Chapter 5
All that could be heard in the small space of a room was the beeping of a simple heart monitor, laid in the bed was the golden haired moon princess. Her breathing was steady but she hadn't woken up, 2 hours ago she had passed out in the middle of a mall due to sharp pains in her head and freezing up in front of this girl that came out of nowhere speaking harsh names to her.
Rei was sat beside her bed as well as the girls mother Irene, who was holding her daughters hand, neither of them had not left her side, Irene had asked Rei to call the family and Rubious, she didn't want to call him due to their past experience but she did it for the older woman, this was currently 20 minutes ago and Rubious said he'd be straight there and the sound of a phone breaking before being cut off.
Rei looked to the older woman, she didn't know how to ask the question about what had happened between Serena and that girl as she was about to ask the question, the door slammed open and there in the flesh was Rubious, breathing hard as he looked to the bed inside the room, she felt for the man, because his eye's showed fear and was scared. "Wh….what happened!"
When he didn't get an answer immediately, he stalked over to the bed hitting the bottom bar, "Aunt Irene what happened! Why did Serena have a breakdown?" Rei suddenly stood up, "Hold it buster! Don't shout at her, some random girl called Melissa jones came up to us at the mall calling Serena bracey, shark teeth and bulldozer!"
As soon as them words left the girls mouth, she saw flashes of rage enter his eye's, "WHAT! After all these years that bitch never learnt to stay away from Serena!"
"Rubious Black! How many times do I have to tell you about language, plus we are in a hospital! I was just as shocked to hear the words coming out from that young girls mouth plus her family had been put on a strict watch after the last time she came near my daughter!" the red haired man just fell to his knees holding the bed, gritting his teeth. "What's she even doing in Tokyo anyway! Her brothers the reason why she forgot all about me and my mother!"
Rei couldn't keep quiet anymore, she got the vibes from Rubious and they was good ones, mixed in with sadness, "What are you two talking about who was that girl and why was she trying to make Sere break down? Because something happened and it worked to place Serena in the hospital." Irene sighed, "When Serena was 10, there as some complications between me and her father, so my sister Beryl offered to take Serena in for a while, there was this group of girls that was apparently bullying her…. Rubious stepped up and told them to back off but…. That girl you saw today, she got her brother to jump her one day and almost Killed Serena"
Rei's heart dropped, Serena was bullied and almost killed, "W…why?" Rubious sighed, "Because Serena was smarter, and able to make friends, she was loved by kids and teachers, so the group casted her out as a nerd and teachers pet, they hated her for it since she was a transfer student." Rei nodded understanding, she knew how it felt to be shunned away and bullied, all the girls did in the scouts, they were different but she never knew Serena had been smart. "Now I see why she use to flunk in school….even if she lost her memories of that…she must have held some type of fear for being smart and afraid that if she let out that side again that she'd be targeted again…. Oh Sere you didn't have to feel like that… were friends now because of you!"
Hearing all this made her chest tighten and feel even guiltier she sunk into her chair, placing her head in her hand, tears had threatened to fall, until she heard a voice, "She was always an angel whether she was trying to flunk school on purpose or not because she loves everyone and everything. Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt your conversation but I got word of Sapphire that my niece is laying in hospital" Rei's head shot up looking to the door, there stood a woman she knew all too well, them piercing blue eye's, that red hair, the voice even sounded the same. There stood who Rei knew to be none other than Queen Beryl!
"Oh Beryl! I'm so glad to see you! I thought you wasn't coming till next week?" spoke Irene as she gave the woman a hug, Beryl did the same, "I know sweetie, but once Sapphire informed me that Bunny was in the hospital I had to come as soon as possible, Rubious why don't you take Aunt Irene for a drink" "But mother!" "No buts, your too angry right now and Irene needs a drink" the man sighed and placed an arm around his aunts shoulder, "Come Auntie, mother is right we will bring Rei back a drink, coffee ok with you?" Rei nodded as she watched the two leave the room. Beryl closed the door and walked closer to Serena's bed, but Rei stood in the way.
