A New Hope
Chapter four: Plans
Manoko pulled up in front of the adress that Ikuko had given her. Diana, in her human form, sat in the passenger seat.
"Are you nervous?" Manoko asked the grey haired girl. Diana shook her head, then paused.
"Maybe a little" She admitted. "I haven't seen Rei-chan in years" Manoko smiled.
"Let's go" Manoko and Diana got out of the car and hurried up the walk to the house. Manoko rapped on the door three times. A second later the door was opened by a young teenager. She had white-blonde hair and red eyes. Her hair was in pigtail braids.
"Hi" She said cheerfully. "Are you here to see Iku-chan?"
"Yes" Manoko replied. The girl smiled and led them into the living room. Ikuko was seated on a couch, a cat perched on her lap. Tears filled Diana's eyes.
"Solaris" She whispered. The yellow cat looked up.
"Diana" He said in surprise. He jumped off of Ikuko's lap and transformed into his human body. Solaris had golden hair like the sun and looked to be about 19, while Diana's appearence was that of 17. Diana and Solaris embraced.
"I thought you were dead?" Diana cried. Ikuko smiled and stood up.
"I am very glad to see you Diana" She said softly. "It is nice to know that there are other survivors."
"Iku-chan, what is going on?" Rika asked.
"Rika, I would like you to meet Manoko, formerly known as Aino Minako" Ikuko said softly. Rika's eyes widened and she smiled brightly.
"I am very pleased to meet another Sailor Scout" She said softly. Manoko blinked.
"Ikuko, is this Princess Rikana?" She asked. Ikuko nodded.
"You mean the royal family isn't completely wiped out?" Diana asked, pulling away from Solaris. Rika shook her head.
"My mother convinced Ikuko to leave the palace and take me with her. That is the only reason we are still alive" She replied. "Ikuko says we need to find the new senshi so that we can take Diamond down and reclaim the kingdom"
"Ikuko is right" Manoko said. "It is imparitive that we find out who we need to find and who else survived the battle against Crystal Tokyo" She sat down on the couch.
"Our best bet is the schools. We were all teenagers when we were found" Ikuko said. Diana nodded.
"I can go to Diamond high school" She suggested.
"Good idea. Perhaps you and Solaris can scout together" Rika suggested. "It's been 390 years since I last went to school, perhaps I could enroll at Diamond High, and Solaris and Diana could scout out the junior high"
"So it's settled. We start searching tommorow" Ikuko said firmly. Manoko smiled.
"Perfect. Diamond won't know what hit him until it is too late" She turned to Rika. "By the way, your grandmother's outfit was blue and red and your mother's was pink and red. What is yours?" Rika grinned.
"Moon crystal power, make-up" She cried. Manoko stared at the new Sailor Moon. Her skirt was a dark pink color, and her bows were light pink. Her hair grew out into the odango hairstyle. Her boots were red with pink rims and her gloves had three colors instead of one. It was red, blue and pink. Her collar was red as well.
"Wow" Manoko said. "It's a combination of your mother and grandmother" Rika smiled.
"I know. It's cool" She said. She detransformed. "well, we'd better get ready for tommorow"
A/N: the link to her outfit is on my profile page.
I have put links to the pictures of all of the scouts talked about so far, on my profile pagr. I don't know how to do solaris, if Anyone is interested in creating Solaris cat form and human form and sending me the link for my profile. I will credit the Artist when I post it. I am also in need of Diana in human form.