Lydia MacGreggor (Sailor Rainbow) Revisited
I didn't get anymore nominees. So, no TUWFs. :\
You need to read this before you read this.
Title: Promises, Flowers, & Farewells, All Hearts Can Melt, and Beautiful Dreams
Writer: Heroine of the Valley
Canon: Dubbed anime
Rating: Still a 5
Name: Lydia MacGreggor
Senshi Title: Still Sailor Rainbow
Hair: Still ginger, still in braided pigtails, but now there’s a yellow kerchief to go with it, then are held in place with blue bands later.
Eyes: Indigo
Unusual Markings/Colorations: None
Senshi Outfit:
Basic: “the same as before, the indigo bows, violet skirt, red vest and primary colors on the bands of her sleeves and secondary colors on the bands of her gloves. Her boots were white, thigh-high with a red and orange stripe at the top. Lydia and Serena turned to each other and their earrings, tiara and choker appeared on them. Serena's were earrings two dangling pearls connecting to a moon and Lydia's dangling rubies and topazes. Serena's tiara gem was a ruby and Lydia's a golden topaz. Serena's choker was dark pink with a moon and Lydia's orange with a green heart. As rubies appeared on Serena's buns, orange ribbons and topazes appeared around Lydia’s braids.”
Super (After Fiore gives her the green coin): “Now Sailor Rainbow started to glow from red to green and butterflies floated around her. Her brooch became a green star with a gold one in the center matching the decoration on her golden belt. Her back bow extended to her knees. A green stripe joined the red, orange and yellow stripes on her boots and her green shamrock broke, turning her yellow choker green. A golden coin appeared on her choker as the next choker decoration. Her love blossom on her arm received more power and her earrings were emerald stars to match her tiara gem and braid ties. She had green ribbons at the top of her braids. Now she had the power to become Super Sailor Rainbow and she felt great.”
Eternal: (After Vera gives her the last coin): “Her bow became spectrum colored, like a butterfly's wings and her sleeves rounded out with a gold tinge. The bow on her back changed from indigo to gold and evened out to ribbons. Rainbow's skirt changed with the top portion ranging from red, violet and finally gold. A violet stripe finished the spectrum on her boots, followed by golden diagonal stripes creating pots of gold. Her floral brooch changed into a golden pot. Lastly, her earrings change to golden pots, her chocker from indigo, violet then gold with the decoration changed from a heart to a rainbow, the ribbons on her braids changed to a shimmering gold and her tiara vanished, revealing her birthmark.”
Possessions: Along with all of her other objects, she has the Rainbow Coins (she finds the yellow one before the start of the third story, Fiore gives her the green one near the end of it, she finds the blue and indigo ones before the fourth story, and Vera, the Queen of Knowledge, gives her the violet one at the end of the fourth story), the Rainbow Scepter (“It was white with a big gold coin on the top with an orange bow around it. In the middle of the gold coin was a rainbow and near the bottom was an orange and red stripe.”/”white scepter that had the three rainbow coins on them with a cloud on the top and a golden ribbon around it.”), the Love Blossom, a corsage that is nourished by love energy given to her by Fiore (“slightly larger than his hand. It was deep red and opened to reveal the inside. It was frosty-white and the middle section was in the shape of a golden heart.”), and the Rainbow Crystal, which may or may not be the prism from the previous story, (She may have given that to Fiore, since he gets one in exchange for the Love Blossom.) and a harmonica, which according to her will give you bad luck if you steal it.
Guardians: Lucky, who is still a cat and gets a background in the third story. (Middle child in a litter of 7 with a lot of good luck who had the thickest fur (so he was never cold, because it’s cold a lot in Ireland) and was better at catching fish and mice than his siblings, making them jealous and mean to him. He was also beat up by a lot of dogs. The scars are under his fur, natch.)
Origin: The great land of potatoes and leprechauns (and no chocolate) where everyone is a farmer (except the nobility) and every person over the age of 18 who isn’t named Madame Indigo is a raging drunk. (Ireland) She came back to Japan for Spring Break. At the moment, she is searching for the Rainbow Coins, which will give her new powers and make her stronger than the Rainbow Crystals did. She also has to fight some guardians to prove that she is worthy of claiming them. In the third story, she comes back, at Serena’s urging, for Winter Break.
Connections to Canon: All of the stuff from last time still stands. Mina still hates Lydia but is nice to her and agrees with her whenever it’s convenient (which is almost all of the time). Fiore is now her soul mate and without him, she’s a weepy mess. In the future, they have a daughter named Blossom (Sailor Flora Rainbow), who is Rini’s friend.
Senshi Moves: Along with the other 19 attacks…
Rainbow Red and Orange Swirl: Swirls of red and orange energy, used with Moon’s “Moon Tiara Magic”.
Rainbow Princess Execution: A “Moon Scepter Elimination/Moon Princess Elimination” clone.
Rainbow Code Red: “the red rainbow coin's power sent a laser through the spaces in her fingers and swirled around Fiore. It cut his fingernails down to size as the CODE RED made a deafening siren.”
Rainbow Burning Sun Stroke: Shoots blinding solar energy out of her scepter.
Rainbow Red Orange Yellow Streamers: “A stream of orange sided by one of yellow and red, made its way to Princess Kaguya's face.”
Rainbow Indigo Streak: You know, I really don’t think that there are any non-cosmetic differences in these attacks.
Rainbow Color Slide: A rainbow slide, wee.
Rainbow Green Zapper: Seriously, with a few exceptions, I bet they all do the same thing.
Rainbow Six-Way Flash: “A rainbow missing just the color of violet flew toward the giant band of bonbon babies.”
Rainbow Indigo Flash: C’mon, get to 30… *Finishes the last story* Damn!
Other Special Abilities: Same shit as before, she uses her harmonica to release all of the children out of their trance in the fourth story.
Annoying Traits: She still has the accent, which varies in thickness throughout the stories. She mentions one incident where a bunch of guys just came up to her and gave her hugs and kisses because she was wearing a “Kiss me, I’m Irish” shirt.
Comments: I really think that these stories should have BNF status. They are seriously that awesome/bad. There should be a shrine with MSTs devoted to this series...
These stories are actually less annoying than the first one. The word ‘luck’ isn’t spammed as much and Lydia doesn’t push everyone completely into the background. But again, these stories are just the dubbed versions of the three movies (with lines ripped from them) with an extra character and Fiore added.
