Pandora's Senshi

A Sailor Moon Spin-off Fanfiction

By mew-tsubaki

Note: Ha-HA! This time, I have copyright power over these characters because their MY OWN! (Woo-hoo!) Anyway, I want to give some credit to Naoko Takeuchi-sensei, though, because I used the original names she had planned for the Sailor Moon characters (Sorano Hikaru, Yoruno Miyabi, Chino Mamoru, and Artemis; only Amano is hers- I came up with Kako), and the original scouts (Moon through Saturn) are hers. By the way, I know that the senshi names (Phlegethon, Colytus, Styx, Acheron, and Lethe) come from rivers in Hades (I read it somewhere) and have nothing to do with Pandora's Box, but read on to discover what they're really about. - Don't forget: READ, REVIEW, AND ENJOY! P.S.- the Artemis in this fanfic isn't the same as the cat-turned-human Artemis from the original series. She's someone completely different. Also, the other senshi will not be making anymore appearances. It's original from here on out.

Chapter Two: Chino Mamoru a.k.a. Sailor Phlegethon

The dull-brunette brush back her messy mane and sighed as she looked out the window. "Another D again…" She clutched her status report from her math teacher and felt her anger at herself rising. I can't ever get a decent grade in math! She sighed and sipped her diet coke noisily as the rain came down hard outside the restaurant. "If only I could get away from all of this…" The girl fumbled with the contents of her school bag and fished out a folded piece of paper. "Another writing contest lost… No one likes quality stuff anymore!" She angrily crumpled the paper up and threw it onto her food tray. Silently, she stared at it. What's the use anymore? The girl folded her arms and sighed as she buried her head in them. If I could only write for a living like her…

"Uh, excuse me, miss," the waitress said. "We're closing early today. Would you mind if I brought the check to you now?"

The taupe-haired girl shook her head and dug out a twenty and passed it to the waitress. "I know how much it is. I always get the same thing. Keep the change this time, though." She stood and gathered her bag and left, making sure she didn't leave anything first.

"She's not usually like that," the waitress commented to herself. She shook her head and cleared the table to prepare for another customer.

"Chino Mamoru. Seventeen and an aspiring writer…who everyone thinks writes like crap!" The girl stomped her foot down on the ground. "Damn it all!" Mamoru hung her head as she walked home. "I feel like crying, but…what's the use if there's no one to console me…?"

Mamoru stepped into her apartment building's elevator and rode it to the top floor. It dinged and she got off and headed to apartment number 104. She dug out her key and unlocked the door, only to be welcomed home by utter silence. She faintly smiled to herself. "They leave me here with the whole apartment to myself and I come home to no one. Great."

She tossed her bag on the couch and got another soda from her fridge. How many years has it been? Five or six or so? Both Mom and Dad just up and split, not to mention up and left. Even if they did leave me the apartment… "The city's too friggin' loud for me! I want to get away!"

The dull-brunette flopped down on her bed after shutting the door to her room. People always run away from me, she thought. When will I get the chance to do it to them? Slowly, Mamoru drifted out of her thoughts and into a deep sleep and forgot her anger for that day, but it would only come back in the morning.

"Good morning!" Mamoru said to a few of her passing classmates. The two girls glanced at her over their shoulders and walked faster than they had before they had seen her. "Stupid…," Mamoru muttered under her breath. She grasped the handle of her bag and swung it over her shoulder, depicting the gang member-like image all of her classmates saw her in.

"You should probably learn to keep your voice down, Chino-san," a voice said from behind her. Mamoru looked behind her and saw her favorite teacher, Shiro-sensei, approach her.

"Y-yes!" Mamoru stuttered. She blushed to herself a little as he smiled at her. Shiro-sensei was not only the teacher of her favorite class, literature, but he was also the youngest of the teachers, at age twenty (Mamoru also thought of him as the best-looking out of all of them, too). He carried himself with a confident air that made her feel like she could do anything around him, and she liked that- a lot.

"I'll see you in class later, Mamoru-chan!" he whispered to her as he passed her. And then he disappeared into the building.

"Takeyuki…" Mamoru, blushing, shook her head to clear her thoughts. I can't call him Takeyuki, no matter how much I want to! Or how much I like him… Sadly, Mamoru hung her head again and went in her school.

"That's all. You may be dismissed."

The classroom was buzzing with the usual noise that comes at the end of the day. People were packing up and visiting each other at their desks. Mamoru, however, did not have any visitors.

"That's just great. Everyone is seeing their friends at the end of the day, and what about me? I have no friends!" she mumbled angrily to herself. She slammed her bag on her desk, stood, and exited the classroom for the last time that day. "I hate the city!"

