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Chapter 30 - Gathering More Power
Sammy looked around at the group that had gathered in Darien's apartment. He was still trying to figure out where he fit in. He had been the younger brother first to the Crowned Prince of Earth, and now he was brother to the Crowned Princess of the Moon and, technically, the Solar System. What role did that leave him to fill?
He watched as Artemis leapt up onto the coffee table. After Kunzite's fainting spell, he asked that the guys be similarly introduced to him. Artemis had a soft spot for Mina, so he complied. Sammy smirked that his role for the moment would be to sit back and watch a bunch of guys freak out. He felt a little badly for Molly. She wasn't prepared for talking cats either. He was most looking forward to Jadeite's reaction. And of course, as with every time before, Jadeite didn't disappoint him.
Darien looked to Serena and said: Go ahead and take the floor, Your Highness.
She smirked at him and replied: I think you should call me that later tonight too. She then winked at him.
Sammy sighed and said, "When you make eyes like that at each other, it doesn't matter that I can't hear you. I'm still grossed out."
Mina rolled her eyes and said, "When a woman and a man love each other…"
"She's not a woman. She's my sister. My sister, who looked way too happy after her bath this morning." Sammy crossed his arms and glared at Darien, "I respect you, and I know you love her. It's just gross."
"Wait, Serena stayed here last night?" Andrew asked. He was then also glaring at Darien.
Kunzite chuckled and pat Darien on the back, "She has two brothers you need to be worried about now." Artemis hissed, and he amended his statement, "Okay, three brothers."
"Sammy is joking around and has a right to comment about what happened. No one else does. She is mine. Get that?" Darien knew that he was overreacting, but he didn't care. He couldn't stomach even the hint that he should stay away from her. He pulled Serena into his arms and held her. "She is going to be my wife. She's my soulmate, and we have a love that has stretched over many millennia."
Serena looked up into his eyes. She could feel what was happening and she reached out to sooth him. She said: No one is really trying to get in between us, my love. Everyone in this room is thrilled that we are together. We all know that I am yours. There is nothing that can pull us apart, not even death. We beat that already. She kissed his cheek: They want us together.
Darien sighed, "I am sorry. I am just… I just." His shoulders slumped, "There are some things we need to explain first."
"Yup! Like the part about your love stretching over many millennia. That, I am definitely curious about." Zoisite stated. He had talked to Darien about Serena and Amy being Sailor Scouts and that never came up.
Serena spoke up, "That is why we have you all here. It's time to tell you the truth. There is a lot going on. It is going to change the way you see, well, everything."
Artemis decided it was time to speak up and smirked at Kunzite, "Actually, you have no idea how true that is."
Five heads whipped to look at Artemis. Jadeite said, "Please tell me that everyone else heard that too."
"Heard what?" Kunzite asked Jadeite with a completely straight face. "I didn't hear anything."
Sammy started cracking up when all of the color started to drain from Jadeite's face.
Jadeite stood and punched Kunzite in the arm. "Now someone tell me how you got it to sound like that cat is talking!"
Luna winked at Kunzite and then spoke to the group, "Because we are actually aliens from the planet Mau. We aren't really house cats." Luna then flicked her tail. She was enjoying the spectacle and had decided to be part of it.
Jadeite ground his teeth. "Please stop fucking with me right now. Let's go back to talking about Darien's sex life."
Sammy had been laughing at the guys, and all of the sudden, he thought that the conversations weren't funny anymore.
Darien smirked, "Jealous?"
"Now who replaced Darien with an alien?!" Jadeite demanded to know.
Kunzite chuckled, "Darien isn't an alien. Your girlfriend is though."
Jadeite waited for Raye to scream at Kunzite. It didn't come in the way he expected.
Raye rolled her eyes and cracked her knuckles, "I could kick your ass Earth-boy."
"For now." Kunzite replied. He knew Darien would be working on getting his generals their powers back. He noticed Jadeite was chuckling, and THAT was when he noticed how lame his reply was. Shoot. Raye had won that one.
Artemis spoke again, "We really should get back on topic."
Andrew was completely freaked out by the talking cats, but still, his focus was on Molly. He had noticed she had begun to grow pale, and he drew her attention to him. He whispered, "Trust Serena right now. She wouldn't throw us into this if it wasn't a good thing." He rubbed her back and continued, "She cares too much about us all to have this end anyway other way than with us all the better for it."
Raye however, was secretly enjoying Jadeite's reaction. She loved how confident he was all of the time. It was sexy. He was always so self assured. However, she discovered she enjoyed him being thrown for a loop every once in a while too. She would have to remember that. She wondered how she could catch him off guard and then it hit her. She would take a page out of Mina's book and be bold. She had some shopping to do.
Zoisite and Nephrite were both carefully trying to guard their reactions. They had independently figured out that their girlfriends were watching them. All of the girls, except Molly, obviously expected the talking cats. Zoisite wanted Amy to find him analytical and accepting of new information no matter how strange. He hoped she was impressed. Nephrite wanted to appear cool to Lita. He never felt so manly in his life before dating her. There was just something about loving such a strong woman that made him feel like a man.
During all of the banter, Darien sat back and sighed. He was struggling to keep his mind on track right now. It turned out he was a hormonal teenager after all. Serena was all that was needed to bring it out of him. He had just had intercourse with her that morning and his mind was already wondering when they could have it again. He was partially disgusted with himself. Part of his brain pointed out though that Serena said she wanted to have a lot of sex too. Gosh, he loved the way her face looked when he was buried in her. It was just amazing.
