Tomoe Hotaru was walking along by herself, when she saw it. It was hidden among the tall grass in the park. A small organish-yellowish ball with five stars on it, was just laying there in the grass. 'What a pretty little ball!' thought Hotaru. 'It will look cute by my lamps. I can't wait to show reeny!' She quickly hurried off though go show reeny what she had found.

* * *

"Maybe we can wish for a girlfriend for you after we get this last dragon ball. Heavens knows the you need the help. At the rate your going you'll be an old man before you get the courage up to ask a girl out for a date!" laughed Goten.

"Maybe we should just wish for you to mind your own buisness!" was Trunks' angry retort. "Beside I don't see the girls crawling all over you either."

"No, but at least I have a girlfriend and I get dates!" said Goten. Trunks just grumbled in reply.

Trunks and Goten were on their way to find the five-starred dragonball. That was the last one they had to find. They were so close to getting their wish, but they hadn't thought of a good wish though.

"I hope my dad doesn't find out that we took Mom's dragon radar again. You remeber what happened last time."

"Yeah, I remember," Goten shuddered. "It was a good thing my dad was around to keep Vegita calm. I don't want to even think about what would have happened. Well anyway, no one's going to find out! They haven't used it in a long time! Besides you left the decoy in its place."

"I know its just that...hey look! The dragonball is starting to move! I wonder what has it."

"Who cares what has it! It looks like we might get to fight!" an evil gleam came into Goten's eyes. "We haven't had a good fight in awhile. I hope its not to easy to beat."

"Yeah. It has been awhile! Besides, I'm getting tired of having to kick you ass all the time. I wanna kick someone else's now."

"In your dreams wussy boy! Lets hurry to see what has it!" And they sped off towards the dragonball.

* * *

Hotaru was walking home quietly. All of a sudden she heard someone cry out. "I bet its some nega-creep trying to steal someone's energy! I better go see what it is!" She quickly put the small ball in her pocket and forgot about it.

Sure enough, some negaverse monster was terrorizing an innocent young girl. "I better call the scouts!" cried a worried Hotaru. I'll do what I can. "Saturn Cosmic Make-up!" Hotaru was gracefully changed into Sailor Saturn. "I hope I can hold her off til Sailor Moon gets here!"

"Stop right where you are and let that poor girl go!" cried Sailor Saturn.

"Who are you?" hissed the nega-goon.

"I am the senshi of death and rebirth! I am the senshi destruction! In the name of Saturn, I am Sailor Saturn!" she cried. "I will vanquish you with my silence glaive!"

The beast just laughed! "You're a fool if you think you can hurt me with that little stick! I am Voltara! I have the power of electicity in all forms! Lightning Strike!" Lightning came from the sky straight at Sailor Saturn.

"Silence Wall!" cried Sailor Saturn! A force feild went up around her a the lightning was deflected. "It will take more than that to hurt me!"

Voltara just laughed. "No matter, I can remedy that!" She threw a rope made out of electricity and wrapped around Sailor Saturn's glaive. She wipped it backwards yanking the glaive out of her grasp! "Now how will you prtect yourself little girl?" Voltara laughed evily.

'Uh-oh' thought Sailor Saturn. 'I hope Sailor Moon shows up soon. I'm in big trouble here'

"Now, I'll finish you! You little meddler!" Voltara was getting ready to strike down on her.

"I don't think so!" a voice yelled.

"Wh-who said that?" Voltara looked around to find the voice.

"I am Sailor Moon! I fight for love and justice. I shall right wrong and triumph over all evil and that means you! In the name of the moon, I shall punish you!" Sailor Moon and the other scouts jumped down!

"Sailor Moon? Oh great!" cried Voltara.

"Now Sailor Moon! Use your septre!" cried Sailor Mars.

"OK, ok! Geez...have a little patience.!" She pulled out her spetre and started waving it around. "Moon spetre elimination!" And that was the last time they saw voltara.

"Thanks Sailor Moon, I would have been a goner if you hadn't showed up." Sailor Saturn got up and picked her glaive up. "Lets go home." And with that the scouts walked home.

