New to the World
Lunchtime had rolled around only to find me staring off into space. I was sitting outside with Jessi and Kristen. Brian hadn't shown up yet. Jessi and Kristen were talking among themselves.
"So what are you going to do than?" Kristen asked pulling a sandwich from her lunch bag.
"I think I'm just going to have to take the late grade. Hey at lest I turned in the paper." Jessi took a sip of soda.
"Guess so." Kristen nodded.
I didn't listen in anymore after that. I was ready to go home. I wanted to go home but I couldn't. I wasn't allowed to even think about going home till after Jessi regained all her memories. I wanted to talk to someone, anyone from home. I sighed.
"Stella!" Jessi's voice broke into my thoughts.
"Huh? Did you say something?" I asked jumping slightly.
"You okay? I asked if you turned in that book report for class yet?" Jessi gave me a weird look.
"Yeah I already turned it in. And I'm fine just a bit tired." I gave her a smile.
"Oh okay." Jessi nodded than looked at someone over my head. "Brian! Hey Chandra."
I turned around in my seat to see Brian and a girl I didn't know but had seen around. She had long blond hair and blue eyes. She wore a soft smile on her lips as she said hello and sat down next to Jessi. She smiled across the outside table at me. I nodded my head in return. She started to talk to Jessi as I looked down at my food. I pushed some of my food around my plate. I tuned out Jessi, Kristen, Brian and the new girl. I wanted to go home. I had had enough with being here.
"Stella!" Jessi's yell broke through my thoughts causing me to jump almost out of my skin.
"What?" raising my voice, I looked at her.
"Stella are you sure you're okay?" Brian asked as he looked around Jessi.
"Yeah, why?" I asked.
"Well the bell rang and you didn't even move." Kristen was standing above me holding her book bag.
I looked around to see students walking toward the doors. I got to my feet as my friends watched. I picked up my bag and started walking toward the door, leaving my friends behind.
"Stella?" Brian asked as Jessi and Kristen shared a look. They knew something was wrong with me.
Meanwhile floating above Tokyo, in his glass bubble Neon frowned down at the city. Water Buffalo was pissed off at him from all his failures. As Neon looked out the window lights started flashing around him. Neon stiffed his shoulders.
"Oh Neon." A woman's voice rang out all around him.
As Neon slowly turned away from the window the lights stopped flashing. A woman was standing in the middle of the room. She had blond hair with pale, pale green high lights that went to her thighs. Her eyes were emerald green. She wore a mini skirt that was the same color as her eyes; her tank top was white. In her arms she held a dark green cat. The cat's blood red eyes blinked up at Neon. On both of their foreheads was the same mark as Neon had on his forehead; a black star in a circle. Neon wasn't very happy to see them. Something was up.
"Fluorine, what do you want?" Neon snapped.
"Mistress sent us." The cat said.
"That question wasn't dictated at you Radon!" Neon growled at the cat.
"Clam down Neon. Radon is right though. Mistress Water Buffalo did send us." Fluorine clam said as she let Radon down from her arms. "She has given us this task. We are taking over."
"I still have one chance left. And this time I will get Tuxedo Jessi." Neon turned his back to the two.
Radon didn't believe him. He poked around the room looking into everything, which wasn't much. He didn't listen in to what his owner was saying to Neon. Radon knew that Fluorine liked to talk. He also knew that she was mocking Neon.
"This place could use some furniture." Fluorine smirked.
"Go away, bitch." Neon snapped over his shoulder at the woman.
"Very well than. Till later. Come Radon." Fluorine held her arms out for her cat.
As he jumped into her arms she started to fad away. Neon continued to watch the city below. He had a new plan and this time he would see it through to the end himself.
I was at the counter doing some paper work when a person walked up to me. I didn't pay much attention to him; all I noticed was his hair, which was green.
"Could you tell me where the news papers are?" he asked in a no nonsense kind of voice.
"Sure. They are located in the corner over there." I pointed toward the left of the store.
He didn't say anything more to me, just walked away. As he walked away I heard a soft tapping noise. I turned around to look out the window. I started to giggle. Jessi was the one who had tapped the glass. She had her face pushed against the glass making funny faces (1) at me. I glanced over her shoulder and started to laugh out loud. Kristen, Brian and the new girl, Chandra were all standing there acting like they didn't know Jessi.
