Chapter 10:
Serena screamed for the pain, but was aware no sound actually left her mouth. She opened her eyes which she had squeezed tight when she felt the pain. She stood up and looked around at the scenery. A place that seemed distant and familiar. She stood just observing everything around her for many moments. Then the mysterious woman appeared. Serena glared at her.
"What do you want?" She shuddered. "Why am I here?" She asked those questions so forcefully she surprised herself. The woman smiled.
"You were breaking." She replied coolly. "I wasn't supposed to show you this, but you need it." Serena found these statements confusing.
"So where am I?" She asked nervously.
"Your future home." Serena looked at the woman darkly as she spoke.
"Well I suppose you don't believe me…" The woman began.
"Of course I don't." Serena shot at her. "My future home is Crystal Tokyo. I've seen it, it looks nothing like this." This was when Serena looked down to notice she was donning her princess gown. She was sure she wasn't wearing that and usually she talks to this woman in whatever she was wearing before. The woman smiled at Serena's discovery, but didn't mention it.
"Yes this isn't Crystal Tokyo…" She said turning to observe the wide land space in all its mystical glory. "This is the Moon Kingdom." She paused, but when Serena didn't speak she explained. "If you can keep your friends away and do your duty alone, you will have the power to revive the Moon Kingdom. Your friends will be able to join you as your royal court once again and your Earth prince will join you in reigning over the moon." She gave Serena a glance through the corner of her eye. The Moon Princess was staring, open mouthed in wonder. "Maybe your friends will be able to re-establish their planets order and the society that was once here will be again." She used great empathise on be. Serena looked around her.
"We're on the moon?" She asked her voice full of emotion. The woman found no need to answer. After giving Serena many moments to take all of this in, she said.
"In a few minutes, an enemy is going to attack a police station not far from the studio. You must go and destroy him." As Serena began to ask for help or more information the scene around her faded and she woke on the floor of her small apartment. She stood up quickly, her head spinning. Ignoring the disorientation she fled out the door and ran straight into Kieran.
"Oh! Kieran!" She said. "Where's the nearest police station?" She asked hurriedly. Distractedly he gave her the directions, but as she was speeding off he called,
"There are people looking for you in the lobby! They might be with the people here the other day." Serena stopped and spun around. Oh no…
"Uhhh…" She said thinking as fast as she could. "…tell them I was here not long ago. Looking for work. Give them a fake address and say I left it in case you needed me…" She finished there and ran back into her apartment, transformed and leapt through the window.
Darien sat waiting with Amara and Michelle. They'd reasoned with Ami and Trista and agreed not to do anything unreasonable and Michelle said she'd go along to supervise. When the manger of the Modelling agency came out Darien jumped to his feet.
"Yes, well, as it appears the young girl did do a shoot with us, she just helped out with that one, but she came in earlier and spoke to one of my assistants about getting permanent work with us, as we have a constant stream of jobs for our girls. Unfortunately we couldn't take her. If it helps…" He said reaching into his pocket for a piece of paper. "She gave us this address, if we found any work for her." He held out the paper for Darien to take. Darien snatched it up.
"Thanks." He said. Looking purposefully at Amara and Michelle they dashed out of the agency pretty quick.
"Maybe we should go get the others Darien." Michelle said. He just shook his head and jumped into the car. They took off down the street only just within the speed limit.
Sailor Moon jumped the roof tops along to the local police station. She stationed herself on top of the roof top of a building opposite. She waited patiently and was almost shocked to see green smoke appear out of nowhere above the station. She geared herself for battle. Getting ready to leap to the building. Slowly the green smoke took form of a man, and laughing he began to power up. He crackled with electricity. Then he began blasting the police station with it. Sailor Moon stayed in her hiding spot for a moment. Feeling scared, but summoned her courage and used great strength to bound quietly and swiftly until she was close to the green man. She steadied herself and attacked the man with her moon tiara magic attack hoping to surprise him. It worked; he fell onto the roof of the police station. He looked up angrily as Sailor Moon landed, almost, gently near him.
"Who are you!" He shouted at her.
"I am Sailor Moon, Champion of love and justice. And in the name of the moon, I will punish you." She said famously. Not giving him time to respond, she called out her strongest attack.
"Moon Gorgeous Meditation!" He was blasted full on with the attack, but got up weakly. Sailor Moon was stunned.
"Why… why aren't you dusted?" She said slowly. He laughed.
"That wouldn't kill me." He held up his hand and blasted lightning at her. She jumped out of the way just in time and spun around to hit him with another moon tiara magic attack. It got his arm and cut it, he tried to move it, but it appeared useless. Using his other arm he blasted more lightning at her, again she narrowly avoided being hit and spun around for another attack. This time summoning up all her strength she hit him with an extremely powerful Moon gorgeous meditation attack. And he dusted. She stood bent forward panting, feeling weak.
"That… was… so… hard…" She said to herself. After waiting a few moments for her strength to return she slowly made her way back to her apartment. Upon slipping through the window she de-transformed. She reset her alarm clock and fell asleep fully clothed on her bed.
Darien pulled the car to a halt outside the house that Serena had apparently given as her address. He walked up to the door and knocked calmly. I can't feel her… He thought to himself as Amara and Michelle came to a halt behind him. The door was opened by a kind looking lady.
"How may I help you?" She asked nervously noting Darien's tense face.
"We heard we might be able to find our friend here." Amara said. The lady nodded.
"Yes are they a runaway?" She asked gently. Amara nodded. "Yes, we get a few of them. Come in and we'll see if we can find them." She said. "Male or female?" She asked.
"She's female," Darien said quickly. "Blonde hair, blue eyes, soft pale skin…" He trailed off. The lady led them through a few corridors until they came to a room where ten or so girls were lounging around, reading or chatting.
"Do you see your friend?" Darien didn't speak he just looked down, tears coming to his eyes. He heard Michelle answer and they walked out to their car. The lady offered wishes of luck, but Darien didn't care. He felt Michelle guide him into the backseat of his car. And Amara drove them back to the hotel. After moments of silence Amara chose to speak.
"You know we got tricked, Darien." She said. He looked up and looked at her in the review mirror.
"What?" He asked.
"The agency sent us on a wild goose chase." Michelle explained. He got angry then. Why were all these people keeping him away from Serena?
"Let's go back there." He said viciously. But both Amara and Michelle refused. They got back to the hotel and let Darien vent some of his anger by telling the story to the other girls and cats. That was when Rei showed him the magazine Mina had picked up from a stand. Serena was on the cover in a flowing summer dress. He flicked though and saw the other pictures of her and… the logo of the modelling agency they were already sure had hired Serena.
"So they were lying to us." He said.
"Yeah, it looks like Serena's working for them full time." Rei added going and sitting next to Mina. Tears full of anger and sadness filtered out of Darien's eyes. The others left him. Giving him some time to himself.
Meanwhile Serena's dreams were full of images of the Moon Kingdom being destroyed and being torn away from her friend and family forever. She twisted and turned peacelessly in her sleep.
Sorry it took so long to paste this chapter. Christmas was making things pretty hectic. Please continue to review. Hope everyone had a good Christmas!