Disclaimers: I don't own GW or SM, so please don't sue! But the other characters: Aurora, Sam and Holly are mine.
Thanks: To Siren – thanks for the review. I'll try to clear up some of the confusion for you. The Sailor Senshi were reborn and were given different names.
AN: Sorry for the delay in updating. I had completely forgotten about this story until I was going through and deleting old and unimportant documents to keep my computer from slowing down. Here's the next chapter and hope you all like it and REVIEW!!! Heh, have fun!
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The Hidden Life
Chapter 11 - The Neo Queen Arrives!
The next day was a bustle of energy. Aurora was the only one sitting down. She watched in amusement. Melany stopped what she was doing to look at her.
"Why aren't you helping us get things ready for the Queen?" Aurora smirked.
"Because I'm the only one that knows she doesn't like things prim and proper. She likes things quiet." she said. "Plus, I'm reserving my energy because I'm going to be teleporting myself there and back with two extra people. You guys should just relax. She'll like this place no matter what it looks like. All right?"
Everyone heard what she said and did as she asked.
"When will you be leaving to get her?" Quatre asked.
"When Pluto returns." was the reply. Suddenly Pluto appears. Speak of the devil!
"Your Majesty." she said to Aurora and kneeled. Aurora rolled her eyes.
"You may get up Pluto." Pluto stood. "What did Serenity say when you asked her?"
"She has agreed to come. She is waiting for your arrival."
"Did you tell her who I am?"
"Yes. I told her everything that was relevant to the Silver Millennium."
"Good. I'll be leaving in a few minutes." Aurora got up. "Well. See you guys in a few hours." she transformed into Cosmos and brought hew staff forth. She created a portal and soon disappeared. Michiru broke the silence.
"Well, all we do now is wait for their arrival." Everyone else nodded.
Cosmos appeared in the throne room of the Neo Queen and King. She looked at them.
"Are you two ready?" she asked. They both nodded.
"Good." She walked up top them and held out her left hand. "One of you takes my hand while the other grabs a hold of my arm." Serenity took Cosmos' hand while Endymion grabbed the arm. Soon all three disappeared in a flash of white light. Luna and Artemis watched as their King and Queen left with the legendary soldier.
"It was a surprise to hear that Sailor Cosmos is related to Serenity, ne Luna?" Artemis asked the black cat. Luna nodded.
"Yes it was, Art." she said softly. "Yes it was."
A couple of hours had passed by in the Gundam dimension. Everybody was sitting or sleeping, while Wufei paced back and forth, worrying about Aurora. All of a sudden, 3 figures appeared out of nowhere. The Inners bowed while the Outers merely nodded their heads in the direction of the two newcomers. Then they saw the condition of Cosmos. She looked about ready to faint.
"My Queen!" shouted the Outers as they rushed towards Cosmos, just as she was about to collapse. Wufei also rushed to his girlfriend, worried. Serenity and Endymion looked shocked, confused and slightly hurt by the Outers reaction to them but were soon worried about Cosmos' state.
"Will she be ok?" Serenity asked. Wufei nodded. He picked up Cosmos and carried her to their room (even though it's their room, they don't do anything naughty – only sleep and cuddle). Everybody watched them leave the room. Quatre turned to Serenity.
"Welcome to my home. I am Quatre Raberba Winner. We can do introductions later, once Aurora wakes up and is feeling better." Serenity and Endymion nodded in agreement. "Great. I'll have Rashid show you to your room."
Moments later, the two royals were shown to their room and everyone else decided to play strip poker in the study.
Aurora woke up to a dark room. She realized she was laying on something soft. She rolled over and came face to face with Wufei. He smiled.
"Are you ok?" she nodded.
"Yes. I just needed some rest. How is Serenity and Endymion?"
"I don't know. I was by your side the entire time you were out, which was for a couple of hours."
"Oh. Well, let's see how they're doing, shall we?" he nodded and got up. He helped her out of bed. Once she was steady, she detransformed. They then walked out of the room and down the stairs. Once they got to the bottom, they didn't see anyone. Then they heard voices coming from the study. Wufei and Aurora looked at each other and then to the door that they heard the voices coming from. They walked over and slowly opened the door. What they saw shocked the hell out of them.
There, at one of the large tables, sat the rest of the G-boys, the scouts, the King and the Queen playing none other than strip poker.
Duo was mostly nude, except for his boxers. Trowa still had a muscle shirt and boxers on. Heero had everything but his socks and shoes. Quatre had on his boxers and socks.
Haruka, Samantha, Serenity and Hotaru had shirts and underwear on. Endymion was completely nude. Melany, Holly and Michiru were down to bra and panties. Anastasia and Setsuna had their bras, boxers and socks on.
Aurora and Wufei started to crack up laughing. Those sitting around the table looked over at the two and blushed brightly at being caught in a compromising situation.
