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Amara closed the door to Hotaru's room.
"She's sleeping." She said to Michelle who was standing behind her.
"I wonder what came over her today." Michelle said with concern.
"I've been wondering that too." Amara said, deep in thought, replaying what happened today in her head.
"One minute she's laughing and the next she collapses." Amara said out loud.
"And she seemed to be very wary of Serena. She also mentioned something about a shadow. It doesn't make sense." Michelle said as they both walk down the hall and into their bedroom.
"No, it doesn't." Amara said as she climbed into bed. "But let's not worry about it tonight." Amara said with a cheeky grin.
Michelle rolled her eyes. "Not tonight."
Amara frowned as Michelle rolled over and went to sleep
Sailor Eris lent against the window frame watching Hotaru's sleeping body. She walked over to Hotaru and laid her hand on Hotaru's forehead. Hotaru's face looked pained the moment Eris did this.
Hotaru woke up and looked around her room. She got out of bed and walked down the hall way to find Serena sitting on the couch. Hotaru hesitated approaching Serena but suddenly Serena turned around.
"Hotaru, you're awake."
"Yes. Where is Mama-Michelle and Papa-Amara?" Hotaru asked.
"They quickly ducked down to the store. Did you want to go for a walk and see if we can catch up with them?" Serena asked with a smile.
Hotaru nodded and ran back into her room to get changed. While she was getting changed she thought that something didn't feel right. She thought back to yesterday when they were battling the Shadow, did it really happen? She shook the thoughts from her head and ran back down to the front door.
"Ready?" Serena asked.
"Yes."
As they walked down the street Hotaru started to think that maybe she was being silly before. Everyone said that she passed out, maybe she was having a nightmare.
"Are you alright Hotaru?" Serena asked looking at her with concern.
Hotaru smiled. "Yes, I'm fine."
When both girls turned the corner down the next street they saw a bunch of people running from a store.
"Monster! Monster!"
Serena and Hotaru looked at each other and ran into an alley close by to transform.
"Saturn Crystal Power!"
"Moon Eternal Make Up!"
When they ran into the store Saturn gasped at what was attacking everyone…it was the Shadow from earlier.
"Stop right there! I am Sailor Moon and on behalf of the Moon, I will punish you!"
The Shadow turned and ran at the two soldiers. The Shadow hit both the girls and sent them flying through the glass window. Saturn groaned and pushed herself up. She looked over at Sailor Moon to see her laying there.
"Sailor Moon?" She said nudging her, "Sailor Moon!?"
Saturn looked up to see the Shadow climbing through the broken window.
"Sailor Moon, please wake up!"
Sailor Moon opened her eyes slightly and looked at Saturn.
"Saturn, it's up to you. You have to protect everyone by yourself." Sailor Moon whispered.
"What? I can't, not on my own." Saturn said in shock.
"You're right. You can't. You can't do it. You just a little kid. You can't protect us, you can't protect me." Sailor Moon closed her eyes and passed out.
"Sailor Moon! Please, you can't mean that!" Saturn had tears streaming down her checks. She closed her eyes waiting for the attack of the Shadow…but something stopped it.
"Eris Chaotic Destruction!"
Saturn looked up to see a large black ball of energy hit the Shadow. The Shadow let out a high pitch scream and disappeared. She saw a mysterious Soldier standing in front of her. The Soldier turned around and knelt in front of Saturn.
"It's alright now."
"Who are you?" Saturn asked, wiping her tears away.
"My name is Sailor Eris."
"You saved me."
"Of course. I'll always be here to help you."
Eris scoped Saturn up into her arms.
"Now go to sleep. You need your rest." Eris said with a kind smile.
"But what about Sailor Moon?" Saturn asked.
"She has already gone." Eris said.
Saturn looked over her shoulder to see the spot where Sailor Moon landed. She wasn't there.
"Go to sleep Saturn." Eris ran her hand over Saturn's eyes to close them.
When Saturn fell asleep her tiara disappeared and the symbol of Saturn appeared on her forehead…but not for long. Eris' eyes started to flash red. Eris' tiara disappeared and the black symbol of Eris appeared on her forehead and started to flash red. Saturn's symbol disappeared and was replaced by Eris' symbol. Both soldiers' tiaras both returned and Eris smiled.
"One down…eight to go."
Eris removed her hand from Hotaru's forehead. The Saturn symbol on Hotaru's forehead faded and the symbol of Eris replaced it. Eris smiled and disappeared.
Hotaru shot up in bed and looked around her room.
"Eris must have bought me home…but how did she know where I lived."
Hotaru hopped out of bed and walked down to the lounge room. As she walked she realised that her clothes felt really tight. She glanced down to see her once floor length nightgown now only just covered her. She thought that this was strange but continued for the lounge room. Michelle and Amara were sitting on the couch with their backs to Hotaru.
"Mama Michelle? Papa Amara?"
Both women turned to see Hotaru standing in the doorway. They gasped in shock. Hotaru was no longer a little girl. She was full grown and looked the same age as them.
