PGOO Act 4

**Act 4 Sofia – Sailor Athena** (Act 4 ソフィア — セーラーアテナ, ***Act 4 Sofia – Sailor Athena***?) is the fourth chapter, or act, of the Underworld Arc and the fourth chapter of Pretty Guardians of Olympus overall.

## Plot

Mia is falling asleep listening to her acquaintances from the music club talk about upcoming rock and pop bands. The previous night, Mia stayed up late fighting a gang of elementless Druids as Sailor Ares. Her club-mates point out her failing to stay focused on their conversations, let alone in class for the past week. Just then, a group of school children get sucked into a shadowy portal that makes way for a cloaked, shadowy Druid, which sends everyone on the street into a panic. Mia uses the panic as the perfect cover to slip away and transform into Sailor Ares. Sailor Ares engages in battle with the Druid it but retreats.

Meanwhile, Eleni and Alexandria continue their mission of befriending Macaria to get to the bottom of the mysteries surrounding her as they were doing the previous week. This time, the duo and Diane invite Macaria to go to the boardwalk arcade with them and she once again hesitantly accepts their invites. Unlike the previous times, Spark is trailing them and sees something strange sticking out of Macaria's pocket. Eleni teaches Macaria how to play various games in the arcade and gushes about Sailor A which makes Alexandria jokingly gag at Eleni's behavior. Diane teases Eleni about Andreas.

After the battle, Mia goes to find her peer but discovers that she missed the movie they were on their way to see before the attack. Her bitter acquaintances angrily scold her for ditching them and leave her in a huff. The brunette goes to her family's business with a heavy heart and she talks with Milo about the responsibilities of growing up. The cafe's bell rings and a frail teen girl walks in while dragging an almost identical bespectacled girl by the hand. The first of the twins introduces herself as Santina Sapienti and that she has been looking for Mia for quite sometime, beginning to ramble about a prophecy and visions. Santina's twin sister, Sofia, profusely apologizes for her sister and chastises said sister for acting up in front of strangers. Mia feels something off about the two and angrily quips to Sofia to be nice to her sister, irritating Sofia. Milo intervenes before things can get too heated and offers to serve the twins. Mia leaves to go home.

The next day, the Sailor Guardians feel as if they're being watched from the shadows. They run into Sofia at school and Mia confronts her about Santina's behavior, subtly accusing the two for working for the enemy which Sofia denies--somewhat aware of her sister's visions of the Sailor Guardians and her searching for them. Mia fires more lofty accusations at Sofia which Sofia fires back, now claiming that Mia must actually be working for the enemy if she's randomly attacking innocent people for things they haven't done. Diane and Macaria meet with Eleni and Alexandria in the hall and the four of them intervene in the violent argument. Macaria's eyes meet someone running down the hall and she points out that Santina was probably eavesdropping the argument. Diane takes her leave to go get the two arguing teens some water.

A shadow darts after Santina and Macaria follows, saying she's going to check on Santina while Sofia calms down. Santina goes out into the hidden courtyard of the school in fear. Macaria stops following and sinks into the shadows, grabbing ahold of the shadow Druid with her bare hands. The dark haired teen tells the Druid that she will take care of the oracle and that he is dismissed from his duties. However, he refuses and states that he only takes orders from his creator Shuudorl and then he attacks Macaria, forcing her to transform into Dark Underworld to hold him off but ultimately lets him go because it could help her confirm her own suspicions. The entire exchange is witnessed by Spark who panics and goes to try to warn the others.

Back with the others, Sofia apologizes to Mia and explains her worries about her sister. Santina since a very young age has always had visions of the future in pieces and only Sofia believed her visions, the rest of the world disregarding her visions and mistreating her, even when the visions are proven true. Sofia admits that she has done everything in her power to protect her twin sister and is willing to play along with her visions just so her sister doesn't feel alone. Mia then apologizes to Sofia and swears to apologize to Santina for her rude and frankly out of pocket accusations. Sofia quickly darts up and comments that she can tell something bad is about to happen on the campus. The younger twin runs in the direction her sister is in and the trio follow behind her. Diane returns to an empty hall with two cups of water.

