Hahaha! I love this story! - Kawaiirochelle@hotmail.com
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Teaser: After a battle Darien comes home to find.... HIMSELF?!
Can Darien's past self really
help Darien teach himself a lesson?
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"NO! I am *NOT* Darien's girlfriend!"
Dare and Darien both turned to look at a fuming Serena. But
Darien could see her relax a bit as
she caught sight of his younger self. All of her anger ebbed
away as she smiled cheerily at the
boy.
"Hi! Who are you?" she asked, analyzing the similarities in
Darien and the boy.
"My name is Dare!"
Serena raised an eyebrow. "Ohhh, and are you baby-sitting
Darien? I can tell you right now he
can be a very mean and nasty little boy."
Dare giggled and Darien felt his face break out into a quirky
little grin. "So, you know all about
my mean and little nasty traits, Meatball Head?" Darien's grin
fell as Serena fixed a piercing
glare on him, not bothering to tell him off for the name
calling.
"So, are you two related?"
"Yeah."
"How are you related?" Serena asked. It was clear the two were
related and bore a huge family
resemblance, but Serena could detect something in Dare's eyes
that seemed to make the room a
little bit brighter.
"Darien is my futur-" Dare started, but the rest of the voice
was muffled as Darien clamped a firm
hand around Dare's mouth.
"Heh, heh. Always the joker Dare!" Darien said, firmly placing
one hand on the boy's shoulder,
pressing him down lightly, warning him not to say another word.
Serena's heart jolted as Dare tried to tell her that Darien was
his..... father? It had sounded like
Dare was going to say father! Serena could feel her jaw drop to
the floor as her book bag slipped
out of her hands, unnoticed. Darien watched as the girl went a
ghostly white and collapsed to the
floor. With quick reflexes, Darien reached down and caught her
head right before it came in
contact with the ground.
"Dare, go get Andrew."
A million thoughts flitted past Darien's mind as he bent down to
pick up the girl. Why had she
fainted? That seemed to be a popular thing to do. But still,
Darien couldn't place the look of
astonishment and fright on her face. There had even been a hint
of.... jealously? Darien shook his
head, trying to rid himself of all his thoughts. But what
happened next didn't help any.
"What did you do to her?!"
Darien looked up to see Lita rushing forward, looking extremely
pissed off at Darien. "What the
hell did you do to Serena?! You low life! Bastard! CREEP!" Lita
screamed, making all the heads
in the rapidly filling arcade turn to stare.
"I didn't do anything! She just fainted," Darien protested,
clutching Serena to him like a shield.
Thankfully, the next person that joined their conversation was
Andrew.
"What did you do to her?" he asked, surveying Darien and Lita,
not to mention the very limp
Serena.
Darien rolled his eyes and shouted. "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO
HER!!!! SHE FAINTED
AND I CAUGHT HER HEAD BEFORE IT HIT THE GROUND!!!"
Lita and Andrew jumped back in surprise and soon the tense
silence was broken by a loud crying.
"WAAAAHHH!" Dare screamed, throwing himself on Darien's leg. "I
wanna go home!!"
Darien looked tiredly down at Dare. He hadn't gotten the chance
to explain to Andrew exactly
who Dare was, but he trusted Andrew to come and help him. But
no, Andrew had apparently
decided that now was a better time to talk quietly with Lita
instead of helping Darien, which was
on the very edge of kicking somebody in the stomach, that is, if
Dare hadn't been wrapped around
his leg, screaming.
"Andrew!" Darien bellowed, "Help me get Dare off of my leg."
The blond rushed forward and pried Dare off of Darien's leg,
taking him into the back room.
"What did you do to her?" Mina asked, coming into the arcade
with Ami. The girl took a step
backward as Darien glared at her with a furious glare.
"I didn't do anything!" He growled through his teeth, his eyes
becoming a shade lighter with each
word. His eyes looked like they were gonna pop out of his head!
"Here," Ami said, stepping up to Darien. She held out her hand
at arm's length, as if she was
afraid that Darien was going to bite it off. In her palm a small
green pill rested. "Take this, it will
calm you down," she advised, signaling for Mina to get a glass
of water.
Mina rushed forward, spilling some of the water on herself, and
handed the glass to the fearful
Ami. As soon as Darien took the pill, thanks to Ami, he began to
feel his nerves relax. He
immediately calmed down and gingerly walked into the back room
to put Serena down.
***
"Are you sure that she is going to be okay?"
