Wow...I wonder if this story will ever end? I still don't know
how many chapters it'll have...*thinks*...maybe 10? Hmmm...Anywyas I'm
at College again, so that means even less time for writing then I'd
like.
Oh, I guess by now you've all realized that I've messed with
the original storyline so much that, although this fic started out as
a First Season romance, it's kind of morphed (I hate that word...)
into a bit of an AU. Forgive me if I'm confusing you all. In other
words, when some characters make their entrances in this story that
really shouldn't be there until sometime down the road of Naoko-sama's
storyline, please don't get mad at me...most ppl still seem to like
this fic. ^-^
***Standard Disclaimers Apply as Always***
Thanks to all of you who e-mailed and pleaded with/threatened me
to update soon! You're the reason that this fic is still around! ^^
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Turn Back Time
Part 7/?
PG-13
-----------------
Four very nervous senshi raced down the streets of Tokyo nearly
plowing several people into the ground and rushing around courners with-
out looking. Well, most people had the good sense to get out of their
way wether they saw them coming (there was quite a cloud of smoke rising
up behind them!) or they were for-warned on their cell phones from
concerned friends that were in the area.
This continued for several minutes until they rounded a fated
courner and darted across a fated street and were nearly run over by
speeding convertable that also was not watching were it was going...
===SREEEEEECH!!!===
One raven haired senshi's hands hit the hood and she vaulted
gracefully over it to land on one knee 2 feet away, while her three
friends stood gaping in various other positions on the sidewalk and
street only a few feet behind her.
The two women in the car let out a strangled yell and a surprised
gasp respectively as sat frozen in their seats, the woman with short
blond hair gripping the wheel with white knuckels and the one in the
knee length, pale aqua, a-line skirt and matching, sleeveless blouse,
placed a slim hand to her white face, her shoulder length sea-foam hair
blowing in the breeze.
The tall, masculine looking, woman raked a hand through her short
hair and jumped out of the car, without bothering to open the door. She
marched over to the 4 petrified girls a good talking-to on her lips,
with her slender companion hurrying out of the car, her door's slamming
seeming to jar the girls out of their trance-like state.
Rei was on her way toward the blond woman, fire in her eyes,
"What do you think you're doing, you speeding psyco?!" she cried,
And at the same time came:
"What the hell was that?! Running out into the middle of the
street--"
Then the aqua haired lady cought up to them, and put her hand
on her friends arm,
"Now Haruka, you were going a bit too fast as well, if I
recall..." she began gently.
Mina, Lita, and Ami, who had now managed to re-group and were
standing in a semi-circle behind the seething priestess, felt their
blood run cold.
"H-Haruka??" Mina stammered.
"What?" snapped the hence-dubbed speed demon.
"No way..." Lita breathed.
"Aren't you that famous racer? The only female ever to compete
in, and win, the Indy 500?" Ami asked, earning curious looks from her
friends that she would know that sort of information.
"What? Anyone could learn that information from reading a news-
paper." Ami said quickly, in her defence.
At these commets both Haruka calmed down puffed up. Really, who
would stay mad a couple of dumb kids when they were so in awe of her?
At least, those were the thoughts going through Haruka's mind. Taking
a deep breath, she turned her attention from Rei to her friends,
"Yes, that's me. Would you like an autograph?"
Mina shyly held out an autograph book oh which Haruka scribbled
her signature, the kanji running into eachother, looking rather messy,
and boyish.
"What, you just carry one of those around?" Rei scoffed. Mina
shrugged and, flipping her hair back over her shoulder, dropped the
small orange book, with Autographs written in gold cursive on the front,
back into her bag.
"You never know who you might meet, and if I'm to be a famous
actress one day, I'll need to prove that I have connections."
"Where were you going in such a hurry?" the other woman asked,
even her voice bespeaking elegance and grace.
"Well, um..." Mina stammared.
"Our friend is, um..." Rei tried.
"In sort of an awkward situation and..." Ami added, looking to
Lita for help.
"Our very innocent friend passed out in front of the Game Center
and her mortal enemy has taken her back to his apartment. We're all
sure that she will be less then pleased when she wakes up and would
like to prevent blood-shed if possible." Lita said, matter-of-factly.
The others nodded, and then turned bright red as Rei added,
"That, and he said that she was in his bedroom..."
