Sophia pulls up to the farm in her bike with Artemis in a basket attached to the handles. “Well, it still looks abandoned,” she says. She sits the bike next to the house, and removes Artemis from the basket. She walks around the house a few times for good measure. “Amarissa and I met here. Hopefully, everyone can find it since it’s so far out of the way.” However, the location at least guaranteed some level of privacy.

She then sits down by the same stump that she sat by before. “It’s really weird now. That was only a week ago…” She stares up at the sky at the setting sun, waiting for the others to arrive. She tries to will the light to stay a little longer, mostly to see if something would happen.

I showed up in my beat up old truck, I put it into park and jumped out. Valdis had randomly stopped in my grandma’s store and invited me to this weird place….Something about a group meeting…. I scratched my head trying to figure out where to go…Until I spotted Sophia. I waved and jogged over to her, I hadn’t seen her since the whole snow fort incident. ”Hey am I late? Clock in my truck is off dunno by how much though…Why are we here again…Val threatened if I didn’t come she was going to replace all my sugar with salt one way or another…..” I would have rather just went to bed early but nnooooo I had to go out in the middle of nowhere and freeze my balls off….

Sophia smiles at him, but not really beaming the same as she normally did. “I am glad that you came. I am sorry that Valdis threatened you, but this is sort of important.”

Her smile disappears, and her voice becomes much more somber, “I don’t really want to go into much detail until the rest of the group arrives though. I don’t think I can repeat the story that many times…” Getting through one retelling would probably give her flashbacks. She was already starting to feel scared, but tried not to let it show. “But our group lost some members that I don’t think you ever got the chance to really meet. Now we need to discuss what we need to do next.”

She turns her eyes back to the setting sun, “I apologize for the meeting being so late. I wouldn’t have been able to do this yesterday, and I had things to attend to earlier today. I think we may continue meeting here though. It at least gives us some privacy.”

In the distance one would hear a car pull up to the abandoned farm and shut off its lights, then the motor. The car its self was a dark green colored Honda and it looked a tad used. The driver side opens up and out steps Kail and the mood on his face was a normal one and was dressed normaly and walks over to the other side to open the door. "Valdis we are here" he said and looked around and saw a beat up pickup truck and not too far away was the boy from the paranormal meeting and then Sophia. This raised Kail's eyebrow slightly as they had another knight in there ranks. Which made him slightly happy but at the same time there was a loss of two other knights none the less there would be talks tonight. "Greetings" he called out to both Sophia and Kenichirou. The feeling was just as chilly as the outside temperature.

Valdis eyes fluttered open when she heard Kail say they were there, she had fallen asleep on the car ride there. She yawned and stretched, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She defiantly was feeling better then she was earlier that morning, but still hadn’t caught up on the severe lack of sleep that she had been missing on lately….she would have to make sure there were no late night excursions tonight. Her eyes gazed over to the meeting area… She saw that Kenny had come…that was good…and Sophia was sure to already be there. She slid out of the car, gazing around, they sure were out in the middle of nowhere…it made her slightly uneasy. But they needed to have this meeting…and the park wasn’t going to cut it.

As she watched Kail walk over to the group she had a sudden urge…and she just couldn’t help herself. With a running start Valdis dove and belly slid down the slope to where the stump was. All Kail would see was a purple and black blur slide by with a stream of mad giggles fallowing. She slid to a stop right at Kennys and Sophias feet, she rolled over on her back and looked up at them with a big grin. With a mock salute she greeted them.

”Lovely to see all of you…are there going to be snacks?”

Yuki arrived on her old bicycle, hoping that she had found the right place. When she spotted Sophia and the others she grinned and rode over to them before dismounting and placing her bike next to Sophia’s.

”Didn’t know this place was out here,” she commented as she walked over to join the others. Sophia, Killian, and Valdis she all knew but the other boy was a stranger to Yuki.

”Who’s this?” Yuki motioned to the boy. Was he another knight perhaps? When she scanned over the current group again, she stared momentarily at Sophia. Her eyes seemed somewhat swollen, and maybe not recently, but it seemed to Yuki that the girl may have been crying recently. What exactly had she missed?

Sophia waves as both Kail and Valdis walk over. “I didn’t really bring food,” Sophia smiles down at Valdis, “And you didn’t get any sleep. Your salute is sloppy by the way.” Humor did break the tension that she was feeling.

