While listening to the endless monologue of the king, Chibiusas almost fell asleep, if not for Hotarus, who suddenly pulled at her friend's sleeve.
"Wha... what's wrong?" Chibiusas muttered.
Hotarus looked up into the sky with a smile, where they could see a small bird flying. "See that? Isn't that our old friend?"
"Hey, you might be right," Chibiusas said with glee. "What d'ya say? Shouldn't we go see her, after all those years?"
Hotarus frowned. "I don't know, Chibiusas... you know that the ceremony is starting soon."
"Aw, c'mon, I don't think the king will end his boring speech very soon."
"Well, I suppose you're right," Hotarus nodded.
The two girls sneakily climbed off the podium, while everybody else was paying attention to the king.
They followed the flying bird to the edge of the stadium, where they could see her landing in a small nest that was situated among the marble pillars.
"Now how are we going to go up there?"
"No problem!" Chibiusas smirked and prepared to jump.
"Stop, Chibiusas!" Hotarus suddenly said. "You know we aren't supposed to..."
Her pink-haired friend smirked at her. "Hey, no one's watching, right? Only this once, okay?"
Meanwhile, the king was nearing the conclusion of his speech: "...and in the end, I am happy to say that..."
"Oh my god! Would you look at THAT!" someone in the audience suddenly shouted.
Everyone, including the king, turned around... and they didn't believe their eyes when they saw the two girls with the pink and purple hair jumping on top of the pillars that were standing at the edge of the stadium... effortlessly as if they would just hop over a small creek.
"How are they able to DO that?" the queen whispered.
"Those two little rascals..." Setsunas groaned.
"Of all the untimely moments, they just had to do the Forbidden Thing now," Amis sighed.
"Quick, let's get out of here!" Minas shouted nervously.
"For once, I agree with you guys," Harukas nodded.
"Stop right there!" the king shouted. "Guards, stop them!"
----
A few minutes later, the Olympian Furies, alongside with Setsunas' little gang, were standing in front of the king, guarded by his soldiers. Chibiusas and Hotarus were standing on the podium again, a little bit ashamed and uncertain.
King Uminos stared down at the green-haired woman in front of him. "To see you again, Setsunas... I should have known that you would just leave town, right?"
"I have every right to let my protege take part in the Olympic Games," Setsunas spat back.
"Yes, but not if she's doped. You don't need to hide it anymore, Setsunas. I see it in your face. And the young Chibiusas has been getting a similar treatment, correct?" His face wandered over to the blue-haired bandit leader.
"It's true," Amis finally admitted, realizing that the game was up. "Chibiusas' body has been 'supercharged' by ancient magic."
"Same with Hotarus," Setsunas said in a gruff voice. "It took me so many years to find something that would turn her into a super athlete..."
"And in the end, you found it?" Uminos assumed.
Setsunas nodded. "After you exiled me, I traveled to the ruins of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon... and there, I found a stone tablet that told me about a vision of of their scholars had. It was a vision about a human girl that possesses superhuman strength, with the help of ancient magic. I also found a strange wand that allowed me to embed this power in Hotarus' body."
Amis stared at the green-haired woman in disbelief. "You too? Damn, I should have known..."
"That means you girls have to be disqualified," Queen Narus said to Chibiusas and Hotarus. "You understand why we have to do this, yes?"
"Yes..." Hotarus sighed.
"We understand," Chibiusas groaned.
"As for you..." the king said with a grim voice as he looked down at the two gangs of criminals. "Thank you for coming here! My soldiers have been searching for your hideouts for some time now. You saved us the trouble looking for you."
"Good going, Amis!" Reis grumbled. "What did you say again? 'They won't know it's us'? Yeah, right..."
"Take them away!" the king ordered, and his guards shoved the female criminals out of the stadium.
Usagis Tsukinos sighed. "What a relief," she said to her husband. "Now we don't have to pay for anything..."
Uminos heard that and approached her with a smirk. "Oh, by the way... I decided that, for the next Olympic Games, the winner shall receive a golden medal."
Usagis whined. "You have to be kidding me..."
"Um, what about us?" Chibiusas shyly spoke up. "Do we have to go to prison as well?"
"Of course not, my dear!" the queen said. "We realize that you two have been forced by your 'foster parents' to do all of this."
The king frowned. "The only question that remains is: Who's gonna care for them now?"
His wife smiled. "Dear, what do you say if we take care of Hotarus from now on?"
King Uminos smiled back at her. "You know I can't refuse any request of yours. Very well, from this day on, Hotarus Hopas shall be our adoptive daughter."
"Y-you mean it?" the purple-haired girl asked with joy. "Oh, this is wonderful! Chibiusas, did you hear that?"
Her friend hugged her. "I'm happy for you, Hotarus!"
"And you, Chibiusas Runas..." the king continued. "You shall be entrusted to the care of the Tsukinos family."
"Hooray!" Chibiusas shouted.
"WH-WHAT?" Usagis screeched in disbelief. "Oh, why me...?"
"Come now, honey," Mamorus said as Chibiusas hugged her new 'father'. "It won't be that bad."
Just then, one of the king's soldiers interrupted the scene as he reached the podium, clutching two old stone tablets to himself, along with two strange-looking wands.
"Y-your Majesty," he said, out of breath. "W-we found this in the huts of Setsunas and the Olympian Furies."
"Ah, those must be the Babylonian tablets they found among the ruins," the king said. "And those magical wands. "Hmmm, let's see if I can translate the titles, at least..."
He looked closely at the title of the first stone tablet. He frowned and afterwards, took a look at the second tablet.
"Future History of Sailor Saturn... Future History of Sailor Chibimoon..."
Usagis laughed. "Who's that supposed to be?"
Queen Narus shrugged and giggled. "Who knows, maybe one day, some heroes with such silly names will exist."
----
"And that about sums it up," Setsunas concluded the third story. "The king decided that he would, instead of a statue that looks like one of the two girls, a statue that would look like the mighty Zeus himself."
"You want to tell me that those were the wands we use today to transform into our Senshi forms?" Hotaru whispered, as the waiter was pretty close to them. "Wow..."
Setsuna nodded. "Yes, it took me some effort to cover every part of this story..."
Usagi frowned. "Wait a minute, Setsuna... I thought you told us that you managed to dispose of everything the Babylonians left behind from their crazy experiments."
Setsuna blushed. "Well, I am only human, you know? I suppose I must have overlooked those stone tablets... Well, at least I was able to secure them later on, them and the two Senshi wands."
"And how did the wands get there in the first place?" Chibiusa wanted to know."
Setsuna smirked mysteriously. "Well, maybe we will find out in one of the other stories, huh?"
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