It was a star lit night, and the air smelled of the summer. Nothing could have gave a suggestion of what was about to happen that would change the very history of the Sailor Scouts. Something that was going to kill three of them.

It had been a very long night for the Sailor Scouts. The amazon qaurtet had once again tried to ruin another person's dreams in search of the mystical horse Pegasus. Fortunatly the Sailor Scouts had been there to stop them for the moment, saving yet another life.
Now as Mina and Rei (Sailor Venus and Sailor Mars)walked home together, they laughed about things like boys and stupid things at school. Neither of them heard or felt the figure walking behind them until it was too late. The figure grabbed Mina, and before she could even react, he began sucking her blood. Rei was trying desperatly to beat the creature off of Mina.
"Get off of her you monster!!" Rei screamed, kicking at the vampires legs.
"Stupid, stupid girl." said the vampire, dropping Mina next to him and grabbing Rei by the throat. Suddenly he dropped Rei, as she kicked him in the nuts. Rei ran to Mina.
"Mina! Mina! Quick get up! Dear God please just get up!" Rei screamed shakeing Mina.
Mina slowly opened her eyes. She had become really pale and could barely lift her head up.
"Uuuuuuhhhh. Rei?" groaned Mina weakly.
"Mina? Mina your okay." sobbed Rei as she looked with tear filled eyes at Mina.
"No Rei, I'm not. I'm dying. That vampire took all my blood." said Mina. A single tear rolled down her face.
"No, you can't be."
"I am Rei." 
"No."
"I am... Rei!!!! Look out!!" screamed Mina with great effort.
All of a sudden the vampire had appeared behind Rei. 
"You are one idiotic human." spoke the vampire.
"And just to let you know both you and your friend there are going to die."
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!" Rei screamed as she tried to stand up quickly.
The vampire grabbed Rei before she could stand up, he bared his long sharp fangs and bit down into Rei's neck, draining her of all her blood.
The vampire dropped Rei's lifeless body to the hard ground. He had read both of the girls minds when he was drinking their blood, and had found out that they were two of the ten Sailor Scouts.
"It would be a worthy cause to change them, to see how it would effect their whole tight bond with their other Sailor Scout friends." thought the vampire to himself. He laughed quietly to himself and kneeled down next to Rei. He unbuttoned his black silk shirt, and made a small slit on his throat. His dark red blood trickled down his throat slightly, as he pulled Rei up to the cut.
Rei licked at the blood, but pulled away once she relized what it was that she was drinking.
"No." she whispered faintly with closed eyes.
"Drink. Drink and be free." replied the vampire quietly, hauling her back up towards his throat.
Rei began licking at the blood again, but quickly began to suck at the cut. The taste of the blood overwhelming her.
"That's it Rei. You will make a great vampire." laughed the vampire.
Once Rei had drank enough blood for her to begin changing, the vampire dropped her. He moved over to where Mina layed dead. He did the same with Mina, only she did not resist as Rei had done. 
"I should put them somewhere where no one will find them. The woods would be the best place." he thought.
The vampire picked up Mina and Rei's bodies and walked towards his truck. He took a large light blue fleece blanket from behind the seat, and wrapped them up together. He placed them in the back of his truck under a tarp, got in his truck and drove off towards the woods.
When he got to the woods, he carried Mina and Rei deep into the woods, and placed them roughly in a small hidden cave. Checking cautiously to make sure that there was no one watching, he dissapeared into the night.

*****The next afternoon*****
Serena looked out the window, the sun shone brightly lighting up the shadows of the trees in her back yard.
"Hey everyone, sorry I'm late. I stopped over at Rei's place to see if she was home, but her Grampa said she never came home last night." said Lita (Sailor Jupiter) as she came into Serena's room for the weekly Sailor Scout meeting.
"Rei's gone too?" asked Ami (Sailor Mercury)with a shocked look on her face.
"What do you mean too?" asked Lita.
"Well Mina wasn't in school today, and I went by her house to drop her homework off to her, and her parents said she never came home last night. They are really worried about her." Ami explained.
"I wonder where they could be. I mean it's not like them to not go home at night, or at least call someone to tell where they are." Lita said.
"I know what you mean. It's not."
"Hey Serena what's the matter. There is food still here on the plate, and you haven't even touched it or even said a word." asked Lita.
"I'm just really worried about Rei and Mina that's all. It's just something dosen't feel right." replied Serena (Sailor Moon), rubbing her talking cat Luna (who has a cresent moon on her forehead) on the head.
"I think that they are okay. In fact, I know that they are okay. The two of them are well capable of taking care of themselves." said Luna reinsuringly.
"I know, that's what I told Artimis (Mina's talking white cat who was just like Luna) today. He spent the whole day looking for them." Serena said still rubbing Luna's ears.
"Hopefully he finds them or they call us." said Ami in a worried voice.
Lita and Serena nodded in agreement, as the all sat in silence.
"I just hope I will be able to talk with them again." thought Serena sadly.

*****Sunset of that day*****
The cave was pitch black when Mina woke up that evening. There was not a sound through out the whole cave, and even though it was unbearably dark, Mina could see unnaturally well. Her neck throbbed violently, and her stomache screamed with hunger. She tried to get up, only to discover that she was wrapped rather snuggly in a blanket. Disoriently she got up onto her feet with little trouble. She felt like she had been hit by a transport truck.
She looked around the empty cave trying to figure out where she was. Her lips felt dry, so she decided to lick them, but as she did, she noticed that her two eye teeth felt funny. They felt longer, sharper. She slowly moved her hand up to her mouth, and felt her teeth with her fingers. They were definatly much longer, and very sharp! Mina quickly yanked her hand away from her mouth but accidentaly pricked her finger. She looked down at her finger, she had drawn blood. Absent-mindedly, she put her finger in her mouth, but instead of the usual metal taste that came with the taste of blood, it tasted sweet. It tasted good. 
Suddenly her stomach felt as if she had been punched by a boxer. The pain was unreal. Mina fell to the floor, her vision blurred slightly.
"What's wrong with me?" Mina asked aloud.
"Uhhhhhhaaa!!!!!" she groaned in pain.
She started taking deep breaths trying to stop the pain, but relized that she hadn't been breathing the whole time. Frantically she tried to take her pulse, but she felt nothing, and her skin felt so cold. Also her fingernails were longer than they were when she last looked at them. Mina looked at her watch, she had been wherever she is, for a day now. She tried to remember the events that had occured last night, but all that she could seem to remember was a man grabbing her, and Rei crying over her.
