"This is the weirdest statue I've ever seen…" commented Relena as the group looked at what appeared to be some sort of sea creature statue including a Squid and sea urchin.

"Please tell me you know where we are, Rachel," said Tea looking at their guide, "Because if there are more of these statues I'd rather go home."

"Oh yeah, I know not only what world we're in but what country and city. Don't worry, there aren't any more of these as far as I know, Tea."

"Really? From this alone?" asked an impressed Taiki, gesturing to the statue.

"We're are in the city of Hasetsu, in Japan in the world of Yuri on Ice," she explained, the name getting Wolfram's attention.

"Why is Yuri on ice!?" he asked sounding panicking thinking it might be an alternate version if his fiancée.

"Is he stupid?" asked Zero pointing at the elder blonde.

"No, he from different world and doesn't seem to get that Yuri is a popular name in places like Japan and Russia," replied Seiya as they followed Rachel along the road, "Where are we going anyways?"

"Hopefully to Yu-Topia hot springs inn…if I can't find it we may have to go to Hasetsu Ice castle and ask for directions though the people we're looking for might be there already."

"Ice castle?" repeated Aido.

"It's an ice rink," she explained as they came up to the inn, "Well, we don't have to worry about where we'll stay."

The Starlights handled getting them rooms as the rest looked around.

"Now, cats are allowed here right?" Seiya asked Mrs. Kasturi, "We have a pair of cats with us."

"Oh yes, all animals are allowed. Our son used to have a dog, as long as they are hypoallergenic it's fine," she assured him.

"Yes, they are, don't worry about that," Taiki assured her as Rachel pulled out the cats.

"Aw! How cute!" the woman cooed as her husband handed Seiya room keys for the group.

"The girls will share one room while you young men can have another, I hope that's okay," said male told Seiya.

"It's fine," the dark-haired Starlight replied handing one of the keys to Tea.

"Guess that means Luna's sleeping with us and you boys will bunk with Artemis," she told him with a grin.

Luna meowed when Relena picked her up before purring when she was stroked, Hanabusa picking up her mate and giving him some attention.

"What cute names," the woman cooed petting the felines, "If you kids need anything let us know."

"Yes ma'am," the group chimed before splitting up into their rooms.

Rachel smiled as she sat alone in the room the other girls taking bath, since she had never been to a public bathhouse before she was keener to wait for the private tub to be free since Relena wanted to use it first. Her communicator went off as she was stroking Li'l Light's fur, Kyubi curled up beside her.

"Hello?" she said as she picked up to find Duo and all the Gundam pilots minus Quatre on the other end.

"Rachel…what was with that look that you had when you talked about Quatre?" asked a clearly worried Trowa.

"He's not dying if that's what you're thinking…I should have known you all would want to know the truth, but the thing is…Quatre can't find this out. This information about him has to stay a secret because it could break him," she explained shifting the little pokémon, letting her move herself into a more comfortable position, "You all have to swear to never tell him!"

The group all looked at each other weighing the pros and cons of promising her not to tell. On the one hand Quatre did have a right to know whatever was being kept from him. On the other Rachel had said that it would not bode well for the smaller blonde.

"Alright," said Wufei.

Duo nodded, "I promise."

"Me too," agreed Zechs.

Heero simply nodded.

"That's leaves you Trowa…if you don't want to promise you can just leave the room but then I'll have to ask the others to not tell you either."

"I won't tell him… I don't like it, but I will keep my word."

"Oh! Just so I don't break my no lying vow, how are you guys holding up?" asked Duo.

"We're fine, we're at a hot spring inn and the others are bathing right now. I guess I can tell you now…Quatre isn't a test tube child like he always believed. His mother died shortly after giving birth to him making him not only the only male Winner child of this generation but the only one naturally born," she told them, all five males on the other end in shock.

Kyubi decided this would be a good time for her to have talk of her own with Luna and Artemis. Rachel tried to hide it but Kyubi could tell she was worried about what would happen to her after Chaos was beaten.

"So, what exactly is Rachel supposed to do when all this is over?" the fire fox pokémon asked the two cats as her electric friend joined them.

