Chapter 11: They've Turned

They returned to Tokyo on Saturday morning. They knew that the King and Queen were right, the scouts had been making chaos. Everyone was depressed and friends were fighting each other. Everyone, that is, except the scouts and their friends.

Molly knew that Bunny had music lessons on Saturday. Molly had been so proud when Bunny won, but the scouts had all her attention. So Molly and Melvin waited for Bunny, en-rout to her lesson.

"There she is!" hissed Melvin.

"Oh, look, Darien and Luna are with her. What a surprise," Molly scoffed. She and Melvin ran up to them smiling, "Hi Bunny! Darien, Luna. Long time no see," Molly laughed.

"Hi guys. I was just on my way to a music lesson," Bunny explained, holding up her violin and flute cases.

"We know. We were just wondering if you had any plans after your lesson?" Melvin stated.

Bunny looked at Darien and shrugged, "No, not really. Why?"

Molly put an arm around Bunny's waist, "It's just been so long since the three of us did something together, we thought you'd like to hang with just us."

"No offense Darien, but you've got to have her for ever so long, we thought she'd like to be with some of her old friends, for a change," Melvin grinned.

"No, I think it's a great idea," Darien lied. Luna jumped onto his shoulder, they both had a bad feeling about this.

"Ohhhh, Hi Luna," Molly cooed. "Bunny, wouldn't it be fun if cats could talk? Think about how much they could tell us about our past, from all their constant watching."

"Yeah, that would be fun, to bad they can't," Bunny agreed. By that time they had reached Missouri Backmen's studio.

"Molly, Melvin, why don't you listen to Bunny's lesson. Then you can go have fun. I've got some research that I should be doing," Darien suggested. He gave Bunny a quick kiss on the cheek and was off. Bunny and Molly were so busy gossiping that Bunny didn't notice Darien was worried.

As soon as he rounded the corner he called the other scouts, "We may have a problem. Call your boyfriends and meet me at my place as soon as possible. We'll get the doom tree's children."

"I don't like the way Molly and Melvin were acting," Luna confessed on their run home.

"Me neither. Something is not right."

"Darien, what is it? What's wrong?" Raye demanded.

"I thought you had gone to Bunny's music lesson?" Pearl questioned.

"We did," Luna stated. "And we meet Molly and Melvin on the way."

"Wait, hadn't they been ignoring Bunny lately?" Lita wondered.

Luna nodded, "Yes, but now they wanted to spend some time with their 'old friend'."

"So what's so bad about that?" Mina asked.

Darien looked at them all, "It was something about the way they acted, and the things they said. Like Molly saying that, if cats could talk they could tell us alot about our past." Everyone gasped.

"And the fact that Darien had had Bunny to himself for a long time," Luna added.

"Your right. It sounds like they know something," Michelle agreed.

"But how could they have figured it out?" wondered Ann.

They all thought about it. Molly and Melvin had been Bunny's best friends long before she became a Sailor Scout. It was highly possible that they had noticed something was up, but still, why not come out and say it.

"Wait a minute! What if the Redeans got to them?" Jadeite deduced.

"Your right. The Redeans could have found out about us, and used that information to get Molly and Melvin to help them," Amara remarked.

"But how would telling Molly and Melvin about the Sailor Scouts help the Redeans?" Jet asked.

"Yeah, the Sailor Scouts have helped Molly and Melvin a number of times. Why would they suddenly think we are bad?" Hotaru added.

Everyone thought about that for awhile, but couldn't come up with an answer. They were all about to leave when Artemis stopped them, "Hold on. We have something left to talk about."

"What is it Artemis?" Vesta asked.

"We'll we've noticed that whenever we want to have a meeting we can call all the scouts, and Darien on the communicators," Luna explained. "However, we still need to get in touch with all of the boyfriends. This takes time, so we've decided to give all the boyfriends these..." Luna jumped in the air and did a flip. Seven new communicators appeared.

