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Now onto the next chapter.

Chapter 3

As soon as Saturn was out of the hospital she raced for a nearby alcove beside the building. Here she could change back into her notmal clothes. They showed no sign of the fight, or the fact that she had been wearing them for two days. Resolutely she removed her apron and the restaurant's name tag, she didn't need them any more.

Making her way from the hospital she couldn't help but notice the many bruises covering her body. She had been beat pretty bad before she had managed to toast that monster. Looking at her reflection in a shop window she noticed she had a minor black eye. Adding this to her list of things that would need to be explained to her mother, she walked on.

She had plenty of time to think as she walked home. There were miles yet to walk and she didn't want to rush it. Sarah Fulton was in every way an average teenager, she needed her T.V., music, chocolate, gossip and boys. But she had to defend the world, so she had things a little different from everyone else. Before her trip to Japan, Sarah had never been in trouble, never skipped classes, was always where she said she was going to be. Before her trip, she could be relied upon. People would say her transformation into this new being was abrupt, and in some ways it had been. But it had also been gradual. This area was not attacked immediately and not often once there was found to be a guardian. Many attacks Saturn could stop before they could begin, her strongest ability being able to shut the portals between the realms with nothing more than a thought. But still they manged to get through.

Sarah was momentarily consumed by pain. Her whole body seemed to scream, leaning against the wall she waited for the pain to pass. Oh how the last year and a half had changed her life. It was difficult to view life the same way she had, sitting with friends over ice cream, or experiencing the quietness of a deserted park at dusk, these were things that should be remembered and gloried in . . . in case the Nega Verse won.

Taking a deep breath, Sarah pushed her way off the wall and continued walking. It was dark by the time she arrived home, and Sarah was exhausted. She had spent much of the trip heading home checking her safeguards. Seeing if any of them had been tripped, or if the there had been an attack while she was out. Luckily things seemed to have been quited during her unexpected hiatus. She also had the issue of trying to tell the White Knight of Luna's warning. She didn't know who he as, just that he showed up when she needed a hand.

Now however, she had a bigger problem, what to tell her mother. Sarah climbed the steps leading to her front door and leaned against the door frame to catch her breath. The doctor had given her some pain pills, but they were wearing off and her waist and thigh were a blaze with pain.

Resolutely Sarah opened the door, she was tired but knew she'd have to face her mother with some explanation for being gone so long and looking like she had just rolled down a flight of stairs. As she entered the house no one stood waiting for her, or sitting in front of the TV with an air of impatience. The house seemed rather quiet. Perhaps her mother had gone looking for her. Laying her apron on a nearby table, so that her mother would know she had returned, Sarah was only to glad to put off the inevitable confrontation. With relief, Sarah went to her room and immediately fell asleep.

Sarah was awakened by sunlight warming her face. The sun shone through her window and welcomed her to a new day. It was difficult to believe that the last several days had taken place with the sun shining so cheerily, perhaps it had all been a dream, or rather a nightmare brought on by eating to much. But the pain was real, and no dream. Slowly Sarah pushed herself into sitting position. Tears streamed from her eyes as Sarah swollowed a couple of the pain pills, then pushing herself off of the bed, Sarah slowly made her way to the kitchen.

She was starving. No wonder really since she had not really eaten anything, excpet what the hospital might have forced into her, for several days.

Sarah was surprised that her mother was not yet up. She had to admit to being glad though, she didn't yet feel ready to face her mother's anger, and truth be told disaproval, especially when she had done nothing to earn it. Quietly she rummaged through the cupboards looking for something quick and simple to eat. She was deciding on cereals when a high pitched laugh split the air. Spinning around Sarah faced the direction the sound had come from. Standing behind her was a hologram of a woman with red hair down to her shoulder, her shapely figure was gaudily dress, like most of the Nega Verse croonies.

Sarah fell back, trying to act frightened, a hologram could not hurt her, but she wasn't supposed to know that the woman was a hologram to begin with. As she backed away she found her self up against the stove making her want to scream in pain, but she managed to keep herself from crying out. "Who are you? What do you want? Sarah asked, in a hopefully frightened voice.

