When Animals Attack

By Wendy Olson

 

To hide the animals we decided to keep them in Heather’s horse stable stalls. The same place where she kept the constellation unicorn and colt. Only Esa and Orion would hide in the stalls. For Lee, Mindy and Wendy bought her a fish bowl. They went all out and got her a castle and yellow rocks. Percy and Hank will not leave the twin’s side so they didn’t want to go to the stables.

We also decided to take turns watching them. It was Boots, Wicca and my turn. The rest had to get classes ready and other things like that. We don’t go to school. Boots got a day off from his work. He won’t tell us what his job is. I think maybe because he is ashamed of it.

We have also noticed that no longer were students disappearing from school and the animal population is no longer growing. I guess whatever and whoever is doing this is after us. Of course the other animals have not been changed back into students yet.

Esa and Orion were asleep when Bella and Rosa walked over to us. Rosa bent down and petted Orion. "They told us what happened. Es muy loco." She said.

Boots shook his head in agreement. "What is the plan?" asked Bella.

"We don’t have a plan yet. We still don’t know who is doing this or why." I explained.

All of a sudden we could hear a loud noise. It sounded a lot like a trumpet that is off key. I know that sound very well. Wendy was in band once. After some very awful concerts her parents bought her a guitar. Wendy taught herself to play and to write music. She is much better at the guitar than she was at the trumpet. Mindy’s and my ears are thanking the twins’ parents.

"What was that?" questioned Wicca.

We all looked puzzled. The sound even woke up Orion and Esa. Esa ran out of the stable with Orion in tow. "Where are they going?" asked Boots. We all decided to follow.

Once outside of the stables we could see tons of animals. They were all growling and ready to fight. In the center was a huge African Elephant. "Girls transform!" I yelled. It was the only thing I could think of.

"Sailor Libra Make-Up!" Rosa called. She then went under the transformation.

"Sailor Scorpio Make-Up!" Bella also yelled. She too transformed into her sailor form. Boots concentrated and changed himself into his constellation form.

Esa growled at the animals. They seemed to be under control by something. The elephant trumpeted and charged. "Libra Justice Scales!" Libra yelled. He power did nothing what so ever.

As the elephant tried to stomp on Sailor Libra Bootes called, "It didn’t work because these animals are just students being used by someone. Herdsman Lasso!" He used a power that was a rope made of stardust. The lasso tied up the elephant. The other animals then charged.

A large black panther clawed Sailor Scorpio’s leg. "Ow! Scorpio Sonic Sting!" She called after she was cut. The leg bled onto the ground. The power caused all of the animals to stop. It seemed to hurt them. Then they all ran away. Except the elephant.

Black smoke appeared next the elephant. This time the red smoke was faster. "Animal Reveal!" the smoke called. It covered Bootes and he became a reddish brown longhorn steer. Then the elephant was released and ran away.

Soon the black smoke seemed to diminish. I could finally see something. It was a woman. She was dressed in a red and black leather Greek Amazon dress. It looked a lot like the one Xena wore. She also wore a red flowing cape. Her eyes were red. The woman’s hair was pulled into a ponytail. It was dark black. Her bangs were long, red and curved under her chin. She held in her hand a wooden staff. "Ha Ha Ha!" She laughed.

"Who are you!" Wicca and I yelled.

"You’ll have to find out now won’t you? Starry Truth!" The red smoke came out of the wooden staff. It covered Sailor Libra and Sailor Scorpio. Their uniforms became Greek dresses in their power colors. Their star crystals appeared at the same time as their symbols on their foreheads.

Soon they changed even more. Libra became a beautiful set of rose colored scales. It was very ornate with blue roses on it. On the scales themselves was the Libra symbol. Sailor Scorpio became a black scorpion. On it’s forehead was a burgundy Scorpio symbol. Both also had star crystals on them.

The woman continued to laugh as the black smoke covered her. Then she disappeared. I walked over to Libra. "How could she turn her into something that isn’t even alive." I started to sob.

"Don’t worry Mojo, we will figure this out." Wicca said. She waked over to me and rubbed on me. Scorpio crawled onto the scales and looked up at us. At least I think she was looking at us. Her leg was no longer bleeding.

"MOO!" Poor Bootes mooed at us.

"What do we do now?" I questioned him. He shook his head. Esa, Orion and Boots then returned to the stable.

"What happened?" Benny asked as he ran over to us.

"It happened again. This time we know it is a woman. Please pick up Libra and Scorpio and take them into the stables. It is your turn to watch. I hope you do better than we did." I explained to Benny. He frowned as he picked the girls up.

"Scales. I think she is the only one who isn’t an animal or human. Where’s Boots?" Benny said as we walked into the stable.

"He was changed into a longhorn steer. He is with Esa and Orion." I told him.

Wicca and I then called the others to tell them what happened. I also explained what the woman looked like. Mindy, Wendy and Kelly were very upset by this. We didn’t know what to do.

To be continued in "All For One, One For All."