Its been a while but I'm back and ready to go......enjoy the holidays!!!!!

I do not own sailor moon or blue seed but i do own those characters that I make up, however van is based on a character that i saw in another manga....see if you can guess it!!!

Hermione balanced her weight onto one hand, she lifted the other out from under her trying to even out her handstand. She closed her eyes and tried to concentrate, from the furthest parts of her body she tried to gather her power into her core. "Sel vat natra ni yan," she said softly. The world melted around her and she then with an explosion of energy she sent out her sense. She was completely silent and still physically but her inner self was moving quickly around the surrounding area trying to identify each person she came across.

She was about to find Serena when a high pitched voice snapped her out of her meditative state. "So you're the slayer that everyone's been talking about?" Hermione opened her eyes and stared into two bright amber eyes. Hermione was shell shocked and because of this lost her balance, she fell right onto her back. "Damn it!" she yelled out.

"Oh oops I guess I shouldn't have disturbed you when you were in such a position," he said.

Hermione stared at the young boy who was kneeling down examining her like she was a specimen. She rolled herself over and got up on to her knees. "Who are you?"

"Me? Oh ahahah I guess I forget to introduce myself," he said "But then I can't believe you don't know who I am then," he said this more to himself than to her. "I wonder why no one ever talks about me anymore?" he again was speaking to himself.

Hermione stared at the boy, not only had he interrupted her meditation exercise but now he was ignoring her and talking to himself. "Ahhh….I'm sorry I didn't catch your name."

"Oh yeah ahah I forgot again," he said with a bright smile. "My names Van Havoc! I'm Louis' great great great nephew!"

Hermione stared at the young boy, 'He cant be more than twelve,' she thought. Hermione cleared her throat, "Um nice to meet you I'm…"

"I already know who you are my uncle told me all about you and your sister slayer, you two are fascinating, I really would like to see inside of that little head of yours," he said pointing a finger at Hermione's forehead.

"Hey!" she yelled smacking his finger away from her. He smiled big again, "OH dear that was rude of me wasn't it hahha sorry I'm not used to being around humanoids."

"What are you?" Hermione asked.

"Glad you asked!" Van did a backwards summersault and landed up on his feet. He was only about five foot and was skinny as pole, he had bright blonde hair, a round boyish face that matched his attitude, a large smile, and of course his bright innocent looking eyes. "I am a human psycher!"

"A what?" Hermione asked confused.

"He's a human with special powers like us, but at the genius kid level," Serena said walking into the room. "He's pretty much a witch or wizard psycher as he likes to call himself."

"I am not just a human you goof ball slayer, I am much more advanced than a simple human!" Van yelled at Serena almost horrified at her words.

"Who is he?"

"I told you I'm the great great great nephew of Louis!" Van said.

"Yeah I got that part," Hermione said ignoring the boy and looking at Serena.

"He's the descendent of Louis' human sister, I guess when he was turned she wasn't and she went on to live a decedent and happy life. Married a Visconti and through the generations had a couple kids, he's not the great great great nephew, he's actually a lot further down the line," Serena told her. Serena pulled a green apple from her pocket and began eating as she watched Van prance around the room doing random gymnastic moves.

"Why is he here?" asked Hermione.

"He's got this really great healing ability Herm, better than anyone I've ever seen, he can heal almost anything as long as the heart and brain are intact," Serena said. "Louis brought him here since the 'King and Queen' are around incase anything happens." "I thought that since you would meet him sooner or later and want to witness his powers and since you weren't fully healed he could give you a demonstration."

Van looked up at Hermione with a bright smile. "You really don't have to you know, I'm almost fully healed and I wouldn't want you to tire youself just for me," Hermione told him.

"Puuleez I love helping people its like the best thing, and I love showing off my powers to new people their reactions are almost the best thing ever." Van strode over to her and told her to sit in a comfortable position. She sat cross legged in the middle of a mat.

