Chapter 1
A Mysterious Boy Appears
"Small Lady!" Ami yelled, "Slow down!"
Chibi-usa stopped and glanced over her shoulder at her persuer.
"Sorry," she called, coming to a brief stop. It had been quite a few
years after her last trip to 20-century Tokyo and her mother told her
that it would probably be her last. Without waiting for Ami to catch up
she sprinted toward the castle.
She passed by a tall boy, nearly as tall as her. He had on a
tattered, worn bage cloak and hood that covered his face. Time seemed to
stop for a minute. Chibi-usa heard the boy quietly singing to himself.
He was singing a lullaby.
"A voice sings out in the forest night,
Leads my way like a candle light.
If I can hear it so can you.
A cry that echoes through the years,
Clears my mind of it's deepest fears."
Chibi-usa stopped and tried to turn around but she tripped on a
stone in the path. She landed with a thud on the cold ground. "Owww!"
she muttered as she rubbed her bruised butt. She noticed a hand in front of
her. She looked up and saw the boy, his face was still hiden by his hood. She
took his hand and he help her up.
"Are you all right?" he asked her. His voice caught her by
surprise. It sounded just like her father's voice. A breeze cause his
hood and it flapped back a little. A scar ran across his right eye, sealing
it shut. But the scar wasn't what bothered her. It was his face itself.
It resembled her father more than his voice did.
"Are you all right?" he repeated.
"Huh?" she replied."Oh, yeah. I'm all right. What was that song
you were singing?"
The boy seemed surprised. "I don't know myself," he stammered.
"But ever now and then I find myself singing it. It isn't that uncommon.
If you walk around the area circling the castle you can a few of the
mothers singing their childeren to sleep with it."
Ami caught up with them.
"I'd better get going," he muttered before leaving.
"Who was that?" Ami asked.
Chibi-usa didn't answer. She just stared at the boy's back. She didn't totally believe him.
"Small Lady?" Ami's voice cut through her questions.
"I don't know," she answered to her first question.
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"Pu?" Chibi-usa asked.
"What is it, Small Lady?" Sailor Pluto replied.
"Well, you know that song mom all ways sung to me when I was
little? Do you know if anyone else would know it?"
Pluto was caught off-gaurd by her question. "I don't know. I've
only heard the Queen and very few others sing it. Other than that I
don't know. Why do you ask?"
"No reason. I just heard someone singing it when Ami-chan and I
went out to the store."
Pluto slightly twiched. She stood up. "Excuse me, Small Lady. I have some business
to attend to."
Chibi-usa watched her leave the room. She sighed and glanced at
her mirrior. She walked toward it. Studing her reflection she occationly
twirled. She had grown in the past years. Her legs had streched out
longer and more slim, her waist had tightened a bit, her chest had
grown, her long arms appeared fragile but were strong, her face was
slender and oulined by her lengthy pink hair. Everyone in the castle
said that she looked just her mother when she was young.
A noise drew her away from her admiration of herself. It came from
the hallway. She peeked out and saw her mother standing at the window,
staring at the night sky. Chibi-usa glanced at her watch. 10:48. Her
mother was usually asleep at this time. Serenity started to hum the
lullaby. Small Lady stood quietly and listened. It was peaceful and
soothing. As she looked at her she saw a single tear slide down her
mother's cheek. She had never seen her cry before.
Edymion appeared at their door. He walked to her. "Still singing
the song?" he asked.
She brushed away the tear before she replied, "I do when I can't
get to sleep. I guess it helps ease the pain about Terry a little."
Chibi-usa raised an eyebrow.
Edymion pulled his wife into his arms. "I guess it helps me too,"
he said softly.
"I'm sorry," she whispered.
"Shh," he told her. Bending down he kissed her gently.
Chibi-usa envied her parents a little. She wished she had someone
to love. She remembered Helois and blushed a little. She tiptoed back to
her bed and soon fell asleep.
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Sailor Pluto was in front of the Time Gate. A strange force was keeping
her from entering it. She jabbed it with her staff but it wouldn't
budge. She had only one other thing to try. She raised her staff. "Dead
Scream!!" A ball of purple energy formed and she shot it at the Gate. It
seemed to absorb the attack. Suddenly it came back to her. She crossed
her arms in front of her to block it. The ball sent her flying
backwards. She struggled to her feet and supported herself with her
staff. Pluto stared at the Gate, her eyes wide with shock. "N-No!" she
gasped between breaths. "It can't be! It's too soon!"
