Celestial Stories::Chapter One - The Awakening of the First Senshi! Tenshi's First Battle

 

Celestial Stories::Chapter One - The Awakening of the First Senshi! Tenshi's First Battle

Tenshi was running to school, EXTREMELY late.

My name is Hoshino Tenshi. I'm fourteen years old and my birthday is December 7th. I'm a Sagittarius, and my blood type is AB. My favorite color is dark purple, and my hobbies are music and playing the flute (I'm really good!), tennis, snow boarding and archery.

She runs through the park near her school.

My favorite food is chocolate, but that also includes anything sweet, and I hate things that smell funny. I go to Juuban Middle School, and my favorite subject is music. My least favorite subject is home economics... And I love to sleep in sometimes...

She tripped on a stone and landed on a sidewalk in the park near her school. "Man... I really HATE it when things like this happen!!!" Tenshi exclaimed as she plunked down on a bench in the park. A little white cat with big black spots all over jumped up onto the bench and started washing itself. "Oh, hi kitty... How's your day going?" Tenshi asked, and then she noticed a pair of band aids that had been put on the cat's forehead. "Hey, you're like that Luna cat on Sailormoon, showing up with a couple of bandaids on it's forehead... hmm, I wonder..."

Tenshi picked up the cat and took off the bandaids.Underneath there was a small star sign. Immediately the cat's eyes widened and the cat looked at Tenshi, almost as if it was analyzing and summing Tenshi up. "No way...!" Tenshi said, because she was meeting a small stray cat with a mark on its forehead. "You're a sweet cat! Can I call you Estelle??" Tenshi hugged Estelle. "But it has that sign on it's forehead... I wonder how I'll get you to stay, I can't bring you to school... school! Oh NO!!!" Tenshi dropped Estelle and ran to her school. When she got there, she walked into class, panting, and walked to her seat.

"Tenshi?" The teacher asked, the entire class giving Tenshi a funny look.

"Yeah---I mean, Yes?"

"Why are you late?"

"Oh... well... um..." Tenshi fumbled for some kind of answer.

"Did you sleep in AGAIN? See me after school," said the teacher sternly.

"But, you see, I got stopped by...a cat..." said Tenshi, trailing off because she knew nobody was listening at the moment. "What a morning this has been," Tenshi said, staring off into space.

[Tenshi's flashback]

Tenshi was getting ready to snowboard down a very steep, snowy hill. She started out fine, very good in fact, but she hit a large, unexpected pothole and went flying. As she landed on top of leg, bent backward, she heard a funny cracking noise and felt pain shooting through her left leg. Then everything went black.

[End of Flashback]

Tenshi shook her head. She thought, "I'm going crazy. All these weird scenes..."

[Commercials disgracing DiC]

Tenshi was sitting outside eating lunch with her best friend, . "Hey, Celeste, have you seen that new girl Akira yet?" Tenshi asked.

"Yeah, but doesn't she go to the high school?"

"Right, but she's always hanging around here."

"That's stupid! She should just get on with life and leave this school alone! What an idiot..."

[Tenshi's Flashback]

Tenshi was sitting on a bench at lunch reading a magazine. Two girls walked by and happened to see her. "I hear she was crippled in some kind of accident and now she's an orphan..." one said.

"Well, if I was going to adopt someone, I wouldn't adopt HER! She's such a wuss, and she's never in gym class, either."

"Right!"

Tenshi tried not to look like she'd heard.

[End of flashback]

Tenshi got up suddenly and ran out of the schoolyard. She landed up in the park from that morning, and found herself plunking down on a bench.

'I'm going to get into so much trouble for being off school grounds...' she thought. 'But I can't get away from these visions! None of this stuff EVER happened to me!' She sighed, and leaned her head back so that she was looking up for a moment. When she looked down, she saw something that made her jump nearly a foot. The cat from the morning was standing in front of her, on the ground. "Where did you come from, kitty?" It hopped up on the bench, and Tenshi quailed a little. "Don't scratch me again," she said. When the cat did nothing, Tenshi decided it was safe to close her eyes and lean back against the bench. 'That's really weird', she thought. 'It almost looked like that star on that cat's head was glowing…'

[Tenshi's flashback]

"Tenshi! Transform now!" Tenshi was looking down at the person who was speaking…actually, not the person speaking, but the animal speaking, because it was the cat that was yelling.

