The Astro Senshi
By: Andrea MacFarlane aka Serendipity/Serenity Night/Night
neo_night_ca@hotmail.com
(c) July 2000
Konbonwa minna-chan! It's 9:30pm so you better be grateful that I'm still
doing this. I have to get up everyday at 5:30am to go to summerschool.
All the schools near me didn't have the course that I needed to take so I
gotta go an 1 and a half away! And get this, I have to take a BUS! Okay
enough of that. In this chapter new senshi come, that's all I'm telling
you for the moment. You'll have to read to find out more. So......what
are you waiting for?!.......READ!!!!!! I don't give written invitations
ya know!
Dedicated to: setsunameichocolat of Grep Sailor Moon
Chapter 3: Watered Down
**On Another Physical Plain**
"How could this happen?! How did a little brat beat my monster! I thought
with its stealthness it could avoid trouble, not wander into it! Well I'll
just have to do it the old fashioned way then. Like I always say, if your
servants can't do it for you, do it yourself!"
"Calm down Azurage. All will come into the foreground. Send another of
your monsters. I wish to see this, 'brat' as you so bluntly put it, in
action. You would do well to do the same. Knowing ones opponent is much
better then bumbling in their wake. I learned that a long time ago."
"As you wish my queen. Who do you propose we send to do the deed?" Azurage
asked.
"Azlava! Send one of your creatures to do this assignment!" the evil queen
commanded.
A woman in scarlet red came out of the shadows, "As you wish my queen."
Azlava replied before being consumed by incinerating fire and vanishing.
**Back on Earth**
+Ring+......+Ring+......Ri-"Hello, Centaurus Household." Megan said after
she had caught her breath from running to the phone.
"Hi Megan, it's me Celina. Is Lynne there?" Celina asked quite anxiously.
"Yeah she is but we can't wake her up. Do you know what happened to her
on Friday? She went to her swim meet and her instructor called to say
that she wouldn't allow Lynne to swim because she had a gigantic bruise
on her back. But when she got home and my mom asked her about it there
wasn't anything there. Now why would her instructor do that?" Megan asked
confused.
"I don't know. I was just going to talk to her about what had happened
on Friday. God I hope she's alright. I'll come over and try to help wake
her up." Celina said hurriedly and then hung up the phone before Megan
could protest.
**10 minutes later**
+Ding Dong+
"Coming!.......Why hello Celina dear. What are you doing here?" Mrs.
Centarus said as she saw the occupant in her doorway.
"I'm here to help wake Lynne up. How are you Mrs. Centaurus?" Celina
answered.
"I'm fine dear, thank you for asking. Um..Lynne left about 5 minutes ago.
Sorry you came all this way, she went down to Streetsville Swimming Center
to practice her swimming. She didn't get to swim at her meet so she wants
to practice. I have to finish cleaning the house so I'll have to say
goodbye. See you later darling." Mrs. Centaurus said as she stepped back
into her house.
"Bye Mrs. Centaurus, thank you!" Celina said as she ran towards the s
wimming center.
**At the Streetsville Swimming Center*
+Splish+....+Splash+......+Gurgle+
Lynne stepped out of the pool after doing her usual 20 laps. She climbed
the ladder of the diving board just as Celina walked in.
"Hi Celina!" Lynne called out as she saw her friend enter the swimming
area,
"What are you doing here?"
"Your mom told me you'd be here. Why didn't you get to swim at your swim
meet? Oh! I have the most amazing news about what happened on Friday!"
Celina replied excitedly.
Lynne frowned and then held up her hand to indicate silence while she
dived. She took a deep breath, raised her arms, took a step towards the
edge of the diving board, she was about to dive off when.....
"Woo hoo! Yeah!"
!SPLASH!..!PLOOSH!..!WHOOSH!
4 people had just entered the the swimming area. 3 girls and a young man.
Lynne sighed and sat down on the edge of the diving board. She got
frustarted when they wouldn't simmer down.
"Excuse me! I'm trying to practice here!" she yelled down at them.
They immediately realized that they had been to loud and quieted down.
The only thing that bothered Lynne now was that they were watching her.
"Are you going to watch me, or swim?" she asked frowning at them.
All but one of them turned to continue what they had come to do.
"I'd like to watch you. Let's see how good you think you are!" the young
man of the group shouted up to her.
"Fine! Just don't make any sounds to distract me." she replied.
Lynne once again took up her position. She raised her arms, took a breath,
and jumped. Lynne excecuted a perfect swan dive and somersault. When she
entered the water she hardly made a splash.
"Very nice. What's your name?" the young man asked when Lynne came up for
air.
