Chapter Ten, Death:
Of all the powers of goodness, love, and light, she had
gotten destruction. Of all the powers of all the sailor scouts,
she was the one with the power of death. Serena had the power
of life. Mina of love. Her of...death. Death was her power. At
least she also had healing capabilities. She sighed as the wind
blew through her hair and her eyes briefly closed, smelling the
scent of flowers wafting through to her through the air,
inhaling the fresh air, tasting it in her mouth, feeling the
edge of the balcony underneath her hands. She opened her
purple colored eyes and sighed. She brushed back a strand of her
dark black hair that went to her shoulders. She looked out
across the town from her standpoint on the balcony, and she
began to weep silently. Tears rolling down her cheeks, gasps
coming from her mouth. She had been so alone for so long. The
only good power she had was the healing power and even that
had gotten her labeled a "freak" in school. She was
so tired of life, and she had only just begun life. She had Rini
now for a friend though so that was something, something to hang
onto when all else didn't seem like enough to her. She was so
tired of being tired all the time. *Stupid weak body,* she
thought bitterly as she curled up on the ground and rocked her
body back and forth, tears rolling down her face, pain etched
in her face.
She got up and ran through the house and out the front
door and to the park where she sat and wiped her tears angrily
off her face. *Why do I always have to go and do that?* she
chided herself, but she knew it was no use. It was from a power
she had been given at a young age, decisions-life and death
decisions-that were left in her hands and her hands alone. Well
not completely alone, the other scouts did have to grow up at a
young age too, though besides Rini, none as fast or as soon as
she had been made to grow up. She was the silent one who stayed
in the background. She liked it that way, preferred it that way
really. Because when she hid away, faded into the background
then no one noticed her and no one could hurt her.
Later that day she hung out with the rest of the outers
at their house.
"There's no peanut butter left in the fridge!" yelled
the usually quiet Hotaru.
"Check the bottom shelf towards the very back!" Amara
yelled back as she entered the kitchen.
"So you're finally up? Ah, here it is."
"Yes I'm up. It's Michelle that takes twenty years to
get out of bed in the morning," joked Amara.
Trista nodded her head in agreement as she entered the
kitchen. "So what are you making with peanut butter small one?"
she asked Hotaru in endearment.
"Just a peanut butter and banana sandwich," Hotaru
responded.
"Sounds yummy," mumbled Michelle as she walked into
the kitchen, yawning. She looked at the clock. "What am I
doing up before noon?" she wondered out loud as she saw the
digits reading 10:08 a.m.
"I don't know, but I plan to take advantage of it,"
Amara teased, coming up and tickling her love from behind.
"Hey!" Michelle said between giggles. Soon they were
both on the floor rolling around in laughter as Hotaru and
Trista looked back and forth at the scene before them and
each other.
Hotaru raised her eyebrows. "They are strange ones,"
Trista commented as she left the kitchen with Hotaru who
had her sandwich in hand.
The next day she went to the outer scout meeting.
"I call this meeting to order!" Trista commanded as
Hotaru, Michelle, and Amara took their appointed seats for the
outer scouts' meeting.
There have not been any major attacks in awhile,"
Trista observed out loud. The others nodded their heads to
show that they understood and noticed. "Any suggestions on
how we should be prepared?"
"First of all we need to make sure our guards are no
less down than if we had just had an attack. It's easy to
almost forget about our other life when the attacks are few
and far between," said Amara.
The others nodded their heads again in agreement.
"So true," Trista said quietly.
"I say otherwise we just continue with our regular
training and meetings," Amara finished.
Michelle and Hotaru nodded their heads in agreement.
"All right," Trista quietly agreed.
Then she went to a sleepover with the inner scouts.
"Take that!" Lita exclaimed as she threw a pillow
straight at Raye's head.
"oh you're gonna be soo sorry you did that!"
exclaimed Raye, hitting Lita with a pillow full force. Lita
grunted, and they all laughed at the funny expression on
Lita's face.
"How about we play Truth or Dare?" Raye suggested.
"Yeah!" Mina agreed.
"No way," Serena said.
"Let's not play that," Hotaru requested.
"Oh all right," Raye said, giving into Serena and
Hotaru. An unusual occurrence that they both were thankful
for.
They all sat down in their sleeping bags and ate some
milk and cookies while they were each lost in their own
thoughts before Hotaru finally suggested they watch a movie,
and everyone else agreed. There was much debating as to which
movie to watch, but eventually they settled on watching a
romantic and dramatic action/comedy to give everyone a taste
of what they liked best in a movie.
The next day she went ice skating with everyone
except Trista and Amy who were at the library, and Serena who
was grounded.
Darien lifted Raye up into the air and spun her
around on the ice. They were all out for a fun time of
ice-skating. Everyone that is except Serena who was grounded
and Amy as well as Trista who were reading. "Do you think
Serena will be jealous when she hears about this?" Lita
asked in a teasing manner.
