Vegas Chapter 17

Andromeda had reduced her self to stalking Darien Chiba. She had just watched as he made a mad dash up the stairs to the roof from her normal hiding spot around the corner. She had just arrived and now she was going to corner him and get an answer as to why he left that message on her machine. Didn't he know that they were meant to be? She started to take off from her hiding place when, "Andy?" she heard an older mans voice call.

"Shit." She said under her breath and she scowled at the man that was derailing her plans.

"Andy, long time no see. What brings you to the hospital today?" Dr. Yoshiman asked as soon as Andy turned around with a pleasant look on her face.

"Just here to watch and learn." She faked a smile but she was boiling on the inside. She needed to see Endymion, it had been so long since last time and now this old man was holding her up.

"Well I would love to show you around this wing if you have time?" He offered. "We do have the best surgical ward in Japan and…"

"No!" Andy yelled too fast stunning Doctor Yoshiman. "I mean I was just on my way out and well… excuse me." Andy went for the stairs leaving the confused doctor to wonder away.

"And I thought she was such a nice young girl too. " he muttered under his breath walking away to get new charts.

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"You are Serenity?" Darien asked her warily knowing that this had to be impossible.

Serena wiped a few tears and nodded.

He closed the space in between them and took her in his arms. She eagerly wrapped her arms around him and buried her face in his chest.

"I never thought that I would see you again or find you. Truth is I didn't know that you were real. This real… to be alive this whole time and we found each other." He said quietly in to her hair.

She looked up at him and understood his frustration placing her hand on his face and just looking at him.

It felt like the world had stopped at the only two who could exist in such a perfect moment.

"Oh, isn't' this just precious!" They heard a high voice announce followed by some clapping. Andy emerged from the stairwell where she had overheard the last part of their conversation.

"It's just always your lucky day, Serenity, isn't it. You took him away then and you're taking him away now. " Andy said mocking Serena.

"Andy? What are you doing here? Didn't I tell you to stay away from me?" Darien placed Serena closer to his side knowing something was more than off. "How did you know about Serenity?"

"Endymion, WHY?" She yelled from across the roof. "Why? I know that we didn't really know each other before but I still loved you, but this time you were mine!" Andy yelled looking more and more enraged.

"Andromeda…" Serenity said more in the form of a question. And Darien looked at Andy and then he pulled the memory of Andromeda yelling at the Senshi.

"You got that right Moon Bitch." With that Andromeda reached for the sky allowing her full transformation take place. Darien and Serena were stunned as Andy reveled herself to be the nuisance plaguing the city.

With one wave of her hand she separated Serena and Darien from one another, Serena hitting the roof deck hard, right at the edge of the building. Darien tried to get up and over to her from his place on the other side of the hospital roof.

"Oh no no no. I don't think so." Andromeda said as she used her powers again to push Darien in to the side of the building.

"Andy!" Darien yelled his golden eyes flashing as he got up from his spot on the ground. That look was enough to make her shake. When his eyes became gold and his body glowed she stayed away. It was something that her father told her in the past, how easy it was for Terran Kings to slay Andromeians. The golden crystal Endymion carried was poison to their makeup if it was ever used on them.

"FINE! I'll be back for you!" Andromeda yelled to Darien. She conjured up a youma, a bird beast that was perched at the top of the hospital where the helicopter landing was. "Kill the bitch and leave him alone." She ordered.

With that she vanished.

Serena hit the hard roof cement with enough impact to leave her practically senseless. Her quick healing was kicking in but not enough for her to acknowledge what was going on. She tried to get up; shaking her head a few times to clear out the fog she was left in. She was quite sure she was seeing things as the sun was no longer in her eyes and the roof deck had become dark. Looking up she saw a huge shadow on top of the hospital. It looked like a giant bird spread eagle. It was so large it blocked out all of the sun on the lower roof deck. Then the sun was back and the shadow was moving gracefully toward her. As her vision cleared she knew she was in danger, a hideous bird demon was doing a death spin right for her. She had to get out of its way.

"Serena! Look out!" She heard Darien yell.

There was only one way, using her arms she pulled herself up and over the ledge of the building right before the bird youma could get her.

"SERENA!" Darien screamed! He was running to the other end of the roof where he had just witnessed his wife throw herself over the ledge. The bird squawked above him circling in the sky but it didn't deter his frantic pace to the other side of the building. He wasn't sure what he was he was hoping to find. Serena never could have survived such a fall, twenty three stories up… he knew… he didn't want to but she had to be…. Dead.

Reaching the other side he looked down hoping to see her alive but he saw nothing. No body on the ground below.

The screams from the people in the city started to reach his ears and he turned his vision east toward the street. The bird youma was making low dips above the crowded streets stealing the people's energy. Some people tried to hide but it was useless. Anything in the Youma's shadow was pray to it's energy stealing form.

"Who are you looking for?" He heard a woman's voice in his left ear and he turned around stunned.

Sailor Moon stood behind him a small smile on her face. She looked over the ledge, "Wow that's pretty high." She said to him.

