Serena already was bored with her riding class waiting on her turn to take the jump course the instructor had set up. She found barrel racing more her cup of tea. Her instructor was busy arguing with the student about jumping her horse to fast.

"Serena!" Ami called from the fence.

"Hi Ami," she said riding over. "I am in the middle of class here."

"I just got word from Rei that there was another attack. It was on the Shrine Maidens. They are all missing except Rei."

Serena shook her head. "I have a jump off to finish." She rode to the starting line. Ameth had just finished her warm up round before the jump off.

"Begin when you are ready," Mr. Signor said hand on the timer. She eased Wild Fire into a steady controlled canter heading to the first jump and cleared it with ease.

After finishing all 15 jumps with a time of 16.92, Ameth urged her black gelding to the start line. Everyone watched as the course was being done in record time and with ease till she asked him to pick up speed towards the last jump.

"Too Fast! Slow down!" Mr. Signor yelled trying to get her to ease up...too late. The gelding wasn't set properly and flipped over the last jump throwing her a few feet away. Without thinking Serena dismounted and ran to try and help Combat back to his feet. Serena managed to but had to force him to stay up. His leg was out of place.

"Combat!" Ameth asked crying as she held her broken arm. "Please will he be okay?"

"You just go to the hospital," Serena said as Ameth's mother got her in the car.

A vet ran up with her father and shook his head. "What was going on here?"

"Our weekly jump off," Mr. Signor said shrugging. "She forced him to go full speed and he wasn't set for the jump. He flipped right over it."

Her father shook his head sighing as the vet took x-rays. The vet got the results quickly and sighed. "There is only one option left."

"What is it?" Her father sighed.

"He needs to be put down out of his misery. If he did survive to heal he would never be able to be ridden and would limp painfully."

Serena looked in Combat's soar eyes and they began to glow as he slowly set the leg down. When the glow was gone, he nickered happily as Serena smiled weakly. Ami ran over sighing. "He's perfectly fine now."

"I'll take another x-ray to confirm...what I think I saw," the vet said taking another x-ray and sure enough the once shattered bone looked as if it had never happened. "I need to take you with me to the race tracks to take care of those horses."

"No sir, I must decline such a wonderful offer," Serena said giving the lead to Ameth's father heading to the barn with Wild Fire. She untacked him and brushed his coat. "We won big boy. You did your very best." She petted his neck. "It was a close call today. I thought for sure we would have fallen." He nickered at her. She smiled taking the halter and lead off him. "Rest well big guy."

She met Ami and got in the van waiting to arrive wherever the trouble was. "Ami I swear he isn't meant for jumping. Why can't I just go back to competing in barrel racing?"

"It is not meant for girls," she said not moving her eyes off the road. "Jumping is a much more graceful event."

"If you don't count the ability to break the horses." Serena crossed her arms over her chest and sighed. "Where is the attack at any way?"

"The Humiro Shrine."

Serena shook her head. "What if I want to be a normal girl?"

Allex's area

"She hasn't come out of hiding mother. Are you sure we sent her here?" Allex asked in front of his mother who was sitting on the moon throne.

"She will show. Patience. Let the scouts draw her out. She has no memories so she may not even realize how lucky she is," his mother petted Serenity's head who was unable to do anything against her with the heavy chains on her hands. He felt that he had done the wrong thing but the only person who could fix this was still hidden among the humans he had made sure was going to protect her.

Serena

The enemy was another stupid energy stealer. Serena was tired of trying to live two lives. One of a normal girl who just happened to be the daughter of a PBR father and a WRA mother. Neither was really ever home to raise her but when they were they trained her in the way of the rodeo (she grew to love it) and that of a fighter named Sailor Moon. She was sick of it.

After the fight at the mall, Serena looked down at the table ignoring the hot chocolate that Ami had gotten her. Ami knew there were others out there some place like them and Rei but no idea where and there was no sense in making Serena's life any more miserable.

"What's wrong Serena?" Rei asked trying to coax her to touch the hot chocolate.

"I don't want to do this any more. Why did we get volunteered any way? I never signed up on save the world duty," Serena sighed complaining. "Honestly, I was ready to start traveling with my mother and father around the country competing in the rodeos. No, I had to stay behind to keep the world alive."

"Serena, none of us wanted this to happen. We had good lives to before the attacks started but this is how it was meant to be. There are others," Ami said. "Luna said that no matter what they will have to be found in order to find the princess who the negaverse is trying to get their hands on. Serenity is their...prisoner right now."

"I don't care! That isn't my problem!" Serena got up and stormed out tears falling. Of course the other scouts would be all for saving the world ignoring their real lives. She kicked a rock sighing. She might have been over reacting since she was just hurt that she couldn't be with her parents like she had dreamed of for so long. She looked up just in time to see a car coming right for her even though she was on the side walk.

Rei knocked Serena out the way as the car turned around. A head popped out the window of a brown haired girl. "She needs to die!" The voice of a woman shouted out the girl. Rei stood protecting her even after she had yelled and complained Rei was willing to risk her life for her. "I don't want to hurt you Mars. Moon is in the way of freeing Serenity."

"We need all of us to find the princess," Rei replied calmly. "We know well the situation. Luna picked her for a reason."

"She wants out let's let her out." The girl got out the car coming over. "Give us the crystal if you want out so bad."

A man in leather pants and a black t-shirt walked up to them and instantly Rei and Leada stood in front of Serena. Serena stood dusting off rubbing the back of her elbow which was scraped. "Oh give it up girls. We're not going to find her."

"Allex, we will. She may just be...hiding better than we had expected. Besides this is your fault." Rei crossed her arms over her chest glaring at him. Serena ran away to the park where she always went to sit in the roses relaxing. Something about the flowers just calmed her down.