Shipmates Chapter 6
by: Enamor: The Enchantress
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Serena stared at the phone, shocked, then handed it to Darien.
"Here, it's for you,"
Darien recieved it and listened. By the look on his face, Serena knew he didn't like it. Without warning, Darien threw the phone on the floor as if it were some kind of venom.
"HEY!" Serena protested. "That's my phone!"
Darien's face flushed. "Sorry,"
Serena leaned back, and cried for the millionth time.
"Can you stop crying?!!" Darien covered his ears. "It's REALLY annoying!"
"How can I not? I'm dying in like what?-----"
'YOU HAVE 410 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THIS SHIP----'
Serena raised her hand up as if in praise. "Thank you,"
Darien shook his head. 'She's giving up. She shouldn't. Sailormoon wouldn't do that.' He knelt to her. "Look, we can't give up. Since I know you're Sailormoon, why don't you transform to try to destroy the blasted alarm?"
Serena lifted her head from her arms. "What good would that do? Even if I do transform, the thing won't blast off. And anyway, if it does, the entire ship will blow even BEFORE it's detinated to." Serena couldn't believe herself. She was actually making sense! 'Go me, Go me,' she smiled to herself.
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Rei sat down. "I give up, finding her seems hopeless," Then she sat up straight. "Wait! Serena could TRANSFORM! Her powers could beat the alarm to pieces!"
Ami tapped on her computer. Rei was surprised she even brought it. "No," she finally said. "Tapping into the main system of the Weaponry file could cause a radioactive system alert all over the ship," by this time, all the girls were around, except for Rita. "The radioactive system causes a malfunction on all the door's mainframe, making it no way to go out, and if there's no way to go out...."
"We'll all end up in hell," Mina finished absentmindedly.
"MINA!" the girls cried together.
Mina blushed at the statement. Then she looked couraged. "Look, we can't give up! Serena's our leader, she knows everything about the future..."
"But she doesn't even know where she was born! Let alone knowing the future!" Rei finished.
Lita shrugged. "Well, at least we have to keep searching. Wait! Ami, call her on her cell! Maybe she can describe the place to us!"
Ami frowned. "No can do, I tried that...Serena's phone is either off or broken."
"Off is not an option because if it were, she'd be calling us by now." Lita commented.
The rest of the girls groaned.
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"Who was on that phone anyway?" Serena asked.
"If I knew, I wouldn't have broken it," Darien said, his eyes crossed.
"Well...EXCUSE ME...yell at the girl who's LIFE IS ABOUT TO END!!!" Serena snapped.
"If it weren't for you, the alarm wouldn't be on!" Darien retorted.
"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been PUSHED up to the ceiling and activating the stupid alert system." Serena exclaimed.
"Well, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have to cover my ears from you shrieking!"
"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't even BE HERE!"
'YOU HAVE 250 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP! YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP! YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP!---'
Darien reddened. She was right. He was the one who pressed the STOP button first on their first day. He sighed. He knew they were both ignorant and yelling at each other wouldn't help anyway. "Look, I give up. Yelling at you would not make this situation any better," he turned and say on the floor, spent.
"So that means I win?" Serena asked gleely.
Darien stayed shut.
"Guess that's a yes!" she smiled. Then she was serious. "Okay, so if we have a truce, I have an idea,"
"Finally! I was waiting for that comment!" Darien said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Serena glared.
"Nothing! Let's just get out of here and get the job over with," he shook his head to keep awake.
Serena was boosted up on the top ceiling of the elevator.
"I forgot how heavy you were," Darien grunted.
Serena rolled her eyes and pushed herself up to the top. She sat, as she breathed. Doing that task was draining energy out of her.
"Well? What do you see?" Darien called from below.
"You with a patch of bald spot," Serena said, looking down on his head, interested.
Darien touched it. He shuffled his hair while Serena laughed.
"Seriously, a bunch of wires and a big, red, bright light coming through the top," Serena replied.
"Well, if you find something, do whatever you can to get us out of here,"
Serena looked around. Then she found a switch. "I found something!"
Darien looked up again. "What is it?"
"A switch of some sort...should I pull it?"
'Who wouldn't?' Darien thought. "Duh,"
'YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP! YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP! YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP!---'
Serena rolled her eyes and pulled. 'YOU HAVE 115 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE----' Silence.
"Ha! You finally turned the alarm system off!" Darien cried.
Serena couldn't believe it. It worked! She won't die!!!
