A New Beginning

By Midnight Fairy yami1313@jun.com

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Notes: Abandoned by the scout, Serena runs away to California where
she is taught new powers by the outer scouts. Learning everything
she could, she is once again left alone where she will have to fight
by herself. Here she will confront her deepest fears alone. Here she
will show all who turned their backs to her that she was not what
they thought, her act is done and her mask is off. She refuses not to
be herself for the sake of show.

Okay, just so every one knows, I don't own sailormoon. (no duh!) Any ways, this is my first fanfic so I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please give a review. And if at least five people give a review (good or bad) I'll add the next chapter. Okay!!!! That's all I had to say so enjoy the story ^_^.

Prologue

Serena walked alone under the full moon, stunned at what just happened.

--------------------Flash Back--------------------

"Where were you ?!" Rei was mad. Her eyes blazed with malice and her voice rose with
every word. "Because of You, Lita got hurt. We needed your help. Why didn't you come?!!"

Lita was off to the side holding her arm. It looked as if it was burned. Amy was besides her, making sure that it wasn't too bad. Neither of them would look at Serena as she got yelled at. Both felt she deserved it.

"You know what, I don't care. You're always late, we can't depend on you! You are not the leader the leader we need. This was the last straw. You are not our leader any more."

Serena was stunned, she couldn't believe what she was hearing. Her head drooped and her shoulders sagged, she knew the scouts would not listen to her explanation as to why she was late. She lifted her head to look at the others to make sure they agreed.
Lita would not meet her gaze and Amy busied herself with her computer. Rei looked at her with fire in her eyes, holding her ground. But Mina was the worst of the scouts, Serena could not stand the loss of trust, mixed with pity, in her eyes.
She knew that she had to look at one more person and her heart was already hurting. She feared to meet his eyes but she had to know. But as she looked into his eyes, those beautiful blue eyes that she loved so much, they slowly closed and his head turned to the side. Unable to meet her tearful eyes.
After all they had been through, after all the belief and faith she had showed towards him, he could not return it. Instead of breaking, her heart seemed to freeze, as if it was afraid to beat one more time. But time does move on, no matter how much she wished it would stop or turn back. "So you all agree." Serena's words may have been whispered but they could all hear the
sadness in it. "Very well then, it is agreed." She walked over to Mina , "You are now the leader of the scouts, just as you were on the moon. I hope they don't betray you as they did me."

At this everyone's heart seemed to grow heavy. Slowly she turned and walked over to Darien and slowly kissed him. "Farwell beloved, for this shall be the last kiss you receive until your belief in me is restored."

Darien stared at her with wide eyes. His heart was breaking, he was losing his beloved once more, but he believed himself right and did not open his mouth to call her back as she walked away from the group. He could not let her irresponsibility coast the other scouts their life, even though he knew in her heart that she would never purposely do that. Her head held high and her shoulders back, she walked away and only to look back once to say her final words to them. "Know this, you have given me up as a friend as well as a leader. I will now be no more to you than a stranger. You mean nothing to me." The voice was low and so calm that shivers ran down the backs of the listeners."

As she turned to leave, they saw that her eyes were of ice. Serena walked on and no one called her back. ------------------End of Flash Back-----------------
She walked on and when she was at least a block away, her heart seemed to beat once more, shattering. And the only sound that could be heard on the silent street was her cries of loneliness and pain.