SailorStar9: Well, Chapter 51 is out, this is Chapter 52. Remember boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence. So, please be a dear and read and review.

Disclaimers: Nothing here is mine, well, except the plot and the pairing.

Chapter 52: A New Menace


Usagi was walking towards Juuban High. A new school year was about to start for her. A year that would be full of surprises, but she didn't know that yet. Several weeks had passed since they defeated their last enemy. And now, Tsukino Usagi was about to start her first year of High School.

As Usagi entered her classroom, she noticed something weird. Very weird. "Okay, what's up? What are you two doing here?" Usagi asked.

Rei grinned, "Guess what? We'll attend to High School here."

"Isn't it cool?" Minako asked.

Usagi shrugged "Well, I'm happy to have you all here, guys."

Just then, a couple of students entered the classroom. A tall boy with short, blond hair and blue eyes, and a girl slightly shorter than him, with short, light green hair and green eyes. "Wow... Look at that guy..." Minako commented.

"He looks like my ex..." Makoto said. The others all sighed.

Brad stared up and down at the couple and nodded. "They're both pretty..." The others looked at him in shock.

"You know what's the weirdest thing about them?" Ami said pointing at the two.

"No idea," Rei admitted.

"Well, both were transferred from Mugen Gakuen."

"Hmmm... Strange enough." The most recent addition to the Senshi team, Hotaru remarked.

Naru walked into the classroom, with Umino right behind her. "Hey girls!" she said.

Umino looked at the group, "Hmmm... Seven girls and a guy... Why does it look so familiar to me?"

"What a sucker..." Hotaru muttered.

In that moment, the new sensei entered the classroom. "Good morning. My name is Mariko Ishida and I'm your new math teacher."

"2+2=5. Me smart." Brad said outloud. The class laughed.

"Hmmm... I see we have a joker there..." Ishida commented.

"I wasn't joking," Brad said, keeping a straight face.

"I believe that." Hotaru added. The class laughed again.

"Well, your grades tell me you're very smart, though, I see Haruna's warning was true..."

"What else did she warn you about?" Terry asked.

"Well, she knows most of you already, so she told me you could be a very weird group sometimes..."

"We can?" The whole class, except for the two new students, asked in unison.

"You're doing it right now..." Mariko muttered. "I see there's some transferred students here as well. Why did you choose Juuban as your High School?" Ishida asked.

"Our old school wasn't weird enough," the blonde guy joked. The class laughed again.

"You are Haruka Tenoh, I guess..."

"That's me."

"Why are you dressed up as a guy?" Ishida asked.

"I like this kind of clothes," Haruka explained.

"Wha... Haruka's a girl?" Minako asked in disbelief as the whole class looked at Haruka in a mixture of shock and awe, while Brad laughed out loud.

"I never said I was a guy," Haruka noted with a grin.

"Minako, I can't believe you were drooling at a girl..." Makoto said, backing away from her,.

"Oh, shut up," Minako muttered. "You were just saying she looks like your ex-boyfriend!"

"Well, she does..." Makoto said matter-of-factly. The others sighed in exasperation.

Haruka just watched the scene and smiled.

"Any of them could be the carrier," the green-haired girl commented in a whisper.

"I know, Michiru... But we won't know who'll be attacked first," Haruka whispered back.

"Alright, let's start today's class before things get weirder," Ishida said.

"I don't believe it can get weirder than this..." Natsumi commented. The class laughed again.


Elsewhere in Tokyo...

"Our mission is to find the talismans for our master," a dark figure said.

"Use any means necessary to achieve those talismans," a second figure added.

"I understand," a woman with orange-reddish hair said, "but where are those talismans?"

"They are within the pure hearts of three human beings. You will use this to help you in your mission."

An egg-shaped object appeared before the woman.

"That is a Daimon egg. It will turn unanimated items into evil creatures."

"This is your first target," the figure gave the woman a picture of Hino Rei. "Go and take her pure heart. If it's not the talisman, destroy it. Do not fail us, Kaolinite."

"I won't," Kaolinite said and walked out of the room.


Late afternoon in Hikawa shrine...

Kaolinite teleported in the temple yard. She put the egg on the floor and it fled inside a tree. She chuckled then vanished from the scene. A couple of figures had watched the scene from the temple's roof and looked at each other, then looked back at the tree and waited.

Inside the shrine, Rei and Yuichiro were finishing their chores.

