Naru sighed as she went over her homework.  School wasn't all that
bad, especially since all of her friends, even Usagi managed to make it
into senior high school.  What was even better was the fact that she
hadn't been targeted by monsters for several months now. 
	Leaning back, she thought about her friends, and how many times
they had saved her.  It hadn't been too hard for her to figure out who
they were, especially since Usagi kept saying Naru's name whenever Sailor
Moon appeared.  The fact that the others also knew her, and so much about
her personal life was an indicator as well, although it was an unspoken
agreement that she never officially knew.  Still, she did worry at times,
especially since they never went through great lengths to protect their
'secret identities', depending on magic to cloud peoples minds. 
	She sometimes wished that she herself was a Senshi, having
exciting adventures and saving the world.  Of course, a lot of girls
wished that these days.  They were always so mysterious, so exciting, and
they were heroes to most of the world.  Almost all of the girls in her
school wished that they were Sailor Moon, especially with the dashing and
handsome Tuxedo Kamen. 
	Of course, they also were wondering about her sex life. 
	When Chibi-Moon had appeared, a lot of people had started to ask
who she was, especially since a young child was risking her life facing
off against monsters of all types.  It hadn't helped matters any when she
had been heard on a few occasions calling Sailor Moon mother, or Tuxedo
Kamen Father.  How a nine year old ended up with a sixteen year old as a
mother was a large matter of speculation.  Some of the adults had even
asked how much of a pervert Tuxedo Kamen was, especially if he was the
father. 
	Even more, they wondered how any mother could submit her child to
such dangers. 
	Shaking her head, she got back to work.  Wishful thinking was
nice, but one had to have been born with the powers of a Senshi, not have
them given to you in some manner as some of the girls thought.  Naru
wasn't quite sure how she knew this, but seemed to remember a beautiful
kingdom in her dreams.  In those dreams she was a friend to the Princess,
and they had spent many days and evenings looking towards the earth. 
	If only those dreams were true. 

Sailor Moon P

A Sailor Moon Adventure: 

Chapter One: 

Who is the new Senshi? 

A fan fiction based on Takeuchi Naoko's Manga series, Codename:  Sailor V
and Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, Sailor V, Sailor Venus, Sailor
Jupiter, Tuxedo Kamen, Sailor Chibi-Moon, Luna, Artimis, Diana, Osaka
Naru, Tsukino Usagi, Tsukino Shingo, Chibi-Usa, Chiba Mamoru, Hino Rei,
Mizuno Ami, Kino Makoto, and Aino Minako are copyright 1987, 1996 by
Takeuchi Naoko. 

Silver, Sailor Crystal, Shirubaa Hitomi, and Shalayn are copyright 1996 by
Ichinohei Hitomi

Publishing rights: 

Japan: Kodansha

By Ichinohei Hitomi

	The alarm rang. 
	The figure in the bed heard this and groaned, not that it was
anything new, but the older she got, the more she wanted to forget about
training for just one day.  If only she had been able to relax, and be
more like the people attending her new school, everything would be fine,
but she was cursed with knowing the past.  There were so many days that
she just wanted to forget all that had occurred in that kingdom from so
long ago. 
	But then again, her morning workouts were the only thing that kept
her from striking out. 
	Reaching over, she turned off the alarm and got out of bed.  It
had been several years, but the young woman had gotten used to there being
no one in the house.  There hadn't been anyone in the house except her for
the past three years since her parents died.  It had occurred at the same
time that she had started to remember the past.  A past she could not let
herself be part of. 