"Oh no Rei!" thought Mina in horror. If I'm here, than where is Rei?
Mina glanced around the cave somemore, and finally noticed the lump that was still rolled up in the blanket.
"Could that be Rei?" worried Mina.
Suddenly images flashed through her mind. Images of Rei being attacked by the same man as Mina was.
Mina's head started hurting as if her head was being beat in with a hammer.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!!!" Mina screamed in agony. A loud growl came from her throat.
"What did that man do to me? Rei! Rei, I've got to see if she's okay. But my head it hurts so much."
Mina crawled slowly over to where Rei layed in the blanket. She unwrapped some of the blanket, only to discover Rei laying as still as someone who was dead. Mina tried to find a pulse on Rei but couldn't. Rei was as cold as ice, just like Mina was. Rei was dead. The truth hit Mina like a load of bricks, and it seemed too unreal to have happened.
"No, Rei. You can't be dead. It should have been me and not you. Oh God why?" Mina sobbed. But the fact that Rei was "dead" didn't seem to be the part that upset her. All she felt was anger.
"NOOOOO!!!!!" Mina screeched, but it came out as more of a loud roar. Echoing through-out the cave.
All of a sudden Rei's eyes flew open, and she flew up from the ground of the cave. She looked at Mina, who jumped to her feet at the surprise of Rei waking up, her eyes flamed red and her fangs showing clearly.
"Mina?" Rei asked confused.
"Your..your...your a vampire Rei!" Mina gasped.
"What? What do you mean I'm a vampire? Your the one who is a vampire Mina!" Rei exclaimed, finally seeing Mina's own set of fangs and flaming red eyes.
"Me? What? I can think straight anymore cause my head hurts." Mina said, putting her head in her hands as she fell to the ground.
"Mina! Are you okay?" Rei questioned kneeling down next to her. Rei's head was spining, and her neck ached painfully. She felt her teeth with her tongue, and noticed that they felt as long as Mina's teeth were, and that her fingernails were longer than the short length that she has kept them for years.
"Mi, I think that we both are.... Vampires. I don't know how it happened, but maybe it has something to do with last night or whenever it was. God Mi, your my best friend, and whatever is happening to us, we can handle it together as we always have." Rei said stroking Mina's long blonde hair.
"Rei, it's all my fault. It was my idea to walk through the park last night. If it wasn't for me, we wouldn't both be here in this cave dead." Mina cried.
"Oh for the love Mi, it wasn't your fault at all. Listen, it could have happened anyway. Gawd Mi, I don't care that we're vampires or whatever now, all I care about is that we are both kind of alive to endure whatever we have to together." Rei replied sternly.
"Rei, I don't what I'd ever do without you here to pull me up when I fall down." Mina said gratfully.
"Mi, I think that we are going to need each other to figure stuff out now." smiled Rei hugging Mina.
"Cause it's going to take the two of us whatever we are to get ourselves out of this mess." she continued.
"What should we do now?" Mina asked, sitting down on the blanket.
"Well what do you know about vampires?" Rei asked sitting down next to her on the blanket.
"I always was told that, and I use to believe that vampires didn't exist. So we now know that that part is as true as Serena doing homework."
Mina joked, showing off her shining white fangs as she laughed.
"I use to always say that I'd be dead when Serena acually did her homework. So I guess when we go back home, I shouldn't be to surprised when I find out that Serena acually did her homework." said Rei laughing as well.
"God, how did our lives ever end like this. I mean, here we are sitting on a cave floor on a blanket dead and as vampires. We would have never guessed you know?" Mina said looking at Rei. 
"Yeah I know what you mean. But like Grampa always says:"You gotta take what life dishes out, and you gotta clean your plate." Grampa must be worried sick about where I am, so must all the others." Rei replied. 
"Your Grampa never did make sense before, but I acually understood that quote of his. Maybe this whole being a vampire thing, makes you smarter huh? Don't worry about the others Rei, they will be okay. Right now we need to focus on ourselves, and figuring everything out." replied Mina looking at Rei. Their eyes meeting.
Suddenly a bright burst of light shone through-out the cave and dissapeared just as quickly as it came. A neatly folded note lay on the cave floor by Rei's foot.
"What's that?" Mina asked stretching over Rei and picking up the note.
"Read it and find out." 
"Alright." Mina said as she unfolded the note.
"It says: Congrats on finding this note. As you may or may not know, your are now vampires. I figured that I should tell you the real facts about vampires, because I wouldn't want you to put vampires to shame the first hours of your "re-births." 
Now what is said in story books about our kind, is not true at all, well at least most of it that is. Our kind can walk in the daylight, although sometimes really bright light can hurt our eyes. Garlic, crosses, holy water, and all that stuff is not true in any way. It's true that we cannot be seen in mirrors, but it's not true that we need to be invited into to someones house to enter. And yes, we need fresh blood from a human in order to survive. If you don't drink blood, then you become sick. You don't need to drink blood everyday, but you should to remain at you full power. I think you can manage now. You have all the knowledge of the world now, and you will know how to use your powers when you need to. I advise that the two of you stick together, as living an eternal life alone is a curse.
Sincerily: James .L. Yearner" Mina read, whispering the last line.
"What! Eternal life? Human blood?" Rei said shrilly, looking at Mina with tears in her eyes.
"Hey Rei, think of it this way, we have each other to spend eternity with right?" Mina said trying to comfort Rei.
"Yeah, but now we also have to live forever while the others grow old and die." Rei said sadly.
"Your right, but we still have many years before that happens. And on the plus side, we get to see Rini grow up and have a family." Mina replied cheerfully.
"I guess."
"Yeah, and now we don't have to worry about you always looking at yourself in the mirror, cause now we don't have reflections." Mina joked.
"What do you mean? I'am mot always looking at myself in the mirror." Rei said defensively.
"Oh is that true? Then I guess it wasn't you the other day in your bedroom mirror daydreaming that you were some super model, and all the hot guys at school were madly in love with you. Huh huh? Well?" Mina said, pretending to bat her eyelashes at Rei.
"Screw you Mi!" Rei said shoving Mina, but not relizing her own strength, causing Mina to go flying into the cave wall with a loud thud.
