Sorry this took so long to post, but I'm trying! Oh and none of the
Sailor Scouts are mine.
"Rei! I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting, but I wanted to check on Endymion." Serenity had entered the room, and stood next to her at a window overlooking a courtyard.
"That's all right Highness. I…"
"Rei, please call me by my name, you know I don't care for my title" The dark haired beauty nodded. "So, I've heard all the technical things going on. Now I need your opinion and facts." Serenity removed her crown and placed it on a table nearby.
"Well," she began, "I've been using the fire to try and learn more about what's going on. I've been able to feel energy from the 'star'. There are people on it. Obviously, I can't say this to the council, because there's no concrete proof, but I'd put my life on it." Serenity nodded.
"Can you tell me anything else? Like what kind of life?" Rei was silent. "You're not telling me something. What is it Rei, don't make me force it out." She spoke forcefully now.
"Serenity, I sense much dark energy, negative forces. And I've dreamt of…"
"Of…?"
"I've seen bloody battles being waged, not here, but on a foreign planet." Rei stepped back from the window and towards the door. "I'm concerned Serenity, and I don't know when this will all happen, but my instincts tell me that you will be in grave danger very soon. I'm sorry, but I can't say anymore because I don't know any more." Serenity smiled weakly and looked at a retreating Sailor Mars.
"Rei, don't worry. I know all that I can know, and I'm not scared! I am confident that we are strong enough to face anything that should threaten the planet. Now, I don't wish to discuss this anymore, so…" Serenity glanced out the window again to see the lovely courtyard, but the flowers were no longer the most interesting sight. "Oh! Rei! Come look at this! A rare occasion indeed to spot these two in 'public'." Mars joined her at the large glass window and looked down.
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Amy, (de-transformed from scout to a Lady) was standing over a bush with white buds, just waiting for a few more rays of sunlight to force them open. She had been going from her quarters to the library, (within the palace) and had chosen to go through the courtyard. Amy sighed and thought about how nervous all this talk of mysterious astrology made her. She looked down at her loose sleeved, blue gown that went off her shoulders, and wished that she didn't have to leave, but she wanted to learn more about the star. True, Serenity had made this a day off for her, but the she wanted to know more. Amy began to slowly step forward, when out of the corner of her eye, she thought she saw something. A shadowy figure dashing behind a tree, She turned to face that direction and firmly demanded, "Who's there?" No answer, but a branch did rustle a bit. She dared to move closer. "I SAID Who's there?!" Only rustling followed, but she was a scout, and being so, Amy had to know if it was a person, or even if it was alive. She walked determinedly to the tree, looked around it and shoved a branch to the side, only to find a rather confused robin. Amy laughed and just as she turned, two arms landed on the tree she was backed against, above her shoulders, she screamed.
"Dear Lord Amy, didn't think you had that kind of noise in you!" Amy gasped for breath when she realized it was Adrian.
"YOU JERK!" She shouted, "There'll be guards all over the place in a minute!"
"Ahh, but that's where you're wrong my dearest, when you're the minister of defense for the kingdom, palace guards obey your requests." Amy ducked under his arms and started back towards the library door.
"Yes, well then HA HA! You're a real comedian." She had an evil smirk on her face-knowing that this was starting to piss him off. Adrian jumped in front of her.
"And where exactly are you off to?"
"Where I'm always off to…the library" Adrian sighed.
"Amy, why don't you just relax today, that's why the queen gave you the day off, in fact she commanded it. So to the library would be directly disobeying her." Amy turned and started stalking towards him.
"Well then, you've got all the angles today haven't you?" Adrian continued to back up, but stopped at a rose bush.
"Amy, speaking of angles and other power struggles, this morning when you shut me up…not something you'll get away with." Amy's eyes widened, and she dashed towards the door once more, picking up her dress to run faster. Once inside, she looked behind her- nothing, or rather no one.
"I know you Adrian, you'll be waiting for me in the library" she thought, and diverted her course to her bedroom. Down a long hallway with servants and guard chambers, past a small pantry, up a back staircase made of wood, and into Serenity's personal office over the courtyard. Amy knew she wouldn't mind, and ran through the room, and down another hall eventually reaching a large wooden door with the symbol for mercury on it in blue. Though she was queen of Mercury, Amy was staying on Earth for a while to observe the star. She opened the door to find her perfectly clean, organized room. The dressers were without dust, the bed was made, her closet was clean, though you couldn't tell because the doors were shut. She walked over to the window and looked out over a lake, sparkling and beautiful.