I was still laughing when they came inside the store. Jessi was grinning at me.
"Pay up Brian. I told you I could make her laugh." Jessi turned her grin toward Brian who was digging his hand in his pocket. He pulled out a coin.
"Darn." He mumbled as he handed the money to Jessi.
"We thought it would be cool if we visited you at work." Kristen said.
"That's fine. I'm about to go on a break." I said as Mary, a coworker, walked up to me.
"15 minutes Stella." She said. I nodded.
I lead my friends toward the magazines. The man with the green hair was standing there holding a paper. He scowled as he saw us, dropped the paper and left. I starred after him as I went and picked up the paper he had dropped. I glanced at the front page. It had a blurry picture of Tuxedo Jessi and Sailor Orion in the center. I didn't know what to think as I carried the paper over to the table we were sitting at.
"What's with the newspaper?" Brian asked as I sat down across from him, next to Chandra.
"Just a paper. Here." I handed the paper to him.
He looked at it, his eyes widening. He handed the paper to Kristen. Jessi looked over her shoulder. She let out a squeal as she tore the paper from Kristen's grip. I stood behind Chandra's chair as Jessi started to say things to herself. I shook my head at Jessi's mumblings.
"Kristen, can you come with me for a moment?" I waved my finger to her to get her to follow me.
"Sure what's up?" Kristen got to her feet.
"Just come with me. We'll be back in a few." I said leading Kristen away.
Brain nodded his head as we passed him. I nodded my head back at him. I lead Kristen toward the bathroom. It was empty, luckily. As Kristen gave me a look, my two crescent moons started to glow. As Kristen's eyes grew wide a bright light formed above my held out hands. As the light flashed a mini computer fell into my hands. It was pale pink with the tiny set of scales that makes up Libra's sign. I held it out to Kristen as my moons stopped glowing and the one on my forehead vanished.
"What's this?" Kristen asked looking at the mini computer in her hands.
"This is for you." I nodded at her.
"But shouldn't you give it to Jessi?" Kristen tried to hand it back.
"No if I gave it to Jessi she'd probably lose it or something. Besides she has the Disguise Pen." I held a hand up to stop her from giving it to me.
"Than what am I supposed to do with it than?" Kristen asked trying to hind a grin.
"Well if you open it." Kirsten lifted the lid, "it should start by its self." The computer made a soft whirling sound as it ran. I was about to say something else when a scream ripped the quite air around us.
"What was that?" Kristen moved toward the bathroom door when another scream was heard.
I shared a look with Kristen, than we both rushed toward the door. As we ran through the aisles people pushed past us shirking and yelling. Everyone was running from what ever it was. Everyone was headed toward the front of the store, away from the magazine area. We headed toward the area where we had left our friends. As we came up to the area we stopped short. The sight that meet our eyes was bad. A huge slimy blue monster was standing there. I covered my mouth with a hand as gasp tried to escape. Tuxedo Jessi was floating around inside the monster. I looked around for Brain and Chandra. I spotted them a few feet away from Kristen and me. Brain was standing above Chandra who was sitting, starring at the monster. As I watched her for a moment something started to glow on her forehead. But before I could do or say anything Kristen grabbed my arm and dragged me away from the area. Brain was pulling Chandra behind him. We hind behind some book cases.
As we hind, I looked at Chandra closer. The mark on her forehead continued to glow brightly. I took a closer look at it only to pull back in surprise. The mark on her forehead was a single bright star (2). As I watched her my crescent moon necklace started to glow as the one on my forehead returned. I wasn't watching the lights forming above us, but I did see the small blue stick fall past my eyes. It landed with a small bump. I looked down at, at the same time Chandra did.
"What is this? Why is your forehead glowing?" Chandra asked as she reached for the senshi pen.
"No time for questions, Chandra. Just hold it up and shout what ever comes to you." Brain said as he took his senshi pen from his subspace pocket.
"Come on, Tuxedo Jessi needs our help." Kristen also had her senshi pen out.
"Okay." Chandra said shakily.
"Orion Power Make Up!" Brian yelled holding his hand up. Orange lights flashed around him.
"Libra Power Make Up!" Kristen shouted as pink lights flashed around her.
