Episode 5 Act 4 Stolen Book

Karibar paced the thrown room of his hide out. The 4 demons knelt before him. He was furious that they had allowed an artifact of the Moon Kingdom to escape them. They winced as he screamed and bellowed his rage.

"I agree let's go somewhere." Mercury says and starts walking toward Amy's place.

"Wait there's allot of us here, I'm sure the priest wont mind that much." Mars says lightly grabbing Mercury's shoulder.

Tuxedo Mask nods at them, and goes over to Jupiter." Here allow me to help." Due to the height difference he just picks Krahazik up and carries him instead of Jupiter.

Jupiter let Tuxedo Mask take Krahazik, "I owe you Tuxedo Mask. You tell me what you want and I'll cook it for you."

Tuxedo Mask smiles at Jupiter, and places a hand on her shoulder then nods. The group walks towards the shrine with Krahazik on Tuxedo's left shoulder.

Mina sits up looking around, and watching her friends interact. She then stood up and wandered off, not remembering where she was, or how she got there. She saw strange buildings and surrounded by blurs of all shapes and colors. She felt scared and clutched the silver locket. "I've really gone off the deep end!" She said looking around both curious and afraid.

Mars grabs Mina pulling her along goes with the others to the Temple. Arriving at the shrine Mars breaks away from the group while they aren't paying attention to power down. Rei changes into her shrine grabs then goes and invites everyone in for tea. "Hello all and welcome to the shrine. Please come in and join me for some tea." She grabs Mina's hand. "Come on Mina this way"

"I have something to look into another time perhaps." Tuxedo Mask leaps into a tree and disappears.

Mercury does the same. "Yes now that everyone is safe I shall take leave." This is heard as she disappears. About 10 minutes later Darien and Amy show up. "Say what's going on?" Amy states as she walks in and sits by the table.

"A meeting of us friends you know." Rei says seriously. Amy knows what the deal is but Krahazik is in the area so she is being careful.

Like Mercury and Tuxedo Mask, Jupiter excused herself and powered down, then made her way back to Rei's Temple.

"Rei, I would like some tea, and then we'll move on to more pressing matters. Agreed?" Lita appears behind Amy, her hand in her dress pocket.

Mina looked confused. "Who are you?" She asked uncertain of what was going on around her.

"Okay, and yes we will be talking about more pressing matters in time. In fact I want everyone the stay here for the night so that we can devise what to do next, no ifs ands or buts about it." Rei says almost commandingly. She looks over everyone in the room, then states "Mina you are getting a special prayer tonight."

"Huh?" Mina said looking around her still confused.

"That's right I'm making sure you get a special prayer, and someone will be watching over you tonight. You are staying her with the rest of us." Rei says as she poured tea for everyone.

"That would be best." Lita said as she sat down.

"I agree it would be a good idea." Amy says in compliance with Lita.

Darien looked around and noticed that he was the only male in the room. "Uh does that me I go home, so you can have a sleepover then?" he sounds nervous.

"Absolutely not you will stay in the guess house with the other boys." Rei says.

Mina sighed. 'Don't I know him?' She thought looking at Darien. Mina looked at him. Then at the other girls, clutching her locket. "What's going on!"

Krahazik in out cold in the temple where Tuxedo Masked set him down.

Starstrike paces around in her house thinking.

Karibar is still chewing out his four demons for their failure in his hideout.

Mina looked at Rei then at Amy. She began to see blurs. Blurs of every color, swirling around her. An image of Mina appeared in one of the blurs. She took hold of Mina's shoulders. "What's wrong with you Mina? Don't you remember them?" The voice echoed in Mina's head. Everything turned black.

Mina, woke up and looked up seeing a room around her. She sat up on the floor. "Amy? Rei? Serena? When did I get here?" Mina felt confused. "OW! My head..." Mina said rubbing it. Mina gets up off the floor and walks out of the temple. 'I need some time to think... '

"Mina! Wait!" Amy follows to keep an eye are her.

Rei sits and looks at the remaining people in the room. "Now what do we know about the people and events that have taken place? Anyone want to fill me in. I only know what's happened since the building collapsing and the hospital. We need to come up with a plan here you guys."

Darien looked at Rei slightly surprised. "Gee you almost sound like Luna there Rei. You really got things under control huh?" Darien says slightly teasingly.

Luna hops down from a window sill. "I beg to differ I don't sound like that at all."

Mina turns to Amy. "I'm... so sorry..." She walked out the door. She walked down the sidewalk aimlessly. She thought about going to her apartment.

Hotaru leaned against a wall next to Amara. "First we need to get the jewelry off of everyone. I think it's what is causing the endless sleep."

"You're absolutely right Hotaru, and over half the district is under the influence. Not to mention that we don't know if it's just our town that has been infected right now." Luna responds to Hotaru.

Rei looks at Luna. "Luna! What are you trying to do scare us all about the severity of the situation."

Darien gets wide eyed. " Rei? Uh...Are you okay?"

"Luna! Long time no see. Have you received any information on this jewelry or these new threats?" Lita asked.

"The Moon Kingdom is all in an uproar, about this jewelry thing and books about the kingdom missing." Luna says with a sweat drop.

Rei looked at Luna again. "Books? What kind of books Luna?"

Darien gets sweaty and nauseous looking. "Uh...Rei you sure you want to know that? I have a feeling it's not something we want to hear."

Karibar paced back and forth in his hideout main hall. His 4 demons knelt before him. "So the Moon Kingdom artifacts are on earth. That explains why I couldn't find them at the Moon Kingdom." He pauses to glare at the demons. "And it would appear some of the old scouts are still around."

"You know about these scouts?" Kale asks timidly.

Karibar glares at her. "Not directly." he growls. "Those annoying outer sense blocked my last attempt to invade. I never got close to the Moon Kingdom, let alone its queen and her inner guardians." He cackles. "But this time will be different. I am stronger now than I was back then. And fortunately Aki's little store was undiscovered." He walks over to a large crystal he has sitting in a small nitch to the side of the room. They crystal glows a bright blue. "My power grows steadily from those mortals who sleep under the power of my jewelry. Soon I must make plans to build my army." He glares at the girls. "It is fortunate that Shadow Knight doesn't know your connection to me. You will insure it stays that way in all your operations." Karibar orders. "Now GO! I will call for you when I need you."

With that the demons vanish to their own rooms glad the punishment period is over.

End Act 4