The next day, Rowen was on campus, sitting outside the rare February sun.
You know, for February, it's actually very nice outside. Rowen knew that spring was coming; he could feel it. He looked at the sky once more before turning back to his book on organic chemistry. It was one of his hardest classes and he was determined to do better in it than Ami. He crossed his legs, resting the book on his lap, and propped up his head with his hands, resting his elbows on his knees as he read.
At the same time, Serena, Mina, Lita, and Raye were looking for Ami.
"She said she was going to meet us here! I wonder where she could be?" Mina asked. Serena's eyes scanned the crowd, looking for Ami's familiar mop of blue hair.
Thinking she had found it, she said, "Hey I found...no wait, that's not her. That's just some guy with blue hair." Suddenly, the light went on in the attic.
"Wait," Serena said, turning to Raye, "Could that be Rowen?"
"Serena, how many blue-haired geniuses do you think are on this campus?" Raye said, a little annoyed. Serena only smiled.
"Ok," she said, "I'll be right back." Serena jauntily walked over to where Rowen was and tapped him on the shoulder. Rowen turned to see who had tapped him, a little peeved that someone had interrupted his studying.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Are you Rowen Hashiba?" Serena asked. Rowen stared at the blonde in confusion. "Yes," he said slowly.
"Oh, thank you. That's all I wanted to know," she chirped before going back to her friends. Rowen watched her go and shook his head.
"Weird girl," he muttered before going back to his reading. He only got about three more pages of reading done when someone called out his name.
"Hey, Rowen!" He turned to see the other Ronin Warriors, approaching him.
"What?" he asked.
"Are you ready to go home?" Ryo asked.
"Yeah, I suppose so. Just let me get my stuff together, alright?" Rowen put his organic chemistry book in his book bag and slung it over his shoulder. "Ok, we can go now." The 5 boys walked away in silence.
Rowen's gaze moved all over the place and his body froze when, over the hedge of a bush, he saw a familiar head of blue hair.
"You guys, wait, I think I see Ami. And she's hiding in the bushes. I wonder..." Rowen said, walking over to the bushes and hiding behind them, looking over the edge.
"Rowen, what you are doing is spying," Cye said, "Why?"
"I want to see if she has any secrets that make her so smart. Maybe she cheats. I wanna know." The other guys joined him in spying, all of them scared at his behavior (AN: Ami was right about outlandish, ne?). But, in fact, she wasn't studying. Actually, she looked like she was meditating, which was half right.
Ami was sitting on the ground, in a meditating position, with her transformation pen in front of her, the one that would allow her to transform into Super Sailor Mercury (AN: you know, the one with the wings on the top? Oh, never mind.). For weeks, Ami had been trying to use her power to enhance her mind, making it stronger. She wanted it to be strong enough so she could lift her transformation pen using her mind.
Her eyes were squeezed shut as she concentrated her power. Slowly, but surely, the guys watched as her transformation pen floated up off the ground, finally hovering in front of her face. The guys were amazed and baffled. Ami, on the other hand, figured she failed again and opened her eyes, only to see her transformation pen in her face. A huge smile spread over her lips.
"I did it? I did it!" she exclaimed, yelling it out loud. "Ha, a victory for the warrior of ice," she muttered, pulling out her computer from her sub-dimensional pocket, analyzing the situation in front of her.
The guys wanted to know how that computer came out of nowhere. She didn't have her purse or her book bag with her and she didn't have any pockets on her clothes. They heard Ami mumbling as she used her computer. "...Power...keeping it in the air...strengthening my mind..." Ami shut her computer and put both her computer and transformation pen back in her sub-dimensional pocket. She hugged her knees close to her chest and smiled again.
"Finally, after months of work, I did it. This is one big step for me."
"Ami, there you are!" Lita exclaimed, "What are you doing back here?" Ami jumped about 5 feet into the air and turned around to see Lita; Kento, on the other hand, had his jaw drop to the ground.
"Guess what, Lita," Ami said.
"You built a house on Mercury?" Lita said, making a random guess.
"No, though I wish I could, but that's not it."
