A beautiful girl with long black hair was sitted and meditating in front of a big fireplace.
- This is clear! I can feel a negative energy around this area. It is becoming stronger - she senses with seriousness.
Meanwhile, both Usagi and her brother Shingo were sitted in front of the TV. The TV was running but any of them were paying attention to it. Shingo was to much concentrated in playing Sailor Moon Game on his phone and Usagi was reading a Sailor V manga. Luna was sleeping over Usagi´s lap. They could hear their mother preparing their table for dinner.
- Kids. Dinner is ready!
Both Usagi and Shingo go to the table were was already their father. Luna went to eat her food too.
- Do you know that a bus disappeared yesterday? - says Usagi´s father.
- Disappeared? How? - asks Usagi´s.
- Well! It looks like it disappeared in Sendaizaka. The police is investigating it like a mass kidnapping.
- I hope they find it soon. Just thinking in those persons that were inside. I can´t imagine the terror of those passengers - says Usagi´s mother.
- And the major of those passangers were students.
- Really? - asks Shingo, frightened.
- Thats creepy! Now I´m scared to catch a bus. Just thinking that I could be inside of a bus abducted by a maniac! - says Usagi, completely frightened - I think I´ll never catch a bus ever again, even if that means I´ll never go back to school - she says euphorically.
- Hey, young lady! Don´t take advantage of this to say crazy thinks - says her mother - Lets not talk about this anymore. The police will find the bus and everything will be fine. Is what always happens.
Both Usagi and Shingo start eating, still feeling very scared with all of that.
On the next day, Usagi leaves home and sees Ami in front of her door waiting for her.
- Good morning, Ami!
- Good morning, Usagi. You are with good mood today.
- Oh, no! Is not that. This is my "anestesia" for waking up at this horrible hour to go to school.
Ami laughs of her comment. Then she looks to Luna who was next to Usagi.
- Hello, Luna! You look tired today - she says, helping her landing on her shoulder.
- Unfortunattely! I spend the last few days trying to find the Moon Princess and the Silver Crystal. But like always, I couldn´t find any clue.
- I´m really sorry, Luna.
- Do you have any idea how we can help Luna with this? - asks Usagi - Because I really don´t.
- Well, maybe we could surch for references in books. We could go to the library to check books, magazines, social media and all the references we could find.
- Well said, Ami! - says Luna - You had an excelent idea.
- When do you wanna go there? - asks Usagi.
- Maybe tomorrow. Today I can´t because I´ve to go to my cram school. But tomorrow we can go there and start searching.
- Very well! - agrees Usagi. She was trying to sound happy, but the true is that she was crying from inside for imagining her entire afternoon inside of a library. However she knew she couldn´t say "no" to Ami´s idea, or it would sound bad.
- Are you sure you´re fine with that? I think the library is a to much sophisticated place for someone who wants to give up on school - says Luna with sarcasm.
Usagi knew that Luna was still mad with her after hearing those words from her last night. After dinner, Luna didn´t talk with her the all night with disappointment.
- Come on, Luna! I said that because I was scared with all this story with the disappeared bus. I know I´m not the best fan of school, but I would never give up on that! - explains Usagi.
- Hope so! I need a responsible warrior to fight our enemies, not someone who things of give up on school at the first problem she finds - continues Luna, with the same bad mood.
- Yes, Luna! I know that - insists Usagi, not daring to face her. However, after that, she sees that Luna shuts up completely over Ami´s shoulder, even if she was still a little mad. Usagi knew that Luna was acting like that more because she was tired.
- Don´t worry, Usagi! It was one bus in the middle of many. It doesn´t mean it will happen with you inside - reassures her Ami, touching her shoulder.
- I know! But yesterday I got really scared when my father told me this story - confesses Usagi.
Soon Usagi and Ami arrived to school and they went to each one´s class. When she opens the door, Usagi sees her friends Naru and the others talking between them. For some reason, she was finding her classroom to much empty. At that time it was usual to see many of her classemates in there.
