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Chapter Twenty Nine: Save yourself…
Darien stood there, he looked at Maestro. "You planned this didn't you?" Darien asked him.
"Actually no, I have better things to do…but when duty calls I'm there." Maestro replied. The black hole closed up. "You have a few choices here Darien." Maestro started to walk around Darien. "You can go in and save her, you can go ask for help from the others, or you can leave her." Maestro stopped walking and looked at him. "It's up to you, but there are consequences to all your actions."
"And you would know?" Darien raised an eyebrow at him.
"Yes, actually I do know. Because I know you, I know Serena, and I know everyone else. I know how they would react to all this." Maestro told him.
"So if you know so much, then tell me." Darien crossed his arms and looked at Maestro. Maestro grinned.
"Well, if you go in to save Serena who happens to be your former lover and future queen, you could end up dead, she could end up dead or the both of you could end up dead." Maestro told him simply.
"And exactly what else would happen?"
"Well if you succeeded, Serena would be bitter against you for the rest of your life, even though she has now started to open up." Maestro told him.
"Opened up? What have you been smoking?" Darien asked.
"Well, she talks to me more than you." Maestro told him. "Or she could just end up getting over this feud…" Maestro put his hands in his coat pockets. "that is what you want, right?"
"In a way…" Darien responded carefully.
"Because if this feud ended, you and Raye could live happily ever after, and Serena could be with the one she loved, and maybe…just maybe, you all could actually sit in a room with out Serena shouting out death threats to the both of you." Maestro told him.
"Okay then, I've heard what you had to say." Darien told him.
"Really? Because that's just the first choice." Maestro said. "The second choice was to go and ask for help from the others, Lena's not in town, and if you and Luke went in to save her, old memories would come up of you and her." Maestro smiled. "Isn't that true?"
"No." Darien responded. "We're over each other."
"Of course, of course." Maestro put his hands behind his back and started to pace around Darien. "But how many times did you save her from evil? I'm pretty sure you both have lost count, but then again that was a long time ago."
"Will you just get on with it?!" Darien raised his voice.
"Sure…the last option is to let her die…and you'd like that wouldn't you?" Maestro told her.
"I'm angry, I'm not crazy." he told him.
"Same thing, well when it comes to Serena that is." Maestro said.
"Where the hell are you going with all this?" Darien walked towards Maestro. "I have to do something don't I?" he yelled angrily at Maestro as he pinned him against the wall. "So why don't you stop fucking playing games and tell me what I have to do!" Maestro who was caught by surprise then grinned at Darien.
"So you are going after her?"
"Do I have a choice?! First I almost killed her by being with Raye, now I'm suppose to let her die?" Darien shouted out at her.
"But you don't love her."
"God no." Darien responded quickly and let Maestro go. "She's spoiled, materialistic, she goes out all night, and she's full of herself."
"So what? You're feeling guilty now?" Maestro asked.
"I guess I am." Darien turned around and looked at him. "Did you see what she did to herself?" Darien looked down. "I can't believe that I did that to her."
"You're not the only thing that did it." Maestro told him.
"What do you mean?"
"Other things happened, but that's for her to tell you when she's ready. Right now you have a choice to make."
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Serena slowly opened her eyes, her eyelids felt so heavy, she couldn't remember what happened. Her alcohol buzz was wearing off, but she was still tipsy. She finally opened her eyes and looked around the room drowsily. She saw what looked like a cave, or something underground, it was like a party she had gone to awhile back. She looked around again, she noticed the floor was black marble, there was an antique desk with a gothic chair behind it, next to it was a fireplace with a roaring fire. There was a large black four post bed with red and golden sheets. Then she saw the walls, they were stone gold gunmetal, all in all, it looked like someone was living here, or that they were underground. Serena looked at the walls, then looked to her sides, she couldn't move, her arms were chained above her head to the walls.
