Part 3
Sailor Draco Reborn…or is she?
"I cannot believe what is going on here?" Serena was astonished that she had been right about the Stellar Sailors.
"All of them, every last one of them is a Stellar Sailor?" Lita asked.
"Yes," Ami persisted, "I am telling you all they all changed, Cirrus, Celestial, Nova, Vortex, Andromeda, and Heaven’s Knight Quasar. My mini computer recorded their change."
"What do you think they are doing here?" Rei asked.
"I wonder what their story is…" Mina trailed off. "Luna, Atermis, do you recall any scouts like that from the Silver Millennium?"
Luna shook her head, "Absolutely no, there were only nine scouts each of their own respected planet save that of the earth."
"Luna’s right I defiantly don’t remember these girls."
"Hey guys!" Haruka ran into the room with Michiru close behind. "We finally got a hold of Setsuna, if only for a small amount of time, with Michiru’s deep aqua mirror. She told us that there is a dark evil from the Andromeda galaxy that has come to the planet, and then she cut out before we could get any more."
"There was so much disturbance, I think something is wrong at the gates of time." Michiru added looking solemnly down at her mirror.
"You don’t think she could possibly mean the Stellar Sailors?" Serena asked.
"Well, duh, meatball head what else could it be?"
"But the Stellar Sailors seem to be fighting someone as well, Could it be that they are fighting this evil." Ami was on Serena’s side.
"I don’t care who they are or who they’re fighting, we need to get rid of them and I don’t care how." Haruka affirmed.
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Nicole took off running down the street, she had gotten a call from Corrine that something was taking place in the Central Park. Ducking behind a building Nicole held up her star topped Henshin rod with the word Cirrus on it in Angelic Runes. "Cirrus Starlight Stellar Power!" Several sparkling lights swirled around her wrist like fireflies. Her clothing shimmered into nothing as a pair of aqua colored dragon wings burst forth from her back she spun around and reappeared from behind them in her Sailor Fuku, pulling her glasses out she slipped them on her nose and her feet set back down onto the ground.
Cirrus ran into the park slowing down as she felt the cold air touch her skin. She saw that frost was building on the newly blossomed cherry flowers. "This is ridiculous," she said to herself as she rubbed her bare upper arms. Looking around she noticed that things were oddly quiet for it being that the Stellar Senshi were supposed to be in the area as well as another of Ochre’s oddities.
"Hahahahaha!" Sailor Cirrus turned around quickly as she heard a cold cackle from behind her. "Well, another Sailor Spoilsport."
The figure loomed up behind her, the woman floated a couple feet from the ground. Her eyes were yellow a sure sign of Ochre’s dark stones at work. The woman’s blue dress was the lightest blue Cirrus had ever seen, as was here hair. Her lips were dark blue and her skin was white. She smiled sinisterly in the direction of Cirrus.
"What have you done with my friends!" Cirrus yelled and pointed at her.
"I cooled them off for awhile." She cackled again.
"Well you missed one of us!" Sailor Nova came running into the clearing.
Cirrus laughed. "So let’s get this straight you incased in ice Sailor Nova, the Senshi incarnate of fire?"
"Maybe I can’t freeze her but I can definitely do it to you! ICE CRYSTALS FORM!"
Cirrus ran behind a tree. Which was quickly and almost instantaneously turned it into a large log of ice.
"How dare you try and hurt my friend! You are about to feel the heat now! Nova Flame Angel!" Wings of Flame sprouted from behind Sailor Nova she held her arms out to her sides and bringing them around infront of her the wings begin to flap. Large ribbons of flame danced out and wrapped around Mrs. Frostiness who strained against the flame ropes.
"I don’t think so!" She burst through the Nova’s flame with only minimal amounts of damage. "Here Cirrus, Cirrus!"
Cirrus looked around the corner of the tree.
"Stupid scout. ICE CRYSTALS FORM!" Cirrus covered her arms over her head.
"Draco Dragon Defense!!" Another voice was heard and a large shimmery dragon of light appeared before Cirrus stopping the Ice with a wall of flame.
Nova looked around. "Did you hear that?" She looked at Cirrus.
"Sure did, but it’s not possible."
"Oh, now I am mad!" The monster screeched.
"Well let’s see if we can cool you off!"
Nova and Cirrus looked over to their left, Sailor Mars, Mercury, Moon, Venus and Jupiter were standing there.
"Right Jupiter, let’s see how she likes a dose of her own medicine!" Mercury nodded at Jupiter. "Mercury Ice Storm Blast!"
