-Chapter 1-
"Serena! We, as Sailor Scouts, are not letting you see Darien as much as you have been lately!" Rei broke the ice.
"I thought you were over him!" Serena really wanted to change the subject.
"See? I told you I shouldn't have been the one to tell her!" Rei threw telepathic needles at Amy, Lita, and Mina. They'd all suggested Rei tell, but denied she'd bring Rei's old puppy love for Darien up.
"Serena, don't take it the wrong way! We are only doing this for your own good!" Amy explained.
"But Darien and I are supposed to be together!" Serena whined.
"That's true, but you and Darien are getting a little… too lovey-dovey for comfort. You'll have to be kept apart. But only for a little while!" Lita told her.
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Denial…" Mina chirped.
"It is not!"
"Serena! You guys are kissing each other out of the blue and you keep leaning against each other so hard, you're actually pushing each other around!" Rei was determined to bring her down one way or another. She already had this whole argument planned out.
"That's not true!"
"You almost pushed Darien off that bridge!" Rei was being a persistent pest in Serena's eyes.
"We found you on top of Darien behind the dumpster."
"I-I tripped! And he fell catching me!" Serena's face was a whole new shade of red.
"And I suppose you just happened to land on his lips?"
"…"
"Face it, Serena! You and Darien were caught red-handed! Thank goodness you weren't naked! You can't deny the facts!"
"…"
"See? You don't respond because you know I'm right!" Rei was really working her magic with Serena.
Serena was clenching her fists and looking down with her eyebrows furrowed, her eyes getting teary. "It isn't your decision to make! And, if I don't get with Darien at just the right time, Rini will never be born! You guys don't want that to happen, do you?!"
"Well, no… But nonetheless! As Sailor Scouts, we're sworn to protect you, our Princess! And that's exactly what we intend to do! From now on, you aren't leaving our sight! And since there are four of us, you aren't seeing Darien anytime soon!" Amy replied.
Serena ran off, crying. The girls didn't follow her, thinking they could trust her when she ran off like this.
But when Serena didn't come back, they had no choice but to look for her. They eventually found her on the park bench, kissing Darien.
All four girls gathered around the couple. Their heads grew huge and they were on fire, just staring at Darien. When Darien opened his eyes, he looked at the four flaming girls.
"Err… Serena, I'd better go…" he said.
"Why?" she asked. Then she opened her eyes just in time to see Darien flee for dear life.
"Ooooohhh…" she said, "Guys, please! Let me be with Darien!"
"After what we just saw, you'll be lucky if you get to go to the bathroom unsupervised!" Lita said in an "I'm dead serious!" tone.
"You guys are overreacting! Neither of us tried anything! We were just kissing!"
"Yeah… and for you, kissing will lead to…?" Rei was expecting Serena to finish up her sentence.
"Let's go home. It's getting late," Amy observed.
"Yeah. But who's Serena going to sleep with?" Mina asked.
"WHAT?! I'm sleeping at my own house!" and with that, Serena stormed off. Until she noticed all four of the girls were following her. "GO HOME!!!" she commanded.
"I'll sleep at her house!" Mina volunteered. A giant sweat drop appeared on Serena's forehead.
"Fine! Have it your way!" Serena said in a huff.
"Okay, Mina, watch her!" the three other girls called out.
"Don't worry!" was the response they got.
They knew they could trust Mina, but as for Serena, they'd have to keep a close eye on her. A new mission had just begun for the Sailor Scouts.
That same night, when Serena was sure Mina was in a deep slumber, she snuck out.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! CLICK!
"Serena, c'mon, time to get up…" Mina was half asleep and didn't realize Serena was missing and that she was talking to air. But when she regained her consciousness, her eyes grew to the size of flying saucers. Immediately, she called the other girls' communicators. "Sailor Scouts lose their leader!" she said to the little screen.
Meanwhile, Serena was just waking up with a yawn. She didn't have any clothes on. The first thing Serena saw was Darien's face, right in front of her's. She smiled. She knew Mina too well and knew that once she was in a deep sleep, that was it, nothing could wake that girl up but sound. So she snuck out very silently, more aware of her surroundings than ever before. It worked, and she snuck out successfully.
Darien then woke up, unaware that the Sailor Scouts were running around the whole city looking for Serena. Rei was at the arcade about six times, Lita was at a bake shop about nine or ten times, Mina went wherever, and Amy went to the park about three times. They couldn't find Serena anywhere. Then it hit them. 'Darien's apartment!' they all thought angrily. They were there in a flash, busting down the door, only to find two half-conscious people lying in bed next to each other. "Tuxedo Mask: 1 Sailor Scouts: 0" Mina said in a depressed and furious tone.