"We can explain!" cried out Duo, who rushed to get his clothes on as were the others. Aurora rolled her eyes.
"Sure ya can!" Wufei chuckled.
"Plus, we have blackmail." He said as he walked over to a bookshelf. He pulled something down and showed it to everyone.
"What's that?" Samantha timidly asked Wufei. Aurora busted out laughing.
"Good thinking Fei-chan! Toss it over here and let's book it!" Wufei tossed the tape to Aurora and the two booked it out of the room. The group just stared at the spot where Wufei and Aurora last stood. Then, as one, they took off in the direction the couple went.
Aurora and Wufei ran all throughout the mansion, the rest of their friends hot on their tail. They turned and came to a dead end. They heard the others also stop behind them. They turned around. Aurora smiled mysteriously.
"Hand over the tape, Aurora." Heero asked threateningly. She shook her head. In a bright flash of light, she turned into Sailor Cosmos and grinned. She waved to tape in the air.
"This?" Heero advanced on her. As he was about to grab the tape, she quickly placed it in her subspace pocket and detransformed. Heero cursed, as did the others.
"Now I'd like to see you find a way to get into my pocket to retrieve the tape." She smirked. Sam smiled.
"Maybe I can find a way." She transformed into Jupiter and walked over to Aurora. Aurora's eyes widen.
"No way." Jupiter smirked evilly.
"Yes way." She stuck her hand into Aurora's subspace pocket and felt around. "Ah ha! Found it!" she pulled out the tape. She looked at the cover. "Umm... then again... no." she stuffed it back in the pocked. She searched around again.
"What's this?" she pulled something out to where she can see it. Her eyes widened. "OH MY GOD!!!" she put that back also. She withdrew her hand and looked at Aurora.
"I don't want to know what you do on your free time with those things, but I didn't find that tape." Wufei looked at Aurora with curiosity written in his eyes.
"What things?" Aurora looked at him.
"I'll show you later." He nodded.
"Eww! I did not need to hear that!" Sam complained after she detransformed. Aurora and everybody else laughed.
"That's what you get when you listen to one our conversations." Sam shuddered.
"That's it! This is getting to be too sickening for me. I'm going back to the living room." She turned and started to leave. "See you guys later." She left.
"I agree." Stated Heero. Everybody nodded. Soon, all that were left were Wufei and Aurora. They started to chuckle.
"Now that was funny. I've never seen them move that fast before!" Aurora said.
"I agree."
A couple of days passed since Serenity and Endymion arrived. Since then, every one of the scouts were training, along with Serenity and Endymion.
As they were training one day, Aurora felt an evil presence. She stopped what she was doing and walked outside. Once there, she saw a red haired man wearing tacky red and green clothes that were outdated.
"Who the hell are you?" she asked. The guy looked at her.
"I'm Rubius of the Black Moon Family."
"Why are you here?"
"To destroy the scouts and to bring the Neo Queen to my prince." Aurora cocked an eyebrow.
"Who's your prince?"
"Prince Diamond."
"Oh. Ok." 'Shit! He's the enemy! Got to warn the others.' She thought to herself.
[Hey guys! I need some help here! Rubius is here, ad he wants Serenity.] she yelled telepathically to the scouts' minds. She looked at Rubius.
"Why does your prince want her?" she asked curiously. He was silent for a little while.
"You know, I honestly don't know. I think he has an infatuation with her or something, He never said why."
"Oh. Well then, I guess he won't get her because she is already married." Rubius scowled.
"It won't matter to Prince Diamond! He'll make her love him!" he stepped aside and a portal opened. Out came a monster. "Droido! Attack this measly human and anyone else who interferes!" the monster nodded and started to attack Aurora. She dodged all of them except the one that Rubius decided to throw at her. It caught her head on and she flew back a few yards.
She got up unsteadily and narrowed her eyes in anger. By this time, the scouts arrived and saw how pissed Aurora was. A bright flash of light occurred and soon Aurora was Sailor Cosmos, fury coming off her in waves.
"You guys handle the monster. I'm going to 'play' with Rubius here." She growled out. The scouts nodded, not wanting to be on her bad side right now. They powered up and started to attack the monster. The G-boys stayed back and watched in fascination.
Cosmos advanced on Rubius, the promise of a slow and painful death in her eyes. Rubius laughed and started to taunt her. Suddenly she disappeared and reappeared behind him. He tried to find her but was suddenly kicked from behind. He landed on the ground roughly.
He spat out some dirt and tried to get up, but soon saw white. Then he felt pain in his face.
The guys saw Rubius go flying backwards and into a tree. He groggily got up and readied an attack on Cosmos, who also readied and attack. They threw the attacks at each other and the collided. As the dust cleared, all that could be soon was Rubius with his victorious grin.
