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Chapter 12: Jupiter and the Crystals

Usagi was walking to school one day. IT was a somewhat normal day. As she walked to school she turned the corner and saw some thugs.. she slowly walked backwards deciding to avoid them as best as possible.

However as she backed away she bumped in someone. It was one of the thugs and it was clear he did a flop.

"You injured me!" yelled the thug that fell.

"Thus isn't good." Thought Usagi.

"You broke one of my bones!" yelled the though who fell.

Usagi stared at the thug…

She sighed and put her hands up.

"I'm just a junior high school girl!" she said.

"Like we buy that." Said one of the thugs.

Usagi just sighed… she needed to figure out something fast.

Thankfully she didn't need a plan as a girl her agree who was rather tall with brown hair put into a pony tail showed up.

"You really think she's at fault?" asked the girl.

Usagi's eye widened as she could at the girl.

She sensed it… who this girl was.

She watched at the girl fought off the thugs very easily.

"Thank you…" said Usagi.

"Take care." Said the girl who ran off.

Usagi sighed hoping she would be able to find the girl again.

But she knew she had to tell the others.

That day at lunch she told Naru and Ami since they were the only ones who went to the same school.

"Wait you found her?" asked Ami.

"I did but I wasn't able to ask her anything." Said Usagi.

"So did you just bump into her." Said Naru.

"No I bumped into some thugs… who tried to extort me or worse…" said Usagi.

"Even with what happened your luck is so weird." Said Naru.

"Yeah…" sighed Usagi.

That was when she stopped.

She saw the girl who saved her.

"She's here." She said.

"Wait is that her?" asked Naru.

Usagi nodded.

They were about to approach her.

"Wait!" called out Umino.

They looked towards the nerdy boy.

"What is it?" asked Usagi.

"She's the new transfer student Makoto Kino… word is that the reason why she's here is because she got into really bad fights in her old school." Said Umino.

"Did she start them or was she blamed?" asked Usagi.

Umino didn't answer.

"Yeah… so you're just assuming things." Said Usagi.

They ignore him and walked over to the girl named Makoto.

"Excuse me." Said Usagi.

Makoto jumped then noticed it was Usagi along with her friends.

"Oh it's you from earlier." Said Makoto.

"Yep!" said Usagi, "I was even telling my friends about what happened this morning."

"Oh really?" asked Makoto.

"Thank you again." Said Usagi.

"No problem." Said Makoto.

She then held up her bento.

"Would you like some?" she asked, "I always make so much."

"Oh thank you." Said Usagi taking a season onigiri.

However Naru noticed something.

"Um… why are you wearing your old unform." Said Naru.

"They didn't have one in my size." Aid Makoto blushing a little.

She briefly stood up to show off how tall she was.

"That makes way too much sense now." Said Naru.

Makoto laughed and it was clear that the girls were quickly becoming friends.

Meanwhile in the Dark Kingdom Queen Beryl had brought in Zoisite and Kunzite to explain about something they needed to find… the Rainbow Crystals.

The crystals that Neo Queen Serenity needed to find to turn back to normal.

Not that they knew this fact.

But rather to them they were crystal that were not only needed to restore the Silver crystal but also unleashed the 7 Great Youma. The most powerful Youma there were . They were sealed away in the Rainbow Crystals that were reborn into human unaware of what they were in a past life .

That if they removed the Rainbow Crystal, they would turn back into the Great Youma

Thankfully Queen Beryl modified the Black Crystal, Zoisite had stolen it from Nephrite when he tried to kill him.

Zoisite decided to try and see if he could really use it.

IT created an image of a young man wearing a baseball hat and glasses.

"So he is the first target." said Zoisite.

Sometime later Usagi, Naru, Ami and Makoto arrived at the arcade where they would meet up with Rei, Minako, Luna and Artemis.

"Thanks for showing me." said Makoto who did want to know where the arcade was.

"No problem." Said Usagi.

They looked around.

"Oh good you're already here!" called out Minako holding onto Artemis.

"Hey! You're here." Said Usagi.

"Yeah." Said Rei, "You need to talk about something?"

Luna looked at Makoto .

Usagi looked at Luna and nodded and she realized it .

She was the last one they were looking for.

"No way!" yelled someone in a crowd that gathering.

Naru and Usagi noticed some of their classmates among the group.

As it turned there was someone playing the UFO catcher.

They watched as he easily grabbed a couple of the stuffed toys.

However that was when Usagi heard a beeping.

She paled as she summoned the moon stick, she saw that a jewel on it was flashing.

She looked at him playing the UFO catcher again he placed his hand on the machine and the toys hover in the air.

Her eyes widened even more.

She knew what this meant…

It was time… and he was the first holder.

She overheard her classmates telling Naru about him, he was known as Game Machine Jo.

He apparently wins any toy he wants.

And Usagi put tougher all of the pieces.

She then looked at Makoto who was blushing and seemed to be smitten .

She stared at Makoto and sweated dropped.

Naru noticed both of their faces.

"What's wrong?" asked Naru.

"That's going to be a thing." She sighed.

"I'll explain later." She whispered.

Naru nodded.

Of course Jo ended up leaving and Makoto followed him subtly.

Usagi knew she had to tell the others the basics of what was going on knowing it was.

better to leave a long conversation for another time.

