Hey everyone!

Been a little while since we posted a chapter of this hasn't it?

Anyway, I hope you're ready, because we have some surprises in store for this chapter.

Here we go!


It was a quiet night for the city, most either asleep or staying up for various reasons. However, in the park, things were anything but quiet.

"Look out for the powder! You do NOT want to get hit!" Chalice shouted as he rolled out of the way as a stream of glowing powder like substance flew where he used to be...and promptly started melting a street lamp that had been hit instead.

"Let's see who has the better fire! Fire Soul!" Mars called out, shooting her attack at their opponent, right after Mercury used Shabon Spray to at least make it harder for their opponent to see them. The opponent in question was an Undead with a moth's head, black leather covering most of its body save for its arms and stomach, and large moth wings made of mirrors on its back.

The spell sailed towards the Undead, but before it could hit, the Undead noticed the light from the fire, and flared out its wings, followed by what appeared to be a mirror of some kind appearing before it, the fire spell hitting...and being sent right back.

Mars let out what sounded like a squawk as she dove out of the way of her own attack.

"They weren't kidding when they said its called 'Reflect'!" Moon gasped.

"Sorry girls, but this one is one of the more troublesome Undead thanks to THAT power," Blade said, charging forward to try and catch the Undead in close range, managing to evade some of the powder and landing a few strikes on the Undead...but it didn't look like it even FELT the attacks. And then it followed up with a point blank spray of its powder, forcing Blade to get away and quickly roll on the ground to minimize the powder on him before it ignited.

"Well then, let's try this!" Chalice growled, swiping his cards through the Rouzer. "Drill! Tornado!" "Spinning Attack!" he roared as he flew towards the Undead, but it quickly raised its defense again, the drill kick meeting it head on, struggling against the barrier which cracked a bit...before the force finally rebounded, sending Chalice flying back and into a tree. "I'm okay!" he managed to say, though he sounded a bit dazed.

The Moth Undead however seemed like it had had enough for tonight, and spreading its wings, soon took to the skies.


Usagi was in a glum mood that morning. Last night had been terrible, with an Undead getting away, and as if to pour salt in the wound, when she looked at the morning papers, something she dreaded was present. Several workers in a local construction site had been found dead, the cause of death seemingly intense heat...despite them not using anything that could generate the heat needed for something like that. In short, not only did they fail to stop the Undead, but because of that it went on a killing spree…

Thankfully her train of thought was cut short when she heard some of her classmates chatting about something. That something turned out to be a magazine regarding photos taken.

"What's going on?" she asked Naru as she scooted closer.

"Just look." her friend said simply, pointing at some of the pictures in the magazine, and Usagi had to admit, these were all REALLY good. The photographer in question was one Kijin Shinokawa, a Junior High Schooler who was apparently from a school in the area.

"Wow, he must be really good to receive the highest picture honors," Usagi blinked.

"Yeah, he must be a genius," one of her classmates said.

"Hard to believe we got a celebrity in the area!" another said. "Wonder if we can get his autograph."

Usagi sweat dropped a bit, and decided to back away for now. Besides...as interesting as this was, they had more important things to deal with right now…


It wasn't long before school was over, and Usag was on her way home. She took a slightly faster route, figuring that once she got home, she could call everyone else and they could all get to work on trying to find a way to stop the Moth Undead, especially if Kensuke might have some information from his family's records that might have some information on a weak point or something.

As she was walking she noticed several reporters around someone. "What's going on?" she blinked...right as she noticed some of her schoolmates going towards the reporters...before she noticed Rei get in the way, telling the girls off. It was at this point that Usagi realized the person the reporters were surrounding was the very person that had taken all the photos. It seemed the girls were aiming to get autographs...but just because. Clearly Rei didn't agree with basically wanting to hound someone just because they were famous. Eventually they backed off, probably scared away by Rei. With them gone, Usagi walked over towards her. "Sorry about them, I noticed they were talking a lot about the Photos Shinokawa took," Usagi said. "Didn't think he'd actually be out in the streets right now."

"Well, it IS after school, though it just so happened the reporters were here," Rei sighed. "Honestly, if they actually had interest in photography it wouldn't be so bad, but like this they're treating him like he's a spectacle," she said disapprovingly.

