Knock knock.

"Come in," Chibiusa yelled at the door to invite her visitor into her room.

"Good morning, Chibiusa-chan. I came to wish you a happy birthday!" Sailor Saturn walked into Chibiusa's room, dressed in her formal senshi fuku as always. Her arms were behind her back while she wore an ear-splitting grin on her face.

"Oh, Hotaru-chan, thank you. I'm so glad you came to see me this morning. I wanted to talk to you about something," Chibiusa said, with a smile lighting up her face.

"Well, I hope it can wait because I came to give you this," with that, the sailor scout pulled her hands from behind her back and she procured a beautifully wrapped gift in her hands with an elegant pink and purple bow on top.

Chibiusa's smile widened and her eyes began to water as she looked from the gift to her best friend. "Thank you, Hotaru-chan! I should wait to open it tonight, so Mama and Papa don't get upset with me for opening a gift early."

Hotaru winked, "I won't tell if you won't."

Chibiusa smiled and unwrapped the gift tenderly, taking her time to be gentle with the beautiful paper. Opening the gift, she laid eyes on the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. Lying on a cushion of soft pink velvet was a small bell that looked similar to the one she had when she first met Helios. It was attached to a gold bracelet that had other charms around it. A few of the charms was pink bunny, a miniature Luna P, a replicated time key, and a diamond crescent moon that represented her family.

Hotaru took time into this gift, showing Chibiusa the road she's traveled to get to this day in her life and how every item on the charm bracelet represents a piece of her heart. Tears began to slide down her face, running a small amount of the makeup she'd already applied to her eyes.

"Oh, Chibiusa-chan, don't cry! You'll ruin all the work you've done getting ready for your birthday ball," Hotaru panicked, not sure how to stop her happy tears.

"It's alright, Hotaru-chan. Your gift is just so beautiful, can you help me put it on? I'd love to wear it tonight."

Hotaru smiled and kindly obliged, clasping the charm bracelet securely around her wrist. Chibiusa stared at it for a few more seconds before moving towards her closet once again.

"Would you like to help me figure out what I should wear tonight?"

Hotaru smiled and replied, "I'd be honored, Princess."


Walking past the kitchen, the only sound that could be heard was the clanking of pots and pans being furiously banged against countertops and stoves.

"Achoo!"

A few mumbles escaped the cook's mouth as she continued her work at making the perfect dinner for the evening. Sailor Mars entered the kitchen and walked over to her and offered her a tissue, almost scaring the cook out of her skin.

"Holy crap, Rei-chan! You completely scared me!"

Rei looked contrite as she shrugged her shoulders. "I'm sorry, Mako-chan. I was only passing by on my patrol and heard you sneeze. You sound as though you have a cold. You should probably rest and leave this dinner to the kitchen staff."

Makoto grunted and shook her head. Rei furrowed her eyebrows and shook her head. "Nobody wins if you sneeze all in the cake batter and get everyone sick, including the birthday girls."

Makoto sighed and put the bowl of batter down on the counter.

"Rei-chan, I don't feel comfortable leaving this meal up to the staff. *sniffle* What would Chibiusa-chan think?"

"She'd probably think, thank Selene Mako-chan didn't sneeze in my cake and get me sick!"

On that verbal queue, Luna entered the room.

"Good morning, Rei-chan, Mako-chan. How are you both doing?"

Makoto sniffled once again and Rei rolled her eyes and pulled out another tissue from her pocket, offering it to her uncomfortable friend. Luna sighed, observing Makoto's infuriating stubbornness, but being unable to do anything about it. She turned to exit the room when she heard a strange noise coming from the tall senshi behind her.

Makoto had just picked up a bag of flour and was about to pour it into the bowl of batter when all of a sudden a powerful sneeze began to come on.

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, ACHOO!"

With that enormous sneeze, the bag of flour fell from her hands inadvertently hitting the bowl of batter, causing it to splatter up and down the front of her apron, as well as all in her hair. The flour fell to the ground and covered the immediate area with a light white coat leaving Rei and Luna with their mouths hanging wide open in shock. Makoto's cheeks took on a deep red color that matched the tint of her bloodshot eyes that could be seen through all the batter and flour coating her face.

"Mako-chan…," Rei sighed, trying to hold in a chuckle.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. I'll go lie down," Makoto reluctantly caved in, unable to reign in her frustration at being unable to finish the dinner and birthday cake. Taking off her apron, she walked from the kitchen still sporting a heavy amount of flour.

Luna nodded and turned to leave with Rei so they could go find the cooking staff to finish the work.


"Minako-chan! You have to move it more to your right!" Ami yelled to her friend who was currently swaying on a rickety ladder, attempting to hang a banner on the wall.

"I'm trying, Ami-chan," she muttered under her breath, frustration kicking in. After a few moments of struggling with the banner, Minako got an idea in her head and a mischievous smile lit up her face.

"Venus Love-Me Chain!"

After summoning her chain, she threw it up and wrapped it around the column closest to her and then a second one near the ladder and let it go, swinging like a circus act between the two.

"Minako-chan! Are you crazy!?" Ami stared up with a shocked look on her face, afraid to watch her, but unable to look away.

Minako continued to swing from her chain in the air while Artemis walked into the room to check how the decorations were coming along.

"Good morning, Ami-chan. How are things going in here?"

Ami dropped her head into her hands and began to massage her temples with her fingers in agitation. Sighing, after a few seconds, she just raised her hand and pointed to where Minako was still swinging from her chain.

"Oh, Minako-chan…," Artemis said, after realization sunk in. He knew, as well as Ami did that this couldn't end well.

After a few moments, the onlookers just watched her with growing unease while she was oblivious to the column beginning to tilt in her direction.

"Almost…..got it….," Minako muttered to herself as she lift the banner up. Tugging on her chain, she raised herself a little higher and as soon as she did, the column started falling towards her.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!"

"Minako-chan!" A chorus of shrieks sounded the hall as all onlookers watched Minako begin to fall to the ground.

"Shine Aqua Illusion!" Mercury yelled, summoning her power to freeze the column.

Once the fog vanished, everyone saw that in the middle of the hall was a tower of Ice that currently held the column from falling to its demise as well as Sailor Venus herself. Currently standing on top of the frozen ice column, she held her hands on her hips with a proud grin on her face.

"I told everyone that Sailor V could do the job!" She shouted, flashing her signature Sailor V sign.

Artemis and Ami just sighed and shook their heads, trying to figure out how they would clean up this mess before the birthday celebration began.


Thanks everyone who favorited my story and gave me reviews! I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I just love when the senshi are able to be their quirky selves and get into troubling situations so I hope you liked how I fit it into the story with Helios and Chibiusa.