Chapter Five
Madelyn and Emily waited for the other children at their usual spot. Madelyn still had scratches and bruises on her from the quarrel the other day with Miyaki. Miyaki had been suspended for the remainder of the month, which was only two weeks. Rei felt that it was not enough time for a girl to be suspended. Hotaru didn't have anything to say on the matter, she was just glad her baby girl was okay. She wasn't use to Madelyn being in fights, and as far as she was concerned the fight didn't need to brought back up.
Madelyn and Emily were there a little earlier than normal, because Emily's show didn't come on, on Fridays. So they had decided to leave the house early. Emily was excited about this evening. She had kept asking her sister where they were going to go after school.
"Now, Emily, don't let your excitement get you in trouble at school, or momma will call the whole thing off." Madelyn lectured.
"I know. I won't." Emily answered.
"And I still don't know where we are going to go. I'm guessing either the mall or the arcade." Madelyn suggested to Emily.
Emily wrinkled her nose. "The arcade sounds good." She didn't exactly know what a mall was. She just knew a lot of teenagers went there to shop and hang out. Madelyn giggled at Emily's facial expression. A few seconds later the rest of the children arrived they were all chattering about what they were going to do after school. Hope wanted to do something with Art or Music. Chloe and Erin didn't seem to want to be out of the palace after school.
"Come on. We can't be late for school." Madelyn finally said to her group of chatter-box friends.
"Of course." Faith giggled, as she led the way out the door into the cold.
Madelyn, Hope, and Emily were the last ones out. Isabella and Jordan were up at the front of the group with Gloria and Faith. Hope didn't seem to mind.
"Do you still spend a lot of time with Faith as you use to?" Madelyn asked, noticing that Faith and Gloria had been spending a lot of time together.
"Yes, at home we do. But at school Faith has decided to hang with Gloria instead. It doesn't bother me. Sometimes you need a break from your own siblings." Hope admitted.
Ariel must have heard this and she walked back to where Hope, Madelyn, and Emily were.
"I'm glad Maia doesn't come to this school. Everyone would be saying how cute she is." Ariel ranted.
Hope laughed. "Is that all your worried about Ariel? Someone saying Maia is cute?"
Ariel nodded her head uneasily. "She gets more attention then I do."
"Oh, Ariel you need to grow up. I don't get jealous of Emily. And I doubt Hope gets jealous of her three sisters." Madelyn told Ariel.
Ariel wrinkled her nose. "You don't have to live with Maia though."
"Ariel, Maia doesn't ask for the attention. She's only four. You're the one that asks for the attention, which is very childish." Hope pointed out.
"Well, what about Gloria? She's always getting into trouble. Don't you think she's asking for attention?" Ariel stated.
"Gloria's asking for trouble, that's what she's asking for." Madelyn snickered.
Ariel gave up on the subject matter and went into the school. She didn't want her friends to think she was childish, but that's what they were thinking. Ariel needed to think of a way to show them that she was childish. Ariel got lost in thought, that she didn't hear her best friend saying goodbye to her as they made their separate ways.
Madelyn decided to walk Emily to her class. Hope followed. After dropping Emily off at her first grade class, the bell rung. Madelyn said goodbye to Hope and they split off in their on ways. Madelyn made it into her class. She glanced up at the clock, wishing that time would go by quicker. Madelyn felt as though the day was dragging on. She looked at the clock every ten minutes, waiting for the bell to ring for them to go home.
"Ms. Madelyn Tomoe is there something on the clock?" her teacher asked.
Some of the children snickered. Madelyn looked down at her desk. "No."
"Alright then, stop looking at the clock." He lectured as she begun teaching the class again.
Madelyn sighed and watched her teacher as she walked around the room, pointing things out on maps. They were talking about the America today. Madelyn then remembered something. Lydia and Maggie's dad always goes to America. Though, they have no idea why. Madelyn started to wonder if he was really going to America. As far as she was concerned there was nothing exciting in America. Gary had never returned home with stories. He always seemed to be uneasy when the Queen sent him away.
Madelyn wanted to know why Gary always got sent on the missions and none of the other knights did. Why did it always have to be the Pluto's? She wasn't complaining, she didn't want her dad to go off on missions. She just thought it was fishy and a little selfish that the Queen had to make it where both of Maggie and Lydia's parents were away. She could have picked someone else.
"Class dismissed for recess. Madelyn I want you to stay behind and wash the board."
Madelyn snapped back into reality. "Wha..?" Madelyn asked in disbelief.
"The board now or I'm calling your parents."
"Yes ma'am." Madelyn replied, getting up and getting the bucket out of the bathroom along with the sponge.
"You're a very bright girl Madelyn Tomoe, just I wonder where you are sometimes." Her teacher explained as Madelyn started to wash the board.
