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Chapter 7: The Enemy's Move

Darien scheduled the movers to start moving things at 7 o'clock in the morning. They got their job done fast, but in the process they managed to rouse Serena. Always the early bird Zoicite arrived about the same time as the movers and was able to intercept her before she could get out of bed (not that we're really sure she was capable of doing that).

Serena moaned and rolled over, but the noise in the other room wouldn't stop. She opened her eyes groggily and tried to get up, but a gentle hand on her shoulder stopped her. She looked up to see Zoicite smiling down at her.

"Hi, Zoicite. Where's Darien?" she asked peering around the room hoping to see him.

"He is with Malachite and Nephrite overlooking the house and your new room, Jadeite is over at your parents house giving them his plausible excuse," Zoicite said sitting on a chair beside the bed, "I'm to watch over you today, and I'll bring you over to the house this afternoon."

"Meh! Everyone is out doing something but me," Serena said slightly miffed, crossing her arms over her chest. Zoicite gave a small chuckle at her childish tone of voice.

"When the movers are gone we can see if we can get you walking," he offered.

"That would be great, but later I'm too tired," she said snuggling back under the covers. Zoicite smiled then left Serena to sleep.

When Serena woke up again the movers were gone and the hour was a reasonable 10 o'clock. She sat up stretching wincing when the movement caused her pain, if moving while sitting hurt this much she wasn't sure if she could manage walking.

Zoicite soon appeared with breakfast and Serena happily dug into it. When he checked the wounds on her back he said that they were healing nicely.

"Then why dose it hurt so much whenever I move?" Serena said wincing as pain shot through her back again.

"It might be because your wounds are still healing, but there still might be a couple of traces of black energy that your energy will eventually push out, but they can still cause you pain. It could be both."

"I hate being in bed like this," Serena grumbled.

"I know you do Serena, but it'll only be a couple more days, a week at most."

"I know, but it still sucks."

"Well how about we try to get you standing."

"I would like that, though I'm not sure if I can do it." Serena said uncertainly. Serena was able to sit up and swing her legs over so they dangled over the edge of the bed. As Zoicite came around the bed Serena's back was seriously throbbing in pain.

She grasped Zoicite's shoulders and tried to push herself to her feet. It was harder than she thought, they hadn't been used in several days and it was hard for her to find her balance. Her leg muscles trembled slightly under her weight and her back protested profusely. She soon had to lean against Zoicite to remain standing, it was a battle for her to stay on her feet.

After a few more moments she had to sit down on the bed again every movement had her back screaming. "I'm sorry I couldn't stand longer," Serena said trying to breath through the pain.

"It's alright, it seems that any movement upsets your back, I don't think we're going to try walking."

"Can you take me into the living room Zoicite, I'm tried of being in this bed," Serenity said. Zoicite nodded then picked her up and carried her into the living room. Serena could see that most of Darien's things had been moved, but the couch was still there. Zoicite her as gently as he could on the couch, then sat down next to her.

"I hate being so powerless," Serena said.

"We all have moments like that Serena, all you have to know is that they eventually pass. All we can do is learn from them, at least." Zoicite said. Zoicite put in a movie of her choice in then went off to read some physics book of Darien's, Serena was more than content to watch some of Darien's Disney movies. Giving a few moments of thought to why actually owned Disney movies. She giggled at the thought of Darien sitting here watching kiddy cartoons in his free time.

When she'd finished watching two of them she leaned over to see that it was now about 12:30. As if on que Zoicite stood and came over to the couch a troubled look on his face.

"What is it Zoicite?" Serena asked looking around. Zoicite didn't answer her questions, but something blasted through the glass balcony windows. They were both thrown through the air, Serena landed somewhere in the kitchen debris falling around her knowing that she was going to have a nice bump on her head.

Her back was on fire, but she ignored it and pushed herself up to a sitting position. She saw Zoicite was fighting two yomas in the living room, but like the night she was captured another yoma stepped into the entrance of the kitchen staring down at her.