"HA!" Two arms wrapped around her waist and Amy was pulled back, and up into the strong arms of Adrian. "Thought you'd out smart me! Well I am in charge of warfare, so I know all the escape tactics." Amy laughed and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Well then, tell me how you knew I'd come here?" Adrian smiled and walked over to Amy's bed, putting her down gently. She tucked her legs under her, and Adrian kept his off the bed.
"You thought I'd go to the library to catch you where you had planned on going, however I knew you'd be too smart for this. SO then I decided to go to the one place you never go during the day, someplace where you relax and therefore only go at night, your room." Amy smiled.
'That's not a big problem though, because I can relax elsewhere, like outside, and in the library, or my office…" Adrian lifted an eyebrow, the only one visible because his hair had fallen over his other eye, giving him a sinister appearance. "I'm not a freak am I?"
"No, just a workaholic."
"I am not! I'm just devoted to what I do! Is there something wrong with that?"
"Only if it causes you to start ignoring the things you love, WHICH you have not yet done, so I will call you devoted not obsessed. Just be careful you don't become obsessed because then you'd push away…" But the sentence never finished because Amy caught his lips in a quick kiss and pulled back. She stood and moved to her closet, Adrian still stunned.
"That's why I'll never be a true workaholic though, I could never push you away Adrian." She looked in her closet, and pulled out a pair of jeans and a bathing suit. "Lets go find the others and go down to the lake, it's a perfect day for it.
"Amy….I, I'm stunned! No, I'm impressed that you're willing to go and do something like this when you could do whatever you want!"
"Yes well I'm just full of surprises!" She walked past him and when she was facing him she looked into his eyes, no wait, eye.(Amy brushed the hair off his face and behind his ear) "Go on now, get ready and tell the other boys."
"But of course milady!" He bowed regally and exited the room, leaving Amy smiling.
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Meanwhile, back in her private study, Serenity was whining to Rei behind a bookshelf.
"They were right there, in plain sight, and then Amy had to go and ruin it for me! She went running right through here! Why couldn't she just have stayed out there, I mean…"
"Serenity! You should be ashamed of yourself, spying on Amy!" Serenity stopped whining and looked guiltily at Rei. "All by yourself, you didn't tell the rest of us what was going on!" The queen's eyes lit up and she began babbling about how Adrian and Amy always got together in secret. About how much time they spent together, and that for the past year they had had countless conversations, and yet not a one (to Serenity's knowledge) had included the word 'love'…yet.
"Really? They've been together a year and still haven't said I love you?"
"You know ladies, the word 'love' means a lot. Using it is almost as important as feeling it. You really shouldn't be prying into Amy's business." The voice was very familiar to both girls immediately. Luna turned down the aisle of books they were behind, she was wearing a long, fitted, purple, gown with no sleeves, and black trim near the top. There was a gold crescent moon on her forehead, and her black hair tumbled down her back.
"Oh Luna! It's not really like we're spying, just taking an interest. Besides, watching you and Artemis is no fun anymore! You never try hiding your emotions." Serenity noted as Luna blushed.
"With all due respect, Your HIGHNESS, neither do you!" Rei was walking away though and Serenity didn't have any argument.
"Hold on there Rei! I didn't come here to entertain you both, Amy has a request and I'm to tell you." The two girls looked up. "Artemis is telling Endymion, Eric, and Marcus, and now I'm telling you."
"Just SPIT it out Luna!"
"ALRIGHT! Amy wants to go spend a day at the lake. She's going even if you don't, so it doesn't matter, but she'd like it if you did join her."
"SURE!" They both said in unison.
"Good! Well I have to go and tell the other scouts, so please meet us down at the lake at 12:00, bring a picnic lunch alright?"
"Sounds great Luna," Rei commented, "But how did she come up with this plan?"
"Amy and Adrian had a conversation that caused Amy to think she needed to get out, that's all I know, and if you want any more details, then I suggest you ask her yourself. Now I must go!" With that, Luna was gone and the two girls parted. Serenity didn't have a long walk to her room, and she approached the large wooden doors in very little time. The marble floor reflected the sunlight and Serenity seemed to glide across it to a wardrobe. She pulled off her dress, and hung it, then she approached a closet. She stepped in and pulled out a pink bikini. It had little glittery bunnies on it. As an accessory, she chose a pink sarong. After finding some flip-flops and a towel, the queen walked down a long corridor to Rei's room.
