With school finally over, it seem like the summer days were much brighter and better. The sky was always a crisp blue color, the clouds were fluffy and white, the sun shined brightly everyday, the weather was perfect but a little too hot, and the beaches were filled with teenagers, families, couples, people with their pets, and single people enjoying their life. The ocean was dark blue and calm, waves splashing on the white sands of the beaches and the palm trees were healthy, their leaves blowing softly in the sparse amount of cool breezes.

Even though there was a cool breeze every so often, it seem like ice cream and snow cones businesses were making great money this time of year. Even the public pool had a few more people this year than it did in the past. And the heat was bad enough that some families were packing up to head off to either cooler places or vacation spots with beautiful, cool oceans. It was abnormal for it to be hot in a usually warm city, but the heat was getting bad this year that some people refused to go outside to even have fun. People with naturally tanned or dark skin even had to wear sunscreen because of the heat as well.

But, ignoring the heat situation, Serena was packing up the last of her beach things. Keiko's parents had let their daughter take her friends to their beach house in Malibu for only the second weekend of summer, so the girls had to do everything they can before they leave. Serena's plan is to learn how to surf, something she wanted to do since coming to Los Angeles.

"Serena, do you want to take Luna with you?" Ilene called from downstairs.

"No, Mom! I think she will be fine here. Just make sure her, Artemis, and Diana get feed." Serena called back down. "Also, make sure Sammy stays out of my room!"

"I will take care of that, Serena!" Luna called from downstairs.

The blonde giggled as she grabbed her two bags and ran down the stairs in her acid wash shorts and a pink t-shirt. Her father, Sammy, and Artemis was watching a baseball game while Ilene and Luna tried a new recipe, which appartenly made Diana sick to her stomach by the look on her face.

Ilene looked at her daughter as she asked, "You excited, Serena?"

"Totally! The girls and I have been working our tails off at school and with the whole Soldiers thing as we find that last Princess and all. Too bad Charlie and Hannah can't come because of their college interviews, but we still have Winona to look after us." Serena said as she kissed her father's head and rubbed Sammy's hair.

"I'm excited for you, sweetheart. These girls you have been hanging around have been much better to you than your old friends. In fact, the only one I liked out of your old friends was Amy." Ilene said as she tasted her soup, then putting in a pinch of salt.

Hearing her old friend's name stabbed Serena greatly, but the blonde brushed it off as he kissed Luna, Artemis, and Diana good-bye. Then she ran up to her mother and kissed her on the cheek as the doorbell rang, causing the blonde to run to it as fast as she could.

Serena found Keiko at the front door, waving her folding fan in front of her face. There was a red Roll Royce behind her, with all of the other Inner Soldiers and Ellie inside. "Keiko!" Then Serena saw the car and asked in confusion, "Wait, don't you just have a permit?"

"Yeah. But my parents said I can drive my mom's care for the weekend. As long as I don't get into a crash or get pulled over by the police while going to Winona's house, then we are fine. Good thing that car is paid off with its tag and everything." Keiko said as she waved her folding fan faster. "Now, come on. We need to pick up Winona."

Serena nodded her head as she looked back at her family and yelled, "Bye guys! See you Sunday night!" Her family waved at her as she shut the door and ran to the car, getting into the back seat with a frizzy-haired Janelle and Adina as Keiko placed her bags in the already stuffed truck. Ellie was sitting in the front seat, while Marisol was sitting in the floorboard as she painted her toenails.

Janelle glared at the hippe as she snapped, "Why ya gotta paint your nails here?"

"Just becasue your hair is frizzer than usual doens't mean you can be mean, Janelle." Marisol said back inher usual dreamy tone, smiling as she laid on her back to look at her bright pink toenails that had silver sparkles, placing her feet right in Janelle's face. While Adina leaned over Serena to hold back their Irish friend, Keiko started up the car and went on to Winona's house.

~0~

They finally arrived at Winona's small, four-bedroom home. It was a simpler-looking home than the normal ones in Los Angeles, with the idealistic white picket fence and crisp green grass. The one-story home was painted light blue with a silver tin roof and dark green bushes decorating the base of the house with different flowers from roses to lillies to even orchids of different shades blooming from the bushes.

