Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ The Star Scouts ❯ Revelations ( Chapter 6 )

[Memories/flashbacks]

"Talking"

`Thoughts or telepathy'

(AN: R/R please! It's kinda discouraging to get over a hundred hits and only 3 reviews. Please tell me what you think of it. And sorry for the delay, I had writers block and I went to camp for three weeks. I'm using the Japanese names for the shrine and school `cause I like them better than Crossroads and Cherry Hill Temple, so Juuban and Hikawa Jinja it is! Oh and in case you're wondering why Lita's daughter is the leader, it's because I said so.)

Disclaimer: Sadly, I don't own Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon belongs to Naoko Takeuchi. The Star Scouts, Rhea, Luna Belle, Ariel and other made-up characters belong to me.

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"You alright Hannah?"

Hannah nodded, straightening up, ignoring the pain in her injured shoulder.

It had been a week since the last youma attack and Hannah had been getting frequent shocks of pain every day since the scorpion youma had sliced her shoulder. When Serena and the others had left the house, Kaze and Kate had started their tirades, going on about since she was their princess she should never go fight alone like that. Lilly and Misty had cleaned and dressed the wound on her shoulder the best they could.

Now these jolts of pain were just becoming plain unbearable. Kate's voice cut into her thoughts again, "Are you sure you're okay, Hannah? You've been acting different since that battle you fought alone."

Hannah looked into Kate's sky blue eyes, which were filled with concern for her friend and princess. Hannah flashed a winning smile and replied cheerfully, "I'm fine Kate, stop worrying."

Kate nodded uncertainly but dropped the subject. Hannah felt her head start to throb, but ignored it.

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Six nights later, Lilly found herself outside Kaze's bedroom door. She opened the door slightly and looked inside.

"Kaze?" she said uncertainly.

"Hey Lilly," Kaze greeted her quietly. The aqua-haired girl in question was sitting on a built in bench by her window, gazing at the sky. Kaze looked back at Lilly and smiled slightly.

"You worried about Hannah too?" Kaze asked wryly. Lilly sat down by Kaze, nodding.

Both had good reason to be worried. Hannah had basically stopped eating anything. She hardly slept anymore, spent most of her free time locked in her room, staring out the window, and, although she still performed her Scout duties, she seemed more worn out after every battle. But, there was something else bothering Kaze, though she couldn't put her finger on it at the moment.

Lilly looked out the window, her eyes locating Mars automatically. There was a moment of silence, and then Kaze spoke.

"What'd you think is wrong with her?" Kaze asked, looking sideways at her. Lilly shrugged.

"D'you think we should get Mist to run a scan with her mini-computer?" Lilly suggested.

"I asked her this morning and she said that she'd try." Kaze sighed.

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Hannah sat on her window sill, looking at the sky, her eyes fixed on Jupiter as she relived memories from The Jovian Kingdom and Crystal Tokyo.

[The Jovian Princess strode into the room, well aware that she was late. Neo-Queen Serenity had ordered (something she rarely did) that all the Princesses come to a meeting with Generals from a few of the planets' satellites, such as Deimos, Phobos, Ganymede, Prometheus, Lysithea, and Naiad. However, certain events prevented her from being able to change her clothes and get to the meeting on time. So Hannah was wearing her warrior uniform, which consisted of a dark green shirt that had her Colonel badge on it, long green pants, her sword and scabbard which were attached to an brown leather belt, a green boots which were identical to the ones Sailor Jupiter wore.

Hannah passed by a group of seven Captains from Crystal Tokyo army and gave them a nod of greeting. They responded by respectfully saluting her in the Lunarian style. She spotted Bianca, Anna, and Marie talking in a group. Kaze, Kate, Lilly, Misty, and Rini were talking in another group.

"No fair! How come you get to wear your warrior uniform, when I have to wear a dress?!" Bianca asked, mock-scowling.

"Nice to see you too, Wind Keeper." Hannah greeted her. Bianca smiled at the nickname.

"So why're you late?" Rini appeared beside her, looking up at the older girl. Hannah patted the ten year old's head fondly.

"Just some things going on in the Jovian Kingdom, little rabbit." Hannah replied.

Kaze nudged her in the side and muttered "The generals have arrived."

Hannah and the others looked up and saw several men not much older then they come in.

The men walked over to them, first bowing respectfully to the King, Queen, and Princess.

Hannah eyed them suspiciously.

The first man, about a year older than her, had brown hair and dark blue eyes. He bowed and introduced himself.

"I am General James Sodano of Ganymede." he said, looking up at Hannah, eyes mocking her.

He didn't have a clue who he was messing with.

