Chapter 85

The sun shined in the window of her studying apartment and bathed Amy Anderson with sunlight. Her eyes opened slowly.

"Morning already," she said to herself and got out of bed. She was soon sitting in a bath leafing through her diary.

That's me..Amy Anderson, number one student at Juuban High School, possibly the city. Up every morning with plenty of time to get to school forty minutes early and read. she read to herself for no particular reason.

Of course I have many friends. Serena, with her big smile. Raye with her devotion. Lita with her strong will. And Mina with her gracefulness...at least some time. Then there's Greg..is he my boyfriend? Neither of us seem to know. Does it matter? Not right now it doesn't. Good friend does well enough for me. Then there are the others, but I don't speak to them much. And of course the mysterious one, D.V. I wonder what those two words stand for. My first guess would be Dangerous and Violent, but that probably isn't it. she thought to herself as she put her diary on the table beside her and climbed out of the bath.

Minutes later she was eating some toast at the small table set up in her room.

Most of my friends have had to deal with hardship, she thought. Serena's lost Darrien three times, and they're relationship has been interfered with by the negaverse. Darrien is an orphan. The same with Raye whose lost her entire family. D.V. saw his parents die in front of him. Rick died, and Mike and Steve had to contemplate death for that short time. Lita was dumped ungraciously by her first boyfriend who she still longs for him. And Mina may have it the best..but she spent so long wondering when she would feel love. They've all had their share of pain. But compared to them I haven't, she thought and glanced out the window at the sunshine. I've worked very hard. Had two loving parents who have been able to provide a lot for me. And I have many good friends. If I didn't have to fight evil so often, I could say my life was perfect. Why does that worry me? I'm generally optimistic.

Her breakfast being finished, she gathered her school briefcase and did one last check to make sure she looked neat. That being done she headed out of the door and began the walk to school.

She had no idea of the conversation his two parents were having in the dining room of their house several blocks away.

Dr. John Anderson sighed as he sipped his coffee.

"We need to do the operation," he said solemnly.

"We owe it to the patient," his wife, Dr. Andrea Anderson replied. "I just wish we didn't both have to be involved."

"Who else am I going to get to assist me? We're going to be breaking the law here."

"Yes I know. We could lose our jobs, our careers," Andrea said.

"We'll manage. It's not like the surgery is that controversial. It's only banned because it hasn't been fully proven to be effective, but we have to try it," John said.

"It's risky though?"

"Only if five percent of the cases."

"You're right. It's acceptable risk. Yes we have to give him that chance. But what about the consequences?" Andrea asked.

"They may suspend our licenses for a year. The hospital might fire us..I think they'd probably just reprimand us. Another hospital would hire us in a minute thought. There might be a very short jail term," John said.

"For both of us?"

"Maybe."

"What about Amy?" Andrea asked.

"She's a strong girl," John said.

"Yes...but.."

"We have to do this. I won't have one of our patients sitting there in agony when we can give him his life back."

"Has he agreed to it?" Andrea asked.

"Yes, I explained to him everything about it. He was willing to accept when he knew we were willing to do it for him. He signed a note that stated our intent and purpose," John said.

"I don't know. We're both respected members of the medical profession..and now..well..doing this won't endear us in many people's hearts."

"Well..not officially anyway..but I've seen this kind of thing before. We'll be fine."

"I hope so," Andrea said with concern.

When Amy got to Juuban High she found Melvin, Greg, Mike, Steve, and Rick playing a card game.

"Okay...spades are wild right?" Rick asked.

"So are clubs, diamonds, and hearts," Mike added.

"Right," Rick said.

"I've never played the game this way before," Melvin said.

"Don't worry, I haven't either," Greg said.

"It's an equal opportunity card game," Mike said. "We don't want any lawsuits coming from the Clubs saying they were mistreated...you know."

Amy grinned. She wasn't very close to the guys, except for Greg, but they didn't have any trouble making her laugh. They did seem to be the perfect match for her friends. Lita, Mina, and Raye were a bit finicky at times and those three guys were just as finicky. Amy knew Raye and Rick were quite devoted into each other after what they had been through. She knew Mina was desperate for anyone and the Mike had swept her off her feet with both his humor and surprisingly hidden romantic side. As for Steve and Lita, they had common interests, and we're very good friends. Amy thought they were perfect, they didn't seem to agree, but stuck with it, which was a good sign. Neither of them seemed in any hurry to break things off. The three walked in just as she was finishing her thoughts followed by Serena who was still stuffing a piece of toast into her mouth. Amy smiled again. Serena had her weaknesses, but Amy and her went back a long way and despite a bit of a rough start, they were probably the closest of the sailor scouts. Amy knew Serena trusted her to make the right decisions. And Amy trusted Serena to be there if things ever got rough. Fortunately, they hadn't and Amy was thankful of that.

