As he explained his latest plan to have done with Sailor Moon to the Queen, Jadeite reflected on the young human who he had often seen accompanying her. He had not been present for the annoying girl's last battle, but there had been another one of those foolish men present; the man had acted against his youma, freeing that infuriating Sailor Moon to destroy her. It was the most troublesome thing that he had been forced to deal with since the brat herself had first made her presence known.

Still, he had at least some confidence in this new plan of his; the humans of this country were so very determined to see their children succeed in these schools of theirs.

~SM~

She'd taken a break from studying to read a funny manga, but Mom hadn't understood, and she'd shooed Usagi off to her and Trevor-nii's room to go work. Sighing as she plopped down on her bed beside her brother, she turned to look over at him.

"Are you still working, Trevor-nii?"

"I've finished with my prep-test, Usa-ko," Trevor-nii said, looking over at her. "I'm just doing some revising now."

Sighing, Usagi plopped back down on her bed. "That's the problem with schoolwork, Trevor-nii: it never really ends." Looking up just as Luna-sensei jumped up onto the windowsill, Usagi sighed again. "Am I going to have to fight again soon, Luna-sensei?"

"I don't know anything specific yet, but you should be prepared, all the same," Luna-sensei said, shaking her right, front paw at her.

"I know," she sighed, looking down at her feet. "I just… I wish I could do something more than just going out and fighting all the time."

"That's what I'm trying to accomplish, Usagi," Luna-sensei said, settling down on her bed, right next to Usagi's own legs. "For now, however, I just need your cooperation; you have youma to fight, and a princess to protect! But, you still want to keep up your grades, since a member of the Princess' court should have a good education, too."

"Yes, Luna-sensei," she sighed.

~SM~

The next day, when the pair of them had gone to school, Trevor found his eyes drawn to another girl. She was standing by the windows opposite them, and she looked lonely.

"Trevor-nii, who are you looking at?"

"Oh," said the other girl; one of the three who'd been with them when he and Usagi had discovered that Dark Kingdom trap at Shaperin. "That's Ami Mizuno," the girl said, sounding like she disapproved of something.

"I hear she attends the Crystal Seminar," Umino said; Trevor noticed that Naru was glaring at him, and wondered for a moment what he'd missed while he'd been thinking about Ami.

"Ah, isn't that that new cram school in Juuban?" Usagi asked.

"Is it?" he echoed; mother had been talking about cram schools, but after everything that had happened with the Dark Kingdom, that kind of thing had started to seem a lot less important.

"Yeah," Usagi said. "Mom says it costs a lot of money to go there," she looked like she was going to say something else, but then looked at him and fell silent.

"I hear Mizuno-san's mother is a doctor," Naru said.

"She'd be rich enough to afford it," the stocky red-head said.

"But, she actually has a scholarship there," Umino said enthusiastically. "So she's going for free!"

"Still, I don't really like her," the stocky red-head said; Trevor wondered again if she'd think it was too rude if he asked her her name. "She thinks she's great, just because she's so smart, you know? She's so stuck-up."

"Yeah, I hate girls like that," Naru agreed.

He didn't want to make a fuss by saying so, but Trevor thought that Ami looked more lonely than stuck-up. He had the feeling that Usagi would have agreed with him if he asked. He couldn't quite help keeping the thought in the back of his mind, even as he and Usagi attended their classes for the day. He could at least reasonably sure that Usagi had the same thing on her mind, since she seemed a bit more distracted from her schoolwork than usual.

Even Haruna-sensei seemed to notice it, though she wasn't so understanding.

Meeting his younger sister in the hall after all of their classes were done for the day, he noticed that she seemed to be a lot more deep in thought than usual.

"Trevor-nii, do you think that Mizuno-san looked stuck-up?"

"Well… I actually thought she looked kind of lonely, Usa-ko," he said, as the pair of them fell into step with one another and began making their way home.

"Yeah, that's what I thought, too."

The pair of them continued on their way home, and it seemed like Usagi might have been about to say something else, but the sight of Mamoru-san coming up to them distracted her from whatever it would have been.

"Trevor-kun."

"Mamoru-sempai," he said, blinking in surprise.

"Sorry, but I need to borrow your brother," Mamoru said, grabbing his right arm and pulling him along.

"Mamoru-sempai, wait a minute…" he stumbled as Mamoru pulled him around a corner and continued along. "Where are we going?"

