Disclaimer: Just so you guys know, Hotaru in this story is the same physical age as she was in Sailor Moon S, meaning she looks around fourteen years old.

Sailor Moon: Fellowship of the Moon

Chapter 11: Swords vs. Axe-Hammer: Rise of Thunder and Earth
Arashi Mountain Hotel

Day 1 at Night

Aaron was walking back to his room with a smile on his face. He and Ami had finally patched together the gap between them after the first night. Just then, Frey and Jin, and Ceros on Jin's shoulder had popped up. "Oh, hey guys. How ya doing?", he asked in a cheery tone. Frey looked a little confused, "You seem to be in a better mood than usual." He smiled and snickered, "So you finally popped Ami's cherry, eh?"

Frey then had a fist connected to his face as well as a wooden sword embedded in his skull, as Aaron nearly shouted, "How many times to I have to tell you…AMI IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND! And if she was, I wouldn't do that to her." Frey rubbed his head as Aaron asked, "So why are you guys here?" Jin answered, "When you were away, Ceros sensed a presence of one of the Knights nearby. I on the other hand sense an extremely powerful fighting spirit." He then led them to the main entrance of the hotel. He stopped as he got his Boken at the ready, "A will that's not afraid of shame…and a strong conviction to fight."

They opened the door and saw the fighter for hire, Ian Hayner, standing out there with his arms crossed. Aaron sighed figuring this guy didn't take 'No' for an answer, "Didn't I say I didn't want to fight you?" Ian just smirked, "Yeah I know that, but now I can't back down….seeing that my opponents are the so called Fellowship of the Moon." The three boys just stood there completely dumbfounded at this turn of events. Ian just smirked as he turned to his right, until Jin asked, "And just how do you know who we are?" Ian simply answered, "Let's just say I was informed about it by a little birdie who hired me to fight you."

Aaron was the one to walk up and stop in front of Frey and Jin, "Look, I don't know why you want to fight us, but we didn't do anything to you to start one." Ian turned to face him, "If you're thinking its personal...it's not. All I want is to fight the three knights." His face then retorted into a scary serious face, "The Knights who were said to be the strongest warriors of this day…I WILL DEFEAT YOU WITH EVERYTHING THAT I AM!" The three boys looked pretty determined, and Ceros popped up a little from Aaron's side pocket and noticed something with Ian Hayner's forehead. There were lines that appeared on his forehead, glowing green, but were in the shape of a bull's head.

It was then he realized who Hayner was, as he popped out of Aaron's pocket and flew up in the middle of the two boys. Ceros shouted out, "I knew it! You're the Taurus Barbarian! You're the fourth of the Fellowship!" the three boys were a little surprised at this as Ceros continued on, "The Knight whose guardian stars form the Constellation Taurus, the Bull who was fought by Zeus himself. The second most powerful knight in the…" but he was caught off as Ian grabbed him, nearly crushing him, but looked comical. He nearly shouted, "I don't care if I'm the King of the Mole Men! I said I'd fight these guys, and I'll do it even if I am one of them!"

He then looked to them with a serious expression, "I'm not the threatening type, but if you don't accept the fight…" Frey finished, "You're gonna crush Ceros?" Aaron and Jin sweatdropped at this, but Ian corrected, "No…I'll let out your little secret to everyone I come in contact with, and who knows. Maybe one of those people will work for the press." Aaron could tell this guy was serious, but he could also tell that something was troubling this guy into a desperate need to fight.

Jin readied his Boken to dropswipe this guy, "If you think your idle threat will induce us to fight, then…" before he could continue, Aaron stepped up, "Alright, we'll accept the fight." Ian smirked at this as he let Ceros go, who zoomed up to Aaron, "Are you outta your mind?" Aaron shook his head as he pushed him aside and went over the terms of the fight to Ian, "If you want to fight us, then we'll do it. But somewhere isolated and abandoned; I don't want to start something that'll attract attention or make a scene." Ian just stood there, but then noticed something behind them, and looked back at them with a smirk, "Sure, why not. It's in my belief battles shouldn't attract attention, or be fought in front of kids."