"I am Princess Hannah Lita Elara Nike Kino, Colonel of the Lunarian and Jovian armies, and Royal heir to the Throne of Jupiter." Hannah said coldly.

She smirked when she saw James' eyes widen in shock.]

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Kaze sat with Hannah during Lunch. She, Lilly, Misty, and Kate had decided to go on a camping trip, in hopes that Hannah would go back to normal. Now all Kaze had to do was convince Hannah to do it.

"What are you planning?" Hannah interrupted her thoughts.

Kaze stared at her and sheepishly said "How did you know?"

Hannah laughed slightly and replied "I can pretty much read you like an open book. Now what are you planning?"

"Lilly, Misty, Kate, and I thought we could go camping next week since there is no school." Kaze admitted looking into Hannah's eyes. "Can we?"

"I don't see why not." Hannah answered hesitantly after a few minutes. Three girls popped up behind them, chorusing in unison "Hannah said yes! Way to go, Kaze!"

Kate, Misty and Lilly grinned.

Unknown to the Star Scouts, the Sailor Scouts were planning the same thing.

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"A Camping Trip?"

All of the Sailor Scouts sat in the Hikawa Jinja Shrine, looking at Luna and Artemis.

"The purpose of this trip is to train." Luna said sternly. Amara rolled her eyes at her.

"We can train and still have fun, Luna." Mina piped up, smiling.

"When are we going?" Michelle asked.

"Next week, when there's no school." Artemis replied. The girls thought this over for a moment. The temporary silence was broken by Serena's enthusiastic reply, "I'm in!"

"Ditto!"

"Count me in too."

"I'm in."

"I believe I can compromise with this mutual agreement."

Silence...............

All the scouts stared at Amy. Luna finally said "She said she'll go."

Michelle laughed slightly and said "I'm in."

"And so am I." Amara stated.

Artemis looked around and asked "Where's Hotaru?"

"Saturn's with Pluto in the time stream." Michelle answered.

"Well, since everyone agrees to go, it's settled. We'll go next week." Luna announced.

The scouts started talking animatedly about the trip.

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Kaze was pleased that Hannah seemed to be back to her old self on the hike up the mountain to find a place to set up camp. Misty and Kate caught up to her, gasping for breath.

"Geez, are you two that outta shape?" Lilly teased. Both the Mercurian and Venusian glared at the Martian. The raven-haired girl quailed under their glares and mumbled "Sheesh, can't you take a joke. No sense of humor."

Kaze shook her head as she watched Lilly sulk.

"Who's...brilliant idea...was...this?" Kate puffed, trying to catch her breath.

"Actually Kate, it was your brilliant idea." Kaze pointed out.

"Yeah, well. Next time I have a brilliant idea like this, hit me on the head." Kate grumbled.

"No problem!" Lilly grinned and promptly whacked Kate on the head.

"OWW!!! WHAT'D YOU DO THAT FOR?!" Kate wailed, rubbing her head.

"Well you said to whack you over the head if you had a brilliant idea. And since I didn't hit you when you first suggested this trip, I thought that I would hit you now." Lilly explained cheerfully.

Kaze and Misty laughed as Kate scowled at a grinning Lilly and started muttering threats under her breath.

Kaze looked up to watch her princess for a few moments. Aforementioned Jovian Princess had taken full advantage of her metamorphic ability and was currently running around in her wolf form. Kaze assumed that Hannah must've put her backpack in her subspace pocket, because it was nowhere to be seen. The wolf was pitch black and had emerald eyes. The wolf romped around and barked at them to hurry up occasionally. The wolf slowed to trot beside Kaze for a few seconds, and then stopped dead in her tracks, ears perked in alarm. The next second Hannah stood there, hurriedly opening her subspace pocket and grabbing her backpack.

"What?" Kaze asked her as the others caught up.

"People." Hannah muttered as she resumed walking up to the campsite. The others looked at each other and followed.

After a few minutes Hannah turned a corner and-

"Ow!"

-Walked right into Raye Hino.

Hannah stood up and helped Raye to her feet saying "We've got to stop meeting like this."

Raye smiled, nodding.

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"Now that we know that they're here, we'll just have to be extra careful about where we train and where we transform." Hannah said reasonably. She looked around and smiled.

"But for now we set up camp!"

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For the next four days everything went smoothly for both teams of scouts, but that's where it stopped. The Star Scouts and the Sailor Scouts were hiking together. Lilly was talking to Raye and Serena, Kaze was with Amara and Michelle, Misty was discussing something with Amy, and Kate was animatedly talking to Mina and Lita. Hannah smiled slightly as she observed her scouts. When she turned around, she found herself face to face with a youma.

