Author's Note: Yes, I've started writing stories again. If any of my old fans stumble across this story, there are a few changes. I've mostly stuck to Japanese names, and gave Ellie her own Japanese name – she's now Chiba Masami. A few of my other old characters will show up with Japanese names, so don't be too surprised if you see some more familiar faces. If you are a new reader of my stories, I've been struggling with getting out a good version of my Sailor Earth's story for over ten years. I think I've got it this time. If you'd like to see my characters, please feel free to go to my DeviantArt account and go to the Sailor Earth gallery.
Thank you all for reading my story, and trust me, there's more on the way!
"That's her," Artemis whispered from behind her. "I'm sure of it. Absolutely sure." Artemis and Luna stared at the girl, taking a good look at her. They could feel the powers of the Earth Soldier coming off of her in waves. It was a wonder she didn't notice it herself.
"But what do we do now? Tell her that she's a Sailor Soldier, but she missed out on all the fighting and we don't really need her now?" Luna frowned, frustrated. "I don't just want to throw everything she's ever known out the window. You know how much Usagi valued having a normal life."
"And yet, you had no problem throwing Usagi's normal life out the window," Artemis said flatly. "You just told her."
"But she was needed to fight off the Dark Kingdom! We don't even know if we'll need this girl to fight any battles. For all we know, Galaxia was the last enemy we had to fight. She could find out about all this and feel miserable for being useless." Luna shook her head. "I don't know if I want to do that to her."
The girl the two cats were looking at let out a yawn and stretched. "I must be reading too much," she said to herself, "because I could swear I just heard those cats over there talking to each other…" She shook her head a little bit, presumably to clear it. Luna and Artemis yelped at being noticed, and then made a huge show of meowing and licking each other, presumably to look like actual cats.
The girl smirked at the cats. "Come on, you two," she said. "I've seen enough anime shows to know that out there somewhere, talking cats do exist." She smiled and pushed her glasses back up the bridge of her nose, as they'd started to slip. "Are you looking for someone? Maybe I can help."
"Ahh, actually," Luna said, a little nervously. "We were looking for you."
The girl burst out laughing. "Oh, now I must be hallucinating. I'm not a bad guy, or a hero, so I think you two are mistaken." She set her book down and let out another laugh. "Talking cats looking for me! That's hilarious."
"No, you're the one who's mistaken!" Artemis shouted. "Have you ever heard of Sailor Moon? You're a Sailor Soldier just like her!" Luna glared at him, and shushed him. If he kept yelling, more people would find out that there were talking cats in Tokyo.
The girl looked taken aback at Artemis' yelling. "Stop teasing me," she said softly. "I'm not like Sailor Moon at all. I don't have any special powers… like theirs, anyway. I'm not who you're looking for." She shook her head in disbelief.
"But you are," Luna said gently. "I can sense that you have these powers. If it weren't for me, Sailor Moon would never have found out about her powers, and we would have been in some serious trouble a few years ago, when Queen Beryl and the Dark Kingdom attacked."
"I remember…" she said, looking off into the distance, thinking about those times years ago when frightening things roamed the streets of Tokyo. "I remember the monster attacks and everything. That's when I first became a fan of… of Sailor Moon." The girl sighed. "I wanted to be like her- strong, powerful, and fierce. She's everything I'm not."
Luna made a face. "She's not usually very fierce… or powerful… I'm usually the one that pushes her to do what she's got to do." She grinned sheepishly. "But there are times when she does what she needs to do, and saves the world."
"Am I really like her? You're not just pulling my chain?" The girl looked suspiciously at Luna and Artemis.
"We're not, we promise." Artemis had calmed down a little bit, and smiled at the girl. "I'm Artemis, and this is Luna. We're the guardians of the Sailor Soldiers."
"I'm Masami," the girl said, and offered her hand to them to shake, then laughed. "You're cats, you don't shake hands!" Luna took the opportunity of the offered hand to get pet, however, and nuzzled Masami's hand. She giggled a little bit at Luna. "I guess this works too." She reached out her other hand to Artemis, and petted his head gently. The two cats purred happily.
"There's one thing I should do, first," Luna said as she peeked out from under Masami's hand. Luna closed her eyes as Masami removed her hand from her head. The crescent moon on Luna's head began to glow, and a beam of light shone from it. Its destination was Masami's forehead, and she closed her eyes as the light hit her forehead. The light revealed the symbol of Earth, a cross with arms of equal length within a circle. Artemis nodded as Masami felt a great rush of energy flood through her. It was warm and familiar, strange and exciting, all at the same time. When Masami opened her eyes, a sort of wand lay in front of her. It was pink, and had a straight middle part with a curved sort of handle to one side. At the top there was a set of wings, and at the center of the wings was a crystal orb with the symbol of Earth in it, colored spring green.
"You are Sailor Earth," Artemis said quietly. "Strange, we thought Mamoru was technically the soldier of Earth."
"Mamoru?" Masami looked curiously at Artemis. "The name sounds familiar to me. I know I've heard it before, somewhere." She scrunched up her face in concentration. "That's it! My parents- well, adoptive parents, anyway, told me that I have a brother named Mamoru somewhere." She sat bolt upright at her sudden realization. "You mean that Mamoru is here? In Tokyo? My brother has been here all along and I've never met him?" She bit her lip, obviously distressed.
"We can take you to meet him, if you'd like," Luna said. Artemis had opened up quite a can of worms there, with mentioning Mamoru, but they were likely going to meet at some point. She wonder how exactly Mamoru would take this- did he remember he had a sister? Masami must be upset at the fact that she had a brother that was in Tokyo all this time and didn't visit her. Artemis could be so tactless at times.
Meanwhile, Masami was lost in her own thoughts. Her adoptive parents were right- she did have a brother. Why hadn't she seen him? They both lived in Tokyo. He had to remember he had a younger sister. Granted, she was only two, almost three years old when their parents were killed in that car accident. It was his birthday, and their parents had taken Mamoru out to dinner while she stayed home with a babysitter. Then everything happened in a rush- she never saw Mamoru after that, she was moved out of the house the four of them shared, she was given to a foster family who eventually adopted her. And after that, she put the events of that day far behind her. While she went on with her childhood, she wondered what happened to Mamoru. Had he died too, and they didn't think she could handle the news? She spent time wondering about it, and now a pair of talking cats had answered her questions.
"I'd like to see him," Masami said quietly.
"I think he's at work right now, but would you like to meet Usagi?" Luna smiled, and then when Masami looked puzzled, she clarified. "I meant Sailor Moon. Her civilian name is Usagi. She's your brother's girlfriend."
"I get to meet Sailor Moon?" Masami's eyes grew wide. "And she's dating my brother? Oh, this is too much to absorb!" She closed her eyes and let out a sigh. "Well, come with me to my parents house, I need to drop off my book and pick up my subway pass." Artemis' eyes lit up at that. "And I suppose I should grab a basket to carry you two in, so I don't get funny looks for carrying cats around on the subway." Artemis just about keeled over in delight.
"No more walking!" he said with a happy sigh.