The next morning I was the first to wake up, feeling as tired as I did when I fell asleep the
night before I wanted nothing more than to fall back to sleep. Looking around the room I felt
someone's prescence. Looking over at the door I saw Chad, Mars Knight, holding a black rose.
I stood up quickly going over to him. "Chad, why are you so bent on hurting Rei, you love her."
I said to him.
The look in Chad's eyes flickered back to his normal happy look. I saw the longing to be with
Rei but the determined evil look covered the look back up. Standing infront of him so he
wouldn't be able to get to Rei to hurt her I heard a gasp.
Looking back at Rei as she held her locket close to her chest. She stood and came over standing
infront of Chad she stared him in the eyes. Rei opened the locket so that the song it played for
just the two of them started to play. Chad stared at the locket and removed his sunglasses.
"Rei..." he said before his eyes went from the dark brown that they had flickered to black again.
"Serena...you have to use the crystal...just be careful..." Rei said as I transformed to Sailor
Moon.
"You got it." I said just before I used the crystal to turn Chad back to the one we knew.
Chad fell into Rei and she cried into his hair. The other scouts had awaken and were looking
at us. I continued removing all of the evil that had been put into Chad and felt my body
becoming more and more weak.
Falling onto my knees I continued healing Chad. When I felt myself being drained of the last of
my strength I looked at Chad and saw that he had no more evil in him. Sending the crystal back
to where it was before I used it I fainted before I could do anything more.
~*~
Waking to the feeling of a someone's hand on my throat later that day I jumped. Seeing that
the other scouts had fallen asleep with Darien's hand on my throat. I put my hands onto his
wrist looking up at him with pain in my eyes. I felt my neck snap and the air leave my chest...
~*~
(got ya)Sitting up straight and holding my throat I saw the other scouts look at me worried.
Relaxing at finding out that it was just a dream. I let go of my throat and saw Rei being held
quiet close by Chad.
"Serena? Are you ok?" Ami asked me.
"Yea, just a bad dream...You guys want to go do something to relax...we need to chill out for
a while...you know...like get some pizza and then go to the ice rink to skate?" I asked.
"Sure. I think the falling on my butt will definitly cheer me up some." Ami said jokingly.
"Lita? Want to show off our skating skills? It will help get your mind on something a little
less depressing..." I asked her.
"Sure. Maybe I'll relax a bit..." Lita said.
"Then its settled. We're going for pizza after ice skating." I said standing up.
"Yea!" said the others all standing up as well.
---
Lacing up my ice skates I felt quiet weird in just a pink skating suit that just kinda felt like
my sailor suit but with long sleeves. Looking over at Lita in her green skating suit I saw her
trying hard to look like she was going to have fun. Ami looked ready to fall flat on her butt
in her pale blue suit. Rei looked ready to laugh at Mina, they were wearing almost the same
color suits.
"Lita, we're going to have fun...ok?" I said.
"Alright, alright...I'll chill out...I just miss Ken..." she said.
"I know...Miss Darien too, and we know Ami misses Greg. But I've told you both already, I will
get them back before you know it." I said.
They nodded and we went out onto the ice, Lita and I trying hard not to show off too much. Chad
and Antonio were as bad as I had been when I first skated. Watching Lita skate made me feel
bored, she was doing quiet alot of tricks.
I went into the middle of the ice and started doing the moves I did when Darien and I were
fighting the negaverse creeps from two years ago. Hearing claps and the sound of his voice I
turned and saw Darien skating not too far away. The other scouts stopped skating and looked
at us.
"What do you want Darien?" I asked as he skated over to me.
"First of all, its Dark Prince now. Second of all, I came here to relax, same as you did
Princess." he said, for once not calling me Sailor Brat.
"Get away from her your royal highness." said Lita her voice just dripping with sarcasm.
"I'm not going to kill her, yet...All I ask for now is to skate with her. For 'old times.'" he
said.
Seeing the scouts, Chad and Antonio shake their heads I nodded, I trusted him, while we were
in public that is. The dark prince took my hands in his with my back to him, and we started to
skate. Feeling like nothing had changed between us I relaxed.
Darien slid his arm about my waist still holding my hand, knowing the move that was to come I
started moving my legs quickly as he spun me out and threw me up into the air still spinning.
The scouts gasped that I had trusted him and their eyes bugged out of their heads as he threw
me into the air as though nothing had changed. Landing on one leg my other leg behind me
skating backwards Darien took the hand I had out infront of me and spun me again.