"This will allow us to receive the calls like all of you? Thanks Luna," Helios smiled. Ann, Alan, Fiori and Fiona just looked away. They still couldn't call them.

"Don't worry," Diana laughed. Luna did another flip for four more communicators.

"This way you can contacted us, even when you leave," Artemis explained.

"Oh, now we can keep in contacted with each other. That's great," Fiori replied.

Molly and Melvin had a great time listening to Bunny's music lesson. Then the three of them went to the Crown Cafe for milkshakes. At first Molly and Melvin just gossiped with Bunny about this and that, but when they had their milkshakes they started to ask about Bunny's new friends.

"So how did you become friends with so many college guys?" Molly giggled.

When Bunny looked like she didn't understand Melvin add, "You know, Kunzite, Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite, Helios, and Fiori. How did you meet them?"

"Oh, their just friends of Darien's," Bunny replied truthfully. "Fiori was at the orphanage with him and everything.

"So why didn't we see them around until last year?" Molly pried.

"Ummm, ohh, because..." Bunny stammered, "because they weren't around for awhile. They just returned last year."

"So where were they?" Melvin pressed.

"Ummm, I don't know, really," Bunny flustered. "Why?"

"Oh just curious about who's been keeping you away from us," Molly responded. "What about Amara and Michelle, how did you become friends with people so famous?"

"We just bumped into each other alot. Amara used to go to Crossroads High so she hung out here alot," Bunny explained. "And she and Michelle are inseparable."

"You know, your cousin Rini sure looks alot like you," Melvin commented. "One would almost think you were mother and daughter."

Bunny blushed, "Well… Rini is always trying to be like me." Bunny sipped her milkshake, "Why so curios all of a sudden?"

"Well, we've been hearing some strange things about your friends," Molly admitted. "And you're always with them, so we wondered what made them so great."

"Sorry guys. I didn't realize that I'd been ditching you. It's just that my new friends and I have alot in common, and..." Bunny just trailed off.

"And you have to fight the new enemies together," Melvin whispered.

Bunny jumped, "Wh - what are you talking about?"

"You can't fool us Bunny. We know who you and your friends are, Sailor Moon," Molly said softly.

"How - how did you find out? I have to call the others," Bunny was flustered.

"Wait, don't call the others yet," Molly insisted. "And why shouldn't we find out? We were your best friends and all."

Bunny thought about that. Why hadn't she ever told them? "I don't know," she thought aloud.

"I bet Luna had something to do with it," Melvin speculated. "I mean she was the one who took away your normal life."

Bunny nodded. She had resented that at first, and she had never really gotten over it, "Why can't I be just a normal teenage girl?"

"And what about your guardian scouts? Having to put up with Raye's temper all the time, that has got to be such a pain," Molly reminded her.

"It is, but we've gotten better," Bunny pointed out.

"But how about Amara and Michelle. They didn't want to fight with you at first, they said you would just be in the way," Melvin maintained. "That wasn't very nice."

"Specially considering that you are their princess and future queen," Molly added.

Bunny no longer wondered where Molly and Melvin had gotten their information, but she agreed with them. The scouts had always been telling her that she wasn't good enough, wasn't strong enough. Why should she be, all she wanted was to be a normal girl.

"And how much can Darien really care for you?" Molly demanded. "If he truly loved you he would have remembered that even when he had no other memories. But instead he just treated you the same way he treated Ann."

"And Rini, your future daughter. Don't you think she should have more respect for you?" insisted Melvin.

"You two are absolutely right!" Bunny agreed. "Why should I be forever helping these people who don't respect me? I'm the one who always has to put her life on the line to destroy the enemy. I'm the one who will become the future queen, why should they tag along?"

Molly and Melvin grinned at each other. It had worked, they had Bunny back. The three of them talked for awhile, and told Bunny how the scouts were using her. They were going to make them pay.