Haruka laughed at the dark-haired girl's furious expression.
"And who might this mysterious trouble-maker and terrible monster
be, that you are all scared for her poor virgin body and soul."
"They don't come more troublesome then Darien and he had better
watch out when I get there..." Lita growled. "Poor Serenit-- Serena."
At this Haruka stopped laughing.
"Shields?" she asked, her voice suddenly like steel.
"You know him?" Rei asked, leveling a cool stare at the taller
woman. "He's -my- boyfriend, you kow..."
Haruka glanced at Rei, "Yeah, I feel sorry for you." She turned
back to Lita, "That punk nearly ran me into a wall last week!"
The girls' blank looks at that statement led the other woman,
who introduced herself as Michiru, to intervene and explain.
Haruka had been at a stoplight one evening when another motor-
cyclist had pulled up beside her. Haruka, never one to pass up a racing
oppertunity, had reved her engin, and thus, silently challenged the other
driver to a drag race as soon as the light turned green.
Darien was a bit head-strong, and full of himself, when it came
to his bike, so he had of course taken the challenge. Several blocks
later the road had taken a sudden, hard, curve to the right and Darien
had had to turn hard.
Somewhere in the middle of this, Haruka had realized that the road
turned, and also saw that the mystery man on the bike beside her would crash
into her if she remained in her lead position ahead of him. She had had to
pull her bike back and brake hard, skidding down the road, her bike leaned
so far over that if she hadn't been moving, her bike would have been on it's
side on the pavement.
Darien had then taken the lead and stopped his bike a bit further
down the street and taken off his helmet. There, he had laughed at her
and said mockingly, "I win. Darien Shields is the man!", then sped off.
Haruka had been furious, wanting a rematch, and his head on a
platter.
"Let me help interigate him..." Haruka said, an evil grin on her
face, as she cracked her knuckles.
Ami looked a bit warey, Rei shrugged, just happy that she didn't
have any designs on -her- man,and Mina just looked on in awe. It was
Lita who finally gave the go ahead. The group piled into Haruka's
convertable and they sped off toward the apartment. (Yes, Haruka knew
where it was, she had taken pains to locate Darien in the phone book.)
* * * * *
Meanwhile, on the Earth Kingdom, Mars was making tracks toward
the Prince and the lulled Princess. That Serenity, when she got through
with her...Imagine! Sneaking off on some sort of secret rondevous, and
not even telling -her-, the Princess' closest friend?! The red clothed
senshi made her way stethily over the hills, keeping to the trees and
bushes that were scattered about the fields. As she neared the royals,
she paused, cruched behind a bush to listen to their conversation. Hey
every girl loves a little gossip!
Endymion smiled down at the girl who was nearly asleep in his
arms. They were nearing small pool or water with tall Oak tree beside
it. He slowed his horse, and then stopped, gathering Serenity in his
arms and gently slidding off the saddle to land on the grass beside his
loyal mount. Laying the half-asleep Princess the grass, among some of
the wild flowers, he led the magnificent stallion to the pool to drink
and then tethered it to the Oak tree to graze.
Returning to the dozing girl, Endymion sat down and pulled her
into his lap.
Serena lazily glanced up at him, through her eyelashes. She felt
so safe and loved in his arms. She shifted her weight and sat up. The
Prince's arms were around her waist and shouders and she was craddled
against his chest. She looked away from his tender and loving smile,
across the rolling hills of wild flowers. A bird chirped somewhere
high in the Oak's branches, it's cheerful melody causing Serena to sigh
softly. The slight breeze ruffled her bangs, and the sun's rays glinted
off the pond's rippling surface like thousands of sparkling jewels.
"What's the matter, my love?" Endymion asked immedietly at her
sigh.
Serena looked away for a moment, avoiding his piercing eyes.
How did she deal with this? she felt different in the young man's arms,
safe somehow; protected and loved. She wished she could stay there with
him...
Endymion felt his heart speed up at her words... 'I wish I could
stay here with you...'
"You can, my darling." He murmered.
Serena felt her face flush and jerked herself from his nearing
embrace. She hadn't realized that she had spoken aloud!
Suddenly Serenity pulled away from him, and Endymion found him-
self sitting awkwardly, having lost his balence when she had shot away
from him. He was now sitting much like a crab on it's back, supporting
himself with his hands, his elbows pointing back and his legs spread.
