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Turn Back Time
3/?
PG-13
By Bunny-chan
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Rei led Serena up streets and down allys until they got to the
apartment block where Ami lived. Hoping that she would be home, Rei took
Serena by the arm and herded her into the elevater, shooting her a 'look'
when she made as if to comment on the contraption that they were riding in.
They had nearly met with disaster when Rei had begun to lead, the
crazier then usual, Serena down the street that led up to Ami's apartment.
Darien had been wakling down the street toward them, but just as he had
opened his mouth to call out an insult, or something, to Serena, Rei wisked
her into the building and then into the elevater. It would be just her luck
if Darien found out that they were the sailor senshi.
The elevator dinged as it reached the 12th floor and the doors swung
open. Serenity was amazed at the moving box. It would be very usesful back
in the moon palace. She never had liked climbing all those stairs.
Mars led her down a long hallway then stopped at a door at the far
end. She knocked twice then waited. Shortly the door opened and Mercury
appeared. She too was dressed strangely.
****
Ami heard someone knocking and put down her textbook. When she
opened the door there stood Rei with an iron grip on Serena. Ami did a
double take at Serena's outfit.
"Um, Serena...nice...um..dress. Are you in a play?"
Serenity gave her the same odd look that she had given Mars.
"Of course not Mercu--!" she started in, and Mars suddenly shoved
her forward, into the small dweling where Mercury resided, and slamed the
door, effectively cutting her off.
"Hey! What's going on??" She demanded, as Mars shut and bolted the
door. Mercury was giving her a penetrating gaze, as if she could see into
her soul.
"Please sit down, Rei, Serena..." Ami said, gesturing to her black
leather sofa. The girls sat. Ami looked at Rei expectently,
"I assume that you have an explanation for Serena's behaviour, Rei?"
Ami asked as she joined them, sitting in a matching leather arm chair, near
the balcony.
Rei gave her a weary look. "Well, I was hoping you cuold tell me,
Ami-chan. I was walking toward the arcade when she," she pointed to Serena,
"Suddenly appeared out of no where and started running down the street calling
me by my senshi name!!" Rei said, her voice lowered as she related the last
part of the information.
Ami nodded thoughtfully, taking out a small computer. She pressed a
few buttoms and then waved it in front of Serenity's face and down her body.
"Hey, what's going on?" Serenity complained, as the computer beeped
at her. Rei gave her a small smile,
"Nothing to worry about, Meatball head."
Serenity glanced at Mars and then at Mercury. They waited.
Suddenly Ami paled considerably, and the little computer fell from
her hands to land on the thick blue carpet with a thud.
Rei jumped up, "What's the matter Ami??" She cried frantically.
Ami looked up at her, her face white. "Rei, you'd better call the
others..."
****
A handsome young solider stood in front of her. He reported that she
was to be brought to the throan room as soon as she was ready. Serena blushed
under his hungry gaze, as his eyes raked over her body.
"Of course, I'm ready." She said, hurrying past him, so that he only
got a look at her back, not that that was all that much better. Trying not to
blush, she waited for the guard to join her.
"Lead the way!" she said, giving the hallway a grand sweep with her
right arm, and allowing him to pass her.
They walked down several long halls, dimly lighted with oil lamps, and
stopped before two tall doors, painted white, with fancy carvings on them. The
guard rapped twice and they swung open. Across the room, seated on two fancy
chairs, sat a richy garbed man and woman. Crowns sat on their heads.
Serena felt her heart start to pound again. Had she stumbled upon a
palace? She wondered where the young man, that had spoken with her in what
she assumed was a sort of dungen, was.
Suddenly, she saw him. Standing off to the side, speaking with another
man that appeared to be a sort of high status servent. At the doorman's cough,
the royals turned their attention toward the door.
"Announcing Her highness, Princess Serenity, presented to their Royal
Magisties King Omorious and Queen Vashti, and his Royal Highness Prince Endymoin."
with that the solider retreated back out and the other guards closed the doors
behind him.
****
"Come here, child." The Queen said, raising a gloved hand to becken her
closer. At this point Endymoin finished talking with the servent and turned to
face them.
****
Endymoin froze at the announcement. Princess Serenity? Now? Here? But he
wasn't supposed to meet her for another week!
The girl, Serena, as she had called herself, was walking forward slowly,
her eyes wide and her hands clasped in front of her. Wait, what had the servent
said? 'Princess?' Was -she- supposed to be his-- he cut the thought short, it must
be some mistake.
