WAYWARD SISTER 4
Hello, Moonies and Supernatural fans, this is my last installment into the series, and I hope you like it. After this story, I will be taking a break because school is kicking my butt, and I have to write tons of scripts for class. Also, I am editing my new novel; once done, I am hoping to release it. Thanks for all your support. Now on with the story!
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Serena pushed her pink lips together, her milkshake forgotten, as it slowly melts. Lita, Ami, Rei and Mina stare at her in awkward silence. There's something different about Serena; she's been acting weird the last two weeks. She's stopped eating and laughing.
"Are you okay?" Mina bit out, "Did Darien break up with you, again?"
Serena shook her head; no Darien has been a sweetheart. Once they defeated the Moon clan and saved the future, Darien has declared his love for her, promising never to break up with her again.
"I don't know guys, I feel off," Serena refused to mention her dreams. Every night she's plagued with nightmares of being in a forest surrounded by monsters, always running, away hiding. Serena would wake up in a sweat every morning, sometimes with scratch marks on her arms or legs, but she chalked it up to her own nails and trimmed them short, but still, the nightmares persist.
"Is it because of the entrance exam next week," Ami's cheeks stained red, as everyone gawked at her, sweat drops appearing over their heads.
"This is Serena we're talking about! The queen of snooze, the procrastinator of homework," Mina declared dramatically.
"You're one to talk," Rei huffed, her violet eyes never leaving Serena's.
Rei placed her hand on Serena's fingers, coaxing her princess to look at her. When blue met violet, Rei saw passed the sadness, and into Serena's dreams. She spied horrors no human should see.
"Is that what's going on in your mind," Rei whispered, her words only meant for Serena.
Serena turned away, tears in her eyes, "I don't think it's real, but it won't leave me."
The mood sours, as Serena refuses to talk about it anymore. She paid for her uneaten shake and left the bewildered girls sitting at the table.
Mina scratched her head, sipping her milkshake, her eyes never leaving the automatic door of the crown arcade. "Do you think Serena will be all right?"
Rei bit her bottom lip, wondering if she should inform the girls about what she saw in Serena's eyes, but she reframes and keeps quiet. She, too, is plagued with nightmares, of vampires, of dying and leaving her princess alone to defend herself, of invisible dogs. Those dreams have felt so real, but they couldn't be, could they?
"Have you guys had any nightmares lately?" Rei wanted to believe her dreams weren't real.
The girls stopped chatting and stared at Rei, their mouths hung open, twitching in their seats as if Rei's words sparked their memory.
"Kind of. I keep having a reoccurring dream that Serena stabbed me in the stomach with a blade," Lita confirmed, that dreams been haunting her for weeks, but she didn't feel like herself in the dream, she felt like something was controlling her body and her mind kept telling her to kill Serena.
"I had a dream of being bit by a vampire," Ami spoke up, "But their just dreams, nothing to worry about, right?"
"I dreamed of a room full of men, trying to kill us," Mina chimed, "and none of the men were cute."
"Mina!" everyone groaned.
Mina shrugged her shoulders as if to say 'so what.'
"Maybe we are stressing ourselves out with the exam and everything, that might be the cause of our nightmares," Good Ol' Ami with her logical explanation, and it put the girls, including Rei, at ease.
"Maybe you're right, Ami," Rei grinned, swiping her black hair over her shoulders, "Let's go to a spa and drag Serena there. I bet that will take our nightmares away."
The girls cheered in agreement, setting a plan to kidnap Serena, taking her to a spa for the day.
Serena wandered the streets, the sun high in the sky, she didn't feel like herself, as if a part of her is missing. True, she still klutzes out, but her fighting technique has gone down. Serena can no longer do backflips or charge into a fight like she used to, fear wrapped her body with each battle, but she hid it from the girls.
Neo Queen Serenity gave her a cryptic message when she finally got to meet her future-self, but she didn't understand her words.
"You will be yourself soon," those words ran around in Serena's mind.
"What does she mean by that?" Serena shouted to herself. She kicked a rock, but missed and tumbled to the ground, scraping her knee, tears flooded her eyes, but for the first time, she refused to shed them.
"At least there's peace," Serena sighed, after defeating the moon clan, there's been no negaverse activity, and Rini is now living with her training to be sailor mini-moon. Serena still sees her as a brat but is glad to get to know her future daughter.
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Pounding footsteps on the forest floor has Serena quickening her pace. Three vampires were not far behind her, gaining speed, as her lungs gasped for air, but she forced her tired legs forward. Serena had lost Sam an hour ago when they stumbled on the nest, six vampires, hunger for blood decided that they would make a tasty treat, with no weapons they had no choice, but to run, unfortunately, they were forced to part as the trees crowded them on both sides, making running almost impossible.
Jumping over roots and rocks, Serena flipped into a throne bush, hiding among the leaves. Thornes scratched at her shoulders and legs, cutting her deep, but she quickly applied dirt on her wounds, praying that it would hide the smell of blood. The vampires didn't both to sniff the air, or else they would have located her; they were too interested in the hunt and ran passed the bush, growling their intent.
Serena swallowed her breath, holding it as her heart ached in her chest. Her crystal pulsed within her heart, making it hard to pump the blood through her veins, she willed herself to calm down, to slow her heart, to calm the crystal within.
"I will not die today," Serena whispered to herself.
Another tense moment, Serena's ears tried to pick up the pounding of the vampires' footsteps, but they were long gone, giving Serena the chance to tear herself away from the bush and retraced her steps, hoping to find Sam.
Noon soon became night, as Serena dared not rest, she had to watch each step she took, count each breath she breathed, watching, waiting for the monsters to come out a make a meal out of her. The wind chilled her ripped clothes; they were once jeans and a shirt, but with all the running, hiding and fighting, her clothes looked like rags ready to fall off her body, but it was her only source of warmth. It wasn't helping as her teeth chattered against the biting cold, she crossed her arms over her chest and rubbed herself, trying to get warm, but it wasn't working.
"I hate this place," Serena groaned, she's been to hell, but nothing is worse than this place. Hell was a walk in the park that she's willing to go back too, as long as she got out of this place, wherever she is.
Serena had lost Sam's tracks an hour ago; she sighed when there was no blood, hoping that he escaped the vampires' clutches. She searched for another two hours in vain, tired, lifeless, Serena found a small empty cave to hunker down for the night. She reframed from making a fire and huddled her legs close to her chest while keeping her eyes at the entrance.
There'd be no sleep tonight, who knows what monsters lurk when the moon is full. The howling and growling in the distance itched Serena's skin; she prayed she make it til the sun rises, hoping to find Sam in the morning.
"Please still be alive," Serena prayed, her red eyes blurred, fluttering, trying to close against her will, but Serena blinked away the sandman and refused to sleep.
Darkness came, destroying the moon's light; it was darkness, unlike earth's nighttime; this was beyond the night, beyond what normal darkness, there are no words to describe the inky blackness that surrounded Serena, it crawled up her skin, closing in on her, suffocating her, wanting to devour her, but it didn't. The darkness hovered around her, showing her its power, cloaking her from the monsters that hunt in the night, allowing her some rest, as she couldn't keep her eyes open any longer, Serena succumbs to the sandman, allowing him to take her away from this place, even if it was for a short while.