The Promise of the Sun
by Pluto Knight
Copyright © 2002/2004

Copyrights: Sailor Moon™ and all original characters are copyright © 1992 Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha, TOEI Animation, English Language Adaptation © 1995 DiC Entertainment.

Author's note: Since English isn't my native language; please don't flame me for grammar errors. Spelling errors… guess I'll just have to kill off my computer ;;

Author's Note: I have decided to go through some one my old stories, edit and upload the edited version. If anyone wants me to continue this story, review or email me and let me know. Now that school if over for me for a good period, I have time to start writing again. Sadly I am currently struggling with every writer/authors worst nightmare; Writers Block, so forgive me if not everything is in pristine order. ;;

Chapter 1

As the sun was setting, the scouts were fighting in the park against another Droid from the Dark Moon Kingdom. They had been fighting each other since Rini had showed up about two week ago. Nobody knew where she had come from. Also four new scouts had showed up. They were known as the sailor scouts of the outer planets, and where called Sailor Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Saturn. They didn't like the inner scouts very much, and thought them as weak and useless in the battle against evil. They, like the inner scouts, thought that Serena wasn't a real scout and never would be. The outers, save for Pluto, didn't know that Sailor Moon was the Moon Princess.
And now this… they were kicking her out of the team. Serena had been late for this fight and the scouts had been in a tough battle. They were mad at her for not showing up, and they didn't even want to know why she was late. Serena looked at them, her eyes watering. 'They don't want me anymore, and I am there princess!' she thought to herself. Anger and disgust was clearly shown of their faces, even Darien's, her supposed love.

"DID YOU HEAR ME!" Sailor Mars yelled.

"Yes, I heard you, Mars." Sailor Moon said, "I am not a scout anymore and you want me to leave."

The others nodded.

"You never were a scout." Darien said icily. Serena had never heard a tone so cold and mean before. It made her shiver, "Only a child who's been given some powers, waiting for us too come a rescue you."

Tears began to trickle down Serena's checks. She remembered the love that they had shared a thousand years ago, on the moon. It seemed even so unreal know. The man that she thought that she would one day marry was slowly killing her heart.

"Alright, if that is what you all want, then I will leave." And with that she turned around and ran home.

Rini looked at Serena, seeing the tears, she gasped. Those tearful eyes reminded her of her mother once again.

"Sailor Moon." She mumbled, and looked at the scouts.

"Come one small lady, time to get to bed." Sailor Pluto said.

"Darien you have better take her with you home. I don't trust her leaving with Serena." Lita said.

Darien nodded and reached out for her.

Rini stepped back as Darien wanted to pick her up, "I am not going anywhere with you Darien. How can you hurt her like that? It is not like she deserves it." And with that Rini ran of in the same direction as Serena, towards home.

"Do you think that we were too hard on her?" Mina asked, unsure about the whole matter.

"No, we weren't, Mina." Lita said firmly. "She needs to learn responsibility and to grow up. We don't need her, and her immaturity, with the trouble we already have with Rubeus and the four sisters."

Amy nodded, "She will just get in our way and get hurt. This way we don't need to worry about her anymore.

"We also need a new leader." Hotaru said, looking at Mina, "I say Mina."

Amara and Michelle nodded in agreement, as did Raye and Lita.

Serena was sore and soaked to the bone when she got back home. It had started to rain, and she could have made it home in dry state. All she really wanted was to go straight to bed and sleep. But a hot bath would make the chill go away. She slowly walked out to the bathroom and stripped of her clothes, turning the water on and climbing into the tub, relaxing trying to forget what had happen earlier. The pain wouldn't go away.

She now wished that she hadn't given the inner scouts their memories back, when Ann and Ali had been around.

Serena cringed mentally as she remembered Darien's cold and harsh words. She knew deep inside that he was the only one she would ever care for that deeply, and they had spent so little time together. First his memory loss, then he had broken up with her and now this. Serena would have preferred anything but this, even prefer for him too go back to not remembering her and calling her meatball head, teasing her constantly.