Her face was void of any emotion, but her body trembled slightly. She
walked up to the foot of the 5 flat steps that led up to the twin throans and
curtsied nervously. The little wretch of a girl, that had only had traces of what
might have been pretty features, now looked breathtakingly beautiful!! Of course,
Endymoin's face never showed a hint of this, he stayed completely nutral.
****
Serena was confused. Had the man just called her a 'Princess'? She
supposed that she looked the part, in these clothes at least, but still...
She walked forward and, when she reached the bottom of the steps, she
stopped. What was it she was supposed to do now? She hardly thought the King
and Queen would respond well to a handshake, and, although it was custom in
Tokyo, she didn't think that women of this place bowed. Of course! Curtsy!
Trying to look graceful, Serena spread the folds of her beautiful skirt and
crossed her right foot behind her left, as she lowered her body slowly and down
then up again, keeping her eyes on the floor.
Glancing up, she noticed the young man, that had had his back to her, had
finished his conversation with the serevent and had dismissed him. He turned to
face her.
Serena's mouth dropped open when she recognized him as the man from the
dungen. He was a Prince??? She started to shake slightly. She had no idea what
she had gotten herself into. She wondered what he would do to her after the way
that she had spoken to him...she had no clue as to royal protical and was sure
that she had somehow offended him. He would probably have her beheaded.
The young prince, Endymoin, looked dashing in his black pants and black,
blue, and gold tunic. He wore tall black boots, recently polished, a black cape,
with a red silk lining, that hung off his broad shoulders, and a familiar sword at
his waist.
Taking a deep breath, Serena forced herself to turn away from him, and
straightened before the King and Queen.
"Um, it's an honour to meet you both." She said said, a quiver in her
voice.
The Queen smiled at her, "And a pleasure to meet you as well, my dear.
This is our son, Endymoin." She gestured to her left.
Endymoin gave her a warning glance, not to let on that they had met
before, then stepped into the light and up to where she stood. He took her
right hand, and lifted it to his lips,
"The pleasure is all mine." He said huskily, kissing her hand.
Serena blushed like a fire engine, and Endymoin choked back a laugh.
The girl really was innocent.
The Queen addressed them again, "Endymoin, perhaps you'd like to take
our guest for a walk in the gardens?"
Endymoin nodded at her, "Of course, Mother." Then he held out an arm
towrad Serena. Serena stared at him, confused, until he gently took her elbow
and guided her out of the room.
As they were leaving, Serena heard snatches of the conversation that the
King and Queen were having in low voices.
"It's curious that her mother didn't accompany her, don't you think
dear? And what about her guards....?" then they entered the hallway, and Serena
didn't hear the rest of what they were saying.
****
She didn't say anything until they left the palace and entered a garden
that would have made her mother's garden back home wilt with shame. Endymoin led
her down a stone pathway, and through a rose garden.
Finally, Serena stopped walking. Endymoin stopped too, and looked at her,
an eyebrow raised.
"Is something wrong, Princess?"
Serena gave him a raised eyebrow of her own, and turned so that she was
standing directly in front of him, her hands on her hips.
"Ok, first off, why is everyone calling me Princess, why didn't you tell
me that you were some kind of royalty, and what's the year here, anyways?!"
Serena snapped at him.
Endymion swallowed another smile at the sight that the small girl made,
why she barely made it up to his shoulders, as she demanded answers from him.
However, he wasn't exactly sure how to answer them.
He had been as surprised as she when he had learned that she was the
Princess of the Moon Kingdom, having been informed shortly after Serenity had
entered the bathing chamber, by Kunzite, one of his guards. He also knew that
he was liable to start a war, if word ever got out that he had abandonded her,
to the night ruffins of the village, instead of seeing her safely home.
"I apologize for not having know that it was you, Princess, but I wasn't
supposed to meet you until the engagement ball, next week, and you have to admit
that you didn't exactly look yourself these last few days."
Serena's jaw dropped, had he just said 'engagement'?
"This is getting beyond strange...." She said softly, turning her gaze
to a nearby rose bush. A white butterfly landed on a pink rose and stayed for
only a moment before moving on.
Endymoin sighed, and put a hand on her shoulder. Serena shiverd,
dispite the warmth of the noonday sun. Endymoin withdrew his hand.
