Underwater garden
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor moon. I can't afford to buy her. I'm just the writer

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Underwater Garden
By Minkey55; -D (heather25_uk@yahoo.co.uk).

Chapter 1
Mina was very worried as the she knew this would be the hardest thing she would have to do in her entire life. She had to conquer her fear of water. Before she became a Sailor Scout (or pursued her crime fighting life as Sailor V) she was involved with a psycho. Who had kidnapped her and tried to kill her. Ever since then she was terrified of the water. Some times when her friends (Lita, Ray, Amy, & Serena) went swimming she always found a way around it by saying that she had already made other plans. It was the same at the beach she would sit on her towel while her friends played in the sea and they begged her to join them but she always refused. Just the sight of the water made Mina feel sick. She had seen his garden of people under there. HIS garden at the bottom of Expansion Lake. All his victims dressed in Wedding dresses, Swimming costumes, ball gowns, medieval dresses and just normal clothes. All looked like they were dancing in the underwater currents.
Mina had put all of this in her past and tried to continue with her life. But it was hard for she had not seen his garden once or twice but three times, once when he tried to kill her. A second with the police to try and identify the spot, and a third time when her tried to kill her again for destroying his garden. He had told her then that he would just start again and that she would be the first in his new garden.
Mina had almost forgotten about it and no one else knew about it but the police officers that handled the case. Not even Artemis knew for he had meet up with her a year after this had happened and then during that year she joined up with the scouts.
It was now Minas 18th birthday and she knew that the rest of the scouts were planning something for her. She had known them for about two years now and she loved them dearly like sisters.
Mina knew they would do something for her 18th birthday because she had already thrown parties for everyone, except Darien (But she helped Serena on that one). So she was expecting pay back for there parties.
She got home after another long battle with one of Prince Diamonds dories and collapsed onto her bed. With fatigue setting in she was soon asleep where she had her usual dream about HIS garden.
She sat bolt up right on her bed sweating. Artemis was at the end of her bed looking very worried. He was the first to break the silence.
" Whats wrong?" he asked in his usual caring tone.
"what do you mean?" She replied nervously *OH MY GOD! I hope I don't talk in my sleep or something *Mina thought.
"You were screaming and thrashing about. I was worried when I heard you scream and came in to find you throwing your arms about every where." he stated as he moved slowly down the bed to sit down by her side. * I've got to find out whats wrong with her *He thought carefully looking into her eyes trying to find any thing. But all he could see was fear in her eyes.
"oh don't worry it was just a bad dream I guess but I cant rembered most of it now..." she knew she was lying and she hated doing It. "..so lets forget about it ok." *oh please let him buy it*
"Ok Mina. Just one question ok ?"
"Shoot."
"Who's Jack?" he asked and as he watched her reaction he saw pain shoot across her face.
"Jack. Jack who?" knowing perfectly well who jack was.
"you kept screaming his name out over and over again. And you kept saying something about a garden. Whats all this about Mina? Tell me! Who's this Jack? And What Garden? And..."
Mina cut him off there "LOOK" she snapped which made Artemis jump back falling backwards off the bed. He had never heard her raise her voice to anyone like that before. He knew now that she didn't want to talk about it, but he had to find out. "You said one question. Ok!" she said as she calmed down.
"Well?" he prompted. Getting up off the floor.
"Well what?"
"Who's Jack?"
Minas eyes started to fill with tears "He is...was my fiancée." she replied quietly and with that she collapsed back onto her bed and cried into her pillow. Artemis jumped bask onto the bed and tried to comfort her.
"Look I'm sorry Mina. I didn't know...I'm sorry."
Mina turned her head to the side and gave a little half smile "oh Artemis it's not your fault. No one knows. So please could you just keep this between the two of us ok. I don't want the others to start feeling sorry for me ok."
"Ok Mina "he said then with a little smile he lept from her bed and walked towards the door. As he reached the door he turned to look back at her and said " Mina I'd get cleaned up a bit. Other wise you'll be asked whats wrong all night. And you know as mush as I do they don't take lies for answers." Mina nodded knowing that he'd seen through her lies earlier, and talking his hint about her friends coming round. She smiled at him softly
"Thank you. Artemis I owe you BIG time."
"That's ok Mina. You just didn't hear it from me ok." He said winking at her. She took the hint.
"Hear what?" she giggled and went off to have a shower.
Down stairs Artemis let Serena and the gang in to set up for a night of different moves.
"Hi party animal. Where's the owner of this fine place?" Serena asked.
"She's having a shower up stairs so set up down here. Quietly ok." He told them. So they filled out of the hallway and went there separate ways.
Amy and Serena went into the sitting room with a pile of videos they'd borrowed from Darien, and to set up a few other things to make her night special. Mainly make up and some hair care stuff because they had planned to give her a make over. And something to set the mood.
Lita and Raye made there way to the kitchen with about five or six bags of ingredients. When Lita reached he kitchen she almost fainted when she saw it. She had seen how bad Serena's place was (That looked like a nuke had hit the place.) and this... This was worse. This looked like a several nukes had hit it after a couple of herds of elephant had gone through.
"Well..." Lita said putting down her bags and rolling up her sleeves "we'd better get started on this mess." looking at the still shocked Raye. Raye just nodded her head in response. After about 3 minutes Amy and Serena joined in and they were finished in about 5 minutes. And Lita got started on her surprise.
