Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in the update. My computer broke, I started editing the earlier chapters and then I started a new job, so I have been busy, busy.

I hope you enjoy this Chapter.

PP

Chapter 21

Trista snapped her phone closed and walked into the lounge room of the three bedroom apartment from the balcony. In a rage she threw the phone at a chair. Hotaru looked up at Trista from the book she was reading at the dining table, noticing the anger in her friends face. She quietly slipped her book mark into her book to hold her page. And she patiently stared at the angry scout. Trista for her part was pacing back and forth, and running her hands through her hair, muttering to herself.

"Trista, if you continue to pace and mutter to yourself like that I am going to have to get you some professional help." Hotaru said calmly folding her hands in front of her.

Trista ran her hands through her hair pushing it out of her face, and then picked up her phone from where she threw it and took a deep breath. She looked up at Hotaru, "Serena teleported again."

Hotaru grimaced, "Does Darien know where she went?"

Trista shook her head and sat down opposite her at the table, flicking her phone open and closed, contemplated what they had to do next. "We haven't developed the link yet."

Hotaru sighed, and placed her hands on either side of her face her, "Do we need to contact Rei? She should be able to locate her using the fire."

Trista raised an eyebrow at Hotaru, "Do you really want to go there?"

"This isn't about me Trista, this is about our princess, and let us be honest, they at the end of the day have embraced the same code as us, and made the same promises to the Queen. We must protect the Princess." Hotaru said logically.

Trista pulled her hair to into her face, and closed her eyes. Hotaru stared at her fellow scout, waiting patiently for an answer. Trista let out a sigh, "Why is all of this so much effort?"

Hotaru laughed, "The Princess never made anything easy for us in the past, why would she change now?"

Trista let out a small laugh herself, and tapped on the table, deliberating on what they should do next. She flipped her phone open and starting typing into the key pad, with a final blip on the phone, she closed it again.

"So who did you message?" Hotaru asked, staring at the green haired mess of a woman.

"Darien, asking him to check if Serena teleported to his apartment like last time." Trista sighed.

"Trista, you need to stress less, we will find her. Or is there something that you aren't telling me that could impact the Princess, something that Amara and Michelle are dealing with and the reason why they aren't home tonight?" Hotaru asked with a serious glint in her eyes.

Trista righted her hair, and let out a secret smile that Hotaru saw, "Still so young yet so intuitive. They are working on a feeling they have."

Hotaru turned her head to the side, her facial features turning into a frown, "What feeling?"

"I will let them tell you when they come back, I don't fully understand what is going on with them." Trista said thoughtfully. "But it could be nothing, it could be something. We will soon see, but I don't think they will be home for a little while."

Hotaru nodded, knowing they weren't the problem they needed to be tackling. She stood up from the table, and smoothed out her pleated skirt she was wearing, and walked to the door, and grabbed her jacket from the back of the door. She put on her jacket and she turned to Trista who was watching the young girl, "So Trista, are you coming with me? I can't go out by myself."

Trista scrambled to her feet and stumbled to the door, she grabbed her jacket and opened the door, and asked the girl, "And where are we going?"

"Off to the temple, Serena isn't going to want us to sit around waiting for her to find her way back, we may as well get involved." Hotaru said with a shrug, and walked out the door.

Serena woke on cold ground. She blearily looked around, and realized that she wasn't where she was supposed to be. She attempted to concentrate her powers to get her back to the argument that she was having with Darien, even though the thought of continuing that conversation upset her, but she couldn't teleport back to her house.

She shakily stood up, and then attempted to go towards the light that was in the distance, but she got no further then ten paces and she hit an invisible wall laced with electricity. It shocked her back to where she woke up with a scream escaping her lips.

She gingerly stood up again, and tried to walk ten paces in the opposite direction and she was shocked by the invisible wall again and sent flying back to the centre again. Serena let out a defeated sigh, and curled herself into a ball, she was trapped she thought helplessly, where was she.

Rei fell back from her fire reading; she hadn't expected to travel into that kind of vision. Rei rubbed her face, and attempted to get her focus back, so that she could investigate what was going on in the vision. But she couldn't settle, she had a feeling that she was missing something that she was supposed to be doing something about that vision.

Rei stood up, and left the fire room, sliding the paneled door behind her. She fiddled with her hair as she walked down the hall, thinking about the dark space that she saw Serena in, was that the past or was it the future. She walked outside into the cool air, stretching out, pondering the possibilities of her visions, she stood in the middle of the courtyard with her eyes closed, embracing the chill in the wind.

After some time she slowly opened her eyes, and when she refocused she jumped back with shock. There was a little girl standing right in front of her, with an inquisitive look on her face, staring up at Rei and said "Hello, Rei."

When Rei finally recovered from the shock, "Hotaru." She sternly, "What are you doing here? It is late."

"You could work on being a little nicer Rei, I am not him. I am just a little girl." She said with a cute little smile. "But this is not why we are here."

"Why are you here, no-one else here with you." Rei said looking around.

From behind Hotaru, there was a shout, and some clicking of some heels, "Hotaru, you just can't run up the stairs. You need to wait for me." With a skid and a stumble Trista came to a halt not too fair away from Hotaru and Rei.

"I was safe, and I can't help that you are old, Trista, but we have important business to discuss with Rei." Hotaru said with a cheeky shrug.

Rei gave Trista a curt nod, acknowledging the Scout of Time. "What business do we have to discuss at this hour?"

Hotaru turned back to the priestess, "Probably the same reason why you are outside at this hour, trying to clear your head?"

Rei gave her a skeptical look and then looked at Trista, "How do you know this?"

Trista shrugged, "The girl is smart, and she remembers things. We should go inside to discuss this."

"Why should I invite you in? I barely know you two." Rei said taking a defensive position, pulling her transformation pen out of her pocket.

"I am not, the bad guy here, Rei, I am just a little girl, and we need your help." Hotaru pleaded.

Trista narrowed her eyes at Rei, "Do you really want to take both of us on, Rei, we are not the weaker scouts, and we have all our powers. Your petty perception of a young girl is not what we want to discuss. We want to discuss our Princess. Something we do have in common."

"What have you done to Serena?" Rei said not relaxing.

From behind Hotaru and Trista, a male voice said, "Would you three just stop, it isn't worth it."

Surprised Rei gasped, "Darien." And the other two bowed to him and muttered, "Majesty".

Darien gave Trista and Hotaru a quick look of annoyance, and then ignored them; he walked up to Rei, and grabbed her shoulders. "Rei, she disappeared again. I can't find her; I know she was hurting a little while a go, but then nothing. I can't feel her at all."

Rei crossed her arms across her chest, "Well maybe they are hiding her Darien, did you think of this?"

"Why would Hotaru and I hid the Princess" Trista said pulling her transformation pen out. "Then why would we come her looking for her?"

"I don't know, to throw us off the scent. She is a descendant of Saturn," Rei said gesturing at Hotaru, Rei then raised her hand, and Trista and Hotaru mirrored her action, to start their transformation into the Sailor Scouts.

Darien getting angrier and angrier at the three women, but they didn't notice him slightly glowing with rage.

The women finished their Transformation, and just as Rei was going to throw her fireballs at Hotaru, Darien was engulfed in a bright light, and seconds later was in his armor. The Rei released her fireballs, and Trista leapt into her attack.

But mid attack, everyone was frozen still.