The Four Stones

Serena of the Moon (Serena for short)

Chapter 6

Language: English

Rated: PG-PG13

Character notes on the bottom

Sorry for the delay. I had the case of writers block. This chapter is in Jupiter's P.O.V.

Just when they decided that the others weren't going to come and they needed to go look for them, the door flew open. There stood Mercury and Jupiter, but Eric wasn't with them. However, there were more then two people standing there. Just behind Mercury and Jupiter were the four generals.

Mercury, Eric and I ran down the halls of the palace. We had a mission and we had to finish quick if we wanted to get out of the Moon kingdom without any problems. We turned left at a corridor and right at the next. I promised myself that I would save Queen Serenity and Serena's "Darien". I wonder why she calls him Darien. Maybe it's his middle name. Every time we went down to Earth and had to drag Serena away she would always call him Endymion in front of us. Maybe it's his pet name. Why am I even thinking about this?

I turned to Mercury and asked her, "Are they going to be held in the same dungeons we were being held?"

"I'm not sure. I gave Queen Serenity my wand earlier. Maybe she still has it and I can use it to track her down," she said as she typed furiously on her mini computer.

"Let's hope so," Eric said.

After about 20 minutes of running, Mercury all of a sudden stopped.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I got a signal from my wand. It seems that Queen Serenity is found in her throne room," she explained.

"Why would she be there?" Eric asked. "The only reason she would be there would be if she's talking to Beryl."

"Maybe she is," I said. "Mercury do you know anyway that we might be able to get there fast and unnoticed?

"We could use a Sailor Teleport," she stated simply. She must have noticed the look on my face 'cause she continued and said, "Sense we are only going to teleport a few rooms away, I'm sure we could do it with only the two of us. And we could take Eric with us, it's not that hard if we do it right."

"All right," I said as I held one hand to her. She took it and told Eric to step in. I held Mercury's other hand once he got in and waited for Mercury to tell me when to start. Eric was having a hard time staying between us. Don't get me wrong, he's not fat or anything. Not even close to it. He's just full of muscles.

"Ready?" Mercury asks me.

"Ready," I said.

"Sailor!"

"Teleport!" We yell, each saying a word. We close our eyes and concentrate on getting to the room next to the throne room. Soon we disappear and the only things we saw are the rooms passing by, in our minds.

We open our eyes again when we feel our feet touch the ground. We quickly look around, making sure that there aren't any guards around. When we are sure nobody is around we get back to business. Mercury is already typing on her computer, looking at a map of the area around up.

On the map there are little dots, representing each person in the area. (Any Harry Potter fans reading this?) It seemed like there were two guards standing outside the throne room and ten inside. We could see Beryl sitting in Queen Serenity's throne with Queen Serenity and Endymion in front of her. There were two generals in each side of her and the guards surrounding them.

"We'll have to just charge in there. If we take them by surprise maybe we can get them with their guard down," Eric suggested.

"Yeah, I think that we should do that too," I said stepping toward the door. Mercury put her computer away and stepped toward the door with Eric behind us.

Eric stepped closer and said, "When I kick the door open start attacking the guards."

"Just don't hurt them too badly," Mercury added. Eric kicked the door open and we came out prepared. I used my attack first and paralyzed them, and then Mercury froze them from the waist down. We entered the throne and did the same to the guards in the room. Queen Serenity and Endymion stood up from their place on the floor and ran over to us.

"Mercury! Jupiter! Thank the goodness you came!" Queen Serenity said as she hugged each of us. Strange…she didn't say anything to Eric. He must have noticed too, because when I turned to him he had a grim expression. (Would someone have that type of expression in this type of situation?)

"Where's Serenity?" Endymion asked. Serenity? Didn't he call her Serena? I guess because he's saying in front of all of us. I just shrugged it off and answered.

"With the others," I said not wanting to tell exactly where the others were. I wasn't going to let out that type of information with Beryl and her generals around.

"Where?" he pressed on.

