Thanks for those who reviewed the last chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Card Captor Sakura. This goes for the rest of the fic as well. I don't own either of them.

Note: This fanfic happens after Sailor Moon Another Story (A video game for the Super Nintendo). Apsu has been revived and is trying to change destiny once again. For those of you hasn't played the game here's a little key for you:

Hogosha is Japanese for "protector".

Apsu: The person who has convinced the Opposito Senshi that the Sailor Scouts are the reason for their problems and has promised them both revenge and power. She tried to change destiny before and was defeated at the end of SMAS (Sailor Moon Another Story). She was killed and even though she had combined with Sin, Sin is still alive.

Sin: The Opposito Senshi of Sailor Moon. She looks exactly like Sailor Moon except she is wearing a dark body fitting suit and has different color tattoos on her face and neck. She wants revenge on the Scouts because Apsu has convinced her they were the ones who killed her parents, in their neglect of Crystal Tokyo. In actuality, Apsu was the one who killed her parents.

Nabu: The Opposito Senshi of Sailor Mercury. She looks exactly like Mercury except hear hair is flipped inward towards her face, she is wearing a dark body fitting suit and has different color tattoos on her face and neck. She joined because she had nothing better to do and she wanted power.

Nergal: The Opposito Senshi of Sailor Mars. She looks nothing like Mars as she has hot pink hair in a style similar to Sailor Star Fighter (I think that's the one with the blue hair in a ponytail). She too has tattoos and a tight body fitting suit. The only reason she seems to be in the Opposito Senshi is for power.

Marduk: The Opposito Senshi of Sailor Jupiter. She looks exactly like Jupiter except her hair is black; she is wearing a dark body fitting suit and has different color tattoos on her face and neck.

Ishtar: The Opposito Senshi of Sailor Venus. She looks exactly like Venus except she is wearing a dark body fitting suit and has different color tattoos on her face and neck. She is the biggest ditz in the group and this is proven because she is often posed with her butt sticking way out.

Anshar: Brother of Sin, he actually has more power than any of the Opposito Senshi. He helps Rini during the game and they fall in love. Eventually though, they have to fight. Rini beats him and she doesn't hear from him again. (As far as I know…)

This is the redone version of my story. I'm hoping a lot more of it makes sense now. I'm going to put dates and times because I know before it was very confusing as to what was going on in terms of days. Even I got confused and I'm the one who created it. So, anyway, on with the story.

Context Key:

'Thoughts'

"Talking"

Italics background music or emphasis (you can figure out based on the context of the sentence which goes where)

Place: Date – Time

Time

Life Loses Its Meaning

By ebacusta

Chapter 3

"That wasn't it! Let's try the next one," Hotaru said. They started running. Suddenly Rini exclaimed, "There he is!" She jabbed a finger in his direction as she yelled, "Kaisuke! KAISUKE!" He looked around and when he saw Hotaru waving frantically as the two ran towards him, he smiled.

"Hey," he said.

"There's no time for greetings," Rini said.

"Those people who stole your mom's necklace are going to attack your family," Hotaru exclaimed.

"We have to go!"

"What are you talking about?" he asked.

"It doesn't matter," Rini exclaimed. "Just show us to your house."

"Okay." He began to walk.

"Run! RUN!"

"Okay!" he exclaimed. He began to run.

"RUN FASTER!" Rini panted as they followed him. "We overheard two of the people from the organization talking about how they were going to attack your clan. Your family is in danger!" Kaisuke began to sprint. Rini and Hotaru sprinted behind him. They skidded around a corner and dashed down the street.

"This is my house," Kaisuke said pointing. House was an understatement. It was a mansion. But none of them were focusing on that right now. They quickly climbed the wall and ran across the lawn. Bursting through the door, Rini and Hotaru groaned.

"We're too late." The family was already under siege. Weapons of all sorts pointing at their heads.

Rini cursed. "We were too late."

Kaisuke's eyes widened. "What's going on? Rini, did you know about this?"

"Yes," Rini said. "We were trying to get here to stop it. We heard two people planning it in an alleyway, but, we weren't fast enough… I'm sorry Kaisuke."

