Earth--Day
"Eh? The Three Lights are back?" Rei shouts from her seat in the Crown Fruit Parlor. "And you waited until now to tell me!"
"Well, it seems they just arrived on our planet. They say they're fortunate that people forgot about their disbanding after Galaxia's attack, so they can pick up where they left off," Ami calmly explains. "To apologize for not giving us more notice, however..."
"They gave us each a free ticket to their first performance on Saturday!" Minako finishes excitedly.
"They what!" Rei jumps up and hugs Minako, who also jumps up.
"We have a second chance!" Minako beams. Makoto laughs nervously.
"Honestly, you two scare me when you get like this..."
"Hello!" Usagi says as she walks into the fruit parlor, followed by three taller men. As they walk closer the girls can see who it is...
"Yaten-kun!" yell Minako and Rei together.
"Taiki-san..." Ami breathes. Usagi smiles at all of them, then takes a seat in one of the chairs away from the booth. Seiya sits next to her, and she blushes.
"Yaten-kun, this seat's open!" Minako says, patting the space between her and Rei. Rei nods enthusiastically.
"May I sit here?" Taiki asks quietly, slipping in the booth beside Ami. He gives her a small, but happy, smile. Ami blushes and buries her head in a book.
"Ami-chan's in loove..." Usagi teases. Seiya watches her quietly, a certain twinkle in his eye.
"Usagi!" Ami hisses, pointedly avoiding looking at Taiki, who blushes and looks away as well. Usagi, Makoto, and Seiya laugh; Minako and Rei glare at each other. Yaten looks at the two worriedly.
"Oy, if you're going to start some kind of fight, give me enough warning to get away, okay?" The girls ignore him, each now holding onto either of his arms protectively and not breaking their stares.
"Odango!"
Usagi turns around, not at all surprised to be followed home this evening. She gives Seiya a pleasant smile. "Couldn't get enough of me today...at school, after school, in Crown Fruit Parlor?" He shakes his head, grinning like a happy-go-lucky boy.
"Of course not. Have you forgotten what I said already?"
Her smile fades, and instead she almost looks...sad. "About the one-sided love?" He nods solemnly. "Seiya, I..."
"I know. You have your Mamoru." He sighs. "What's so special about him? What makes him better than me, Odango?"
"...Destiny..." she whispers.
"Destiny?" He lays one hand on her shoulder gently. "Odango...nothing is written in the stars. Believe me. The Starlights and I...we thought our destiny was to stay on Kinmoku, protect Kakyuu-hime, but...we're here now. We have nowhere else to go. Already the next generation of Senshi on our planet has awakened, and the princess is focusing her attentions on that. We're...retired, I suppose." Usagi looks up at him. He laughs bitterly. "Part of me knows I'll never get my chance with you, Odango, and yet...she could sense it--my will to return here. The princess could feel how much I desired to come back to Earth, to see you...You taught me to hope, Usagi, and to never let that hope die. I understand you will never be mine, but that hope still lives on!"
A few feet above them a bright, pink light flashes. It forms into a three-foot flashing orb that descends slowly between them...
Elsewhere, a woman walks down a dark alley. She hears footsteps and turns around to look, but sees no one there. She turns back around, about to continue her sojourn home, when a shadow appears in front of her. It reaches out for her.
"Your energy...I need it...I must have your energy!" it yells in an otherworldly voice. The shadow fires a blast at her, and she screams, beginning to glow blue. The shadow steps into the light, revealing a pale-skinned humanoid creature with large, pupilless black eyes and long, sharp fangs. Its mouth opens and the blue aura-like shine around the woman flies into it. It sucks up the last of the blue glow with a sickening slurp, and the woman falls down, unconscious.
"More energy...I must have more..."
Okay, just had to add in some villainous element. Won't be as strong as Galaxia, but it won't be weak, either. Anyways, I've got a lot more plot coming soon, involving Setsuna, the future, and changes...