The woman was covered in a sheen of ice, she just absorbed it into her making her larger. Cirrus hung her head.
"Oh yeah that was brilliant…I thought you were supposed to be the smart one!"
"I didn’t know that would happen!" Mercury shouted back.
"Nova!" Mars yelled over to the other Stellar Sailor.
"What?"
"Maybe if you and I combine our powers of flame we can melt this coldhearted harpy."
Nova nodded, "I get it Mars let’s give it a try."
"Mars Celestial Fire Surround!!"
"Nova Flame Funnel!!"
The Celestial fire lanced off of Mars’s hands and surrounded the whirling tornado of fire that Nova created. The ice woman found herself trapped in a swirling dome of flame. She screamed loudly as she became drained of her evil energy and a yellow Orb floated over her. A normal woman fell to the ground tired.
"Mars come with me I need your help to thaw out the Stellar Scouts."
Mars followed Sailor Nova into the trees where the other Stellar Scouts were.
"So Nicole…" Serena started, she turned around and saw that Nicole had disappeared.
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Cirrus was sure she had heard it. Someone had used Sailor Draco’s Dragon Defense power. The ice had been deflected by the sparkling apparition of the Dragon. But Nova was right it couldn’t have been her, she was dead, and Cirrus had seen the rainbow Seer stone, if it was in their kitchen drawer then Sailor Draco could not be walking and breathing and saving her behind. Sailor Cirrus stopped in her tracks as she heard the bushes rustling.
"Come out you imposter!"
"I am not an imposter, I am Sailor Draco! Stellar Senshi!"
Cirrus searched for the voice. "You are not!!" Cirrus’s voice strained as she thought of the princess and her good friend Starchild. "How did you pull that Dragon Defense trick back there, only Sailor Draco could do that."
"And I am one in the same, I am going to be going now, Sailor Cirrus. I will be back though some time in the future to help you all out again."
Cirrus dropped to her knees and began to cry. The other Stellar Sailors stopped behind Cirrus as they saw her crying. They knew something was seriously wrong.
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"I am telling you what she told me word for word."
Lyssa was grilling Nicole on her claiming to have talked with Sailor Draco.
"I heard her too, Lys, I even saw the Dragon Defense attack as clear as day."
"But isn’t this just impossible, I mean, for her to come back and all, if she’s dead, she has to be reborn, and I don’t think by the description of Nicole and Corrine that this is some baby." Samantha laughed.
No one noticed as Micheal stood up and walked over to the kitchen drawer and started rummaging around.
Lyssa threw her hands up. "Hey I am only telling you all what is historically accurate, there are things that even I don’t know. Maybe there is a Sailor Draco on this planet, there is after all a constellation that can be clearly seen from both Galaxies."
Christina shook her head. "No from what I have deduced of the Milky Way’s scouts they aren’t given their powers as randomly as we were, they were specifically given the powers from and assigned to a planet. All but earth which remains a serious mystery to me."
"But there is that hot guy that throws them roses." Samantha smiled. "Maybe he is a Scout, or knight maybe like Quasar."
"Um guys," as if on cue Micheal spoke up. "We seem to be having a problem."
"What’s that?" Corrine stood up and turned around.
"The seer stone is missing." Micheal held up the drawer which he had cleared out and pulled out of the wall. "Yeah it’s definitely gone."
Lyssa sat down exaggeratedly. "Okay now I am lost."
"I think I may have an idea." Micheal came back into the living room.
"Oh whoa I think I may need to sit down." Nicole quipped.
"Oh shut up," Micheal held out his hand and closed it into a fist as if he was holding onto a bar. A silver light traced the blade of the Wisdom Staff and the wooden handle shot through Micheal’s partially opened hand. "The Wisdom Staff is sure to tell us something."
He held it out to each of the girls who subsequently shook her head, not knowing how to activate the future telling device it was left up to the one who the Staff was bestowed upon. Micheal held it out in front of him looking at it with a strangled expression on his face. He didn’t know how to activate it and he wasn’t sure what would happen if he did. Micheal closed his eyes and saw flashes of a golden dragon with silver eyes, and a brown mane and glittering stomach, he knew immediately that it was Supernal the dragon who created the Heaven Crystal. His hands began to tingle and he felt light as he started to receive flashes of his past. In the flashes he could see through his own eyes and he watched as Sailor Draco, Princess Sari of the past fell infront of him as Queen Prism attacked. He felt the heaviness of the staff in his hands as he rushed forward to pick it up and use it to protect the other Stellar Scouts. Being the last standing he was left with the responsibility of the Staff. Words filled his mind, new words that someone was sending him, Princess Sari sent them he could hear her voice now.
