A Friend and an Enemy

By AngelWings1211

Tianna sat in the lunchroom with Lizzy and Noel. They were her friends, and the first ones she had made since coming to Japan. They made her happy, and they got her to smile. And the three of them could speak English around each other so that no one else knew what they were saying.

So this is what it's like to have friends, Tianna silently remarked. I had almost forgotten.

When the final bell rang at the end of the day, Tianna had to walk home alone. Her friends both lived in the opposite direction. As she walked past the park where she fought her first youma, she noticed something strange. No one was moving. It was like they were frozen in time. And that's when she saw it. The youma must have been powerful, because it took everyone's energy so quickly that they fell asleep on the spot. Some people had even fallen asleep standing up!

Stepping behind a tree, Tianna watched as the youma took the energy of the last person awake.

"I've got to help them." she said. "Angel Wings, Power Up!" After transforming Tianna said to the youma, "I am the Quiet Angel, descended from Heaven. You shall cease in this madness now! For I am SailorAngelWings! I shall make you feel the wrath of Heaven!"

Without hesitation, she attacked, "Halo Dream Devour!" She swung her glaive down at the youma's head. It screamed in agony as nightmares ate him alive from the inside out. He disappeared. As the energy was being released back into the people, she noticed someone ducking behind a tree.

Tianna jumped up into the tree and watched as the girl prepared to run. She jumped down in front of her and asked, "What are you doing here?"

When the girl looked up, Tianna saw who it was that she had been talking to, and she gasped. "L-Lizzy?!"

"How do you know my name? Oh my gosh, you're Tianna, aren't you?!" she asked.

"Never mind who I am, I'm going to have to move this memory to the back of your mind." When she saw the look on Lizzy's face she said, "It's for your own good. If anyone found out who I was, they could hurt me through you. And I couldn't stand it if you got hurt because of me."

Before Lizzy could come up with a reply, Tianna dove into her mind and hid the memory of the fight and who she was behind a memory of Lizzy's dog, Scout. While Lizzy recovered from having a memory moved, Tianna detransformed behind a nearby bush and then went to Lizzy's side as she was coming to.

"Lizzy, are you alright?" Tianna asked, looking concerned. "Do you need to go to the hospital?"

"Huh? Oh, no, I think I'll be okay." but she clutched her head as she said this. "Funny, I don't remember anything that happened. Why am I at this park? I don't live this way. And why do I have such a killer headache?"

Tianna responded with a reasonable story. "I don't know. You could've hit your head on a low tree branch before I came along. I was just on my way home though. Would you like to come to my house?" Tianna really seemed concerned to Lizzy, so she agreed.

After eating dinner with Tianna and her "parents," Lizzy and Tianna went to Tianna's room. Halo, who had been lying on the bed asleep, opened up when she heard Tianna's voice.

Lizzy smiled when she saw Halo. "You have a dog too? Why didn't you ever mention her? I have a dog too, but he's back in the States. His name is Scout." Tianna noticed that Lizzy's smile was now fading.

I've got an idea, Tianna thought. I'll bring the memories of her dog to the front of her mind and Halo can act out whatever her dog did in them.

"Here, I've got an idea. Lay down on the bed and close your eyes." So, hesitantly, Lizzy did. "Now, pretend that your dog is here with you." Silently she added, Halo you go lick her face and do whatever else she wants.

I was not meant to do silly little things like this, you know, Halo muttered. However, she still agreed to do as her mistress asked. Without any effort, Tianna re-entered Lizzy's mind. She brought every memory of Scout to the front of Lizzy's mind. The sights, the smells, the sounds he made, and even how he felt to Lizzy's fingers. Lizzy was in paradise. She could see and hear Scout as he frolicked around her. She could feel his fur in her hands. She even felt his tongue as he licked her face.

Then, something unexpected happened. Lizzy sat straight up on the bed, white as a sheet. She turned to Tianna and said, "You're a sailor scout aren't you?!"

And, for the second time in her life, Tianna's life turned completely upside down.