The Forgotten Guardian

                                  Chapter 1

	The air was filled with the seductive scent of roses. The flowers 
perfume was almost intoxicating to the guests. Beautiful music was being 
played. Richly dressed ladies and their dashing partners twirled in a 
beautiful ballroom with a gleaming marble floor. Outside the sky was filled
 with gleaming stars and the earth sparkled against the velvet dark sky 
like a jewel. A lone figure stood and gazed at its majestic beauty. 
The watcher was a young man of 16 years. He was tall and broad shouldered.
 He was dressed in a loose white shirt with a sparkling golden vest. He put 
his hands in his black pants pockets and let out a long sigh. His mother 
would fuss at him for leaving the party and all the guests, especially the 
myriad number of eligible young ladies.  The crowned prince of the sun kingdom
 was a perfect catch for any young lady. He gazed across the rose gardens 
to see a couple silhouetted by a wall of white marble that seemed to glow 
with it's own light. He immediately identified the woman by the long 
ponytails that fell from two balls on her head. He guessed that the young 
man holding his sister tightly was Prince Endymion of the earth kingdom. 
Princess Serena was having a good time in the arms of her love. Prince 
Tranq sighed once more and turned his gaze from the happy couple. If he 
had stayed in the ballroom brainless twits looking for a husband would 
have surrounded him. He heard a rustle and turned to see a figure hiding 
in the rose bushes. She must have felt him staring at her for see turned 
to meet his gaze. 
	"How long have you been hiding there?" Tranq asked as he held out 
his hand to help her out. A warm white hand gasped it and came out of the 
roses. 
	"Not long" she answered quietly. He stared down at the girl to meet 
her gaze. She was not tall at all for she only came up to Tranq's shoulders. Her hair was jet black and done up in the same fashion as his sisters except her hair was wavy. She had strange eyes that seemed to burst with bluish violet and gold. She wore a simple dress of a light silver material that sparkled when light hit it. She held handful of roses and gave them to him. The bouquet of gold and silver roses that had been grown in honor for his and his sister's 16th birthday. 
	"Thank you, they are lovely," Tranq said as he took the bouquet.
	 "Your welcome" she said and gave him a small smile. For some reason,
 he was the only one she talked to. She never spoke out loud. Tranq didn't
 know if it was because she couldn't or wouldn't. With a few quick motions, 
Tranq formed a wreath of roses and placed it upon her head. 
	"You look beautiful tonight," said Tranq as he took her hand in his.
 She stared up at him with her soulful eyes. 
	"You...you look very handsome" she replied. Tranq hardly ever saw 
her around when he came to visit his mother and sister on the moon. He had
 asked his sister about her one day and she filled him in on what she knew.
 The girl shows up every time the roses would start blooming. Then after all 
the roses were in full bloom she would leave as mysteriously as she appeared. 
Everyone called her Mist for she appeared and disappeared like the Mist that 
forms in the morning. During his visits to the moon he would spend many hours 
in the morning walking with her in the garden. This was done before many of 
the castle awakened. Sometimes he would see her during the day but not often. 
He carefully folded his arms around her and kissed her lightly on the lips. 
	"Hey Tranq were are you?" yelled a voice that broke the enchantment 
of the moment. "Tranq come on, Queen Serenity wants you and Serena to open
 your gifts," said Princess Lita of the Jupiter Kingdom. Tranq turned back
 to find Mist had disappeared.Tranq sighed as emptiness filled his chest. 
He turned and followed Lita to the party.

	"Oh great. Just great, I am going to be late my first day of school! 
My alarm clock! Where is my alarm clock?" rang though the Lee's house. A 
teenage girl ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. Mrs. Lee looked up 
from the eggs she was frying. 
	"All right where is it?" demanded the girl as she grabbed Bobby. 
Bobby yelled and tried to get free from her grasp. 
	"Try under his bed, Dear. Hurry up you are going to be late," Mrs.
 Lee said calmly enjoying the shocked look on her son's face.
