I: First Senshi Chapter 6: Sailor Pluto, a sailor moon fanfic

Sailor Pluto

Kanakaku stood staring out across the landscape of Pluto. She held a metal staff shaped like a large key. Her people seem to have longer life spans than the people do on the other planets. Kanakaku had a vision when she was young that along with a group of women she would help change the destiny of their universe. As the wind blew through her green hair, she sighed. The vision had been so many years ago, that she had forgotten about it. That was until she had heard of a young Moon queen named Serenity who had fought Chaos by herself and was not trying to unite the planets. Kankaku tried to think back to when she had the vision, which was around when she was eight rotations old. During that time, the planets did not know of each other's existence. The people of her birth village saw Kanakaku as a demon and cast from her village.

"Kanakaku," a woman with olive skin and green tipped white haired walked up to her.

"Chukia," Kanakaku turned to face the older with a smile.

"Child you know I am not your real grandmother," Ozaya said.

"Yes but you are the mother of the woman who raised me when my real family threw me out for being a demon."

"We have always told you that you are not a demon," Ozaya told her. "You are our hope."

"Have you heard?" Kanakaku asked. The old woman nodded. "This means my vision will come true but I still do not understand how."

"You need some rest child," Ozaya suggested.

"Maybe you are right Chuika," she agreed. "I have been here a little while."

"I would not call a few days a little while," replied her grandmother. "You need some food too."

That night for the second time in her life, she had that vision although Kankaku's role seemed darer to her although she could still not make out the face of any of her comrades. Details she had forgotten came back to her. Kanakaku looked down to see she was in a strange uniform as she was the first time she had the vision. She turned to look at her staff and noticed there was now a glowing orb on top of the staff. The orb pulsed brighter and brighter until the light blinded her.

When Kanakaku opened her eyes, she saw she was in her room lying on her sleeping mat. "I must tell Chuika tomorrow," she thought in passing as she fell back asleep.

Kanakaku sat there with her grandmother after she had told her the dream. "The outfits you and these other women are wearing must be like what Queen Serenity wears," her grandmother said. "I have not seen it but heard it is a very unusual style of cloth."

"I think any other planet's custom of cloth would look unusual to us," Kanakaku replied.

"That you are correct about child," Ozaya smiled.

"Vaguely in my mind as I was waking up I hear a voice that said find the 'Orb of Pluto'," Kanakaku recalled.

"I have not heard of an 'Orb of Pluto,'" Ozaya told her granddaughter. "Normally the people of Pluto go on a journey to find their purpose in this life but you on the other hand know your purpose."

"I do," asked Kanakaku.

"Yes child," she nodded. "You have had the visions since you were young. Now you must find this 'Orb of Pluto.'"

"I do not know where to start," Kanakaku answered.

"Nor do I child," Ozaya told her. "That is a journey you must make on your own."

"Thank you Chuika," Kanakaku hugged the woman and left the room.

That night at dinner, Kanakaku looked around the table with her parents and grandparents. "Mother, father, Chuika, Chuiko," she said as she laid her eating instrument beside her plate. Her parents looked only a few years older, that they could have been her siblings while her mother's parents were beginning to get a gray and white tint to their hair. Kanakaku reminded herself this was the way the people of Pluto aged. The Elders in her village looked as if they should not even be able to walk.

"Yes Kana," her mother said when Kanakaku did not continue to speak right away.

"I must take a journey," she told her family. "I do not know how long I will be gone," she paused, "or if I will come back," she almost whispered.

"Where will you go?" her father asked.

"I must go back to the place of my birth," she answered

"Why would you want to do that?" her mother asked almost horrified. "They threw you out so young. They left you to die!"

"I have questions and I feel the answers are there," Kanakaku insisted.

Her mother began to speak but her father put his hand on her while her grandfather held his hand up to silence his daughter. "Kana," Waizu began, "we understand you must leave. We do not like it but know we always have and always will love you. Also know that you have our complete support."

Kanakaku nodded. "Thank you Chuiko."

"When you are planning to leave?" her father asked.

"At first light," Kanakaku answered.

"Dinner is getting cold," Ozaya said as she began to eat again. The family kept talking of Kanakaku's journey s they began to eat their dinner before it got cold.

"Are you sure you have to do this?" Kanakaku's mother asked trying not to cry.

"Yes mother," Kanakaku replied hugging her, "I am part of something larger than any of us."

"I still do not like it but please be safe," he mother told her.

