*Note*

Sailor moon is not mine, nuts eh. Oh well, lol.

The noise of birds chirping woke Shay up. He rolled over in bed, groaning. "Damn it, can't a guy get some sleep," he groaned, throwing the pillow over his head.

He lay there another few minutes before getting up. He blinked his eyes to the sunlight that was pouring into his room.

He headed to the kitchen to get a bite to eat. He rubbed his eyes as he walked, yawning.

Shay reached the kitchen, and made himself some toast. He could still hear the birds chirping outside. Shay loved his apartment, but there were times he cursed that he was in a building so near to the birds.

He glanced at the clock, seeing that he had half an hour before he needed to go work.

Shay went and got dressed. He picked out some khakis and a blue dress shirt. He was going to take the kids on a field trip to the temple, where he was to show them the beauty of the hillside, and the culture they could experience from the temple. It also was the last field trip before their last day of school, at the end of the week. Then he'd have a few months for summer vacation.

When he arrived at the school, the kids were anxiously waiting to go on their field trip. It hadn't taken too long for the children to absolutely adore Shay. To them, he seemed almost like a big kid.

They left the school, and headed for the temple, with Shay leading the way. He started them singing some songs, causing people to look at them curiously.

When they arrived at the temple, the cherry trees that lined the hill awed the children. Shay himself loved the beauty of the hill. When they got to the temple, an old man greeted them. He was short, and his eyes were squinted, but he had a wide smile on his face.

"Why hello children, come to see me," he chuckled.

The children took to his friendliness. He led them to the gong, and got each of them to ring it. That seemed to fascinate them. He showed them around the grounds, and introduced them to a young man named Chad, that worked at the temple.

Shay found him amusing, sure that his rocker look was the only thing he had to tie him to his dreams. After that, Shay let the kids go for lunch. A few boys finished in no time, and went to chasing each other wildly. One tripped, and crashed into a tree, knocking himself out cold.

Shay rushed to the fallen boy, trying to revive him. Many of the students went into a panic, particularly the girls. Chad, who had seen what happened, had fled inside the temple. Shay tried to revive the boy, but it proved to be more difficult then he had hoped.

Chad came then, with a girl with long black hair tied back with a red ribbon. She looked at the boy, "Bring him along," she told Shay, not even looking at him.

Shay did as she told him, feeling he should do as the girl told him. He scooped the boy into his arms, and followed the girls in traditional temple robes.

She led him into the temple, taking him to a room where he could lay the boy down. Shay watched as the girl wiped the boy's head with a cool cloth then waved a strange paper over his face.

Then the boy blinked, and looked at the girl, then at Shay. Then he sat up. "What happened?" he asked.

The girl smiled at him; "you knocked yourself out. But, I think you're just fine."

"Really?" he asked.

She nodded. "Now, I'm sure you want to go outside, but know now to be careful," she warned in a sterner voice.

The boy nodded his head, then darted from the room.

Shay turned to the girl, "thank you…"

"Rei," she said, finally turning to look at him. Rei stopped as she looked at the man. He was handsome, but it was his aura that caught her attention. It seemed very much alive with power that she had never seen before. Something moved, like it had a liveliness that seemed powerful.

Shay looked at Rei. There was something about her. There was definitely something about her that caused a stir in him. Is it because she's a pretty girl? He asked himself. However, he shook that thought from his head. She was just someone close to the temple.

"Are you the boy's father?" Rei asked him, although she was sure that he seemed too young to have a boy that old.

He shook his head, "no, he's one of my students. I brought them to the temple to show them something new that they should experience."

Rei smiled. She hadn't quite seen a man like this one. He seemed so dedicated to his students, but also in life.

"Well, you really should make sure they take it easy. They don't need to disturb the sanctuary."

"I will do that."

"Thank you…"

"Shay," he introduced himself. "It was nice meeting you, but I really should get back to my students. They're great but you can't leave them for long, otherwise they could cause everything to destruct."

