Across the city, girls were
staring at reflections of themselves. "Who's the most beautiful
in the
world?" asked a woman's voice.
"It's you of course," replied a man's voice. Nehelenia's shadow
flitted
across the mirrors.
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Setsuna, Haruka, Michiru, and
Hotaru were watching the morning TV news. The news anchor was reporting
that a
new disease had appeared amongst women that caused loss of energy. He
said it was thought to be a new mental disease caused by stress.
"The white moon is covered by a dark shadow," Hotaru repeated her
earlier prophecy to herself, "The blonde hair that shines with that
light is attacked by an evil wish."
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The four women began discussing
the recent strange events. Michiru commented that the monsters they had
fought were like
mirrors. She looked into her talisman mirror and saw a vision of
Mamoru, with a shadow behind him. Then the vision was gone.
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Usagi and Minako were running
through the halls of their high school, late as usual. The girls came
across a long-haired boy staring into a mirror. Usagi started yelling
at him
that he would be late too but he ignored her. Minako said Usagi didn't
have
time to worry
about other people and dragged Usagi away. The boy had the same
strange golden glint in his right eye that Mamoru had.
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Serena and Minako finally
arrived
at their classroom where they were greeted by Mako and Ami. Mako
and Ami told Minako and Usagi that the class was having a free study
period so
it didn't matter that they were late. The reason for the study period
was that all the
teachers had gone to an emergency meeting. Minako and Usagi
worried that maybe the meeting was about punishing tardy students. Ami
said it wasn't. It was because many students were
absent. Usagi thought it could be influenza. But Ami said that
many girls had been waking up with no energy and were
not coming to school. Minako said she had heard about it on TV that
morning. Ami said that if Minako had time to watch morning TV then she
shouldn't be late for school.
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Mako noticed a girl standing
alone in the hallway staring into a compact make-up mirror. Usagi went
over and tried
to talk to her but the girl ignored Usagi completely. Usagi snatched
the mirror from the girl and looked into it herself. "There
doesn't seem to be anything unusual about it," she said.
Suddenly, dark smoke began to swirl within the mirror. The smoke
streamed upwards towards Usagi's face. Mako noticed and sprinted down
the hallway. She slapped the mirror from Usagi's hands and it broke
upon the floor. Everyone was a little stunned. Mako explained
that she had seen some strange power
coming
from the mirror, but realized immediately how strange that sounded. The
other girl said nothing but looked very sad as she
picked up her broken compact. Mako apologized and offered to
give her own compact as a replacement. But surprisingly, the girl
said
since her mirror was broken she had nothing left to live for!
A golden glint flickered in the girl's eye. Usagi saw it and realized
it was the same as what she had noticed in Mamoru, but she didn't say
anything to the other girls about it.
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