"Just us…" Nova’s voice echoed throughout the chamber.
 Zephyr turned to stare at her.  "You…" she said, her voice dangerously low.
 "Sailor Zephyr?" Nova backed away.  "Are you all right?"
 Zephyr’s eyes flashed.  "No," Zephyr said.  "I’m not.  I just watched my friends die."  She advanced towards Nova.  "You took us here on purpose, didn’t you?  You took us here, through all those traps, trying to kill us, didn’t you?  Didn’t you!"  Zephyr was becoming hysterical.  "You were the one who killed them.  You did!"  Zephyr charged at Nova and tackled her.  She wrapped her hands around Nova’s neck.  "This is for my friends, you evil murderer."  Zephyr tightened her grip and strangled Nova until her neck broke and she died.
 Zephyr stood up suddenly.  "Why did I just do that?" she asked herself.  "I just killed Nova.  I know she didn’t lead us here on purpose, that she didn’t want to kill us.  So why?"  Then it hit her.  "The Death Ladies.  They possessed me, and it was their influence that made me kill Nova."
 "Very good," a voice said.  "You caught on."  Zephyr looked up, and saw someone materialize in the air before her.  Three people…they were the Death Ladies.
 "I won’t forgive you for this…ever!" Zephyr cried.  She ran towards them, but they disappeared, then reappeared behind her.  Zephyr turned around, only to be hit in the face with an energy blast from one of the Ladies.  She went flying back against the wall.
 "You know you don’t stand a chance against us," one of the ladies said.  "So why try?  Why not just let yourself be killed?"
 "Because," Zephyr said, "I must avenge their deaths."  But she realized she couldn’t do it alone.  She sent out a telepathic cry for help.  <If anyone out there can hear me…> she said in her mind.  <If you can hear me, come to Darkdeath now, I need help!>
Then she remembered what Cypress had said.  "In the Age of Sapphire you had a sister named Sailor Nebula…"
<Sailor Nebula,> Zephyr called out.  <It’s me, Zephyr.  If you can hear me, I’m in trouble and I need your help!>
 
 

Meanwhile, a girl was walking along a street in Paris, France.  Her name was Marie Phillipe, and she was on her way home from school with her bird, Pandora, flying overhead.
 As she was walking, she was suddenly doubled over in pain.  She collapsed to the ground.  Pandora flew down and landed beside her.
 "Marie?  What’s wrong?" Pandora asked.  Pandora could talk; Marie had known this ever since she had had her.  Marie was really Sailor Nebula, one of the sailor soldiers from Astro, as well as Sailor Zephyr’s sister from the Age of Sapphire.
 "Can’t…breathe…" Marie gasped.  Then, she heard a voice in her mind.  Pandora heard it too.
<Sailor Nebula, it’s me, Zephyr.  If you can hear me, I’m in trouble and I need your help!> the voice said.
"Zephyr!" Marie cried.  "My sister, right?" she asked Pandora.
Pandora nodded.  "You need to transform," she told Marie.  "Then I’ll tell you what to do."
"Right," Marie agreed.  She took out her transformation pen and held it up.  "Nebula Astral Star Power!"
 
 

 "Just give up, little girl!" Diabla sent another energy blast at Sailor Zephyr.  The blast knocked Zephyr back against the wall again.
 "Nebula…help me…" Zephyr whispered.
 "I’m right here, Zeph," a voice said.  Zephyr looked up.  Standing before her was a girl in a sailor suit.  The girl looked a little older than Zephyr, but the two looked like they were related.  This new sailor wore a suit similar to Zephyr’s, but wherever Zephyr’s suit was blue hers was green, and vice versa.  Her hair was long and light blue, with half of it pulled back in a green bow and the rest of it loose.
 "Nebula?" Zephyr asked.  "Nebula…sister…is it you?"
 "It’s me!" Nebula smiled.  "I’ve finally found you, Zephyr."
 "Hate to interrupt this little family reunion," Espirita said, "but excuse me, we’ve got a fight to finish?"
 "Oh, right," Zephyr said.  "Do you have the Sapphire Star, Nebula?" she asked her sister.
 "Yes," Nebula said, holding up a staff.  "Do you have yours?"
 "I do," Zephyr said, taking out her half of the Sapphire Star.  They held their halves together, and a blue light emitted from it.  The Death Ladies tried to counterattack with their dark energy, but they couldn’t.  The energy that was coming from the Sapphire Star was too great.  It reached the Death Ladies, and there was a sudden explosion.  When the smoke from the explosion cleared, the Death Ladies were gone.  Zephyr and Nebula had killed them with the blast from the Star.
 "We did it," Nebula said.  "We did it!"
 "But what about the others?" Zephyr asked.
 "There are other Astros?" Nebula asked.  "You’ve found the other Astros?"
 Zephyr nodded.  "But on the way here, they all died.  Could we bring them back to life using the Star?"
 "It’s worth a try," Nebula replied.  They brought the Sapphire Star halves together again, and there was a bright flashing light.  The light flashed nine times, each time it brought back a sailor.  Spica, Io, Orion, Andromeda, Vega, Inferno, Nova, and finally Arcturus.
 "Hey, what happened?" Arcturus asked.  "Where are we?  The last thing I remember was when the ladies captured me.  And who’s that?" she inquired, pointing to Nebula.
 Zephyr sighed.  "We’ve got some serious catching up to do…"