"Why should I tell you? Your quite rude. There was a sign on the door
telling you all that I was in here and to be quiet. I could have jumped
off the board and been distracted so much by your shouts that I could
have made a mistake and drowned. Your lucky my friend had started to talk
to me before you showed up. Now if you'll excuse me I have to finish my
training." Lynne said and then dipped back down into the water.
"Well its nice to meet you too!" he yelled at her before rejoining his
friends.
**Outside the Streetsville Swimming Center**
"Man, you really told that guy in there eh. He was pretty cute though.
You should have introduced me to him. Can I tell you about what happened
on Friday after you left now?" Celina said as she and Lynne walked to the
Tim Hortons across the street.
"Well soorrrryyyyy! Can we wait until we sit down before we discuss
Friday, I'm not so sure I want to know while I'm still standing." Lynne
replied as they opened the door to the coffee shop.
Lynne ordered an assorted pakage of timbits and to lattés for herself and
Celina.
"Thanks for getting a table Celina. By the way that'll be two dollars."
Lynne said as she sat down at the two person table.
"What?!" Celina erupted.
"Whoa calm down! I was just kidding, it's on me." Lynne replied with a
HUGE grin on her face.
"That's not funny Lynne. Gimmie one of those!" Celina said grumpily as
she grabbed a chocolate glazed timbit.
"Well well well. Who do we have here? Hah! Could it be? No it couldn't.
Aren't you the girl who thought I was 'rude'?" A voice behind them
exclaimed.
While Celina turned around to see who it was Lynne said, "I didn't think
you were rude. I know you were rude. Now please vacate the vicinity with
which you are in."
"Aren't we miss manners today. Aren't you going to offer me a seat? Or do
I just have to......take one of your timbits!" he said as he snayched one
and popped it into his mouth.
"Excuse me what's your name? Mine's Celina Dawkins and this is my grouchy
friend Lynne Centaurus here." Celina cheerfully said. It ultimately got
her an evil look from Lynne.
"Ah so your name is Lynne! Hello Celina, my name is Jason Uozaki. Nice to
meet you both." Jason said as he held out his hand for the girls to shake.
Lynne automatically smacked his hand away, "Come on Celina you don't want
to be in the company of such a person." Lynne said as she tried to get
her friend to exit the scene with her.
"Looks like Celina doesn't want to go with you Lynne. I think she wants to
stay here with me." Jason said as he slung his arm around Celina's
shoulders making her blush furiosly.
Lynne got really steamed then, "Fine Celina do what you want. Just don't
come crying to me when this creep does something to upset you. As for
YOU!" she fumed as she turned on Jason, "Stay away from me and if you
hurt her in any way I swear on my grave I will beat you beyond human
senses."
Lynne didn't wait for Celina to protest, she just stormed out of the
shop. When she was out the door she ran across the street back to the
swimming center.
{I have to blow off some steam.} she thought as she slipped into her wet
bathing suit.
Lynne dove into her laps. She went from dog paddle to moving as fast as
she could from one end of the pool to the other. Her arms were ready to
fall off when she heard someone enter the swimming area. She
automatically stopped mid lap and started to tred water as she looked
around to see who it was.
"Hello?" she called out when she didn't see anyone.
"Hello. I think I'll join you in there. It looks quite inviting." a male
voice said behind her.
Lynne whipped around to see Jason in his swim trunks diving into the pool
and swimming towards her.
{So he thinks he's going to swim with me eh. We'll just see about that.
I'm the fastest swimmer here. There's no way he can beat me to my towel
and once I have that I can get to the girls change room.} Lynne thought
deviously as she started to swim as fast as her tired arms would let her.
Lynne glanced behind her and didn't see him. {Where is he? Did he get
out?} she thought just as something grabbed her legs and made her fall
under water. Arms wrapped around her waist and legs as they pulled her up
out of the water.
+Splutter..Cough..Cough+
"What the hell did you do that for? Are you some kind of an idiot? I've
just been swimming for the past hour and a half, my arms are tired and my
lungs are really starting to bother me. I could have drowned from your
little stunt." Lynne yelled at him as she tried to climb out of the pool.
What he did next surprised, excited, and confused Lynne. He quickly
wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her passionately. Lynne
started to respond when she realized what she was doing.
"How dare you! You have no right to do that! Get away from me, don't
touch me!" she screamed at him as the adrenaline running through her from
the kiss fueled enough energy for her to pull herself out of the pool and
quickly grab her towel.
"Hey you enjoyed it. Don't say you didn't either. I was just trying to
get you to lighten up and like me." Jason complained as he to climbed out
of the pool.
+Hoot...Hoot+
"Archimedes what are you doing here? Get over here." Lynne said as she
saw and heard the owl enter the swimming area.
"You have an owl as a pet? Isn't that illegal?" Jason inquired as he
moved closer to the owl.