- Hello, girls. Why are you so serious? And where is everyone else?
- Hello, Usagi. Did you heard about the bus that disappeared yesterday? - asks Naru.
- Another one? This makes the second disappeared bus - exclaims Usagi with wide opened eyes.
- Thats right. And many of our classemates were regular passengers of that bus - explains Naru.
- But that is terrible. Thats why they´re not here. They were kidnapped with that bus.
- I´m so scary. Just imagining that could be us inside of that bus - says her friend with black hair.
- Believe me. This is the legend of the haunted bus of the 18h00 - says Umino, making all of them turn to him - Its says that if you catch the bus that passes by Sendaizakaue at precisely 6h00pm, you´ll disappear - he continous with a deadly look.
- Umino, please! We´re not with mood for legends - says Usagi suddently - Our classemates disappeared. This is very serious.
- But... but... there are witnesses - replies Umino, a little sensitive over Usagi´s abruptness -They said that the bus passed by Sendaizakaue and never got out of there.
Usagi opens her eyes even more after hearing that explanation. And her friends were hugging themselfs with fear, especially because Umino made the situation even more scary.
- This situation is very serious. We could be next. I think we should buy some amulets that ward off evils to protect ourselfs - says the chubby girl.
- Maybe we could buy some amulets in the Hikawa Shrine. What do you think? - says Usagi.
All of them looked scared to her.
- Would you mind if you go there by yourself? We know thats the shrine with the best amulets of the town, but it is located in Sendaizaka and we prefered to avoid that place for a while.
Like her friends, Usagi was not feeling relaxed going to that place, especially alone, but she felt the need to go there by her classemades that were missed.
- Alright! I´ll go there and I´ll bring you some amulets - she accepted, trying to sound relaxed, what she wasn´t.
After classes, Usagi and Ami catch the same bus since it was going to pass by Sendaizaka and was taking Ami to the cram school after that.
Usagi gets up from her seat when she was about to arrive.
- Alright, Ami! Wish you good luck for your class.
- Thanks! Then tell me if you need anything.
Usagi agrees and leaves the bus followed by Luna. She starts walking around by that place, trying to find anything weird.
- I really don´t understand how could that bus disappear around here. I´m not finding anything suspicous.
- Usagi, you know this is not enough. You know what you really need to do - says Luna.
- Luna, you know I get scared just thinking about it. Before I decide to get on the bust at 6h00p.m., let me see what I can find around here first. I really wanna avoid that bus.
Usagi uses Google Maps to find Hikawa Shrine. When she arrives there, she sees a girl in front of it, looking to the stairs. Usagi was mesmerized with how beautiful she was with that long black hair leveling her waist, that was irradiating a purple shine.
- That girl is so beautiful - admires her Usagi.
Then Usagi sees the girl following the big stairs in front of her that she knew it would lead to the Hikawa Shrine. Usagi follows her since she had the intention of going there too.
Then the girl stops in the middle of the stairs and starts looking around her. Before she could see them, Usagi and Luna hide themselfs behind of some bushes. When the girl follows with her path, Usagi and Luna get out of their hideout.
- It looked like she was suspecting of something - says Usagi.
- But why did you hidded? You had nothing to hide from her.
- For the same reason you did. Because I didn´t want her to find me suspicious.
Luna shut up immediately, knowing Usagi was right.
When she arrives to the temple, she sees some girls making wishes in front of it. They were teenagers and students like her, and the major of them were wishing good luck with the guys they wanted to love them.
- I´ve heard that all our wishes come true if we wish anything in this shrine - says Usagi, observing those girls - I could wish good luck in love for me too - she says with a shine in her look.
- Usagi, you´re not here for that. Remember! - says Luna in her grumpy mode.
- I know, Luna. I know - replies Usagi in the same tone.
Both continue their walk around there, hoping to find anyone that worked in there.
Inside of the temple, the girl with long black hair was "dancing" and praying in front of the fireplace. Suddently her concentration is interrupted.