"Home," the older boy said brusquely. "I need to talk to you alone, Trevor-kun."

"Well, all right," he said, not wanting to be rude by pulling away, and fairly sure that – even with as strange as Mamoru-sempai was acting – he wasn't in any danger.

Once the pair of them had arrived at Mamoru's apartment, pausing for a moment to remove their shoes, Trevor followed along behind the older boy as he made his way over to the couch and sat down. Settling himself down opposite Mamoru, Trevor waited to see just what it was that the older boy wanted to talk to him about.

"Trevor-kun… did you have any missing time, lately? Sometime you can't remember where you were, or what you were doing?"

"Missing time?" he echoed.

"I know it's a strange thing to ask," Mamoru laughed softly. "That's why I brought you here: I'd rather have your sister think I'm rude than crazy."

"Ah," he looked down at his hands. "I guess that makes sense," biting his lip, Trevor gathered himself; if Mamoru-sempai could admit something as strange as that, he could at least try to do the same. "I don't really remember anything like missing time, Mamoru-sempai, but I do remember a strange light."

He only really noticed that he was holding his right wrist when Mamoru-sempai reached out for him, wrapping his own, larger hands around Trevor's. He could feel that same strange, gentle energy pulsing between their hands that he'd felt when the pair of them had been testing their respective powers for the first time. Biting his lip as thoughts about just what else he might have been able to do with the powers that he and Mamoru-sempai were slowly discovering that they shared, Trevor looked up as he caught sight of the older boy's eyes.

Mamoru-sempai was looking at him curiously.

"What are you thinking about, Trevor-kun?"

"Did you hear about the fire, Mamoru-sempai?" he asked, tensing slightly as he looked back down at his hands.

"The one that happened six years ago?"

"Yeah," he said, nodding and briefly looking up.

"You survived," Mamoru-sempai said, smiling as he gently took Trevor's hands.

"Mamoru-sempai…"

"You were hurt, right? Maybe I could help you."

"I… Thank you, Mamoru-sempai, I'd appreciate that."

Turning around, starting to untuck his shirt, Trevor looked back. Mamoru-sempai nodded, the expression on his face gentle but encouraging all the same, and Trevor smiled back at the older boy. Removing his shirt, he winced slightly at the sudden gasp he heard from behind him.

"Six years…" Mamoru-sempai muttered, and Trevor thought he might have been running his hands over the scarring on his back, but he couldn't really be sure. "Trevor-kun, I don't really know if there's anything I can do about this."

"Ah…" he sighed. "That's all right, Mamoru-sempai. Thank you for offering."

Pulling his shirt back on, he stood up and bowed to the older boy, thanking him for his hospitality. Mamoru-sempai thanked him in turn for listening, and asked him one more time not to tell Usagi about what they'd been discussing. After he'd agreed one last time, Trevor said his final goodbyes to Mamoru-sempai and turned to head for home again. He was looking forward to seeing Usagi again, even if he couldn't tell her about what he and Mamoru-sempai had talked about.

Still, he could understand what the older boy was talking about: he'd rather Usagi thought he was a bit strange than worry her that he might be going crazy.

~SM~

When she'd seen Usagi and her brother – that odd boy who had energies almost the same as a Chosen Guardian's within his body – off to bed, she decided that, in addition to making a report on that anomalous girl that she and Usagi had run across after Mamoru had dragged her brother off. Usagi hadn't been happy about that, of course, both since she and Mamoru didn't seem to get along at all, and for some other reason that she didn't seem to want to share with anyone.

Still, none of that was important now; she had a duty to report her findings to Central, and also to advise them about Usagi's brother and what part he might play in their future battles against the Dark Kingdom.

Making her way inside the Crown Game Center that Usagi seemed to enjoy so much, the glass doors parting just enough to let her through without getting her fur more than a light brush as she passed it by, Luna made her way steadily over to the Sailor V cabinet that Central had made alterations to just after the pair of them had first made contact, she jumped up onto the cabinet just as the title of the game came flashing on the screen.

"Codename 0091, this is Luna." Pressing her right forepaw to the screen, she continued. "Passphrase: the rabbit on the moon pounds rice into mochi."

"The moon mochi is sticky," Central answered.

"It turned bubbly on the grill," she answered, completing the call-and-response code once more.

"Have you found the Princess?" Central asked.

