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Hey all! This is just a little post to let you know I'm still alive, and perhaps more importantly, still writing. I know I've been horrible with the updating but my life's been surprisingly hectic. If you'll just bear with me a bit longer this story's almost done. I'll admit that this chapter was definitely not worth the wait but I have a couple of future scenes written and they're not so terrible and will hopefully all be out and done by September (don't laugh, I'm serious).
The last chapter was written and posted in such a rush I didn't get to say thanks to all the lovely people who reviewed Chapter 7. So, thanks!
sparkling stars: I'm glad you like it so far. No worries about Darien and Serena, I feel the same way as you. Well, maybe a little about of worry as there's no fun in cleaning everything up too fast!
Lara1786: Lol. Poor Cupid. Ah well, no less than he deserves. Sorry to take so long to update but you did say you didn't want the ending so soon. . . Although somehow I doubt this is what you meant :) And because I write such horribly short chapters, the end still isn't here! I know I promised it months ago, sorry!
ladydee-1au: Don't worry, it's temporary. Probably :)
honey-gurl: Mina is Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Aphrodite is the Greek Godess of love. While most people think of them as two names for the same person I chose to interpret it as two people for the same role.
Chibi J: I'm glad you like it! I like your idea, but I don't know if Cupid will give Mina the chance to say it. That's still to come.
crescat: Thanks muchly! And Mina is certainly going to try.
Serenity's Angel In Heaven: Sorry to take forever. And write so little. And for it not to be that great. Guess you'll just have to flame me. winces But, I really will do better next time, honest.
A/N: My first fanfic so all thoughts would be truly, madly appreciated.
Rated PG-13
Cupid's Stay: Chapter 9
Serena's breath came out in short little puffs as she ran to the park. She knew that most people thought being a sailor scout was something glamorous, a position to be envied. They saw pretty girls in short skirts easily defeating evil monsters with the help of dashing young men.
They didn't see the effort that goes into it. They never witnessed Serena standing in front of the mirror for hours upon end practicing poses and loquacious speeches. They weren't there for the mock battles, the strenuous training Luna and Artemis designed. They didn't understand that what looked like ease was actually the result of repeated practice and a developed routine.
So the routine was fairly simple, it had to be for her to remember, but it did require a great deal of cooperation and coordination. It would occur something like the following:
First, one or more of the scouts would find out about a youma roaming loose - usually in the park, although, that wasn't really a requirement.
Secondly that person (or people) would transform and use the communicators to alert any missing scouts as to the goings on.
Thirdly she would give a well prepared but seemingly impromptu speech, as to how and why she would destroy the youma, citing reasons such as love and justice. The others doubted the necessity of that part of the routine but allowed it to continue after Mars suggested (rather rudely in her opinion) that one day some youma was going to die from stupefaction, saving them the need to fight.
However, the youma usually just became very annoyed and began to attack, thus beginning the battle.
The battle would rage for a while, all of the scouts contributing, but then there would come a moment when Serena was certain that she was about to meet her maker. Or, at the very least, her mother from the moon, Serenity. Instead, Tuxedo Mask would swoop in to the rescue and give her the encouragement needed to end the battle and turn the poor youma into dust.
Such was the routine. Such was how it always went.
But this battle, this battle was different. This time there were key elements missing. Two scouts and one Tuxedo Mask, to be exact. And that changed everything.
Serena was the first to reach the youma, not a rare event for her. He looked, as she'd noted on the TV, rather like Robin Hood, a young archer with a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other. Of course, there could be no mistaking him for the munificent thief as in no picture of him that Serena (or Sailor Moon, as she know was) had seen was he portrayed as a giant with mottled green skin and orange hair.
And of course Robin Hood gave money to the poor, not energy sucking arrows to the heart, but really, other than that they were very similar.
Sailor Moon stopped the flight of one such arrow with her tiara, thus garnering her his undivided (not to mention unwanted) attention. Unfortunately for her, being the entertainment to ugly monsters was a common event and so she launched into one of her speeches without much difficulty, or even thought. For a good ten minutes she prattled on, her throat getting unbelievably parched before she noticed that some backup in the form of Sailors Mars and Jupiter had finally arrived. As soon as she spotted them, Sailor Moon rounded off her speech with an, "and in the name of the moon I shall punish you."
The youma, whose head had been suspiciously drifting forward, jerked to attention at the sudden silence. He seemed to suddenly come to life reaching for his arrows and shooting them at Sailor Moon with a surprising alacrity for one so large.
Poor Sailor Moon was running to and fro - too busy attempting to dodge the arrows to launch any attack of her own.
Mars and Jupiter were not thus encumbered but they too were finding it very difficult to stop the enraged green giant. When Mars finally managed to keep him still with a well positioned fire chain Sailor Moon took a quick breather and planned her attack.
She, however, was not quick enough, for the youma managed to break free of the fiery chain and send an arrow whizzing straight to her heart.
Sailor Moon stood rooted to her spot, too paralyzed with shock and fear to move out of its path.
This was it. This was the moment Tuxedo Mask was to come and whisk her away to safety. But, he was in a chapel somewhere across the city and immune to her plight. The moment was wasted. The routine had failed. And all went black.
