Hello again everyone! I'm sorry to say that this fanfiction must soon draw to a close sob sob It originally wasn't even meant to be this long, but right now I'm envisioning maybe three or four more chapters left. But if some of you haven't read my other fanfiction My Beloved Pirate you should check it out. Do not fear my dear readers I will be back very soon with more fanfiction, I'm not going to take that long of a break, maybe two or three days tops. So make sure after I'm done these two fanfictions that you have me on a Alert list or you check my author profile at one point. But this fanfiction is not over yet so please enjoy chapter 10!
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Lostsoulsandbrokenhearts: Thanks a bunch, I try to keep funny moments in there to break the serious mood. If it gets too serious at some point it might grow a little angst, but I'm glad you liked my little funny moment
Lovenhope: Don't worry the sense is knocked back into the scouts quite quickly in this chapter, so not to fear!
Kayla: Wow! You really do get hyper over suspense, and I can only admire that quality! All of your questions will soon be answered, I've actually never thought of putting the outers in…maybe…if I have time to do it.
Animegoddes: Such few words, but they motivate me so!
Cresentpal: Yes, the guys are very sweet I agree the scouts have been acting stupid, but they will come to their senses soon enough, they're just having a stupid streak at the moment.
Eternal Sailor Moon 2: Never fear I would never have the scouts stay the bad guys, they soon see the error of their ways.
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Sarah: Thanks for the compliments, now I feel really special for being complimented on French I wanted to give the generals a little bit more character and personality, because I feel that I didn't give them a big enough role in My Beloved Pirate (I kind of unintentionally let them fade into the back round, which I didn't mean to do). Now, it's my turn! J'adore Sarah's lovely and extremely nice reviews!
Chapter 10: In Numbers
Serena actually woke up, to put it simply she didn't know how early it actually was, but Darien was still sleeping beside her. If she was up before Darien that must be some kind of record for her. Serena eased out of his arms and left the room quietly so she didn't wake him up. She decided to take her pushy bunny, so she skipped down the stairs her bunny stuffy bouncing up and down along with her steps.
Remembering her promise to cook breakfast every morning she began to head off in the direction of the kitchen, but stopped as she saw Jadeite sitting in the living room with the TV on. She walked closer curiously, but saw he wasn't really watching whatever that was on, instead he was staring downward.
Serena walked into the room and turned off the TV, then turned around to stare at Jadeite, who hadn't moved at all. Serena could feel that he was in deep thought, he wasn't necessarily upset, but he was sad.
"Jadeite?" she asked getting ready to poke him in the head. But he looked up at her on his own, as if he was seeing her for the first time. When he looked up and saw her he couldn't help, but smile she made an adorable picture. It was obvious she'd just woken up with her hair all over the place. Her humongous stuffed bunny was almost touching the ground, but she still held onto it.
"Good morning Serena," he said leaning back into the couch.
"And good morning to you," she said sitting down beside him. She set her stuffed bunny aside for the moment. "You're sad about something."
"Yes, I guess I am," he sighed.
"About Raye?" Serena asked already knowing the answer.
Jadeite only nodded, a thoughtful expression coming over his face. Serena crunched her face in annoyance then shoved him, which of course didn't send him anywhere she just wanted to get his attention.
"Stop thinking about it. What will happen in just going to happen if you think about it too much then you could accidentally screw up everything. If you and Raye are meant to be together in this life then she'll just have to get over herself and accept that, so you can't really do anything." she said, "So really you don't have anything to think about at all."
Jadeite stared at her in astonished silence for a few moments, how could something so small put such power behind her words. This girl is going to save the world, he thought for a moment. She could definitely do it. When he just kept staring at her Serena sighed and turned around. Then she held out her stuffed bunny like an offering.
"You wanna hold it for a little while?" she asked.
"Excuse me?" Jadeite asked slightly taken aback.