She'd heard the question enough times to begin anticipating it, but she was still disappointed that she didn't have anything to report on that front. "No. I haven't found any leads, either."

"I see…"

"Sailor Moon is proving to be much less reliable than I expected her to be," she said, not quite able to restrain a sigh; yes, it seemed that the constant threat that the Dark Kingdom posed to her brother was a source of inspiration to her, but as a Chosen Guardian she should have had that kind of motivation on her own.

"Now, now, don't complain," Central chided.

"Sorry…" she sighed, feeling chastised. "By the way, I've been sensing some new energies lately. One of them is from Sailor Moon's adopted brother."

"The Guardian's brother?"

"Yes. He seems to have the same kind of energy that a Chosen Guardian would have, though he of course can't use his power very well."

"That's troubling; if one of the Guardians reincarnated as a male, we won't have our full forces to hold off the enemy," Central said. "I'd like you to look into this; see if you can find out who he was, if he was anyone at all. He might simply be an unusually powerful human."

"That would be a good thing," she said, hoping that it would end up being true. "Speaking of unusually powerful humans, I also encountered this girl just yesterday." Entering the girl's image into Central's database, she paused to let her contact study it.

"She might be another youma sent by the enemy," Central said, after a moment's thought. "Or, she could be simply another unusually powerful human, like that boy. On that subject, do you think his power could be dangerous?"

"Only to himself," she said, sighing. "The enemy has made several attempts to capture him; it's one of the reasons I knew he wasn't one of their youma, too."

"Speed up your investigation, then. Make sure that, if these are simply unusually powerful humans, they don't fall into the hands of the enemy."

"I understand."

Turning to leave the arcade once again, Luna wondered just what her investigations would end up revealing about the strange humans she had discovered. She could only hope that they were simply unusually powerful for their kind; at least, that Trevor Tsukino would end up being simply that. Being without their full forces against the Dark Kingdom… the very thought wasn't one she could stand for long.

~SM~

The next morning, when she and Trevor-nii had made their way back to school to see the results of their practice test, she found that Ami Mizuno had gotten the highest score on it. Given everything that everyone was saying, it seemed like she'd gotten the highest score in every test she'd taken, but no one seemed to be very happy about that. It was starting to seem like Trevor-nii had been right when he'd said she seemed more lonely than stuck-up when he'd seen her.

"Just like we expected: Mizuno-san is at the top of our class," Naru-chan said, leaning against the notice board next to her and Trevor-nii.

"Actually, I heard she's number one in the entire country."

Usagi opened her eyes wide at that that statement. "The country?!" she and Naru-chan said together.

"Wow, she must work really hard," Trevor-nii said.

"It's even rumored that she has an IQ of 300," Umino-san said, popping up from behind Naru-chan just after Trevor-nii had finished talking.

"Wow," Usagi said. "She's such a genius, and she works hard?"

"For the last time, stop sneaking up on us!" Naru-chan yelled, punching Umino-san's head.

"There she is now," Usagi said, drawing everyone's attention.

She was just looking out the window, all alone, and for a few moments Usagi kind of thought that at least she and Trevor-nii should go over there and talk to her, but then she looked over at them… Mizuno-san really didn't seem happy. Maybe she is lonely, but she's making such a scary face!

Shivering slightly at the look in Mizuno-san's eyes, Usagi turned back to her group of friends. She didn't really know what to make of the other girl, but she was at least going to give her a chance. Once she and Trevor-nii were able to leave for the day, she kept an eye out for Mizuno-san.

When the pair of them caught sight of her – without Mamoru-baka coming to drag Trevor-nii away like he'd done yesterday – Usagi smiled a bit wider and hurried to catch up. Then, all of a sudden, Luna-sensei jumped down and landed on Mizuno-san's back. It was such a strange thing to see that Usagi found herself completely frozen in her steps, until she saw Trevor-nii hurrying over to stand beside Mizuno-san.

"Luna!" she called, even as she heard Trevor-nii apologizing for the strange way Luna-sensei had been acting, though of course he didn't call her that.

But Luna-sensei came right over to her, and Usagi scooped the cat up into her arms.

"Usagi, I think that girl might be like your brother," Luna-sensei whispered in her ear, as Trevor-nii and Mizuno-san talked about the fire.

Mizuno-san had brought it up, but she didn't seem to mean anything bad by it, and had even apologized for bringing it up the way she had.

