AN: please note that within this story bold is for thoughts and cursive is everything that is connected/comes from Serenas dreams.

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They arrived at the scene of the fight, but it didn't seem like anyone caught up on the fact that they came together. The youma was more like a gigantic furless bear-like creature but for the large claws and talon, a very sharp one from the look of it. Sailor Mars had it trapped in a ring of fire, Jadeite and Nephrite trying to cut off the claws. Despite the large frame, the monster was moving with great agility. Zoisite was trying to cut off its tail, which was snapping around like a whip. Sailor Mercury was avoiding its attacks and calculating the beast's weak point. And Sailor Jupiter was adding the 'oil' to the fire by boosting it with the lightning bolts.

Sailor Mars gave a quick nod to Sailor Venus and was surprised to find her grinning. Either her date was a catastrophe and she is glad for the youma's interruption or something great had just happened and we need to get this over with so she can spill the beans. She was diverted by her thoughts for just a moment. But a moment long enough for the youma to get a hit on Nephrite and to send Sailor Jupiter stumbling into her. All three of them turned their attention back to the monster and watched half in wonder and half in anger as it grew another head and two more whip-like tails.

"They freaking mutate, Mercury, please tell me you have something!" Sailor Venus shouted, and send a crescent beam into the beast's belly. The attack only angered it. And Mercury still was analysing. Both the Senshi and Shitennou gathered next to Sailor Mercury, a short tactical meeting was in order. Kunzite and Sailor Venus exchanged looks and started talking at the same time. "Mercury- "/ "Zoisite-". Kunzite grinned, making the other Shitennou suspicious. "Ladies first," he said and created a short-term shield in front of them to ward off the beasts attacks who was still partly trapped by Mars's fire.

"Mercury could take few steps back, fully focusing on analysing our little friend over here. And perhaps Zoisite could make sure she wouldn't get any unnecessary distractions?" suggested Venus. "I concur with a slight change, if I may. Zoisite could raise a shield to seal off the fight, he and Sailor Mercury staying on the outside. With him using his energy on the shield, he wouldn't do much good fighting with the rest of us, and they could still be help to each other. That would make only the six of us vulnerable." The rest agreed on the plan.

Zoisite laid his hand gently on Mercury's lower back and steered her away from the fight. The remaining six of them quickly attacked the monster from all sides, only to watch it ward off most of it. The fire ring now gone with the short intermission on Senshi side, the beast moved towards its nearest prey.

"There, that should give me a good place to make a dome big enough to contain this." Mercury was a bit startled by the gesture. She watched him drive his sword in the ground and looked at the almost invisible barrier encase their fellow combatants.

"Mercury, are you okay?" Zoisite asked the startled girl, "we should hurry." The girl looked at the man in front of her, this wasn't like her. Getting flustered just by a touch. She closed her eyes, let out a deep exhale and her face was once again wearing a look of determination and the tinted visor, the device slightly hiding her eyes from outside world but not disturbing her own sight. Zoisite took his position behind her, a small smile playing on his lips. The Senshi he remembered from his past would also fluster from his touches.

Sailor Mercury stood with her hands crossed, feet securely planted on the ground. All her attention devoted to the battle in front of her. She followed the monsters movements, adding reference points after each attack. Trying to find the weak point, a hidden notion in the movements. Sailor Jupiter sent a lighting jolt toward the back of the monsters head and Mercury watched as all three of its tails stood up to deflect it. When Mars tried to burn his eyes out, she saw it again, and she was almost certain she had the solution when her analysis gave an almost identical report to Jadeites attempt to cut off one of the legs, but was thwarted by the tails again.

She took a step forward, letting her hands fall to her sides, and shouted "Jadeite, can you try that again? I think I got it!" She then got her confirmation - with a price. She saw Jadeite make his move and the tails trying to stop him again. She didn't account for the youma to use his claws as well, not having it done previously. Sailor Mars, being the closest to Jadeite, rushed to push him out of the way and both of them barely managed to escape the sharp claws trying to slice them up and both of them ended up rolling on the ground.

