Chapter 21
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Riding With the Horses
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The next morning they all gathered around the kitchen table. Sammy was sitting in Serena's lap and she was playing with his hair lazily.
Sammy looked around as almost everyone yawned tiredly. "What is with you guys? It's a nice Sunday morning. Why don't we do something?"
Duo looked up. "We're tired. We came in late last night." And he yawned again.
Sammy pouted. "But I'm bored." He whined. Serena looked down at her brother. "Maybe later we can do something. Right now why don't you color?"
Sammy sighed as she slid off of his sister's lap and disappeared through the kitchen door to color.
Soon as he left everyone collapsed against the table. "God am I tired." Said Serena. The others nodded their agreement.
About twenty minutes later Sammy came back in with a picture in his hand. He climbed up onto Serena's lap and showed it to her.
Serena looked down and smiled. "You are such a wonderful drawer Sammy, just like me. Let's see what we have here. Wow! Horses! Oh how I love horses. I always wanted to ride one." Serena sighed.
Quatre perked at hearing this. "You like horses Serena?" he asked.
She nodded. "Love them. I wanted to take lessons when I was twelve but mother wouldn't let me. I had to take care of Sammy while she was out." She clenched her teeth and scowled. The pilots all looked at her, waiting to see what she would do.
She inhaled sharply and calmed down.
Quatre sighed in relief. "Well if it means that much to you Sere, I have a horse ranch outside of town."
Serena squealed and jumped up to hug Quatre. "That would be great! Wait, what will I wear? Oh god!"
Quatre laughed. "Settle down Serena. Check your closet. There should be a pair of riding clothes in there."
With that Serena was gone. Sammy looked up from his place on the floor. He rubbed his sore bottom where he landed on it when Serena jumped up to hug Quatre.
Duo and Quatre laughed at him. Sammy pouted and crossed his arms over his chest. "I guess you guys are going to leave me here again while you guys go have fun."
Quatre smiled. "No Sammy you get to come as well. There might even be a riding outfit for you as well."
Sammy smiled and charged out of the kitchen and up to his room.
"They are so much like each other."
Duo nodded. "Well we might as well get ready. Serena will be down soon." And he left to go change.
At the mention of Serena the other moved into action and went to their respective rooms to change.
They came back down minutes later in their riding clothes.
Trowa in orange.
Duo in black.
Quatre in blue.
Wufei in red.
Heero in green. Sammy in dark brown.
And finally Serena in light tan color.
Serena admired herself and then the others. "Looking good guys."
Everyone, even Sammy blushed.
Serena grabbed Sammy's hand and they made their way to the garage that held all of Quatre's cars.
"I think we should take the silver Explorer." Said Quatre as he walked around to get into the driver's seat.
Everyone piled in and buckled up.
Quatre drove out of the city and into the countryside. The ride took a while and Sammy was getting restless. Serena settled him down as she sang softly to him. And old song that she would sing to him when he woke up from a bad nightmare.
The G-boys all became quiet and turned to look at her, speechless. Was there anything this girl couldn't do?
Sammy immediately settled down and curled against his sister. Serena smiled as she closed her eyes and rocked him.
Heero, who was sitting next to Serena, just stared. Where he heard her voice it did something to his insides. He didn't know if he wanted to explore what that something was.
Quatre glanced at them from the rearview mirror. Serena was just amazing. He shook his head and went back to focusing on driving.
After about a half an hour they made it to the ranch.
They all filed out of the car and walked up to the ranch. They were met by a ranch hand.
"Hey there Master Quatre." And he stuck out his hand.
"Hello Mac." And he shook Mac's hand. Mac changed a glance at Serena and Sammy. "Now who have we here?" he asked.
Serena stepped forward and smiled. "My name is Serena and this is my brother Sammy." She stuck out her hand and shook Mac's. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
Mac smiled widely. "The pleasure is all mine, I'm sure. So you all here to take a ride?" he asked.
Serena nodded. "Oh yes." Her eyes sparkling. "Then come right this way." He pointed to a trail leading to the stables.
