SailorStar9:With Chapter 83 uploaded, this is Chapter 84 of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Established!Zen/Ami, Established!Rikuo/Hotaru

Disclaimers: This fic idea and the Rikuo/Hotaru pairing belong to Pavel123; I only own the plot idea and the main pairing. Anything else belong to their respective owners.

Chapter 84: A Mystic Flower That Steals Hearts! The Third Witch, Tellu

"To eradicate their own ally..." Sailor Neptune mused.

"What horrible people they are." Sailor Uranus hissed.

"We can't be too idealistic either." Sailor Neptune reminded.

"Let's go." Sailor Uranus turned. "We must defeat the Messiah of Silence as quickly as possible."

In Mistress Nine's room...

"Pure Hearts, are they here yet?" Mistress Nine questioned.

"I am terribly sorry." Professor Tomoe apologized. "Please wait a while longer."

"Pure Hearts," Mistress Nine droned. "And lots of them. Unless I get a hold of them, it is impossible for me to be fully awakened. I will not forgive anyone who gets in the way of my revival. Collect the Pure Hearts."

"This is Tellu's desk at Witches Five." Tellu took the call.

"It's me." Professor Tomoe voiced. "I just glanced through your report. I have gotten to like your plan to use plants to steal the Pure Hearts. The plans to use Daimons have been failing as of late. I thought it was interesting to change how we approach things a bit for once. I'm counting on you, Tellu."

"How about some flowers?" the disguised Tellu was selling her potted Telluns in the newly opened 'Flower: Tellu' shop. "A plant that does not need water or fertilizers. How about a Tellun, a flower that brings happiness? In two or three days, a cute pink flower will bloom. Now about the price: a special introductory price of just 10 yen. How about that?"

"Tellun?" Setsuna walked past the store and stopped. "I've never heard of such a flower."

"The power to absorb water in the atmosphere from the body?" Setsuna had bought a Tellun and was analyzing the plant. "Impossible. To think that a plant like that exists. That strange incident where massive amounts of plants wilted... perhaps it has something to do with this flower. What?" her guard went up when the Tellun started glowing an eerie red. The red flower bloomed and its energy proceeded to wrap the defenseless Time Senshi when a sudden blast of energy deflected the attack. "The Garnet Rod..." Setsuna gasped at the floating weapon. "It protected me?"

"I"m here to take you back, Hotaru." the revived Kaolinite appeared in Rikuo's apartment unit.

"I won't allow it." Rikuo glared.

"Out of the way." Kaolinite blasted the 13-year-old quarter demon into a wall and snatched Hotaru before disappearing in a black sphere.

"Sanba Garasu!" shaking the cobwebs from his head, Rikuo summoned the three crow Yokai scouts.

"We're here." the three crow Yokai landed on the apartment's balcony. "What are your orders, Sandaime?"

"Excuse my intrusion, Nura Rikuo." Setsuna voiced, stepping into Rikuo's apartment. "That..." her eyes immediately caught the Tellun plant on the dining table. Rushing forward, she swatted the pot off the table, sending it crashing to the floor. "Take a careful look." she told Rikuo, the red bud wilted. "This is about all it does while it's a bud, but when it blooms, it will start to abduct people's Pure Hearts."

"And if all of the flowers in the town start blooming all at once..." Rikuo breathed in shock.

"Perhaps there is a situation now that required them to have many Pure Hearts." Setsuna surmised.

"Then, we must get rid of it at the source." Rikuo decided. "Wait, why are you aiding us, the Yokai?" he questioned. "Don't you Sailor Senshi hate all of the Yokai?"

"You are mistaken." Setsuna shook her head. "The moment Mizuno Ami met Zen, the future timeline that was to be Crystal Tokyo has been altered; the Yokai flourished in the new future and lived alongside with humans peacefully. The future you and Hotaru led the Nura Clan into an even more prosperous era than your grandfather and the Zen life-span curse had long been lifted."

"Tellun is being sold in that store." Setsuna informed Rikuo and Ami, the trio had staked out by the road opposite the shop.

"Let's go around to the back entrance." Rikuo suggested.

"Dear customers, you are very lucky people." Tellu mocked, sealing up the store and injecting rapid growth serum into the unsold Telluns and causing the plants to bloom. "To be able to purchase Telluns in bloom. The price is your Pure Hearts." electrocuting the customers in the store, she extracted all of their Pure Heart Crystals in one shot. Opening her palm, she absorbed all the floating Heart Crystals into a black-star-shaped storage pad.

"Mercury Planet Power, Make Up!" hiding in the storage room, Ami transformed after espying the ongoing.

"Pluto Planet Power, Make Up!" Setsuna, too, transformed.

Rikuo took the chance to morph into his Night form.

"The Sailor Senshi, huh?" Tellu turned when she heard the storage room door open. "To find out about this place so quickly, you aren't as stupid as I thought. I guess I'll take your Pure Hearts as well. It's no use to escape." she chided, the three fighters jumping to dodge the Telluns' attack. "This shop is filled with Tellun."

"Ougi Meikyō Shisui: Sakura." bringing out his large sakazuki cup, Night Rikuo blew across the Yokai sake, producing blue flames which incinerated the Tellun pots.

"My dear flowers... how dare you!" Tellu snapped, angry that her creations were destroyed in a single fire wave. "Don't assume that you're out of the woods." bringing out the single pot she held in her hand, she injected it with a growth serum. "You're regret making me angry. This Hyper-Tellun will be your opponent. It's a monster that reacts only to Pure Hearts. This is a scary one. After taking out the Pure Heart, it self-destructs along with the owner of the heart. I'll leave you to go against it. I have to deliver this to the Professor." she removed the storage pad from her hand.

"Ougi Meikyō Shisui: Zan." Night Rikuo's flaming sword cut Tellu's Heart Crystal storage pad neatly into half and freeing the captured Heart Crystals.

"Drats!" Tellu cursed when the Hyper-Tellun turned to her. "What are you doing?" she demanded when the over-sized plant captured her with its vines. "Let go!" using her vines, she entangled them on the Hyper-Tellun's stem, trying to destroy it with the energy discharged from them. "Stop it!" she screamed when the Hyper-Tellun exploded with her in its grasp, the explosion taking out both creator and creation.

"A student handbook from Mugen Academy?" Sailor Mercury picked up the handbook Tellu had dropped. "Teruno Ruru?" she read the name.

"Looks like Mugen Academy is fishy after all." Sailor Pluto noted.

SailorStar9: Well, this chapter is done. Thoughts, reviews, anyone?