Chapter Fifty-one: A Double Mind
JunJun crashed through the forest, trampling weeds, grass, vines, beetles, worms. The rational part crammed in the corner of her head insisted that escaping from Zirconia, the queen working through the hag, was impossible. Running appeased the dominant part of her that was desperate to survive.
That girl, Usagi Tsukino—Chibi-Usa—chased her. Not to hurt her but to figure out what the hell she'd done. JunJun would explain if she could.
The Tubelets' fiery wall had been overcoming Moon Gorgeous Meditation, and Chibi-Usa was going to die, accomplishing part of Dead Moon's mission. When JunJun looked at the Guardian, Chibi-Usa had become draped in a pure-white princess gown. The world dissolved into the middle of the moon, with Chibi-Usa standing in front of her and her mother's neighboring castles. JunJun stood beside her, but not as JunJun. She'd been clad in a sailor suit.
A shadowy, mountainous beast slammed down onto the moon. It lunged, outstretching its claws. With Orb Medicine, the same attack she'd used on the Tubelets, JunJun pierced the monster, making it disintegrate.
Somehow, JunJun knew that she hadn't summoned the beast. Had come from one of the Moon Kingdom's enemies. Instead of letting the monster kill the vulnerable Chibi-Usa, JunJun had defended the Guardian.
Kelp Forest had crashed down, jostling JunJun back to reality, where Sailor Chibi-Moon wrestled against the Tubelets. JunJun had seconds to decide whether to let their enemy perish or live.
A force from somewhere deep inside had compelled JunJun to save Chibi-Usa. A force that could be defied, but was so strong, all but pulling JunJun's hands toward the Tubelets, that she didn't want to defy it more than she didn't want to defy the queen, her and her sisters' savior.
She'd endanger her own life to save a Guardian, a girl she barely knew. Because Queen Nehellenia might have lied to the Quartet.
JunJun tripped over a root, scrabbled to remain upright. Had to keep moving, or Zirconia would rend her limb from limb.
Although JunJun had seen the queen countless times, she'd never seen visions of her or her sisters protecting the queen in space, unlike Chibi-Usa. Without fail, JunJun had acted upon and believed the queen's every word.
JunJun had had a choice: to defy her heart or her queen.
She'd chosen. Now she was going to face the consequences.
"Come back here," Zirconia bellowed. Was the hag powerful enough to follow JunJun and attack from the sky?
The area brightened into a clearing. JunJun would be exposed. She swiveled, only to see the one she had saved.
Chibi-Usa slowed into a walk, tucking her Kaleidoscope at her side. "I'm not going to hurt you."
JunJun stepped toward the kelp. Had to melt into them somehow so the hag couldn't see her. "I can't stay here long." Her voice trembled. "That hag, she's ancient, but she's dangerous. She can use the queen's powers."
"I'll protect you, then. Because you protected me." She smiled softly. "I don't think you're a bad person. I mean, the way your sister reacted when I told her that your bosses could be manipulating you… She was hostile, but she hesitated. And then you go and save me."
JunJun staggered, exhausted, surprised. PallaPalla had talked about her time with the Sailor Team and those sea creatures but hadn't mentioned Chibi-Usa's suggestion. Heck, PallaPalla hadn't shown signs of doubting Queen Nehellenia or Zirconia. More loyal and strong-willed than JunJun.
"That can't be true. Their story—our story—makes too much sense." Kind of. "Besides, we help the queen out of our own free will." She placed a hand on her heart. "She saved my sisters and I from a life of poverty. Of dying before our time."
"If you don't mind me asking, what exactly was your life like before you teamed up with—um, started helping the queen?"
JunJun scratched her head, eyes darting around the black sky, searching for that hag's prune-like face.
Chibi-Usa gestured toward a bush. "Let's hide in there. She can't see you all the time, can she?"
"I don't know, but it's better than standing here, almost out in the open." Although kelp domed JunJun and Chibi-Usa, their leaves drenching the two in darkness, JunJun didn't feel comfortable. Whatever Zirconia could see in that cliché crystal ball of hers, JunJun didn't want it to be herself. Or Chibi-Usa. She clutched her heart, trying to stifle the defiance.
"Are you okay?" Chibi-Usa said.
"Y-yeah." JunJun forced herself to move, partly to get her mind off her knowing, mostly so Chibi-Usa wouldn't worry.