Rei smiled. "I'll walk you out."

They returned outside, where the children were scattered about doing their own thing. Some were exploring the temple grounds with wonder; others just to release some of their young energy.

"Well, I must cage the young beasts," Shay said to Rei, turning to her, extending his hand.

Rei took it, and shook it. Her mind flashed with fire. Rei looked at Shay closely, curious as to what the flash meant.

Shay looked at her, feeling lost in déjà vu. There was something, but he couldn't place his finger on it. "Well," he smiled. "Nice meeting you."

"Same," she answered.

Shay turned, and went to gather his students. A few students had joined him after his parting with Rei, making little kissing noises. He gave them a stern look, which only caused them to laugh.

Shay got the students together, and told them a story that he had heard from someone about the temple.

From the temple, Rei watched Shay tell the kids the story. Her mind was wild with curiosity. She turned and went to her sacred fire. Chad watched her go; knowing that he mustn't disturb her.

She knelt before the fire, clasping her hands together. She moved them in the manner that prayed the language to the fire spirit. She had her eyes closed, and her mind open to the spirit of the fire. The fire grew large, nearly hitting the ceiling.

An image of darkness surrounded her, and then she saw a beam of light. It stretched for a great distance, and she could feel that it was stronger then any normal light. Then the fire shrank back to normal size, and then blankness in her open mind.

"Damn," she cursed.

Rei opened her eyes and looked at the fire. She slumped forward with a deep sigh. "It doesn't make any sense," she whispered.

There was something about Shay, yet the vision didn't help her all that much. She got up, and went to her room. She was no sooner in her room when she heard her phone ring. She picked it up, "hello?"

"Hey Rei, it's Mina, I was just wondering if I left my notebook there yesterday?"

Rei glanced to the table on the side of her wall, in her room, seeing the blue notebook. "Yeah Mina, it's here."

"Hey, is anything the matter?" Mina asked. She heard something in Rei's voice. Having such a close tie with all the scouts, Mina knew something was up.

"Well," she started. Rei explained about Shay and the vision that didn't quite make sense to her.

"I see," Mina answered after listening to Rei. "Well, we'll have to get the cats to do some investigating. And I'm sure Amy will help with information."

Rei seemed more at ease. It wasn't that Shay gave off negative vibes, but there was question to his whole power.

"Well, what about your notebook?" Rei asked.

"Oh," Mina laughed. "I'll come over now to get it. Maybe we could go for some ice cream."

Rei frowned, "well, you better expect to find meatball head there. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear that she lived at the arcade's café."

Mina laughed, "well, that's Serena. You have to love her for all her quirks."

Rei only shook her head, "well, that's all she has to give. So, I guess I'll see you soon."

"Yep," Mina said.

"Okay, see you soon."

"Alright bye Rei."

Rei hung up the phone, then went to lie down on her bed. She dozed off a little when she heard a knock on her door. "Yes?"

"Mina's here," her grandfather said, sliding her door open.

"Thank you Grandpa."

He smiled, and moved along, doing a little dance and song as he went.

Rei shook her head. "That's grandpa."

Mina laughed. "Come on Rei," she said grabbing her book. "Let's go get some ice cream, it'll help hearten you up," she smiled.

"Just need to change first," she said, going to her dresser. She looked through the clothes, then moved to her closet. After searching through all her clothes, she threw on white Capri pants and a red tank top.

After she was dressed, Rei and Mina headed away from the temple, into town where they headed towards the ice cream shop.

"Did Amy tell you?" Mina asked.

Rei looked at her. "What?"

"About the forest, about the woods. There's like something weird going on, there was some kind of fire."

"Fire?" Rei asked, piqued with concern. "Was it something from the Imperium?"

Mina shrugged, "Too hard to tell."

"Well, maybe we should call a meeting. It seems like we have a bit to discuss."

Mina nodded. "Definitely."

