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Serena had defeated the queen, who had put up quite the fight, and before she left, she searched for and found little Arem and brought her home to the DBZ dimension. Because of her last battle with Queen Sarenia and having used the powers of Saturn, she was extremely weak. Not only that but she had ascended to Super Saiyan, which also was taking its toll on her.
When they had teleported back to the Black Forest, Serena's body had immediately shut down. Wounds had opened again, causing fresh blood to drip down her bodice and over her limbs. Arem had fallen to the ground and Serena stayed suspended in the air, hovering a few feet above her. Her now white wings were wrapped around her body, creating a shield and even though her head was visible, it was being protected as well. Serena was in immense pain from the wounds she had sustained, but gratefully welcomed the peace that only sleep could provide. Serena closed her eyes and finally slept for the first time in what seemed like a long time.
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CHAPTER 20: DEATH OF A QUEEN
The four fighters were flying over the Black Forest about 1 mile apart from each other. The two boys flew between their fathers since they were the only ones that could sense Serena. Her ki was so low that for the first 10 miles they flew, they couldn't pick her up anywhere. Goku was starting to get a little nervous but Goten assured his father that she was fine, she was just resting.
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Serena's Dream:
Serena opened her eyes and saw white everywhere she looked. 'Oh, please let me not be dead!'
She heard someone chuckle to the right of her. "My daughter, don't worry, you are just dreaming."
Serena jumped into open arms. "Mother, I've missed you so much." The queen smiled down and squeezed her daughter as hard as she could. Her daughter had grown so much and she had missed her dearly.
After a few moments, the queen pulled away from her daughter. "Come child, there are some things that I must show you."
While the queen made 2 chairs out of the white that was surrounding them, Serena inspected herself. There were no cuts, no bruises and no blood to be seen anywhere on her body. She was simply amazed and wondered how it was possible and for that she turned back to her mother. Queen Serenity waved her hand and some sort of screen popped up. "I am not sure if you remember what happened during the battle you just fought."
Serena tried and realized that her mother was right. She couldn't remember any details about what happened. All she knew is that she won. "Let me first explain something about your make-up. You are full-blooded Lunarian and full-blooded Saiyan."
That confused Serena extremely. "How can I be both?"
Queen Serenity struggled to find a way to answer her. "I am not exactly sure, but I can tell you that you are. You have the genes of the two most powerful entities in the entire existence of time. When you are not battling however, the two kind of split in half, to keep you balanced or at least, that's how I have come to understand it."
Serena only nodded her head.
"The reason you cannot remember much is because you were using a lot of power. Let me show you." The queen waved her hand in front of the screen again and Serena sat and watched.
* FLASHBACK *
Serena sniffed out the evil queen's magic and found her in what looked like an armory room of some sort.
"I see you have found me." The queen stood poised. Serena's black wings were wrapped around her shoulders like a cape.
"I see you ran away." She smirked at the queen's loss of composure.
"You will pay for getting in my way!" The queen shot some lights at Serena, but they didn't affect her in any way.
"So where are you from anyway? I've never heard of you before." Serena knew that if she could get the other woman mad, it would be easier to catch her off guard.
The queen glared at the ill-mannered female in front of her. "I am, or WAS I should say, the Queen of a beautiful planet named Saren, which was named after my great, great grandfather and all the kings of his line. We were a great civilization, a strong one. We conquered planets and formed alliances, but your grandmother, Queen Serenity the First, refused our offer to join her Silver Alliance with my Sarenian Alliance. We could have been the most powerful force in the entire universe but your precious grandmother was still against us, so we did what we always do in that situation. We were about to take over the Silver Alliance, but Queen Serenity used that stupid Silver Crystal of hers and destroyed our armies and my grandfather. I swore that when I could, I would get your family back for what they did to mine, and now I have you." Her evil laughter filled the room and died down again before she spoke.
Little did Serena know that Sarenia had been preparing an attack behind her back.
"DEATH STAR STRIKE!"
A large, black round ball appeared at her fingertips. As she held her position, the ball got larger and larger until it was bigger than her own body. She threw it at the black angel standing across the room and laughed as Serena was thrown to the ground and stayed there after a few seconds, not moving. Sarenia slowly crept up to her foe's body and looked at the pained expression on her face.
"That was easier than I thought." She gasped as a smirk made its way to Serena's mouth.
"Much too easy." Serena said turning her head. She held her hand out and shot a small blast at the other woman's chest. Queen Sarenia staggered backwards until she found a wall to lean against while attempting to heal herself. The black blood stopped dripping from the open wound and the flesh slowly started to close back up.
