'Hey I am early again, cool!' a girl with hip length burgandy hair thought happily to herself.
'Shoot I'm late on my first day!' Ari looked at her watch as she ran from Haruka and Michelle's apartment. She franticly ran past the girl with long burgandy hair.
The girl caught up to Arianna.
"What's with the rush?" the girl asked, wearing the same stupid school uniform.
"I'm late." she cried out.
"For?" the girl kept running with Ari.
"School! It's 9:10." Ari said, speeding up.
The girl stopped to look at her own watch, "It's ten after eight, on my watch." she annouced to the fleeting figure who stopped abruptly.
"Oh." Ari said.
The girl laughed at Arianna.
"I'm Cera Starr." the girl introduced herself.
"Arianna Pince, nice to meet you." she smiled at her new found friend.
"You're looking after a friend of Trista's?" Luna repeated Raye's question to Haruka and Michelle.
"She's so cute." Serena said trying to make the subject cheerfuller.
"She's fifteen." Haruka said, like it was obvious.
"We should get the others together for a party for her!"
"Serena." Luna said with warning under her breath. "Everyone has their busy sheduals, I doubt they'd be able to join your get-together. But right now we have a problem on our hands."
"You just suck the fun out of everything." Serena said, sticking her tounge out.
"There is no real problem." Michelle tried to clarify. "It's just that when Trista is looking after someone they have a purpose."
"She seems normal enough but Michelle and I are just worried about what the purpose may be." Haruka said.
"Does she have any odd behaviors?" Luna inquired, trying to confirm her own suspicions.
"She's just really shy." Michelle said thinking that was not a big deal.
"But Raye did say she has a strong aura." Haruka said.
Luna was pondering this over.
"Okay I'm going to go phone the others." Serena said and bounced off.
"What's up with her?" Haruka asked following the moon princess with her eyes. "She seems like she's pushing to be cheerful."
"She misses Darien. He's visiting next month, thank goodness." Luna said.
"Maybe the party will do some good, then." Michelle said, while Haruka sighed heavily.
Sora met up with Arianna after school to walk her home, knowing about Serena's get-together.
A young girl, that Arianna scarcely remembered from school, crossed their path at high speeds. Ari looked down at Sora with a question on her lips, but then noticed Sora's symbol glowing. "Uh, um, Sora! Your uh... your forehead is glowing." Ari started.
Sora was about to reply when another person crossed their path.
"Stary, come back!" a tall sandy blond guy cried out.
Arianna stared at the two running after each other. "Need help?" Ari laughed.
"Oh, thanks. Your help would be much appreciated." he said, once he stopped and looked at Ari.
"Ari!" Sora growled so it didn't seem like she was talking.
Ari ignored the dog and helped catch Stary. Ari hooked onto the girl with curly black hair in a hair style similar to Serena's
"Stary, if you run off like that again, you will be in much more trouble than you are now." Dean said sternly once he caught up.
"But Dean, I really didn't want to go home!" she whined.
Arianna, and Sora just stood watching in confusion. Then Sora's symbol started to glow again, Dean and Stary caught it.
"The dog!" Stary and Dean said together.
Sora grabbed her charge by the skirt and started to drag her.
"Um, okay... I'll see you at school tomorrow." Ari called, trying to make her dog let go of her clothes.
"I told you something was happening." Ari accused her dog before she walked into Michelle and Haruka 's apartment.
"Surprise!" six girls said together.
Ari grabbed her broach before relaxing.
"What's this?" she asked.
"A surprise home-coming party." Serena smiled. "and you're our honored guest."
"Thank-you, but you really didn't have to do this." Ari said, sitting down with her bag.
"True, but Meat-ball head here couldn't get the idea out of her head." Raye replied.
Ari giggled.
"Oh this is Lita, and Mina." Serena pointed to a brunette with a pony tail, and a blond with a bow in her hair.
Ari stared intently at Mina before blurting out: "You look very familair."
The girls looked between Mina and Ari.
"You too." Mina realised, with a gasp. Then there was silence for a bit before Mina hugged her. "You're Arianna Pince, my friend who disappeared five years ago." Ari looked so shocked. "Right?" Mina looked the child in the eyes.
Ari exchanged glances with Sora. Sora gave Ari a meaningful look with her amber eyes.
"Yeah I remember, you were my baby-sitter when I was nine, before I was kidnapped by creepy guys with powers. Then I was saved by Sailor Pluto who gave me a home until now, saying it wasn't safe for me to return to Earth." Ari gave them a short run down, while the girls had disbelief on their faces.
"You're kidding right?" Haruka said staring at the girl as ideas of how this could have happened filled her head.
"No, but I'm just glad to be back on Earth. It was getting boring training and studying with no one besides Sora."
"Training for what?" Mina asked.
"Being a Sailor Scout--" Ari said, being intterupted by Michelle.
"I knew it."
Serena looked around feeling confused, "Why would Trista train a new scout?"
"A scout?" Luna said doubtfully, jumping off Serena's shoulders. "All the scouts from this system have been found."
"Which scout are you?" Artemis demanded.
"An unknown." Sora spoke up, her voice sharp. "An unknown until the next evil comes. She's here to be normal, no fighting, no questions about her late form."
Luna jumped and spat.
"You talk?" Artemis said in shock.
"The only reason I can understand her." Ari smiled.
"How about some cake?" Serena offered meekly.
"I don't trust her." Luna said angrily, at the first Scout meeting since Galaxia's less than a year ago.
"Why?" Serena asked, taking a sandwich Lita brought.
"She has a wierd energy about her." Luna hissed.
"Luna does have a point, she's has really pure energy, not like a Sailor Scout." Artemis said.
"I'll look her over." Amy said, taking out her computer.
"I'll come with you." Mina said, feeling worried about her old friend.
"It would be best." Amy agreed.
Serena was gaping at the others until she found her voice, "Guys! Why are you all jumping conclusions that she's the new bad? I mean she confessed about being a sailor scout, and a friend of Pluto. She seems totally innocent."
"Serena, we know this." Artemis said. "It's just a procaution we should take, nothing to make us jump to conclusions just yet."
Serena sighed.
"I know this is really important but... is this all we have to discuss about?" Raye asked sheepishly, getting up from the floor.
"Why?" Luna questioned.
"Well it's just that Chad and me just got together and I don't like the idea of blowing off any of our dates for this kinda of thing." she said.
"And I have to finish my paper, before I meet up with Arianna." Amy said also getting up.
"I have a cooking lesson." Lita added to the list.
"Fine. You may all leave early, but if you find any odd things happening report back immediatly." Luna said, sighing inwardly.