The six girls piled out of the car as Serena opened the gate and ran towards the front door. It was unlocked already, so Serena shrugged her shoulders and opened it anyways as her friends stood behind her.

And when they walked in, they came in a war zone.

Two adults, both Italian by the look of their skin and the language they were speaking in, were throwing things around the room at each other. Both were heavily drunk by the smell of the room and staggering around the room. The man was fat and heavy, short in height with a thinning black hairline and cruel brown eyes. He wore a stained wife beater, torn blue jeans, and muddy working boots. The woman was bony and tall, with a beak-like nose. Her jet black hair was messy and greasy, with her cold dark eyes staring at the man. Wore wore a black tank top with torn bash jeans and black hooker boots.

"*E pazzo ubriaco! Tu sei un fottuto idiota e ti odio!" The woman yelled in Italian as she threw a lamp at the man.

As the lamp broke into pieces, the man yelled back, "*Almeno io non sento il mio corpo per la droga!"

He threw a book at the women, hitting her in the stomach. But she laughed it off as she yelled, "*Tu sei quello che mi fa fare quello! E se quel marmocchio non era intorno, avrei potuto abbandonato! Ma abbiamo bisogno di soldi per lei e non ho l'HIV ora!"

As the arguement continued, the already-pissed off Janelle got tired of it as she pushed her friends to the side. She walked into the house bravely as she grabbed the man by the thick neck, dragging him out as the woman followed, translating her language to English as she begged the Irish girl not to hurt her husband.

Janelle, with all of her might, pulled the man over her head and threw him into a set of trash cans. He landed with a THUD! as the woman screamed and chased after her thrown husband, with Janelle wiping her hands in victory. As watched the woman pick up her husband and dragged him away as the liquor in his system soften his fall and he was only knocked out.

Then the Irish girl walked abck to her friends as she said, "And that is how you get a drunk out of a house."

All of them blinked a few times before they entered the house, looking for clues to see what caused this fight and where the heck Winona was. But all there was broken items, thrown over chairs, and a broken screen door that led to the small backyard. Other than that, nothing seem to be stolen like money or jewerly. In fact, it just seem like that couple just wandered in and began fighting.

"I wonder why they came in here?" Adina asked as she looked through Winona's money drawer in the kitchen, which was still filled with money. "If people like those two came into a house like Winona's, then something should have been taken. But thank God nothing was."

"Yeah, it just seem like-" As Ellie was talking, she leaned against a closest door. But as she did, the door opened and hit the redhead's back as she sheirked, jumping into Janelle's arm only to be dropped by the ill-tempered Irish girl.

As the door opened, a very short girl came out. She had a thin yet delicate body, basically having no breasts or curves but with dainty little feet. She had buttock-length, ebony black hair that was straight with heavy bangs. Her dark purple eyes were hooded, while she had the same light Italian skin tone as the couple wirh rosy cheeks and light pink, thin lips. She wore a black blouse with short, puffy sleeves and a dark purple plaid mini-skirt. She wore a pair of black combat boots with white knee-high socks under them. On her ears were a pair of silver skull-shaped stud earring.

"Who the heck are you?!" Ellie yelled in surprise at the twelve-year-old girl, causing her to run back into the closest.

As the door closed, Ellie got slapped behind the head by Keiko as the cheerleader yelled, "Don't scare her like that! She was probably in there when that couple came over, you dummy!"

As Ellie stuck her tongue out at the cheerleader, someone walked through the front door. The girls looked to see it was Winona, who had a worried look in her eyes. Instead of saying something, they all pointed at the closest door as the Native American woman ran over to the closest and opened it.

The younger girl ran into Winona's arms as she cried into the woman's black t-shirt. The college student picked the girl up, since she was barely the size of a normal seven-year-old, and carried her to the couched as she smoothed out the girl's long black hair. "Ssh, what happened?"

"My parents... They came here and began yelling. I... I ran into the closest. Then... they started to blame each other... and throwing things. Then... someone came... and threw Dad out. I opened the closest... I opened it to find a bunch of strnage girls here!" The young girl yelled into Winona's shirt.

