Chapter Six: A Change In Plans/ Meeting

With everyone in agreement they started for the airport. The streets weren't busy this time of morning and so there were no taxis. "Guys why don't we eat before go the rest of the way. You two can clean up some in the restroom."

They were too tired to argue, and so went into the first place that was open that they came too. As luck would have it, it was the Crown. 'Starts here, ends here.' They went and took a place at one of the booths. The guys told Sere to order for them going to the restroom each taking a bag.

"Good morning little one." Sere said when she saw that the little girl was awake. "You told me your name but you didn't tell me what your parents call you, or what Pluto calls you. Would you tell me?"

"Daddy once told me that mommy like the name Emily and called me that, but daddy called me Rini." She said between yawns.

"Ok, what do you want me to call you?" The little girl shrugged as she wiped her eyes. "Well I'll just call you what your daddy calls you then. How about that?"

"Morning Serena. What can I get you two?"

She didn't know that anyone had come over and the voice made her jump, but calmed down when she realized who it was and flashed him a smile. "Good morning Andrew. Six of the best breakfasts ever."

"Sure thing. But can the two you really eat six?"

"Oh the guys are in the restroom. With orange juice please."

"Coming up." He went behind the counter to put the order in. A few minutes later he came back and sat down across from Serena.

"How's the kid Serena?"

"My daughter."

"YOUR DAUGHTER?! Well…um…congratulations. Who is the father?"

"Um…I would really prefer not to talk about him."

"Sure no problem. So how long are you guys going to be staying here?"

"After breakfast we are heading back home. We've been up all night our hotel was destroyed. I guess coming back wasn't a good idea. But I did get to see everyone again, well everyone but my family."

"I haven't heard anything. I thought that they were still living at your old house."

"So did I." About that time the guys came back looking decent and refreshed. "You guys look better." Each of the guys were wearing blue jeans tennis shoes, Kaz had on a yellow shirt, Zane was in a navy blue one, Nate in green with his hair pulled into a pony tail, and Jag in red.

"Thanks. But you on the other hand look terrible."

"Oh thank you so much Prince Charming. Come on Rini let's go get cleaned up." She slid out of the booth and held her hand out to the little girl.

"Here Sere." Kaz handed her the other two bags. She took them and looked at him questioningly before going to on the restroom.

With the girls gone Andrew took it upon himself to get to know the guys. "So how long have you known Serena?"

"We've known Sere since she came to Atlanta five years ago looking for a job." Zane answered, before Nate and Jag could pop off with a smart remark, and Kaz was never one to talk.

"So you must know who the kids father is then. You know I would really like to know, I would love to get my hands on him, for a couple of reasons. He should have never left her. You wouldn't mind giving me his name would you?"

"We'd like to get our hands on him as well, but we don't know who it is. She never told us anything about him."

"Oh. Well I'll go check on your breakfast."  With that he got up and left. Something wasn't right with Serena. A few minutes later Serena and Rini came out of the restroom in a clean set of clothes. Sere was wearing a mid thigh length khaki skirt with a white tank top and simple pair of tennis shoes. Her long platinum hair pulled back into a loose ponytail. The little girl was now wearing a solid powder blue sundress that came to her knees, also with a pair of simple tennis shoes. Her hair that looked solid pink last night was now almost as silver as Sere's with pink highlights was pulled up into pig tells with baby blue ribbons tied around.

Sere helped her slide into her seat and then sat down next to her. "Kaz were did you find those clothes?"

"I was hoping you cold tell me. Her stuff was in your room with your things. I also grabbed your purse, it had flipped and I had to stuff everything back in it. But it had your passport and hers. And all the legal papers that you would need. I glanced at the things and basically you are her mother."

Serena looked like she was going to faint with that news, she really needed to talk to Pluto. Something was going on here and she wanted to know what it was. Their breakfast came a few minutes later and they ate in silence Sere picked at her food with out her usual appetite, while the rest ate heartily. She was missing something and that wasn't a good idea. Not when Pluto was involved.

With everyone carrying his or her bag and waiting outside while Serena paid. "Andrew do me a favor. If the girls ask if you know if the group has left town tell them we have."

"Sure Sere. But at least email them. Let them know you are alive. Here I'll give you their addresses. You can probably guess who's who." With that he snatched a piece of paper from under the counter and pen from his pocket and started to write. When he was through the paper held six different addresses.

