Pale Beams
Chapter # 3
Power Rising
Standard Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and all associated characters are the property of
Takeuchi Naoko, Toei Animation, and DIC.
Rated 'R' for strong language
Hi!! I just wanted to let you all know what a great help that you have been to me. All of your
suggestions and compliments make be both happy and eager to do more work. And someone suggested
lines like this.......,**********, to show a change of scene. Great Idea, as you can see, I've done
it here! Or tried to at least :) Agian thanks, and there's more on the way!
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"What, what do you mean Princess Serenity? " Serena was scared now; they couldn't still
be after Reenie could they? Well' they couldn't have her, not if she had anything to say
about it.
"Moon GORGEOUS MEDITATION!"
The monster was blasted back before he knew what hit him.
Yes! I got him Sailor Moon thought.
But when the smoke cleared the Yuma was still there, and he was moving.
"What?! Why didn't it work? He should have been moon dusted!"
Sailor Moon felt an over whelming sense of dread uncoil inside of her. Suddenly out of
nowhere the scouts heard a deep voice callout to the Yuma.
"Scarlite! I sense the brat but it is no use to find her with these meddlesome Sailor flops
here. Back to me now!"
The Yuma ginned evilly and said in a horrible impression of Arnold Swarzinegger
" I'll be back." In a whirl of smoke he was gone.
Sailor Moon and Mars just looked at each other questioningly.
"Uh, guys... LET ME DOWN!!" Sailor Moon let out a small giggle and let Mina out by
way of her tiara. "Ouch! Thanks." Venus grumbled rubbing her backside.
"We have to call a Sailor Scout meeting." Sailor Moon said to the other girls.
"OK, Hey wow Sailor Moon your thinking ahead for once." Mars started to get into a
famous one of their fights but Serena wasn't there anymore.
"Hey! where'd she go?'
"I don't know Mars, she just was there and then not there." Venus looked genuinely
confused.
"So what do we do now? "
Mars looked thoughtful and finally said, "Well let's get out of here and once were back at
the temple then we can figure out where Serena is."
With a nod in the audiences' direction she ran off. Venus looked and saw that they had
collected quite a crowd and decided that Mars had a good idea after all. She ran after her
comrade.
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When they got to the temple they saw that Luna, Artemis, and the rest of the
scouts were there. Including Reenie and Serena! Once they were all sitting Serena raised
an authoritative hand witch ceased all speaking and then she began the meeting.
"I have decided that since I m the leader. Um, well actually... Am I still the leader? I mean
I know that you guys ran me out last time but, I was wondering if you could give me
another chance..."
At this Reenie stood up sharply.
"No! They should be asking you for another chance Serena. They ran you out all right, but
they did it unjustly and without a reason."
"Hey! We had a very good reason!" Lita started. "She got some one hurt, because she was
to much of a whiner to help him!" Lita's face was red now, but it cooled down and even
lost color when Darien spoke up behind them.
"Well girls it seems that we have a misunderstanding here. I have a question to ask you,
Amy, since you are the most intelligent one of the group, apology to the rest of you, I
would like for you to answer it." Amy nodded her head slowly, feeling a sense of dread
inside of her.
" Did any of you ask Serena why she did not get up?" Darien had his arms folded across
his massive chest and stared straight at Amy when he asked this question. Amy gulped and
it resounded around the room. "Um, well, no. We just assumed..."
"Just assumed! It seems to me that you'll have been doing that allot lately. Now you are
all fairly sweet girls and I know that you could have not done all of this doubting and
assuming alone, so I will refrain from passing too much judgment on you. But would you
all like to now hear Serenas' side of the story?" This rebuke had come from none other
than Luna, who sat with an indignant expression on her kitty face. Her piercing eyes mad
all of the girls lower their heads. Had they wronged their leader?
"Yes," they said.
"All right then, Serena you may begin." Luna looked over at her charge.
"Aw, Luna its in the past now it doesn't mean anything." Serena really looked as if she
didn't want to do this.
"Nonsense! You cried yourself to sleep. Yes Darien told me about that, and that you had
a nightmare last night. Now talk to us Serena"
Serena took a deep breath and began to tell them what had really happened. All of their
eyes got bigger and bigger and Litas' face lost all color when Serena told of the attack that
she had taken to save Reenie. By the time that she finished all four of the girls were crying
and looking as if their best friend had died.
"Oh God Serena, I am so sorry." Lita got up and ran from the room.
"Lita!" Serena scrambled to her feet and ran after her friend. The rest of the girls just sat
in mute silence and cried until they could cry no more.
"What have we done? We were supposed to protect her. Instead we hurt her. I can see it
in her eyes. We really hurt her bad." Mina started to sob again. "Minas right, I feel as if
my heart is breaking, oh Luna how can we make this up to her? How can we fix it?" Amy
looked pleadingly at Luna, then at Artemis. Rae just sat there staring at nothing, the
streaks that the tears had made down her face shined in the firelight.
"Your just going to have to wait until she comes back and then figure it out." Luna laid
her head down on top of her paws and closed her eyes.
