26Author's Explanation: I have created this story with the idea of a possibility of creating a male Sailor Senshi. Problem is that I know about the rule of only girls being Sailor Senshi; no question. So I started working around to find any loopholes the rule might have. I respect the wishes of the original author of Sailor Moon, so this is why I've been working on this in a different way. I found one such loophole where I have one Sailor Senshi from the past merge with the man she loved, who turned out to be a very powerful dark entity, after they had both died. It opened up the possibility of the fallen Sailor Senshi being reborn in the body of either a boy or a girl. Of course, the dark power lies dormant, but for only so long. However, I needed an extra detail to not only ensure that the person would be male, but to also have him involved in Silver Millennium; not to mention the fact that I needed to be sure he would be born on Earth at the same time as the other Sailor Senshi.
Disclaimer: All characters of the series "Sailor Moon", except for Sailor Storm, Thunderstorm, the Sailor Elements, the Five Storms, and all other Original Characters, are under copyright protection of Naoko Takeuchi.
Prologue
"SERENA," Ray yells since Serena yanked her brand-new manga again.
"What? I'll give it back when I'm done," Serena whined while trying to fend off Ray's fighting hands.
All of the Inner Sailor Senshi were at the Cherry Hill Temple on a Sunday morning where Ray lives and works at for their regular scheduled meeting in the week. Amy, Lita, and Mina were of course ignoring the constantly fighting girls while they were enjoying Lita's cooking that she had always brought with her.
"I'm just glad that the hard part is finally over," Mina said.
"No kidding. I hope things will be able to return to normal for us," Amy said.
"I don't know, Amy. I am actually counting on these rogue youma attacks to keep me busy," Lita said with a dangerous gleam in her eyes.
"Lita, don't you ever wish to actually settle down and concentrate on more important stuff," Mina asked.
"Like what?"
"Like boys," Mina said smiling.
"Okay, girls. Enough fooling around. It's time for our meeting to take place," Luna, a black female moon cat, ordered.
All of the girls including Ray and Serena had gotten into their respective positions around the table. Luna and Artemis, a white male moon cat, happened to jump on top of it into the center to make sure they had everyone's undivided attention.
"Now as you all may know, the Crystal Tokyo era is still seemingly guaranteed to happen, but now we must do our best to make the transition as smooth as possible. There is, of course, the matter of the Black Moon Family. However, I'm sure that we will be able to come up with some way to hopefully stop that from happening. It just depends on what our actions are," Artemis said during the meeting.
It couldn't have happened at a worse time. Ray suddenly felt a cold shiver run down her spine. The funny thing is that it was coming from the temple fire even though it wasn't burning brightly like it would when it says something. Ray decided to figure out what the sacred fires might know and turned her attention to them. While she was chanting to the temple fire, everyone else carried on with their own business. Serena started reading the manga with no interruptions, Lita and Mina were comparing boys that they came across the past week, and Amy was working on the statistics of the latest youma and compared them to the others. That was, until Ray got their attention.
"Guys, I think we might have a problem," Ray said seriously.
"What is it that you saw, Ray," Luna asked.
"I saw a vision. A fore-coming of a person who has three different sides. One side almost appears to be a Sailor Senshi, but I'm unable to determine who she is and what her power is. Another side is filled with darkness. All I could make out was a man no older than Darien with glowing blue eyes. The third side, however, was filled with so much bright light that I wasn't able to see anything. Then suddenly, I saw a dark presence behind the person. It was a whole force of them, but the one in the middle appeared to be a very dark woman with red eyes. What scares me the most is that I think I recognize the woman."
Everyone stared at Ray with a mixture of shock and fear.
"Recognize," Lita asked.
"Who do you think this woman might be," Amy asked.
"I don't know, but I've got a bad feeling that we do know her. The thing is that I'm more concerned about the other person I saw," Ray said.
"Was this person a boy or a girl," Luna asked.
"I couldn't tell. I could see the three sides, but the person himself or herself was completely hidden."
"So what do we do now," Mina asked.
"You can do the same thing as you have done before, and that is to defend the Universe," a familiar voice said from behind Serena who instantly jumped out of her skin.
"Sailor Pluto," everyone exclaimed.
"Ooooooohhh! I wish you quit doing that," Serena exclaimed.
"Sailor Pluto, I don't suppose you're able to see what's about to happen can you," Ray asked.
"I would love to answer, but unfortunately I cannot. It seems that I cannot see into the future anymore. Even Crystal Tokyo has become blurred. I fear it may have something to do with the vision that you have just seen, Ray," Pluto said.
"Great. Back to square one," Lita grumbled.
"But don't fear. I feel that everything will be made clear very soon. Now if you'll excuse me, I must see how the Outers are doing," Pluto said before disappearing into the Time Gates again.