Ami was about to continue with what she was saying when she heard Mina call out, "Have you found her yet?"
"Yeah, she's over here and she has something to tell us," Lita yelled. A few moments later, Raye, Mina, and Serena had approached them. Cye and Sage were staring at Mina and Raye, respectively.
"What do you have to tell us, Ami?" Serena asked. Rowen recognized her as the girl who had asked him if he was Rowen Hashiba. Ami pulled her transformation pen out of her sub-dimensional pocket and held it in her flattened palm.
"Watch," she commanded the other Sailor Scouts. They watched expediently as Ami closed her eyes. Within seconds, Ami's transformation pen was floating about 6 inches above her hand. Ami opened her eyes and let out a breathless smile.
"See what I did?" Ami said, raising her hand to grab her transformation pen out of the air and put it away.
"How did you do that?" Raye asked.
Ami huddled the Scouts in real close and whispered, "I used my Mercury power to make my mind stronger so that it could make my transformation pen float." The girls only smiled. The guys, on the other hand, really wished that they could hear what Ami said; they really wanted to know.
"Wow, Ames, congratulations. I think we need to celebrate with ice cream, don't you think?" Serena asked.
"There you go again, Serena, always thinking with your stomach," Lita said.
"Well, I can't help it. I'm a growing girl."
"Serena, you stopped growing a few years ago," Ami said, "I think the last time I measured you to check for growth was after Queen Nephrenia and that was two and a half years ago."
"Ok, so that was a lame excuse," Serena said, trying to avoid memories of the battle with Nephrenia, "Anyway, I'm hungry and I want ice cream. So, let's go get some, huh?"
"Alright, we'll placate your stomach and get ice cream, alright?" Raye said.
"Ooh, goody," Serena said as they walked off. Once they were out of hearing range, the guys finally spoke.
"Did anyone understand half of what they were talking about?" Ryo asked.
"Nope, not a thing," Sage said, "And is Queen Nephrenia? What country does she rule?"
"I have no clue. I've never heard of her," Cye said. There was a silence and then a stomach grumbled.
Rowen rolled his eyes and said, "Kento."
"Well, they were talking about ice cream and I got hungry. Can we go get food, too?"
"Yeah, sure, let's go," Ryo said. As they walked away from campus, the guys were chatting about what food to get. Rowen, on the other hand, had spaced out.
How did she make that thing float? Ooh, no fair. Just because she has some kind of wacky power does NOT make her better than me. If I could, I'd use my Arrow Shockwave on her and blast her into oblivion. Suddenly, Rowen wasn't very hungry anymore.
***
"How did Serena get conned into coming here?" Raye said as she, Ami, Mina, and Lita searched through the natural science museum for Serena.
"Easy," Lita said, "She was asked by Darien and promised food afterwards if she went." Ami laughed.
"Yeah, that would do it," Ami said as they walked through a display on rocks and gems. Ami was drowning in information. She absolutely loved it here.
I should come here more often. She was busy with looking at a display of precious gemstones when she heard Mina's voice.
"Hey, isn't that Rowen, Ami?" Ami's body stiffened as she turned to look in the direction that Mina was looking. Her eyes narrowing, she saw Rowen with three other guys, two of them she could identify, one she couldn't. She gasped in anger.
"Sage and Cye never told me they were friends with Rowen. Hmph," she said, turning away, looking at the next display on semiprecious gems. She temporarily forgot about Rowen until she heard his annoying voice.
"Well, well, if it isn't Ami Mizuno." She turned and gave Rowen her sweetest smile. She was determined not be bothered and angered by him.
"Rowen Hashiba," she stated.
"I never figured you the type to come here. I thought you already knew everything," he said snidely.
"I could say the same thing about you," she said with a hint of annoyance in her voice. Giving him one more dazzling smile, she said, "I'll see you later." She pivoted on her heel and walked out of the room where the rocks and gems were. The other girls and guys were surprised at the chemistry between Ami and Rowen. There was so much of it.
