Subject: (Fanfic)(SM)(Teaser)
From: Lisa Prior
Date: 11/22/1996, 6:58 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

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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