AN: Here's the next chapter. Things are starting to pick up now and hopefully the story line will get better.

Disclaimer: The characters are not mine. Shuurei and Katri are my creation, though.

Chapter 1

Serena sat quietly listening to the lecture her teacher was going over dealing with an upcoming exam, though her mind wasn't truly there. Instead it was on the dream she'd been having for weeks now. The same dream, over and over again the city she loved destroyed. She didn't know what to believe about this dream, if it was real or not. Though her gut instincts told her it was real and would happen unless she and the girls could stop it. She felt a hand on her shoulder, brining her out of her thoughts.

"Hey girl, is everything okay?" A girl with brunet hair, pulled up into a pony tail asked her quietly, her green eyes full of concern.

Serena looked up to see one of her closest and dearest friends looking at her. "Hi Lita, I'm okay. I just haven't been sleeping all that great lately."

Lita's eye's looked at her in shock. "You too? I thought Rei was the only one having those issues."

"Rei is having trouble sleeping too?"

"Yeah for a few weeks now, why?"
Serena looked out the window of the classroom before turning back to Lita. "Trouble's coming. I think it's time for us to have a Senshi meeting for the first time in almost two years."

Lita nodded in understanding and pulled out her cell phone. "I'll go call the others, after school at the temple?"

Serena's nod confirmed her question. "Thanks, Lita. I think I might need to call Darien and ask him to come home too. I hate for him to come home and give up this opportunity in America, but this just sounds too much like trouble is brewing."

Lita shook her head in disagreement. "No, let's not call him just yet. Right now all we have is you and Rei having the same nightmare. Let's wait just a little while longer, at least until after our Senshi meeting. No use in having him start to worry, which you and I both know he'll do the moment he hears about the nightmares, before we have something for him to truly worry over."

"Okay, you're right. Now is not the time to call him, he needs to continue to focus on his studies." Serena agreed before turning back to look out the window, allowing her thoughts to take over. 'Besides, we haven't talked in months, not that I'll let the girls know.'

* * *

The temple grounds were peaceful as the small group of girls converged to meet at Rei's house at the back of the grounds. This had been their location for Senshi meetings since the very early days as the Sailor Scouts, or Senshi as those in Tokyo called them. They were the hero's that saved the city more times than anyone could count. As the girls sat under a large cherry tree Serena looked around at her closest friends, and protectors, thinking and remembering all of the times they had met her for the very purpose of this latest meeting.

"For the last few weeks I've been having this nightmare of Tokyo being utterly destroyed. Each time the same warning comes that it's up to us to prevent this from happening." Serena began. "Rei I understand you too are having this nightmare?"

A girl with long raven colored hair nodded. "Yes, the same dream over and over again telling us that only we can prevent that from becoming our future."

A girl with blue tinted hair pulled out a mini computer with the symbol of Mercury on it and began to type as she listened to the descriptions of the two dreams that were in reality the same dream from two different perspectives. "I can't figure this out. I need more data to tell you what this all means."

Serena nodded to the genius of her friends. "That's fine Ames. I already know. Trouble is coming. I can feel it. I don't know how I can tell but I just have this strong feeling that things are about to get bad and fast."

"Serena and I talked earlier and agree that until we know the full extent of this danger to leave Darien be to his studies. If her life is truly in danger then we'll call him, but not until then." Lita spoke up as she informed them of the current plans of their Princess.

The only other blond in the group, only her hair is long and partially up in a red bow, looked at her friend in concern. "Is everything okay Sere? I have thought you and Darien talk all the time and he would know about the nightmares."

Serena looked around at her friends and thought of the best and as truthful answer as she could give them. "Everything's fine, Mina, I just haven't told him about the nightmares because I want him to focus on school and besides until today I didn't realize that I wasn't the only one having them. I'll tell him soon, once we have more to go on." She promised, fully knowing that she wouldn't be telling him anything if she could help it.

Mina looked over at Serena, not fully believing the words she was hearing. As the goddess of love she had certain abilities to be able to tell when things weren't going right in the land of romance, especially when it came to her best friend and princess. She didn't say anything out loud, but looked over at Rei who nodded in agreement that they needed to talk privately after the meeting about their dear friend. If there was one thing Serena had never been good at hiding it was her feelings about Darien. She just couldn't hide that part of who she was, and they knew it.

"So where do we go from here? We all know that this spells trouble; we just know what type of trouble. "Lita asked the other girls after some time of them sitting in silence.

"I think maybe it's time to start Senshi training once more. We won't be ready for what's coming if we don't start to train for it now." Serena spoke up quietly, dreading what it would mean to take on that rigorous schedule once more.

Rei nodded in agreement. "I think that is an excellent idea Sere."

"Then let's start training tonight, at what was our usual time?" Mina asked, assuming her role as the leader of the Senshi.

* * *

Rei closed her bedroom door tightly before turning to face Mina. "Serena's lying to us."

Mina nodded in agreement. "I could tell, but the more important issue is why. Serena loves Darien and he loves her so that concerns me as to why the lie. That's not like her at all."

"I know, but she doesn't want us to know for some reason. Maybe we should call him and see what's going on if she won't talk to us." Rei stated as she was already pulling out her cell phone.

"Don't. I think we need to keep with Serena's wishes on this one. I have a feeling she'll tell us when she wants us to know." Mina stopped her from making the call.

"Let's just hope that she does tell us before we have to tell him she's in danger."

Mina looked at the priestess in surprise. "What do you mean she's in danger?"

"Every time I've had that dream I get the very distinct impression that Serena is in more danger than ever before. Even more than when we faced Chaos, whatever is coming is bad, Mina, it's very bad."