Solaria made her way back to the shelter on the out skirts of the city. On her first day on this alien planet, she was unable to find any trace of Sailor Galaxia, but her quest or revenge was not completely in vain, for she had found one of Galaxia's minions hiding out in , of all places, a place of worship. It made her sick at the idea of someone like Sailor Tin Nyanko would choose such a holy place, a place of peace, to hide so she could hide and plot her evil plans for this world. But she saw to it that Tin Nyanko would never get the chance to carry out her evil plans , for when Solaria found her at the temple, she transformed in to her "Divine" form and attacked the evil shenshi. What puzzled Solaria was that when she went on her attack, Tin Nyanko ran from her instead of transforming and facing her. But she could not dwell on that fact, for all she knew Tin Nyanko was only putting on a show so that she could lead her in to a trap. That was how she killed Solaria's team mate, Sailor Nevaria, and Solaria was not allow what happened to Nevraria, happen to her. She quickly was on top the evil shenshi and let loose with "Solaria Blade STRIKE!" which did a great deal of damage to the 'evil' shenshi. But that was not enough for the enraged Solaria, as she began to repeatedly strike down the helpless shenshi, as Nyanko babbled something or the other about not being a threat any more. But Solaria did not care to notice her pleads to show mercy as she pressed on with her assult.
Then when she was convinced that Nyanko was dead, she tied her badly beaten body up in a tree at the back , so she could be found by whom ever lived at the temple. But before she was done, she left a message for Galaxia on her body. She then made a hasty retreat when she heard some one coming up the steps and now, she was on her way back to her 'hide out' to plan out her next move. She had taken out one of Galaxia's top Shenshi and she hope that would send a message to Galaxia that there was some one that was willing to end her rein of terror once and for all, she just hoped that her little 'fight' did not cause Galaxia to move up her plans to destroy this world. Also during the fight, she noticed that her Crystal was still giving off its strange energy, but she only thought it was because of her recent use of it was causing it to act this way and all it needed was to give it some rest. With this in mind, she chose to walk back to shelter instead of using her Crystal to teleport her self back. The walk gave her self some time to view the sights of the city she was trying to save. As she walked , she took in the atmosphere the city gave off, the sweet sent that came from a near by bakery, the sounds of a violin that came from a building next door gave her senses an treat. It all reminded her of the life she had back home, the life that was taken away from her. All she could do right now was to prevent this world from suffering the same fate as hers.
The next day, the shenshi, Serenity, Endymion and Tomomi were assembled to talk about this new development. One day earlier, Nyanko was found at the back of the Hikawa shrine by Rei, and it raised the possibility that some one had followed Tomomi and her companions to earth...
" Have you found anything?" Asked Serenity," I mean, are there any clues as to whom was responsible?"
" The search teams were unable to find any thing that could tell us who did it. The only clue we have, is the sign that was found on Nyanko by Rei." Endymion said, " right now, we are going over the footage from all the security cams in the area around he shrine, but so far nothing." Every one fround.
" What about the sign that was found," asked Hotaru," were you able to get any prints off of it?"
" I'm afraid that who ever left it, had on gloves. There were no prints to be found." the king said grimly.
" What about what was written on it. Where the teams able to determine what it said?" asked Michiru.
" We were unable to translate what it said," replied Ami, who had taken over," It was written in some kind of alien language we are not familiar with. We had contacted the Kinmoku government to aid us in our investigation, but so far, they were unable to translate it too. Oh, and Serenity, Queen Seiya said 'hello.'" She said with a smile. Serenity just blushed.
" The sign, can I see it?" Asked Tomomi. Endymion pressed a button on the table and said sign came up in the form of a hologram. The sign was white and the writing was in blood red, when Tomomi saw it though, she went pale...
" Tomomi, what,s wrong?" said Serenity when she saw the look Tomomi had on her face.
" No... " Tomomi said quietly, "No, it can't be, it just can't be."
" Tomomi, 'what can't be?' do you know what it says?" Tomomi just nodded, " It is Solarian. It says,' Butcher'"
" But what's got you like this?" Serenity asked again. By this time, every one there had taken notice of Tomomi's reaction, " It is just that... Solaria is a dead world. It was the only place that I was never able to restore life to." Tomomi said in shame with her head down," it was one of the last worlds that the Chaos went to before it came to Earth. But instead of just taking the Star Seed of the people there..." she began to cry, " I destroyed it, I killed every single man, woman, and child on that world. ME!" She wailed out as she fell to the floor in tears. Serenity and Makoto were at her side in a flash,
" Tomomi, it was not your fault. It was Chaos that made you did it." Serenity said," you are not responsible for what happened."