The next two stories in the series are Harry Potter crossovers (that are 30+ chapters long). I am definitely looking forward to reading those.
Samples:
"Say, lassies, have I told you about the rainbow coins I've been searching for?"
"Rainbow coins?" Amy asked.
"Aye."
"Are they anything like the rainbow crystals?" Lita asked.
"Mm-hmm,” she nodded, “I don’t have to take them from humans and they change into monsters like the shadow warriors. However, there are guardians that protect them and I have to fight them to prove I am worthy to claim them. When I get the coin, I get new powers and I become stronger-stronger than the rainbow crystals made me.”
"Wow, how were they created?" Mina asked. Lydia seemed impressed that she was actually interested.
"A long, long time ago, there was rain for three days." Lydia said. "The sun did not shine. All did was rain and rain."
"That'd be a bummer," Lita grunted.
"Aye, but after three long days, the sun came out," Lydia went on, "and a giant rainbow appeared. On one end of the rainbow, there was a huge pot of gold coins. Just as you hear of the legendary pots of gold at the other sides of the rainbow."
"And I thought that was just a myth," Amy said.
"No myth, Amy," Lydia insisted. "The rainbow was so bright, that it changed seven of those gold coins into the colors of the rainbow and they became magical coins. Right after that, a strong wind blew the seven coins out of the pot and they were scattered in different places. For years, people have searched for the seven rainbow coins, but never found them. I kind of thought it was just a story myself until I went to invistiage this haunted house called the House of Blood."
“House of Blood?” Raye looked disgusted, “well, even the name of it makes me want to stay as far away from it as possible!”
“I know,” Lydia nodded. “It got its name because the house was just so red, inside and out. People tried to get in to check it out but they heard a voice telling them to leave. When I went, my brooch was changing red like it does when I’m searching for the crystals. I found the red coin in an empty suit of armor. That armour became the guardian of it and would frighten anyone crazy enough to come. Only the Rainbow Princess had the power to draw it and I was able to do it ith my prism crystal.”
“That’s so cool,” Lita breathed.
“Did you find any others?” Mina inquired.
“Yeah just the orange,” Lydia answered. “I found it in a wildfire that was burning down one of the villages.”
“Do you have them on you?” Lita asked excitedly. “Can we see?”
“Yeah, sure,” she took out her brooch and opened up and removed the two coins from the inside of the lid.
"Wow, they're very pretty!" Amy said, picking up the red as Lita picked up the orange.
Lita bit the edge of the coin, “Yeah, real gold too! Wow!”
"Serena, you have got to check this out!” Raye exclaimed.
But Serena wasn't listening. Her mind was on something else.
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The tears fell off her face and the sun shined through them. They landed in the center of the giant flower they stood in. The tears came together to form a tear-shaped prism the size of a golf ball. Seeing the prism, Fiore bent down and picked it up.
"What is this? A crystal?"
"A prism," Rainbow explained, wiping the tears away. "When the light shines through it, you'll see a rainbow. Have you ever seen a rainbow, Fiore?"
He shook his head. "I haven't stayed on earth long enough to see one."
"Come back with me to Earth," Sailor Rainbow proposed, "maybe yeh'll get lucky this time."
"I can't," he mumbled. "I can't survive on Earth very long. Only a matter of days."
"Then what will yeh do?"
"I'll travel space," he replied. "And find my home."
"Take me with you," she said. "Please." She wrapped her arms around him. "I can't let you float around space by yourself! It's not right! Take me with yeh, Fiore! I'd love to travel the cosmos with yeh and help yeh find yer home."
Fiore rested his hand on her head. "No, I must go alone," he said sadly.
"But Fiore, I don’t want yeh to be alone." She tightened her arms around him. “Take me with you!” [“I need to say ‘luck’ 30 more times around you!”]
"I won't be," he told her. "Please, stay with Darien. Earth is your home. You belong there. I don't want to take you away from your home."
Sailor Rainbow frowned, "Oh Fiore…I wish that yeh didn't have to go." She remembered her quest, cleaning out haunted castles, finding the rainbow coins. She sighed. "I have to continue finding the rainbow coins, I can't leave, but I can't let you be alone either." [Give him your cat and go find yourself a shape-shifting fairy. They’re all over Ireland.]
"Rainbow coins?" he asked, pushing her back.
"Back in my homeland, Ireland, I am searching for the seven rainbow coins." She explained. "They make me stronger." She explained more about them and where Ireland was so if he were to return, he’d know to find her.
"Then continue your quest to find them," Fiore said, sliding his finger down her cheek, "and I'll continue to journey space."
Sailor Rainbow nodded, "Yeh'll be in my heart, Fiore."
"You in mine, Sailor Rainbow," he said, looking at the tear-shaped prism. "Always. You'll be with me and that's why I won't be alone. I'll try to come back to you one day."
"Do yeh promise?" she asked.
"Oh my love," he said, cupping her face in his hands, "of course I promise. I keep my promises, always. I intended to keep my promise to Darien, haven't I? However, the Kisenian Blossom wasn't exactly the right flower to bring."
She nodded, "but yeh'll get him a new flower, right?"
"Yes."
"I love yeh, Fiore," she whispered.
"I love you too, Sailor Rainbow, forever." He pulled her closer to him and leaned down, his fingers holding her chin. Sailor Rainbow stood on her toes as she accepted her first kiss from the one she loved. When she felt his lips on hers, her whole body seemed to fill with sunshine. Her heart became so full of emotion that it spread out through the rest of her body. She felt as if she was so full of emotion that she would burst at any given moment. A pinkish-red aura surrounded the couple. A rainbow spread over them. Sailor Rainbow did not want the moment to end. She tightened her arms around his neck, she closed her eyes tight and her eyelashes became wet. When they were breathless, they pulled back but Fiore's arms remained around her.
"Thank you for being my friend," he said, sliding his fingers down one of her braids, "and loving me."
"My pleasure," she told him, "thank yeh for loving me back."
He slid his hand down her cheek. "I will return when I find my home."
“Will you take me to it?” she asked.
“Yes.” He said. “I promise.
She smiled. “I wish you luck.”
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"Because the way Kakeru is to you, is the way…was the way, Dorothy was to me."
"Dorothy?" Luna walked next to him. "Who's Dorothy? Lucky--it can't be. You were in love with a human also?"
"I was. That is where I got this collar." He looked down at the golden collar he had around his neck.
