Vol. 13

Chapter 49

Selina Chase-Moon

Birth: June 30th

Age: 18

Colour(s): White

Metal: Silver

God/dess: Diana

Hermione Driscoll-Mercury

Birth: September 10th

Age: 18

Colour(s): Royal Blue/Yellow

Metal: Quicksilver

God/dess: Mercury

Marcella Guerra-Mars

Birth: April 17th

Age: 18

Colour(s): Red

Metal: Iron

God/dess: Mars

In a dark cloudy day, at the college in the technician program department, a student of average height had sepia long braided into a high ponytail and wearing purple thick frame glasses covering her violet eyes. She wore a purple plaid shirt with dark blue jeans and a pair of purple converse. She has been working for hours in the computer lab testing out some programs that she was assigned to do as homework. A knock was at the door. "Jo?...Oh! There you are! The head wants to see you." said the other student.

"What for?" She asked rubbing her eyes.

"He didn't tell me."

"Well...That's good to know. I'll see you later then." Jo got up and left the lab and went to the direction of the head office of the department. She look out to one of the windows in the hall and saw how dark the sky was even thought it's during the day. "Looks like a storm is about to break out. Crap! I forgot an umbrella!" Jo continue to walk to the office not looking too happy to go out home. She knocked and entered the office. "Hello?"

"May I help you, dear?" asked the secretary.

"Yeah, I've been told that the head wanted to speak to me for some reason?"

"Oh, yes! Jovana, right? Just go in, he's expecting you." She said cheerily. Jovana went nervously in to the office until she heard a big voice burst out.

"MISS JOVANA MEALLAN! Please come in! Sit down! Relax!" Said the big man sitting behind the desk with a soft white beard and white hair.

"Yes sir!" Jovana plop her bottom on the empty chair and stared at the man while recovering from his surprise.

"That's Mr. King, to you! Now...Right! I've called you over to give you an award."

"For what?"

"For being the brightest technician student in this college. Here." Mr. King open one of his desk drawers and took out a small purple velvet box and opened it. He took out a silvery number four like ring.

"A ring?" Jovana sounded disappointed.

"It's not just any ring, this ring shows others the appreciation and the sacrifices you put into this program!"

"What does the four mean?"

"Seriously?! You don't know what it means?!"

"That's why I'm asking."

"This is the symbol for the planet Jupiter, the biggest and greatest planet in our solar system! You are Jupiter!"

"Are you calling me fat?"

"NO! I'm saying you're one of the most important students this department ever had. Please keep this ring on your finger and never take it off."

"What if..."

"No ifs! If I don't see you wearing that ring, I swear I'll strike you down with all my power!"

"Okay! Take it easy! I'll wear it!" Jovana took the ring and put it on her right middle finger. As soon as she puts it on, her body felt like she's been electrocuted on the chair then stopped a split second later.

"Jovana, are you alright?" Mr. King asked.

"Um...Yeah...Um..."

"I think you need to go home. You've been spending too many hours in front of the computer. Why don't you go home and get some rest?"

"Sure..." Jovana got up slowly and walked out the office still looking back at the chair trying to figure out where the shock came from.

"Go on." Mr. King shoo her away. Jovana did what she's been told. When she left the head office she went directly to her locker and took what she needed. When she left the college doors, a rolling sound of thunder came about but a beam of sunlight shone down to her.

Weird...Jovana thought to herself.

In the dark, cool, cave, Lady Pandora was in her quarters mesmerizing her box. "Oh my sweet box, one day you'll awaken from this slumber. For now, take in some energy from mortal's souls, the supreme bliss. Please take this to your strength." Pandora held the energy in her hands and transfer it to the box. The box opened it's lid slightly just enough to take in the energy. As it seeps in the energy, it glowed in a dark aura as if it was breathing. Pandora smiled in glee. A demon appeared before her. "What is it, messenger? I really don't want to hear any more bad news!" Pandora warn the demon.

"I see the Evil Box as started to gain it's energy." it said to Pandora with a sly smile.

"I have longed for this day to see it breathe."

"However, the depths of sleep still beckons its powers. We must find the legendary Moonstone. It must have the legendary Moonstone to awaken completely."

"But we obviously have not yet discovered its location."

"When the Seven Colour Spirits are released from Iris's Gems, the legendary Moonstone will shine." The demon waited for Pandora's reaction. She went wide eyes and seemed forgotten.

"I forgot about that! Why didn't I thought of it before! Yes! Now for sure will have that stone!"

Where am I? I'm...Selina Chase...Right? Selina was walking through a forest of silver-white trees, but in a dense fog obscuring her field of vision. Someone is calling out to me...The fog is so thick, I can't make out anything, Selina was wearing her flowing enchanting white dress as she walks on. In the distance she see a figure of a man. Who could it be?

