Sailor Moon Millenium - The Rise of the Stellar Scouts Chapter # 12: Part a - Class Trip : In The Name Of Capella - Created June 19th, 2000 By K.W. Isenor (sailor_sun_@hotmail.com) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't you love Monday's?" Alissa turned to Jessica and asked. They stood out in front of the school with their entire Science class, Britney, Brooke, and Lindsey stood off to the side. Jessica looked at her friend oddly with still tired eyes. "Are you nuts! What can you like about Monday's? It is the first day of the week!" Jessica stated. "Why do you like them so much?" Jessica asked wanting to know what her friend would say. "Well I don't like all Monday's I just like this Monday because we get to go on a class trip!" Alissa said excitement in her voice. Britney rolled her eyes. "Yeah we get to go on a science trip to a green house to learn stuff about plants! What is so fun about this trip?" Jessica asked confused. "Come on Jessica think about it, would you rather sit in boring classrooms all day or go to a green house and goof around behind the teachers back?" Alissa asked. From behind the class out walked the teacher followed by the bus driver. "Alright class, lets get going, pile onto the bus, and don't head straight for the back, make sure the front seats are filled before you all fight over the seats." The teacher walked into the bus, the bus driver sat down and started the engine. Alissa bent down and picked up her knapsack and flung it over her shoulders. She had a big smile on her face. Jessica, Brooke, Britney and Lindsey all shook their heads in wonder. Jessica and Alissa piled into a two-person seat near the middle of the bus, while Brooke, Britney and Lindsey piled into the three-person seat beside the red head and overly excited blonde. The bus pulled out of the school parking lot and went down the road towards the green house, the bus was full of conversations, paper ball fights. Then there was the teacher turning around every now and then putting her finger to her lips attempting to get the bus to quite down a bit. But her attempt was in vain. The drive was long and boring, it was nine o'clock and the bus had become quite, some students sleep, while other listened to their small portable CD players, some played games. Jessica and Alissa sat quietly, almost drifting off to sleep. Then Alissa raised an unexpected question to Jessica. "What were my past parents like? The ones during the Golden Millennium" She said in a very soft whisper, so soft that Jessica could hardly hear. Jessica's eyes went wide at the question, she quickly looked around to make sure that no one was listening. "I'm not too sure Alissa, but it will all come to you within time when more of your own past is reviled as mine and Kevin's was." Alissa sat there taking in every word. "They weren't the same ones that I have now are they?" Alissa asked as she thought about her mother and father that she loved so much that lived in Scotland. "No, I don't believe they were reincarnated like we were, let alone sent to the future. But their sprit still lives on, I got to see my sprit of my past self when Kevin and myself went back to the sun." Jessica paused. "I'm sure that you too in time will be able to meet your parents again. All within due time." "Oh." Alissa simply responded. The bus continued to drive down the street, then the silence was broken by Brittany's voice. "Hey everyone look at that thing!" She yelled, and all the students in the bus turned to look at what Britney had found so interesting. Everyone's eyes went wide, but Jessica's and Alissa's went the widest as they starred out at Kurai-ki as he went around taking random bystanders Heart Stones. Alissa reached into her pocket and began to pull out her transformation medallion. But Jessica quickly grabbed Alissa's arm firmly and shook her head 'no'. Alissa dropped the medallion into her pocket and looked out the front of the bus with everyone else. Jessica bit her lip. 'I want to do something!' She thought to herself as she stared out at Kurai-ki as he continued to snatch the Heart Stones from helpless victims. The bus driver got a sudden urge to slam down the gas petal. Kurai-ki looked up and threw the man into a near by store. He looked right at the bus; he didn't have enough time to move out of the way. The bus hit him right in his back. He rolled onto the floor. The entire bus screamed as they say the monster knocked to the pavement. Jessica and Alissa continued to stare out of the window, Kurai-ki slowly stood up. He turned to look at his bleeding wing. The blood that came from his shoulder was black. He put his hand over it and began to walk off, his form slowly disappeared in a swirl of leaves and small sticks. Jessica and Alissa turned around in their seats along with the rest of the students on the bus. The two senshi sighed relived. On the way to the