"I think I may be able to help." She smiled an leaned over. She used her special healing powers to cure my foot. Unfortunately she fell over, in exhaustion. "Is it better..?" She got out.
"Yes." It worked. Yes, this was my shrewd plan. Use Hotaru to heal my foot. I wish she didn't have to feel so bad. Rini screamed. The bench turned into a heart snatcher. Great, I thought. Rini can't fight it alone. I jumped up.
"Hey, wood for brains. Here I am come and get me." I picked up one of my crutches. It ran up and I did a sweep with it and knocked it over. It fell really close to Hotaru.
"I am Sailor Mini Moon. In the name of the future Moon I will punish you!" Mini Moon yelled. Now is my time to get Hotaru out of the way. I picked her up, as Mini Moon did her Pink Sugar Heart Attack. I put her down on another bench and noticed something around her neck. I pulled out the necklace. It was my transformation pendant! I pulled it off her neck.
"Thank you." I whispered in her eye. "For everything. I'll protect." I said louder. "Aphrodite Pendant Power!" I transformed and ran out to where Mini Moon was. "I am Sailor Aphrodite the scout of Love and Wisdom. Put her down now!" I yelled. The damion dropped the exhausted Mini Moon. "Aphrodite Love Haze... Vanish!" I was lost in the fog. I grabbed up Rini and then went back for Hotaru. I carried the girls for a short while then plopped down on some grass. I had lost the demon. I saw Hotaru rouse and I detransformed. I stuffed my pedant into my pocket. Rini had already detransformed in her slumber. "Are you ok?" I asked Hotaru.
"Yeah, I feel better." I held Rini in my arms. "What happened?"
"She fell asleep. I guess she stayed up pretty late last night." I smiled. "Rini wake up." She sat up.
"Are you feeling better Hotaru?" Rini rubbed her eyes. "What happened?"
"Nothing everything is fine now." I smiled big at them. "I guess we had better be getting back to your house Hotaru." I helped the two up. As we approached the doorway, Hotaru looked back at me.
"Thanks for everything Miss Chiba. I had lots of fun." She smiled big. It almost made tears come to my eyes.
"Your welcome. Please call me Adrienne. Thank you Hotaru." I smiled back.
"Bye, Hotaru. I'll see you later." Rini waved at her as she closed the door.
"So did you have fun Rini?" I looked down at her as we walked away from the huge mansion.
"Yeah, I did. I have a few questions for you." She interrogated till we got to her house. I explain most of what I thought she should know.
"Hi, Rini. Hey there, Adrienne." Serena waved from the door of her house. "Where are your crutches?"
"I'll explain later. I have to get back to Ami's house. I'll tell you the whole scoop at study buddies tomorrow. Ok?" I smiled innocently.
"All right. I guess you should be going, but do you want some pie. Momma just got down making it?" She looked at Rini who was holding my hand. I looked at the impending darkness.
"I think I should get moving. Thanks for the offer. I'll see you at school tomorrow. Bye girl. See you Rini." I hugged Rini and waved as I jogged to the bus stop. It felt so good to be able to run again. I jumped in the air and sat on the hard bench. I pulled my pendant from my pocket and looked at it for a while. Finally I had it back. My plan had worked better then I thought. I smiled to myself and hurried onto the bus. Ami was sitting on her porch reading a textbook. "Hi, I'm back." I yelled at her. She looked up at first startled.
"Oh, hello. Your just in time for dinner. My mom is home tonight." I ran quickly up the stairs. I felt so filled with life. "Where are your crutches?"
"That's a good story. The main thing is my feet feel a 100 percent." I smiled big.
"Ok. I guess we can talk about it later. Come on and we can have some food." We trotted into the house. The same maid had prepared a luxury meal for the three of us. I ate in silence mostly. Ami's mother was very nice and commented on my quick recovery, but didn't get into. Ami and I said goodnight to her mother and went up stairs for the night.
"So I guess you would like me to explain myself." I smiled at her, and she stared at me so for a second.
"Yes. I really would." She sat down on her bed. I plopped down next to her.
"Well, exactly what do you want me to explain? Quite a lot has happened today." I leaned back against the wall. She was still looking at me oddly.
"I guess first... no just tell me what happened. Then if I still have questions, I'll ask them." She tried to smile but gave up. I could tell her confusion.
"Well..." I told her well most of everything. I wasn't sure at times what I should tell her. "So my foot is healed and I got my transformation pendant back. Pretty cool, huh?" I hoped that she wouldn't be mad. I know Rei would, Luna and Artemis, and probably Lita would all be pretty angry. "I am glad its over though. That would have been a radical episode." I yawned big.
"I guess your tired after such a long day. One more question, do you think that Kaolinite and Doctor Tomoe recognized you?" She looked at me again with the same curious eyes.
"Ummm... I don't know. I told Doctor Tomoe my name was Miss Chiba. Oh no." I just realized what if he checks Darien Chiba. "We have to go find Darien! He could be in trouble!" I yelled jumping up.
"Stay calm. We should call him first." She picked up the phone and let it ring at Darien's apartment. "No answer. That is disturbing."
"We have to go check on him." I stood worried.
"Yes, that might be a good idea." We decided to leave without her mother knowing. She was nervous about doing so, but she knew it had to be done. Right before we got to his apartment, we went into a alley and transformed.
"I can't find anything with my computer." She typed a bit more. I held up my staff and tried to sense Darien's energy.
