The priest performing the ceremony was a really old man had long while hair with and equally long beard and spectacles. He was wearing long flowing purple robs with a matching pointed hat. Beryl honestly didn't care as long as the old man performed the ceremony. He looked to her and asked as simple question. "Lemon Drop?"
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"No, ok then Dearly beloved . . ." Once again, Beryl smirked. She was almost finished, if would just stop asking is she wanted a lemon drop, weirdo. Just another ten minutes and he would be done. All she had to do was ride this out and then finally take what was rightfully her. The brat and her mother's kingdom!
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" Don't worry Haruka. ugh pant we pant we're gonna make it. We're almost there." Mamoru gasped out as he and Fiore struggled towards the baot.
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"….Love is a wonderful, wonder full thing…" The priest trailed off for the umpteenth time. Beryl was about to make a snide remark about just where the priest could shove all the love talk, but a loud and very annoying squawking sound cut her off. She rolled her eyes at the sound of an animal that should be shot to be put out of it's misery. 'What the hell is that?' She though while turning her head just in time to quickly duck out of the way of Umino swooping attack.
"What the fuck?!?" She cried out, but before she could even utter another more colorful curse a swarm of sparrows that were following a doves lead also swooped in on her and attacked. Pecking, biting, scratching and screeching for all they were worth. Apparently there was a price hick that she didn't know about.
The solder on guard all ran up to try to fend them off while the guest stayed as far away from them as possible.
Helios and Miss. H simply stood aside, watching the show in amusement while trying to hold back their laughter. Somebody up there deserved some thanks for this that's for sure.
Serenity just looked at the sight in front of her and inwardly laughed her ass off, metaphorically speaking of course. She didn't know why the all resident birds were going insane on the octopus-like creature in disguise, and frankly, she didn't care. They could peck her eyes out and she would be thrilled, hey that looked like Naru. Naur, a dove, was a birthday gift but Serenity couldn't stand to keep her copped up. Naru came to visit every once in a while. She was such a sweet dove.
Soon things proceeded to get worse, or better depending upon your viewpoint, as about a half a dozen seals lunched out of the water and onboard the ship and started to defend the swarms of sparrows, dove, seagulls, albino peacocks, harks and the falcons. The seals shouted 'back foul creatures back' although all the humans heard was a bark like noise, at the guests who were trying to help Beryl. They weren't hurting them or anything because they knew that these humans didn't know any better, they where just stupid, but they still had to get them away so that the birds could finish their work on the intruder. The star squad was due to arrive any minuet, and it looks like the Ocelot and the kitten joined in with the assault.
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When Mamoru, Fiore and Haruka finally made it to the ship they were both panting heavily and almost completely out of breath. Mamoru and Fiore from the heavy load they had to carry and the distance required to swim, and Haruka because of all the kicking she had to do in order to speed things up.
Fortunately for the fish the physical part of the job was over, but for Haruka it was still just starting. They stopped next to the great yacht's anchor chain so that Haruka could reach out and climb up. At least she didn't have to kick anymore, but this wasn't all that great either!
'I'm almost there! Just a little further!' She yelled at herself mentally to keep from letting the ache in her arms and legs get the better of her, damn this was heard. The only thing that really kept her going was the sound of frantic yelling, barking, and the twittering of angry birds and seagulls. At the sound she knew that some how Umino had made it, go figure.
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ChibiUsa wearily opened her eyes, she was disoriented, and what exactly was she looking at. Oh it was a door, she rubbed her head, then she froze she remembered. She had every intention of telling the guards that something was wrong with her dear cousin and that, that red haired BITCH need to be arrest and thrown off a cliff while being waited down. Now she just need out, after a few minuets of uneasiness she wobbly walked to the door…only to find it looked. She jiggled, pushed, kicked and throw stuff at the door, it just wouldn't budge.
"Grrrrrrrrrrrr" she slumped against the door and pouted. 'Should someone notice I'm not there, useless the lot of them.' She leaned her head back against the wall and closed her eyes, the light was irritating which is odd she didn't remember it being on- 'OMG' her eyes snapped open "THE WINDOW" she shouted she raced across the room. However once she was close enough she realized that she couldn't reach it. Luckily the chair was still intact, and the window was open- she was free.
She raced towards the deck. Hundreds of birds of all kinds were swooping around and attacking the red haired bitch!! There were seals everywhere barking at all of the guests, and the funniest thing was when a flock of seagulls swooped in on her and throwing several starfish at her face! OMG it was amazing.
Beryl was busy trying to fend of the birds, seals and that damn cat "Get away from me you slimy little- Oh, why you little-" she was cut off by a star fist clamping it self over her mouth.
CibiUsa would have laughed, but then she caught sight of Serenity standing at the alter. Unmoving despite the show that was currently going on, with a blank look on her face.
"Serenity!" She cried out in worry before quickly making a dash in her direction.
Unfortunately about halfway there, one of the large seals saw her running and immediately blocking her away, barking like mad and flapping its flippers to try and scare her off.
