Episode 4 Act 4 The Kiss

It has been a week since the incident at the hospital. The local authorities have cordoned off the area around what's left of the hospital and engineers prepare to implode what's left. The 2 remaining hospitals in Tokyo have taken up the workload.
The scouts have returned to going to classes and living life, though they have been on alert looking for trouble. No one has herd a thing or seen Starstrike since then.
Krahazik has been spending most of his time with Michelle though he has occasionally gotten loose to cause some minor trouble. Nothing to big and property damage has been small.
Amy has spend her time divided between schoolwork and analyzing the data she collected from Starstrike and Krahazik.
The repairs to the theatre are almost complete and the arcade is reopening. They have refurbished the arcade and have gotten new machines in.
There is only a week until the new Diva's concert at the grand theatre uptown.

A new jewelry shop has opened in the market place. It is supposed to have a wide collection of jewelry hat the lowest prices in Japan. Rumor has it they are practically giving the stuff away.

Fina hmmed to herself in her human guise as she put up the tarp to her booth in the market place and set out the jewelry cases. Her booth was setup in the center part of the market where the most people would be, ensuring that she would be seen.
Cheerfully she put up the signs for "Ishino's Jewelry. Lowest prices around."
She was enjoying this assignment. The morning was quite lovely. After what happened to Aki, she was glad she didn't have to go after the locket. she was completely content to sit here all day and sell the master's jewelry. Fira would have hated this.

Some people began to brows threw her shop and business began.
She had jewelry from all over the place in a wide assortment of designs and styles. She had Rings, Tiaras, Bracelets, Necklaces, Lockets, Medallions, Hair Ties, Anklets, Belt Buckles in Celtic, English, and Japanese styles featuring everything from bunnies to dragons and assorted other shapes and sizes.

As people started to look at the collection and the prices, jewelry started to sell and word spread threw the market. Fina called out here wares in joy in a sing-song voice letting the wind carry her voice. She had a strong voice, good for this kind of work.

Mina yawns as she wakes p on the couch, she had stayed over at Amy's place the past week skipping classes. Still impossibly tired from the hospital incident. She hasn't been able to transform into Venus since, and is worried about loosing her powers all together.

Amy walks in with bags of groceries. "Hey Mina. How are you feeling?" She puts the bags in the kitchen and comes back, then sits by the table. She opens her advance calculus book and smiles.

"I'm ok thanks...my stomach still hurts a little..." Mina smiles back.

Starstrike paced her room. She was still no closer to recovering the Locket of Chaos. She paid a visit to the monastery a few days ago to bring in some of her own people to man the house staff. She had a concert in a week. She had been studying some earth music to perform, not like she had to study very hard. Just reading a piece once was all she needed. She had a memory for music like a steel trap. There were some nice pieces. She had to admit, this back world rock had some good points to it. Focus, she had to focus. She could let her underlings hunt. She was tired of running around chasing after that thing. She had brought in some people who were good at blending in and finding information. She would focus on the upcoming concert. Just because this little rock was unknown didn't mean she would do less than her best. Krahazik would no doubt be there, he loved her singing. If she could just avoid any pranks from him. She sat at her desk and looked over the several dozen music sheets she had on her desk. She had memorized them all, no she just needed to select the few she would sing. Her agent was making sure all the arrangements at the most prestigious theatre in this city were arranged and completed. Heads would roll if anything went wrong with this concert. She was the best in the galaxy after all.

Hotaru walked around in the park, heading toward Amy's apartment.

Rei walks up with her bag in hand. "Hey where you headed Hotaru?"

"Amy's place. Where are you headed?" she asks softly.

"Some green tea and honey should help, you want some." Amy says as she gets up.

"ok..." Mina says trying to be as polite as possible.

Amy goes to the kitchen and prepares some tea. There's a knock at the door while she's in there. "Umm.. If your ok, can you answer that please Mina?"

"Of Course!" Without another thought Mina speeded to the door. At the door she finds Darien on his cell standing there.

Serena sat alone in her room. she looks at the engagement ring Darien gave her. Her mind drifted to this evil thing. and how to stop it. The phone rings as she's in thought. Serena answers it. "Hello."

"Hey princess how you feeling?" Darien says as he waits standing in the hall in front of Mina. He motions asking if he can come in while on the cell phone. Mina quickly motioned him to come in. Darien walks in, and sits on the couch.

Lita woke up and stretched, popping all the little kinks in her body. She removed the blanket from her body and got up to make some tea. After her tea was finished, she headed into the living room and sipped at her tea in content. After a while, she decided to call Amy and the rest of the gang. Lita grabbed the phone and dialed Amy's number.

The phone rings, Amy answers it ."Hello?"

"Hey Amy! It's Lita." Lita said into the phone.

Amy hits the speaker button on the phone and walks into the living room with tea and some cups. "Oh! Darien's here too?" Darien waves still on the phone.

Fina glanced at her watch. It was just before nine in the morning. It was a lovely Monday morning. Her master's jewelry was selling quite fast. Then again, he was having her sell them at a fraction of what you would fine any where else for such things.

Mina sat on the couch next to Darien. She accepted the fact that Darien and Serena were engaged, but that didn't stop her from still, sort of having a little crush. She was happy for Serena anyway. All of the scouts knew that Darien plus Serena were the perfect little couple. Mina could never seem to happy with what she had, she wanted to have someone to love. But now that Serena and Darien are to be married that chance might just slip away.

"Here's your tea Mina, after that I have to go to class. If your feeling ok you should return to school too. I'm sure that guy that was always trying to talk to you is still looking to get a date." Amy says, and sits down. "Here Darien"

"Thanks" Darien takes the cup. Hotaru walked up and knocked on Amy's door.

"Oh Hotaru this is Amy's place. Ya just walk in like this." Rei opens the door and walks in. "Hi gang!" Everyone looks at Rei.

"Rei you could have knocked first." Amy looks angry.

"Oh am I interrupting something, between you Mina; and Darien?" Rei looks puzzled seeing Darien.

Hotaru walks in after Rei. "Hello everyone!"

"Hey Lita, hope you don't mind your on speaker phone. Darien, Rei, Hotaru, and Mina are here." Amy says to the phone speaker in the living room.

Darien waves with a cookie in his mouth, he can't resist chocolate. Amy waves smiling. "Ooh! Who made the cookies?" Rei says sitting down and helps herself. Hotaru walks over and sits next to Rei, eating a small cookie.

"You ok Hotaru?" Darien says as he finishes another cookie.

"Yeah is anything wrong?" Amy says then sips some tea.

Hotaru smiled. "No, nothing is wrong. Just not hungry for sugar. More like Orange Chicken."

"I have the ingredients for that if you want to help me make it" Amy says smiling.

"Your gonna make Orange Chicken Amy?" Rei points at her.

"I'll try some." Darien says

"Yeah I should be going. I got this huge chemistry test and I haven't studied a bit!" Mina said finishing her tea. Not realizing what she was doing she gave Darien a huge lip-lock. She stared at Darien.

"No, no. You don't have to. I'll just go out for it!" She turned and looked at Mina, surprised at what she just did.

"What the?" Amy says. Rei just stares. Darien drops the cookie he was holding and sits there shocked.

Hotaru stood up and kinda edged toward Mina and whispered in her ear, "What the heck did you do that for? You know that he's with Serena and they're going to be wedded!"

"I...I..." Mina dashed out of the room and slammed the door behind her.

End Act 4