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Chapter 4
By: Kohan

"What are you saying? That I come from a place that no longer exists?" Relena said. "I was just there."
"If something changes in the past, it changes the future. Since you came here, there is no reason for the pilots to return to your time, your not there to protect anymore. With them here, the future is already changed. Usagi's life is changed, therefore is Crystal Tokyo." Keika said.
"What are you not saying, Keika?" Hotaru said from the stairway, Usagi looked up at the sound of her voice.
"I am not saying the future, Hotaru. There are things that you shouldn't know about your future life. All I can say is that you'd better prepare for what is to come."
"I don't know who you people are, but you'd better give me some straight answers, or I'm going to take drastic measures, I'll see y--"
"Relena, do you want to hear what they have to say or not?" Heero said in a tired voice, he had appeared behind Hotaru in the last minute. He was wrapped in a white quilt and looked annoyed.
"Heero! Are you okay?!" Relena said, and started to walk forward, Usagi grabbed her hand to stop her.
"You want some straight answers? Okay, Relena. Do you know anything about the past? What's happened, the people there, anything?"
"Of course I do, I'm not stupid."
"Coulda fooled me," Keika muttered, she took a seat next to Wufei on the couch. Usagi gave her a harsh look, while Heero and Hotaru walked into the living room and sat down on the floor.
"Well, I'm sure whatever you've heard is wrong. There was a time called the Silver Millennium, and the Moon Kingdom ruled over it on the Moon..."

***

Usagi spent most of the day telling Relena about the Moon Kingdom and what she knew. By 4:00, Heero had fallen asleep, Wufei was again lightly dozing in his 4th cup of tea (yikes!), and Makoto was up from her nap. Setsuna and Ami set to work on solving the problem of why Makoto hadn't grown, and why she didn't have her memories back.
"I've done some calculations on my computer, Setsuna, and I found that she is now aging at a normal rate," Ami said, she could still hear the murmur of Usagi's voice in the living room. Every few minutes she would hear a 'hmph' from Relena or a gasp of surprise. Several corrections from Keika were made, and Ami had a hunch that Hotaru was about on her last lid.
"Really..." Setsuna said, considering, "That's strange,"
"Setsuna, I, er, I wanted to say how sorry I am, I mean about the ma--"
"It's okay," Setsuna said quickly. "all is forgiven." Ami smiled and looked back at her computer where a small image of Makoto was portrayed, along with the structure of her brain.
"What are you working on, Ami?" Quatre asked, coming in, Ami looked up from her computer and smiled.
"In a sense, working on Makoto. We can't figure out why she hasn't gotten her memories back, I got mine back when time was sped up, but she hasn't."
"Did you ever wonder that maybe she doesn't want her memories back?"

***

Hotaru was still in the living room, Heero had fallen asleep with his head on her lap, and she didn't want to wake him, it was nearly 7:00. Relena and Usagi had left hours ago, to get Relena's things, she would be staying with them until they were sure that she would keep their secret. This, of course, was Keika's idea, who insisted that the girl couldn't be trusted with the information she had just been given. This was going to be a long week. Wufei could be heard muttering words of 'injustice' under his breath on the couch. This had been the reaction of many of the others when Keika demanded that Relena be put under 'house arrest'. Usagi, Michiru and Hotaru were calm and Duo, Haruka, Rei and Wufei were rather mad (Heero was sleeping at the time). Rei, now that she was big enough to take care of herself, could move back to the temple. She would be putting Duo, Ami and Trowa up for awhile. Minako would stay at Haruka's so she could help take care of Makoto.

"You know," Haruka said loudly from the kitchen, where she was watching Setsuna cut Michiru's hair, "I think this is going to be very interesting." Hotaru forced a small smile...something felt wrong.
"Are you okay, Hotaru? I thought I just saw something come over you," Keika said.
"No. I'm fine." Hotaru said softly.
"Hotaru, it's your turn to make dinner!" Haruka said,
"Sure," Hotaru said, and grabbed a pillow to put under Heero's head so he wouldn't wake.
"It's not Hotaru's turn, Haruka, she made dinner the day before yesterday, I think you should make dinner." Michiru said when Hotaru walked into the kitchen.
"I don't want to." Haruka replied stubbornly.
"I will." Minako said, "I'll order something...er, pizza?"
"I don't think--" Michiru started,
"Sure," Said Haruka, "Pizza's good."
"Hang on, guys, I wanted to try speeding time up on Makoto again," Setsuna said, just then, Duo and Rei entered the kitchen.
"Huh?" Duo said, grabbing a bag of chips that Haruka had been munching on.
"Hey! Give those back you stupid son of a bitch!"
"Ohhhh it must be that time of the month again," Duo said returning the chips. Haruka glared at him.
"Duo, how many times have I told you not to mention that...?" Rei whispered under her breath.
"Oh, sorry babe."
"Makoto is in the back yard with Mina-chan and Trowa." Rei said. "Are you sure this will work, Setsuna-san?"
"No, I'm not. Quatre presented the thought that perhaps she didn't want her memories back, and it seems to me that she needs them to grow."
"Might as well do it now, before Relena gets back with Usagi."
"Good idea, don't know what's taking them so long..." Rei said, and followed a walking Duo, Setsuna and Hotaru.
"Your not done with my hair yet, Setsuna!" Michiru yelled.
"Yes I am, look in the mirror,"

