Midnight

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Rasco: I'll try to have a better description of the fight scene next time.

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Recap

Sailor Moon had regained a little of her strength now and she watched the man disappear. She knew he'd come back. He always did. After all, he didn't get what he came for.

She turned her head away and looked at the scouts. They all stared back at her.

Sailor Mercury was the first to break the silence. "I think you'd better explain."

Sailor Moon de-transformed and fell to the ground on her knees. Serena looked at each of her friends and knew the jig was up. She had to explain everything.

Chapter 4

Serena tried to think of the best way to tell them what was going on.

"Maybe you should de-transform. This could take a while," she said as she got up off the ground and dusted herself off.

The sailor scouts glanced at each other and quickly de – transformed.

"Let's go to the temple," suggested Raye.

The rest of the girls nodded and started walking out of the park. No one said anything. Everyone was too busy with their own thoughts.

'I can't believe Serena is keeping secrets from us. She never told us we had a new enemy. She couldn't have faced the new enemy on her own for long. She should have told us. If she'd gotten herself killed, there wouldn't be a Crystal Tokyo. Knowing her, it would probably take the man only a few more tries to kill her,' thought Raye.

'We have a new enemy. This is unbelievable. I wonder how strong he is. Too bad he didn't stay longer. I could have gotten some readings from him,' thought Amy.

'Wow. Serena's been fighting on her own without us. Wonder when she started,' thought Lita.

'What was Serena doing fighting that man on her own? She should have told us about him,' thought Mina.

'Oh Lord, how am I supposed to explain this to them? They'll never understand. Knowing them, they'll probably only focus on the fact that I didn't tell them sooner. How could I have? They would have never understood. Raye already thinks I'm a joke. The others probably think along the same lines as Raye, but they just don't want to tell me. How am I supposed to make them understand? They were never supposed to know,' thought Serena.

The whole walk to the temple was dead silent. Each girl was too busy lost in her own thoughts. They finally reached the temple and made their way up the stairs. They all entered the shrine one after the other. As soon as they were in, everyone turned to Serena.

"Let's sit down," Serena said as she walked over to a couch and sat. The rest of the girls followed suit.

"Who was he?"

"How long have you known him?"

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"Were you ever going to tell us?"

The questions tumbled one after another and Serena pondered the best way to tell them. She considered lying, but she knew it wouldn't work. Now that they knew he existed, they wouldn't rest until they discovered every single detail about him.

"Ill tell you everything, but you can't interrupt," Serena stated.

The girls nodded their assent.

(AN: You might be wondering what happened to Artemis and Luna. Luna doesn't know about the enemy yet. She left before Artemis burst through. Artemis didn't follow the girls into battle. He went to find Luna.)

Serena took a deep breath. It was time. "His name is Damien. Not many people know this, but there was a planet outside our solar system during the Silver Millennium that had a kingdom like the one we had. It was ruled by King James and Queen Katherine. Their son was Damien. It was a peaceful place with sunshine and laughter. That is until THEY arrived. No one knew who they were or where they came from. But in the space of a day they had taken over. The people who knew about them called them the shadow people.

The inhabitants of the kingdom turned dark. They started practicing dark magic and hurting everyone who got in their way. It was said that they wanted to take over the universe. They wanted everything to become part of their shadow realm. Luckily they weren't that strong yet. They had only managed to take over their neighbouring planets. No one in our solar system had heard about the threat except Queen Serenity and myself. She heard about their plan and went to stop them. I begged to go with her in case something happened, but she didn't listen. She went alone.

She came back a few days later, battered and broken. It wasn't easy. But she had done it. She had sealed them on their own planet. She had put up a shield so that nothing could get out or go in. She had also healed the people of the neighbouring planets. Queen Serenity had tried to heal the people on Damien's planet as well, but they had spent too much time around dark magic. Because she had taken care of the threat, the incident was never mentioned again." Serena paused to take a deep breath. She was hoping that the scouts would leave it at that, but she knew that the chances of that happening were slim. Her speculation was soon confirmed.

"How did he get back?" asked Amy.

"What does he want?" asked Lita.

"I'm not sure how he came back. My guess is that he kept practicing dark magic and created something that was strong enough to break through the shield. As for what he wants, I don't know," lied Serena. She knew perfectly well what Damien was after, but she also knew that telling the scouts would be a mistake.

"How long have you been fighting him?" asked Mina.

"A couple of months now."

"Why didn't you tell us sooner?" inquired Raye.

"Because I never wanted you to find out. I was hoping to defeat him myself like Queen Serenity had done," replied Serena.

"You should have told us Serena. We're your friends. We would have helped you," Amy said quietly.

"I know you would have. I'm really sorry. I never meant to hurt you guys." Serena said sincerely.

"It's okay Sere. We're glad you told us now," said Mina.

Serena smiled in relief and each of the girls tentatively smiled back. She stood up.

"Well I'm beat. I'm gonna call it a night. Bye guys," Serena said as she walked towards the door and left. The rest of the girls stayed behind.

"Wow. This is so huge!" exclaimed Mina.

"I'm still trying to get over the fact that she's been fighting the man for months and she's still alive. It's a miracle she survived at all," stated Raye.

The rest of the girls didn't want to admit it, but they were thinking the same thing.

They all sat in silence for a few minutes trying to absorb the magnitude of what they'd been told.

"It is getting late. I think I should leave," said Mina breaking the silence.

"Yeah we should go," added Lita.

Amy nodded. They all stood up (except Raye) and walked out the door, each one pondering the information they had just been given.

Serena's House

Serena sat in the bathtub with a heavy heart. There were many things, she hadn't told the girls. She hadn't said what Damien wanted or how Serena knew about him when no one else did. But the thing weighing down on Serena's mind the most was that she hadn't told the girls that she had been very close to Damien before the shadow people had arrived and that she had truly loved him. In fact she still loved him today.

I know, I know. A lot of things aren't making sense right now. Like what happened to Prince Darien and how come Damien doesn't seem to know her. It will all be explained later. Just bear with me.

This chapter was probably boring. But I tried. So please tell me what you think about it. I hope you didn't think it was too boring. The next chapter will be a little more exciting.

Anyways do you think I should include the Outer Sailor Soldiers (Sailor Uranus, Neptune etc.) in this story? Please review and tell me.