The three boys didn't get it at all, but decided not to argue with him as they followed him to wherever they were going to fight in. Unaware to any of them at the time, two sets of eyes were watching them; one was behind the door with a pair of beautiful purple eyes: Hotaru Tomoe had come around the corner and somewhat overheard some of the conversation concerning about a fight. The other was on the roof, with two menacing red eyes hidden behind a pair of sunglasses. It was the guy who had told Ian everything he knew about the trio.

Just then from behind him, Lust appeared and walked up next to him, "So I take it things went pretty well, Greed?" The figure named Greed nodded, "Oh it went pretty well alright. Now all we have to do is watch the show and see if they get killed or beaten to a blood pulp." He then scratched his chin in thought, "course, I'd prefer it if they just got beaten up…then we could go in for the finishing blow." Lust just chuckled, "You really are greedy, aren't you?" Greed then turned and gave her an evil smile, "Of course, that's because I'm Greed incarnate." And with that they disappeared in the dark flame gates, unaware of Hotaru running after the boys.

Ruffian Row

Abandoned warehouse

The same warehouse that Ian had fought that gang in was the one place that they would hold their little fight. Ian had walked over to the other side of the abandoned building, getting ready for this fight. Aaron and the others just stood on the other end waiting for this fight to begin and end. Aaron decided to try and talk him out of this, "Look, you know we don't have to do this, Ian." "Yeah, man. I mean, we know someone hired you to beat us up, but if you're one of us…I mean, doesn't that mean anything to you?"

Ian just cracked his knuckles in response to that, "like I said before, I don't care. I was hired to fight you guys, and that just what I'm gonna do." He then cracked his neck a little, "I've never backed down from a fight once and I'm not about to do so."

Jin pulled out his Boken and took off his glasses to keep them safe. "While I do understand the reason why you wish to fight us, I don't understand as to why you must fight someone.", he inquired. Ian was a little taken by that, but he shot back with a small amount of spite in his voice, "That's none of your business, Four-Eyes!" He then got into position, as he was about to get ready, "Like I said it's nothing personal, but you three don't have a choice but to fight me! NOW!"

Ceros sighed in defeat; he knew that this Ian Hayner was just as stubborn as he was back in the old days. He flew off of Aaron's shoulder and spoke out, "Well if that's all, then we might as well level the playing field." He put his front paws together and then shot a green beam to Ian's right hand ring finger. As soon as the light faded on Ian's ring finger, was a golden ring with an Emerald gem embedded in it with the inscription of a bull's front half-charging.

Ian looked at the living stuffed animal in puzzlement, until Ceros explained. "That's your transformation ring; just shout out 'TAURUS BARBARIAN ARMOR ACTIVATE!', and your powers will be unlocked, giving you a fair advantage." Frey grabbed the little stuffed winged lion and nearly shook him to death. "CEROS, ARE YOU CRAZY? HE WAS ALREADY STRONG ENOUGH AS IT WAS! IF YOU GIVE HIM THAT, WHO KNOWS HOW CRAZY STRONG HE'LL GET!", he hysterically shouted.

Ceros was able to break loose of Frey's grip and righted himself. "True, but even with his immense strength and durability, you guys could easily kill him if you fought him while transformed.", he stated before Frey could protest any further towards this. He then crossed his arms and smirked, "Besides, in case he changes his mind I'm giving it to him anyway."

Ian looked at the ring on his hand, then back at them. "Thanks, but after this I've no intention of becoming one of your little errand boys, Shrimp." Ceros then had a huge, throbbing vein pop up on his head as he shouted, "SHRIMP?" The boys had sweatdrops on their heads, as they felt a little shamed of their title as they all said in unison, "Errand boys?" Ceros nearly flew up at him, if not for Aaron grabbing his tail holding him back, and shouted, "YOU'RE JUST AS BIG AS A SASSY MOUTH NOW, AS YOU WERE BACK THEN!" Ian smirked as he explained, "I've got my reasons for fighting this, but I have no intention to being one of you guys. Once I win this fight, I'll toss the ring away."

