Chapter 6: A Dream with Spies
In the future Neo Queen Serenity woke with a start. That dream, why did it keep haunting her? Duh Serenity! You made a horrible mistake, and it's coming back to haunt you, her mind informed her.
"No!" she shouted holding her ears, "What I did was for us!"
Okay sure keep telling yourself that, her mind replied.
"Why is this happening?!" she demanded out loud.
"Serenity?" Sailor Mars asked walking in, "Is it the dream again?"
Serenity nodded.
"Why won't you tell me what's it about, maybe I can help," Mars offered.
Serenity shook her head, nothing could help. Telling the truth would, her mind reminded her.
She felt like knocking her brain out of her body, why was her mind turning on her?
Because even you know you did a horrible thing, it told her, I'm just here to make sure that you're reminded of it.
"Am I going crazy?" she asked out loud.
Mars looked at her concerned, "I don't think so, why?"
"My mind is talking to me," Serenity replied.
Mars almost laughed at her, instead she smiled and regained herself, "Serenity, that's just your mind responding to your thoughts, it happens to everyone." Mars couldn't help but insult her Queen in her mind, but then again you wouldn't know that considering you don't normally have complex thoughts.
That was mean, Mars scolded herself, I shouldn't have said that.
Serenity sighed thankful, "Thank you for that. Mars? Could you get Sailor Venus for me?" she asked.
"Of course Your Majesty," Mars bowed and walked out, off to find Sailor Venus, snickering quietly to herself.
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"Go on Hotaru, cure her, and let Chibi-usa die, go ahead," King Endymion threatened her.
"Why you manipulative, little," Setsuna began.
"No, he's right," Hotaru whispered.
"Of course he's not right! Hotaru you have to fix her!" Chibi-usa shouted.
"You…you…want me to fix her?" Hotaru looked at Chibi-usa scared.
Chibi-usa knelt beside her friend and took her arm, "She's a fellow senshi in need, and it's my responsibility as a senshi and yours to do whatever you can to help her. I'll give you my strength to fix her, take whatever you need."
"Chibi-usa you don't know what you're doing," the King told her pleading her to take it back.
"No you don't know what you're doing," Chibi-usa countered, "If I die doing this, or if I die helping any other senshi I'll die doing what's right."
"You'd die for them?" the King asked worried for his daughter.
"Any of us would die for each other," Haruka told him.
"And there was a time you would too, Mamoru would," Makoto told him.
"Things change," King Endymion told her spitefully, "If I die than there's no one to protect my family, if Chibi-usa dies there is no family, I have to protect us."
Usagi swung her head to stare at him wide-eyed, there was someone missing in that little scenario.
"Usagi, it's not like that, you can take of yourself, Chibi-usa can't," Endymion explained.
"Hotaru, please," Chibi-usa begged.
Hotaru nodded, and she sucked a light pink life force from Chibi-usa as her hair flew back, and her eyes began to glow.
Slowly Ami opened her eyes, and Hotaru fell back with Chibi-usa, both of them drained from the process.
"Thank you," Hotaru whispered to Chibi-usa.
Chibi-usa nodded as Helios watched her worried, "I'm fine," she assured him, "Just tired."
He grasped her hand and let some of his own life energy flow into her. She felt strengthened and in turn gave some to Hotaru. When they were finished all four were good as new.
Ami woke up with Endymion hovering over her, "Mercury Crystal Power Make Up!" she tried to transform but didn't have the strength. She quickly got up and got as far from him as she could.
"If we're going to be working together you have to trust me," Endymion told her.
"That might be hard to do, considering you tried to kill her," Rei emphasized.
"And I still would, but not without my past self's permission, and so far I haven't gotten it, so she's safe," even now just the site of her made Endymion wish over and over he didn't have to do this.
"You swear?" Ami asked quietly, not that she was sure she could take his word.
Endymion nodded, "I promise."
She nodded back, "Fine," and walked up with the other senshi, still wary.
"How many hours do you have Rei?" Endymion asked her.
"Sixteen," she responded hatefully.
"Wonderful," he mumbled, "Okay for the next sixteen hours no one steps outside this apartment, Mamoru might have already given us away, I was an idiot."
"You still are," Makoto muttered under her breath so that only Rei and Setsuna heard her. They nodded their heads in agreement.
Now Endymion had a chance to look around the room and noticed Helios, "What?" he asked smiling.
"Your daughter saved me, with her healing stone," Helios didn't feel like explaining everything.
Endymion laughed, "Good."
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"You called for me Majesty?" Sailor Venus asked walking into Serenity's chambers.
