door. Sailor Libra and I were right behind her.
Later after the concert we were slowly walking home. Jessi was bouncing around with excitement.
"Yes! Now I don't have to do all the work." Jessi was so glad that there was another sailor scout around.
"Hey you still have as much work to do as before." I said.
Jessi was in the middle of sticking her tongue out at me when she stopped. She held a hand up to her head. She closed her eyes with a soft gasp.
"Jessi?" Kristen rushed to her friend.
"I'm okay. I just saw something, again." She was looking at me. I didn't say anything but nodded. Jessi sighed and went on, "I was running down a long hall, looking over my shoulder. There were three people chasing me. I was yelling something to them, what I can't remember. I turned to look at where I was going when suddenly I tripped. I went sliding along the floor. When I sat up the three people were standing around me laughing."
"What did these people look like?" I finally asked. I thought I knew what she was talking about.
"They were all girls. One had long brown hair that went past her knees. Her hair also had strikes of orange in it. As she laughed her orange eyes were lighting up as well. Another had brown hair also but hers was in a braid that went all the way to her feet. She had tears in her brown eyes. She seemed taller than the other two. The last one had white hair with blue/green stripes that went to her shoulders. He eyes were the same color as her strips. They were all laughing as they helped me to my feet." Jessi stopped and held her hand up again.
"What is? What is this your telling us?" Kristen looked back and forth at Jessi and me.
"Another memory. I'm sitting in a small classroom with another girl. We're both reading. I glance up at the girl who had gray hair that goes a bit past her shoulders. She had glasses on, the light is reflecting off them." Jessi sighed as she rubbed her head.
"Stella is she okay?" Kristen asked me.
"She's fine. She's just remembering things." I didn't want to go into anything. Jessi had to find her memories for herself. If I told her about everything, the feelings she had, had wouldn't be there. She would have memories that she wouldn't understand. With this way of remembering she would have all the feelings.
"Stella who were those girls? I feel like I've had some fun times with them." Jessi looked at me, "And I feel like there are other people I've had just as much fun with. I feel like there is a boy in there somewhere and three older girls too. But I can't see their faces."
"The four girls you just told us about are your friends. The first is Julie, the second is Jania (4), third one is Echo and the last is Sarah." I said, "But I can't tell you about the others yet cause it would be weird to have a name but no face to go with it yet."
"If you say so." Jessi shrugged than yawned.
"Kristen I know you have some questions but can they wait till tomorrow?" I asked turning toward our new friend.
"Sure. I'm tried too. Let's all go home and get some sleep." Kristen was covering up a yawn too.
We walked home, each going our separate ways at a corner. Kristen was heading toward the house she lived in with her mom, sister and brother. Jessi toward the house with her aunt and uncle, I toward my apartment. I was deep in thought as I walked into my apartment. Jessi was getting her memories back now. I was just hoping that when she finally got the memories about her aunt, uncle and dad she wouldn't freak out. I just shook my head and got ready for bed. It was going to be a long day tomorrow.
The sailor scouts (1) are going to appear in my story as passing thoughts.
Since Libra is a Zodiac (2) sign as well as a constellation I thought using the scales was a good sign to use.
You've might have guessed (3) when one moon starts to glow the other one does too.
Jania (4) is the name of a character from Star Wars. (She's in the New Jedi Order. I liked the name so I used it. Jania in my story is not the same from Star Wars.)
Jessi has grown up with all the scouts' kids. She also knows Jenny, April and Shannon (from My Friend. Why Did You Leave? ) But that's another story. See if you guys can guess who Julie, Jania, Sarah and Echo are children of.