The girls threw apologetic looks at the guys before following Ami. When they found her, they found her staring at the ceiling in surprise. The room they were in was only one room away from the display with the rocks and gems.
When the girls tilted their heads to see what Ami was looking at, they sighed in amazement. Above them was a perfect model of the solar system, each planet crafted to perfection.
"Wow," Lita said, " I almost feel as if I'm looking at the actual solar system."
"Yeah, makes you kinda homesick, doesn't?" Mina said.
"You said it," Raye said.
"Isn't it beautiful?" Ami asked. Raye was about to respond to what Ami said when she felt something.
"You guys, I feel something."
"Something evil?" Mina asked. Raye nodded. Ami pulled out her computer and began scanning the room. Her computer beeped when it rested on the model of the sun.
"It's coming from the sun!" she exclaimed, "Wait, that sounded funny." Before anyone else could comment, a figure starting pushing its way out of the model of the sun. A face appeared and the girls backed up a few steps.
The figure laughed and suddenly, the model of the sun exploded in a flash of bright light. The Sailor Scouts shielded their eyes from the light and when it was safe to look, the Scouts looked at the monster that had come out from the sun model. It had the figure of a human being, but it was made entirely out of flames.
It looked down at the Scouts and, without warning as always, opened its mouth and a stream of fire came out, hurling towards the Scouts. They screamed and dodged, barely escaping getting singed.
Raye, who figured they needed enough time to transform, pulled out an anti-evil charm and said, "Evil spirit, disperse!" The anti-evil charm hit the monster. It froze in place and Raye yelled, "Ok guys, it's time to transform!"
"Right!" the others said.
"Mercury Crystal Power..."
"Jupiter Crystal Power..."
"Mars Crystal Power..."
"Venus Crystal Power..."
"MAKE UP!" they all cried together as their transformations began. Within moments, the Super Sailor Scouts stood there, ready to fight.
Sailor Jupiter had had about enough of the monster. All she wanted to do was find Serena and go home. Concentration her powers, she yelled, "JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!" The monster, hit hard with Jupiter's power, faltered.
At that moment, the guys decided to walk into the room. They had hear the screams of girls and, figuring it was Ami and her friends, who had left just moments before, rushed to help them. Instead of seeing the four girls, they found 4 Sailor Scouts.
They watched, transfixed, as Sailor Jupiter sent out one of her attacks. Sailor Venus was next, her long blonde hair almost being singed by a fire ring sent out by the monster.
"VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!" she cried, hitting the monster with what looked like a heart, but it was hard to tell it was moving so fast. The monster, who was floating in the air, lowered a few inches, Venus' attack weakening it.
Enraged now, it set out a fire spiral that hit Venus and Jupiter, knocking them to the ground. Raye watched as two of her best friends hit the ground. Seeing red, literally, Raye yelled out, "You wanna play with fire? Well, play with this."
Taking a deep breath, Raye shouted, "MARS FLAME SNIPER!" sending a fire arrow towards the monster. The monster reflected the attack and sent a shockwave towards Raye, who flew backwards and landed on the guys.
Ami first instinct was to go to Raye, but she knew that Raye could take care of herself. Instead, she concentrated on dodging attacks from the monster. She jumped into the air and landed on a model of the planet Saturn.
Alright, this is the time when I should use my new powers, Ami thought. Closing her eyes, she focused her mind and used her power to enhance her mind. Opening her eyes, Ami looked at the monster and focused her mind in the movements of the monster, willing it to cease all movement.
Almost immediately, the monster, who was moving towards Ami, froze in mid-air. Ami smiled triumphantly, still perched on Saturn. Now comes the hard part. Keeping that thing frozen with my mind and then using my power on it. Still concentrated on keeping the monster frozen, Ami cried out her attack.
"MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY!" Swirls of ice surrounded the fire monster, freezing it immediately. Ami watched with satisfaction as the monster disappeared, leaving only the model of the sun in its wake.
The model of the sun fell to the ground and Ami, who was weakened from holding the monster in place and using her attack at the same time, felt faint and toppled off the model of the planet she was standing on. Lita, who had gotten up a few minutes before, rushed over and caught Ami right before she hit the ground. She slowly set Ami on her feet, who looked like she was going to fall over any second.
