Chapter 4 The City Has A New Savior! Sailor Nova!

"Reina dear, we need to talk." Kyoko called out to her, it's been two weeks and her daughter was starting to show some very noticeable change in her behavior which was starting to get concerning. What further made her worry was just the other night; she found drops of blood on the floor. She didn't even know what caused it, or what kind of trouble Reina was getting into, and she wasn't the type to go looking for trouble... so what was wrong?

The sound of Reina's shoes could be heard as she walked to the kitchen where her mother was at and upon getting there she was quick to notice the worried expression on her face.

"um… yeah?"

"Reina, you're starting to worry me." She began as she looked to her daughter, "I've been getting calls from your school saying you are falling asleep in class and that's not like you. You've been sleeping earlier and earlier at home, even taking naps… is something wrong?"

Reina wasn't so sure on how to answer that, her lack of sleep was all due to going out and stopping monsters, "Well I uh—"

"And not only that, I found drops of blood by your doorstep… did you get hurt?"

"I uh n-no I didn't."

"Don't lie to me Reina, let me see."

Reina was hesitant for the longest time but rolled up her shirt to show her abdomen, and Kyoko gasped, there was a gash that seemed to have been done some time ago and Reina was in the process of patching it up herself from what she could see.

"Reina!? What did this to you!?" She rushed over and inspected the wound, then grabbed her first aid kit then began to finish what Reina had started but much more effectively.

Reina had to think of an excuse quick, "I… I didn't want to tell you, I didn't want to worry you."

"Reina you can tell me, I'm your mother."

"Remember that attack that happened at school."

"The monster hurt you!?" Kyoko looked into her lavender colored eyes as Reina slowly nodded, while it was true, it wasn't the whole truth, as she was the one fighting it.

"As I was trying to get away."

"Reina you should have told me." Kyoko continued to carefully wrap bandages around it, "I need to know these things, I'm your mother."

"I know… I know." Reina gave a small sigh, there was so much more she wanted to tell her but she couldn't… if she knew she was Sailor Nova, then who knows what could happen. Her safety was what worried Reina the most, if she knew the truth, then would she be hurt, would she be targeted or would she try to stop Reina from going out there… that was a risk she could not take, not against the woman she loved dearly.

"If this ever happens again, please tell me Reina." Kyoko finished as she tied the bandage up, and there were no words to describe how her heart ached seeing her daughter like this.

"I promi—" Reina began to yawn, before stopping then looking at her, "I promise.

"You should get some sleep dear." Kyoko hugged her and kissed the top of Reina's head and Reina couldn't help but feel warm and very relaxed in her mother's arms and she slowly let go.

"I will mom." She walked over to her room and closed the door and after changing into a pair of sweat pants and a sleeveless, she plopped down on her bed and… instantly regretting it as she winced and hissed in pain, she held her wound and waited for the pain to subside, "Bad idea bad idea bad idea…" she muttered and flipped onto her back to ease her still healing wound.

She reached over to her night stand and turned on the radio, having the radio on a low volume and listened to it just in case of any monster before the tunes slowly put her to sleep.

As Reina slept the broadcast on the radio began to sound a siren, "this is an emergency! Stay in your homes, I repeat stay in your homes! We have sightings of three monsters roaming about and harming the city people!"

Reina slowly began to stir from the sirens and opened her eyes, catching most of the broadcast, then bolted up, "H-huh!?" she turned the volume up a bit more as she listened and the reporter who was live on the scene was commentating what was going on and could hear the fear in his voice as he described the monsters and the brutal violence that was going on.

She reached over and grabbed her pen, her heart beating faster… it's been getting worse lately, she's remembered seeing two monsters at a time but three? They were increasing in mass and it was disturbing to her, where were they coming from and who was doing it, was someone doing? She had no idea but to go out there and deal with it.

She opened the window to her room and quietly got out and started to run out to the city, knowing that she was the only one that could probably help.

She continued running till she could no longer see her house and kept going towards the city and put a stop to those monsters and perhaps try and figure out where they are coming from.

"Bright Star Flash!" Nova threw her energy orb at the third monster she's seen so far and blasted it into many pieces, "Where the heck are they coming from?" She said to herself as she lightly panted and looked around.

Nova ran through the city streets, making another sweep making sure that everything was safe as some people looked on and saw Sailor Nova securing the streets.

