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Chapter 18 – New Transformation

Shelly:

I walked through the place gardens and sat on a bench in front a pond. I stared at the water, which made me think about my beautiful home, the planet, Neptune. Almost every day, I would sit at the bench and spend hours painting the scenery or collecting shells. I sighed, when Mom and Dad became Sailor Neptune and the Neptune Knight, did they have to give up something they loved?

"Hey, Shelly!"

I turned to see Sapphire walking toward me. My heart started to beat faster. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I think I had a crush on him. His beautiful dark blue hair, those lovely blue eyes and everything about him were prefect.

"Hi, Sapphire," I greeted with a shy smile, "What's up?"

"Nothing much," he answered as he sat down next to me, "Phoebe told me that I might find you here."

Mentally I thanked Phoebe for her great instinct with love.

"Is there something you need?" I asked, glancing at him.

"Well, sort of," he said quietly, "I'd like to thank you for helping me."

He stood up with his back to me, "Since I returned to the future, you have helped me heal, Shelly. That is one of the kindest things someone has ever do for me."

I blushed, "It really wasn't…"

"Maybe not to you, but in my heart it was," Sapphire said interrupting me, "Shelly, I…"

He stopped and looked away. I stood up, "You what, Sapphire?"

"Forget it," he said looking away.

I stared at him for a moment, "What ever it is Sapphire, you can tell me. I promise I won't laugh."

Sapphire took a deep breath, "I-I…I love you, Shelly."

There was an awkward moment of silence between us. Then a smile formed on my face and I hugged Sapphire.

"I have the same feelings for you," I whispered as we embraced.

Sapphire smiled happily and pulled me close to him. Our lips touched as we kissed. I enjoyed every moment of it.

"Well, well," came a haughty voice from behind us, "How romantic."

Sapphire and I pulled away, to see a woman with blue skin, wearing black body armor and kneepads, elbow pads, wrist guards, ect.

"What do you want?" demanded Sapphire stepping in front of me to protect me.

"Nothing much, lover boy," replied the monster, "I've been ordered to kill you and your relatives."

I gasped. The monster held up her hand, "So long traitor."

Out of nowhere a figure in aquamarine appeared. He wore an aquamarine tuxedo.

"Back off, Nega Slug," he warned.

The monster laughed, "And what can you do to stop me."

The tuxedo-clad man raised his hand and shouted, "Neptune Whirlpool! Confusion!"

The monster laughed and out of nowhere a wall appeared blocking the guy's attack.

"Sorry, tuxie," she sneered, "'Fraid, that didn't work. But here's something for you."

She threw a dagger at the man, he dodged it, but she kept on producing more daggers. Then she stopped and produced two more daggers and turned to Sapphire and me.

"Here's a present for you traitor and your girl friend!" she threw the two daggers at Sapphire and I.

I closed my eyes, but no pain ran threw my body. I opened my eyes to see that the guy in the tuxedo had taken both hits. He was now bleeding pretty bad. The monster growled angrily and threw another dagger, this time hitting its mark, Sapphire. I screamed as Sapphire fell to the ground. That heartless monster just laughed. Finally losing my temper, I raised my brooch in the air.

"Neptune Prism Power!"

I used my brooch to draw a circle around my body, and then held up my arms. The circle exploded into a tidal wave and washed away my normal clothing replacing it with my sailor suit.

Without even saying my usual speech, I quickly attacked that monster, "Neptune Tidal Wave Strike!"

A huge tidal wave hit that monster, killing her. I smiled, she hadn't lasted that long.

"Neptune!"

I turned to see, Uranus, Pluto, and Saturn racing toward me, with three guys dressed in tuxedos and Diamond and Rubeus following too.

"What's up?" I asked as they reached, "Who are they?"

One of the guys bent down and shook the aquamarine tuxedo guy.

"Michael, Michael! Wake up," he said as the guy's eyes fluttered open.

Michael slowly got to his feet. He must have pulled out the daggers, because they were now gone.

"I'm okay," he replied.

I gave a quizzed look to Saturn, as Diamond helped Sapphire up.

Later:

Sapphire and Michael were getting medical attention, while I waited with Hope, Hallie and Terri outside the room.

"So Michael is my twin?" I asked, "But how?"

Terri shrugged, "I was surprised as you when I found out, Tyler was my twin."

Hallie nodded, "Henry's mine and Hope and Brent are twins too. I wonder why our parents never told us?"

Hope shrugged, "The thing that I'm confused about is how we've never met them before."

"Because at a small age they were captured," came a voice.

A bright light flashed and Helios appeared.

"Helios!" we all said.

Helios bowed his head, "It is time for you four to become Neo Scouts too. Your power is needed right now."

His horn glowed. Each of our brooches glowed to and transformed into star shaped brooch. Mine was still aquamarine with the symbol of Neptune of it, Hallie's dark blue with the symbol of Uranus, Terri's dark red and the symbol of Pluto and Hope's was purple with Saturn's symbol.

"Uranus Star Power!" shouted Hallie.

"Neptune Star Power!" I shouted.

"Pluto Star Power!" shouted Terri.

"Saturn Star Power!" Hope shouted.

Sailor Mini Moon, Mini Venus, Mini Mercury, Mini Mars, Mini Jupiter and the Planetary Knights were in the Royal Gardens fighting against some of the Negaverse's most powerful monsters. In other words, Nyx had given Zoycite the Black Crystal to bring back the bearers of the Rainbow Crystals and transform them into monsters.

