Author's notes...
Okay, first of all I wanna thank MiyokoAinoKou for helping me come up with this idea^^ THANK YOU!!!!! Second, even though I didn't get many reviews on part six I want to say THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! Okay, please enjoy this ^^.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailormoon....boo....*pouts* it's not fair
"Hotaru?" a woman with long green hair called out the door. "Dinner!" No answer. "Hotaru?" She repeated. Normally the little purple-eyed girl would come running up but now it was silent. "I told her not to go into the forest!" she said and sprinted off into the woods.
Elsewhere in the forest Usagi was swimming in the pond by the cave. "Usagi!"Ami called. "Come out of there and help get dinner ready!"
"But Mako is such a good cook I don't see any point!" Usagi shouted.
"It's all right Ami. I can do this myself," Mako said.
"All right Usagi, but you still need to come out and dry off. You can't come to dinner drenched! You'll get everything wet!" Ami said.
"Fine, fine," Usagi said and splashed out of the water. Suddenly there was a scream from somewhere near by. "What was that?"
"I don't know," Michiru said.
"I have a feeling that there are some guards in the woods that I'll have to beat up...again," Haruka complained.
"Hush," Michiru said. Suddenly there was a loud scream from the woods again. A loud male voice could be heard cursing and the could barely make out muffled sobs.
"That's it," Mako said and got up. She headed the direction of the sobs and disappeared in the forest all together. Haruka stood up and followed her. They finally found a guard beating up a little purpled-eyed, black-haried girl.
"Hey you!" Haruka said.
"Picking on little girls isn't nice," Mako said.
"Stay out of my business you bitches," he said.
"Bitches?" Haruka asked. "I think you might regret saying that."
"Why? What are you gonna do about it?" he asked and threw the little girl to the ground.
"This!" Mako said and chucked a large rock at him. It hit him on the head.
He was knocked to the ground on impact. Haruka walked up to him and and kicked him lightly. He was unconscious. Mako walked over to the little girl.
"Are you all right sweetie?" she asked. The little girl drew back a little. Her face was half hidden by her knees and arm. "I'm not going to hurt you silly."
"What's you name?" Haruka asked.
"Hotaru," she said quietly. She lifted her head a little revealing a black eye and a little bit of blood dribbled out of her mouth. She had obviously been injured very badly.
"Can you walk?" Mako asked. She nodded. "Why don't you come back to our camp?" she said. Hotaru stood up and they headed back to the camp. When they got there Usagi was complaining about how hungry she was.
"Mako! Thank Kami-sama your back! I'm-" Usagi began but when she saw Hotaru she stopped. "Is she all right?" Usagi asked.
"Overall, I guess," Mako said and began to wash up the little girl.
"We found a guard abusing her in the forest," Haruka added.
"Poor thing," Michiru added. Soon Hotaru was all washed up and they sat down and ate dinner. Hotaru found it slightly hard to eat because the guard had practically knock out one of her teeth.
"Hotaru," Ami asked. "What were you doing in the woods by yourself?"
"I went to play in them and got lost," she said softly. "Then a guard found me and chased me down."
"Do you need help finding your mother?" Taiki asked.
"I live with my mother's cousin, Setsuna-mama," she said.
"Well, I'm sure she would've come looking for you by now!" Minako said and stuffed a potato in her mouth.
"She probably is," Hotaru said. "I'm worried the bad people in the woods will beat her up before I can find her though."
"We'll find her," Seiya said.
"Arigato!" Hotaru said.
"Why don't you spend the night and we'll go look for her in the morning," Usagi suggested.
"I really wanted to go look for Setsuna-mama now," Hotaru said.
"No they're right. If we go look for her now the scary ghosts will get us!" Yaten said, trying to be scary.
"Shut up Yaten-baka! You're gonna scare her!" Seiya said.
"I don't believe in that sort of stuff," Hotaru said in a matter-of-fact tone. Everyone sweatdropped then proceeded to they all finished their dinner and went to bed.
In the morning they were all awakened by a voice yelling "Hotaru-chan! Where are you?" Hotaru jumped up out of bed and ran outside. The others followed to see a very elegant woman with long pine green hair standing outside. She was too elegant to look like she could do much harm. Hotaru was hugging her leg and saying how sorry she was.
"Hi!" Usagi said and cheerfully walked up to the woman. "I take it your Hotaru's 'Setsuna-mama,'"
"I am," she said and hugged Hotaru. Suddenly an arrow whizzed by Usagi's face.
"There you are! This time I'll get you!" a guard bellowed as he ran out of the brush. He walked up to Hotaru and grabbed her arm. "Listen you little pain in the ass, I-"
"I suggest you leave that girl alone," Setsuna said.
"And what are you gonna do 'bout it?" he asked.
"This!" she said and kick him in the stomach. He went flying backwards. Setsuna pushed Hotaru behind her. "I suggest you leave now," she said.
"I'm tried of all you damn people ruining our plans!" he said and charged at her with a blade. Before anyone knew what had happened, Setsuna had him in a painful lock.
"If I let you go will you leave?" she asked. He snorted. She pulled his arm even further into the lock.
"Yes! Yes I will!!!" he cried.
"Good!" Setsuna said and released him from the lock. He ran away. Fast too.
"Now get the hell out of here!" Haruka said. Setsuna turned to Hotaru.
"I don't want you to ever ever act like that unless you have to, okay?" Hotaru nodded.
"Excuse me, you two?" Luna said. "Would it be all right if you stayed here with us? I think you might some of the people we're looking for."
"Hey! The kitty talks!" Hotaru said and picked up Luna.
"Sure, we'll stay here with you," Setsuna said. Suddenly Usagi screamed at the top of her lungs.
"I'M CONFUSED!!!!! HOW MANY SENSHI ARE THERE???? I DON'T GET THIS AT ALL!!!!!" She looked like she was on the verge of tears.
"It's all right Odango," Seiya said and tried to think of anything that would keep her from breaking out into sobs. "We are almost done finding everyone! Then you'll remember everything!"
"Really?" she asked. He nodded.
"He's right," Luna said. "Only two more people."
**********************************************************************
Another part!!! Yay!! I hope everyone liked that!! I'm low on ideas these days! Please R&R!!! Jaa!!!