Chapter 2: Bunny and Darien's Wedding
The next day was a little hectic for Bunny and her friends. Everyone was excited that the wedding they had been waiting for so long was finally going to happen. Pearl was Bunny's maid of honor, while the four inner scouts were her brides maids. Darien had chosen Helios as his best man.
They were having a simple ceremony. Though most of the people on Earth now knew who they were, Bunny and Darien didn't want a royal wedding. They held it outside, at Raye's temple. Only their closest friends and family were there. As well as Miaka, Taka, Yui and Tetsuya.
After the ceremony their was a grand reception. After all the formalities of it were over, Bunny ran up to Miaka.
"I'm glad you could make it," Bunny smiled.
"So am I. You look beautiful Bunny," Miaka complimented, making Bunny blush.
Bunny grabbed Miaka's hand, "Come on, I want to introduce you to all my friends." Bunny and Miaka went off laughing, while Taka, Yui and Tetsuya followed behind.
First Bunny found Pearl with Jade, Jet, Hotaru, Rini (who had come for the wedding) and Helios. "Everyone, I want you to meet my new friends," Bunny announced. "This is Miaka, Taka, Yui and Tetsuya. Well, you already know Pearl and Jade. These are Jet, Hotaru, Rini and Helios." Everyone said "Hi" to each other. Bunny and Pearl had already told them about meeting Miaka and the others.
Next, Bunny hunted down the inner scouts and their boyfriends. "Amy, Zoisite, Raye, Jadeite, Lita, Nephrite, Mina and Kunzite; these are the new friends I told you about Miaka, Taka, Yui and Tetsuya," Bunny introduced. By this time Darien had joined them. He helped them track down the outer scouts as well as the asteroid scouts, and introduce everyone.
"Wow Bunny, you sure do have a lot of friends," Yui laughed.
"I'm not done yet, there are two more people you have to meet," Bunny replied while scanning the crowed. "There they are. Miaka, Taka, Yui and Tetsuya let me introduce to you Molly and Melvin. We've been friends forever." Ever since the Redeans had come, Bunny had been very careful to include Molly and Melvin in any purely social gathering she had with her scouts friends.
"And I thought there were a lot of Suzaku warriors," Taka grinned. "But their nothing compared to the Sailor Scouts."
Everyone had to laugh at this. "It's hard to believe it used to be only the five of us," Mina remembered.
"How ever did we get along," Lita joked.
"Barely," Bunny laughed. "Remember, we keeped nearly killing ourselves in our final battles."
Miaka turned to Bunny, "Tomorrow afternoon you have to come and meet all of our friends. All of you."
Yui thought about this, "Hey, were are we all going to fit to have this meeting?"
Darien easily solved that problem, "Why doesn't everyone come to our new house tomorrow around 2 p.m.?" Everyone agreed to that. They all wanted to see this new house. Only Bunny, Darien, Pearl and Luna had seen inside so far.
After the reception everyone went home. Pearl and Luna were staying at the apartment for one more night. To give Bunny and Darien at lest a small honeymoon.
Bunny's and Darien's new house looked a lot like the one owned by Amara, Michelle and Trista. It was rather large, and had a good size rose garden around it.
Inside was very "homey." There was a living room, dinning room and kitchen, needless to say. Also, there was a library for all of Darien's books. Upstairs there was the master bedroom, as well as rooms for Pearl and Rini, when she was there. As well as a number of guest bedrooms. The living room was rather large. It could hold everyone easily.
When Bunny awoke she couldn't help but think that the day before had been a wonderful dream. But then she looked at her ring finger, and there was her wedding ring. She smiled to herself and turned to see if Darien was awake.
"Good morning Buns," Darien smiled.
"Good morning Darien," Bunny said, as she snuggled closer to her husband.
"You seem happy," Darien teased.
"And why shouldn't I be? A dream came true for me yesterday," Bunny replied. "Now I don't have to worry about anything coming between us ever again."
Darien smiled, "I'm glad you feel the same way as me." After that they got up and had breakfast. The had awoken some what late, and had to make sure that they were ready for when everyone arrived.
By 2 p.m. Darien and Bunny were eagerly awaiting their guests. Luna, Pearl, Jade, Jet, Hotaru, Rini and Helios were the first to arrive. They, however, were soon followed by the inner scouts and the four generals. The outer scouts and asteroid scouts arrived together, soon afterwards.
"What a lovely house," Michelle commented.
"I especially like the rose gardens," Helios praised.
"I'm glad you all like it," Darien said.
