I'm really sorry that I took so long to update my story but my parents forced me to go to my cottage for practically all of July. However I did have time to think of some new ideas. Sorry again and on to chapter 3. I would like to tell everyone that in my story the general's are all nice and not taken over by evil. They do have all their powers and have not been noticed by the scouts or Tuxedo Mask yet.

Last Time in Realizations: Tossing his cape over his shoulder Tuxedo Mask remembered where the subway station was and bolted off into the night to rescue Sailor Moon and hopefully have a little talk with her when the battle was over.

Realizations Chapter 3 : A Really Bad Day

Rei's POV
Rei sat on the porch in the temple looking at the night sky beginning to appear. She had been this way for quite awhile, not even getting up to get her supper which Chad had made an hour ago.
She was flopped on the floor with her legs crossed and her head resting on the wall behind her. Her long raven black hair was gently caressing her face as she closed her eyes and tried to focus on the difficult thoughts that racked her brain.
Normally she wouldn't have been worried about Serena running off like that, since she does it on a regular basis, but this time seemed different. This time Rei had felt a tug of guilt while watching Serena run out of the arcade with tears streaming down her face. It hadn't been Serena's fault that Darien didn't like Rei the way she wanted him to. She shouldn't have thrown the blame on her like a slap to the face.
For a couple years Rei had had a crush on Darien Shields. He was everything she wanted in a guy: tall, mysterious, mature, and very cute. She had always made plans that would co-align with his. If she had to get bread for Grandfather she would take the long way just to walk by his apartment building, if she woke up early enough in the morning she would go straight to the park in hopes of watching Darien run by and whenever he showed up at the arcade while she was there, she would tease Serena loudly in hopes of receiving a glance from the man who held her heart.
However, after seeing the way Darien stared at Serena and teased her endlessly, Rei was beginning to give up. Consulting the Great Fire had also weakened her chances after hearing that Darien was not the one she was to love and that her true love existed in another person.
All this new information had led Rei to the porch, thinking deeply about all the new turns her life was taken. She was just beginning to doze off into another dreamless sleep when she sensed a force nearby.
Jumping to her feet, Rei turned and ran into her room to grab her shoes and transformation pen in case she later needed it. She hitched her shoes on as fast as she could, not caring about the laces, and bolted out the door towards the disturbance.
Her senses brought her to a small park by the temple. It was fairly dark but had just enough light from the sunset that she wouldn't bump into anything. The park lights hadn't turned on and this thought confused Rei as she realized they turned on at 6 every night.
She looked around carefully at all the places something could be hiding; the small slide, the 2 sets of swings, the benches and bushes that walled in the park. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary to her and she felt that maybe she thought that she felt a sense because she was tired and should go to sleep.
She turned around, inwardly laughing at herself for being too cautious like Amy, and passed through the field that would lead her too the park entrance. She was just about to turn the corner of the park when SMACK! She slammed into a very hard wall.
Rei fell to the ground with an OOMF! She felt pain all on her back but ignored it as she looked up and realized what she had ran into, or more importantly who she had ran into. Her eyes traveled upward from the man's black shoes to his dark navy jeans, which then led to his white muscle shirt that the dark did nothing to hide his muscles, a little bit more upward and she was staring into a face she recognized even in the dark.
His short blonde hair fell down to his light blue eyes. He was looking at Rei with recognition while a faint smirk tugged on his full red lips. Leaning down towards her, he offered his hand and helped pull her up, planting his hands on the small of her back to keep her from falling and hitting the ground again. When he thought that she had regained her balance he let go, lingering long enough to remember how the curve of her back fit into the palm of his hand.
Rei looked up into his face and wondered why HE was here of all places. "Jedeite!" she hissed quietly "why are you here? I thought I told you to never talk to me again." "Easy Rei, geez if I didn't know any better I'd say you were mad at me." Replied Jedeite with a grin on his face, smiling at his lame-ass attempt at a joke "however I do know that I didn't talk to you, you talked to me first so therefore you started a conversation, which then makes me have to respond to such a lovely lady as yourself as to not be labeled rude." Jedeite finished with a very small bow.
Rei's mouth dropped at the fact that not only did this guy annoy her to no end and refused to go away, but he also argued back at her with as much fire as she did, and he was starting to win.
She quickly snapped out of her state of shock after realizing that Jedeite was staring at her with a look that quite frankly scared her. She closed her mouth and brought her hands to her hips with a HMPH! She didn't want to talk with him and bring back feelings of him that she was trying to forget but he was so close to her right now she was going crazy with the manly scent of his cologne, cologne that she had bought him for his 20th birthday; a little present from a friend she had told him. "So what are you doing around here all alone at this time of night?" Jedeite inquired. "Curious are we?" she asked "well for your information I always go for a walk in this park at this time every day. It helps to calm me."
Rei looked at her shoes as she said the little lie about walks every day. Even though she was known as a spitfire, she still hated to lie. "Oh really? Well at least I can say that I understand. The guys; Kunzite, Nephlite, Zoicite, and I have all been really worried for Darien. He's acting weird. He seems to go in these trances and then when he snaps out of them he bolts off saying he has to do something. We always try to follow him but he'll turn a corner or something and he'll just disappear. We want to ask what's bothering him but we don't want to ask incase he things we're trying to pry. It's just so hard to decide what to do that I had to get a little air."
'Strange' thought Rei 'how can someone just disappear?' "Well I think you're being a good friend for thinking of him and his privacy but I have no idea how to help y--" "Can you consult the Fire? I know its not normal to just go right up and ask but what if Darien is in some kind of trouble? Can you just do this one favor?" Jedeite pleaded, placing his hand on her shoulder, making her blush slightly. "Oh...um...I don't know...grandfather s sleeping and Chad is studying for an exam." "Please?!?! I promise to be really quiet. I swear you won't hear a sound out of me!" "Well...I guess but remember I'm holding you to your promise. If Chad or grandfather wakes up I'm in really big trouble. Come on, it's getting late."
The both of them quickly walked back to the temple and into the room which held the Fire. Removing their shoes, Rei told Jedeite to sit diagonally behind her, while she sat in front.
Rei closed her eyes and calmed her breathing, shutting everything around her out of her mind, focusing only on controlling the fire. The minutes went by fast and the heat and magick of the fire was beginning to weaken her but she burst forth the barrier keeping her from finding her objective. Pain started to worm its way up her legs but she still focused until finally she felt the barrier fall and she began to speak.
"Oh Great Fire! I demand you to show me what Darien is doing running away all the time. I Command you, show me! The fire grew very large, almost consuming Rei. Rei did not waver and began to make out an image. It was Darien. It was just as Jedeite described it. All the guys were at an apartment sitting around Darien who looked like he was sleeping standing up. Nephlite was shouting and Jediete was shaking Darien back and forth. They got more worried until Darien shook and ran to the door 'I've got to go' was all that Rei heard from Darien. The door slam shut and they rest of the guys jumped up and ran to follow him.
The scene flashed forward and stopped when Darien turned a corner, with the guys right on his tail. She commanded the fire to focus on Darien, but it refused. She could tell she was being shown the view of one of the guys and that she wasn't going to find out anything if she didn't see Darien's view.
She halted the image and braved to go forward into her conscience, trying to find the door that would open and reveal the information she needed. Searching soon became desperate when her strength began to wear out. She was starting to backtrack to get out when she saw a golden door hidden deep in the mind of the fire. Moving to the door, she willed it to open but it would not move. She knew that this door would tell her everything, if only she could open it. Will came to shove as she began to use the rest of her remaining strength to take matters into her hands and shove the door open.
She knew she shouldn't be forcing this to open, for grandfather had always told her that things will open in the Great Fire if it thinks you need to know. Only then will you have the answers. She wished now was one of those times but it wasn't. She decided one last push couldn't hurt. So she willed her mind to the brink of her strength to open that door.
Slowly she could feel the door opening, answers would soon be known. The gap was soon big enough that she could see Darien standing in an alley way glancing in all directions like he was making sure he had privacy. He reached into his shirt and SLAM! The door closed, her mind returned to her body, and could see that she was lying near the back of the room, with a bump on her head and arms holding her around the shoulders.