Darien stumbled back away from the wall and looked at the pretty sailor solider.

"Sailor Moon…" he breathed out not sure if it could be possible. Serenity didn't have any powers on the Moon like this. She was not a protector but the one that needed to be protected at any cost.

"You know, I have never transformed in mid air like that before. It was quite a rush. I think I'll try it from the apartment next time. Maybe try and get in some human free fall action." She said contemplating.

"Sailor Moon." He growled this time his eyes flashing gold.

"Well it's not as easy as I make it out to be. I mean think about it. For a whole 3.26 seconds I am falling though the sky butt naked as I waited for my transformation to kick in. My ass was kind of wind chapped." She put her hands on her hip and gave him a look.

Darien was mad. Endymion was mad. He was trying to focus on his anger and not on the vision of his wife falling naked in mid-air.

"This is just unacceptable." Darien cursed kami-sama.

"Well I can't help it. I need to get out of human clothes and so poof, clothes gone…" She tried to explain.

Darien grabbed the bridge of his nose as he looked at Sailor Moon.

"Of all things that could have happened, you being Sailor Moon is unacceptable. My Serenity out there fighting. My wife fighting. You are going to give me a heart attack!" He yelled at her. His Princess was not going to fight now that he found her. He would protect her.

"Well, you are just going to have to go find yourself a defibulator in a second because that bird youma is coming straight for us." Sailor Moon grabbed his hand and took off running. The bird was close behind as Sailor Moon dodged behind a brick wall right before the stairwell. The bird was using it talons to try and get in to their hiding space.

"Great." Darien sighed. "How do we get rid of this thing?" he was still pissed at the turn of events.

"Well…." Sailor Moon said.

"Well what?" Darien asked his eyes brows going high.

"Well I could just used my power and destroy it." Sailor Moon said warily. "But with out it weakened by the senshi I could over use my power and then I would have to revive all of the people below so I could easily die."

Darien scowled. "Plan B."

"Well… We could wait for the Senshi or Tuxedo mask to show up and weaken the youma. When I have a clear shot I can then kill it."

"Tuxedo Mask…."

"Yeah, stupid outfit but he's pretty darn helpful and cute!" She added with a daydream like smile.

Darien growled but was cut short by the bird's talon coming though the wall. They were running out of time.

"I'll show you stupid outfit." Darien pulled the rose from his jacket and transformed leaving his wife looking stunned. A small blush came to her cheeks. "And cute." He added with a smirk.

"Well look who has secrets too." She murmured and he laughed.

"So how do we do this?" he asked crouching next to her

"You go that way and distract it using your attack and when I see an opening I'll destroy it." Tuxedo Mask nodded and just as they were about to make a break for it the wall came down reveling the birds hideous face. Tuxedo Mask used his cane to poke the bird in the eye causing it to let out an ear piercing screech. Sailor Moon went right and Tuxedo Mask went left. He let out his first attack but the bird was not deterred. It kept firm on it's prey. It had eyes only for the blond warrior.

Sailor Moon dove off the building spreading her own wings. Tuxedo Mask knew that he had to get the bird off her tail. He let out another attack and Sailor Moon looked for a place to get a clear shot of the beast. She swooped downward to try and shake the bird; however, she was not paying attention to where she was going, her attention was on how close the beast was to her. Her wing was clipped in a power line resulting in her to spin widely out of control in to the post office across the street. The bird stretched his neck to try and grab her but Tuxedo Mask let out another Bomb saving her neck for only a second.

Tuxedo mask could see that Sailor Moon was clearly in trouble. In her state she could not focus on her energy to attack the monster. She could barley get up. Her left arm was bleeding and she was trying to crawl away from the beast that had already come out of his dazed state.

She hid under a postal truck that was parked out front; it was no match for the beast. The bird grabbed a hold of the truck and carried it in to the sky. Tuxedo Mask knew what was next. He had to stop the bird from dropping the truck on to his wife. Calling upon the Golden Crystal he turned in to Endymion. The power he drew from it created a beam of golden light. He pushed it out toward the beast and watched as it screamed in pain as it disappeared to nothing. The only thing that he couldn't do was stop the truck as it came plunging down on to Sailor Moon.

He would never make it to her fast enough from the rooftop. He once again called upon the power of the Crystal and the Earth to cause a mighty wind. That's all it took. It moved the truck a few feet to the left of Sailor Moons body, the truck hitting the ground with a loud BOOM.

Endymion felt his legs almost go out from under him. Between the stress of almost watching his love be killed and then smashed by a truck and then all the power he exuded trying to save her. He could not recall the last time he used the crystal so much.

Darien changed back in to Tuxedo Mask and he watched at Sailor Moon stood, using her Moon Rod to stand up. She used her powers to heal the people who had their energy stolen. Right before he watched her pass out again two Sailor Scouts, one in aqua marine the other in blue and gold grabbed her and took off.

Endymion was going to deal with whoever just took his wife.