april

by julia bebop

this was a middle chapter of a saga called kids in amercia. i want to find the rest on old disks that i have and hopefully have the rest of the stories up someday!

2. Chapter 2

May

By Julia macgergor

She brings eyesight to the blind * * (taken from the Rock opera Tommy by the Who: the song: She brings eyesight to the blind)

Rio nervously sat in the waiting room of the Salem Community hospital. She was with both Dusty and Seiya. Seiya was there to give Rio support during her time of need. Dusty was there also to give comfort and care for his girl friend. Rio was thinking month of May. It was the time at her Uncle Anthony's farm. There were always parties and round robins. The feasting and families socials were common in her life. There was the feeling of never ending parades of loud singing, dancing, talking and having local mummers or performers. She missed those days. Yet, she had grown in strength as a young woman, learning it was more than just bad luck to be blinded if it was only temporary. Rio talked to Dusty who sat next to her.

Seiya gently paced the floor. He hoped with all of his being that Rio wasn't blind. She was the very last of Sailor Senshi to be granted power from Queen Serenity or Princess Kakyuu. She had to be all right with her eyes.

Seiya looked up from his pacing. He thought he had heard something. He knew that Taiki and Yaten were there in the hall. They didn't want make a fuss over Rio like Seiya. Seiya had more feelings for the humans than his brothers. He walked over to the door. On opening the door, Seiya was met with surprise. He saw the Inners with Taiki and Yaten standing in the hall. Serena and Rei were having a loud dissection about Rio's eyesight. Rei rolled her eyes at Serena, "You couldn't wait!"

"Wait…for what?" Serena asked looking innocently at Rei.

"For Rio to come back!"

Rio heard the two disagreeing over her. She had to smile. She said as she reached over to tap Dusty on the hand, "I can hear them!"

"Yea?" Dusty said. He had a bird's eye view of the hallway. He shook his head, "Those two never stop arguing!"

Rio sighed, "I think that's they nature!"

A nurse opened another door to the inner offices and exam rooms. She said, "Miss Lyonstone…the doctor will see you now!"

"Thank you!" Rio said. She felt her heart beat a little faster. She realized it was going to be the make it or break it time for her.

Dusty stood with her before the two walked over to the door. He said, "Everything will be all right!"

+++

In the office, Rio was still nervous as she sat on other chair. She heard the voices coming from down the hall. She realized her hearing wasn't sharp enough to price through doors. She heard Dusty tapping his fingers against the metal arm rest of his chair. She said, "I hope you are not going to flip out if I am blind!"

Dusty was taken aback. He knew she was to the point on certain things. He wanted to laugh it off. Although he was faking his laughter, inside he didn't want any harm coming to his girlfriend. "Are you pulling me leg, love?" he griped. His grin was forced on his lips.

"Don't push your luck. I want your straight answer. I don't mind the help. Yet, being babied all the time is not going to make me a stronger leader. You know and hate it!" Rio uttered loudly.

The door opened. Terri entered the room with a large envelope in one hand. He said,

"Rio, are you ready for the bandages to come off?"

He sounded calm, yet there was a hint of worry in his voice as well. He and the other staff who worked on Rio's blindness hoped only for the best for her. Rio was a strong person and the staff knew it from the visits she had gone to.

"Yes…I am!" Rio braced herself for the worst.

Terri waited for Rio to get off the chair. Ten, he helped her to the examination table. Terri had a pair of scissors in his hand after he fished then out of his jacket pocket. He told what he was going to do in order to make her feel comfort, able. He didn't want to shock her. He wore a pair of gloves.

Dusty watched as Terri snipped off the first aid tape from the bandages. Terri was careful as he started to roll the bandages away from Rio's face. He said, "What are you going to do if your uncle wants to you to go back home?"

"Don't know. You know me. I have been always able to think on my feet!" Rio smiled a little.

"Yes," Terri said, bending his head little. "That always gets you into trouble!"

"Not always!" Rio chided, smiling.

He had stopped nearly at the end of the last line of bandage. He told Rio keep her eyes closed. There was a knock on the door. He told the person on the other side of door it was open.

A nurse entered the door after opening the door. She was quickly instructed to dim the lights. Terri didn't want Rio's eyes to be exposed too much light. He said, "Now…Rio…must be calm."

"Yea, mate!" Rio griped. She had heard that enough times to be now a bore.

"Listen to me," Terri sighed.

"She wouldn't!" Dusty said. He knew how pigheaded Rio was.

"I am so calm…look at me hands!" Rio griped. She held out her hands to show both

Dusty and Terri she was nervous.

"O.K. your hands are not shaking. Yet, once the bandages are off, I want you to follow my instructions," Terri sighed.

"Yes sir!" Rio groaned. The excitement was eating at her.

"Nurse," Terri said. He carefully unloosened the last bandage. Rio felt the bandages and hands coming towards her eyes. She gasped, holding her hands at the sides of the chair. He said, "Now. There is going to be some slight discomfort at first. I want you to get use to the light. The room is dim enough that you can see. I'll gradually turn up the lights until the room is back to normal."

"O.K." Rio sighed. She tried to keep her excitement down to a reasonable level. On feeling the pads coming off, she slowly opened her eyes. There was a sharp light nearly blinding her little which came from the window. The last blind wasn't turned down all the way. She winced for a minute before letting the shadows take shape in her mind. She said, "Terri. Is that you?"

"Yes, it is!" Terri said. He stood from her about foot. He noticed her eyes trying to adjust to the light. "How do your eyes feel?"

"It's like being hit in the head with a sock full of rocks!" Rio uttered, trying not to move her head.

"A sock full of rocks?" Terri said.

"Long story!" Rio sighed. She didn't have the time to go into detail about what happen

between her and some of her cousins.

"I am sure," Terri smiled. He could tell that Rio didn't always have a quiet life on her Uncle's farm. "Outside of that…what do you see?"

"I think I see white. You are wearing a white coat?" she asked, her eyes now focusing on

a large white blur in front of her.

"Yes, I am. What else?"

"Blue…and tan!"

"Good…she can see some color," Terri thought. He was wearing a tie with some tan and blue in the pattern. Then, he said, "Can you see anything else."

Rio slowly looked around. She could see someone standing in the door way. She could make out a long black tail of sorts. She asked, "Seiya…is that you?"

"Yes…it is!" Seiya said. He breathed in a sigh of relief. His only hope was to have Rio's eye sight grow stronger.

"Thank. I would like to have a walk in the park after you are done with me, Terri!" Rio said. " I want to see the sky once again."

"You will," Dusty said. His fingers on his one hand were crossed. He wanted to hear Rio asking for a walk in the park. To be in the dark for so long and helpless even made Dusty worried.

+++

Dusty took Rio to the park. It was minutes away from the doctor's office. He walked with her, holding on to her hand. He talked about the future with her. He didn't want another thing to go with her.

Reenie and Hotura were with Lita. The three decided waiting around for Rio was getting boring. They wanted to be in the fresh air for a little while. Yet, they followed Rio and Dusty at a sneaky pace. Hotura didn't want to go to the park. She had things to do at home. Reenie told her it would be fun to just want Rio to see if she was O.K.

Then, it seemed like Hotura had to throw a curve ball at Reenie. She asked as she wlak with Reenie and Lita, "Did you have boyfriend?"

"What…me?" Reenie gasped. She nearly uttered so loudly that Rio swore that she was being followed. Reenie did have a boyfriend if you could him that. Helios was indeed a friend. She had no idea what to think when he helped her along with finding the Golden Millennium crystal. She did have feelings for him when she realized who he really was.

"Yea, kinda!" she said, forcing a smile.

Hotaru noticed the smile on Reenie's lips. She was curious about what was going with her best friend. "Reenie?" she asked.

"What?" Reenie yipped. Her pink pony tails jerked up in excited fear.

"Are you telling me the truth?"

"Uh…well!" Reenie giggled nervous. She placed her two fingers up to each other.

Tapping them together, she sighed. She did almost forget the other. Perle was someone who was couldn't forget that easily. She and the others were helping him defeat the evil Badiyanu from destroying the earth by the use of a black hole.

"Oh…" Horuta said as she stopped walking, "You don't feel like it right now. I can understand."

"Sure!" Reenie squeaked. She tried to smile as best as she could. Feeling like she was put on the spot with her words. She had to stop for a minute and think.

+++

Rio walked with Dusty. Rio had to wear dark glasses for a while. She had to get use to having her sight back. She was going to watch a quick game between Steve and Tinny.
The two young lovers walked up to the basketball court near pool. They heard noises of kids playing on the swings. It was like Rio never lost the sense of sharp hearing. She came to a semi caged area. It was the basketball court. Steve, Tinny and Jamie were playing basketball. Tinny was sitting on the edge of the court, waiting for Jamie to finish up shooting hoops. Jamie was taking a break from playing hoops. He felt hot from playing. He nearly forgot to call up Charlie as he played hoops. He had to stop.

"Are you finished?" tinny asked as he threw the ball to Steve. It bounced towards him in a free throw from Jamie.

"Yes...Charlie wanted to know if we saw Rio!" he said. On catching the ball with his free hand, Steve slowly dribbled the ball around him.

"You haven't heard anything yet?" Tinny asked.

"Today is the day she got those bandages off. Terri must be just as nervous as she is!"

"Naw!" Tinny said, knowing full well that Terri was always cool under pressure. He trusted Terri with his life. "He's too good to slip up like that!"

"You think he can do miracles?" Jamie smirked.

"Yes. With some help!" Steve said as he shrugged.

"We find out soon!" Jamie said.

Steve pushed the ball towards the other two with his foot. Jamie told him they were not playing soccer. He had to laugh at the statement. Little did they all three knew that they were being watched in the shadows.

Rio walked to the tennis court. She noticed the three playing basketball. It seemed too normal of a day for evil to pop its head up. Yet, she had a feeling it was going to. She didn't want to say anything to Dusty. Her duel identity was her secret. She hadn't the room to share with anyone else about it outside Serena and the other Sailor Senshi.

"I was hoping you would end up here!" Dusty smirked.

"What?" Rio gasped. She knew that he was just pulling her chain. She didn't care for basketball, yet she couldn't say no to her friends who were waiting so patiently to hear the news of her sight. "You know I love football and that's it."

"Yea," Dusty teased. "What about horse racing and fencing?"

"Yes…the sport of kings!" Rio blushed. She was sort of romantic when sports came to old fashion. She told Dusty that she was going to watch the people who were playing tennis. She wanted to go walking for a while. She has to see if there were any changes in the world. She hoped to see an old film on TV when she got home. To her the world of sight was too precious to risk on loosing.

She heard as she walked two familiar voices. One was a whinny little voice calling her heard. She knew it was Serena, trying to check up on her. The other had to be Rei. Rei didn't want to stick her nose when it wasn't needed. Rio turned and said, "Have you been following me?"

Serena was trapped and felt like she was going to be in trouble she spilled the beans. She turned red as she said, "Nothing. I was really doing nothing!"

"Nothing…" Rio sighed, placing a hand up to her cheek. She sighed once aging. She knew that she was being spied upon. She said, "Serena, I hope the others don't spy on you!"

"Who me?" the blond pony tailed girl yipped, forcing her grin on her face.

"Hey, Rio!" Steve's voice called out. He noticed the two girls standing in the road. Dusty had walked over to where Steve and the other two where.

"Oi!" Rio returned the call. "What is that you lot want?"

"Can you see me?" Tinny called out.

"Yea! I can you mate. What is so hot about seeing you lot playing basketball in the middle of the heat wave. I don't like sweaty bodies!" Rio teased.

"Yea…" Steve teased back. His voice was a little haughty. He smiled with a fake smugness. "Oh, she belongs to a group of people who don't like seeing young men who are not proper. Isn't that right, milady?"

"Stop it, you nitwit!" Rio said. Rolling her eyes, she wanted to go find Dusty and go home. She needed a long rest. "You lot know I love football."

The three young men know how to get Rio's goat. They called out, "yea…Dusty plays and you get excited!"

At first Rio felt like giving them a good smack along side the head. Then, she felt something underlining. Her Sailor abilities were kicking in. there was an evil crawling around the underbelly if the court. She said, "Serena…is Rei around?"

"Yea…she is at the swings with Reenie and Hotura…why?" Serena asked, sounding serious. She knew Rio could smell or feel the very presence of evil. "You have a vision!"

"No…yet, there is something there…I can't tell…" Rio said before being cut off. Rio swung around when she felt a surge of darkness hitting the basketball court. At first Tinny and the other two didn't know they were being watched. He and the others was plaything while two agents of the dark army from Galaxia's court spied on them.
Serene watched as Jadeite and Prince Diamond came into view. Jadeite was dressed in a runner's outfit. He ran up the court. In a cat like speed, he ran up to take the ball away from Tinny who had the ball. Leaving the court open, Tinny started to run after Jadeite.

Prince Diamond said as he appeared out of nowhere in front of the other three, "Ah…have I seen some nice power in your crystals."

"What?" Steve gaped. He had never seen Prince Diamond before in his life. He felt a little scared as he stared at the Dark Moon prince.

"His power will do for a start!" jadeite said as he sealed off the basket ball court with an unseen force shield. The evil general spun around to secure the shield with a flick his hands.

"What are you blokes doing?" Jamie asked. He was starting to feel like a caged animal. He didn't like to be pinned down for long. He glanced around for the basketball. He didn't find it.

"Taking what you are not using!" Prince Diamond sneered. He threw up his hands to let a shower of black energy rain down on the players.

The bone jarring screams coming from the court meant only one thing. Rio's friends were being turned into monsters for Galaxia. They Star seeds were now forced out of their bodies. There was only one thing to do. Transform!

Serena grabbed Rio by the arm. She found a small shelter to transform in. they held their transformation items. In heart beat, the girls were now Sailor moon and Sailor Acadia. Stepping out of the shelter, Sailor Acardia felt the dark energy grabbing a hold of Steve.

"Great!" she said.

"They are going to break us one way or another!" Sailor Moon said. She knew Galaxia needed something more than just power. She didn't want the universes to go down.

"Not this time!" Sailor Acardia said. She and Sailor Moon make a quick vow never to give up. The two ran up to the basketball court. Before they even could touch the edge of the court they were thrown back. Landing on her feet, sailor Acardia became mad.
Sailor moon noticed Sailor Acardia's face. Sailor Moon landed on her feet as well. She had a session that Galaxia was going to be pushing the rest of the Sailor senshi's buttons until they anger had come thought. Then, she would feed off the anger to an unknown power source. She said, "Don't let them push you around!"

"Why?" she asked. Sailor Acadia's eyes were burning with a green fire. "My best mates and love are in there!"

They heard a scream. Sailor Acardia could tell it was Steve's agonized scream. She balled her fists. She didn't want to run bodingly into a battle. She had no idea what was going on with Steve or the others.

"Sailor Moon?" a voice called out.

In the distance near the pool, Sailor Venus and Mars came running up to see what they could do. Once they noticed the pained look on Sailor Acadia's face; they knew backing down from a fight wasn't an option. "What's going on with the basket ball court?" Sailor Mars asked.

"Yes…what are you going do about it, Sailor Moon?" a deep voice nearly whispered in Sailor Moon's ear.

Whipping around to see Prince Diamond standing near the tennis court, Sailor Moon nearly screamed. She held her all to keep from hurting him. Sailor Moon glanced at Prince Diamond for a minute. She didn't want to fight him. She wanted him to be healed. She said, "I'm sorry that you feel that way. Yet, don't you understand that these two of wills of their own. Picking people to do your dirty work are not good at all."

Prince Diamond felt insulted by Sailor Moon's statement. He wanted to score points with Galaxia. He had a bad past with Wiseman. He didn't need to make his leader destroy him. He yearned to see the Black Moon Kingdom raise and take over the earth. When his brother was killed for disobeying Wiseman, Prince Diamond realized he was too late himself when he tried to protect sailor moon from Wiseman's attacks. Galaxia took care of filling the dark prince with hate and blotted out any form of his last life on the planet. Prince Diamond noticed the other two's detestation on restoring the guys back to their old selves. He glanced at the court with a cold eye. He said, "In the power of the darkest realms of the known galaxy I will get my taste of Moon Power!"

The screaming stopped.

The screaming turned into roaring.

The shield was dropped and stood where Steve and the others were monsters. The Sailors Senshi was not frightened but, angered buy the sight of more monsters. Sailor Moon had to figure out on how to get Steve and the others back to normal.

Sailors Venus and Jupiter ran up to the court. Sailor Venus found an opening to the basketball court. She took a chance and squeezed herself though it

Sailor Jupiter was instantly grabbed on sight. She had an idea for the larger monster that was using Sailor Jupiter as a squeeze ball to run towards the tennis court. Sailor Jupiter raised her one foot up towards the monster's mid-section in a sharp kick. She hoped that the monster would drop her soon. Her arms throbbed in pain. She felt at a loss of not using her powers sooner. Then, she heard Sailor Venus's Love chain grabbing at the monster's neck. The monster was being pulled back slowly. It howled as it felt the chain going around its neck.

"Sailor moon!" Sailor Mars asked. She looked at the possibility of losing two Sailors in the battle. "What do you think we should do?"

"I have got to stop Prince Diamond. I might use the Spiral heart attack on him!" Sailor Moon said.

"Good. I'll get at least one of the monsters!" Sailor Acardia said.

"What?" Sailor Mars gaped. She didn't want Sailor Acardia to go in at the ever minutes after the monsters came in to being. She and sailor Moon believed that Sailor Acardia should be used at the last minute as a back up.

"You are not strong enough!" Sailor Moon warned. "It would be crazy, Acardia!"

"Why…those are my mates. I have been their friend since at least nursery school!"

"They maybe your friends, yet, don't let that cloud your judgment!" Prince Diamond barked out. He folded his arms over his chest. "They are now the Dark Moon's play things!"
"Fink!" Sailor Acardia yelped. She was now angered at Prince Diamond's statement. She hated him for what he had done.

"Who is calling who a fink?" Prince Diamond demanded. His glaring eyes were trying to cast a spell on Sailor Acardia.

"You are!" Sailor Acardia snapped back. She was going for another try. She ran up to area where her friends were. She tried to make a pass at a little monster. She believed it was Steve. The monster made a grab for Sailor Acardia's shoulders. She let out another yelp.

"Leave her alone," Sailor Jupiter snapped. She had her hands full with a tall monster. She had a feeling it was either Tinny or Dusty as it began to fling its arms about. She moved like she was a basketball player herself as she tried to get out the monster's way.

"Jupiter…Venus…Acardia!" Sailor Moon cried out.

There was nothing really she could do unless she used her Spiral Moon wand. She had to use it quickly. Sailor Acarida was now dodging the monsters as she ran back to the edge of the court yard. She had no idea what was going to happen. She also noticed Sailor Venus pinned to a section of the chain link fence by another monster's hand. Venus was now struggling for breath. She had both hands grasping around the monster's arm.

Then, by a mysterious fluke, a red rose flew past prince Diamond's face. It very slightly grazed the princely profile. Diamond growled under his breath. He knew who threw the rose. In the distance in the far left was Tuxedo Mask. The young masked man was very dashing indeed. He said, "What are you doing to this friendly game of basketball!"

Prince Diamond was going to make one of the larger monsters take out Cape boy. He was about to order it when he was hit with a small jolt from Sailor Jupiter. Somehow sailor Jupiter managed to aim a direct hit with her Supreme Thunder.

"What in the heck are you doing that for, you little witch!" Prince Diamond snarled at the green Sailor Senshi.

"To take you down, pretty boy!" Sailor Jupiter grunted. She was cornered by a third monster.

"I'll to see you try!" Tuxedo Mask taunted before leaping into the air.

"Jerk!" Prince Diamond huffed. He knew that Tuxedo mask was a pain in the neck. He had heard the stories about Cape boy turning to the dark side. Was there a possibility. There was no time to be thinking.

"That's my man you trashing!" Sailor Moon glared at him. She was going to make Prince Diamond pay for what he had said about Tuxedo mask.
Prince Diamond turned to see Sailor moon. He knew that she the future Moon Queen. He had to have her. He demanded as he held out a hand, "I want you!"

"What?" Sailor Moon said as she felt like she was being trapped again by Prince Diamond. In the past, she was trapped by him in a battle during the hostile take over by the Black Moon family. The sailors had just lost Reenie in a disturbance in the time stream that Sailor Pluto had opened for the Sailor Senshi. "No, I'm going to fall for that one again!"

Prince diamond now angered, he tossed his one hand very lightly which cause the wind to pick up and throw Sailor moon to the ground. Sailor Moon landed with a thud. She could feel the bones in her body jarring from the pain. She didn't want to fight. She was starting to wimp pout. Yet, she had a notion that someone else was going to creamed if they stepped in.

"That's it!" Sailor Acardia said. She threw her arms into the air. She was going to attack Prince Diamond one way or another.

"This little girl is going to attack me! Oh, look at me…I'm scared!" Prince Diamond mocked Sailor Acardia in a dark voice.

"Jerk!" Sailor Acardia hissed. She wanted to have her mates back to normal. She was powered by all the good memoires she had. She couldn't dream her best friends were going to be used that easily by the Dark moon kingdom.

"Don't you dare call me that!" Prince Diamond growled at her. He was going to raise his hand to lift Sailor Acardia off the ground.

He wasn't expecting a blast from the Sailor Senshi of the mystical world of the rose. Sailor Acarida threw her hands into the air. She called upon her powers of a Sailor Senshi. Her left arm was starting to grow pink. She raised her head high as if calling the last of her powers. She called out, "Mystic dream!"

Aiming at him, Sailor Acardia was going to smash prince Diamond to his knees.

"Acardia!" Sailor Venus gasped. She could see a fragment of the battle. She hoped that her sister Sailor was playing into a trap.

"Little girl!" Prince diamond hissed. He tried to back away from her attack. There was no way he could avoid it. He was slammed hard as the light collided with him. Prince diamond was still standing. He felt the pain of the light trying to cleanse his body. He closed his eyes if only for a minute. He hissed, "You will pay for that!"

"Gotchya!" Sailor Acardia said. Then, if by some sort of some unspoken order another monster ran behind Sailor Acardia. It instantly threw its arms around her. She let out a scream as the arms pinned her arms. She had a sense that it was Dusty who was the monster. She didn't want Dusty to be a monster. The evil that was keeping him at this form was a sickening trick pulled by the Dark Moon. "Let me go!" she yelped.
She tried to struggle, but to no use. The monster had an iron type grip on her. She felt herself being lifted off the ground. She hoped some how she could kick the monster in the shins. Then, it would let her go. She tried to move her legs. The monster picked up on her movements. Instantly the monster's grip became tighter.

"Acardia!" Sailor Moon cried out. She could see her sister senshi being crushed to death.

"Let me go you big ape!" Sailor Acardia groaned loudly. She felt her ribs bucking against the weight. She tried to kick harder to put her point across.

Then, if by fate, a bright beam if blue light smashed into the monster's forehead. The monster felt the pain of the light and instantly dropped Sailor Acardia. She had landed on her knees. She groaned a little from the landing. She said as she weakly looked up, "Who was that?"

"How dare you make these people into puppets of your evil!" a voice called out.

All eyes turned to see Sailor Star-fighter standing in near a tree. He was not happy to hear the screaming going on. He was the very last to go from the hospital as Seiya. He had some questions to ask of Terri about Rio's eye sight. He had quickly transformed into Sailor Star-fighter when he noticed the monsters on the ball court.

Now, he was standing at the opening of the basketball court. He was going to free Sailor Acardia one way or another. He said, "Now…let her go!"

"Why?" Prince Diamond growled. He could see something in each Sailor Senshi, A power that no one else had. "With her…she could be an easily pliable puppet."

"Yea…right!" Sailor Acarida winced. She wanted to kick the monster in foot. She couldn't even move her legs. The monster began to swing her like a bell on a string. She let out a yelp.

"Fire ball flash!" Sailor Mars called out. Somehow Sailor Mars freed herself from another monster's grip. She didn't want to leave anything to chance. She had a clear shot in getting a small but easily cleared hole of opportunity with Prince Diamond.

"What in the heck was that?" Sailor Moon said.

The monster quickly dropped its prey. Sailor Acarida landed on her feet. She gritted her teeth as she felt the ground slamming against her feet. She said, "Thanks…I think!"

The monster nearly fell back when it felt the heat from the blast. Sailor Acarida slowly backed away from the monster she hoped that it wasn't Dusty. She would be crushed if Dusty lost his sight because of the Dark Moon's hungry for power.
Prince Diamond tried to get Sailor Acarida once again. She was too fast for him. She somehow darted quickly towards Sailor Mars who was now standing at one end of the ball court. "Think of it…You fool," Jadeite said. He had teleported himself near Prince Diamond. "We are so close!"

"I'm aware of that!" the white haired prince said. He turned to give Jadeite a cold stare. The day wasn't in their favor. "You don't have to tell me twice."

"Jerk!" Jedite murmured to himself before glancing over at Sailor Acarida. She was now standing. "You think you have everything under control?"

"Yes!" Prince diamond hissed. Then, he threw his hands down. Sailor Acarida felt pain. She screamed loudly.

"That's enough!" Sailor Moon cried out. She had too much shoved at her. She was going to fight back as best as she could. On razing her wand up to the air, she said, "for the Moon kingdom, I will have to punish you!"

"You think?" he snorted at her. He walked over to the Moon princess. He had to have her in his hands. He wanted to kill off King Darien. It was set up so perfectly that it was like Galaxia was just handing over Sailor Moon for him. "Try to stop me. You don't have the power to do it!"

Sailor Moon, trapped into a corner, curled her lips over her teeth. She didn't want to back down just yet. She said, "By the Moon Kingdom…I'll punish you!"

"Ha!" the prince hissed. "Don't make me laugh!"

Was now standing so close, he felt like turning his powers on her.

"You take things that don't belong to you! You are so evil when you twist them, it breaks my heart!" Sailor Moon gasped. She felt the pain inside of the monsters. They wanted to be only human once again.

"Your heart will be mines!" Prince Diamond ordered. He knew he was breaking her down to his level.

"I don't think so!" Sailor Moon said as she began to back away. She glanced around for a possible route for escape.

"Enough foolishness…" Prince diamond ordered. He threw out his hand to stop Sailor moon from leave. She wasn't going to let him get the better of her. She raised her hands with wand in hand.

"Sailor Moon?" Sailor Mars gasped. She knew that Sailor moon was taking a risk. She wanted to stop Sailor Moon from hurting herself.

"Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!" Sailor Moon said with fire her in her eyes. She had to be strong for Darien's sake.

"No!" Tuxedo Mask cried out. He didn't want Sailor Moon in the line of fire. She had to protect the Moon Kingdom, buy at what cost.

Sailor Acarida glanced down at the ground and said, "Dream Awaken!"

Her pink bracelet glowed with a white light. She was combining her powers with sailor moon's powers. There was nothing standing in her way of helping Sailor moon.

"What is she doing?" Sailor Mars asked as she tried to figure out why Sailor Acarida was helping out in this last minute effort.

In a heart beat, both powers were added to the others powers to stop the monsters and Prince Diamond. Prince Diamond felt the incredible force of the planets pushing him and Jedite back to the dark world. Then, all was back to normal with the world. Sailor Moon glanced around to see Prince Diamond backing away from the ball court. Sailor Acarida breathed hard as she said, "it's done."

It seemed like evil wasn't going to look on top of things when both Prince Diamond and Jadeite came back. The monsters had fallen back into weakened humans. In a minute after the fighting, the Serena found Steve sleeping on the ground, while Rei and Rio found both Dusty and Tinny on opposite sides of the ball court.

"What a lot!" Rio sighed, placing a hand on her forehead. She didn't want to say another word until she found out what was going to happen next. "They sleep until after church is over and done with and the roast is on the table!"

Rei giggled at what Rio said. She asked, "They loved to sleep."

"Yea. That lot loves also to sing and stay up late to watch BCC TV four!" Rio added

shaking her head at her boyfriend. She bent down to be at Dusty's side. She said, "Come on…you! Wakey…wakey…"

She began to shake Dusty's shoulder after she nearly placed a hand on both.

"Give us a break…Rio?" Rei giggled. "You think he's going to wake up to that?"

"Hey…you are missing the Goons!" Rio said. She had placed a hand on Dusty's shoulder. She was going to get the better of Dusty one way or another.