"Why don't we go to the arcade, so we can forget about all this depressing stuff?" she asked, tilting her head slightly.

After all, if Ami-chan really did work as hard as Trevor-nii said, then she'd probably want a break. And, since the three of them were probably going to become good friends, that meant that she would be able to get all the help she needed on her tests. It also meant that she'd be able to take some of the burden of helping her off of Trevor-nii, even though he'd probably say that that kind of thing wasn't a burden at all.

When the three of them made it to the Crown Game Center, Usagi smiled as she told Ami-chan all about the neat video games they had. Especially about the Sailor V game; which she almost thought she should be doing better at, since she was the same kind of sailor-suited Guardian that Sailor V was, now. She didn't really know what to think about that, but that was what kept happening.

Ami-chan was doing really well, though; she was getting way more high-score than Usagi ever had during any of the times she'd played the game. Usagi was happy for her at first, but when Ami-chan beat the high-score in the game itself, she didn't know what to think.

~SM~

Ami-san ended up getting a new record high-score in the game, but she also ended up having to leave for her cram school class before she could enter her name. It was kind of sad, to see her lose all of the progress she'd made, but he didn't want to offend anyone by making them think he was trying to steal her accomplishment. So, he quickly followed Usagi and Ami-san back out of the arcade.

"Trevor-kun!"

"Motoki-san?"

"Your friend dropped this," Motoki-san said, handing him a light-pink floppy disc.

"Oh," he said, carefully taking it as the other boy handed it to him. "Thank you, Motoki-san. I'll make sure she gets it."

"You and Usagi-chan have a good day, all right?"

"We will, Motoki-san. Thank you!" he called back, already heading off to find Usagi and Ami-chan.

Jogging down the sidewalk, looking for his sister and Ami-chan, Trevor did manage to catch up with Usagi, and reading the name off of the disk gave them at least some idea of where to look for Ami-san. So, the pair of them managed to find their way to the school building. Of course, that still left the question of how they were going to be able to get inside completely open.

"Huh. It says that if someone uses this newly-developed "crystal disk" thing, they can become a genius," Usagi said, reading from an informational plaque just to the right of the cram school's double doors.

"It seems kind of unbelievable, all that on just a small disk," he said, nibbling the inside of his lower lip as he looked from the plaque to the disk his sister was holding.

"Be careful, you two," Luna-sensei said, back arched slightly.

"We're just going to return Ami-chan's disk, Luna-sensei," Usagi said. "I mean, it's not like you sensed the enemy here, right?"

"Well, that's difficult to say," Luna-sensei said, sighing softly. "I sensed something from that Ami Mizuno, but I can't be sure if she's one of the Dark Kingdom's youma, or if she's someone like your brother."

"Like me, Luna-sensei?"

"Trevor-kun, did you just call that cat Sensei?" Turning at the sudden sound of Mamoru-sempai's voice, Trevor saw the older boy smiling amusedly at the pair of them. "Your sister's weirdness isn't starting to rub off on you, is it?"

Usagi actually growled at him after he'd said that.

"What, dragging my brother off yesterday wasn't enough for you, Mamoru-baka?! You have to come here and insult me, too?! You are such an idiot!"

Grabbing his right arm, Usagi dragged him off, grumbling all the way, until the pair of them ended up leaning against a lamp post a fair distance away from the cram school building.

"Mamoru-baka! I can't believe how much of a jerk he is!" sighing, Usagi turned to look at him. "I'm glad he's at least nice to you, Trevor-nii, but…" Usagi was probably going to say more, but when she raised her arms for whatever reason, she ended up catching sight of the disk they had originally been going to return to Ami-chan. "Eek! I can't believe I forgot! Ami-chan might need this!"

"Usagi, maybe you should let me take a look at that disk before we bring it back," Luna-sensei said, staring up at the floppy disk in his sister's right hand.

"Why, Luna-sensei?" Usagi asked, narrowing her eyes at the cat; Trevor had to admit that he was curious, too. "You don't think there's something suspicious about this disk, do you?"

"I don't know, but I want to make sure that there's nothing out of the ordinary about that disk," Luna-sensei said. "Come on, you two."

"All right," he said, not quite certain just what they were going to be looking for, but willing to trust Luna-sensei all the same.