"Hey! Now your in for it!" Mina said, sending a psyhic force at Rei.
Rei doubled over in pain, but did not get up.
"Rei? Rei are you okay?" Mina asked running over to Rei.
"Uhhhhhhhh!! I feel so hungry." Rei moaned grasping her stomache.
"We both need to... need to.. kill." Mina stammered.
"We.. Uhhhhhhh!!!" Mina growled, the hunger hitting her yet again.
"We don't even know where we are, and besides, I don't want to kill." Rei growled, looking at Mina with glowing red eyes.
"We have to! We need to in order to survive!" 
"I don't want to kill Mina!" Rei snarled, baring her teeth.
"Niether do I, but I'm not ready to die just yet. Follow me!" Mina ordered taking off into the darkness of the cave.
"Mina!" Rei yelled, following close behind.
The two of them used their powers to run extremely fast, and soon enough they were out of the cave. The moon shone brightly upon the two of them, casting not even the smallest shadow.
"Told you I'd get us out of the cave." Mina boasted, sniffing the air. She let out a pleased growl and took off towards the city, telling Rei to continue following her.
Within minutes, they were in Tokyo park hiding behind a bush. Two homeless men sat on the park bench talking about the weather.
"Look there Rei. Our meal tickets await." Mina said smiling.
"Mi I can't. I mean we fight to protect people, and now we have to kill them to live." Rei whispered.
"They are two homeless people Rei. They won't be missed. Just think of the blood." Mina argued, the savage hunger had cause her to loose all humane thoughts.
Rei tried to keep the thought of blood out of her head, but failed. 
"Your right, they are Mi." Rei said looking at the two men with hunger.
With what seemed like only a second, Mina and Rei had jumped out from behind the bush they were hiding behind, had grabbed the two men, and hauled them back behind the bush.
Mina and Rei laughed evily as they bared their fangs, and bit down into the mens necks, and began to suck their blood. After a few minutes, Rei looked over to Mina who was just finishing her meal.
"Poor saps. They had no money or homes, but they had good warm blood." Rei said, smiling and licking her fangs clean.
"I agree with you there Rei." Mina replied, also licking her fangs clean.
All of a sudden, a fury white streak flew out through the bushes, and landed on Mina. It was Artimis (Mina's cat).
"Mina! Mina! I've found you finally! Oh my goodness you had me worried for the last day now."
Artimis rapidly said rubbing and smelling Mina all over. Finally calming down, he sat down in front of Mina, and looked up at her.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" he screeched as he saw Mina's flaming red eyes, and long sharp teeth.
"Wha'? Wha'? What's going on here?" he asked looking at both Mina and Rei.
"Artimis..." Mina started.
"You look so different both of you, I mean..." Artimis rambled.
"Artimis!!! Mina snarled.
"What?" he asked shanking in fear.
"Shut up for a minute or two, and let me and Rei explain everything." Mina said in a calming voice.
Mina and Rei began to explain everything to Artimis as clearly as they could, begining with the events of the night before, leading right up to their kills minutes before. Artimis looked down at the two bodies laying on the ground around him, gasping in shock.
"Mina, Rei, how could you do that to two human beings?" Artimis asked hurtfully, looking at Mina and Rei with hurt eyes.
"Easily Artimis." Mina said coldly, both she and Rei empty of humanity.
"But they are human beings, people you and the others fight to protect everyday! Living creatures." Artimis argued.
"How can you eat meat everyday? The meat you eat was once a living creature too." Rei asked, trapping Artimis with his words.
"But that is different!" Artimis replied.
"How is it?" Mina asked with a smile.
"It's different because those two men had lives, family, and friends!" Artimis cried.
"Those two men were nothing but two homeless bums. Their families didn't want them around, and their only friends were each other. Nobody will miss them." Rei said, raising her eyebrow.
"That's not the point! Would you go and kill a single mother that has to work hard everyday just to support herself and her children, knowing that her children would be orphens?" Artimis said in a somewhat loud voice, tears starting to build up in his eyes.
"Probally yeah. As a matter of fact, that makes me feel a bit hungry again, what about you Rei? Feel like going out and finding a sinlge mother?" Mina asked mockingly, looking at Rei.
"Same here Mi, maybe we could find a couple of horny business men to have fun with. If you know what I mean." Laughed Rei, growling with pleasure.
"Oh! That would be awesome! Think of the fun we could have." Mina said, laughing at the look or horror that crossed Artimis' face.
"What has happened to you two?" Artimis asked in horror.
"Nothing much really, we just died that's it." Rei replied sarcastically.
"But still. You two were never ever this cruel to the evil forces that we have fought and defeated." Artimis stated.
Both Mina and Rei's faces calmed, their fangs dissapearing, and their eyes becoming their normal colors. They looked at Artimis, and saw the fear in his eyes, and read the sadness in his mind.
"Look Artimis, we aren't exactly thrilled that we died last night, but we are making the best of it by learning to adjust. We NEED to kill to live, and in order to adjust to our new life, we must learn to kill without feelings. As a matter of fact, we already learned to do that just a few minutes ago. We have accepted what we are to ourselves, but now we need to have our friends accept it. Do you understand what i mean Artimis?" Mina asked sadly, sqwatting down in front of Artimis.
"I do, but it just seems so unreal." he replied.
"Yeah it did for us too when we still had some human thoughts, but now it seems almost normal." Rei replied.
"What do you mean Rei?" Artimis asked.
"I mean everything was all screwed up when we first woke up tonight. I mean, we didn't even know what or where we were. We felt the hunger too soon after we began to understand things, and we still thought like humans so we didn't want to kill, but knew we had to to stop the pain. After we made our first kill, we lost every trace of humanity that we had left. Remorse for a human is something we no longer feel." Rei explained.
"I see." Artimis replied understandingly.
"The other have been worried sick about you two. They have thought nothing but the worse about your location. We should go home." Artimis continued.
"NO!!!!!!" both Mina and Rei growled, looking at Artimis sternly.
"But,," Artimis started.
"No buts about it Artimis, we can't let the other know just yet." Mina said sadly.
"Then don't tell them untill your ready to." Artimis suggested, with pleading eyes.
"Give us a few minutes to talk about it." Rei said quietly.
"Sure, ok. Whatever you need." Artimis replied.