"No way. Mum…hit the recorder!" he mumbled loudly as he waved his hand about.

"I'll hit you…" Rio said.

Steve was now half awake and sitting up. He thought he was in another dream, but he had to the pain in his head. He yawned loudly, "He ain't goin' to listen you…"

"Great…Spike Milligan has jumped into the boat from out of the water!" Rio snapped sourly. She shook her head.

"What?" Serena said. She and Darien had walked over to where Rio, Dusty and Rei were.

"Nothing!" Rio sighed. She placed a hand on Dusty's mouth. "I think this will work!"

Steve half smirked as he stared through half closed eyes. He said, "He hates that!"

"Yes. Yet, if an officer of the law happens to come here and finds him sleeping on the basketball court. He can get in trouble!"

"Trouble is not his style!" Steve smirked sleekly. He watched as Dusty became annoyed with Rio's hand over his mouth.

Then, something happened in which Rio cringed. Dusty had decided to lick Rio's palm.

She let out a near shirk as she said, "Dusty! You are gross…eww!"

She quickly whipped it off from Dusty's mouth. He smiled as he said, "You started it!"

Dusty's memory was a little foggy asked he placed a hand up to head, "What happened?"

"That's a question I would like to know too!" Steve said.

"Where I am?" Tinny asked as he woke up with a jolt. He was off to the side of the court.

He was tossed like a ball when the fighting was happening.

"At the ball court! Serena sighed. She had to piece together a story where the sailor scouts were involved. She and other Sailors was an old hand at story telling. She told him about the Sailor Senshi and the battle between the light and darkness that happened on the ball court. There was no hint of the true identity of Serena or the other sailor Senshi.

Tenchi was studying hard for his tests in his classes at school. He was alone with Ryo-oh-ki in the house. He had his books and back pack in the front room. He sat at the coffee on the floor. The girls were either friends houses or at the library. He liked the quiet and the peace of mind when the girls were not there. It seemed like Yugi or Kagoto were watching his every movement. It was their studying him for a long time was going to some how pay off. The phone rang near the TV. He heard it and said, "Who could be calling me at this hour!"

Glancing over at the DVD player, it was going on nearly nine in the evening.

"Meow?" the little cabbit said. It was stretched out on the rug between the kitchen and the front room. It raised its head to watch Tenchi get up from the table.

When Tenchi walked over to the phone, he didn't realize that he was being watched. There was a dark figure standing on the porch peering at the window. It was hidden very carefully the twilight of the coming night. It was Hotusuma watching every movement as Tenchi began to talk on the phone. Tenchi said after picking up the receiver, "Moshi-moshi!"

"And the same to you!" a familiar voice spoke. It sounded old, yet there was a fire still in the voice that spoke years of commitment of protecting the planet.

"Grampa?" Tenchi asked as he cradled the phone on his shoulder. "It's good to hear your voice!"

"How are you, Tenchi?" Katsuhito asked. His voice sounded very cheerful.

"Not bad. I have been studying!" Tenchi said. He wanted to walk around a little bit to stretch out his legs from the long hours of studying.

"It's quiet…where are the girls?" Katsuhito asked, noting the complete peace over the phone.

"They're out for the evening. I think school over here is about ready to wrap up for the year!" Tenchi sighed. He remembered the long hours of work between the girls. It seemed like Tenchi's worst night mare.

"Oh..." Katsuhito said before taking a pause for a dramatic effect. "It's just you and Ryo-oh-ki?"

Tenchi glanced over at the sleeping animal. "Yes. I hope tonight is going to be the beginning of a quiet summer…ha-ha!"

A small firefly type happened to floated quietly into his front room with no hint of causing a rift in the room. It began to explore the room with all indent of looking for something special. It caught Tenchi's eye. He realized what it was. He said, "I think the fireflies are out early this year!"

"They are really early?" Katsuhito asked. He wondered if Tenchi was pulling his leg.

"After what I saw…anything is possible!" Tenchi sighed. He and the others had seen almost everything taken away from them. Slowly with strong hearts, they began to rebuild their broken lives. He had been through once again. He always managed with his friends to grow in his young life.

"I can understand," Katsuhito chuckled softly. "The reason why I called was about the sword of Juri!"

His voice seemed to change in to a one filled with concern. There were many attempts on Tenchi's life to get the sword. Katsuhito had always had feared the worst. He said, "I have a thought that both Yugi and Kagoto are there with you."

"You are on the ball. Yugi has been in the back ground. I think she's afraid of Kagoto," Tenchi shook his head. "He will use her to get Sasami and nothing else to keep her happy."

The firefly zipped past Ryo-oh-ki. It hovered over the nose of the little cabbit. Ryo-oh-ki felt the little puffs of air coming from just above his nose. It lazily opened its eyes to see who was there. "Meow?" the little cabbit replied in a sleepy manner.
The bug did not even buzz to reply back. Ryo-oh-ki flicked its ear a little to make the bug move. The bug complied with the wishes of the little cabbit. It arose higher to take a better look at the front room.

"Are sure about that?" Katsuhito asked. His voice now sounded fearful. He wished

Tenchi wasn't half way around the world. He had a feeling his was going to lose his grandson if the evil of the galaxy got a hold of the sword of Juri.

"Yes…after what happened to Ayeka, Yugi has been in hiding. It seems like Kagota and

Yugi's followers had been working in league to get the sword!"

The bug had floated back towards Tenchi. He was still talking on the phone. The bug started to grow in power. It folded and twisted in shape until it began to take the form of a glowing ball. It hummed in a clear tone. Tenchi had his back at the bug. He turned when he heard the humming. He gasped as he noticed the ball now hovering in front of him. He said, "What the…."

"Tenchi?" Katsuhito asked. He heard over the phone lines the humming as well. He thought that the phone was having problems. "Are you there?"

Something made Ryo-oh-ki wake up. It stretched and yawned as it tried to stand up on all four feet. The humming was starting to get on Ryo-oh-ki's nerve. It stared up at Tenchi when it spotted the ball. It began to hiss at the ball. Tenchi scanned the room for any signs of Yugi or Kagoto. He knew that they were behind this new creature. If was Washu, then he would have heard the friendly voice of her testing him on his skills. This was entirely different. He had a feeling evil was in the room. "Grampa…I'll call you back, later!" he said. He didn't make any excuses as he hung up the phone.

"Now…show yourself!" Tenchi said as he stood his ground.

"Oh, that was too easy!" a deep voice purred over head.

Tenchi was now out raged when he yelled, "HOTSUMA!"

He had a feeling that it was either Hotsuma or Kagoto himself pulling the strings in this little raid. Hotsuma had teleported himself inside the room to Tenchi's horror. He hovered towards Tenchi. He was smirking as he said, "Nice house. Very American."

"Cut the chatter!" Tenchi hissed, balling his fists. "You are not on a social call!"

"What…Masaki. I can't give you a complement. How rude!" Hotsuma now landed ever so gently onto an area rug. His pushed back his glasses to get a better look at Tenchi's face.

"I didn't invite you, so that makes you an unwelcomed guest!" Tenchi said. His blood was now boiling over.

"Little boys should be gracious!" Hotsuma smiled, bearing his teeth a little.

"What if I don't?" Tenchi growled. He had to use of his powers to summon the sword of Juria.

"Then, I have to teach you a lesson that you wouldn't forget!"

The air hung thick in the room. Each one was capable of doing something drastic with their powers. Hotsuma had an idea of smoking out Tenchi by using electric attack. Yet, he did know about the power coming from the Light Hawk wings. He had to be very careful.

"What are you waiting?" Tenchi said as he got into the fighting stance that his grandfather had taught since he was toddler.

"You instance!" Hotsuma said, reaching up to push back a long strain of hair behind hoes ear with a short flick his hand. Feeling quite smug, he took his other hand to rise up towards the ceiling. He said in a sempai tone of voice, "Let's begin!"

Tenchi had called up his sword with all of his powers. He glanced at Hotsuma. Hotsuma was just beginning to get charged a rather large power sphere from somewhere. He said,

"You are not taking my sword away from me."

"And why not!" Hotsuma was smiling with evil in his eyes. He wasn't going to let Tenchi off that easily.

"You are evil," Tenchi hissed as he took a swing at Hotsuma with his now sword. It quickly materialized. He took a bold hit with a large sweep of his arms. Aiming for Hotsuma's shoulders, Tenchi was now driven to the point of anger. He didn't want to kill or hurt someone else unless forced.

Hotsuma took a step back as if he was teasing Tenchi as he drive his point home with a large thrust of air. He was going to use air and electrical as one. He said, "Are you getting soft."

He threw the electrify ball at Tenchi. Tenchi's reflexes bounced, pulling him back toward the door in case it got hairy. He said, "What are you doing?"

"Nothing," Hotsuma sneered. He couldn't wait for the sword to come to full power. It was like nothing he had seen before and since the day he fought against Tenchi. He knew about his power of the Jurian royal family owned. "I just need you to give me the sword. End of discussion!"

"No!" Tenchi sounded firm in his beliefs. He wasn't going to hand over the sword to just anyone. His grandfather had entrusted the sword to him and him alone. "You can't break me of my will or take what are rightfully mines!"

"Oh…" Hotsuma smirked. He waved his hand in mid air. Needles of electric bolted out of his signers. A couple shot through Tenchi's body. Tenchi screamed as Hotsuma said, "You will be singing another song soon!"

Tenchi's mind was swimming in pain. He wanted to take down the monster that was standing in front of him. He had to come up with a plan and fast. He knew if the girls came back, they could be in for more than just plan danger. This fighting could take out the while neighbor hood. He was thinking of a plan when Ryo-oh-ki ran up to take a stab at attacking Hotsuma. It was going to break Hotsuma's concentration for only for a few minutes. The little cabbit leapt into the air with loud, "Meow!"

Hotsuma waved his hand which sent Ryo-oh-ki flying. The little cabbit thudded against a wall. He hissed, "What a nuisance."

Tenchi was on the floor. He placed a hand over his heart. He was still alive. "Great!" Tenchi thought, his gritted his teeth. "He will not give up that easily!"

"Give me the sword!" Hotsuma barked. His face was now drawn into a cold unfeeling stare.

"You are nuts!" Tenchi growled. He was trying to stand up. He was half sitting on his legs, wincing thought pain.

"How dare you!" Hotsuma growled. He was deeply insulted by a mere boy. Hotsuma raised his hand as if he was going to hit Tenchi squarely on the head with a single blow from his hand.

"Yea…" Tenchi hissed. He had a small flicker of power. In a despite move, Tenchi tried to summon the power of his sword. "I hated when you took Ryoko away from me. I was a calming force for her."

"She was a crude, witch who needed to be put in her place!" Hotsuma hissed. He was now hovering over Tenchi.

"What?" Tenchi gasped. His blood was boiling. He was pinned in a corner. He had to fight back to throw Hotsuma out. "She is not like that!"

"Rubbish!" Hotsuma grinned darkly.

"You are nothing about a coward who is hiding behind a wall of power to look big. You and the others are no more than just pawns!"

"Lair!" Hotsuma shot back at Tenchi. He rose balled up his hands into fists. He placed them together as if he was going to play a round of boxing. He threw a pouch into the air.

It sent Tenchi reeling as he felt the pouch knocking in the stomach. Tenchi wasn't going to give up that easily to evil. He was now lying on the floor, gasping for air. He had crumpled up after the first pouch. He rolled over to stop the pain. He had to get up and fight. It was the only thing he had left. His fingers on his left hand brushed past something small and light. Gasping, Tenchi glanced over to his hand. He was holding a sword hilt. It was his light sword. Somehow his sword came to him. His hand numbly reached out to take the hilt. He breathed hard, trying to image if his lower ribs were broke.

"Good! You are finally seeing it my way!" Hotsuma sneered. He was now standing, nearly hovering over the battered warrior.

Tenchi groaned as he tried to grasp the sword hilt. He had closed his eyes. It was seen he had played over and over in his many battles with evil. He wasn't going to give up without even trying. Bending over Tenchi, Hotsuma was in for a shock. He was tried to reach across to make a grab for the sword and was instantly thrown back. It was the sword trying to protect itself and Tenchi. It knew something wasn't right. Hotsuma wasn't from Juri or the royal linage. It was the only time that the sword fought back. Or was it? Tenchi had a strong bond with the sword. He was still awakening enough for the sword to react with his mind. He buzzed with energy. Believing the sword was reviving him, Tenchi tried to stand up once again. He quickly balled up his other hand into a fist and threw it into the air. Hotsuma wasn't going to be let a mere boy punch him in the face. He forced himself backwards as quickly as he could. He didn't realize that Tenchi's
pouch had a kick behind it.

"You fool!" Hotsuma hissed, feeling the frontal attack smashing into his chin.

"Right back at you!" Tenchi winced. He had somehow crawled backwards with the use of one free arm. "Never let your guard down…even for a split second….my grandfather told me as I trained night and day!"

Tenchi raised his hand with the sword. He started to levitate off the ground. He was going to be thrown out of the room with one sweeping ark of Hotsuma's hand. He tried to scramble as his limbs made a failed attempt to move out of Hotsuma's way. He didn't want to be in this situation. Yet, his sword had other plans. The power from the sword instantly started to work on Tenchi's wounds. Then, he righted himself up in a standing passion. He glared at Hotsuma. Hotsuma said, "What in the world are you doing!"
"Prepare yourself!" Tenchi huffed. He brought in front of him the Light Hawk wings and the sword together.

"Yea…right!" Hotsuma smirked.

In an instant lighting, Tenchi summoned his sword with the Light Hawk wings surrounding his body. He was now a warrior of the sword of Juri.
"

What the…" the blond snorted. He felt the heat coming from something fanatic.

"Yes. This is my true power. I, Tenchi Maski will take you down!" Tenchi barked out. His anger was now at the surface. The Light hawk wings glowed brighter.

Outside was all peaceful and quiet. There was a dog barking out side, somewhere in the neighborhood. Then, all was shattered by the loud noise of a door being nearly smashed out its frame. Hotsuma was now scrambling, trying to get a foot hold as he tried to fight off the now angered Tenchi. He wanted to use his powers to kill Tenchi in a quick, but painful manor. Tenchi was in his own when he threw off the blows given to by Hotsuma. He didn't try to ever. He had to keep his balance and pose in check. His fighting style was his own, yet it felt like Kazotohoto was with him. He and Hotsuma were now fighting on the porch. Hotsuma had his own sword. It was close to the sword of juri, yet this had a darker tint to the blade. He tried to over power Tenchi with a fast work. He had to stop Tenchi. Yet, Tenchi was an equal with every stroke. Tenchi didn't forsake his training for nothing. He remembered what his mother told him before she died. She told him he was a strong son born between the love and honor of two worlds. He had to live up to her words of love and hope. They fought as if they were in a dance of strength. Tenchi was pushed into a corner by Hotsuma. He nearly tripped over a small shovel that Sasami had left after she was done with some planting. Sasami was one thing that Tenchi deeply loved as a sister. He had to keep her safe. He was also attached to Ayeka was well. He had a more formal understanding about her. Yet, he wanted to protect her as well. He pushed out in a sweeping ark the sword with both hands. He tried to move the monster over. Hotusma skidded backwards to avoid being slashed by the blade. He nearly lost his own balance as he didn't realize his own footing was nearing the steps of the porch. He became aware of the corner he had backed himself into. He had to stop fighting in order to save face. He knew Tenhci was a strong foe. He did have a trick up his sleeve. There was a smaller knife hidden in Hotsuma's sleeve. Tenchi knew something was up. He tried to figure out what Hotsuma had in mind set. There was no way; Hotsuma was going to back down that easy. He had a small electrical devise that he use in pushing back people how got too close to him. It looked like a small cube of sorts. With a small squeeze on a black surface, which the cube was nearly covered in…Hotsuma could throw Tenchi back into the kitchen.

"I have a feeling that he was going to use that Katago had cooked up," Tenchi said. He had to be on guard to see what he was in store from his enemy.

"Little boy…" Hotsuma said as he blindly went through his pocket to find the cube. "I have a surprise for you."

"I don't want it!" Tenchi snapped back. He took another sweep at Hotmusa's side. He knew that there was a weak point on a person's side. If he only he could get to it. He lunged off to the right of him before taking a direct hit with the sword.

Hotsuma felt the light blade nearly grazing him. He winced before pulling back. How careless he was as he tried to find the cube. He over calculated his movements when he was going try to program the cube. He finally pulled back with a small red scar on his right. Hotsuma had straggled backwards. He placed a hand on the injured part. He winced at the after effecting. He growled at his misfortunate. Tenchi didn't want to smile just get. He to get Hotsuma out of the way before the girls came back. This was the first and only time that he had fought against Hotsuma.

"If I don't get rid of him soon, then…girls would be in trouble. I can't afford to loose," Tenchi thought. He pushed a little harder this time. With the sword, he lunged forward once again. He could feel every ounce of his being pushed to the last single second.

Then, he had to blink as he pushed himself against Hotsuma's body. Hotsuma one only one choice in his mind was to teleport out of the way. The blond did in a heart beat before he even saw the blade slicing through him, fell backwards. Then, in the same instant he thought of teleporting out of the séance before even feeling the blade. One minute he was on the porch, and then…Hotsuma was standing on the sidewalk leaning up towards the house. He gritted his teeth at the sharp pain coming from his side. Placing a hand up to the pain, he felt a little sting and stickiness. He was cut in a very tiny, but effective way. The small cut meant that Tenchi could be aiming for a weak spot to bring Hotsuma down.

"What did you do?" he gasped.

"I was trying to defend my house. You are not invited in!" Tenchi snapped. His sword was now pointing to the ground. It hummed with power. "I had to teach you a lesson!"

"Fool!" Hotsuma growled. He backed away, nearly straggling on his feet. He was truly taken by surprise. He knew the wound was small, but very costly. He had to leave and rethink his idea on now to attack Tenchi.

"You are not thinking straight!" a voice said in Hotsuma's ears.

"Uh?" Hotsuma said as he glanced around the area to see who was talking. At first, he believed it was Yugi, playing him for a fool.
"You look like a fool who was kicked in the head!" the voice said.

Hotsuma glanced up at a figure dressed in a dark greenish-grey uniform with a long dark blond pony tail standing over him. He shook his head for a minute. Believing it was still Tenchi or even Yugi; Hotsuma was not going to let his guard down. "Don't play me…I hate to be toyed with!" he snapped, lifting his arms above his head. Yet, the figure was too quick for him to catch.

"What are you trying to do?" the figure asked. After an insult of teleportation the figure was now standing at Hotsuma's feet.

"I am trying to do is getting you out of my hair!" Hotsuma growled. Then, he wondered out loud, "Who are you?"

"I am what you are!" the figure said. Then, it bent down to give Hotsuma a better look.

"An evil agent. I come from the Negaverse!"

"What…the Negaverse!" Hotsuma uttered loudly as he tried to think what this person was saying.

Tenchi's hackles were up. He didn't want any more evil on his door step. He darted over to the porch edge. He had still the sword in his hands. He said, "Another person who wants to take over the world!"

"I am called Zoysite!" the figure said in a quiet, dark tone. Zoysite bowed slightly. She said, "I was told by my leader a Lady Galaxia about a young girl who controls a great deal of power. Is it true?"

"Great another lackey!" Tenchi thought. He had to stay focused on the situation at hand. He wasn't going to let another one of a dark minion slip from his hands. He wanted to fight them both before they deiced to turn on him. He inched the edge of the porch end. He held on to the sword hilt as he gritted his teeth. "Get out!" he ordered, feeling his blood boiling. Zoysite gasped, feeling like she had to give Tenchi a lesson in manors. Then, it bent down to give Hotsuma a better look.

"An evil agent. I come from the Negaverse!"

"What…the Negaverse!" Hotsuma uttered loudly as he tried to think what this person was saying.

Zoysite bent down to help out Hotsuma get to his feet. He was now wanted to kill Tenchi. He didn't want to have a little boy whip the crap out of him. He said, "I hate little boys. They are such a pain!"

"I can understand you…" Zoysite said as she helped Hotsuma to get to feet. "I have a problem with little girls!"

"Oh," Hotsuma's eyebrow shot up in surprise. He didn't know that evil came in different forms. He had a feeling that she wasn't a one to be totally trusted. She had to face either Kagato or Yugi before making his own judgments. He had to get to know Zoysite first. There were too many questioners that needed to be answered. "Children need to be put their places!"

"Hey…I'm not a child!" Tenchi protested. He had his sword's power nearly turned off.
Zoysite sprung in a heart beat on her heels to glare at Tenchi. In an instant, Zoysite threw out her one hand and barked out, "Zoy!"

Tenchi was tossed back in a sweeping motion. He landed with a thud on the doorframe. He groaned as the wind was knocked clean out of his lungs. He did a second landing on the porch floor.

"What an annoying little pest!" she huffed. Then, she folded her arms over her chest. She wanted to put an end to Tenchi's whining.

"Don't you know where your place is…boy!" Hotsuma said as he turned to see Tenchi slouched in the doorframe.

"Have you grown tired of people who get in your way?" Zoysite asked she glanced at Hotsuma.

"Yes. I have…" he snorted. He was upset with Ryoko in the past and with Tenchi in the present. He wanted to feel like he was when Ryoko was a space pirate and they had free rein on robbing banks. "I wish I wasn't in a rut. I have order to do!"

"You do, eh?" Zoysite purred, giving Hotsuma a slide long glance.

"Yugi wanted Sasami!"

"And what else. There is another layer to this conversation!" Zoysite asked with an evil smile.

It took Hotsuma a minute to think about what Katago wanted as well. There was a battle between Yugi and Kagato since the evil scientist had reawakened the little hyperkinetic girl from her slumber months earlier. He had served her many years ago. This was a new twist. Yugi didn't want to be a second fiddle to Kagato. They were both on equal terms of powers and abilities. There was a chink in Yugi's armor. There was a small, but powerful thing called friendship between Sasami and Yugi. Hotsuma knew about it. He had to be very careful with the information about the two girls.

"I can see that you need more than just my help!" Zoysite teased.

"Don't play for a fool like this one did. I am just following orders…that's all!" Hotsuma growled.

Feeling the getting now where on her mind, Zoysite said, "What about if I talk to this Kagato. I know someone who can help you and your master!"

"What if I say you couldn't," Hotsuma said.

"Then, he would be a fool!" another voice said. This was a voice without a body. A quick glance around to see that Tsugaru standing in front of Hotsuma, his face was cold in expression.

Hotsuma asked, "Why are you here?"

"Do see if you needed help?" the young man with sandy blond hair asked.

"Tenchi is too good. He has been training even through, his grandfather Yoshio isn't here!" Hotsuma snarled. His anger was up and he didn't want Tsugaru getting his goat. He was now walking towards the Maski boy who was now trying to move up into a standing pose. He knew that Tenchi was a strong willed man.

"What are you going to about do that?" Ryoko's voice could be heard down the street.

"I don't have time for this!" Hotsuma said as he tried to think of a way to leave. He felt his welcome was overstayed. He didn't want anyone else on his secret. He wanted to have Yugi happy and give Kagato a battle on his own terms. He could sense his own desire of having the Light Hawk sword for his very own.

"Are you willing to talk to my leader?" Zoysite asked. She had to curb her enthusiasm.

"I'm not sure…" Tsugaru said, raising a sleeve up to his lips. His smile was sly as his eyes narrowed in evil delight.

"Then, what shall I say to my leader?" Zoysite said, catching a glimpse of a willing ear in Tsugaru.

"I can listen when no one else wants to!" Tsugaru purred darkly as he leapt backwards towards a tree branch. He felt the edge of the branch on the back of his feet. He stared at two oncoming figures. One was dressed in a long t-shirt and cut off jeans and had a long white pony tail. It was defiantly Ryoko. The other was dressed in a jumper with little pink shorts. Her hair was pulled back into a bun. It was Kiyone. They were walking up the sidewalk towards the house. He knew that all three where in grave trouble if spotted by other one of the girls. He knew that he and Hotsuma were caught, and then they had to spill the beans about what was on Kagato's mind.

"I'll be here waiting!" Zoysite said.

"When will that be?" the young man asked.

"In the darkness of the moon!" Zoysite said. Then, she quickly disappeared.

"You will be in the darkness of the moon?" Tsugaru murmured softly.

Then, he disappeared with Hotsuma on his heels.

The girls came up to the path. Ryoko was hit with an easy feeling. It was like some one was there to harm Tenchi. She started to run towards the porch. There was evidence of a battle that was still on the porch. She glanced adorn to see if Tenchi was O.K. he wasn't when her eyes noticed his slumped body at the doorframe. Ryoko was shocked to see he in that state. She called out as she ran up the stairs, "Tenchi?"
There was no response from Tenchi.

"Tenchi?" she said, feeling the word nearly catching in her throat.

There was murmur coming from him. Slowly, he opened his eyes to feeling the pain in the back his head. His blurry vision tried to focus on Ryoko. He said, "Is that you?"

She breathed a sigh of really as she uttered, "You are O.K.?"

The pain coming from the back his head was a sigh that he took more than just a kick on the head. His neck and upper back throbbed as well as his head. "I'll be O.K. in a day. I was attacked by someone…"

"Tenchi?" Keyone asked as she noticed Tenchi's body trying to move from its spot.
"Take it easy. Tenchi…let me help you!" Ryoko said gently. She tried to help Tenchi to staid up on his two feet.

Keyone was very aware of an evil present that Tenchi was fighting with. It was the years of being a Galaxy Police officer she had gone thought, it made her to develop a sixth sense about her surroundings. She said to Ryoko, "Once we are inside. I have to talk to you!"

Ryoko became a curious. She asked, "About what?"

"Can't tell you here!" the raven hair GP officer uttered with a very troubled gaze in her eyes.

Mara was sitting on picnic table in the Waterworth Park. She looked at the duck pond a few hundred feet away. She did have a minute a sweet revenge on Bell dandy if only for a minute. She tried to understand why her plan backfired some terribly in her face. She had to retool her evil plans and tried once more. She had caught Urd on many weak attempts. Urd was half demon, half goddess. That was an easy porthole. Mara felt warmed by the mere thought of reloading a trap on Urd. She knew that there was nothing stronger than bond between the two sisters. Urd at times over protected Belldandy. Yet when it came to Keiichi, then there was the catch, Urd seemed to slack off from the sisterly protection of her love for her sister. In fact, she tried to put her big nose where it wasn't supposed to be. "Keiichi Morisato!" Mara thought to herself as visions of Belldandy's human boyfriend danced in her mind's eye. "What a nice little treat if I caught him!"

"What if you did!" a voice purred into her ears.

Mara nearly fell over and off of the picnic table. She landed on her feet in a split second. What was looking back at her was a total shock. A youngish man with short red hair stared back her with a twisted smile. His plan outfit wasn't a clear sign that he owed for the dark moon armies of Galaxia. He looked like he could be just a jogger out on a run. Mara quickly sprang to her feet and glared at the red-haired man. She hissed as her fists were at her sides, "Who are you?"

"A no body!" he said, taking every word in a lazy pace.

"What?" Mara growled. She knew that he was trying to chat her up. There was something called a pervert she would call him. Then, she thought, "He just asking for it!"

"You seem like a very evil and beautiful creature. It would be fun if we jointed our powers together," he said.

"I am a demon. Listen buddy…I don't know what you are aware of this…I can hurt you in matter of seconds!" she growled for a second time.

"Easy…kitty," he smirked, rising a hand to show her he was not going to hurt her in any way.

"He comes up to me…calls me a kitty. What in the world is he on!" she thought. She was going to punch him out with half of her demonic powers.

"Before I go into detail…my name is Rubis!" he nodded slightly. He held out a hand in a sign of twisted often.
"I don't like this…please, Mara play it cool!" she thought to herself. Then, she said, "Why are you here. Are you looking for trouble?"

"No!" he smiled. He felt his hand being slapped back by Mara's own. He reached over in a quick movement with the other hand. He was now clutching at a hand of a demon. He felt her power coming from her hand. She was indeed what Galaxia had predicted before he was assigned to the new quest. He knew he had to be very careful if he wanted to snag this demon. He said, "I'll be to the point. You are a demon…right!"

"Yes," she snapped, turning her face away from his gaze. "I want to leave here. I don't like waiting my time. I hope that he is short."

"You want a typical goddess?" he tried to get her attention.

"Uh?" she gasped. His statement was totally to the point and it floored her to the end.

