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Hey everyone! Thanks for the great reviews! Keep them coming! Here's chapter 5, "A Dark Princess"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Rei's temple~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After a few minutes of waiting for Darien to recover, the girls decided to take him inside. Together they all managed to get him into the spare room for him to rest. Darien had always been able to sense, with great precision, when Serena was in trouble, sick, crying, happy, or any other feeling she had. It was a way he could take care of her, and now it was hurting him. He knew he was loosing her. The girls left Darien to rest after he had drifted off to a light catnap.

The girls sat down drinking tea. "I feel so helpless." Mina said. "We should be with her, right now, protecting her as our orders were given to us so long ago." Rei said. "Instead, she's out of our grasp all because we gave into false vision." Rei finished. "WHAT'S THIS WE STUFF, IT WAS YOU AND DARIEN, DON'T YOU START WITH THIS WE CRAP DON'T GIVE ME THAT BS." Lita said pissed off. Rei didn't even cringe, she knew she deserved it. Lita walked out, Amy followed and so did Mina. "Come on girls we need to go look for leads to Serena's whereabouts. Back to the park. Jupiter star power!" She yelled and instantly transformed into her Sailor Jupiter form. Amy and Mina nodded. "Venus star power!" Mina yelled and a light surrounded her as she transformed into her Sailor Venus form. "Mercury star power!" Amy was last as a cool colored light surrounded her as she transformed into her Sailor Mercury form. They headed to the park.