"You never told me," Luna said. "I was certain that you got it from Lydia or Madam Indigo."
"Surprised, aren't yeh?" he asked, cracking a smile.
"Well, your past was pretty much a mystery." Luna shrugged. "You didn't talk much about it. Could you tell me?"
"Aye. It's such a long story, so I'll start when I was born. I don't know if you just ended up here after Serenity sent you and Artemis to Earth or you were reborn as a kitten. I however, was a kitten. I had three bothers and three sisters and we all were different. No human owned us. It was just we cats. My siblings hated me."
"Why?"
"Because, of this," he stepped forward. "My rainbow birthmark. I was different from them and I could do things they couldn't do."
"They were jealous of you?"
"Yes. They all were and they fought rough with me. Even the runt."
"That's preposterous!" Luna cried. "Why, you were their brother and they should've loved you no matter what!"
Lucky chuckled.
"What?"
"Luna, you look just like my eldest sister, but you are nothing like her. I wish she were at least a bit like you. And my brothers…I wish they were like Artemis."
****
A solid white shorthaired stray mother cat delivered her first litter in a hollow log. Her litter was different colors and their fur was different too. She noticed that one, her fourth born had an interesting birthmark on his forehead. The other kittens did not have this birthmark and she wondered how it could belong to her. However, it was still part of her litter and she had to be a good mother, when she knew for certain that the other kittens wouldn't like him.
When the kittens were old enough to walk and their eyes were open, they treated their orange longhaired, green-eyed, rainbow-birth marked brother with no respect. Not just because of his birthmark, but because when it was cold, he was warm. He had the thickest fur of any cat in the whole litter and it got cold a lot in Ireland. The oldest cat was a black shorthair with red eyes and a female; the next was male gray with somewhat-thick fur with orange eyes; the third was also a male with yellow eyes, brown thick fur. The orange-longhaired one in the middle had green eyes and the unsightly birthmark that they all resented. The next cat also had orange hair, but it was shorter with yellow stripes, blue eyes and a female. The next had indigo eyes, a male and he was orange and white. The last, also the runt of the family, was male, had violet eyes and was gray with black stripes. Sadly, instead of picking on the runt, the picked on the middle kitten. Even the runt picked on him. The orange, longhaired middle kitten could do things that the others couldn’t' do. He found food more easily. He caught mice better than anyone else and a good fishing cat also. All the other cats thought the mother cat loved the middle cat more than anyone else. But this mother cat loved all of her litter. It didn't keep the cats from fighting with their sibling and he had a few scratches that his thick hair hid. [So do cats use jurisimprudence laws when they get into an argument too?]
One spring day, when the kittens were a little older, there was a beautiful rainbow spread across the meadow. All the kittens were excited and they ran to it. But the closer they got to it, the father it went. Only one could come to it, and that was the one with the birthmark. He walked right into the rainbow and on the other side was a pot of gold. The kittens were angry with their sibling. Especially the eldest; she being the eldest, should have authority to be able to play in the rainbow. [ELDER KITTY DEMANDS TIME AT THE MAGIC RAINBOW!] She went up to her brother and tried to swat him. The loathed kitten jumped into the pot of gold before he was hurt. His sister and the others tried jumping in with him to push him out and play in the gold but they couldn't get near it. They gave up and left their brother alone. The kitten watched his siblings leave him. The kitten began to cry and he sank down in the gold. He wondered why they hated him. He tried hard to be part of the family. He was nice and respected them. Why couldn't they do the same for him? The kitten fell asleep and then he heard a voice talking to him. He sat straight up, a few coins falling from his head.
"Hear me," said the voice.
For some odd reason, the kitten understood the voice. It could understand human speech, unlike other cats and his siblings. He couldn’t see who was speaking to him. He looked around to see if a human was standing next to the pot. Then the voice spoke again.
"Hear me."
The voice was coming from over head. He cat looked up. He saw a woman's face through the rainbow. It was Queen Azure.
"Find her, dear cat. Find my daughter on Earth. You are her guardian advisor. You must find Sailor Rainbow, the Rainbow Princess."
"Meow?" the cat spoke.
"You can speak my language and I know you can hear me. You are different from your kittens because you were chosen to find the rainbow princess. Find her, before it is too late."
"Rainbow…Princess?" the kitten mumbled.
"Yes. You will know when you find her. She also bears the same mark on her forehead, as I do." She pointed to her forehead. "But she does not remember her past nor does she carry the rainbow mark on her forehead right now. But you will know, dear cat when you find her. You can make her remember with your special gift. Hurry."
"Wait…" the kitten whispered. But then, the woman disappeared and her voice, he could no longer hear. The kitten sat down in the pot of gold. He was only a few months old. He wasn't fully grown to look for someone yet. He was still yet a kitten. But then, he couldn't stay with his family--a family that didn't love him. But he really didn't have much of a choice. He had to go, even if he was a kitten. The orange kitten jumped out of the pot of gold, through the tall grass to find whoever this Rainbow Princess could be.
*****
"That's how it began," Lucky said.
"I just can't believe your siblings were so cruel to you." Luna sympathized. "Just awful! I'd like to have a talk with them."
"Me too."
"So what happened after that?" Luna asked, interested. "You left your home while you were still just a young kitten."
"Aye, I did. But, I got lucky. I've walked through snow, rivers, swamps, deserts…"
"There are deserts in Ireland?"
"No. But it felt like it during the summer times. During a cold winter, a young boy found me." [To make a long story short: A boy feeds him, then he leaves and is found in a well by a servant girl named Betsy, who takes her to her mistress named Dorothy. She takes him in and spoils him. But he leaves due to his destiny and the fact that she is seeing someone named Count Magnus.]
[Snip]
"Come on," Artemis said, "let's go home." He stretched, "I need a nap."
Luna laughed, still next to him, "You always say that." She looked at Lucky, who was on her left. She was between the two tomcats of her life. She knew she could always depend them to be on her side and she intended to be there for them. They walked out the door and as they went down the steps, something about them started to change.
"What's going on?" Artemis asked.
"I don't know," Luna said.
The three cats grew large in size and their tails shrank. Furry cat legs lengthened into human arms and legs. They were becoming human. Luna's hair was long, thick and wavy with buns on her head, like Serena's. Her eyes changed from red to blue and her dress became golden yellow. Artemis became a tall, thin man with long white hair and an interesting white outfit.
"Artemis, look," Luna said, "we're human!"