"I have to warn you my reaction may not exactly be what your looking for I've seen a lot in my life," Hermione said.

Serena smiled, "Believe me we've never seen anything like this kid before."

Van stood behind her and put his hands up to the wound on her head. He closed his eyes and Hermione could tell that he was deep in concentration. After a few seconds Hermione felt a comfortable heat radiating at her head, then she suddenly felt it on her hands as well. She looked down and saw that a faint warm glow was shining through the cuts on her hands. They began to seal themselves instantly; Hermione stared down at her hands in amazement. Then she noticed a scar on the back of her was shining as well, she had gotten it many years ago and nothing she had ever done had been able to make it fade. But as she stared at it, it to shone bright and then sealed itself as if it had never been there.

"Whoa," Hermione said staring at her hands in disbelief. Van stood behind her for a few more minutes, her whole body began to feel warm inside and out and Hermione realized that he was also healing all of her internal injuries as well. When he finally stopped and had taken a step back Hermione stood and stretched her body.

"Feel better?" he asked with a knowing smile.

"Yeah kid you did wonders, how did you heal that scar?" she asked.

"I told you my powers are more advanced than any other healer known, that's why the King and Queen protect me so well," he said.

"You mean that's why they keep you as they pet," Serena said the tone in her voice changing to one of disdain.

Van sighed, "Well I mean everyone answers to someone, might as well answer to two of the most powerful beings on the planet. Though my uncle provides for my family very well the King and Queen give almost four times what he gives us. They ensure that my family is safe, well fed and, well taken care of, and in payment all I give them back is my power a few times and my loyalty."

"So your loyalty is for sale?" Serena said.

"No I give my loyalty only to those who have treated me and mine right, if the King and Queen were to be cruel and unjust patrons then no matter how much money or protection I would not serve them with the loyalty that I do," Van said with a bright smile.

"Whatever Valencia is a bitch," Serena said.

Van's face turned, his smile instantly gone and turned into a deep scowl. He opened his mouth to argue against her comment, but Hermione sensing this spoke. "Hey wait a second you never told me how you can heal wounds that aren't fresh!"

Van turned back to her with a smile, "Oh well its simple….I don't know." He laughed at Hermione's face and then spoke again, "I don't know why but its part of my power I can heal anything, any old wounds, and I can pretty much keep anyone alive as long as they don't have severe brain damage, still have their heart, and their spine. When it comes to those three I kinda have a trouble and its mostly a gamble but anything I can heal!"

"Well your just a handy dandy little elf aren't you," Hermione said. Van nodded and then began running around the room pretending to be an airplane. Hermione turned to Serena, "How old is he?"

"I think he's twelve going on thirteen," Serena said. "Hyper active little thing isn't he."

Hermione nodded and looked down at her hands, "Yeah but to be able to do this at twelve imagine what he will be able to do later on in life."

"I don't want to," Serena said watching the young boy. "Do you think that he will stay like this? Have this happy and carefree way of looking at life? Or do you think that growing up serving vampires will turn him cold and hard?"

"He has a strong spirit, he doesn't seem like one who does but I don't think that he will change much, his uncle seems to have the same kind of personality, though Louis doesn't show it he is more laid back than he puts on," Hermione told him.

"He healed you as well I assume," said Hermione.

"Yes, he said that we will be at our full strength by tomorrow," Serena said. "So when we leave we will be ready."

"You still want to do it?"

"Yes, I need answers and if you don't want to then I understand but I would like you to be with me," Serena said. "I think you have the same questions that I have."

"I have those and more."

"Alright then we'll leave tomorrow," Serena said.

"What are you guys talking about?" asked Van as he suddenly appeared behind them. Hermione lurched forward out of surprise and fell on her face and Serena jumped about a foot in the air.

"What's the meaning of sneaking up on people like that!" Serena yelled.

"Well you were being all secretive and silent and I didn't want to be left out!" Van yelled back.

"Our conversation was for those who are actually able to ride rides at Disneyland not those who still ride the swan boats!" Serena yelled at him.

