"Hey who are you looking for?"
Serena looked around.
"I said, who are you looking for?"
"The flowers are talking to me!" exclaimed Serena.
"I'm looking for my dearest person," said Serena, "have you seen him come this way?"
"Dearest person?" asked one of the flowers, "who could be more precious than yourself?"
"You shouldn't have to look for him," said another flower, "if you stay here he'll find you."
Serena said she had to save him from Nehelenia's curse. The flowers said that sounded too scary and that Serena should stay with them.  Serena tried to argue with them but her head was becoming heavy and she couldn't remember what she was supposed to be doing.  "Stay here with us" said the flowers "and forget all the bad things."
Back at the gorge, Sailor Pluto was in a tough battle. Large numbers of crystal clones were attacking her.  Sailor Pluto used the Dead Scream attack and wiped out the crystal monsters, but immediately new ones formed.  The creatures attacked Sailor Pluto from all sides.
"Love and Beauty Shock!"  Sailor Venus rejoined the battle. She grasped Sailor Pluto's wrist and the two women fled down the rope bridge.
Sailor Venus and Sailor Pluto were hotly pursued by their enemies.  The rope bridge strained and broke!
Venus used her "Lovely Chain" to catch their fall.  Sailor Venus and Sailor Pluto caught their breath.  Sailor Venus said she wouldn't leave a friend behind. "As an order from the leader", said Venus, "we have to work together to save the Princess!"  Sailor Pluto smiled.
But their relief was premature.  At the top of the chasm Nehelenia had appeared. She removed Sailor Venus' chain!
Sailor Venus and Sailor Pluto fell into the chasm.  They became sealed within a pair of Nehelenia's nightmare mirrors.  Nehelenia was pleased with herself, "even the White Moon Princess can't resist my nightmare..."
Serena was entranced by the flower garden, and lost in a world of dreams...

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