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Tama held her forehead,"Mmmm," she spoke to herself," My head it feels so strange..... maybe I'm coming down with something...." She shook it off and told herself that if she was sick she'd have her mom pick her up.

"I wish you hadn't woken me up I was having the best dream about that guy in school....... Brian...." Niomi's cheeks went pink and her voice was dream- like.

"I'm sure you were." Tama answered flatly. Niomi didn't hear her, she was in her own world. Tama sighed and lowered her eyes to the ground. A flash of fur and color zoomed by. A second flash of fur and color came after that one. Tama's glance darted to the direction that the flashes headed. She saw no more movement after a while and continued on toward the school. "N-" Tama was about to ask her sister if she saw anything when she realized of course, Niomi wouldn't. Tama felt someone's stare on her, she whirled around. No one was there. She heard a rustling sound in front of her. Again she turned, "Niomi!!!!"

"What?" Niomi asked innocently, the remains of some food framed her mouth.

Tama sighed. Well- She sighed again. -I'm never hungry at lunch anyway. Tama allowed her head to loll forward. They came to the gates of school. As soon as they did Niomi wiped her mouth and put away her lunch. Is it a hunger strike? Tama looked to see what Niomi saw. No, much worse. It's a Brian. Brain was "fighting" with a boy in his class. They both had taken small fallen branches and were pretending to sword fight. They never grow up do they?

"Hey Niomi!" Brian said trying to be casual.

"Hey! Whatcha doing?"

Tama rolled her eyes.

Brian looked back at his friend, then he turned to Niomi, "I'm defending your honor!"Niomi giggled. Brian and his friend went back to fighting. Tama rolled her eyes, again.

"Hi Tama." Came a quiet ,but familiar voice.

"Oh! Hi Keith." Tama turned red.

"Those idiots at it again?"

"Yeah. Hey I thought Brian was your friend!"

"Doesn't excuse him from being an idiot." Tama smiled.

"Hello class!" Miss. Haruna greeted cheerfully. Tenshi picked up a small package on her desk. There was an identical package on the other student's desks as well.

"What's this Miss. H?" Nari came right out and asked.

"I received a wonderful sample of incense in the mail so I bought some for all of you!" Miss. Haruna answered even more cheerfully. "You know today is such a nice day that we should have class outside!" Everyone started to pack up their stuff. "Wait no!" She started, everyone began to lose hope." Lets just have a free day OK?" The student's eyes popped out of their skulls.

"Wonder why Miss. H is acting like this....." Tama mumbled.

"Maybe she's got a date tonight?" Niomi offered.

"-or.... she could be high on incense?" Brian joked.

"Only you could say that." Keith hit Brian in the back.

"Hey!" Brian hit him back.

"Ow."

"What have you brought me Patchouli?" A dark woman asked.

"Here my Queen." A monster handed her a cat.

"Oh good, there hasn't been much bloodshed in a while around here......." The dark woman smiled. The animal meowed. The woman Patchouli had called her Queen threw the cat into the air. It hovered. Beryl's nails became razor sharp and long. They shot out heading straight for the animal. It yowled and shook in fear. Akira grimaced and held her stomach.

"Akira, what's wrong?" The teacher asked. Akira didn't say anything she just gritted her teeth. "Akira?" The teacher walked over to her.

Akira grumbled quietly," I feel like I'm gonna be sick."

"Okay, go downstairs." Akira awkwardly stood up and finally was able to gather up enough strength to walk out.

The Queen woman laughed menacingly, "Well, that was fun." The corpse of the cat lay a few feet from her, fresh blood coming from it. "Too bad it wasn't one of those annoying cats that has been helping those sailors!"

"Well that was odd, you're never sick." Iris commented to Akira a while later.

"Yeah, I know."

"What happened?"

"God, for one moment I felt like I was killing something, but it wasn't me. Then after a while I felt fine. Is that weird?"

"Not for you it isn't..." Iris joked.

Akira scowled," This is no time for jokes."

"How come it's never time for jokes when I try to make one?" Sighed Iris.

"When you try to make one!" Rowen came up from them and mocked.

"Shut up!" Rowen smiled triumphantly.

"You two need a little song called 'Why Can't We Be Friends'." Grumbled Akira.

"Oh hey you all right?" Rowen asked patting her on the back.

"Of course I am!" Akira smiled.

"When I get home I'm going to try out this incense stuff!" Niomi giggled holding up the box.

"You are?!" Brian asked his eyes wide.

"Yeah, why not?"

Brian became serious," Don't you know that Miss. H only gave this to us because the smell turns us into giggling zombies?" He suddenly smiled. Niomi giggled.

"Too late......" Keith joked.

"Keith!" Niomi whined.

"Dammit Keith! You ruin everything with the truth!" Brian tried to act mad, but he couldn't.

Tama put the incense stick into the holder, she was about to light it when, "Ouch! What was that?!" Something knocked over the holder and extinguished the flame.

"Don't light that incense!"

"Who said that?!" Tama scanned the room shocked.

"Down here!" Tama looked down, a cat stood in front of her.

"Okay funny joke! Where's the tape recorder!?" Tama expected Niomi to jump out of the closet holding a black radio. She didn't. Tama looked down at the cat with fear in her eyes.

"It's really me." She saw the cat's mouth moving.