"I will have you know that I have ridden……"

Hermione smiled at the exchange between the boy and Serena. It reminded her of the old days when their lives had been filled with meaningless and thoughtless arguments, mostly in all good fun. Hermione smiled as Van tackled Serena to the ground in began wrestling with her. Hermione laughed and thought back to the times when Momiji and Serena would wrestle with Blake trying to subdue him despite his significantly larger frame.

Hermione was glad that there was still laugher in their lives, it had always been something that had kept her positive through her life. She watched as Serena pulled Van's arms behind his head and lifted him from the ground. He fought bravely trying to escape his captivity, his legs kicking furiously and his arms flailing around as much as they could. Hermione laughed even harder, but their fun was suddenly broken by the door to thy gym opening.

"Van what are you doing her majesty wants to see you!" came a woman's voice from the behind Hermione.

Hermione stopped dead recognizing the voice, she didn't need to turn, she saw from the look in Serena's eye that it was in fact her sister.

"Hey Lita I'm sorry I got caught up with these two, if you would kindly help me out of this situation then I would happily be on my way to see the Queen," said Van with a bright smile.

"No need for you assistance," said Serena as she saw Lita take a step forward. Serena let go of Van and then stretched her arms. "Well kiddo thanks for all your help, I hope we see you again sometime."

"You will I'm going to be staying here for the next several weeks so I'm sure that we are bound to run into each other all the time, you had just better be watching your back cause I'm like a ninja and I may jump out at you when you don't expect it!" He said.

"Yeah I'll keep my eyes peeled for a munchkin running around," Serena said.

Van trotted off to join Lita at the door, "Bye Hermione maybe you can teach me how to meditate when you get back." He said as he passed her.

Hermione nodded and then stopped realizing what he had just said she turned around to speak with him. But when she did she turned and locked eyes with Lita, she was stunned silent and could only stare at the woman who had the face of her sister. Shaking herself from her moment Hermione turned back around to look at Serena and began to stretch. There was an awkward silence before Hermione heard the door shut and the footsteps of both Van and Lita walking away.

"You know you're going to have to do something about that," Serena told her.

"I'm not doing anything," Hermione said ignoring the situation. "There is nothing to be done, she'll be gone soon enough."

"You really think that the coven is going to splinter with the King and Queen here?"

"I don't care what the coven does right now," Hermione snapped at her. "We're leaving soon and Daniel has been talking about going back to New York in the next few months so I won't have to be around her much longer."

"Wait since when has Daniel been talking about going back to New York?" Serena asked.

"Serena Daniel and Kusanagi both are based in New York, Daniel's only stayed here this long because of me, Kusanagi's been going back and forth so that Daniel didn't have to but it's not fair to give Kusanagi the burden and Daniel's been feeling guilty. He asked me about it a few weeks ago and I told him I would think about it and with everything that's happened it may be a good idea."

She looked at Serena, whose face was completely blank of all emotion, but Hermione knew better inside Serena was raging. "After this who thing with Momiji is figured out of course."

"And if its not figured out in the allotted time?" asked Serena. "Are you just going to run off to New York and leave me here?"

"Serena don't act like a child you have Darien and you have Ami as well as many of the other new friends that you have made, I'm not abandoning you, I'm just taking the next step in my relationship, and I don't have an allotted time you know Daniel wouldn't pull something like that."

"Well you never know," Serena said crossing her arms in a pout.

"Come on Serena New York is a plane ride away and Darien owns his own private armada of them so it's not like you wouldn't be able to come see me whenever you wanted," Hermione said.

"You know they get tons of snow there, and the wind chill is worse than the actual temperature," Serena said flatly.

"Well then it will be a nice change of scenery for me I haven't seen snow since I was a child," Hermione said trying to joke with Serena. When she realized that Serena was not in the mood she gave up. "Look nothings been decided now so let's just do what we need to do get the answers we need and figure things out then."