"So where's Patterson? Normally he's here by now?" Melvin was asking.

"He's out on a cruise," Greg said.

"Cruise?" the other three guys said.

"Yeah...aboard the navy's newest cruiser," Greg said.

"Oh..well that's more the Patterson we know..." Mike said.

"How'd he get that nice excuse from class?" Rick asked.

"Well...knowing the Prime Minister and the head of the SDF has it's advantages," Greg said.

"Oh well his day's full then, wish I were out there," Steve said.

"The sea air would be a fine alternative to what is it....we're working on..didactic parameter? Mike muttered.

"I think that's hexameter," Rick said.

"Does it really matter?" Raye chimed in from her seat.

"I've got the inside info that says it doesn't," Mina said.

"From where?" Lita asked.

"The English inner circle," Mina said.

"Now you're acting like Mike, and that worries me," Lita said.

"Worries me too...and I feel sorry for my wayward girlfriend in that the path life has chosen to throw her down will lead to such misfortune," Mike said. "Judging from my personal experience."

"That's all I need," Mina said.

"Hey, Amy..what's new?" Serena asked.

"Oh..not much really.." Amy said.

"Well..sometimes that can be good. You know too much change and too many surprises usually lead to more trouble than...uh..something..anyway.." Serena said. Amy laughed.

"That was almost a very profound statement," Amy said.

"Really? I better watch out..those profound statements can sneak up on you," Serena said.

Amy grinned.

"What's this about your car Eudial?" Professor Tomoe asked.

"Someone shot a hole in the engine..it'll be at least a week before it can be fixed," Eudial said.

"Well it's not like you've been able to get any hearts anyway..." Tomoe said.

"But we're getting closer.." Eudial said.

"Oh..I see..well then you can use my car then," Tomoe said.

"You mean the Volkswagen Beetle with the words "Make Soy, Not War." on the side of it?" Eudial said.

"Of course," Tomoe said.

"I think I'll pass," Eudial said.

"You need a car Eudial."

"I know, I know," Eudial said.

"Now answer me this question."

"Yes Professor."

"Do you think I should paint the walls in pastels?" Tomoe asked.

"Professor, with this darkness we can't even see the walls."

"Well..that settles it then, pastels it is," Tomoe said.

"But professor...oh.never mind."

"Eudial..I have the next daimon ready. I want you to personally accompany it."

"Yes professor," Eudial said.

"Good..we won't fail this time."

As she usually did on some weekdays, Amy headed to her house to see how her parents were doing. She was surprised to see a police car sitting in her driveway and a cop standing in front of the door. She began to feel intense worry.

"Are you Amy Anderson?" he asked as she walked up.

"Yes..what is it officer?" Amy asked.

"I'm afraid your parents have been arrested."

"What?" Amy said in shock.

"They performed an illegal operation on a patient..and that patient died.."

"Uh..what.." Amy said again in shock. "How.."

"I don't know the exact details miss."

"Operation?" Amy said still trying to take it all in.

"Yes...listen..someone will be around to tell you everything soon.. for now we'll just give you time to think about it," the officer said. Amy fumbled with the key to her house and opened up the door. She walked in and collapsed onto the couch. Then she started sobbing.

Eudial slid the car up to the curb in front of Greg's house. She was still embarrassed by having to drive the piece of trash, but she had more important concerns. She pulled a daimon egg out of her pocket and flung it up against the door. She then pulled the car down the street and parked it.

"Now I wait," she said.

Greg came down the street soon afterward. He walked up to the door and put his key in the door. Immediately it began to glow. Greg stepped back in surprise as the door morphed into a creature. A very rigid creature swung it's very large hands and knocked Greg to the ground. Greg hit the ground and hit the emergency button on the communicator in his pocket. He then tried to stand up to get away, only to be hit by the creature's large hands again and knocked down.

"HAH YOU WILL NOT WIN THIS ONE!" the creature bellowed. It hit Greg with the hand again hoping to keep him knocked to the ground. Greg tried to stand knowing that if he didn't he was finished.

And only a house away, Amy sat sobbing. She heard the commotion but could not take action.

Eudial skidded up to the curb in her car.

"That's enough. Take his heart," she said. The creature's chest had a star on it and it began to draw Greg's heart from it. It floated in the air. Eudial took the heart.

"At last..we have one.." she said and put the heart in a case she had made. She placed the case in the beetle's glove compartment and got into the front seat.

"Stay here and keep the scouts busy, they're bound to show up sooner or later," Eudial said and drove off.

Seconds later the creature was hit with a barrage of fire spikes and didn't have time to avoid the attack of Guardian Uranus as he leapt forward swinging his sword.

The creature staggered back, but swung his right arm knocking Uranus into Greg's front wall.

He noticed the lack of a heart anywhere.