	"You are going to have to get a new hiding place," she said calmly.
	"My diary. Prepare to die Brat!" yelled the girl from upstairs. 
She ran down stairs and grabbed Bobby again.
	"Don't you ever go into my room or get into my stuff or I'll send 
you a one way ticket to the moon!" yelled the girl.
	"Sit down, Alexis and eat breakfast. You can send him to the moon 
after school. Bobby I don't want you going into her room is that understood?"
 said Mrs. Lee. Bobby nodded rubbing his shoulder were Alexis had grabbed
 him. 
	"Here's your school uniform," said Mrs. Lee as she held out a dress 
for Alexis to inspect. Alexis almost choked on a bite of egg and glared at 
Bobby's smirk.
	"Uniform? Nobody said anything about a uniform. It looks like 
something someone would wear sailing not going to school in," remarked Alexis.
 The dress looked like a sailor costume for a girl. It had a white blouse 
with a red bow in the front and a knee length pleated blue skirt. Alexis 
shrugged, grabbed it, and ran upstairs. Alexis studied herself in the 
full-length mirror. Actually it didn't look bad. She had done her dark 
hair into a french braid and put a little bit of makeup on that accented 
her dark green eyes and high cheekbones. She stared at the clock and 
panicked when she realized the time. Then she saw her roller blades. She 
smiled and grabbed them. Moments later, a teenage girl in a sailor dress 
with roller blades, helmet, and knee and elbow pads skated quickly down 
the street. Alexis ignored the looks of disapproval on the faces of 
pedestrians on the sidewalk.

	Meanwhile another girl was also racing to school. She took a corner 
to fast and ended up slamming into someone. She looked up to apologize to 
see it was her boyfriend, Darien.
	"Can't you ever look were your going, meatball head?" said Darien 
with a pretending to be angry. Serena had long blonde ponytails that hung 
from two balls on top of her head. Darien was a young man of twenty-one 
while the Serena was fifteen. Darien had dark black hair and deep blue eyes. 
	"Darien, I want to talk to you," said Serena. 
	"I'm listening," said Darien calmly. They had both been though a 
lot of rough spots in their relationship but grew closer because of them.
	"I want you to come to my house and eat dinner with my family," said
 Serena. The request sounded simple but it wasn't. Darien immediately got 
the image of Serena's father who did not like him at all. 
	"Gee, Serena. I don't know. I mean you Dad hates me," said Darien.
	"Come on, you have to. Dad's bark is worse then his bite. You have 
to or I can't..." she didn't finish her sentence before she burst out in 
her normal wail. 
	"Serena, lower the volume. You can't what?" asked Darien.
	"I can't date you anymore," sobbed Serena. This caused a look of 
shock on Darien's face. For a moment he couldn't think of anything but 
Serena's last words.
	"Now calm down, Serena. Remember the last time I was at your house. 
Your Dad nearly threw me out. Maybe we can still go out even if I don't go 
to your house," said Darien trying his best to think rationally.
	"Why are you being so mean to me?  I thought you loved me!" said Serena 
as she wailed the last words. Darien was getting slightly annoyed at her 
behavior.
	"I am only trying to be rational," explained Darien.
	"Look at the last time you tried to be rational, I mean last time 
I spent months trying to think what was wrong with me that would make you 
break up with me," Serena snapped to angry to see the pain that swept over 
his face.
	"I told you I did that because I thought I was saving your life. You 
know that!" said Darien.
	"But you still treat me like a child. Maybe Dad is right about you 
being to old for me! I can't believe you have more courage battling monsters 
as Tuxedo Mask and battling Queen Beryl as Prince Endymion then you do as 
Darien Chiba facing my dad," with that Serena stormed off. Darien looked 
sadly after her. Could there be some truth to words?

	Alexis glanced at the clock as she ran down the hall. 'Great two 
minutes to get to class. I think I can make it!' thought Alexis as she 
headed toward room 28. Suddenly she spotted it. Another girl was racing by
 her and almost knocked her down. '9 seconds' thought Alexis with panic. 