Bunny smiled, "Now all that we need are our new friends." Almost before she had finished speaking the door bell rang. Bunny ran to it and found Miaka and all her friends there.
"Hi," Miaka laughed. "Do you really have room for all of us?"
"Of course," Bunny laughed back. "You should of seen how many we could cram into our old apartment." Bunny lead the new arrivals into the living room.
"Well I guess I should introduce everyone," Miaka said. "Let's see… you all already know Yui, Taka and Tetsuya. So let's start with the Suzaku Seven: This is Hotohori, he was the Emperor, Nuriko who used to pretend he was a girl, Chichiri who trained as a monk, Tasuki the mountain bandit, Mitsukake the healer, and Chiriko the child genus." Everyone said "Hi." "Oh and this is Keiske, my older brother." All the scouts introduced themselves.
"You know, it's a good thing you have a house now Bunny," Rini teased. "I don't think we could have fit everyone into the apartment."
"Not unless they could become our size," Diana said. The new arrivals had been warned about talking cats, but it still surprised them. Tama was especially interested and went up to Diana.
"And who is this cutie?" Hotaru wondered, who had always loved white cats.
"This is Tama," Mitsukake explained. "He may just be an ordinary cat, but he's very friendly." Diana, who had never been around many normal cats, found Tama to be a great playmate.
"Well, it looks like those two hit it off," Chiriko observed.
They all sat and talked for a while. They had plenty of things to discuss. Everyone was interested in everyone else's abilities. When Darien went to make tea Lita produced some of her homemade cookies to go with it.
"Ohhh, thank you Lita," Bunny cooed when she saw the cookies. "Miaka, you wouldn't believe what a good cook Lita is."
"I just hope you brought some extra," Nuriko teased. "Miaka's got one big appetite.
Bunny and Miaka smiled at each other. Lita laughed, "So I've been told. Though I'm not sure I believe that anyone has as big an appetite as Bunny." Bunny and Miaka eagerly proved that they were equal when it came to polishing off the cookies, though they did leave the others some.
"You know, it really does seem strange. All of us meeting, just before the weddings," Amy observed.
"You're right," Keiske agreed. "There must be a reason for it."
Chichiri looked up, "It's to bad we can't ask Tai Itsukun. I bet she would know if there was a reason for us meeting. No Da."
"Well, maybe we can ask Queen Serenity," Raye thought aloud. "She generally knows what's going on."
Bunny was glad to see that everyone was getting along. But then she noticed that Tasuki seemed a little uncomfortable. She went over to him, and Miaka, noticing this, went as well.
"Hey Tasuki. Aren't you having fun?" Bunny asked.
Tasuki looked up and smiled, "Yeah. It's just, I don't like..."
Miaka interrupted him, "Tasuki! You promised you wouldn't say that anymore." Bunny wandered what she was talking about. "You see, Tasuki has never really liked girls." Miaka glares at Tasuki. "So being around so many is probably a little unsettling for him. But he promised my, after we first summoned Suzaku that he wouldn't say 'I don't like girls' anymore."
Bunny smiled, "So why don't you like girls Tasuki. It's not like we bite or anything."
Tasuki had to smile at this, "Yeah, I know. But I had a lot of sisters growing up, and whenever I get mixed up with girls I always seem to have to fight to protect them."
"Well, that's not a problem here," Bunny laughed. "Us Sailor Scouts can fight for ourselves."
As they had their tea and cookies Hotohori wondered, "Who is this Queen Serenity?"
All the scouts and their old friends sighed. Bunny started things off by asking, "How much have they told you about us?"
"Well," Chiriko stated, "they told us that you are the Sailor Scouts. And about how you've fought all these battles. Also, how you and Darien will rule the world one day. And of course they warned us about the talking cats."
"Okay, so you all know about us, but not our past," Darien summed up. The Suzaku seven nodded.
"Well, Queen Serenity was Bunny's mother, over a thousand years ago," Amy explained.
"See, we have a lived before, just like most of you," Trista started. "It was during the Silver Millennium, and this solar system had two kingdoms, the Moon Kingdom ruled by Queen Serenity and her daughter Princess Serenity, and the Golden Kingdom lead by Prince Endymion."
"Wow, so not only will you rule in your future but you ruled in the past," Chichiri said. "And you can still contact Queen Serenity? No Da."
"Yup," Pearl affirmed. "In fact it's really easy, all we have to do is go to the Moon."
