Further in the future...
"Pu!" Rini called, "Pu! Come quick! We need your help!"
Setsuna materialized before Rini, "She needs my help, where is she little lady?"
"In the chamber, daddy's with her, but she's acting so strangely!" Rini panicked.
Setsuna and Rini made a hurried run to the chamber. Serenity lay hovering over her bed, crying out in pain. Endymion held her hand, a worried look written on his face. Beside him was a large crystal piece, showing him what was happening in the past. He turned to Setsuna, still holding onto Serenity's hand.
"Is there anything you can do? I know you don't like to interupt time, but she's reacting this way because someone else interrupted her past, if she is not helped, things may change," He said with a quick glance at Rini. They both knew that if Serenity was not helped, Rini would not be born. If Rini was not born they would have no future queen, maybe not even a future without Serenity.
Setsuna wore a look of doubt on her face, but took out her time turner, swinging it back and forth and chanting. She closed her eyes and a moment later a bright light filled the room. Serenity relaxed for a moment and floated back onto the bed beneath her. She wore a look of pure agony upon her face and her fists were clenched, she had been given an advantage by Setsuna, but she had not yet won.
Endymion turned towards Setsuna again, "Will she be alright?"
"I have given her her moon powers earlier than time would have wanted. I don't know how things will happen yet, it seems what is written keeps on changing because of interferences. I must go now," Setsuna explained briefly.
"Thank you," Endymion said before she dissapeared.
Rini watched it all from a distance. If she wanted to help she would find Pegasus, he could bring her back to the past. She would do anything to save her mother. She wandered through the royal guardian chambers until she found him,
"I need your help."
Pegasus thought deeply and leaned his back down so that Rini could mount him. They flew off into the future, expecting the worse. They had to make a plan quickly.
Endymion stayed honorably by Serenity as he watched Diamond from the future try to back away. His poor Serenity, why did Diamond always intervene, past and future? Serenity deserved to have at least a bit of peace. She had to be strong now and fight back, before it was too late.
"Fight back Serenity!" Endymion suddenly yelled fiercely, gripping her hands lightly, "Fight back!"
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Serena knew better than to lean back and let somebody rape her, even if she didn't have any weapons, she would fight with her bare hands. She swung out her fist to punch him, hoping it wouldn't hurt him too much. She closed her eyes, when she opened them, she found out that Diamond had caught her fist and had placed her hand around his neck. She pulled back in horror and started to crawl backwards, soon, she would be at the end of the bed, against the wall, with no escape.
"Mine," Diamond chanted again.
Serena whimpered in frustration and defeat, but then she felt it. A small light emanating from her forehead. She felt stronger, more able to fight back. She sat up, surprising Diamond before he too, noticed that something strange was happening. Diamond leaned his head down for a moment, Serena watched, not knowing what he was doing. When he looked up Serena saw it, he too had something on his forehead, a dark moon crescent, and, what was that on the inside of it. An eye, glowing the color of the moon. The eye moved back and forth, watching her, waiting for her, Serena felt slightly sleepy. She didn't notice herself slowly falling into Diamond's arms.
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Edward leaned against a certain wall of the laboratory. He could smell Serena inside, right behind that wall. He punched a fist into the wall, hoping to open it. His new vampiric powers had prevented his hands from being hurt, yet still, the wall, would not come down. Whoever had constructed it had been smart enough to use material even too strong for a vampire. Edward cried out in frustration, his voice echoing into the forest, everywhere, even Myra, in her cave, heard it. Edward moved to the next wall and punched it. It broke! Edward grinned mischieviously. He punched the wall again, and leaped down through the broken wall. Falling on top of someone. ________________________________________________________________________
Mina looked up to see who had knocked her down. The other's stared at the intruder.
"Edward?" Mina questioned.
"Where's Serena?" Edward replied loudly, "Take me to her!"
They all looked at him blankly. Could they trust him? His behavior had been strange ever since the party. Was he really Edward?
Edward silently leaned back, "No," he manages, "Keep me away from her! Please! I'll hurt her, keep me away!"
Ray looked at him thoughtfully, "He's Edward, but something is still wrong with him. We can't let him near Serena, but we need someone to watch him, two people, actually."
"I'll stay," Mina answered immediately, "Just go help Serena."
"I'll stay as well," volunteered Lita.
"Good, stay and watch him, " Ray agreed, then turned to Amy, "We have to hurry now."
