Chapter Ten

New Allies

Date: January 13th, 2008

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People seemed to be enjoying their after-dinner strolls in the park. That is until a droid decided to stop that. The droid was about ten feet tall. It was red with an axe for one hand. It grabbed a civilian who was ushering children to a safe place with her significant other.

"Give me your energy." The droid hissed.

"No. Let me go." The citizen gasped.

"AMY!" Stephen screamed as he ran towards the droid that currently had a hold of his girlfriend.

The droid opened its mouth, but instead of words coming out of its mouth, some sort of ray shot out and hit Stephen square in the back sending him flying back into a tree.

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Darien decided to get out of the apartment. He'd not gone out much besides classes, work, and battles since Serena left. It was too lonely walking by himself. He was walking past the park when he heard a familiar voice scream.

"AMY!" Rang through the air.

He ran to the source of the scream which was in a lump next to a tree.

"Stephen, what's going on?" Darien asked looking at his glowing head. 'Zoisite?'

"That thing has Amy, but it's too strong." He said weakly.

Darien looked towards the struggling bluenette.

"I'll be right back. Don't go near that thing." Darien said before running into the trees. "Luna, Artamis. Trouble at the park. I found Zoisite too." He said into his communicator.

"We're on our way." They both said.

He closed his communicator and transformed into Tuxedo Mask. He leapt out and extended his cane to hit the droid in the center of its back.

The droid screamed in pain and dropped Amy.

He ran to get her over to Stephen. When he picked her up, he saw the symbol on her head. "Mercury." He whispered. "Watch her." He ordered Stephen.

He went off to fight the creature when Luna and Artamis arrived.

He whirled roses at the beast to slow it down, but it wasn't doing much good. Soon the two were fighting cane-to-axe.

"Mercury Bubbles Blast." A female voice screamed as the surrounding area was covered in a dense fog.

"You okay Tuxedo?" The female voice asked.

"Yah. Thanks Mercury."

"Sure, don't say hi to me." A male joked.

"Okay, I won't." He joked. "Hello Zoi. Nice to have you both back."

"Nice to be back." Mercury said.

"Now let's get rid of this ting." Zoisite said.

Both nodded. "Let's." Tuxedo Mask said.

"Ice Storm Blast." Zoisite shouted. Ice shot out of his palms which hit the droid, freezing it instantly.

"Pluto Deadly Scream." Pluto's voice said from across the park.

"Neptune Deep Submerge." Rang Neptune's voice.

"Uranus World Shaking." Screamed Uranus' voice.

The three attacks combined and hit the frozen droid. As soon as the attacks hit, the droid burst into iced dust.

"Who's there?" Zoisite demanded taking his fighting stance.

"Calm down Zoi. It's Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto if you couldn't tell by the attack names." Tuxedo Mask informed.

"Or we can just not help you guys." Uranus joked.

"Sorry, just remembered. I'm a little on the cautious side." Zoisite said.

"You're right to be on the cautious side." A voice said from above the group.

"Who are you?" Pluto asked.

"I'm Rubeus of the Dark Moon Family." The red headed man said.

"Dark Moon Family?" Tuxedo Mask repeated.

"Yes, the Dark Moon Family. You'll learn more about us with time, but for now I must leave. I am leaving you with a parting gift though."
He snapped his fingers and another droid appeared. He then disappeared.

"Can't he even stay and fight his own battles?" Uranus said shaking her head. "Uranus World Shaking." She shouted.

'The attack blew the droid back and stunned it.

"We'll do the honors." Zoisite and Tuxedo Mask said.
"Ice Storm Blast!"
The ice shot again froze the droid. Tuxedo Mask then grabbed several needle tipped roses and launched them at the droid. The droid shattered instantly.

"Nicely done." Neptune said.

"Why thank you madam." Tuxedo Mask said with a slight bow.

"It's nice to have you two back." Pluto said.

"It's nice to be back." Zoisite said.

"We'll have to meet up soon." Uranus said.

"But we have to get back to our babysitter." Neptune said.

"Yah, we'll talk to you guys soon." Pluto said.

"See ya." The other five said. (Luna and Artamis came out of the trees when the second droid shattered.)

"I know I made a good choice when I asked you to be my girlfriend." Zoisite said trapping Mercury in a kiss.

"You made a great choice." She agreed kissing him again.

