Adventure 9: Enemies Are Sailor Scouts? Allies Are Sailor Scouts?
From our last adventure....
We found out Serena's true form. Our fears of our enemy were confirmed with it being Queen Nehelenia. As a result of this new crisis it awoke Sailor Saturn and she gave the outer scouts and all four of them came back to help. Darien was placed under Nehelenia's curse and she kidnaped him. After Darien was kidnaped Rini started to disappear as a result of the changing future. Overcome with grief of Darien and Rini Serena transformed into Eternal Sailor Moon and went after Darien. She left the rest of us to go and find her. When Nehelenia found out she split us all up and I was left with Lita. When we started to fight Nehelenia we found out that she had put Serena under a spell. We tried to wake her but it was no use. So as Jupiter and I fought we hopelessly. When we were on the ground we got trapped in a mirror. Before Jupiter was trapped her rose earring fell off which then helped Serena regain her senses and broke from the spell. We were then teleported to her throne room to watch the battle between her and Serena. As we watched the fight we found out how Nehelenia had turned out the way she did. When Serena told her how nothing would change if she kept doing the things she was doing and if she wanted to take revenge to only take it out on her. All of us scouts started to cry and so did Darien which broke the curse on him. We then healed Nehelenia and gave her another chance at life. When we got back to Tokyo Rini went back home and so did the rest of us.
"Morning Lita."
"Morning, Maria. You have to get ready for school."
"Alright. What's for breakfast?"
"Just some cereal."
After school we all went to our normal hangout. The girls were talking about the latest teen craze, the Three Lights. I found out that Raye like Yaten, Mina and Lita Seiya, and Amy liked Taik-san. Personally I liked Seiya the best. When Mina asked which one Serena liked she just answered, "Darien."
"What's wrong Serena? You look so depressed.", said Lita.
"Darien gets to study aboard."
"That's great. Will he be gone long?", asked Raye.
"I must excuse myself. I have a lot of homework and would like to get a head start.", I said leaving the table.
I hurried as fast as I could to Darien's. When I got there he bussed me up and invited me in.
"Darien are you really going to study in the States?"
"Yeah. It's going to be a good experience for me, do ya think?"
"Of course it will be. Why now though?", I asked in tears.
"Maria..."
"You were the first person I met and now you're leaving Tokyo. You are the only one who truly understands me and knows everything about me. Please, don't leave."
"I know all of that but this school will help me in my course of study. You can write me if you like."
"But that's not the same as seeing you. You know how I feel about you and the feelings we had for each other. I wish you luck in your studies. I'm sorry for all this. I should not be selfish if you are going to succeed then I should be happy for you but I don't want you to leave. Do you care about any of us if you're leaving for such a long time?"
"Of course I care about you. Come here. This has to hard on you because of you being away from home and now with me leaving. I care for you and Serena the same but sometimes people need to be away from each other to help their love grow. Now come on quit crying. I want to see that smile before I leave."
I managed to give a small smile through the tears.
"I should get going. You still have to finish packing and I'm getting in the way. I thought you might be leaving so I found this and I'd like you to have it.", I said handing him the drawing he had found during his visit with me.
"Thank you. I'll make sure I have this with me during my trip. Look at me."
"I can't because I don't want to see you go."
"Come on. I will miss you but your always in my heart."
"I will write to you as much as I can that is if Serena doesn't beat me to it. This is the last time I'll see you probably forever."
"Why?"
"You forgot that I still have my own scouts to find in my world so I may have to go back while you're away. You were the person who understood me and I'll miss the talks we had. I wish you luck and have fun in the States. You'll always be in my heart, Darien.", I said giving him a small kiss on the cheek.
"Bye, Maria."
As I walked out of the building I started to cry again. I held myself together until I got home.
"Hey, Maria where'd you go off to?", asked Lita.
"I'd prefer not to talk about it right now.", I said running to my room.
