Chapter 13:



Ami paced back and forth. Ky was Kotanam. The thought just did not sit right with her. Ky was so animated, and Sailor Kotanam was cold.

"Serena, you and Rini had better watch out. Ky's living in your house. She knows who I am, and it won't be long before she figures out who you are."

"She's not getting my Crystal," Serena replied, touching her locket. "Don't worry, Ames."

"Ami! Serena!" cried Rei, running from the temple. "Watch it!" Ami screamed and rolled out of the way as a Kotanam Gate opened below her feet.

"Kotanam!" she cried angrily. "You leave my friends alone."



Ky stepped from the bushes, in her senshi form. Behind her were two senshi, Sailor Anger and Sailor of Woods, and the two Guardians, Fire and Earth.

"What do you want, Kotanam?" Ami demanded, stepping in front of Serena.

"The Silver Crystal," she said simply. "Hand it over, Princess."

"I don't have it. You know that."

"I wasn't talking to you, Ami." Ky fixed her cold gaze on Serena. "I know you have it."

"Wait here," Serena said. "I'll go get Sailor Moon, and you can talk to her. She'll know what to do."



Ky watched, a smirk on her face.

"You betrayed me," Ami said.

"I told you, Amy, there is more then just your world at stake. Billions of lives hang in the balance." Ami had nothing to answer to that. She simply crossed her arms, and fixed Ky with a furious glare. Ky looked away.

"It's okay, Ami," Serena said, appearing in her Sailor Moon form. Rini was beside her. Ky gave a little bow.

"Princesses," she said differentially. "I have come to seek a audience with you. I need your Crystal."

"It will never leave my hands," Serena replied. "However, if I can go with you. . . ."

"Fine. Tonight then."

"Sailor Moon, don't go alone," Rini cried. "I want to go with you!" Ky stopped.

"I can only take one through to the Gate at a time, and anyone stuck in Kotanam, the place between worlds, will be stuck there forever."

"What if the Scouts could follow us, together."

"Between worlds?" Ky asked skeptically.

"Easy," Serena replied. "We've gone through time. Between dementions can't be all that bad." Ky gave her an incredulous look, but she nodded in resignation.

"Tonight then, the temple," she motioned with her hand to Rei's temple, "bring your sister senshi. I'll be waiting."

"So will we, Kotanam," Serena replied.

They stepped back into the shadows, fading from view. Ami turned t Serena.

"Do you think that was a good idea?" she asked. Serena shrugged.

"They need help, and I can give it. Besides, then we won't have to deal with them any more." She turned. "Come on, Chibi-Moon. Let's get out of here before one of those shadow creatures comes after us."

"'kay," she replied. "See ya Ames!"



Ami wandered around on the temple grounds, looking for a place of solitude. She needed to think. She had trusted Ky, and Ky had been after Serena all along. Ky had betrayed her, had used magic on her to force out information about the Moon Princess.

"Ami," said a soft voice. Ami turned. Ky stood alone, in her normal form.

"Ky," Ami replied distantly. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to apologize. I'm sorry about how things have to be."

"You made the choice, Ky."

"Hibroy did, not I," she replied softly. "He took my friends and my family, most of my world as his plaything, and we are not his first victims or his last."

"What will you have Sailor Moon do?" Ami asked.

"What she must. Use the Crystal to heal those scattered across the dementions."

"Ky, that will kill her. She does not have that kind of power."

"Sailor Kotanam will be helping her, increasing her powers, spreading them."

"If she dies, Ky. . ."

"She won't. Trust me, Ami."

"I did. You betrayed that trust."

"How? By being a senshi? We are sisters, Ami. Sometimes, families fight, and sisters are unable to stand together. If that is what you want, for us to be separate, we can be."

"Ky," Ami sighed. "I'll help you. Hibroy needs to be stopped before he comes after those I love."

"Thank you, Ami." Ky turned, and was gone back into the woods. Ami sighed.

"What have I gotten myself into?"





Ami met her friends on the temple grounds. All of hem were in senshi form.

"D'you think she'll come?" Lita asked.

"She'll be here," Ami replied. "She came her for Sailor Moon, and she came for the Crystal's powers. She won't leave until she has them."

"Hope you're right, Ames," Rei said. She shivered. "I'm getting some bad vibes tonight. Something is going to happen."

"Not on my watch," came Ky's voice. She appeared in the air before them, in her senshi form. "Anger, Woods, Fire and Earth are all keeping an eye out while we do this." She looked over at Serena. "Are you ready Princess?"

"Yes. Chibi-Moon will be going with you."

"What?"

"Sailor Moon is the strongest, and we'll teleport with greater accuracy if she's with us," Ami explained. "Chibi-Moon has her own Crystal. If something happens to us, she can help you."

"If something happens to her," Serena added softly, "you'll wish you'd never come." Ky simply nodded, looking unimpressed by Serena's threat.

"Follow me, if you can," she said. "Kotanam Gate, open for me!"



A large, swirling portal opened before them.

"After you." Serena smiled at Ky. Ky sighed, shook her head, and stepped into the portal, holding Chibi-Moon's hand tightly in her own. Ami joined in the circle, holding Serena's hand in her right, and Rei's in her left. They each began to concentrate their energies. They began to float up as one, following Ky into the swirling black vortex.