GOMEN NASAI! I am so sorry that I didn't get this next chapter out! I have just been so busy! Really please forgive me. I work hard on this chapter and I like the way that it came out. I know that I said that if you review I will continue it, and that's the truth. Now that my summer is done I will try my hardest to work on all of my storied now up. But I need reviews to keep it going because this year my list of extra activities is long. So if you like this story at all please review and I will continue and try to make this the best story that it can be! Thank you all for your support and here is chapter three! Enjoy!
Serenita^_~
Disclaimer: I don't own sailor moon, I just borrow the characters and use them to my will! ^_~
Chapter Three
She awoke with bright light piercing through the darkness that had encased her, burning her eyes. The next thing she felt was being wrapped in the warmth of familiar arms. Arms of a figure that was shaking slightly. When the light faded and her vision came to, she saw the worried, crying faces of her friends, eyes open wide with astonishment. She looked up to see who was holding her and gasped at the sight of their face. Deep ocean blue eyes where filled overflowing with tears that flooded down their cheeks. Their face somewhat contorted in a grimace as that of internal pain. Serena's eyes flew open wider and her body stiffened as she recognized that face to be that of Darien's. She leached foreword, desperately trying to get out of his arms, as if doing that would make everything that had happened disappear in front of their eyes. Surprised by her sudden movement, Darien had no time to stop her. She stood up and backed away from all of them, almost fearful. All eyes where stuck on her. Some in worry, others in relief, some in confusion, some stuck in utter realization, and others in utter disbelief. Every single scout looked at her, and almost through her. She regained her composer. She could handle this, no sweat. But the look in their eyes made her courage waver. Amy walked towards her, her hands clenched together in fists, eyes blazing with anger and worry, a face that had never appeared on Amy's face before. Not to another scout at least. Amy stopped right in front of Serena and slapped her across the face.
"You BAKA!" Amy screamed, tears of anger and worry streamed down her face. "Do you have any idea what you just did!?! How long has this been going on? Did you expect to keep it a secret from us forever!? Did you just want to get yourself killed for good!?" Serena's hand was held to the spot Amy had slapped her. She glared at Amy and slapped her back, surprising Amy and knocking her almost speechless, as well as the other scouts.
"What concern is it of you what I do with my power! Out of everyone here you are the only one besides me who knows what the hell is going on! And you are the only one who knows my reasons. Don't blame it on me! This is the only way. I can't let you guy's fight alone. Even though it is your job to protect me it is my job to protect you. This is my problem, don't involve yourself." Serena untransformed. And her hand suddenly went to her head. She looked up and saw all the scouts staring at her, mouths open, and Amy standing in front of her, hand to her cheek, shocked. Serena's hand flew to her mouth. What did she do? What did she do? She walked foreword and hugged Amy tightly crying.
"I'm sorry, so...sorry...Amy...I....I don't....I didn't..." And she broke down crying in Amy's arms. And the two of them sunk to the ground crying and held each other for a long time. After a while Serena and Amy stood up and wiped the tears from their eyes, almost laughing. Serena looked at Amy.
"Don't tell them." Amy was shocked.
"What?"
"You haven't told them what is really going on with me. Don't tell them, let that be my job. They will know when the time is right." Amy started to speak but Serena stopped her. "You know my reasons better than I do." Amy nodded and hugged her princess, praying that her reasons where for the right thing. Serena turned to the scouts and Darien who had now untransformed. "Please understand that I can't tell you everything. I kept this a secret so long because I didn't want to involve you."
"Didn't want to involve us!? Damn it, Serena, it is our concern! We protect you and we need to know everything that happened concerning this!" Raye screamed at her angrily.
"Not this time. It is my duty and my destiny. It can't be changed. I'm sorry everyone." She turned and started to walk away.
"Serena!" She stopped and turned around to see Darien running towards her. He stopped right in front of her. He searched through her eyes and through her head trying to pick up something but he hit a stone wall. She had blocked him.
"I'm sorry I had to keep this from you. You probably don't understand, but you're not meant to. Don't hate me for it, please." She gently touched his cheek.
"Why?" She sighed.
"I don't even know myself." She pulled her hand back and walked away leaving them all more confused than before.
After the battle, and Serena's flighty departure, the scouts all met at Raye's house for a scout meeting, excluding Serena. Eight scouts, inners and outers, and Darien all sat around a table in Raye's now very crowded room.
