Title:
How Crystal Tokyo Came About
BY: ~SerenitySea~
Chapter:
10
Rating:
PG-13
Email: Serenity_Sea@Yahoo.com
Author's
Notes:
I hope
everyone's enjoyed the past two chapters—something seems different
about them to me—who knows, maybe my writing ability has finally bloomed. This chapter is dedicated to *insert drum roll here* my editor, Carla,
and two of my favorite readers, Hyper-Princess and Cassie-Chan. Thanks, you
guys, for sticking with me. Enjoy this, all the rest of you.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Helios had used his Pegasus form to return to Elysian. He had returned to Elysian finding it in full bloom, and went to the rather large partition which that held Reenie's dreams. He was just about to enter in it, when he felt the powerful aura his king gave off. Also, Reenie's section gave off a brighter glow than before, signaling her father's essence, and so, somewhat saddened that he would not get to visit Reenie's dreams tonight, he turned around to face his king.
"King
Endymion." Helios said, awed somewhat.
"Have
you seen my daughter?" Endymion boomed, his demanding voice scaring away
some birds from the treetops.
Helios knew he couldn't lie—especially to his king. "Yes. I visited Reenie a few minutes ago."
"You
know you're forbidden to do that, Helios." The king chided.
Helios' spirit sank. "Yes. I know. But she
called me—and I had to answer."
Endymion's face softened. He knew only too well what
it was like when Reenie called you. "Wait—she called you?" He
said to Helios. But Helios, for fear of giving away their secret, had already
left to enter Reenie's dreams.
King Endymion sighed. He was letting the boy get off far
too easy. After the stunt he pulled last year…
*Endy?*
Serenity's voice rang though his ears. *Where are you?* The black-haired
king sighed and her teleported back home.
***
The sunlight hit Serena's face softly. Ordinarily, she'd have gone back to sleep at such an ungodly hour. But today, she had promised to tell her parents about the engagement. And Darien was coming to help her. And… there was something important she was forgetting…
She opened her eyes to see Reenie and Sammy holding a
bucket of water above her head, and from the looks of it, they were going to
dump it on her any second now…
"Reenie!
Sammy! Get that thing outta here!" She yelled, most un-ladylike.
Reenie gasped. And Sammy gaped, leaving the room very scared. "What are you doing
up this early, Serena?" She asked.
Serena thought for a moment. *How could I have forgotten
that little spore was here?* She scolded herself.
*Maybe its because you have other things on your mind,
Meatball head.* Came Darien's teasing voice unexpectedly. It surprised
Serena so much; she jumped out of her bed and clung to Reenie for dear life.
"Serena!
Get off!" The younger teenager shoved her future mother off of her.
'Royalty did not act this undignified!' Reenie thought, sounding more and
more like Luna. Then she, too, gasped her previous thoughts.
Feeling the need to get rid of some excess energy, Serena
took a pillow off of her bed and thwapped Reenie with it. Reenie's eyes
lit up and she took a pillow off of Serena's bed, too. Then she thwapped
Serena back. Pretty soon, feathers were flying everywhere and the room was chaos.
It was enough to make the two girls forget about their fiancé and
–hopeful- boyfriend, respectively.
***
Sometime later, more towards Serena's regular
wake-up time, Reenie and Serena had gotten dressed and roused Hotaru. The three
girls went down the stairs into the kitchen, where Susanne was making pancakes.
"Good
morning girls!"
George grunted his affirmative from the living room, where
he was watching the morning news, most likely the sports.
Serena and Reenie attacked the pancakes with a vengeance,
and when then finished, which really wasn't too much later, for we all know their
eating habits, they looked up to see Hotaru smiling wistfully.
"Hotaru?"
Reenie asked, jarring her friend out of her thoughts. "Are you
sad?"
Hotaru's soft purple eyes regarded her friend
solemnly. "No. Just thinking."
Out of the blue, there was a roar of a sports car outside,
and several doors could be heard closing.