He then raised his right fist in the air and shouted, "TAURUS BARBARIAN ARMOR ACTIVATE!" And then suddenly in an instant, his whole body was shimmering with yellow electricity, covering his whole body. As it did, his whole body grew in height, and then chunks of Earth covered his body: his arms, legs, chest…every last part of him. He then smacked his fists together and then slammed his right fist into the ground. And in a huge blast of lightning, he was kneeling there in his newly formed armor.

The three boys saw the whole thing, and were a little amazed that this guy changed height as well. They saw him getting up, and then saw that he now stood around ten feet it would seem and was almost Incredible Hulk bulky now in his armor. His armor all seemed more mechanical than any of the others, as there were some parts that looked part machine. His armor was colored green, black, and metallic gray. His chestplate was green, but the part that articulated the chest itself was shaped like a wide 'V' of some kind with two black lines vertically going down. The shoulders had sort of an electrical black cable connected into the shoulders, sort of making a shoulder buckle for the chestplate to stay in place. On the upper back of his armor were two giant black horns pointing upward and holding in place his weapon, the Axe-Hammer. The stomach was colored green, but the six pack abs were metallic gray as the belt below it was colored black with a metallic gray octagon shaped buckle with the same bull insignia on his forehead, in green lines. His shoulder guards were ball joints but on top of them was an armor piece that had three big spikes sticking out on the front, top, and back of them. His upper arms were green and metallic, but the part that had his triceps and biceps were metallic gray, and were separated in lines making them look like tubes lined up. His forearms were bigger; the inside was black, and had a green line going down it, while the outer part of his arm was metallic and green but shaped like finned ventilators. His hands were armored and green, but the fingers were black, and the knuckles were metallic gray.

On his belt was a lower torso guard, much like Aaron's, only the trim was green, and the trim was made of metal colored metallic gray and had on it a row of bolts in it. His thighs were green and the inside was metallic gray with lines going horizontal on it. The calves were green but the kneeguards were diamond shaped and colored green on the inside while the outside was black, and were attached to the lower leg. On his ankles were metallic gray ankleguards; his shoes were silver, but the inside were green. On the tip of the toes were three spiked toes sticking forward on the bottom of the toe part. His neck was surrounded by a green, metallic gray trimmed neckguard that was around the neck but didn't cover it, and in front of it was a metallic gray square piece that had three vertical slits in it. His neck was black but had two tubes to where the jugular veins should have been and went up to his head. The helmet was green and had two black horns on top sticking forward, but the opening to where the mouth and eyes would be was just a 'Y' shaped opening trimmed in metallic gray. It showed blackness in there, but showed only two light green glowing eyes as he looked at his opponents.

The others stared in awe at the Taurus Barbarian's armor, size, and strength as Frey mumbled, "We're so dead here." Ceros explained while the boys were still in awe, "The armor of the Taurus Barbarian was the latest armor I ever constructed. I used the Fire Nation's science to create that suit that you're all looking at. The size is like that due to the immense power it has in there." Jin and Aaron kind of nodded at that it would make sense to make it that big due to how much power it could have in there.

Ian just stood there and stared at them a little PO'ed at the fact that the fight hadn't started yet. He shouted to them, "Well, what are you three waiting for? Get in your armor and start to fight me!" The three realized they were just standing there and didn't even get into uniform at all at this point. Aaron looked to the others, "I guess we don't have any choice at this point." The two boys nodded.

Outside
Hotaru had rushed over to where the boys were heading, but tried to make sure she didn't get spotted. She had to know why Mr. Hayner wanted to fight with them in the first place. They had done nothing wrong, but then she remembered the fight on the train to coming to Kyoto, and how he reacted to Jin's statement of how he had beaten the three swordsmen on the train. She had gotten up on one of the crates nearby and peered in the window from where the crate was placed under. When she looked in she saw the three boys and what appeared to be a flying cat; she recognized it as the creature that was always with the Constellation Knights. She thought, "That's Ceros, but what's he doing here?"