The door was a darker wood then Serenity's and the Princess of Mars's bed was a four-poster with a rose-red blanket on top. Her room was tidy, and she walked out of her bathroom wearing a red bikini with flames on it. She was just pulling on a pair of jeans when she noticed Serenity. "Wow! That was fast!" Serenity smiled.
"Well you know me Rei, when I want something, I've been known to really move."
"Yeah well, not that I'm not totally impressed and all, but lets get going." They left the room and started walking towards the kitchen. "Did you call the kitchen to tell them what to make for your lunch?" The queen's face went blank.
"oops."
"SERENITY!" How could you forget?!?!?"
"Well, I….I guess I just got umm, carried away and all excited and stuff." They were now opening the door to the kitchen, and Serenity was still trying to explain herself.
"Let me guess, she forgot to call and tell them what to make?" Luna was standing in a one piece yellow suit with a purple stripe crossing it diagonally with a pair of white shorts on. Serenity nodded sheepishly. "Well then this will have to do!" Luna handed her a lunch bag with a sandwich and whatever else would be needed.
"Luna! But how'd you know I would forget?"
"Was just a hunch. Now lets get going."
"Hey wait a sec, I'm not done yet! I just have to put these in a bag and then we'll go." In a far corner of the kitchen, Lita was packing cookies that she had made herself. The kitchen staff often got rather annoyed with her because she insisted on making her own food so often.
"Come on Lita!" Rei called.
"Oh keep your pants on, I'm working on it." Lita knocked over a rather large pan sending an echo through the room. "umm, ok well I'm ready now!"
"Thank the gods!" One of the cooks mumbled. Lita threw him a nasty look but finally the four made it out of the kitchen and onto a well-beaten path surrounded by gardens. As they walked, they chattered about which guards were blushing every time they walked by, who in the kingdom had just had a baby, who was being married, and this made Serenity sigh.
"You know, Darien and I have been married for five years now, and we've been talking more and more about a baby. But every time we do, I get this strange feeling. Like I know what's going to happen and when, like I know the child already."
(AN: Ok since Serena had 3 lifetimes: 1=Moon Princess 2=Serena 3=Neo Queen Serenity she wouldn't really know Rini from when she was Serena, just have a weird déjà vu kind of feeling.)
"That is kinda weird isn't it." Commented Lita. "Do you ever dream about it?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact I do. I can't explain it though because I don't really see anything, but rather I feel it. I don't know I must sound crazy."
"No, you don't sound crazy, just like you're ready to have this child. Don't worry Serenity, I think your heart is telling you to go for it." Lita continued. "Ooh look! There's Amy and Mina! Lets go!" The four women jogged up to where the other two were. The sky was clear, it was 85 degrees out and it was about noon. The five scouts and Luna sat to wait for the boys. The lake sparkled clear and cool. Mina wore a bikini with orange and yellow swirled together, Lita had on a green one piece that tied around her neck, and Amy's was a deep blue one piece with sparkles. "Well, I don't know what could be taking therm so long. I mean the six of us got changed and got lunch and were in no hurry, and they're still not here!"
"Forget them then, I'm going in, it's' too hot not to." Serenity jumped up and ran to the edge of the water. She stopped to turn and look at them. "Well?"
"Guess that's our cue." Ami mentioned. Lita and Mina were whispering something, stood up, ran at Serenity, and knocked her back into the water. Ami, Rei, and Luna jumped up to jaoin them. The six began splashing and knocking each other over as a game for about ten minutes when Serenity stood up, only waist deep in water. She pushed her hair out of her eyes.
"Hey, you guys, stop for a minute." They all looked at her. "Where's Luna?" Rei stood up, hair dripping,
"She was just here, I pushed her under and…"
"YOU KILLED LUNA! OH MY GOSH, YOU KILLED LUNA! REI YOU MONSTER!!"
"SERENITY! SHUT……UP!" Mina demanded, causing Lita to laugh. "I highly doubt that Rei killed Luna, I mean….ohmygods, where's Ami?" Serenity looked around, sure enough: Lita, Rei, Mina, herself. No Luna, no Ami.
"I think we should get out now" The queen nervously stated. But it was too late. Before she could move another step, something grabbed her ankles and she was pulled under the dark water. All she saw were the outlines of her friends flailing there arms in panick.
