Thoughts kept running through Serena's head about her encounter with the new enemy. She could not figure out why one of the new Scouts looked JUST like her almost. And that locket..."It looks just like the one Sebrena has.. I can't figure it out!"
"Serena? SERENA!" Serena, coming out of her day dream, looked around to see both Sebrena and Alayla. Sebrena said, "Serena? Are you all right? You don't seem to be all 'there' today." Serena couldn't answer. She just stared at Sebrena's locket.
Alayla gave Serena a weird look. 'What is she staring at?' Alayla thought to herself. She followed Serena's eyes to Sebrena's locket. 'Oh no!' Alayla waved her hands in Serena's face. "SERENA! Snap outta it!"
"Huh? Oh I'm sorry. I guess I forgot to eat breakfast this morning! Heh, good thing it's lunch time!" Serena began to open her lunch as the other two sat down. Ami, Lita and Mina soon joined them.
"Serena? I'm surprised you aren't almost finished with your lunch yet. You're normally half way down by now." Lita said, pulling out her gourmet lunch.
"Yeah, well I guess there's been a lot on my mind lately."
Without thinking, Mina replied, "Oh you mean about the new ene..?" Ami and Lita quickly covered her mouth with their hands. Sebrena and Alayla looked genuinely confused. Mina, having realized what she had almost revealed, swallowed quickly and started babbling really fast.
Sebrena thought it was a little humorous and Alayla just thought they were all plain weird. "Sebrena?" Sebrena looked up, and to her amazement, saw Blaze standing right next to where she was sitting.
Her face started to flush, but she managed to answer, "Oh, uhm, hello Blaze. What brings you here?" She thought, 'Oh no, I just made a huge fool of myself. Asking him -what brings you here?- As if he doesn't have a right to eat lunch!'
Blaze stammered, "I just wanted to say, uh, I'm really glad you made the team and I am looking forward to practicing with you in the couple skating." Sebrena just sort of stared, flushed and embarrassed, not being able to respond. Blaze, feeling uncomfortable, said, "Okay well, I'm off but I'll see you at practice right?" Sebrena nodded silently. Blaze walked off and thought 'UGH! I am such an IDIOT!'
Serena, Mina, Lita and Ami just stared in amazement. Lita spoke-up first, "Sebrena, you are SO incredibly lucky! Most girls would pay big bucks to have him come up and talk to them! He must really like you!"
Sebrena could feel her face heating up. "Oh no, Lita, I'm sure he was just being a good team-mate. Nothing more."
Alayla rolled her eyes, "Oh please, being a good team-mate means cheering on the others during practice or a competition. When you hardly know them, you don't have to congratulate them on making the team... especially during lunch. There's something more there and you know it, Sebrena."
Sebrena looked at Alayla wide-eyed, "You know, YOU ARE NOT helping the situation!" Alayla just shrugged.
Ami commented, "Oh you two should meet our friend, Rei, after school! She is extremely friendly and she has heard us talk about meeting the both of you! She is very eager to meet the both of you!"
"Ami? Rei, is extremely friendly? Are we talking about the same Rei here?" Serena asked, confused.
"Oh silly, Serena! Sometimes they have their differences but in the end, Serena and Rei are just the best of friends!" Mina said, laughing uncomfortably.
Sebrena looked at Alayla and shrugged, "Sure, I suppose. But I have practice this afternoon and I don't want to be late."
Lita commented, "Well, she is coming to meet us here so you and Alayla won't be late at all!"
Alayla said, "Well, then I guess we'll meet you all outside after school lets out?" Mina, Lita, Ami and Serena nodded in agreement.
As soon as school had let out Mina, Lita, Ami and Serena quickly met up outside of the school. Lita said to them, "I sure hope Rei can get enough of a reading from them when they meet her. Maybe the fire will tell Rei something about them!"
Ami nodded, "Yes, maybe she'll be able to find out if they are our enemies!"
"Hey guys!" Rei waved, walking up to them.
"You're just in time!" Mina replied. "They should be here any second now." No sooner had Mina ended her sentence, Sebrena and Alayla showed up.
"Hi Sebrena and Alayla! I would like you two to meet our friend, Rei," Serena said, smiling.
Rei turned to face the two girls. She defiantly got a strong vibe from Sebrena and an even stronger one from Alayla. Alayla seemed to freeze and couldn't move. It was as if she was in suspended animation. 'This can't be her, can it?' Alayla thought, in disbelief-belief.
Rei managed to snap out of it and said, "Hi! I'm Rei Hino, I work at the temple for my grand father just up the street! It's very nice to meet the both of you!"
Sebrena replied, "Same to you! Right Alayla?" Alayla wasn't able to speak yet, she just looked at Rei. "Alayla? Alayla, are you ok?"
Alayla, finally coming out of her stance, "Huh? Oh yes, sorry. Please forgive me, I don't know what came over me. It's just...it's just you look like someone I used to know long ago."
Rei, slightly suspicious, replied, "It's all right. People always say I remind them of a model!"
The other four girls shook their head. "There she goes again," Lita mumbled.
"Well, it was lovely meeting you but now we must be off to practice! Bye now!" Sebrena grabbed Alayla's hand and hurried back into the school.
"Sebrena? Do you think its REALLY her? I mean, it has to be right? It HAS to be them!" Alayla asked.
Sebrena, unsure, replied, "I don't know Alayla. I'm pretty sure it's them, I mean just look at how the act together. It has to be the same bond as long ago." Alayla nodded. They both went their separate ways.
