Chapter 20: Molly and Melvin Know the Truth
Princess Serenity turned to all her friends. "I'm soooo sorry for all I've done," she gushed.
"You should be!" Raye scolded, then burst out laughing. "But we know you didn't mean any of it."
"It's so good to have you back," Trista smiled.
"It's good to be back," Serenity assured them. She turned to Rini and hugged her, "I'm especially sorry for what I said about you."
Rini smiled at her mother, "Don't worry. I know what it's like to be evil, remember?"
Serenity nodded and turned to Pearl, "I left my ribbon at Darien's place. I'll put it on as soon as we go there, okay?"
Pearl shook her head, "No, you will put it on now!" Pearl reached into her pocket and pulled out Serenity's friendship ribbon. She then tied it around her sisters wrist. "I knew we'd get you back."
Ann ran over and hugged Serenity. "I'm glad that your love for Darien hasn't changed at all. No wonder I had no chance with him last time I was here," she teased.
"Hey, I tried to warn you," Serenity laughed. She turned to Darien, "And I'm glad that you never gave up on me."
"I'm just returning the favor. You've turned me back twice, which means I still owe you one," Darien smiled. He put the red rose back into her hair. "I'm glad I remembered our old code."
Serenity nodded happily. "I'm glad I couldn't sleep last night, and that I went into the garden instead of talking to Molly. :gasp: Oh my, Molly and Melvin! They still think your all evil!" Serenity turned and was surprised to see that Molly and Melvin were still sitting where she had left them. "Luna, what are we going to do?"
"Well, first I think you should ride them of all the negative energy they have absorbed being with the Redeans. Once that's done we'll have to bring them home and explain the truth to them."
Serenity gathered up her crystal and walked over to her two friends, "Moon Crystal Healing Activation!" Molly and Melvin blinked a few times from the light, then smiled up at Serenity. "Come on you two. We have a lot of talking to do, it's time you learned the whole truth about me and my new friends." Molly and Melvin nodded, got up and joined the group heading for Darien's and Bunny's apartment.
When they all arrived at the apartment, they sat Molly and Melvin down on one side of the table while Darien and Bunny sat on the other. Pearl and Jade went to make some tea as the rest settled themselves down for the very long chat.
"Well, to start with I want to apologize for never telling you that I was Sailor Moon," Bunny stated.
Luna interrupted, "I thought it best if as few people as possible knew who the Sailor Scouts were. That way there was less chance of an enemy being able to find the scouts friends and using them for bait."
"That makes since," Molly agreed.
"Also, I want to make sure that you aren't going to run back to the Redeans when we are done," Bunny continued. "I'd hate to lose two of my best friends."
"Don't worry Bunny. We're on your side," Melvin assured them.
"So lets start at the beginning..." Darien suggested as Pearl and Jade brought in the tea. They all started to explain about the Silver Millennium with it's Moon Kingdom and Golden Kingdom. They told Molly and Melvin about how the people from Earth and the people from the Moon were forbidden by law to be in contact, but the strong love that the Prince of the Earth and the Princess of the Moon shared anyhow. They continued to explain the original roles of the Sailor Scouts of each plant. How the inner scouts were the Princess bodyguards, Uranus and Neptune the Solar Systems lookout guards, Saturn the final destroyer and Pluto the keeper of time. After that, they moved on to the Redeans original attack and then how Queen Metallia attacked and the destruction of the Moon Kingdom, leading to the scouts rebirth.
The scouts continued to explain about Queen Metallia's second attack, followed by the arrival of the Doom Tree and Rini. By the time that they had explained how the outer scouts and Helios had joined the group again, Molly and Melvin were in complete awe. The final battle with Queen Metallia and the happy reunion of all present touched their hearts.
"And that bring us to this year," Bunny stated. "Two nights before the beginning of school the Doom Tree contacted me in a dream asking for my help."
Ann continued, "Then the four of us showed up and the search for the new enemy started."
"That's when we are started to get alittle preoccupied, which must of aroused your suspicion," Lita explained.
"That's also when everyone started to act depressed, and you two listened to our meeting," Bunny added.
It was the scouts turn to be shocked. "You mean these two heard one of our meeting?" Amara demanded.
"Yup, the one were Luna, Artemis and Diana pointed out how strangely you all were acting," Melvin confirmed.
"It was just after that meeting that Queen Ralcea called us to her and started filling our heads with all those lies and half truths about you all," Molly shared.
"So that's how you found out about us all," Amy sighed.
"And how you were able to get to Bunny," Ceres reasoned. Molly and Melvin nodded.
"I still have a question for you two," Darien proclaimed. "How did you know that all Buns wanted was to be a normal teenager? Even most of us had forgotten about those old feelings of hers."
Molly smiled, "That's simple. I simply know my best friend. You see we noticed that she was always depressed while fighting an enemy, more so then the rest of you. And I remembered how much she always enjoyed doing simple normal things when the enemy was gone."
They all smiled at that. "Your right Molly. You do know me," Bunny laughed. They all chatted for a while longer before Bunny thought of something. "Hey!" Everyone looked at her. "If you guys left the concert before my speech, how did you know what I was planing?"
Everyone looked at each other. None of them wanted to tell Bunny that her mother had heard the speech. Finally Darien got up the courage to tell her. "Well, we left right away because we had planed to visit someone who we thought could help get you back." Bunny gave him a questioning look. "We went to the Moon to ask your mother, Queen Serenity, what to do." Bunny's eyes got wide, and sad. "After explaining things to her the Queen got out a mirror..."
Bunny cut him off, "A mirror that let her see what was happening on Earth."
"How did you know that?" Darien wondered.
"How do you think I first saw you? That was one of the ways we could watch over the people on Earth, and my favorite way to watch you," Bunny explained. "So she heard the speech, did she? How did she take it?"
"She took it quite well, actually," Luna assured her. "She told us what we had to do, taking special care that Darien wouldn't waver. Then she left."
"I need to go visit her. Explain to her what happened," Bunny sighed.
"I'm sure she'd like that," Pearl said.
"But wouldn't she like to hear that you reversed all the damage more?" Kunzite asked.
"That's right. All the people that were at your concert are still going to hate the Sailor Scouts," Mina recalled
"You're right. What are we going to do about that?" Bunny cried.
"That's simple. The same thing you did to get them to like the Redeans," Artemis explained. "Just in the opposite order. First, use your crystal to rid them of all the negative energy the Redeans have been feeding them. Then hold another concert, and explain things."
"Sounds simple enough," Vesta replied.
"Ohhh, another concert. I'm so exited. I love hearing you play Bunny," Pallas exclaimed.
"All right, but this time I want Hotaru in it too. It just didn't feel right with only one of you," Bunny agreed.
"Yeah, like that's the only reason it didn't feel right," Michelle snickered.
Bunny shot her a killing glance, and turned to Hotaru, "So what do you say? Will you join us on stage?"
"You know I would never say no to you, Princess," Hotaru laughed. "Besides, then I can brag that I was in two concerts with our future Queen."