Chapter Eleven

Serena walked to her room, thinking about Heero. "What does he see in me?" was all she could ask herself. Then there was the fact that she failed to save Quatre and Mina. She finally reached her room. Turning the knob was hard; she couldn't go to bed with out saving her friends. When she entered her room she threw herself on her bed and started to cry. "I vow to save Quatre and Mina or die trying."

Serena rolled over and looked out her window. There was a crescent moon, not only that, but there was a big storm coming. Clouds were forming around the beautiful moon and it all of a sudden looked spooky. She stared at this sight for what seemed an eternity. The moon always soothed her no matter what mood she was in. It was peaceful, Serena was finally relaxed and just about to fall asleep when all of a sudden there was a knock at the door. This startled the half a sleep Serena and she rolled off her bed and screamed, "Ouuuuch!"

The door then burst open and a figure ran toward Serena. It helped her onto her bed and stroked her hair. Serena looked up and mumbled, "Oh no! Not you again…."

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"We really need to find help!" Elizabeth said (keep in mind Elizabeth doesn't know Quatre and Mina are missing yet)

"Well, who are we gonna ask. I mean who is gonna be willing to get up this late at night and help Lauren?" Isabelle inquired.

"We better find someone quick! I can't stand carrying her!" Ruby said with frustration.

They roamed the hallways and finally a light bulb appeared above Isabelle's head. "I know what we can do!" Isabelle continued, " We can ask Duo for help. I mean he's Duo he won't care! Plus he'll do anything for Lauren."

"Well there might be a problem with that plan." Elizabeth interrupted.

"What?" Ruby asked.

"Well, him and Lita might be…uhh…" Elizabeth trailed off.

"It's worth a try! Now come on we're going." Isabelle commanded

Ruby whined because Duo's room was two floors up and she was still stuck carrying Lauren.

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Reni was in her room with a pounding headache. She couldn't believe what came over her. 'Lauren better pull through. I mean I couldn't have caused that much damage.'

Reni got up and walked over to the window. She then opened it and stared up at the moon. She saw the same spooky crescent moon with clouds forming around it. 'Boy, how I miss you mommy.' She then pulled out the time key and said, "Time teleport!" Reni opened her eyes to Sailor Pluto.

"Pluto!" Reni said with enthusiasm and ran to hug her.

"Hi, Reni. How do you like the past?" Pluto asked.

"Its okay, but I really miss my mom. Can I visit for a while?"

"No problem!" Pluto then sent the princess back to her kingdom. Reni realized she was in her garden. Pink carnations surrounded her and she spun in circles till she fell in the bed of flowers. "Ah! Its good to be home." Reni sighed. She looked up and there was Queen Serenity. "Well if it isn't my beautiful daughter. Home sick, are we?" Her mother asked. Reni nodded and her mother offered her hand to Reni. She reached for it and her mother pulled her up. Serenity led Reni out of the garden and into the sunroom. The sun shown so brightly it seemed as if they were on a stage for the entire world to see. They took their seats at a small table used for serving tea.

"Mom, I'm scared." Reni admitted.

"Why is this? Do you need more training?" Serenity questioned.

"No, it's nothing to do with training. It's more along the lines as how I'm fighting. Lauren and I were training a few hours ago and I kind of went overboard and I knew I was doing wrong! But I it felt so great to use all that energy, power and dare I say injure poor Lauren."

Serenity chuckled and responded, "That part of you is courtesy of Heero."

"I knew It."

"Would you like any tea, hun?" Serenity asked as stirring three tablespoons of sugar in her tea. Reni nodded with a smile and Serenity continued. "Its not a bad thing to be like your father, just be grateful you know yours."

A feeling of guilt went through Reni. Her Mom was right; truth was no one really knew who the Queen's true father was. It's hard to believe that crybaby, pie eating, snoring Serena grew into this noble of a leader. She then realized her mom was asking her how much sugar she wanted in her tea. Reni shook her head and asked, "Does Dad know that he isn't my real dad yet?"