Serena and Duo led the way as Mac fell back to talk to Quatre. "You sure have yourself a pretty one there Quatre." He commented. Quatre blushed and Mac laughed, then suddenly stopped.
"I wanted to talk to you for a reason Quatre." He said solemnly. Quatre looked up at him, a worried expression on his face. "What is it Mac?"
Mac turned towards the stables.
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Serena made it to the stables first and crashed into someone.
Their hands came up and held her steady. Serena looked up and jerked away and glared. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
Zechs laughed. "This ranch is opened to the public and we are the public."
"We?" asked Duo, who stepped up behind Serena and wrapped an arm around her. Trowa, Wufei, Heero, and Sammy surrounded Serena protectively.
"How cute." Said Zechs as he stepped aside to show Relena in a pink riding outfit.
They all winced at the puke pink color. Relena turned to them. "Heero!" she shouted as she ran towards him.
Serena quickly stepped in front of Heero and blocked Relena's way. Serena smiled sweetly. "I don't think so." Serena then grabbed Heero's arm and cuddles against him and moved them both away from the pink covered bitch.
Zechs' eyes narrowed as he followed them along with the rest of the pilots.
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"I'm sorry about this Master Quatre. I wanted to bar their entrance but they pointed out that we are open to the public and they did pay so I could do nothing."
"It is ok Mac. You could do nothing."
They finally caught up with the rest and walked around and into the stables.
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Serena was immediately drawn to a tan colored mare with a white / silver colored mane.
She stepped close to the mare and patted her nose. Serena smiled as she stared into the horse's gray eyes. The horse nuzzled her hand and Serena laughed, like bells.
The guys were all entranced by the sound. Heero shook himself out of it and stepped up to a black stallion. He seemed drawn to it.
The horse snorted at Heero and pranced. Heero barely smirked before going back to being stoic.
Trowa stepped over to a white stallion with a brown mane. The horse looked back as he stood there quietly.
Sammy jumped up and down as his eyes caught the eyes of an all white horse. The horse pranced around and whinnied amicably. Sammy giggled.
Wufei glanced at a reddish colored horse with black hair and black eyes. Wufei nodded and the horse seemed to nod back.
Duo ran around the stables looking for horse that seemed to fit him and he found a black and white mare paint over in the corner pulling at the tail of the horse that was Quatre's, a white horse with a blue tinged white mane.
Duo laughed. "He's just like me!" he exclaimed as he petted the horse.
Quatre smiled. "We can see that."
Zechs and Relena were over in a corner watching all of this. They weren't all too happy. Zechs' eyes were on Serena and Relena's were on Heero.
Relena walked over to a yellowish colored mare and pulled at its nose to get its attention. The mare whinnied and pulled away and Relena fell to the ground. Zechs just shook his head as he headed to a gray stallion and gently patted its nose. Relena may be his sister but most of the time she embarrassed him to no end.
Quatre clapped his hands to get everyone's attention. They all turned to him.
"Ok let me introduce you to your horses. Serena your mare is named Skydancer." Serena turned to her horse and nuzzled it. "Skydancer. A nice name."
"Heero, yours is named Lightning." Heero nodded. Appropriate.
"Trowa, yours is Diamond."
Quatre then looked down at Sammy. " Yours is named Sugar." Sammy laughed. "Sugar!" Sugar's eyes pricked up and looked at Sammy. Sammy petted his horse.
Quatre then turned to Wufei. "That horse there is named Flame."
"And Duo yours is named Trixie. Because she plays tricks like you." Duo was thrilled. "Oh yeah!"
"Mine is named Tiger."
Everybody turned to Relena, who just got up of the ground. She was dusting herself off as everyone was looking at her. "What?" she yelled.
"Nothing." Smirked Serena as she moved herself closer to Heero, an evil glint in her eye.
Relena seethed, as did Zechs.
"Relena your mare is named Cocoa. And Zechs your horse is Shadow."