Mina and Rei quickly walked over to the park bench, where they began to talk rapidly in greek, as if to prevent unwanted listeners, about what they should do.
"Should we go home?" Mina asked, looking at Rei.
"I don't know what we should do Mi. I just don't know." Rei said looking down at the ground.
"We should go home. There isn't anyway anyone could find out about us, unless we tell them right? I mean Ami is the brains of our group, but she don't believe in the supernatural, and i mean Serena isn't gonna be able to figure anything out. And Lita is always too busy too notice even if her shoes are untied." Mina replied lightly.
"Yeah your right, we should go home. We can't avoid it any longer. Let's go." Rei said standing up. She extended her hand out to Mina to help her up off the low bench. 
"Thanks." Mina said with a tiny smile.
The two of them walked back over to where Artimis sat nervously by the two dead bodies.
"We've decided to go Artimis. We know that we can't hide the truth forever, but we are going to try to keep it for as long as we can." Mina said boldly, as if deciding her fate for all eternity.
"I'm glad to hear that girls. Umm, can we go now though, cause these bodies are making me nervous." Artimis replied, jumping up onto Mina's shoulder.
"Alright with me Artimis. But you must remember to keep our indenities a secrect. Even from Luna." Rei answered.
"Yes, I promise." Artimis said with a nod.
"Now let's go home, before it gets too late." Rei said with a smile.
The three of the set off towards the busy Tokyo sidewalks, as the large clock on top of the city hall rang midnight.

***********Later That Night************

Rei quietly slid the large oak door of the temple open. She stuck her head into the doorway, and looked for any sign that her Grampa or Chad might still be awake. She sniffed the air. She could smell the fire in the room down the hallway going.
"Grampa must be fire channeling again." Rei thought, referring to the skill that her Grampa had taught her when she was ten. Fire channeling was a way of finding answers to ones questions about the future or life, and it required ones total concentration. 
"I'll have to go around the other way to get to my room without Grampa seeing me. But I'll to be careful when I go past Chads room." Rei thought smiling at the thought of Chad. Chad was a ex-rock star, who had quite his life of taveling on the road to work at the temple. That had been three years ago, and over that time, Rei had become quite fond of him.
Rei walked gracefully down the hallway without a sound. Her bedroom was in the private section of the temple, which was on the other side of the temple. The temple belonged to her Grampa, and it's full name was The Cherryhill Temple. Her Grandpa taught martial arts, and meditation to willing participants. Before Chad had come to the temple, Rei had done all the cleaning at the temple, now that was Chad's job, while Rei sold charms to tourists.
Rei turned the corner into the private section, when she came face to face with her Grampa. She had been to wrapped up in her thoughts to sense her Grampa, and now it was too late to do anything to avoid it.
"Rei! I'm so glad to see you again. I thought something bad had happened to you. Where have you been for the last twenty four hours?" Grampa asked holding Rei's hands.
"You feel so cold, you should come sit down in front of the fire." he continued hauling Rei in the direction of the sacred room, where they could meditate or channel.
"No Grampa I'm fine." Rei said preventing Grampa from hauling her down the hallway.
"Well then where have you been?" he asked looking up at Rei.
"I've ummm, I've been, ummmm, I was ummm out.Hehe." Rei lied sqwatting down to look directly into her Grampa's eyes.
"Out? Out for twenty four hours?" Grampa replied shrilly.
"Yeah I was doing stuff." Rei said, trying not to look like she was lying. 
"Doing what? Are you in trouble Rei, cause we will have to get it sorted out." Grampa pressed.
"Trouble! No!" Rei replied shocked.
"That's it! That's exactly it!" Grampa shouted.
"I've got to shut him up before his yelling wakes Chad up." Rei thought, trying to think of something.
Suddenly Rei looked directly into her Grampa's eyes, they flared red, locking her Grampa's, eyes with hers.
"You did not see me in the last twenty four hours, because I was out looking into Universities that I could possibly attend next year." Rei said in a bewitching voice, convincing her Grampa that she wasn't in any trouble. Rei's eyes returned to normal. She silently cheered herself on for leanrnig how to brainwash humans.
"I'm sorry Grampa, but I'm extremely tired, and would like to go to bed now. Goodnight."Rei said standing up.
She bowed to her grampa, and headed of to her bedroom. Once she got inside her bedroom, she magically locked the door to prevent any early morning intruders. She smiled as she fell onto her bed. It was certainly a lot more comfortable than the cave floor that she had woke up on that night.
She felt bad for haveing to lie to her Grampa like she did, and for haveing to brainwash him. He was the only father figure that she had ever known. Her parents had died in an car accident right afer she was born, and Rei had been delivered the next day into her Grampa's care at the temple. She hadn't been the easiest child to raise, especially for her Grampa whom time was starting to catch up to.
It felt great to be back in her bedroom, and she was amazed at all the scents she could smell. She smelt Chads scent, which was funny cause he had never been in her bedroom. She closed her eyes and used her powers to mentally play back why Chad had been in her room. He had stood in her doorway crying with worry for her just this evening, and had walked over to her bed and picked up the white sash that he had given her to prevent her hair from blowing into the fire when she channeled. He had smelt her hair's scent on the sash, and it almost seemed to comfort him. He took it from her room and layed it next to his pillow for the night.
Rei opened her eyes. Humans were confusing, they were comforted by a simple object, and alomst believed that it took away their worries. It reminded her of the love struck teenagers that had come up to the temple shop to purchase love charms in hope of being able to win their loves heart.
Rei laughed. She was already thinking these thoughts, and she had only just lost her humanity a hour ago. She was thankful that she no longer thought like that. Rei looked at the clock on her nightstand. It was only twelve thirty, the night was young and she wasn't tired in the lest.
"God what am I going to do now?" She thought to herself, yawning with boredom.

********** Fifteen Minutes Before***********

Mina stood outside her front door. She listened intently for any signs of her parents being awake. She heard nothing, so she decided to quietly sneak in. She opened the front door with a quiet creek. The house smelled of worry, and it made Mina widen her eyes with shock. Her parents were sick with worry for her, and her mother had developed a flu from the stress.
"I'll have to check in on them when I go by their room." She thought to herself.
Artimis jumped down off her shoulder.
"I know that you just got home and all, but would you feed me? It's just that your parents have been so worried, that they forgot to feed me." Artimis asked, looking up at Mina pitifully.
