Mina sat at the breakfast table, rethinking about what happened the day before.
Everyone had met to try to figure out where Rei was. Amy was typing away on her computer when she spoke:
"Guys, there's some sort of time wave, generated by a strong source."
"Who's this source?" Mina had asked.
"I don't know, but this person can control time with this ultrasonic wave."
"It's a person?" questioned Luna.
"That's what it seems like." Said Amy.
"Hmm, something odd is happening." Said Artemis.
Just then, Amy got an answer.
"I've got it!" she said.
"Got what?" asked Mina.
"I don't know how to stop this time wave, but maybe someone else does. Someone like…"
"Sailor Pluto!" shouted Luna. "And I think I know how to talk to her on your computer."
Luna hopped on the counter and put her paws on a few buttons. A few beeping sounds were made, and then a blurry image of what looked like Sailor Pluto popped up.
" Yes?" said the voice.
"Sailor Pluto, we have a question." Said Luna.
"Someone is sending out time waves, controlling… well… time!" said Amy.
"Yes, I know." Answered Sailor Pluto. "I've been having trouble with guarding the doors to time. There is a way to stop it though."
A box full of information began scrolling like lightning on Amy's computer screen.
"Use this information to activate an invisible shield or barrier around yourselves," said Sailor Pluto, "So that you won't be affected by the time warp. Just make sure you don't do too much damage, and put everything back into place once time starts again. You can severely ruin the world if things don't stay the same."
"Thanks Sailor Pluto." Said Artemis.
She nodded at the screen where Sailor Pluto stood. A blast from off the screen was heard as Sailor Pluto turned.
"Looks like times going to stop soon." Said Sailor Pluto, looking in the direction of the blast. "Get ready!" she said, and the screen went black.
Amy started to work at the information on the screen, and pressed enter right before to world stopped.
"There!" she said.
"I don't notice anything around us. No shield or anything." Said Serena.
"Look outside!" said Lita, pointing out of the window.
There was a dog there, in the middle of doing his business, frozen.
"Oh that poor person, whoever that dog is peeing on." Said Mina, her face scrunched up.
Mina snapped out of her daze.
"We really need to find out who this person is. I'm sure Mark has some mixed feelings about this. Everyone can see he loves her, all except for Rei, but he also seems hurt and… doesn't like her. He must have some feelings for her, since he did ask us after the attack if we had seen Rei lately. He looked really messy too, and Rei's grandpa says he's not drawing as well since she left. It must be tough on that boy, I feel sorry we couldn't tell what happened. We can't change anything according to Sailor Pluto. This is just all too hard…"
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Rei got in the car with Chad, leaving the swimming pool. Chad had complained at first, when Rei told him they were leaving. But once Rei gave him that signature look of hers, he shut up. Rei got into the driver's side, and Chad in the passenger. Rei began driving while Chad rolled down his window.
"Oh, you rolled down your window." Said Rei, rolling hers down.
Chad then pressed the air conditioning button, turning it on.
"Why'd you turn on the air conditioning?" Asked Rei. "The windows are rolled down."
"Because the open windows cool down the car while the A/C begins to cool." Replied Chad.
"There's no point in rolling down the window with the A/C on."
"I want it that way, but fine."
Chad leaned forward and turned off the air conditioning. Rei then leaned forward and turned it back on.
"I thought you didn't want it on while the windows are rolled down!" said Chad.
"You just said you wanted it on!"
"Yeah, but then I turned it off anyways!"
"So I turned it on to please you, but since that doesn't seem to make you happy, I'll just turn it off!"
"Well now that it's on, don't turn it off, it's going to get all hot again!" Exclaimed Chad.
"Too bad! It's off now." Fumed Rei.
"How confusing can a girl get." Muttered Chad. "Hey, why are we leaving anyways?"
"Well Chad," began Rei, "we all have to share the pool, so there's a time limit and time slots to swim during. We have to leave when our time is up." Said Rei, trying to explain it very easily for Chad, almost too easy.
"Is that all?" asked Chad.
"I also didn't have a good time." Said Rei, quick, and monotone.
"Oh," said Chad. After a pause, he asked, "Why didn't you have a good time?"
"Because." Said Rei sharply.
Chad huffed. "That's just what you would say."
"Exactly. And who better to say what I would say then me?"
"… What?"
"Never mind." Sighed Rei.
Chad sat back, his face smushed in his hands, staring out of the window. A long pause of silence passed. He then huffed and leaned forward, turning on the air conditioning.
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Serena walked down the streets, thoughts of Darien stuck in her head.
"I feel horrible now." Sighed Serena. "Nothing seems normal anymore. Why did I just go and do that?"
"Because he's having an affaire with you, you idiot!" said half of her mind.