"How?" she shot back her gaze right into Rebus's eyes. She didn't want to speak. She had an idea he was reading her mind.

Rebus blinked when he shrugged his shoulders, "Word does get around!"

"Shoot!" she breathed. She wondered if he was pulling her leg. Or was it someone, somewhere heard the rumors from the demons who were laughing at her, behind her back. She was like that herself. Now the tables are turned. She had to face the humiliation of defeat. "Yes…" she said as she took one step backwards. "The name of the Goddess is Belldandy!"

"Very pretty name. What is yours?" he asked, his eyes were trying to prod into her mind.

"It's Mara!" she huffed. "Do you want anything else? Are you happy now!" she felt like turning around to walk away from this person.

"Mara, nice!" Rebus said as he tried to pour on the charm.

"Look. I'm not wanting to talk, I'm not hoping for a friendship and I hope you are not going to sale me anything!" she said before turning around to face towards a small patch of basketball court.

"Oh," he smirked. He thought, "She is fast. Yet, there is a chink in the armor."

"What are you grinning about? That is really freaky!" Mara growled. She knew that he was not normal.

"You want to see how far you can go!" he asked with a hurt tone. He turned to walk away. He wanted to head towards the duck pond. He knew she was going to be hard nut to crack, yet she did have a soft spot.
"What are you thinking?" she thought. She watched as he walked. She could feel power coming from him. Yet, he was not a demon. He appeared to be very much human. Yet, where was his power, inside of him or was it something else. Someone was controlling the strings. "Wait!" she gasped.

"What are you doing…you fool!" she thought to herself. She had to find out what was so strong in him. "He just a human…not even your type of creature. Don't' be stupid and give him what he wants."

"You want to have this Belldandy turn from innocent goddess first class to a full blooded demon?" he asked.

His statement now floored her. She wanted to stop thinking and really listen to what he was talking about. He didn't appear to be lying. His words spoke of a truth that she was searching for a long time. She turned slowly around to face him, her eyes in a shocked appearance. She asked, "Have you been reading my mind?"

"Maybe," he shrugged. He walked up other. He was close that he could see her eye, so dark and brooding they were he knew she was caught hook, line and sneaker. "Word does get around about taking what is rightfully ours!"

"Rightly ours?" she gasped. Placing a hand up her chin, she had to give it some deeper thought.

He smiled, liking where this conversation was going. He said, "Come with me to the edge of the park. I have something to show you!"

"Why?" she asked. She had a tight grip on her feelings. Yet, she was losing out on her fears. Was she being lulled into a false sense of security?

"I can't show you here. I'm afraid that it's too big!" he said spreading out his hands. It was like he was holding a large rubber ball in front of him. He wasn't going to play any sort of trick on Mara. Mara was just going to agree with him before he let someone spring the trap on her.

"What?" she snapped. Her emotions swung back and forth like a bird on a perch. She wanted to know what was going on. She asked, "This is an opened space. It's a park. You have checked it out. It's huge!"

"I can understand that. You didn't get the meaning of what I was speaking of. There is not an idea that I can't discuss with you here. It's just my mistress needs you to come with me some where else!" he shrugged with a sigh.

"Where?" she asked, she was growing very upset with Rebus. He wanted to pull her so far that she was going to crack under pressure of being a demon. If it would happen, she had to bright out the full power of her demon side. She always appeared to be human. Yet, she didn't want to be found out by Bell dandy when she was trying to find Urd.
"You want to come?" he teased. He dropped his hands to his sides. Walking towards Mara, Rebus said, "She's waiting!"

"Who?" asked Mara in a befuddled voice? Wondering who this mysterious person was she was now at a stand still. "I want to know!"

"Follow me!" Rebus said, waving his one hand slightly. A black hole appeared in the space in front of them.

Mara didn't want to go at first. She was rather reluctantly as she stared at the black hole. She had to grit her teeth and go. She very slowly ambled towards the black hole, not knowing if she was going to be kidnapped or not.

It was the warmest day in the year so far. Rio was at the radio station in Alliance, helping out Betty Roberts with a stack of scripts. The two were set up at a basement room with all the peace and quiet they needed. Rio was typing away at the computer while Betty was proofing the print outs. It seemed very normal until the lights blew out. Betty said, "What happened?"

"Don't know, Miss Roberts. Maybe someone hit something. You know this town is growing with the college!" Rio said.

Giving a little salt to the situation, Miss Roberts had to say, "The town isn't that big. Remember I was in Pittsburgh before the storm that brought us here!"

"O.K." Rio sighed. Feeling a strange emotion in the pit of her belly, Rio sat in the stillness and dark of the room. She knew if she remembered hard enough, the memory of the flash light could come back to her. She asked Miss Roberts that they still had a flash light in the desk.

"Hold on! I'll try to find out," Betty said as she started to grope around for the desk drawer handle.

"Where is it?" Rio asked. "I have one, but it's in my fanny pack and that's locked up in Minster Sherwood's office!"

"Wonderful!" Betty sighed. She knew that when the lights were out, anyone in the basement had a hard time getting around. "We just have to sit here and wait for somebody to come and save us!"

"The only problem, really…Miss Roberts is we were going through with the proofing.

Right?" Rio asked. She blindly placed a hand under her chin, "We had the computer up and running!"

Thinking on the same lines as Rio, Betty gasped to her horror, "No…"

"Yes!" Rio gasped. "The lap top was running not on the battery pack!"

Trying to reason with the situation in hand, Betty groaned a little, "We have to come up with scripts at the last minute!"

Thinking of the most impossible task in the world being faced, Rio asked, "Can we do it?"

Being an old pro of putting together a show on the air with seconds to spare, Betty smiled, "Yes. I have been in tighter situations before. Don't worry. We had old records of past shows that we used one time when I walked out! I think we do have a couple unaired shows in the library. I just have to find them!"

"You remind me of my Uncle Ziegfeld! He had tons of early drawings! He never had a minute of real family time until they had my cousin Olivia. She put his painting on hold. He sold some of his drawings to cover a few months of not painting. He made a killing."

"Meow!" a small voice said.

"What?" Betty asked. She couldn't look around to see who was there.

"Meow!" the small voice repeated.

Then, Rio nearly screamed when she felt something rub against her legs. She had to reach down with one hand to see if there was animal down at her legs. Letting her fingers get use to groping around, Rio said, "Here kitty!"

"What are you doing?" Betty asked. She was wondering what was getting into Rio.

"I think we have a visitor!" Rio said. She felt something soft and fuzzy rubbing against her hand. She asked, "Are they stray cats roaming around here!"

"I have seen maybe one!" Betty said. Then, she slowly pushed her chair back to in order to see if she could find a flashlight in the desk. She groped around for a desk drawer handle. She nearly in a blind attempt found something sharp hitting her hand. She cried out, "Ow!"

"Miss Roberts!" Rio said. She was becoming concern for her boss's safety. "Are you O.K.?"

"I have been bite by the desk!" Betty huffed, drawing her hand away from the desk.
A set of gentle paw pats hit the desk were Rio was sitting at. She was a little frightened to see the cat had jumped up on to the desk. She said, "Nice kitty!"

"Meow!" the cat said. Then, the cat leaned forward and whispered, "Are you all right?"

"Luna?" Rio gasped she realized who it was. Luna and Artemis had snuck into the radio station grounds near the collage. Serena and some of the scouts where checking out the main campus of Mount Union. They wanted to know where Rio was working for the summer.

"What was that, Rio?" Betty asked.

"Oh…it's nothing!" Rio lied. She had to cover up the fact of Luna being there at the station basement. "I think this kitty looks like the kitty at my house…her name is Luna!"

"Meow!" the cat repeated for a third time.

"Please, you cat…hush!" Rio hissed.

"What?" Betty asked a puzzled tone.

"I think this one is a talker. It loves to put in the last word!" Rio uttered through clutched teeth. Bending closer to get a word in edgewise, she said, "What's wrong?"

"We have a feeling about something!" Luna said. Luna was now face to face with Rio. She had to keep a low voice before she was discovered by Betty. She knew that it was extremely dangerous for any of the Sailor Senshi to be found out by the dark forces of Galaxia.

"What about?" Rio asked. She knew that Galaxia was starting to retool her idea of combat.

"You are in danger. I saw Prince Diamond with a person who looked like Professor Tomeo," Luna gasped so softly that it sounded like a meow instead of human speech.

"Great?" Rio huffed.

"What was that?" Betty asked. She glanced at Rio. She groped at a desk drawer handle.

"Nothing. The cat is very cute…that's all!" Rio lied again.

Betty went back on her search for a flash light. Her hand slowly felt a long piece of wood. She believed it was the desk drawer handle.

"It's like this…Rei and Serena were getting a walking tour of the campus housing when they saw Prince Diamond. He was dressed as a student!"

"That's all we need. Rei did have a feeling about 'im!" Rio said. She couldn't see where she was going to go if she could get out of the room. The basement was entirely blacked out.

Still looking for the flashlight, Betty asked, "Who are you talking about, Rio!"

"The janitor!" Rio said. She had to think of something, yet, this time it was the truth. "He must know about the black out down here!"

"I bet he knows. It's going to take some time before we see any sort of…" Betty was still rummaging through the desk drawer. Then, she felt something cold and metical. She groped around after she had opened the draw all the way. She pulled out a long tube of metal. She said, "H-ha!"

"What's that, Miss Roberts?" Rio asked.

"It's the flashlight," Betty said as she still pulled at the long tube of metal. She realized that someone had placed a long flashlight in the desk. She had to pull a little harder until she found a long flashlight in her hands. She said, "I don't believe what I'm seeing!"

"I would like too!" Rio said.

"Meow!" Luna added. She wondered with Rio if there was enough power in the batteries.

"Let me turned it on!" Betty said as she fingered the flashlight to see if she could find the switch. After a minute of blindly groping, she found the switch. The light came on and it nearly blinded Luna. The flashlight was pointed at the cat. Feeling a little sorry for the cat, Betty said, "Sorry…there kitty!"

"Meow!" Luna huffed. She tried to shake off the spots from her eyes. She tried not to walk around until the spots were gone. She stood on the desk, trying to readjust her eyes to the dark once again.

"Poor little baby!" Rio said as she noticed the stunned cat. She picked it up in her arms. She began to stroke its head. "You didn't like that…little baby!"

Luna hated to be picked up and teased. She was being coy about the idea of being treated like a baby doll. She hissed, "We don't' have time for this!"

"Are you sure! I can't see a thing!" Rio said.

"What was that?" Betty asked. She was aiming the flash light at different points of the room.

"I can't see a thing!" Rio smiled weakly. She tried to hold on to Luna.

Betty beamed the light to different spots of the room. The light bounced all over the room until the light fell on the door. Rio and Betty nearly jumped out of the chairs. They said in unison, "Door!"

"It's about time!" Luna thought.

"I'll keep the flash on the door knob. You go over there and open the door!"

"O.K." Rio said as she held Luna other arms. She stood up from the chair. Walking over to the door, Rio placed the cat on one shoulder. She said, "Now…kitty doesn't scratch me. O.K."

Luna just purred. She was use to traveling around on someone's shoulder. She watched as Rio glanced at the beam of light. A large golden glow came form the door way. It was the door knob in the spot light. Rio carefully opened the door after groping around the lights to see where the knob was.

"There!" Rio sighed. She noticed the even darker spilling out of the small beam of light. She remembered a very scary story about a strange house that the dark had turned people inside out. "That's really creepy!"

"Meow!" Luna added.

"I don't' want to be stuck here. Remember we have a little thing called a dead line!" Betty said as she glanced at the shadows being cast on the walls.

"Yes ma'am…I can understand what you are saying, but I like better to be in the complete darkness. Then, I can feel myself around," Rio uttered. She wanted to push her bangs out of her eyes. She knew how to do play blind man's bluff for years.

"Uh…" Betty gasped, trying to figure out what her assent was speaking. She heard stories from Rio about her younger years. "What are you talking about?"

"When I was a kid…we would play a game called blitz. We had fun as we exploder history. We were so young then," Rio reflected.

"Oh…when was that?" Betty said.

"I was eight or nine. I was about eleven when we quit. It got boring!"

"Then, when you do start grow up?"

Reflecting, Rio said, "I don't remember. Everything was such a blur. It happened when I was ten, yet I have very little memoires of being thirteen. Ten was the year when my uncle started to gain so much fame over here that it scared him!"

"He was well known before!"

"Yea, sort of!" Rio sighed. "Yet, someone bought a painting for a movie or show on the telly and before we knew it...bang he was toast of the town!"

"Look, doesn't stand around, you need to find out what is going on outside. I have a feeling were going be stuck here for a while!" Betty said.

"Yes, ma'am!" Rio nodded.

Rio did find outside of the room a very small pocket flash light. It was hanging on a hook that the other flash light was shining on. She picked it up and found it to be a non battery flashlight. She picked it up from the hook. She told Miss Roberts about it. Betty instructed her to use it in order to find out where the stair case was. She asked Luna, "What's really going on, Lu!"

They walked down the hall until they had found a large wooden staircase near a wall.
"Prince Diamond seemed to be a little bent on kidnapping Serena," Luna meowed softly. She glanced at the large staircase. She wanted to be let go of. Then, with her own cat eyes, Luna could make up the stairs a lot easier.

"He does have a fixation for her. Why…I tried to bug the notion out of Serena couple of times!"

"He is from the future. When Reenie was still so young. It all ties in with the fact the Black Moon Kingdom and Silver Moon crystal that Reenie wears. It had very dangerous out comes."

"Yea, Lu…I heard about the distraction of the Moon Kingdom from Mina and Rei. Then, Ami clued me on the fact the silver moon crystal around Reenie's neck is really the Silver Moon Crystal of the future. I just don't' get why Serena can't open up to the fact it wasn't really her fault or Reenie's. It just happened."

Rio waited for a minute before climbing up the stair case. She didn't want to get in the way of Luna climbing up the stairs as well. She tried to stay focused as she climbed up the stairs. She asked, "What else happened. Why the Black Moon kingdom attacked the Moon Kingdom?"

"Power!" Luna sighed. She remembered how Serena was crushed as the Sailors had to witness the transformation of Reenie to Wicked Lady.

"It figures!" Rio sighed, rolling her eyes.

"And one other thing," Luna said very cautiously.

"What's that?"

"Prince Diamond was over infatuated with Serena when Serena was the Queen in the future!"

After a minute of thinking, Rio said, "Let's focus on the here and now. I have a feeling we will need help from somewhere!"

"You are so different from Serena and a couple of the others that you could be a good leader if something should go wrong with Sailor Moon!"

"Naw!" Rio sighed, after on hearing the used from Luna. "I am not a very good leader. I end up always in a heated yelling match!"

Luna smiled a little as she reflected on Rei and Serena's relationship. "You get in to heated yelling matches. Where were you when Rei was screaming at Serena for not studying!"

"Sticking me fingers in me ears…what else?" Rio mused. Slowly both Luna and Rio came to the end of the stair case. Rio didn't like to round out the conduct of a strange place with out know if she was going to a trap. Rio flashed the light down a long and narrow hallway. Luna went first she didn't want Rio to walking into any possible danger. Rio began to walk down the hall herself. She could hear noises as she came up to another doorway. She called out for Luna to come back. The little black cat turned around and carefully waked back.

Luna glanced at up Rio, trying to avoid the flash light, "What's wrong?"

"I'm not sure. I thought I heard a noise!"

"A noise?" Luna gasped a little puzzled. She realized Rio had still pretty sharp senses after the temporary blindness. Luna had her work cut out for her when she was with Rio. Rio pretty much stuck to the game plan when it came to fighting the monsters which Galaxia had thrown at the Sailor Senshi. Then, her cat ears picked up the noise. "It's old building. Remember there will always be noises in old buildings. You said yourself you live in an old farm house half the time!"

"Yea…I know it. I wouldn't trade anything for that old dump of a sod roof and post World War one walls," Rio sighed as she reflected for a minute of her Uncle Anthony's beloved old farm house.

"What do you think of that noise?" Luna asked, her tail switching a little with excitement. She knew something was going to happen.

"I think it's just the pipes. They click like that when they are hot," Rio shrugged her shoulders, thinking of nothing out of the norm of the noise.

There was sound of a thud coming from somewhere down the hallway. Both Luna and Rio were taken aback. Luna was going to be the first one to investigate. Leaving nothing to chance, Rio had to be on the alert with her communicator on stand by. Luna carefully walked towards the noise. All was still and very quiet as she reached up towards noisemaker. She noticed a light coming from a door near the hallway. This was no ordinary light. At first Luna didn't want to put pass a solider in Galaxia's army trying to set up a commutations point where one of the sailors worked.

"And what's that?" Luna questioned Rio in a skeptical voice.

"It could be a box. Remember this is a basement. People like to stack boxes one too many!" Rio sighed, shrugging shoulders.

A loud squeak like a large metal door rang out through the hallway. Both Luna and Rio nearly jumped out of their skins. They tried to glance at each other before speaking to each other. Then, the door slammed into a wall. The noise was too much for Luna to bear. She ran towards Rio for safety.

Rio felt little cat paws running up her feet. She asked "What on earth got you all spooked!"

"That big bang!" Luna said, nearly clinging to Rio. She wanted to nearly jump onto Rio's shoulders. She wondered if Rio was scared. "Did that frightened you?"

"Yea…it sounded really…really…really loud!" Rio gasped. She had to get a hold of herself. She didn't like to be on the receiving end on new surprises. "I hope that door was just the coal off.

"The coal off?" Luna asked, complete stunned. She had heard Rio talking of old timey things. She knew Rio loved history in general.

"Yes, that was the place they put coal. You are a moon kitty," Rio said as she tried to change the subject.

"Will you stop that. You are worst off than Serena when you do that!" Luna ordered, very much miffed at the princess from Arcadia.

"I can't help it. It's in me persistently!" Rio said, trying to sound cool.

"What am I going to do with you and the others?" Luna sighed. She wanted to see if she and Rio could find their way to the main floor. She ordered Rio to follow her down a hallway. They walked slowly with the flash light in hand.

It seemed like Rio and Luna were going to make it without any sort of problems. Rio was thinking in the back her mind of calling up the electrics company to see what could be done with the power. Then, she would find where Serena and the others were. She hoped her help wasn't too late in coming. Rio walked down the hall with Luna following behind her.

"Stop!" a voice ordered Rio in the darkness.

Rio glanced around to see if there was anyone there. The lightflash beam danced wildly around as Rio tried to see who was there in front of her. She was standing so still that the only thing was moving was her breathing.

A pair of footsteps could be heard in down the hallway. A small beam of light bounced along the walls as if it was a mating call. The light came up to Rio and Luna. Rio blinked back the light as she asked, "permission to speak?"

It was a few seconds later after giving the person who was holding the second flash light.

Then, the person said, "Permission granted!"

Rio was fast as she thought as she spoke, "Who are you?"

"That's what I wanted to ask of you, miss!" the voice said. The voice sounded male and young.

Rio tried to figure out by the outlines of coming from the flash light. There was a faint grayish color which seemed to be blocked out by the light. Rio believed it was the coulur of a shirt of sorts. She had no idea who was this person. She said very humbly, "My name is Rio. I am Rio Winter-haven Lyonstone."

Rio's last name struck a cord with the young man. He nearly stopped gathering information on Rio in his mind. He had to give Rio a second look. "Lyonstone…how do you spell it?"

"L-y-o-n-s-t-o-n-e!" Rio said. Her eyes were turning into a shy glance. "It's very old English!"

"Yes…it sounds like it!" the young man said as he raised a hand up to his chin. He thought for a minute. He didn't have much time to be goofing off with a girl who could be anyone. He asked, "Do you have an ID?"

"What?" Rio asked she wondered if she could have one made up. She had worked in the station with out even asking for one. "I have one, it's my passport. Yet, it's locked up in the office of the station manager."

When the words of the ID being locked up in the station manager's office entered the young man's ears that set him off complete. He loathed the idea of having any sort of missing data. He wanted to stop Rio or make her get her ID from the office. In his option, she was lying to him. He said, "What are you going to do. I need clearance from you. If you don't have the proper ID, then I can't let you go!" His voice sounded icy. It was like she was trying to save the world, yet he was the only stepping stone. He had to find out if she was telling him the truth. "Come on!" he ordered.

"Where…its pitch black and I think this flashlight has only a couple of batteries left!" she tried to sound honest.

"I don't care. I have one…an extra in my pocket!" He began to fish in his one pocket. He tried to keep one eye open to Rio and the other on his shirt pocket.

Rio didn't want to take any other chance of being shot at. She had to keep his mind from going crazy on her. She knew Luna was the only link between her and the outside world.

She said, "What about you. I never saw you on campus police force."

"I just started!" he lied. His voice faulted a little.

"Oh, that's interesting. You are so young," Rio said. She was trying to probe into his mind slowly with her power of the voice she had used since she was a child. Her voice was calm almost ghost like in its texture.

He was instantly caught off guard when he felt the power of her voice cutting through his steel like core. What was she doing to him?

"Come on!" Rio thought. She was hoping that he was being lulled into a trance like state. "Set us free!"

Luna was surprised to hear Rio using her extra special power. It had been a long time that Rio was pushed into using her voice. It was like that of some of the charters from the cult movie and book named Dune. She and the other sailor Senshi had first hand experience of hearing the voice. She had to trick her mind from not hearing the voice before falling into its heady spell.

"Please. What are you telling me that!" the young man said.

"Nothing. Take us to the main floor!" she ordered gently. She hoped he was going to break in an instant. She didn't want Miss Roberts to be stuck in a dangerous situation.

"Take you to the main floor, why?" he asked, trying to get his mind clear. He knew she was pulling a mind trick on him.

"Please…listen to me… I have a fellow co-worker in danger. She had to save both the world and one person. Yet, it was proving an enormous task at hand. She had to reason with him, if it was last thing she had to do. "If I don't get back to the main floor and see about the power being turned back open, then I can't help her. She is in the basement and all alone."

The words seemed to stun the young man. He blinked back the feeling of being tricked. He said, "I'll help you for just one time. If you say she is in danger, then we must go and help her."

Rio smiled quickly, feeling the relief coming back to her. She had to think of not only of herself. She had to think of others.

"I have one thing to ask of you," Luna half meowed.

Quickly changing her voice back into the one of a normal tone, Rio asked, "What?"

Luna peeked up at the powerful sailor Senshi, "How are we going to get the outside?"

"Good question. We have to follow that guy until he leads us it. That's all."

"I hope you are right!" Luna sighed, not knowing she and Rio were walking into a trap to not. She hopped upon Rio's shoulders after a few minutes of being on the ground. She heard another noise. It sounded like a clicking of a door. She purred in Rio's ear, "Are there any locked doors around here?"

"Yea, out side of the room with junk and the electrical board, there is room that hasn't been opened for a long time!" Rio sighed.

"And you want to keep that way?" the little black cat asked.

"Yes, in a way. I don't like surprises!" Rio sighed.

The light from the flashlight was bounced back to Rio's face. She blinked hard. Luna nearly was blinded once again. The little black cat hated to be blinded by stray flashlight beams. She hissed at the young man. Rio scolded, "Luna..."

"Meow!" Luna nearly growled. She was going frustrated with the young man.

"Be a good kitty," Rio retorted. She watched as the young man walked away from the two. She began to follow him once again. She had to go on with him until she saw light. Luna wanted to run up to the young man and give a good swipe with her claws. Yet, where she was sitting at, Luna had to think fast and land point black on her feet. She had landed not on her feet, and then…she had to risk being stepped on.

"Who are you talking to?" the young man asked. His memory was starting to kick in. he didn't want to tell Rio that he had know her from somewhere.

"Just the cat…that's all. They can tell what they want in their own way!" Rio nodded

slightly.

"Meow?" Luna uttered a little nervously.

"Oh," the young man said as he spun on his heels. He beamed the flash light towards what appeared like an opened door way. He had stopped and aimed the light up towards the door frame. He said, "I think this is an exit!"

Both Luna and Rio let out sighs of relief. It was near the main offices. Rio just had to

steer the young man towards the hallway which lead to Mister Sherwood's office. She whispered to Luna, "We are so close…once we can clear ourselves with this bloke…we are good as outside!"

Luna had a feeling in the tips of her whiskers that it could turn out for the worst. She said, "Let's hope you are right."

"I want to save Serena and the others from Prince Diamond!" Rio sighed.

"You are telling me!" Luna whispered.

Then, they noticed the beam of light hitting the walls of a room. The door was opened to a small room. She recognized as the lobby. She knew her way around the building when the lights were on. Rio and Luna remained quiet as followed the young man. Rio wanted to see if the others in the office were all right. She knew if the doors to the main offices and the studios were closed up, then things would be all right. It was nearly one in the afternoon. Some of the staff was at lunch. She thought of Mister Sherwood and Mister Foley being at the radio tower on route Sixty-two. They were probity trying to figure out what went wrong. Lance and Georgie were in the control room, waiting for the phone call from Mister Sherwood. She also remembered that the young man never gave Rio the extra flash light. She had no idea where she was headed for.

There was a very small patch of light playing off of the main hallway. It was a sky light over the entrance way to the station. Luna was the first one to spot it. She purred very softly in Rio's ear, "There is some light coming from the exit."

"Yes, I know there…I see it too!' Rio said. She shifted her eyes towards the doorway. She had to make a fast run with Luna still on her shoulder. She didn't want to loose the cat. Yet, Luna had away of finding where the girls were. "Are you going to make a run for the door?"

"What?" Luna asked. She knew to not ask the questions of impractical ideas. She had some experience with that from Serena. "I'm not going to run out the door if you are not going to do it!"

"On the contrary!" Rio said, beginning to size up the situation with the young man. She noticed that he was still walking down the hall. "He's down the hall…" Rio glanced at the doorway. "And the exit to freedom…is just around the corner!"

"Wait a minute," Luna gasped, peering above Rio's head. "He does have ears!"

"And your point, being!" Rio uttered, she was getting antsy about just standing around when her friends were in danger.

"He could shoot at us after he heard us running to the exit," Luna sighed. She wanted to protect Rio from harm. She knew that Galaxia's minions never shot a gun in their lives. Yet, she didn't like to take any chances.

"What about Serena?" Rio sighed. She didn't want to leave the others in a lurch. "I have the Moon Kingdom to think about. I am a Sailor Senshi, after all!"

"Yes, I have a prefect record of all Senshi being safe when it comes to people who are not from Galaxia's minions!"

"I can understand what you are saying. You worry too much. You are like my Aunt Olivia. She is the biggest worry wart of them!" Rio huffed. She looked around to see if the young man was any further down the all. She figured out in her head how fast she had to run if she wanted to get to the exit. She had to make sure that Luna was safe first. Then, she had to calculate her speed and running time was faster than the young man's reflexes were.

"I'm not a worry wart!" Luna hissed loudly into Rio's ear.

"Hey..Lower the hissing," Rio grumbled a little softly. "I feel like I am in a balloon factory!"

"You are the most foolish one of all!" Luna warned. She wanted to stop Rio, yet she wanted to be free as well.

"Are you ready!" Rio asked. She was about to spin around to give the offices one last look.

"Yes…I think!" Luna sighed. She felt like closing her eyes. She didn't like the idea of running in and out of danger. She took a large breath of air before holding onto Rio's shoulder.

"Good," Rio said as she began to trot towards the door. She winced as Luna's claws started to stick into her skin. She tried to keep her ears and eyes open as she said, "Luna…ease up a little please!"

"You can run with me on your shoulders without me hanging on to dear life. I am not a piece of Velcro," Luna gasped, feeling a pounding session hitting against her belly. She was a cat and wasn't use to having to tossed around on someone's shoulder like she was now. She knew Rio was a sprinter. She didn't risk running with Haruka. Hakura was the fastest senshi around. Trying to out run her was asking for too much.

Rio near skidded to a halt when she saw the doors. She knew she was going to be free once the doors were opened. Rio didn't hear the noises outside of the door. Yet, she strained her ears to hear if the guy was still after her or not. "Luna…once we are outside…then we can save the others!" Rio panted.

"What about the guy who was following us!" the little black kitty asked.

"Am I not sure!" Rio huffed. Throwing out her hands, she pushed her way out of the enterance. She blinked out of the sun from her eyes. She didn't realized how long she and

Luna were in the dark. She said, "Are you O.k., Lu?"