"Fine fine," Serena said. They headed towards the door together, "But really there are no good beaches in New York."

Kusanagi sat in his office staring at the computer screen in front of him, he was reading the latest information that had been gathered from Mina's tests. From what they were seeing it wasn't looking good and Mina was beginning to die not only mentally but physically as well. From what they were seeing her microscopic cells were beginning to kill themselves and rot, Mina was becoming a literal undead being, and her body was paying the price.

Kusanagi turned off the monitor and ran his hand over his face and through his hair, though he was trying to concentrate on the problem at hand his thoughts kept drifting back to Momiji. Her attitude the other night had not shocked him, but the fact that it had not been here who attacked Serena and Hermione had troubled him deeply. Someone was out there running around with Momiji's face, it was a good enough look alike that upon first observation had fooled them all. It was troubling.

He turned around in his chair and looked up at the shelf that housed all of his books and documents. He looked at the bottom self and stared at the picture that lay down flat on the self. He reached for it, held it in his hand, and stared at it. It was the only picture that he had of Momiji and it had been taken secretly while he had been watching her. It was of her during the day time, she had been walking through a park talking on a cell phone.

When she had finally hung up she had walked by a group of school children who were playing on a swing set, she had stopped and watched them with a tender look on her face and that had been the instant when his photographer had snapped the photo. Later when he went through them Kusanagi thought that Momiji looked peaceful and serene at that moment, he wanted to remember it and though after finding it she had told him to throw it away he couldn't part with it. He was glad because it was one of the few photos he had seen of her.

His thoughts were interrupted by his cell phone ringing. He answered with a quick hello, it was Louis. "Kusanagi we have a situation down here," he said.

"Down where?" he asked.

"Downtown, there's been a massacre, werewolf clan was killed a few hours ago looks like the work of a single person," he told him.

"What coven?" asked Kusanagi.

"The McBride coven, almost forty were killed," he said.

"McBride's were the ones that attacked me in the city a few months ago, they put up a good fight but I'm not surprised that they were taken out so easily," Kusanagi said.

"It's a massacre down here, most of them were killed execution style and those unlucky ones that weren't, well some were burned alive, some cut up pretty bad, and a few ripped in pieces."

"By hand?" Kusanagi asked.

"I think by magic but I can't be sure, we won't have any details until our team is finished," Louis said.

"Alright I'll be there shortly," said Kusanagi, he hung up with Louis and was about to grab his coat when the phone once again rang, this time it was Hermione calling.

Serena stared out of the window as the sun set. It was time, they had decided that they were leaving tonight. As soon as the sun set Serena sighed, "Three days huh, guess it's time," she said. She picked up the bag that was lying at her feet; she turned around to see her bedroom door opening.

"Ready?" asked Hermione. Serena nodded and they left the room together. They said nothing to each other as they walked towards the entrance of the house. When they reached the stairs the realized that they were going to have a problem. Daniel, Darien, and Zoicite were standing in the entrance hall speaking with their mother and father, Serena noticed that Malachite, who had barely been at the mansion for the past few days, was standing near Jadeite blocking the door.

Serena sighed she knew that there was going to be a fight, she glanced at Hermione, whose expression had not changed the slightest, she felt her resolve strengthen. "Well better to get it done quick and painful," Serena said, Hermione nodded her head in agreement and they descended the stairs.

"Where do you two think you are going?" asked Zoicite noticing that they were both packed and dressed for travel.

"We have something that we need to look into," Serena said.

"What issue could warrant your concern?" Zoicite asked. Serena gave him a questioning and sarcastic glance; "I suppose I could surmise."

"We have to look into this issue concerning Momiji," Hermione explained.

"There is no need we have our best people working on creating a time line as well as gathering data on her training," Daniel said.

Serena let out a small laugh, "You're not going to find anything, like we've told you before Momiji knows how to cover her tracks and if she really is as strong as we thinks she's become then you aren't going to find a single footprint."

