The test results were supposed to contain a revelation and, to everyone but the girl they applied to, they did.

Aurora Imogen St. Grey, as her name was spelled out for the doctor's visit, knew the results to be true. She had even suggested as much when read the list of symptoms for the first time while mentally checking each box. Lack of eye contact. Check. Inability to read social cues. Check. Restricted interests. Check.

Why it suddenly became important to those closest to her now eluded her.

It only said one thing and that one thing she had always known.

Imagi was, quite simply put, herself.

Or, as her classmates would call it, strange.

Imagi didn't care much to assign a label to it like everyone else seemed to. She did like to categorize and organize things very much. But the classification system her peers and parents and even her twin sister wanted to use was rather unnecessary.

That was the reason the girl was walking alone outside talking to herself with expressionless blue eyes. She preferred to be alone and that is what everyone wanted to deny her at the present moment.

"I just don't understand anyone."

It was evening and Imagi was staring up at the rising crescent moon. She blocked the last bit of the sun with a pale hand that brushed back her long dark hair. It was if she were speaking to it.

"You don't have to understand people, you know. You just need to care about them."

The voice came from a very curious cat that stood atop a nearby wrought-iron fence. It had a strange star-shaped mark on its forehead. It stared intently at the young girl with knowing lavender eyes.

Imagi didn't look up as she responded.

"Well, they would at least need to understand me well enough to know that."

The cat jumped to the ground as the streetlights came on highlighting the mark on its head from its grey fur.

"Your role is to protect them. And from a place that they neither know nor understand you."

Imagi's mind cycled through facts, stories even myths as she tried to determine who or what the cat was. It was certainly nothing she had read or heard about. The girl had just turned fourteen a few weeks ago and had an eidetic memory

"I suppose I must show you, too, like anyone else. You are still human, after all."

A glowing pen appeared before her. It was the most beautiful object she had ever seen. It would look wonderful in her collection.

"Now! Embrace it! 'Beta Leporis Power, Make-up!'"

As soon as Imagi touched the pen, it lit up and the feeling of a light powder covering her body engulfed her. Her eyes closed as her hyper-active senses were filled with a familiar scent that she held close. Suddenly, her blue collared school uniform was gone and replaced by a sailor suit.

"You can open your eyes now, child. Tonight, you are truly someone new. Not only in name, but in truth, Beta Leporis, Senshi of Mochi!"

Imagi blinked not once but twice.

"Who am I?"

The cat smiled as he jumped high into the moonlight.

"Why! That is something you will have to learn for yourself and in your own way, but I am sure you suspected as much... Well! I suppose I can tell you this much. First, you can transform at will. You already know the words. You can turn back as well. When you do, you will find three items from me. A pen, a phone and a gift. Second, we will meet again, but the time is not right for that yet. Third, you must protect your sister now as she is not yet awakened like you."

Imagi mused upon these words for a bit and now had a question for the cat. He said her sister had not yet awakened, did that mean that she would too?

But the cat was long gone before she could ask.

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