Greenhouse all of the students sat there talking about how their bus driver was a hero. Jessica and Alissa were both thinking the exact same thing. That they were supposed to be phrased as the heroes, not their old bus driver. They sat in silence the entire way. * * * * * Kurai-ki limped into Emperor Valico's chambers. He still held his shoulder, his wings were slightly torn. The clocked demon turned to face the sore Kurai-ki. "What happened to you?" He asked as he looked at Kurai-ki as he limped over and sat down on a chair. "I ran into a bus . . . well the bus ran into me." He said as he rubbed his shoulder. The small throbbing orb was hovering at his side. "Why don't you get that to help you? It should be able to use some of the energy from all of those humans. Just get it to heal you." Emperor Valico suggested as he pointed to the orb. Kurai-ki looked to the throbbing orb that hovered beside him. "Alright then, heal me." He commanded. The throbbing orb flashed once extremely brightly and Kurai-ki no longer felt any pain. "Well that worked surprisingly well." He looked down at his shoulder, which had completely healed. There wasn't even a scar. "It seams that you have to worry more about busses and cars then you do of those pesky Sailor Scouts!" Emperor Valico teased. Kurai-ki turned and glared at Emperor Valico evilly. "Oh now come on Kurai-ki don't get all worked up about it. I suggest you go get some rest and think of a plan, because you still need to collect many Heart Stones. You should take a stop by the hospital tonight, to see if there are any more victims for you to steal from. And why don't you . . ." "I don't need you to tell me what to do Emperor Valico, I can see to my own plan, everything is going along as planned, so there is no need for you to get in the way. I have everything under control!" Kurai-ki screamed. With this Emperor Valico got extremely angry. But before he could open his mouth to say anything Kurai-ki had disappeared in a swirl of leaves and small sticks. The Emperor stood there with balled up fists at his sides. Footsteps were head from behind him, he quickly spun around to see who was there. It was the beast, he walked out of the shadows. "Now Emperor Valico, I thought that you were in charge of this entire thing. But obviously you aren't, Kurai-ki sure did tell you off, I think your getting too soft on that boy." The beast circled around Emperor Valico. "You shouldn't have to take that from him, he is so much younger then you. You are his elder, he needs to be taught a lesson. And I am very confident that the Sailor Scouts will do that very soon for us." "Go away." Emperor Valico said. He obviously didn't feel like talking, or being talked to, especially from a beast such as the one before him. He continued to stare off in front of him, off towards the dark tunnels that lead to the various rooms and chambers which were made. "Oh, touchy." The beast circled once more. "I will leave you then, you can stand here and let all of those thoughts of hatred go through your head, all of the thoughts about what you want to do to the cocky Kurai-ki." The beast walked off towards the fountain. "I shall let you be." He crawled up the side and went down into the fountains cool dark water. Emperor Valico stood there his eyes still fixed onto the spot that Kurai-ki had stood last. "Damn that cocky brat, after all I have given him, this is what he does to me!" He turned and slammed his fist into a table, it splintered and the two pieces flew off to the opposite sides of the room, he lifted his hand, large splinters stuck out of his fingers. Pulling the splinters out one by one he threw them into the air, and with his eyes he made them catch on fire, they fell to a pile of ashes at his feet on the cold damp floor. Black blood trickled down his arm, he smiled as he saw it, and he turned and disappeared into the darkness of one of the tunnels, walking away from his chamber into the dark depths of the place that he now called home. Off to find something that he could take his anger out on, perhaps Kurai-ki would work nicely. * * * * * "More and more victims are being emitted to the various hospitals in the Halifax/Dartmouth area. Still not sure what the cause of that sudden fainting citizens are not allowed to leave or enter the area, just in case it can spread." The radio announcers voice was head over the speakers on the bus. All of the students went silent. "There is nothing wrong with the water so you can drink your water again, more tests are being done with the amount of air pollution, much is being done to try to find out the source of the problem . . ." The radio announcers voice continued on with the news broadcast. 