Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or any of the original characters. (I do own the new characters that I created though)
Rated: T
Recap:
Serena and Darien looked at each other, filled with utter shock.
Rini began to cry again, Serena held her trying to wrap her head around all of this.
All Serena could think about was, why. Why did she send Rini back to this time? What was happening in the future and why? She didn't understand any of this.
It just doesn't make any sense...
Chapter 4: The New Girl
The three sat in the hospital room in silence with the only sound being Rini's slurred cries.
"Don't worry Rini, we're going to work this out." Said Serena, Rini nodded. Serena and Rini nearly jumped out of the bed with shock when loud knocks were heard coming from the door.
"Come in." Said Serena, the door clicked open and Amy, Lita, Mina, and Raye came into the room with Luna on Amy's shoulders and Artemis on Mina's head.
"Hey, Serena you're awake!" Mina smiled happily at Serena, she was glad she seemed well.
"Of course she's awake, probably because of your loud knocking Mina." Said Luna, shaking her head.
"Huh?" Raye looked down at the small infant that was clinging to Serena, though she could not see her face the pink hairs gave her away. "What's Rini doing here?"
"Well..." Serena went ahead and explained everything, about what was happening in the future and her sending Rini here.
"Ahh, run that by me again?" Said Lita looking a little lost, her face matching the other girls.
"Yeah, that's how I'm feeling at the moment." Serena looked over at Darien who hasn't said anything for the last hour.
"This is something we can sort out later." Raye waved her hand in dismissal. "Serena, how are you feeling?"
Rini sat up feeling guilty realising that she had been going on about her and didn't have a second thought about Serena.
"Oh no, sorry Serena I didn't even check if you're alright. When I got here I went to your house but you weren't there, your mum said you were at the hospital. What happened to you, why are you in the hospital?" Said Rini, feeling bad.
"Well, I don't know." Serena gave a cheeky grin and put her hand behind her head. "Maybe I fell asleep?"
Rini sighed and looked over at the girls searching their faces for information.
"Geez, Serena you're hopeless." Raye whacked herself in the face. "Luna said you collapsed."
Rini wiped her head back around to Serena hitting her in the face with her hair.
"YOU COLLAPSED?!" Yelled Rini, putting her hands on Serena's shoulders.
"I remember now, I suddenly felt really dizzy and there were weird flashes of light, then black."
"That's it? Nothing else?" Amy started talking medical knowledge, but everyone blocked her out.
"What were you doing before that happened?" Asked Raye.
"Hmmm.. oh! We were talking about the new girl, come to think of it, I was looking at her just before it happened."
"New girl?" Asked Lita.
"Yeah, Melvin was talking about her." Said Serena.
"I heard about her, I think her name is Albina or was it, Alina, no that's not right either. Hmmm Oh! Alkina!" Shouted out Mina, feeling quite proud of herself.
At the sound of the name, everyone cried out in pain as they felt their heads throb and heard the sound of beating wings. They all sat up straight and blinked in shock.
"What the hell was that?!" Yelled Darien making Serena jump, totally forgetting that he was still seated behind her.
"Did you feel it too?" Raye asked Serena.
"Yeah, it's similar to what happened to me before..." She answered, feeling quite confused.
"I didn't feel anything." Said Rini who was now beside Serena on the bed. She looked at Darien and the girls with worry wondering what on earth just happened.
"Well whatever that was, I have a bad feeling about that girl." Said Luna jumping on to the bed onto Serena's lap.
"Hey guys, I don't know if this is important but she looks a lot like me. Even Melvin and Molly thought that we were family somehow because we look so alike."
"Really?" Ami asked, intrigued. Serena nodded.
"Excuse me." Everyone turned to the door where a hospital nurse was standing. "Visiting hours are over"
"Okay thank you." Said Amy.
"Also Miss Tsukino, the doctor said that your right to go home and to give him a call if it happens again."
"Thanks for that." Serena waved to the nurse as she left.
"It's getting pretty late, I better go home." Said Amy.
"Yeah me too." Agreed Lita.