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Myra heard Edward's call of frustration. She had better check on him. She had thought him mature, but to go screaming like that, who did he think he was? He would let the other vampires know where they were, where her club was. She had to go after him now. She would catch him and she would punish him if they were caught, maybe even if they weren't. With that thought, a rush of wind was heard in the forest and she found herself in front of a laboratory with broken walls on certain parts. Well, well, she thought, what do we have here?
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"Yes!" Edward screamed, then, "No!"
"He seems to be fighting with himself," Lita remarked.
"Looks painful, " Mina winced.
Edward's eyes grew dark, "No!" Then he passed out. Lita turned to Mina, "What do we do now?"
"We wait, " Mina answered with wonder in her voice.
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Serena felt herself lost in sleep when she heard it. A voice, "Fight back Serenity! Fight back!" Darien? Serena wondered. Then Serena remembered Darien. She trusted him but he also trusted her, trusted her to help him defeat the owner of the lab, Diamond. She trusted Darien, felt like she loved him, so why wasn't she helping him? Where was she? Serena saw an image of herself and Diamond, Diamond was kissing her. No! She thought. Only....then Serena realized something important, "Only Darien kisses me!" Serena cried out, and felt herself cry out in the present as her eyes flung open.
"Impossible," Diamond stated.
Serena felt herself getting stronger by the moment and working up a speech.
"You may never kiss me, " She started, standing up, "The only person who may ever kiss me is Darien. "
"You've kissed other people before," Diamond complained, feeling jealously flaring up inside him.
"Not like Darien. After Darien I have never kissed another. He's different. It all makes sense now. He's the one I've been looking for this whole time. My mother knew, she knew I played with people's hearts, yet had not yet found my one true love, but she also knew my true love stood waiting. She sent me here to find him, to find Darien, she knew he was here!" Serena paused briefly, "But you, you keep on interfering! Every time I get close to someone, you keep trying to stop me. This time, though, you're not going to stop me. Nothing can stop me from being with Darien. I know now how I can help him defeat you. And I will defeat you."
Diamond smirked, "But you see princess, you can't resist me, that's your problem. As long as I'm around, I'll never let myself go on living knowing you are with someone else, and not me. You are mine, you belong to me. You stole my heart, so I can never let you go."
Serena felt a few tears fall from her face, it was true. She had led him on, and so many more princes'. She had broken a thousand hearts and not even given it a second glance. But it would be different now, Serena looked up. She would not toy with heart's anymore, she would love but one. She would love Darien.
Diamond stood up to face her, she looked down upon him with a look of frustration and determination in her eyes, she felt the moon crescent on her forehead glowing brighter each moment, she stepped forward, and Diamond, even with his hypnotic eye, could not stop her, so he backed up. She kept on coming forward and he kept on backing up until they were off the bed and on the solid ground. Serena's eye's seemed to be in a trance as she held up her hands and prepared whatever she had to do to stop Diamond. At that moment the door of the chamber burst open.
When they were getting lost in the laboratory, Darien had suddenly felt as though something in him had come alive. He went down on his knees then held his stomach. Then the pain was gone and he felt very strange. He felt as though he could sense things, sense Serena and where she was. He hurried down the hallways to the chamber, Ray and Amy closely behind him. Then he felt Serena in pain, then stronger, then crying, and most of all, he somehow knew that Diamond had kissed her. He went along faster, Ray and my could hardly keep up, but still followed. He burst into the chamber and saw Serena towering over Diamond, seeming to be in a trance. Diamond held hands over his face and was cowering beneath the light from her forehead, unable to move from his position. Darien stepped up between them, taking Serena out of her trance because of broken concentration. Darien went up to Diamond and punched him hard in the face, what Serena had unsuccessfully tried to do earlier. He then turned to Serena and craddled her in his arms.
"Darien, you came, " Serena breathed through choked sobs.
"I won't let anything get you, " he whispered encouragingly into her ear, "Don't worry. Hush, I'll protect you."
Amy and Ray stared at Diamond, who was now left on the floor with a bleeding nose.
Ray looked up for a moment distractedly, "We have to get out of here!"
Amy looked worried, "What about Lita and Mina?"
Ray also looked worried but said, "No time. I have to explain later. I sense a great evil coming that we can't compete against just yet. We have to get out!"
And so Amy, Ray, Serena, and Darien rushed out of the chamber, out of the laboratory, and back to Ray's temple.
"Ray, what was that all about?" Amy asked, out of breath.
"I don't know. Let's hurry to the meeting room at my temple and I'll ask the fire. Something dangerous though, dangerous and evil, and....I don't know, it's unclear. We have to ask the fire!"
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Rini looked at the laboratory from behind the trees, as her past mother and father, with two other's, rushed out.
