A Fugitive On My Own Planet.

As I leant up against a tree, and Michiru flopped on the ground in the National Park on a clifftop overlooking the palace, the alarms suddenly stopped, and left a ringing silence. A swarm of people dressed in black rush out of the building. The Uranus armed forces! "No!" Whimpered Michiru, as she hacked away at the material of her dress with my pocketknife.

"I have to make this shorter, it's too hard to run in!" I leant down. "Is that my pocket knife? Developing a career as a pickpocket, are you? Here, give it to me, I'll do it." She flashed me an icy look that would have stopped a tank in its tracks. "Save those looks, we can use them if the Army catches up with us." Ignoring me, she kept slicing the beautiful material, until she finally cut through the last thread. I grabbed the knife from her, shoved it in my pocket, pulled her to her feet, and dragged her behind me as I dashed off into the bash. ------------------- "Haruka?" Michiru panted after about half an hour of running full force, straight through the many trees. "The only place that we're going to be safe is on Pluto, and maybe Saturn!" I stopped suddenly accidentally tripping Michiru, who landed spread over a log. "Hotaru wouldn't be able to help us, but Setsuna would. Michiru, would we still be able to teleport?" She delicately climbed up from the ground, brushing leaves off her. "No. We can't teleport to other planets unless we're Queens. That title was taken away from us, but they didn't take the Sailor Senshi Bit away from us, so we can use the teleport pad, over near the canyons."

"Good. Okay, Setsuna would probably be going back to Pluto now, so we can meet her there! If we can make it to the teleport pad without being seen, that is." Michiru smiled wearily. "Yes. Ummm. Ruka darling, would you mind terribly if we rested here? I'm rather tired." I looked down at her, and noticed that she wasn't really standing by herself anymore. I was holding her up. "Oh. Okay." She yawned. "Are you sure? I can keep running if you want me too." I slid down a tree onto the ground. "No, we'll stop."

She curled up in my lap, already falling asleep. "Ruka, why did they blame you?" I sighed. "I don't know, Michi, I really don't know." With these words, she fell into an obviously restless sleep, with her head on my chest. ----------------- Waking up with a start, I screamed, not recognizing what was happening. Something oddly familiar was sitting peacefully on me. Not only that, but something was digging into my back. I sat bolt upright. "Oooohhh, that's the last time I fall asleep sitting up against a tree. looking around, I realised Michiru was sitting on me, looking sleepily surprised, and my locket, the one Michiru gave me for my birthday, had flipped itself around, so it was hanging down my back. "Haruka, what's wrong?" Michiru sleepily yawned. "What? Oh, nothing Michiru. Go back to sleep." "Nah, we gotta go," she mumbled, standing up stiffly. Sighing, and wincing from hunger, we started walking in the direction of the transportation pad.

"Michiru.' I whined. "Yes?" She murmured, looking sideway. "Why can't we just use the powers of our planets to pop over to Pluto?" She looked at me disbelievingly. "HARUKA TENOH! I explained that last nigh. "Well, I forgot," I said sulkily. She groaned. "Well, my guess is that since the title of Queen was taken away from us, we can't do that any more. But we're still Sailor senshi, so we can still use the teleport pads. That's how we're going to get to Pluto." I nodded enthusiastically, and she continued.

"Either that, or our planets don't believe us either." I snorted. "That sounds about right." "Mmmm." She murmured, picking at the threads of her severed dress. "Haruka," she exclaimed suddenly, "What's that?" I looked to where she was pointing, and over the trees, I could make out a wisp of smoke.

"Oh, crap!" I yelled. "People! People! Civilisation! Food! A place to- hey, wait. What if they're palace people? Well, I guess we'll just have to take a risk, won't we?" I grinned evilly, and dragged a struggling Michiru cautiously closer. When we got close, though, I stopped, let her go, and we both peered around a tree, and came face to face with the second most horrible sight I've ever seen.

Screaming, Michiru and I dropped to the ground, cowering away from the evil, terrifying, short, demon that was standing there. When we stoped cowering in fear, I looked up cautiously. Then, it said something that made us start screaming again. "Hi."

I think I'm mentally scarred for life.

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