After the queen made sure that she had recovered, she glared at the Dark Tenshi standing across from her. "How did you manage to survive? That was my strongest attack!"
Serena laughed in her face. "I AM Death, why would it have any effect on me?" Her cockiness brought pictures of her brother to her mind. She was more like Vegeta than she had originally thought.
"But I have on more trick up my sleeve. Care to see it?" With Serena's cockiness still intact, she agreed.
The queen closed her eyes and started to chant words in a language strange to Serena's ear. Even though she had agreed, she was still being cautious and made sure that her magic barrier was still up.
The queen opened her eyes and smiled wickedly. "I hope you like pain." She held her hands, palms facing down and fingers stretched out to Serena. A black shimmering substance filtered out of her fingers and flew to Serena's body. At first she smirked because she felt nothing, but then the overwhelming pain hit full force. Serena crumpled to the ground as she felt her insides struggling to escape her skin.
"Do you like that?" the queen asked cynically. The only response was Serena screaming in agony. Her insides literally felt like they were trying to rip their way out of her skin.
"I know you have the Silver Crystal somewhere and this magic is trying to get it, but I don't understand why you're suffering so much..." Her eyebrows were close together until realization hit.
"You've managed to get that rock inside of you! OH! This is too good!" Her evil smile reappeared on her face as she watched the twisting and moaning of the girl on the floor.
Serena felt like passing out. Since the Imperial Silver Crystal had melded with her every cell, even her brain felt like it was trying to crack its way through her skull. 'What am I supposed to do?'
"Not laughing anymore are we, Princess Serenity?"
Serena was being affected by it because of the physical state she was in. She was currently two magical beings, the Princess, keeper of the crystal, and Sailor Saturn. How to get un-magical?
She forced herself to concentrate on her Saiyan powers. Her wings disappeared and her tail stayed tightly wrapped around her waist. As she felt her anger and hatred burning, her hair flashed from silver to blonde and her eyes changed from silver to green. The pain finally stopped once her transformation did and she was purely Saiyan now. The only trace of her other heritage were the silver streaks that lay in her blonde Super-Saiyan hair.
The queen was shocked for the second time that night. "How is this possible? How in the world are you still ALIVE?"
Serena could feel her strength return to her as she lifted herself from the floor. "It doesn't matter. I seriously doubt you would be able to understand it anyway." Serena started to physically attack Sarenia. Her feet and fists were flying at incredible speeds and the only way that the other woman could withstand her blows was to place magic shields around herself.
After several minutes, Sarenia's strength and resistance began to weaken from the oncoming attacks. Once or twice, she was able to get in a few magical attacks of her own, which hit her target straight on, leaving more gashes and blood as a result.
One of her attacks, she sent out with a smirk. It consisted of several small black stars that flew at Serena with great speed. She tried to blast them but missed a few and they ended up slicing into her delicate skin. The queen smirked, she knew the effects would hit her soon enough. Serena didn't even flinch but proceeded to launch her assault. When she was tired of playing around, she began preparing her final attack.
"KAAAAAA...MEEEEEEE...HAAAAAAAAA...MEEEEEEE...HAAAAAAAA! ! !" The bright ball of light escaped her joined hands and flew towards her target, killing her instantly, but not before she heard the queen's evil laughter one last time.
Serena watched herself walk through the corridors of the hidden castle with the glow of her transformation lighting the way. Even with the anger burning within her, she still could feel compassion for the one person that helped her while she was trapped in this hell hole.
She had come to a couple of rooms that soldiers were occupying and at first sight of her, they tried to attack. She killed them instantly, not feeling any remorse because of her Saiyan mind-set. One of the last dungeons she looked into, she finally found the person she was looking for.
"Arem."
The body didn't respond to her call. Arem was lying on the cold, damp floor of a dungeon, curled up in a ball. She had been beaten, Serena could tell. She kneeled down and picked up the balled figure into her arms and made to leave. In her trail, she had left several moon balls and threw some down the remaining hallway, just to make sure she wouldn't miss anyone. This used up even more of her energy, but she reserved just barely enough to get her back home.
Serena blasted a hole through the mountain and flew into the cold, crisp air. When she flew to what she thought was a safe distance, Serena concentrated on the little glowing presents she left in the passageways. An earth-shattering explosion could be heard for miles around as smoke filled the sky once clear afternoon sky. Over 10 miles of mountain fell from its regal position. Satisfied, she decided it was time to go home.
