Lea-chan: so you think you can make all your harassment comments you want as long as you update once ever seven years?
Jeh-kun: sowary.
Lea-chan: I'm sorry I don't speak mumbles!
Jeh-kun:I'm sowary I baveant bean beeling wheal
Lea-chan: take the damn icepack from your face and talk!
Jeh-kun: *pulls out white board and writes "get ur 4 wisdom teeth pulled with no working painkillers and then let's talk about being nice!" *
Side not: in the past two chapters where Rini has come in I have changed her age from 15 to 17 to 16 to 20 mainly cause I haven't decided what I was doing. I have decided that Serena had spent a year and a half at darien's before Rini has come so they are both 17. But they have ids for 20 so that they can do whatever without question. Serena had her hair cut right above her shoulders in the process of being sick and Rini had hers cut the same short length so that they wouldn't stand out too much…cause come on India is full of 5'7 girls with short pink and blond hair….
My Mother's Mission
Rini held a small pen with a little Luna head she ran her fingers over the bulging eyes and the pink ears she tried to hide the trembling her body involently shook with as she looked at her mother. She had always seemed like this unstoppable force with no flaws, but now at the age of 17 she was able to see first had the price she had to pay to paint on her mask, from a younger age than she currently was.
"We are going to land in an hour, how is your sister doing?" the flight attendant asked as Rini looked at her shaken from her thoughts.
"She is resting peacefully thank you." Rini said with a faint smile as she brushed Serena's bangs from her face. "for now." Rini closed her eyes and drifted away as she laid her head on her mother's shoulders remembering the words that the woman that had looked only several years older and in a thousand years time had told her.
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"I know you can handle this and despite your father's reluctance I know that you are the only one that can do this. You are my daughter so there-for you understand very well how much duty comes before your own personal being." Serena said as she sat upon her thrown and her daughter knelt before her a pledged warrior, decorated from her achievements. She looked upon her mother's face of 26 years but the creases in her face told the truth of centuries she had lived.
"Yes mama, I will jump the moon and go beyond the duty asked of me, I shall protect and serve the earth as well as the moon, and the universe I reside in, I sh-" Rini was cut off from reciting the warrior's oath that was tradition before every mission, Her mother had fallen to her own knees and wrapped her arms around her.
"This isn't a simple scouting mission or demon; this is something that is worse and harder to beat. Rini the things you are going to see on this mission will make and break your heart. The respect you have for me as a woman will leave you and the dedication as your mother you will understand. This isn't a mission but a journey and you will understand what type of self sacrifice it will take to become a ruler and when you return you time to take the thrown won't be long." Serena had tears streaming her face as she held onto her daughter already knowing what tribulations lay ahead of her.
"Mama I promise that I know the duty code and that I will uphold the future for my kingdom, for my court, for my family and for myself. In the order you have taught me." Rini said through mirroring tears.
"I believe you baby, but I still don't want you to go." Serena held onto her daughter tighter.
"Serena you know what you have done for this kingdom it is the least that I can do to even repay a fraction of my debt. Due to your pure heart the universe not just the world we lived on is in an era of peace, I have that to inherit and you had war. If you don't get better in the past I don't want to know what could have been." Rini said as she let go of her mother.
"I understand." Serena said like a scolded child and out of modesty blushed. "To be honest I never really knew what I was doing all I was doing was laying out lame naïve platforms, that were more idealistic than reasonable." Serena fumbled with her royal white gown something that wouldn't stay as pure in color when she had done all these magnifigant things. Serena closed her eyes and let a montage of all her battles flashed before her eyes and cringed at the memory.
"But because of that we live-" Rini started to raise her voice in frustration of her mother's modesty.
"If you do not understand why I say I was naïve then you are not ready for a mission of this caliber." Serena said as Rini flinched at the power in her voice. Serena rose to her thrown and took the position of a ruler and no longer a caring mother, Rini noticed her mother's change in demeanor and knelt in a warrior stance.
"I do not mean to question your motives my lady, just tell you that you have done so much and I have many debts to repay for the privilege to be born into an era of peace." Rini said raising her head slightly so that her long pink trundles done in royal buns pooled at her sides.
"Rini my darling," Serena sighed heavily " I have always been there to hold you hand or a communication away, I have babied you and made you dependent on myself. As your mother I felt the need to not allow you go through my life, and my successor I have failed you."
"You have done non of t-" Rini was stopped by the simple raised palm of her mother.
"The tribulations that you are to face will force you to use your own heart crystal, something that I had hoped you would never have to do, the illness that I will be plagued is because there is a deep crack in my own heart crystal when you get to the small village it there will be a battle, one that you have never seen anything like. It will test you and you will fail." Serena said with a sad smile.
"I have never and plan not to fail you!" Rini said hard at breath.
