Hey my wonderful readers. I am so sorry I haven't updated in such a long time, but school has been totally hectic lately. A lot of projects and tests. You understand thought. Anyways, here is one of my favorite chapters of my whole story. Hope you like it. Please leave me lots of reviews!
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I DON'T OWN SAILOR MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"Life Turned Upside Down"
Chapter 11
By: Tranquill MoonBunny
[Middle of the Semester]-[A Battle]-[Serena's POV]
It's Saturday night, and what might you ask am I doing! I'm fighting nega-scum, that's what I'm doing.
'What A Life!!!'
Ok, so let's recap on what has been going on the past few weeks. Lets see…um…oh yea…School sucks, the negaverse has decided to kill us by sleep depravation- with all the midnight battles, who can find time for sleep. Anyways, as you can tell, everything has just been going down hill since Christmas. I really hoped that it would be just a fluke, but I guess fate just isn't on our side.
Darien and I are still fighting like cats and dogs, but at least I don't have to see him very often. Except for the occasional class here and there, we're never together in the same place long enough to get a full insult across. But that's ok; I'm having a harder time keeping my thoughts straight around him. And It just don't work when you stare at the guy's lips when he is calling you Meatball Head. I guess this is just my curse…doomed to fall for my arch enemy.
But that information really isn't important right now. My priorities should be focused on the 3 very strange monsters the girls and I are fighting right now…along with Tuxedo Mask.
'God he is fine!!'
"SAILOR MOON…CONCENTRATE" Sailor Mars yells, taking her concentration off the fight with her own three horned freak for a few seconds, causing her to get a nasty slash across her arm.
'She is so going to blame that on me!'
So anyways, here I am standing in a tree, waiting for a clear shot. Mercury is right next to me, out of the way in order to get her readings. Venus and Jupiter are fighting the hairy monster (bad hair day). And then there is Tuxedo Mask, who is fighting off the tiny one.
'Who cares if he has minimal fighting powers! He saves my life all the time, he's tall dark and mysterious, and his roses are way romantic!'
"Sailor Moon, throw your tiara at it's left horn!" Mercury has finally found the weakness for Mar's monster. Thank good ness, it looks like this is the last one, the others are practically dust already.
I charge up my tiara in my hand…it burns a little, but my hand will heal before the next battle…hopefully.
[Narrator/Everyone's POV]
She flung the tiara, anticipating her warm soft bed with the end of this battle, when all of a sudden the monster turned to send an attack at her. Mercury jumped out of the tree quickly, but Sailor Moon just couldn't get her limbs to cooperate.
Tuxedo Mask had just sent a handful of roses at his own monster, finishing it off, when he felt it. He felt her heart beat speed up, her body go stiff, her calling out to him in a shrill scream. He was running towards her with the speed of a bullet, when it hit her. He was too late. All he saw was the ice energy ball hit her, sending her falling from the high tree branch.
Sailor Moon's broach snagged on a small branch as she fell, causing it to fly off and Sailor Moon to become Serena in the blink of an eye. In this weaker form, she was knocked unconscious when she landed on the ground.
Tuxedo mask was the first one by her side, cradling her head in his lap. All he could think about was 'my god, Sailor Moon is Serena…and I couldn't protect her!' He hung his head low, staring at the face of the girl he had always thought of as a beautiful carefree teenage girl. To find out that he might not have to suffer this fate alone, brought him extreme joy, but great sorrow at the single thought that he might loose the most important person in his life in return.
Sailors Mercury had already done a full scan of Serena's body with her computer, when all the girls surrounded them. Jupiter quickly stared daggers at Serena's masked crusader, pushing him aside and picking up her beloved friend.
"You were supposed to protect her, god-damit. She could be seriously hurt, and its all your fault!" Jupiter yelled, angry with herself for not being able to save Serena that it all came out on Tuxedo Mask.
Tuxedo Mask's guilt worsened ten fold with her hurtful words, which he knew were in every way true. He had failed Sailor Moon. Tears began to fall silently down his cheeks. The only one to notice them though, was Sailor Venus, who had been watching him very closely this whole time.
"Who are you?" She asked without thinking.
"What, Venus, can't you concentrate you ditz. We have more important problems then who this idiot is!" Raye yelled angry with everyone.