It definitely would not look good for to be late the first day. With a 
sudden burst of speed, Alexis reached the doorway only to have the other 
girl crash into her and they both toppled to the floor. Alexis's skates 
that had been in her hands went flying though the air. One landed with a 
thud in the trash can and the other went flying toward the teacher. Alexis 
closed her eyes so she would miss the horrifying scene but Alexis didn't 
hear the skate's impact. Alexis opened her eyes slowly. A guy was standing 
in front of the teacher holding the skate, which he must have caught. He 
helped up the girl on top of Alexis first. 
	"Are you O.K., Serena?" he asked the girl who nodded. The two 
looked a lot alike. They both had blonde hair and light blue eyes. The guy 
was tall, muscular and classically handsome.  Then he held out his hand to 
help up Alexis. She grasped it and got up. 
	"Here's your skates," said the boy as he picked the other one out 
of the trash can. Alexis felt color creep up her neck and cheeks. 
	"Thanks," Alexis replied and took the skates ignoring the snickers 
emanating around the class. Alexis took an empty seat in the back. The guy
 sat down next to Serena.
	"I see you have gotten back into your old habits Serena. I was 
hoping you would mature over the summer," said the teacher. The girl bit 
her lip and looked down at her desk. 
	"We have a new student in our class. All of you say hello to Alexis
 Jones. Come up here Alexis and tell something about your self.  Alexis 
slowly got up from her seat and went to the front of the room.
	"Umm, I am from the US and I like skating, playing the piano, and 
umm... history," said Alexis shyly. 
	"What state?" said the boy who had helped her up. His voice made 
her jump.
	"Excuse me?" she said not exactly sure she had heard him correctly.
	"What state are you from in the US?" the boy asked again.
	"Virginia," said Alexis. Before he could reply, the teacher, whom 
Alexis later found out, was Ms. Haruna, interrupted.
	"That's enough. Alexis you can return to your seat. Travis next 
time raise your hand," said Ms. Haruna.
	Travis glanced at his sister. She looked awful. Usually Ms. Haruna's 
comments never affected her. Travis turned around and looked at the new 
girl. She looked just as miserable as his sister Serena. Travis suddenly 
winced as something hot burned his chest. He pulled out a necklace that 
he usually kept hidden under his shirt. The small amulet the shape of a 
tiny sword glowed in his hand. Suddenly as a white light flashed before 
his eyes. He suddenly saw a man with golden armor standing before him. 
	"Tranquillity," Travis whispered. Tranquillity was the older 
version of himself, the king of the Sun Kingdom in the future. 
	"Travis, I need you and the sailor scouts help. My kingdom is 
under attack and the only way to defend it is by you getting the Sun 
Kingdom's guardian. I know you don't have any idea what I am talking about
 but listen anyway. Sailor Pluto is going to have doors opening into the 
past. There you must get a certain object that represents a scout and 
their planet. Please the whole universe rests on you finding the 
guardian," said Tranquillity and then the vision faded. Travis shook his 
head. Apparently nobody else had seen the vision for they were all paying 
attention to Ms. Haruna. Travis looked over at Serena who was as usual 
not paying attention. Travis nudged her.
	"I need to talk to you at lunch. Scout business," Travis whispered. 
Serena nodded with a frown of concern. Whatever it was she knew it had to 
be serious.  

	"What's up?" asked Serena as her brother led her to a private place 
in the schoolyard. Travis looked at her with his eyes full of concern.
	"Tranquillity talked to me from the future. His kingdom is under 
attack. I think the Super Sailor Scouts are trying but they are not 
defeating this new threat. So he wants the Scouts to find the Guardian of 
the Sun Kingdom. Sailor Pluto is opening the doors to our past so we can 
collect certain items that are keys to finding this guardian," whispered 
Travis. Serena stared at him with shock.
