Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon.
Misunderstandings, Truth, and Lies by sdikanimefanatic
Chapter Four: Forgiveness and Saved
The scouts were forcibly thrust back into the Outer's living room with memories of Serena, their friend, their princess flowing through their minds making them feel repulsed by their previous actions towards her. They couldn't believe she had known all along and never told them.
They knew what they had to do now…earn her trust back.
Walking past the park, the small blonde reincarnated Princess trudged along, the dull gray sky continued to let the rainfall. Suddenly Serena felt a surge of evil energy. She turned towards its whereabouts, and slowly began to approach it, readying herself for anything. Out of sheer instinct honed by years of training, she shifted her body to the right to doge the oncoming light-green ball of energy that was hurled at her. As soon as her body hit the ground from taking cover, another was launched. Her eyes only realized it too late when it was a split second away from striking her right arm. The Princess's body was flung wildly a good ten feet from the impact of the attack.
"Come on Princess, you sure haven't changed in your thousand year absence. Get up and face me." Serena couldn't find anybody near her to match the voice with… she was alone.
Or so she thought.
When Serena turned around she saw the mystery person – before her was a girl with long hair like her own, almost at the exact length; the only difference was its color, a deep midnight black that seemed to act similar to a black hole in absorbing the light around her. She was wearing tight black pants, with a black top to match; more like a bra, Serena scoffed silently. The stranger's feet were encased in ridiculously high 'stripper' heels, with her face was hidden by a mask. Now I won't be able to tell who she is, thought the reincarnated Princess in annoyance.
"Who are you?" Serena asked the strange curiously, her posture wary for another sudden attack from the unknown woman.
"My name is Princess Alonis of the Forbidden Moon. And I have come to collect the crystal," the dark-haired attacker said, her mask fading away and her black hair began to shorten until it got to her chin, framing the cold features revealed.
Alonis lunged at Serena slamming her hard into the ground despite the reincarnated Princess's attempt to dodge the attack. The dark Princess's nails began to grow extremely fast and she slashed at Serena's throat with them. Right before the nails of her attacker embedded into the vulnerable skin of her throat, the petite blonde focused her energies and used her crystal to blast her dark-haired foe off of her. With a sharp hiss of pain, she backed away from Serena; when she put a hand to her stomach, she discovered blood seeping from a wound inflicted on her by the reincarnated Moon Princess.
"I'll be back to claim what should be mine," Alonis declared as she disappeared.
Serena rolled from her defensive crouch and winced in pain before she continued to walk through the secluded park, only she was staggering now from her injuries. She remained in a stealthy mode of movement in order to be prepared for oncoming attacks. Fifteen minutes lapsed by swiftly for the blonde as she noticed she finally reached the gate. The beautiful black granite gate opened up -- but this was only privileged for those of Moon Royalty, no one else could ever attempt to enter the great gates
She limped to the enormous house. The house was a lovely deep forest green that seemed to blend in with the surrounding forest and held ten rooms. One was a massive great room, an elegantly decorated formal dinning room, two large indoor and outdoor pools, a kitchen that would make the greatest chef die happy, a library that would make the biggest bookworm drool in envy, and a gym made for the training of hand-to-hand combat.
Serena opened the front door, carefully making her way indoors. Inside the safety of the massive house, she made her way up the stairs for some much needed recovery and relaxation. Her room was her favorite place to be in the whole wide world; the floor was covered in black carpeting so no one would know if she ever spilt anything in her room and the white walls were covered in posters of bands varying from Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, The Used, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Rocket Summer and 30 Seconds To Mars.
But most importantly, her white canopy bed was to die for with luxurious black silk sheets. Unknown to some she had a television and stereo system in her room, but you couldn't find them easily since they were built in the wall and would only come out with the click of a button on the remote hidden in the drawer of her nightstand. The doors on the left side of her room led to her massive walk-in closet and bathroom.
She put in 30 Seconds to Mars 'The Kill' in her stereo before she undressed, mentally doing a damage assessment of her injuries; bruises covered her arms and neck but they would be gone in the matter of a few days while her legs were a bit banged up from the collision with the ground due to Alonis's attack which aggravated the almost healed ankle from a couple days before. Not as bad as before, but she would be forced to limp to walk. But right now she didn't want to worry about -- she came here to relax, and that's what she was going to do. Moving carefully, she proceeded to draw herself a bath to soak in while she waited for Elizabeth and Andrew to come home.
About an hour later the hollering of the name "SERENA" rang through out the house, startling her awake from where she had drifted asleep in the warm water of her bath. Serena gave a sigh and decided that was her wake up call to get out of the bath. So, with twinges of pain protesting her decision, she rose from her bath and put her robe on before she trudged down the stairs to greet her cousins. She searched through five different rooms when she found them waiting in the great room, where Andrew and Elizabeth were patiently waiting.
"What are you guys doing home so early?" Serena asked suspiciously, noticing Andrew fidgeting in his chair and avoiding her gaze.
"My dear brother cough and your dear cousin cough blabbed his mouth out to the group." Elizabeth informed Serena as cautiously as she could.
"They'll see the error of what they've done with another repeating of history from the time on the moon -- but now their not getting away so easily. I will not forgive them in a heartbeat for their betrayal because they have now seen the light. They're going to have a hard time getting back on my good side," Serena told the red-head in her 'all-knowing' voice.
"What do you mean by getting back on your good side?" Andrew asked at Serena, a bit confused but more angry of the thought of her letting them back in her world.
"You know how easily forgiving I am Andy. But we're going to need them! Princess Alonis paid me a visit on my way home today," Serena said in all seriousness.
"She's back! If she's back then we are definitely going to need the Scouts to help, but I agree with Serena they're going to have to grovel to be given salvation," Elizabeth said agreeing with Serena.
"Fine but if they do one thing wrong, they're gone. Understood?" Andrew commanded angrily.
"Understood, but remember who you are talking to, Andy" Serena said icily. Chagrined at his tone, he nodded his head as Serena returned to her room to get ready.
"Guys, I'm going to go to the store to get some food for dinner. I'll be back in an hour or so," Serena yelled leaving the house and heading to the garage, getting into the white Volvo waiting for her.
She slid behind the wheel and reached onto the backseat to pick up her CD wallet. Opening it, she selected and put in her Taking Back Sunday CD, skipping it forward to 'Make Damn Sure'. As Serena pulled into a parking slot of the parking lot for Lola's Supermarket, Hotaru and Amara saw her enter and decided to wait for her to come out to talk to her.
Unknown to them, another was observing Serena with fury.
Barely fifteen minutes later, Serena came out of Lola's and headed straight for her car with a bag of groceries in her arms. When she reached her rear driver's side door she was grasped by her arm and jerked around. The sight before her made her body freeze in place, her nails digging into the paper bag of groceries she held.
"What no welcoming hug for your dear old Dad?" Jack sneered the question at the small blonde angrily.
"You actually expect me to say hi and be all happy go lucky after that beating you gave me?" Serena spat at her father defiantly, her muscles tense as she prepared to defend herself.
Her father began to raise his hand to put his daughter in her place when he was grabbed by the back of his shirt and thrown back away from the reincarnated Princess.
"You stay away from her, or you won't like what happens next!" Promised the Moon Princess's savior with righteous outrage ringing in the familiar voice.
She knew that voice. It belonged to Amara and she turned to her left where she saw Hotaru move before her to shield her with her own body as well. Her heart began to swell with pride and love looking at her enraged scouts protecting her.
But it didn't last long.
How could she of so easily forgotten those words they said that sliced her heart in half?
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Thank you Becca for updating and editing my chapter 4.