" I feel a weird energy approaching. The same that I felt in the stairs a moment ago. It is approaching" - she thinks, looking to the door.
She opens the door suddently, holding an amulet in her fingers.
- GET OUT OF HERE, EVIL SPIRIT! - she demands.
Usagi falls in the ground as soon the amulet touches her forehead. Luna runs to her friend lied in the ground and presses her chest, trying to make her react.
- Oh no! I think I did a mistake - says the girl.
She then helps Usagi to get up and helps her sit down on the porch. Then she disappears inside of the shrine and comesback with a bag of ice that she gives to Usagi.
Usagi presses the icebag against her backhead. She notices that that girl was the same she saw on those stairs and now she was with different clothes. She understood she was a shrine maiden due to her new clothes.
- I´m really sorry. I´ve been to much alarming on these days. And since I was feeling a strong energy coming from you, I was alarmed by it - explains the girl, sitting next to Usagi - But now I can feel you don´t emanate any evil energy. A strong energy, but not evil.
- I´m glad hearing that from you - says Usagi - You´re a shrine maiden, right?
- Yes! My name is Rei Hino! I help my grandpa running this shrine.
- My name is Usagi Tsukino - says Usagi - You said you could feel my energy. How can you do that?
- Is something I did my whole life! - confirms Rei - I´ve a very accurared sixth sense and I receive many prophecies. I use it to help everyone that comes to this shrine.
Hearing that, Usagi remembers her classemates saying that Hikawa Shrine had a very good Fortune Teller. Now she understands that Rei was that Fortune Teller.
Luna was also hearing her very well and formulating an explanation for all of that.
" That explains why I feel a big energy coming from this girl. But even with all her powers, all this energy is to much big " - thinks Luna.
- But lately this is giving me a lot of problems and to this shrine.
- Why? - asks Usagi.
- Because of the disappearance of the buses around here. Everyone believes that we´ve something to do about it - explains Rei, looking to the infinite - And even I can feel a very big and negative energy around this area. But I can´t find where it comes from. It looks like it is blocking my powers - she continues, looking to the ground.
In that moment they see three women approaching of the shrine. They´re about to pray, but when they saw Rei, they walked to her.
- Rei, my daughter Mii disappeared - says one of the woman - Since she comes here many times, I though you could have any clue of where she was.
Rei looks surprised at her.
- I´m sorry, mamm. But I don´t know anything. She came here yesterday and left by afternoon like she always does.
- You must have some clue. Aren´t you the one who is known for your powers? - says another woman with confrontation.
- It is true - confirms Rei - But my powers can´t precise her location. I´m sorry! - says Rei, feeling guilty for that limitation.
- Or maybe you have something about that and with the buses that are disappearing.
- I swear we don´t have nothing to do about it - insists Rei, talking about the shrine too.
- I´m not liking that you approache of our kids. Keep away from them - demands another woman - I know you go to the same school of my oldest daughter, but I want that you keep your distance from her. Do you understand?
Then the ladies start to leave and Usagi stops in front of them.
- Hei! How can you accuse sush a beautiful girl like her? Just because Rei can do what she does, it doesn´t mean she is around there abducting persons.
- And how do you know that? - asks one of them - Maybe it is you who is behind of this.
Then Usagi crosses her arms and looks at them with more firmness.
- I only forgive you for your accusations, because you´re in pain. But even then, that is not excuse to accuse everyone.
- And I think is time for you to leave - demands Rei.
Feeling that they were in disadvantage, the ladies left from that place. Then Rei approaches of Usagi.
- Thank you for your support. It meaned a lot to me.
- Thats ok. I couldn´t ignore what was happening - says Usagi, touching gently her hand - But I can see this is something that happens to you a lot.
Rei walks from her for a moment, looking to the ground.
- It is true. Many persons and even my classemates find me weird because of my powers.
- I´m really sorry to hear that. Sometimes people have problems with who is different - says Usagi - About that little girl, Mii. Is she your friend? - she asks, changing of business.