We can have sex again tonight. I brought a school uniform and you drive me anyway. I will be happy to stay. Serena said to him.
He sighed, apparently he was projecting his feelings to her again. He crossed his legs to hide his hard on and said: Sorry to do that to you while everyone is over.
It's sexy that we can talk about this and hide it from everyone. Also, you forget that I want you too. She replied.
Sammy rolled his eyes and said, "Seriously, you both need to stop that. I can tell by your faces that you are talking about something that would put me in therapy."
"What the hell is going on?!" Nephrite demanded. He sighed then. He had broken his cool facade.
What followed was a solid two hours of explanations, questions, and answers. The cats were definitely an ice breaker.
At one point, Nephrite announced, "Ha! I told you so, Lita. I told you that I would have fallen in love with you at any time and in any place. I knew we were destined to be together!"
Lita smiled prettily and blushed. She lightly punched him in the arm and said, "I guess I am stuck with you then. That sure worked out well for you." Despite what she said she loved that Nephrite always made her feel so feminine and so special. No man had ever looked at her the way he did. It mattered to her in a way she could never fully express to him. She had thought she had fallen in love many times in her life. Now she knew what it really meant to be in love. She was glad to know they were soulmates. Maybe he would understand a little bit more how much she must really love him. She hoped.
Darien was comforted by how his men responded, even his best friend. Although, he wasn't surprised. He was grateful that Andrew saw Serena as a little sister. He needed that. She was to be protected.
Once they explained about their enemy being Beryl again, the generals all told Darien they wanted their powers too. They wanted to help fight along with him. They pointed out that they were also destined to be at his side. Darien was pleased with what they had to say.
It was Luna who spoke up next. She stated to the whole group, "Serena is the Moon Princess and therefore needs to be protected. I know she, too, plans to fight, but you need to make sure that no one gets to her. The Silver Crystal she carries is incredibly powerful. She needs to be kept safe at all costs."
Darien liked her more in that moment than he ever thought he would. He was glad it wouldn't be just him insisting that she was to be guarded and protected. He added, "My orders are that she is protected. If you plan to be my generals again, it will be with that as your top priority."
Kunzite bowed to Darien first and said, "I promise on my life that I will, in the future, be faithful to Darien. I will never cause him harm and will observe my homage to him completely against all persons in good faith and without deceit."
Darien smiled at Kunzite and nodded, "Rise, General Kunzite. I accept your oath." Darien gathered the energy of the Golden Crystal in his chest and transformed into his Endymion form. He then concentrated on restoring Kunzite to his full powers.
Kunzite glowed briefly and felt a surge of energy run through him. He smirked and built an energy dome around Serena and said, "I promise I will protect her." He then let the dome dissolve.
Jadeite bowed next and said, "I promise on my life that I will, in the future, be faithful to Darien. I will never cause him harm and will observe my homage to him completely against all persons in good faith and without deceit."
Darien said, "Rise, General Jadeite. I accept your oath." He then restored his powers to him.
Jadeite picked up a book and smirked at Darien. He said, "I promise I will protect her." He then threw the book at Serena and froze it in solid ice and it fell to the ground before it could hit her. "I figured I'd better show off too."
Serena had started laughing by that point. Darien was amazed she hadn't even flinched when the book was thrown at her. She already had an incredible amount of faith in his men. He was extremely proud of them.
Nephrite was next to make his oath to Darien. He then promptly possessed Jadeite and made him stand in front of Serena. He then threw the, now thawed book, and it struck Jadeite. "I promise I will use Jadeite to protect her." Everyone but Jadeite was laughing. Once everyone settled down Nephrite said, "I promise I will protect her."
Zoisite made his oath and Jadeite stepped out of the way completely. He wasn't going to get another bruise in Zoisite's attempt to show he could protect her too. Zoisite surrounded Serena in shards of ice and threw the book at her and it bounced off the icy protection. "I promise to protect her."
Raye rolled her eyes, "Great, so you have proved she is safe from books. It's a good thing that the Senshi are here, boys. We can do all of the real protecting."
Zoisite's eyes grew huge as Amy started laughing uncontrollably. He thought that he looked incredibly impressive for her. Apparently she wasn't as impressed as he hoped she would be. He planned to start working with his powers soon.
That evening, they all ordered out for dinner. They sat around, talked, and more questions were asked as they had time to process everything that was going on.
At one point, Jadeite looked up at Sammy and said, "It sucks that it turned out you are Darien's brother. I was sure, with how cool you are, that you would have been mine. Good news is you probably still have powers you could get back."
"Wait, what? You think I have powers too?" Sammy asked. He was really excited by the idea. He wanted to be part of everything too.
"It's possible," Darien said. "In my first life, mine didn't develop until I was fifteen. You may be growing into them." He paused and accessed his Golden Crystal again, unlocking the ability for Sammy's powers to manifest when they were ready. "We will have to see what happens now that I restored your ability to develop powers."
"Thanks!" Sammy said. "I turn fifteen soon. I can't wait to see what I can do."
Serena shook her head, "I don't want you putting yourself in danger so young."
Sammy rolled his eyes, "You can't tell me you wouldn't fight at my age."
She shrugged. She had to admit that he was right.
When it was time to go home, Kunzite took one look at Darien's face and invited Sammy to come sleep on his couch at his apartment. Sammy quickly accepted his offer.
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