The Fifth of the Zodiac Senshi

By Wendy Olson

 

 

Again to remind you I am Mojo a black longhaired cat. The sailors we have found are: Sailors Gemini Wendy and Mindy Duet from USA, Sailor Leo Esa Simba from Kenya, Sailor Scorpio Bella Scorpius from Italy and Sailor Taurus Cleo Hathor from Egypt. We are fighting The Constellation Alliance and Queen Cassiopeia. She wants the Horoscope Stone, which can only be found once all 12 sailors are together.

I’ve decided that Sailor Taurus is the most spirited of the sailors so far. I explained everything to her and Cleo responded the exact opposite from Bella. She can’t wait to fight again. I can tell she is very stubborn. I also tried to explain to the sailors not to transform in front of non-sailors. I don’t know if that got through.

A few days later in our dorm room Cleo came in very excited. Only Mindy and Wendy were there. Esa and Bella were in class. "Hey everyone! My friend Shelly Snow is having a swim meet and we should go!" Cleo said.

"Who is Shelly Snow?" I asked.

"She is a girl from Australia. I think she is learning to be a nurse. I met her in my Algebra class. Shelly is very shy and I want to support her. It could be fun!" Cleo explained.

"Will there be swim team guys there?" Wendy asked.

"Don’t you have a boyfriend?" retorted Cleo.

"Umm, yeah, but I can still look!" argued Wendy.

"Oh, me too!" Mindy agreed.

"Aren’t you dating Wendy’s boyfriend’s brother?" asked Cleo.

"She is, but as Wendy said ‘I can still look’" I mimicked as I jumped on the bed where Mindy was sitting.

"Then yes, there will be swim team guys there. So are you going with me?" Cleo asked again.

"Sure!" they said in unison.

"I’ll go too. It sounds interesting." I told them. It was set we all headed for the swimming pool. I once again hitched a ride in Wendy’s backpack. I really hate that.

Once there we watched from the very back of the bleachers. The boys went first. The University was playing against a school from China. While we watched the girls talked about how cute the boys were in their swimming suits.

Then they started talking about Shelly. "I met her in Algebra. I’m not very good and she really is. It wasn’t easy at first to get her to talk to me. I thought it was because she was rude but really she is very shy. I think I am the first friend she has made." Cleo explained.

"Is Shelly good at swimming?" I asked.

"Oh yeah! There are two other girls that are really good, Lee Koi from here, Tokyo, Japan and Kelly Cascade from Ireland. Shelly told me she thinks Kelly will win, but I told her not to be so pessimistic. Shelly is really not nice to herself. That’s why I wanted to come." Cleo said.

After the boys were done there was an intermission. At the intermission everyone went to the food stand and brought back food. Since we are in Japan Mindy brought me back some sushi. I love fish! Mindy got French fries and Wendy and Cleo both had hot dogs. Since this school has people from all over the world they have food from all over the world.

The girls swam next. All of the girls were wearing matching swimming suits in green, which is the school’s color. They also had swimming caps on. Shelly has sliver eyes, Lee has deep brown and Kelly has iridescent blue. That really is all I could see about them at this time.

We cheered Shelly on. The three girls were very good. All seemed to flow though the water with ease. It was like all were meant to be in the water. At the end of the race Kelly was the winner. Shelly came in second and Lee third. So, all in all our school beat the school from China.

After Shelly was awarded she came over to us to talk. "Well, I told you Kelly would win." She sounded very sad.

"Hey, don’t be down on yourself you came in second and that is very good!" Cleo tried to cheer her up.

"Yeah. Who are your mates?" she asked after she noticed the twins.

"This is Mindy and Wendy Duet! They’re my friends. Why don’t we go out after this and cheer you up?" Cleo asked.

"Sure, just let me go and change first!" Shelly sounded much happier and headed for the changing rooms.

After a while she came out with her swimming stuff in a backpack. Shelly has silver hair in pigtail braids, at the end of the braids were buns that looked a lot like meatballs. The braids also sort of stuck out like Pipi Longstocking. She is the smallest of all the girls I’ve met so far and I think the youngest.

By this time there was no one left in the swimming pool area except us. As we were getting ready to leave a voice came from near the water. "Hello! It’s nice to see all of you again." Andromeda was hovering above the pool.

"Who are you?" Shelly asked.

"I’m the one who is going to help you awaken. Cetus come." She said. All of a sudden a bunch of stars formed a whale in the pool. It had bluish-black skin with crystals on it. It really didn’t fit that well in the pool.

"What do we do Mojo? We can’t transform in front of Shelly." Mindy asked.

"We have to!" Cleo argued.

"No, I’ll call the others." I said and then got my communicator. "Girls. You are needed at the swimming pool!"

"All right, Mojo." Both Esa and Bella said.

Then Cetus spouted water at the girls and knocked them into the bleachers. I ran to them to see if they were okay. Once I got to Shelly I saw the Cancer symbol on her forehead. I gave her a silver star broach and said "Say ‘Sailor Cancer Make-up!"

Shelly said it and seeing this the other three girls also transformed. After Shelly became Sailor Cancer her uniform was silver with white bows. Her shoes were silver sandals.

Cetus started to spray water at us again when Sailor Cancer said, "Cancer Protective Shell!" her power made a thin silverish see-though wall between the whale and us. The water hit the wall and dripped down it.

"Scorpio Sonic Sting!" the other two sailors finally got there. Scorpio’s spell hurt the whale but not much considering his very thick skin.

"Leo Mournful Roar!" It was Sailor Leo’s power that finally did it. The whale turned into stars and disappeared.

"Hey! You weren’t supposed to kill him! You stupid Sailor Brats! Fine! I’ll be back!" Andromeda yelled and left.

All of the sailors ran together and hugged Sailor Cancer. It was wonderful to watch how happy all of the girls were.

"Where is Perseus?" Wendy and Mindy both said together.

"Maybe he knew we didn’t need him this time?" Leo told them.

"Yeah, anyway as I have said you have boyfriends!" Taurus laughed at them.

To be continued in "The Sixth of the Zodiac Senshi"