"Perhaps we'd better sit down..." He said, and led Serena to a carved,
marble, bench. They sat, and Serena lifted her head slowly, feeling a headach
coming on,
"So start explaining." She said.
****
A few minutes late Rei had finished calling Mina and Lita on her communicator,
and turned back to the living room where Ami was quietly asking Serena questions.
"Serena, what were you doing this moring, just before you met Rei?"
Serena looked thoughtful, the replied that she had been talking a walk in
the gardens.
Rei shoke her head, a walk yes, in gardens no. Try main street Tokyo. She
entered the small kitchenette, opened a cuboard, took out a white kettle, and began
to prepare some tea.
****
--Beeeeeeeep!!! Beeeeeeep!--
Serenity jumped at the loud sound, but Mercury and Mars seemed unconcerned.
Mars walked over to a small box on the wall and pressed a button, then she spoke
into it,
"Hai?"
Static and then 2 voices..no..3? shouting at once,
"Rei, what's going on? Open the door for pete's sake!!" That sounded
like Venus.
" Hey girl, what's up? Why's Serena acting so wacky was there a you-- oh,
uh, hi Darien..." That one was deffinetly Jupiter.
"What's going on girls? Having a party without me?" came a deep maculine
voice.
Silence, as Mars and Mercury exchanged horrified looks.
"Darien? What's -he- doing here?" Rei hissed at Ami, before pressing
the buttom to speak to the girls again.
"Come on up..." she said, looking helplessly at the others. In two seconds
Ami had grabbed Serena's arm, dragged her into her bedroom and slammed the door.
Rei stared at the door to Ami's apartment and prayed that Darien wouldn't
come up too. In less then a minute the sound of pounding feet echoed down the hall,
then the door burst open and there stood 3 people. Mina, wearing white jeans and
an orange tank top, her hair up in a pony-tail, looking flushed from the run
over, Lita, wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt, her hair in a pony-tail
as well, and the dreaded third figure, Darien, in his black pants and shirt, and trade
mark green jacket. He gave her a lop sided grin,
"So, are you going to tell me what's going on Rei, or do I have to force
it out of one of you?"
Rei looked at him nervously, she had dated Darien for a few months, but
had recently broken up with him when a pang in her heart informed her that he
wasn't meant for her.
"Hi girls, Darien, please have a seat." she gesutred to the living room,
and they walked past her, "Would you like some tea?"
As she was pouring tea into 6 cups, Ami and Serema joined them. Rei
nearly spilled her tea at the work that Ami had done to Serena. Serena now wore
a long white skirt, with a slit up the side, and a pink tanktop. White and pink
flip flops were on her feet and a pink scarf was tied around her waist. At first
Rei was at a loss as to where Ami had gotten such clothes, then remembered that
they each had a stash of supplies at each other's houses in case of a senshi emergency.
While she passed out the tea, she noticed Darien's suprised, and then immpressed,
gaze at Serena, from across the room. She felt her heart tug slightly at what might
have been, but she squealched the thought quickly, first of all this was no time to
be thinking about ex-boyfriends, and second of all, it was obvious fromt the start,
that Darien was in love with Serena, even if he didn't know it yet.
Ami sat beside Serena on the love seat and Rei took a pillow on the floor.
The room was silent, until Ami finially spoke,
"So Darien, what brings you here?" she asked pointedly.
Darien seemed to shrink slightly under the smaller girl's gaze. Ami could
be downright scary when she wanted to be, and right now she was irritated.
"Well, the girls seemed in such a rush to get up here that I wanted to
know what all the fuss was about. When they wouldn't tell me....I followed them
up."
Ami stared him down, and he finished his statement weakly.
"Well, as you can see, this is only a simple study group, and we
don't require your services for that, Darien." Ami replied, picking up her
tea cup and taking a sip.
Rei was impressed, at the rate that Ami was going, Darien would be out of
there in no time!
However, Darien countered her, not believing the fact that the excitement
Mina and Lita had been in upon arriving at the apartment block, had had anything to
do with a 'simple study group'.
"Well, I'm in college and I'm sure that whatever you girls are studying, I
can help you with it," he took a sip and looked cooly at Ami, "What -is- it that
you're studying?"
Ami faultered, but Serena, who had been watching the whole exchange
silently, while trying not to let her legs show, (why in Selean's name, had she
allowed Mercury to dress her like this amyways?) stepped in then,
"Um, cooking?" she suggested softly, knowing that men where she was from
wouldn't be caught dead in a kitchen.
