Hi All,

I hope you have enjoyed this Chapter, I am trying to set the scene for this half of the story. Not going to lie I am finding it difficult to get the story right, as there are now so many different characters that are getting involved, so I apologize if it seems to be taking forever to get to some sort of Action. I will get there eventually.

I wanted to also thank you all for the many reviews, follows and Favourites. I didn't have much hope for this story when I came back to it, but seeing that my writing is still well received has given me a little more of a boost to keep it going and not giving it a short ending. So thanks. I also would like to apologize for the typos in the earlier chapters written in 2006. I was a girl who just started writing then. Hopefully I will find the time to fix up those issues and discrepancies with the story.

Enjoy this Chapter.

PP

Chapter 14

In the morning Serena woke up early finding Darien staring at the roof, pulled the only pillow still on the bed and pulled it over her head. She felt a shift of the bed and she felt an arm curl around her hips, he pulled her close and she groaned in protest of being moved, Darien just smiled and kissed her temple under the pillow. "Well someone isn't a morning person now are they?" He asked laughing at her reaction to now bash his head with the pillow.

Serena closed her eyes, she didn't want to be awake at the moment, if she woke up, and yesterday would become real. That was definitely something she didn't want to happen. But if yesterday didn't happen she wouldn't have her sweet Prince next to her, she would have never known his true feelings, but all she wanted was to be a normal teenage girl, Sailor Moon, and Princess Serenity had put a stop to that. She groaned again, and rolled into Dairen, resting her head onto his chest delicately, almost as if; if she wasn't careful he would disappear because yesterday didn't really happen.

Darien held her in his arms, as she was going through her many though processes, not wanting to disrupt her thoughts. Honestly hoping himself that it wasn't a wonderful dream that he was going to wake up from any moment by his alarm. Lost in his own thoughts he was brought back to reality by a quiet voice.

"Darien, everything truly happened yesterday didn't it, this isn't a dream?" She asked still with her eyes closed.

"Yea, everything did happen, you didn't dream any of it, I am sorry." He whispered back.

"I think I have stronger powers, did you see that I teleported?" She asked.

"Yes, I saw that you could teleport, you had me running all around Tokyo trying to find you most of the nights." He chuckled.

"Did you know I defeated a monster using my hand as Serena?" She asked.

Darien a little confused with what he heard sat up, Serena not prepared by his sudden movements, rolled clumsily off him and sat up and looked at him. They sat crossed legged in front of each other.

Serena then explained her story, about how after she had teleported from him she was drained in the park by the monster, then she raised her hand and then it was dusted, she told him how Trista had found him and told her that they were staying across town, now awaken because she had discovered her new identity.

When she had finished her story Darien grabbed her hand, and looked it over, wondering how she could have summoned that power as a human and then a thought struck him, which he articulated out loud, "Serena, what if, you in your human form is Princess Serenity, that there is no difference between your two personalities?"

Now it was Serena's turn to look at him confused, "I don't understand, I am Serena, not Serenity."

Darien ran his hand through his hair, "Let's use an amnesia patients memory as an example," proud of quickly thinking on his feet, "So, your princess personality, and powers were you from years ago, then you bumped you head and forgot who you are, and then they started calling you Serena and you developed this personality, that had Sailor Moon as a way to channel your powers, because they have to escape somehow. Then you bumped your head again, in our case found the crystal and then all your memories as Serenity returned to you, including how to use your powers. So you are still the same person, but you just have some extra powers, so maybe Sailor Moon was just the alter ego, and the Princess is your true form. So Serena equals Serenity and Serenity equals Serena." He finished that off with a nod, watching to see how Serena would react to his explanation as to why she had access to her powers in what they thought were her 'civilian' form.

Serena slowly nodded after a couple of moments, "In a convoluted way that makes sense. But I would like for the outer court to confirm your theory, Sailor Pluto should have the answers we are looking for."

Darien let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding, to be honest he was waiting for her to break down again, but his explanation of her seemed to calm her instead of making her react negatively to the new responsibilities that she may have to face in the future.

After a moment, Serena looked at Darien, "Darien, would you help me get home? I need to plan things." She said hesitantly, she didn't want to go to her family home alone, she didn't even want to say the word funeral, because she didn't want to accept that her family was gone and all she had left was an empty house.

Darien leaned forward and pulled her into a gentle hug, and whispered to her "Anything for you." With that he pulled her back to the bed, "Get some rest first, we have both had long nights last night, and it is 6am in the morning." Serena nodded and placed her head on his chest curling into him and closing her eyes again.

While this whole exchange occurred, the fiery priestess of Mars sat in front of her fire at the temple, she hadn't gone to bed after her friends had left, Raye had sat and chanted through the night, trying to find a different prophecy for their future. Her voice was raw; her legs were cramping from not changing positions for hours, her lips her cracked and dry from the combination of dehydration and constant exposure to the fire. Finally letting the fire rest she rose from the front of the fire and slowly winced her way down to her room, she slid open her door and then closed it behind her and leaned against it, head in her hands and slowly sank to the floor, closing her eyes to relive the prophecy that she saw every time she looked into the future.

