Disclaimer: Chibi Scouts in English form are Angel Raye's, and the Chibi scouts in Japanese form are mine. All the others belong to the maker of Sailor Moon.

Chapter Three: Change in attitude

The next morning, after everything that had happened, Makoto went to go awake the children. Chloe had been pushed out of her room and into her sisters, while Maggie and Lydia were there. She entered into her own daughters first, she found Chloe wrapped around Daisy, snuggled up to her. Makoto smiled at the sight, she quickly went to get her camera and snapped a shot. She was glad that Chloe and Daisy got along so well, sure they had their quarrels, but they were always very helping to each other. Makoto tapped Daisy on her shoulder; she stirred around, making Chloe ball up into a small ball. Daisy opened her eyes and tried to focus her eyes on her mother, but she could only see a blurry version of her. Finally, her eyes adjusted to the lighting, and she sat up in bed.

"It's time to get ready for school." Makoto stated, looking at Daisy's damped looking clothes, "And you might want to shower before you go." Makoto added, glancing down at Chloe for a second.

Daisy glanced down too, and laughed a little, "Yea. She sure does sweat a lot in her sleep."

Makoto laughed, "Speaking of which." Makoto threw the covers down to the end of the bed, revealing a little girl curled up in a ball. She picked her daughter up and she squirmed around, moaning.

"No Gloria don't rock the boat, we'll fall in the water." Chloe mumbled.

Daisy cracked up with laughter. Her little sister said some weird things in her sleep. Daisy's laughter made Chloe open her eyes; she noticed that her mother was holding her, and that Daisy was laughing.

"Was Gloria rocking the boat?" Makoto questioned, amused.

Chloe's face flushed pink, and she nodded. Makoto sat Chloe back down on the bed, "Well you need to get ready for school, both of you do." Makoto turned and left to go down to Maggie and Lydia's room. She was surprised when she found the room empty. She went into the living room and found them to be sitting at the table. Lydia was reading a book as usual, and Maggie appeared to be doing some last minute homework. Makoto didn't say anything she just went into the kitchen to fix a quick breakfast.

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During recess that afternoon, Lydia and Julia were out by the swing set talking to one another. Julia was happy that Lydia was speaking some, she hadn't talked to her during lunch or when they worked in groups that day. Julia was noticing that Lydia was withdrawing, but it wouldn't do any good to tell an adult, to them this was just how Lydia was. She didn't interact with anyone else, except Julia. The girls heard a scream; they turned to see that Miyaki was harassing Annika and Ariel.

Julia watched in agony, like her older sister, she didn't have what it took to stand up to people. She didn't cry much like Annika, but she just couldn't bring herself to stand up to people like Miyaki. Lydia couldn't take the accusations from Miyaki any longer, she had already sent Madelyn into the hospital once, and Lydia wasn't going to sit around and watch her put two of the teammates into the hospital, because of their lack of courage. Lydia walked up to the scene, Julia only watched.

Lydia pushed Miyaki down to the ground and ordered Miyaki to stay away from her friends. Miyaki stood up and glared at Lydia, which angered her, she took one quick swift at Miyaki's jaw and went inside her classroom. Miyaki clamped her jaw with her hand, and just stared out into space, she was shocked that one of the other kids had did her in. She looked at Annika and snarled, she then turned on her heels and went toward the bench where she sat down.

Ariel and Annika exchanged a look of confusion to one another. Lydia never stuck up for them, and she was never so violent. Even when Miyaki was teasing with Isabella and Jordan she didn't do anything about it. Julia ran up toward Ariel and Annika.

"Are you two okay?" she asked concerned about Ariel and Annika, and her best friend.

Ariel and Annika could only nod. Finally, Annika looked at her younger sister, who was about as tall as her, which made Annika feel short, "What's gotten into Lydia?" she asked.

Julia looked back at the school, she wasn't sure what was wrong with Lydia. It didn't make any sense. Julia shrugged her shoulders, she didn't have an answer. "I just remembered something I forgot to do. I'll see you after school." Julia darted off toward her classroom.

"She's a liar!" Annika blurted out.

Ariel gave Annika a funny look, "I guess it's a sister thing, that you can tell when she's lying?"

