Chapter Twenty One

Coma

Date: January 17th, 2008

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The group ran towards the park as groups fled past them running for safety. As they approached, they saw Serena in the clutches of a droid. She had various open cuts on her arms, legs and face. The droid had a hold of her around her neck, continually squeezing as she cried out in pain.

"Mercury Bubbles Blast!"

A dense fog settled around the area as Tuxedo Mask ran towards the droid. He threw roses at the droids face, being careful to avoid Serena.

The droid hissed in pain as it tried to lay an attack on Tuxedo Mask. Instead, Tuxedo Mask just went behind the droid and whipped his leg under the droids and it fell releasing Serena. Tuxedo Mask went to the front of the droid to take Serena to safety, but she was gone.

"What the?" He asked confused.

As the fog started to lift, the other sailors saw that it didn't have Serena anymore and started attacking.

"Pluto Deadly Scream!"

"Mars Fire Ignite!"
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!"

The attacks hit the droid in the back as it was getting up and it howled in pain.

"Fire Soul Burn!"

"Wind Storm Blast!"
"Lightening Storm Strike!"
"Ice Storm Blast!"
The generals' attacks hit the droid and it burst into dust.

The group looked around for Serena, but couldn't find her.

"You think I'd let you get her that easily!" Diamond snickered from above. He had a bloody Serena by the wrist, preventing her from going anywhere.

"Diamond! Give Serena back!" Tuxedo Mask growled.

"Why would I do that? I just need to get rid of something that is preventing us from achieving what we want." Diamond said. "You hear that my queen. If you refuse to cooperate, all you have to do then is hand over the crystal and Rini. As soon as you do that, you'll be free to go."

"I-I don't know who Rini is." Serena choked out. Her throat still hurt and the cuts were bleeding badly.

"Then I'll just get rid of her myself." Diamond hissed as he grabbed his sward from his side.

"No! STOP!" She screamed as she covered her stomach with her hands. Diamond advanced the sward towards her covered stomach.

"We have to do something!" Tuxedo Mask said.

"We can't. They're too far. Out attacks won't reach." Mercury stated.

Tuxedo Mask ran to a nearby tree and hopped in it. He launched himself at the two as Serena's piercing scream entered his ears. He tackled hit the sward out of Diamond's hands and grabbed Serena. He then landed in a nearby tree. Serena had a big cut across her stomach that was bleeding profusely. She was currently unconscious probably from lack of blood. He hopped down to the ground and gently gave her to Zoisite.

"You guys get her to the hospital. If they ask, just say she got caught in an attack." Tuxedo Mask ordered. "Obviously detransform on the way. I'll be there as soon as I can…" He said turning to where Diamond had fallen on the impact.

"But what are you going to do?" Mercury asked.

"Do you really have to ask? I'm going to beat that guy's ass for even looking at Serena." He said heading towards the fallen Prince. "Take her now." He said before running to Diamond.

The group ran for about five minutes before detransforming and running the rest of the way to the hospital.

"What made you think it was okay to even look at my fiancée?" Tuxedo Mask asked as he connected his fist with Diamond's jaw.

"It was worth it. She was so cute laying there while I fucked her." Diamond smirked as a knee connected with his abdomen. This is what he really wanted…to see his enemy upset. Diamond quickly disappeared from Tuxedo Mask's grasp.

You're in for it Diamond… He thought as he ran towards the hospital.

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"Excuse me. What room is Serena Tsukino in?" Darien asked the nurse at the main desk frantically.

"One minute Mr.-" She paused to look up at him. "Oh, Dr. Chiba. I'll look up her information." She said typing something into the computer. "I'm sorry. You know the routine; she's only to have family in the room. We can't give you any information."

"Look, Tiffany. Serena is my fiancée. Her family died five years ago. Me and her friends are the closest thing to family she's got…where are they?"

"The group that brought her in?" Darien nodded. "In the cafeteria. Serena had to go into surgery."
"SURGERY?!"

"Darien. You have to calm down."
"My fiancée that ran off two weeks ago was just brought in here bleeding badly…pregnant. How do you expect me to be calm?"

"Well she's still in surgery."
"Can I go to the observation area?"

"It's highly unadvised…"
"Please. I need to see her."

"Go ahead." The nurse Darien called Tiffany said.

"Thank you so much." He said running towards the stairs. He ran up and went to the surgery desk.

"What OR is Serena Tsukino in?" He asked the nurse sitting at the desk.

"OR2." She simply replied.

"Thanks." He said running off towards the OR. He went to the area designated for observation and ran in. He stopped as he walked through the door. He saw two of the best surgeons standing over a frail blonde. He went to the communication pad and pressed a button. "How is she Dr. Top?" (A/N: Yes, after five years, he still works there.)

