A/N: I have been forgetting to post my disclaimers, but I own none of the characters, only the story is mine.
"Why didn't you say anything?" Yelled Rei to Michiru. Usagi looked at the hot tempered shrine maiden. Almost glad that she wasn't at the receiving end this time.
"We didn't think you needed to worry yet, "Michiru replied calmly sipping a cup of tea. They were sitting in the Manor that outers lived in discussing what was seen in the fire. "We wanted to check it out first."
"What!?" Rei was practically out of her seat before Makoto and Ami pulled her down. She stopped for a second as if to compose herself and looked at them. "Of course you would want to do this alone. We are supposed to be a team. We all have the same goal. You took us on as teammates after…" She looked at Hotaru. She didn't know what the girl knew about her coming in to their lives. She didn't know if Hotaru would still have any feelings for the father she lost. She didn't have to finish anything.
"We have our own way of doing things. You girls go in head first, we like to actually have some kind of plan formed," Said Haruka not raising her voice either. She thought that this whole argument was stupid. Michiru saw the destruction in her mirror about a week ago. If they could figure out some way to fix it before getting the others involved, they wouldn't have to put their princess in danger. As far as the outers were concerned, Serenity was their goal. Not the people of the Earth.
"We all have to protect each other," Usagi finally said. "None of us is more important than the other." Rei must have told her everything she has seen in the fire. Usagi was always a bit immature, but when she had to, when the senshi's lives were in danger, she was like a completely different person. Mamoru grabbed her hand. "We are all a part of this, whether we want this or not."
"Well, they are a part of it now, whether they want to be or not," Michiru said sighing. They were really hoping they could take care of it themselves. Not for glory, but for the safety of the princess. If she knew anything about this, she wouldn't let them fight without her. They were there to protect her, but she always wanted to protect them. "First," she said looking at Rei, "What exactly did you see."
Rei closed her eyes. Not to see clearly, that she saw in that fire could not be unseen. She closed her eyes for composure. She didn't even tell anyone when she called the meeting. "Destruction, people dying … the Earth itself dying." She looked at Mamoru. He wouldn't feel it. Not yet. He is so in tune with the Earth, but nothing that drastic yet. His psychic abilities were mostly limited to being mentally linked to Usagi and feeling the well-being of the earth. The Dead Moon practically killed him. If this is as bad as everyone thought, they had to keep an eye on him as well. Another reason the outers wanted to keep this to themselves. The prince and princess were married now. They all had to worry about the safety of both of them now. No matter how many odds were against them to be together, they beat them all… so far.
"This will make Galaxia look like a game," said Michiru looking at Setsuna and Hotaru. She and Haruka did some awful things trying to take Galaxia down. Things that wouldn't and shouldn't be forgotten anytime soon. "If anyone wants to back out, they should. Once we are in it, we are in it."
"None of us will," said Usagi.
"We would really feel more comfortable if you sat this one out. A long with the other senshi. Even if we die, by that time, hopefully the enemy will be so weak that…" Michiru started.
Their sweet princess cut them off. "No."
"Usagi," Haruka only got that one word in.
"No. We are a team, we do this together." She sighed. "I am sick and tired of being separated from the people I care about. I am sick of enemies using everyone else in their plans of destruction. It ends now!" she was practically in tears by this point. Mamoru pulled in close.
It seemed like everyone was arguing with everyone else. Rei and Michiru, Haruka and Makato, Minako and Setsuna, even Ami and Hotaru. Usagi was trying to get everyone to calm down so she would make some kind of peace. This was hard for her. She hated her friends fighting, she hated them in danger.
Just then, Michiru felt the sea and she knew that Haruka felt the Wind.
