They sat around the table, the girls scrunched together save for Helios and Rin who had distanced themselves from the group and each other. Rin stared at her hands, unsure of how to go about and Helios sat quietly with his eyes closed, breathing deeply. They were waiting for Mamoru to come.
"I'm sorry!" Mamoru nearly flew in, his bookbag landing with a heavy and very audible thud. "I was lucky I didn't have a test," he spotted Helios before he gave a curt nod. "I stopped by my apartment as asked. What I have should fit you..."
He handed Helios a pair of jeans and a simple white shirt.
"Restroom is around the corner," Rei pointed out politely. Helios nodded as he quietly left.
"While he's gone, let's talk about you. My grandfather says you might have run away," Rei said softly to Rin. Rin kept her eyes on her hands.
"I kind of ran away," Rin admitted softly, nearly inaudible. "But I had the right reasons."
"So how do we convince you to go home?" Makoto leaned over, patting her on the head. "Family is very important and leaving is just not the right answer," she nodded as if she knew what she was saying.
"I don't want to talk about it," Rin said thickly.
"Well, why not give me your phone number so I can let your parents know where you are," Rei offered.
"I can't."
"But you must know it!" Ami blinked. "I knew every important information when I was five. Surely your parents taught you your phone number or such..." Ami trailed off, realizing how rude she had sounded. "I mean, Rin, right? That you should know things so that you can find your way home."
"I know my way home," Rin said, her voice getting dark. "So please, leave me ALONE."
"Helios!" Mamoru nodded. "Does it fit well?"
"It'll do for now. Right now we need to talk."
There was a long pause before Minako coughed, glancing at Rei.
"Oh! Um Rin, why don't you look around and make yourself at home," Rei smiled charmingly.
"Okay," Rin sounded much relieved as she exited.
"What's wrong?" Minako asked almost instantly.
"I'm afraid the Golden Crystal isn't safe yet," Helios began.
Rin pulled on her hair as she paced in the yard. "Tell them, don't tell them, what am I supposed to do?" She pulled a key from her pocket. She tried to think clearly but her mind felt shut down. She paced even more, biting her hair.
"You're going to pull your hair out," A voice sang out. A young woman, with flaming red hair pulled back into a low riding ponytail, looked down from the tree with eyes as red as her hair. She wore a tight fitting red dress that was sleeveless but had spaghetti straps that tied around her neck twice.
"Who are you?" Rin stepped back. The woman jumped off, leaving behind a trail of flames that liked the tree and set it ablaze. "PUT THAT OUT!"
"Heh," the woman grinned. "I am Eos, the Fire Elysian."
"You! You're the reason why my father's dying!" Rin glared at the other, her eyes welling up. "You monster!"
"Now, now. Just tell me where the Golden Crystal is," Eos quipped dryly.
"Never!" Rin screamed.
"Rin?" Rei came out, the others following. "Who are you?"
"A ha ha ha!" She smiled maliciously, pointing to Helios in particular. "Well, well, master. So nice to meet again!"
"Eos.." Helios glared at her. "How dare you leave your prison!"
"This is for locking us up!" She screamed, waving her hands high in the air, lighting the other trees around them.
"My house!" Rei shouted, watching the tendrils of flame begin to lick at the roof. "Everyone!"
"Stop it!" Rin shouted.
"Ah ha ha ha!" Eos crackled.
"NO!" Rin screamed loudly. "SHUT UP!"
"Get Rin out of here," Makoto was heard shouting. Rei ran to the other and literally dragged her out. She pulled Helios with her, the three entering the house.
"Stay here you two!" Rei ordered. Rin tried to move but Helios grasped her. Rin put up a fight, wiggling.
"Let me go! Let me go!" She cried out. "They'll get hurt!"
"They'll be fine," Helios tried to reassure the young girl. "Please! Calm down!"
But Rin sobbed, remembering her father, his body fading from sight before her own eyes. "NO! They need me! I have to do this!" Her elbow hit back and he was pushed back, grunting in pain. "I'm sorry, papa!" She turned and ran out, unaware of the slip of the tongue.
"Mars Flame Sniper!" Mars attacked Eos.
"You think you'd learn!" Mercury muttered. "Fire only adds to the fuel!"
"We can't just stand here!"
"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!" Mercury attacked, the water seemingly to cool down the flames. Until the attack ended then the flames shot up even higher and hotter.
"Oh ho ho," Eos grinned, her eyes glowing. "This is just too easy!"
"Stop it!" Sailor Chibi Moon moved but stopped. She was essentially worthless now as she couldn't call Pegasus.
Eos moved, her eyes pinned on Tuxedo Kamen. "Hee hee, I know you," She sang out happily. "Your Highness, I presume! Give me your crystal NOW!" She raged as she attacked gleefully.
"Mamoru!" Sailor Moon attacked. "Moon Gorgeous Meditation!"
Eos shrieked, the attack scattering. Mercury and Jupiter were struggling to place the flames out and Venus was hounding around Tuxedo Kamen with Sailor Moon.
"You have to stop!" Rin came running out, Helios close at her heels. "If you do! I will lose everything!" She shouted, anger visible on her features. "You.. you..."