"We have to do something about this." Lita said bluntly breaking the unbearable silence that had overtaken the room.
"I can't believe she kept it from us...for so long." Mina said to no one in particular.
"How couldn't I have known? How could she have blocked me...us...so well?" Darien asked himself aloud, his head buried in his hands with frustration.
"Bunny, how could she not tell us? Doesn't she trust us!?" Haruka yelled in equal frustration.
"That night..." Raye said, staring off into nowhere.
"What? What are you talking about Raye?"
"That night that we came late. She yelled at us. She was different. She was different because she wasn't Serena." Raye looked up her eyes meeting the others. "She was Serenity. She's been using the crystal and it's been turning her to Serenity. She's smarter, more graceful, she has pose, manners, everything that a princess should be. She's been in contact with the crystal so closely and for such a long period of time. She's becoming Serenity. And it's killing her because of it." The group stared at Raye, their minds taking in all the she had said. Lita turned quickly to Amy.
"Is this it? Is this what you and Serena where talking about? Is this what you can't tell us?"
"No, it's only a small piece of a huge puzzle."
"Tell us." Mina begged.
"I can't." Amy said, turning her face away from them. Lita grabbed her shoulders.
"You must tell us!" Amy turned back to her.
"I can't. I promised and I won't. Not ever."
"YOU HAVE TO! WOULD YOU HAVE HER DIE!" Lita screamed at her in total frustration and worry.
"I WOULD THAN DEFY MY QUEEN'S WISHES!" Amy screamed back, tears pouring down her cheeks. The group leaned back away in shock. Amy never behaved like that. Lita fell back, her hand covering her mouth in shock. Amy stood up her fists clenched at her sides.
"Serena is not stupid. She knows what she is doing completely. I understand exactly why she doesn't want you to know what is really happening. Yes she is becoming Serenity, but that is all you know. All you will know from me. You can't stop what is going to happen, you never can stop the inevitable." Amy looked down and wiped at her tears. "She did want me to tell you one thing though." She paused for a moment. Her eyes closed and her form shaking with resistance and fury. "She doesn't want you...us to protect her anymore."
"WHAT!?" They all yelled in surprise.
"She wants us not to fight in anymore youma attacks. She says that...it's for the best. I guess she knows what's really going to happen soon, and she doesn't want you all to be there or be affected when it happens."
"What will happen?" Mina asked meekly, taking in all the new changes that were asked to happen.
"I...I don't know." She say Raye open her mouth in protest. "It's the truth!" Amy said before Raye could speak. "I really don't know what is going to happen." Amy sat down, her body suddenly feeling very heavy and tired.
"HOW CAN SHE EXPECT US TO DO THIS!?" Darien screamed. They all looked at him shocked. "She expects us not to ever protect her again! Don't make me laugh. I live every damn day for that girl. If anything ever happened to her...I'd be destroyed. I will not do as she asks. I will not let her die. Not when I can stop harm from coming to her."
"I agree." Lita said.
"I do too." Haruka added.
"Alright, who all agrees of still protecting Serena, say "Aye" now."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye." Everyone looked to Amy who still didn't say anything. She looked up through her tears and met each person who was in that room's eye's. She suddenly smiled and nodded her head slightly.
"Aye."
~* One Week Later *~
Serena, now Sailor Moon, walked to the scene of yet another Youma attack. There hadn't been on for almost a week so she had time to recover her strength. Even though she hadn't used the Crystal in a week, she kept improving in everything. She had learned that she was very powerful and that she could do many things that she never thought she could ever do before.
She also hadn't spoken to the scouts and Darien in a week. At school they smiled and said hello to her but nothing else really. She wondered if they accepted her requests. She looked up to see a youma standing in the middle of a playground, the weakened, powerless forms of humans who had there energy drained. Over half of them where children. Serena felt rage burn up in her and she felt power fill up in her. She was ready. She was strong.
"You dare to come to this planet and harm innocent people? Not while I'm here! I am Sailor Moon and..."
"And WE are the Sailor Scouts!" Serena turned around and saw the whole group behind her, walking foreword to be at her side. Her mouth dropped in shock.
"We will right wrongs and triumph over evil!" Raye said striking a menacing pose.
"And that...means you." Mina said pointing at the youma. The youma grinned and jumped high in the air suddenly, attack the scouts and tuxedo mask, completely avoiding Sailor Moon. Tentacles from it's arms came out and wrapped around the scouts, binding them together and sucking the energy from their bodies. She could hear the youma's evil voice whisper through her brain, 'After I kill them, I'll deal with you...'