"We'll tell you later," Mercury answered. We all faced Beryl and her generals which looked…confused? Why would they be confused? I guess they didn't expect us to come save Endymion and Queen Serenity. Beryl just looked at us with a smile on her face. What is she smiling about? We stood in silence and just looked at each other.

Tired of waiting for something to happen I yelled out, "Jupiter…Thunder Dragon!" It was coming right at Beryl when she just blocked it. You heard me. She just made an invisible shield (No not Darien Shields! Ok bad joke.) appear in front of her. Ok after this, I have no idea what happened. Beryl's generals just started attacking Beryl! I was shocked for a few seconds then shrugged it off and started attacking again. Mercury followed my lead and attacked Beryl.

No matter what we did, Beryl managed to block every single attack. Everyone just stopped to catch their breaths. Then Malchite turned to us and said, "Step away from them.

"What are you talking about?" Eric asked. Malchite walked closer to us and from behind we saw the other three generals keeping their eyes on Beryl.

"Step away from tha-…Queen Serenity and Endymion," he repeated again. We stared at him hard and closed in on Queen Serenity and Endymion. Eric protected them from the back and Mercury and I from the front.

"You are being fool-" he started but didn't finish. At that moment one of the guards had managed to break free and started attacking him. Now we were really confused. We saw that Beryl didn't seem to mind that a guard was now fighting with her general…who just attacked her a few minutes ago. The guard's eyes were glowing red. 'He must be under Beryl's control,' I thought to myself.

"Mercury! Jupiter!" We turned around and saw that it was Eric who yelled for us. We also noticed that Endymion was coming at us with his sword. 'What the hell is going on!' I yell in my head as a dodge another attack.

"Prince Endymion, what are you doing?" I asked pushing Mercury out of the way before his sword could get in contact with her flesh. He didn't answer me; he just kept slashing away, missing every time, but not giving up. He ripped a part of my skirt and half of Mercury's bow.

"That's not Dar-uh Endymion!" we heard someone scream. We turned to the generals who were now fighting with the guards that managed to get out of Mercury's ice.

"What do you mean?" Mercury asked as she dodged Endymion once again.

"He is under Beryl's control! She hypnotized him!" Zoycite yelled as she knocked out another guard.

"What?" Mercury and I ask in union.

"Watch out, Mercury!" yelled Jedite. Mercury didn't have to react. Before she knew what was going on, Queen Serenity was choking her from behind. Eric and I were going against Endymion now. Eric managed to knock him out without hurting him much. I turned to help Mercury but Queen Serenity held her tight.

"Come closer and Mercury gets it!" Queen Serenity said holding Mercury tighter and tighter every second.

"Your majesty, what are you doing?" I asked taking a step back.

"Majesty? The only queen here is Queen Beryl!" she yelled laughing like a mad women. That's when I noticed her eyes were glowing red. Mercury must have noticed too, 'cause at that moment Queen Serenity made a face full of pain. I looked down and saw Mercury elbowed her. Queen Serenity let go and slid down, unconscious.

Mercury quickly went to her and said, "She's all right. I just knocked her out." My soldier instincts kicked in and I turned around. One of the guards was coming at me with a sword aiming right at me. He was moving too fast for me to do anything (I doubt that) so I stayed still, closed my eyes and waited for the awful pain. It never came. I opened my eyes and what I saw shocked me.

Eric had gotten in the way and was hit instead of me. I caught him as he fell and was pleased when his attacker was knocked out. I could see that he was hit on his side. It was deep and it looked like he could die.

"Run!" someone yelled. I made a move to pick up Queen Serenity, Endymion and Eric (yes, she can lift them all) but strong arms grabbed me and started pulling me up.

"Let go of me," I said struggling to get away.

"Go," a soft voice said. I looked down and saw that it was Eric. He dragged himself off my lap and said, "Go. There is nothing you can do." I opened my mouth to say, 'No! Not without my friends!' but the same strong arms grabbed me and managed to pull me up. I refused to run so the strong arms picked me up and ran with me in his arms. I figured it was a guy 'because when he picked my up I felt his hard chest.