"Hotaru?" Michelle asked in confusion, making sure it was her.
"What's happened to me?" Hotaru asked, a little frightened as to why Michelle and Amara were staring at her so strangely.
"You're fully grown." Amara said in amazement. Michelle and Amara walked around Hotaru, studying her new body.
"How could this happen? What could have caused her to grow up?" Michelle asked, not really expecting to get an answer.
Just then, the front door opened and Trista walked in the groceries. She dropped them in shock when she saw Hotaru.
"Hotaru?" Trista asked, not believing what she was seeing. Hotaru nodded.
"How?" Trista turned to Amara and Michelle for answer but both only shrugged.
"We're trying to figure that out. I was actually hoping you might know." Amara said.
Trista walked over to Hotaru and looked her over just as Amara and Michelle did before.
"The only thing I can think of is that her full grown power is needed so her body was forced to mature." Trista concluded.
"Again?" Amara asked.
"But why? We have no enemy." Michelle said.
"None that we know of. We need to keep our eyes open…and watch our princess." Amara said to everyone.
Hotaru eyes darkened and a feeling of hatred flared up within her at the mention at their princess, though the other three didn't notice. She would watch the princess but for a different reason.
Mina, Lita and Serena were all heading around to the outer scouts place to see how Hotaru was doing. Lita was driving, Mina was in the passenger seat and Serena was sitting in the back. As the girls were chatting, the DJ's voice interrupted them.
"And now for the number one hit by Satine, Going Under."
"Oh God, not this." Mina said as she switched the radio off.
"What's wrong with it?" Lita asked.
"That girl, Satine, she was the one that took my record deal. So now she's famous and I'm not."
Satine, wasn't that the name of the girl I ran into yesterday? Serena thought to herself.
"So I guess you don't like her." Lita said.
"No. I refuse to listen to any of her music." Mina huffed.
The girls pulled up out the front of the outer soldiers' house. Serena ran up to the door and knocked. Amara opened the door a little to see who it was.
"Oh girls, it's you." Amara opened the door fully. "Come in everyone."
"Hey Amara, what's up? You seem a little…" Lita trailed off when she saw Hotaru…or at least she thought it was her.
"Hotaru?" Mina asked.
"We don't know how it happened. She woke up and was fully grown." Amara informed them.
The girls stared at Hotaru. Hotaru's eyes landed on Serena. She gave Serena a slight glare before turning her attention to Trista.
"We think that her full powers might be needed soon so that is why she has grown up." Trista said.
"So, we might have a new enemy?" Lita asked.
"Maybe." Amara said.
"Come on Hotaru. I'll give you some of my clothes to wear. They should fit you." Michelle said leading Hotaru to her and Amara's bedroom.
"I guess we had better keep an eye out for anything weird happening." Mina said as they all sat in the lounge room.
"Because this situation isn't already weird?" Lita said sarcastically.
"You know what I mean." Mina replied.
Serena wasn't listen to the others talk. She was thinking about how Hotaru had been acting since she had passed out yesterday. Could it have something to do with a new enemy? Her train of thought was broken by Mina.
"Oh no, I can't escape her!" Mina cried.
"What are you talking about?" Amara asked in confusion.
Mina pointed to the television. It was on MTV and the song playing was Going Under…by Satine.
"You don't like her?" Michelle asked a she walked into the room, Hotaru in tow.
"Like her? I loath her! She stole my record deal." Mina exclaimed.
"Oh, that's a shame. I was going to give you girls' tickets to her concert." Michelle said.
"What? Why do you have tickets? Are you a fan?" Serena asked.
"Not as such. I composed the music for one of her songs so she asked if I and Amara would play with her at her concert." Michelle informed them.
Unknown to the others, Hotaru had been watching Satine with such intensity. It was like she was hypnotised by Satine's voice. But when she heard Michelle mention tickets to Satine's concert she turned her attention away from the television.
"When is the concert?" Hotaru asked.
Everyone was a little surprised with Hotaru's sudden interest in the conversation.
"Just over a month." Michelle replied.
Hotaru turned back to the television and smiled. "I'd like to go." She said quietly.
That really threw everyone. Hotaru never really had any interest in music other than classical, like Michelle.
"Uh, sure." Michelle answered with confusion.
"Well, if its free tickets I'm happy to go." Serena said happily.
"Yeah, I'm up for it." Lita chimed in.
"Are you forgetting something? This girl stole my career!" Mina cried.
"Oh come on Mina. It'll be fun. We'll all go. You don't want to be the only one to miss out."
"Humph!" Mina folded her arms across her chest to imply that she wasn't budging on the subject.
Lita sighed. "Fine, be like that but you'll regret it when you miss out on all the fun.
"I doubt that." Mina said.
"I tell you what, Mina. I'll save you a ticket just in case you change your mind." Michelle said.
"I won't." Mina replied.
Everyone rolled there eyes.
"Well, I guess we should get going." Lita said.
"See you guys later." Amara said.
"Are you guys coming next week?" Serena asked just before she walked out the door.
"Well see, kitten." Amara replied.