Vegas Chapter 11

"Silly Meatball Head"

Sailor Moon looked down at the destruction that littered the small area of Jubann. The people of Japan lay passed out in the street. Their energy had been taken; they were lying there waiting for death, as their lungs and hearts were so tired they could barely breathe. The beast was lurking, looking for more. It had no redeeming qualities what so ever, the cross bread of a dinosaur and an ostrich with rabies and leprosy was the most disgusting thing she had ever seen. Her past enemies were seriously lacking in youma 'barf' category. Not to mention it was huge…give or take fifteen feet in height.

Sailor Moon knew that with out her scouts weakening the creature she would not have a chance to defeat the beast and revive the dying people, but they had yet to arrive on the scene due to the inability of sprouting wings and flying.

She circled around once more deciding where she should trap it from reaping the least amount of havoc.

"JUPITER THUNDER CRASH!" Was yelled and Sailor Moon watched as the beast let of an ear piercing screech as the attack hit it square in the chest.

"MERCURY ICE STORM!"

The thinking the last stun would have slowed the beast it began to screech louder and charge the girls who were located in front of the youma. The girls dodged the beast all except Venus who slid under the beast unleashing her Venus love-me chain in to its belly. Blood burst from the wide slit causing it to trip and stumble in to a local building. The other girls who did not seem to expect the blood bath stood in awe as Venus emerged soaked in red. She; however, was not phased.

"NOW, SAILOR MOON!" Venus yelled giving away the girls hiding spot in the sky.

"SILVER MOON CRYSAL POWER KISS" She said as soon as she touched down on the road.

The youma was turned to dust. The scouts closed in on their leader trying to figure out how she kept appearing. They didn't get a chance to question her because clapping was heard in the sky.

Looking up the five girls saw a woman floating in before them. Dressed in purple and gold she was quite pretty aside from the sinister look on her face.

"Very good little princesses. I thought this one would give you a little more run for your money; however it did what I needed " She said showing all the energy she gathered.

"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT!" Venus yelled stepping in front of her princess.

"Always the leader and protector Venus. However, I am disappointed in your memory of me given that you remembered how to slay my beasts." She tapped her long fingers on the side of her face. "Oh, well maybe it will come to you and when it does you will remember how cruel my peoples beasts can be."

"GIVE ME BACK THAT ENERGY!" Sailor Moon yelled!

"Tisk, tisk! Don't talk to the future queen of Earth that way Moon brat." She said sweetly.

She threw a blast of energy at the blond that never touched her as Mercury threw her out of the way

"MARS FLAME SNIPER!" She shot at the floating woman who screeched as part of her hair was burned.

"HOW DARE YOU ATTACK ME? THE MIGHTY QUEEN ANDROMEDA! PLAY WITH THIS FOR AWHILE." She roared!

Andromeda conjured up another youma from the past making her weak. She disappeared as a rancor came at the girls. Its talon claws went after Lita first who tried to use hand-to-hand combat hurting her self in the process. Mina used her love me chain to wrap it around the neck of the creature as Sailor Moon threw her tiara but it did not work. The chain broke free and the once captive creature came hurdling at Sailor Moon. Right before the rancor mulled her to death she had strong arms grip around the her torso pulling her to safety.

"Tuxedo Mask!" She said not having seen him in forever.

"Whenever a damsel is in distress, here I am." He answered.

"I need you in my reality then." She smirked as he set her on a building near by.

"That's some nasty creature. I think we should go get it." He motioned toward it.

She nodded. "Thank you." She caught her breath and jumped off the roof.

Tuxedo Mask followed using him Smoking Bomber attack in coordination with the other girls attacks weakening the creature. It was Mercury who made an icicle so large and sharp that really did it. She hurled it right through it's skull bathing everyone close in shower of red liquid.

Sailor Moon used the silver crystal to dust the beast and then used it to give back the energy to the dying people. This mass of people with so little energy was again too much. She used the last of her power to disappear in the end.