"What's going on?" Kaisuke repeated dumbly.

Rini patted his shoulder. "Just stay quiet for now. We'll find a way out of this."

"You three, get over here with the rest of the family," a man said urging them over. Reluctantly, Rini, Hotaru, and Kaisuke joined the rest of his family in the living room. When he stopped, Kaisuke's legs gave out from beneath him. Rini caught him, and hoisted him up onto her shoulder.

"It can't be," he was mumbling. Rini nodded sympathetically and rubbed his back.

"It's okay. We'll figure a way out if it's the last thing we do. I promise," Rini said.

She lowered him to the couch and listened as the man who had ordered them to move began talking, "All females are to remove their jewelry and place it in the hands of one of them uniformed men near you. All males are to willingly relinquish any weapons they own and place them with the jewelry next to a uniformed man."

Rini nudged Hotaru and eyed a woman with long hair elegantly tucked up in a bun staring at the man. Looking back at Hotaru and then back at the woman, Hotaru nodded and slinked off through the crowd. Rini watched as Hotaru went up beside the woman, and nudged her gently. The woman looked at Hotaru who began whispering to her out of the corner of her mouth. The woman then nodded, and bent down to her knees.

"You, woman, what are you doing?" the man demanded.

The woman spoke icily. "I'm merely picking up my child."

"Then stand," the man said. The woman's arms closed around a little girl with black hair and she stood slowly. Rini saw Hotaru discreetly slip something into her pocket. She stood beside the woman for a few more minutes while the goon continued his speech and then she slinked slowly back over to Rini. She opened her palm just barely so Rini could see a glint, and then she threw her hand to her mouth and let the necklace slip into her shirt as she coughed.

"Excuse me," she said when the guard looked her way, "Some spit went down the wrong pipe." His eyes passed over her as Rini and Hotaru slipped the other hogosha they possessed into their shirts as well. When the guard came by to inspect them, they willingly, showed him their arms and legs. They lifted their hair so he could examine their necks and turned their pockets inside out so he could see they weren't hiding anything. When he finished inspection, he told the threesome to report to a room. Kaisuke led the way into a room with books, papers, and such scattered all through out the room. A few people were already in there, and the door slammed shut behind them. A click followed shortly after.

Rini looked around the room, observing the way bed spread had been torn off, beds thrown on the floor, clothes scattered across the place, papers, books, and all kinds of other things overturned and out of place. "Looks like they've already searched this room."

Kaisuke looked around sullenly. "This is my room," he said.

Rini brightened. "Really? I like the décor."

Kaisuke smiled at her. "Thanks. It's something I like to call Tornado Alley."

Rini grinned. "Well anyway, who are these people. I don't believe we're met before. I'm Rini Tsukino."

One of the boys lying on the bed sat up and said, "I'm Yuki, Kaisuke's older brother."

"And I'm Satsuki," the girl sitting at the foot of the bed said. "I'm Kaisuke's younger sister."

"Ryo," the boy leaning against the wall said. "Pleasure."

"Melissa Udachiwa," an older girl of about 20 said. "Kaisuke's cousin. Nice to meet you Rini."

Rini noticed a little boy hiding behind Melissa. "Oh, nice to meet you too. Who's that little cutie?"

"Him?" Melissa asked. "That's my little brother, Kei. He's shy at first but once he starts talking you'll never shut him up."

Rini grinned. "Really? Well that sounds like me. It's nice to meet you, Kei."

"Nice to meet you," Kei whispered. Rini smiled.

"This is my friend Hotaru," Rini said.

"It's nice to meet all of you," Hotaru said. "I'm Hotaru Tomoe."

Ryo looked up from behind his messy blonde hair. "I don't care about your name. I want to know why you're here. Are you working with those people downstairs. Trying to take advantage of Kaisuke's kindness is that it. Get up close and personal, find out about his life, where he hides everything. Yeah. I bets that where you're trying to act all nice. Trying to gain our trust is that it? So tell me, why are you here, huh? Why? Speak up no one can hear you." By now, he was yelling and pushing Rini against a wall.