"Woo, I feel a little dizzy," Ami said.
"Well, that's because you used too much power at once, you silly. You over taxed your power and your brain, little miss genius," Lita said.
"Ooh, shut up." Ami and Lita spotted Raye, who was surrounded by the guys and Mina, trying to wake her up. Ami rushed over to her, getting over her dizziness quickly and scanned her with her computer.
"Is she going to be all right?" Cye asked.
"She'll be fine, she just needs to wake up, that's all." Ami put away her computer and turned to look at Lita.
"Hey, Jupiter, do you mind giving Mars a little shock with your power. That should wake her up."
"Sure thing," Lita said. Laying a hand on Raye's shoulder, Lita let forth a little of her lightning power to shock Raye enough to wake her up. As expected, Raye's eyes shot open and she looked up at the 7 people looking down at her with worry.
"Sailor Mars, are you ok?" Mina asked.
"Oh yeah, Venus, I'm just fine," Raye said sarcastically. Turning serious, she said, "Did we kill him?"
"Yeah, Mercury took care of it," Lita said. Raye turned to Ami and said, "Good for you."
"Well, it wasn't really that good," Ami said.
"Are you kidding? She used her mind to freeze that bastard in the air," Lita said.
"Yeah, then she used her Aqua Rhapsody on it. It was great," Mina finished.
Ami, who was desperately trying to find a way to deter the topic, said, "Come on you guys, we should be getting home. Mars is still a little tired and I'm exhausted from using my power." Mina looked up at Ami, her eyes looking a little guilty and sheepish.
"Sorry Mercury. We'll go home." With Raye's arm around Mina's shoulder and Ami's arm around Lita's shoulder, the Sailor Scouts hurried out of the museum, all thoughts of finding Serena to hang out with her forgotten. The guys stared in wonder.
"I wonder where Ami and her friends disappeared off to," Cye said.
"Well, hopefully, Ami was blasted to outer space by that monster," Rowen said.
"Aw, come on Rowen, you don't mean that. Don't tell me that you didn't worry about her when you heard those screams," Sage said at a flustered Rowen.
"I was not worried about her. I was worried about the others," Rowen said.
"Who were those girls who killed the monster?" Kento asked.
"I think those were 4 of the Sailor Scouts," Cye said, "I know there's Sailor Moon and there's rumors about Sailors Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus."
"So there's eight of them?" Sage asked.
"I think so," Cye said.
"Wow. Wonder if we'll ever become allied with them," Rowen said.
"Oh, you never know," Cye said cryptically, "But, anyway, I want to go see the aquarium while we're here. Let's go." The others only groaned.
***
"Ok, that's it. I've had enough of his attitude," Cye said, practically yelling.
The Ronin Warriors, minus Rowen, were sitting at a table at a local restaurant. Rowen had been with them, but left early, saying that he needed to study. And Cye had had enough and the others agreed with him.
It had been two months since the beginning of the second semester and still, the only thing that the guys heard from Rowen was his complaining about Ami and how much he hated her. To the other guys, he was taking the whole thing too hard to not be in love with her.
"We need to find Ami's friends and come up with a plan to set them up," Sage said. Ryo looked past Sage's shoulder at the group of four girls walking towards them.
"Actually, Sage, we don't have to search very hard. Ami's friends are on their way over here as we speak." Serena, Raye, Lita, and Mina approached their table and Serena said,
"Hi, my name is Serena. Um, you guys are Rowen's friends, right?"
"Yeah," Ryo said, "And you're Ami's friends." Serena nodded and Ryo continued, "So, what brings you to our table?"
"Well, we needed to talk to you. As all of us have seen, Rowen and Ami really like each other, but are masking it with hatred of the other," Raye said.
"We have a plan," Lita said, "To get those two together."
"But we can't do it without your help," Mina finished.
"Sure, we'll help," Cye said.
"What's your plan?" Ryo asked. The girls only smiled.