"Maria what's wrong? I've never seen you like this."
"Darien's leaving tomorrow and I'll never see him again. I thought I could hold myself together when he left but I can't."
"You seem to be worst than Serena at the fact he's leaving. I'm still and will always be here for you."
"Thanks Lita."
"Maybe you should go to bed to get a good night's rest. We'll do something tomorrow to get your mind off of all this, alright?"
"Sure."
I changed into my pajamas and took a nice look at the night sky before I went to bed. I wanted to get an even better view so I opened the window real wide. When I opened it a cold, evil breeze blew.
"Please let the peace remain.", I said aloud to myself.
I headed off to bed to soon after. I still had to go to school the next day which seemed to take forever to end. I was a little depressed over the fact that Darien had left that morning and hadn't been in a cheerful mood. We all went to the restaurant after school to see how school had went with everyone and see if anyone anything new to tell us.
"Uh, Serena, where did you get that ring?", asked Raye.
"Does it mean something?", asked Amy.
"It certainly means something.", answered Luna in a sly voice.
"What do you mean?", Serena asked.
"You mean to tell us you're totally clue less on what that ring means?", asked Lita.
"Did he propose to you?", I asked up-front.
"Yeah. Right before he left."
Just then Mina came running in with news, "Hey guys you'll never guess who's in town."
"I can bet it's some new teen craze."
"How'd you guess, Maria? Anyway the Three Lights are going to be in and around Tokyo for awhile."
I looked back over to Serena who seemed to be staring off into space.
"Serena anything wrong?"
"No. I'm a little tired so I'd like to go home."
We all agreed to go home. First we walked Serena most of the way home but she then asked to walk the rest by herself. We waited until we saw her turn the corner.
"It must be hard for her. With Rini already gone home and now with Darien gone she has to be very lonely.", Amy said.
"I want to help her but I don't know what to do. I understand how she feels but I don't want to make things worst by saying anything."
"It's alright Maria. Sometimes it's better if people are left alone for awhile. We should all get going home."
"Alright see you guys tomorrow."
When Lita and I got home I stared out the window just thinking.
"Anything wrong?"
"No. School stinks now. All day today Serena couldn't do anything in class. She seemed more distracted than usual."
"But we found out why. Maybe if she let's everything sink in for a few days she'll be better off. Besides we're all going to the park to some recording tomorrow but don't tell Serena, okay?"
"Alright. Hopefully everything turns out alright."
The next morning we decided to have lunch at the restaurant then head over to the park. When we got to the park there was already a huge crowd. We tried jumping to look at the Three Lights but that soon got tiring.
"Let's push our way through so we can see better.", suggested Mina.
Everyone but Serena got past the back row. I only got through 2 rows of people before I was stopped. Everyone else get through to the front with perfect view. After I realized that Serena had not gotten through I went looking for her. I walked around the area a bit but I couldn't find her. I heard a scream coming from where the trailers were parked so I ran over there. I found Serena already transformed and fighting.
"That's not fair! I want to fight, too. PHEBOS CRYSTAL POWER! Hey, Sailor Moon I thought you would need some help with this one. Who are you supposed to be?", I asked some girl in a white puffy sailor costume.
"I'm Sailor Iron Mouse. Have fun with the phage. Today's work is done for today."
"Wait up!"
We looked over at a person who seemed to have a black crystal over her head. The person Sailor Moon recognized as Alica Itsuki, a very popular TV/movie star. Then all of a sudden black vines surrounded her and when she appeared again she said her name was Sailor Pretty.
"Alice?"
"Let's have some fun. Would you care to take the microphone and sing?", asked Sailor Pretty with the spiked microphone. She started to throw the microphone at us and we just barely dodged the attacks. Then the two of us heard some fingers snapping.
"Penetrating the darkness at night..."
"The air of freedom breaks through..."
"We are the three sacred shooting stars. Sailor Star Fighter!"