Serena teleported somewhere in her dimension, but couldn't think straight enough with her lack of energy. She ended up landing in a familiar place in the forest. The female warrior was exhausted when she re-materialized, so she gently laid Arem down on the ground. At this time of the year, for this dimension, she didn't think that covering would be necessary, so she left her in her clothes.
Her Saiyan transformation faded away as the last bit of her energy ran out. Serena's wings appeared at her back, taking the place of her tail. Because of the battle and energy deficiency, her wounds had opened up again, but something else was wrong but she couldn't pin point it. She felt sleep coming on and shivered as a chill ran up her spine. Her wings slowly wrapped around her body to shield her from whatever may come and she looked one last time at her new friend before yielding to the sleep that was most welcomed and most needed.
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Serena watched the screen slowly fade away and turned to her mother, waiting for her to say something. When she said nothing, she decided to ask her mother something instead.
"What happened to my scouts?"
Queen Serenity smiled and said, "They're right here." Serena looked behind her and saw her friends smiling and in perfect physical condition. She leapt from her chair and into her friends' arms. They laughed and cried...they were finally together again.
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Goten sensed something in the distance. Hey Trunks, you feel that?
Yeah, but it feels really weak
Let's check it out!
Last one there is Yajirobe's underwear!
The two demi-Saiyans darted off, leaving their dads behind, neither wanting to be the thing that covered that fat man's cowardly butt. After flying at full speed, Goten motioned for them to go down and they dove into the thicket of the trees and halted when they saw something similar to a huge, white egg.
It's Tenshi!
I know you baka! I can feel her! But who's that other person?
A third voice entered their conversation. Its my friend Arem. Take care of her. I need to sleep now
They both looked at Serena, who's face didn't move an inch. "Okay." By that time, Vegeta and Goku had made it to the boys' location and saw the white egg with a head.
"Is that Serena?" Goku asked.
"Yeah," Trunks answered, "but she's sleeping. She told us to take care of Arem for her."
"What the hell's an RM?"
Trunks shook his head.
"Not R-M, Vegeta. A-R-E-M is this lady here. Tenshi told us to take care of her." Vegeta went on to mumble something about weak onnas and added something else about how he wasn't going to touch it because no one knew where it had been.
"Let's get them back to the infirmary at CC right away. I don't have a good feeling about Serena." Vegeta could sense it as well and willingly obeyed. Goku instructed his son and Trunks to bring Arem over to him and connect themselves with him so he could instant transmission everyone back. Vegeta put his hand on Goku's shoulder and Goku put one of his hands on Serena's wings and the other in his son's hand.
In the blink of an eye, they were standing in the Capsule Corp Infirmary, where each of them had spent a considerable amount of time at one time or another. Bulma rushed to the aid of the fighters, immediately hooking Serena and Arem up to an IV.
After a few hours of watching over Serena, Goku began to drift off. His eyes were closed, but opened immediately when he heard something moving. He looked and Serena was shaking. He tried waking her up but it was to no avail. Her body started convulsing and he yelled for Bulma who was in another part of the house.
"Sam, tell Bulma to get in here right now! Something's wrong with Serena!" Sam relayed the message and Bulma was in a flash.
"What's going on? What happened?"
"I don't know. One minute she was fine and the next thing I knew, she was shaking uncontrollably!"
Bulma ran to a table and picked up something. She ran back to Serena's side and scanned her with some sort of ki reading device.
"She's been poisoned!" To keep her from hurting herself, Bulma injected her with a sedative. "She needs to wake up so we can figure out what happened." Bulma smiled weakly, seeing how much Goku obviously cared for the girl. He had been by her side since they came back, much to Bulma's protests. He refused to leave.
'Please come back, Serena. You're needed more than you know.'
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"Serena, you need to go back."
She turned her head to her mother. "Why?"
Serenity sadly smiled. "Because, you might die. You were infected with something when Sarenia attacked you and they can't find a way to heal your body."
"But I don't want to leave you!" Serena hugged her friends.
"What, do you think we're going to just disappear?" Lita asked.
Serena didn't answer. That was exactly what she was afraid of.
"Yeah right, meatball head! Like you could get rid of us that easily!" Raye made her smile and everyone was grateful for it.
"We promise that we'll be right here for you when you need us." Ami smiled and embraced her friend.
"Don't worry about us!" Venus waved her hand. "Get going woman! Your boyfriend's waiting..."and before another word could be said, Serena whited out.
