Here's Chapter 2 for y'all. Sorry if you like Care Bears. KellyLou and I were scared of them as kids. They brainwash you. Anyway, Read, Enjoy & Review!!!!!! Please!!
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Chapter 2
~*~In Serena and Rini's Room~*~
"Rini did you have to dislocate every joint?" the blonde tiredly asked the pink haired child sitting in the bed.
The child in question folded her arms huffily and answered "Yes I did! It severed him right for talking about daddy like that!" If she were standing she would have stomped her foot but as she was sitting in bed she just lay down and covered her head with the blue quilt.
Serena dropped her head and sighed at the behaviour of her future child. She pulled back the covers on the bed and lay on her side with her left hand propping her head up facing Rini. In response the pink-haired, time-traveler turned her back to her mother-to-be to face the window.
"Rini," Serena started sweetly, "you're gonna have to be nice -"
"Why should I!?" Rini cut in angrily.
"Rini." Serena said in the stern, don't mess with me, voice that all mothers seem to have (even though she wasn't technically one yet) "We are on another planet. We don't know anyone else here. They are looking after us right now so that makes us their guests. As a guest you are meant to behave and be polite. Do I make myself clear?"
Silence was the answer she got.
"Rini" she threateningly said.
"I'll be nice if they do." Rini mumbled unhappily. She didn't like the idea of being nice to the moron who badly needed a haircut, but she knew not to push Serena any further on the subject. She had vague memories of her father pushing an argument too far and then coming down to breakfast the next morning with a look of defeat on his face and purple hair.
"Well, I'll take what I can get" Serena sighed and flopped onto her back. Someone knocked on the door. "Come in." Serena said as she sat up.
The wooden door opened and Lita's head popped through the gap. "Hey, can I join the party?" Lita jokingly asked.
"Sure, c'mon in." Rini happily cried turning to face the tall brunette and sat up.
Lita closed the door behind her and sat on the foot of the bed facing the other two.
"Where's everyone else?" Serena asked.
"Well, Mina is making Taiki and Yaten give her a tour of the mansion, though she won't be getting much out of them seeing as they're both still in a heavy state of shock," Lita reported. She giggled when she remembered the bug-eyed look of the young men. "Nice goin, by the way" she winked to Rini.
"Thanks" Rini giggled at the compliment.
"Don't encourage her" Serena moaned. Rini's reply to this was to stick her tongue out at Serena.
"Anyway," Lita continued, "Ami is up to something on her computer, and I believe Rei's exact words were…" she looked up in thought, "…um 'if you wake me before the sun's up, you're dead', so she's sleeping. I'm also to tell you that there will be a scout meeting in Rei's room tomorrow morning."
"Does Rei know she's hosting?" Serena asked while acquiring a certain glint in her eye.
"She will when we wake her" Lita giggled when her friend's thoughts were heading in the same direction as her own. "Well g'night you two." She said and then left the room.
~*~At the Outer's Residence~*~
They were still watching the screen from their seats, only, after a while of watching the screen, they started to get tired. Haruka and Michelle were propped against each other yawning every so often, Hotaru kept sleepily nodding her head forward and jerking back awake, Darien was slouched down on the couch with his head resting on the back of it and Setsuna strangely showed no signs of tiredness at all.
Darien tiredly turned his head to the right to look at Setsuna. "Hey Sets?"
"Hmm?"
"Can't you just go and get them now?" the Prince of the Earth tiredly asked.
"Well it's really late. Don't you think it's best to let them rest? Besides, maybe they ended up there for a reason so why don't we watch and find out?" was her shifty response.
Hotaru leaned her head on Setsuna's shoulder. "Setsuna-mama, I'm tired" she whined.
"Uh huh" came the reply from the scout of time, her eyes stayed glued to the screen.
"Mina sure can talk" Haruka stated.
"Uh huh" the same reply came from Setsuna.
"Is that a piano made of crystal?" Michelle asked the room at large.
"Uh huh"
The other adults looked at each other and shared conspiring grins.
"Can we destroy all the Care Bears in the mall?" Haruka asked.
"Uh huh"
"Can I make people in the street pay me in chocolate?" Darien asked.
"Uh huh"
"Can we make the fountain in the park a jello pool?" Michelle added.
"Uh huh"
"Do ya think their faces will set in that bug eyed look?" Darien asked.
"Uh huh"
"They really do look so much better like that, don't you think so?" Michelle continued.
"Uh huh"
"I think they look so good now, I may just turn straight" Haruka joked.
"Uh huh… wait, what?" Setsuna confusedly looked to the blonde then to the others, noticing their amused faces she realized that they were playing with her. "Cute" she sarcastically stated.
"Hey, do you ladies mind if I stay over?" Darien asked.
"Not a problem, follow me." Michelle got up from the love seat, ignored the pout from the blonde and motioned Darien to follow her out the room to the guest room.
Haruka stood up from the seat and stretched and yawned. "C'mon firefly," she said to Hotaru as she picked the child up, "let's get you to bed."
"Night" Setsuna called, eyes already glued back to the screen.
