One is returning.
One will be reunited with Two.
Together they will try and find
The other Three.

Because once the melody begins,
It has no end.

Serena frowned. Was this a continuation of yesterday's proverb? It certainly seemed so, but the authors of both were unknown. Before the blonde knew what she was doing, she was raising her hand.

"Yes, Serena?" Ms. Haruna said, an exasperated look on her face.

"Is this proverb a second to yesterday's?"

Ms. Haruna looked stunned that the question had something to do with school. "N-no, Serena, it isn't. At least, not that I know of."

"Oh." Serena looked back down at the proverb and suppressed a shudder. She didn't like the feelings she got from the message. Yesterday at study buddies they spent the entire session discussing the proverb. Serena had showed the proverb to Raye, and the girl had agreed that she felt a strange feeling when she read it.

Serena wrote down the new proverb and listened to Ms. Haruna drone on about a different one half-heartedly. She wanted out of the classroom, wanted to be somewhere where she could concentrate and think about the messages.

When the bell rang, she caught Amy and told her that she wasn't coming to study buddies. When the other girl questioned her, she said she had to pick up some things for her mom. Then she rushed out of the school.

She paused a few blocks away from the building and wondered where she could go to think. Certainly not home with Sammy and Rini driving her crazy. She didn't want to go to Amara and/or Michelle; they took everything too seriously. She considered talking to Trista but then remembered that she was usually with Amara and Michelle and decided against it.

Serena heaved a sigh. "Where's a girl to go?" she murmured, watching the busy traffic rush by. "Ah!" she exclaimed with a smile. "A library!"

*

Serena stood on tiptoes and reached for the book, but she was far too short. She jumped for it, but even then it didn't work. She gave an unhappy squeal as she landed. The girl was suddenly aware of a person standing beside her, and a slender hand reached up and grabbed the book effortlessly. "Uh?" Serena looked up at the person beside her.

It was girl about Amara's age or a little older, but she was incredibly tall. Serena figured her to be at least six foot three or four. She had light purple eyes and a darker shade of hair that was up in a high ponytail. She was slender but had muscles that indicated some sort of workout. For her age, the little leader figured, she certainly was well developed. The blonde stifled a gasp as a cloudy memory came into her mind. She'd seen her, known her, before, from somewhere...

"Here." The girl handed her the book with a smile, and Serena took it, dumbfounded.

"Th-thanks," she stammered.

"You're welcome." The girl turned, walked back down the aisle, and turned to the right.

"Hey, wait!" Serena raced after her and looked to the right, but the girl was gone. That's strange; she didn't have time to get far, she frowned. She stared down at the book in her hands. Proverbs and Their Meanings.

She checked out the book and tucked it into her backpack. The moment she stepped out of the library, her communicator went off. She flipped it open and saw the face of Lita. "Serena, an enemy's attacking near the downtown shopping market! Hurry!"

"I'm on it!" Serena tore off down the road. Luckily, the market wasn't very far from the library, and she was there within five minutes. She hid behind a building and transformed, leaving her backpack behind. Sailor Moon quickly bolted onto the scene.

And found herself facing a new enemy.

"Wha? What happened to the heart snatchers?!" she squealed at Sailor Mars.

"I don't know, but I'm willing to guess that it had something to do with the appearance of the talismans," her fiery friend replied, watching Venus and Jupiter fight at the new monster. "He's pretty powerful."

They were distracted by the arrival of Sailors Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto. Pluto looked upset, she noticed. As the headstrong Uranus and Neptune began to attack, Pluto stood back and watched. Sailor Moon saw for a fleeting instant a look of complete dread and horror cross her face.

Before she could question the scout, the enemy blasted the other two senshi away and threatened to kill them all. Sailor Moon heard a peculiar sound and turned around slightly to see Pluto close to tears. The older woman suddenly bolted towards the enemy, stopped at the front line of the senshi, as though she were waiting for something - or someone.

Suddenly there was a shout from a person, and a blast of bright light erupted from behind the monster and slammed into him. He was flattened to the ground and nearly killed by the explosion. There was a clatter of footsteps, like someone running, coming towards them.

A senshi-outfitted figure stopped shortly behind the fallen enemy and watched him stir. Sailor Moon watched in utter astonishment as the figure, a girl that looked like she was around Pluto's age, showed an expression much like that of Pluto's. A sword glimmered in her hands in the dying rays of the sun.

When the new sailor plunged the sword into the enemy's back, he screamed, then roared, like an animal. There was a brilliant flash of light, and a black shadow erupted from the man's back. The body left behind went through the stage of decomposing within seconds, leaving behind the bleached bones of a skeleton. The shadow gave a mutinous shriek and whirled on the girl.

"Sailor Moon." The startled blonde looked up at Pluto. "Destroy the monster."

"But I'll hit her," Sailor Moon protested.

"Do it. It won't hurt her." Pluto looked ready to run into the battle herself.

Sailor Moon hesitated. The shadow reeled back and plummeted towards the girl, and the scene made something inside of the leader snap. She recognized the scene, but more importantly, she recognized the familiar words she was yelling. "Moon Crisis Power, Make-Up!!" Super Sailor Moon appeared, then shouted, "Moon Rainbow Heart Ache!!" Just as the shadow was about to hit the girl, who was braced for the onslaught, the attack hit it.

Both shadow and girl vanished in the bright light. When it died, the shadow was gone, and the newcomer could be clearly seen. The girl was standing and facing them with a slight smile. She looked to be at least six foot five with purple eyes and a darker shade of hair. Her hair had beads like Sailor Moon's, only they were crystal, not pearl, and went all the way along her bangs and dropped into the middle of her forehead with a sapphire blue tear-drop. Everything about her was dark orchid - minus a brooch on her bow that was red as blood. Her gloves ended below in her wrist in a triangular shape. Her boots were like Sailor Moon's, but oval gems that continuously swirled a foggy silver/gold replaced the crescent moons. Her white body suit shimmered in the hazy light as though it had been splashed with glitter. The body suit had the sleeves of the SuperS uniforms, and they seemed rainbow-colored (it all depended on how she moved). She was very beautiful.

But the thing that got the senshi most was that she was familiar. Something about her nagged all of their minds but none of them could place it. It was like they had seen, maybe even known her, somewhere or sometime long ago.

"Well," the sailor said, looking directly at Pluto. "I'm back." She seemed near tears.

"But I thought..." Pluto began, trembling, and tears began to race down her cheeks.

The sailor shook her head, and a few tears escaped her eyes. "No."

Pluto smiled, then raced up to her. The two embraced - like old friends.