Serena knelt on the ground a foot away from him, her chest heaving,
one hand clenched in her lap, and the other small fist pressed against
her heart.
"I...I--" Serena felt her throat constrict as she tried to force
back the sob that was rising. She was so confused. She didn't know
how she came to be in this strange place, or how long she would be there
for, or why this was all happening for that matter!
"Endymion..." she wispered as her control slipped and the tears
came.
Endymion was at her side in an instant. First she was contentedly
sleeping in his arms and the next thing he knew, she was crying! His
heart lerched as he knelt beside her and gathered her shaking body into
his arms.
"Shh...it's alright...shh..."
Serena's inner wall crumbled the second she felt Endymions strong
arms come around her. He held her tightly, but gently at the same time.
Serena clutched at his chest and sobbed like her heart was broken. She
could feel the love that this man had for her and she wanted so despertly
to be able to return it.
It was at that moment that Sailor Mars decided to make her enterence.
Striding up to the couple she stood with her left hand on her hip and her
right hand tossing and catching a softball sized fireball.
"Ok, I don't know what's going on here Earth Boy, but you made
Serenity cry. I don't care if you're getting married tomorrow, she's
coming home with us now!"
Serena's head jerked up at the arrogent voice, with genuine
concern underlaying the berating words.
It couldn't be... Slowly turning Serena saw one of the most
welcome sights int he world.
With her raven hair blowing in the breeze behind her, and her
magenta eyes glinting with furry at the older man who craddled Serena,
Mars looked the very picture of the warrior that you don't want to upset.
Her tiara sparkled in the afternoon light and her skirt fluttered, the sun
behind her giving her every air of a fighter.
Serena shot up and stood before her friend, the tears of frust-
ration turning into those of joy as she stared at the slightly taller
girl.
"Rei..." she breathed then, catching the look of surprise that
flashed through the senshi's eyes, she quickly corrected herself and
said more loudly,
"Mars!!"
Mars looked slightly shocked as the smaller girl flung herself
into her arms.
The sound of footsteps sounded behind them and soon 3 other girls
in matching green, blue and gold/orange outfits ran up. Their skirts
and tiara shone in the sun aswell and their eyes were just as cold.
"What happened?" Jupiter demanded of Endymion, who had now man-
aged to get to his feet.
Endymion gave her a level stare, his deep blue eyes like ice,
and said nothing; his face expressionless.
Serena clung to Mars, the only familiar person that she had
seen in so many days, for dear life. Other voice registered in her ears
and she realized that the other senshi were there as well. She pulled
back and took a look at her friends. She had never been so glad to see
them in her whole life!
But...they looked different somehow...
Lita stood slightly taller then she remembered, and there was a
small antenna sticking out of her tiara.
Ami had a slightly different haircut; just a little bit longer
maybe? And there was a small microphone hooked around her ear, connected
to her viser, that hung down near her mouth.
Rei had a little red jewel sitting at the bottom of the white
"v" on her senshi uniform.
Mina had a gold chain, inlaid with topaz stones, hanging around
her slender waist.
They all looked to be a little older..and more mature? As she
was contemplating this, Mina stepped up to Endymion, her full height
barely coming up to his shoulder but was just and threatening as if she
were 2 heads taller then him, and spoke.
"As leader of the Royal Guard of the kingdom of the Moon I am
informing you that Serenity is coming home with us now. You will see
her at the wedding 2 days from now, and you're darn lucky that we have
orders only to find and return Princess Serenity safely, otherwise we'd
kick your royal--!"
"Venus!" Ami suddenly called, effectively cutting the girl off,
"I think you'd better take a look at this."
The golden senshi flipped her long hair over her shoulder as she
turned, slapping the thick strands against the Earth Prince's face as she
went. He glared at her but said nothing.
Serena felt a smile tug at her lips, although they looked a
little different, her friends still acted the same.
The two short soliders spoke quietly for a few minutes and then
turned back to Serena and Endymion. Serena glanced worriedly at her
friend, but Mina only gave her a quick glance; her gaze burning into her,
and then turned to Lita and Rei.
"Senshi, let's go. Something important has come up." then she
turned to Serena. "Serenity, take my hand and Mars' too."
