This has gone off well I think. Throughout all of this, there is a subtle, out of story theme. I hate Rini. She is the cause of all problems that can be caused. My intro to slaughtered destinies might have more incite. I haven't read it in a little while though…thank you for all who have reviewed my work.
The club of change
"Hello---" Serena was playing hostess in Lita's spot, for the night sometime after they few days of hell, as she had called the so few hours home those days, when she came upon greeting the most handsomely beautiful man. He was nearly Darien to her, for an extremely brief moment, but she didn't feel him. It wasn't him, and it hurt. Covering it with her pleasant expression, she asked his party number, and whether or not he had a reservation. Judging by the stares heading towards the man general area, Serena assumed he was important. All she saw though was a man trying to set up a table with no reservation. "I am sorry Mr. William, but you do not have a reservation. Please come back next time with a Reservation." A silence fell over the restraint, and Serena felt several pairs of daggers jabbing into her body, combined with the effect of a negaverse ray or two.
She forced herself to not respond, and kept dealing with Seiya William, and his brothers. Serena kept expecting to be spat on, and demanded that she rearrange the configuration of the restaurant. Surprisingly, he smiled openly, and laughed. A light blond brother came forward, upon Seiya's summoning. "See, I told you that she wouldn't let us in. Now apologize to the lady." Serena blinked rapidly at this whole display, barely amused by this, and desperately wanting to go home and sleep. Looking around, all silence was directed to her. Giving an evil glare, and snapping, finally making the restraint at least sound active.
As attention wad dropped away from them, the pleasant appearance dropped as well. "Look, I don't honestly know who you are, but please, just leave, and let the night pass smoothly." The other two nodded to Seiya, and said they would go get the car. Her short frame was looking up to his tall frame, and he wasn't moving. She would though. "I can go get the manager, if you want." Seiya laughed, and ran a manicured hand through his pony tail. "No, no, miss, I'm leaving. It was a pleasure having you prove me right." His laugh, it was so masculine, so deep, so…Darien. His good view was shot, to her, and the look she was giving him, hopefully, was relaying that message. Oh, it was being relayed, and he was enjoying it. Still smirking, he took her hand, in which she had no time to react, and kissed it. Much to her embarrassment, she felt her heart beat increase, but as soon as he swooped in, he swooped out. She felt more exhausted than before.
"Lita, its 9 o'clock. Why are you closing now?" Serena was busing tables, and doing dishes, in a pattern, to aid in the oddly early lock up. "Really," Lita took a pause to rewet her rag," It's because we are all going out tonight." Serena blinked. Hotaru wasn't that legal yet, thankfully. "Um, Hotaru is 13." Finally, the last dish was done as the last table was washed and its chairs put up. Smiling broadly, Lita flew by the confused and tired Serena. Wearily confused, Serena grabbed her coat and keys, and followed out Lita to the parking lot, where her own simple grey Subaru was waiting to take her to Hotaru and her own rerun marathon. Leaning on the side of her car, Serena waited for Lita to explain what she meant.
"You know Elizabeth's Myth? The non alcoholic under 21 club in the middle of down town?" Serena said nothing, only wanting to go to bed, and see Hotaru. Lita grinned nervously, not knowing if this would fly or not. "Well, um, the girls and I have pulled some strings to get a private room, and an unlimited pass throughout the building." Serena actually cocked an eyebrow to that. "Why?" Serena was trying to fathom why she would do something without any payment for it, nor how it would help her. Lita saw the opportunity of helping Serena get a life falling rapidly. "What if I told you that we spent more than we should have?" Serena's expression didn't change. "There are 4 of you still, a room is charged per night plus extra so it would be around 15 minutes per person. Have a good night, Lita."
