Sailor Moon Millennium #14 - Signs Of the Zodiac -
Created August 17th, 1999
By: K.W. Isenor (sailor_sun_@hotmail.com)

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"Hi everyone, where is Raye?" Jessica walked into Raye's room. Serena, Amy, Lita and Mina were all sitting around a small table. Jessica waved a friendly hello at all of her friends as she walked over to a gold pillow that lay beside
Serena. Eclipse followed her into the room.

"Oh she is just getting tea and sweets ready for all of us." Serena said as she went over to the door and looked in the direction of the kitchen. "Raye Jessica is here so you better bring another cup and tea and more sweets." 
Serena yelled down the hall.

Raye peeked her head out of the kitchen door. "I'll be another minute or so just hang on." She went back inside the kitchen. It was a mess tea bags everywhere. Raye turned to face Chad. "Why do you always insist in helping 
me? Look at the mess that you will have to clean up later." Raye said as she looked at the mess.

"Oh come on Raye I just want to help you, since you helped me out on the day that I began to sell my CD's I wanted to help pay you back so I'm going to help in whatever way that I can when I can." Chad said as he neatly arranged the tray of sweets.

"Fine Chad but just get that tray in front of you and carry it into my room." Raye said as she tried to balance on tray with tea on it and another with sweets.

Chad picked up the tray in front of himself and followed Raye down the hall to her room. Raye carefully slid the door open with her foot, but in the process she almost dropped the tray with the tea on it but Chad balanced it 
with his left hand. Raye looked up at him and gave him a warm smile and then quickly walked into the room. 

"Food and drinks are here!" Raye said as she stepped into the room and set the trays on the table. Chad followed her lead and set his tray down on the table.

Chad left the room and Raye quickly closed the door. "Now we can talk." She walked over to her bed at sat down. Amy passed her a cup of tea and a small plate with assorted sweets.

"Still I haven't been able to come up with anything from your past Jessica. Myself, Luna, Artemis and Amy have been searching for some answers or even clues to what your past was. But I'm afraid to say that we haven't been able to solve the mystery of your past." Eclipse said as he walked over to Jessica's side and sat down.

Jessica's face became full of sadness, she looked down at her tea and stirred it with her spoon. "Well I still keep having these weird dreams and I think that the Daystar Knight is a part of my past. But every time I turn to talk 
to him he is gone. I don't think that he is one for words." Jessica continued to stir her tea without looking up.

"Well maybe I can get something from the fire, we haven't tried that in a while. I'm not promising any result but we can try it any way." Raye set her hand on Jessica's shoulder.

"Well we might as well try, we might even get lucky." Jessica said as she looked up at Raye and smiled.

"And while we are there we can also try to get something on the Darkstar Galaxy, they haven't attacked in a week. They might be planing something big." Amy said as she stood up and walked to the door and opened it.

The six girls, the two cats and the dog walked down the hall. They all stopped outside the room where the fire was. Raye looked around to make sure that no one would see her go in there. No one was around so she opened the door and they all quickly slid into the room.

Raye sat down before the fire. "I call upon the great fire's please show us something that will help us solve the mystery of Sailor Sun's past." Raye closed her eyes.

An image of a large round figure came into focus in the flames. It looked like the sun then it went down to the surface and a golden palace could be seen. Then the flames showed some type of a party and many people were dancing around. There was music and many smiling faces. Then it darkened and screams could be heard many people were running for their lives. There was a woman that was leading the attack, it was hard to make out any details but she did have long black hair with red streaks. Then the picture faded out and all that was left was the flames.

Jessica stared at the flames shocked. Was that my past? But I didn't see any of you there! And that wasn't Queen Beryl, who was it?" Jessica asked herself and the other's many different questions all at once. "There must have been so type of an attack and my home was destroyed." 

After they had tried to get some answers from Raye's fire reading they had all given up but Serena was the first to speak up. "Come on Raye lets try to get something on the Darkstar Galaxy, see if they are planing a attack." Serena said impatiently as she squirmed around on the pillow that she sat on.

"Hold on Serena, we have to wait a bit until we do the next reading. So just calm yourself and find something to do until then." Raye said as she got comfortable where she was kneeling before the fire on the floor.

* * * * *

"Is everyone ready?" Lord Sith asked as he walked in front of six mysterious figures that stood in the shadows.

