Once A Thief Always A Thief

By TriGemini

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or its characters they belong to Naoko Takeuchi.


Chapter One


Like every Friday night, the girls would meet up and spend time at Serena's nightclub. The Silver Moon Nightclub was considered one of the hottest nightclubs in the Californian area. There Serena would reserve a table for them on the second floor above the entranceway. A spot that was always considered 'theirs' only. However, tonight wasn't going to be like all the other Friday nights, where they would spend the evening sitting around their table talking to one another, drinking whatever sat in front of them, or dancing out on the dance floor. Because the night before, each of the girls received a phone call from Serena saying that, she had some serious news that she had to give them. Therefore, like on every Friday at the end of the long day, each of the girls got dressed all set for a night, which regularly would have been for partying. Instead, tonight would be long because of the suspense that filled the air from the cryptic message each of them had gotten.

Serena Kingsley anxiously walked rapidly through the crowds of people that were dancing that night to the pulsating rhythm of music that was playing that night. Not really caring who she walked by, as long as she got to where she was heading to and that was to the front where the entrance was. As she wandered off the dance floor, she stopped suddenly when she noticed that at the entrance she finally found who she had been looking for standing right there. There they were her friends, Amy Gower, Raye Alden, Lita Chase, and Mina Radcliff, the best of friends that a girl could ever have in this life or any other. Serena knew that now that they were all here things would be okay. Therefore, she finally got a hold of herself and leisurely walked over to them, acting as if she had the world at her feet. It was too bad though, that it was only an act. The girls stood in the entranceway of the nightclub to see if they could find Serena anywhere in the club, amongst the various customers that always came to dance the night away. However, as they waited the tall auburn-haired girl, was becoming a bit irritable by just waiting and so decided to make a slight comment,

"Where the hell, is she?"

At this point, the three other girls noted the impatience of their friend and one of them decided to speak before the other girl was able to go off the handle.

"Calm down Lita, I'm sure that Serena is around here somewhere," said Amy in a calm tone.

"Yeah, I mean we all know Serena and if she told us that there was something important that she has to tell us, she will show up. So don't worry so much Lita," said Mina confidently. However, deep down Mina was worried about what Serena wanted to talk about, especially with the way Serena sounded when she called her yesterday. Nevertheless, they would only find out until Serena showed up and in the meantime, they would have to wait.

"Fine, as long as she shows there's no problem, okay!" said Lita with as slight hint of irritability in her voice. Without warning, there was a tap on her shoulder. "What the…" said Lita with a scowl on her face. She was already in a foul mood; she was ready to kill whoever it was behind her. Therefore, she turned around and was ready to pounce on whomever it was that was standing there until she noticed it was Serena looking at her with an amused grin on her face.

"Awe…come on, Lita, lighten' up. You wouldn't hurt me now…would you," said Serena with a hint of amusement in her voice, as she tried to keep a straight face.

Lita pretended to still be mad with Serena said, "Hell yeah! Then again you would pull off something like that wouldn't you?" Serena on her part would just shrug her shoulders.

"Yeah and it's nice to see you too Lita," Serena said in a blasé voice, for they all knew that Lita wouldn't be Lita if she wasn't wound up at times. After greeting Lita, Serena looked over to her other friends and said, "Hey girls!"

As the others stood there, they also greeted Serena back. After that was done, it was time to get down to business and Raye being the most direct one asked,

"So what's the mystery? Why did you call yesterday and tell us that there was a problem."

For a moment, silence completely took over. Because at that moment the others looked to where Serena stood and wondered what was wrong, for Serena had looked as if her world had come crashing down around her. After a few more minutes of silence, Serena looked at her friends and said in a nervous tone, "You guys, we have a serious problem."

No one could deny that it was true, especially from the concerned look Serena was giving them all. To break the tension that was building Mina spoke up, "What is it? What's the problem?

With a dreaded look on Serena's face and her voice above a whisper she said, "Someone knows about the Silver Five."

Again, the silence took over and they all stood there not knowing what to say.


A/N: Was this chapter good to read. Please review and tell me.