"Thanks Andrew."

"No problem, but you can at least email me when you get home."

"Sure thing." With that she was out the door and started walking down the street the little girl skipping slightly a head of them.

"Guys I was thinking. Let's let everyone think that we have gone back home. Let's drop of the face of the Earth so to say. I've got to find out what ever Pluto will tell me about her.  And from the thing last night the Scouts are going to need us. What do you guys say about staying here for awhile?"

"What ever you feel you need to do Sere. We'll be behind you." Kaz told her then added under his breath "Plus I would like to have a little talk with our dear prince."

"So Sere got an idea as to where we are going to stay?"  Jag asked cautiously.

"Yeah I think so. Andrew is going to tell anyone that asks that we left town. So we should be covered there." By this time they had reached an apartment building and were looking up at it. Sere recognized it and to be honest was dreading staying here, but she knew that this would be the only place that had enough rooms for all of them. And it would still take a couple of apartments.

"Well let's go in. There's no in standing here and looking." Nate spoke and led the way into the building.

There was a man at the desk that looked like he was half asleep. "Go ahead Nate you take point here." Sere gave him a push forward. Nate looked stunned for about a minute when the man began speaking.

"Good day, what can I do for you?" he asked tiredly.

"Uh…how many rooms are there…to an…apartment?" He finally managed to stammer out. The look on the man's face was one of disbelief surly here had to be someone more intelligent in this group than this one.

"Sere, you might want to take over." Zane said under his breath and just loud enough for her to hear. In return she shot him a look that plainly said for him to try it. He shook his head and was content on letting Nate handle it, it looked as if the other two were as well.

'Well if they want to play that way, we can. Let's see we will probably need three apartments if they each have two bedrooms. And one of them is going to have to play along if we want a good deal.' Finally after listening to Nate make a fool of himself for about five minutes and watching the guys hold back laughs she decided to take charge.

"Rini stay with Uncle Zane, and be a good girl while mommy talks to the nice man." Sere was surprised that she listened to her and went to stand beside Zane. Rini looked up at him and smiled. He returned the smile and leaned down to pick her up.

She walked gracefully up to the counter and nudged Nate aside; he gladly moved to stand back with the other guys. "Hello sir, how many rooms are there per apartment?"

"That depends on what floor you like. The top floor is condos and each has three bedrooms, and two baths, along with kitchen, living room and the such."

"How long do you usually rent them for?"

"Six to eighteen months."

"Do you have two open and ready for renting?"

"Yes and the top floor only has one other occupant, so it will basically be you up there."

"Won't you come take care of the paper work, you always understand those things better than I do." She smiled sweetly as she turned and looked directly at Kaz. At first he had a shocked look on his face before quickly composing himself, and promising himself to have a talk with her. He came to the counter and they went over the paper work. Soon it all was through and they started for their new home.

Once on the elevator Jag asked the question that had probably been weighing on everyone's head. "Who will share a room with who?"

She thought for a moment. Which one would it be better to have in the room with her, well that wouldn't work since the owner obviously thought that she and Kaz were married. "You can decide, but I get the room that has the view of the street." And with that she walked into the first condo around, and then went to the second. After looking around there for a few minutes she decided. "Ok guys we want this one."

"We? Who is we?" Jag asked.

"My daughter and I of course." About that time Zane and Rini walked in from the other one. "What do you think of this one little one?"

"I like this one better." She said cheerily.

"She had to walk through every room. She comes in here and looks at one room and has made up her mind. Unbelievable." Zane shock his head.

"Zane never underestimate what girls are capable of. All you have to do is look at Ami to know that." Nate was the first to answer to that.

"And Nate is that one that has that girl that can whip him anytime she wants." Jag answered back.

"Oh and what about Rei?! She has more of a temper than Lita!" Zane threw in. By this time Sere and Rini had sat down on the floor to watch the show, this was bound to get good.

"AMI CAN'T BEAT YOU UP!" They both yelled at the same time. Kaz was standing in the background hoping and praying that Mina's name didn't get dragged into their argument. Of course his prayers weren't answered.

"Kaz has the only girl that is slightly normal!"

"Mina is no where near normal. SHE'S THE FREAKING LEADER OF THEM! You call that normal?"

