Hi!!! Here’s the next chapter in my story. Now we get some questions
answered, like what is the energy source in London? For those of you
who are familiar with the Japanese episode of Sailor Moon, where Mina’s
friend Katerina makes an appearance, this story assumes the events in
that episode never took place.
Usual disclaimers apply.
Enjoy!!
Legend of the Excaliber: Chapter 3 - Sailor Scouts in London
Serena woke up earlier then usual. She wanted to get a head
start on packing a suit case for her trip to London. By the time she
was finished, it was close to 12:00 p.m. She went downstairs to talk
to her family, "Mom, Dad, Sammy, I need to tell you something."
Ellen immediately went into panic mode, "Was is Serena? Is
their something wrong?"
"Actually, Mom, I and the rest of the Scouts don’t know yet.
Let me start from the beginning. At last night’s scout meeting, Amy
detected some energy signature that recently appeared in London,
England."
Luna cut in at this point, "We don’t know if it’s the
Negaverse or not, but the point is, the scouts, myself, and Artemis,
need to go to London to investigate. This will be the Scouts’ first
out of the country assignment, and we don’t know how long we’ll be
gone. It could be hours, or even days."
Ken spoke up, "How will you get there? We don’t have enough
money to get you anywhere near London."
"The same way we got to the North Pole, off an alien ship, and
in to a dark crystal. By Sailor Teleportation," was Serena’s reply.
"When do you leave for London," asked Serena’s Mom.
"As soon as I get to Ray’s. I packed enough clothes for a few
days," Serena said.
"You be careful klutzoid," was Sammy’s teasing remark.
"Hay, I take that as an insult," Serena said, "I mean, I
haven’t kluzed out in, what, a year. I got to get going, bye Mom,
Dad, Sammy."
With that, Serena was out the door with suitcase, and Luna in
hand, but not before her family shouted, "TAKE CARE."
Serena was the last to arrive at the temple. All the Inners,
Outer, and Darien were already waiting for her, and Ray couldn’t
resist her favorite past time with Serena, "So, the Meatball head
finally showed up. What took you so long anyway, oh fearless leader?"
As usual, the predicted occurred, "Wahhhhhhhh!!!! Why are you
always so mean to me Ray," quickly recovers, "For your information, I
had to tell my family where I was going."
Nobody replied to that, they were too shocked at how fast
Serena recovered from Ray’s ranting. Usually, she recovers at a
slower rate. Luna spoke up, "We don’t have time to talk this out.
Sailor Scouts transform yourselves."
"GOTCH YA," was the reply from everyone before they called
their transformations.
"MOON CRYSTAL POWER."
"MERCURY STAR POWER."
"MARS STAR POWER."
"JUPITER STAR POWER."
"VENUS STAR POWER."
"URANUS PLANET POWER."
"NEPTUNE PLANET POWER."
"PLUTO PLANET POWER."
"SATURN PLANET POWER."
Darien takes out a rose.
"EARTH STAR POWER."
All together, "SCOUT POWER."
After the Sailor Scouts’ usual light show, they got in to a
circle to prepare for teleportation, with Tuxedo Mask in the Center.
Just off the Temple grounds, Rachel and Mark were starting to climb
the steps. They decided they needed a day to just relax, and they
heard the Cherry Hill Temple was the quietest place in town. Just as
they went around a corner of the temple building, they saw the both
the inner and outer scouts, in a circle with Prince Darien in the
middle, just before they shouted, "SAILOR TELEPORT," and disappeared
into thin air.
Rachel took out her communicator to the ship and pressed the
hailing button. The Captain’s face came up on the screen before
Rachel said, "Captain, we just witnessed a Sailor Teleport. Can you
track it with the sensors?"
"We’re already tracking it. The teleport set off some alarms
here and we decided to investigate it. It appears the destination is
the far side of the planet. Also, sensors detect the Silver Crystal
in transit with them."
"WHAT!?!?"
Mark’s only reply was, "Well now we know who has it. One of
the Sailor Scouts."