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"Lita! Hey Lita! Wait up." Serena was running down the road after her friend. She
stopped and knew that she wasn't going to catch up to her this way. Closing her eyes she
concentrated on a few blocks ahead of Lita. She began to shimmer.
Lita was running, running from her shame and her doubts and trying to run from the pain
in Serenas' blue eyes that she saw when the girl spoke of the other night. She had both of
her hand over her face and didn't realize that there was someone in front of her until it was
too late.
"Oh my gosh, I..I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
"Oh Lita, your beginning to sound like me." Lita couldn't believe it, Serena? How had she
gotten ahead of her?
" Serena? How did you?"
Serena smiled," Oh never mind that. Tell me why you're running."
Lita felt acute shame when she looked at her best friend in the whole world.
"Here, Lets sit down on this bench." Serena pointed out a bench close by and guided Lita
to it. "Now tell me what's wrong. Why you ran?"
Lita tried to hold it in but one look at that smiling face and it all burst out. How she felt
like a failure to her princess. How she felt that she was not worthy to be a scout after
attacking her leader like that. Every single doubt that she had, that she didn't know why
she had them. That she knew that they weren't the truth but they were so hard to ignore.
Some how she felt warm and content again. She had somehow gotten into Serenas' arms
and was being hugged like Serena would never let her go.
'Oh, It's all right Lita. I forgive you. It wasn't your fault. And besides everyone makes
mistakes sometime or other."
Lita had laid her head on Serenas' lap and she was now looking into big trustful blues eyes
that held forgiveness and love. She was suddenly thrown back in time to the Moon
Kingdom.
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She remembered when The Princess was a little girl. She had always been
traipsing off on one adventure to the other. This day was different though. This day there
was malice in the air'. Serena had been about nine and the other scouts about ten. Serena
was running around the woods just outside the palace. The girls had decided to take
Serenas' mind off of the fact that her mother was away at that time. They had thought
that they were all alone but they had been wrong. Serena was skipping and laughing and
the girls were smiling at her exuberance for life when the laughing had stopped. Alarmed
they had stood up and ran to the spot where the Princess had last been. They saw a man
covered in black slowly dragging their Princess away. Serena was struggling and her
dressed was ripped. Lita had seen blood coming from Serenas' leg and knew that it was
the bastards' fault that she was hurt. A blind rage had come over her and she had gathered
all of her energy and thrown it at the man. Rae had run forward and yanked Serena from
the arms of her capturer just in time. The man was thrown backwards. Lita had not aimed
to kill, oh no, the Queen would take care of this evil man when she got home. Boy she
would not want to be in his shoes. No one hurt her Princess and got away without her
having a say in it though. She had run over to where the man had fallen and jumped on
him. The bastard was going to pay. She kept seeing the terrified look in Serenas' eyes and
connected her fist with his face over and over. "No! Lita, you mustn't!" The princess had
come over and was tugging on Litas' arm. Lita had looked up and seen that Serena had
stopped crying and that her leg was no longer bleeding.
"Why not, Princess, the bastard hurt you."
"I know he did Lita, but it is alright truly, I am all better now. See." She showed Lita her
newly healed leg. "Poor man, he is ever so confused. I can sense it. He didn't really want
to hurt me, he was put up to it."
Lita had risen and now the Princess extended her arm to the man.
"Come on, I'll help you up." Shocked the girls watched as she helped her would be
capturer to his feet. Lita looked into her lieges' eyes and saw nothing but hope, love, and
forgiveness in them.
"After all every one makes mistakes now and again, right." Serena had then hugged the
man and smiled.
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Lita felt a whole lot better. She looked up at Serena and smiled, "Lets go
back now OK?" Serena giggled and said yes that they might as well face the wrath of Rae
sooner or later.
Rae and the girls were waiting for them when they walked into the room. After many
heartfelt apologize and promises that they would never doubt her again Serena was once
again the leader of her scouts.
OK here it goes, the new, well not so new to me, and improved Serena takes charge.
Serena took a deep breath and once again held up her hand for silence. All noise and
chatter immediately ceased and every one looked expectantly at her. Serena smiled.
"As leader of this team I will here by start this meeting. Now the topic of our interest
today is the new enemy. Luna and myself have thought long and hard about this and have
drawn the conclusion that you have all been under the influence of some sort of mind
persuasion. We hope that now that you have realized this things in the group will return to
normal and that we will be a stronger and more efficient team for it." Considering that
most of the girls' jaws were now on the floor Serena guessed that she was doing a pretty
good jab so far. She continued.
"Now, that we have covered that base, I suggest that we move on to the reason as to why
the new enemy is attacking and what they want. They seem to be only attacking young
children around the age of nine and ten. They also mentioned that they were looking for
the 'Moon Brat', I take this to mean that they are once again looking for Reenie. Does
anyone have any further information that they can give?"
After realizing that Serena had indeed taken charge the girls had closed their mouths and
were now deep in thought.
"Well," Amy began, and she was looking at Serena with her usual quite intelligence. " I
do not really think that they are looking for Reenie." She was now looking expectantly to
Serena for her to finish her thought. Serena gasped slightly as she began to catch on.