"Sure Artimis." she said. She walked into the kitchen, and opened up the fridge. She spotted a plate of her mom's leftover sushi that her family had had the night before. She took it out of the fridge, and put it all into Artimis' food dish. 
"Here you go Artimis, and I'll give you some milk too. You deserve it, for talking me and Rei into coming home." Mina said gratefully filling Artimis' water dish full of fresh milk.
"Gee thanks Mina, I've never ever been able to have this much of your mom's sushi before, it's great." Artimis mumbled with a mouthful of food.
"No problem Artimis." Mina replied, rubbing his left ear.
"I'd love to hang out with you down here, but I'm going to go up to my room okay. I'll leave my door open for you." Mina continued, getting up and heading towards the stairs.
"Mmmmmm mmm." Artimis mumbled in agreement, with his head buried in his food.
Mina walked up the stairs to her parents bedroom. She carefully eased the door open, she could hear her parents quietly breathing. Mina walked silently into the room, and over to her mother's side of the bed. Her mother's face was pale and caked with worry. Mina placed her hand on her mother's feverish brow. Her forehead was hot to touch, and somewhat sweaty.
The aura around Mina began to glow a thereputic blue, as she begun to heal her mother of her terrible fever. Mina removed her hand as her mother turned over in bed. Mina leaned over and kissed her mother on the forehead, turned, and walked out of the room without a sound.
Mina went into her bedroom, remembering to leave the door open a tiny bit for Artimis, and walked over to her balcony french doors.
She opened the doors, allowing a cool breeze to enter the room.
Mina walked out onto her large balcony, which over looked the city lights of Tokyo. She hopped up onto the balcony railing, and sat down with her back against the house.
She sniffed the air, it was going to be a hot day tomorrow, which would mean a great day for the beach, with lots of sun. Bright sun. Mina growled. The thought of all that sun made her squirm. She'd have to go buy a new pair of sunglasses, and while she was at it, she'd have to make sure she got a new jacket at Gucci.
Mina tried to think of what to say to her parents tomorrow, when they came crashing loudly into her bedroom in the morning. It'd have to be a good one to pass her parents judgement. Mina cringed at the thought of how early she'd have to get up in the morning, and it was already fifteen minutes to one am.
"I might as well go to bed, if I wanna get up in somewhat of a good mood." Mina thought to herself as she flew down off of her railing, and onto her bed. She took off her long sleeve shirt, and her dirty blue jeans, and threw them onto the floor by her bed, along with her sneakers and socks.
She crawled into her bed, and layed back and thought about how worried her mother looked asleep in her bed. Mina was shocked at how upset a human could get about another human. She just couldn't get it. Her mother's young face seemed to have aged since the other night. Mina's being gone must have really upset her. Her mother had been only sixteen when she had Mina, and her face had always looked as if it belonged to the same sixteen year old that had given birth to her eighteen years ago.
About fifteen minutes later, Artimis can into the the room, and jumped up onto Mina's bed. He walked over to Mina's arm, and wedged himself under her arm, and fell asleep. Soon after Mina too fell asleep, but not to a dream filled one, but a dreamless one, for vampires did not dream, unless something was going to happen.

*********The Next Morning*********

The bright morning sun shone in through Mina's windows, filling the room with light. A bright beam of sun stretched across the room, and covered Mina's eyes. Mina's eyes flew open, as she leaped off the bed, her eyes flaring red and her fangs coming down as she growled loudly. Artimis jumped up in surprise, and looked at Mina with a confused look. Mina cursed loudly.
"What's wrong Mina?" Artimis asked, looking at Mina still.
"That cursed sun. I wake up and all i see is it shining in my eyes." Mina snarled, sitting down on her bed.
"Are you all right?" Artimis asked with concern.
"I'm fine. The sun dosen't kill us, but the really bright stuff hurts our eyes." Mina answered, referring to Rei and her, as she picked up Artimis.
"As long as your okay." Artimis replied licking Mina's hand affectionally.
Mina's face calmed as her eyes returned to normal and her fangs disapeared.
"Nothing will ever be able to harm me Artimis, so don't worry about me." Mina said rubbing his ear.
Suddenly Mina's bedroom door brust open, as her mother and father came rushing in. Her mother made it to her first, she wrapped her long arms around Mina for a strong hug.
"Mina! I've been so worried about you ever since you never came home the other night.Your friends have been looking for you and Rei for us." Mina's mother cried joyfully, holding Mina's shoulders with a strong grip, as she looked tearfully into her eyes.
"We are so glad you are home now Minako." Mina's father said kissing her on the cheek.
"They must been glad to see me." Mina thought.
"They have only called me by my full name once, and that was was when I won the volleyball championships two years ago." she continued, referring to the fact that her father called her by her full name Minako instead of Mina.
"Where were you?" her mother asked.
"I was ummmm,,, I was with Rei." Mina stammered, trying to think of what Rei had used for an excuse if any.
"We know you were with Rei, but what were you doing?" her father asked questionly.
"I was with her looking into universities that I might want to go to next year." Mina replied quickly.
"Well that's great honey, did you find any?" her father asked with a smile.
"Oh! No, I didn't." Mina lied.
"Oh well that's alright. But you should have really called us to tell us were you were." her mother said happily.
"Yeah I'm really sorry about that, I forgot to call, and I never got home till late last night." Mina said, standing up from her bed.
"Listen, I wanna get into the shower and get dressed, because I wanna go spend the day with my friends." Mina continued looking at both of her parents.
"Alright then Mina, I'll just go down stairs and start breakfast." her mother replied joyfully.
"I'm not hungry mom, sorry." Mina answered,which wasn't a lie, because she wasn't really that hungry.
"Oh, ok then. Ummm, we'll see you when you come down." her father said opening her bedroom door as both he and her mother walked into the hallway.
"Gawd I thought I'd never get rid of them." Mina thought with a laugh as she got ready to go have a shower. She still needed to face the others, but at least she could face them with Rei.

******Half An Hour Before******

Tiny bits of sun leaked in past the bamboo blinds that hung from Rei's windows, preventing any large amounts of sun from disturbing Rei's dreamless sleep. Rei layed in bed with an expressionless look on her face.