"Yes, now leave."
"I want to make sure she is okay!"
"Well, you aren't doing anything for her by being here, go do
something with Dare!"
"Like what?"
"I dunno, take him to the Zoo!!" Lita said, pushing Darien out
of the back room and closing the
door. Ami was crouched next to Serena and as soon as Darien was
out of sight, she pulled out her
minicomputer and started scanning her body.
***
"So they kicked you out, huh?" Andrew chuckled, seeing an
exasperated Darien ready to pound
on the door. Darien glared at him before raising his fists,
ready to knock on the door. But Andrew
said something first.
"So, wadda ya going to do with Dare?" Darien stopped and walked
back out into the arcade area.
"I don't know," he confessed, glancing around the arcade. "Where
is he by the way?"
"Over by the Sailor V game, he seems to have taken a liking to
it." Andrew said, pointing over to
the small machine, where Dare was happily punching away at
buttons and pulling the levers.
"Why don't you take him somewhere?" Andrew said, leaning down on
the counter.
"Like where......"
'I dunno, take him to the zoo!'
Lita's words echoed through his mind, and Darien soon smiled
again.
"The Zoo! I know, he will love the zoo!" Darien exclaimed,
banging his hand on the counter.
"Hey Dare, wanna go to the Zoo?" Darien yelled across the
arcade, catching Dare's attention. He
was answered with a wide, toothy grin and a squeal of
excitement.
"Hey Andrew, keep me posted on anything that happens with
Serena, okay?"
And without another word, Darien scooped up a giggling Dare and
walked out of the arcade.
***
Ami grinned and with a satisfied plunk, announced that she was
ready. Shoving the mini
computer back into her subzero space pocket, and faced the two
eagerly waiting girls.
"Well, what is it?" Lita asked.
Ami reached into her pocket and pulled out a pink pill. "This
should help her regain
consciousness."
Mina went once again into the kitchen to get another glass of
water and Lita helped Ami sit
Serena up. Serena's eyelids were heavily draped over her eyes,
and her breathing was normal,
though a bit shallow. When Mina came in with the water, Lita
propped back Serena's head and
helped Ami give Serena the pill.
Serena's eyelids fluttered open, seeing blurry and fuzzy images
of her three friends. "What
happened?" she asked, shaking her head as the images came into
sharper focus.
"You passed out, but Ami here gave you some drugs and you woke
up!" Mina said cheerily.
"DRUGS?!" Serena said, eyes wide open. Ami couldn't have been
doing drugs! It was absurd!
And even if so, Ami would have enough sense not to give the
drugs to Serena. Well.... the drugs
could have killed off some of Ami's brain cells....
"It was a simple waking solution mixed with the components of
water and
hydrochemmibotanitic* acid" Ami said smacking Mina on the side
of her head. Serena calmed
down a bit and soon, where she was came flooding back to her.
The Arcade! Darien-the little
boy----Dare-----Darien's son!!!
"Where is Darien?" Serena said worriedly, searching her friends
for answers.
"I kicked him out of the room as soon as you passed out!" Lita
boasted proudly.
"WHAT?!"
Ami, Lita and Mina stared at the blonde with a considerable
amount of shock. With lighting
quick movements, Serena was up and out the door, running towards
the counter of the arcade.
'Where is he?' Serena anxiously thought as her eyes scanned the
occupants of the room. Finally
her eyes rested on a blonde man in an apron.
Apron boy to the rescue!
Andrew turned around as he felt a light tapping on his shoulder.
His eyes lightened as he saw it
was Serena.
"Hey Serena! Are you feeling better?" he asked. But his cheerful
manner fell as he realized that
her face was portraying urgency. "What is it?" he asked, setting
down the heavy tray of dirty
dishes he had been carrying.
"Andrew, where is Darien?"
Andrew's eyebrows raised in surprise. "Darien, huh?" he asked
slyly.
"Shut up! It's not like that! I need to talk to him, about
Dare...."
Andrew stopped teasing the girl as she mentioned Dare's name. He
had been wondering who the
kid was. It was obvious that it wasn't his brother.... Darien
was an only child, and an orphan at
that.
"Well," murmured Andrew, biting his lip, still deep in thought.
"He did say something about
going to the zoo..."
Serena smiled before quickly pecking Andrew on the cheek.
"Thanks, I owe you one." she said
running out of the arcade.
Andrew sat down at the booth. The way Serena's tone changed when
she mentioned Dare....