Madelyn didn't say anything back to the teacher. She just wanted the day to be over with. She wanted to go to the mall or the arcade. But at the rate she was going, she felt as though it was never going to happen. Madelyn wondered want Ariel was doing right now. She couldn't remember if she said she had a test this Friday or not. In Ariel's class, if they had test of Fridays, they weren't allowed outside. Though, by the schools speculations this was not allowed to happen. None of the students seemed to complain. Ariel had never told her mother.
Madelyn finished up cleaning the board. The students were coming back inside, as recess was over. Madelyn sighed once more. The school day was never going to end. Time was against her.
For the remainder of the day Madelyn tried to focus on what the teacher was saying. She wrote down what was on the board, but none of it registered into her head. Finally, the time came where the bell rung. Madelyn quickly slammed all her stuff together and threw it in bag. She quickly ran out of the room and down the hall. She went down to the first grade hall where she found her little sister waiting right outside her classroom.
Emily's frown turned into a smile when she saw her older sister. Emily followed her sister out the exit door and to the spot where they were meeting up with their friends. Emily was excited when she saw Isabella emerge from the building. She ran up toward her quickly, the two were lost in talk. Madelyn smiled. She enjoyed seeing her little sister happy.
Ariel, Annika, and Julia were the second ones that appeared out of the school. The three had decided they wanted to go home. Annika and Julia were exhausted from the school day. Ariel wanted to take her little sister to the library. As this was unusual for Madelyn to see she said goodbye to her three friends and watched as they walked away. She wanted them to stay, but she couldn't make them.
Hope and Lydia were the next ones to come out of the school building. Madelyn could already see it coming. The two had plans of their own. When the two arrived to Madelyn, Hope frowned at her friend.
"Me and Lydia are going to go and look at some art and stuff like that." Hope explained.
Madelyn nodded and said goodbye to her other friends. She was upset a little, because Hope could have invited her. Though, Madelyn would have said no thank you, because Emily wanted to go to the arcade and she didn't know if Emily had in interest in art.
Erin and Chloe were the second to last ones to come out. Madelyn could see it on their faces that they didn't want to really hang out with Madelyn. And they took any opportunity to hang out together, because their older sisters didn't get along well. The two didn't even walk over toward Madelyn to explain their selves. They just waves and continued walking.
Madelyn felt a like crying, but didn't. She waited to see if the last of her friends would come out, but they didn't. She waited a couple more minutes before leaving. She was glad she did, because Jordan was the last one to come out the school and she was crying.
Madelyn ran up to the young girl. She cried into Madelyn's school uniform, getting it covered in tears.
"Faith and Gloria left." Jordan sobbed.
"It's alright Jordan. I'll take you home." Madelyn looked over to her sister, who was still talking to Isabella. The twins didn't bother to take their younger siblings with them. Madelyn figured it was miscommunication once again. It always happened. Most of the time it was Faith's fault. She'd tell Hope she was getting the younger twins and then would totally forget about them. They had been left at so many different places.
One time they had left Jordan at a candy store all by herself. The store had closed and Jordan had to go stand outside in the pouring ran, she ended up catching pneumonia. Jordan had been left at school by herself so many different times. Luckily, she'd stay in one place and wait for someone to come and get her. Usually, Maggie, Usagi and Daisy would come by and get her.
Isabella was a different story. She could get left alone with Jordan and end up on the other side of town. It happened once because she had seen a kitten and went after it. The worse time for Isabella was at the beginning of the year, Hope and Faith weren't use to taking their siblings home, and had forgotten about both of them. Isabella had somehow been sucked into going into someone else's car. They had told the twins that they were going to take them home. Jordan didn't believe them and ran away from the people. Isabella on the other hand got in the car. They didn't return Isabella home, instead they took her to their home.
Maggie and the other two older ones had spotted Jordan hiding behind a bush. They only spotted her, because they heard crying. When Maggie got the information about what was going on she quickly had contacted Queen Serenity. She didn't even bother contacting Michiru and Haruka. Queen Serenity set out a search immediately.
Isabella was found in a matter of two hours. She hadn't been harmed or anything. The people who had taken her were a group of teenagers. They had been sent to a teen jail and were still there. They had told Queen Serenity that it was just a mistake, but she didn't want to hear any of it. She sentenced them three years in the jail.
"Isabella and Emily its time to go home." Madelyn called out to the girls.
"Madelyn I thought we were gonna go to the arcade?" Emily asked.
"I think Jordan wants to go home." Madelyn explained.
"Party pooper." Isabella wrinkled her nose at her sister.
"The arcade?" Jordan asked. "I wanna go to the arcade."
Madelyn forced a smile on her face. "Of course. We will stop there and play a few games, then head home."
"Yay." Squealed the three younger children. Emily could see the worry in Madelyn's eyes. When the twins were a little bit up ahead, she whispered to her sister that everything would go fine.
