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“Nami to win! Nami to win!”
The girl shook her royal blue accented hair out of her face to smile at the crowd. This was her favorite part. She loved hearing the crowds clap and shout her name, Kisaki Nami.
The jump was approaching. Nami settled herself. As it was planned, the boat would go to the right and cut its engines. Then she’d fly over the jump in dead silence to victory!
It didn’t happen. First, the boat’s engine stalled. Then, out of nowhere, a red-leather suited woman appeared on the top of Nami’s jump. The crowd surged back. Sensing that the being was evil, Nami did what and good person would have. She tucked in like a snow skier, released her line, and headed for the jump. The girl had lost little speed in the seconds it took for the evil one to appear, but she still gave herself a little Force push to increase her already considerable speed. The red headed being was incredibly surprised when Kisaki Nami, three time champion water skier in her age group, and two time champion overall, not to mention swimming instructor at the local high school knocked her off the jump and into the water.
“Oh no!” Nami yelped to herself. “I’m late for swimming class!”
“No! No no nononoooooo!”
Nami sighed. From the sound of it, there was another reluctant five-year-old out there who was afraid of the water. She directed the class to the shallowest part of the pool and let the student teacher watch them.
“It won’t kill you, Chrone!”
“No,” the one who’d wailed before replied, “I’ll just wish I were dead!”
Turning the corner, Nami realized that the expected five-year-old was in fact a full grown... cat? “Um, do you need help?”
“No!” the cat wailed.
“YES!” everyone else shouted.
Nami laughed and turned to the cat. “My name’s Nami.”
The golden furred feline looked at her with wide green eyes. “I’m Chrone.”
One by one, the other girls introduced themselves as Annika, Chikako, Kirin, Koumi, and Priire. Nami asked the last girl why she had gloves on, even though they looked nice with her stars on black two-piece bathing suit.
Priire shrugged. “Less probing questions.” She turned back to the green-suited Chrone. “Now...”
The girl in the pink bathing suit, Annika, stopped her. “Priire, maybe we shouldn’t...”
Nodding rapidly before Annika even finished her sentence, Chrone agreed. “I’m not a fish!”
“Let’s try water skiing! It looks a lot like snow skiing,” Kirin prompted. Her icicle-patterned swimsuit matched her idea perfectly.
Chikako was already in the pool with Koumi, but perked up when she heard the idea. “Oh, let’s!” she exclaimed, hoisting her purple on white suited body out of the pool. Koumi, in a dark blue swimsuit smiled. Before the six could make up their minds, Nami heard a tiny scream.
“Trouble!” Her worst fears were realized as she saw what happened.
One of the children had gotten out of the shallow pool and into the deeper on. There, the boy had gotten tangled in the safety line and was quickly sinking. Someone flashed past Nami and dove into the pool, freeing the Calamari girl to secure the rest of the children and silently curse the missing helper. Chrone was next to her, scared, but waist deep in the water to help calm the children. A before unseen tabby cat was sitting on the edge of the pool looking as worried as a cat could. Nami checked the deeper pool to see Priire cutting the ropes around the child. He was unconscious, so she scooped him up to the top of the water. She, with the knife in her mouth like a diver, surfaced. Annika reached for the child as Priire handed him to her. The blonde herself was about to ask where Koumi, Chikako, and Kirin were, but as she looked she saw a Sailor Sith and the three missing Sailor Jedi. “Gee. Today just keeps getting better and better.”
Areil laughed as she threw black fire at the trio while the three attacked her with all they had.
“Hoth Blizzard Blast!” the blue-haired Sailor yelled, cooling the fires.
In response, the evil Sith directed her attack at Nami and the children. Which was a bad thing. Nami got angry. Normally, would have been a big deal as Nami had a tendency to blow up at anything. Now, the fact that she was stressed from the half-drowned child made it worse.
“Ooh, baby, we are in TROUBLE!” Solai groaned quietly to Chrone. “I have a bad feeling about this. A real bad feeling.”
The other cat nodded.
Nami was reaching the climax of her angry tirade when the Sith reacted. “Black Fire Engulf!”
“Ah!”
“Woah, baby! We just found another Sailor Jedi!”
Solai purred. “Would ya looka that!” On the girl’s forehead was the sign for Sailor Calamari. The watery blue sign was surrounded by the Sith’s black fire and looked singularly impressive.
“Chick,” the gray tabby yelled. “Say ‘Calamari Planet Transform!’ Wait. You something to transform with.”
Arriving on the scene a little late, but welcome nonetheless, came Schylar and Yavin. The Time Guardian and her calico cat posed. “I’m the Guardian of the Time Gates, and you will not pass me by!”
Ariel shrugged. Because she hadn’t heard the tabby cat talking to Nami, she didn’t care which of the people in the room she killed, but was determined to kill someone. She gathered a handful of The green and blue haired girl gritted her teeth and caught the blue and green wand that Schylar threw to her.
“Calamari Planet Transform!” she yelled. In a wave of water, she changed from Kisaki Nami to Sailor Calamari. “All right!” she said, posing with a smile. “I’m the Senshi of tsunami and waves! For my planet and my home, I’ll drown your evil in water, I’m Sailor Calamari!”
“Great!” Sailor Mykyr cried. “Can you douse these flames?”
The new Sailor nodded. “Calamari Tsunami Surround!”
Growling furiously, Ariel escaped through the combined attacks of Bakura and Asteroid.
“Bakura…”
“Asteroid…”
“…Peace and Love…”
“…Shower…”
“…Shock!”
“…Power!”
The combination blasted through where the Sith had been. “Sith,” Asteroid sighed. “She always gets away by this much.” The blonde shook her braids and slammed one black gloved fist into the other. “Grr.”
Her sister, Yavin nodded. “Next time then. But now we have a new Senshi! Hi, Sailor Calamari. I’m Sailor Yavin, Guardian of the Time Gates.”
“Bakura, here!” the white winged and white haired Sailor grinned. “Senshi of love and peace.”
Hoth introduced herself as the Senshi of ice and innocence.
I’m Sailor Kessel, Kessel thought to the blue haired Sailor. Senshi of silence.
“That’d be why you’re not talking.”
One of the other Sailors laughed. “She almost never talks out loud. We hear her through the Force. By the way, I’m Sailor Mykyr, Senshi of joy and faithfulness.”
Last, but not least, the furred being in the pool with the children spoke. “I’m…” she paused. “I’m in the water.” She ushered the kids out of the pool and into the dressing rooms with their towels.
The only Sailor who wasn’t in a white fuku laughed. “She’s Chrone, usually Sailor Cathar. And-” The girl took a dramatic bow. “I’m Sailor Asteroid. Senshi of stone, defense, and redemption. Also, Guardian of the stars.”
“She,” Yavin pushed her over, “is overly dramatic!”
The tabby cat laughed. “Hello, beautiful, I’m Solai! And this lovely animal is Schylar.”
Schylar looked down her calico painted nose at him.
“Welcome to our little asylum,” Asteroid said. “It’ll get better when you meet the rest of us.”
“Worse,” Schylar sighed. “Why I have to keep tabs on all of you, I’ll never know.”
Solai rolled over on his belly. “Cause ya love us!”
Sailor Calamari laughed. This was going to be great.