When they arrived, the park was empty. It was late and could expected. Sailor Mercury turned on her computer to scan the area, they came to the spot where the battle had occurred, there was a medium sized boulder looking image, where Serena and Sapphire had disappeared from. It had more of a pentagon shape to it, and was about the size of a basketball with edges. It looked the exact color of the gemstone Serena had found after she had destroyed the shadow figure. Everyone went to the object. Sailor Mercury did a scan on it. "Don't touch it! It will blow you to smithereens." Sailor Mercury told them quickly. The three looked at it. They all backed away and Sailor Jupiter threw a rock at it. The rock basically bounced off of the gemstone and the rock blew into a thousand pieces. "What is it Mercury?" Mina asked. "I'm not sure but it looks just like what Rei described that Serena found, except it was smaller than this." "From my analysis, it looks like it is a negative conductor of energy. Why it was left here after the battle I don't know, but I don't think it was here after we left. Maybe it was placed there after the battle, after we left." Mercury looked puzzled. "Shouldn't we go back and get Rei? I mean she does know more about the story than us, she was the first one to find out when Serena was attacked, I think." Mina said, cringing afraid that Jupiter would explode at her because she was mad at Rei. Jupiter nodded reluctantly. They headed back to Rei's temple.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Back at Rei's Temple~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus ran up to Rei's temple and went inside. Rei was not in her room. They headed to the spare room. Rei was in there with Darien. From the looks of it he had just woken up. Rei looked up, surprised, "You guys are back?" Mercury nodded, "Where is that gemstone Serena gave you to hold onto?" "Umm, in my room why?" Rei answered. "Let me see it" she told her. The two walked into her room and she pointed to it on her dresser. "That's it, you don't want to touch it, I don't know how Serena managed to get it here, the thing practically knocked me to the ground when I touched it." Mercury used her computer on it. She nodded, her assumption was correct. "There is another one in the park where Serena was captured. It is much larger than this one, and it is lethal to the touch." She told her. The two walked back into the spare room to update Darien and the other scouts. Mina and Jupiter were talking to Darien as they walked in. They all looked up at the two. "That's the same type of gemstone all right" Mercury confirmed. "We have to get rid of it, people will be there in the morning and someone is bound to mess with it." Rei said to her. Darien sat up. "I'll come with you guys." They all nodded. Rei yelled quickly, "Mars star power!" A bright red light shone around her as she transformed. A few seconds later she was Sailor Mars. Darien became tuxedo mask. They all set out to the park together.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Back at Nemesis Palace~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sapphire stepped out of the room where Diamond and the princess were kissing. He didn't want them to know he had seen them. Anger surged throughout his entire body. He was sick of his brother always getting what he wanted. The only thing he was happy that his brother had done was to get Serenity to join them. Other than that he was infuriated that Diamond was even aquatinted with her. He headed back to the throne room. Diamond and the princess walked back in a few minutes later. Diamond, wearing a huge grin on his face, said to him, "I would like you to see our new partner, Sapphire." Serenity smiled wide, she was actually happy. A day ago, she was ready to end her life; she had nothing to live for. Now, she had a new destiny. Revenge on those who didn't respect her, who looked down on her. She would no longer be belittled by anyone. Here in her new position she was loved, she had meaning, worth. Something she never had had before. "Now Princess, you need to increase your power." Diamond told her as he took her hand once again and took her to a room with a huge black crystal. "You will become week after you get this infusion, but don't worry, I'll be right here to care for you." Diamond told her with a gentle smile on his face. She nodded and kissed him on the cheek. Diamond smile increased, it was all he could do to not wrap his arms around her and kiss her passionately until the end of time. "Now all you need to do to get the new energy is to say 'Dark Crystal Power Infusion". He told her. She nodded as she stepped up a few feet closer to the crystal. She looked a bit nervous; she looked back at Diamond. He gave her a positive look, reassuring her that everything would be OK. How did he do that? How did he make her feel like she was something special? She looked up, faced the crystal and said boldly, "DARK CRYSTAL POWER INFUSION." With that, something that looked like dark purple electrifying energy surged throughout her body. She felt her body giving in to the surges; energy was filling her body at a very fast rate. She felt her body totally filled with power. It was a great feeling; she was on an energy high. Her silver crystal shone brighter than ever with the energy boost. The electric waves stopped coming from the dark crystal and Serena felt normal again. Suddenly she felt weak all over, like the energy had been drained along with her original energy from before. She looked back at Diamond with the last of her strength and she fainted. He caught her. "Good job Princess, I'm proud of you." He told her as he kissed her lips lightly and he carried her out of the Dark Crystal room. Sapphire passed the two in the hallway as Diamond walked towards the Princess' room. "Power infusion?" He asked Diamond. He nodded back. "Did she last to full extent? Or did she pass out as it was being given?" "She did very well, she lasted through out and even managed to look back before passing out, she's strong," he told him. Sapphire smiled, "Well I could've told you that, did you see how she destroyed the first shadow we sent to give her the message?" Diamond nodded, "I never doubted her, she is loved here, we know her potential unlike the earth fools." Diamond walked past Sapphire and entered the Princess' room. He carried her to her bed. He laid her down and waved his hand. She was instantly in a black, silk nightgown and her hair was loose out of their "meatball" style. He stood, astonished at her beauty, he loved her so much. He would tell her soon. He needed to gain her absolute trust first. He wanted to make her his queen, but he wanted her to make that decision of her own free will. He tucked her in again, making sure she would be totally comfortable and nothing less. He looked at the roses he had given her before; they were still blooming in their beautiful vase. He placed a lone, beautiful, rare, black rose in the middle of the vase with care. He stood back to admire the roses. They were gorgeous; he glanced back at the Princess, but they were not as gorgeous as she was. He kissed her once more and walked out to let the Princess sleep.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~At the Park~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Venus, Sailor Mercury, and Tuxedo Mast all hurried to the park. They went to the site of Serena's abduction. The gemstone was still there. Tuxedo Mask dropped to his knees again, holding his head, "No, this can't be happening!" The scouts hurried over to him. "What's wrong what's happening?" Venus asked? "She's filled with negative energy, she is so weak now." "The enemy has filled her with dark energy?" Mercury asked? Tuxedo Mask nodded. The flash of feeling was no longer so intense and he stood up and walked closer to the gemstone with the others. Mars' confirmed, "That is the same type of gemstone." "We need to destroy it or someone is going to get hurt." "Touching it is deadly" Mercury warned again. Mars glared at the gemstone; "It is just crawling with negative energy." "We need to attack it, Venus why don't you try?" Mars suggested. Venus nodded, "Venus love chain encircle!" The love chain hit the gemstone and it went inside the gemstone. The gemstone lit up to be a darker color and the ground moved a little bit. "O no this is not good," Mercury pointed out as she looked at her computer, "The negative energy has increased now," Mercury said with a worried look on her face. "Well what are we going to do, we can't just leave this here for people to touch! They will die!" Mars said with anger in her voice. "Well I propose we make a sailor scout force field around it, because there is no way we are going to move it." Mercury said back. They all agreed and got in a circle. They all focused their minds on making a force field, "Mars Star Power, Mercury Star Power, Venus Star Power, Jupiter Star Power!" Instantly you could tell the force field had been activated. They all backed away. "Well I think that is all we can do," Venus said. They all agreed to meet first thing in the morning at Rei's temple since there was nothing else they could do.

Wow I'm tired! I will have Chapter 6 up in a day or so, sorry this chapter is not so eventful. There will be action in the next one. PLEASE REVIEW! I HAVE NO REASON TO CONTINUE IF I DON'T HAVE ANYONE READING AND REVIEWING! Have a good week everyone!

~~~Lizzy~~~