chapter 12: Bachelor and Bachelorette

After spending another week at the cottage the family returned to the city. Returning to the city Saturday night they went out for dinner and a movie. The six friends then headed home quite exhausted from the extra long day. Serenity tucked Shingo in and was standing in the doorway watching him sleep when Darien came up behind her. "Sere, what is wrong? You seem to have pulled away recently."

"Nothing, Darien. Just getting a little nervous with the wedding coming up. Naru and Motoki should be here tomorrow just in time for my birthday. I don't even know what birthday it is." Serenity sighed.

"Who cares what birthday it is? We are immortal and so we would have lost count eventually." Darien laughed and got the smile he was trying for. "Come on lets get to bed." Serenity nodded as she followed Darien to bed.

Unbeknown to the couple someone was watching them, "Come on I have been scanning her for an hour, you should be able to tell me what I need to know you stupid gadget." Finally the gadget beeped.Travis quickly scanned the data and teleported away.

>>>>>the next morning

The sun found Serenity and the growing group back at the airport for the eight o'clock arrivals. Serenity was the first to spot her friends and took off into the crowd toward them. "Sere, come back." Darien called after her.

In a matter of seconds Serenity had come back and had their two friends in tow. "It's good to see you both again. The arcade isn't the same without you two." Motoki said coming forward and hugging his friends.

"Naru and Motoki, I would like you to meet my brother, Travis and our cousins Astra and Solana. It turns out I was adopted. And of course you already know Darien and Shingo." Serenity's mood had improved so much in the mere minutes since her friends had arrived.

After some brief small talk Darien addressed the group, " What do you say we go get some breakfast and start celebrating?" His question was answered with cheers, so the group all headed out to the van and headed out to enjoy Serenity's birthday.

The group did the tourist thing and toured the squares, took tours of Harvard and even ventured to Boston. By the time they had supper at an upper class restaurant, and did some more siteseeing it was too late to return to their home in Cambridge. Thanks to the quick thinking of the sun children though they soon had rooms at one of the best hotels in Boston, which just happened to be owned by the three. So the eight of them ended up spending Serenity's birthday in a penthouse suit in a luxurious hotel in Boston.

The next morning the group separated into the four girls and four guys as Naru and Motoki insisted that there be some bachelor or bachelorette activities.So Solana called for two convertables to be brought out one for each group.

>>>>>the girl's day

The girls spent the day pampering and buying clothes. Spending what Serenity thought unseen amounts of money on make-up, clothing, and spa treatments. The four girls also took time to get to know each other and Naru got the full story of the family.

By the end of the day the girls were exhausted and colapsed into the second penthouse suite that Astra had arranged. As the girls planned to keep the couple apart for the rest of the week.

>>>>the men's day

Travis at the wheel they took Darien around to anything that they thought would be fun, from arcades to cafe's, they even got in a "manly" movie. They ended the day with a leasury trip to the beach, where they swam and played volleyball.

Once arriving back at the penthouse Darien noticed the girls weren't back, "Where are the girls?"

"I think he means where is Serena?" Shingo teased.

"Well that is just too bad, cause they won't get to see each other til the end of the week." Travis laughed as Darien tried to push past him and Motoki to go find her.

"Relax, bro. The girls are taking good care of her, plus you only have two weeks left as a free man." Motoki added.

Darien looked at him as if he was insane, then suddenly a force pushed everyone in the room against the wall. Darien no longer stood there, Endymion stood there. Travis grabbed Shingo who was closest to him, "Go get Sere. She is in room 920 with the girls tell Astra that Endymion is here." Shingo nodded and ran toward the door, the door slamming shut behind him. Quickly while running Shingo activated the necklace that Travis had given him and hoped it reached someone apart from Travis.

Back in the room Travis had changed into Tranquility and in the power to transform didn't notice the necklace change; however in the girls room both Solana and Astra did. As Solana opened her mouth Serenity transformed and teleported away. " We need to get to the guys room!"

The twins transformed, "Naru, stay here. We'll be back." Sailor Eclipse said as she opened the door to be run down by Shingo.

"Travis said to tell you that Endymion is here." the twins looked at each other before racing out of the room.

>>>>>>Back in the boys room

Endymion and Travis were having a stand off with Serenity in the middle. "Endy, calm down. No harm was meant."

"They tried to keep us apart!" Endymion was livid, "After a millenium I am sorry but I will not allow anyone to separate us again, even if only for a few days!" with the last outburst he became the spitting image of Neo-King Endymion.

"Endymion, it is me Tranquility. I am your brother-in-law I will not keep you apart."

Serenity started caressing his mind through their link trying to calm him down to be able to reason with. Then in a flash Serenity's hair became completely silver. Endymion colapsed along with Serenity.

The twins burst into the room to find Tranquility checking pulses. "Sere, tried to calm him down and then they both passed out."

>>>>>In Elysian

Endymion and Serenity found themselves in a white room, "Where are we?"

"You are in Elysian, Princess. Welcome Prince. You were both shooting off so much uncontrolled energy that I had to bring you here for safety reasons."

"Helios, you should introduce yourself before sending them into shock." Came Queen Serenity's voice. "Endymion, first off you and Serenity should know that this is permanent."

"Mother, you mean that the cresent moon and the silver hair..." Serenity trailed off.

"That is what I am saying apart form clothing this is how you will forever appear. That is just one sign of how much power you two were sending off. If Helios had not brought you here then there would be no more Boston or even more of the coast could have been damaged."

"I am sorry, my Queen." Endymion (Darien will now be Endymion for the rest of the story) said kneeling before Queen Serenity, "I don't know what came over me to cause such rage."

"What happened is what naturally happens to any royal couple after being married. Our hypothesis is that because of the reincarnation that the bond just kept growing as you aged until it became so overpowering that this was the resault."

"So you're suggesting that we up the wedding?"

"I think it would be best, considering what happened." Helios agreed.

"Uncontrolled you two have dangerous amounts of power and we are lucky that Serenity didn't loose it or I don't want to think what would have happend." Queen Serenity admitted.

"Then we shall wed on the next full moon." Endymion and Serenity agreed.