"Now that that is out of the way lets ride." Said Quatre.
They all easily mounted their horses, except Relena who needed help from Mac.
Serena cantered out first with Sammy on one side and Heero on the other. The other pilots followed with Relena and Zechs taking the rear.
Serena laughed gaily, her hair trailing in the wind. She broke away from the other and raced on ahead.
Zechs smirked as he made his horse gallop after her. Relena pushed Cocoa up to Heero and smiled at him. Heero ignored her and raced on to catch up with Serena. He didn't want her alone with Zechs.
Soon Relena was in the rear again.
Zechs caught up with Serena and slowed down beside her. "So how are you this fine day?" he asked.
Serena ignored him and kept on riding. "You can't ignore me forever Serena."
"You wanna bet?" and she raced forward. Heero finally caught up to Zechs and glared at him.
"You stay away from her." And he went on to get to Serena. Zechs just smirked.
They broke into an open field and pranced around. The opening was surrounded by cherry blossom trees and the blooms were flowing around them.
Sammy and Serena pushed their horses forward towards a small river. They stopped so the others could catch up.
Serena's eyes narrowed. "I'm going to jump it." She stated calmly.
Quatre cantered up to her. "No Serena. You said you never rode a horse before."
Serena smiled. "I know that but I feel like I rode one before. Like it's a part of me. I know I can do it and so can Skydancer."
She suddenly got a flashback of sometime far in the past. Of her riding a beautiful all silver mare with the bluest eyes.
Serena shook herself out of it and all the guys were looking at her closely.
"Is there something wrong?" asked Wufei. Serena glanced at Zechs and Relena. "No I'm fine." She portrayed with her eyes that she would talk to them later.
She backed up so she could have a good running start. She patted Skydancer's head and whispered to her. "I know we can do this together."
Skydancer whinnied and pawed at the ground. "Let's go!" shouted Serena as she readied herself.
Everyone watched intently, even Relena, who wanted Serena to fall and hurt herself severely.
Both horse and girl charged at the river. Serena gripped the horse tightly as they neared the river. Serena closed her eyes and her spirits lifted as they soared over the river.
She let out a triumphant cry as the passed over the river and landed safely on the other side. The guys cheered but Relena was furious.
Serena laughed happily as she waved to them.
"That was great Serena." Yelled Duo.
"Impressive." Said Wufei. Trowa nodded in agreement.
Serena smiled as she made her way back over to them through the river.
They all rode back to the stables and dismounted. "Woo. That was so much fun!" yelled Serena.
"Yeah." Exclaimed Duo.
Serena patted and nuzzled Skydancer. "I'll see you later girl." And walked out of the stable with Sammy beside her.
"That was fun Serena. We can come back can't we?"
"Of course you can Sammy." Said Quatre.
Serena was the last one to get into the car and when she was about to step in Zechs grabbed her hand.
Serena glared up at him. "What is it now?" she growled at him, her blue eyes flashing and the wind blowing. Her crescent moon flickering on her forehead.
Zechs frowned. What was going on? This girl really could be dangerous. " I just wondered if you wanted to get together sometime."
Serena forcefully jerked her hand away as she advanced on him.
"No way in hell would I want to spend any of my time with you freely." She started to pull back her arm to punch him but before she could Heero pulled her roughly into the car and they drove off.
Zechs looked after them as Relena stalked up, glaring. "That girl has a serious problem." She muttered.
Zechs laughed at his clueless sister. Serena would be a better ruler than his sister would ever be. "Come along sister." And he walked off to the limo they arrived in. Relena got in and the limo drove off back to their mansion.
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Serena turned and glared at Heero as Quatre drove like a madman before finally slowing down as they got farther away from the ranch. "Why did you do that?"
" You were about to hit the Prince of the Sanq Kingdom. Not a very good idea. Besides he could have hurt you."
"Not bloody likely." Muttered Serena.
"You don't know Zechs like we do. He is very dangerous."
Serena just humphed and crossed her arms over her chest.
