Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon.

AN: Sorry for the long wait, sometimes you dont expect things to creep up on you all at once. First my computer power cord decided to die on me, then I got a major sunburn, and following that my family had a family reunion trip. Sometimes you think that you are invincible and then you realize that the thing you thought you were invincible against really got the better of you. I tried to make this chapter long and I am hoping to get another more chapter out within a week. Thanks for all the readers and reviews that continue to inspire me to write.

Chapter 7

She watched all of the Sailor Scouts as they one by one made their way out of the park to wherever they came from. She had learned the simple disappearing trick from a magician friend back in the United States it was not very complex at all. In fact if you knew what to look for then it was easy to see that she did not really disappear. She stood in the shadows undetected and waited until she saw that all of them fade out of her view.

Her job wasn't finished just yet; she wanted to make sure that there was no more danger of another Negaverse lackey in the area, she had to many experiences where there just happened to be another monster lurking nearby. She glanced over the surroundings for a moment and scanned over the area. There were hundreds of people unconscious and some were injured lying around in the park. Looks like I once again get cleanup duty, you would think that after all this time that the Scouts would learn to assist the injured.

She pulled out a small white cell phone with a golden crescent moon inscribed on the front and pushed a lighted red button, "There has been an incident in Juuban Park, there are hundreds of people injured and in need of immediate medical assistance. I repeat there has been a major incident a Juuban Park and many are in need of medical assistance, backup is needed."

She placed the phone back in her subspace pocket and paused for a moment. She then stepped out of the shadows, when a blare of several emergency sirens and lights filled the area, then a thundering sound of a handful of firemen, police officers and Paramedics feet filled the area.

Seeing that the injured would be taken care of and there was no longer any threat in the immediate area, she took it as her cue to leave. The thundering feet came to a halt as they saw a legendary Sailor Scout in the middle of the devastated area. She turned towards them and gave a salute while nodding towards them, and then took off, but not before a flash of light went off.

Her wrist and back throbbed horribly with pain reminding her just how careless she had been. She knew she as well would need some sort of medical attention. She absolutely hated going, and was very cautious about the consequences of letting people handle her blood work. (In case someone discovered her unique situation.) This time she knew she did not have an option and knew she needed to be in perfect condition for anything that may come.

She went back to the graveyard to see if those who were at the funeral were okay after the battle. The surrounding landscape had been completely remodeled thanks to the rock youma but it looked as if most of the people had escaped the worst of the destruction, and were now continuing with the service. Just before she reappeared into the public view, she de-transformed. Nothing would prepare her for the pain that now spread throughout her torso and wrist in patterned waves. Her feet nearly buckled and her stomach nearly retched in protest of the pain. This was something that she knew wouldn't be healed quickly, so weighing her options and finally giving into her body's protests, she made her way slowly towards Tokyo Hospital to take care of her injuries.

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When he watched Sailor Moon disappear he felt somewhat lost at the absence of her presence, but it was also a long awaited relief at seeing her once again. Despite her changed attire and appearance, she still held the same aura and he felt that her power and wisdom had grown exponentially throughout her years of absence. He wondered what had made her run all those years ago.

When she disappeared long ago the connection that bound him to her when she was in trouble faded completely and he had to tap into police reports or news alerts in order to see if there was another youma attack and rush to the scene. He tried to confront the other Sailor Scouts about her absence but they had become cold, distant and unwilling to give answers to him. Sailor Venus the newest of the group at the time was more quiet than cold towards him, she would always give him sad glances as if she knew something that everyone else did not.

Then one day all went quiet, there were no more Negaverse attacks as if they had finally given up or were building up their power. They all had eventually moved on with their lives perusing relationships and careers, living life to their fullest as if they had never been a superhero. The battle that now occurred with the rock monster confirmed that his assumptions of the Negaverse's activity were the latter.