Darien dropped Raye, who landed on her butt. "You
better not tell her," Raye hissed.
Lita laughed. "Relax, I won't," she promised. "But
it would be hilarious if I did..."
Raye glared at her. "All right. All right. Calm
down," Lita said, her hands up in the air.
Amara lifted Michelle into the air and spun her
around longer than Darien. "Ha," Michelle said. "My love is
better than yours," she teased Raye.
Darien blushed and Raye glared at her as she stood
up.
Hotaru and Mina were practicing their spins
together.
The next day was the meeting for all the sailor
scouts.
"We call this meeting to order!" Luna announced as
all the sailor soldiers sat down in their respective chairs
in human form.
"Really LUna, things have been quiet for awhile. Is
it actually necessary to continue to have all these weekly
meetings?" Mina asked.
"I suppose bimonthly would be enough now," she
reluctantly conceded.
Mina smiled and Serena shouted "Yippee."
"It's nice to finally have some peace," Hotaru
commented. The others nodded their heads in agreement.
Seeing as there were no new events or fears, the
meeting was quickly over.
That evening she spent vegging out with Mina.
Mina burped as Hotaru came out of the kitchen at
the outers' house with a tray full of more goodies. They
both sighed in contentment as they dug into their food.
"Everybody needs a good binge now and then," Mina said in
her characteristically cheerful mood."
"Amen to that," Hotaru agreed, happily digging into
some dessert.
That nights Hotaru lay tossing and turning in bed,
unable to find a comfortable position, unable to quiet her
mind, unable to go to sleep. When she finally fell asleep
it was a restless, fitful sleep. She was jumping into a
crowd of black...black something-oil perhaps? No more
like black beings, working for the dark powers, and she
was swinging her glaive with all of her might. She
she crashed onto the ground. She was dead. She woke up,
sweat pouring down her face. At least she hadn't been
faced with the decision to destroy everything and
everyone including herself. She had died before she was
forced to make that decision. She still felt like that
neglected little girl that Trista had told her she was
back in the Moon Kingdom. She knew this dream and that
time well by now thanks to talking with Trista about it.
She knew in this time though she did have a father to
care for her and once had a mother that had cared for her
deeply as well. Still death was something she questioned,
feared, wondered about and yet one would think she knew
all about it seeing as her powers of healing and
destruction were connected to it.
To Be Continued...
Of all the powers of goodness, love, and light, she had
gotten destruction. Of all the powers of all the sailor scouts,
she was the one with the power of death. Serena had the power
of life. Mina of love. Her of...death. Death was her power. At
least she also had healing capabilities. She sighed as the wind
blew through her hair and her eyes briefly closed, smelling the
scent of flowers wafting through to her through the air,
inhaling the fresh air, tasting it in her mouth, feeling the
edge of the balcony underneath her hands. She opened her
purple colored eyes and sighed. She brushed back a strand of her
dark black hair that went to her shoulders. She looked out
across the town from her standpoint on the balcony, and she
began to weep silently. Tears rolling down her cheeks, gasps
coming from her mouth. She had been so alone for so long. The
only good power she had was the healing power and even that
had gotten her labeled a "freak" in school. She was
so tired of life, and she had only just begun life. She had Rini
now for a friend though so that was something, something to hang
onto when all else didn't seem like enough to her. She was so
tired of being tired all the time. *Stupid weak body,* she
thought bitterly as she curled up on the ground and rocked her
body back and forth, tears rolling down her face, pain etched
in her face.
She got up and ran through the house and out the front
door and to the park where she sat and wiped her tears angrily
off her face. *Why do I always have to go and do that?* she
chided herself, but she knew it was no use. It was from a power
she had been given at a young age, decisions-life and death
decisions-that were left in her hands and her hands alone. Well
not completely alone, the other scouts did have to grow up at a
young age too, though besides Rini, none as fast or as soon as
she had been made to grow up. She was the silent one who stayed
in the background. She liked it that way, preferred it that way
really. Because when she hid away, faded into the background
then no one noticed her and no one could hurt her.
Later that day she hung out with the rest of the outers
at their house.
"There's no peanut butter left in the fridge!" yelled
the usually quiet Hotaru.
"Check the bottom shelf towards the very back!" Amara
yelled back as she entered the kitchen.
"So you're finally up? Ah, here it is."
"Yes I'm up. It's Michelle that takes twenty years to
get out of bed in the morning," joked Amara.
Trista nodded her head in agreement as she entered the
kitchen. "So what are you making with peanut butter small one?"
she asked Hotaru in endearment.
"Just a peanut butter and banana sandwich," Hotaru
responded.
"Sounds yummy," mumbled Michelle as she walked into
the kitchen, yawning. She looked at the clock. "What am I
doing up before noon?" she wondered out loud as she saw the
digits reading 10:08 a.m.