Santina is almost grabbed by the shadow Druid but she narrowly avoids him. He continues to try to grab her but she evades him until finding herself in a dark corner. The Druid mockingly apologizes for ruining her day and begins to drag her down into his realm, using Shuudorl's Soul Scavenger to drain Santina of her life energy. However, Sofia grabs the dangerous item out of the druid's hold and Santina begins to restore her energy, temporarily being released from the partial hold of the Druid. The druid quickly turns his attention to subduing Sofia by grabbing her and holding her down with shadowy vines. The Soul Scavenger brightly resonates with Sofia and the druid taunts her by cruelly commenting how he easily caught not one but two oracles. He regains the item from Sofia and begins to use it to suck Sofia's life energy out at a rapid rate. Just before Sofia is outdone, the Druid's shadow vines are ripped into pieces by Sailor Poseidon's Stabilizing Tsunami. Sailor Olympus attempts to finish off the Druid with her discus attack while he is in a stupor from the sudden attack but he quickly pulls Sailor Olympus into his void with Sailor Poseidon quickly joining her. Sailor Ares is the last of the Sailor Guardians and attempts to finish him off with her own attack but he dodges it which causes a hole to be blown into a wall, commenting about how predictable her attacks became after their previous encounter.

The druid gets to work in combatting Sailor Ares for a second time and gains an upper hand. As Sailor Ares is slowly and agonizingly dragged into the shadow's void, she calls out for Sofia to wake up to protect her sister from a "big bully," and then she yells out an apology to Santina for her previous actions and remorse for not being able to protect the twins before being pulled into the void completely. Sofia snaps out of her trance, finding a prized pen Santina gifted her for acing her exams on the ground but glowing brightly. Sofia remembers the words that were on the note attached to it, "Athena Power, Make Up." Sofia says the phrase and transforms into Sailor Athena for the first time.

Sailor Athena quickly attacks the druid and strategically combats him; then defeating him with Owl Feather Flurry. Everyone that was abducted by the druid is let go to where they were originally taken from and Sailor Athena destroys Shuudorl's Soul Scavenger in the process. The Sailor Guardians, now freed, express gratitude to Sailor Athena and welcome her to the team. However, Sailor Athena ignores them and instead checks on her sister. Everyone is unaware of the crimson eyes watching them.

Elsewhere, Shuudorl roars in agony and frustration with the defeat of their druid. Aeschylus scolds Shuudorl for their second failure and threatens to kill them if they keep making him and Dark Underworld take the fall for their failures. Dark Underworld returns and says that she is going to put the next stage of her personal plan into effect.

The chapter concludes with everyone in trouble for skipping class after lunch.

## First Appearances

### Characters

* Sofia Sapienti/Sailor Athena
* Santina Sapienti
* Unnamed shadow Druid

## Reoccurring Appearances

### Characters

* Mia Hernandez/Sailor Ares
* Milo Hernandez
* Eleni Neera/Sailor Olympus
* Alexandria Seaver/Sailor Poseidon
* Diane King
* Macaria Fata/Dark Underworld
* Spark
* Andreas Bathroy
* Various unnamed students
* Shuudorl
* Sailor A

### Phrases

* Olympus Prism Power, Make Up
* Poseidon Power, Make Up
* Ares Power, Make Up

### Items and Weapons

* Soul Scavenger
* Olympus Transformation Brooch
* Tiara
* Transformation Pen

### Attacks

* Olympus Tiara Discus (failed)
* Burning Battle Courage (failed twice)
* Stabilizing Tsunami

## Trivia

* In the original publication, this is the final chapter of the first volume but in the republication, it is the second to last chapter of the volume.
* It is unknown how Santina got ahold of Sofia's transformation pen as the pens are stated to only find their rightful owners.
	+ However, it is speculated that the supernatural bond the twins share is the reason for why it went to Santina originally.