“Yeah, I wouldn’t have known this place was out here if I didn’t go around cycling aimlessly occasionally, but I thought it would be a good place to meet. It is fairly private,” Sophia says, looking back at the farm.

She turns her attention back to Yuki. Kenny still needed to be introduced to a few others. She sort of forgot about his recent awakening after current events. “This is Kenny. Kenny, this is Yuki,” she says. “Kenny is Mercury Knight. Kenny, Yuki is Sailor Mars. You’ll meet the rest of us tonight, I think.”

She sort of holds eye contact with Yuki for a few seconds too long. Did she know about Kishin’s identity? Her Kousuke seemed close… should she mention it?

"I guess we are still waiting on Ama and Keitha then?"

”I’m pretty sure Val would have threatened me even if it wasn’t important.” I watched as Kail and Val pulled up…only to blink as Val suddenly belly slid in. I laughed and pointed over to my truck ”Actually I brought cookies and chips…I always have a stash somewhere.” I walked over to my truck and opened the door. It was probably wise to keep Valdis busy with snacks, and it wouldn’t hurt to let the others have some as well. I pulled out the cookies, freshly baked and from the restaurant. They were one of my specialties. I walked back over to the group, ”Everyone’s welcome to them. They have raspberry filling”

Another girl walked up, wow I was beginning to think I was lucky…was this group mostly girls…wait why was the red head here….”Wait you transform to? Is the whole paranormal club senshi and knights?? Val…what’s your excuse…If everyone here is senshi why don’t you poof into a short skirt like the rest?” It was strange for everyone here to be a knight and a Senshi…and then just have Val…was she one of them to? If so why didn’t she help during the youma fight with the wolf. But that thought was diverted when I was introduced to the new cutey. My eyes looked her up and down and I grinned, taking hold of her hand and bringing it up to my lips. ”It’s a pleasure to meet you Miss Yuki, will you do me the honor of bearing my children?” Ok I may or may not have dug into a few of those cookies before I got here…I was a bit hyper.

”I slept at Kails house for a little bit, but I had more things that needed to be taken care of. I promise to hold off on the late night excursions with Nazo tonight and get some sleep”

She giggled and sat up, brushing the snow from her shoulders, her eyes brightened when Kenny said he had brought snacks. …She had a bit of a weakness for sweets. She didn’t get them often due to the fear of her getting hyper that people seemed to have. Val stood up, and waited patiently the picture of innocence until the cookies came.

When Kenny came back she snagged a couple of the cookies, her face was one of pure bliss as she took a bite. These were really good…

”Kenny….your now my personal sweet maker. These are heavenly”

Her eyebrow arched when Kenny spoke…she sure was getting asked if she was a Senshi a lot today…that and she was pretty sure blondie was picturing her in a short skirt…

”I am not a Senshi, just a human with abnormal gifts whom happens to have the same end goal as the Knights and Senshi. So I help where I can.”

Val face palmed when Kenny introduced himself to Yuki…despite his angelic looks he was lecherous as they came.

”What Kenny, no butt grabs?”

I laughed apparently Valdis approved of my cooking. That was actually a pretty high compliment, I’m sure she has had the opportunity to eat a lot of interesting things. I gave her a large grin, obviously proud. ”If you like them so much I will have to make sure to keep some on hand for you then. What are your favorites? I’m always open for suggestions” I liked cooking so keeping sweets on hand for Valdis wasn’t really any trouble….Plus…it looked like you could bribe her with them…I may have just stumbled on a tranquilizer for the dark demon…

I raised an eyebrow, it was odd that she had powers yet wasn’t one of them. Although the plural made him wonder ”What abnormal powers are you capable of?”

As I greeted Yuki I heard Vals comment; so I let go of the new young ladies hand and went over to her. ”Are you jealous Val, I would be happy to fix that” I reached out and grabbed her butt. ”Will you do me the honor of bearing me dark little devils?” I continued to hold my hand there with a large grin on my face.

Valdis grinned, no one knew how long it had taken her to find someone willing to supply her with sweets….and better yet her dad hadn’t gotten to Kenny yet….as he had with the rest of the places she liked. Plus these were really good cookies; she had already finished off the couple that she had grabbed. When asked what her favorites were she thought for a bit.

”I like apple flavored pastries, or if you could make an apple flavored one of these cookies that would be great”

Valdis paused a bit…debating whether she wanted to share her abilities. She supposed it wouldn’t hurt.

”I am able to see visions of the future, regenerate, hopefully be able to heal soon…I may or may not have another trick or two up my sleeve but that’s for me to know..”

