Chapter 7- Memories in a Dream, Faces from the Past

~ Christiana voice over ~

"When we last left off.... Sailor Sunset had defeated an huge evil green lizard, thus stopping its destruction and saving the city.

Which, might I add, was not an easy task. Once smoke cleared from the defeated monsters resting place,

it was revealed that there had been another Senshi fighting on the big scene before she showed up to try and save the day.

She had run over, and then tended to her injuries after having figured out who it was.

The Sailor Senshi that was laying unconscious at the monsters feet was indeed Sailor Rose.

Will she finally get to know who this mysterious new Senshi is?

Find out, in this chapter of : The Lost Princesses!"

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Sailor Sunset stared down at the prone girl next to her knees, moving aside some of the limp blonde hair to see the edges of her eye mask. No longer able to resist, she yielded to temptation.. and attempted to remove it from its resting place atop her face.

Of course, it was no easy task since it was nearly bolted to her face. Yet, with determination, she finally succeeded..

Thus revealing the identity of Sailor Rose once and for all, quenching her thirst for knowledge of the mysterious Senshi of destruction that held the sign of a Rose.. Christiana finally tugged the mask free from her face, and stared down, searching for the answer she so sought. There was a sudden gasp as Sailor Sunset realized who was laying partially on her knees asleep.

"Oh... My... God." She stammered, dropping the mask and allowing it to float silently to the ground in a flutter like a fallen dove.

"Its.... Its.. Nikita!" Once her mask was removed and her identity revealed, Sailor Rose un-henshined then and there..

Laying silently with her long hair tangled and in disarray, her school uniform covered in dirt and blood. Sailor Sunset still knelt beside her in utter shock, watching silently as from the sleeping girls hand fell a few rose petals..But they were wilted, and black with approaching death.. It was like a meter of her health, telling that she was grave.. But may survive with the right care.

"I- I'd.. better get her into the apartment before someone sees us.." Christiana whispered to herself as she took her fallen sister onto her back fireman style, heading over to the fire escape. She was just thankful that while in hen shin, she was stronger than usual and was able to lift the larger girl up with little to no trouble at all. She then easily climbed the fire escape towards the green door, and then walked into the small apartment that still had its door half open. Unknown to her, there were two sets of eyes watching her from the rooftop a building not far from the one she was stationed at. Red and blue eyes stared at the retreating Senshi and girl..

Studying them both..Before Sailor Sunset closed the door, she turned to look into the streets and towards the buildings; she wished to make sure no one had seen them fight or leave. That would be exactly what they didnt need, more enemies. She saw, upon further inspection, two shadowy figures two rooftops away. Two Senshi watched her.. One stood relatively taller than the other, though only about 4'11. She had long flowing hair that hung nearly to her ankles, and twin odangos upon her head. The other, shorter.. Somewhere around only three feet, with shorter hair in the same style as the taller girls. But the Odango looked.. Like rabbit ears. Strange! Before Christiana could say anything to call to the two girls, they quickly disappeared in the blink of an eye, into the darkness of the city.

Sailor Sunset just shrugged a bit, and walk into the apartment to set her down on the somewhat dusty couch nearest the wall. She then un-henshined as well since the last thing she wanted her sister to see when she awoke was another girl in Sailor Garb. She then began thinking to herself.. "Those girls looked vaguely familiar somehow.. I wonder who they are.. " she looked at the ground after closing her locket and getting over the usual post change shivering.. Then cast a glance towards the sleeping Nikita"It doesn't really matter now, I guess. What actually matters now is that Niki is safe.. My sister is back with me..

But I have to wonder.. How long can I keep both of our secrets?" she said this aloud as she placed some ice on her sisters forehead, and pulled a blanket over her.

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Later, across town.. A familiar group of girls are having a meeting at Sendai Hills temple. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"So what are we going to do about them? I mean, are they enemies or not?.. I suppose I should consult the fire on this one.. But so far it hasn't had any leads." Rei said as she finished listening to the live news update on her radio. "Yea, and just who are these new Senshi anyway? I mean, when we were just being awakened, we were drawn to each other.. Why haven't we run into them yet?" asked a concerned Lita as she munched on a stick of pocky, stretching on her cushion to listen and relax at once. "I'm sure there's nothing to worry about, really. Girls, Artemis is trying to find out what's going on as we speak.. So lets try and think of something else. Like what to do if they're enemies." said Luna from the window sill, trying to quiet down the girls so she could think better.