They made it home faster than when they were driving to the ranch, but by the time they got home it was dark. They got out of the silver Explorer and walked into the house.
"Well I'm bushed and we have school tomorrow so I need my beauty sleep." Said Duo. Serena laughed. "Ditto." And they both disappeared. Sammy raced after her.
"You know these visions or whatever, they seem to be occurring more often, like everyday now." Said Quatre.
"We need to figure out how to help her." Said Wufei.
"She can take care of herself." Said Trowa.
Heero remained quiet and went to his room. The other pilots just shrugged and went to their own rooms to get some sleep before school the next day.
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Later that night Serena was tossing and turning, sweating profusely. Suddenly she shot up, her eyes wide but not seeing anything. A huge burst of energy flowed out of her in a glow of silver as she screamed.
Her door crashed open as Trowa, Heero, then the rest of the guys came into her room.
Trowa grabbed her. "Serena?" he asked. She didn't answer until a couple of minutes later. "Crystal. crystal. Seven gems. seven. Find. Find." And she collapsed in Trowa's arms, the energy disappearing.
They all sighed. "What was that?" asked Sammy. Quatre shook his head. "We don't know. This has never happened before Sam?"
Sammy turned to look at them with fear in his eyes. "No, never. Is she going to die?"
Heero's eyes widened and his heart almost stopped. God he hope she's all right. He couldn't lose her. "She'll be fine Sammy." Said Heero.
Sammy nodded, but was wholly convinced.
Wufei walked to Sammy and grabbed his shoulders. "Serena is strong. She will get through this." Wufei gazed into Sammy's eyes.
Sammy nodded and smiled slightly. "Ok."
Everyone filed out of her room. Heero held back for a minute and gazed at Serena's still form. He sighed and left the room, closing the door behind him.
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Ok That's it. I hope you guys like. This chapter should be long enough. As always the ratings remain the same. Heero is in the lead and Wufei is coming in second. Vote for the guy you think Serena will end up with. It may or may not influence my decision. But I always like other's opinions. Please Review.
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Riding With the Horses
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The next morning they all gathered around the kitchen table. Sammy was sitting in Serena's lap and she was playing with his hair lazily.
Sammy looked around as almost everyone yawned tiredly. "What is with you guys? It's a nice Sunday morning. Why don't we do something?"
Duo looked up. "We're tired. We came in late last night." And he yawned again.
Sammy pouted. "But I'm bored." He whined. Serena looked down at her brother. "Maybe later we can do something. Right now why don't you color?"
Sammy sighed as she slid off of his sister's lap and disappeared through the kitchen door to color.
Soon as he left everyone collapsed against the table. "God am I tired." Said Serena. The others nodded their agreement.
About twenty minutes later Sammy came back in with a picture in his hand. He climbed up onto Serena's lap and showed it to her.
Serena looked down and smiled. "You are such a wonderful drawer Sammy, just like me. Let's see what we have here. Wow! Horses! Oh how I love horses. I always wanted to ride one." Serena sighed.
Quatre perked at hearing this. "You like horses Serena?" he asked.
She nodded. "Love them. I wanted to take lessons when I was twelve but mother wouldn't let me. I had to take care of Sammy while she was out." She clenched her teeth and scowled. The pilots all looked at her, waiting to see what she would do.
She inhaled sharply and calmed down.
Quatre sighed in relief. "Well if it means that much to you Sere, I have a horse ranch outside of town."
Serena squealed and jumped up to hug Quatre. "That would be great! Wait, what will I wear? Oh god!"
Quatre laughed. "Settle down Serena. Check your closet. There should be a pair of riding clothes in there."
With that Serena was gone. Sammy looked up from his place on the floor. He rubbed his sore bottom where he landed on it when Serena jumped up to hug Quatre.
Duo and Quatre laughed at him. Sammy pouted and crossed his arms over his chest. "I guess you guys are going to leave me here again while you guys go have fun."
Quatre smiled. "No Sammy you get to come as well. There might even be a riding outfit for you as well."