Darien raised an eyebrow, turing to look at her, and Serenity blushed.
Venus jumped in then, distracting the strange man from Serenity, waving a pathetic
attempt at cross-stitch in the air,
"And sewing!!" she said, brightly.
Darien's second eyebrow joined the first.
"Cooking and Sewing? Ami, you're helping them with this?"
"Of course not," Jupiter jumped in, "I'm doing the cooking lessons
and Rei's doing the sewing."
Darien turned to look at Mars, his eyes narrowed.
However, Mars feilded the ball nicely, "Of course, Darien, I have to
patch things all the time at the shrine. Grampa has a fit if any of my priestess
robes have a hole or anything in them, you ought to know that." She leveled an
icey gaze at him.
Darien stood then, and Serenity feared that Mars' heated temper would get
the better of her and she would scoarch him with a fireball. But the man didn't
press her, instead raised his hands in defeat and backtoward the door,
"Ok, ok. I'm convinced." he said, obviously not so, and opened the door,
"But I will find out somehow, what's going on here." and Serenity could sense a
hidden meaning in his words, that confused her. Something about this man seemed
familiar.
Jupiter followed him to the door, then locked it behind him, before re-joining
the group. Then Venus and herself both turned to Mercury.
"Ok, what's the deal?"
Ami turned a warmhearted gaze to her friend and tried to explain, "Well,
it would appear that there was some sort of soul displacment with twentyth-century
Serena and the past Princess, which leads me to believe that--"
Blank stare.
Rei turned to the girl with the long auburn pony-tail, "Lita, to put that
in plain Japanese, Ami thinks that Serena and Princess Serenity's were switched."
"The Princess? B-but, Serena's the--"
Ami nodded, and Lita's mouth fell open. Mina's followed suit.
"Quit gapping like a fish and help me figure out how to switch them
back." Rei snapped.
Ami placed a hand on her shoulder, "I'm not sure we can, Rei."
Now Rei flounded, "What do you -mean- you're not sure?" she sputtered,
"There's no way that we can leave the Princess -here- in Tokyo! The whole world
could end!"
--beep...beep...beep--
Four heads turned simutaniously to look at four coulorful watches with
gold stars on their tops.
Four mouths dropped open.
Four colorful curses were uttered in their breath.
Serenity was confused...
"This -can't- be happening..." Rei whispered.
It registered with the others seconds later. With the Princess that
they were sworn to protect suddenly with them in the middle of monster-infested
Tokyo they could hardly leave her alone, but they also might not be able to beat
any youma that Queen Beryl might throw at them without Sailormoon!
"There's no choice then," Ami said, and took out her computer. She pressed
a few buttons, then let it beep at Serenity again.
Moments later Serenity felt strange, like water was being poured over her,
but she wasn't getting wet. When she opened her eyes, she still looked the same,
but the others were staring at her and then back at Ami.
Ami nodded shortly, then pulled out her transformation pen.
The others followed suit, and Serenity heard the same four familiar
transformation phrases that she had heard on occasion at the Moon Palace.
"Mercury Star Power!"
"Mars Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!"
"Jupiter Star Power!"
Now her guards looked familiar and Serenity felt slightly safter, but they
also had on their familiar battle expressions.
"Um, Mercury?" She questioned.
The girl in the blue sailor fuku turned to face her, "Yes, sailormoon?"
Serenity blanched, what had she said? She wasn't supposed to be a sailor
senshi! She looked down at herself, but she was still waring the strange white
skirt and pink top. She didn't resemble the others at all.
Mercury gave her a small smile,
"I put a digital discise on you, Princess, you now look like Sailormoon,
which you were in this time, to everyone except yourself."
The others' confused expressions cleared at this revelation, and Mercury
continued.
"We have to fight now, and if Sailormoon wasn't among us, then out enemies
would know that something was wrong. You don't have to fight, just stay near us so
that we can fool them into thinking that nothing's wrong."
Jupiter opened the balcany door, and they prepared to jump off the ledge.
"Sailormoon" shook her head, "No way am I jumping off of there! I'll splat
like an egg!"
Rei laughed, she sounded just like Serena had when she first learned about
being Sailormoon. Jupiter scooped Serenity up in her arms, and with a laughing,
"Better close your eyes, Princess!", lept from the window. Serenity screamed.
****
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Turn Back Time
3/?