They came to the arcade, and entered, heading to the café. It had a few people. Rei headed towards the booth near the window, with Mina following her. They plopped into their seats.

A sweet girl with brown hair, with freckles came over to their table. "What can I get you?"

"A ice cream sundae," Rei said.

Mina cringed her nose, trying to decide what to get. "I'll get a banana split."

"Okay," the girl said, then turned and left Mina and Rei to themselves. Rei looked around. There wasn't really anybody in there, not even Serena.

Mina put her elbows on the table and propped her chin on her hands. She let out a small yawn, then looked at Rei. "So, how are things with you? Things going good at the temple, Chad doing well?"

Rei blushed like usual at the mention of Chad. I don't know what's up with Chad. He seems to be doing well enough that he's always there," she smiled faintly. "But then Grandpa, well he's just grandpa. Then, I don't know. I guess it's pretty normal."

Mina smiled. "Well, take it as a compliment that life is going easy. It's hard to say when we'll have to be on full throttle on the Imperium attacks."

Rei was about to say something when the girl returned with their ice cream. When the waitress left, Rei looked at Mina, "I guess life is always the way you take it."

* * *

Leta rolled her neck; Serena was gabbing on about Darien. She loved Serena, but there were times that she was a real pill. "Serena," she said interrupting her talkathon. "Did you hear that we're going to have a scout meeting tonight?"

Serena looked at Leta. "Yeah, Amy told me about it this morning in class. Why?"

"Just wanted to make sure that you had your mind awake to everything else."

Serena gaped at her. "Leta!"

She laughed, "At least I got a word in edgewise."

Serena shut her mouth. They kept walking. They were heading towards the arcade where they hoped that they would run into a certain person. Leta had Andrew in mind, and Serena had Darien, of course.

They came to a crosswalk. The corner was crowded with people waiting for the light to change so they may cross. Serena and Leta waited. When they finally crossed, they passed Shay.

When Shay walked past the two girls, he doubled back his attention. His mind seemed to have another déjà vu, but now with these two girls. One had brown hair, pulled back in a ponytail. She was very tall. The other one was a bit shorter, and had blond hair, put up in pigtails.

He looked back, bumping into the person walking in front of him. "Sorry," he apologized to the woman.

She smiled at him. "It's okay."

Shay continued on his way, wondering about his past few days, and the encounters that he had had. It seemed a little strange to him.

Serena spotted Darien and Andrew up ahead talking in front of the arcade. She took a hold of Leta's hand, and ran towards them. "Darien! Andrew! Hi!"

They both turned to face her. They waved and smiled. Leta and Serena approached them, with smiles of their own.

"Hey meatball head," Darien said with a cool smile.

Serena smiled back. She would never be able to forget that smile of his. It was etched forever in her memory, and heart where it would stay as one of the precious things.

Darien hugged her, and kissed her on the forehead. Serena beamed.

"So what's up meatball head?"

"Not too much," she answered.

Leta turned to Andrew, who seemed to carry the same solemn expression that he had for about two weeks. "What's up with you? You don't look to great."

Andrew half smiled. "Well, Rita sent me an email telling me about how she's doing."

Leta frowned, as she always did, thinking that Andrew had something to keep her from him. "Well, how's she doing?" she asked in a composed voice.

"She seems to be doing well. However, she told me that something's come up, and that we need to talk. So I called her, and she tells me all about Blake."

"Who's Blake?" Serena asked.

"Well, as of now, he's Rita's new boyfriend."

A triumphant shout roared in Leta's heart. She put a sympathetic hand on his shoulder giving it a light squeeze. "That really is too bad," she said, "but it will get better for you," she said sweetly.

Andrew smiled at her. "I know, but it's going to take some time to get over it."

Serena jumped as she felt her watch vibrate, and heard the incoming beeps. She stepped away from Darien, Andrew and Leta. She flipped the top, seeing Amy's face on the mini screen.

