Chapter Four:
It was Wednesday morning in Tokyo, Japan. The children were just being awoken by their mother's, for another day of school. Under the Saturn head quarters though Madelyn and her younger sister were already ready. Madelyn was finishing up a school report, while Emily watched a TV show on the morning program.
Hotaru was making sure Anthony had lunch for work today. She kissed him goodbye and then he left, with his bento in hand. While Hotaru had been preparing lunch for her husband she had also prepared her children's lunch. Emily's lunch had to be done in a specific way. Her sandwich consisted of Mayo, Mustered, Ham, Lettuce, and tomato in a specific order. She had to drink apple juice with her lunches always, which wasn't a big deal because that's just about all that Hotaru bought.
Hotaru had been worried about her daughter's pickiness and spoke to Ami about it. Ami was concerned just as Hotaru was, but there was not much they could do. As long as Emily ate then Hotaru would just have to deal with her pickiness and her order. She did however wonder if this would affect Emily's future.
Hotaru handed them their bento boxes. Madelyn gave her mother thanks, but Emily was to engrossed in the TV show to notice the fact that her mother had made her lunch. Madelyn finished up her report and put it into her book bag.
"Momma, what time is it?" Madelyn questioned.
"Almost time to go." Hotaru called back. "You should probably go after Emily's show is over with."
Madelyn went over and sat down on the couch with her younger sister. Emily climbed up into Madelyn's lap and continued to watch the TV show. Soon the ending theme song came on and it was over. Emily stood up and grabbed her backpack and bento box.
Madelyn and Emily kissed their mother and went out the door to meet up with their friends. Emily seemed to be humming the theme song to the show she had just watched. Madelyn gave her a funny look behind her back, so she wouldn't see it. Madelyn was more worried about the project they had been assigned that was due soon.
The girls stopped at their waiting spots, and waited for their friends. The first person to arrive was Ariel, followed by Chloe.
"Madelyn look!" Ariel yelled out, holding up a board with her family tree on it. The fifth and sixth graders were doing it. The sixth grades classes were due today. Madelyn's was due tomorrow. She had one more day to try and talk to her mother, or just take a zero. Madelyn's stomach did a summer salt at the thought of this. She couldn't take a zero nor could she talk to her mother about her generation. --Maybe Madelyn could make something up.
Madelyn examined Ariel's project. It had Ariel's mother, grandmother, and earth parents. The story behind the Senshi's earth parents was there had been a huge fire--which, in result killed them. This had been true. Though, at the time, it was devastating for the Senshi's they made it through. Their history appeared to make sense to those outside the palace.
"Kawaii!" Madelyn exclaimed, noticing the scrapbook Ariel had made to go along with it. There was a picture of Ami and Rei together, as children. There was a picture with Ami, as a baby, in her mother's arm.
"So… Madelyn, have you asked your mom about her parents?" Ariel asked, as the rest of the bunch came up.
"Ariel, I can't bring the past up. It will be too hard for her." Madelyn explained. "I don't want her to be sad. She was really young when she lost her mother, don't you think its hard for her?"
"Sorry." Ariel apologized. "I understand, but your grade is depending on it."
"I know. I know. I'll think of something." Madelyn said, as they began to head for school. Hope was showing her poster bored to Annika. Annika found it funny with the picture of Michiru eating cake a six years old. She wasn't very neat. She had cake in hair, and everywhere.
They reached their school. Faith and Gloria volunteered to get the little ones to class. Chloe and Erin objected saying they knew their way around school, and were going to go alone. They took off before anyone could reject.
Faith muttered. "Well… it does leave less to worry about. Come on children." Faith waved her hand for them to follow her.
With the children, Faith, and the prankster gone it was easy to talk to one another. They finished showing their poster boards to each other. Everyone adored Ariel's little scrapbook. They found it amazing and it wouldn't have been a bad idea if they did that. But they hadn't thought of it.
"Well, we know who the high achiever is in this group." called an irritated voice from behind them. They turned around to see Miyaki standing there. A poster bored in her hand.
"Guess what?" Miyaki asked. "Faith or Gloria are not around to defend you little girls." Miyaki set her poster next to the tree.
"Miyaki, today's a big day. We have presentations. We can't get involved in your little quarrels." Hope said.
The girls tried to walk away, but Miyaki pulled Annika down to the ground and began punching her continuously. Madelyn, not thinking, wrapped her arms around Miyaki's neck, causing both the girls to fall back, giving Annika time to escape. Annika ran into Hope's arms crying.
Miyaki got herself free from Madelyn's grip and started scratching Madelyn's throat and face. Madelyn didn't fight back, she became frightened, she had never been in a fight. She only choked Miyaki to get Annika free. Miyaki penned Madelyn up to the tree with her hands.
Hope tried to get to her friends aide, but Annika wouldn't let her. Ariel was hiding behind Hope, praying that Miyaki wouldn't attack her.
