After Serena finished with cleaning the Temple she decided to get lunch and check on things at the house with her brother and the twins. Ring, ring…'Hello?" asked a girls voice from the other end. "Um…were is Sam? And were are the twins?" asked Serena in a bit of an urgent tone. "Oh," said the voice. "This must be Serena, Sam's older sister right?" "Yes, and I'm going to say this again, were are they?" Serena asked with even more urgency in her voice. You would think the girl at the other end would get a clue. "Oh don't worry, Sam is putting Chelsea and Tony for their naps, he'll be down in a minute, do you want me to get him now though?" "No, that's ok but who are you exactly and what are you doing in my house?" "Oh sorry how rude of me. My name is Molly, I'm Sam's girl friend." "Oh jeez I'm sorry! I didn't know that you would be there this early." Serena exclaimed. "Well why wouldn't I be? It's Sam's birthday and I figured I would help him out around the house before we go to dinner tonight." "Oh ok, um just tell Sam I called and that there's 20 dollars on the table for pizza ok?" "Yeah, no problem thank you." "No problem, bye." "Bye." And Serena hung up the phone and was on her way to lunch.
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She stopped by a Deli and bought her and Ami a turkey sandwich, a pop and a bag of chips each. Serena just hoped that Ami would be there and would have time for her. It just felt like everyone was kind of growing apart now that they were all grown up and had a life besides hanging out and with each other…she missed it a lot.
"I really hope Ami's home…I miss hanging out with everyone like we used to." Serena thought while she drove across town to see Ami. "I mean, Mina is always some where else with being a pop star, we hardly see her anymore and when we get the chance she ends up getting sick or her agency calls and she is needed for a shoot some where. Lita…I miss her cooking. She's a master chef now and she has her own TV show too. It's really cool. I get lots of tips on cooking from her show; and yet again her life is hectic and we don't see much of her any more as well. Ami is now a scientist and is always developing new gadgets and cures and stuff like that for NASA, and other places that pay her big bucks, so she's always busy with research. Raye, hmm…can you believe her and Chad are finally married? Yes they are. The wedding was wonderful. They are always off across the world with grandpa because they feel obligated to get him everywhere he wants before he goes. The doctor claim he is slowly dieing from some unknown illness. So much they know he's perfectly healthy and that being said by the doctors only feed's to what he wants, and what he wants he gets. He's spoiled. Serena thought about grandpa and smiled. She missed everyone so much, they were like her family, and now they are just old memories that don't have time to have funny anymore.
Ding-dong. Serena finally reaches Ami's house. But there is no answer. Bing, bong. "Oh come on please answer the door. I need some one to talk to." "Coming!" yelled a male voice from inside the house. The door opened, and a funny sight met her eyes.
A man stood in the door withonly boxers on and his hair was all ruffled. In the background she heard a familiar voice yell: "How much for the pizza Brian?" "It's not pizza Ami, It's some girl with sandwiches and pop." "You forgot chips." Serena said waving the chips in Brian's face. "Um…who are you?" Brian asked puzzled. "My name's Serena, Ami's friend. Sorry to intrude if you're busy I can just come by later, ok?" Serena said in a bit of a defeated voice. "Serena? Is that you? Oh god…it's Saturday, I'm sorry I forgot. I'm sure you'll have fun with everyone else shopping right?" Ami asked in a rushed voice trying to get her housecoat on. "Yeah no problem. I guess I'll see you later ok? Nice meeting you Brian, bye Ami." Serena turned and walked down the drive way back to her car, throwing the lunch she hadn't even touched in the trash can at the curb.
After Serena pulled away and was on the highway again she called her aunt Tammy and hopped she would be able to watch her mom's house. She needed to get away from it all. Ring. Ring. "Hello?" came her aunt's voice. "Hey Aunt Tammy, it's Serena I was wondering if you could go to mom's and watch everything over they're till her and dad come home?" "Yes. Why is everything alright?" her aunt asked in a worried tone she knew all to well. "Oh yeah everything is fine." She said with a fake cheeriness in her voice. I just think I need a break from everything that's going on here. Thanks a bunch, I'll stop bye and tell Sam ok?" "Yes ok. I'll be over there in about an hour ok bunny?" "Yeah thanks a bundle. Oh and Sam's going on a date tonight ok?" "Yep. Bye." "Bye." Click.