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'YOU HAVE 115 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE----'
"Hey! The alarms off! Woo-hoo!" Mina exclaimed and did a little dance.
"Okay, so the alarm's off. Big deal. Problem is still the fact that Serena's still not found," Lita commented.
"Uy, must you ruin the happiness and joy?" Mina rolled her eyes. Then she pumped up her arm. "Alright, people, let's do business! C'mon! Move it out!" Mina ordered. "Ami, you and I are going to check the three elevators on the bottom three floors. The others: go check from upstair elevators. I'll tell Andrew and Rita where we're going first, alright? Okay! Go!" With a wave of her hand, everyone set for their mission.
'Serena, you better be alright!' Mina thought. Although she was defensive to boys, worrying about her best friends are her sensitive sides. Even if they are annoying.
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"DONE YET?!" Rita was bothering the crewman, AGAIN.
"Lady, calm down. We'll probably need a few more hours. By then, ALL the elevators will work to their locations. Afterward, you can search for your friend, okay?" the crewman shook his head.
Andrew thanked the man and pulled Rita aside. "Honey, just the leave the man to work! He'll get through!"
"Oh, Andrew, how am I supposed to stay calm when I feel so guilty about this cruise? I shouldn't have planned this in the first place," Rita sobbed.
Andrew wiped the tears off Rita's face. "Shh...Look, it was also my fault too, remember? I agreed to the whole thing. I also have to feel sorry for myself. But crying won't solve anything. We have to wait until this man can fix the elevator before we overreact, alright?"
Rita nodded, and prayed with all hope that they would be okay.
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Serena sighed. She may have turned the switch off, but getting out was another story. She was hungry and thirsty. And groaning about it, she learned, was no help at all.
"How much longer?"
Darien awoke. He was sleeping while getting through this. He rubbed his eyes and cleared his throat. "I don't know."
Serena leaned her head against the elevator door. She came down after turning the switch off. She sobbed, but it was quietly. She didn't want to bring up attention. Unfortunately, she did.
Darien looked up.
"Don't mind me, I'm just crying myself out," Serena wiped her tears with her sleeve. Darien went toward Serena, sat next to her, and wrapped his arms around her.
Without warning, Serena leaned on his shoulder, wetting his shirt. When she finally stopped, she sat up. "Uh--"
"Yeah, me too," Darien replied. Then he felt a surge of courage. "Serena, I--"
"We have to find a way out..." Serena walked away from him, trying to avoid his eyes.
"Serena," he pulled her arms to him. She looked away. "Look at me," he said. He sounded demanding.
Serena turned to look at him in the eyes. 'What am I doing? My heart's racing, my blood boiling...' Serena thought.
"Serena, we've hated each other since when? Since I met you? But after yesterday...I found out something..."
'God, he's going to admit it!' Serena screamed in her mind.
"Well, I found out that each time I teased you...god this is so hard...every time I teased you, I found out that I liked you. There. I said it. I like you Serena...ever since I laid eyes on you. At first, I had to choose: you, or Sailormoon. Heck, at that time, Sailormoon was like a role model. You were like a woman I could depend on. I saw you every night, fighting the youma. I would be in a cape---"
'What?' Serena was alarmed.
"--I'd carry roses and fight along side by side with Sailormoon," Darien finished.
"A--are you who I think you are?" Serena stepped away from him. Darien did too. He transformed....into Tuxedo Mask.
Serena gasped. "Y--you're TUXEDO MASK??!!!"
"The one and only," Tuxedo Mask chuckled.
"But---but I always dreamed about you!"
"Oh really?" Darien stepped closer. Serena stepped back.
"I always wondered who he was,"
Again, Darien stepped closer. Serena stepped back.
"You're the one I like! Omigod...you mean to say that we've been liking each other's other being? Sailormoon and Tuxedo Mask?" Serena finalised.
Darien nodded.
She looked away, embarrassed. All this time she was yelling at Tuxedo Mask!
Darien pulled her face to his, gently and brushed his lips on hers. Startled, Serena pulled back, then as if in a trance, she stepped up, and kissed him again.
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"Find out anything?"
"Nothing so far, Roger that," Rei and Lita were on the top floor, asking the people if they saw Serena or Darien.
"This is going to take forever. I think we should split up." Lita commented.
"Yeah....you don't think there's any youma on this ship, right?"
"Why would there be?"
Rei shrugged. She would check the current floor while Lita went downstairs.
"Anything?" Mina and Ami were downstairs, meeting up.