"What's up?" Serena whispered.

"Something's come up, we need to meet as soon as we can."

"Sure, "Leta's here with me, I'll bring her. We're on our way."

"Okay."

Then Amy was gone. Serena stepped back with the others. "Well, I think me and Leta should be on our ways. We promised we'd meet up with Rei and everyone up at the temple, and you know how Rei is."

Darien and Leta cast her a look. Leta looked from Andrew to her, then sighed in resignation. "Yeah, we'd better go." She smiled at Andrew then at Darien, "see you guys soon."

Serena and her started walking, looking back to wave good bye.

"What's up?" Leta asked.

"Amy wants us to have the meeting now."

"Oh," she said.

It wasn't too long before they were at the temple, by the pond. Amy was sitting on a rock, reading through data on her palm computer. Rei was feeding the fish, while Mina basked in the sun with Luna and Artemis by her side.

"Great everyone's here," Amy said, looking up.

"What's going on?" Serena asked.

Rei explained to them about Shay, and the vision that she had had. "Well, that could mean a lot of things."

"Yes, but I can't seem to find much about him."

Luna looked up at Amy, then to Artemis. "Well, that opening that caused the explosion is a portal for the Imperium of sorts."

Everyone looked at Luna.

"Well, it just seems that we're going to prepare a fight against the Imperium. Strange vibes have been coming from the forest where the portal opening was."

"Plus, there has been a strange energy pull. Those woods seem almost like there's nothing there. No sounds or anything," Amy said.

Mina looked at everyone, "so what does that mean?" she asked. "Is the Imperium wanting to fight with us?"

Amy typed up on her computer, "Well, it says here that the force of the portal is moved, and it's…"

"Where?" Leta asked, cracking her knuckles.

"It's coming from a tree, and the power is trying to expand. It's not causing any disruptions to Earthlings, only expanding."

"Which can only mean that they want to prepare themselves for something big," Rei said absentmindedly. "Yet, I'm still curious as to this Shay guy. His aura, is something like I've never seen, it's powerful."

"Well, I don't know," Amy said thoughtfully. "But, I guess we're all going to have to keep our eyes open."

They all nodded in agreement.

* * *

Shay sat on the park bench, reading through his book. People, who were just out for a nice walk, passed by him. Shay paid no attention to them. He just read, feeling the warmth of the sun on his back.

He turned the page, just as a Frisbee came flying towards him. He didn't look up, but out stretched his hand and caught it mid air. He was lowering his arm, when a girl came over to him. "Wow, that's pretty neat," she laughed.

Shay looked up to see a sweet blonde-haired girl. Her hair was long, and half-tied back with a red ribbon. Her eyes were an amazing sparkling blue. Her face was sweet, and her lips very kiss worthy.

Still holding the Frisbee, he smiled. "I guess this is your Frisbee."

She smiled, and nodded. "But how did you…?"

He lowered his arm, "oh, just always had reflex."

"Well, that can always be handy," she smiled.

"Here," he said, handing back her Frisbee. "I guess you want it back to play some more, or to throw at other sitting people in the park," he laughed.

"Yeah, sorry about that. When I went to throw it to the other person, I tripped, and sent it flying in the other direction."

"Well, maybe it was a twist of fate…?" he said, fishing for her name.

"Mina," she smiled.

"Very pretty."

She blushed, "thank you. And you?"

"Shay."

Her eyes widened for a second and her hands faltered.

Shay caught it. "What, has my reputation reached to the very outskirts of the world?"

"Oh no, just the other day, my friend Rei told me about meeting you at the temple. I just found it a weird coincidence, that's all."

Shay looked at her, "Rei?" he asked silently. "Oh yeah, that's right. Huh, so you two are friends?"

Mina nodded. She looked at him carefully. She did see the same thing that Rei saw, and that was his lively aura of power. "Been friends for years."

"Well, friendship is always great to have."

"So, you enjoying the book you're reading?" she asked him, catching sight of the book in his hand.