She ran through the streets, hearing from many terrified people that they saw more monsters that way and after thanking them she followed their directions… not realizing she had a small crowd behind her, wanting to see her in action. While many looked on with awe and wonder, the same could not be said for Nova… this whole situation was still terrifying to her, she never would have thought her life would come down to fighting monsters.

That was the other thing, she was fighting monsters! "How the hell did I go from being such a simple girl to this?!" She thought to herself as she ran through the streets, it almost seemed surreal… a dream even, it just couldn't be possible. She had no idea if she could balance this in the future, it was already a struggle keeping this life away from her normal life, hell she's skipped doing homework sometimes because of it.

Nova didn't have more time to ponder any of it as she heard a bestial roar and she looked up seeing it coming at her, "Whoa!" she dove to the floor and rolled away as its massive claw hit the pavement where she was standing only moments ago.

It looked up and saw the crowd of people, and it was now that Nova realized she was being followed by them, "oh no…" was the allure of a superhero really that enticing? Perhaps it was but right now she had no time to think as the beast reared back and was about to leap at them and it did so.

"Bright Star Flash!" She charged up her energy orb in her hand quickly and flung the cyan colored orb at it and hitting it right in the back and the beast flew past the crowed and into the ground, resulting in an explosion. The people cheered at her heroic performance and while it would have been flattering she had much more things to worry about.

She turned around and looked up, "Huh?" for a moment she thought she saw someone move away from the building rooftop, almost as if someone was watching her. She couldn't be sure so she kept on going, and as she ran a manhole lid flew up and almost hit her, but the sudden surprise was enough for a monster to slash at her arm, "aah!" she reeled back and looked at the bleeding cut.

"Lucky…" her eyes glared at the creature and it rushed at her, tackling her to the ground, "Gah!" she bounced and tumbled on the hard pavement ground, and she didn't even get a chance to get up and when she got up on all fours, it rammed into her again sending her flying with a cry of pain.

She got back up on all fours and saw it about to ram her again, "oh no!" she rolled out the way and her hand glowed, "Nova Stream!" She fired her energy beam at it, hitting and sent it flying high in the sky before it exploded into nothing.

She sighed, her body was already feeling fatigued from having been fighting almost all day and this creature knocked the wind out of her.

Nova looked into the direction where she was going and saw even more of them coming at her, "You gotta be kidding!?" it was at least four of them rushing at her of different sizes and claws on another of them.

The grotesque looking one with claws leaped at her, and slashed its claws but Nova wasn't having it, "Burst Wall!" it collided with a wall made of pure energy and Nova then shoved it with all her might, seeing the wall slide across the floor with the creature on it, she then closed her fist and the wall shattered into millions of energy particles resembling stars and they all bombarded the creatures in chains of explosions.

She stayed in her stance as the smoke cleared but wasn't prepared as another beast came behind her and the crowds warning came too late as it punched Nova on her back, and she screamed in pain as she flew forwards and slid on the floor. She turned over on her back seeing the creature in the air and dive bombing her and she rolled away hearing the floor shattering crash and even feeling the rumbles from the ground.

Nova sprung to her feet and jumped up, "Take this!" her hands glowed as two orbs appeared in them, "Bright Star Flash!" she threw one after the other as they soared in the air and hit the monster square in the chest, then the other hit his face as it exploded violently and after the smoke cleared, there was nothing left.

Nova gripped her knees as she panted and her body was in pain, "I did it." she said as she didn't see any more monsters and she got them all…right?

She heard a couple of footsteps run at her and she looked over seeing a panicked group of people, "Sailor Nova!"

She stood up straight, "Yeah? Is something wrong?"

"you have to come help! Our mayor is trapped in the Star Tower," He pointed to the tall building up ahead of where she was, "he ran in there hoping to get away from monsters that started chasing him, please you have to help him!"

Nova took a few breaths and nodded, "Okay, I'll get him out." She began to run over, and she had to admit how much of a hero she felt like in the comic books. As she was running one of the civilians drove by her in a truck, "Come on, I'll help you!"

She wasn't about to refuse the help, so she quickly hopped in the back of the truck as it was moving and he drove the truck faster and she got there within a few minutes.

Nova jumped off and looked at him, "Thanks!" she ran to the doors and went inside.

