The Girl in White

That next day...

Chikane pondered her future.

A pegasus took refuge in her for her powerful dream. Her ancestor gave her power that was influenced with Pegasus' power making her something else entirely.

She began wishing for beauty. Beauty the best her lineage can offer within her blood. Her appearance changed indeed to what she wished for while remaining Japanese, but a Japanese Beauty with straight, even teeth that can give a great smile that would never be a gummy smile. And her hair turned chestnut-blonde as a consequence, and made it her true form, discarding her old form that resembled her mother.

'Chikane, why did you change your form?' Pegasus asked her.

'I don't have family anymore, Pegasus...they wanted nothing to do with me for being a clumsy no-good.' said Chikane softly. 'Only that man cared for me...so I changed myself to not even have anything of them. They don't want me but great-grandfather does...and gave me hope that somehow, he's there. He even showed me why...and fixed me with your help. But only you can stay with me, he could not...but at least I knew someone in the family cared for me. I wanted to be close to him, in a way.'

'I see...'

'What do we do now? You got enemies after you. And its just us against that witch.' Chikane fretted.

'I know...but I sensed ten powers in this city.' said Pegasus. 'Ten good powers. They will be of great help to us.'

'I hope we find them though.' said Chikane seriously. 'We can't be alone. I'm used to being alone and lonely but this time, I can't afford to be alone...or this world will be all gone if they get you.'

'Mm...I'm sorry, Chikane.' Pegasus apologized softly. Chikane smiled.

'It's OK...its my first time hearing someone wanted and needed me...years after my grandmas died. Nobody wanted and needed me since then. And now you need me. That makes me happy that at least...I'm not entirely useless to the whole world.' said Chikane as she got up to cook breakfast. 'My first step would be living in an actual apartment. This place is not safe anymore. I'm easy pickings here if our identity were to be found out.'

After breakfast, Chikane set off to find an apartment just enough for her. Nothing too fancy, as long as she has all she needs.

She has enough money from begging to get an apartment for herself. She can even magically obtain what she needed from department stores. Her apartment only had one burner, so she installed a stove with four burners and filled her kitchen with what she needs, furniture she needs, and electronics along with appliances. And the ever-important Kerosene Heater.

Normally, Pegasus would not condone stealing, but Chikane's finances are very limited. She can only pay for rent, utilities and buying food off of her limited work. And Chikane spends a lot of money on food to grow up healthy.

Ever since Giotto 'fixed her', she earns bigger than 30k a day. In fact...it tripled.

She keeps her earnings safe in the closet, with magic protecting her money from thieves into never seeing it even with help of gadgets.

But suddenly...the sky went dark. 'Huh?' she blinked.

In her eyes...it went dark despite to normal people, its a normal day though they anticipated the eclipse to watch.

But something sinister just came.

'They didn't notice...that enemies are here.' she mused softly.

xxx

In a tent that showed up out of nowhere...

It was a macabre, sinister circus tent that housed goofy freaks of darkness. Freaky Circus Performers.

'They don't notice...they don't notice!' a unicyclist spoke before backing and going sideways. 'The humans in this town don't notice!'

Then three big faces appeared one-by-one.

'They don't realize they're all dogs...'

'They don't realize they're raising their children into monkeys...'

'This town is full of dogs and monkeys!' the three big faces laughed wickedly in amused laughter.

A masked old man spoke in the darkness, 'Suddenly in the middle of town...' he slid away to be replaced by a ballerina girl with a bear-head,

'...a circus tent appears!' and she was replaced by a firebreathing juggler juggling what looked like halves of eggs.

'...they don't realize at all! Nihihihihi!'

Then numerous faces appeared. Grayish dull faces that looked alike but differed in size and shape and in the middle is the face of a female cute doll that looked out of place in there.

'Why?'

'Why?'

'Why?'

'Why?'

'Why?'

The gray ones have different voices until the girl spoke cutely and childishly. 'Why is it?'

Then a mummified man carrying a giant mask spoke to everyone by waving its big face around. 'They seem to be creatures who don't care for what goes on outside their rooms...'

'That's why!' a pair of lanky blue male twins snarked out as a pair of dancers danced in a creepy manner, with the smaller child upside down on top of the adult one's head.

'Even if rats were to eat up the whole world...' the child snarked,

'...even if a circus tent suddenly appears...' the woman mockingly stated with a very-wrong smile on her face,

'...nobody in this town notices~!' a balloon girl sing-sang in a high-pitched voice as all the freaks danced while laughing on their own podiums.

'Quiet!' a rough, elderly woman barked. 'Quiet down!'

