Memories Long Forgotten – Chapter 2

Darkness surrounded her. Nothing familiar at all. She couldn't see anyone or anything. She just felt emptiness. There was nothing for her here, just pure loneliness. She tried looking around but only darkness surrounded her. She tried to move, but no matter what direction she went, it was all the same pitch black. Then, at the corner of her eye, she started to see a light. The light slowly surrounded her and eventually became so bright that it was blinding her and she had to shut her eyes tightly.

When she finally opened up her eyes, she realized that she was no longer in that pitch black environment. The room was so bright that she had to immediately shut her eyes again and slowly open them so that they can adjust. Before she can clearly make out anything in the area, all she could smell was the overwhelming aroma of what seemed to be roses. After having adjusted her eyes, she realized that in a small white room with a dozen of people surrounding her, and surely enough, there were bouquets of roses everywhere.

'Where am I?' she thought, 'Who are all of these people?'

When they realized that she was conscious, they all started talking at once and there was a huge commotion going on in the little room.

"Serena! You're finally awake!" Raye said.

"Are you alright?" Lita asked.

"Are you hurt anywhere?" Amy wondered.

"Do you need anything?" Mina offered.

"Honey, can you sit up?" Darien asked while helping her sit up.

She couldn't quite make out what everyone was saying, but she was pretty sure that it had to do with how she was feeling.

"Umm....I'm fine." She replied weakly.

"Oh thank goodness" Raye exclaimed while everyone practically jumped on her giving her a big bear hug.

"Ummm.... Excuse me guys. I can't really breath." She choked out. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure anything!" Darien replied.

"Ummm....Where am I?" What happened? And....who are you guys?"

She looked up and saw that everyone's face turned really pale. They all looked liked they had the biggest shock of their lives. She wondered to herself what on earth had happened for all of these people to be in the happiest mood to now in less than 1 minutes turn into zombies.

"Hahaha! You got us good Serena! Nice try, but we're not gonna be fooled by you" Mina said.

"Even after the night that you had, I can't believe that you still had it in you to play such a nasty trick on us. I can't believe that we almost fell for that" Lita remarked

"Don't worry Serena! We'll get you back for that once we get you out of here" Raye stated.

Serena still had no clue who these people are and what they were talking about. "Can someone please explain to me what's going on?" she managed to say in all of this confusion.

Amy noticing her discomfort and knew that something was definitely wrong and asked everyone to leave the room while she sorted everything out. "You really don't remember anything?"

"No, am I suppose to?"

"Well, can you tell me what it is that you do remember"?

"My name's Serena Tsukino...and....and..." Serena starting to break down as the realization hit her. "...that's it, that's all I remember" she cried out. She felt so useless and scared. "What had happened? Why can't I remember? Who was I before all of this?" she asked in between sobs.

It broke Amy's heart to see her friend like this. She wasn't sure what was worse, the fact that Serena was breaking down and in pain from this situation, or the fact that she didn't even remember that they were best friends, or anyone and anything for that matter.