Inside the Mountain

By Wendy Olson

 

 

It seemed to take forever to get through the pig men. We all used our powers to knock them aside. After all of them were down I was very tired. "Let’s go in." I said.

We all then went inside the gate. It was dark and damp in the cave tunnel. We couldn’t even see our hands in front of our faces. "Virgo Pure Light!" Sailor Virgo used her power to light the tunnel. The tunnel was very long. Water seemed to drip from the walls.

After a long walk in the tunnel we made it to the other side. There was a small room connected to many other tunnels. In the center on the room was a tree. The tree had blue glowing flowers on it. These flowers lit the room.

"Very beautiful!" Sailor Aquarius said. She walked over to them and went to touch a flower. Once her hand was close the flower reached out and bit her. "Ow." Aquarius pulled her hand back fast.

"Be careful. Everything might be deadly." Wicca observed.

Sailor Sagittarius walked over to Sailor Aquarius and looked at her hand. He hand was okay. It didn’t bite hard enough to break the skin.

"Which of these tunnels do we use?" questioned Mindy. That was the same thing I was wondering.

"How can this tree get air, sunlight or water?" asked Wendy who was mystified by it.

"I think it is a kind of magic." Centaurus told her.

Hercules then began to sniff the air. He went to every tunnel before he was done. Hercules then ran back to a tunnel and started to bark.

"Is that where we should go?" Sailor Virgo asked him. He began to jump in the air.

"I guess we better listen to him. Let’s follow the nose." I told everyone. We went into another dark tunnel. "Don’t use your power this time. We better be at full strength once we reach the end." I told Virgo.

This tunnel was equally long. Once we reached light we were at the end of it. This room was much bigger. There were cells all along the walls. A tree with glowing flowers was at the back of the room. In the cells were all of our friends.

"Everyone!" We yelled. The animals were very glad to see us.

"Wicca Spell!" Wicca used her power to open the cells. Most of the animals left their cells. Sailor Virgo went into a cell and picked up Rosa and Bella. Sailor Aquarius and Centaurus went into another cell. Aquarius picked up Lee in her fish bowl and Centaurus picked up Celeste.

"What now?" Sailor Sagittarius asked.

"I think we go back to the room and try another tunnel." I suggested. The girls and Centaurus all nodded in agreement. All of the animals followed us. We went back through the tunnel and ended up back in the small room.

"Okay Herc, which one this time?" Mindy asked Hercules. Hercules and Orion both sniffed the tunnels. After a while they stopped at one.

"Where does this one lead us?" questioned Centaurus.

"To Perseus." Wendy said.

We all followed the dog and wolf down the tunnel. This tunnel was the longest we had been in. The light at the end grew brighter as we neared it. Once we made it to the opening Centaurus and I looked in.

"It’s a throne room." I said. This room was very big. Inside was one big throne. At all of the corners were the light-bearing trees. There were other chairs inside as well. Then I saw more pig men. "Mojo Magic!" I used my power to stop them.

The pig men fell and we entered the room. I looked up and I saw Aquila the golden eagle constellation flying. He was in his small size. The bird landed on the throne.

"Aquila is Andromeda’s favorite constellation. She must be here." Sailor Sagittarius said.

Then I could see her. Andromeda and Perseus were next to the throne. They were in the only shadow of the room. Andromeda and Perseus were kissing. "Perseus!" Wendy shouted when she saw them.

Perseus stopped kissing Andromeda once he heard Wendy. He looked at her and his eyes became blue brown instead of red. His star crystals became clear again. "Wendy! I told you Andromeda. No spell could keep me forever." Perseus then ran to Wendy.

"Animal Reveal!" Circe said. The red smoke changed him into a fox just as he made it to Wendy. Wendy picked him up. Circe stepped out from behind the throne. She then sat down on it.

Andromeda began to cry. "Why didn’t it work?" she questioned Circe.

"It only would work if he didn’t see Wendy. He loves her very deeply. My magic can’t change that. Stop that crying! We have them now." Circe told Andromeda. Circe then turned to us. "If you want your friends and the students from your school to be human again then give me the Horoscope Stone!"

"How can we? We need all of the sailors to get it." Sailor Aquarius yelled.

"Andromeda, what do you get from all of this?" I asked her.

"I get to be Sailor Horoscope! If I can’t have Perseus then I want to be a sailor." She shouted.

Wicca walked over to her. Wicca put her hand on Andromeda’s shoulder. "You can’t make yourself a sailor. You have to feel it inside of you. Concentrate and see if you are a sailor."

Andromeda closed her eyes and concentrated. Soon I could see and symbol appearing on her forehead. It was a brown star with a white star in the middle of the brown. "See, you are a sailor. Not of the Horoscope Stone though." Wicca said. She then handed Andromeda a broach that was brown with a white star inside.

"No! I made you human so you couldn’t give her that!" Circe shouted.

"Sailor Andromeda Make-Up!" Andromeda called. She began to transform into her sailor form. Light like that of stars surrounded her. Once it was complete her uniform was very different from the Zodiac Senshi.

Her dress was a Greek Amazon dress like Circe’s. It was white with brown trim. The broach was set in the same place where the Zodiac Senshi’s wear theirs. There wasn’t a bow though. The dress has a brown sailor lip or collar. Her gloves are white with brown trim finger-less gloves that go to the wrist. Her shoes are Greek sandals. The sandals have white laces the wrap around the leg to the knee. Her choker is brown with the double star symbol on it. Her earrings were also the star symbol. On her forehead was the symbol still. Instead of a tiara like the other sailors she wears the constellation crown of her mother, Corona Australis. Andromeda’s hair is still in the braided bun.

To be continued in "Sailor Andromeda?"