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________________________________________________________________ The next day Richie got up early to ask Serena about her date but found that she was already out of the house. Dressing quickly he left the house and headed to Darien's apartment. He needed to talk to someone and get a second opinion about this whole thing. Considering Darien lived almost forty minutes away Richie was a little upset to find out he wasn't home. Turning back around Richie instead headed to the temple. Sure enough the familiar sounds of laughter greeted him. Perhaps he had dreamt it all last night.
When he walked in Serena was laughing her lungs out at a joke while Rei was slowly getting annoyed. Normal stuff. Darien was in the corner watching with amusement when he notice Richie just standing in the door way. "Hey Richie, you can come in Serena just gets like this sometimes."
"I know, she loves to laugh back home."
"Hey Richie, sorry about leaving so early, I promised the girls I would fill them in on the date." Richie just sat back and listened as Serena gave out all the gory details. When she got to the lake part he perked up. She mentioned falling asleep and Damon driving her home. Perhaps he was worrying over nothing. "Richie, Lita left some more cookies in the kitchen can you get them?"
"Oh yes, I would love to get away from all of this icky love stuff." A number of pillows headed to his head and Richie dodged them before they hit. Everything was normal.
When Richie left Serena palmed the small crystal under the table and started to let its energy seep into the room. The girls and Darien were so caught up in gossip they didn't notice the change in energy. Rei surprised her the most, she usually picked up on this stuff. Serena hid the dark energy with a wave of her own moon power. The negative energy seeped into them and Serena smiled to herself. Now things were going to get interesting.
School was around the corner and all of the girls dreaded it to a small extent. Serena remained the innocent girl she was before meeting Damon and so far no had even hinted at noticing anything different. Her plan to divide the Scouts was a slow one but working Diamond and her were both happy over that. They couldn't wait to get back to Crystal Tokyo. At first the changes had been subtle; they bickered as usual, picked on each other, but in the end made up. As time progress though the fights got more serious. Even Luna and Artemis were under the spell. Slowly the group was dividing on silly issues of leadership. Mars insisted she become leader while Venus claimed the right due to the fact she was leader before Sailor Moon. Serena merely stood back and watched backing both sides equally, fanning the flames. Darien's bitterness towards Serena also grew with time. Diamond and her would go out and run into him on purpose just to get his jealously to rise. By the first week of school they were starting to not talk to each other only Serena.
Serena sat in her room humming a victory song around the second week of school. Richie was the only one truly worried for the group but he hid his worry, he figured Damon had something to do with this. Richie was convinced he had to tell Serena of Damon seemingly dangerous influence so he decided he was going to head to Serena's room to talk to her. What he saw when he walked in scared the life out of him. Serena was standing in front of the mirror talking to a hooded figure with a crystal ball and skeleton hands. He could sense and feel the dark energy coming off of Serena and the mirror.
"Everything is going according to plan, soon we will be heading back to finish off the attack."
"Good, I will let Sapphire know." The image disappeared and Richie hid in the closet as Serena exited her room looking as if nothing happened. Now he knew what was going on. Serena was taken over somehow and she was doing something to the Scouts! As soon as Richie saw Serena leave for school Richie ran to the temple and snuck into Rei's room. Sure enough he felt the same dark power here. After about an hour he found a small black crystal taped to the underside of the table. He had to help them and that meant the cat was finally coming out of the bag. Richie found the nearest phone booth and started to leave messages. They were all going to meet and he was going to stop Serena and help her get better.
Rei tapped her foot with annoyance. Why had they called this stupid meeting? As far as she was concerned the Sailor Scouts were over. Rei was about to head back to her home when she noticed the other girls also coming with Darien. They all had looks that could kill. "So, the four wonders have arrived. So who called this meeting?"
"Not a clue, we thought you did, considering you wanted to be leader over me."
"Mina I wouldn't want to even fight you over this, I know I would win I don't think it would be a very fair fight." Tension was rising in the group. Richie arrived just as Rei and Mina were going to power up into there Scout Form.
"Please stop fighting, I called all of you together!"
"Richie, why did you do that?" Amy seemed to be the only one close to normal.
"I need your help, it has to do with Serena. I think she has been taken over by an evil force. She has been pushing all of you apart."