"Nothing," Ami shook her head.
"This is not going to end…searching for her is no use!--" Mina was interrupted.
"Guys!" The girls turned to the voice of Andrew. Rita was with him.
Ami shook her head.
"Well, we have to keep finding them, they could be in trouble right now f--" Mina shut Ami's mouth with her hand covering it.
"What?" Rita asked, startled by the action.
"NOTHING!" Mina faked a smile. She pulled Ami to one side. "That was close!"
"What was close?" a voice behind them asked.
They turned: Andrew!
"Nothing!" it was Ami's turn to reply.
"C'mon girls, you could tell us! What's so bad?"
"Has something happened to Serena or Darien?!" Rita shrieked behind Andrew, which made him jump.
"NO! Stop being so apprehensive!" Mina said.
"How can we not be apprehensive? It's TWO lives on that elevator!" Rita retorted.
"Guys! Stop fighting!" Andrew shouted, stepping in.
"Andrew's right, if we're ALL apprehensive, we shouldn't blame it on each other," Ami stated.
Mina sighed. "You're right. Rita, sorry, but this whole situation about Serena is making me worry too much,"
"The same goes for me...Now I don't know--" Rita sobbed, face dug in her hands.
Mina blinked away her tears, and nodded. Then she looked enthusiastic! "C'mon! Let's go find them!"
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Serena pulled away. "I--I can't,"
Darien was surprised from her pullness. "What?"
"I--I can't do this! This--this is wrong,"
Darien held Serena's shoulders. "Why? What's wrong?"
"Don't you see? I'm fourteen. You? You're what?" Serena asked, waiting for him to finish her sentence.
"Twenty-one?"
"Exactly! I'm just a junior girl and you're like--"
"College student?"
"Right again! Darien, (She pulled away from his grip)we can't do this...this situation is all wrong!"
"How is it wrong? Does age matter to you?" Darien asked.
She turned away from him. "Yes,"
Darien felt shocked. Hit in the head; slapped in the face. She was rejecting him! "All I want to know is: WHY?"
Serena didn't face him. She blinked the tears away. Then she looked at him: in the eyes. "All my life, I knew you were like my soulmate,"
"So did I,"
"But, life's going to end! I'm going to die! I--I can't go through this knowing you're going to be with me! Dying!" Serena burst to tears. Her head hurt, eyes red, and heart lurching.
Darien stepped up. Serena, stepped back. "Just--I just need to be alone,"
Darien stepped back in response. He wanted to comfort her, but he knew they would never be...forever.
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Back in Tokyo, Ken and Ilene had the place to themselves: for now.
"Ah...nice and comforting without the kids home, right?" Ken asked, his wife's head on his shoulder.
"I guess...it's just that--" Ilene stopped.
"It's just that what?"
"Do you here that?" Ilene asked. Ken listened.
"Nothing, I don't hear anything,"
"Exactly...I have a lurching feeling that something is wrong with Serena..or something's happening,"
Ken held Ilene. "Nothing's wrong..."
"I knew something was going to happen when we adopted Serena..."
"ILENE! Everything's okay! Just calm down...it may be something you ate," Ken soothed.
"But--"
"Let Serena be..." Ken said, hugging his wife. "Everthing's all right..."
'I hope,' Ken finished. "Hey!"
"What?" Ilene looked up.
"I have an idea!"
"What? What?"
"Well, the ship's going to stop on Riyuku Island! We could head there and sneak up on Serena!"
"What about Sam?"
"Sam? Isn't Rachel--"
"Who's Rachel?"
"My sister...half-sister actually, could watch him!"
"Well, I guess..."
"Good! I'll get the tickets tomorrow and we could head out to Riyuku Island!" Ken announced.
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"FIND THEM!!!"
"Rita! Calm down! They're almost done!" Andrew held Rita back for the millionth time.
"I can't not tell them! Something's going to happen!"
"What's happening?" Rei and the rest of the girls had gathered round them.
"Something my brother told me about!" Rita cried.
"What? What is it? Serena and Darien aren't--" Mina started.
"No! No, nothing like that! It's just that the ship's going to dock at Riyuku Island!" Rita replied.
"So?" Rei asked.
"Well, I found out that Mr. and Mrs. Tsukino are coming on the ship probably to check up on Serena!" Rita finished.
The rest of the group stared at her in horror.
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OKAY! SIXTH CHAPTER UP!!!! This is actually a sequel....I'll continue! Don't worry!
by: Enamor: The Enchantress
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Serena stared at the phone, shocked, then handed it to Darien.