"Fuck…" she mumbled as she tried to break free. Okay, I've been in worse situations, and I've gotten myself out of it, all by myself…I was stranded in San Francisco once, I ran away from people with guns, I've…I've…she began to panic. She struggled even harder to get out. I'm screwed, she took a deep breath. She then heard someone laugh at her. Serena looked to her side to see Strobe standing there.
"Having fun?" he snickered.
"Tons, wanna give it a try?" Serena shot at him. Strobe walked closer to her.
"I think I'd rather watch you." he told her, he came closer and closer till he was looking her straight in the eye.
"I'll kill you." she told him, they were inches apart. Strobe glanced at her shackles then back at her.
"I'd love to see you try." he told her, he put his arms in between hers and leaned into her. "So what now Princess?" Serena just looked at him, she narrowed her eyes and gave him a dirty look. "Waiting for your prince?" Serena laughed at that comment. "Come on Princess, speak up."
"Stop calling me that." she told him.
"But you are the princess."
"No, I'm not."
"Tell me."
"Why would I tell you?" She looked at him.
"Because who else are you going to tell? Mars The Whore or the cheating Earth Prince?" he snickered.
"How do you know this?" she questioned.
"I have my ways."
"Tell me."
"You first."
"Ladies first." she raised an eyebrow at him.
"Bitch." he remarked and backed away from her. He began to laugh. "I'll tell you…" he turned around and looked at her. "It's a known fact that Mars always fancied the Prince."
"How do you know that?" she asked.
"It's a fact, ask anyone on the Moon Kingdom."
"Bullshit, you weren't there."
"No, you're right, I wasn't there in person, but I have heard stories."
"Who cares what happened back then." Serena looked to her side. "It's dead and gone like the rest of history." Strobe game closer to her.
"I'm sure it is. So now you tell me…what happened to the poor little princess?" Strobe asked her.
"You never finished." Serena's said, you could hear in her voice that she was trying to keep herself from falling apart. Strobe grinned.
"Why you are right…let's just say I've been around." he told her, he came over to her and leaned over her once again. "By your activities, I've seen that you've…been around as well." he told her with a sick smile on his face.
"Fuck you!" Serena shouted and spit in his face. Strobe jumped away as it hit him in the face. He put his hand to his face in disgust and wiped it away.
"How dare you!" he shouted at her. "You'll pay for that you whore!" he went up to her and slapped her across her face so hard that she felt as if her head was going to fall off. He began to walk away. Serena turned her head and looked back at him, her hair fell in front of her face.
"Is that all you got?" she said in a weak voice. Strobe stopped in his tracks, he began to laugh.
"Don't challenge me little girl." he told her.
"Don't challenge me." she said. Strobe turned around and came back to her, he put his hand on her face and moved her hair out of the way, he looked her in the eye. He moved his hand to the side of her neck and rubbed it like a massage. Then he walked away. "That's it?" she shouted out after him.
"Don't worry, it'll come to you in a second." he shouted back. Serena smirked, he didn't even do anything to her, what the hell was that?! Then she felt dizzy, her eyes began to close, she tried to keep them awake, but then she couldn't take it anymore, she passed out. Maybe that's what…he did.
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What the hell am I doing? Darien thought as he walked through something like a dark palace. This was the stupidest thing ever, I should have gone and told Luke, and he could have done this, great, now I'm stuck in this mess with no way out. Darien walked cautiously throughout the weird place he was in, it looked like Queen Beryl's dungeon was decorated by Prince Diamond's decorator. Couldn't Maestro have put him exactly where Serena was instead of running around in this labyrinth? Not to mention he was stuck here with no way out…well not entirely. Maestro had given him something to get him out, but Serena knew out to use it…great. No one is even around, what the hell kind of negaverse is this?! Just then three shadow creatures jumped up around him.
"Spoke too soon." he mumbled.
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Serena heard a noise, she came out of her daze and looked around, everything was blurry, she struggled to keep her eyes open. She saw someone.