"What do you mean Richie, Serena hasn't done anything to make this fight get any stronger." Rei eyed Mina fiercely. "She has."
"You guys are going to thank me in a moment." Richie stood back and took out a small golden crystal. A pure golden light engulfed the group and soon the girls and Darien were all looking at Richie in disbelief. "That should do it. How do you all feel?"
"What was wrong with us? I feel as if something was taken out of me." Lita sat down at the nearest bench and cradled her head. "Who did that to us?"
"It was negative energy. You guys were loaded with it. I found this small crystal in Rei's room and I am sure if you look in Mina's place there will be one too. I think Serena put them there. I walked by her room today and she was talking to her mirror. She was radiating negative energy."
"But how, when? I should have noticed this?"
"Rei, you were all under her spell. As for when I believe it was the same night as her date with Damon. She just seemed different when I found her home. I saw him carrying her into a black hole."
"How are we going to help her? If we confront her she might run." Mina was just about to finish when they heard laughing from the gardens behind them. When the group turned around they saw Serena and Damon standing there holding hands.
"I have to commend you Richie. I didn't think anyone figured me out, least of all you."
"Serena what happened? Why did you do this?" Darien looked with pain at the girl he was still in love with yet he could see she wasn't the same.
"Darien, Sailor Scouts, Richie, I regret to inform you but Serena has left the building." Serena changed before their eyes and soon someone else was standing there. Damon also changed. They both bore the same black moon on their foreheads. "You may call me Pearl, and I am sorry to say but only two of us are walking out of here alive and I can tell you it won't be any of you."
"You! You did this to her!" Lita charged at Diamond but he merely blasted a wave of energy at her that knocked her off her feet.
"She came to me of her own free will. There is nothing forceful about this arrangement."
"Guys we gotta fight her. She isn't going to listen. I just hope she can forgive us later." Mina hated the thought of having to fight her best friend.
"Oh a fight! I think that would be just great. Then I can get rid of you four for good and our plan will finally work. Too bad the crystals didn't work, I was so trying not to kill you." Pearl produced five daggers in her left and just stood there tapping her foot. "Well? Are you going to transform or do I take you out as is?" The four girls were soon replaced by the four Sailor scouts with Tuxedo Mask in the back guarding Richie.
Pearl just stood there as attack after attack she avoided every single shot. Finally when she grew bored of it she let the daggers fly and they landed in each of the girls shadow before they were hit by a large dose of negative energy. Diamond watched from the back ever ready should Pearl need his assistance. From any onlookers point of view it looked like Pearl was winning until Diamond saw a rose being aim right for her throwing arm. Without thinking he put himself in the way and Pearl turned around at his out cry. "Diamond! Tuxedo you are going to pay for that one." Pearl stood in front of the fallen form of Diamond when she noticed all of the scouts had gotten up and were cornering her. She knew she had no chance of beating them while watching Diamond too so she decided to let them win this one, there would be other battles. "I guess this is a draw then. I will have to take a rain check on this victory though. But be assured I will finish you all off." Pearl took Diamond's hand and soon both of them were gone into thin air.
"Where did she go?" Rei was looking in every direction. Serena was no where to be seen. Ami took out her computer and started to search the area.
"Mars, I can't find her anywhere in Tokyo."
"That is because she isn't here. She isn't even in this time."
"What do you mean Richie?"
"I finally know who Damon really was. He is Prince Diamond of the Nega-moon. He is the reason I came back here. In about 1000 years the Earth is put under attack by Diamond and his Nega-moon clan. About that same time Dad was captured on one of the planets during a diplomatic trip. We don't know what happened to him all we know is that he can't be found. Mom figured Diamond's next move would be to go after her younger self so she sent me here to watch her and to make sure Dad is safe."
"What do you mean make sure your Dad is safe?" Rei was confused by all this.
"My father as I know him doesn't exist yet. And he won't unless we get Serena back to her normal self."
"How do we help then?" Lita had detransformed a while ago and was sitting on the grass.
"You all have to go to the future. Maybe there you will be able to stop Diamond and save Serena."
"But how are we supposed to get to the future? Richie it isn't like we can get a bus to it."
"I have a way. Meet me here tomorrow at Dawn."
