Disclaimer: Dear Takeuchi Naoko, please don't sue us because we are using your characters without your permission here, they do not belong to us. We don't make any money with this, it's just for fun, so please be generous.

The regular who writes whom: Kunzite, Nephrite, Motoki, Mars and Mercury have been written by Phoebe. Zoisite/Usagi, Tux (Why meee??), the nurses and the revision of Mars and Mercury were done by lil' ol Luna.

Something more to say today: Sorry we let you wait for so long. But we just HAD to do something for the 'Heir of Siol', too. And Phoebe and Selene finally got through their exams. Hooray! Now we have more time to write. And that's exactly what we'll do. Write. Ha. [It went a bit late yesterday - today I mean. Phoebe wrote until half past three and stupid me until half past six. (Both a.m.) Now I've got a headache. Oh well, it's my fault, isn't it.] What else did I want to tell you? Ah, yes - ENJOY! Luna

Usagi turned around at the slightly familiar voice and clung tighter to Motoki when she recognized the other one. "No, not him again."

Motoki who was staring at the intruder looked swiftly down at her before he swallowed and placed himself between the frightened girl and the man.

"Who are you?" And after some seconds he added, "And what do you want from her?"

Kunzite stepped towards him. "Nothing more than to bring her home." To Motoki it sounded more like 'Don't stay in my way.'

"Motoki! Don't let this freak come near me!" Usagi whined and clung to his shirt from behind.

"Get out of the way, boy!" Kunzite demanded icily while coming closer. Motoki who still felt Usagi at his back started to shove her backwards with him away from the stranger.

"Don't worry, Usagi. I won't harm you." Kunzite extended one hand to her but it was slapped aside by Motoki instantly.

"Don't dare to touch her," Motoki stated with a shaky voice. The grey eyes of the stranger were much too cold for his taste. But immediately after he started his defense he felt how he was grabbed by the collar and thrown to the side-wall where he landed with a heavy crash and slid down. Usagi watched it wide-eyed and started to wail loudly when she saw how the man was coming closer to her.

"Usagi, come with me!" he demanded smoothly and caught her gaze. The blue eyes were quivering as was her body. She still moved away from him asa far as possible.

"You belong to the Dark Kingdom! I hate you!" Usagi's voice was shrill with fear though a small eerie part in her told her to trust him.

"Yes, I am a general of the Dark Kingdom, Sailor Moon. But I am not here as your enemy. Come to me!" Again he managed to close more space between them.

Usagi swallowed. Why did it seem so familliar and soothe to her? "N-no!"

A denial was out of the question for him. "No?" His mood changed instantly back from friendly to dangerous. "You can't escape me, Sailor Moon. You better come with me voluntarily or I'll catch you - by force if necessary," he threatened and snatched her hand.

Usagi began to kick and box with everything she could, while shrieking so high pitched and intensively that Kunzite feared the windows could burst.

"Be quiet and stop to defend yourself," he hissed trying to get a hold of her arms.

"MOTOKIII!!!" she screamed.

"Usagi!!," the Dark King gloated pulling her closer until she lay in his arms.

"I won't come with any underlings from the Kingdom!"

"I am not any underling, girl. I am Lord Kunzite, the most high-ranked General of Queen Beryl. And you will come with me, no matter how hard you struggle. You are neither strong nor fast enough to escape me, Usagi," Kunzite stated coldly wrapping one arm around her while he stretched his other hand out to blast the blonde boy who had forced himself up again. "And he won't be able to help you, either," he added, more as a warning to Motoki not to try to stand up again. But surprisingly Motoki managed to turn half away so that the blow didn't hit him with its full power.

"You won't take her with you, you monster!" Motoki gasped while staggering towards his enemy.

Kunzite just smiled coldly in return. "You don't give up easily, boy. I like that. Therefore I'll let you live. Retreat, before I change my mind."

Motoki had not the slightest idea what he could do against the king. But he didn't want to let him take his friend away either. "Let her go!" he screamed.

Usagi's eyes widened in fear when she saw her captor raising his arm to throw him in a blow against the wall again. Before she knew what she was doing, she turned around in fury, suddenly holding something cold between her fingers and forced it towards the king.

Kunzite who saw a flashing white ice-crystal racing towards him let her go immediately and jumped back before it could hit him.

"She's using Zoisite's attack!" he muttered astonished and was hovered back by a sudden storm of dark energy that came from her hand. When he opened his eyes again he noticed that the girl wasn't there anymore. A short glance at the boy told him that he couldn't believe his eyes, either.

Usagi reappeared in front of the Hikawa Shrine and was almost run over by Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury in the very moment.

"Usagi! Where have you been!" Mars called in a shaky voice.