Serena did as she was told, and watched as her friends formed
the familiar teleport formation. She watched as they all closed their
eyes and as their tiars began to glow. Then she waited and listened as
they all began to call out the sending phrase; joining them at the last
second.
"Sailooooooor--" the four began,
"TELEPORT!!!" Serena cried, the cresent moon on her forhead,
which was unknow to her, suddenly flaring to life. A rainbow of lights
enfolded them and solidified into a bubble which the floated up into the
air. It hovered for a few seconds, the girls' feet at level with Endy-
mion's eyes, and then shot off into the sky...going higher and higher
until it was only a sparkle; like an early star, and then it dissapeared.
* * * * *
Breaks squealed again as Haruka pulled up to the two tall twin
buildings called "Crystal Towers" because of the huge amount of mirror
type windows that covered the outside walls. As the girls piled out,
Michiru said a silent prayer that there would be no bloodshed that day.
"Not the elevator! The stairs are quicker!" Rei shouted as Mina
pressed the 'up' botton beside the silver doors across the lobby. The
door to the stairwell banged against the wall, echoing erily up and down
the stairwell, each time a new girl entered.
Huffing and Puffing, 6 women ran down the hallway and stopped to
catch their breath for a moment outside room 1016.
"Why...huff...didn't you tell me...huff...that he lived on the
*tenth* floor?!" Haruka growled at Rei as she tried to calm her breathing.
"I though you...puff...knew!" Rei gasped, "After all, you knew
the building!"
==*==
Inside the apartment Darien lifted his head and turned toward
the door. Had he just heard voices? Maybe it was Serena's friends, ready
to take her off his hands. Not that he really wanted them too...he rather
liked having his meatball head at his place, depending on him. He shook
his head, what was he thinking? The fact alone that this was Meatball-
head should have woken him up to the reality that any sort of relation-
ship between them could never happen! But, somehow, her frailty and
confusion at finding herself in his room and then her thinking that he
was someone else, someone, that she had gone on to explain after he had
hung up the phone, who was her fiance?
Darien leaned over the small girl who lay half asleep under the blankets
and smiled down at her. Then, hearing a sudden comotion in the hall,
and a loud crash which followed, Serenity gasped and sat up quickly,
panic in her eyes.
"Endymion!" she cried, "What's going on?" And then she threw
herself into his lap, her legs tangled in the sheets and her arms around
his neck. The force of her sudden launch into his arms nearly caused
Darien to toppel from his perch beside her on the side of the bed. Thus,
he quickly wrapped his strong arms around her slender body and held her
close, catching his balance.
Of course, this was the moment that 6 very upset senshi chose
to make their enterence into his humble abode.
==*==
"Ok, is everyone ready?" Mina asked, eyeing the other girls.
Haruka nodded an affermative, as she joined Lita across from
the door. Then, in a move that generally shocked all the other girls
as it looked as if it had been coriographed, both of them jumped up
and did a simutanious side kick that broke the lock on the poor door
which flew open and then slammed against the inside wall.
"What's going on out there?" Darien shouted, trying to untangle
himself from Serena, who refused to release her death-grip on his neck.
The sound of pounding feet down the small hallway that led from
his livingroom to his bedroom announced that whoever was at the door
would soon be in his bedroom. He tensed and prepared to jump up and
fight whatever intruders were in his apartment. However, when the bed-
room door crashed open, there weren't any men with guns ready to loot
his home, but in Darien's mind, he might have prefered them.
In the doorway stood Rei, Lita, a taller woman that he didn't
recognize, Mina, Ami and another woman who looked as if she would like
to apologize for the whole episode. But all of there concered express-
ions changed to those of killers as soon as they took in his position
with Serena.
"Darien..." Lita growled, and at the same time the short haired
blond woman dove through the air heading straight for him!
* * * * *
Well, it's the long awaited arrival of the Outers! No worries,
even though Pluto didn't make an appearence in this chapter, she will
be here, after all, she's the only one who can fix things! ^^;
I used the senshi's manga forms for the "mature girls" of the
Moon Kingdom, did anyone notice? If not, then pick up a copy of the
manga a.s.a.p.!)