"How did it happen?" he questioned and looked at Lucky, "Lucky?"
Lucky wasn't as tall as Artemis was, but he looked stronger than him. Lucky had a short, stocky and buff build. Because his fur was always so thick, so was his hair that came down to his waist into a ponytail secured with a green ribbon in the middle. It strongly resembled his tail as a cat. He wore an orange vest and black pants with orange stripes on the sides and black leprechaun-like shoes. He had a chest full of hair and his pectoral muscles were tight. Down his arms were many thick orange hairs, like his fur. The scars and burns he carried as a cat were now visible as a human. The manliest, most alluring part of him was his thick orange sideburns that expanded to his cheekbones and ended to his chin. [Mutton chops?] He became a very gorgeous man, but the only problem was [he had enough back hair to clog every shower drain in Dublin], he was choking on his collar.
"Lucky!" Luna gasped.
Lucky's green eyes bulged as he unfastened the buckle on his collar and took in a deep breath of much needed air, "That's…better."
Luna looked at the collar, "Oh…Lucky, I'm sorry."
"Don't be," Lucky said.
"You can go see Dorothy if you want to."
Lucky shook his head; "it's best if she doesn't see me." He chuckled, "I wouldn’t want her to see me choking on the collar she got for me. It wouldn’t show much gratitude, would it?"
"I wonder how we changed," Artemis said.
As Lucky put the golden collar around his wrist as a bracelet, he saw Lydia out of the corner of his eye holding her brooch. She caught her looking at him, smiled and walked away. She wished for it. Lucky shook his head and shrugged. [A bunch of human girls run up to him and start fighting over him a few paragraphs later.]
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A girl with auburn hair and subtle green eyes turned the corner of the store, peeking on Rini and Pereru. Her auburn hair came to her shoulders with a small braid on either side of her face. A purple flower was tucked in her hair. She wore a green shirt underneath a black jumper dress and black shoes. Around her neck she wore a glass heart-shaped necklace. Before they saw her, she stepped back behind the store.
[Snip]
"They can't hear you, sailor scouts," a voice said.
"Who said that?" Amy asked.
A girl stepped around the corner, with auburn hair wearing a black jumper over a green shirt.
"Who are you?" Serena asked. "How come you're not hypnotized like the others?"
The girl folded her arms. "The tune is set to hypnotize human children--and I am only half human."
"Half human?" Lita exclaimed. "You're one of them, aren't you?"
"The ones trying to steal the children!" Serena shouted.
"No," the girl said. "I'm here to help."
Rini turned and looked at the girl. "Wait…I know you! Blossom!"
She smiled, "I'm touched to see you remember me, Rini."
"You know her?" Serena asked.
"Sure I do," Rini ran to Blossom. "She's my friend from the future!" She put her arm around her. "Lydia's her mom!"
"What?" Serena gasped.
"Allow me to introduce myself," Blossom nodded, "My name's Blossom. Fiore and Lydia's daughter." Blossom closed her eyes and a flurry of rose petals surrounded her. Her appearance changed. Her auburn hair became longer and the braids came undone. It changed from auburn to a bright, vibrant orange with green streaks in her bangs. Greenish-yellow skin replaced her pink flesh and her dress turned out to be like Fiore's alien outfit, except it was in purple. A gold piece of her outfit went around her left leg. The rose petals disappeared and Blossom finally opened her eyes, now alien-like and violet. Dangling from her alien ears were crystal earrings. Her lips were painted orange and the only thing she kept from her human appearance was the purple flower in her hair. "A pleasure to meet you!" [She’s puke colored…]
"Lydia will freak when she hears this." Serena said.
Rini embraced her friend. "I missed you, Blossom!" Rini exclaimed.
"I missed you too," Blossom said.
[Snip]
"Children of Earth, this is your wake up call!" Blossom exclaimed. "Wake up!" She was swimming through the space of dream boxes. She came to a box where a child was sound asleep. "Please, you've got to wake up!" She pounded on the box. "I've got to break these things!"
The dream boxes were indestructible. No matter how hard she pounded on the boxes, they never broke.
"Why won't you break?" she demanded. "Break!"
Blossom folded her arms on the dream box and started to cry. "This isn't going anywhere! It's no use. I'll never save them. I have no powers. I wish I was a sailor scout like Rini…then maybe I could save these kids!"
"Say that again," a woman voiced.
"What?" Blossom picked up her head, tears streaming down her alien face. "Who said that? Is it you, Badiyanu? Don't think I can save them, do you?"
A woman with long fuchsia hair wearing a midnight blue sparkly dress appeared in front of her. Her fuchsia hair flowed around her body and she smiled. "Say that again, dear child."
"Say what again?"
"Your wish. What is it that you wish for?"
"Wait, I know you," Blossom gasped, "you're that lady--that lady from space that granted my father a wish! Queen Vera, queen of knowledge!" [Yeah, Fiore bumped into her and she gave him the ability to live in Earth.]
"Yes.'"
"I don't understand," Blossom mumbled, "you live on the Star of Truth--how did you come here to the Black Dream Hole? I thought you only watched what happened in space."
"I can go anywhere," Vera said, "you made a wish and I heard you, so I came to grant it. This place--isn't very dreamy, is it? A wish is like a dream and the kind of dream that Badiyanu has will remain just a dream. That is one wish I'll never grant for her. And in granting yours, I will help you stop her devious plan. So wish again, child and it will be granted."
Blossom floated to Vera. "I wish…"
"Yes?"
"I wish to be a sailor scout!"
"It's done then!" Vera clapped her hands once and stretched them out. Blossom's alien attire ripped away and she changed to her human form. A sailor fuku with a lavender skirt and vest appeared on her naked body, the bows being light green. She had thigh-high boots like her mother, light green with flower at the top. Her brooch was a flower with a rainbow inside and a tiara with a pink gem went across her forehead. Her auburn hair was tied back with a flower. She stopped and looked at her new self.
"You did it, I'm a sailor scout!"
"Yes," Vera said, "now go and save the children, Sailor Flora Rainbow!" Vera disappeared back to her home on the star of truth.
Sailor Flora Rainbow turned around and held up her hand, "FLORA CHAIN SMASH!'"
Flowers tied together, stem to blossom, smashed into one of the dream boxes, setting the child inside free. Sailor Flora Rainbow swam to it opened up her hand. "FLORA REMEDY!"
Flower petals fell on the child and he woke up. "Huh?"
