Chapter 1- The Senshi and the Detective
She ran through the streets of Tokyo, racing after a thief. The thief turned suddenly and pointed a silver pistol at her. He fired. The bullet was inches from her chest when someone dashed in front of her, taking the bullet. To her horror, it was...
"Urawa-kun!" Ami Mizuno bolted upright from her small bed. The dream again...
The bright sunlight peeked out through the closed blinds in her room. Ami climbed out of bed and opened them. The light illuminated the pale blue sheets of her bed, her dark blue walls decorated with a water pattern, and photographs of her friends.
Ami stepped over to her white dresser and looked into her mirror. Her kind face smiled back at her: large, blue-black eyes, slightly pale skin, and pink cheeks. Her blue hair was the color of water, which it fell a little past her shoulders. When she was younger her hair was shorter, but now she was twenty-two and decided to change her appearance.
The young woman still lived in the Juban area of Tokyo. She had always dreamed about becoming a doctor just like her mother. However, she realized that she still loved to serve justice to wrongdoers like she did as Sailor Mercury. She chose a different career path, and instead became a Tokyo police officer.
Keeping her identity safe, she still transformed into Sailor Mercury to fight especially hard to capture criminals. She remembered one of her most recent adventures...
--x--
"Sailor Mercury, you've done it again," Chief Kana, the Chief of Police, said gratefully, as he handcuffed a car hijacker.
"It was no trouble at all," Ami replied cheerfully, happy to have helped.
As soon as she said this, a man dressed in black and armed with a knife leaped out of the window of a tall office building nearby, falling straight toward a small group of young schoolchildren. The little boys and girls screamed with terror.
Eternal Sailor Mercury sprang into action. Drops of water and ice gathered around her as she spun gracefully with her arms slowly rising into the air.
Shine Aqua Illusion! Mercury shouted, releasing a star of water and ice at the man. The ice and water crusted around him, and he fell like a rock toward the Tokyo streets. Ami led the children out of harm's way, and with a resounding thud the armed man slammed into the ground. Immediately the police surrounded him.
"Thank you, Mercury-chan!" the young boys and girls exclaimed gratefully.
The Senshi of Water smiled, and the wind ran through her hair as she leaped into the air with ease, her work as a Senshi being completed for the moment.
--x--
Ami changed into a light blue sundress and sandals. Today was Saturday, and she was off duty. She was going to meet with Usagi, Rei, Mako, and Minako to have a picnic lunch in a park together, with their respective families, during the warm summer day.
"I wonder what Urawa-kun is doing now...," Ami wondered aloud. Then she sighed, having no knowledge of Urawa-kun's life since junior high.
The blue-haired young woman left her seventh floor apartment, descended down the elevator, walked through the main corridor, and departed.
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His desk was crammed with reports and paperwork, old cups of coffee, pens, paperweights, and snacks. On the wood-paneled walls were certificates signed with incomprehensible characters. The wood fan overhead spun rapidly, but it was not enough in the stifling room. Outside through the single tiny window, the streets of Tokyo hummed.
Ryo Urawa sat at his desk with his feet up, dosing. It had been a long day, even though he was only on the job for three hours.
The door slammed open. "URAWA!"
Ryo snapped to attention. "C-Chief-san?"
The Head Detective of Tokyo folded his arms, glaring down on Tokyo's youngest detective. "Stop sleeping and get to work! I expect these reports by noon!" Detective Keiji stormed off.
Ryo sighed and stared blearily at his stack of paperwork with his piercing dark eyes, willing it to be done.
Ryo was an unusual young man. Ever since he was a young boy, had a strange power- he could see the future.
This power proved to be a blessing and a curse. It allowed him aid with the most advanced of Japan's placement tests when he was a teen. However, it also allowed him to foresee a bleak future before he changed into a beast, when he discovered as a teen that he possessed one of the seven Rainbow Crystals.
Thankfully, the plans of the wicked warrior of the Dark Kingdom, Zoisite, were foiled, thanks to Sailor Mercury.
"Mizuno-san...," Ryo said aloud, and he blushed with embarrassment even though no one heard.