"So you're the one they call the Moon Princess huh?" A male voice said. Serena looked up, her vision was getting back to normal…sort of. She tried to move again but then the shackles reminded her where she was. "No, no, don't get up." he said mockingly. Serena saw who it was…Python.
"What do you want?" she asked weakly.
"Just to see if it was true, Strobe captured the famous Moon Princess." Python snickered. "And I always thought I'd do that."
"I won't let you get away with this." she told him angrily.
"Yes you will." he said as he came over to her. He leaned over her just as Strobe did earlier. "I know you will." he said, he was so close to her, he could smell her shampoo and perfume, it suited her.
"Don't…come any closer." she warned him, but she felt tired again.
"Or what?" he said to her, his lips met hers. Python then pulled himself away. Serena had her eyes closed, she opened them and looked at him.
"Get away from me!" she shouted at him, she held her tears in.
"Now, now, a Princess never raises her voice." Python laughed at her mockingly.
"FUCK YOU!" Serena screamed, her eyes changed colors, from blue to red then purple. The room began to shake and the chains that held her fell apart. Serena landed on her feet, she stood up and walked over to him.
"What are you going to do to me Little Princess?" he shouted out to her. "Call your cheating boyfriend on me?!" Serena walked towards him, the room continued to shake, her eyes continued to stay purple, parts of the ceiling began to crash down to the ground. Python began to back up as she came closer, the tripped on a large part of the ceiling that had came down. He fell to the ground and continued to back up. Soon he was against the wall, Serena was standing over him.
"Suffer…" she said to him. She raised her arms down to his level, and Python rose up by her force. Python shouted and screamed in pain, Serena had an evil smile on her face as she forced more power into him. Her energy was disrupted as Strobe came from behind and grabbed her pulling her away. Python fell to the floor harshly.
"Trying to hurt us Little Princess?" he shouted to her in her ear. He pulled her away by force, till Serena pulled him and over her head and he went flying against the wall.
"Yes." she said as she walked over. She felt all the power that was in her. Python got up from where he was and ran over to stop her. Serena extended her arm out towards him and blew him away, she looked over to where Python was. "Want to try that again?" she asked, she looked over to Strobe to find him gone. Then she heard a noise come from above.
"See you in hell princess!" she heard Strobe's voice, she looked over to where Python was to find him gone too. She saw lightening come down, it almost hit her, Serena moved away and then looked to where it hit. She saw the smoke come up from it. She looked around and ran towards any exit she could find, it was time to get the hell out of there.
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"FUCKING DIE ALREADY!" Darien shouted in frustration as he killed off the last shadow creature. Fighting like himself with out any Tuxedo Mask help or Sailor Scouts he was doing pretty well, he had just killed off three shadow creatures all by himself. "In your face Serena." he mumbled to himself. He walked off to find a stone door, he looked at it, there were symbols on it. "Oh what the fuck." he said as he pushed it aside. The room smelled of smoke, he could see a fireplace at the end of the room he looked to see Serena sitting in front of it.
"Are you okay?" He asked her, her shirt had ripped off on the bottom and there were tears in the back of her shirt. Her jeans had ripped a bit as well, but all in all, she still looked good. Serena looked at him.
"As good as I can be in a place like this. Where the hell have you been?" she asked him.
"Trying to save you." he replied a bit out of breath. Serena looked around. No danger, no Strobe, no Python, just the areas where she had beaten them.
"From what?" She asked him. Darien looked around, he saw that the place was a mess, something had happened here all right, and that something was Serena. "You needed someone to save you." Serena stood up and looked at Darien. "I assume someone sent you with something to get us out of here?"
"Uh, yeah actually." Darien took something out of his pocket. It was a small black stone, he showed it to her. Serena took it from him, she reached into her shirt and pulled out something that looked like a diamond. "Is that the-"
"Yup, the White Rose Diamond." She said, as she touched the black stone to the diamond. "Hold this." she said as she gave Darien the stone. She put the diamond back in her shirt. She took the stone back from Darien, she threw it into the fireplace, a large white portal opened up. Serena took his hand and pulled him into it.