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Her uniform was covered in blood. Sailor Moon laid passed out on the floor of her room in Darien's home. She was not going to move for a while, that was a given due to the fact that she used most of her energy to save those who were injured by the youma.

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"Where did she go?" Rei yelled!

"I don't know?" Ami yelled back still keeping her leaders secret.

"Let her go for now. We need to have a meeting and Miss disappearing act should be back tomorrow. We need to find out who this Andromeda is." Mina said.

"Speaking of that, how did you know how to kill the first one?" Lita asked.

"I don't know, but I feel like I have killed creatures like that before… in our past lives. The worst part is, if I am correct this is only going to get worse."

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Darien replayed the conversation he overheard between the scouts and enemy and tried to put a few key words he heard from before stepping in to save Sailor Moon.

Andromeda called the girls princesses, she also said she would be the next queen of earth and Sailor Venus said something about a past life. He would have to talk to the generals about this. They would have to fight if this was going to get worse and he needed to protect his people ands his wife at all cost.

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One eye opened and Sailor Moon put a gloved hand to her head. It was late and she hurt all over. Making her way to her feet she looked down at her blood soaked uniform and de transformed. It; however, did not remove the blood from her hair and since the only bathroom was in Darien's room Serena did not know how she was going to clean herself.

The genius that she was realized that she supposedly had her own apartment and she limped to her dresser to find the key. Engraved in to the side was the number 604.

'This must be the apartment number.' She thought grabbing her stuff and she slowly crept out the door not realizing the trail of blood she was leaving behind.

The apartment was nice, too nice; the girls would never believe that her parents could afford this place. The kitchen was great and it had a small living room. There was one bathroom and a step up in to her room that already had a bed and a dresser. Focusing, she turned on the hot water, stripped down and laid down in the bathing tub. Letting the shower rinse all of the blood off her she slowly fell asleep.

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Ami could feel something was wrong and when the other girls departed she pulled out her Mercury computer once more and began to follow Serena's energy signal. As soon as the signal locked on Ami ran as fast as she could to the flashing pinpoint on her screen. Azabu apartments. It was close and thank god. Ami peaked in to the pristine apartment complex watching the guard as he watched re-runs of Dragon Ball Z on television. Looking down at her computer she could tell that Serena was on the sixth floor but not sure how to get by the guard with out transforming.

Typing in a few special codes in to her computer she pointed a beam to the television making the channels flip though one by one. The guard was startled by this and began to hit the screen with his hand grumbling under his breath. Ami took her chances and snuck by the preoccupied man, in to the elevator that was opening for a resident who was leaving.

Pressing floor six she felt sick to her stomach as the elevator lurched upward. She knew that something was wrong with her princess ever since she realized that Serena had been lying to them. With the last battle Serena must have been very low on energy. The doors opened and Amy looked down at her computer. 604. She ran to the door only to find it locked. Pulling a pin out of her hair and a credit card she smirked as the lock popped and the door opened.

The apartment was beautiful, but she had no time to admire the architecture. The sound of running water could be heard from the bathroom. Water was coming out from under the door tinted with a light red color. Amy made a mad dash to the bathroom, a sight that she wished never to see again. Golden hair floated in the pool of red and water poured over the sides of the tub, some making in down the drain on the floor. Amy rushed to pull the submerged blond from the pool of death, her arms grabbing around her princesses body and pulling her over the side. She felt for a pulse, a faint one resided and Amy turned Serena on her side giving her lungs a chance to breath and she pounded on the back.

Coughing insured and sputtering and it was with the noise of life that Amy realized that she too had not been breathing this entire time. She gasped for air and tears began to fall from her eyes. Serena's head lay in her lap and Amy smoothed the bangs out of her eyes as Serena took in shallow gasps of air. Amy looked her over and sniffled as she came to another realization, the blood wasn't hers. Thank god.

Slowly Serena's eyes opened. Her head hurt and she cursed herself for using so much energy. She felt cold and wet, and so slightly delusional that's she swore that Amy was holding her crying.