Meanwhile, the five other girls went to Rei's temple. Mina asked, "Well, Rei? What do you think about them?"
"I defiantly got a strong vibe from the both of them. I'm just not sure if it's a bad vibe or not. But the strange thing is... Alayla seems so very familiar. It's as if I know her from somewhere... but where?" Rei changed into her temple clothes and they all gathered around the fire that Rei often went to for answers.
"Great fire, please help me in knowing what these two girls are here for! Are they friend or foe?" Rei chanted for a few minutes, repeating the same thing over and over. Suddenly, the fire grew larger and revealed a picture. It was of the two new sailor scouts that they had encountered in their last battle.
All the girls stared at the fire. Lita said, "What does this mean? Are they after the new scouts? Or are the new scouts the ones we have to worry about!"
Rei, stunned, replied," I...I don't know... it's not clear enough. The fire has let me down"
At the school, Sebrena was practicing for a competition. She felt very weak for some reason. She certainly wasn't performing the same way she had before.
"Sebrena? Are you all right? You seem a little off today. Is there anything I can do?" Blaze asked. Sebrena always felt embarrassed whenever he spoke to her and she didn't know why.
"Yes, I guess I'm just a little tired, that's all. Don't worry, I'll be fine." She smiled, to reassure him. 'Who am I kidding? I'm losing me energy and fast,' she thought to herself.
After what seemed like a terrible practice, Sebrena weakly made her way up the steps to meet Alayla.
"Sebrena? Sebrena! What happened? You look like you are about to pass out"
"It's...it's nothing, Alayla. I just feel...very tired." Sebrena sat down, almost too weak to stand up.
"Sebrena, you're running out of energy! We have to go back!" Sebrena shook her head.
"No, Alayla, not yet. I'll be just fine, I promise." Alayla's forehead started to throb and it began to burn.
"Sebrena, I can't let this happen! You have to go back!"
Suddenly, Sebrena's locket began glowing and Sebrena's eyes widened. "The next... the next child is...is Rini..."
-At Rei's Temple-
"Hey guys, have any of you seen Rini? She was supposed to meet me here." Serena asked, walking outside.
"No, I thought you were going to meet her at the school, Serena." Mina said to her.
Serena walked to the temple steps. "Maybe I should go look for her. It's not like her to be late. She isn't like me."
Rei got a bad feeling. "We better go now! I have a bad feeling!" They all nodded and ran down the steps and towards Rini's school.
"Oh come on, little girl! This won't hurt too much, promise!" The same enemy as before was there trying to capture Rini.
"NO! I won't let you take my youth and innocence! It's mine to cherish until I grow up! I AM NOT GIVING IT TO YOU!"
"I never said you had a choice in this matter!" The enemy sent Rini flying into a tree, and then these ropes came out of no where and tied Rini to the tree. "Now that you can't try to run, I'll just take what I need."
"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!"
"OW OW OW ! My handdddddd! WHO DID THAT!"
"WE DID! We are the Sailor Scouts! We fight for LOVE AND JUSTICE! We punish all evil and that means you!"
The enemy rolled her eyes, "You have GOT to be kidding me! Not you five again! Well, I don't have time for these costume games! Hamoru! WAKE UP NOW AND TAKE CARE OF THESE PESKY SCOUTS!" The enemy disappeared but an evil, vacuum looking thing with arms and legs popped up.
"My name's Hamoru and its time to suck you dry, little girl! But first, I must get rid of the sailor scouts!" Hamoru's arms, in the form of vacuum hoses came flying at the scouts, whipping them all into different directions. "Now, time to get the job done!" Hamoru started to suck the innocence and youth from Rini.
"GALAXY...BLINDING... PUNISHER!" Suddenly chains came shooting out of the ground, wrapping them selves around Hamoru's arms, legs and one across its mouth. Then a blinding light of power hit Hamoru right in her stomach.
"AHHHHH! NOOOO! HAMORU ALL GONE!" The power was so strong, that it destroyed Hamoru, and Rini's youth and innocence returned.
The other Sailor Scouts stood up and saw the two mysterious new scouts. The one, who looked a lot like Serena, started untying Rini from the tree and set her down on the ground. However, as soon as Rini was set on the ground, the sailor scout fell to her knees, unable to stand.
Sailor Heart, shocked, said, "SAILOR GALAXY! You have to get up! PLEASE!"
"I.. I can't... I'm too weak from destroying that monster...I...I.." Sailor Galaxy passed out right onto the ground. Rini, started to wake up and looked around.
"Huh! What happened?" She saw the two new scouts and quickly jumped up. She stared at Sailor Galaxy on the ground, with Sailor Heart kneeling next to her. She looked around at Sailor Moon and the others. They were staring in disbelief. "Who... who are you? Did... did you save me?"
Sailor Moon ran over to Rini. "Rini are you all right? We tried to save you but... but we couldn't. They destroyed that nasty creature."
Rini looked at Sailor Heart and Sailor Galaxy. "What's wrong with her? Why won't she get up?"
Sailor Heart tried to lift up Sailor Galaxy. "She... she has lost all her energy. Oh please... Princess... don't die... not yet." Sailor Heart's eyes started to water.
"PRINCESS!" The others were stunned.
Suddenly, the locket around Sailor Galaxy's neck started to glow brightly. Sailor Heart, said in shock, "She's going back..."
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AND END! Yes, in the next chapter you find out about these two new scouts and Sebrena and Alayla. Leave lovely reviews!