Okay, new fanfic people. This fanfic follows "Secrets Revealed", but don't worry if you didn't read it. you don't have too. Just remember that everyone knows who the scouts are (excluding outers) and that Rini's back. *ducks flying objects* Sorry to those who don't, but I love Rini. It's fun to put her in a story, she really makes a difference.
Diclaimer (This will be for the whole story) - If I really owned Sailor Moon, I would not be posting on FF.net. I'd be working on a new Sailor Moon movie. Unfortunatly, we'll have to keep begging Takeuchi-sama. All I own from this story is Misetya (I have no idea what the name means, I just made it up. So if in your language it's an offensive word, I am sorry). However, I am trying to buy Darien. Ahh, I would love to own Mamo-chan^.^ (Who wouldn't?)
Everyone, I need help. I need to know what types of gifts you would give Serena at a bridel shower (be realistic). I know some gifts, but I need other ideas. So what would you give? Include your name, and I might put you in the story. If you give me a list, that would be really, really great. Anyway, try to think of something to help me, and enjoy the story.
For those who don't know:
*__* - Emphasized word
'__' - thought
"__" - Spoken
Usagi - Serena
Chibi-Usa - Rini
Ami - Amy
Minako - Both Mina and Minako
Rei - Raye
Makoto - Lita
Mamoru - Darien
Haruka - Amara
Michiru - Michelle
Setsuna - Trista
Shingo - Sammy
Momoko - Melissa (Melly)
Motoki - Andrew
Naru - Molly
Yuuichirou - Chad
Ryo - Greg
Kyusuke - Kelly (I'm not positive if this is him, I can only guess. Someone said that this is the name of her friend, so I'm pretty sure that this is him. Correct me if I'm wrong)
Shinozaki - Ken
I'm not sure if there's anyone else I'm forgeting, though I probably am. Guess if you're confused ^.^
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'I have to do something.' She thought. The battle had been going on for far too long. The rest of the soldiers had used up almost all of their energy; it was a miracle that they were even able to keep their heads up. If this enemy wasn't destroyed soon, they would all die. 'Either way, I will die. At least if I do this, the others may live. I have to, I have no choice.' She closed her eyes and broke down the barriers that she had built up so that she couldn't unwillingly use the full power of the Crystal. 'Small Lady, I am sorry. Please, forgive me when we meet.'
She held the glowing crystal higher in the air. "Moon Crystal Power!" she screamed. The entire battlefield was consumed in silver light, and the enemy was burned with white-hot fire until she was no more. As the light began to evaporate, the women who held the crystal fell to the ground. Her chest stopped moving and the Crystal she had been holding vanished inside her body. The soldiers who had been fighting began to awaken, and when they say her body, they screamed and began crying. They all broke down when they noticed that another soldier was gone. The only man there ran to the fallen angel, and for the first time in years, cried. Harder then he had every believed possible. They were both gone, sacrificed to save a world that couldn't exist without them. It would only be a matter of time now.
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'Ohhh,' Rini thought to herself. 'This class is *so* boring! Why do I have to learn about the different countries anyway? Most them have totally changed because of Crystal Tokyo." Rini's elbow was propped up on her desk, and her face was resting on the hand. She was fighting to pay attention, but was slowly losing the battle. 'I feel strange.' Rini thought. 'I must be really tired.' Naturally, Rini never told Luna or Serena how pointless some of her classes were, because then they would make up their mind that Rini would be better off in the future instead of staying in the past. They had been constantly worried about her since the scouts were revealed, but they agreed to let her stay in the past so that she could be trained with the other scouts and go to school as a semi-normal child. Of course, Rini made sure that she never told them that she was trained by the much more experienced scouts in the future, and there they even had training simulations. Also, that her schooling was done by Luna, Artemis, Amy, and a few others (although, it was mostly Luna). That way she could learn about the Silver Millennium, both kingdoms (although they centered on the Moon), twentieth century Earth, and thirtieth century Earth in great detail, as well as the histories of certain planetary kingdoms. Plus, both her mother and Luna did her Princess training properly. The only reason that she really got to stay in the past was because this was where her friends were. Rini glanced over at her best friend, Melissa, who looked as bored as Rini did. She silently giggled and scribbled a quick note to her.