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Chibi-usa was in a deep sleep, dreaming about Helios. In her dream she
heard him calling her. She ran to him, her arms streched out in front of
her. "Helois!" she yelled. "I'm here! I'm here!"
Suddenly she sprang up on her bed. "Huh?" she said sleepily. Then she heard the reason. A sharp, scarching sound. It
was coming from outside her window. She leaned out and looked down.
"AAAAIIIEEEEE!!" she screamed. Her face was five inches away from the
face of a yoma.
She jumped back as it reached her window sill. Her back was to the
wall. It climbed into her room. It's skin was dark green and rough, it's
eyes were bright yellow with large pupils. "Are you the one they called
'Small Lady'?" it asked. It's voice was distorted and low.
Chibi-usa just screamed again.
"I'll take that as a 'yes'." It walked to her.
The door suddenly burst into splinters.
Saillor Mars and Sailor Mercury came through. "Hold it right
there, slimer!" Mars ordered the yoma. It payed no attention to her.
"You asked for this. Fire..."
"Wait, Mars!" Mercury shouted before she could finish. "You might
set the room on fire!!"
"Oh yeah, forgot about that."
"Would you two kindly do something with this thing!!!" Chibi-usa
yelled.
The yoma grabbed her and jumped back out the window.
"Small Lady!!" they screamed.
"Thanks a lot you two idiots!!" she replied as she fell to the
ground. A portal began to open in front of them. "Help me!!" Chibi-usa
shreeked. "Anyone, please help me!!!" The yoma stepped toward the
portal.
A person got between them and the portal. Chibi-usa looked up. She
gasped. It was the boy from that morning!
"Let her go," he said in a calm voice.
The yoma shook it's head.
"Then I'll have to take her." He stood his ground as the yoma ran
to him.
The yoma made a clean strike with it's arm. It passed the boy. It
suddenly felt that he was carrying anything anymore. "What??" It looked
down to discover Chibi-usa wasn't in it's arm.
Meanwhile, the boy set Small Lady down to the ground. She herself
didn't know how he had done that. She stood, dumbfounded.
"Hey!!" the yoma whined. "No fair!! I didn't even see you!!"
The boy turned around and raised his hand. Slowly, light gathered
in it and formed a ball. Chibi-usa noticed something on his forhead. A
mark. It was a small, white picture of Earth. The ball grew untill it
filled his entire hand. "Deamon!" he said, his voice raised with each
sylible, "Vanish!!" The ball shot out in a single beam, hitting the yoma
at the heart.
It's skin began to fall off. It was revealed to be a young boy.
He fell to the ground. Chibi-usa ran to him. "Hey," she said, shaking
him. "Are you all right?"
He groaned.
The other boy joined them. He place his palm on the boy's
forehead. "You're gonna be okay," he told him.
Chibi-usa looked at him strangely. Who are you?" she asked him.
He sighed. "I don't know."
"What?"
"I don't know. I know nothing about myself."
"Do you know your name?"
"Yes, it's...Adonis. My name's Adonis."
Sailor Mercury and Mars(finally)showed up. Adonis picked up the
boy. "He needs help," he stated.
"Yes," Mercury agreed, not taking her eyes off Adonis. "Bring him
into the castle."
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Adonis got the same reaction as Mercury from the other Senshi and the
King and Queen. They had him take the boy into the infermery so Ami
could examine him.
Makoto pulled Rei away from the others. "Hey," she whispered to
her. "Who is that?"
"I don't know," Rei answered. "He just showed up and saved Small
Lady. He says his name is Adonis and Small Lady said that when he shot
at that guy he had a mark on his forhead. A white picture of Earth."
Makoto looked around the corner at the boy in question. He was
leaning against the wall facing the door to the infermery. "He looks too
much like Mamoru," she said flatly. "Do you think he could be....?" She
let the question hang in the air.
" ....Terry?" Rei finished. She looked also. "Could be."
Just then Ami opened the door.
"How's the kid?" Adonis asked. "He's stable," she answered. She
pushed the door further out so that they could come in.