"Sailor Star Maker!"
"Sailor Star Healer!"
"Sailor Starlights...are here!"
"More sailor scouts?", Sailor Moon asked.
"STAR SERIOUS....LASER!"
"Now it's time to get rid of you.", said Maker.
"Wait!", said Sailor Moon jumping in front of the phage.
"That's formally Alice Itsuki. You can't get rid of her.", I said stepping to the side of Sailor Moon.
"You don't understand once a human is turned into a phage you can't turn them back.", said Healer.
"Only that one person...Now get out of the way!", said Fighter.
"No!", yelled Sailor Moon. When she screamed the crescent moon on her forehead let out energy beams which then her scepter appeared.
"STARLIGHT HONEYMOON! THEAPRY KISS!"
Which then turned the phage back to normal. Both of us were relieved, but when we turned around to check on the Starlights they were gone. After the battle Serena and I sat on a bench talking to Luna about the battle.
"I don't get it. The people who attacked us were Sailor Scouts and the people who helped us were Sailor Scouts."
"Yeah what did they call themselves, the Sailor Starlights? Luna do you know anything about them?"
"Hey you two, so what have you've done all this time?", asked Raye.
"Nothing really."
"Actually something did happen.", Serena answered.
"Yeah.", said everyone wanting to find out.
"I don't know what exactly happened."
"Well we have to be going home."
"Alright, Amy, see all of you tomorrow. Let's go Artemis."
"Bye Raye, bye Serena!", I said walking with Lita.
On the way home I thought about the battle. A set of new scouts was interesting because we hadn't had any new scouts since I came to Tokyo. Lita and I had some dinner and watched a little TV. We went to bed at about 10:30. Lita and I, the next morning, decided to walk Serena to school. When we got there was a huge crowd out in front of the school.
"Mina, that's why everyone out here?", asked Lita.
"Three Lights are transferring into our school."
"Where?"
"Raye, when did you get here?"
"I wanted to see them as well."
"No way. When are they going to get here?", I asked.
Just as I finished that sentence a car pulled up with them. Taiki and Yaten were the first ones out of the car. The five of us went up to Taiki and Yaten and introduced ourselves.
"Hi, my name is Raye Hino. Fan club member #2569."
"My name's Lita Kino. Fan club member #1578."
"Mina Aino, fan club member # 256."
"My name is Maria Saddler and I'm member # 125."
"Amy Mizuno, member #25."
"No way Amy!", I said with disbelief.
"She not's only early for practice exams but..", started Mina.
"for fan clubs as well.", finished Raye.
"Nice meeting you.", said Taiki.
"Let's get out of here it's too noisy.", said Yaten to Taiki.
So the two of them walked into the school when Seiya stepped out of the car. He looked at Serena and said, "Hey, odango. You go to this school, too?"
"I told you not to call me that!"
"Serena how do you know Seiya?", I asked.
"He's just a guy I bump into a lot and he's also very annoying man."
After the commotion was over all of us students had to start class. After we took our seats in our home room we found out that Seiya, Yaten, and Taiki were going to be in our class. Of course all of the girls in the class were thrilled to have all three of them with us. Taiki sat in front of Lita, Yaten to the right of Mina, and Seiya right behind Serena.
"Hey odango."
"My name is Serena Tsukino."
"Then 'Tsukimmi' odango!"
"Hey, we want to join some clubs. Do you know any good ones?", Seiya asked in a whisper.
"There are no clubs that are super fun that let you eat snacks and sleep and let you go to America.", Serena answered in a whisper.
"You got to be kidding."
"I'll show you around after school if you want.", said Mina getting out of her and walking over to Seiya's.
"Will you please sit down! We're in the middle of class.", yelled the teacher.
"Right.", said Mina returning to her seat.
"Will you show me around?"
"I'll be more than happy to!", Mina said getting out of her seat again.
"Will you please be quiet!", yelled the teacher.
