Rydia inhaled deeply, gradually calming herself and turning back to her child form. When she looked up, she saw the puzzled look on Pyxie's face and put on an innocent face.

"A-are you ok Ry?" Pyx asked anxiously. This was the first time that she had seen Rydia in her adult form, and it quite shocked her to her toes!

Back at the Amichanian base, the bright light turned to an eerie black, as Chibi-usa continued to grow. Her cute pink hair billowed outwards, extending into long pigtails. Her cute chubby little legs grew into long, supermodel-esque limbs that would look great on the cover of the next Evil Villainess swimsuit issue. Her chest (which was already pretty expansive for a nine-year-old) billowed outwards, as she developed a figure of such stunning proportions it could only belong to...

Then Catherine colasped to the ground. Everyone including the immortals just stood frozen staring at the young girl. What happened next, no one could have predicted.
Catherine began to age. Her hair became at least waist length and curlier, and her height increased three to four inches. Her body matured to the age of at least 22 years. Back in the Blackbird, Beast and Storm examined the still unconcious, now woman.
"I can't explain the ageing as of yet, perhaps when we get back to the mansion I can run further tests, but all seems well and completely normal. As normal as a thief, future immortal and witch can be." Beast said smiling and looking down at his patient.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

I glared at a rapidly-fading Luna for a second and harrumphed angrily. "Why did you think I fainted? I saw my hair in the mirror!"
"Did you notice anything else when you looked in the mirror?"
"Oh my God! There's more? Do I *really* have a zit?!" I whirled and turned to the full-length mirror in one corner of the bathroom, trying my hardest to ignore the shock of silver hair that floated around me to the floor. With panicky glances I searched my face for the blemish.
"Hey, Luna! Was that your idea of a joke? That was not . . . "
Silver hair that fell to the *floor,*
" . . .very . . ."
Slanted blue eyes in an older face,
" . . . nice . . ."
Pajamas that rode high on my calves where before they had reached to my feet,
" . . . of . . ."
And most of all: BOOBS!
" . . . you. "
Thunk.
Thunk.
The second thunk, I believe, was Luna joining me on the floor.

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Keeping true to the recurring theme of that morning, when Ami first saw me this was her reaction:
"GYAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Thunk.
Somehow, I always thought Ami was made of sterner stuff than that. But then again, I thought *all* the girls were made of sterner stuff than I, but that morning when I walked into Hikawa Shrine, the effect was not unlike dominos.
Rei: "EEk!" Thunk
Minako: "Urgh!" Thunk

"Hotaru-chan!" Pluto turned as she extended her arms out for the young 10-years-old girl.

Everyone smiled; knowing how much love the young girl has for the Princess of Pluto.

Hotaru ran to her friends, no, families with a wide grin on her face, but a surge of pain went through her body and knocked her right off her feet.

"She's okay, but I can't explain what just happened." Mercury said to everybody else, baffled.

A few seconds later, Hotaru started to wake up, everyone watched in awe as she grew an inch with each passing second and soon, her body become the body of a 17-year-old. The outer senshi exchanged glances, hoping this doesn't mean what they think it means.

The young girl, no, woman fluttered open her eyes and the senshi were scared to death by what they saw. Hotaru's eyes, no longer cheerful and lively like they were a moment ago, instead, they are dark and cold look the eyes of one whom has experienced every singly ugly fact of life. She stood up, not taking any help from her surrounding crowd.

"Destruction is coming! I can feel it in my bones." Hotaru said, looking off into the space.