"Ursa Power Make Up!" Chandra held her shaking hand in the air. Pale blue lights flashed around her. A single bright star hovered above her head, spitting out beams of light. We watched as Chandra folded her arms across her chest. The lights that the star spit out wrapped around her body. The lights started to grow brighter and brighter till we couldn't see her anymore. We turned our heads away from the bright lights. When the lights finally died Chandra was standing before us in a blue and white sailor suit. It looked like Sailor Libra's but where it was pink on Sailor Libra's it was blue.
We made our way back toward the monster. I followed behind Sailor Libra as she ran. Soon we where standing in front of the monster again. Tuxedo Jessi was sitting floating around inside the thing.
"I hold the scales that weigh the rights and wrongs of the world. I'm Sailor Libra." Sailor Libra lunched into her speech.
"I am the mighty hunter that stands in the night sky, I'm Sailor Orion!" Sailor Orion held up his fist.
"I'm the scout of two constellations that sit low in the sky, I'm Sailor Ursa!" Sailor Ursa did the 'sailor v' sign.
"You'll regret this. But than again you did bring me the two people I've been looking for." A voice said.
As we watched a man stepped out from behind the blue monster. I gasped; it was the same man from earlier. The only thing that had changed was his cloth and there was now a mark on his forehead. I knew that mark. I pushed my way threw my friends.
"Stella?" I heard Orion whisper.
"You!" I nearly shouted.
"Well, well what have we here?" the man stepped forward. He kept taking little steps toward me. I tried to back up but my friends weren't going to let me. They stood behind me like a solid wall.
He turned his back on us and walked back toward the monster. He glared at Tuxedo Jessi floating inside. It seemed like he was thinking something over.
"Get her!" he spun around suddenly, pointing at me.
"Yes Master Neon." The monster said in a slipper voice.
The monster moved toward us. Sailor Libra jumped in front of me as the monster got closer. She was starting to power up her attack when the monster spit a ball of slime at her. The ball covered her causing her to roll away. As she rolled away I backed away from the monster. Sailor Ursa moved toward me.
"Ursa…" her whole body started to glow. "Change…" as she said this word her body stated to change form. "Power!" with this last word shouted her body burst into light, which vanished to revile a bear (3).
The bear, Sailor Ursa, ran toward the monster. She closed her huge jaws around the arm that was reaching toward me. The monster yelled with rage as it swung its arm. Sailor Ursa hung from the arm as she flew through the air. With a mighty swung of its arm the monster flung Ursa across the way from it, causing her to slam into a bookcase. As she laid there stun, with books raining down on top of her, Ursa lost control of her change.
The monster paid no mind to Orion as he ran toward it. It reached out an arm toward me. I turned to run away but didn't get very far. Neon was standing behind me keeping me from going anywhere. I looked over my shoulder to see the monster led over me. I screamed as it wrapped its long slimly fingers around me. As it lifted me off the floor, Orion jumped at the hand. I reached out toward him. He grabbed my hand, being lifted with me. I glanced over my shoulder to see that the monster had opened its mouth. It moved its hand toward its mouth. As we moved closer to its mouth I felt Orion's hand slip from mine.
"Sailor Orion!" I screamed as he fell away from me.
"Orion!" Libra rushed toward her friend.
"Stella!" Ursa yelled as she rose to her feet.
I screamed again as the monster stuffed me in its mouth. I was covered in blue slim as the monster closed its mouth. As the thing swallowed I felt myself start to slide down into the things stomach. As I sled into the stomach I was surrounded by soft glowing light. I floated around looking around. I could see shapes outside the monster. I felt something bump into me. I turned to see Tuxedo Jessi floating behind me. She made a face, than started kicking her legs. It looked like she was trying to swim. I tried to follow her. It looked like she was trying to go back the way we came in. She looked like she was going to power up her attack when something went boom. We were suddenly flying through the air with lots of blue slim.
I went sliding across a table as I landed. Tuxedo Jessi managed to flip herself over before she went crashing into a wall before falling to the floor. She got to her feet, shaking as she did so. As I pushed myself off the table I saw Sailor Ursa and Sailor Libra rush past me. I followed them to see Neon trying to run away. As I crawled off the table a blast of purple power shot past me, striking Neon in the left shoulder. I saw him grab his now bloody shoulder with his other hand before he vanished into thin air.