You know, for February, it's actually very nice outside. Rowen knew that spring was coming; he could feel it. He looked at the sky once more before turning back to his book on organic chemistry. It was one of his hardest classes and he was determined to do better in it than Ami. He crossed his legs, resting the book on his lap, and propped up his head with his hands, resting his elbows on his knees as he read.
At the same time, Serena, Mina, Lita, and Raye were looking for Ami.
"She said she was going to meet us here! I wonder where she could be?" Mina asked. Serena's eyes scanned the crowd, looking for Ami's familiar mop of blue hair.
Thinking she had found it, she said, "Hey I found...no wait, that's not her. That's just some guy with blue hair." Suddenly, the light went on in the attic.
"Wait," Serena said, turning to Raye, "Could that be Rowen?"
"Serena, how many blue-haired geniuses do you think are on this campus?" Raye said, a little annoyed. Serena only smiled.
"Ok," she said, "I'll be right back." Serena jauntily walked over to where Rowen was and tapped him on the shoulder. Rowen turned to see who had tapped him, a little peeved that someone had interrupted his studying.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Are you Rowen Hashiba?" Serena asked. Rowen stared at the blonde in confusion. "Yes," he said slowly.
"Oh, thank you. That's all I wanted to know," she chirped before going back to her friends. Rowen watched her go and shook his head.
"Weird girl," he muttered before going back to his reading. He only got about three more pages of reading done when someone called out his name.
"Hey, Rowen!" He turned to see the other Ronin Warriors, approaching him.
"What?" he asked.
"Are you ready to go home?" Ryo asked.
"Yeah, I suppose so. Just let me get my stuff together, alright?" Rowen put his organic chemistry book in his book bag and slung it over his shoulder. "Ok, we can go now." The 5 boys walked away in silence.
Rowen's gaze moved all over the place and his body froze when, over the hedge of a bush, he saw a familiar head of blue hair.
"You guys, wait, I think I see Ami. And she's hiding in the bushes. I wonder..." Rowen said, walking over to the bushes and hiding behind them, looking over the edge.
"Rowen, what you are doing is spying," Cye said, "Why?"
"I want to see if she has any secrets that make her so smart. Maybe she cheats. I wanna know." The other guys joined him in spying, all of them scared at his behavior (AN: Ami was right about outlandish, ne?). But, in fact, she wasn't studying. Actually, she looked like she was meditating, which was half right.
Ami was sitting on the ground, in a meditating position, with her transformation pen in front of her, the one that would allow her to transform into Super Sailor Mercury (AN: you know, the one with the wings on the top? Oh, never mind.). For weeks, Ami had been trying to use her power to enhance her mind, making it stronger. She wanted it to be strong enough so she could lift her transformation pen using her mind.
Her eyes were squeezed shut as she concentrated her power. Slowly, but surely, the guys watched as her transformation pen floated up off the ground, finally hovering in front of her face. The guys were amazed and baffled. Ami, on the other hand, figured she failed again and opened her eyes, only to see her transformation pen in her face. A huge smile spread over her lips.
"I did it? I did it!" she exclaimed, yelling it out loud. "Ha, a victory for the warrior of ice," she muttered, pulling out her computer from her sub-dimensional pocket, analyzing the situation in front of her.
The guys wanted to know how that computer came out of nowhere. She didn't have her purse or her book bag with her and she didn't have any pockets on her clothes. They heard Ami mumbling as she used her computer. "...Power...keeping it in the air...strengthening my mind..." Ami shut her computer and put both her computer and transformation pen back in her sub-dimensional pocket. She hugged her knees close to her chest and smiled again.
"Finally, after months of work, I did it. This is one big step for me."
"Ami, there you are!" Lita exclaimed, "What are you doing back here?" Ami jumped about 5 feet into the air and turned around to see Lita; Kento, on the other hand, had his jaw drop to the ground.
"Guess what, Lita," Ami said.
"You built a house on Mercury?" Lita said, making a random guess.
"No, though I wish I could, but that's not it."
Ami was about to continue with what she was saying when she heard Mina call out, "Have you found her yet?"
