Chapter 6: Etude No. 4 in C# Minor- Diamond's Way

I do not own Sailor Moon. XD_

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"Galaxia-chan!" A figure of a young girl in a yellow dress and two diamonds on her high ponytail running to a little girl with a white dress and blondish blood-red hair at the end.

"Seraphine-chan!" the other girl said. "Do you have time today?"

"I'm just buying some time for us to play!" smiled the girl by the name Seraphine. The little Galaxia smiled and tagged Seraphine.

"Tag! You're it!"

"HEY!" and they ran everywhere around the gleaming castle before them, past the flowers and past the people staring at them.

"Gasp!" Seiun woke up. It was all a dream. But why is it about her? Just then, Seiun flinched a little and got off her bed. She held her Saffer Crystal tight to her chest and did a fighting stance. She could've sworn that she felt...no, it can't be. She went back to sleep, this time with the Saffer Crystal in her hands.

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"Nyanko." Nezu called to the cat-like girl. Nyanko turned around and her expression looked bored.

"What is it now, mouse?" she scowled. Nezu held a file and behind her were the other Animamates. Surprisingly, the Outer Senshi were there too, Haruka, Michiru, Hotaru and Setsuna. What is this, Nyanko thought, a Universal Truce or something? But if it's led by Nezu...

"Sailor Tin Nyanko, we all have to discuss something." Hotaru said. "Neptune sensed something in her mirror and..."

"Sensed what? It doesn't concern us!"

"It does, Nyanko!" Akane exclaimed. "It involves the Universe! Before it was the galaxy, now it's the whole Universe!"

Nyanko finally gave in. She stared at Haruka and made a face. "So, zippidydoodah. What's up?"

"We found that Chaos is heading here. Michiru-mama and Haruka-papa went to the Uranus and Neptune castles to get further analysis. It turns out that Chaos blew a very rural planet and got new minions there. After that..." Hotaru stopped.

"Then...?" Aya shuddered. Hotaru shook her head.

"We'll have to survive to know Chaos' further plans."

"Great, so we'll be here, running paperwork and fight Chaos at the same time."

"Not to mention we'll be giving up our meeting room, Nyanko!" Nezu blinked. "The Senshi will be using OUR base."

"Oh great..." Nyanko rolled her eyes. Nezu looked at her and held both of her hands.

"Trust me, it'll work. For the sake of the Universe, our sake, and for the sake of our Golden Queen." she smiled. Nyanko decided to follow her, she had no one else to trust.

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Seiun came back to her office just to see the Outer Senshi and her Animamates there.

"You sensed it too, didn't you? Chaos..."

"Yes, we did. Actually..." with that Akane pointed to Neptune. "She did."

"Arigatou for informing us, Neptune Princess." Seiun smiled. Michiru smiled back and put her makeup.

"I went to Hamano's house. The door's always locked and whenever I tried to call her, there were always voicemail beeps." Seiun sighed.

"It was still hard for her, Seiun-chan. The Star Seed does not recognize her anymore." Aya said.

"Yes, but..."

"You said that she's Sailor Diamond, right?" Haruka said. "Then we'll definitely need her to battle the youma and Chaos."

Seiun gave a nod of approval. The Senshi sat in the meeting room thinking and sipping tea.

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In Hamano Ayumi's house, 11.31 a.m.

"Seraphine-sama!" Sailor Diamond's Sailor Power Guardian appeared in Hamano's hands. Hamano looked distraught and she had been crying last night.

"Guardian Diamond....please don't call me that anymore. I'm not the Princess anymore." she said sadly. The Sailor Power Guardian kicked her face and Hamano flinched.

"Sailor Diamond! You are the Princess Seraphine of the Diamond Planet! You are the second powerful Senshi in the Universe, below Sailor Galaxia. And you are not the type who gives up easily! Pull yourself together!" the Sailor Power Guardian said angrily. Hamano looked up and saw her answering machine. It was bleeping like crazy. She turned to her Sailor Power Guardian and hugged her.

