Hello to all my dedicated fans (Do I even have any fans?) It has been some
time since I last posted a part of my most popular and longest story
Unexpected Suprises so here it is. Once again thank you to all my
reviewers and my good friends for their ideas. Enough rambling, check out
my other story Unusually Unusual a story based on the movie Annie and
Sailor Moon, it's all set during the Christmas Time and I guess I'm done,
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Chapter 15-B Frozen in Time
It had all happened so fast, the surprise attack by Zoycite, the scouts arrival just a moment too late, and him realizing that his princess, his angel, his warrior and his sweet innocent Serena were all one in the same. Even if she hadn't been Sailor Moon and he Tuxedo Mask he would have risked his life to save her. Even if she weren't his princess from his dreams he would die a thousand deaths to see that she lived.
The minute he had felt her teardrop hit his face he remembered their past together, they're past as Serenity and Endymion of the respective Moon and Earth kingdoms. Unfortunately he thought he might have given her the wrong impression because the look of horror upon her face before he entered unconsciousness. She had given him a look of pure terror when he whispered her name, "Serenity."
He shook his head violently, it was his fault that she wasn't here with them today that the Negaverse had taken her. If he had been stronger, faster, smarter he could have the sense to know that they were both in danger and that the Negaverse never played fair. He looked at the locket resting peacefully on the table beside him.
The scouts had found it inactive beside his body. He reached over and picked it up, the delicate gold chain sifted through his fingertips as he felt tears come to his eyes. It was his fault that she was gone, the locket opened and the sad melody began to play. He closed his eyes and bit his lip to hold back the tears that threatened to fall.
He hoarsely whispered "Serena," and the savage tears coursed down his face.
(Flashback-to that fateful day)
Sailor Moon reached into her sub-space pocket and pulled the locket out. She placed it loving into his cold-gloved hands. He had been wrong in giving it too her, Venus or Serenity deserved it.
The tears that had streamed down her face when he fell were long gone, as was her heart. She stood up slowly facing Zoycite, a look of pure determination flashed in her eyes. Darien didn't deserve to die, all he ever did was fall in love and make her fall in love with him.
"Well what do you think of my work Sailor Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus," he hissed.
"Cruel, you have no heart and even if my friends choose not to avenge his death I will!" she hollered raising her scepter towards him. She gathered as much power into her scepter as possible and willed it at Zoycite's menacing body.
"That is where you are wrong Sailor Moon, it is your turn to die!" She flung a giant blast of energy towards her.
The scouts who had gathered around Tuxedo Mask's limp body hollered for their leader and friend to move out of the way. Sailor Moon disregarded their warnings and kept firing at the general. Her power was diminishing, as she became weak and tired from using the scepter so many times. She fell to her knees and dropped the scepter. In sheer defiance she kept her clear angered eyes focused on Zoycite's approaching form.
"Have I won yet? Are you prepared to die," he paused and then in a low whisper added, "Sailor Moon?" He raised his crystal sword and was about to slice her body into two.
"Sailor Moon don't let him!" Mercury cried out.
"We can win! We just need more time and strength!" Mars wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Sailor Moon please move!" Jupiter cried as she was lifting Tuxedo Mask's body towards the stairs.
"Don't!" Venus added as a command.
Sailor Moon still did not turn her head, she blinked only once and a careful tear drifted down her cheek. It was truly the end for her, there was no way she could win, what did she have to live for anyway? She felt a spark in head flare and reminded her that the world needed her. She pursed her lips in a straight line and glared at Zoycite, she was ready.
"Zoycite I," she faltered and gave a quick glance to her anxious friends who had taken battle stances, "I will, I will never let you win! Moon Scepter Elimination!" her own attack and the joint attack of the Sailor Scouts battered Zoycite's body. The body flew across the room and crumpled to the floor.
Sailor Moon got weakly to her feet and began to walk towards her friends. She could see Mercury analyzing his body in search for signs of life. Mars was holding his hand tightly, light tears dropping down her face onto his bloody shirt. Jupiter was wiping a few tears from her eyes as she laid a comforting hand on Mars' shoulder. Venus stood indifferent and separate from the group facing Sailor Moon with a grim expression.
She suddenly felt extremely dizzy as she continued walking, she dropped the scepter for her hands felt weak and couldn't grip anything. Exhaustion consumed her weak and trembling body and she fell heavily to her knees. The last cries she heard were those of her startled comrades before darkness swam into her vision and mind.