"Yeah, she's over here and she has something to tell us," Lita yelled. A few moments later, Raye, Mina, and Serena had approached them. Cye and Sage were staring at Mina and Raye, respectively.
"What do you have to tell us, Ami?" Serena asked. Rowen recognized her as the girl who had asked him if he was Rowen Hashiba. Ami pulled her transformation pen out of her sub-dimensional pocket and held it in her flattened palm.
"Watch," she commanded the other Sailor Scouts. They watched expediently as Ami closed her eyes. Within seconds, Ami's transformation pen was floating about 6 inches above her hand. Ami opened her eyes and let out a breathless smile.
"See what I did?" Ami said, raising her hand to grab her transformation pen out of the air and put it away.
"How did you do that?" Raye asked.
Ami huddled the Scouts in real close and whispered, "I used my Mercury power to make my mind stronger so that it could make my transformation pen float." The girls only smiled. The guys, on the other hand, really wished that they could hear what Ami said; they really wanted to know.
"Wow, Ames, congratulations. I think we need to celebrate with ice cream, don't you think?" Serena asked.
"There you go again, Serena, always thinking with your stomach," Lita said.
"Well, I can't help it. I'm a growing girl."
"Serena, you stopped growing a few years ago," Ami said, "I think the last time I measured you to check for growth was after Queen Nephrenia and that was two and a half years ago."
"Ok, so that was a lame excuse," Serena said, trying to avoid memories of the battle with Nephrenia, "Anyway, I'm hungry and I want ice cream. So, let's go get some, huh?"
"Alright, we'll placate your stomach and get ice cream, alright?" Raye said.
"Ooh, goody," Serena said as they walked off. Once they were out of hearing range, the guys finally spoke.
"Did anyone understand half of what they were talking about?" Ryo asked.
"Nope, not a thing," Sage said, "And is Queen Nephrenia? What country does she rule?"
"I have no clue. I've never heard of her," Cye said. There was a silence and then a stomach grumbled.
Rowen rolled his eyes and said, "Kento."
"Well, they were talking about ice cream and I got hungry. Can we go get food, too?"
"Yeah, sure, let's go," Ryo said. As they walked away from campus, the guys were chatting about what food to get. Rowen, on the other hand, had spaced out.
How did she make that thing float? Ooh, no fair. Just because she has some kind of wacky power does NOT make her better than me. If I could, I'd use my Arrow Shockwave on her and blast her into oblivion. Suddenly, Rowen wasn't very hungry anymore.
***
"How did Serena get conned into coming here?" Raye said as she, Ami, Mina, and Lita searched through the natural science museum for Serena.
"Easy," Lita said, "She was asked by Darien and promised food afterwards if she went." Ami laughed.
"Yeah, that would do it," Ami said as they walked through a display on rocks and gems. Ami was drowning in information. She absolutely loved it here.
I should come here more often. She was busy with looking at a display of precious gemstones when she heard Mina's voice.
"Hey, isn't that Rowen, Ami?" Ami's body stiffened as she turned to look in the direction that Mina was looking. Her eyes narrowing, she saw Rowen with three other guys, two of them she could identify, one she couldn't. She gasped in anger.
"Sage and Cye never told me they were friends with Rowen. Hmph," she said, turning away, looking at the next display on semiprecious gems. She temporarily forgot about Rowen until she heard his annoying voice.
"Well, well, if it isn't Ami Mizuno." She turned and gave Rowen her sweetest smile. She was determined not be bothered and angered by him.
"Rowen Hashiba," she stated.
"I never figured you the type to come here. I thought you already knew everything," he said snidely.
"I could say the same thing about you," she said with a hint of annoyance in her voice. Giving him one more dazzling smile, she said, "I'll see you later." She pivoted on her heel and walked out of the room where the rocks and gems were. The other girls and guys were surprised at the chemistry between Ami and Rowen. There was so much of it.
The girls threw apologetic looks at the guys before following Ami. When they found her, they found her staring at the ceiling in surprise. The room they were in was only one room away from the display with the rocks and gems.
