"That's just it. Trista made my promise not to tell any one anything. I thought you might ask a question about your future boyfriends or something that I maybe didn't know." I took her hand. "Lita I will tell you this. Never give up on Sailor Moon. Believe in what she is doing it will be the right thing. Not matter how stupid or anything. She knows what to do." I laid her hand on the table and got up. I looked at the clock on the stove. "Wow. It's already pretty late. How about I slip into my bed." I stretched. She got up too.
"Yeah. Ok. I want you to sleep in my bed. I'll sleep on the couch." She pointed to the bedroom.
"Oh, I think the couch will be fine for me." She stared at me.
"You must know that once I've made up my mind its made up." She and I smiled.
"Yeah. I know." So I slept in her bed. I could she gracefully lay down the sheets on her couch. She laid down and pondered what I had said for a while, I'm sure. I
know I did. Should I really have told her that. I probably shouldn't tell Trista about what I said. I soon fell asleep.
Crash! I jumped up. The window in Lita living room had been broken.
"Adrienne. Run get out of here. Jupiter Star Power!" I saw her transforming then I saw the monster. It was that heart snatcher. "Run go find the others. I'll hold it off." I couldn't leave her here. I would feel better as Sailor Aphrodite. I went back into Lita's room and searched for my pendent.
"I don't have time to mess with you little girlie." I could hear monster say to her.
"Watch who your calling girlie. Sparkling Wide Pressure!" An electric flash filled the room. I had to leave here. I knew it would follow me and I could lure it away from Lita. "Ahhh!" I heard her scream.
"Aphrodite Pendent Power!" I transformed as quickly as I could. "You see me monster I'm the one you want." I saw Jupiter on her knees, wrapped in a hair-like substance. The monster let her go.
"Yes. It is you I want." It charged.
"I have to go Jupiter. Call the girls on the communicator, if you can." I jumped out of the broken window. I felt like I was flying as I fell to the ground. I landed on one knee and looked up. The monster was falling too. I ran trying not to hit the people on the street.
"Look, its a sailor scout."
"I've never seen her before."
"Ahhh a monster." The people ran about. All I could hope was the monster only purpose was to catch me and not to get heart crystals. I was wrong it, and grabbed the nearest three people by the throats.
"No!" I yelled. "Aphrodite Love Haze Vanish!" I ran towards the monster as the dust made me almost invisible to it. I released the people. I called off the dust. "Now what do you say?"
"I'll get you, you fool. You will be mine and the sovereign's." It charged me again. I know was pretty sure the monster won't go after anyone else. I ran as far from all people as I could. I had lost it so I could think of a plan before it came after me again. I knew I couldn't beat it with my weak powers but something had to give. "Don't try to fight it you know you will not win alone. So come with me." I knew this is what had to happen. Somewhere in my heart I could feel myself being pulled towards the sovereign's evil heart. In a moment I was walking towards the evil beast. I could tell that my pupils were gone and all you could see was my iris.
No, don't let yourself be pulled in. I thought. I closed my eyes. It no use, I was under its power. I looked over to my side and saw Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto standing watching me be pulled away.
"Help me..." I managed to say. I fell to my knees.
"Good job my pet. Now as for you Sailor Aphrodite.." It was Kaolinite. She laughed as I struggled to get up. My body was paralyzed. I had dropped my staff back a little ways and Kaolinite picked it up. "So this is your little treasure." She held it tightly. "Well I'm sure Doctor Tomoe would like to see it." She motioned at the monster. It grabbed me around the waist.
"No, no! Help me Pluto, help me..." I screamed in vain as I was lifted into the sky. Pluto looked away. My body was held tight by the monster. It looked at me and smiled an evil grin as we disappeared into another dimension.
I passed out and was taken to room in Doctor Tomoe's lab. When I awoke, I was greeted by Kaolinite.
"Why hello little girl." She smirked at me. I looked at my clothes. I had on the pajamas I slept at Lita's house. "I see you have noticed you are no longer Sailor Aphrodite. Don't worry little one I have your magical pendant right here." She held it up for me to see.
"Give it back to me Kaolinite. You evil old hag." She frowned at me. Kaolinite held her hand up to shoot a energy ball out of it in rage.
"Kaolinite. I see our visitor has woken up." She halted.
"Yes, doctor." Kaolinite said walking over to stand next to him.
"Thank you holding that for me Kaolinite." He grabbed my pendant from her hands. He walked over to me. "Who are you little girl?" He asked almost sweetly.
"I am Sailor Aphrodite as you see." I said. "You won't know me even if I told you." I smiled deviously at him. He stood back up.
"I see. Now how do you know that?" He said as Kaolinite slipped her arms around his waist.
"Yes little girl how do you know that? Doctor Tomoe knows everybody." She smiled and looked at his glasses.
"Well I know doesn't know me." I said disdainfully. "I know that for sure. Besides you won't ask me if you knew." They both taken back by what I said.
"You have a point girl." He said. "But won't it be better if I called by your name and not little girl."
"I don't care have to say about me. You can call me whatever you want. I know what you are up to Tomoe."
"Oh really little girl." Kaolinite smirked again at me.
"Yes. I know more than you think. I know about Pharaoh 90 and Mistress 9. I know that Hotaru is Mistress 9 and I also know that Sailor Moon beat you. She will not lose to fools like you." I laughed heartily. I glared at them as they pondered what I said.
"Well big talk little girl. Especially one that can't transform into her little scout self." Kaolinite laughed into her palm. I could see Doctor Tomoe was upset by what I had said. "Now girl tell us who your scout friend are? Tell us who has the Purity Chalice?" Kaolinite yelled.
"I will never divulge any information to you creeps." They were annoyed by my reaction.
"Kaolinite I need you to come with me. Send the damion to watch after little girl." As he walked into the other room and saw a flash of concern in his eyes.