"Yeah, not very nice towards the person when you think about it." Usagi said with a wince, before she looked to her friend "I'm guessing you just happened to be in the area since your school is nearby?"

"Yeah, I was passing here on my way to the shrine when I saw all the reporters… their like vultures at times." Rei muttered, and Usagi found herself agreeing.

"So uh...how are you?" Usagi asked, her expression a little glum.

Rei sighed, already knowing what she meant. "We knew it was only a matter of time, but it doesn't make it any easier…" she said, referring to the recent news. "We can't change what's already happened, so all we can do is make sure that next time we encounter it, we defeat it."

"Right. I'm sure Kensuke and Chalice will find something. Their families HAVE been watching over these things for thousands of years," Usagi nodded.


A few hours later saw Usagi back at home, taking care of the homework for the day so she wouldn't have to worry about it later...and just in case tonight was another 'night in town' seeing as there was still an Undead on the loose. "Any word from Kensuke?" she asked when she noticed Luna walk into the room.

"Nothing so far," Luna said. "He says he's still trying to find a way, though he did confirm the Reflect ability is tied to the Undead's wings."

"So if we break the wings, we stop the reflect," Usagi brightened.

"The problem is HOW do we get a hit in to break the wings," Luna sighed.

"...good point…" Usagi admitted. How would they even get close enough?


"This...isn't going to work…" Kensuke groaned, going over the cards on hand. He'd poured over some of the information he'd managed to get on the Moth Undead and well...it wasn't comforting. He'd even considered using Time Scarab from Chalice...only to realize that would ALSO be a problem, seeing as it worked by projecting a field of sorts that causes time to shift and slow down...a field which if they were unlucky, the Reflect ability would work on and THEY'D be in a horrible situation.

Sighing, he picked up his communicator. After running into Chalice a few times, they'd decided it best for Luna to make another one just in case, and after last night's fiasco, they'd managed to give it to him (AND the Bullet Card), so if needs be they could communicate. Such as right now. Getting the communicator to match up to the one they gave Chalice, he contacted his fellow Rider.

"Hey Blade. Guess you're trying to think of a plan too huh?" was the first thing Chalice said once he answered.

"Yeah, I almost thought that Time Scarab would work… but then I realised Moth could possibly reflect the effects of the time slowing field to affect us and not him." Kensuke explained with a sigh.

He could hear Chalice wince from the other end of the line "Yeah… that would end badly for us." he sighed "The main issue is none of our attacks are fast enough to strike at Reflect Moth without risking he send them back to us. If only we could move quickly enough to cut of his wings."

Kensuke nodded… before blinking as a thought struck him "Fast enough… that's it!"

"You have an idea?" Chalice asked.

"Well, the start of one. We need to find Mach Jaguar. If we can seal him, we can use his speed to get inside of Moth's guard and cut off his wings." Kensuke explained.

"Well… I guess that's better than nothing. And it should work, yeah. Move too fast for him for him to actually be able to reflect, and we just might be able to do this." Chalice agreed… though Kensuke heard something in the background.

"Are you… are you with your girlfriend right now?" he asked as he was pretty sure he was hearing a female voice, which suddenly let out an eep in the background and probably clammed up at being called out.

Chalice chuckled "Yeah, but don't worry, she knows about the Undead."

"Alright, that's fair in that case." Kensuke nodded, if his girlfriend knew about the Undead and was still with him, she was cleared to listen to their conversation. "At any rate, this is both useful...and a problem. We might have a possible solution, but until we get it, we've got an Undead we can't actually stop running loose," Kensuke frowned.

"Yeah, almost wish this one was under the Dark Kingdom's control. At least THOSE guys keep them on a leash rather than them killing humans indiscriminately," Chalice sighed.

"Well humans ARE their idea of livestock what with a Youma's diet. It'd be counter productive to have the Undead killing us like crazy," Kensuke sighed. "For now, all we can do is hold the fort whenever it appears. Not ideal, but it's the best we got…"


"Nothing so far today…" Usagi sighed in mild relief. So far nothing had happened the previous night nor through the day, so she was taking that as a good thing. As it was, she was on her way home, having stopped by the arcade a bit for a quick game. However, right as she was passing through the gate, the mailman came by, called to her and gave her a letter. "What's this?"

