Hey! What do you know? I actually found a bit more time to give you another chapter. That's pretty good I think. Anyway, the story is actually starting to come together a bit, at least I think it is. So, here it is, chapter 10.

Disclaimer: Guess what? I don't own Sailor Moon. However, I do own the characters Lara and Sol (so don't even think about stealing them!).

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Sol's Surprise

Lara had been looking at the starflowers, admiring their fiery depths while waiting for her face to stop burning, when she heard a voice loudly saying: "Back off buddy! Step away from the girl!"

Lara recognized that voice, it was the voice of Lita, she was sure of it. When Lara turned to look in the direction of the voice it was Sailor Jupiter standing there though. This was very confusing. Why would Sailor Jupiter care if she were with Tiger? Lara could kind of understand if it had been Lita standing there. Lita and the rest of the girls didn't know about Tiger, so it would be understandable that they would think Tiger was trying to do something to her when they saw him behind her. But this didn't make any sense; did the Sailor Scouts go around breaking up people on dates when they weren't fighting monsters?

"What are you doing? Are you crazy or something?" Lara yelled at the two girls in sailor suits. "Do you make a living scaring people to death?"

Lita just stared at Lara. Of course Lara didn't know that the guy she was with was an agent of the Negaverse, but still, you would think that she would know that the Sailor Scouts usually knew what they were talking about. "What I'm trying to do is save you from that creep you're with. That guy is bad, really bad. He has hurt a lot of people, and tried to kill most of those people too."

Lara looked stunned. Then she got angry. "You don't know what you're talking about. Tiger is a great guy. He's kind, and sweet, and he would never hurt someone like you say he has. I know that for a fact. You must have mistaken Tiger for someone else. If you don't mind, we'll be on our way, and you can find the guy you're really looking for."

Tiger had been surprised when the two scouts showed up, so surprised that for a moment he hadn't been able to do anything but stare. By the time he came back to reality, he was just in time to hear Lara's tirade against the Scout in green. That really surprised him. No one had ever stood up for him like that. Come to think of it, he had a strange need to stay and protect Lara. Even though he realized that Lara wasn't in any danger from these girls, he still felt that he needed to stay. The worst part was that he knew that those scouts were right, he had done those things, and now Lara was defending him to these girls. He didn't feel he deserved Lara's trust and affection. He suddenly felt that he needed to change his life to meet those expectations. The only problem was; he had no idea how.

While Tiger just stood there and stared thinking these thoughts, the scouts were wondering how to get Lara away from Tiger's Eye without her, or them, getting hurt. It was at this point that Sol made his presence known.

"Lara, they're right."

Lara looked around for this new voice. There was no one around except Tiger and the two scouts. Then Lara looked down, at her feet was her cat. But that was silly, cats don't talk, do they?

Then Sol spoke again. One part of Lara's mind was fascinated by how the cat's mouth moved when he spoke, it looked impossible but, obviously, it wasn't. "Yes, Lara. I can talk. I haven't spoken to you before because I wanted you to lead a normal life, but it seems that isn't going to be possible. Please, do as the scouts ask. Come away from Tiger, and I will awaken your memories."

"Okay, but only if you promise not to hurt Tiger. I don't believe that he has done anything wrong." Lara was still a little surprised that her cat could talk, but she was the one who had strange dreams about strange creatures, so this fact didn't bother her for very long.

"Yes, Lara. I promise that Tiger won't be hurt." Lara accepted his answer for the scouts as well. "Now come this way so you have some space, this opening of memories can be fairly traumatic."

Lara followed Sol a little ways away. Then she sat down and Sol put his paws on her shoulders. Then there was a flash of light and Lara screamed.

Tiger was surprised to hear Lara's cat talking (it seemed he was making a habit of being surprised lately), but he had heard that black cat of Sailor Moon's talk before so it wasn't as big of a shock as it might have been. Then that cat, Sol was his name it seemed, took Lara aside and caused some light to appear. Then she screamed and Tiger's mind snapped into the present. That scream tore at his mind and heart and he needed to get to Lara's side. He didn't know what he would do when he got there; he just felt that he needed to get there. As he moved to go to Lara, the scout of Jupiter brought down a flash of lightning right in his path.

"Next time you try to get near her, I won't miss." The scout promised.

"I thought you promised Lara that you wouldn't hurt me." Tiger reminded her.

The blond answered, speaking for the first time. "We didn't promise anything, Sol promised, we're just sticking to that promise because we love and respect Lara. Just give us a reason to fry you buddy, I promise not to miss the first time."

The cold look in the blonde's eyes convinced Tiger beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was telling him the truth. So Tiger just sat down to wait, he couldn't leave Lara, but he couldn't get near her to help her either.

A minute later Lara screamed again. Tiger had decided that he was going to get to Lara, no matter what those scouts did to him, when there was another flash of light and a man with long white hair appeared beside Lara, catching her as she fainted.

The man looked coldly at the scouts and Tiger, then he gave a truly frosty glare to Sol. Then he disappeared, still holding Lara in his arms.

Tiger, the scouts, and Sol stared at the empty space that Lara and the man had just occupied. Tiger realized that he couldn't do anything for Lara now, and if he stayed here much longer, the scouts would remember that he was there. So he decided to do the most important strategic maneuver: the retreat. He made a gateway and went back to his room.

Mina and Lita were just recovering from what had happened. Lita regained her ability to speak first.

"Was that Malachite, or is it just me?" Lita asked.

"It must be both of us, because I saw him too!" Mina replied.

At that moment Rei and Amy ran up in their sailor suits, ready to do battle. They stopped short when they saw their comrades standing staring at Sol, apparently. "Where's Lara? Where's Tiger's Eye? Did he get Lara before you could stop him?" Rei was nearly in hysterics as she frantically searched the area to disprove her own theory.

Mina came out of her fog to look over where Tiger's Eye had been standing. "WHAAAAT? He got away? That slimeball was right there a second ago! Now he's free to get other girls!"

Mina was very close to beating Serena in the contest for the highest decibel level at this point.

Rei looked relieved, even if she was wondering if she would ever be able to hear again. "So, he didn't get Lara. Where is she then?"

Lita looked at Rei. "Ask Sol. I think he knows more than we originally thought."

Rei looked at Sol questioningly. Sol looked up at these four scouts who were, not so patiently, awaiting an answer.

"I suppose 'meow' isn't going to cut it, huh?" Sol asked with a nervous laugh.

Before the girls could answer two blurs, one black and one white, sped over to Sol. They were closely followed by Serena.

Luna looked at Sol. "What happened here?"

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"Wow. I think that girl really likes Tiger's Eye. What's even weirder is that I think that he likes her too." Hawk's Eye observed.

"Yeah, I noticed. That little baka is going to lead Tiger's Eye away from our mission. How are we supposed to get our dreams if he takes off after that onna?" Fish Eye basically had steam rising out of her ears. Hawk's Eye was afraid she was going to explode.

"We should probably get out of here. There's nothing more we can do here, the girl's gone and so is Tiger's Eye. Let's go." With that Hawk's Eye and Fish Eye made their portals and left. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well, another successful chapter comes to a close! Hope you enjoyed it. The next chapter will give you a little more insight hopefully. As always, please R&R, I want to know what you think. Any ideas for future chapters are welcome, I'm going to need them soon!