They screamed louder trying to get free but the tentacles only wrapped themselves tighter around the scouts. Suddenly the youma screamed in pain and the tentacles that had surrounded the scouts grew limp and fell to the ground in a lifeless heap. They looked up and saw that Sailor moon had cut the youma's arms off with her tiara. She raised her arms, her eyes closed, and placed a shield around the scouts, not letting anything in, or anything out. She looked up at them, seeing their shocked and angry faces as they realized what she had done. She shook her head solemnly.
"You never should have come." She held out her hands in front of her and her crystal appeared. The scouts and tuxedo mask started to frantically pound on Serena's unbreakable shield, screaming for her to stop. She only smiled at them in a morbidly reassuring way. Morbidly, only because they weren't reassured because they knew that she was going to die...again. Serena looked up and held her hands high, as if reaching towards the moon.
"Silver Crystal POWER!" Light from the moon shown and a beam came down, covering her, Her crystal glowed and a powerful beam shot from the crystal destroying the youma instantly. The energy that was stolen from the people returned to them, but they remained unconscious.
Serena brought her crystal down and it returned to her broach. The unbearable pain shot through her body. She had only a few seconds to whisper 'healing power' before she died.
Serena awoke to find the scouts surrounding her trying to wake her up. She felt herself being supported and she realized that she was in Darien's arms. She leaped up away from them suddenly, surprising them. She shook her head and slowly back away. They stood up and took tentative steps towards her, softly saying her name, still in shock of her quick movements. She held out her hand to stop them. She looked down at the ground, away from their questioning gazes.
"You disobeyed me. I told you all not to come anymore, because something like this could happen. I thought I wouldn't have to resort to this, but it's the only way to keep you all safe." They looked at her, wondering what she was talking about. Serena held up her hands in front of her and concentrated hard. The scouts and tuxedo mask suddenly felt electricity run throughout their body. They realized that they were all de-transforming against their will. The power stopped flowing and they realized that they were in civilian clothing. Each of their power sticks and Darien's rose were in front of them, glowing and floating in mid-air. Suddenly each of them shattered simultaneously, and they felt their power disappear. They gasped in shock. Mina fell to the ground as she aimlessly grabbed for what once was her power stick. They all looked at Serena. She looked at them sadly.
"It's for your own good. Please understand my judgement." She de-transformed and walked away with out another word.
Serenita^_~
Disclaimer: I don't own sailor moon, I just borrow the characters and use them to my will! ^_~
Chapter Three
She awoke with bright light piercing through the darkness that had encased her, burning her eyes. The next thing she felt was being wrapped in the warmth of familiar arms. Arms of a figure that was shaking slightly. When the light faded and her vision came to, she saw the worried, crying faces of her friends, eyes open wide with astonishment. She looked up to see who was holding her and gasped at the sight of their face. Deep ocean blue eyes where filled overflowing with tears that flooded down their cheeks. Their face somewhat contorted in a grimace as that of internal pain. Serena's eyes flew open wider and her body stiffened as she recognized that face to be that of Darien's. She leached foreword, desperately trying to get out of his arms, as if doing that would make everything that had happened disappear in front of their eyes. Surprised by her sudden movement, Darien had no time to stop her. She stood up and backed away from all of them, almost fearful. All eyes where stuck on her. Some in worry, others in relief, some in confusion, some stuck in utter realization, and others in utter disbelief. Every single scout looked at her, and almost through her. She regained her composer. She could handle this, no sweat. But the look in their eyes made her courage waver. Amy walked towards her, her hands clenched together in fists, eyes blazing with anger and worry, a face that had never appeared on Amy's face before. Not to another scout at least. Amy stopped right in front of Serena and slapped her across the face.
"You BAKA!" Amy screamed, tears of anger and worry streamed down her face. "Do you have any idea what you just did!?! How long has this been going on? Did you expect to keep it a secret from us forever!? Did you just want to get yourself killed for good!?" Serena's hand was held to the spot Amy had slapped her. She glared at Amy and slapped her back, surprising Amy and knocking her almost speechless, as well as the other scouts.