The six figurers replied in unison. "Yes Lord Sith sir! We are ready and awaiting your orders." They all stood at attention.

An evil smirk spread across Lord Sith's face. 'This will work and the queen will become very pleased with my work, maybe she will even make me the General of the entire Darkstar army.' Lord Sith continued to pace in front of his new team as he kept his thoughts to himself.

"Ah, Lord Sith sir may I have permission to speak?" An enchanting feminine voice spoke up from the six figures. She stepped out of line and towards Lord Sith.

Lord Sith turned to look at the demon before him. "Yes you have permission now what is it? And make it fast, Queen Hecate will be hear soon so I can tell her my . . . I mean our plan to get ride of the sailor scouts!"

"Well I was just wondering why you want to destroy the sailor scouts, what have they ever done to the Darkstar Galaxy." The female figure stood at attention before Lord Sith.

"Why!? You ask! Because they are always getting in our way, we must depose of them, we need the energy for the energy crystals plus the queen now wants the Golden Illusion Jewel and those pesky sailor suited girls keep getting in our way. That is why!" Lord Sith said, his voice was full of anger.

The female figure went back and stood in line with the other's. Then there was an evil laugh that rang throughout the small circular room. Then there was a large blast of blood red light. Everyone turned to where the light had come from. They saw red snakes and black snakes spin around in a circle around nothing then a woman figure slowly came into focus it was Queen Hecate.

Lord Sith and the six figures bowed before the queen. "So Lord Sith have you and your new team come up with a plan to get ride of the sailor scouts yet? You better have or you all will be punished." The queen walked up to Lord 
Sith's side.

"Yes my queen I . . . I mean we have come up with a plan, here it is." Lord Sith swung his arm over the queen's shoulders and began to walk as his whispered the plan into her ear.

* * * * *

"Okay everyone I'm going to do the next reading are you ready?" Raye asked as she looked around the room. Then Serena suddenly started laughing historically. Raye glared at Serena who was reading the latest manga. "Serena!" Raye said through clenched teeth.

Serena quickly put down the manga and crawled over to her pillow that she was sitting on earlier. "Sorry Raye." Serena hung her head low in embarrassment.

Raye turned from Serena to the fire. "I call upon the great power's of the sacred fire, please show us what the Darkstar Galaxy is planing to do." Raye closed her eyes and hung her head. She waited for a little while but there 
was no change in the fire, she wasn't getting anything.

She turned from the fire towards her friends. "Sorry guys I can't get anything, why don't we all go for a walk and get some fresh air. You have to remember that we only have another month of summer vacation left until we go back to school. So lets go have some fun."

Everyone nodded their head in agreement as they stood up and followed Raye out of the room.

* * * * *

The six girls were walking through the park, none of them not really paying any attention. They had just came from the pool and two full hours of swimming fun.

Then Jessica was knocked over she fell down to the gravel path and landed square on her bottom. On her way down she took Serena and Lita with her. Serena's hand had hit her on the top of the head. So after Jessica managed to sit herself up she was greeted with a hand. She followed the hand up an arm then to the face of Kevin.

"Here let me help you up. Look I'm really sorry that I knocked you and your friends over I wasn't paying attention to where I was going." Jessica reached up and grabbed onto Kevin's hand. He pulled her up off her butt. When she was standing she wiped her shorts bottom to make sure that she got all the dirt off her brand new navy blue jean shorts. She brushed a strand of hair out of her face and looked up at Kevin's sky blue eyes.

"Thank-you for helping me up, and I am also sorry, I wasn't really paying much attention to where I was going either." Jessica gave Kevin a kind warm smile and then turned to look at her friends.

"And these girls must be your friends that you told me so much about when I was in the hospital." He reached his hand out to shake everyone's hands.

"Yes they are, this is Serena, Amy, Raye, Lita and Mina." Jessica said as she pointed to each on of her friends as she said their names.

"Well I'm very pleased to meet you all. But I must be going, I don't want to stop you six from having your summer time fun." Kevin began to walk off.

Jessica ran up to his side. "Why don't you come to the ice cream parlor with us, you look like you could use something to cool you down." Jessica said as she made a sharp turn and blocked Kevin from going any further.