"HA! That sailor brat couldn't last from my attack! HAHAHAHAHA!" he laughed insanely. Everybody was shocked. The outers powered up even further and destroyed the monster. They were completely pissed off.
"Who says I can't stand a weak attack like that?" said a familiar voice. Everyone looked up and saw Sailor Cosmos, floating in midair. She smirked when she saw Rubius' face fall. Then she turned serious. "Now it's time for you to die." He paled as Cosmos started one of her attacks.
"Cosmic... Soul... Destruction!" the large blast headed straight for Rubius, who just stood there in shock. It hit him and the explosion nearly blinded everybody. Once the light died down, all that was left of Rubius was a pile of dust.
"Dusted!" she squealed after she step foot back on the ground. Wufei came rushing over to her, worry, anger and relief written all over his face.
"My God, Aurora!" he exclaimed as he twirled Cosmos in his arms. "Don't you ever do that again! You had me worried!" Cosmos giggled slightly and hugged him closer.
"Don't worry my love. Nothing and no one can kill me. I'll end up in a lot of pain, but I won't die. I won't ever leave you." She turned to the scouts. "You guys did a great job. Now, let's go inside. I'm hungry and tired." They all went inside.
After eating a late lunch, everyone was seated in the den, watching a movie. Wufei and Aurora were cuddled in one of the loveseats, as were Holly and Heero, and Trowa and Sam. Duo, Hotaru, Haruka and Michiru sat on the largest couch. Anastasia, Quatre and Melany sat on the other couch. Serenity in one chair and Endymion in the other. Pluto was at the time gates.
The first movie they watched was Evolution and the other one was Resident Evil. Soon it was dinner time and after that was bed time.
Aurora and Wufei sat in their room that was once Aurora's, discussing about the events that happened earlier that day.
"You sure you're ok?" he asked. She nodded.
"Then what's wrong?"
"I'm just afraid, that's all." He looked at her in confusion.
"Afraid about what?"
"About Serenity and the upcoming battle."
"Why are you afraid of your half sister?" she shook her head.
"Not OF her. FOR her."
"What do you mean?" she sighed.
"A couple of hundred years ago, she went up against the same people because they traveled to the past. She defeated them and Wiseman. I watched her while I was dreaming during that time. Now, this time, they're even more powerful. Chaos had joined with Wiseman. Remember what I told you about Chaos and Galaxia?" he nodded. "Serenity's scouts died then. She was heartbroken, but I brought them back to life. I made sure that their Sailor Crystals were safe. I'm afraid that none of them will make it through this. The inner and outer scouts particularly, maybe even Endymion." Some tears trailed down her face. Wufei pulled her into his arms and onto his lap to comfort her.
"Everything will be all right. You'll see." She looked at him.
"How do you know?" he shrugged.
"Something is telling me that everything will be all right." She nodded and closed her eyes.
"I hope you're right." She mumbled and fell asleep. Wufei stroked her hair and gently arranged them so that they're lying down.
"I hope so too, Aurora." He whispered. "I hope so too." Soon, he too, fell asleep with Aurora held tightly against him.
Outside the door stood everybody – their eyes wide. They quietly walked away from the door and down the hall.
"I wonder why she didn't tell us." Serenity said aloud.
"Maybe she didn't want to frighten us." Mel commented.
"Who knows?" Haruka said as she shrugged. Hotaru nodded.
"My Queen is just like Serenity. Putting everyone else before her and keeping bad stuff like this to herself." Serenity looked at Hotaru.
"You Queen? I thought I was your Queen?" Hotaru shook her head.
"Aurora/Atalanta is the ruler of the entire Universe. The outers are her personal guard, as well as being the guardians of the Moon Kingdom. We were never of your court. We just protected the Inner system from outside invaders. That is why we are older than you by far." She explained.
"Then why do you look younger than all of us?" Endymion asked.
"Even though I look younger than the rest of you, I was actually born a few years after Atalanta/Aurora. I am the second oldest scout. But because I am the Scout of Death and Destruction, I was put into a deep sleep when I was young – frozen in time until it was time for me to awaken and bring down my glaive. Pluto was born a couple of years or so after me, then it was Haruka and then Michiru." Hotaru answered. Serenity nodded also, digesting the new information. Silence followed.
"I understand." Serenity said at last.
"Well, now that Hotaru explained why she looks so young, why don't we go to bed also?" Haruka asked everyone.
"I agree." Chorused Michiru, Quatre, Sam and Melany. The others nodded in agreement. Soon, they each walked to their bedrooms and went to sleep.
End of chapter 11.
AN – Hope you all liked this chapter. Sorry it's taken me so long to get it out. College is starting to take up most of my time. Please r&r and tell me what you think of it. Also, if you want to email me with questions or anything else, here's my addy: Ja!
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