Spinning on my skates into him so our bodies were pressed against eachothers, my back to his
chest, I felt my heart flutter and saw Darien's eyes flicker to blue but then back to black.
Both of us lifting a leg behind us we continued to skate, his hand on mine on my side. Looking
back at him he looked directly into my eyes, again I saw his eyes flicker but again they went
right back to black.
After a while of skating we stopped with him kneeling down me laying over his leg but under him.
Staring up into his eyes I felt my heart skip a beat. Darien's face was so close to mine I
could have kissed him if I didn't think he would drop me.
"Darien..." I said.
"Serena..." he said staring into my eyes.
Shaking his head he kept ahold of my hands and stood pulling me up with him. Slowly skating
away from me I reluctantly let go of his hands.
"Darien...Please come back to me..." I muttered as the others skated over.
*SMACK!*
My head snapped to the side and my cheek stung where Rei had slapped me. Turning my head back
to look at them I saw that Darien was still skating not to far away.
"He could have tried to kill you Serena! But what do you do?! Skate with him! What would have
happened if no other people were here?! He would have killed you Serena!" Rei shouted.
"Rei, I don't believe that...You saw the way he held me...just like he did when he wasn't evil."
I said in my defense.
"It doesn't matter, he is evil now! He could have thrown you higher into the air so you wouldn't
have been able to land properly-" she started.
"But he didn't! Rei, get off of my back. I trust him...he still loves me..." I said again.
Skating away from Rei and the others I felt the stares of them. I felt the tears roll down my
cheeks as I skated trying to cheer up a bit. Feeling him come close I turned and faced Darien
as he came closer.
"Whats wrong Princess? Did your friends hurt you?" he asked with an evil smirk on his face, as
though he enjoyed my pain.
"No, the one person that hurt me is you...Darien...your still the one I love...and when we skated
you felt it too, you felt as though it was the most perfect thing in the world. Admit it!" I
said hitting him in the shoulders again and again as he shook his head.
Grabbing my wrists stopping me from hitting him anymore, Darien relaxed a bit. Feeling more
tears slide down my cheeks after I closed my eyes, I jumped at the feel of Darien's hand wiping
away my tears. Opening my eyes I looked into the blue eyes I had known until they turned back
to black.
"Darien...Please..." I begged of him.
"No..." he said.
Hearing screams of other people on the rink Darien and I spun around looking at all the people
who had just been drained of their energy, the other scouts included.
"You planned this didn't you, dark prince?!" I shouted turning back to him as he turned into
Tuxedo Mask.
"Actually, no, I had no idea." he admitted.
"Ok...then I think that if you don't want me to kick your butt you might want to get away from
me," I said before I was slammed across the ice by two negaverse monsters.
Tuxedo Mask flew backwards landing right next to me. Holding my side I looked up at the monsters
and saw that they looked like the ones we had fought together two years before. Tuxedo Mask
looked up and saw someone dressed quiet same as he in the stands, Mercury Knight.
"That little brat...He always did want to be the leader of us..." he muttered standing up.
"You mean he's trying to kill both of us? Oh doesn't this seem familiar..." I said right before
transforming into Sailor Moon.
"Sailor Moon, looks like you get your wish for one more skate with me, before I kill you and
all your friends that is..." he said with an evil grin on his face.
"Tuxedo Mask. Shut up and skate before your a shishcabob," I said dragging him away from the
monsters as they tried to nail us to the walls with their skates.
"Ok, ok...We'll fight together and then when you vanquish all the evil from Dark Mercury Knight,
I kill you. How does that sound?" he said throwing me into the air to avoid being shishcabobed.
"I was thinking more of, we fight together, and I vanquish all the evil out of both of you!" I
said landing perfectly.
"Uh, we'll see what happens after this...ok?" he said.
"Whatever, behind you!" I said.
Tuxedo Mask spun out of the way and grabbed me about the waist pulling me away with him as the
monsters started trying to kill us. We skated together towards the wall and kept by them as the
monsters drew closer to us. Seeing as they were coming closer to me than him Tuxedo Mask picked
me up and pushed me into a flip over them, skating out of the way himself.
"Thanks! EEP!" I shouted just before managing to land.
"Smooth...very smooth..." he laughed catching up to me.
"Ok...that is getting creepy...stoppit!" I said remembering how he had said that two years ago.
