Title:
Crystal Tears (Really, if you run a sue journal and you're just having an off day, typing in "crystal tears" or "mysterious girl" into FF.net's search engine works pretty well.)
Writer:
MeninaSummary: "After the defeat of Galaxia the senshi would be entitled to some peace, right? Wrong. Welcome back the senshi to new adventure. plus there may be answers to the past..."
Canon: Animu
Rating: 4
Name: Crysalis Fouyoka, The Crystal Child
Senshi Title: Sailor Crystal
Hair: Light blue with white highlights, hip length, bangs are eyebrow length and she has two longer strands on each side of her face that are mouth length, put up in a braid at one point
Eyes: "Her eyes were also (a "chilly yet warm") light blue and it felt like she looked into [Michiru's] soul."
Unusual Markings/Colorations: Deep bronze skin, same height as Minako, has a figure similar to Michiru's (which she notices), an eight pointed star that appears on her forehead at certain times. ("It glowed a dim, chilly ice blue.") Her whole body turns grey after a battle.
Senshi Outfit:
Half-assed highlights and forehead star by me "All the senshi had their respective colours of their planets, while sailor crystal had ice blue bows, skirt, glove bands, white choker, brooch and knee-high boots but the one thing that was different was that Crysalis had no tiara, just an eight-pointed star on her brow."
Other Clothing Descriptions:
After detransforming: "She wore a short light blue skirt and a white halter neck but the remaining cloth was dusty and torn."
Setsuna's robe: "She wore a maroon robe that hugged her figure."
Possessions: A crystal pendant that she uses to transform and a sword. ("The handle was made of a deep blue precious gem with a swirling pattern of silver imbedded in the whole sword. The rest was made of mithrill (you who don't know what mithrill is: it's a metal made by dwarfs, and no, no dwarfs will appear in this story).")
Guardians: None
Origin: She is the princess of the lost crystal world who has come to Earth in search of the Silver Crystal. A century ago, a man named Death Master decided that he wanted her home galaxy, her home planet, and her as his bride. Seeing as she was younger than 12 at the time and his name just fucking screams "I'm a villain", her parents refused, going to war with him. When she was 12, he used a machine that sucks energy out of a person's soul and turned her parents evil, making her queen of her planet and forcing her to fight against her own family. Her lover and her parents' war advisor, Tukeru, helped her and came up with the plan to get the Silver Crystal to save the hopeless kingdom. He and her parents eventually die. The spacecraft she came to Earth in crash landed, causing her to lose her memories. A young couple found her and raised her as their daughter before dying in the attack in the first chapter of the story along with her younger brother because she was too scared to transform. After tripping over her own feet while leaving Michiru's class, she hits her head, is knocked unconscious, and is teleported... somewhere ("a place out of this world") and given all of her memories back.
Connections to Canon: She's the new student in Michiru's violin class. (Michiru is so eager to make a good first impression that she gets her hair and makeup done and doesn't take the car to work. She gasps at the sight of her and so do the other senshi.) She gets an attack in during a battle, but is sent flying after being hit by the bull monster. After crying for a bit how she should've died along with her family, she tells Michiru that she knows she's a senshi, faints, and is taken home by Setsuna (while Haruka and Michiru fight over whether they should or not) where she delivers infodumps about herself to the rest of the girls. Her great great grandmother was the one who made the Silver Crystal, and it is used as a place for the souls of the royal family members of the Crystal World to go to and rest when they die. They ended up trading it to Queen Serenity as a peace offering. (They got Crysalis' pendant in return.) Their souls are pure and that's where the crystal gets its deus ex machina powers from.
Senshi Moves:
Crystal Sword Slash: Ice blue streak of light from her sword. Her weakest attack.
Other Special Abilities: She suck at playing the violin. Due to her soul being a part of it, she can sense the Silver Crystal.
Annoying Traits: She cries at the drop of a hat, but is strong and serious and defends herself when it's convenient.
Comments: Yes, the Silver Crystal is powered by the souls of Crysalis' ancestors. I'd think if my family kept the souls of its family members in a crystal, they would be more likely to hold on to it and not entrust it to some random queen they just met to get on her good side.
And of course there's the fact that chrysalis have nothing to do with crystals at all. Now, if she were gold themed, I guess you could make a weak case for its use. (The word chrysalis comes from the Greek word for gold.)
And no, Crysalis does not cry crystal tears at anytime during the story.
Samples:
After cheeking that everyone was all right, they went over to where the ice blue creature had landed but all they found was dust and ruins.
"Where'd that thing go?" Jupiter said as she looked around
"We should look for survivors, come on let's go" sailor Pluto said in a low voice.
" We should split up. Inner and outer okay?" Venus suggested.
" Sure, we use our communicators to contact the other group if we find anything."
" See you later then"
After about a half an hour of searching the outers could hear sobbing.
"Why couldn't I have di- died too… " The voice was oddly familiar.