She almost buried herself inside the bush but found herself saying, "I'll help you in first." Gasped, covered her mouth. Hoped she hadn't spoken loud enough for Zirconia to hear. As old as Zirconia was, surely, she was hard of hearing.
Chibi-Usa's eyebrows shot up and then she pressed her lips into a thin line.
"Did you learn how to control your face from being a princess?" JunJun had to learn about Chibi-Usa's past, too. To take advantage of and kill her. Not for any other reason.
Chibi-Usa walked toward JunJun. "When did you become so interested in me?"
"Since I saved you."
"You have to have been interested in me before then. This seems so sudden."
JunJun stiffened. Her concern had begun with the vision.
Her queen, she had to save and serve her queen. Earning the Guardians' trust might bring her closer to gaining the Golden Crystal, freeing the queen from the mirror and starting Dead Moon's reign.
Chibi-Usa stopped beside JunJun, and JunJun opened the bush, not breaking eye contact with Chibi-Usa in case her enemy attacked. Chibi-Usa blinked at JunJun, glanced inside the bush.
"I didn't put any booby-traps in there, promise," JunJun said. "I know this place as well as you. Which means, not at all." Hailing from the jungle herself, she felt at home.
Had she come from the jungle? The queen and that old hag could've falsified her and her sisters' memories.
JunJun shook the thought out of her head. She was helping Chibi-Usa only to manipulate her.
Chibi-Usa buried herself inside the bush, stuck out a hand. JunJun stared at it, heart hammering, painful.
If she took the Guardian's hand, then, to the all-present Zirconia, she'd be solidifying her betrayal.
Despite the danger, Chibi-Usa's hand attracted JunJun's own like a magnet. JunJun grabbed the Guardian's hand and let Chibi-Usa guide her inside the bush.
Chirping rung about the bush. The underwater world had bugs like crickets. Like the jungle.
"You never answered my question," Chibi-Usa whispered. Conscious of the hag. "What was life like before you met your, your bosses?"
"You may have gotten away from me this time," Zirconia rumbled like a brewing storm, seconds away from deluging Chibi-Usa and JunJun with water and lightning, "but I will be waiting for you when you come out. Believe that."
JunJun had to come out sometime. She swallowed. Might as well go all-in.
She closed her eyes. Searched for and found memories of the jungle.
For memories, they were clear and specific. One was of JunJun and her sisters lounging around a bonfire, not caring that they could be drawing lethal animals toward them.
"Back then, life was peaceful." JunJun was about to pour out her soul only to gain Chibi-Usa's trust. The hag couldn't be so thick that she didn't realize the genius of what JunJun was doing.
"It was just my sisters and I. Living in the forest." Despite the unsettling clarity of her memories, peace washed over JunJun. Her greatest wish was to live peacefully with her sisters.
Something else tugged at her heart. A desire to be with Chibi-Usa. To be above the jungle, the Earth. In space.
JunJun shook her head rapidly.
"What's wrong?" Chibi-Usa lay a hand on JunJun's shoulder.
JunJun warmed. Shrugged the shoulder off. "Just the old hag, that's all." Lying to Chibi-Usa churned her stomach. "Anyhow," she said quickly, to keep herself from dwelling on the meaning of her feelings, "my sisters and I had to fight to survive every day. Against the animals. For food. Sometimes fight for the same scrap of food as a tiger. That's part of the reason why we insisted on forming a circus, so we could conquer the animals that tried to conquer, and sometimes succeeded, in conquering us."
Like someone was infiltrating her brain, images of striking tigers and lions and snakes filled JunJun's head; of CereCere, ever the planner, etching a map in the sand, a strategy of where and how her sisters would attack and ward off beasts, to reap food. VesVes argued that they didn't need a plan, that they could rush in and destroy the animals. CereCere replied that JunJun had nearly gotten ripped into shreds, rushing in blindly.
"We had to keep moving to a different place to sleep every night." A chill rocked JunJun. Her life had been fraught with terror, moreso than the peaceful parts. "Maybe that's why we wanted to join our queen."
She told Chibi-Usa everything.
She told Chibi-Usa about that fateful day, when her sisters had been performing acrobatics in the forest for an invisible audience, PallaPalla balancing on logs by her hands, JunJun swinging from one thin branch to another, trying not to break them. VesVes prowled for a tiger to whip into shape, CereCere chasing VesVes, pleading with her to not anger the animals. VesVes found a tiger, the one that would be molded into Tiger's Eye.