Oh yeah, I guess the fact that I sent this in on Monday the 16th
in stead of Saturday the 14th, will make this story a week later the
promised on a few sites.
how many chapters it'll have...*thinks*...maybe 10? Hmmm...Anywyas I'm
at College again, so that means even less time for writing then I'd
like.
Oh, I guess by now you've all realized that I've messed with
the original storyline so much that, although this fic started out as
a First Season romance, it's kind of morphed (I hate that word...)
into a bit of an AU. Forgive me if I'm confusing you all. In other
words, when some characters make their entrances in this story that
really shouldn't be there until sometime down the road of Naoko-sama's
storyline, please don't get mad at me...most ppl still seem to like
this fic. ^-^
***Standard Disclaimers Apply as Always***
Thanks to all of you who e-mailed and pleaded with/threatened me
to update soon! You're the reason that this fic is still around! ^^
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Turn Back Time
Part 7/?
PG-13
-----------------
Four very nervous senshi raced down the streets of Tokyo nearly
plowing several people into the ground and rushing around courners with-
out looking. Well, most people had the good sense to get out of their
way wether they saw them coming (there was quite a cloud of smoke rising
up behind them!) or they were for-warned on their cell phones from
concerned friends that were in the area.
This continued for several minutes until they rounded a fated
courner and darted across a fated street and were nearly run over by
speeding convertable that also was not watching were it was going...
===SREEEEEECH!!!===
One raven haired senshi's hands hit the hood and she vaulted
gracefully over it to land on one knee 2 feet away, while her three
friends stood gaping in various other positions on the sidewalk and
street only a few feet behind her.
The two women in the car let out a strangled yell and a surprised
gasp respectively as sat frozen in their seats, the woman with short
blond hair gripping the wheel with white knuckels and the one in the
knee length, pale aqua, a-line skirt and matching, sleeveless blouse,
placed a slim hand to her white face, her shoulder length sea-foam hair
blowing in the breeze.
The tall, masculine looking, woman raked a hand through her short
hair and jumped out of the car, without bothering to open the door. She
marched over to the 4 petrified girls a good talking-to on her lips,
with her slender companion hurrying out of the car, her door's slamming
seeming to jar the girls out of their trance-like state.
Rei was on her way toward the blond woman, fire in her eyes,
"What do you think you're doing, you speeding psyco?!" she cried,
And at the same time came:
"What the hell was that?! Running out into the middle of the
street--"
Then the aqua haired lady cought up to them, and put her hand
on her friends arm,
"Now Haruka, you were going a bit too fast as well, if I
recall..." she began gently.
Mina, Lita, and Ami, who had now managed to re-group and were
standing in a semi-circle behind the seething priestess, felt their
blood run cold.
"H-Haruka??" Mina stammered.
"What?" snapped the hence-dubbed speed demon.
"No way..." Lita breathed.
"Aren't you that famous racer? The only female ever to compete
in, and win, the Indy 500?" Ami asked, earning curious looks from her
friends that she would know that sort of information.
"What? Anyone could learn that information from reading a news-
paper." Ami said quickly, in her defence.
At these commets both Haruka calmed down puffed up. Really, who
would stay mad a couple of dumb kids when they were so in awe of her?
At least, those were the thoughts going through Haruka's mind. Taking
a deep breath, she turned her attention from Rei to her friends,
"Yes, that's me. Would you like an autograph?"
Mina shyly held out an autograph book oh which Haruka scribbled
her signature, the kanji running into eachother, looking rather messy,
and boyish.
"What, you just carry one of those around?" Rei scoffed. Mina
shrugged and, flipping her hair back over her shoulder, dropped the
small orange book, with Autographs written in gold cursive on the front,
back into her bag.
"You never know who you might meet, and if I'm to be a famous
actress one day, I'll need to prove that I have connections."
"Where were you going in such a hurry?" the other woman asked,
even her voice bespeaking elegance and grace.
"Well, um..." Mina stammared.
"Our friend is, um..." Rei tried.
"In sort of an awkward situation and..." Ami added, looking to
Lita for help.
"Our very innocent friend passed out in front of the Game Center
and her mortal enemy has taken her back to his apartment. We're all
sure that she will be less then pleased when she wakes up and would
like to prevent blood-shed if possible." Lita said, matter-of-factly.
The others nodded, and then turned bright red as Rei added,
"That, and he said that she was in his bedroom..."