	"But I thought Sailor Sol was the guardian of the sun," said Serena.
	"I don't think Tranquillity means Sailor Sol. Tuxedo Mask is the 
guardian of the Moon Princess and her kingdom. So I think this new 
guardian will be like Tuxedo Mask," Travis said. Serena nodded. 
	"So I guess that means we need a Scout meeting after school," said 
Serena. 
	"HEY GUYS," yelled an annoying voice. Travis and Serena both jumped 
as they were interrupted. They turned around to see Melvin and Molly. Molly 
was Serena's best friend. She was a quite spoken girl with reddish brown 
hair. Melvin was Molly's boyfriend. Melvin was a computer nerd with huge 
thick glasses. 
	"Hey Serena did you see that new girl. Well of course you did. You 
tripped over her this morning. Anyway it's all over school now," rattled 
Melvin. Travis  suppressed a laugh as his twin glared in annoyance at 
Melvin.
	"Melvin, get to the point," said the very annoyed Serena.
	"Anyway, I got all the info on this girl. Her name is Alexis Jones. 
She just arrived in Tokyo four days ago from the USA," said Melvin. 
	"Melvin what are you doing?" asked an annoyed voice. Melvin jumped 
at the sound of Lita's voice. Melvin had spread the info on Lita when she 
moved her and how she got suspended in her old school for fighting. 
	"Please don't hurt me! I am just telling Serena and Travis about 
that new girl that showed up in school," said Melvin.
	"She is in my computer class. She seems pretty smart. She distracted 
all the boys from their studies. When she walked into the room there were 
catcalls from all the boys," said Amy who just walked up to the group. Amy
 was the most sensible and smartest of all of Serena's friends. Lita was one
 of Serena's good friends also. Lita was a very good cook and a courageous 
fighter.
	"Is she very flirty? If she is, My mom always said to keep a close
 eye on your boyfriend. Some one who flirts with every guy in sight is a 
danger to any relationship," said Molly earnestly.
	"Not during class but I didn't see her anywhere else today so I 
really don't know," said Amy.
	"You know it's kinda wrong talking about her behind her back. 
Where is she any how?" asked Lita as she looked around for the new girl. 
The others shrugged.
	"Well see you guys, " said Melvin as he and Molly turned to leave.
	"I was hoping they would go. Lita, Amy, we have scout business. Try 
to get intact with Mina, Rae, and Darien. We'll meet at the temple," said 
Travis. The group was all Sailor Scouts. Serena was the leader, Sailor Moon 
and the Moon Princess. Travis was Sailor Sol of the sun. Lita was Sailor 
Jupiter and Amy was Sailor Mercury. Mina and Rae were Sailor Mars and 
Sailor Venus. Darien was usually the dashing Tuxedo Mask but he could also 
turn into Sailor Earth.   
	"You two better hurry up with your lunches, Lunch is almost over," 
said Lita. With unbelieving speed, the twins packed away an astonishing 
amount of food. 

	"How was your day, Alexis?" asked Mrs. Lee as Alexis walked into 
the kitchen later that day.
	"Awful, I completely embarrassed myself in front of everyone. Then 
I asked some guy where lunch usually was and he gave me the wrong directions
 on purpose! So I didn't get to eat any lunch and my stomach grumbled all 
through my last classes. I was also being hit on by every boy that crossed
 my path and now everybody probably thinks that I am a flirt!" said Alexis 
with a dejected look on her face. Alexis watched as Bobby and a friend 
sneaked into the kitchen and grabbed a handful of cookies.
	"Put them back you two!" ordered Mrs. Lee.  The two boys put them 
back reluctantly. 
	"Alexis I have to go out for a bit so would you mind watching the 
boys at the arcade.  Don't worry they will show you where it is," said Mrs.
 Lee as she grabbed her purse and car keys. She smiled secretly as she walked 
out the door. 
	Alexis and the boys walked into the crowded arcade. The arcade was 
filled with laughter and computer game sounds. 
