I am SOOOOO SORRY about the long wait, work once again got in the way of productivity. I am soooo loving all of the reviews I'm getting, EVERY review helps the thought process move faster. ^_^ I never thought I was a good righter...I always sucked at English in school. (Shrug) Oh well, here's the next chapter you have all been waiting for!!!!
I Don't Own Sailor Moon



The group of girls were discussing the readings as he entered the Rei's
room, taking the last empty chair in-between Mina and the large fireplace.

"…I'm extremely worried, all four of the women had high power levels, this could
mean double the trouble."

Luna commented from Mina's lap.

"I don't think so Luna. All of them were extremely nice and the energy I felt radiating
from them was positive energy." Darien put in.

"It could be quite possible for them all to be Sailor Scouts as well…" Lita started, then
continued before Luna had a chance to say anything.

"I mean, why would there be only four scouts from Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter…
when there are still Neptune, Uranus, Pluto and Saturn?"

Luna opens her mouth as if she was about to say something but is caught in thought.
Amy nods her head in agreement.

"That would explain a lot." Amy gains a thoughtful look.

"As you said Luna each planet had a princess, and each princess was in Princess
Serenity's court."

Luna shakes her head.

"Even if Neptune, Uranus, Pluto and Saturn have scouts, they are not inner scouts.
They are known as the Outer planets."

Lita shrugs.

"Even so that still means that there are more scouts to find."

**~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**

Serena lay quietly on the couch with Amarah, Michelle and Hotaru sitting in
the lounge chairs artistically placed around the room.

"What did you see this time Rena?" Hotaru asked quietly.

"…Scouts from the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter…"

Serena closes her eyes taking a deep breath.

"All fighting with all their might, yet still end up dyeing. It is strange, I feel close to each
of these Inner planetary scouts."

A bright light fills the room, when it dies down Trista was standing in the middle of the
room.
"That is because the Inner scouts are apart of your court."

Serena smiles at the guardian.

"It is good to see you again my friend."

Serena moves so that Trista could sit down on the couch with her.

"While the Inner scouts were your protectors, friends and advisers. Artemis and another
Cat named Luna were Queen Serenity's advisers."

After a quite moment Michelle speaks up.

"So where is the old cat?" She asked as she looked around the room for him.

"I'm right here Michelle." Artemis responded, from what sounded a higher perch.

Amarah, Michelle and Hotaru all gasp in sink the moment they see a tall man with white
waist length hair and dark blue eyes. Along with a strange white suit that showed his
bellybutton and a crescent moon on his forehead standing behind them.

"Artemis?" Michelle asked nearly as white as a ghost.

Serena laughs at the trio's reaction.

"Artemis remembered that he could take human form last week." Artemis walks across
the room and sits beside Trista.

"On to scout business." Artemis said as he looks around at each of the scouts.

"I do not know who this Darien character is but I felt some abnormal vibes." Hotaru said,
stating what everyone was thinking.

Serena nods her head.

"Yes I sensed similar vibes radiating off of him today at school, as well as his friends."

**~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**

The others were all at some sort of urgent meeting as Serena sat down at the base
of the tree, deep in thought. Was it possible that this Darien was her lost love Mamoru…could
he be the small boy that saved her so long ago? Serena pulls out a star shaped locket that he
had given her the day his parents left Tokyo for the US. Serena opens the star locket,
humming along with it.

"That music…it sounds so familiar…" Darien said as he sits down beside her.

Gasping Serena closes the locket, and looks at him.

"A small boy long ago gave it to me." After a moment Serena reopens the locket.

"When ever I am alone, I open it and it is as if I am back there once again."

Darien watches the small crescent moon move inside the locket for a moment.

"May I see it?" Serena nods as she gently places it in his hand.

For one brief second an image of a beautiful woman with a crescent moon on her
forehead and long golden blond hair up in a strange hair stile appears before his mind's
eye. Darien looks from the locket to Serena, her eyes they were the same as the woman in the
vision. Serena breaks the eye contact to look up at an older woman in her twenties
approaching them.

"Puu!" Serena springs from the ground sensing urgency radiating
from her friend.

Serena steps back from the woman and faces Darien.

"I would like you to meet Trista Meiou. Trista, this is Darien Shields."

Trista bows her head then looks back at Serena.

"Michelle, Amarah and Hotaru are meeting us at the restaurant." Serena nods as she
smiles at Darien, shielding the necessity to help her friends from him.

"Please excuse me Darien, perhaps we can meet somewhere after supper."

Darien nods his head.

"That sounds great. How about we meet at the Crown arcade?"

Serena waves good bye as she quickly fallows Trista.

**~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**

"Why did you leave the star locket with him? We're trying to maintain a low
profile and by giving it to him, could stir up unwanted attention." Sailor Pluto said as the
two ran towards the café.

"Leaving a musical trinket with someone is hardly anything to get worked up about my
friend."

Sailor Pluto spots the group of pumped up Youma's surrounding Sailor Neptune,
Uranus and Saturn.

"Pluto Deadly Scream!" The blast knocks two away and dusts three others.

"Moon…Gorgeous…Meditation!" The last four of the Youma's turn to dust as Sailor
Moon runs to Sailor Neptune's side.

"Are you alright?" Neptune nods her head as she tries to stand.

"They just took us by surprise." Sailor Moon stops Neptune as she places her hands
over Neptune's bleeding leg.

"We need all of us in prime condition." Moon responds before she could say a thing.

A golden glow emits from moon's hands as her tiara disappears, and a glowing crescent
moon replacing it. Slowly the gash shrinks and finally disappears. Sinking back on her
heals; her tiara reappears as she closes her eyes. Saturn steps up and places a hand on
Moon's shoulder.

"Are you alright Sailor Moon?"

Moon smiles up at Saturn.

"It takes more than that to drain me Saturn."

Neptune and Moon slowly stand up from their places on the ground.

"We should retreat, the fight has surly gotten the inner scouts attention." Neptune spoke calmly.

Almost on Q (spelling?) the sound of the approaching Inner scouts could be heard.
In one smooth movement all of the Outers spring up on top of the closest building.
And quietly spy on the approaching scouts.

"I don't understand…My computer said that there was a large group of vandalistic Y
ouma's…" Sailor Mercury spoke to her self.

"I told you!" Sailor Venus chimed in.

"All that studying going to rot your brain!"

The other three scouts comically sweat drop at their leader comment, thinking best not to
provoke her any further.

"Perhaps the outer scouts got here first…" Sailor Jupiter put in thoughtfully.


Soooooo, I'm going with the suspense thing, it's probably going to be awhile before the scouts find out who's who...and stuff like that.
but then ya never know. ^_^