The Legendary Lake Monster! Serena's Family Ties

One morning Luna stretched as she arose from sleeping.

"What a nice sleep." She yawned. Then she turned her attention to Serena. "Since you have today and tomorrow off, you're going to thoroughly study how to be a princess. Okay, Serena?" No response. "Serena?" She looked up at the bed and saw that Serena wasn't there. "Wow, talk about unusual. Did she get up already?"

She looked around the house and found that no one was there, she found a bowl of cat food with a note on the floor. The note said.

"Good morning Luna!"

"Actually, the whole family has decided to go to a hot spring!"

"We'll be back by tomorrow night… Look after the place while we're gone."

"I'll bring back sweet bean jam buns!"

"Steamy Hot Springs Inn".

"Signed Serena."

Down the road Serena and her family were riding in the family car to the resort.

"Sis your nuts!" Sammy said hammering the buttons on his Game Boy. "Sneaking out of the house so our pet won't notice! What the heck are you thinking?"

"Well." Serena sweated. "I've got my reasons for it." Then she moved her head over his Game Boy and began to coach. "Come on! Right there! Shoot right there!"

"But it's been so long since we've traveled together!" Mother said.

"Even though it's like we're old people." Serena said. "Spending a night at a remote hot spring." Then she looked back at Sammy's Game Boy, she gasped and snatched it from his hand. "Oh! What are you doing? Let me handle it!"

"What are you doing?" Sammy shouted. "Give it back!" He lunged for Serena, and they both started to struggle.

"Oh, come on!" Serena begged. During the struggle, Tuxedo Mask fell out of her hand and she caught it. "Oh, no it's gonna break!" Sammy managed to get his game back.

"I can't believe you!" Sammy said under his breath.

Dad just laughed. "What's the matter, panicking like that, Serena? I get it. Did you get it from a guy you like or something?"

"Well, I guess you could say that." Serena said blushing, just then father slammed on the breaks, but he failed to turn the engine off so they began to swerve around "Wait, Dad! The wheel! The wheel!"

"Serena!" Father shouted, looking furious, staring Serena down and his hands off the wheel. "Are you dating someone behind my back?"

"No!" Serena shouted, waving her hands around defensively. "It's not like that!"

"Dear!" Mother panicked. "Keep your eyes ahead! Ahead!"

"Oh." Father sighed in relief. "So you're not dating! Refocusing on the road, of course, not There's no way you would be."

"Wow." Serena said as they came over the hill seeing the resort. "It's beautiful! Once they arrived they got out and looked at the hot springs. It's kind of romantic."

"There really isn't anything here." Sammy said.

"The truth is." Father said. "This lake is where your mom and I met, it holds a lot of beautiful memories of us!"

"Oh, dear!" Mother said blushing.

Serena just looked at the lake and she heard the locket playing its music again.

"Darien." Serena sighed in sadness.

"Serena!" Mother called. "We're gonna get going soon. Is there something wrong?"

"No, it's nothing." Serena said. She rejoined the family.

The Dark Kingdom.

"This is where you detected an unusual energy reading?" Beryl said.

"It is similar to the power of our monsters, but it is producing a slightly different and very strong energy reading." Malachite said.

"Endymion, start investigating right away." Beryl said. "Because I have great respect for you I won't punish you right away for losing the Chaos Emerald."

"Yes, my lady." Endymion bowed, he left for Earth.

"Queen Beryl." Malachite said. "Lately, he has been acting increasingly suspicious.. Could he possibly have begun to notice that his memories have been erased?"

"I doubt it." Beryl scoffed. "However Malachite, just in case, follow him and keep an eye on his actions."

"Understood, my lady." Malachite said.

"Endymion is completely under my control." Beryl explained. "It would be impossible for him to question his past, but..."

Later back at the resort, the family finally got in their bathing suits and began to relax in the hot springs.

"What a great view!" Serena said, looking around the area.

"A remote hot spring inn isn't so bad after all, is it?" Father said.

"Oh, Sammy. What are you doing?" Mother asked.

"Hurry up and get in! The water's fine!" Serena called.

Sammy had his towel covering him completely and he was just standing on the outside of the water with an embarrassed look on his face.

"But I don't wanna be in a mixed bath." Sammy stammered.

"What are you being so shy about?" Father laughed. "It's just us family here."

"If you don't hurry, you'll catch a cold." Mother said.