	"Hey Sammy, I wonder if they have that new Sailor V game. Maybe 
Andrew will know," said Bobby. Sammy nodded and they dragged Alexis along 
to find Andrew. 
	"There he is," pointed Sammy and the two dragged Alexis toward 
group of guys talking. 
	"Hey Andrew, You got that new Sailor V game yet?" asked Bobby. A 
guy with sandy blonde hair turned around. He grinned when he saw the two 
boys.
	"Actually I just got it in today. It's in the back room so it won't 
be put out until tomorrow. Hey Bobby, isn't she a little old for you?" said 
Andrew with a smile as he pointed to Alexis. She felt color creep up her 
cheek at his comment. The ten year old wrinkled his nose at the thought.
	"Nah, Mom made her come along to watch us. She's mean. She was 
going to kill me this morning," remarked Bobby.
	"If you didn't get into my stuff I wouldn't have to kill you, brat," 
defended Alexis quite embarrassed over the little boy's comments.  Bobby 
stuck his tongue out at her. The guys in the group laughed.
"Well not to embarrass you any farther let me introduce myself, my name is 
Andrew and you are?" asked Andrew as he smiled widely at her.
	"Alexis Jones," said Alexis.
	"She just came from America four days ago," commented Bobby and 
he and Sammy left to play video games.
	"Really? My girl friend has a brother who used to live in the US 
until last spring when he moved here. Let me introduce myself since I feel
 a little left out. My name is Darien Chiba," said a tall guy. He was 
handsome and dashing with jet black hair and stunning blue eyes.
	"And since these other two seem to want to show me up I better 
introduce myself also. My name is Ken," said a tall guy with brown hair. 
He looked younger then Darien or Andrew.
	"Nice to meet ya'll," Alexis shyly.  The guys in the group smiled.
	"So what it'll be Alexis? Do you have any favorite games or  would 
you like me to recommend any?" asked Andrew.
	"Who is Sailor V? The boys seem to like that game," said Alexis. 
The boys looked at her in amazement.
	"You don't know who Sailor V is? Even Travis said they had heard of
 Sailor V and the Sailor Scouts in the US," said Darien amazed. 
	"Well I hadn't. Wait a minute, Sailor Scouts? I thought there was
only one of them and who is Travis?" demanded Alexis now totally confused.
	"Here let me explain. Sailor V is a video game character. Although 
some people said they have seen her in real life. The Sailor Scouts are real, 
they protect Tokyo from whatever tries to destroy the people.  Travis is 
the guy who just moved here from the USA. He's also Darien's girlfriend's 
brother. Did I miss anything?" asked Ken. 
	" I think you got everything," said Andrew with a laugh.
	"This is way to confusing at times," said Alexis.
	"Ken, you forgot something," remarked Darien with a wry smile. 
	"And what would that be?" asked Ken to his friend. Darien picked 
up a toy off Andrew's desk and showed his friends. The toy was a little 
man with a tuxedo, white mask, top hat and a rose in its hand.
	"Ah, yes. We just can't forget Tuxedo Mask. He helps the scouts 
get out of scrapes. You see, Darien here is jealous 'cause Tux has all 
the scouts have crushes on him. Darien, you see, only has Serena," joked 
Andrew. 
	"Serena?" Alexis rasped. The boys looked at her strangely. 
	"You don't mean a girl with long blonde ponytails do you?" asked 
Alexis.
	"That's his Serena," said Andrew. The boys looked to her to 
explain why she was acting so strangely.
	" I met her this morning," said Alexis. Darien groaned.
	"Don't say any more. I had a fight with her this morning and she 
must have been still angry," said Darien.
	"So what's new?" asked Ken.

	"Darien, you're late. Didn't you get Lita's message?" asked Rae 
with a frown.
	"Yeah well, I was all the way over at the arcade," said Darien 
suddenly nervous, not because of the harangue he was getting from Rae but 
the aloofness of Serena. 
	"Rae, chill out. It wasn't his fault," said Mina.
