Two Sides To Everything

Chapter 4: What's Going On?

The girls stood in shock and amazement as they saw Catsi standing before them. Behind her from the trees, her sisters, Birdy, Avery, and Prisma, stepped up beside her.

"Step away from the princess!" Catsi directed to the scouts.

"No! We swore to protect her, and that is what we are going to do! The princess will not be harmed."

"You do not understand, if you protect her, you will be bringing destruction onto yourself. We must take her with us."

"You can not have her!"

"I'm sorry, but we must take her with us," Avery said, stepping in front of her sisters. She got her whip and lashed out with it to grab Princess Kiryo.

"Venus love me chain!" Sailor Venus blocked her whip and wrapped her chain around Avery.

"What are you doing? You mustn't stop us from our mission.," Avery exclaimed, tied up at the moment.

"Mercury bubbles blast!" Suddenly, everyone was surrounded by a fog of Sailor Mercury's bubbles.

"Catsi, I can't see anything!" Birdie said to her sister, looking confused as if she didn't know which way was up. "They won't listen to us."

"We'll get them in a secluded area, and then we will continue with our plans. For right now, we must go and wait until the time is right to get them alone. We will not let our plans be ruined by them," Catsi explained to all of her sisters. They joined hands and disappeared using their teleport power.

The fog cleared away, and the four sisters were not to be found.

"Were did they go? Mercury, what is your computer reading?"

Ami explained to them what her hand held computer was telling her, "It was reading their power levels, and they suddenly vanished. I believe they used their powers to teleport away from here. I am unsure of where they may have gone, I can't pick up their power levels right now."

"Well, we need to get the princess out of here. Let's go back to my place for a little while," Makoto said, also offering the princess to stay a while at her house since she lived alone.

Back at Makoto's house the girls discussed the four sisters.

"Why did they leave so quickly? They really didn't put up much of a fight."

"No, Makoto, they didn't. I believe they left the fight early to get everything straight for their next attack. They will have something planned for us," Ami explained, "We have dealt with the four sisters before, and it puts us a step ahead since we know their weaknesses and powers."

Chibi-Usa stuck her head into the room from the living room where she was watching television with Mamoru, "Has anybody noticed that they like to go for princesses? Last time it was me they were after." Chibi-Usa left Mamoru asleep on the couch to come in and listen to the discussion.

"We'll have to be very careful and ready for the next attack."

"I wanna help, too!"

"No, Chibi-Usa, you are not trained enough to be ready for this. You can't go."

"Why not?! I wanna help."

"Because I am your mom and I said you were not ready."

"Not yet, you're not," Chibi-Usa said, sticking her tongue out and pouting. "I wanna help."

Usagi reached up onto the counter and grabbed one of Makoto's freshly baked cookies. "Here have a cookie and stop pouting." Chibi-Usa gladly took the cookie and quickly ate it.

"I don't understand what they meant when they said that the princess could cause the destruction of both dimensions. Kiryo?" All the girls looked at Princess Kiryo, waiting for an answer.

"When I was little, I was told I had a special power. I didn't know what it was, and I never developed it as I grew, so I am of no harm. If I never developed the power, then I can't do anything. Every power that I possibly had has probably faded away by now. I don't know why they would consider me such a danger to them."

"Everything will be okay. If you are not a danger, then we will have to make them see that," Usagi said, all the girls nodding in agreement. The girls decided it was getting late, so they all went home. Usagi and Chibi-Usa were walked home by Mamoru after dropping off Hotaru, and this time Kiryo stayed with Makoto. They all believed it may be a good idea to change her location to make sure she was safe.

Startled and scared, Usagi awoke from a dream, more like a nightmare. She remembered seeing black feathers floating through the air everywhere she looked, such dark black feathers. Chibi-Usa's face appeared in a corner, as if coming from nowhere her whole body appeared. So tiny, she was curled up in a secure little ball with her arms wrapped around herself. Usagi could see herself standing about ten feet from her future daughter when a huge black hole emerged behind the small pink haired little girl, swallowing her. Usagi ran to Chibi-Usa, but was not able to get to her before she disappeared through the hole. Slowly she dropped to the ground, screaming for her daughter in tears. What did this dream mean? She looked beside her to see her little girl sleeping soundly. Usagi got up and went down stairs since she couldn't get back to sleep, not to mention she didn't want to sleep after a dream like that.