"Grandpa is probably worried about me." Said Raye, standing up.
"Okay see you guys tomorrow." Serena smiled at the girls as they headed for the door.
"Look after yourself, Serena." Said Amy.
"I will, bye." With that, the girls left the room. Rini looked up at Serena and smiled, the blonde smiled back at her and Darien stood up.
"Come on, I will take you girls home."
Darien picked up Rini and put her on the ground then help Serena out of the bed. Serena signed out of the hospital and the three drove to the Tsukino house in Darien's car.
"Are you sure you're okay to go home?" Darien asked Serena as they walked to the gate of her house with Rini and Luna trailing behind. "Maybe you should say at the hospital for a few more days."
"I'll be fine Darien don't worry so much." Smiled Serena, waving her hand up and down in a "nothing to worry about" sort of way. Though she was quite pleased with how concerned he was.
"It's my job to worry but if your sure I guess I have no say in the matter, just don't push yourself too hard." Serena giggled at Darien's sweetness, sometimes she felt like she didn't deserve him.
Darien leant over and kissed his favourite bun haired girl before opening the door for her. When Rini reached the door Darien keeled down to her level.
"Watch Serena for me, knowing her and her stubbornness she's probably going to try and do everything herself." Darien rolled his eyes, his accurateness made Rini giggled.
"Don't worry I will," said Rini running in the house. Darien began to walk to his car when he almost choked from laughter from hearing the girls in the house.
"Stupid Serena, what are you doing?" "WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M DOING?!" "Being an idiot" "WHY YO-COME HERE YOU PINK HAIRED BRAT!"
"They haven't even been here for five seconds and they're already at it. WOULD YOU TWO KNOCK IT OFF, SERENA YOU JUST CAME BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL GET UPSTAIRS AND GET SOME REST!" "O-okay mum..."
"Pffff, those girls I tell you." Darien couldn't help but smile.
"Good morning Serena, how are you feeling today?" Amy asked the blonde with Mina, Raye and Lita gathered around her. The girls met up at Serena's house and walked to school stopping at the halfway mark between Raye's school and the rest of the girl's school.
"Okay, I guess." Lied Serena, she had a lot on her mind.
Everything seemed to be happening all at once, something needed to be done. Amy heard the lie in her tone before she could say that she knew she was lying Luna jumped up on Serena's shoulder.
"Oh hey there Luna, what's up?" Serena smiled at the cat.
"You need to talk to that girl after school... ALL of you, Darien too." Serena looked over at Luna with surprise.
"Huh, why?" Asked Serena.
"I had some sort of vision last night and it's kind of hard to explain." Luna jumped off Serena and looked at the ground in stress. "It's just a feeling, but I know we need to speak with her."
"Yeah me too, I have been having visions as well." Said Raye.
The girls looked around at everyone in the group waiting for someone to say something, Serena decided that she would.
"Don't worry Luna I trust you, I will tell Darien to meet us outside and we will talk with her."
"WHAT ABOUT ME SERENA!" Yelled Raye pushing her head into Serena's.
"WELL, I OBVIOUSLY DON'T TRUST YOU FLAME BREATH!" Serena yelled back, poking her tongue out.
"I DON'T BREATHE FIRE MEATBALL BRAIN!" Shouted Raye poking her tongue out at Serena as well.
Amy put her hand on her head, giggled and shook her head.
"Here we go again." Said Lita, shaking her head too.
The bell was due to ring soon so the girls sorted out their meeting arrangements after school, said their goodbyes and went to class. Serena walked slowly the rest of the way to school to call Darien about the meeting.
Serena smiled when she heard a faint "Hello?" come from the receiving end of the phone.
"Hey Darien, are you busy?" Asked Serena, fiddling with her skirt.
"Serena? You should be heading to school, you'll be late again." Said Darien with a bit of humour in his voice.
"I walking there now b-but that doesn't matter, I need you to meet the girls and me after school."
"Why?" Serena felt like throwing her phone on the road the minute he said 'why'.