"Sorry to interrupt, but do either of you two remember anyone else's faces?" Luna asked desperately.

Both shook their head 'no.'

"We'll just have to keep looking then." Artamis sighed.

"At least we can keep track of all the attacks and whatnot better now." Luna said.

Everyone (excluding Artamis) looked at her like she was crazy.

"Remember your computer and visor." She said to Mercury.

"OH YAH!" She giggled.

"So this is why you've been running off." Zoisite said. Tuxedo Mask nodded. "How long have you known?"
"I found Luna and Artamis the day Serena left." He said looking down.

"That's why you were dreaming of Serenity. You were starting to remember your past." Mercury said.

Tuxedo Mask nodded. "Let's go to the crown." He suggested as the other two nodded.

After they went into an alley to detransform, the walked into the crown and sat in a private booth to talk.

"Do you still have the note she left?" Stephen asked.

Darien nodded and pulled the note out of his jacket pocket.

"That's why you wouldn't let anyone read it." Amy said after reading the note.

"I didn't want you guys to think I was really cheating on her…even though I felt like I was in my dreams." He sighed.

"And it'd be kinda hard to explain the whole Endymion thing." Stephen added.

Darien nodded.

"You're right. We probably would've thought that you were cheating on her. No offence or anything, but that would be the only thing that we could think of when we read that part about Serenity." Amy said.

"Exactly, but you understand now right?"

"Completely." They both said.

"What are you going to do about Serena and Serenity?" Stephen asked.

"I may sound selfish, but I can wait to find Serenity. My number one goal right now is to find my Serena."
"It's not selfish at all. I understand. Right now I'd rather find my best friend and make sure she's okay than look for a princess we haven't seen in thousands of years." Amy said.

"And when we find Serenity, I'm just going to explain to her that I have a fiancée. I already have Serena, and I love her more than life itself. I couldn't even imagine being with anyone else for the rest of my life."

"I understand." Amy reassured.

"Oh, we have something for you two." Luna said to Amy and Stephen after she walked up to the booth the three were sitting at. She and Artamis stayed at the park to look for any signs of the enemy but found nothing.

Artamis was holding two things in his mouth. One was very similar to Darien's and then there was what appeared to be a pearl bracelet.

"What are these?" Amy asked picking up the pearl bracelet.

"Communicators." Luna replied.

"That's yours, and this is yours." Artamis said pushing the watch-like object towards Stephen.

Darien's and Stephen's communicators were almost identical. Darien's had a solid gold strap. On the top of the strap was a circle shape with a rose on top. Along the band was 12 buttons. Two blue, two red, two green, two orange, a white one and a light black one. When the circle was opened, it revealed two more buttons; one multi colored and another as white as a pearl.

Stephen's was almost the exact same. The only differences were the blue buttons were replaced with a white –similar to the one inside Darien's – button and a gold button; on top of the circle was the same symbol that glowed on his forehead earlier that day; and inside the circle where the white button was on Darien's was a blue button.

Amy's was more like a pearl bracelet. It was very similar to Stephen's. It had the same color buttons as Stephen's. In the center was a slightly bigger jewel which opened. On top of the bigger jewel was the symbol that appeared on her head. When opened, she saw the same buttons that were in Stephen's.

"Let me explain how they work. They only work for you guys. If someone else has your communicator – even another scout – it won't work. The buttons correspond with another scout, general, the prince, the princess, Artamis and I. The slightly darker ones are for the generals, and the lighter are for the scouts. They are very basic, though, when we find the crystal, our technology will be back to what it was during the Sliver Millennium. We'll make better one's then. The multicolored one is for contacting everyone." Luna explained.

"We made them a few years ago so we put the button of the bracelet's owner's lover in the middle." Artamis added. "Because each person is strong on their own, but they are strongest when with their lover. The buttons will only activate if the center is open too, so you don't have to worry about them going off randomly. When someone is calling you, the symbol will flash and you open it to answer it." Artamis added.

"Sounds easy enough." Stephen said.

"Yah." Amy said hooking it on her wrist. "Crap. I've got to go. Look at the time. I have class early tomorrow." Amy said.

"Okay. We'll see you guys soon." Artamis said as Amy and Stephen got up.

"Bye." They all said.

"We'd better get going too. I've got classes tomorrow too." Darien said.