Annika nodded. The school bell rung, which meant it was time for them to go back into their classrooms. Ariel and Annika walked into theirs together. Annika spent the remainder of the class doodling on a piece of notebook paper.

In Julia and Lydia's classroom, it was a different story. The teacher was having a difficult time getting Lydia to speak, usually she'd be one to answer questions when called on, but today she wasn't. Lydia would only stare off into space.

"Lydia sweetie, will you please answer the question." Mrs. Taison begged.

Lydia didn't answer.

Someone in the class spoke up, "The cat has her tongue. She can no longer speak."

"I did not ask for any comments from you Ms. Alyssa." The teacher stated firmly. She turned to Julia and asked her for the answer. Julia quickly gave her the answer. After the bell rung for the students to get out of class, Mrs. Taison made Lydia stay after.

Mrs. Taison busily wrote a note that would go home to Lydia's current guardians. She handed her the piece of paper, "I'm not sure what's going on Lydia, but you are giving poor results in school right now. Please find someone to talk to about your problems and get help."

Lydia took the note and just stared at Mrs. Taison. She turned around and left the classroom, with a note in her hand. How could she get a note just from not talking? What did it matter?

She met Julia and the others outside. Julia went up to her sister really fast.

"Me and Lydia are going to go for a walk, can you please tell mom we'll be back and I'll have my communicator with me." Julia explained to her older sister.

Annika nodded, "I'll tell mom. Where are you two gonna walk to?"

"Around the palace." Julia answered, and then left with her friend.

The rest of the group begin to walk home. Gloria went and tackled Annika. Annika fell to the ground. She didn't start crying, because it didn't hurt her, she only stared up at the sky. Hope went and helped her up.

"Gloria Aino be careful! You could've hurt her." Hope said agitated, she had a long day at school.

"Again." Snarled Faith.

"Oh shut up Faith, as if you haven't ever hurt anyone before." Gloria replied back, "And I didn't hurt her, I made sure I didn't." Gloria looked back at Annika, she glared at her and stormed off. Erin went to catch up with her sister, she could tell that she was upset.

"Hey kid." Gloria replied dolefully, not even making any sort of eye contact with her sister.

"Hii…." Erin replied, her words trailing off. She wasn't sure what to say to her sister. Perhaps it was better to just not say anything at all. Her and Gloria came up to the spot where their mothers were waiting for them, the others weren't too far behind. Minako immediately assumed that Gloria had gotten another note. She stopped Gloria from stalking off.

"What?" Gloria asked, angrily.

The Senshi's watched Gloria and her mother.

"What's wrong?" Minako questioned.

"Nothing." Gloria replied back harshly.

"Please do not use that tone with me, or I'll ground you, now tell me what the problem is?" Minako asked, but received no answer. "Did you get in trouble at school again?"

"Why does everyone have to bring up things! I didn't do anything wrong today." Gloria stormed off toward her quarters. Makoto threw up her hands and groaned Ami laid a comforting hand on her shoulder.

"It will be alright." Ami soothed her friend, she turned to Erin, "Do you know what happened?"

Erin nodded and explained. Ami nodded and Minako sighed.

"Well, at least she didn't do anything wrong." Makoto said.

"I better go talk to her." Minako and Erin left the others to go and talk to Gloria. Minako missed spending her full time with her friends, it was always cut short. Either Gloria was acting up, or something else always came up. Minako wanted so badly just a full day to spend with her friends, she loved her kids, but sometimes she wished they'd cooperate with her and she could do something with her friends. Erin was an angel, Gloria was something else.

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Meanwhile, the Jr. High students were about to get out of school. Maggie and Daisy were continuously glancing up at the clock to let out. When the bell finally had rung, the students took off out of the classroom. Being cooped up in a class all day being silent was like death. Maggie and Daisy both breathed in the fresh air.

"Oh! It feels so good to be able to breathe again!" Daisy exclaimed, their class had gotten a bad report from their substitute teacher, so Mr. Himitochi made them suffer, by being silent all day.

"You can say that again!" Maggie giggled.

"Oh! It feels so good-"

"I was only playing. I didn't mean really say it again." Maggie bopped her friend on her head.

Daisy and Maggie giggled, and then went silent. Maggie was thinking about her younger sister. She knew something was wrong, but she didn't know what. Daisy was thinking of one thing - food.