"Yes.", all three of them answered.
So after school Serena showed Seiya around. We headed over to basketball first. The team was in the middle of practice. Seiya was blocked by one of the guards and made some remark to the guard.
"He's making fun of him.", said Taiki.
"Seiya can be such a kid. Anyway I getting out of here it's smells like sweats in here.", said Yaten.
"True. I prefer more cultural places to this."
"I don't like cultural places, either. I'm going home.", said Yaten leaving.
Then Mina went over to Taik-san and dragged him around for the rest of the afternoon.
"Hey, odango!"
"As I told you, I'm not odango!"
"Sorry about that. What's next?"
"Well, I just don't know!"
As Serena and Seiya went to check out the other sport teams I followed them. It's not everyday that a popular and very cute music group transfers into your school. Serena decided to take him to the American Football Club. It turned out that there were a lot of girls already watching the football team practice. As they were standing there the football landed right by Seiya's foot.
"Would you like to see a touchdown?", he asked Serena.
"The Tenth Street High School team is very good there's no way for you to get pass them."
"I'll show you.", Seiya said charging down the football field. He dodged most of the team until he tried to get passed the captain of the team. Seiya was probably a few yards away from scoring a touchdown when the captain tackled him from the right. It knocked him to the ground and Serena hurried and rushed over to him.
"Seiya, are you alright? How dare you tackle an amateur who isn't even wearing any padding."
The captain extended his hand to help Seiya up but Serena thought the captain was going to hit her. Seiya paid no mind to her and accepted the offer by the captain.
"You did good against our team. We know we have to improve.", the captain said.
"It was nothing. You are a very powerful man."
"Would you like to join our team?"
"Sure.", answered Seiya and both him and the captain shook hands as an agreement.
"I don't get it. He tackled you and nearly hurt you and you still want to be friends?", asked Serena.
"You'll never understand, odango."
After the whole football ordeal was over with Serena went and checked some stuff out on her own. I went to check on the computer club and volleyball club because those were the only things I was interested in. After I was done with that I thought I should be heading home when I heard a scream coming from where the boys' outdoor entrance was so I went to check it out. As I was heading over there the others had heard it and we knew we had to transform. When we got there Serena had already transformed and was fighting the monster.
"What is that?", asked Mercury.
"'That is the captain Kayama. So we can't attack him.", answered Sailor Moon.
So for a while the monster was chasing us around the side yard for a few minutes while throwing was seemed to be some bad smelling water-type balloons. We then heard the snapping of the fingers again.
"Penetrating the darkness at night..."
"The air of freedom breaks through..."
"We are the three sacred shooting stars. Sailor Star Fighter!"
"Sailor Star Maker!"
"Sailor Star Healer!"
"Sailor Starlights...are here!"
"Who are they?", asked Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus in unison.
"STAR GENTLE UTERUS!"
While the monster was on the ground the Starlights staring acting like they knew everything.
"So you're the sailor scouts of this planet?", asked Maker.
"The six of you couldn't have done any better.", said Fighter.
"However we enjoyed the show.", said Healer.
"STARLIGHT HONEYMOON......THEAPRY KISS!"
After the battle we all went over to Raye's to help each other with homework. It was unusually silent because, as scouts, we were on our own for the first time in a long time (to be exact since the first season when Prince Darien was turned evil by Queen Beryl). It's different not having Rini around but the battle was fought on our own because Darien left a few days before and we knew we would not see him in a very long time. We had other things to worry about besides being on our own, like the identities of the Sailor Starlights and why the enemy was a sailor scout. It was getting late and we had to head home for dinner. Lita and I made homemade pizza with any toppings we liked.
"So Lita do you think we can defeat this new enemy?"
"I don't know it's too early to tell."
After dinner both Lita and I did our homework in silence. There were so many things to worry about, like how Darien was doing, how we were going to get rid of Iron Mouse, how things were back home, and was Iron Mouse the one to deal with and on top of that school work and grades.