"Uh-oh."

Behind her she heard the stunned gasps as more youma surrounded the group. The next second, she found herself in the middle of a maze. "Where are we?" asked a voice from behind her. She turned around a saw Lita.

"Wish I knew." Hannah replied.

A youma appeared in front of them and sneered "Hello Sailor Emerald."

Lita stared at her, shocked.

"You're Sailor Emerald." She asked.

Hannah pointed one finger at the youma, fired a green beam at it, and it disintegrated. She turned to look at Lita and said "Yes."

After running down several passages, Sailor Emerald scowled and formed her hands into a gun shape, aiming at the ceiling.

"Lupus Thunder Flare!" A giant green energy wolf shot into the air, before dispersing.

She looked around expectantly and, sure enough, a blue dolphin, a red raven, an orange horse, and an aqua otter flew into the air. Unexpectedly, a gold tiger, a dark red owl, and a violet cat also flew into the air. Emerald opened and closed her mouth a few times before saying "Tanzanite, Amethyst, and Garnet."

There was a flash of purple light and a girl with short black hair and purple eyes appeared in a Saturn scout uniform.

"I'll teleport you to the exit." She took Emerald and Jupiter's hands and teleported. Next second they were outside the maze.

"It's great to see you again, Marie!" Emerald hugged the girl, who blushed slightly. The other Sailor Scouts and Star Scouts appeared beside them.

Emerald detransformed along with the rest of her scouts and hugged the other two girls. One had waist length greenish-black hair and ruby eyes and the other had short sandy hair and green eyes.

"Anna, Bianca!"

"It's good to see you too, Princess." The sandy haired girl, Bianca, said, and then she walked over to Kaze.

"Miss me, little sis?" She ruffled Kaze's aqua hair and Kaze scowled playfully before saying "It's good to see you, Bianca."

"I'm assuming you brought the other guardian cats?" Hannah asked.

"You mean Elisa, Cressida, Carme, Helene, and Calypso? Yeah, they're back at the mansion." Bianca replied.

The Sailor Scouts stood to one side watching the reunion. Sailor Jupiter stepped forward, glaring, and asked, irritably, "Just who exactly are you?"

Hannah looked at her, took a step forward and said "Okay, we'll tell you who we really are."

"I am Hannah Kino, Princess of the Jovian Kingdom, and, as I've said before, leader of the Star Scouts." She took a step back and glanced at Lilly.

"Lilly Hino, Princess of the Martian Kingdom." Sailor Ruby.

"Kate Aino, Princess of the Venusian Kingdom." Sailor Crystal.

"Misty Mizuno, Princess of the Mercurian Kingdom." Sailor Sapphire.

"Kaze Tenoh, Princess of the Neptunian Kingdom." Sailor Aquamarine.

"Marie Tomoe, Princess of the Saturnian Kingdom." Sailor Amethyst.

"Anna Meioh, Princess of the Plutonian Kingdom." Sailor Garnet.

"Bianca Tenoh, Princess of the Uranian Kingdom." Sailor Tanzanite.

Hannah looked at the Sailor Scouts and said "And that's who we are."

"Kino's my last name." Jupiter said.

"Which is exactly why it's my last name too. You are my future mother; I think you can connect the rest of the mothers with their daughters." Hannah replied, smirking. All of the Star Scouts looked at the Sailor Scouts.

Mina and Kate.

Raye and Lilly.

Amy and Misty.

Amara and Michelle & Bianca and Kaze.

Marie and Anna's mothers weren't there.

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4 days Later:

"Guess what I'm doing tonight!" Mina jumped up and down in the Hikawa Jinja.

"What?"

"Jaime Asai asked me out today. We're going on a date!" Mina squealed.

"Greg's back in Tokyo, permanently." Amy said hesitantly, blushing. All of the girls grinned slyly.

"We're going out tonight too." Amy mumbled, her face turning scarlet.

"Great Amy! Ken and I are going out to dinner tonight too." Lita said.

"What about you, Raye?" Amara asked.

"Well, um....." Raye blushed. "Chad asked me out today, so we're going out too."

"That's wonderful, Raye!" Serena smiled.

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Emeraldgrl: I'm probably not going to write about the dates in the story.

Mina: *fuming* You're not going to write about MY date with Jaime Asai?!?

Emeraldgrl: *sweatdrop* Well, uh, I gotta go before miss wacko love goddess here kills me, Bye! *runs away*

Mina: YOU WILL WRITE ABOUT MY DATE!! *chases Emeraldgrl with a mallet*