	"All right, all of you settle down, we have important business," 
said Travis as he called the meeting to order.
	" Now the Sun kingdom of the future is under attack. The Super 
Sailor Scouts can't do anything. King Tranquillity asked us to find the 
sun guardian. Sailor Pluto is going to open doors to our past. At each 
time door, we have to collect certain objects which we use as keys to find
 the Sun's guardian," said Travis.
	"I thought you were the guardian of the sun," said Rae. 
	"All right for the second time, I think this guardian isn't really
 a guardian of the sun but of the king. Like Tuxedo Mask is a guardian 
for the Moon Princess," said Travis a little annoyed for having to explain his theory twice.
	"Hey Darien, do you know how you became Tuxedo Mask?" asked Luna 
as she uncurled herself from Serena's lap.  Luna was a dark talking cat 
with a yellow crescent moon on her forehead.
	"Well, not really. On the moon kingdom, I swore an oath to Queen 
Serenity to protect the moon kingdom and her daughter from Queen Beryl," 
said Darien as he looked at Serena. Serena ignored him.
	"Travis did anyone swear to guard you and the sun kingdom," asked 
Artemis, a white talking cat. 
	"Not that I can remember. Apollo always protected me," said Travis 
as he held out his arm and his falcon, Apollo landed on it.
	"I feel like we are over looking something small but still very 
important," said Amy.

	Alexis looked in wonder at the temple. The trees were covered with
 cherries. The scene looked like something off a post card.
	"This sure is pretty," awed Alexis at the beautiful scene in front
 of her.
	"Sure is. This is my temple. You wouldn't happen to be inquiring 
about the job here would you?" asked a little old man. He had a bald head 
and had laugh lines around his eyes.
	"A job? Here? No I didn't," said Alexis. The little man became 
down cast.
	"My granddaughter thinks that the temple is to much for me to 
handle so she wants to get new temple workers," said the down cast 
grandfather.
	"Well it seems you have done a fine job so far," said Alexis to 
the strangle little man. He beamed at her comment.
	"Well how about joining our martial arts class?" he asked.
	"Martial arts really?" said Alexis amazed. The old man caught the 
tone of interest in her voice.
	"Would you like to sign up?" asked the old man.
	"I have to ask my house mother but would it be all right if I 
just looked around the temple?" asked Alexis. 
	"I f you want I could have Chad escort you. CHAD!" yelled the old 
man. A guy with dark brown hair that fell over his eyes appeared.
	"Give this young lady a tour of the temple," said the old man and 
gave Chad a wink, which made Alexis blush. The two watched the old man 
leave. Chad turned out to be an easy talker. He was an aspiring musician 
that came here to get over stage fright. When Alexis told him that she 
played the piano he was really interested and they talked about previous 
performing experiences.
	"Chad, what are you doing?" came an angry female voice. Alexis 
turned to see a very angry teenage girl with long dark brown hair.  
To Alexis's embarrassment, about six other people behind her watching. 
She recognized some from school. 
	"Rae, well you see your grandpa wanted to show Alexis around the 
temple so..." stuttered Chad.
The teenager looked at him angrily and crossed her arms. 
	"I don't remember the temple ever giving tours," said Rae. Chad 
backed off and left Alexis to face the angry Rae.
	"I guess I better go," said Alexis, she was clearly embarrassed 
and her red face showed it and Alexis quickly left.
	"Rae, you shouldn't have been so hard on Chad with the girl there," 
said Mina.
	"I bet she was hitting on Chad. Did you see how closely they were 
walking together?" said Rae angrily.
	"Hit on Chad? That's the funniest thing I ever heard. I mean the 
only girl he can get is you!" laughed Serena very loudly.
	"Hey Hyena, why can't you have brains instead of meatballs?" snapped
 Rae. The others in the group sighed. This was a familiar scene for them. 
Darien and Travis didn't say anything. They were still watching Alexis as 
she put on her skates and skated away from the temple.