Lynne whipped around to face Jason, "No it isn't illegal and I'd prefer it
if you didn't talk to me ever again."
"Fine. I'll talk to your owl then. Hello Archimedes, how are you today?"
Jason joked with the owl.
"I'm fine Pisces. Now would you both kindly transform. There's a monster
in the city." Archimedes replied.
"WHOA! You can talk? Hey how did you know that I'm a Pisces?" Jason shot
out.
"Does that mean I have to work with him? Come on Archimedes can't you
pick someone else to do the job?" Lynne whined.
"You two don't hear very well do you? I said TRANSFORM! Here Jason catch."
Archiomedes sqwacked as he threw an amethyst ring at him with the sign of
Pisces engraved on the inside of the ring.
"What this?" Jason asked as he slipped the ring on.
"You transform with it. You know what to do if you look inside yourself.
So get going and stop that monster.
"Hey Jason are you in here?" three voices called from the doorway.
"Hey guys! Come meet my friend Lynne here." Jason called them over.
"Lynne these are my friends, Cheryl Dori Baily, Himeko Umino, and Channon
Gail Solita. Himeko won't tell anyone her middle name so don't even ask.
Guys this is Lynne Centaurus." Jason said as he motioned to each
individual in turn.
"This all well and good but now you 5 have to stop the monster that's
rampaging through the city!" Archimedes shouted as he tossed 3 more
objects in the direction of the girls.
"Oh wow a talking owl! Hey what are these?" Cheryl said as she caught one
of the objects.
Lynne was exasperated, "Archimedes you deal with these idiots and I'll
deal with the monster."
"Saggitarius Star Power!"
Sailor Saggitarius winked at the awed group of individuals before racing
out of the buliding at blinding speed.
"How..." Himeko started to say before she was interrupted by another shout.
"Pisces Star Power!"
Jason was enveloped in a torrent of water. When he emerged he was Sailor
Pisces. S.Pisces wore black slacks and shoes, a navy blue tight t-shirt
that showed off his muscles, a navy blue bandana with the symbol of Pisces
on it, white wrist gloves, and he held the Piscean Trident in his right
hand. The Piscean Trident had Amethysts and Sapphires encrusted all over
it.
"Prodigious Jason! How did you do that?" Channon clapped.
"Look inside your selves for the words and use those things the owl gave
you. Then join Sailor Saggitarius and me downtown. We got a monster to
fight!" Jason quickly explained before rushing off to join S.Saggitarius.
"Let's give it a try guys." Himeko said as she held up her object, which
was a silver and sapphire pendant.
Himeko looked inside herself and found the phrase she knew she would need.
"Aquarius Star Power!"
A magical pitcher of water poor a waterfall onto Himeko. When she stepped
out of it she was Sailor Aquarius. She wore royal blue short shorts,
shoulder flap, and gloves. A pale yellow was the secondary colour, it was
the colour of her front and back bow. She carried a staff with the Ocean
Heart jewel nestled at its peak.
Himeko looked down at herself in shock. "Come one guys the city needs us!"
she yelled as she raced off to join S.Saggitarius and Pisces.
"Himeko! Wait for us!" Channon and Cheryl screeched.
"The hell with this, come on Channon." Cheryl said as she held up her
object, which was a silver necklace with a light blue pendant shaped like
a crab.
"Cancer Star Power!"
Channon sighed, "Here we go." She held up her object, a double ring with
the sign of Gemini engraved in turquoise.
"Gemini Star Power!"
Cheryl dived into a huge pile of sand and when she climbed out she was
Sailor Cancer. She wore peach short shorts, shoulder flap, and gloves.
Pale blue was the secondary colour, it was the colour of her front and
back bow. On her neck the crab necklace still hung.
Channon was surrounded by snakes, as they slithered up her body they
completely encased her. Anyone who saw it might think that the snakes
had killed her. But they miraculously desolved to set free Sailor Gemini.
Turquoise was the colour that adorned her short shorts, shoulder flap,
boots, and gloves. Purple was the second adorning colour, emitting from
her back and front bow. In her left hand she held the Twin Staff. The
Twin Staff was made of mercury, at the top the medical symbol of two
snakes rested on its point. "Come on or we'll miss all the action!"
Sailor Cancer squeeked as she dragged Sailor Gemini behind her.
Stay tuned for Chapter 4: Flaming Foes
How did ya like it? What are the Astro Senshi going to do now? What is
attacking
the city? Is it a false alarm made by Archemidis just to get the Senshi in
shape? Why didn't a talking owl phase the four new comers? All will be
revealed
in the next chapter along with some new twists in Lynne's life.
Email me any comments or flames at neo_nightca@hotmail.com Arigato &
Kami-sama Bless (God Bless) ^_^
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