"Congratulations on passing the first screening," the mailman said with a smile. "Hope the shoots go well. Anyway, I've still got more mail to deliver so I'll be seeing ya," he said and soon rode off, leaving Usagi to look...completely confused, especially when she saw the letter was apparently an acceptance letter to the first screening for some big photo shoot by Kijin Shinokawa. A big deal and definitely a great honor to any woman who'd been invited, only one teeny tiny problem. "But...I didn't apply for this," Usagi blinked.

"Hey sis, what's up?" Shingo said as he arrived a few seconds later.

"I just got an acceptance letter to something I didn't even sign up for." she said in confusion.

"Huh? Maybe it's a prank then," Shingo suggested. "I mean, why else would you win something you never signed up for."

"You're probably right," Usagi nodded, though for some reason she had a bad feeling about this.


"So basically you got an invitation to something you never even applied for?" Rei asked, sounding a little incredulous. Currently they were communicating via communicators in Usagi's room.

"That's basically how I felt yeah," Usagi nodded.

"It IS certainly very strange…" Ami frowned.

"And strange has been our normal lately," Kensuke sighed, before a went through them...and then they spoke at the same time.

"Dark Kingdom plot?"

"Well that settles it," Luna said in mild amusement. "Looks like we'll be keeping an eye on this event."

"Better safe than sorry, yeah," Kensuke agreed.


"Wow...there's a LOT of people," Usagi blinked. "Aren't these kinds of things supposed to have...less people already in?"

"They should yes," Ami nodded. "This reminds me a lot about that talent competition you told me about…"

"That's a good analogy," Luna frowned. "This makes it even more likely that this is a Dark Kingdom plot…"

As if to further drive in the oddity, Kijin soon came up to the stage and showed...way more energy than he had the other day. Not to mention he was quite...forceful...regarding requesting that everyone wait till their turn and that he didn't want to be disturbed at all.

"...Youma possession?" Usagi said flatly.

"Youma Possession," Ami and Luna nodded dryly.

"Right… think you can try to stop some of the other girls from reaching him while I try to think of a quick way to expose the Youma?" Usagi asked Ami.

"It should be simple enough." the bluenette nodded.

The two split up, with Usagi snooping around, and as it so happened, some people had already been called in for their shots, which was taking place at the pool. Usagi managed to find her way...just in time to see the shot being taken...and the women who were shot...were promptly sucked into the camera. "...the sad part is I'm not even surprised anymore…" Usagi groaned.

Seeing as Kijin was too focused on his now twisted idea of art, Usagi decided to sneak around the pool, managing to get behind him. Once she was close enough… "I think you need a new hobby!" she said, grabbing the camera, and in his surprise, he could do little as she yanked it out of his hands, and threw it into the pool. The moment she did...he was like a puppet with its strings cut, and fell to the ground.

"Good to know the Youma's influence stops the moment we get the object away," Luna mused.

"Yeah, but now we have to deal with the Youma itself," Usagi frowned, as true enough, an ominous light appeared, and out of the pool came a burst of energy which soon came together and formed the Youma possessing the camera.

The Youma ALMOST looked like a normal woman… were it not for the deathly pale skin she sported, and her shoulders jutting outwards strangely, wearing what looked like a black swimsuit underneath a strange purple half-leotard.

"I am Cameran, and you will pay for getting in my way!" the Youma declared, raising her hand, and an eye appearing on it, before shooting a beam at Usagi, who managed to evade...to which the beam hit a bench...and was sucked into the Youma.

"Oh boy…" Usagi gulped. Maybe she should have transformed first…

Fortunately, Luna had thought to inform Ami first, and as such…

"Shabon Spray!" came Mercury's voice, as the area was covered in a fog, allowing Usagi to get away from the Youma. Once she was a good distance away, she quickly transformed.

"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!"

"You won't get me!" Cameran growled, before firing her beam wildly, forcing them to dodge, as the random shots were actually making it harder to evade.

"Where are the others?!" Moon gasped.

"I called them earlier!" Mercury said. "They should be here soon!"

As if in response to that…

"Everyone, big trouble!" came Mars's voice as she came in through the door, already transformed. "The Moth is back!"

"Wait, now of all times?!" Moon asked in shock "Well where is it then?"