"That's the problem I don't sense his energy anywhere. I think something happened. We should go up." She nodded and we climbed the long flight of stairs. We went up to the apartment and the door was busted down. "NO!" I screamed. "Darien! Darien! This is all my fault." I fell to my knees. "How could I do that?" Then I saw his mask, laying in a corner. I ran to it. "No, this can't be happening." Mercury walked behind me.
"I've contacted the other scouts, except Serena. Maybe you should do that. Here I made a special communicator for you." She handed me the computer and pressed a button.
"Hi, Aphrodite. What's up?" She looked at me worried. I had started to cry already.
"Come meet us..."
"The park." Mercury prompted me.
"At the park. Something had happened to Tuxedo Mask." Another tear fell from my eye. This time it was for Serena. "I'm so sorry Serena it's all my fault."
"Come quickly Serena." Mercury said as she grabbed the communicator from me. I put my hands over my face and cried. My perfect plan didn't happen exactly as I had planned it. All nine of us met at the park. Sailor Moon and Mini Moon were crying. I had been able to get a hold on myself before we got there. "I think that we should try to find the heart snatcher's base of operations. That's where Darien will be."
"So Sailor Aphrodite do you know where it is?" Mars snapped.
"Yes, I do and now I don't care anymore we have to find Darien and save Hotaru. Come on you guys follow me." I turned around and came face-to-face with Sailor Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
"Aphrodite you can't do this. I think you should go back to wherever you came from and stop causing us trouble." Uranus growled. She shoved me, but I grabbed her hand.
"Don't push me. I know that in more ways then one you could beat me, but don't go there not right now. I would have gone back a long time ago. I can't, ok. Live with it. I have to help save Darien and you need to get out of my way." I pushed her to the side. She towed over me and with great surprise began to smile. I kept frowning though.
"I guess that you really are, ok. Outer scouts we have to help them. Aphrodite if you know where the base is you have to take us there so that we can destroy this evil once and for all." She reached out for my hand. I slapped her hand and we locked fists smiling at each other with great comradeship.
"Please Aphrodite. I don't blame you, but you must help us find Tuxedo Mask. Will you help us?" She had her hands clasp in that same worried sense. I opened my hand revealing Darien's mask.
"Here, I found this. Take it for good luck." I tried to smile at her. She gave me an exasperated hug.
"We had better get going." Sailor Neptune smiled over at me.
"OK!" We all yelled. I led them to the Mugen School.
"Just as I suspected." Uranus commented.
"Yes, I was thinking that this was probably a likely place for their home base." Mercury got out her super computer.
"I getting bad vibes from this place." Mars closed her eyes frowning. Mini Moon tugged on my skirt.
"Adrienne. Do you know where Hotaru is." I looked at her longingly.
"Don't worry about her. Nothing will happened to her." I wasn't sure how we were going to pull this off. But it was too late to turn back now.
"I think that we should just burst in." Jupiter shook her fist. I held up my staff feeling something evil approaching.
"Rini watch out!" A damion appeared and grabbed Mini Moon.
"Rini! NO!" Sailor Moon screamed. I tried to grab her.
"Help me Sailor Moon, Aphrodite!" She screamed and cried as the evil thing laughed and dragged her into a portal.
"No this can't happened! I have to prevent this! NO!" I broke down again. But this time I broke the window. The glass torn my glove and hand. I held my hand and fell to my knees. The girls ran over to me.
"It will be ok Adrienne." Venus smiled. I looked up at her. I was her double. I was her alternate, her clone. This wasn't right. I can't live like this anymore. I made a decision that would live with me the rest of my life.
"Girls, I'm going in alone." I slowly got up.
"No, you can't you'll be killed." Pluto stepped forward.
"Maybe that's for the best." Tears rolled down my cheeks. I looked up at the group of astonished scouts.
"We have to stick together. We are most powerful together." Sailor Moon looked at me hopefully.
"I know all this. I know it all. Please you can come in later, but right now I have to fix what I have destroyed." I walked towards the building. I let go of my bleeding hand and let it dangle by my side. I swallowed a mouth full of dry spit. I spun around. "Please scouts. Don't forget me." I waved at them with my staff in hand.
"Aphrodite!! Adrienne!" Sailor Moon cried after me. I walked into the darkened building. I hoped that they wouldn't follow me right away. I stopped for a moment and stood looking around. A grim darkness had enveloped the school.
"I can't do this alone. I need them." Tears welled in my eyes. "I can't ask for their help anymore. I must do this on my own." I walked farther into the silence. Suddenly an image appeared before me. It was Hotaru. "Hotaru!" I screamed at it.
"I'm not Hotaru. I am Mistress 9. I am told that you already this. As strong as you may think that you are no mire mortal will ever defeat me." She shrieked.
"I have not come to defeat you. I just want three things: Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Mini Moon, and Hotaru. I don't want to fight..." I got into a fight stance. "But I will if it means winning this war!" I screamed angrily at the demon. The small, innocence girl became a tall, powerful woman. She began to laugh insanely.
"You won't win, but you already know this. Don't you?" She laughed.
"No more talk, fight devil woman." I charged her. Screamed at the top of my lungs. She blocked easily. "You're just a puppet for Pharaoh 90. He'll kill once he's done with you." I tried to explain.
"I don't believe you. You're lying. Doesn't matter anyhow I will serve my master any way he wishes." She shot an energy beam at me. I jumped out of the way, but not in time to be hit in the back.
"Ahhh!" I screamed in pain. "He doesn't care about you, or this world. I care about this world. About the people on it and about you." I relaxed my stance. "I don't want to hurt you." I stood there a simple target for the powerful entity.
