Lita stared at the phone, bored out of her mind. Nothing was happening around her, everything was happening to her friends.

"Amy's tutoring this guy, Rei's gone off with Chad, Serena's with Darien, and Mina's got a forbidden love. And me? I've got training. That's it. This is so boring. I'll try calling someone to se if they want to get together and do something."

Lita picked up the phone and dialled Mina's house.

"Hey Mina?"

"Yeah?" answered Mina.

"I was wondering if you wanted to get together today, you know, go to the movies or something?"

"Um, well, I can't today, but how about tomorrow?"

"Uh, I guess so, what are you doing today?" asked Lita, curious.

"Oh, well Andrew's coming over today." Mina said, a bashful giggle being muffled.

"Oh, I see." Said Lita. "Well, you have a good time, I'll call someone else."

"Wait, are we still on for tomorrow then?"

"Uh, yeah!" Said Lita. "Bye."

"Ok bye!" chimed Mina, and hung up.

Lita sighed.

"Now who to call?"

She picked up her pocket phone book and flipped through the pages.

"Andrew, Amy, Dad, Darien, Home, Mina, Mother, Rei, Serena, School… Wow, I really need some new friends. I guess I could call Rei."

Lita once again picked up the phone, but then, remembering that Rei was gone, she put it back down.

"This really sucks." She said, getting up.


Mina waited by her window in her bedroom. She glanced at the clock, reading the time again.

"He's 20 minutes late! Where could he possibly be?" Mina thought. Right as she finished saying that, images went right through her thoughts. "What if he's with someone? What if he forgot about me! What if! What if! What if!"

Mina stood up in anger and freight and dashed down the stairs, opened the front door, and ran out.

"Where are you going Mina!" screamed her mother, coming from the kitchen, dashing to the front door.

"To find Andrew!" said Mina, continuing to run.

"Oh no you don't, get back here young missy! He's not good!"

"Sorry, mom! We'll talk about this later!"

Mina kept running, her hair dancing in the wind as she ran off towards Andrews house.

"Don't do this to me Andrew, I love you, and I thought you loved me. Please don't do this. No, you're just overreacting and getting too far ahead of yourself. Stop running!"

Mina ignored herself and ran though the streets, the tiny roads, and up to Andrews house. He was still alone in his house, his parents still gone on a trip. Mina rang his door bell, praying that she was just overreacting. No answer. Mina then began to think again.

"If he's not home… where is he?"

She ran to his backyard, bracing herself for an image she'd never want to see. Nothing. Mina gave a small sigh, and then glanced up to his bedroom window.

"Andrew!" she shrieked. There, in his bedroom, was a gas like ball, attacking Andrew. Mina dashed around to the other side of the house, and ran into the front entrance. She then ran up the stairs and turned into Andrew's room.

"Andrew!" she cried.

"Mina! Stay back! I don't want you to get hurt!"

"Andrew, watch out!"

Andrew turned his head as the gas ball tried to run into him. He dodged out of the way, as the ball ran into the wall. Andrew fell on his bed, and tried to get up as quickly as possible, but the ball was faster. It ran into him as he stood up, a look of shock ran to his face.

"No, Andrew!" Mina cried as he fell silently to the floor.

Mina kneeled to the floor beside the unconscious Andrew. A small tear teased her eye, as she picked Andrew up in her arms, and rested his head in her lap.

"Andrew…" she said, whispering. Mina then saw the gas ball in the side of her eye. She stood up with a jolt, putting herself between the enemy and Andrew. "What do you want?" she asked the ball, not really expecting an answer.

The gas ball floated there, and slowly started to glow as Andrew's eyes shot open and he gasped for air, a small stream line of thin gas escaping his mouth.

"His soul…" gasped Mina, trying to stop it.

The gas ball glowed a tinted red in anger, as it returned the soul to Andrew, and a faint hum rang from it. Andrew stirred as he got up, and Mina sighed in relief.

"Andrew!" she said with a smile, running over to him to help him up.

Andrew raised his hand and Mina went to grab it to help him up, but instead, Andrew slapped the back of his hand against Mina's cheek, leaving a fine imprint of red on her cheek.

"Andrew?" asked Mina, rubbing her cheek. She heard the faint sound of the doorbell downstairs, and she walked towards the door.

Andrew picked himself up and punched Mina in the stomache, stopping her. Mina's eyes widened, but she didn't scream. She took a few steps back as she recuperated.

"Hello?" came a voice from below.

Mina didn't hear it, and gave Andrew a hurt and confused look, but he ignored it.

"What did you do?" ask Mina in a hoarse voice, turning to the gas ball. It hummed in pleasure, as Andrew pushed Mina hard. Mina, who was caught off guard, slammed into the wall and hit the ground with a bang, her head bouncing off the wall twice and hitting the floor a final time before she fell unconscious.


Rei walked down the street, Chad happily eating his ice-cream in a dish, since Rei would let him have it in a cone. Rei thought it'd be too big of a risk to let Chad eat from a cone. Chad finished off his ice-cream and threw it out in a garbage can near by.

"You know Rei, we really need a place to live… that's meant for living in. Not just the woods." Said Chad, licking his fingers with satisfaction.

Rei looked at him.

"If you don't like it Chad, you can always leave." Rei said, turning back to face where she was walking, but this time looking dead ahead, trying not to catch Chad's eye the slightest bit.

"But I don't want to leave." Whined Chad.

"And why's that." Asked Rei, with a slight bit of attitude.

