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AN: I'm back with a new chapter! Thanks everyone for their patience and understanding. Things have been seriously crazy with my internet going out, vacations, school etc. My biggest roadblock if you could believe it had to be Amy, I had to rewrite this chapter three times before i could figure out how to get around her, with that said I will let you get on with the story!
Chapter 10
She pushed the down button on the elevator and was surprised when it immediately opened up onto her floor. Tiredly she pressed the button for the main floor and then backed up and propped herself against the elevator wall. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting out a sigh of half-relief, half-uncertainty, while she tried to occupy her mind with other concerns she absentmindedly tried to blow her bangs out of her face.
She let out an anguished cry when she finally came to the realization that she was a fool, coming back here was making her more reckless and foolhardy than she had ever been before. From a past that never amounted to anything to the present where for some reason or another, the different perspectives that she had witnessed of people made her see a new and more brilliant light giving her a new hope that she lacked all her life, to a future she knew could never exist.
She felt herself falling for a man that she would never have guessed in a thousand millennia. She could find no lies in the words that he freely gave to her just moments before. His actions towards her in her youth were only because he never knew how to act in front of her and from what he revealed to her today, he had been just as lonely in his life as she had been.
She wiped her eyes and immediately began to sober up; the past was done and gone. There was no way to reverse it unless a Sailor Scout of time existed. The likelihood of that happening was slim to none. Since discovering that she was the Princess of the Moon, she had gained what she assumed was all of her memories of her past, though for some reason some of the people in her past still remained shadowed or very blurry in her memories.
She wrapped the sling around her wrist and tightened it so her hand wouldn't move as much. She felt the elevator slow down and stop on one of the floors, she then saw a little figure come rushing in at top speed and then a little hand desperately punched the elevator door button several times so that the doors would close. Then the little girl pushed herself as far as she could into the corner and then crumpled in a tight ball against the wall.
Down the hall Serena could here a clatter of footsteps and voices shouting at one another while rushing around like headless chickens. "Mara is missing!" A frantic nurse shouted out, while another declared that she had not been in any of the rooms that they had checked.
She watched as the doors of the elevator slowly began to close, and the search party ran forward towards the door demanding that she keep them open. She went to push the button to reopen the doors her finger hovering just above it, when the small child in the corner whimpered out, "Please don't let them catch me!"
Like many times before, her heart couldn't help but melt for the little child. Her finger swiftly pulled back, she watched the doors close and felt the elevator begin to descend. The child still had their head bunched together repeating out loud, "don't let them get me."
Wanting to help the child, and with no hesitation she pushed the emergency button on the elevator making it lurch to a stop. The child whimpered fearing the worst, until they felt the gentle touch of a hand on their shoulder and a sweet melodic voice.
She had a major soft spot for little children since she had never had any of her own and because of her duty as a Sailor Soldier. "Don't worry little one, I can help you. Why are you running from all of the doctors?"
With tear filled eyes the small child looked up and then launched themselves into her arms, while burying their head into her shoulder, "I-I'm scared, I don't want to die! They want to take me and op-er-ate on my heart cause the doctors say that it is broken and needs to be fixed so that I can run and play like the other kids do, but I don't want to leave my mom and dad all alone."
Her thoughts centered on this little girl and their desperate need of help, as it was her duty to help and protect the people of earth in any way that she could. "Hush little one, I promise everything will be alright."
Knowing full well that what she was about to do would make her regret her actions later, but for now she wanted to help. Her skin began to glow a silvery color and a silent wind came out of nowhere and made her hair float up slowly. She then began floating in midair with the child in her arms as the mark of her birthright the crescent moon flickered on her forehead and then stayed prominent upon her brow.
The little girl looked up and gasped at her in amazement, mesmerized as she saw the silvery light from the woman slowly crawl over her own body with a slight feathery, ticklish feeling and she couldn't help but giggle.
Serena looked down at the girl and then raised her head up, "Dearest Selene, Queen of the Silver Millennium, Mother, please help me give this child strength as well as all the other children in this hospital so that they may be able to endure and conquered their physical trials with the help of all the medical administrators at this hospital, so that they may grow up to have full lives."
The crescent moon on her forehead let out a soothing golden light in which began to spread from her then out of the elevator brushing over everything and everyone in the hospital.
