Betrayal of the heart
Chapter forty: A...Party?
Serenity, Soiya, Aya and Hotaru were all at school on Friday morning talking about the break in crimes in Tokyo.
"There was an old woman threatened with a knife, last night" Hotaru told them. Serenity paled.
"Mom and Dad are going to be gone tonight and won't be back until morning" She said. "It's just me, Luan, Chibi Chibi and Hina" Seiya overheard them and jogged over. He was dressed in a football uniform.
"I'll stay with you ladies" He offered. "I'll knock out anyone who breaks in" Serenity was unsure, but Hotaru urged her to accept the invitation, so she did.
Back home, Serenity checked the place to make sure everything was all clean. The living room, bathroom, kitchen and suddenly remembered that she needed to do the hallway. Luna was watching when suddenly, Serenity slipped and fell on the floor.
"Are you sure having Seiya over is a good idea?" Luna asked. "I mean, he is a guy and..." Serenity sighed.
"Yes, but you'll be here and you are an adult" She said. "Besides, he's coming here to protect us"
"Um, Sere, have you forgotten that we have powers?" Luna asked. Serenity blushed. She had indeed forgotten about it when she had agreed to the invitation. "I was right. You do like this boy" Serenity blushed again and told Luna to drop it. She remained sprawled on the floor when the doorbell rang.
"Come in" She called. The door opened and Seiya entered. he glanced at Serenity and smiled slightly.
"What are you doing, aerobics?" He asked. Serenity blushed and quickly got to her feet. She showed him to the living room and told him that she had some tea ready, if he would just sit and wait. Seiya sat on the couch and glanced at the picture on a end table. It was of the whole family, and Serenity had an arm around a boy, who must have been her twin. Serenity arrived with some tea and gave a cup to Seiya. Then She offered him a choice of short cake or Mont Blanc?
"Whichever!" Seiya said. Serenity thought for a moment, then handed him the Mont Blanc. Seiya accepted it and a cup of tea. Seiya decided that it was now or never, to tell Serenity that he knew her identity and to tell her his own identity. He leaned forward. "Can I tell you something personal?" He asked. Serenity nodded, having a feeling that she knew what it was. But then the doorbell rang. Chibi Chibi raced to the door, but Serenity stopped her, and checked through the window. It was Aya, Hotaru, Soiya and Artemis. All were unexpected invites, but Serenity let them all in.
"We wanted to see how you were doing" Soiya said, brightly. Serenity rolled her eyes.
"Why don't you just tell the truth and say that you came here to see Seiya" She said. Seiya looked up from his tea when they entered the living room.
"Hello" He said. Slightly amused, since Serenity looked irritated. But just then, the door bell rang again and Chibi Chibi jumped up this time to see who it was then opened it. It happened Taiki and Yaten. They wanted to know if Seiya was around. Serenity walked to the door and sighed.
"You might as well come in to" She said, not at all happy that her time with Seiya had been interupted. She led them into the living room. "I'll order pizza and then we can play some cards" Serenity placed the order and then they sat down at the table to play a game of cards.
"I believe somebody is holding out on the Three of Hearts!" Seiya said, looking around. Serenity noticed that she had it in her hand and debated whether or not to discard it for him.
"I think I'll keep it" She said, winking at him. Seiya grinned. The game continued on and it looked like Hotaru was winning.
Meanwhile, Haruka and Michiru stopped by Serenity's house for a while. The reason was that their car's fan belt snapped and needed repairs. They weren't aware that Usagi and Demando weren't home, and thought they were lucky it happened near Serenity's house, so they could kill some time there.
"I'm not bored when I'm with you." Michiru said sweetly. Serenity came up to open the door and was surprised, and not to happy to see Haruka and Michiru. Haruka was not happy to see the three lights in the house and Seiya told her that he had originally come as a bodyguard for the ladies who were home since the parents were out.
Serenity shot the two women a look that said, don't cause trouble. And then, the doorbell rang again. Serenity rolled her eyes, but opened it up and saw Jun Godai's "Oishinbou Banzai" and Jun asked if they could have an interview at the dinner table.
"No, so..." Serenity said.
"Are you having dinner?" Jun asked.
"What?" Serenity asked. "Well, not yet..." She stared at the strange man.
"What's the menu?" Jun asked.
"Take-out pizza..." Serenity said slowly.
"Pizza! That sounds good! Thanks for inviting us!" He tried to enter, but Serenity closed the door on him. "What should I do?" She asked the others. Everyone knew it would not look good for the three lights to be caught on TV at her house. It would be splashed all over the tabloids.
Soiya suggested that Serenity hide as many of them as she could, since it was a house full. Seiya hid with Chibi Chibi in a compartment after Serenity asked him to watch her.
Jun entered the house as did Siren and Crow. Jun didn't know what they were talking about but Crow and Siren used their bracelets to get the star seed out of Jun. Serenity ran out to see what was going on. She was about to transform, when Aya interrupted her and told her to come to the living room. Then she noticed what was going on as well. They all saw the star seed that was just a blank as it turned into dust. It wasn't the star seed Crow and Siren were looking for.
Uranus and Neptune appeared, standing on the table.
"That is so unsanitary to stand on there with your shoes on" Siren complained. Neptune was about to attack when the two evil senshi got into the phone booth and vanished. Jun turned into Sailor Sommelier.
Serenity transformed into Eternal Silver Moon and Aya transformed into Galaxial Jupiter. Sommelier attacked them with some red wine in a bottle.
"Deep Submerge" Neptune attacked, but it did not affect Sommelier at all. He also used hors d'oeuvres to attack Jupiter but Eternal Silver Moon used her tiara and flung it right in Sailor Sommelier's face. Also the others arrived as Saturn, Luna and Venus. And the Starlights came as Sailor Star Fighter, Maker and Healer. It suddenly got a bit off topic as they began inspecting the room.
"Silver Moon, how big is this room?" Uranus asked.
"12 mats size. I thought it was quite big, but when I look at it now..." Silver Moon trailed off.
" ...it's a bit small..." Neptune finished. Maker began her attack.
"Star Gentle..." but she was cut off by Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
"Just a moment!" The said in unison. Maker was annoyed.
"What are you doing?" She snapped.
"If you use that attack here..." Jupiter trailed off. Maker looked around and realized what they were talking about. She frowned.
"Excuse me..." Sommelier ventured, getting confused.
"Shut up!" Everyone said at once. Silver Moon decided to end the confusion right away and healed Jun.
Mercury: Sailor Moon! Hurry!
The starlights departed and so did Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. The rest all began cleaning up as Seiya, Yaten and Taiki returned and helped out. Then they hear a sudden noise coming from the closet.
"Is it a thief?" Serenity asked, biting her lip. Seiya took great caution in opening the closet on the count of three and all of them laughed when they saw Chibi Chibi and Hina, pigging out on cake. The two girls looked up guiltily, but no one found it in them to be mad at the girls. Hotaru helped Serenity give the girls a bath and put them to bed. Then they resumed thier game of cards until late into the night, when everyone fell asleep.