The Song of the Amazon

Song of Amazon is a true forgotten senshi.

In the Silver Millennium, there were five asteroid senshi.  Sailor Ceres, Sailor Pallas, Sailor Juno, Sailor Vesta, and Sailor Apollos.  In the circus they were Cerecere: flower magician, Pallapalla: tight-rope walker, Junjun: acrobat and juggler, Vesves: animal tamer, and Apolapol: music maker.  In the Moon Kingdom, these five girls made up the Amazon Quintet and spent much of their time entertaining and amusing others in a small show at parties, upon request, or in their own little circus.  At the demise of the Moon Kingdom, Queen Serenity put their souls into slumber inside five small, crystal globes.

Queen Nehelenia intercepted these crystal globes, and awakened the quintet before they should have been.   At the time they were not yet ready to become senshi.  She ordered them to join her side and help her find Pegasus.  She threatened them so they wouldn’t refuse.  Pallapalla, Vesves, Junjun, and Cerecere were too afraid of Queen Nephrenia and what she could do, so they accepted her control.  Despite her companions’ decisions, Apolapol refused to join the Dead Moon Circus. 

Queen Nephrenia was furious.  She threw Apolapol into a deep, dark, torturing dungeon, and threatened her and tortured her, commanding her to join the Dead Moon Circus as she sent the, now, Amazon Quartet into a gentle slumber until they were needed.  All the while, Apolapol continued to refuse and stand her ground.  Finally, the Queen grew tired of having to deal with her and decided to do her away.  She experimented with her powers for the first time and stole Apolapol’s dream mirror and destroyed it.  She shattered her crystal Amazon Globe that held her soul.  Then she sent Apolapol’s spirit into the depths of time and space to be lost and forgotten forever.

Several years later, the Amazon Quartet was freed from the Dead Moon when Nephrina was defeated.  Since they were awakened too early, they were sent back to sleep in time and space.  Centuries later, they were re-awakened in Crystal Tokyo to be Chibiusa’s guardians.  At that time, they recalled the memories of their lost comrade and her brave stand.  They went to Queen Serenity and begged that she try to find Sailor Apollos, their sister senshi.  The Queen, pitying the asteroid senshi, sent Sailor Pluto to go find her soul in the void of time and space.  Setsuna search and searched, and found the spirit of Apolapol in a place called the Tower of Time. 

Apolapol’s soul was in ruins.  Queen Serenity restored her body, but her mind was distant and she couldn’t interact with other people.  The Quartet traveled to Elision and begged Helios to restore her dream mirror, and he obliged.  She still was not herself; everyone could sense something was missing.  They soon discovered that, when her crystal Amazon Globe was shattered, she lost the part of her soul that was Sailor Apollos.  She no longer had the ability to become a senshi.  Queen Serenity and the other asteroid senshi created her a new globe, but it did not restore the senshi part of her.  However, it gave her the ability to attack with it.  In her misery, she recalled that there were many other lost spirits and souls in the tower of time of many other senshi.  She told the queen of this and asked if there was any way for her to help them before it was too late for them too.  Queen Serenity thought that, since Apolapol was no longer a senshi and lost part of her soul that helped her enjoy life, she could become a guardian of the Tower of Time and rescue the spirits of the lost senshi there.  Apolapol agreed; she wanted to save people like herself and being with those she knew from before her defeat was too painful for her.  So she became the first guardian of the Tower of Time.

Because of this decision to become a guardian, she was neither an asteroid senshi nor an Amazon girl.  She had to change her name, but she couldn’t bring herself to leave her old self behind.  She called herself Song of Amazon, this stood for the fact that she was the music maker of the Amazon Quintet and that her past and soul was just a song of what it should have been.

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