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Well, here's where a twist comes in...*smile smile*....what? Why're you all
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Turn Back Time
2/?
PG-13
By Bunny-chan
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The solider stood by uncomfortably, not really sure what to do with the
strange maiden that he had just saved form certain disaster.
"Well, I have to take this basterd to be punished, Miss. Pardon my French."
The general was flustered, being 62 and single, he didn't have many dealings with
women and nicities and such.
"Do you have a place to go? Do you need to see a doctor or something?"
Serena took a shakey breath and manged to smile at the kind older man.
"I'll be fine, Sir...um...thanks again...I'll just..um, be on my way now."
Serena slung her bag over her shoulder and took a few steps forward, being sure to
steer clear of the man who had molested her. She wasn't really hurt physically,
only a few scratches, the man had only scared about 10 years off of her life.
Thanking the general again, Serena hurried on down the path.
she ordered herself as she walked quickly along the dim path, the pale
moonlight her only guide.
About 15 minutes down the lane Serena came into sight of a rather tall stone
wall. There were fires lighted on the top, and gaurds patroling the wall, but none
appeared to be on the ground. Slowly, she crept up to the gate and peered in. Again,
no-one. Keeping to the shadows, Serena made her way deeper into the grounds. Soon
she neared the door. Again, no gaurds?? That was strange, unless the huge house wasn't
as grand as it had looked. Well, why then where there patrols on the wall? Well either
way, she hoped that they would be able to provide some shelter for her for the duration
of the night.
Suddenly a heavy hand clamped down on her shoulder.
"What are you doing here?!" the man shouted, spinning Serena around.
She screamed...and promptly passed out.
****
Endymoin stomped out onto his balcany to see what all the racet was about.
He had just begun to fall alseep too. Looking down, he could see the head of the
guard yelling at a smaller figure in a black cloke. Moments later, the figure let
lose a distressed cry and seemed to melt into a puddle at the captian's feet. Endymoin
heavied a huge sigh and stomped back across his room, down the stairs, through the
main hall, and through the open front door.
"What's going on here Captain?" he demanded.
The Captain gave a short bow and then gestured toward Serena's fallen body.
"Just catching a peasent thieft, Your Majesty, I'll 'ave 'im taken care of."
Endymoin nodded and began to go back into the palace, then had a
second thought and turned half way back,
"Bring him in, I wish to speak to him in the morning. Maybe he'll know
something about the uprisings that my Father is so upset about."
"Of course, My Lord." The Captian replied, and giving another short bow,
scopped Serena's small body into his arms and carried her inside. He walked down
several flights of stone steps, into the dungen, and pulled a key from a ring on
his belt. Incerting it into a rusty lock, he pulled open a squeaky door and dumped
the limp body onto the damp rock floor. Then he shut the door with a clang and
left her. There was a dim torch burning across the isle, and a rat skittered by, but
Serena noticed none of this, as she was out cold until morning.
****
Serena awoke with a pounding headach. She remembered the events of the
past night with a shudder, and wished again that it had all just been a dream.
Of course, fate appeared to hate her and so, this time when she opened her eyes,
Serena found herself in a dirty prison cell with a trickle of water dripping down
the wall in a dark corner. A torch flickered across the hall through the bars.
She shivered.
"O.K. Serena, you escaped the thugs in the forest, you can get out of
here too." She told herself sternly. Of course, there was no kind night watchman
here to give her a hand this time. Serena supposed that the man, that she had met
by the doors last night, was another guard, one of the few that had been hidding
in the shadows waiting for unsuspecting people like her to scare and then throw
away into a dingy cell not unlike the one she found herself sitting in now. Upon
checking her watch, Serena was shocked to discover that it was only 6:02am!!
She streatched her body carefully, checking for broken...anything.... and
finding her arms and legs in working order, got to her feet and peered out down the
dark hallway.
Footsteps echoed down the hall and a pair of faint voices, one vaugely
familiar, drew near.
" 'e's in 'ere, My Lord."
Serena stepped back from the bars and drew her cloke around her body
tightly, pulling the hood over her head. She stepped farther back and nearly
blended into the shadows.