"One down," Flora Rainbow said, turning around, "hundreds to go!"
You need to read this before you read this.
Title: Promises, Flowers, & Farewells, All Hearts Can Melt, and Beautiful Dreams
Writer: Heroine of the Valley
Canon: Dubbed anime
Rating: Still a 5
Name: Lydia MacGreggor
Senshi Title: Still Sailor Rainbow
Hair: Still ginger, still in braided pigtails, but now there’s a yellow kerchief to go with it, then are held in place with blue bands later.
Eyes: Indigo
Unusual Markings/Colorations: None
Senshi Outfit:
Basic: “the same as before, the indigo bows, violet skirt, red vest and primary colors on the bands of her sleeves and secondary colors on the bands of her gloves. Her boots were white, thigh-high with a red and orange stripe at the top. Lydia and Serena turned to each other and their earrings, tiara and choker appeared on them. Serena's were earrings two dangling pearls connecting to a moon and Lydia's dangling rubies and topazes. Serena's tiara gem was a ruby and Lydia's a golden topaz. Serena's choker was dark pink with a moon and Lydia's orange with a green heart. As rubies appeared on Serena's buns, orange ribbons and topazes appeared around Lydia’s braids.”
Super (After Fiore gives her the green coin): “Now Sailor Rainbow started to glow from red to green and butterflies floated around her. Her brooch became a green star with a gold one in the center matching the decoration on her golden belt. Her back bow extended to her knees. A green stripe joined the red, orange and yellow stripes on her boots and her green shamrock broke, turning her yellow choker green. A golden coin appeared on her choker as the next choker decoration. Her love blossom on her arm received more power and her earrings were emerald stars to match her tiara gem and braid ties. She had green ribbons at the top of her braids. Now she had the power to become Super Sailor Rainbow and she felt great.”
Eternal: (After Vera gives her the last coin): “Her bow became spectrum colored, like a butterfly's wings and her sleeves rounded out with a gold tinge. The bow on her back changed from indigo to gold and evened out to ribbons. Rainbow's skirt changed with the top portion ranging from red, violet and finally gold. A violet stripe finished the spectrum on her boots, followed by golden diagonal stripes creating pots of gold. Her floral brooch changed into a golden pot. Lastly, her earrings change to golden pots, her chocker from indigo, violet then gold with the decoration changed from a heart to a rainbow, the ribbons on her braids changed to a shimmering gold and her tiara vanished, revealing her birthmark.”
Possessions: Along with all of her other objects, she has the Rainbow Coins (she finds the yellow one before the start of the third story, Fiore gives her the green one near the end of it, she finds the blue and indigo ones before the fourth story, and Vera, the Queen of Knowledge, gives her the violet one at the end of the fourth story), the Rainbow Scepter (“It was white with a big gold coin on the top with an orange bow around it. In the middle of the gold coin was a rainbow and near the bottom was an orange and red stripe.”/”white scepter that had the three rainbow coins on them with a cloud on the top and a golden ribbon around it.”), the Love Blossom, a corsage that is nourished by love energy given to her by Fiore (“slightly larger than his hand. It was deep red and opened to reveal the inside. It was frosty-white and the middle section was in the shape of a golden heart.”), and the Rainbow Crystal, which may or may not be the prism from the previous story, (She may have given that to Fiore, since he gets one in exchange for the Love Blossom.) and a harmonica, which according to her will give you bad luck if you steal it.
Guardians: Lucky, who is still a cat and gets a background in the third story. (Middle child in a litter of 7 with a lot of good luck who had the thickest fur (so he was never cold, because it’s cold a lot in Ireland) and was better at catching fish and mice than his siblings, making them jealous and mean to him. He was also beat up by a lot of dogs. The scars are under his fur, natch.)
Origin: The great land of potatoes and leprechauns (and no chocolate) where everyone is a farmer (except the nobility) and every person over the age of 18 who isn’t named Madame Indigo is a raging drunk. (Ireland) She came back to Japan for Spring Break. At the moment, she is searching for the Rainbow Coins, which will give her new powers and make her stronger than the Rainbow Crystals did. She also has to fight some guardians to prove that she is worthy of claiming them. In the third story, she comes back, at Serena’s urging, for Winter Break.
Connections to Canon: All of the stuff from last time still stands. Mina still hates Lydia but is nice to her and agrees with her whenever it’s convenient (which is almost all of the time). Fiore is now her soul mate and without him, she’s a weepy mess. In the future, they have a daughter named Blossom (Sailor Flora Rainbow), who is Rini’s friend.
Senshi Moves: Along with the other 19 attacks…
Rainbow Red and Orange Swirl: Swirls of red and orange energy, used with Moon’s “Moon Tiara Magic”.
Rainbow Princess Execution: A “Moon Scepter Elimination/Moon Princess Elimination” clone.
Rainbow Code Red: “the red rainbow coin's power sent a laser through the spaces in her fingers and swirled around Fiore. It cut his fingernails down to size as the CODE RED made a deafening siren.”
Rainbow Burning Sun Stroke: Shoots blinding solar energy out of her scepter.
Rainbow Red Orange Yellow Streamers: “A stream of orange sided by one of yellow and red, made its way to Princess Kaguya's face.”
Rainbow Indigo Streak: You know, I really don’t think that there are any non-cosmetic differences in these attacks.
Rainbow Color Slide: A rainbow slide, wee.
Rainbow Green Zapper: Seriously, with a few exceptions, I bet they all do the same thing.
Rainbow Six-Way Flash: “A rainbow missing just the color of violet flew toward the giant band of bonbon babies.”
Rainbow Indigo Flash: C’mon, get to 30… *Finishes the last story* Damn!
Other Special Abilities: Same shit as before, she uses her harmonica to release all of the children out of their trance in the fourth story.
Annoying Traits: She still has the accent, which varies in thickness throughout the stories. She mentions one incident where a bunch of guys just came up to her and gave her hugs and kisses because she was wearing a “Kiss me, I’m Irish” shirt.
Comments: I really think that these stories should have BNF status. They are seriously that awesome/bad. There should be a shrine with MSTs devoted to this series...
These stories are actually less annoying than the first one. The word ‘luck’ isn’t spammed as much and Lydia doesn’t push everyone completely into the background. But again, these stories are just the dubbed versions of the three movies (with lines ripped from them) with an extra character and Fiore added.
The next two stories in the series are Harry Potter crossovers (that are 30+ chapters long). I am definitely looking forward to reading those.