"don't even dare take another step, Aunt or not…" the older woman looked slightly shocked, "You must be Rei, I've heard a lot about you from my phone calls with Bunny I'm not too sure why you wont let me see my Niece but…" Rei laughed, "if Rubious and the black moon family know their abilities I'm pretty sure you're the same…. Queen Beryl" Beryl blinked and couldn't help but laugh, "So I got figured out but I am telling the truth about this Mars, if you don't believe me then ask Serena and me to take a blood test, She IS! My Niece, the Beryl of the past you faced was my conscious that was trapped in that horrible nightmare, I would never try to harm her… I love my family too much especially when I couldn't stop her from going into a coma for 2 months when she was 10, it was under my care that all that shit happened in the first place… I do have my magic abilities but I'm not going to harm the princess…."
Rei eye's hardened until she heard the voice she'd been wanting to hear for the past few hours, "Rei… keep it down…too noisy!"
That made Rei drop her guard she spun round to Serena sitting up in bed, one hand rubbing her temple, "W…why am in a hospital bed…." "Hey bunny… how are you feeling?" Serena's head snapped up and her eye's held slight fear but then teared up, "Auntie B, oh my god… you look just like…." Beryl held her hands up, "Wasn't truly me, just like your friend Mars here figured out, sweetie I was so worried about you when I got that phone call" Serena swung her legs out of the bed, but both women rushed up to her trying to get her to lay back down, "I … don't know why but seeing that girl today… I had surges of pain in my head and suddenly I couldn't take it anymore…. Them names…. I remember a group of people calling me that when I was a kid… it hurt Auntie B…." she held a hand to her chest, "It felt…. Like my heart was beginning to be ripped…" Beryl knelt down in front of the moon princess holding her hand.
"That's because you lost your memories when you was 10 sweetie, remember when you was in Osaka and woke up in the hospital and the doctors told you that you lost some memories?" Serena nodded, "you was hurt really badly by a group of people, I'm so sorry my little princess but I can't take this pain away…" Serena shook her head and sighed, "I'd like my full memories back so I can handle it. I'm so sorry Rei I caused trouble again and ruined our shopping trip… first Darien now this problem…"
Beryl's head snapped up being confused, "Darien? He's the earths prince right? What happened?" Serena began telling her Aunt the full story, "WHAT! That little bastard!"
Serena blinked then began laughing at her aunts outburst, "Oh now I remember why I loved you so much, your vocabulary was very spread out! Screaming at the teachers for treating either me or Ruby wrong! So how long are you staying in Tokyo?" the woman stood up grinning, "you mean as visiting? Why would I leave my stunningly beautiful niece again? I just need to speak to the real estate agent and I'll have our old house back just down the street from your mothers again! But what the hell is this on your arm? And this metal in your face? Did Rubious talk you into this?"
Serena shook her head laughing, "Nah I wanted it, don't dis the art work auntie! I got my love of wolfs from you!"
Rei couldn't help but smile, this Beryl was different to the one that had levelled the moon kingdom, the door opened meaning Irene and Rubious returned, Irene rushed straight over hugging her daughter close while Ruby was smirking, "Finally sleeping beauty has risen!"
"Oi you dip s- ow! Mother! I was going to say sugar! Dip sugar! I'm still forcing you to re-do my home!" Rubious groaned as they sat down waiting for the doctor to come round so Serena could be released.
The rest of the day had gone by the girls spending time together while Rubious was with them, Sapphire and Emerald had gone round to the Tsukino house for the usual dinner, even Rei had stayed! When Serena had offered to take her home, Rubious had jumped up saying he'd give Rei a ride home Beryl would be staying with Serena's family. Rei had even said she's going to speak to her grandfather so she could try to get into the ladder type school that Serena had been going too, the red haired male said he'd help try and convince him.
