Part 3

Part 3

"They're all out of commission… We can attack now and take over Tokyo, and then the rest of Japan!!" A woman formed out of the cloud of purple and black smoke that had been seen by all of the Senshi at the ends of their lives. Her hair was dark purple in color and her skin, snow white. Her eyes were black and had a red tint to them, she wore tight black leather pants and a black leather halter top. The woman laughed as the shadows fell back from around her, four women lay on the ground around her. Minako, Makoto, Rei and Ami all lay, dead.

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"Michiko! Hai, it's me, Ayumi. Hai… Have you seen Minako? She's been gone all day... She was going to help me practice to the choir recital coming up. Rei san? No, I haven't Michiko. Gomen nasai… Hai, I'll call if I find my mother, yes or yours." Ayumi hung up the phone quickly, moving back over to her boom box and turning it back on. Her music blared loudly over the four speakers that were stationed various places in her room. She walked over to her vanity mirror and pulled her shoulder length black hair into a bun. She peered at her reflection, a black haired and green eyed girl looked back. She smiled and turned away, beginning to sing to the song,

"Gomen ne sunao ja nakute, yume no naka nara ieru, shikou kairo wa short sunzen, ima sugu aitai yo, nakitaku naru you na, Moonlight denwa mo dekinai, Midnight

datte junjou dou shiyou, heart wa mangekyou." Her voice blended with the CD in her boom box almost perfectly. She danced around her room as she cleaned, throwing her clothes out into the hallway and tossing her school books onto her bedside table.

"Ni umareta no miracle romance, shinjite iru no miracle romance." As the song ended her phone rang. She quickly turned the volume down and picked up the phone.

"Moshi Moshi. Konbanwa Minai!!" Ayumi laughed at her blonde friend's response then quieted when a question was asked.

"Nani? Makoto? I haven't seen her.. What about my mom? Or Rei? Kimiko and Michiko are looking for their mom too… This is not good… I'll call you back, I have to call Haruko and Chibi Usa. Hai. Ja ne." She hung up the phone in a rush, and then picked it up again and began dialing.

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"…Ayumi chan? Nani? Calm down.. I have no clue where Mom or Minako san, Makoto san or Rei san are. Usagi san is at the hospital still. Hai, Okasan said she's be home later, she's at the hospital with Dad… Of course I'll call! Ja." Haruko hung up the phone and frowned, her mother and father had gone to the hospital to check Usagi out. To see what the matter was with her. They had been gone for over six hours now, and she was getting worried. Why hadn't they called her? She looked at the clock again and brushed her dark blue bangs out of her eyes. She quickly walked to her room and pulled a small blue box out from under her bed. She set it on her bed in front of her and stared at it. Her mother told her if she was ever in trouble, or the Sailor Senshi were needed and could not be found she was to use what sat in the box…

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Kimiko stood outside of the Hikawa shrine and stared into the sky. Tears sat just on the edge of her eyelids, threatening to spill over and down her face. She looked down and wiped her eyes before whispering,

"Mother… I know you're no longer on Earth, I saw a vision in the sacred fire… I swear, whoever made you suffer will pay… I, the daughter of Rei Hino… swear this upon the Hikawa shrine… And it shall be done." She wiped her eyes again and turned, walking into the shrine and to her room. Her sister saw her walk past and quickly followed, frowning as she did so.

"Kimiko?" She asked softly. Kimiko turned to her,

"Michiko… Okasan… Is…"

"I already know." Michiko cut her off and nodded, "The fire showed me after I talked to Ayumi, I think that the original sailor senshi are all gone, not just out mother…" She looked at her sister sadly.

"Then it's our turn…" Kimiko said as she walked to her dresser and pulled out a red locket on a golden chain. Michiko sighed and nodded before walking out of her sister's room.

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Minai sat on the edge of her bed, staring at her feet and the floor. She had talked to everyone except Chibi Usa earlier, and everyone was gone, Minako, Rei, Ami, Usagi was in a comma and even her own mother, Makoto was missing. She was worried, what if the senshi were all… dead? What would she do? Her mother… Makoto had tried to teach her to fight, but she couldn't. And she had to be stuck up for a lot because she was weak… Now she was on her own, now she would have to take her mother's place as a sailor soldier. She was almost convinced her mother had left this life. She glanced at the wooden box beside her bed and dropped to her knees beside it, opening the box to reveal a forest green locket on a silver chain.

"She told me it would allow me to transform… Just as I've seen her do so many times before…"