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Serena had defeated the queen, who had put up quite the fight, and before she left, she searched for and found little Arem and brought her home to the DBZ dimension. Because of her last battle with Queen Sarenia and having used the powers of Saturn, she was extremely weak. Not only that but she had ascended to Super Saiyan, which also was taking its toll on her.
When they had teleported back to the Black Forest, Serena's body had immediately shut down. Wounds had opened again, causing fresh blood to drip down her bodice and over her limbs. Arem had fallen to the ground and Serena stayed suspended in the air, hovering a few feet above her. Her now white wings were wrapped around her body, creating a shield and even though her head was visible, it was being protected as well. Serena was in immense pain from the wounds she had sustained, but gratefully welcomed the peace that only sleep could provide. Serena closed her eyes and finally slept for the first time in what seemed like a long time.
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CHAPTER 20: DEATH OF A QUEEN
The four fighters were flying over the Black Forest about 1 mile apart from each other. The two boys flew between their fathers since they were the only ones that could sense Serena. Her ki was so low that for the first 10 miles they flew, they couldn't pick her up anywhere. Goku was starting to get a little nervous but Goten assured his father that she was fine, she was just resting.
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Serena's Dream:
Serena opened her eyes and saw white everywhere she looked. 'Oh, please let me not be dead!'
She heard someone chuckle to the right of her. "My daughter, don't worry, you are just dreaming."
Serena jumped into open arms. "Mother, I've missed you so much." The queen smiled down and squeezed her daughter as hard as she could. Her daughter had grown so much and she had missed her dearly.
After a few moments, the queen pulled away from her daughter. "Come child, there are some things that I must show you."
While the queen made 2 chairs out of the white that was surrounding them, Serena inspected herself. There were no cuts, no bruises and no blood to be seen anywhere on her body. She was simply amazed and wondered how it was possible and for that she turned back to her mother. Queen Serenity waved her hand and some sort of screen popped up. "I am not sure if you remember what happened during the battle you just fought."
Serena tried and realized that her mother was right. She couldn't remember any details about what happened. All she knew is that she won. "Let me first explain something about your make-up. You are full-blooded Lunarian and full-blooded Saiyan."
That confused Serena extremely. "How can I be both?"
Queen Serenity struggled to find a way to answer her. "I am not exactly sure, but I can tell you that you are. You have the genes of the two most powerful entities in the entire existence of time. When you are not battling however, the two kind of split in half, to keep you balanced or at least, that's how I have come to understand it."
Serena only nodded her head.
"The reason you cannot remember much is because you were using a lot of power. Let me show you." The queen waved her hand in front of the screen again and Serena sat and watched.
* FLASHBACK *
Serena sniffed out the evil queen's magic and found her in what looked like an armory room of some sort.
"I see you have found me." The queen stood poised. Serena's black wings were wrapped around her shoulders like a cape.
"I see you ran away." She smirked at the queen's loss of composure.
"You will pay for getting in my way!" The queen shot some lights at Serena, but they didn't affect her in any way.
"So where are you from anyway? I've never heard of you before." Serena knew that if she could get the other woman mad, it would be easier to catch her off guard.
The queen glared at the ill-mannered female in front of her. "I am, or WAS I should say, the Queen of a beautiful planet named Saren, which was named after my great, great grandfather and all the kings of his line. We were a great civilization, a strong one. We conquered planets and formed alliances, but your grandmother, Queen Serenity the First, refused our offer to join her Silver Alliance with my Sarenian Alliance. We could have been the most powerful force in the entire universe but your precious grandmother was still against us, so we did what we always do in that situation. We were about to take over the Silver Alliance, but Queen Serenity used that stupid Silver Crystal of hers and destroyed our armies and my grandfather. I swore that when I could, I would get your family back for what they did to mine, and now I have you." Her evil laughter filled the room and died down again before she spoke.
Little did Serena know that Sarenia had been preparing an attack behind her back.
"DEATH STAR STRIKE!"
A large, black round ball appeared at her fingertips. As she held her position, the ball got larger and larger until it was bigger than her own body. She threw it at the black angel standing across the room and laughed as Serena was thrown to the ground and stayed there after a few seconds, not moving. Sarenia slowly crept up to her foe's body and looked at the pained expression on her face.
"That was easier than I thought." She gasped as a smirk made its way to Serena's mouth.
"Much too easy." Serena said turning her head. She held her hand out and shot a small blast at the other woman's chest. Queen Sarenia staggered backwards until she found a wall to lean against while attempting to heal herself. The black blood stopped dripping from the open wound and the flesh slowly started to close back up.
