Chapter Six-
At the hospital Ami put Gloria on IV'S. Ami worked quickly on stitching Gloria's hand up. Hotaru was in the room, doing anything Ami had asked her. When Ami was done she collapsed in the chair and sighed. Hotaru went over to Gloria and fixed her pillow for her.
"I don't understand how we could have not seen that something was wrong. And where are Minako, Asai, and Erin?" Ami sighed.
"I have a feeling that Minako, Asai, and Erin are separated right now." Hotaru answered Ami unsuspected.
Ami looked at Hotaru for a moment, perhaps it was a sense of hers that she could just feel that something major was wrong, but Ami had to be sure. She went out to the waiting room, where everyone else was at. The children wanted to be there with their friend and wouldn't allow their parents to take them home. She explained that she wanted a group of people to go out and get Minako.
"We couldn't get a hold of her parents over the communicators." Rei explained to Ami.
"They allowed Erin and Gloria to go on a walk at almost dark time last night." Artemis explained.
"They didn't show up for school either." Faith joined in the topic.
"That is unlike Minako or Asai to allow their children to miss school." Michiru contemplated the subject at hand.
Hope glanced down at her feet. Her heart was pounding hard, her hands were clammy, tears escaped from her eyes and fell on to her lap.
"Hope what's the matter?" Haruka asked, concerned.
Everyone's attention turned toward Hope. Maggie and Daisy looked at Hope concerned.
"Please don't be mad." Hope begun to cry and she collapsed into her mothers arms. Michiru stared at her daughter confused.
"Sweetie I won't be mad at you." Michiru explained. "If you know anything that's going on then please tell me."
Hope looked over at Maggie and Daisy. Maggie and Daisy looked back. With everyone looking back between Hope and the other two girls Sestuna felt the need she had to say something.
"The three girls know something, they've known for a while, but they won't tell anyone." Sestuna explained.
"Hope come on, you have to tell us, how else are we gonna help out Gloria and Erin?" Faith begged.
Maggie and Daisy nodded to Hope.
"Okay." Hope said, softly. Hope filled in everyone on everything. Daisy and Maggie helped as well. Everyone was silent; they didn't know how to react. They didn't want to believe it, but deep down they knew it was true.
"Do you girls know where Erin is?" Sestuna asked concerned.
Hotaru walked out of the room and into the waiting room where everyone was discussing the matter at hand. "There is no hope yet."
"No, not really. She ran out while everyone was asking Gloria what happened to her hands. And she seemed to have a cold, cause she was coughing really badly." Annika replied, trying to hold back her tears.
"What?" Chloe asked alarmed. "Maybe she went home?"
"I have a feeling she didn't." Artemis answered. "Here Luna and I will begin searching instantly."
"Hold on, let me and Hope check our mirrors." Michiru insisted. Michiru took out her mirror and asked it to show her where Erin Aino was; nothing happened. Hope glanced at her mirror and gulped. She had a feeling she wouldn't get anything, but she did it anyways. Just as predicted nothing showed up.
Chloe escaped through the back exit, while everyone was trying to keep calm. Chloe knew her friend was out there somewhere; needing her.
"Alright, listen! We can't start this epidemic panic, we need to just calm down and split up." Sestuna interrupted the conversations at hand. "Rei, Yuuichiro, Makoto, and Shinozuki you go and knock down Minako's door, we can replace it, but we can't replace her."
"Sestuna, why didn't you look into the future?" Ryo questioned.
"Because I already have and it gave me nothing. It doesn't show me anything, it has quit showing me since Erin was inside of Minako." Sestuna explained, she didn't understand herself why Minako and her family's future showed none for them, it worried her. And with Gloria being hooked up to IV's it worried Sestuna more that they, indeed, had no future. Sestuna wanted to say the battle would be over soon, but they weren't fighting a real monster this time, instead it was a problem among the parents that was killing them all. "Everyone split up and look for Erin. Children too." Sestuna snapped back into reality. Everyone scattered and went looking for her.
By night fall everyone had contacted each other and were heading back to the hospital.
"I failed." Hope said to her sister.
"No you didn't." Faith assures her sister.
"You didn't know what was going on. I did, I could have stopped this before it got this far." Hope snapped.
Faith didn't say anything for a second, and then finally replied. "Hope, everyone knew something was wrong. We just didn't know what was wrong, and there is nothing you really could have done to stop all this."
Hope glared at Faith. Faith stopped and put her hands up in front of Hope's face, making her stop as well.
"Look if you would have went and told Michiru or anyone, Minako would have found a way to put up in act, and what are the chances of anyone actually believing that the senshi of Love would have a problem this big that would tear her family apart like this?" Faith asked. "No one would have really believed it. It's not that they wouldn't have wanted to believe it, just it's hard to grasp the concept of a split in a family."
Hope hugged her sister and cried a little. "Come on girls." Haruka said, getting the girls to go inside the hospital. Most of the older children that know what's going and understand are in tears. Jordan is sitting in Haruka's lap falling asleep.
"Where is Isabella?" Michiru questioned concerned.
"Right here." Ami replied. "She's eating animal crackers in my office."
Michiru relaxed.
Queen Serenity did a quick roll call, to find that Annika, Maggie, Daisy, and Chloe were missing.
"There're not going to give up are they?" Gary asked Sestuna.
Sestuna shakes her head no.
Makoto brings Minako into the hospital on her back. She is directed to lay her down in one of the hospital bed. Makoto walked right pass Isabella who was still in Ami's office. She followed Makoto into the room, where she was laying down Minako. Isabella hid behind some curtains to keep herself out of sight.
Princess Serenity walked into the room, with her mother, and Ami right behind her. They tried to get Minako to answer, but she refused to do so. Ami gives a defeated sigh and then tells everyone to just give Minako some time. They exit the room.
Isabella comes out from the curtain and goes over to Minako. She climbs up in the bed and kisses Minako on the forehead, and gets her self comfortable under the covers. When she was cuddled up next to Minako she said, "I love you, Aunt Minako." And closed her eyes.
Minako opened her eyes and looked at the child. She gently kissed her forehead and whispered to the girl that she loved her too, and with that both of them were fast asleep.
Authors note: I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I tried to put something in it that was sweet. I hope you like the scene with Isabella. Anyways, this story is coming to a closing soon. - I'll update as soon as I can.