They ended up going back to Juuban High, since the only computer back home was the one that their father used for his work, and neither of them were allowed to use it unless they had a very good reason. Or, in Usagi's case, not allowed at all. He wasn't quite sure what had driven Father to that, but he hadn't been about to waste time making a suggestion that he knew would wouldn't come to anything. More people might have been put in danger if he had.

Settling down on the chair that he'd pulled over for himself, Trevor watched as Luna-sensei pushed the disk into the first drive.

"You sure are amazing, Luna-sensei!" Usagi exclaimed, laughing as the cat began to access whatever data was on the disk.

"What do you think you're going to find, Luna-sensei?"

"I'm hoping it won't be anything, Trevor-kun," the cat said, her eyes still focused on the keyboard as she typed. "Still, if this disk was created by the Dark Kingdom, then there's bound to be some sign of their evil influence."

Just as Luna-sensei had finished saying that, some strange code appeared on the screen… and… there was something else…

"Trevor-kun!"

Yelping as he found himself knocked back into his seat, Trevor was almost forced to cross his eyes as he found Luna-sensei's face pressed almost right up against his own, with her right paw pressing into his nose.

"Luna-sensei, could you please stop stepping on my face?" he managed to get out, blinking in the face of the intent stare Luna-sensei was leveling at him.

"I'm sorry, but the brainwashing program on that disk was causing you to go into a trance!" Luna-sensei exclaimed, sitting back down on the desk in front of them.

"Come on!" Usagi exclaimed, clenching her right fist in front of her face. "We have to go there and stop Ami from carrying out any more of the Dark Kingdom's evil plans!"

"Right!" Luna-sensei exclaimed.

Taking out the disk so it wouldn't cause anyone else any trouble, Trevor quickly shut down the computer and followed the two of them after quickly pocketing the disk. He didn't want anyone else having the same kind of trouble he'd evidently gotten himself into when he'd seen what was on it. Or not seen, considering what Luna-sensei had said happened.

Following quickly in his sister's footsteps, Trevor soon found himself coming to a stop just outside the Crystal Seminar building. Drawing up some of the strange energy that the Dark Kingdom wanted so much, Trevor managed to recover from their run a lot quicker than he would have been able to without it. Still, even doing that kind of thing only helped to remind him of just what kind of a burden he was imposing on Usagi by being the way he was.

If he could have been a normal person, Usagi wouldn't have had nearly as much trouble from the Dark Kingdom as she did, he knew.

"Trevor-nii, come on!" Usagi called, the chubby form of the Disguise Pen that Luna-sensei had given her to use already in his sister's right hand.

"Right," he said, quickly stepping forward so Usagi could wrap her arms around his shoulders.

"Moon Power! Turn us into doctors from a university hospital!"

Closing his eyes as he felt that same, light tingling running up from his feet all the way to his head, Trevor blinked as he felt a distinct weight settling on his nose.

"Glasses?"

"No, leave them on," Usagi said, grinning as she pushed them back up onto his nose. "You'll look more doctory that way!"

"Doctory?" he echoed, feeling more than a little silly.

Still, before he could have asked anything else, Usagi had grabbed his right arm and started pulling him up the stairs, shouting urgently about some patient that they needed to see. Once the pair of them had made it to the top floor, bursting in through the door to see rows upon rows of dull-eyed students all seated in front of computers, each of them working away. He could hear the fast typing from pretty much everyone in the room, and while he knew that people who were hard at work the way they all seemed to be didn't tend to make much noise, but he still couldn't help but find the silence creepy.

Knowing that they were going to be facing one of the Dark Kingdom's youma only made things worse.

Turning slightly as Usagi transformed, Trevor saw the familiar rainbow of lights washing over his sister as she was changed once again into Sailor Moon. After that, Trevor found that Ami – far from being the youma that the pair of them had come to this place to deal with – had been captured by that very youma.

"Your first question: why do apples fall from trees?" the youma, who had previously introduced itself as Garoben, demanded of the both of them.

"It's because of the Earth's gravity!" he called back, feeling a chill as the youma grinning at him.

"Very good, young man. Now, tell me: what is gravity?"

"It's," he paused for a moment, shuddering at the hungry look on the youma's face as it watched him; still, if this was the only way he could help Usagi when she was fighting, then he wasn't going to complain about it. "It's a distortion of space-time, caused by the mass of large objects."

"Very good, schoolboy!"