Kunzite and Venus quickly went to check on them. Sailor Mars accepted the helping hand of Venus and wiped the blood off her busted lip. "You shouldn't have, Fire Fairy," joked Jadeite, making Mars blush. A shout from Sailor Jupiter warned them of incoming tails and Sailor Venus turned towards the monster angered by Sailor Mars's injury, ready to send out another crescent beam, they shouldn't get hurt, we shouldn't get hurt protecting each other! Her thoughts echoed with the heart's desire to protect her friends and her possible future with Kennet and her attack erupted in myriad of colours, that after ending their glow, showed a new situation.

Her crescent beam was now a chain, and at the end of the chain was a blade, its length measuring to be similar of a palms length. The blade had cut off beast's tails. The Shitennou didn't hesitate, their memories of past reminding them why the chained blade was known throughout the Solar System. Sailor Venus retracted her weapon from the youma and stumbled back few steps, memories of her past assaulting her mind. The Princess, I know how to find the Princess.

She looked down to her right arm, the chain having wrapped around it, freely enough not to hinder the movements but tight enough not to get loose. A part of the chain going diagonally across her torso and the blade having rested on her forearm, sheathed in a protecting layer of her outfit. It had blended so perfectly with her Senshi uniform that you had to know her very well to know she was carrying a weapon.

The Shitennou cut off the beasts clawed arms while it was still in stupor. Zoisite urged the Water Senshi to tell the results of the analysis, seeing that the Senshi were a bit distracted, and the youma had started to regrow its lost limbs and tails. Mercury yelled out for everyone to hear, "His ears, cut off his fucking ears. Its weakness is his strength, he uses hearing to anticipate your movements!"

Before the men could act, the swirl of a blade and chain in golden light surged forward and with ease, in dance like movements, cut off all youma's ears. It raised his half-regrown limbs towards his heads in pain and screamed, and the chain wrapped around it, trapping his arms movements and making him vulnerable for an attack. The Shitennou moved quickly and with the effort of three sworded men cut the beast in half, and soon after the youma turned to ash and was erased from existence.

"Nice new toy you got there," exclaimed Jadeite and clapped the Venus Senshi heartily on the back. Sailor Venus smiled warily at him and leaned into Sailor Jupiter and whispered, "I'm out of energy… this was too much..." Jupiter looked at her friend in worry, a look that didn't go unnoticed by Kunzite. He stepped forward ready to help but was interrupted by the stern voice of Sailor Mercury, "thank you, but we will be leaving now." Her visor had picked up the fast energy drain from her friend and she knew, unless they leave very soon, Sailor Venus would turn back into Mina. Mars having heard Venus's whisper and felt her decline of strength, helped Jupiter to pick up Venus and with a nod towards the men the four girls left the scene with quick successions of superhuman jumps.

"Did I say something to offend Sailor Mercury?" Jadeite wondered aloud.

"Sailor Venus almost detransformed due to lack of energy, it seems that the new 'toy' had drained her. Surely your senses should have picked that up?" Zoisite asked and after seeing his agreeing nod and turned towards Kunzite, "you seemed to be chummy with the girl today? Are you secretly two-timing seeing as you had a date today?" he ended with a smirk.

Kunzite laughed at the suggestion, "No, I'm not. Sometimes I think, you being the brain of the team, are too much of a smartass, even more than Jade," he looked at the direction the girls went to, I hope she will be okay.

"You know, talking about two timing, I would rather think that Jade here is the expert. Trying to pick up Sailor Mars, and his boss at the shrine at the same time. What would Rei think of you going around and calling other girls Fire Fairies?!" mocked Nephrite and seeing other start to laugh with him, decided that his friend was chastised enough. Even they did not know that Jadeite had acted on impulse, the nickname from his past to his lover rolling of his tongue before he could stop. An endearment he used only in privacy.

Kunzite knew that revealing to the others Venus's identity would make them understand who the remaining girls were, but they have to find the truth on their own time. It was only logical that the Senshi were as close friends as he was with Nathan, Jake and Zachary. And he could also see, his friends were crushing on the same girls they, unknowingly, had just fought together. He even had an inkling that Sailor Mars was the same Rei Jake loved to tease so much. No, I'm sure she's Rei. Just as sure as the fact that Mina had figured out the identities of other Shitennou.