"They are safe, Pegasus, but I cannot leave. It is not yet over, they might still need my help. Will you stay with me?" Rini asked seriously.
"Yes, little lady. I will stay and help you," Pegasus replied, lowering his horse wings slightly. He transformed into a human, as Rini rarely saw him that way she stared. Pegasus closed his eyes and chanted. In a moment he and Rini were wearing different clothes, sunglasses, and hats.
"Disguises," he explained.
"Clever," Rini commented.
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Myra found her way easily into the laboratory, it was harder to find Edward now, his brain waves and thinking thoughts seemed to have slowed and almost shut down. She looked around and found the chamber where Diamond lay, trying to keep is nose from bleeding anymore.
"Oh, it's you, " Diamond said sarcastically. "What do you want?"
"Edward, he's come here, and as you know, he's turned," Myra answered, eyeing the blood that had escaped from his nose, she felt hungry.
"He came here? Didn't I tell you to keep him away from my business?" Diamond said angrily.
Myra glared, "You can't talk to me like that or even give me orders, I am stronger than you."
Diamond thought about this for a moment, "In what ways?"
"I can hypnotise even better than your puny third eye can, even with the stronger power it has with the moonstone," Myra explained.
"And what if, do you think it possible, to use that power to get..." Diamond trailed off.
"Serenity? Or rather, Serena?" Myra finished. "Yes, no one can resist a vampire, I don't believe."
"Do it to me, then, " Diamond ordered, he would do anything to get to Serena, "Turn me into one."
"Not so fast," Myra demanded. "What's in in for me?"
"Moonstones and robot slaves," Diamond responded, making it sound a great thing to win.
"Deal, but you must wait until tommorow night, the day is almost over, for right now, we plan. I also may be able to help you, depending on how much moonstone I get," Myra put in.
Myra walked with Diamond and they discussed the business deals and figured out a plan to get Serena and stop the other's. They finished their conversation, conveniently, when they came to the dungeon entrance.
Mina and Lita looked up in horror into Myra's eyes.
"You!" Mina screamed loud enough so that even Edward woke up from his unconsciousness.
"Yes, your friend from the moon, who promised to find you a true love if you helped me do one thing," Myra laughed.
"You didn't keep your end of the bargain, though, " Mina complained. "I never found true love!"
"Well, that's tough luck and reality of life, honey. So can it, I don't want to have to listen to it!" Myra screamed at Mina.
Lita felt hurt, Mina had done something it seemed, but she had never told Lita about it. Mina looked back to Lita as though sensing this and cast a ,"I'm so sorry!" look back at Lita. Lita smiled, she could forgive Mina.
Edward groaned, all the voices in his head were confusing him, he was fighting a battle with himself, then to top it off there were voices in the room that had woken him up, and now, the familiar voice of Myra, screaming her lungs off.
Mina turned back to Myra, "You've changed. Changed so much, well yea, after I met Harris, he did something to me. Want to know what?"
Mina stated flatly, "What?"
"This," Myra whispered and showed off her fangs.
Mina pulled back. "You were right Mina, there had been something about him, something strange. He only came to see me at night and the skin I found so charming you always remarked asbeautiful, yet pale. You almost saw right through him, but being the stupid little friend you were, you helped me get what I wanted, him. And he was charming and gentle and everything, but he stole my life. You let him steal my life Mina!"
Mina looked away, she had tried to stop Myra, yet she hadn't known it would have gotten this bad. that Harris actually was what she thought him to be and that Myra really had been in danger. Her friend Myra was so changed now though, not shy, but confident and angry an loud. Would she ever see Myra again?
"I came back. I pretended to still be her. Pretended I had had the night of my life with my true love and wished to repay you with more than just finding your true love. You were pathetic," Myra spat, "You believed me and everything I told you. When you asked me to get rid of Edward so that Serena wouldn't have a detention at earth school, I agreed. I took his life. I am starting my own little club. In it I will be powerful, beautiful, and iressistable. I can get what I want now, all by myself. I am all you were and more, I am better than you now."
"Is that what you've always wanted?" Mina remarked.
"Yes," Myra said, her voice calmer, "I now have what I've always wanted. To be better than you."
Edward glanced between the two. The girl Myra was yelling at knew Serena, he had sent him to his death, not purposely, so he forgave her, but she knew Serena! Was she one of the secret princess' the queen had sent to protect Serena, as he had overheard some of the other princes' talking about. Also, it was so strange. He didn't feel like he was fighting with himself anymore, the closer he came to this Mina, he leaned even closer, yet she seemed not to notice. It was like she was an angel of Mercy, allowing him rest from whatever inside him wanted to kill. He said aloud in her ear,
"Help me. Help me, please."