PG-13
By Bunny-chan
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Rei led Serena up streets and down allys until they got to the
apartment block where Ami lived. Hoping that she would be home, Rei took
Serena by the arm and herded her into the elevater, shooting her a 'look'
when she made as if to comment on the contraption that they were riding in.
They had nearly met with disaster when Rei had begun to lead, the
crazier then usual, Serena down the street that led up to Ami's apartment.
Darien had been wakling down the street toward them, but just as he had
opened his mouth to call out an insult, or something, to Serena, Rei wisked
her into the building and then into the elevater. It would be just her luck
if Darien found out that they were the sailor senshi.
The elevator dinged as it reached the 12th floor and the doors swung
open. Serenity was amazed at the moving box. It would be very usesful back
in the moon palace. She never had liked climbing all those stairs.
Mars led her down a long hallway then stopped at a door at the far
end. She knocked twice then waited. Shortly the door opened and Mercury
appeared. She too was dressed strangely.
****
Ami heard someone knocking and put down her textbook. When she
opened the door there stood Rei with an iron grip on Serena. Ami did a
double take at Serena's outfit.
"Um, Serena...nice...um..dress. Are you in a play?"
Serenity gave her the same odd look that she had given Mars.
"Of course not Mercu--!" she started in, and Mars suddenly shoved
her forward, into the small dweling where Mercury resided, and slamed the
door, effectively cutting her off.
"Hey! What's going on??" She demanded, as Mars shut and bolted the
door. Mercury was giving her a penetrating gaze, as if she could see into
her soul.
"Please sit down, Rei, Serena..." Ami said, gesturing to her black
leather sofa. The girls sat. Ami looked at Rei expectently,
"I assume that you have an explanation for Serena's behaviour, Rei?"
Ami asked as she joined them, sitting in a matching leather arm chair, near
the balcony.
Rei gave her a weary look. "Well, I was hoping you cuold tell me,
Ami-chan. I was walking toward the arcade when she," she pointed to Serena,
"Suddenly appeared out of no where and started running down the street calling
me by my senshi name!!" Rei said, her voice lowered as she related the last
part of the information.
Ami nodded thoughtfully, taking out a small computer. She pressed a
few buttoms and then waved it in front of Serenity's face and down her body.
"Hey, what's going on?" Serenity complained, as the computer beeped
at her. Rei gave her a small smile,
"Nothing to worry about, Meatball head."
Serenity glanced at Mars and then at Mercury. They waited.
Suddenly Ami paled considerably, and the little computer fell from
her hands to land on the thick blue carpet with a thud.
Rei jumped up, "What's the matter Ami??" She cried frantically.
Ami looked up at her, her face white. "Rei, you'd better call the
others..."
****
A handsome young solider stood in front of her. He reported that she
was to be brought to the throan room as soon as she was ready. Serena blushed
under his hungry gaze, as his eyes raked over her body.
"Of course, I'm ready." She said, hurrying past him, so that he only
got a look at her back, not that that was all that much better. Trying not to
blush, she waited for the guard to join her.
"Lead the way!" she said, giving the hallway a grand sweep with her
right arm, and allowing him to pass her.
They walked down several long halls, dimly lighted with oil lamps, and
stopped before two tall doors, painted white, with fancy carvings on them. The
guard rapped twice and they swung open. Across the room, seated on two fancy
chairs, sat a richy garbed man and woman. Crowns sat on their heads.
Serena felt her heart start to pound again. Had she stumbled upon a
palace? She wondered where the young man, that had spoken with her in what
she assumed was a sort of dungen, was.
Suddenly, she saw him. Standing off to the side, speaking with another
man that appeared to be a sort of high status servent. At the doorman's cough,
the royals turned their attention toward the door.
"Announcing Her highness, Princess Serenity, presented to their Royal
Magisties King Omorious and Queen Vashti, and his Royal Highness Prince Endymoin."
with that the solider retreated back out and the other guards closed the doors
behind him.
****
"Come here, child." The Queen said, raising a gloved hand to becken her
closer. At this point Endymoin finished talking with the servent and turned to
face them.
****
Endymoin froze at the announcement. Princess Serenity? Now? Here? But he
wasn't supposed to meet her for another week!
The girl, Serena, as she had called herself, was walking forward slowly,
her eyes wide and her hands clasped in front of her. Wait, what had the servent
said? 'Princess?' Was -she- supposed to be his-- he cut the thought short, it must
be some mistake.