Sailor Neptune and sailor Saturn looked each other and said:
"Crysalis?"
They hurried over to where she was and looked down at her. Her once ice blue hair was grey; in fact her whole body was grey. At the sound of their feet Crysalis turned and saw them. The sight of her eyes, once so full of happiness and love was now an empty shell and reassembled those of the corpses.
" Michiru? "
Sailor Neptune was taken aback and blurted out "Y- yes…"
" You're sailor senshi…" She did not finish the sentence before she fainted.
" Oh geez, what are we going to do? We can't leave her here, should we take her home?
" No Neptune we can't. And wasn't she supposed to be gone?"
" We saw it with our own eyes, but why can't we take her home? She knows our alter egos so that can't hurt us. But look, she has nowhere to go…"
" How do you know that?"
" COME ON HARUKA LOOK AROUND!. DOES IT LOOK LIKE SHE CAN STAY HERE?" Neptune was on the edge to having a nervous breakdown, the girl in front of them was supposed to be kapuff, gone but she was here.
Pluto stepped forth and took the dirty body in her arms. Chrysalis arms hung at her side and her whole body was limp. She wore a short light blue skirt and a white halter neck but the remaining cloth was dusty and torn. If you looked closely you could see the trace of a eight-pointed star.
" Uranus shut your mouth. We got to help her, and that's the way it is."
" But we can't just…"
" Uranus if you know what's good for you, you should shut your mouth!"
The senshi was taken aback with this remark. The usually calm and cold Pluto was almost shouting and that was a rare site. Pluto's eyes became slits and scanned over them as if they would just say one thing.
"It's settled then."
"I'll call the others and tell them what we found, then we can go home with her…"
" No, I'll take her. You continue looking."
Before they opened their mouths she and the girl was gone.
" What's gotten in to her?" Uranus asked herself more then the surrounding people.
Thoughts were spinning around Saturn's and Neptune's heads. They continued to walk but the two didn't respond to anything. All they thought about was the girl that had reappeared into their lives.
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"You see, I was sent to earth on a mission but the craft I arrived in was destroyed and I lost my memories of the mission but a young couple found me and took care of me and we were a family. They later had another child, who was like a brother to me, but now they are also gone from the attack and I could not protect them, they died because I was to scared to transform. I got my memories back when I hit my head, so before, I had no idea I was royalty or a senshi…"
"From the crash all I had was a crystal pendant, which turned out to be the object I use when I transform. When I was turned to crystal I was carried away to a place out of this world and I got my memories back"
" Any questions so far?"
Ami who had sat with her computer said: "Not a question but a statement, Crysalis you contain just as much of not even more, pure energy as the silver crystal. The other senshi and Mamoru were shocked. Chrysalis looked around with amusement at the others.
" What do you look so surprised for? You know were the silver crystal came form don't you?"
Everyone chook their heads and The Crystal Child slumped back into the sofa.
" In the lost crystal kingdom when someone of royal blood dies that is were their souls go to" She pointed to the crystal that Usagi had taken from her brooch.
" It was my great, great grandmother who made the crystal as a resting place for us but we did not know that our souls had that much energy after we died. When queen Serenity was young and wanted to make peace with us we gave each other gifts. We got the transformation pendant while we gave her the crystal for we knew she would use it to make peace. That's how your queen received it. "
" So this contains your families souls. I guess that explains were it got its power from."
" And I'll now explain why I'm here. A century ago a man called Death master started to fight against our world. He came from a galaxy close to ours, that galaxy was as good as his and later he had had his eyes on our peaceful home. He wanted to make yet another galaxy his as well as me, you see… But of course my parents who were against it started to fight back, we had almost defeated him when he came with a device that sucked the energy out of one soul. He used it on my parents and it worked, leaving them to be empty shells of their former self."
Crysalis sniffed and tried to hold back tears again.
"The death master manipulated them and they switched sides against their own kingdom so when I was 12, I was the ruler of the kingdom. It was now called the lost kingdom because there was no hope left for it. Having to fight against my own family was too much and I was on the edge on defeat when Tukeru, who had been the war advicer to my parents came to my rescue. Thanks to him I started to fight back again. We came up with the plan to get the silver crystal to help us because with it and my soul combined we would maybe be able to defeat him. "
When she paused and looked around she saw that her story obviously touched them, because some of them had tears in their eyes. Mamoru slid his arms around Usagi's shoulder and hugged her tightly. This brought a smile to Crysalis lovely face but didn't reach eyes.
"Setsuna asked me before how I found you and I give the same answer, I told you that our souls go to the crystal and because of this we have an everlasting bond to it. Now I ask you again: any questions?"
Minako looked at Chrysalis and asked happily: "What does Tukeru look like?"
Chrysalis almost fainted before she closed her eyes and had a dreamy expression on her face and said with a soft voice, " He has green eyes and long soft jet-black air down to his back and…"
Rei broke her of with a question of her own.
" What should we do with this enemy who has appeared here? Before we go anywhere we have to take care of him first. Right?
