I did update Monday! It was like, ten o'clock Monday night, so it might not show up before Monday is over, but I can't help it. Sorry guys! I did keep my promise though. I did technically update Monday, even though my computer crashed and I had to use my brother's, I updated! Enjoy! It's a nice long one, and I suppose it might be a slight bit of a cliffhanger, but not as bad as the others...

Chapter 6

Darien stared silently at the lifeless body of Serena in his arm, unable to breathe. After a moment or so a word went through his mind-No…It can't be…no…

"No…" he whispered softly. Then finally able to breathe, he gasped in a gulp of air, but it sounded more like a sob. "No, Serena…" he said again, his voice catching. He felt one of his own tears escape and slip down his face. "Serena…"

Why did he feel this way? She was just an annoying young girl he'd met on the street outside of a jewelry shop. Why was he so upset, so sad all of a sudden? Of course he should be sad that a person had just died-and one he'd known-but why did he feel as if he'd just lost his parents all over again? What was happening to him?

Before he knew what was going on, he found himself shaking as he sobbed over her body. "Serena, no!" he wept. "No, no…"

Then something happened.

An image flashed through his mind.

It was the same princess that had haunted his dreams for so long.

But now the images went farther. He could see her clearly-her white dress and its gold decorations, her beautiful smile-all so familiar somehow.

Darien gasped as he opened his eyes. For a moment he saw the sky above them, but then the images returned, and became more than images. It was as if e were there with the princess, as if he were re-living a memory he couldn't remember for all he was worth. At first, he was in what seemed to be a palace, staring at the moon. Then it changed. He was on the moon, outside another palace, speaking to the princess from the ground as she stood on a balcony. But he couldn't make out the words. For some reason, in the scene, he felt uneasy, as if he shouldn't be standing there, and that was proved when a pack of guards began to chase him, and he was forced to leave.

It changed a second time. He was now in the moon palace, dancing with the princess, and his clothes were similar to what he wore as Tuxedo Mask. They spoke to each other, but again he could not understand what she said, or what he replied. Was it even his voice? Before he had time to ponder, the scene shifted, and he and the princess were holding each other, then he was kissing her.

On the roof, still holding Serena, Darien smiled through his tears. What he was seeing seemed so right somehow, and familiar, but he couldn't remember. Was 'this' his past? But how could it be? As far as he knew, there weren't any people on the moon.

But then the scene changed yet again, and now it became frightening. Again he was with the princess, but around them a battle raged. An evil-looking woman before them frowned. The princess snuggled into hi arms in fear, but then what appeared to be a column of green energy surrounded him, swept him into the air, away from her. Then, suddenly, he was able to understand what he was hearing.

The princes called out to him, and it was no doubt that it was the same voice from his dreams. But for the first time, instead of calling him Tuxedo Mask, she used his name…Darien.

Darien called back to her, and he heard and understood the words he said, but it wasn't him, exactly, saying them. He had no control over it. It was as if he were only an observer in what seemed to be his own body, but he still had no idea exactly where he was, who he or these other people were, or what was going on.

The princes called out again, and ran toward the edge of the balcony.

"No, Darien, I want to be with you!" With the words, she jumped into the whirlwind, and was blown toward him.

"Serena!" he screamed. Wait a minute, Darien thought in confusion. If this girl from my dreams is named Serena…But how can that be? And what in the world is happening here? This is so strange!

Reaching out for her, and her for him, finally their hands clasped. But then another beam of green energy, this time deadly, shot from the dark clouds above them, striking them and knocking them apart.

Both screamed. Darien felt blinding pain, and then black nothingness engulfed him in death-but not before he caught a painful glance of the girl's lifeless body floating beside him, tears still streaming from her closed eyes…

Darien gasped as he awoke from the daydream, finding that he had cried so hard in the last part of it that a spot on the front of his shirt was soaked with tears, and he had been holding Serena's unmoving form so tightly that her blood had seeped into his clothing as well.

Suddenly a hand rested on his shoulder, and he turned quickly, surprising Raye, who looked at him with concern as she continued to wipe away her tears.