"Yes Doctor. It will be done. Heart snatcher stay and watch this little sailor wanna be. Ha ha ha..." She laughed stupidly. Then disappeared. I stared at the monster as it hovered over the floor.
"I always wondered if damion had a personality or actual thoughts other getting heart crystals? So do you?" I looked at it.
"Someone finally talk to me." She sobbed big tears and I almost laughed but kept it in. I let the monster cry on my shoulder and explain it's life story, and it finally stopped.
"Yes I understand." I said patting on the back. "But what I don't understand is how you could keep the only person who will listen to you locked up here doomed to be destroyed." I said acting like I was going weep, too.
"That's true. Be free my friend. Leave here in peace." She opened a portal for me to leave.
"Thank you dear. I will never forget you." I jumped into the portal and as I did I saw her realize that I had tricked her. Well we all know what happened to that poor damion. That wasn't my biggest concern at the time. Why exactly did Doctor Tomoe want me in his lab? How did he know who I was? Also how was I going to get my transformation pendant back? I better go to the scouts on this one. I ran down the street for a while thinking about what I was going to do. Then I stopped the slowly walked. It was dark and creepy so I tried to find a restaurant to slip into. I walked a couple of blocks and trying to find a restaurant that was open. It was kind of late at night so I had some trouble finding one. When I did I collapsed in the booth. "Whew..." I let out a belated sigh.
"Can help you, Miss?" A kind younger lady asked me.
"No I don't have any money to pay for anything. I was wondering if I could ask where about in Tokyo I'm at? I'm new in town and got a bit lost." I was lost. When I had jumped into the portal I didn't care where it would take me as long as it was not anywhere near the Mugen School or Doctor Tomoe.
"How about I get you a glass of water and I'll try to explain where you're at." She smiled and walked to the back of the small store. I slumped down in the booth. No one else was in the cafe. I sat looking around the outside of the cafe. A few people would pass by and then it would be silent again. That horrible, awful silence. Soon after she left the waitress came back with a tall glass of water. I just noticed that I was sweating and my mouth was dry. I picked up the glass and took a few sips. The waitress sat down in front of me.
"We don't get many customers this late at night. You seem a bit young to be rooming the streets of Tokyo." She smiled sweetly looking at me with great intensity.
"Well its a long and complicated story, but mainly I just came into the a few days ago. I just recently lost my family in an accident. I've been living with some friends in the city. I guess I just got lost getting back to my friend's house. Now I don't know where I am." She looked at a bit dazed by my story.
"That's sad about your family. I'm very sorry. Well I'm great at giving directions, but I will certainly try." She asked about where I needed to be. I decided to say the Hino Shrine since that was pretty well known. She tried to give me directions for a while. I just became confused and frustrated. I was incredibly tired and just wanted to find out what was going on.
"I think I can get there now." I thanked the kind woman and was on my way. I wandered the streets for a while and then decided to find a phone. By great luck I found some money by the trash can near the booth and thumbed through the phone book. "I can't waste this money. Who would be home?" I hoped in a way that Sailor Moon and the other inner scouts would be looking for me, but that left Trista, Amara, and Michelle. "Ok I think I'll try Amara. I don't why, but I'm going to." I found her number and dialed it. "Amara?" I asked questionably.
"Yes. This is she. Who may I ask is calling?" She seemed annoyed, but in that case she always was.
"This is Adrienne Gabrielle." I tried to sound a bit afraid so she would take interest. It wasn't hard act scared, because I was.
"Adrienne? Why are you calling?" Amara seemed confused by my call. "What's wrong? I'm sure don't just want to talk this late at night." She questioned.
"No, of course, not. Something has happened and I'm lost. I need you to come get me, please." I tried to be polite.
"What's happened? I'm not a taxi you know." Amara spouted out.
"Yes, I am a where of that. It's just Serena and the others are most likely looking for me and... I think I should explain it to you when you get here. If that's all right?" I was trying to be nice, but it was hard.
"Ok, tell me where you're at." She asked still a bit annoyed. I explained my location and said she would come as quickly as possible.
"Do you think I should ask Michelle to come?" She said wondering if more fire power was needed.
"I think I'm in the clear for now." I said trying to not become suspicious and more frightened.
"All right. See you." She hung and I slowly hung up the phone, too. I sat on a bench near the phone and curled into a ball, with my knees pressed up against my cheeks. Now no people were rooming the streets. The silence was strong. I could feel it coming closer. My heart began to beat faster. I looked around trying to learn something about the enemy within this darkness. The wind blew a cold chill up my back. The only thing I had to shield me from the desolate cold was the blanket of darkness. I closed my eyes trying to keep the horrible silence out. I dozed off. Soon after a motorcycle screeched up. I was still half asleep and my eyes did not open. Amara shook my shoulders.
"Adrienne, Adrienne, Adrienne." She called. "Get up we have to get out of here. The wind is blowing a fierce warning." I looked in her eyes, they were tired.
"Yes..." I whispered. "Lets get out of here." She helped me onto the bike. I couldn't believe how nice she was acting. I clasped my arms around her waist. "I'm kind of scared. Of riding a motorcycle that is." I admitted. She laughed loudly.
"That's not what you should be afraid of. Hold on tight I'll protect you now." I blushed feeling safe now. I nestled my head into Amara's back, as we rode off and blazed through the night. A long time after the motorcycle began to slow and then stop. "I told Michelle and Trista to meet me in the park. We have to walk the rest of the way. I think you should transform. And then we will find the others." I looked at her.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I think I should tell you what happened." I told her about Lita's house and tricking the monster. "So now they have my pendant. I can't transform." She reached down and pushed my chin up so I was looking at her eyes again.
"I told you that I would protect. I will." She smiled and so did I. "Uranus Planet Power!" I stood back and watched her transform. It was the first time I had been able to stand and watch one of the scouts transform since I saw the TV show. "Now hold my hand and let's go." She ran quickly through the trees and sidewalks. They was no sign of any of the outer scouts.