Mina could smell something from downstairs she knew it was her friends but she wasn't meant to know that so she called down "Artemis. Are you cooking something down there?" As she raped her hair up in a towel and made sure that her dressing gown was tied up tight enough and that nothing was showing. As she made her way down stairs there was only two lights on the kitchen light and the sitting room light. She headed for the sitting room when she heard something in the kitchen so she span around and headed in that direction. When she came around the corner she gasped her kitchen was clean and in the middle slaving over the cooker was Lita.
"Lita did you do all this? " Mina asked. Lita turned around to face her with a smile (and flour)on her face
"Yeh with a little help from them." she said as she pointed to Amy, Raye and Serena who were standing behind her. She gave them all a hug.
"Thanks you guys. I'll try to keep it this way. "
"You'd better!" threatened Lita waving a spatula at her "Now go and sit down this IS meant to be a surprise you know!"
"OK" said all four at the same time. As Amy, Raye and Serena dragged Mina into the sitting room Mina gasped again there were candles everywhere, though none were lit yet.
"You are getting a make over" Amy said
" Like you gave us" Raye added in
"And you have to keep the style for a week ok?" finished Serena rembering how she had to keep her hair down for a week to satisfy Mina.
"Ok" Mina agreed.
Soon after the room was filled with laughter when Lita came in with the food. Six trays of different types of food there was some English dishes, some French dishes, some Italian dishes, some Indian dishes, some American dishes, and some Japanese dishes as well. Mina's eyes bulged when she saw all the trouble her friend must have gone through to do this for her. She stood up and gave Lita the biggest hug she could, which did in fact knock the wind out of her for a second.
"You guys didn't have to do all this for me you know."
"We know but you did this for us." Lita told her
"Yeh so it's only right that you get it back eleven fold." Said Serena.
And they all giggled
"You mean ten fold Serena" Mina said
"NO I know what I said. And I'm sticking to it eleven is higher then ten so that's better!"
"Ok Serena what ever you say." Mina and Raye said together. Making them giggle even more.
"So..." Amy said "what shall we watch first?"
"What have you got?"
"Well we borrowed most of them from Darien so lets see...there's...." As Serena went through the list mina wasn't really paying attention she would go with what everyone else liked she picked up a few of the titles though
"...Never been kissed...Alien 3...Underwater garden...Never ending story! Oops how did that get in there" Serena giggled then looked towards Mina with alarm "Mina whats wrong?"
"Nothing" She said shaking off that awful feeling "What was that title again?"
"The Never ending story?..."
"No before that!"
"Oh underwater garden. It sounds good doesn't it. Shall I read the back out?"
"Yes." Amy, Raye and Lita said together.
"I know it all ready" Mina said under my breath know one heard her but Artemis. who gave her a knowing look. So Serena started reading
" Up in Canada there is a seclude lake where people some times come to fish. But one man goes there to garden. But his garden is different. His is an underwater garden of people he collects. Day after Day he tends his garden, and he is always looking for his next addition to add to it."
"WOW that sounds good!" Raye and Lita said together. Artemis looked at Mina who hadn't said anything.
Serena read on "Hey you guys listen to this." As she read out the next bit from the back "This is from the real killers point of view. The storywriter did kill the girls and this is based on what happened to the girls and the one who got away safely. This movie is dedicated to her and the officer who saved her. Thanks to them He is locked away. And we have this movie for you. Enjoy." As Serena looked up every one had a look of shock on their faces.
"You mean that someone had done that!" said Raye
"That's disgusting!" added Lita
"lets watch it." Mina said quietly
they all looked round at Mina quite surprised at that reaction.
"Ok" they said and they put it on.
When it had finished and the credits came up Lita got up and went to turn it off and Mina went into the kitchen just glad that they hadn't said her name or shown a picture of her. Just then Amy said
"Wait Lita maybe they'll put the names of the people who stopped him?" She was right not long after the end of the credits a picture of a couple came up on the screen and every one gasped next to the picture was the words:
Based on a true story only the names have been changed.
We would like to thank the two main people who put this
criminal away for good
Jack Marled and his fiancée Mina (last name unknown)
Mina was the only Victim to walk away from the Garden.
And we dedicate this move to her.
Every on looked at each other is shock. They didn't notice the phone ringing or Mina answer it they did how ever hear something from the kitchen. They all ran in to find Mina as far from the phone as she could get. They could hear someone laughing on the other end. Then they heard a croaky voice on the other end it said
"The Gardens in Bloom But where are the dancers. Where are my baby's. You stole them from me now do you rembered me promise..." when he heard nothing he continued "Good. The Gardens in bloom come and dance. Mina Marled" then he laughed again before hanging up.
Lita put the hand set back on the hook and then went to comfort Mina
"Don't worry he wont get you we'll make sure of that! Wont we girls"
"Yeh." They all said together
"if he tries anything he's moon dust ok" Serena
"He should know better then to mess with lightning" Lita added
"Or fire!" chimed in Raye
"we'll teach him a lesson for picking on you!" Amy Said
"Thanks You Guys!" Mina said crying again.
"What was his promise?" Artemis asked. Everyone turned to see what Mina would say
"he said that when he started a new garden he'd pick the prettiest flower from his old garden and plant her in his new garden. And when he took me again he said I'd taken his baby's and I was his only flower left. He promised me he'd be back to plant me in his new garden." As she broke down into tears again she had no idea she was being watched .
"Soon my baby you will dance just like the others did. Along with your friends"
And the he disappeared into the night.
******************************to be continued ********************
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