The next Evening though 3 girls was confused as to why they was heading to the down town district, they knew it was a dangerous area, "Rei why are we down here? Where was you yesterday by the way?" spoke Lita, she had her eye's darting about like a hawk, she had grown up in the downtown area so she knew the trouble that would come around any corner, "Were meeting up with someone, and unfortunately we have to go to their work place so we can do."
Mina raised her eye brow as she held her arms around her stomach, "But Rei I don't like this part of town…. Making me feel…." "Don't even finish that sentence Mina or I wont let you enter the shop!" Rei looked down at the map she was holding, it said that the tattoo parlor was around here somewhere they had already gone past the multi-story car park.
She had to remember to make sure Rubious never drew out a map ever again. "Ugh for god sake where the hell is gems studio!" Lita blinked, "Gems studio? That's where we are going? Gosh Rei you should have just said you knew I use to live down here before I moved uptown." Rei just slapped her forehead and turned to the taller brunette girl of Jupiter. "Alright where is it?"
Lita blinked her emerald eye's and laughed slightly, "It's just down this way, come" she turned down a left Alley Right at the bottom of it was a tattoo shop with the name Gem's studio above 3 different jewels, Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire, and in the centre was a Diamond. Rei rolled her eye's wondering how she could have missed it then remembered who drew the map in the first place. "I'm going to kill him!"
She placed her hand on the handle when Lita suddenly grabbed her wrist, "why are we here?" Rei was about to answer when the door opened, stood there was Serena wearing a pair of black framed glasses hair up in a tidy pony tail, wearing a pair of blue faded jeans and grey check button up short sleeved shirt, hanging from her mouth was a cigarette. The scouts minus Rei widened, "SERENA!"
The girl blinked a few minutes until she was hugged from left right and centre, "Whoa! Calm down there girls! Wow Rei I didn't think you would get them to come?"
Rei laughed, "Well as soon as I said I was going down town they all jumped at the offer to come try and stop me, but I told them I was going to see a friend." She winked when Serena got free and stood leaning against the glass lighting up the white stick in her mouth.
"SERENA! WHAT THE HELL! Get that dirty thing out of your mouth!" Lita shouted, the girl groaned rubbing her temples, "Lita quite down! Rei already knows about this, in any case I can't smoke for too long I have a client," she winked to them, "Serena….i'm so sorry! I didn't want you to leave I didn't want to be angry with you that day!" Mina cried, but the blonde just shrugged it off, "It's in the past girls, I was never upset with you lot. Rei knows this You girls came at a good time, while I'm busy Emerald's going to be bored since she's finished with her clients today."
That's when Ami spoke up slightly, she had been quite until now, "You work here Serena? but don't you have to be in your 20's?" Serena shook her head, "I got put threw the apperentiship course due to my cousin, and been working here for 3 months. I'm surprised that Darien didn't tell you when he came to the temple Saturday to blab about me"
Mina scratched her cheek, "Yeah we was too busy trying to tell him to get lost without being too rude, so does this mean like you can give us tattoo's too?" Serena took a drag of her smoke and shook her head, "I have to follow the law girls, 18+ only unless you have a parents consent, and that parent has to be present to prove ID for 16+'s. in fact im getting one done after my client, Emeralds work is amazing"
"Yours is more amazing blondie that's the reason why us lot aint getting clients but you are fully booked for the next month!" they looked to see Emerald standing there with a coffee for Serena, who gladly took it "Thanks darling just what I needed, in any case is the client scared enough yet," they could see a slight evil glint in the moon princess eye's. "Sure is! I told him how big the needle is and how much he's going to scream in pain, I swear he's the biggest girl I know!" Serena laughed as she died her smoke out and motioned for the girls to follow.
Once inside sat on the ink chair was none other than Andrew! He seemed slightly pale, "SERENA! please tell me that what Emerald said wasn't true!" the scouts mouths dropped, seeing Andrew sat there no top on showing a slender six pack on his stomach, Serena just put a baseball cap on backwards walking up towards him grabbing some black latex gloves, "OH come on bro, stop crying I've had my bones broken and swords piercing my chest, and your scared of a needle!"