The man with the lantern stepped up to her cell and Serena had a strange
feeling of some exotic animal being inspected before purchese. The Captain turned
the lock and stepped into the cell. Serena pressed her back against the wall.
The Captain gestured for her to step into the light.
"Come forward, boy, show proper respect!!" he said, his voice commanding.
When she refused to come forward the Captain grabbed her arm, irritating the
scratches from the previous night and causing Serena to suck in her breath and bite
her lip, and threw her to the floor.
Serena let out a startled cry as she was shoved forward, and landed on her
hands and knees on the rough cobble stones. The force of the movement caused her
hood to come loose and it fell back to reveal her shiney blond hair.
Both men made surprised sounds.
"I thought you said that HE was a peasent thieft?" the deep voice said,
he appeared to be the one in charge.
"He-- er, she-- is, M'Lord. I caught hi- her last night, snooping around
the bushes near the south gate!"
Serena slowly lifted her head and started in surprise. The man standing
beside the Captain was none other then the irritating man that she had met in the
vallys the previous day!!
"Who are you?" She said softly, lifting her head to look him full in the
face-- and promptly got a kick in the stomach that knocked the breath from her
and sent her crashing down to land flat on her face.
There was a low curse and then the Captain was ordered out of the dungen.
Serena lay without moving on the ground, letting the cold seep into her
body. All her encounters with men the last few days had ended with some sort of
violence in her direction.
****
Endymoin stared at the girl curled on the floor in front of him. She was
the same stranger that he had met out riding yesterday! When she had lifted her head
to look him directly in the eye, forbidden for peasents and anyone of lower class to
do, he had been shocked at the revelation, and then when the head of the guard had
kicked her, forcing her into a submissive position, he had become angry! That feeling
shocked him even more. Why should he care about a simple peasent?
****
Serena tried to still her shaking body but couldn't. Shorty after the foot-
steps of the Captain had silenced, she heard a rustle of fabric and found her eyes
looking at the knees of the nobal, he was kneeling in front of her. He placed a hand
on her shoulder and Serena tensed and pulled back, scrambling to her feet and scooting
back from him.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen, I didn't know that it was you."
Serena gazed deeply into his eyes, but still, she didn't trust him.
"If I ask who you are again, will you hit me?" She asked cautiously.
A smile seemed to flicker across the young nobal's face for a fraction of
a second before he answered, and Serena felt her defenses rise again, he found her
question funny?
"I'm glad to know my question's amuse you!" She said bitterly, then wished
that she could bite off her tounge as the man advanced toward her, backing her into
a corner. However, when she turned her face away from him, he didn't strike her,
instead he looked her directly into her eyes and spoke,
"I apologize, it's just that, where I'm from, persons of lower status aren't
allowed to look people of my station directly in the face. You didn't know and had
to pay the conciqueneces--what are these?" He suddenly broke off, grabbing her arm
and pulling it into the light, exposing the marks on her arm.
Serena glared at him, "You were right, Mr. Know-It-All, I didn't last
the night."
Endymoin stared at her, just what was she talking about?
"What are you talking about, girl?" he demanded.
"My name's Serena!!" Serena broke in, trying to pull her hand free, but
his grip was too tight. Tears welled up in her eyes.
As the girl struggled, her cloke fell back and he could see the dirt smudges
on her clothes and the bruise on her cheek, there was the faint smell of alcohol
on her too. A thought made it's way slowly to his lips,
"Where did you sleep last night?" he asked slowly.
Glaring at him, Serena refused to answer.
"I asked you a question gir-- Serena!" He said, his voice rising, then he
realized that his temper was obviously scaring her, and lowered it,
"Where did you stay?" he asked again, this time in a slightly gentler voice.
"I attempted to sleep in the woods outside the village, but..." she trailed
off.
"What happened?" Endyomoin asked softly, releasing her arm, the marks on
her body were starting to draw a none-to-pleasent conclusion in his mind.
"But one can hardly sleep when the village men find her a some-what
attractive play-thing, now can they?" Serena said, attempting to make her words
sound sarcastic, but failed miserbly as tears spilled down her face again.
Serena berated herself.
So it was true then...