After the queen made sure that she had recovered, she glared at the Dark Tenshi standing across from her. "How did you manage to survive? That was my strongest attack!"
Serena laughed in her face. "I AM Death, why would it have any effect on me?" Her cockiness brought pictures of her brother to her mind. She was more like Vegeta than she had originally thought.
"But I have on more trick up my sleeve. Care to see it?" With Serena's cockiness still intact, she agreed.
The queen closed her eyes and started to chant words in a language strange to Serena's ear. Even though she had agreed, she was still being cautious and made sure that her magic barrier was still up.
The queen opened her eyes and smiled wickedly. "I hope you like pain." She held her hands, palms facing down and fingers stretched out to Serena. A black shimmering substance filtered out of her fingers and flew to Serena's body. At first she smirked because she felt nothing, but then the overwhelming pain hit full force. Serena crumpled to the ground as she felt her insides struggling to escape her skin.
"Do you like that?" the queen asked cynically. The only response was Serena screaming in agony. Her insides literally felt like they were trying to rip their way out of her skin.
"I know you have the Silver Crystal somewhere and this magic is trying to get it, but I don't understand why you're suffering so much..." Her eyebrows were close together until realization hit.
"You've managed to get that rock inside of you! OH! This is too good!" Her evil smile reappeared on her face as she watched the twisting and moaning of the girl on the floor.
Serena felt like passing out. Since the Imperial Silver Crystal had melded with her every cell, even her brain felt like it was trying to crack its way through her skull. 'What am I supposed to do?'
"Not laughing anymore are we, Princess Serenity?"
Serena was being affected by it because of the physical state she was in. She was currently two magical beings, the Princess, keeper of the crystal, and Sailor Saturn. How to get un-magical?
She forced herself to concentrate on her Saiyan powers. Her wings disappeared and her tail stayed tightly wrapped around her waist. As she felt her anger and hatred burning, her hair flashed from silver to blonde and her eyes changed from silver to green. The pain finally stopped once her transformation did and she was purely Saiyan now. The only trace of her other heritage were the silver streaks that lay in her blonde Super-Saiyan hair.
The queen was shocked for the second time that night. "How is this possible? How in the world are you still ALIVE?"
Serena could feel her strength return to her as she lifted herself from the floor. "It doesn't matter. I seriously doubt you would be able to understand it anyway." Serena started to physically attack Sarenia. Her feet and fists were flying at incredible speeds and the only way that the other woman could withstand her blows was to place magic shields around herself.
After several minutes, Sarenia's strength and resistance began to weaken from the oncoming attacks. Once or twice, she was able to get in a few magical attacks of her own, which hit her target straight on, leaving more gashes and blood as a result.
One of her attacks, she sent out with a smirk. It consisted of several small black stars that flew at Serena with great speed. She tried to blast them but missed a few and they ended up slicing into her delicate skin. The queen smirked, she knew the effects would hit her soon enough. Serena didn't even flinch but proceeded to launch her assault. When she was tired of playing around, she began preparing her final attack.
"KAAAAAA...MEEEEEEE...HAAAAAAAAA...MEEEEEEE...HAAAAAAAA! ! !" The bright ball of light escaped her joined hands and flew towards her target, killing her instantly, but not before she heard the queen's evil laughter one last time.
Serena watched herself walk through the corridors of the hidden castle with the glow of her transformation lighting the way. Even with the anger burning within her, she still could feel compassion for the one person that helped her while she was trapped in this hell hole.
She had come to a couple of rooms that soldiers were occupying and at first sight of her, they tried to attack. She killed them instantly, not feeling any remorse because of her Saiyan mind-set. One of the last dungeons she looked into, she finally found the person she was looking for.
"Arem."
The body didn't respond to her call. Arem was lying on the cold, damp floor of a dungeon, curled up in a ball. She had been beaten, Serena could tell. She kneeled down and picked up the balled figure into her arms and made to leave. In her trail, she had left several moon balls and threw some down the remaining hallway, just to make sure she wouldn't miss anyone. This used up even more of her energy, but she reserved just barely enough to get her back home.
Serena blasted a hole through the mountain and flew into the cold, crisp air. When she flew to what she thought was a safe distance, Serena concentrated on the little glowing presents she left in the passageways. An earth-shattering explosion could be heard for miles around as smoke filled the sky once clear afternoon sky. Over 10 miles of mountain fell from its regal position. Satisfied, she decided it was time to go home.