Everyone stopped talking and looked at him. Myra smiled,
"Your first meals may have come sooner than you expected Myra told Edward, gesturing towards Mina and Lita."
"No, " Diamond cut in, having not spoken for so long, "Remember the plan. We need hostages and they seemed to have come at just the right time."
"Yes," Myra grinned, "Hostages..."
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Ray had been in the temple for a long time now, everyone else waited outside, in the shade of the trees surrounding the temple. Ray had shut them out and said that she needed peace while she read the fire. So there they were...waiting.
Serena leaned more into Darien, if it was possible in how close they were. Serena felt closer as well as physically as she did in her heart. She ran the words she had said to Diamond through her head. She did not know where they had come from, but that they helped her be strong and defeat Diamond and that the words were true. She did not want anyone but Darien to kiss her except Darien. She loved Darien. He had kissed her before, and held her tight now, but only to protect her. Could he love her as much as she loved him?
Darien held Serena in his arms, not wanting to let go. He didn't know why but he knew he was in love with her. Since the first time they had kissed, to when they had fallen on one another, and still, as he had punched Diamond in the face for kissing her out of her own will. He had defeated the owner of the laboratory, but was not yet done avenging his sister. As her wish, he still had to free the people being kept in the laboratory. And Serena had helped, it seemed she didn't know how either, but she had a power like his inside of her. she didn't understand this power as much as he understood his, but he could help her. Her, his Serena. He felt possessive and protective. He would not let any harm come to Serena, or let any other person near Serena, she needed to be protected, she was so fragile.
He faced her and kissed her lightly on the forehead. She turned her loving eyes towards him and smiled. For now, they would remain happy, finally realizing what they each had to do and do it with. They would defeat Diamond and destroy his laboratory, together.
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Amy did her calculations carefully and fixed a kind of puzzle in her mind. Diamond possessed a type of moonstone that could hypnotize, power up robots, and maybe more. He wanted two things, to have an army to defeat whatever came between him and Serena, and the, Serena herself. By Serena's descriptions he had a third eye, as a special power, and the light that came from the light was like that of a moonstone. By her calculations, Diamond had had an experiment done on him t get his eye to a stronger level of hypnotism. This Diamond probably had a few more tricks up his sleeve, they would have to be very careful.
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Ray leaned back, finished reading the fire. She had seen so many images. All so confusing, but she knew what a part of it meant. She would have to tell them what she knew now, she only hoped, that it would be enough.
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Lita coughed and felt herself wake up. Mina beside her was already awake, however Mina just stared ahead, thinking to herself. They were both tied up against a cold wall, both shivering and both hungry, but they could not go anywhere.
Edward sat at a table guarding them, but had his back turned towards them. He didn't want to look at Mina, she reminded him of Serena and he felt the same desire for her, desire for blood. But he would not kill, especially if they were Serena's friends. They could help Serena, protect Serena, from him.
"I'm sorry, Edward," Mina said at last, "I didn't know Myra was a vampire when I sent her to you." Mina felt a few tears fall down her face again, she felt so guilty, felt as though she had been the cause of everything that had happened.
"Don't cry," Edward breathed, feeling the desire once again, "Don't"
"I can't help it," sobbed Mina, "It's all my fault!"
Edward turned towards Mina, and wiped away her tears. She was so beautiful, she was so like Serena, yet not. He liked her he realized suddenly, after liking Serena all his life, he had seen this Mina girl cry once and he liked her. He felt his desire for Serena disappear, his new desire for Mina growing inside him. He leaned closer to her neck, breathing in the scent of her blood. No! He cried out again, I cannot take a human life! He tried to fight with himself, but could not. He leaned closer to Mina and began to take away her life.
"No!" Lita cried out, "Stop! Mina!"
"It is too late," Myra laughed from the doorway.
Edward looked at horror at the blood-drained Mina. He bit his arm and let blood flow out, let it flow into Mina's mouth, he did not know how much she needed, but he just kept on feeding her, until he could not anymore, his vampiric senses told him. Mina groaned and seemed to awaken.
"Mina!" Lita cried out again.
Mina looked up into Edward's frightened eyes and said tiredly, yet meaningfully, "What have you done!?"
________________________________________________________________________ So now I've put in a bit of the supernatural and superstitious stuff into the story, well, adventure, you know, has to include a bunch of everything, right? Was that good, or does it need a rewrite, I wrote this one kinda fast. Thank you for your reviews from earlier, and Thank You for reading my story =)
"Pu!" Rini called, "Pu! Come quick! We need your help!"