Her face was void of any emotion, but her body trembled slightly. She
walked up to the foot of the 5 flat steps that led up to the twin throans and
curtsied nervously. The little wretch of a girl, that had only had traces of what
might have been pretty features, now looked breathtakingly beautiful!! Of course,
Endymoin's face never showed a hint of this, he stayed completely nutral.
****
Serena was confused. Had the man just called her a 'Princess'? She
supposed that she looked the part, in these clothes at least, but still...
She walked forward and, when she reached the bottom of the steps, she
stopped. What was it she was supposed to do now? She hardly thought the King
and Queen would respond well to a handshake, and, although it was custom in
Tokyo, she didn't think that women of this place bowed. Of course! Curtsy!
Trying to look graceful, Serena spread the folds of her beautiful skirt and
crossed her right foot behind her left, as she lowered her body slowly and down
then up again, keeping her eyes on the floor.
Glancing up, she noticed the young man, that had had his back to her, had
finished his conversation with the serevent and had dismissed him. He turned to
face her.
Serena's mouth dropped open when she recognized him as the man from the
dungen. He was a Prince??? She started to shake slightly. She had no idea what
she had gotten herself into. She wondered what he would do to her after the way
that she had spoken to him...she had no clue as to royal protical and was sure
that she had somehow offended him. He would probably have her beheaded.
The young prince, Endymoin, looked dashing in his black pants and black,
blue, and gold tunic. He wore tall black boots, recently polished, a black cape,
with a red silk lining, that hung off his broad shoulders, and a familiar sword at
his waist.
Taking a deep breath, Serena forced herself to turn away from him, and
straightened before the King and Queen.
"Um, it's an honour to meet you both." She said said, a quiver in her
voice.
The Queen smiled at her, "And a pleasure to meet you as well, my dear.
This is our son, Endymoin." She gestured to her left.
Endymoin gave her a warning glance, not to let on that they had met
before, then stepped into the light and up to where she stood. He took her
right hand, and lifted it to his lips,
"The pleasure is all mine." He said huskily, kissing her hand.
Serena blushed like a fire engine, and Endymoin choked back a laugh.
The girl really was innocent.
The Queen addressed them again, "Endymoin, perhaps you'd like to take
our guest for a walk in the gardens?"
Endymoin nodded at her, "Of course, Mother." Then he held out an arm
towrad Serena. Serena stared at him, confused, until he gently took her elbow
and guided her out of the room.
As they were leaving, Serena heard snatches of the conversation that the
King and Queen were having in low voices.
"It's curious that her mother didn't accompany her, don't you think
dear? And what about her guards....?" then they entered the hallway, and Serena
didn't hear the rest of what they were saying.
****
She didn't say anything until they left the palace and entered a garden
that would have made her mother's garden back home wilt with shame. Endymoin led
her down a stone pathway, and through a rose garden.
Finally, Serena stopped walking. Endymoin stopped too, and looked at her,
an eyebrow raised.
"Is something wrong, Princess?"
Serena gave him a raised eyebrow of her own, and turned so that she was
standing directly in front of him, her hands on her hips.
"Ok, first off, why is everyone calling me Princess, why didn't you tell
me that you were some kind of royalty, and what's the year here, anyways?!"
Serena snapped at him.
Endymion swallowed another smile at the sight that the small girl made,
why she barely made it up to his shoulders, as she demanded answers from him.
However, he wasn't exactly sure how to answer them.
He had been as surprised as she when he had learned that she was the
Princess of the Moon Kingdom, having been informed shortly after Serenity had
entered the bathing chamber, by Kunzite, one of his guards. He also knew that
he was liable to start a war, if word ever got out that he had abandonded her,
to the night ruffins of the village, instead of seeing her safely home.
"I apologize for not having know that it was you, Princess, but I wasn't
supposed to meet you until the engagement ball, next week, and you have to admit
that you didn't exactly look yourself these last few days."
Serena's jaw dropped, had he just said 'engagement'?
"This is getting beyond strange...." She said softly, turning her gaze
to a nearby rose bush. A white butterfly landed on a pink rose and stayed for
only a moment before moving on.
Endymoin sighed, and put a hand on her shoulder. Serena shiverd,
dispite the warmth of the noonday sun. Endymoin withdrew his hand.