________________________________________________________________ The next day Richie got up early to ask Serena about her date but found that she was already out of the house. Dressing quickly he left the house and headed to Darien's apartment. He needed to talk to someone and get a second opinion about this whole thing. Considering Darien lived almost forty minutes away Richie was a little upset to find out he wasn't home. Turning back around Richie instead headed to the temple. Sure enough the familiar sounds of laughter greeted him. Perhaps he had dreamt it all last night.
When he walked in Serena was laughing her lungs out at a joke while Rei was slowly getting annoyed. Normal stuff. Darien was in the corner watching with amusement when he notice Richie just standing in the door way. "Hey Richie, you can come in Serena just gets like this sometimes."
"I know, she loves to laugh back home."
"Hey Richie, sorry about leaving so early, I promised the girls I would fill them in on the date." Richie just sat back and listened as Serena gave out all the gory details. When she got to the lake part he perked up. She mentioned falling asleep and Damon driving her home. Perhaps he was worrying over nothing. "Richie, Lita left some more cookies in the kitchen can you get them?"
"Oh yes, I would love to get away from all of this icky love stuff." A number of pillows headed to his head and Richie dodged them before they hit. Everything was normal.
When Richie left Serena palmed the small crystal under the table and started to let its energy seep into the room. The girls and Darien were so caught up in gossip they didn't notice the change in energy. Rei surprised her the most, she usually picked up on this stuff. Serena hid the dark energy with a wave of her own moon power. The negative energy seeped into them and Serena smiled to herself. Now things were going to get interesting.
School was around the corner and all of the girls dreaded it to a small extent. Serena remained the innocent girl she was before meeting Damon and so far no had even hinted at noticing anything different. Her plan to divide the Scouts was a slow one but working Diamond and her were both happy over that. They couldn't wait to get back to Crystal Tokyo. At first the changes had been subtle; they bickered as usual, picked on each other, but in the end made up. As time progress though the fights got more serious. Even Luna and Artemis were under the spell. Slowly the group was dividing on silly issues of leadership. Mars insisted she become leader while Venus claimed the right due to the fact she was leader before Sailor Moon. Serena merely stood back and watched backing both sides equally, fanning the flames. Darien's bitterness towards Serena also grew with time. Diamond and her would go out and run into him on purpose just to get his jealously to rise. By the first week of school they were starting to not talk to each other only Serena.
Serena sat in her room humming a victory song around the second week of school. Richie was the only one truly worried for the group but he hid his worry, he figured Damon had something to do with this. Richie was convinced he had to tell Serena of Damon seemingly dangerous influence so he decided he was going to head to Serena's room to talk to her. What he saw when he walked in scared the life out of him. Serena was standing in front of the mirror talking to a hooded figure with a crystal ball and skeleton hands. He could sense and feel the dark energy coming off of Serena and the mirror.
"Everything is going according to plan, soon we will be heading back to finish off the attack."
"Good, I will let Sapphire know." The image disappeared and Richie hid in the closet as Serena exited her room looking as if nothing happened. Now he knew what was going on. Serena was taken over somehow and she was doing something to the Scouts! As soon as Richie saw Serena leave for school Richie ran to the temple and snuck into Rei's room. Sure enough he felt the same dark power here. After about an hour he found a small black crystal taped to the underside of the table. He had to help them and that meant the cat was finally coming out of the bag. Richie found the nearest phone booth and started to leave messages. They were all going to meet and he was going to stop Serena and help her get better.
Rei tapped her foot with annoyance. Why had they called this stupid meeting? As far as she was concerned the Sailor Scouts were over. Rei was about to head back to her home when she noticed the other girls also coming with Darien. They all had looks that could kill. "So, the four wonders have arrived. So who called this meeting?"
"Not a clue, we thought you did, considering you wanted to be leader over me."
"Mina I wouldn't want to even fight you over this, I know I would win I don't think it would be a very fair fight." Tension was rising in the group. Richie arrived just as Rei and Mina were going to power up into there Scout Form.
"Please stop fighting, I called all of you together!"
"Richie, why did you do that?" Amy seemed to be the only one close to normal.
"I need your help, it has to do with Serena. I think she has been taken over by an evil force. She has been pushing all of you apart."
