Hey, I just started school again (last year of high school, what a drag). I realize that I forgot to put a disclaimer in my first two chapters, so the disclaimer on this chapter stand for the first two as well. Anyway, on with the story.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon. I do own the characters of Lara and Sol though, please don't steal.

Who's the New Girl?

"Well I guess that's all of it. You're all set!" Mina fell back on the bed. "How about we go get an ice cream?"

"All right, let's go!" Lara cried as she got up from the floor where she had collapsed after helping Mina move the furniture around and unpack everything.

The two of them left the house and walked to the ice cream shop. Just as they were about to walk into the shop, a red convertible roared into the parking lot. A woman with short blond hair drove it. The passenger had shoulder length aqua hair.

"Hey Amara, Michelle! How are you?" Mina walked up to the two women.

"Hey Mina" said the blond one, Amara. "Who's your friend, I don't think I've ever seen her before."

"Amara, you shouldn't talk about the girl as if she wasn't there" Michelle scolded.

"Well she might as well not be here. Take a look for yourself." Amara gestured to where Mina had left Lara.

Lara was squatted down petting a beautifully marked cat. It was all gold, red and orange, almost a match for Lara's hair. At that moment Lara noticed them watching her. She got up, seemingly embarrassed. Lara walked towards them, the cat following.

"Do you usually have cats follow you...uh..." Amara suddenly realized she didn't know the girl's name.

"Lara. And yes, cats follow me often enough that I'm used to it by now" Lara replied.

"Were you going to get ice cream?" Michelle asked.

"Yes we were. Would you like to join us?" Mina was already heading back towards the door, so all the rest of them could do was follow.

All four of them filed into the ice cream shop. They sat down in a booth and waited to be served.

"So, what's the rest of the gang up to Mina? Still doing study buddies?" Amara asked.

"Yup, Although Serena skips more than she goes to. But we're all doing much better with Amy and Darien helping us. Maybe you two could come by and help us some time!" At that moment the waitress came to take their orders.

The bell above the door rang, and in came Darien, Serena, Renee, and the rest of the girls. They immediately spotted the four girls already in the booth and came to join them. A few minutes after everyone was seated, Lara left for the bathroom.

"So, what's going on with the new enemies guys? All we know is that they're targeting women. How many are there? What are they after?" Amara shot the questions one after another at the rest.

"As far as we know, there are three. There are two males and a female. They're after, as they say, 'beautiful dreams'. We're not really sure about what that means yet. Also, not all of the targets are female, just the majority of them." Amy answered the questions. She had spent the afternoon with Greg, and would later be forced to spill the details by the other girls.

"What is it Renee? You look upset!" Michelle noticed how pale Renee had become.

"I know what they're after. They're after Pegasus. Remember when Pegasus got turned to stone? Well the monster who did it told me that with the power of Pegasus you could rule the world!" Renee cried.

"But how do they think they're going to get Pegasus by looking into people's dreams?" Amara asked, directing the question mainly at Renee now.

"I don't know. Since Pegasus shows up in people's dreams, maybe they're trying to catch Pegasus through the dreamer who Pegasus shows himself to." Renee thought that was a good explanation. So did everyone else.

At that moment Lara returned and the conversation moved to less important subjects like shopping and favorite deserts. Amara and Michelle said that they had to leave and that they would talk again soon. Everyone else decided it would be nice to go for a walk in the park. Nobody noticed that they were being followed.

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Most of the girls wanted to go into the cultured flower gardens, but Lara wanted to walk in the natural forest. The girls and Darien agreed to meet at the entrance in two hours.

Lara wandered the paths of the forest making so little sound that the animals of the forest didn't even notice her. Therefore it was no surprise that Lara heard the person following her long before that person was in sight.

Lara decided to sit on a fallen log and wait for the person. Suddenly all of the animals in the area became quiet. There was someone coming down the path. As Lara looked closer, she realized it was a young man with gold blond hair falling to about mid-back. His beautifully melodious voice sent curses into the air as he tripped, yet again, over a tree's root that grew into the path.

"Are you all right?" Lara asked. "You look like you could use some help. You're not really dressed for walking in the woods." She was right. He was dressed in an expensive looking shirt and tailored jeans. At least that's what Lara assumed he had been wearing. By now, the bottom of his jeans was covered in mud and there was a hole in the right sleeve of his shirt. He also had twigs and leaves all through his hair.

When he realized that Lara had seen him, he tried to get the pieces of trees out of his hair and straighten his clothes.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. My name's Lara, what's yours?" Lara got up and moved toward him, intending to remove the leaves he had missed.