JunJun choked. Her vision blurred. Chibi-Usa rubbed JunJun's shoulder but didn't apologize. Perhaps she knew about the havoc that Tiger's Eye had wrecked on Sailor Mars.
"It's okay." JunJun brushed Chibi-Usa's hand away. "Tiger's Eye was attacking your friend. Of course she killed him."
Where was her sudden sympathy coming from? She had wanted to maim Sailor Mars.
Before she could dwell, JunJun pressed on. VesVes had hollered instead of riding back to her sisters upon the tiger's back. She lashed the tiger, only for it to charge after her. Stupid VesVes, thinking that she could whip a tiger into instant obedience.
JunJun and the rest of her sisters had run from the tiger, too. Not even PallaPalla dared to fight it.
"We have to stop it somehow," CereCere said.
"No, duh," VesVes barked.
"Don't get snippy with me. You're the one who got us in trouble. You'd better be glad we're not throwing you in its mouth."
Sometimes, JunJun wished that the animals would eat VesVes and CereCere so she couldn't hear their squabbling. "Shut up and think of a way to get us out of this mess."
Near the top of a 200-foot-tall tree, a mirror leaned against the trunk. None of them had questioned why a mirror was in the forest. Perhaps because their memories were false.
Couldn't be. The sisters had been so desperate to live that they questioned nothing.
PallaPalla had pointed to the mirror. "There. We can distract it with that. PallaPalla bets that tigers love their reflections."
VesVes growled. "What a stup—"
"—endously great idea," CereCere finished. Glaring at VesVes, she said, "Besides, it's not like any of us have other ideas."
"Give me a few seconds, and I'll think of one."
"The way that tiger's running," JunJun said, "we don't have a few seconds."
The tiger was crushing underbrush, roaring. Gaining.
"I'll go get it." CereCere leaped, latched onto the tree's bark. Bounded up the tree.
"What're we supposed to do?" VesVes said.
"Distract it." CereCere kept jumping, shimmering with sweat.
VesVes glowered, raised her whip, whipped around, facing the tiger. "C'mon." She lashed the ground, but the tiger didn't slow. If anything, it quickened.
"You trying to make it madder?" JunJun said.
"Shut up. She said to distract it." How bullheaded. All VesVes knew was how to confront.
The tiger leaped, claws outstretched, its eyes blank with rage, mouth wide so every fang was visible. That whip wouldn't do a thing, but VesVes wrapped the whip around the tiger's neck anyhow. The tiger lunged, snapping the whip and continuing its pursuit. JunJun tackled VesVes, and the tiger tore up the ground instead. It turned toward VesVes and JunJun, baring its fangs. Looked like it was focused on VesVes. Maybe it would leave the rest of the sisters alone if they let it kill the beast tamer.
Every fiber in her body may be screaming to give VesVes to the tiger, but she'd never let her sister die for her sake.
A rock pounded off the side of the tiger's head. Pointing and laughing and doing a headstand on a boulder, PallaPalla held several rocks in one hand, rolling back and forth. The tiger dove for PallaPalla, slobber whipping from its maw.
Light flashed from above. JunJun winced and, by the way the ground quaked and the tiger cried, the tiger had been distracted by the light, too, falling and stopping it from raking PallaPalla into ribbons.
JunJun parted open her eyes, trying to shield them from the light with her hand. CereCere dropped onto the ground, raising the mirror. Inside, a woman with wavy black hair smiled, but her pale blue eyes were filled with iciness. Despite her appearance, peace replaced JunJun's fear.
From the moment JunJun had laid eyes on her, she knew she could trust Queen Nehellenia.
Four stones lifted from the ground, glowed, shot into each of the sister's hands, VesVes nearly dropping hers from surprise.
"Fight with them," the woman in the mirror said. "My gift to you for finding me."
Without knowing what she was doing, VesVes hurled the stone like a ball. The stone split into several, pelting the tiger, and it barreled backward. Crashing onto the ground, it slid, uprooting weeds, clouding dirt into the air, and then stilled. Motionless.
The queen had bestowed power upon the sisters. The first time the sisters had overpowered anyone.
"Did I kill him?" VesVes rushed to the tiger. She'd always liked animals, trying to ride them (mostly to her embarrassing and hilarious failure, with animals either bucking her into mud or trying to chomp off her legs so she couldn't saddle or ride any animal again).