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Darien opened his eyes, he was standing in the park. Serena looked at him.
"The ride is over, you can open your eyes now." She said in her monotone voice.
"What did you do?" he asked her.
"That black stone you saw earlier was a Time Stone, Maestro has a few, he uses them incase of emergency." she explained.
"Does Pluto know?" he asked.
"He doesn't care much for her." was her reply. Serena began to walk away.
"Serena wait." he ran up to her. Serena stopped and looked at him. "What happened back there…"
"Darien save it, I'm tired of telling you, I'm tired of telling all of you actually." she told him. "I'm not with any of you, I'm not Sailor Moon anymore, I'm not the princess, I just want to move on."
"Serena, we can't just move on, unfortunately we have a future to think of." Darien told her.
"If you are so concerned about the future why did you go fuck Raye?" Serena asked. "Why did you kill off everything we had?! WHY?" she shouted at him.
"Serena, we were both forced in this relationship! I couldn't have just said that to you! You would have flipped out! You were away, I was alone, Raye was there-"
"So what?! You decided that because I had go away for a summer that you could bang my best friend and I would never find out!?" she shouted at him.
"I never meant for it to get serious, we just ended up that way! What was I suppose to do? Push my feelings aside and live with you miserably?!" Darien shouted to her.
"No Darien, you could have told me! You could have had the balls to tell me what the hell you were doing that summer I was away!" Serena shouted back.
"Serena you would have flipped out! You would have gone and killed yourself over this!" Darien shouted out at her, then realized what he said. Serena narrowed her eyes at him.
"Yeah, good thing I didn't." she said to him while putting her hand on her upper thigh, she walked away.
"Serena I didn't mean it like that."
"Darien, why don't you understand this?!" Serena screamed at him. "I'M HURT!"
"Serena, this was a long time ago!" Darien shouted at her. Serena turned around and looked at him with tears in her eyes.
"Darien, you don't understand, I was in love with you…I wanted to be with you, and you go and break my heart all over again…" Serena looked at him, her tears free flowing. "I thought you were better than that…I guess I was wrong." she stood there looking at him. "And then I have to go along with it for a few months to make it seem that everything is okay, and everything I'm doing is not okay, our relationship went to hell because you were too scared to tell me, and everything I did was wrong-"
"Serena, I wasn't scared of hurting you." Darien interrupted her. "I knew you were strong, but I was scared, yes I was, I was scared of ruining the future."
"Darien what the hell kind of future would we have if we had gotten married? If we did have Rini and you were still with Raye behind my back? What would happen to our child? What if she caught you in the act? Would I still have to stay silent about the whole thing?" Serena told him. "And then to find out that everyone knew and no one told me…I was humiliated, I had to act like everything was okay…nothing was okay, and I definitely wasn't okay." Darien put his hands on her shoulders. "No." she told him and pushed him away. "I don't want your sympathy, I want you to understand, and I want you to feel what I felt." She told him and walked away. Darien stood there, he felt his chest aching. He put his hand on it and massaged it a little, how could he have known he did all this. Serena had just came out and told him everything, he felt her pain, and he wanted to make it stop. Then he had a thought, She won't cut herself again…will she?
Serena sat down at a park bench. She over looked the lake, she felt her tears drying, she promised herself she wouldn't let him get to her, she promised she would never tell him, she promised that she would never let him see her cry or let him see her pain. But Darien saw it, and for some reason she wanted him to see it, and she wanted him to see more of it. She continued to look out on the lake, more tears came to her eyes, she let them fall on her cheeks.
Moments later Darien came to find Serena sitting on the park bench, she was staring out into the lake. Darien slowly walked up to her, she didn't even notice him, her tears had dried up again.