Hearing them, Serena screamed, "GET OUT!!!" She pulled the sheets up close to her. The ruckus ended when Serena's crescent moon symbol appeared on her forehead. The same symbol appeared on Darien's forehead. They both looked up at the symbol.
BAM!!!
"AAAAHHHHHH!!! Darien! I'm stuck!" Serena shrieked. Both symbols had pulled the two lovers straight into each other, and then the symbols stuck to each other. She was squirming to get loose.
"Serena! Stop moving!" Darien tried calming her, but he himself was in a panic. Nothing like this had ever happened before. A light grew where the two symbols touched. Then the light became pure energy.
"Oh! Nononononononononononono!" Darien and Serena were both calling to the light. They felt the tension build up inside it.
BANG!!!
The light dispersed in a blast of energy that sent both lovers flying in opposite directions.
"Ooooohhh! Like the Big Bang Theory all over again!" Serena dizzily said. Her eyes were spinning spirals. Darien's eyes were the same.
"What was that?!" The Sailor Scouts all said.
"It was horrible!" Serena hastily answered, rubbing her forehead, "But I think it means… That Darien and I are supposed to be getting together like this!"
"SERENA! You're too young!" Amy yelled.
"There's never an age limit for love…" she said dreamily.
"There is for this kind of love!"
"Yeah… You're only fifteen! What'll happen if you get pregnant? You'll still be in high school but you'll be a high school mother. What will everyone think about you then, hmm?"
"I don't care if I get pregnant! As long as it's Darien's baby! It might be Rini!"
"We all thought you were a better person than this, Serena! I guess we thought wrong! And Darien! You should be ashamed!"
Serena helped Darien up. "Besides, I'd give anything to be with Darien… I'd even give up being Sailor Moon, if that's what it takes. You guys have to 'face the facts'. You just can't keep me away!" Serena was leaning against Darien' chest, the bed sheets looking like a dress.
"Serena! Get your clothes on! We're leaving right now."
"No! I never wanna leave!"
"What? Did Darien take your mind along with… your purity?" When Lita said that last part, everyone except Serena glared at Darien.
"He took more than that!" she replied, her eyes all starry.
"Serena! Let's go! C'mon! Move it! We'll drag you out of here if we have too! Or… at least… Lita will."
"WHAT?! Why me?"
"You're the strongest one here. She's probably too heavy for us… Especially considering how much junk food she eats per minute!"
Everyone nodded in unison.
Serena, meanwhile, was going to scream, her face was fire-red, and her eyes were enormous half-circles.
"She's probably too heavy for me to lift!"
"But you've lifted a fully grown man into the air!"
"True, but Serena's a completely different story."
Everyone nodded in unison.
"THAT'S IT!!!" Serena started strangling Rei. They dueled it out in a fast fight. It was so fast; you could hardly see any of their body. Everything was just a flash until Rei ran out the door with Serena in tow. The other girls left with, "Darien, if we see you so much as look at Serena, we'll personally make sure both your destinies end, right there and then!"
'Oh, man! They used to love me, now I'm on their Most Wanted list! Not to mention never being able to see Serena while their around… What a mess!' Darien thought.
Serena, just now realizing she'd been tricked, stopped running after Rei, who thought Serena was right behind her, and headed for home. Then she blushed as she remembered her clothes. She looked down and saw she still had the sheets on her. "Looks like I go back to Darien's place!" she happily told herself. Serena slipped into an alley and walked toward Darien's apartment.
DING-DONG!
Darien let Serena in. "I need my clothes," she told him. She came in, grabbed her clothes, put them on, and handed Darien back his sheets. She gave him a nice, long kiss, and left.
'Good thing the girls won't know about that kiss! That could be the last kiss I ever get from her…' Darien was thinking of what the girls had said not too long ago.
"AAAHHH!!! She's like a slippery little weasel! She always finds some way to sneak out of our sight! How does she do it? There are four of us!" Mina growled.
"It's my turn to watch her! And if I fail, it'll be Amy's turn," Lita said.
"Hey! C'mon guys! Give me a chance!" Mina pleaded.
"YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE!"
"Yeah! You're the one who caused all this in the first place!"
"Wasn't it you who let her sneak off and 'go' with Darien?"
"She's avoided you and Rei! It's our turn!"
"Alright! Alright! I get it!" Mina said, disappointed.
The girls were on a Serena-hunt. Again. They were starting to wish there was a homing device for her. They were tired of looking. 'Tuxedo Mask: 2 Sailor Scouts:0' they thought.
Amy went back to Darien's apartment and searched for her there. Nothing.
Lita went to the arcade and searched there. Nothing.
Mina searched in the mall. Nothing.
Rei searched in a goodie shop. Nothing.
