The Eighth of the Zodiac Senshi

By Wendy Olson

 

 

 

This is Mojo; I’m a black longhaired cat. I have been trying to find all 12 of the zodiac senshi. We have now: Mindy and Wendy Duet Sailors Gemini from USA, Esa Simba Sailor Leo from Kenya, Bella Scoriups Sailor Scorpio from Italy, Cleo Hathor Sailor Taurus from Egypt, Shelly Snow Sailor Cancer from Australia, Rosa Balanza Sailor Libra from Spain, and Kim Archer Sailor Sagittarius from England.

Esa still hasn’t been able to get a computer program to find the next sailor. We have tried everything, but I still can’t figure out how Queen Cassiopeia does it. Maybe there is more to it. I’ll ask Perseus about it, if I ever see him again.

Kim Archer is very wild. Cleo and Kim have gotten to be close friends. They always want to party and things like that. I try to tell them not to but they don’t listen to me. I feel the most sorry for Shelly. They drag her along everywhere they go. Shelly doesn’t seem to know how to say no.

Finals have just ended and all the girls decided to blow off steam. They thought the best way was to go to the beach. This was a very big trip, all eight girls all going to one place. I decided to go to be their moderator. The boyfriends told Mindy and Wendy that they were busy. All of the other girls said this way it would be lady’s day. I guess they forgot I’m a boy.

All of the girls have swimming suits in their power color. I told them to wear their broaches just in case. Mindy said that I’m a worrywart! Well, I’m always prepared.

At the beach all of the girls laid their beach towels out and put up umbrellas. Shelly, Mindy, Wendy and Kim went to swim while the others tried to get tans. Well, all except Esa who was reading a book.

I stayed with Esa and curled up in her lap. The sun felt wonderful on my back. I always was a bit of a sun worshiper. There was a nice warm breeze in the air and it smelt like fish, which is one of my favorite smells.

Soon the swimmers came in for a rest. Rosa brought a wonderful basket of food that she and Bella made. Everything tasted so good. It was nice to take a break from sailor stuff and just relax.

After a while Annie Pulsar came by with a girl who looked familiar. "Hi Shelly!" the girl waved. The two stopped to talk.

"Hey, Lee! How’s everything!" Shelly said to the girl. It was Lee Koi from the swim team. She has deep brown eyes and black hair pulled into a side ponytail. If I remember correctly she is from here (here being Tokyo, Japan).

"Annie is going to show me a cove that no one else knows about!" Lee told us.

"That sounds like fun! Can we come?" Shelly asked the two girls.

"Sure the more the merrier! That is okay, right Annie?" Lee then remembered to ask the girl who was taking her.

"Right, what you said, ‘The more the merrier!’" Annie didn’t seem too happy by this development.

The only girls who wanted to go were Shelly, Cleo and Kim. It was funny this time Shelly made them go along. I never trusted Annie so I followed behind.

"Are you going too?" questioned Esa.

"Yeah, just in case." I said as I ran along the beach. The sand was so hot it burned my paws.

After what seemed like forever we ended up in a little cove. The water was so beautiful. I’ve never seen such a wonderful place. Shelly and Lee ran into the water right away. You can always tell the swimmers!

Cleo and Kim laid on the sand and watched the other girls splash about. Annie seemed to have something else on her mind. After a bit she sat down next to the other girls.

"This was fun but I do have some business to attend to." Annie got back up and said.

"What are you talking about?" asked Cleo.

"The three of you weren’t supposed to be here, but oh well. I’m going to punish you for killing my favorite constellation!" Annie’s swimming suit became a white Greek dress and soon crystals appeared all over her body. Annie became Andromeda.

"I knew you were Andromeda!" I yelled as I ran up to her.

"Well, you should have done something about that pussy cat! Star Dust!" She shouted and the dust covered Cleo and Kim. The dust made it so they couldn’t do anything.

"We need you in the cove! Annie is Andromeda!" I said into my communicator.

"But where are you?" questioned Wendy.

"Esa, use my communicator as a homing device and you should find it." I told them. As I was talking Andromeda used Star Dust to knock out Shelly before she could transform.

I ran to Lee, I knew she must be a sailor or Andromeda wouldn’t bother her. Sure enough there was the Pisces symbol on her forehead. I gave her a yellow star broach.

"What is this? What is going on?" she questioned.

"Say ‘Sailor Pisces Make-Up!’" I told her.

"Sailor Pisces Make-Up!" she repeated. The light engulfed her and she became Sailor Pisces. Her uniform was yellow with orange bows. He boots are yellow thigh-high boots with orange stripes down the sides.

"Good, I didn’t even need a constellation to awaken you!" Andromeda then began to laugh. The other girls finally were free and transformed. Just as they did that the other girls found us.

"Pisces Fisherman Harpoon!" Sailor Pisces yelled. Her power was a rope made out of water. The rope wrapped around Andromeda until she could not move with Pisces holding the other end.

"Now that we have you all tied up I have some questions to ask. Why is Queen Cassiopeia fighting us? What is the Horoscope stone? What does it do?" I asked her.

"It is your stupid sailors fault that King Cepheus, my father, died. My mother is going to get revenge and for that she needs the Horoscope stone. As what it is or does…" as she started to tell us a man appeared in front of her.

"Now, now Andromeda, you can’t tell them that!" the man was dressed very similar to Perseus and Orion. He has black hair. He has crystals on him also. He seemed very familiar.

"Set me loose Hercules!" she bellowed to the man.

"I really don’t think so! Canes Major, Canes Minor, she is the one who killed your master Orion!" After he spoke two constellations formed. Both were black dogs with crystals on them. One dog was bigger than the other one was.

"You can’t! I’m the queen’s daughter! She will murder you for this!" Andromeda screamed as the dogs ran at her. The dogs attacked her and soon the three looked like a mess of stars. Then the stars were back in the heavens where they belonged.

"I hope all of you will take the blame for this. That is what I’m going to tell the Queen, so it doesn’t matter if you do or not. She will believe you did it anyway." Hercules then disappeared.

Next Perseus appeared. "Please, don’t be to hard on him. He is my brother and he doesn’t know better. I will remind him of the right side some how!"

"How do we know that you aren’t lying?" I asked him in a harsh voice.

"After everything so far you still don’t trust me? Well, I can’t worry about that now, you will trust me soon enough." Perseus sounded wounded. He disappeared before I could ask him about the sailor finding program.

"See he has a brother!" Wendy told Mindy.

"Yeah, as I said Hercules. And as I said he isn’t good!" Mindy argued.

"Well, it doesn’t matter anymore, we have Percy and Hank!" happily Wendy said.

"What is all of this?" questioned Pisces.

"We’ll explain later!" Everyone said in unison.

To be continued in "Between the Eighth and Ninth."