"Maggie why don't we go get some ice cream!" Daisy suggested, happily ripping through Maggie's thoughts. Maggie looked at her friend somewhat confused, but as Daisy's question replayed in her head, her eyes opened wide, and then went back to their normal way.

"What about Usagi. We usually wait for her to come out." Maggie brought up.

"Usagi said she was staying after school. Come on, I really want some ice cream." Begged Daisy.

"Oh, alright, but you better contact your mother and tell her were going there." Maggie gave in. "We don't' wanna play a Lydia and just run off."

Daisy nodded and got right onto contacting her mother. Afterwards the two girls made their way into the ice cream shop. Daisy ordered a Rainbow flavored ice cream, while Maggie order Chocolate mint. The girls headed on toward the palace. Daisy started to eat hers right away; Maggie only stared off into space holding her cone in her hand. Daisy turned to Maggie and sighed.

"Maggie you're not doing this to me. What's the matter?" Daisy questioned, she noticed that Maggie was beginning to withdrawal.

"I..uhm..Oh Daisy can you just not worry about me for once! Everything is fine" Maggie insisted.

"I don't believe you." Daisy recoiled, a little bit hurt that Maggie didn't want to tell her what was wrong.

"Well, I'm not telling you!" Maggie replied a little bit angry.

Daisy crossed her arms, her ice cream was gone, as she had already finished it. The two girls walked in silence. Daisy was a taken aback by Maggie's mood. Maggie was kind of wishing she hadn't gotten angry with Daisy, but she didn't want Daisy along with everyone else prodding into her life. It was her life, her thoughts, and her own problems, when she wanted to discuss them with someone Daisy would probably be the first one, but for now Maggie just wanted her to lay off.

The girls heard a scream coming from afar. Both girls looked at each other, and nodded. Maggie threw her ice cream in the trash, there was no need to shove it down her throat, she could always get another one. Maggie and Daisy ran open a Youma terrorizing a young middle aged girl. Daisy and Maggie ducked behind a building and transformed quickly, they couldn't be seen by the girl.

Daisy and Maggie ran out to where the youma was attacking the young girl. "Stop right there!" both girls called out. "We are the agents of love and justice!"

"I'm Sailor Chibi Pluto!"

"And I'm Sailor Chibi Jupiter!"

"And together we will punish you!"

Masaki watched from above, he wasn't sure where the youma had come from, but he decided to use it to his advantage. He summoned the powers from the earth and gave them to the youma. The youma looked up as it felt the surge of energy go through its body. Masaki smiled; perhaps he could please the Queen by this. If he weakened Maggie Meiou, then she'd be easy to defeat. And the bonus was her friend. Masaki smiled evilly and disappeared.

"Let's go! I'm not in the mood to play sissy games!" the youma's voice cracked.

Chibi Pluto and Chibi Jupiter glared at the creature. Chibi Pluto powered up and attacked, "SCREAMS OF DESTRUCTION!"

Her attack went directly at the enemy, but when it hit it, it only absorbed the attack. Chibi Pluto froze up. Chibi Jupiter quickly powered up and attacked, "JUPITER THUNDERSTORM!" Once again the enemy absorbed the attack. Chibi Jupiter went straight to her communicator and pushed the alert button before it was knocked out her hand.

The youma went straight for Chibi Pluto; she wrapped her long skinny yellow hands around Chibi Pluto's neck. Chibi Jupiter tried attacking again, but the youma only absorbed the attack. Chibi Jupiter was getting frustrated with the outcome. How could this youma be so strong, they were never this strong. Chibi Pluto let out a bellowing scream, as the monster dug its nails into her neck and dug down deep into her side. Chibi Jupiter took off running at full pledged toward the monster. Sharp knife-like things sliced through it's back and went flying toward Chibi Jupiter. Chibi Jupiter couldn't stop in time to avoid the flying knife-like things. A chain went around her and pulled her out in just the nick of time. Sailor Saturn and Chibi Saturn put up a protective shield, causing the knives to bounce off the shield.

Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Uranus, and Chibi Kinsei (Venus) all attacked the youma at once. It turned around, dropping Chibi Pluto to the ground. Chibi Kinsei quickly ran over toward Chibi Pluto, to see if she was alright. Sailor Saturn and Chibi Saturn continued to hold the shield up, protecting everyone who was behind it. Emily had stayed behind with Ami, because she couldn't leave Maia alone by herself.

The Youma looked at its new opponents and smirked. She turned back to Chibi Pluto, and was a little surprised to see Chibi Kinsei there.

"Where'd you come from little girl?" the youma asked, kneeling down to Chibi Kinsei's level. She gently stroked Chibi Kinsei's head, with her long finger nails.

Chibi Pluto could only make out a blurred vision of everything that was going on around her. Chibi Venus and Sailor Venus watched in agony as the enemy stood over Chibi Kinsei. The youma stood up, and then turned toward everyone else, with a huge smirk on her face. Her eyes darted toward Sailor Saturn and Chibi Saturn, she lifted up her long sickly looking hands and yelled out an attack, causing Sailor Saturn and Chibi Saturn's shields to attack them.

Cosmic Moon showed up and used her most powerful attack on the enemy. It blew her out of proportion somewhat. Her skin had started to melt away. All the Chibi scouts, minus Chibi Saturn, Chibi Pluto, and Chibi Kinsei attacked the enemy at once. Cosmic Moon attacked her once again, and she exploded into thin air. Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus quickly ran over toward Chibi Pluto and Chibi Kinsei. Most everyone else had powered down. Chibi Meiousei and Chibi Kasei had not yet powered down.

Chibi Meiousei stood lost for thought. She didn't understand where the youma had gotten that extra power. There were no signs of this happening. Chibi Meiousei shuddered; something bad was going to happen. She was sure that this youma had nothing to do with the premonition she had seen.

Chibi Mercury observed Chibi Meiousei's behavior. She powered down and started to head toward the palace. She had a feeling Chibi Meiousei knew something they didn't know. Madelyn quickly caught up with her best friend. She had a couple scratches on her face and arms, but she seemed to be alright.

"What's wrong Ariel?" Madelyn questioned.

"Lydia doesn't make any sense to me." Ariel explained. "She's so secretive and she seems to know something, but we'll never know what she knows."

"Not unless we got it out of Julia, but that's just as difficult." Madelyn sighed. Ariel often got upset with how secretive Lydia was. She was also obsessed with finding out what she knew. She had done everything in her will power to get Lydia to open up to her, but failed miserable at gaining any information.

Later on that day, Setsuna showed up at the hospital to check on her daughter. She walked into the palace hospital. She was greeted by several of the staff members. Ami was just coming out, when Setsuna walked in. Ami jumped, startled at the sight of seeing Setsuna.

"Setsuna we weren't expecting you." Ami gasped.

Setsuna smiled, "I just wanted to check on my daughter, and take a day off and spend it with Lydia and Maggie."

"Oh no, did anyone contact you? I didn't even think about it. I was so busy getting Maggie all set up and everything I didn't even check to see if anyone contacted you." Ami said, a little bit upset at herself that she didn't contact Setsuna.

"Ami-Chan, it's alright. I'm the keeper of time. And Michiru contacted me and told me what's been going on these few days." Setsuna explained, still smiling.

Ami's face went pale. Setsuna laid a hand on Ami's shoulder, "It's alright, I promise. I'm not mad at you guys for not contacting me about what happened with Lydia. It was handled pretty well. Chloe sure does know how to handle things."

Ami smiled, still feeling guilty, she showed Setsuna to Maggie's room. After showing her to Maggie's room, she went into her office and sat at her desk.

Maggie moved her head toward the door, when she saw her mother she smiled, "Momma you came!"

"Of course I did sweetie." Setsuna gently removed Maggie's hair from her face. "Now you need to rest, I know Ami wouldn't want you to move a lot."

"Okay mom." Maggie smiled and shut her eyes.

Authors note: Alright, the Christmas story didn't get through, and I'm all out of ideas for a Christmas story. I'm not sure when the fourth chapter will be up. Just be patient, I was sort of having writers block on this chapter, and it's already planned out. Heh. And then I got fed up with the plans, because not enough action was taking place, so I created a youma. I'm not exactly sure what will be happening in the fifth chapter, it has now become a surprise for me. Stay tuned though!