CHAOS FINALE
Episode Seven: Getting Along Isn't An Easy Task

        Story settings; Lupinus, his little sister Rosa, and his two second cousins, Lavandula and Tulipa, have discovered their family blood of being senshi. But Lupinus isn´t a fool for he knows that they are incomplete, even if it´s just a feeling. He occasionally feels a flicker of familiar energy but these moments are difficult for it seems as if those who are also a part of his team aren´t as whole as they.
        Not to mention that it´s hard enough to handle his team at the moment. Tulipa can´t stand that she cannot attack, Lavandula´s snarky comments are getting on his nerves, and Rosa is no where to be found!

Opening
        On the moon, in a city divided in the Sea of the Tranquility, there is no peace for Lupinus. Overworked by his duty as a intern doctor, by his duty to act as a older brother and cousin to his family, and trying to be a leader for a still un-whole team, he´s got to set priorities. But when there´s arguments within the family, how can he even handle youma?

        Lupinus was calmly driving home, exhausted but pleased by his night shift. He was looking forward to a good, long sleep. The hours that he worked could be crazy but he was confident that it would all be all right eventually.
        He pulled into his long driveway. The two-story home was old, reminiscent of a Victorian setting. It wasn´t as well-put together, many flaws in the cracks and fading paint, as well as the various problems that propped up inside. Most of them, thankfully, were easy to tend to.
        There was just one problem he couldn´t handle.
        "For the love of God, stop running in the hallway!" Tulipa shouted. "You guys! You have to get ready for school! STOP THAT!"
        Rosa was tearing down still the hallway, chasing her younger cousin with a monstrous scowl. "Give me back my necklace!"
        "It´s mine!" Lavandula shouted back. "My mama gave it to me!"
        "She got us the same thing! That one has my initials on it!"
        "No it doesn´t!"
        Rosa spotted Lupinus the instant he stepped in. "She won´t listen to me! Can´t you do something?"
        Tulipa pulled Rosa away. "Let him go! He´s been at work all night and he´s exhausted.."
        "Stop acting like a parent! You´re not, all right?" Rosa glared as Tulipa´s lips thinned.
        "Stop acting like a child and maybe I won´t act like such!"
        "Lupin, she says this isn´t mine!" Lavandula wailed.
        Lupinus stood at the threshold before turning to exit the home. "Lupinus?" Lavandula asked quizzically.
        He entered his car, closing the door quietly before working the seat to fall backwards where he settled in, arms crossed behind his head.
        "Is he going to sleep in the car?" Lavandula rubbed her head with confusion.
        Tulipa tapped on the windowpane, waiting. He seemed to think about it before he opened it a crack. "You shouldn´t sleep in there. What about carbon monoxide?"
        "I´ll take my chances."
        "Lupin, please, we won´t bother you..."
        He waved a hand. "Please, don´t lie. Just get them to go to school before I shoot myself."
        It took her a while before she was seen dragging both girls out and down the sidewalk to the bus stop. She staggered back as Lupinus staggered with her toward the door. "I´ve slept the whole night but I´m already tired."
        "Girls have too much energy," Lupinus grumbled. He felt a prod in his shoulder. "What?"
        "I´m a girl, remember?"
        "Don´t you have school too?" He asked before closing the door in her face.
        "LUPINUS!"

        The girls went to different schools that happened to be next to each other. Rosa attended the ninth grade, in Shadeview High while Lavandula attended fifth grade at Ygnacio Elementary. Shadeview High was significantly bigger, built better, and was newer while Ygnacio Elementary was a flat building in a shape of a flat lined U, the lunch section and recess section in the middle of the outlined building.
        And all that divided them was a dingy fence. Lavandula had lunch at the same time as Rosa, and was watching her cousin be surrounded by already so many people. She glared at Rosa from a distance but it was useless, since Rosa couldn´t see her in the mass of people.
        A hand clapped onto Lavandula´s shoulder, causing her to fall into the fence with a disgruntled look. "Hiya! What´cha doing!?" Came a very bright voice.
        The boisterous girl beamed. She was a short, pudgy little girl with dark brown hair as thick as fog. She wore it in two braids on each side, the front one over her ears and shorter than the braid in the back that fell to the middle of her back. She had a middle part but stubby bangs. Her tan eyes seemed too unusual on a such a warm-skinned girl, a Caucasian peach.
        "Who are you?" Lavandula asked suspiciously. She didn´t say anything about the silver light around the other, she waited to see if the other would say it first.
        "I´m Sela Winterlynn! We´re in the same grade!"
        Lavandula was thoughtful for a moment. "Do you always end in exclamation points?"
        "You´re silly! Come on and play!" Sela tugged on her with a big grin. She wiggled with her eagerness. "We can go play on the teeter totter!"
        Lavandula allowed herself to be dragged, taken aback by the loud and vibrant girl. She watched as Sela seemed to go everywhere with boundless energy.
        "Look, a flower! Oh boy, that looks like fun, let´s go on the swings! Whoever climbs to the top wins! Ha, ha! I win!"
        By the end of the lunch hour, Lavandula was exhausted and stunned to see that Sela hadn´t wound down at all. "You´re a little strange," Lavandula said bluntly.
        "Am I? Oh boy, I like to be me!"
        Lavandula sighed tiredly. "Whatever."
        "Hey, hey! Wanna go to the ice cream parlor down the street? It´s really, really, really good!"
        "I´m not sure you need any more sugar," Lavandula muttered to herself before looking up to spy the ever hopeful look. "I wouldn´t mind it," she admitted.
        "Yea!!" Sela danced around her new friend. "I like you! You´re so nice and pretty! And the silver light is really, really bright for you! I´ll meet you in the front, how does that sound? After school then!"
        Lavandula hadn´t been able to get a word in edgewise as the girl took off with a bounding skip, her hair wafting side to side as she giggled, waving to other students.
        Lavandula fiddled with her locker. The last bell had just rung and she was struggling with the combination before hitting it in agitation. "Stupid locker."
        "Hi!"
        Lavandula nearly had a heart attack. "Don´t do that!" Lavandula shrieked.
        Sela blinked innocently before continuing loudly. "I can´t wait to go to the ice cream parlor! I love chocolate, what about you?"
        "Mint chip," Lavandula nodded sagely. "It´s like a sweet breath mint."
        "Wow..." Sela leaned in, completely enthralled before beaming widely. "I still go for chocolate!"
        "Hey, Lavandula, taking your time?" Rosa tapped a toe. "I had to walk into the school cause you were taking so.. long..." She slowed down her sentence, distracted by the small girl. "Hey, are you a..."
        "A chipper, sweets loving, happy-go-lucky kid? Yep! That´s me down to a T! Wow! You have a silver light too! It´s just as bright! Why is that? Huh? Why ya shining? Huh? Huh?"
        Rosa closed her mouth, turning toward Lavandula with a delicate cough that sounded suspiciously like laughter.
        "We´re going to the ice cream parlor down the street. I guess you could come," Lavandula flipped her hair airily, giving the impression that she was being considerate.
        "I don´t think so, we should go home and start on the homework. We came in awfully late to the year."
        "But I said I would! And I don´t break promises," Lavandula crossed her arms.
        "You break the ones to me all the time!"
        "Well, duh, because I don´t mean them."
        The two glared at each other. "Fine, do whatever!" Rosa threw her hands up.
        "Nyah!" Lavandula stuck her tongue, glaring at her cousin´s retreating back.