- Yes! Normally she plays here while she waits for her bus. And now I think she is one of those that disappeared in the haunted bus of 6h00pm - she says - I´ve been trying to locate all those that disappeared, but is useless. Everytime I do that, I can only see a dark and loneliness space.
Usagi approaches of her even more.
- Can you show me how you do that? - asks Usagi with careful.
- What?
- Can you try again to see where are those passangers?
- I already told you that I can´t precise their location - insists Rei.
- I know, but maybe what you see can give us a clue. Many of my classemates are disappeared, just like many persons around the town. Please. Help me to find them.
Rei looks at her with a serious look and sighs.
- Alright! - she resigns - Come with me!
Both Usagi and Luna follow Rei until inside of the shrine. Rei leads them until her fireplace and they sit in front of it. Then Rei starts praying and invoquing for a signal.
- What are you doing? - asks Usagi curious.
- Please, don´t interrupt me now. I need to concentrate.
They respect Rei´s request and let her work. And after a few minutes, she speaks:
- Is always the same thing. Everytime I ask for the place where are the missing passengers, my flame always shows me a dark place with dark columns - she says with disappontment - I feel is not a place that we can find easily.
- Are you sure it is a real place? Not anything symbolic?
- I know to distinguish one thing from another, and I can tell you that this is a physical place, and I know that this is the place where are the buses and the passengers - insists Rei - Sorry, but I can´t do more for you.
Usagi turns to Luna.
- What do you think, Luna?
- I think the enemy is behind of this. For sush a dark place, without any doubts thats one of their hideouts.
Rei turns to them with wide opened eyes.
- Did that cat talked? What do you mean with enemy?
Both Usagi and Luna look shocked to Rei, knowing they didn´t think in her presence when they talked to each other.
- No, no! Luna doesn´t talk. I was talking to myself - says Usagi with an embarassed smile and talking faster - Thanks for your help anyway. Somehow, I believe it will be very helpful. We´ve to go now! - she says with some hurry.
Rei follows Usagi until the stairs. Usagi could feel Rei was suspecting of something about her and Luna, but she didn´t wanna talk about it.
- I´ll try to figure out more about this. Meanwhile be careful, whatever it is your secret.
- Thank you, Rei.
Usagi says goodbuy to Rei, and lives the shrine followed by Luna.
- Usagi, you have to pay attention when you talk to me in front of others - protests Luna.
- Like if you had moral. You also talked with me in front of Rei without thinking - replies Usagi.
- Alright, alright - says Luna embarassed - But now, Usagi, you know you can´t stil running. You´ll have to get inside of that bus to find what is happening.
- Luna, I´m affraid of that. I´m gonna walk a little more by this place before I do that.
- No! I´m tired of your stubbornness. Don´t you care about those who disappeared? - asks Luna.
- Of course I care. You know thats why I´m here - protests Usagi.
- I know that, but we need to be faster. Please, call Ami to come here and she is going to help you to find that place. In case you don´t find it, you have to get on the bus.
Usagi calls to Ami by her cellphone. She replied immediately since she had finished her classes.
Meanwhile, Rei was still in front of her flame and praying. She was still seeing the dark place she was seeing all the time, and where supposedly were the passengers of the disappeared buses.
" Why can´t I find more clues about this place?" - she asks to herself.
Then she asks to the flame who was responsible for that. Immediately it showed her the figure of a man. He was blond with short hair, and had a different and unique uniform. He was looking to many unconscious persons in front of him.
- What was that? - she asks again to herself - Who was that man?
After that vision, she had an urge will of going outside.
Meanwhile, Ami had arrived to the point where was Usagi, in the middle of an alley.
- Ami, can you find something using the laptop that I gave to you? - asks Luna.
- I can try.
Ami takes her laptop and starts working on it.
- Well, is clear that there is a strange energy around this place.
- Rei also said that - said Usagi.
- But is more strong in a particular place around here.
She walks by the street, being followed by Usagi and Luna.
Rei arrives to the bus stop at the same time that the bus was arriving. When it stops, she sees a woman with brown hair in the driver seat that immediately called her attention.