Greg's lost it, but the creature doesn't have it. That woman must have it! Green energy exploded into the creature. Sailor Jupiter charged forward and barreled into it knocking it onto another lawn.

"Where's the heart!" she shouted.

"Someone took it!" Uranus said. "Keep an eye on him I have to go after it!"

"Be careful!" Jupiter shouted.

"I know.." Uranus said and leapt off after the car the beetle. He jumped from roof top to roof top, and the pink beetle came into sight making a turn down a side street. He hit the side of a slanted roof and tried to bounce off it only to trip and slide to the ground. He let out a shout, but stood back up, hurrying after it, breathing heavily. The buildings became much higher and he couldn't leap to the top of them so he settle for jumping along the sidewalk trying to avoid pedestrians as much as he could.

The pink beetle came into range again, he drew his sword and fired it. It flew over the beetle by several feet.

"Dang it!" Uranus shouted and fired again. This shot went wide and slammed into a light pole blowing it up.

"I have to get closer or I'll do more damage to the city," he said to himself and kept jumping. He was gaining on the beetle, but it was taking all his strength to do it, and he didn't know much longer he could keep it up, and even then, he'd have to face whoever was inside.

"Jupiter Thunderclap Zap!" Jupiter yelled. The large creature rolled out of the way and lunged at her surprising her with his agility. She awkwardly jumped out of the way and landed hard on her right leg. The pain hurt bad and she grimaced, her first attempt to stand up caused her to fall down with the pain. The creature spun around and hit her with one of it's arms knocking her a few feet away. Only it was hit with a group of fire bolts and began to scream as it burned. A golden chain smashed into large head and caused it to shout again. It rumbled forward and hit Jupiter again knocking her into the front window of a house. She smashed through it. The creature whirled towards Mars and Venus who were standing several feet away. It flung it's arms at them and the appendages literally separated from its body. The two girls jumped out of the way. The creature leapt forward and aimed it's head at Venus. He hit her in mid flight and knocked her off across the street into a cement wall. It's arms flew back to it and reattached themselves. Mars hurried forward and drop kicked. The creature swung it's arms and knocked her into the middle of the street. She rolled away from a passing car barely and tried to regain her strength. The creature advanced. Two energy attacks flew around it, but not close enough to hit her. The creature turned to see Guardian Pluto running at it. It swung it's arm. Pluto swung his sword and his fist and blocked the two attacks barreling into the creature full speed. The creature was pushed down the sidewalk and into a telephone pole knocking it to the ground. The creature was dazed.

"Pluto Storm Fist.." Pluto began. The creature managed to kick him off balance.

"Punch!" Pluto finished, but missed because of his awkwardness and instead blew up a mailbox. Neptune leapt forward bounced off the cement wall and swung his sword downward. It connected with the creature and caused it to shout, but also it flung it's arms at Neptune and propelled him back across the street and smashed him in through Amy Anderson's front window. It took him a half a minute to get up and he immediately noticed Amy sitting on the couch, her sobbing stopped, but the shock still having a great hold on her.

"Amy? Amy...there's a battle outside," Neptune said.

Amy said nothing.

"Greg's been attacked..." Neptune said.

Amy still said nothing.

"We need your help!"

"I can't..." Amy said and ran up the stairs.

"Wha..." Neptune said.

Pluto smashed through the window and landed near him in a heap.

"Not a good sign," Neptune said.

"Jupiter Thunderclap Zap!" Jupiter shouted. Her attack spun through the air and smashed into the creature.

"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!" Venus shouted. Her precision attack drilled through the creature's skull..it began to weave about.

"Moon Spiral Hearts Attack!" Sailor Moon shouted. The attack blew through the creature and shattered it.

"Where were you?" Mars snapped covered with chipped cement.

"Across town, I came as fast as I could," Sailor Moon replied.

"Guys, this isn't over, someone's got Greg's heart," Jupiter said.

"What?" Everyone else said.

"Yeah, Guardian Uranus went after it," Jupiter said.

"Alone?" Mars said. "Which way did he go."

"That way," Jupiter said.

"Then we have to go," Mars said.

"Say..where's Mercury?" Venus asked.

"I can answer that question," Neptune said climbing out the front window.

The others looked at him in surprise.

Uranus bounced off the two story apartment building and flew down the block. As he had hoped he landed on the sidewalk, causing quite a lot of commotion, just as the pink VW was turning onto the street. He fired. The blast flew right at the beetle's engine and bounced off.

"Oh no..." Uranus said. The car shot past him. He wasted no time and hurried after it.

"That shielding did the job, but they're onto me. I have to get back to the professor," Eudial said.

"Greg doesn't look so good," Neptune said. Greg was lying on a couch in Amy's living room shivering, it was the most convenient place.

"Yeah..we gotta find the heart," Pluto said. "Uranus where are you?"

"Tenth and Seventeenth," Uranus said. "You guys coming or not."