The boy laid on a bed, tube connected to his arm and supplied him
with a blueish-green liquid. His glazed eyes were open, staring at the
ceiling.
Rei stepped to his side. "Hey," she said, as if talking to a small
child. "Do you mind answering a few questions?"
He shook his head.
"Okay, why did you come here?"
He was silent for a few moments before answering, "To take the
Small Lady."
"Why do you want her?"
"My master ordered that she be brought to him at once."
"Who is your master?"
The boy turned his head to looked at them. He raised one hand and
pointed to Adonis. "He is."
Rei swiftly turned to stare at him. To her surprise it seemed that
what the boy said shocked him too.
"Me?" he said in a squeeky voice, sounding just like Mamoru when
he's surprised. "What do you mean me?"
"The scar," the boy continued. "The eye. They are the same. The
same as the master's." He put his hand back and closed his eyes, asleep.
Makoto grabbed Adonis's shoulder and spun him around. "What did he
mean?" she asked. "What did he mean?"
"I don't know," he repeated. "I've never seen him before."
She released him. "So you say," her voice was slightly cold, as
were her green eyes. She glared at him before leaving the room.
"Don't worry aout her," Ami said gently. "A lot has happened that
we don't understand. But it is weird. Him saying that you're his master,
even though you've never seen him. He even noted the scar and your eye."
Adonis sighed as he exited the room. He stopped in the doorway and
looked back at them. "I'm telling you the truth," he said. "I know
nothing about what he said."
"At least stay here," Rei almost pleaded. "I'm sure the King and
Queen wouldn't mind."
He smiled and nodded his head.
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Serenity sat on her throne, her head in the palm of her hand, thinking.
I wish I knew who Adonis is.
In front of her a portal suddenly appeared. Out of it an injured
Sailor Pluto fell to the ground.
"Pluto??" nearly shrieked the surprised queen. She ran to the
fallen Senshi's side. "Pluto, what happened to you?"
Pluto raised her head enough to look her in the eye. The Queen
noticed a hint of fear in her eyes. "Alert...," she gasped,
"all...the...Senshi...Tell....them....the....Negaverse.....is.....back..
." She collasped from exhaugtion.
"Pluto? Pluto?? What do you mean ' the Negaverse is back'? They
can't be!"
Adonis silently watched the Queen tried to awake Pluto. Suddenly the attack signs all went off. The remaining Senshi
rushed past him and out the door. He followed them, hoping to get some
answers. They ran until they were well out of range from the castle. All
around them were yomas in all shapes and sizes attacking everything they
saw.
Uranus attacked them first. "World Shaking!!" She slammed her fist
into the ground. The attack took out a few. The others tried but not all
where destroyed.
Adonis noticed a figure behind a rock. Evertime a yoma struck
something his hands seemed to dictate it. "Venus!" he yelled.
"Adonis??" she returned. "When'd you get here?"
"Never mind that right now, shoot that rock right there!"
She obeyed, " Venus Love Me Chain!!"
As the rock shattered the figure jumped out of the way onto
another boulder. They had on a black cloak and hood, like Adonis', a
cloth covered their nose down past their mouth. "Hmp," they said as they
landed. "How rude." The voice was clearly male, and very familar.
"Who are you?" Adonis demanded.
"None of your business," he replied.
Jupiter yelled, " We'll see about that! Jupiter Oak Evoultion!!"
He dodged the attack but it hit the cloth, ripping it. He quickly
grabbed the ramainder of the it and held it to block his face. "Good
aim," he sarcastly remarked. He stepped in front of Adonis, about ten
feet away. "But," he continued, "who is this?"
"None of your business," Adonis retorted.
"Too bad," he released the cloth, letting it flutter to the
ground. Everyone gasped at what it revealed. An identical face to that
of Adonis! The double finished his sentence, "I guess we'll never find
out who we are." Suddenly he was lifted into the air. He laughed evily
as he disappeared.
"Who," Neputne started, "in the world was that?"
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NEXT TIME: Two Adonis??? What's this about anyway? Could one or the
other be Terry? What does Pluto mean that the Negaverse is back? How
does Serenity and Edymion feel about having a guy that looks just like
their lost child around? And who is the doppleganger? Why does he control yomas?
