"This is so awesome!" Minako squealed. "They've come back!"
"But their princess is in trouble again," Ami said. "This visit won't be a happy one."
"The last one was in search of their princess but it was still fun at times," Makoto said. Usagi nodded. Ami cast a critical eye on her.
"Usagi-chan, you won't be falling for Seiya Kou again, will you?" Ami asked.
Usagi shook her head. "No, we will be friends and nothing more," she said.
"Well, that leaves Luna and Yaten," Minako said, looking up into the tree above them. Luna and Artemis sat side by side, listening to the girls.
Luna blushed. "There was nothing before and there will be nothing now!" she insisted as she shook her head furiously. Artemis rolled his eyes but nodded nonetheless.
"Konnichiha, odango head," said a voice behind Usagi. Everyone looked and saw three girls in Juuban High School uniforms. They each had tapered ponytails in either black, brown, or silver. The three girls smiled at the confusion written upon the faces of Minako and Usagi. "Konnichiha, Minako-chan," the black-haired one said.
The brown-haired one bowed her head to Ami and Makoto. "Konnichiha, Ami-chan and Makoto-chan."
The silver-haired one looked at Hezaa with a look of semi-disgust. "Hajimemashite, Hanagoorino-san," she said forcibly.
"Star Healer," Hezaa muttered. "Or rather, Yaten Kou. I should be asking the same to you. Is your stomach well?" Yaten's fist became tight as a look of realization crossed everyone's faces.
"Seiya! Taiki! Yaten!" the girls squealed.
"Hai," Taiki said with a bow. "We chose to be ourselves on this visit."
"There's no need to be disguised anymore," Seiya laughed. She took a seat between Usagi and Minako. "How are you two?" Yaten took a seat between Makoto and Ami. Taiki sat between Arissa and Ami.
"We are well," Usagi said.
"Except that some of us don't have powers anymore," Minako added.
"So we've seen," Taiki said. "We noticed that you have been replaced."
"We don't like to look at it like that," Kendora said. "It seems like a mean way to put it."
"Indeed," Hezaa agreed.
"Don't look now," Sukotto said, pointing toward the gate to the school, "But we have a sibling alert." Everyone looked to see Sukotto's sister Keitorin, Kendora's sister Keitii, and Arissa's brothers Torevaa Tiijei coming toward them. They all wore Juuban Junior High uniforms and were running very quickly.
"Kendora!" Keitii shouted. "There's a monster!"
"Osutin, Chaisu, and Himotono Keitorin are being eaten by it!" Torevaa said.
"All of the people on the street are being eaten!" Tiijei cried.
"What are you talking about!" Arissa shouted as she stood. Taiki stood with her and looked in the direction that Tiijei was pointing.
"There is something," Hezaa said. "I can feel it. Rei-chan is there, too."
"You four go inside and get help," Arissa said. "We'll go and help Chaisu and Osutin."
"We'll go in with them," Ami said. Minako, Sukotto, and Makoto nodded. "There's nothing we can do to help."
Just down the street, a lion-like monster tackled unsuspecting civilians while a tiger-like creature absorbed the knocked-down bodies. Atop a wall stood Chronos. Ha-desu stood on the street below him, the limp bodies of Himotono Keitorin and Akikusano Osutin and Chaisu lying at her feet. "Just think about our luck," Ha-desu said. "To find two of Keeper Jupiter's brothers as our victims and the sister to Keeper Mars. It is the perfect set-up."
"We could have had the other two as well as the sibling to Venus," Chronos said.
"Yes, but that light..." Ha-desu began. "What was that red light?"
"Usually a red light means to stop," said a demanding voice. Ha-desu and Chronos looked over to the opposite street corner to see the keepers and the Sailor Starlights. "Since you don't take warnings, we're bringing on the hurt," Usagi continued. "In the name of the moon, we will punish you!"
"How sweet," Ha-desu said in a sickly-sweet voice. "The senshi have come in rescue of their siblings."
Jupiter stepped forward and shouted, "Jupiter Lightning Cyclone!" Her electrified cyclone drove into the lion and tiger, disintegrating them both. "Release them now!"
"It won't be that easy," Chronos said as he levitated form the wall down to the point between Ha-desu and the senshi. "Nothing is that easy." He held up his hand and sent a beam of violet light at Jupiter. The senshi all jumped away, leaving the beam to hit the wall behind them harmlessly. Jupiter and Maker landed on opposite sides of Chronos and jogged around him, Jupiter held out her staff and pointed it at Ha-desu, shouting, "Jupiter Lightning Foliage!"
Ha-desu blocked it as Maker began to yell, "Star Gentle-" Maker was cut short as a beam of violet light from Chronos sent her flying into a light post. The senshi gasped as Maker began to fall. As she did, a second, non-corporeal body left hers. It became corporeal as it landed with Star Maker with a thud. The senshi recognized this second, yellow-suited body to be the male version of Taiki Kou that had been a part of 'The Three Lights' only months ago.
"Keep going Jupiter!" Fighter yelled. "Star Serious Laser!" Fighter directed the attack at Chronos.
Venus stepped forth and reflected a beam from the sun at Chronos, yelled, "Venus Lovely Beam!" Both attacks combined into one and slammed into Chronos.