"Then they...did they...?" Endymion tried to voice the aweful words but
Serena answered for him.
"Two of them ran off, but one of them stayed...he...he tried to...to force
me to...but then the police man --law person-- whoever, came, and took him away.
I left, and figured that I might be able to get a room or something in this house,
but the next thing I knew I'm waking up in a little stone room and I just want to go
home!!!" She wailed, trying to brush away her tears, fumbling in her bag, which had
miraculously made it's way to the dungen cell with her, for a klenex to blow her nose
with.
"Three men...Gods..." Endymoin muttered to himself, "But he didn't succed,
did he?" He asked, his voice choked.
"No." Serena said quietly.
"I'm so sorry...Miss...uh,Serena...I shouldn't have left you out there...alone
...I didn't follow through with my duty. I will have a bath and clothes prepared for
you in the upstairs chambers!"
Serena stared at him. He seemed genuinely concerned about her wellfare.
Well, seeing as she didn't really have a choice about trusting him or not, and the
fact that she was dying to scrub her body clean of the horrible man's touch, she
smiled and stood.
"Thank-you, um...you still haven't told me your name." She said with a hint
of mischief in her voice, as she started to relax somewhat.
"It's not imortant." Endymoin said abruptly, a turning away.
Serena's smile disappeared; her face clouded as her defences shot back up.
Apparently the man wasn't as friendly as she had thought.
Endymoin felt instant regret for making her upset again, but refused
to let her know it.
"Come with me."
He led her upstairs, stopping only once to give orders to a servent girl.
****
Serena relaxed in the bubble bath, sighing. She felt better now that she
had washed herself. He thoughts oriented on the beautiful mirrors and candles that
lighted the room. The walls were decorated in white with gold trim, and there were
vases of flowers decorating the window sills and tables. White lilies and yellow
dafadills, to compliment the color sceme of course.
Rising, she dried herself and pulled on a whispy robe that a servent girl
had laid out for her, then went into the ajoining bedroom where a magnificant gown
had been left on the bed for her. The servent girl helped her into it, and then
stepped back to let Serena admire herself in a nearby full length mirror.
The dress was pink. The bodice was dark pink valvet, with a heart shape
pattern, rounded at the top, narrowing as it slimed down into her waist skirts.
It was laced up the front, to give it a kind of 'corcet' look. The 3 inch, sleaves
were pink and sheer, hanging off her shoulders in whispy layers. Her skirt
was a slightly darker pink, and had the same sheer material layered over top.
The servent girl had given her a pinkish, ruby, heart shaped pendent that hung
on a delicate gold chain, resting on her coller bone.
Serena found that her hair had dried for the most part and the servent
girl stepped forward to brush it until its normal golden sheen returned. Serena
then put her hair back up in it's original style and the maid placed a pink rose
bud, from a nearby vase, in her right bun. Then she added a delicate gold tiara,
set with a small pink/red ruby in the center.
Serena smiled, she really felt like a princess now.
"Thank you so much. The dress is beautiful!"
The maid smiled, then curtsied and left the room, without speaking a word.
There was a knock at the door and Serena hurried to answer it.
****
HONK!!!!! Zoooooom!!!!
Serenity stumbled back, nearly getting her dainty foot run over by one of
the loud carriges as it rushed past her. Just where in the galexy was she? One
moment she was walking through a field, somewhere on Earth, and the next she was
in this strange land where people dressed strange and carriges ran without horses!
Suddenly an angel appeared. Not one with wings, but one with long purplish
hair, wearing white jeans and a red tank top.
****
Rei wistled to herself, as she miandered down the mostly empty street, on
her way to visit Andrew at the arcade. It had been a quiet day for the most part,
she hadn't seen any of the girls, and so expected them, Serena at least, to be
chowing down on milkshakes while trying to drool over Andrew without him noticing.
Suddenly a blond blur rushed across the street, narrowly missing getting
run over by a car. The waving figure had Serena's trademark hairstyle, but her
clothing was strange. What was she wearing...a nightgown???
****
Serenity ran at full speed down the street, waving frantically to her
friend.
"Mars!!" She shouted joyfully, as she drew near. Mars turned to face
her, and her eyes grew wide. The next thing Serenity knew, she was sitting in a
bush!
