The Ninth of the Zodiac Senshi
By Wendy Olson
I’m Mojo. If you don’t remember I’m a black longhaired cat. I have been finding the Zodiac Senshi. So far we have: Mindy and Wendy Duet Sailors Gemini from USA, Esa Simba Sailor Leo from Kenya, Bella Scorpius Sailor Scorpio from Italy, Cleo Hathor Sailor Taurus from Egypt, Shelly Snow Sailor Cancer from Australia, Rosa Balanza Sailor Libra from Spain, Kim Archer Sailor Sagittarius from England and Lee Koi Sailor Pisces from Japan. A new enemy, Hercules, has killed Andromeda. He is Perseus’s brother.
Lee Koi our, newest sailor, is learning to be a teacher. I don’t know what kind of teacher. I think most likely of older children, maybe even college. She also likes water sports like Shelly. They both are on the swim team and diving team. I think Lee even does some water skiing.
Lee is very smart. She is a lot like Esa. They both have been trying to figure out the sailor finding program for the computer. We have had some glitches, but things are getting better. By glitches I mean finding girls who aren’t sailors. Luckily we didn’t tell them anything. I just looked at their foreheads to see if they had a symbol and none of them did. Also broaches didn’t appear.
This is the first time it worked. I was in Esa’s lap while she typed on the computer. Wendy, Mindy, Bella and Lee were also in the room. Mindy and Wendy were getting ready for a Karaoke bar date with Percy and Hank.
"I think I found one. Sailor Virgo." Esa said as a picture and profile of a French girl popped up.
The girl’s name is Noel Vierge. Noel is from Paris, France. She is 21 years old and her birthday is September 12th, a Virgo. Noel’s Major is cooking, becoming a chef. Noel has shoulder length taupe colored hair. Some hair is pulled behind her right ear into two gray barrettes. Her eyes are also gray.
"Noel? Isn’t that a boys name?" asked Wendy pronouncing the name wrong.
"Not Noel, No-El like the Christmas song." Bella said.
"Do you think this time you got it right?" I questioned Esa and Lee.
"Well, at least this time she is a Virgo. I think it might be her. Why don’t you try and make her broach now." Lee suggested.
"Can you?" asked Mindy and Wendy together.
"I think so. If she is awakening and it is her, it should work." I told them. I then spun in the air and made a taupe colored star broach.
"I guess it finally worked!" Esa said excitedly. Esa moved away from the computer and I stayed to look at the girl. Just as Esa bent down to pick up the broach Percy and Hank came though the door. Both were dressed very nicely. I pressed the off button on the monitor.
"Is that cat on the computer?" asked Percy.
"Meow!" I said and jumped from the computer chair and rubbed against the boys’ legs.
"Don’t be silly!" Hank said and bent down to pet me.
"Are you girls ready?" Percy asked the twins.
"Yep!" They said in unison.
"Meow!!" I meowed urgently.
"We’ll be back in a few hours. You girls can handle picking up our dresses right?" Mindy hinted about finding Sailor Virgo.
"Of course! You guys have fun!" Lee told them. Then the four left.
The profile had the number of Noel’s dorm room and the four of us went to find her. The other girls were in class.
Once we got there no one answered the door. "I guess no one is here." Said Bella.
"Where do you think she is?" asked Esa.
"Well, there’s class, studying and the city which is a lot of places. Noel could be anywhere." Lee said in a disappointed voice.
"We can look at the Library and the Home Ect. Room. If she isn’t there we’ll have to think of something else." I told them. We went first to the Library. I wasn’t allowed inside.
The girls came out empty handed. Next we headed for the Home Ect. Room. Most of the girls were not allowed in there anymore. Only Cleo, who has a class there, Kim and Lee who did not participated in the food fight fiasco. Again Lee came back without the girl.
We went to the park to think about where we should check next. After about an hour of sitting we decided to go back to her dorm room. Just as we got up to leave Mindy and Wendy called on the communicator. "I think we found Noel." Wendy made sure to say her name correctly.
"Yeah, where are you?" asked Bella.
"We are at a karaoke bar just a few miles from the university. It shouldn’t take you long to get here. Noel is a very good singer. So are the boys! Noel looks like she may leave here soon so you better hurry." Mindy told us.
The four of us left as soon as the twins were done talking. Once we got there we saw Noel leaving. Just as she got to a car Hercules confronted her. "Hi, Sailor Virgo." He said.
"What?" she questioned Hercules.
"Here!" Hercules handed her something. From where we stood it looked like the broach I had earlier.
"How did he get that?" I yelled.
"Do you have it?" questioned Esa.
"No, I thought you had it." Lee said. Bella also shook her head no. None of us had seen it since the dorm room.
"Girls, I don’t know what he is up to, but you better transform." I told the three. They did and we ran to meet Hercules and Noel.
"Here is the enemy!" Hercules said as we approached. With us came a huge dragon constellation. It was the nine headed Hydra. It was purple with crystals only on the middle head and down it’s body. "They brought that! Say ‘Sailor Virgo Make-Up!" to fight." He lied to Noel. The Hydra fired water at both Hercules and Noel. It didn’t even seem to mind us.
Noel and Hercules were drenched but still stood on their feet. Noel looked scared out of her mind. Her forehead had the Virgo symbol on it. "Sailor Virgo Make-Up!" she yelled. Her uniform was taupe with gray bows. Her shoes are taupe toeless high heels.
"Pisces Fisherman Harpoon!" Sailor Pisces used her rope to tie up the Hydra.
"Why are they fighting it then?" Noel asked Hercules.
"Because they can’t contain it." He tried to lie.
"Go for it’s middle head! That is where it is most vulnerable." Leo yelled to the girls.
"Hurry, I can’t hold it much longer!" Pisces said. The beast was wiggling a lot.
"Leo Mournful Roar!"
"Scorpio Sonic Sting!" Sailor Leo and Sailor Scorpio combined there attacks and focused them on the middle head of the Hydra. The Hydra turned into stars and disappeared. Sailors Gemini came running after the beast was gone.
"Come with me!" Hercules told Sailor Virgo and grabbed her arm.
"Virgo Pure Light!" Virgo used a bright beam of taupe colored light on both Hercules and us. It didn’t hurt it just tingled.
"Oh yeah, Virgo can use her attack as either a weapon or to find out who is pure and good. Who passed?" I asked her.
"You and the other sailors." She said flat out to us.
"Fine!" Hercules disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Perseus came right after his brother was gone. "You chose wisely!" he told Virgo.
"Virgo Pure Light!" she used the pure beam on him as well. "You also pass!" she told him.
"Good. Now you will finally trust me." He looked very happy.
"Can’t you tell us what is happening then?" I questioned Perseus.
"I will when I can!" Then Perseus was gone.
"You two made it! Where are the boys?" Pisces asked Gemini.
"I don’t know they had to leave suddenly." Sailors Gemini said together.
To be continued in "The Tenth of the Zodiac Senshi."