When the girls tilted their heads to see what Ami was looking at, they sighed in amazement. Above them was a perfect model of the solar system, each planet crafted to perfection.
"Wow," Lita said, " I almost feel as if I'm looking at the actual solar system."
"Yeah, makes you kinda homesick, doesn't?" Mina said.
"You said it," Raye said.
"Isn't it beautiful?" Ami asked. Raye was about to respond to what Ami said when she felt something.
"You guys, I feel something."
"Something evil?" Mina asked. Raye nodded. Ami pulled out her computer and began scanning the room. Her computer beeped when it rested on the model of the sun.
"It's coming from the sun!" she exclaimed, "Wait, that sounded funny." Before anyone else could comment, a figure starting pushing its way out of the model of the sun. A face appeared and the girls backed up a few steps.
The figure laughed and suddenly, the model of the sun exploded in a flash of bright light. The Sailor Scouts shielded their eyes from the light and when it was safe to look, the Scouts looked at the monster that had come out from the sun model. It had the figure of a human being, but it was made entirely out of flames.
It looked down at the Scouts and, without warning as always, opened its mouth and a stream of fire came out, hurling towards the Scouts. They screamed and dodged, barely escaping getting singed.
Raye, who figured they needed enough time to transform, pulled out an anti-evil charm and said, "Evil spirit, disperse!" The anti-evil charm hit the monster. It froze in place and Raye yelled, "Ok guys, it's time to transform!"
"Right!" the others said.
"Mercury Crystal Power..."
"Jupiter Crystal Power..."
"Mars Crystal Power..."
"Venus Crystal Power..."
"MAKE UP!" they all cried together as their transformations began. Within moments, the Super Sailor Scouts stood there, ready to fight.
Sailor Jupiter had had about enough of the monster. All she wanted to do was find Serena and go home. Concentration her powers, she yelled, "JUPITER OAK EVOLUTION!" The monster, hit hard with Jupiter's power, faltered.
At that moment, the guys decided to walk into the room. They had hear the screams of girls and, figuring it was Ami and her friends, who had left just moments before, rushed to help them. Instead of seeing the four girls, they found 4 Sailor Scouts.
They watched, transfixed, as Sailor Jupiter sent out one of her attacks. Sailor Venus was next, her long blonde hair almost being singed by a fire ring sent out by the monster.
"VENUS LOVE AND BEAUTY SHOCK!" she cried, hitting the monster with what looked like a heart, but it was hard to tell it was moving so fast. The monster, who was floating in the air, lowered a few inches, Venus' attack weakening it.
Enraged now, it set out a fire spiral that hit Venus and Jupiter, knocking them to the ground. Raye watched as two of her best friends hit the ground. Seeing red, literally, Raye yelled out, "You wanna play with fire? Well, play with this."
Taking a deep breath, Raye shouted, "MARS FLAME SNIPER!" sending a fire arrow towards the monster. The monster reflected the attack and sent a shockwave towards Raye, who flew backwards and landed on the guys.
Ami first instinct was to go to Raye, but she knew that Raye could take care of herself. Instead, she concentrated on dodging attacks from the monster. She jumped into the air and landed on a model of the planet Saturn.
Alright, this is the time when I should use my new powers, Ami thought. Closing her eyes, she focused her mind and used her power to enhance her mind. Opening her eyes, Ami looked at the monster and focused her mind in the movements of the monster, willing it to cease all movement.
Almost immediately, the monster, who was moving towards Ami, froze in mid-air. Ami smiled triumphantly, still perched on Saturn. Now comes the hard part. Keeping that thing frozen with my mind and then using my power on it. Still concentrated on keeping the monster frozen, Ami cried out her attack.
"MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY!" Swirls of ice surrounded the fire monster, freezing it immediately. Ami watched with satisfaction as the monster disappeared, leaving only the model of the sun in its wake.
The model of the sun fell to the ground and Ami, who was weakened from holding the monster in place and using her attack at the same time, felt faint and toppled off the model of the planet she was standing on. Lita, who had gotten up a few minutes before, rushed over and caught Ami right before she hit the ground. She slowly set Ami on her feet, who looked like she was going to fall over any second.