****
"Mars!" Serena hollered she got closer.
Rei froze. What the devil was wrong with that girl? Looking around quickly,
to make sure no one was around to hear Serena blabbing their secrets to the world,
Rei grabbed the smaller girl and hulled her into the bushes!
Before Serena could protest, Rei clamped a hand over her mouth and hissed
in her ear,
"What's the matter with you, Serena? You should know better then to shout
that for the world to hear! What if a youma was snooping nearby???"
Serenity stared at her friend in bewilderment. Why was Mars mad at her?
"Ma--." She started to ask, but Rei cut her off.
"REI! Don't say that name when I'm not in senshi form! For the love of Pete
Serena, what's wrong with you? Did you hit your head?"
Serenity was confused. It was forbiden to call the senshi by their real names!
In fact, they had sworn an oath not to use those names again when they had given
their lives to protect her at the age of 10!
"But M--.."
"Rei."
"But--"
"REI." the girl repeated more firmly.
Serenity swallowed and finally relented. "But um...Rei," she began
hesitently, "You swore not to use that name! It's forbiden!"
Mars was looking at her strangely again.
"What?" she asked, trying to look dignified, as much as one could while
sitting in a bush.
"Uh, Serena, why are you dressed like Sleeping Beauty? Are you in a play
that I don't know about?"
"What are you talking about Mar-- Rei?! This is what I always wear! It's you
that's dressed funny...where's your senshi fuku?"
Another blank look.
"Oooook....I think we'd better go and see Ami, ok Sere?"
Serenity felt a slight comfort in Rei's use of her familiar nick name, and
stood to follow her.
"Oh, Serena? If, for -any- reason, you see Darien Shields, don't say a word
to him! Got it?"
"Um..sure." Serenity said, as Rei checked both ways down the street, before
leading her down a side road on the way to where Mercury, or rather Ami, was.
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will happen when Serenity meets the other 'senshi'? How about Serena and the
mysterious person that she's about to see? E-mail's an author's form of payment.
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Turn Back Time
2/?
PG-13
By Bunny-chan
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The solider stood by uncomfortably, not really sure what to do with the
strange maiden that he had just saved form certain disaster.
"Well, I have to take this basterd to be punished, Miss. Pardon my French."
The general was flustered, being 62 and single, he didn't have many dealings with
women and nicities and such.
"Do you have a place to go? Do you need to see a doctor or something?"
Serena took a shakey breath and manged to smile at the kind older man.
"I'll be fine, Sir...um...thanks again...I'll just..um, be on my way now."
Serena slung her bag over her shoulder and took a few steps forward, being sure to
steer clear of the man who had molested her. She wasn't really hurt physically,
only a few scratches, the man had only scared about 10 years off of her life.
Thanking the general again, Serena hurried on down the path.
she ordered herself as she walked quickly along the dim path, the pale
moonlight her only guide.
About 15 minutes down the lane Serena came into sight of a rather tall stone
wall. There were fires lighted on the top, and gaurds patroling the wall, but none
appeared to be on the ground. Slowly, she crept up to the gate and peered in. Again,
no-one. Keeping to the shadows, Serena made her way deeper into the grounds. Soon
she neared the door. Again, no gaurds?? That was strange, unless the huge house wasn't
as grand as it had looked. Well, why then where there patrols on the wall? Well either
way, she hoped that they would be able to provide some shelter for her for the duration
of the night.
Suddenly a heavy hand clamped down on her shoulder.
"What are you doing here?!" the man shouted, spinning Serena around.
She screamed...and promptly passed out.
****
Endymoin stomped out onto his balcany to see what all the racet was about.
He had just begun to fall alseep too. Looking down, he could see the head of the
guard yelling at a smaller figure in a black cloke. Moments later, the figure let
lose a distressed cry and seemed to melt into a puddle at the captian's feet. Endymoin
heavied a huge sigh and stomped back across his room, down the stairs, through the
main hall, and through the open front door.
"What's going on here Captain?" he demanded.
The Captain gave a short bow and then gestured toward Serena's fallen body.