"Here, it's for you,"
Darien recieved it and listened. By the look on his face, Serena knew he didn't like it. Without warning, Darien threw the phone on the floor as if it were some kind of venom.
"HEY!" Serena protested. "That's my phone!"
Darien's face flushed. "Sorry,"
Serena leaned back, and cried for the millionth time.
"Can you stop crying?!!" Darien covered his ears. "It's REALLY annoying!"
"How can I not? I'm dying in like what?-----"
'YOU HAVE 410 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THIS SHIP----'
Serena raised her hand up as if in praise. "Thank you,"
Darien shook his head. 'She's giving up. She shouldn't. Sailormoon wouldn't do that.' He knelt to her. "Look, we can't give up. Since I know you're Sailormoon, why don't you transform to try to destroy the blasted alarm?"
Serena lifted her head from her arms. "What good would that do? Even if I do transform, the thing won't blast off. And anyway, if it does, the entire ship will blow even BEFORE it's detinated to." Serena couldn't believe herself. She was actually making sense! 'Go me, Go me,' she smiled to herself.
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Rei sat down. "I give up, finding her seems hopeless," Then she sat up straight. "Wait! Serena could TRANSFORM! Her powers could beat the alarm to pieces!"
Ami tapped on her computer. Rei was surprised she even brought it. "No," she finally said. "Tapping into the main system of the Weaponry file could cause a radioactive system alert all over the ship," by this time, all the girls were around, except for Rita. "The radioactive system causes a malfunction on all the door's mainframe, making it no way to go out, and if there's no way to go out...."
"We'll all end up in hell," Mina finished absentmindedly.
"MINA!" the girls cried together.
Mina blushed at the statement. Then she looked couraged. "Look, we can't give up! Serena's our leader, she knows everything about the future..."
"But she doesn't even know where she was born! Let alone knowing the future!" Rei finished.
Lita shrugged. "Well, at least we have to keep searching. Wait! Ami, call her on her cell! Maybe she can describe the place to us!"
Ami frowned. "No can do, I tried that...Serena's phone is either off or broken."
"Off is not an option because if it were, she'd be calling us by now." Lita commented.
The rest of the girls groaned.
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"Who was on that phone anyway?" Serena asked.
"If I knew, I wouldn't have broken it," Darien said, his eyes crossed.
"Well...EXCUSE ME...yell at the girl who's LIFE IS ABOUT TO END!!!" Serena snapped.
"If it weren't for you, the alarm wouldn't be on!" Darien retorted.
"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been PUSHED up to the ceiling and activating the stupid alert system." Serena exclaimed.
"Well, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have to cover my ears from you shrieking!"
"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't even BE HERE!"
'YOU HAVE 250 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP! YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP! YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP!---'
Darien reddened. She was right. He was the one who pressed the STOP button first on their first day. He sighed. He knew they were both ignorant and yelling at each other wouldn't help anyway. "Look, I give up. Yelling at you would not make this situation any better," he turned and say on the floor, spent.
"So that means I win?" Serena asked gleely.
Darien stayed shut.
"Guess that's a yes!" she smiled. Then she was serious. "Okay, so if we have a truce, I have an idea,"
"Finally! I was waiting for that comment!" Darien said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Serena glared.
"Nothing! Let's just get out of here and get the job over with," he shook his head to keep awake.
Serena was boosted up on the top ceiling of the elevator.
"I forgot how heavy you were," Darien grunted.
Serena rolled her eyes and pushed herself up to the top. She sat, as she breathed. Doing that task was draining energy out of her.
"Well? What do you see?" Darien called from below.
"You with a patch of bald spot," Serena said, looking down on his head, interested.
Darien touched it. He shuffled his hair while Serena laughed.
"Seriously, a bunch of wires and a big, red, bright light coming through the top," Serena replied.
"Well, if you find something, do whatever you can to get us out of here,"
Serena looked around. Then she found a switch. "I found something!"
Darien looked up again. "What is it?"
"A switch of some sort...should I pull it?"
'Who wouldn't?' Darien thought. "Duh,"
'YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP! YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP! YOU HAVE 200 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE SHIP!---'
Serena rolled her eyes and pulled. 'YOU HAVE 115 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE----' Silence.
"Ha! You finally turned the alarm system off!" Darien cried.
Serena couldn't believe it. It worked! She won't die!!!