Meanwhile, Jupiter was running at Ha-desu, scythe-end of the staff aimed at her. "Jupiter Lightning Foliage!" Ha-desu tried to block it, but it flew at her at twice the speed and hit her with twice the force. Ha-desu hit the wall only a foot behind her, her back hitting with an earsplitting crack. Jupiter knelt beside her two unconscious brothers as Keitorin stirred. Jupiter then toppled forward as a great ball of energy surrounded Chronos. Jupiter looked to see the other senshi being thrown back. Among the senshi were two males she did not recognize.
Chronos was yelling and crying as he spun around and stared at Jupiter, a fire in his eyes. "You..." he growled. "Damn you!" Jupiter just stared in shock, unable to figure out why he was un such a sudden rage. She came to her senses and knelt on one knee in front of Chaisu, Osutin, and Keitorin. "You'll... You'll pay for that!" With a roar of rage, he summoned another red beam and sent it at Jupiter. The beam was twice its size in thickness. Jupiter held up her staff to block it but suddenly felt herself get pushed aside.
She landed on her back and saw that in the sky a fiery red light was shooting down. Jupiter lifted her head to see Keitorin in the path of Chronos' attack. Then is seemed as though time had slowed down considerably. Jupiter watched as the fiery light struck Keitorin at the same time that Chronos' attack did. A bright red light slowly surrounded her, then it slowly turned to fire. Time returned to normal as the fire burned around Keitorin. Chronos stepped back as the fallen senshi watched in surprise. Even Star Maker was awake and watching. The fire burst, disappearing as it left Keitorin.
Keitorin, however, was not herself anymore. Rather, she was wearing the sailor uniform Sukotto had borne as Sailor Keeper Mars. Keitorin stood and shouted, "I am the True Keeper of Mars! In the name of Mars, you will be punished!" She placed her hands palm to palm and shouted, "Mars Fire Strike!" She pulled them apart to reveal a fireball. She threw it at Chronos with lightning speed. He couldn't avoid it and took it straight to his armor. The armor melted and burned away, revealing a bare chest. With a scream of anger, he disappeared.
After taking her brothers home and explaining to Torevaa and Tiijei that she was a sailor senshi, Arissa joined the rest of the senshi at the Hikawa Temple. Only Star Prism was not present.
"So, I killed Ha-desu?" Arissa asked in disbelief. Keitorin nodded.
"I don't know how, but before I transformed I could tell," Keitorin said. "I don't know how, but I could."
"The fact that you were a sailor senshi played a part," Minako said. "As a sailor senshi, you will be in tune with more than you were before."
"What happened to Ha-desu's body?" Sukotto asked.
"It burst into flames and disappeared," Kendora said.
"Enough about Ha-desu," Arissa said. "What about the Starlights? What happened to Fighter and Healer?"
"While you were trying to get to Keitorin, Chaisu, and Osutin," Usagi explained, "Chronos tried to use his attack on Venus and Mercury. Fighter pushed Mercury out of the way and Healer pulled an incredibly stubborn Venus out of the way."
"I could have reflected it," Kendora said.
"Well pardon me for trying to help," the female Yaten said. "From my viewpoint, you weren't holding your mirror so I sort of panicked."
"But because you did that you are as weak as us," the female Taiki said. "Being separated, we can't even attack without fainting."
"You and Yaten could be an exception," the male Seiya said. "After all, just because Fighter was unable to attack successfully doesn't mean Healer and Maker don't be able to."
"It is still a wonder to me that your shadows are your male selves," Rei said.
"Not really," the female Seiya said. "After all, we were in male disguise for a year or so." The female Yaten and Taiki nodded.
"So now what are we going to do?" Sukotto asked. "Torevaa and Tiijei know about us, Keitii knows about us, and we have twice as many of you three to handle."
"Keitii knows?" Arissa asked.
Kendora nodded. "I decided not to leave her in wondering," she explained.
"Dealing with twice as many Starlights won't be a problem," said the voice of Star Prism. The group looked to the door to see a silverish-pink haired teenage girl standing in the doorway. She wore a Juuban High School uniform and her hair was in pigtails. "Finding new names would be a good idea for half of them, preferably the female half, and the males could either reproduce the band or could attend school under the story of the three female being their twins." Everyone blinked. Then the male Yaten burst out laughing.
"I don't think I'd like to go back into show business," he said. "And thinking of names for the females wouldn't work because they are already registered at the school."
"Then we'll change your names," the female Yaten said. "Then we'll go with the twin story and add on that the names Seiya, Taiki, and Yaten were borrowed from us as a cover"
"Sounds good," Amanda said. The males shrugged.
"It'll work," the male Seiya said. "Then the three of us can look into ways to put us back together."
"That answer would lie with Chronos," Kiki said. "In addition to that we have to protect the four sisters and find out what the Black Sun Dynasty wants with them."
"We can take care of that," Ceres said from the back. "The four of us need somewhere to stay because they are still fixing out apartment. We'll talk with the sisters."
"I'll figure out names for these three," Star Prism said, motioning toward the three males in front of her.
"That all sounds like a plan," Minako said. "Makoto, Ami, Rei, and I can help you three in your search."
"We'll contact Setsuna and Hotaru," Michiru said.
"We'll bring them up to date on what's going on," Haruka said, "and we'll get them in on helping you guys, too."
"We have to be careful," Humetsu said after being quiet the whole meeting. "With Ha-desu and Ahurodite being dead, it is almost a guarantee that the enemy will become desperate."
"After seeing Chronos' rage today," Arissa said quietly, "I can vouch for it."