Chapter 12

The next day Rini and mina came back to visit serena just as they promised.

Rini's pov

As I walked into Serena's hospital room holding mina's hand I looked up and saw

her lying on the bed and she's not awake, but it's after 3 she should be awake

by now. She doesn't even seem to be breathing, "Is…is she ok?" I ask shyly

"Yes, Rini she's just resting" Mina replied softly, she doesn't look like she's

resting

"But I can't hear her snoring!" I complained, "arch" I yelled as something

"Shhhh" mina and Luna said in unison mina then when over to close the door

"She's been sleeping since you left yesterday"

"Really?"

"Yeah"

"She must be so tired"

"Rini, me and Luna are going to talk outside the room if that's ok with you"

"Ummm" do I really want to be left alone in here? What if I pull on one of those

wires?

"You no you don't have to stay in here if your don't want to" does she not think

I'm brave enough to be with Serena alone now??? I'll show her!

"It's ok. I'll be fine in here!" I said in my bravest voice so they turned and

exited the room with Luna hiding in the basket again through the window I

watched mina sit down on a chair outside and put the basket on the chair next to

her. I turn back to look at my friend "oh, Serena what have you done to your

self" I say out loud thinking about how she can not longer walk, then I start to

hear a faint response

"It's not my fault you know" I moved closer to the bed seeing now that her eyes

are still closed but she has a slight smile on her face just as she always has,

when she's no wailing or crying cause she's flat on her face.

"Come lye down here next to me" slowly I follow her instructions lying on the

bed next to her being careful not to pull on any of the drips. "Now close your

eyes!" she instructed further, so I did what I was told. I felt her arm move

around me cradling my head. "Think of the pond all frozen over at winter the air

cool but you're wrapped up nice and warm in a new coat scarf and gloves. Were

just putting our ice-skates on…" she trailed off but I didn't need to hear any

more I could picture it into my head. It was just she and I the whole pond to

our selves.

She was helping me to tie my skates

"Hey Rini! Need a hand?"

"Ummm… Serena! How did I get here?"

"I brought you here, silly"

"But… but how?? Your in hospital asleep???"

"Don't worry about it," she said as she helped me up "your safe with me" then

she winked at me then glided off on to the ice.

"hey I didn't know you could skate like that?"

"oh it's easy once you get the hang of it!" she said as she did a triple axle

and came back to where I was standing, wow I'm just so amazed who would have

thought a klutz like that could be so graceful on the ice "have you been on

skates before?"

"yeah but not recently" I said as I took a few steps forward "oww" the ice's

cold my legs were splayed out on the ground.

"Do you want a hand?" I reached up for her hand then she pulled me up back on to

my feet "why don't you skate with me!" she said taking hold of my hands and

pushing off from the edge of the pool. "Don't you love this?"

"Being scared that you might fall on cold ice, and hurting your self?"

"No I mean the feeling of floating on air, with the wind blowing threw your

hair"

"You feel as if you're going to take off into flight"

"See you know what I mean, you having fun?"

"Sure! I've never been skating with you before! And you're a wonderful skater"

"Believe you can skate see your self skating that's all it takes here and

concentrate"

"But you don't usually concentrate on anything"

"Different rules apply here, this is my place" she seems so sure of herself now.

I wander what's changed about her?

"ahh, Serena what are you doing?" I yelled as she let go of me "what do you

think you doing!"

" I thought you said you could skate?" she questioned me as she came to a stop

"yeah I can but not well"

"but look your skating now all on your own now aren't you all grown up" as soon

as she said that I knew something else was different, but I couldn't quite put

my finger on it then I looked down and noticed that I had become a lot taller

for some reason and was wearing a black silky sparkling dress, and then I came

to a stop and noticed that my hair had drastically changed length it was almost

as long as Serena's. 'Gasp'

"Serena!?" I looked up in wonder

"Look you've grown up so fast Rini!" she giggled

"Serena what's going on?"

"look at your reflection in the ice. What do you see?" so I looked down not

wanting to disobey her, as I think I had just seen part of her power here. So

managed to go down on one knee to get a better look. I well, saw something every

unexpected I think it was me but I was different. I was much older my hair was

the same but different because of it's length my face shape was more what's the

word… refined that's it. I looked about 20 so much older then I am, beyond my

years

"what have you done? How have you done it?"

"that's my little secret. Don't you like being big?"

"well I am a lot taller"

"yep no one will be calling you chibi any more" she stated matter factually

"I think it' sorter suits me though doesn't it?"

"well it is you, you're just older"

"will I stay like this?"

"no your gonna have to wait till your older to look like that" she closed her

eyes and her crescent moon glowed for a second and I was back to my normal size,

and then for some reason I managed to skate over to Serena without falling.