"Well, I don't know how to find out who they really are. I mean, really! We've found all the planetary Senshi.. And there's none in this city that we don't know about." said Mina as she tossed some popcorn kernels into the air to catch in her mouth.. But missed when she moved for it due to tripping on Litas legs (She being rather long, after all) and then accidentally spilled the popcorn on the floor. Quickly, she began to pick it up."I'm sure that there is a logical explanation for all of this. Maybe they were sent to help us out or something.. Just like the other Senshi. Or like Rini. Maybe they're here to get training?" said Amy, the always logical one, with a shy smile."You know, she does have a point.." said Lita as she finished her pocky. "As always!" everyone else chorused in, leaving Ami in a blush.

Just then, Usagi and Chibi-Usa walked through the sliding paper door. "Konnichiwa, Mina-san!" Serena chirped with the usual big smile and high pitched voice."Odango atama, you're late again!" scolded Rei in an annoyed tone, tossing a pillow in her direction. "You were supposed to be over a half hour ago! Don't you have clocks?!" "Gomen na! But I just had to stop and shop.. They were having a huge sale down at the mall! I couldn't help myself.. Oh! I just bought the cutest little pink dress too!" she said in a very happy tone, showing the bag that held her purchase. Everyone in the room looked up with exasperated expressions.

(A.N.: I guess its time for a good ole group sweat drop!) "Plus, the little spore here wanted to stop for Ice cream on the way." She announced with a glare to her future daughter. The room falls deadly silent for a moment, everyone stopping their chatter and eating.. Looking at the pink haired child for confirmation of some form.

"I did not! You're the one who's stomach was growling so loud it almost cracked the windows, and who kept complaining that you needed sugar!" yelled Rini with a defiant growl, crossing her arms and looking up. "That is SO not true!" yelled Serena. Rini gave a loud raspberry after pulling down her right eyelid, and then began running around the room to escape the wrath of Serena. "Come here you talking cotton candy brat!" Serena yelled again as she chased after her, over pillows and around the room. The girls all sweat dropped again as they watched, this time around the sweat dropping included Luna. "You know Serena really needs to grow up.." said Rei, looking down as she commonly did when the two girls acted in this way.

"Yes," Luna spoke up. "I know this something I've always thought.. And to tell you the truth, I'm getting rather tired of those two behaving like that! Try living with them, if you think this is bad." There were a few crashes, and some more screaming.. Then finally someone spoke up. "Would you two cut this out and sit down?! We have some important business to attend to before we can run around like Ninnys!"Everyone looked at the one who had yelled out so suddenly in shock. Serena and Rini stopped in mid attackle. "Ami?" said all of them at once.She calmly sat back again on her cushion, and smiled in that kindly way as she said, "I was just so tired of their ranting and raving. Someone had to shut them up.." She them cleared her throat, laughing lightly with a smile.. Then returned to what she had previously been doing.

Quietly Serena and Rini looked at each other and decided to take a seat on the futon, munching on some of the many snacks at hand. Only then, Luna spoke up after snapping out of the catatonic stupor left from Amy's outburst."Now, back to business." she began. "There seems there are new scouts in our midst.. As of right now, I have no information on them.. The only thing I know is they may be some of the Unknown Senshi from the future. In which case we may not find much information on them as of yet.. If this is the case, then we're off in the dark for now, Girls."

The girls all looked at each other and whispered some things as to what to do about the current situation. It was all so confusing! Then, Lita bluntly asked: "So, are they our allies or enemies?" Just then, Artemis walked in through the opened window.

"We're not really sure, actually. But we do know they fought a good battle today." He said in that low tone of his."Yeah, they really did!" said Rini, finally speaking up. "I mean, me and Serena were down there, and saw it first hand.. That Sailor Sunset is really powerful! And that Rose girls just plain weird.. But she has that mysterious air, like Hotaru.. We didn't even have to jump in to save them!" then she clasped her hands over her mouth, after she'd finished her blabbering.