All the freaks disappeared below the tent with their podium stands sinking down below, and came back empty. A cloud of smoke came and appeared an elderly...alien...female with a scepter containing a flaming winged eye. She pushed her head out of her collar using her own neck muscles with a 'pop!' 'There we go...' she muttered. 'Now...the time has finally come to take over this world...' she declared, 'Is the Amazon Trio here?' she called out.

A ring of fire appeared and after that, a handsome blonde man appeared, wearing a white orange-lined top with a black speedo, orange tights and black boots came. 'Tiger's Eye, here.'

A ring of water appeared and after that, an effeminate blue-haired man appeared, wearing a one-piece segmented bulging outfit that concealed his figure, wearing blue stockings and slippers. He had greenish hands with sharp red fingernails. 'Fish Eye, here.'

A ring of brown fluffy feathers appeared and after that, another handsome man appeared with lavender hair in a toga and tights appeared. 'Hawk's Eye, here.'

What they have in common was the same earrings, but only Fish Eye didn't have a necklace.

They genuflected before the older woman.

'Have you called for us, Master Zirconia?'

'Mm. Listen!' Zirconia barked. 'He should have escaped to this world as well.' she stated. 'To capture him is the first step to conquering this world. For your first job...I order you to find those with beautiful dreams.' that got the trio puzzled.

'Beautiful dreams, was it?' Fish Eye asked, puzzled.

'Yes...' Zirconia smirked, flexing her other hand's fingers. 'He cannot hold his shape for long in this world. In this material world, he quickly loses energy and dies.' she explained. 'However, there is one way for him to continue existing...'

'And how?' they asked.

'That is, to hide and live inside someone's beautiful dream.' said Zirconia.

'I see.' Tiger's Eye smirked.

'That means he's already inside someone's dreams in this world.' Hawk's Eye mused.

'That's right!' Zirconia boomed. 'This world is a large place. There are as many humans like stars in this world...however! Only a handful of them have beautiful dreams!' she said. 'I am sure we can find him in no time. Go and find him out!'

The Trio dismissed themselves.

xxx

And so, in a bar within the circus where the trio had drinks, while discussing who to attack by choosing among numerous photos...of women!

'Hey hey, what do you think of this one?' Hawk's Eye asked as he pushed a photo for the others to see.

'Ugh, that's one's a little...' Tiger's Eye clearly didn't like Hawk's Eye's choice.

Hawk's Eyes choices are clearly very-adult women.

'Hmmm...troublesome, a handful my butt, there's still so many~' Hawk's Eye complained as Tiger's Eye chose among his tastes which were younger women.

'Hmmm...they're all so cute, I can't decide!'

'Come on~' Hawk's eye said playfully. 'Don't choose those you like! Work comes first!'

Fish Eye scoffed, however.

'Besides, what part of them is cute?!' He snarked in distaste. 'Tiger's Eye you go for girls like these?!'

'Now now Fish Eye, your tastes are way too specific.' Tiger's Eye chuckled with a raised eyebrow.

For these guys who look like grown men they sure talk way younger than their appearances suggest, talking in a rather childish manner as if puberty just happened.

xxx

'Nee...I don't see any action at all.' Chikane grumbled as after working, she was home in her apartment, scrying using a large mirror she took. 'Maybe those freaks are settling down and setting up shop or something.'

'I don't like the sound of that.' said Pegasus. 'They are preparing to begin their search for me.'

'Yes...good thing for my family bloodline...I can evade them no matter how they try.' Chikane giggled. 'Keep watching OK? I'll go make dinner.'

'Alright, I'll call you when something happens.' Chikane left their room to cook dinner.

Chikane bought a lot of food legally but for expensive delicacies...she steals using magic.

Having a Red Sea Bream dinner is highly classy.

Chikane felt that while she still has magic as her magic is borrowed from Pegasus, she should enjoy luxury while she still can before she goes back to a normal diet again. Thus she purchased groceries she normally wouldn't touch due to how expensive they are.

xxx

If by day she was a filthy beggar, by night she was a normal girl. A beautiful girl. She wears a simple white formless young girl's nightgown. To be fair, she is safekeeping the High Priest of Dreamworld so its befitting she wears such clothes, and barefoot with her hair worn loose. She also has a very long strip of cloth that rather looked like a wide bandage with a yard of it loosely wrapped around her wrists and another yard floating around.

She has a use for it as she created it as her form as Guardian to the High Priest, calling herself Somnio Senshi. Its not like aliens know what Latin is!

She can only be seen by those with power. Normal humans cannot see her so she can freely wander in it.

And first victim of the day was a young girl.

"Geh, that could have been ME if I was found!" Chikane shivered when two girls arrived...and pulled a Magical Girl on her! "The hell?!" she squawked, jaw dropping.

I remember those forms...they're Sailor Soldiers. They are allies.

"I see but...do they have to seriously monologue like cliche TV characters?" Chikane sweatdropped as the two Moon Soldiers did their spiel and she frankly felt embarrassed by it. "Hopefully I'm not required to do that..."