Amy looked down at her giving her a soft smile and wiped away her tears and Serena smiled up at her illusionary Amy and laughed to herself when Amy went to take her pulse.

Finding her words, Serena realized that her throat hurt. "Illusionary Amy? Can you get me some clothes? I think I am naked." She cleared her throat a couple times.

Amy just wiped away more tears and her face became red with a blush and she slowly put Serena's head down on the floor going to find a towel. She wasn't quite sure how long Serena had been here; if the emptiness of the place was any indication then she must have just moved in. Not finding any towels, Amy took a sheet off the bed and took it to wrap Serena in.

"Are you okay?" Amy asked her.

"Yes… no… where am I?" Serena asked quite dazed.

"You are in what I think is your new apartment. I followed your energy signal and found you almost drowned in the bath tub." Ami wiped her eyes more.

Serena eyes looked around. She didn't really remember anything other than wanted to get clean from the last flight. The thought of the blood everywhere made her shake.

"Well, that explains why your all wet and why most of the house is flooded." She let out a nervous laugh.

"That's an understatement. Serena, let's get you in the bed and I will go get some towels and clothes for us." Ami stood up.

"Yes, yes." Serena made her way up from the floor on wobbly legs. Ami helped her in to the bed. "I think I will like the sleep."

"Sleep princess…" Amy whispered as she left the room and made her way toward the front door.

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Darien snuck in to the house being sure not to wake the Serena. He had gone to the hospital in hopes of talking to Zach but he was long gone. Taking off his shoes she made his way toward Serena's room. He didn't make it very far when he slipped on a liquid substance that sent him tumbling to the floor.

"Baka." He said to himself as he went to pick himself up, his hand landing in another liquid spill. Examining his fingers he realized that it was blood. Getting up and turning on the light he noticed a small blood trail from Serena's room out the door.

"What the hell…" He said color draining from his face.

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Amy opened the door and ran in to someone very hard. "Oh! I am so sorry!" She said bowing.

"Amy?" He said confused.

"Darien?" She looked up at the man, he looked worried.

"Amy what are you doing here?" he asked perplexed as to why she was standing outside of Serena's apartment. She as if she had been crying but relieved to see him and grabbed him by the hand.

"Darien! I am so glad you are a doctor. Serena… well… she almost drowned in the tub… and…" She said a mess wanting to cry again.

"WHAT!" He pushed passed the blue haired girl in to the empty apartment. He found his blond angel wrapped in a sheet in the bed. Her hair was matted to the side of her face.

"What happened." He growled when he sensed Amy behind him.

"Well, ummm…. I am…" She mumbled.

"AMY! What is with all the water and blood? It looked like a murder took place in here!" he yelled not letting her explain.

"Well… Serena got her… umm… period. Yeah and she said it was really bad but she was tired from her trip back from America and she was going to take a bath. So I came over to see if she was okay and…" Tears prickled in her eyes again when she thought of how she had found Serena, her legs shook.

Darien felt bad that he had yelled at her knowing the sight Amy must have seen when she walked in. He was just glad that Serena was okay.

"I got here just in time… And she even spoke to me but I guess she is still tried from the battl…. Bath." She caught herself.

He raised one eye at her but turned his focus back to Serena who had begun to drool. He found a sense of relief coming over him.

"Maybe we should get her dressed." He said realizing that the sheet was wet.

"Yeah, I was on my way out to get towels and clothes. I can't find Serena's stuff here anywhere! Darien, do you think that your wife could let her borrow something." Amy asked.

"My… my wife?" He choked out.

"Umm.. Yeah.. I mean I haven't told anyone but my mother said that you got married and it's okay if she says no. I will just run home. I just assumed you lived in the apartment."

"No… she won't mind. Actually she is out of town and I do live here, up upstairs I just rent a place on this floor and came to collect rent. Amy I could stay here with Serena?" wow that was blunt he thought mentally smacking himself.