He was roughly jerked out of his thoughts my a very strong and
very giggling Lita.
"Yo, apron man, snap out of it!"
"Huh...?"
"Do you know where Serena went?" Ami asked, trying to pry Lita
away from Andrew.
"Oh..... Serena? I think she went to the zoo...." Andrew said,
oblivious to the stares that the girl's
gave him.
"Common everybody! To the zoo!" Announced Mina, dragging Ami and
Lita out by the hands.
She could tell, this was going to be a very interesting day....
***
Darien and Dare walked through the various paths, looking at all
of the strange and exotic
animals in the cages. The day was half over and so far Darien
and his buddy had had a blast.
They had seen the lions, the tigers, and the bears. (oh my!)
They had checked out the snakes and the reptiles, but left soon
thereafter as Darien, past and
present got the creeps. They had shared ice cream, cotton candy,
a foot long hot dog, and Darien
had even bought Dare a balloon.
But something was bugging Darien. Now that he had time to spend
with his.... past self, Darien's
curiosity was perked when he thought about his parents. 'This
might be your only chance to find
out about them.' Darien reminded himself as the two made their
way to the zoo restaurant.
When they had been seated inside, Darien wasted no time in
bringing up the topic of his parents.
"Hey, Dare. Can I ask you a few things?"
"Sure!"
"Well, they're about Mom and Dad."
Darien shuddered as he felt the words roll off of his tongue.
They felt so, empty. Odd.
Dare turned his cheery face away from the window. "Yes?" he
asked.
"Well, what are their names?" Only when the question was asked
did Darien realize how odd the
words sounded.
Dare gave him a *dang you ARE stupid* glare. "Don't you know?"
Darien looked sheepishly at the ground. "I kinda, sorta....
well, forgot."
"Their names are Matt and Rose."
'Ironic...' Darien thought at the mention of his mother's name.
Suddenly a loud crash was heard from inside the restaurant.
Darien turned his eyes curiously to
the source of the noise and found that some young girl had
fallen out of her seat, tipping the table
over in the process. In fact, it was a very blonde girl, which
had two familiar meatballs sticking
up out of her head.
***
*come on! You really think that there is such a drug!?... ... ...
Did you?
Email: kawaiirochelle@hotmail.com
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Teaser: After a battle Darien comes home to find.... HIMSELF?!
Can Darien's past self really
help Darien teach himself a lesson?
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"NO! I am *NOT* Darien's girlfriend!"
Dare and Darien both turned to look at a fuming Serena. But
Darien could see her relax a bit as
she caught sight of his younger self. All of her anger ebbed
away as she smiled cheerily at the
boy.
"Hi! Who are you?" she asked, analyzing the similarities in
Darien and the boy.
"My name is Dare!"
Serena raised an eyebrow. "Ohhh, and are you baby-sitting
Darien? I can tell you right now he
can be a very mean and nasty little boy."
Dare giggled and Darien felt his face break out into a quirky
little grin. "So, you know all about
my mean and little nasty traits, Meatball Head?" Darien's grin
fell as Serena fixed a piercing
glare on him, not bothering to tell him off for the name
calling.
"So, are you two related?"
"Yeah."
"How are you related?" Serena asked. It was clear the two were
related and bore a huge family
resemblance, but Serena could detect something in Dare's eyes
that seemed to make the room a
little bit brighter.
"Darien is my futur-" Dare started, but the rest of the voice
was muffled as Darien clamped a firm
hand around Dare's mouth.
"Heh, heh. Always the joker Dare!" Darien said, firmly placing
one hand on the boy's shoulder,
pressing him down lightly, warning him not to say another word.
Serena's heart jolted as Dare tried to tell her that Darien was
his..... father? It had sounded like
Dare was going to say father! Serena could feel her jaw drop to
the floor as her book bag slipped
out of her hands, unnoticed. Darien watched as the girl went a
ghostly white and collapsed to the
floor. With quick reflexes, Darien reached down and caught her
head right before it came in
contact with the ground.
"Dare, go get Andrew."
A million thoughts flitted past Darien's mind as he bent down to
pick up the girl. Why had she
fainted? That seemed to be a popular thing to do. But still,
Darien couldn't place the look of
astonishment and fright on her face. There had even been a hint
of.... jealously? Darien shook his
head, trying to rid himself of all his thoughts. But what
happened next didn't help any.
"What did you do to her?!"