Lita watched defeatedly as got into her car, and drove off. Serena would do close to anything to have Hotaru be happy now that Lita remembered. Hurriedly, the Amazon brunette dug out her cell phone, and pressed '7'. Rei's voice and a muffled male voice answered it in the distance. "Hello, Rei's friend!" Lita smiled, and wished silently for Rei to hurry. "Rei, get on the phone. Lunar leaving Jupiter!" That archaic phrase of high school seemed to bring Rei to the phone quicker. "What is it, Jupiter?" The boys and friends of theirs knew that they had nick names along the names of the planets, so it wasn't a breach of info. "Moon refused. Call Hotaru. She had wanted to go for a long time, I over heard last time." In the distance, Lita heard Rei banish Jadeite, and several other males in the background. "I'll report back." Lita's phone clicked off, after Rei's. Now all that had to be confirmed was Hotaru's consent.
"You mean that club you can't really get into without a form of guardian?" Rei had been welcomed in, Jadeite in the car, and Hotaru had played a good little hostess. Rei noticed her father's aspects, and the perfect gestures of Serena, all while Rei had skillfully introduced the idea to Hotaru, and how her mom was stubborn, and needed a time to release the teenager of Serena, in which she lost 3 years early. Brightly contained happiness was what Hotaru's response was. "I'd love to. We haven't had time to do anything different lately. Either way, it's a temporary change. I will call mom and tell her, then go get dressed. Could you..." Hotaru turned from her confident attitude to a relatively shy one. "What?" Rei stood up with Hotaru, her dark hair swaying. "Mom doesn't own the type of formal wear that...we are thinking of." Rei smiled and shook her head. She had to be older than 15, say, more mid twenties. She also couldn't ask for help, as her mom couldn't. "Yes, I will pick something out. Go call your mom." Hotaru 'bah'-ed as Rei pushed her, and Rei 'bah'-ed as she was called auntie.
Serena scowled at the thought of spending the money on something such as a club. Hell, it wasn't even a 21+ club, so she couldn't get drunk. Hotaru kept her from getting drunk, anyhow. This was a new thinking for her, as she reflected at a red light; maybe she did need a break. Maybe the rent would lower itself. Maybe the word maybe should be cut out of the dictionary. All that was known was that she had several hundred to add to the rent still, for the next month, and that she had no need of a club. Hotaru never expressed interest before, so Serena could somewhat count on not having Rei use her lawyer skills against Hotaru.
The 'Saturn' song, of the piece the planets rang on her cell phone. Speak of the devil. "Ello, Taru. Is anything wrong?" Serena could have sworn that Rei was giggling in the distance. "Rei is here. I would like to go to the club thing she said." Serena nearly drove into the other lane for a moment. "You actually want to go to Elizabeth's Myth?" Serena began to feel truly selfish, for her own thoughts, and not thinking that her fifteen year old social daughter might actually want to socialize. She was feeling that a yes was leaving her mouth. "Yes, yes, Hotaru, please forgive me. You want to go, it sounds like, and we haven't done anything in a while. Rei has set out something for me to wear, probably. Yes, I'll see you at home in minute. Bu'bye. Love you." Serena sighed. It was bad that she refused tomorrow off with pay now.
"I am really glad there are three floors to this thing." Serena, in her slit one shouldered purple dress and wrap around heels of death, was standing next to Mina, in a strapless gold ruffled dress and Greek style sandals, and on the balcony overlooking the techno floor, mostly occupied by teenagers. It was against teen parent relations to be on the same floor of this massive building with your own kin, so balconies were set up for caution parents with hawk eyes. "She is a heart breaker." Mina eyed the males watching her niece. In her mind, she had a torture personalized for each and every one of them. Serena was sharing the same thoughts. "She does need her space though. Hotaru spends too much time with me, and not with her friends." Right now, she was dancing with a pink haired red eyes brat, whom Serena hated with a passion, and the pink haired girl's cronies.
Having held several slumber parties in the grade school years for Hotaru, Serena recognized the cronies as more intelligible and overall a better personality than their leader. The gentle sub leader was pink haired, as well, with a rather exotic bun double tail and circle hair style, and a midriff halter top and flowery skirt. She went by Cere. As all the hairstyles seemed to run rather exotic, the loud sub leader had green hair, with half of its knee length up in a 90 degree angle triple ponytail, heavy beading holding it up, and two extensions on either side of her head, with similar beading holding them down. Her top was a push up and together strappy top, with puffy genie pants and a skirt to act like a long loin cloth on either side, that rode low on her hips. Juno was the one to remind Serena the most as Rei. Her closest friend, Juno's, was a dark read head, hair in a high pony tail that was supported sever inches up, then let to dangle wrapped to her shoulder.