Melissa noticed the note on her desk and picked it up. She giggled and quickly wrote a reply. When she turned to give it back to Rini, she screamed.
"RINI!!!!! WHAT'S HAPPENING????" Melissa scream. All her classmates and the teacher turned to look at Rini and screamed as well.
Rini jumped when Melissa began to scream, but then she saw her arm. Rini quickly looked down at the rest of her body and screamed as well. Her body was transparent. She was disappearing.
"NO!!!" Rini screamed, pulling a key attached to chain over her head. "THIS ISN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!!!!" Rini held the key high in the air. "SOMEONE, FIND SERENA!!!! SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH TIME!!! CRYSTAL KEY, TAKE ME TO THE GATE!!!" And in a pink flash, Rini was gone. Her classmates, the teacher, and other people in the school who had come running when they heard the screaming stood still without moving for a few minutes. Melissa was the first to realize what had happened. "Serena. I gotta get Serena!" she cried, getting up and running out of the room. Kelly followed her. Rini was one of his close friends too, and he wanted to find out what had happened as much as Melissa.
They ran all the way to Juuban High School, faster then either had ever run before. They arrived at the office, completely out of breath.
"Tsukino…" Melissa managed to get out, taking in deep breaths to try and replenish her oxygen. She didn't even notice the other girl who was handing something to the secretary. "Serena…Tsukino…need to see her…it's an…emergency."
"Serena?" the girl inquired. She had been giving the secretary a note from her teacher to be given to the principal when the girl and boy burst into the office. "She's in my class right now. What's going on?"
"Please!" Kelly begged. "Take us to her as quickly as possible. It's an emergency. It's about Rini."
'Rini?' Molly thought. 'That's Serena's little cousin.'
Whatever it was, Molly knew that they needed to get to her as fast as humanly possibly. "Come on," she said, running down the hall, with the two children following her. "It's this way."
They got to the classroom in record time. "SERENA!" Melissa screamed when she entered the classroom. Everyone in the class turned to look at Melissa.
"Melissa," Serena said, getting up from her chair and running towards the girl. "Melissa, what's wrong?"
"It's Rini." Melissa said taking in deep breaths. She didn't notice that Amy, Mina, Lita, and rest of the class had run over and were crowding around them. She also didn't notice all the colour disappear from Serena's face. "She's gone."
"Gone?" Serena managed to get out. Her face was entirely white, and personally, she felt that she had never in her whole life been so scared. "What do you mean? How…how can she be gone?"
"She…she…" Melissa was trying to fight back the tears that were beginning to pour down her checks. One look into Serena's eyes and the tears began to flow freely and Melissa became extremely scared. She had never ever in her life seen someone look so…scared. "She went all see-through, and was disappearing. She said something about something being wrong with time, and told us to get you. Then she took out a key and totally disappeared." By now, Melissa was hysterical.
"No," Serena whispered, backing away, towards the door. "NO!" she screamed. The class was staring at her now. "No! NO, not Rini! NO!" Serena ran out the door of the classroom.
"Serena!" Lita and Mina shouted, running after her.
"Sorry Ms. Yakuso." Amy said when she was halfway out the door. "Molly, please look after Melissa and Kelly and try to make sure that they get back to school, or get them home. We need to make sure that Serena doesn't do something stupid." Amy shouted the last part as she was running down the halls, trying to catch up with the other girls, leaving behind a stunned classroom, a hysterical child, and one on incredibly scared.
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'No…this can't be happening!' Serena thought as she ran down the street and towards Rini's school. 'If…if Rini's gone, then that means…that means that something is going to happen to Darien or me. Darien! Is he okay!?' Serena started panicking even more, but calmed down a bit. 'Of course he's okay. I could feel if he had been…killed.' Serena threw the door to the school open and ran up the stairs. 'So, that means that something is going to happen to Darien or me! Please, this isn't happening! This isn't happening!'