Mars winced "About that…" she trailed off, as suddenly a window in the room broke, and they looked up to see… the Moth Undead, with Blade and Chalice hanging onto its legs, trying to slash at it with their weapons.

"Come on you stupid thing just give up already!" Chalice said in annoyance, before Moth managed to kick them off finally and both he and Blade fell into the pool with a shout, both breaking the surface soon enough.

"That does it! I'm getting industrial strength bug spray for this thing!" Chalice growled.

"Would that even work?" Blade asked dryly.

"Don't know, don't care. Willing to try anything," Chalice said simply.

"At least we're where we need to be," Blade sighed, the two getting out of the pool. At the same time, the Moth landed near Kijin...and seemed interested in him. Of course…

"Back off, his energy is mine!" Cameran growled, shooting her beams at the Undead, but the attacks missed, all they did was draw its attention to her, causing it to growl and firing its powder at her, causing her to screech as it started to burn, forcing her to jump into the pool

"We should probably get that guy away from the monsters," Blade frowned.

"Not ideal, but I got something," Chalice frowned, before swiping one of his cards. "Tornado!"

Chalice pulled back, wind gathering before he let go and the gust of wind blew Kijin across the floor, away from the fighting monsters...but he put a bit too much force in that, seeing as it ended with Kijin...bumping his head against the wall on the other end. "...oops," Chalice sweat dropped.

"Could be worse. That'd only give him a light headache. Trust me, I know," Blade shrugged, the others giving him a dry stare, morbidly wondering how many times he'd probably have gotten hit in the head to know that. "Now...about those two...I vote we let them kill each other first then we go for the winner."

"When you talk like that suddenly I feel like we're the villains here," Mars sweat dropped.

"You win you live," both riders shrugged. The three Scouts and the Moon Cat had huge sweat drops at that.

Back with the Youma and the Undead...it was clear the Undead had the advantage, as literally nothing the Youma was doing had any real effect. Eventually she fired her beam at it again...only for the wings to flare up, and the beam was reflected back on to her, causing a paradox as she couldn't suck herself up, but the beam was still trying to anyway. She gasped, trying to get away, but the Undead wasn't having any of it as it grabbed hold of her...and sprayed a small storm of its powder onto her at point blank, all of it igniting, not hurting the Undead, but basically cooking Cameran alive. She screamed as she was on fire and soon vanished.

"Okay, we got a winner, now let's take him out!" Chalice said, Mercury readying another Shabon Spray, but before she could actually fire it...the Moth's wings flared out and it soon took to the sky again.

"...or it'll do that," Moon sweat dropped. Seems like the Moth had its fill of killing after it killed the Youma.

"...this is officially the weirdest fight we've been in," Blade said dryly.

"Mina is going to laugh her ass off about this I just know it." Chalice muttered to himself as he facepalmed.

"The Undead killed the Youma and then flew away because it was bored… yeah, I can see why." Moon said in deadpan. Needless to say they quickly made themselves scarce. They'd had...quite enough of this odd day.


It was another morning in the Tsukino Household. About a week or so had passed since the last incident, and Usagi was enjoying the peace...even if the fact they STILL hadn't managed to catch the Moth Undead was still weighing on all of them. Fortunately so far it seemed to have decided to lay low for a bit.

"Its so nice that you've stopped waking up late," Ikuko couldn't help but say.

"I don't like being late all the time, plus Kensuke told me having several alarms helps too," Usagi chuckled.

"He's certainly been a good influence on you," Kenji mused.

"Yeah, plus I'm working out you know." Usagi grinned as she held up an arm, jokingly flexing it a bit as she clasped her other hand on the bicep.

"He seriously sounds awesome the more you talk about him." Shingo commented idly as he ate his breakfast.

"Well, he's basically become my cool big brother, you know?" she shrugged.

"Maybe you should invite him over sometime, so we can thank him properly for helping you out so much." her mother suggested.

"I'll see if I can talk to him about that," Usagi mused...until she noticed the time. "Ack! We'd better hurry or we'll end up late anyway!" she gasped, getting her bag, as she and Shingo were soon out of the house.


Meanwhile, Kensuke was making use of the fact that today he didn't have any classes till noon. As such, he was going over the network that the clan had set up, hoping to find any signs of the Moth Undead. However, that wasn't the only thing worrying. Lately he'd been getting reactions from his pendant, but so far he couldn't tell where the Undead was, meaning it was laying low. Normally this would be bad enough, but even worse was the fact that the reaction...as well as the method...implied higher thinking. That meant a Royal. He'd checked with Chalice via communicator and found that he too was picking up something similar.