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'YOU HAVE 115 SECONDS TO EVACUATE THE----'
"Hey! The alarms off! Woo-hoo!" Mina exclaimed and did a little dance.
"Okay, so the alarm's off. Big deal. Problem is still the fact that Serena's still not found," Lita commented.
"Uy, must you ruin the happiness and joy?" Mina rolled her eyes. Then she pumped up her arm. "Alright, people, let's do business! C'mon! Move it out!" Mina ordered. "Ami, you and I are going to check the three elevators on the bottom three floors. The others: go check from upstair elevators. I'll tell Andrew and Rita where we're going first, alright? Okay! Go!" With a wave of her hand, everyone set for their mission.
'Serena, you better be alright!' Mina thought. Although she was defensive to boys, worrying about her best friends are her sensitive sides. Even if they are annoying.
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"DONE YET?!" Rita was bothering the crewman, AGAIN.
"Lady, calm down. We'll probably need a few more hours. By then, ALL the elevators will work to their locations. Afterward, you can search for your friend, okay?" the crewman shook his head.
Andrew thanked the man and pulled Rita aside. "Honey, just the leave the man to work! He'll get through!"
"Oh, Andrew, how am I supposed to stay calm when I feel so guilty about this cruise? I shouldn't have planned this in the first place," Rita sobbed.
Andrew wiped the tears off Rita's face. "Shh...Look, it was also my fault too, remember? I agreed to the whole thing. I also have to feel sorry for myself. But crying won't solve anything. We have to wait until this man can fix the elevator before we overreact, alright?"
Rita nodded, and prayed with all hope that they would be okay.
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Serena sighed. She may have turned the switch off, but getting out was another story. She was hungry and thirsty. And groaning about it, she learned, was no help at all.
"How much longer?"
Darien awoke. He was sleeping while getting through this. He rubbed his eyes and cleared his throat. "I don't know."
Serena leaned her head against the elevator door. She came down after turning the switch off. She sobbed, but it was quietly. She didn't want to bring up attention. Unfortunately, she did.
Darien looked up.
"Don't mind me, I'm just crying myself out," Serena wiped her tears with her sleeve. Darien went toward Serena, sat next to her, and wrapped his arms around her.
Without warning, Serena leaned on his shoulder, wetting his shirt. When she finally stopped, she sat up. "Uh--"
"Yeah, me too," Darien replied. Then he felt a surge of courage. "Serena, I--"
"We have to find a way out..." Serena walked away from him, trying to avoid his eyes.
"Serena," he pulled her arms to him. She looked away. "Look at me," he said. He sounded demanding.
Serena turned to look at him in the eyes. 'What am I doing? My heart's racing, my blood boiling...' Serena thought.
"Serena, we've hated each other since when? Since I met you? But after yesterday...I found out something..."
'God, he's going to admit it!' Serena screamed in her mind.
"Well, I found out that each time I teased you...god this is so hard...every time I teased you, I found out that I liked you. There. I said it. I like you Serena...ever since I laid eyes on you. At first, I had to choose: you, or Sailormoon. Heck, at that time, Sailormoon was like a role model. You were like a woman I could depend on. I saw you every night, fighting the youma. I would be in a cape---"
'What?' Serena was alarmed.
"--I'd carry roses and fight along side by side with Sailormoon," Darien finished.
"A--are you who I think you are?" Serena stepped away from him. Darien did too. He transformed....into Tuxedo Mask.
Serena gasped. "Y--you're TUXEDO MASK??!!!"
"The one and only," Tuxedo Mask chuckled.
"But---but I always dreamed about you!"
"Oh really?" Darien stepped closer. Serena stepped back.
"I always wondered who he was,"
Again, Darien stepped closer. Serena stepped back.
"You're the one I like! Omigod...you mean to say that we've been liking each other's other being? Sailormoon and Tuxedo Mask?" Serena finalised.
Darien nodded.
She looked away, embarrassed. All this time she was yelling at Tuxedo Mask!
Darien pulled her face to his, gently and brushed his lips on hers. Startled, Serena pulled back, then as if in a trance, she stepped up, and kissed him again.
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"Find out anything?"
"Nothing so far, Roger that," Rei and Lita were on the top floor, asking the people if they saw Serena or Darien.
"This is going to take forever. I think we should split up." Lita commented.
"Yeah....you don't think there's any youma on this ship, right?"
"Why would there be?"
Rei shrugged. She would check the current floor while Lita went downstairs.
"Anything?" Mina and Ami were downstairs, meeting up.