"Ryo," Melissa said, grabbing the boy off Rini and pulling him back. She looked up apologetically. "I'm sorry, he tends to get a bit emotional when he's angry."

"Why the heck are those idiots here anyway?"

"I think we all know why they're here, Ryo," Yuki said standing up.

"Yeah because of the stupid hog-" Ryo was cut off by Yuki's hand covering his mouth. Melissa was looking at him seriously.

Kaisuke sighed. "It's okay. They know."

Yuki looked reluctant, but he let his hand slide off of Ryo's mouth. "How do they know?"

"Well first we know the legend," Rini said, "and second, we've got some of our own, right now."

And supposedly we're part of the prophecy, Hotaru thought to herself.

"Oh?"

Rini suddenly got serious. "It's a very important thing that we understand what's going on. I've got a gut suspicion that something interesting might be happening behind the scenes."

"What do you mean?" Melissa asked stepping towards her.

Rini looked around the room. All of the faces were looking at her apparently interested in what she had to say. "I was just thinking. The hogosha are only helpful if you've got immense special powers anyway. Something that could already help you control time."

"So what are you saying?" Melissa asked again.

"I just think," Rini said, "that these people are gathering the hogosha because they have someone in their group who has some kind of control over time. No normal human can use those. And they'd have no use if they didn't possess someone who could use them."

Melissa looked at her with renewed interest. "I get it. You think that they must have someone who has control over time."

"What I want to know is," Yuki said, "what will they change time for? Who would desire something that they couldn't already have?"

"A lost love perhaps?" Rini said, knowing very well the power that love could have on a person. "Maybe they chose someone else, or the person died or something. They want to go back in time to fix it."

"Maybe," Hotaru said, "but I don't think that's it. I'm thinking it'd be more for a power lust."

"You mean like world domination?" Kaisuke asked.

"Possibly… but I'm thinking more like, they want to alter time to make themselves more powerful. Like Apsu."

"Apsu?" Rini asked. "But she's dead! We defeated her." Rini shut up realizing she was revealing too much of her and Hotaru's secret identity.

"Yeah, but, Rini, there was something I pick up at BBC the other day that I never told you. There was a note inside one of the crates that talked about setting up meetings with Sin, Nergal, Nabu, and the others," Hotaru said.

Rini's eyes widened. "What?"

"Yes. All of them had checks by their names, but one person is missing. Apparently, no one knows where Anshar is. But, I have reason to believe that maybe Anshar is with a certain someone," Hotaru said.

"But," Rini exclaimed, "he didn't like her… I don't think… he disappeared after… after…" Rini racked her brain trying to remember. Hotaru's reasoning certainly made sense.

"No," Rini said suddenly. "It's not just power lust. But revenge as well. It's the only way. Why else do you think this would happen?"

"Revenge sounds about right," Hotaru said.

Another person joined their conversation. "I hate to break into your little stroll down memory lane," Ryo said, "but I just thought I'd tell you that none of us have any idea what you're talking about!"

"That's okay," Rini said. "You don't need to know. Hotaru and I will check into it, and if it concerns you, we'll let you know. As far as I'm concerned, I don't really think this has anything to do with you, except you own hogosha. I'm fairly certain once they get those, they'll leave you alone."

"Wait a minute Rini," Kaisuke said. "Are you implying that who ever is behind this is out to get you?"

"No," Rini said.

Hotaru smiled at him reassuringly as she spoke to him, "Look Kaisuke, don't worry about it. Rini and I can take care of ourselves." As the last word rolled off her tongue, the wall opposite the door burst apart. A group of disgusting looking green skinned monsters with gross yellow hair entered. They did not have hands but in fact blades. They looked at Hotaru and Rini and grinned.

"Garoben," Rini gasped silently.

They flew forward. Hotaru and Rini split. The first one got its hand stuck in the wall. The other two split up and flew after Rini and Hotaru.

As it attacked her, Rini dodged backwards. She ducked a jab intended to slice her head. Jumped over one aimed for her legs, and completely ran out of the way of the one that was going to slice her stomach.