Jedeite's POV
His legs were starting to cramp and he could feel his butt starting to numb. He had been focusing intently on Rei, watching her sit as still as a statue commanding the Fire mentally. He was surprised when the fire flamed upward almost consuming Rei. He was going to move her back but he noticed she was not flinching and that she must not be hurt by the heat.
Sweat was starting to drop from his face and he fanned himself with his hand to receive whatever wind he could. A couple more minutes began to move by when he began to notice Rei drooping a little. He stared at her and then he could all but stare at her as she slammed back at him, pushing both of them into the back wall.
He sat up with a strained neck and looked down at Rei who was beginning to sport a bump on her head. He grabbed her and hauled her up onto his lap, pushing her hair behind her head. He then noticed her eyelashes twitching and smiled as she opened her eyes.

Rei's POV

'Such power. I forgot what I was getting myself into again. But what is Darien getting himself into? Why did he hide in an alley way and what was he pulling out of his shirt?' Rei thought as she tried to sit up and look at Jedeite who had a look of curiosity on his face. "Thank you for caring for me while I woke up, I was obviously wrong for trying to force the Fire to show me things I shouldn't know. I only saw a glimpse of Darien hiding in an alleyway like he didn't want anybody to see him. I'm sorry but there's nothing else I could get" Rei said standing up and stretching her muscles while being very careful not to upset the bump on her head. "It's okay, and thank you for trying anyways. I should probably go now because it's getting late but I hope I'll talk to you later. Hope that bump of yours gets better. Jedeite said with a wave and walked out of the temple.
Rei stared at the man leaving and wondered why she didn't tell him the whole story. Eager to get some sleep and get up early to get some of the flowers Grandpa had wanted her to buy she walked to her room, changed into her pajama's (figuring she'd shower in the morning) and slipped into bed. BEEP BEEP BEEP "Oh Gods what now! I'm practically dying of sleep here!" Rei said, mad at whoever was calling her.
She fumbled in her pants pocket for her communicator and threw the pants back to the floor while turning the red telecom on. Amy's face materialized on the screen and Rei immediately woke up, knowing that Amy would only call if there was an emergency. "Ya I'm here, what's wrong Amy?" "Sorry to bother you Rei but we have a youma. It's at the subway station and has been causing a lot of damage, not to mention hurting people. We need you there right now!" "Okay I'm on my way" Rei quickly replied, turning off the communicator and searching for her transformation pen. "Oh gods! This is not my day. Where did I put that damn pen?" Rei cursed while frantically searching for her pen. She did a quick check of the floor and remembered she put it in her pocket when she and Jedeite walked back to the temple. Now all she had to do was find her pants. "ARGGHH!" she practically screamed, frustrated at her own stupidity for not emptying her pockets. She flew herself onto her bed and spied her pants hidden underneath it.
Grabbing the pants and finding the pen she then, again, threw the pants across her room, ran to the front door, dashed down the walk and made her way to the small park where she could then transform.
Reaching it in record time, she did a quick glance around, hid by a tree, grabbed her pen, threw her hand in the air and... "MARS POWER!"

I know that this chapter should have continued off with Darien and Serena but I had to start involving the others and I had to get that Fire sequence out. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll be back.