A New Hope
Chapter five: Sailor Mercury
Ai Takeme was entering the school when she bumped into a girl with greyish white hair and silver eyes. The girl seemed slightly startled, then smiled.
"Konnichiwa" She said brightly.
"Konnichiwa" Ai replied. The girl held out a hand.
"I'm Aiedo Diana" She introduced herself. Ai took the hand and shook it.
"Please to meet you" She said. "My name is Takeme Ai. Are you new here?" Diana nodded.
"Yes. I just moved from Emerald town" She said. Ai nodded. She thought the names of certain towns and cities were stupid, but she wasn't sure if the new girl was a Diamond supporter. She shifted her books.
"Is it nice there?" She asked. Diana wrinkled her nose.
"Everything is green" She replied. Ai laughed, but it was forced.
"What the king wants, he gets" She said. Diana made a face. Ai had a feeling that she and Diana would be good friends.
(A/N: I know this may seem odd to you, so I will post a map of Crystal Tokyo on my profile page. Crystal Tokyo is the country, Queen Serenity brought the whole world together after the great sleep and encased it in crystal. When Diamond took over, he kept the name of the country, but changed the names of towns and cities to things like Emerald Town, Sapphire Village, etc)
Ai and Diana entered the school building together.
"Miss Takeme, please come up here and demonstrate how to do the problem on the board" Mrs. Amaterasu said sternly. Ai looked up from her drawing.
"Wh..what?" She stuttered. The other students laughed as the teacher made her way to Ai's desk.
"My classroom is not an art room, Miss Takeme" She said looking down at the picture. She picked it up and frowned. "Sailor Mercury, I presume" Ai sunk down into her seat.
"Yes Ma'am" She whispered. Mrs. Amaterasu frowned.
"Miss Takeme, I will give you one warning. There will be no sailor scout paraphernalia in this school. Do you understand?" She asked.
"Yes Mrs. Amaterasu" Ai said in a soft voice.
"Good" The teacher walked back to the front of the room, taking Ai's picture with her. Ai watched her throw it in the trash and then turn back to the class. "Now, perhaps our new student can tell us the answer to this problem" Diana looked at the problem on the board. x^2-10x+y^2-20y=-125 what is x+y. As the teacher waited for Diana to come up and figure out the problem, Diana already knew the answer.
"15" She said quietly, without working out the problem. Everyone stared at her.
"How did you do that in your head?" One boy asked, incredously. Diana shrugged.
"I've always been good at math" She replied, adding in her mind I am also over 700 years old. Mrs. Amaterasu smiled.
"Diana, would you like to join the mathletes?" She asked. "They could use a teammate like you" Diana shrugged.
"Sure, why not" She said, nonchalantly. The teacher smiled.
"excellent. The mathletes meet ever Wednsday and Friday at 3:00" She instructed. Diana nodded and Mrs. Amaterasu continued teaching. Diana got every math problem right. It was in Diana's history class that things started getting rough.
"Today we will talk about the history of Crystal Tokyo and how it came to be" The teacher Mr. Yamaquchi said.
"This should be interesting" Diana muttered under her breath, curious to know what history was being taught.
"As you all know, Earth used to be split into several different countries and provinces" Mr. Yamaquchi said, putting up a very old map. He took out a long pointer. "As you can see, we had places such as America, England and Israel. Different countries were often at war with each other" He showed a slideshow of wars being fought. A girl in the back raised her hand.
"Why were the countries fighting?" She asked. Mr. Yamaquchi smiled.
"That is an excellent question Saki" He said. "The wars were fought for many reasons, freedom, oil, power, etc. But then out of no where came several teenagers that called themselves the Sailor Scouts. they battled monsters on a daily basis, but one day it happened. The great sleep"
"How long were they asleep for?" One student asked.