A frown crossed her face as Kenny approached her, saying that she was jealous….suddenly she felt his hand on her butt. A dark smile came onto her face as she did nothing to remove his hand.

”Ohh Nazo…I need you”

Nazo needed to come anyways but Kenny needed a good scare.

Kail raised an eyebrow as Sophia introduced Kenny as the Mercury Knight. He was curious on what this knights skills were going to be in general and what element they were. The red head watched Valdis get out of the car and belly slide to the group like a penguin and giggle madly like a chipmunk from some cartoon show. Kenny then offered some sweets and other snacks and questioned on if he transformed "Yes I am the Mars Knight lets just say I like to burn things to ash" he said and took a cookie and ate it. It had been awhile since he had a cookie like this in awhile. That stopped when something went off in his head and saw Kenny try and hit on Yuki with a bad anime pick up line. Kail gives a death glare at the blond as acts like that sickend him. As that was not how a man should act around women, acting like a letch was just low class to the level of garbage.

His fury was quelled when Valdis spoke on answering some of Kenny's questions and then gave him a sarcastic question in her typical manner. Then Kail watched Kenny do something that caused him to get into action. The butt grab and the line he gave just pissed him off greatly and everyone would feel the fury coming off of him. He walks over to Kenny and slaps him in the head with a lot of force "I absolutely hate hentai's like you. Not only you give most guys a bad name and your doing this to your own teammates. Do you even thinking about there feelings? You cut this crap out now or I will do worse then whatever Nazo would do he said in a bone chilling tone as he was serious about it.

Within moments of Kail's headslap, a large hound with red fur pounces Kenichirou, staring at him growling. Flames would flicker around the fur, and a faint glow could be seen in both eyes and mouth. The dog was almost as large as Kenny himself...but the dog simply pinned him down, with no further action. Meanwhile another pair of those hounds approaches Valdis and sits next to her, not appearing overly hostile.

Effective teamwork meant not having any sort of animosity between them all. However, it seemed like that was already an issue, which Sophia found odd because the meeting had yet to start. “Enough,” Sophia says. Any sort of playfulness disappears.

“If we are going to be a group, we need to be able to effectively handle any issues without anger and with some speed. Inappropriate comments and touching isn’t alright,” she says, looking Kenny, “so please refrain.”

“Picking a fight isn’t alright either. We already have enough battles with the Covenant to keep us busy,” she says, looking Kail. She turns to the sky and yells up at it, “And please don’t send hellhounds at the knights and senshi.” Hopefully, Nazo heard that last bit.

“We all need to work together for some indefinite period of time. Please try to be respectful to each other. In a way, we are sort of like family. After all, fate has all thrust us together for some unknown reason. I already care about you all in a similar way. Besides, we all care about the same things. We aren’t each other’s enemies or rivals. We are a team.” Subconsciously, love radiates from her. She wants them to care about each other like she does them. She wants them to all work together without issue. She wants for the group’s greatest potential to be reached.

“And we need to get better at this whole being a team thing, which is half the reason why I called this meeting. Acting independently isn’t going to work, and there is a lot that we can all learn from each other. And there is a lot that we will need to depend on each other for.”

Amarissa was, oddly, late. Getting away from her mother this late had been difficult, especially after the last few days. So, she had waited until her mother fell asleep before sneaking out of the house. It was a very unusual move for the normally responsible Moon senshi, but desperate times called for extreme measures. She had dressed warmly in a black turtle neck that was quite flattering, jeans, her hiking boots and black duster. Grabbing her bike, she set Luna in the basket and tucked a small blanket around the cat before leaving.

The ride out there was long and she finally pulled up outside the farm at about 7:45. The moonlight turned her hair, which was down, pure silver and it glowed as she approached the group. "Hey guys. Sorry I'm late. My mom has been kinda protective the last few days, since the attack at the art exhibit. I actually had to sneak out of the house," she admitted, a little ashamed. Looking around at everyone, she noticed they were still missing Kietha and the ache in her chest reminded her of another who should be here. But, Amarissa did notice a new face. "Oh do we have a new knight? I'm Amarissa, Sailor Moon," she said politely, giving him a nod. She did noticed the hellhounds but considering that Valdis was here, she wasn't surprised and didn't comment on their presence. Having heard the tail end of Sophia's reasoning, she nodded somewhat in agreement. Though, personally, she thought having a meeting this late with the intention of getting to know people wasn't a great idea.