The Four Stones

Serena of the Moon (Serena for short)

Chapter 7

Language: English

Rated: PG-PG13

Disclaimer: Sadly SM doesn't belong to me.

Character notes on the bottom

Welcome to all of you who just got here from ASMR. To answer UsakoChanLovesMamoChan's question. I had trouble contacting my beta-reader so I couldn't get it edited. And now I got a new beta-reader so there are some things to work out before I can post the next chapter. I decided to post on ASMR again if things with my new beta-reader works. So please sit back and enjoy the story. Everyone thank Ladynightfire38215for reviewing!

"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 stepped up and let Mercury connect 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 of 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 true?" 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.

"What's going on?" Mars asked ready to attack.

"We'll explain later. Right now we need to leave," Jupiter answered as she stepped closer to the group of overprotected friends and guardians. Jupiter took Princess Serenity's hand and led her toward the door."

"Hold on Jupiter. I think they might want to know before they trust the generals that threatened our queen," Mercury said putting her arm in Jupiter's way.

"All right. Long story short: Beryl hypnotized Endymion's generals to do her dirty work and now she just hypnotized Queen Serenity and Endymion so she lost control over them and she now controls Queen Serenity and Endymion," Jupiter said in one breath.

"Run that by me one more time," Venus said sarcastically.

"The point is that we have to go before they find out where we are hiding," Mercury said now letting Jupiter drag Serenity to the door. Serenity pulled away and asked, "They have my Darien?" Jupiter looked sadly at her and said, "Yes."

Serenity looked down, nodded her head and said, "Let's go."

They all held hands and formed a circle around Luna and Artemis.

"Can you teleport on your own?" Mercury asked, facing Malchite.

"Don't worry about us. We have traveled different dimensions by our selves. Just tell us where we are going," Malchite reassured her.

"All right. We're going to Mars. Mars, any chance you're family already knows where the Red Ruby is?" Mercury asked.

"I'm not sure. I haven't been there sense I was 14. But knowing my father I don't think he would bother with it. It's probably lost in one of the many volcanoes that Mars has," she explained.

"All right…lets go. Sailor…!"

"…Teleport!" shouted Luna and Artemis. They all closed their eyes and Serenity's crescent moon glowed. In a few seconds the group vanished leaving a meteor like hole on the floor.

They looked around and saw that everything around them was red. There was red dust in the air (work with me) and all over the ground. There were also rocks here and there.

"Every one ok?" There were I mixture of 'yeahs' 'uh huhs' and 'I guess'.

"We need to walk a few miles north," they heard Mercury say after a few beeps escaped her mini computer.

"Well, no use in just standing here. Let's go," Jedite said as he started walking.

"Where do you think you're going?" Mars asked with her arms crossed against her chest. Jedite looked at her with a "what do you think?" look. "You can't just go wondering around Mars. There are laws and rules you don't know of and you could get in trouble for it," she explained.

"What so you mean?" Jedite asked as he retraced his last step.

"Like now…One of the laws in Mars is that you can't argue with royalty unless you are royalty," Mars said pointing his "mistake" out.

"Does it matter right now? We have to find this stupid stone so we can get our prince back and you have to get your queen back so don't talk to me about stupid laws," then he left without another word.

The others followed but Venus stayed behind with Mars and asked, "Is that true?"

"Of course not. I just don't like some stranger coming to my home planet and act like he owns it," she said as she walked past the others and led the way.

"Couldn't we just teleport?" Nephlite asked when Mars started walking next to him.

"It'll take more energy to get past the shield that surrounds the palace. And even if we do get enough energy the shield is so sensitive that it can tell whenever someone teleported in and we don't know if Beryl has send any of her minions here or to any other planet," Mars explained. Soon she and Mercury were taking the lead. The generals to the side, Jupiter and Venus on the back, and in the middle were Serenity and the two cats.

They walked for what seemed like hours until they finally saw a small town. Everything was made out of red bricks. As they got closer they were able to see people standing around in small groups each whispering between each other. They were able to catch a few words like "The Moon Kingdom was taken over…?", "What will happen to us…?", and "What do you think will happen to the silver alliance…?"

They walked farther north until they saw the last house in the village. "How much longer?" someone asked. Mercury typed a few things in her computer and then answered, "Less then a mile."

"Wow that makes me feel so much better," Jedite said sarcastically.

They walked the rest of the way in silence and passed more towns each looking like the last. They walked until they saw the tip of Mars's palace. It looked like what all the other towns were made of but the bricks were bigger. They walked toward the palace, past the bowing soldiers, and to the front door.