"Reenie was there twice, during two attacks. Of course she was disguised as a Sailor once,
but the other time she was just dressed as a normal girl. They would have picked her out if
they were looking for her!" "That's right! SO they're not looking for Reenie, they're
looking for someone else. " Lita interrupted Mina.
"But then who is it? It has to be someone from the moon family. You don't have another
child do you Serena?"
"How would I know? I haven't even had the first one yet!" Serena looked aghast. "Why
on earth would I want to have another one?"
"Hey!" Reenie looked like she wanted to kill Serena. "I am not that bad." She sat with her
arms crossed over her chest.
Serena grinned, "Nothing against you Reenie. So, I must have some other relative or
something in order for them to be looking for her."
"Yes, well Serena, you know that your attack didn't seem to work against that monster
anyway. I wonder why not? Did you say something wrong, not put enough energy into
it?" Luna looked almost ashamed to be posing that question but Serena knew that she felt
that she had to ask it just incase, so she didn't take exception, just pretended to.
"Certainly not! I know that attack front and back and trust me there was energy behind
it." She showed her palms to her guardian, they still were red and raw from the attack.
" Goodness, how did that happen?" Her cat, if it could, looked aghast at what was laid out
before her.
"Oh, it happens all the time, when ever I use my attacks." Serena said this nonchalantly,
as if it were nothing out of the ordinary.
"Well then, that takes care of my question." Luna made a mental note to ask Serena why
she hadn't talked of this before.
"OK, I suspect that they'll try to find this Moon relative of mine or something in their next
attack, so there is nothing that we can do, we might as well go home and get some sleep."
Serena and the girls said goodnight and went their separate ways.
"Do my two favorite girls wish for me to take them home?" Darien expected them to
jump at the chance but to his surprise they declined.
"No thanks muffin, we'd rather walk home. Right Small Lady? " Reenie sensed that Serena
wanted to talk to her alone, so she agreed.
"Yea, girl stuff." she said and reached out for Serenas hand. Grasping the small one in
hers Serena pecked Darien on the cheek and the two girls started home.
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"Reenie I wanted to talk to you, mostly about the new enemies. I know that they
obviously don't want you, but I want you to be extra careful for a while. Just until we get
rid of these guys, OK?"
Reenie looked up shocked. "Do you mean that you don't want me to fight?"
"Oh, goodness no." Serena laughed. "I just want you to be careful of who you talk to, and
to make sure that your around one of the scouts and not by yourself. I have a feeling that
these new enemies will stop at nothing to get this child that they want. And I, I don't know
what I would do if you got hurt." Serena left it at that. Reenie got the feeling that her
mom didn't want to talk about it anymore so she just held on to her hand a little tighter
and they walked home in silence.
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Nubius watched the two girls walk home in his mirror.
There is something awfully familiar about that Sailor Moon, that Serena. Although I
don't know what it is. That small girl gives off just as powerful a feeling though. I feel as if
I should know them.
He went to check the readings again. I can't believe that those girls got over my mind
control so quickly. Why did it have such a weak effect? Maybe I should send a dream to
that young child. She seems to be the most vulnerable of them all. I believe that she might
be able to share some interesting details about the scouts and that Moon Brat I'm looking
for.
Huh?
He felt a presence. Quickly turning he caught the end of a long black cloak swishing
around the corner. Procellarum!
What did she want? He shivered involuntarily. There was something so wrong about that
woman. If only he could put his finger on it. It seemed that he was wishing for that allot
lately. No matter he would figure it out soon enough. He sent out the dream. While the
child was sleeping he would slip into her head and view all of her other dreams and the
thoughts that he could access. He was growing impatient, but still he managed to smile as
he thought of the ways he would wreak his vengeance on that Princess. He let out an evil
cackle and slipped into a trance.
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Serena tucked Reenie into her bed and then just sat there on the ground next to her. Oh,
Reenie, what would I do if something were to happen to you? I'll miss you so much when
it is time for you to go home again.
Who knew that you would grow to be such a wonderful girl?
Serena smiled and slipped into a light sleep next to her daughter. It seemed to only be a
small time later that she was awakened by a scream.
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Reenie was dreaming, she knew that. It was a nice dream. She wished that Pegasus would
visit her again. He still did it from time to time and they would talk of everything and
anything. She felt a deep love for him, different than she felt for Darien or Serena, but just
as powerful. Her dream was easy and sweet. Her Serena, and Darien were all in the park
having a picnic. I was a gorgeous day and they were all laughing and having a wonderful
time. She smiled in her sleep and dreamt on. Then she saw it. A horrible mean face.
Nubius smiled grimly. The young child, Reenie was it? Was asleep and dreaming that
happy dream that he had sent her to ease his way into her mind. Now that she was so
happy it would be a piece of cake to enter her thoughts. And enter he did. Swirling pink
mist wrapped around him and he felt warm and content. Ugh, how sickening! He pressed
onward until he came to a door. He turned the handle and walked in. What he saw was
quite a shock, a horse, with wings! The horse and the girl were laughing and talking
together, then the horse changed into a young man with white hair. The man had a gold
horn on his forehead, and it shined as he smiled. Reenie hugged the man and then the man;
wait there was a name coming, Helios. That was this mans name. Helios picked her up and
swirled her around an around in circles. Then he stooped and they laughed into each
other's eyes.