Just then she saw the boys raised up their right fists and shouted in unison, "PHOENIX BLADE ARMOR ACTIVATE!" "PERSIAN PRINCE ARMOR ACTIVATE!" "PISCES SAMURAI ARMOR ACTIVATE!" And in a flash, they were in their armor and their weapons were at the ready for them to use. Hotaru couldn't believe her eyes at what she saw; right in front of her she saw Aaron, Jin, and Frey transform into the Fellowship Knights that had helped not only her, but the other Sailor Scouts.

She thought out loud and very quietly, "So if those three are the three Knights…then that means the big, green one is Ian." She looked back there and saw they were getting ready to fight. "But if they're on the same side, why are they fighting?", she asked herself as she looked on. She wanted to try and stop them, but she couldn't. She didn't want them to know that she was here, nor that she saw them transform.

Phoenix pulled out his Buster Sword and held it at the ready, "Just so you know, we won't go easy on you. In case you can dish out enough punishment." Taurus pulled out the Axe-Hammer; the hammer piece was a hexagon shaped block of solid steel bolted to the base, and on the other end was a steel axe in a half-moon blade with the bottom tip extended only a few feet long. The handle was black and green and ended at a metallic gray base. Taurus replied, "The same goes for me, so don't blame me if you get any broken bones."

Persian pulled out his scimitars and Pisces pulled out his Ice-Blade Katanna; and all three were at the ready. Taurus charged straight at them with the Hammer end held high up. As soon as he reached them, he brought down his hammer on them, but they dodged it; Phoenix by using his wings and flying upward, Pisces by sliding to the side, and Persian just disappeared in a puff of sand. As the hammer made impact into the ground, leaving a huge hole in it with the ground cracked around it. He pulled it out with no straining, and looked around as he brought his hammer at the ready again.

He then felt his weapon get a little heavy as he looked up and saw Persian balancing himself on the axe blade. Persian just smirked as he said, "I think you're pretty limited if it's just your Axe-Hammer. All you can do is swing it sideways or up and down, but that's just about it." Taurus looked a little ticked off as he shouted, "Shut up!" Persian shrugged as he flip jumped off and shouted upwards, "Go for it!"

Taurus looked up to see what was up and saw Phoenix and Pisces jumping downward with their swords held up. Phoenix's sword glowed bright red as Pisces sword glowed bright blue, and they both shouted, "PHOENIX FLAME WALL!" "PISCES ICE STRIKE!" And with one huge blow, they unleashed their attacks on the Taurus Barbarian with all their might. A huge explosion of power erupted as they made contact with their opponent.

As soon as the dust cleared, the two landed next to Persian as they looked at the area to where Taurus was. "Did we get him?" Suddenly, Taurus jumped out of the dust cloud and landed a few feet away from them. "I've got more than just my Axe-Hammer to deal with you guys.", he said as he put his weapon away and brought up his fists. Just then, compartments opened up from his outer calves, and his forearms opened up into arm mounted machine guns. He then shouted, "TAURUS LIGHTNING BARRAGE!" And with that said, through the panels fired out tiny rock bullets or missiles. And from the looks of it, they were charged with electrical energy.

They hit the three knights and boy were those boys in the shock of their lives. The fact that their armor was made of metal didn't help, on the fact that any metal was a good conductor for lightning. They yelled out in pain as their bodies exploded with immense pain. Hotaru had to cover her mouth in order for her not to attract attention. She couldn't help her heart breaking as she saw the whole thing.

The three knights were on shaky legs; they still couldn't believe they survived that little move. They heard Taurus chuckling, "Ha, so do ya think I can't hold my own, Princy?" Persian started to get up like all the others, and smirked under his armor, "Sure, I think you've got a few tricks up your sleeve we're not aware about." He pulled out his scimitars as the others picked up their weapons.

Taurus grabbed his Axe-Hammer and got at the ready, "Well then, let's get serious.", and charged straight at them. The others charged as well, and the fighting became serious as the three swords were about to fight against the mighty Axe-Hammer.

