A.N. I don't like the name Malachite and so I have to use the Japanese names for the generals, sorry if this bothers you. I may even go back through my chapters and change everything to the Japanese names. I like them better and after reading Kurichan1666's stories I think I understand Mamoru more. Darien and Mamoru are truly different. I think of Mamoru as the character in Naoko-samas' work. Forgive me for not using her last name, but I don't think I could properly spell it.
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Chapter 5: Till we meet again.
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I stared at the man that had sent the shiver up my spine. His long white hair, his piercing steel blue eyes and his regal air all reminded me of him. The man that had once been a loyal and trusted friend to Endymion, then a cowardly man that had been brain washed into believing the prince meant the planet Earth harm. Then again as a man who had tried and almost succeeded in killing me and Endymion.
He talked to Darien as if they were friends; as if nothing in the past had ever happened. My thoughts brought me to an abrupt halt. He was normal now, he was not the man who had tried to kill me and he was once again a trusted and possibly loyal friend of Darien's. To him, Darien, the girls and possibly others, the war between the Nega verse and the Sailor Senshi did not exist. I stared at them for a brief moment longer before sighing.
"Is something wrong, Meatball head?" Darien asked apparently shocking his white haired friend.
"Meatball-head?" Kunzite questioned. He still did not notice me. Am I really that short?
Darien chuckled as I glared at him and lifted my chin in defiance. This turned the gaze of the man once known as Kunzite toward me. He looked at me quizzically. I looked away from him, he still sent a Chill up my spine, although it wasn't nearly as bad as before.
"Her name is Serena!" Darien chuckled at my reaction. I turned back to glare at the man that insulted me with that horrible nickname.
The white haired mand then bowed respectfully to me and introduced himself.
"Serena, my name is Kunzite" He spoke, returning to his standing position. He bowed as if he did…. No! That could not be true. He barely knew me, he could not remember, could he? Even Darien could not remember - how could it possibly be fair for Kunzite to remember and not Darien?.
Tears stung my eyes and I couldn't fight them back. The fight with Raye and now him, it wasn't fair.
"Serena? What's wrong?" Darien asked alarmed and moving toward me.
I looked at him with tears in my eyes and felt myself give in. He didn't remember me and the girls didn't remember the past. It just wasn't fair. How could the most wicked of the generals possibly remember me, but not the man who held my heart. Darien had won it so long ago and it hurt that I seemed to be a child in his eyes.
Darien's arms were around me in a second. He had never done this before. He never held me, it was against the way men acted in public, but as I thought about this I didn't care. I needed him to hold me, to show me that he cared.
He wasn't Tuxedo Kamen anymore, he couldn't save me when we fought the Nega verse anymore and he couldn't hold me tightly when we alone, to show me that he cared. I cried harder and Darien held me tighter.
"Darien?" Kunzite questioned.
I felt Darien's nod and heard the white haired man move toward the door. I gripped Darien's shirt and tried to pull him closer and he held me tighter.
"It's okay Serena; I won't call you Meatball head anymore."
"Darien!" I hiccupped
"Yes Serena?" Darien said pulling back and releasing me. He finally realized what he had done and he seemed to be ashamed.
"Thank you, Darien! I'm sorry I broke down like that, I'm not sure why." I said rubbing the tears from my eyes.
"Ser….."
"Serena!" Mina's voice sounded cutting Darien off.
I stared at Darien, wondering what he was going to say and didn't realize that Mina was hurtling down the stairs.
"Serena, Raye didn't mean what she said." She called, running up to me and engulfing me in a hug. I couldn't return the hug, I barely registered that Mina was even there. All I saw was Darien's eyes. They held something in them, something I hadn't seen yesterday.
I did not dare move. Darien held my eyes as if he wished to tell me something, but he averted his gaze when Mina engulfed me in a hug. Darien picked up his things and turned to me with shielded eyes.
"See you around Serena!" He called walking out the door of the Crown. I shoved Mina off me and bolted out of the door and scanned for him, but he was nowhere in sight.
"Serena?" Mina called running up to me, fear in her eyes. She seemed to be scared that I was mad at her.
"Sorry Mina. I didn't get to tell Darien good-bye." I said telling only part of the truth.