"Here hold it," Serena said putting it in Jadeite's arms. When he didn't do anything with it Serena sighed in annoyance, you'd think the guy had never held a stuffed bunny in his life. She took his arms and put them around the stuffed bunny.
"Now squeeze it," she said. Jadeite did as he was told but still glanced at her with a perplexed look on his face.
"Now, just stay like that for a few moments and you'll begin to feel a lot better," she said getting up and heading towards the kitchen. Leaving Jadeite in the living room. As promised Serena went about making breakfast and soon the others were enticed down by the smell of food. Nephrite came in with a perplexed look on his face, "Why is Jadeite sitting in there with your stuffed rabbit."
"That's plushy bunny rabbit to you, and he's just gathering his thoughts." she said handing him coffee. Nephrite gave her a confused look, but shook his head and sat down. When Jadeite did come into the kitchen still carrying the stuffed bunny he handed it to her with a smile and Serena gave him 'I told you so' look.
"I'm sure it's a very interesting story," Nephrite said.
"Shut-up Nephrite or I'll tie your hair up with lots of nice pretty pink bows," Serena threatened.
Soon everyone else was down in the kitchen and Serena went up and greeted Darien with a good morning kiss on the cheek. He smiled down at her then moved on to the food before it was all eaten.
The day began to go by without much incident Darien and the Generals took Serena out back so she could see of the grounds. They had a beautiful garden alongside of the house, and lots of space in the backyard. The backyard eventually faded into forest which the generals told her they could go into the forest as an escape route. Around mid-day the door bell rang again. Serena didn't even bother to get in another fight with Nephrite so Malachite went to answer the door. He was quite surprised to find the four scouts standing there.
"We need to um talk to Serena," Mina said shifting uncomfortably.
Malachite didn't say anything but stepped back to let them in house. When Malachite led them into the living room Serena looked up surprised at there appearance.
"Serena, we've come to apologize," Lita said.
"We had no right to demote you as leader since that position was originally appointed to you." Amy said looking very uncomfortable.
"And it's not for us to decide who is the Princess, we will take up our positions as your guardians as we were suppose to," Raye said.
"And…we've missed you a lot Serena," Mina said with a wane smile.
Serena returned the smile then stood. "I accept your apology Scouts, but you must understand it will take me a little to forgive you, but I will accept your protection."
"Thank you Serena, you don't know how much of a relief that is," Lita said.
"I'm glad to hear that it is, but you guys shouldn't be seen coming and going from this house to much, the enemy might discover your identities, we are very sure the they will soon target-" Serena stopped in mid sentence.
"What is it Serena?" Amy asked looking around cautiously.
"Malachite, go get the others quick!" Serena yelled her head shooting up. Malachite did as he was told and rushed out of the room yelling everyone else's names. Serena looked to the scouts, "Everyone get down now!"
The girls did as the were told and with Serena they dropped to the ground as an explosion shook the house and glass shatter all around them. Once the explosion settled the scouts immediately jumped up and transformed Serena gingerly pushed herself seeing that she was surrounded by broken glass, and she wasn't wearing any shoes at the moment.
"Serena we have to move now!" Raye said pulling Serena to her feet as they broke off into a run to the front hall. Serena glanced back to see several yomas climbing through the now broken windows. Serena bumped into Sailor Mars as they skidded to a stop as they saw yomas in front of them as they entered through the kitchen. To soon they were surrounded by a large group of yomas, the scouts formed a loose circle around Serena.
"Why haven't you transformed yet Serena?" Amy asked.
"I can't Beryl destroyed my broach," Serena said franticaly.
The scouts shouted forth their attacks to all of the yomas surrounding them as they charged at them. The scouts tried to keep Serena within their circle, but Serena felt one of the yomas get through and it grabbed onto her arm yanking her out the protective circle.
The yoma who'd grabbed suddenly screamed out in pain as it a rose struck in in the shoulder. Tuxedo Mask suddenly landed beside her, and she latched onto him like a life line.
"We have to move this battle outside!" she heard Nephrite yell.