"SELINA! Wake up! Wake up!" Luna stood by Selina's bed while yelling at her with the alarm clock sounding away. "You're going to be late!" Selina finally popped up straight in her bed when she heard the word late. In such speed, Selina managed to get dressed and eat her breakfast.

"I'm sorry, Luna. For some reason I've been having really weird dreams lately, and they're so distracting I can't concentrate much anymore."

"You know Selina, you should worry a little more about the course your life is taking."

"Worry? What's that? Aww, but I've already been waking up earlier in the morning, and..."

"What I mean is that you should be aware of the crisis we're in, and become more responsible like a real guardian soldier. For instance, that Guardian Earth guy. We don't even know who he really is yet. We should probably take care not to let him get too close." Selina stopped running around in the apartment.

"But I always seem to be running into him, it's not my fault that he pops up here and there." Selina ran out the door and slid down the railing of the stairs and swoop out of the building and ran for her life. "I'm late, I'm late." Running after her was Luna holding a brown paper bag.

"Hey, Selina! You forgot your lunch!"

"Huh? Sorry, can you bring it to school?" As Selina continues to run without looking where she's going, she ended up crossing the street on a red light. A car honk on it's horn and breaks.

"SELINA!" Screamed out Luna. Selina saw the car coming right at her.

"I got you!" Said a voice. Selina's body went up and away as if someone grabbed her like a football. When they made it to the other side of the street, Selina was placed back down on her feet. "It's dangerous to cross on a red light. Be careful!" Said the girl with a purple frame glasses. Selina was in a state of shock.

"Y-Yeah..." Wicked glasses! Selina responded as she stared at her.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes! I'm fine, that was amazing what you did there!"

"Thanks! I'll see you around than." The girl walked off. Luna caught up with Selina and saw the other girl walking on. She was starting to have doubts as her senses started to tingle.

Lady Pandora set up a meeting at her throne with her remaining commanders. "When the Seven Colour Spirits are released from Iris's Gems, the legendary Moonstone will shine." Pandora explained.

"As I recall, the Seven Colour Spirits were imprisoned by the rainbow messenger goddess Iris." Added Midas, showing his knowledge of the myth.

"The legendary mightiest warriors, the Seven Colour Spirits! Curse on Iris! She sealed the Seven Colour Spirits into the seven fragments of her rainbow which will lead you to your most desire treasure, in this case the Moonstone. Those fragments were sent to the mortal world and called Iris's Gems." She explained.

"Iris's Gems..." Midas repeated.

"And what became of the Seven Colour Spirits?" Admete asked not knowing much of the story.

"They were reincarnated as mortals with no memory of their true nature." He explained.

"I see. If we remove Iris's Gems from the bodies of the mortals, we will gain the Moonstone." acknowledged Admete.

"And our mightiest warriors, the Seven Colour Spirits, will return to us as well." Pandora opened the Evil Box and pulled out the Medieval Sunstone and passed it along to Admete. "I have modified it to respond only to Iris's Gems." Pandora added.

"Thank you." Admete looked upon the stone and threw into the air. "Samos!" She yelled out. The stone reacted at her summons and projected an image of a man in street clothes. "This man holds one of Iris's Gems."

During lunch break at the college, a few of the students run to get the best spots in the parkette to eat their lunch. "Hurry! We'll lose our place!" they yelled out.

"Lunchtime! My tummy is singing..." Selina was walking to her usual spot to eat her lunch until she caught a glimpse of the girl. It's the girl with the purple frames. Selina continue to check up on her quietly trying not to get notice. Out of no where, Manny pops up in front of her.

"Selina!" Manny called out with such a loud voice. Selina jumped up in surprise, she then grabbed him by the collar and dragged him behind a tree.

"Don't pop out of nowhere! You moron!" Selina warned him.

"That girl was transferred into the Technician Program today. Her name is Jovana Meallan. She's very smart and strong. It's rumored that she left her old college because she's too advance for their programs. You should try to avoid her if you don't want to feel like a dummy, Selina, she's a walking ego...huh?" Manny realized he wasn't speaking to her anymore but instead to the tree. He then found her going up to Jovana. "Selina!" He called out to her, but she didn't listen. Selina hid behind a bush that's behind Jovana, and looked over her shoulder.

Wow! Look at that tablet! Even the her laptop looks so hi-tech! What game is she playing? Oh, I wonder if I can give it a try? Selina thought to herself. Jovana turned with a awareness in her eyes.

"Who's there?" She yelled out. She then saw Selina laughing at herself covering up whatever she was doing.

"Hello!" Selina greeted.

"It's you from this morning. You're in this college, too?"

"I'm Selina Chase." Jovana moved over and patted the ground.

"Why don't you sit down?"

"Sure!" Selina excitedly sat down beside Jovana. "I want to thank you again for saving me." Jovana saw that Selina was staring at her electronic devices.

"Would you like to try them out?" she asked.

"Oh, I never have much knowledge on these things, but...Thank you!" Selina was looking through Jovana's tablet and learning how to use one. "This is cool!"