She saw that many had wanted to go to Chrysalis home and help her wither heart-breaking story. " How do you know it's a him Rei-chan?" Hotaru asked her friend.
The others looked at Rei who in turn shrugged and replied.
" I did a fire reading after we got home"
" What more did you get? Come Rei-chan tell us!" Usagi pleaded.
" I saw what he looked like, he had white hair down to his shoulders, black eyes, tanned skin like Setsuna's. Hmm, let me think… oh yeah, he had a black armour and a five-pointed star on his forehead and-"
Crysalis flew up from the couch and said silently with a shaky voice.
" Please tell me you didn't say a five-pointed star!"
" Yes that's exactly what I said, but wh-"
" Then it won't be long before you meet the Death Master"
Crysalis sank to her knees and cried and in-between the sobs she said,
T-that…means…he…ha-has con-conquered…my… home…
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Scaly [A naga] made an attack on sailor moon, only to be knocked out of the way by sailor crystal who held the Crystal Sword steadily in front of her and the thing retreated from the attack with a scowl on his face. His voice was no longer sweet and soothing but hard and held a kind of shriek.
"Who are you to interrupt me when I'm eating?"
" Shut up and die! "
She jumped and directed her sword to hit the monsters chest but was pushed by sailor moon in midair. Crystal landed rather clumsy on her butt after the fall and shot sailor moon a look of surprise by the deed she had just done. Moon only answered the look with a mad scowl and said:
" I'll take care of this, just stay out of the way while I do this "
Before crystal could do anything sailor moon had unleashed her attack.
" Light moon star shower! "
The snake-man screamed in both anger and pain but did not die. The attack had come from his left and where it had hit the flesh was burned and gave of a horrible stench. Behind to two sailors at the scene the other senshi had finally arrived. Jupiter was first out with her own new attack.
" Chain lightning bolt! "
The electrifying shock hit the target and it crumbled to dust only to be blown away by a silent wind that swept at their feet. Sailor Jupiter had huge self-pleased grin on her face and gave a cheery yell, it wasn't everyday that she had the honour to kill the monster. Tuxedo kamen walked to his love and put his arms on her shoulders too pull her into a warm embrace but she wriggled out of his grip. A surprised look covered his face when she turned to face him.
" DON'T touch me! I've could have taken care of it myself, why'd you interrupt? " [I see always getting the last hit in has finally gone to her head. Or maybe it's just convenient OOCness.]
Sailor moon eyed the people standing around her and shot Jupiter and Crystal especially angry glances. She turned to sailor crystal, which by this time had stood up.
" And I don't need you to protect me, leave me alone! "
This comment was the last straw for her, she had had a bad week and this wasn't how Crysalis liked to be treated after saving someone. Sailor Crystal was about a head taller then moon and while she slowly raised her hand a look of pure anger twisted her otherwise beautiful face. Her gloved hand grabbed the front of sailor moons fuku and raised her so high in the air that her feet barely touched the ground.
" OH, EXCUSE ME FOR SAVING YOUR STUPID LIFE, EXCUSE ME FOR CARING ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE BUT MYSELF! WHAT IS IT? IS IT THAT I'M NOT WORTHY, MISS QUEEN THE WORLD! "
( Remember that she doesn't know about the future)
The sudden change in Crystals' mood had scared the heck out sailor moon who was already so tired after her attack and outburst that she started to cry in the hand(s) of sailor crystal.
This was too much for sailor mars who didn't see that she was about to put the smaller sailor down. Mars started to run towards the pair screaming bloody murder. Sailor Crystal looked around in the nick of time to see her a few feet from herself and sailor moon but she didn't dodge the fierce kick that mars unleashed. The kick hit her square in the side and she backed down while releasing sailor moon. Sailor mars was so desperate that she had tears in her eyes, still screaming and realising her friend wasn't enough. She had to pay for the pain she had caused. Sailor Crystal received another kick in the stomach and fell down, her body causing a slit thud when it hit the ground. After a third and fourth hit, Crysalis started coughing up blood. The senshi had all been dumbstruck by mars behaviour and had just stood there, staring. But sailor Uranus went forth and grabbed sailor mars' shoulders in a mid kick and held her there until she calmed down. Saturn had tears in her eyes when she crouched next to her friend and activated her healing power. And after a few more coughs her breathing calmed down and she detranformed because she didn't have any power left and was again dressed in the silk robe she had worn before. Slowly Crysalis opened her misty eyes and groaned slightly while dragging her slim legs up to her chest and threw her arms around them.
" It-it hurts so bad…"
Sailor mars, who by this time had been released let her gaze drop shamefully. She admitted to herself that she'd gone to far, but she had hurt her friend who meant the world to her so it was mostly her fault. By now all the senshi, except Uranus and mars, had gathered around Crysalis' limp body. Uranus slowly turned mars and looked deep into her eyes almost like she was searching for the answer to her friends' behaviour.