Samples:
"Say, lassies, have I told you about the rainbow coins I've been searching for?"
"Rainbow coins?" Amy asked.
"Aye."
"Are they anything like the rainbow crystals?" Lita asked.
"Mm-hmm,” she nodded, “I don’t have to take them from humans and they change into monsters like the shadow warriors. However, there are guardians that protect them and I have to fight them to prove I am worthy to claim them. When I get the coin, I get new powers and I become stronger-stronger than the rainbow crystals made me.”
"Wow, how were they created?" Mina asked. Lydia seemed impressed that she was actually interested.
"A long, long time ago, there was rain for three days." Lydia said. "The sun did not shine. All did was rain and rain."
"That'd be a bummer," Lita grunted.
"Aye, but after three long days, the sun came out," Lydia went on, "and a giant rainbow appeared. On one end of the rainbow, there was a huge pot of gold coins. Just as you hear of the legendary pots of gold at the other sides of the rainbow."
"And I thought that was just a myth," Amy said.
"No myth, Amy," Lydia insisted. "The rainbow was so bright, that it changed seven of those gold coins into the colors of the rainbow and they became magical coins. Right after that, a strong wind blew the seven coins out of the pot and they were scattered in different places. For years, people have searched for the seven rainbow coins, but never found them. I kind of thought it was just a story myself until I went to invistiage this haunted house called the House of Blood."
“House of Blood?” Raye looked disgusted, “well, even the name of it makes me want to stay as far away from it as possible!”
“I know,” Lydia nodded. “It got its name because the house was just so red, inside and out. People tried to get in to check it out but they heard a voice telling them to leave. When I went, my brooch was changing red like it does when I’m searching for the crystals. I found the red coin in an empty suit of armor. That armour became the guardian of it and would frighten anyone crazy enough to come. Only the Rainbow Princess had the power to draw it and I was able to do it ith my prism crystal.”
“That’s so cool,” Lita breathed.
“Did you find any others?” Mina inquired.
“Yeah just the orange,” Lydia answered. “I found it in a wildfire that was burning down one of the villages.”
“Do you have them on you?” Lita asked excitedly. “Can we see?”
“Yeah, sure,” she took out her brooch and opened up and removed the two coins from the inside of the lid.
"Wow, they're very pretty!" Amy said, picking up the red as Lita picked up the orange.
Lita bit the edge of the coin, “Yeah, real gold too! Wow!”
"Serena, you have got to check this out!” Raye exclaimed.
But Serena wasn't listening. Her mind was on something else.
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The tears fell off her face and the sun shined through them. They landed in the center of the giant flower they stood in. The tears came together to form a tear-shaped prism the size of a golf ball. Seeing the prism, Fiore bent down and picked it up.
"What is this? A crystal?"
"A prism," Rainbow explained, wiping the tears away. "When the light shines through it, you'll see a rainbow. Have you ever seen a rainbow, Fiore?"
He shook his head. "I haven't stayed on earth long enough to see one."
"Come back with me to Earth," Sailor Rainbow proposed, "maybe yeh'll get lucky this time."
"I can't," he mumbled. "I can't survive on Earth very long. Only a matter of days."
"Then what will yeh do?"
"I'll travel space," he replied. "And find my home."
"Take me with you," she said. "Please." She wrapped her arms around him. "I can't let you float around space by yourself! It's not right! Take me with yeh, Fiore! I'd love to travel the cosmos with yeh and help yeh find yer home."
Fiore rested his hand on her head. "No, I must go alone," he said sadly.
"But Fiore, I don’t want yeh to be alone." She tightened her arms around him. “Take me with you!” [“I need to say ‘luck’ 30 more times around you!”]
"I won't be," he told her. "Please, stay with Darien. Earth is your home. You belong there. I don't want to take you away from your home."
Sailor Rainbow frowned, "Oh Fiore…I wish that yeh didn't have to go." She remembered her quest, cleaning out haunted castles, finding the rainbow coins. She sighed. "I have to continue finding the rainbow coins, I can't leave, but I can't let you be alone either." [Give him your cat and go find yourself a shape-shifting fairy. They’re all over Ireland.]
"Rainbow coins?" he asked, pushing her back.
"Back in my homeland, Ireland, I am searching for the seven rainbow coins." She explained. "They make me stronger." She explained more about them and where Ireland was so if he were to return, he’d know to find her.
"Then continue your quest to find them," Fiore said, sliding his finger down her cheek, "and I'll continue to journey space."
Sailor Rainbow nodded, "Yeh'll be in my heart, Fiore."
"You in mine, Sailor Rainbow," he said, looking at the tear-shaped prism. "Always. You'll be with me and that's why I won't be alone. I'll try to come back to you one day."
"Do yeh promise?" she asked.
"Oh my love," he said, cupping her face in his hands, "of course I promise. I keep my promises, always. I intended to keep my promise to Darien, haven't I? However, the Kisenian Blossom wasn't exactly the right flower to bring."
She nodded, "but yeh'll get him a new flower, right?"
"Yes."
"I love yeh, Fiore," she whispered.
"I love you too, Sailor Rainbow, forever." He pulled her closer to him and leaned down, his fingers holding her chin. Sailor Rainbow stood on her toes as she accepted her first kiss from the one she loved. When she felt his lips on hers, her whole body seemed to fill with sunshine. Her heart became so full of emotion that it spread out through the rest of her body. She felt as if she was so full of emotion that she would burst at any given moment. A pinkish-red aura surrounded the couple. A rainbow spread over them. Sailor Rainbow did not want the moment to end. She tightened her arms around his neck, she closed her eyes tight and her eyelashes became wet. When they were breathless, they pulled back but Fiore's arms remained around her.
"Thank you for being my friend," he said, sliding his fingers down one of her braids, "and loving me."
"My pleasure," she told him, "thank yeh for loving me back."
He slid his hand down her cheek. "I will return when I find my home."
“Will you take me to it?” she asked.
“Yes.” He said. “I promise.
She smiled. “I wish you luck.”
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"Because the way Kakeru is to you, is the way…was the way, Dorothy was to me."
"Dorothy?" Luna walked next to him. "Who's Dorothy? Lucky--it can't be. You were in love with a human also?"
"I was. That is where I got this collar." He looked down at the golden collar he had around his neck.
"You never told me," Luna said. "I was certain that you got it from Lydia or Madam Indigo."
