It had been a week since the strange encounter with the talking fushia-black cat. Lina found herself double checking all the legends in her books, skimming them for how to defeat Mazoku and for spells to memorize. If all this stuff about a Moon Kingdom and a past life was true, then Lina wanted to be ready to defend herself.
At lunch, Lina hefted her enormous lunch sack onto her lap and greedily emptied it while under a tree. Afterwards, she leaned back and began to nap against the tree trunk.
"Wake up, Lina-san!" Lina immediately smacked her friend for disturbing her contentment.
"Alright, Amelia. What is it?"
"There's a girl spreading false gossip about everyone all over school! It's a great injustice! We must do something about this!"
"Is she saying anything about me?" Lina mumbled, settling back against the trunk with only one eye open.
"No..."
"OK then." And Lina went back to sleep, ignoring Amelia. Amelia stood up and stuck a pose, probably practicing for what she had in store for that gossiper.
"I shall sway her from her evil ways myself!" She then bounded off to do so. Lina was thankful, when suddenly, something landed on her stomach.
"HEY!!" Lina opened her eyes to stare straight into that of a cat's. "Luna?"
"Lina," Luna asked without delay, "who was that girl?"
"Just a friend of mine, one of my classmates. Why?"
"I sense something from her." Luna hopped off of Lina.
"I bet you wish you could remember what all the people from your past life look like."
"Does this mean you believe me?" Begrudgingly Lina yielded a "maybe". "But you believe I'm a talking cat and I took you to the Astral Plane."
"I've been thinking about it for the past week, and it all certainly felt like nothing I could describe as anything else but magic... But there's still no proof that everything you told me while I was there is true." Luna sighed. She saw that she would have to use a little underhanded-ness.
"An entire week and you haven't once wondered how the talisman I gave you works?" Despite Lina's attempt at sleep, her ears perked at this comment. She had even tried to use the talisman; she could not get her mind off the thought of having real magic power. Luna inwardly smiled. Lina was still the same: intelligent, stubborn, as well as curious and ambitiously greedy.
"I should tell you in case a Mazoku shows up. All you have to do is hold the broach and say 'Moon Prism Power'. You will then have the magic power to fight the Mazoku." Then suddenly, Luna bounded off again. Lina stayed reclined for only a few more seconds before pulling the talisman out of her skirt pocket and eyeing it again.
Instead of going home after class, Lina found herself wandering the city, deep in thought. She pulled her hand out of her pocket, with the talisman still clutched in her palm. She leaned against a rail overlooking the river channel and examined the talisman again. It was a simple silver circle with a gold crescent on one side, intricate etchings on the silver, diamonds at the corners of the crescent. It was elegent in its simplicity. Lina looked out over the water, not noticing the time until after enjoying the melting sunset. She straightened and decided she had better head home. As she passed by the park, she suddenly stopped and came to a decision.
"I'm going to try this. What could it hurt!" Lina entered the park and found a secluded area with plenty of tree cover. "If it turns out to be a trap, then I'll find a way out of it. I'm Lina Tsukino, afterall." Staring at the talisman in her hand, Lina called out, "Moon Prism Power!" In a flash (literally), Lina was staring back at her now empty hand. "The talisman?! Where?" Lina looked around and found the broach cliped to the knot of a large red bow on her chest. In an almost frozen disbelief, she inspected the rest of her clothing. "You've got to be kidding me!"
"So." Luna's kitty eyes reflected from a nearby tree branch.
"Luna! What THE HELL is this!?!" Lina flicked a hand at her short blue, sailor skirt.
"As I said a week ago, the reincarnation spell I cast required Nightmare Magics, in which I am rather inexperienced in. Some things inadvertantly changed in their reincarnated state."
"But what does it have to do with this ridiculous sailor fuku!?!"
"It was supposed to be your royal Moon Knight uniform."
"So now whenever I want to use my magic, I have to wear THIS, because you messed up a spell?!"
"Yes." Luna's eyes rolled to the side, in annoyance with herself. Lina kicked the tree and Luna nearly feel off her branch. Luna gave her sister the icy stare of death, but it didn't seem to have the effect that it had in her last life.
Well, the power better be worth it! Lina thought to herself. "Alright, Luna. What exactly can I do?"
"Well now," Luna smiled as she leap to the ground before Lina, "let us begin practicing."