Everything was quiet except for the peaceful chirps of the small birds outside. Suddenly a loud knocking came at Rei's door. The person on the other side gave five loud bangs before yelling:
"Rei! Rei! Are you there? It's me Chad! Come on answer the door!" Chad yelled loudly, but with great joy in his voice.
Rei's eyes slowly opened, she groaned as she looked at the clock on her nightstand. It was only nine o'clock in the morning, way too early to even consider getting up, especially after the night she had last night.
Rei cursed as she got up out of bed, and made her way to the door. She removed the spell from the door, and slowly slid the door open. She had no sooner opened her door, when Chad had her in a giant bear hug. 
"Rei I'm so glad to see you, I was so worried about you, well your Grampa was too, but I was especially worried you know." Chad stumbled dumbfoundedly, hugging her so hard she probally wouldn't have been able to breathe had she needed to.
"Chad I know you missed me, but would you mind putting me down if it's too much of a tragedy for you." Rei said in a annoyed tone, as she tried to squeeze out of Chad's huge hug without giving off the fact that she was stronger than he.
"Ummmm ok, sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you if I did, I didn't did I? Let me have a look." Chad rambled trying to see if he had hurt Rei.
"No Chad I'm fine." Rei said pushing Chad's hand away roughly."Oh well I'm sorry Rei, I mean I didn't mean to like offend you or something." Chad said looking away from Rei.
Rei ran her hands through her hair. She had begun to get annoyed with Chad's stammering and blabbering.
"Is this how I will feel about all human boys?" Rei thought to herself.
"No, Chad's just annoying, and so isn't his mind." Rei thought as she read his mind.
"Listen Chad, it's early and I reeealy want to have a shower, so if you don't mind, could you ummm go?" Rei asked sarcastically.
"Yeah sure, ok, sorry I bugged you." Chad replied, his face blushing as he started running off down the hall.
"Humans." Rei said under her breath. As she turned to gather her stuff for a shower.
After Rei had had her shower, she returned to her bedroom to call Mina. The phone rang five times before Mina answered.
"Hey Rei." she answered.
"How'd you know it was me?" Rei asked stupidly on purpose.
"Telepathy works wonders you know." Mina replied sarcastically.
"Yeah I no."
"So what should we do about today?" 
"We should just get it over with, as soon as possible."
"Yeah, but what are we going to tell them? They won't fall for the university excuse you know."
"How about we just say that we suspected that the heart snatchers might attack an elderly couple in the next town over, so we decided to follow the couple to make sure they were safe."
"That would work. Let's use it."
"Alright, now we just need to go see the others."
"Well were should we meet them that we can have a tearful reunion?"
"Dunno."
"Well are Chad and your Granpa going to be around?"
"No, they're going to Osaka for a week for "training," of course ordered by Granpa."
"That works out great! How about we all meet at your place?"
"Sure, that would work out great. Chad and Granpa have already left."
"You call everyone on the sailor watch, and I'll just grab my jacket and be right over. I really ned to get out of here, my parents are pretty much following me to the bathroom."
"Sounds annoying."
"It is."
"See ya in a minute."
"If that."
"Bye."
Rei hung up the phone, and hit a tiny red button on her watch that would let the others know to meet at her bedroom. 
"Hey Rei, d'ya call everyone?" Mina asked as she popped into Rei's room.
"Yep. How are your parents?" Rei asked, as she waved her hand to make the mess in her room dissapear.
"Oh they're fine now, but they bust into my friggen room this morning all hysterical." Mina answered in a mocking voice.
"Sounds like fun." Rei said with a smile.
"To tell you the truth, it was pathetic. I don't get humans ya know? I mean they are happy one minute, then in the next they can be raving mad." Mina replied looking at Rei.
"I know what you mean." Rei said, remembering to the incident that morning.
"Oooo two day old dounuts." Mina said, noticing the box of dounuts laying besides Rei's bed. She plopped down onto the bed, and took out a chocholate one.
"Mmmm stale." she mumbled taking a bite.
"Is there anymore?" Rei asked, laying bown next to her.
"I think. Look." Mina replied handing the dounut box to Rei.
"Goody." Rei said sarcastically.
"The others are here now." she continued, hearing the other Sailor Scouts coming in through the temple's main door.
"I give them one minute to get here running." Mina estimated.
"Brace yourself for a load of questions." Rei replied, looking over at the door as the other scouts came running into the Rei's bedroom.
"Geez we didn't think we were worth running over, especially for Serena." Mina joked, looking at the others as they tumbled on top each other.
"Mina! Rei! Are you guys all right? Where were you?" Lita asked quickly, getting to her feet.
"We're fine, just dandy ya know." Rei started, looking through the donut box for another chocolate donut.
"Donut?" she continued, holding the box out so that everyone could see what was inside.
"Ummm no thanks." Ami answered, I just ate.
"Same here." said Lita.
"Serena? You want one?" Rei asked, moving the box in her direction.
"Sure." Serena replied.
"Serena you just ate." Lita protested. 
"So? It can be my dessert."
"You had that too!" Lita replied, crossing her arms.
"And your point is?" Serena asked, taking a pink donut and taking a big bite out of it.
"I give up." Lita sighed.
"So tell us, where were you?" Ami asked worringly.
"Yeah we were getting to that. We were in the next town over. We had reason to believe that the heart snatchers were targeting an elderly couple, so we decieded to follow them to make sure that they would be okay." Mina lied, looking at Rei.
"And were they?" Ami asked taking a seat on the floor in front of the bed.
"Were they what?" Mina asked absentmindedly.
"Were they ok?" Ami asked again.
"Ooooh the couple. Yeah they're fine." Mina finally ansewered.
"Hey Serena, you're awfully quiet. What's up?" Rei asked, looking up at Serena, her eyes a mysterious brown.
"Nothing really, it's just the two of you seem so different." Serena said quietly.
"Different, how?" Mina asked, looking at Rei with a bit of worry.
"Can she tell we're not human?" Mina asked Rei telenetically.
"I don't think so, I mean it is Serena we'e talking about here." Rei responded. 
"I hope your right." Mina said.
"I don't know, you just seem, I don't know, mysterious. Like you aren't the same two people I became friends with." Serena said with in a confused tone.
Mina and Rei's facial expresions softened, as they looked up at Serena.
"Hey Serena, we've not changed at all. We're the same people we always were, ya know." Mina said comforting look.
"Yeah your right, I guess I've just been really stressed lately.