'I know what is causing all of those poor people to drop on the streets its that damn Kurai-ki! He is doing all of this!' Jessica thought to herself angrily. She sat slouched down in her seat with her arms crossed across her chest. The orange/yellow school bus pulled into the gravel parking lot and parked close to the main doors to the large glass building. A woman in a white lab coat stood on the stone walkway. She smiled at the students as they got off the bus. A few of the male students remarked on her beauty. The woman was tall, she had short redish/brown hair. It went to her shoulders, she had red eyes and wore glasses. The teacher stepped off the bus and walked up to the woman, she put out her hand. "Welcome, I am Doctor Aki Sono." The woman smiled again. Jessica instantly recognized the Japanese words and raised her hand. "Yes?" The woman asked as she looked at Jessica. "By any chance are you from Japan? And does your name mean autumn garden?" Jessica politely asked as she lowered her hand. The woman smiled and nodded her head, yes it is, now how do you know so much about the Japanese language?" The woman asked. "This is one of our students that has come from Japan. She was over there for almost a year." The teacher replied for Jessica. "What is your name child?" The woman asked as she walked over to the red head. "Jessica. Sono-Sensei." She replied as she bit her lower lip feeling a bit nervous. "Well come along class, there is much to be learnt on this trip, and you must see it all today, so come along now." Dr. Sono turned and walked along the stone path, the students followed in an unorganized fashion. Dr. Sono opened the large doors and stepped inside, as all of the students followed they were greeted by various smells of flowers and trees. "Right this way class." Dr. Sono walked off through rows of tall cherry trees, Jessica felt as if she were back in Japan as one of the small pink petals fell onto her nose. * * * * * "Well where oh where can I attack today?" Kurai-ki looked around on the digital map that the small orb had created for him, he searched the city with his eyes. "Well I'm not going to go down town because I would rather stay away from rush hour traffic, and besides I have my helpers doing all of my dirty work for me there." He looked around trying to spot a place that would fit his Heart Stone stealing purpose. "Ah yes, I'll attack somewhere not so public and I won't have to worry about getting run over by a stupid school bus!" Kurai-ki said angrily. He waved his hand through the digital map and it disappeared, the orb floated so it was level with Kurai-ki's face. "Come along we have work to do!" Kurai-ki disappeared in a swirl of leaves and small twigs. Just as the mass disappeared Emperor Valico entered the room, he looked around furious. "Where did he go now?" He asked furious. He walked over to a chair and picked it up and snapped it in two over his knee. He stood there trying to figure out what to do next. "I hope those Sailor Scouts hurt you good Kurai-ki!" Emperor Valico walked out of the room and down the tunnel, which he had come from. His cloak swayed back and forth behind him as he walked off into the darkness. * * * * * "Well this place looks good." Kurai-ki looked around his eyes stopped on a school bus parked in the parking lot, his eyes went wide, and he recognized the bus driver that sat off to the side eating a sandwich. "Well let's take care of you right now!" Kurai-ki raised his hand, a mass of swirling leaves with razor shape edges swirled around his hand, he swung his arm out and the leaves went towards the bus. The startled bus driver looked at the leaves, one went by his arm just grazing it. But it was enough to cut it. He got up quickly and ran into the trees. He looked behind him and saw his bus explode, he was knocked to the ground by the blast. * * * * * "What was that?" The teacher asked as the students and herself turned towards the loud noise they had just heard. They all ran to the window to see pieces of debris falling to the parking lot, a wheel of the bus came down towards the glass wall that they all stood in front of. "Run everyone!" Jessica called as she pushed a couple of students out of the way before the wheel came smashing down through the wall. Jessica stood up, she helped Dr. Sono to her feet. "Come on everyone out now!" Alissa said as she saw Kurai-ki coming towards them with the throbbing orb at his heels. "NOW!" She screamed. Most of the students just ran and hid behind some trees, they all said that they wanted to see the Sailor Scouts. Jessica and Alissa ran and pulled the fire alarm, the sprinklers finally kicked in, a great mist rose from the plants that were once on fire. Everyone moaned as they got soaked. "Come on." Jessica pulled Alissa off to the side. "We have to transform now!" She reached into her pocket and pulled out the medallion, Alissa followed her leaders lead. "SOLARIS STAR . . . . ." "POLLUX STAR . . . . ." Then in unison they yelled out "POWER!" Jessica then closed her eyes. The Solaris Medallion disappeared into many little orange and