Yeah I suck in basically every way imaginable I know. Sorry this took so long and is so short - I just wanted to get it up so you knew I was working on it again. The main problem is that I started this story AGES ago, and the choices I made then in terms of plot and character don't necessarily mesh with the choices I would make now. I deliberated a while and I do not want to end the story, so instead I'm going to attempt to steer it more onto a course I feel I am more comfortable with now. Thanks for sticking with me, you all rock to a degree twice as awesome as my awfulness at updating.

Also, this chapter marks the entrance of the Amazon Trio. I've been wondering how to deal with them for AGES, because they're interesting but also highly despicable in most every sense of the word – the analogy of the dream mirrors in the anime isn't exactly subtle, let's be honest. So be warned, not a good light getting shined on them here.

Edited 02/08/2014

Eternal Sailor Moon. The words rang in Usagi's head as she lay in the dark room, pondering what it could mean. It felt… somehow, it felt different to her previous power-ups. She'd used it a few times now, for every time she transformed Eclipse's power washed over her.

Why do you separate us like that? Eclipse asked. We're both the same person. That's what Sarah said, remember?

You're a distinct personality inside my head, Usagi replied. I think the fact you have a name is really the least of our issues right now.

Touché.

Her thoughts turned back to her new found power, and the rightness it evoked within her. This power felt right in a way it never had before, and with it to aid her, the enemies who before had seemed insurmountable fell before her with ease.

Viluy, the fourth member of the Witches five, was playing a safer game than her predecessors, tending to stay away whenever the senshi might make an appearance. Unfortunately it was working.

We need to strike at them, Eclipse said patiently, as she had dozens of times before. We know where there base is, why not just wipe them out?

We need to know more about them first, Usagi countered. And we know there are five of the witches five – it makes sense to get past all five before we charge the base. They'll be weaker that way.

If you say so.

The not so distant future

The strange webs broke easily before them but never took too long to repair. The sky was black above them, and most of the light was only that they produced themselves. Nephrite held his hand forward and within it he cupped a small ball of silver light to show them the path. Above their heads the strange tent grew closer and the sounds of the forest became more menacing.

There was a low growl to their left and, turning, they saw a tiger prowling towards them. "I don't remember tigers on Elysion," Jadeite muttered, instinctively raising a hand in readiness to fight.

"Wait a moment," Mamoru warned, squinting. "There's something… off about it." The tiger smiled – actually smiled. It was the true smirk of a predator, and with a single easy bound the creature became a man, tall and muscular with an arrogant sort of beauty that only a creature that has never been beaten can possess. His orange hair shone dully in the light of the moon above, and his clothes were definitely more suited to the circus than the jungle.

"That old hag really has no idea," he sighed, surveying the five men before him. "Beautiful dreams. Tch, I'd be amazed if there was a mirror between the lot of you."

"Not a single fair maiden in sight, eh Tiger's Eye?" a questioning voice called from above. Their eyes snapped towards the source of it. Sitting on a branch high above them was a man with a shock of pink hair. His face was pinched, his nose birdlike, and his hands ended in long talons.

"No wrinkled prunes for you either, Hawk's Eye," Tiger's eye spat, drumming at his leg with the handle of the whip he held in his right hand.

"A job for Fish Eye, if ever there was one," Hawk's eye sighed. "But the eclipse is close, at least.

"Are they ignoring us?" Zoisite asked eventually, whispering.

"It… it does look that way," Nephrite replied. "Shall we…"

"Not so fast," this last voice came from behind Tiger's Eye, higher pitched than that of the other men.

"They're all yours Fish Eye," Tiger's Eye said dismissively. He leapt away, resuming his tiger form once again and bounding through the jungle. Above them, flapping wings signalled the departure of Hawk's Eye.

Fish eye stepped closer. Fish Eye's blue hair and jumpsuit made him (her? It was hard to know for sure) easy to spot as he moved through the trees. "Do you have beautiful dreams?" Fish Eye asked. No one replied, not quite sure what to make of Fish Eye, or their departed compatriots. "Let's find out."

"One." Fish Eye clicked his fingers and a red board sprang out of the ground, knocking into Zoisite's back. Mamoru and Kunzite leapt forward at Fish eye, but their target simply danced out of the way, lighter and lither than either of his attackers. "Two." Silver manacles wrapped themselves around Zoisite's wrists, trapping him in place. Even as Jadeite and Nephrite lunged. Again Fish Eye simply dodged their attacks, laughing– it was as though this simply was a game. "Three!" Zoisite screamed and light erupted from his chest. A mirror crept forward. The rim was silver but the metal was tarnished black in places. It looked as though it had been beautiful once.

"Oh now this is different!" Fish Eye cooed. "Could it mean… Pegasus?"