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The chronicles of Light
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Written By Nathan Burnham.
Ley@pac.com.au
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PART 1: A new warrior
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CHAPTER 3: Discovery


The next day was a Saturday, and was very, very cold. Conner woke up, very early.
He felt weird again. He quickly got dressed, and before he knew what he was doing, he was 
driving down towards the mall. 
'What am I doing? The mall won't even be open yet!' he asked himself, but as he was so near 
to the mall he thought 'There must be some reason, I must have just forgotten'.
Conner pulled up and walked towards the entrance. The doors were open. Conner walked inside, 
and paused. Listening. There seemed to be sounds coming from down one of the hallways. Conner 
started running and soon came upon a scene similar to the one in the park. A woman was 
standing over the unconscious form of seven girls in sailor outfits, and a man in a tuxedo. 
She looked strange, her body was that of a lion, and her tail that of a serpent. She had 
wings as well. She was gloating.
"Ha! You will soon learn to stop meddling in the affairs of Sphinx! Die Sailor Moon!"
'Almost as weird as the woman in the park.' Thought Conner.
Conner again felt strange, but did not blackout.  He had changed, he could smell everything 
and could even hear the cars outside. He managed to see his reflection in a window. Was it 
his? He was a wolf, a very large wolf. A wolf that was currently bounding towards the woman, 
it's jaws open wide.
He couldn't control himself, it was like he was just watching it all. He jumped, knocking the 
woman away from Sailor Moon. His claws scratched. His jaws locked around her neck, his fangs 
sinking into her flesh. She was also scratching him, ripping great gashes along his back, 
ripping fur and flesh alike. He turned off the pain, he knew he was hurt but he didn't need 
any distractions. She punched out, and he flew off into a wall. 
"Leave that poor animal alone! I stand for love and justice, and in the name of the moon I 
shall punish you! I am Sailor Moon!"
Sailor moon was up, and had attracted the attention of Sphinx.
Sphinx turned around.
He could feel himself changing, from a gigantic wolf creature into something in between.  
Standing up he looked at himself in a piece of broken mirror.  His reflection was that of
a half wolf half man creature, fully seven feet tall and covered in fur. His head was that of
a wolves as well, not really the 'classic' werewolf.  He turned his attention to the ongoing
fight.
"Back for more eh?", sphinx snarled and jumped at Sailor Moon.
She never reached her.  Her path deviated rather violently as Conner smashed into her, claws
raking her side.
"Who are you?" Asked Sailor Moon.
"No time...now, destroy!" He growled. <You try talking with a wolves jaw structure ;->
Sailor Moon pulled out her spiral heart moon rod.
"Moon, Spiral, Heart Attack!" she cried, a beam shooting out at Sphinx. 
Sphinx was running toward Conner at the time and was very close to him. When the beam hit 
her, something strange happened. She exploded, throwing Conner back through a store window.
Sailor moon ran up to Conner.
"Are you ok?" Asked Sailor Moon.
"Yes...fine." Replied Conner, although one side of him was caked in blood.
Conner finally managed to get control of himself once again and he stood up, although 
somewhat shakily.
"Conner!?" came a cry from behind them.
Conner span around, behind him was a black cat and a white cat. 
"Luna...Artemis?!" he growled, and suddenly knew who they were. In fact, all of a sudden he 
knew who all of the Sailor Scouts were and most importantly he knew who he was.
<Teehee, if this has ever happened to you, email me ;->
Conner bowed and growled "Advisers..I..have....returned."
He looked over at the scouts before rushing over to them.
He seemed to instinctively know what to do. He woke them one at a time using some unusual 
pressure points. After each of the scouts were awake, memories flooded into his head. 
He feinted and dreamed. He woke up to the faces of Usagi and her friends. The two cats, 
Luna and Artemis were also there as was Mamoru and four other girls he had seen before 
although one he seemed to remember more clearly than the others. Sailors Neptune, Uranus, 
Saturn and Pluto.  Pluto looked lovingly at him,  it was obvious that she had not told the
others of his identity.  She did like to keep secrets, from everybody. 
He appeared to be in some sort of temple, Rei was wearing some sort of traditional dress, 
she was wiping his side, trying to remove the blood that matted his fur.
Conner brushed her hand away.
"Not important." Conner said, wincing as Rei touched a cut.
"What?! Don't worry about it? Are you crazy?! This is serious!  If it wasn't for the questions 
you'd be in the hospital right now!" Replied Rei, shocked.  Setsuna smiled knowingly and 
mouthed the word 'Vet'.
"Like this?" he said chuckling, "not serious, I not crazy.".  He shifted back into his 'human'
form. There was blood on him but the cuts seemed to have healed.  
"Damned magical creatures.... Oh that hurt...." he said, smiling slightly.
"Conner?! What happened, where's the blood?" said Rei, shocked.
"The blood's here, the cuts aren't." Replied Conner, looking at Setsuna for a second. 
Setsuna looked away, blushing. Ami looked from Conner to Setsuna and realized what was up, 
but chose to say nothing.
"What are you?" asked Haruka, bunching her fist "Are you from the Dark Kingdom?"
Conner chuckled again. "Not a very good judge of character are you Haruka..chan?", 
"Not to worry, Michuru-chan is perceptive enough... for both of you."
Haruka eyebrow twitched while Michiru blushed.
Conner continued, "I'm not very good at telling stories, Luna could you tell them?"
"Ok then.... lets see." Luna said, before finding a suitable place to start the tale.
"Conner appeared on Usagi's seventh birthday back on the Moon Kingdom.  It was a very
interesting entrance to say the least.  All of you, except for you Mamoru were sitting in 
audience hall when there was a great noise at the doors.  The two inner guards opened the
doors to find Conner with his sword drawn about to kill one of the outer guards."
Conner blushed a little, and said guiltily "You can skip that bit Luna...."
"Oh no, you wanted me to tell the tale.  Conner was arguing very loudly as well, saying
something like 'Let me pass, I must be here!'.  Although we later found out that he was
a very good swordsman, he was disarmed rather easily and restrained.  Queen Serenity asked
the guards to bring him up to her and they did.  When he reached the foot of the dais he brook
loose from the guards and knelt down.  'Queen Serenity, I present myself Conner MacCleod to 
serve you and guard your daughter Princess Serenity.'" Luna finished before looking at 
Setsuna, as if asking her to continue.
"Since the start of time I have known who it is that I would one day marry.  Because I live
outside of time, so must he." She said, "I walked in, just as Queen Serenity was about
to have him sent away.  I told her that he must be allowed to guard Princess Serenity, and 
serve her, hinting at his birthright.  He did not question my appearance, nor my belief in
him. He did however tell me that I was late."  Usagi giggled, Haruka and Michiru raised
their eyebrows in surprise while Conner looked like he was about to burst with hysterics.
Setsuna looked reproachingly at him before continuing.
"He was not often needed, staying with me outside of time, only returning to the Moon Kingdom
when Princess Serenity's life was in danger. Because of this he died trying to save you
when the Dark Kingdom invaded.  He wasn't too worried about this because both of us knew that
he would be reborn in this time."
"But *what* is he?" Makoto asked Setsuna.
"There are some parts of the timestream that we cannot see.  Conner's birth is hidden from
me," she said turning her attention to Conner "And *you* never told us.  Everytime we
asked you, you would get out of it somehow and we would forget."
Conner looked down at his watch, smiled and said six words that cleared Rei's room in a 
matter of seconds "Shouldn't you be at school now?".