It was Amy's turn to give him an evil eye. The girls had long forbid Serena to have male interaction with out everyone's approval.

"I am a Doctor, Amy. I would just monitor her vitals." He said as convincingly as he could. "There is such thing as secondary drowning."

"Okay… but just don't tell anyone that I said it was okay." She finally agreed.

"Deal. Will you watch her and I will go get towels and some clothes from my apartment? I will bring you a dry set of clothes too." He stood.

She just nodded hoping she had made the right choice. The secrets were already starting to pile up.

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Serena snuggled in closer to the warm body next to her's. She felt warm and secure, until she felt it. The feeling that someone was watching her. Shifting out of the arms that held her she turned to find Darien's beautiful blue eyes starting at her intently. She tried not to blush under his gaze.

"Serena…" he said in a mocking tone.

"Baka." She answered back her voice raspy.

"You have a lot of explaining to do." He eyed her daring her not to comply.

"I have a lot of explaining to do! What are you doing in my bed?" She croaked.

"Don't change the subject. What happened last night?" He began to get angry.

"And why aren't you at work?" she deflected.

"Serena." He growled.

"Darien…" she said meekly back.

"Start explaining… and start with the blood." He said menacingly.

'blood…' oh the blood… she shook again at the thought of the youma.

"I got my um… you know…. My period." She lied. Good one

"Why did you and Amy both say it that way? I am a Doctor. That was a lot of blood, I am pretty sure that…" She cut him off.

"Hey! When was Amy here! What did you tell her? Did you tell her about us? She would kill me?" Serena started to sit up.

"STOP CHANGING THE SUBJECT!" He yelled.

"DARIEN! I do not want to talk about Mother Nature with you and just because you are a doctor doesn't mean you know how heavy my flow is!" She was so grateful for Mean Girls at the moment.

That shut his gaping hole. She had a point and now he was just grossed out by it leaking all over his floor. He slipped in that.

"Okay, miss I know everything. Tell me how you almost died in the bath tub? And that Amy saved your life!"

It was Serena's turn to shut her mouth. "I almost died…? She saved me..." She was dumbfounded.

"Yes." He said more softly wishing that he never mentioned it.

"In the bath tub?" I must have been just so tired from the battle, oh my poor Amy.

"Yes." He replied.

"Oh." She didn't have any other words.

She wrapped her arms around Darien's torso and pulled her body close to him. It was the best apology he could have ever gotten; he held her back in return. She just needed to be held. Things were getting so complicated... so fast.

"Um… Darien?" She whispered.

"Hum?" He answered in to the top of her head.

"Where are we?"

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After getting some much needed rest Serena and Darien made their way back to their apartment and Darien told her what happened last night with the lies that he had told Amy.

Darien was putting on his suit to head to work to make up for the time he missed out on this morning. Serena watched him get dressed from the doorway smiling at his good looks. He shot her a smile that made her go weak in the knees. Amy had already called and they agreed to tell the girls that she was back in town; however, they were going to keep last night's secrets to themselves. Serena told Amy that she came back early with out telling anyone because she was sad. How her parents waited to tell her about the house being rented. She needed time to digest the changes.

Darien finished getting dressed and came to meet Serena at his door. He looked down in to her eyes placing his hands on her petit shoulders.

"Okay little bunny. No getting in to trouble today. I don't want to find you passed out of the floor, large bruises on your beautiful face, blood everywhere or you half drowned in the bath tub. Do you understand?" He chided her.

"Yes sir." She said with a smile, oh he had no clue about her daily life. He should get used to it.

"Okay good! Here is my credit card.. Please go out and get stuff for your apartment so that I don't have to go steal 'my wife's' clothes and towels."

"I defiantly can do that!" She smiled a little wider.

He kissed her on the forehead. "Good. I will see you later."

"Bye!" She said glad that they could be friends.

Getting dressed quickly she made her way down to her apartment where Amy and the girls were going to be meeting up with them.

As soon as she made it in the door she was opening it again due to her friends beating it down.