"Stop for a minute ok, Uranus." I pleaded. I was even more tired if that was possible and I thought I should sit down. "I need a minute to rest." I sat down on the ground. She kneed over me.
"Are you ok?" She asked feeling bad for not noticing my fatigue.
"Yeah, I'll be..." I stopped speaking. I could feel a presence.
"What... What is it?" Sailor Uranus stood up looking around.
"Sailor Moon." I said quietly. "Sailor Moon!" I screamed for her to hear.
"What is it, Adrienne?" She stared at me.
"Adrienne!" I heard someone call.
"Is that Sailor Moon?" Sailor Uranus looked around. I ran after her voice. "No, Adrienne stay with me." She grabbed my arm.
"She's calling me. I have to go find her... Sailor Moon! I'm here!" I shrieked. I wiggled from Uranus' grasp. "Sailor Moon!"
"Adrienne." I turned a corner and saw her smiling face. "I found you Adrienne." Uranus came running up behind me. She grabbed my arm and pulled me behind her.
"Adrienne, is with me. I'm protecting her since you are obviously incapable of doing so." She snapped.
"That's not true!" Sailor Moon cried out. "We did protect her."
"Uranus, what are you doing?" I looked at her and Sailor Moon.
"I told you I would protect you and I will. She and her other sailor failures can't be trusted. They let you get taken away." She held my arm and turned away from the now whimpering Sailor Moon.
"NO, that's not true. You were the one who didn't help. How can I trust you? You saw when I was taken by that monster and didn't do a thing!" I screamed wrenching my arm from her grasp.
"If you won't come with me now I will take you myself." She held my arm tightly.
"NO you can't do this! Sailor Moon do something!' I tried to break free, but I was too tired and scared to anything.
"Stop Uranus please why are you doing this?" She pleaded to her.
"Sailor Aphrodite must be an important part of this battle or the Imperium Silver Crystal would not have brought her back." She jerked my arm. "Come on, you don't have to be afraid, Adrienne."
"I have to stay with Serena I need to be with her and help her. No No.. please don't do this." I fell to my knees. I looked up into her harsh eyes. "Uranus she is the true sovereign of good. I believe in her. I know this."
"How could you know of such things." She yanked me to my feet. She pulled me to the motorcycle. I suppose I could have gotten away but I felt so weak.
"Adrienne!" Sailor Moon yelled as we rode off. I turned around saw her fall to her knees crying. "I'll save you Adrienne!" I also had tears dripping down my cheeks. Why is she doing this? I can't understand. She detransformed and got off the motorcycle. Michelle stood by the apartment door.
"Hello, Adrienne. How is it going?" She said almost sarcastically.
"Please I have to sleep. I don't care what you do to me just let me sleep the rest of the night." I collapsed in Michelle arms. They must have carried me to the apartment. I felt a cool cloth being rubbed across my forehead. "Ah... Whoo... is that?" I managed to get out.
"It's me Michelle." She dripped the cloth in a bowl of water and started to wring it out. "You collapsed last night, and have been asleep a long time." I looked outside and saw the sun burning brightly through the window.
"I was so tired." I said sitting up. "Michelle why do you want me here?"
"Amara believes that you will be safer with us and you should not see Serena or others any more." I shot a horrified look at her.
"Michelle?" I began. "What do you think?" I realized Michelle was usually a puppet in Amara's palm.
"I'm not sure, yet." She looked at the cloth laying in her hands. "I recognize that you know a lot more then we can image. Amara doesn't understand this. She told me you knew that Serena was the sovereign of goodness." She looked into my eyes, hers were watery and about to brim over.
"Yes, she is. I don't know if I should be telling, but I guess I already have. Michelle, Sailor Neptune, you have to believe in Sailor Moon. Sometimes what she does seems a bit off beat. I know in the end it turns out to be good. You just have to trust in her." My eyelids fluttered.
"Yes, I do believe in her. It's just Amara doesn't." I could see her weakness. "She's a good person, Amara. I just don't who to believe sometimes, her or myself."
"Yourself. You always have to believe in yourself." I smiled. I must have sounded pretty corny. I looked at her face. "Don't cry Michelle. If you do then I will. And oh gosh don't get me started with that. I tear up, my nose runs, and oh its just horrible." I chuckled. She just stared at me. I stopped laughing and looked at her. "Sorry I didn't mean to offend you or anything. I just wanted to make you smile." I let out a little laugh from nervousness.
"I know." She began to chuckle herself. "Sorry I was just kidding around. I thought it was quite funny." We both laughed.
"Good that my number one way to make my friends stop crying." I smiled.
"I guess that makes us friends then." Michelle gazed at me. I jumped out of the bed.
"Yes. I suppose it does. But Michelle do you really believe that I should go on living with you all?" I implored.
"No, I don't. In fact, Amara's gone right now. I want you to get out of here. I'll tell her I fell asleep watching you." She got up.
"No, you'll get in trouble with her." I almost screamed.
"Go! Get out!" She pointed towards the door. It startled me as she yelled. "I know you have to live your destiny with the other sailors. I believe in you." She smirked. I looked at her for a minute. "Take this." She handed me a jacket.
"Thanks. My friend." I put on the coat and left the apartment. I walked down the street and reached into the pockets of Michelle's coat. There was some money and her phone number and address. I looked through the pockets and found another phone number for a boy named Rob. I laughed and looked up seeing the school. Luckily the last bell had rung.
"I can't believe Serena got detention again." Lita said while swinging her bag and looking up at the sky.
"You can't really blame her we were all up late looking for Adrienne and she had that disturbing encounter." Ami said with her nose in a textbook.
"True." Lita said. Then she looked down and saw me standing in front of her. "Adrienne!" Ami looked up, also.
"Hey, girls." I said with a wave. They both ran up to me.
"Are you all right, Adrienne? What happened?" Lita asked anxiously.