~*~At the Star's Residence~*~
"Uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. Ow…" groaned the body lying on the floor. The mass of bruised flesh cracked open one eye and, after a minute, the blurry image of Taiki came into view. "What happened?" It asked in a pained groan.
"A pink-haired, seven-year-old, girl beat you up." Taiki tiredly stated, doing his best to keep a straight face.
"You sure it was a girl?"
"Very"
The eye closed and an embarrassed flush appeared on his cheeks, though it was hard to see due to the amount of bruising.
"Ya know, Yaten and I spent the last hour putting every joint of yours back into place? How can a little girl get the better of you?"
"Luck"
Taiki snorted.
"Hey, Taiki?"
"Yeah?"
"Did I hear her right when she said Daddy?"
"You did." Taiki quickly turned his head to the side to hide his smirk. Seiya had obviously missed the 'Mummy' comment, but he wasn't going to tell him that.
So that guy Darien has a kid by some other woman, Seiya thought, I can't let Serena become the step mum to some snot-nosed brat. I'll have to make her see that I'm far better for her than that Darien and his kid, and then she can stay with me. He would have beamed in pride at his noble logic, if his face was not so swollen.
"Seiya?" Taiki nudged him with his foot, "I'm off to bed now, night"
"Night" Seiya replied from the floor, where he stayed until morning.
~*~Next Morning at the Outer's Residence~*~
Haruka tiredly trundled down the stairs in her blue, long pajama bottoms and white tank top. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she made her way to the coffee machine in the kitchen, only to see that Darien was already standing at it and making two cups of coffee. He tiredly handed her a cup and took three large drinks from his own, finishing what coffee was left in the cup. He then turned and refilled it, drinking like a normal person this time around.
They both stumbled along to the living room, one intending to watch the news, the other wanting the Formula 1 results. When they entered the living room Haruka nearly did a spit take, Darien glared at her for almost wasting the nectar of life he nearly dropped when he walked into her.
Still sitting on the couch was Setsuna, in the same clothes from the previous night and eyes still glued to the screen.
"HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING THAT ALL NIGHT?" Haruka yelled at her.
Startled eyes landed on the blonde. "Um…no?"
"Setsuna" Haruka ground out through gritted teeth.
"I did sleep for a little while," Setsuna said, looking sheepish, "but it beeped."
"What beeped?" Darien asked.
"The staff."
"The staff beeped?"
"Yes. I set it so it would beep if anything happened on Kinmoku while I was asleep"
"Setsuna," Haruka angrily started, "that staff is for use in your duties as the Guardian of the Gate of Time, and you're using it as an alarm clock for your own personal Big Brother?"
"Can't you just use the record feature?" Darien asked.
"Who says I'm not"
Haruka glared at the both of them, sat down and sipped her coffee.
"So what did we miss?" Darien asked.
"Not much, I'll show you it later."
"Guys," Haruka said when she looked towards the screen, "are they gonna do what I think they're gonna do?"
"Looks like it." Darien said as a smile spread across his face.
~*~At the Star's Residence outside Rei's bedroom~*~
The girls were all crowded in the hallway outside Rei's room.
"So, you all know the plan?" everyone nodded. "We'll go on the count of three, right?" Mina whispered.
"Right" everyone else whispered back.
Mina opened the door slowly, trying to make as little noise as possible, and crept around the bed to stand at the left side with Ami on her right. Lita, Serena and Rini crept to the right side of the bed. All of the girls leaned over to be in position at Rei's ears. Mina held up her hand, counting up to three on her fingers. On three they all yelled "YOUMA!"
Rei screamed awake and jumped/ran out the bed, only to become tangled in the sheets and tumble onto the floor, which caused all the others to burst out laughing.
"Bloody hell!" Rei screeched "You almost scared me to death!" She then grabbed the pillows from the bed and started hitting the giggling girls, while screaming a stream of profanities at them that would make a hardened sailor blush.
"Jeeze Pyro, quit it" Serena giggled out. Mina, Lita and Rini were still giggling too hard to be of any use to anyone for a while.
"What the hell are you all doing here?" Rei fumed.
"Scout meeting" Ami innocently stated.
"Did it involve almost giving me a heart attack!?"
"Lighten up." Serena teased.
"Lighten up!? Why don't you try waking me up like NORMAL people!?"
"But we ain't normal" Lita giggled out from her position on the floor.
Rei just gave all of her so called 'friends' the evil glare of doom until they calmed down and sat on the bed like civilized people.
"Okay, Ami report" Mina cheerfully requested.
"Well I wasn't able to learn much from my scans as the computer seems to be in a power save mode so its functions are limited, but I was able to do a scan of the planet, which showed that there is no evil energy, so we are safe here."
"Small mercies" Rei grumbled, still unhappy with her 'friends'.
"Anyway," Ami continued, "I have talked to Taiki this morning and he is hunting out some clothes for us to borrow in order to see Princess Kakyuu, who I hope will be able to help us get home."
"Sounds good," Lita said, "but before all that, breakfast!"
"Mmm… food…" Serena and Rini dreamily said in unison as their stomachs rumbled.