AN: okay, finally, something adventurous happens (well, maybe in this chapter or the next)! Oh…and I don't own Sailor Moon. WAH!
Serena moaned and turned over on her side, but shrieked when she fell off the couch. Rubbing her head, she sighed and told herself to get Andrew a new couch sometime. This one was far too uncomfortable.
She looked up and saw Akio grinning at her from the kitchen. He was wearing a white shirt and khaki shorts, and was holding a bowl. At his feet was a white cat with orange spots, purring. It had a flaming moon symbol on its forehead.
"Oh, shut up," she mumbled, getting up and sitting back down on the couch. He walked over with the bowl, the cat following, and put it down on the table in front of the couch.
"Cereal?" he asked. She looked at it, and smiled crookedly. "Sorry. I can't cook."
She laughed and the cat jumped up on the couch, and started kneading her leg.
"And who is this?" Serena asked, petting the cat gently. It started purring violently and meowing.
Akio sat down next to her on the other side. "Her name is Stella. But for short I call her Tara." He looked into her eyes, but Serena's eyes were on Stella. "You may call her Tara, too."
"I have a cat," she said, still not looking into his eyes. "Her name is Luna. What a darling, she is!" Now she looked into them. "Maybe you can meet her someday…" her voice trailed off.
His eyes danced, but looked stone. The color looked like a mix of a blue on a cloudless spring sky and periwinkle. Her thoughts vanished and she was suddenly engulfed with blue and purple, swimming in the majesty.
There was a knock on the door, and she jumped back into reality.
"Oh my," she breathed as Akio went to answer the door. Serena didn't eavesdrop on the person at the door. Instead she walked over to the balcony, knocking over Tara, and closed the door behind her. It was dawn and windy; her hair danced in front of her face.
Below her, Serena heard music. She walked over to the edge and looked down, but there was no source. She let her ears follow the music and found that it seemed to come from the sunrise. It was a low and high moaning and humming. Different sounds joined it, she didn't even hear Akio ask what was wrong.
Lyrics now joined the enchanting music, but it was more like a moan to actually know what it was singing. Serena stood up on the railing and scanned the beautiful horizon, listening intently to the hypnotizing sounds.
The sound of thunder and lightning filled her ears, and she jumped off the balcony; the moaning and humming got louder…then stopped.
Serena screamed when she suddenly found out that her feet weren't on the ground anymore. Akio was holding onto her hand, and she was fifty stories above. She looked up and tried to grab his arm with her free hand, but it quickly slipped off from sweat.
"Akio!" she screamed, as her other hand began to get sweaty. "Don't let go!"
"Of course not!" he snapped. "You think I want you dead?"
"Oh, I love you Akio!" Serena shrieked, not thinking.
"Serena!" Akio gasped, and their hold broke.
She screamed as she fell, but after falling only twenty stories, she passed out from loss of breath and fright.
*
Princess Serenity smiled up at her new Prince as they danced into the night. They hadn't spoken at all, but they knew what each other were thinking. They both were in love, and nothing could break it.
Queen Serenity smiled at her daughter, coming in from looking at the Earth on the balcony. She walked over gracefully, and tapped her on the shoulder.
Serena turned around and smiled at her mother. Prince Akio stopped dancing and also smiled.
"Yes, mother?" she asked.
Serenity took her over to the window, leaving her son-in-law. "Serenity, my daughter, I will miss you dearly."
"Don't make me cry now," Serena said. "I know you'll miss me. I'll miss you too."
"Luna and Artemis will miss you too, you know that," her mother said eagerly.
"Yes, I know. What was the real reason you brought me over?" Serena crossed her arms, but didn't pout. "Akio is waiting."
"Ah. Yes, of course." Queen Serenity led her farther down the wall full of windows. "Someone is here to see you. She didn't want to come in, though."
She nodded and started walking on her own toward the balcony. When she was out on it, she walked over to the edge and saw a teenage girl with long sea-green hair and a tight blue dress. She looked up at Princess Serena and grinned, showing very sharp teeth.
"Princess Serenity," the girl greeted. "How are you this fine evening?"
"I am great," Serena replied, immediately thinking of Akio. "And how are you? Are you sure you don't want to come inside?"
"Thank you, Your Highness, but I'd rather not." The girl crossed her arms. "Why don't you come down here? I have to tell you."
"Why don't you tell me here?" she asked, leaning down on the stone railing. "I'm kind of in a hurry. Is that alright?"
The girl gave a slight laugh. "Trust me, Serenity, you have all the time in the world." She un-crossed (work with me here!!) her arms and shrugged. "Have it your way then. I'll go up there."
Serena smiled, but once she blinked, the girl wasn't standing there anymore. She looked around but only saw the normal guests and flowers and stones.
"Your Highness, I'd be careful if I were you," came a harsh whisper in her ear rather fast. Serena gasped and whirled around, to see the green-haired girl.
"How—did you get up here so fast?" she panted.
The girl smiled wickedly and shrugged playfully. "Some things I can do. Now it's my turn to ask a question. Have you made the best decision?"
"What decision?" Serena asked, stepping back, but ran into the stone railing.
"The decision to marry Prince Akio!" the girl snapped. "Was it wise?"
"I—"
"Hurry up, Serena, you're running low on time!"
"Yes!" she replied quickly. "Yes, alright? I made a 'wise' decision. Can I go now?"
The girl's smile turned wickeder. "Wrong answer."
"What?" Serena's eyes were covered with a blanket of confusion.
But suddenly the ground began to shake. The music inside was disrupted and all her guests began to scream.
She screamed; a massive vine-like-thing short out from the wall. The girl laughed menacingly and insanely and disappeared. The vine, however, did not disappear. It charged straight at her and hit her in the stomach and pinned her to the opposite wall.
There she stood, stunned and shocked, not being able to move. Then she felt the warmth and stickiness of blood, and she found out that the vine had gone right through her stomach.
Serena tried to breathe but blood was clogging up her throat. The vine glinted, then turned to stone. She herself slowly turned to stone, growing from the part her flesh touched the vine.
"Akio," she croaked, spitting up some blood. "Endy…" Her voice trailed off as her whole body froze in place and lost its color.