(Omniscient POV describing the scene)
The scouts all watched horrified as their true leader fell to the ground. Mars, Jupiter and Venus moved to grab her but before they could a red orb of energy enveloped her body and lifted her to the ground. Jupiter prepared to fire an attack when Venus cried out.
"Don't it could hurt her!"
"Are we supposed to just let her float there?" Mars asked sarcastically as she approached the giant bubble.
Venus grabbed her hand, "No! It could zap us in the process of hurting her, we can't risk it!" They all looked to their leader whose body had begun to glimmer. Sailor Moon's hair flowed freely when suddenly her body disappeared.
"No!" Mercury cried out as she dropped Tuxedo Mask's head to the ground. The action roused a groan from his lips.
"She's gone!" Mars whispered to the air as she fell to her knees.
"Look what you've done! Sailor Moon!" Jupiter hollered at Venus as she wiped a few tears from her eyes.
Venus looked upon the scene and walked to Tuxedo Mask's body. A steady rise and fall in his chest assured her that he would be all right. She wiped a few tears from her own eyes as she carefully picked up the locket and fingered it gently. It opened but no sorrowful song played. She closed it with a final click and turned to face her fellow scouts.
"I'm sorry but I must also inform you of the truth." She looked each scout in the eyes and began speaking in a barely audible voice "I have failed my mission to protect the princess and her prince once again. It seems that history has deemed it necessary to repeat itself."
"What are you talking about? You're the princess, my best friend is missing and you are mumbling about history repeating? How can you be so cruel?" Mars cried out in frustration as she faced Venus.
"I'm sorry Raye but everything happens for a reason and destiny has chosen to separate them once again." She paused and laid a comforting hand on her shoulder. "I can't tell you everything for I am just remembering it myself, but he needs help, a doctor's help. Let us leave this place and then we can discuss everything." She said it with finality and dared any scout to challenge her word.
Jupiter and Mars lifted his body with great difficulty and Mercury continuously monitored his body rhythms as Venus led the path to his apartment.
My head felt heavy and I could hear faint voices in the other room. I filtered my eyes open to grace upon the ceiling of my bedroom. Questions filled my head and I knew they needed answering. I tried to sit up pain seared through my body and I collapsed back onto the bed.
"I see you're awake Darien." Raye had opened the door and gently walked towards my bed. She sat down lightly on the edge and I tried to speak but found my throat dry. She raised a hand and grabbed a glass of water from the night table. She slowly lifted my back up so I could drink the cool water.
"I suppose you want to know what happened, am I right?" she looked me square in the eye and then blushed, "I'm sorry, it's not proper for me to do that is it?"
"Raye," I said in a confused tone, "what are you going on about and where is my princess, where is Serena?"
"You realized it too then. Well actually remembered not realized the truth."
"You're not answering my questions Raye, where is Serena?" I demanded.
"Gone." She whispered so faint that I almost thought I hadn't heard it.
"What?" I asked in disbelief as I felt my heart hammer into my chest.
"We, well more like Sailor Moon fought Zoycite once you were 'out' and won. She used her attack so many times she collapsed from exhaustion and the Negaverse took her." She was openly crying and she shook her head to try and stop the tears. "I'm so sorry we couldn't protect her for you Darien, for me even. She was best friend and now they have her!"
"Raye calm down." I commanded and lightly enveloped her in a hug as I felt tears fall from my own eyes.
"Darien, we, I'm so sorry!" she cried into my sheets.
"What happened next?" I asked hesitantly, unsure of whether or not to hear the answer.
"We, meaning Mercury, a.k.a. Ami, Jupiter, Lita, and Venus, Mina, brought you here. We couldn't take you to a doctor for fear that they would ask too many questions, I'm sorry. You need proper medical attention and Ami tried her best but its still not enough, we just were so distraught that we."
"It's all right I would be upset too, well I am upset. I finally found her and now she has been taken from me. As for the wounds can you call Andrew because he can help me out? We will get her back Raye, I would risk my life for her again and again to have her back."
"I know." Raye sniffed when she offered a hesitant smile. "I'm gonna go get the others so you can know what happened from each of their points of view. I'll be back, you just rest, I'll call Andrew too, okay?"
I nodded my head and felt my body lean back into the pillow. Serena my angel was gone because I couldn't protect her. Some hero I turned out too be, letting the love of my life of my previous life even get taken away because I was too weak, too late. I couldn't be there when she needed me most and it was my entire fault. I felt the tears begin to cloud my eyes as a gentle rain began to fall.