"I will, I promise." Kanakaku picked up her pack and situated it on her back before picking up her staff. Her mother came over and smoothed a wrinkle in her back toga like dress.

It was two days journey from Kanakaku's home village to the village of her birth. Kanakaku fell to her knees when she came upon her birth village. Before her was nothing but rumble. "What happen?" she said a loud to no one. Kanakaku walked through the village seeing pieces of buildings here and there but no complete buildings were standing.

"Let me guide you," Kanakaku heard a voice say in her mind.

"Who is there?" asked Kanakaku looking around.

"Answers will come in time," the voice replied and she noticed that the voice was beginning to sound familiar.

Kanakaku came upon a half-fallen statue. The upper body lay crumbled beside the base along with the head, which was undamaged. Kanakaku noticed the face on the statue was blank and there was a heart shaped design carved in the base of the statue. Within the heart, there was a circle and inside the circle was an eight pointed crystal design. On top of the heart, shaped design was a smaller heart. As she stared at the design, almost in a trance, Kanakaku saw that the crystal design seemed more defined and stuck out more than the rest of the craving. Strangely, the crystal designs seem to be the only thing painted on the whole statue.

Feeling drawn toward the crystal design Kanakaku reached out to touch the stone. Upon contact with the stone there was a bright maroon flash causing Kanakaku to shield her eyes. When she pulled her hand from her eyes, Kanakaku saw she was no longer in her birth village. Everywhere she looked all she could see was lavender mist. Feeling someone behind her Kanakaku turned around to see the design, which had been carved in the base of the statue floating before her. Only now, the design was not two dimensional in stone but three-dimensional and made from metal.

The two hearts were a light lavender metal that Kanakaku recognized as being the same as her staff. One the small heart where the two halves joined at the top was a gold ball and the larger heart had two gold balls on each side at the base of the heart. The eight-pointed crystal, which floated in the center of the larger heart, flicked and changed into a maroon orb, which fit perfectly into the cup like inset in the larger heart. Once the two pieces connected together, the item floated over to Kanakaku. The orb inside seemed to flash a greeting to her. She held her hands out and it rested in her hands.

"This feels familiar," she said aloud and it seemed to flicker in response.

"It belongs to you," the voice said.

"It feels like it does but who are you?" Kanakaku asked.

"I," a small version of herself wearing the outfit she saw in her vision appeared from behind the item in her hand, "am your spirit guardian and this," she pointed to the item, "is the Garnet Orb."

"The Garnet Orb," Kanakaku repeated and it flickered in response. She looked back at the fairy like creature. "You are my spirit guardian?"

She nodded. "You will become Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of Time. You are the first in your life but there are others like you."

"Have you always been around?" asked Kanakaku.

"Yes," replied Fairy Pluto.

"Why have we not met before this?" Kanakaku questioned.

"I was bound to the crystal," Fairy Pluto answered. "We would have met had you stayed here but you went away."

"Apparently the people of this village though I was a demon because I knew things would happen before they occurred," Kanakaku paused, "even my birth parents."

"I have been lonely. There was no one to play with," Fairy Pluto told Kanakaku.

"Where will you go now?"

"I am to go into your heart to become your Sailor Crystal while the Garnet Orb goes on your staff and the crystal inside the orb becomes your heart crystal," Fairy Pluto explained. Fairy Pluto began to float toward Kanakaku's chest.

"Wait," she said quickly. "I have one more question."

"Yes," Fairy Pluto looked at her.

"What happened to this village?" Kanakaku inquired.

"That would be my fault," Fairy Pluto answered.

"How? Why?" Kanakaku exclaimed.

"You never came here so I appeared to the people and asked where you were," Fairy Pluto explained. "I have been waiting for you for more years than you have been alive and I could feel when you were born." Kanakaku continued to listen. "I got so made when they called you a demon and told me they had sent you away."

"But how did the destruction happen to the village?" Kanakaku pressed.

"I caused a typhoon," Fairy Pluto stated.

"There is not enough water around here to cause that," the green hair girl insisted.

"A Time Typhoo," clarified Fairy Pluto. "It is an attack you will learn in time." Fairy Pluto waved her hand and Kanakaku's staff appeared. The Garnet Orb glowed and floated to the staff. "Your staff is now called the Time Staff and is now complete. It can unlock the fabric of time itself." Fairy Pluto flew to Kanakaku's chest and put her hands over the future warrior's heart. "You must accept me and the heart crystal before I or it can become one with you."

"I accept," Kanakaku agreed. Fairy Pluto smiled and in a flash of maroon light, she was gone.