        Tulipa paced on the lawn, checking her watch every few moments before sighing deeply each time as her hand fell to her side. "Where are they? It´s getting late!"
        "Ah..." Lupinus waltzed out, rubbing his head with a towel. "What are you doing?"
        "Those two aren´t back from school!" Tulipa wrung her hands. "Help me out here!"
        He sighed. "Maybe they´re just enjoying the walk?"
        "Good afternoon!" Lavandula called out from the small distance. She walked with an easy step, licking the ice cream cone eagerly. "I met a new friend today."
        She slurped noisily. "I invited her for a sleepover on Friday, is that all right?"
        Lupinus gave a strained smile. "Don´t you think you should´ve asked first?"
        "But she was surrounded in silver light. Aside, I like her, she´s fun. She ends her sentences in exclamation points."
        "Where is Rosa?" Tulipa asked, crossing her arms, looking stern.
        "Don´t be so motherly," Lavandula opened a single lazy eye.
        "Impertinent little brat!" Tulipa glared.
        "I don´t know where she is. She wanted to go home and study and I said no."
        "Augh! It hasn´t even been a week and I can´t stand you people!" Tulipa pulled on her hair.
        "What about me?" Lupinus pointed to himself.
        "You locked me out this morning. Of course I´m especially including you."
        They glared at each other.
        "This is a happy family," Lavandula was heard commenting as the door closed. There was a near inaudible click.
        "You have the keys to the house, right, Lupinus?" Tulipa asked faintly.
        "You have the bitchiest sister ever," Lupinus raged toward the door, hammering it. "Let me in, you little brat!"

        Rosa walked down the bustling street. One of the main roads, the stores glistened like new as people wove in and out. The streets overflowing with cars as she walked around, watching everything she could see.
        She saw the flower shop and she grinned foolishly. "Well, if Lavandula can have her fun, why can´t I?"
        She entered with a bounce in her step. Taking in the bright scent of the flowers, the cascading rainbow colors, she felt as if she was sent to heaven. "It´s so beautiful.."
        "You should see the gardens in the back," came a shy voice. Adam stood, dressed in casual clothes with a apron covering him.
        "There´s a garden?" Rosa asked brightly. Adam waved her to follow him. Exiting through the back storage room, the garden blossomed into view. "WOW!"
        "These are my father´s pride and joy," Adam smiled sadly at the slight mention of his father but soon brightened. "May I ask you something?"
        "Sure," Rosa turned toward him.
        "Are you.. also... a warrior?" He asked it, hesitantly.
        Rosa blinked and realized the silver light around him. "You too?"
        "We are the same, aren´t we?" He smiled charmingly.
        "Well, I guess," Rosa grinned stupidly. "So, do you work here?"
        "Only for today. My aunt is sick and I took over for the day." He waved his hand airily. "But it´s so slow today, I´m glad to show off our prized flowers."
        "Wow, so your family owns this place?" She looked around with a bright gaze. "I wouldn´t mind having some seed packets."
        "Let´s see what we have in stock," he led the way back in. As they ruffled with the packets, exploring which flowers would be best, the door bell jingled. Adam watched the young man as Rosa beamed at the packets. "So many to pick..." She began, looking up at him.
        The haunted look in Adam´s eyes made her look over to the stranger. She looked back at him. "Are you all right?"
        He jolted. "Oh, yes, I am," he gave a weak smile. "Did.. did you find something you like?"
        "Excuse me, I´d like to be helped," the stranger spoke.
        "Of course, sir, I´ll be there in a moment," Adam bobbed his head. "So, you keep looking, all right?"
        He loped to the man with a tiny smile.
        "Hmmm...." Rosa fingered the packets with a thoughtful gaze. She was willing to wait for him to finish with the other customer. She was just happy to be in a place she liked.