* * *

"Did you see that, Trunks?" Goten whistled. "Now those are some chicks with attitude. If I didn't have a girlfriend...Trunks? Trunks? Hello! Earth to Trunks!"

Trunks wasn't paying attention, he was lost in the vision of the raven haired girl and her glaive. "Huh? You say something goten?"

Goten stared at Trunks! "What has gotten into you? You haven't been listening to a word I've said! Snap out of it!" He smacked Trunks upside the head.

"Hey! Whats the matter with you? I've been paying attention to you! No need to hit me!" growled Trunks.

"Geez! Ok, ok. No need to get snappy with me! Anyways, one of those girls has our dragonball! Looks like we'll be having our fight after all!"

* * *

Hotaru had just stepped into the tub to soak away all her problems with Voltara when she heard a knock on her door. "Hotaru? You decent?"

It was Setsuna, her guardian. "No, I just stepped into the tub. Why?" Hotaru groaned. She was just begining to relax.

"Well, there going to be a meeting with the scouts to discuss Voltara. Everyone's coming over here. we really need you there since you saw her first."

Hotaru sighed. 'This always happens,' she thought. 'Whenever I start to relax and forget all my problems, something comes up. Now its a meeting with the others. They can get so tiresome with all the arguing.'

She sighed again and slowly got out of the bathtub. She slipped on her robe and ran a brush through her hair and glanced in the mirror. She was surprised at what she saw. She saw a small girl with raven black hair. She looked so fragile that she might break in half if you tried to touch her. 'Is that face in the mirror really mine?' she thought. 'How different I look since I met the scouts, and yet how similar too.' It was hard to believe that in such short time that one could change so much and yet stay the same. She looked at the clock on the wall. 'I'm already going to be late! I hope they aren't to furious with me.' She quickly finished dressing.

As she ran toward Rei's temple, she felt something in her pocket. She stopped to see what it was. It was the forgotten dragonball. She examined it closely. It was an odd looking ball. It looked as if made of glass and it almost glowed. It had an almost unatural orangish-yellowish color with five little red stars on it. It was small enough to hold with one hand. It didn't look like it was made by nature, but it didn't look man-made either. Hotaru shrugged and put it back in her pocket.

* * *

"Did you see that Trunks? That girl has OUR dragonball! It was right there! So close that I could see the five stars! This may not be so hard after all."

"Huh? What'd you say?"

"Tru-unks! What is wrong with you? Snap out of it already! You've been like this all afternoon. The dragonball stupid! That little girl has it. We can take it from her with great ease. It won't take much to get her down." Goten's eyes gleamed evily. "Of course, if she's one of those girls we saw this afternoon, then maybe it won't be too short of a fight. Us growing boys need a good fight every once in awhile."

Trunks turned angrily on Goten with a vision of Hotaru in his mind. She was just to delicate to even think about hurting. "No! We are NOT going to hurt her! We'll just politely ask for it, or if that doesn't work, we'll steal it while she sleeps. We are not going to touch her."

Goten snorted with disbelief! "Politely? A saiyan-jin? I don't think so! Your dad would have a fit if he heard you talking like this! You have saiya-jin blood and you turn away from a fight! I won't let this happen!" Goten yelled full of rage then lowered his voice and said through gritted teeth, "We will fight her and we will get that dragonball. Not the polite way...but the Saiyan-jin way!"

Trunks grabbed Goten by the collar before he could react. His eyes had a dangerous look to them. "If you so much as touch ONE hair on her head, I will personally ring your scrawny good-for-nothing neck! I will tear you apart, limb from limb and leave you to bleed to death in the gutter where you belong! You got that, PAL? We do this my way, or no way! Now shut your yapping and lets follow her before we lose her!"

They follwed the unsuspecting Hotaru all the way to Rei's temple.

* * *

"What do you think they were after?" asked the naive Serena.

"Energy you meatball head! Its what they're always after!" replied Raye.

"Now Raye, thats not always true," said Ami. "Sometimes they have other goals on their minds. What about the time they were after Reeny?"

"Don't remind me. That wasn't fun at all!" said Reeny.

"They were after energy," came a soft voice. Hotaru had walked in on the end of the conversation. "I saw Voltara trying to take a poor girl's energy."