Setsuna materialized before Rini, "She needs my help, where is she little lady?"
"In the chamber, daddy's with her, but she's acting so strangely!" Rini panicked.
Setsuna and Rini made a hurried run to the chamber. Serenity lay hovering over her bed, crying out in pain. Endymion held her hand, a worried look written on his face. Beside him was a large crystal piece, showing him what was happening in the past. He turned to Setsuna, still holding onto Serenity's hand.
"Is there anything you can do? I know you don't like to interupt time, but she's reacting this way because someone else interrupted her past, if she is not helped, things may change," He said with a quick glance at Rini. They both knew that if Serenity was not helped, Rini would not be born. If Rini was not born they would have no future queen, maybe not even a future without Serenity.
Setsuna wore a look of doubt on her face, but took out her time turner, swinging it back and forth and chanting. She closed her eyes and a moment later a bright light filled the room. Serenity relaxed for a moment and floated back onto the bed beneath her. She wore a look of pure agony upon her face and her fists were clenched, she had been given an advantage by Setsuna, but she had not yet won.
Endymion turned towards Setsuna again, "Will she be alright?"
"I have given her her moon powers earlier than time would have wanted. I don't know how things will happen yet, it seems what is written keeps on changing because of interferences. I must go now," Setsuna explained briefly.
"Thank you," Endymion said before she dissapeared.
Rini watched it all from a distance. If she wanted to help she would find Pegasus, he could bring her back to the past. She would do anything to save her mother. She wandered through the royal guardian chambers until she found him,
"I need your help."
Pegasus thought deeply and leaned his back down so that Rini could mount him. They flew off into the future, expecting the worse. They had to make a plan quickly.
Endymion stayed honorably by Serenity as he watched Diamond from the future try to back away. His poor Serenity, why did Diamond always intervene, past and future? Serenity deserved to have at least a bit of peace. She had to be strong now and fight back, before it was too late.
"Fight back Serenity!" Endymion suddenly yelled fiercely, gripping her hands lightly, "Fight back!"
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Serena knew better than to lean back and let somebody rape her, even if she didn't have any weapons, she would fight with her bare hands. She swung out her fist to punch him, hoping it wouldn't hurt him too much. She closed her eyes, when she opened them, she found out that Diamond had caught her fist and had placed her hand around his neck. She pulled back in horror and started to crawl backwards, soon, she would be at the end of the bed, against the wall, with no escape.
"Mine," Diamond chanted again.
Serena whimpered in frustration and defeat, but then she felt it. A small light emanating from her forehead. She felt stronger, more able to fight back. She sat up, surprising Diamond before he too, noticed that something strange was happening. Diamond leaned his head down for a moment, Serena watched, not knowing what he was doing. When he looked up Serena saw it, he too had something on his forehead, a dark moon crescent, and, what was that on the inside of it. An eye, glowing the color of the moon. The eye moved back and forth, watching her, waiting for her, Serena felt slightly sleepy. She didn't notice herself slowly falling into Diamond's arms.
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Edward leaned against a certain wall of the laboratory. He could smell Serena inside, right behind that wall. He punched a fist into the wall, hoping to open it. His new vampiric powers had prevented his hands from being hurt, yet still, the wall, would not come down. Whoever had constructed it had been smart enough to use material even too strong for a vampire. Edward cried out in frustration, his voice echoing into the forest, everywhere, even Myra, in her cave, heard it. Edward moved to the next wall and punched it. It broke! Edward grinned mischieviously. He punched the wall again, and leaped down through the broken wall. Falling on top of someone. ________________________________________________________________________
Mina looked up to see who had knocked her down. The other's stared at the intruder.
"Edward?" Mina questioned.
"Where's Serena?" Edward replied loudly, "Take me to her!"
They all looked at him blankly. Could they trust him? His behavior had been strange ever since the party. Was he really Edward?
Edward silently leaned back, "No," he manages, "Keep me away from her! Please! I'll hurt her, keep me away!"
Ray looked at him thoughtfully, "He's Edward, but something is still wrong with him. We can't let him near Serena, but we need someone to watch him, two people, actually."
"I'll stay," Mina answered immediately, "Just go help Serena."
"I'll stay as well," volunteered Lita.
"Good, stay and watch him, " Ray agreed, then turned to Amy, "We have to hurry now."