"Just catching a peasent thieft, Your Majesty, I'll 'ave 'im taken care of."
Endymoin nodded and began to go back into the palace, then had a
second thought and turned half way back,
"Bring him in, I wish to speak to him in the morning. Maybe he'll know
something about the uprisings that my Father is so upset about."
"Of course, My Lord." The Captian replied, and giving another short bow,
scopped Serena's small body into his arms and carried her inside. He walked down
several flights of stone steps, into the dungen, and pulled a key from a ring on
his belt. Incerting it into a rusty lock, he pulled open a squeaky door and dumped
the limp body onto the damp rock floor. Then he shut the door with a clang and
left her. There was a dim torch burning across the isle, and a rat skittered by, but
Serena noticed none of this, as she was out cold until morning.
****
Serena awoke with a pounding headach. She remembered the events of the
past night with a shudder, and wished again that it had all just been a dream.
Of course, fate appeared to hate her and so, this time when she opened her eyes,
Serena found herself in a dirty prison cell with a trickle of water dripping down
the wall in a dark corner. A torch flickered across the hall through the bars.
She shivered.
"O.K. Serena, you escaped the thugs in the forest, you can get out of
here too." She told herself sternly. Of course, there was no kind night watchman
here to give her a hand this time. Serena supposed that the man, that she had met
by the doors last night, was another guard, one of the few that had been hidding
in the shadows waiting for unsuspecting people like her to scare and then throw
away into a dingy cell not unlike the one she found herself sitting in now. Upon
checking her watch, Serena was shocked to discover that it was only 6:02am!!
She streatched her body carefully, checking for broken...anything.... and
finding her arms and legs in working order, got to her feet and peered out down the
dark hallway.
Footsteps echoed down the hall and a pair of faint voices, one vaugely
familiar, drew near.
" 'e's in 'ere, My Lord."
Serena stepped back from the bars and drew her cloke around her body
tightly, pulling the hood over her head. She stepped farther back and nearly
blended into the shadows.
The man with the lantern stepped up to her cell and Serena had a strange
feeling of some exotic animal being inspected before purchese. The Captain turned
the lock and stepped into the cell. Serena pressed her back against the wall.
The Captain gestured for her to step into the light.
"Come forward, boy, show proper respect!!" he said, his voice commanding.
When she refused to come forward the Captain grabbed her arm, irritating the
scratches from the previous night and causing Serena to suck in her breath and bite
her lip, and threw her to the floor.
Serena let out a startled cry as she was shoved forward, and landed on her
hands and knees on the rough cobble stones. The force of the movement caused her
hood to come loose and it fell back to reveal her shiney blond hair.
Both men made surprised sounds.
"I thought you said that HE was a peasent thieft?" the deep voice said,
he appeared to be the one in charge.
"He-- er, she-- is, M'Lord. I caught hi- her last night, snooping around
the bushes near the south gate!"
Serena slowly lifted her head and started in surprise. The man standing
beside the Captain was none other then the irritating man that she had met in the
vallys the previous day!!
"Who are you?" She said softly, lifting her head to look him full in the
face-- and promptly got a kick in the stomach that knocked the breath from her
and sent her crashing down to land flat on her face.
There was a low curse and then the Captain was ordered out of the dungen.
Serena lay without moving on the ground, letting the cold seep into her
body. All her encounters with men the last few days had ended with some sort of
violence in her direction.
****
Endymoin stared at the girl curled on the floor in front of him. She was
the same stranger that he had met out riding yesterday! When she had lifted her head
to look him directly in the eye, forbidden for peasents and anyone of lower class to
do, he had been shocked at the revelation, and then when the head of the guard had
kicked her, forcing her into a submissive position, he had become angry! That feeling
shocked him even more. Why should he care about a simple peasent?
****
Serena tried to still her shaking body but couldn't. Shorty after the foot-
steps of the Captain had silenced, she heard a rustle of fabric and found her eyes
looking at the knees of the nobal, he was kneeling in front of her. He placed a hand
on her shoulder and Serena tensed and pulled back, scrambling to her feet and scooting
back from him.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean for this to happen, I didn't know that it was you."
Serena gazed deeply into his eyes, but still, she didn't trust him.