Serenity gasped and said, "Of coarse not!" She threw down the teaspoon. "You're the reason he's alive. He loves you with all his heart. Not only that, but if he found out the whole kingdom would be doomed. You know what kind of scandal it would be? The Queen cheating on the King! Our kingdom would lose all respect through out the entire universe."

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Elizabeth and Isabelle reached Duo's room. Ruby was still trailing behind struggling with Lauren's limp body.

"Ruby hurry up we don't have all day!" Elizabeth exclaimed.

Ruby sped up the pace cursing under her breath. She finally reached Duo's room and dropped Lauren's body flat on the ground. "I'm done with that!" Ruby said while gasping for air.

"I'll take her then." Elizabeth said. Isabelle knocked on Duo's door politely. There was no answer. Ruby then got frustrated and pounded on the door. They heard something fall. Suddenly the door opened and Duo walked out; he was wearing nothing but a pair of black sweatpants. He looked down at the girls with sleepy eyes and scratching his head. What the hell do you girls want this late at night?" He yawned.

"Well, you could start with putting some clothes on!" Isabelle commanded. Duo blushed and turned around to look for a shirt. He crouched down and looked under his bed and pulled out a black t-shirt. He returned to the door and asked, " Is that better?"

Isabelle smiled and started speaking, "Lauren and Reni were training. Things were going pretty good, up until Reni." She paused and took a big gulp. "Lauren is unconscious and we don't know what's wrong with her and we figured-"

"You figured I could help?" Duo cut in.

"Yeah! Please?" Elizabeth begged while still struggling to hold Lauren's limp body over her shoulders.

"I'll take Lauren to her room. Elizabeth and Ruby, go get medical supplies."

Duo took his daughter off of Elizabeth's shoulders. 'Geez, was it going to be hard telling her about her parents.' He then stared down at his daughter and smiled. 'She's always getting hurt or in some kind of trouble' he thought.

Duo and Isabelle walked to Lauren's room in complete silence. We all know Duo can't stand silence so he decided to ask Isabelle " So what exactly happened?"

"Reni went out of control and totally surprised Lauren with "cosmic moon power". Lauren was so shocked and Reni just walked away. It was strange Ruby and Elizabeth said she was acting like Heero." Isabelle answered.

"Heh, seems like Heero is rubbing off on Reni. Lets just hope she doesn't start pulling out a gun and threatening people."

Isabelle giggled and opened the door to Lauren's room. Duo slowly laid Lauren on to her bed. Isabelle grabbed a blanket from the closet and put it over her. Isabelle and Duo sat on the Lauren's bed waiting for some sign of consciousness. Duo was looking around his daughter's room; he saw a closet, a window, a bed, clothes lying all over the floor; he then turned his attention to her bedside table, there was a book. Why would his daughter be reading?

"Why is Lauren reading Alice in Wonderland?" Duo asked Isabelle as picking up the old tattered book.

Isabelle giggled and told Duo about how much Lauren loved Alice in Wonderland. It was the one book she kept borrowing over and over from her. Isabelle even offered it to Lauren, but Lauren could never take it. This made Duo smile down at the book. Lauren deserved a present; Duo then decided he was going to buy her a brand new copy of this book.

"Do you think she'll pull through?" Isabelle asked.

"Oh course she will, she is my daughter" Duo said with a smile.

Suddenly Elizabeth and Ruby emerged through the door with a first aid kit. They rushed over toward the bed and handed the kit to Duo.

"Do you know if she has got any cuts? " Duo asked.

"Yeah, a few on her face and arms." Elizabeth pointed out.

Duo then started putting Band-Aids on all Lauren's wounds. Duo, Elizabeth, Isabelle and Ruby stayed in Lauren's room by her side till she awoke. Which was a while because Reni came in the room around 5 A.M. to apologize to Lauren. She looked down at the floor and saw Duo, Elizabeth, Isabelle and Ruby sleeping. Elizabeth awoke to see Reni and screamed, "Ahhh don't hurt me!" and cowered under her covers.

