Dead Moon Wash
Ch 5
In the bowels of the large circus tent, three cats slept in mirrors, still fighting the change as the scouts before them had. Queen Nehelenia growled in her solitude, she didn’t know how to make the cats brake. She had hoped that they like Scouts would only take time but it had been three days and they were still fighting. She was beginning to wonder if it was even possible for them to brake. She knew there had to be other scouts and while she fully intended to turn them all into her servants she had hoped the powers of the cats would help her find the rest. It infuriated her to think that these filthy little beasts could hold out for so long when even the greatest of the precious sailor scouts had only held out a few hours longer than the rest. In frustration she turned away from the cats to see what her Knights were doing now.
The Amazon Knights where dressed in their human clothes as they walked through Tokyo in search of their pray. The people on the street didn’t look at them or seem to acknowledge them but they did get out of the groups way. As if the humans could feel the malevolence that exuded from the girls.
“Let’s split up to find him, we’ll meet at that park in three hours.” Usagi said, the girls nodded and they scattered to the wind like grains of sand. Usagi kept searching the people for the face she couldn’t forget, something about him had struck something in her and she couldn’t shake it. After another hour of fruitless searching she pulled out a tracking device from the circus, it had been programmed with the image of the man and would lead her straight to him. She hadn’t used it sooner because part of her hoped that she would have been able to find him on her own. The device also showed where the other girls where with colored dots. Out of curiosity she touched the blue one and saw it was Aqua at the aquarium, unless Darien had been turned into a fish she wasn’t going to find him there. She switched to the red dot and found Fire at a temple, switching again she found Lightening outside of a restaurant, and couldn’t help but growl. The Orange dot seemed to be wandering down a street, and resisted the urge to click it. She didn’t want to get any more pissed then she was. She focused on the map with its dots, by reason of deduction she would be the white dot and that meant the black dot would be Darien. Annoyed by her sisters’ abandonment she headed after the black dot alone.
Back in the tent Rini lay sleeping in her pink room that was off the main one the once Quartet shared. It irritated them to no end that the “pink bitch” not only had been forced upon them but got her own space when they were forced to share a room, albeit a larger one. Rather than get yelled at again though the girls keep their mouth shut about it. The room itself was similar to any other child’s room save for the toys and the outfits which were clearly those of a circus performer. Grudgingly the Quartet did have to admit that Rini was good at preforming, she was agile and a fast learner. They did try not to like her so the room was really just a reminder to hate her. They didn’t know that inside the room she was currently tossing and turning in the throes of a vivid dream that filled her with worry.
Inside her mind Rini saw a girl in a white dress, the girl looked like her but was strangely different. She seemed desperate.
“Come back to us…. Come back…” The girl called, Rini knew she knew this girl but she couldn’t remember how, or when.
“Why do you look like me?” Rini asked, but suddenly she saw herself in her performance outfit.
“Don’t worry about it, if you want to be young forever don’t listen to her. After all, you want to stay young and beautiful and always be with your sister’s right?” The performance-self asked.
“Yes, but-“
“No buts! If you want to be a real princess and dance with your sisters, you need to forget that twerp!”
“No you need to find me!! Find your memories!!” The other one yelled before they were both sucked away and Rini was running, something was chasing her. She heard voices, they were scary and menacing, but she couldn’t make out what they said as she ran as though her life depended on it. She woke up suddenly fear still coursing through her body, she ended up falling out of bed in her struggle to get away from whatever malevolence had been her. The dream started to fragment and fade, she knew that it had been terrifying but she didn’t know why.