"I want to help her beat the scary monsters! The last few times she's been in danger and we couldn't do a thing," Li'l Light told them, her tail drooping, "If I was a Pikachu…"

"We do not know what will happen when Chaos is beaten…I suppose it will be up to Rachel since she doesn't seem to have anyone waiting for her," replied Luna as her mate put a paw on Li'l Light's shoulder.

"You two really care about her, don't you?" he asked.

"She is a good person…she brushes us, she plays with us, sings to us," said Kyubi, "We want to protect her, help her."

"I…I love her…she's my dear friend…" said Li'l Light before she started to glow attracting Rachel's attention.

"What's going on?" asked Zechs who noticed the light from the pilot's end of the line.

"It's Li'l Light, she's evolving!" Rachel cried dropping the communicator compact, causing it to shut and cut off the call as she hurried over to her newly evolved Pikachu, "Did you do this for me?"

"Pika!"

"She said, "Yes!"" translated Luna smiling, glad that even if Rachel didn't have a place in the world she came from once this was over the girl had options.

Rachel smiled too, pulling both pokémon into her arms, "Thank you."

"The private bath is free," Relena told Rachel as she walked into the room in one of the yukatas the inn provided, "Where's Li'l Light and who's that?"

"Pokémon evolve and that's what happened here. She's a Pikachu now," the other girl replied picking up the yellow creature and calling Kyubi back into her ball which she hid amongst her clothing.

"Pikachu!" said the newly evolved pokémon happily, excited for bath time.

"You have to pretend to be a stuffed animal while we're walking around here," the guide told the pokémon in her arms.

While they walked they passed a young man with black hair, brown eyes and blue framed glasses talking with a blonde teen and a man with silver hair, another teen this one with dark hair and eyes walked with them. Rachel had to bite her lip to keep from having a fangirl moment.

"Aw! What a cute toy! Must be foreign," said the black-haired man.

"It is cute, but I don't recognize it either," said the silver haired male.

"It's a prototype, my family runs a toy company and I'm testing out one of our new products while I'm on vacation with some friends," Rachel lied, thinking on her feet.

"I'll look forward to getting one when they come out," the silver haired male said, "Bye now."

"Hurry up, piggy, I want to take a bath already," snapped the blonde as they started walking again.

"I think I'll get my sister one of those dolls when they come out," the second teen finally spoke.

"Yeah, she might like it," the blonde said, his tone doing a 180 when talking to his other friend.

Hanabusa smiled as he rubbed shampoo into his boyfriend's hair as Wolfram rinsed himself, all three looking up when heard the four enter.

"Don't mind us," said the dark-haired adult male sitting at a wash station.

"Want me to wash your hair Yuuri?" the sliver haired male asked with a huge smile seeing what Zero and Hanabusa were doing. (An: To keep people from getting confused the Yuuri is the Japanese Yuri from Yuri on ice while Yuri is the one form KMM)

Yuuri as he was called chuckled, "No thanks Victor, I can handle it."

"Hanabusa insisted," said Zero before yelping when some shampoo got in his eye.

"Only because every time you wash your own hair you have to wear swimming goggles because you have a bad habit of getting it in your eyes like a child," the blonde vampire said shaking his head.

"And I thought my Yuri was a wimp," commented Wolfram causing the other two Yuris to blink.

"No one asked you, Wolfram," Zero told him rinsing his eyes.

"Okay so you're Hanabusa, he's Wolfram so what's your name?" asked the other silver haired male sitting down by Yuuri.

"Shouldn't you tell us the rest of your names?" Zero pointed out.

"Oh right! I'm Victor and this is Otabek!" the bubbly five-time champ said, "His name is Yuri too, so we call him Yurio!"

"I hate that stupid nickname!"

"Hello," said the black-haired teen before he started to bathe.

Zero merely muttered his name since every since he could remember his name gaining him looks of confusion and wonder if his parents had been high while naming him in the past.

"What did you say?" asked Yuuri.

"He said his name is Zero. And before you ask he has a younger twin named Ichiru," said Aido rinsing his boyfriend's hair.

"Hana!"

"Oh, so you're Japanese, nice dye job," said Victor.

"This is my natural hair…" Zero said before shaking his hair out much to the protest of Hanabusa and Wolfram.

"Victor's ego's so big he thinks people are mimicking his style when they're not!" snorted Yurio.

