Chapter 13

Across town Trista walked into her apartment, and found that her three friends sitting around the lounge room waiting for her return. She watched the two women and the young girl from the doorway, happy to have her friends around.

"The princess has been revealed, and I think the inners are going to be more trouble than they are worth," Trista said with a sigh waling to where Hotaru was and sitting on the floor next to her.

The woman with short blond hair with her arm wrapped around her girlfriend with aqua hair, looked at Trista with concern, "We always said they were trouble, Trista, too many independent personalities."

Michelle looked up at her girlfriend trying to justify the girls actions, "Amara, they are still teenagers, just like they were on the moon, Trista; surely they haven't gotten as bad as you think."

Trista sighed again, "I ran into Serenity at the rose garden, she had teleported there, defeated a monster, and was able to teleport away. She shouldn't have that skill or power yet."

Hotaru stared up from her puzzle, she maybe only a twelve year old girl, but she was wise for short life alive on the planet. "But we had only just started her training, on the moon, even though she had gotten her memories back and the power of the silver crystal, she shouldn't be able to do that without her immediate courts help."

"Exactly, Hotaru, I am worried that something has happened to their relationships to change the distribution of power." Trista said trying to fit a puzzle piece into a spot, not fitting she discarded it on the side of the puzzle board. "We may need to train her to control her power, and see what she can really do with it."

Amara looked concerned, she knew that on the moon Serenity didn't feel protected by her court, she felt like she was a burden to them as she could rarely fight with them, and if trouble ever really came along she was just going to get in the way, which is why the scout of the moon had been created in secret. They had been training Serenity to become Sailor Moon, so that she didn't feel so defenceless, but she never finished the training. Amara also knew that the Queen, Serenity's mother had taken some of princess's power from her at birth, she had had too much power in her control even then, "Ladies, if the princess truly has been fully awaken, we will need to stick close, we never truly new what kind of power she could handle, Remember the Queen made sure that Serenity couldn't have full access to the power unless she really needed it."

The other three nodded, and they sat down trying to figure out a plan for how they were going to assist the Princess, without the Inner court aware of their assistance.

Meanwhile at Raye's shrine the four inner scout and their cats were discussing the new they had received today.

"I still can't believe Sailor Moon is the Princess," Muttered Raye in complete disbelief. "I mean seriously ladies; no one could see this coming." She continued looking around at her friends.

The other girls just looked confused; they were in two minds, wanting to follow Raye, as she had become leader in Serena's withdrawal from their friendship.

Ami looked up from her book that she was staring at not reading in her lap, "What I am surprised about is that she accepted our apologies so quickly and freely, I thought she hardened, do you think she was faking it?"

Lita looked at Ami, realizing that she had a point, "What do you think is going on? What will we have to do to get her back as leader, or at least on speaking terms with her, we are her court after all."

Raye raged, "I am leader now, she abandoned us, she kept secrets from us, she had the freaking crystals and she did it on her own." Deep down Raye was actually a little in awe at the fallen leader, she didn't ask for help, she didn't even let on that she had the crystals, but she would never let the Princess know.

Mina had remained quiet, she knew how much hurt they had put the Princess through, most of it happened when she joined the team, she didn't truly understand the dynamics of the team before she joined them in battle, just knowing she made the group a 5 and was easily accepted and Serena was easily shunned because of her ideals of wanting to live a normal life. They had all started getting memories back before Serena, which then made her feel even more left out and made Raye convince her that maybe she wasn't a true scout as she didn't have any memories returning to her like they all had.

Mina looked up from her thoughts, and watched the girls discuss this matter, more so just asking questions of each other and not getting the answers they wanted. Disrupting their chatter she quietly said, "I think we have a lot of work ahead of us, girls, I think if we want to get back into her good graces again, we need to work on getting her to trust us." She turned to Raye, and smiled apologetically, "Raye, I know you wanted the role as leader, but I am going to take the lead for now" Raye just stared, "You know as well as I do, that I was the head of this court, I have let you take this position because I knew how much you have always wanted it, but we need to have a calm handle on this situation, and I am afraid, your personality is similar to your fires, calm and warming most of the time, but once you have a reason, burning out of control the next."

All the others just stared and the Scout of Love almost to argue with her decision, but it made sense to them that she took control of this situation; they couldn't lose their moon princess. Raye, although angry, folded her arms and nodded slightly with her head, they would need to discuss this once they had the Princess back on their side.

Once all the girls agreed with her, she stood up, "I think it is time for some rest, I will call an audience with the Princess tomorrow and see where to go from there, be prepared to be helping Serena a lot over the next couple of days, she has her family to bury and a new life to build and we will be part of her life."

They all nodded and they left the Shrine, leaving the priestess to recover from her day of losing power, and losing the trust of her Princess, just before Lita left, she gently grabbed Raye's shoulder trying to comfort her, and said, "Don't worry, this won't work out the ways the fires say." And Raye visibly cringed at the memory of her visions.

Hi All,

Another chapter down and dusted, another filler chapter, the inners are making plans, the outers are making plans, and Darien & Serena just seems to be sleeping.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I will hopefully make it more action packed in the upcoming chapters.

Thanks for all the wonderful reviews and welcome to the new follows of my story. =)

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