Author's note: I don't own Sailor Moon.

"talking"

/thinking/

Chapter 3
The Sign

4 years later

Everyone had looked every where for Serena, but in the end it came to the same conclusion. After what they found in the park there were no more traces of her. The police searched for a while, but in the end they stopped, claiming that there were no leads to her where abouts.

The outer scouts kept looking though. They traveled around the world in hopes of finding Serena. All though before they left, they told the inner scouts to contiune on with their lives. That it wouldn't help Serena if they pushed all their plans and dreams away.

Amy, Rei, Lita, and Mina did what they others told them to do. They continued searching for new leads and they send everything to Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna.

Darien continued studiyng, yet not with the same dedication as before. He became an excellent doctor, but he was empty inside. His profession couldn't replace the emptiness that Serena left. Nothing or no one could replace her.

Rei sat in front of the sacred fire. Something had made the fire uneasy. "Oh sacred fire, please shoe me the cause of this." Rei asked. The fire grew and inmeadly Rei was invaded by a vision.

A full moon shined brightly but then lightnin appeared and suddenly the moon became red as blood. Huge drops of this fell on top of a palace drenching eveything in blood.

Pain invaded Rei's body which forced her to lose concentration. She fell on the floor, but she was still conceous. Her breathing was rough and she could barely move.

Chad came in and saw her on the floor. "Rei!" He quickly ran towards her. "Rei, what happened? Answer me Rei." Rei's hand tried to reach the fire. A tear fell from her eye. "The...moon...crystal...Se-Serena." Rei couldn't hold on any longer and fainted, scaring Chad even more.

Chad picked her up and took her to her bedroom. He had no idea what happened, yet every time something like thisocurred her friends would be here. But who should he call? Perhaps Amy,yes after all she's studying to be a doctor. He grabbed Rei's phonebook and searched for Amy's number. Chad dial her number and waited for her to pick up.

"Hello."

"Amy, it's me Chad from the temple. Can you come over? Something happened to Rei and I don't know what to do." Chad said.

"Of course. I'll be right over."

Chad sighed and waited for Amy to come.

Darien was a very dedicated doctor. Even though Serena's disappearence afected him greatly he continued on. He had to becausehe knew that Serena wouldn't of forgiven him if he had given everything up.

Dr. Alice Jonhson watched him from the other side of the room. She had grown to admire him. He was very handsome man, but he was also kind and gentle.

Alice longed for Darien to notice her feelings for him, but he was always to busy in his work to notice anything around him.

"Dr. Jonhson, you should really find someone else to admire." A nurse name Claire said.

Alice blushed deeply at being caught. "I-I-I...um-"

"I'm not saying this because I want to be rude; I'm saying this because Dr. Chiba is deeply in love with another woman already. She's everything to him, and I highly doubt it that he will love another woman like he loves her." Claire stated.

Alice stared at her in shock. She had no idea of this. So Darien had a girlfriend. But why is he always so sad/She must be a pretty lousy girlfriend./

"I didn't know. Well actually I've never seen her around or heard Dr. Chiba mention her." Alice said, which was true.

Claire smiled, the doctor had no idea.

"You're right. She has never come here but that is because she went missing about four years ago. Since then Dr. Chiba has never been the same." Claire explained with a sad smile.

Alice kept listening. She had never imagen this. /Wow! Who would of thought. But if she's gone, I could be there for him. I could fill that spot and give him the hapiness tht he deserves./

"If you don't believe me, there's a picture of her in Dr. Chiba's office. You can confirm what I said there." Claire said.

"Hey Claire can you help me ovr here please!" Another nurse said.

"Sure." Claire answered. She turned to look once more at Alice. "I hope that now you understand Dr. Chiba's situation a bit more."

Alice watched her leave. She notice Darien being busy with a patient.

/I gues it's now or never./ Alice thought.

She quickly made her way to his office. Alice looked around to see if anyone was watching. Seeing as the coast was clear she went in.

Alice looked around the office. It was nicely decorated, but something caught her attention. There was a picture frameon the desk. Alice approached it and picked it up.

If you don't believe me, there's a pciture of her in Dr. Chiba's office.

Alice was starring at the picture all right, but she just couldn't believe it. This woman...no a girl! A girl about fifteen years old! This was his great love? It couldn't be. She had expected someone around his age.

