Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or anything related to her. She belongs to Naoko Takeuchi-san. The only thing I own is Gaia and her sisters and the words for this fic.

CHAPTER 5

"Wow, this is nothing like Crystal Tokyo." Hotaru thought to herself. "How in the world am I going to find Sailor Moon in this big town."

"Hey! Look where you're going, Shorty." a tall boy said to her when she bumped into him.

"Oh! Gomen nasai." she replied.

"Yeah, you'd better be." he bullied "Cause if you weren't, I'd have to hurt ya."

"Please, I said sorry." a frightened Hotaru told him.

"Hey!" a voice called out. "Why don't you leave her alone, you Jerk."

Hotaru turned to see a tall girl with brown hair, she was wearing a white and brown school uniform. Standing beside her was another girl, she was a little smaller then the brunette and this one had long blond hair, with a bow on the top of her head.

"Yeah! Before I kick your butt." the blond said. Seeing that he was out numbered, the boy ran away.

"Are you OK?" the brunette asked Hotaru.

"Hai, arigato." she answered with a low bow.

"What did you do to get him mad?" the blond asked.

"Oh, I was just walking and accidentally bumped into him." Hotaru told them.

"Well, you should be more careful next time. By the way, my name is Aino Minako and this is Kino Makoto. What's your name?" Minako asked.

"My name is Tomoe Hotaru, it's nice to meet you." she said reminding herself that these girls aren't the young women she knows. Well in a way they are, but Hotaru must pretend not to know them.

"So, Hotaru, were you going anywhere?" Makoto asked.

"I...Um...I was going to...Um...to the arcade." Hotaru blurted out, remembering the queen showing her and Usagi, where certain buildings were and the arcade was one of them.

"Great, because we're heading that way to, c'mon we'll go together." Minako said grabbing Hotaru by the hand.

After a long walk, they finally reached the arcade. There waiting was a girl about Minako's age, and like Minako, she too had blond hair but this one had buns, instead of a bow, on the top of her head.

"Sorry we're late Usagi, but we ran into trouble and had to rescue Hotaru." Makoto told her pointing at the black haired girl.

"Don't worry, I wasn't waiting long." Usagi told them, then turning to Hotaru she added "Hi, my name is Tuskino Usagi, it's nice to know you Hotaru."

"It's nice to meet you too." Hotaru said with a smile.

"So are we going in or what? I can't wait to try and finish the Sailor V Game." Makoto said.

"Yeah! Let's go!" Minako and Usagi said in unison.

In another part of town a figure appeared, it was Kazeko.

"So this is what Crystal Tokyo looked like in the past." Turning away, she put her attention on a mirror and there, in it was the image of four girls walking into a building.

"Wait, that black haired girl looks familiar... yes that's where I've seen her." She smiled devilishly, "Well, I guess this is where her journey ends."

Then added "Who wants to be the first to serve me?"

"I will go, Kazeko-sama." a gruesome character answered.

"Go then and capture the girl. You saw the one." Kazeko said.

"Hai." the character replied and was gone.

"C'mon, Mako-chan you can do it." Usagi said encouragingly.

"Usagi, if you don't shut up, I'll..." Makoto started to say, but stopped because of the sound of screams outside.

"What's going on?" Minako wondered and all four of them ran out of the arcade. There, standing in front of them, was a creature blowing wind so hard, the girls couldn't stand on their feet.

"Man, where did that thing come from?" Usagi asked when her butt met the pavement.

"I don't know, but we'd better get out of the winds way." Makoto said.

Before Hotaru could even move the creature grabbed her. "Ahhhh!" she screamed.

"Hotaru!" the three girls cried out.

"We've got to help her." Minako said, but before she knew it, she was pulled into an alley.

"Hey, what gives? Hotaru's out there, not..."

"Quiet, will ya. We need to transform, if we want to save her. Baka!" Makoto said.

"Oh, Yeah, I knew that." Minako told her.

"Let me go!" Hotaru cried hammering the creature. "Please let me go."

"Shabon... SPRAY!" a voice cried out as an sudden fog appeared. Blind and confused the monster lost sight of what was going on, while Hotaru looked around to see, who the voice belong to.

"Where did it come from?" she wondered.

"Fire... SOUL!" another voice cried out and blaze of flames came rushing towards them.

"Ahhhh! Someone get me out of here!" she shouted as the flames hit the creature in the face.

"They think they can stop me."

"Huh? Who? What? Did you say something?" she asked it.

"Roarrrrrrrr, show yourselves, you pathetic humans." he roared in dead space. Hotaru looked in every direction, but saw no one.

Then out of the fog, five figures appeared.

"Who... who are they?" Hotaru ask out loud.

"How dare you disturb this town. We were enjoying our Saturday afternoon and now because of you it's ruined. In the name of our planets; Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Moon. We will punish you!" they said in unison.

Turning towards the girls with amusement, he asked.

"Are you challenging me, humans?"

"Yes, we are. But put the girl down." Jupiter told him.

