Title: Settling the Score
Rating: R for later chapters.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon.
Summary: Alternate Reality or AU. Serena is a sorceress, out for revenge against the
civilians. Darien is ready to stop her at all costs.
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This was originally a Fushigi Yuugi alternate reality fanfiction, but I invented some
relationships between characters that didn't really make much sense. I kept on trying to
picture them in those relationships, but it was hard, especially when I was ready to write
another chapter. So, I decided to make this a Sailor Moon story. It's easier on me. I hope
you like it!
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~ Chapter 1 ~
Serena looked amused as the villagers scurried around in frenzied ignorance, like
mice, squealing under the playful claws of its predator. Laughing, the sorceress raised a
carefully manicured hand and clamped it, relishing the effect it had on the half-wits. A
loud shriek sliced through the chaos as one of the women shakily pointed to a sheep,
flattened and on the ground as a dark redness trickled through its wool and onto the floor.
Revenge.
Serena's whole life had been dedicated to this mission, a mission to right what
had been wronged. She brushed her blond tresses from her face and felt herself relive the
day when her life shifted.
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"Andrew, wait up!" a six year old Serena yelled as she lifted her skirt up and ran
towards him.
Serena scrambled up, greeted by the affectionate, brown eyes of her eighteen year
old brother. "You better hurry, or you'll be late for dinner," he said laughingly as he
patted her head.
Serena gave him a toothy grin, "I wove this pwace. They have pwetty fwowers.
Can't we stay here?"
Andrew gave her a reproachful look before he explained, "We are nomads, Sere.
Don't you like exploring new places?"
Hugging her brother, Serena replied, "I like going anywhere as long as you and
mommy and daddy come along."
Lifting her up, Andrew gave Serena an affectionate peck on her ruddy cheek.
"That's my baby sister!"
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Serena leaned against the wall of a house, feeling the heated dryness of the bricks.
In some way, they represented her now since she had nothing left in her life. Where there
once had been loving innocence, there was now cultured anger, a calm rage enough to
rival both the lulling and destructive powers of the sea.
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"We're almost home," Andrew grinned at Serena.
"Home to mommy, daddy, and to RITA," she said as she mentally applauded
herself for her snide comment. Even as a child, Serena's acute sense of her surroundings
has astounded even the adults. She knew that her brother had a thing or two for the pretty
redhead.
Andrew groan, "I can't get anything past you, can I?"
Serena giggled, "I think…she wikes you too!"
"And I think…you're too young to play matchmaker!" Andrew declared with
severe gravity, but he was secretly pleased at the thought of Rita returning his feelings.
Suddenly, Serena felt her brother stop dead in his tracks and looked ahead of her.
Silence loomed around the rows of tents, like the cold stillness of death. Andrew tightened
his hold on Serena protectively as he ran towards their tent.
"Mother! Father!" he cried as he went into the tent only to find them lying on the
blood-soaked floor, dead, with sword marks in their bodies.
Upon seeing her parents in that state, Serena screamed. She screamed as though
she was being ripped apart and leaned to cry on her brother's shoulder when he dropped
her.
Serena winced as she fell onto the ground, sitting atop her parents' blood. Lifting
her hand up, she started shaking as she saw her chubby fingers covered in her parents'
sanguine fluid.
Something was dripping on her head, tainting her blond hair with more unearthly
substance. Serena slowly turned to look up and stopped when she saw her brother with a
sword through his head, dead, as are all her dreams for the future.
His eyes… Serena shuddered to look at his eyes. They were hollow and lifeless.
Her brother was gone, she realized with a pang, as the soldiers threw aside the shell that
once hosted her brother's soul. They are coming for me next, Serena thought. They're
killing me next.
"Damn, who would've thought there were more survivors," a soldier said to his
comrade. "Hey, look here now," he said as he pointed at Serena. "She sure is a cute
little thing. Raye has been complaining about not having a playmate. Think she'll do?"
"I don't know," his friend said hastily. "But, you better hurry up. All the other
soldiers are getting restless and they want to go home."
With that, the first soldier nodded, took the shaking Serena and placed her on top
of the horse with him.
"You better be a good girl now," the odious man warned her. "My wife and
daughter will be happy to see a new addition to the family. Don't ruin what has come
your way. Let's go home."
With that, he galloped away with his other comrades, cheering over the day's
victory.
Home… How ironic it was that he told her to go home when he had just destroyed
the only home she ever knew.
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Twelve years had passed. Serena glared at the villagers, panicked into despair.
Mommy, Daddy, this was how they must've felt. This was how the soldiers cruelly took
away their lives, she thought. Consequently, the people here would suffer the same fate.
Suddenly, she felt a hand grab hold of her shoulders hard. Before she could utter
one protest, she was forced to face him. She groaned when she saw him. Raye's
boyfriend – the ever-so-devoted, exasperatingly reprimanding, stickler-for-rules, but
nevertheless a first-rate sorcerer, Darien.
"Look," she said as she pointed to the dead sheep on the ground. "I killed only
one animal!"
"Let the council decide what harm you have caused the civilians," Darien glared
at her. The anger in him was barely contained. "I'd like to see you flirt your way out of
this one!"
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