Darien glanced around the little chapel in confusion. Mina had just. . .vanished. One minute she was stood next to him, shouting into the empty air as though at some unseen thing and the next she had rushed off, her hands raised as though about to strangle someone and then she was gone. How could she disappear like that?
He turned to look at the priest, seeking some kind of verification that the strangeness he had just witnessed truly had come to pass. But the priest was worthless for that endeavor, for any endeavor really, unless of course one wished to be driven to madness by truly wretched poetry, in which case the priest would be a great boon indeed. The man was staring dreamily off into space murmuring about eyes as blue as blue ink.
Darien, however, understandably had no such desire to be driven to madness. Although he did have to wonder if he wasn't already there. It was as though by coming to Greece he'd entered not another country but another universe – some strange twilight zone filled with strange occurrences that left him baffled him but somehow made sense to everyone else.
He ticked them off in his head as he headed out of the chapel. Serena and Kunzite; his proposal and interrupted wedding to Mina, her Houdini act, the poetry spouting priest.
Any one of those things alone was strange, but put all of them together. . .
Yes, an alternate universe definitely sounded plausible. Or maybe he was just suffering from delusions. He had been working rather hard lately. All that pressure must have cracked him.
He wasn't so far gone as not to consider that such a realization should incite a deep seated horror but the closest he could feel to that was mild annoyance. And that too was slowly getting washed away by a most inappropriate euphoria that started in his heart and trickled through the rest of him until even his toes were tingling with it.
He exited the chapel, mumbling excitedly to himself as he went, "I haven't lost Serena. Just my mind." That thought was followed by one considerably less appealing, "What if she doesn't want a crazy boyfriend? I can't afford to go for therapy just now. Not after buying that ring." That last thought, however, made him stop and wonder, "I did buy a ring, didn't I?"
He patted the front pocket of his trousers and pulled out a ring box, flipped it open and asked, "Is this a ring I see before me? In the box in my hand?" That, he mused was the trouble with being crazy, he had no idea if what he observed was truly happening or a figment of his imagination.
Ah, well, as long as he had Serena what did the rest matter?
A/N: Dum da dum dum. Is Sailor Moon still alive? Can Mars and Jupiter defeat the youma on their own? Or has this whole story just been a figment of Darien's overactive imagination? And where are Amy and Mina? All to come in the next chapter of Cupid's Stay! LOL. Seriously, review and the next chapter'll be here all the sooner (well. . probably, anyway). And please criticize so I can fix the sucky bits!
Hey all! This is just a little post to let you know I'm still alive, and perhaps more importantly, still writing. I know I've been horrible with the updating but my life's been surprisingly hectic. If you'll just bear with me a bit longer this story's almost done. I'll admit that this chapter was definitely not worth the wait but I have a couple of future scenes written and they're not so terrible and will hopefully all be out and done by September (don't laugh, I'm serious).
The last chapter was written and posted in such a rush I didn't get to say thanks to all the lovely people who reviewed Chapter 7. So, thanks!
sparkling stars: I'm glad you like it so far. No worries about Darien and Serena, I feel the same way as you. Well, maybe a little about of worry as there's no fun in cleaning everything up too fast!
Lara1786: Lol. Poor Cupid. Ah well, no less than he deserves. Sorry to take so long to update but you did say you didn't want the ending so soon. . . Although somehow I doubt this is what you meant :) And because I write such horribly short chapters, the end still isn't here! I know I promised it months ago, sorry!
ladydee-1au: Don't worry, it's temporary. Probably :)
honey-gurl: Mina is Venus, the Roman goddess of love. Aphrodite is the Greek Godess of love. While most people think of them as two names for the same person I chose to interpret it as two people for the same role.
Chibi J: I'm glad you like it! I like your idea, but I don't know if Cupid will give Mina the chance to say it. That's still to come.
crescat: Thanks muchly! And Mina is certainly going to try.
Serenity's Angel In Heaven: Sorry to take forever. And write so little. And for it not to be that great. Guess you'll just have to flame me. winces But, I really will do better next time, honest.
A/N: My first fanfic so all thoughts would be truly, madly appreciated.
Rated PG-13
Cupid's Stay: Chapter 9
Serena's breath came out in short little puffs as she ran to the park. She knew that most people thought being a sailor scout was something glamorous, a position to be envied. They saw pretty girls in short skirts easily defeating evil monsters with the help of dashing young men.
They didn't see the effort that goes into it. They never witnessed Serena standing in front of the mirror for hours upon end practicing poses and loquacious speeches. They weren't there for the mock battles, the strenuous training Luna and Artemis designed. They didn't understand that what looked like ease was actually the result of repeated practice and a developed routine.
So the routine was fairly simple, it had to be for her to remember, but it did require a great deal of cooperation and coordination. It would occur something like the following:
First, one or more of the scouts would find out about a youma roaming loose - usually in the park, although, that wasn't really a requirement.
Secondly that person (or people) would transform and use the communicators to alert any missing scouts as to the goings on.