"I'm all right. My name's Tiger. I confess, I didn't expect to be walking through the woods today, and I almost wish that I hadn't." Tiger looked almost respectable now, although there were still a few leaves stuck in his hair.

"You look almost as if you've been through a war! Why don't you sit down for a minute?" The two of them sat down on the log Lara had been waiting on. "So, why did you come into the forest if you hadn't intended to?"

"Well, I saw you with your friends, and then you walked into the forest. You looked like the kind of person I was looking for. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions, so I followed you. It turns out that wasn't my brightest idea." At this he gestured toward his clothes with a slight smile playing across his face.

"What kind of person were you looking for Tiger? And you're always welcome to ask questions." Lara smiled sweetly at him, her eyes sparkling.

"I'm looking for a girl with beautiful dreams, someone who has seen mythical creatures in their dreams. Have you ever dreamed of a unicorn, or a winged horse, or even the legendary Pegasus?" Tiger waited for her answer with eyes that seemed to burn with his need for this knowledge.

"I've dreamed of many mythical creatures from unicorns to winged cats. When I was very young I saw all kinds of strange animals in my dreams. But once, when I was nine or ten, and never again, I saw Pegasus. He never said anything, but I could tell that his message to me was that my time of seeing him had come to an end before it had even begun, and that he was sorry that he hadn't found me earlier. The reason he couldn't come to me was because adults constantly telling me that these fanciful creatures didn't exist had shaken my belief in the mystical, and Pegasus didn't want to confuse me. I still believe that he's out there in someone else's dreams, and so must you, since you asked the question. But my dreams now are mostly on the more human looking mystics like elves, fairies and angels. There's just something about wings and pointed ears, maybe it's a left over from the winged cats, I really don't know." Lara's eyes were focused on something distant, something within her, perhaps looking back at those long ago dreams.

"Lara.Lara, where are you?.Ow!"

Lara turned toward the sound of her name being called in worried tones. Then she looked at her watch. "Oh, I didn't realize what time it was! I was supposed to meet my friends twenty minutes ago! I should really go meet them before they get any more worried. You're welcome to come if you like." Lara looked back at Tiger, the question in her eyes.

"No, I should really be going too. I'll probably see you around. Don't be surprised to see me when next we meet."

Tiger got up and walked away, just as Serena came into view. Actually, it would be more accurate to say the she fell into view, as she had just tripped over the same root Tiger had tripped over before their conversation started. True to character, Serena promptly began to cry.

Lara barely even noticed, she was looking in the direction that Tiger had just disappeared in.

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"What happened to you Lara? When you didn't show up, we thought something horrible happened to you!" Rei looked inquiringly at Lara.

"Well, nothing horrible happened, I can assure you of that. I just lost track of time that's all. This forest is so beautiful; there's nothing like it left where I come from. When I'm in the forest, I tend to forget everything else. I'm sorry that I worried all of you." Lara let it rest at that. She didn't know why, but she didn't want to tell everyone about Tiger.

"Hey Lara, we should get back to my house for dinner. If we don't hurry, there won't be anything left for us! We'll see you later guys!" With that Mina and Lara waved good-bye and started walking toward Mina's house.

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Tiger's Eye was lying on his bed once again. On the table beside his bed, he had placed Lara's picture. Tiger's Eye's thoughts were fully centered on that picture.

"What is it about this girl that is so different from the others? Why does she speak of her dreams so easily when I had to pry the dreams from the others? What sets her apart?" Tiger's Eye had been asking himself these questions and many others since meeting Lara, and yet he could answer none of them.

"Hey Tiger's Eye, any luck with that latest target?" Hawk's Eye walked into the room.

"I really don't know. She's confusing." At this Tiger's Eye sighed and looked up at the ceiling. Suddenly he got up and looked at the other dream searcher. "Hey, Hawk's Eye, have you ever had a target who willingly told you about a dream she had about Pegasus?"

Hawk's Eye looked at Tiger's Eye as if he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "You're joking, right? A target can't have actually just told you that she dreams about Pegasus!"

"No, no. Not 'dreams', dreamed. That latest target you gave me told me that when she was fairly young, she had a dream about Pegasus. She said that no one can dream about Pegasus after they stop believing in mythical things, even for a minute, because Pegasus doesn't want to confuse the children." Tiger's Eye was really caught up in his thoughts, so he didn't see the look that quickly crossed Hawk's Eye's face.

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Another chapter done and I haven't even run out of ideas yet, that's amazing! I'll try to put out a chapter every week, but since I have some classes that give a lot of homework this year (hack.hack.Calculus.hack.Algebra & Geometry.cough), you get the idea, I might not get the chapters up as quickly as I like. Please review (always keeping in mind that this is my first fic), constructive criticism only please, I really want to know what you think.