"Okay." Sammy said sheepishly. Serena snuck up behind him and shoved him into the water. Then Serena jumped in and began to shove his head underwater in a playful manner.

"Stop it!" Sammy screamed and they both began to wrestle. In the water and Sammy managed to snag Serena's towel and he darted out of the hot spring leaving Serena nude in the water, she hid herself in the water.

"Sammy!" Serena screamed. "Give that Back!"

"Serena!" Mother scolded. "Enough is enough!"

"It's okay." Father said. "Just let them be."

"GIVE IT BACK!" Serena yelled, swimming low to hide her body.

"Hahah!" Sammy laughed. "Come and get it!" He ran up the hill playing keep away with her towel. He stopped when he noticed the pretty view from the top of the hill. "Wow! What a nice view! The lake's right in front of us!"

Serena snuck up behind him and he snagged the towel.

"You let your guard down!" Serena snapped. "What's wrong?" She put her towel back on and came out and looked with Sammy.

"Look, there's somebody by the lake over there!" Sammy pointed. There was a man standing on the shore line.

"It can't be!" Serena shouted. It is Darien, he walked off the shore, "Oh, wait!" She ran down to catch him.

"Sis!" Sammy called. "What's she in such a hurry about?" She ran through the woods and tried to catch him now wearing a blue and black kimono but she didn't find him. "It's not him!" She saw a statue. Then she heard the locket and she took it out.

"Whistle!" A noise from the trees, Serena looked up where she heard the noise and she saw Sonic waving to her.

"Sonic what are you doing here?" Serena smiled.

"I was running around letting Tails chill at Lita's and I was passing by and I saw you and your family overlooking the side of the lake. I decided to pay you a visit so here we are." Sonic explained.

Just then Darien approached from behind. Serena turned around and she lost her breath and Sonic leapt down from the trees and hid in the bushes and watched.

"Darien!" Serena cried.

"That melody…" He said. "Why does it throw my heart into confusion?"

"Darien it's me Serena!" Serena cried. "Please don't pretend you don't know me…"

"Darien, Serena? I do not know them." Darien said. "Those names have nothing to do with me."

"You can't mean that! Darien!" Serena cried. "It's me! Don't you recognize me?"

"Serena!" Mother called, Serena looked back at Darien but he was gone. Her mother caught up to her. "Serena what's the matter? You disappeared so suddenly."

"No it's nothing."Serena sighed. She looked over in Sonic's direction and he was also gone.

"Oh, the 'Legendary Lovers'." Mother said looking at the statues of a man and a woman holding each other smiling. "So, this is what you were looking at."

"What? Legendary?" Serena asked, looking at the statues again.

"It's an old story that's been passed down through the generations." Mother explained. "A maiden of the heavens had come down to Earth, and a youth of the land fell in love with her. But a girl who adored the youth turned into a monster in a fit of jealousy, and she attacked the villagers indiscriminately. The maiden from the Heavens and the youth sealed the monster in this lake with the power of their love.

Having exhausted their energy, they rose up to the heavens together."

"Sealed the monster in this lake." Serena thought.

"Come on, let's go back." Mother said. "Or you'll catch a cold."

"Yes mom!" Serena said, throwing herself in her arms.

"You're such a baby." Mother sighed, hugging her daughter. "Serena, if you find someone to love bring him home, and introduce him to your dad and me, okay?"

"Okay, I will." Serena said. "Someday I will."

Darien was staring at the lake.

"A monster sealed in this lake." He said. "So that is the origin of the usual energy."

Up in the sky Malachite was watching him from above.

"Endymion." Malachite said. "So, he has already found out the truth behind this mystery."

Darien began to chant to call the monster out.

"O vengeful spirit of the lake. I command thee to rise again!" The wind began to blow very hard and strange bubbling was beginning at the bottom of the lake. "Come fourth! Ancient Spirit!" Then a bright light came out of the water. Then a giant evil mermaid with huge fangs and sharp yellow eyes with pink hair and the blue tail that was long like a Chinese Dragon.

"Give him back!" The monster demanded. The monster swooped in and swung her huge claws at Darien, but he dodged. "Give him Back!" She demanded again.

"So." Malachite said, still just watching. "Endymion has awakened the ancient soul that was sealed within the lake. What will you do now?" The monster stopped when she caught a good glimpse at his face. She stopped and her face calmed down and she went up into the air and screamed. She looked around and saw Serena's family and focused on Serena. "Give Him Back!" She flew over to her family.

