Ok, sorry you people that I haven't been able to add this next chapter, for so long, but i've been a bit busy with school, and some other stuff. I was so happy with the reviews i got in chpt1 that i released chpt2 the next day, sorry i haven't been so fast w/ this one
Oh yeah, and thankx bunches to everyone who reviewed the story, you guys are the best! And especially thanks to the person who actually added me to their favorite stories list, and the person who IMed me telling me to post up #3. I never thought that would happen! I'm getting much more of a positive response to this story than I ever imagined I would get.
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Serena whipped around. "Ami! Mina!" she gasped in surprise.
Seeing the frightened expression on her face, Ami smiled shyly and said in barely a whisper ",We've missed you Serena." Seeing Serena once again starting to looks worried, she said "Don't worry... we aren't mad at you at all. Well...at least Mina and I aren't. Here, sit down," she said, while patting a spot on the grass. "And let us tell you the whole story, from the very beginning..."
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Right after you left us, we had a new source of evil attack us. They are made up of two brothers, chrys and chath(pronounced kris and kath) and two sisters, chrysta and charyn(pronounced krista and kahrin), as well as their mother Chrymsum.
We had all been at this very gravesite mourning for Darien, when Chrys appeared. He told us that a new family of evil was in town, and they at last, would be able to do what so many people before them had not been able to do....kill a sailor scout. Rai tried attacking him, but he just suddenly dissapeared with an evil cackle.
As the days passed, we grew steadily more and more worried about this new threat. We never saw them again, but all over the city people were being hurt...and usually killed by them, yet everytime we appeared they would already be gone, or dissapear right in front of us. The odd thing was, they only attacked people that we knew, not one of the victims was someone that we didn't know. Coincidence, we figured. We beleived and assumed that we were just much stronger than them, so they just dissapeared to avoid fighting and losing against us, so we tried our hardest to hunt them down, but I think we believed that not because we thought it was true but more because we were in self-doubt and didn't believe and didn't want to believe that they could be stronger than us..
After about a year and a half later, one day, we got a mysterious phonecall. The person on the other line had a muffled sounding voice so there was no way to be able to infer any information from it. They told us that they wanted to help us and told us the location of the five. Now of course we were suspicious so I tried to trace the phone call. For some odd reason no matter what I did on my computer I couldn't trace it, not even to a country or a hemisphere! That should have been a clue right there, that we shouldn't have listened to it since I can hack into most ANYTHING whether magical or not. So we decided to go, but little did we know that they had fed us the information just in hopes of our going there.
We arrived there, in a shady part of the city and walked down the alley that we had been told to. As soon as we reached what seemed the other side, the street lamps flickered, and all became dark. We heard an all too familiar cackle, and they all appeared. We attacked them with all our strength, but to no avail. They never even got so much as a scratch. Without the power of the millenium cystal or the holy grail, we were absolutely powerless. We would have all been killed, but then, Lita, the strongest of us all at the time, used all the power that she had and managed to kill Chrymsum, sacrificing her own life to make it happen. Her children were horrified and with a shriek promised they would be back to finish off all of us someday.
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"And?" asked Serena expectantly.
"And they've never showed up again..." replied Ami.
Just as Serena was about to sigh with relief, Mina finished Ami's sentence ",...Until now. ...We were fidgety and suspicious right after they disappeared, but after so long, we decided that they must have given up or decided not to come. Then, just like that incident years ago, Chrys appeared at the temple while we were all there, and did what he had done so long ago. Fear gripped our hearts and we all remembered the night of the big fight. It was like Lita's death all over again. Rai thinks that we should just go and sacrifice ourselves like Lita did, and it'll be over. But we'd only be able to kill 3 and one would still live, ravaging Tokyo. And what if another source of evil came as well? The other theory Rai has is that they've grown weaker, and we've grown stronger, and this time we'll be able to beat them, but we all know that's not going to happen, and it's just our self-doubt speaking again."
There was a slight pause, and Serena fidgeted uncomfortably, feeling akward. "But," she said. ",You saw what happened the last time i battled. I was so weak, I got Darien killed, and the only reason I'm still alive in the first place is becuase he is dead. How can I ever bring myself to fight people as powerful as that?"
Mina and Ami looked at Serena, taken aback. Then Mina spoke up angrily "When I thought I'd seen you today, you don't know how over come with joy I was. I thought 'Yes! Now we may actually have a chance! Serena has finally come back to us, I knew she would. She's finally come back to help us and help us win this fight. I knew she couldn't have left us for good, I knew she still cared about us, and then you tell us you can't!?!? Then what was the point of your coming back at all??? To get our hopes up, and then only to drop us back down to a place even lower than where we were before?!?
Serena, looking abashed, stuttered " B-B-But, I am weak, you all saw me last time, and I even had the holy grail that time, but this time with Lita gone, we don't even have that to help us!"
Mina, still seething with rage, and Ami holding her back screamed " Serena! It has nothing to do with weakness, and you know it as well as I do. It has to do with belief. The only reason the holy grail failed last time was becuase you didn't believe in it. If you believe, then you have power. It's not your strength that cost Darien his life, it's your own unfaithfulness!"
Serena slowly set her head down, her hair covering her face, and her shoulders began to tremble. Slowly a tear dripped to the ground as she took in Mina's cold words. Serena had not cried since the day she had left Tokyo." She slowly raised her tear-stained face. "Leave!" she screamed at Mina and Ami, pointing at the main gate which they had come in from. As Ami dragged the screaming Mina away , Serena slowly began to stand up, trembling. As she shreiked, Mina added one last statement " You're the reason why Darien is dead! You're the reason why Lita is dead! You're the reason why Molly and Melvin are dead! You're the reason why you're parents and brother are dead!"