Grabbing my hand, Tuxedo Mask threw me in a spin kick position at the monsters cutting them with
the blades of my skates. Tuxedo Mask skated over quickly catching me and slipping me down his
body to the ice. Getting chills from being so close to him in almost two weeks Darien picked
me up and threw me at the monsters again.
"What are you trying to do to me? Make me too dizzy to skate?!" I shouted at him as he caught
me and slid me down to the ice again.
"Well...no...Just your lighter than me and I can throw you...so..." he said.
"I hate you for this..." I said.
"I know."
"Lookout!" I shouted slipping down onto the ice on my back pulling him down with me, he landed
right on top of me.
The monsters flew over us in a spin kick position. Having my body so close to Darien's made my
cheeks flush. Darien's hand had slid under my head before I slammed it off the ice when I pulled
him down with me.
"Thanks Princess." he said pulling us to our feet quickly.
"We're even...Wait...not really...there's still that hole thing where you tried to kill me last
night." I said.
"Fine fine..."
We continued fighting the monsters finally getting them weak enough to be able to use my tiara
on them. Finally vanquishing them we looked up to see Dark Mercury Knight using mercury fog
to make the rink colder and harder to breath in.
Holding my chest and coughing I shivered so violently that I knew if I didn't warm up soon I
wouldn't be able to bring Greg back. Darien knowing if I were to rid him of Greg I would have
to be warm pulled me into his arms under his cape. Screaming for Ami to wake up I held myself
close to Darien.
"AMI! WAKE UP!" I shouted as she shifted.
Ami opened her eyes and looked up at Greg. Her eyes were filled with pain as she ran towards
him so he would hear the locket as she clicked it open. Greg's eyes went large and he started
to weaken.
Standing with Tuxedo mask still holding me under his cape to keep me warm, I summoned the
crystal and started healing Greg. Tuxedo Mask held onto my shoulders rubbing them with his
hands to keep me warm. Feeling myself go weak as Greg became good again and feeling Darien
release me.
Summoning the crystal back to where it was before I reached out for Darien.
"No, Darien...don't leave me...please..." I moaned as he skated away leaving.
The last thing I saw before I passed out in weakness was Darien look back at me, his eyes
flickering from blue to black again.
night before I wanted nothing more than to fall back to sleep. Looking around the room I felt
someone's prescence. Looking over at the door I saw Chad, Mars Knight, holding a black rose.
I stood up quickly going over to him. "Chad, why are you so bent on hurting Rei, you love her."
I said to him.
The look in Chad's eyes flickered back to his normal happy look. I saw the longing to be with
Rei but the determined evil look covered the look back up. Standing infront of him so he
wouldn't be able to get to Rei to hurt her I heard a gasp.
Looking back at Rei as she held her locket close to her chest. She stood and came over standing
infront of Chad she stared him in the eyes. Rei opened the locket so that the song it played for
just the two of them started to play. Chad stared at the locket and removed his sunglasses.
"Rei..." he said before his eyes went from the dark brown that they had flickered to black again.
"Serena...you have to use the crystal...just be careful..." Rei said as I transformed to Sailor
Moon.
"You got it." I said just before I used the crystal to turn Chad back to the one we knew.
Chad fell into Rei and she cried into his hair. The other scouts had awaken and were looking
at us. I continued removing all of the evil that had been put into Chad and felt my body
becoming more and more weak.
Falling onto my knees I continued healing Chad. When I felt myself being drained of the last of
my strength I looked at Chad and saw that he had no more evil in him. Sending the crystal back
to where it was before I used it I fainted before I could do anything more.
~*~
Waking to the feeling of a someone's hand on my throat later that day I jumped. Seeing that
the other scouts had fallen asleep with Darien's hand on my throat. I put my hands onto his
wrist looking up at him with pain in my eyes. I felt my neck snap and the air leave my chest...
~*~
(got ya)Sitting up straight and holding my throat I saw the other scouts look at me worried.
Relaxing at finding out that it was just a dream. I let go of my throat and saw Rei being held
quiet close by Chad.
"Serena? Are you ok?" Ami asked me.
"Yea, just a bad dream...You guys want to go do something to relax...we need to chill out for
a while...you know...like get some pizza and then go to the ice rink to skate?" I asked.
"Sure. I think the falling on my butt will definitly cheer me up some." Ami said jokingly.