The little black cat wasn't gaping to take any chances by dropping off of Rio's shoulder just yet. She blinked hard before looking around for any signs of Serena or the others. All seemed very still. Rio finally opened her eyes to notice somebody was running up towards her and Luna. Luna said,"I'm fine, but he doesn't look so happy!"

Both Rio and Luna quickly figured out it was another monster who was under the spell of the Dark moon's spell. Rio quickly shuffled to one side and pulled at the door. She was going to trap the monster inside the station. Luna didn't like the snap judgment from Rio. She said, "What are you doing?"

"I'm not getting off just yet," Luna gasped. She felt her ribs. They took a little beating as Rio ran fast.

"Where is Serena?" Rio said. She grunted as Luna's claws were easing up from her shoulder.

"You know Serena's in trouble."

"I know…when she screams, yet that could be any thing!" Rio remembered how Serena's bad study habits had caused her to flunk out on serial different times. Then, Serena could have a major upset with the results. Rio was not prefect, yet she had passing grades.

"Yea, I know that. She could be blowing up after the fact Darien had broken up their umpteen date!" Luna sighed.

"I know you are not like Ami, but how do you manage? "

"I think I have two brains. Some how at times, I have been asleep and still manage to pass the test with a C plus!" Rio laughed a little.

"That's better than Serena sleeping and getting a thirty percent or lower!" Luna sighed. She felt Rio's shoulders roll as Rio began to walk down the stairs. She could see how quiet everything was. It was like they had just entered a theme park exhibition of a college campus. She didn't like the feel of it. Rio felt uneasy when she began to climb down the stairs. Luna asked, "Do you feel it?"

"Yes," Rio glanced around, trying to pin option the location of the evil which was starting to eat at her. She didn't move too quickly. There was a huge jolt of evil coming from of the main student dorms. It was like she was drawn to it. She started to walk towards it when Luna told her to slop down and check to see if anyone was around from Galxia's minions.

Serena hadn't transformed yet. She and Hotura were standing neared the grassy intersection between buildings neared the station. Hotura was now Sailor Saturn. They spotted Rio with Luna on her shoulder. Serena felt like calling her for her. Yet, Hotura warned her that it was a very dangerous move on her part. Serena had another idea. Rio had a communicator watch with her. She was given her Henshi necklace and watch when she began Sailor Acardia. She wore it when she was with the other Sailor Sensei. She kept safe when she was at home in London. She didn't want her uncle and aunt knowing she was a Sailor Solider.

Serena noticed Rio running out of the building. She had a feeling if she would have called out to Rio, it could cause some major trouble for her.

There was also someone else who was eyeing Rio. Rio stopped to see where Serena and Hotura were. She did have her communicator watch on, she said to Luna, "I am going to be calling on Serena in just a minute!"

"What?" Luna asked. She wondered why Rio wanted to bring attention to herself.
"I am still open to an attack. Yet, I don't' want Serena or even Hotura to be hurt!" Rio sighed, before blowing a breath of air to move her bands.

"Yes," Luna meowed. The little black cat noticed Serena had her watch opened. It paid to be cat with sharp eyes. She narrowing her eyes for a further scan, she noticed two people who were not human. These two were Prince Diamond and Rubes. They were hoping for a sort of rematch. Luna said, "Please be careful. I see someone in the distance!'

Without even turning around to look, Rio said, "Where in the distance?"

"Near the intersection that takes you to the bookstore you like to stop at!" Luna purred gently in Rio's ear.

"I have a feeling we are sitting ducks!" she said. She was going to take a risk and walk towards the main street. She knew Luna was also a target. She began to walk in a normal fashion. She tried not to be so careful. Having to act naturally was one thing Rio could pull off with the grace of an actress. She raised her arm with the communicator watch on to her face. She appeared toy be staring at the watch. Then, she flipped open the communicator on. She said, "Serena…Hotura…are you there?"

Serena's communicator watch beeped. She knew it was Rio trying to get hold of her. She had to make sure that prince diamond and rebus couldn't' see them. Serena did the same as Rio. She said, "Yea…I can see you… what's going on"?

"I see your two favs. Diamond and Rebus!" Rio sighed. She felt the back of her neck prinking.

"What?" Serena nearly shirked.

"Serena!" Hotura gasped out of embarrass fear. She had a feeling evil was so close that she could taste it.

"They can hear you, loud mouth!" Luna's voice came from the watch.

"Let's skip that. I have feeling that we are sitting ducks if we don't move," Rio sighed. She hoped with Hotura being like Ami, she could make Serena think clearly. She noticed Rebus and Prince Diamond standing very still. They had noticed her. Prince Diamond knew all about Sailor Acardia from Zoysite. There was no point of trying to make her give up the facade. He could read her little secret identity. She was really Sailor Acardia and the princess of the Sandsun Empire.

"Where are you going?" Hotura asked. She didn't want Rio to be falling to the wrong hands.

"Don't worry. I'll be taking the long way around. I'll be seeing you soon!" Rio said before flipping off her watch. She had to take Luna back to Serena. Luna had other plans. She told Rio that she was going to find Serena on her own.

"How?" Serena gulped, her face color turning into the shade of chalk.

Hotura glanced at Serena. Knowing that Rio was a wild child, Hotura had to brace herself for the worst. Yet, the worst that she believed in paled deeply than her child image.

Prince Diamond and Rebus were now standing on a corner near the main campus. They didn't take noticed of a few students who were milling about between classes. They were interested in star seeds. Prince diamond glanced around the area for possible victims. There were no real powers coming any one. It seemed like students were on other plan than just mere high school students. They were more on the ball then what they had run into when they tried to attack Serena's high school.

Yet, power was power and there was a lot for the asking.

Then, Rubis noticed Rio with Luna riding on her shoulder coming down the street. Nothing the pensive look in Rio's eyes, made Rebus as close to happy as he could possibly be. He said to his highness, "Prince Diamond…"

"What?" the white haired prince said when he stopped to glance at Rebus. He glanced at the on coming girl and cat. He recognized the cat belonging to Neo-queen Serenity. He knew she had to be very close to by. Luna was very caution when she went out on her own. "I see. That cat belongs to the Queen of the white moon kingdom. Why is it with this other girl?"

"I have a feeling that the…" Rebus said, watching Rio taking a different direction in her walking. "…girl is a Sailor Senshi. That's what I believe in."

"You could be very right. There are two cats as adverse to Queen Serenity," Prince Diamond purred his answer in suspicion.

"There is nothing we can't loose!" Rebus snorted.

"Maybe our lives!" Prince diamond reflected the point of the high price of his own life in the loss of his own kingdom to the White Moon Kingdom. "Yet."

There was a slight pause in his voice. He knew Luna and Rio had to be who they were.

"She could be here, close by!" he said very gently. There was a faded smile on his lips.

He didn't want to be so alone. He had lost his brother due the fact his lust for Serena grew out of his own control.

"The girl is not some giggling little brat like the present Moon Princess, "Rebus said, trying not too bold in his statement. He knew some of the sailor senshi were that, giggling little school girls who just wanted to have a normal, carefree life.

Prince diamond turned to glare at his subject. He could feel the sharpness of the sting in Rebus's statement. Rebus would be punished for his statement, yet now wasn't the time. Prince Diamond needed Serena in the worst way. He said, "She is very different."

"How and which one?" Rebus asked innocently.

"I can understand what you are saying about the future queen of the White Moon Kingdom. She has a childlike quietly. Yet, she can grow up when the time comes!"
Rebus gave the words at minute to sink in. he remembered the stories from both Jadeite and Zoysite about the Sailor Senshi. The battles fought between Queen Beryl and Sailor Moon happened when Sailor moon was just only fourteen. Now she was entering the age of adulthood. In fact, she and Darien were waiting until she was out of high school to be married. Serena was now eighteen, full of promise and hope. She had grown up fast. She had to take care of her future daughter in the present. It was not an easy task. She had to fight with Reenie at times for the affection of Darien. Rebus thought for a minute even harder. He remembered how deeply Darien cared for Reenie. Reenie was his one and only daughter. He also remembered how Serena resented the love dolled out to Reenie instead of her. Rubis smiled darkly. He turned to asked Prince Diamond, "Do you remember Wicked Lady?"

"Yes. Little rabbit's shadow! Why?" Prince diamond asked. He was starting to grow impatient about the whole idea of waiting around for something to happen. "That had cost us everything at the end!"

"Then, there was another person who was named Mistress nine?"

The words seemed foreign to him. To have other people that were could be cold or be truly evil. That was something prince Diamond thought of but never toyed with. He wondered about the stories that he had from Professor Tome about the pharaoh 90 and the Witches 5. There was very much to concern. He wondered if there was any way of getting those two, wicked lady and Mistress Nine back from their long months of captive.

"I have an idea…" Rebus began to say. Then, he was cut off by a scream.

The two followed by couple more pairs of eyes. It was Rio screaming. She was now being sucked into the pavement. Luna was now trying to get some aid. The little black cat jumped off of Rio's shoulders. It was now near the edge of the hole that was now swallowing up the young girl. She screamed for help. Luna said, "I'm going to get some sort of help. Keep your head!"

"What?" Rio gasped. She was half way in the hole. She tried to struggle in the hole. She pushed with every muscle stained in a fight to keep her from getting swallowed up by the hole.

Luna gritted as she remembered the same thing happened to her and Serena at the Cherry blooms back in Tokyo. She turned to see Serena and Prince Diamond running in the general discretion where Rio was screaming. "Oh, great!" Luna thought. "I really need this!"

It was no time where Rio was now up to her neck in black cement. She said, "Just don't stand there. I need help!"

"I will help you…" Serena said, trying to sound very adult in the situation. She was now running towards the hole.

Luna watched as Serena bolted from the street. She never had that much energy unless she was cornered or a friend was in danger. She had certain drive inside her to really come through even she did make mistakes. Luna called out, fear in her voice, "Please Serena…don't be rash!"

"Please…Luna get a hold of Lita and Mina!" Serena ordered.

"What?" Luna gasped before getting a hold of Rio's large plastic bracelet between her teeth. She grabbed a hold of it when Rio's arm came down. The little black cat hoped to pin down Rio before she sank even further.

"They are very close by…they came with me and Hotura to check out the school!" Serena was now standing near Luna. Serena had no idea of helping Rio out of her situation. She remembered being in the same predicament before, yet she was at the receiving end. She had to help, but how.

Then, Rio said, "Bend down…Serena…I'll make a grab for a hand."

"Are you sure?" Serena asked, she had lost a little of her sense at an emergency like this.

"Yea!" Rio gasped. She watched when Serena bent down as far she could go with one arm extended towards Rio's hands. She tried to pull up with everything she had Rio. When they darted to pull Rio's body out of the hole, they felt a large jolt of eclectic coming from the surrounding area. Serena let out a scream while Rio cried out in pain.

Luna screamed, "GIRLS?"

She felt like bouncing on Serena's shoulders and biting Rio's two-toned bracelet. She had to help out. Why did she felt that way? She knew the girls were not playing around. She got that idea out of her head once and for all. She had no idea what was going to happen next. Rio wanted to cry. The pain from the hole was now crushing her as well dragging her even further. She thought about Dusty. He had to be close. She had a feeling he was coming. He did want to visit her at the station before heading off to the Akron area to take a sight seeing tour of the Goodyear Tire plant. He, Steve and few of the others were going to take a one tank trip to Akron. He had to just stop at the station to see of Rio was still at work. Rio closed her eyes for just a second. Letting her mind clear, Rio began to focus on her mind set on Dusty.

Dusty was at the stadium with Steve. He was checking out the entrance way with Steve who wanted to see where Mount Union football team played at. Dusty had stopped for a couple of minute with Steve on Steve's bike. Couple of the others went on ahead to Akron.

Dusty started to get a headache. This was a sign somehow that Rio was in trouble. He was lucky to have her was very much strained after her blindness. He knew Rio was still very weak in her powers as his princess. Some of the powers she had before were very slowly coming back to her. She knew also as a sailor senshi she had to gather up enough straight to do her attacks.

Steve looked at his friend and asked, "What's wrong you…Dust?"

Dusty appeared to be very pale in his face. He knew Rio was in trouble. He said, "I just have a gut feeling that Rio's in trouble. I don't know why…"

Then, he swallowed. His mouth felt grow dry. He was trying to picture where Rio could be at.

"You think that…" Steve said, he tried to keep Dusty from going nuts. He knew Dusty wasn't kidding about Rio. The look in Dusty's eyes was just enough of indication for

Steve. He knew Rio wasn't going to be able to help herself at all.

"I hope she is at the station!" Dusty said.

"Where is it at?" Steve asked. He knew Rio had a job at the radio station on the college campus. He just didn't know the local was at. He had to follow Dusty to the station to find out if Rio was ok. The two began to walk in the general diction of the radio station.
Meanwhile, Serena and Luna were trying to pull Rio out of the hole. For every time they tried to make a grab for an arm or a shoulder, they were thrown back to the ground by a jolt of electric. Luna was growing tired while Serena was just growing grumpy. She had to come up with something to get Rio out. Rio tried to push herself out of the hole with both arms at each side of her, hands face down on to the ground.

It seemed like the final blow to everyone involved, was when Rio felt hands starting to grab up with such a force, that Serena was thrown back with Luna following her. She had a jolt if burbling electric. Serena let out a scream as the pain seared into her hands.

Luna had a tiny hold of Rio's bracelet. She was thrown back as well. Landing on her feet, the little black cat howled softly. She shook her head, throwing off the pain. She knew that Rio could be done for as a normal human. She dreaded the idea of being captured by the dark moon kingdoms. She didn't' want nothing to do with them for she loved the white moon kingdom with all of her heart. She prayed for a miracle to come quickly.

Then, the worst thing could have come. A large wave of black goo came out from behind Rio. As it leapt up to cover Rio, Rio tried to claw her way out of the hole. There was no way of getting out that hole alive.

Serena shot up with her eyes transfixed on Rio. A scream came from her mouth. Everything seemed to stop in mid step. Then, the goo pounced on Rio's shoulders and neck like a large hand warping itself around her. Pulling her down like a rope that was untied from a post Rio quickly sank to wherever she was suppose to end up at.

Serena felt anger, fear and guilt for not saving Rio at the time. She leapt towards the hole with both hands in midair. She was punished by the black goo by being jolted back to where she had landed in the first place. She sat as she had stood in a great frustrated state. Her hands shook, trying extremely hard to reach out to take Rio back. Standing by her side, Luna was nearly in tears. She thought to herself, "We have to fight to get her back…but how?"

Serena heard footsteps coming towards her. She tried to get on her feet. Glancing towards in one depiction, she noticed Prince Diamond and Rebus coming. She wanted to freeze or run. She couldn't think of a straight answer. Luna said, "Serena…runs!"
"What…and leave Rio!" Serena gasped. She felt her mind buzzing with so much pain of seeing one of her best friends taken away from her, she had to fight. She said, "I want to get Rio back. How many times that I have seen my friends stolen away from me!"

"I can understand what you are saying…but, you don't want your enemies getting a hold of you!" Luna said as she started to arch her back in attack mode.

"Then, we get her back…" Serena said.

"Princess!" Prince diamond cried out. He was running so hard that he nearly came up to Serena.

Serena leapt backwards out of her old instinct. She knew he was going to take her away. There was a burning idea in the back her mind where she had been so afraid that he was going to change her like he let Wiseman change Reenie into Wicked lady. She had to escape. Yet, she didn't go without using a plan. She knew she had to relay on the other sailor Senshi near by. "No…way…you creep!" she hissed, trying to sound tough as she started to walk backwards.

Insulted, Prince Diamond wanted to take Serena by force. She had to go and bow down to his will. He said, "How dare you!"

"How dare I?" Serena said. She sounded like she was picking up on the classes of English grammar. She was tried to sound brave. Yet, she was still a young girl in the world of adults. She glared at Prince Diamond as her courage shown through. She had to save Rio. What was the road block, maybe Prince Diamond? "Do I transform and show you what I can do for now!"

"Little girl like you…ohh…I am so scared!" Rebus chided. He placed a hand up to his chin. He was going to show Serena he was not going through with playing around. He began to walk closer to her. She had to face him one again.

"Serena!" Hotura cried out. She had to run back when she had told mina and Reenie was Serena and Rio was at.

Serena knew if she had turned around too see how it was, then she could have been trapped by Prince Diamond for sure. She hoped Hotura wasn't running into a trap. She had to stop Hotura from taking any further steps towards her.

"Ah…more pretty girls from your court," Rubus teased, he noticed the other three were running towards séance.

"Even Small lady is coming!" prince diamond adding to rubis's comment. He turned to give Reenie a shock.

Reenie did have a shock from Rebus. She thought he was gone the also time she had met him. Although, evil always had a repapering trick up its sleeve and she knew it as well. She stopped in misstep before saying, "What are you doing here."

Prince Diamond was quick with his statement, "Waiting for you…small rabbit!"

Then, he knew Reenie and Hotura was both full of evil anger and power. He wondered if it could resurface once again. It had to take enormous sources of energy to unlock the two. Hotura wondered why Reenie stopped. She swiveled on her heels to nearly collide with Rebus. Rebus had to smile as he felt Hotura's body come close.

Reenie let out a large gasp as she stared at the two. She felt her heart nearly explode from fear. It was like an old wound being ripped open. She didn't want to relive the pain from the time she was changed into wicked lady.

Hotura was too close for Reenie's comfort. The shy girl with the purple eyes turned around to almost feel Rebus's hands clutch at her shoulders. She backed off quickly before running into Prince Diamond. She felt like a rat trapped into a corner. She had to escape, but how.

Reenie noticed a few bushes near a building. She could run behind them and transform. Acting quickly Reenie took action. She ran to the bushes before diving in. she had her compact in hand. On razing it into the air, Reenie said, "chibi-moon Transform!"
Within seconds, Reenie was changed into Sailor chibi-moon. She jumped out of the bushes with her Heart bell in hand. She ran towards the area where Hotura's and Serena were both in spot with Prince Diamond and Rebus. She said, "How dare you attack a young girl who is trying to help out another girl!"

"Wow!" Rebus huffed, rolling his eyes. "What a fighter…"

Sailor Chibi-moon was insulted by Rebus's tone of voice. She grunted her disapproval as she glared at him. She stood with one hand raised up to the sky. Then, pointing to the two who were trying to get a hold of Hotaru. "What was that?" she snapped sourly.

"Sailor chibi-moon…please get away from here! I can take care of myself!" Hotaru pleaded She had an idea in her mind. If she could spin around with both hands in mid air, she could punch both Prince Diamond and Rebus in the chest. Then, quickly ducking from being grabbed, Hotaru could make a run for it.

"No!" Sailor chibi-moon said, shaking her head. She hoped someone else was going to be there to back her up.

"Little rabbit, we know who you are!" Rebus smiled grimly.

She and Hotura were stunned. They had to figure in other time how the dark forces found out who they were. She remembered how times she was told never to transform in front of anyone else who wasn't a sailor solider.

"We can see right through you!" Prince Diamond said. He reached out a hand to make a grab for Sailor Chibi-moon. He could feel her fear of discovery. He knew he had her right for the taking. He would be in great favor with Galaxia. He was going be proved wrong.
Hotura had been watching for a window of opportunity when Rebus and Prince Diamond was going to grab her. She swung around to make a fist. With a force of a sledge hammer, she took aim. Letting her fist hitting Rebus squarely in the jaw, Hotaru did a trick she saw in the movies with her one foot. She flipped it upside towards Prince Diamond. It smacked dead on his chin.

Both Prince Diamond and Rebus were stunned as they felt hotaru's own power. She was not using on the power of Saturn. Gracefully she swung back onto her heels. She said, "You can't get me…"

"That little brat!" Prince Diamond hissed as he felt a sore spot on his chin. He wondered if he was ok.

Rebus had straggled back to avoid being hit once again. He wasn't going to take any chanciest with Hotaru. Apparently from the last battle they had encountered, Hotaru was getting stronger with her own strength.

"She's like a wild creature. Where did she get that edge?" Prince Diamond thought as his glance shifted to Sailor Chibi-moon. "Have they been training for such times as these?"

"Give it up creep!" Hotaru hissed. Her purple eyes narrowed in heated fire. She wanted to keep her distance, yet she had to fight. She had very bad memories of her father trying to bring out Mistress Nine by any means. She did want have a normal childhood. She remembered before the accident at her father's lab, she had a very normal life with her mom and dad. After explosion, things changed. Her father had taken steps on keeping her alive. Even if meant treading his life to be a pawn in Pharos 90's plans.

Chibi-moon watched as Hotaru ducked once again. She felt jumping in. She and the others didn't know what was going to happen to the in a few short minutes.

Rio was now swimming as best as she could in black sea of ooze. She tried to keep her head before panicking like she had done when she first battled the Negavirse. She didn't like the feeling of the ooze crawling into her ears and up her nose. She winced as she felt the ooze trying to into mouth. She had to breathe somehow.

"What are you thinking?" a voice hissed in her ears.

"Uh?" she thought to herself.

"What are you thinking!" the voice hissed again.

"I want to get out of here. I don't belong here!" she thought. She had to keep calm as best as she could in the situation she was in. trying to open her eyes to see what was happening, Rio could hear noises coming from above her head. It sounded like fighting above her. She wondered who was fighting. She hoped in her name sake someone or something was going to rescue her from this strange and bizarre drowning. The strange memoires of Alice in her falling down a rabbit hole toyed with Rio. Was Rio going down to wonderland herself? If she was then she would have to give the Queen of Hearts a good talking too.

Then, a large whole came out of nowhere. Looking down, Rio felt her feet just dangling away as through she was caught on hook by the scruff of her neck. Thinking that she had gone out of her mind, Rio started to cry. She was nearly a woman of eighteen and she was crying like a four year old.

What was going on with her? She believed in the back of her mind in a tiny corner tucked away, she was just dreaming and she would wake up soon with tears in her eyes. She had to pull herself together in order to wake up.

"You are not dreaming!" the voice said.

"What?" Rio said as a thought crossed her mind. Was this voice reading her mind as well? She had thought of other things if she was going to come out of the dream. She thought, "Why are you in my mind…telling me that?"

"You are very silly. You have no idea what lies in store for you!" the voice said.

Rio was slightly convinced she was in a dream. She believed she had watched an old black and white film before heading off for bed. Then, she was replaying some of the lines in her dreams. The statement she had heard sounded very corny. She loved old back and white films. On wondering is she was dreaming one up in her mind, was she going to see funny Charlie Chaplin or the sweet, innocent Lillian Gish walk past her. It was just enough to keep her mind from going crazy.

"Why are you thinking about old black and white films?" the voice said.

"Its' my logical. You got a problem with that?" she thought in a huff.

"Strange girl!" the voice hissed once aging.

"I'm not strange. Please God and Queen Serenity where are you. Am I dreaming this?" she wondered. Rio experienced little hands reaching up towards her neck. She had to struggle out of this. She rolled her shoulders as close as she could up to her neck. Then, she tried to move her feet. It was like swimming in Jell-o. There was no place for a foot hold as she struggled.

"Power with in your heart is also burning brightly," another voice said in her mind.

"What?" she thought.

"The power of your heart is burning bright within you!" The voice said for the second time.

"I have some thing of power…but my scout power is dead!" she thought.

"What are you talking about?" the hissing voice huffed in her mind.

Then, a large blot of lighting surged through her body. Rio let out a scream of terrified filled pain. She struggled once again to relieve the pain affixed on her. She wanted to be free from the pain.

Finally the pain was too much and she passed out from it.

In Rio's mind, she was drifting in a sea of clouds. She wondered if she had finally died or ended up in a coma. The area she was in seemed endlessly. There was no place to go, nothing to see. She wondered if she was now fully in a dream like she thought if only for a minute before. She wondered if she was going to wake up.

A voice called out to her. She wondered who it was. Trying to move the clouds to get a better look at the owner of the voice, Rio tried to grab for a cloud. Hoping to push it aside to get even see who was calling for her, Rio called out, "I'M HERE!"

"RIO!" the voice called out for second time.

"Great," she huffed. She thought, "I'm stuck here…after getting the crap zapped out of me and before that…the goopy stuff sucks me in…I got to start in drinking more mint tea and less of lime Monster!"

"RIO?" the voice called out for a third time.

"I AM HERE…CAN'T YOU HEAR MY VIOCE?" she called out. She shook her head.

That was no use, she was still in clouds. Why was she in the state she was in?

"I see something moving in the clouds!" another voice said to the first.

"Yes…it's me you fool!" she wondered out loud, folding her arms over her chest. She wanted to float down by any means possible to see who was calling her name. Things were getting down right goofy.

"Clouds don't move," a third voice said.

"Clouds don't move, HAH!" Rio snapped. She tried to move once more. There was no real thing to hold on to. She couldn't swim in water, yet this was the clouds. How was she going to swim then?

"I heard something go 'HAH'!" the second voice said.

"I wish I had wings. Then, I can prove to whomever! Then, by flying down I can show myself off!" Rio said as she tried to struggle with the clouds. She heard something go zing like it was an arrow with a long string attached to it. She wondered where the noise was coming from. She pushed a cloud or two away from her to see what was going on. A large band of cloth flew up and twisted around her left ankle. She started to tear away the clouds to check out the cloth. It had wrapped itself around her ankle. Now she was going to be pulled down from the clouds fish style. She didn't like the idea of being a fish. She started to scream and protest about the situation in hand.

In the outside world, Serena was now caught up in her problems. She was watching as both Houtra and Sailor Chibi-moon were trying to defend themselves from the evil Prince Diamond and Reubis. She had to transform, but how.

There was a building where no one was using it at the time. She quickly glanced at the building. She ran over to where the door was, yet she was caught by sight. It was prince Diamond who barked out, "HALT!"

Serena's blood froze. She remembered the last time he had snared her. She didn't like the feeling. She had to transform into sailor moon to save Rio from where her friend was at. Somehow she got herself away from Prince Diamond. Serena was a born sneaker. She watched as Houtra was battling it out with Prince Diamond and Rebus. It was a good idea for her to run to the building before she could transform.

"Venus love chain whip!" a voice said as clear as a bell.

Serena watched as a golden beam of light snapped at Prince Diamond's back. He let out a yelp. He flung himself around at warp speed to see Sailor Venus standing a few feet away. He glared at her, "What do you think you are doing to me?"

"I would like to ask the same question!" Sailor Venus glared back at him. She had her chain wrapped around her hand.

"Little brat!" the white haired prince hissed as he placed a hand gingerly on the back of his neck. Checking on where the chain smacked him, Prince Diamond glared at the golden Sailor Senshi of love.

"No…I'm Sailor Venus!" she said, saluting her enemy with the 'v' sign.

"Get her!" Prince diamond barked out a command. A pair of large birds came out of nowhere. Sailor Venus noticed the birds and let out another attack on them instead on Prince Diamond. She had to become of the birds. They didn't appear to be normal birds.

Serena noticed that prince diamond was distracted from the idea of kidnapping her once again. She bolted to the building. She found out by the sounds of the building there was nothing inside. She found an empty hallway. Taking out her crystal compact, she said, "Moon Crystal power!"

In an instant a brilliant light hit her to transform her into sailor moon, the champion of love and justice. She retraced her steps back to the outside. She scanned the area where the fighting between good and evil was still going on. She gulped as her eyes noticed the séance now enfolding in front of her.

Sailor Chibi-moon and Hotura were now being hauled away by Prince Diamond and Rebus. While sailor Venus was trying to fight off a large purple and blue fly-type monster. She was ducking the large fly with a lot of problems. She wished Artimes was there to leap up in air. Then, attack has best as he could. Sailor moon wasn't the brightness when it came to fighting at times, yet she had heart which was needed more than smarts. She had to have help in this matter. Yet, where Lita and Rio was was out of the picture. Sailor Moon believed Rio was captured by the evil forces in the ooze hole.
It seemed hopeless.

Then, another voice said, "Supreme Thunder crash!"

It was such a sweet sound coming from nowhere. Sailor Moon glanced around to see Sailor Jupiter running up the path. The tall Sailor Senshi had a very bad felling that something wasn't right. She had to investigate what was going on with her sister Senshi.

"Sailor Jupiter!" Sailor moon cried out.