Sammy smiled and charged out of the kitchen and up to his room.
"They are so much like each other."
Duo nodded. "Well we might as well get ready. Serena will be down soon." And he left to go change.
At the mention of Serena the other moved into action and went to their respective rooms to change.
They came back down minutes later in their riding clothes.
Trowa in orange.
Duo in black.
Quatre in blue.
Wufei in red.
Heero in green. Sammy in dark brown.
And finally Serena in light tan color.
Serena admired herself and then the others. "Looking good guys."
Everyone, even Sammy blushed.
Serena grabbed Sammy's hand and they made their way to the garage that held all of Quatre's cars.
"I think we should take the silver Explorer." Said Quatre as he walked around to get into the driver's seat.
Everyone piled in and buckled up.
Quatre drove out of the city and into the countryside. The ride took a while and Sammy was getting restless. Serena settled him down as she sang softly to him. And old song that she would sing to him when he woke up from a bad nightmare.
The G-boys all became quiet and turned to look at her, speechless. Was there anything this girl couldn't do?
Sammy immediately settled down and curled against his sister. Serena smiled as she closed her eyes and rocked him.
Heero, who was sitting next to Serena, just stared. Where he heard her voice it did something to his insides. He didn't know if he wanted to explore what that something was.
Quatre glanced at them from the rearview mirror. Serena was just amazing. He shook his head and went back to focusing on driving.
After about a half an hour they made it to the ranch.
They all filed out of the car and walked up to the ranch. They were met by a ranch hand.
"Hey there Master Quatre." And he stuck out his hand.
"Hello Mac." And he shook Mac's hand. Mac changed a glance at Serena and Sammy. "Now who have we here?" he asked.
Serena stepped forward and smiled. "My name is Serena and this is my brother Sammy." She stuck out her hand and shook Mac's. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
Mac smiled widely. "The pleasure is all mine, I'm sure. So you all here to take a ride?" he asked.
Serena nodded. "Oh yes." Her eyes sparkling. "Then come right this way." He pointed to a trail leading to the stables.
Serena and Duo led the way as Mac fell back to talk to Quatre. "You sure have yourself a pretty one there Quatre." He commented. Quatre blushed and Mac laughed, then suddenly stopped.
"I wanted to talk to you for a reason Quatre." He said solemnly. Quatre looked up at him, a worried expression on his face. "What is it Mac?"
Mac turned towards the stables.
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Serena made it to the stables first and crashed into someone.
Their hands came up and held her steady. Serena looked up and jerked away and glared. "What are you doing here?" she asked.
Zechs laughed. "This ranch is opened to the public and we are the public."
"We?" asked Duo, who stepped up behind Serena and wrapped an arm around her. Trowa, Wufei, Heero, and Sammy surrounded Serena protectively.
"How cute." Said Zechs as he stepped aside to show Relena in a pink riding outfit.
They all winced at the puke pink color. Relena turned to them. "Heero!" she shouted as she ran towards him.
Serena quickly stepped in front of Heero and blocked Relena's way. Serena smiled sweetly. "I don't think so." Serena then grabbed Heero's arm and cuddles against him and moved them both away from the pink covered bitch.
Zechs' eyes narrowed as he followed them along with the rest of the pilots.
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"I'm sorry about this Master Quatre. I wanted to bar their entrance but they pointed out that we are open to the public and they did pay so I could do nothing."
"It is ok Mac. You could do nothing."
They finally caught up with the rest and walked around and into the stables.
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Serena was immediately drawn to a tan colored mare with a white / silver colored mane.
She stepped close to the mare and patted her nose. Serena smiled as she stared into the horse's gray eyes. The horse nuzzled her hand and Serena laughed, like bells.
The guys were all entranced by the sound. Heero shook himself out of it and stepped up to a black stallion. He seemed drawn to it.
The horse snorted at Heero and pranced. Heero barely smirked before going back to being stoic.
Trowa stepped over to a white stallion with a brown mane. The horse looked back as he stood there quietly.
