Love and War


Rated PG-13


Part IV- The Party


"Wow, this is great! I can't wait for them to get
here!"
"You said it Mina."
"What do you think the prince will look like Seren?"
"Well I heard all of his guardians are pretty hunky
Amy."

The girls continue to fanatisize over what the prince and the
guardians will look like. Tranquility comes over to the girls after a
few minutes of them waiting. Serenity turns to her brother and sees
that he has a worried look on his face. He tells her that there is
trouble outside and one attacked Queen Serenity and another Selenity.
"What is it Tran?"
"These four people-looking things just appeared in the
sky and threatened to destroy mother. Four
guards died by an energy blast while defending
her and Selen."
"What did they look like?"
"The one that attacked mother had red hair and was very
ugly Raye. A white hair guy attacked Selen."
The girls look at each other and nod in agreement. Luna comes running
in yelling at everyone. They all turn around to see why Luna's so
excited. She tells everyone that they have to get outside because
there is major trouble.
"It has to be Beryl guys."
"You're right Amy. We can't let her get the crystal."
"Girls!"
"What is it Luna?"
"We have major trouble outside, come on."

Darien and crew have just landed and begin walking toward the
palace gate. They look around and see what a mess everything is from
the fighting that is going on. They all look around and are surprised
at all the destruction around them. Malichite points out to everybody
that the palace seems to have sustained little damage so they assume
the Moon Kingdom is winning.
"Wow, what a mess. They must have just got done with a
huge fight or something to have this place in
so bad of shape."
"No Zoicite, they're in the middle of one, look over
there. The palace seems to be holding up okay
so that's a good thing."
Neflyte looks over to his left and sees Queen Beryl, the others and a
bunch of youmas attacking the palace. The soldiers are trying the best
they can to fight back but aren't having very much success.
"By the Gods, Darien, everyone look over there."
"What is it? What the hell are those things!?"
"I don't know Jedite, and I don't want to."
The girls all transform and start running toward the palace gate. As
they run by the gate, Sailor Jupiter falls behind and notices six men,
being held outside the gate. She recognizes one of them as Goku. The
guards release the guys and Sailor Jupiter takes off after the other
Scouts. the guys, who are completely stunned as in what just happened,
stand there motionless.
"Come on everyone, gotta move it!"
"Right Venus. Wait a second, that was Goku. Guards,
unhand those men this instant!"
"I'm sorry Miss Jupiter, our orders come from the queen
herself not to allow anyone into the palace."
"You know I have the authority to over ride her orders
now release them!"
"Jedite, hit me. Ouch!"
"Why'd you want me to do that?"
"I wanted to make sure I wasn't dreaming."
"Not here even 10 minutes and you have a crush on a
girl. You never change."
Neflyte gives Zoicite an ice glare and they all go inside the palace.
A servant shows all of them to their rooms. The guys all meet in
Darien's room to talk. They decide to go join the fight outside and
notice that the fight is getting worse for the Moon Kingdom every
minute. Malichite surveys the area and then comes up with a plan.
"Well, now what?"
"I say we go try to help in that fight outside Zoicite.
The Moon Kingdom's forces didn't look in to
good of shape."
"I'm with Jedite. The more help the better, in any
fight."
"Looks like they're losing and losing bad."
"You got that right Zoicite."
"Jedite, Zoicite you guys take the left. Remember on
top of your regular weapons, you have your
powers. Jedite from what I've seen, fire works
well on these guys."
"Got it!"
"Neflyte and I will take the right. All of you
remember, no one here knows us and they won't
know what side were on, use caution."
"Darien and I will go over to the girls we saw earlier
and try to find out what's going on. Any
problems, contact everyone on the communicator
immediately."
The guys all split up and put their plan into action. Darien and Goku
start running toward the Scouts then Goku stops along with Darien.
They notice something then Goku fires an attack at one of the beings in
the sky. The blast Goku throws flies right by Diamond's head. Darien
takes out one of his roses and throws it, blocking Diamond's attack.
They then run over to where the Scouts are to see if they're okay.
"You think those are Serenity's guardians Goku?"
"Got me Darien, we'll- stop!"
"What?"
"Over there, the girl on the ground."
"That one in the blue is injured, and that guy's about
to finish her off. Is he in your range?"
"Please don't insult me Darien." *His power level's
about the same as mine, this should be easy.*
"Ki attack!"
"Goku, boy are we glad to see you."
"Who threw that!?"
"That would be me. My name is Goku a Sayian."
Diamond hovers there thinking to himself then offers Goku a proposal
to join him because of a sayian's power. Goku declines and the two of
them go at it for a few minutes while the others watch. Diamond
disappears after a few minutes, leaving Goku to return to the fight.
"A sayian huh, I've heard of your kind. We'll leave
this pathetic excuse for a kingdom if you join
us."
"No way, I will never work for you!"
"Too bad, you would've made a great Nega-warrior."
"Get him Goku!"
"Where'd he go?"
The fight continues and slowly ends. The Scouts return to the palace
while Darien and the guys look at the battlefield. There are dead
soldiers and youma all over the place as they re-group and return to
the palace. When they arrive at the palace, they start looking around
for Queen Serenity.
"Any idea what's going on here Malichite?"
"I don't know Jedite. But whatever we stumbled into
but I think it's something big."
"Yeah, I think you're right."
"Well, lets head back to the palace, maybe the queen
can make some sense of this for us."