A Few Hours Later

Shortly after, Hotaru saw the whole fight and now all four of them where battered and exhausted; she was almost at the point of tears at what she saw during their fight. Phoenix was panting inside his armor, as well as the others; their armor showed signs of the battle as there were dent and slash marks. The fight had exhausted them all; even Taurus was looking tired for a guy with his athletic stature or durability. He had been taking most of the blows but had been throwing most of the blows as well. He was in worse shape than the others were as Taurus was barely able to stand if not for his Axe-Hammer, which he used to keep himself balanced upward.

"Well, what're you waiting for? Let's finish this!", Taurus nearly shouted out with a tone mixed with exhaustion and anger in his voice. Phoenix got up from his kneeling position and walked towards him; in his mind he had thought that Ian had lost his mind. Why was this guy so eager to fight even if it was his own allies? He had reached him, and in the position that Taurus was in he was at his eye level.

He used his sword to keep his balance to hold himself up. He balled up his right fist as his exhaustion was taking over. Hotaru watched as he was about to make the final blow, 'He isn't going to try fighting him in his condition? They're all too exhausted.' She was studying to be a doctor, just like Ami, so she knew what would happen. Then with what strength he had left, he gave Taurus a clean right hook punch that nearly took off Taurus' head.

Everyone was a little shocked at this, as Taurus was as his eyes were wide as saucers, but not before he heard Phoenix say, "That's it. The fight's over." Taurus then turned his head to Phoenix once again, with al look of shock mixed with anger, but listened to Phoenix as he continued to talk. "It's pretty clear that all of us are pretty exhausted from this, so there's no reason to keep going with this."

Taurus growled with anger as he shouted, "You're wrong! I have to keep fighting so I can…", he couldn't continue as he grunted in pain. "So you can what?", Persian asked as he tried to get up.

"So that I can forget!", Taurus shouted, his voice echoed about the warehouse.

His words confused the Knights, except for Jin who seemed to understand, even Ceros, and especially Hotaru. "I want to make these memories I keep getting to go away. No matter what I do they just keep coming back! At first I thought they were daydreams, but I soon realized that they were memories, dark ones. I found out that when I was in a fight, cause everytime I fight I could forget everything as soon as I'm in the heat of battle."

"These memories…are they of a silver kingdom?", Pisces asked, causing Taurus to look at them. "Exactly. I don't want them to resurface any longer; all they've ever done for me is brought me pain in my heart!" And then suddenly, to everyone's surprise, Phoenix shouted, "THEY DON'T HAVE TO!" His voice echoed and caused, even Taurus, to stop.

"These memories you keep getting aren't coming to you to cause you pain, they're coming back to help you learn, to help you understand the person you were before Ansem destroyed the Silver Millennium!" "What are you talking about?", Taurus asked.

"If you forget that past…everything we have…everything we fight or fought for will be wasted and this Ansem guy would've won already!", Phoenix continued. "True there are some memories that can bring us pain, but there are memories that don't have to be that way."

Taurus was getting royally pissed off now; just what did this guy know about bad memories? "OH YEAH? AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW, HUH? WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH?", he shouted back.

"BECAUSE I ALSO TRIED TO FORGET THE PAST ONCE!", Phoenix yelled, causing everyone to look at him. After calming down, he lowered his head, remembering those many ago, when his mother passed away. "My mother died giving birth to my little sister…I was three when that happened…at that time, I thought I had lost every meaning to even want to exist."

If everyone were listening carefully, they would've heard the quivering in Phoenix's voice from remembering that horrible memory of his childhood. Taurus, Jin, and Hotaru were all shocked to hear his words, to say the least. To forget someone they loved like that? How could anyone do that?

"I knew I couldn't escape that past, but I tried to move on; but I had to shut myself off and never made any friends as a result to it.", Frey, Jin, and Ceros watched as their friend spilled his heart out to this guy to make him understand. "I thought that I would never end up having any true friends…that was until I came here to Japan. I met Ami, Serena, Frey, Jin, and everyone else. I had gained something I never thought I would have in my life…friends, true friends who would be there for me, and who I would be there for as well."

Frey just gaped at Aaron, a little moved by his words. Jin lowered his head in understanding of all this. Even Ian felt moved. He somewhat realized at this guy's words as he remembered there were a few memories that made him happy. Memories of him among friends, having friendly drinks, fighting alongside them as well. He then realized that all of his memories weren't that bad; some of them gave him warmth and joy.