"Ha! You can have this human when you pry her from my cold, dead fingers!" he said and charged towards them.

"This isn't what I had in mind!" Jupiter said as she and the others started to run for their lives.

"Nice, Jupiter, really nice."

"Oh, Shut up Mars, will ya and just run." she told the girl.

"OK, that's it, I've had enough of this!" Venus said as she turned around "You are going down. Crescent... BEAM!"

"Oh my God! I'm going to die!" Hotaru said as the ball of energy approached, but it never hit them.

"Do you really think, I'm going to let them get you that easily?" the creature asked Hotaru. He didn't give her the chance to answer, for he attacked the Senshis.

"We've go to get him to let go of Hotaru." Venus told the others. Jupiter looked towards the blue senshi as she had an idea.

"I know. Mercury do your Aqua Illusion thing and I'll get her out. Then once Hotaru is safe, Moon use your moon rod!"

"It's worth a try!" Moon replied.

Mercury stood up and cried out, "Shine Aqua... ILLUSION!"

"What? What's going on? I can't see a thing!" the creature cried, not realizing the fact that he lost Hotaru.

"Now Sailor Moon!" Jupiter shouted.

"Moon Princess... HALATION!"

"Ahhhhh!" cried the monster and turned into Moon Dust.

"Yes! You did it!" Venus said as she and Moon jumped up and down.

"Did you see that! I did it all by myself!"

"Ah,hahahahaha!" came a laughter and a figure to go with it.

"Kazeko? How did you get here?" Hotaru asked as she recognized the girl.

"Hotaru do you know who she is?" Mercury asked the now alert girl.

"Yeah I know her, sadly. She and her sisters kidnapped my best friend, Usagi."

"USAGI!" shouted the Senshis.

"What, I'm right here." Moon replied.

"No, not you," Mars said "She means ChibiUsa."

"Oh."

Hotaru realized that her friend will have to go back to being called ChibiUsa, when she brings back Sailor Moon.

"Oh, Usagi's not going to injoy that idea."

"You Bitch!" exclaimed Jupiter, "What have you done to her!"

"Not much, just torturing her till she faints." Kazeko said with an evil grin.

"That's it! Supreme..." she started, but never finished because an object had caught her eyes attention. It was a rose, turning around, she saw a tall figure dressed in black.

"Tuxedo Kamen!" she exclaimed. "Why did you stoped me?" Tuxedo Kamen looked at her and replied, "Because if we hurt her, ChibiUsa will be harmed even more than she already is."

Kazeko looked at him, "You're smart, Handsome." she told him. "Now, how about you passe me that girl you're protecting and I'll be on my way."

"If you want her, come and claim her!" retorted Mars.

"Why is Kazeko after me and how come the Senshis know ChibiUsa?" Hotaru asked herself.

"Alright! I'll come and "claim" her!" Kazeko said accepting Mars' challenge. She attacked, "Mighty Gale... HURRICANE!" she cried, but her attack was dogged. "Shit, missed!" Kazeko scolded herself.

"My turn!" Mars said, "Burning... MANDARA!" Kazeko was hit hard and she was down.

"Let's get her while she's confused!" shouted Venus.

"Sparkling wide... PRESSURE!" Jupiter let go. Kazeko cried out, but remained standing.

"I... pro... mise, you... th... this... you'll... all... p... pay!" she sputtered the threat and disappeared.

"Okay first things first!" Hotaru said once Kazeko left. "I want to know how come you know ChibiUsa? She definitely doesn't know you!"

"We know her because she came to us for help when the Wise Man was attacking her family." Tuxedo Kamen told her.

"Oh, she never told me about it."

"Maybe she did and you just forgot." Moon comfort

Hotaru.

"May I ask a question?" Mercury asked no one in particular. "Is there a reason why that girl was attacking us?"

"She was after me." Hotaru said glumly.

"Why?" asked Moon.

"I think she knew why I was here and tried to stop me." she explained.

"Why are you here, Hotaru?" Jupiter asked.

"Because Neo Queen Serenity sent me." she told the small group.

"The Queen? What does she want?" Moon exclaimed.

"She... she needs your... help." Hotaru said as tears streamed down her face. "Please, you've got to help! She walks around the gardens, picks the reddest roses and puts them in the princess' room, then falls to her knees and cries herself to sleep." she told them.

"Of course we'll help! Right guys!" Moon said.

"Yeah! Anything for ChibiUsa!" Mars cried.

"and for the Queen." Venus said.

"Honto ni?" Hotaru said happily as she looked at everyone.

"Of course." Tuxedo Kamen told her. Hotaru then pulled out the Crystal Time Key, said the magic words and were gone.

Translation of japanese words;

-gomen nasai: I'm sorry; excuse me; pardon me

-honto ni: really; truly; genuinely

Did anyone recognized the MIB quote I put in. Do you know why in the english version of Sailor Moon, they called Mamoru/Darien Tuxido Mask? No. It's because 'mask' in japanese is 'kamen'. Well you know what to do. Until chapter 6. Later!