"Oh Helios, I love you." Reenie tilted her face up and the two of them kissed. Ugh, and
double ugh! I have to get out of here. Nubius quickly made his way out and shut the door.
I hope that all of her thoughts are not like this.
He walked further into the mist and came upon another door. He swung that one open and
silently watched the scene unfold before him. The girl was sitting on a bed. She was
smaller though and there was a different man sitting next to her. He was dark haired and
was dressed royally.
This could be interesting.
"Tell me a story daddy, about Sailor Moon and haw she saved the world." the child had
to be only three or four. Her eyes were larger and almost dominated the girls face; they
were an amazing shade of red, like rubies. Her father chuckled and smiled fondly at her.
"Sure sweetie, how about his one?"
Nubius almost became enraptured at the story himself, but he decided that this was all
of the information that he was going to get here. He closed the door and walked on.
How come I have never seen her father in any of the mirror viewing?
He gave a mental shrug and walked on. The mist got heavier and he had to really look to
see the next door. Once inside he invented a chair and sat down. He almost wished that he
had a bowl of spiders, or what did those humans have? Popcorn! Yes that was it a bowl of
popcorn. He was glad a few seconds later that he hadn't had anything to eat. He would
have choked on it. The girl was about eight here and she was dressed in a flowing white
gown. Beside her stood a woman with yellow hair, no gold, gold hair. They were on a
balcony and he couldn't quite make out the woman's face.
"Mommy, why do I have to go back, I mean I want to go back but why now?"
The woman turned and Nubius could see her face now.
What! What is this a joke?
It was that Serena girl, only she was older and now that she was he could see the
resemblance. She looked just like the Queen of the Silver Millennium! The only difference
was that she had Gold hair instead of silver. Why hadn't he seen it before? The hair style,
the eyes, the same stately stature and air that they gave off. Serena was Reenies mother,
but also she was Queen Serenity's daughter from the Silver times! So she was the Moon
Brat that had vanquished him! Oh this was interesting indeed. This was very helpful. He
watched as the mother leaned down and easily picked up Reenie.
"Oh Honey, I don't want to send you back, I will miss you so much! But you have to
become a sailor scout. And this is the only way. Serena loves you just as much as I do, and
I love you with all of my heart and being. Go now, and make me proud."
With that Serena kissed her daughters head and put her down. The crescent on her
forehead glowed and Reenies did in return. The light grew bright and Reenie disappeared.
The light went away and the Queen of the future lay on her knees sobbing.
"Oh Small Lady, how I wish you could stay and that I could protect you form the hurt that
I know you will face." The father, whom Nubius assumed was the king, stepped out from
behind the balcony doors and gathered his queen in his arms. They walked into the palace
together. Nubius smiled and walked out purposely slamming the door behind him. Oh, this
was going to be easy now. He laughed evilly and let himself appear to Reenie.
Reenie felt her dream shatter and heard a slam inside of her head. Then a face appeared.
He was almost human and looked quite mad.
"Oh little one, I have seen your thoughts, thanks to you I am going to destroy your world.
I am going to destroy your hopes and dreams because now I know just who you r mother
is. I will let you live as you watch her screaming agony at your feet, blaming you for her
downfall."
The evil man laughed and laughed and laughed until Reenie could stand it no more. She
screamed as loud as she could, and the man went away. But her mind didn't register any of
that; he was going to hurt her mommy! She was scared now, terrified, and all she could do
was scream.
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Serena was jolted out of her sleep by Reenies screaming.
"Reenie! Sweetie wake up, wake up Reenie!" Serena shook her until her eyes opened. All
she could see was a horrible terrified expression. Serena was scared now, what had
happened to her girl? Serena gathered her close and rocked her smoothing her hair back
from her damp face. She didn't know when but she started to sing softly. A lullaby that her
own mother had sang to her when she had nightmare. The song seemed to calm Reenie
and soon the tears stopped. Still Serena sang on.
Reenie found herself in her mothers' arms. Safe, warm, and comforted. She snuggled close
and held on tight. Then Serena began to sing. Strange, but Reenie had never heard Serena
sing before. Her mother had in the future and she had sounded like an angel. Reenie didn't
know why she hadn't thought of it before. Serena sounded just the same. Soft, sweet and
just like an angel. Reenie immediately felt comforted, and immensely protected from all
harm. Everything was all right for a few minutes; everything was as it should be. That was
all that mattered. Reenie fell asleep no longer afraid and almost smiling, in her mothers'
protective arms.
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Is there no privacy any more?! I just found out that my sister went into my computer to
read this story and she totally lost this chapter. It's a good thing I always think ahead, I
had it saved onto a disk! Sometimes I amaze myself with my own brilliance. Just kidding,
Here comes chapter four watch out!