"Wait where are you going?" Darien shouted.

Serena looked out at the lake and began to think.

"Darien we are so close, and yet.." Her father took notice of Serena's face.

"Serena is something wrong?" He asked.

"What?" Serena asked snapping out of it. "Oh well..." She turned to the moon, "The moon was just so beautiful, I was lost in admiration."

"Yeah it is pretty." Father said.

"It's so beautiful, it makes you want to cry doesn't it?" Serena asked.

"Well." She said. "I'm going to take another dip in the hot spring and gaze at the moon before dinner!" She ran off.

"I never know what a girl's thinking." Father said. "Sometimes Serena seems like a total stranger to me." She stormed through the woods and thought about Darien.

She began to pep talk to herself in her thoughts. "I won't give in! Even if… Even if Darien has forgotten about me, If I cry, he'd laugh at me."

"Give him back!" Screamed the monster diving in at Serena.

"Huh?" Serena said as she stopped running and looked behind her and saw the monster. "NO WAY! This is not happening to me!"

"Serena!" Mother cried. "What is that!?"

"It's a ghost." Sammy panicked. "A beastly monster!" She ran to her family as the monster charged at her and they all hit the deck as the monster moved around and turned and began to blow some demonic dark breath at them.

"Get down!" Father shouted as he pushed everyone to the ground. The trees were hit and they all deteriorated.

"It's poison!" Mother shouted.

"That's it I'm mad!" Serena yelled. "Hey, this is not funny! How dare you ruin our family trip? What the heck are you thinking?" She rose up and stared the monster down.

"Serena don't move!" Mother warned.

"Monster! I will defeat you!" Father declared taking a stick and holding it like a samurai sword, but he began to cower and back away. "Monster! You leave my family alone!" She lunged at him and grabbed him by the neck.

"Father!" Everyone screamed. He was choking until a blue streak whacked the monster in the face and father was freed.

"What was that?" Sammy asked.

The Monster flew back and Sonic stood between Serena's family and the monster.

"Sonic!" Sammy cheered.

"Here to save us again!" Mother said.

"Thanks Sonic!" Father gagged rejoining the family. The monster lunged at Sonic and a black rose stopped the monster.

"Dear, are you ok?" Mother asked, holding father.

"Another weird one showed up." Sammy said, taking notice of Tuxedo Mask arrival.

"I could have handled it!" Sonic shouted.

"Don't be silly!" Serena scoffed. "He's on our side! Probably.."

"I will not allow you to harm innocent people!" Tuxedo Mask said to his own monster.

"I have it covered!" Sonic snapped harshly. "Why don't you go crawling back to Beryl!"

The monster grew big spikes on its tail and it swung it at Tuxedo Mask. He dodged it and Sonic performed a homing attack and struck the monster in the head.

The family escaped and was carrying Father on their backs.

"Ouch my back.." Father winced.

"Tuxedo Mask I wish I could help you, But I can't transform here!" Serena thought. The monster swung its tail and hit Tuxedo Mask and he went flying. Sonic then attacked the monster from the side.

"TUXEDO MASK!" Serena screamed.

Just then the other Sailors along with Tails arrived at the scene.

"Sailor Venus!"

"Sailor Jupiter!"

"Sailor Mercury!"

"Sailor Mars!"

"Don't forget me!" Tails called.

"Here we are!" They all said.

"Wow!" Sammy cheered. "The other sailor warriors of love and justice, along with Tails!"

"That's my line, damn it!" Serena grunted. Then Sailor Mercury tried her attack.

"Bubble Spray!"

"Now's our chance!" Mother said. "The inn is that way!" They ran through the fog, and Serena took this opportunity and ran to go transform.

"Moon Prism Power Make Up!"

"How dare you frighten innocent tourists!" Sailor Moon shouted standing in a tree. "And ruin Serena's family's quality time? It's unforgivable!" She did her pose. "And in the name of the moon. I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you!"

"Tuxedo Mask protected you Serena!" Rei gasped.

"You're welcome!" Sonic shouted sarcastically.

"I knew you were a good person."Sailor Moon cheered seeing Tuxedo Mask behind the monster. "I love you." Just then the monster swung its tail around to hurt Sailor Moon. Everyone gasped Sailor Venus tried her attack and Jupiter combined her lighting with the beam.