Serena threw the door of Rini's classroom open and ran in. The entire class had been talking and the teacher looked completely confused, not really sure what to do. However, they all stopped what they were doing when Serena walked in, and turned to look at her. Serena jus stood still, staring at the empty desk in the second row. "No." she said in a whisper. Tears began streaming down her face even faster as she ran to the desk. The students stepped back to give her some room.
"No," Serena whispered, crumbling to the floor next to the desk. She her arms folded on the chair, and her head buried in them. "No. Please, no!" She started sobbing even louder, not even hearing the footsteps coming towards the classroom.
"Serena!" Lita cried bursting into the classroom. She saw Serena sobbing next to Rini's desk and ran towards her. She pulled Serena off the chair and let Serena lean against her, crying on her shoulder. "It's okay Serena." Lita whispered, quiet enough that only they could really hear. "We'll get her back. No matter what, we *will* get her back."
Mina meanwhile, had decided that she should take control of the situation. "I sorry for the disruption." Mina said turning towards the teacher. "I'm sure that you are greatly confused, but I'm afraid that right now, we won't really know why this has happened for quite awhile. I'm afraid that the only explanation I can offer you is that Rini is technically controlled by the time stream, and, as she said, something has gone wrong. Hopefully, we will be able to fix this but right now, all we can do is pray." It was easy to see that the teacher had a lot of questions that she wanted to ask, but instead just nodded. "All right, then," Mina said, turning to the students. "I need to ask you to all back up a bit." The students did as they were told, and stood against the walls. Amy entered the room then. "Thank you. Amy, I need you to scan around Rini's desk and see if you can figure out what happened, and if…" Mina choked on her words, not even wanting to think about it. "if she made it to the gate before…" Mina didn't want to finish, and Amy knew what she meant.
Amy ran over to the desk and whipped out her computer. Her fingers flew on the keyboard as she looked for any information. "Well," she said, not looking up. "Rini definitely used the key, but we won't know if it worked or not until we talk to Pluto. And either way, considering what Rini's disappearance means, I doubt Pluto will be doing anything except panicking, and trying to find out what went wrong." Amy shut her computer, and turned to look at Serena and Lita. "I think that all we can do is train, and try to figure out a way to contact Pluto."
"This isn't really happening." Serena whispered. She scrambled to her feet and ran out the door. "This isn't happening."
"Lita," Amy said. "You had better go after her. There's no telling what she might do. Mina, contact the others and talk to the Tsukino's. Maybe the Outers have a clue how to contact Pluto. And, we are terribly sorry for disturbing your class, and I hope that you may be able to resume the lessons. Melissa and Kelly are right now at the high school with a friend until they calm down, and then will either come back here or will be going home. And I suggest not getting the police involved in this, because they cannot do anything. This is officially Scout business." Amy left the room after saying that to follow Lita.
*****
Although Lita had lost track of Serena, she knew exactly where to go. Whenever Serena got upset, usually when she was scared about what was happening or when she missed Rini, she would go to the dock. The same one where Rini would usually take off from, or usually land on. The other girls had noticed a long time ago, and although Serena would never come right out and say it, she loved Rini and it killed her when she had to send her home. Even though Serena knew that her future self would be taking care of Rini when Serena wasn't, it would still be a long wait until she had Rini to take care of. Lita sighed, thinking of how much Serena and Rini had changed, especially Serena. Their fights now were rarer, and didn't get as intense as they used to. Rini seemed to respect Serena a *lot* more after their identities were out, and Serena had matured a lot after that incident as well. However, Lita noticed, and she thought that a few of the others might have as well, when Ann and Alan attacked and the scouts had to be reawakened, Serena had seemed to be fighting her maturity, trying to act like she always had before on purpose, klutzing out less over time, but doing it enough that people wouldn't notice; the only time she left herself be what seemed truly herself, was during final battles, after that she would continue fighting her maturity. And after their secret was exposed, she seemed to lose the fight. Serena would almost never klutz out, and she seemed to always know how to take charge of a situation. Lita had an idea that Luna knew what was going on, but Luna never talked about it to the other girls, so Lita never prodded.