"Look it's just important, are you busy or not!" Serena covered her mouth, not knowing why she felt so irritated all of a sudden.
"Woah calm down Serena, I-"
"I'm sorry Darien, I don't know what's wrong with me I just.." Serena stopped walking and pressed her head on the wall beside her looking down as she tried to find the right words. Darien heard Serena's tone change, he began to worry.
"Hey it's okay, I'll be there. Anyway, I got to go just hang in there until then, see you later meatball head." Serena giggled, Darien was the only person who got away with calling her that (unlike Raye). It brought back memories of when they used to always run into each other and how Darien liked to tease her, before knowing who they really were. Oddly enough, it helped her relax.
"Okay bye," Serena said sadly, pushing "end call" on her phone.
"Hey, guys!" Mina yelled out to the girls, she put her hand up high and waved to them.
"So what did Darien say, Serena?" Asked Lita.
"He said that he was coming."
"And here I am." Everyone swung their heads around to find Darien walking towards them with a cheeky smile on his face.
Serena raced over to him locking in a big bear hug.
"hey, so are you going to tell me why I'm here now?" Asked Darien, grabbing Serena by her shoulders making her lean out so he could see her face.
"Um, Luna?" Serena looked to the cat to explain, she sighed.
"We're going to go talk to that new girl, I feel like you should be there too Darien."
"Okay, then let's go and meet this twin of yours then." Darien chuckled.
"Hey, that's not funny Darien." Serena let go of him and crossed her arms.
Darien couldn't keep in his laughter when Serena pulled a pouty face, she grunted.
"Let's just go already." Whined Mina.
The group walked around looking for the girl, they were unsuccessful until they spotted her sitting under a tree in the city's main park, book in hand.
"Look, over there." Raye pointed out the black bun haired girl resting against the tree.
"Let's go." Said Luna, making their way over to her.
"Excuse me, are you Alkina?" Asked Serena cautiously.
As she stood up from behind the tree and began to step around it everyone held their breath, her face slowly coming into view. The group felt chills go down their backs as Alkina's familiar deep blue orbs connected with theirs. Serena vision got blurry seeing the flashing images again, she felt her heart skip a beat. Are these... memories? She shook the images away so she could see Alkina.
"Yeah that's me, what can I help you with?" Her voice was soft and kind, similar to that of Serena but with a bit of an edge.
Serena bit her lip not knowing what to say. Before she could think of something Luna jumped up on her shoulder.
"Tell us who you are!" She yelled, her face forming into a scowl.
"Lu-Luna." Said Serena in surprise, looking over at the cat. When the blonde turned back to face Alkina she frowned, noticing that her look alike did not seem fazed in the slightest by the talking cat. Serena took a couple of steps towards her but was stopped when Raye reached her arm out in front of her.
"We can't trust her Serena, you have to be careful." Raye's eyes did not leave Alkina's for a second when she spoke.
To everyone's surprise, Alkina busted out laughing, they looked at her with shock.
"Oh Raye, you were always so quick to judge." Alkina stared Raye down and gave her a smug smile. "That was one of your many flaws."
Raye was about to grab Alkina, do something to react to her comment but Lita grabbed her before she could try anything. Alkina looked around at the group and settled her eyes on Serena's confused face, she found it amusing. Soon they all had confused faces to go along with Serena's.
"Whoops, guess I got some explaining to do, huh?"
Next time on Sailor Moon Solar Eclipse:
"Well, are you going to explain or not?" Said Raye tapping her foot in annoyance, Alkina sighed.
"I think it's time you all knew the truth." Alkina's face became serious. "Let's go somewhere more private."
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"Let's go back to the start, 1'000 years ago on the Moon. As you know Silver millennium was prosperous before beryl and her army attacked but, You don't know the whole story."
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The saviours of the world who always had so much to say were speechless. Frozen in shock and disbelief of the bombshell that had been dropped upon them.
"What b-but how?" "How is this possible?!" "I don't believe it!"
Chapter 5: The 1'000 Year Gap Part 1
The moonlight is a messenger of love