Here is is, guys. Sorry it took so long. Suddenly the idea came to me, and now I know how the next two or three chappies will go. Now just to type them up. Hopefully I'll get a break from homework (finals are coming up at the end of jan.). maybe soon. we'll see.

Wonderment

Suzumi looked out at the vast space before her. Her home seemed endless. She glanced into the mirror lake.

Michiru was asleep, her head on Haruka's lap. Haruka was leaning up against a pillar and Setsuna was sitting beside her.

'I know what I must do. The question is when. I can't hold off forever.' She grimaced and looked back at the mirror lake again.

"What do you see in that thing, Suzumi? When I look in it, all I see is my reflection. Your reflection can't certainly do you any good." Haruka shrugged.

"If you know how to use it and know what you're looking for, then you can."

Haruka's eyebrow raised. "I think she's gone loco," she muttered.

"How long have we been in here?" Michiru asked. Apparently she had just woken up. "Not more than a few hours, ney?"

Suzumi laughed. "We have been in here three weeks."

"WHAT?" they screamed.

Suzumi turned to them. "It is now time for you to go back. Your battle there has just begun. You will have the element of surprise."

The three nodded.

"What about you?" Setsuna asked softly.

"I must do my own thing," Sazumi answered.

Michiru stepped out onto the green grass, followed by Haruka and Setsuna.

"So, we have the element of surprise. Where do we begin?" Haruka asked sarcastically.

Someone nearby screamed.

"I think that determines it," Setsuna answered.

Serena went smashing into a tree. She had felt the enemy weakening, but they were still strong. 'It's only us and the Starlights. The Outers are still nowhere to be found. Did they desert us? No, they couldn't have. Wouldn't have.' She looked at Sailor Mars, laying on the ground. Both of their fukus were torn up. 'Where are the others?' she screamed in her head. 'Why is it only me and Mars?'

"Looking for your friends?" the woman asked.

"Who are you?" Serena asked back.

The woman laughed. "My name is Kazumi. For the past three weeks I have been sending demons for you to fight, watching how you battle, how strong you are." The laugh she gave off was hidious. "You, child, are pathetic. Once I rid myself of you, I will find your friends, and destroy them as well. They will fall as soon as you do."

"Not so fast, you moron!" Sailor Jupiter bursted out of the trees. "We're not that easily distracted."

Sailor Mars managed to stand up. "Where were you guys?"

Sailor Venus appeared and helped support Mars. "They sent a foxy little demon to distract us, and it's a good thing we realized what was going on."

Sailor Mercury helped Serena stand up. "Still no sign of the Outers. I think the Starlights believe they have deserted us."

"They'd think something like that," Jupiter muttered.

Kazumi frowned. "Looks like I underestimated you five. Of course, there are only eight of you in total."

A girl appeared beside her. "What of the Outers?"

"Sister, the Outers are mearly a legend, or else they would have shown up by now." Kazumi sounded a little too kocky.

Serena and the other scouts decided at once, Kazumi had to go. So they attacked her, combining their powers. Somehow, they managed it even though the woman put up a shield.

The girl stared at them in shock, then suddenly looked angry. "YOU KILLED HER!" A power grew in her hands, bright red, then shot at them. It sent the scouts flying. Laughing, the girl disappeared, wanting to leave a small defeat impression on the Sailor Scouts.

Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna got there just to see the scouts being attacked by a massive red power.

"DAMN STUPID SUZUMI! SHE'S WORKING WITH THEM!"

Michiru looked over at Haruka in horror. "She can't be. Sazumi's one of us, not one of them. She can't be." Michiru shook her head over and over. "She can't be, she can't. She..... can't."

"She is, Michiru, she is." Rage burned in Haruka's eyes. "She's worked with them, so they could get strong enough and attack the Inners. This will make them so weak."

Indeed the attack did.

Setsuna stood there, quiet. Neither Michiru nor Haruka knew what she was thinking.

"She did, Setusna. I don't want to believe it, but she did." Haruka smashed her fist against a tree.

"There must be something we're not seeing...." Setusna's voice trailed off.

"Come on, let's go help the girls." Haruka walked toward the Inner Scouts laying on the ground.

Setsuna watched her two friends going towards the others. 'There must be something else to it. There must. Why would Sazumi betray us? It doesn't make sense. What are you thinking Sazumi? What are you planning? Is it against us, as the others truly believe?'