- Are you coming? - asks the driver, seeing her looking at her without moving.
- You are not the real driver of this bus, arent you? - she asks, not hidding her suspicion - I can feel a weird energy coming from you.
She also takes a look to the seats and sees everyone unconscious.
- Its you! You are the one who is disappearing with the buses - she says, pointing her finger - Thats why I was feeling all this negative energy coming from you.
- You know, girl? I don´t know who the hell you are, but is clear that I can´t let you go - decides the driver, pointing her hand to Rei. Rei falls unconscious.
Meanwhile, Usagi, Ami and Luna arrive to the bus stop and they see the driver holding Rei and taking her to the bus.
- Oh, no! Rei is being kidnapped! - exclaims Usagi.
Usagi immediatelly grabs her transformation pen.
- "MOON POWER! TRANSFORM ME INTO A FLIGHT ATTENDANT"
After the transformation, Usagi runs to the bus.
- Why did you transform on that? - asks Luna, running next to her.
- Because my duty is to ensure the safety of the passengers.
She grabs the bus from behind with Luna on her shoulder. Then she grabs Ami´s hand who was running after her. However Ami slips and Usagi sees herself going in the direction of the sky with the bus, without Ami.
- Oh no! Ami! - she exclaims.
- Usagi! - exclaims Ami, touching the air with her hand.
Then a black hole appears in the air and the bus gets inside of it. Ami sees powerless as the black hole disappears after swallowing the bus.
When the bus lands, Usagi sees herself in a middle of a dark space with dark columns.
- This place is so dark. It looks like the place that Rei described - says Usagi.
She could see in there all the buses that disappeared, and the floor was full of persons ( including children ) that were unconscious.
- So it was like this how the buses disappeared - concludes Usagi.
- Yes! And it was the enemy who did this for sure. They took the energy of all these persons - says Luna.
Their concentration is interrupted by some voices and they follow in that direction.
In there, they saw another point surrounded by unconscious persons. They also see the driver and Rey in front of her. She was tied and on her knees. Then they see Jadeite approaching of them.
- Today we didn´t have so many passangers, but I brough this girl. It looks like she has somekind of power that could discovered us.
When Rei sees Jadeite face, she immediately recognizes him.
- So you´re the one who is behind of all this disappearences - accuses Rei - I know its you because my flame revealed you. It also revealed that this was your hideout. Who are you?
Jadeite bends down at her level and touches lightly her head, showing a devilish smile.
- My pretty, you´re right. My name is Jadeite and, like you saw, I´m responsible for all of this.
- Why are you doing this?
- My dear, you´ll never understand. I do this for a bigger force. And you´ll never be alive to understand that.
- I´m gonna kill this one right now - says the driver - After all, she knows who we are - she completes, showing her true horrendous demon form. She then makes appear a dagger made of ice, ready to stab Rei.
Usagi and Luna were seeing everything, and in complete shock.
- Oh no! They´re gonna kill Rei - says Usagi. Without thinking twice, she rises her hand - "MOON PRISM POWER! MAKE UP"
Before the demon could stab Rei, a golden disk passes by it and cuts its dagger. Then, the same golden disk cuts the ropes that were tying Rei, and releasing her.
Sailor moon recovers her tiara and puts it again on her forehead.
- Jadeite, don´t you dare hurt Rei! - demands Sailor Moon - How dare you kidnap all these innocents to stole their energy? I´ll not let you continue with your evil plan. I´m Sailor Moon, the sailor of love and justice. In the name of the moon, I´ll punish you!
- Sailor Moon, I was prepared for your arrival. Demon, attack her!
Jadeite disappears and the demon concentrates its attacks on Sailor Moon.
The demon shoots a boll of ice in her direction and Sailor Moon avoids it. Then the demon shoots another one, and Sailor Moon avoids it again, but this time she loses her balance and falls in the floor.
- I´m gonna kill you now, Sailor Moon!
Then a feminine voice interrupts everything.