"I get you doing that to him, but next time leave me out of your spat!" protested the blonde Mazaku as Zero walked out to the outdoor bath.

As he sunk into the warm water he could hear the girls on the other side chatting.

"You guys are loud," he said loudly starting the girls causing splashing and panicked squeals, "I'm on the other side of the wall! Stop freaking out!"

"What did you do?" snapped Hanabusa as he came in.

"I didn't do anything! I was just telling Tea and Misty that I could hear them talking on the other side of the wall!" protested Zero, "Its not like I tried to peek, not that anything they have would interest me."

Aido shook his head as he slipped into the water, giving his boyfriend a kiss.

Wolfram rolled his eyes as he joined them, "Enough PDA you two, we don't know the rules of this place."

"Fine," the two lovers sighed.

Seiya sighed in the men's private bath, he was honestly not sure he and Taiki were going make it back to their universe in their bodies…if they didn't would Rachel and the cats be able to handle all these strong-willed people on her own? They could demand she send them home, not that he was sure she would, she seemed smart enough to figure out a way to keep them from running…then again most of them seemed brave enough not to run but he couldn't be sure since they hadn't even found all twelve yet. Either way he felt bad at the idea of leaving Rachel, Luna and Artemis as the only teachers these people had, at least he and Taiki were Sailor Senshi! Rachel did seem to know a lot about them but there was a difference between knowing about something and being able to teach others about them.

"What's this called?" asked Wolfram once everyone was bathed and sitting down to eat, poking at his meal.

"It's our inn's specialty Katsudon," said Yuuri with a smile as he served them, helping his family.

Rachel was happily blowing on hers and digging in.

"Cat's doom?" Wolfram asked causing their guide to laugh and start to choke.

Zero quickly started to give her the Heimlich until she coughed up the pork chunk.

"Maybe don't make people laugh while eating…" Yuuri said with a sweatdrop, "Are you okay miss?"

Rachel nodded after sipping some soda, "I'll be fine. He's got a Japanese fiancée but has only been here twice and never heard of this dish."

"How stupid," commented Yurio.

"What did you call me?!" snapped Wolfram jumping up before an annoyed Zero pulled him back down.

Relena leaned closer to Tea and Misty, whispering, "Are things always this crazy?"

Both nodded, Tea rolling her eyes since she was already kind of used to craziness like this back home.

"Sorry about him, he has a fiery attitude," Rachel said making Misty smirk and Seiya and Taiki snicker.

The rest of the senshi didn't get the joke but figured they thought he just had a short fuse either that or had to do with his Senshi powers since they had never seen his magic.

"So, these are your friends?" asked Victor coming over, "Hello ladies."

Rachel tried not to squeal which was the reaction Victor expected but the other two girls didn't seem to know who he was then again, he figured they might not be skating fans.

"Yes, these are Rachel, Misty, Tea, Relena, Seiya and Taiki," introduced Zero.

"You're the girl with that cute plush toy!" realized Yuuri pointing to Rachel.

Misty raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything.

"Hello again," Rachel said waving.

Once the three skaters walked back to their own table Rachel checked her device and let the others look.

"Two this time," said the teen guide.

The rest of the group followed the line of the glowing point of the device to see it was pointing at the table the skaters were sitting.

"How do we explain this without making a huge scene?" asked Taiki.

"Wait, what about that ice rink Rachel mentioned, could we speak to them there?" asked Relena.

"I do not like the cold," stated Wolfram with a pout.

Aido rolled his eyes, "Indoor skating rinks are not THAT cold, people can go in with jeans and a sweater."

"I bet Wolfram will fall on his face," commented Zero.

Turns out he was right but forgot to mention that despite growing up in a snowy area he was not graceful on ice either.

Yuuri couldn't help but blink when he found the group on the ice, "If those two can't even stand on the ice they should get off."

"I've been saying that all day but they're both stubborn," replied Relena as Wolfram fell again.

Rachel laughed before pulling out the device as she staked closer to dark haired male, though Zero fell, distracting her, causing her to trip and drop said device which slid across the ice to rest at Yuuri's feet.

"Itai!" the teen cried, getting up and rubbing her bum as Yuuri picked up the device.

"You drop-what the!?" the skater cried as he gained a bracelet with a navy-blue gem and the symbol of the constellation Pisces.

