The Zodiac Senshi Trials

Water Trials

By Wendy Olson

Bella’s Trial

~ Okay, for this chapter and any other that has a non-English speaking girl I will translate it for you. As you see I don’t speak these languages either. What I mean is in the past that you will see Bella would of course speak Italian. I hope this makes sense. Also, I forgot to put that Cancer’s sleeves on her uniform are now super style. If you have any questions, comments or concerns please feel free to e-mail me at methos5000@hotmail.com Wendy~

Shelly, Lee and Bella opened their eyes and couldn’t believe what they saw. The girls were standing together in a lake of water. They were alone. The water seemed endless. It was a dark blue and only went just above the girls’ ankles.

“Where are we?” asked Lee. The two others shrugged their shoulders.

Bella looked around and saw something. It looked a lot like someone she once knew. Bella then followed the person leaving the other girls behind. Lee and Shelly were too busy to notice.

Bella yelled, “Stop!” but the person kept running. A wave of water crashed around her knocking Bella to the ground.

When Bella opened her eyes she was in a memory. When Bella was a small girl about 3 years old her mother died. This left her father to take care of her. Bella’s father wanted most of all to be a great painter. After the death of his wife he had to get a normal job and leave his dream behind.

Once Bella became 8 years old her father began to teach her to paint. He wanted to make sure his dream didn’t die. Her father would say, “You will be a great painter one day, Bella. Don’t let anything get in your way.” Bella loved her father and wanted him to be happy.

One day after Bella’s father came home from working at the restaurant, he was rather upset. “Bella, get down here!” he called to his daughter. She had been painting in her room. Bella thought that her picture was rather good so she brought it down to him.

Bella showed him her artwork. It was a painting of Bella’s mother. Though she didn’t remember her she still painted her. “This is beautiful. How did you get so good, huh?” he said to her.

Bella laughed and said, “By watching a master.” Her father had now forgotten what he was angry about. He picked up his little girl and hugged her. What Bella didn’t see was the tears in her father’s eyes. Somehow she had drawn exactly what her mother looked like. It was in that moment that Bella’s father realized she was better than him.

“Well, my little Bella, you really will be a great painter!” he told her as he put her down.

Bella looked up at him and said, “I won’t let anything get in my way!”

“That’s my girl.” he told her. Bella’s father put her new painting on the wall. He still couldn’t believe it looked just like his late wife. He missed her so much. He then looked at his daughter and saw that see was starting to look just like her.

Bella’s eyes became filled with tears as she came out of the memory. Standing in front of her was her father. He looked down at Bella with disappointment in his eyes. “I’m sorry Father.” Bella said to him as she stood.

“How could you forget your dream? All this sailor stuff is getting in the way!” he yelled at Bella.

“My destiny is with the Zodiac Senshi! It was your dream not mine!” Bella shouted back. She had never said such things to her own father. It made her feel like she was a horrible person. She loved her father.

“Well, then your destiny is to die!” Bella’s father pulled out a paintbrush. He used it’s bristles to bind Bella. Then he caused electricity to flow through it and hurt Bella. Bella screamed in pain.

Bella could feel something rising inside of her. The bristles let her go and she called out, “Scorpio Crystal Make-Up!” A burgundy colored water formed around her. Soon she was Super Sailor Scorpio. Her uniform changed a little. There was now a blue stripe around the bottom of her skirt. Scorpio’s back bows grew longer. Her tiara’s gem was now in the shape of a star. Scorpio’s sleeves now had transparent parts to them. Her broach was now new, but still a star shape. In the inside it had her sailor crystal and on the outside it now had her Scorpio symbol.

“So there you go becoming a sailor! You should have tried harder at being a painter!” Her father said. He used his paintbrush once again. It wrapped around her holding her to the spot. Her father once again caused electricity to go through it and hurt Scorpio.

Once Scorpio became loose she cried, “You are not my father! He would have understood and not tried to hurt me. I will still become a great painter! Being a sailor never got in the way! Scorpio Poison Spray!” Scorpio’s new power caused a spray of poison water. The spray hit her fake father and melted him.

After he was gone Sailor Scorpio looked around. She was now alone. Burgundy light wrapped around her and she was gone.

To Be Continued in “Water Trials: Lee’s Trial”