We were out the door and I heard Mercury use her freezing attack. My eyes were blurry from the tears in my eyes but I figured she must have frozen the doors shut. We ran down the halls with Mercury in the lead. When we finally started to slow down, I whipped my tears away and looked at who was carrying me. It was Nephlite!

He looked down at me and gave me a small smile. I could feel my cheeks get warm and I looked down. "You could put me down you know?" I asked looking back at him.

"I know," he said smiling down at me again. I suddenly took notice of how short my skirt was and gave him the 'You better do what I say of else' glare. He gave a small chuckle and put my down. As soon as he put me down I was already missing his warmth.

"Now, would you mind explaining to us, what the hell is going on?" I asked almost shouting.

Jedite grinned and said, "Wow Nephlite, your girlfriend sure has a sharp tongue." I glared at him and moved away from them and closer to Mercury.

"I think what she's trying to say is, would you be as kind as to tell us what's going on?" Mercury asked.

"Well you see we are Dar-uh Endymion's generals. One day when Endymion was visiting Princes Serenity Beryl attacked Earth and hypnotized us," Jedite started. "Well with our superb talent, Beryl took over the Moon. So you know she had you imprisoned."

"Yes, we know all about that. But what about just now? Why did you start attacking Beryl and why did Endymion and Queen Serenity attack us?" I asked getting to the point.

"When we captured Endymion and Queen Serenity, Beryl had the idea to hypnotize them. The only problem was that she could only hypnotize three people and if she manages to get a fourth the fourth would be less loyal then the rest. She decided she didn't need us any more so she erased our memories. Didn't do a very good job because I can still remember small things. Anyway she planned to take us to a cell after she was finished with us, but thank goodness you arrived," Malchite explained.

"How do we know you're not lying?" I asked. "Mercury, give them a lie detector test."

"A what?" Jedite asked. "You know we are trained to confuse a lie detector test right?"

"That maybe so, but Mercury's lie detector forces you to tell the truth," I explained.

Jedite mumbled something that sounded a lot like 'yeah, right.' I glared at him and said, "You'll go first." He calmly steped up and let Mercury conect the wires leading from her computer to Jedite's head. 'This should be good.' I thought to myself

"Ok Jedite," I started. "Boxers or briefs?" I grinned as the other generals laughed and Mercury gave a giggle. I turned to Mercury and she typed some things in her computer.

"Boxers," Jedite answered shortly. (Can you really see him wearing briefs?) We all started laughing as Jedite stood there with his hands over his mouth and a dark blush or red on his face.

Zoycite stepped up, uncovered his mouth and then asked, "Where you the one who drank all the beer last month?" 'Ohhhhhh this would be good,' I thought. Jedite just stood there fighting Zoycite for control of his hands. Mercury typed in her computer and then Jedite, who had his hands over his mouth, nodded.

"I knew it!" Zoycite yelled smiling.

"My turn," Nephlite said as he stepped up. "Do you…do you think Zoycite is attractive?" Jedite's eyes popped out of his head. He uncovered his mouth and said, "She's ok but not my type." They all laughed again and then Mercury said, "Jedite. Is all that you and Malchite have told us truth?" She typed and then Jedite said, "…yes."

Mercury and I let out a breath and started "unplugging" Jedite from Mercury's computer.

"Come on," I said as I started leading the way to the training room. When we arrived at an empty spot on the wall, I touched it lightly and a door appeared. We turned the handle and saw Venus, Mars, and the cats in front of Serena.

Wooohooo! Way to go Jupiter! Had a little romance in there. I wasn't going to have a love thing between the scouts and generals but I couldn't help myself. I'm a sucker for romance. Sorry. No one here but you and me. Everyone is getting ready for "The evacuation". Well you know the drill one review gets ya one chapter. Oh yeah, I keep forgetting to put the disclaimer on the other chapters but you all know who owns Sailor Moon right? Right. Please review.

Now for "The reason" I will continue it but it'll take a while so please be patient. And if you haven't read it yet: read it.