"Lita? Want to show off our skating skills? It will help get your mind on something a little
less depressing..." I asked her.
"Sure. Maybe I'll relax a bit..." Lita said.
"Then its settled. We're going for pizza after ice skating." I said standing up.
"Yea!" said the others all standing up as well.
---
Lacing up my ice skates I felt quiet weird in just a pink skating suit that just kinda felt like
my sailor suit but with long sleeves. Looking over at Lita in her green skating suit I saw her
trying hard to look like she was going to have fun. Ami looked ready to fall flat on her butt
in her pale blue suit. Rei looked ready to laugh at Mina, they were wearing almost the same
color suits.
"Lita, we're going to have fun...ok?" I said.
"Alright, alright...I'll chill out...I just miss Ken..." she said.
"I know...Miss Darien too, and we know Ami misses Greg. But I've told you both already, I will
get them back before you know it." I said.
They nodded and we went out onto the ice, Lita and I trying hard not to show off too much. Chad
and Antonio were as bad as I had been when I first skated. Watching Lita skate made me feel
bored, she was doing quiet alot of tricks.
I went into the middle of the ice and started doing the moves I did when Darien and I were
fighting the negaverse creeps from two years ago. Hearing claps and the sound of his voice I
turned and saw Darien skating not too far away. The other scouts stopped skating and looked
at us.
"What do you want Darien?" I asked as he skated over to me.
"First of all, its Dark Prince now. Second of all, I came here to relax, same as you did
Princess." he said, for once not calling me Sailor Brat.
"Get away from her your royal highness." said Lita her voice just dripping with sarcasm.
"I'm not going to kill her, yet...All I ask for now is to skate with her. For 'old times.'" he
said.
Seeing the scouts, Chad and Antonio shake their heads I nodded, I trusted him, while we were
in public that is. The dark prince took my hands in his with my back to him, and we started to
skate. Feeling like nothing had changed between us I relaxed.
Darien slid his arm about my waist still holding my hand, knowing the move that was to come I
started moving my legs quickly as he spun me out and threw me up into the air still spinning.
The scouts gasped that I had trusted him and their eyes bugged out of their heads as he threw
me into the air as though nothing had changed. Landing on one leg my other leg behind me
skating backwards Darien took the hand I had out infront of me and spun me again.
Spinning on my skates into him so our bodies were pressed against eachothers, my back to his
chest, I felt my heart flutter and saw Darien's eyes flicker to blue but then back to black.
Both of us lifting a leg behind us we continued to skate, his hand on mine on my side. Looking
back at him he looked directly into my eyes, again I saw his eyes flicker but again they went
right back to black.
After a while of skating we stopped with him kneeling down me laying over his leg but under him.
Staring up into his eyes I felt my heart skip a beat. Darien's face was so close to mine I
could have kissed him if I didn't think he would drop me.
"Darien..." I said.
"Serena..." he said staring into my eyes.
Shaking his head he kept ahold of my hands and stood pulling me up with him. Slowly skating
away from me I reluctantly let go of his hands.
"Darien...Please come back to me..." I muttered as the others skated over.
*SMACK!*
My head snapped to the side and my cheek stung where Rei had slapped me. Turning my head back
to look at them I saw that Darien was still skating not to far away.
"He could have tried to kill you Serena! But what do you do?! Skate with him! What would have
happened if no other people were here?! He would have killed you Serena!" Rei shouted.
"Rei, I don't believe that...You saw the way he held me...just like he did when he wasn't evil."
I said in my defense.
"It doesn't matter, he is evil now! He could have thrown you higher into the air so you wouldn't
have been able to land properly-" she started.
"But he didn't! Rei, get off of my back. I trust him...he still loves me..." I said again.
Skating away from Rei and the others I felt the stares of them. I felt the tears roll down my
cheeks as I skated trying to cheer up a bit. Feeling him come close I turned and faced Darien
as he came closer.
"Whats wrong Princess? Did your friends hurt you?" he asked with an evil smirk on his face, as
though he enjoyed my pain.
"No, the one person that hurt me is you...Darien...your still the one I love...and when we skated
you felt it too, you felt as though it was the most perfect thing in the world. Admit it!" I
said hitting him in the shoulders again and again as he shook his head.
Grabbing my wrists stopping me from hitting him anymore, Darien relaxed a bit. Feeling more
tears slide down my cheeks after I closed my eyes, I jumped at the feel of Darien's hand wiping
away my tears. Opening my eyes I looked into the blue eyes I had known until they turned back
to black.