"Good. I'm here!" Sailor Jupiter uttered as she assessed the situation. She noticed that Sailor Moon wasn't there. Where could she have gone to? She didn't have time to be looking for her leader. She needed to fight and now. She noticed the monster who was trying to attack Sailor Venus had been blasted back to yard near the walk way. She said, "Sailor Venus…are you o.k.?"

"Yes…I think Sailor Moon is hiding, but she is here!" Sailor Venus said when she glanced at her wounds. She took a light beating when she was tangling with the monster. She wondered if there was going to be any more fighting.

"I don't think so," Sailor Moon said when she came running towards the other two.

"Sailor Moon!" uttered in amazement by sailor Jupiter.

"Good to have you here!" Sailor Venus smiled.

Then, the fly buzzed in a dive bombing attack at the sailor of love. Sailor Venus yelped out loudly as she ducked to avoid the monster. Sailor Moon was very upset. She said,

"That creep is Moon dusted!"

"Go for it!" Sailor Jupiter said.

Sailor Moon raised her Rainbow Moon Calice for the attack. She thought, "I have my hands really tied this time. We may have lost sailor Arcadia for good!"

"Are you sure!" questioned Sailor Jupiter. A worried look appeared in Sailor Jupiter's eyes. She didn't want to hear one of her sister senshi was gone, trapped by the dark side.

"Yes," Sailor moon said. She raised her Rainbow Moon Calice up in the air. She said, "Rainbow Moon Kiss Threphary!"

In an instant, a large beam of multi-coloured light came from the wand. She knew had a feeling Prince Diamond had another monster up his sleeve. She hoped he wasn't going to pull out any more.

The beam of rainbow light cascaded down towards the monsters fly. Sailor Venus threw herself down on to the grass near the sidewalk. She heard the fly screaming in pain. She said to herself, "What about Rio?"

At the same time, Rio was now hanging upside down with a large amount of grey sticky thread covering her. She wanted to scream for overtime she felt the thread moving. It was like a spider's web. Coming from behind, she heard voices. She wondered who they were. She thought, "What's next?"

A metallic like voice said, "You really like to know?"

"Yea!" Rio yowled back at the voice. She tried to move her head to see who was speaking to her. It was no use; the webbing was wrapped around her neck a little on the tight side. She struggled to catch her breath when she felt the webbing tightening up. She said, "Will you stop with the spider act. It's hurting me!"

"Oh, dear…I'm sorry!" the voice hissed in her ear. Then, Rio felt the webbing moving up towards her chin. It was slimy in texture when it crawled upwards. She wondered what could happen next. The voice said, "My guest feels a little uncomfortable?"
The webbing was trying to cover her entire body.

At the same time, Dusty who was sitting in the car with Steve in the parking lot near the stadium was feeling what Rio was feeling, a power trying to smoother her out. He wanted to find her before anything else happened. She was love for all times. He had to protect her.

Steve looked at Dusty and said, "What's up with you?"

"I feel like Rio is in trouble!" Dusty uttered with a blank expression.

"What?" Steve griped. He placed a hand up to his forehead. He said, "You have that feeling the last time she was ill. What makes you think this time she's in trouble now!"
Dusty was now shaken out of his slight stupor. He glared at his friend and growled, "Remember…Rio and me have a connection!"

"Yea!" Steve sighed, feeling the sting of Dusty's eyes. He knew that was moving to a point that was a little more than he cared to mess with. He said, "Sorry mate. I have no idea that you took it very seriously!"

"Yes…I do!" Dusty said before growing very light headed. He could feel the connection growing apart very quickly. He didn't want this to happen. The fear of really losing her was still palpable to him. He uttered looking adorn, "I got to find her. Where could she have gone to?"

Steve, who had a level head at times, said, "Calm down…we will find her. Just take it easy!"

He tried to grab at Dusty's arm. He was going to make his best friend stay focused as they looked for Rio.

The time between a heart beat was measured so quickly that to made the rest of world seemed so pointless.

Then, things came to a head.

Rio was now going to be assaulted; she had no idea who was behind it. She tried to struggle from the webbing that was now apart of her. She did not want top be another victim. She wanted to live so badly, it hurt. She said, "Is this…no help!"

There was only silence.

Then the nightmare became real. She felt another surge of electric running past her. She wanted to scream but couldn't. The voices were now mixed her in her mind. Her mind was now a muffled mix of air squeezing. The sounds were like that of a thunder storm at a long distance. She could feel a song running in her mind. She wondered who was singing.

"We sit and watch umbrellas fly, I'm trying to keep my newspaper dry, I hear myself say, My boat's leaving now'...so we shake hands and cry, Now I must wave goodbye,
Wave goodbye!" a soft male voice sang in Rio's ears.

Her world seemed to halt. The only thing she could sense at all was the voice singing to her. Was this a long ago memory buried deep with in her mind. Her past was now trying to catch up to her, breaking every chink in her amour.

The song continued on, "You know… I don't want to cry again…I don't want to cry again…Don't want to say goodbye I don't want to cry again…I don't want to run away.
Don't want to race this pain…I'll never see your face again…Oh but how…How can you say!"

She tried to think where she heard the song before. Then, the memoires started to flood back into her mind. It was memories of a past that was lying dormant for a long while. She had no idea where they come from.

"That I didn't try, you see things in the depths of my eyes, that my love's run dry
No..."

She thought, "Where did that song come from. I think I have heard before."

"We leave to their goodbyes…I've come to depend on the look in…Their eyes
my blood's sweet for pain…"

Rio felt like falling into the void where she was five years ago. She had no memories of the past. She was living person with no real identity. She was found wandering in a flied somewhere in England. She knew she was born, but where.

"The wind and the rain bring back words, of a song…And they say: wave goodbye
Wave goodbye!"

It seemed like Rio was slipping away from the present into a past she had trouble remembering. She wanted so badly to stop where she was at. Then…the song had stopped in mid air. It was like a CD stuck in mid cord. She had no room to breath. No idea where this was leading her to.

"Rio…or rather should I speak of your past!" another voice said.

What was this…a third voice or was a fourth, Rio was very confused. She had no idea how this was going to end. Why this unseen, but did heard voices kept on forcing their way into her mind. She had one last idea. She was going mad, but from what.

"My dear human…what is that made you leave us!" the voice asked.

"What leave…where?" she wondered, trying to save her now depleting energy. It was like the last time she had this strange feeling. What was going to fall on her was anybody's guess.

"My dear human…when was the last time I talked to you?" the voice questioned her.

"Now, I have really lost it. There is no way I can hear a voice, but not see anyone talk to me! I don't even a mobile phone!" Rio thought. She tried to blink out the minutes between breathing.

"You are so reliant," the voice purred. "I wouldn't even think that you were still alive after what had happened."

"I don't remember anything. I just remember what had happened this. I have no idea what you are talking about!"

"Oh?"

"Why are you asking me this stupid question? I have no idea what you want from me!"

"Don't realize that I hold your life in the very grip of a span. Now give me the answers that I asked. Beside that I might let you live. I have some things for you to do later!"

"What things. I don't want to do it…what ever you want me to do!" Rio sounded very frightened and trapped. She wondered if this was just a bad dream turning into a nightmare.

"Quiet!" the voice howled in her mind. Then, sending a large bolt of electric through her body, the voice had her right where it wanted. How many times that she didn't want to go thought the pain again.

Rio cried out and writhed in agony. She wanted to just give up one last time. Yet, the power of Moon Kingdom wasn't going to let her down.

A light in Rio's soul started to grow as if it were a small seed. She felt it inside, warming her up. She had no idea what was going to happen next.

Meanwhile, Sailor moon was now trying to still figure out what would she do to save the planet. It seemed like the cards where stacked up against her. She had tried to use her wand once. It wasn't working out. It seemed like the monsters getting stronger. She tough tot herself, "what I am going to use. The wand is not working. I wish I could go back to my normal life as myself."

Prince diamond had his hands on Hotura. He had some idea of bring Mistress Nine back from her sleep. It could rob him of his powers, yet he was willing to risk it. He had grabbed Hotura by the shoulder once aging. This time he was very skillful as his one hand grappled with her slim shoulder.

Hotura let out a yowl, "Let me go!"

"Not this time!" the white haired prince hissed through a snarl of teeth.

"What…is there an option to just give up?" Sailor Moon thought to herself. Her mind raced back to the same feeling she had one thousand years ago, not to give up. Yes, she was a very big cry baby…yet she had done life times of growing in a short span of a few years. "No…the others are counting on me."

Her eyes fell on Sailor Venus, Luna and Artimes. They were still trying to avoid the monster as best as they could. To give in was too easy. Even for Ami, mina or Rei…Serena had a bit of last minute courage.

"This is it…" Sailor moon thought. "I have to do what is best for all of us. I hope this is my last time on thinking of it!"

"You have the power to destroy all that is evil!" a voice rang gently in Sailor Moon's mind. It was her mother, Queen Serenity.

"Yes…mother, I will!" sailor moon thought. Rising her wand for another try, Sailor moon hoped that her mother was watching out for her as well as the rest of the former moon kingdom. "I am so tried of seeing what you have done in the past! You have no idea what you could be like if you were good!"

"Good!" the white haired prince spat out the word. "The word sticks in my mouth."
"Why do you take evil's side?" Sailor moon pleaded. She knew he could have been good the first time around. When he had died the first time, it was only sign of his goodness coming from inside.

"Why…are you such a little child!" he snapped.

"I don't care if I am a little child. I am still the moon princess!" Sailor Moon's voice cracked a fraction. She knew he was just trying to get under her skin. She had to build up a wall just in case of one last trick.

"Soon to be my slave!" he hissed, his eyes glowing nearly white. He was going to use his third eye. Trying to tap into his powers, Prince Diamond stared blindly at Sailor Moon. The gaze haunted her still. She tried to move found her feet unable to move.

"Why can't I move?" she thought. She tried to move her feet back. She was now trapped like the last time he used his powers on her. She wanted to close her eyes to block out his gaze. All of her muscles were now ensnared in a powerful grip.

"She is right where I want her!" Prince Diamond smirked as he thought.

"Oh, mother…help!" Sailor Moon cried out in her mind. She willed her body to move even it was one inch. She couldn't. All she could do was breath and stare at Prince Diamond.

"Sailor Moon!" Hotura cried out. She glanced at her friend in danger. She wanted to help, but she had heard stories about Prince Diamond from Reenie. His gaze was almost like staring into the face of Messuda.

Something was starting to bubble inside of her as well. The darkness that she had locked away from the rest of the world for a ling time was starting to crack open. It had found little chinks in her frail soul. She didn't realize Hotura Tomeo herself had still hate and jealously in her mind. They hide in the most smallest of places in her mind. Now it was too late to stop it. Hotura felt a force creeping around inside her heart. She realized before time ran out it was the force named Mistress Nine.

"Let me out!" the darkling gasped, feeling power surging around Hotura's frail mind set.

"I want to feel the freedom that you had!"

"No way!" Hotura gasped. She noticed the dark enegry piling up around her. The coldness was so thick that it scared her. She said, "I thought I got rid of you a long time ago!"

"I am like a very bad penny. I just wait until I have a reason to crop up.!" the voice of Mistress nine hissed in Hotura's mind.

"I didn't want you to live. You had ruined countless lives including my father's!" Hotura cried out.

"Your father was just a pawn in my path to please the Pharaoh!" Mistress nine purred loudly. She was starting to take shape in Hotura's mind. All it needed was a pure heart source. Reenie was now an option for the taking. Yet, there was talk about taking both Reenie and Hotura to be used in Galaxia's plan of plugging the world into darkness. It seemed like one couldn't go without the other. Did Mistress nine know about Wicked Lady? There was a very slim chance that the power Reenie had to make her into Wicked lady could be used to power up Mistress Nine. It was a chance Galatia could use.

"That was and still is lie!" Hotaru howled on hearing the painful news about her father. She loved her father very deeply. She had remembered what had happened the day the lab blew up. Then, the rest was very blurry. Her heart pounded hard against her chest. Feeling week, she began to slip out of her skin. The power flowing through her was not hers. It was evil power taking over her. She had no control when the power broke through. Hotura's soul split into two different personalities. It seemed like the harder Hotaru pushed back the evil, the evil had nearly took her down by surprise.

"Now, it beings!" Prince Diamond crackled in an evil cry.

"No…" Sailor Moon cut in with possible intervention. She had the last taste of evil for the last time. This could be her last chance before becoming queen to have a normal teenage life. No more fighting was a good thing. She had a peaceful life before her sailor senshi role. She was not just about to let Galaxia wake up the evil once again. "I will not let your evil destroy my world."

She held out the wand in front of her. She closed her eyes to power up.

Then, Hotaru felt a large unseen hand push her down onto the ground. She cried out in pain as darkness started to rip her mind apart. She wanted to change into Sailor Saturn to stop Mistress Nine from coming in. she remembered her henshin item in her shirt pocket. She tried to roll over to make a grab for the item in her pocket. "Not this time…little firefly!" the evil spirit hissed in her mind.

Then, she appeared in a thin film of mist over Hotura's body. Hotaru gasped,

"Why…why…do you have to be such a nasty power? I thought you were dead. I watched you disappear right in front of me!"

"I might have disappeared, yet I am still inside of you. I was laying, asleep. Now I have been nudged awake!"

Hotaru felt a hand grab the crown of her head. She gritted her teeth in order not to scream. She glanced up at someone who was now standing ion front of her. She noticed through a blur of new formed tears it appeared to be her father. She wondered how he survived the blast from the destruction of Mugen School. Her eyes were filled with tears as she spoke, "What are you going to do with me?"

"Do?" Professor Tomeo growled darkly as he bent down far enough to see eye to eye with his daughter. "My dear baby girl…the world is waiting for the silence to return! "

"No…" Hotaru gasped, very much afraid. She knew he was no longer the kind and gentle father she knew. This was a man who was changed into an evil monster. She had no idea of changing him back with it her powers. If she could reach her shirt pocket, then she could try to scramble out of his grip. There was no way of doing it. "I have changed…"
It seemed like both Mistress nine and her father reached into Hotura's mind to found out what was the change. "There is no more change!"

"You will become one of us and like it!" Prince diamond hissed.

"Over my crown as Moon Princess!" Sailor Moon barked. She had no idea how this situation was going to turn out.

It was time for Sailor Acadia to change into a creature a little more severe. Her body was now incasing from the many threads of spider like webbing. This strange cocoon wasn't moving at all. She believed she was going to die at any second. It was nice, short life.

Wanting to do, Rio said, "I'm so sorry, everyone. I couldn't give my all!"

The darkness surrounding her was the ending she didn't' want to see. She wanted to be around her friends and family. She didn't want to end like this.

Then, it was going to change. The change was not what she wanted. It was more of outside force taking her and shaping her into a creature no one wanted to see unless it was the heat of dangerous combat. Rio was under complete submission for the taking.

The cocoon was raised to a higher plan. There in the brightest spot nearest the sun and the clouds, the darkness was going to reconstruct her body in the prefect image of a warrior hands down. A large dose of heat turning on the cocoon in to a large fire ball blazed in the sunlight.

In the same time, Rio let out a scream of agony that she had never done before. She knew this was not the ending of her life. Instead she instantly believed that it could have been judgment of the wrongs she had done in the past.

Then, it stopped. Rio didn't scream as in the previous times. Her energy was complete drained. The cocoon was now blackened by the electricity.

Time was in complete stand still.

A life was going to break out of the death once again like the countless times it had done in the past.

Sailor Moon was caught between a rock and a hard place. She watched as Hotaru struggled with her father and the ghostly figure of mistress nine. She had to fight. Her mind was racing with a fever which she had before. She had no idea what this fever was like. She had talked to Ami about it dozens of times. Ami had chalked it up to heat of the battle. Ami could understand what Serena was going thought and told Serena that it wasn't a fever, this was her body telling her to not to give in. she raised her hopes if she could only sacrifice her life power in the wand she used. She had done it dozens of times. Was it fear she felt in her present state. She couldn't wonder about it for right now.

"Serena…please, do something or all is lost!" a voice in her mind cheered in her idea.
It seemed like the voice in her mind was all the people who she had cared for trying to help make the right idea work.

"I will not fail!" Sailor moon thought before closing her eyes and lifting her wand near over her head. She was going to stop the Chaos from spreading.

Then, something happened. Like a very service lighting storm brewing, the evil that came from nowhere in time was about to surface. The sky began to cloud up heavily. Sailor Moon was shaking inside, but she tried to remain as calm as she could. "This is for everything that I stand for!" she said before letting out her command, "Honey moon therapy…"

The wand was starting to glow. It meant Sailor Moon was powering up for another attack. She didn't pay attention to the thundering. She needed to be strong.

"You have no idea what we can do!" Professor Tomeo smiled darkly. He wanted to shove his daughter's head hard onto the pavement. He wanted to show her his will of about discipline. He was about to raise Hotura's head a little before he threw it down.
Then, it happened. It really happened. The skies became red and full of fire. Then, the ground started to shake. Was it an earthquake? Rio one knew what was going on or coming next.

Sailor Moon held firm on her grip. She couldn't let the wand slip out of her hands. She had a bad feeling if it did. Then, she was jolted up in the air. She didn't feel the earth shake until it was right under her. She screamed, "…RIGHT NOW!"

A large bolt of light shot out of the wand. It headed for Prince Diamond. He ducked quickly to avoid the light. He hit the pavement quickly, then, felt the heat from the blast.

He wondered if Sailor moon was just bluffing. She appeared to be very angry. "What is she on?" he thought. His left arm slammed into the pavement, causing it near break open. He glanced up at her. The same look as before. The look of pure hate was in Sailor Moon's eyes.

"You have no idea what she could do," Hotura gasped. She felt like her neck was about ready to snap. She could not move in her present situation. She was now crying from the pain. "Sailor moon is the greatest warrior!"

"Mistress nine…this little girl is not able to fight back. She is prefect for the taking!" Professor Temoe said. His grip was still strong as he held fast to his daughter's head. He bent his head down to be at eye level. "You will be ours once again!"

As the dark past was starting to take a toe hold on the present, the lighting rumbled so headily. It began to dance over the heads of the people who were outside. Sailor moon tried not to look so frightened.

There was a darker evil lurking in the shadows. The blackness oozed out of the ground like blood. It was glowed with a lighter shade of hunter green. Sailor moon turned to stare at the ooze. Hoping that it wouldn't attack her, Sailor Moon started to gear up for another attack. She heard a humming and cranking noise coming from the ooze.

The situation was growing from bad to worst. Mistress nine placed a hand on Hotura's back. She could feel Hotura's power weakening. She was going to break into Hotura's soul one way or another. She uttered in hateful tones, "Little firefly…I'm going to crush you…now!"

Hotura couldn't speak. The pressure from her father's grip was too much for her to bear. She was now crying, trying to free herself from it. She also felt the power of Mistress nine seeping in. the power was too much from her to bear. The power began to break her spirit.

Then, the black ooze flew into a rage. It climbed up in to the sky at lighting speed. Sailor moon heard the noise coming from it. The humming grew louder as the ooze took form. Lighting raced all over the form, taking the appearance of human girl. Was this a new creature in which Galaxia had a handing? Sailor moon now stood in fear. She and the others watched as instantly the form became almost human.

Quickly the human form surveyed the situation and lashed out at Prince Diamond. It felt the power of Prince Diamond. It knew he was evil. He was jolted to the ground in a heart beat. He felt like every bone in his body was about to rip apart. He lay there in the dirt with his body in sheer agony

"What?" Sailor moon gasped. She had witnessed something that she had rarely seemed.

It was like nothing was stopping this creature. Sailor moon knew that the creature wasn't from here. It was not from the moon kingdom. This creature was from another time, another place.

Sailor Mars was going to use her flaming arrows on the creature. The creature knew about it. It raised its hand up towards the sky. Sailor mars felt her being picked up off the ground by the scurf of her neck like a cat. She was instantly tossed on to the pavement. She let out a scream when she landed. This was a warning to the sailor senshi to leave the cleaning up of the evil to this black creature.

Dusty felt like his heart was going to be exploded into an uncounted amount of pieces. He wanted to stop the pain. There was nothing to stand in the creature's way. Sailor moon wondered if Rio was connected to the suit in someway. Yet, she feared that Rio was being used as a bargaining chip of sorts. There had to be a reason or way to get through to the people who had Rio captive.

"What did you do that for?" she asked the creature.

The creature didn't speak. It remained quiet as it tried to think of a way driving out evil. Sailor moon stared at it for a while as through she was trying to get into the creature's thoughts.

"Why are you here?" Sailor Moon asked in calming voice. She felt her role as Queen of the moon Kingdom had to have a new chapter in its short span. She wanted to reason with this new creature.

The creature was instantly distracted from the séance by the noises of Professor Tomeo trying to kidnap his own daughter. She was now pinned to the ground with the force of Mistress nine nearly chocking her.

The flick of the wrist, professor Tomeo was pushed off to one side by the black creature. He felt like he was been kicked to one side. He wondered if Galaxia was upset with his work. Then, she sent this new creature to get rid of him.

"FATHER!" Hotura yelped as she saw her father being tossed to the edge by the use mind control.

"What is it doing?" Mistress nine said. She turned to stare at the professor. Then, she shifted her glance at the black creature. She began to feel fear like she hadn't before.

Then, the ground started to move. It was started out in a light quake, yet it made the trees dance a little and the phone wires sway. Finally the ground inside of the football field started to break apart. The black creature was drawn to the confusion in the stadium.

"The world is breaking apart into a war!" Rio thought. "There is nothing to stop the confusion. What will happen next?"

"I have found you!" a voice rang in Rio's mind.

"I can't remember who you are…yet you have been searching for me…why?" Rio thought.

"Because you are an animal that needs to be wiped off the list of the living!" the voice hissed.

"I am not…" Rio became very upset with the voice in her head. "…a beast!"

"Yes and I will control you!" the voice whispered in her mind.

The ground shook even harder. The black creature took one step and was hurled into the gate way of the stadium. The black creature felt something trying to crawl it way from the place where it was buried at.

The skies grew red with the fire of the ages of long ago. There were signs of the end of an age.

The beginning of another was just creeping along. What was there to stop it? No one knew the power of black creature. It was not like anything before.

The ground inside the middle of the football field became hot and steamy as if an unseen force was testing the grounds. It began to melt and ooze like molten glass, taking large amounts of heat. The steam began to vent itself through large cracks in the ground. The black creature let out a large bolt of energy from its body. It was although the suit was trying to take over the host's body, but the host (who was Rio at the time) tried to fight it off.

Then, five large coffin in length type tubes instantly bubbled up from the ground. Following them was a large amount of steam. The silver tubes glowed newly red hot as they came out of the ground.

"What is going on?" the black creature thought to itself as the tubes surfaced and resend on the now smoldering grass. It watched as the lighting started to dance around the tubes. It was a clear sign that tubes had some sort of life form inside.

"Welcome to the end of the world!" the voice said in the black creatures' head.

"No…it can't be happening!" Rio thought as she began to realize she was inside the suit. She was the black suited creature with a face shield which was also black. She was the black creature watching the work as it began to crumble right in front of her.

"What are you going to do?" the voice asked in her mind.

"I'm going to fight with ever breath!" she thought.

"Oh…cleaver girl!" the voice hissed as it nearly turned her blood into ice.

"What am I going to do?" Rio thought. She knew someone was controlling the situation behind the séance. She wanted to find out whom. Yet, now wasn't the most idea of times.

"Battle will take place in one hundred and twenty seconds!" another voice boomed in her ears.

"Battle…" Rio thought to herself. She was utterly startled at the though of another battle, yet this time she wasn't a sailor scout. With her mind racing, Rio thought, "How am I going to fight without my powers? I am Sailor Acardia, yet I am dressed like this!"

She glanced down at the suit.

Voices whispered in her mind, telling her that the suit she was wearing at a sort of power suit meant for battle.

"Power suit," she thought. Then, she remembered seeing a few anime shows and one Japanese monster movie. She wondered if someone was making up a suit off those shows and she was a test subject. Then, she wondered if she was going to be a power range that made her head ached. She hated the power rangers when she believed that she avoid afternoon TV.

"What are you thinking about?" the first voice questioned Rio.

"Nothing!" Rio thought that she was safe from prying ears and eyes. Yet, someone had done the most incredible thing in her world. They were able to read her troughs and watch over her without leaving a trace. Not even Alex could do that. She wondered for a length if a heart beat she was being watched from somewhere else in the universe. A horrific and instant flash back slammed into her mind.

"What is she going to realize is not a normal way of battle!" a hummed around her. It was like the spirits of the unborn were hanging around her body. Rio always had a link to the three worlds of the past, present and the future.

"Normal battle!" she thought. She wondered was normal since she was even. Things were very much not normal. Even faster she became a sailor senshi; she had a normal life in London. She lived with the knowledge that she was part of something big. Yet, the stranger events since she and the others were in America had been not all that normal. She wondered if she was going to crazy trying to figure out what was going on. She couldn't remember a past she had some sort of link to. She wasn't going to be let go that easily. She realized that when the suit didn't to respond to her mind orders. She didn't want to stay in on spot if she was going to battle. The idea of being a sitting duck wasn't going to be sitting well with her.

"Battle sequence being in four… three…two…one!" a voice rang over her ears.

Then, the ground started to quake an install. There was no warning as six long tubes burst out of the warm sticky gerund after the dirt had turned into ooze. The tubes were nearly eight feet in length and four feet in with. They seemed to be very smooth in appearance. There was a humming which came from each tube. They quickly changed color from silver to molten red. It seemed like something inside was trying to break free from the possible years of sleep that the creatures or humans inside where forced into.

"What's going on here?" Rio thought. She was terrified inside. She knew evil from all the battles for the moon kingdom, yet this was a darker one which she was not using to. This evil was not like any she had felt.

"What battle would you like to choose from?" a fourth voice asked.

"What battle would I like pick from!" she gasped. "What in the world?" she wondered if she was loosing what little sanity she had left.

The ground was now a liquid mass turning into ash. It was through the ground didn't have time to cool down just yet. The humming didn't end. It grew as the tubes turned back to their silver forms. They began to crack open with ear splitting ringing. Black creature instantly clamped down on her ears as her hands bolted to the sides of her head. Rio felt the noise ripping through her. She didn't want to quit, yet the noise was trying to break her in two. She felt another presence inside of her own mind. She wanted to scream from the pain. In a heart beat, the noise had stopped. Was the fact she had instantly lost her hearing or was it the suit protecting her. "What's going on now?" she wondered.

Five tubes instantly surfaced on the oozing ground. They were in appearance like almost small lifts shafts yet, they were smaller in size. They looked like there were eight feet across and five feet in want. White hot glow coming from the outside was a clear marker stating that they were causing the ground to change.

"The smell is not normal…" Rio thought as the acrid scent of melting direct stung her face.

The suit reacted to the smell and the heat repeating from the site. It began to tightening up towards Rio's own body as though it was a suit being costumed fitted for her. She gasped at first, feeling frightened at the session. She tried to be calm about everything, yet this was the first time she had no control over something as small as a nano-suit.

"Battle suit conforming into host's thoughts!" a cold metallic voice said in Rio's mind.

"Enough!" she nearly shouted. Rio was growing tired of the voice and the feeling of having no control over own body.

"In three, two…one!" the voice continued.

"Get me out of this suit!" Rio thought. She had no powers of her own with this suit. She was not a sailor senshi. She was sitting duck just unable to move.

The tubes were lining themselves into a form of a circle. They hummed even louder. It was like they were contacting another part of the galaxy firm where they were where at. They were getting ready themselves for the battle. The tubes began to crack open from the heat. They were lighting glowing from the inside. Thin little streams of black ooze came from the inside. Rio could smell the heat and the ooze from just a mile away. The smell was strong. It was like the ooze inside was going to do its thing, what that thing was…Rio couldn't see.

The lighting was building up in a large ring from away around the tubes. Rio wondered if she was safe or not. There were two sheltered stands with doorways leading into the restrooms. She wanted to see if she could run to the one closest to her. A large bolt of lighting flashed fifty feet from her. She thought twice to in staying put. She had a good taste of fear in her mouth.

"Why is there a lighting storm over the stadium?" Dusty asked Steve as he and his friend nearly ran for cover back to their car. He heard the noise of the thunder as he tried to open the door. He and others knew that only place safe during a storm outside of a house was a car.