"If I ask who you are again, will you hit me?" She asked cautiously.
A smile seemed to flicker across the young nobal's face for a fraction of
a second before he answered, and Serena felt her defenses rise again, he found her
question funny?
"I'm glad to know my question's amuse you!" She said bitterly, then wished
that she could bite off her tounge as the man advanced toward her, backing her into
a corner. However, when she turned her face away from him, he didn't strike her,
instead he looked her directly into her eyes and spoke,
"I apologize, it's just that, where I'm from, persons of lower status aren't
allowed to look people of my station directly in the face. You didn't know and had
to pay the conciqueneces--what are these?" He suddenly broke off, grabbing her arm
and pulling it into the light, exposing the marks on her arm.
Serena glared at him, "You were right, Mr. Know-It-All, I didn't last
the night."
Endymoin stared at her, just what was she talking about?
"What are you talking about, girl?" he demanded.
"My name's Serena!!" Serena broke in, trying to pull her hand free, but
his grip was too tight. Tears welled up in her eyes.
As the girl struggled, her cloke fell back and he could see the dirt smudges
on her clothes and the bruise on her cheek, there was the faint smell of alcohol
on her too. A thought made it's way slowly to his lips,
"Where did you sleep last night?" he asked slowly.
Glaring at him, Serena refused to answer.
"I asked you a question gir-- Serena!" He said, his voice rising, then he
realized that his temper was obviously scaring her, and lowered it,
"Where did you stay?" he asked again, this time in a slightly gentler voice.
"I attempted to sleep in the woods outside the village, but..." she trailed
off.
"What happened?" Endyomoin asked softly, releasing her arm, the marks on
her body were starting to draw a none-to-pleasent conclusion in his mind.
"But one can hardly sleep when the village men find her a some-what
attractive play-thing, now can they?" Serena said, attempting to make her words
sound sarcastic, but failed miserbly as tears spilled down her face again.
Serena berated herself.
So it was true then...
"Then they...did they...?" Endymion tried to voice the aweful words but
Serena answered for him.
"Two of them ran off, but one of them stayed...he...he tried to...to force
me to...but then the police man --law person-- whoever, came, and took him away.
I left, and figured that I might be able to get a room or something in this house,
but the next thing I knew I'm waking up in a little stone room and I just want to go
home!!!" She wailed, trying to brush away her tears, fumbling in her bag, which had
miraculously made it's way to the dungen cell with her, for a klenex to blow her nose
with.
"Three men...Gods..." Endymoin muttered to himself, "But he didn't succed,
did he?" He asked, his voice choked.
"No." Serena said quietly.
"I'm so sorry...Miss...uh,Serena...I shouldn't have left you out there...alone
...I didn't follow through with my duty. I will have a bath and clothes prepared for
you in the upstairs chambers!"
Serena stared at him. He seemed genuinely concerned about her wellfare.
Well, seeing as she didn't really have a choice about trusting him or not, and the
fact that she was dying to scrub her body clean of the horrible man's touch, she
smiled and stood.
"Thank-you, um...you still haven't told me your name." She said with a hint
of mischief in her voice, as she started to relax somewhat.
"It's not imortant." Endymoin said abruptly, a turning away.
Serena's smile disappeared; her face clouded as her defences shot back up.
Apparently the man wasn't as friendly as she had thought.
Endymoin felt instant regret for making her upset again, but refused
to let her know it.
"Come with me."
He led her upstairs, stopping only once to give orders to a servent girl.
****
Serena relaxed in the bubble bath, sighing. She felt better now that she
had washed herself. He thoughts oriented on the beautiful mirrors and candles that
lighted the room. The walls were decorated in white with gold trim, and there were
vases of flowers decorating the window sills and tables. White lilies and yellow
dafadills, to compliment the color sceme of course.
Rising, she dried herself and pulled on a whispy robe that a servent girl
had laid out for her, then went into the ajoining bedroom where a magnificant gown
had been left on the bed for her. The servent girl helped her into it, and then
stepped back to let Serena admire herself in a nearby full length mirror.
The dress was pink. The bodice was dark pink valvet, with a heart shape
pattern, rounded at the top, narrowing as it slimed down into her waist skirts.