"Are you alright, Usagi? You don't look like you are feeling too well," Luna asked her, noticing how pale she was.

"Yes, I am fine; I just had a bad dream that's all. I'll be okay."

"Alright, but if there is anything you need, I'm here."

"Thank you, Luna."

Later that day, all the girls decided to meet at Rei's house. They were enjoying tea with some egg rolls Rei made. Suddenly, through Rei's open door, a small can bounced in and sprayed a thick fog all around the room, putting everyone to sleep. When they awoke a little while later, they found Ami missing and a letter that read:

Sailor Scouts:

We have Ami, and if you want to protect her meet us at the back of the woods near the lake. We will negotiate about the princess there. We will not harm Ami as long as you are there at 3 p.m. Meet us or lose a scout.

"It was a surprise attack! But what I don't understand is why they didn't get the princess while we were asleep from the gas," Makoto questioned.

"That would be because I wasn't asleep. I was in the other room, and saw the gas begin to float into the room, so I went outside where the gas couldn't put me to sleep. I didn't know they were going to take Ami," explained the princess.

"They want us to do negotiations with us about you. They will most likely want you for Ami. I do not want to put your life in danger, so we will have to think of something else to do."

"No. I will go to the park for the negotiation. It is my fault that she is not here."

"Are you sure that is what you want?"

"Yes, now let's go and get Ami."

A few minutes before three, they were behind the woods of the park where they were to meet with the four sisters. The looked around cautiously for traps.

Usagi turned to Chibi-Usa, "Chibi-Usa, you are not trained enough for this, I want you to leave from here."

"No, I want to help! Ami is my friend to, you know."

"Yes, I know she is, but you can not fight this battle."

"I won't go."

"Chibi-Usa, do as I tell you and leave."

"Fine!! I'll go, see if I care how you do in this fight." With that, Chibi-Usa stormed off from the group. Usagi didn't want to hurt her feelings by not letting her fight, but she was afraid of her dream.

"Scouts, transform!"

As soon as all the scouts were in uniform, it was 3 o'clock, and the four sisters walked into view with Ami following close behind tied up and gagged.

"We did not want it to happen like this, but it was the only way that we knew to get you here," Catsi explained.

"We want Ami," Sailor Moon said simply.

"We want the princess," Avery said, just as bluntly.

"You can not have the princess. We have sworn to protect her. She is of no harm to you."

"You do not have any idea what is going on do you? You would have thought that maybe you would have realized it by now," Prizma said sarcastically.

"Realized what?"

"She is the evil one, here to make the two dimensions one again, forcing a fusion that may destroy everything," Birdie said as she ungagged and untied Ami, "We are not trying to make enemies with you." She took a couple of steps closer, and everybody went into their fighting stances.

"It is a lie. Do you really think that we are going to believe you?" Getting ready for an attack, Sailor Moon heard the tiny voice of her daughter coming up from behind.

"Wait for me! I told you I was gonna help, and I will!" Sailor Chibi Moon came running up beside the rest of the scouts.

"What did I tell you?! Get out of here now!" Sailor Moon yelled at her, too occupied to see what was happening around her.

Avery saw it coming, a secret attack. She ran towards the sailor scouts, but Sailor Venus stopped her with her chain. "No! Watch out!"

As soon as Avery said this, Princess Kiryo came up behind Sailor Chibi Moon , grabbing her at the waist and jumping out of the reach of the scouts or the four sisters. She had an evil look on her face. Fire engulfed her whole body, revealing her true self. Princess Kiryo, how she really was, stood away from everybody with her coal black feathered wings behind her, wearing a long, flowing red dress. Her eyes were more of a cold blue now than the warm sky color they used to be.

"Surprised Sailor Moon? You should be. Well, I guess my secret is out. Soon the dimensions will be merged with each other using my power and a sacrifice to the black portal. Oh, and Sailor Moon, I hope you won't be missing this," Kiryo said pointing down to Sailor Chibi Moon squirming in her arms. At that, Princess Kiryo, along with Chibi-Usa disappeared into the sky.

"Chibi-Usa!!! No!!" Sailor Moon transformed back to normal and kneeled on the ground, covering her face with her hands as she cried for her daughter.