"Serena, Raye…." She stopped mid-sentence and looked at me again.
"Serena, are you okay?" She gushed as she saw my puffy red face for the first time. I wasn't crying anymore, but at the same time my face showed that I had been. She engulfed me in another hug and I returned it. I held the urge back to start crying again. Mina would almost absolutely make me tell her why I had been crying and I could not do that.
"I'm fine Mina; I just was frustrated with myself." I said
"Serena, please remember that we're always here to listen to you. We missed you dearly." She said avoiding the subject of my leaving.
"I missed you all as well." I said smiling for the first time in the last little while. They wouldn't understand this; they thought I was a silly girl believing that the Sailor Scouts and Sailor V actually existed.
"Thank-you Mina, I appreciate it. But it wasn't anything in particular, probably just from the flight." I said.
We walked back up the stairs and back to the girls and Raye apologized to me upon seeing me and I accepted the apology, knowing that soon she would yell at me again. This subject was always going to be brought up until I told them. It was difficult to think about this again. They had reacted like I was a silly little girl, back then and it was a funny and creative dream. But it truly wasn't because the star locket was still mine, even if the broach was not in my hands.
Flashback
It had been several days since the battle with Queen Beryl. I had awoken in my bed after the battle, feeling a slight bit stiff, but no other harm appeared to have come to me, even from falling from the iced structure that had shattered at the impact of the Silver Crystal. I had called for Luna and heard nothing in reply. That was weird, I glanced at my clock and it read 8:00 am on a Monday morning.
I sighed and snuggled back into my covers and then bolted out of bed. Eight am, I was late for school. Luna always woke me up in time for me to make my mad dash to school and even then so would my mother. I quickly dressed, brushed my teeth and plowed out of my room and down the stairs.
"Luna!" I called coming down the stairs. "Why didn't you wake me up?"
My little brother appeared at the bottom of the stairs and I crashed into him. We landed hard on the floor and he grunted and began to whine.
"You klutzoid, what the heck are you doing? Get off me!" He whined.
I pushed myself off him and stared at him.
"Aren't you suppose to be in school?" I asked.
"School, Serena its spring break!"
Spring break, but it couldn't be that was last….
"But that was last week!" I said not thinking.
"Serena, Spring break is this week, you moron. Would you get out of my way, I need to get my stuff for camp." He asked, trying to push past me.
I let him by and stood there, shocked. Sammy had gone to camp last week, I remembered dad packing him up in the car, while Luna yelled at me for waking up so late that I missed the time for the allotted scout meeting. It was set early because Mina was going to a volleyball camp.
"Luna!" I called as I walked into the kitchen. My mom turned around and smiled at me.
"What was that dear?" She asked.
"Mom have you seen Luna?" I asked.
"Who's Luna dear?" She asked turning back to the bacon she was cooking in the skillet.
"Luna! My black cat with the crescent moon on her forehead!" I said staring at my mother as if she had grown horns. How could she not remember Luna, it had taken me a while to convince her to let me keep Luna.
"Darling, you don't have a cat, you know I don't like pets, they're too messy!"
The shock hit me with full force. No, Luna, that couldn't be! Mom must have been playing a practical joke on me, there was no way she could forget about Luna.
"That's funny mom, seriously, have you seen Luna?" I asked laughing slightly at my mothers joke. She placed the bacon on a plate covered with a paper towel, sopped the grease off, by wrapping the bacon up in the paper towel and then turned to look at me. Plate in hand she walked over to the table and placed it next to the plate of eggs, sausage, gravy and biscuits. She then looked at me a bit angrily.
"Serena, I'm not joking, unless you brought an animal into this house that I don't know about, I have seen no cat. And you better not be hiding one from me!" She said.
Tears sprang to my eyes, mom never got angry at me for asking about Luna. Luna wasn't here, where could she have gone.
"Serena, oh sweetheart!" My mother said quickly rushing to my side.
"Luna's gone? How can Luna be gone?" I cried into my mothers shoulder. She patted my head and chose not to say anything for a while.
"Shhhh, dear it must have been a dream!" She said in a soothing tone.
"No, mom!" I cried harder.
"Dear let's get you up to your bed, after your tumble yesterday, I'm surprised you can walk." She said ushering me toward the stairs.