"100 years" The teacher replied. "When everyone woke up, they found that the earth was one country, and that everything was encased in crystal. A huge crystal palace had been built. The leader of the Sailor scouts told them that it was time to reign in peace and that she would be a kind fair ruler with her husband by her side. She explained that many years ago, in another life, earth had been one kingdom, and that her husband was the rightful ruler of Earth. Some believed her, some did not" He put another picture on the slide. It was a picture of King Diamond.
"King Diamond and many others did not believe that Queen Serenity and King Endymione should rule Crystal Tokyo. The King and Queen were horrible rulers and unfair to everyone. The Queen had a magic like no other, and it frightened the people. For 300 years, they ruled, but finally Diamond was able to take the throne from thier clutches and set everything right" Mr. Yamaquchi concluded. Diana frowned, but didn't say anything. She couldn't let it get out that she was from that time era. Ai raised her hand.
"I've always heard that King Endymione and Queen Serenity were kind and fair rulers and that everyone loved them" She protested. "No one wanted Diamond to take the throne" Mr. Yamaquchi's smile dropped and he glared at the younger girl.
"I believe I am the teacher Miss Takeme" he said coldly. "I shall conduct the history lesson" Ai frowned, but said nothing more. After class, Ai met up with Diana.
"He's lying, he has to be" She said softly.
"He is" Diana said. "But maybe it's not his fault. Perhaps King Diamond wants people to see it that way and is going to make sure that all the children think that Serenity and her family were the evil ones" Ai shrugged.
"I hate going to school and hearing bad things about the Queen. She was kind and gentle, I just know she was" Ai said.
"How do you know?" Diana asked. Ai looked around to see if anyone was listening. She leaned closer.
"I've been dreaming about her" She whispered. Diana stared at Ai in surprise.
"You have?" She asked, blinking. Ai nodded.
"She keeps asking me for help. I don't know what she means, but she told me that I needed to fulfill my destiny" She sighed. "Sometimes I think, it's only a dream, but other times it seems to real to be a dream" Diana nodded thoughtfully. As she was thinking, she walked out into the street, not seeing the oncoming car.
"Look out!" Ai shouted. Ai rushed into the street and pulled Diana out of the oncoming traffic. Diana turned and saw the mercury symbol on Ai's forhead. She gasped.
"Ai I need you to come to my house" She said quickly. Ai nodded confused and allowed Diana to drag her home.
Manoko was washing dishes when Diana pulled Ai into the kitchen, the symbol still on her forhead. Manoko turned to greet them and stopped when she saw Ai. The dish she was holding fell to the ground.
"What's going on?" Ai asked, and Manoko continued to stare at her. Manoko shook her head.
"I'll be right back" She said quietly. She went into her bedroom and rummaged through her scout drawer until she retrieved Ami's henshin wand. She sighed, realizing that this meant that Ami had not survived the battle. She returned to the kitchen and handed the wand to Ai.
"Why are you giving me this?" Ai asked. "What is it?"
"It is the Mercury Henshin wand" Manoko told her. "Say the words. you know what they are"
"Mercury Power, make-up" Ai said nervously. She transformed into sailor Mercury, but her hair was shoulder length and brown, instead of blue. Ai looked down at herself in awe. "I am Sailor Mercury" She whispered. Diana nodded and promptly turned into a grey cat with a moon on her forhead.
"You're a moon cat?" Ai asked in disbelief. Diana nodded. "But then who..." She turned to Manoko.
"Sailor Venus, at your service" The woman bowed. they all laughed.
"Is this really happening?" Ai asked.
"Yes" Manoko replied. "You must tell no one about this though. Ikuko will want to meet you"
"who's Ikuko?" Ai asked.
"Sailor Mars. Ikuko, Rika and I have had to change our identities many times. Incase you haven't figured it out, we are the original sailor scouts" Manoko told her. Ai's eyes widened and she promptly fainted. Diana giggled and Manoko sighed.
"Perhaps that was a bit much" She said, staring down at the unconcious Sailor Mercury. "Let's take her to the guest room"