Vesta was her name, and by far, she was rather daring. Yes, she could wear it and not have it look awful, but a choker that held up a bikini like halter top, lower riding illusionary skirt, and barely more than a matching thong was rather hard to look decent in. Oddly enough, she was the most conservative of them, as well as the oldest. She protected the youngest with blue hair in 5 pig tails around the circumference of her head, and a bun on top, a strapless 'circle over the boobs' pattern expansion to a floor length tie-dye skirt, and went by Pallas. She was the shyest, by result.
Overall, Serena could see that they were protective, the cronies, and if needed, could be given a sailor crystal and use it. She was considering awakening their crystal's in case a younger generation princess needed the protection, but so far, she saw no death for her self, and no heir that wasn't in the original senshi. Either way, Earth had no protector, and/or the universe would have no heir. It wasn't a big concern, luckily, as of late.
"Serena, have you ever thought of Darien?" The question jogged Serena out of her analysis mode. She made it sure that Mina's question didn't change her expression. "Yes, all the time. I think of how he would have made me wait for him had he not said he probably wouldn't come back. I think about how if he was here, Crystal Tokyo would have been created, and the final battle could have taken place." Mina watched her Princess softly, not saying her thoughts. "I see. Well, what was done was done. We can do nothing to create Tokyo, nor summon Galaxica." Serena smiled wryly at Mina, who was looking somewhat sheepish. "You have consulted Pluto as well." Mina nodded. "Yeah. Did you pull the queen of the universe power?" Serena thought. "No, not really, I kind of snuck up on her time watching, so I saw a golden general with an evil aura. Someone in the distance called her Galaxica." Mina was looked at curiously, and shrugged as result. "It was after Helios and the other side of the moon queen, 'neph' something. Rei was hit with an unknown power, and began to babble. I was the only one close enough to see it, and she has no memory. Though if that does happen, we have another princess to follow if you're incapacitated."
Serena became suddenly silent, and Mina felt a small pang of fear. "Hotaru is the daughter of the royals of the universe, right?" Serena finally pulled out a chair and plopped into it. "No." Mina rushed to Serena hurriedly. "No? How is that so? There is no heir to the universe?" Serena nodded, head in hands. It could have looked like she was crying. "There is no heir. For some reason, Hotaru has her own planet, and the moon is the one neutral planet like object in the Milky Way. I have no heir." Mina sat back on her heals, contemplating. "So the universe will end when your spirit tires of this life."
Serena nodded, hair spilling over her hands. Mina stood up to move beside Serena. Gently, she stroked her hair, and gave a half hug with her other hand. Slowly, Serena moved to Mina's arms, not crying, but needing the comfort. Mina was near Serena's ear. "Don't worry honey. The universe will settle itself." Serena just shook her head. "We need Darien to at least stand in as king, to bring out Galaxica, and then he can retire as king, go back to his fiancé, and then I will make the world last for as long as I can. Maybe I can find an heir from someone else before then." The approach of Lita, Rei and Ami broke the two girls slowly apart. They all looked concerned. "Is something wrong, princess?" She shook her head, feeling the sting so much more with the lower title. "Not at all. Let's head to the pop floor. We can actually dance to that." All laughed at the ironic sense of that statement, and were first out on the stairs. Serena strayed to the end, and met her daughter's eyes 30 feet below. She gestured up, then accidentally met the pink haired female. Oh yeah, her name is Rini. You will never be queen, know that. Her dark blue eyes hardened as the red eyes glared back at her. Great. They had a mutual hatred. Serena hated her own daughter's friend. Just great.
I like that ending. She is a whore though, Rini…like? Hate? Cats and electric sockets? Review please? PLEASE! Thank you!
Another installment of 'I hate Rini' has been given to you on an amethyst platter by Saturns Darkness.