Haruka laughed at the dark-haired girl's furious expression.
"And who might this mysterious trouble-maker and terrible monster
be, that you are all scared for her poor virgin body and soul."
"They don't come more troublesome then Darien and he had better
watch out when I get there..." Lita growled. "Poor Serenit-- Serena."
At this Haruka stopped laughing.
"Shields?" she asked, her voice suddenly like steel.
"You know him?" Rei asked, leveling a cool stare at the taller
woman. "He's -my- boyfriend, you kow..."
Haruka glanced at Rei, "Yeah, I feel sorry for you." She turned
back to Lita, "That punk nearly ran me into a wall last week!"
The girls' blank looks at that statement led the other woman,
who introduced herself as Michiru, to intervene and explain.
Haruka had been at a stoplight one evening when another motor-
cyclist had pulled up beside her. Haruka, never one to pass up a racing
oppertunity, had reved her engin, and thus, silently challenged the other
driver to a drag race as soon as the light turned green.
Darien was a bit head-strong, and full of himself, when it came
to his bike, so he had of course taken the challenge. Several blocks
later the road had taken a sudden, hard, curve to the right and Darien
had had to turn hard.
Somewhere in the middle of this, Haruka had realized that the road
turned, and also saw that the mystery man on the bike beside her would crash
into her if she remained in her lead position ahead of him. She had had to
pull her bike back and brake hard, skidding down the road, her bike leaned
so far over that if she hadn't been moving, her bike would have been on it's
side on the pavement.
Darien had then taken the lead and stopped his bike a bit further
down the street and taken off his helmet. There, he had laughed at her
and said mockingly, "I win. Darien Shields is the man!", then sped off.
Haruka had been furious, wanting a rematch, and his head on a
platter.
"Let me help interigate him..." Haruka said, an evil grin on her
face, as she cracked her knuckles.
Ami looked a bit warey, Rei shrugged, just happy that she didn't
have any designs on -her- man,and Mina just looked on in awe. It was
Lita who finally gave the go ahead. The group piled into Haruka's
convertable and they sped off toward the apartment. (Yes, Haruka knew
where it was, she had taken pains to locate Darien in the phone book.)
* * * * *
Meanwhile, on the Earth Kingdom, Mars was making tracks toward
the Prince and the lulled Princess. That Serenity, when she got through
with her...Imagine! Sneaking off on some sort of secret rondevous, and
not even telling -her-, the Princess' closest friend?! The red clothed
senshi made her way stethily over the hills, keeping to the trees and
bushes that were scattered about the fields. As she neared the royals,
she paused, cruched behind a bush to listen to their conversation. Hey
every girl loves a little gossip!
Endymion smiled down at the girl who was nearly asleep in his
arms. They were nearing small pool or water with tall Oak tree beside
it. He slowed his horse, and then stopped, gathering Serenity in his
arms and gently slidding off the saddle to land on the grass beside his
loyal mount. Laying the half-asleep Princess the grass, among some of
the wild flowers, he led the magnificent stallion to the pool to drink
and then tethered it to the Oak tree to graze.
Returning to the dozing girl, Endymion sat down and pulled her
into his lap.
Serena lazily glanced up at him, through her eyelashes. She felt
so safe and loved in his arms. She shifted her weight and sat up. The
Prince's arms were around her waist and shouders and she was craddled
against his chest. She looked away from his tender and loving smile,
across the rolling hills of wild flowers. A bird chirped somewhere
high in the Oak's branches, it's cheerful melody causing Serena to sigh
softly. The slight breeze ruffled her bangs, and the sun's rays glinted
off the pond's rippling surface like thousands of sparkling jewels.
"What's the matter, my love?" Endymion asked immedietly at her
sigh.
Serena looked away for a moment, avoiding his piercing eyes.
How did she deal with this? she felt different in the young man's arms,
safe somehow; protected and loved. She wished she could stay there with
him...
Endymion felt his heart speed up at her words... 'I wish I could
stay here with you...'
"You can, my darling." He murmered.
Serena felt her face flush and jerked herself from his nearing
embrace. She hadn't realized that she had spoken aloud!
Suddenly Serenity pulled away from him, and Endymion found him-
self sitting awkwardly, having lost his balence when she had shot away
from him. He was now sitting much like a crab on it's back, supporting
himself with his hands, his elbows pointing back and his legs spread.
