A/N: To everyone who has reviewed so far: THANKS, your reviews absolutely make my day and encourage me to become a better writer. To everyone who has read the story, but hasn't left a review: I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do. Anyway, read on and feel free...no feel encouraged to leave a comment or two. Tell me what you like, and what you don't like.

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A Fight

It wasn't untill three weeks after Serena had gotten settled in, that she met her first abused woman. It was late at night, almost one o'clock in the morning, and Serena had agreed to take the night shift for the first time.

Serena pulled her robe tightly around her slim body and walked into the kitchen wearing her fuzzy pink bunny slippers. She walked over to the kettle and pushed the 'on' button. It was safe to say that the only thing Serena could make without burning was tea, coffee, and hot chocolate. All she had to do was push the button that made the water boil, and pour. No mess, no accidents.

As she was reaching down into the cupboard to grab the hot chocolate mix, she was startled by the frantic pounding noise on the front door. She caught the can of hot chocolate before it hit the ground and put it safely on the counter before she managed to spill it.

She the ran to the door, and without checking to see who it was, she pulled open the door. A girl spilled onto the floor, no more than sixteen years old, crying. She yelled at Serena to close the door, to lock it and call the police. Her drunk father was after her. Upon hearing a man yelling, Serena promptly slamed the door and turned the dead bolt.

"Joan, I need you in here!" Serena yelled and helped the girl to her feet. She was stunned by the girls' face. Dark purple bruises covered her left cheek and both eyes, blood dripped down from her right eyebrow and her bottom lip. The girl was hunched over, her arms protectively covering her stomache and ribs.

Joan ran into the hallway, wearing only pajama's (a pair of shorts and a tight tank top) and looked over the situation. "Serena, lets get her into the kitchen and cleaned up." Joan spoke calmly, as softly as she could.

"Joan, we need to call the cops-her father is coming." Serena spoke quickly, glancing back to the door where a fist was slamming into it. "Correction, her father is here."

"Damnit Rachel, you get your slutty ass back out here! I'm not done with you!" a rage filled male voice bellowed.

The girl started shaking, and her legs gave out from underneath her. "Please, help me." the girl begged, looking up into Serena's eyes. Haunted brown eyes met clear blue eyes and Serena nodded. "Please, don't let him hurt me."

A large fist slammed through the door and Serena whirled around, putting her body inbetween the door and the girl. "Joan, get Rachel cleaned up and call the cops. I'll do what I can." she spoke calmly, firmly.

The brown eyes reminded Serena of her best friend, Lita, and there was no way anyone was going to hurt anyone of her friends. There was no way that this horrible excuse of a father was going to get his hands on this young girl again. She took off her precious bunny slippers and slid them towards the safety of the kitchen.

As Serena watched another fist slam through the door, she wondered if it would be wrong to use her powers against another human. So far she had only used her powers against youma's, against evil. But wasn't this evil? To use one's superior strength against a girl half your size? Especially when it was one's father? Surely that could be considered evil?

Before she had another moment to think, the hands disapeared and the door came crashing down before her. A man, almost six and a half feet tall, and hugely, thickly, almost grotesquely muscled stared down at her pitiful 5 foot 9 height and he growled at her.

Serena's eyes widened in suprise, she sure as hell wasn't expecting that. For the first time in her life, Serena believed that she was going to get her waaayyyy to cute face smashed in.

'NO,' Serena yelled at herself, refusing to left herself think that way. She needed to be strong, needed to stay focused. 'Okay Serena, think back to when Leta was giving you those Karate lessons...what did she was were the weak points?' Serena tried to think as she slammed her body into what felt like a solid brick wall. Fortuneatly she had enough momentum to make him fall with her, and still had enough left over to roll away from the hulking giant.

"Okay Serena, here was the weakest points of any man," Leta said with an easy grin, "The nuts is always a favorite of mine, the nose, the eyes. Focus on those three and run away, don't fight him, especially if he is bigger than you are."

'Great,' Serena frowned as Leta's advice ran through her brain, 'I can't very well run away yet.' She groaned as she got back to her feet and steadied herself. "Come on you big ugly goat! You aren't going to let little ol' me beat you up are you?" she taunted the giant when she saw him getting up.

"You little bitch, I'll make you pay for that." he snarled and ran towards her.

Serena let out a loud wail of fear and jumped out of the way as the giant hurried towards her. She wasn't fast enough and he managed to latch onto her foot. She dropped to the ground, back first. The giant dropped down ontop of her, holding her hands with one of his giant ones, his body wedged into her thighs making it impossible for her to move. All she could smell was fetid, alcholic breath and it very nearly mmade her throw up. All she could see was little black, beady eyes filled with hate and rage...and lust.

She squeezed her eyes tightly as his free hand painfully squeezed her breast. All of a sudden she heard a mean, angry growl and then she was free. She opened up her eyes and jumped to her feet. She gasped when she saw the neighbor, Dirks, his smaller body over top of the giant, his fist slamming into the jaw of the giant.

It only stunned the giant for a couple moments before he shoved Dirks off of him, and crawled his own body ontop of her rescuer. "Enough," Serena spoke, her voice hoarse with fear and rage, "Enough!" she yelled and forced her legs to walk over to the two fighting men on the ground.

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Leta jolted awake, startled by the shocking build up of energy coarsing through her body. She sat up, her fingers clutching the blankets close to her chest. Sweat started to bead along her forehead and her hair started to rise. "What the hell?" Leta wispeared, never before feeling such energy coarse through her body at the pace it was flowing at now.

"Sorry Leta, but I need your help for a moment," a familiar voice rang through her head.

Leta relaxed upon heaing Serena's voice and stepped out of her bed and headed to her balcony. Clad in a thin green shift, she stepped out into the cooling air and raised her eyes and hands up to the moon. "My powers are yours, Serena, to help and aid you in your time of need. The power of Jupiter is yours to command." Leta wispeared and closed her eyes as she felt the rush of familiar power leave her body in a speed that was faster than light. Her knees buckled and her legs collapsed underneath her. It wasn't that she felt a dramatic energy loss, she was the Guardian of Jupiter-she had limitless amounts of electical energy, however, the experience of that much energy building inside her body, and the leaving it without her command left her a little shaky.

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Calling on her own sacred powers she called upon the power of Jupiter to lend her its power. "Supreme Thunder Dragon!"she growled, and sent Jupiters life giving and life taking power into the giants huge body, hoping the voltiage was enough to disable the man.

When the man collapsed ontop of Dirks, she helped to roll the giant off and gave Dirks a hand up. "You okay, Dirks?"

Dirks lifted up a tender hand up to his eyes for inspection, "Just a few scratches, nothin some ice wont fix." he promised and gave the giant a not-so-friendly nudge with his boot. "How about you? Are you alright?"

Serena nodded and looked towards the house when she heard the sound of police vehicles. "Yeah. I'll be fine."

"What was that shock thing you used? A taser?" he asked curiously, not able to find any sort of device in her hands.

Serena looked up into the sky and was silent, "It was nothing, just some help from a friend." she finished.

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Well, what did you think? Serena's first scary experience in the Woman's Shelter. How is she also able to use Leta's sacred powers? Keep reading, and if you are lucky, perhaps I'll tell you.

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