"So, you wanna try again, huh?" Minako said, seeing Sailorpluto, Duo, Rei and Hotaru coming out onto the lawn. Pluto nodded.
"Hey, Mako-chan, come here," Minako said, and bent down to Makoto's level. "Do you want to see some magic?" She asked, Makoto nodded eagerly. "Okay, Setsuna's gonna do some, so don't be scared, okay, just stand over there." Minako pointed to the picnic table, and Makoto climbed up on it. Setsuna called upon her powers and white smoke filled the air around them, engulfing everyone. When the smoke cleared, Makoto was still standing on the table, and still only 3 years old. However, Duo was screaming.
"AAAHHH! YOU TURNED ME INTO A WOMAN!!" He yelled, touching his braid.
"Duo..." Rei said, hands on hips, "Don't be an idiot."
"Oh, wait, I've always had long hair, huh?" Duo said, and threw his braid back, "Ha, sure!"
"Damn it, it didn't work," Pluto whispered after Duo's yelling was over.
"That waz some nice magic, Setsuna-san, but what did it do? Cauz' I know that Duo's a woman already..."
"Hey! I am not a woman!"

***

Relena and Usagi walked into the house, Usagi was exhausted, and it was 8:30. She and Relena had just spent nearly three hours arguing over what Relena needed to bring. Relena didn't bring anything, no clothes, nothing, so, she insisted on going shopping. This, of course meant going to a bank, transferring money from some persons account (which was illegal, btw,), and going shopping. Usagi learned one thing from this trip: she did not like this girl, Relena Peacecraft, not one bit. She plunked down her bag, and suddenly heard a loud gasp followed by a squeak of surprise. She walked down the hall, holding her hand up to make Relena stay, and walked into Hotaru's room. Her light was on, and in the center of her room, sixteen star-shaped jewels floated magically in a perfect circle. Each was a different color, and they were rotating around a silver shaped star jewel.
"Wha- what is that, Hotaru?"
"I don't know..." Hotaru said, and backed up a ways. Suddenly, a black light began to emit from the purple jewel, and it grew bigger, and suddenly, it detached itself from the purple jewel. The jewel wavered a bit on it's axis, and started to fade, all this while, the black light moved towards the center of the circle, and engulfed the golden jewel. It entered the jewel, and began to pulse, the jewel faded out completely, leaving only the black light. In unison, the other jewels began to fade, except 5, which were the darkest colors, copper, bronze, silver, emerald and black. The black light expanded, and engulfed the others, and a white light issued from it, and in a spark, the whole scene disappered, leaving only the black light, then it too, disappeared.

In another flash of light, the star shaped jewels were back, and the black light was contained in the purple stone again. This time, instead of the light leaving the jewel, the silver jewel began to move from it's axis and make it's way towards the purple stone, and when it touched it, there was a flash of white light, and the black light in the purple stone was extinguished, the silver jewel was retured to it's original place, and the stones continued to rotate regularly.
"Usagi, do you think these jewels mean something?"
"I don't know..."
"I know," Keika said from behind them. "The jewels each represent someone. Usagi's the golden one. The red is Mars; green, Jupiter, see it's smaller then the others? Blue, Mercury; Yellow, Venus; Aqua, Neptune; royal blue, Uranus; dark green, Pluto, and Hotaru, your purple."
"What about these five?" Usagi said pointing"
"Those are the pilots, which ones, I'm not sure."
"What's the black light?"
"It's what I came here to fight. You've felt it before, ne, Hotaru? That you have evil inside you?"
"Hai, I have."
"It's there again, and it will destroy Usagi unless we get this silver star," She pointed to the silver jewel, "to rid you of the evil."
"How do we do that?" Usagi asked.
"No idea, but you just saw your fate, if we don't find which pilot is the silver star, then your destiny will become the first vision."