As the young girl cried, Serena came up to Winona and asked, "What is going on here?"

Winona looked up at the blonde with her twinkling brown eyes, then looked back down at the girl in her arms. She sighed as she said, "This is Darcy Rabasca and those people were her parents. You see, when I was sixteen I took a job as a babysitter. I got Darcy by luck because only after a few months, she finally told me her parents were abusive of her because of their obsession with drugs and alcohol. I got her out of her home and brought her here to live with me."

After hearing this, everyone was silent. Serena looked at the small girl with sad blue eyes as she touched her long, ebony hair gently. Darcy looked at the blonde as she smiled a little, knowing that the blonde has felt her pain just by a single touch. Then Serena looked at Winona then at her friends behind her, a silent agreement passing through all of them at once.

Serena looked at the small girl as she said, "Darcy, won't you like to come to the beach with us for the weekend?"

Instantly, Darcy's dark purple eyes lit up as she asked in a child-like manner, "Really? Can I really go to the beach?"

"Of course! That is if Winona lets you." Serena said as she and Darcy both looked at the college student, their eyes begging for the young ri lto go more than anything.

The Native American woman sighed with a smile as she said, "Fine. As long as Darcy rides in my car, then I don't see a problem then brigning her along. Keiko's beach house does have six bedrooms anyways."

Darcy squealed as she jumped off her caretaker's lap and ran upstairs to get her bags ready real quick. Serena giggled as her friends smiled, knowing they are doing a good thing, while Winona was smiling but worried inside as she got up and grabbed some money from her drawer.

~0~

After two hours stuck in hot cars, the eight residents of the Keiko's beach home finally arrived in Malibu. They got to the four-story, six-bedroom white house that stood on the edge of a cliff. The home was made out of marble mostly, with semi-tinted glass walls showing the living room a little bit. The very top of the house had three circular windows and the other two stories were medium-sized with half of them having glass walls, with the bottom main part being long and huge while the very top was small and square.

"Awesome, Keiko! Your beach house has an amazing ocean view!" Marisol cried out as she ran to the window walls once they were inside.

"Thanks. Mother and Father does not want this place trash, so please act like ladies just a little bit." Keiko begged somewhat as she placed her bags in the room she was sharing with Marisol.

The sleeping arrangment was simple; Ellie and Serena were sleeping in one room, Winona and Darcy were sleeping in another room, Marisol and Keiko were sharing a room, and Janelle and Adina were also sharing a room as well. The two extra rooms were for Hannah and Charlie, but since they didn't come then it was just extra space.

As the girls placed their bags up, Darcy came running with a huge smile. She was wearing a white t-shirt and a pair of black shorts with purple tennis shoes. Her hair was thrown in a thick ponytail as she bounced on her toes happily. Winona took the girl's purple backpack and black roll-on bag into their shared bedroom.

"Winona, can I go to the beach? Pretty pwease?" Darcy asked in a sweet tone.

"Sure. But someone will have to go with you because I have to unpack all of our stuff. But I will be out there in a few minutes." Winona called out from the bedroom as she began unzipping her three bags and Darcy's two bags.

"We can take her!" Serena and Ellie cried out as she ran out of their bedroom.

Winona thought about how she was fine with Serena watching Darcy, but she was a little unsure with Ellie. But she poked her head out of the bedroom door anyways as she said, "Okay then. Just make sure she wears sunblock and don't let her get near the water until I am there."

"Roger that!" The two high-schoolers cried out as they ran to the door with Darcy at their heels.

[A few minutes later]

It took some time to run down the hill Keiko's beach house was on and get to the beach, which was really only a feet away from the base of the hill. So when the three girls got to the white sandy beach, they were already too tired to even move closer to the water. But they seem to get enough energy to pull off their t-shirts and shorts to place them on the ebach towel Ellie brought.

"So, what to do if we can't jump into the water?" Ellie said. She wore a two-piece, orange string bikini with yellow, Aztec sun designs.