"Things got complex, but we're coming," Neptune said. "Let's go."

"Right," Uranus said. "Leave Amy to the girls."

"Wait for me," Mars said. "He's my boyfriend."

"But Amy," Neptune said.

"I'll worry about that later," Mars said clearly showing the conflict going on within her. "Come on!" she shouted and the three hurried out.

"Amy, open up," Jupiter said.

She, Venus, and Sailor Moon were standing outside their friend's door baffled by Neptune's description of her actions. They had no idea of what had happened to her parents.

"Go away all of you! Get out of my house!" Amy shouted.

"But Amy we're your friends," Venus said.

"Then do what a friend does and leave me alone!" Amy said.

"But Amy..what's wrong," Sailor Moon said.

"What's wrong! My parents are going to jail! That's what's wrong!" Amy shouted. "Now leave me alone."

The three girls looked at each other.

"What does she mean?" Jupiter said.

"I don't know..but we'd better go...we need to find that heart," Sailor Moon said.

"Uh..Amy..Greg's in trouble.." Venus said.

"Right now...Greg doesn't matter and neither do you so go! The world isn't what you think it!" Amy shouted.

"Uh..I pushed her too much," Venus said.

"Come on," Sailor Moon said.

"Come on stupid! Come out and fight me!" Uranus shouted shooting bolts over the head of the Volkswagen. He was rapidly running out of breath.

"With that shield you're not getting near me," Eudial said. Two high powered attacks smashed into the engine blowing it apart. Eudial shrieked as the car skidded off the road and bounced into the lamp post. The shield hadn't deflected the attacks, but had stopped her from crashing. A car slid into hers and bounced off starting a minor chain reaction, but the speed was low enough so no one got hurt.

Eudial looked out to see Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus advancing towards the car. She pulled open the glove compartment and grabbed the heart. She kicked open the door and stepped out. Forming a stronger shield around herself.

"The heart," Sailor Uranus said.

"Give it to us, or we will be forced to destroy you," Sailor Neptune said.

Guardian Uranus waited tensely to see what happened next.

"There's no way you can penetrate my force field," Eudial said.

"We just did," Uranus said.

"That was low power, this is high power," Eudial said. "Any attack on me would be wasting your time."

"So we have another standoff great," Guardian Uranus muttered.

"Hmm...so we do," Eudial said. "Of course, I could destroy all three of you at any moment, but if you back off right now..I won't attack."

Guardian Uranus thought quickly, and drawing his sword he rushed forward. Eudial let out a look of shock and flung her free arm out. It sent a bolt flying at Guardian Uranus. He spin kicked, not to hit, but to fly out of the way of the attack. The attack flew down the street and smashed through several empty cars setting them aflame. As this happened, he heard the two sailor scouts calling forth their attacks and sending them flying at Eudial. The attacks smashed into her shields. The shields held, but sent Eudial staggering off balance towards Guardian Uranus direction.

She can't use her energy to it's fullest both ways. He realized and readied himself to make another attack. Three energy attacks he was used to seeing stopped him from having to make that choice. The attacks smashed into Eudial's energy shield before she could recover. She stepped back a bit unsurely. Sailor Uranus vaulted forward and slapped Eudial's wrist, causing her to drop the box that held the heart. Sailor Neptune followed seconds later and grabbed the case off the ground and looked at the heart. Eudial screamed and in a swirl of energy vanished using up an enormous amount of energy.

Sailor Neptune glanced at the heart as the other three Sailor Scouts arrived.

"Not a talisman," she said.

"Give it to us then," Mars said.

"Fine," Sailor Neptune said and flung it to Mars. The two outer sailors then jumped away as they usually did.

"I'll take it back, I'm the freshest," Sailor Moon said and carefully took the heart. Soon she was vaulting back towards Amy's house.

"You all right Uranus?" Mars asked.

"Thanks to you, yes, I didn't like playing chicken with her. She's quite powerful," Uranus said.

"She must be another Kaolinite type," Jupiter said.

"She'll pay, they all will," Mars said.

Sailor Moon vaulted in the window and placed the heart inside Greg..he immediately began to stop shaking. His glazed over eyes...blinked and he looked around.

"Greg..." Sailor Moon said.

Greg moaned and his eyes closed.

"Greg!" Sailor Moon said in surprise. She felt for a pulse.

"He's alive, must be unconscious...maybe from the amount of time spent without a heart..." Sailor Moon said. "At least I hope that's all it is. Better tell Amy..."

She hurried up the stairs.

"Amy..we found Greg's heart," Sailor Moon said.

"I could care less..can't you figure anything out!" Amy shouted. "Leave me alone!"

"Uh..right.." Sailor Moon said.

The others arrived soon after and they carried Greg to his house and waited for an ambulance to take him to the hospital. Now in human form they stood there wondering what would happen next.

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