The tiger twitched, its frothing mouth open. He opened his hazy eyes.
"Tame him," the woman said.
"But she tried before," CereCere said, "and look what happened."
"I gave you powers to defeat that tiger. There's no reason for me to let you die after saving you."
"I don't want to hurt him again." VesVes had struck the ground, and the tiger's eyes sharpened. Looking at VesVes, he staggered upright. She hurried to the tiger's side, grasped his underbelly and his haunches and helped him onto his feet. She bit her lip and then saddled him.
The tiger didn't buck VesVes off. He didn't chomp off VesVes' legs.
CereCere's eyes widened at the woman. "Who are you?"
"I have come to rescue you from this life. To give you a life of safety and prosperity." Smile widening at PallaPalla balancing on the boulder, she said, "A life filled with fun. Unfortunately, I cannot leave this mirror. But I have someone who will take you to your new home. Follow her."
Zirconia had emerged from the shadows. Had been watching the whole time.
VesVes broke into laughter. Not the smartest thing to do. "This old woman? I mean, look at her. Her wrinkles have wrinkles."
JunJun blurted a laugh. Covered her mouth, cheeks puffing. The hag had scowled. No wonder she still didn't like JunJun and her sisters.
"I shall call you the Amazoness Quartet," the queen said, "because there are four of you and you were found in the Amazon. It's a name that others will fear—I mean, recognize instantly."
CereCere narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean, 'fear'?"
"My own enemies will tremble at the mention of your name. They trapped me in this mirror when I was only trying to help them. They revealed their evil intentions, their selfishness, when they refused to let me help them prosper their kingdom. They wanted their kingdom all to themselves because they wanted to destroy it." Replacing Queen Nehellenia, a gray, desolate wasteland appeared inside the mirror.
"Elysion," Chibi-Usa whispered. JunJun raised an eyebrow but continued.
"This is what they've done to their beloved kingdom," the queen had said. "No sounds. No happiness. No joy. I want to restore the kingdom to its former glory and bring that joy to the entire universe. To do so, I need your help."
"I bet." VesVes jabbed a thumb at Zirconia. "This old hag couldn't help a fly."
Zirconia faced the mirror. "My queen…!"
"Quiet, Zirconia. They'll learn to obey and respect you in due time."
CereCere straightened. "You saved us. What can we do to help you?"
JunJun opened her eyes. Hadn't realized she'd closed them. "That was the beginning of it all," she said to Chibi-Usa. "When we started helping Queen Nehellenia."
"The start of when she enslaved you," Chibi-Usa said. "You might not realize it, but she lied to you more times than I can count. The Moon Kingdom is thriving and will continue to thrive under my mother and father's leadership. She showed you Elysion, which she probably destroyed, not the Moon Kingdom."
"She couldn't have destroyed Elysion from her mirror."
"Maybe she did it before Sailor Moon trapped her inside. Sailor Moon could've trapped her because she destroyed Elysion and wanted to keep her from destroying other places."
"W-well, we're not slaves. We're helping her out of our own free will. Because she helped us."
"What if it all isn't true?"
JunJun clenched and unclenched her hands. "I remember that day clearly. Makes sense that I would." Trying to convince herself more than Chibi-Usa. "We were in a life-or-death situation. Of course I'd remember every detail." Wasn't sure. But it felt like she would. Then again, the Outer Guardians had nearly killed her, yet she didn't remember everything about her fight with them. Back then, the world had been a blur.
Perhaps she remembered much about her and her sisters finding the queen because it was life-changing. No longer did JunJun and her sisters live in neverending fear, one of them keeping watch every night, sleeping in shifts, afraid of the animals ambushing them. The Amazoness Quartet had had fun times in the Amazon, but their lives had been fraught with danger.
"Even if it is true," Chibi-Usa said, "she could've saved you, not out of genuine concern, but because she needed help."
"Are you saying she doesn't love us?"
Chibi-Usa shrugged. "I don't know. Only she herself knows for sure. Maybe she didn't love you at first, but she's grown to love you."
JunJun's stomach swam. Her whole world, being upended because she decided to save this pink-haired squirt, who was wiser and more mature than she looked.
Despite the roiling in her stomach, her mounting anger toward Chibi-Usa for perhaps being right, she couldn't shake the compulsion to stay and protect the Guardian, a feeling that she hadn't had toward the queen.