"You don't care about me. No one does." She shot another blast at me. I was knocked down this time. I slowly got up.
"Hotaru, I know you're down there. Please don't give up. You are the world's only hope. Please Hotaru do me this one more favor. I know I don't deserve it, but if not for me, for Rini. She dying Hotaru. Hotaru you are the only one who can save her. Please help us!" I yelled this right at Mistress 9. She stood staring with those evil, dark eyes for a minute then fell over. I ran to her. She tried to push me away, but I wouldn't let her. "Hotaru I know you're there. Help us. Help Rini she's dying. She was worried for you that's why she came. She was worried about you. She wants to help, but you save her first. Hotaru!" I saw the symbol of Saturn appear on her forehead.
"AHHH!" She screamed. The huge body shrunk to the small girl again.
"That's my Hotaru." I hugged her. "Don't give up, ever. We all need you. You are, are only hope."
"She's still in me..." Hotaru barely got out.
"I have a plan, Hotaru. Will you help me? We have to save Rini. Will you?" She looked up at me with weak eyes and a weak smile. I called the girls and told them my plan. "Come when I give the signal."
"All right." Mercury confirmed my plans.
"So are you ready to go, Hotaru?" I asked.
"I guess so. What if this doesn't work?" She looked up at me worried.
"I'm not sure. We have to chance it though. Do you think it will?" I helped her get up. She thought to herself for a moment.
"I'm not sure. You're right we have to see. Rini needs us and we had better hurry." She was ready I could see the spirit in her eyes.
"Ok. Just remember to hold on to yourself. No matter what happens you have keep a handle on Mistress 9. You can't let her take control again. Just remember everything that you are fighting for." I winked at her. I held her hand and she showed me through the school. Finally we got over to the lab. I wasn't exactly sure how we going to get in. Then an idea came to me. I laughed to myself for a moment.
"I have a good idea. The famous last words 'I saw this in a movie once'." She looked up at me strangely. "You pretend that Mistress 9 is still in control and you led me in there. Then I will give the signal. Got it?" She was still looking at me strange. "Do you understand?" She nodded. "Just do everything I've told you. Just the way I said. Ok?" She nodded again, and went on with the plan. I walked in looking weak and weary.
"Good job. I knew you could do it alone." Doctor Tomoe walked up to us. "Now as for you..."
"Aphrodite Love Haze Vanish!" I lost myself in the fog and began to give the signal. "Aphrodite Love Spears Penetrate!" I threw the spear up threw the ceiling. "It's over, Tomoe." I screamed.
"Oh, really. You're right its over... for you!" He raised his hands chuckling loudly. "My diamond heart pods arise and take care of this pest."
"Aphrodite Love Spears Penetrate!" I sent another spear out the door, the way Hotaru and I had come in. I turned around and saw Tomoe holding Hotaru by the arm.
"Like I said, you're finished! So just give up!" He screamed angered at me.
"You won't win Tomoe. The scouts will defeat you. Love and Justice always triumph over evil." He smirked as I yelled in vain.
"That only happens in TV." He laughed his stupid, evil laugh. "Now get her you fools. I'm done listening to her pointless babble." One of the damion ran towards me.
"Stop right there! In the name of the Moon!" Finally the girls had arrived.
"Speaking of pointless babble. You still won't be able to win. I will defeat all of you. No, you will never win!" He knew that there wasn't much he could do now that he was so greatly outnumbered. He tightened his grip on Hotaru arm. She stood limp and scared of the being. "Mistress 9 just needs a little energy boost." He laughed and a heart crystal materialized. I looked over at the powerless Rini and Darien. "Here have this." He shoved the glowing crystal into Hotaru's mouth.
"No, Hotaru!" I yelled, but their was nothing I or Hotaru could do. She became the evil woman again.
"You thought you could stop me, fool." She smirked and into her palm.
"Yes, I will stop you." I ran towards her. She held her hand up to block me. I ran past her to Rini and Darien.
"No get away from them!" She screamed. "You useless demons, get her!" She pointed towards me. They ran forward.
"Neptune Submarine Reflection!"
"Uranus Space Sword Blaster!"
"Pluto Deadly Scream!" The outer scouts did their attacks and stalled the monsters. I picked Rini and ran towards Mistress 9. I held the half-dead child up so Hotaru the young girl could see her.
"Hotaru, listen to me. You must help Rini." The inner scouts joined the outer and kept the monsters at bay. "I didn't want to have to do this, but Sailor Saturn awaken!" I screamed. "Saturn help us now!" I knew that it would not be as simple as that. Saturn could not awaken until the entity of Mistress 9 was eliminated from the body.
"No, Aphrodite. Saturn is too dangerous." Uranus yelled at me.
"She must help us!" I yelled back. Mistress 9 fell over in pain.
"Sailor Moon help me." This was her big trick. She was trying to get the Purity Chalice.
"What is it Hotaru?" She ran to her. I must let this happen. I couldn't stop it. I realized that only Pharaoh 90 could destroy the powerful Mistress 9.
"Give her the Purity Chalice, Sailor Moon." I ran towards them. "I have a plan." I winked at her. She nodded and gave her the chalice.
"NO, Sailor Moon!" Uranus screamed. They had destroyed the monsters but were weakened and could nothing to stop her.
"It has to be like this, Uranus." I yelled at her. It worked just the way I had thought. Mistress 9 took it and thrust it into the machine.