"Because I really like you… -re company." Said Chad, covering his slip, but Rei caught it. She softened a bit, and she turned to Chad, her mouth open slightly.

"Tell me the truth, Chad. I'd like to know the truth." Rei looked at Chad, her eyes piercing into his mind. Chad broke the connection and looked to his side.

"Why do you care?" he asked pathetically.

"Because I do." Said Rei, and Chad looked up.

"I…" Chad began, his words choking. "Sorry about choking up." He said, looking away.

"Oh for pete's sake Chad, tell me what you think!" Rei said, a little too harshly.

Chad jumped slightly. "Ok ok!" he said and, without thinking, he grabbed Rei's head, softly but quickly, and pulled her in. He kissed her right there in the middle of the street, quick and cute, and it was over. Rei wiped her mouth, some of Chad's ice-cream near the corner of her mouth.

"Sorry," said Chad, embarrassed. "But that's what I think."

Rei looked back up at Chad and smiled.

"I like the truth." She said, laughing.

Chad blinked twice in bewilderment and skipped off happily, his feet clicking and his arms everywhere. Rei could hear the faint "whoop!" escaping from him. But then Rei heard something else. A faint and muffled whimper from a house nearby. Rei turned her attention towards the house.

"That's Andrew's house." She said, trying to understand what was happening. She slowly started to gasp, as she remembered Mina was going out with Andrew.

"Mina!" she said, running towards the house. She called the other sailor scouts for help, as Rei ran to Andrews house. She rang the doorbell, but there was no answer. She pushed open the door slowly, and walked cautiously in.

"Hello?" she asked, not wanting to barge into Andrew's house to find out that nothing was wrong. Rei heard nothing but some footsteps upstairs. She then decided that she better go check it out.

"Mars Star Power!" she shouted, transforming.

Rei landed back on the ground and dashed up the stars, now Sailor Mars. She pushed open the door just in time to see Mina fall unconscious.

"Andrew?" asked Sailor Mars.

Andrew turned his attention to her as he raised his hand to punch her. Sailor Mars stood there, confused, ignoring his threat. Andrew threw the punch, but Mars just slid to the side. She raised her hand and punched Andrew, hoping not to hurt him too much. Andrew stepped back in pain, as Sailor Mars stood with a slight smile on her face. Just after the punch, the door swung open and hit Sailor Mars in the back, forcing her to lean forward and cough, her eyes almost popping out of her socket.

"Sailor Moon is here!" said Sailor Moon proudly. She looked to her side and saw Sailor Mars, coughing. "Opps."

Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter were there too who just shook their heads. They walked over to help Sailor Mars as Sailor Moon turned to Andrew.

"What's wrong?" she asked,not fully understanding.

"He's possessed or something." Said Sailor Mars, staring down Andrew.

Andrew ran towards Sailor Moon but the gas ball glowed, and he stopped.

"What?" said Sailor Moon, tensed from preparing herself to defend, one of her eyes opening.

"What's that?" asked Sailor Jupiter, pointing at the gas ball.

"What?" asked Sailor Mars. "I actually didn't notice that."

Andrew started to cough, as he fell to the floor. His started to pop his chest, and then as suddenly as it started, it stopped. Then a fine line of gas flew from his mouth and collected in the gas ball.

"No!" said Sailor Mercury, trying to stop it. "You can't take that!"

The four Sailor Scouts kneeled down in front of Andrew, gasping at how they couldn't help him.

"Why can't we do something?" asked Sailor Moon.

"Well we could, but then it would risk Andrew's life." Said Sailor Jupiter.

"Well its not like he's going to live like this!" said Sailor Moon.

"Then do something!" said Sailor Mars, but they were too late. The gas ball hummed with happiness as Andrews soul added on to it and slowly disappeared. Mina stirred a bit, but didn't wake up.

"We forgot about Mina!" said Sailor Mars.

"Smooth going Sailor Mars." Said Sailor Moon.

"Well it's not like you didn't!" said Sailor Mars.

"No one told me!"

"She's right there!"

"So why didn't you do something?"

"Because I forgot!" said Sailor Mars, getting annoyed.

"So you admit it!"

"Yeah, but you arn't!"

"Because I didn't!" said Sailor Moon.

"Yes you did!"

"Can we just stop it?" screamed Sailor Mercury, and everyone shut up.

"Did… you just scream?" asked Sailor Jupiter.

"Um…" Sailor Mercury cleared her throat. "I might of."

Sailor Jupiter shook her head and got up and walked over to Mina.

"We have to bring then somewhere." She said.

Sailor Jupiter picked up Mina, as Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury picked up Andrew.

"We should bring Andrew to one of our places, since the hospital wouldn't understand how his soul just left him." Said Sailor Mercury.

"True." Said Sailor Moon. "And what about Mina?"

"She's just unconscious." Said Sailor Mars. "I think it'd be ok to return her home."

"Yeah, I guess so." Said Sailor Moon, nodding.

"Ok then, let's get then, cause these guys are getting heavy." Said Sailor Jupiter, laughing a bit and pushing Mina up in her arms farther with her knee.


Anytime at all, I want to protect you.
For you I will go rushing ahead
Love, by itself, isn't just energy

(Ai No Senshi Warrior Of Love – Sailor Moon)

A/N: I was originally going to name this chapter "For You I Will" or "Love, by itself" but then I saw the "Protect You" part, and changed my mind. Now... I'm a bit caught up in this story, so if you guys find any characters are being ignored, please tell me!