"Nothing," Ami shook her head.
"This is not going to end…searching for her is no use!--" Mina was interrupted.
"Guys!" The girls turned to the voice of Andrew. Rita was with him.
Ami shook her head.
"Well, we have to keep finding them, they could be in trouble right now f--" Mina shut Ami's mouth with her hand covering it.
"What?" Rita asked, startled by the action.
"NOTHING!" Mina faked a smile. She pulled Ami to one side. "That was close!"
"What was close?" a voice behind them asked.
They turned: Andrew!
"Nothing!" it was Ami's turn to reply.
"C'mon girls, you could tell us! What's so bad?"
"Has something happened to Serena or Darien?!" Rita shrieked behind Andrew, which made him jump.
"NO! Stop being so apprehensive!" Mina said.
"How can we not be apprehensive? It's TWO lives on that elevator!" Rita retorted.
"Guys! Stop fighting!" Andrew shouted, stepping in.
"Andrew's right, if we're ALL apprehensive, we shouldn't blame it on each other," Ami stated.
Mina sighed. "You're right. Rita, sorry, but this whole situation about Serena is making me worry too much,"
"The same goes for me...Now I don't know--" Rita sobbed, face dug in her hands.
Mina blinked away her tears, and nodded. Then she looked enthusiastic! "C'mon! Let's go find them!"
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Serena pulled away. "I--I can't,"
Darien was surprised from her pullness. "What?"
"I--I can't do this! This--this is wrong,"
Darien held Serena's shoulders. "Why? What's wrong?"
"Don't you see? I'm fourteen. You? You're what?" Serena asked, waiting for him to finish her sentence.
"Twenty-one?"
"Exactly! I'm just a junior girl and you're like--"
"College student?"
"Right again! Darien, (She pulled away from his grip)we can't do this...this situation is all wrong!"
"How is it wrong? Does age matter to you?" Darien asked.
She turned away from him. "Yes,"
Darien felt shocked. Hit in the head; slapped in the face. She was rejecting him! "All I want to know is: WHY?"
Serena didn't face him. She blinked the tears away. Then she looked at him: in the eyes. "All my life, I knew you were like my soulmate,"
"So did I,"
"But, life's going to end! I'm going to die! I--I can't go through this knowing you're going to be with me! Dying!" Serena burst to tears. Her head hurt, eyes red, and heart lurching.
Darien stepped up. Serena, stepped back. "Just--I just need to be alone,"
Darien stepped back in response. He wanted to comfort her, but he knew they would never be...forever.
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Back in Tokyo, Ken and Ilene had the place to themselves: for now.
"Ah...nice and comforting without the kids home, right?" Ken asked, his wife's head on his shoulder.
"I guess...it's just that--" Ilene stopped.
"It's just that what?"
"Do you here that?" Ilene asked. Ken listened.
"Nothing, I don't hear anything,"
"Exactly...I have a lurching feeling that something is wrong with Serena..or something's happening,"
Ken held Ilene. "Nothing's wrong..."
"I knew something was going to happen when we adopted Serena..."
"ILENE! Everything's okay! Just calm down...it may be something you ate," Ken soothed.
"But--"
"Let Serena be..." Ken said, hugging his wife. "Everthing's all right..."
'I hope,' Ken finished. "Hey!"
"What?" Ilene looked up.
"I have an idea!"
"What? What?"
"Well, the ship's going to stop on Riyuku Island! We could head there and sneak up on Serena!"
"What about Sam?"
"Sam? Isn't Rachel--"
"Who's Rachel?"
"My sister...half-sister actually, could watch him!"
"Well, I guess..."
"Good! I'll get the tickets tomorrow and we could head out to Riyuku Island!" Ken announced.
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"FIND THEM!!!"
"Rita! Calm down! They're almost done!" Andrew held Rita back for the millionth time.
"I can't not tell them! Something's going to happen!"
"What's happening?" Rei and the rest of the girls had gathered round them.
"Something my brother told me about!" Rita cried.
"What? What is it? Serena and Darien aren't--" Mina started.
"No! No, nothing like that! It's just that the ship's going to dock at Riyuku Island!" Rita replied.
"So?" Rei asked.
"Well, I found out that Mr. and Mrs. Tsukino are coming on the ship probably to check up on Serena!" Rita finished.
The rest of the group stared at her in horror.
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OKAY! SIXTH CHAPTER UP!!!! This is actually a sequel....I'll continue! Don't worry!