Serenity nodded, "Come and sit."
Venus walked in and took a seat on Serenity's bed.
"You know the dream I've been having?" Serenity asked her.
Venus nodded.
"It's about something I did, a long time ago, something horrible, that I'm beginning to regret," Serenity began, "But if I tell you, you can't look down upon me or criticize, just advise."
Venus nodded again, silent, what had she done that could be that awful?
"It was right before I got pregnant with Chibi-usa, and Endymion and I were going through a rough spot, I thought he was going to leave me," she explained.
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"Spying is bad, we shouldn't be doing this, we should," Sailor Mercury began to tell the other senshi about responsibility, when Jupiter commented.
"Well than leave or shhh… because she's just beginning."
Mercury jumped up with the other senshi eager to hear the conversation and then walked away, "No, spying is bad, very bad," she scolded herself.
"Shhh!" Mars hissed.
She jumped up to the door again ready to hear the conversation.
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"What do you mean you won't kill her without Mamoru's permission?!" Haruka demanded outraged as she stood in Mamoru's bedroom the other Outer's and Endymion discussing Ami.
"He won't ever give it to you," Michiru told him.
"He will if he needs to. He loves Chibi-usa almost as much as I do," Endymion told her.
"But you know what really matters is how much he loves Ami and the other senshi," Haruka countered.
"Not more than Chibi-usa that's for sure," Hotaru responded.
"But what I don't understand is, no matter which way you do it there will be no Chibi-usa," Setsuna told them.
They all turned to stare at her.
"Think about it, if he does revive the Ocean's Rose, Chibi-usa will fade out of existence, but if he doesn't and all the senshi die then," Setsuna began.
"Usagi will be killed and there will be no one to give birth to her," Michiru finished.
Setsuna nodded.
Endymion stared at Setsuna horrified. Usagi had a clone too; he had forgotten about that.
"Then there's no other choice but to beat them. If the Inner Senshi can just be strong enough for one moment, give as much energy as Ami did, then it might be possible," Endymion prayed as he spoke.
The Outer Senshi nodded, and they all walked out.
Chibi-usa laid in Helios' arms and when they walked out Hotaru rolled her eyes to Endymion who was shutting the door, and they quickly separated. Chibi-usa whispered a quick thank you to Hotaru, and Hotaru smiled back.
"Makoto wake up it's almost eleven o'clock," Minako shook her awake.
Makoto sat up and blinked looking around. She counted senshi and noticing everyone there, with the exception of Mamoru, smiled, maybe they could do this.
"What have you decided?" Helios asked nervously; he didn't want to loose her.
"We're going to fight them," Haruka told him.
He almost died all over again, only with happiness this time, "Re..really?"
Michiru nodded smiling at his expression.
Ami heaved a sigh of relief as did Chibi-usa.
Setsuna laughed and walked over to her student, "He's not going to kill you…trust me," she whispered.
Ami looked at her curiously, and Endymion watched Setsuna, scowling at her.
"Shouldn't someone go tell Rei?" Makoto asked.
Minako nodded and walked toward the bathroom to tell her.
"What about Mamoru? Shouldn't someone go and find him? He may be a threat to our plan," Haruka questioned.
"I'll go," Ami offered.
Everyone stared at her astounded she would offer.
"I need something to do," she smiled.
Endymion shook his head, "They know who you are, they'll find us. Helios you go."
"No!" Chibi-usa yelled standing up, "The enemy knows him too!"
"Small maiden calm down I'll be fine," he winked and walked out the door leaving Endymion looking at him suspiciously.
"Anyone up for breakfast?" Makoto asked destroying the silence that followed Helios' departure.
The Inner Senshi agreed immediately, and the Outer's looked at them curious at their anxiousness to eat.
"No one cooks like Makoto!" Usagi shouted.
"You should know, you've eaten enough of her cream puffs to make your head explode," Luna told her jumping onto Mamoru's counter with some difficulty.
"That's okay Minako's eaten so many that her head has turned into a creampuff," Artemis jumped beside her.
"Oh yeah?!" Minako demanded of her cat guardian, "How about if I grind you up into marshmallow fluff and make you a creampuff?"
Everyone laughed at this remark and agreed happily for the food.
"Oh no!" Chibi-usa shouted.
They all stared and gave her questioning glances.
"I left Diana at home when I went to have ice-cream with Ami! She's still there!" Chibi-usa shouted.
"Artemis," Luna jumped off the counter followed by Artemis.
"Who knows what kind of trouble she's giving Usagi's mom," Artemis and Luna ran out the door Haruka opened for them.