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A Mysterious Boy Appears
"Small Lady!" Ami yelled, "Slow down!"
Chibi-usa stopped and glanced over her shoulder at her persuer.
"Sorry," she called, coming to a brief stop. It had been quite a few
years after her last trip to 20-century Tokyo and her mother told her
that it would probably be her last. Without waiting for Ami to catch up
she sprinted toward the castle.
She passed by a tall boy, nearly as tall as her. He had on a
tattered, worn bage cloak and hood that covered his face. Time seemed to
stop for a minute. Chibi-usa heard the boy quietly singing to himself.
He was singing a lullaby.
"A voice sings out in the forest night,
Leads my way like a candle light.
If I can hear it so can you.
A cry that echoes through the years,
Clears my mind of it's deepest fears."
Chibi-usa stopped and tried to turn around but she tripped on a
stone in the path. She landed with a thud on the cold ground. "Owww!"
she muttered as she rubbed her bruised butt. She noticed a hand in front of
her. She looked up and saw the boy, his face was still hiden by his hood. She
took his hand and he help her up.
"Are you all right?" he asked her. His voice caught her by
surprise. It sounded just like her father's voice. A breeze cause his
hood and it flapped back a little. A scar ran across his right eye, sealing
it shut. But the scar wasn't what bothered her. It was his face itself.
It resembled her father more than his voice did.
"Are you all right?" he repeated.
"Huh?" she replied."Oh, yeah. I'm all right. What was that song
you were singing?"
The boy seemed surprised. "I don't know myself," he stammered.
"But ever now and then I find myself singing it. It isn't that uncommon.
If you walk around the area circling the castle you can a few of the
mothers singing their childeren to sleep with it."
Ami caught up with them.
"I'd better get going," he muttered before leaving.
"Who was that?" Ami asked.
Chibi-usa didn't answer. She just stared at the boy's back. She didn't totally believe him.
"Small Lady?" Ami's voice cut through her questions.
"I don't know," she answered to her first question.
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"Pu?" Chibi-usa asked.
"What is it, Small Lady?" Sailor Pluto replied.
"Well, you know that song mom all ways sung to me when I was
little? Do you know if anyone else would know it?"
Pluto was caught off-gaurd by her question. "I don't know. I've
only heard the Queen and very few others sing it. Other than that I
don't know. Why do you ask?"
"No reason. I just heard someone singing it when Ami-chan and I
went out to the store."
Pluto slightly twiched. She stood up. "Excuse me, Small Lady. I have some business
to attend to."
Chibi-usa watched her leave the room. She sighed and glanced at
her mirrior. She walked toward it. Studing her reflection she occationly
twirled. She had grown in the past years. Her legs had streched out
longer and more slim, her waist had tightened a bit, her chest had
grown, her long arms appeared fragile but were strong, her face was
slender and oulined by her lengthy pink hair. Everyone in the castle
said that she looked just her mother when she was young.
A noise drew her away from her admiration of herself. It came from
the hallway. She peeked out and saw her mother standing at the window,
staring at the night sky. Chibi-usa glanced at her watch. 10:48. Her
mother was usually asleep at this time. Serenity started to hum the
lullaby. Small Lady stood quietly and listened. It was peaceful and
soothing. As she looked at her she saw a single tear slide down her
mother's cheek. She had never seen her cry before.
Edymion appeared at their door. He walked to her. "Still singing
the song?" he asked.
She brushed away the tear before she replied, "I do when I can't
get to sleep. I guess it helps ease the pain about Terry a little."
Chibi-usa raised an eyebrow.
Edymion pulled his wife into his arms. "I guess it helps me too,"
he said softly.
"I'm sorry," she whispered.
"Shh," he told her. Bending down he kissed her gently.
Chibi-usa envied her parents a little. She wished she had someone
to love. She remembered Helois and blushed a little. She tiptoed back to
her bed and soon fell asleep.
----------
Sailor Pluto was in front of the Time Gate. A strange force was keeping
her from entering it. She jabbed it with her staff but it wouldn't
budge. She had only one other thing to try. She raised her staff. "Dead
Scream!!" A ball of purple energy formed and she shot it at the Gate. It
seemed to absorb the attack. Suddenly it came back to her. She crossed
her arms in front of her to block it. The ball sent her flying
backwards. She struggled to her feet and supported herself with her
staff. Pluto stared at the Gate, her eyes wide with shock. "N-No!" she
gasped between breaths. "It can't be! It's too soon!"
