[Scene: Kunzite's apartment. Zoi appears and Kunzite smiles up at him from his reading. Zoi walks over and kneels at Kunzite's feet, wrapping his arms around Kunzite's calves and rests his head on his lap.]

Kunzite: What's wrong?

Zoi: Mamoru took me out for a bike lesson. I wasn't paying attention, so I crashed right into a tree.

Kunzite: But you're ok now, aren't you?

[Zoi nods with his face still in Kunzite's lap]

Kunzite: [pets Zoi's hair] These things happen.

Zoi: I haven't told you the worst of it.

Kunzite: [Stops petting him] Oh? What happened?

Zoi: [looks up at him] Promise me you won't get mad at Mamoru.

Kunzite: I can't promise you that. I'm getting mad at him already. What did he do?

Zoi: He didn't do anything. He tried to help me. That's why I don't want you mad at him.

Kunzite: Fine. I'll do my best.

[Zoi sits up and his cheeks flush as he tells Kunzite absolutely everything]

[Kunzite's eyes go wide as he describes the accident. But to Zoi's surprise, he grins as Zoi describes the aftermath. He figured Kunzite will be furious at some of the racier elements of the story, but those seem to be Kunzite's favorite parts. In fact, he actually tells Zoi to slow down and go into more detail when he get to the part where Mamoru walked in on him drying his hair.]

Zoi: Wait…this doesn't bother you?

Kunzite: Are you kidding me? [smiling] I'm proud of you for tormenting him with that gorgeous body of yours. I always like to hear about people like him being tortured by visions of what they can never have.

Zoi: [relieved] So you're not upset with me?

Kunzite: Not at all. In fact, I'd say you got off lightly. I would have ravished you.

Zoi: [giggles] You would not have.

Kunzite: Yes, I would have. I would have yanked that towel away and just taken you. In fact…I think I'm going to take you right now.

[Zoi laughs as Kunzite throws him down on the couch and pins him into a rough embrace]

[Meanwhile: At a campground deep in the Hen Tie wilderness]

[Valerie is muttering profanities about her "condition" under her breath as she is setting up her tent. The politically correct term for her condition is "disabled" but Valerie hates that word. It implies something threw a switch which shut off her left leg. Valerie thinks that's a comforting thought if you like to revel in victimhood, but she prefers the word "handicapped."]

[To her "handicapped" just means everything is a lot harder for her than everyone else: boarding a plane, renting a car that will accommodate her wheelchair, rolling around in the forest. Setting up a tent in the goddamned middle of nowhere…]

[Through the trees three teenage girls emerge. They look like trouble.]

Makoto: You need to leave here. Now.

Valerie: [still fitting together tentpoles] I don't have to do anything of the sort.

Minako: Are you waiting around for a man in a cloak?

Rei: Did he promise you he can make you walk again, in return for murdering a bunch of children, on the off chance you ever encounter them?

Valerie: Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't.

Minako: I saw him make a similar promise to a old British couple. He kept that promise by turning them into a pair giant killer wolf-bears.

Valerie: [still working on the tentpoles] Giant killer wolf-bears, huh? Sounds a hell of a lot better than being in a wheelchair.

[Rei and Makoto step forward with their mouths open, but Minako puts up her arms to hold them back.

Minako: Let me handle this.

[She walks over to Valerie and kneels until she is eye level with her. Valerie continues to work on the tent.]

Minako: Look, I get it. You're desperate. You'd do anything to get out of that wheelchair. The doctors convinced you long ago that there isn't any hope. That it would take nothing short of a miracle for you to walk again. Then someone comes around handing out miracles, and you'd be a fool pass that up. Even if that means killing a bunch of children this guy has convinced you deserve what is coming to them. I get that. But here is the part I don't get. If this dude is so powerful, why does he need you to do his killing for him?

[Valerie finally stops working on the tent and makes eye contact]

Minako: He didn't tell you he is going to turn you into a monster. What else is he not telling you?

[Valerie throws down the tent pole]

Valerie: You make an interesting point.

Makoto: Come with us.

Valerie: I'm capable of leaving on my own.

[The girls just stand there for a while, until it is apparent she won't budge]

Minako: We have to leave. It isn't safe for us to stay here. Just think about what I said.

[Valerie just sits there until they leave. No sooner are they out of earshot than a cloaked figure steps out from the other direction.]

Cloak figure: I see you've met the Moon Guardians.

Valerie: You heard all that? And you just let them speak their piece and then walk away?

Cloaked figure: I did. When you are stalking a pack of tigers, would you pause to crush an ant?

Valerie: Probably. It wouldn't take much and there would be one less ant to bother me while I'm hunting.

Cloaked figure: Those three girls don't realize it, but we fight for a common cause. They were all murdered in a previous lifetime by the leader of the gang of boys you've been ordered to hunt. It happened a thousand years ago, but the memories of their final moments keep haunting them. How hard would you fight to rescue a cult of killers who brutally murdered you?

Valerie: Is it true what they said? Did you really turn those two British people into monsters?

[The cloaked figure nods as two black creatures emerge from the woods to stand at his side.]

Valerie: You should have been honest with me from the beginning.

Cloaked figure: Don't presume to tell me what I should have done, mortal.

Valerie: And are you gonna turn me into one of those as well?

Cloaked figure: That had been my intention. Had I deemed you worthy. However, I can see you too independent-minded to be one of my children.

Valerie: Children? You mean "slaves", don't you?

Cloaked figure: The fact that you do not consider those two term synonymous only proves how unworthy you are. No matter. You're not the first, and you won't be the last. It makes no difference to me if join my army. What is important to me is that you will not be missed.

Valerie: Excuse me?

Cloaked figure: Not everyone can be a predator. Someone has to be the prey. I would have liked for you to be my seventh, so we can commence the killing…

[Cloaked figure turns to walk away as the black creatures roar and move closer]

Cloaked figure: …but an army needs to eat, even before a great hunt.

[Off in the distance. Minako, Rei, and Makoto look back as they hear tortured screams]

Rei: Artemis says keep walking. There is nothing we can do for her.