It was for that reason he'd drawn the curtains in his apartment...and made sure the wards were holding up. If he WAS being targeted by a Royal, he'd make damn sure it wouldn't be getting to him so easily. Speaking of which, he made a note to set up similar things around the girls' homes. The last thing he wanted was for them to get attacked in their own homes.

His musing however was cut short when he heard the sound of his mail slot, and looked to see a letter slotted in. Blinking, he went over to take a look and picked up the letter. "You are cordially invited…?" he read, before turning it around, his eyes widening when he saw the seal used. It was a red pheasant making the shape of a diamond, the seal of the Crimson Pheasant Tribe.


"I'm seriously surprised nothing happened today." Usagi said as she walked out of school with Naru and Ami.

"Tell me about it. Half the time you get an incident where people fell asleep, the other someone was acting weird, or just some new fad starting and people being swept up in it." Naru sighed in annoyance.

"It does get worrying how crazy things happen so much." Ami added with a worried frown as she thought back to the recent incidents.

"At least the Sailor Scouts and the Riders are helping keep things in order," Usagi said.

"I just hope they can find a way to make these stop," Naru sighed.

However, before any further conversation could happen, they were met with the sight of a pair of middle school girls. "Excuse me, are you Shingo's older sister?" one of them asked.

Usagi blinked in surprise "Uh, yeah, that's me. Something wrong? Did something happen to Shingo?" she asked in concern.

The girls shook their head, before they recounted what happened, about how Shingo's friend Mika won a contest with her porcelain doll and she offered it to him, until he made the doll drop to the ground and break.

Needless to say, Usagi was ticked off at her little brother "I don't know what went through him, but you can rest assured that I'll take care of this." she reassured the girls, who nodded gratefully.


Needless to say, Usagi had marched straight home after that, sparing her mother a greeting before she went up to her brother's room and threw the door open "Shingo!"

Her brother jumped in surprise as he fumbled a rolled up ball of paper in his hands before it fell to the ground next to a waste bin full of them "W-what is it?!" he asked as he caught his breath.

"I know about what happened at school." she told him simply.

Shingo swallowed nervously at that "Ah… so you heard…"

"I can understand a doll isn't really your thing, but you didn't have break it," Usagi scolded.

"I didn't mean to. I mean, I was actually happy to get it but then…" Shingo sighed, before explaining that he HAD meant to take it...but then his classmates started teasing him and even went so far as to ask stuff like when the wedding would be that he got cold feet and wanted to give the doll back...but ended up pushing it back in a way that caused it to fall to the ground and break. "I've been trying to work up the nerve to apologize but well…" he sighed before opening a ball of paper to show that it was an apology note/letter he'd been trying to write with...limited success.

"Well if you want my advice, I'd say you should forget about the apology letters and march right up to her house and apologize. I'm sure she'll listen to your side of the story after she gets the apology," Usagi said.

"Easy for you to say…" Shingo sighed.

"It's either this or our parents get involved," Usagi added, making Shingo gulp.

"Hey, look at the time, we've got just enough time for a quick trip!" he said quickly.


Getting to Mika's house was easy enough...though it did require her to make sure he didn't run off from cold feet. When they got to the house though, they were met by Mika's mother who told them that Mika was still crying and had locked herself in her room.

That did little to help Shingo's mood beyond him saying he'd come again tomorrow and dejectedly leaving.

It was on the way back that things took a… weird turn.

Usagi's foot kicked a small rock, which bounced along the road… until it bounced softly against the show of a guy squatting down with some others… all of them looking like typical delinquents… which even included the regent hairstyle.

"Oh you have got to be kidding." Usagi muttered as the punk took offense all because of the little rock, and she was very much ready to deck him and his idiot friends in the face… when a hand grabbed the top of his head from behind and squeezed.

"How about you punks make like a banana and split?" Kensuke sighed as he tugged on the delinquent's hairdo a bit, making the idiot panic about his hair getting messed up.

