"So, I heard that you ate breakfast with Small Lady and Saturn."Mars spoke to Amaterasu.
Amaterasu nodded.
"They both had bad dreams. Neither has them often, only rarely, but they were much more…powerful this time. They seem stamped in their minds."she said.
Mars frowned.
"Stamped in their minds?"she asked.
"Well, they've both had these dreams before, but very…rarely, and they were very vague. Obviously, they've never left their own star system, that might have something to do with it. Or it could simply be the fact that they are here."
Mars looked around.
"A lot of us come here every year!"she said, putting her hands on her hips. "What does that have to do with it?"she demanded.
Amaterasu shrugged.
"It could be their age. I don't know much about children. But none of us are children."
"A lot of us were quite young."
"Not children."Amaterasu insisted.
"And anyway, they aren't so young anymore, either."
Amaterasu looked out the window. She could imagine the star-filled sky, and wondered which among the sea of stars could be Solaria's sun.
"We'll be going home soon."she said. "Home."
"But what should we do about the problem?"Mars asked.
Amaterasu looked at her.
"I'm a little worried."she confessed. "In Saturn's mind there was a perfect image of several heart crystals. I would never have thought that she would have the slightest idea what a heart crystal would look like."
At the mention of the heart crystal, Amaterasu felt Mars's mind change.
"Oh, I've upset you."she said, nodding.
"But…that was SO long ago!"Mars said. "And…"
She seemed genuinely worried.
"I've heard of it. But I always thought that it was,"Amaterasu stopped, not finding the right word to describe it.
"It was a long time ago."Mars admitted. "And it, well, I remember just what happened, and how Sailor Moon defeated it."
"It can't be Chaos, yet it felt perfectly like Chaos."she insisted.
Mars wrung her hands.
"I think…everyone will be going home pretty soon, in a couple of days, I don't know if we should worry the king and queen with this."she said.
Amaterasu opened her fan.
"I don't know."
"I think we'll have to call an emergency meeting."Mars decided. "We have to find Artemis."she said. "You should also be present."
"I think I will only view."Amaterasu said, shaking her head.
"That's fine, but we have to do this as soon as possible."Mars insisted.
Amaterasu looked around. It seemed odd to have so many walls all close together, she thought. She headed back to her room, and waited to set up viewing contact. She tried to forget about the walls, and concentrate on what she had to do instead.
Everyone met in a large room, which Luna and Artemis had assigned as a conference room. A short while later, Amaterasu's image appeared.
"I don't understand a thing."Queen Serenity said. "You haven't said a single word about it, whatever it is."
Kunzite frowned.
"Perhaps we should prepare to return to Crystal Tokyo at once."Kunzite suggested, immediately.
"I don't know…maybe?"Mars said.
No one had ever seen Mars so uncomfortable before.
"Where're Small Lady and Saturn?"Jupiter asked, noticing that they weren't in the room.
"With Diana."said Amaterasu, continuing with her knitting, and mentally counting the knots. "I've arranged it so that they will not go into the room at all. They are…outside."she gestured vaguely towards the window.
"I think it's important because, it looks like,"she looked toward Amaterasu's image, making a gesture to say that she should explain.
Amaterasu simply kept her eyes fixed firmly on her knitting, not looking up, or noticing Mars's gesture. Mars looked exasperated.
"You can never get a word out of a Solarian, can you?"she muttered.
She turned towards everyone else.
"Well, these last few days, you might have noticed that Small Lady and Saturn have been acting rather…odd."she finished.
Everyone looked at her.
"I have to admit,"Neptune spoke slowly. "but I was thinking it was just due to, she was just growing up."she shrugged.
"I thought that, too."Pluto added.
"I don't know much about growing up,"Amaterasu admitted. "could that have anything to do with it?"she turned to Mars.
"I don't think so."Mars answered.
"Do with what?"obviously Kunzite didn't like not knowing what was going on.
Amaterasu put down her knitting.
"I've been thinking. This will be over, by tomorrow, the latest. I would like to study their minds a bit more closely, for one. Another, there are people on Solaria, those that are responsible for raising the youngsters, and perhaps they might be able to do something. After all, something I always heard from them was, if you know the body chemistry, you know the human being. Something like that."she said. "Perhaps they might be able to find more."
"You mean, take them with you? To Solaria? Why?"asked Venus.
"I haven't had much of a chance to study them, but I can sense…I've only read about it, in some old books I've come across in my estate. It was only a story, but the story was about, it was something like two people inhabiting the same body. Perhaps they could find something."
"I'm not sure I know what you mean."Endymion said.
"I don't think I know exactly, either. But I can see their minds, and in their minds, there are others. Evil. I would almost say Chaos. But that would be impossible, wouldn't it?"
"That must have been why I had that premonition just before we came here. After all, what was different this year, but that Small Lady and Saturn would be coming with us?"Mars said, slowly.
Everyone looked genuinely worried.
"What do you think?"Mercury turned to Pluto.
Pluto held out her hand, and on it, her garnet orb appeared. Everyone leaned closer. Amaterasu used her mind to get a better view, as she couldn't get closer herself.
After they saw what the orb showed, they sat silently.
"But that was so long ago!"Neptune said. "How could they have been reborn, and still…"
"Perhaps I could use my crystal."Queen Serenity suggested.
"I think I should do some research on this."Mercury said.
"On Solaria, it'd be much harder for any form of Chaos to grow."Kunzite said. "Solaria is just the opposite of anything resembling Chaos. The Solarians themselves are…order."
"Does that mean that you're jealous that it's Small Lady and Saturn the ones who are going to Solaria, and not you?"Venus asked him.
"I guess it would be for the best. Until we understand more."Kind Endymion said.