"Hey, why don't we all go out for ice cream or something." Rei suggested.
"Yeah that sounds like great idea! Let's do it" Mina agreed.
"Ok." Lita, Ami, and Serena agreed with a nod.
The five of them got up and headed out the door, Mina and Rei remembering to grab their sunglasses as they walked out. They all went down the street to Tokyo ice cream parlour which was conveniently located nextdoor to the arcade.
They walked into the ice cream parlour, and took a seat in their usual booth which was in the middle of the parlour, and gave them a clear view in all diections, of any cute guys that may walk in.
They had no sooner sat down, when their friend Laura, who was a waitress there, came over to take their order.
"Hey guys! How ya doing?" Laura asked cheerfully, whipping out her order book and pen from her blue apron.
"Good, thanks for asking." Rei replied, faking a smile.
"That's good, um what can I get ya?" Laura asked, eyeing Mina and Rei with a confused look.
"I think we'll all have our usual Laura." Serena ansewered for everyone.
"Okay then." Laura said scribbling their orders down.
"Not us Laura." Mina said, looking at Rei.
"Can we have some kind of red juice instead?" Mina continued.
"Sure." Laura replied.
"Thanks." Rei said.
"No problem." Laura said as she turned and walked over to the counter.
"What was that about?" Lita asked, looking at Mina and Rei curiously.
"What was what about?" Mina asked with a small grin.
"The some kind of red juice thing. Why red?" Lita pressed.
"Dunno just wanted a change." Mina answered.
"Ok then. Just asking."
"Hey look at those gorgeous hunks of shear manlyness." Serena said with a love sick look, as her eyes diverted to the main door, where six well mucseled high school guys walked in.
"Where?" Lita asked shrilly, looking all around.
"Over there." Serena said, pointing her finger in the direction of the guys.
"Ooohhhhhhh. They are handsome." Lita swooned, love filled in her eyes.
"I don't know what the two of you are so love struck about." Mina said, turning to look at the guys, removing her sunglasses.
"I agree." Rei said. 
"What! Are you both blind? They are fine!" Serana gasped with shock.
"I've had better." Rei said with a smirk.
"Same here, a lot better." Mina agreed.
"What? I don't get you two." Lita exclaimed.
The six guys could feel eyes on them, and looked in the direction of the girls booth. They saw Mina and Rei looking at them, and they felt the powerful suduction of the two vampires.
"Omigawd they're coming over!" Serena said excitedly.
"How's my hair?" Lita asked, running her hands through her hair.
"Ummmm guys, I don't think that the guys are coming over to see you. I think it's Mina and Rei that they are in "love with." Ami stated.
"Yeah I agree with Ami." Artimis said, looking at the approaching guys.
"I don't think that they heard you guys." Mina said with a laugh.
"Do they ever when it comes to guys?" Artimis asked with a grin.
"Not really." Rei replied jokeingly.
"Ummm hi!" one of the guys said, flashing a huge smile.
"My names Dane, and these are my friends; Matt, Chris, Nick, Joe, and Dave." Dane said, pointing to each one of his friends as he said their name.
"Hi. My names Serena, and these are my friends; Lita, Ami, Mina, and Rei." Serena said.
"Hi Mina, hi Rei." all the guys said, staring at Mina and Rei, not taking inot consideration that Serena, Lita, and Ami were there.
"Hello." Mina and Rei said with a suductive smile.
"Ummm we were just wondering, if you would go on a date with us tonight, that is if your not busy or anything." Dane asked with a bit of a stammer.
"Hey Mi, you thinking what I'm thinking?" Rei asked telepathically.
"Depends on whether you considering to go out with these guys tonight, and having a meal with them in the park." Mina replied with a devilish grin.
"You read my mind Mi." Rei said sarcastically. 
"Well duh." Mina joked, as she looked at Rei, her eyes quickly flashing red.
"Yeah okay. How about we meet you guys here tonight, at oh let's say, eight thirty?" Rei replied, with a mischievious smile. A look of horror crept onto Artimis' face, for he knew what Mina and Rei really planned to do with the six unknowing guys that night.
"You will? I mean that's great. Thank you, um we gotta go get ready!" Dane said blushing as he and his friends ran out the main door.
"They never even said a word to us." Lita said with a frown.
"Like I said, they were "drooling" over Mina and Rei, not the two of you." Ami stated sternly.
"Oooo shut up Ami. Hey! I thought the two of you weren't interested in those guys." Lita protested.
"We weren't, and still arn't, but we didn't say we wouldn't go out with them if they asked us." Mina said with a laugh.
"Well I think you guys might have some more offers before we leave this place." Ami said with a smile.
"Why's that?" Rei asked with a confused look.
"Your picking up eye tracks of all the guys in here, even the ones with girlfriends." Ami said, nodding her head to all the guys.
Mina and Rei looked around the ice cream parlour, at all the guys that were staring at them them with love sick looks.
"Oh so your right. Heheh." Rei said with a laugh.
"Well no wonder, you guys are gorgeous!" Serena said jelously.
"Hey now! You guys are just as gorgeous." Mina protested.
"No we're not, we just look normal. You guys are better looking than even supermodels!" Lita exclaimed.
"What's wrong with normal?" Mina asked, with wierd look.
"Everything, cause normal don't get you the attention of all the guys in a building!" Serena said, with a frown.
"You don't relieze how lucky you are to be normal." Rei said in a quiet upset voice.
"What?" Lita asked, looking at Mina and Rei with concern.
"Nothing. Ummm, we got to go. See you guys later."
Mina said, as she and Rei stood up.
"Wait, what about your drinks? They never came yet." Serena said.
"Oh yeah, umm you can have them. Here's the money for them." Rei said, laying five dollars down on the table.
Mina and Rei turned and walked out the door, with Artimis close behind them.
"Hey girls wait!" Artimis yelled, running up to the two of them.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"You wouldn't understand Artimis." Rei said sternly.
"I know I'm not going through the same thing as you, but the least you can do is tell me what's wrong." He protested.
"You want to know what's wrong Artimis?" Mina said harshly, her eyes flaring red, and her fangs coming down.
"Yes." Artimis said bravely.
"Okay, I'll tell you what's wrong! The others don't know how good they have it. They don't have to worry about anything, they take that for granted. They are lucky to have normal lives, it's not our fault that we are what we are, we accepted that, but I don't think they ever will!" Mina yelled, tears starting to come down her cheeks.