"Darien...Please..." I begged of him.
"No..." he said.
Hearing screams of other people on the rink Darien and I spun around looking at all the people
who had just been drained of their energy, the other scouts included.
"You planned this didn't you, dark prince?!" I shouted turning back to him as he turned into
Tuxedo Mask.
"Actually, no, I had no idea." he admitted.
"Ok...then I think that if you don't want me to kick your butt you might want to get away from
me," I said before I was slammed across the ice by two negaverse monsters.
Tuxedo Mask flew backwards landing right next to me. Holding my side I looked up at the monsters
and saw that they looked like the ones we had fought together two years before. Tuxedo Mask
looked up and saw someone dressed quiet same as he in the stands, Mercury Knight.
"That little brat...He always did want to be the leader of us..." he muttered standing up.
"You mean he's trying to kill both of us? Oh doesn't this seem familiar..." I said right before
transforming into Sailor Moon.
"Sailor Moon, looks like you get your wish for one more skate with me, before I kill you and
all your friends that is..." he said with an evil grin on his face.
"Tuxedo Mask. Shut up and skate before your a shishcabob," I said dragging him away from the
monsters as they tried to nail us to the walls with their skates.
"Ok, ok...We'll fight together and then when you vanquish all the evil from Dark Mercury Knight,
I kill you. How does that sound?" he said throwing me into the air to avoid being shishcabobed.
"I was thinking more of, we fight together, and I vanquish all the evil out of both of you!" I
said landing perfectly.
"Uh, we'll see what happens after this...ok?" he said.
"Whatever, behind you!" I said.
Tuxedo Mask spun out of the way and grabbed me about the waist pulling me away with him as the
monsters started trying to kill us. We skated together towards the wall and kept by them as the
monsters drew closer to us. Seeing as they were coming closer to me than him Tuxedo Mask picked
me up and pushed me into a flip over them, skating out of the way himself.
"Thanks! EEP!" I shouted just before managing to land.
"Smooth...very smooth..." he laughed catching up to me.
"Ok...that is getting creepy...stoppit!" I said remembering how he had said that two years ago.
Grabbing my hand, Tuxedo Mask threw me in a spin kick position at the monsters cutting them with
the blades of my skates. Tuxedo Mask skated over quickly catching me and slipping me down his
body to the ice. Getting chills from being so close to him in almost two weeks Darien picked
me up and threw me at the monsters again.
"What are you trying to do to me? Make me too dizzy to skate?!" I shouted at him as he caught
me and slid me down to the ice again.
"Well...no...Just your lighter than me and I can throw you...so..." he said.
"I hate you for this..." I said.
"I know."
"Lookout!" I shouted slipping down onto the ice on my back pulling him down with me, he landed
right on top of me.
The monsters flew over us in a spin kick position. Having my body so close to Darien's made my
cheeks flush. Darien's hand had slid under my head before I slammed it off the ice when I pulled
him down with me.
"Thanks Princess." he said pulling us to our feet quickly.
"We're even...Wait...not really...there's still that hole thing where you tried to kill me last
night." I said.
"Fine fine..."
We continued fighting the monsters finally getting them weak enough to be able to use my tiara
on them. Finally vanquishing them we looked up to see Dark Mercury Knight using mercury fog
to make the rink colder and harder to breath in.
Holding my chest and coughing I shivered so violently that I knew if I didn't warm up soon I
wouldn't be able to bring Greg back. Darien knowing if I were to rid him of Greg I would have
to be warm pulled me into his arms under his cape. Screaming for Ami to wake up I held myself
close to Darien.
"AMI! WAKE UP!" I shouted as she shifted.
Ami opened her eyes and looked up at Greg. Her eyes were filled with pain as she ran towards
him so he would hear the locket as she clicked it open. Greg's eyes went large and he started
to weaken.
Standing with Tuxedo mask still holding me under his cape to keep me warm, I summoned the
crystal and started healing Greg. Tuxedo Mask held onto my shoulders rubbing them with his
hands to keep me warm. Feeling myself go weak as Greg became good again and feeling Darien
release me.
Summoning the crystal back to where it was before I reached out for Darien.
"No, Darien...don't leave me...please..." I moaned as he skated away leaving.
The last thing I saw before I passed out in weakness was Darien look back at me, his eyes
flickering from blue to black again.