Lita stopped when she reached the hill over looking the dock. Sure enough, there was Serena. She was sitting at the edge, looking up into the sky. Lita was barely aware of the footsteps coming up behind her.
"Lita," Amy whispered, stopping behind her tall friend. "is she okay? I mean, I know that she isn't, but…"
"I know, still, I don't think we should go down there, not just yet. I'm going to give her a few moments; I think that she might want to be alone to think. Where's Mina?"
"She went to Serena's house to tell her mother what happened." Amy frowned. The Tsukino's had dealt with enough already, but the fact that their future granddaughter (or niece in Sammy's case) had disappeared because of time was too much.
"Alright," Lita whispered, stepping out from the tree's shadow. "I'm going in. You stay here, in case she tries to run, or one of the others show up." Amy nodded as Lita descended the hill.
"Hey girl." Lita called softly as soon as she was near enough for Serena to hear her.
"Hey girl." Serena responded back, getting up and turning towards Lita. "You can tell Amy she can get out of hiding now. I already know that she's there."
Lita was defiantly surprised. "How did you…"
"Never mind." Serena said, interrupting. "Have you found *anything*?"
"No, I sorry, we haven't. Mina's gone to your house to tell your mother, and Luna. Raye's already been informed, and she's going to your house as soon as she picks up Artemis. We're trying to get a hold of Darien, but none of us are sure of where he is. We tried his cell, but got the answering machine."
"He's at his History of Medicine class (A.N. I don't know what doctors take, or even how long they go to school for, so I just figured that he must be getting near the end by now, and so I just made something up.)." Serena responded without even taking the time to think, which surprised Lita. "It will be over in" quick look at her watch "10 minutes. By the time we reach my house, the class will be over, and he should have turned his cell on."
"Alright," Lita said, feeling a little bit uneasy. In a case like this, they expected a crying fit, not her taking complete control of the situation calmly. They could deal with the crying, but Lita wasn't sure how to handle her being totally calm. "Well, then I guess we should get going." Serena nodded, signaled for Amy to come, and the three of them walked slowly towards Serena's house.
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Okay, short and kind of rushed, sorry. I did my best but... I hope that the other chapters will be better. I know that the first part was kind of confusing, I hope that at least some of you figure it out after reading the next chapter. Please read n review.
Diclaimer (This will be for the whole story) - If I really owned Sailor Moon, I would not be posting on FF.net. I'd be working on a new Sailor Moon movie. Unfortunatly, we'll have to keep begging Takeuchi-sama. All I own from this story is Misetya (I have no idea what the name means, I just made it up. So if in your language it's an offensive word, I am sorry). However, I am trying to buy Darien. Ahh, I would love to own Mamo-chan^.^ (Who wouldn't?)
Everyone, I need help. I need to know what types of gifts you would give Serena at a bridel shower (be realistic). I know some gifts, but I need other ideas. So what would you give? Include your name, and I might put you in the story. If you give me a list, that would be really, really great. Anyway, try to think of something to help me, and enjoy the story.
For those who don't know:
*__* - Emphasized word
'__' - thought
"__" - Spoken
Usagi - Serena
Chibi-Usa - Rini
Ami - Amy
Minako - Both Mina and Minako
Rei - Raye
Makoto - Lita
Mamoru - Darien
Haruka - Amara
Michiru - Michelle
Setsuna - Trista
Shingo - Sammy
Momoko - Melissa (Melly)
Motoki - Andrew
Naru - Molly
Yuuichirou - Chad
Ryo - Greg
Kyusuke - Kelly (I'm not positive if this is him, I can only guess. Someone said that this is the name of her friend, so I'm pretty sure that this is him. Correct me if I'm wrong)
Shinozaki - Ken
I'm not sure if there's anyone else I'm forgeting, though I probably am. Guess if you're confused ^.^
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'I have to do something.' She thought. The battle had been going on for far too long. The rest of the soldiers had used up almost all of their energy; it was a miracle that they were even able to keep their heads up. If this enemy wasn't destroyed soon, they would all die. 'Either way, I will die. At least if I do this, the others may live. I have to, I have no choice.' She closed her eyes and broke down the barriers that she had built up so that she couldn't unwillingly use the full power of the Crystal. 'Small Lady, I am sorry. Please, forgive me when we meet.'