"Darien, are you all right. You've been sitting there totally out of it for the past five minutes, crying most of the time, and just before you came out of it you were doing it so hard that I thought you were going to choke."

Gulping as he wiped his own tears from his face, Darien nodded. "Yeah, I-I don't what came over me. Sorry to scare you, but I'm all right now."

Raye nodded as he looked back down at Serena. Oh, meatball head, you really were annoying, but I'll sure miss you…

Leaving her hand on his shoulder, Raye and Darien sat, not knowing what else to do. But a moment later the silence was shattered when Darien cried out from a sudden pain in his head. Letting go of Serena and letting her body rest on his knees, he grabbed his head, screaming in agony.

"Darien!" Raye cried in alarm. "Darien, what is it!"

"I don't know!" he shouted. "AHHHA!"

It was almost the same feeling he had when Sailor Moon was in trouble, but a hundred times worse. What's happening to me! he screamed in his mind, at the same time still screaming out loud. Pictures from his dreams, from the daydream, began to flash through his mind again, faster and faster, and the pain grew, his screams growing louder.

"Darien, what's wrong! What's wrong!" Raye screeched, almost ready to panic. But then something started to happen.

The transformation broach on Serena's school uniform began to glow even as Darien screamed in agony. Gasping, Raye stood and backed away as the bizarre scene before her got even weirder. Before her eyes, Serena's wounds began to heal, the light becoming brighter and brighter. The power was coming from the broach, but for some reason also seemed to be coming from her friend's body itself, and it was so great she could feel it in the air around them. Then a blinding flash of light, and in surprise she looked down to find herself transformed, and Serena and Darien…

They looked like they had stepped out of a story book. Darien looked like a prince, and Serena like his princess. The flowing white dress that now covered her healed body was the most beautiful she had ever seen. But Darien was still screaming, hands clasping his head tightly. He had seen none of it so far, but, sensing the light and the power, he forced his eyes partly open through the pain. He gasped anew when he saw Serena.

Raye stepped another step backwards, not wanting her identity to be revealed even as she stared at the two, having no idea what this was, though it seemed familiar.

When Darien opened his eyes, he gasped, because now Serena looked exactly like the girl in his dreams, and her wounds had healed. The clothes that he now wore also seemed familiar.

All of a sudden, the pain stopped. Gasping in relief, Darien dropped his arms, and the energy and light coming from Serena faded away.

"Serena…?" he whispered. "Princess…?" He seemed to be on the verge of remembering 'something'. If only he could remember it! If only he could know the truth about his past! But it slipped away before he could grasp it, and in another second, all three on the roof looked normal again. Their normal clothes returned. The only thing that had changed from before the crazy event had taken place was that Serena was still healed. The blood on Darien's shirt, Serena's clothes, and the ground, was gone. Her chest moved up and down slowly, assuring them that, somehow, she was alive.

"Serena!" both Raye and Darien cried happily, expecting her to open her eyes any minute.

But she did not wake up as they had expected.

Lights began to surround her body again, but this time they were colored, and much softer. Raye recognized them as the same type of light that engulfed Serena when she was transforming.

"What going on!" Darien cried.

"I don't know!" Raye answered, honestly not knowing. Because this time the lights were not transforming her-or at least it didn't look like it. This time they seemed to be doing something else.

A moment later their question was answered-partially-when Serena glimmered out of existence, fading away before their eyes.

Serena opened her eyes. Groaning, she sat up to find herself lying on the ground in the alley next to the building she had been on top of a moment ago. She knew nothing of what had just happened. The last thing she remembered was closing her eyes in Darien's arms, somehow feeling as if it were right to be there…

She looked around her in confusion, and her confusion was furthered when she happened to glance downward, and found that she was transformed! Not to mention healed.

"What!" she cried, standing and jumping nearly three feet in the air. "Okay, now this is really weird! What's going on! Oh, that cat may be annoying but I really wish she were here right now to give me a clue!"

An explosion in the background caused her to stop flailing and turn around. Running out of the alley, she spotted the tell-tale lights of a Sailor Scout battle on the other end of the park. Why haven't they called me? she wondered.

Shrugging, she ran in the direction of the battle.