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Serena finally got back home to call Sam, and told him Tammy will be staying there until mom and dad come home. Then proceeded to tell Sam were the money is and says she threw in an extra 50 dollars for his present and that he'd better be extra nice to Molly for having to put up with him all day to. Laughing they say their good byes and hung up.
After getting home, Serena decided to take a bath and tried to relax a little. But before she ran the bath she remembered that she needed to buy some pop for the night so she threw on her shoes and left the house to run to the store.
Cha-chining! "That will be two dollars and forty-seven cents." The store clerk said. "Here you go. Thanks Chris. Night." " Night Serena, have a good one." "Thank you, you too." As Serena walked down the street she felt as if some one were watching her. And she didn't like it very much, so she sped up her walk to get home. "What a creepy guy, can't he find something better to do than follow me?" And out of nowhere she was jumped. "Don't move, don't even make a sound." Growled the man holding Serena. "Be nice we were told not to hurt her." The other man said gruffly. "Yeah, I know that but can't we just play with her until we get her home?" "Oh my god, what are they going to do with me? Help me…some one." Serena thought feebly before the men put a clothe to her face and she passed out.
Five days later, people finally notice she's missing.
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Ring, ring- "Hello, Serena?" Ami asked in a worried voice. "Hey Ami…why do you sound so freaked out?" Came Raye's voice. "Oh Raye…" "She hasn't heard yet, she hasn't heard what happened to Serena…" Ami, what's wrong?" asked Raye.
"Raye its Serena… she…she's missing…" The other end of the phone went silent. "When did she go missing? Asked Raye, you could hear the tears and pain in her voice. "The last time I saw her was six days ago, on Saturday, but I was busy, and told her to go shopping without me and have fun with you guys. Didn't she go?" "How could she? I was in the Caribbean with Chad, Lita and Grandpa." Raye said now crying, not even pretending to hind her tears. "What about Mina? Does she know what happened?" Ami asked. "I'm not sure I think we need to call Mina and Lita to come to the temple and we need to talk." Raye said trying not to cry anymore. "I have to go Chad just came in… tell everyone to meet here at our time ok?" "Yeah no problem, bye." "Bye." Click. "Wow, it's been a long time since we've all met together at the temple. I wonder if the others know. I wonder if her family knows she's missing. I doubt it no one's made a missing persons report about it yet…time to call everyone."
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"Lita hey …"
"Mina hello you need to…"
That after noon went in a blur for everyone. No one could believe that happened to Serena so they all agreed to leave their busy schedule, and meet at the temple, everyone felt horrible she was missing.
Knock. Knock. Knock. "Coming." Came Raye's voice. "Hey Raye." Said Mina and she gave her friend a hug that she knew she needed. It was visible Raye had been crying. You don't see that too often because she was always strong for Serena's sake, almost like Serena's older sister. But now, she was missing and Raye was hurting. Everyone was, but Raye especially. "Sorry I'm late. I got the message not to long ago." " That's alright." Raye sniffed. "We haven't been waiting too long. Come in." Raye led Mina in to the back room where the sacred fire was kept. Everyone was circled around it, but instead of talking and being noisy like they used to be, they were silent. Not a single sound came except from the fire cracking and burning in the middle of the room. Raye was in her priestess outfit. Mina followed Raye in the room and took her place in the room, and Raye sat in the middle in front of the fire.
"We all know why we are here." Raye said trying not to cry again. "And we need to find out all we can. I need everyone to concentrate on Serena. If we can do this I can hone in on her energy and hopefully get a clue as to where she is and what's happened to her. Then we can find her." "I just hope we find her in time…" Everyone sat around holding hands transferring their energy from one another. Thinking of only one thing "Serena." Raye said and sat there feeling everyone's energy flowing through the room and her. "Great spirits." She chanted. "Please, I beg you, help us find her, help me find, Serena. "She means so much to us please don't let anything happen to her. We need her." Then it happened. The wind picked up, it changed the feel of the room. Like nothing the girls had ever seen before. Raye's hair started flipping around her face and her eye's shut as she prayed. And she said it in a trance like voice: "She is in a place…were only the invited and unforgotten go. Its people have, long since forgot this home of which we speak. They have left the people alone to live their lives peacefully. She has been taken here by a prince of who most love and want…and receives all he wishes…" Then as the wind died down, one last word was uttered from her mouth before she passed out. "Endymon…"