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        "Mom!  Tell this little brat to leave me alone!"
        "What?!  You're the one bothering me!"
        The two girls faced one another, one with short, black hair and the other with long, brown hair.  Each had an evil glint in their blue eyes.
        "If you don't leave me alone I'm gonna smack you into next week!"  Tracy always had an attitude and it got even worse when things weren't going her way.
        "Go ahead and try, you know you won't."  Her sister Amanda knew how she worked and knew just what to do to get her own way.
        "Girls, if you don't settle down and work this out I'll ground both of you from the computer!"
        "But Mom, I was writing and Amanda..."
        "No buts, let her help you."
        "Aww, damnit."  Tracy stomped back into the computer room.
        "Told ya you shouldn't have yelled."
        "Grrr."  Tracy wasn't really that mad.  It was more because she had lost.  She couldn't stand losing.  Actually the sisters got along quite well.  They had to, the alternative was playing with their little sister and neither of them wanted that.
        "Hey, aren't Candice and the others supposed to be here by now?"  Amanda had been waiting for them all day.  "It's gonna be dark by the time they get here."
        Just then a car pulled up and dropped off Danielle.  Right behind her came Erica and Candice.
        "All right!  Tracy, get out here and we can leave."  Amanda and her friends ran off into the woods.
        "And she's supposed to be the smart one?"  Tracy began to follow the others through the woods.  They had all decided to camp out that night.  Earlier Amanda had gone out and set up the campsite.  As she came up to the clearing, Tracy could all ready see them getting into the food.  Danielle had got out a bag of marshmallows and was starting a fire.  Erica and Candice were fighting over a bag of potato chips.  Amanda was sitting on a log eating something that looked just like...
        "My Pixy Stix!"  Tracy ran screaming into the clearing.  "You weren't supposed to eat those!"
        Amanda had that evil glint in her eyes again.  "I didn't get them out, Orion and Hunter got into the icebox and broke open the package.  I couldn't let good sugar go to waste so I'm eating them."
        "Why am I getting a bad feeling about this sleepover all ready?"  Tracy sighed and sat next to Amanda.  "Give me some of those!"

        After a while all the Pixy Stix were gone and the five hyper girls decided to go for a hike.  Danielle tried to keep up with the others, but because it was getting dark and the sugar high was wearing off, she got separated from the group.
        "Aww man, where is everybody?  Hello!  Guys?  Anybody?"  She then heard a stick break to the right of her.
        "Hey!  Who's there?  You'd better be friendly because I didn't learn Tae Bo in gym class for nothing!"  Danielle went over to where she heard the noise but there was nothing there.  
        "That's funny, I could of sworn I heard somebody."  Out of the corner of her eye, something was glowing.
        "Hey, what's this?"  Danielle reached out and picked it up and then the forest filled with light.
* * * * *
        "Sky of bluueee..."
        "Sky of blue..."
        "And sea of greeennn..."
        "Sea of green..."
        "In our yellloow..."
        "In our lellow..."
        "Subma... lellow?"  Candice glanced back at Amanda, giving her a strange look.
        "Heehee, lellow, lellow, lellow!"
        "OK, no more sugar for you, ever." Candice shuttered a bit, it was getting colder.  "Are you sure we should wait in one spot? What if this is the one spot they don't look?"
        "When you get lost you are supposed to stay in one spot.  Or at least that's what Grandpa says, heehee.  Are we there yet, I'm sooooo bored!"
        "We aren't even moving!!!  And how can you be bored when it was your idea to stay put!"  Candice was on the edge of her sanity.  They were lost, Amanda had eaten all the food, and it was getting darker by the minute.  
        Candice made a personal note to herself to never listen to anyone on a sugar high.  "That's it, you can stay if you want.  I'm going to find our camp." She went off into the woods, not noticing that Amanda had fallen asleep.
* * * * *
        "Where are they. It's been three hours now."  Tracy glanced at her watch and sighed.  If the others didn't get back soon then she would have to go looking for them.  "What are you doing?"
        Erica looked up sheepishly from Danielle's backpack.  "I was...umm... just looking for some more... candy, yeah that's it."
        "Uh-huh, right.  Give me Danielle's diary."
        "What diary?"  Erica shifted something behind her back.
        "Now, Erica."
        "Damn."  Erica reluctantly gave up the notebook.
        "I'll just keep this."  Tracy gave Erica an evil smile as she put the diary in her pocket.  "I'll give you a copy later."
        "Speaking of Danielle, do you think they got lost?"
        "I hope not, it's kind of dark..."  Suddenly, a flash of light was seen in the woods.  "... out there. What was that?!"
        "Come on!"  Erica dragged Tracy out into the forest, heading in the general direction of the light.
* * * * *
        "Oh my God, what was that?  Amanda, did you see... Amanda?"  Candice looked behind her and noticed that Amanda wasn't there.  "Ok, fine.  Amanda is gone and the forest is flashing with an odd light.  But I'm ok, I'm calm, I'm cool, I'm...AHHH!"  Candice started screaming as a glowing object floated in front of her.