Dr. Shields felt like he needed some fresh air in order to clear his head, so he pulled up his blinds and slid open one of his windows. He felt the cool breeze brush past him, while taking a deep breath calming him. To him the natural things of Earth had always had a calming effect on him. He took a moment to close his eyes and let all his responsibilities float away; it was short lived when he was snapped back into the real world as he felt the familiarity of a certain power wash over him. Not wasting anymore time he began to follow the pull that beckoned to him. It was a different kind of pull than he felt when he knew Sailor Moon was in danger it was the pull he felt when Princess would come to him in his dreams. He froze when a golden power washed over him, calming all of his senses.
The elevators were occupied and not wanting to let precious seconds slip away he opened the door to the stairs so forcefully that it gave a loud bam as it came in contact with the concrete walls, his quick footsteps echoed loudly as he practically flew down the stairs.
On another floor a Doctor, who had been looking over one of their patient's charts, felt the same power pass over them. This Doctor was very unique looking with her hair that was a strange shade of blue with silver strands splashed throughout and wore a thin pare of glasses on the bridge of her nose, but looks are deceiving because though she was well in her years she was one of the top Doctors in the world. Her usual calm composure seemed to melt away as the strange golden power enveloped everyone. The patients chart slipped out of her hand and clattered to the floor. While everyone seemed to feel calm she felt more unease as if something was calling to her, but at the same time cautioning her that this power was not something to be messed with.
Her Sailor instincts kicked in and for once in her life Dr. Mizuno did something completely out of character in which shocked her fellow associates, she ran from them and yelled out, "I have an important task to attend to, figure it out for yourselves for once!" as she made her way to the stairs and whipped out her mercury computer instantly analyzing the surrounding area as she ran.
Serena now stood on the elevator floor while still holding the child which was calmly sitting in her arms. She pressed the button allowing the elevator to work once again and then pushed the floor button above so that she could take the child back to where she needed to be.
Dr. Shields waited in anticipation in front of the elevator doors a couple of floors below to greet the occupant, but to his surprise the elevator instead of continuing down went back up a floor. He began his sprint back up the stairwell, with his eyes narrowed in frustration, telling himself that if someone or something was playing a cheap trick on him, he would not hesitate in using one of his "Tuxedo smoking bombs" on the pranksters.
The elevator door chimed when it reached the highlighted floor and the doors opened. She set the little girl outside the door and they gave each other a smile. With calm and confidence encircling the little girl, and her eyes sparking the girl was ready to face anything, "Thank you!" she smiled even bigger watching as the doors once again closed and her new hero disappeared going up to the top floor.
Just then Dr. Shields burst into the hallway ready to face the power coming from the elevator, what he did not expect to face was a cheerful child with a huge smile spread across their face. Attempting to catch his breath and question at the same time he asked, "Did you huff see a... (Gulp) girl?"
The child tilted their head to the side in mild contemplation determining what the doctor was asking. Then her face seemed to beam with happiness even more, "Oh, you mean the pretty angel lady that gave off a warm, fuzzy golden light and promised that everything would be okay?"
Darien's eyes widened in shock when the child happily gave him a description of a woman that confirmed the pull he felt. He then nodded in anticipation and wonderment of the prospect that somehow for some reason the princess of his dreams had finally appeared in the real world outside of the dreamscape. The girl continued to stand there then brought up a finger to her chin while thinking and then pointing towards the ceiling. "I think she had to go back up to heaven, she looked pretty tired after she promised to help me."
With a sigh and pure determination now pumping through his veins he turned back to the stairs and steadily resumed his flight up the stairs. Meanwhile on the other side of the building Amy who was tracking the movement of the power on her mini-computer watched as it erratically changed position from going down to up, and was erratically typing and trying to fix a permanent lock on the power source so she could easily track it later if it disappeared, yet so far she was not having much luck. When she saw that the power was steadily making its way up to the roof she began following it up.
Serena stood facing the wall of the elevator with her hands supporting her weight, she was glad that the girl and the other children in the hospital would likely survive whatever ailments that held them back now, at the same time she realized in her hastiness that she had exerted a little too much power making her feel weak and likely open and very vulnerable if the Negaverse were to attack at any moment. In her frustration she launched her head forward and instantly regretted her action when her head came in contact with the steal wall making her feel like her head just split in two and a large headache began to form. She then brought her hand up to her forehead and felt the soft spot of the contact her head had made. She groaned realizing that she most likely hade a large red imprint on her forehead.
She did not have much time either and since she was running low on energy she was going to have to book it out of their and reach her home so that she wouldn't be found collapsed or unconscious. Quickly transforming into her Sailor form she launched herself out of the elevator when it stopped on the last floor and ran up the last staircase to the roof.
