Riddle
Of Mystery
By Neo Queen Jupiter
Introduction
Hi. My name is Lita Kino. I have light brown
hair, green eyes, and I’m 5’7”. My favorite colors are green and pink.
I’m in 9th grade. I’m crazy about boys and like clothes.
I’m your average teenage girl. Actually, I’m Sailor Jupiter, Lordess of
thunder, Queen and former princess of Jupiter (the planet), Defender of Love and
Justice, and protector of Neo Queen Serenity the third. My powers of thunder
dissolve walls, doors, rocks, metal, monsters, and any other object that gets in
may way (or Serenity’s). DON’T MESS WITH ME!
And don't try to get me for my grammar. I save the world, I'm not an English Teacher. Just remember that!
Part
1 – Remembering
I found myself running my finger along the
frozen fence posts as I walked by. It was Christmas Eve and the streets were
deserted. I heard the snow crunch under my boots as it started to flurry. I was
walking toward my apartment building when I heard laughing. I glanced in the
misty window of a house. I saw a family of four decorating a Christmas tree and
hanging their stockings. I could tell the tree would be beautiful when finished
because it was decorated with love. I felt my chin start to tremble. NO Lita, you
are already over this. Remember direct approach to everything, which means
facing your fears. I walked by another window where the family had just sat down
to a delicious turkey dinner. The family was saying grace. I turned away and
stalked off trying to divert my attention elsewhere from the houses with their
perfect families.
I didn’t used to like Christmas time. Not
with all the family things going on anyway. I would get jealous and lonely. You
see my parents died, in an airplane crash when I was in fourth grade or so. I
barely remember them and have very few pictures. I don’t remember if my
parents were religious or not, but I do remember Christmas time was always the
best time of the year, though I could never remember why. I don’t even remember
gong to church, but then again everything before the accident is such a blur.
I sighed and walked on toward my apartment.
It had taken me a year to get enough money to buy it so I wouldn’t have to pay
rent. I paid rent once before, it was so hectic and not worth the hassle, not to
mention landlords! It’s a nice place I have to admit, nicer than most
apartments I’ve seen.
Back at the end of fourth grade my parents
hadn’t bothered to change their will to give me the inheritance. So all my
relatives, or the ones that didn’t die on the...the…well you know, the
accident, squabbled over my parents’ money. They weren’t totally
stonehearted because they let me have my clothes and my toys. One of the few
things I do remember doing was when I was sent to my room to pack I did it in
half the time and I grabbed my dad’s favorite blanket off his bed and my
mom’s favorite cookbook. Later on that day, I grabbled a family album, which
was in the process of being updated and reorganized. I also grabbed a few other
odd and ends but after all I was ONLY in fourth grade.
I remember that my parents were
smart enough to put in their will that if they ever had an offspring it would
receive what rightly belongs to it. Now you’d think that the house and most of
my parents money right? So did I. But unfortunately, to my relatives, that was a
big matter of opinion.
Part
2-Stolen
My relatives gave me my college fund my parents had started, a
few stocks in my name, and other documents that they couldn’t switch over to
their names without adopting me. They told me they split my parents money in to
fourths and gave me one piece of it to live off, but later I found out that they
couldn’t take that money because it was in the bank for me when I turned 21.
My parents weren’t complete idiots after all!
One
of my aunts, in an attempt to take my college fund, took me into her house for a
while. She couldn’t handle kids though and eventually kicked me out. She would
freak out over the simplest mistakes. I remember once when I tried to bake this
new kind of cookie that I had invented. I put them in the oven and sat down to a good book. When I
checked on them the first time, they needed more time then I thought so I left
them be. Next time I looked up from my book there were smoke alarms going off.
Okay, so they didn’t need that much time. I managed to turn off the oven and
stop the smoke. I glanced at the clock. My aunt was due home from work any
minute now. I opened all the windows in an attempt to get rid of the smoke and
had just started to clean up the kitchen when she came home. She blew up. She
threatened to leave me on the street to die then sent me to my room. Apparently
she ended up tasting some of the dough that cooked in the fire and told me they
were really good. She sold the recipe to some cookbook company. I never did see
any of that money.
***Present Day***
I
sighed and walked up to the door of my apartment building. Those were the days.
I pulled my keys out of my purse. In a flash of red something came swooping out
of the shadows and grabbing my purse, took off down the alleyway. Immediately,
my instincts took over and I dashed off down the alleyway after him. Was there
anything important in my purse? Let’s see, about $50, my checkbook, my
identification, and nothing else of value. Probably just some little thief that
wanted to prove to his friends that he could steal from the legendary Lita.
He
dashed around a corner and I followed not far behind. Well, if not for the sake
of my reputation then I’ll get my purse back to teach him some manners.
The
boy started rummaging through my purse. I admit I was a bit smug, he wouldn’t
find much of value in there. When I realized I was still holding my keys. Yes,
now I don’t have to get all the locks changed! I shoved my keys into my pocket
when a flying box of tissues smacked me in the head. OUCH!