"I've had it! I can't do all of this and be a scout.", I said aloud.
"What? Why'd you say that?", asked Lita surprised.
"For you it maybe easier but I can't handle everything at once like this. With all the schoolwork and wondering how things are back home it's all too much for me."
"That's what I thought when I first became a scout but it gets easier as time goes on. Think about this for a minute when you are done with fighting you'll wish that another enemy would come along so you have someone to fight."
"But don't you guys wish that you could stop fighting so you can finish school in peace?"
"Of course we do but we know that it is our destiny to protect this world. There will be a time when it is peaceful then we can do all the things we wanted to do that we missed out on when we fought. So our teenage years are almost totally lost to fighting but it's worth it because the future that Rini told us of is worth all the fighting. If you look at the way I've seen it is we've found out about our past lives, who we really are, and why we fight. For you it maybe harder because you've haven't been through as much as we have but when you've fought as long as we have you'll understand."
"But when it comes time for me to go back home I'll want to come back here because this feels like home now. We've spent so much time talking that we haven't got much of our homework done."
"Oh, shoot. Especially since it's 9 already."
"Well, I don't have much homework left anyway so I'm going to bed. How about tomorrow we go to school early so we can ask Amy for help?"
"Alright."
I got ready for bed but I had trouble getting to sleep. I opened my window up real wide so it could let in even the slightest breeze in. I sat up in bed wondering what I should do. Then I thought of writing a letter to Darien since I hadn't written at all. I looked in my room for the best possible paper to write on and a cool color gel pen. I found some of my rainbow paper and a purple gel pen. I wanted to tell him everything but I wanted to limit the letter to one page. In just one week that he had been gone so much had happened. This is what I decided to put in the letter,
"Dear Darien,
So much has happened in the time you've left. Some new scouts showed up a few days ago and they call themselves the Sailor Starlights. At school, a new music band transferred into our home room, the Three Lights. Also some new enemies showed up, who are also sailor scouts. They appear to be looking for some pure 'star seeds', whatever those are. It seems that our work is cut out for us until you come back. I hope you are doing well in your studies and are having some fun. Send some pictures of the college grounds and you of course and try to call Serena because she's been worried sick over you since you left. Do your best in everything and let us know how you're doing.
Bye for now,
Maria ^_^"
I then addressed it and put the stamps on it necessary to send it to the states. I sat up a bit longer trying to figure out why our enemies were sailor scouts. Why would other scouts attack us if we are suppose to have the same destiny? It didn't make sense. When I looked at the clock it was 11:30 and I knew that in the morning that I was not going to get up.
Lita probably came in about 7:00 and tried to wake me up, "Sleepily head time to get up. IF you don't get up then you're going to be able finish your homework from last night."
"Alright I'll get up. What's for breakfast?"
"I thought since we still have a lot time before school that we could go out to breakfast."
"Alright. Just let me get ready."
It took me 15 minutes to get ready and get out the door. We walked down the street to the restaurant and ordered some breakfast. Lita ordered some cereal and toast, I ordered hash browns and toast with an orange juice. IT turned out we weren't the only ones with the idea of going out to breakfast because a few minutes later Amy walked in.
"Hey Amy over here.", I called out.
"Hey, you guys didn't feel like cooking either?"
"Nope. Maria's been down lately so I thought she could use a change."
"Amy how do you do this problem?", I asked her referring to my math homework.