Darien looked up to see Lita rushing forward, looking extremely
pissed off at Darien. "What the
hell did you do to Serena?! You low life! Bastard! CREEP!" Lita
screamed, making all the heads
in the rapidly filling arcade turn to stare.
"I didn't do anything! She just fainted," Darien protested,
clutching Serena to him like a shield.
Thankfully, the next person that joined their conversation was
Andrew.
"What did you do to her?" he asked, surveying Darien and Lita,
not to mention the very limp
Serena.
Darien rolled his eyes and shouted. "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO
HER!!!! SHE FAINTED
AND I CAUGHT HER HEAD BEFORE IT HIT THE GROUND!!!"
Lita and Andrew jumped back in surprise and soon the tense
silence was broken by a loud crying.
"WAAAAHHH!" Dare screamed, throwing himself on Darien's leg. "I
wanna go home!!"
Darien looked tiredly down at Dare. He hadn't gotten the chance
to explain to Andrew exactly
who Dare was, but he trusted Andrew to come and help him. But
no, Andrew had apparently
decided that now was a better time to talk quietly with Lita
instead of helping Darien, which was
on the very edge of kicking somebody in the stomach, that is, if
Dare hadn't been wrapped around
his leg, screaming.
"Andrew!" Darien bellowed, "Help me get Dare off of my leg."
The blond rushed forward and pried Dare off of Darien's leg,
taking him into the back room.
"What did you do to her?" Mina asked, coming into the arcade
with Ami. The girl took a step
backward as Darien glared at her with a furious glare.
"I didn't do anything!" He growled through his teeth, his eyes
becoming a shade lighter with each
word. His eyes looked like they were gonna pop out of his head!
"Here," Ami said, stepping up to Darien. She held out her hand
at arm's length, as if she was
afraid that Darien was going to bite it off. In her palm a small
green pill rested. "Take this, it will
calm you down," she advised, signaling for Mina to get a glass
of water.
Mina rushed forward, spilling some of the water on herself, and
handed the glass to the fearful
Ami. As soon as Darien took the pill, thanks to Ami, he began to
feel his nerves relax. He
immediately calmed down and gingerly walked into the back room
to put Serena down.
***
"Are you sure that she is going to be okay?"
"Yes, now leave."
"I want to make sure she is okay!"
"Well, you aren't doing anything for her by being here, go do
something with Dare!"
"Like what?"
"I dunno, take him to the Zoo!!" Lita said, pushing Darien out
of the back room and closing the
door. Ami was crouched next to Serena and as soon as Darien was
out of sight, she pulled out her
minicomputer and started scanning her body.
***
"So they kicked you out, huh?" Andrew chuckled, seeing an
exasperated Darien ready to pound
on the door. Darien glared at him before raising his fists,
ready to knock on the door. But Andrew
said something first.
"So, wadda ya going to do with Dare?" Darien stopped and walked
back out into the arcade area.
"I don't know," he confessed, glancing around the arcade. "Where
is he by the way?"
"Over by the Sailor V game, he seems to have taken a liking to
it." Andrew said, pointing over to
the small machine, where Dare was happily punching away at
buttons and pulling the levers.
"Why don't you take him somewhere?" Andrew said, leaning down on
the counter.
"Like where......"
'I dunno, take him to the zoo!'
Lita's words echoed through his mind, and Darien soon smiled
again.
"The Zoo! I know, he will love the zoo!" Darien exclaimed,
banging his hand on the counter.
"Hey Dare, wanna go to the Zoo?" Darien yelled across the
arcade, catching Dare's attention. He
was answered with a wide, toothy grin and a squeal of
excitement.
"Hey Andrew, keep me posted on anything that happens with
Serena, okay?"
And without another word, Darien scooped up a giggling Dare and
walked out of the arcade.
***
Ami grinned and with a satisfied plunk, announced that she was
ready. Shoving the mini
computer back into her subzero space pocket, and faced the two
eagerly waiting girls.
"Well, what is it?" Lita asked.
Ami reached into her pocket and pulled out a pink pill. "This
should help her regain
consciousness."
Mina went once again into the kitchen to get another glass of
water and Lita helped Ami sit
Serena up. Serena's eyelids were heavily draped over her eyes,
and her breathing was normal,
though a bit shallow. When Mina came in with the water, Lita
propped back Serena's head and
helped Ami give Serena the pill.
Serena's eyelids fluttered open, seeing blurry and fuzzy images
of her three friends. "What
happened?" she asked, shaking her head as the images came into
sharper focus.
