Adventure 3: Class Field Trip


from our last adventure......

So me, Serena, Raye, Amy, and Lita all piled into Darien's rather small car. As we drove to the drop-off point I don't know what it was but I had a feeling that I was better off staying home for a week.

"I feel a strange force here.", said Raye coming out of the car.

"You felt it too?", I asked.

"Yes. Why do you sense something as well?"

"Yeah. It's this whole field trip. It's weird that only a select group of students got to go especially since none of us happen to be in the same class. Could one of you stay near the retreat so if I need help I have one of you?"

"I'll go but I won't be there the first night. I'll be there by Tuesday.", answered Amy.

"Good. I don't think they'll try anything the first few nights they'll wait until we're all settled in. I got to get on the bus. I'll call you if anything comes up."

As I got on the bus I saw my friend Ayeka.

"Hey Maria over here! I saved you a seat."

"Thanks."

"Who are those people that were in the car with you?"

"Do you know Lita?"

"Yeah sure I do. We're in the same class."

"Serena and Amy are in my homeroom. Mina goes to Grass Valley Junior High and Darien goes to the local college."

"And what about the little girl?"

"Oh Rini? She goes to Habor Elementry."

"But who drove you?"

"Darien."

"He's a college student who has a car who is also very cute and maybe available."

"Ayeka! Serena is the one who's going out with him but we're very good friends. Do you think this field trip is weird?"

"How so?"

"Only a select group of students were asked and all able to go. Also its the students that were selected to go. This isn't the brightness students but not the dumbest students. It's the kids that are in the middle."

"Then how come your friend isn't able to go?"

"Lita? They said her grades were a little low for her to go on the trip."

"Well no matter what if it gets us out of school then 'bout time. There hasn't been one field trip this year and we got selected so who cares right?"

"Right."

"I'm going to catch a little sleep."

"Alright I'll just look out the window and listen to some music."

As the bus left everyone waved bye to their family and friends. I wave bye to everyone but I knew something had to be up. I listened to the music most of the trip before falling asleep myself. The buses were almost to the lodge when I suddenly woke up. I looked around at the students on the bus but most of them were asleep. I thought back to when we left and how both Raye and I felt an evil presence. I brushed it off and went back to sleep. When I awoke for a second time I sensed a powerful negative energy in the area. I knew I had to ready to fight at anytime. When we arrived the teachers had an accouncment to make to the class, "The room assignments on the doors. The boys are in the left wing and the girls in the right wing. There are two to three people in each room. We ask you to join us for dinner at seven tonight in the main dining hall. Until then you are free to explore the rooms and the grounds. See you for dinner."

The kids then gathered their things from the bus and headed into the lodge. The teacher who had made the speech I thought sounded vaguely familiar.

"Hey, Maria come over here. I found our room!", yelled Ayeka.

"Be there in a minute."

"Isn't this cool? We have our own room. We each can have our own beds and stuff. What are you going to do until dinner tonight?"

"I was thinking about taking a nice long hot bath and you?"

"I was thinking about heading down to the pool. Do you want to come swimming or stay here?"

"No, I'll stay here. You have fun okay. See you later."

Ayeka changed into her swimsuit and headed down to the pool with a few friends. As soon as I was positive she had left I got my communicator out. I thought about calling Luna but there was nothing wrong except for the bad vibes. So I decided to head down to the pool and try to find Ayeka. When I got down to the pool the pool was full of boys.

"Ayeka! Ayeka where are you?", I yelled out.

"Over here, Maria. I thought you were going to take a bath upstairs."

"Changed my mind. Looks like the boys beat us down here, wanna go back upstairs and talk?"

"Yeah. There's no point because the rich girls have the hot tub and the boys have the pool so there's nothing else to do except go back upstairs."

"I have an idea.", said Yumiko.

"Ok. What is it?", asked Kuriko.

"Why don't we go up stairs and over room service, huh? What ya guys think?", asked Yumiko.

"Maria I don't think you've been properly introduced to them. Kuriko is the one with the long hair and Yumiko has the short hair. Sorry about introducing you two like that but it is the easiest way to remember who's who.", said Ayeka.

"Yumiko, right? We don't have room service at this lodge. Anyway we should be getting ready for dinner pretty soon."

"You know, Maria, you look a bit like Serena. Did you know that?", asked Kuriko.

"Yeah. We're distant cousins and I just moved here to study abroad here in Japan.", I answered.

"I think Maria's right. We will all see each other at dinner in another hour or so. See ya later.", said Yumiko heading back to her room.

"Wait up! I'll come with you.", said Kuriko running after Yumiko.

So both Ayeka and I headed back to our room as well to get ready for dinner. As we were getting ready I thought about how one of the teachers approached the girls in the hot tub. The more I thought about it the more it bothered me. Dinner was delayed by a half hour for some weird reason. When our new dinnertime came the kids all rushed down to eat. We all ate in a huge dining hall with a huge buffet with a ton of choices for dinner. I sat with Ayeka, Kuriko, Yumiko, and a few other girls.

"Wonder where all of those rich girls are? Do you think that they think they're to good to eat with all of us?", asked Kuriko trying to start some gossip.

