"Well, has been nice meeting you," Jade finally said and left.
Hotaru smiled as she watched their new friend walking away, every now and then bowing down to pick up a fir cone. "Jade sure was nice..." Then something came to her mind. "Jade... Jade... Now where did I hear that name before?"
"Hey Hotaru!" Chibiusa called her. "Look at this! Here's something hard underneath the fir needles..."
"Really?" Hotaru asked. "Perhaps it's the Taurus Amulet..." Together, they digged in the piles of needles, until they found the hard thing Chibiusa had felt.
"Awww, it's just some pice of stone," Chibiusa pouted.
Hotaru looked closer at it. "Strange... it's not a normal piece of rock... Look, there's a tiger carved in it's surface. Looks like some sort of talisman or something..."
"You think Jade dropped it?" Chibiusa wondered. "Maybe she is born in the year of the tiger, and this is her lucky charm." She giggled.
"Year of the tiger?" Diana asked naively.
"Yes, year of the tiger... the Chinese Zodiacs, Diana! Hello? Do you actually remember Mercury's lessons back at home?"
"Actually... I mostly fall asleep when she starts her lectures," the kitten blushed.
Hotaru turned the talisman around a few times. Then she gasped. "Now I remember... Makoto told me she met a girl named Jade in California! And she also had an uncle called Jackie... You think it was her?"
"Could be," Chibiusa pondered. "Didn't Makoto say something about how she had some magic talismans? Hey, maybe that's one of them."
Then Hotaru realized something. "Strange... there is some sort of curved line in the middle of it... like it's actually composed of two parts..."
"Maybe you can take it apart?" Chibiusa wondered. "Lemme try..."
She grabbed at the talisman hastily. "Careful, you'll break it," Hotaru said.
"I only wanna take a look..."
"Hey, stop pushing me..."
CRACK!
FLASH!
Chibiusa and Hotaru fell down on their little bums, each one of them holding one of the talisman halves. Blinking, they looked at each other.
Then they looked upwards to the faces of the two women that appeared between them.
Black Lady smiled as she looked around the landscape and took a deep breath. "Aaaah, feels good to finally get out of that sticky mind..."
Mistress 9 smirked and nodded. "Indeed, and I have the feeling our celebration of return will be exciting..."
Hotaru and Chibiusa gulped as they looked up at their evil, grown-up counterparts. Now this meant trouble...
Diana let out a nervous laugh. "This is bad, isn't it?"
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