"Coming!" She said going as slow as possible.

Taking a deep breath she opened the door. "SERENA!" They yelled almost knocking her down.

"GUYS!" She said hugging them all.

"Serena! I love your place! It's amazing!" Mina said walking threw the apartment. .

"Cut the crap Mina. Serena what the hell has been going on." Rei said getting to the point.

"Yeah! And why didn't you tell us you were coming home early?" Lita double-teamed with Rei.

"Well, I got on the red eye when my parents had to leave early to go to Colorado. And, I wanted to surprise you all but when I got in I felt the youma so I transported myself from the airport leaving all my luggage there. I tried to transport back to get it before it was stolen but I guess my mind was on sleep and I was worried I would still have blood all over me. So, can we go out and have fun then discuss scout business?" She asked adding in "I really did miss you all!"

She shared a look with Amy.

"We missed you too! Now, how did you afford all of this?" Mina asked shutting up the girls. They would have enough to discuss this with Luna and Artimus.

Plus, she had to butter Serena up for later activities at the arcade. Andrew will so happy at the extra business. It was slow while Serena was away.

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Serena went on and on about the Vegas leaving out all of the important details of being drunk, getting married and only really staying one day. The girls helped her pick out bedding and bathroom stuff. Lita was an expert when it came to picking out items for the kitchen. All the while Serena only made sure to get the bare essentials. Darien had enough stuff for the two of them. She pulled out her credit card and switched it every time with the one Darien gave her so they didn't notice who was paying for the items.

"Okay Serena, arcade time. Now let's have a look at you!" Mina said as they were walking down the street.

"Mina, no. Not today." Serena begged.

"I am the goddess of love and it's one of the quickest ways to narrow him down." Mina said. "Plus, he has to be in Tokyo."

"I quite agree, at the rate we interview we can narrow down who Endymion might be." Amy added.

"Hummmm," Serena blew her bangs out of her face.

"I'll buy you a milkshake." Rei said not wanting to miss the chance at scaring some of these guys to death.

"Deal!" Serena jumped up and down!

"Now, princess, let's fix your makeup." Mina said smiling as she came to attack Serena with mascara.

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It was a long day for Darien. He pulled up to the arcade and loosened his tie. He was going to pick up dinner for him and Serena and say hi to Andrew.

What he walked in to was a mad house. Boys and girls everywhere, but mostly boys. He walked though the mass of people seeing Serena's friends talking to many of the boys all at different tables. He shook his head in a laugh.

"Darien!" Andrew yelled from behind the bar waving with a big smile on her face.

"Andrew" He signaled back, making his way to the counter.

"Dare! I've missed you man!" Andrew smiled from the otherside of the counter.

"Me too. Drew, I don't remember you ever being this busy!" He looked around again in awe.

"Haha, yeah. Those girls are something else. So what can I get you?"

"Two burgers to go with fries." Darien ordered.

"You have been away for six months at conventions with food not starving in the desert!" Andrew laughed at his best friend.

"I'm a growing boy." Looking around the arcade tables it' looked like Rei, Ami and Mina were having dates."

Andrew poured darien a cup of coffee. "So, what are all these boys here? Darien asked really curious as to why Drew was excited to have boys everywhere.

"The best marketing for me ever! I mean business has been booming! This has been going on for two months now and its amazing." Andrew said excited.

"Yeah yeah, what's this marketing strategy?" Darien took a sip of his coffee.

"They are all here trying to get a date with Serena!" Andrew smiled.

Darien sputtered his coffee all over the table. Doing a quick look left and right he noticed her. His Serena sitting happily three stools down slurping down her milkshake. Lita stood protectively in front of her as all the boys and some men in the room oogled his wife. Things are getting stranger and stranger with Serena. He was getting madder and madder. Endymion was pissed.

It didn't take him two seconds to pull the boy Mina was talking to out of his chair and take a seat.

"Darien Chiba!" Mina exclaimed somewhat scared with the way he was looking at her.