"You're not even engaged or married, how do you have an affaire!" said her other half.
Just then Rei and Chad drove by. Serena glanced at them. The two were fuming off at each other more than ever before.
"See, they're having an argument and they're still together." Said the second half.
"They're not having an affaire though! They aren't even dating!" argued her first.
"Oh shut up!" said Serena out loud. Some passer bys just stared at her, while Serena kept walking. Suddenely, the past few sentences dawned on her. "Wait, that was Rei!"
"Weirdo," said one.
"Loser," said another.
"Sailor Moon…" whispered a stranger. "I know who you are…"
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Hannah was torn between saying hi to Serena or not. Serena had just passed her by, and hadn't seemed to notice her. She decided to not say hi to Serena, since she seemed to be running after something intently. As Hannah walked, thinking about this decision, a voice called out, snapping her from her daze.
"Hey, Hannah!" Said the blonde girl with a unique hairstyle.
"Uh, hi Serena." Replied Hannah.
"I didn't see you there! I was just about to go after Rei, but I think she's driving a bit fast for me to catch up. So I saw you and thought I'd say hi! And... I know you think I'm really strange, but my hair doesn't always stay like this." Said Serena, remembering how Hannah had looked at her the first day they met. "Actually, I look like my friend Mina, who I should show you to sometime! Oh, and then there's Lita, she's really athletic, do you like sports?"
Before Hannah could answer, Serena was off again.
"Well even if you don't, I have another friend, Amy, who's super smart in almost everything. You're really smart too, so I think you two would be great friends. Say, want to go somewhere sometime?"
Hannah didn't answer.
"Hannah, want to go somewhere sometime?" repeated Serena, slower.
"What? Oh, sorry, I was just dazed. Sure, where?"
"Oh I don't really care, how about the movies or the zoo?"
"We don't have a zoo around here…" stated Hannah.
"Oh, I guess not. Ok, so the movies sometime?"
"Um, sure."
"Cool!" said Serena smiling. "Hey, do you have a pen and paper I could use?"
"Uh, yeah, here." Said Hannah. She took out a crumpled receipt and small pen and handed them to Serena.
"Thanks. Here's my phone number, call me sometime." Said Serena, scribbling down on the back of the paper.
"Ok."
Hannah looked at the paper, the back of it facing Serena.
"Well, I'll be off then!"
Hannah lowered the paper, bringing her eyes back and fourth from the running Serena to the phone number on the paper.
"What have I gotten myself into." Said Hannah.
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"Great job, James!" said Amy, going over James' work sheet. "You only got 5 wrong!"
"Amy, there's only 15 questions. That's a third of the questions." Said James.
"Still, at least you showed your work, and you used fractions right there!"
Amy was trying to get James to be a little more enthusiastic about his work, which clearly wasn't working.
"Here, how about we try this sheet here." Said Amy, pulling out another sheet of work from her folder, with the definitions of all the different angles and fractions on the sheet.
James sighed and started his work, but was too busy thinking about other things.
"Why don't I just ask her?" He said to himself. "It's not like she's only my tutor. She's also a friend, and it's not like it's anything big. Wait, what am I talking about, of course it is! She's my tutor! Wait, I just said she's my friend. That doesn't make sense. Or does it? Nope. Definitely not. Ok, I've really got to work on my fractions. Let's see, if one third of a pie is eaten, and then someone eats a third of what's left (2/3) then how much is left in the end? Who really cares?"
"James, are you ok?" asked Amy. "You're not even done the second question."
"What?" Oh, sorry." said James, snapping out of his daze.
Amy sighed. "I guess that's enough work for today. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Um, Amy?" said James.
"Yes?"
"Tomorrow's Saturday."
"Oh," said Amy, blushing. "I guess I got caught up in the work." Amy laughed.
"I like her laugh," thought James.
"Actually," he began.
"This is it..." his mind muttered.
"Do you want to see each other tomorrow?"
"But you just told me it was Saturday." Said Amy, confused.
"I mean like, go somewhere, not as Student and Tutor, but more as… friends?"
"Oh," said Amy, looking down on the ground.
"I've never been out before with a guy." She thought. "Should I? Would it be right?"
Amy smiled.
"I love that smile." Thought James.
"Sure." Said Amy, nodding her head.
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Become me
With a flash, sailor wings!
A guardian running through the earth
Because it's me, I can fight this battle
I'll go make up, the sparkle is my forehead
A sailor soldier, that is a
Moonlight fortune
(Glittering Sailor Dream - Sailor Moon)
A/N: Sorry this was late! Oh, and the ruler button (the one that makes those separating lines) wasn't working for me, so I used the -x- design instead. I hope you guys enjoy! (Oh, and I promise not to beg for reviews anymore... unless its something important, like the end of the story!)