"Are you sure he's going to be a target?" asked Rei.

"I can't explain everything right now but they know about the Rainbow Crystals and are now going after them." Said Usagi.

"You mentioned them before,.." said Naru.

Usagi nodded.

"Can we even find him?" asked Rei.

Usagi nodded.

"I just need to get close to him." Said Usagi, "But it won't alert me until I'm close enough."

"We should slip and contact Jed and Masato." Said Naru.

They all nodded.

They split up with Luna joining Usagi.

"So it's time to find the Rainbow Crystals." Sighed Luna.

"it is…" said Usagi, "I only know where two are… but I can't go after them yet…"

Luna nodded knowing they would need to fetched in a certain order.

"Wait… 2." She realized.

She knew about the first.

"Oh he transferred into school recently and I saw him close enough I can sense it without the moon stick." Said Usagi.

"Oh that's relief." Said Luna.

Usagi nodded in agreement.

Still they had to find Jo.

And that was when she heard the beeping once again.

She took out the wand and they started to follow it.

The beeping got faster they found a café where Jo was talking to Makoto.

Usagi noticed he was showing her how he cheated in the game.

"I guess I wait." Said Usagi.

However before more could be said they saw Zoisite show up.

Usagi got ready to do something as the window exploded in the chaos.

"Hey!" called out Usagi.

"what"! yelled Jo, "Oh you're friends with that weird tall girl! Aren't you?'

"What?" asked Usagi.

'Look just tell her I'm not interested!" he yelled.

He then ran off.

'What?" asked Usagi just confused by everything.

She decided to check on Makoto just in case.

"Are you okay?" asked Usagi.

'He… must pay…" she growled out.

She then ran out of the café.

"We are missing so much." Said Luna with a sweat drop.

"Yeah but we have to get the crystal before he does." Said Usagi.

Luna nodded.

They ran to catch up with Usagi removing her disguise.

However when she got there she found it was too late as Jo was now a Youma and Zoisite was smiling evilly holding a red crystal.

"so you're here to see what happens." Said Zoisite, "Get rid of her and…"

"Starlight Attack!" called out a voice.

Nephrite had showed up along with Sailor Sun.

'You're alive!" yelled Zoisite, "How!"

"I had a way to save me." Said Nephrite.

"and you joined them." Muttered Zoisite.

"You literally tried to kill me!" yelled Nephrite.

Zoisite blinked.

'Touché." Said Zoisite.

Zoisite created a some crystals and launched them at Nephrite who dodged.

Sailor Sun joined Neo Queen Serenity.

"You ready?" asked Neo Queen serenity.

Sailor Sun nodded… ready for a fight.. .

However…

"I have no idea what to do." Said Sailor Sun.

And Neo Queen Serenity realized… that she had no idea what her attacks were.

"Uh-oh." Said Neo Queen Serenity.

That was when the Youma created a claw like a UFO catcher and threw it at them and the two of them dodged.

However thankfully Makoto who had seen everything showed up and grabbed the Youma and held him int other air showing indeed the mark of Jupiter on her.

Luna knew this was already the case but knew she had to give her the wand.

After Makoto tossed the Youma away.

"Makoto!" she called out.

"Wait… what.' Said Makoto.

"I'll explain everything later." Sighed Luna, "But please! Take this and called out Jupiter Power! Make-Up!"

Makoto nodded and did so.

With a flash of electricity she transformed into a Sailor Senshi. Her collar, skirt, pipping choker and shoes which took the form of boots were green while both ribbons were pink.

"no way…" said Makoto or rather Sailor Jupiter/.

The Youma then created another UFO catcher claw and managed to catch Neo Queen Serenity.

That when both Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Sun sensed something.

"bright ray!" called out Sailor Sun.

She summoned a very bright ray of light.

"Supreme Thunder!" called out Sailor Jupiter.

The two attack his the Youma injuring him.

"You okay?" asked Sailor Jupiter.

"I got this." Said Neo Queen Serenity.

She held the Moon Stick tightly.

"Moon Healing Escalation!" called out Neo Queen Serenity.

The light hit the Youma who shouted "Refresh" and turned back human.

Zoisite saw this part (though thankfully missed Makoto's transform).

"Great…" he muttered, "I should go then."

He then disappeared in a flurry of cherry blossoms.

"I'm sorry I couldn't get that crystal." Said Nephrite.

"It's fine… there are six more and the truth is I just need just 1 once all are found." Said Nero Queen Serenity.

'Um… "said Sailor Jupiter, "What's going on exactly?"

"Oh right…" said Neo Queen Serenity.

And so they explained things to her and about everything…

So it was somewhat awkward when Neo Queen Serenity did call the others to tell them that she forgot to contact them.

Though thankfully a meeting would be set up soon to talk things out. And explain the Rainbow Crystals.

Though the next day things got awkward when they went back to the arcade.

Though it kind of got awkward when Makoto gained a crush on Motoki.

Though Usagi couldn't blame her in that case as she did have a crush on point…

Still all of the Senshi were found and they were almost on set for Usagi to return to normal… hopefully there would be too many problems as they searched for the Crystals…

Next Time: Usagi has to explain the Rainbow Crystals to the others... also what about the second Rainbow crystal holder will they be able to find them in time or will they have to fight the Youma? Find out next time!