"Surprised, aren't yeh?" he asked, cracking a smile.
"Well, your past was pretty much a mystery." Luna shrugged. "You didn't talk much about it. Could you tell me?"
"Aye. It's such a long story, so I'll start when I was born. I don't know if you just ended up here after Serenity sent you and Artemis to Earth or you were reborn as a kitten. I however, was a kitten. I had three bothers and three sisters and we all were different. No human owned us. It was just we cats. My siblings hated me."
"Why?"
"Because, of this," he stepped forward. "My rainbow birthmark. I was different from them and I could do things they couldn't do."
"They were jealous of you?"
"Yes. They all were and they fought rough with me. Even the runt."
"That's preposterous!" Luna cried. "Why, you were their brother and they should've loved you no matter what!"
Lucky chuckled.
"What?"
"Luna, you look just like my eldest sister, but you are nothing like her. I wish she were at least a bit like you. And my brothers…I wish they were like Artemis."
****
A solid white shorthaired stray mother cat delivered her first litter in a hollow log. Her litter was different colors and their fur was different too. She noticed that one, her fourth born had an interesting birthmark on his forehead. The other kittens did not have this birthmark and she wondered how it could belong to her. However, it was still part of her litter and she had to be a good mother, when she knew for certain that the other kittens wouldn't like him.
When the kittens were old enough to walk and their eyes were open, they treated their orange longhaired, green-eyed, rainbow-birth marked brother with no respect. Not just because of his birthmark, but because when it was cold, he was warm. He had the thickest fur of any cat in the whole litter and it got cold a lot in Ireland. The oldest cat was a black shorthair with red eyes and a female; the next was male gray with somewhat-thick fur with orange eyes; the third was also a male with yellow eyes, brown thick fur. The orange-longhaired one in the middle had green eyes and the unsightly birthmark that they all resented. The next cat also had orange hair, but it was shorter with yellow stripes, blue eyes and a female. The next had indigo eyes, a male and he was orange and white. The last, also the runt of the family, was male, had violet eyes and was gray with black stripes. Sadly, instead of picking on the runt, the picked on the middle kitten. Even the runt picked on him. The orange, longhaired middle kitten could do things that the others couldn’t' do. He found food more easily. He caught mice better than anyone else and a good fishing cat also. All the other cats thought the mother cat loved the middle cat more than anyone else. But this mother cat loved all of her litter. It didn't keep the cats from fighting with their sibling and he had a few scratches that his thick hair hid. [So do cats use jurisimprudence laws when they get into an argument too?]
One spring day, when the kittens were a little older, there was a beautiful rainbow spread across the meadow. All the kittens were excited and they ran to it. But the closer they got to it, the father it went. Only one could come to it, and that was the one with the birthmark. He walked right into the rainbow and on the other side was a pot of gold. The kittens were angry with their sibling. Especially the eldest; she being the eldest, should have authority to be able to play in the rainbow. [ELDER KITTY DEMANDS TIME AT THE MAGIC RAINBOW!] She went up to her brother and tried to swat him. The loathed kitten jumped into the pot of gold before he was hurt. His sister and the others tried jumping in with him to push him out and play in the gold but they couldn't get near it. They gave up and left their brother alone. The kitten watched his siblings leave him. The kitten began to cry and he sank down in the gold. He wondered why they hated him. He tried hard to be part of the family. He was nice and respected them. Why couldn't they do the same for him? The kitten fell asleep and then he heard a voice talking to him. He sat straight up, a few coins falling from his head.
"Hear me," said the voice.
For some odd reason, the kitten understood the voice. It could understand human speech, unlike other cats and his siblings. He couldn’t see who was speaking to him. He looked around to see if a human was standing next to the pot. Then the voice spoke again.
"Hear me."
The voice was coming from over head. He cat looked up. He saw a woman's face through the rainbow. It was Queen Azure.
"Find her, dear cat. Find my daughter on Earth. You are her guardian advisor. You must find Sailor Rainbow, the Rainbow Princess."
"Meow?" the cat spoke.
"You can speak my language and I know you can hear me. You are different from your kittens because you were chosen to find the rainbow princess. Find her, before it is too late."
"Rainbow…Princess?" the kitten mumbled.
"Yes. You will know when you find her. She also bears the same mark on her forehead, as I do." She pointed to her forehead. "But she does not remember her past nor does she carry the rainbow mark on her forehead right now. But you will know, dear cat when you find her. You can make her remember with your special gift. Hurry."
"Wait…" the kitten whispered. But then, the woman disappeared and her voice, he could no longer hear. The kitten sat down in the pot of gold. He was only a few months old. He wasn't fully grown to look for someone yet. He was still yet a kitten. But then, he couldn't stay with his family--a family that didn't love him. But he really didn't have much of a choice. He had to go, even if he was a kitten. The orange kitten jumped out of the pot of gold, through the tall grass to find whoever this Rainbow Princess could be.
*****
"That's how it began," Lucky said.
"I just can't believe your siblings were so cruel to you." Luna sympathized. "Just awful! I'd like to have a talk with them."
"Me too."
"So what happened after that?" Luna asked, interested. "You left your home while you were still just a young kitten."
"Aye, I did. But, I got lucky. I've walked through snow, rivers, swamps, deserts…"
"There are deserts in Ireland?"
"No. But it felt like it during the summer times. During a cold winter, a young boy found me." [To make a long story short: A boy feeds him, then he leaves and is found in a well by a servant girl named Betsy, who takes her to her mistress named Dorothy. She takes him in and spoils him. But he leaves due to his destiny and the fact that she is seeing someone named Count Magnus.]
[Snip]
"Come on," Artemis said, "let's go home." He stretched, "I need a nap."
Luna laughed, still next to him, "You always say that." She looked at Lucky, who was on her left. She was between the two tomcats of her life. She knew she could always depend them to be on her side and she intended to be there for them. They walked out the door and as they went down the steps, something about them started to change.
"What's going on?" Artemis asked.
"I don't know," Luna said.
The three cats grew large in size and their tails shrank. Furry cat legs lengthened into human arms and legs. They were becoming human. Luna's hair was long, thick and wavy with buns on her head, like Serena's. Her eyes changed from red to blue and her dress became golden yellow. Artemis became a tall, thin man with long white hair and an interesting white outfit.
"Artemis, look," Luna said, "we're human!"
"How did it happen?" he questioned and looked at Lucky, "Lucky?"