Yet, the lighting didn't have a random pattern to go to. Instead it stayed in one place. It hovered over the stadium. It was very much a controlled area. The heat started to spill out of the stadium as a warning sign. This was not meant for anyone to watch. This was a suit battle in order to test the suit out. It was like someone wanted to see if the suit could stand up to any sort of combat with a living human unused.

"I wondered if I am going to be last one standing." Rio thought.

The lighting took aim as if it down poured itself across the tubes. There was a flash of bright red hot light coming from the tubes. The ooze turned black before turning a red hot grey. The ooze was like the same stuff that brought the black creature to life. Rio watched as the ooze twisted and turned into a large pillars of grey stone. It was very much a sight to behold.

Then, the lighting caused the tubes to catch fire. Rio didn't know what to do next. She was going to turn and run, but the suit was making her stay put. She thought, "Now, I'm going from the frying pan and into the fire!"

She noticed the fire staying in one place. The tubes were keeping the fire under control of sort. "Battle will take place in five minutes!" a voice rang in her mind.

The tubes were now on fire with the heat of the sun.

"Battle…with those things. How can I deal with that?" Rio thought after the fact of the tubes were how red hot.

"What else?" a voice whispered loudly in her easers.

The fire had died down as fast as it came out. The lighting started up again this time to bring life to the black ooze. The black ooze shot up twisting itself into human forms. There were clumps of lighting that aided in the development of the human type forms. Rio stood there like a deer caught in the headlight. There were five forms in the blackened ooze.

"What am I thinking?" Rio asked herself. She wondered if she had been losing it even before she got out of the building. "I have to fight…"

Feeling her arms raising up towards her chest, Rio had to think of a quick way of fighting before she would fall into the wrong hands. Yet, the transformation of the figures from the black ooze was taking a long time. Then, the figures took an eerie human type form. It shocked Rio as she watched them change into tall male type figures.

"Human combat seems will be on the battle grounds in five seconds!" the voice in Rio's mind hummed. She watched as the ooze took the last seconds in forming into the human type creatures. She gasped as she noticed each one of the forms had very white faces. Was she going to fight the dead?

"Five…four…three… two," a voice started to tick off the seconds before the human type creatures were going to bring to live.

"I have no sailor power!" she thought. Then, her heart started to pound, was it because she was scared or was it because her outrage of having no sailor powers was causing it to pound.

The twist figures were now cooling down into a group of humans with battle armor which was menacing in appearing. They stood nearly seven feet tall in long boots with three inch spiked heels. The boots were a mix of bloodied red, black and silver. They were tightly wrapped around the feet of the humans as thought they were a second skin. From the feet and legs were a wrapped up in form of leather type cases that were almost riding pants which were contented with large chains or large clips made out of silver. The middle of these types of odd customs was a statement of who these men were.

She stared at the strange thing happening right in front of her. She realized she was not up against monsters or the dark kingdoms. These creatures were men that were genetically altered. "What are you going to do?" she asked herself.

She knew everything was very grim.

"I'm going to fight!" she said in a whisper. Watching the human type creatures come to life, Rio thought, "I am not going to lose!"

The creatures were now taking shape as a final form. They were opening their eyes as the world cowered before them. It was like days before that these creatures fought before Rio was even thought of. These cerates were men generally altered into monster by a force that was even unknown to the Moon Kingdom. Rio was going to think of a way bringing the sailor Senshi to the battle in order to help her out. She heard a crack of thunder. Lighting began to form a large net over the stadium walls. It was taking shape like a dome. It was like someone didn't want Rio to leave or any of the sailor Senshi to enter the place.

"Great!" Rio thought has she quickly glanced up at the white hot dome of lighting. "If I don't win…what will happen?"

"You will die!" the voice who spoke to Rio in the past few minutes hissed in her mind.

The words hit harder than any other words. She wondered what will happen to her. She gasped, "Wonderful, I don't like those words!"

"You have no choice in the matter!" the voice said.

"I thought I did!" a voice similar to Rio's rang in her mind. Was she going mad? Looking down, then up…Rio wondered if she had a chance. She noticed a few coloured lights flashed in front of her eyes. She was a bit puzzled about them. After the operation to restore her eyes, Terri told her about her eyes playing tricks on her. The muscles were pressed down so such a long time, she would have problems.

"Battle will begin in five…" a voice said in a metical ring for a second time. The suit was doing a second check. It was like there was a tiny glitch in the system for a second or two.

"What's going on with my eyes?" she said to herself.

The lights had not stopped. They began to flash into numbers. Things were trying to make some sense of the situation. They were going hairy as the numbers dwindled down to the last two.

Rio braced herself as best as she could, she was trying to take a breath to calm herself.

"The only thing I have to see is my own death or another day of living!" she thought in a very reckless and James Bond sort of way.

"BEING!" a countless voice screamed in her ears as a large flash of red light smashed into her eyes nearly blinding her.

She felt the suit coming alive as she began to run towards the group of creatures. A cat-like man growled, "Wow…look who's coming see us!"

Rio felt her heart race in her throat. She didn't want to fight someone she didn't have a plan of action. She wondered if they were going to fight or just stand there. A man with silver eyes stared at black wrapped Rio. Rio was turning white inside as her heart jack hammered in her chest.

"Who is that?" the man with the silver asked the others. He was unfamiliar with her. This was really the first time he and others had stood face to face with a young girl warrior.

"Another Black Alpha want-a-be!" the man with a scare on his left eye snorted. He glanced at the black creature who was now slowly powering up for the battle.

"Black Alpha?" the man with the silver eyes said. Placing a hand on his chin, he wondered out loud where he had heard the name before. He tried to scan the creature as she began to run towards them.

The sky turned so dark, it looked like twilight.

"You are the black creature called alpha…are you not?" the man with a scar over his left eye asked. He glanced at her suit.

"Yes…" Rio said as her voice sounded very hollow and cold. There was a voice distorter in the face mask. "I am… are you willing to stop this fighting!"

The words seemed too automatic that, it sounded like a plea for peace than just a simple teenager's request. She adjusted herself on the hot ground. The steam from the melted ground was still warm. She had to stop for a second for her mind to get use to the idea her whole body was wrapped up in a protective plastic suit. A thought of being caught up in another anime classic called bubblegum crisis was a mind altering session. She stood tall as she asked, "Which one will stop before we even got started. I don't belong here. I am a Sailor Soldier!"

None of the others spoke. They glared at the young dark covered warrior.

Then, the one with the scar over his left eye said, "Never heard of you!"

Finally he used his kenotic powers with a flick of the hand threw Rio sailing across until she met up with a brick wall. She felt the bricks biting into her flesh. She winced, trying not to feel anything. She didn't want to be a weakling. She had to be strong as she slid down to the ground. Feeling the wind leavening her body, Rio tried at the despair point to be focused.

"What…is it over?" the cat man asked with a mocking surprise gaze in his green eyes.

"Don't be so excited to see this one gone. She was just becoming a warm up act!" the man with the scar over his left eye said.

"A warm up act!" a man whose face was very badly scarred asked with a growl. He and others knew that Rio was just a girl who shouldn't be fighting at all. They didn't know she was a Sailor Senshi for love and justice.

"The creature is a girl!" the cat man said. He noticed the shape of the suit.

"What?" the heavily facial scared man said.

"I have a feeling that Black alpha is a girl!"

"No way!" the man with the silver hair said as the rest stared at Black Alpha. "It's girl!"

"What is this feeling I'm getting off those creeps!" Rio thought.

"Are you sure?" the cat man asked. He turned to glare at the man with a scared left eye.

"Yea…the last time was a man…and he cleaned our clocks!" the man with the silver hair said.

"Oh…am I certain this one is a girl!" the man with the scared left eye said. His right eyebrow shot up with an odd glare. Why should he and the other four be fighting a young girl? He didn't have time to wonder. In his mind, the words of war buzzed in the darkest parts.

"Then, fearless leader….what do we do?" the man with the sliver hair asked.

"We…" the man with the scared left eye began to say. He scanned the area around Black alpha. "…destroy her!"

He knew he and the others were doing the right thing in their preprogrammed history. He remembered how the past, they were hunted down like dogs. Then, they were ordered not to dirty the earth. They wanted to be free from everyone dealing with the Galaxy Academy.

"I hope you are doing the right thing. She doesn't look like she could stand in our way!" the man with a heavily scared face said. He had feeling that Rio was just a little girl who was weak.

"Looks are very dissevering. It's all the way she can fight!" the man with the scared left eye said with tilt of the head. He was going to attack with all the force that he could muster.

"Watch out!" a voice rang in Rio's mind. She instantly jerked her head back before leaping into the air. She was going to be very careful in the battle with some help from an unknown source. She landed on her feet very quickly. It was like she was playing a RPG on line. She knew what she was going to do with a sharp and focused mind.

"What?" the man with the scared left eye said. He and others noticed how fast Rio was learning on her own.

"She was just as fast as the last one!" the cat man purred with surprise. He glanced at the wall to see if there was any sort of support behind it. There was nothing. He asked if he could scout around the area outside of the stadium. The man with the scarred left eye thought it was a good idea. There would possible hostages near by. "Good. I wouldn't be long!" the cat man said before leaping into the air. He was going to land on the middle of the lawn of east gate. Glancing around to see what he could terrify, the cat man noticed the scene standing just a few feet away. He smiled as he sized up two poor excuses for humans, one being Prince Diamond and the others was Sailor moon. He said, "Wow! What fun this is going to be!"

There was a scream which all the Black Alpha's senses seemed to be instantly drawn to them. Rio wanted to save who needed help. She had to, yet she was pinned down herself in more ways than one.

"Are you going to play with us?" the man with the scared left eye asked in a mocking tine.

Black Alpha turned with her anger peaking through. She ordered, "What is this…."

Rio maybe standing just a few feet away from the strange looking creatures, yet her anger was radiating so much that it could be felt. Her heart tightened in anger when she heard the noises of people screaming and shouting in mass confusion.

"What is that?" Sailor moon nearly screamed. Her voice sounded like she was going to be skewered.

"Don't know!" Sailor Jupiter shouted back in fear. She noticed the large cat like creature. She wondered if she and others were reliving a flash back to the time where a best friend named Ken was attacked by a Cardin from the Doom tree.

"Let me guess," the cat man growled as he placed a hand up to his chin, "Super heroes come in little girls with silly little costume!"

"What?" Sailor Jupiter snapped back at the cat man's statement. "Why you…"

She lunged towards him with her one arm out stretched. She aimed for his face. The cat man read her thoughts in a blink of an eye. Backing away to pull out his one hand with a set of razor sharp claws, the cat man was going to cut the situation down to size with Sailor Jupiter. He drew back his intended hand for the kill.

"Supreme Thunder…" Sailor Jupiter cried out as she ran towards the cat man.

"Shut up…little girl!" the cat man hissed threw a controlled opened hand punch.

"SAILOR JUPITER!" Sailor moon screamed. She had to do something before Sailor Jupiter was sliced into shreds. Sailor moon raised her wand to the air. Acting out of her own instincts, she called out, "Honeymoon therapy kiss!"

A bright light came out of her wand. She aimed towards the cat man's face. He knew what was going on, yet he couldn't dodge it. He felt the blow as Sailor Jupiter threw herself down onto the pavement.

The cat man hissed as he tried to move. Then, he felt the blow of the light, slamming him squarely in the mouth and nose. He fell backwards if only for a few minutes. He never felt any sort of power like that before. He realized he had got too far with these little girls.

"Sailor Jupiter… are you o.k.?" Luna asked as she was trying to review the battle damage.

"Yes…I'm just a little bruised!" Sailor Jupiter huffed, feeling her ribs which had been slammed into the pavement after she had dodged the blast from Sailor Moon's attack.

"Is there a human inside that creep?"

Sailor Mars instantly closed her eyes to let even a little of her powers of her inner mind tried to hone in what was behind the cat man. There was a man years ago, but the creature had won after a figure in which the man had died. The pictures were coming so quickly Sailor Mars was terrified at the scene she was watching. Opening her eyes, Sailor Mars said, "he was once human, but there not even a chance of changing him or the others back…"

"What?" sailor Moon gaped. She wondered if Mars was telling the truth.

"If there is no way…then we are doomed!" Luna cried out. She knew the situation appeared to be at a dead end. How could the other scouts come? There was not enough power for Sailor Teleport. They had to make the best of the outcome.

Out of her own desperation, Sailor Moon said, "Let's combined forces!"

The other Sailors didn't have to think. Sailor power in the combined format was a good idea for the worst. "We don't have enough for full power!" Sailor Mars gasped as she noticed that there were only a few sailors to help out.

Feeling determined to use her powers at their fullest potential, Sailor Moon said, "I know!"

There was another scream coming from Hotura's end. She noticed a man with silver eyes and black hair was gearing up for an attack. She, Mistress Nine and her father were trapped. This was no normal monster. His body hummed with angry. It was like he was carrying a lighting charged body suit on his frame. He smiled darkly as he said, "Well..Well…well, what a pretty sight we have here!"

Hotura gasped as she realized, the silver haired man was carrying the same power as Sailor Jupiter was. Yet, she knew the power was only for good. She didn't want to use it for evil. She could feel evil, cold and black entering her space. She had enough of Mistress Nine pushing her around for one last time. She raised her left hand into the air and called out, "Sailor Saturn…make up!"

Mistress Nine felt the power of rebirth and death swirling around her. She screamed as she and Professor Temeo were thrown out of the way. In an instant, Horuta's clothes changed into that of Sailor Saturn. Holding up her hand still, Sailor Saturn's powers brought forth the Silent Glaive.

"What the…" the man with the silver hair said. He realized a little girl was now standing in front of him with a very large weapon.

Pointing the glaive at the man with the silver hair, Sailor Saturn asked in a cool voice, "Why are you here?"

The silver haired man quipped, "To have fun!"

Before Sailor Saturn could say another word, another explosion rocked the stadium. The wall near the right side of the stadium was reduced to rock. Black Alpha took her anger out on the man with the heavily scarred face. The scarred face man was lying amongst the rubble of the form wall. He was unconscious for only a minute or two. He painstakingly woke up with his head ringing. He realized after a second what had happened to him. He sat up to watch as the man with the scarred left eye and Black Alpha battle it out. He didn't know that Rio who was black alpha had some sword training. She was trying to think of a way of out getting her opponent's way. There was nothing to stop him from hurting her the worst way.

"Shoot man!" the man with the silver hair gasped. He knew Black alpha was just had her window of opportunity opened when he and the cat like man were gone. There was only three left. The shadow fox man was sticking to the man with scared left eye. Shadow fox man was born deaf and could read and relay messages from another people's minds. He was like a walking AI. He always worked together with the two main fighters as a back up. The other two were scouts. The silver haired man instantly teleport to the man with the heavily scarred face.

"What's going on?" the heavily scared man asked, rubbing his head. There was a small lump on his forehead. Feeling the lump on his forehead, he believed he was not as strong as Black Alpha.

Looking over the use to be part of a wall, the silver haired man said, "You got zapped and good!"

Snorting with a pained smirk, the facially scared man said, "Yea. The new Black Alpha is not playing fair. She had some nasty tricks up her sleeve."

"So, Star-lover was right, Black Alpha is a girl."

The two flinched as they heard lighting over head. One or the other who were battling in the stadium was drawing upon lighting. On realizing her suit was heightening her own abilities, Rio was now growing anger. She had to stop these beasts from hurting her friends. She had to realize she was using her suit as a divining rod of sorts. With that much power, she had to be careful. She didn't want to hurt the ones she loved.

"That little girl has a kick to her!" the man with the silver hair said, bending down to see if the man with the heavily scarred face needed any help.

"My God…" Sailor moon gasped as she stood close by the stadium. She was now terrified at the prospects of a new enemy.

Sailor Mars said as she stood next to Sailor Moon, "We have a new one to face!"

Without warning, a stray bolt of lighting flew a few feet from Sailors Moon and Mars. It was like the lighting was trying to follow a path of the person who was asking it to come. Sailor Moon was thrown down to the ground and she heard the noise of someone telling her to get down. Her eyes shifted their gaze up to Prince Diamond who had pushed her down to the ground. She asked, "What?"

Lighting sizzled above their heads for another minute.

"I don't want to you to get hurt…that's all!" Prince diamond said as he lay next to her on the pavement.

"Me?" Sailor Moon asked as her feelings were now very much tangled in her mind. She wondered why Prince Diamond was now so concerned about her. He had still had feelings for her, yet he wanted her for one thing, power. She wondered of only for a minute why have them now.

"Yes. You are the most important person for now!" he said, forcing a smile on his lips. He was trying to fake his way out of stealing power, but he had to protect her in pay back for her kindness years ago. He said, "You have so much to give!"

He was giving her chain a good yank. He was going to butter her up before letting her defenses down. That was he was hoping for her to do just before he kidnapped her again.

Sailor moon was going to say something. The two heard the ground shake once again. Was this the end of the world as they thought? She tried to remain calm, but her heart was beating so fast with fear that she wanted scream. Turning to see Sailor Mars, Sailor Moon said, "We have no choice in the matter. We have to be on our toes!"

The two waited for a long time until the ground stopped shaking. Prince Diamond helped Sailor Moon stand up. He could see a little of what was going on with the battle inside of the stadium. He was shocked to see the creature named Black alpha was thrown to the man with the scarred left eye by the fox like human. This strange game of last one standing was getting intense. The man with the scarred left eye was now behind of Black alpha, pinning her to him. She was getting the stuffing knocked out of her. She wanted to end. She aimed another power jolt towards the two. She hoped it would split the two into one left standing. Nothing. She was still pinned to the man with the scarred left eye.

"What are you going to do?" the man asked with a leering look in his eyes. He felt Rio struggle against his weight. He tightened his grip on her wrist. She let out a hiss as she turned her head towards the score board.

The fox type human stared at Black Alpha. He was going to take her down somehow without hurting the man with the scarred left eye. He or the other man wasn't excepting her to attack from the ground up.

It was the suit drawing upon the electricity from the ground. There were many spotlights and the stadium itself with all its electric gear, perfect for a quick jolt of high end energy. Black Alpha felt the pull of the electricity sounding her.

The man with the silver hair noticed his powers being drawn as well. He was outraged with the idea of someone else taking his powers away from him. He had to fight back in order not to stop his powers from leaving his body. He was going to turn his life force powers from positive to negative. He was going to give Rio a bit of bad energy.

"Come on…let me go!" Rio ordered the fox like man in a pleading voice.

There was no response from him outside of a dark and small flick of a grin on his lips. She felt her wrist bone starting to ache from the pressure. She thought of a plan to break herself free from the man. She had to draw upon the power she had in the suit. Yet, there was electrify bolts of air coming from all directions. The fox man jumped back from a few stray bolts of lighting coming from the skies. He didn't realize he was standing in the direct line of her power. As he took steps in taking Rio down a few pegs, the fox man didn't let go. Rio came with the fox man. She didn't' want to be jerked around. With a few a quick turns of the wrist, she built up an eclectically shock. She let the fix man have it. His response was a loud howl of pain and she was nearly thrown to the ground. She

jumped back with a netting of bolts of eclectic following her. That was the wrong proceed. She didn't have time to think of the man with the scarred left eye having any sort of amities of sonic speed or instant teleportation. He stood in front of her with his eyes blazing in hate. Teaching her a lesson in periodical was going to be his first act in breaking down Rio's spirit. He was trying to grab her. He didn't want to her escape. He wanted her to fight with him.

She had a little bit of luck as she gave the same treatment she gave to the fox man. She dodged the man with the scarred left eye in almost dance like movement of her body arching down in a few seconds before swiveling up on the other side. She took her one hand and gave the man a good shove. The man with the scared left eye felt all the weight of the hand hitting him in the stomach. He jerked back so quickly that he nearly collided with the fox man. The fox man was leaning forward to make a grab for Rio.

Rio thought of teleportation before she got slammed. She didn't realize her body suit was in-tuned with her thoughts. She felt her body leaving in an instant. Then, she was faintly outside of the stadium. She glanced around to see if anyone was still standing.

Sailor moon nearly screamed as she saw Black Alpha standing in the street. Lighting hugged in a near perfect liquid form around Black Alpha. This was no normal creature. Sailor Mars said, "Why are you screaming?"

"I feel scared," Sailor Moon whined. She was acting a little bit on her normal side as she tried to face a new enemy.

"Why?" Sailor Mars said; she had a feeling that Sailor moon was using anything for a copout.

"Did you ever have a dream that you wished…it never happened." Sailor Moon looked like she was frightened at the whole world crumbling in front of her. This wasn't happening in front of her.

Rio had enough of this fighting. She didn't want to fight any more. She was going to turn the tables on the men who were ganging up on her. She knew her body suit could stand up to anything. Yet, she was pitted against some heavy appointees. The idea of getting back these new monsters was going to be a very tough bout. She felt suit controlling her too much. She fought on her own terms.

Faintly she decided to throw everything at them. She had thought of catching all of the monsters on a net of sorts and put them in a vault or cage. How was she going to do it?

She remembered a game Reenie and her friends would play in Abby's backyard. It involved the use of soft balls, a few rather large rackets and all over sized net. She had watched the game once when she and Hotura was going to pick up Reenie and Chibi-chibi. The game was made up as the girls played, yet there was something about simple stricture of the game. If she could play the game with the use of a lighting ball, then she would have an upper hand of sorts.

"What is she thinking of?" the man with the scarred left eye thought. He wondered what was going on with her.

"Who can I take down first?" Rio thought. She glared at the man with the silver hair. He appeared to be very strong in his powers. He could counter attack with his jolts. She had to be careful. Then, she wondered back to the man with the heavily scarred face and the cat man. Where were they at?

She was just one person. There was no way of catching each one on her own. Or was there?

Sailor Moon watched as Black Alpha sized up in haste the cat man. She didn't realize that the Cat man was going to attack Black Alpha in the quickest way he could think of. He could wait and sneak up on her while she had her back was turned. It was too easy. The thrill of the attack was lost if she wasn't ready for him.

Black Alpha had other plans. She kept the one idea of playing that strange game in the back of her mind. She had another good idea of throwing a net over the man with the scarred left eye, the cat man and the man with the silver hair. She wasn't going to let them leave just yet. Then, after whining them up in the net, Rio had a thought of putting into a catatonic state. There was a stunning program in the suit. She had to learn quickly to use it or end up a pile of ash.

The man with the scared left eye stood up in a careful movement. He felt the pain from the blow to his stomach. Scanning around for Black Alpha, the man with the scarred left eye asked, "Where did that creep go!"

The fox man shook his head. He knew that Rio had teleported out of the stadium, but where. She had to leave up to chance.

The suit responded quickly to her wishes. The lighting came into view as she held up her hands. She had flexed her hands quickly choosing a spot of the other body where it could be the most effective in taking the opponent down.

The man with the scarred left eye noticed another power surge. He wondered if Rio was going to aim at him again. He was wrong as the power surge instantly threw the fox man for a loop. The fox man was standing behind him as a sort of cover. That wasn't going to work. These attacks were hidden from their view. Was Rio using a different tactic?

The fox man didn't feel it coming. Rio had let a power jolt slid from her suit to the ground. She had reprogrammed the power jolt to seek it her enemies. She had to be quick. The fox man nearly jumped out of his skin as the large jolt of power hit from underground.

Rio said, "One down!"

She was looked up at the sky for a second. It was like she was half excepting an attack from a much known source. She had to be ready for anything. Then, she felt a jolt of heat hitting her from all sides. In a surprised attack the heavily scarred fact man took it upon himself to attack her with a ring of fire. He knew the power of fire was his own life force.

"Burn…baby…burn!" the man with scarred face hissed. He had teleports to the edge of the field.

Rio was terrified, but she had to keep herself focused. She thought, "It's only a trick. If they wanted to get rid of me...they would have done it years ago!"

Rio's body suit reacted in a strange way of bringing a quick shower to her by using the power of drawing water from the skies. Feeling the cool water hitting her body suit, Rio noticed the flames dying down from the fire.

"What?" the man cat man hissed. He was noticed the small isolated rain fall shrouding Black Alpha. He was both outrage a little and curious. He was going to found out what were the limits of Black Alpha's body suit.

Then, she quickly rerouted the smoke back to the man with the scarred face. She said, "Where there's smoke, there is fire!"

The smoke instantly burst into flame. The man with the scarred face howled as he felt the fire sparks hit him in the face. He rapidly covered his face with his hands. He said, "I'll get you for that!"

"Not in this life time!" Black Alpha jerked her head a little. Her reaction sent the man with the scarred face slamming into the ground. He was blasted by a kinetic surge from Black Alpha. He didn't realize that the body suit she was wearing began to take over the complete battle.

"Get her!" the man with the scarred left eye yelped.

Black alpha was going to attack, yet she had an even better plan. She was going to let the electric break into smaller sections and fully attack the creatures who were trying to hurt her. She raised her hands up into the air. She felt the energy pulsing in her hands. The ball of energy was coming full force.

"What…" the man with the scarred left eye gasped out of shock.

"She is not lying back down!" the cat man said, his eyes grew wide.

"No…" hissed the man with heavily scarred face. He knew what was going to happen next. He had feeling that Rio was learning so quickly about the suit, it was frightening. "We are going to get it now!"

As if an answer to the attack, the man with the silver hair said, "I'll take care of it!"

Rio knew that the silver haired man was coming. He wasn't expecting her attack. She whipped around in a heart beat to greet the silver haired man with a large jolt of electricity. She shoved the ball into his chest, casing him to instantly collapse to the ground. He let out a loud gasp as he stared blankly at her. She said, "Got two!"

"She is knocking us down at rapid speed!" the man with heavily scarred face said. He realized she was going to trap them into a place with no return. He had a very terrible feeling that their mission was going to fail miserably.

The man with the scarred left eye glanced at the fox man. He gave the orders to stop Black Alpha cold. The fox man nodded before teleporting again. The fox man appeared in a heart beat. Yet, she was ready for him. She whipped around to launch a jolt of power into the fox man. The fox man howled in pain as he felt the ball hitting him in the belly.
"Three!" she thought.

Then, she watched as the fox man fell to the ground. He reeled in pain as she stepped over him. She took careful aim when the idea of the trapping the creature in a shield of energy. He wasn't going anywhere soon. She spun around, holding out her one hand. The ball dropped to the ground encasing the monster inside. The man with the heavily scarred face howled as he knew he was trapped inside of the dome.

Rio was now down to two monsters left. She had to be quick in order to free herself from the suit. She was suspecting the catman instantly sneaking up on her with one claw like hand out stretched. She had her back turned for only a second, but it afforded her foe just enough time to try to attack her from the back. Feeling a set of razor sharp claws ripping through her suit, Rio let out a scream. The cat man was going to settle Rio down with another claw attack. She gritted her teeth as she prepared for another attack on her own. She was drawing the lighting from the skies for one final sweep. Feeling like the body suit had very limited time for any more battling after the attack from the cat man, Rio had to think fast as the blood started to ooze out of the cuts on her back.

"Little girls shouldn't be playing with men!" the cat man growled with a smirk on his lips. He was standing on one side of Black alpha. His face was so close; Rio could hear the deep purr coming from the cat man's throat.

Catching her breath, Rio wasn't going to wimp out. She said, "Guess again, little kitty…I'm full of surprises!"

She threw down her free hand towards the ground. A large bolt of lighting slammed into the cat man, instantly knocking him unconscious. She jumped back when the bolt reached the cat man. She was now at the gate's edge. "One left…."she thought as the two stared at each other.

Rio feeling all the power coming from the suit as well as her own adrenalin punching holes in her mind, she said, "Trip...trip...trip! The tick tock man is whining down!"

"What?" the man with the scarred left eye gaped. He wondered if Rio as black alpha had finally lost senses. He had a feeling he had to play this game out in order to survive. He had to for his friends. Yet, how was he going to take his friends from this place with no space ship.

"There is no more time for you or your friends. I said that you leave now. I have enough of your style of fighting. There is another battle that I have to fight in. there is no more room any other sort of combat!" Rio said.

"You little…" the man with the scarred left eye hissed. He started to run towards Rio. He wasn't going to take her bad mouthing him or his friends any longer. Yet, he didn't realize what was going to happen.

The skies seemed to clear for a minute or two. Then, they parted as through they were going to stop with the light show. It was going to be a very dangerous trick. The air grew warm. All became very quiet. It was like the air hummed with the warmth. It was so strange.

There was a stillness which was shattered in a heart beat. Lighting when heated the very air into a red that of the colour of blood emptied into the air from the very heavens in which it was made.