Gidget
Chapter # 3
Power Rising
Standard Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and all associated characters are the property of
Takeuchi Naoko, Toei Animation, and DIC.
Rated 'R' for strong language
Hi!! I just wanted to let you all know what a great help that you have been to me. All of your
suggestions and compliments make be both happy and eager to do more work. And someone suggested
lines like this.......,**********, to show a change of scene. Great Idea, as you can see, I've done
it here! Or tried to at least :) Agian thanks, and there's more on the way!
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"What, what do you mean Princess Serenity? " Serena was scared now; they couldn't still
be after Reenie could they? Well' they couldn't have her, not if she had anything to say
about it.
"Moon GORGEOUS MEDITATION!"
The monster was blasted back before he knew what hit him.
Yes! I got him Sailor Moon thought.
But when the smoke cleared the Yuma was still there, and he was moving.
"What?! Why didn't it work? He should have been moon dusted!"
Sailor Moon felt an over whelming sense of dread uncoil inside of her. Suddenly out of
nowhere the scouts heard a deep voice callout to the Yuma.
"Scarlite! I sense the brat but it is no use to find her with these meddlesome Sailor flops
here. Back to me now!"
The Yuma ginned evilly and said in a horrible impression of Arnold Swarzinegger
" I'll be back." In a whirl of smoke he was gone.
Sailor Moon and Mars just looked at each other questioningly.
"Uh, guys... LET ME DOWN!!" Sailor Moon let out a small giggle and let Mina out by
way of her tiara. "Ouch! Thanks." Venus grumbled rubbing her backside.
"We have to call a Sailor Scout meeting." Sailor Moon said to the other girls.
"OK, Hey wow Sailor Moon your thinking ahead for once." Mars started to get into a
famous one of their fights but Serena wasn't there anymore.
"Hey! where'd she go?'
"I don't know Mars, she just was there and then not there." Venus looked genuinely
confused.
"So what do we do now? "
Mars looked thoughtful and finally said, "Well let's get out of here and once were back at
the temple then we can figure out where Serena is."
With a nod in the audiences' direction she ran off. Venus looked and saw that they had
collected quite a crowd and decided that Mars had a good idea after all. She ran after her
comrade.
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When they got to the temple they saw that Luna, Artemis, and the rest of the
scouts were there. Including Reenie and Serena! Once they were all sitting Serena raised
an authoritative hand witch ceased all speaking and then she began the meeting.
"I have decided that since I m the leader. Um, well actually... Am I still the leader? I mean
I know that you guys ran me out last time but, I was wondering if you could give me
another chance..."
At this Reenie stood up sharply.
"No! They should be asking you for another chance Serena. They ran you out all right, but
they did it unjustly and without a reason."
"Hey! We had a very good reason!" Lita started. "She got some one hurt, because she was
to much of a whiner to help him!" Lita's face was red now, but it cooled down and even
lost color when Darien spoke up behind them.
"Well girls it seems that we have a misunderstanding here. I have a question to ask you,
Amy, since you are the most intelligent one of the group, apology to the rest of you, I
would like for you to answer it." Amy nodded her head slowly, feeling a sense of dread
inside of her.
" Did any of you ask Serena why she did not get up?" Darien had his arms folded across
his massive chest and stared straight at Amy when he asked this question. Amy gulped and
it resounded around the room. "Um, well, no. We just assumed..."
"Just assumed! It seems to me that you'll have been doing that allot lately. Now you are
all fairly sweet girls and I know that you could have not done all of this doubting and
assuming alone, so I will refrain from passing too much judgment on you. But would you
all like to now hear Serenas' side of the story?" This rebuke had come from none other
than Luna, who sat with an indignant expression on her kitty face. Her piercing eyes mad
all of the girls lower their heads. Had they wronged their leader?
"Yes," they said.
"All right then, Serena you may begin." Luna looked over at her charge.
"Aw, Luna its in the past now it doesn't mean anything." Serena really looked as if she
didn't want to do this.
"Nonsense! You cried yourself to sleep. Yes Darien told me about that, and that you had
a nightmare last night. Now talk to us Serena"
Serena took a deep breath and began to tell them what had really happened. All of their
eyes got bigger and bigger and Litas' face lost all color when Serena told of the attack that
she had taken to save Reenie. By the time that she finished all four of the girls were crying
and looking as if their best friend had died.
"Oh God Serena, I am so sorry." Lita got up and ran from the room.
"Lita!" Serena scrambled to her feet and ran after her friend. The rest of the girls just sat
in mute silence and cried until they could cry no more.
"What have we done? We were supposed to protect her. Instead we hurt her. I can see it
in her eyes. We really hurt her bad." Mina started to sob again. "Minas right, I feel as if
my heart is breaking, oh Luna how can we make this up to her? How can we fix it?" Amy
looked pleadingly at Luna, then at Artemis. Rae just sat there staring at nothing, the
streaks that the tears had made down her face shined in the firelight.
"Your just going to have to wait until she comes back and then figure it out." Luna laid
her head down on top of her paws and closed her eyes.