"Oh be quiet. You don't know that for sure. Maybe something happened to them.", said Yumiko.

"But it was a group of ten girls to disappear. How could ten girls not come to dinner?", asked Ayeka.

"They all could have come down with food poisoning or something like that.", answered Kuriko.

Then one of the teachers came over to our table because of the way our conversation was going. It was weird because what teacher would stop some harmless gossip among teenage girls?

"Girls, I couldn't help but notice you were talking about that group of girls who are not at dinner. It turns out that their parents had hotel arrangements for all of them. They all should be back sometime tomorrow. The other teachers would like you not to talk meanly about your fellow classmates like that."

When the teacher left I finished my dinner hurriedly and went back to my room. The girls thought it was weird but I knew I had to contact Luna about this. As I walked back to my room I thought about the teacher who had stopped our conversation. I felt like I knew him from somewhere else besides school. The more I thought about it the more I realized that he had only been at the school for about two weeks, and was already going on school field trips. When I got into my room I locked the door and grabbed my communicator.

"Luna, are you there?"

"Yes. What do you need?"

"There were ten girls who weren't there for dinner tonight and the teacher who planned the field trip is giving off creepy vibes."

"Well if anymore kids disappear you contact either me or one of the other scouts alight?"

"Yeah."

"Maria, cheer up you don't look good with a frown on your face."

"I promise to cheer up Luna. My friends Ayeka is coming in I'll let you go."

"Hey Maria are you alright? You left dinner right after the teacher talked to us.", asked Ayeka walking in the room

"Yeah. I had a bad headache and had to take some medicine

"Are you sure you're all right? You worried us running off like that."

"Yes I'm fine. I was thinking about heading to bed a little early because that long bus ride wore me out. If you want to take a bath go right ahead."

"No I'm not in the mood. I think I'll crash early with you instead."

So Ayeka looked for her jamies and I laid in my bed thinking about what the teacher had said to us. I started to fall asleep when Ayeka came into the bedroom. She tripped over something that woke me up.

"Ayeka?"

"Did I wake you up?"

"No. I wasn't fully asleep anyway."

"Maria did you see a group of girls come down here after dinner?"

"Why ask that?"

"Because when we got to go to the pool again another group of girls went missing. It's weird because no one saw them leave and haven't heard from them since dinner."

"I'm sure they're in their room playing a joke. Watch they'll be at breakfast tomorrow morning so don't worry about it. Now go to sleep so we're ready for tomorrow."


The next morning we headed down for breakfast when we noticed that some of the boys were gone. The girls who knew the boys missing said that probably in bed sleeping and will be up by lunch. We had some workshops to take in the morning then breaked for lunch. We noticed the boys who had taken the woodworking class (about 7 of them) were missing. After lunch we had to take one more class then we were free to do anything we wanted to do. I decided to take a trail ride along with a group of 20 of us. I thought it was good because we go around the grounds surrounding the lodge so I could get a good look at things. Nothing came up while on the trail ride but the weather started to get bad so it took us a long time to get back. When we did get back the free time was just about over and dinner was in 10 minutes. I changed my clothes and rushed down to dinner.

"Hey Ayeka."

"Where did you come from?"

"We just came back from the trail ride. When the rain started we had to find a different way back here because the dirt path was too muddy for the horses to go through. So we ended up taking the road and since we had to watch for cars it took us a lot longer than we thought."

"Maybe you should have taken a shower before you came down here.", said Yumiko.

"Didn't have time. I promise I'll take one after dinner."

We had a choice of salad or spaghetti and I chose the salad. After dinner I went up to my room for a nice hot shower. When I got out I noticed Ayeka was back upstairs.

"The bathroom is free want to take a shower?"

"Yeah I will."

While Ayeka was taking her shower I started to brush my out and put it up. I heard a scream coming from the bathroom. When I went to check to see who it was it was Hawk's Eye going after Ayeka.

"Don't worry Ayeka. I'm coming to help. PHEBOS CRYSTAL POWER!"

"1, 2, 3!"

"What are you going to do to me?", asked Ayeka.

"Look into your dreams. Darn it no peagsus again."

"How dare you go after my best friend. In the name of the moon Phebos I'll punish you!"

"Not you again. Gremlist time to get rid of this pest. I'll be back Sailor Scouts."

Thankfully Ayeka was alright but I had to get rid of the monster now. I tried to avoid the attacks but I got hit.

"That's it you're going to pay for that! PHEBOS PLANET ATTACK!"

The attack finished the monster off but I used most of my energy. Before I could undo my transformation I collapsed. I knew I had to undo the transformation before Ayeka could see what had happened. I placed my hand over the heart on the bow to get out of the transformation.

"Maria, are you alright? Maria please wake up."

The nurse had heard the screaming and ran to our room.

"What's the matter?", asked the nurse.

"I woke up and I found her passed out.", answered Ayeka in tears.

"We have to call an ambulance fast."


When I woke up I found myself in a hospital back in Tokyo.

"Where am I? My head hurts bad."

"How are you feeling?", asked the doctor.

"My head and wrist hurt."

"Well be lucky that we got you here in time."

"What's your name?"

"Dr. Mizuno."