Sorry guys, just seen id put the beginning in the place of the chapter 9, this is the real chapter 9, hope you like it, will be putting chapter 10 up soon as you have been so great thanks, let us know what you think, love bobs xxxx

Chapter 9

Darien looked down at this boy before him and thought about those eyes, they were dark grey and very familiar. "No, you're not… I mean… you can't be…" Darien said and watched as the little boy transformed into a tall man, with long silver hair and gorgeous dark grey eyes.

"Hi buddy, miss me?" He said and Darien stood opened mouthed at this man who he thought long dead.

Serena carried on walking the way she had started, still she had no clue as to her direction or position, but at the moment she didn't much care. It took her a while to register that all the muscles in her body were getting very sore. All her thoughts were towards Darien, originally she started out to make him jealous, but the thing is she didn't like how he reacted. It was completely stupid, she did act like a little girl, and she should have grown up by now! If Darien didn't want her then big deal, she didn't need him, she didn't have to only be with him, fate could be changed.

She walked towards a particularly large bunch of trees, wondering why they were thicker over here than anywhere else. Having so much experience of strange things she realised instantly that it was a Youma. A huge Tree Spirit, come along to suck the life out of unsuspecting souls. Without thinking Serena said those words, which changed her form into something way more powerful.

Standing before the Youma she saw that it seemed to be smiling, a little sheepishly at that. It was planning something, or had planned something and it seemed like it had worked.

"Eewww, why do I have to get the ugly ones?" Serena said to herself, standing in a fighting position, ready for battle.

"Ah, Sailor Moon, took you long enough." It said, shaking a little so some of its leaves came off, turning into huge spikes and the Youma instantly looked down at them and then at her, "But time wont save you now." It said before it let thousands of little knives shoot straight towards the blonde heroin.

Serena managed to dodge the biggest amount of knives. But about 1/8 of them cut through her leg, she let out a disgruntled scream as she crashed onto the floor. Pain shot up her leg as it too collided with the grassy surface. Sailor Moon was not a wimp anymore; she had been through a lot to worry about pain and fear.

Quickly she got up onto one knee to see where the Youma was and noticed that it was getting ready to shower her once again with spikes. So she waited till the last moment before she dodged out of the way, this time not taking on any hits.

Moving to the side she grabbed hold of her tiara and spun it towards the Youma, hitting it in the leg, might not have been a deeply wounding shot, but it was something to start with and it definitely slowed the Youma down.

"Ha, score!" Serena shouted to herself, forgetting a little bit about being mature and reverting back to the fun she had killing and destroying nega scum like these. It had been a while since she had managed to beat a Youma on her own and prove herself to the other scouts, to show them that she could do something worth while and wasn't always a wuss and a clutz.

"Hey you, sailor prissy, catch these!" Came the voice of the Youma and Serena looked towards her enemy, noticing it had a load of what looked like enlarged apples hanging in mid- air. As though they were on an invisible wire.

Serena's face dropped as she noticed the amount of apples that were positioned for attack, about 20 of them hung in the air. It was going to be hard, maybe impossible to come away without getting hit by at the least one of the apples. And by looking at these apples they could do more than give you a bit of a headache.

Before Serena could think up the tiniest plan the apples were already hurling towards her at an astonishing speed. Without the other scouts here she couldn't blast some of the apples away to give her room, so she would have to try and dodge most of them and maybe use her tiara. So quickly pulling off her tiara, she hurled it at a big bunch of the apples, dodged about 3 that were coming her way. But just as she was about to jump out of the way of another bunch of apples, one stray one managed to bypass her sight and hit her straight on.

Serena flew towards a massive tree that seemed to have appeared out of no where, crashing into the tree Serena felt a massive searing pain in her side and noticed that she had been skewered on a branch. The pain was blinding, she had never felt so much physical pain, even though she could match it emotionally.

The Youma in front of Serena laughed at the poor sight in front of her. "Now what are you gonna do Sailor Moon?"

"What are you doing here?" Darien shouted, moving away from the figure and stumbling slightly on a branch. The man kept walking towards Darien, he knew it must have been a dream, it couldn't be real, he had seen him die over 3 years ago.

"Have you missed me Endymion?" He asked, standing still, and crossing his arms. The smile all too familiar.

"What am I supposed to say Diamond? You came and destroyed just about everything that Serena and I had going for each other, you fell in love with her and nearly killed us. And now you want me to say I missed you?" Darien spoke through gritted teeth, the anger giving him strength and pushing aside his fear and worry.

"Don't exaggerate Darien…" Diamond said shakily, uncrossing his arms and looking pleadingly at Darien. "I was dead, and I am really sorry about everything that happened, but I need your help and I think you will need mine."

Darien stopped pacing and turned to look at Diamond, looking in his massive eyes, Darien could tell something was bothering Diamond, he was seriously afraid and that meant something really bad was coming.

"What are you talking about Diamond? Nothings wrong, there is no evil here at the moment, we haven't had more than a few random Youma's for weeks now." He said and found that they were both walking somewhere, but where was not certain.

"Something has come Darien, it may have only just arrived, but it certainly is here. I know this because I followed it. I know its target and you aren't going to like it." Diamond said and stopped when Darien's face contorted into one of deep pain.

"Serena…" He breathed.