"Shut up!" Eos sent out a blazing attack at the girl and Rin's eyes widened as it encircled her. "Ah ha ha ha!"
But her laughter caught short as the fire began to erupt into beams of light until it shattered, revealing Rin.
"Her forehead!" Venus shouted.
"Placidity!" A voice rang out as a little figure came out. It was a tortoise haired feline, with bright golden eyes and a yellow crescent moon on its brow.
Rin stood there, her forehead bearing the sigma of the White Moon as it blazed. "I won't let this happen! Coming from the future to save my family, I will vanquish you with the powers of justice!"
"Moon Mirai Power, Make Up!" Rin shouted. She raised her hand, a bracelet forming and growing until it began to spin around her. The charms, of yellow stars and yellow crescent moons, spun as well, before spinning into ribbons of light that erupted and wrapped around her, forming her fuku.
Her collar was blue with a yellow outline at its edge and her tiara was a golden yellow with it's center dip being different. Instead of meeting to the symbol, a blue moon, it stopped half a inch on each side, making it incomplete. Her body was very much altered than a regular fuku, the top part being completely shoulder-less, cutting across just above her small breasts. It was best described as two layers in the following but wasn't separated till the skirt - the body had a first layer of a white mini dress that was shoulder-less and wraps tightly around her thighs. The secondary layer, on top as a like a blue light jacket, began at the sides, covering her back. It had a loose off-the-shoulder sleeve that was unique as its top and bottom was edged in blue and the center was a yellow fluffy fabric. The secondary layer of blue was tight-fitting down her body until the hips where it became the loose and partial skirt.
Her choker was a yellow band that wasn't complete - the center of her throat was a blue crescent moon, each side with a round yellow gem that attached to the yellow band. Her brooch was highly detailed up close but from far away it looked like a yellow circular brooch with a blue crescent moon outlining the bottom half and on the top of what is yellow is seen as something as a starburst.
Her waistband was a detachable yellow beaded band that hugged somewhat loosely wrapping all the way around her hips. In the front of her waist was a large blue orb attached to the center of this beaded band. Her front bow was a gold bow, the top half is normal but the tails are fish tailed and slender. The back bow was also gold and eternal form. Her gloves were detachable white gloves that covered only the back of the hands and palms, cutting off at the beginnings of the fingers and stretching up to the sleeves.
Her shoes were knee high, high heel boots that were blue. The top center had a slight v dip in the center. The top edge and the v was outlined in yellow. The yellow stripe continued past the v, down in a straight line to end at the ankles. However, this couldn't be seen as she wore a gold armor plate, shaped like a elongated diamond (a six sided diamond) with the edges, going down along the outsides of her legs, wrapping around the back of her calves. This metal plate started halfway down past the knee to end just below the ankle.
As for jewelry, starting from the head, her odango, the foremost i.e. closest, was stylized like Sailor Moon's with two differences - the ball was blue and it is outlined in a yellow beaded , as in like Cosmos style. Please note, it was not heart shaped, it was round like Sailor Moon's odango style. She also wore a similar set of two barrettes save that it started out, innermost near the center of her head, with a blue crescent moon and then had three white round gems, the second one being larger than the other two. Her earrings were simple blue crescent moon studs. She also wore her transformation item, a bracelet, around her left wrist. Around the right wrist were two metal yellow bracelets.
"I am Sailor Blue Moon and in the name of Elysion and the Moon, I will vanquish you!" She shouted, pointing a finger at the other. "I won't let you destroy my future!"
"Dreaming Sunburst!" She made a motion as if she were sleeping, her body beginning to spin on her toes. Her hands followed through the movement, flying around her body until they were over her head. She came to a slow stop, her hands making an O shape with the other fingers splayed out to create a 'sun'. Each finger was glowing in a golden hue as she then moved her hands forward to flick beams of light at the enemy.
The attack missed a few times but what did hit soaked into Eos. She stood there as Sailor Blue Moon stared back. "That's it?"
Sailor Blue Moon flushed. "NO! Dreaming Sunburst!" She gave everything into her second attack. Because Eos thought weakly of the first attempt, she was unprepared for the draining sensation as she actually let the attack hit.
"Oh.. wow..." Eos stumbled. "What kind of attack is this?" She glowered.
"It drains!" Blue Moon huffed. "Now!" She raised her hand but stopped. She didn't have any finishing attack per say.
"HAH!" Eos took this moment to attack, the flames around jumping from where they had been burning and wove around the primary fire beam. Blue Moon's face was white as she covered herself.
She felt the heat but looked up to see the flames licking Chibi Moon. "Run!" Chibi Moon wheezed. Her eyes were closed in pain as the fire only wrapped around her.
"No.." Blue Moon watched as all she had been wanting to prevent seemed to be happening right in front of her. "No! No! I didn't want this to happen! MAMA!" She screamed. The blue moon on her brow turned to a golden yellow, the light hitting Chibi Moon.
And she was seen shining as a pillar of her own. From her body surfaced her Pink Moon Crystal. She found words gathering in her mind as she raised her hand to cry out. "Pink Moon Power, Make Up!"
And she transformed into only something she had long since dreamt of.