He looked at the book, almost forgetting about it. "Yeah, it seemed to be interesting, but this is more better," he smiled.

Again, she blushed. For some odd reason, Mina felt something. It wasn't a feeling of awareness or of déjà vu, but of genuine interest. He looked so kind with his green eyes sparkling with life, and fire. His face seemed so gentle and manly.

It was clear that he was older then her, but not by much, maybe five years at the max. But it was something, something that drew her to him, made her compelled to want to touch him, run her fingers through his hair.

Shay moved aside on the bench, "would you like to have a seat?" he asked.

She smiled, "I'd love to stay and chat with you Shay." Truly, she really did want to. "But, I really should get back to my friend."

"Sure," he said. "Maybe we'll bump into each other again," he smiled.

I really hope so, she thought. "Maybe," she smiled warmly.

"Well, you have a nice day then Mina," he smiled, standing up and extending his hand to her.

She shook it, feeling a shock. She laughed to cover it up, then smiled again. "Well bye Shay, you have a nice day too."

With that she turned and left, leaving Shay in wonderment.

Mina headed back to Leta. She held the Frisbee up. "I found it."

"Great," Leta smiled, as she stood up from the rock she was sitting on. "Did it hit anybody?"

Mina shook her head, "no, Shay caught it midair."

Leta looked at her, "Shay?" she asked. Mina nodded. "What was he doing?" she asked Mina, who seemed to have a mysterious twinkle in her eyes.

"Oh, he was just reading. But Rei is right, he does have something about it, but…"

"What?"

"I'm not too sure that it's necessarily bad. He's very nice," she smiled.

Leta then understood. Mina had never been one to be a boy crazy girl, which used to be the case with Serena before she had Darien. Mina was just a sweet girl that changed her entire life when she joined with the scouts.

Mina had come from London, and was the actress and model for Sailor V. But the battle against Queen Beryl called for her to be with the other scouts. And since then she's remained with them.

"Well, we'll have to see," she said carefully.

Mina looked at Leta carefully, noticing that she had been in a very good mood since before they started the meeting, and it was hardly wrecked by the meeting either. "So, what's that special something?"

Leta looked at Mina. There was never anything that that girl missed. She might take on a lot of things, but she always kept close with her friends.

"Well, Andrew's girlfriend," she started.

"What about her?"

"She broke up with him."

"Oh, I see. Does that now leave him for you?" Mina asked with a sly wink.

"I'm hoping."

"Well, we'll see," she said, throwing Leta's words back at her.

Leta scowled, "Venus, you really are something."

Mina's eyes sparkled with laughter. "Don't forget yourself."

Leta shook her head. "How about we go see the others, I'm sure it would be a nice day for it," she suggested.

Mina nodded. Then they started to walk. Mina smiled at Shay's face in her mind, I wonder about you.

Shay, himself couldn't remove Mina from his mind. She was something so sweet, so caring that he wished that he could have talked to her a bit longer. But walking from the park, he decided that maybe he should try to either go to the temple again, or, come back to the park again, hoping to see her again.

Either way, he knew he'd see her again.

* * *

The Emperor sat looking out the window. The shadows were overlapping him. He heard a knock at the door. "Yes?"

The door opened, and the general walked in. "Word on Shay?" the Emperor asked.

"Sorry imperial majesty, but there has been nothing."

"Well try harder, we need that boy. It wasn't his conscious decision. We need his power, and never does the imperial family join with the mere mortals."

"Yes, imperial great one."

"And general, if he's not found, you'll be considered greatly under investigation."

"Yes Emperor."

"Dismissed, now go. And next time you better have word on where Shay is, otherwise I'll be very put out."

The general bowed, then left the room.

The Emperor looked to the shadows again. "Find him," he ordered. The shadows bowed, and left his sight. "He will be found," he whispered. His voice echoed through the Imperium, sounding as the crashing thunder.