"Rei-chan!" Usagi cried and fell into her arms. "I'm so happy to see you!"

Mars and Mercury exchanged surprised looks and turned back into their alter egos.

"I think we can forget looking for the Ryunome today. Let's go tomorrow," Rei proposed to Ami who just nodded.

"Now let's go in. We have much to talk about, haven't we Usagi-chan?" With that the black-haired girl started to lead the girl in her arms into the shrine where she gently let her down her aside the table.

After they had drank some tea Ami tried to get some useful answers from Usagi. "Where have you run to? And why? We are your friends, Usagi. You can trust us. So tell us what's up with you. You are behaving strange, even for you."

"I ran away from you???" Usagi sniffed, warming her fingers on the cup.

"You can't remember?" Rei asked baffled.

"No. Nephrite had captured me and found out that I'm Sailor Moon, then suddenly I found myself lying in a bystreet somewhere near the 'Crown', where Motoki picked me up, and then there was this strange Dark Kingdom guy with the white hair again, and Motoki tried to save me and got blasted and all of a sudden I'm here and I don't know why! All I know is that I thought; I'd like to be at the Hikawa Shrine and meet Rei and Ami. The next moment I was standing outside here."

Rei didn't seem to take that in right and returned to her everyday routine of pricking at Usagi.

"See, not that she's only an airhead, now there are beginning to build some vacuums as well."

"Don't be so rude to her. Maybe this temporary amnesia also is an anomaly caused by the Ryunome."

"Or the latest youma hit her head one time too many and she's gone crackers completely now." Rei pinched while Usagi lowered her head.

Ami helped herself for another cup of tea. "Rei! If the Ryunome is the source of all our trouble we should hurry the more to get it."

"What's a Ryunome?" Usagi looked up from her tea bowl.

"You remember a stone the blonde man held in his hand in Akabe-san's shop?"

"Uhm-yes. He wanted to buy it, but passed out shortly before the youma appeared."

"Did you notice something unusual?"

"I felt a strange tickle when the man fell onto me."

"Maybe you were infected by some kind of disease," Rei looked cautiously at Usagi.

"That's crap. Go on, Usagi-chan. What is the next thing you can remember?"

"I woke up in a dark room, I thought I was at home. But then when I went out, it was some completely strange place, and I met that white haired guy, who told me that I was at Nephite's house. And he searched for the blonde man, but I couldn't tell him where he was. Then he sent me back to sleep."

"A blonde man?"

"Yeah, the one from Akabe-san's shop."

"He is in the hospital now. Rei and I have visited him twice but he is comatose since he was brought in. The doctors don't know what is up with him and can only hope that he will recover," Ami explained.

"Does that mean the same will happen to me, too?" Usagi squealed frightened.

"I don't know. But Rei and I hope that we get some answers when we have found the Ryunome. We suspect one of the nurses in the ambulance to have taken it. We will check on that and then go back to the hospital. Since the man's coma was seemingly caused by his contact with the stone, maybe a second initiates a contravention. I have no other idea what to do. And then I may at least get the chance to examine the stone."

"Ami? Can I come with you two? I'm so afraid that I'll forget something again while you're away."

"Oh yes," Rei answered her. But her eyes were still sparkling evilly. "You scare the nurse out of the house so that we can look peacefully for the Ryunome."

"Rei, could you please tell me for once why you constantly have to give me a display of utter viciousness? I hate it when you treat me that way!"

Ami and Rei looked likewise shocked at the choice of words the other girl presented them.

"Usagi! Are you sure you feel well?"

Usagi nodded.

After some silent seconds Ami raised her voice. "When you're all so fervent we may as well proceed in searching the Ryunome. I suggest we transform and go to the first-aid attendant the nurse has told us to have been on duty in the concerned ambulance at the time," she suggested. The other senshi agreed. They transformed and hurried out of the Shrine heading towards their first destination.

Kunzite who had watched them until now, followed unobtrusively.

Nephrite walked up and down the aisle again thinking about a new course of action and effed and blinded about Tuxedo Kamen who helped these Sailor brats whenever it became very uncomfortable for them. He stopped in his pace under the large window and concentrated until he was calm enough to reach the stars.

"The stars know everything. Show me the one called Tuxedo Kamen!"

Immediately a picture of the masked boy in the black tuxedo appeared in front of him. Nephrite had already darksomely stared a couple of holes into it before all of a sudden an idea hit him and began laughing evilly.

"Yes, Tuxedo Kamen. You are the key to my success."

He concentrated again to decipher the other one's energy pattern and teleported away.