"Mina, you seem like a bright girl." He said somewhat condescendingly.

"Umm, thank you." Something about his presence had her cowering.

"Then what is this dumb stunt that is going on?" He growled.

"We are just trying to make sure that anyone Serena dates get's a proper screening." She got her backbone back and explained with sass.

Seeing that Darien was sitting with Mina made Ami and Rei jump up to see what was going on.

Rei couldn't believe that Darien was sitting down trying to get a date with Serena. They hated each other and Ami was scared that he was going to spill the beans about Serena last night.

"What is going on over here?" Rei asked mildly flirting.

"It seems that Darien is not to happy with our dating strategy for Serena." Mina smirked as she said it.

"Well I'm not!" He yelled.

"Darien, are you jealous?" Rei asked with a look of disbelief on her face.

"No, he's not he's married." Amy said defending him.

"MARRIED!" Mina and Rei said out loud. Mina was more so upset because she was hoping that Darien could have been him… Endymion… but since he was married he was way out.

Darien shot Amy a look of hurt and anger and she didn't understand why.

"Well… Darien married men can't sit though the questionnaire for a date with Serena. It's unethical." Amy rationalized.

Serena who had finally taken notice as to what was going on went pale. 'Great, how do I explain this one!'

Lita just laughed. She loved playing body guard to her princess as men shot her hopeful glances before they went to sit though the rigorous interview with Ami, Rei and Mina. Lita laughed even harder as Darien went to go tell the girls to stop, just as Andrew had at first till he realized how much money he could reap from the whole situation.

Plus, Serena didn't really mind. She usually ignored everyone and enjoyed her milkshake and manga never giving one of the boys a second glance. Many of the boys at first had tried to get fresh with her, which is why they instilled the no talking to men of the opposite sex rule with the exception of her father, brother, Andrew and Melvin.

Lita guessed Darien would be on that list since he couldn't stand Serena. It was when Serena stood up to stop the confrontation that Lita's eyebrow arched in confusion.

Lita escorted Serena over to the scene and she sweetly smiled. "Ladies, what is going on?" Darien was more than mad with her. He didn't know if he could keep up this charade anymore.

"Well, we think Darien was trying to partake in the interview portion of the dating process." Mina said.

"The interview portion?" Darien was confused. Was he going to have to go threw and interview to be with his wife?

"Yes, that's only the first step. Then there is the pre-date, which is taken with one of the girls, not Serena. If he passes that then he gets to go out with all of us and Serena and finally if that goes well then he is allow to go on his own date with Serena, but no one has gotten that far." Amy said with a sigh.

That was when Darien got the mischievous look in his eye. Serena looked up at him in fear but was surprised to see an evil form of happiness on her husbands face. Just what was he planning?

"Ladies, I am so sorry to have interrupted this idea of yours. I heard this plan from Andrew and I was upset that you went though such careless steps to make sure that Serena had a good first date." He lied and faked disgust.

He winked at Serena and Amy looked upset. "I put so many careful calculations in to this." She said pulling out a piece of paper and pencil trying to rework the math.

Rei was mad too. She thought that this was full proof, where was the flaw? Mina just smirked.

"Yes, you see little meatball head here needs someone to pull all the stops to scare the crap out of the guy if he intends to get past Ken… I mean Mr. Tsukino. And since he has moved I think my wife won't mind me stepping in since she is out of town on a business trip." He explained.

"Darien, you are so right! We never thought about that. Another male presence would have to make a man prove his worth to be with her!" Lita beamed at the idea.

"Why didn't I think of that?" Rei pouted. Serena just stood with her jaw open.

"Catching flies?" Darien smirked at her. She just closed her mouth. "Plus, I think I should also be at every date." Serena became red with anger. Darien thought she looked cute angry.

"No, no no!" Serena shook her head violently.

"You have no choice, Princess." Mina whispered in her ear. "Think of the future."

"Darien! Your burgers and fries are ready to go!" Andrew yelled from the counter.

Serena would just have to be mad at him after she ate.