It was the beginning for the end for the creatures that came out of the ground. The creatures stood in a calming stance. It was like they had dropped their guards.

Then, it happened. The lighting flew out from the clouds, red and hot nearly causing the very air to catch fire. "This is going to be the last time I have to face your kind…I hope forever. You may never know what you have just started. Yet, I will put an end to your doings!" Rio thought.

The lighting fell onto the beasts that fought Rio. She had brought her powers to the peak of her. The lighting trapped the beasts in one crushing blow. They screamed as the lighting opened a door from another dimension. Rio pushed the beasts into the hole with her mind in a heart beat. Then, she teleported herself away of the stadium before the hole collapsed.

Then, the beasts were gone out of sight for a while.

Finally, the fighting had ended.

Rio held her breath as the power left her body. The suit had disappeared from her body causing her own clothes to melt back onto her body.

The teleportation was quick. She had no idea what was going to happen next.

Dusty who had a long bout with pain was suddenly freed from it. He was huddled in a ball on the ground, stopped his suffering. He instantly relaxed as he drew in a large breath of air. He sat up when Steve said, "Are you all right, mate?"

Trying to piece things together that weren't his in the first place, Dusty said, "I'm not really sure. I can feel pain…but I am not capable of knowing where it came from!"

"You look awful…you need to go to the clinic and have they looked you over!" Steve said as he shook his head.

"I feel the same way inside. Rio…where are you?" Dusty wondered loudly, his fears of a possible kidnapping made things worst.

"Look you are lucky you found her when you did, Seiya!" a voice said.

Rio was in a half waking world. She tried to open her eyes. She felt a hand holding her hand. She wondered if it was Seiya holding her hand. She asked, "Where I am?"

"You're in the nurse's station. We found you lying on the ground…" Seiya's voice was gentle in its tone.

"Where's Dusty!" she asked slowly. On opening her eyes, Rio noticed Seiya sitting at her bed side. He was dressed in t-shirt and cut off jeans. He wasn't going to be noticed by the possible fans if he looked like any other college student want to be.

"He's at the nurse's desk. He looks like he got a very bad shock. What happened to you?" he asked.

Feeling the tiny nips of pain darting in her mind, Rio didn't try to piece anything together. She wanted to forget everything that had happened to her after the lights went out at the radio station and before she woke up in the nurse's station. How could she explain it? She said, "Seiya…I really don't remember. I'm sorry, mate…but, I don't remember a thing!"

"That's O.K" Seiya smiled, shrugging his shoulders. He talked to Serena about the attack from Prince Diamond and Professor Tomeo. She explained what had happened to Rio, but after Rio had disappeared. Serena didn't see her again until they had found Rio unconsciousness on the lawn near the stadium.

Feeling all the power inside, melting inside of her soul, Rio said, "I feel strangely cold. I want to go home!"

"In a little while…" Seiya said as he checked his watch. "The nurse wants to check you out!"

"That's fine," she sighed. The two heard Dusty's voice as he asked for the nurse to please stop shinning a light in his eyes. Apparently, the power surge that Rio had used in her battle in the body suit was just too much for him. He had a strong connection to her. It was like they could feel each other's thoughts. Rio's grandfather always believed in the story of two children born with a line of thought between them. People either thought he was crazy or that Rio and Dusty were those children.

Then, Steve's voice chided, "You get into too much trouble when you are looking for Rio!"

"Stupid!" Dusty yipped back as his voice became harsh. He was trying to defend Rio's innocent.

"There is nothing that you can do when she's gone. Remember, she is hurt or scared about something, you must cut all ties!" another voice said.

Rio was a little taken aback with the idea of the statement. Plus the other person talking got the wheel if her mind spinning. Who was it? She tried to piece things together before a figure stood at the curtain separated the stalls. She noticed the figure's outline.

"Rio…I need to talk to you," the figure said. The figure pulled back the curtain and Jakten was standing at the stall opening.

Rio's heart sank just a little. To her realization, the owner of the voice was none other than Jakten. She was upset with herself. She had no idea that Jakten was keeping an eye on her. Yet, she had to keep her identification as a Sailor Senshi a secret. She didn't want the whole world to find out. She didn't want the dark Moon winning over the earth. The earth held a close tie with her. It was only planet she knew that didn't question her people about the place they had come from originally. Jakten asked what happened to Rio. Rio said, "I have a foggy memory…I wish I could remember!"

He could see Rio's eyes. She had a great jolt to the system from an unknown source. He asked, "What were you doing before you lost your memory?"

Rio was quick in saying, "I was with Miss Roberts at the radio station!"

Jakten was quick with his reply, "And?"

"And…" Rio was going to give some passable explaining to her saturation. She said, "I remember the lights going out. I told Miss Roberts that was I going to find the maintenance man to see what could be done with the lights."

"Is that all you can remember?" Jakten asked as he kept up the young princess from the distance planet. He looked at her as through she was completely telling the truth. He knew something she was trying to hide from his present. He had a feeling he couldn't go any further with her.

"I think…" she said, glancing over what she could see. "…I would like to go home!"

Jakten had to give in. he knew Rio was closed mouth when she had experienced a very frightening turn of events. She didn't want to relive then again.

May was the quietest of all months (almost) for Keiichi Morisato. He was about to finish up his first quarter of college at Youngstown State. He was going to take a break with his studies and maybe pick up a job fixing up bikes and cars at a local tire place. He was going to try and get an early start on picking out which classes he wanted to be in for the next possible quarter.

There was a going to be a surprise for the Goddesses and Keiichi. Another goddess named Peorth wanted to see why Bell dandy and the others ended up in all places a small town called Salem in a state called Ohio. She had to figure why there was a great deal of energy spent on a little town with a five letter name which stood for peace.

The day seemed very normal like all the rest since Keiichi went to work. Bell dandy had been already up. She cooked, cleaned and listened for the weather report by the time Keiichi woke up. She heard her two sisters, coming down the stairs. Urd was not looking forward to having her day messed up by a bunch of kids who where waiting of the bell to ring. There was a large dose of spring fever going around. The kids in high school wanted nothing else to do with school. Skuld was just excited to see the end of the school year. Summer was just so close that she could smell the warm breeze. Skuld wanted to play with her robots. She wanted the year to end right now, but Bell dandy was very quiet in her opinions as she said, "You just have to be patient. There is so much to be waiting for!"

Keiichi got out of bed and change in a very lazy way. His first class didn't start until ten in the morning. He heard the noises of the high school bell in the far off distance when he was getting his backpack together. The morning sun light was a little hazy. There was talk about a chance of rain coming. He hoped that he wouldn't get caught in it. As he glanced at the small note board he had hanging from a wall near his bed, Keiichi winced. He had promised Belldandy that he would cut the grass. He had over slept and completely forgot the grass. Was there time to even to do? Keiichi checked his alarm clock on the night stand. His jaw dropped in a large gape. It was going on a quarter to nine. He had to move the time to the period after classes. Even worst, he had to hurry to make it for his first class.

As Keiichi finished dressing, he could hear the phone going off. It was probably was Skuld asking for her note book that she had forgotten at home. Belldandy had the day off from worked and Skuld's school was not that far.

The day was so normal; it was sickening to one other Goddess, Peorth. She had a thing for Bell's guy! She had to spice it up a bit. Peorth sat at her desk at the Goddess Relief Agency. She had to do something about this little crush that she had on Keiichi. Yet, it would be tons of fun if Belldandy had seen a spark or two between Peorth and Keiichi. This needed careful planning and thought placed in the right settings. Peorth had given herself at least until the afternoon to come up with the prefect plan.

After leaving a note for Bell, promising her that Keiichi would give the grass a cutting, he started on his daily commute to school. It seemed like a very dull and normal thing to do. Although, there was a catch to the day and things were beginning to fall apart. He checked his bike to see if there was enough gas to get him to school and back.

Before he had left, Keiichi felt a twinge in his stomach. He had eaten a quick breakfast and didn't need to have any more. Yet, he felt like something was wrong. He had to shove that feeling aside if he wanted to make it for classes.

In the distance was a young goddess floating above the tree tops. She had been watching the young biker as he pulled out of the drive. She had to think on where to spring the unknown surprise on him.

"There is a very pretty day for me today!" a voice sang sweetly in the air. It was followed by another voice. This voice was another on equal grounds.

The young goddess stifled a little as she heard the song. She thought, "Who is singing?"

"There is a song in the air for the day!" the voice sang loudly, but sweetly.

"I have been hoping to see you," another voice said coming from a person walking down the street, talking on their mobile phone.

The young goddess looked wildly all around to see if there was any sort sign of the person who was signing. She nearly fell from the sky as she spotted Belldandy singing with her Holy Bell standing behind her. The young goddess was Peorth. She was now trying not to be very noticeable to Belldandy. Bell dandy was helping the grass, trees and flowers grow around the house. Her gentle voice was filling the air with warmth. It was like spring was coming ever so gently. Peorth had to either leave or just stay out without causing a sense. She had to think fast before she was spotted by anyone walking along the sidewalk.

Taking a breath, Bell dandy finished her song. She scanned very quickly at her work. She knew that her job was finished for the day on the outside, yet there was tons of work on the inside. She told Holy Bell that she was finished. The angel nodded her approval before leaving Bell dandy.

Bell dandy noticed something slightly different about the outside. She wondered if there was going to be a change. She had thought about it later.

Then, she left.

Peorth let out a sigh of relief. She didn't want to be a pain in the neck with Belldandy. She had nothing to be worried about until Keiichi came home.

Keiichi had been in the middle of everything that could befall on a man with three Goddess in his life. He had some extra ordinary things happen to him as he studied for his exams. It was like an unseen hand was helping him with his recall. Pulling into the parking lot, Keiichi caught sight of his watch. He was stunned to see he had made to class on time. He thought to himself, "Did urd have a hand in this…or was it Bell?"

He couldn't have time to wonder. His classes in math were going to start in five minutes. He ran through the halls until he had reached the class room where mechanical lecture was going to start. Keiichi opened the door to find the other students were still milling about or sitting talking. Very much relieved to see the class didn't start yet, Keiichi went to his usual seat in the middle of the room.

As he began to get his pens and paper out of his backpack, he felt like he needed to go home, he wanted to see what Belldandy was doing. She had to be O.K. Keiichi brushed the feeling aside. He was too close to finish on his latest quarter of classes that it felt extremely foolish if he ran home. He looked up to see his teacher entering the room. This was it. Time had to use for study. Keiichi had it call Belldandy later.

Belldandy was setting up the dinning room table for the evening meal. She had everything else nearly ready. She heard Skuld yelling at Reenie and Hotura about something. The clock radio from the kitchen had clicked on. Urd was already finishing up her assignments. The only one left was Keechi. His last class was a lab for his technicality draftsmen's class. He had been using the time to figure out a blue print his sister, Megumi had emailed during the early part of the month.

Belldandy had glanced at the radio clock on the kitchen table. "K…should be going home right about now!" she thought.

Belldandy heard a noise which sounded like a motor of sort pulling into the drive. She was a little excited about the noise. Knowing that Keiichi was pulling into the drive way, she made her way to the back door. She had to greet him before she started on supper.

When she got out seeing Keiichi, something stopped her in mid-step. Turning around to see what was making her halt in her tracks, Belldandy saw nothing. The feeling of dread was getting the best of her. She had to stop thinking of Keiichi getting hurt. She knew he was a man and could look after him. He was on his own for long time before they even met.

Belldandy started back up again on her way to greet Keiichi at the drive way. She was going to be happy to see him. On exiting one room and entering on the other, Belldandy knew Keiichi was safe. The feeling of him being safe on his trip home was a good sign to her.

Keiichi was tuning off the motor to his bike, he made sure of the motor cooling down before storing it away in the garage. Belldandy opened the back door and saw Keiichi just sitting there like a duck in the water. He was trying to unhook the chin strap to his helmet. He could hear her footsteps coming up towards him. He wondered if she was going to give him a hug or even a kiss on the cheek. As he turned to say her name with a smile, he was greatly surprised. It was Belldandy who was standing right in front of him. It was….

Peorth was standing next to the garage. She had been waiting for Keiichi since that morning. She hoped to see him when he got home from school. She had very sleekly disguised herself as Belldandy. Her wants and desires for Keiichi was greatly halted when she had found out Keiichi and the three goddesses were in a small town in vague state called Ohio.

Peorth smiled as she spoke in Belldandy's tone of voice, "What are you doing, K…"

"Uh?" Keiichi asked when noticed the fake Belldandy standing at the entrance to the garage. He thought very carefully to the situation. There was many times that Bell acted very normally and sweet. Yet, there was a feeling he couldn't place his finger on. What was the feeling? She was in fact a little too overly happy for his tastes.

"I am so glad to see you, home!" Peorth smiled, bowing slightly. Her hair fell to her left shoulder.

"Oh…you are?" Keiichi said, awry. He was going to have a long talk with Belldandy later. He had to get the grass mowed before starting on dinner. He had the time to do it in. he was going to be awry of Bell.

"Yes," she smiled. The way she looked was a strange. Yet, Keiichi didn't have time to be disagreeing over the way Belldandy looked.

"Gotta…start on the grass!" Keiichi said as he pointed with his thumb at the lawn mower in the back of the garage.

"O.K." Belldandy said as she nodded, "Can I watch?"

Playing it very cool, Keiichi eyed the fake Belldandy before agreeing to the idea. He said, "You know how boarding it can be. It's like me sweeping out the leaves at the temple!"

"Yea," Belldandy shrugged. "Yet, it looks so nice to see you do it. You look so…" Peorth as Belldandy came in for the kill as she began to move closer to him. Her eyes were so gently looking, she was weaving a spell around him her stare.

Keiichi felt the web of Peroth's spell turning around in his mind. He stared at her for a minute trying to realize what was about to happen. Just before he tried to put his foot down and demanded where the real Belldandy was, he heard Peroth's voice saying, "I want you to kiss me!"

The real Belldandy had been captured by Peroth's magic. She wasn't going to stand for it. She had been stopped in her tracks by a force field. She was going out the door when she noticed the back door was shut. The door knob when she had touched it gave her a very a large shock. She began to worry on how to get out. The feeling of knowing a systems breakdown was coming. She had to find Keiichi and fast.

Urd sat at the front porch steps in the front yard. She had been reading a large stack of papers. She was going to go in the house to get something to drink before putting her work away in her room. Standing up slowly, Urd glanced over her dress. As she was about to go in, Urd noticed the door wasn't move as she turned the door knob. Did someone lock her out? At first, she had to think about Skuld playing a ridiculous joke on her.

It was clear that Urd was going to use her powers to open the door. She had to be careful in order not to attract attention to her. She placed an opened palm on the knob. She murmured, "Give me the power to open this door right now!"

It was a minute during a small flash of lighting came from her hand. She had known it was going to work in theory! Yet, unseen forces were against her from the start. She felt her power surging back to her from the door knob. She jumped back as she yelped. "What in the heck…?" she muttered to herself.

There was a brief bit of laughter coming from the back. Instantly Urd's feelings had changed. Things were going to be out of hand if she didn't stop them. She gritted her teeth when she began hiss out loud her feelings. "What is that little brat doing?" she hissed.

Her fists were turning white and she had just enough of being made a fool by her little half kid sister. She had to knock some sense in to Skuld. She said in a loud tone of voice, "Skuld…what in the heck are you doing?"

There was no answer coming from the inside. The idea of being ignored was even a greater insult to her. She started to pound on the door. She screamed after a minute of pounding with no results in the door being opened, "SKULD…YOU LITTLE BRAT...OPEN THIS DOOR NOW!"

At the same time, Skuld was coming down the stairs. She had been finishing up her homework. She had been waiting for a phone call from Sasami. She wanted to know what Sasami was going to do the first day of summer vacation. She heard the noise of Urd pounding. She wondered who was outside. As she came to the door, she realized it was Urd pounding on the door. She ran down the stair case and to the front door. She was wondering why Urd was screaming like she was. On merely standing in front of the door, Skuld felt a jolt of power. She yelped back slightly in order to protect herself. Then, she moved back in a heart beat. There was something else trying to block off anyone else from getting out.

"What happened?" Urd asked when she heard the yelp coming from the other side of the door.

"There's a force field of sorts," Skuld said, warily. She tried to place a hand on the door. A small flicker of lighting ran close on her fingertips. "I don't know where it came from…yet, there is a really bad feeling from it!"

"Where?" Urd asked. On thinking this was a puzzling situation, she thought of Bell dandy and Keiichi. Where would those two be at?

"I wondered if it's Mara?" Skuld thought out loud.

"What?" Urd gasped loudly. She couldn't feel anything demonic active surrounding her. There was a time in the past that Mara wanted to attack Urd. Yet, Mara could have powered up enough to throw an undeniable cloak around her. She was very clever in her sneak attacks.

Skuld was a little peeved at her older sister. Her screamer, rolling up her hands in to fists, "MARA…IS PULLUNG A FAST ONE!"

"WHA?" Urd screeched. Her face was now being drained of all colour. She was stunned into a feeling of shock. "She is not here!" she thought to herself.

Meanwhile, the real Bell dandy was trying to figure what was going on Keiichi. She had being trapped in a wrap space. She had no idea how or who placed her there. She had to figure how to get out. She called out for her angel, Holy Bell to help her in the finding of a possible wrap hole. She sensed it be very close to where she was at. She scanned quickly as her feelings for Keiichi grew stronger.

Yet, Keiichi was now under Peroth's spell. It was like the time Urd had snagged Keiichi to make him break out of his shyness around girls. This was going to be a whole new twist to Keiichi's submissive personality. He was going to a puppet to Peroth one way or another.

The fake Belldandy had Keiichi in a corner. She was going to incase him a large spider's web of sorts on the ceiling. She was making things up as she went along. She had to be quick in her work or she would loose on Keiichi forever.

Keiichi's mind was racing. He tried to form words in his mouth in order to speak. He couldn't the connection from his mouth to his mind was halted in a very strange way. He knew about this event before. He tried to figure out why was Belldandy acting like she was.

"Now…that's done!" the fake Belldandy sighed, she had rung her hands in satisfaction. Her mind was thinking of a way to keep the real Belldandy were she was at. She was almost on the same power level with Belldandy. Having one optical out of her way, Peorth was going to have another one nearly wrapped up.

"That's not Bell!" Keiichi thought. His mind swam hard as he tried to move one his of arms in any way he could. "Yet, I think I know this person. She's a goddess none the less!"

"What else can I do to use up the extra time?" the fake Belldandy smiled. She turned to see what was going on. She was shocked to see a large power surge coming from the backdoor and yard. It seemed like things were responding to the real Belldandy's plea of help. The real Belldandy was training her powers on breaking through the force shield that Peorth had thrown up to block her way.

In the middle of the great power surge was the real Belldandy with her angel Holy bell standing behind her. The real Belldandy glared at her fake. She was very much angered at the person who was imprisoning her. She also worried for Keiichi's safety. She hoped he was still in the area.

The fake Belldandy gasped as she thought, "she's free and she's got reinforcements!"

The real Belldandy asked in a tone of voice that sent a shock wave to the fake Belldandy, "Where is Keiichi?"

Gasping for both thought and breath, the fake Belldandy couldn't even speak. She tried to think what she had done, but that was totally gone from her mind. She had to save herself from a goddess's wrath.

The real Belldandy asked for the second time where Keiichi was. This time, she was not fooling.

The fake Belldandy flew backwards in order not to get slammed by an energy blast from Holy Bell. The blast had smacked into the side of the fence. She could see how upset the real Belldandy was. She had to give in before anything else went into flames. "I want to see Keiichi!" the real Belldandy asked for a second time, gently pulling back when she noticed the power she was using had a few damaging effects.

"I didn't see him!" the fake Belldandy lied.

If things were not going from bad to worst, then there was a real hitch when Urd and Skuld had shown up. The real Belldandy noticed her sisters were there to help. She was happy to see her sisters.

"What's that?" Urd noticed to her dismay there were two Belldandy instead of one. She thought to herself, "What was going on here?"

All that Skuld was able to do was stand there and her jaw dropped in shock. "Uh?" she gasped. She had to do a double take as both Belldandy's stood in the drive way. There was a huge catch to the situation. Who was holy bell standing behind? The real Belldandy or was there a fake. The idea was very much mind boggling. "Sis…who are you?" Skuld managed to speak after a minute of staring at her sister.

Then, Keiichi seemed to break the spell of the monument when he somehow breaks the webbing through. He didn't realize until he saw a long screwdriver sitting on the work bench. He also pulled himself from the mind control of the fake Belldandy. With the two Belldandy fighting it out for the control of Keiichi, the fake Belldandy had no idea she was loosing ground when her mind was on other things. She started at the real Belldandy in the face. She said, "Keiichi is not here!"

What!" all three Goddess uttered in angered shcok.

Keiichi had grabbed for the screwdriver on the bench. It was a few weak attempts before on the third try he had finally got it. In his hand, he cut the webbing around his feet. He could hear Urd saying, "Is that all you have to say!"

Keiichi's mind tried to force his lips to move. He wanted to say that he was there. He was still there, yet he was in the garage. He had to do something to get at least Belldandy's attention. In the distance was a pop can. It was empty from the last time skuld was in the garage. She was working on a motor for a toy car. Chibi-chibi had received a toy car for her baby doll. It was not working right. Skuld wanted to fix it up for her. She had left the tool behind after the young goddess had fixed the toy.

Keiichi tried his hardest to stretch out his hand to reach the tool.

"What else?" Urd snapped. Feeling things were not going all to be accepted in this unsuial situation, she had to come up with a solution.

Then, the webbing gave way to a falling Keiichi. The webbing seemed to be strung up in a very haphazard way. Peorth was in a hurry to get Keiichi in her clutches that she had missed one very vital detail. It was the strength of the webbing. She had forgotten how much Keiichi had weighted. She knew that Keiichi was a strong man in some ways. Others he appeared to be as normal as the next guy on the street. Also Peorth was becoming a little forgetful as time went on. She was holding down the fort back in heaven. She didn't want to get in trouble with the others by goofing off and stealing Belldandy's guy. Although she did like the idea of taking someone else's guy.

There was a loud crash which brought all four Goddesses to the opened doorway of the garage. Keechi was now laying on his right side with his feet huddled in a mess on the floor. He had gone and freed himself from the webbing. He felt the pain of the landing. He didn't like outcome of the fall. He was hoping for more of a graceful landing on his feet than being on his side. In a semi-conscience state, Keiichi said, "I haven't done that!"

Both Belldandy's came running into the garage. Urd and Skuld just stood there and watching as Peorth's disguise was instantly seen. Urd gasped loudly, "Peorth…what in the world are you doing here?"

"Uh?" the fake Belldandy said as she was changing over to back to Peorth.

"What?" Skuld asked as she noticed the way the shadows of light cast a different hue on the fake Belldandy's hair.

"You little weasel!" Urd growled. She was about to level the fake Belldandy's to the ground.

"What did you do to Keiichi?" the real Belldandy's cried out. She was going to hurt the fake Belldandy. It was against her gentle nature to hurt anyone. This was a day of her ire coming to the forefront. The gentle Bell dandy was going to hold her ground. She had been taken for a fool by Peorth once too many times. Although, she had to remain cool and level headed, Belldandy was about to blow up. She knew all the rules of being a goddess first class.

"I'm fine!" Keiichi said in his way of trying to keep everyone from blowing up at each other.

"Are you sure…Keiichi?" Urd asked. She noticed the bruised Keiichi had when he had landed on his side.

"Yea," he nodded. He had been through dozens of events that would leave another man broken in more ways than one.

Belldandy had to figure on who was the real one and who was posing as her. She asked, "Peorth…is that you?"

Peroth tried think of a way out for her. She didn't want to really start world war three between herself and Belldandy. She had to consider Bell dandy as a pest and a little sister at times when they were in the Goddess relief project. Yet, Peroth always managed to herself in to trouble

"Come on…you are Peroth! Aren't the goddess Peroth?" Belldandy asked with a curiosity look in her eyes.

"You have to know who I am?" the fake Belldandy said as she changed forms into Peroth.

The three other goddesses glanced at each other before turning their attentions back to now reformed Peorth. Keiichi was blinking for a second. Then, he tried to sit up by rolling to his back. Slowly he scooted around until he pushed himself up partly off the ground. He sat there, blinking at the now beleaguered goddess. He was to ask how Peroth ended up back on earth. Yet, his mouth never could future out how to make the words fit.

Urd was upset with Peorth. She glared at Peroth and snapped, "Why are you here, Peroth?"

Feeling not only hurt, but insulted as well, Peorth huffed before turning her face away from the white haired questioner. Then, she huffed in a snooty tone, "I'm going not to…"

Feeling the words were a double insult, Urd growled "why you!"

Then, she had her hands outstretched towards the intruder. She bottled towards Peorth. Peorth knew she was in for it when Urd was angry. She had to either leave now or face the outcome of Urd's wrath.

"Urd…what are you doing?" Belldandy asked as she tried to stop her sister from beating up a guest.

"This!" Urd growled as she raised her arms over her head. A large ball of lighting began to crackle into life between Urd's two hands. She was bringing forth a huge jolt of power to prove her point across.

Panicking, Belldandy yelled in a frightened tone of voice, "URD…DON'T DO IT!"

Skuld didn't want the impact of the attack to back fire in a horrible outcome if it did. She wanted to stop everything before it happened. She knew Peorth was in deep danger when Urd was at her worst. She yelled on top of her lungs, "ARE YOU AN IDOT!"

"Come on…you fool!" Peorth smirked. She was holding her own powers back. She was going to counter attack a few seconds before Urd unleashed hers.

In a heart beat the normal day was rocked for a spilt second. Seiya who was weeding with Rae and Mina who stopped over to help out at his house looked up and remarked with a surprise, "It's going to rain?"

There appeared to be no black clouds anywhere. Yet, it didn't mean lighting could pop up at anytime. Seiya remained causal as he went back to his digging.

At the goddess house, Urd and Peorth were covered in soot while a large poof of smoke began to clear away from the sense. Keiichi, Belldandy and Skuld stared opened mouthed. The picture of the two immortal creatures that were half fried looked like a scene from an old silent film. What was the most puzzling was how not to bring attention to themselves if someone else saw the smoke and decided to call up the police.

"What are you looking at?" Peorth gasped before coughing hard.

"You…" Urd hissed. Then, she in hailed too much smoke. She began to cough and wheeze at the same time. She was going to wipe the floor with this interloper. She didn't someone going around and tried to take over.

"Listen…" Belldandy pleaded. She didn't want anything to go wrong with the two opposing Goddesses. She had to let Peorth tell her story. It seemed logistic at the time. She knew Peorth loved to play pranks on her and the others. Yet, there was always a disaster effect on the outcome from the pranks. "…why don't we go inside and talk…there must be a solution to this problem!"

The word 'problem' struck the rawest of raw nerves. The tension was edging up to the foreground. There was no turning back from this little spat. Urd's nerves began to boil with rage. Her lips were tightening into a snarl and her eyes bugged out from their sockets. Yet, Belldandy quickly moved between the two with an embarrassed smile. She tried to calm the situation down.

Skuld heard Reenie and Hotaru calling her from the side walk. Skuld turned to look at the two. Then, she told them to wait. She wanted to know why they were there. When Skuld ran up to see the two, Reenie asked, "What's going on?"

"Nothing!" Skuld gasped, catching her breath. She placed a hand over her heart. She wanted to not to lie. "It's a friend of my sister's came over for a visit!"

"Oh?" Hotaru asked. She glanced at Reenie. "Really nothing too exciting either?"

"Yea…thank God for that!" Skuld breathed.

The two girls had to do a double take. Skuld had to think fast on her feet if she was going to a believable story.

The days of school seemed to be ending very quickly. There was much talk about things that were going to be done on the hot and lazy days of summer. Some of the group from Tokyo was going to be busy with things that had to do with entrance exams. Others were going to find things to do. Summer was going to be a long three months. The London group was going to split up and join the others if they wanted to. Yet, they were asking talk about going to the mall and taking off for the beach. It seemed all too normal for the world to be going about its daily routine, but people had to go to work and play like they were preprogrammed into their lives.