"You passed out, but Ami here gave you some drugs and you woke
up!" Mina said cheerily.
"DRUGS?!" Serena said, eyes wide open. Ami couldn't have been
doing drugs! It was absurd!
And even if so, Ami would have enough sense not to give the
drugs to Serena. Well.... the drugs
could have killed off some of Ami's brain cells....
"It was a simple waking solution mixed with the components of
water and
hydrochemmibotanitic* acid" Ami said smacking Mina on the side
of her head. Serena calmed
down a bit and soon, where she was came flooding back to her.
The Arcade! Darien-the little
boy----Dare-----Darien's son!!!
"Where is Darien?" Serena said worriedly, searching her friends
for answers.
"I kicked him out of the room as soon as you passed out!" Lita
boasted proudly.
"WHAT?!"
Ami, Lita and Mina stared at the blonde with a considerable
amount of shock. With lighting
quick movements, Serena was up and out the door, running towards
the counter of the arcade.
'Where is he?' Serena anxiously thought as her eyes scanned the
occupants of the room. Finally
her eyes rested on a blonde man in an apron.
Apron boy to the rescue!
Andrew turned around as he felt a light tapping on his shoulder.
His eyes lightened as he saw it
was Serena.
"Hey Serena! Are you feeling better?" he asked. But his cheerful
manner fell as he realized that
her face was portraying urgency. "What is it?" he asked, setting
down the heavy tray of dirty
dishes he had been carrying.
"Andrew, where is Darien?"
Andrew's eyebrows raised in surprise. "Darien, huh?" he asked
slyly.
"Shut up! It's not like that! I need to talk to him, about
Dare...."
Andrew stopped teasing the girl as she mentioned Dare's name. He
had been wondering who the
kid was. It was obvious that it wasn't his brother.... Darien
was an only child, and an orphan at
that.
"Well," murmured Andrew, biting his lip, still deep in thought.
"He did say something about
going to the zoo..."
Serena smiled before quickly pecking Andrew on the cheek.
"Thanks, I owe you one." she said
running out of the arcade.
Andrew sat down at the booth. The way Serena's tone changed when
she mentioned Dare....
He was roughly jerked out of his thoughts my a very strong and
very giggling Lita.
"Yo, apron man, snap out of it!"
"Huh...?"
"Do you know where Serena went?" Ami asked, trying to pry Lita
away from Andrew.
"Oh..... Serena? I think she went to the zoo...." Andrew said,
oblivious to the stares that the girl's
gave him.
"Common everybody! To the zoo!" Announced Mina, dragging Ami and
Lita out by the hands.
She could tell, this was going to be a very interesting day....
***
Darien and Dare walked through the various paths, looking at all
of the strange and exotic
animals in the cages. The day was half over and so far Darien
and his buddy had had a blast.
They had seen the lions, the tigers, and the bears. (oh my!)
They had checked out the snakes and the reptiles, but left soon
thereafter as Darien, past and
present got the creeps. They had shared ice cream, cotton candy,
a foot long hot dog, and Darien
had even bought Dare a balloon.
But something was bugging Darien. Now that he had time to spend
with his.... past self, Darien's
curiosity was perked when he thought about his parents. 'This
might be your only chance to find
out about them.' Darien reminded himself as the two made their
way to the zoo restaurant.
When they had been seated inside, Darien wasted no time in
bringing up the topic of his parents.
"Hey, Dare. Can I ask you a few things?"
"Sure!"
"Well, they're about Mom and Dad."
Darien shuddered as he felt the words roll off of his tongue.
They felt so, empty. Odd.
Dare turned his cheery face away from the window. "Yes?" he
asked.
"Well, what are their names?" Only when the question was asked
did Darien realize how odd the
words sounded.
Dare gave him a *dang you ARE stupid* glare. "Don't you know?"
Darien looked sheepishly at the ground. "I kinda, sorta....
well, forgot."
"Their names are Matt and Rose."
'Ironic...' Darien thought at the mention of his mother's name.
Suddenly a loud crash was heard from inside the restaurant.
Darien turned his eyes curiously to
the source of the noise and found that some young girl had
fallen out of her seat, tipping the table
over in the process. In fact, it was a very blonde girl, which
had two familiar meatballs sticking
up out of her head.
***
*come on! You really think that there is such a drug!?... ... ...
Did you?
Email: kawaiirochelle@hotmail.com