Rachel ordered, "Captain, keep me advised of any other
teleports. Princess Rachel out." She signed off her communicator,
and turned to her husband, "I seriously dought they’ll be there
permanently." Mark only agreed and decided to go some where else for
the day.
London had a late night sky line to it. Although it was early
afternoon in Tokyo, in London the sun had just gone down for the
night. In a London park, all was quiet, until a bright flash of light
signaled the arrival of the Sailor Scouts. After they looked around
and saw no one, they all powered down, and began to take action. Luna
and Artemis, who took the ride on Serena’s, and Mina’s shoulders,
hopped down and Luna said, "Ok, we need to split up into several
groups. Amy, I want you to go with Lita, and see what your computer
can pick up. Try to find that energy source and report in when you
do. Mina, cause of your contacts, I want you and Artemis to check
with them, and find out what’s been going on around here. Ray, I want
you, Hotaru, and Setsuna to look around for the source also. Use your
senses to track that source down. Haruka and Michiru, I want you to
do the same. If my memory serves me right you, Sailor Neptune, you
have a mirror to help you in matters similar to Ray’s, Amy’s, and
Molly’s methods as well," at Neptune’s nod, while holding her aqua
mirror, Luna concluded, "Serena. I want you, Molly, Darien, and
myself to look around for any Negaverse activity. We can use Molly’s
abilities to locate any." At this, every one split up and did their
assigned tasks, but not before Luna told them to meet back at the park
by sunrise.
Mina arrived at a police station she was quite familiar with.
It was the Station her friend Katerina worked at, when she left. she
stood there for several minutes before Artemis said, "Mina, you got to
go in their sometime tonight."
"I know Artemis. I’m just Nervous. I haven’t seen Katerina
in over 2 years Artemis. What am I suppose to say to someone who most
likely thinks I’ve been dead all this time," Mina replied. Finally,
she summoned up the courage to walk in to the station. After several
minutes of trying to get an officer’s attention, she found out
Katerina was on rounds in the park. So she ran out and made for the
park as fast as she could. Little did she know that she and Artemis
were followed the entire way by a figure.
This figure looked at Mina and went wide eyed, "Is that
Princess Mina of Venus. If she’s here, so is my sister here?' The
figure wasted no time and ran behind Mina all the way to the park.
Serena, Molly, Darien, and Luna were scouring the town in the
downtown district. They had been at it for about an hour now, and
found nothing out of the ordinary. Molly decided to brake the
silence, "Boy, that was interesting, going though a teleport."
"Ya, it was quite a rush huh, Molly," was Serena’s reply
before she continued, "Well, that was my 1.....2......3.......4th
teleport since becoming Sailor Moon."
"Serena your forgetting the return trip from the North Pole,
despite the fact you went off course, which makes 5 teleports," was
Darien’s reply.
Luna spoke up, "We’re not getting anything here. Let’s check
the next block." Everyone agreed and continued, totally clue less
that they were being watch from the air by what looked like a Falcon,
but it couldn’t be seen in the night sky, but it could see them.
This falcon was a golden Falcon with healthy looking wings,
but the most striking feature on it was the symbol on its forehead,
the symbol of the sun, "My charge will be interested to know about
this." With that, the falcon flew toward the park.
At the park, Mina, and Artemis have been searching for
Katerina for only a few minutes, and this park was big. "Artemis, do
you have any idea where Katerina might be? I mean, this is a big park
you know. Heck, it’s bigger then Tokyo park."
"I don’t know Mina. I’m not her patrol organizer, but at best
guess I’d say......" A scream in the night interrupted Artemis
"Oh, crud," Mina said, "I know that scream any where. That’s
Katerina." Mina got her communicator, "This is Mina to all Sailor
Scouts. Possible Youma attack in London Park, near the north
entrance. Get here fast." Mina signed off, and was about to
transform into Sailor Venus when an idea came to her mind, "Heck, why
not. MOON POWER TRANSFORM!!" In a flash of light, and ribbons, Mina
transformed into Sailor V, and took off to where the screams came
from.