She looked her self in the mirror hanging on the wall. 'I don't want these pigtails anymore. From this day on the old Serena Tsukino is dead and gone!' she thought to her self, and with that she cut of her pigtails, leaving her hair shoulder length. 'No one will ever call me meatball head me again. I am through with scout business, monsters and all that stuff.' She thought, climbing to bed, setting her clock for 6 am.

Serena was up early the next day, feeling sore all over from last night. She had been having an awful night tossing around in sleep, mumbling. But she tried to hide it, and did well. Her mom almost dropped the fry-pan she was holding, in astonishment of seeing Serena up early, and not late for school. Rini looked at her like she had just fallen of the moon or something. She did not like Serena's new hair style at all; it made her seem so, Serena unlike. Serena sat down at began to slowly began to eat breakfast, not the old Serena stuffing her head like a pig.

On her way to school she noticed her ex-friend up a head, Mina, Ami, and Lita. And as usual they went into the small park near the school before class. Serena looked their way, and Ami noticed her and her new hair style. Serena gave her an icy stare before walking the rest of the way to school.

Though Ami was shocked to see Serena's 'new' hairstyle, she didn't care about her at all, she was some what happy that they had a more mature leader now and not a child like Serena.

Miss Haruna wasn't that surprised to see Serena on time or that she had done her home work. For some reason she had always known that Serena could do things if she wanted too, and it had always made her angry to see that Serena didn't and that she was holding back.

"Class, we will be having some new students today. They are all transfers from the US. Serena since you are the best at English, why don't you show them around."

"Miss Haruna, Serena can't speak a word in English." Mina laughed.

Serena glared at Mina and smiled at Miss Haruna, and then replied in English,

"Sure, Miss Haruna, I would gladly show these new students around."

Ami and Hotaru jaws dropped; they new nothing about Serena being abele to speak English. The other students in the class snickered and smirked at the sight of the 3 scout's astonishment.

"Thank you, Miss Tsukino." Miss Haruna said, and let the new students in.

A feeling of déjà vu hit Serena as she saw the five boys and three girls.

"This is Serena Tsukino. She will be showing you around." Miss Haruna told them.

"It is a pleasure to meet such a beautiful lady." One of the boys said. He had blond hair, blue eyes, and was about the same height as Lita, "my name is Chris Anders. The scouts looked on, jealousy over the fact that Serena was getting to show them around.

'That baby isn't going to have him!' Mina thought to herself and looked at him blinking with her eyes at him, but quickly stopped when she noticed that he didn't care about her, only Serena.

During launch, Chris and Molly noticed that the scouts where pointing and talking about Serena. And Molly was getting a little annoyed with their actions.

"Serena, how come you friends are pointing and talking about you?" Chris asked

"Just ignore them Chris, they are not as nice as one may think." Serena replied, not wanting to even look in the direction of the scouts.

"Oh." Chris replied and went back to his lunch.

"But I though that they were your friends?" Molly asked a little shocked.

"They were Mol', but they aren't anymore. And I am actually glad that they aren't."

Serena and the new people had become good friends. Serena had even offered to show them around Jubian. They had accepted her offer and decided to meet after school and go from there. During launch Serena didn't even look at the scouts, she was busy talking to the new guys, which made the girls mad. They couldn't understand how she could be so cheerful, considering what had happened last night.

After school she was introduced to more people from the US. They were attending Mugen Academy and were friends with the new people at Serena's school.

"Hey Mark, how are you doing?" Chris, the guy that had flirted with Serena earlier, asked.

"Good, Travis and Neil will be joining us shortly." Mark said, looking at Serena. She reminded him of some one that he should know well, but came up empty handed.

"I am Mark. It is pleasure to meet you Miss…?"

"Serena, Serena Tsukino." Serena replied, blushing a little at his words.

"Well nice to meet you, Miss Tsukino." Mark said, at the same time Neil and the other guys from Serena's school walked up to them.

"And this is Peter, Clark, Michael, Jasmine, Selene, Jason, André, Ken, Greg, Andrew, Justin, Jake, Damien and Derrick." Chris said, introducing all of them once again to Serena.

Serena smiled, "Nice to meet all of you." She said, happy that she had found some new friends so quickly. It would have been hard to go by with out having friends.

I am reviewing all the chapters and hopefully I get to write some more chapters. School is finally over for me after a long a hectic year