The world was shaded with a purple haze, there was desolation and despair around her, Raye wandered through the empty streets of Tokyo, feeling lost and all alone, where was everyone she wondered, she continued walking and found herself at the cemetery as she got to the centre of the cemetery she saw 5 discreet tomb stones, each one inscribed with the planetary symbols of the Sailor Scouts, she flinched when she saw her symbol of Mars, inscribed on one of the outer tomb stones. The tomb stones were covered with moss, they hadn't been kept very well, she was wondering what happened.

She looked over the other four tomb stones, they were all in the same state as hers, except for the middle one, it was broken down the side, all you could read is the first four words, 'PRIN' one had to assume that the ending of the word said 'cess' as it was flanked by the tombstones of the court. Behind her a caped shadow approaching the tombs, he was leaning forward to mask his face which was hooded. Raye watched the hooded figure as he collapsed in front of the middle stones, Serena, stone Raye Assumed, and she saw the hooded figure shuddering as though they were crying. Raye leaned forward from her spot in front of her own tomb stone, wanting to comfort this person. Just as she leaned forward the hood went back she heard a crash, she swung her head around her hair whipping around, not seeing who the new comer was that had wanted to pay their respects to the Scouts.

It was at this point that Raye was woken up by falling backwards out of her door. Lita had come back to check on Raye after their meeting last night.

"Woah Raye, did you know you have bed just over there, you could have just taken a few extra steps and past out there." Lita said when she realized that Raye had been woken up by falling back from the door. The brown pony tailed girl crouched down and picked Raye up under the shoulders and comically dragged her back into her room.

"Lita, leave me alone!" Raye shouted as she was being dragged, embarrassed in her own home. "I can get up and walk!"

"Woah someone woke up on the wrong side of the fire now didn't she." Lita said with a laugh, scratching her head awkwardly and sitting down at Rayes study table. Lita looked over the Priestess, she looked tired, her hair and skin was dried out, she almost looked sunburnt, but Lita assumed it was actually from hours in front of the untamed fire, especially considering didn't looked like this last night. "Please tell me you didn't sit in front of the fire all night tonight?"

Raye stared at the girl; she timidly laughed and slightly nodded, waiting for the argument that was about to ensue. Everyone was afraid of Raye's temper because she was always up in people's faces, always saying what she thought. But the temper that Raye was scared of was Lita's probably because she hadn't seen Ami's temper, but Lita was scary, when she was angry none the less.

Lita sighed she had had this argument many times there was no point in her raising her voice Raye wouldn't listen, she brushed her fringe out of her eyes, "Raye, no matter what you see in the fire, you are will not change the future unless you do something now." Raye just looked at Lita, "The fact that you won't tell us what exactly happens in your visions is starting to get frustrating, I think it is time that you tell us." Lita continued.

"Lita, I can't tell you what happens, it distract us from the bigger picture." Raye said playing with a pen that was on the table.

"Raye, our 'bigger picture' is now protecting the Princess, you idea's made sense when we were searching for her, but now that we know that Serena is the Princess, you need to tell us, we need to tell Serena, and it will look better if it came from you freely, not when Venus decrees that you have to tell us and then tell Serena." Lita tried to reason.

Raye shook her head, "Lita you don't understand, I can't just tell you what I have seen. I don't know everything yet. Mina cannot just decree that I have to tell everyone."

Lita shook her head with a sigh, "Raye, you know full well that Mina can, and probably will when she figures that you are hiding all of this from the rest of them, you will have to. She never had to force us to on the moon, but as the leader she was given extra powers, just for these circumstances, if you didn't disclose something you saw in the fire, if I didn't report things I saw as sentry and if Ami didn't report things she learnt, Mina was also compelled to make sure she told us the truth. To be part of the team, we must all communicate. I never argued with you when Serena started pulling away, I never argued when you appointed yourself as leader of our troupe, but we now have the bigger picture, and I never thought you were one to let the team down."
Raye stared at her friend, she knew what she was saying was true, it would be so much better for her pride if she actually told them what was going on, then they could decide if and when the Princess was told of the Future she foretold. "Lita, I don't want to tell you all of these visions,"

Lita finally exploded, slamming her hands on the table as she yelled,"Damn it, Raye I think you need to tell someone, if it isn't us, or Mina, it will have to be the Princess, there are all you options. I came here today not to rehash a conversation we had already had about you telling the truth, but to see if you were alright with the power taken from you, but if you are going to act like this, I don't know Raye, I don't want to be pulled away from my duty because of your actions, who knows the damage we have caused Serena because of these visions and I have followed blindly, but I can't do it any more Raye, I will tell Mina what I know. I have to tell her, or Serena."

Raye flinched at her outburst, but remained cool for once, "Lita, these are my visions, I expect you to respect me and the decisions I need to make in regards to this." Raye said this in a dismissing tone, and Lita realised that she was being kicked out.

She stood up and looked the girl over, "You better make the right decisions, or my hands will be tied" With those closing words Lita left Raye's room, where Raye crawled to her bed, curled up and went into a frightful sleep.

Outside Lita stood at the top of the temple stairs, not knowing what to do. Raye had really made things difficult for them over the past year of being Sailor Scouts, with a sigh Lita scratched her head and said quietly, 'Maybe it would be easier if I was a civilian, all I would have to worry about is if I put salt in my cookies instead of sugar."

Lita then made the decision on where she was going, and she was going to talk to Serena, it was the only thing that made sense to do.