The two younger girls jumped from their place at the
table. "Michiru! Haruka!" Reenie yelled excitedly. Hotaru went
straight for the comfort of Trista.
Serena watched her future daughter from the doorway
carefully. It was time to let her go… well, at least for now. She had yet
to break the news about her engagement—and worry about causing her father
heart trouble. Waving the outers off, she blew a kiss to Reenie and wondered
where Darien was. As if in answer to her thoughts, a red sports car pulled up
behind Haruka, effectively blocking their way out.
"Hey!"
Haruka threatened with her fist. "Just what do you think you're
doing?"
Michiru tugged at her elbow, trying to save Haruka from
further embarrassment, but before she could, Darien stepped out of his car and
wiped the angry look right off her face.
"Oh."
She said.
Darien shook his head in wonderment, and hugged his
daughter briefly. Then, without so much as a word, he walked up to Serena, put
an arm around her waist, and walked into the Tsukino house.
"Well.
Of all the nerve," Haruka said, climbing into her car. The others
followed suit and waited to see what she would do, for in the short period of
time, she had forgotten that Darien's car was parked behind hers.
In an evasive maneuver, she drove to the edge of the
driveway, getting on the grass ever so slightly, and backed out. Then, they all
held their breath as she backed past Darien's car, and exhaled as she
safely passed.
"There.
I told ya I could do it." She said proudly.
A single bird pooped on her head.
***
Darien held Serena's hand within his and walked
bravely into the living room, where George was still watching TV and currently,
eating his breakfast of raisin bran.
*Are you ready for this?* he asked her.
*Ready as I'll ever be, I guess.*
"George?"
Darien asked of the raisin-bran eating man. (AN: That's like the lean,
green, fighting-machine… nevermind.)
George Tsukino looked up from his newspapers, television
and breakfast. "Yes, Darien?"
"I
would like to ask for Serena's hand in marriage, sir, that is, if
it's all right with you."
George's face was blank. Pure astonishment was
etched on his face. Susanne, who'd heard the news from the kitchen,
walked into the living room.
"Of
course! That's wonderful—welcome to the family!" She wrapped
her future son-in-law and daughter in her arms and hugged them both tightly.
"Well
that's good." Serena said shakily. "Because I already said
yes last night."
This roused George out of his stupor. "Yes? You
said—yes?" There was a strange look on his face and his mouth moved
after that, as if trying to form words, but unable to do so. Which, following,
he promptly fainted.
***
*Well, I think that went well.* Serena
'commented' to Darien brightly.
He merely looked at her. They were sitting in his car; the
medics had already come and helped George from the floor. Nothing major, but
for a while they were scared, since the CPR wasn't working and he
wasn't breathing. As it turned out, he had given them quite the scare
over a minor bout with shock.
"You
ready to go?" He asked, squeezing her hand lightly.
"Go?"
Serena repeated, in confusion.
"Go
show off your new ring to all your friends?" Darien teased, loving the
little red spots that came up on her cheeks. "You always looked so
beautiful when you blushed and tried to hide it, Sere."
He revved the engine and started for the arcade.
***
Through masses of her raven-colored hair, which Rei shoved
aside none to gently, she observed her close friends sleeping on mats in her
room.
Ami was curled up into a snug position, careful not to
overstep her bounds, for fear of offending someone, as always. There were times
the fiery priestess wished she had a camera—like now, when Ami's
short blue hair was mussed beyond recognition.
Lita was on her stomach, hands cushioning her head, even
in her sleep. She took her hair down to sleep, and Rei marveled at her
friend's thick brown hair. Usually, Lita had her hair up in a ponytail,
and Rei never imagined that it was that long.
And Mina—bubbly Mina—was lying flat on her
back, arms and legs flung haphazardly, snoring lightly.
As she viewed her friends quietly, Rei wondered. If she
supposedly loved him then did they love her friends in return? Or was it just a thing between them? (Rei
and the guy.)
Softly, she rose from her position on the bed, put her
robe and slippers on, and padded out the door, walking silently back to the
fire room.
There was still much she wanted to know.
***