Not only that...a masked caper came. Sure he did well and those two decided not to do anything in their predicament?

Well, he too, was trapped...

"Helios, I'm seriously wondering if we can count on them..." Chikane sighed, disheartened. "We gotta do it our way but first...I help the idiots." she then showed up, cutting up the man's whip, freeing the masked caper, and the two girls.

'Wha?!' Sailor Moon fell to the ground. 'Waaaaah!'

'What?!' Sailor Chibimoon, Tuxedo Mask and the blonde man gasped out.

'I was sleeping here...you're sooo loud...' she took on the look of a frightening onryo with very bloodshot eyes and a dark blue tongue with rotting teeth and nails, and moved like a broken doll that freaked them out. 'I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR YOUR DISTURBAAAANNNCCEEE!' she cried in a scary echoing shrieky voice that terrified all of them into fleeing.

'EEK! What the hell is that thing?! Scaryyy! You guys deal with it!' the blonde disappeared into a ring of fire.

'OI?!' the girls and Tuxedo Masked cried indignantly while nervous about the onryo...who became a beautiful girl. 'Phew, he's gone.' they sputtered at the sudden change.

'W-which is real?!' Chibimoon squeaked fearfully.

'This is!' Chikane giggled. 'Effective, no but don't you want to deal with that, first?' she asked pointing at the reassembling puppet.

'Oh no, we almost forgot that thing!' Sailor Moon cried. 'We couldn't defeat it with Moon Spiral Attack!'

'As you are now, you can't defeat the denizens of the Dead Moon.' said Chikane. 'So I came with a little help.' she said with a wink as she upgraded Sailor Moon's weapon as well as changed her form and that of the girl's as they were connected.

"This new wand...I feel a new power building up in me..." Sailor Moon thought as she felt a strong warmth in her.

'Try it out, your new toy.' Chikane egged her on. So Sailor Moon did so with Chibimoon supporting her up as she had a bad fall earlier...ending in Karakuriko's defeat, with it screaming,

'STAAAAGE OOOOUUUUTTT!' what remains is a shadow with a mark, a puff of smoke came out of it and the shadow vanished.

'Who are you?' Tuxedo Mask asked her.

'I am Somnio Kori.' said Chikane, emphasizing the pronunciation of the name. 'What do you see when you look at me?'

'...like you're going to bed, actually.' Sailor Moon croaked out as they agreed with the notion.

'Haha...well, I represent the good dreams of people who can deeply sleep...while they represent nightmares unable to sleep, as well as those who cannot dream.' said Chikane. 'They're pitiful but sadly, made that way by a witch who stole their dreams for herself.' she shook her head. 'A dream is a wish we all make when we sleep...and what happens if we can no longer dream?'

'...a dream is also a nicer word for aspirations and goals for the future.' said Tuxedo Mask as Chikane nodded. 'And the mirror he looked into?'

'That is our Dream Mirror. Stick your head in it, you can view the person's dreams but it causes great pain to the person as you're invading not only their privacy,' the girls blanched. '-but their soul too...and you know full well what happens if the body rejects foreign objects. Pain, right?' she said, making a point with her finger. 'And this is a soul we're talking about so you can only imagine how painful it will be if your soul is invaded. You'd wish you broke a bone instead, so that poor girl passed out from pain.' the trio nodded nervously as Chikane fired a golden light at Unazuki and her pale color improved.

'And a shattered mirror basically kills them as without dreams, you're as good as dead. With them around, dying is possible but in a normal situation, a normal person with no dreams is apathetic and aimless in life, no idea where to go, what to do to make their life better, making them no better than a wandering ghost. Only, unlike a ghost they still have bodies...' she shrugged.

'Take care not to let a mirror shatter.' Chikane warned as she summoned the Dream Carillion and gave it to Chibimoon and had it float to her. 'When things get hairy...give me a call and I'll be right over OK? Bye~!' and she waved goodbye, vanishing into light sparkles. Chibimoon took the Carillion and learned the summoning spell needed to summon Chikane.

'Dreams and Nightmares...and those who cannot dream due to stolen dreams...just what is our new enemy this time?' Tuxedo Mask swore.

'But at least she told us something...but not all of it.' Sailor Moon deflated.

'She cannot trust us yet but showed us good will. She was guarded towards us.' Tuxedo Mask pointed out. 'Maybe if we do more, she will tell us more when she sees she can trust us. About why are our enemies looking into mirrors.'

'Sou ne...let's call it a day and we'll tell the others tomorrow.' said Sailor Moon as they left.

xxx

In her apartment, Chikane watched them from her mirror. 'That masked weirdo is perceptive.'

'So it would seem.' said Pegasus. 'We need to watch more.'