The guys enter the palace and try to find out where the Scouts
went. As they wander around the palace looking for the queen, they
look at the design of the palace and are amazed. As they walk around
the hallways they soon come across Queen Serenity, who is talking to
Tranquility. She introduces him to them and they introduce themselves.
She then tells them what the fight was they fought in.
"The design of this place is absolutely amazing. I'm
sorry Darien but, the design of this place
blows your palace away."
"I'm not offended Jedite, I agree completely."
"Wonder how we'll know what the queen looks like?"
"It shouldn't be to hard to determine who she is
Malichite. I think that's her there."
"Queen Serenity?"
"Oh Goku, pleasure to see you again."
"Again?"
"Yeah, the day I "disappeared", I was here helping in
another battle."
"Oh this is my son, Tranquility."
"Pleasure, I am Prince Darien and this is Zoicite,
Malichite, Jedite, Neflyte and Goku."
Tranquility shakes everyone's hand and they all head to there
respective rooms to get ready for the dance that night.
"Pleased to meet all of you."
"There's a party tonight at 7:00 in the ball room. I
insist that you attend. Formal introductions
will be made then."

It's now 7:00 and everyone is in the palace ball room at the
party. The guys have decided to wear their uniforms except for Goku,
who is wearing his armor, that's a lot like Darien's. They are all
standing over by the punch bowl talking to each other. Jedite is
looking around scanning the room to see if anyone is there he may like
to talk to.

"Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like were
sticking out a bit."
"That's probably because we're not dancing Neflyte."
"Sorry Malichite no one here interests me- I take that
back."
"What Neflyte?"
"That one in the green."
Neflyte points over to where Lita is talking to Raye. They're
discussing the last attack and then Raye points out Jedite and Neflyte
across the room. They then start talking about the two of them.
"I don't know about you Raye but I'm getting sick of
these attacks. We don't even know what they
want yet."
"I know Lita. I'm getting pissed myself. If it wasn't
for Goku and his friends, we'd all be dead
probably."
"Good point, I wonder who his friends were?"
"Boy, check him out."
"What?
"The blonde over by the wall."
"Hmm, I like the brown haired guy myself."
"Hey they look like two of Goku's friends that helped out."

