A/N Howdy everyone! Thanks for reviewing my story! So here's the new chapter, and I hope everyone likes it. Love it or hate it, let me know and review! Thanks.
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Serena stared up into the bright full moon and felt such a strong sense of longing her heart ached. She had been dreaming lately, of the moon and her past life on the moon. About Queen Serenity, her mother, and about her friends, the Princesses and Scouts of their respective planets. And Darien. She dreamed of her handsome Prince awaiting her on the moon, a blood red rose in one hand, his other reaching out for her. But she couldn't reach Darien, or the Scouts. There was some unseen force holding her back, making her feel like she wasn't strong enough, or worthy enough to be by their side. When she woke up she was left with a constant feeling of frustration and anger.
Then there was the voice that came to her when she was deep in a day dream, deep in sleep. It was right at the back of her head, putting her down, telling her she wasn't strong enough to save her friends and family. That she needed more power, more energy to defeat everything in her way.
It was a deeply seductive voice, soft and deep with a low rumble that had Serena tingling all over. It taunted her, critized her, and praised her all at the same time. It encouraged her to find more energy, that the Silver Imperium Crystal was not enough anymore.
It was when those specific words were suggested in a low wispear in the back of her brain that she knew she was in trouble. Whatever dark evil, dark magic was keeping the scouts and Darien inside Tokyo was here with her, waiting ever patiently for her to slip and fall. So it could take her and her power and use it for a purpose that was in no way good. It was close to her, always near her, close enough for her to feel the chilling cold of its negative energy surround her person.
"You will not win." Serena murmered softly, a promise. Her innocent blue eyes, normally filled with happiness and wonder, grew hard and cold. "I will not let you win." SHe spoke louder, standing up straight and staring up into the moon, as if gaining power from it brilliant rays. Her whole body radiated with energy and power and she made the promise with everything she had. For her friends and family, for Darien and the Earth. Most importantly she made the promise for herself. "You will not win."
The wind howled in an instant and black angry clouds gathered together in the sky in an effort to hide the moon. The furious winds whipped at Serena, her glorious golden hair flying in wild disarray around her body. Her skirt and blouse felt like they were going to be torn from her sllim, almost fraile looking form. Her stance held, however, slim legs were braced shoulder length apart, her hips, torso and chest were tense with power. Her chin was tilted up in defiance of the evil energies controlling the winds and her eyes held firm in their belief that she would win. She appeared to be an other worldly goddess bent upon revenge. She appeared to be strong, nearly invincable against any power who would dare defy her own will. "I will win." she wispeared.
At once the wind died down and the clouds dissapeared and the moon appeared once again, full and beautiful. The moons powerful rays shone down once again and Serena felt warm yet once again.
"Serena, you'd better come inside and go to bed, we leave tomorrow morning." Jadeite's comforting voice murmered from the front door.
Serena nodded and with one last longing look at the moon she followed Jadeite into the house.
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Serena opened her eyes to the sound of a commotion outside her bedroom door. Curious, she threw the covers off herself and pulled on a white terry towel robe and walked to her door. She rested her ear against the heavy wood door and attempted to make out what the muffled voices were saying, but to no avail.
Giving up she pulled open her door. Innocent blue eyes widened in suprise upon seeing two male forms engaged in fighting barely inches from her door. One was her life time love, Darien, the other was a mystery. He wore no armour that Serena could see, but he was a beautifully sculpted male. Snug fitting black trousers and a black button up dress shirt was what he wore, and he filled both out like a second glove. Every muscle was defined and evenly proportioned. The dress shirt was only buttoned half way, leaving Serena with a hinted veiw of the male's chest, leaving her wanting to see the rest of his naked chest. His hair was black-the same a Darien's-although longer, resting to just below his broad shoulders. His face, however, was blurry, and Serena couldn't seem to make it out.
Unable to bare the fighting anylonger she dove in the middle of the fight, effectively stopping the two men from beating each other to a bloody pulp.
"Serena!" Darien spoke and pulled her to his side.
"Darien, what is going on out here?" she asked, dabbing worriedly at the blood streaming from Darien's cut lip.