"You were too easy Sailor Moon. Now Pharaoh 90 can awaken. I'm disappointed in you Aphrodite. I thought you would have seen that coming." Now that Mistress 9's job was over he was ready to destroy her. A large flare of energy came out of the mass. "Ahhh!" Mistress 9 screamed her last and fell over. The huge body shrunk to the small girl.
"You're Mistress 9 I should have. I did and I also saw that coming." I looked down in a sort of shame. Doctor Tomoe's demon was also destroyed and he lay nearby. My chance had come. This was not the way I wanted it to happened but now I realize it must. I couldn't change history, all I could do was watch. I ran to the small child.
"Look now Sailor Aphrodite. You have destroyed our planet, our world!" Uranus screamed running at me angrily. She was speaking about the now pulsating mass of energy.
"Stop! Uranus, she has done the right thing." Pluto stood in front of her. "You must wait. You have to let the whole thing play out. Please wait." She stood firm. Uranus relaxed.
"Fine." She stood with arms crossed in protest. I shook the girl.
"Hotaru... Hotaru... Sailor Saturn?" I looked at her. "Please Saturn we need your help. Awaken Sailor Saturn!" I yelled at her. Her eyes cracked open. Then the sign appeared on her forehead. I sighed in relief. "Saturn please."
"Yes, I know." Her body disappeared. I stood shocked in a way and then whipped around. Rini and Darien both awoke and slowly got up. Then she reappeared. Sailor Saturn stood before me. Almost as a ghostly image and then became more solid. Uranus widened and Neptune ran up next to her. The inner scouts and Pluto also stood together.
"Sailor Aphrodite, thank you for all of your help. I'm sorry that I could not get to know you any better, but the time must come that I will leave." Sailor Moon ran forward.
"No! You can't leave Hotaru. Please you don't have to fight." Tears began running down her rosy cheeks. I stayed on my knees.
"Hotaru, don't leave me." Rini ran close to her but I grabbed arm before she got there. "Please Hotaru."
"I'm sorry Rini. Hotaru is no longer part of me. Sailor Moon as Super Sailor Moon you could have helped. You did the right thing by giving up the Purity Chalice. Now I must destroy Pharaoh 90 alone." I had heard all this before. It was hard to watch this replay. I couldn't do anything before, now I was standing right beside of them. "People are afraid of me because I have the power to destroy planets, but now I must use this power to destroy the evil on this world." Sailor Moon ran towards her. "Stop you can not do this." She help her Silence Gavial in front of Sailor Moon. The others stood in awe.
"I have to do this alone." She replaced the weapon to her side.
"She does. Go Saturn do what you must. Please save us. I trust you." I smiled.
"Good bye." She did a backflip into the mess of power which consumed Pharaoh 90. I watched this with a smile on my face. Then as I saw her disappear the tears began to flow. I fell back to my knees.
"I guess that's the end of Saturn." Mars commented.
"No its not over, yet." I gathered my strength and got up off of the hard and beaten ground.
"What do you mean, Aphrodite?" Venus asked.
"There is a way to help Sailor Moon transform to her next power level. We can still save Hotaru." I looked over at them. Rini looked up at me with hopeful eyes. "Every surrender your power to Serena. Everyone, please." Mini Moon transformed.
"I'm ready." Mercury walked over. "Mercury Star Power!"
"Mars Star Power!" Mars grabbed Mercury's hand then came Jupiter.
"Jupiter Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!" The outer scouts walked over.
"Uranus Planet Power!"
"Neptune Planet Power!"
"Pluto Planet Power!" Mini Moon walked up to me. She smiled through her tears. I smiled back through my own.
"Moon Crystal Power!" She yelled.
"Aphrodite Love Power!" I finished the line behind Serena. "Now Serena surrender your heart crystal and say 'Moon Crisis Power!'" I yelled at the end of line of scouts.
"Moon Crisis Power!" I watched her transform. She produced her heart crystal and her thin butterfly wings spread out. "I'm ready." She flew over to the energy cloud. I saw a tear stream out of her eye. I watched as a energy blast came from the mass and broke my hold from Mini Moon. I closed my eyes expecting the hard fall the ground. I saw a bright flash of light and all I felt was a light wind. I slowly opened my eyes and saw some people looking at me funny as they walked by on the sidewalk. I looked down at my hands and saw my briefcase in my hand and felt my regular bookbag weighing down my back. I walked to a bench staring at it intently. I opened it and looked at the contents. I pulled out a handful of pictures and flipped through them.
"Awe..." I looked at one of Rini and Hotaru, Serena and Darien, Trista and I in our dresses, all the girls, and one of me standing and smiling. Tears flooded my eyes. I saw the picture I had drawn of Mercury. The fortune that Grandpa Hino gave me. I pulled out my poem. Then I came onto my transformation pendant. I looked at it for a moment and then heard a horn beep.
"Hey, Adrienne! Come on and get in. Look I'm sorry about this morning, get in already. Mom said I have to drive you anyway." It was my sister. She had barely got out of the car, before I gave her a hug. "Get off you freak. Let's get to school before we're late." She smiled a bit and then we were off. I smiled and laughed with my friends all day. I knew that every moment of my time here was precious. The time came to get up in front of the class. I remembered my bravery in battle. I remembered my compliments from the girls on my poem, and suddenly I was no longer afraid. After school I watched my favorite show Sailor Moon.
Which will stay my favorite show forever. For obvious reasons. Even when I am an old lady with grandchildren it will still be the best show. As for the rest of my life, I was never afraid again. I could always picture my friends smiling at my achievements. That meant the world to me. I treasured my memories. I always remember that I could go back tomorrow. That thought always reminds me that my life is no longer boring or average. I never attempted to tell anyone of my tale. What I did do was write a story about my adventures as a sailor scout.