"What do you mean Richie, Serena hasn't done anything to make this fight get any stronger." Rei eyed Mina fiercely. "She has."
"You guys are going to thank me in a moment." Richie stood back and took out a small golden crystal. A pure golden light engulfed the group and soon the girls and Darien were all looking at Richie in disbelief. "That should do it. How do you all feel?"
"What was wrong with us? I feel as if something was taken out of me." Lita sat down at the nearest bench and cradled her head. "Who did that to us?"
"It was negative energy. You guys were loaded with it. I found this small crystal in Rei's room and I am sure if you look in Mina's place there will be one too. I think Serena put them there. I walked by her room today and she was talking to her mirror. She was radiating negative energy."
"But how, when? I should have noticed this?"
"Rei, you were all under her spell. As for when I believe it was the same night as her date with Damon. She just seemed different when I found her home. I saw him carrying her into a black hole."
"How are we going to help her? If we confront her she might run." Mina was just about to finish when they heard laughing from the gardens behind them. When the group turned around they saw Serena and Damon standing there holding hands.
"I have to commend you Richie. I didn't think anyone figured me out, least of all you."
"Serena what happened? Why did you do this?" Darien looked with pain at the girl he was still in love with yet he could see she wasn't the same.
"Darien, Sailor Scouts, Richie, I regret to inform you but Serena has left the building." Serena changed before their eyes and soon someone else was standing there. Damon also changed. They both bore the same black moon on their foreheads. "You may call me Pearl, and I am sorry to say but only two of us are walking out of here alive and I can tell you it won't be any of you."
"You! You did this to her!" Lita charged at Diamond but he merely blasted a wave of energy at her that knocked her off her feet.
"She came to me of her own free will. There is nothing forceful about this arrangement."
"Guys we gotta fight her. She isn't going to listen. I just hope she can forgive us later." Mina hated the thought of having to fight her best friend.
"Oh a fight! I think that would be just great. Then I can get rid of you four for good and our plan will finally work. Too bad the crystals didn't work, I was so trying not to kill you." Pearl produced five daggers in her left and just stood there tapping her foot. "Well? Are you going to transform or do I take you out as is?" The four girls were soon replaced by the four Sailor scouts with Tuxedo Mask in the back guarding Richie.
Pearl just stood there as attack after attack she avoided every single shot. Finally when she grew bored of it she let the daggers fly and they landed in each of the girls shadow before they were hit by a large dose of negative energy. Diamond watched from the back ever ready should Pearl need his assistance. From any onlookers point of view it looked like Pearl was winning until Diamond saw a rose being aim right for her throwing arm. Without thinking he put himself in the way and Pearl turned around at his out cry. "Diamond! Tuxedo you are going to pay for that one." Pearl stood in front of the fallen form of Diamond when she noticed all of the scouts had gotten up and were cornering her. She knew she had no chance of beating them while watching Diamond too so she decided to let them win this one, there would be other battles. "I guess this is a draw then. I will have to take a rain check on this victory though. But be assured I will finish you all off." Pearl took Diamond's hand and soon both of them were gone into thin air.
"Where did she go?" Rei was looking in every direction. Serena was no where to be seen. Ami took out her computer and started to search the area.
"Mars, I can't find her anywhere in Tokyo."
"That is because she isn't here. She isn't even in this time."
"What do you mean Richie?"
"I finally know who Damon really was. He is Prince Diamond of the Nega-moon. He is the reason I came back here. In about 1000 years the Earth is put under attack by Diamond and his Nega-moon clan. About that same time Dad was captured on one of the planets during a diplomatic trip. We don't know what happened to him all we know is that he can't be found. Mom figured Diamond's next move would be to go after her younger self so she sent me here to watch her and to make sure Dad is safe."
"What do you mean make sure your Dad is safe?" Rei was confused by all this.
"My father as I know him doesn't exist yet. And he won't unless we get Serena back to her normal self."
"How do we help then?" Lita had detransformed a while ago and was sitting on the grass.
"You all have to go to the future. Maybe there you will be able to stop Diamond and save Serena."
"But how are we supposed to get to the future? Richie it isn't like we can get a bus to it."
"I have a way. Meet me here tomorrow at Dawn."