Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Finding Destiny ❯ The Trap ( Chapter 14 )
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By: Angel Love 
Darien and Serena share a moment that gets shattered by a scream.
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Adventure / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 09.23.2001 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 1.1K | Status: Completed
Darien and Serena share a moment that gets shattered by a scream.
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Adventure / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 09.23.2001 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 1.1K | Status: Completed
Finding Destiny
Part 14
By Angel Love
Author's Notes: A small warning, things get a little heated between Serena and Darien. Plus there is a bit of action in this chapter!
Standard disclaimers apply. I don't own anything!
Darien watched in amusement as Serena ran in front of him like a small child. She twirled around gracefully, then stopped, waiting for him to catch up with her, her blond pigtails dancing in the breeze. Her blue eyes shone bright with life and love for the tall man approaching her slowly, her cheeks were flush from her recent exertion, and her smile was expectant as she waited. She reminded Darien of the Greek goddess, Selene. She had never looked more beautiful to him.
He had just reached her when he saw the flash of mischief cross her face. He stretched out a hand for her, just to have her dance out of his reach, giggling wildly. A devilish smile crossed his face as his eyebrow rose up.
"Catch me if you can!" Serena called over her shoulder, as she took off running down one of the many park paths.
Darien laughed. He easily caught up with Serena. He was about to grab her when she quickly darted down another path. "I see running every day to school has paid off!" Darien called to her fleeing form; he was rewarded with her rich laughter.
Again, his long legs easily ate up the distance between him and Serena. This time his arms circled around her and they tumbled to the soft grass, both laughing and gasping for air.
Serena turned over under Darien to face him. She noticed that his haunted look that always seemed present was now gone from his eyes; a flushed face and a happy smile replaced it. Happiness surged through her when she realized that she was the one to put that look there. She smiled lovingly at him as he gazed back down at her; she traced her fingers down his strong cheekbone, memorizing his features. She silently wished for this moment to never end.
Suddenly, Serena became very aware of the way Darien's body pressed down over her own. Her eyes darkened with desire, her breathing became shallow, and her smile slowly died from her lips. She moved her arms around Darien's broad shoulders, pulling him closer to herself.
Darien immediately noticed Serena's change in attitude, for his own body had already begun to respond to her soft flesh underneath him. He wanted her, but he didn't want to scare her. His head slowly lowered towards hers when a scream ripped through the air.
Both quickly scrambled up and raced towards the source of the scream, wishing that it happened a few moments later. Then repremanding themselves for their selfish thoughts.
When they reached the scene, they found an ugly youma attacking a young red-haired woman.
"Darien, you need to go get help!" Serena yelled at the black-haired companion. She searched for a spot around her to transform.
Darien agreed, as he too searched for a spot to transform. "Meet me back at my apartment. Please be careful," Darien called before he disappeared into the trees.
Serena ran the opposite way, disappearing behind some foliage. She quickly pulled out her communicator, hitting the 'all-call' button. "We have a youma problem in the park," she quickly told the other scouts before she closed the connection and transformed into Sailor Moon.
"Hey you! How dare you attack an innocent woman!" A voice called out, startling the youma. "I stand for love; I stand for justice; and in the name of the moon, I shall punish you!" The form of Sailor Moon appeared from the bushes.
The youma looked up and growled at Sailor Moon. It dropped the woman, who quickly ran from the scene, and laughed insanely at the young scout's entrance. "I've been expecting you, Moon-brat!" Its voice was a low rumble, sending chills of dread down Sailor Moon's back. "Prepare to die!"
Its hand turned to liquid and formed arrows, which it shot at the lone warrior. Sailor Moon dodged all but one arrow, which nicked her shoulder. She grabbed her shoulder in pain, looking up to see more arrows heading for her. Fear shot through her, as she knew she couldn't avoid them.
Suddenly, she felt arms encircle her waist as she was lifted in the air and she was moved out of harms way. She looked up into the domino of Tuxedo Mask. Joy shot through her as she looked at his handsome features. "Tuxedo Mask!" she cried with delight, her arms encircling his neck.
Then Darien's face appeared in her mind and she knew that she had to let Tux go. She knew that no matter what she felt for Tux, she loved Darien more. Sadly, she whispered a thank you and moved out of his arms, turning back towards the youma, who was preparing more arrows.
Tuxedo Mask was confused by Sailor Moon's abrupt change in attitude, yet he shrugged it off as more arrows came shooting towards them. They dove separate ways to avoid them.
"Mars Fire Ignite!"
The youma screamed in agony as the fire hit it in the back.
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!" Jupiter yelled as electricity emitted from her tiara, sending it towards the youma.
The youma fell forward and Sailors Venus and Mercury yelled out, "Sailor Moon…now!"
"Right," Sailor Moon nodded, taking out her crescent moon wand and charged her own attack. "Moon Healing Activation!"