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Myra heard Edward's call of frustration. She had better check on him. She had thought him mature, but to go screaming like that, who did he think he was? He would let the other vampires know where they were, where her club was. She had to go after him now. She would catch him and she would punish him if they were caught, maybe even if they weren't. With that thought, a rush of wind was heard in the forest and she found herself in front of a laboratory with broken walls on certain parts. Well, well, she thought, what do we have here?
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"Yes!" Edward screamed, then, "No!"
"He seems to be fighting with himself," Lita remarked.
"Looks painful, " Mina winced.
Edward's eyes grew dark, "No!" Then he passed out. Lita turned to Mina, "What do we do now?"
"We wait, " Mina answered with wonder in her voice.
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Serena felt herself lost in sleep when she heard it. A voice, "Fight back Serenity! Fight back!" Darien? Serena wondered. Then Serena remembered Darien. She trusted him but he also trusted her, trusted her to help him defeat the owner of the lab, Diamond. She trusted Darien, felt like she loved him, so why wasn't she helping him? Where was she? Serena saw an image of herself and Diamond, Diamond was kissing her. No! She thought. Only....then Serena realized something important, "Only Darien kisses me!" Serena cried out, and felt herself cry out in the present as her eyes flung open.
"Impossible," Diamond stated.
Serena felt herself getting stronger by the moment and working up a speech.
"You may never kiss me, " She started, standing up, "The only person who may ever kiss me is Darien. "
"You've kissed other people before," Diamond complained, feeling jealously flaring up inside him.
"Not like Darien. After Darien I have never kissed another. He's different. It all makes sense now. He's the one I've been looking for this whole time. My mother knew, she knew I played with people's hearts, yet had not yet found my one true love, but she also knew my true love stood waiting. She sent me here to find him, to find Darien, she knew he was here!" Serena paused briefly, "But you, you keep on interfering! Every time I get close to someone, you keep trying to stop me. This time, though, you're not going to stop me. Nothing can stop me from being with Darien. I know now how I can help him defeat you. And I will defeat you."
Diamond smirked, "But you see princess, you can't resist me, that's your problem. As long as I'm around, I'll never let myself go on living knowing you are with someone else, and not me. You are mine, you belong to me. You stole my heart, so I can never let you go."
Serena felt a few tears fall from her face, it was true. She had led him on, and so many more princes'. She had broken a thousand hearts and not even given it a second glance. But it would be different now, Serena looked up. She would not toy with heart's anymore, she would love but one. She would love Darien.
Diamond stood up to face her, she looked down upon him with a look of frustration and determination in her eyes, she felt the moon crescent on her forehead glowing brighter each moment, she stepped forward, and Diamond, even with his hypnotic eye, could not stop her, so he backed up. She kept on coming forward and he kept on backing up until they were off the bed and on the solid ground. Serena's eye's seemed to be in a trance as she held up her hands and prepared whatever she had to do to stop Diamond. At that moment the door of the chamber burst open.
When they were getting lost in the laboratory, Darien had suddenly felt as though something in him had come alive. He went down on his knees then held his stomach. Then the pain was gone and he felt very strange. He felt as though he could sense things, sense Serena and where she was. He hurried down the hallways to the chamber, Ray and Amy closely behind him. Then he felt Serena in pain, then stronger, then crying, and most of all, he somehow knew that Diamond had kissed her. He went along faster, Ray and my could hardly keep up, but still followed. He burst into the chamber and saw Serena towering over Diamond, seeming to be in a trance. Diamond held hands over his face and was cowering beneath the light from her forehead, unable to move from his position. Darien stepped up between them, taking Serena out of her trance because of broken concentration. Darien went up to Diamond and punched him hard in the face, what Serena had unsuccessfully tried to do earlier. He then turned to Serena and craddled her in his arms.
"Darien, you came, " Serena breathed through choked sobs.
"I won't let anything get you, " he whispered encouragingly into her ear, "Don't worry. Hush, I'll protect you."
Amy and Ray stared at Diamond, who was now left on the floor with a bleeding nose.
Ray looked up for a moment distractedly, "We have to get out of here!"
Amy looked worried, "What about Lita and Mina?"
Ray also looked worried but said, "No time. I have to explain later. I sense a great evil coming that we can't compete against just yet. We have to get out!"
And so Amy, Ray, Serena, and Darien rushed out of the chamber, out of the laboratory, and back to Ray's temple.
"Ray, what was that all about?" Amy asked, out of breath.
"I don't know. Let's hurry to the meeting room at my temple and I'll ask the fire. Something dangerous though, dangerous and evil, and....I don't know, it's unclear. We have to ask the fire!"
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Rini looked at the laboratory from behind the trees, as her past mother and father, with two other's, rushed out.