"We can sunbath, look for seashells or make sandcastles." Serena suggested as she rubbed sunscreen on Darcy. She wore a two-piece, pink bikini with white bows on the strings to hold everything together. "What sounds fun to you guys?"

"SANDCASTLES!" Darcy cried out in joy. She wore an one-piece, back swimsuit with a purple buttfly across her stomach.

"I like this chimpmunk!" Ellie said as she hugged Darcy, who was still covered in sunscreen.

They all got on their knees and began shaping sand into something, since Ellie and Serena forgot the buckets. All they could really do was make mounds of sand and slapped them with water, then try to shape them into something that looks remotely like a castle. But it seem like Darcy was having a ball.

After a few seconds, the tide came into and destoryed their misshapen castle. For a moment, Darcy seem upset but she got over it as they began creating a new sandcastle a little farther from the tide this time.

"This is so much fun!" Darcy cried out in child-like joy as she clapped her hands happily.

"Haven't you made a sandcastle before?" Serena asked the young girl.

"Not really. Winona tries to get me to do things, but I am so scared that my parents will find me when I was on a club trip or when I was doing a sport and try to drag me back to their place. But since that Janelle girl kicked my dad to the curb, I feel safer with you guys now." Darcy said with a sweet smile.

Serena felt pity for this sweet little girl, brushing back some of Dracy's ebony hair behind her ear. But that pity was replaced with laughter as the sandcastle Ellie was building was sneakily pushing over by Darcy, who laughed like a normal child as Ellie overreacted and began crying over the messed-up sandcastle.

Then the blonde looked at the younger girl as she asked, "So, it there anything else we need to know about you? You seem such like a fun little girl."

Darcy's eyes lit up as she started talking away. "Well, after Winona and her family took me in, I used to walk around the gardens that were in the backyard of her parents' home until her and Kimimela started to get me back into dares. After her parents left, Winona had some inheritance from her parents and she started her job, but Kimimela and I started to do odd jobs to help out. I love pranks, gardens, talking, and learning new things which Winona says come from my huge imagination."

Ellie and Serena laughed as Darcy talked away, how she pull a few pranks at school and how she doesn't care if people thought she was a flirt because she was so nice and fun-loving. She went on how Winona and Kimimela mothered her for she was the youngest but also babied her a little because they don't want her poor little heart to hurt even more. But Darcy told the older girls about how she figured out a few things throughout her life that were hidden from her.

But as the young girl talked away and continued to build a new sandcastle, with an annoyed Ellie looking at her, Serena felt a strange presence around them. Ellie must have also felt the presence as they both looked at each other for a split second then began looking all around them. Darcy looked at them oddly, but she went back to building her castle as they stood up and wiped sand off of themselves.

For a moment, everything seem to quiet for the three teenagers. Even Darcy seem a little worried as she stopped building her castle and looked at the two older girls. Both high school girls seem ready to fight and their usual happy faces turned serious and deadly.

Then, the two older girls turned to see something behind Darcy. The young girl was picked up by Ellie then placed behind the girls. But Darcy peeked through their legs and gasped, seeing the most scariest thing, or human or whatever is was, standing where Darcy was with the sandcastle under its foot.

The creature looked like a tall and strong man with an almost human face with a pointed white beard, greaty and waist-length white hair that was placed in a low ponytail, and skin that was a light blue color. There was a thick scar running down from the corner of his right eye to his chin. His pointy face has cruel angular features, he had glowing red eyes that were slited, and his wide mouth had dripping fangs. He wore a black Civil War-like suit with golden accents, black boots with chains on the sides, a golden bat brooch on his collar, black gentlemen gloves, and a long red cape that had a popped high collar around his neck.

Serena huffed at the creature as she asked, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

The creature laughed coldly as it said in a British accent, "I am Lord Veselica. The reason I am here is to destory the Neo Soldiers, whom I believe are two of them are right in front of me at this moment."

Serena looked angry as she before turning to Ellie and said, "Get Darcy back to the house and get the others down here. I will hold him off as long as I can."

"Got it." Ellie replied as she took Darcy's bony shoulders in her hands and began steering the young girl back towards the path.

