Title: SX5: Transfiguration
Rating: PG
Sailor X #5 Transfiguration
By: John Brengman
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�Do you know the people fighting for your
head?�
- Queensryche, �The Voice Inside� 1997
�violation� The memory continued insistently.
�No,� Rachel thought. �You are banished.�
�violation� The memory insisted again.
�No!� Rachel screamed to herself. But, this was
not an irritating
lyric that would not go away�
�violation� and now the pictures began to flash
through her mind
again�. the girl was carried through the dark living
room toward her
parents� bedroom�panicked� thrown roughly onto the
disheveled bed�
pajamas ripped open� a heart surrounded by thorns�.
�violation�
�No!� Rachel thought sternly, but she could
sense the wavering. �I
have defeated you,� but the thought
sounded hollow and only served to bring about
another assault from the
past�
�violation�
Rachel stumbled and fell against the stone wall
of a building
under the barrage. �No��, she hissed under her
breath�
�violation�
The young girl began to cry and her tears mixed
with the
torrential rain that pummeled the city. She
collapsed to the ground�
�VIOLATION�
�No�� Rachel pleaded�
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The Crystal Palace
�Hangin� by a thread, problems in my head�.�
- Queensryche, �Hit the Black� 1997
�violation�
Sandra awoke with a start and shot up in bed.
For some reason, her
first thought was to gather the rumpled covers of
her bed more tightly
around her as if hiding her body. Banishing that
thought with an angry
shake of her head, she arose and slipped into a
robe. Tying the robe�s
belt about her waist, Sandra
walked over to the huge window with its view of
Earth as it sparkled
with the light of the dawning morning.
Sandra looked over at the clock on her
nightstand. �Quarter-til
seven,� she thought. �No sense trying to get more
sleep��
�violation�
Sandra turned back to the window as the waves
of memory crested
over mental barriers erected to shield from intense
emotional trauma.
�Rachel�� she murmured worriedly.
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Noruma District
�He said, �Would you respect me, if I didn�t
have this gun?
Cuz without it, I don�t get it, and that�s
why I carry one.�
- Phil Collins, �Both Sides of the
Story,� 1993
The Yotochib police arrived at the scene of the
fifth murder in
the Noruma District in less than three days. That in
itself was not
strange�there were often more than double that many
murders in this
shattered area of the city.
Not many of the victims were frozen solid
however.
�Whoever this person is,� police lieutenant
Ryunosuke thought as
he examined the ice-cold corpses of four men, �he or
she is quite picky
about who they kill.�
Scattered around the ground were various tools
of the drug
trade�pipes, needles, and other paraphernalia. One
officer emerged from
a makeshift hut further down the cul-de-sac where
these thugs had met
their end. �Lieutenant,� he said, then tossed a
small plastic bag to
Ryunosuke.
Looking through the clear flimsy material that
kept its contents
safely dried, Ryunosuke say dozens of oval shaped
capsules, each filled
with a deep blue liquid�
�Yep,� the junior officer said, noticing the
expression on
Ryunosuke�s face. �It�s Skye.� He nodded toward the
ramshackle hovel.
�There�s more in there�crystal meth, cocaine, opium,
and enough
chemicals and equipment to put our chem lab to
shame. Whoever did this
just popped the biggest drug ring I�ve seen in my
ten years on the
police force here.�
�Yes,� Ryunosuke agreed.
�But two wrongs don�t make a right,� he
thought.
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The Crystal Palace
After all of the young women had gathered in
the queen�s study
along with Neo Queen Serenity and all three of the
cats, Sandra had
started to tell them what she had sensed from
Rachel. Most of the
Sailors reacted throughout the tale with various
expressions of shock
and horror. Bethany was stone-faced, she hated any
of this kind of
talk. Vanessa was similarly dispassionate, but she
tried to comfort
Victoria, who seemed about ready to flee the room.
Sandra found those reactions to be normal under
the circumstances.
However, her mother and the two older cats also were
showing no
significant reaction. Seeing this, Sandra trailed
off with her thought�
��and you know this�,� she said softly.
Puzzlement arose from the
gathered women, who then noticed that Sandra was
gazing sternly at her
mother.
Serenity and the cats felt eight pairs of eyes
on them as they
each tried to decide how best to disclose what had
remained a secret
since the founding of the team.
Finally, Serenity stood and stepped forward.
�The guardians and I have known about Rachel
for quite some time��
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Tokyo Central Detention Center May 25, 2012
A woman in her thirties sat across the desk
from Director Yanori
Ikeda and said the unthinkable. �I want an inmate
released into my
custody, and I want it done now.�
The bulky man squared his shoulders as if to
block the woman�s
access to the inmates personally. �I don�t take
orders from civilians,�
he growled as he puffed on a cigar. The smoke wafted
up to join the
cloud that fogged the upper regions of the posh
office. �And I
certainly don�t take orders from a blonde
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