"Perhaps we'd better sit down..." He said, and led Serena to a carved,
marble, bench. They sat, and Serena lifted her head slowly, feeling a headach
coming on,
"So start explaining." She said.
****
A few minutes late Rei had finished calling Mina and Lita on her communicator,
and turned back to the living room where Ami was quietly asking Serena questions.
"Serena, what were you doing this moring, just before you met Rei?"
Serena looked thoughtful, the replied that she had been talking a walk in
the gardens.
Rei shoke her head, a walk yes, in gardens no. Try main street Tokyo. She
entered the small kitchenette, opened a cuboard, took out a white kettle, and began
to prepare some tea.
****
--Beeeeeeeep!!! Beeeeeeep!--
Serenity jumped at the loud sound, but Mercury and Mars seemed unconcerned.
Mars walked over to a small box on the wall and pressed a button, then she spoke
into it,
"Hai?"
Static and then 2 voices..no..3? shouting at once,
"Rei, what's going on? Open the door for pete's sake!!" That sounded
like Venus.
" Hey girl, what's up? Why's Serena acting so wacky was there a you-- oh,
uh, hi Darien..." That one was deffinetly Jupiter.
"What's going on girls? Having a party without me?" came a deep maculine
voice.
Silence, as Mars and Mercury exchanged horrified looks.
"Darien? What's -he- doing here?" Rei hissed at Ami, before pressing
the buttom to speak to the girls again.
"Come on up..." she said, looking helplessly at the others. In two seconds
Ami had grabbed Serena's arm, dragged her into her bedroom and slammed the door.
Rei stared at the door to Ami's apartment and prayed that Darien wouldn't
come up too. In less then a minute the sound of pounding feet echoed down the hall,
then the door burst open and there stood 3 people. Mina, wearing white jeans and
an orange tank top, her hair up in a pony-tail, looking flushed from the run
over, Lita, wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt, her hair in a pony-tail
as well, and the dreaded third figure, Darien, in his black pants and shirt, and trade
mark green jacket. He gave her a lop sided grin,
"So, are you going to tell me what's going on Rei, or do I have to force
it out of one of you?"
Rei looked at him nervously, she had dated Darien for a few months, but
had recently broken up with him when a pang in her heart informed her that he
wasn't meant for her.
"Hi girls, Darien, please have a seat." she gesutred to the living room,
and they walked past her, "Would you like some tea?"
As she was pouring tea into 6 cups, Ami and Serema joined them. Rei
nearly spilled her tea at the work that Ami had done to Serena. Serena now wore
a long white skirt, with a slit up the side, and a pink tanktop. White and pink
flip flops were on her feet and a pink scarf was tied around her waist. At first
Rei was at a loss as to where Ami had gotten such clothes, then remembered that
they each had a stash of supplies at each other's houses in case of a senshi emergency.
While she passed out the tea, she noticed Darien's suprised, and then immpressed,
gaze at Serena, from across the room. She felt her heart tug slightly at what might
have been, but she squealched the thought quickly, first of all this was no time to
be thinking about ex-boyfriends, and second of all, it was obvious fromt the start,
that Darien was in love with Serena, even if he didn't know it yet.
Ami sat beside Serena on the love seat and Rei took a pillow on the floor.
The room was silent, until Ami finially spoke,
"So Darien, what brings you here?" she asked pointedly.
Darien seemed to shrink slightly under the smaller girl's gaze. Ami could
be downright scary when she wanted to be, and right now she was irritated.
"Well, the girls seemed in such a rush to get up here that I wanted to
know what all the fuss was about. When they wouldn't tell me....I followed them
up."
Ami stared him down, and he finished his statement weakly.
"Well, as you can see, this is only a simple study group, and we
don't require your services for that, Darien." Ami replied, picking up her
tea cup and taking a sip.
Rei was impressed, at the rate that Ami was going, Darien would be out of
there in no time!
However, Darien countered her, not believing the fact that the excitement
Mina and Lita had been in upon arriving at the apartment block, had had anything to
do with a 'simple study group'.
"Well, I'm in college and I'm sure that whatever you girls are studying, I
can help you with it," he took a sip and looked cooly at Ami, "What -is- it that
you're studying?"
Ami faultered, but Serena, who had been watching the whole exchange
silently, while trying not to let her legs show, (why in Selean's name, had she
allowed Mercury to dress her like this amyways?) stepped in then,
"Um, cooking?" she suggested softly, knowing that men where she was from
wouldn't be caught dead in a kitchen.