"I'm ok now. I think I need to get on some different clothes. People have been looking at me funny all day." I smiled cheerfully. Ami and Lita both looked perplexed at each other. "What I had no other clothes to wear? These were the night clothes I was wearing when I went to sleep last night."
"How can you be cheerful? A horrible thing happened to you last night." Ami said straight forward.
"Serena was very upset when she found us, finally." Lita added. I looked to the ground for advice.
"I was trying not to think about it." I said rubbing some dirt around on the sidewalk with my bare toes. They noticed I had no shoes on.
"Your feet look a bit torn up. I think we should get you back to my house." Ami said staring at the cuts from running all over town last night. I really hadn't notice till now that my feet were in great pain.
"Yeah, I'll go by my house and bring something to munch on. I'll also pick up your clothes, ok." Lita said starting to walk to other direction. "I'll meet you over there in a little while. See you!" She waved goodbye and started to jog away.
"Do you think you can make it to my house in bare feet? How about you wear my shoes and I'll walk without. No wait I have a pair of sandals in my bag." We sat down on a bench and she pulled the soft slippers from her bag.
"I don't want to get them dirty." I commented slipping them on my tattered feet.
"Don't worry about that." She helped me stand up and we walked on. "So how did you get your feet hurt so badly?"
"I was running around the city all night long." I said looking at the slippers cushioning my painful steps.
"Why weren't you transformed and wearing your boots?" She looked at me.
"I guess I'll go ahead and tell you what happened." I told her about the happenings at Lita's, my pendant being taken away, and Amara picking me up. "I do wish I had my pendant. I feel so helpless without it. I guess I could have gotten away from Uranus last night, but I was so dreadfully tired."
"I expect that much. You don't know what Doctor Tomoe wanted with you?" Ami said getting out her mini-super computer.
"No, I wish that I did though. I'm sure he is analyzing my pendant right now." I said thinking about the questioned he asked last night.
"He is not going to find much." Ami said typing on the computer as we walked.
"Why is that? Could he find the secret to the scout power through it?" I asked.
"No. The pendant itself has no real power. If he had access to you then I would be a bit frightened. If he knew more about you then us we would be in big trouble. Still he might know more from the pendant. So we had better be careful." She said typing. "Oh here is my house." She said pointing to a huge mansion.
"Whoa. I knew you lived in a mansion but I personally have never been in one myself." I gaped at the house as we walked in.
"Mother, I'm home!" She said sweetly.
"Hello, dear." Ami's mother smiled. "Why hello Miss...?"
"Hello Mrs. Anderson. My name is Adrienne Gabrielle. Pleased to meet you." I bowed to the kind woman.
"Thank you, sweetie." She smiled exactly like Ami did. I smiled big then stopped thinking about the similarities between my mother and me.
"Mother. Adrienne, has had a bad night and has cut up her feet. I was wondering if you would take a look at them and see if you can do anything about it." Ami looked down at my feet. I blushed.
"Certainly, dear. Why don't you come into the bathroom and I'll take a look at them." She led me through the hallways and a while later we got to one of the bathrooms. "Sit here and we'll take off these slippers." I did what she asked and slipped off the small shoes. "Oh my. Your feet look pretty bad off. How did this happen? Ami will you get some bandages and all of my other things."
"Yes, certainly." Ami left the room. Oh, great now I was going to have to make up some story. What should I say?
"Well... I forgot to put on my shoes last night and some creepy person started to chase me. Or I think someone was chasing me. I'm not really sure, but it seemed like I ran for hours. Then, I ended up getting lost and having to call someone to some get me. I didn't go to school, because I was so tired from being up. I didn't realize my feet hurt so much until a little while ago, when someone pointed it out." I spit out my story like it was a bad apple. Oh, well if she doesn't believe me. It's too late now.
"Sounds like you had a pretty exciting night. Too bad about your feet. I think if I get this grit and grim out, they'll be fine in a couple of days. You're lucky that you didn't get an infection." Ami walked back in.
"Here, mother, I got everything you'll need." Ami handed her a black bag, some bottles, and bandages. I was kind of afraid of what she was going to do.
"Thank you, Ami. You know Ami will be a fine doctor one day. Ami, dear, after I get the ick out, if it's ok with Adrienne you can do the rest." Ami blushed.
"I would be honored." I smiled and laughed with her.
"Ok, great. How long have you known Ami?" She asked trying to make me think about something other than the pain.
"Awhile, I can't remember when I first saw her. I first met her about a week ago."
"That's interesting." She nodded as she poked at my feet. "I think after Ami bandages your feet you should walk on some crutches to help them heal faster."
"Mother. Is it ok if Adrienne spends a couple of nights here... ? Can I talk to you outside a minute?" Ami whispered.
"Surely. Hold on one moment." They walked out. "Yes, dear."
"Well, its just Adrienne's parents and sister have just recently passed away and she has come to Tokyo to stay with some relatives, but it turns out the communications between the two families has left her with no one here either. She needs a place to stay for awhile. I promise it won't be long." I could here Ami barely through the door.
"Of course. That's is so awful. She can stay here as long as she wants. Also get the crutches out of my office." They continued.
"Also Lita will be coming over later to bring her things. I think I can handle the rest." Ami walked back in. "Ok, you can stay as long as you need. About your feet." She leaned over me. "I'll fix you up in a jiffy." She worked as I winced in pain. Soon I was leaning on the crutches. Only one of my feet was really bad off so I could lean on the other, as I used the crutches.
"Good thing I don't have to transform now. These sure would get in my way." I smiled and she giggled. Ding Dong. I bell rang.
"Hey girl. What's happening?" I saw Lita, Serena, Rini, Rei, and Mina peek in the doorway. "How are your feet?"
"Better now that Doctor Ami has taken care of me." We all smiled and let out a joking laugh.
"Well I brought you some 'get well' treats." Lita held up a baggie of goodies.
"Yeah, good thing some are actually left. We had to tear Serena away from them." Rei lashed out against Serena.