Sailor Nova ran through the doors and looked around seeing a few monsters wandering the lobby and she wasted no time in blasting them into oblivion. she had to wonder where he had gone, did he go further up to avoid them? So she ran around the ground floor and after making sure there was no one in there she knew he had to be up on the other floors.

Nova ran to the elevators but… was greeted to the sight of them broken down and sparks coming out of the open doors.

"damn it…" she muttered and ran to the stairs and looked up, her heart must have skipped a beat seeing so many stairs. She took one big, deep breath and began her run up the stairs; she made her already exhausted body push on through the fatigue and the burn on her legs as she ran up.

The second floor was clear, the third floor was clear and when she opened the door to the fourth floor she was greeted to the sounds of panicked people, their backs were to the wall as a monster cornered them. But for once, she was afraid to fire at it, what if it moved then she'd hit the people and that is not what a hero does.

"Hey!" She shouted at it and the creature stopped and turned around, seeing the brave Sailor Nova standing a few feet away from it. The beast ran at her and swiped its claws at her, causing Nova to move back and only a few small bits of her ribbon on her chest were torn and she threw her hand out to blast it but the beast swung again and she suffered another cut on her arm.

She winced in pain from the cut and had to put more distance but the beast tackled Nova to a wall and sunk its teeth onto her shoulder, and she screamed out in pain.

However, for Nova… this was good, because now it was in front of her and she placed her palm right on its chest, "Nova Stream!" She screamed out and watched as the blast went through the beast and it bellowed in pain before the beam sent it away and it exploded safely after being launched out the window.

She fell to one knee as she clutched her shoulder and panted, she saw a light amount of blood on it, it didn't seem it had enough time to bite down harder, so she tore the ribbon on the back of her skirt and made a makeshift bandage. She stood up and walked up to the civilians, "are you all alright?" she asked them, looking them over.

"yes we're alright, we had to run in here to escape them but I can't believe it followed us!" one the female workers was frightened.

"our Mayor ran up ahead, they kept chasing him! He's still up there!"

Nova nodded and started running back, "I'll save him!" she ran back up the stairs to the final floor of the building and upon opening the door she saw him get tossed to a wall.

He cried out and tried to get on his feet, "Someone please help me!" the monster lifted his arm high, about to bring its claws down on him.

"Bright Star Flash!" she flung it at the beast, hitting his hand and making it reel back, as it cried out and turned seeing the Sailor Warrior before him, "That's far enough!"

The beast snarled and walked to her, seeing all the wounds on Nova made him smirk, thinking this was easy prey. He ran to her to and swung his grotesque claw.

"Burst Wall!"

The beast struck the energy wall, the attack bouncing off harmlessly and Nova like before closed her fist, seeing the wall shatter and its pieces bombard the creature… course she wasn't counting on the damage she'd do to the place.

There was a massive hole on the floor, Nova blinked a few times and chuckled nervously before the beasts growl snapped her back out of it. The beast was hurt and it limped to her, ready to continue its attack.

"Bright Star—aah!"

The beast gave no warning as it lunged and grabbed her, lifted her high and flung her across the room, knocking her into the cubicles, breaking through a few of them and she had to admit that it was quite painful. The beast ran up to her, grabbed her foot and flung her across the other side, breaking into more cubicles and she screamed once again and feeling the air knocked out of her.

"you can do it Sailor Nova!" The mayor screamed out as he hid behind a cubicle.

The monster dug through the rubble to attack the Sailor Warrior and when he removed the final piece, Nova's hand was already ready and extended, as a beam hit the creature violently and sent him crashing to a wall.

"There's my chance!" Nova sprung to her feet, as much as her supernova would be useful, this was not the place to do it, so she charged up and, "Bright Star Flash!" she flung it right at the beast, seeing it burst out the wall and into the sky where it exploded.

Sailor Nova stayed in the same position, panting softly as she dropped to one knee, a bead of sweat dripping down her head.

"You did it! Sailor Nova! You've saved me!" He rushes over, and helps her to her feet, "I have heard a lot about the warrior in a sailor suit facing down monsters, and I can't believe she's standing here in front of me!" Nova blinked a few times, she was taken aback by it and was surprised by how much he was gushing.

"oh where are my manners! I'm Mayor Seeds."

"Seeds?" An odd name she thought to herself.

"Come, come, we must declare that the city is safe thanks to you!" he began to drag her out the room, despite her sore and battered body that protested painfully.