"I'm sorry that's how you feel Mina, but I think your wrong. The others will understand, when it's time." Artimis said tearfully.
"I think your wrong there Artimis." Mina cried.
"Mi calm down." Rei said touching Mina's arm, a sending calming light force through out her.
Mina looked at Rei, her eyes and teeth returning to normal. 
"Thanks Rei, let's go." Mina said quietly.
"You know I'd do anything for ya Mi." Rei said, as they continued to walk up the street. They went to the playground, which was deserted, and sat down on the benches by the pond. They sat in silence at first, watching the ducks swim around diving for food. 
"I'm sorry I got so upset back there Artimis." Mina apoligized.
"It's all right Mina." Artimis replied, rubbing against her leg.
" Ummmmm I just wanted to ask, the two of you arn't planning to tonight what I think you're planning to do." Artimis asked, looking at Mina and Rei with a curious look.
"What would that be Artimis?" Rei asked with a grin.
"Planning on killing those guys." Artimis said in a unsure voice. 
"Of course we are." Rei said with a laugh.
"How'd you ever guess?" Mina asked in a mocking voice.
"Well when you got that sort of hungry grin on your face, when I guess the two of you were talking mentally to each other about what you'd say to those guys. I kinda clued in then." Artimis answered.
"Your starting to understand us now Artimis." Mina said with a smile.
"Is that good?" Artimis asked with a small grin.
"Maybe, maybe not." Rei said with a laugh.
A funny look came across Artimis' face, as he stood up
"Ummm, I'm going to go back to the parlour to see if I can get any leftover ice cream." Artimis said as he started to run back towards the ice cream parlour.
"Poor Artimis, he's gonna have a heartattack trying to keep up with us." Rei said with a laugh.
"Yeah, but he's determined." Mina said.
Mina listened to something she heard off in the distance, she could tell who it was right off.
"Serena's coming." Mina said quietly.
"Mmmmm. I can smell her." Rei said, taking a sniff of the air.
"Do you think it's the right time to tell her?" Mina asked softly.
"I don't know. I think we should tell her." Rei replied.
"But what if she can't handle it?" Mina asked with concern.
"The we can wipe her mind of the entire incident."
Rei said.
"Alright." Mina answered.
They sat in silence, as Serena's footsteps came closer and louder to where they sat.
"Mina, Rei, there you are." Serena said, gasping for breath.
"How come your not back at the parlour?" Rei asked, looking at Serena with a small grin.
"I had to come find you." Serena gasped. 
"Why?" Mina asked.
"Cause, I wanted to apoligize if your feelings were hurt back there." Serena said, finally catching her breath.
"No harm was done." Mina said coldly.
"I don't believe you." Serena replied.
"You seemed upset when we said it wasn't worth being just normal anymore." Serena continued.
"You shouldn't take being normal for granted Serena, cause when normal is gone then that's when you really miss it and can't get it back." Rei said sternly.
"What? C'mon you guys, you both are as normal as any of us." Serena protested lightly.
"We're not normal anymore Serena, nor will we ever be again. At least since last night." Mina said, fighting back tears.
"Guys, what really happened last night?" Serena asked in a concerned voice.
"You couldn't handle the truth if we told you Serena." Mina replied.
"Try me." Serena said boldly.
"Alright." Rei started.
"We died last night Serena." she continued.
"What do you mean?" Serena asked, with a confused look.
"We died. Plan and simple." Mina said flatly.
"But your sitting there talking to me. How can you be dead?" Serena asked.
"Easily. Serena, do you believe in vampires?" Rei asked coldly.
"No. They arn't real." Serena answered.
"Well your wrong." Mina said.
"What?" Serena asked with a bit of fear in her voice.
"Your wrong. Vampires are real. Last night we were killed by a vampire. We were changed into vampires." Rei replied harshly.
"But your sitting in the sun, I though vampires weren't able to come out in the sunlight." Serena protested.
"Everything said about vampires is wrong, except for a few things." Mina said.
"And they are?" Serena asked fearfully.
"We can't be seen in mirrors, we live forever, nothing can harm us, we have powers beyond your wildest dreams, and we kill to survive. We kill for blood. But don't worry, We won't harm you or any of the others." Mina stated.
"How can I believe you? This seems so unreal." Serena stammered.
"Believe this." Rei said. Both her and Mina's eyes flamed red, and their fangs came down.
"Omigawd!" Serena gasped, looking in horror at Mina and Rei.
"See, we told you that you couldn't handle this." Rei said, looking at Mina with a calm look.
"I can handle it, I want to, it's just that this is so much of a shock. I mean, I never ever believed in vampires before, and now this. But don't worry, I'm not scared of you. I mean I trust you guys more than everything, your like sisters to me." Serena cried, taking both Mina and Rei's hands.
"Hey now, there's no need to cry." Mina said with a smile, showing off her fangs. 
"I can't help it. I just can't believe that something like that could happen to you two, much less anyone else." Serena sobbed.
"Well it is has, and we have accepted the matter wholeheartedly Serena. We just hope that you will." Rei said in a calming voice, her eyes and teeth returning to normal. 
"I have already. But wait, does Artimis know?" Serena asked taking a seat on the bench next to Mina.
"Yeah, he found out last night when he found us. We didn't really need to tell him too much, since he stumbled upon us when we had just finished feeding." Mina said with a grin, her eyes and teeth returning to normal as well.
"Oooh that had to be quite the shocker." Serena said with a small laugh.
"Yeah, but he was all like, yeah they aren't the same two girls I knew the other night, but they're alright, and he went on to tell me that he was hungry, blah blah." Mina laughed, looking at Serena, as she took a sniff of the air.
"That sounds like Artimis. But like him I will keep your secret." Serena smiled.
"What are you smelling Mina?" Serena asked looking curiously at Mina, trying to she if she too could smell whatever it was that MIna smelled in the air.
"Don't waste your breath Serena, you couldn't smell what I smell no matter how hard you tried. No human could." Mina said in a somewhat stern tone.
"It didn't hurt to try." Serena smiled.
"What do you smell anyway?" she continued.
"Lita, Ami, and Luna." Mina answered staring off into the distance.
"I smell them too, they're still a good ten minutes away. They're still going on about those guys." Rei laughed, loking at both Serena and Mina.