"I don't know, but I plan to take advantage of it,"
Amara teased, coming up and tickling her love from behind.
"Hey!" Michelle said between giggles. Soon they were
both on the floor rolling around in laughter as Hotaru and
Trista looked back and forth at the scene before them and
each other.
Hotaru raised her eyebrows. "They are strange ones,"
Trista commented as she left the kitchen with Hotaru who
had her sandwich in hand.
The next day she went to the outer scout meeting.
"I call this meeting to order!" Trista commanded as
Hotaru, Michelle, and Amara took their appointed seats for the
outer scouts' meeting.
There have not been any major attacks in awhile,"
Trista observed out loud. The others nodded their heads to
show that they understood and noticed. "Any suggestions on
how we should be prepared?"
"First of all we need to make sure our guards are no
less down than if we had just had an attack. It's easy to
almost forget about our other life when the attacks are few
and far between," said Amara.
The others nodded their heads again in agreement.
"So true," Trista said quietly.
"I say otherwise we just continue with our regular
training and meetings," Amara finished.
Michelle and Hotaru nodded their heads in agreement.
"All right," Trista quietly agreed.
Then she went to a sleepover with the inner scouts.
"Take that!" Lita exclaimed as she threw a pillow
straight at Raye's head.
"oh you're gonna be soo sorry you did that!"
exclaimed Raye, hitting Lita with a pillow full force. Lita
grunted, and they all laughed at the funny expression on
Lita's face.
"How about we play Truth or Dare?" Raye suggested.
"Yeah!" Mina agreed.
"No way," Serena said.
"Let's not play that," Hotaru requested.
"Oh all right," Raye said, giving into Serena and
Hotaru. An unusual occurrence that they both were thankful
for.
They all sat down in their sleeping bags and ate some
milk and cookies while they were each lost in their own
thoughts before Hotaru finally suggested they watch a movie,
and everyone else agreed. There was much debating as to which
movie to watch, but eventually they settled on watching a
romantic and dramatic action/comedy to give everyone a taste
of what they liked best in a movie.
The next day she went ice skating with everyone
except Trista and Amy who were at the library, and Serena who
was grounded.
Darien lifted Raye up into the air and spun her
around on the ice. They were all out for a fun time of
ice-skating. Everyone that is except Serena who was grounded
and Amy as well as Trista who were reading. "Do you think
Serena will be jealous when she hears about this?" Lita
asked in a teasing manner.
Darien dropped Raye, who landed on her butt. "You
better not tell her," Raye hissed.
Lita laughed. "Relax, I won't," she promised. "But
it would be hilarious if I did..."
Raye glared at her. "All right. All right. Calm
down," Lita said, her hands up in the air.
Amara lifted Michelle into the air and spun her
around longer than Darien. "Ha," Michelle said. "My love is
better than yours," she teased Raye.
Darien blushed and Raye glared at her as she stood
up.
Hotaru and Mina were practicing their spins
together.
The next day was the meeting for all the sailor
scouts.
"We call this meeting to order!" Luna announced as
all the sailor soldiers sat down in their respective chairs
in human form.
"Really LUna, things have been quiet for awhile. Is
it actually necessary to continue to have all these weekly
meetings?" Mina asked.
"I suppose bimonthly would be enough now," she
reluctantly conceded.
Mina smiled and Serena shouted "Yippee."
"It's nice to finally have some peace," Hotaru
commented. The others nodded their heads in agreement.
Seeing as there were no new events or fears, the
meeting was quickly over.
That evening she spent vegging out with Mina.
Mina burped as Hotaru came out of the kitchen at
the outers' house with a tray full of more goodies. They
both sighed in contentment as they dug into their food.
"Everybody needs a good binge now and then," Mina said in
her characteristically cheerful mood."
"Amen to that," Hotaru agreed, happily digging into
some dessert.
That nights Hotaru lay tossing and turning in bed,
unable to find a comfortable position, unable to quiet her
mind, unable to go to sleep. When she finally fell asleep
it was a restless, fitful sleep. She was jumping into a
crowd of black...black something-oil perhaps? No more
like black beings, working for the dark powers, and she
was swinging her glaive with all of her might. She
she crashed onto the ground. She was dead. She woke up,
sweat pouring down her face. At least she hadn't been
faced with the decision to destroy everything and
everyone including herself. She had died before she was
forced to make that decision. She still felt like that
neglected little girl that Trista had told her she was
back in the Moon Kingdom. She knew this dream and that
time well by now thanks to talking with Trista about it.
She knew in this time though she did have a father to
care for her and once had a mother that had cared for her
deeply as well. Still death was something she questioned,
feared, wondered about and yet one would think she knew
all about it seeing as her powers of healing and
destruction were connected to it.
To Be Continued...