***

	Usagi came downstairs and started to prepare breakfast.  It was a
little unusual, being the first one in the house to get up, but she had
been getting a little better over the years.  Not that anyone really
noticed.  Rei still treated her like a kid, although they had gotten out
of the habit of sticking tongues out at each other.  She knew the young
priestess never did it to be mean, but more as a way of showing love.  It
wasn't easy for them to show each other their true feelings, especially
since so much was expected of them. 
	Smiling to herself, she quickly made a good, nutritious breakfast,
made lunch for herself Shingo, and her daughter, and started to prepare
for the day.  There was no way she was going to let this school year be a
disaster! 
	Humming slightly, she looked over everything she had done, and
then put a small heart card and some candies that she had bought the day
before in Chibi-Usa's lunch bag.  It was a bit of an extravagance,
especially since they couldn't allow anyone to find out who she really
was, but Usagi did want to wish her daughter well on the first day of the
new term. 

***

	Shalayn moved slowly, observing the world that was centred in the
view screen before her.  Millennia had past since she had last seen it,
had last been in this particular solar system.  It had been the only one
that had resisted her conquest thanks in large part to one short skirted
female warrior that had destroyed her ship and sent her plunging into
another universe.  She still harboured a deep hatred of that particular
female, although it hardly helped this particular solar system.  All signs
of habitation had been scrubbed from the surface of all the worlds that
orbited this star except for one.  The only planet that could naturally
sustain life without a highly advanced technology or magic. 
	Sitting down in the command chair of her latest ship, one that had
taken more than a century to build, she contemplated what sort of disaster
had occurred to wipe out almost a trillion beings and erase any signs of
the life sustaining technologies that Shalayn had originally been after so
long ago.  It was anti-climatic really.  She had spent thousands of years
with the thought of getting back to this universe to have her revenge on
these beings, to ravage the worlds and gain all their technologies, and to
have the keys to all of the knowledge that was kept in their mystical
computer repositories. 
	To have all of that disappear, to not have a chance to revenge
herself on the woman who had defeated her, but in a strange way granted
her virtual immortality was painful.  Still, it couldn't really be helped,
and it would preserve her forces for when they would really be needed. 
Shalayn would have to attack the blue-green planet below her sooner or
later, if only to have a place to set up a strike base from which to
attack this galaxy. 
	In the meantime she would try to salvage everything she could of
the once great civilization that had inhabited these worlds, and she would
start with the centre of that power.  The one natural satellite that
orbited the blue-green planet.  Perhaps something there would tell her the
fate of that civilization as well as the fate of the one person who had
been responsible for her defeat. 
	The warrior known as Sailor Moon. 

***





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	Shalayn smiled to herself. 
	The Senshi had been directed away from the real target by her
underlings, foolish little nobodies who had wanted to rise within the
legions that she commanded.  Laughably, they had assumed that this was
like the other attacks they had faced, wanting energy of some kind from
the humans that inhabited this world.  These warriors, while being about
as powerful as their ancestors, were a painful last gasp of a great
civilization.  How they had managed to protect the planet without strategy
or planing was amazing in and of itself. 
	At last, she would be able to find the person who was the living
key that would allow her to access the vast computer library on the moon. 
	She sent the signal to the agent that was watching over the
intended target.  Now that all of those idiotic girls were out of the way,
it would be no problem to acquire her.  To think, that they had entrusted
everything to the guardianship of individuals with particular
genetic/energy peculiarities.  Hadn't they realized how vulnerable these
people were without protection? 