The Garnet Orb, which now sat upon her staff, glowed and an eight-pointed maroon crystal, appeared. The crystal floated to Kanakaku and hovered in front of her chest.

"I accept," Kanakaku repeated.

The crystal was absorbed into her chest and at the same time, she felt her brow burn. She knew this was not the burning felling she felt when she had a fever but something different. Kanakaku looked at the Garnet Orb to see the sigil of Pluto blazing brightly up her brow as she felt her cloths change into something different.

The lavender mist swirled around Kanakaku, lightly brushes her body as she closed her eyes. Raising her arms the mist swirled tighter around her torso forming a white body suit before spreading to her arms and legs. In a flash of lavender, the mist was gone from her arms and legs replaced by white elbow length gloves with three black bands at the top and black knee high boots with a white band at the top of each boot. Kanakaku could feel her hair swirl around her as the mist continued to cover her body. Next, a black skirt formed around her waist and then a black collar along with a black chocker around her neck. The mist swirled back around her chest to create a deep maroon bow and then to her lower back where another deep maroon bow appeared. Finally, a lighter maroon brooch in the form of a circle appeared on the center of the bow on her chest. A silver sigil of Pluto rested on the center of the chocker. The sigil of Pluto which still blazed brightly on her brow turned into an oval maroon gem in which a silver tiara sprang from while a silver belt of keys appeared around her waist.

When the change was complete, Kanakaku stood there holding the Time Staff. "Okay," she thought, "now I am like this," she looked down at herself, "but how will this help me get out of here?"

"Close your eyes," she heard Fairy Pluto's voice in her mind. "Close your eyes and concentrate."

"But how will this help?" she asked.

"It will only help if you stop talking and concentrate," Fairy Pluto said annoyed. "Look for the door with your mind."

Kanakaku closed her eyes and looked with her mind for the door that would lead her out of the Time Gate. Her eyes flew open and she threw her hands above her head. "By the power of Chronos hear me! I, Sailor Pluto, command you to open before me the exit from here!" Her aura faded and nothing happened. "It felts so right," she said aloud. "The words just come to me." Looking down at herself she shrugged, "I guess in this form I am called Sailor Pluto although I do not understand why." Just then, Pluto noticed the orb on her staff was glowing and the keys on her belt jingled. There was one key on her belt which looked exactly like a miniature version of her Time Staff. She noticed that like the staff the orb in the middle of the key was glowing. Unhooking the key from her belt, she held the key above her head as once again her aura glowed. "By the power of Chronos hear me! I, Sailor Pluto, command you to open before me and show me the exit from here!"

The Space Time Corridor shook around her and from the lavender; mist appeared a light grey stone door. Pluto walked up to the door and reached out to see if it was solid. Stepping back, she tapped the end of her staff on the floor. The orb on her staff glowed in response as the doors creaked open.

The last thing she heard before stepping through the door was Fairy Pluto's voice. "This will always be your realm to watch and protect."

Kanakaku noticed once she stepped through the door she was not in the village she had been born in nor was she in the village she had been raised in but in a marble building in a room full of people who did not look very friendly.

"Waah!" a woman with pink and blue streaked blonde hair yelled as she fell off her throne.

"Who are you?" demanded a woman with blonde orange hair dressed in an outfit similar to her own.

"Wait Venus," the first blonde woman yelled to get her attention. "She must be one of us." The woman in the silver dress strode passed the blonde-haired woman she had called Venus to stand in front of Kanakaku.

"Selene, how can she be one of us?" asked Venus. "She does not wear the same cloth."

"None of us did at first either," Selene, reminded her.

Kanakaku looked down to see she no longer wore the strange white, black, and maroon outfit she had moments ago. Looking into Selene's eyes, she felt an unspeakable bond between them and by the actions of the other people in the room; she gathered that this Selene was their queen. She dropped to her knees in her black toga like dress.

"Please," Selene said in a soothing voice, "do not kneel to me. You and I are equals."

Kanakaku rose and smiled back at Selene. "I am Kanakaku of Pluto. I do not know where I am or how I got here."

"We have been waiting for you." Selene hugged the green haired woman. "I am Selene and you are in the Kingdom of the Moon. As for how you got here, we are unclear also. One minute you were not here and the next you were."

"Selene I do not want to question your judgment but you must be careful," a woman with brown curly hair in a green and pink outfit spoke. "She appeared from the air."

