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Knightside Elementary School. The first word had been much harder to decipher than the first one, pronouncing it would have been impossible for the poor chibi princess to manage even now. Thankfully it there was only one elementary school with such an unpronounceable name, and it had the largest swing set. This had been incredibly important once upon a time, when the only comfort Black Lady had ever been able to find had come from the nature of swings.

It was to these that she walked, sitting down on one before realizing that she might not actually be alone. Hugbell came clattering down the slide with what sounded like a giggle, earning a smile from Chibimoon. "Come swing with me? It is very fun, and then we can talk. Or talk and swing!" Feet kicked off, starting the pendulum movement and bringing a glow to her eyes.

Swings were the very best.

Slowing so that words weren't needing to be yelled across the short space to each other, Chibimoon shook her head, hair streaming around to get tangled briefly with the chain. "Yeek! Ah, Chibimoon is fine! Or Small Lady, if you are wanting to. I was not old enough to be Princess yet." A thoughtful look crossed her face, and there was some thoughtfulness. Technically, she would now never reach the year set for her to reach her majority though it had been set for the day of her sixteenth birthday. "I guess I am not Princess Lady Serenity for one more year. I think? Sixteen. I am fifteen." Legs crossed to provide drag and slowly the pink senshi came to simply move lightly back and forth.

"What about you? You are...Hugbell?" It sounded very much like 'Hukebell', the g consonant still resonating strangely in her Japanese-accented English. "Do you go here?" A finger pointed to the school, a bit of a smile in her eyes. There was a wistful feeling that she could go back to such easy school, triggering a memory and a fight not so very long ago. Mama was, apparently, always right.

It was very strange to talk to someone younger than she was, back in Crystal Tokyo there hadn't been a whole lot of children to play with. When there had, Small Lady had always been a bit too busy or a bit too important to really have a casual talk with any of them. So as a result, Hugbell was about to get more information that she probably really needed or wanted from such a simple question. "I am from Tokyo. It is in Japan, do they tell you what that is here?" She had no idea. Certainly she'd bypassed geography entirely by going into the high school here.

"It was not the Tokyo from here. I am from a Tokyo in the future. 30th century calls it Crystal Tokyo." For a moment, Chibimoon's eyes had that faraway look that meant she wasn't entirely there, remembering a place that now would probably never exist. "It was very pretty. We had a lot of balls, and I could not go when I was small even though I am a princess. Sort of." Remembering how everyone had disdained the small Crystal Princess, her nose wrinkled.

"Well, a city has a lot of lights because it has a lot of people in it. Tokyo is not a very large place, but it has so many people." Juuban had been fairly uncrowded as a suburb went, but there were always so many other places to go inside the city. Once, they'd gone down to Shinjuku to shop with Mamoru and the sheer amount of people had made Chibiusa's head spin!

"Crystal Tokyo was the same, but there was no tower." Eyes looked over to the Destiny City version of Tokyo's monument, the colors and pattern of the metal supports the only real difference from her hometown landmark. "The palace was where the tower is, and it was so very pretty. It was taller, and all made of crystal." It was one of the many times when still having her Luna P would have been incredibly useful. All of the data and pictures that Chibiusa had ever possessed were stored in the tiny ball of Mau technology.

"It was the best place on Earth. But this is nice too. I like going to school, and now I think of an important thing." Standing up from the swing, Chibimoon gestured that Hugbell should stand in front of her, smiling encouragingly.

"You need to tell me what you know about being a senshi!"

Jeweled buns bobbed as Chibimoon nodded at every point, smiling a bit ironically at the last words. The Negaverse was as bad as bad could get, but she still couldn't reconcile Captain Serandite with someone who was truly evil. "You know a lot, that is very good. You had a good teacher, but I am glad they did not tell you too much." Things about how if something went very wrong, they would all die beneath Beryl's steel claws. That woman would not hesitate to massacre every single senshi on this planet, simply so that she could vindicate a thousand year old grudge against a woman who was already dead. Just because she had gotten a crash course in Chaos, didn't mean that this little girl did.

"We are very much the good people. But maybe do not think of the Negaverse as bad people. Maybe they are just people who do not know what they are doing is so bad? They think that we want to destroy Earth, so that we can rule it for the Moon, where my mama was from. That is not true! So they think we are bad, but we are not. We just want peace." Even this was a little complicated, and the super senshi frowned and crossed her arms a bit. "I am sorry, is this very difficult? It is just good to know that we are the good ones, and that the Negaverse does bad things that we must stop. Is that okay?" Certainly the princess was happy with this explanation, and her smile was wide.

"Who did you learn from before? I would like to talk to them too, I think." Maybe they could inform her better as to how things worked with senshi these days. With so many, it had to be an organizational nightmare!

Castor she knew on sight from the meeting as well as Perseus. She was the one with the darker skin and hair, gold in her hair, that had spoken up in the meeting rather loudly...also the senshi that she had fought rather passionately as Black Lady. The first would probably be easier to approach rather than the second and could perhaps ease her way? Odds are that Perseus would not recognize her as that older woman anyway; Chronos had not, and she'd known more about the Black Lady than anyone else at the time.

********* was someone entirely new; Chibimoon hadn't met any other cats than Luna so far. It was surprising to think that there were more than just Luna, Artemis, and Diana out there. Diana had been a surprising addition in and of herself from the future and the princess smiled simply to think about their reactions when they'd found it. It had been rather similar to what her papa had told her had been Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask's reaction upon finding out she was their future daughter.

Sizing up the girl again, the older senshi looked out towards the city. "Will you go with me and show me your bear if we find a youma? I have not seen many senshi in action." Odds are they would find a youma, they were absolutely everywhere these days and greedier than ever now.

Oh that was going to be mildly troublesome, but shouldn't it have been expected? Pink Sugar Heartache had never been especially effective when she could get it to work; a sharp contrast to her new attack which worked rather spectacularly when it fired! It wasn't needed for a normal youma thankfully, and they were bound to find one lurking around the school this time of year. Its walls and cubbyholes were the perfect place for the homeless to gather, and those disenfranchised citizens of Destiny City were a youma's favorite snack these days.

"Yes! I will. I use this to hurt them." Fingers lightly tapped the metal of her tiara and red eyes looked out into the night. This part of town was by nature a decent one because of the elementary school. No one really wanted their precious children to be playing outside in a neighborhood where something could happen to them at any moment. They would have to go deeper and further north into the heart of the metropolis to find something to practice on.

Leading the pastel Senshi of Comfort from the school grounds, it actually did not take long. "I don't think we will fight very much but you should not fight. You are chibi, and chibi has one rule. Move fast to not be in the way." In other words they were the distraction and were supposed to stay out of the fray as much as possible until they saw a full open opportunity to do some good. Not easy to articulate for Chibimoon! "Watch." White-gloved fingers were raised to her lips for a shrill whistle that carried and caught the youma's attention.

What she yelled was brief, in Japanese, and to the effect of 'come and get me, you nasty piece of Negatrash'. It worked as the dark creature advanced on the pair rather quickly, neither girl moving. "It will come very close and then...jump away!" It was a hair's breadth from swiping at both girls as hands pushed at Hugbell so that she might move herself out of the way in one of the spectacular jumps the skirted girls were so known for. A pink shoe came around to kick the thing in the head, keeping its attention on the Moon senshi.

After all this was for teaching, not getting Hugbell hurt!