"MIYAKI STOP!" Hope cried out. The only thing Hope could think of was Madelyn's health condition. Madelyn couldn't put up a fight.
Miyaki didn't listen and begin kneeing Madelyn.
"What's the matter? Can't fight back?" Miyaki taunted. Letting Madelyn go.
She was about to punch Madelyn when she just collapsed. Miyaki stood their shocked. What had she done? She looked back at Hope, who was fuming.
"She has a health problem!" Hope said through her gritted teeth. "You better hope she doesn't die, cause if she does, you can bet you'll be thrown in jail!"
Miyaki gathered up her poster and ran toward the school, but was stopped by a teacher. "Your coming with me young lady." Another teacher came out the door.
"Go check on that bunch of girls over there by the tree." the teacher ordered, leading Miyaki away.
Hope got Annika off of her and ran over to Madelyn. Madelyn looked badly beat up.
"Madelyn come on." Hope shook her friend.
When the teacher got over there she was shocked at what she saw. She ran quickly over to Madelyn. She picked her up and then examined the other girls.
"Annika did Miyaki do all this to you girls?" the teacher questioned.
Annika nodded, tears still streaming down her bruised face.
"Come on. All of you." the teacher said.
Annika climbed into Hope's arms again. Hope toted the girl into the school.
"Mrs. My friend has a medical condition. You might want to call the ambulance." Hope mentioned.
The teacher looked down at Madelyn. She was breathing heavily, her eyes weren't opened. They went into the nurses room. She set Madelyn down on the bed, and checked her pulse.
"Mr. Hiroshi call the ambulance now!" the teacher demanded.
Mr. Hiroshi obeyed and the ambulance was called. When they took Madelyn out Hope and Ariel broke down crying.
Mrs. Kaeda took the girls into her arms. "We are going to call your parents and have them pick you up." Mr. Hiroshi got some ice for Annika to put on her eye.
Mrs. Kaeda stood up and headed for the phone. She first had to call Madelyn's mother. She asked if they knew Madelyn's number. Hope blurted it out quickly. Mrs. Kaeda dialed and received an answer quickly.
"Mrs. Tomoe?" Mrs. Kaeda asked.
"This is she." Hotaru replied.
"We suggest you take your husband with you. Or if he's not home a friend to drive you up to the hospital. Your daughter, Madelyn, got in the way of Miyaki this morning and was injured. I cannot say how bad, I'm not a dr. But we had to call the ambulance. She was taken to Tokyo Medical Center." Mrs. Kaeda explained.
There was no response. "Mrs. Tomoe?" There was that annoying beeping and then came the voice. "If you'd like to make a call-" Mrs. Kaeda hung up.
She then asked for Annika's number. Hope once again gave it.
Just like the Tomoe residence the Hino's answered quickly too. There must have been two phones in the house, as Mrs. Kaeda got two answers. She asked if they were both the mother and father of Annika, after receiving a yes, she quickly explained what was going on.
"But Mr. And Mrs. Hino please can you check on the Mrs. Tomoe. I don't know if she made it out of her house and I don't want her driving alone." Mrs. Kaeda insisted.
"Yes, we will do that." Yuuichiro said, before Rei objected.
After the three hung the phone up, Rei begin to cry. "I want to go to my daughter now!"
"Rei-Chan, we need to go and make sure Hotaru is okay. Her daughter ended up in the hospital, not ours. I'm sure Annika is fine." Yuuichiro stated firmly.
Rei knew he wasn't going to change his mind. "But she needs me."
Yuuichiro gave her a stern look, as he grabbed both of their coats. "I will not hear no more of this. We are going to the Saturn quarters and getting Hotaru to that hospital with her daughter. Michiru is probably going to be going up to the school to get her daughter. We will tell her to pick up Annika. Annika will just have to deal with the situation for now."
Rei sighed. She knew this was probably the better way to go. But the only thing she could think of was her daughter. She wasn't worried about Madelyn, she was worried about her own daughter. She, hesitantly, followed Yuuichiro's orders.
At the school, Mrs. Kaeda had finished calling the other mothers. She couldn't get a hold of Ariel's parents, but Ariel said she wanted to go on back to class. Mrs. Kaeda told Ariel if she wanted to go home at anytime of the day, that she was welcome to. Ariel shook her head, and gathered up her project and left.
Michiru arrived at the nurses office. She had gotten the message to take Annika home. The girl begin screaming that she wanted her mother. Michiru tried to get her to calm down, but she wouldn't.
Hope gathered up her school stuff and followed her mother and the screaming Annika out to the car. Hope begin to worry about Annika. She was in 6th grade and still cried and through fits about wanting her mother. She was worried that Annika wasn't going to make it in Jr. high next school year.
When inside the car, Hope tried to ask her mother if they could go see Madelyn. After about the fifth time of screaming it, Michiru thought it was a good idea. Annika would be able to her mother as well.