"They are safe, Pegasus, but I cannot leave. It is not yet over, they might still need my help. Will you stay with me?" Rini asked seriously.
"Yes, little lady. I will stay and help you," Pegasus replied, lowering his horse wings slightly. He transformed into a human, as Rini rarely saw him that way she stared. Pegasus closed his eyes and chanted. In a moment he and Rini were wearing different clothes, sunglasses, and hats.
"Disguises," he explained.
"Clever," Rini commented.
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Myra found her way easily into the laboratory, it was harder to find Edward now, his brain waves and thinking thoughts seemed to have slowed and almost shut down. She looked around and found the chamber where Diamond lay, trying to keep is nose from bleeding anymore.
"Oh, it's you, " Diamond said sarcastically. "What do you want?"
"Edward, he's come here, and as you know, he's turned," Myra answered, eyeing the blood that had escaped from his nose, she felt hungry.
"He came here? Didn't I tell you to keep him away from my business?" Diamond said angrily.
Myra glared, "You can't talk to me like that or even give me orders, I am stronger than you."
Diamond thought about this for a moment, "In what ways?"
"I can hypnotise even better than your puny third eye can, even with the stronger power it has with the moonstone," Myra explained.
"And what if, do you think it possible, to use that power to get..." Diamond trailed off.
"Serenity? Or rather, Serena?" Myra finished. "Yes, no one can resist a vampire, I don't believe."
"Do it to me, then, " Diamond ordered, he would do anything to get to Serena, "Turn me into one."
"Not so fast," Myra demanded. "What's in in for me?"
"Moonstones and robot slaves," Diamond responded, making it sound a great thing to win.
"Deal, but you must wait until tommorow night, the day is almost over, for right now, we plan. I also may be able to help you, depending on how much moonstone I get," Myra put in.
Myra walked with Diamond and they discussed the business deals and figured out a plan to get Serena and stop the other's. They finished their conversation, conveniently, when they came to the dungeon entrance.
Mina and Lita looked up in horror into Myra's eyes.
"You!" Mina screamed loud enough so that even Edward woke up from his unconsciousness.
"Yes, your friend from the moon, who promised to find you a true love if you helped me do one thing," Myra laughed.
"You didn't keep your end of the bargain, though, " Mina complained. "I never found true love!"
"Well, that's tough luck and reality of life, honey. So can it, I don't want to have to listen to it!" Myra screamed at Mina.
Lita felt hurt, Mina had done something it seemed, but she had never told Lita about it. Mina looked back to Lita as though sensing this and cast a ,"I'm so sorry!" look back at Lita. Lita smiled, she could forgive Mina.
Edward groaned, all the voices in his head were confusing him, he was fighting a battle with himself, then to top it off there were voices in the room that had woken him up, and now, the familiar voice of Myra, screaming her lungs off.
Mina turned back to Myra, "You've changed. Changed so much, well yea, after I met Harris, he did something to me. Want to know what?"
Mina stated flatly, "What?"
"This," Myra whispered and showed off her fangs.
Mina pulled back. "You were right Mina, there had been something about him, something strange. He only came to see me at night and the skin I found so charming you always remarked asbeautiful, yet pale. You almost saw right through him, but being the stupid little friend you were, you helped me get what I wanted, him. And he was charming and gentle and everything, but he stole my life. You let him steal my life Mina!"
Mina looked away, she had tried to stop Myra, yet she hadn't known it would have gotten this bad. that Harris actually was what she thought him to be and that Myra really had been in danger. Her friend Myra was so changed now though, not shy, but confident and angry an loud. Would she ever see Myra again?
"I came back. I pretended to still be her. Pretended I had had the night of my life with my true love and wished to repay you with more than just finding your true love. You were pathetic," Myra spat, "You believed me and everything I told you. When you asked me to get rid of Edward so that Serena wouldn't have a detention at earth school, I agreed. I took his life. I am starting my own little club. In it I will be powerful, beautiful, and iressistable. I can get what I want now, all by myself. I am all you were and more, I am better than you now."
"Is that what you've always wanted?" Mina remarked.
"Yes," Myra said, her voice calmer, "I now have what I've always wanted. To be better than you."
Edward glanced between the two. The girl Myra was yelling at knew Serena, he had sent him to his death, not purposely, so he forgave her, but she knew Serena! Was she one of the secret princess' the queen had sent to protect Serena, as he had overheard some of the other princes' talking about. Also, it was so strange. He didn't feel like he was fighting with himself anymore, the closer he came to this Mina, he leaned even closer, yet she seemed not to notice. It was like she was an angel of Mercy, allowing him rest from whatever inside him wanted to kill. He said aloud in her ear,
"Help me. Help me, please."