"That's not true! P~~~~!" She let out a raze from her tongue.
"That's not very nice Serena." Rini smiled gallantly. They stuck their tongues out at each other.
"How about we all go into the sitting room." Ami motioned.
"Yeah. Ok. I want you to sleep in my bed. I'll sleep on the couch." She pointed to the bedroom.
"Oh, I think the couch will be fine for me." She stared at me.
"You must know that once I've made up my mind its made up." She and I smiled.
"Yeah. I know." So I slept in her bed. I could she gracefully lay down the sheets on her couch. She laid down and pondered what I had said for a while, I'm sure. I
know I did. Should I really have told her that. I probably shouldn't tell Trista about what I said. I soon fell asleep.
Crash! I jumped up. The window in Lita living room had been broken.
"Adrienne. Run get out of here. Jupiter Star Power!" I saw her transforming then I saw the monster. It was that heart snatcher. "Run go find the others. I'll hold it off." I couldn't leave her here. I would feel better as Sailor Aphrodite. I went back into Lita's room and searched for my pendent.
"I don't have time to mess with you little girlie." I could hear monster say to her.
"Watch who your calling girlie. Sparkling Wide Pressure!" An electric flash filled the room. I had to leave here. I knew it would follow me and I could lure it away from Lita. "Ahhh!" I heard her scream.
"Aphrodite Pendent Power!" I transformed as quickly as I could. "You see me monster I'm the one you want." I saw Jupiter on her knees, wrapped in a hair-like substance. The monster let her go.
"Yes. It is you I want." It charged.
"I have to go Jupiter. Call the girls on the communicator, if you can." I jumped out of the broken window. I felt like I was flying as I fell to the ground. I landed on one knee and looked up. The monster was falling too. I ran trying not to hit the people on the street.
"Look, its a sailor scout."
"I've never seen her before."
"Ahhh a monster." The people ran about. All I could hope was the monster only purpose was to catch me and not to get heart crystals. I was wrong it, and grabbed the nearest three people by the throats.
"No!" I yelled. "Aphrodite Love Haze Vanish!" I ran towards the monster as the dust made me almost invisible to it. I released the people. I called off the dust. "Now what do you say?"
"I'll get you, you fool. You will be mine and the sovereign's." It charged me again. I know was pretty sure the monster won't go after anyone else. I ran as far from all people as I could. I had lost it so I could think of a plan before it came after me again. I knew I couldn't beat it with my weak powers but something had to give. "Don't try to fight it you know you will not win alone. So come with me." I knew this is what had to happen. Somewhere in my heart I could feel myself being pulled towards the sovereign's evil heart. In a moment I was walking towards the evil beast. I could tell that my pupils were gone and all you could see was my iris.
No, don't let yourself be pulled in. I thought. I closed my eyes. It no use, I was under its power. I looked over to my side and saw Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto standing watching me be pulled away.
"Help me..." I managed to say. I fell to my knees.
"Good job my pet. Now as for you Sailor Aphrodite.." It was Kaolinite. She laughed as I struggled to get up. My body was paralyzed. I had dropped my staff back a little ways and Kaolinite picked it up. "So this is your little treasure." She held it tightly. "Well I'm sure Doctor Tomoe would like to see it." She motioned at the monster. It grabbed me around the waist.
"No, no! Help me Pluto, help me..." I screamed in vain as I was lifted into the sky. Pluto looked away. My body was held tight by the monster. It looked at me and smiled an evil grin as we disappeared into another dimension.
I passed out and was taken to room in Doctor Tomoe's lab. When I awoke, I was greeted by Kaolinite.
"Why hello little girl." She smirked at me. I looked at my clothes. I had on the pajamas I slept at Lita's house. "I see you have noticed you are no longer Sailor Aphrodite. Don't worry little one I have your magical pendant right here." She held it up for me to see.
"Give it back to me Kaolinite. You evil old hag." She frowned at me. Kaolinite held her hand up to shoot a energy ball out of it in rage.
"Kaolinite. I see our visitor has woken up." She halted.
"Yes, doctor." Kaolinite said walking over to stand next to him.
"Thank you holding that for me Kaolinite." He grabbed my pendant from her hands. He walked over to me. "Who are you little girl?" He asked almost sweetly.
"I am Sailor Aphrodite as you see." I said. "You won't know me even if I told you." I smiled deviously at him. He stood back up.
"I see. Now how do you know that?" He said as Kaolinite slipped her arms around his waist.
"Yes little girl how do you know that? Doctor Tomoe knows everybody." She smiled and looked at his glasses.
"Well I know doesn't know me." I said disdainfully. "I know that for sure. Besides you won't ask me if you knew." They both taken back by what I said.
"You have a point girl." He said. "But won't it be better if I called by your name and not little girl."
"I don't care have to say about me. You can call me whatever you want. I know what you are up to Tomoe."
"Oh really little girl." Kaolinite smirked again at me.
"Yes. I know more than you think. I know about Pharaoh 90 and Mistress 9. I know that Hotaru is Mistress 9 and I also know that Sailor Moon beat you. She will not lose to fools like you." I laughed heartily. I glared at them as they pondered what I said.
"Well big talk little girl. Especially one that can't transform into her little scout self." Kaolinite laughed into her palm. I could see Doctor Tomoe was upset by what I had said. "Now girl tell us who your scout friend are? Tell us who has the Purity Chalice?" Kaolinite yelled.
"I will never divulge any information to you creeps." They were annoyed by my reaction.
"Kaolinite I need you to come with me. Send the damion to watch after little girl." As he walked into the other room and saw a flash of concern in his eyes.
"Yes Doctor. It will be done. Heart snatcher stay and watch this little sailor wanna be. Ha ha ha..." She laughed stupidly. Then disappeared. I stared at the monster as it hovered over the floor.
"I always wondered if damion had a personality or actual thoughts other getting heart crystals? So do you?" I looked at it.