Of course, his friends tried to attack Kensuke for hurting their 'Boss'. However, Kensuke easily dodged the attacks, and when one of them came after him with a pipe...Kensuke easily disarmed him and stole the pipe. "Last chance. Leave," Kensuke said simply, but they...stupidly didn't listen. "Your mistake," he chuckled.

What followed was...a complete slaughter. These poor schmucks couldn't even so much as scratch Kensuke, while now that he was armed...they were getting smacked around, knocked over, and one poor guy even got tripped and ended up slamming into a hydrant where the sun doesn't shine. As such it wasn't 5 minutes before the dopes were running away...and a few of them were running funny as well.

"Well that's that. You okay, Usagi?" Kensuke asked.

"We're fine. Good thing you were nearby," Usagi chuckled.

"Uh...who's this?" Shingo blinked. Though he had to admit, that was awesome.

"Oh, right. Shingo, meet Kensuke. Kensuke, this is my little brother, Shingo." Usagi introduced the two.

"Nice to finally meet you kid, Usagi's told us a lot about you." Kensuke grinned.

"That was super cool! Where did you learn to do stuff like that?" Shingo asked in a bit of excitement.

"Let's just say it comes with training and a LOT of determination," Kensuke said with a light chuckle. "It helps too when you have things you want to protect."

"Wow! You sound like a real life superhero!" Shingo said, his eyes actually sparkling.

Kensuke chuckled. "Oh I'm not that impressive, but it works. Anyway, where you two headed? I figured I might as well make sure you get there safely just in case some people haven't learned their lesson."

Usagi sighed a bit "Actually, we were trying to make Shingo apologise to Mika for breaking her doll, but she locked herself into her room and didn't even tell her mom about what happened."

Shingo winced at the reminder, looking down "I… I goofed up."

"I'll say." Kensuke winced "What exactly happened?"

One explanation later…

"Yeah...you kinda messed that one up. Not the doll breaking mind you, even if that was bad, but well...other people can be jerks when they think something is funny. Your mistake there was not apologizing then and there," Kensuke frowned.

"I know…"Shingo sighed.

"Well, the fact you're trying to own up for it is a good start," Kensuke said. "As long as you make the effort and follow through, I'm sure she'll come around," he said encouragingly.

"Yeah, you're right. I'll make sure to apologize the next time I see her," Shingo nodded, while Usagi couldn't help but chuckle a little to herself. It seemed Kensuke really knew how to bring out the best in people.


The next day however...things didn't go as planned. First of all, Mika didn't show up at school. On top of that, when Shingo tried going to her house again, apparently she'd locked herself up in her room and has been working on dolls non-stop. Needless to say, Shingo was getting worried. VERY worried.

"There's got to be some way I can let her know how sorry I am…" he muttered to himself, before he blinked as a thought struck him, remembering when he was younger, when Usagi still had her random bouts of depression prior to getting medicated to keep them under control, dad would buy her small things that cheered her up.

"Getting her a present?... No, making her one!" he grinned "The thought is what's important after all, and the effort makes it better." he reasoned to himself, before racing out of his room "Mom! I need some clay!"

As it turned out, his idea was to make a clay sculpture as a present for Mika. The thought and effort was good...the results…

"And this is…?" Usagi blinked at the...odd...looking sculpture Shingo had made.

"It WAS supposed to be Sailor Moon but…" Shingo trailed off.

As it was, his sculpture looked like it was a toddler with blonde pigtails and an angry monobrow… still, it was better than it might have been had he been rushing more.

"Right… well you put your heart into it. That's what matters… though do I really look that angry?" she muttered that last part to herself.

"Huh?" Shingo looked at her in confusion, not having caught that last part.

"Nothing, nothing, let's just get this ready. You can go give it to her at the doll exhibit this weekend." she waved off his confusion.

"Good idea," Shingo nodded. "She'll definitely be there. Still...I wonder why she's working herself so hard..." he sighed.

"Maybe it's just...working off the stress?" Usagi guessed, but inwardly she wasn't so sure. After all...it sounded too much like the more recent Youma incidents going around. It would probably be a good time to tell the others.


"So you think Mika might be under the influence of a Youma. It WOULD make sense considering the strange shift in behavior," Rei frowned, as the group had met up the next day.

"The sudden shift in personality and the obsessive behavior...it definitely matches the profile of someone manipulated by a Youma. If that is the case, we should probably be at the location to try and stop it," Ami frowned.