[End of flashback]

Tenshi's eyes snapped open. "Good grief! Another vision! What is WRONG with my mind today?"

"Nothing's wrong."

Tenshi turned at looked at the cat. She blinked once, twice and then turned back around. "Nope, I'm not going to believe any more hallucinations…I just need to ignore this cat and it'll all go away…"

"Well, destiny doesn't exactly go away…" It was that voice again.Tenshi turned to look at the cat again. "And you have a very important destiny, too, Tenshi."

"I didn't see you TALK, did I?" Tenshi said, blinking.

"No, Tenshi, you did see me talk."

"How do you know my NAME?!?!"

"I just do." This simple reply set off a lot of things in Tenshi's head. One, cats can't come up to you and say they just know your name in this universe. Two, they can't talk. And three, they can't talk about destinies. "You are Sailor Constellation and you must defend the Universe from evil!"

"This so much like Sailor Moon.......... Am I a cartoon character?"

"No!" Estelle tossed her a compact and said, "When you want to transform say 'Constellation Celestial Power!Make-up!'" Then she left.

"O-kay............................."

"Tenshi c'mon we're going to get in trouble!" Celeste shouted from behind. Tenshi blinked for a moment then turned and ran back to school with her friend.

[Commercial for trading cards and stickers]

Tenshi was at home attempting to do her homework when Estelle hopped in through the open window. Tenshi turned around and said, "You again?! I thought you didn't know where I lived."

Estelle said. "I followed you home after school just in case."

Tenshi said, "Just in case what?"

Estelle said, "In case earth was attacked by the NeoNegaverse! You need to transform NOW!"

Tenshi said, "Now?! So it isn't just a joke?Anyway, it's dark outside!!"

Estelle said, "Just do it! Nike!"

"Ah! Okay! Jeez!" Tenshi held up the compact and transformed. Her uniform was like any Super Senshi's, but it had a light green choker, collar, glove tops, skirt, and ankle-high boots, and a dark purple bow in the front and an aqua bow in the back, and an aqua brooch. Her tiara was silver with a light pink jewel. She had a very light pink and very light blue marbled-color mask on, like Sailor V's mask.

Estelle said, "You look a formidable sight, Sailor Constellation. Now come on!"

Constellation and Estelle arrived where a monster was sucking energy out of people. Constellation did her speech, "For the connections of stars, the carrier of the stars' protection and the Senshi of music... Sailor Constellation! Here I am!"

The monster said, "What a joke! I can get rid of you real easy." The monster shot out a lot of ribbons to drain Constellation's energy.

"Sailor Constellation!! Get out of the way!!!"

"Ohhhh!!! I'm so scared..." Tenshi shouted, while jumping out of the way. The monster retaliated by going after her again and she jumped out of the way, again. "Jeez, what do I hafta do to get rid of this thing?"

"You have to attack!!" The monster noticed that Constellation was off her guard and it snatched her up with the ribbons.

"Great! I got you! Now I can finish you off!" When the monster was going to finish off Sailor Constellation, a red rose flew by and busted the ribbons. Constellation looked up and saw--- Tuxedo Kamen[Who else? The tooth fairy, perhaps?]

He said, "Don't be defeated in your first battle! Fight back, Constellation!"

Constellation said, "Right!" The monster noticed Tuxedo Kamen and shot out ribbons at him. Constellation said, "Hold it!!" Then she did the Celestial Musical Strike. The monster howled and disappeared. Constellation started dancing around and saying, "I got rid of the monster, I got rid of the monster! Yeah!" She stopped suddenly and noticed Tuxedo Kamen was gone. "Hey, where'd Tuxedo Kamen go?" Constellation said.

Estelle said, "He always disappears. He'll be back to help you again sometime."

Constellation let go of a few choice words and said, "He was very familiar... but not the way it was for Usagi..." [Usagi felt familiar to Tuxedo Kamen because he was her prince in the past, and her husband in the future]

[Tenshi's flashback]

A guy who looked very much like Mamoru said, "No, I don't remember you."

Tenshi said, "But you have to! I am your sister!"

[End of flashback]

Constellation said, "Estelle, is Mamoru my brother?"

Estelle said, "I don't know. You could be one of three who are his sisters..."

Constellation said, "Do you know who they are?"

Estelle said, "I'm afraid not."

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