        "Wwwhat are you?"  Candice was frozen with fear as the object floated up to her and then with a flash of light, it was gone.
        "Wow, that was just a bit odd...AHHH!"  Candice screamed as she looked down and saw that she wasn't dressed in the same outfit she had on five minutes ago.
* * * * *
        "I think I see her!"  Erica ran into the clearing with Tracy trailing behind her.
        "Jeez, you don't have to run so...Danielle!  What happened to you?"  Tracy had stopped in her tracks and stared at Danielle.  Instead of her typical jeans and t-shirt, she now wore an orange sailor outfit with a very short skirt and was holding a lightsaber.  She had a choker with a rock symbol on it.  Her hair had changed too.  It was normally curly, brown, and medium length, but now it reached down to her knees.
        "I don't know!  There was this light and then I'm dressed like this!  Get it off me!" Danielle was getting dangerously close to hysterics.
        "Hold on a minute."  Tracy stepped toward Danielle and examined the outfit.  "Doesn't this look like one of those outfits that those Japanese Sailor whatevers wear?"
        "Watch out, they're back!"  Danielle dove into a nearby bush.
        "Watch out for what?"  The two girls turned to look to see what was scaring their friend and then all they saw was light.
        As Danielle hid in the bushes, she saw what was happening to her friends.  Green and red light was surrounding them and what looked like ribbons and cherry blossoms were falling to the ground.  As the light faded Erica and Tracy were standing there dressed in outfits just like her own, only in red and green.
        "Wow, this is so awesome!"  Erica's outfit had a red skirt, collar, headband, and choker. On the choker was a symbol of a flame.  Her hair was a little longer and more reddish. She was twirling around a gunblade that had appeared out of nowhere.  "I could get used to this!"
        "Look!  I have a sword like Trunks[1]!  This is so cool!"  Tracy had pulled the nodatchi from the sheath strapped on her back and was looking it over.  She was wearing the same outfit as the others except that hers was green and had a lightning bolt on the choker.  Her short black hair was now blond.  "I love Trunks' sword!"
        "Are you two crazy!"  Danielle stepped out of the bushes and faced her friends.  "Look at us!  Look at my skirt!  Can it get any shorter!  And it's orange!  I hate orange!  Get off!"  Danielle started to pull at the outfit but it wouldn't come off.
        "Stop it Danielle, what if you offend whoever gave us these?  I think this is great, I always had wanted to be a superhero and now I am!"  Tracy was grinning estatically as she looked at Erica.  "Come on, I'll take you on!"
        "All right!  Prepare to die!"  Erica pulled out the gunblade again and was about to attack when Candice stepped into the clearing, wearing almost the same clothes as the others.  Her's was light blue and a fish symbol was on her choker.  She was holding a yari in her hand.
        "All right, you got one too!  Great!  Hey, where's my sister?"  Tracy put the nodatchi away and looked worried.
        Candice looked away nervously.  "I think I lost her."
        "WHAT!  What if something happened to her, what if this happened to her!"  Tracy pointed at her clothes.  "Come on, lets go find her."
* * * * *
        "Amanda..."  A voice echoed across the clearing.
        "W...what?"  Amanda slowly got up and looked around the clearing.  Nobody was there.
        "Amanda..."
        "Who's there?"
        "They need your help."
        "Who?  And how am I supposed to help them?"  Amanda turned and saw a gem floating towards her.  "What's this?"
        "This is one of the guardian gems.  I couldn't prevent them from being formed but I can use them for good.  Reach out and take it Amanda."
        "All right, I'm still not sure of this but for some reason I trust you."  Amanda reached out and grabbed the gem.  Blue light surrounded her as she transformed.  Her hair grew longer and turned blue.  Her Old Navy fleece and jeans were replaced with a sailor-type outfit.  The collar and skirt were dark blue, as were her choker, headband, and boots.  On the choker was an arrow symbol.  A bow and quiver of silver arrows appeared in front of her.  As Amanda took them she felt a surge of power flow through her.
        "Now you are ready to fight, Sailor Strata."  The voice was replaced by the sounds of four girls running through the woods.
        "Amanda, there you are!  We looked all over for you."  Candice rushed up to Amanda and gave her a little hug.  "And you got an outfit too!"
        "It's more than an outfit.  It's a weapon and we're supposed to help."  Amanda sounded way more serious than normal.  The girls gave her strange looks.
        "Help who?  And how are these skirts a weapon?  It's not like they come with instructions you know."  Danielle was just a little peeved.  
        "We'll know, just wait.  We will find out when the time is right."  Amanda looked up at the stars and smiled.
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[1] Trunks is a DragonBall Z character.  He is in the Japanese cartoons and is Vegeta and Bulma's son.

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