gold sparkles, this caused her body to shimmer the colors of the sparkles as they fell onto her body. Then her silver tiara appeared with the red jewel in the center. The jewel then emitted a blinding flash of orange light that surrounded Jessica giving her the feeling of the bright morning sun on her body. Then a swirl of orange and gold sparkles warped around her body moving upward as it spun around her body. The body suit of her uniform then appeared. And the bows came out of the heart in the center of her chest. Sparkling golden rings then went around her feet forming boots. Then more sparkling rings went around her arms forming her gloves. Soon afterward the golden sparkles went around her waist forming her skirt. At that point there was a large burst of golden sparkles that flew up into the air, when the sparkles fell to the ground Sailor Sun was then revealed fully transformed. She did her transformation pose. She stood there with one hand across her forehead and the other across her stomach with her legs together. Her long red hair then blew to the side. Alissa shouted out the phrase as she held her transformation item above her head. Alissa then closed her eyes then her transformation wand disappeared. Her hair was then lifted off of her shoulders. I strong gust picked up and swirled around her. Then her silver tiara appeared with the white jewel in the center. The jewel then emitted a blinding flash of gray light that surrounded Alissa giving her the feel of a warm spring breeze blowing through her hair and across her face. Then the swirling air divided into rings and two rings went around her body moving upward as it spun around her body. The body suit of her uniform then appeared. And the bow came out of the heart in the center of her chest. Gray rings of air went around her feet forming boots. Then more gray rings went around her arms forming her gloves. Soon afterward the gray air went around her waist forming her skirt. At that point the wind picked up greatly, her hair was blowing wildly. From above a tornado came down and circled around Alissa blocking her from view. When the tornado died down and her hair slowly dropped back resting on her shoulders. Sailor Pollux was reveled fully transformed. She did her transformation pose. Her pose was her standing with both of her hands on her cheeks, looking very innocent and harmless. Her head was tilted a little bit to the side. Her legs were apart, one was a little ahead then the other. "Lets go!" They called out as they ran off towards the parking lot. Kurai-ki turned around and saw the two scouts as they ran out of the building, he rolled his eyes and sighed deeply. The class from inside cheered as they saw the two warriors standing out in the parking lot. They walked up to where Kurai-ki hovered. "I am the sailor scout of the red star the sun, fighting for all within the sol system! With the flames of the sun, and the power of fire, prepare to burn because I will punish you!" Sailor Sun got into her fighting stance. "I am the sailor scout of the storm planet, Pollux, fighting with an un-stop able rage like a hurricane! With the power of the air so beware of the air around you, for I control the north, east, south and west winds!" Sailor Pollux got into a fighting stance. "Why don't you two pesky scouts go off and leave me be for once." Kurai-ki said as he dropped down to the ground. He stood there facing the two Scouts. "Oh alright then, we will just go off and let you hurt these students, have fun Kurai-ki." Sailor Sun said sarcastically as Sailor Pollux turned and walked away two steps. They both nodded at each other and turned jumping at Kurai-ki. "I knew it was too good to be true!" He said as he tried to dodge the various attacks that were swung at him, he got a gloved fist in his stomach and another in his face. "Come on Kurai-ki, just give up. You have to face that we will always be here, no matter where you go, we are right behind you. We will always be there to kick your green butt!" Sailor Pollux said as she swung a kick at Kurai-ki's arm. The green winged monster fell to the pavement. "THAT'S IT!" He screamed as he stood up. His eyes were wide and his clenched his teeth together. He flung his neck back and flew about twelve feet into the air. He raised his arms so they were above his head. With his right hand he pointed to a patch of weeds at his feet. The ground began to shake fiercely beneath him. Suddenly the weeds began to grow in size, there was four of them, all seven feet tall. They turned from Kurai-ki to the two Sailor Scouts and lunged at them. Sailor Sun and Sailor Pollux didn't have enough time to dodge the oncoming weeds. They were pinned to the ground, they both tried to struggle free, but they had no luck getting free from the weeds grasp. Sailor Sun did manage to move her wrist so it was pointing at one of the weeds, she mumbled a few words