"Huh?" I asked stopping my mother in her motion. "What tumble?"
"Serena dear, you were accidentally thrown from the top stairs of the Hikawa Shrine. You're very lucky you didn't break anything. Now back up to bed with you!" Her mother said pushing her toward the stairs.
"Mom! Where's Luna, she'll tell me what happen! Please tell me where she is!" I begged still with misty eyes.
"Serena! This is getting old! I don't know of anything with the name Luna and you need to lie down." She said practically pulling me up the stairs. I began to cry harder, Luna was gone and I didn't even remember what happened to me yesterday. All I remembered was the battle with Queen Beryl. I thought that was why I hurt everywhere and when I had I been klutzy enough to fall from the stairs of the Hikawa shrine.
My mother succeeded in dragging me up the stairs and placing me back in my bed where I continued to cry over Luna being gone. My mother held me and tried to soothe me, but Luna was very dear to me and I could not even begin to think of life without her.
After a while my tears subsided enough that my mother returned to her now cold breakfast and my father returned from his morning jog. He ran for a good two hours and didn't have to be at the studio until nine am.
I grabbed my pillow and hugged it to my chest. Luna was gone, how could she be? I looked out the window and noticed the window was closed. I usually left it open for her in the summer, maybe she couldn't get back in, but mom had said she'd never known Luna. I hugged my pillow and put my face down in it and screamed. After I screamed, I slouched against my wall and lowered my pillow and caught sight of my bow. My locket was gone! I began to panic, but stopped myself. It had to be around here in the room somewhere. I threw my pillow aside and stood up and began shuffling through my room. It was no where in sight. How could I lose such an important piece of equipment. With out it, I couldn't become Sailor Moon.
I stopped at my desk and looked at my calendar. Turned toward my bed and then flipped back around fast enough to give myself whiplash. The calendar read one year from the exact date of the week that we had fought Queen Beryl.
How was that possible, a full year. I needed to talk to the girls. I flung my door open and rushed down the stairs, this time not toppling on anyone.
"Bye, mom I'm going to Raye's!" I called as my hand enclosed the door knob.
"Oh no you're not young lady!" She stormed into the hall and placed her hand on the door.
"Why not?" I asked, totally lost as to why I was not allowed out of the door.
"Child you were thrown from those very stairs yesterday, by that very girl!" She said looking at me funny.
"Raye would never do that!" I shouted.
"Someone did and I don't want you to go there." She said sternly.
"Mom… your bacon's burning!" I said sniffling in the direction of the kitchen.
My mother rushed from the room to try and save the bacon and I rushed out of the door towards Raye's.
When I reached the Shrine and climbed the stairs, I was tired. That didn't happen anymore, I was Sailor Moon and this was only a short distance. What was going on? I made it to the top and stopped to catch my breath. I stood up in time to see Raye come out of the temple, toward me.
"I thought you would be mad at me Serena!" She said looking as if she had been crying.
"Why Raye?" I asked.
"Serena? I knocked you down those stairs yesterday, I didn't do it on purpose. There were these boys and the game they were playing near the stairs and then I bumped into you and you went head first down." She began crying after a moment and I took her in a hug. All I could recall was the battle with Beryl and nothing after that. It had been a full year since my last memory, the fall yesterday must have jostled it. But why couldn't I remember that I was Sailor Moon? Peace had apparently been restored, but something told me that was not the reason I lost my memories. I think it was something that I did to myself, I'm sure the girls will tell me what is going on as well as to where my broach may be.
"Raye, you didn't do it on purpose and I'm fine!" I said in a soothing tone. Raye would never intentionally hurt me. She was always the first to come to my defense during a battle. After a few moments her tears subsided and I pulled away from her. I love Raye, but the Silver Imperium Crystal was in the locket and is apart of all of our livliehoods as scouts.
"Raye, have you seen my broach or Luna?" I asked.
"Luna, who's Luna? A broach? When have you worn a broach Serena!" She questioned me.
Raye too? This was weird. I looked at her for a moment and saw complete confusion in her eyes. She was looking at me like I had grown another head. How could Raye not know? She would have been telling Mina what to do with it.
"Well Raye, maybe the other girls have seen it, Shall we call a scout meeting?" I asked.