Sailor Moon's power coursed through the youma, expelling the youma, leaving the body of a young boy lying on the grass.
The scouts were just begining to relax when they heard clapping behind them. They whirled around, Sailor Moon moving unconsciously closer to Tuxedo Mask, to see Malachite hovering there with a benevolent smile on his face.
Sailor Mercury and Venus moved up next to their leader, eyeing the general wearily. Mars and Jupiter moved up next to Tux and stood ready to attack.
"Well done, Sailor Failures!" Malachite stooped clapping and grinned at them. "It is too bad that you fell right into our trap."
The girls looked up in confusion as they noticed the body of the young boy fade into nothing.
Tuxedo Mask edged closer to Sailor Moon, hoping to shield her from any attack. 'I have a bad feeling about this,' he thought to himself.
Suddenly, Malachite's grin widened and black energy cuffs formed over the scout's wrists. The cuffs sent massive black energy coursing through their body, instantly bringing them to their knees and screams from their lips.
As Sailor Moon struggled with her cuffs, Tux dropped to his knees in front of her. He quickly grabbed onto the cuffs in an attempt to pull them off, but the energy coursed through him, blowing him back away from them.
"Tuxedo Mask!" Moon screamed as she watched the masked man shake his head in an attempt to clear it. She looked over at her friends.
"Jupiter, Mars!" She cried out as she watched her friends struggle to remove their own cuffs. "Venus, Mercury!" She saw that Mercury was losing strength fast.
She looked up when she heard the sound of laughter. She saw that Zoicite had joined Malachite and was rotating five small orbs in his hand. Tears coursed down her face as she looked down at her cuffs in desperation. 'I have to get these off. I have to help them,' her mind screamed.
Tuxedo Mask had also noticed Zoicite's arrival. He looked closer at the orbs and noticed that they each had a symbol on them, one for each scout. He looked over at Sailor Moon, his heart filling with pride when he noticed that she had crawled over to Mercury and was trying to help the scout remove her cuffs. 'She is really brave.'
He looked back up at Zoicite and focused on the round orbs. An idea struck him and he slipped a rose out, aiming it for the middle one, the one with the symbol of the moon.
Catching the generals off guard, the rose hit and shattered the orb with the moon symbol on it. And by shear luck, it shattered the one with the symbol of Mercury on it as well.
"No!" Zoicite screamed in frustration.
Malachite cursed under his breath, sending a dark wave of energy towards Tux, who barely avoided it.
Tuxedo Mask quickly looked over and noticed that Sailor Moon and Mercury were free from the cuffs. He sighed with relief, before he moved to dodge another attack from Malachite.
Moon ran to Venus and began to tug on her cuffs, ignoring the black waves of energy hitting her gloved hands, scrorching her skin underneath. She grimaced as she saw Venus begin to slump from the drain.
"Sailor Moon, leave me. Save yourself and Mercury," Venus pleaded, her blue eyes locking with Sailor Moon's.
"Never," Moon told her friend and began to tug harder, more desperatly.
Meanwhile, Mercury was running a computer scan on the cuffs. "I got it!" She cried out in joy. "Those globes in Zoicite's hands are controlling the cuffs. Sailor Moon aim your tiara for those."
"Okay." Sailor Moon's hand moved up to her tiara. "Moon Tiara..."
"Too late!" Zoicite's evil laugh cut through Sailor Moon's attack phrase.
Sailor Moon felt a body slump against her, she turned to see Venus had passed out against her. Looking up in horror she saw that Mars and Jupiter had feinted as well. "NO!" she screamed, reaching for her tiara again, just as Malachite reached for Zoicite's shoulder.
"Let's go!" he shouted to the blond general.
"But we don't have them all!" Zoicite shouted back, obviously angry that the plan had not gone as they wished.
"She will follow us and she will bring him with her."
With that the generals disappeared, taking the three unconscious scouts with them.
Sailor Moon's tiara flew through the petals where Zoicite had just occupied.
"Nooooo!"
The cry peeled from Sailor Moon's lips as she fell to her knees, pounding her white gloves on the grass in frustration.
Mercury and Mask quickly ran to her side.
"Sailor Moon, I got a good reading on their energy signature. If I can trace it, we can find their base of operations. Then we can rescue the other scouts." Mercury said hopefully, placing a hand on her trembling leader's shoulder.
"That is just what they want!" Moon slammed her fist into the grass again. "This whole thing was a trap!"
Tears streamed down her face as she turned quivering blue eyes to Tux's face. "They were going to use us to lure you to them."
"Probably." Tux nodded, covering her gloved hand with his own. "I am the only one that they couldn't make one of those globes for."
"That is only because they don't know the truth about you."
The three weary warriors turned to see Luna and Artemis walking towards them.
"And what is the truth?" Mercury asked, her eyes narrowing.