"hey! I'm so much better at this now! Serena watch me skate"

"well done Rini! I knew that you would get the hang of it!" she sounded so proud

of me as I circled around her then she grabbed my arm and we were off again

around the pond

Back outside the hospital room a troubbled conversation was going on.

"I'm really worried about Serena, mina!"

"why what's, wrong?"

"well I don't think she should be asleep for this long, for one thing!"

"how long has she been asleep for? Then?"

"well almost since you left yesterday!"

"I know she sleeps late but that's redickuless"

"I know and I can not understand what's going on it's so strange. and I she

seems as if she's not just asleep"

"what do you mean by that?"

"well I looked in the draw and the crystal was glowing!"

"but it only glows when it's energy is being used, doesn't it?"

"that's right! So somehow she's using it's energy, but I have no idea how or why!"

"That's so strange!"

"the other thing is that she hasn't mentioned Darien at all! And it's been over

24hours I've been watching over her!"

"what she hasn't mentioned him once? Now that peculiar!"

"I wonder how Darien's coping with this?"

"well I don't actually know I haven't heard from him for a while"

"well I would have thought that he would be constantly around here! So she

wouldn't get lonely and he would know that she was okay!"

"I know I wonder what's happened to him cause I know he was here until she came

out of hospital but he hasn't really been seen much here since has he?"

"not that I know of!"

"hey! Look Rini's gone to sleep"

"but we haven't been talking that long have we?"

"no not really!"

"look you can see a pink glow coming from the drawer!"

"we better not go in then!"

"Why not?"

"Well we don't know what's going on in their do we and we might disrupt it!"

"But isn't that a good thing?"

"Not really, their minds are possibly linked so they really shouldn't be

disturbed!"

"But shouldn't they be separated?"

"If they were there might be some reaction which could seriously harm either one

of them! And if it doesn't harm them the crystal might try to protect them

killing who ever tries to disrupt it"

"I get it, so what should we do then?"

"well for one thing we should stay out here and wait until they come out of it

them selves and make sure that no-one goes in there"

Serena's pov

This is just like the feeling I get when skating with Darien, I remember when he

taught me how to skate, I was worse then Rini is now. I wish he were here.

Darien's pov

Why am I all so sleepy all of a sudden? I was fine just a minute a go. I just

can't stay awake any longer.

Author's pov

He lay down on the settee drifting off to sleep thoughts quickly travelling to

his loved ones Serena and Rini.

Darien's pov

I don't remember putting on my tuxedo?? Isn't that strange?? And why am I

wearing skates???? I glide forwards onto the ice. Is that? Is that Serena over

there with Rini? She's looks so appealingly beautiful her hair flowing around

her as she skates in a fascinating embroidered white evening dress which was cut

to just above her knees so that she had room for the more strenuous techniques.

Then there was Rini she looked so grown up and with the help of Serena she was

staying up right.

"I was just thinking about you"

"Well, your wish is my command" I said taking hold of both her hands so she had

to let go of Rini, I then spun her round to lift her over my head. Doing that

and keeping an eye on Rini was a difficult task but I managed it and put my

angel down quickly before speeding off to stop Rini from falling flat on her

face.

Rini pov

Their amazing together I bet they could win some medals doing that what was

that? No! What was that? I thought then just as I was about to fall, then I felt

the arms of someone surround me "How did you get there so fast?" I questioned,

"I thought I was getting better at this!"

"Lots of practise is what you need! Don't think Serena here was that good when

she first went on to the ice" he said grinning at me "any way you must have hit

a bump in the ice, you got to look out for them, other wise you'll fall flat on

you face. That's why you should be concentrating on what your doing and not

everyone else" he chuckled. Serena soon joined us

"Long time no see my love, we haven't been ice-skating for ages! That sort of

why I came here then sort of brought Rini here and then you! But you really

don't need to be telling her about my excellent ice-skating in the past. It's

not as if you were brilliant when you first put your skates on so let's drop

it!" she told him sternly

"How did you managed that?" he asked taking my hand in his "I mean bringing the

both of us in here."

"She won't even tell me that one!" I took Serena's hand and all three of us

started around the pond.

"With a little bit of magic" she told us refusing to say any more on the

subject. We then started to go round and round getting faster and faster "DON'T

LET GO!" I heard Serena shout, but it was too late Darien's hand had already

started slipping from mine and I knew it was just a matter of time until he was

gone.

I started to wake up I was in the hospital again and wondered what was going on.

I hadn't realised I had gone to sleep, but then those two out side hadn't

noticed either I wonder what they are talking about?