Sailor Electra took the shiruken and slit her left wrist, an instant before the black energy sphere knocked her unconscious.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Neko fell to the ground, weak from pain and grief. A second later she got back up because she knew she had to get to Mi-chan. Nothing else mattered.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Jian-wa was confused and angry. What had she done?! All his plans and fighting would be for nothing if she died in this condition. Why would she do that?!
He thought about everything he had been told about the Sailor Scouts, but this didn't compute with any of it.
Baka, it's obvious that she just wanted to ruin your plans. Kill the rest of them now!
No, that didn't make sense. It just didn't make sense for her to sacrifice herself. Why would anyone in such an evil family be willing to sacrifice themselves for anyone?
~*~*~*~*~*~
"Mi-chan, wake up! Wake up now! Mi-chan!" Neko-chan held her sister's left hand as she tried to shake her awake.
Tenshi (who had at some point untransformed, she wasn't quite sure when or how) put her hand on her shoulder. "Neko-chan," she said gently. She was worried about Neko-chan and her twin, but she also realized that Jian-wa was watching them and none of them were in any condition to fight him. To be truthful, she didn't know why he hadn't attacked them already.
~*~*~*~*~*~
The general realized that she had made a mistake. She had told Jian-wa to make sure that he and the yoma she had lent him killed the Sailor Scouts, or else he wouldn't get his family's power back. Now that the Mizuno girl had slit her wrist, he might not have any incentive to kill the rest of them. *Shimatta!*
~*~*~*~*~*~
Jian-wa was torn. He didn't know whether to help Mi-chan or not. On one hand, killing the rest of them was pointless. On the other hand, he still wanted revenge for his parents. Yet, if everything he knew about the Sailor Scouts was wrong�. She had seemed like a nice person�.
He realized that in all actuality, he didn't want Mi-chan to die!
~*~*~*~*~*~
Neko looked at her sister's wrist. The wound reminded her of the one she had received from the shiruken only a short while ago. She looked at her hand. Though still deep, compared to Mi-chan's, her wound felt like it was hardly a scratch. *Wait a second! Somehow, it really isn't as bad as before. It's healed a little!* She tried to remember what could have healed it, but nothing came to mind.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Tenshi was worried about Neko-chan. She had suddenly become very interested in her own left hand. Worried that she might do something drastic like slit her own wrist, Tenshi took the hand in her own. "Neko-chan, we need to get Mi-chan to a hospital as soon as possible before she loses too much blood. And you too," she said gently.
"Hai�," Neko-chan answered weakly. She looked at Tenshi's hand and seemed to brighten a tad. "Tenshi-kun, you can heal!" she whispered excitedly.
Tenshi looked at her as if she were crazy.
"You healed my palm and my shiruken wound. And you must have somehow brought me back from unconsciousness. You can heal her!"
~*~*~*~*~*~
Neko had heard stories of Prince Endymion-sama having healing powers, even before he was the prince. And Hotaru-sama had had them as well. It made sense that one in the new generation of Senshi might possibly have them as well.
Neko was sure that Tenshi thought she had flipped, but she was upset and tired and Tenshi was obviously humoring her long enough to get them to a hospital, that was assuming, of course, that Jian-kun would allow them to escape.
She looked at him as Tenshi scooped Mi-chan into her arms. He looked lost. She was unsure whether to do or say anything to him, unwilling to remind him of their presence. But she couldn't leave him like that, either.
"Jian-kun�?" she inquired quietly.
He looked at her and his eyes seemed to focus again. She steeled herself for the possibility of an attack, but it never came.
"I- I want to help Mi-chan," he whispered.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Sailor Phoenix closed her eyes and waited for the attack she knew would come in a second. And waited. She cautiously opened one eye and saw that the cymbals yoma had turned back into regular cymbals. She looked around and realized that all the yoma had turned back into their respective instruments. *What the�?*
Suddenly the door to the room that Sailor Electra had run into earlier flung open. Tenshi-san, Jian-kun, and Neko-chan all hurried out of it with an unconscious Mi-chan in Tenshi-san's arms. Phoenix noticed that Mi-chan's wrist was cut and she was losing a lot of blood.
The remaining Senshi untransformed and ran over to help. Neko-chan looked like she could barely stand, but insisted on remaining with Mi-chan until an ambulance had come.
Kimako found her purse and opened her communicator watch to call her parents (which was as good as calling an ambulance), when they heard the sirens of the ambulance coming.
The conscious Mizuno kids looked at each other and said in unison, "Dad!"
~*~*~*~*~*~
Neko went out with Tenshi to meet the ambulances.
"Papa," she pleaded weakly as her dad started to take Mi-chan from Tenshi, "onegai, don't let Mi-chan die."
Then overcome with pain and exhaustion, she collapsed.