Then Serena turned to Lord Veselica as a smirk came on her face. She held out her hand as the Silver Crystal appeared, staring him down and not moving a single muscle as she waited for him to make the first move of this battle.

But as the battle was about to begin, a cry was heard. Serena looked out of the corner of her eye to see Darcy trying to run back to her, with Ellie holding the young girl back as best as she could. Serena knew that if she turned around, her guard would be let down but she couldn't let Lord Veselica take notice of her friends and attack them instead of her. She knew that she had to either stall for more time or begin attacking herself.

But then, something happened that caused Serena to gain hope.

The symbol of Saturn appeared on Darcy's forehead, causing the blonde to call out to her redhead friend saying "Ellie, she is the last Princess. Help her remember quickly!" Ellie looked down to see the glowing symbol on Darcy's forehead, so she let go out of her and turned her around.

"We need to help Serena!" Darcy cried out as tears ran down her friends.

Ellie took the girl into a hug as she said, "Serena can handle herself. All you need to do at this moment is listen to me and look at Serena, then closed your eyes when you see a silver light and listen to my voice."

Darcy was confused at first, as anyone would be in this situation, but as she was released from Ellie's hug, she turned around to watch Serena and finally stood still as Ellie took the young girl's hand into her own.

Serena smirked at Lord Veselica as she screamed, "Silver Moon Soldier, Make-Up!"

Right when Serena began transforming, Darcy gasped as her eyes fluttered closed. Ellie smiled as she began whispering in the girl's ear, saying "Now remember when you first came into the Crystal Palace. Remember me introducing you to the queen and princess, and remember how you began Neo Saturn."

All Darcy did was nod her head as her mind began showing her the past.

Back then, she was known as Princess Gothel of Saturn. She wore an ankle-length, black themed dress with purple accents. The dress itself consisted of a corset top, dark purple in color and laced with a maroon ribbon, over the black top of the dress. The long skirt was black and decorated at the end with dark purple buterfly designs. She also had a white petticoat undernearth. Her sleeves, at the shoulders, were puffed and striped, dark purple and maroon, and the rest went to her mid-forearms and are black. She wore lacy white, wrist-length gloves and had short maroon-painted nails. A frilly white bow was on the right side of her head that had a maroon ribbon and amethyst gem in the center. She wore a black iron forehead tiara that had an amethyst gem in the midle. On her dainy feet were white tights with simple black flats over them.

And she was alone. Sailor Saturn abandoned her once she found the other noble girls, leaving her princess scared in the huge enterance way.

"Hey there." Princess Gothel jumped around with scared eyes, but she met the friendly face of the Princess of the Sun.

"Oh, you must be Princess Sol." Gothel said in a scared voice."I was worried that I was all alone."

"You will never be alone here, Princess Gothel. I merely got lost for a second and I just arrived down here only a few seconds ago. Now, come with me to see Queen Serenity and Princess Serenity." Princess Sol said with a warm smile. Her hair was tied in twin pigtails by silky red ribbons, with her hair the same length and golden blonde as Serenity's hair was. She wore a thigh-length sleeveless white jumpsuit with a frilly top hem and frilly bottom legs for each leg. The jumpsuit had three gold buttons and the waist was cinched with a thin gold belt. Over the jumpsuit was a sleeveless, floor-length orange cloak that is criss-crossed across her chest with yellow strings. The bottom of the cloak had yellow sun designs and the huge collar was popped up around her neck. She wore knee-high, orange lace-up stiletto boots with a bronze tiara with opal gems on her head, orange stud earrings, and a black choker with an oal sun pendant. From her hand to the middle of her biceps, she wore orange ribbons that tied into multiple bows on the back of her arm and create fingerless gloves in a way.

Then Darcy opened her eyes to find herself watching a battle. Neo Moon had the Holy Sword blocking Lord Veselica's claws. She had a silver force field around herself as well, except for her arm as she pushed back the monster with one hit.

Ellie tapped Darcy's shoulder and pointed at the young girl's hand, causing her to look down to see a beautiful amethyst stone in a Patience II Cut. She stared at it in awe as Ellie said to her, "Now, just say 'Neo Saturn Soldier, Make-Up! while I go and help Serena." The redhead began running into the battle as she transformed into Neo Sun.