Kevin smiled. "You mean you wouldn't mind me going with you to the ice cream parlor, you are all so kind!" Kevin said as he turned and walked back to Jessica's friends with Jessica.

"Now come off it, it will be fun. I'm guessing that you don't get to do fun stuff very often." Jessica said as she grabbed a hold of Kevin's arm and pulled him towards the ice cream parlor.

* * * * *

"Are you ready to attack? We must go now. There are many victims that are giving off their energy. This is the target." Lord Sith pointed to a hologram of Tokyo's most popular ice cream parlor. "This is where you begin your attacks then the sailor scout's will show up, that is when you six carry out your main orders. IS everything clear?" Lord Sith looked at the six figures before him.

"Yes we are ready Lord Sith!" The six figures said in unison as they prepared to go to earth and carry out the plan.

"Good now let's go." Lord Sith said as he stepped into a green flame and disappeared. The six figures each disappeared in their own flames of different
colors.

* * * * *

"Wow this ice cream is really good, no wonder they call it Tokyo's most popular ice cream parlor. "Jessica said as she took another lick of her double chocolate fudge ice cream.

"Yeah it is really good, and they have so many different kinds of ice cream to choose from. Plus they have good prices, you don't have to pay much." Kevin said as he finished off his ice cream cone.

"Yeah I couldn't decide which kind I wanted so I got two!" Serena licked the ice cream in her right had then turned to lick the ice cream in her left hand. Raye looked at Serena with a look that said you are such a pig. Serena just stuck her tonge out at her. "Well I was torn between "Brownie's On the Moon" and "Tiger Paws!" Serena went back to licking her ice cream.

The others just laughed at Serena's actions. Even Raye. Once Raye was done laughing she had this cold chill. She could feel a dangerous prescience. She looked around and couldn't see anything or anyone that looked out of place.

She leaded over to Amy and whispered into her ear. Amy got a look of dread on her face as she scanned the area. Then in the direction of the kitchen there was a loud bang and a large cloud of smoke filled the area.

People were running around screaming in alarm. The smoke was so thick that you couldn't even see two feet in front of yourself. Jessica felt her way over to her friends. "We have to stick together, come on lets go over here. Everyone grab onto someone else's hand we don't want to lose anyone." Jessica looked in the direction that Kevin was sitting. "Come on Kevin over here." She got no response.

The six girls made their way over to the corner. Eclipse walked over to the girls. "I think you better transform, this doesn't look good at all." The six girls all nodded their heads and as if on que they held their transformation items above their heads and yelled out their transformation phrase.

"MOON CRYSTAL . . . . . POWER!"

"MERCURY STAR . . . . . POWER!"

"MARS STAR . . . . . POWER!"

"JUPITER STAR . . . . . POWER!"

"VENUS STAR . . . . . POWER!"

"SUN STAR . . . . . POWER!"

After the six girls had finished their transformation poses they made their way in the direction that a sinister laugh was coming from. The six figures came closer towards the direction of the laugh.

"And remember do not fail or else. I'll be back in a little while to check up on your progress." Lord Sith disappeared in a large green flame.

"You heard what Lord Sith said." The crab like monster turned to the five other's that stood before her. She had orange skin and six crab like legs coming out of her back. "Aries I want you to keep all of the human's in this area don't let them escape." Cancer turned to look at the woman with red skin. On her head she had two large goat horns. She nodded her head and ran was about to run off into the smoke. But six figures of sailor suited girls came into focus.

"Stop right there! I am Sailor Moon champion of justice! On behalf of the moon I will right wrongs and triumph over evil and that means you!" 

"I am Sailor Mercury! On behalf of Mercury I will vanquish you!" 

"I am Sailor Mars ! On behalf of Mars I will vanquish you!" 

"I am Sailor Jupiter! On behalf Jupiter I will vanquish you!"

"I am Sailor Venus! On behalf of Venus I will vanquish you!"

"And I am Sailor Sun!" On behalf of the sun I will vanquish you!"

The six girls came into the monster's view. They all stood in their fighting stances ready to attack.

Cancer just looked at the six girls that stood before her and laughed. "You hear that girls, they think that they can get ride of us. Let's show them a good time." She paused and looked at each on of her fellow zodiac monsters. 
"ATTACK!" She yelled at the top of her lungs. The six monster's each went at a scout. Attacking them.

