Chapter 11
"Raye, do you see anything?" Serena asked, from where she sat in-between Darien and Amy.
Raye was sitting in front of everybody, only a few feet away from the fire while the other Scouts, along with Darien and Jordan were sitting all in a row several feet behind her. "Pain," Raye said, as though in a trance, "Reenie's hurt. They can't wake her."
Hearing this, Serena gasped. What was wrong with her future daughter?
"Something is warring inside of her. Evil. Good. I can't tell which one is winning."
Serena bit her lip and looked to Darien, worry in her eyes. What was the matter with her future daughter? What had happened to her?
"What is the matter with her?" Kara asked Amy anxiously, who had just finished examining Queen Serena.
The others in the room were also waiting for the answer. What had happened to Queen Serena in the fight?
It was hours later and she had still not awoken. Things had died down almost immediately after the black energy had gone out of Rodney. The Nemesis guards had faded away into smoke and the dark clouds that had covered the skies of planet Earth and Crystal Tokyo had disappeared, and the sun was shining once more.
The only problem now was that Queen Serena still hadn't woken up. Rodney had awoken an hour after the fight, and was resting peacefully in the Palace Hospital, which was two floors down. Queen Serena had been placed in her own room, and all the medical technology that could possibly help to diagnose her had been brought there.
Amy shrugged in reply. "Honestly, princess," she began, "I can't find anything wrong with her other than her being exhausted. But that was to be expected because she used the Crystal. The thing is, Queen Serena is not just regaining her strength from it being drained by the Crystal. Something happened to her in trying to change Rodney back to his normal self. None of the medical equipment or technology that we have here can find any thing wrong with her, expect that she's exhausted. I don't know what's the matter with her, princess. I'm sorry."
Alex walked over to
Amy. "So you don't know what's wrong with our queen?"
she asked.
"Correct."
Alex nodded, then
said, "Perhaps Hotaru and the Healers will know."
"Hotaru?" Kenneth asked, not knowing who these people
were.
Michelle nodded and
answered, "Hotaru is Sailor Saturn, the Sailor Scout of
Destruction. She also has powers to heal the sick. She went to study
with the Healers to try to make her powers as a healer stronger."
"But how can they heal someone, when they don't know what's
wrong?" Kara asked.
"The Healers are five very select
individuals who have the power to not only heal the physical wounds
that a person is suffering from, but the spiritual wounds as well,"
Trista explained. "They can heal the wounds that we cannot
see."
"How do we contact these Healers?" Lillian
asked, wondering why their parents had told them nothing about these
people.
"I have a feeling that we won't need to," Lita
said. "The Healers have always shown up when they were needed,
not when they were contacted."
Trista nodded. "Lita's right," she said. "The Healers seem to know when they are needed. It's as if they have an attraction to the injured. They'll show up."
Amy sighed. "For Queen Serena's sake," she began, "I hope it's soon." She did not want to be too melodramatic and scare the younger Sailor Scouts but Amy knew that they knew she was telling the truth. Their queen did not have that much time to live.
"Something is wrong," Audiana Trinta, the leader of the Healers, said.
The five Healers and Hotaru Tomoe sat in a circle, in the middle of a large garden on the planet Iounda.
At Audiana's sudden
announcement, Miceff Loand asked, "What?"
"Something
is wrong on Earth," Audiana stated, looking to the others and
standing to her feet, "In your hometown, Hotaru."
"In
Crystal Tokyo?" Hotaru gasped, afraid that it was one of her
friends.
Audiana
nodded.
"Then we should go there?" Statel Gound asked,
also standing to her full height of 6'9.
Audiana nodded. "Yes," the leader of the Healers replied, "Right away. I fear that whoever this person is, they are in quite a bit of trouble."
Immediately, the
others stood.
"I will carry you, Hotaru," Josiah
Coglua told the Sailor Scout as they began to walk towards the cliff.
"Thank you, Josiah." Hotaru knew that she had to be
carried because unlike the Healers, she did not have wings which
allowed her to soar above the land. These wings would allow the
Healers to reach Earth faster then the Communication Doorway because
while the Communication Doorway on Iounda took almost a week to set
up a link to Earth, the Healers could reach Earth easily in a few
days by flight.
