Once again, I do NOT own Sailor Moon. Never have, never will.
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The next morning, Serena awoke feeling like a ton of bricks
The next morning, Serena awoke feeling like a ton of bricks. It was then that she noticed that she wasn't in the park, her house, or any of her friends' houses for that matter, but in a strange, yet elegant bedroom. Serena, instantly on guard, tried to get out of the bed but was instantly shot back to the center of the bed.
"Owe! What was that?" Serena exclaimed.
"That was a force field, my dear," said a voice from the shadows. "It's for your protection."
"Is it really for my protection or is it just to keep me in?" Serena retorted. "Who are you anyway?"
"Feisty aren't we, my princess?" replied the man as he stepped out of the shadows to introduce himself. "I am Prince Diamond of the Dark Moon Family."
"You mean The Dark Moon Family that is trying to conquer the Earth?" Serena questioned him.
"The one and the same," Diamond answered.
"What do you want with me if you are trying to take over the Earth?"
"Why? Why to make you my queen so that we may rule over the new world."
"I would never be your queen." Serena stated.
"Oh?" questioned Diamond undeterred, "and why is that?"
"Because… I'm already to be a queen to someone else," Serena said hardly believing her own words.
"If that is so," Diamond began, playing on her uncertainty, "then why did this 'someone' break up with you and leave you crying on a bench?"
At those words, Serena suddenly lost all of the fight in her and slumped on the bed. She couldn't reply to that because she honestly didn't know what to say about her relationship right now. While she sat in the turmoil of her thoughts, dark energy was seeping into her body, twisting her thoughts, taking control of her heart.
"If this someone special really cares about you, he wouldn't break up with you," Diamond's voice caressed hypnotically. "He doesn't deserve someone like you."
"Yes," Serena began to agree. "If he really cared about me he wouldn't have left me alone. He would have stayed with me." With every word that Serena uttered, and the more dark energy that seeped into her body, the more she forgot about her friends and family.
"If he doesn't need me than why should I stay with him?" Serena began to levitate above the bed and her eyes became glassy. "I should be with someone who really cares about me." With that, Serena was wrapped in a purple light. When she finally came to a stop, her crystal had turned dull gray and she had changed from her bunny pajamas to a sleeveless, magenta dress that was reminiscent of her Crystal Tokyo queen dress.
Prince Diamond smiled at the change. "How do you feel my dearest Serenity?" He held out his hand to her
Serena looked at him with a smile that was a shadow of the original, took his offered hand, and stepped off the bed, "I feel wonderful, darling."
"Are you ready to punish the ones who have left you alone?"
"Yes," Serena replied coldly, "I am ready."