"What are you doing!?" She shouted at the rubbery animal, as if it would understand him, in a mixture of anger and annoyance for daring to stop her.
"Move it!!" She demanded hotly, but the seal simply barked at her pushing her away with it's head. The sea cow thought that she was going to help Beryl like the rest of the guests were.
ChibiUsa swiped at it for all her was worth, honestly is wasn't much, but the seal in front of her was far too big and strong for her to take on and get past as it shoved her over in a corner where all the other guests were. "STUPID SEA COW!" she shouted at it, that it apparently understood for it spit water at her.
Darting her head back and forth through the giant crowd of people to try and find a way out, she noticed with an extreme amount of surprise that Haruka was climbing up the ship and pulling herself over the rail.
" Haruka!" she called out while running over to the sandy haired teen. She'd never been as happy to see her as she was now. The kitten also noticed her as she too ran off to greet her mistress.
The teen whipped her head to the side once she heard her name Chibiusa's face lit up with relief. 'She could help me with this, hopefully.' She thought happily as she raced up to her.
"You've gotta help Serenity!" She shouted through her gasps as she was only just able to stop in time before smashing into the teen. Kitten simply purred happily as she happily rubbed up against Haruak.
Haruka quickly nodded her head, not even noticing the kitten as she took a look around the messed up deck to try and find Serenity. She tried not to look at the sun, knowing in the back of her mind that time was nearly up.
Finally when she was sure that she would never be able to see her through the swarms of screaming people, an even higher pitched and most familiar sound met her ears. Umino's squawking.
Looking over to the source of the sound, she was surprised to actually see the bird trying to take on Beryl herself with Serenity standing lifelessly behind them. The seagull was fiercely biting and scratching at her neck for all he was worth until his foot became caught in the seashell necklace around his neck. That monster then took the opportunity to grab him by his feathered throat and try to strangle him.
'OH NO! Umino!!' Haruka inwardly cried out before making a dash to try and stop her from killing her good friend.
Daina noticed what was going on between the insane bird and the evil creature that was trying to kill it, so she quickly broke away from the human who was holding her and ran for the evil looking red head who was hurting the bird and her human. If that wasn't enough Naru also noticed and started to dive bomb her.
CHOMP. Right in the ass. TWACK. In the head. SNAP. Went the neckless.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The little chain that held the seashell containing Haruka' voice snapped when Umino kicked all the harder to get away from her, and the seashell went flying into the air only to land and smash like glass at Haruka's feet. She couldn't help but stop in her tracks in front of the glass in the shock of what just happened.
Her glowing voice flowed out like a mist and up in the air towards her throat, still singing the song that she sang the day she signed the contract with Beryl. Fucking bitch. Every one the ship became still.
Serenity's eyes became clear as she regained the control of her body with the smashing of the shell. The first thing she did was try to rub away the ache in her eyes, before looking towards the source of the beautiful song that she knew only her love could sing.
"H-Haruka?" She called out tentatively, unsure of what she was seeing was real.
When her voice entered her throat, everyone was watching in awe at the sight and she couldn't help the sound that escaped her mouth as she sang the very last verse beautifully. She discovered a new shade of red with all the blushing she was doing. She hated singing in public before and is was worse with all these humans watching.
"Haruka?" Serenity called out to her again.
"Serenity!" Haruka called back, before quickly bring her hand up to her throat in the surprise that she could once again speak. It felt weird being able to talk again after going so long without it. Not that she was complaining mind you.
"You can talk! You ARE the one. " She stated before running over to where she stood and sweeping her into her arms for a long awaited hug. To both of them it felt like coming home.
"Serenity get away from him!" Beryl called angrily, out in hopes that she would still have some control on her, nope wasn't going to happen. She was really surprised to hear her own voice when she spoke and her eyes widened in shock. 'Fuck spell had broken. OHHHH that rat with wings was so dead- after she fixed this'.
She then furiously whipped her head in the direction of the sun. 'I can still do it! Just. Ten. More. Seconds!'
" It - it was you all the time.!" Serenity explained frantically, she had been told this but it was still unbelievable. "If I'd known what she was doing to you I would have done something!"
"I wanted to tell you Serenity." Haruka said softly with their arms still wrapped around each other. Serenity simply smiled in the relief that she once again had the control over her body and even better she found her heart. She then tilted her head and leaned into Haruka, everything silenced all the animals watching in anticipation. At long last.
"Serenity NO!" Beryl cried out.
Just before their lips could touch, Haruka let out a sharp gasp of pain, and the sound of ripping could be heard as her pants shredded down the legs to allow her own legs to fuse together and her navy tail to reform. The sun had set it was too late, they failed.
Beryl just looked at the pathetic sight before her and laughed out menacingly.
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AN: Ok I could decide weather I should end it the Disney way or my original way that I wanted to. So I'm doing both, I just can't decide if I want to do my ending first or the original ending. Any thoughts? Questions? Comments? Concerns? Oh and one last thing thank you to all who have reviewed and for those of you who have read this and didn't you suck.