Both Katerina and Alan were running from a nega monster, that
was bent on taking their energy. They had been running for several
minutes now and were beginning to tire. finally, they tripped over
tree root and fell down to the ground, and scrapped their legs. They
turned to see the Youma, standing over them, ready to strike.
Katerina took out her pistol, and fired off a few rounds, but they
didn’t do much good. Before the Youma could attack and finish them
off, someone shouted, "CRESCENT BEAM," An energy beam slammed into
the youma and threw him back only a few feet. Katerina and Alan
turned around to see the one person they thought they’d never see
again, Sailor V, "Back off fashion freak, or your going to get
dusted." This only enraged the Youma and he sent a number of attack,
as did Sailor V. Finally, the Youma fired an attack that sent Sailor
V flying backwards, and she landed right in front of Alan and
Katerina.
"Mina, how....," Katerina was interrupted.
"No time to explain. To make it short, I got out before the
building blew," was Mina’s reply
"Well to make my speech short, that thing is too strong for
you, my bullets didn’t even dent him,' Katerina warned.
"In that case, VENUS STAR POWER," in another light show,
Sailor V transformed into Sailor Venus, "I’m Sailor Venus and if your
looking for trouble, here it comes right back at ya. VENUS LOVE CHAIN
ENCIRCLE." Venus sent her attack and it wrapped around the youma,
before she pulled on it and he went falling to the ground. Right
after that, a few voices shouted;
"JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP."
"MERCURY ICE STORM SPLASH."
"TORNADO STORM BLAST."
"MOON SCEPTER ELIMINATION."
These four attacks and a rose, hit the youma full force. It
fell down, after it got up, but quickly recovered and fired an attack
that encased everyone in a dark force field. The Youma was about to
go for the kill when someone else shouted, "SOLAR FLARE." A very
bright light of energy hit the youma, and that ruined its
concentration, breaking the force field. Every one turned to see a
someone wearing bright yellow jump pants, a white shirt with bright
yellow sleeves, and was also wearing a headband, the mystery person
spoke and was definitely a male about the scouts’ age, "I’m Sailor
Sol, and I don’t like Youmas like you disrupting my neighborhood."
Additional voices rang into the night;
"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND."
"WORLD SHAKING."
"DEEP SUBMERGE."
"DEAD SCREAM."
"DEATH RIBBON REVOLUTION.'
All five attacks hit and destroyed the youma. Sailor Sol
walked up to the scouts, and was about to introduce himself, when a
golden falcon landed on his shoulder. Luna noticed this first,
"Apollo, is that you?"
The Falcon just stared at Luna and said, "Long time no see
Luna."
Sailor Moon spoke up, "Luna, you know this........Falcon?"
"Yes, Sailor Moon. Apollo was Prince Tranquillity’s guardian
during the Silver Millennium."
"And still is, Luna," was Apollo’s reply, gesturing to Sailor
Sol.
Luna went wide-eyed, "You mean......." Apollo nodded his
head, and smiled as best a falcon could.
Sailor Moon was not catching any of this, "Luna, who is
Tranquillity?"
Luna said three words that Serena never even expected Luna to
say, "Your twin brother." At this, Serena did the only thing she
thought she could do. She fainted.
When she came to, it was already Sunrise, and she found
herself in a room she didn’t recognize, until she saw a picture of her
and a boy about her age, when she was 5. The boy was Travis Solaris.
Just then the door opened and a young man stepped through, and smiled
at her. Serena recognized him right away, and ran full steam in to
him, "Travis."
Travis just stood there and held his sister tight, "So how’s
my sister recovering from the shock." Serena was ready to faint
again, when it dawned on her, Travis must be Sailor Sol.
Serena asked, "How is this possible?" Travis went in to
detail how their Mother Queen Serenity and their father of the Sun
Kingdom met, and got married, as well as other details that he could
remember.
Just then Amy came in to check on Serena, and Travis excused
himself for the time being, "So how are you Serena?"
"I’m ok, but we’ve gotten no where in finding that energy
source." Amy giggled at Serena’s statement, "What’s so funny Ames?"