Everything quiets down and the Queen is introduced and she
introduces the generals, Darien and Goku. After everyone is
introduced, the party continues and everyone starts dancing again.
Darien and Goku stand speechless by the table with the rest of the
guys. Zoicite and Malichite try to snap both of them out of their
trances by shaking them then snapping their fingers in front of them.
"Presenting her Royal Highness, Queen Serenity with her
daughters Princess Serenity, Princess Selenity
and her son Prince Tranquility."
"Thank you, welcome everyone. Tonight we have some
special guests here, General Jedite from
Saturn, General Neflyte of Uranus, General
Zoicite of Neptune and General Malichite of
Pluto. Also tonight we have Prince Darien of
Earth here and his friend, Goku."
"Darien, Goku?"
"Hey you two, wake up."
"Huh, oh sorry Zoicite."
"Darien, what happened?"
"Nothing, I just-."
"Just what?"
"Just saw the most beautiful girl I've ever seen in the
entire universe."
"Same for me Malichite."
They all decide to walk around and mingle with everyone at the party.
Darien and Goku walk around and soon see Serenity and Selenity talking
to each other by the food table. They both go up to the two princesses
and ask them if they would like to dance. Darien asks Serenity and
Goku asks Selenity.
"So why are we standing around here guys? Lets go
mingle with everyone. Maybe get a few dances
in."
"Good call Zoi, lets go."
"C-ya guys later."
"How about my room after the dance?"
"Okay Darien."
"Boy, I don't know about you but Princess Serenity
knocked me out."
"Same happened to me with Princess Selenity."
"There they are over there, lets go talk to them."
"May I have this dance?"
"Oh. Yes."
Darien and Serenity begin dancing along with Goku and Selenity. As
they're dancing, Darien introduces himself and they begin quietly
talking to each other and getting to know each other a little. They
continue dancing into until the end of the song.
"You dance very well Princess."
"Oh thank you, please just call me Seren."
"Okay Seren, and my name is Prince Darien."
"Oh yes, from Earth right? Nice to meet you."
"You know, you have the most unique hairstyle I've ever
seen."
"My friend Raye nags me about it sometimes."
"Well I won't, I really like it."
"Thank you. Is that your friend dancing with my
sister."
"Yes, his name's Goku. He's been my friend since we
were six."
Darien and Serenity both stare at each other and get lost in each
other's eyes. He compliments her on her eyes, which causes Serenity to
blush a bright shade of red. Serenity's heart starts racing in her
chest. Darien keeps telling himself to calm down and relax. As the
song fihishes playing, Darien lightly kisses her hand and then they
decide to go take a walk.
"Your eyes are as blue as our oceans back home."
"Oh, hehe. Thank you."
"Hey, you want to go take a walk?"
"Sure, I can show you the flower garden. It's
beautiful."
Goku and Selenity are dancing and see Serenity and Darien go outside
toward the flower garden. They continue talking about Serenity and
Darien then Goku asks Selenity if anything has really changed since
he had been there last. Goku heads over to the punch bowl to get some
punch for Selenity and himself when the song ends.
"Look at them."
"Yeah, I think she finally found the right guy."
"Yeah, I've never seen him so happy."
"So has anything changed since I was hear last?"
"What do you mean? I had never seen you before today."
"I was here for a short time, when Sailor Jupiter broke
her leg."
"That was you who saved her?"
"Yup. Be right back."
Goku arrives at the punch table and meets Malichite and Jedite there.
They talk for a few minutes as Goku pours two glasses of punch. He
then heads back to Selenity.
"Hey you two, you guys having a good time?"
"Sure am, I met this great girl standing over there in
the blue dress.Her name's Amy, and she has the
most beautiful blue eyes. Almost like
sapphires."
"Well that's good, how'd you two meet?"
"I asked her to dance you moron!"
"You mean you finally built up the guts to ask a girl
to dance. I'm so proud of you Zoi."
"Ah shut up Malichite! You meet anyone tonight?"
"That gorgeous blonde in the orange there. Her name's
Mina."
"Wow. You can be a pain in the ass sometimes Malichite
but, you have excellent taste in women my friend."
"Thanks, I think."
"Well, the princess awaits, excuse me."