Sammy jumped up and down as his eyes caught the eyes of an all white horse. The horse pranced around and whinnied amicably. Sammy giggled.
Wufei glanced at a reddish colored horse with black hair and black eyes. Wufei nodded and the horse seemed to nod back.
Duo ran around the stables looking for horse that seemed to fit him and he found a black and white mare paint over in the corner pulling at the tail of the horse that was Quatre's, a white horse with a blue tinged white mane.
Duo laughed. "He's just like me!" he exclaimed as he petted the horse.
Quatre smiled. "We can see that."
Zechs and Relena were over in a corner watching all of this. They weren't all too happy. Zechs' eyes were on Serena and Relena's were on Heero.
Relena walked over to a yellowish colored mare and pulled at its nose to get its attention. The mare whinnied and pulled away and Relena fell to the ground. Zechs just shook his head as he headed to a gray stallion and gently patted its nose. Relena may be his sister but most of the time she embarrassed him to no end.
Quatre clapped his hands to get everyone's attention. They all turned to him.
"Ok let me introduce you to your horses. Serena your mare is named Skydancer." Serena turned to her horse and nuzzled it. "Skydancer. A nice name."
"Heero, yours is named Lightning." Heero nodded. Appropriate.
"Trowa, yours is Diamond."
Quatre then looked down at Sammy. " Yours is named Sugar." Sammy laughed. "Sugar!" Sugar's eyes pricked up and looked at Sammy. Sammy petted his horse.
Quatre then turned to Wufei. "That horse there is named Flame."
"And Duo yours is named Trixie. Because she plays tricks like you." Duo was thrilled. "Oh yeah!"
"Mine is named Tiger."
Everybody turned to Relena, who just got up of the ground. She was dusting herself off as everyone was looking at her. "What?" she yelled.
"Nothing." Smirked Serena as she moved herself closer to Heero, an evil glint in her eye.
Relena seethed, as did Zechs.
"Relena your mare is named Cocoa. And Zechs your horse is Shadow."
"Now that that is out of the way lets ride." Said Quatre.
They all easily mounted their horses, except Relena who needed help from Mac.
Serena cantered out first with Sammy on one side and Heero on the other. The other pilots followed with Relena and Zechs taking the rear.
Serena laughed gaily, her hair trailing in the wind. She broke away from the other and raced on ahead.
Zechs smirked as he made his horse gallop after her. Relena pushed Cocoa up to Heero and smiled at him. Heero ignored her and raced on to catch up with Serena. He didn't want her alone with Zechs.
Soon Relena was in the rear again.
Zechs caught up with Serena and slowed down beside her. "So how are you this fine day?" he asked.
Serena ignored him and kept on riding. "You can't ignore me forever Serena."
"You wanna bet?" and she raced forward. Heero finally caught up to Zechs and glared at him.
"You stay away from her." And he went on to get to Serena. Zechs just smirked.
They broke into an open field and pranced around. The opening was surrounded by cherry blossom trees and the blooms were flowing around them.
Sammy and Serena pushed their horses forward towards a small river. They stopped so the others could catch up.
Serena's eyes narrowed. "I'm going to jump it." She stated calmly.
Quatre cantered up to her. "No Serena. You said you never rode a horse before."
Serena smiled. "I know that but I feel like I rode one before. Like it's a part of me. I know I can do it and so can Skydancer."
She suddenly got a flashback of sometime far in the past. Of her riding a beautiful all silver mare with the bluest eyes.
Serena shook herself out of it and all the guys were looking at her closely.
"Is there something wrong?" asked Wufei. Serena glanced at Zechs and Relena. "No I'm fine." She portrayed with her eyes that she would talk to them later.
She backed up so she could have a good running start. She patted Skydancer's head and whispered to her. "I know we can do this together."
Skydancer whinnied and pawed at the ground. "Let's go!" shouted Serena as she readied herself.
Everyone watched intently, even Relena, who wanted Serena to fall and hurt herself severely.