"Yes." It worked. Yes, this was my shrewd plan. Use Hotaru to heal my foot. I wish she didn't have to feel so bad. Rini screamed. The bench turned into a heart snatcher. Great, I thought. Rini can't fight it alone. I jumped up.
"Hey, wood for brains. Here I am come and get me." I picked up one of my crutches. It ran up and I did a sweep with it and knocked it over. It fell really close to Hotaru.
"I am Sailor Mini Moon. In the name of the future Moon I will punish you!" Mini Moon yelled. Now is my time to get Hotaru out of the way. I picked her up, as Mini Moon did her Pink Sugar Heart Attack. I put her down on another bench and noticed something around her neck. I pulled out the necklace. It was my transformation pendant! I pulled it off her neck.
"Thank you." I whispered in her eye. "For everything. I'll protect." I said louder. "Aphrodite Pendant Power!" I transformed and ran out to where Mini Moon was. "I am Sailor Aphrodite the scout of Love and Wisdom. Put her down now!" I yelled. The damion dropped the exhausted Mini Moon. "Aphrodite Love Haze... Vanish!" I was lost in the fog. I grabbed up Rini and then went back for Hotaru. I carried the girls for a short while then plopped down on some grass. I had lost the demon. I saw Hotaru rouse and I detransformed. I stuffed my pedant into my pocket. Rini had already detransformed in her slumber. "Are you ok?" I asked Hotaru.
"Yeah, I feel better." I held Rini in my arms. "What happened?"
"She fell asleep. I guess she stayed up pretty late last night." I smiled. "Rini wake up." She sat up.
"Are you feeling better Hotaru?" Rini rubbed her eyes. "What happened?"
"Nothing everything is fine now." I smiled big at them. "I guess we had better be getting back to your house Hotaru." I helped the two up. As we approached the doorway, Hotaru looked back at me.
"Thanks for everything Miss Chiba. I had lots of fun." She smiled big. It almost made tears come to my eyes.
"Your welcome. Please call me Adrienne. Thank you Hotaru." I smiled back.
"Bye, Hotaru. I'll see you later." Rini waved at her as she closed the door.
"So did you have fun Rini?" I looked down at her as we walked away from the huge mansion.
"Yeah, I did. I have a few questions for you." She interrogated till we got to her house. I explain most of what I thought she should know.
"Hi, Rini. Hey there, Adrienne." Serena waved from the door of her house. "Where are your crutches?"
"I'll explain later. I have to get back to Ami's house. I'll tell you the whole scoop at study buddies tomorrow. Ok?" I smiled innocently.
"All right. I guess you should be going, but do you want some pie. Momma just got down making it?" She looked at Rini who was holding my hand. I looked at the impending darkness.
"I think I should get moving. Thanks for the offer. I'll see you at school tomorrow. Bye girl. See you Rini." I hugged Rini and waved as I jogged to the bus stop. It felt so good to be able to run again. I jumped in the air and sat on the hard bench. I pulled my pendant from my pocket and looked at it for a while. Finally I had it back. My plan had worked better then I thought. I smiled to myself and hurried onto the bus. Ami was sitting on her porch reading a textbook. "Hi, I'm back." I yelled at her. She looked up at first startled.
"Oh, hello. Your just in time for dinner. My mom is home tonight." I ran quickly up the stairs. I felt so filled with life. "Where are your crutches?"
"That's a good story. The main thing is my feet feel a 100 percent." I smiled big.
"Ok. I guess we can talk about it later. Come on and we can have some food." We trotted into the house. The same maid had prepared a luxury meal for the three of us. I ate in silence mostly. Ami's mother was very nice and commented on my quick recovery, but didn't get into. Ami and I said goodnight to her mother and went up stairs for the night.
"So I guess you would like me to explain myself." I smiled at her, and she stared at me so for a second.
"Yes. I really would." She sat down on her bed. I plopped down next to her.
"Well, exactly what do you want me to explain? Quite a lot has happened today." I leaned back against the wall. She was still looking at me oddly.
"I guess first... no just tell me what happened. Then if I still have questions, I'll ask them." She tried to smile but gave up. I could tell her confusion.
"Well..." I told her well most of everything. I wasn't sure at times what I should tell her. "So my foot is healed and I got my transformation pendant back. Pretty cool, huh?" I hoped that she wouldn't be mad. I know Rei would, Luna and Artemis, and probably Lita would all be pretty angry. "I am glad its over though. That would have been a radical episode." I yawned big.
"I guess your tired after such a long day. One more question, do you think that Kaolinite and Doctor Tomoe recognized you?" She looked at me again with the same curious eyes.
"Ummm... I don't know. I told Doctor Tomoe my name was Miss Chiba. Oh no." I just realized what if he checks Darien Chiba. "We have to go find Darien! He could be in trouble!" I yelled jumping up.
"Stay calm. We should call him first." She picked up the phone and let it ring at Darien's apartment. "No answer. That is disturbing."
"We have to go check on him." I stood worried.
"Yes, that might be a good idea." We decided to leave without her mother knowing. She was nervous about doing so, but she knew it had to be done. Right before we got to his apartment, we went into a alley and transformed.
"I can't find anything with my computer." She typed a bit more. I held up my staff and tried to sense Darien's energy.
"That's the problem I don't sense his energy anywhere. I think something happened. We should go up." She nodded and we climbed the long flight of stairs. We went up to the apartment and the door was busted down. "NO!" I screamed. "Darien! Darien! This is all my fault." I fell to my knees. "How could I do that?" Then I saw his mask, laying in a corner. I ran to it. "No, this can't be happening." Mercury walked behind me.