Darcy watched the battle go on for a few more minutes then looked back at the Saturn Amethyst in her hands. Finally she closed her eyes and held her hands out as she called out quietly, "Neo Saturn Soldier, Make-Up."

The Saturn Amethyst began to glow brighter and brighter before it disappeared and Darcy was surrounded by a column of black petals that appeared around her, making her hair wavier and turning her nails black. Black petals rushed around her body to create her leotard, skirt, shoulder armour and collar appeared, then the petals rushed by and formed the front hest bow. Translucent purple ribbons appeared at her back and combined with more petals to wrap around her waist to create her ribbons. She stamped her foot, causing the black petals to sir up as they create her shoes, gloves, choker, earrings and cape. She slowly crossed her hands in front of her forehead as petals pass her forehead to create the Saturn symbol. After a swirl of bubbles brush against her lips, she then assumed her final pose as black-purple energy swirled about her feet.

As the purple-black light swirled around the beach, Neo Moon and Neo Sun turned to see the new Soldier standing there stiffly with her eyes closed and her arms crossed over her chest, like she was a vampire sleeping upward.

Then the new Soldier unfolded her arms and opened her eyes as she said softly, "My guardian deity is the planet of silence. The Princess of Death and Rebirth, Neo Saturn." Then the Silence Scythe appeared in her left hand. It was a six-foot, slender deep black scepter bearing a huge, silver arrow-headed spearhead. Below the spearhead was a blade that was curved like a short scythe on one side, and a small silver axe-blade on the other side. On the middle of the blades was a small X-shaped marking and black markings on the blades that looked like smoke. There was an amethyst gem in the middle of the X-shaped marking.

Saturn's fuku consisted of a white leotard with a white skirt that was boarded with purple and a Saturn symbol brooch in the middle. She had shoulder pads that resembled transparent, flower petals. Her choker was purple with a maroon jem pendant. The purple, crystal-shaped brooch was on her maroon, transparent, and butterfly-shaped front bow. She had purple, double frontal ribbons. Her collar was white with a purple boarder and a single maroon stripe. The Saturn insigna was on her forehead, she wore purple knee-high stiletto boots that lace up, her earrings were white ringed planets with white diamonds dangling, and she wore mid-biceps white gloves that have swirly purple designs. She wore a thigh-length, light purple transparent cape. She had ribbons around her gloves and boots. Her hair was stil jet black, but it was a little wavier now.

Lord Veselica laughed at the new Soldier as he called out, "A little brat like her is the infamous Princess of Death?!"

Then he charged toward Neo Saturn, but Neo Moon blocked him with her sword as Neo Sun began charging up her compact. But the monster forced his way through as Neo moon tried to cut him one last time, but he smacked her hard enough where she was pushed away while she had to hold her stomach in pain.

As the vampire monster ran faster to Neo Saturn, his bloodlust growing by the second, the Soldier held up her right arm as her shield, known as Death's Sheild, appeared. Carrying the shield on her arm was a black leather brace that extended to her elbow. The shield was made out of glowing amethyst stone with black skull markings near the edges, the shield itself was five feet in width, and it had soft black fur coating on the inside of the shield. In the middle was a huge, engraved black marking of a menacing skull and the shield gave off a frightening aura that was seen by a bright purple-black light.

"Silence Wall." Neo Saturn said calmly as the Sheild grew brighter, and when Lord Veselica hit it full-force with his entire body, he was shocked and thrown back into the water. But he quickly got up despite the black ozzing marks on his stomach.

As he began running again, Neo Moon tried to attack with the Imperium Silver Staff but he knocked her away. Then Neo Sun blasted him with "Fireball Disk, Destory!", but he knocked it away and back to its owner as now both of the girls were lying down in the sand, trying to keep themselves from de-transforming.

But as Lord Veselica ran towards Neo Saturn, the Soldier twirled her Scythe as she said softly "Silence Scythe Surprise." She slammed the Silence Sycthe on the ground as purple energy bursted through the ground and towards the vampire monster. It hit Lord Veselica head-on and he fell to the ground as Neo Saturn got ready for her final attack.