"What's going on?" Kaisuke asked, wondering why these monsters were only out to get Rini and Hotaru. He never got an answer. Rini flipped backwards and out of the gaping hole in the wall.

"RINI!" Kaisuke yelled. Hotaru jumped out after her. The monsters tossed Kaisuke aside as they followed the two girls.

"HEY! WHAT'S GOING ON IN THERE?" one of the goons yelled through the door.

"That's what we'd like to know," Ryo replied as he walked over to where Kaisuke was standing, staring out after his two friends.

Unknown: Saturday June 24 – 3:14 PM

Rini and Hotaru slowed and whirled around. The youma stopped too, looking them over greedily. The two girls didn't waste any time.

"Moon Prism Power… Make up!" Rini exclaimed.

"Saturn Star Power… Make up!" Hotaru shouted. Instantly, their clothes disappeared, being replaced by a leotard. Around it, a skirt formed with a tied ribbon on the back. Gloves wrapped up and around their arms, boots appeared on their feet. A tiara formed on their foreheads, and in Hotaru's hand, a weapon appeared. They posed.

Hotaru's sailor uniform consisted of a white leotard, a deep purple skirt and boots to match her eyes. In her right hand, she held her Silence Glaive. The rod was thin, and the top of it, arched into two separate parts, forming a shape that looked somewhat like a claw. She was holding the weapon across her body protectively.

Rini's uniform was different. It consisted of a white leotard with a red ribbon sprouting on her chest, light pink boots that matched her hair. White gloves, and a skirt with edges layered pink, orange, and yellow over each other, the top of it was white. On her lower back was a large light pink ribbon. She swung her arm around, with two of her fingers tapping her forearm, she posed.

"Sailor Saturn!"

"Sailor Chibi-moon! And in the name of the moon… we shall punish you!"

The youma grinned in satisfaction and charged forward. Rini and Hotaru split. Swinging her Silence Glaive, in an intricate pattern, she quickly exclaimed, "Death Reborn Revolution!" Yellow-orange ribbons stretched forward, instantly making every enemy it touched go back in age and size until they disappeared.

"Pink Sugar Heart Attack!" Rini exclaimed, spinning and throwing pink hearts from her wand. They pounded into the Garoben destroying the ones they touched. After making short work of what was left of them, Rini and Hotaru stood side-by-side.

"That's impossible," Rini said. "We can't seriously have just fought those. Because-"

"We already defeated them," Hotaru said. "But see Rini. It makes lots of sense now. My theory. I'll bet Apsu is back. And that's a really bad thing."

"We need mom and the others. There's no way we can do this by ourselves," Rini said. "It's just not possible. And Kaisuke's family. And the hogosha. It's just too much. Where can we even begin to dig ourselves out of the place we've just been thrown in?"

"We can start by protecting the hogosha we've got and looking into the legend a bit more. We can continue but checking and seeing if my suspicion Apsu is back is correct," Hotaru said.

"Do we really have any other choice? And poor Kaisuke. His family doesn't even know what's going on. How unfair to him," Rini said. They were silent for a moment and then Rini said, "Do you think we should call Serena? Get them back ASAP?"

"Possibly," Hotaru said. "But before that, let's actually figure out what's going on. Something about this isn't right. And on top of this there's Li and Sakura. I can't help but think that something is going on. The looked so concerned this morning, and I'll bet you a million dollars it's got something to do with that card and possibly others of its kind."

Rini sighed, "What should we do?"

"I don't know," Hotaru said. "But we've got to do something. This worries me."

"It worries me as well," Rini said. "There's no way we can help Sakura and Li if they won't trust us. And gaining Li's trust will be bloody murder."

"Rini," Hotaru said, "maybe we should go back to the Bounce, Bounce tonight. I've got a feeling we'll find something we might need."

"Maybe," Rini said. "But I don't know. Hotaru, what if a youma attacks us at school? What will we do then?"

"What can we do?" Hotaru asked. "Except run away like everyone else. Maybe go a different direction, but still… it could pose a problem… a BIG problem."

Rini sighed. "What can we do? What can we do? I don't like the sound of that."