It had bothered him for years that the Scouts could move on as if nothing had occurred. He had always felt this connection with his alter ego Tuxedo Mask, which reminded him constantly to never to forget to protect. To protect anything that needed assistance whether it is human, animal or even the plant life around him. He couldn't move on, that was one of the reasons he preferred to stay single and never marry. He had continued searching for that missing piece, and had yet to find it that is until Sailor Moon reappeared. The link to her flared back to life, and he wondered if she was that something he had been waiting for.

Now that she was back the next time he saw her, he would get a definite answer to all questions he had for her over the years. He would also make sure that the other Sailor Scouts would come clean of their own secrets they had been hiding.

As he felt the air rushed past him while running and jumping gracefully across the many rooftops of Tokyo, he once again felt peace wash through him. He paused for a moment on top of a tall building and looked out onto the cityscape below. Not much had changed from this view over the years, just little things. It felt good to him to once again leap from rooftop to rooftop to feel and see something that most normal people would never get the chance to experience.

He had to head back to the Hospital. Nurse Jenkins as well as some other associates was probably frantic with worry due to his sudden disappearance. The hospital could barely run without his help it seemed. He dropped down into an ally beside the hospital and detransformed. The then casually mad his way through the hospital entrance.

He came face to face with chaos, nurses and doctors were rushing the injured around. The waiting room was so filled up that there was only enough room to stand. The hospital rooms had been filled to the brink with peoples whose energy had been drained they were now making makeshift beds with as many cots as they could find.

The youma that they had battled had done much more damage than Darien had thought previously. If this youma had created this much damage this time, what was to say that next time there would be even more.

"Thank goodness," Nurse Jenkins maneuvered around the maze of people as she came up to him.

Tears began building in her eyes as she made her way closer to the doctor. "We were so worried about you! Then some monster attacked and hurt all of these people who were in the park. When you collapsed and disappeared we thought something bad happened to you."

"I'm fine; I just needed some fresh air and aspirin." He let a suave smile slip onto his features.

The Nurse melted at the sight of his smile, her previous thoughts and worry over the doctor suddenly slipped from her mind. "I might need to take your own advice and get some fresh air after all this chaos is over. You look ten years younger." She then walked over and checked one of the incoming patient's injuries.

He then made his way through the crowded hallway's and up to his office so he could get his things and help with the patients. As he gathered his stethoscope and proceeded to sanitize his hands with antibacterial soap in his private bathroom, he glanced up at the mirror and noticed that what Nurse Jenkins said was indeed true. He was not as young as he appeared when he had transformed into his alter ego earlier that day, but after detransforming it was as if he had become ten years younger than his actual age.

This new development of him getting younger was yet another mission he would have to look into later. His first priority was to continue his search for the princess and the silver crystal.

He put some rubber gloves on and then proceeded out the door to help the other doctors and nurses.

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Each step became harder and harder for her to take. The past few days had been taxing on her mentally and physically. As she struggled to take a breath her lungs shuttered in pain. She stumbled towards a wall and caught herself before she plunged to the ground. Her arms folded above her head supported her as she leaned against the brick while closing her eyes concentrating on taking slow steady breaths. She gave a slight moan as a jolt of pain shot through her abdomen while breathing. She silently cursed to herself knowing that she most likely in addition to her broken wrist and scratched up back, she probably had several cracked ribs. She never liked using her Sailor Powers to heal herself right away, she felt it was too simple of a cop out and if she depended on it all the time then when she would really need it she would not be able to use it for something critical. This was one of those emergencies, considering she now could barely walk with the pain and she kept on getting extremely nauseous. So she let just enough power out to slightly dull the pain until she could get to the hospital.

Feeling a little better she pushed off the brick wall and continued down the street. She stopped at a crosswalk and waited until the light turned for her to cross the street. When it was clear for her to walk, she began crossing as fast as her body allowed with the pain still coursing through her. She pushed herself as fast as she could, but it was too much for her to handle so she stopped and rest in the middle of the street for a moment seeing as there were no cars coming her way.