"Darien? What are you doing here? It's your day off." He said after glancing at the glass.

"That's my fiancée you're operating on. How is she…how is the baby?"
"Maybe you can answer this. We're getting nothing from an ultrasound, the fetal monitor can't pick up the baby's heart rate, and we can't cut into her uterus."

"Let me come down there. I can't explain it." He said. Darien then went to a locker room and changed into some scrubs. He then went and scrubbed in. "Dr. Top. Come over here please."
"What is going on? Her friends said she was pregnant, but we can't get anything…and her uterus is as hard as a rock."

"Look…you know those heroes? The sailor scouts and generals?" The doctor nodded. "Well she's this legendary princess. There's this crystal she has and she asked it to protect our baby. That's why. It sounds crazy, I know, but it's true. The baby is perfectly fine…the crystal assured it."

"That's crazed…but we'll just work around it."
"How is she?"

"Well she had internal bleeding...we fixed that…we've been trying to get into her uterus to make sure the baby was fine. We'll close her up and bring her to her room."

"Thank you so much. Which room will she be in?"

"Not sure. You can wait here until we get her closed up." He walked back to the table and said something to the other doctor and they proceeded to close her up.

Darien walked into the hall and waited. While he waited, his phone rang.

"Darien, where are you?" Kevin's voice asked.

"I'm outside of the OR Serena's in."
"OR?!"

"Yah, she needed to have surgery."
"The nurse said she couldn't give anyone but family information."
"Well I explained the situation to the nurse at the front desk, and she let me in. Good thing too, the doctors were trying to get into her uterus to check on the baby, but because of the crystal, they couldn't get in. I had to explain that to the doctor, but he understands. Where are you guys?"

"We're in the cafeteria. They wouldn't let us see Serena, so we just came here for dinner."

"Okay. I'll see you call you guys when we get her room number. I got to go. The doctors are wheeling her out now."
"Okay. Talk to you soon."
"See ya." He said closing the phone. "Everything went okay?" He asked Dr. Top.
"Yes. Fine."
"Can we get her a bigger room…our group of friends are in the cafeteria waiting for an update."

"Of course. I remember her from five years ago…and her massive amount of friends." He smiled.

"So she'll be okay?"

"Let's get to the room, and I'll explain."
"You forget that I'm a doctor in training…I know what that means…and it's not pleasant." He sighed.

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"So she's in a coma and you have no idea when she'll wake up?" Darien asked as the doctor nodded. "Do you have any idea when she'll wake up?" Darien looked at the empty room. "The thing I told you about her earlier, she's the only one who can defeat the thing that's threatening this world."

"No. I don't know. Could be later today, could be next week, could be next month."

"And the baby?"

"Well you said this 'crystal' is protecting it. I'm not sure the limits of its power, so I wouldn't know." He said.

"I'll have to ask Luna." He mumbled.

"What was that?"

"Nothing. I'll have information later."

"Can you let me know? As her doctor, I'll need to know how to treat her."
"Yah. I'll let you know. I need to call the others and let them know what room we're in."

"Okay. I'll see you."
"Bye. And thank you Dr. Top."

"Anytime." He said walking out the door.

Darien picked up his cell phone and dialed Kevin's number.

"Hello?"

"Hey. Remember the room Serena was in last time she was here?"

"I'll ask the others if they remember. I don't." He mumbled something then came back on the phone. "Yah. Lita remembers. That the room?"

"Yah."

"We'll be there in a few minutes."

"See ya soon."
"Yup."

Darien hung up the phone and pulled out his communicator. He pressed the white button for Artamis.

"You guys okay? You haven't returned yet."
"We are, Serena was hurt. She's in a coma."
"How about the baby?"

"The crystal protected it. It'll be fine, but the doctor doesn't know when Serena will wake up from the coma."

"We should be there."

"I'll come get you guys after the others get here. They were in the cafeteria."

"Okay. We'll see you soon."
"Okay. But don't tell Rini yet. I want to do it. She's gong to take it pretty hard." He sighed.

"Yah, she will. We'll see you."
"Yup." He said closing his communicator as the others walked in.

"How is she?" Amy asked walking over to Serena lying in the bed.

"In a coma…and the doctor doesn't know when she'll wake up…" He sighed.

A bunch of sighs were heard around the room.

"I need to go get Luna, Artamis, and Rini. I'll be right back." He said getting up.
"Okay. We'll be here." Zac said.

"I just thought of something…" Darien said stopping at the door.
"What's that?" Lita asked.

"Anyone call Yella and Andrew yet?"