Generations: Crystal Senshi

Savagekitty

Chapter Three

I was always told I would be my mothers greatest gift to the world. Maybe I didn't want to be. Maybe I just wanted to be who I am, not who the world and planets think that I need to be. I hate who I am, but no one will ever know that. I am the youngest senshi to graduate out of the senshi school only because I couldn't stand to have everyone watching me. The only other people that would understand is Raven and Leanne. Of all the senshi of the planets, we are the only three that have shown powers. Mother was thrilled, I was pissed. I just wanted to be normal, like my sisters. Like my friends. Why was I given this gift? Of all people on this Earth, why me?

Ok, now that that is off my chest, my name is Cally Emmes. I had taken my mother's last name, for my father didn't have one. He was a former evil villain. That's a laugh, like something out of a movie, but its true, I swear to the Goddess. I always did wonder, why do villains fall for senshi? I mean, my mom married a villain, Leanne's mom married a villain. What? Oh, sorry, I rant sometimes.

Anywho, I am Sailor Opal, I am determined to make a name for myself among the senshi and the world. Call me daughter of Saturn one more time and you'll fine you have a shard of crystal up your ass.

I am what they call a medical senshi. My gifts include regeneration to myself, transferring my gift to others to restore their weakened state, knitting bone, muscle, and tissue together, calming blood vessels, and a whole lot more of technical things I don't want to explain because people in their thirties don't know as much as I do about the medical profession. I swear to the Goddess. Anyway, like I was saying, the day that Leanne broke down crying in her moms office, made me super uncomfy cause I never saw her like that, but if I saw my mother like she had, I think I would have broken down too. I left as soon as I could, people crying always made me feel like I was intruding on something I shouldn't have been seeing. I followed Whitedove out into the hallway where we met Arty. He is so hot.

If he wasn't married I would try for him in a heart beat, I don't care how old he is. There were words exchanged between Whitedove and Arty, but I was staring at his hotness, so I didn't catch it all. Something about stuff rooted into someone's brains. I practically fainted when Arty pulled us after him. He was bladdering on about Liquid Skins, I was just staring at his butt. Oh he is so hot.

I don't want to talk about what went on next cause it hurt and was kinda icky, I'll just say Whitedove and I tried the stuff, Liquid Skin, we got all cool in skintight uniforms and we fought a bit. Oh, and Lionna came upon us and I kicked her butt. I always do. She never was a very good fighter. Well… ok, that's not true, she kicked my butt, but I could have kicked her butt, I just wanted to go easy on her. What I will go into is what happened after that little battle in the gym. I was leaving, bumped in Raven and we went for a drink while I told her about Liquid Skin and how awesome it is. I gave her a little demo, showing her what I had picked out for my uniform. Yah picked out. With liquid skin, our uniforms didn't have to be the uncomfy sailor like outfits of old. No way. My uniform, I was thinking about as I showed her, would be palm less because I have to have skin contact to heal, but other then that I would be head to toe smooth black skin, except at my back, for some reason, the Liquid Skin wouldn't allow for my back to be covered, but my sailor collar and my short skirt that came to my upper thigh, would be a shiny whitish like a real opal. She liked it. I might change it later though. By that time, I realized what time it was and had to run. I had medical duty at the hospital. My mom made me do it. She always thought I must keep my talents sharp, so I took a shuttle to the hospital and changed into my candy striper uniform.

Ever notice how many uniforms senshi have to wear? My school uniform, my dress uniform, my work uniform, my fighting uniform. I think that's why I liked Liquid Skin so much was because it wasn't like a regular uniform and more like real clothes and could just disappear and reappear. Soooo awesome!

Ok, so here I am at the hospital and mom is riding my ass as usual. I never knew why she would jump my shit more then my sisters. Maybe because I was so much like her, which I didn't want to be like her, but that old catch 22. Jeeez. I went on my rounds, cleaning wounds, lancing boils, changing sheets and bedpans. Same old same old. Then, I came into this one room where this guy was asleep. It was weird, in a way only senshi can tell. The room seemed thick, the air was so stuffy even with the window open. I wasn't all the way in the room and I could tell. A curtain was halfway blocking my view but a heard someone talking. It did sound female, but it wasn't that feminine. Like Lionna's voice sounds when she's super tired, husky is the word I think.

I stood there, listening to this woman talking to this guy in the bed, and I started to get scared, because she was talking about dreams and finding The One, and then the guy started to go into convulsions. I could see from the way his feet thrashed under his blanket. I threw the curtain back and the lady, some freak from a circus stepped back quickly. I only took a moment to take in the scene, as a good senshi would. This is what I saw:

The man, a kid about my age really, was in bed, ridged as a board, a mirror floating above his chest. FLOATING! The freak was a girl that looked like she was ten years old, but fully developed as a woman. She wore a gold bikini top and kind of red genie pants. Her hair was red too, and tired back in gold rope about two feet from her head ending in a pom pom. My Liquid Skin uniform kicked in before I realized it and I took a step closer. The girl made an eek noise and jumped onto the open window sill. She took another look at me before jumping out. I ran to the window and looked around. I couldn't see her, we were on the 14th floor, she couldn't have just jumped. I turned, looking back at the boy. He was still ridged with the mirror. The mirror was pretty, the glassy part wrapped in silverfish metal and twisted in designs. I stepped forward reaching out, about to touch it when my mom walked in. She stopped whatever she was saying and stared at me. I didn't even get to touch the mirror before it seemed to fizzle out of sight. The boy became slack and slumped in his bed. Mom rushed forward to help him but still stared at me.

