Betrayal of the heart
Chapter twenty-eight: The power of Pegasus
The freaks were in the Dead Moon Circus, discussing Tiger Eye's failure.
"He'll never find Pegasus at this rate" One of the freaks scoffed, laughing. Tiger Eye growled and glared at the freaks, who continued to laugh until Zirconia appeared and ordered them to leave. He turned to the Amazon trio.
"You must seek out the beautiful dreams, for that is where Pegasus is hiding" He told them.
At the bar, Tiger Eye began complaining about how everyone was blaming him for the failure.
"You put your interests before your job" Hawk Eye reprimanded him. "And that's no good" Fish Eye agreed and Tiger Eye noticed that she was doing something. Fish Eye was shining a saddle.
"I am going to go for a ride when I catch Pegasus" She said, laughing. "I found a girl" She showed them a picture of a girl standing near a horse.
Meanwhile, Usagi took her friends back to the park where the last fight was. She asked Serenity and Kenji if they knew anything about the new enemy and both children said they didn't. Suddenly, They heard a neighing sound and went to find out what it was. when they came to a park clearing, they spotted a young woman, riding a horse. The horse suddenly bucked and the woman fell off. As she got up, Ami recognized the woman as Reika, a young woman who often visited her boyfriend at the hospital.
Usagi invited Reika over for tea, and the twenty year old agreed.
They all went inside the manor for some tea and to talk for a while.
"I usually don't fall off my horse" Reika told them. "But I wasn't feeling up to practice today. Ami, I'm worried. I'm planning on going to college in Europe, but it's a ten year program" Ami suddenly understood Reika's worries. Greg, the young transfer from America, worked at the hospital.
"Does Greg know?" She asked.
"He just smiled and said 'That's great', but he hasn't seen me since I told him." Reika explained. "I wonder if he still loves me" She looked down at her tea sadly.
"I'll talk to him, if you like" Ami said. Reika smiled brightly. That afternoon, when Ami went to work, she saw Greg in the hallway and stopped him.
"Greg, I saw Reika today" She explained. "She told me about Europe. Are you really okay with that?" Greg sighed and ran a hand through his hair.
"It's her decision, whether or not she wants to go" He said. "I can't stop her" He turned and walked away. Ami sighed heavily, wondering what to do.
Serenity was at the stable feeding the horses, when she commented how beautiful it was. Reika was there and over heard her.
"animals can always find problems hidden in people's minds" Reika explained. This made Serenity think of Pegasus.
"Do you know of any horses with wings and a horn?" Serenity asked. Reika smiled and pulled a book out of her bag and handed it to Serenity. It was a book on Mythology. Serenity flipped through the book and sighed. There was a page on a winged horse and it was called a pegasus, but it had no horn. The page with the horse with a horn was called a unicorn.
"But, It has wings and a horse" Serenity said, handing the book back to Reika. Reika smiled.
"It might be a creature that lives in the dream world" Reika explained. "You can see it, because you are a child with beautiful dreams"
"You have them too" Serenity said. Reika shrugged.
"I don't know. How can my dreams be beautiful if they hurt the ones I love?" Reika asked. Serenity didn't know what to say to that. She started to leave the stables, but she spotted a strange man and hid, after calling her friends. She didn't want to worry her parents. Soiya and Aya said they'd be there soon with Kenji.
"I don't know if I should pursue my dream, or stay with Greg" Reika explained, wondering why she was telling a complete stranger the feelings of her heart.
"I'm very curious about this dream" Tiger Eye replied. He transformed and took out her mirror. Serenity and her friends transformed.
"Cool new transformation, Sere" Sailor Mini Jupiter said, smiling.
"In the name of the moon, we will punish you" Sailor Silver Moon declared. Tiger Eye rolled his eyes.
"Again with the children. Go home to your parents" He said. Then he called out a Lemure, animal trainer Kyokuba Danko. Danko had a whip and she went after Silver Moon. Tiger Eye took a look into Reika's mirror and there was nothing. He told Danko to kill the miniature scouts. Silver Moon was trapped, and Reika was unconcious, but Sailor Mini Jupiter jumped in front of Silver Moon.
"Leave!" She commanded. "Jupiter thunder cloud" She hurled the attack at him, but it didn't faze him at all. Silver Moon called out to Pegasus and he appeared, powering up Mini-Jupiter and Mini Venus into Galaxial Jupiter and Celestial Venus.
Sailor Celestial Venus set Silver Moon free and with a joint attack, they destroyed Danko. Tiger Eye left and the wall vanished, causing Reika to fall to the ground. Pegasus flew away and and they detransformed.
Ami once again talked to Greg, and he agreed to go see Reika. He told her that he'd never stop loving her, as long as he were alive. Reika smiled and the two of them kissed.
Usagi told the children that even though they had powered up forms now, to please let her know when an attack was happening, because she wanted to be there in case something went wrong. Serenity agreed to always call her mother from now on, when ever Tiger Eye appeared.