He'd nearly no time to even blink, before a hail of- of term papers came flying directly at his head…

~SM~

When she saw Trevor-nii fall to the ground, his head and neck – and even parts of his shoulders! – all wrapped up in those weird papers, Usagi barely needed Luna-sensei's encouragement to use her Moon Tiara and send it spinning out at the youma that had attacked her brother. She could hear Luna-sensei talking to someone – someone Usagi thought she might have recognized, but she was too angry at that horrible youma to pay attention to anything like that.

When a big, thick fog bank suddenly spread over the whole room, though, Usagi found herself facing something she hadn't ever expected to see.

"Ami-chan?! You're a Sailor Guardian, too?!"

"Luna-san just told me," the other girl said, sounding grave and serious and pretty much like everything Usagi herself was trying to be. "Here, why don't you let me take care of him, while you destroy that youma?"

~SM~

"Are you sure?" Usagi – Sailor Moon, and while that was really amazing to think about, Ami knew that she couldn't let herself be distracted at a moment like this – asked, looking down at her brother with clear worry in her crystal blue eyes.

"My mother is a doctor," she said, pitching her voice to be reassuring. "So, I've learned quite a few things about taking care of people."

"Okay, then," Usagi said, turning back toward the youma with a look of determination on her face. "Do your best to help him, all right?"

"I will," she said, nodding as Usagi turned back towards the youma.

Turning her own gaze back to the unconscious form of Usagi's brother, Ami carefully unwrapped his head. Luckily, it seemed that he'd just fallen asleep from whatever it was that the youma had done to him rather than being injured in any kind of way. When she began to hear Usagi yelling in panic, Ami found that she barely had time to so much as glance in her fellow Guardian's direction, before Usagi's brother raised his right hand, palm up with fingers splayed as though to hold something back. There was a strange light in his eyes – Ami thought that it might have been some shade of yellow, but there was so little of it that she couldn't really make that kind of thing out – and as she looked over at his hand, Ami could see that his fingertips were starting to glow, as well.

However, she could also see that, whatever the strange energy he was calling up was, it seemed almost about to burn his hand even as it seemed to be forming into some kind of structure. Grabbing that same hand, Ami was about to try pulling it back into Usagi's brother's lap, when the energy – wild as it had been when it was just Usagi's brother trying to control it on his own – stabilized and formed into what looked like a perfectly transparent pane of glass, flickering with light in shades of bright yellow and blue.

"Wow! That's amazing!" Usagi exclaimed, as the brainwashed mass of students that had clearly been what startled her so much in the first place all began to stumble against the shield.

"Usagi!" she called, not wanting to let her fellow cram school students suffer any longer than she could possibly help. "If you have a way to defeat this youma, then you should probably hurry. I don't know how long your brother and I can hold this barrier!"

"Right, Ami-chan!" Usagi said, smiling as she raised her right hand up to her tiara. "Moon Tiara Action!"

Watching with some surprise – really, after her own Bubble Spray had created a bank of fog thick enough that the youma had completely lost sight of them inside it, Ami probably shouldn't have been – as Usagi threw her glowing, spinning tiara straight through the youma, Ami continued to watch as the youma was cut cleanly in half. She didn't know just what exactly she'd expected to happen, but watching it dissolve into dust was pretty strange, all the same.

Watching as Usagi knelt down beside her brother, calling softly to him as he woke up, Ami smiled softly. Maybe she wasn't just some hopeless bookworm, if she could manage to do something like this.

"Trevor-nii, you remember Ami-chan, right?" Usagi's brother nodded, and Usagi smiled all the wider. "She's a Sailor Guardian, just like me! Isn't that cool?!"

"I'm happy for you, Usa-ko," Usagi's brother said, smiling gently; she could tell that he was trying to be cheerful, but from the look in his eyes, Ami knew that he was a lot more tired than he wanted to let on. "Your name is Ami Mizuno, isn't it?"

"Yes," she said, bowing formally to the pair of them as Usagi and her brother helped her to stand back up. "I'll be in your care from now on, so please take care of me."

She might not have known just what she was getting into, fighting those creatures as some kind of destined warrior, but Ami was determined to do the best she could. Not just because there were a lot more people depending on her, but… Well, this might be the only real chance she had to prove that she was more – that she could be more – than just some bookworm. Smiling and laughing softly as Usagi's happiness seemed to bubble out of her, and her brother smiled gently at the pair of them.

It felt… Well, almost as though this was where she was meant to be. How strange, Ami mused.