A New Hope

Chapter six: Sailor Jupiter

When Ai woke up, she heard voices coming from the living room. She ventured out of the room that she had been placed in to see Manoko and Diana talking to two females that Ai didn't recognize.

"Ah, I see you are awake" Manoko said smiling. "I am sorry for surprising you like that"

"That's okay" Ai said. "I suppose this will take some getting used to" The woman with purple hair laughed.

"Ain't that the truth" She said. "I'm Hindo Ikuko" Ai smiled.

"Formerly, Hino Rei, right?" She asked. Ikuko nodded. Ai noticed that the girl next to Ikuko looked about her age. The girl had white blonde hair and was very beautiful. The girl brushed some hair out of her face.

"Diana tells me that the history teacher is spewing lies about my grandparents" She said casually. Ai looked at her in shock.

"grandparents!" She gasped out. "You're a royal?" The girl smiled.

"Yes. I am Rikana, the youngest member of the royal family and sole survivor and heir to the throne" She reponded. "But please, just call me Rika" Ai nodded, slowly processing this information. She turned to Diana.

"So that's how you were able to answer that problem in class" She exclaimed. "You know more than everyone at school" Diana shrugged.

"Well, i kind of learned it when I actually was your age. Anyway, we need to find the other sailor scouts, so that we can put Rika back on the throne" Rika groaned.

"What if I am not a good queen?" She asked worriedly.

"You will be" Ikuko said. "You have your mother and grandmother in you. You'll know what to do"

Eri Kamei was walking home from school, when she noticed a small cat staring at her. The cat was a yellow tabby cat with a strange marking of the sun on it's forhead. Since Eri liked cats, she walked over to the cat and reached down to pet it.

"Don't" A voice said. Eri spun around, but didn't see anyone. She turned back and the cat was gone.

"That was odd" She muttered, jogging the rest of the way home. "Mom, I'm home!" Her mother poked her head out of the kitchen.

"Great. I just took some fresh cookies out of the oven" She said. Eri grinned and snatched a handful.

"Is Onia coming over today?" Her mother asked.

"No" Eri replied. "She has to work. I'm going to go do my homework" Eri jogged up the stairs, but when she opened the door to her bedroom, the cat she had seen earlier was sitting on her bed. She blinked and stared for a moment, before cautiously entering the room and setting her back pack down. "What are you doing here?" She asked, not really expecting an answer.

"Waiting for you" The cat said. Eri spun around and knocked over a vase that was sitting on the dresser. It fell to the floor with a crash as Eri stared at the cat.

"Eri, is everything alright?" Her mother called up the stairs.

"Fine, I just tripped" Eri yelled back. She turned back to the cat.

"You have five minutes to tell me what is going on, or I will throw you out the window" She hissed. The cat sniffed a little bit.

"Well," it said airily, "If that's the way you feel, than perhaps I should come back later" He jumped off the bed, but Eri grabbed him before he got to the door.

"No you don't" She said. "Normal cat's don't talk. Who are you, and what do you want?" The cat sighed as she set him, roughly, on the bed.

"Very well. My name is Solaris and I am a sun cat" Solaris said calmly. Eri stared at him. "Yes. I am the last known survivor of the sun. I was taken into the moon palace by Queen Serenity several thouand years ago, and sent to earth when the moon was attacked. I resided with Hotaru Tomoe until Crystal Tokyo was built, then I resided in the Crystal Palace as Small Lady's chief advisor" Eri frowned.

"What are you doing here?" She asked skeptically.

"As you may know, Many of the sailor scouts died during the battle against Diamond, but not all of them died. The ones who did left thier power to a sucessor who would come forward when the time was right. Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus are helping me search for those Sailor Scouts" Solaris explained.

"Are you saying..." Eri trailed off.

"Yes Kamei Eri. You are a Sailor Scout" Solaris said. "You are Sailor Jupiter" Eri sat down on her bed, confused. A small jupiter henshin wand appeared beside her. She glanced at it for a moment, then picked it up, knowing what to do.

"Jupiter Power, Make-Up" She cried, turning into Sailor Jupiter. She looked exactly like Makoto in this form, even down to the hair in a pony tail. the only difference, was the hair color, which was blonde. Eri looked down at herself in amazement.

"I am, Sailor Jupiter" She said softly. Solaris nodded. He gave her Ikuko's adress.

"Come to this address tommorow for training" He said. "Mars and Venus will train you to use your powers effectively" Eri nodded and detransformed. After Solaris left, she sat staring at the wand for a long time. Did she really want to be a sailor scout? What would she tell her mother? What if she was killed? All these thoughts went through her mind as she struggled to concentrate on homework.

Solaris walked home whistling. five down, four to go.