Alice's thought were interrupted by the sound of the door opening. Darien stared at her surprised. He wasn't expecting anyone.

"Do you need something Dr. Jonhson?" Darien asked.

Alice placed the picture on the desk. "I...uh...well. Sorry I...just..." Alice didn't know what to say. "Sorry." With that she ran past him and left his office.

Darien became confused by this. He noticed the picture of Serena on his desk. He picked it up.

It was a picture of when she was in junior high. It was taken ata a nursery that they had gone to. Serena was sitting on the fresh green grass. A large apple tree was behind her given her shade. She was wearing a light pink dress, two spaghetti straps on each side. The dress came to her knees. On her waist was a thin, but darker pick piece of cloth tied to her waist, with a small ribbon on the left side of her waist. She was smiling and a light blush on her cheeks.

Darien smiled, he knew why that blush had been there.

Flashback

He could hear Serena's giggles. She was hiding behind one of the many trees in this nursery. Making sure that shewouldn't see or hear hime,he came up behind her and grabbed her by the waist.

Serena let a light shreik escape her mouth. She could hear Darien laughing from behind her. Serena struggled with his grip which made both of them fall on the grass.

Darien laid on top of her. Serena blushed as he caressed her cheek. He leaned in and kissed her gently on the lips, but then he deepened the kiss.

"Darien! Serena! Where are you? We were suppose to be taking pictures right now!" It was Rini.

They both quickly separated and got up. Serena was blushing so much that her face was completely red. Mean while Darien called Rini telling her that they were over here.

End of Flashback

He missed her so much. She was everything to him, to bad that there were moments when he forgot. Yes he admitted that there were times when he didn't pay attention to her; when his attention was on Rini or other things. It was his greates sin taking her for granted. Especially knowing that there had been someone else after her.

Darien couldn't help feeling jealous at the thought of what Seiya had probabl done to try and win Serena. But the girls had told him that Serena had only seen him as a friend, which made him feel a whole lot better.

"Where ever you are, please know that I love you with all my heart." Darien said to Serena's picture.

Amy finished checking Rei. She concluded that Rei had received an extreme shock. What ever she had seen muct of been truly shocking.

"Amy, is she going to be alright?" Chad asked. He couldn' hide how worried he was.

"Yes, all she need right now is to rest. Chad, did Rei say anything before she fainted?" Amy asked. In all her years of knowing Rei never had she suffered like this during one of her visions.

"Yeah, she did, but it wasn't really understanable. She said the moon, crystal and... Serena." He made a pause before mentioning Serena's name because he knew it was a touchy subject.

Amy didn't say anything. She looked at Rei and wondered/Serena? Rei could you have seen Serena in your vision? Will we finally be able to find her/ These and more questions invaded Amy's mind.

"Amy?"

Amy was brough out of her thoughts by Chad's voice.

"Huh?"

"Sorry its just that you spaced ut for a moment." Chad said.

"Oh sorry. Listen Chad can you keep an eye on Rei, there's something I have to do." Amy said.

"Ok, don't worry I'll take care of her." Chad said and gave her a reasurring smile.

"Thanks." Amy left the temple and got in her car. She took out her baby blue cell phone and dialed a special number.

"Hello."

"Hello."

"It's Amy. meeting at my house in half an hour."

The sky became dark as night even though it was still day time. The wind seemed to have a mind of its own and began blowing everywhere. Thunder and lightning roar in the sky, yet not one single drop of rain appeared.

All of this happened in every capital in all the countries around the world. No one understood what was happening, yet deep inside of them the felt a whirpool of emotions that they couldn't describe.

"Is it going to start?" A young womas with blue-green hair asked. She kept looking through her window at the unusual storm.

"I don't know Michiru, but we have to keep searching those files before we can make a decision." Another young blonde woman said.

Michiru sighed. She knew that this was nothing compared to what really was going to happen.

"Calm before a storm?"

Back at Tokyo, lightning struck in a park. With that final act, the unusual storm disappeared.

A/N: No it is not my ghost updating, it's me! Sorry people for the long update but I really had a huge writter's block that I was finally ale to take down. So does anyone know what is going to happen next? Nope, too bad because I do muawhahahaha, (ok that was my evil laugh attemp). Well please review and oh one more thing, I'm probably going to change my pen name to YingFa, so if you can't find me as yingfacherryblossom you know what other name to try. Well see ya!