----------
Chibi-usa was in a deep sleep, dreaming about Helios. In her dream she
heard him calling her. She ran to him, her arms streched out in front of
her. "Helois!" she yelled. "I'm here! I'm here!"
Suddenly she sprang up on her bed. "Huh?" she said sleepily. Then she heard the reason. A sharp, scarching sound. It
was coming from outside her window. She leaned out and looked down.
"AAAAIIIEEEEE!!" she screamed. Her face was five inches away from the
face of a yoma.
She jumped back as it reached her window sill. Her back was to the
wall. It climbed into her room. It's skin was dark green and rough, it's
eyes were bright yellow with large pupils. "Are you the one they called
'Small Lady'?" it asked. It's voice was distorted and low.
Chibi-usa just screamed again.
"I'll take that as a 'yes'." It walked to her.
The door suddenly burst into splinters.
Saillor Mars and Sailor Mercury came through. "Hold it right
there, slimer!" Mars ordered the yoma. It payed no attention to her.
"You asked for this. Fire..."
"Wait, Mars!" Mercury shouted before she could finish. "You might
set the room on fire!!"
"Oh yeah, forgot about that."
"Would you two kindly do something with this thing!!!" Chibi-usa
yelled.
The yoma grabbed her and jumped back out the window.
"Small Lady!!" they screamed.
"Thanks a lot you two idiots!!" she replied as she fell to the
ground. A portal began to open in front of them. "Help me!!" Chibi-usa
shreeked. "Anyone, please help me!!!" The yoma stepped toward the
portal.
A person got between them and the portal. Chibi-usa looked up. She
gasped. It was the boy from that morning!
"Let her go," he said in a calm voice.
The yoma shook it's head.
"Then I'll have to take her." He stood his ground as the yoma ran
to him.
The yoma made a clean strike with it's arm. It passed the boy. It
suddenly felt that he was carrying anything anymore. "What??" It looked
down to discover Chibi-usa wasn't in it's arm.
Meanwhile, the boy set Small Lady down to the ground. She herself
didn't know how he had done that. She stood, dumbfounded.
"Hey!!" the yoma whined. "No fair!! I didn't even see you!!"
The boy turned around and raised his hand. Slowly, light gathered
in it and formed a ball. Chibi-usa noticed something on his forhead. A
mark. It was a small, white picture of Earth. The ball grew untill it
filled his entire hand. "Deamon!" he said, his voice raised with each
sylible, "Vanish!!" The ball shot out in a single beam, hitting the yoma
at the heart.
It's skin began to fall off. It was revealed to be a young boy.
He fell to the ground. Chibi-usa ran to him. "Hey," she said, shaking
him. "Are you all right?"
He groaned.
The other boy joined them. He place his palm on the boy's
forehead. "You're gonna be okay," he told him.
Chibi-usa looked at him strangely. Who are you?" she asked him.
He sighed. "I don't know."
"What?"
"I don't know. I know nothing about myself."
"Do you know your name?"
"Yes, it's...Adonis. My name's Adonis."
Sailor Mercury and Mars(finally)showed up. Adonis picked up the
boy. "He needs help," he stated.
"Yes," Mercury agreed, not taking her eyes off Adonis. "Bring him
into the castle."
----------
Adonis got the same reaction as Mercury from the other Senshi and the
King and Queen. They had him take the boy into the infermery so Ami
could examine him.
Makoto pulled Rei away from the others. "Hey," she whispered to
her. "Who is that?"
"I don't know," Rei answered. "He just showed up and saved Small
Lady. He says his name is Adonis and Small Lady said that when he shot
at that guy he had a mark on his forhead. A white picture of Earth."
Makoto looked around the corner at the boy in question. He was
leaning against the wall facing the door to the infermery. "He looks too
much like Mamoru," she said flatly. "Do you think he could be....?" She
let the question hang in the air.
" ....Terry?" Rei finished. She looked also. "Could be."
Just then Ami opened the door.
"How's the kid?" Adonis asked. "He's stable," she answered. She
pushed the door further out so that they could come in.