Lucky wasn't as tall as Artemis was, but he looked stronger than him. Lucky had a short, stocky and buff build. Because his fur was always so thick, so was his hair that came down to his waist into a ponytail secured with a green ribbon in the middle. It strongly resembled his tail as a cat. He wore an orange vest and black pants with orange stripes on the sides and black leprechaun-like shoes. He had a chest full of hair and his pectoral muscles were tight. Down his arms were many thick orange hairs, like his fur. The scars and burns he carried as a cat were now visible as a human. The manliest, most alluring part of him was his thick orange sideburns that expanded to his cheekbones and ended to his chin. [Mutton chops?] He became a very gorgeous man, but the only problem was [he had enough back hair to clog every shower drain in Dublin], he was choking on his collar.
"Lucky!" Luna gasped.
Lucky's green eyes bulged as he unfastened the buckle on his collar and took in a deep breath of much needed air, "That's…better."
Luna looked at the collar, "Oh…Lucky, I'm sorry."
"Don't be," Lucky said.
"You can go see Dorothy if you want to."
Lucky shook his head; "it's best if she doesn't see me." He chuckled, "I wouldn’t want her to see me choking on the collar she got for me. It wouldn’t show much gratitude, would it?"
"I wonder how we changed," Artemis said.
As Lucky put the golden collar around his wrist as a bracelet, he saw Lydia out of the corner of his eye holding her brooch. She caught her looking at him, smiled and walked away. She wished for it. Lucky shook his head and shrugged. [A bunch of human girls run up to him and start fighting over him a few paragraphs later.]
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A girl with auburn hair and subtle green eyes turned the corner of the store, peeking on Rini and Pereru. Her auburn hair came to her shoulders with a small braid on either side of her face. A purple flower was tucked in her hair. She wore a green shirt underneath a black jumper dress and black shoes. Around her neck she wore a glass heart-shaped necklace. Before they saw her, she stepped back behind the store.
[Snip]
"They can't hear you, sailor scouts," a voice said.
"Who said that?" Amy asked.
A girl stepped around the corner, with auburn hair wearing a black jumper over a green shirt.
"Who are you?" Serena asked. "How come you're not hypnotized like the others?"
The girl folded her arms. "The tune is set to hypnotize human children--and I am only half human."
"Half human?" Lita exclaimed. "You're one of them, aren't you?"
"The ones trying to steal the children!" Serena shouted.
"No," the girl said. "I'm here to help."
Rini turned and looked at the girl. "Wait…I know you! Blossom!"
She smiled, "I'm touched to see you remember me, Rini."
"You know her?" Serena asked.
"Sure I do," Rini ran to Blossom. "She's my friend from the future!" She put her arm around her. "Lydia's her mom!"
"What?" Serena gasped.
"Allow me to introduce myself," Blossom nodded, "My name's Blossom. Fiore and Lydia's daughter." Blossom closed her eyes and a flurry of rose petals surrounded her. Her appearance changed. Her auburn hair became longer and the braids came undone. It changed from auburn to a bright, vibrant orange with green streaks in her bangs. Greenish-yellow skin replaced her pink flesh and her dress turned out to be like Fiore's alien outfit, except it was in purple. A gold piece of her outfit went around her left leg. The rose petals disappeared and Blossom finally opened her eyes, now alien-like and violet. Dangling from her alien ears were crystal earrings. Her lips were painted orange and the only thing she kept from her human appearance was the purple flower in her hair. "A pleasure to meet you!" [She’s puke colored…]
"Lydia will freak when she hears this." Serena said.
Rini embraced her friend. "I missed you, Blossom!" Rini exclaimed.
"I missed you too," Blossom said.
[Snip]
"Children of Earth, this is your wake up call!" Blossom exclaimed. "Wake up!" She was swimming through the space of dream boxes. She came to a box where a child was sound asleep. "Please, you've got to wake up!" She pounded on the box. "I've got to break these things!"
The dream boxes were indestructible. No matter how hard she pounded on the boxes, they never broke.
"Why won't you break?" she demanded. "Break!"
Blossom folded her arms on the dream box and started to cry. "This isn't going anywhere! It's no use. I'll never save them. I have no powers. I wish I was a sailor scout like Rini…then maybe I could save these kids!"
"Say that again," a woman voiced.
"What?" Blossom picked up her head, tears streaming down her alien face. "Who said that? Is it you, Badiyanu? Don't think I can save them, do you?"
A woman with long fuchsia hair wearing a midnight blue sparkly dress appeared in front of her. Her fuchsia hair flowed around her body and she smiled. "Say that again, dear child."
"Say what again?"
"Your wish. What is it that you wish for?"
"Wait, I know you," Blossom gasped, "you're that lady--that lady from space that granted my father a wish! Queen Vera, queen of knowledge!" [Yeah, Fiore bumped into her and she gave him the ability to live in Earth.]
"Yes.'"
"I don't understand," Blossom mumbled, "you live on the Star of Truth--how did you come here to the Black Dream Hole? I thought you only watched what happened in space."
"I can go anywhere," Vera said, "you made a wish and I heard you, so I came to grant it. This place--isn't very dreamy, is it? A wish is like a dream and the kind of dream that Badiyanu has will remain just a dream. That is one wish I'll never grant for her. And in granting yours, I will help you stop her devious plan. So wish again, child and it will be granted."
Blossom floated to Vera. "I wish…"
"Yes?"
"I wish to be a sailor scout!"
"It's done then!" Vera clapped her hands once and stretched them out. Blossom's alien attire ripped away and she changed to her human form. A sailor fuku with a lavender skirt and vest appeared on her naked body, the bows being light green. She had thigh-high boots like her mother, light green with flower at the top. Her brooch was a flower with a rainbow inside and a tiara with a pink gem went across her forehead. Her auburn hair was tied back with a flower. She stopped and looked at her new self.
"You did it, I'm a sailor scout!"
"Yes," Vera said, "now go and save the children, Sailor Flora Rainbow!" Vera disappeared back to her home on the star of truth.
Sailor Flora Rainbow turned around and held up her hand, "FLORA CHAIN SMASH!'"
Flowers tied together, stem to blossom, smashed into one of the dream boxes, setting the child inside free. Sailor Flora Rainbow swam to it opened up her hand. "FLORA REMEDY!"
Flower petals fell on the child and he woke up. "Huh?"
"One down," Flora Rainbow said, turning around, "hundreds to go!"