A sporty red race car was speeding around Tokyo, with no particular destination in mind, the driver focused with a determined gleam in their eye to hit every single green light they came across. Another passenger sat next to the driver rolling their eyes and attempting to hold back their long graying and slightly wavy aqua locks, as the wind teased the strands of hair from their grasp.

With their eyes glaring at the driver the aqua haired passenger increased the volume of her voice so that the driver could hear them speak. "Slow down, you would think that the older you get, the more careful and slower one would drive."

"Well I am an exception to that rule; there is no way I'm going to slow down no matte how old I get Michelle." The short haired driver replied while pressing their foot down on the gas a little more while weaving around slower drivers.

"Amara please, I don't want to have to fix my hair again." She protested.

Amara looked towards Michelle, "You look perfectly fine!"

Michelle glanced out the front windshield, "Lookout!! You're going to hit that girl!" she screamed.

Amara immediately applied the breaks to the car and then turned the wheel sharply so the car swerved dangerously sideways down the road. The car stopped horizontally merely a few inches from Serena who was still standing in the road.

Serena was in shock as she stared towards the people in the car that sat right next to her. She knew if she had been hit by the car she wouldn't die even with her current injuries and energy depleted, but she would have had an extremely long stay at the hospital in recovery and trouble would come with it.

She knew all this because a similar incident had happened to her while she was visiting France, and she was not very happy having to stay in the hospital for a couple of months and the fact that they had discovered something unique in her blood and wanted to detain her for further tests. She had to flee under the moonlight dressed in a hospital gown across the country with two broken arms and extensive other injuries. Her only consolation was that those who had seen her fleeing in the night had dubbed her le Spectre de Clair de lune (The Moonlight Ghost) She figured she had gotten the name more due to the fact that as she was running and could not hold the back of her hospital gown together with her broken hands, but they had left her alone. She had not been back to France since that incident.

Exhausted from the whole ordeal she was dizzy and tried to hold herself up with the side of the car. Michelle looked in worry at the girl. "Get out of the car and lets get her to the hospital, it is your fault, you probably scared her to death."

Grumbling the short tempered driver quickly got out of the car, picked up the girl and placed her in the back seat of the car. She lay slightly tilted to one side on the backseat, her cheek rested on the inside. As Amara revved up the car and sped towards the hospital. She sat in back with her eyes slightly glazed enjoying the effects of the wind whipping past her face.

When they arrived at the hospital they were surprised at the amount of people crowding the place. Amara carried Serena in while Michelle walked up to the reception's desk to sign the girl in for help.

Feeling the dissipating effects of her powers, and not wanting to appear any weaker in front of anyone. She began to struggle against the strong grip of the older woman holding her.

"Hey, kid calm down we are trying to help you." She held against the struggling young girl with an equally strong grip.

"I'm fine let me go, thanks for your help but I can take it from here." Serena struggled against the older woman.

She was surprised at the strength the young teen was giving her despite her current injuries," Just hold still, you are severely injured. Michelle can you hurry up."

"Be patient Amara, there are many others who need to have medical treatment and filling out information takes time. Honey what is your name?" The aqua haired woman glanced focused her attention on them.

Serena had stopped struggling against Amara and in turn she had slackened her grip around the girl a bit. Serena took the opening and managed to slam her foot down hard on top of the older woman's foot.

"Ouch, why you….," Amara let the struggling girl go as she grabbed her throbbing foot, and then launched forward to regain her grip on the crazy girl. Once she had Serena back in her arms struggling she pressed the pressure point on the back of her neck and Serena collapsed into unconsciousness.

"Was that really necessary?" The aqua haired woman asked as she walked back over near the two.

She lifted the girl up effortlessly without any more struggle and the two adults went over to some empty seats," She is a major spitfire, and I would prefer not to have my other foot stomped on by her."


Yes, finally some new characters come to the scene. I have not decided yet wether or not to have Amara and Michelle join in on the fights but we shall see. I am hoping to get another chapter out soon! :D