(End flashback)
It had all happened so fast, he had been introduced to each of the scouts and they each gave him a similar tale to those of Raye. He fingered the locket as he looked out the window at the night sky. Many of the things they said became blurred in his mind because he was so exhausted. One thing that stuck out specifically was that Venus had handed him the locket and whispered a solemn, "I'm sorry Endymion."
That was where he was stuck, Andrew, Rita and Ami had confined him to the bed to rest. Darien couldn't help but wonder how he was to rest when all he could do was fret about Serena. He missed her in all the time and sincerely wished that she knew it. Something in his heart though let him believe that something was amiss with her. Call it his sixth sense but it felt that she had undergone some great change.
To take his mind off Serena Andrew had placed the TV in his bedroom and to cure his boredom. That was where he found himself today, flipping through the stations as he listened to Andrew cook in the kitchen.
He closed his eyes as a wave of dizziness hit him suddenly and he dropped the remote. He laid his head back onto the pillows and tried to rest when the news reporter's words floated to his ears. His chest burned as it did when ever she was near, but it couldn't be.
"The mysterious Sailor Moon has appeared once again only this time to wreck havoc on out town. There is no sign of the Sailor Scouts yet but citizens are terrified because their beloved heroine has turned. We now have a live feed from the battle."
Darien sat up in a swift movement and watched the TV screen with rapt attention. Sure enough on the screen Sailor Moon was aiming her tiara with acute accuracy at frightened citizens.
Darien stood to his feet in an instant and nearly collapsed with pain. He flicked his wrist and the familiar rose appeared. He transformed himself into Tuxedo Mask and hobbled to the balcony. He had to know, he had to see her, and he craved it with no thought to his own condition. He leapt off the balcony disregarding the pain that flashed throughout his body.
Andrew walked into Darien's bedroom carrying a tray with juice and soup. The tray clattered to the carpeted floor when he noticed the empty bed. He frantically searched the room and the adjoining bathroom for a sign when he found it. By the doorway to the balcony a solitary rose petal was lightly blowing in the breeze.
"Shit." Andrew exclaimed as he picked the red petal up and let it drift out of his hands and into the night air.
I think that this is a good stopping point, don't you agree? Also I just wanted to note that whenever Darien cries it rains seeing he is the prince of Earth (I thought it would be cool.) Please review for I love feedback and if you have questions post them in your review and I'll answer them as best I can.
Till next time,
Frozen Fire
Chapter 15-B Frozen in Time
It had all happened so fast, the surprise attack by Zoycite, the scouts arrival just a moment too late, and him realizing that his princess, his angel, his warrior and his sweet innocent Serena were all one in the same. Even if she hadn't been Sailor Moon and he Tuxedo Mask he would have risked his life to save her. Even if she weren't his princess from his dreams he would die a thousand deaths to see that she lived.
The minute he had felt her teardrop hit his face he remembered their past together, they're past as Serenity and Endymion of the respective Moon and Earth kingdoms. Unfortunately he thought he might have given her the wrong impression because the look of horror upon her face before he entered unconsciousness. She had given him a look of pure terror when he whispered her name, "Serenity."
He shook his head violently, it was his fault that she wasn't here with them today that the Negaverse had taken her. If he had been stronger, faster, smarter he could have the sense to know that they were both in danger and that the Negaverse never played fair. He looked at the locket resting peacefully on the table beside him.
The scouts had found it inactive beside his body. He reached over and picked it up, the delicate gold chain sifted through his fingertips as he felt tears come to his eyes. It was his fault that she was gone, the locket opened and the sad melody began to play. He closed his eyes and bit his lip to hold back the tears that threatened to fall.
He hoarsely whispered "Serena," and the savage tears coursed down his face.
(Flashback-to that fateful day)
Sailor Moon reached into her sub-space pocket and pulled the locket out. She placed it loving into his cold-gloved hands. He had been wrong in giving it too her, Venus or Serenity deserved it.
The tears that had streamed down her face when he fell were long gone, as was her heart. She stood up slowly facing Zoycite, a look of pure determination flashed in her eyes. Darien didn't deserve to die, all he ever did was fall in love and make her fall in love with him.
"Well what do you think of my work Sailor Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus," he hissed.
"Cruel, you have no heart and even if my friends choose not to avenge his death I will!" she hollered raising her scepter towards him. She gathered as much power into her scepter as possible and willed it at Zoycite's menacing body.
"That is where you are wrong Sailor Moon, it is your turn to die!" She flung a giant blast of energy towards her.