To the girls when Micheal had closed his eyes the room began to fill with light. Micheal’s feet lifted off the floor and the smooth black stone nestled in the blade of the staff turned bright gold with a hazy light. Nicole backed away slowly as did most of the others Lyssa just stood in her previous spot watching mouth agape.
Back in his head Micheal wielded the staff in the fight against Queen Prism, he held it blade first at her, and said the words, "Wisdom Staff empowered by dragons made of light show your secrets!" A golden beam shot forth from the blade at Queen Prism. When the dust cleared Micheal was now standing in darkness all around A tall beautiful woman appeared from the mists. Her Dark Green hair swayed around her waist, she wore a Sailor Fuku of Black and Deep red, and with her she carried a large Key Staff with a Perfect round ruby stone in the center of the Heart at the top.
"Who are you?" Micheal looked around. "And further more, where am I ?"
"I am Sailor Pluto, Guardian of the gates of time. And you are on the Time Dream Plane. This is where all time is null and void for the purposes of dreams. I have been waiting for you to fully access the power of the Wisdom Staff. You see, the Wisdom Staff and the Time Key are two splinters of the Cosmos Key. When the Galaxies were divided the Large Cosmos key divided into millions of shards which the ancients crafted into staffs like the two we hold."
"So why am I here?"
"Because I brought you here." Sailor Pluto smiled almost sinisterly. "Basically you want to know how to access the viewing capabilities of the Wisdom Staff, once I show you I cannot guarantee the things you view are the absolute future, the only thing that is absolute is the past, and The Wisdom Staff will not let you view the future."
"Why is that?" Micheal was confused.
"Because you are lacking the Seer Crystals, that unlock the Seer Stone’s power. Princess Starchild had them before she died, and then the Gates of Time were disrupted, so I do not know what happened to them."
"So tell me what I need to know to unlock the secret."
"You know already, you said the words in your past, it was shown to you now you must return as our time grows short, I cannot be away from the Gates of Time too long for the disturbance has caused great waves in the time stream. I know not yet what it is that may soon be passing through but I know that With the help of the Wisdom Staff and the Seer Crystals, Sailor Moon will be able to defeat it. This is why Starchild had to die you had to be sent here to help save the Milky Way at the cost of her life. If you didn’t all I know now is that the destruction of the Universe would be upon us."
Micheal nodded. "I’ll go then and try my best to help Sailor Moon to defend this Galaxy, at what ever odds."
"Micheal!" Micheal woke up to Nicole Shaking him. Samantha and Corrine stood close by Corrine looked in pure shock.
"What, what? I am up, calm down." Micheal sat up and rubbed his head.
"Oh, well…darn, I was almost hoping I could slap you around to get you to wake up."
Micheal smiled, "No such luck Nic."
"Oh I am so glad you are awake!" Corrine rushed in and hugged him. Micheal hugged her back knowing how startled she must have been.
"What happened?" Lyssa was dying to know.
"I don’t remember." Micheal searched his mind for some remnants of what had happened. "All I remember is a woman with Dark Green hair and some words."
"What words were they?"
Micheal stood up, and picked up the Wisdom Staff. "Wisdom Staff, empowered by dragons, made of light show your secrets." He said, the Wisdom Staff responded and started to glow gold again. The stone in the cradle of the blade projected a picture on the nearest wall. It was Sailor Nova and Sailor Vortex back to back fighting off a large blood Red Dragon with a silver mane and stomach. Sailor Cirrus leaned against one wall and Sailor Celestial was on the ground. Sailor Andromeda and Quasar were no where to be found. Corrine gasped as she watched Vortex fall to the ground having taken too much, The dragon launched an assault of fire at Sailor Nova who disappeared behind the wall of flame and then the picture dissipated.
Nicole shook her head. "That’s not true that can’t happen, tell me that can’t happen, tell me that has already happened, I won’t let it happen."
Micheal rubbed his forehead trying desperately to remember what the tall mysterious woman had told him. "Not absolute." Micheal said aloud as it was the only thing that he could remember.
Lyssa looked at him. "This isn’t an absolute future?"
Micheal shook his head. "Everything is telling me that it’s not but I can’t be certain."
"You’re right this isn’t an absolute future as far as I am concerned it isn’t even a possibility." Nicole said.
"Me either, I am not let that happen to me… to us. We need to find this Sailor Draco, and find out what is going on and do something about it for once instead of sitting around and waiting for it to happen!" Samantha finished.