It was laced up the front, to give it a kind of 'corcet' look. The 3 inch, sleaves
were pink and sheer, hanging off her shoulders in whispy layers. Her skirt
was a slightly darker pink, and had the same sheer material layered over top.
The servent girl had given her a pinkish, ruby, heart shaped pendent that hung
on a delicate gold chain, resting on her coller bone.
Serena found that her hair had dried for the most part and the servent
girl stepped forward to brush it until its normal golden sheen returned. Serena
then put her hair back up in it's original style and the maid placed a pink rose
bud, from a nearby vase, in her right bun. Then she added a delicate gold tiara,
set with a small pink/red ruby in the center.
Serena smiled, she really felt like a princess now.
"Thank you so much. The dress is beautiful!"
The maid smiled, then curtsied and left the room, without speaking a word.
There was a knock at the door and Serena hurried to answer it.
****
HONK!!!!! Zoooooom!!!!
Serenity stumbled back, nearly getting her dainty foot run over by one of
the loud carriges as it rushed past her. Just where in the galexy was she? One
moment she was walking through a field, somewhere on Earth, and the next she was
in this strange land where people dressed strange and carriges ran without horses!
Suddenly an angel appeared. Not one with wings, but one with long purplish
hair, wearing white jeans and a red tank top.
****
Rei wistled to herself, as she miandered down the mostly empty street, on
her way to visit Andrew at the arcade. It had been a quiet day for the most part,
she hadn't seen any of the girls, and so expected them, Serena at least, to be
chowing down on milkshakes while trying to drool over Andrew without him noticing.
Suddenly a blond blur rushed across the street, narrowly missing getting
run over by a car. The waving figure had Serena's trademark hairstyle, but her
clothing was strange. What was she wearing...a nightgown???
****
Serenity ran at full speed down the street, waving frantically to her
friend.
"Mars!!" She shouted joyfully, as she drew near. Mars turned to face
her, and her eyes grew wide. The next thing Serenity knew, she was sitting in a
bush!
****
"Mars!" Serena hollered she got closer.
Rei froze. What the devil was wrong with that girl? Looking around quickly,
to make sure no one was around to hear Serena blabbing their secrets to the world,
Rei grabbed the smaller girl and hulled her into the bushes!
Before Serena could protest, Rei clamped a hand over her mouth and hissed
in her ear,
"What's the matter with you, Serena? You should know better then to shout
that for the world to hear! What if a youma was snooping nearby???"
Serenity stared at her friend in bewilderment. Why was Mars mad at her?
"Ma--." She started to ask, but Rei cut her off.
"REI! Don't say that name when I'm not in senshi form! For the love of Pete
Serena, what's wrong with you? Did you hit your head?"
Serenity was confused. It was forbiden to call the senshi by their real names!
In fact, they had sworn an oath not to use those names again when they had given
their lives to protect her at the age of 10!
"But M--.."
"Rei."
"But--"
"REI." the girl repeated more firmly.
Serenity swallowed and finally relented. "But um...Rei," she began
hesitently, "You swore not to use that name! It's forbiden!"
Mars was looking at her strangely again.
"What?" she asked, trying to look dignified, as much as one could while
sitting in a bush.
"Uh, Serena, why are you dressed like Sleeping Beauty? Are you in a play
that I don't know about?"
"What are you talking about Mar-- Rei?! This is what I always wear! It's you
that's dressed funny...where's your senshi fuku?"
Another blank look.
"Oooook....I think we'd better go and see Ami, ok Sere?"
Serenity felt a slight comfort in Rei's use of her familiar nick name, and
stood to follow her.
"Oh, Serena? If, for -any- reason, you see Darien Shields, don't say a word
to him! Got it?"
"Um..sure." Serenity said, as Rei checked both ways down the street, before
leading her down a side road on the way to where Mercury, or rather Ami, was.
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Well, is that enough of a plot twist for ya? *smile smile* Wonder what
will happen when Serenity meets the other 'senshi'? How about Serena and the
mysterious person that she's about to see? E-mail's an author's form of payment.
angels_melody19@hotmail.com ^-^