"What's the problem, Rei?" Yuichiro asked.

"Well... I had a dream last night. I saw the city getting destroyed, and I couldn't do a thing to help. When I came back from school I did a fire reading and I saw a triangle-shaped object."

"Does it means there's a new enemy around?"

"Most likely," Rei said, "I just wish they'd stop coming to disrupt our lives..."

"I don't know... You wouldn't have met your friends if it the youma hadn't attacked, right?"

"Maybe not... But we'll never know."

"And think about it... There's a lot of people out there, that can only run away when one of those creatures show up. We can go and stop them."

Rei nodded, "you're right... Our powers are a curse, but they're also a blessing."

"Mikuuji!"

"What was that?" Yuichiro asked.

"It came from the yard," Rei said and dashed outside. Yuichiro followed her.

As they run outside, they could see a strange tree-like creature standing in the middle of the yard. "What is that thing?"

"Mikuuji!"

"Errr... Maybe a new kind of Pokémon," Yuichiro commented.

"Very funny... I guess this is what my visions warned me of... Let's transform and kick it out of my house!"

As Rei produced her transformation pen, the creature knocked it away with one of his branches-arms and then grabbed Rei's wrists, slamming her on the ground, momentarily stunning her.

Yuichiro growled and charged at the tree creature, raising his broom as a weapon, but the monster simply slapped him away with one of its branches.

The monster turned to Rei and reached at her chest with one of its branches, which had a star-shaped tip. The tip started glowing and a small, red, triangle-shaped object came out of her chest. The creature grabbed it and examined it. Rei's eyes glassed over and she lay there lifelessly.

Yuichiro saw the object the creature was holding and saw Rei had fainted. "Whatever that thing is, it's important," he muttered when a red flaming sword appeared above him. He grabbed it and transformed into his Dragon Senshi form. Taking aim at the creature with his hands, he called forth his attack "Mars Fire Spikes!"

The attack hit the creature's side, but it didn't even turn to look at Dragon Mars. The Dragon frowned "Damn, it didn't work..."

"World Shaking!"

"Deep Submerge!"

Two energy blasts, one yellow and the other aquamarine, hit the creature knocking it back. The triangle-shaped object fell off the creature's hands and a figure leapt off the temple's roof and grabbed it, then leapt back up. Dragon Mars looked up but couldn't see who the two figures standing on the roof were, since the sun was right behind them.

"It's not a talisman," one of the figures noted.

"Then we don't need it," the second figure said. It tossed the object at Dragon Mars and then leapt away.

Dragon Mars went to check on Rei, the object moved back into her chest as he kneeled besides her. Rei's eyes turned normal again and she looked at him "What happened?"

"The creature took a triangle-shaped crystal out of your chest and you fainted... I tried to fight it but I couldn't beat it. Then two figures showed up and blasted it away," Dragon Mars explained.

"Mikuuji!"

"Damn it..." Dragon Mars muttered and turned back to see the tree-like creature crawling towards him "Now what?"

"Moonlight Screen!"

Moon's attack vaporized the creature. Moon came dashing towards them and looked around "Yuichiro, I presume?" she looked at the new Dragon. "Are you guys okay?"

"Rei was attacked by that creature, but she's okay now," Dragon Mars said.

"Oh..."

"How did you know we were in trouble?" Rei asked.

"Well, I was walking down the street and I saw a flash of light coming from the temple, so I supposed there was trouble."

"That flash of light was those two figures' attacks," Dragon Mars explained.

"Figures?"

Dragon Mars nodded "Yeah... They came here and blasted the creature out of the way, then they grabbed the crystal and said something about it not being a talisman, then they leapt away."

"Crystal? What crystal?" Moon asked.

"If it was the same I saw in my vision, it was red and triangle-shaped. Yuu saw it coming out of my chest."

Dragon Mars nodded "I suppose it's something important, since she fainted as soon as the crystal was removed from her, and she recovered when it went back into her."

"Weird," Moon said.

"Maybe Ami will know, she knows everything," Rei said.

"She's at cram school right now." Moon said. "I'll inform her about this."


"It's unfortunate we couldn't find a Talisman today," one of the figures said.

"Indeed it is. We must hurry and find the Talismans before the Death Busters find them," the other figure commented.

"Yes. The Earth's sake is in our hands."


SailorStar9: Now that's done. Read and review folks.