"Rei! I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting, but I wanted to check on Endymion." Serenity had entered the room, and stood next to her at a window overlooking a courtyard.
"That's all right Highness. I…"
"Rei, please call me by my name, you know I don't care for my title" The dark haired beauty nodded. "So, I've heard all the technical things going on. Now I need your opinion and facts." Serenity removed her crown and placed it on a table nearby.
"Well," she began, "I've been using the fire to try and learn more about what's going on. I've been able to feel energy from the 'star'. There are people on it. Obviously, I can't say this to the council, because there's no concrete proof, but I'd put my life on it." Serenity nodded.
"Can you tell me anything else? Like what kind of life?" Rei was silent. "You're not telling me something. What is it Rei, don't make me force it out." She spoke forcefully now.
"Serenity, I sense much dark energy, negative forces. And I've dreamt of…"
"Of…?"
"I've seen bloody battles being waged, not here, but on a foreign planet." Rei stepped back from the window and towards the door. "I'm concerned Serenity, and I don't know when this will all happen, but my instincts tell me that you will be in grave danger very soon. I'm sorry, but I can't say anymore because I don't know any more." Serenity smiled weakly and looked at a retreating Sailor Mars.
"Rei, don't worry. I know all that I can know, and I'm not scared! I am confident that we are strong enough to face anything that should threaten the planet. Now, I don't wish to discuss this anymore, so…" Serenity glanced out the window again to see the lovely courtyard, but the flowers were no longer the most interesting sight. "Oh! Rei! Come look at this! A rare occasion indeed to spot these two in 'public'." Mars joined her at the large glass window and looked down.
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Amy, (de-transformed from scout to a Lady) was standing over a bush with white buds, just waiting for a few more rays of sunlight to force them open. She had been going from her quarters to the library, (within the palace) and had chosen to go through the courtyard. Amy sighed and thought about how nervous all this talk of mysterious astrology made her. She looked down at her loose sleeved, blue gown that went off her shoulders, and wished that she didn't have to leave, but she wanted to learn more about the star. True, Serenity had made this a day off for her, but the she wanted to know more. Amy began to slowly step forward, when out of the corner of her eye, she thought she saw something. A shadowy figure dashing behind a tree, She turned to face that direction and firmly demanded, "Who's there?" No answer, but a branch did rustle a bit. She dared to move closer. "I SAID Who's there?!" Only rustling followed, but she was a scout, and being so, Amy had to know if it was a person, or even if it was alive. She walked determinedly to the tree, looked around it and shoved a branch to the side, only to find a rather confused robin. Amy laughed and just as she turned, two arms landed on the tree she was backed against, above her shoulders, she screamed.
"Dear Lord Amy, didn't think you had that kind of noise in you!" Amy gasped for breath when she realized it was Adrian.
"YOU JERK!" She shouted, "There'll be guards all over the place in a minute!"
"Ahh, but that's where you're wrong my dearest, when you're the minister of defense for the kingdom, palace guards obey your requests." Amy ducked under his arms and started back towards the library door.
"Yes, well then HA HA! You're a real comedian." She had an evil smirk on her face-knowing that this was starting to piss him off. Adrian jumped in front of her.
"And where exactly are you off to?"
"Where I'm always off to…the library" Adrian sighed.
"Amy, why don't you just relax today, that's why the queen gave you the day off, in fact she commanded it. So to the library would be directly disobeying her." Amy turned and started stalking towards him.
"Well then, you've got all the angles today haven't you?" Adrian continued to back up, but stopped at a rose bush.
"Amy, speaking of angles and other power struggles, this morning when you shut me up…not something you'll get away with." Amy's eyes widened, and she dashed towards the door once more, picking up her dress to run faster. Once inside, she looked behind her- nothing, or rather no one.
"I know you Adrian, you'll be waiting for me in the library" she thought, and diverted her course to her bedroom. Down a long hallway with servants and guard chambers, past a small pantry, up a back staircase made of wood, and into Serenity's personal office over the courtyard. Amy knew she wouldn't mind, and ran through the room, and down another hall eventually reaching a large wooden door with the symbol for mercury on it in blue. Though she was queen of Mercury, Amy was staying on Earth for a while to observe the star. She opened the door to find her perfectly clean, organized room. The dressers were without dust, the bed was made, her closet was clean, though you couldn't tell because the doors were shut. She walked over to the window and looked out over a lake, sparkling and beautiful.