She held the glowing crystal higher in the air. "Moon Crystal Power!" she screamed. The entire battlefield was consumed in silver light, and the enemy was burned with white-hot fire until she was no more. As the light began to evaporate, the women who held the crystal fell to the ground. Her chest stopped moving and the Crystal she had been holding vanished inside her body. The soldiers who had been fighting began to awaken, and when they say her body, they screamed and began crying. They all broke down when they noticed that another soldier was gone. The only man there ran to the fallen angel, and for the first time in years, cried. Harder then he had every believed possible. They were both gone, sacrificed to save a world that couldn't exist without them. It would only be a matter of time now.
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'Ohhh,' Rini thought to herself. 'This class is *so* boring! Why do I have to learn about the different countries anyway? Most them have totally changed because of Crystal Tokyo." Rini's elbow was propped up on her desk, and her face was resting on the hand. She was fighting to pay attention, but was slowly losing the battle. 'I feel strange.' Rini thought. 'I must be really tired.' Naturally, Rini never told Luna or Serena how pointless some of her classes were, because then they would make up their mind that Rini would be better off in the future instead of staying in the past. They had been constantly worried about her since the scouts were revealed, but they agreed to let her stay in the past so that she could be trained with the other scouts and go to school as a semi-normal child. Of course, Rini made sure that she never told them that she was trained by the much more experienced scouts in the future, and there they even had training simulations. Also, that her schooling was done by Luna, Artemis, Amy, and a few others (although, it was mostly Luna). That way she could learn about the Silver Millennium, both kingdoms (although they centered on the Moon), twentieth century Earth, and thirtieth century Earth in great detail, as well as the histories of certain planetary kingdoms. Plus, both her mother and Luna did her Princess training properly. The only reason that she really got to stay in the past was because this was where her friends were. Rini glanced over at her best friend, Melissa, who looked as bored as Rini did. She silently giggled and scribbled a quick note to her.
Melissa noticed the note on her desk and picked it up. She giggled and quickly wrote a reply. When she turned to give it back to Rini, she screamed.
"RINI!!!!! WHAT'S HAPPENING????" Melissa scream. All her classmates and the teacher turned to look at Rini and screamed as well.
Rini jumped when Melissa began to scream, but then she saw her arm. Rini quickly looked down at the rest of her body and screamed as well. Her body was transparent. She was disappearing.
"NO!!!" Rini screamed, pulling a key attached to chain over her head. "THIS ISN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!!!!" Rini held the key high in the air. "SOMEONE, FIND SERENA!!!! SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH TIME!!! CRYSTAL KEY, TAKE ME TO THE GATE!!!" And in a pink flash, Rini was gone. Her classmates, the teacher, and other people in the school who had come running when they heard the screaming stood still without moving for a few minutes. Melissa was the first to realize what had happened. "Serena. I gotta get Serena!" she cried, getting up and running out of the room. Kelly followed her. Rini was one of his close friends too, and he wanted to find out what had happened as much as Melissa.
They ran all the way to Juuban High School, faster then either had ever run before. They arrived at the office, completely out of breath.
"Tsukino…" Melissa managed to get out, taking in deep breaths to try and replenish her oxygen. She didn't even notice the other girl who was handing something to the secretary. "Serena…Tsukino…need to see her…it's an…emergency."
"Serena?" the girl inquired. She had been giving the secretary a note from her teacher to be given to the principal when the girl and boy burst into the office. "She's in my class right now. What's going on?"
"Please!" Kelly begged. "Take us to her as quickly as possible. It's an emergency. It's about Rini."
'Rini?' Molly thought. 'That's Serena's little cousin.'
Whatever it was, Molly knew that they needed to get to her as fast as humanly possibly. "Come on," she said, running down the hall, with the two children following her. "It's this way."
They got to the classroom in record time. "SERENA!" Melissa screamed when she entered the classroom. Everyone in the class turned to look at Melissa.
"Melissa," Serena said, getting up from her chair and running towards the girl. "Melissa, what's wrong?"