Mars made a fire ball appear in her hand and touched the door with it. The next second the doors swung open and they walked in. Behind them they could hear people yelling, "The princesses' are here! Princess Raye is here!"

They were soon in the dinning room and saw King Ignaitus sitting at the head chair barely eating anything. He looked up when he heard the doors open and stood up when he saw Raye.

"Raye!" he said as he walked over to her. "Look at who you grew! I haven't seen you in years. You look just like your mother at your age." He stepped back and took a full look at her. "What are you doing here?" he asked as he finally noticed the others. His eyes hardened when he saw the generals.

"Hello you majesty," Malchite said as he bowed at the waist. "We are here because of an emergency." He waited for King Ignaitus to say something but he didn't say anything so he continued. "The Moon Kingdom has been taken over by Queen Beryl of the Negaverse (or is it Negaverse?). Prince Endymion of Earth and Queen Serenity of the Moon have been hypnotized and are now under her control," he explained still waiting for any type of reaction.

"I see…We'll have something to do about it now won't we?" he asked as he sat back down. "Come and eat. You must be tired of traveling."

They all sat down and then Mars asked, "Father, where is mother?"

He looked at her and simply said, "Gone."

"Gone?" Mars asked confused.

"Yes. About two says ago she suddenly disappeared. Nobody has seen her since," he explained.

"Have you sent anybody to look for her?" Serenity asked very confused and concerned.

"Actually yes. I should be getting a message anytime soon. Now eat," he said as he pocked at his food. The others looked at Mars as if she would answer any question they had. She simply looked down and started eating. The others followed her and soon everyone was eating.

The doors opened and a guard came in. "Your majesty," he said as he bowed. "We have searched all of Mars and we haven't seen or heard anything from her majesty."

King Ignaitus stood up and said, "Dismissed." He turned to the group and said, "Follow me." They all stood up and followed King Ignaitus to the control room. Nephlite, who was the last to go in, closed the door behind them. The King pressed a few buttons and the large screen flashed on. An image of a beautiful lady with blue hair appeared. She was wearing a small, but still beautiful, tiara. She was wearing a baby blue gown that brought out her dark blue eyes. The dark blue eyes looked sad. Like she has been crying. On her forehead a small Mercury sign could be seen. "Queen Ren," King Ignaitus said as he bowed his head.

"King Ignaitus," said a shy but clear voice. "To what do I owe this honor?" she asked.

"Queen Nina has gone missing," he informed her. "I am hoping that since she's such a good friend of yours she might have gone to visit without letting me know," he continued.

"I'm sorry to say that Nina isn't the only one missing. My Izotz is missing too. I haven't seen him in over two days and I can't seem to be able to track him.

"Father?" Mercury asked as she same into the queen's view.

"Yes, darling… I'm sorry to tell you that I…haven't seen your father," Queen Ren said, trying to hold back her tears. Mercury also tried to hold back her tears but a few were seen at the corner of her of her eyes.

"Do you think that one thing has to do with the other?" King Ignaitus asked, looking serous like always.

"I don't know…," Queen Ren answered quietly, looking down."

"Well I do," King Ignaitus said in his stubborn voice.

There was silence in the room before Queen Ren asked, "Amy, dear. Why are you in Mars?"

Mercury stepped forward and answered her mother, "The Moon Kingdom has been taken over by Queen Beryl of the Negaverse. We are here in search of the Red Ruby."

"Ahh, yes. One of the Four Stones. I wish you luck in finding it. I hope to see you soon."

"Of course. Thank you mother," Mercury said quietly. She moved back to join the others.

"Thank you for your time, Ren," King Ignaitus said as he moved to turn the screen.

"Good bye," said Queen Ren as she flashed off the screen.

King Ignaitus turned to them and said, "I suggest you all go to bed. You must be tired. We'll talk about the Red Ruby later. I will have your usual rooms ready for you. Why don't you all go take a hot bath while your rooms are ready?" Within seconds maids came in and took each of them to their own room for a bath.

Well? What do you think? I was going to make this chapter longer but I ran out of ideas' so I ended it here. What do you guys think about King Ignaitus and Queen Ren's personalities? I was trying to make King Ignatius a get-right-to-the-point kind of guy/ rough around the edges but soft inside. I can tell it didn't work very well. :sigh:. I was trying to make Queen Ren like Amy. Sweet but in control sort of person. Sort of like Queen Serenity. Here are the meanings of the names I used:

Ignaitus-Fire (King of Mars)

Nina-Fire (Queen of Mars)

Ren-Water lily (Queen of Mercury)

Izotz-Ice (King of Mercury)

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love ya-Serena