"Leave Mina out of this." Kaz said, his voice low and holding a dagger sharp edge, which none of them caught but Sere. The guys continued to argue over the girls' personalities, their voices rising with each minute.

After twenty minutes of fighting they were still going strong with Sere holding back laughter. Rini suddenly pulled her arm down and pointed towards the door. "Mommy, who's that?"

The sudden question caught Sere's attention and she turned to look. There standing in the doorway was Darien. His black hair was ruffled and he looked like he had seen better days. He was wearing a pair of jeans with a white t-shirt.

'Oh crap.' She stood up and walked quickly over to him. When she was close enough she offered a smile, one she hoped looked sincere. "Hello, I apologize sometimes they can get loud. I really hope that we didn't take you from anything important." She had to basically yell over the guys.

Darien was looking at her like she was some sort of ghost. He then glanced down about the time she felt two little arms wrap around her leg. She didn't have to look down to know that it was Rini. The guys were still going on and getting louder. "Step out side?" She asked moving towards the door with Rini and Darien behind her.

"I'm not sure if you could hear me in there or not, but I do apologize if you will give me a moment this will stop right now." With that she stepped back into the condo and after a moment of waiting patiently she finally yelled at them, seeing that that would be the only way that they would hear her.

"ZANE! NATE! JAGGER! KAZ! ALL OF YOU HUSH!" She had only used Jag's full name once before and it was enough to shock him into being quiet and they other follows just as shocked that she had yelled. "Thank you. You can settle the argument later, when there is no one close to hear you." She said warningly with a slight nod of her head towards the door. The guys turned and saw who she meant.

They didn't bother to apologize but were thinking of a nice little chat that they would like to have with him about something or other. She turned back to the door and he was just standing there in a daze. 'This isn't good.' The thought ran through her head so fast she didn't have time to stop it.

Nate being the one to snap out of whatever state he was in spoke first. 'Please don't let her kill me for this.' He thought before speaking. "Sorry about that, so do you want to go shopping for the furniture now?"

At first she didn't know what to think but knew that he must have a plan. At least she hoped he did. "Yeah sure. Rini go wake up Uncle Zane." She watched as the little girl ran towards Zane and in the process tripped and started to fall, Kaz was able to get to her before she fell before any one else and had by the time that anyone could move had her safely in his arms.

Sere was by him the next instant, for not being a mother longer than a day she was already caring so much for that little girl. "She's ok Sere, calm down. I wouldn't let anything happen to her." He said reassuring her or at least trying to.

Everyone was now back in the land of the living. "Serena?" his voice came from the door where they had completely forgotten about him. At the sound of her name she turned a ghostly shade of white and swallowed, while begging the guys with her eyes to cover for her.

"Sorry there's no one here by that name." Jag responded trying to sound casual. "We've got Re there and Rini and there rest of us are guys."

Darien shook his head as if to clear it and looked the group over. Sere had regained her composure and was now standing in between Jag and Nate. Nate had his arm around her shoulder casually it was apparently enough for Darien to think twice about everything that he had heard and just saw. "Sorry. You reminded me of someone for a second. I'm Darien and I live down the hall I would really appreciate it if you would keep the noise levels down."

"We'll be sure to." Kaz answered for them. Before he turned to Sere and asked if she was ready to go.

"Yeah just let me grab my purse." With that she took off to the other condo to grab her purse from where she dropped it when they first got there. A few short minutes of tense silence followed her departure. Rini kept looking from Darien to her uncles and then to where her mommy had went.

She tugged on one of Kaz's silver strands of hair to get his attention. When he looked down to see what she wanted she began "Mommy ok?"

Her question brought a smile to his lips for a second. "Yes your mommy is ok, she went to get her purse so that we can go shopping. And if you are good maybe ice cream." He added with a wink. Darien watched all this before leaving to go back to his own condo. For some reason he couldn't shake the feeling that he had met them all somewhere before, well all of them besides the little girl. He vaguely recognized them as the 'Earth Squad' but being as he hadn't paid much attention he couldn't be sure.

He passed Sere in the hall and was tempted to stop her, but seeing as she avoided his eyes he went on his way. He was going to be late for the meeting with the girls.