Sakura's House: Sunday June 25 – 6:47AM

Sakura groaned and rolled over. She was sound asleep. Suddenly, a strong gust passed into her room, flinging open her desk drawer and throwing open the book of Clow. The sound the book made when it hit the floor, startled Sakura into an awakened position. And then, the cards started blowing out. Flinging herself out of bed, she threw herself on the floor, slamming the book shut and trying to land on as many cards as possible. The wind stopped and Sakura relaxed her tense body somewhat.

She sat up and examined the cards stuck to her body and clothes. Watery, Earthy, Float, Storm, Wood, Jump, Fly, Glow, Move, and Loop. She pick them off carefully and then picked slowly through the book of Clow to see if anything was missing. As she finished, she placed the last cards back in them, and relieved went to go take a shower.

She yawned as she stepped in the water. As she lathered her body with soap and washed it off, Sakura suddenly froze. Something was missing from the book. It was something very important as well. Turning off the water, she jumped from the shower, threw on some clothes and dashed down the stairs. This was bad. Throwing on her shoes, she called to her father she was going out for a little while and before he could protest she was gone. In her hand was the book of Clow.

Quickly, Sakura pulled out her cell phone and called Li. "LI!" she screamed into the phone.

"Be quiet Sakura, I can hear just fine you know," Li's irritated voice said.

"Li, this is important!" Sakura exclaimed. "Meet me by the tower ASAP. Another clow card's gone missing!"

7:30 AM

"Sakura, what's going on?" Li asked approaching.

"LI! It's terrible! It's gone missing!" Sakura exclaimed.

"What has?" Li asked.

"The Time card!" Sakura exclaimed. "It's gone!" Li froze. The Time card?

"What?"

"It's gone!"

"How did this happen?" Li demanded.

"This wind blew through my room this morning and blew the book open. It blew out of my room somehow!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Was the window open? Why was the book on your desk?"

"It wasn't! Neither of them. The book was in my drawer and my window was closed!" Sakura said. "It's impossible! How did this happen?"

"Then that means there some form of magic behind it. A new card perhaps?" Li asked.

"I thought Void was the last one," Sakura said.

"We both did," Li said. "But… it's possible. Maybe someone created it some how. Like you created the Hope card."

"Who? Who could it possibly belong too? And furthermore, who would use it against us to steal the others?"

"Some one who's trying to usurp you're power," Li suggested.

"What would it be called? The Steal card?" Sakura demanded.

"How should I know?" Li asked. "But this is a problem. Without the Time card no telling what could happen. What if those two girls had something to do with it? You sensed a magical aura from them too didn't you?" Sakura nodded.

"But they admitted that they didn't know what the Power card was, how could they create their own and use it if they couldn't use the power card?" Sakura asked.

"It's possible they were lying," Li said. "Was the Power card the real deal?"

"Yes," Sakura replied.

"Maybe they gave you the real one so they could throw us off. They had the card in the first place so they could weed out the owner of the cards. Once they knew the owner, they could get the rest of the cards," Li thought aloud.

"But-" Sakura didn't finish her sentence as a girl with long pink hair in pigtails wearing a white leotard, pink boots, a multi-colored skirt, and white gloves with a tiara on her head landed in front in between them, hitting the ground hard.

"Chibimoon!" a voice exclaimed. Li and Sakura turned to see a girl with black hair running towards them. She turned and jumped out of the way as a blast came flying at where she once was. The pink haired girl turned over and pulled Li and Sakura down. The blast flew harmlessly over them.

A group of orange women decked in pink from head to toe, with pink hair, wielding whips, came running out of the trees towards the two girls. Chibimoon scrambled away from Li and Sakura towards her friend. A whip got there first. With a loud crack, it slammed in between the girl and her friend. Chibimoon jumped out of the way of a woman with white skin, long wavy silver hair, and a pair of gray boots and a dress who was bent down in her jump attempting to shock the girl with two rods that were currently radiating with electricity.

Chibimoon back away, breathing hard. She was bleeding in several places. More silver women lunged out of the trees at Chibimoon and her friend.