"Definitely a good idea," Kensuke agreed. "Even if its a false alarm, it's better than finding out its real or not the easy way."

"It's still worrying albeit convenient that we'd be close to an incident when it happens," Luna frowned.


"So far nothing seems out of the ordinary," Kensuke mused as they were currently at the exhibition. "Though I have to admit, these dolls are pretty well made...though personally that's a negative in my books," he frowned.

"Really? But these dolls are adorable," Rei said as she looked around.

"Yeah...sorry, but the realistic looking dolls kinda creep me out. They look a bit too real for comfort honestly," he sighed.

"I have to agree with him there." Luna commented from a basket she was hiding in, being carried by Ami, looking at the dolls through a crack in it and with her eyes narrowed.

"Maybe we should get you both one then." Ami commented jokingly.

"No thanks." Kensuke and Luna said with a forced smiles.

Rei shook her head, before bringing up her communicator "You almost there Usagi?"

"Yeah, we're arriving just now, be ready for anything." Usagi whispered back to her.

Rei nodded "And Chalice, are you close by?"

"Close enough. Don't worry, if you need help I'll come running." the Rider answered.

"Right, let's do this then," Usagi said, before coming out of the bathroom she was in, Shingo waiting outside. Earlier they'd already got where Mika was busy at work making her dolls, so with that in mind, they soon went to the room, and opened the door.

"Mika, I wanted to say sorry about before. I got a gift too," Shingo said...right before he registered WHAT was going on in the room. Namely Mika working like a girl obsessed...and the obviously evil looking doll before her. No seriously, the thing had a painfully evil smirk on its face and was even radiating black energy.

"Look out! One of the monsters is possessing her!" Usagi shouted, pulling Shingo away. Good thing too as at that moment the doll radiated energy full blast, and as expected...from the energy a Youma emerged.

The Youma laughed as it materialised, before it stole Mika's energy.

"Mika!" Shingo shouted in worry as he tried to run at the monster only for Usagi to hold him back.

"You'll get hurt idiot!" she scolded him.

"But if I don't do something…!" he trailed off with a scared look on his face.

Usagi frowned, mulling everything over, before she sighed "Fine, no choice then. Guess it was bound to happen one day." she said, letting go of Shingo and walking in front of him "Don't tell mom and dad about what you're about to see, ok?"

"H-huh?" Shingo said in confusion, before…

"Moon Prism Power! Make up!"

To say Shingo was shocked would be an understatement, as after a sudden light show, the person standing in front of him was Sailor Moon… and after her face was hazy for a moment, it was clear to see that it was his older sister. "Sis…?" he whispered in shock.

"Don't worry, I'll save Mika." she reassured him, and Shingo found himself believing her.

With the lights and darkness finally gone, they could see the Youma clearly, revealing to be a mannequin-like Youma...who's most notable traits were the fact her body was broken into segments which seemed to float by themselves. Smirking, she closed her eyes...and suddenly the dolls that Mika made came flying towards her, but rather than just flying, they'd grown fangs and devilish looks, looking ready to chomp whoever got in their way to bits.

"Okay, change of plans, somewhere more open first!" Moon gasped, before grabbing Shingo (she had him under her arm cause this was no time to pull someone along), and running for it. "Out of the way! Monster coming! And killer dolls!" she shouted, as she ran through the exhibition, people blinking...before soon running when they saw the flying demonic dolls coming their way too, the crowd soon running out of the hall.

"Okay, we're out of the hall, what now?" Shingo asked.

"Buy some time. The others are here too, so they should be here soon. I may be the one to usually finish these, but its no good if we don't weaken them first," Moon said.

"You won't escape!" the Youma grinned...before…

"Shabon Spray!" the area was covered in mist that allowed Moon to evade and get some distance.

"Just in time," she sighed, right as Mercury and Mars arrived on the scene.

"Uh, why is…?" Mars trailed off when they reached her, looking down at Shingo.

"He knows. Had no choice but to transform in front of him." Moon explained quickly.

"Well I supposed the cat's out of the bag as they say." Luna said, making Shingo go bug eyed as he turned to her.

"Yeah...Luna can talk, always has been able to, and it's a REALLY long story…" Moon sweat dropped.