"How touching…", a mocking voice said catching everyone's attention. The four knights looked around the warehouse and there, standing near the entrance of the place was Lust and the new guy to the knights, Greed, and each of them had a malicious grin on their faces. "Imagine what a little information could do to get the Fellowship of the Moon to fight one another so we could finish them off while their all exhausted."

Taurus recognized the guy with the sunglasses, Greed, and knew that this whole thing was a setup. "Y-You! You tricked me!" Greed just shrugged, "Sorry kid. Nothing personal, it's just that we can't have anyone standing in the way of our whole Galactic Annihilation thing here." Lust just grinned as she snapped her fingers. Out of the shadows, several Heartless appeared; some were Shadows, others were Shadow Knights, but then there were five of these huge fat Heartless dressed in Arabic pants, vests and had arm guards on. "Now, it's been fun Fellowship Knights, but I'm afraid your end has come.", Lust said as she snapped her fingers.

All at once the Heartless charged at the four exhausted knights, unable to even have a running start as the Heartless pounced at them.

"SILENCE WALL!"

All of a sudden, the Heartless were crashed in front of a glowing black barrier that surrounded the knights and were thrown back. The four knights looked in front of them to see what had happened, and saw none other than Sailor Saturn with her Silence Glaive at the ready. She pointed at Greed and Lust and looked a little peeved at them, "Turning friends against each other is an unforgivable act that I don't like. Guarded by the destructive star, Saturn, I Sailor Saturn will punish you in the name of the moon."

Greed looked at her and just stepped up, "well, it's like they always say…" suddenly his hands and forearms became black and bulked in muscle while his fingers and thumbs became claw like, "…want anything done right, you've got to do it yourself." And then with a vicious grin, he charged at the five do-gooders and bashed against the shield.

They continued on for what seemed like minutes at a time, and Pisces noticed that Sailor Saturn was getting seriously weakened by this. 'I…cant keep up…the shield.', she thought as she sweated with exhaustion; the Heartless and this Greed fellow had been beating at her shield for some time now and it was taxing on her. She felt herself falling down, until someone caught her as she blacked out. Persian was the one who caught her as he held her in his arms as the Silence Wall fell down.

Greed flexed his clawed fingers as he grinned, "Well, well…all exhausted, beaten and nowhere to go…except…" he charged forward along with the Heartless, "OBLIVION!" As they got closer to the exhausted knights, the Heartless and Greed were whacked away by the now fully energized Taurus Barbarian as he got up and put away his Axe-Hammer.

He looked at the Heartless and Greed and amazingly got up, despite his exhaustion. "I thought I said to you that once I take on a fight, it stays my fight!" Greed looked a little pissed off but still had his smile on his face, "Well, I didn't say I was okay with the terms of the deal, now did I?" Taurus just smirked under his armor, "No, I guess you didn't." The knights could only watch as they were completely exhausted and on their knees.

Taurus cracked his neck and wrists as he readied himself for battle, as Greed shouted, "GO!" after that, the Heartless charged at him. But before they reached him, both his forearms' panels opened up to reveal the mechanics in them with charging diodes. He balled up his fists and out of his knuckles came out spikes that were conducting electricity. And as the Heartless came for him, he shouted, "TAURUS THUNDER FISTS!", and furiously punched at them.

With each dodge he made from their attacks he punched the opponents, and every time his punch hit his target, they were surged with so much electricity they turned to crispy critters and turned to dust. Lust watched this battle as did Greed, and both realized this was a losing battle. The heartless were doing all that they can, but to no avail as Taurus was an experienced fighter.

The final Heartless, which was a Heavy Body, drew a fist at him, but Taurus punched his fist right through his mouth. He lifted him high over his head as electricity surged through the body, making it smoke and blister. Until finally, Taurus roared out and slammed the Heavy Body into the ground in front of him, the body breaking up and shattering into a million pieces until finally dissolving.