"Someone finally talk to me." She sobbed big tears and I almost laughed but kept it in. I let the monster cry on my shoulder and explain it's life story, and it finally stopped.
"Yes I understand." I said patting on the back. "But what I don't understand is how you could keep the only person who will listen to you locked up here doomed to be destroyed." I said acting like I was going weep, too.
"That's true. Be free my friend. Leave here in peace." She opened a portal for me to leave.
"Thank you dear. I will never forget you." I jumped into the portal and as I did I saw her realize that I had tricked her. Well we all know what happened to that poor damion. That wasn't my biggest concern at the time. Why exactly did Doctor Tomoe want me in his lab? How did he know who I was? Also how was I going to get my transformation pendant back? I better go to the scouts on this one. I ran down the street for a while thinking about what I was going to do. Then I stopped the slowly walked. It was dark and creepy so I tried to find a restaurant to slip into. I walked a couple of blocks and trying to find a restaurant that was open. It was kind of late at night so I had some trouble finding one. When I did I collapsed in the booth. "Whew..." I let out a belated sigh.
"Can help you, Miss?" A kind younger lady asked me.
"No I don't have any money to pay for anything. I was wondering if I could ask where about in Tokyo I'm at? I'm new in town and got a bit lost." I was lost. When I had jumped into the portal I didn't care where it would take me as long as it was not anywhere near the Mugen School or Doctor Tomoe.
"How about I get you a glass of water and I'll try to explain where you're at." She smiled and walked to the back of the small store. I slumped down in the booth. No one else was in the cafe. I sat looking around the outside of the cafe. A few people would pass by and then it would be silent again. That horrible, awful silence. Soon after she left the waitress came back with a tall glass of water. I just noticed that I was sweating and my mouth was dry. I picked up the glass and took a few sips. The waitress sat down in front of me.
"We don't get many customers this late at night. You seem a bit young to be rooming the streets of Tokyo." She smiled sweetly looking at me with great intensity.
"Well its a long and complicated story, but mainly I just came into the a few days ago. I just recently lost my family in an accident. I've been living with some friends in the city. I guess I just got lost getting back to my friend's house. Now I don't know where I am." She looked at a bit dazed by my story.
"That's sad about your family. I'm very sorry. Well I'm great at giving directions, but I will certainly try." She asked about where I needed to be. I decided to say the Hino Shrine since that was pretty well known. She tried to give me directions for a while. I just became confused and frustrated. I was incredibly tired and just wanted to find out what was going on.
"I think I can get there now." I thanked the kind woman and was on my way. I wandered the streets for a while and then decided to find a phone. By great luck I found some money by the trash can near the booth and thumbed through the phone book. "I can't waste this money. Who would be home?" I hoped in a way that Sailor Moon and the other inner scouts would be looking for me, but that left Trista, Amara, and Michelle. "Ok I think I'll try Amara. I don't why, but I'm going to." I found her number and dialed it. "Amara?" I asked questionably.
"Yes. This is she. Who may I ask is calling?" She seemed annoyed, but in that case she always was.
"This is Adrienne Gabrielle." I tried to sound a bit afraid so she would take interest. It wasn't hard act scared, because I was.
"Adrienne? Why are you calling?" Amara seemed confused by my call. "What's wrong? I'm sure don't just want to talk this late at night." She questioned.
"No, of course, not. Something has happened and I'm lost. I need you to come get me, please." I tried to be polite.
"What's happened? I'm not a taxi you know." Amara spouted out.
"Yes, I am a where of that. It's just Serena and the others are most likely looking for me and... I think I should explain it to you when you get here. If that's all right?" I was trying to be nice, but it was hard.
"Ok, tell me where you're at." She asked still a bit annoyed. I explained my location and said she would come as quickly as possible.
"Do you think I should ask Michelle to come?" She said wondering if more fire power was needed.
"I think I'm in the clear for now." I said trying to not become suspicious and more frightened.
"All right. See you." She hung and I slowly hung up the phone, too. I sat on a bench near the phone and curled into a ball, with my knees pressed up against my cheeks. Now no people were rooming the streets. The silence was strong. I could feel it coming closer. My heart began to beat faster. I looked around trying to learn something about the enemy within this darkness. The wind blew a cold chill up my back. The only thing I had to shield me from the desolate cold was the blanket of darkness. I closed my eyes trying to keep the horrible silence out. I dozed off. Soon after a motorcycle screeched up. I was still half asleep and my eyes did not open. Amara shook my shoulders.
"Adrienne, Adrienne, Adrienne." She called. "Get up we have to get out of here. The wind is blowing a fierce warning." I looked in her eyes, they were tired.
"Yes..." I whispered. "Lets get out of here." She helped me onto the bike. I couldn't believe how nice she was acting. I clasped my arms around her waist. "I'm kind of scared. Of riding a motorcycle that is." I admitted. She laughed loudly.
"That's not what you should be afraid of. Hold on tight I'll protect you now." I blushed feeling safe now. I nestled my head into Amara's back, as we rode off and blazed through the night. A long time after the motorcycle began to slow and then stop. "I told Michelle and Trista to meet me in the park. We have to walk the rest of the way. I think you should transform. And then we will find the others." I looked at her.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"I think I should tell you what happened." I told her about Lita's house and tricking the monster. "So now they have my pendant. I can't transform." She reached down and pushed my chin up so I was looking at her eyes again.
"I told you that I would protect. I will." She smiled and so did I. "Uranus Planet Power!" I stood back and watched her transform. It was the first time I had been able to stand and watch one of the scouts transform since I saw the TV show. "Now hold my hand and let's go." She ran quickly through the trees and sidewalks. They was no sign of any of the outer scouts.
"Stop for a minute ok, Uranus." I pleaded. I was even more tired if that was possible and I thought I should sit down. "I need a minute to rest." I sat down on the ground. She kneed over me.
"Are you ok?" She asked feeling bad for not noticing my fatigue.