Thirdly she would give a well prepared but seemingly impromptu speech, as to how and why she would destroy the youma, citing reasons such as love and justice. The others doubted the necessity of that part of the routine but allowed it to continue after Mars suggested (rather rudely in her opinion) that one day some youma was going to die from stupefaction, saving them the need to fight.
However, the youma usually just became very annoyed and began to attack, thus beginning the battle.
The battle would rage for a while, all of the scouts contributing, but then there would come a moment when Serena was certain that she was about to meet her maker. Or, at the very least, her mother from the moon, Serenity. Instead, Tuxedo Mask would swoop in to the rescue and give her the encouragement needed to end the battle and turn the poor youma into dust.
Such was the routine. Such was how it always went.
But this battle, this battle was different. This time there were key elements missing. Two scouts and one Tuxedo Mask, to be exact. And that changed everything.
Serena was the first to reach the youma, not a rare event for her. He looked, as she'd noted on the TV, rather like Robin Hood, a young archer with a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other. Of course, there could be no mistaking him for the munificent thief as in no picture of him that Serena (or Sailor Moon, as she know was) had seen was he portrayed as a giant with mottled green skin and orange hair.
And of course Robin Hood gave money to the poor, not energy sucking arrows to the heart, but really, other than that they were very similar.
Sailor Moon stopped the flight of one such arrow with her tiara, thus garnering her his undivided (not to mention unwanted) attention. Unfortunately for her, being the entertainment to ugly monsters was a common event and so she launched into one of her speeches without much difficulty, or even thought. For a good ten minutes she prattled on, her throat getting unbelievably parched before she noticed that some backup in the form of Sailors Mars and Jupiter had finally arrived. As soon as she spotted them, Sailor Moon rounded off her speech with an, "and in the name of the moon I shall punish you."
The youma, whose head had been suspiciously drifting forward, jerked to attention at the sudden silence. He seemed to suddenly come to life reaching for his arrows and shooting them at Sailor Moon with a surprising alacrity for one so large.
Poor Sailor Moon was running to and fro - too busy attempting to dodge the arrows to launch any attack of her own.
Mars and Jupiter were not thus encumbered but they too were finding it very difficult to stop the enraged green giant. When Mars finally managed to keep him still with a well positioned fire chain Sailor Moon took a quick breather and planned her attack.
She, however, was not quick enough, for the youma managed to break free of the fiery chain and send an arrow whizzing straight to her heart.
Sailor Moon stood rooted to her spot, too paralyzed with shock and fear to move out of its path.
This was it. This was the moment Tuxedo Mask was to come and whisk her away to safety. But, he was in a chapel somewhere across the city and immune to her plight. The moment was wasted. The routine had failed. And all went black.
Darien glanced around the little chapel in confusion. Mina had just. . .vanished. One minute she was stood next to him, shouting into the empty air as though at some unseen thing and the next she had rushed off, her hands raised as though about to strangle someone and then she was gone. How could she disappear like that?
He turned to look at the priest, seeking some kind of verification that the strangeness he had just witnessed truly had come to pass. But the priest was worthless for that endeavor, for any endeavor really, unless of course one wished to be driven to madness by truly wretched poetry, in which case the priest would be a great boon indeed. The man was staring dreamily off into space murmuring about eyes as blue as blue ink.
Darien, however, understandably had no such desire to be driven to madness. Although he did have to wonder if he wasn't already there. It was as though by coming to Greece he'd entered not another country but another universe – some strange twilight zone filled with strange occurrences that left him baffled him but somehow made sense to everyone else.
He ticked them off in his head as he headed out of the chapel. Serena and Kunzite; his proposal and interrupted wedding to Mina, her Houdini act, the poetry spouting priest.
Any one of those things alone was strange, but put all of them together. . .
Yes, an alternate universe definitely sounded plausible. Or maybe he was just suffering from delusions. He had been working rather hard lately. All that pressure must have cracked him.
He wasn't so far gone as not to consider that such a realization should incite a deep seated horror but the closest he could feel to that was mild annoyance. And that too was slowly getting washed away by a most inappropriate euphoria that started in his heart and trickled through the rest of him until even his toes were tingling with it.
He exited the chapel, mumbling excitedly to himself as he went, "I haven't lost Serena. Just my mind." That thought was followed by one considerably less appealing, "What if she doesn't want a crazy boyfriend? I can't afford to go for therapy just now. Not after buying that ring." That last thought, however, made him stop and wonder, "I did buy a ring, didn't I?"
He patted the front pocket of his trousers and pulled out a ring box, flipped it open and asked, "Is this a ring I see before me? In the box in my hand?" That, he mused was the trouble with being crazy, he had no idea if what he observed was truly happening or a figment of his imagination.
Ah, well, as long as he had Serena what did the rest matter?
A/N: Dum da dum dum. Is Sailor Moon still alive? Can Mars and Jupiter defeat the youma on their own? Or has this whole story just been a figment of Darien's overactive imagination? And where are Amy and Mina? All to come in the next chapter of Cupid's Stay! LOL. Seriously, review and the next chapter'll be here all the sooner (well. . probably, anyway). And please criticize so I can fix the sucky bits!