Authors Note: Queen Serenity and Princess Neo Serentity are both in the story because I have mine written a little bit different. Chapter five will be updated soon. 3 Currently working on chapter 6, 7, and 8 today. I'm trying really hard to complete this story before I leave. Wish me luck. And enjoy the story.

Chapter four- A peaceful outlook

Hope and Faith went into Hope's room to talk after dinner. Hope sat on her bed, facing Faith.

"What's up?" Faith questioned.

"I don't know what's going through Isabella' little head. And the way she demonstrated herself at the pool the other day still worries me." Hope replied.

Faith nodded, and Hope opened her mouth to continue.

"Last night, while I was sleeping, I could feel I powerful evil force, but when I tried to wake up I couldn't. It's like something was keeping me in my sleep and I wasn't allowed to wake. It scared me Faith." Hope confided in Faith.

Faith stared at her cousin in horror, she didn't know what to do. She hadn't felt anything, but she knew Hope didn't overreact on this sort of thing. "How powerful, Hope?"

"Pretty powerful." Hope replied.

"Do you think any of it has to do with Isabella?" Faith asked.

Hope shrugged, "It could. I'll try to get her to talk today. She wanted me to draw with her."

"Good, you try your hardest to find out what's going on with Isabella." Faith insisted.

"I'll try, I promise. I should probably go and draw with her now." Hope got up off her bed and went to go find Isabella.

Hope found Isabella hanging upside down on her bed. Hope gave her a confused look, and she fell down onto the ground and stood up. Hope didn't bother to ask, she was beyond confused. She held out her drawing book to Isabella's face. Isabella smiled and grabbed hers. The two girls went to find a nice place to begin drawing. They went on the balcony, closing the door for some quiet time together.

Hope skimmed through her sketches looking at them and studying them. When she had first started, which had been a year ago, she had drawn poorly, but her mother and art teacher said she was a wonderful drawer now and had improved far beyond the average ten year old. Of course she still wasn't as good as her mother was. She had her own art studio, which Hope visited every so often; she'd usually visit her mother's art studio after school. But they were on vacation so she hadn't had the time.

Hope glanced over at Isabella's old drawings. She loved drawing the palace cats. There was a pretty good picture with all of the kitties. It had been Isabella's favorite. She had token a couple days to get it just right.

Isabella took out her pencil and begun sketching. Hope was hoping it would be about whatever was bothering her. Hope went to work in her sketchbook. She didn't want to let Isabella know she was watching her.

Hope sketched a leaf onto her page. She then added a face into the leaf. It was faded, and appeared not there if you held it far away, but if you looked close enough you could see it. The face showed a soft serenity to it; peaceful. It somehow reminded Hope of the Jupiter's.

Hope glanced back at Isabella's book. She had drawn a tree, a willow tree, it was beautiful. But there appeared to be no sign of what was going through Isabella's mind. Hope was use to her mother's drawing and her own. When something was bothering them, they'd express it through art, but with Isabella her drawings were always peaceful. Perhaps, it was how she wanted things to be; peaceful. Hope did notice that Isabella only drew when something was bothering her. Drawing things that had a nice stanza to them must have been Isabella's way to escape the secrets she was hiding.

"Do you like it?" Isabella asked, holding the picture up to her sister.

Hope nodded, and then was suddenly struck by an idea. "Come quickly with me." Hope grabbed a hold of Isabella's hand. Isabella dropped her sketchbook into her chair and was being led away. The girls went through the house and out the door. Faith and Jordan who were playing a video game in the living room looked at each other confused and then continued with the game.

Hope managed to get through the guards, and went out of the palace. Isabella took her hand away from her sister and stopped. Hope turned back around and gave her sister a weak smile.

"Where are you taking me?" Isabella questioned.

"You'll see, it's a surprise." Hope replied.

Isabella followed her sister through Tokyo. The girls appeared at the beach, Isabella stops dead in her tracks, terrified of the sea. "Hope Michiru-mama wouldn't be happy about this."

Hope gave her sister a funny look, "Michiru-mama?"

"Oh, mama." Isabella replied, not realizing she had called Michiru by her real name.

"Come on!" Hope exclaimed. "We're already here, and you love the water."

Isabella nodded, but when her sister turned around she stared at the sea fearfully. What if it grabbed her and swallowed her in, that's what happened at the pool the other day. And no matter what she couldn't escape, only when Lydia dived under the water did the evil force vanish and let lose of Isabella. Isabella followed her sister out onto the shore. She allowed the water to come up to her feet, nothing seemed to happen, Isabella begin to relax. The girls walked all the way up to the docks. Hope grabbed a hold of Isabella's hand and yelled come on.

The two sisters's laid on their stomachs. Hope called for the dolphins. Isabella was happy when three of them appeared. She put her hand out and petted them. Dolphins were one of Isabella's favorite animals, beside the palace cats, which she so badly wanted one of. Hope smiled at her little sister.

Isabella glanced off toward the sunset. She quickly got to her feet. "HOPE! It's going to be dark soon! Mama is going to be so mad, and so is Haruka-papa. They don't even know where we are."

Hope got to her feet quickly and took Isabella's hand, they rushed off toward the palace gates panting, but when they arrived the gates were closed. Hope sighed and sat down on the ground, she had to think of a way to get the palace gates opened.

Suddenly they opened and Hope and Isabella ran through. Hope didn't bother checking who opened the gate. Isabella turned back and saw a dark cloaked figure. She started to run fast, afraid she was going to come after her. It was the woman from her dreams.

Hope and Isabella ran through the door, getting stopped by Haruka. Yuuichiro, Ryo, and Gary were all sitting on the couch. Faith and Jordan were squeezed into one of the chairs. Michiru had only just walked in with, Rei, Sestuna, and Ami. Ariel, Maia, Annika, Julia, Maggie, and Lydia were all sitting on the floor.

"Oh guest." Hope said weakly. She waved slowly to everyone.

"Nice of you two to join us." Michiru said.

Hope didn't know how to take the comment, she couldn't tell if her mother was mad or not.

"Where have you two been?" Haruka questioned, it was silent in the room.

"We went to the beach to walk along the shore, and when we came back the gate was closed so we had to wait for someone to open it." Hope explained.

Isabella shuddered, that woman was in the palace.

"Wow, Haruka we haven't been out on the boat in a long while." Yuuichiro gasped.

"We should take the boat out Haruka. The children are out of school for only a week!" Michiru exclaimed.

"Wonderful idea." Haruka agreed.

Hope started to ease herself away from everyone. Haruka put her hand out, and stopped the child from going through. Isabella felt herself becoming overwhelmed by all this. The lady at the gate, was the same one in her dreams, she was probably the one making the water attack Isabella. She had somehow controlled what the water did, when Isabella was around it, if she wanted to cause a scene she would, if she didn't then she'd lay off. Isabella knew something was bound to happen out there on the boat.

Haruka managed to catch a glimpse of Isabella's face. It was filled with agony and fear. Isabella's body started to burn up, her face went pale, and she started falling toward the floor. Haruka caught her before she fell.

"What's up with you kid?" Haruka questioned, concerned. Her leg now out holding Hope from escaping.

Ami went over and checked on Isabella, she confirmed she just needed to rest, and eat when she had been well rested.