Ch 8: Help from the future?

On Monday Bunny was exited. It was time for her first violin lesson. She could still hardly believe it. She had won lessens from Monsurie Backmen, and Monsurie Backmen was a subject of the Moon Kingdom, during the Silver Millennium. Bunny started off to her lesson with Darien. He just had to go with her. They were a little nerves about leaving Rini and Hotaru, but they had their communicators and the cats.

When Bunny got to Monsurie Backmen's studio she was very impressed. There were some wonderful instruments there, including a marvels white grand piano. Bunny loved playing the piano, maybe…

"Ah… You like my piano. I remember how well you played in the concerts on the Moon. If you like you can play something before we begin," Monsurie Backmen had read Bunny's mind. She sat down and wondered what to play. Before she knew what she was doing she was playing another of her old songs, "Call My Name." Darien and Monsurie Backmen listened intently till she was done. "Very nice. I can see you still have your talent for the piano as well as the violin. Shall we being?"

"Yes, but I should tell you that I don't really know how to play the violin. I can only play my old songs. So we will have to start at the beginning," Bunny informed him.

Start at the beginning they did. Bunny learned how to play scales that day. She couldn't believe that she could play such wonderful songs, without even being able to play scales properly. Monsurie Backmen seemed to be enjoying himself. "I don't often get students that don't play. Normally there is little left to teach once they come to me," he said smiling.

Bunny could hardly believe when her hour lesson was over. It seemed to have just started. She also couldn't believe that Darien had sat through the whole thing. "That must have been pretty boring for you. You didn't have to stay you know," she told him as they walked home.

"No, I wanted to stay. I want to be with you, and I love listening to you play," Darien said lovingly.

"Yeah, if you can call scales music. Ah! What was that! I just felt something. We have to get to Rini!" With that she and Darien were off. Bunny wasn't sure what she had felt but she had a bad feeling.

"Rini! Hotaru! Where are you?" Bunny yelled when she got to the apartment. Darien ran into their room and she heard him gasp. "What are you doing here!" She demanded of the four ladies there, the same four that had attacked them before. Bunny called the others on the communicator.

"Please, we mean you no harm, none of you," one of the ladies said. "We were sent here to find Small Lady and Hotaru, to protect them."

"How-how do you know that I'm called Small Lady. Mother gave me that name, I only use it in..." Rini stammered, then remembered she shouldn't say she was from the future.

"In the future. We know, your mother told us," a second lady finished. By that time all the other scouts were there. They were all as surprised as Bunny and Darien, except maybe Pluto. She seemed to have finally figured something out.

"Sailor Pluto. Let us return this key. Neo-Queen Serenity let us use it. She knew that Small Lady and Hotaru had lost their powers, and she wanted us here to protect them," The first lady said, giving Pluto one of the keys to the fourth detention.

"So it was you I felt traveling through time. I wondered who was using my key," Pluto said.

"Okay, let me get this straight. Neo-Queen Serenity somehow knows that Rini and Hotaru had lost their powers, and then sends you here to protect them. Okay, so who are you?" Bunny asked, sitting down. Darien sat down next to her with Rini in his lap, and Hotaru climbed into hers.

"Oh, I forgot, we haven't introduced ourselves. We are the four Asteroid scouts. Sailor Chibi Moon's scouts from the future," The first lady said as they all curtseyed.

"My scouts? I didn't know I had scouts," Rini exclaimed.

"Well, we have been gathered by your mother. We have always been there for you, but you didn't need us as long as you had your friends here. Let us introduce ourselves, I am Sailor Pallas, and these are Sailor Juna (pointing to the first lady), Sailor Ceres, and Sailor Vesta," the second lady explained.

"Ah, you will excuse this but, you look a whole lot like the Amazon Quartet?" Venus asked.

"Yes, we were the Amazon Quartet, until Saturn here started to awaken us. Neo-Queen Serenity was able to give us back all of our memories, as the guardians of the next heir to the Silver Millennium," Juna answered.

"Well, this is all wonderful, but perhaps you could tell us what is going on," Darien insists. "I mean, we didn't know that Rini and Hotaru had lost their powers until you attacked them. Hey, why did you attack them if you are supposed to protect them?"

"We weren't attacking them. We have never seen Rini or Hotaru so we were looking for there signs. We didn't expect them to be so frightened, though we aren't that surprised now that we think about it," Ceres answered. "As to what's going on, we really don't know."

"You see, Neo-Queen Serenity just told us that something terrible was going to happen in the past and that Small Lady and Hotaru would be defenseless, then she sent us here, that's really all we know," Vesta finished.

They all talked about it for a while longer, but it was late. They decided to meet tomorrow to talk some more. All the scouts left and Rini and Hotaru went back to bed, happy to know that they had special guardian scouts.

"Okay, so they are from the future, and Neo-Queen Serenity knows that something terrible is going to happen," Bunny summed up. "But what is that something terrible?"

"I don't know. Maybe we will figure it out tomorrow. Don't worry, Sailor Moon's never been defeated, everything will be fine."

"True, I've never been defeated, but I've come close. For instance, Metallia. We all died defeating her, I don't fancy having to be reborn again," Bunny reminded him.

"But Metallia has been sealed away, and Beryl is dead. No one can brake the seal. Don't worry."

"You're right" and with a goodnight kiss from Darien Bunny fell asleep.