I had to explain myself to not only my mom, but the elder planetary senshi after mom heard my story, and my own group of senshi. Was I ever embarrassed. I hate speaking to large crowds, even if these are people I've known all my life. Ami, Sailor Mercury looked frightened for a moment, an emotion I didn't think she had. She pulled out her mini computer and started to type things out. The older women gathered around her as she looked up something. She nodded and held out the computer to the others. They all looked grim. Lionna looked over their shoulders and then back at us, "This kid has the same bio readouts as Sailor Earth and the King."

I was stunned. You could knock my over with a feather as Leanne looked at the data, "Well Lionna, you were right. Our solution fell into our laps. Whoever this girl is, she has something to do with this illness the King and Mama has." Leanne looked at me, her blue eyes blazing almost white. I HATE when she looks like that, its creepy.

"Cally, did you see anything else? Did she say something?"

I shook my head, "No, Boss. I didn't. She said she had to search the dreams of the young to find The One and then he went into convulsions. I think that's when that mirror appeared. It was floating over him. It was really pretty… and when she saw me…she jumped out the window…"

"A mirror…" Raven said, crossing her arms over her chest in thought, "I'll do a search for mirrors in folklore and dreams, that may help. Everything that the senshi ever came up against on Earth has had some root in mythology. I did a paper for it last year."

I forgot to mention that Raven is super smart and has a doctorate in mythology AND in history. Lots of senshi have doctorates in a specialized field. Its helpful to their powers and to the team. I was working on mine in medicine.

I was asked to give a full report as the older senshi did little information gathering trips. I was bored silly myself. I loved the action of a senshi but reports and crap like that? Ew. But then I thought, if these three had a connection like a similar bio readout, what if they each shared something else? I snuck away from the others. They wouldn't miss me. I went down to the records room in the hospital and pulled up the guy, whose name was Eric, Catherine Knight, and The King's information. Before I knew it, I was down there for four hours and still had not found anything that connected them together except what had happened after Eric had the mirror appear, and after Catherine and the King went into their comas. Lets see, why did Eric come in? He passed out in the botanical garden where he worked. Plants? Well… Hm… Catherine is Sailor Earth. And the King is connected to this planet because of his heritage. I printed out some things that made sense to me and connected these three and brought them upstairs. I couldn't find anyone to show my readouts to. It was frustrating. Finally, I found Whitedove and Leanne in the back gardens where we brought patients to enjoy the weather. Leanne was looking over some information as Whitedove walked barefoot through the grass. I came to Leanne, "Hey I think I found something!"

Leanne looked up from her reports and took the paper I held out, "Yes?"

"YAH! Ok see, your mom and the King are both connected to the Earth, ok we know that. Your mom said the Earth had a kind of cancer, and then this kid comes in because he passed out in the botanical gardens where he worked."

Leanne was looking at me now, her eyebrows raised, "Yes?"

"Yah! And the place where he was found, see, the plants were all dying. I think whatever is killing the Earth got to this-"

"THORN VINE!"

Leanne and I both looked up towards the scream. It was Whitedove, because that was one of her favorite attacks. My Liquid Skin flowed over me and Leanne's did too. Apparently she had a drink of the stuff. Her outfit was a bit more cool then mine though, I wish I thought of it. Hers was black, but she had a high button collar that buttoned with silver fastenings down to the skirt that was a dark greenish blue, and black leggings came from under the skirt and down into her boots that were to her knees. She had a kind of cuffed glove on with a large silver ring on her right hand.

We both ran towards the sound of Whitedove's cry and we rounded into a thicker part of the gardens. We halted as Whitedove rose into the air, her own rope thick vine wrapped around her throat. She kicked madly as she clawed at the vine, her Liquid Skin uniform fading back into her normal clothing. A few yards in front of us was the red girl and a VERY tall man in a black cloak. The cloak had a tall collar, his skin was white and his hair was black, as was his neatly trimmed goatee. His eyes were a piercing blackness that I couldn't help stare into. Leanne stepped forward, fists clenched, "Let my senshi down!"

The man just regarded up as if we were nothing. Leanne moved her hand and her rapier appeared. She pointed it at the man, "RELEASE HER!"

The man tilted his head to the side and blinked, "As you wish." and waved a hand. Whitedove fell to the ground on her back. I could hear the wind pushed from her lungs and also, a mirror. She arched her back into the air as the mirror shimmered, the frame of the mirror a thick wood that still glistened as if fresh cut. The red girl bounced forward and grabbed the mirror. She cackled and stuck her head into the mirror as if it were a window. Now only her ass wiggle at us as her upper body was in the mirror. She pulled her head out and frowned at the man, "Nothing but the hopes and dreams of finding true love, her parents and having a family."

Leanne looked sickened, "You nasty little creature! You have no right to see her Dreams!"

I opened my mouth and closed it. Dreams? Is that what the mirror stood for?

The man smiled, "So you know what the mirrors stand for. You are a clever senshi." He held out an arm to the red girl, "Come, I tire of this place."

The girl tucked herself into his arm and he threw his cloak up and like a magician, was gone. Leanne and I ran to Whitedove. Her mirror was gone now, I assume back where it had come from. I laid my hands on Whitedove's cheeks and closed my eyes, searching her body for harm. She had a slight concussion, but after I fixed it, she still wouldn't wake up. I opened my eyes and looked at Leanne, "Leanne?" I wanted to cry. I wanted to cry so badly. Whitedove was my best friend, now she was less then alive, but not dead. Leanne looked scary pissed. She stood and fisted her hands, "They attack my family and now my team. This is too personal."

I had to agree, but I could only cry. Cry for the changes our lives were about to take and for my friends. This would get worse then the Senshi Wars. I knew it my heart it would be.