Serena teleported somewhere in her dimension, but couldn't think straight enough with her lack of energy. She ended up landing in a familiar place in the forest. The female warrior was exhausted when she re-materialized, so she gently laid Arem down on the ground. At this time of the year, for this dimension, she didn't think that covering would be necessary, so she left her in her clothes.
Her Saiyan transformation faded away as the last bit of her energy ran out. Serena's wings appeared at her back, taking the place of her tail. Because of the battle and energy deficiency, her wounds had opened up again, but something else was wrong but she couldn't pin point it. She felt sleep coming on and shivered as a chill ran up her spine. Her wings slowly wrapped around her body to shield her from whatever may come and she looked one last time at her new friend before yielding to the sleep that was most welcomed and most needed.
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Serena watched the screen slowly fade away and turned to her mother, waiting for her to say something. When she said nothing, she decided to ask her mother something instead.
"What happened to my scouts?"
Queen Serenity smiled and said, "They're right here." Serena looked behind her and saw her friends smiling and in perfect physical condition. She leapt from her chair and into her friends' arms. They laughed and cried...they were finally together again.
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Goten sensed something in the distance. Hey Trunks, you feel that?
Yeah, but it feels really weak
Let's check it out!
Last one there is Yajirobe's underwear!
The two demi-Saiyans darted off, leaving their dads behind, neither wanting to be the thing that covered that fat man's cowardly butt. After flying at full speed, Goten motioned for them to go down and they dove into the thicket of the trees and halted when they saw something similar to a huge, white egg.
It's Tenshi!
I know you baka! I can feel her! But who's that other person?
A third voice entered their conversation. Its my friend Arem. Take care of her. I need to sleep now
They both looked at Serena, who's face didn't move an inch. "Okay." By that time, Vegeta and Goku had made it to the boys' location and saw the white egg with a head.
"Is that Serena?" Goku asked.
"Yeah," Trunks answered, "but she's sleeping. She told us to take care of Arem for her."
"What the hell's an RM?"
Trunks shook his head.
"Not R-M, Vegeta. A-R-E-M is this lady here. Tenshi told us to take care of her." Vegeta went on to mumble something about weak onnas and added something else about how he wasn't going to touch it because no one knew where it had been.
"Let's get them back to the infirmary at CC right away. I don't have a good feeling about Serena." Vegeta could sense it as well and willingly obeyed. Goku instructed his son and Trunks to bring Arem over to him and connect themselves with him so he could instant transmission everyone back. Vegeta put his hand on Goku's shoulder and Goku put one of his hands on Serena's wings and the other in his son's hand.
In the blink of an eye, they were standing in the Capsule Corp Infirmary, where each of them had spent a considerable amount of time at one time or another. Bulma rushed to the aid of the fighters, immediately hooking Serena and Arem up to an IV.
After a few hours of watching over Serena, Goku began to drift off. His eyes were closed, but opened immediately when he heard something moving. He looked and Serena was shaking. He tried waking her up but it was to no avail. Her body started convulsing and he yelled for Bulma who was in another part of the house.
"Sam, tell Bulma to get in here right now! Something's wrong with Serena!" Sam relayed the message and Bulma was in a flash.
"What's going on? What happened?"
"I don't know. One minute she was fine and the next thing I knew, she was shaking uncontrollably!"
Bulma ran to a table and picked up something. She ran back to Serena's side and scanned her with some sort of ki reading device.
"She's been poisoned!" To keep her from hurting herself, Bulma injected her with a sedative. "She needs to wake up so we can figure out what happened." Bulma smiled weakly, seeing how much Goku obviously cared for the girl. He had been by her side since they came back, much to Bulma's protests. He refused to leave.
'Please come back, Serena. You're needed more than you know.'
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"Serena, you need to go back."
She turned her head to her mother. "Why?"
Serenity sadly smiled. "Because, you might die. You were infected with something when Sarenia attacked you and they can't find a way to heal your body."
"But I don't want to leave you!" Serena hugged her friends.
"What, do you think we're going to just disappear?" Lita asked.
Serena didn't answer. That was exactly what she was afraid of.
"Yeah right, meatball head! Like you could get rid of us that easily!" Raye made her smile and everyone was grateful for it.
"We promise that we'll be right here for you when you need us." Ami smiled and embraced her friend.
"Don't worry about us!" Venus waved her hand. "Get going woman! Your boyfriend's waiting..."and before another word could be said, Serena whited out.
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