"H-hey w-wait a second!" she cried out but it fell on deaf ears and she could do nothing but get dragged out.

Shortly after about an hour, the city was gathered and even TV crews were present as the Mayor spoke to a mic and greeted the crowd, "my fellow people! Our city is safe thanks to the efforts of Sailor Nova!"

Nova stiffened up hearing the people cheer and chant 'Sailor Nova', which was surprising and she wasn't exactly sure what to make of it… was this how heroes felt like?

"we also cannot forget our police officers who went above their duty to get as many people to safety," the people cheered for them as well, "However, I hereby declare our city's savior and our future protector," He walked over to Sailor Nova and lifted her hand up, "Sailor Nova!" he shouted as the crowd cheered for all of them, and Nova couldn't help but give a nervous smile and laugh as she waved at the crowd.

There were a few things that came to mind though, "Can I really do something like this… oh crap… what if mom finds out."

The meeting lasted for another thirty minutes, as the Mayor went on about other things, such as repairing their city and among other things. Nova felt that was a good a time as any to sneak out and leave which she did easily and found an alley way to transform back to her civilian form.

It was at this point that she felt how tired her body was and how much she wanted to just lay down, "ugh…" she leaned against a wall and looked at her watch, "I gotta get home…" she pushed herself off the wall and started limping her way back home, her entire body was in pain.

It must have taken her some time to reach her home, and as she neared her she let out a sigh of relief as she was almost home and… was surprised that the sun was setting, "Was I really gone that long!?"

As she neared her home, despite the pain she tried walking like normal and went through the door, and her mother was already in the living room, "Reina!" she ran out and embraced her, and tightly.

Reina did her best to hold in her pain and not make a sound, "Are you okay!? I saw the news and I didn't see you in bed?"

"Y-yeah, I went to school and then I was coming back but police told me to stay inside the café for safety reasons."

"I saw, this Sailor Nova was going around cleaning up the city, goodness… what must her parents think of this, that girl is looking to get killed."

Reina chuckled nervously, "y-yeah… but at least she saved everyone."

"I know but she must worry so many people when she goes out." Reina had no answer for that, exactly why didn't want to tell her mom that she was Sailor Nova.

"But anyway, I have dinner ready for you." She gently held Reina's hand to the kitchen and she placed a bowl of meat stew and it was the best thing Reina has ever smelled, so much so that she immediately began to dig in.

"oh my… you were hungry." That didn't even come close, but she definitely needed this, and it made her body feel warm, providing a soothing sensation. She just felt like she was run over by a train… which is close considering everything she endured.

After the meal, Reina quickly drank a small jug of water and exhaled happily and relaxed and looked to her mother, hugging her, "Thanks for the food mom."

"I'll say, you just ate three bowls." She gave a soft chuckle as she held Reina in her arms but the red head, she was just about ready to fall asleep in her arms but she managed to stand up straight.

"I'm going to bed, it's been a long day."

"oh? It's barely eight o'clock, are you sure?"

Reina looked at the clock and nodded, "Yeah I'm sure, besides tomorrow is Saturday and I want to spend it with you."

Kyoko couldn't help but hug her again and kiss her forehead, "then you go get some sleep, I'll clean up here, have a good night darling."

"You too mom." Reina went over to take a shower, which the hot water felt soothing to her body and after that she went to her room and closed the door.

That's when she stopped holding it all in and nearly collapsed on the bed, feeling all the pain from today. She still had to get changed and upon getting her clothes she removed her shirt, seeing all the cuts and dark bruises on her on the mirror. This time she left a first aid box under her bed and took it out, cleaning the bite and wrapping it up, along with every other cut she had.

Once that was done, she changed into her clothes for bed and practically crawled to her bed and laid down on it, letting out a long exhale. It didn't take long at all for Reina to fall asleep, and she knew… that perhaps her mother would be proud of what she's doing.

However she couldn't hide the excitement that now, she was proclaimed the city's savior and she loved it, hoping the rest of her life would be like this, being able to help and save everyone she could. Though injuries were the only downside to all this… she knew she would not be able to hide these from her mom for long.

END Of ARC 1

A/N: so this took a little more longer then expected, i was just really unmotivated to continue for a while but finally found the motivation to continue this chapter and finish up so i hope you all enjoyed it and thus ends the first arc and i'll try to get the next set of chapters done hopefully but anyway, I'll see you awesome readers later