"I'm glad you're here. Somehow, everyone at this college is distant and won't speak to me." Jovana explained.

"Say, Jo...Oh, sorry, can I call you Jo?"

"Sure."

"You must be real rich to have these gadgets."

"To tell you the truth, I live on my own and I'm new in this area. I actually bought old laptops and tablets and upgrade them by doing a few adjustments." Selina stopped playing with the tablet.

"Huh? Amazing! How do you do it? Maybe it's easier if you can fix all my electronics instead of me paying some guy to do it." Manny was still watching the ladies chat away.

"Selina is a genius at making friends." He said to himself.

"Oh yeah! I'm looking for a good cafe to do some work on my laptop." Selina lit light bulb.

"Oh! I can introduce you to a really good cafe in that case!" The two after classes went to walk to the Arcade Cafe. "Say, Jo, what's that ring for? I can't make out what the shape is." Selina pointed out the ring Jovana was wearing.

"Oh, this was giving to me by my old professor from my last college. He told me never to take it off."

"That's weird to say." the two entered inside the cafe and Selina went off searching. "Huh? Is Wilbur off today?"

"Who's Wilbur? Ah, let me guess...Your brother?" Jovana asked. Selina felt like she was hit by a train.

"No, no, Wilbur is..." Selina was about say something when she saw Jovana playing on one of the arcade games in the cafe. "Hey!" Selina sat beside Jovana and watched her play the game.

"Selina, I knew you'd be here." Said Hermione as she walked in with Luna and Marcella.

"What's up?" Selina got up and went up to them.

"Luna here is worried by that girl." Hermione explained as she explained. Selina turned around and looked at Jovana.

"That girl? Jo?" Selina clarify.

"Yes, her." Luna confirm.

"Your overreacting, Luna." Selina said.

"Wow! She's really good at that game, seeing she made it to the top level..." Hermione mentioned. Then Jo's avatar dies.

"Damn it! I died!" Jovana screamed at the machine.

"Jo." Selina called out.

"What is it?"

"I'd like to introduce you to my friends. This is Jovana Meallan, she just transferred to our college today." Said Selina.

"Pleased to meet you." Jovana greeted.

"Pleased to meet you." Said back Hermione, Marcella and Luna.

"And they are the rich Hermione, the bossy Luna and the grouchy Marcella." Selina continue.

"Who's grouchy?" Marcella asked.

"Marcy." Selina answered.

"I didn't hear that. Who?"

"Marcy!"

"What year, what day, what hour, what minute and what second was I grouchy?"

"Just now!"

"You're good friends, I can tell." Jovana interrupted with a smile.

"What? No way!" Selina shouted.

"We fight and get at each others throats everytime we meet." Marcella added.

"Whose fault is it?" Selina continue.

"Yours!"

"The more you fight, the closer you are." Jovana added. The two stopped. Hermione and Luna giggled at her comment.

"She's got them on that." Said Hermione.

"Ohh! Pretty necklace!" Jovana went up to Luna.

"Oh, that's my golden crescent moon pendent. By the way, I'm Selina's and Hermione's landlord."

"It's amazing." All the ladies turned around and see what the crowd is going on about.

"What's going on?" Selina wondered. A crowd of people surrounded this man wearing street clothing while he is playing a crane game. His prize came out of the machine, he took the toy and put it in the almost full bag of stuff toys. He put in another quarter and started operating. The claw went down and opened up to grab a toy. Just before it got to the toy, he took out his other hand and placed on the glass case. Two toys went up to the claw and transfer to the hole.

"Wow! He's good!" Selina commented. The man grabbed his prizes.

"Oh, Selina." said a classmate.

"Oh, hey." Said Selina.

"Did you see that?"

"I did."

"He's Crane Master Warren."

"Crane Master?"

"He's a genius at the crane game. Any arcade he visits loses every single doll they have."

"Cool, isn't he, Jo?...Huh..." Selina looked up to Jovana and saw her daydream.

"He's exactly like him..." Jovana said.

"Jo?"

Man...Jovana was in la-la land.

"Hello? Jo? Jo! Hey! What's wrong with her?" Selina was trying to get Jovana's attention. Warren left the cafe with a bag full of small stuff toys. As he was walking in the streets a shadow followed him. He went to a skate park and hopped over a fence. When he landed he almost lost his but regained his hold though he dropped a toy or two. He picked them up and continue walking, but before he can go any further a tornado of flower petals took form in front of him. It then vanish leaving behind a armored woman, Admete.

"I found you." she said. Warren was scared by her appearance.

"What's this about?" He demanded.

"It will only take a moment." Admete released the Medieval Sunstone and activated. The stone shone a ray of light and lay it upon the man. Warren screamed in pain. His chest formed a hole and a red gem appeared. Admete stood there with a smile.

"STOP!" He screamed out.