"HA!" Two arms wrapped around her waist and Amy was pulled back, and up into the strong arms of Adrian. "Thought you'd out smart me! Well I am in charge of warfare, so I know all the escape tactics." Amy laughed and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Well then, tell me how you knew I'd come here?" Adrian smiled and walked over to Amy's bed, putting her down gently. She tucked her legs under her, and Adrian kept his off the bed.
"You thought I'd go to the library to catch you where you had planned on going, however I knew you'd be too smart for this. SO then I decided to go to the one place you never go during the day, someplace where you relax and therefore only go at night, your room." Amy smiled.
'That's not a big problem though, because I can relax elsewhere, like outside, and in the library, or my office…" Adrian lifted an eyebrow, the only one visible because his hair had fallen over his other eye, giving him a sinister appearance. "I'm not a freak am I?"
"No, just a workaholic."
"I am not! I'm just devoted to what I do! Is there something wrong with that?"
"Only if it causes you to start ignoring the things you love, WHICH you have not yet done, so I will call you devoted not obsessed. Just be careful you don't become obsessed because then you'd push away…" But the sentence never finished because Amy caught his lips in a quick kiss and pulled back. She stood and moved to her closet, Adrian still stunned.
"That's why I'll never be a true workaholic though, I could never push you away Adrian." She looked in her closet, and pulled out a pair of jeans and a bathing suit. "Lets go find the others and go down to the lake, it's a perfect day for it.
"Amy….I, I'm stunned! No, I'm impressed that you're willing to go and do something like this when you could do whatever you want!"
"Yes well I'm just full of surprises!" She walked past him and when she was facing him she looked into his eyes, no wait, eye.(Amy brushed the hair off his face and behind his ear) "Go on now, get ready and tell the other boys."
"But of course milady!" He bowed regally and exited the room, leaving Amy smiling.
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Meanwhile, back in her private study, Serenity was whining to Rei behind a bookshelf.
"They were right there, in plain sight, and then Amy had to go and ruin it for me! She went running right through here! Why couldn't she just have stayed out there, I mean…"
"Serenity! You should be ashamed of yourself, spying on Amy!" Serenity stopped whining and looked guiltily at Rei. "All by yourself, you didn't tell the rest of us what was going on!" The queen's eyes lit up and she began babbling about how Adrian and Amy always got together in secret. About how much time they spent together, and that for the past year they had had countless conversations, and yet not a one (to Serenity's knowledge) had included the word 'love'…yet.
"Really? They've been together a year and still haven't said I love you?"
"You know ladies, the word 'love' means a lot. Using it is almost as important as feeling it. You really shouldn't be prying into Amy's business." The voice was very familiar to both girls immediately. Luna turned down the aisle of books they were behind, she was wearing a long, fitted, purple, gown with no sleeves, and black trim near the top. There was a gold crescent moon on her forehead, and her black hair tumbled down her back.
"Oh Luna! It's not really like we're spying, just taking an interest. Besides, watching you and Artemis is no fun anymore! You never try hiding your emotions." Serenity noted as Luna blushed.
"With all due respect, Your HIGHNESS, neither do you!" Rei was walking away though and Serenity didn't have any argument.
"Hold on there Rei! I didn't come here to entertain you both, Amy has a request and I'm to tell you." The two girls looked up. "Artemis is telling Endymion, Eric, and Marcus, and now I'm telling you."
"Just SPIT it out Luna!"
"ALRIGHT! Amy wants to go spend a day at the lake. She's going even if you don't, so it doesn't matter, but she'd like it if you did join her."
"SURE!" They both said in unison.
"Good! Well I have to go and tell the other scouts, so please meet us down at the lake at 12:00, bring a picnic lunch alright?"
"Sounds great Luna," Rei commented, "But how did she come up with this plan?"
"Amy and Adrian had a conversation that caused Amy to think she needed to get out, that's all I know, and if you want any more details, then I suggest you ask her yourself. Now I must go!" With that, Luna was gone and the two girls parted. Serenity didn't have a long walk to her room, and she approached the large wooden doors in very little time. The marble floor reflected the sunlight and Serenity seemed to glide across it to a wardrobe. She pulled off her dress, and hung it, then she approached a closet. She stepped in and pulled out a pink bikini. It had little glittery bunnies on it. As an accessory, she chose a pink sarong. After finding some flip-flops and a towel, the queen walked down a long corridor to Rei's room.
