Chapter 4

Once the Sailor Scouts were sure that no one else could see them, they transformed into their normal selves. "I wonder why that thing was after Sammy," Serena said. "After all, what does Sammy have to do with taking over the world?"

"Nothing," Lita replied.

"Then why would they attack him?" Mina asked.

"Maybe they wanted to distract us while getting something else," Amy suggested. "They know that we'll go to help one of our fellow Scouts, or anyone in that matter."

Raye shook her head. "That can't be. We could easily have divided up and gone after them."

Amy shrugged. "It was just an idea."

The group walked on towards Raye's in silence. After a while, Terence spoke. "I think Amy's right, you guys," he said. "But there may be more to it than we think."

As the group headed up the steps, Raye called out for her grandfather. "Funny," she said when she got no answer back. "He's not here."

They started walking towards the temple, when Chad came out of nowhere. "Raye!" he cried. "Monster! Your grandfather!"

"What Chad? What happened?" Raye asked, not sure she was hearing him correctly.

Chad took a deep breath then said, "A monster came here about fifteen minutes ago and tried to take your grandfather away."

Raye started to cry. "No!" she cried. "No." Raye ran off towards her room crying.

The scouts looked at one another.
"Chad," Serena said. "Could we use the phone?"

Chad nodded. "You know where it is," he said.

Serena walked inside their house (which was hidden from the temple view), the others followed her. Once inside, she dialed her home number. It rang twice. Twice. Three times. No one answered. Serena looked behind her and shook her head. "No one home," she said, worried. "Sammy didn't even answer."

She moved and Amy walked towards the phone. She dialed her number. The same thing happened. Mina dialed after Amy. Then Lita after Mina, and Terence after Lita. They all got the same results. No one answered the phone. Serena looked at them.

"Terence and Amy were right," Serena said. "The Negaverse wanted to distract us. But if we rescued my brother how could they have gotten him?"

"Clone?" Amy suggested.

Serena wiped her eyes, which had begun to fill with tears.

Immediately, Terence went over to his sister. "We'll get them back," he said, trying to comfort her. "Don't worry.

"You're right," she said. Then, "I need to phone Darien." Serena picked up the receiver and dialed Darien's number. Darien picked up on the second ring. "Darien," Serena said, her voice full of tears.

"Serena, what's wrong?" he asked, concerned.

"They've got our families," Serena choked. "Sammy, mom, dad. Everyone. Raye's. Amy's. Lita's. Mina's. Terence's."

"Terence?" he asked.

"The other guy who showed up yesterday," Serena explained.

"Oh," Darien said. Then, "I'll be right over. Where are you guys?"

"Cherry Hill Temple," Serena replied.

"See ya," Darien said and hung up. After hanging up the phone, Darien ran his hand through his hair and sighed in aggravation. "I can't believe what they did," he said. He was about to take out a rose, but changed his mind. Instead, he transformed into Prince Darien. He walked out onto his balcony. He stepped on the railing and jumped off, landing with both feet firmly on the ground. Quickly, he ran over and grabbed his motorcycle, gunned the engine and drove as fast as possible towards the temple.

Minutes later, Serena ran outside when she heard the sound of a motorcycle. Darien! Serena decided that they should transform. One by the one they transformed.

"Moon Crystal Power!"

"Mercury Star Power!"

"Mars Star Power!"
"Jupiter Star Power!"

"Venus Star Power!"

"Sun Star Power!"

Prince Darien ran up the stairs that led towards the temple. He saw the Sailor Scouts standing at the top of the stairs. There were six of them. Prince Darien arrived at the top quickly.

"Hello, Prince Darien. I am Sailor Sun," the new Scout said. Darien shook hands with the new Scout, a little confused but having some idea who he must be.

"The Negamoon wanted to lead us to their own area," Darien said after the introduction was over. "They can't defeat us on our turf, so they're driving us to their land."

"So they took our families as bait, to make sure we'd come," Mercury finished for him with a nod. "How are we planning on finding out an entrance to get in?"

Sailor Moon jumped as a thunder clap suddenly sounded in the distance. The group looked at the sky and noticed it was suddenly turning dark.