* * *

Darien looked at Serena; she looked adorable in the summer dress that she was wearing. He couldn't resist touching her. He kissed her on the lips.

She smiled when they parted. "Why Darien, had I known you would've loved the dress this much, I would have bought one of every color," she laughed.

"So, what's up meatball head?" he asked, taking her hand, as they walked down the street.

"Well, not really too much. The Imperium's on the low profile."

"Well, as long as it stays that way for a while."

Serena sighed.

"What's wrong?" Darien asked her.

"It's just that… well… it seems that we have so much for a lifetime. I mean I'm the moon princess from a thousand years ago. I was reborn, we all were. Then we try to live normal lives. Yet, then we go on to have our future. So, we live now, but really we already have this future made up, where we rule Crystal Tokyo and have a daughter."

Darien looked thoughtfully at Serena. She was really beginning to grow. She still could be klutzy, but she really was growing up. Four years of fighting brought out a woman that she needed to be.

"Yes, but what bothers you about it?"

She laughed, "what we don't know, is how we're going to wake the Crystal Tokyo."

Darien smiled. "When the time comes we'll see. But, muffin, we really do make of most of the destiny on our own, we just happen to know a little bit about the future."

Serena blew a puff of air, blowing her bangs up in the air. "Darien," she said, putting her head on his shoulder. "I love you."

Darien smiled, "love you too."

Serena kept close to Darien, as they walked down the street. They reached the corner when the windows of the store behind them shattered. Darien covered Serena's body with his, shielding her from the glass.

The glass flew everywhere. When it settled, Darien and Serena looked up to see what happened. All they saw was a dark shadow. "What is it?" Serena whispered to Darien.

He shook his head, shrugging his shoulders. "But I think…"

The shadow spread, and hit the windows of the entire street behind them. They shattered into millions of pieces. Darien kept Serena on the ground, shielding her body with his.

Serena hit a button on her watch, "Scouts," she called out. "On Main Street there's a shadow attacking."

They heard her call, and moved to attack. Shay had been walking on the other side of the street heading to his apartment. He had a few cuts from the glass that landed on him. He saw a girl in front of him, standing stunned. He grabbed her and slung her to the ground. "You have to stay down."

She gasped, "well, thank you," she said quietly.

When the glass stopped flying, Shay stood, and helped the girl stand. "Sorry if I scared you, but you could have been hit, a big shard was headed towards you. The girl thanked him again, and then went into the building. Shay guessed it to be where she worked.

Shay looked around; he saw that glass was everywhere. People got up from the ground figuring it was now safe. The whole street across from him was now windowless. The glass from all the buildings spread all over the street.

He felt a warm trickle on the side of his face. He put his finger to the source, and looked at his finger to see his own blood. He groaned; that was just what he needed.

The cut didn't feel that bad. Probably only needed a Band-Aid. He noticed people looking curiously at the windows, and the shattered glass. Shay himself wondered what caused the commotion. He had been walking. Then it just happened.

He heaved a sigh, then went on his way to his apartment, where he planned to tend to his wound.

The shadow had disappeared by the time the scouts had arrived. Serena was shaken up by what happened. Clinging to Darien was her only support.

She tried to explain to the scouts what happened. However, the glass spread all over the street explained enough to the scouts. Amy was trying to figure out what the shadow was, but that was difficult. The shadow had come and gone.

A few ambulances arrived shortly after the shattering of the glass. There was about a dozen people that were seriously hurt. Many had a few nicks, Serena included.

Darien had been more serious then Serena, being that he was nearer to the glass, and he shielded Serena with his own body.

There were some gashes on his back, which required some heavy bandaging. Darien really didn't want to go to a hospital, so when the scouts arrived, a paramedic was arguing with Darien about the issue.

Rei looked at Serena. "How are you?"

She shrugged, " I think it was just scary because it came out of nowhere."

Amy shook her head; "it came from the Imperium."