"Oops.." She whispered form behind closed fingers."Thanks a lot twerp.." Serena hissed this, giving the pink haired child an evil eye.

"You two were down there, and didn't call for back up?!" Luna mrred loudly in her throat, glaring daggers at the irresponsible Senshi of the moon. "Ano.. We kind of didn't think we needed it.." Rini said, tapping her forefingers together. "You two could have been in awful danger! You both know much better than to go out to a battle without back up." said Luna, sounding a bit disappointed as she shook her head. Then as things were still heating up, Rini pulled the one trick that always got her out of trouble. She rubbed at her eyes and yawned, pretending that she was tired.

"Awww Rini.... Come on, I think its time for you to get some rest.. You can sleep in the guest bed." said Rei as she lead Rini to the room. Before the young girl left the room fully, she stuck her tounge out at Serena , which automatically returned.Rini happily hopped into the clean bed, and tucked herself in it. After making sure she was comfortable, Rei returned to the rest of the girls who were sharing a fresh bowl of popcorn. "Well I guess we can finish the meeting later. Its been a long day and I want to get a head start on next weeks geography homework.." said Amy with a small smile. "But Amy, you're already months ahead of us all!" said Mina."I know, but I want to be a doctor.. Remember? And doctors have to study hard for a very long time.." said Amy still smiling faintly as she pushed her glasses back up the bridge of her nose.

"But, you're already getting better grades then anyone at our school.. So take a break Amy!" said Rei with a grin, tossing a few pieces of popcorn at her. "Oh, alright.. So, what are we doing for fun today?" asked Amy as she set her bag down, setting her arms behind her back to look at everyone evenly. "Well, we were thinking about going to the arcade or something." stated Lita with a half smile as she showed her a magazine. "They finally have that sweater I wanted so badly in!""Well, that sounds alright with me.." said Amy after nodding. "Hai! Now, lets get going!" stated Serena, practically jumping out of her seat.

"The new Sailor V video game comes out in arcades today!! I can hardly wait!" "Alright, I'm up for a new game..

Might as well play since it was modeled after me" said Minako with a smile, posing in the Sailor V stance.. The others just sighed, lowering their heads in another group droplet. The now jumping Serena was ecstatic "Oh boy, Oh boy! I can't wait to play.. I'm SO going to get the highest score."

"Can it Meatball Head!" said Rei as she clonked Serena over the head with a pillow. She landed on the floor with a thud.

"Heh.. Was it something I said?" said Serena, as she lay half on the couch and half off.

~ ~ ~ ~ Meanwhile, back in the guest room, Chibi-usa falls fast asleep out of boredom ~ ~ ~ ~

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Rini's Dream

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Two small girls giggle with excitement as they look into a golden edged tube.

"Oh, what is it?" asked a smaller version of Serenity.

"It's called a Kaleidoscope.. See how the colors swirl and blend?" said King Endymion as he kneeled next to the two.

"Oh, its so pretty, Daddy!" said a tiny version of Christiana as she looked through the tube, giggling.

"Why's she calling you Daddy like I do?" asked Chibi-usa with questioning eyes.

"If I tell you something, Small Lady, you must promise not to tell your Mother.." whispered Endymion.

"I promise Daddy, you can trust me.. What's the secret?" the girl asked while she had her turn with the toy.

"She's your sister.. Well, half sister at least.." said the king rather nervously,

looking around in case anyone was near enough to hear besides her.

"But Daddy, I don't have any siblings.." said the cotton candy headed child,

more than a little confused at all of this."Yes, you do, and she's one of them.I just never told you because

I didn't want to upset you,or your Mother.." said the King.

"I'm not upset Daddy.. I'm happy! I have someone to play with."she then hugged her only known sister.

Then continued playing with the toy and her dolls.

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Christiana: what! A cliffhanger! But why?

Lady Alexis: -_- ' Christi I have writers block not to mention it took me a while to even find this chapter.

M-chan: so sorry I can help Alex chan but I too have the same problem.

Lady Alexis: anywayz sorry I took so long for this one and hopefully next chapter will be out soon.

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