" But... but, I just can't let it go. I was to protect them, but instead... I killed them, all of them. I fear that in my attempt to find a home for my companions and I, I have only brought more pain and misery to them. Maybe... coming here was a bad idea. Maybe we should leave and ….."
" NOW LOOK!" a gruff voice boomed out. When every one caught them selves, they realized that the voice came from Haruka, " We know that you are sorry for what you did, but that is no reason for you to feel sorry for your self. What happened is in the past, and you can't change that! But you have proven your self to be nothing like Chaos so cut the self pitty crap! You have now have a chance to have a home and a new life and should not let this prevent that. If any thing you should find out who did this to Nyanko and tell them that your no longer a threat to them or to any one else. If you leave now, where will you go? If you run now, they will only follow you and you will be all alone when you face them when you run out of places to hide. But if you stay here you will have a better chance to convince who ever it is that you no are sorry for what you did!" Haruka then took her hand and looked her in the eye," I was able to forgive you once I realized that it was the Chaos that made you do all those thing and I am positive once who ever it is responsible gets to now you for who you really are , they would forgive you too."
"Is my girl something else or what?" Michiru said to Serenity,
" She sure is" Serenity replied, " Now if she could only stop undressing me with her eyes..." she said with a smile...
Tomomi just looked at Haruka, stunned by what she had just said, and she was right. All this time she was feeling sorry for her self, she did not realized that she had gained some new friends that were not only willing to help her, but also wanted her to stay and live her life out in peace. And where would she go if she left? She would only pre-long the inevitable meeting that would take place. And did not want to fight any one any more. She knew that if there was any hope of her finding peace once again in her life, it would be on Earth and she was not going to let any one ruin that chance for her. She just sighed and said... " You are right, I have been feeling sorry for my self for far to long. I need to let go of this guilt that I have and I know that you, my new friends, will help me get through this. But now, let us focus on the matter at hand. There is some one out there that wants to get revenge on me for what the Chaos did. We must find out who it is and stop them before any one else gets hurt."
The meeting went on for a couple hours before it ended. Rei said that she would do a fire reading to see if she could get any more clues, while Endymion said that he would place the palace security force, the Special Tactics and Rescue Unit (S.T.A.R.U.) on alert in case they were needed. As they left to go their ways, Ami came up to Tomomi and said that if she ever needed to talk, she and her husband, Ryo, would be there if she needed them. Tomomi agreed to do just that and they made a date for her first appointment. But right now, she was going to see a certain Palace Engineer, they had plans to go out tomorrow night, but with the meeting that she just had, that might not happen any more. She just hoped that David would not be too upset by this.
Bright and early the next morning, Solaria began her search again, but she was far from rested, for she had not gotten much sleep last night. That night, she dreamed about her lover, Sailor Beyo and the romantic times they had spent together. Of how happy their lives were, of the passion they had for each other... of the long hours they spent together making love. This should have been a happy memory for her, but the dream would end same way as it always did. With Galaxia showing up and taking Beyo from her. Then, while holding up the now frightened shenshi by her neck, Galaxia would begin to tighten her grip on her throat ever so slowly until there was the sound of a crack and Beyo's body would fall limp. That dream had haunted Solaria every night for years, even with the power of her Topaz Crystal, she could not seem to make the dreams go away. But now, she felt that with her new found power, she would be able to avenge her fallen lover and make Galaxia feel the same kind of pain that she did. As she made her way down the street, her crystal tried to locate any sign of Galaxia's presence, all the while still giving off that strange energy that Solaria could not explain. Then suddenly, her crystal began to alert her that there was another minion of Galaxia near by. She quickly followed the trail of the new lead and went in the direction that her crystal lead her.
After a few minutes, she came to what looked like some kind of food store and parked in front of it was some kind of vehicle that was far different than any of the other that she had seen since she arrived in the city. As she looked on, she saw a man with blonde hair come out of the store, he looked far different than any of the other people in the city. He had a brown bag cradled in his left arm and some thing in his mouth as he walked to the vehicle, entered it to go on his way to parts unknown. Solaria was certain that this man that she saw was linked to Galaxia some how and her crystal said he was. If not, then why would it lead her to him? She watched as the man started up his vehicle, which sounded a lot louder than the others that she had seen, and drive off. She chose to follow said man, she thought that if she followed him, he would lead her to Galaxia.
So with a deep breath, she began to follow the vehicle and hoped that if she was able to find out where Galaxia had hidden, she would be able to plan her means for revenge. She began to run after it, not noticing that her crystal was glowing an black color...