"I've contacted the other scouts, except Serena. Maybe you should do that. Here I made a special communicator for you." She handed me the computer and pressed a button.
"Hi, Aphrodite. What's up?" She looked at me worried. I had started to cry already.
"Come meet us..."
"The park." Mercury prompted me.
"At the park. Something had happened to Tuxedo Mask." Another tear fell from my eye. This time it was for Serena. "I'm so sorry Serena it's all my fault."
"Come quickly Serena." Mercury said as she grabbed the communicator from me. I put my hands over my face and cried. My perfect plan didn't happen exactly as I had planned it. All nine of us met at the park. Sailor Moon and Mini Moon were crying. I had been able to get a hold on myself before we got there. "I think that we should try to find the heart snatcher's base of operations. That's where Darien will be."
"So Sailor Aphrodite do you know where it is?" Mars snapped.
"Yes, I do and now I don't care anymore we have to find Darien and save Hotaru. Come on you guys follow me." I turned around and came face-to-face with Sailor Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
"Aphrodite you can't do this. I think you should go back to wherever you came from and stop causing us trouble." Uranus growled. She shoved me, but I grabbed her hand.
"Don't push me. I know that in more ways then one you could beat me, but don't go there not right now. I would have gone back a long time ago. I can't, ok. Live with it. I have to help save Darien and you need to get out of my way." I pushed her to the side. She towed over me and with great surprise began to smile. I kept frowning though.
"I guess that you really are, ok. Outer scouts we have to help them. Aphrodite if you know where the base is you have to take us there so that we can destroy this evil once and for all." She reached out for my hand. I slapped her hand and we locked fists smiling at each other with great comradeship.
"Please Aphrodite. I don't blame you, but you must help us find Tuxedo Mask. Will you help us?" She had her hands clasp in that same worried sense. I opened my hand revealing Darien's mask.
"Here, I found this. Take it for good luck." I tried to smile at her. She gave me an exasperated hug.
"We had better get going." Sailor Neptune smiled over at me.
"OK!" We all yelled. I led them to the Mugen School.
"Just as I suspected." Uranus commented.
"Yes, I was thinking that this was probably a likely place for their home base." Mercury got out her super computer.
"I getting bad vibes from this place." Mars closed her eyes frowning. Mini Moon tugged on my skirt.
"Adrienne. Do you know where Hotaru is." I looked at her longingly.
"Don't worry about her. Nothing will happened to her." I wasn't sure how we were going to pull this off. But it was too late to turn back now.
"I think that we should just burst in." Jupiter shook her fist. I held up my staff feeling something evil approaching.
"Rini watch out!" A damion appeared and grabbed Mini Moon.
"Rini! NO!" Sailor Moon screamed. I tried to grab her.
"Help me Sailor Moon, Aphrodite!" She screamed and cried as the evil thing laughed and dragged her into a portal.
"No this can't happened! I have to prevent this! NO!" I broke down again. But this time I broke the window. The glass torn my glove and hand. I held my hand and fell to my knees. The girls ran over to me.
"It will be ok Adrienne." Venus smiled. I looked up at her. I was her double. I was her alternate, her clone. This wasn't right. I can't live like this anymore. I made a decision that would live with me the rest of my life.
"Girls, I'm going in alone." I slowly got up.
"No, you can't you'll be killed." Pluto stepped forward.
"Maybe that's for the best." Tears rolled down my cheeks. I looked up at the group of astonished scouts.
"We have to stick together. We are most powerful together." Sailor Moon looked at me hopefully.
"I know all this. I know it all. Please you can come in later, but right now I have to fix what I have destroyed." I walked towards the building. I let go of my bleeding hand and let it dangle by my side. I swallowed a mouth full of dry spit. I spun around. "Please scouts. Don't forget me." I waved at them with my staff in hand.
"Aphrodite!! Adrienne!" Sailor Moon cried after me. I walked into the darkened building. I hoped that they wouldn't follow me right away. I stopped for a moment and stood looking around. A grim darkness had enveloped the school.
"I can't do this alone. I need them." Tears welled in my eyes. "I can't ask for their help anymore. I must do this on my own." I walked farther into the silence. Suddenly an image appeared before me. It was Hotaru. "Hotaru!" I screamed at it.
"I'm not Hotaru. I am Mistress 9. I am told that you already this. As strong as you may think that you are no mire mortal will ever defeat me." She shrieked.
"I have not come to defeat you. I just want three things: Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Mini Moon, and Hotaru. I don't want to fight..." I got into a fight stance. "But I will if it means winning this war!" I screamed angrily at the demon. The small, innocence girl became a tall, powerful woman. She began to laugh insanely.
"You won't win, but you already know this. Don't you?" She laughed.
"No more talk, fight devil woman." I charged her. Screamed at the top of my lungs. She blocked easily. "You're just a puppet for Pharaoh 90. He'll kill once he's done with you." I tried to explain.
"I don't believe you. You're lying. Doesn't matter anyhow I will serve my master any way he wishes." She shot an energy beam at me. I jumped out of the way, but not in time to be hit in the back.
"Ahhh!" I screamed in pain. "He doesn't care about you, or this world. I care about this world. About the people on it and about you." I relaxed my stance. "I don't want to hurt you." I stood there a simple target for the powerful entity.
"You don't care about me. No one does." She shot another blast at me. I was knocked down this time. I slowly got up.