"What makes you so confident that you will be able to make more headway than our agents?" Valencia asked her eyes bearing into Serena.

"We grew up with Momiji, we trained with her for more than half our lives, we know her tricks, if there's any trail we'll pick it up," said Hermione.

Valencia's gaze shifted to Hermione "Then why not give a full detailed analysis to our agents so that they will have more information on this dangerous outlaw."

"Sorry trick of the trade we may have changed sides but we're not about to give out old secrets that could help you catch and kill our old allies," Serena told her.

"You know this misplaced loyalty that you have left over for your slayer friends is part of the reason that you have not been welcomed into our coven," Valencia said.

"Mother" cried Daniel and protest.

Valencia glanced at her son and then replied, "it's the truth, the fact that you are still protecting known and dangerous vigilantes is what keeps you isolated from the other members of our family and coven. If you were to show some effort, and give us some information, then perhaps you wouldn't always see the cold shoulder of our family."

Serena stared at the Vampire Queen, she quickly glanced to Darien and Daniel, neither were saying anything to dispute their mothers words. As she realized that Darien felt partially the same way as his mother she felt anger rise in her. He knew all too well the pain and agony that she had gone through when choosing to remain with him, and for him to remain silent and ask her to betray people who she grew up with as a deep cut.

"We will not give you any information," said Hermione. Serena looked at her comrade, Hermione didn't waver at all, there was no question in her eyes, they would never give them the information that they wanted. It was a fact and nothing, not even the prospect of rejection and isolation for eternity, would empty them to betray those who had raised them and saved their lives many a time.

"We will never give you any information that will lead to the capture or execution of any of our former comrades, family, mentors, or students. And for you to ask us is to question our integrity," said Hermione.

"We are asking you to help your new family remain safe," Valencia said.

"That sentiment is understood but still we will not reveal anything to any of you," Hermione said stepping forward and breaking through the group.

Daniel reached out a hand to stop her but was only shocked with a crackled of blue lightning, "Hermione?" he asked the pain from her actions showed in his eyes.

Hermione refused to look at him, "I told you when I arrived that I wouldn't betray those that saved me, I told you that from the beginning, and for you to allow your mother to badger us and threaten us with rejection is something that I cannot forgive." She looked at him but refused to meet his eyes, "Perhaps while we are away you should reevaluate your decisions and choices, I know I will be." And with those words she walked out of the front door, when she disappeared all heads in the room turned to look at Serena, who was still standing in her place, her jaw slightly dropped.

"Uhh….yeah…well I'm going to go and make sure that she doesn't get into any trouble while she is out there you know," Serena said making for the door as well. She felt Darien's fingers brush her wrist but pulled away from him before he could stop her.

"Serena," he said her name with an authority that always made her want to turn back and obey. She stopped in her tracks but didn't turn around, "Serena."

"Don't Darien Hermione is right, this is something that we have to do, and it's something that only we can do," Serena said. "I know that you're concerned because of the beating that we received the other night, and I am as well, but still I feel like this is something that only Hermione and I can do. Please understand."

For a few seconds he made no response, then he telepathically communicated with her, 'The first sign that you cannot handle this you call for back up.'

Serena smiled, 'Don't be so paranoid your brother is going to be with us and I'm sure that you will have someone following us at every turn.'

'Serena…'

'I know, I know, be careful and don't do anything stupid,' she said.

She could feel his internal smile, 'Actually I was going to say make sure Hermione doesn't drive like a maniac, but I think that you get the general idea.'

Serena nodded and went out the door without another hesitating step; when she had closed the door behind her she saw Hermione sitting in a brand new dark green Jeep. She took another step towards the jeep when suddenly, 'Serena.'

She sighed thinking that he was going to try and talk her out of going into a dangerous situation, and telling her that she was being irresponsible. 'Yes?'

'Good luck',' and that was it, nothing else, just the simple statement. But still it made Serena turn around and stare at the door an extra minute.