"Supreme Thunder!"

"Crescent Beam!"

The beam hit the monster and she exploded.

"We did it!" Sailor Jupiter cheered, but the monster just regenerated.

"What!?" Sailor Jupiter screamed.

"Crescent Beam didn't work..." Sailor Venus panicked.

"All right then!" Sailor Moon shouted, she tried her Tiara.

"Moon Tiara Action!"

The same thing happened. Sonic cut through her and the same thing happened again she just regenerated.

"No way!" Sailor Moon cried. "That's cheap! This monster's not fair!"

"There has to be a way to stop it!" Sonic said.

"No." Sailor Mars said "It's not a monster! She used her fingers to read the monster's soul. It's an evil phantom born of old fanatical jealousy!"

"She is right!" Tuxedo Mask said. "Sailor Warriors, I am responsible for awakening this ancient Monster. You girls, back off!"

"Sorry." Sailor Mars smirked. "But a phantom falls in my domain! Then she took out an ofuda."

"Exorcise and cleanses with the power of my purifying flame! Rin, Pyo, Tou, Sha, Kai, Jin, Retsu ,Zai, Zen! Begone, Evil Spirit!"

She planted it right on her face then she burned it.

"Fire Soul!"

The monster screamed in pain as fire surrounded her.

"Now, Sailor Moon!" Tails called. She used the Crescent Moon Wand.

"Moon Healing Escalation Refresh!"

The monster reverted back to one of the girls Serena's mother talked about at the statues.

"Finally." Sailor Mars said. "She's been freed from her ancient jealousy, and she's rising up to the Heavens." The girl nodded to the Sailors and smiled at Sonic and Tails, and she waved to Tuxedo Mask before she departed. Then everyone stared at Tuxedo Mask.

"Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon cried.

"I would say that what you did was unnecessary." Tuxedo Mask said. "But I will yield this time. Good-bye." He leaped away.

"Endymion is a strange man." Malachite said who was still watching.

Back in the woods Serena's family was calling out for her.

"Serena, Where Are You?" Mother called.

"Sis!" Sammy called. "Did she get eaten after all?" He sniffed. "I should have just lent her my game."

"Then lend it to me!" Serena said, popping out from behind.

"Sis!" Sammy cheered.

She ran over to her parents and she hugged them both.

"You made us worry!" Mother said.

"Maybe it wasn't so bad!" Sammy said. "After all, remember Sonic and the other Sailors destroyed that monster!"

"Dad risked his life trying to protect us." Mother praised.

"In the end it's nice to have a family." Serena thought resting in her Mother's arms. Later all the other girls were relaxing in the hot springs, Sonic and Tails were arguing.

"So Lita how's living with Tails?" Mina asked.

"I love living with the furry little guy!" Lita giggled. "It's great to have someone to talk to!"

"When can we go home Sonic?" Tails whined.

"When The Dark Kingdom is no more." Sonic answered.

"I can't take living with Lita!" Tails said. "Yes the food is good, but the atmosphere isn't really liveable, I have to hear her swoon over the many boys she sees and she always tries to get me to snuggle with her like a stuffed animal when she goes to bed!"

"Yeah well since she lives alone she's the best candidate to be living with so just go with it ok?" Sonic sighed. "But I think it's funny how after 2 days you have already been through such Hell!"

"Serena!" Lita said in an encouraging tone. "Don't give up. You'll have more chances!"

"I'm okay." Serena said. "Because I've got great friends like you guys! By the way how did you guys get here?"

"Luna told us." Ami answered.

"That and we're not going to let you have all the fun by yourself." All the girls said as they dunked her under the water. They all began to play in the water.

"I know this has been hard so to make it up to you let's hang out all day tomorrow get you out of Lita's just you and me again." Sonic smiled.

"Thanks!" Tails said in a sigh of relief.

Back at Eggman's Base.

"Your flabbiness." Scratch saluted. "What now since we're no longer in league with the Dark Kingdom?"

"We will have one last attempt." Eggman answered. "Our weapons are ready but…..ready the Egg Horsehead!"

"Yes Dr. Eggman!" Grounder also saluted, and he and Scratch scrabbled the robots.

"One last game, and if I lose again. Well. That's ok, I always have a plan B. up my sleeve." Eggman snickered.