"Pink Sugar Heart At-" Chibimoon began but a whip crack across her face. She was in shock as the blood started falling. But the blow didn't stop there. Another came at her. Chibimoon woke up and jumped out of the way.

"Death Reborn Revolution!" the black haired girl exclaimed. A yellow-orange ribbon twisted out from the path the girl had just draw with her staff. It reached for the enemies. They cleverly dodged it. The girl ran over to her friend. Chibimoon was tenderly touching her face with one gloved hand. She drew it back and looked at the blood that had soaked her glove.

"Pink Sugar Heart Attack!" she exclaimed twirling, raising a wand at the same time. Pink hearts flew from the staff. The enemies dodged those as well, and springing forward surrounded the girls. Chibimoon looked like she was about to cry. Wasting no time, the electricity girls jumped at the girls extending their shockers while the orange women drew back their hands and threw them forward sending the tip of the whip towards the girls.

They screamed. Sakura scrambled. Pulling the chain out from beneath her shirt she chanted:

"Oh Key of Clow

Power of Magic

Power of Might

Surrender the wand

The force ignite!

RELEASE!" The wand grew. Reaching into the book, Sakura threw out a card and yelled, "Windy card, blow away those attackers! WINDY CARD!" She slammed the beak of her wand onto the card. The white spirit flowed out of the card and blew towards the people causing a large gust. It blew the strange women, both mid-jump and on the ground away.

The two girls went flying a little ways but they landed on the pavement about 50 feet away from their original position. Li and Sakura rushed towards them. The reaction they received was like the girls had just noticed they were there. Chibimoon sort of gasped, while the other girl's eyes widened. Sakura leaned down and offered them a hand.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Yes," the girls replied in somewhat strangled voices.

"What was going on? What happened?" Sakura asked. "Why would they want to attack you?" Chibimoon's eyes filled with fear. She took a few steps backwards. Her friend followed suit. She opened her mouth but couldn't make a sound. They seemed to be debating what to do. And then suddenly, with their minds made up, the both said, "Thank you!" Before Sakura could ask anymore question they had turned and ran off.

"WAIT!" Sakura called. But they didn't. They kept running until they were out of sight.

"What was that about?" Sakura asked staring after them thoroughly confused. "Why'd they run off?"

8:45 AM

Rini leaned shakily against a building. "I can't believe we let them see us," Hotaru mumbled.

Rini wasn't as concerned about that. This was only the second youma attack and it already was getting too much for them to handle.

"Do you think they recognized us?" Hotaru asked. When Rini didn't reply, she looked over at her friend. She was shaking. "Rini? Rini? RINI!"

Rini's head snapped up. Fear was dominating her red eyes. "Rini what's wrong?" Hotaru asked placing her hands around the shaking shoulders of her friend.

"What if they come back?" Rini gasped allowing the tears of her fear to fall. "What if they come back and attack us? We can't handle them by ourselves. We aren't powerful enough. But what if next time more come? We could die. We were so close. What would have happened if that girl hadn't saved us?" Rini yelled clutching Hotaru's arms and lifting her tear stained face to her friends.

Rini's words echoed in her head. Hotaru's own eyes widened. She hadn't thought about it like this. What would have happened? Would they have died? Would they have eventually escaped so beaten and battered they would only have enough energy left to make it to a hospital? Would they even had made it that far? Fear began to settle in Hotaru's own heart. What if they attacked again? Would Rini and her survive a second attack?

Rini was scared. She had never been so scared in her whole life. A sudden feeling of useless suddenly overwhelmed her. Would she and Hotaru be able to live up the prophecy? Would they be able to protect the hogosha? What if Apsu was back? Could they defeat her by themselves? What about Kaisuke's family? Who would protect the protectors? Could she even live up to what she expected of herself?

Suddenly she heard footsteps. She whirled around and screamed.

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A cliffhanger! Well, I hope you'll leave me a review. Please. I beg you. I deserve it don't you think. I personally thought this was a pretty good chapter. Didn't you? Why don't you tell me so by pressing that little blue button, eh? How bout it? Eh?

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