"Woo, I feel a little dizzy," Ami said.
"Well, that's because you used too much power at once, you silly. You over taxed your power and your brain, little miss genius," Lita said.
"Ooh, shut up." Ami and Lita spotted Raye, who was surrounded by the guys and Mina, trying to wake her up. Ami rushed over to her, getting over her dizziness quickly and scanned her with her computer.
"Is she going to be all right?" Cye asked.
"She'll be fine, she just needs to wake up, that's all." Ami put away her computer and turned to look at Lita.
"Hey, Jupiter, do you mind giving Mars a little shock with your power. That should wake her up."
"Sure thing," Lita said. Laying a hand on Raye's shoulder, Lita let forth a little of her lightning power to shock Raye enough to wake her up. As expected, Raye's eyes shot open and she looked up at the 7 people looking down at her with worry.
"Sailor Mars, are you ok?" Mina asked.
"Oh yeah, Venus, I'm just fine," Raye said sarcastically. Turning serious, she said, "Did we kill him?"
"Yeah, Mercury took care of it," Lita said. Raye turned to Ami and said, "Good for you."
"Well, it wasn't really that good," Ami said.
"Are you kidding? She used her mind to freeze that bastard in the air," Lita said.
"Yeah, then she used her Aqua Rhapsody on it. It was great," Mina finished.
Ami, who was desperately trying to find a way to deter the topic, said, "Come on you guys, we should be getting home. Mars is still a little tired and I'm exhausted from using my power." Mina looked up at Ami, her eyes looking a little guilty and sheepish.
"Sorry Mercury. We'll go home." With Raye's arm around Mina's shoulder and Ami's arm around Lita's shoulder, the Sailor Scouts hurried out of the museum, all thoughts of finding Serena to hang out with her forgotten. The guys stared in wonder.
"I wonder where Ami and her friends disappeared off to," Cye said.
"Well, hopefully, Ami was blasted to outer space by that monster," Rowen said.
"Aw, come on Rowen, you don't mean that. Don't tell me that you didn't worry about her when you heard those screams," Sage said at a flustered Rowen.
"I was not worried about her. I was worried about the others," Rowen said.
"Who were those girls who killed the monster?" Kento asked.
"I think those were 4 of the Sailor Scouts," Cye said, "I know there's Sailor Moon and there's rumors about Sailors Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus."
"So there's eight of them?" Sage asked.
"I think so," Cye said.
"Wow. Wonder if we'll ever become allied with them," Rowen said.
"Oh, you never know," Cye said cryptically, "But, anyway, I want to go see the aquarium while we're here. Let's go." The others only groaned.
***
"Ok, that's it. I've had enough of his attitude," Cye said, practically yelling.
The Ronin Warriors, minus Rowen, were sitting at a table at a local restaurant. Rowen had been with them, but left early, saying that he needed to study. And Cye had had enough and the others agreed with him.
It had been two months since the beginning of the second semester and still, the only thing that the guys heard from Rowen was his complaining about Ami and how much he hated her. To the other guys, he was taking the whole thing too hard to not be in love with her.
"We need to find Ami's friends and come up with a plan to set them up," Sage said. Ryo looked past Sage's shoulder at the group of four girls walking towards them.
"Actually, Sage, we don't have to search very hard. Ami's friends are on their way over here as we speak." Serena, Raye, Lita, and Mina approached their table and Serena said,
"Hi, my name is Serena. Um, you guys are Rowen's friends, right?"
"Yeah," Ryo said, "And you're Ami's friends." Serena nodded and Ryo continued, "So, what brings you to our table?"
"Well, we needed to talk to you. As all of us have seen, Rowen and Ami really like each other, but are masking it with hatred of the other," Raye said.
"We have a plan," Lita said, "To get those two together."
"But we can't do it without your help," Mina finished.
"Sure, we'll help," Cye said.
"What's your plan?" Ryo asked. The girls only smiled.