"Nice of you to show up, Hotaru." Setsuna frowned. "Why were you so late? I told you an hour ago that there was a meeting."

"Lay off Setsuna, Serena's always late," said Michiri.

"Hey I take offense to that remark!" said Serena and the others laughed.

"Thats not the point," said Luna. "The point is, that now that we no the they want energy, who is the one wanting the energy?"

The scouts and cats kept arguing on and on and Hotaru let her mind wander. She reached for the dragonball and started to absent mindly play with it. "Whatcha got there?" asked Reeny. Hotaru smiled at Reeny.

"I don't really know. I was walking in the park and I saw it just lying there in the grass. It was like it was meant for me to find it or something."

"Cool. Whatcha going to do with it?"

"I don't know, I'll probably put it by my lamps."

The meeting was finally over. "Want me to walk you home?" Setsuna asked Hotaru. She was always overly protective of her. She was just so delcate that it made one want to protect her.

"No, I think I'll be okay. Besides, there's never more one nega-creep in one day. I'll be fine." Hotaru smiled to prove her point.

"Well, ok. I'll see you tommorrow. Bye Hotaru!"

"Bye Setsuna!"

* * *

It was really dark outside. Hotaru was starting to regret her decision to walk home alone. 'I wish the moon was out to light my way home.' she thought. She clutched the dragonball in her hand like it could protect her. It felt warm and kinda comforted her. She sighed and continued to walk quickly home. Little did she know that someone was watching.

* * *

"Yes. Just a little farther now. You'll fall into my trap perfectly," whispered a strange voice. To red eyes glowed from the darkness. "You'll be perfect my pretty little one. I've waited a long time for someone such as yourself. Just a little closer now..."

* * *

"Tru-unks! I'm getting bored! This girl is never going to come where we want her. She just keeps walking on the sidewalk. Why don't we just go over there and," Goten sneered. "Politely talk to her. I'm sure she'll just be so happy to give us the dragonball."

"Shut up Goten. Give it time she'll wander over here."

Goten just rolled his eyes. "Oh yeah, shes going to come over to two strange guys leaning against a mailbox and give us her dragonball. Yeah, this is a brilliant plan."

Trunks sighed and then his heart stopped. She saw him, she looked directly into his eyes. And then, and then...she smiled at him. Or at least he thought it was to him. He hoped anyways so he smiled back. "Oh yeah Trunks, lets smile at her and see if she comes over. A strange guy smiling at a girl always brings them a running. Lets just jump her and get the dragonball. I'm tired and cold and hungry. Lets go already."

"Will you just shut up for one minute and let me think. Geez..its no wonder we're still standing out here. You never shut up long enough for me to think of a good plan to get that stupid dragonball!"

"Yeesh! Touchy! I was just trying to lighten the mood. Get a grip already."

"Sorry, its just that I'm confused. Alright, lets just follow her and steal it when she goes to sleep. Then we can go home and return Mom's radar and make our wish. Come on!"

* * *

Hotaru couldn't believe that she smiled at a stranger. She even had the suspicious feeling that he and his friend were following her. Why had she smiled. It was almost an involuntary reaction.

She was still contemplating this when suddenly she was grabbed from behind. A scaly hand covered her mouth before she could scream. "Shhh," whispered a deep mysterious voice. "I don't plan on hurting you, but if you don't cooperate then I will have to...er...rethink my plan a little. Got it?"

Hoaru nodded tears rolling her face. Why her? Why do these things always have to happen to her. She was blindfolded and dragged somewhere.

* * *

Trunks gasped! "Did you see that! Something got her!"

"And our dragonball to!" said Goten.

"Shut up about the dragonball already! We have to help her before she gets hurt! Looks like we've got that fight you wanted." Trunks' eye gleamed with anger. "Now come on!"

"Oh alright, besides this does look intereting!"

* * *

The creature half dragged half carried Hotaru off to an abandoned werehouse. 'I really hope this plans works. Or else master will be very displeased with me,' thought the strange creature. "All right little girl. This is as far as you go. Now hold still and let me fasten these ropes."