She twirled her Scythe in the air as purple energy gathered around it in a huge circle. Then she called out in a quiet tone, "Destruction Cupola." The purple circle of energy floated above the Scythe before it flew towards the vampire monster. It surrounded him before it strangled him and turned him into dust as he screamed for the final time.

As all three girls turned back into their normal selves, Darcy ran up to Ellie and Serena while yelling "This is awesome! Why Winona let me do this? That was so fun! Let's do it again!" Ellie was also jumping up and down in agreement, but Serena held both of them down by pushing their heads down.

While Serena let go of the heads of her friends, Winona and the otehrs came down as the Native American woman called out, "What happened? We saw purple lights flashing and some screaming."

"Winona, I am a Soldier like Serena and Ellie! Can I be one? Pretty pwease?" Darcy begged as she grabbed her caretaker's arm.

Serena and Ellie smiled nervously as Winona looked at Darcy then at them then back at Darcy. Finally, she smiled and rubbed Darcy's black hair as she said, "Sure. I always know you were something special, kiddo."

"YEAH!" Darcy yelled as she landed in the sand and began making sand angels. Ellie smiled with a child-like spark in her eyes as she joined Darcy in the sand and they both made sand angels while their friends looked at them in an odd manner, confused on why these two were so strange.

[MEANWHILE IN TOKYO]

Like Los Angeles, it was a beautiful day in Tokyo as the park was filled with students from the elementary school and middle school. School only got out two days ago, so this day was probably the last one to have fun together for a few weeks before some students went on vacations around the world or to the beach for the whole summer. But as everyone was on the slides, swing sets, merry-go-round, or monkey bars, there was one person who was not having fun.

Hotaru swung back and forth on the single swing set at the huge oak tree. She stared evily at her old classmates, her quiet demenor hiding the craziness inside of her. But she approached by a sweet girl with curly blonde hair and bright green eyes.

"Hey, Hotaru. I was wondering if I could hang around you." The green-eyed girl asked in a sweet tone.

The gothic girl, who was wearing heavy black eyeliner, snapped. "NO! I WANT TO BE FUCKING ALONE! GO AWAY!"

The little girl began crying as she ran back to her friends, which consisted of an older boy that looked like the younger girl. He glared down Hotaru, but the gothic Scout turned her head to the side as she had a smug smirk on her face. She got up from the swingset as she left the park, laughing as the kids started booing her.

As she exited the park and headed down the street, she saw a poor kitty on the other side of the road. It was half-dead, but Hotaru didn't care as she walked across the street and picked up the dead kitty. It moaned in pain, so Hotaru put it out of its misery by snapping its neck as she smiled evily.

"Now, now. Hotaru, didn't we have a talk about killing things without premission?" A silky British voice said near the gothic Scout.

Hotaru turned to see Ashley and Akuma walking towards her, so she stuffed the now completely dead kitty in the trash. "What about it? I like killing things." Hotaru snapped at the co-leaders.

Ashley giggled as she said, "You and your fetish of experimenting with death. We must learn how to control that after this meeting."

"But you guys said I can kill things as much as I want! And you said that this meeting will be after dinner! It's not fair!" Hotaru screamed as people watched her pitching a fit. But Ashley stayed calm as she grabbed the younger girl by the arm, harshly. Hotaru was jerked almost to the gorund, but Ashley pitied her and pulled her back up before she fell face-first into the concerate.

"Now, come with us or else you can finally join death like Raye wants to. Too bad she is still alive." Ashley said coldly as she pushed Hotaru towards Akuma, who grabbed the gothic Scout.

As she walked down the street, Akuma and Hotaru followed her as the beautiful day started to become dark and grey when storm clouds began rolling in.

Translations:

1. "You drunken fool! You are a fucking moron and I hate you!"

2. "At least I don't smell my body for drugs!"

3. "You are the one who makes me do that! And if that brat wasn't around, I could have quitted! But we needed the money for her and I have HIV now!"