Ryo's powers grew as he grew older. He could now see the past as well. Furthermore, his new power was so strong that it allowed him to see days in ancient history.
Both of his powers were controllable. He could see the parts of the past and future that he wished to see. Thus, he wanted to use his ability to help people, and became a detective. Of course, he kept his powers secret.
Ryo was content with his job- he made enough yen to live comfortably in an apartment in downtown Tokyo. He stayed in touch with his mother, who lived in the outskirts of Tokyo.
The detective looked at his paperwork again and picked up his beautiful, decorative blue pen. It was adorned with swirling water pattern.
Sailor Mercury...
Ryo shook himself. "Get it together, Urawa! There's work to be done!"
Mercury...
Ryo tried to force himself to work, but his thoughts kept drifting away.
Ami.
He remembered his admiration for the Girl Genius from afar. Mizuno-san was always polite and kind when she spoke with him. He remembered their first conversation outside of cram school in the morning, ready to begin exams…
--x--
Fourteen-year-old Ryo scrambled to his new cram school on Saturday, extremely stressed. It was his first day, and he wanted to make a good impression on his new professor and classmates.
The spring rain drenched him; he had forgotten to bring an umbrella. "Never leave home without an umbrella," his mother, Erika, always said. He wished he had listened.
He splashed through the sidewalks and crossed the busy Juban streets safely. He was almost there.
He finally made it, and dashed up the steps. However, he collided with a girl holding a blue umbrella. Textbooks, papers, and their schoolbags flew everywhere.
"Ah no! I'm so sorry!" Ryo exclaimed. He hurried to gather the girl's things and helped her up.
Her hand felt soft and cool. And her eyes were such a rich shade of blue that he found himself getting lost in them. The girl's blue hair grew wet in the rain, but it looked natural, as if she was part of the water.
"It's all right," the girl said kindly. "Are you okay?"
"I-I'm fine."
"Oh! I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Mizuno. Ami Mizuno."
"Ryo Urawa." He was dying to touch her hand again, and his wish came true when they shook hands.
Mizuno-san pushed a lock of her short wet hair behind her ear. "Nice to meet you, Urawa-kun! I hope you like this cram school. Who knows- we may even be in the same class!"
Her bright smile warmed him, even in the cold rain.
--x--
Ryo leaned back in his chair, reminiscing wistfully at the memory. He remembered after meeting Mizuno-san he tried to find out as much as he could about her. He realized that they both went to the Juban Municipal Junior High, and he was amazed when he discovered that she was at the top of Japan's achievement exams.
He had acquired a scrap from a newspaper article with a black and white picture of Mizuno-san. A little later, when he had transferred to Juban Junior High during the few months he lived in the Juban area with his mother, Mizuno-san's friend Tsukino-san gave him a comical candid color photograph of Mizuno-san eating a cheeseburger. Ryo still had it, and treasured it.
Ryo had dreamed of telling Mizuno-san how he felt after he performed higher than her in exams. However, life got in the way when he had to move with his mother after he told Mizuno-san, when he discovered that she was Sailor Mercury.
The detective sighed again, took a sip of coffee, ran a hand through his dark brown hair, and finally got to work.
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Far far away from Earth, Sailor Cosmos glided through the galaxy, fluttering her ivory-colored angel wings. She glowed in a silver light, and her flowing sailor-fuku was white. Two long, white pigtails fluttered from her two heart-shaped odango. Sailor Cosmos was the ultimate separate entity of Sailor Moon.
The beautiful Sailor Senshi patrolled the millions of solar systems across the universe from afar. It appeared that all were safe and at peace.
Sailor Cosmos rested on a small asteroid, happy that the galaxy was secure, thanks to Sailor Moon and her four guardian Senshi.
The soldier did not see the thick red bolt of lightning shoot toward her. She turned quickly to raise her long, slender white scepter topped with a winged orb to protect herself, but she was too late. Cosmos was imprisoned a red fire-colored orb, her scepter having slipped out of her hands spun off into space.
Sailor Cosmos's silver eyes widened in shock as she beat frantically against the shell of the indestructible fireball. Then she trembled when she saw who had imprisoned her.
"...Galaxia?"