The scouts heard him and soon they were all running to break in the backyard. The yomas followed in pursuit and soon they were all standing in the backyard. She saw the generals and the scouts fighting the yomas, the yomas were taken down so easily, but there was just so many.
Serena began to concentrate and build her power inside of her, of she could wipe them all out in one attack they could avoid anyone injury.
"No!" Darien said catching her arm feeling her power buildup. "You can't risk the energy Serena."
"But Darien there's too many," Serena argued.
"No," he said firmly, "Go, go into the woods while we take care of the, they won't be able to find you in there."
Serena didn't want to do it, but they were all fighting to keep her safe, and if she just got captured by sticking around then it would all be in vain. With a heavy heart she turned and dashed into the forest trying to put as much distance between her and the battle as possible.
Serena ran and ran as fast as her legs could take her. Her feet hurt and stung as she trampled through the woods surrounding her. She was looking out for a good hiding place that the yomas couldn't find her in if they somehow pursued her. She kept on running deeper into the forest all she could do was hope everyone would come out of the battle unhurt.
Darien plunged himself into the battle with everyone else trying to kill as many yomas as he could. There was no telling to how many yomas there actually were they just had to keep fighting. From what Darien could see the others had only sustained minor injuries, none had been seriously hit yet.
He wasn't sure how long they fought, but they were all getting tried, using the same attack over and over again expended lot of energy. They were killing a lot of yomas there just didn't seem to be an end to them.
At one point the scouts and generals began combing their attacks so that they could destroy the yomas in great numbers, and this worked, but more yomas just kept coming.
It was hard to tell where they were exactly coming from, they just seemed to appear out of nowhere, and their was no leader in sight either. Darien found his way to Zoicite knowing he would at least have an idea of where they yomas were coming from. When he voiced his question while throwing attacked Zoicite answered, "They must be coming through the portals that we've used so often, the only way we'll be able to breach it is if we hit it with a hard attack.
"What about a combined attack of all of us at once?" Darien asked.
"That would work," Zoicite said. They fought throughout the battle finding the scouts and other generals leading them back to the spot where the yomas were the thickest. Soon they all stood in one group and they readied their attacks.
Darien summoned the ancient glowing power he felt within him and called it to form a direct attack. As he felt the scouts and the Generals launching their own attacks all around him at the same time he sent the golden energy spiraling form his toward the portal they were aiming at.
Their attacks cut through the yomas blocking the portal and with a resounding crash their attacks collided with the dark portal. Everything went silent and then a great wind came from the portal sucking all of the yomas back into the negaverse then in the wink of an eye it disappeared.
Everyone sighed with relief as the yomas disappeared, the battle was over. Darien heard thunder sound in the distance and looked up curiously, the weather channel had predicted sunny skies today. As he stared up at the sky he saw dark clouds moving in at such an alarming rate it couldn't be natural. He saw some of the other were staring up at the sky as well with grim looks on their faces.
"Where is Serena, she hates thunder storms," Mina said as rain began to fall around them and thunder sounded again. Darien felt a feeling of dread settle in his stomach.
"I sent Serena off into the forest so that she would be safe, but I have a feeling all those yomas were sent so that she would be alone and get caught in this storm." Darien said grimly.
They all had looks of alarm on their faces and they all turned to ran off into the forest. They had to spread out to find Serena, the forest wasn't exactly small. Above them the storm thundered in fury and the wind began to pick up around them, they had to find Serena fast.
A ways away Serena sat against a tree curled up into a little ball as the storm began to form around her. She jumped and shuddered as lighting crashed, she hated thunder storms.
Serena where are you! she heard Darien yell in her mind.
I don't know where I am Darien, but hurry I hate storms.
I'll find you don't worry, something is coming after you Serena be very careful, Darin cautioned.
That made Serena lift her head and look around her and she realized she was completely alone. She thought she saw something moving in the trees nearby, and it felt very evil.