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Usagi couldn't believe her eyes.

"You-you!" she stammered, unable to tell just how she felt about this new development.

"Sailor Moon, we can't discuss this right now! Your friend is in danger!" Tuxedo Kamen said firmly, but there was definitely a note of nervousness in his voice.

"You're right, but that doesn't get you off the hook," she said, turning to the business at hand.

Oh, what am I gonna do? She thought desperately. I've got to save Hoshi, first. Right. Okay, I can do this.

She turned and faced the youma. To her horror, Hoshi was a deathly white. Whiter than Usagi had ever seen any youma victim be before. She was really worried now, and completely forgot about Tuxedo Kamen.

"Hoshi!" she cried. She charged blindly at the youma, removing her tiara, and calling the activation words. She threw it, and it spun like a buzz saw straight towards the youma. To her shock, it just seemed to glance off the beast. Before she knew what was happening, it was spinning straight towards her.

Her eyes got big as realization dawned, but when she thought she was gonna get hit by her own tiara, she was suddenly on the ground. She looked up and saw Sailor Jupiter had shoved her down.

"Sailor Jupiter! Don't try to attack it, it has an invisible shield around it!" she cried when she saw Sailor Jupiter go in for the attack. Jupiter pulled up sharply, but she was close enough for the youma to strike a blow. Jupiter was knocked unconscious.

"Noo! Jupiter" she screamed. "Alright, it's time to get serious."

Hmm...it seems impervious to my tiara, but what about a physical attack? Maybe I could tackle it and take it down!

Just as she was about to try, she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"No, you don't know if it will work," she heard a gentle, deep voice say, "let me try."

She saw Tuxedo Kamen run past her, and straight at the youma. He was almost to the youma when it opened its dreadful mouth and blasted a nasty black goop at his face. He fell to the ground, clutching at his eyes.

"No!" she cried, as her heart jumped to her throat.

That does it! She thought, hmm...maybe I should try the stealthy approach.

With that, she melted into the shadows, and try though it might, the youma could not see her. She watched it from the shadows, saw it turning this way and that, trying to find her. She saw Tuxedo Kamen laying still on the ground, still holding his eyes, and Sailor Jupiter laying unconscious a few feet away. But she didn't see Hoshi anywhere.

As she was flitting along, a hand slid over her mouth and another one around both arms and her waist. A quiet voice whispered in her frightened ear.

"Don't yell, Sailor Moon. It's alright. It's me, Sailor Nebula. We've got to think of a plan," Hoshi whispered, letting her go.

"Gosh! Don't do that, Nebula! You nearly scared me to death!" Sailor Moon hissed back.

"Sorry. Okay, this is what I was thinking. That thing seems able to anticipate attacks. But maybe we can do what we did last time where one of us distracts it while the other attacks. It could work," Nebula didn't sound too hopeful.

"Well, it's impervious to attacks with weapons. It seems to have some sort of invisible shield around it. But I was going to try physically attacking it. Maybe if we could draw it closer to the trees, we could both attack it at the same time before it has the chance to counter-attack! If we're powerful and forceful enough, we could just take it down."

"Okay, let's try. We'll have to pop in and out of sight in the trees, though, and draw it close. Time to imitate Whack-a-Mole!" Hoshi giggled, even though the situation was very serious.

They started to weave in and out of the clearing, and the youma was immediately drawn closer. Their plan was going better than they had expected. That is, until the youma actually came into the trees.

"Crap! What are we gonna do, now?" Sailor Moon whispered to Nebula.

"Just relax. We'll have to lure it in by making noise. Then, we'll hid in two trees, and when it gets close, I'll give you a signal, and we'll swing down and kick it in the face and chest," Nebula said, sounding extremely cool and collected.

So they drew it in, and when it was close enough, Nebula gave the 'ok' sign to Sailor Moon. They swung forcefully out of their trees, and Nebula kicked it in the face, while Sailor Moon landed squarely on its chest. It crumpled to the ground with a sound wooshing sound as all the air was released from it. Nebula stood on it's chest, and with a flick of her wrist, made her scythe appear in her hand. She took it and harvested the creature's soul. It came up as a flickering little red light which she quickly grabbed and stuck in a little glass flask she carried with her everywhere.

Okay, that's the end of that chapter. Please read and review! I know, it wasn't that great, so feel free to flame. Thank you to those of you who have been faithfully reviewing! As soon as I get 27 reviews, I'll post the next chapter, so review, review, review! You've gotta remember that I'm making this whole thing up as I go with no prewriting or outlining or anything, so if there's some inconsistancies and dead end plot lines, I probably forgot about them. I rarely go back and read what I've already written. Anyway, please read and review!