The people that appeared not to be close to the Moon Queen were both in awe and wonderment of the woman, which had appeared before them. With a nod of her head and a motion of her hand, Selene told the people to leave the throne room. "I am sorry," Selene apologized to them. "I will listen to every one of you at a later date I promise. As you can tell I have an urgent matter to attend to." Some bowed to her or gave a nod of the head while others did nothing but all left the throne room without complaint.

"She is a kind and wise ruler," Kanakaku decided.

After the people who were not in Selene's inner circle had left Selene smiled and gestured to her. "Please show us."

At first Kanakaku did not understand but then looking around the room and noticing there were four similar dressed women she understood and raised her hand above her head. "Pluto Space Time Power!"

After the mist faded, Kanakaku was now dressed in an outfit similar to the other women as her belt of keys hung weightlessly around her waist and she gripped her staff.

"See," Selene jumped and clapped her hands together. "I knew she was one of us."

A woman blue eyes and her blue hair in a braid approached Kanakaku. As her transformation faded, a pale blue dress appeared. She smiled as she gripped forearms with her newest comrade. "I am Kaori of Mercury."

Next, there was a shy looking woman with purple eyes and black shoulder length hair. She noticed that eh light seem to bring out red streaks in her hair. The soft red sheer sleeves of the bright red dress did not hide the fire-engulfed symbol of Mars on her shoulder. The black haired woman gripped Kanakaku's arm and she felt something familiar in her. "Hinoko of Mars," was all she said.

The curly haired brown-haired woman who had also been weary of her as the second blonde-haired person made her way toward the Plutonian. Her green dress seemed to make moving uncomfortable as if she was unused to having that much cloth on her body. She gripped the new woman's arm tight and had a warning look of protection for Selene in her eyes. "Tenaka of Jupiter," she said sternly. Kanakaku nodded in understanding.

Dressed in an orange dress kissing by the rays of the sun the second blonde-haired woman stood before her. As the others, she also gripped Kanakaku's forearm in greeting. "Aiko of Venus."

"Now that we all know each other," Selene grabbed Kanakaku's hand, "I am going to show her to her room." The other woman nodded in acknowledgement. "Oh Kaori can you let to people in the shuttle are know we will not be receiving the warrior of Pluto by shuttle."

"Of course Selene," she replied.

"I am so glad you are here," Selene beamed as they walked the halls of the Moon Palace. "I did not think we would find so many warriors so quickly. Now that you are here we only have to wait for the warriors of Uranus, Neptune and Saturn to appear."

"We will not have to wait long for another," Kanakaku information the blonde-haired woman walking beside her.

"How do you know?" asked Selene.

"My powers seem to be that of Time and Space," she answered. "I believe I came to your kingdom through some kind of portal. I was on Pluto," she paused, "yet I was not. Then I was standing before you. I have had visions of things, which have not yet occurred. These things I have seen since I was quite young and now believe my ability is stronger now because of the change."

"Once you see the others powers you will understand that people like us have been given responsibilities other do not share," Selene informed her.

"I believe you are right," Kanakaku agreed.

Eventually Selene and Kanakaku came to a white door with the sigil of Pluto on it. "This is your room but," Selene paused, "we did not know you would be here on the Moon so soon so the bed is there but not much else. Do not worry we can fix your room any way you like."

"That is okay," Kanakaku smiled. "I did not know I would be here so soon either." Suddenly her face fell and she looked panicked. "My family does not know what has become of me. I am not sure how long I have been gone. I must assure them I am well."

Selene put a hand on her new friend's shoulder. "I understand but right now you need food and rest."

Kanakaku shook her head. "Thank you but I have to see them."

"How," Selene asked.

"The same way I got here," she replied producing the Time Staff even though she was not in her warrior form.

Selene nodded in understanding. "Be well."

"I know I need to be here so I will come back," Kanakaku assured the Moon Queen. Waving her Time Staff as the maroon orb glowed, a lavender grey portal appeared with a smile Kanakaku stepped through the portal and found herself surrounded by mist.

"What the hell!" Kanakaku heard someone yell. Suddenly something hit her. "Get the hell out of my bath." Kanakaku turned around to find a nude Aiko rising from the water.

"I'm sorry," Kanakaku stammered. Blushing she quickly looked for an exit and rushed from the room.

"Did she see me?" another voice asked.

"No," replied Aiko. "I want to know what the hell that was about appearing in my bath. She had no right." Aiko sat in the steamy water with her arms crossed over her chest.

