When Ranma went back to the Dojo, most of the original Senshi decided to go home for now, as the Dojo would be surely crowded if they all were coming. So only Ami and Usagi came along.
When Ranma came through the door, Nabiki was already waiting for her. "Took you long enough, Saotome," she said in a cool voice. "And you are...?"
"Um... Ami Mizuno," the blue-haired girl replied.
"Hi there, I'm Usagi Tsukino," shouted the cheerful blonde.
Nabiki chuckled. "Usagi, eh? I believe we have something that belongs to you..." And she pointed inside.
Usagi looked past her and saw a black cat with a bandaged hind leg lying on the couch. "LUNA," she shouted and scooped up her royal advisor. "Luna, thank goodness you're alright, I was soooo worried!"
"Well, you certainly are late," Akane snickered. "Is that any way to keep fellow Senshi waiting?"
Ranma scratched her head. "Huh? What do you mean by that?"
"Um, you don't mean..." Ami started.
Nabiki grinned. "Sailor Aquarius, meet fellow Sailors Leo, Libra, Virgo... and last but not least, Sailor Scorpio. That would be me!"
Ranma was baffled. "Akane? Nabiki? Kasumi? Ucchan? How?"
Kasumi giggled. "A little scorpion told us."
From the table, the small shape of Sting was waving with his scissors. "Howdy!"
Luna grinned. "Everyone, meet Sting! A friend of mine from the Silver Millennium!"
"Luna, you have some weird tastes," Usagi murmured.
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After a while, they all sat down around the table while Kasumi was serving dinner. As before, the two fathers just pretended nothing would be out of the ordinary.
As Soun's motto was: Ignore the weirdness, and maybe the weirdness will ignore you.
Luna spoke up: "Well, at least we know the whereabouts of five Zodiac Senshi, and they all are willing to help us... but the problem is, most of them still don't have their amulets."
"That's true," Ami nodded. "And we have no idea where we should search first."
"Um, if I may..." Sting raised his scissors. "I DO know where Sailor Scorpio's amulet is... After all, I was guarding it for all these times. Only when I realized that my old partner had to be reincarnated by now, I started to take action. I left it behind in a certain valley in Brazil, well hidden... So I'm pretty sure it's still there."
"You just left it behind?" Nabiki asked in a disapproving voice. "Not very reliable, I must say..."
"Hey, I had to do something to reawaken your memories... and I can only do that if you have your amulet. So I had to get you to Brazil somehow."
"So you just sold yourself and a big pile of rocks to the reincarnated version of your old partner per Internet and travelled to Japan in a big cardboard box? Great plan..."
"But how are we going to get to Brazil?" Usagi wondered. "I mean, Africa is pretty far away, isn't it?"
Ami wasn't the only one to sweat-drop. "Usagi, Brazil is in South America, not in Africa..."
"Well, a journey to Brazil for several people won't be very cheap..." Akane groaned. "Hey, Nabiki, do you have...?"
"Forget it," Nabiki grumbled. "Have no more Yen. All invested in a certain dull-witted crustacean..."
"Hey!" Sting shouted offended.
"Guys, that's not our only problem," Ukyo spoke up. "Remember? Akane, Kasumi and I don't even know where our amulets are."
"Well, that won't be much of a problem," Sting said. He waved around his tail... and out of nowhere, a small item appeared.
Usagi giggled. "Luna can do that too."
Ranma picked it up. It was a little quartz crystal, attached to a string. "What's that?"
"That's the Zodiac Pendulum," Sting explained. "Whenever a Zodiac Senshi is separated from her amulet, she can use this to find it... all we need is a world map. The respective Senshi has to take the pendulum, let it hang down over the map, and spin it around. It will point to the place where her amulet is being hidden."
"Lemme try it," Nabiki said. She took the pendulum from Ranma and fetched a world map. She opened it and twirled around the pendulum.
After spinning for a while, it stopped and pointed directly at Brazil.
"Well, whaddya say?" Ukyo grinned. "It works! Gimme! I wanna try!"
She snatched it out of Nabiki's hand.
"Careful, children, that's no toy," Sting scolded them.
Ukyo didn't listen. She used the pendulum, and waited until it stopped.
"It's pointing towards Scotland," she said in a surprised voice.
"I see it already, this will be a long journey all over the world," Luna groaned.
Afterwards, Kasumi and Akane used the pendulum as well. According to it, the Leo Amulet was somewhere in Germany and the Virgo Amulet in California in the United States.
"We reeaaaally don't have enough money for such a long trip," said Akane.
"Maybe we should ask Setsuna," Luna said to Ami. "She always has a lot of money, perhaps she can help us."
"The Outer Senshi are not home," Ami sighed. "Setsuna didn't tell me where they went, but she said something about a 'vacation'."
"And they took Hotaru-chan with them?" Luna wondered. "Strange... I wonder what's going on. It's not like them just to leave like this..."
Suddenly, Usagi grinned. "Don't worry, I've got a great idea how we can get some money..."
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Mamoru Chiba grinned as he looked at his bank account. He never had that much Yen before.
But he sure was lucky... last week, he got the message that he won the lottery jackpot... and he only did play because he had some spare money to spend, just for fun.
He began dreaming of what he was going to buy with all that money... perhaps a brand-new sports car? He chuckled. Motoki would be sooo jealous...
Suddenly, the phone rang and pulled him out of his daydreams.
He picked up. "Chiba?"
"Oooooh Mamo-chaaaaaan," a sweet voice called though the phone.
"Hey, Usako, what's up," he replied cheerfully, while on the inside, he already prepared for the worst... if Usagi used that tone of voice, it usually meant she wanted something from him.
"I have a biiiiig favor I wanna ask of you... You just won all that money from the lottery, riiiight?"
He gulped. "Y-yes, why do you ask?"
"Weeeeell, we just found out that there are some other Senshi and we need to find their transformation amulets. Problem is: They're scattered aaaaall over the world. And we have no money... so, pretty pretty pretty please, could you pay for our journeys, pleeeeaaaaase?"
"But... but..." Mamoru stuttered.
"OOOOOOH PUH-LEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE?"
Mamoru sighed. "Of course, Usako... if it's thaaaat important..."
"Oh THANK YOU, Mamo-chan, thank you, thank you, thaaaaank yoouuuu!"
Mamoru whined. So much about a brand-new sports car...
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