Rio and Washu were out for a walk down Lincoln Avenue. They were talking about Rio's job at the radio station. She had been having fun being an intern. She was learning things about the station; she hoped to use later for a possible certain on the air as a possible DJ. It was a warm night. Washu noticed that the streets lights were not on near where Nick and his family lived. Rio wasn't thinking about street lights. She felt an odd session. It was like the time where Rei had the same feeling about the basketball court a few weeks ago. She didn't want to let on to Washu things were going to get ugly very soon. She had to leave Washu off on the next corner with a very instant excuse.

Then, she heard noises coming from the back yard. She wondered what was unfolding in the back yard. She could see Alex and Vachon doing a few minor adjustments to Vachon's bike. It was dark, yet the two vampires had prefect vision even with extra lighting proved by two large shop lamps.

Rio walked down the road with Washu just a piece. The feeling inside of her wouldn't go away. She had to contact the others and soon. The darkness was a strong force. She had to be careful as she and Washu walked away from the two.

Washu looked at Rio who was now glancing back at the yard. She wondered what was wrong with Rio. She asked, "Is there anything on your mind…you want to talk about?"

Rio placed a hand upon to her left cheek. She said, "Yea…I have been hoping to ask someone about summer school!"

Washu wanted to laugh at first. Was Rio the very first to celebrate with Serena and Royoko about school finishing up? Then, Washu wonder if Rio got a phone call about attending summer school. Rio's uncle had a keen eye on their niece if a million mile distance was keeping them apart. "Is your uncle Anthony cracking the whip?" Washu teased. She stared with all knowing glance at Rio. Then, she said, "Or could it be your Uncle Ziegfeld?"

"No..." Rio shook her head. She wondered if this little lie was going to snowball right in front of her.

"Then, what…" Washu asked before she was cut off. Then, the two girls heard the noise of thunder. Rain wasn't supposed to be in the forecast. Yet, a sudden burst of heat rain could be popping up anywhere. Washu looked at Rio and said, "Was there a call for rain!"

"I'm not sure!" Rio shook her head for a second time. There was many times lately the sound of thunder could be heard. What was going on with the weather in northeastern Ohio?

"Let's get going…" Washu began to say. Then, she heard mobile phone go off. Washu was now dissected. She didn't realize Rio was going to do one of her famous disappearing acts. She fished out her phone from her shirt pocket, telling Rio it would be only a minute to see what was going on with the others back home.

"Good!" Rio thought. "You just keep on your ears on the phone. I'll just pop out of your sight for just a minute myself!"

"What's it now…Ryoko!" Washu said as she flipped opened the phone. She had checked the number on the phone outer casing.

"There is a problem with the computer!" Ryoko winced. She was trying to hide the fact she and Ayeka were in Washu's lab. They were just trying to figure out on how to unlock the computer and the time coordinator to the main frame.

Washu was not amused by the way Ryoko was on her best way of pinning everything on Ayeka.

"Just keep on going…please ignore me!" Rio thought as she carefully walked away from the universe's brilliant mind. She watched as Washu turned her back towards Rio. Rio nearly ran head long into an embankment. She didn't realize there was a long row of large stones that covered the end of the yard. She heard the thunder as she tried to walk away from the stone covered embankment.

The sound of thunder was not by any means normal. There was a dark ring in the tone of this frightening warning. Rio had to be on her guard. This was going tube a long night for her. She noticed as she came closer to the entrance way of the driveway, a large dark blue circlet just above the tree tops. It was hovering when it came in view from the moonlight. She had to control her feelings for the time being. She didn't want to make any sort of sudden movements. The feeling of darkness was very palatable. The Dark Moon kingdoms were on the move. She had to call in the others for help. She pressed herself against a small column of rock. Her palms were sweaty and heart was hammering hard in her chest. Why did she feel like this? She was a very brave Sailor Senshi, hand picked by Queen Serenity herself. "Get a hold of yourself, Rio…you have been alone like this dozens of times!" she thought to herself.

She heard a faint whoosh of air coming from the east. It was Nick coming back from the officer that he shared with Tracy on Second Street. He looked preoccupied to even stop and greet the other two. Rio hoped that she was discovered by Nick. She knew Nick was also a vampire. She didn't tell anyone his secret. She had grown up with Alex for years. It wasn't until she was at least ten when she found out. At first it frightened her. Yet, she grew to trust him as a friend. Rio held her breath she watched Nick walked over from the spot he landed near the driveway to the back. Was there a way of not being discovered by Nick, Alex or Vachon? She had to think of a way and quickly. The night was growing hotter buy the minute.

"If you need to put this part in there…" Vachon soughed, rolling his eyes as he placed a tool back in a tool box. "Why did you say so?"

"No, it's that…it's this part looks cracked!" Alex said as he pulled out something that looked like a tube of sorts.

Nick smirked at Vachon's dilemma! He knew Vashon was a wild child who was really rough around the edges. He wasn't going to let Vachon off the hook that easily. "You drive like a maniac!" he grinned.

"Shut up!" Vachon grumbled at the older vampire. He bent his head down to see what he could salvage.

"Whoa!" Alex breathed with a fake glance. He knew Vachon had a boiling point. He wasn't going to stick around if the Spanish vampire went off by mishap. Playing it cool was a best solution to this problem.

"I'll fix it my way!" Vachon said. He reached over to his tool kit. Blindly he had tried to fish out a large spanner. He knew it was there. He couldn't stop what he was doing at the time. There were a couple of cases that Tracy was working on and Vachon wanted to help out. There was a sound of thunder coming from the north. He knew he and the other two had to get in before it rained. The storms were getting strong this time of the year. A few trees were knocked over by the storms. Yet they were at the other side of town. It didn't sit too well with Vachon when Tracy was still out on a case and alone. He asked Nick, "Where's Trace?"

"She's might be out on a case or with Nat!" Nick shrugged. Then, a heat source grabbed Nick's attention. He wondered as his eyes and ears began to peel off the darkness of the night. He could sense with the other two a living, breathing human. He called out, "Who's there?"

Rio remained quiet and still which wasn't going to be at her advantage. She knew about Alex's powers of sight and sound. He could find her in a large crowd without even blinking. He could nearly taste her scent in the wind. All humans had a scent in their blood. She thought, "Please go away…Alex. You, Nick and Vachon are in grave danger…I can feel it!"

Vachon didn't even glance up as he finally found the spanner. He said, "Aww! It's probably someone who is waiting for a ride."

"Are you sure?" Alex asked. He knew it was Rio. He knew Rio was always pulling practical jokes on him. He was going to be careful because he knew Rio was easily scared at times. He glanced at Nick. "I think I know who it is!"

Nick sensed Rio as well. He gave Alex a look of understanding the situation. "Yes…why she is here!"

"Maybe she is just out on a walk. She's nearly a grown woman!" Vachon shrugged. He knew Rio was a little more on the gusty side than the inners. She had some experiences that even the three lights or the outers did not have.

Rio could hear Alex saying, "You can't keep her down. She will find a way out of the predicament!"

"Great…I've been discovered!" Rio sighed loudly. She turned her face away to see if Washu was still standing where she left her.

There was no sign of the greatest scientist. Rio was now up a creek without a paddle. She wondered she would go up to see Alex bewared she could warn him about the on coming danger. She swallowed hard before staring up at the sky. "Oh…please…just let me a normal girl for once."

Then, she said loudly, "Gotta run!"

The other three stared at Rio's figure darting towards the corner a little opened mouthed. Nick gasped, "Teenagers!"

Somehow she went a little too far and over shot where she was supposed to be going. Yet, finding herself in someone else's back yard was a surprise. She could still see the hovering green cloud above the three in Nick's back yard. She hoped that she was not going be discovered by Nick or other two. She had to find her communicator and fast. The Dark Moon Kingdom was on the move. She looked at her fanny-pack to fish out the communicator.

She breathed hard as she pushed a button that called on all the Sailor Senshi. She said in a loud whisper, "Is there anyone out there?"

She waited for a minute or two before replying again, "Is there anyone out there?"

A minute of crackling noise before Rei's voice saying, "Rio…is that you?"

"Nearly jumping out of her skin from all the excitement, "You better believe it!"

Rei a little perturbed at Rio's sudden outburst asked, "What's going on? Why are you with Miss Washu?"

"She had to leave on the account of Tenchi or something!" Rio lied. She did not want to get Washu mixed up on Sailor Senshi problems. Under Rio's thinking, Washu was just a teacher and not a great genus.

"What are you doing alone…?" Rei's voice had a hint of concern in the tone. She wondered if Rio was just pulling a prank.

"Long story…you want the nut shell?" Rio blurted out. She started to feel very queasiest. The darkness was hanging over her like a huge hammer.

"Yea…" Rei gasped. She didn't want to be put in suspense any longer. She was growing annoyed with Rio. Was Rei getting tired of being a sailor Senshi like Serena? Yet here was something there to be had.

Then, a crackle of lighting hit a raw never with Rio's mind. The lighting was too close by for her comfort. On looking up at the clouds near Nick's house, Rio said, "Come here quickly…the Dark moon kingdom is on the move!"

"What?" Rei gasped. She had a feeling of evil in the air. Now with Rio's statement being the final evidence of Galaxia's master stroke for now, Rei had to get the others. She looked up at Mina and Lita. She said, "Where are the outers and Serena!"

"I'll try to get them!" Rei said. She had a shocking feeling of dread when she had seen with her own mind what Rio finally foresaw.

After she had transformed into Sailor arcadia, Rio went back to the area, but she hid in the bushes which divided the house from the other yard. Her heart was pounding so hard, she had a hard time in breathing. This was her first time alone with no one to help her fight. She prayed hard, "Dear God…this is a real test. The Dark Moon…no Galaxia is drawn up the stakes on this one!"

Everything was too quiet. She wondered if she could go up and find out what was going on with Nick, Vachon and Alex. She could see what was happening because the house was in the way. She didn't want to cause a seine either. She would look odd if Alex should who she was in her sailor's fuku.

Then, the lighting cloud grew. Sailor Acarida's heart nearly stopped as the wind started to pick up a little bit more. She could hear as best as she could the noises coming from the other side of the house. She took deep breaths. Then, she darted to the other end of the house. On hoping no one spotted her when she ran past the front windows.

Them, she hunkered down near a bush on the drive way. She could sense the evil in the air growing thicker. Then, she heard a dreadful sound. It was like nothing that she had heard before. What was going on with Nick and the other two, she thought, "Come on…you got to be making your first move Rio!"

Finally she heard a scream. Was it Nick or Vachon who screamed? She knew Alex's scream. He had lived in London for a long time. She wondered for only a second if the dreadful noise was prince Diamond or even Professor Tomeo using their powers on Nick or Vachon. She pushed herself around the brush enough that she could see what was going on. She could see Prince Diamond standing off to the side. "Why was he here?" she wondered in her mind.

Her foot brushed against a twig in the dark. A slight snap was just enough noise to distract Prince Diamond. His eyes glanced towards the direction of the noise. He wondered who was there. He turned back to the start of his work. He had trapped both Alex and Vachon in a large net of sharp thorns. He was going to make short work on them. Yet, Nick was going to need a little more work on his transformation. He wanted to be human. Nick's feet were trapped in a large trap of quick sand. He had ensnared Nick in an easy to make trap. Nick tried to struggle out of the trap. He didn't want to be trapped and he knew Vachon or Alex didn't want to be in danger either.

Just as Prince Diamond was about to go and see the noise, Nick stopped him and asked, "What are you going to do with us?"

Prince Diamond cocked his head to one side and smirked. He said, "I hope to get rid of some pests and turn the whole entire universe over to the dark side!"

Vachon glanced over to Alex. His eyes were met with the same surprised stare of disbelief. Was this white hair guy had totally lost it? Yet, Vachon wasn't going to argue with someone holding him at bay with razor sharp thorns.

Alex was in the same state as Vachon. He wondered if Prince Diamond was an elder like Laquiox or even his father, Armand. He had heard about vampires that could control plants like animals with a simple mind trick. Yet, he had thought it was a strange story that was passed down throughout the ages.

Sailor Acadia heard a familiar sound of a cat running up towards her. She turned her head to see if it was Luna or Artmies or even Diana coming towards her. She saw the small little white cat zooming up. He stopped alongside her and huffed, "What's the situation?"

"Very bad…I think!" Sailor Acrid whispered loudly. She could only see now Alex and Vachon.

"Do you know what is going on?" the little white cat asked with his ears perked for any sort of noise.

"No…" sailor Acardia said shaking her head. She knew that somehow she and the other sailor senshi had to get Prince Diamond from his standing point. If he was distracted, then the others could help out, Alex, Vachon and Nick.

"What if I took a quick look," Artmeries sod.

Sailor Acardia wanted to stop Artimies from, rushing all of his nine lives. She gaped, "What…have you gone crackers?"

Them, she tried to pick him up, yet his tiny lithe body was no match for her hands. He wiggled out of her gasp before pressing himself aging the outside wall. He craned his neck to see what was going on. He could see a little of Vachon, but not the other three. Then, all heard a slight change in the wind. There was a scent of roses in the air. Out of instinct, Airtimes looked up at the trees above. The large cloud that hung over the garage was starting to loss its grip. The outside edges where changing. Then, a voice called out, "Pluto Deadly Scream!"

Sailor Acarida's heart nearly skipped a beat when she heard Sailor Pluto's voice calling out the power of her planet. She turned around to see now Sailor moon, chili-moon and mars running up towards her. She whispered loudly, "I'm glad to see you lot!"

When Sailor Moon noticed the situation, she knew that Sailor Mars's vision was on the mark. She did not realize how bad the situation was really. Sailor Acardia retold a short outline of the story. Then, she said, "I have a really bad feeling for this job!"

"Why?" Sailor Moon asked as she glanced at Sailor Acardia.

"I don't want to have a repeat like the last time…" Sailor Acardia gasped. She wanted to give sailor moon a good talking to. She didn't feel like explaining herself again. Time was slowly dripping away from them.

"What else is going on?" Luna asked.

Then, the sailors froze. There was a noise that made their blood turn to ice. "What is this?" a voice asked in a cold sneer.

The three young sailors eyes scanned slowly as they noticed a figure dressed in a white lab coat. It was Hotura's father, Doctor Tomeo. It seemed like things were getting into a mess.

Then, it happened, Sailor Venus's love chain whipped around the good doctor and pinned to the ground. She noticed the power coming from the dark clouds was not going to be helpful if Prince Diamond wanted to back down.

Sailor moon glanced around to see if Tuxedo Mask was around. He had to be there for her. Luna noticed something was changing Sailor Acardia's power. Was this newer Sailor Scout receiving a new power? Luna had to keep her eyes on Rio. She was glowing a rich pink light. Was there something different going on with her. Luna asked, "Are you getting a new power?"

"I think I am…" Sailor Acadia looked down at her hands. The pink, rosy color was strangely warm. She felt like hands of unseen force were pulling at her forcing her to stand up. Then, backing away from the area a little…Sailor Acadia felt the power pricking, nearly tearing at her body. She had nearly halted her breathing. It was a trick that she had forced herself into doing when she was learning something new about her powers. She had to give into the will of this new force taking hold of her.

"What is happening to you, Rio?" Sailor Moon thought to herself.

"I feel everything bubbling up inside. It's….like nothing I have felt before!" Sailor Acadia gasped loudly. She closed her eyes to block out everything.

It was very bad timing for Laquiox to show up like he did. He had a quick show to finish up. The station that he had been working with was going under a new station change with the different watts system. He was told that the station was switching over around eleven in the evening. He was very begrudging to give up that sweet little spot in the late night wars even in radio. He did have a funny feeling about coming back. He knew that Nick could take care of himself for years. With the feeling of complete trust, Laquiox was going to stop at Devon's house just for a minute. Then, he would go back home and spend the rest of the night, catching up on his reading. He was in for a very horrible shock.

Sailor Acadia felt every fiber of her being snapped to attention. She had more power than she had ever before. She heard voice telling her in her heart and mind to say, "Dream Storm!"

Professor Tomeo did not even think of a weak sailor having a last trick on the deck. She was going to be pulling an energy blast that was going to send him packing. He hovered over the small group, leering. He knew that Sailor Moon had the most powerful star-seed ever. The others had star-seeds that were a little less in the power department. Yet, he was not going to pass them up. "Look…what I have here…four or five little sailors in a bunch."

There was a dead calm before Sailor Acadia power hit its peak.

"Time to pluck them all!" Professor Tomeo sneered with his eyes flashing in darkness. He reached over too make a grab for Sailor Acadia for his first attempt. He violently pushed back unto they ground by a huge bolt of power that even sailor moon had to braced herself from. Sailor Acadia felt herself being picked up by the force. She now stood up with her arms raised over her head. She yelled out, "DREAM…." She dropped her arms towards her chest. "…STORM!" to finish out the attack, Rio threw her arms in a pointing posing with hands in a praying action.

"What!" Professor Tomeo gasped loudly. He felt the power of Sailor Acadia's blow. He reeled back, hitting the ground.

Laquiox heard the noise. He wondered what was going on. He quickly dashed over to where the noise was. He was completely shocked to see what the special unfolding in front of him. He saw Nick being nearly torn to pieces by the thorny vines which had Nick in a tight hold. Then, he glanced over to see Vachon and Alex in the same spot. He became outraged. What was going on with these interlopers? Laquiox had never seen these strange looking men or these skimpy dressed girls with magical powers. He had to help Nick out of his predicament.

Sailor Acadia was standing with her arms to her sides. She looked like she had taken a jolt of power. She felt like she could do it again if she had to, yet she had be careful with the new power she was given. Professor Tomeo was thrown to the gourd. It was the first time he had been defeated that quickly in a long while. He felt the heat from the blast slamming into his body with such a force. He wondered if Galaxia knew about this new little sailor sensei.

"What was that?" Sailor Moon asked in wonder. She knew all sailors sensei were nearly their completion of their powers. Was Sailor Acadia different because she was the very last to have a power up grade.

"I'm not sure…something inside of me wanted to stop the evil in no other way," Sailor Acardia sighed loudly, feeling the weight of the power reforming inside of her heart. She wanted to clean out the evil from the world. Voices in her mind where starting to bubble and churn like some large vat of forgotten memoires. It thrilled her to death. It gave her a strong feeling of courage. It doomed to her to fear. She wanted to also to run and hide. Like not Serena and her little girl out bursts. This was a piece of her darkened past that was blotted out and now was surfacing like bullet holes in the mind. She had to stay calm. She said, "Look out!"

She had feeling that a large burst of energy was coming from Prince Diamond. All the Sailor Sensei scattered like ninepins. Prince Diamond was going to bring the Sailors to their knees. Yet, how was he going to do it. He knew that he could take over Sailor moon with the power of his third eye. Yet, she was not the same person as before. She had grown up quite fast with everything that had happened when she had first met up with the silver haired prince of the dark moon kingdom. The same trick was not going to be use. It was going to be given a slight twist. There was a deep connection between reenie and Serena after Reenie found her first loves. There was a slight and quick encountered with Perle, the dream fairy. She never the first taste of a crush like that before. Then, there was Pegus. He had helped not only Reenie to have her first taste of adulthood and a chance to see what it was to be lady in a different light. He had forced her to grow into a more thoughtful child. When he was Helios, Reenie had to give up the idea of being a daddy's girl. He was teaching her what a boyfriend, girlfriend relationship.

"What are you going to do…" Prince Diamond laughs darkly as he heard the noise of the thunder growing fierce "Little rabbit!"

He had quickly teleported himself right in front of Sailor Chibi-moon and Sailor Saturn. The old feeling of entrapment hit Sailor Chibi-moon hard. She tried to move, yet she felt the same power net covering her. She was still a sweet and innocent child. The old feeling from Wicked lady was nearly non-living. She was still a bad memory which Sailor Chibi-moon tried to block out every day. "Little rabbit…come to me!" he purred loudly.

Sailor Chibi-moon froze on her foot steeps. She wanted to move, but could not bat an eyelash.

"What's wrong?" he sneered with a dark, kind look on his face. His eyes glowed with a brutish stare of someone who wanted to hurt her.

"No…this can't be happening to me!" Sailor Chibi-moon thought to herself. Her heart pounded hard in her chest. She tried to swallow hard. Yet his bitter taste of salt in her mouth burned going down. Her life was going to take a large leap of fear if she was going to cave in.

"What a pretty young rabbit you have been growing into!" Prince Diamond smiled, holding out his hand.

"Get lost you creep!" she snapped back with fiery tone of voice. She had to be strong for herself. She quickly remembered what had happed to her. The awful pain of those fake stories of her mother and father who she loved more than anything else were like knives splitting her open like a grape. She knew she and Serena had differences, yet in the long run they did love each other in the presence.

"What?" Prince Diamond snapped back. He felt outraged at the answer he got when he crossed the lien with Renee's feelings. His fake charm was easily broken into pieces when Reenie dug in her heels with her feelings.

"You heard me…I don't want to see you again!" Sailor Chibi-moon growled with her firsts rolled up to her sides. She remembered the bitter feeling that was placed inside of her when she hooked up with the white harried prince. She had to force herself to grow up in a different light. She felt utterly lonely until she had found Hotura. She did have the other sailor senhsi as her friends. Yet, she wanted a best friend. Now she was being pulled down to the depth of her nightmare world.

"Yes…" Prince Diamond smiled with a voice filled of hate. He wanted to take back what was rightfully his. The power of the crystal was too great and he had just a taste of it once before. He had to have more. "You are so once to others when you seen them. Yet, you want me to leave? Why?"

"You took me for a fool. I am not that way anymore!" Sailor Chibi-moon huffed; her heart was beating so fast it ached.

"I can see that. You have grown. You need to change!" Prince diamond said as he lugged at her with his third eye opening up. His powers were now at their perk.

Sailor moon wanted to protect Sailor chibi-moon as best as she knew how. She screamed, "REENIE…LOOK OUT!"

Sailor Chibi-moon felt an unseen force snatch her and Sailor Saturn up like they were just twigs. She glanced up at someone. It was Sailor Uranus. No…this was a stronger force. Her eyes froze at the stranger who had her. At first she hoped for Tuxedo Mask to come and save her. Yet, this was someone completely different. This was Laquiox. He had a very terrible feeling that he was going to lose Nick to Prince Diamond if he, himself didn't step in and stop this madness.

They were now standing at the other side of the drive way. At first, Sailor Chibi-moon gasped at the elder vampire who was going to go back for Nick. She said, "Wait!"

Sailor Saturn was equally puzzled at outcome said, "This is getting very weird!"

The power that Sailor Acardia had was new and great. It was like she had unleashed a storm onto evil itself. The power of the life force inside of her was great. This was her first upgrade in a couple of years. She didn't want to let anyone get hurt in the fighting, yet the Black moon kingdoms had to be destroyed once and for all!

She began to recharge her life force from her power source. She also felt a light and warm surge coming from her necklace. She glanced down for a second to see her necklace change into a double light ball. Then, the light ball broke off and flew up to her ears. Each ear felt a new power ball change shape to form an earring that was a twin of her medallion.

"What is this?" Prince Diamond gasped as he watched the young mystical sailor senshi.

"It's a power upgrade!" Luna said as she looked at Sailor Acardia.

"Now…you are dealing with a new sort of power!" Sailor Acarida ordered in a clear voice. She had a new power that she had to learn how to control.

"Sailor Moon…you have to tell you little friend to stop and we need you to end this little idea of peace, now!" Prince Diamond said as he was taken aback with this new turn of events.

"Northing doing!" Sailor Moon warned. She had enough of this darkness. She had to break free the darkness to save lives. She said, "I'm going to cleanse one and for all!"

She held out her Entiral Tiare.

The darkness of Prince Diamond had a last trump card. He threw out his arms which caused a wind to knock out Sailor Moon's Entiral Tiare. He knew she was going to drop it. With that out of the way, he was going to attack with a sneak attack. He had to have a puppet to carry out his wishes. Glancing at Nick, prince Diamond snapped his fingers. Nick having a very strong will had been broken after nearly eight hundred years of being a slave to Laquiox. This was a truly unstopped force. He felt all of his will suddenly fall from his mind.

Laquiox had also felt the world in his mind shift so violently that he wanted to be sick with fear. This was no normal fear. Even not the fear that he had felt when Nick was posited by a demon a few years ago had the same impact. This darkness had a bite to this little snag of Nick's soul. "What have you do to him?" Laquiox asked with a cold stare of disbelief at Prince Diamond.

Prince Diamond was first surprised at this so called human asking a question that needed to be explained in short order. Yet, he gave it a second of thought. Then, he glared at Nick. This was a stroke of brilliance on his part. No, could control Nick after the many years of what he was. A vampire was usually the one to put the mind control on someone else, not the other way around. "He will make a good addition to the many who wall follow us to the path of glory…Our lady ask for very dear lady!" Prince diamond grinned darkly.

"Our Lady!" Sailor moon gasped angered. She knew that she had cleansed Galaxia. The end was the end and she could go back to being a normal teenager. Yet, fate at the last laugh in this cruel joke called life. She knew Galaxia had turned back to evil and was lying extremely low until the timing was right for her capture of the purest Star seed. Serena just happened to be the owner of that star-seed.

The skies turned fiery red before Prince Diamond threw a curl ball at Sailor moon. He said, "Come with me…Queen. Then, I can give the rest of the world on a silver platter."

Laquiox was now standing in the shadows of the house. His eyes were glowing a dark green. He knew Nick, Alex and Vachon were in for it. The change of him taking Nick back was slim. He did not want to attempt fate if he was going to get snared nick in the large thorn bush.

"Nothing doing…" Sailor Jupiter howled with anger. She gave the air a very anger swipe. She and the others were not going to back down for any one.

"Why?" sailor mars cried out in hot sadness. She knew things were being pushed into the hopeless end of the fight.

"You need to be put down and crushed one and for all!" Prince Diamond snared.

"DREAM STORM!" Sailor Acarida shouted once again. This time she was going to be helped by Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Mars.

Sailor Jupiter shouted, "SERPIME THUNDER CRASH!"

A blast of lighting was surrounded by a bolt of rose colored light. Then, Sailor Mars shouted, "FLAME SNIPER!"

The bolt of lightning and light was now surrounded by a flaming arrow.

Sailor Venus stared at her friend sailor mercury and said, "They need is a power boast!"

"All right!" Sailor moon nodded. She raised her right hand up to her tiara. She watched as Venus used her Love chain whip.

It seemed like the others were following their example as well. The outers used their powers in a three way split towards the power source. Then, the Sailor Starlights used their powers in order to save Sailor Saturn and Chibi-moon.

"What are you doing to do?" Sailor moon asked her. She knew that everyone was doing their bit to help out. She was going to see if she could cleanse Prince Diamond for one last goes at being good. "Moon Tiara…Elimtation!" she cried out.

She pulled off of her forehead. It changed into a glowing disk of light. Her powers were peaking to the edge. Then, she sprung around as the disk became brighter and more powerful. Finally she stopped spinning to face Prince Diamond. Prince Diamond could see it coming and prepared himself for the attack. He waved his face to throw wind at Sailor moon. He glowed, "NO way!"

Sailor moon felt the ground leaving her feet. She fell quickly with her right hand still clutch the disk. She was blown down in a heartbeat. What was her defiance for now? She had to stop Prince Diamond somehow. "I am not giving up that easily!" she thought to herself. Her heart pounded in her head from the pain. The wind was not letting up and neither was she.

"What's a matter…sailor girl!" the white haired prince asked with an innocent tone of voice. He was about to raise his hand when he felt a large struck it. He spun around to see who threw the rock. "What…the?" he hissed.

"No more…" Sailor Venus said as she had to stop him from hurting Sailor moon. She had thrown the rock.

"No…and I mean that!" He snapped before he slightly ground his teeth together

"It's all right, Venus!" sailor moon said as she tried to get back up. She breathed slowly. "I am just little winded…that's all!" she said, trying to sound tough, although she sounded very lame.

"You just don't get it…do you Neo-queen!" Prince Diamond shook his head. He felt a slight sting of blood oozing out from the scrape. He was now furious. In his anger, he let out an unfelt, unseen order for Nick to bare his fangs to show how powerful the Dark moon was really.

The Sailors were terrified at the outcome. There was no getting around a vampire who was under the mind control of the dark moon. Yet, this was just a warning. In a heartbeat, the white haired, his soldiers, Nick, Alex and Vachon disappeared in a clap of lighting. Prince Diamond had to pull back in order to show what the sailors were now up agasint. Laquiox was stunned into quiet anger at the loss of his son, Nick once more.