Serena knelt on the ground a foot away from him, her chest heaving,
one hand clenched in her lap, and the other small fist pressed against
her heart.
"I...I--" Serena felt her throat constrict as she tried to force
back the sob that was rising. She was so confused. She didn't know
how she came to be in this strange place, or how long she would be there
for, or why this was all happening for that matter!
"Endymion..." she wispered as her control slipped and the tears
came.
Endymion was at her side in an instant. First she was contentedly
sleeping in his arms and the next thing he knew, she was crying! His
heart lerched as he knelt beside her and gathered her shaking body into
his arms.
"Shh...it's alright...shh..."
Serena's inner wall crumbled the second she felt Endymions strong
arms come around her. He held her tightly, but gently at the same time.
Serena clutched at his chest and sobbed like her heart was broken. She
could feel the love that this man had for her and she wanted so despertly
to be able to return it.
It was at that moment that Sailor Mars decided to make her enterence.
Striding up to the couple she stood with her left hand on her hip and her
right hand tossing and catching a softball sized fireball.
"Ok, I don't know what's going on here Earth Boy, but you made
Serenity cry. I don't care if you're getting married tomorrow, she's
coming home with us now!"
Serena's head jerked up at the arrogent voice, with genuine
concern underlaying the berating words.
It couldn't be... Slowly turning Serena saw one of the most
welcome sights int he world.
With her raven hair blowing in the breeze behind her, and her
magenta eyes glinting with furry at the older man who craddled Serena,
Mars looked the very picture of the warrior that you don't want to upset.
Her tiara sparkled in the afternoon light and her skirt fluttered, the sun
behind her giving her every air of a fighter.
Serena shot up and stood before her friend, the tears of frust-
ration turning into those of joy as she stared at the slightly taller
girl.
"Rei..." she breathed then, catching the look of surprise that
flashed through the senshi's eyes, she quickly corrected herself and
said more loudly,
"Mars!!"
Mars looked slightly shocked as the smaller girl flung herself
into her arms.
The sound of footsteps sounded behind them and soon 3 other girls
in matching green, blue and gold/orange outfits ran up. Their skirts
and tiara shone in the sun aswell and their eyes were just as cold.
"What happened?" Jupiter demanded of Endymion, who had now man-
aged to get to his feet.
Endymion gave her a level stare, his deep blue eyes like ice,
and said nothing; his face expressionless.
Serena clung to Mars, the only familiar person that she had
seen in so many days, for dear life. Other voice registered in her ears
and she realized that the other senshi were there as well. She pulled
back and took a look at her friends. She had never been so glad to see
them in her whole life!
But...they looked different somehow...
Lita stood slightly taller then she remembered, and there was a
small antenna sticking out of her tiara.
Ami had a slightly different haircut; just a little bit longer
maybe? And there was a small microphone hooked around her ear, connected
to her viser, that hung down near her mouth.
Rei had a little red jewel sitting at the bottom of the white
"v" on her senshi uniform.
Mina had a gold chain, inlaid with topaz stones, hanging around
her slender waist.
They all looked to be a little older..and more mature? As she
was contemplating this, Mina stepped up to Endymion, her full height
barely coming up to his shoulder but was just and threatening as if she
were 2 heads taller then him, and spoke.
"As leader of the Royal Guard of the kingdom of the Moon I am
informing you that Serenity is coming home with us now. You will see
her at the wedding 2 days from now, and you're darn lucky that we have
orders only to find and return Princess Serenity safely, otherwise we'd
kick your royal--!"
"Venus!" Ami suddenly called, effectively cutting the girl off,
"I think you'd better take a look at this."
The golden senshi flipped her long hair over her shoulder as she
turned, slapping the thick strands against the Earth Prince's face as she
went. He glared at her but said nothing.
Serena felt a smile tug at her lips, although they looked a
little different, her friends still acted the same.
The two short soliders spoke quietly for a few minutes and then
turned back to Serena and Endymion. Serena glanced worriedly at her
friend, but Mina only gave her a quick glance; her gaze burning into her,
and then turned to Lita and Rei.
"Senshi, let's go. Something important has come up." then she
turned to Serena. "Serenity, take my hand and Mars' too."