"My love, I caught this man attempting to sneak into your room." He explained quickly.
Serena glanced at the other man, curious as to why a man like him would want to sneak into her room for. "And you sir? What have to you say?"
The man bowed, respectfully low and he spoke. His voice seductive and luring. Hypnotic. "My Princess, I come baring no disrespect. I was but merly trying to save you from the man who claims to love you." he assured Serena.
Serena's eyes clouded with anger and she focused her attention on the stranger, "Excuse me? What would I have to fear from Prince Darien? He protects me, he loves me."
The stranger shook his blurry head and he dropped down to his knees. "My Princesses. The Prince will not protect you. He is using you to gain the Silver Imperium Crystal. He craves your power, not you. " the stranger pointed out cruelly. "He seeks to increase his powers through you."
Serena's head swung around to face Darien and she caught the guilt in his eyes before it was carefully guarded away. "This is true. You've been lying to me?"
Darien's soulfully sad eyes convayed their guilt wordlessly. He was silent, yet his eyes seemed to beg for forgiveness. His lips were unsmiling, but stiff in what seemed like an effort to keep quiet.
"Princess, I love you." the dark, seductive voice had Serena's eyes turning to face this newcomer. "I've always loved you, only you." he wispeared and stepped ever closer to her.
Serena couldn't believe this man's silky words. They were too smooth...too fake. Its not real. Its not real! It was then that she realized she was in a dream.
"Get out of my head." she warned the man with no face in a calm, deceptively soft voice.
"Princess this is your subconcious. You know deep down that it is me you want, not the Prince of Earth. He can never make you happy. He can never accept you the way you are. He will never love you." the silky voice spoke sympathetically, lovingly. His voice reached out and seemed to try and caress Serena's soul.
Serena's heart and soul hardened to this manner of being that dared to suggest such nonesense. Serena's faith and trust in Darien was unwavering. His heart was hers alone, as was her heart his. The power that she had, the power she knew about and even didn't know about was freely given to the Prince of Earth, and to the people of Earth for they're protection. It was given freely, of her own free will.
"I will never love you," Serena spoke firmly, her voice raising in tone. As the man's startled gasp she continued, knowing she hit a sensitive spot, "I will never be yours, I will never give you my heart, body, or soul which, in essense, is my power."
"Take it back!" The man's voice demanding pleadingly, "Princess you know that I love you. You know that you must love me!"
"And you must know that if you continue to pursue this course I will have no choice but to destroy you. And make no mistake, I will." she spoke firmly.
"You BITCH!" The man screamed and lashed out with his fist, catching her in the cheek, "You will love me, and you will give me your power."
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Serena woke up with a startled gasp as she hit the floor beside her bed. Her body was cold, yet drenched in sweat and her she was shaking. Serena slowly got up to her knee's and brought a shaky hand up to her sore cheek. It was bruised badly, and she knew there would be a huge, ugly bruise on her face.
"Bastard," Serena wispeared, then jumped back with a small squeal as her bedroom door burst open and Jadeite burst through.
"Serena, what is it? Why are you on the floor?" Jadeite asked curiously as his eyes slowly searched the darkened room for the source of dark evil energy he sensed. He flicked on the light switch and renewed his search.
"What are you doing in here?" Serena gasped and wrapped the white sheet she used as a blanket around her scantily clad body. It being so hot out in the night, Serena had gotten used to sleeping in nothing but her underwear-and she had chosen to go without her bra this unfortunate night.
Jadeite froze when he saw Serena's body, barely even hidden through the almost threadbare sheet she was using to cover herself. Serena had the most beautiful body Jadeite had ever laid his eyes on. Soft, silky smooth, creamy looking skin that made him want to run his fingers along every inch of her beautiful body. Slightly rounded hips, tight firm tummy, muscles gently defined, high firm breasts. It took only a few moments before Jadeite realized that he was starting, quite rudely mind you, at his masters' woman. Chastizing himself, he forced his eyes away from her full breasts and looked up into Serena's embarassed gaze. And he saw the giant red swelling on Serena's cheek.