"It's Rini." Melissa said taking in deep breaths. She didn't notice that Amy, Mina, Lita, and rest of the class had run over and were crowding around them. She also didn't notice all the colour disappear from Serena's face. "She's gone."
"Gone?" Serena managed to get out. Her face was entirely white, and personally, she felt that she had never in her whole life been so scared. "What do you mean? How…how can she be gone?"
"She…she…" Melissa was trying to fight back the tears that were beginning to pour down her checks. One look into Serena's eyes and the tears began to flow freely and Melissa became extremely scared. She had never ever in her life seen someone look so…scared. "She went all see-through, and was disappearing. She said something about something being wrong with time, and told us to get you. Then she took out a key and totally disappeared." By now, Melissa was hysterical.
"No," Serena whispered, backing away, towards the door. "NO!" she screamed. The class was staring at her now. "No! NO, not Rini! NO!" Serena ran out the door of the classroom.
"Serena!" Lita and Mina shouted, running after her.
"Sorry Ms. Yakuso." Amy said when she was halfway out the door. "Molly, please look after Melissa and Kelly and try to make sure that they get back to school, or get them home. We need to make sure that Serena doesn't do something stupid." Amy shouted the last part as she was running down the halls, trying to catch up with the other girls, leaving behind a stunned classroom, a hysterical child, and one on incredibly scared.
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'No…this can't be happening!' Serena thought as she ran down the street and towards Rini's school. 'If…if Rini's gone, then that means…that means that something is going to happen to Darien or me. Darien! Is he okay!?' Serena started panicking even more, but calmed down a bit. 'Of course he's okay. I could feel if he had been…killed.' Serena threw the door to the school open and ran up the stairs. 'So, that means that something is going to happen to Darien or me! Please, this isn't happening! This isn't happening!'
Serena threw the door of Rini's classroom open and ran in. The entire class had been talking and the teacher looked completely confused, not really sure what to do. However, they all stopped what they were doing when Serena walked in, and turned to look at her. Serena jus stood still, staring at the empty desk in the second row. "No." she said in a whisper. Tears began streaming down her face even faster as she ran to the desk. The students stepped back to give her some room.
"No," Serena whispered, crumbling to the floor next to the desk. She her arms folded on the chair, and her head buried in them. "No. Please, no!" She started sobbing even louder, not even hearing the footsteps coming towards the classroom.
"Serena!" Lita cried bursting into the classroom. She saw Serena sobbing next to Rini's desk and ran towards her. She pulled Serena off the chair and let Serena lean against her, crying on her shoulder. "It's okay Serena." Lita whispered, quiet enough that only they could really hear. "We'll get her back. No matter what, we *will* get her back."
Mina meanwhile, had decided that she should take control of the situation. "I sorry for the disruption." Mina said turning towards the teacher. "I'm sure that you are greatly confused, but I'm afraid that right now, we won't really know why this has happened for quite awhile. I'm afraid that the only explanation I can offer you is that Rini is technically controlled by the time stream, and, as she said, something has gone wrong. Hopefully, we will be able to fix this but right now, all we can do is pray." It was easy to see that the teacher had a lot of questions that she wanted to ask, but instead just nodded. "All right, then," Mina said, turning to the students. "I need to ask you to all back up a bit." The students did as they were told, and stood against the walls. Amy entered the room then. "Thank you. Amy, I need you to scan around Rini's desk and see if you can figure out what happened, and if…" Mina choked on her words, not even wanting to think about it. "if she made it to the gate before…" Mina didn't want to finish, and Amy knew what she meant.
Amy ran over to the desk and whipped out her computer. Her fingers flew on the keyboard as she looked for any information. "Well," she said, not looking up. "Rini definitely used the key, but we won't know if it worked or not until we talk to Pluto. And either way, considering what Rini's disappearance means, I doubt Pluto will be doing anything except panicking, and trying to find out what went wrong." Amy shut her computer, and turned to look at Serena and Lita. "I think that all we can do is train, and try to figure out a way to contact Pluto."
"This isn't really happening." Serena whispered. She scrambled to her feet and ran out the door. "This isn't happening."