"Hotaru, I know you're down there. Please don't give up. You are the world's only hope. Please Hotaru do me this one more favor. I know I don't deserve it, but if not for me, for Rini. She dying Hotaru. Hotaru you are the only one who can save her. Please help us!" I yelled this right at Mistress 9. She stood staring with those evil, dark eyes for a minute then fell over. I ran to her. She tried to push me away, but I wouldn't let her. "Hotaru I know you're there. Help us. Help Rini she's dying. She was worried for you that's why she came. She was worried about you. She wants to help, but you save her first. Hotaru!" I saw the symbol of Saturn appear on her forehead.
"AHHH!" She screamed. The huge body shrunk to the small girl again.
"That's my Hotaru." I hugged her. "Don't give up, ever. We all need you. You are, are only hope."
"She's still in me..." Hotaru barely got out.
"I have a plan, Hotaru. Will you help me? We have to save Rini. Will you?" She looked up at me with weak eyes and a weak smile. I called the girls and told them my plan. "Come when I give the signal."
"All right." Mercury confirmed my plans.
"So are you ready to go, Hotaru?" I asked.
"I guess so. What if this doesn't work?" She looked up at me worried.
"I'm not sure. We have to chance it though. Do you think it will?" I helped her get up. She thought to herself for a moment.
"I'm not sure. You're right we have to see. Rini needs us and we had better hurry." She was ready I could see the spirit in her eyes.
"Ok. Just remember to hold on to yourself. No matter what happens you have keep a handle on Mistress 9. You can't let her take control again. Just remember everything that you are fighting for." I winked at her. I held her hand and she showed me through the school. Finally we got over to the lab. I wasn't exactly sure how we going to get in. Then an idea came to me. I laughed to myself for a moment.
"I have a good idea. The famous last words 'I saw this in a movie once'." She looked up at me strangely. "You pretend that Mistress 9 is still in control and you led me in there. Then I will give the signal. Got it?" She was still looking at me strange. "Do you understand?" She nodded. "Just do everything I've told you. Just the way I said. Ok?" She nodded again, and went on with the plan. I walked in looking weak and weary.
"Good job. I knew you could do it alone." Doctor Tomoe walked up to us. "Now as for you..."
"Aphrodite Love Haze Vanish!" I lost myself in the fog and began to give the signal. "Aphrodite Love Spears Penetrate!" I threw the spear up threw the ceiling. "It's over, Tomoe." I screamed.
"Oh, really. You're right its over... for you!" He raised his hands chuckling loudly. "My diamond heart pods arise and take care of this pest."
"Aphrodite Love Spears Penetrate!" I sent another spear out the door, the way Hotaru and I had come in. I turned around and saw Tomoe holding Hotaru by the arm.
"Like I said, you're finished! So just give up!" He screamed angered at me.
"You won't win Tomoe. The scouts will defeat you. Love and Justice always triumph over evil." He smirked as I yelled in vain.
"That only happens in TV." He laughed his stupid, evil laugh. "Now get her you fools. I'm done listening to her pointless babble." One of the damion ran towards me.
"Stop right there! In the name of the Moon!" Finally the girls had arrived.
"Speaking of pointless babble. You still won't be able to win. I will defeat all of you. No, you will never win!" He knew that there wasn't much he could do now that he was so greatly outnumbered. He tightened his grip on Hotaru arm. She stood limp and scared of the being. "Mistress 9 just needs a little energy boost." He laughed and a heart crystal materialized. I looked over at the powerless Rini and Darien. "Here have this." He shoved the glowing crystal into Hotaru's mouth.
"No, Hotaru!" I yelled, but their was nothing I or Hotaru could do. She became the evil woman again.
"You thought you could stop me, fool." She smirked and into her palm.
"Yes, I will stop you." I ran towards her. She held her hand up to block me. I ran past her to Rini and Darien.
"No get away from them!" She screamed. "You useless demons, get her!" She pointed towards me. They ran forward.
"Neptune Submarine Reflection!"
"Uranus Space Sword Blaster!"
"Pluto Deadly Scream!" The outer scouts did their attacks and stalled the monsters. I picked Rini and ran towards Mistress 9. I held the half-dead child up so Hotaru the young girl could see her.
"Hotaru, listen to me. You must help Rini." The inner scouts joined the outer and kept the monsters at bay. "I didn't want to have to do this, but Sailor Saturn awaken!" I screamed. "Saturn help us now!" I knew that it would not be as simple as that. Saturn could not awaken until the entity of Mistress 9 was eliminated from the body.
"No, Aphrodite. Saturn is too dangerous." Uranus yelled at me.
"She must help us!" I yelled back. Mistress 9 fell over in pain.
"Sailor Moon help me." This was her big trick. She was trying to get the Purity Chalice.
"What is it Hotaru?" She ran to her. I must let this happen. I couldn't stop it. I realized that only Pharaoh 90 could destroy the powerful Mistress 9.
"Give her the Purity Chalice, Sailor Moon." I ran towards them. "I have a plan." I winked at her. She nodded and gave her the chalice.
"NO, Sailor Moon!" Uranus screamed. They had destroyed the monsters but were weakened and could nothing to stop her.
"It has to be like this, Uranus." I yelled at her. It worked just the way I had thought. Mistress 9 took it and thrust it into the machine.
"You were too easy Sailor Moon. Now Pharaoh 90 can awaken. I'm disappointed in you Aphrodite. I thought you would have seen that coming." Now that Mistress 9's job was over he was ready to destroy her. A large flare of energy came out of the mass. "Ahhh!" Mistress 9 screamed her last and fell over. The huge body shrunk to the small girl.