"Huh, I honestly suspected Yurio not Yuuri since he's not a teen…then again Wolfram is no where near the age he looks," said Luna from her place on the sidelines with Artemis.

All three skaters looked at the cats in shock.

Yurio pointed at her, "Did…did she just talk?"

"You'll get used to it," said Tea, "They both can speak."

Relena sighed, "I'm still getting used to it myself."

"This is the longest we've gone without trouble, we should get moving before something happens," called Artemis.

Sadly he seemingly jinxed it because next thing they knew the ice came to life and froze the less capable skaters in place.

"Crap!" cried Hanabusa, the girls and the pro skaters as they skated to avoid the trap.

"Get off the ice and transform!" Luna yelled the group quickly following orders.

Rachel, thinking fast called out Li'l Light and Kyubi, the first to distract Papillion and the second to thaw out the others. Sadly her quick thinking didn't account for Yurio doing something stupid as going onto the ice as she tried to steal Taiki's star seed when Li'l Light zapped her causing the beam to hit him instead.

"YURI!" the other skaters cried in horror as the young blonde feel onto the ice and faded into balls of light.

Seiya grabbed the older Yuuri's shoulders as the others transformed to fight her, "This is what we're fighting for, to save the people who were taken from us! We need your help! If you want to get him back, you must FIGHT!"

Yuuri looked at Victor and Otabek then at the bracelet on his wrist before nodding. He could hear the word in his head and knew that as terrifying as this was, he had to fight, his home and friends were in danger!

"Pisces Constellation Power Make-up!"

Yuuri's costume was blue and black with boots like those of Sailor Jupiter, her hair was longer and in a braid.

"Well, I didn't get the one I came for, but this will please my mistress," Papillion said about to send Yurio's star seed away, what she didn't count on was Rachel skating back out with Viktor and him whipping the girl at her.

"Not today!" Rachel cried as her hand wrapped around said crystal and slid out of the way.

"Pisces Blizzard Spear!" in the pro skaters a spear made of compressed snowy winds appeared which she threw at the attacker, missing her but startling her enough to make her vanish.

Once she was gone, Yurio body returned, though he was knocked out. Yuuri listened to his fellow Senshi about their mission before looking from Viktor who was standing beside him to the young blonde who was just waking up in Otabek's arms.

"We won't force you to come with us, but you're now a target and he might be too, we don't know how Chaos is sending her minions to these other worlds. It may be that we are being followed which could mean that after we leave this world your friend will be safe," said Artemis.

Luna nodded, "So far we've only try going backwards for items."

"We really do need to test that, in theory if I can make a small portal, I should be able to make one big enough for one to walk through…" said Rachel turning the device over in her hands, "I guess we could attempt to try it now."

"But whose world?" asked Tea.

"How about Misty's?" suggested Relena who was secretly a pokémon fan herself and kind of wanted one of her own.

"Bad idea, we don't know what could come through," Zero pointed out, "Which also excludes our world as well."

"What's wrong with your world?" asked Viktor.

Hanabusa opened his mouth to show his fangs, "Zero and I are vampires. The two of us are friendly enough but I rather not risk a Level E; a kind of human turned vampire with uncontrollable blood lust, being set loose on a world where no one would be able to stop it. Ack!"

"Viktor!"

The five-time world champ now had his fingers in the blonde vampire's mouth trying to get a better look before Zero pulled him off, growling.

"That was rude and gross," commented Taiki digging out a mini bottle of mouth wash for him.

"Back to the worlds we can go back to, I think we should put my world and Wolframs on the list too."

Misty looked at her, "I get Wolfram's since you mentioned they have a lot of creatures that could cause havoc but why yours?"

"Well one unless we windup at an Anime convention or my house both which could come with other issues, someone could see you. Only a few of you can speak English which is the other issue since I'm from America. Wolfram's world also has a language barrier," explained the Otaku, "Meaning the best places to go are either Tea's world or Relena's which we just came from. I want to make sure we can go back further than just the last world we visited so I vote for Tea's."

No one could find any fault in her plans though the cats, Li'l Light and Kyubi kind of wanted to go back to the world of Gundam Wing if only for the wonderful way Trowa knew just where to scratch. So after a day staying in the Yu-gi-oh world they headed off to their next destination.

TBC