Forgetting the sight of Serena's naked body, he stalked towards her and firmly grasped Serena's chin, tilting her face up to his so he could inspect the injury further. "What happened?" he growled.
Serena pulled herself away from Jadeite and moved to the other side of the room, needing space between them. "Whatever evil that is stalking Tokyo is here. Its in my head. I was sleeping and it was in my dream." she told him, "And it didn't appreciate me backtalking."
Jadeite nodded and frowned, "We need to get out of here, now. The sooner we get back to the others the better." he decided firmly.
Silence filled the room, awkward silence and Jadeite kept his eyes firmly locked onto the floor, away from the godess that was just mer feet from him. "Ah...I guess I'll get Joan and Rachel. We leave in a half hour." he murmered and left the room.
Serena closed her eyes and silently promised herself to kill Jadeite when this was all over.
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It took almost a week to get to the outskirts of Tokyo in the small rental car that Joan had rented with her emergancy Visa. Serena could feel the hairs on the back of her neck rise every time they stopped for even a couple moments. She was being watched and she knew it-if there was one thing she learned from being on her own, it was to trust her gut. At that particular moment it was telling her that she was hungry so she decided to trust the creepy feeling she got when the hairs on the back of her neck started rising.
Whatever it was was close, real close and Serena came to the conclusion that there was very little time left before something big happened.
When the car Joan rented suddenly shut off and slowly rolled to a stop Serena realized that something was happening. The thing that Jadeite had told her about was coming true-the barrier was going to stop her from reaching her city. That meant that it was time for Joan and Rachel to step up and go into the city alone.
Jadeite led them to the actual barrier and stood infront of it. "Its gotten stronger, Serena." he informed her, silently reading the power levels on the giant invisable barrier.
"Right," Serena said, deciding to take charge. She turned to Joan and Rachel, who were silently putting on their backpacks. "Ladies, the rest is up to you. All you need to do is find Darien, one of the Scouts, or one of the Generals. You have Darien's address as well as his phone number so the rest should be easy, I hope."
Joan nodded and gave Serena a quick hug, "We'll be back soon enough Serena, no worries. Jadeite, you take good care of my girl." she warned him firmly and gave him a quick hug as well. Then with a determined look into the large city, she passed through the barrier with ease.
Rachel stepped up to the barrier and looked back at Serena, "I'll make sure we get your friends. And I'll keep an eye on Joan too." she promised and walked through the barrier after the older woman.
Serena rested a hand firmly on the energy barrier and felt the very vibrations of the energy run through her hand and through her body. She closed her eyes and let the powerful energy run through her body and mind as she thought. She concentraited solely on the opposing energies she felt. One was clearly her own, and the other felt like the one that had been following her for the past week, the one that had been invading her dreams.
"I see what you mean Jadeite." Serena spoke finally, pulling away from the barrier.
Jadeite nodded, "You can see the differences between the two energies, thats excellent Serena. You are learning quite fast now."
Serena gave him a quick quirky grin and dropped back into a fighting stance, "Fast enough to kick your butt," she grinned cockily.
Jadeite rolled his eyes, but fell back into a defense stance, "You aren't that quick young grasshopper."
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Dirks couldn't figure out why he was being pulled towards Tokyo City, but he went anyway. He was obviously being drawn towards the large city, so it must mean that there was something there waiting for him there.
He was going into his third day of driving when he saw a beautiful woman dressed in a blood red dress, walking along side of the road. He pulled up beside the woman and rolled down the passenger side window. He looked into the most beautiful amber eyes he had ever seen, and for a moment he was speechless. "You need a ride somewhere?" he asked, allowing his eyes to roam along her flawless beautiful face.
"Are you going to Tokyo?" she asked, her voice husky and low, sensually sexy, hypnotic.
"Yes, I am." he replied, caught up in the woman's eyes once again. They seemed to swirl, amber with little flecks of black twirling and mixing with each other in a sensual dance. Something 'clicked' in Dirks mind and his eyes lost their briliance, toneing down into a dull, lifeless brown. "I am at your service," he murmered, his voice toneless, "Master."
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