"Remember when we took a boat ride out there?" he asked her, he stood to her right side behind the bench.
"No…" she said, her voice tired. "At least, I don't think I want to remember."
"Serena," Darien began, he sat down on the bench next to her. "I…I…I'm sorry for-"
"Stop." she told him. "Darien you can apologize for the next two years…it won't heal anything."
"I know." he replied, he rubbed his tired face. "What happened to us Serena?"
"We broke up." she told him and gave him a look, her makeup was smudged a bit and you could see the stains her tears made on her face.
"No, I mean, yes, that's true, but how did it get so messy?" Darien asked her.
"You don't know?" She asked. Darien shook his head. Serena took a deep breath.
"I guess…the negaverse was gone, nothing to make our relationship what it was…we got bored."
"No, come on, we made it through a thousand years." Darien said.
"Hey, a lot of shit can happen in a thousand years…" Serena told him.
"Like what?" he looked at her.
"Empires fall, leaders get killed, wars start and end, microwaves were invented." Serena told him. Darien chuckled at her.
"That's not what I meant." he told her, she had a small smile on her lips. They sat there together for a few moments, the sun was coming up.
"This doesn't mean we're friends." she told him.
"I know."
"And this doesn't mean I'm going to start being nice to all of you."
"I know."
"It also doesn't mean I'm going to stop being a bitch to you."
"I know."
"Good."
"Serena?"
"What?"
"Do you think we'll all ever get through this?" he asked.
"What? Defeating Strobe?" she looked at him.
"No, well of course we're going to defeat him, but I mean all of us, we're not going to be the same ever again huh?" he looked back at her.
"Honestly?"
"Honestly."
"No." she replied and looked back at the lake. "Too much damage has been done, our future has crumbled, and we've all changed. It won't happen, not while I'm still upset." Serena stood up, she started to walk away. Darien sat there and continued to look out at the lake. He looked over to see Serena was walking away, and she wasn't turning back. He looked out onto the lake, a few tears fell from his eyes. He knew he had messed up, they all had messed up, there was no way they could fix this, maybe time could fix it, but they'd need a lot more time, and that's just something they didn't have enough of right now.
Serena walked into her house, she looked at the clock, it was almost six thirty am. She walked up stairs into her room, she closed the door and saw her coat and purse sitting on her bed with a note on it.
"I knew you wouldn't have wanted to lose these. Maestro" the note said. Serena put them on her desk chair and went back to her bed, she sat there. Luna came up to her, she leapt on the bed. Serena sat staring at the wall.
"Serena where have you been all night?" Luna asked her quietly. Serena continued to stare at the wall. "Serena…are you alright?" Serena put her face in her hands and started to cry, she then wiped her tears away and went into the bathroom, she took off her clothes and put them in the laundry basket. She put on a long form fitting t-shirt, wiped off her makeup, or what was left of it, and crawled into bed. Luna came and lay next to her. Serena turned on her alarm radio, she put the music on low. She listened to the song play on the radio, it was in the middle of the song, she recognized the singer, Shakira.
Anyhow, anyhow
I wish you both all the best
I hope you get along
Serena pulled the covers over her head, she felt tears come to her eyes again.
You don't even know the meaning of the words "I'm sorry"
You said you would love me until you die
And as far as I know you're still alive, baby
You don't even know the meaning of the words "I'm sorry"
I'm starting to believe it should be illegal to deceive a woman's heart
Serena lay in her bed, she listened to the music and buried herself deeper in her bed, she continued to cry until she fell asleep.
Hey everyone! Lousy chapter, I know, but something needed to happen, and I had a feeling that a lot of you readers and reviewers didn't want Darien saving her, so I didn't have him save her. Anyway, okay guys, I need your help! Please e-mail me: Ever(underscore)after(underscore)nights it's a yahoo address. Anyway, just because you e-mail me doesn't mean you stop reviewing! Reviews equal love and I love you too!