Serena looked at Amy, still holding onto Darien's hand as he argued with the paramedic. She was only going to let it go on for another minute, before she stepped in and told Darien that he was going to listen to the paramedic.

"The energy patterns the same way any other creature from the Imperium does. So, the Imperium has no let loose it's dominions."

Serena shuddered. "That means that we won't we able to do much of anything. The Imperium scum could be anywhere."

Leta shouldered Mina, who was looking distantly off in the distance. "What's up girl?" she asked.

Mina blinked her eyes as if waking from a dream. "Hmm?"

Leta half smiled. "I knew it, you…" she said, then lowering her voice to a whisper, "you have it bad for Shay."

Mina's eyes widened in some surprise. "Leta, what makes you think that?"

Leta looked at her with an eyebrow raised. "Mina, you're one of my best friends, how do I not know you so well. I can just tell that he reached you."

Mina blushed furiously. "Don't worry your secret is safe with me."

Mina smiled gratefully.

Amy looked up at the two of them. "Will you two be able to make it to a meeting tomorrow morning?" she asked.

They both nodded. Then Rei told her she would make it too, and Serena just solemnly nodded her agreement to the meeting.

Finally Serena turned to Darien, "Muffin, come on, I'll go with you to the hospital. But maybe, just maybe could we get him bandaged up at the ambulance?" Serena asked the paramedic.

He nodded eagerly, he was relieved that he could tend to Darien, then get on to the other patients.

Serena turned to the scouts; "I'm just going to go with…"

Rei motioned her to go. Serena went with Darien and the paramedic to get Darien's back treated. They cleaned it, then bandaged it up, although they considered giving him stitches they were that deep. Once that was done, Serena and Darien went back to the scouts.

"Well," Rei said thoughtfully, "I guess we have an enemy with no face."

Leta growled, "I hate those kind of enemies. If it's really the Imperium that is attacking with shadows, then we have difficult times coming to us."

Amy shrugged, "it just might mean that it'll take longer. I don't really think that they'll have all the advantages. There was some strange energy wave motion near the forest where the gap was. So, there is a possibility that we can learn when they're releasing the fighters."

Mina looked to the direction, which was the forest; "I really hope so."

Serena sighed, "I do too."

Darien clutched her closer to him, flinching slightly at the pain in his back. He really hoped that Amy was right. Otherwise, they would end up being in the undertow of their attacks and energy.

Serena looked at the shattered glass, and the now windowless buildings. "I wonder what they wanted?"

* * *

The general looked at the 'det standing before him. "What do you want?" he asked in a brisk voice.

"There was a flaw in the mission today sir," the young lad answered.

"What happened?" he asked the 'det, whirling around to face him. He trembled slightly at the fierceness of the general's eyes.

"We were initiating the search for the wanted body, and there was a street that shattered it's entire glass content on the one side."

The general's eyes flashed. Then he sighed in resignation. "You never mind that. It's the Emperor's other dominions. You stick to your mission and keep your noses clean of the Ferriks."

"Yes sir."

"Dismissed."

The 'det left the office, leaving the general to shake his head. He knew the emperor was losing his patience. However, the computer glitched when they tried to find Shay. If he was hit right away by the blank waves while proceeding with the closing of the portico, then there may be a chance that the system was blanked of his recorded location on Earth.

Nevertheless, he thought, if the Emperor finds Shay before we do. Then it's the end for a lot of people.

The general headed to the window looking towards the imperial quarters. It was the towers above the city that held the power in its palm, which held the imperial family. He looked to the tower that held the emperor, high above everything.

He saw the shadow descend from the sky to the Emperor's tower. The general swallowed nervously. The Ferriks were something that held the most power in the Imperium next to some Imperium members. "Shay must be more important then we know."

* Note *

Well, this is coming along as good as I can hope, make comments to tell me what you think. And please do, because I really need to know what you think. I don't know if I should continue, because this is my first fan fic.