"That was definitely not Pluto," Kanakaku thought flustered. "Okay," she breathed. "Think! How do I do this?" She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and tried to see Pluto in her mind. Waving her Time Staff as the maroon orb glowed, a lavender grey portal appeared with a smile Kanakaku stepped through the portal and found herself surrounded by mist. "Umm hello," she said cautiously then sighed in relief noticing that the mist around her was the lavender grey mist of the Space Time Corridor. "This place again," she though. "Wait," Kanakaku said aloud, "this place must be an in between to get to where I want to go." She came upon the door again and as before tapped her staff three times before the door opened. Taking a deep breath, she stepped through the door. "Please be on Pluto," she thought.

Kanakaku appeared in her village in front of her home. Before she could not her mother flung, open the door. "Kana," she whispered. "Is that you?"

"Yes mother," she replied. "I am back."

Tai ran to her daughter crying as she hugged her. "We thought we lost you."

"I am fine mother." Kanakaku looked up to see her father and grandparents standing in the doorway.

"You had been gone for so many cycles of the sun," her mother continued.

"Did you find what you were looking for child," her grandmother asked.

"Let her breath," her father gently pulled her mother back.

"Yes I did Chuika," Kanakaku told them as they entered their home. "I am like Queen Selene of the Moon Kingdom of the Moon which rotates around Earth."

"Where have you been Kana?" asked her grandfather.

"First," Kanakaku began as they sat down on cushions. "I went to the village where I was born. The village was not what I was expecting. There was no life of any kind, the buildings in total ruin, and I found this statue, which seemed alive. When I touched the orb, I taken to a place I cannot describe. There was mist as far as I could see. Then I met a tiny creature who looked like me only smaller and in strange cloths. She fit in my palm. She gave me strange powers and with those powers, I was able to find an exit from that place. I walked through the door and somehow ended up in the Kingdom of Earth's Moon."

"The Kingdom of Earth's Moon?" her mother asked. Kanakaku nodded. "You have not been gone long enough to make the journey there and back to Pluto."

"I know," she agreed, "but I was. I spoke with Queen Selene and the others that are like me. Then I came back here to say goodbye for a while as I must train with them but I promise to come back."

"Before you leave can we see these powers you speak of," her mother asked.

Kanakaku stood and threw her hand above her head. "Pluto Space Time Power!"

As Kanakaku stood in front of her family as Sailor Pluto, the orb on her Time Staff started to glow.

"You look beautiful," her father told her.

"Interesting belt," Waizu spoke, "So many keys."

"I know not what they are all for," Kanakaku stated looking at them and lightly touching some.

There was a bright maroon flash and suddenly Kanakaku and her family were not in their home. They were standing in a cave as a woman leapt for a crystal and when she landed, she wore cloths similar to Kanakaku's warrior cloths. Then the cave began to shake around them and started too crumbled around them. The light faded and they were back in their home.

"What was that?" her mother and grandmother gasped.

"Is that what your visions always look like?" her father asked.

Kanakaku shook her head. "Never like that. The visions have always been vaguer."

"How was that not vague?"

"Shuiko, that was the warrior of Uranus," she paused. "I know she is but I am unsure how I know."

Noticing her daughter still wore the strange cloths and held the large metal staff she sighed. "You have to go back to the Kingdom of the Moon?"

"Yes Mother," she nodded. Kanakaku hugged each member of her family before creating a portal. "I will contact you as soon as I can. I will not be able to visit for a while, as is the rule. Also since I have this ability I believe not using it will be part of my training." With a final goodbye to her family, she stepped through the portal. "Please do not let me end up in someone's bath," she thought.

Kanakaku appeared back on the Moon Kingdom in her room. "I must go see Selene," she thought as her warrior cloths faded into her black toga dress. "I also need to decorate," she said aloud looking around her room.

A knock came on her door. "Lady Kanakaku," a male voice called.

"Yes," she replied opening the door.

"I am called Artemis," a white haired man bowed. "Selene would like you to meet her in the training room"

"As would I," Kanakaku told him. "I must speak with Selene."

"This way please," he gestured.

**** written Jan 2010 to July 2010

**** The part about Kanakaku appearing in Aiko's bath was not originally in the fic but added it when I was typing it up as I thought she should not have mastery over her powers only having just gotten them. Oct 2010

**** Chukia and Chuiku are the Plutonian names I made up for grandmother and grandfather

***** Cookies go to the ones who recognize things from this chapter and the first chapter that are from another Sailor Moon fanfic I wrote.

The First Senshi by DavisJes