"Hello Princess." it snarled. As it came closer to her she snatched up a frying pan that had fallen nearby and banged it down onto the yoma's foot. It howled clutching it's foot in it's hand. Serena wasting no time banged the pan down onto it's other foot. It fell to the ground, Serena scooted closer then bashed it on the head twice.

It was momentarily out cold so Serena using her arms tried to scoot passed it back into the living room. The room swam in her vision as her back throbbed and burned with vengeance. She saw that Zoicite was holding the other two yomas off, but he couldn't handle all three.

Serena began making her way into the living room, but a hand grasped her ankle and pulled her back into the kitchen. Serena let out a shriek and turned to see the yoma dragging her back to it.

"Zoicite!" she yelled, he turned to see her being dragged back into the kitchen, but in his distraction on of the yomas he was fighting scored a hit on him He turned back trying to finish off the other two yomas.

Serena tried to kick the yoma away, but it avoided her effortlessly. Its other arm stretched and contorted itself and for a split second placed its palm on the top of Serena's head. In the second visions filled her head, of Darien…dead.

She saw Darien lying on the ground in a pool of blood, his face an ashen white. She saw Darien being burned by black flames, him screaming as the flesh was burned off of his very bones. She saw Darien staring in front of her plain as day, but the flesh simply seeping off of his body and his fleshy skeleton crumpling to the ground.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Serena yelled squirming on the ground madly trying to dislodge the images from her head. They kept replaying in front of her and the more her panic grew. She tried to open her eyes, to see what was happening around her, but the images blocked her vision.

Somewhere behind her she heard the yoma scream in rage as it was hit by one of Zoicite's energy bolts. She was lifted up into his arms and then he was running; she could feel the air flying past her face. The images were gone and she saw that Zoicite was carrying her down the staircase taking several steps at a time.

Serena clung to his neck so he could shift his weight to talk into the wrist watch,

"Jadeite get your ass over here, there are three yomas here and I can't take them all."

"You're lucky I just got finished with Serena's parents, I'm close and I'll be there soon." came Jadeite's voice from the watch. They both heard another blast coming from behind them, but it missed and went over their head striking the ceiling of the stair well. Huge chunks of rock were going to fall right on top of them, but Serena just said, "Keep running."
Not questioning what Serena said he ran on head-on into the falling debris, Serena grasped her power with a firm hand and built a shield of silver light around them. All of the debris seemed to bounce off them or not hit them at all. They heard the shrikes of rage behind them knowing that the yomas had unintentionally trapped themselves, it would hold them for a little, but not for long.

Zoicite took them all the way down to the garage of the apartment building, and started running amongst the cars. He stopped at a black jaguar and set Serena on the ground beside it. He took the keys out of his pocket and tossed them to her.

"I can't drive yet," she warned.

"I know I just need you to get yourself into the car, unlock the doors, but keep low. We have to wait for Jadeite to get here."

Serena nodded, but the room chose that moment to dip and swirl she must've been sliding sideways because Zoicite caught her. A suspicious look crossed his face and he felt a hand along her back. He let out a string of curses and Serena looked down to see his hand was covered in blood. Her wounds must've reopened themselves, she could see there was a small pool of blood beneath her and her first thing she said slightly slurred was, "I really don't want to get blood on your Jaguar."

Zoicite cursed again then pushed some random buttons on his watch again.

"Darien, Malachite, and Nephrite get ready for us to bring Serena over. We've got three yomas on us with Jadeite on the way, but Serena's wounds have reopened, and she need medical attention right away."

He quickly ripped his shirt in two and wrapped it around Serena who let out several cries as he tied it tightly around her torso.

"Is someone else with you?" Nephrite's voice crackled out of the watch.

"Jadeite is on his way, don't bother coming out, we will hopefully get out of here soon," Zoicite sat propping Serena more upright onto the car.