Chibi-Usa could be manipulating JunJun. But the Guardian seemed genuinely concerned, by the arch in her brows, her frown, her intent gaze into JunJun's eyes.
Maybe JunJun needed to ask the queen some questions.
"Do you know who your parents are?"
JunJun's expression darkened. "You're going too far."
Chibi-Usa drew back. "I-I'm sorry. Family can be a sensitive subject for a lot of people. I shouldn't have."
"No. You shouldn't." Truth was, JunJun couldn't remember her parents. She had always been with just her teenage sisters. No memories of being a child, of watching her sisters grow up. Everything had started with her and her sisters in the Amazon rainforest, playing, surviving. Nothing else. Nothing more.
"The queen became our mother." JunJun's voice was soft.
"She commands you to do things, though." Still pressing forward. "My mother and father tell me what to do, but not the way your queen does. They've never asked me to fight or find a Crystal for them. They've never asked me to put my life in danger. I help because I love them and the Moon Kingdom's people. And I love the rest of the Guardians so much that I want us to live in peace, not endless war."
JunJun glanced at the ground. She'd never seen any mother-daughter relationships. Perhaps she could watch Chibi-Usa and her mother the next time they were together. Their relationship would prove whether the queen was using the Amazoness Quartet or cared for JunJun and her sisters, saving them out of love, not selfishness.
Chibi-Usa cocked her head. "Speaking of family, who keeps talking to you from the sky?"
JunJun tried to dismiss the hag with a hand, but moving any body part was nigh impossible in the bush. "She's somebody, but not related to my sisters and I. Thank goodness, too." She shuddered. "I'd hate to grow old and wrinkly like her."
You'll never have to.
JunJun's breath hitched. That voice… It was more like a knowing than a voice. Calling her to something else. Something higher. What could be higher than serving a queen?
Maybe serving Princess Chibi-Usa Tsukino.
No. Queen Nehellenia is the only one I serve. The only one I want to serve. She saved us. She's the only mother I've ever known.
"What's wrong?" Chibi-Usa noticed everything. But JunJun didn't feel as though Chibi-Usa was prying but cared.
"J-just thinking about how I'd look if I was related to that old hag." She gagged. "The very thought is repulsive." She forced out a laugh that sounded like a bark. "No man would ever want to marry me, much less come near me." Forced out more mouth-straining laughter.
"I can hear you," roared Zirconia.
JunJun took deep breaths to try and quell the fluttering in her stomach, the bile that threatened to burst over the bush, herself and, most importantly, Chibi-Usa. "Anyhow, that old hag's name is Zirconia. She's the queen's right-hand woman. One of the last and only survivors of the queen's kingdom, Dead Moon." The place couldn't be as evil as it sounded. After all, the queen had a heart of gold.
Chibi-Usa shifted. "Zirconia must be pretty powerful then, huh?"
"Eh, I suppose." The roiling in JunJun's stomach intensified. JunJun had never seen the hag's wrath or power, despite the Quartet almost pushing Zirconia to hurt the Quartet countless times, fear of the queen holding the hag back.
JunJun had a feeling that she was going to be the victim of Zirconia's power once she stepped out of the bush. If Zirconia thought that JunJun had sided with the Guardians, then she'd have a reason to destroy JunJun, something that Zirconia must've wanted to do since she met the Quartet in the forest. Allegedly.
Had to tear these doubts out of her head. The queen had told the truth. JunJun was telling Chibi-Usa to gain the Guardian's trust. Then, JunJun would turn against Chibi-Usa and the rest of the Guardians. A simple yet masterful plan.
JunJun closed her eyes, took a breath. Would have to kill Chibi-Usa quickly. The way didn't matter. Didn't matter if her death was messy. Didn't want her death to be messy. Didn't want to end her quickly. Didn't want to torture her with a slow death.
Didn't want to kill Chibi-Usa at all.
JunJun forced open her eyes, sweat sheening on her brow. Chibi-Usa stared at her. Hadn't taken her eyes off JunJun since the rescue.
"I can't stay here forever," JunJun said, more to herself than Chibi-Usa. "Neither can you." Trying to goad Chibi-Usa into coming with her, so she could protect—keep an eye on the Guardian and her friends. Use Chibi-Usa so that the Guardian's friends would believe that JunJun was on her side. Figure out the Guardians' weaknesses. Sneak back to her sisters and think of a plan. Destroy the Guardians once and for all.