"Long PAIR of stories if you include Blade and Chalice's stories," Mars added.

"Got it, wait till later to have my mind blown," Shingo nodded flatly.

"So first things first…" Moon started...right before more of the killer dolls showed up. "Someone deal with THOSE things first!"

Right on cue, they were shot down with arrows, to which they turned and saw Chalice on one of the trees, having sniped them down from his position. "Leave the flying enemies to me. Just focus on the main monster!" he said, earning nods from the three of them.

"And you come here and hide." Luna told Shingo, the boy nodding as he followed her to the tree that Chalice stood on, out of the way of the battle.

The first thing that came through the mist were literally body parts, which the girls managed to evade...before a pair of hands flew and caught Moon by the neck, lifting her up, causing her to struggle.

"Let her go!" Mars growled as the Youma came into view. "Fire Soul!" she called out, shooting the fireball, hitting the Youma dead on...to which she simply crumpled and soon pulled herself back together. "What?!" she gasped.

"Hands off my friends you sale reject!" came a growl, before a blast of electricity hit the Youma, causing her to jolt around, but soon pulled herself back together, looking no worse for wear, while the attacker revealed to be Blade, his hand still sparking a bit after throwing the thunder ball. "This one's made from sterner stuff than the usual variety," he frowned.

"Your attacks are all useless!" the Youma laughed before sending her body parts flying again, aiming for them to which they mainly evaded, seeing as the body parts could somehow cut like knives.

"Not gonna be getting anywhere if we don't find a weak point!" Chalice growled, shooting down as many parts as he could only for them to keep regenerating, and he couldn't even try to get to Moon seeing as each time he aimed for a pot shot, the hands made sure she was in the way.

"I'll try to find a weakness!" Mercury nodded, using her visor to scan the Youma, and found that its energy was focused on its right foot.

"On it!" Chalice nodded, aiming for the foot...only for the body parts to start messing up his aim, and to make matters worse, Moon was starting to look a bit blue. Thankfully help arrived, in the form of a rose that flew through the air and nailed the Youma in the forehead. The Youma gasped, before the hands vanished from Moon's neck, causing her to drop to the ground gasping for breath, while the Youma recoiled.

"Oh thank god I was getting scared there." Blade sighed in relief, before nodding to Tuxedo Kamen "Perfect timing!"

"I try my best." was his short answer as he smiled.

"Sailor Moon! Now!" Chalice shouted as he scanned two cards in his rouzer "Bullet! Tornado!" and fired multiple arrows that spiralled like miniature tornados.

"Right!" Moon nodded as she grabbed her Tiara, turning it into its boomerang form before throwing it into Chalice's attack, the two combining together as her Tiara was wrapped in the powerful winds and glowed green, moving even faster "Hurricane Boomerang!" she called out with a grin as the attack struck the Youma, trapping it in a powerful tornado that cut it all over, including its weak point.

The Youma let out a shout as she was reduced to dust and sent flying to the winds.

"There, that should fix everything," Luna said with a nod.

"So Mika should be okay now?" Shingo asked.

"Yes, she should be back to normal." Luna confirmed, making him sigh in relief.


Not long after, Shingo had gotten back into the hall, and found Mika, having woken up. Finally managing to apologize to her, he gave her the sculpture he'd made much to her delight, and as her way of thanking him, and accepting his apology… she kissed him on the cheek.

"Uh… ah… fe… oh…" Shingo fumbled for his words… and didn't notice his sister and the others all watching from the door frame, peaking around it and grinning at each other at how things were turning out.

The next day Mika even gave Shingo another present "Here, I know you like both Sailor Moon and Kamen Rider Blade, but since we wouldn't want anyone to tease you…" she trailed off playfully, making him blush at the reminder of the other day "I made you this." she said with a smile as she put a small figure of Kamen Rider Blade posing with his sword pointed at the sky on his desk.

"Woah! That's so cool!" he said, picking up the figure and looking at it more closely, before smiling at her "Thanks a lot Mika, this is awesome!"

She giggled at his words "I'm glad you like it Shingo."


Tada!

That's right, first an Undead that escapes, then a mention of a certain love obsessed blonde, and the big one, Shingo finding out his sister is Sailor Moon!

Don't worry, this won't just be tossed aside, we'll touch on it more next time.

See you all then!