Everyone stopped talking and looked at him. Myra smiled,
"Your first meals may have come sooner than you expected Myra told Edward, gesturing towards Mina and Lita."
"No, " Diamond cut in, having not spoken for so long, "Remember the plan. We need hostages and they seemed to have come at just the right time."
"Yes," Myra grinned, "Hostages..."
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Ray had been in the temple for a long time now, everyone else waited outside, in the shade of the trees surrounding the temple. Ray had shut them out and said that she needed peace while she read the fire. So there they were...waiting.
Serena leaned more into Darien, if it was possible in how close they were. Serena felt closer as well as physically as she did in her heart. She ran the words she had said to Diamond through her head. She did not know where they had come from, but that they helped her be strong and defeat Diamond and that the words were true. She did not want anyone but Darien to kiss her except Darien. She loved Darien. He had kissed her before, and held her tight now, but only to protect her. Could he love her as much as she loved him?
Darien held Serena in his arms, not wanting to let go. He didn't know why but he knew he was in love with her. Since the first time they had kissed, to when they had fallen on one another, and still, as he had punched Diamond in the face for kissing her out of her own will. He had defeated the owner of the laboratory, but was not yet done avenging his sister. As her wish, he still had to free the people being kept in the laboratory. And Serena had helped, it seemed she didn't know how either, but she had a power like his inside of her. she didn't understand this power as much as he understood his, but he could help her. Her, his Serena. He felt possessive and protective. He would not let any harm come to Serena, or let any other person near Serena, she needed to be protected, she was so fragile.
He faced her and kissed her lightly on the forehead. She turned her loving eyes towards him and smiled. For now, they would remain happy, finally realizing what they each had to do and do it with. They would defeat Diamond and destroy his laboratory, together.
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Amy did her calculations carefully and fixed a kind of puzzle in her mind. Diamond possessed a type of moonstone that could hypnotize, power up robots, and maybe more. He wanted two things, to have an army to defeat whatever came between him and Serena, and the, Serena herself. By Serena's descriptions he had a third eye, as a special power, and the light that came from the light was like that of a moonstone. By her calculations, Diamond had had an experiment done on him t get his eye to a stronger level of hypnotism. This Diamond probably had a few more tricks up his sleeve, they would have to be very careful.
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Ray leaned back, finished reading the fire. She had seen so many images. All so confusing, but she knew what a part of it meant. She would have to tell them what she knew now, she only hoped, that it would be enough.
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Lita coughed and felt herself wake up. Mina beside her was already awake, however Mina just stared ahead, thinking to herself. They were both tied up against a cold wall, both shivering and both hungry, but they could not go anywhere.
Edward sat at a table guarding them, but had his back turned towards them. He didn't want to look at Mina, she reminded him of Serena and he felt the same desire for her, desire for blood. But he would not kill, especially if they were Serena's friends. They could help Serena, protect Serena, from him.
"I'm sorry, Edward," Mina said at last, "I didn't know Myra was a vampire when I sent her to you." Mina felt a few tears fall down her face again, she felt so guilty, felt as though she had been the cause of everything that had happened.
"Don't cry," Edward breathed, feeling the desire once again, "Don't"
"I can't help it," sobbed Mina, "It's all my fault!"
Edward turned towards Mina, and wiped away her tears. She was so beautiful, she was so like Serena, yet not. He liked her he realized suddenly, after liking Serena all his life, he had seen this Mina girl cry once and he liked her. He felt his desire for Serena disappear, his new desire for Mina growing inside him. He leaned closer to her neck, breathing in the scent of her blood. No! He cried out again, I cannot take a human life! He tried to fight with himself, but could not. He leaned closer to Mina and began to take away her life.
"No!" Lita cried out, "Stop! Mina!"
"It is too late," Myra laughed from the doorway.
Edward looked at horror at the blood-drained Mina. He bit his arm and let blood flow out, let it flow into Mina's mouth, he did not know how much she needed, but he just kept on feeding her, until he could not anymore, his vampiric senses told him. Mina groaned and seemed to awaken.
"Mina!" Lita cried out again.
Mina looked up into Edward's frightened eyes and said tiredly, yet meaningfully, "What have you done!?"
________________________________________________________________________ So now I've put in a bit of the supernatural and superstitious stuff into the story, well, adventure, you know, has to include a bunch of everything, right? Was that good, or does it need a rewrite, I wrote this one kinda fast. Thank you for your reviews from earlier, and Thank You for reading my story =)