As she trudged out of the building, she didn't see where she was exactly going, and she ran into someone.

"Oof!" Mamoru fell on her butt, but she quickly scrambled to her feet. "Oh my god! I didn't see you! Are you all right!"

"I'm fine! Fine!" The pink-haired girl before Mamoru scrambled to her feet, as well, and picked up her things and dashed off.

"Jeez… She didn't even really say anything to me." Mamoru watched as the girl disappeared in the direction opposite her, but shrugged the thought off. She collected her things, too, and went home.

Mamoru was walking home by herself as she thought of the weekend ahead of her. "Nothing to do, I guess, except to write and watch movies. Oh, well." Little droplets of rain stained Mamoru's gray uniform and hat. Rain again…

"That's it! Now you've got me pissed!"

The taupe-haired girl looked again and saw a fight break out between two men, both carrying knives. Yikes! I should get out of here before they see me! Mamoru turned to run, but it was too late; both men had seen her. I'm done for!

"Where do you think you're going!" the other man shouted at her. Both hulks approached her, knives ready at their sides.

Crap! Just then, a bright light immerged from the space in-between Mamoru and the two men, and a brooch appeared. What is that! Mamoru thought. She looked at the men and realized that they were hurt by the energy the brooch was emitting, so she grabbed the brooch, even though she was unsure about the item.

Countless ribbons of light streamed out of the brooch as soon as Mamoru's fingertips touched it, and she drew her hand away when it did that.

Suddenly, Mamoru heard words echoing in her head. "Ph-Phlegethon Rage Fulfillment!" At once, the lights engulfed Mamoru, and the girl felt power surging through her. Th-this power! The lights faded and Mamoru floated to the ground.

CLACK.

"In Hades, the Phlegethon River brings out the rage in lost souls. To free those souls and turn them to destruction by the angry earth- that is my mission! Sailor Phlegethon!"

Mamoru was amazed at what the brooch had done. It had turned her into some sort of…crime-fighter! She looked herself up and down. "Wh-what is this! Some sort of cosplay costume! And I called myself what!" The girl faced the two men and was frightened; they were coming right at her! "What do I do!"

The look in both of the guys' eyes was different from that of someone who was just 'pissed'. The faces were twisted!

Suddenly, the brooch (which was fastened to the front mahogany bow on Mamoru's chest) started glowing again, and it shot a beam of light out to the men. Mamoru saw that behind them was a distorted shadow with what looked like something living in it. "That can't be good…," Mamoru muttered to herself, but she heard words forming in her head again. "What the…! Not again!" But the words echoed in her head and Mamoru finally said them. Extending her hand in front of her, palm facing both men, she shouted, "Phlegethon Rage Embodiment!"

At once, a powerful beam surged through Mamoru and shot out of her hand and into the men's shadows. Suddenly, their shadows exploded! The men fell onto the ground, barely alive, but breathing still.

Mamoru knelt down and checked on them. "They look different…" She checked their shadows. "Their back to normal!" She breathed a sigh of relief. They seemed way too malevolent for normal anger. Something's not right, but…somehow, I have the power to fix it. As Sailor Phlegethon, of course. Without knowing it, Mamoru transformed back from being Sailor Phlegethon to her normal self. Behind her, she heard notebooks drop. Quickly, she glanced over her shoulder and saw the same pink-haired girl that she had bumped into before. Crap!

Mamoru stood and moved to speak to the girl, but the girl grabbed her things and ran before anything could be said.

"Now I really am an outcast… Damn!" The dull-brunette grabbed her bag and headed home, worrying that this new secret she just developed would be leaked.

"AAH! It's not here!"

Mamoru tossed things out of her bag left and right, ending up eventually dumping the contents of her bag all over her living room floor. It was the messiest the entire apartment had been in a while.

"It's gone!" she exhaled. I had just started that story, too. Now I've lost it! How will I ever finish writing it! Just then, she remembered the pink-haired girl from before. Of course! Her! She must have picked it up when it got mixed into her things when I ran into her. But-! "How do I find her again?" Mamoru thought hard for a few minutes, trying to remember any details she could use to find the girl. Finally, she remembered the girl's uniform. "It was the same as my uniform! She goes to the same school as me!" She breathed another sigh of relief. I can find her tomorrow and ask if I can have it back…

Then horror struck. What if she read it? She'll probably think it was bad like everyone else… "What am I gonna do if that's the case? She has my latest novel and saw me as Sailor Phlegethon…"