Hotaru was still crying as she tried to reach for her Saturn wand. 'Dammit!' she thought angrily to herself. 'I must have dropped it when this thing grapped me. I can't even call the other scouts either. Great now what do I do?' She found the situation hopeless and mortifying. If anyone ever saw her blind-folded, tied to a chair with a few measly ropes they would did with laughter. She just closed her eyes and cried.

She could hear the creature breathing so she knew he was still in the room. She wished he would leave her to her own miserys and give her some privacy. "Um...Mr. um...well I don't know your name really..."

"Just call me Riley."

"Well, um...Mr. Riley, could you please leave me alone or at least leave the room so I can be alone? You know that I can't possibly escape, I have nothing with me."

"Hmmm...well, I guess I could for a couple of minutes, I need to go stretch my win..um..er..legs for a couple of minutes. If I come back and your gone, I won't hesitate to find you and kill you. Remember that!"

She nodded and could hear him leave. 'Finally, some peace and quiet and time to think.' she thought to herself. She took time to assess the situation and new it was hopeless. 'Why does he want me? What purpose do I serve him? I didn't even get my bath!'

Suddenly she heard a noise and she jumped. She knew it wasn't that creature, but what could it be? She really hoped it wasn't a big ole rat. That was just be the perfect end to her horrible day.

"Excuse me ma'am," she heard a strange voice say. "But I think you dropped this and I felt I should return it." She felt her Saturn wand being placed into her hand. Suddenly she grinned.

"Thank you so much. You don't know how much I needed this. Could you be so kind as to untie me and take the blindfold off before that beast gets back?"

She felt the ropes being undone and then the blindfold was slipped off. She had to get her eyes adjusted to the dark light and then she saw him. It was the handsome stranger that she had smiled at before she was abducted. he was handsomer than she had originally thought.

He was tall, his hair was an odd purple color, but was strangly handsome. His face was like finely chisled stone and she could see rippling muscles on his arms. He was wearing a Capsule Corp. t-shirt. She blushed. "My name is Tomoe Hotaru, but you can call me Hotaru."

The stranger smiled. "Hotaru, a pretty name. My name is Trunks and this is Goten."

The man named Goten just mumbled a response. Goten was a goofy loooking character noted Hotaru. He had hair as black as cole and it stuck up at an odd angle but his face was sharp but not as fine as Trunks'.

"Thank you so much for untying me. I wish I could do something for you to. I know! Here! I found this while walking in a park. It was just lying there. I-I don't know what you could do with it but, its all I have." Hotaru held out the dragonball to Trunks.

Trunks was stunned. Never had he expected her to give him the dragonball. He slowly took it. Their fingers touched as she passed the ball to him. Electric sparks shot through his body. He felt someone nudging him. It was Goten. He quickly shook off his stupor and looked at Goten. "What do you want now?"

"Trunks the creature is back!"

Sure enough, a huge scaly dragon-like creature had walked back into the room and saw the empty chair first and then scanned the room spotting the three surprised people. The creature smiled. "Now I told you to stay in that chair, and what happens? You get some guys come save you. No matter, there the ones that need saving now!" came out Riley's whispery voice.

Trunks and Goten just smiled. "I don't think so," replied Goten.

"Yeah, we have already made other arrangements." They both started powering up.

'Oh great now I endangered Trunks' and Goten's lives. I am going to have to fix this.' thought Hotaru. she swiflty ran behind a large can and whispered, "Saturn Cosmic Make-up!" She transformed into Sailor Saturn.

She ran out to join the fight then stopped, bewildered. Suddenly, Trunks' hair had turned blonde and was sticking out in every direction. 'What in the world is going on here?' thought the perplexed Sailor Saturn.

Trunks didn't even notice Hotaru's transformation, he was to busy changing to super saiyan. He was mad. All he wanted to do was get the last lousy dragonball and then this beautiful girl gets it first then gets her life endangered twice in one day. Then gives him the dragonball and somehow gets him to fall in love with her. Nope, Trunks was not happy and he was going to take out his frustation on the poor unsuspecting Riley.

