𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐅𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘

Act 17. Secret - Sailor Jupiter

A few days passed since Ami's kidnapping. Since then, Usagi wasn't even leaving her room. Akio was coming over almost everyday to try cheer up Usagi. Hikari also tried it but it felt like she only made her condition worse.

"Luna and Artemis are trying to locate Hino-san and Mizuno-san" Solis informed. "Sadly, they can't anything. Even the slightest trace"

Hikari just nodded, hugging her knees. This battle was different from the previous one. Now everyone was disappearing and they couldn't do anything about it.

"I feel like... we will lose this time" Hikari confessed, hiding her face in her knees not to show Solis that she's about to cry.

"We will win" the cat tried to reassure her. "You have to believe it"

Hikari wanted to reply but then she heard the door creak. Turning her head around, she saw Solis-P bouncing into the room.

"Don't cry Lady! Don't cry Lady!" it repeated over and over again.

"It talked!" Tsukino screamed, bringing her pillow to defend herself from the toy.

"Don't hit Solis-P!" Chibihika said, entering the room.

"Chibihika?"

The girl seemed to hesitate but soon, she finally approached Hikari's bed. She extended her hands towards Sailor Sun to show her Tuxedo Mask doll.

"Here. I wanted to let you borrow this for a while"

"Is this mini Tuxedo Mask? So cute! Where did you get this?!" Hikari asked excitedly, taking the doll from the girl and hugging it to her chest.

"From Mamo-chan of course"

"Mamo-chan?! Since when you're so friendly with him?!"

Solis only signed, knowing that she won't be able to talk to Hikari about serious matters right now. The cat jumped off the bed and left the room to go look for Luna.

"I just thought that maybe this would cheer you up and you won't cry..." Chibihika said nervously, fidgeting with her fingers.

Hikari only softly smiled and hugged the girl, whispering into her ear.

"Thank you, Chibihika"

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On the next day, the whole group was supposed to meet at the arcade to discuss everything that happened in recent days. As always, Tsukino sisters arrived the last.

"Sorry for being late!" the girls yelled, running into the arcade.

"Huh? You brought her with you?" Akio asked surprised, pointing at someone behind them.

When the two girls turned around they saw Chibihika.

"Chibihika!!" two sisters screamed surprised. "Did you follow us here?!"

Soon, Usagi and Chibihika went to play on machines while Hikari stood with the rest of the group.

"Surprisingly, Chibihika has a really good impact on Usako" Akio admitted, observing the two. "Usako didn't smile as much as today since new enemy appeared"

"Yeah, I think so too" Hikari smiled.

Usagi and Chibihika quickly moved to play the Sailor V game on the machine that led to their underground base. While Chibihika was playing, Minako's pen started beeping.