SORRY about the long delay in updates! If you haven't already looked at my profile, I'm currently without internet, so I'm uploading this at work…

Thanks to all my lovely reviewers and to those watching this story! When I get a chance to I will answer questions and respond to each of you, it's just that my mobile is my only source of the internet outside of work sad I know.

Anyway, on with the story!

The senshi looked up alarmed.

"Did you hear that? Sounded like Rei!" Lita said, rushing to the door.

The girls followed the brunette outside and found a hideous creature holding onto Rei's neck and face. Its green scaly claws reminded you of a dragon, but its body was obscured by Rei. The poor priestess couldn't move without being harmed in one way or another.

The senshi were helpless. With an innocent nearby, they couldn't transform; and the girls really didn't want to reveal to the Dark Moon that they actually had power outside of their scout form. Serena sent out a psychic cry for help, whilst reassuring Rei that everything would be fine. The cry was answered by a reassuring nudge from Serena's boyfriend. Meanwhile, the creature spoke, its jaws moving at an angle that really didn't seem possible.

" Respirios, how nice of you to drop into the past. My master thought you of all people would have been smart enough to stay with him and follow his lead."

"NEVER!" the child cried, "Never will I surrender to Him! Not even if we were the last people in the entire Galaxy!" Ronan's ebony hair covered the anguish he felt.

"He doesn't want you alive anymore, child," it sneered, throwing acidic spittle towards the unprotected group. Amy automatically put up a magical shield to protect them, but the group jumped away regardless.

"Aha, so you have found them. Thank you child. You really have done my Master's bidding, albeit unwittingly. I wondered why I found you here of all places. Now I know. You have found them," the monster sniffed at Rei's hair. The girl whimpered, she really didn't want to be in the position she was in, "Ahh, yes, I can smell the power. I might just take this morsel back to master's lair for him to sample at his leisure."

"You wouldn't dare! Leave her alone!"

"A touchy subject I see, we maybe I should-" the monster's rambling was cut short by a rose cutting one of the hands holding Rei in place. The monster drew back in agony.

"Mind if I crash this party?" A figure in black said, his cape billowing in an unknown breeze (AN: I always wondered why they felt the need for all the characters to show up with wind announcing their arrival).

"Take your time, Tuxedo Mask," Serena smiled, glad that backup had arrived. Although she was the leader of the scouts, the ill-fated teenage Sailor Senshi that were dedicated to protecting the galaxy, she was unable to transform in front of an innocent child. It would break almost every rule the girls had.

"Uh, Serena," Ronan grabbed the hem of the blonde's skirt, tugging it down to his level, "Why haven't you transformed?" he whispered in her ear when she leant down to chat to the child.

"Umm? How did you know?" she asked puzzled, "On second thoughts, now's not the time. We'll talk later. Senshi?" Serena called, "Transform!"

"Jupiter!"

"Mercury!"

"Venus!"

"Moon Prisim!"

"POWER!" the scouts shouted in unison. Even before the bright lights had faded signalling the transformation was complete, Ronan was hiding back inside the temple and all you could hear was the sounds of something whizzing through the air. There was no longer a need to yell the power-up phrase for some of their attacks, Sailor Moon and Sailor Jupiter both had mastered the elementary attacks and no longer needed them. Sailor Moon's tiara flew out of Serena's hand, whilst the others began to follow suit. A bolt of lightning surrounded the tiara, and all you could hear were the cries of the other two senshi.

"Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!"

"Venus Crescent Beam, Smash!"

The monster, having let go of the defenceless Rei, had nowhere to turn. His cries echoed in the small courtyard that was the temple.

"Well that was easy. Well done Senshi!" Tuxedo mask called from his vantage point on a stone wall. At this he jumped off the wall and disappeared.

"Typical, won't even say goodbye to his girlfriend." Serena mumbled after he disappeared, also wondering why it was so simple to defeat the monster.
*Keep a sharp eye out girls,* Serena sent out a message to her team, worried that this wasn't the end of the day's battles, *I think there will be more shortly.*

*Yeah,* a small male voice said.

"Huh? Who was that?" Rei nearly jumped out of her skin.

"Me," Ronan replied meekly. Sorry I intruded on your conversation, but I am psychic you know. It's in all the Royal blood, "What? Don't tell me you didn't know that only royalty could utilise mind-speak."

"So you're royalty? From where exactly? I mean we know you're from the future, but now that the cat's out of the bag, sorry Luna!" Ami added, "Where are you from?"

"Can't tell you that. Plu won't let me. I can say that mummy and daddy are royalty. That would technically make me a prince," the child said with a bit of a royal pout. He puffed his chest up proudly, "And I'm gonna do whatever it takes to save my mummy and the future!"

Well, that's the lot for today. I think this is a nice break in the chapter, and I have another update for you around the corner!

Starr