When she got back to the room they guys were talking quietly and stopped suddenly when she came in. 'Uh-oh, this can't be good.' She knew that they were probably up to something but knew that it might just be better to play dumb. "You guys ready?" She asked, they nodded and out the door they went. They planned on spending the whole day getting what they needed.

@~%~ Rei's Temple ~%~@

Darien was five minutes late for the meeting. He just couldn't shake the feeling that 'Sere' was his Serena. He had no proof and thought it better to focus on the task at hand.

"This is a first, Darien is late." Rei said as he came into the room.

"Lay off him Rei. He probably hasn't had any sleep." Lita took up his defense.

"Sorry guys, new neighbors thought that they could be as loud as they wanted when they argued." He explained quickly while taking a place next to Ami, who was reading a history book.

"Ok down to business. What are we gong to do about the new scout, and what did they call them self the knights?" Mina was the first to speak and effectively cut off any argument that might have ensued.

"First of all there is no record of them in the records. So there for we can't tell if they are friend or foe." Ami began. "It is my opinion that we can trust them, after all they did save us."

"She has a point." Lita piped in.

"Points are good enough to go on. We need facts." Rei spoke next. Mina was sitting back thinking, something that she rarely did when the girls where around.

"Mars to Venus! Hello, anyone home?" She had been spaced out for fifteen minutes and had totally lost track of the conversation. Rei had noticed and had taken it upon herself to bring her back down. "Spaced out again?"

"No actually I was thinking." She said shooting a look at Rei. The comment caught them all off guard. "Listen they all look familiar to me. Like I've seen them somewhere before. Did you notice how the knight that saved our butts was the one that we called on to lend us their power?"

"She's right. Not just any one could lend their power to a scout; no one would be able to survive it but someone who also has considerable power. Also the powers would have to be so closely related for it to work." Luna added in. "The actual connection would have to be made by someone with great power." She said the last as if thinking out loud.

"Something is going on. I don't know what it is. But we could really use Sailor Moon." It still hurt to talk about their lost friend and comrade. They had all avoided it for to long. It was now obvious that they would need her if they were to win this fight. "Luna have you had any luck on finding her with central control?" Mina asked.

"I've been able to find nothing. All files have been blocked." She hung her head she missed her young charge.

"I haven't been able to find anything either." Ami added in. "Darien?"

He sighed before he spoke. "Our connection has been blocked. I've only felt her once and that was last night. But is it possible that she is here and we can't find her?" The events from that morning played over in his mind. How strange was it that four new 'defenders of earth' arrive and he gets new neighbors.

"So much there. What about the kid that they were after? And how Eclipse refused to give her over to anyone. She said and I quote 'I am her protector. She stays with me, no one takes her. I keep my vows.'" Ami repeated perfectly back.

"I wondered what she meant by that." Luna was saying to Artemis.

"I can tell you what she meant. She meant just what she said. You are the protectors of the princess; she is the child's protector. In other words she will do whatever she has to in order to keep the little girl safe. If it means her life then it means her life." Artemis said to all of them.

"It still doesn't tell us who she is." This was becoming more and more confusing, the fire has shown nothing about them except that they were friends to them, and if the fire said it then it must be true.

"Ok, tell us about the little girl." Luna told them. "Better yet start at the beginning of the first battle and go from there."

Ami started to fill Luna in and when paused when she came to the part where the child and Pluto had appeared. Something wasn't right, but she couldn't figure it out. "The yoma was destroyed by a new attack, Mars began to call for the person to come into the open, when a portal formed in between us and the trees. It glowed black, green and purple and slowly opened to reveal Sailor Pluto and a little girl dressed in black and with pink hair. She looked around and stared at something in the trees before kneeling down and talking to the little girl. Next the child stepped out of the portal and started to fall. Jupiter and another, who was in the shadows, went running for her at the same time. She used Jupiter to push off of and jumped to meet the girl, she caught her. The next instant she turned so that she would hit the ground the child wouldn't be hurt. She hit pretty hard and lay there, that was when the guys came out of the shadows and formed a circle around her, two in the front and the other two where checking on her. Don't know what they said but she was then standing and holding the child. One of them took a place beside the two in front while the tallest took a place behind her." Ami finally stopped; her thoughts were trailing back to that battle.

AN:

Ok that's it for this chapter. Hope you like. Questions comments whatever feel free to ask. Also thanks to those of you that have reviewed.

~Silvra