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"Lita! Hey Lita! Wait up." Serena was running down the road after her friend. She
stopped and knew that she wasn't going to catch up to her this way. Closing her eyes she
concentrated on a few blocks ahead of Lita. She began to shimmer.
Lita was running, running from her shame and her doubts and trying to run from the pain
in Serenas' blue eyes that she saw when the girl spoke of the other night. She had both of
her hand over her face and didn't realize that there was someone in front of her until it was
too late.
"Oh my gosh, I..I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
"Oh Lita, your beginning to sound like me." Lita couldn't believe it, Serena? How had she
gotten ahead of her?
" Serena? How did you?"
Serena smiled," Oh never mind that. Tell me why you're running."
Lita felt acute shame when she looked at her best friend in the whole world.
"Here, Lets sit down on this bench." Serena pointed out a bench close by and guided Lita
to it. "Now tell me what's wrong. Why you ran?"
Lita tried to hold it in but one look at that smiling face and it all burst out. How she felt
like a failure to her princess. How she felt that she was not worthy to be a scout after
attacking her leader like that. Every single doubt that she had, that she didn't know why
she had them. That she knew that they weren't the truth but they were so hard to ignore.
Some how she felt warm and content again. She had somehow gotten into Serenas' arms
and was being hugged like Serena would never let her go.
'Oh, It's all right Lita. I forgive you. It wasn't your fault. And besides everyone makes
mistakes sometime or other."
Lita had laid her head on Serenas' lap and she was now looking into big trustful blues eyes
that held forgiveness and love. She was suddenly thrown back in time to the Moon
Kingdom.
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She remembered when The Princess was a little girl. She had always been
traipsing off on one adventure to the other. This day was different though. This day there
was malice in the air'. Serena had been about nine and the other scouts about ten. Serena
was running around the woods just outside the palace. The girls had decided to take
Serenas' mind off of the fact that her mother was away at that time. They had thought
that they were all alone but they had been wrong. Serena was skipping and laughing and
the girls were smiling at her exuberance for life when the laughing had stopped. Alarmed
they had stood up and ran to the spot where the Princess had last been. They saw a man
covered in black slowly dragging their Princess away. Serena was struggling and her
dressed was ripped. Lita had seen blood coming from Serenas' leg and knew that it was
the bastards' fault that she was hurt. A blind rage had come over her and she had gathered
all of her energy and thrown it at the man. Rae had run forward and yanked Serena from
the arms of her capturer just in time. The man was thrown backwards. Lita had not aimed
to kill, oh no, the Queen would take care of this evil man when she got home. Boy she
would not want to be in his shoes. No one hurt her Princess and got away without her
having a say in it though. She had run over to where the man had fallen and jumped on
him. The bastard was going to pay. She kept seeing the terrified look in Serenas' eyes and
connected her fist with his face over and over. "No! Lita, you mustn't!" The princess had
come over and was tugging on Litas' arm. Lita had looked up and seen that Serena had
stopped crying and that her leg was no longer bleeding.
"Why not, Princess, the bastard hurt you."
"I know he did Lita, but it is alright truly, I am all better now. See." She showed Lita her
newly healed leg. "Poor man, he is ever so confused. I can sense it. He didn't really want
to hurt me, he was put up to it."
Lita had risen and now the Princess extended her arm to the man.
"Come on, I'll help you up." Shocked the girls watched as she helped her would be
capturer to his feet. Lita looked into her lieges' eyes and saw nothing but hope, love, and
forgiveness in them.
"After all every one makes mistakes now and again, right." Serena had then hugged the
man and smiled.
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Lita felt a whole lot better. She looked up at Serena and smiled, "Lets go
back now OK?" Serena giggled and said yes that they might as well face the wrath of Rae
sooner or later.
Rae and the girls were waiting for them when they walked into the room. After many
heartfelt apologize and promises that they would never doubt her again Serena was once
again the leader of her scouts.
OK here it goes, the new, well not so new to me, and improved Serena takes charge.
Serena took a deep breath and once again held up her hand for silence. All noise and
chatter immediately ceased and every one looked expectantly at her. Serena smiled.
"As leader of this team I will here by start this meeting. Now the topic of our interest
today is the new enemy. Luna and myself have thought long and hard about this and have
drawn the conclusion that you have all been under the influence of some sort of mind
persuasion. We hope that now that you have realized this things in the group will return to
normal and that we will be a stronger and more efficient team for it." Considering that
most of the girls' jaws were now on the floor Serena guessed that she was doing a pretty
good jab so far. She continued.
"Now, that we have covered that base, I suggest that we move on to the reason as to why
the new enemy is attacking and what they want. They seem to be only attacking young
children around the age of nine and ten. They also mentioned that they were looking for
the 'Moon Brat', I take this to mean that they are once again looking for Reenie. Does
anyone have any further information that they can give?"
After realizing that Serena had indeed taken charge the girls had closed their mouths and
were now deep in thought.
"Well," Amy began, and she was looking at Serena with her usual quite intelligence. " I
do not really think that they are looking for Reenie." She was now looking expectantly to
Serena for her to finish her thought. Serena gasped slightly as she began to catch on.