A figure appeared in the sky. It was Sapphire. "Sailor Scouts!" he cried. "An entrance to our world is appearing in half an hour. Find it and enter to rescue your families!" The figure disappeared as quickly as it had appeared and the sky returned to it's normal blue colour.

Sailor Moon turned to look at the group. "So, where would they put the entrance?" she asked.

"A place where we probably wouldn't even think to look," Lita said.

"Which is...?" Raye asked.

"Here?" Mina suggested.

Mercury slapped her gloved hand to her forehead. "Of course," she cried, the answer coming to her immediately. "Where's the one place where we wouldn't think to look?"

Sailor Sun smiled, understanding what Mercury was trying to say. "Serena's house," he said. "Of course!"

Mercury smiled. "Right," she said.

The group gathered in a circle, and used "Sailor Teleport" to go to Serena's house.

The Sailor Scouts appeared in Serena's living room. "We still have twenty-five minutes to wait," Mercury said, seeing the time on the clock on the wall.

Sailor Sun, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars, Sailor Venus, and Prince Darien sat on chairs or the couch. Sailor Moon was pacing in front of the television.
"Serena, sit down," Sailor Mars said. "You're making me nervous."

Sailor Moon looked at Mars. "They know who are families are," Sailor Moon said, almost shouting. "Does it comfort you to know that they can strike when we are in school? Or at the mall? Even at your temple?"

"Sailor Moon, it doesn't meant that they will," Mercury said, trying to calm down their anxious leader. "For all we know, they just chose certain people from the city."

Sailor Moon looked at Mercury. "Yeah, right," she said, sarcastically. "And they just managed to pick all of our families."

"It could be," Venus said, trying to be hopeful.

Sailor Moon was angry now. Not at her friends, but at the Negamoon. She turned to glare at Venus, needing to get her anger out. "Give me a break! They know who are families are! Get that through your thick skulls! They didn't just chose! They probably had this all planned! How else could they make a clone of my brother!"

Sailor Sun stood up. "Sailor Moon, you think we don't share your pain!" he yelled at his twin sister. "You think your family is the only one gone? Wrong! Our families are gone also! We're not flying off the handle!"

"You haven't been a Sailor Scout as long as we have, have you?" Sailor Moon yelled at him accusingly. "Every new person I meet has something to do with my past! I hate it! I tried to convince myself that when I met you, you were normal! Not a part of my past, as Luna had been saying!" Tears were sliding down Sailor Moon's cheeks.

"Serena, I'm sor..."

"Let me finish!" Sailor Moon yelled wanting to voice her frustration. "I hate this life! I hated it back then, and I hate it now! Do you know how many times I haven't wanted to be Sailor Moon or the Damn Moon Princess? No! Let me tell you, if I had a choice I would have been long gone! I wouldn't have stayed for all it was worth! I would have passed this on to Molly or somebody! But I never got asked if I wanted to become Sailor Moon! I was given the duty once that stupid bitch Beryl was out of her stupid prison!"

Everyone in the group was stunned by Sailor Moon's sudden outburst. Especially Darien. Everyone knew about Serena hating being Sailor Moon and the Moon Princess she hated the responsibility of it all and only wanted a normal life. Terence knew all about it from the past. The Sailor Scouts knew all about it from the present. But they had all thought that she had learned to live with it. They had thought that she had gotten used to her duties and had learned to live with them.

Darien was the only one hearing all of these complaints for the first time. He stood up and looked straight at Sailor Moon, his eyes revealing nothing. "Even for us," Prince Darien began, his voice having no emotion, "Even for us, you would have stopped being Sailor Moon. . . the Moon Princess." He started walking towards the door. Why should he be there to help them if that was her attitude?

"Darien, wait!" Sailor Moon called after him. She hadn't meant to upset him, she had only needed to get her anger out.

He ignored her. Before he opened the door that would lead outside, he transformed back into Darien. He opened the door and walked out, slamming it behind him.

Sailor Moon stared at the shut door, frozen. The man who she was so deeply in love with (then and now) had just walked out on her because of something she had said. Suddenly, a portal opened up a few feet away from her. The five Scouts were getting ready to walk through.

"Sailor Moon?" Jupiter asked. "Ready?"

Sailor Moon wiped her eyes, then nodded. She turned and was the first to walk through the portal. The others followed after her.