The door was a darker wood then Serenity's and the Princess of Mars's bed was a four-poster with a rose-red blanket on top. Her room was tidy, and she walked out of her bathroom wearing a red bikini with flames on it. She was just pulling on a pair of jeans when she noticed Serenity. "Wow! That was fast!" Serenity smiled.
"Well you know me Rei, when I want something, I've been known to really move."
"Yeah well, not that I'm not totally impressed and all, but lets get going." They left the room and started walking towards the kitchen. "Did you call the kitchen to tell them what to make for your lunch?" The queen's face went blank.
"oops."
"SERENITY!" How could you forget?!?!?"
"Well, I….I guess I just got umm, carried away and all excited and stuff." They were now opening the door to the kitchen, and Serenity was still trying to explain herself.
"Let me guess, she forgot to call and tell them what to make?" Luna was standing in a one piece yellow suit with a purple stripe crossing it diagonally with a pair of white shorts on. Serenity nodded sheepishly. "Well then this will have to do!" Luna handed her a lunch bag with a sandwich and whatever else would be needed.
"Luna! But how'd you know I would forget?"
"Was just a hunch. Now lets get going."
"Hey wait a sec, I'm not done yet! I just have to put these in a bag and then we'll go." In a far corner of the kitchen, Lita was packing cookies that she had made herself. The kitchen staff often got rather annoyed with her because she insisted on making her own food so often.
"Come on Lita!" Rei called.
"Oh keep your pants on, I'm working on it." Lita knocked over a rather large pan sending an echo through the room. "umm, ok well I'm ready now!"
"Thank the gods!" One of the cooks mumbled. Lita threw him a nasty look but finally the four made it out of the kitchen and onto a well-beaten path surrounded by gardens. As they walked, they chattered about which guards were blushing every time they walked by, who in the kingdom had just had a baby, who was being married, and this made Serenity sigh.
"You know, Darien and I have been married for five years now, and we've been talking more and more about a baby. But every time we do, I get this strange feeling. Like I know what's going to happen and when, like I know the child already."
(AN: Ok since Serena had 3 lifetimes: 1=Moon Princess 2=Serena 3=Neo Queen Serenity she wouldn't really know Rini from when she was Serena, just have a weird déjà vu kind of feeling.)
"That is kinda weird isn't it." Commented Lita. "Do you ever dream about it?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact I do. I can't explain it though because I don't really see anything, but rather I feel it. I don't know I must sound crazy."
"No, you don't sound crazy, just like you're ready to have this child. Don't worry Serenity, I think your heart is telling you to go for it." Lita continued. "Ooh look! There's Amy and Mina! Lets go!" The four women jogged up to where the other two were. The sky was clear, it was 85 degrees out and it was about noon. The five scouts and Luna sat to wait for the boys. The lake sparkled clear and cool. Mina wore a bikini with orange and yellow swirled together, Lita had on a green one piece that tied around her neck, and Amy's was a deep blue one piece with sparkles. "Well, I don't know what could be taking therm so long. I mean the six of us got changed and got lunch and were in no hurry, and they're still not here!"
"Forget them then, I'm going in, it's' too hot not to." Serenity jumped up and ran to the edge of the water. She stopped to turn and look at them. "Well?"
"Guess that's our cue." Ami mentioned. Lita and Mina were whispering something, stood up, ran at Serenity, and knocked her back into the water. Ami, Rei, and Luna jumped up to jaoin them. The six began splashing and knocking each other over as a game for about ten minutes when Serenity stood up, only waist deep in water. She pushed her hair out of her eyes.
"Hey, you guys, stop for a minute." They all looked at her. "Where's Luna?" Rei stood up, hair dripping,
"She was just here, I pushed her under and…"
"YOU KILLED LUNA! OH MY GOSH, YOU KILLED LUNA! REI YOU MONSTER!!"
"SERENITY! SHUT……UP!" Mina demanded, causing Lita to laugh. "I highly doubt that Rei killed Luna, I mean….ohmygods, where's Ami?" Serenity looked around, sure enough: Lita, Rei, Mina, herself. No Luna, no Ami.
"I think we should get out now" The queen nervously stated. But it was too late. Before she could move another step, something grabbed her ankles and she was pulled under the dark water. All she saw were the outlines of her friends flailing there arms in panick.