"No…I mean, well yes…but I mean…tuxedo mask who are you? You must be someone we know, or else you wouldn't be acting so surprised at Serena being Sailor Moon. And I can tell, you know Serena…I mean in her normal form…you know her! So I ask again, who are you?" Venus felt the tension between the scouts. This is what they had wanted; now no one was really sure they should know.
Tuxedo Mask's hand was on his mask, before he even realized what he must do. As his hand tightly held the small white mask and tugged, he heard gasps escape from the girls he had been partnered to for the last 3 months.
"Darien…!" Raye was the first to squeak, unable to hide the shock in her voice.
A few more minutes passed before Lita came to her senses again.
"Guys, this is all really nice and all, but Serena is still out. We should really get her back to her room so she can rest."
"Oh yea, come on guys!" Raye called as she and Lita began there nightly exercise of jumping roofs.
[Serena's POV]
Everything was pitch black. I couldn't see anything. It scared me. Where was I? Was I dead? Was I dieing? I couldn't tell anything. But just as the darkness had appeared, then it disappeared, to be replaced by the first scene in my dream. I didn't know what was going on. But I knew, I would soon find out. I felt this dream would turn out way different from any of the others.
{Dream}
I stood as I normally do, hidden behind a pillar in the Earth Palace's garden. I heard the footsteps, I heard the voice, I felt the gasp I let out. All was the same…Until I came face to face with the man I had thought about every morning since these dreams had started. All I could decipher though, was his eyes. But that's only because that was the only place I was looking.
His eyes held something I had never before seen in a man who was looking at me. They seemed to be calling out to me. All I can say here is that I would have followed this man to the end of the world at that moment. He could do with me what he willed, as long as I got to stare into those beautiful stormy ocean blue eyes.
{Dream Change}
My head swam for a few seconds. I felt as if I had been though a black hole and back. I looked up, and I recognized where I was. I stood atop the stair case.
Before I could get ahold of my senses, I was gliding down the smooth marble steps, as usual. As always, I felt his hand before he even touched me.
It was him again. It was my prince, and he was leading me out onto the ballroom floor. He spun me around, my head becoming foggy once more. Then he stopped. He pulled me into him.
I just stared at his lips, as they traveled closer to mine. His arms wrapping around my waist, to get a better hold of me. I was glad, for I may have fallen without it. My legs had become like jelly.
His lips met mine.
{Dream Change}
People are screaming all around me! I don't remember this part. What's going on? I'm being pushed outside onto the balcony by a crowd of people. I'm screaming for Endymion. Where is he? The pushing stops.
I look behind myself, there is no one there. I'm terrified by now. I hear a cackling laugh to my side, I turn. I see her! She is flouting two feet above the ground. She is laughing, and it seems it is directed at all the chaos happening around me. But why?
She is starring at me. Chills go down my back. Who is she? Do I know her?
"Well Princess, you have come right to me, how nice. But where are your protectors, where is your mother? Are you all alone, my dear? Oh, how sad!"
"What do you want Baral?" My voice caries, showing a courage I don't feel. But wait…What did I call her…Baral? That's her?
"What I want?...What I want is your kingdom destroyed, and to have the silver imperial crystal at my control!"
"You'll never win, you witch! We will destroy you!" I could see the red growing in her eyes with every word I shouted. I knew what she was going to do, before the sword appeared.
In her arm had appeared a long black sword, which reflected the explosions happening all around us. Then within the blink of an eye, she was standing in front of me, ready to slice into me. My eyes shut tight, my body awaiting its contact with the sharp end of the blade. That's when I heard it.
There was a clash of swords, as a body pushed me down to the ground. I looked up and I saw my prince in a deadly fight with my enemy. But at the same time all I could look at was his face…my prince…was Darien!
"Prince Endymion…we meet at last! Will you not consider changing sides, my prince. Leave this weakling and her falling kingdom. Come join me. Together we could rule the universe." She said trying to sound seductive, but seeming to fail miserably.
"I would rather die, then betray my love! I would never join an ugly bitch like you!" Endymion said as his sword came down on hers once more.
"How dare you…no matter…you both will suffer the same fate soon!"
That's when her sword struck its foe's master. Endymion staggered backwards, dropping his sword right before he collapsed to the ground. I crawled to him, sobs racking my body, as the tears ran freely. I placed his head on my lap, my dress already soaking up the blood around him. Who knew it would end like this.