As he knelt down breathing heavily, this final fight taking the last out of his strength, Greed walked right up to him. He shrugged, "Sorry, kid…but if you want anything done right, you've got to do it yourself." Suddenly he launched a fast punch straight at him; Taurus closed his eyes, waiting for the impact, but found nothing. He opened his eyes to see none other than Phoenix Blade holding the fist in his hand, pushing him back slightly. Greed and Phoenix were struggling with each other's strength at this, until Phoenix asked, "Can you Blush?"

Distracted by this question, they broke the pushing distance. Long enough to have him not notice Pisces jumping from Taurus' back, and with one vertical slashing strike, slice Greed vertically in half. Before the pieces slid off from each other, Greed muttered, "aw, shit.", and disappeared into a dark flame gate. Lust looked at them and bit her left thumb nail, "Argh, this really pisses me off.", and with that, she disappeared in her own dark flame gate.

The knights looked at each other and breathed in relief; Saturn did the same, still in Persian's arms as he got up. Unfortunately, he made a little mistake when he was setting her down from his hold on her and touched her butt cheeks, causing her to blush crimson and her face in shock. The two knights, Phoenix and Pisces, caught this and ran straight at Persian with their weapons at the ready, "PERSIAN! YOU PERVERT!" but before they could do anything, all anyone could hear was a slapping sound. Saturn huffed while Persian was rubbing his face, where a crimson hand print was. "I'm not sure I deserved that.", he said.

She then transformed right in front of their eyes, and when the light disappeared, the knights were stunned to see that Sailor Saturn was none other than Hotaru Tomoe. She turned around and said to them, "Look before you start denying what you saw…I'm pretty sure we both have a lot to explain…Aaron, Jin, Mr. Hayner…" she looked to Persian and shot him a look at what he did, "…and you too, Frey." The Knights looked at one another and at her. "Yeah…I guess there are.", Phoenix said.

Later

After the fight, everyone had gone back from their armor to their casual clothes, and had returned to the motel bridge. Hotaru had told the four, and fifth including Ceros, that she saw everything about them now. But she had agreed that she wouldn't tell them the identities of the other Scouts to them yet, as they would to anyone about her at all.

With that said in done, Ian was leaving, but not before Aaron shouted, "Hey, wait a minute!" Ian turned around as Aaron continued, "You still want to continue a rematch later?" Ian shook his head, much to everyone's surprise. "Nah, I've learned my lesson not to trust people who hire me to fight people I don't want to fight. Sides, I'm thinking on giving up the Fighter-for-Hire business and just thinking on something else to earn money with."

Jin then asked, in a monotone voice, "So does that mean you'll join us?" Ian scratched his chin for a moment and looked up to them, "We'll let fate decide." He pulled out a coin and held it out to them, "Heads I'll join, Tails I'm on my own again." And then with all his might, he threw the coin in the air, and boy did it go up. Everyone looked up as they tried to find the coin, as Frey spoke out, "Think you threw it a little too high?" Jin answered, "He doesn't know the meaning of the word 'Restraint'." Ian shot him a look, "Kiss my ass." Aaron asked, "Well where the Heck is it?" Suddenly the coin fell straight down…on Ceros' head as he fell to the ground flat on his back.

Everyone looked down at Ceros as he got up, and pulled the coin that was now embedded into his head. He looked at the coin and shouted in triumph, "HA, it's Heads!" As everyone looked at Ian, they noticed he was walking away back to Ruffian Row. Aaron shouted, "Hey, don't forget what you said when that coin landed on Heads, okay?" Ian turned around and smiled with a thumbs up, "Sure, just so long as you don't forget to invite me to the next fight, alright?" But before he left, he said, "I've also got to rethink my way of living, now that I'm living with my past now. But don't worry; I'm still joining you guys…eventually."

Aaron nodded in agreement, and Hotaru shouted back, "Just follow your heart, Ian!"

Ian stopped for a moment and looked at the girl. With a small smile he then continued his trek back to Ruffian Row. It was completely settled now; not only did one of the Sailor Scouts know about their secret and kept it for them until the time being, they had also gained a new weird friend in the group.

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