She then did another problem and showed me how to do it. It was a little complicated but I eventually got it. I finished my math homework over breakfast and looked everything over to make sure it was correct. I envied Amy for her knowledge of everything. Since I was little I always caught on to things faster than other kids. I hardly studied for anything except for finals and got fairly good grades on tests but Amy did everything, she studied, took notes, and took numerous practice exams and was always at the top of the class no matter what. I promised myself then that I would try my hardest at all of my classes and to follow Amy's example. When we got to school the grades were posted. Everyone was there seeing how there rank and grades were. All of us were surprised when we found out that Taik-san and Amy had tied for first place with perfect scores. I looked for my rank and it was 75. That wasn't too bad because I got some bad grades but quickly turned around and got A's and B's. When Serena and Mina saw that Taik-san's name was up at the top they ran into the classroom to ask if they could borrow his notes. I ran in after them to see what they were going to do.
"Taik-san, Taik-san.", said Mina running to his desk and Serena repeated that a split second later.
"Would you help me study?", asked Mina.
"Would you?", asked Serena.
"Here you can copy my notes.", he answered handing them his notebook.
"Thank you.", they said in unison and both grabbed the notebook.
"I was here first!", yelled Serena holding onto the notebook with all her might.
"Well, I was here 0.00000001 seconds before you so I was first!", yelled Mina.
For anyone who said Serena and Mina don't act like twins here's proof they do. This kept up for another few minutes and I tried hard not to laugh. Taiki looked on as this childish argument went on but then his notebook got ripped into two pieces right down the center. He just looked on at his notebook that was not completely useless. I couldn't help but laugh because their immaturity about being first had wrecked a perfect notebook that probably would have helped them in their studies was now gone. After that little incident the school day went on as usual. After school everyone went to check on a comet that was named after one of the teachers but I wanted to stay home and work. The next day was another school day and I stayed after school to watch my friend Ayeka practice soccer. I watched most of the practice before I had to go home. AS I left the field I heard Ayeka scream. I knew it had to the enemy so I had to transform.
"PHEBOS CRYSTAL POWER!"
"Come on and cooperate and give me your star seed. Oh shoot another blank. How come I can never get a break.", Iron Mouse said.
"Hold it right there you sailor freak! How dare you chase after a girl devoted to her sport. In the name of Phebos I shall punish you!"
"You never give up do you? Well today's work is done have fun with Sailor Soccer."
As I looked over at Ayeka she transformed into a monster. I needed Sailor Moon's help but I couldn't leave the monster by itself. Luckily when the scouts transform that our communicators are under the gloves.
"Serena, come in."
"Yeah."
"Get over by the soccer field and transform."
"Alright I'll be there in a few minutes."
"Well, how about we play some soccer?", the monster asked.
"No that's alright. I'm not even geared up to play."
Just then I heard that familiar finger snapping.
"Penetrating the darkness at night..."
"The air of freedom breaks through..."
"We are the three sacred shooting stars. Sailor Star Fighter!"
"Sailor Star Maker!"
"Sailor Star Healer!"
"Sailor Starlights...are here!"
"Let's get rid of this thing.", suggested Healer.
"No. I won't let you. She's actually my friend Ayeka. You can't attack her."
"We've told you before. That once humans change into a phage that you can't do anything for them.", said Maker.
"That's not true! Sailor Moon can change her back as soon as she gets here. Sailor Moon hurry and change Ayeka back!"
"Right. STARLIGHT HONEYMOON.......THEAPRY KISS!"
"Ayeka!"
"She's in good hands.", said Fighter.
"Let's go then.", suggested Maker and they left.
"Ayeka, Ayeka. Are you alright?"
"Maria?"
"Yeah."
"Where'd that person go?"
"Sailor Moon got rid of her."
I helped Ayeka home then walked home by myself. As I was walking I saw Seiya.
"Seiya!"
"Maria, what are doing out here so late?"
"I had to walk a friend home. I'm surprised that you don't have a ton of fans following you like we do back home."
"Where are you from?"
"The states. So what are you going to do on your day off, tomorrow?"
"I asked someone out on a date."
"Who?"
"Serena. Now that I look at you, you and Serena look alike."
"We're cousins that's probably where the resemblance comes from. Well, I turn down here to head home. Hope you have fun tomorrow. Bye."