The scouts who had gathered around Tuxedo Mask's limp body hollered for their leader and friend to move out of the way. Sailor Moon disregarded their warnings and kept firing at the general. Her power was diminishing, as she became weak and tired from using the scepter so many times. She fell to her knees and dropped the scepter. In sheer defiance she kept her clear angered eyes focused on Zoycite's approaching form.
"Have I won yet? Are you prepared to die," he paused and then in a low whisper added, "Sailor Moon?" He raised his crystal sword and was about to slice her body into two.
"Sailor Moon don't let him!" Mercury cried out.
"We can win! We just need more time and strength!" Mars wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Sailor Moon please move!" Jupiter cried as she was lifting Tuxedo Mask's body towards the stairs.
"Don't!" Venus added as a command.
Sailor Moon still did not turn her head, she blinked only once and a careful tear drifted down her cheek. It was truly the end for her, there was no way she could win, what did she have to live for anyway? She felt a spark in head flare and reminded her that the world needed her. She pursed her lips in a straight line and glared at Zoycite, she was ready.
"Zoycite I," she faltered and gave a quick glance to her anxious friends who had taken battle stances, "I will, I will never let you win! Moon Scepter Elimination!" her own attack and the joint attack of the Sailor Scouts battered Zoycite's body. The body flew across the room and crumpled to the floor.
Sailor Moon got weakly to her feet and began to walk towards her friends. She could see Mercury analyzing his body in search for signs of life. Mars was holding his hand tightly, light tears dropping down her face onto his bloody shirt. Jupiter was wiping a few tears from her eyes as she laid a comforting hand on Mars' shoulder. Venus stood indifferent and separate from the group facing Sailor Moon with a grim expression.
She suddenly felt extremely dizzy as she continued walking, she dropped the scepter for her hands felt weak and couldn't grip anything. Exhaustion consumed her weak and trembling body and she fell heavily to her knees. The last cries she heard were those of her startled comrades before darkness swam into her vision and mind.
(Omniscient POV describing the scene)
The scouts all watched horrified as their true leader fell to the ground. Mars, Jupiter and Venus moved to grab her but before they could a red orb of energy enveloped her body and lifted her to the ground. Jupiter prepared to fire an attack when Venus cried out.
"Don't it could hurt her!"
"Are we supposed to just let her float there?" Mars asked sarcastically as she approached the giant bubble.
Venus grabbed her hand, "No! It could zap us in the process of hurting her, we can't risk it!" They all looked to their leader whose body had begun to glimmer. Sailor Moon's hair flowed freely when suddenly her body disappeared.
"No!" Mercury cried out as she dropped Tuxedo Mask's head to the ground. The action roused a groan from his lips.
"She's gone!" Mars whispered to the air as she fell to her knees.
"Look what you've done! Sailor Moon!" Jupiter hollered at Venus as she wiped a few tears from her eyes.
Venus looked upon the scene and walked to Tuxedo Mask's body. A steady rise and fall in his chest assured her that he would be all right. She wiped a few tears from her own eyes as she carefully picked up the locket and fingered it gently. It opened but no sorrowful song played. She closed it with a final click and turned to face her fellow scouts.
"I'm sorry but I must also inform you of the truth." She looked each scout in the eyes and began speaking in a barely audible voice "I have failed my mission to protect the princess and her prince once again. It seems that history has deemed it necessary to repeat itself."
"What are you talking about? You're the princess, my best friend is missing and you are mumbling about history repeating? How can you be so cruel?" Mars cried out in frustration as she faced Venus.
"I'm sorry Raye but everything happens for a reason and destiny has chosen to separate them once again." She paused and laid a comforting hand on her shoulder. "I can't tell you everything for I am just remembering it myself, but he needs help, a doctor's help. Let us leave this place and then we can discuss everything." She said it with finality and dared any scout to challenge her word.
Jupiter and Mars lifted his body with great difficulty and Mercury continuously monitored his body rhythms as Venus led the path to his apartment.
My head felt heavy and I could hear faint voices in the other room. I filtered my eyes open to grace upon the ceiling of my bedroom. Questions filled my head and I knew they needed answering. I tried to sit up pain seared through my body and I collapsed back onto the bed.
"I see you're awake Darien." Raye had opened the door and gently walked towards my bed. She sat down lightly on the edge and I tried to speak but found my throat dry. She raised a hand and grabbed a glass of water from the night table. She slowly lifted my back up so I could drink the cool water.