"Arigato." she smiled. The Sailor Power Guardian smiled back. When Hamano was finally alone, she saw her answering machine and pressed the button. It seemed that her Sensei called her many times to go to a concert. She quickly got dressed and went off.

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"Sensei!" she called out. Seiun turned around just to be face to face with her favourite student. She smiled at her and they sat at the bus station.

"So, where are we going, Sensei?" Hamano cheerfully asked.

"We are going to the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Unfortunately, the Orchestra has moved. So the only instrument there is the piano. But there's a guest star playing it. So I think by the rumors I've been hearing, he seems pretty good." Seiun stated. Her student had anticipating eyes.

"Piano?!" she shouted. Seiun quickly covered Hamano's mouth with her hand.

"Shh! The public will hear you!"

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At the Orchestra, it was true enough. Seiun and Hamano looked rather depressed. They thought there was gonna at least be...well...something asides from a grand piano at the center of the stage...But there was only the black piano to be found. Suddenly, they heard a loud scream. They quickly went backstage to see what's going on.

"HE'S ON A SICK LEAVVVEE?!" the senior screeched through the phone. Hamano went up to him while observing him. Then, when she observed enough, she said out loud, "SHORT SCREECHING OBA-SAAN! (Short screeching old man!)". Seiun again put her two hands to her mouth and said "QUIET!"

When the old senior finished, he looked crestfallen. Hamano asked him why did he look depressed. He turned to her and said,

"The guest star had a car accident.....and we're out of time! We only have 5 minutes till the show! And the VIPS are already here!!!" he sobbed.

"What piece?" she curiously asked.

"This..." and he handed Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No. 4 in C# Minor. She looked at it and smiled. Then she snatched the piece from his hands.

"Don't worry, I'll play in exchange for her! (the guest star)" Seiun and the senior looked shocked. That was probably the hardest piece to play in the universe!

"Em, first, miss, the guest star is a he....and secondly, how can you play such a hard piece!?""

"Don't worry! Gimme a dress to start with and I'll be on stage real soon!" The poor senior looked as if this night's performance was going to blow up.

"Alright...in the dressing room you go..."

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Hamano came out with a yellow dress with her yellow diamond brooch on her chest. She looked at the piece and gave it back to the senior. The senior drank energizers and prayed for the worst. Seiun decided to watch backstage. What's worse, the TV Press were there! Many people were wondering why did the guest star didn't appear and she did? Hamano bowed to the audience and played the incredibly hard piece by heart. She played it fast, like it was supposed to be, obeyed the dynamics and even did a few hard improvisings. The audience stared at shock, for they never imagined that this girl played better than the guest star! Seiun gasped and the senior fainted.

When she was finished, she gave another bow and left backstage. Her performance were greeted with applauds and flowers were thrown. Hamano came back from the dressing room with her normal clothes and smiled at her sensei. Seiun looked blank, she looked as if she remembered something.

"Oba-san fainted already? Man, he really need to cut down on the energizer..."Hamano twitched while looking at the senior at the floor. Seiun clipped Hamano's mouth with a clothespin and said one last time,

"BE QUIET!!!"

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Next morning, in Juban Municipal High School.

"Hey, did you see Hamano-chan play yesterday in the Orchestra?"

"I saw it! She was soo good! It was on TV last night!"

Usagi and her friends discussed it too. The Three Lights went up to them and Yaten looked disgusted.

"HOW COULD SHE TAKE MY PLACE AND PLAY BETTER THAN ME! I ONLY MADE UP THAT EXCUSE BECAUSE I WAS WATCHING A MOVIE?!"

Hamano passed by and greeted everybody. But the most puzzling of all is that she didn't know why Yaten glared at her so evilly.

"Why does Yaten-san look angry with me?" she wondered.

Usagi, the Inners, the Outers, Seiya, Taiki and Seiun just sweatdropped as Yaten scowled behind Hamano's back without her realizing.

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FINISHED! NEXT CHAPTER WILL COME SOON! Please tell me if I need more improvisings!