"Do not be frightened, Hotaru,"
Audiana warned in a friendly voice. "The cliff drop is steep but
it helps us gain speed and makes it easier for us to fly."
Hotaru nodded. She wasn't too fond of heights but in the past few years she had spent studying with the Healers she had learned to overcome many of her fears.
Audiana, being the leader of the Healers, walked off the edge of the cliff first.
Miceff waited until
he saw Audiana fly back up and past the cliff before he stepped
off.
"Remember Hotaru," Josiah began, "There is
nothing to be frightened of."
Yeah, but you're not the one without the wings, Hotaru thought but kept it to herself. She watched as Miceff joined Audiana in the sky then as Statel stepped off the cliff edge. Hotaru took a deep breath, knowing that Josiah would be the next of the Healers to step off the cliff. Her knowledge was proved true as Josiah turned to her and asked, "Are you ready, Hotaru?"
Hotaru smiled at him and nodded. "I'm ready," she said, knowing that although she was afraid she also knew that she couldn't wait to feel how flying felt like (or at least the closest thing she could ever come to it).
Josiah smiled and wrapped his arms securely around Hotaru's waist.
Hotaru hid her smile. In the past few years that she had lived with the Healers and learned their ways, Josiah had come to mean a lot to her. And although the two of them had never discussed it, she was almost certain that Josiah felt the same about her.
It didn't take long for Statel to join Miceff and Audiana up in the air. She felt Josiah take in a deep breath and smiled. It was their turn now.
They walked towards
the cliff, Hotaru in front of Josiah. They walked off the cliff and
Hotaru held a back a scream as they free-fell several hundred feet.
"Do not worry," Josiah whispered in Hotaru's ear as
they continued to free-fall. She turned her head to see if he was
serious.
Josiah smiled
lovingly at her. "Hotaru, I have done this many times before,"
he tried to reassure her. "You are safe with me." Quickly,
he spread out his wings and immediately, Hotaru felt the pull of the
updrafts lifting them higher. She smiled, enjoying the feeling of
soaring above the ground for the first time in her life and also
knowing that this was probably going to be her last.
"Josiah,"
Hotaru began, once they were several feet away from Audiana, Miceff,
and Statel, "Can you tell who is injured on Crystal
Tokyo?"
"You are worried that it is one of your
friends?" he asked knowingly.
Hotaru nodded. "I
am. My friends are also Sailor Scouts. When I left Crystal Tokyo four
years ago, things were. . . well, things were peaceful. Queen
Serenity had just destroyed Nemesis and Prince Diamond. Pluto,
Uranus, Neptune and I arrived a day too late. We never got to help in
that battle. I came here two days after we went back to Crystal
Tokyo. There was nothing left for us to do, and I wanted to learn
more about how to use my healing powers. However, a lot can change in
four years. I still remember that time two and a half years ago when
Audiana felt that something was wrong back in Crystal Tokyo, but the
feeling quickly disappeared. That meant that whoever was injured
became better by herself. I am worried that one of my friends has
become seriously injured now. So badly injured that they need the
help of the Healers."
Josiah sighed. "Then I am sorry,
Hotaru," he said sadly. "I do not yet have the power to
sense who is injured this far away. Neither do any of the other
Healers. Audiana, however, would be the first person to know who was
injured. Our powers are as strong as our rank. Audiana has the
strongest powers out of us five, therefore, she is the leader. Miceff
is second and so on..."
Hotaru nodded to
show Josiah that she had understood what he was talking about. "How
close to Earth do we have to be for Audiana to sense who it is?"
she asked.
"Not very," Josiah told her, "We just
have to get out of this galaxy range which should take us about two
hours."
Hotaru nodded, knowing that they were going to have to stop talking. To leave Iounda, the Healers needed to reach near supersonic speed and Hotaru knew that Josiah would need to concentrate to do that. After all, reaching that speed was not easy.
Hotaru could feel Josiah reaching the supersonic speed and put her hands over her ears. Less than twenty seconds later, the Healers had left Iounda and were on there way out of their galaxy range and towards Earth.
