(It has been almost a year since the girls first got to Japan, the enemy has been quiet for several months but the girls remain vigilant. Seiya and Saralina go on dates and recently passed their half a year anniversary. Yaten and Star still can't stand each other but the relationship has supplied both with plenty of work so neither can complain. Just when things were starting to feel almost comfortable, Star's world was rocked. Please stay with us for this special two-part "episode" )

*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*

"Huh…what?"

"Saralina! Saralinaaaa! Saralina get up right now! We have to go to work!"

"hmmm...oh that's right.." Saralina said as she sat up and yawned…then she toppled out of bed onto the floor…asleep again!

"That does it!" star said as she stalked out of the room. A few minutes later, saralina woke up to the smell of bacon, eggs, and fresh-squeezed orange juice wafting from the kitchen. Saralina noticed star was gone and, not wanting to miss a good breakfast, she got dressed and raced down to the kitchen.

" I knew this would get you up" star replied with a sly smile.

"No coffee! I need some of that liquid gold, especially if we have to be up at 4:00 in the morning!" saralina groused.

" Well don't blame me…blame serena for taking all of it over to darian's last night."

"Oh well.." Star and Saralina had an early morning interview with a local tv station about how the "Japanese Experience" has been treating them. Truthfully Saralina thought they just wanted the scoop about the newly returned Starlights. Oh well, maybe getting themselves on tv will attract less attention from the people causing this huge mess. It was times like these that Saralina really missed her pet white tiger, Salyn, who was also her closest confidant.

" Hey, you okay?" saralina snapped out of her daze to meet her sister's concerned face with a reassuring smile.

" Yeah I'm fine, just miss Salyn, that's all." Star didn't believe her sister but she decided to give her the benefit of the doubt for now. They had bigger things to worry about now.

Meanwhile….(before going to sleep last night)

Rini and Serena get into an argument on who is allowed to give Darian gifts(no surprise..) and Rini decides to play a nasty trick on Serena. After she's sure Serena is asleep, Rini goes over to her alarm clock and sets it for 5:00 in the morning! With an evil smile, she climbs back into bed, completely unaware of the chaos she has just set in motion.

"Wake up sleepy head! Yaten, oy! Get up! We have to be at the studio by 6:00! Get up!" Yaten awoke to a thorough thrashing being delivered to him by Seiya.

" You bathe first, then come wake me up. Otherwise, don't even try to get me up.." yaten said with a glare so cold it could freeze Antarctica.

" Okay, okay, have it your way then." replied seiya with his hands up in defeat.

Seiya got his bathing supplies together, walked into the bathroom, got undressed, and jumped into the bath tub. Unfortunately, about half way through, Seiya realized he didn't have a towel..Oh great! He got out of the shower, put on a robe, and stepped through the bathroom door- *crash* and was promptly knocked over by a very sleepy Serena who, thanks to rini's prank, hadn't bothered to check the clock when it went off. In the fall seiya robe had come partially open and Serena had decided to, at that moment, go back to sleep on seiya's bared chest still in her pjs. Serena began to drool and that's how Saralina and Star who, hearing the crash, came to check on everyone and found the two in a very compromising position. Seiya looked up to see his girlfriend and her sister staring at him. He quickly realized his position and shoved Serena off of him in an "it's not what it looks like" manner. The look Saralina gave him would make Darth Vader shiver in fear. However it was quickly replaced with a look of betrayal, then Saralina picked up serena and threw her into the full bathtub with an evil grin and then sashayed back to her room. Star shook her head at her sister's retreating form and walked over to help a now-awake serena out of the tub. Seiya was furious that Saralina would get so jealous and not even wait for him to explain. By now the entire hallway was full of the scouts and the other two members of the band. Seiya stood up, walked over to the bedroom he shared with his band mates while ignoring their gazes, and slammed the door. Star knew better, however, that walk of Saralina's had been her attempt to keep herself from crying. Star opened the bedroom door to find saralina sitting on the floor, crying.

"What's wrong, sis? You know…it could have been an accident?" Star suggested.

"I know…it's just that..he's always had a thing for Serena, when he left the first time it was only because the Princess had been found but he would have stayed with Serena if she'd asked him to and I'm scared of losing him because he's still head over heels for serena.." Star just nodded and held her sister tightly as she was hurting.

"Hey, at least your relationship is real right? I am 'supposedly' dating the Ice Man of Ice Men and we don't even talk to each other for one minute out of the entire day. Plus, I can't get out of it because his pride will be hurt if I break up with him. He told me that since he's the pop star here, then he should get to break up with me! Can you believe that?! And, his managed suggested that we date for a while to improve his image!" Star finished with a snort. Her tirade had the desired effect of making her sister smile and nod that, yes, her sister's love life was more tumultuous than her own. Saralina picked herself up off the floor, left their room, and walked down the hall to apologize to Seiya.

