Chapter 3: Inner and Outer Guardians/Notes C:
Haruka and Ami had been standing in the piano room on the third floor. Haruka had been looking through the books on the shelves in the room and she felt a strong powerful energy coming from the other room. Ami had been standing near the piano; she noticed numbers were written on the keys in various colors; blue, red, green, and orange.
"Hey, Uranus." She began.
Haruka put down the book and came over to her.
"Did you find something?" She asked.
"Look." Ami pointed to the colorful numbers on the keys.
Haruka began examining the keys and rose one eyebrow in pure confusion.
"What about it?" She asked again.
"It must be for something . . . like a code . . ." Ami began thinking, "To a safe, maybe?"
"We'll talk about it when the others get here." Haruka answered, not worried about it, "I'm gonna see if I can find anything in the other room."
Ami nodded her head a little, barely paying attention to what Haruka had said. She was trying to figure out why were there numbers on the keys. Not to mention written in the colors of the Inner Sailor Guardians, the handwriting looked familiar as well, it resembled a lot to someone Ami knew; but she didn't think too much of it. The door began to open.
"Oh, you're back already?" Ami asked before she turned around; the door shut behind something, "Were you able to find anything?"
When she had turned around, she made eye contact with the grey monster. It had come from the room where Haruka had been looking in. Ami became worried for her friend. She froze where she stood and was trying hard to stay calm.
"What am I gonna do?!" She asked, "Haruka!? What happened to her?!"
She placed her hand on the piano and closed her eyes.
"I'm the piano!"
The monster didn't notice her, he was looking around the room. She peaked one eye open and noticed the thing's strange behavior.
"I'm the piano! I'm the piano!" She kept chanting, "Be the piano! Be the piano!"
The monster kept looking for her, but couldn't. Even though she was in plain sight, the monster had been fooled and gave up looking for her. As fast as he came in, he vanished in front of her. Ami was confused. She didn't know why the thing couldn't find her or even see her!
"Did it just . . .?"
Ami fell to her knees and passed out on the ground. Soon, Haruka came walking back into the room.
"I found nothing except a piece of paper." She said.
Ami didn't reply to her.
"Mercury?" Haruka asked right as she saw an unconscious Ami on the floor; she was instantly at Ami's side and tried to wake Ami up, "Mercury! Hey, wake up! This isn't the time to be sleeping!"
Ami still didn't wake up to Haruka's calls.
"Wake up!"
Haruka even tried slapping Ami's cheeks. It didn't work. She sighed and saw some water on the ground next to her.
"Wake up!"
She splashed some water on Ami's face. Sailor Mercury woke up instantly from the water. She looked at Haruka.
"Are you okay?" Asked Haruka.
"You didn't see it?" Ami asked.
"See what?"
"The thing came in here and vanished!"
"Here." Haruka sighed as she helped Ami up onto her feet.
"Thanks." Ami said.
Haruka nodded her head as her communicator began beeping.
"Your communicator . . ." Began Ami.
"But, I thought . . ." Haruka paused as she noticed the symbol that showed up; she gasped with widened eyes as she answered it, "Michiru!"
Except it wasn't Sailor Neptune on the other line. There was the sound of a piano chord before the line went dead. Haruka looked at Ami as she ended the call from her end. They were both confused.
"A piano?" Ami asked.
"It came up as Michiru." Haruka clenched her fist.
"We should report this to the others." Ami said as the door opened.
"Looks like they found us first." Answered Haruka as the other guardians came into the room.