from under her breath. A flame came from her palm and wrapped around one of the weed monsters. It screeched in pain as it stood up and swung side to side trying to get away from the fire that surrounded it, the weed fell into the other three causing them to also catch on fire. They all swung back and forth trying to get free from the pain that surrounded them. The four over sized weeds fell to the ground in a burnt mass. Sailor Sun and Sailor Pollux stood up and brushed themselves off. The class cheered for the two warriors. The cheering suddenly went quite and hey all gasped. Sailor Sun and Sailor Pollux turned around to see what they were gasping at the pile of weeds got up and shook themselves off, they were not even any marks on them. "Just like all weeds, they will not die as easily as you would wish Sailor Scouts." Kurai-ki said smugly as he crossed his arms and stood there watching as the weeds advanced towards the two Scouts. In unison the four weeds lifted their arms and fired razor sharp leaves much like the ones that Kurai-ki had used to destroy the bus. The leaves flew by leaving cut marks in the Scouts uniforms, red blood came out staining the white body part of their uniform. Starring down at their wounded torso. The leaves came back and cut through their arms. More blood stained their gloves. The four weeds then advanced at the two scouts, they swung at once knocking the two scouts into the close by glass walls of the green house. The class screamed as they backed up, Sailor Sun and Sailor Pollux stood to their feet slowly, but they were greeted by the weeds which wrapped their arms around their limps and lifted them out of the green house, breaking more glass. The two scouts groaned in immense pain as the grip of the weeds got much tighter. A voice was heard faintly off to the side, Sailor Sun and Sailor Pollux could barely turn their heads towards the voice, their eyes focused on another Sailor Scout. "CAPELLA PROTECTION WALL!" She screamed as she raised her hands and spun them around her body. Vines came up from the ground from under her feet. They went straight towards the four weeds, cutting off their arms with the thorns that came from the sides. The weeds fell to the ground armless. Sailor Sun and Sailor Pollux fell towards the ground, the vines caught the two Sailor Scouts and gently set them on the ground, the wounds from before had started to heal. The new scout walked over to her fallen companions. Sailor Sun and Sailor Pollux looked from the wall of vines which surrounded them protecting them from the weeds on the other side to the Sailor Scout that stood before them. The Sailor Scout stood around the same height as Sailor Sun. Her hair was long and wavy golden brown it went down to her thigh. She didn't have bangs, well she did but they were the same length as the rest of her hair. She had brown almond shaped eyes. Her skin had a bit of a tan to it. She wore a Sailor Scout uniform much like Sailor Sun's and Sailor Pollux's. Starting at the top a silver tiara like Sailor Sun's laid on her head, the tiara was set with a green stone. Around her neck was a dark green choker in the center of the choker was a silver star jewel it was generally round but had small points. The new Sailor did have earrings they looked like vines wrapped around each other. The shoulder flap was made up with two colors, copper and green , it was set up with the copper at the top and the green below it. It had one thin white stripe. She didn't have shoulder's on her uniform but it was set up like Sailor Sun's with the transparent shoulder guards at each shoulder. The bow on her chest was the same green as her choker. Again like Sailor Sun she had a heart in the center of her bow. The color of the heart was a deep green, even darker then the green of her bow. Then the body of her uniform was the same as the other scout's, white in color. The bow in the back of her uniform was the same color as the bow in front, and again it went down to her knees. Her gloves were white and went up to her elbow. The rings on the gloves were green. Her skirt was green and copper like her collar. The green was at the top and the copper was at the bottom. It kind of has a zig zag thing going on. She wore dark green knee-length boots. The trim around the top of the boot was copper. Then in the center on the trim there is the symbol of her star that was copper. "Who are you?" Sailor Sun asked as she looked at the scout that stood before them. "I am the sailor scout of the planet of nature and life, Capella. I fight for all the living beings, which are pure! With the power of the natural world, prepare to suffer my earthshaking power because I will avenge all of those souls, which you have hurt! In the name of Capella!" The Scout introduced herself. The wall of vines, which surrounded them, moved back reveling the three Sailor Scouts. To Be Continued . . .