Chapter 9: Discussions

Two days later Luna, Artemis and Diana were very worried. Something was terribly wrong. Everyone in Tokyo seemed to be going crazy. Best friends were turning into bitter enemies. But only some of them, others grew closer in the bond against a common enemy. To top it all off, everyone seemed depressed.

This would be bad enough under normal circumstances, the scouts would simply find the problem and fix it. However, all the scouts were depressed too! And, though they hadn't turned on each other, many had lost their good friends. Momo and Rini never spoke anymore. Molly and Melvin were definitely up to something, though the cat's couldn't tell what, but Bunny didn't even seem to notice.

"I'm worried Mama," Diana confided to Luna.

"So am I. If things keep up the scouts wont care if the new enemy strikes," Luna conveyed.

"You're right Luna. We have to do something and fast," Artemis agreed. "I wouldn't be surprised if the new enemy had something to do with all that's happening now."

"I think we should call a scout meeting," Luna demanded.

"We should have Ann, Alan, Fiori and Fiona too. As well as the generals and Jade and Jet," Diana added.

Luna called all the scouts, who were still at school, on their communicators, "Scouts, we are having a meeting today at Bunny's place. Invite everyone! Including the doom tree gang." Bunny, Mini, and Lita groaned together.

Then Bunny turned to Ann, "Hey Ann!" she whispered, "Luna wants us all to meet at my place this afternoon. Can you tell Alan, Fiori and Fiona?"

"Sure. I wonder what Luna wants?" Ann grumbled.

What none of them realized was that Molly and Melvin were listening. "So everyone's going to Bunny's place this afternoon, huh?" Molly repeated.

"It appears so. We should fallow them. Then we can find who's involved with this secret," Melvin replied.

"I wonder why Bunny said that Luna wants them all over. Luna is Bunny's cat!" Molly wondered.

"Maybe it's a code they use," Melvin speculated.

After school everyone was at Bunny and Darien's apartment, though none seemed to happy about it. Molly and Melvin were listening at the door.

"What is it Luna?" Bunny whined. She was turning back into the crybaby she was when Luna first meet her.

"Oh shut up Meatball Head!" Raye snapped.

"Raye! Don't call me that!" Bunny screeched.

"Can it you two!" Luna shouted. Bunny and Raye were in the mist of sticking their tongues out at each other. They turned to Luna alittle surprised.

"Look at you. You haven't had a fight like this in well over a year," Artemis pointed out.

"So, what do you expect from a crybaby like Bunny?" Rini jeered.

"Rini! Remember that Bunny is your future mother!" Diana cried.

"Anyway, is there a point to why you called us all here?" Mina asked.

"Or was it just to remind us how much Bunny's and Raye's fight annoys us all?" Amy added. The cat's were shocked. Amy never spoke like this.

"Yes, there is a point. And I think you are all proving it very well," Luna started.

"We think the new enemy has started their "attack," but it's not a normal attack," Artemis continued. Only the doom tree's children seemed interested.

"Good, our tree has been bugging us about the threat," Ann muttered.

Molly looked at Melvin, "Did Ann just say their tree was bugging them?"

"It sounded like that to me," Melvin agreed.

"Man this is weird, first Luna calls a meeting and now a tree can talk," Molly sighed. "This must be some secret if they have to use such strange code to talk about it."

"But what makes you think they've started to attack?" Hotaru asked.

"Well, for one thing, take a good look around. Doesn't anything look alittle odd to you?" Luna wondered. Everyone looked around. They hadn't really noticed it before, but no one was sitting next to their boyfriend/girlfriend, not even Bunny and Darien. Also, none of the close friends, like Pearl and Bunny or Hotaru and Rini, were together either.

"Now that you mention it," Darien mumbled. "This isn't the normal seating arrangement." The cats sighed in relief. They had noticed that Darien didn't seem to be affected as much as the rest. They had counted on him being able to notice it.