"I suppose you want to know what happened, am I right?" she looked me square in the eye and then blushed, "I'm sorry, it's not proper for me to do that is it?"
"Raye," I said in a confused tone, "what are you going on about and where is my princess, where is Serena?"
"You realized it too then. Well actually remembered not realized the truth."
"You're not answering my questions Raye, where is Serena?" I demanded.
"Gone." She whispered so faint that I almost thought I hadn't heard it.
"What?" I asked in disbelief as I felt my heart hammer into my chest.
"We, well more like Sailor Moon fought Zoycite once you were 'out' and won. She used her attack so many times she collapsed from exhaustion and the Negaverse took her." She was openly crying and she shook her head to try and stop the tears. "I'm so sorry we couldn't protect her for you Darien, for me even. She was best friend and now they have her!"
"Raye calm down." I commanded and lightly enveloped her in a hug as I felt tears fall from my own eyes.
"Darien, we, I'm so sorry!" she cried into my sheets.
"What happened next?" I asked hesitantly, unsure of whether or not to hear the answer.
"We, meaning Mercury, a.k.a. Ami, Jupiter, Lita, and Venus, Mina, brought you here. We couldn't take you to a doctor for fear that they would ask too many questions, I'm sorry. You need proper medical attention and Ami tried her best but its still not enough, we just were so distraught that we."
"It's all right I would be upset too, well I am upset. I finally found her and now she has been taken from me. As for the wounds can you call Andrew because he can help me out? We will get her back Raye, I would risk my life for her again and again to have her back."
"I know." Raye sniffed when she offered a hesitant smile. "I'm gonna go get the others so you can know what happened from each of their points of view. I'll be back, you just rest, I'll call Andrew too, okay?"
I nodded my head and felt my body lean back into the pillow. Serena my angel was gone because I couldn't protect her. Some hero I turned out too be, letting the love of my life of my previous life even get taken away because I was too weak, too late. I couldn't be there when she needed me most and it was my entire fault. I felt the tears begin to cloud my eyes as a gentle rain began to fall.
(End flashback)
It had all happened so fast, he had been introduced to each of the scouts and they each gave him a similar tale to those of Raye. He fingered the locket as he looked out the window at the night sky. Many of the things they said became blurred in his mind because he was so exhausted. One thing that stuck out specifically was that Venus had handed him the locket and whispered a solemn, "I'm sorry Endymion."
That was where he was stuck, Andrew, Rita and Ami had confined him to the bed to rest. Darien couldn't help but wonder how he was to rest when all he could do was fret about Serena. He missed her in all the time and sincerely wished that she knew it. Something in his heart though let him believe that something was amiss with her. Call it his sixth sense but it felt that she had undergone some great change.
To take his mind off Serena Andrew had placed the TV in his bedroom and to cure his boredom. That was where he found himself today, flipping through the stations as he listened to Andrew cook in the kitchen.
He closed his eyes as a wave of dizziness hit him suddenly and he dropped the remote. He laid his head back onto the pillows and tried to rest when the news reporter's words floated to his ears. His chest burned as it did when ever she was near, but it couldn't be.
"The mysterious Sailor Moon has appeared once again only this time to wreck havoc on out town. There is no sign of the Sailor Scouts yet but citizens are terrified because their beloved heroine has turned. We now have a live feed from the battle."
Darien sat up in a swift movement and watched the TV screen with rapt attention. Sure enough on the screen Sailor Moon was aiming her tiara with acute accuracy at frightened citizens.
Darien stood to his feet in an instant and nearly collapsed with pain. He flicked his wrist and the familiar rose appeared. He transformed himself into Tuxedo Mask and hobbled to the balcony. He had to know, he had to see her, and he craved it with no thought to his own condition. He leapt off the balcony disregarding the pain that flashed throughout his body.
Andrew walked into Darien's bedroom carrying a tray with juice and soup. The tray clattered to the carpeted floor when he noticed the empty bed. He frantically searched the room and the adjoining bathroom for a sign when he found it. By the doorway to the balcony a solitary rose petal was lightly blowing in the breeze.
"Shit." Andrew exclaimed as he picked the red petal up and let it drift out of his hands and into the night air.
I think that this is a good stopping point, don't you agree? Also I just wanted to note that whenever Darien cries it rains seeing he is the prince of Earth (I thought it would be cool.) Please review for I love feedback and if you have questions post them in your review and I'll answer them as best I can.
Till next time,
Frozen Fire