The girls met up at the park.
"Nothing!" they said in unison.
"WHAT?!" they said, also in unison.
Then they heard a scream. 'I know that scream anywhere!' everyone thought. They rushed to the source of the scream and found Serena, transformed as Sailor Moon, fighting a giant snail-creature. They sighed in relief. This was better than Darien.
The snail-creature started hurling sludge at Sailor Moon.
"EEEWWW! DIGUSTING!" they heard her yell. Then it hit them. This would be the perfect payback for earlier. So they decided to leave the disgusting creature up to her. The girls went to the arcade, where they could have fun and pretend to have not heard her.
Meanwhile, Sailor Moon was having a hard time with this monster. "I thought snails were supposed to be slow!"
The snail's eyes glowed red and suddenly it was hailing. Sailor Moon was too busy dodging hail to fight the monster.
Tuxedo Mask showed up just in time.
"Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon cried in relief.
Tuxedo Mask threw a rose, his signature move, at the snail. It hit, but didn't really bother, it.
"You can't attack it; it just keeps absorbing the attacks!" Sailor Moon warned Tuxedo Mask.
Tuxedo Mask looked over at where the rose hit. There was only half the rose left because the snail had absorbed the rest of it. So it was true, any attack thrown at it would just be absorbed into its body. It probably would only make the snail stronger.
The snail's eyes glowed red again and this time, it sped up time to where it was nighttime already.
"It can speed up time?!" Serena asked, very worried.
"Yes," Tuxedo Mask answered. As he turned to look her in the eye, the snail's tail was coming straight for her. "Look out!"
"Wha…?"
PLOP!!!
"EEEEEKKK! I'M COVERED IN SNAIL SLIME!!!"
The girls heard Sailor Moon scream this and choked on the drinks they were drinking.
"Hahahahaha!!!" they all were cracking up. Although they would be far from satisfied if they knew Tuxedo Mask had shown up to help her. It never really occurred to them that Tuxedo Mask might sense her danger.
"We're going to have to find some way to squish it…" Tuxedo Mask said.
"Where are we going to find a shoe bigger than the slime machine?" Sailor Moon asked.
Tuxedo Mask just stared at her like "what are you talking about?"
"Oh! Now I get it! What about hail? If we can make it produce enough, it'll be squished!"
"Good thinking, Sailor Moon!"
"Hehehe! Thanks!"
"Just keep attacking it!"
"Okay!"
"Moon Tiara Magic!"
Tuxedo Mask kept throwing roses and more roses.
Sailor Moon kept throwing her tiara.
The snail's eyes glowed red, and a lot more hail was produced, crushing it.
"Well, that was easy!" Sailor Moon happily proclaimed. She scooted ever closer to Tuxedo Mask, until she was leaning on him.
"I knew they couldn't keep us apart… Lovers rule, Scouts drool!" Sailor Moon said right before she kissed Tuxedo Mask. Right as their lips touched, though, the crescent moon symbols appeared. They lit up, but didn't slam into each other or create a blast of energy.
"I love you…"
"I love you, too…"
"Think she's suffered enough?" Mina asked.
"Yeah, I guess so…" Lita replied, "What do you guys think?"
"Let's go," Rei said.
"Yes, I have to know if Tuxedo Mask is there helping her… If he is, we'll have to chase him off," Amy explained.
When it finally hit them that Tuxedo Mask might be with Sailor Moon, their eyes turned into dinner plates and they raced out the door.
When the girls got to the scene of the crime, Serena was the only one there, putting on her skirt. Her hair was a complete mess, but not from the battle.
"SERENA!!!" Rei shrieked. Serena turned around so fast she gave herself a whiplash. Her face flushed red.
"You went with Darien again, didn't you?!"
"Maybe…"
"Look at you! You're an animal, Serena! Like a perverted school girl or something!"
Serena dashed away before any of them could continue this conversation. She was a better runner that the rest of her friends due to her hundred yard dash to school every day.
Serena went home but was followed by Lita. "It's my turn to watch you, Serena," she said.
"Just go to sleep, I don't feel like talking… I'm exhausted…"
"Well, everyone knows why. You can't keep running off with Darien, Serena. We're worried about you. That's the reason we keep chasing him off. Well, we try to, but he's about as slippery as you are! Hahaha!"
"I can do what I want, Lita. I'm not a little kid anymore. I understand the consequences of running off with Darien, but I do it because I know that no matter what, you guys are there to support me. Although you guys don't seem too keen on this idea…"
"No, we aren't."
"Well, anyways, goodnight!"
"Goodnight, Serena!"
Both girls yawned and fell asleep, or Lita did, at least.
Serena snuck out that night the exact same way she did with Mina.