Hello List members,

I am back after a long time off the list.  New email and new pages but same stories to be finished.  Hope your folks dodn't mind but as I have written more on this I thought I would post it and get some feed back!

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Sailor Minerva
The secret Sailor Sensei
by LPrior
Introduction

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 help 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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I am posting the rest of the story separately.  Hope this is formatted correctly.  I have changed computers.

As before any C&C is appriecated and will be concidered, acted on and writen back to!

Your demented writer,
Lisa Prior