Though Amy was never the physically strong Sailor Scout like Jupiter, she was glad that her powers still gave her the endurance to run without to much difficulty even with age factored in. as she reached the floor before the rooftop she barely caught a glimpse of a couple of silvery ponytails as they ascended up the stairs. She was close and she was only seconds behind at solving this mystery, wanting to come to the conclusion quickly she continued up the stairs.
When she came to the open air of the roof she looked around to see which direction she could spot the figure going, but to her surprise she could see no moving silhouettes in any directions. Ready to once again pull out her computer and even fully transform to give her better access to her Mercurial powers she began to reach into her subspace pocket, when Darien made his appearance.
He slid to a stop when he saw the blue haired doctor also was occupying the rooftop. Could she have been the source of the power, he thought. "What are you doing up here Dr. Mizuno?"
She faced him, while the same thoughts as to why he was here began forming theories and statistics as to the probability that they would be searching for the same thing raced through. "I could ask you the same question, Dr. Shields."
Taken aback at her unusual forwardness, he resolved that whatever brought her up there at the moment, be it the same thing or for a different reason. Just as intelligent as he, she would not give away any clues regarding her business up there.
He could give in and play her game, but he would rather focus on his own mission he paused for a moment in silence trying to pinpoint in which direction the pull was pointing to, but as quick as he had felt it, the pull was completely non-existent now, frustrated he turned and walked back down the stairs.
When Amy knew he was out of hearing distance she pulled open her communicator, "We had a slight situation here at Tokyo Hospital, I wish to discuss it with you if possible an hour before we meet with the young Sailor Scout." When Dr. Mizuno finished call she pulled out her mini-computer to try and finish her calculations, typing furiously away.
Meanwhile about four stories down, Serena was hanging from a small ledge, frowning at herself for being careless and almost caught by the blue haired scout. A pigeon sat humming merely inches away from her fingers, then began to scoot its way over and perched itself on top of her fingers. There was a chance Amy could still be on the roof so quietly she tried to coax it off, "Please get off!" The bird made no attempt at moving from its new perch.
She wined quietly under her breath; her fingers began to ache with the pressure of holding her weight. She looked up at the pigeon as it looked back at her with a blank stare; it ruffled its feathers and began lifting its tail. Panic began settling in no, no, no, you better not even think of pooping on me you pudgy pigeon! Not wanting to risk anymore thought on the matter, she let go of the ledge with the hand that the bird was perched on and shook the bird off. She watched the bird fly up into the sky when she realized how much of a grip she no longer had on the edge of the building and began falling downward towards the ground.
She had to think fast cause she did not want to become a pancake, she looked down to see if there was another ledge she could grab, when she saw an open window coming at her fast. She smiled and launched herself towards the window as she fell, caught onto its ledge then she pulled herself up and let herself tumble to the floor, while catching her breath.
Amy finished her calculations, coming up with nothing in the end. What caught here eye, was a lone pigeon that came fluttering up on the roof, so she went to the edge and looked down, expecting to see something suspicious but saw nothing.
Serena sighed in relief and thanked her lucky stars that someone must have been looking out for her today. She pulled herself off the ground, looked around the room and nearly fainted in shock when she realized she had ended up back in Darien's office. She giggled realizing that she had ended up back where she had begun, remembering that the pattern of her running into him all the time, when she was younger seemed to be a unavoidable occurrence much like how the Moon has and always will orbit around the Earth.
The effects of her using her powers slowly sank in making her feel tired and sluggish. Her feet felt like they were dragging on the floor towards the door, when the door swung open, making her jump back to avoid getting smacked by it.
He was startled when he again saw Rena standing in his office. "What are you doing back here?"
"Hm, oh I forgot my purse!" Quickly she pulled a small purse out of her subspace pocket from behind her back and showed it to him.
He didn't want to believe her considering he did not remember her having a purse with her the entire time she was there with him, but it was a small purse and he could have easily overlooked that detail in the beginning.
"Thanks again! I need to go." She said while once again slipping past him out the door to make her way downstairs and out of the hospital. She then called a cab and got herself a ride home.
Thanks again for all of your support and reviews! To clarify some things I will eventually bring in Pluto and some of the other Sailor Scouts and a little of their pasts revealing why they didn't show up earlier! I am going to work hard at getting another chapter out this next week too!.