"Do you really expect me to believe you are afraid of me?" Asked the woman, throwing a lock of red hair out of her face. "You are after all Sailor Saturn, and if rumors are true, afraid of nothing." Sarah was momentarily robbed of speech, she just stared at the woman supposedly standing in her mother's kitchen.

"I'm not Sailor Saturn," she tried acting scared stupid, hoping to make the woman think she had the wrong person, "please . . . please, just leave me alone." Sarah cowered in a corner, feeling like a complete idiot.

"Stop this charade, you are not afraid of me, I know. Now then, I came here for a reason," Sarah sighed to herself, the woman didn't believe her. "I have your mother." Sarah's head snapped up in outrage, she had no idea that at that moment she looked like a dangerous animal preparred to strike. The woman was surprised by how much danger she felt she was in. "If you want to see her again, come and fight. We'll be at the court house at five o'clock. Come alone."

The hologram disapeared and Sarah was again alone. Before even the static discharge could fade from the air, Sarah had run from the room. Ignoring her injuries, Sarah bolted for her mother's bed chamber. The room was empty, the place was spotless, no one had slept there the previous night. Even though she and her mother had not seen eye to eye in more than a year, Sarah loved her mother. She respected her mother and she wanted her mother to be proud of her. This time as Sailor Saturn had been hard, because she didn't feel comfortable letting even her mother know, for fear it would put her in danger, as it obviously had. Now . . . now, because of Sarah, her mother was in danger, and Sarah was in no shape to save her.

For the first time, Sarah felt true fear. She did not know what the Nega Verse could do, or what they would do to her mother, and she knew she would do ANYTHING to get her mother back safe and sound.

Resolutely she touched the comunnicator and raised it to her face, "Luna?" she waited for a response and when one did not immediately follow she said again, "Luna? Are you there?"

There was a burst of static and then "Luna here, what's the matter?"

"Luna, the Nega Verse knows my identity . . . and they have stolen my mother." Sarah paused, there was no sound from the other end of the line, "I have to fight them, but I don't know if I can win. I can't bring help . . . Luna, I don't know what to do."

"I wish we could help, but we are stretched thin as it is. The girls and Tuxedo Mask are fighting the strongest foes ever encountered and we can't spare even one," the voice sounded chagrined, it was some comfort.

"I understand, I'll see if I can find out how they were able to come here and take her without my knowing . . . " Sarah trailed off.

"Perhaps they have a new means of taking things they need, not having to arrive in person and thus set off your wards."

"That might have done it," Sarah sighed, "I'll update you when . . . if I find out more."

"Saturn . . . don't take them head on. Not by yourself. I know you," the voice on the other end was worried.

"I'll try, but I won't not show up. I got to go. Thanks Luna."

Sarah switched off her communicator before Luna could respond. It was obvious she had no advice. Well then, Sarah would just have to find away by herself. Taking hold of the intertwined rings of the emblem hanging from her necklace, Sarah stood in her mother's immaculate room and cried, "Saturn Star Power." The emblem began to glow with a blinding light. Sarah's clothes began to disapear as her body was obscured by magic. Rings of light began to grow from the light. Some gowing up, some going down. Where they passed her Sailor Scout outfit appeared. One ring went over her head leaving a tiara, two other rings went up over her arms leaving long white gloves, reaching her elbows. One ring pased over her body leaving the body suit with the short green skirt and the final two rings passed down her legs leaving behind matching green knee high boots.

With a nod Sarah fingered her necklace, the only part of her outfit that remained the same and walked confidently out the door.

Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed the transformation scene, its one of my favorites. Please review and tell me what you think, especially now that the plot is a bit more obvious, sorry it took so long to develop, but this felt like the best way to go about it. Thanks to all your readers and reviewers.

And thanks to Gabbi Web for pointing out my spelling errors they have been fixed.