"Reenie was there twice, during two attacks. Of course she was disguised as a Sailor once,
but the other time she was just dressed as a normal girl. They would have picked her out if
they were looking for her!" "That's right! SO they're not looking for Reenie, they're
looking for someone else. " Lita interrupted Mina.
"But then who is it? It has to be someone from the moon family. You don't have another
child do you Serena?"
"How would I know? I haven't even had the first one yet!" Serena looked aghast. "Why
on earth would I want to have another one?"
"Hey!" Reenie looked like she wanted to kill Serena. "I am not that bad." She sat with her
arms crossed over her chest.
Serena grinned, "Nothing against you Reenie. So, I must have some other relative or
something in order for them to be looking for her."
"Yes, well Serena, you know that your attack didn't seem to work against that monster
anyway. I wonder why not? Did you say something wrong, not put enough energy into
it?" Luna looked almost ashamed to be posing that question but Serena knew that she felt
that she had to ask it just incase, so she didn't take exception, just pretended to.
"Certainly not! I know that attack front and back and trust me there was energy behind
it." She showed her palms to her guardian, they still were red and raw from the attack.
" Goodness, how did that happen?" Her cat, if it could, looked aghast at what was laid out
before her.
"Oh, it happens all the time, when ever I use my attacks." Serena said this nonchalantly,
as if it were nothing out of the ordinary.
"Well then, that takes care of my question." Luna made a mental note to ask Serena why
she hadn't talked of this before.
"OK, I suspect that they'll try to find this Moon relative of mine or something in their next
attack, so there is nothing that we can do, we might as well go home and get some sleep."
Serena and the girls said goodnight and went their separate ways.
"Do my two favorite girls wish for me to take them home?" Darien expected them to
jump at the chance but to his surprise they declined.
"No thanks muffin, we'd rather walk home. Right Small Lady? " Reenie sensed that Serena
wanted to talk to her alone, so she agreed.
"Yea, girl stuff." she said and reached out for Serenas hand. Grasping the small one in
hers Serena pecked Darien on the cheek and the two girls started home.
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"Reenie I wanted to talk to you, mostly about the new enemies. I know that they
obviously don't want you, but I want you to be extra careful for a while. Just until we get
rid of these guys, OK?"
Reenie looked up shocked. "Do you mean that you don't want me to fight?"
"Oh, goodness no." Serena laughed. "I just want you to be careful of who you talk to, and
to make sure that your around one of the scouts and not by yourself. I have a feeling that
these new enemies will stop at nothing to get this child that they want. And I, I don't know
what I would do if you got hurt." Serena left it at that. Reenie got the feeling that her
mom didn't want to talk about it anymore so she just held on to her hand a little tighter
and they walked home in silence.
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Nubius watched the two girls walk home in his mirror.
There is something awfully familiar about that Sailor Moon, that Serena. Although I
don't know what it is. That small girl gives off just as powerful a feeling though. I feel as if
I should know them.
He went to check the readings again. I can't believe that those girls got over my mind
control so quickly. Why did it have such a weak effect? Maybe I should send a dream to
that young child. She seems to be the most vulnerable of them all. I believe that she might
be able to share some interesting details about the scouts and that Moon Brat I'm looking
for.
Huh?
He felt a presence. Quickly turning he caught the end of a long black cloak swishing
around the corner. Procellarum!
What did she want? He shivered involuntarily. There was something so wrong about that
woman. If only he could put his finger on it. It seemed that he was wishing for that allot
lately. No matter he would figure it out soon enough. He sent out the dream. While the
child was sleeping he would slip into her head and view all of her other dreams and the
thoughts that he could access. He was growing impatient, but still he managed to smile as
he thought of the ways he would wreak his vengeance on that Princess. He let out an evil
cackle and slipped into a trance.
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Serena tucked Reenie into her bed and then just sat there on the ground next to her. Oh,
Reenie, what would I do if something were to happen to you? I'll miss you so much when
it is time for you to go home again.
Who knew that you would grow to be such a wonderful girl?
Serena smiled and slipped into a light sleep next to her daughter. It seemed to only be a
small time later that she was awakened by a scream.
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Reenie was dreaming, she knew that. It was a nice dream. She wished that Pegasus would
visit her again. He still did it from time to time and they would talk of everything and
anything. She felt a deep love for him, different than she felt for Darien or Serena, but just
as powerful. Her dream was easy and sweet. Her Serena, and Darien were all in the park
having a picnic. I was a gorgeous day and they were all laughing and having a wonderful
time. She smiled in her sleep and dreamt on. Then she saw it. A horrible mean face.
Nubius smiled grimly. The young child, Reenie was it? Was asleep and dreaming that
happy dream that he had sent her to ease his way into her mind. Now that she was so
happy it would be a piece of cake to enter her thoughts. And enter he did. Swirling pink
mist wrapped around him and he felt warm and content. Ugh, how sickening! He pressed
onward until he came to a door. He turned the handle and walked in. What he saw was
quite a shock, a horse, with wings! The horse and the girl were laughing and talking
together, then the horse changed into a young man with white hair. The man had a gold
horn on his forehead, and it shined as he smiled. Reenie hugged the man and then the man;
wait there was a name coming, Helios. That was this mans name. Helios picked her up and
swirled her around an around in circles. Then he stooped and they laughed into each
other's eyes.