"Hurry," came Darien's voice alarmed with worry.

"Darien…" Serena moaned hearing his voice, but not entirely sure where it'd come from.

Are you alright Serena? came Darien's voice through their link.

Where are you Darien? It hurts so much, she moaned.

"Ok, change of plans Serena," Zoicite said, when Serena only stared off into space dreamily he gripped her chin and turned her eyes to his. "I need you to stay here Serena and don't go off wondering anywhere. When Jadeite comes in he's going to come and get you then we can get home a treat your back."

Serena could only nod trying to focus on what he was saying. She could hear his words from a distance, as if he was talking to her from far away. She heard him speak into the watch relaying the plan to Jadeite.

He stood and turned to move away from the car, so he wouldn't give Serena's position away. She needed to be moved now and needed to be put in a safe place. The yomas two second later burst into the garage and saw Zoicite, they immediately charged him so they could do him battle.

He had to keep them all preoccupied at once he couldn't let one go wandering off in search of Serena. It was a tiring job, but he managed it. Serena on the other hand was trying to distinguish reality form fantasy. She kept seeing images of Darien dying, but then she felt the mind-numbing pain in her back and she couldn't help but whimper in pain. She then heard the sound of a far off battle.

She tried to crawl to the sounds to see what was going on, but she only ended up collapsing on her side. She tried to drag herself into the open to see what was happening, but suddenly a strong pair of arms lifted her into the air.

She looked up to see Jadeite's familiar face, but when he saw all of the blood he cursed and carried her off to the car. Serena found herself being laid in the back seat of the car, but her world wouldn't stay still for a moment.

Jadeite called over to Zoicite joining in the battle. Now that the odds were a little more fair they combined there attacks to one-by-one defeat the yomas. Soon they were rushing back to the car Zoicite in the backseat with Serena and Jadeite slammed down the accelerator and sped off. Serena could feel the car moving around her and it seemed to lull her into a light dose. She saw Zoicite's pail face above hers begging her to stay awake with him, but suddenly his mouth moved but no sound came out. Blackness crept onto the edges of her vision then plunged into the center. Blackness was all she saw.

When Zoicite delivered a now unconscious, bloody Serena into his arms Darien could only stare in shock for a few moments. The enemy had made the first move, and they'd scored against them. Spurred by the fear for her life he carried her through the large house and took her to one of the bed rooms that weren't being used. He began to unwrap her bandages and pailed as he saw the damaged. Her old injuries had ripped back open again creating new injuries along with it.

"Darien there may be faster way to heal her." Malachite said.

"Tell me quickly she needs help now." Darien said, not sure if he could wait to hear what Malachite had to say.

"We can merge our energy with hers and heal her form the inside out," Malachite said keeping the explanation short and sweet. "It is faster, but it drains much energy."

"It doesn't matter, whatever it takes to save Serena," he said with complete conviction. The generals nodded to his response already feeling guilty that they'd let the Princess get hurt so badly.

Darien and the generals formed a circle around Serena the each of them went deep inside themselves to find the core of their powers. They imagined themselves as light, and pure energy. Then as a group they dived into Serena's body. The damage was more horrific than they imagined, not only had her wound reopened, but it'd triggered internal bleeding as well; she would die soon if they didn't work quickly.

Each of them worked on one thing so that everything would close at the same time. Zoicite worked on steaming the blood flow, Malachite was pushing out infection that was trying to set into the injuries. Nephrite was surrounding the internal bleeding that was occurring and removing all of the fluids, while Darien and Jadeite worked on knitting the skin and muscle back together.

It was a long draining process, but none of them wavered in their tasks. Some two or three hours later they all pulled out satisfied, but totally drained of energy. Serena's back had been totally healed, but they would have to go over it every day to make sure it didn't do anything funny. They were lucky it was a very big four poster bed because all they had energy left to do was collapse onto the bed and give into the sleep that was calling to them.