Darien raised an eyebrow, turing to look at her, and Serenity blushed.
Venus jumped in then, distracting the strange man from Serenity, waving a pathetic
attempt at cross-stitch in the air,
"And sewing!!" she said, brightly.
Darien's second eyebrow joined the first.
"Cooking and Sewing? Ami, you're helping them with this?"
"Of course not," Jupiter jumped in, "I'm doing the cooking lessons
and Rei's doing the sewing."
Darien turned to look at Mars, his eyes narrowed.
However, Mars feilded the ball nicely, "Of course, Darien, I have to
patch things all the time at the shrine. Grampa has a fit if any of my priestess
robes have a hole or anything in them, you ought to know that." She leveled an
icey gaze at him.
Darien stood then, and Serenity feared that Mars' heated temper would get
the better of her and she would scoarch him with a fireball. But the man didn't
press her, instead raised his hands in defeat and backtoward the door,
"Ok, ok. I'm convinced." he said, obviously not so, and opened the door,
"But I will find out somehow, what's going on here." and Serenity could sense a
hidden meaning in his words, that confused her. Something about this man seemed
familiar.
Jupiter followed him to the door, then locked it behind him, before re-joining
the group. Then Venus and herself both turned to Mercury.
"Ok, what's the deal?"
Ami turned a warmhearted gaze to her friend and tried to explain, "Well,
it would appear that there was some sort of soul displacment with twentyth-century
Serena and the past Princess, which leads me to believe that--"
Blank stare.
Rei turned to the girl with the long auburn pony-tail, "Lita, to put that
in plain Japanese, Ami thinks that Serena and Princess Serenity's were switched."
"The Princess? B-but, Serena's the--"
Ami nodded, and Lita's mouth fell open. Mina's followed suit.
"Quit gapping like a fish and help me figure out how to switch them
back." Rei snapped.
Ami placed a hand on her shoulder, "I'm not sure we can, Rei."
Now Rei flounded, "What do you -mean- you're not sure?" she sputtered,
"There's no way that we can leave the Princess -here- in Tokyo! The whole world
could end!"
--beep...beep...beep--
Four heads turned simutaniously to look at four coulorful watches with
gold stars on their tops.
Four mouths dropped open.
Four colorful curses were uttered in their breath.
Serenity was confused...
"This -can't- be happening..." Rei whispered.
It registered with the others seconds later. With the Princess that
they were sworn to protect suddenly with them in the middle of monster-infested
Tokyo they could hardly leave her alone, but they also might not be able to beat
any youma that Queen Beryl might throw at them without Sailormoon!
"There's no choice then," Ami said, and took out her computer. She pressed
a few buttons, then let it beep at Serenity again.
Moments later Serenity felt strange, like water was being poured over her,
but she wasn't getting wet. When she opened her eyes, she still looked the same,
but the others were staring at her and then back at Ami.
Ami nodded shortly, then pulled out her transformation pen.
The others followed suit, and Serenity heard the same four familiar
transformation phrases that she had heard on occasion at the Moon Palace.
"Mercury Star Power!"
"Mars Star Power!"
"Venus Star Power!"
"Jupiter Star Power!"
Now her guards looked familiar and Serenity felt slightly safter, but they
also had on their familiar battle expressions.
"Um, Mercury?" She questioned.
The girl in the blue sailor fuku turned to face her, "Yes, sailormoon?"
Serenity blanched, what had she said? She wasn't supposed to be a sailor
senshi! She looked down at herself, but she was still waring the strange white
skirt and pink top. She didn't resemble the others at all.
Mercury gave her a small smile,
"I put a digital discise on you, Princess, you now look like Sailormoon,
which you were in this time, to everyone except yourself."
The others' confused expressions cleared at this revelation, and Mercury
continued.
"We have to fight now, and if Sailormoon wasn't among us, then out enemies
would know that something was wrong. You don't have to fight, just stay near us so
that we can fool them into thinking that nothing's wrong."
Jupiter opened the balcany door, and they prepared to jump off the ledge.
"Sailormoon" shook her head, "No way am I jumping off of there! I'll splat
like an egg!"
Rei laughed, she sounded just like Serena had when she first learned about
being Sailormoon. Jupiter scooped Serenity up in her arms, and with a laughing,
"Better close your eyes, Princess!", lept from the window. Serenity screamed.
****
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