The boy laughed aloud. How embarrassing!
After that, I had to
duck Unidentified Flying objects from my purse. I noticed that we were heading
towards Main Street by way of alleys of course. Oh, so he was trying to lure me
into a spot where all his buddies could gang up on me was he? I used my extra
spurt of energy and grabbed him. He dropped the purse but looked me straight in
the eye.
“It’s too late, Lita. I have you where
you need to be,” He told me clearly. He reminded me of someone with his fiery
purple eyes and jet-black hair, but i couldn't place it.
“Come on boy, you stole that purse you
better be willing to fight for it,” I told him.
“Fight you? As much as I’d love to I know
when the odds are against me. You would whoop me because you are still young and
have probably fought recently. No, I’ll get one day when you aren’t so ready
for it.”
“Let me give you a hint for next time,” I
said brushing away the confusion. “NEVER steal something that you aren’t
willing to fight for.”
I threw a hard right
hook.
“I won’t fight Sailor Jupiter! You’d
kick my butt,” He cried.
“You bet I wou-,” I was shocked. I
hadn’t transformed. Yet, he knew I was Sailor Jupiter. How could that be? Now
I couldn’t let the kid go.
Both of us jumped when we heard more foot
steps in another alleyway. “Come on girl, your not gunna get it back if you
don’t hurry up. Man your out of shape for someone with your legs,” came a
voice.
A boy in a green shirt and brown hair had run
into the place where the alleyways met (and where I was standing) he was
carrying Rei’s purse.
“It’s about time!” he (the boy with my
purse) exclaimed. “I almost had to fight her.” He pointed at me.
The other boy (in green) replied, “Ouch,
that woulda hurt. I woulda paid money to see it though! Imagine Mars vs.
Jupiter!”
Wow! That was where I saw him before! Rei had
long black hair and fiery purple eyes. They could be siblings!
I jerked toward another
alleyway when I heard Rei’s unmistakable voice,” Give that back, now! You
don’t know who your messing with!” exclaimed Rei as she ran into the circle.
But it appeared that she was wrong. WE were the ones that didn’t know who we
were messing with! All of the scouts were here.
Well almost…. Okay about half….The inner circle.
“Now that is a fighter,” remarked the boy
in red. “Sailor Mars could whoop your butt Sailor Jupiter!”
“Not true!” exclaimed the boy carrying
Rei’s purse. “Jupiter is far better than Mars!”
“That boy looks just like you!” Rei
remarked. It was true. He could be my brother! Did all of the scouts have people
that looked like brothers?
Part
3- A New Enemy
Rei and I forgot about our purses and the kids that were going through them when we heard a car drive by. Rei and I ran for cover hoping it wasn’t ANOTHER drive by shooting. We had been too close the last couple of times. It is VERY hard to explain to someone why the bullet bounces off your stomach. But before any of us could react or realize our mistake the boys dropped our purses instantly and stood in front of all the alleyways. They were blocking our exits! We instinctively put our backs together so we could protect each other. See, unlike Serena, our leader, Sailor moon, I got along very well with Rei. I suppose if this got bad we could call the other scouts. These petty boys wouldn’t stand a chance against Sailor Power…but there was something I was supposed to remember about Mina (Sailor Venus). Oh yeah! She’s out of town for the weekend. Damn! Just when we need her! Figures!
Rei concentrated her
energy toward the girl that had just walked out of a dark alley blocking the
last of our exits, knocking her over.
When I got this sudden urge to transform, Rei
put her hand to her forehead and groaned.
“I feel a dark presence here,” announced
Rei firmly. (Her most famous line,
she likes it especially since they made a doll of Sailor Mars that says that
when you squeeze it’s tummy)
“We need to transform. But I don’t
exactly know why,” I mocked Rei. “it must be the dark presence.” I felt the
urgency rise in my chest. If we didn’t I knew something awful would happen.
Rei raised her power stick when I got mine from my pocket just as the girl transformed (or finished transforming into a lady. She was wearing a long white dress almost like Serena’s Princess outfit only simpler. She was wearing a tiara made of pearls with the one in the center looking like a tear drop. She was very beautiful. )
“Eternal Mars Power….”
“Eternal Jupiter Power….”
Just as we started our transformations the
power sticks flew out of our hands. I looked around confused. This had never
happened before. I found the lady laughing the eerily annoying laugh that all
our female enemies seemed to develop, she was holding a whip with leather straps
and each leather strap was wrapped tightly around one of our power sticks.
“Oh!” Rei and I both gasped.
She
motioned to the boys in the alleyways and they started to disappear.
“Well,
I got what I came for!” She said still laughing. I felt helpless. This wasn’t
good. We were the most powerful of all the inner scouts, bound to protect
Princess Serenity. If we couldn’t transform then we couldn’t protect her!
Then what would become of the world? (How often do we save the world you
ask…only about every other night!) This could not be good!
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