"Serena, Travis was the source of the energy we picked up. It
was the signature of a Sailor Scout emerging," Amy replied. After a
little while, they both went downstairs and joined the rest of the
group. During the course of the night Mina, Katerina, and Alan did a
lot of talking and catching up on each others’ lives. Mina’s friends
were a little surprised when they saw Mina transform in to Sailor
Venus during the fight. They had heard of the scouts in Japan but
didn’t even suspect Mina was Venus, even though she looked like Mina.
When Amy, and Serena got into the living room, something
accord to Serena, "Travis, where are you folks?"
"If you mean my adopted folks, they’re at work, closing up
business before we start the move tomorrow," Travis replied.
Before she knew what she was saying, Serena said, "Your
adopted too?" This got everyone curious before Ray spoke up, "The
meatball head is adopted?!?!" Serena nodded, before Travis took out
his birth certificate, and handed it to Serena.
Serena scanned it briefly, looked at Travis, and smiled,
"Travis, guess what! You and I are brother and sister in this life
time also." Travis was shocked at this. Serena told everyone about
her real parents, Serenity Moonlight, and John Moonlight, and told
them any thing else they needed to know.
By the time she was finished, it was in the afternoon, and the
scouts were tired. Travis assigned sleeping areas for everyone,
before he got going with the day. By sunset, the scouts were awake
and decided it was time to go back home. Serena said her good byes to
Travis, and Apollo, and told them she’d see them when they got to
Tokyo, in a few days. The scouts all transformed, got into a circle,
with Darien, once again, in the middle, and the scouts shouted,
"SAILOR TELEPORT," and disappeared from the home.
After the battle, General Maverick and Viper reported to King
Onix of their finding of another Sailor Scout, he was not happy, but
didn’t show it, "General Riker, try to keep tabs on this new scout and
find out if he’s still their or went to Tokyo. General Viper and
Maverick, continue your original assignments." The Generals bowed and
left.
As soon as the Scout got back to Tokyo, they powered down and
went into the fire room, where they deliberated for a few hours,
before everyone went home. On the way home, Serena was thinking about
if she should finally tell her parents that she knows she was
adopted. She had known since 3rd grade, when she did a family tree
project. It was now dinner time by the time Serena walked in the
door, "I’m home." Her family ran into the entry way and demanded all
the details. It took several minutes for Serena to calm down her
family, and went into detail about her entire 24 hours in London, and
the scout meeting afterwards. After dinner, Serena decided to bring
up her topic at hand, "Mom, Dad, can I ask you something?"
Ellen spoke up, "Sure, Serena, go ahead."
"How come you’ve never told me I was adopted," Mr. and Mrs.
Tsukino dropped their silverware at this question. Of all the
question going through their heads, they didn’t expect that one.
Mrs. Tsukino was the first to recover, "How long have you
known this Serena?"
"Since third grade, when I did that Family tree project. I
never saw a reason to bring it up till now, because as far as I’m
concerned, this is my family, and I love you all no matter what,"
Serena’s parents relaxed at this, knowing their fears were falsely
justified.
Ellen asked, "Why bring this up now then?"
"Ok, I told you about Sailor Sol, right," at everyone’s nods,
she continued, "Well, it turns out, he’s Travis Solaris, a.k.a.,
Prince Tranquillity of the Sun Kingdom, a.k.a., my twin brother in
both life times," at this last part, everyone’s mouths dropped to the
floor, making Serena laugh historically. After a few more minutes of
talking, Serena went to bed, with Luna on her tail.
At their hotel, Mark, and Rachel were just about to go to bed
as well, when their communicator to the ship went off. Rachel
answered it, "Go ahead captain."
"Our sensors just detected another teleport, we’ve been
tracking it since it left the far side of the planet, and about an
hour ago it stopped in Tokyo."
"Thanks for the report, Captain, Rachel out," She signed off
and the two went to bed.
That’s it for this chapter. Stay tuned for the ch. 4 - Hearts From
the Pink One. Send all comments to gbess@iname.com. Visit my web
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