Meg: GAH! Sorry for taking one year, eight months, and 28 days to update!

Kelcey: You just sat there and counted it out?

Meg: …So?

Kelcey: (shakes head sadly)

Meg: I don't own anything sadly.

"GA-mmph!" Serena almost screamed, but Rini quickly jumped up and clamped a hand over her mouth.

"SHHH! Be quiet! You'll wake everybody up, moron!" Rini pulled her hand away from Serena's mouth, an imprinted handprint still left behind.

Serena sat up from the floor, where she was knocked to, and walked to her bed. "Why are you here?" she asked as she sat down.

"Yes, Rini, I thought you went back home during the fight with Galaxia?" Luna walked over to them silently, and jumped onto Serena's lap, "And where is Diana?"

"Diana stayed back home. I didn't want her to get hurt, so I made her promise not to follow me," Rini grinned a devilish grin, "It wasn't that hard to convince her though. I think she's got a boyfriend back home!"

"What!" Luna tensed, her overprotective mother instincts kicking in, "I-"

"Luna," Serena admonished, "leave Diana alone! Anyways, why are you here?"

"Mommy saw that something had changed back here, and she thought it would be best if I came back to help all of you guys," Rini explained, "There's gonna be trouble."

"Wow, I never would have guessed," Serena said sarcastically, thinking back on the battle against Youkai Houshi earlier.

Rini put her head in her hands, balancing her elbows on her knees, "So, fill me in. What's new?"

Luna proceeded to explain everything Rini had missed: the conclusion of the Galaxia battle ("Mommy told me that already."), how they thought everything was over, Luna's bad feeling, the Sailor Sisters ("There's a mini-scout of Mars? Cool! Another mini-scout!"), the trip to the other dimension, the youkai in the other dimension ("Hey, you never told me there was a fight over there!"), the battle earlier ("There was a fight a few hours ago and I missed it!"), and a little bit about the three sisters.

"Jeez, I'm gonna have to move to this time just to be able to keep up with all the stuff that happens while I'm gone," Rini sighed, marveling at how much could happen in so little time. "Well, I'm gonna go ahead and go to bed. 'Night 'cuz'!" Rini smirked as she left the room.

Serena groaned as soon as Rini was gone, "God, I hafta deal with that little brat again! GAH!"

"Oh, she's not THAT bad!" Luna scolded, pawing a corner of Serena's bed before laying down to rest.

Serena flopped back done onto her bed, exhaustion setting in. Dragging up the energy to move, she curled up under the blankets, and within moments she was deep asleep.

'Keep running Serena!' She thought as she tore through the woods. She turned her head and saw the other scouts running as well. She could hear the Sailor Sisters panting along behind her.

"NYAH!" Sailor Black Hole's voice cried out, followed by a crash that sounded like she fell. She heard Sailor Sun turn to help her, but then a blinding flash lit the night sky, and Serena heard a foreboding chuckle…

Meg: Sorry it took so long! And a random author's note for this chapter: pertaining to the last bit, I can't run worth anything! …grr! Evil respiratory disease…

Kelcey: Haha (runs away)

Meg: (chases) (gets out of breath) (falls)

Amber: Since Meg is obviously too out of breath to complete her own author's note, she'll try not to take this long to update next time. She's also very sorry it's so short, but she wanted to go ahead a put an update on, plus it's almost 2:30 in the morning.

Meg: (gasp) please (gasp) review…

Kelcey: Here's your update DMG101! And thanx to all Meg's reviewers, and especially Serenity Malfoy, the one person who has this as a favorite story!