"Bye."
As I walked home the rest of the way, I could swear that he looked like someone I knew. The more I thought about it he looked like Darien. When I got home Lita had left a note that she had gone over to Raye's. So I had the house to myself. I started my homework and finished all of it in record time. I guess I was just excited about having a day off of school. Lita came home about an hour or so after I had finished my homework.
"Where were you after school?"
"Some trouble with Iron Mouse."
"Contact me if you're in a fight okay?"
"Sure. Want to go to the park tomorrow?"
"No. I have to my homework tomorrow."
"Alright I'll so something on my own tomorrow."
After dinner we both us headed off to bed. The next morning I got up early and tried to figure out what I was going to do. I decided that I would ask Trista and Hotaru if they wanted to do anything. So I got ready and started walking over to their house. It was a real long walk from where Lita and I lived probably about an hours walk. When I got there I rang the bell and waited patiently. I heard someone opening the door and it was Hotaru.
"Hi, Hotaru."
"Hi, Maria."
"Hotaru, who is it?"
"Maria."
"Maria?"
"Good morning Trista. You may not recognize me but I'm Sailor Phebos."
"Sorry for not recognizing you."
"It's alright. I was wondering if you and Hotaru would like to do something today."
"Well, I can't do anything because I have some lab stuff to finish up but if you would watch Hotaru I would greatly appreciate it."
"Alright. Hotaru what would you like to do today?"
"Go to the park and play and then maybe go to the planetarium.", she answered enthusiastically.
"Alright, slow down. How about we go to the planetarium."
"Okay. I'll go get my coat.", Hotaru said running off to her room.
"Is she still growing at a fast speed?", I asked Trista.
"She is. It's only been a few weeks but she almost the size of a seven year old. Her intelligence is also alarming. She probably understands some of the stuff you learned in 7th grade."
"How can she learn so much in such a short time?"
"It was back when Nehelenia appeared that caused this sudden rapid growth."
"I got my coat. Let's go.", Hotaru yelled running down the hall.
"Trista we should be back by six in time for dinner."
"Alright have fun and Hotaru..."
"Yeah."
"Be on your best behavior."
"I will."
After we left the house we had to walk to the bus stop. We had to wait for the bus for about 20 minutes. Right before the bus came Amara and Michelle drove past.
"Hey where are you two heading?", asked Amara.
"To the planetarium.", answered Hotaru.
"Want a ride there?", asked Michelle.
"Sure it beats the bus."
It was just a perfect day outside with the sun shining so brightly and the sky so clear it was just perfect.
"Thanks again for the ride you two. Do you need help out Hotaru?"
"No. Let's hurry inside."
"Alright. Hey would you guys mind if you gave us a ride back home?", I asked.
"No. We'll be here about 5:30."
"Thanks. Hotaru wait up!"
We had to wait in line to get in but I didn't mind. When we got up to the front I asked, "1 adult and 1 child. Could we get some tickets to see the star show?"
"Sure. It'll be $35."
"Here you go."
"The show starts in an hour."
"Thank you. Come on Hotaru."
As we walked into the building it was just like being in outer space.
"Where do you want to go first?"
"The Saturn exhibit."
"Is that just because you're Sailor Saturn."
"Kinda but I want to know all there is about my planet."
"Alright let's go."
When we walked into the room the planetarium had a huge model of the planet and it's moons. All around the room there was facts and figures about every element of the planet, like what was in the atmosphere, how the rings formed, and how the planet was discovered, as well as the mythology. WE spent a good part of the time in that room but then I noticed the time and we had to hurry to get the star show. Before the show started on the ceiling was a stimulation of the sun setting before it started.
"We would like all of you to take your seats so that we may get the show started. Thank you.", said some lady said over the speakers.