"That's right," Chibi-Usa said. "Come on. I'll go with you."
JunJun's heart leaped. At least she was able to control her facial expression. Hopefully. "We—I mean, I, only myself, I'll have to fight the old hag. Zirconia won't be happy about what I did."
"So you do understand what you did. You had control."
JunJun looked at her hands. Wouldn't call what she did controlling herself. But she'd already revealed too much.
"That means…" Chibi-Usa blinked, not taking her eyes off JunJun. Waiting for JunJun to finish the answer to a question she didn't know the answer to, to a question she didn't understand.
JunJun wanted to tell Chibi-Usa that she didn't know, would possibly not understand for a long time. That she harbored doubts about her and her sisters' meeting the queen. That she felt compelled to remain by Chibi-Usa's side, protecting her from robots and forces that dared attack her and the Moon Kingdom. Would protect Chibi-Usa's friends, too, because if her friends were hurt, then Chibi-Usa would be hurt emotionally, and JunJun's duty was to protect Chibi-Usa physically and emotionally, keep Chibi-Usa happy, even at the cost of her own life.
JunJun finished, "…that I'm getting out of this bush."
Chibi-Usa deflated. After a few seconds of her staring at JunJun but JunJun revealing nothing more, she said, "Okay. Let's leave at the same time. We might have to protect each other from Zirconia."
For the first time in what felt like hours, JunJun's stomach settled.
Chibi-Usa was willing to protect JunJun, too. Like JunJun's sisters tried to protect her.
More warmth blossomed in JunJun's chest. Even though they'd been enemies—were still enemies—Chibi-Usa was willing to take a chance on JunJun.
Here was an opportunity to prove that JunJun was on the Guardians' side. Actually, get Chibi-Usa to trust her more, since JunJun was going to defy Zirconia, the queen's second-in-command.
Curling her lips inward, JunJun reached toward the leaves to part open the bush. Chibi-Usa reached too, matching JunJun's pace. She was going to step out at the same time as JunJun. Not trying to trick JunJun or leave her to the wolves.
JunJun and Chibi-Usa opened the bush. Kelp Forest was nearly black with darkness. Even the Amazon never grew as dark.
"Do you think she'll see us if I use this as a flashlight?" Chibi-Usa raised her Chibi-Moon Kaleidoscope. It would reflect any light, no matter how little. With the paralyzing, absolute darkness, no light might be in the forest to reflect.
Light sparkled from the Kaleidoscope. Perhaps Chibi-Usa was using her powers to light the way.
"She will. She's already searching for us." JunJun's frown deepened. "I can still sense her." Above, looking. Always looking.
Chibi-Usa nodded. An explosion boomed feet away, and light pierced the bush, searing JunJun's arm and igniting the bush. Grabbing Chibi-Usa, JunJun dove before her brain caught up to her body's actions. Had saved Chibi-Usa again.
The two passed through the burning bush, the flames scalding them, JunJun wrapping herself around Chibi-Usa so that the Guardian wouldn't be burned. Chibi-Usa yelped. She'd been hurt, crushing part of JunJun's heart.
Keep her safe.
Who was filling her head with these thoughts?
Zirconia loomed over the forest, blocking the sun, deepening the darkness into almost pitch-black. Only the flames; Chibi-Moon's Kaleidoscope, its different surfaces reflecting the flames; and an outline of Chibi-Usa, her pink hair glowing like a dimming neon light, were visible.
Chibi-Usa and JunJun tumbled on the grass, over branches. The bush burned, and the flames had settled onto the grass around the bush. Spreading.
Because of JunJun's defiance, Zirconia was going to burn down Kelp Forest.
A forest like the beautiful Amazon, where Tiger's Eye, JunJun and her sisters, had called home. The place from which Zirconia had gifted Fisheye and Hawk's Eye to the sisters, not only for the circus, but also because of the queen's insistence that the Amazoness Quartet have pets for their own happiness. Like a mother.
Even if JunJun's memories of her and her sisters playing inside the forest were false, she felt connected to the Amazon. She would not let anyone destroy a forest. Including the queen.
Glaring at Zirconia, JunJun picked herself off of Chibi-Usa, staying inches from the Guardian.
No matter what, she would stop Zirconia.