"Lita," Amy said. "You had better go after her. There's no telling what she might do. Mina, contact the others and talk to the Tsukino's. Maybe the Outers have a clue how to contact Pluto. And, we are terribly sorry for disturbing your class, and I hope that you may be able to resume the lessons. Melissa and Kelly are right now at the high school with a friend until they calm down, and then will either come back here or will be going home. And I suggest not getting the police involved in this, because they cannot do anything. This is officially Scout business." Amy left the room after saying that to follow Lita.
*****
Although Lita had lost track of Serena, she knew exactly where to go. Whenever Serena got upset, usually when she was scared about what was happening or when she missed Rini, she would go to the dock. The same one where Rini would usually take off from, or usually land on. The other girls had noticed a long time ago, and although Serena would never come right out and say it, she loved Rini and it killed her when she had to send her home. Even though Serena knew that her future self would be taking care of Rini when Serena wasn't, it would still be a long wait until she had Rini to take care of. Lita sighed, thinking of how much Serena and Rini had changed, especially Serena. Their fights now were rarer, and didn't get as intense as they used to. Rini seemed to respect Serena a *lot* more after their identities were out, and Serena had matured a lot after that incident as well. However, Lita noticed, and she thought that a few of the others might have as well, when Ann and Alan attacked and the scouts had to be reawakened, Serena had seemed to be fighting her maturity, trying to act like she always had before on purpose, klutzing out less over time, but doing it enough that people wouldn't notice; the only time she left herself be what seemed truly herself, was during final battles, after that she would continue fighting her maturity. And after their secret was exposed, she seemed to lose the fight. Serena would almost never klutz out, and she seemed to always know how to take charge of a situation. Lita had an idea that Luna knew what was going on, but Luna never talked about it to the other girls, so Lita never prodded.
Lita stopped when she reached the hill over looking the dock. Sure enough, there was Serena. She was sitting at the edge, looking up into the sky. Lita was barely aware of the footsteps coming up behind her.
"Lita," Amy whispered, stopping behind her tall friend. "is she okay? I mean, I know that she isn't, but…"
"I know, still, I don't think we should go down there, not just yet. I'm going to give her a few moments; I think that she might want to be alone to think. Where's Mina?"
"She went to Serena's house to tell her mother what happened." Amy frowned. The Tsukino's had dealt with enough already, but the fact that their future granddaughter (or niece in Sammy's case) had disappeared because of time was too much.
"Alright," Lita whispered, stepping out from the tree's shadow. "I'm going in. You stay here, in case she tries to run, or one of the others show up." Amy nodded as Lita descended the hill.
"Hey girl." Lita called softly as soon as she was near enough for Serena to hear her.
"Hey girl." Serena responded back, getting up and turning towards Lita. "You can tell Amy she can get out of hiding now. I already know that she's there."
Lita was defiantly surprised. "How did you…"
"Never mind." Serena said, interrupting. "Have you found *anything*?"
"No, I sorry, we haven't. Mina's gone to your house to tell your mother, and Luna. Raye's already been informed, and she's going to your house as soon as she picks up Artemis. We're trying to get a hold of Darien, but none of us are sure of where he is. We tried his cell, but got the answering machine."
"He's at his History of Medicine class (A.N. I don't know what doctors take, or even how long they go to school for, so I just figured that he must be getting near the end by now, and so I just made something up.)." Serena responded without even taking the time to think, which surprised Lita. "It will be over in" quick look at her watch "10 minutes. By the time we reach my house, the class will be over, and he should have turned his cell on."
"Alright," Lita said, feeling a little bit uneasy. In a case like this, they expected a crying fit, not her taking complete control of the situation calmly. They could deal with the crying, but Lita wasn't sure how to handle her being totally calm. "Well, then I guess we should get going." Serena nodded, signaled for Amy to come, and the three of them walked slowly towards Serena's house.
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Okay, short and kind of rushed, sorry. I did my best but... I hope that the other chapters will be better. I know that the first part was kind of confusing, I hope that at least some of you figure it out after reading the next chapter. Please read n review.