Tuxedo Kamen hid behind a tree and watched the silver-haired figure which hovered some meters above the ground, unnoticed by the three senshi who were walking up to the front side of a small house. He wondered what the king was waiting for. Since almost one hour he was following the girls now without doing something else than watching and certainly also listening. When Tuxedo looked around the tree again he saw a small woman opening the door and then letting the three girls in after a short talk. Some seconds later the king disappeared as well what made him feel very uncomfortable. This certainly wasn't a good sign.

He was about to leave his hideout when he heard the cracking of a branch behind himself and spun around. But before he knew what happened with him his feet lost ground and he fell on his back.

"So you saw your colleague taking the stone?" Mercury asked.

The woman nodded solemnly. "I'd never thought she'd keep it, though. She was always such a trustworthy person." She looked up at the girls. "And you're sure it's not in the hospital or the ambulance?"

"We have been looking there already," Mars stated while keeping an eye on Sailor Moon who pointlessly shuffled through the room.

"Oh, my. I'll write down her address for you. But I still can't believe it throughly. - - - Here. Her name's Sokota Sara. Her flat is not far from here. And I wish you luck girls."

"We thank you very much Kondo-san."

After Mars had fetched Sailor Moon the nurse said good-bye to them and they went off to the culprit's home.

"Hello, Tuxedo Kamen," Nephrite greeted him and placed one foot on his chest. Tux gargled and tried in vain to push it away. The Dark Kingdom king just grinned at the futile attempt.

"Afraid?"

Tux continued to struggle. No chance against the well built, good looking, gorgeous, undefeatable, magical, insidious second general of Beryl's glorious Dark Kingdom troops, Nephrite. (Luna: Sorry. ^_^)

"If you don't stop struggling right now I am going to punish you in the name of the Dark Kingdom," the king smirked viciously.

"You don't have the right to sneak after innocent girls in the mid of the night, that's very rude!" Tux managed to croak even when the pressure on his chest was increased.

"Stop babbling, Tuxedo, and listen. I want to make a deal with you," he said while leaning his arms on the knee over the other one's chest.

Tuxedo's face went red. "You are quite heavy, if I may remark," he gasped.

Nephrite ignored him and continued to speak. "You certainly have noticed already that Sailor Moon is behaving strange, haven't you."

Tuxedo nodded as far as he could.

"That's because she isn't the only owner of her beautiful little body anymore. There is another ego possessing her which sometimes appears and causes a lot of trouble."

"And why are you telling me this?"

"Because I need your help to part them again. I am sure you want your Sailor Moon back and I want the other person. But there is still the white-haired man you have seen. He also is a king, and was sent by my queen to kill her and end this senshi-incident once and for all."

"You're saying he wants to kill Sailor Moon?!?"

"Do I have my foot on your chest or on your ears?"

Tux's face set and went stern.

"I will punish that evil-doer! How can he dare threhefgnnn ..."

"Stop babbling!"

"Ohey. Buh hould huh phleah hake hur hanh oh mai mouh?"

"You only speak when you are allowed to," Nephrite said before withdrawing his hand. "Now tell me what you know about the whole situation so that I can make up a plan how we rescue Sailor Moon."

Tuxedo didn't like the idea of telling his enemy all those things. But then, what other choice did he have. Nephrite certainly wouldn't allow him to get his hand on one of his roses. "A precious stone was stolen from the owner of an antiques shop, and the senshi look for it. After being attacked by a youma of yours she had disappeared, but then she came back with you. The senshi managed to rescue her and she ran away, but now she is back, for whatever reason."

"That's not enough." Nephrite increased the pressure on Tuxedo's chest again. "Tell me more about this stone. Why are the senshi looking for it?"

"Ouch! I'll tell you! No need to be so cruel! The stone's called Ryunome, and is said to have magical abilities. The senshi think it has something to do with the reason why the man fell into coma."

"What man?"

"A stranger, blonde hair, rather small - looks like a woman so Mars told me."

Nephrite lifted his foot a bit to give the other one a bit more air while starting to think of something. If this man was Zoisite - as he suspected - ...

"Where is this man now?"

"In the hospital, in the intensive care unit."

"Is there anything else I should know?"

"There's nothing more I know."

"Well then." Nephrite straightened again. "You are going to the senshi and fetch Sailor Moon and the Ryunome. After that you come to the hospital's intensive care unit where I am waiting for you. Together with the stone and the stranger's body I should be able to undo the change." He took his foot off Tuxedo Kamen's chest and watched him staggering up.

"Why do I have to do all the hard work?"

"Because I tell you to," Nephrite retorted.

Tuxedo Kamen grumbled but toddled on his way.

"And, Tuxedo Kamen," the king called after him. "I expect you to succeed. Because if you don't I'll have to report to my queen the true identity of Sailor Moon. So hurry up."

Tux snarled and began to run.

Nephrite laughed after him before he teleported himself into the hospital's intensive care unit.

* * *End of chapter six* * *