Little Cassie was happily humming while she pulled her lunch box out of her backpack. Mommy prepared it for her this morning, before she left her here at the camp.
And yummy! She remembered to make her a sandwich with cheese... Perhaps she should share this with her friend...
While Cassie was busy munching on her sandwich, she didn't notice the strands of black hair that sneaked past her, grabbed her lunch box and snatched it away.
Cassie looked up... and saw two strange women pulling out her lunch of the box. "Hey! That's mine!"
'Blacky' grinned as she bit into a green apple. "Mmmm, delicious... but a little too much vitamins for my taste..."
'Missy' searched around the lunch box. "Dang! No cheese?" She looked over to the bewildered little girl and smirked. "Oh, I'll just have to help myself..." And she walked over to Cassie and took her sandwich.
After taking a bite, she nodded. "Yes, that's good..."
Cassie wailed. "Whaaaah! Miss Parker! Those mean old ladies stole my lunch box!"
Black Lady snarled angrily. "Old? Who's old?"
Suddenly, one of the camp's counselors appeared. "Hey! What are you doing here? This is a camp for children, you know? And give back that box, or I'll call the police!"
Mistress 9 grinned. "Well, she will be certainly more fun than those annoying little kids, huh? Blacky, why don't you take care of her?"
Black Lady pulled out the Luna-P. "Gladly!"
Miss Parker nervously stepped back. "What... what are you doing?"
With a puff of smoke, Luna-P turned into a handy vacuum cleaner. "Time for some spring-cleaning," the pink-haired villain smirked. And she activated her 'weapon of choice'.
SSHHHHLUUUURRRPP!
Miss Parker gasped as the Luna-P-vacuum sucked in all of her clothes except her underwear. Blushing madly, she desperately tried to cover herself.
Mistress 9 and Black Lady cackled madly as they saw how the embarrassed counselor hightailed through the trees, hoping that no one else would see her before she was able to get some other clothes.
----
Jade looked around the forest. "They have to be somewhere around here," she said. "Have you seen them yet?"
Chibiusa shook her head. "N-n-no way! I just c-c-can't bear looking at their s-s-scary faces." She shuddered.
Hotaru hugged her distraught friend. "Now, now... All will turn out fine, you'll see. We'll just talk to those bad ladies and tell them what they did was not nice. And when they realize how much you missed your Luna-P, they'll give it back for sure."
Jade groaned. She almost forgot how annoying the 'good' sides of a human personality can be.
"How long are they going to be like this?" Diana asked.
"Until we convince or trick the two bad ladies to take their half of the talisman and put it against the other half while our two girls over there hold it... But if your pink-haired friend stays as frightened as she is now, I have the bad feeling it won't be that easy..."
Suddenly, she saw something... Something round and black was zipping through the forest.
"Say... didn't you tell me this 'Luna-P' thingy would be a round, black ball that looks like a cat's head?"
Diana nodded. "Uh-huh!"
"Good, because I think I just saw it flying around here. Come, hurry up, you two! We may have a chance of getting them if we follow that ball."
"You know, you really should relax a little," Hotaru said. "Why don't you try doing some Yoga...?"
----
They managed to follow Luna-P to the entrance of a dark cave at the foot of a hill. Jade peered into the blackness.
"You sure that they're in here?" Chibiusa whined.
"Perhaps..."
Just then, a voice that was well-known to Chibiusa echoed through the dark cavern. "Yoo-hoo! Little girls wanna come in and play?"
Chibiusa squeaked. "T-that's her..."
"All right, now's our chance," Jade grinned and pulled the reluctant Chibiusa after her.
"That's right," Hotaru smiled. "After all, it's about noon... we can ask them if they'd like to have lunch with us."
----
Black Lady peered out of the small chasm where she and her Luna-P were hidden. She giggled. Those stupid little girls were walking right into their trap... They didn't even realize how they were walking past her...
"It's so dark..." Chibiusa just whined. "I can't see a thing..."
Black Lady scowled. How she detested that little brat. To think she was once part of her... And just the thought of becoming one with her again... horrible!
She waited a few more minutes, then stealthily hurried back to the cave's entrance. She stepped back behind the trees and sent her Luna-P up to the hilltop.
Mistress 9 smirked as she saw the cat-shaped ball approaching her. That was the signal. Now she could get her revenge on that pesky little Hotaru...
True, she wasn't the real Mistress 9, but as she had all of Hotaru's memories as well as the will to continue the real Mistress 9's evil deeds, it wasn't a big difference, she thought.
Using her robust hair, she pulled at one of the big boulders lying around her, and let it roll over the edge of the hill.
While rolling down, it caused multiple other boulders and rocks to come down, thereby causing a small avalanche.
----
When Jade and her friend reached a dead end, she let out a desperate groan. "But I'm sure I heard her," she grumbled. "How could we miss her like this?"
Just then they all heard the loud rumbling of the avalanche.
In a hurry, they ran back to the entrance... and found it blocked by big boulders.
"Oh no," Hotaru shouted. "We're trapped."
"WHAAAAAH!" Chibiusa instantly wailed. "Now we'll be stuck here until we die from starvation..."
"Would you two just stay quiet for a while?" Jade snapped. "I'm trying to think here..."
There just had to be a way out of here.
Perhaps the rocks weren't really that heavy...
She decided to try it. After all, it wouldn't hurt to try, would it?
She pushed her hands against the front rock and pushed with all her might.
"Um, I don't think you will be able to move that," Diana wanted to point out. But Jade wasn't listening. She used all her force to move the boulders at least a little bit.
It was like trying to move a massive truck with your bare hands.
"That's it," Jade shouted. "Do I have to call for Jackie every time I get in trouble? Move, you damn rocks, MOVE, I said!"
And suddenly, she felt a sudden surge of power within her muscles. The strength flowed through her body and gave her a new confidence.
And when she pushed this time, the rocks slowly gave way and rolled out of the way.
The other three just gasped at this display of power. "No way..." Chibiusa mumbled.
Jade grinned and flexed her arms. "Jade Power! Take this, you stupid rocks!" Then she blinked. "I wonder if I activated the Ox Talisman by accident..."
Then she remembered something. "Strange, I really didn't take the Ox Talisman with me... So how did I get that strong all of a sudden?"
She scratched her head and turned back around to her friend.
They gasped when they saw the glowing sign on Jade's forehead. A symbol showing the head of a bull...
"I can't believe it..." Hotaru murmured. "Sailor Taurus?"
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