ChibiMercury Usagi's Twin Part 10 While the girls are at Makoto's house studying, Mrs. Tsukino gets a disturbing call. * * * "Why can't I get it?" whines Usagi. "If we continue meeting like this until April (its November now), I feel you may pass your entrance exams." said Amanda. 'It's been too quite lately, the last monster attack was back in mid-October.' worries Luna. "Let's go over this again." pushes Ami. "Usagi, if you won't do this for yourself, then do it for me." encourages Amanda. The phone rings "Amanda, we need to get home, mom has something she needs to tell you." explains Usagi, while trying to cover her true feelings of sadness and grief. Back at Usagi's "I have some bad news Amanda, I just got it earlier." said Mrs. Tsukino. "Wh-what is it?" stammered Amanda. "I'm sorry that I need to tell you this, but..." "But, what!?!" yelled an Amanda that just lost her composure. "Your family's dead, they were killed in an auto accident." sobbed Mrs. Tsukino. "No...No!!!" exclaimed Amanda. "I can't believe that this is happening to me." "Come on, let's head upstairs and we can talk." said Usagi, trying to comfort Amanda. "Maybe we should get everyone else here too, I'm going to need the emotional support of my friends." sobbed Amanda, trying to regain her composure. "There's no time now," yells Luna, "there is a youma attacking downtown Tokyo." 'Maybe I can take my grief out on this monster.' thought Amanda. Moon Prism Power, Make-up! Solar Power, Make-up! * * * "Mercury, scan for weaknesses." "Only one weakness-fire" "Allow me." says Amanda "Solar Corona Attack" 'Where did that come from?' thought Amanda. "Now Sailor Moon" "Moon Septre Ellimination" "Let's detransform and head back to my place." says Usagi. "But..." Rei starts to complain. "I insist and besides, there is something that you all should know." explains Usagi. "It concerns me." said Amanda. Everyone is shocked at the statement. At Usagi's house "I need to tell you something, something that I think Makoto will understand. My family was... killed in an auto accident." said an emotional Amanda. Everyone just looked at Amanda. Then turned to Usagi to see if it was true. "My friends, I fear that it is true." Just then, Amanda broke down and started to cry. "You were right, I do understand what you're going through, but it was just my parents, and you need to deal with losing them and any brothers or sisters." The next day "I can't believe it, Amanda didn't show for school." said Minako. "Who can blame her." said Rei as they were discussing Sailor business. "Amanda really needs us right now. Let's see if she wants to go shopping." suggests Minako. "Maybe we should postpone our study sessions until this difficult time passes." suggests Ami. Everyone's jaw dropped to the floor after Ami suggested that. Ami, suggesting not to study. "Think about it, she got the bad news during our last session." "Ami's right." added Usagi. "When did you get here?" asked Rei. "I was just checking up on Amanda and she was talking to Luna when I left." Back at Usagi's "How would you feel like shopping and then afterwards, we can talk about what your going through." asks Minako. "What were you two talking about anyways?" asks Artemis. "I think we should fill him in on what has been happening for the past 24 hours." suggests Luna. "Luna, while your filling Artemis in, let's go to the mall." suggests Ami. "I'm game, besides I need to get my mind off this as soon as I can." To be continued...