Meanwhile, on Earth, Andrew, Darien & the rest of the girls are looking for the missing Serena & Mina.
Darien is sitting by the fountain where he found Serena's locket. He stared at it, & felt like something horrible was happening. "She never would drop it, unless something bad happened." he moaned, opening it to let the song from so long ago play.
He sighs, listening to the song, thinking about Serena. Suddenly, he sees a light. He stands up, shielding his eyes & what appears in front of him shocks & amazes him.
Serena & Mina are standing in front of him, looking a little dazed, but fine. He stands with his mouth opened for a while, then utters, "Serena…?"
Serena hears this, looks up & smiles. "Hey, Darien!"
He begins walking over, then ran to Serena. He swept her up in a hug (think cheesy movie) & swings her around. "I thought I lost you." he murmurs.
Serena smiles down at him, as she is up in the air. "Did you already forget what I told you?" she smiles. "You'll never lose me. I'm always in your heart." She kisses him.
Mina clears her throat & the two lovebirds separate, blushing. "So, what's up?" Mina laughs.
Darien puts Serena down & answers. "Beside you two disappearing, nothing."
Serena walked over to Mina & made a face. 'Should we tell him?' she thought.
Mina's eyes widened. 'I heard you."
Serena said out loud. "What do you mean, you heard me!"
Darien stares at her & she blushes. "Um, never mind. Random yelling." She turns back to Mina. 'Sorry, what do you mean, you heard me?'
'Exactly what I said. I can hear your thoughts & apparently, you can hear mine.'
Serena does a little nod. 'Yeah. So, should we?'
Mina bit her lip. 'I don't think so. Let's wait for now.'
Serena isn't able to answer because we hear. "Mina! Serena!"
All three people spin around to see Raye, Amy & Lita running to them. All three girls hugged the other two, so we had a bit Sailor Scout hug "Where'd you guys go!" Raye exclaimed.
Serena coughed. "Can't…breath…"
The girls let go &, as if on cue, laugh. "Sorry. So, where'd you go?"
Mina gulped. "Um…we took a walk."
All four people, Darien had joined them by now, stared at her. "Took a walk without your bow & your locket?"
Serena's eyes widened. "What do you mean, without my locket?" She looks in her pocket & feels nothing. "Great. I lost it!"
"Not really." Darien produced the locket & Serena let out a breath. "Thank you so much!" She hugs him & he laughs.
The four girls look at them, smiling. Mina felt a stab of envy at their happiness, then reminded herself Darien was dying. "So maybe it's not that bad to not be my sister." Mina says out loud, then covered her mouth, realizing what she did.
The three girls look at her, weirdly & Serena & Darien made faces. "What do you mean, sister?" Amy asks.
"And why would it be bad to not be her?" Lita questions.
Mina gulps. "Um…you see…"
Thankfully, she didn't have to say anything, because someone yelled out "Mina!"
Everybody turned to see Andrew running toward them, Mina's red bow in his hands.
Mina feels tears fill her eyes. "Andrew?" she spoke softly.
Serena smiles at this show of affection. But feels sad, realizing what was going on.
Andrew stopped in front of Mina, breathing hard. Mina stared at him, taking deep breaths. When he looks up, he smiling. "Found…you."
Mina smiled back, weakly. "Yeah, you did."
The three girls were confused what this was about, but just watched.
Andrew hands her her bow. "Here you go."
She takes it, their hands brushing, causing them both to blush. "Arigato." she whispered, putting the bow back in her hair.
Andrew watched & felt a sting of sadness at what he was doing to her. But he had a duty to Hina, no matter what was in his heart.
There's an awkward silence, in which Darien coughs. Everyone turns to him, Mina happy for the change of subjects. "Well." Darien starts. "Why don't I treat everyone to ice cream?"
Serena's eyes glazed over. "Ice cream? Drool." She laughs.
Raye laughs. "You're always hungry."
"Am not." Serena pretends to pout.
"Are too."
"Are not."
Amy & Lita shake their heads, chuckling at this show of affection. They start walking, followed by Serena & Raye arguing & Darien trying to intervene.
Mina & Andrew watch them go. Andrew turns to Mina. "Shall we go?"
Mina looks up in his eyes & feels her heart break. "Sure." She walks away, leaving Andrew wishing he didn't have to make this choice.
OMG, that was major cheese! I can't even believe I wrote that. Okay, cheesiness out, for now. I'm going to focuses on the action adventure part of this story. Hopefully, it'll go well. Review & I'll update.