He looked up at me, his eyes showing the pain he was experiencing. His hand came up to hold my face, and wipe away some of my tears. He always hated to see me cry.
"Don't cry my love!"
"Endymion…please…don't leave me!" I whispered
"I'm sorry…Serenity…" he gasped out, his hand falling to the ground, his eyes rolling back, a single tear sliding down his now lifeless face.
"ENDYMION…!" I cried, my body feeling as if it was splitting. And it was. Half of my soul had just died…leaving me alone in the rubble of my home. All I could think of was that I didn't want to suffer the fate I was being given. I didn't want to be without my Endymion. Without him, I am nothing!
That's when I saw what lay by my loves limp body. His sword lay in a puddle of his blood, still gleaming, calling me. My mind hardly knew what my hand was doing as it reached and grabbed hold of the hilt, bringing it closer. My eyes looked at the sharpness of the sword's point. My finger traced the tip, drawing a small drop of blood from my skin.
Baral watched me closely, wondering what I was about to do. This would have been hard to answer since I couldn't tell eighter. I looked down again at my lover, and then it was all clear. I whispered my last words.
"I will be with you soon…I love you Endymion!" My hand held the sword pointed at my heart. I pulled as hard as I could. I didn't even feel the point penetrate, but I knew it had, for my body fell quickly onto of his.
We would always be together. Our love could never die…!
A single tear fell from my eyes, as I took my last breath.
{Dream End}
I sat up gasping for air, sobs racking my body. I could still feel death's hands on me. I was scared, sad, and so alone.
I looked around me, and finally noticed that I was lying in my bed, in my room, on…Earth! This was my home now…the forbidden planet of my past life. How ironic!
My mind came back to me, and all I could picture was Endymion…No…Darien's body lying in my lap, the blood surrounding me. I started to cry harder again. My life of this time, was a joke to the past. How cruel destiny had been. To take away my love the first time, then…make him hate me. Is my life a joke?
I was just sitting there crying into my hands, when the door to my room swung open. There stood the only man I had ever and would ever love, but never love me back. What was I suppose to say? I knew who he was! I knew he had to be Tuxedo Mask, for Darien was the only one who was bound to me. I had wondered many times before how Tuxedo Mask had always known when I was in danger…Everything made sense now.
He was looking at me, but I couldn't tell what he was thinking. He had always been the strong one, when it came to controlling our emotions. I was usually the weak one…as is in everything! But it had always been easier for me to read him, back in the silver millennium. He didn't have reason to hide his emotions then, not like now. Though I don't know why he would need to still.
That's when I noticed that the girls were piling into my room, and now I was surrounded by my dear friends and protectors of this life and the last. Here were the girls…no…women who had given everything, their life included, to save my mother's kingdom. Here where the women who had taught me everything from swords and hand to hand combat, to ballroom dancing and seduction. They were the women who I had enjoyed countless gossip sessions in the palace garden and at Cherry Hill Temple. I could have told them anything…but…could I tell them this?
Would their views of me change? Would they hate me now? Would they make me stop fighting? Would they understand…would they desert me?
How could I know what they would do? Did I really even want to find out? Did I want to see their dissapointed faces?…No I didn't…I would not tell them…I would not tell Him!
They were talking to me, they were asking me questions which I couldn't answer. I just wanted to be left alone…left alone to morn for a dead mother, a dead kingdom, and a dead past.
"Go away!" I whispered, afraid of my voice. They didn't hear me!
"GO AWAY NOW…please!" I cried harder as they stared at me in shock then slowly left on by one, with worried expressions glued to their faces.
Darien was the last to leave. My face was turned towards my window, so I never saw the hurt and worry in his eyes, which never left my body as the door closed. I got up from my bed, tears still falling like an endless waterfall. My heart was full of turmoil which I couldn't see the end off. Now what was going to happen? What was I going to do?
I walked towards the window, the moon was shinning brightly, more then I had ever seen it do. It seemed as if was trying to say hello to me, happy that I had finally remembered it. I gripped the windowsill, my knuckles turning white.
"Why did you do this to me?...Why did it have to be this way?" I yelled at the moon, wanting answers, but expecting non.
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