Chapter 2: A Wish Granted
Umi Ryuuzaki had had it with Mokona. She knew, rationally, that he was their source of food and also that they owed him a great debt to the way that he helped them in Cephiro. But she still couldn't shake her hatred for him. She wanted to rip that stupid stuffed rabbit open and see what he was made of. Even better, she wanted to make him fight the Sailor Senshi. Maybe they would kill him for her. She picked Mokona up and flung him onto the teleportation mirror. Fuu Hououji and Hikaru Shidou entered just in time to see Mokona disappear in a flash.
"What are you DOING?!" Hikaru shrieked.
"If the Sailor Senshi kill him, then we'll have to get food from their world or else starve!" Fuu added. Umi glared at both of them, then gave an evil smile.
"Who says the Senshi will kill him? He's probably got powers we don't even know about."
"That's true, but you shouldn't send him into danger like that. What if one of them kept him as a pet and turned him to their side? You know very well about the tales of Neo-Queen Serenity's Silver Crystal messing with people's minds, it could brainwash Mokona," Fuu worried.
Serena McDouglas was jealous. Why did someone like Galaxy, who didn't even approve of girls fighting, get to be a Sailor Senshi, while, she, Serena the biggest fan of magical girl anime ever, didn't even get one lousy magic spell? She gazed at her poster of Wedding Peach tearfully.
"Why not me first? Will I be the last one? I know I have to be a Senshi. What would be the point of the Queen calling me here if I wasn't?" she whimpered aloud, flopping back on her bed with a sigh. She sat up quickly, startled, as her door swung open.
"It's finally dark enough! Let's go outside; we can look at the stars and planets through my telescope," Pierre suggested eagerly. Serena shrugged and followed him out the door and to the backyard, where Rainbow, Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna, Hotaru, and Ami were waiting.
"Where's Galaxy?" Serena asked.
"She didn't want to look with us. She said that she thinks science is for boys only," Haruka answered, rolling her eyes.
"She's going to have a difficult time here; Crystal Tokyo is a matriarchy and many people have reversed their beliefs about gender," Ami mused. She stared into the sky, as if she were channeling the last of her power from Mercury, and then she took a red bracelet out of her pocket.
"Who's that for? Me?" Serena asked, forgetting all about stargazing.
"Yes. You are the second successor to my powers. What your powers will be, I don't know, I know they're not going to be like Sailor Popsicle's are, though," Ami answered. Serena bounced around, squealing happily.
"I'm a Sailor Senshi! I'm a Sailor Senshi!"
"What's that?!" exclaimed Pierre, turning away from the telescope quickly. Three strangely-colored meteors shot through the sky-blue, purple, and green! They seemed to be coming closer and closer, and as they got closer, the viewers could see streaks of black in the meteors.
"Look out!" Haruka shouted, the 8 of them all jumped out of the way as the meteors hit the ground, creating a bright flash of blue, purple, and green energy all mixed together. As the light faded, they could see the figure of a Sailor Senshi standing. The mysterious Senshi then disappeared, but still left an unmistakable aura.
"The Black Moon. That Senshi had the same energy the Black Moon family did..." Ami whispered with a shudder. Then she gasped. What were the Sailor Starlights doing here, crashed in their backyard?!
"Who are they? They look like dominatrixes," Galaxy commented as she joined them, curious about the strange lights she had seen.
"They're the Sailor Starlights! They're not dominatrixes! Don't you remember anything from the history classes about the Senshi battles?!" Serena snapped in exasperation.
"Um, why don't we take them inside. It looks like something knocked them out. And their Senshi outfits are fading off, too," Ami said practically.
"Now I have your powers! HAHAHAHAHA!" Everyone looked around for that strange voice. They looked on the roof where that strange Senshi was again; now the blue, purple, and green lights were surrounding her.
"Popsicle Prism Power, Make..." Galaxy stopped in mid-yell as the Senshi disappeared again.
"What just happened?" Pierre ventured to ask.
"I think the Starlights just got their powers stolen," Serena said.
"Yes, the intensity of the meteors did not grow as fast as they should have when they were heading to us. I think she was draining their magic as they were coming," Ami added. As they worked on dragging the Starlights into the house, no one noticed the final visitor-a small but very fat rabbit-like creature.
An angel. A sweet, black-haired angel with purple eyes. That's what she had to be. No way could she be alive now after what that strange Senshi had done to her and the other Starlights. The angel was blushing...she could imagine the angel's features changing, the eyes blue and the hair blond in pigtails.
"My dumpling..." Seiya whispered as she woke up.
"Me? I'm Sailor Saturn, I'm not Sailor Moon!" Hotaru squeaked as she jerked away from Seiya. What was this strange feeling inside of her? Why was Seiya looking at her that way?
"Don't you try anything funny here or I'll shut you back outside and let you die!" Haruka snapped.
"Please don't send them away. If Hotaru and the Starlight girl are in love, then that's a good thing," Serena pleaded. Hotaru blushed even deeper at that idea and Galaxy snorted.
"Since when do girls love each other in that way," she scoffed. Before anyone else could remark on that, Pierre started laughing at her.
"You're so oblivious! Haruka's female, Michiru's female, and they're lovers!" he jeered. Galaxy stared, first at him, then at Haruka, back and forth a few times.
"THAT'S a woman?! No way!"
"Um, you didn't know that? Are you really that stupid about Senshi history?" giggled Serena. Galaxy gaped in shock. What kind of household did she get herself into?! She shrieked as something soft and puffy hit her in the back of the head, like someone had started a pillow fight.
"It's Mokona from Magic Knight Rayearth! I finally get to meet an anime character!" Serena squealed happily, grabbing the white puffball rabbit in a big hug. But Mokona struggled out of her grasp, flipped around, and shot a red energy beam out of his forehead. Serena took it full blast and Galaxy noticed this.
"How dare you attack your fan, you rotten monster! Popsicle Prism Power, Make Up!" Serena looked to her with hurt puppy eyes.
"Please don't fight Mokona! He wouldn't...he wouldn't..."
"But he did! Something that zaps you is NOT a friend!"
"Galaxy's right for once, that thing is probably a trap designed to look like something that you wouldn't want to hurt," Rainbow agreed. Serena looked at them, then at Mokona, who was charging up his jewel for another attack. An angry fire burned in her brown eyes.
"How dare you take the form of the innocent Mokona and then zap me! That hurt, you know! Peanut Butter Power, Make Up!" As she transformed into her red Senshi outfit, she dodged the second beam of energy that Mokona shot. Then it was her turn.
"Fruity Punch!" Various kinds of fruit came flying from her fingers at the confused puffball, who disappeared in a flash. The fruit landed on the floor with a splat.
"Huh, so that's my power. Throwing fruit. I like that, it's different," commented Sailor Peanut Butter, then she detransformed.
"Maybe you should thank Mokona, he gave you a chance to try out being a Sailor Senshi," Pierre snickered.
"But why would the enemy know that about Serena to use something that specific to trick her? The only other possibility is that our new enemy is the Magic Knights themselves. I noticed something when that monster was destroyed yesterday. The dust it left was red, green, and blue, the colors of the Magic Knights, and now Mokona has appeared," Ami mused.