"Oh god don't remind me of what's happened when you're fighting!" Serena placed the transfer on Andrews left chest area, when pealing it back it was eagle. "Take a look in the mirror bro and if it's not to your liking I can re-try." He did so and nodded the other girls sat down apart from Rei who walked over, "Do you mind if I watch?" Serena shook her head, "So long as you don't get in my light it's fine." She took out a bottle from a locked cabinet with some blue roll around the nozzle and shook it well.
She then took off the cap and placed it into a small plactic tub, before placing it back into the cabinet, "Right lets get this baby done, she picked up the first gun on the table that held a small thin needle, she placed a foot on the peddle to get the correct speed. Once that was done, she dipped it into the black ink and leaned forward, "Ready?"
The blonde man nodded who unconsciously took Rei's hand as Serena placed the needle to his skin beginning the tattoo.
The other three girls watched Serena working from the counter, as Emerald placed a tray on the table, "I'm sure you girls would like some Tea?" Lita looked to the woman and smiled "Thank you, I'm really amazed on what you've done with this place, I remember the old owners of Gem studio big biker guys what happened to them?"
"They wanted to move to America but needed to sell this place first, Ruby spoke to me about wanting to buy the place since we both had Licences to run one, so we came and the guy's was happy to sell once we showed our certifications, if they could only see the talent that we have here now they would want to take Serena over to America with them."
"She's really that good? I saw a few of Serena's drawings back when we was 14, they was really good but it was only briefly, Luna was mad at her for drawing instead of doing homework."
Emerald blinked and laughed, "that sounds about right, I think she told me about that but I'm too busy teasing her about Sapphire, I'm glad you girls finally decided to see her though, I know she's happy when she's working but me and Rubious are older than her and we can't hang out with her like when we was kids, she needs you girls her age to have a social life too."
Ami nodded as she took a sip of her tea, until her eye caught something, looking to the left wall was 9 drawings of animals that held each planet in them, "those are amazing!" that made Emerald look to the wall, "Yeah, Serena designed all of them, the one with the moon is what she holds on her arm right now, She designed one for each scout" Lita walked up to the Jupiter one, it held a black panther looking like it was trying to hang on by something with it's claws, but it's golden eye's was looking at the person who was seeing the image. Looking next to it was Mars, that held a phoinex on, it's tail just about to touch the planet, with it's bright orange wings spread outwards.
Ami traced the mercury one with her fingers, it was a Polar bear stood up on it's back legs, trying to reach out for the planet mercury, Venus was different, the planet stood out to her, but the Eagle was in the centre, looking up towards the sky. They all noticed one more next to the moon, was the planet earth, it held flowers of different coloured roses around the planet, they all looked amazing and beautiful.
"She designed them with our favourite animals intertwined with them, they are so amazing…" Ami spoke as Emerald nodded, "She's going to wait till you are all of age and ready to get them done, I think Rei can get hers next month since she turns 18 then. No charge at all since you all have important jobs." They all knew that was directed for them to be protecting the moon princess from any force that would try to kill her to get the silver crystal.
"Hey look at this one! It's Luna, Artimis and Diane!" squealed Mina, the others looked and she was right, it was so perfect that it almost looked scary on how Serena was able to capture the animals laying down cuddled together. It looked so real that they was going to jump out, Lita spotted one of different scouts with their power attacks, she saw her own with the Jupiter oak revolution, green leafs dancing around the scout, and another when her lightening is charging up. "Ah them ones are very popular with clients, it's like a race to see which scout is more popular."
Mina stood up in a sailor V pose, "Of course me!" Emerald could help but laugh, "Actually out of the inner scouts apart from Moon, Mercury and Mars are the most popular, same with Jupiter" Mina pouted doing a fake cry, the girls laughed.