***

	Naru was smiling slightly at Hitomi as they walked on the way
home.  It had taken a lot of work to get the usually taciturn girl to even
crack a smile.  "So what do you think of that Senshi who in charge of the
computer lab?" 
	Hitomi's lips turned up a tiny bit, "Not bad.  He seems to know
his stuff about UNIX, but I think he concentrates too much on Microsoft
stuff.  There isn't as much call for it in this country as he seems to
believe." 
	Rolling her eyes, the brown haired girl replied, "I meant about
how he looks, not what he knows.  Sometimes you sound just like Ami!" 
	An eyebrow raised in a sarcastic manner.  "I'm not interested.  If
there's anything that I've learned over the years, it's that having more
than acquaintances is dangerous to a persons health.  If everyone else
wants to get to know him, fine.  Me, I'll stick to computers.  At least
_they_ are understandable." 
	Shaking her head, Naru wondered what made Hitomi so insular.  It
wasn't like other people who had suffered a loss of some kind, or had been
hurt in some way.  It was more as if she felt she had to do so to prevent
getting involved.  A strange way to act in a country where others welfare
came before your own.  "OK.  So computers are easier to understand than
people, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to make friends." 
	Hitomi winced at that.  Despite everything she had done,
everything she had promised herself, Hitomi knew she had broken her own
cardinal rule.  She had become friends with Naru, despite her better
judgment.  No way was she ever going to admit that however, she had
problems enough!  "I'll think about it.  Anyways, I'll see you tomorrow." 
	Watching as the girl with the long black ponytail walked off, Naru
wondered why she had even tried to befriend her.  It had been a strange
feeling when she had walked into the school at the beginning of last term
and had literally run into Hitomi who was running through the halls with a
full briefcase and a large stack of print- outs.  Naru didn't pretend to
understand all of the technical jargon that Hitomi sprouted, she just put
up with it since she had decided to try and end this girls self- exile
from the rest of humanity. 
	Turning back towards her mothers shop, she smiled to herself and
breath in the fresh air. 
	Unfortunately, Shalayn's agent took that moment to try and attack
her, missing as she stopped for a second.  He turned to look at her, his
completely yellow eyes causing him to look insectish despite the human
face and form.  "Remain where you are human.  You're coming with me." 
	Naru didn't pause as she turned, ran, and screamed, thinking to
herself, *Not again!  Please!  Don't let it be starting again!*

***

	A few streets away, in a tunnel, a figure heard the scream, and
winced. 
	She knew the Sailor Senshi were on the other side of the city,
trying to handle the crisis that had turned up earlier.  If anything, it
was supposed to be their problem, not hers.  Starting to turn away, she
heard another scream, grimaced and reached into a pocket for an object.
	Raising the object up, she looked at it, seemingly in anger.  She
then muttered a word too low to be heard and there was a bright flash of
silverish light.  When it had disappeared, so had the figure. 

***
	The being tried to strike at Naru again, in order to disable the
running girl.
	Fortunately for Naru, the constant attack by monsters had improved
her running ability a lot.  Add to that, she had been taking track and
field seriously for a while because of it and you had an extremely fast
young woman.  There was no way she was going to stop to let a monster suck
up her energy or kill her. 
	Suddenly, a figure appeared and struck swiftly, the sword biting
deep into the creature.  A figure, dressed in clothing similar to what the
Senshi wore was standing there, glowering and seeming to relish the fact
that she was slowly twisting the blade through the being in a very
sadistic manner.  Her face was full of anger, and her mouth slipped into a
snarl, "I don't care where you're from, or what you are, but when you
attack a friend of mine, you die." 
	Shalayn's underling was writhing in pain as, quite sickeningly,
the young woman slowly cut through the creature in a manner designed to be
extremely painful.  Unfortunately, there was not much he could do. 
Gasping in pain, he asked, "Who are you?" 
	"I am the being that will be the death of you." was the only reply
the creature got as the sword was pulled out and spun around to remove his
head. 
	After that was over, she turned towards Naru, her silver trimmed
blue skirt seeming to swirl, "You're all right now, Naru.  I wasn't around
before, but this time, I won't see you hurt." 
	Naru was a little stunned at hearing that.  So far as she knew,
this girl was not part of the Sailor Senshi, the only ones that she knew
had the power to defeat these monsters that kept showing up.  Still, when
the warrior had said that she was a friend, Naru had realized that the
girl was familiar to her.  Not from knowing her in her day to day life,
but from her dreams.  The girl had been in her dreams about the kingdom on
the moon! 

***

Hitomi

Ichinohei Hitomi
Hitomi@terminal.autobahn.mb.ca
http://204.112.189.3/~hitomi
"The beginings of wisdom is the ability to always ask questions."