"You will, but through your failure a more knowledge able Rini shall raise as well as your understanding that your place in our world if far greater than mine own. Like a great phinox you shall rise and be reborn from you own demise. Do you understand?"
"Yes my lady, I will come back changed and ready for my position." Rini bowed and walked out of the room.
"You may leave, and be well." Serena said as Rini bowed out of the throne room and Serena curled up in her chair and allowed her pained tears to run down her cheeks.
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"Serena we have landed." Rini lightly shook her mother whose eyes fluttered open, the stunningly beautiful blue orbs that have been so loving and unforgivingly powerful looked back at her warry and worn out.
"Now where do we go from here?" Rini asked Serena as she pulled out an accordion map and cursed as she fumbled with it and it spewed open unfolding into a massive heap of paper.
"Well we have to go to take a local plane to Gorgon (a/n: I had decide that I suck at making up medical stuff so I pulled up the best cardiologist hostipitals in India and in the town of Gorgon there is Artemis Health institute. So I really thought that it fit) From there we are going to take a cab and it is a 12 mile drive to the treatment center, but we will be staying at The Oasis in the Wazirabad district and the hospital is in Mayfield Gardens." Serena said as she coughed into the hankie that Darien had given her, it had the pink fade of washed blood, she snapped shut the black book that held all their passports and information that Amy had helped her put together.
"We have a three hour layover do you want to get something to eat?" Rini asked sheepishly trying to repress the gurgle of her own stomach.
"Sure but nothing too extreme." Serena said with a smile as they sat down a subway in the airport. Serena couldn't read a word of the Hindi writing and only sat scratching her head, Rini let out a small laugh and displayed her talent for linguistics that she had trained in since she was of six years. She was fluent in 28 earth bound languages and 16 universal languages, although all her missions she had had the luxury of a translator-voice adaptation device, she had decided she wanted to know what people were saying on her own.
"ا أحبّت لحم خنزير وتركيا سندويتش ا أحبّت لحم خنزير وتركيا سندويتش ا أحبّت لحم خنزير وتركيا سندويتش'Rini said with a smile as Serena looked on in awe.
"I am so glad that you inherited Darien's brain and not mine." Serena laughed.
"Mama you would be surprised how smart you are in the future, but it is wiser on how people want to be treated rather than books which is just as important." Rini smiled.
"Rini I want you to call me Serena if someone was to over hear you calling me mama or mother it may raise questions. Remember when you staid I was always your big sister, it goes along the same lines." Serena said with a smile.
"Yes my lad-mam-Serena. " they both laughed as their they grabbed their food. Rini had inhaled her food while Serena just starred at hers.
"What is wrong?" Rini asked confused.
"I am going to go use the pay phone and call Darien to tell him that we landed. He probably is a ball of nerves or partying it up, I hope he is partying but this is your father." Serena sighed.
"But aren't you going to eat anything? Come on Serena you can't fight this unless you have some strength." Rini nagged in the familure way that Luna would, an d she wondered to herself if Serena or Luna raised Rini, as she suppressed a giggle of Luna nagging someone else but her. Serena took a large bite and smiled,
"wa-pah?" she said with her head tilted in attitude.
"Well then I'll just have to finish it." Rini laughed.
"Fwhine!" Serena rose from the table and headed to the pay phone. Stabbing the familiar's numbers of Darien's cell phone number. In her haiste she had dropped a Pink notebook that had raised pictures and colorful doodles, it looked like it had been secretly coveted for quiet some time but slipped out of her purse too easily. Rini picked it up and carefully turned to the first of the coffee colored pages.
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I don't know how much more of this I can really take!
For every demon,
every villain
that is after this silver crystal
my heart has to break and my friends have to die.
I have held limp bodies
and cried as if I could never walk on
but always letting the nagging voice take over
that I am alone
and this is a job that I can't pass on.
I don't want to do this anymore;
I don't think my heart can take the strain.
Today I puked out my lunch
holding my sides as blood spewed
from my mouth and tears ran
like small rivers down my face,
the agony was something I never felt before
and as I choked out the final drops of my life's blood
before passing out alongside the toilet,
I knew I wasn't going to get better
and it was all due to this fighting with my heart.
With the very stone of my heart crystal
that seems so elaborate
and pure
from my naïve thinking.
What happens if my thoughts become clouded
and dark will it's shape change
or is that something that I can't control
and no matter what everyone will
be out to break it and my spirit.
DD
Rini was unaware of the tears that were steaming from her red colored eyes as she traced the intricate drawing of a blackened heart stone that had been bleeding on the right margin and at the bottom of the page a graphic drawing of Serena was passed out next to a toilet that had the seat covered in blood and her golden hair had spewed chunks of blood, the pen looked like it had stabbed the page rather than stroked the poem upon it's pages and it was dated long before she had last left the past.