Goten was speechless. he never expected Trunks to go Super Saiyan. He knew Trunks was mad about something, but he wasn't quite sure what. All he knew was it had something to do with Hotaru. Then he was amazed again. This little fragile girl had changed into the fighting girl he had seen earlier today with the glaive. This was just getting to confusing for him. He just had to sit down. He figured that between the two of them, they had it covered.

'Oh great!' thought Riley. 'All I was supposed to do was get these to together and get them to fall in love.' They were direct orders from Shen-Long or the Eternal Dragon himslef. How was he supposed to fight these to little warriors, one had already went super sayian and the other had transformed into the sensei of death and destruction. He was definately getting paid extra for this. He sighed and went to do battle, hoping Shen-Long would help him soon.

Sailor Saturn ran to Trunks side ready to do battle with him. Trunks saw her out of the corner of his eye. "What are you doing here? You shouldn't be here, its to dangerous. Where in the dickens is Goten anyways? He should be fighting instead of you."

"I don't care about the danger, I've been in more dangerous situations than this before. This is small scale compared to other things, of course the rest of the girls were always near."

"I don't care if you fight every day, there is no room for a women to fight with a saiyan. Goten! Get you butt over here!"

Goten came out of his confusion. "Ah man Trunks, just let her fight, I'm still trying to sort through this mass of confusion,"

"Goten, if you don't get your sorry butt over here I will personally get back at you! First, get her to safety!" Trunks yelled angrily.

"I'm not going to leave you to take care of this, this beast by yourself. I don't care if its against some Saiyan rule or whatever the heck you are. As a sensei I am going to vanquish evil!"

"Will you two just shut up!" hollered Riley. "Geez, your giving me a headache. If your going to try to fight me then just do it and stop bickering! Yeesh!"

Sailor Saturn and Trunks just looked at each other and shrugged. And refocused on Riley. Trunks focused and was about to shoot a ki blast when he heard a crash.

"What now?" said the angry Riley. The rest of the scouts had just come crashing in. "Oh great! Who are you? Wait! Don't tell me, you here to vanquish the evil villain and save the day. Well get in line."

Sailor moon looked confused. "What?" She looked over at Sailor Saturn. "We got here as fast as we could." Then she saw Trunks. "Who are you?"

"Sailor moon! It doesn't matter! Let's just kill this thing and go home. Sailor Mercury, is it from the negaverse?" asked Sailor Mars.

"Let me take a reading..."

"Now wait a minute here! This is my fight! You sailor people can just go home and leave this beast to me and Goten! " Cried the angry but confused Trunks.

"Well, that's kinda rude! Come on girls if they don't want our help lets just go on home. There's nothing more we can do here," said Luna. "That means you to Sailor Saturn."

"Luna! I have to stay. This is all because of me. We actually had it covered before you guys showed up. I pressed the call button before I realized that everything was under control."

"Saturn, I can just not allow this. If these ungrateful boys want to fight on there own they can. We will be going now. Come on" And with that all the scouts left, including the upset Saturn trailing behind.

Trunks turned back to Riley. "Ok you beast thing. You time is up. Enough of this hopeless stalling. Time to get down to business." Said Trunks.

"I'm right next to you Trunks." Goten moved next to him and started powering up smiling. "Lets do it!"

They started firing chi blasts at Riley. Riley fought back with a fiery vengeance. The fight lasted for hours. At the end only two were left standing...

* * *

The scouts babbled on about nothing on the way home, but Saturn was strangely quiet and subdued. All she could think about was leaving Trunks by himself in the fight against that beast thing. She was really upset. She started to lag behind the rest of the group. None of the others noticed they were missing one until they almost got home. "Hey! Where's Saturn?" asked Pluto. "Wasn't she right with us?"

"Yeah, she was following behind us. She was kinda quiet though." Said Michichri.

"She must have had dropped behind the rest of us, and no one noticed because she's always so quiet." Said Luna. "We have to look for her. Where could she have gone?"

"She went back to the warehouse," said Sailor Moon.

"How do you know, Meatball head?" said Rei.

"Because, she's in love with the purple-haired guy we saw there. Am I the only one who notices that?"

