Sere's Back… Chapter Five… finally
Authors Notes: Just a quick word of thanks to those who've been emailing and reviewing :-)
Story Notes: Don't really have any this time either…
And… here's the ficcy :-D
{From Chapter Four…}
"If she finished the fight…" began Raye. "I mean, I know she had a lot of power. But her power must have increased a lot. Unless she was borrowing someone's power.
"No," disagreed Darien. "It was definitely her power."
"How do you know?" Asked Lita.
With a smile, he continued. "Simple. I could feel it. I could feel her."
With a sad look on her face, Mina followed up on an earlier point. "What makes you think she's not here?"
"The look she gave me right as she was leaving."
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{{{ Chapter Five }}}
After discussing the actual fight for a few hours the girls all went home, with the intention of getting some more much needed sleep. However as luck would have it…
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A young couple… cuddling on the park bench by the small lake…
"Lita is sooooo going to kill me. I promised to be home in time to meet the others for dinner." Ami mutters.
… red smoke slowly drifting across the lake… the young girl screams as the smoke begins to transform into an ungodly form… slightly human, and yet so very not… it bares its teeth silently at the couple before its huge gaping mouth opens in a horrible ear-splitting roar…
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
"Guys, I'm at the park around the corner… back up."
"RRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW"
"What the hell Ami?"
"That close Ames."
"…south-west corner…"
"Closer…"
…bursting into the shrouded grove, the blue clad warrior… visor… scans … "Bubbles Blast"… "Freezing Bubbles Blast!" dodges a powerful blast… purple-black smoke… thousands upon thousands of tiny glass slithers… warrior drops to the ground and rolls… wood chips… large tree she was standing in front of…
"Fire-Soul"
…Mercury… pulses… "yeah, just."
"Crescent Beam".
"Hopefully they'll… protected… trees."
"Yeah, except…disintegrates whole trees."
"…called Darien…here soon… Thunder DRAGON."
"Fire SOUL."
"Love and Beauty Shock."
"…attacks don't seem to be doing much."
…Mars… limping…Tuxedo Kamen… Mercury… surveying the scene.
"GGGGGYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR"
"AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh"… Jupiter… flying… tree
…energy charged rose… "Don't… pessimistic…"
"Freezing Ice Blast."
"Love Me Chain… Encircle."
"Earth Trench… Smoking Bomb."
"Mercury…" "Mars…" "Venus…"
"Ice Blast!" "Celestial Fire!" "Meteor Shower!"
…three attacks combine…dead on… power explodes… flash of light… "AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR"
…Stumbling… warriors… disbelief… silence…
…sighing… Kamen raises his head… moon… prayed… 'Help me'… he whispers… 'Please Serenity, send your daughter back… need her…cannot survive… without her…'
"Bubbles" whispers across the battlefield… blue-clad warrior… energy spent
…Mars… ground… throwing fireball… monster…
"Jupiter… Thunder… CRASH!"… final…
…Venus… "hoping… outside assistance."
"Smoking Bomb… in what form?"
"Serena, perhaps… princess… but she still didn't come… Crescent Beam."
"Earth Blast!… hasn't come… have hope… I do."
"You do?"
"Always."
"Smoking Bomb."
"Crescent Beam."
"Smoking Bomb."
"Crescent Beam."
"Smoking Bomb."
"Love and Beauty Shock…. My last one…"
…lone warrior… screams in frustration… "Serena… please…" blast… left thigh… warrior collapses…
…soft white glow… bright flash of light… another figure… appears… young woman… stands tall and proud… between… monster… form… male warrior… dressed in black…her silver hair drifts…
"nothing… touches my prince… back off furball… kill you… fine…" …lifts her hands… above her head… palms up… towards… moon… grove silent… chants under her breath… monster begins to move… woman brings… hands down… blast of white light… from… hands… the creature… silent… disintegrates… white light reaches it… …silence… the figure takes… glance around… clearing… her eyes fall… form… male warrior… begins to fade…Tuxedo Kamen opens… eyes… she nods slightly… disappears completely…
"NOOOOOOOOOoooooo"… white light fades completely… "Please don't leave me again… no Sere… not again. Please don't leave again. I cant live without you any longer…"
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"Nnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooo" Screams Darien, waking up suddenly from his dream, breathing deeply.
Across town, Lita wakes up in a cold sweat, just in time to hear Ami's scream from the next room.
"AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh." Screams Ami, waking from the horrible re-living of their fight.
A few suburbs away, Mina wakes up screaming.
Just as Raye wakes up silently in the temple, a haunted look in her eyes.
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"What the heck happened last night. How can we all have the same dream. That is really freaky." Says Lita. The four girls were seated on the floor of the temple, two days after their shared dream.
"Where's Darien?" Asked Mina.
Lightly massaging her temples, Ami replied to Mina's question. "He's at work."
"There's some really freaky things happening at the moment." Began Mina. "The monsters have been getting stronger, then suddenly Serena saves us the other night. But Darien reckons she's not coming back."
"He said that she wasn't back. Not that she's not coming back." Disagreed Ami.
"Something important is about to happen."
"Huh?" Asked Lita looking up at Raye, who had just walked back into the room, dressed in her priestess robes.
"I said," she began again. "Something important is about to happen."
Smiling slightly, Mina said, "We heard you Raye, I think Lita wanted you to explain the comment."
Giggling quietly, Ami asked, "Do you know what it is Raye."
With a slight smile, Raye sat down. "I don't know. I'm extremely confused. More so than I have been in a long time. I've been analysing our dream, which I believe was actually a vision sent to us all. I've also been looking at the fight, and my visions from the fire. Now this is what I've come up with, don't quote me…"
"Of course not," agreed Lita, seriously.
"I know," continued Raye. "But I don't want you getting your hopes up. I think though that our princess is coming soon." At their gasps, Raye motioned for them to remain quiet. "Which, we know means that Serena is coming back soon, because we know the princess will appear when she comes back. But she isn't here now. And I know that she also, isn't anywhere close at the moment. Though a quick plane trip could always change that. Anyway. I know that we have to be prepared for when Serena comes back. We've all changed, grown up. We've matured, we're better fighters, and better people. I think we need to be ready though for the fact that she too has changed."
"Of course…" began Mina before she was interrupted by Raye.
"Not just in that she's grown older, and matured. She, from what I can tell, had a break from fighting, but she has also been fighting for many years. Her skills have improved greatly, as have her power levels. Unbelievably. I think also, that perhaps more than that, is that we have to be ready for her change. Her personality, not her as a senshi, but her as a person, as a friend."
"As in, good change or bad change?" Ami voiced the question they were all thinking.
"Honestly… I have no idea."
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{{PREVIEW}}
{{{ Chapter Six }}}
{Serena's Point of View}
"What Mel?" I asked tiredly.
"You're not paying attention. Why?"
Looking up, I caught Jed's glance at me. Ignoring him, I answered Mel. "I'm just tired."
"No. Sorry Serena. You're not just tired." Looking around the room, Jed ignored my glare. Continuing to the others, "she's been thinking of the Senshi and, more so, her prince."
Look: I put in a longer preview this time ;)
Okay, so I know the dream bit took up a bit, and it's not really new stuff… so I will put out another chapter soon… maybe even tomorrow!!
Next chapter… Whats happening on the other side of the world, and how much has Serena really changed ???
Stay tuned people…. And feel free to review and email… I appreciate all comments, demands for updates, and constructive criticism and ideas…