"This is important, Luna's missing and so is my broach. Maybe Luna stayed at Mina's, with Artemis."
"Scout meeting? Who's Artemis?" She asked looking at me like my mother had.
"Mina's white cat and yeah a scout meeting!" I said sounding shocked. Raye was always happy to have the meetings, she had fun berating my behavior after a battle.
"What the heck are you talking about Serena? Mina doesn't own a cat. And what the heck is a scout meeting and how would we call one?" She asked in complete confusion.
"Raye, we're the Sailor Scouts remember, we fight for love and justice and Luna and Artemis trained us, how could you forget that?" I asked.
Raye burst out laughing. This made me feel sad. Raye was acting as if we never were the scouts. If this was a joke, it totally was not even close to be funny.
"Sailor Scouts, cats training us, wow Serena, you're very imaginative." Raye hooted. Raye was not acting, she was serious. She only recalled being a normal girl and no Sailor Warrior. My heart sank. The people that had always been with me in my abnormal life, were now isolated from me. I alone had always wanted life to be what it had been before Luna and they had always loved being Sailor Scouts.
A.N. (This Is the first season and she whined about being just an ordinary girl.)
End
And this was only the beginning, the other girls had acted in a similar fashion and Mina about bugged out when I told her she had a talking cat. She had laughed so hard at me and told me there was no way she could have been Sailor V. She had never lived in London and that was where Sailor V had lived, or so the stories said. She thanked me for the wonderful thought, her Sailor V, she could only imagine.
Amy had looked at me and said she would never have been able to be a Sailor Senshi and be able to keep up with school. She barley was able to stay ten chapters ahead with her cram school classes.
Lita thought it was an awesome idea, but then said that too many more people would have been afraid of her and plus, she barley had enough time to go guy hunting let alone fighting something called the negaverse.
They had all laughed at me and told me I was insane, but it was a good story, especially the part about them all being princess's of other planets. Amy had then proceeded to tell me about how they could barely breathe here on Earth, let alone trying to make the other planets livable for that. It was impossible and improbable because no one had succeeded in creating anything that could reproduce a place like Earth.
I never found my broach and though I continued to look for Luna and Artemis, I never succeeded in finding them. I also found out a few days later when I went looking for Darien that he didn't live at his apartment anymore. I had asked around about him and no one seemed to be able to tell me anything. I never did ask Andrew for some reason. Truth be told, once I couldn't find Darien, I kept to myself and stayed away from the Arcade, so I never really saw Andrew too much and he was always headed to class when I did. He would stop for a moment, but never long enough for me to ask about Darien.
The girls and I met at the park or at the café above the arcade, but I never used the arcade entrance and always used the side entrance to the café. The girls were shocked, but also still made fun of me for thinking they were the Sailor Scouts.
I couldn't look at the Sailor V posters, without thinking of Mina, she had been that legendary solider once, but she, like the others, no longer remembered that part of her life. The girls thought I had made up Darien and told me I was just looking for the Tuxedoed man in my dream.
He wasn't real Raye would say, because she would defiantly remember a guy that she had thought was a hunk. Life became harder without Darien. I felt that he was alive, but yet I couldn't find him. I studied harder, surprising everyone, but it was the only thing that would ease my heartache.
I managed to graduate a year early and left for America and thus was in the predicament that I was in now. The girls were their same old selves. I guess to be honest if it hadn't been for Raye, I would never have remembered being Sailor Moon. I was happy that I remembered, because I would have forgotten about Darien otherwise, but then again I had always wished for a normal life. Now that I had one, I dreamed of being the Sailor suited soldier and fight evil. It really had been more fun than I had thought at the time. Plus Darien was in my life.
I think that was why Raye took it to heart, when I had talked so much about this "dream" that I had had. I had stopped talking about it after a few days, but still I had cried over Luna for a few weeks and Darien every night that my mind would wander to him.
He was alive and I was bound and determined to get him to remember me.
Well here in the nine pages you all waited for. I hope it was worth the wait and to let you know it will be a while before the next chapter is out, I have mid terms next week, three the following week and two the week after that. So it will defiantly be a month before I have another chapter posted, but I think I should have one up by thanksgiving. Thanks for reading and please review I would love to know what you think of the chapter.