Everyone from the Suzaku group started to laugh. They thought Pearl was joking because they didn't see anything easy about going to the Moon. "Go… to the… Moon," Yui gasped. "You're joking, right?"
The scouts all looked at them seriously. "No, we really can go to the Moon, quit easily," Luna stated.
The Suzaku group was still a little skeptical. Finally Keiske said, "Hey, is going to the moon really so much more unbelievable then a teenage girl going into a library book?" They all had to agree it wasn't.
"Hey, about that book. What did you call it? The Universe of the Four Gods. Do you still have it?" Darien asked.
"Yeah, actually I do," Miaka answered. "I even brought it with me today." Miaka reached into her bag and pulled out, not only the book but a scroll as well. She handed them book to Darien. "That's the book Yui and I were originally dragged into. As far as we know it can't be destroyed."
"So what's that scroll?" Zoisite inquired.
"Oh, this is the scroll Taka and I got pulled into later on," Miaka explained.
Bunny and Darien were flipping through the book when Bunny noticed something. "Miaka, I thought you said that the picture of Suzaku was at the beginning?"
"Yeah, it was. Why?"
"Well, now it at least halfway through the book."
"Oh that," Taka smiled. "Yeah, well you see, the book started at the beginning for the first three priestesses. Because Yui, the priestess of Seryiu was in the book at the same time as Miaka it didn't start over for her. But when Miaka was finished all of the stories ended up in the book in the order they happened."
"Actually, it was fun reading about what happened to the other priestesses," Yui commented. "Specially since we already knew a little about them. Though reading about what happened to us is a little depressing." Yui looked down and Miaka put her arm around her. Yui still felt bad about how she behaved in the book.
Bunny had an idea, "Hey Miaka, could I barrow the book and scroll? I'd love to read what happened to you and the other priestesses."
Miaka smiled, "Sure, but remember it's in old Chinese."
Bunny thought about that for a moment, then smiled, "That's okay, I'll just get Darien to read them to me." Bunny and Miaka laughed.
Taka turned to Darien, "Nice how they just assume we'll do whatever they want, isn't it?"
Darien nodded and smiled, "Well, we'd be crazy not to make them happy." He put his arm around Bunny and took the book in his other hand. "Well, it looks like we have some bedtime reading to do, Meatball Head." The scouts laughed at Darien's use of his old nickname for Bunny.
"Darien, I haven't heard her called that in a long time," Raye said. "Even I stopped using it, now that we don't fight anymore."
The others didn't get it. "Why was Bunny called Meatball Head?" Nuriko asked.
"That's easy, because her hair looks like a pair of meatballs," Darien explained. "And, believe it or not, when Bunny and I first meet we didn't like each other, at all!"
"No way!" Miaka cried. She looked at Bunny, "Tell me it's not true."
Bunny laughed, "Well… I guess it depend on what you call our 'first meeting.' Darien's talking about when we first meet in the present, and it's true. I thought he was a jerk and he thought I was an air head. Only, he called me Meatball Head instead. However, I told him that he could after recusing him from Beryl. He only uses it to tease me about stuff I don't know now." Bunny pocked Darien, "Like not being able to read old Chinese."
"Well, that's one thing we don't have in common," Miaka stated. "I liked Tamahome from the beginning. Though he did seem to be very greedy back then. He wanted payment for recusing Yui and I." Miaka glares at Taka.
"Hey, I had a family to think about," Taka tries to defend himself.
Miaka laughs, "Yeah, and if it wasn't for your greed we might never of met Hotohori."
"Yeah, or be thrown in prison," Taka reminded her. Everyone started to laugh.
"Okay, now I really want to read this book," Bunny said.
"I'm sure you'll enjoy it," Yui commented. "But it's getting late and we should go." Everyone agreed. Soon only Pearl, Luna, Bunny and Darien were left. Rini and Diana had returned to the future earlier that evening.
"Well, I'm going to go to bed in my new room," Pearl smiles. "Good night Bunny, night Darien."
"Night Pearl," Bunny and Darien said.
"Well, I'll be with Pearl for a while," Luna said. "I can read the book later, I'm tired now." After getting a few pets from Bunny and Darien Luna joined Pearl.
Darien looked at Bunny, "So you want to start on The Universe of the Four Gods?"
"Yup, but lets read about Miaka and Yui first, then go back and read the others. I'm really curious about how she meet Hotohori now," Bunny suggested.
"Yeah, me too." So Bunny and Darien settled down in their bed and read about how Miaka and Yui were pulled into the book and didn't stop until after Miaka had agreed to be the Priestess of Suzaku.