"Oh Helios, I love you." Reenie tilted her face up and the two of them kissed. Ugh, and
double ugh! I have to get out of here. Nubius quickly made his way out and shut the door.
I hope that all of her thoughts are not like this.
He walked further into the mist and came upon another door. He swung that one open and
silently watched the scene unfold before him. The girl was sitting on a bed. She was
smaller though and there was a different man sitting next to her. He was dark haired and
was dressed royally.
This could be interesting.
"Tell me a story daddy, about Sailor Moon and haw she saved the world." the child had
to be only three or four. Her eyes were larger and almost dominated the girls face; they
were an amazing shade of red, like rubies. Her father chuckled and smiled fondly at her.
"Sure sweetie, how about his one?"
Nubius almost became enraptured at the story himself, but he decided that this was all
of the information that he was going to get here. He closed the door and walked on.
How come I have never seen her father in any of the mirror viewing?
He gave a mental shrug and walked on. The mist got heavier and he had to really look to
see the next door. Once inside he invented a chair and sat down. He almost wished that he
had a bowl of spiders, or what did those humans have? Popcorn! Yes that was it a bowl of
popcorn. He was glad a few seconds later that he hadn't had anything to eat. He would
have choked on it. The girl was about eight here and she was dressed in a flowing white
gown. Beside her stood a woman with yellow hair, no gold, gold hair. They were on a
balcony and he couldn't quite make out the woman's face.
"Mommy, why do I have to go back, I mean I want to go back but why now?"
The woman turned and Nubius could see her face now.
What! What is this a joke?
It was that Serena girl, only she was older and now that she was he could see the
resemblance. She looked just like the Queen of the Silver Millennium! The only difference
was that she had Gold hair instead of silver. Why hadn't he seen it before? The hair style,
the eyes, the same stately stature and air that they gave off. Serena was Reenies mother,
but also she was Queen Serenity's daughter from the Silver times! So she was the Moon
Brat that had vanquished him! Oh this was interesting indeed. This was very helpful. He
watched as the mother leaned down and easily picked up Reenie.
"Oh Honey, I don't want to send you back, I will miss you so much! But you have to
become a sailor scout. And this is the only way. Serena loves you just as much as I do, and
I love you with all of my heart and being. Go now, and make me proud."
With that Serena kissed her daughters head and put her down. The crescent on her
forehead glowed and Reenies did in return. The light grew bright and Reenie disappeared.
The light went away and the Queen of the future lay on her knees sobbing.
"Oh Small Lady, how I wish you could stay and that I could protect you form the hurt that
I know you will face." The father, whom Nubius assumed was the king, stepped out from
behind the balcony doors and gathered his queen in his arms. They walked into the palace
together. Nubius smiled and walked out purposely slamming the door behind him. Oh, this
was going to be easy now. He laughed evilly and let himself appear to Reenie.
Reenie felt her dream shatter and heard a slam inside of her head. Then a face appeared.
He was almost human and looked quite mad.
"Oh little one, I have seen your thoughts, thanks to you I am going to destroy your world.
I am going to destroy your hopes and dreams because now I know just who you r mother
is. I will let you live as you watch her screaming agony at your feet, blaming you for her
downfall."
The evil man laughed and laughed and laughed until Reenie could stand it no more. She
screamed as loud as she could, and the man went away. But her mind didn't register any of
that; he was going to hurt her mommy! She was scared now, terrified, and all she could do
was scream.
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Serena was jolted out of her sleep by Reenies screaming.
"Reenie! Sweetie wake up, wake up Reenie!" Serena shook her until her eyes opened. All
she could see was a horrible terrified expression. Serena was scared now, what had
happened to her girl? Serena gathered her close and rocked her smoothing her hair back
from her damp face. She didn't know when but she started to sing softly. A lullaby that her
own mother had sang to her when she had nightmare. The song seemed to calm Reenie
and soon the tears stopped. Still Serena sang on.
Reenie found herself in her mothers' arms. Safe, warm, and comforted. She snuggled close
and held on tight. Then Serena began to sing. Strange, but Reenie had never heard Serena
sing before. Her mother had in the future and she had sounded like an angel. Reenie didn't
know why she hadn't thought of it before. Serena sounded just the same. Soft, sweet and
just like an angel. Reenie immediately felt comforted, and immensely protected from all
harm. Everything was all right for a few minutes; everything was as it should be. That was
all that mattered. Reenie fell asleep no longer afraid and almost smiling, in her mothers'
protective arms.
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Is there no privacy any more?! I just found out that my sister went into my computer to
read this story and she totally lost this chapter. It's a good thing I always think ahead, I
had it saved onto a disk! Sometimes I amaze myself with my own brilliance. Just kidding,
Here comes chapter four watch out!
Gidget