"For some reason, I don't think that really helps me at all. I still don't know who that person is, or what side they're on. But the fact that Pluto can't see the future anymore just plain scares me. I hope we can deal with whatever comes into our path this time," Ray thought.
"Something's coming. I can feel it, down to my Silver Imperium Crystal. Whoever this person is must have something to do with the Silver Millennium. But what is it? And why am I shaking with both excitement and fear about all of this," Serena thought as everyone else started to leave.
"Whoever this person is, I hope beyond all hope that this person is on our side."
Sailor Storm: The Lost Element
Chapter 1: The Jacksonville Nightlife
It has been a few years since Queen Beryl of the Negaverse had begun attacks to the people of Earth in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She knew that despite her powers nowhere near the level she was at during the fall of the Silver Millenium, her forces were more than capable of preventing attacks from the Earth's police forces. She also knew that her forces and her power would be at full strength long before the humans would resort to using mass-destructive weaponry. However, she never counted on all of her attacks being thwarted by a teenage girl known as Sailor Moon. It frustrated her even more when she learned that Sailor Moon had allies that were growing in numbers. Despite pulling off some clever tricks of her own, she still ended up ultimately defeated by the Sailor Senshi. As the years passed, the Sailor Senshi have grown more competent, stronger, and more closely together. Also, they had found it astounding that any and all news about them have managed to remain local to the district. However, the Sailor Senshi may not have vocally mentioned it, but they know that the world is much bigger than the Juuban District of Tokyo, and they cannot easily stop a new enemy force from attacking a location on the other side of the world. But what they do not know was that a new senshi had awoken in the city of Jacksonville, Florida about six months ago, and that the person was fighting for the city to regain control from the mafia that had all but literally owned every piece of the city. Nevertheless, the Sailor Senshi will be in for shock to learn who the new senshi really is, and that they are not actually a Sailor Senshi like them.
The city of Jacksonville was finally beginning to fully enjoy their freedom that was repressed by fear and intimidation from mafia crime syndicate that used to plague it. In the middle of the city, a young teenager was walking past different shops throughout the blocks of downtown. He happened to come across a shop that sold and repaired televisions when the TVs in the window had begun broadcasting the news. It was their lead story that had him stop and watch.
"This is Channel 4 news at six. Our top story for today is that crime rates throughout the entire city of Jacksonville has decreased at a minimum of 45 percent, implementing a new record throughout the entire state of Florida. Normally this would be expected as a new program set out by the police. However, police officials say that this is not their doing. Instead, this is the same type of work caused by a civilian vigilante that helped free the city from the mafia. Police officials did say after the criminal investigations at the crime scenes were complete, they have declared that the vigilante responsible for this kind of brutal act will be arrested on sight. There is no law against citizen's arrest, but the kind of punishment these criminals are going through before they are picked up by the police has now been declared inhumane by police officials. Criminals have been reported to have these injuries in the least: broken limbs, broken ribs and other various bones, arms out of their sockets, arms and/or legs having their joints reversed, injuries from a long hand-held weapon, possibly a sword, arms, legs, and shoulders suffering odd gunshot wounds, and in most cases, criminals suffering from high electrical shocks. Some eyewitnesses claim that the vigilante is actually a teenage girl wearing what appears to be a sailor version of an ice skater's uniform. If you happen to see this suspect or have information regarding this suspect, you are obligated to contact the local authorities immediately. In other news..."
The teenager shook his head at the window, muttering "typical" under his breath. Without a need to keep watching the news, the teenager continued on walking. About half an hour later, he managed to reach his parent's home. It was pretty spacious for a family of three, but they didn't normally let their successfulness get to their heads. The teenager walked through the front door where his mother confronted him.
"Kyle Tera Rayden! Do you know what time it is, son," Sharon Rayden asked.
"Uhh... six-thirty," Kyle answered a bit dumbfounded.
"You told us that you were going to be home by six o'clock. I do hope there's a good reason for you being late."
"Actually, I do, Mom," Kyle answered while pulling a box from his pocket.
"What's this," Sharon asked.
Kyle handed the box to his mother, where she had opened it. The look on her face went from puzzled to shocked in an instant.
"Oh, Kyle. You've fixed it. I thought my charm bracelet was pretty much destroyed. Oh thank you, Kyle," Sharon said embracing her son in a big hug.
"You're welcome, Mom," Kyle said hugging her back.
Sharon ended the hug early to let Kyle inside the house, where he went upstairs to his room. The moment he closed the door, his demeanor turned sour while he crashed onto his bed. He was laying on his back when his cat, Zeus, had jumped up onto his chest.