Goku returns to Selenity and gives her the punch. They both
sip their punch and soon Tranquility and Misato. come over. Selenity
introduces Goku to her brother and his girlfriend.
"Here you go."
"Thank you, oh Tranquility. Goku, this is my brother
Tranquility and his friend Misato."
"We met earlier."
Jedite is dancing with Raye as the music continues to play. They then
go sit down on a bench in the garden to talk. Jedite explains some of
the things that happen on his planet which really surprise Raye. They
get off the bench and continue to walk toward the rose garden.
"Your a very good dancer Miss Raye."
"Thank you, and please just call me Raye."
"I've never been to Mars, what's it like?"
"Well, it's nice for the most part, however when we
have wars they get real bad and sometimes last
a long time. What's Saturn like?"
"Well, it's very dark, we don't get a lot of sunlight.
The rings around the planet we use as
raceways."
"That sounds like a lot of fun."
"Oh one more thing, no one dies."
"What! You mean you're immortal."
"Not exactly. Saturn is the god of Rebirth so everyone
on the planet is reborn when they "die". I
however lose that ability when I leave the
planet and, I can cure any injury."
"You want to see the rose garden?"
"Sure."
Lita is standing along side Neflyte talking as the party ends. She is
fasinated that Neflyte can read the stars and he explains he was born
with the ability which really awes her. They part company for the
night and head to their rooms.
"So you can read the stars? What is that?"
"Yup, one person every 100 years is born with the
ability. It means I can get answers for
questions, in a way I can predict things."
"Wow, well the party's ending, will I see you
tomorrow?"
"Of course Miss Lita."

The girls all meet in Serenity's room to talk about the party
that night. They're all telling their stories to everyone and giggling
about the party. They talk about the guys that they met during the
duration of the party.
"So, how'd everyone like the party tonight?"
"I loved it. Especially with the guy I met."
"Really Mina, then start talking."
"Well, his name is Malichite and he's from Pluto. He's
really hot and has great eyes. What's Prince
Darien like?"
"He's sweet, warm and caring. We went for a walk and
he told me about Earth, which sounds really
nice. The reason they all came was to help
us in the fight he said."
"Ah Selenity, I don't mean to be rude but, Goku doesn't
really look like a human."
"He's a sayian Raye."
"What are they?"
Amy speaks up and tells everyone what a sayian is. Then the rest of
the girls tell their stories and decide to go to bed.
"They're a special type of warrior Mina. Very few are
left in the galaxy. At the light of the full
moon, they transform into a huge beast that
destroys anything."
"Why hasn't that happened then?"
"Sayians are born with tails. If they lose their tail,
they lose that ability."
In Darien's room. the guys are going over their night with each other.
Everyone is there except for Zoicite, which everyone is a little
worried about where he is.
"I am very impressed with you two. Getting Princess
Serenity and Princess Selenity."
"I don't know whether to hit you or thank you for that
remark Jedite."
"Anyway, who was that black haired girl in the red you
were talking to Jedite?"
"Her name's Raye, she's great. She's from Mars and can
do all sorts of things with fire."
"I already told you guys about Mina so, I'm going to
bed."
The next day, everyone meets for breakfast in the dining room. The
guys all sit next to the girls they met the night the night before.
"Hey everyone!"
"Hi Raye you're in a good mood."
"Sure am Selen."
"Did anyone here a loud crash last night."
"As a matter of fact yes, Seren."
"Do you know what it was Tranquility?"
"I asked Misato here this morning and she didn't know
either."
"It sounded like something was broken."
Zoicite walks in last and has no expression on his face. He's a
total mess and sits down next to Amy.
"Zoicite, what happened!"
"Yeah, you look like hell."
Zoicite looks over at Amy and struggles to say something. Finally,
the Queengives her orders and everyone leaves.
"I-I don't want to talk about it."
"You sure buddy?"
"Yeah Goku."
"Well everyone, we have a long day so be at the
training hall in 15 minutes."
"Yes your Highness."

So, any idea what that noise was, or why Zoicite looked in so bad of
shape? You'll just have to keep reading to find out.