"She's right, remember she didn't want to leave! He must have went back to him! Hurry girls!" said Luna.

* * *

"Ah man! This is definitely not going to get me that promotion I wanted!" mumbled the angry Riley. "I was just defending myself."

"What are you talking about? Promotions? You just hurt my friend really bad!" yelled Goten. Trunks was lying on the ground barely breathing and not moving. He had been badly injured in the fight.

"I am so sorry! This wasn't supposed to happen! I'm working for the Eternal Dragon and I was supposed to get Trunks and Hotaru to fall in love with each other. I had figured out a plan to have Trunks save her from "the beast's deadly grips" a.k.a. me, and they would fall in love with each other. I wasn't prepared for you two to be so strong...I was caught off guard and I was defending for my life. I wasn't supposed to hurt him...I didn't mean..." Riley trailed off lamely.

Goten was about to reply when the heard a horrifying scream. "Noooooo!" It was Hotaru's anguished scream. "Trunks! No!" She ran over to Trunks fallen body and looked up at Riley with anger flashing in her eyes. "You! You did this to him! You will have to pay!" she shouted at Riley.

"No, now calm down Hotaru. Its not what you think. It was a mistake. I...oh crap. I'm outta here. Forget the promotion, I'll be lucky if I keep my job!" And with that Riley disappeared.

She kneeled down next to Trunks. "Trunks, don't go. It'll be ok. Your going to get better." She could feel him start to slowly slip away. "Don't leave me Trunks. Not when we've only just found each other. I need you Trunks. Don't leave me..." She started to cry. "Don't leave me Trunks." Her voice was a mere whisper. She took his hand in hers.

She could feel him slipping further and further away. Goten was even a little choked up over the scene happening before his eyes. "Dangit Trunks!" mumbled Goten. "We have so much left to do in our lives. You can't go yet."

Hotaru was crying softly and and leaned over and kissed Trunks on the cheek and whispered "I love you." A strange thing happened. A light came blasting out of the spot where she kissed him and a huge dragon appeared.

It was the Eternal Dragon. "I hear your sorrows. I am the Eternal Dragon. I know and see all. I know your pain. I know your love. Do you truly love this boy, Hotaru? Will all your heart and soul?"

"I...I...yes. I don't know how. I just met him but I know, that he's my love," replied the shaken Hotaru. "I do."

"I see. Riley! Come here," shouted the Dragon.

Riley reappeared. "Yes master? You called?"

"Yes Riley. Good job boy. You did your job just as I had planned. You will get a hearty bonus."

"Thank you sir!"

"You can go now." Riley disappeared. The dragon turned his attention back to Hotaru, Trunks, and Goten. "Goten! Did you get all seven dragonballs collected?"

"Y-Yes sir. We did." He got all seven out.

The dragon nodded. "You know how to bring Trunks back. Go ahead."

Goten gulped and nodded. "I wish for Trunks to come back to life."

A strange light surrounded Trunk's body and he slowly moaned. "Your wish is granted!" said the dragon. A big light surrounded his body and burst out seven different ways.

"Trunks? Trunks?" Cried Hotaru.

"Yeah? Ow, my head hurts. What happened? I feel like...Hotaru? Is that you?" Trunks was in a daze.

Hotaru hugged him. "I was so scared she whispered. I thought that..." she turned away with a tear rolling down her face. "I was so scared."

Trunks smiled and wiped the tear away. "Its ok, I'm fine now. I'll be ok. All that's important now is that we're together. Nothing can part us. We are bound by love."

"Oh that's so sweet! I think I'm going to cry now!" Said the over emotional Serena.

"Shhh, Serena! Don't spoil the moment." Cried Lita.

But Trunks and Hotaru were lost in the moment. It was a very sweet sight. Hotaru and Trunks wrapped in each others arms. It was enough to make anyone a little misty-eyed. Even Goten was a little choked up.

He felt a jab in his side. "Hey, guy person. I'm sorry, I don't know your name." It was Setsuna.

"Uh...its Goten. Ok, who's going to buy me a drink?" Goten smiled at the girls and extended his arms. They all joined arms and walked off laughing, leaving the happy couple embraced in each others arms.