We took our seats and waited for the show to start. When the show started a person talked about each constellation and the mythology about it. Then moved on to the planets and talked about the same thing. The show was about 90 minutes long. When we got out we had still another 2 hours or so then we could get something to eat or go to the gift shop. Hotaru and I then headed off to see the rest of the outer planet exhibit It was really cool and Hotaru seemed just to soak up all the information about the planets. After we were done I decided that we could go to the gift shop and pick out something. I bought some glow in the dark stars and model of the solar system (which also glowed in the dark). Hotaru bought a lot of things that dealt with the outer planets, like a model of each planet as well as the fact sheets that came with it. We got outside at abbot 5:15 and waited for Amara. I could tell that Hotaru was just worn out from everything we had done.
"Hey, so how was your day?", asked Michelle.
"It was great. I bought some stuff on our planets.", answered Hotaru.
"Hop on in so we can get home to dinner.", said Amara.
As we were driving home Hotaru fell asleep on me.
"Is she sleeping?", asked Amara.
"Yeah but I don't blame her. She's had a big day."
"Maria we don't know how much you know about us but there's an interesting fact abbot where you went today.", said Amara.
"Like what?"
"Well, that's the place where we first found out that Hotaru was Sailor Saturn.", answered Michelle.
"I didn't know that. What would you say if I wanted to take her back with me to my world when it was time?"
"Well, I guess it would be up to Hotaru.", answered Amara.
"She hasn't fought as much as we have so it would be a good learning experience for her."
When we pulled up to the house, Hotaru was still fast asleep.
"Hotaru, wake up. We're home."
"I slept the whole way?"
"Yes but it's alright."
"Welcome back. So did you have fun with Maria, Hotaru?", asked Trista.
"Sure did."
"Well, I should be heading home so Lita doesn't worry."
"Alright. Thank you for watching Hotaru for me it was a big help."
"Maybe we can do this some other time okay?", I asked Hotaru.
"Yeah. That would be fun."
"See you guys later."
I started to walk home but it was getting dark fast. I was probably a quarter of the way home when Amara pulled up.
"Want a ride?"
"I thought you guys were going to have dinner."
"We were but it's not safe for you to walk home by yourself."
"That's probably what Darien would have said if he was here."
"I'm sorry for saying that."
"It's alright Amara, it's alright. It's just that I haven't gotten use to him not being here that's all."
"Get in and we can talk on the way to your house. About what you said before you left, about Hotaru going back with you."
"Yeah."
"Do you think that is good for her?"
"Yeah. She hasn't really gotten to fight anyone I mean that I've probably done more fighting than she has and I've been a scout for only a short while."
"That's a good point. Well, when the time comes then we'll decide."
"Alright."
"How much do you know about us? I mean when Michelle and I first met you already knew our scout identities."
"I thought I had explained this to you. Ah well, here's the thing you guys are only a story in my world so therefore I know everything abbot you. Have you met the Sailor Starlights yet?"
"Yeah. I don't trust them."
"Why?"
"They're not from this solar system therefore they could be enemies in disguise."
"Why do you always suspect everything is bad? Did you think abbot how they may not be enemies but are here to help us?"
"You act exactly like Serena. That's what she told us when we first met the starlights. Maybe you two are right, but it is too early to tell yet. Well, here we are. It was nice talking to you. Hope to see you around."
"You too and thanks for the ride."
I waved bye to Amara and she headed back home. I got my keys out and walked upstairs. It was a bit late but I had a lot of fun with the outer scouts.
"What did you do today?", Lita asked when I walked in.
"Went to the planetarium with Hotaru."
"You walked all the way to their house today?"
"Yeah. It was a nice change to walk rather than take the bus. Trista had some things to do so I offered to do something with Hotaru for the day."
"Did you guys have fun?"
"Yeah. Hotaru is a very curious little girl but that's how you learn things. What's for dinner?"
"Just some sandwiches with a salad."
"That's sounds good."
After dinner I went to bed since I had such a long day.
To Be Continued in #10......