Over by Andrew and Rei, Serena was halfway through the outline having to re-ajust her arm slightly every so often from the bruise that Darien had given her. Which was Serena's left hand, she pulled away again for some more ink on her needle, "How you holding up bro?" he smiled to her, "you make me scared shitless to find out that you're really gentle with that thing!" Serena laughed as she stood up taking a sip of her coffee, "But of course brother, younger siblings are meant to do that to their older siblings. In any case were just going for the outline today and in two weeks we start the colouring, your starting to pale and I don't want to over-do it with you and it being your first tattoo."
"But you got yours done all in one day!" Serena shook her head, "I did Drew but I followed the instructions my artist gave me, eat something before! Getting it done and have a sugary drink with you, I can see you failed to do both which is why I got you a can of coke, take a few sips while I refill the pot and we will be doing the colouring in a second session. Since you paid in full today you're not going to be charged for the next session. I'll just split the money so it covers both days." She took a spray bottle and squirted it on some blue roll before gently wiping the sore red chest, "your skins getting quite swelled up so I'm hoping to finish this before it gets too bad."
"You really know your stuff Serena!" the girl grinned to Rei before popping a chewing gum in her mouth before offering her friend and Andrew who both took one, "I have to know my stuff I've actually had a fully grown man faint on me and another throw up on me before today. Because they failed to follow my rules and advice! I eventually got their work finished two sessions later, I could lose my Licence if I don't follow the right guild lines." The raven haired mars girl nodded understanding what she was saying, Serena loved this job and she could see it in her eye's, it was the perfect job for someone like Serena. Although she didn't know about this second piece Serena was getting done.
The more she watched Serena the more she wanted one herself, not only that but the more she wanted to be able to do the art herself, she was being drawn to it like a spell.
20 minutes later, Serena set the gun down and took the spray bottle and placed a towel in front of Andrews face so it didn't hit him and began cleaning the skin, "Right bro were done for the day, try to keep it covered with food wrap or cling film for 2 days but let some air get to it after you clean it 2-3 times a day and place on some E45 cream." He looked into the mirror and smiled, he loved it already even though she wasn't finished yet, he turned around and she placed some Vassaline on it before covering it up, "it will be sore for a while but that will calm down when the redness goes away later.
If you have any problems get in contact with me straight away ok?" "Sure thing sis, your next two lunches at the arcade are free, no payment needed" this made the girl grin as she stood up throwing her black latex gloves in the bin. She looked to Rei who was smiling to her, "Don't worry girl your turn next month" She gave a wink picking up her now cold coffee downing it before placing the stood out the way.
"M..my turn? But…you know I don't get much allowance." Serena stuck out her tongue, "I know I've booked you in on your birthday, it's my present to you in any case Drew follow me for the stuff you need and your free to go!" they laughed walking up to the counter, Serena reached over grabbing a small tube of cream handing it to him and also an after care leaflet. "it will start to itch slightly as it heals, try not to scratch it otherwise you'll drag the ink out, also no swimming for 14 days that will also crack the ink and drag that out also. We wouldn't want to re-do most of it cause it's faded"
He gave her a hug and kiss on the cheek, "Tell dad I'll pop round sometime this week catch you later sis!" with that he walked out of the studio. Serena looked to the other three girls who was looking through her portfolio she smiled as Rei had began looking at the scouts drawings of planets and animals, she walked up to her seeing that she noticed the mars one, "It's beautiful Serena, but how did you know?" "When you spend time with friends like I have with you girls, I know a lot, I may have spaced out but I do know your favourite Animals, this is what design I'm hoping to give you next month it can go anywhere you want,"
"Can I have it same place as yours?" Serena nodded as she took out her Diary writing down the information before placing her glasses on top of her hat "Alright girl your all set for next month, now Emerald smoke then my turn?"
Emerald stood up grinning, "but of course girl! can't wait to get cracking your neck!" Serena laughed as they walked out the front door leaving the senshi confused on the weird relationship them two had.
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Th…th…that's all folks! Hope you enjoyed it and loved the chapter!
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