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Miya, back in her original body, had transformed into a sailor senshi. Her uniform was similar to that of the Sol Senshi; it was pale azure and the broach was a pale grey star. Her boots and gloves did a poor job of hiding the multiple scars that stood out in the light. That is, if there was light. The wraith's appearance had darkened the once bright sky.

She fired an attack at the wraith before jumping out of the bush. Not surprising to her, it started to suck the attack into its mouth. She tried to quickly jump behind it, hoping it to hit the wraith from behind. Through her hours of research, Miya discovered the wraiths' potential weakness. Their main weapon was their mouth. They used it to suck up any attacks heading their direction and then fire it back. The creatures can only be hurt if they could not absorb the attack, which meant its mouth had to be occupied or they had to be attacked from behind. Miya planned to somehow immobilize it and then contact Pluto to send it back to the future. With no means of destroying a wraith without the Silver Crystal, sending it back to the future was the only option to avoid exposing the senshis to these creatures. She had to deal with it before anyone found out.

However, Miya was too slow and the wraith had already blasted the attack back at her. She was thrown against the tree behind the bushes. Her back and head hit the trunk and she landed on the ground with a loud thud, knocking her out for a minute. But that was all the wraith needed before it grabbed an unsuspecting person who wandered into the park. The man screamed. It was then that Miya actually saw how wraiths were created. She had never seen it before since there were already thousands of it in the future so it wasn't necessary for them to create more. The wraith started sucking the air making an eerie rattling noise and seconds later, the victim started trembling and choking on what was being forced out through their mouth. A slimy, transparent grey matter was steadily floating out of his mouth and the wraith sucked that into its own mouth. It continued to consume it until no more came out. The victim went limp. The wraith then violently flung the poor victim to the side, where he hit the metal railing surrounding the pond. A loud crack rang through the air. His spine had snapped – he was dead. Then for the first time that Miya had seen, the wraith's thin lips snapped shut, closing its mouth. It appeared as if it was …chewing… what it had consumed.

As she was about to jump out to attack again, Miya heard Sailor Moon's voice. It stopped her in her tracks and she remained hidden in the bushes.

"How dare you come and ruin a peaceful day and take away the warm sunlight! In the name of the moon..." The wraith paid her no attention. But she couldn't continue anyways because what she was seeing was so revolting, it made her want to gag. Her eyes bulged at such a monstrous thing. Just the mere sight of its grotesque body, unblinking yellow eyes, and its blood soaked clothing was enough to scare anyone. But the wraith had finally opened its mouth and something black started to poke out of it. Its mouth got wider and wider as the thing got larger and larger.

"STAR SERIOUS LASER"

Fighter had blasted at the monster and it stumbled back with the thing still hang out of its mouth. Noticing this, Miya quickly contacted Pluto and told her to tell Sailor Moon that wraiths can only be destroyed by the Silver Crystal's light. She shut off her computer and fired another attack from behind the bushes. As she was doing so, she heard Fighter yell her attack again and Sailor Moon's communicator beep. Both her and Fighter's attacks collided with the creature. The attacks froze the wraith. They could now clearly see that the thing coming out of its mouth was a second wraith; its head and upper body was hanging out of the other's mouth. A pool of black slime was forming on the ground as it dripped from the half-emerged wraith's body. It continued to drip even though it was frozen in that position.

Pluto had immediately contacted Sailor Moon and told her what she needed to do. With the new information, Sailor Moon used her Silver Crystal and the bright light engulfed the creatures. They exploded into dust with a loud, ear-splitting shriek.

Once the wraiths were destroyed, Fighter immediately ran to where he saw the second attack originated. When she was firing her own attack, she had seen from the corner of her eye that someone had also attacked from within the bushes. But when she went to check, there was no one there. By then, Miya had already run down the street. She knew they would go looking for the person who helped them and they would have questions for her – questions she could not answer yet. So she ran as quickly as she can despite the pain from her back. There was no doubt that she would have a huge bruise there. She ran into an alley and transformed back into Naomi and slowly walked home.

Sailor Moon and Fighter detransformed. Usagi looked a tired after so Seiya sat her down on a bench, his arms wrapped around her shoulder.

"We need to gather the senshi and have a meeting." She looked at Seiya and he nodded in agreement. He took his arms away from her shoulder as she opened her communicator again to contact all the senshi and Mamoru. Seiya called Yaten and Taiki. They told everyone that there was to be a meeting later tonight at Hikawa Shrine. It had been a year since they all met up for senshi business since there had been no evil during that time. It worried them that the peace they had received had been broken again.

Pluto received the message to meet. She hadn't told Usagi that she wasn't going to show up yet and there was something she needed to figure out, so she contacted her again.

"Princess, I cannot leave the Time Gates unattended right now. I will not be meeting with you guys." She said in her usual emotionless demeanor.

"But we need you here. You seem to know what happened so you need to explain it to us." She pleaded.

"I'm sorry Princess. But tell me everything that happened."

Usagi started with what happened when she and Seiya had arrived. She told Pluto about seeing the wraiths and how it was creating another one. She shuddered when she remembered what she saw so Seiya stepped up and continued for her. He told her how someone else had attacked the creatures with him and that Sailor Moon destroyed it with the Silver Crystal when the creature stopped moving.

Pluto got the information she needed and spoke again, "Did you see who helped you?" They both replied no to Pluto's relieve. "These creatures are called wraiths and as I've told you, they can only be destroyed by the Silver Crystal but only when they are immobilized."

"Why are they here? Who helped us?" Usagi knew that the Time senshi could only tell them so much, but she still had to ask.

"I cannot tell you that." She hesitated for a second, "Princess, Seiya-san are you two the only ones that were there when you fought?"

"Yes" they both answered.

"May I ask you to keep quiet about seeing someone help you in the fight? For now, please do not tell the other senshi about it."

The couple looked at each other, concerned about her request.

"Why can't we tell the other? If it helps protect Earth then we must share everything we know."

"Princess," she sighed, "I cannot tell you why. But I can assure you that this person is only there to help you. You should not have even known that she was there. But given the circumstances, I can only ask that you do not go looking for her and that you keep quiet about it." This was the only way Pluto can protect Miya. She had to remain hidden from everyone. Pluto could only find a small comfort in knowing that it was Seiya and Usagi who witnessed her attacks and not anyone else. "Please Princess. No one can know."

Seeing her pleas and with her assurance that the mysterious person is there to help them, they both agreed.

"Thank you both. I must go now. Be careful." And with that, Usagi's communicator turned blank.

"Pluto is always so mysterious. Who do you think helped us Seiya?" Usagi asked.

"Who knows… I hope she's not wrong about her being on our side though."

They started to get up from the bench to leave for the Shrine but Usagi had stumbled a little when she was getting up. Seiya immediately grabbed her shoulder again to help her. Her body relaxed with his arms around her and she leaned her head ever so slightly on his shoulder. He felt her do all this and was glad that she was comfortable around him. And so they walked like this, his grip tightened a little whenever she stumbled from exhaustion. Not many words were exchanged between the two of them, but they didn't mind. Right now, being around each other was enough for them. As they approached the shrine, he reluctantly let her go. They both knew that her friends would judge her if they saw her arms around her, not to mention her boyfriend was going to be there too. So they walked up the stairs, apart from each other, in silence.

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