"You're Mistress 9 I should have. I did and I also saw that coming." I looked down in a sort of shame. Doctor Tomoe's demon was also destroyed and he lay nearby. My chance had come. This was not the way I wanted it to happened but now I realize it must. I couldn't change history, all I could do was watch. I ran to the small child.
"Look now Sailor Aphrodite. You have destroyed our planet, our world!" Uranus screamed running at me angrily. She was speaking about the now pulsating mass of energy.
"Stop! Uranus, she has done the right thing." Pluto stood in front of her. "You must wait. You have to let the whole thing play out. Please wait." She stood firm. Uranus relaxed.
"Fine." She stood with arms crossed in protest. I shook the girl.
"Hotaru... Hotaru... Sailor Saturn?" I looked at her. "Please Saturn we need your help. Awaken Sailor Saturn!" I yelled at her. Her eyes cracked open. Then the sign appeared on her forehead. I sighed in relief. "Saturn please."
"Yes, I know." Her body disappeared. I stood shocked in a way and then whipped around. Rini and Darien both awoke and slowly got up. Then she reappeared. Sailor Saturn stood before me. Almost as a ghostly image and then became more solid. Uranus widened and Neptune ran up next to her. The inner scouts and Pluto also stood together.
"Sailor Aphrodite, thank you for all of your help. I'm sorry that I could not get to know you any better, but the time must come that I will leave." Sailor Moon ran forward.
"No! You can't leave Hotaru. Please you don't have to fight." Tears began running down her rosy cheeks. I stayed on my knees.
"Hotaru, don't leave me." Rini ran close to her but I grabbed arm before she got there. "Please Hotaru."
"I'm sorry Rini. Hotaru is no longer part of me. Sailor Moon as Super Sailor Moon you could have helped. You did the right thing by giving up the Purity Chalice. Now I must destroy Pharaoh 90 alone." I had heard all this before. It was hard to watch this replay. I couldn't do anything before, now I was standing right beside of them. "People are afraid of me because I have the power to destroy planets, but now I must use this power to destroy the evil on this world." Sailor Moon ran towards her. "Stop you can not do this." She help her Silence Gavial in front of Sailor Moon. The others stood in awe.
"I have to do this alone." She replaced the weapon to her side.
"She does. Go Saturn do what you must. Please save us. I trust you." I smiled.
"Good bye." She did a backflip into the mess of power which consumed Pharaoh 90. I watched this with a smile on my face. Then as I saw her disappear the tears began to flow. I fell back to my knees.
"I guess that's the end of Saturn." Mars commented.
"No its not over, yet." I gathered my strength and got up off of the hard and beaten ground.
"What do you mean, Aphrodite?" Venus asked.
"There is a way to help Sailor Moon transform to her next power level. We can still save Hotaru." I looked over at them. Rini looked up at me with hopeful eyes. "Every surrender your power to Serena. Everyone, please." Mini Moon transformed.
"I'm ready." Mercury walked over. "Mercury Star Power!"
"Mars Star Power!" Mars grabbed Mercury's hand then came Jupiter.
"Jupiter Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!" The outer scouts walked over.
"Uranus Planet Power!"
"Neptune Planet Power!"
"Pluto Planet Power!" Mini Moon walked up to me. She smiled through her tears. I smiled back through my own.
"Moon Crystal Power!" She yelled.
"Aphrodite Love Power!" I finished the line behind Serena. "Now Serena surrender your heart crystal and say 'Moon Crisis Power!'" I yelled at the end of line of scouts.
"Moon Crisis Power!" I watched her transform. She produced her heart crystal and her thin butterfly wings spread out. "I'm ready." She flew over to the energy cloud. I saw a tear stream out of her eye. I watched as a energy blast came from the mass and broke my hold from Mini Moon. I closed my eyes expecting the hard fall the ground. I saw a bright flash of light and all I felt was a light wind. I slowly opened my eyes and saw some people looking at me funny as they walked by on the sidewalk. I looked down at my hands and saw my briefcase in my hand and felt my regular bookbag weighing down my back. I walked to a bench staring at it intently. I opened it and looked at the contents. I pulled out a handful of pictures and flipped through them.
"Awe..." I looked at one of Rini and Hotaru, Serena and Darien, Trista and I in our dresses, all the girls, and one of me standing and smiling. Tears flooded my eyes. I saw the picture I had drawn of Mercury. The fortune that Grandpa Hino gave me. I pulled out my poem. Then I came onto my transformation pendant. I looked at it for a moment and then heard a horn beep.
"Hey, Adrienne! Come on and get in. Look I'm sorry about this morning, get in already. Mom said I have to drive you anyway." It was my sister. She had barely got out of the car, before I gave her a hug. "Get off you freak. Let's get to school before we're late." She smiled a bit and then we were off. I smiled and laughed with my friends all day. I knew that every moment of my time here was precious. The time came to get up in front of the class. I remembered my bravery in battle. I remembered my compliments from the girls on my poem, and suddenly I was no longer afraid. After school I watched my favorite show Sailor Moon.
Which will stay my favorite show forever. For obvious reasons. Even when I am an old lady with grandchildren it will still be the best show. As for the rest of my life, I was never afraid again. I could always picture my friends smiling at my achievements. That meant the world to me. I treasured my memories. I always remember that I could go back tomorrow. That thought always reminds me that my life is no longer boring or average. I never attempted to tell anyone of my tale. What I did do was write a story about my adventures as a sailor scout.