"What concern is it of you what I do with my power! Out of everyone here you are the only one besides me who knows what the hell is going on! And you are the only one who knows my reasons. Don't blame it on me! This is the only way. I can't let you guy's fight alone. Even though it is your job to protect me it is my job to protect you. This is my problem, don't involve yourself." Serena untransformed. And her hand suddenly went to her head. She looked up and saw all the scouts staring at her, mouths open, and Amy standing in front of her, hand to her cheek, shocked. Serena's hand flew to her mouth. What did she do? What did she do? She walked foreword and hugged Amy tightly crying.
"I'm sorry, so...sorry...Amy...I....I don't....I didn't..." And she broke down crying in Amy's arms. And the two of them sunk to the ground crying and held each other for a long time. After a while Serena and Amy stood up and wiped the tears from their eyes, almost laughing. Serena looked at Amy.
"Don't tell them." Amy was shocked.
"What?"
"You haven't told them what is really going on with me. Don't tell them, let that be my job. They will know when the time is right." Amy started to speak but Serena stopped her. "You know my reasons better than I do." Amy nodded and hugged her princess, praying that her reasons where for the right thing. Serena turned to the scouts and Darien who had now untransformed. "Please understand that I can't tell you everything. I kept this a secret so long because I didn't want to involve you."
"Didn't want to involve us!? Damn it, Serena, it is our concern! We protect you and we need to know everything that happened concerning this!" Raye screamed at her angrily.
"Not this time. It is my duty and my destiny. It can't be changed. I'm sorry everyone." She turned and started to walk away.
"Serena!" She stopped and turned around to see Darien running towards her. He stopped right in front of her. He searched through her eyes and through her head trying to pick up something but he hit a stone wall. She had blocked him.
"I'm sorry I had to keep this from you. You probably don't understand, but you're not meant to. Don't hate me for it, please." She gently touched his cheek.
"Why?" She sighed.
"I don't even know myself." She pulled her hand back and walked away leaving them all more confused than before.
After the battle, and Serena's flighty departure, the scouts all met at Raye's house for a scout meeting, excluding Serena. Eight scouts, inners and outers, and Darien all sat around a table in Raye's now very crowded room.
"We have to do something about this." Lita said bluntly breaking the unbearable silence that had overtaken the room.
"I can't believe she kept it from us...for so long." Mina said to no one in particular.
"How couldn't I have known? How could she have blocked me...us...so well?" Darien asked himself aloud, his head buried in his hands with frustration.
"Bunny, how could she not tell us? Doesn't she trust us!?" Haruka yelled in equal frustration.
"That night..." Raye said, staring off into nowhere.
"What? What are you talking about Raye?"
"That night that we came late. She yelled at us. She was different. She was different because she wasn't Serena." Raye looked up her eyes meeting the others. "She was Serenity. She's been using the crystal and it's been turning her to Serenity. She's smarter, more graceful, she has pose, manners, everything that a princess should be. She's been in contact with the crystal so closely and for such a long period of time. She's becoming Serenity. And it's killing her because of it." The group stared at Raye, their minds taking in all the she had said. Lita turned quickly to Amy.
"Is this it? Is this what you and Serena where talking about? Is this what you can't tell us?"
"No, it's only a small piece of a huge puzzle."
"Tell us." Mina begged.
"I can't." Amy said, turning her face away from them. Lita grabbed her shoulders.
"You must tell us!" Amy turned back to her.
"I can't. I promised and I won't. Not ever."
"YOU HAVE TO! WOULD YOU HAVE HER DIE!" Lita screamed at her in total frustration and worry.
"I WOULD THAN DEFY MY QUEEN'S WISHES!" Amy screamed back, tears pouring down her cheeks. The group leaned back away in shock. Amy never behaved like that. Lita fell back, her hand covering her mouth in shock. Amy stood up her fists clenched at her sides.
"Serena is not stupid. She knows what she is doing completely. I understand exactly why she doesn't want you to know what is really happening. Yes she is becoming Serenity, but that is all you know. All you will know from me. You can't stop what is going to happen, you never can stop the inevitable." Amy looked down and wiped at her tears. "She did want me to tell you one thing though." She paused for a moment. Her eyes closed and her form shaking with resistance and fury. "She doesn't want you...us to protect her anymore."
"WHAT!?" They all yelled in surprise.
"She wants us not to fight in anymore youma attacks. She says that...it's for the best. I guess she knows what's really going to happen soon, and she doesn't want you all to be there or be affected when it happens."
"What will happen?" Mina asked meekly, taking in all the new changes that were asked to happen.