"Oh, no..... They said there was such a thing as studying to hard and I didn't believe them.........."

The cat tossed her something," You don't believe in me? Why should humans be the only ones who can speak? I'm Astro."

"A-A-Astro?"

"Not 'A-A-Astro' just plain Astro. Here." He tossed her a pen.

"What's this? Oh great a cat that hands out school supplies and talks!" Tama grumbled.

"Okay just try this and then you'll believe me. Say 'Sun Celestial Power! Make-up!'" Astro ordered.

"Hmm what harm could it do?" Tama inhaled deeply and then exhaled. "Sun..... Celestial..... Power....! Make-Up!" (place description here) "Oh, jeez......" Tama stared down at her outfit. "I believe you, I don't understand it, but I believe you."

"Okay lets go get Niomi."

"She's a...... um..... sailor? too?"

"Yes she's Sailor Comet and Miika ,another cat, has explained everything to her."

"Oh." After still a while of explaining to Niomi they finally got to the point.

"That incense, like your" -Miika cleared her throat- "friend Brian said does turn people into zombies."

"Makes it much easier to attack the Earth that way."

Niomi whined," So I can't use all the nice incense Miss. H gave me?" The cats and Tama sighed.

"So what do we have to do?" Tama asked. "We have to go down to the factory and destroy it." Astro replied.

"We're kind of new at this too. Estelle and Hoshi are both cats of your friends Tenshi and Nari." Miika said quickly.

"Well, lets go!" Tama said and they were off.

Patchouli folded her arms, "This'll be great, a new shipment every minute." She turned her head to a truck which was setting twenty people into the large storage room.

"Hold it for just a second!" A shout came.

"Hmm?" Patchouli frowned and looked up to the beams on the ceiling.

"I am Sailor Constellation!"

"I am Sailor Comet!"(They had met earlier)

"I am Sailor Sun!"

"I am me!" Patchouli yawned, "Oh I thought it was a threat guess not." She raised her hand. Lethal incense flew at them. It blew up the beam and they fell to the ground.

"They might not be, but I sure as hell am!" That armored boy who had first appeared at the same time was standing on one of the incense crates.

"Ha!" She sent the lethal incense at him. He pulled out an amulet much like Nari's. Flame crackled and burnt the incense before it even had time to make an aroma.

"Hey, who's that?" Comet asked.

"I thought you were in love with Brian."

"Stay in love with Brian. That guy is with Sailor Earth, he's bad." Constellation warned.

"And now....." Nari stood up, "it's my turn!"

He held up his amulet and lightning flashed from it. It hit Patchouli with such force that she was slammed backward into her own box of exploding incense.

"Hm. SUN FIERY ILLUSIONS!" (she got her powers already) Sun shouted. Her powers singed the monster and set off the incense.

"Whoa hey that smells......." Patchouli began to giggle.

"COMET-"

"Hey wait one second!" Everyone , except Patchouli, stopped what they were doing and looked around.

"Thank you!" Fire from out of nowhere hit them the sailors and Nari were scorched.

"Heh.. Idiots....." The armored boy hopped off the crate and went over to Patchouli. Patchouli was giggling like a complete idiot. He waved his hand in front of her face, there was no response, he kicked her, she laughed louder. "Oh, God...... not going to get much information out of this one...." He sighed.

"What was that?" Comet held her head.

"OK you can kill her!" The boy shouted at them.

"Huh what the? OH yeah ICY TORNADO WATER WINDS!"

The boy jumped out of the way,"Watch it kid you almost hit me!" Patchouli was hit with freezing wind and stood half giggling half shivering.

"All right CELESTIAL MUSICAL STRIKE!!" The giggling got louder and louder as the musical strike came closer. Then the giggling sounded agonizing ,but she never stopped until she became a pile of dust.

"Yes all right!"

"We did it!"

"Hey! Tenshi, Niomi, Tama, and Nari! I got a message from all of us to all of you!" They turned towards the boy. He held out his amulet.

"Oh man....." Nari grumbled.

"Ow! M-Om! That hurts!" Nari whined.

"Honestly Nari!" Mrs. Shen was taking care of Nari's wounds.

Rowen was flipping through the paper, "Hm at least I don't whine." He snickered.

"Hey Rowen!"

"Baby! Whiner! Wimp!" Nari stuck his tongue out at Rowen. "Yeah just prove my point even more....." Rowen snickered again.

"Rowen don't provoke him." Rowen smiled to himself and went back to reading. After a while Mrs. Shen sighed,"I don't know how you two get so many wounds......"

"Sometimes we don't know either mom." Rowen commented.

She ruffled his hair," My two enigmas......"

"SO where did you two go off to?" Niomi and Tama's mother asked them when they walked in.

"Oh just to an incense place."

"I hope you didn't buy anything." Their father eyed Niomi.

"No, not this time."

"That's good." A little bit later Niomi and Tama were in Tama's room discussing what had happened.

"It's pretty cool being a Celestial."Tama commented.

"Yeah except for when that guy kept on scorching us."

"Well, at least it was only temporary. If we came in all burned up mom would really be upset."

"Oh yeah."

"Hey Niomi?"

"Yes?"

"Is that my candy you're eating?"

"Sisters share don't they?"

"No give it back!"

"Okay I'll have to puke it up!"

"Fine then I'll go steal your candy!"

"No wait Tama!!!!!!"

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