"Yeah, I'll be..." I stopped speaking. I could feel a presence.
"What... What is it?" Sailor Uranus stood up looking around.
"Sailor Moon." I said quietly. "Sailor Moon!" I screamed for her to hear.
"What is it, Adrienne?" She stared at me.
"Adrienne!" I heard someone call.
"Is that Sailor Moon?" Sailor Uranus looked around. I ran after her voice. "No, Adrienne stay with me." She grabbed my arm.
"She's calling me. I have to go find her... Sailor Moon! I'm here!" I shrieked. I wiggled from Uranus' grasp. "Sailor Moon!"
"Adrienne." I turned a corner and saw her smiling face. "I found you Adrienne." Uranus came running up behind me. She grabbed my arm and pulled me behind her.
"Adrienne, is with me. I'm protecting her since you are obviously incapable of doing so." She snapped.
"That's not true!" Sailor Moon cried out. "We did protect her."
"Uranus, what are you doing?" I looked at her and Sailor Moon.
"I told you I would protect you and I will. She and her other sailor failures can't be trusted. They let you get taken away." She held my arm and turned away from the now whimpering Sailor Moon.
"NO, that's not true. You were the one who didn't help. How can I trust you? You saw when I was taken by that monster and didn't do a thing!" I screamed wrenching my arm from her grasp.
"If you won't come with me now I will take you myself." She held my arm tightly.
"NO you can't do this! Sailor Moon do something!' I tried to break free, but I was too tired and scared to anything.
"Stop Uranus please why are you doing this?" She pleaded to her.
"Sailor Aphrodite must be an important part of this battle or the Imperium Silver Crystal would not have brought her back." She jerked my arm. "Come on, you don't have to be afraid, Adrienne."
"I have to stay with Serena I need to be with her and help her. No No.. please don't do this." I fell to my knees. I looked up into her harsh eyes. "Uranus she is the true sovereign of good. I believe in her. I know this."
"How could you know of such things." She yanked me to my feet. She pulled me to the motorcycle. I suppose I could have gotten away but I felt so weak.
"Adrienne!" Sailor Moon yelled as we rode off. I turned around saw her fall to her knees crying. "I'll save you Adrienne!" I also had tears dripping down my cheeks. Why is she doing this? I can't understand. She detransformed and got off the motorcycle. Michelle stood by the apartment door.
"Hello, Adrienne. How is it going?" She said almost sarcastically.
"Please I have to sleep. I don't care what you do to me just let me sleep the rest of the night." I collapsed in Michelle arms. They must have carried me to the apartment. I felt a cool cloth being rubbed across my forehead. "Ah... Whoo... is that?" I managed to get out.
"It's me Michelle." She dripped the cloth in a bowl of water and started to wring it out. "You collapsed last night, and have been asleep a long time." I looked outside and saw the sun burning brightly through the window.
"I was so tired." I said sitting up. "Michelle why do you want me here?"
"Amara believes that you will be safer with us and you should not see Serena or others any more." I shot a horrified look at her.
"Michelle?" I began. "What do you think?" I realized Michelle was usually a puppet in Amara's palm.
"I'm not sure, yet." She looked at the cloth laying in her hands. "I recognize that you know a lot more then we can image. Amara doesn't understand this. She told me you knew that Serena was the sovereign of goodness." She looked into my eyes, hers were watery and about to brim over.
"Yes, she is. I don't know if I should be telling, but I guess I already have. Michelle, Sailor Neptune, you have to believe in Sailor Moon. Sometimes what she does seems a bit off beat. I know in the end it turns out to be good. You just have to trust in her." My eyelids fluttered.
"Yes, I do believe in her. It's just Amara doesn't." I could see her weakness. "She's a good person, Amara. I just don't who to believe sometimes, her or myself."
"Yourself. You always have to believe in yourself." I smiled. I must have sounded pretty corny. I looked at her face. "Don't cry Michelle. If you do then I will. And oh gosh don't get me started with that. I tear up, my nose runs, and oh its just horrible." I chuckled. She just stared at me. I stopped laughing and looked at her. "Sorry I didn't mean to offend you or anything. I just wanted to make you smile." I let out a little laugh from nervousness.
"I know." She began to chuckle herself. "Sorry I was just kidding around. I thought it was quite funny." We both laughed.
"Good that my number one way to make my friends stop crying." I smiled.
"I guess that makes us friends then." Michelle gazed at me. I jumped out of the bed.
"Yes. I suppose it does. But Michelle do you really believe that I should go on living with you all?" I implored.
"No, I don't. In fact, Amara's gone right now. I want you to get out of here. I'll tell her I fell asleep watching you." She got up.
"No, you'll get in trouble with her." I almost screamed.
"Go! Get out!" She pointed towards the door. It startled me as she yelled. "I know you have to live your destiny with the other sailors. I believe in you." She smirked. I looked at her for a minute. "Take this." She handed me a jacket.
"Thanks. My friend." I put on the coat and left the apartment. I walked down the street and reached into the pockets of Michelle's coat. There was some money and her phone number and address. I looked through the pockets and found another phone number for a boy named Rob. I laughed and looked up seeing the school. Luckily the last bell had rung.
"I can't believe Serena got detention again." Lita said while swinging her bag and looking up at the sky.
"You can't really blame her we were all up late looking for Adrienne and she had that disturbing encounter." Ami said with her nose in a textbook.
"True." Lita said. Then she looked down and saw me standing in front of her. "Adrienne!" Ami looked up, also.
"Hey, girls." I said with a wave. They both ran up to me.
"Are you all right, Adrienne? What happened?" Lita asked anxiously.
"I'm ok now. I think I need to get on some different clothes. People have been looking at me funny all day." I smiled cheerfully. Ami and Lita both looked perplexed at each other. "What I had no other clothes to wear? These were the night clothes I was wearing when I went to sleep last night."