"You should have seen the news today, Zeus. I just don't know what to do anymore. You would think that after being a free city for a month, they would be grateful. But now the cops want Sailor Storm in jail, or probably prefer to have her head on a platter. This city doesn't know what it wants, and it's tiring me out. Though as much as I want to go and settle their problems, it's not like it will do me any good. What do you think of this," Kyle ranted and asked to Zeus.
Zeus, looking like a black mound of fur on Kyle's chest, just looked back at Kyle with his blue eyes, the gold crescent moon reflecting the low sunlight back into Kyle's own near-royal blue eyes.
"Yeah, that's what I thought you'd say," Kyle said.
Kyle turned onto his side, causing Zeus to move off of him. He had his hand pull his ponytail of brown hair out from under his neck while his six-foot, slim frame rested on the bed. Zeus curled up beside him while Kyle took his nap.
Just after 11:30 at night, an organized break-in at the Rayden Corporation building, where Kyle's father, Bill Rayden, is the CEO, was beginning. A group of seven thieves have managed to make their way through the 80-story building, trying to reach the corporation's vault that held the money bonds they were trying to steal. They managed to find it on the seventy-fifth floor of the building with an advanced security system. All of the locks were electronically controlled by the security terminal across the room. They managed to start cutting through the seven locks while bypassing the security codes for each lock. The process was very hard because they had to synchronize their moves perfectly. If either one finished before the other, the alarms would go off. However, if they tried to completely cut off the power to the building, it would make their break-in run more smoothly. That is, if it wasn't for the six foot thick titanium slab to fall from the ceiling to the floor just behind the vault doors when that happened.
After they breached the seventh lock, the doors finally opened. Losing their professionalism, they just stood there in awe. Unfortunately, they stood there for too long. Just as the leader, Earl, made one step, the emergency slab fell as the entire building went powerless. They looked out the nearest window, but they didn't see any cops. Normally, there would be cops lined up all over the place with their lights flashing for all to see. But there was nothing. One of them started panicking, telling them they had to get out of the building now. Earl tried telling him to shut up, but it was no use. When another thief asked the panicked one what the hell he was talking about, he kept saying "we're dead. We're all dead. She's coming. She's coming to kill us all." When Earl asked him who was coming, his question was answered when a shadow appeared on the floor, causing them to turn around. When they did, they saw the form of Sailor Storm standing in front of the window that had the full moon's light shining right in, along with a grin on her face that only promised pain.
"Well, well. What do we have here? Looks like seven professional thieves trying to rob the building a very good friend of mine owns. Very big mistake. You've just bought a world class ticket to Hell. Welcome to Sailor Storm's playground, and after I'm done with you, you'll wish that it was the cops who busted your ass and not me," Storm said with her arms crossed.
"That's what you think, bitch," Earl yelled while he pulled a gun and fired four times.
Normally, Storm would use the more than enough speed she had to dodge the bullets, but she just stood there smiling. The bullets almost reached their intended target when they suddenly bounced off of what just so happened to be a force field projected by Storm's lightning defenses. Earl lowered his gun with a scared and shocked look on his face. That was when Storm lunged forward so fast, the others barely saw her move before she was already directly in front of Earl. Storm first grabbed his hand with the gun and crushed the gun with his hand. Earl let out a scream that was cut off when Storm punched him in the chest. Using both hands, she threw blinding fast punches into his chest and gut for one second. Then she gave him an uppercut that caused him flying towards the ceiling. However, before he got there, Storm jumped in the air, twisted around towards her left once, and kicked him with her right foot. That attack had Earl flying a good 90 mph before he hit the slab back first. Earl was now unconscious. Storm turned to look at the others while they were running to the exit. Unfortunately, Storm had locked up all exits from the room, preventing them from escaping. They looked at her, either scared to hell or filled with rage, when she said "one down; six to go."
After Storm had tipped off the police about the break-in, the thugs were now in a hospital, waiting to go to prison, while Storm was standing on top of the building looking out upon the city bathed in moonlight. After about ten minutes, she made her way back home. She climbed through the window she left open when she was informed about the break-in. As she expected, Zeus was waiting for her to arrive back.
"How did it go, Kyle" Zeus asked.
"Like a walk in the park. Seven guys this time; all of them thinking they could stop me. Still, it is getting repetitive pretty fast," Storm said.
"Well we have to stick with it. I'm pretty sure something will come up."
"That's actually what I'm afraid of, Zeus," Storm said before she changed back into Kyle.
No matter what he had done to ignore it, Kyle just couldn't shake off a bad feeling that he's been having for the last week. It was like something was about to happen to make everything go straight down from okay to worse than bad. If it has anything to do with Kyle being Sailor Storm, he was going to make sure that he gets to the bottom of it.
End of Chapter
Author's Note: I decided to rewrite this chapter and change a few others to help compliment the prequel story arc "Awakening." I hope it works out.