Both horse and girl charged at the river. Serena gripped the horse tightly as they neared the river. Serena closed her eyes and her spirits lifted as they soared over the river.
She let out a triumphant cry as the passed over the river and landed safely on the other side. The guys cheered but Relena was furious.
Serena laughed happily as she waved to them.
"That was great Serena." Yelled Duo.
"Impressive." Said Wufei. Trowa nodded in agreement.
Serena smiled as she made her way back over to them through the river.
They all rode back to the stables and dismounted. "Woo. That was so much fun!" yelled Serena.
"Yeah." Exclaimed Duo.
Serena patted and nuzzled Skydancer. "I'll see you later girl." And walked out of the stable with Sammy beside her.
"That was fun Serena. We can come back can't we?"
"Of course you can Sammy." Said Quatre.
Serena was the last one to get into the car and when she was about to step in Zechs grabbed her hand.
Serena glared up at him. "What is it now?" she growled at him, her blue eyes flashing and the wind blowing. Her crescent moon flickering on her forehead.
Zechs frowned. What was going on? This girl really could be dangerous. " I just wondered if you wanted to get together sometime."
Serena forcefully jerked her hand away as she advanced on him.
"No way in hell would I want to spend any of my time with you freely." She started to pull back her arm to punch him but before she could Heero pulled her roughly into the car and they drove off.
Zechs looked after them as Relena stalked up, glaring. "That girl has a serious problem." She muttered.
Zechs laughed at his clueless sister. Serena would be a better ruler than his sister would ever be. "Come along sister." And he walked off to the limo they arrived in. Relena got in and the limo drove off back to their mansion.
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Serena turned and glared at Heero as Quatre drove like a madman before finally slowing down as they got farther away from the ranch. "Why did you do that?"
" You were about to hit the Prince of the Sanq Kingdom. Not a very good idea. Besides he could have hurt you."
"Not bloody likely." Muttered Serena.
"You don't know Zechs like we do. He is very dangerous."
Serena just humphed and crossed her arms over her chest.
They made it home faster than when they were driving to the ranch, but by the time they got home it was dark. They got out of the silver Explorer and walked into the house.
"Well I'm bushed and we have school tomorrow so I need my beauty sleep." Said Duo. Serena laughed. "Ditto." And they both disappeared. Sammy raced after her.
"You know these visions or whatever, they seem to be occurring more often, like everyday now." Said Quatre.
"We need to figure out how to help her." Said Wufei.
"She can take care of herself." Said Trowa.
Heero remained quiet and went to his room. The other pilots just shrugged and went to their own rooms to get some sleep before school the next day.
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Later that night Serena was tossing and turning, sweating profusely. Suddenly she shot up, her eyes wide but not seeing anything. A huge burst of energy flowed out of her in a glow of silver as she screamed.
Her door crashed open as Trowa, Heero, then the rest of the guys came into her room.
Trowa grabbed her. "Serena?" he asked. She didn't answer until a couple of minutes later. "Crystal. crystal. Seven gems. seven. Find. Find." And she collapsed in Trowa's arms, the energy disappearing.
They all sighed. "What was that?" asked Sammy. Quatre shook his head. "We don't know. This has never happened before Sam?"
Sammy turned to look at them with fear in his eyes. "No, never. Is she going to die?"
Heero's eyes widened and his heart almost stopped. God he hope she's all right. He couldn't lose her. "She'll be fine Sammy." Said Heero.
Sammy nodded, but was wholly convinced.
Wufei walked to Sammy and grabbed his shoulders. "Serena is strong. She will get through this." Wufei gazed into Sammy's eyes.
Sammy nodded and smiled slightly. "Ok."
Everyone filed out of her room. Heero held back for a minute and gazed at Serena's still form. He sighed and left the room, closing the door behind him.
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Ok That's it. I hope you guys like. This chapter should be long enough. As always the ratings remain the same. Heero is in the lead and Wufei is coming in second. Vote for the guy you think Serena will end up with. It may or may not influence my decision. But I always like other's opinions. Please Review.