*knock, knock*

Seiya opened the door to see his girlfriend standing there looking very apologetic.

"Yes, can I help you?" seiya asked.

Saralina was taken aback by the gruff manner seiya had just addressed her with, "Hey, so.. I'm sorry I overreacted this morning, I should've just trusted that you wouldn't betray me, so I'm really sorry." Saralina said with a sincere expression. Seiya sighed, whenever she made this face he knew he'd always forgive her but, "I know you're sorry Sara-chan but I need to be alone for right now, okay?" Saralina's face reflected her feelings of despair and sadness, so much so that Seiya almost lost his nerve and enveloped her in a forgiving hug but he managed to hold it together until saralina had trudged back to her room in defeat. When she had sadly shut her door, he closed his and he dissolved into a pile of sadness. He wanted so badly to walk back down that hallway, force his way into Sara-chan's and Star's room, and show his girlfriend how he really felt about her with a passionate kiss to make that american Leonardo something jealous! However, he felt that he needed to teach Saralina to trust him, even when he was around his first love Serena, and to not jump to conclusions so easily especially considering they just passed their six-month anniversary( Special Chapter 13.5 coming out later, look for details and challenges ). Once she understood and told him what he was waiting to hear, then he had something he wanted to tell her. *CRASH* A loud sound awoke Seiya from his musings. He opened the door and immediately went to check on Saralina but that was a mistake. Saralina had heard the noise as well and opened the door to see Seiya standing there, out of breath. Saralina knew that he could tell she'd been crying, no crying didn't quite cover it. The moment she'd come back to her room she collapsed to the floor and wept from the bottom of her heart for the first time in her life. She was raised to believe that a princess did not cry and certainly not about someone else. So when she opened the door, Saralina knew Seiya could see her tear-strewn face, red eyes and nose. Seiya was taken aback to see his girlfriend so disheveled and he looked over to see Star, giving him an evil eye that he was not soon to forget. Star had spent the majority of the time since Saralina had come back consoling her poor sister as she, lady-likely of course, cursed Seiya's name and swore she'd get revenge on him for breaking her sweet sister's heart. Seiya mumbled something and walked the other direction to check on everybody else. It broke her sister's heart a second time and Star was about ready to strangle Seiya when she felt thatsomething was wrong. She followed her senses to… Rini's room! Rini was splayed like a doll on her bed, a bloody wound in her side and her bedroom window in pieces. Star ran to get her sister then she turned around and locked the door so they wouldn't be disturbed. Then she and saralina assumed the healing position that had literally been ingrained into them; Saralina sat cross-legged with both hands facing palm-up while Star sat as a mirror-image with her hands facing palm-down on Saralina's. They could hear Serena calming her mother down and telling her that they were going to search the rooms for the loud noise. Saralina swore until her breath, they didn't have much time to complete the infusion. Both girls bowed their heads and joined their spirits. Saralina floated the lost blood above rini's body and, after being purified, put it back into rini's body while Star sewed up the wound. Doing this was necessary but it always drained a lot of the girls' energy to do it, they'd have little left if Rini's attacker came back. Luckily, they were able to patch rini up and make her regain consciousness before everybody in the hallway, having searched the other rooms, came in to see the smashed window in Rini's room. Thankfully, Rini was coming around and would, hopefully, have no memory of what had just transpired. The girls didn't want the others to decide to find the attacker when they were heavily overpowered.

"Here's where the sound came from!" said Rei.

"Rini dear, are you alright?" Serena's mom asked.

"Yeah I'm alright, I didn't even hear it happen." The girls breathed a secret sigh of relief but it was short-lived.

"So, what were you girls doing in here? If you knew this was the room where it happened then you should have called out." Taiki asked suspiciously.

"Well we didn't want anyone to get hurt on the broken glass and we'd been trying to wake Rini up to make sure that she was okay, so we were a little busy." star lied, smoothly and Saralina simply nodded along. Yaten looked at Star suspiciously as did a few others but Serena bought it so that was the end of that. Serena's mom announced that she would call a repair man tomorrow to get an estimate on the window. Star warned rini to be careful of the broken glass in the morning and went back to her room. Saralina stayed in rini's room to tuck her back into bed when she felt pain at the back of her head and her world went dark.

(Switching POV's here since Sara-chan's a little incapacitated at the moment. Going into Star-only POV)

Star looked at her watch and looked at her bedroom door again for the millionth time before deciding to get up and check on her sister. She opened the door to Rini's room and saw her sister lying face down on the carpet, the closet door ajar and Rini nowhere to be seen. Who had taken her sister? Where was rini? Why was the door open? What had happened and what was she going to tell everyone else? Why hadn't Saralina woken up yet?! Rini gone, saralina unconscious, and star left to figure out what to do next!

To be continued…