"It gives you a chance to get to know them." Emily spoke softly.
Madelyn shook her head. She wouldn't have mind, but wouldn't inside the palace be a better place. Madelyn knew Emily wouldn't do anything wrong or go to far, but she didn't know about Isabella. Isabella has also been known to run off from Michiru and Haruka's view. Even right after she's been told to stay with them. Madelyn doesn't see it as Isabella's fault; she just got side-tract real easy. But she didn't want to be the one to lose Isabella. She sighed and caught up with the other two. They made their way into the arcade.
They were greeted by the new owner of the arcade. He was Andrew's younger brother. He was a nice guy, but Minako had complained he wasn't like Andrew. That could have been because she at one time had a crush on him. To Madelyn though, Andrew's younger brother was kind and just as good as Andrew. After playing a few games, Madelyn had to go to the restroom. She told the children to continue playing this game and not to move. She walked over to the restroom area and turned around, Isabella was still there, and she seemed to be pretty in tuned into the game. They were just in the arcade, plenty of games, why would Isabella want to wonder off? Madelyn closed her eyes and went into the bathroom.
Jordan was the next one to play the game Emily had been playing. As she climbed up in the seat so did Isabella. Jordan pushed Isabella down.
"Isabella it's my turn. Go do something else." Jordan complained.
Isabella wrinkled her nose and got down. She stood behind Emily and watched as Jordan played the game. Emily turned and smiled at Isabella, it was nice to have her friend around. Emily turned back and watched Jordan as she attempted to beat up the other person on the screen. Isabella decided to go see if there were anymore exciting games to play.
Madelyn comes out of the bathroom, looking frantically around for Isabella. She asks Carson if he's seen a little girl. He replies with "There are two over there."
"No, that's not what I mean. Another little girl. She is that girls twin." Madelyn pointed at Jordan.
"I see. Do you know these girls names?" Carson questioned with a smirk on his face.
Madelyn shook her head yes. "That one is …"
"It's okay. I know you know them. They are Michiru and Haruka's daughter. They have two other older twins too. Don't worry about. I think I saw Isabella go over there." Carson smiled.
"Thanks Carson." Madelyn said, as she started to walk over there, but was called by Jordan.
Meanwhile, Isabella found herself hiding behind one of the gaming systems listening to a small group of men talking.
"If we attack the younger Saturn everyone will be occupying her and won't be able to notice the accusations going on. You two have read up on the Saturn history, correct?" one guy, with dark blood red hair asked.
"Yes, they are the Senshi's of death and resurrections. Hotaru Tomoe the mother of Madelyn Tomoe and Emily Tomoe. Madelyn has a medical condition just like her mother. Though, as a senshi she is strong. Emily Tomoe is the youngest, though she is comes from a generation of powerful senshi's she is a coward and can't transform at times needed. She becomes scared of death." The blonde man spoke in a deep voice, he was full of much knowledge about the Senshi's it scared Isabella.
"And Hotaru's husband, along with the other Knights, not much is known about them." The last guy spoke, a little childish. He seemed to be the dim wit of the three.
The red hair turned toward the gaming system and struck out his hand, with an invisible force he moved the gaming system revealing Isabella. Isabella squealed and ran out of the guys reach. The gaming system fell to the ground, Madelyn, Jordan, and Emily looked up in alarm. Carson leaned over the counter to see what was going on. When he saw the gaming system tipped over he went over to lift it back up.
Isabella took out the doors. Madelyn picked up Jordan and held onto Emily's hand as they high-tailed out of the arcade. The three men said sorry and took off toward the children. Emily was lacking leg power as she tried to keep up with Madelyn. Madelyn was wishing that someone would come to their aid, as she was growing weak by the second. She couldn't hold Jordan and run at the same time. Emily ended up slowing down which caused a collision. Isabella ran into Emily; resulting them crashing into the ground. Emily was about in tears. The girls sat up the enemies were a few steps away.
When the enemies stopped at the girls, Madelyn was far ahead. Right then a figure, that was quicker then the speed of light, so it seemed, picked the girls up and carried them up to Madelyn. He then sat Isabella down as she took of running again. The mysterious figure put Emily on his shoulders, and picked up Madelyn who still held onto Jordan. The figure ran all the way to the palace. The gates opened and the guards allowed them in. He sat the children down, Isabella ran inside a few seconds after and just collapsed to the ground, the figure disappeared.
Emily and Jordan were in tears as they were both scared by all the commotion. Madelyn tried to get them to calm down. The guards contacted the Queen, who had contacted everyone else. Isabella asked one of the guards who the mysterious figure was. The man under the helmet smiled and shrugged his shoulders. Isabella looked out the palace gates as though she was trying to find the mysterious guy, though she knew she wouldn't.
Authors Note: The Mysterious creature will be found out later on. The adult Senshi's know who it is, but the children do not. Any questions or comments?