"Stella, Tuxedo Jessi are you guys okay?" Sailor Orion held me steady on my feet.
"Yeah. I think so. Thanks for ripping that monster apart with your powers." I said giving him a smile.
"Let's get out of here you guys." Sailor Libra said looking around. I looked around to see people coming our way. I nodded.
Sailor Ursa helped Jessi as I lead them toward the back door to the store. Just as I opened the door I heard someone yell my name. I gritted my teeth knowing who it was yelling for me, it was my boss. I ignored him as the door closed behind us. And as the door closed I heard Tuxedo Jessi mumble, "Gross!" I couldn't help but smile.
Neon stood with his head bowed. He could hear people around him whispering to each other. He was standing in Water Buffalo's throne room. He was standing in front of her throne chair. His mistress was glairing at him. She drummed her fingernails on the arm of her chair.
"Neon you have failed me for the last time. No more chances after this." Water Buffalo snarled.
"Mistress I found…" Neon raised his head a bit to look at her.
"Silence!" Water Buffalo snapped. Neon fell silent. "Fluorine will not fail me like you have. Will you Fluorine?"
Fluorine stepped forward from the coward of people behind Neon. Radon was following her. They both bowed their heads.
"Yes my Mistress. I will not fail you." And with that she vanished along with Radon.
Neon glared at the spot where they had been standing. He wished he could have left with them.
"Neon this is your reward for failing me." Water Buffalo called his attention back to herself. Neon looked up to see a black crystal appear beside her throne. As he watched it started to glow with a weird light. He started to grow worried.
Water Buffalo watched as the crystal started to pulse. With the each new pulse a wind started to blow but instead of blowing away from the crystal it was blowing toward the crystal. The wind got stronger and stronger. As it picked up it started to pull Neon toward the crystal. He tried to dig his heels in but to no such luck.
"I know who Serenity sent to find Princess Jes…" Neon tried to say but he never finished what he was saying. With a burst of light he was gone. Inside the crystal he would stay for all time.
"Let this be a lesson to you all. Do not fail me." Water Buffalo said looking at the crystal, which started to sink into the ground.
"Yes Mistress Water Buffalo." The coward in her throne room said all together.
I was standing outside the Tsukino house, looking up at it. Jessi waited for me at the open door. She held a hand to her head. She had just got done telling me another memory she had just experienced. The memory she had just told me included something about bad news. She had just had the memory of the day we had found out that her mother had disappeared. As she told me this she had been crying. What was even more she had seen the faces of Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymion. She had known the faces even though they were older. I didn't know what to think about this turn of events.
As I thought everything over Jessi went inside to talk to her aunt. She was going to tell her aunt that she was staying the night at a friend's. After this lattes memory she wanted to talk about everything. She wanted to know things that I thought she was ready for.
As I stood there I heard someone walking up the walk way behind me. I turned to see a blond hair young woman walk toward me. She wore her hair up in 'meatballs'. I hind a surprised gasp under a smile. I couldn't believe that I was looking at Neo-Queen Serenity when she was known only as Usagi.
"Hello." She smiled at me.
"Hello." I said back.
"Are you here for someone?" Usagi asked her long pigtails swinging behind her.
"Oh, I'm a friend of Jessi's." I said just as Jessi came back out with a duffle bag hung over one shoulder.
"Hey U…" Jessi stopped short with what she was going to say. Her eyes got this weird look. I knew if I weren't careful Jessi would say something that didn't need to be said.
"Jessi come on. We'll be late for the movies if we don't get going." I grabbed Jessi's arm dragging her behind me.
"Talk to you later Jessi. It was nice to meet you." Usagi called after us.
"You too." I yelled back.
"See you later!" Jessi called after us.
With that we were off down the street, heading for my apartment and dinner.
This is (1) something my cousin and me once did. It was really late at night and we had been eating lots of candy, plus being bored out of our minds. We made faces at people who were playing slot machines at Black Hawk, CO.
This took (2) me a while to figure out what to use for her marking. The single bright star was a good one. If you look to the North Star than follow a straight line under it you can find the big dipper.
The Bigger Dipper/Ursa Major (3) is a bear. At lest it is in the tales that are told about it. And if you notice the bigger and small dipper never leave the night sky.