"I'm not here to hurt you! I want to apologize to Lauren." Reni whispered, "but I guess since she isn't awake yet I'll wait with you guys."

So Reni waited and finally dozed off along with everyone else. About nine o' clock Lauren awoke to Duo, Elizabeth, Isabelle, Reni, and Ruby sleeping on her floor. 'Wow, they cared enough to wait till I woke up? Aww I'm touched!' Lauren thought as she quietly got out of bed then jumped onto Ruby and screamed, "Wake up!" everyone awoke to see Ruby and Lauren fighting.

"Well looks like Lauren is back to her good old self!" Elizabeth said with a smile.

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Heero was staring down at Serena with nothing but love in his eyes. Serena clearly wasn't happy to see Heero. "Can't you just leave me alone?" she told the perfect solider as pushing him away.

Heero grabbed Serena and pulled into a tight embrace. "I just want to hear what you have go to say." Serena struggled to get out of Heero's grip, but failed. "If you want to save them I will help you. I want to help you, Serena." He whispered this in her ear and stroked her hair. His deep soothing voice somehow comforted her and aroused her all at the same time.

She pushed away the sensual thoughts and looked up at her perfect solider. "You have always been there for me," she said with teary eyes. "like when Darien cheated on me."

Heero smiled and hugged his Rabbit of the Moon. "I want to hear how you feel."

Serena was happy to hear Heero say this. Darien would have never tried to comfort her if she kept pushing him away. She walked out of Heero's arms and sat on her bed. Heero followed her and put his arm around her. "I just feel that is was all my fault!" she told her brave knight. Heero was a great listener and he always knew what to say. " My heart is telling me to go and save them…"

"The only way to live a good life is to act on your emotions." Heero told Serena. She looked at him in the eyes for a long time.

"That is good advice." Serena announced. "All people should act on their emotions!"

Heero laughed at his princess. "I told Trowa that and he almost self-detonated." Serena gasped and begged to know why, but Heero complained on how it was such a long story.

They fell asleep in each other's arms. Serena awoke around dawn and she rolled over to see Heero sleeping. She kissed his forehead and whispered, "You told me to act on my emotions, so I'm going to." She managed to get out of the house without anyone noticing. She knew she had to be the one to save Quatre and Mina and prove that she wasn't just a whiney teenager capable of nothing.

"Soul Moon Magic!" Serena screamed and in seconds she was Sailor Moon, champion of the Moon! One thing wrong with her plan…she didn't know how to find them.

"Hmm," Sailor Moon pondered and pondered and still pondered. "Maybe I'll go to where we fought." Sailor Moon thought. So she rushed over to the spot near the hot dog stand. It was completely deserted. She sat down on a bench and buried her face in her hands. "Quatre, Mina? Where are you?" Sailor Moon said through clenched teeth.

'Sailor Moon?' she heard Mina say telepathically

'Mina?' Serena responded

'Yeah!'

'Thank Serenity!'

'I can't talk long but I need to tell you where we are so you can tell the others.'

'Uh, yeah the others…'

'Sailor Moon, you wont be able to do this without them. Everyone needs team mates.'

'So, you're calling me weak?'

'No! But listen to me! Quatre and I are at the-'

'Mina? Mina? Come in Mina? Hello? Please respond!'

'Sorry guards came by to check on us. We're on another planet, from what I've heard it's in another dimension. You're going to have to Sailor Teleport, I'll send out a signal so you can follow it through the dimensions. Please hur-'

'Mina?'

Serena buried her head in her hands again and debated over the pros and cons of telling the scouts. Finally she came to the conclusion she would do it alone.

Authors Note: Thanks for reading
What did you think? I also had fun writing this chappy.
I have one question. Can you guys describe how you see the mini scouts?
I want to hear everyones opinions I want appearance and personailty