Each of the sailor scouts were fighting their own zodiac sign monster. Sailor Jupiter was fighting the centaur Sagittarius. Sailor Mercury was fighting Virgo a maiden with long green hair. Sailor Mars was fighting Aries the ram. And Sailor Venus was up against Libra. And Sailor Sun was fighting a large lion with fire for the mane and tail.

"What are we going to do? They are just too hard to fight. I haven't landed a punch yet!" Sailor Jupiter said as she dodged a kick from one of Sagittarius' hind legs.

"Yeah really this isn't working!" Sailor Mars jumped to the side just before Aries rammed her. "Mercury use your VR visor! Find their weakness!"

Sailor Mercury touched her earring and the blue visor went over her eyes. She scanned each of the monster's looking for a way that they could destroy them. "I'm sorry guys but I can't get anything!" Then she was knocked to the ground and she hit it hard.

"Sailor Mercury!" The five other scouts screamed in unison as their fellow scout hit the ground. Then since they had all let their guard down they each got hit to the ground.

The zodiac monster's loomed over each of the scouts. They each raised one of their arms ready to hit the fallen scout before them. Then each of the monsters screamed in pain and stepped back and held their face.

Sailor Moon looked at the red rose that lay beside her. She looked in the direction that it was thrown. And there on the skylight was Tuxedo Mask and the Daystar Knight. They were standing back to back.

Then the Daystar Knight jumped down and pulled his sword out and sliced a deep cut into each of the monster's backs. They all screamed in pain again. Then he jumped down and picked Sailor Sun up in his arms.

Sailor Moon stood up and ran to her friends. Sailor Jupiter got up slowly. She was going through much pain. She had a bad cut in her leg. "Hey Sailor Moon I think that you better do something about those zodiac monster's now." 
She fell back down to the floor.

Sailor Moon got a look of determination across her face.

"MOON SECPTER . . . . . BANISH!"

The pink and blue light circled around the six-zodiac monsters. They were engulfed in a big ball of pink and blue light. Screams of pain came from the ball of light. Then there was a large blast of blinding light and there 
was nothing of the zodiac monster's left.

Sailor Moon jumped up and down with joy. "They are gone, I got ride of them!" Sailor Moon jumped around the remains of the ice cream shop.

"Oh you didn't get ride of all of us that easy!" the voice of Cancer rang through the ice cream shop. The six scouts turned their heads in the direction of the voice but there was no one there. Each of their faces became full of 
puzzlement and wonder.

Then there was a bright flash of yellow light and the figure of Cancer formed in it. "Take this!" Cancer held her arms out in front of her chest and there was a ball of water in her hands. She dropped it on the floor. It began to grow larger and larger.

"We have to get out of here that is going to flood the whole ice cream parlor! Get the injured people now!" The Daystar Knight jumped over to a table where two people were sitting. He picked them up under his arms and cared them out of the parlor. The other scouts and Tuxedo Mask followed his lead.

"I think that is everyone." Sailor Moon said as she looked at the few dozen people that they had saved and set on the ground a little ways from the parlor.

"What about the store owner's and worker's we didn't get them!" the Daystar Knight turned and ran into the parlor he handed three workers out of the building but he couldn't get out in time. The water ball exploded and the 
water pulled him into the building. 

Sailor Sun ran to the window that she had seen him. She looked around franticly. She couldn't see him anywhere then she saw his fingertips slowly sink beneath the water energy. She made a leap towards the water. And closed 
her eyes. But when she opened them she didn't feel the water that would be draining her energy from her but four hands holding onto her arms.

"No Sailor Sun you can't or you will suffer the same fate as the Daystar Knight." Sailor Moon said as she pulled Sailor Sun away from the window.

"But I must! He saved me so many times, I never got to save him. You have to let me go!" Tears were streaming down her cheeks. Her voice had a small quiver in it.

She looked into the water and saw a small golden star shaped flower. The tears stopped running down her cheeks as she watched the small golden flower float in the water.

"Don't cry for me Sailor Sun. Remember that I said I would always be at your side fighting with you." Daystar Knight's voice echoed through the air. Then in the far distance the sirens of the police could be heard.

"Come on we have to get Out of here." Tuxedo Mask as he looked in the direction that the sirens were coming from getting closer.