"What!?" Serena gasped.
Oh yeah, and thankx bunches to everyone who reviewed the story, you guys are the best! And especially thanks to the person who actually added me to their favorite stories list, and the person who IMed me telling me to post up #3. I never thought that would happen! I'm getting much more of a positive response to this story than I ever imagined I would get.
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Serena whipped around. "Ami! Mina!" she gasped in surprise.
Seeing the frightened expression on her face, Ami smiled shyly and said in barely a whisper ",We've missed you Serena." Seeing Serena once again starting to looks worried, she said "Don't worry... we aren't mad at you at all. Well...at least Mina and I aren't. Here, sit down," she said, while patting a spot on the grass. "And let us tell you the whole story, from the very beginning..."
~*~*~*~*~
Right after you left us, we had a new source of evil attack us. They are made up of two brothers, chrys and chath(pronounced kris and kath) and two sisters, chrysta and charyn(pronounced krista and kahrin), as well as their mother Chrymsum.
We had all been at this very gravesite mourning for Darien, when Chrys appeared. He told us that a new family of evil was in town, and they at last, would be able to do what so many people before them had not been able to do....kill a sailor scout. Rai tried attacking him, but he just suddenly dissapeared with an evil cackle.
As the days passed, we grew steadily more and more worried about this new threat. We never saw them again, but all over the city people were being hurt...and usually killed by them, yet everytime we appeared they would already be gone, or dissapear right in front of us. The odd thing was, they only attacked people that we knew, not one of the victims was someone that we didn't know. Coincidence, we figured. We beleived and assumed that we were just much stronger than them, so they just dissapeared to avoid fighting and losing against us, so we tried our hardest to hunt them down, but I think we believed that not because we thought it was true but more because we were in self-doubt and didn't believe and didn't want to believe that they could be stronger than us..
After about a year and a half later, one day, we got a mysterious phonecall. The person on the other line had a muffled sounding voice so there was no way to be able to infer any information from it. They told us that they wanted to help us and told us the location of the five. Now of course we were suspicious so I tried to trace the phone call. For some odd reason no matter what I did on my computer I couldn't trace it, not even to a country or a hemisphere! That should have been a clue right there, that we shouldn't have listened to it since I can hack into most ANYTHING whether magical or not. So we decided to go, but little did we know that they had fed us the information just in hopes of our going there.
We arrived there, in a shady part of the city and walked down the alley that we had been told to. As soon as we reached what seemed the other side, the street lamps flickered, and all became dark. We heard an all too familiar cackle, and they all appeared. We attacked them with all our strength, but to no avail. They never even got so much as a scratch. Without the power of the millenium cystal or the holy grail, we were absolutely powerless. We would have all been killed, but then, Lita, the strongest of us all at the time, used all the power that she had and managed to kill Chrymsum, sacrificing her own life to make it happen. Her children were horrified and with a shriek promised they would be back to finish off all of us someday.
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"And?" asked Serena expectantly.
"And they've never showed up again..." replied Ami.
Just as Serena was about to sigh with relief, Mina finished Ami's sentence ",...Until now. ...We were fidgety and suspicious right after they disappeared, but after so long, we decided that they must have given up or decided not to come. Then, just like that incident years ago, Chrys appeared at the temple while we were all there, and did what he had done so long ago. Fear gripped our hearts and we all remembered the night of the big fight. It was like Lita's death all over again. Rai thinks that we should just go and sacrifice ourselves like Lita did, and it'll be over. But we'd only be able to kill 3 and one would still live, ravaging Tokyo. And what if another source of evil came as well? The other theory Rai has is that they've grown weaker, and we've grown stronger, and this time we'll be able to beat them, but we all know that's not going to happen, and it's just our self-doubt speaking again."
There was a slight pause, and Serena fidgeted uncomfortably, feeling akward. "But," she said. ",You saw what happened the last time i battled. I was so weak, I got Darien killed, and the only reason I'm still alive in the first place is becuase he is dead. How can I ever bring myself to fight people as powerful as that?"
Mina and Ami looked at Serena, taken aback. Then Mina spoke up angrily "When I thought I'd seen you today, you don't know how over come with joy I was. I thought 'Yes! Now we may actually have a chance! Serena has finally come back to us, I knew she would. She's finally come back to help us and help us win this fight. I knew she couldn't have left us for good, I knew she still cared about us, and then you tell us you can't!?!? Then what was the point of your coming back at all??? To get our hopes up, and then only to drop us back down to a place even lower than where we were before?!?
Serena, looking abashed, stuttered " B-B-But, I am weak, you all saw me last time, and I even had the holy grail that time, but this time with Lita gone, we don't even have that to help us!"
Mina, still seething with rage, and Ami holding her back screamed " Serena! It has nothing to do with weakness, and you know it as well as I do. It has to do with belief. The only reason the holy grail failed last time was becuase you didn't believe in it. If you believe, then you have power. It's not your strength that cost Darien his life, it's your own unfaithfulness!"
Serena slowly set her head down, her hair covering her face, and her shoulders began to tremble. Slowly a tear dripped to the ground as she took in Mina's cold words. Serena had not cried since the day she had left Tokyo." She slowly raised her tear-stained face. "Leave!" she screamed at Mina and Ami, pointing at the main gate which they had come in from. As Ami dragged the screaming Mina away , Serena slowly began to stand up, trembling. As she shreiked, Mina added one last statement " You're the reason why Darien is dead! You're the reason why Lita is dead! You're the reason why Molly and Melvin are dead! You're the reason why you're parents and brother are dead!"
"What!?" Serena gasped.