Mini Mars and the Mars Knight had teamed up to fight against their grandfather (who held the purple rainbow crystal). Mini Mercury and her twin had ended up fighting against their own father (held the yellow rainbow crystal). Mini Jupiter and her brother were fighting against a man named Joe (held the red rainbow crystal). Mini Venus and Mini Moon was fighting against Rita, Andrew's wife (held the blue rainbow crystal), Rubeus and the Uranus Knight was fighting against a cat monster (indigo rainbow crystal), Diamond and the Pluto Knight were fighting against Yumemi (held the green rainbow crystal) and the Saturn Knight was fighting against a minister (held the orange rainbow crystal).

"Mars Flame Incineration!" shouted the Mars Knight as he tried to hit the monster with his attack.

"Demain!" scolded Mini Mars, "Don't hurt him, its still Grandpa!"

"Sorry, Phoebe," muttered the Mars Knight.

"Mars Smoke Screen!" shouted Mini Mars, as she created a defense for the scouts.

The monsters searched around for the scouts that had disappeared.

"Okay, can we just attack them?" asked Jupiter Knight.

"NO!"

"Shesh, just giving a thought," replied Jupiter Knight.

"How long can this smoke keep up?" asked Rubeus.

Mini Mars shrugged, "It's only temporally, won't stay for ever."

Rubeus cursed in his mind.

"Got you know," came a voice from behind them.

Everyone turned to see the seven monsters behind them.

"Uranus Sky Shaking!" shouted Mini Uranus as she did a quick spin and punched the ground.

"Neptune Water Typhoon!" shouted Mini Neptune releasing a funnel of water.

"Pluto Sonic Blast!" whispered Mini Pluto as she spun around and pointed her staff at the enemy.

"Saturn Silence Glaive Drop!" shouted Mini Saturn as she hit her glaive to the ground.

The four attacks hit the monsters, almost killing them. The Mini Scouts looked up to see Mini Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Saturn standing by them.

"Mini Moon," commanded Mini Pluto, "Call upon Helios to help us."

Mini Moon nodded and kneeled, "Please Pegasus, free their souls. Crystal Twinkle Bell!"

Her bell echoed as Helios appeared. He neighed and pointed his golden horn at the seven. A bright light flashed from the horn, healing the seven and turning them back into humans or a cat. The seven fell to the ground unconscious.

Terri:

I knocked on Minnie's door waiting for her to let me in.

"Come in!" came her muffled voice as I opened the door and stepped into the room.

I walked over to her bed and sat down. Minnie looked up at me. I studied her for a moment. She had been crying.

"Minnie," I said gently, "Is something wrong?"

Minnie took a deep breath, "I think I'm losing my sailor powers, Terri."

"What? What makes you think that?" I asked surprise by her statement.

"Because I haven't had a new transformation and everyone else has," she replied sadly.

"Neither had Rini…" I started but she interrupted me.

"As a scout I'm suppose to protect her and since I'm not powerful enough…" she stopped.

"You don't think you're powerful enough to protect her," I finished.

Minnie nodded, tears still in her eyes. I smiled and hugged her. Then I had an idea.

"Minnie, I have something for you. I was going to save it for your birthday, but I think you should have it now," I said pulling out two objects.

I handed them to her. She looked at them and gave me a strange look.

"What are these?" she asked holding the two objects up.

I smiled. One was a brooch, with a V and a crescent moon on it and the other was a pen with a V on it too. The brooch was Sailor V's transformation brooch and the pen was Sailor V's disguise pen. These items use to belong to Minnie's mother, Mina or Sailor Venus when she was Sailor V in England.

"These items are for you. I think you need sometime to yourself and you need to be alone for a while," I said, "That's what the disguise pen is for. It will disguise you, so know can recognize you and if there's any danger, you can become Sailor V and fight of the evil."

Minnie smiled and stood up, "What are the words for the disguise pen and V brooch?"

"Disguise Power' and 'V Power! Transform!'" I said.

Minnie nodded, "Thanks Terri. I promise after a while, I'll come back. And please don't tell anyone where I've gone."

I nodded, "My lips are sealed."

Minnie smiled and held up the V pen, "Disguise Power! Disguise me as a Palace Steward!"

Minnie was now a Palace butler. She felt her platinum blonde mustache.

"Mom always said when you get old you get a mustache! I wasn't expecting this!"

I giggled and watched Minnie leave. Then I stood up and left. As I walked toward my room, I ran into someone. Diamond.

"Sorry," I said with a sheepish grin.

Diamond smiled one of his mysterious smiles. For a quiet guy, he sure was cute. I blushed as I thought of that.

When ever I meet new people. They usually think I'm a guy, because of my short blackish dark green hair. But, strangely Diamond had guess I was a girl when we first met.

"My fault, Terri," he said.

He reached out his hand and brushed some of my hair that had fallen into my face. I felt my face getting red.

"Diamond…" I started to say, but he put his finger to my lips.

"I already know," he said with a smile.

"Was it that oblivious?" I asked blushing.

He shrugged, "I'm a good guesser and plus you're brother hinted about it."

Great, thanks Tyler, I thought, Now Diamond knows I have a crush on him and probably won't even give me a chance.

I looked at Diamond, who seemed to be debating about something in his mind. An awkward silence came between us.

I turned to leave. But Diamond grabbed my arm, "Terri, I uh…"

He became silent. I suddenly realized what he was trying to say.

"I know," I whispered watching his face form a smile, "I care about you."

Then I kissed him on the cheek. He smiled.

"Well," I said turning, "Gotta go."

He waved as I turned and left.

A/N: yeah, some romance in this chapter. I'm starting to pair up some couples. I think in an upcoming chapter, I'll give you all the couples. But, for now, I let you wait in suspense. Oh yeah, I promise I will not change anything with the knights.