"Doesn't that seem strange to you all? Can any of you tell us why you aren't sitting with your 'beloved ones' as you have so often called each other?" Artemis asked.

They all looked at each other, rather ashamedly. Then they all went to find their beloved. The cat's immediately noticed that they didn't seem as depressed as a moment ago. "I hadn't even noticed that I was ignoring you," Rini told Helios.

"We were all ignoring each other," Amara recalled.

"How did you realize that something was wrong?" Lita asked the cats.

"Well, we first noticed it two days ago when Bunny and Pearl left for school," Diana started. The others just got puzzled looks on their faces.

"What was strange was that Bunny didn't say good-bye to Darien," Luna explained. Everyone gasped. How could they have failed to realize that Bunny and Darien weren't joined at the hip anymore?

Bunny lend her head on Darien's shoulder, "I'm sorry. I don't know why I've been so out of it lately."

"Don't blame yourself. Everyone in Tokyo has been out of it," Artemis remarked. "I mean Luna, Diana and I have been following you all around at school for two days and no one has said a thing."

"What! You haven't been following us around!" Rini cried.

"Yeah, we would have noticed you," Jade proclaimed.

"Yes, normally you do, but you didn't. That's what worried us," Luna divulged.

Molly and Melvin were still listening at the door, but were getting kinda board. "Did you see how many there are?" Molly asked.

"Yeah. Why is it Bunny trust all of them and not us?" Melvin demanded.

"I don't know. But we are going to have to find out!" Molly vowed.

The cats were all relieved that the mer mention of the strange behavior, once they got the others to believe them, seemed to help stop it. "So the enemy's new plan seems to have something to do with turning friends against each other, and causing people to become depressed," Artemis remarked.

"Can you imagine what would happen if the scouts were to turn against one another?" Pearl questioned. The scouts didn't want to think about it. There had been times in the past when they hadn't all worked together and that was bad enough. They didn't want to think about what kind of damage could be caused if they actually fought each other.

"We will just have to make sure that doesn't happen," Jade reassured her.

"Yes, but even if we are careful, we have to be prepared that somebody will turn, against their will," Darien reminded them. All the inner scouts nodded. Twice in the past Darien had been brainwashed into fighting against the scouts. Not to mention Wicked Lady.

They all hung around for a while longer. After discussing the enemy a little more they just chatted. They wanted to make sure that they didn't get depressed again, or start ignoring each other.

Outside Molly and Melvin were more confused then ever. "What could all this talk of 'a new enemy' be about?" Molly wondered.

"I don't know. But when we blow the lid of this secret wont Bunny and all her new friends be sorry they ever betrayed us!" Melvin cried.

In Elysion Queen Ralcea was very happy with herself. "Everything is going exactly as I planed," she said as she turned away from the window in which she had been watching Molly and Melvin.

"Not quite," King Rodo interrupted Ralcea's cruel chuckle. "The scouts seem to be pulling out of the depression we had placed on them."

"Not to worry. I'm sure this burst of optimism will be short lived. With Sailor Moon's 'beloved's' kingdom in the our hands, how long can they stay happy?" Ralcea bragged.

"But those two, Molly and Melvin, they don't seem to be getting the secret behind their ex-friend Bunny," reminded Rodo.

"I'll fix that!" Ralcea growled. She turned back to her window, "Molly… Melvin...!"

Molly and Melvin looked up. They thought they heard someone calling them. "Molly… Melvin...!" There it was again! "I can help you discover Bunny's secret!"

"Do you hear that Molly?" Melvin asked.

"I sure did Melvin," Molly replied nervously.

"Don't be frightened. I just want to help you. I know how hurt you are that your friend has abandoned you," the voice called.

"What do we have to do?" Molly called to it.

"Just come to me. I will help you discover the secret, and make Bunny sorry she ever betrayed you," a hand reached out to Molly and Melvin. They stepped near it, their hands out stretched.