- "SHABON SPRAY"
That area fills completely with fog, hidding Sailor Moon´s trace from the demon.
- Danmit! Where are you? - protests the demon.
Sailor Mercury lands right next to Sailor Moon.
- Sailor Mercury! I´m so glad to see you - says Sailor Moon.
- How could you get here? - asks Luna.
- Using my laptop I found a distortion in space that could lead me here.
Meanwhile, Rei was seeing everything, and completely surprised. The fog overshadowed her, but then it starts disappearing again, so she can see everything again.
- What is happening? - she asks, and sees Sailor Moon and Mercury prepared to confront the demon.
Sailor Moon was about to take her tiara, but the demon throws a freezing air into her, stopping her of doing it. The same she does to Mercury, stopping them both in that exact same place.
- Oh no! I can´t move - protests Sailor Moon, seeing the ice forming around her body.
- Me neither - says Mercury, struggling in the same way as Sailor Moon.
Rei looks at them with more attention, especially to Sailor Moon.
- Usagi, is that you? I knew I was recognizing your voice.
- Rei, there is no time to explain. You must get out of here - begs Usagi.
- Keep dreaming. Nobody will ever found the exit of this place. And you´ll never be able to defeat me. I´ll freeze you until I´ll stop your heart - says the demon without mercy.
With her eyes shining with rage, Rei takes a amulet from her uniform and throws it to the back of the head of the demon. It made it stop.
- Now you´ll only move if I take that amulet.
Even then, Rei was seeing that the ice around the girls was not breaking. In fact, it was still growing.
- You fool - says the demon - Even if I can´t move, the ice will still grow by itself. There is nothing you can do, and these two fools will die.
- NOOOOO! - yells Rei with dispair. In that moment, a symbol shines in Rei´s head, what calls the immediate attention of Luna.
- I´ve no doubts. Rei is a sailor warrior - says Luna, throwing a red pen to Rei´s feeth - Rei, catch that!
Rei looks at her feeth, at the same time she finds weird hearing Luna talking.
- But... you can talk after all?
- There is no time to explain. Catch that and yell "Mars power make-up".
Rei looks thoughtful to the pen for a moment, but soon she understands everything.
- I understand. Now I know what I´ve to do - she raises the pen in the air - "MARS POWER MAKE-UP!" - she transforms into Sailor Mars.
- Rei! - exclaims Usagi.
Meanwhile, due to the cold, the amulet falls from the demon´s head and it could move again.
- Damn you! - protests the demon, running to her.
Mars joins her hands.
- "FIRE SOUL".
A whirlpool of fire is thrown from Mars´s hands, burning the demon and killing it. Then with her power she frees Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury from the ices that were covering their bodies. Both girls approach of Mars, surprised with what they saw.
- Rei, I´m so glad you´re a Sailor Senshi just like us - says Sailor Moon, holding her hand - Thank you for helping us.
- With you we´ll be stronger - says Mercury.
- Thank you, everyone. And this explains a lot of mysteries of my life - says Mars - Now I understand why did I born with special powers. It was to fill my destiny of becoming a warrior.
- Hey, girls - interrups Luna - Leave all of that to the end. We need to return these buses and free this people - she demands.
Both agreed and they worked together to return everything to its normal life.
When they go back to Sendaizaka, they we´re seeing all the victims being assisted. Meanwhile, Rei was seeing little Mii lied on the floor, still unconscious. Slowly the little girl starts opening her eyes.
- Mii! I´m so glad you´re alright!
- Rei! - says the girl suddently, hugging Rei - How did I get here?
- You´re abduted, but the Sailor Guardians saved you - explains Rei.
Then she hears the girl´s mother voice, saying her name. When she approaches of them, she hugs Mii with all her devotion.
Then Rei approaches of Usagi, Ami and Luna ( who was being holded by Usagi ).
- Now there are three Sailor Guardians - says Luna with proud - Now we are even stronger to fight the evil, to find the princess and the Silver Crystal.
The three girls smile to each other and walked away from there.