"How can you be cheerful? A horrible thing happened to you last night." Ami said straight forward.
"Serena was very upset when she found us, finally." Lita added. I looked to the ground for advice.
"I was trying not to think about it." I said rubbing some dirt around on the sidewalk with my bare toes. They noticed I had no shoes on.
"Your feet look a bit torn up. I think we should get you back to my house." Ami said staring at the cuts from running all over town last night. I really hadn't notice till now that my feet were in great pain.
"Yeah, I'll go by my house and bring something to munch on. I'll also pick up your clothes, ok." Lita said starting to walk to other direction. "I'll meet you over there in a little while. See you!" She waved goodbye and started to jog away.
"Do you think you can make it to my house in bare feet? How about you wear my shoes and I'll walk without. No wait I have a pair of sandals in my bag." We sat down on a bench and she pulled the soft slippers from her bag.
"I don't want to get them dirty." I commented slipping them on my tattered feet.
"Don't worry about that." She helped me stand up and we walked on. "So how did you get your feet hurt so badly?"
"I was running around the city all night long." I said looking at the slippers cushioning my painful steps.
"Why weren't you transformed and wearing your boots?" She looked at me.
"I guess I'll go ahead and tell you what happened." I told her about the happenings at Lita's, my pendant being taken away, and Amara picking me up. "I do wish I had my pendant. I feel so helpless without it. I guess I could have gotten away from Uranus last night, but I was so dreadfully tired."
"I expect that much. You don't know what Doctor Tomoe wanted with you?" Ami said getting out her mini-super computer.
"No, I wish that I did though. I'm sure he is analyzing my pendant right now." I said thinking about the questioned he asked last night.
"He is not going to find much." Ami said typing on the computer as we walked.
"Why is that? Could he find the secret to the scout power through it?" I asked.
"No. The pendant itself has no real power. If he had access to you then I would be a bit frightened. If he knew more about you then us we would be in big trouble. Still he might know more from the pendant. So we had better be careful." She said typing. "Oh here is my house." She said pointing to a huge mansion.
"Whoa. I knew you lived in a mansion but I personally have never been in one myself." I gaped at the house as we walked in.
"Mother, I'm home!" She said sweetly.
"Hello, dear." Ami's mother smiled. "Why hello Miss...?"
"Hello Mrs. Anderson. My name is Adrienne Gabrielle. Pleased to meet you." I bowed to the kind woman.
"Thank you, sweetie." She smiled exactly like Ami did. I smiled big then stopped thinking about the similarities between my mother and me.
"Mother. Adrienne, has had a bad night and has cut up her feet. I was wondering if you would take a look at them and see if you can do anything about it." Ami looked down at my feet. I blushed.
"Certainly, dear. Why don't you come into the bathroom and I'll take a look at them." She led me through the hallways and a while later we got to one of the bathrooms. "Sit here and we'll take off these slippers." I did what she asked and slipped off the small shoes. "Oh my. Your feet look pretty bad off. How did this happen? Ami will you get some bandages and all of my other things."
"Yes, certainly." Ami left the room. Oh, great now I was going to have to make up some story. What should I say?
"Well... I forgot to put on my shoes last night and some creepy person started to chase me. Or I think someone was chasing me. I'm not really sure, but it seemed like I ran for hours. Then, I ended up getting lost and having to call someone to some get me. I didn't go to school, because I was so tired from being up. I didn't realize my feet hurt so much until a little while ago, when someone pointed it out." I spit out my story like it was a bad apple. Oh, well if she doesn't believe me. It's too late now.
"Sounds like you had a pretty exciting night. Too bad about your feet. I think if I get this grit and grim out, they'll be fine in a couple of days. You're lucky that you didn't get an infection." Ami walked back in.
"Here, mother, I got everything you'll need." Ami handed her a black bag, some bottles, and bandages. I was kind of afraid of what she was going to do.
"Thank you, Ami. You know Ami will be a fine doctor one day. Ami, dear, after I get the ick out, if it's ok with Adrienne you can do the rest." Ami blushed.
"I would be honored." I smiled and laughed with her.
"Ok, great. How long have you known Ami?" She asked trying to make me think about something other than the pain.
"Awhile, I can't remember when I first saw her. I first met her about a week ago."
"That's interesting." She nodded as she poked at my feet. "I think after Ami bandages your feet you should walk on some crutches to help them heal faster."
"Mother. Is it ok if Adrienne spends a couple of nights here... ? Can I talk to you outside a minute?" Ami whispered.
"Surely. Hold on one moment." They walked out. "Yes, dear."
"Well, its just Adrienne's parents and sister have just recently passed away and she has come to Tokyo to stay with some relatives, but it turns out the communications between the two families has left her with no one here either. She needs a place to stay for awhile. I promise it won't be long." I could here Ami barely through the door.
"Of course. That's is so awful. She can stay here as long as she wants. Also get the crutches out of my office." They continued.
"Also Lita will be coming over later to bring her things. I think I can handle the rest." Ami walked back in. "Ok, you can stay as long as you need. About your feet." She leaned over me. "I'll fix you up in a jiffy." She worked as I winced in pain. Soon I was leaning on the crutches. Only one of my feet was really bad off so I could lean on the other, as I used the crutches.
"Good thing I don't have to transform now. These sure would get in my way." I smiled and she giggled. Ding Dong. I bell rang.
"Hey girl. What's happening?" I saw Lita, Serena, Rini, Rei, and Mina peek in the doorway. "How are your feet?"
"Better now that Doctor Ami has taken care of me." We all smiled and let out a joking laugh.
"Well I brought you some 'get well' treats." Lita held up a baggie of goodies.
"Yeah, good thing some are actually left. We had to tear Serena away from them." Rei lashed out against Serena.
"That's not true! P~~~~!" She let out a raze from her tongue.
"That's not very nice Serena." Rini smiled gallantly. They stuck their tongues out at each other.
"How about we all go into the sitting room." Ami motioned.