Chapter 3

"Dreams are renewable"

Serenity

"Breath Serenity" Ami said to me firmly. The pain... Make it stop. How can giving birth be so painful?
I held my hand out to Endymion- But he is not there. "W- Where? Where is-"
"The King could not watch you in pain like this" Ami said and Minako rushed to hold my hand. "Very rarely any male could stand to watch a birth"
I closed my eyes and tried not to be angry with him. My whole life seems to flash before me. I heard voices from the past. I heard my mother calling me. I heard him... "Usagi!" he cried over and over again. He grabbed me and held me close to him.
"Oh Vegeta. What's wrong?" I ask feeling so frighten that he looks worried. He is never worried.
"Usagi. My planet is in danger and I have to go"
I gasp and grabbed his arm. He can't leave me! "No! You can't leave me here!"
He smiled and pulled me close again. Slowly, he stroked my hair. My heart pounding begging him to not leave me. "Of course I won't my princess. That's why I'm here. I want to ask you to join me. Will you? We could get marry and-"
I kissed him and cried to myself. He wants to marry me! He wants to marry me!! "Oh Vegeta! Marriage? I've always dreamed about this!"
We kissed again and he said three words I've dreamed of hearing from his lips. "I love you".
"I love you too" I whispered back. "I will go packing right now. Wait for me at the moon garden!"
"At dawn" he said and we embraced again. "I won't leave without you" he promised.

"Vegeta... VEGETA!" I screamed and felt all my powers draining away from me and bursting out. Ami and the other senshis cried in awe and I heard the first cry from my daughter.
"What did she say?" Rei gasp. Everyone started talking at once.
"Her hair is so soft and pink!" Minako cried.
"Serenity? How are you feeling?" Ami ask. I smiled weakly at her and held out my arms. She put my daughter in my arms and I held her.
"Rini.." I said in a hoarse voice. Darien should be here to celebrate with me, to see his new daughter. I'm just so tired... I Look at Ami through my heavy eyelids. "E- Endy.. Mon?"

They wheeled to to my chamber with my daughter in my arms. I am so tired and eager to sleep in the arms of my husband. He will hold me and tell me how she loves me and how proud he-
Ami stops pushing me. The rest of the senshis and her gasp. I look up and my eyes fell on the bed. There is my husband, my love, past out... The night his first daughter is born. He failed me. Why does my heart feel so heavy?
I had so much hopes. Liquor drips off the bed. Angry filled my mind.
Minako quickly changed the bed sheet without disturbing Darien and Ami and Makato helped me on the bed. I fell asleep holding my daughter.

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I woke up by the cry of Rini. Darien smiles down at me.
"Rini..." he whispered and his smiles turn to our daughter. "Hmm.. Pink hair. How funny"
As if she understood, her ferry eyes snapped at him. Darien laughs. "Well she certainly didn't get her temper from me-"
I held my breath and feared he would guess. Now that I look at my daughter and remembered our first meeting when I was 14, how could I not see she has no Darien in her at all?
She has my eyes and my hair but her temper and personality is all Vegeta.. Her stubbornness and her hair... It curls and turns pointy at the end... Like Vegeta's spiky hair... I see it all now.
"Future Queen Serenity" someone said. I looked up and sees Ami. "Luna is here to see you my queen"
I smiled at my guardian since I was fourteen. She was my pet, my teacher and my friend.
"Hello Luna" I said.
"Greetings Future Queen Serenity" Luna said and bowed her head down. I frowned.
"Please," I said. "Loose the title. I just had my child and I want a friend to talk to now"
Luna nodded and looks at Rini with a blank expression. "She is powerful for a new born"
I looked at Luna confused. Luna looks at Darien. "King Endymion, may we please talk in private?"
Darien nodded, gave me a quick kiss and left.
"Serena..." Luna spoken to me with my human name for once in a long time. "Rini is strong for a mix of Lunarin and Human. Her human blood should have weakened her, but she is far more powerful than anything I have ever seen..."
I swallowed and hugged Rini tighter. Oh Luna.. Does she suspected?
"Serena" Luna stares at me and forces me to look at her. "What happened between you and Prince Diamond? What really happened?"
I didn't know wither to laugh or cry. So she thinks Rini is Diamond's child!
"Luna, I give you my word, nothing happened between Diamond and I" I said.
Luna doesn't seem satisfied. "Her hair should be brown" she stated. "Honey light brown. It will show the weakness of a half breed. But pink?." Luna sighed. "Out of all the goddess, none has reached the hair color. The most powerful level was white, silver, than you Serena... You reached gold. But pink is something unheard of."
Oh Luna... Should I tell her? Would she blame me?
I made room for her on my lap. Luna curled around me like she have done when I was just a simple minded teenager.
"Luna..." I began. "Rini is the daughter of Vegeta. He was of royal blood. The Saiyan Prince."
I felt Luna's crawls sharpen and I cried out in pain. Luna leaped, off my lap and stares at me with eyes shine with unshed tears.
"Serena!" she hissed with such coldness she didn't seem like Luna. "What have you done? This is why your mother did what she had to do! This is why you broke you two a part! We cannot have a Lunarin with Saiyan blood!"
I paled and felt as confused as ever. Luna continued. "Rini is dangerous. She is powerful beyond anything. Though all Lunarin are powerful, they are weak when it comes to emotional feelings. All creatures knows the Lunarin's weakness-"
"STOP!" I screamed. "What are you to tell me what my daughter is capable! She is my daughter and she will not fall into the wrong hands! She is in my hands and always will be!"
Luna bowed. "I'm sorry Future Queen Serenity". She uses my title again. "But an angel could be easily turned into a demon is someone knows how to. If Rini gets out of control... No one in the universe could stop her. This is what your mother feared."
"My mother is dead" I said firmly. "And anyone who dares to speak ill of my daughter shall die too". What did I just say? This isn't me... I would never say that! Oh goddess...
"Goodnight my queen" Luna said and stepped down.
I stare at my beautiful daughter. I kissed her softly on the forehead. No one is going to touch my daughter and get away for it. My daughter shall never be evil. She is me, she has my heart. But is that enough? Please Vegeta... I need you.