Here's another fic I'm working on. Read it and let me know if I should
keep working on it.
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This is one idea that came to me after watching too much DIC Sailor
Moon. It isn’t finished but here goes.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon, Sailor Senshi and all terms, names etc
associated
with the series are copyrighted by Naoko Takeuchi and
DIC. Sailor
Minerva and the planet Minerva are all mine.
Sailor Minerva,
the secret sensei
by LPrior
(lprior@geocities.com)
Intro. and chapter one
Iriko is the sailor sensei from the planet Minerva. Minerva, previously
between Mars and Jupiter, is now the asteroid belt. She is a small
woman, five feet tall. She has lavender hair in a long braid, from the
top of her head hanging to just brush the floor. When a sailor sensei,
she is dressed in the normal sailor suit with a lavender bow and skirt.
She wears amethyst-point dangle earrings.
Back before the fall of the Moon Kingdom, the planet Minerva was a
place of quiet beauty and nature. Unlike the other kingdoms, Minerva
had been undeveloped. The people were quiet and shy, rarely seen
outside their home world. Like the other kingdoms, Minerva sent a
daughter to be part of the Moon Princess’ court. She tended the
garden, instead of the princess. Because of that, she was not well
known to the others of the court.
She carried a secret. Her people were the best spies of the Silver
Millennium. When word of the Dark Kingdom came to Queen Serenity,
she asked the people of Minerva to help infiltrate Beryl’s court. They
brought word just before Beryl’s attack. For what Beryl viewed as their
betrayal, she had the planet Minerva destroyed. Unlike the Moon, she
didn’t stop at the people and buildings. She had the planet blown into
many pieces. It became the asteroid belt. Of all the people of Minerva,
only Iriko and a handful of others, buried deep under cover in the dark
kingdom, had survived. Queen Serenity had saved the people of the
inner planets by spreading them throughout earth’s history, but could
not save Minerva’s people.
After the battle for the Moon, Iriko begged to be allowed to follow in her
brother’s footsteps. She wanted to go under deep cover in the Dark
Kingdom -- to undermine Beryl’s power and her generals -- to
weaken the Dark Kingdom from within. Serenity gave in reluctantly.
She cast a spell about Iriko’s mind to insure that no one would be able
to tell that the young woman was from outside the Dark Kingdom.
Iriko became Amethyst, warrior of the Dark Kingdom. She moved her
way up the ranks to a point where she was just below the generals.
She became an aide de camp. When she was assigned to help
Jedite, she threw little wrenches into his plans. When he was
punished, she was reassigned to Nephlyte. She found in Nephlyte a
“flaw”. His growing attachment to the human girl, Molly. She was
saddened when he died just at the point of redemption. He had been
the best of her superior officers. The years since the destruction of the
Moon Kingdom had changed him subtly. When the Dark Kingdom had
first made it’s move for domination he had been one of the cruelest of
the general. He had seen something during the final battle that
changed the way he looked at the universe.
Soyasite was easy to manipulate. When he was away from his lover
he was petty, jealous and vain. A single word would throw off his
plans. Being chosen to help find the shard holders, Amethyst found
ways to delay or slow down those encounters. That way, the Princess
and her court could arrive in time to defeat and heal the human
carriers.
The rift between Prince Darien and Princess Serena puzzled her. She
had her full memories of the Silver Millennium, but the others didn’t.
When Darien was captured by Queen Beryl and had his memories
erased, she volunteered to be on guard duty. During her time on duty,
she would sneak into the room and quietly whisper to Darien. She
added a little of her power to helping him hold onto his memories. It
wasn’t much, but when he was sent out to attack people, he would
defend those of earth and the princess. His only goal was to get the
silver imperial crystal. He didn’t know why.
When the climax came, it happened sooner than she expected. She
knew from listening to Malachite that the inner sensei were back
together. Now was the last chance she had to align the Prince back
with the side of good.
Prince Darien slept in a special chamber that Queen Beryl had specially
prepared for him. The room resonated with power, a subtle type of
power. It was directed at Darien’s mind. It was subtle enough that he
never noticed the brainwashing being done. After the intensity of her
original work on his mind, Beryl was confidant that the lowline
reinforcement would keep him under her control. She had plans to
have Darien at her side as the King of Earth and the solar system. She
didn’t know of the work that Iriko had been doing over the time he had
been in her care.
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CHAPTER I
“Good evening, Amethyst.” Darien nodded to the purple-haired, young
woman standing guard outside his door. Over the past few weeks, he
had gotten used to her presence and expected her to be there every
evening.
“Good evening, sir.” Amethyst came to attention, saluting her superior
officer. When the prince waved her to relax, she smiled and asked,
“How was your day, today, sir.”
“Difficult,” he looked down and clenched his fist. The emotions he was
feeling chased across his face. Amethyst could see an internal
struggle going on. “Malachite tried another of his plans to retrieve the
crystal. He nearly killed some innocent humans standing nearby.”
Darian looked up at Amethyst. He knew that she worked for Malachite
but her trusted her. They both felt that the humans of Earth should be
left out of the quest for the crystal.
“He doesn’t have any care for those he considers lower than himself.”
She remarked wryly.
Darien smiled. “Having trouble with his high and mightiness again?”
Amethyst looked away and spoke quietly. “You know how he’s been
since Soyasite died. Anyone in his way is to be walked over. Those
he has under his command have found it best to jump when he calls
and avoid him as much as possible.”
Darien looked at the girl for a long moment. “Amethyst, why are you
here?”
Amethyst turned back toward Darien quickly. “What? I’m on guard
duty. You know I have been assigned by Malachite to watch you and
report your movements.”
“Yes, I know.” He paused and then continued. “Why are you working
in the Dark Kingdom’s armed force? You don’t seem to be like the
other young officers I’ve met.”
Amethyst looked stricken for a moment. Darien had caught on to the
discrepancy between her role and her personality. When around
Darien, she had taken to acting more like Iriko and less like the cold
Amethyst, aide to generals. She thought quickly. She could not tell
him why she was here. He was still under Beryl’s control. After a
moment she thought of something. “Darien, I haven’t had to tell
anyone this in a long time.” She looked down and scuffed a foot along
the carpet. “My father had me commissioned in Beryl’s service when I
was a young child. I have no other place to go so I stayed in and
moved up the ranks.”
Darien thought about that for a moment. He understood doing what
the family wanted. But there was something else about the woman
before him. He recognized her from somewhere else. Every time he
saw her, he felt his mind trying to tug him in some direction. Pulled
away from being the servant of the Queen, toward some misty memory
of his earlier life. He nodded to Amethyst and turned away toward his
room. “Well, goodnight.”
With a sigh of relief Amethyst wished him a good night’s rest and took
up her guard post. That was too close. She wanted him to remember
who he was but not in bits and pieces. If he remembered who she was
before the battle was done, he could blow her cover. She didn’t need
to be turned over to Beryl and her queen after all her long years here.
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So whatcha think? Should I finish this?
I'm still working on chapter four of Sins of the Father. Having just a little
problem with the set up. Should be done by turkey day (I hope)
As always C&C is appriecated. Bye now.
Lisa
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