The three headed up to the Tokyo Medical Center. Michiru tried to tell Annika that they were going to go see her mother, but Annika wouldn't stop screaming. Michiru knew Ami was going to be upset about Annika's behavior. They had tried to work on getting her out of the mommy stage, but nothing was working.
They had tried to make Annika live with Michiru and Haruka for two weeks, but after two days of her screaming that she wanted her mother, they had no other choice but to send her back to her mothers.
Michiru pulled up into a parking space, at the same time this happened so did Rei and Yuuichiro. Hotaru and Anthony got out of the backseat and quickly headed into the hospital. Rei spotted Michiru and quickly ran over to the car. Annika flew out of the car and into her mother's arms.
Hotaru and Anthony were checking into the hospital when Michiru and the other's walked up. Hotaru quickly fell into Michiru's arms. Michiru rubbed Hotaru's head.
"It will be okay. I'm sure she's just fine." Michiru comforted.
"Hotaru Tomoe and Anthony Tomoe your daughter is ready to see you." the dr. said.
Hotaru and Anthony quickly followed the dr. into the back room. Madelyn appeared to be doing just fine. Though she was badly scratched. Hotaru hugged Madelyn.
"I was trying to get Miyaki off of Annika, I didn't mean for this to happen." Madelyn apologized.
"No reason to give me the story. I'm just happy you are alright." Hotaru said.
Hope walked into the room with her mother right behind her. "Madelyn your okay!" Hope squealed.
Madelyn giggled. "I wasn't going to let Miyaki harm little Annika."
"Well, we are glad that you aren't hurt any worse." Michiru stated.
Madelyn smiled.
"Momma… Do you think my teacher will let me make up my presentation of my family history tomorrow?" Hope asked, just realizing she had missed her presentation.
"I don't know sweetie. We will have to ask the school. I'll take you in tomorrow." Michiru replied, moving a strand of Hope's hair away from her face.
"Alright." Hope said.
"How is your project going Madelyn?" Michiru asked.
"What project?" Hotaru asked, looking at her daughter.
Michiru wondered if she should have opened her mouth. Madelyn explained, Hotaru just said they'd talk about it later. Madelyn tried to tell her it was due tomorrow, but Hotaru ignored that.
The Dr. came in telling Hotaru and Anthony that they could take Madelyn home.
Madelyn tried to bring up the project again at dinner, but Hotaru wouldn't talk about it. Anthony had tired to get her to talk about her generation, but Hotaru said that Anthony's side of the family was just fine.
Madelyn's poster wasn't full with pictures as Ariel's and Hope's had been. She didn't have a picture of her mother's mother or her mother. She couldn't find any. Madelyn sighed as she put her poster aside.
She'd just have to explain to her teacher that there were no pictures of her mother or her mother's mother or father-- There wasn't much her teacher could say about that. Yet, Madelyn wanted to know about her generation.
As Hotaru was getting into bed, she jumped backwards when seeing a very yet not so familiar face. Hotaru stood up.
"What are you doing here?" Hotaru asked, still in a state of shock.
"I wanted to talk to you about your daughters project." Queen Ai began. "Its very important that you tell her some things for not only her project but for future references."
Hotaru sighed and sat down on her bed. "How do I explain that to her? Oh, my mother died, while you guys were fighting. I then had to be sent with Queen Ai, queen of Venus, to live with until Michiru and Haruka were old enough to take care of me? It wouldn't make sense to the teacher or the students."
"And how do you think Michiru and Haruka dealt with the matter. Hope and Faith are from the future, most defiantly they couldn't say that during their presentation. But Michiru told them for their own good. For them to know. There was plenty more she told them about the girls mother." Ai explained.
"But… I don't want to explain to either of my daughter's the past. I don't like it. I don't like thinking of it." Hotaru explained. "The only thing I wish that would have went different in that battle was I'd have been able to use my powers to save my mother, but I didn't get that power till later."
"Hotaru-chan, you still need to be open to your daughters, they were not in the past, they will never learn about the past if you keep it to yourself. They want to know and they need to know." Ai explained.
"Alright, I'll tell them some, but I need to wait till Emily is a little bit older to explain the battle." Hotaru agreed to some.
Queen Ai was relieved. "I needed to talk to you about Emily. Well, not exactly. I just want to let you know that Emily will need your guidance and comfort soon."
"Is something bad going to happen to her?" Hotaru asked concerned.
Queen Ai shook her head no. "I cannot tell you, but take my advice. I must go now."
Hotaru laid in bed, comprehending everything that Queen Ai had said. She allowed herself to sleep peacefully.
The next morning Hotaru gave Madelyn some pictures of herself and her mother and Queen Ai. She told Madelyn just enough to get through with her presentation. Madelyn was thrilled.
Authors Note: I have an idea for a side fic, but you won't see it for a while. This is the end of this chapter. You don't actually get to see Madelyn's presentation. I think I've written enough for this. I hope you all like it. Please Read and review. I'd appreciate it. I'll have chapter five up as soon as possible.