"I...I don't know." She say Raye open her mouth in protest. "It's the truth!" Amy said before Raye could speak. "I really don't know what is going to happen." Amy sat down, her body suddenly feeling very heavy and tired.
"HOW CAN SHE EXPECT US TO DO THIS!?" Darien screamed. They all looked at him shocked. "She expects us not to ever protect her again! Don't make me laugh. I live every damn day for that girl. If anything ever happened to her...I'd be destroyed. I will not do as she asks. I will not let her die. Not when I can stop harm from coming to her."
"I agree." Lita said.
"I do too." Haruka added.
"Alright, who all agrees of still protecting Serena, say "Aye" now."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye." Everyone looked to Amy who still didn't say anything. She looked up through her tears and met each person who was in that room's eye's. She suddenly smiled and nodded her head slightly.
"Aye."
~* One Week Later *~
Serena, now Sailor Moon, walked to the scene of yet another Youma attack. There hadn't been on for almost a week so she had time to recover her strength. Even though she hadn't used the Crystal in a week, she kept improving in everything. She had learned that she was very powerful and that she could do many things that she never thought she could ever do before.
She also hadn't spoken to the scouts and Darien in a week. At school they smiled and said hello to her but nothing else really. She wondered if they accepted her requests. She looked up to see a youma standing in the middle of a playground, the weakened, powerless forms of humans who had there energy drained. Over half of them where children. Serena felt rage burn up in her and she felt power fill up in her. She was ready. She was strong.
"You dare to come to this planet and harm innocent people? Not while I'm here! I am Sailor Moon and..."
"And WE are the Sailor Scouts!" Serena turned around and saw the whole group behind her, walking foreword to be at her side. Her mouth dropped in shock.
"We will right wrongs and triumph over evil!" Raye said striking a menacing pose.
"And that...means you." Mina said pointing at the youma. The youma grinned and jumped high in the air suddenly, attack the scouts and tuxedo mask, completely avoiding Sailor Moon. Tentacles from it's arms came out and wrapped around the scouts, binding them together and sucking the energy from their bodies. She could hear the youma's evil voice whisper through her brain, 'After I kill them, I'll deal with you...'
They screamed louder trying to get free but the tentacles only wrapped themselves tighter around the scouts. Suddenly the youma screamed in pain and the tentacles that had surrounded the scouts grew limp and fell to the ground in a lifeless heap. They looked up and saw that Sailor moon had cut the youma's arms off with her tiara. She raised her arms, her eyes closed, and placed a shield around the scouts, not letting anything in, or anything out. She looked up at them, seeing their shocked and angry faces as they realized what she had done. She shook her head solemnly.
"You never should have come." She held out her hands in front of her and her crystal appeared. The scouts and tuxedo mask started to frantically pound on Serena's unbreakable shield, screaming for her to stop. She only smiled at them in a morbidly reassuring way. Morbidly, only because they weren't reassured because they knew that she was going to die...again. Serena looked up and held her hands high, as if reaching towards the moon.
"Silver Crystal POWER!" Light from the moon shown and a beam came down, covering her, Her crystal glowed and a powerful beam shot from the crystal destroying the youma instantly. The energy that was stolen from the people returned to them, but they remained unconscious.
Serena brought her crystal down and it returned to her broach. The unbearable pain shot through her body. She had only a few seconds to whisper 'healing power' before she died.
Serena awoke to find the scouts surrounding her trying to wake her up. She felt herself being supported and she realized that she was in Darien's arms. She leaped up away from them suddenly, surprising them. She shook her head and slowly back away. They stood up and took tentative steps towards her, softly saying her name, still in shock of her quick movements. She held out her hand to stop them. She looked down at the ground, away from their questioning gazes.
"You disobeyed me. I told you all not to come anymore, because something like this could happen. I thought I wouldn't have to resort to this, but it's the only way to keep you all safe." They looked at her, wondering what she was talking about. Serena held up her hands in front of her and concentrated hard. The scouts and tuxedo mask suddenly felt electricity run throughout their body. They realized that they were all de-transforming against their will. The power stopped flowing and they realized that they were in civilian clothing. Each of their power sticks and Darien's rose were in front of them, glowing and floating in mid-air. Suddenly each of them shattered simultaneously, and they felt their power disappear. They gasped in shock. Mina fell to the ground as she aimlessly grabbed for what once was her power stick. They all looked at Serena. She looked at them sadly.
"It's for your own good. Please understand my judgement." She de-transformed and walked away with out another word.