The boy laid on a bed, tube connected to his arm and supplied him
with a blueish-green liquid. His glazed eyes were open, staring at the
ceiling.
Rei stepped to his side. "Hey," she said, as if talking to a small
child. "Do you mind answering a few questions?"
He shook his head.
"Okay, why did you come here?"
He was silent for a few moments before answering, "To take the
Small Lady."
"Why do you want her?"
"My master ordered that she be brought to him at once."
"Who is your master?"
The boy turned his head to looked at them. He raised one hand and
pointed to Adonis. "He is."
Rei swiftly turned to stare at him. To her surprise it seemed that
what the boy said shocked him too.
"Me?" he said in a squeeky voice, sounding just like Mamoru when
he's surprised. "What do you mean me?"
"The scar," the boy continued. "The eye. They are the same. The
same as the master's." He put his hand back and closed his eyes, asleep.
Makoto grabbed Adonis's shoulder and spun him around. "What did he
mean?" she asked. "What did he mean?"
"I don't know," he repeated. "I've never seen him before."
She released him. "So you say," her voice was slightly cold, as
were her green eyes. She glared at him before leaving the room.
"Don't worry aout her," Ami said gently. "A lot has happened that
we don't understand. But it is weird. Him saying that you're his master,
even though you've never seen him. He even noted the scar and your eye."
Adonis sighed as he exited the room. He stopped in the doorway and
looked back at them. "I'm telling you the truth," he said. "I know
nothing about what he said."
"At least stay here," Rei almost pleaded. "I'm sure the King and
Queen wouldn't mind."
He smiled and nodded his head.
----------
Serenity sat on her throne, her head in the palm of her hand, thinking.
I wish I knew who Adonis is.
In front of her a portal suddenly appeared. Out of it an injured
Sailor Pluto fell to the ground.
"Pluto??" nearly shrieked the surprised queen. She ran to the
fallen Senshi's side. "Pluto, what happened to you?"
Pluto raised her head enough to look her in the eye. The Queen
noticed a hint of fear in her eyes. "Alert...," she gasped,
"all...the...Senshi...Tell....them....the....Negaverse.....is.....back..
." She collasped from exhaugtion.
"Pluto? Pluto?? What do you mean ' the Negaverse is back'? They
can't be!"
Adonis silently watched the Queen tried to awake Pluto. Suddenly the attack signs all went off. The remaining Senshi
rushed past him and out the door. He followed them, hoping to get some
answers. They ran until they were well out of range from the castle. All
around them were yomas in all shapes and sizes attacking everything they
saw.
Uranus attacked them first. "World Shaking!!" She slammed her fist
into the ground. The attack took out a few. The others tried but not all
where destroyed.
Adonis noticed a figure behind a rock. Evertime a yoma struck
something his hands seemed to dictate it. "Venus!" he yelled.
"Adonis??" she returned. "When'd you get here?"
"Never mind that right now, shoot that rock right there!"
She obeyed, " Venus Love Me Chain!!"
As the rock shattered the figure jumped out of the way onto
another boulder. They had on a black cloak and hood, like Adonis', a
cloth covered their nose down past their mouth. "Hmp," they said as they
landed. "How rude." The voice was clearly male, and very familar.
"Who are you?" Adonis demanded.
"None of your business," he replied.
Jupiter yelled, " We'll see about that! Jupiter Oak Evoultion!!"
He dodged the attack but it hit the cloth, ripping it. He quickly
grabbed the ramainder of the it and held it to block his face. "Good
aim," he sarcastly remarked. He stepped in front of Adonis, about ten
feet away. "But," he continued, "who is this?"
"None of your business," Adonis retorted.
"Too bad," he released the cloth, letting it flutter to the
ground. Everyone gasped at what it revealed. An identical face to that
of Adonis! The double finished his sentence, "I guess we'll never find
out who we are." Suddenly he was lifted into the air. He laughed evily
as he disappeared.
"Who," Neputne started, "in the world was that?"
---------
NEXT TIME: Two Adonis??? What's this about anyway? Could one or the
other be Terry? What does Pluto mean that the Negaverse is back? How
does Serenity and Edymion feel about having a guy that looks just like
their lost child around? And who is the doppleganger? Why does he control yomas?
__________