Serena did as she was told, and watched as her friends formed
the familiar teleport formation. She watched as they all closed their
eyes and as their tiars began to glow. Then she waited and listened as
they all began to call out the sending phrase; joining them at the last
second.
"Sailooooooor--" the four began,
"TELEPORT!!!" Serena cried, the cresent moon on her forhead,
which was unknow to her, suddenly flaring to life. A rainbow of lights
enfolded them and solidified into a bubble which the floated up into the
air. It hovered for a few seconds, the girls' feet at level with Endy-
mion's eyes, and then shot off into the sky...going higher and higher
until it was only a sparkle; like an early star, and then it dissapeared.
* * * * *
Breaks squealed again as Haruka pulled up to the two tall twin
buildings called "Crystal Towers" because of the huge amount of mirror
type windows that covered the outside walls. As the girls piled out,
Michiru said a silent prayer that there would be no bloodshed that day.
"Not the elevator! The stairs are quicker!" Rei shouted as Mina
pressed the 'up' botton beside the silver doors across the lobby. The
door to the stairwell banged against the wall, echoing erily up and down
the stairwell, each time a new girl entered.
Huffing and Puffing, 6 women ran down the hallway and stopped to
catch their breath for a moment outside room 1016.
"Why...huff...didn't you tell me...huff...that he lived on the
*tenth* floor?!" Haruka growled at Rei as she tried to calm her breathing.
"I though you...puff...knew!" Rei gasped, "After all, you knew
the building!"
==*==
Inside the apartment Darien lifted his head and turned toward
the door. Had he just heard voices? Maybe it was Serena's friends, ready
to take her off his hands. Not that he really wanted them too...he rather
liked having his meatball head at his place, depending on him. He shook
his head, what was he thinking? The fact alone that this was Meatball-
head should have woken him up to the reality that any sort of relation-
ship between them could never happen! But, somehow, her frailty and
confusion at finding herself in his room and then her thinking that he
was someone else, someone, that she had gone on to explain after he had
hung up the phone, who was her fiance?
Darien leaned over the small girl who lay half asleep under the blankets
and smiled down at her. Then, hearing a sudden comotion in the hall,
and a loud crash which followed, Serenity gasped and sat up quickly,
panic in her eyes.
"Endymion!" she cried, "What's going on?" And then she threw
herself into his lap, her legs tangled in the sheets and her arms around
his neck. The force of her sudden launch into his arms nearly caused
Darien to toppel from his perch beside her on the side of the bed. Thus,
he quickly wrapped his strong arms around her slender body and held her
close, catching his balance.
Of course, this was the moment that 6 very upset senshi chose
to make their enterence into his humble abode.
==*==
"Ok, is everyone ready?" Mina asked, eyeing the other girls.
Haruka nodded an affermative, as she joined Lita across from
the door. Then, in a move that generally shocked all the other girls
as it looked as if it had been coriographed, both of them jumped up
and did a simutanious side kick that broke the lock on the poor door
which flew open and then slammed against the inside wall.
"What's going on out there?" Darien shouted, trying to untangle
himself from Serena, who refused to release her death-grip on his neck.
The sound of pounding feet down the small hallway that led from
his livingroom to his bedroom announced that whoever was at the door
would soon be in his bedroom. He tensed and prepared to jump up and
fight whatever intruders were in his apartment. However, when the bed-
room door crashed open, there weren't any men with guns ready to loot
his home, but in Darien's mind, he might have prefered them.
In the doorway stood Rei, Lita, a taller woman that he didn't
recognize, Mina, Ami and another woman who looked as if she would like
to apologize for the whole episode. But all of there concered express-
ions changed to those of killers as soon as they took in his position
with Serena.
"Darien..." Lita growled, and at the same time the short haired
blond woman dove through the air heading straight for him!
* * * * *
Well, it's the long awaited arrival of the Outers! No worries,
even though Pluto didn't make an appearence in this chapter, she will
be here, after all, she's the only one who can fix things! ^^;
I used the senshi's manga forms for the "mature girls" of the
Moon Kingdom, did anyone notice? If not, then pick up a copy of the
manga a.s.a.p.!)
Oh yeah, I guess the fact that I sent this in on Monday the 16th
in stead of Saturday the 14th, will make this story a week later the
promised on a few sites.