"Tuxedo Mask is the scout of Earth," Artemis answered.
"Not to mention, the Prince of Earth as well," Luna added.
Mercury gasped slightly. Then her body felt weak, she crumpled to the ground unconscious, detransforming into her civilian form in the process.
"Amy!" Sailor Moon cried in alarm. Cradling the girl's head in her lap, she ran her fingers through the unconscious girl's blue hair, turning an alarmed look to the cats and Tuxedo Mask. 'Please let her be alright,' she thought to herself.
"Her pulse is a little fast," Tux said after he checked the frail girl's pulse. "But I think that she will be fine. She was just exhausted and the last final shock didn't help."
Tux was a bit shocked himself to discover that Sailor Mercury was one of Serena's friends.
"We better get her to a safe place where she can rest," Luna commented. She looked over at her young charge in concern. "You should get some rest yourself. You look exhausted."
"We can take her back to my apartment," Tux nodded towards Amy. "And you can rest there for awhile too."
"Agreed." Artemis nodded.
Sailor Moon nodded, reaching down to pick up her limp friend. She looked up, her eyes dull and lifeless. "Lead the way."
Her voice too seemed dull and lifeless. Tuxedo Mask felt his heart sped up as he watched the scout. He turned away leading the way out of the park. 'She reminds me so much of Serena. I see the same strength in them both. I am just glad that Serena doesn't have to face the horrors that this scout faces every day.'
He shook his hand to clear his thoughts away from the young warrior and turned them more towards her girlfriend. 'I hope that she doesn't freak out too much about Amy. Not to mention that Sailor Moon will be there. And I guess I'll have to tell her about me being Tuxedo Mask.'
'So much for meeting Darien at his apartment,' Sailor Moon thought as she followed Tux out of the park, turning to make sure that the cats were following her. 'Amy is hurt and the others have been kidnapped.'
A tear fell down her face as she tried to ignore the increasing weight of Amy's body on her own weakening one.
Tuxedo Mask turned to look over his shoulder. 'She looks too small to be carrying Amy all the way to the apartment.'
He turned around and faced the scout. He scooped Amy out of her arms and looked at her tear-stained face. "We should travel by roof top to avoid being seen. Do you think you can do that?"
For a second, she looked doubtful, until she looked down at Amy's limp body. She turned her eyes back to his and nodded. She turned and scooped up the cats, and looked up at him. "Let's go."
Tuxedo Mask's eyebrows rose when he suddenly realized that these were the same two cats he had seen with Serena yesterday. And the way Sailor Moon picked up the cats was identical to the way Serena had yesterday. Comprehension dawned on him as some of the puzzle pieces fell into place.
"Serena?"
Sailor Moon gasped, her jaw dropping open. "How... how do you know my name?" Her eyes narrowed and her body went tense with sudden unease.
"Calm down, Sailor Moon," Luna purred in her ear. "It isn't easy to fool the one you love."
Sailor Moon gasped. 'Is it true? Is he...' She stepped forward slowly, her hand coming up to his domino. "May I?"
At Tux's nod, she removed his mask with trembling fingers. She met the midnight-blue eyes of the man she adored. 'He is.' Slowly, a smile spread across her face, as several puzzle pieces fell into place for her as well. The light slowly began to return to her eyes as she gazed in his.
"I guess I don't have to call you with some lame excuse on why I didn't show up to your apartment." She joked, tilting her head to the side.
Tux smiled back at her. "At least now, I don't have to worry about you freaking out about Amy."
At the mention of Amy, Sailor Moon's face became grim. "Let's go. We'll talk when we get her settled." She lovingly put the mask back over his eyes.
She turned her attention to Luna. "We need a plan." Her eyes hardened. "I need to save my scouts."
To be continued...
Part 14
By Angel Love
Author's Notes: A small warning, things get a little heated between Serena and Darien. Plus there is a bit of action in this chapter!
Standard disclaimers apply. I don't own anything!
Darien watched in amusement as Serena ran in front of him like a small child. She twirled around gracefully, then stopped, waiting for him to catch up with her, her blond pigtails dancing in the breeze. Her blue eyes shone bright with life and love for the tall man approaching her slowly, her cheeks were flush from her recent exertion, and her smile was expectant as she waited. She reminded Darien of the Greek goddess, Selene. She had never looked more beautiful to him.
He had just reached her when he saw the flash of mischief cross her face. He stretched out a hand for her, just to have her dance out of his reach, giggling wildly. A devilish smile crossed his face as his eyebrow rose up.
"Catch me if you can!" Serena called over her shoulder, as she took off running down one of the many park paths.
Darien laughed. He easily caught up with Serena. He was about to grab her when she quickly darted down another path. "I see running every day to school has paid off!" Darien called to her fleeing form; he was rewarded with her rich laughter.
Again, his long legs easily ate up the distance between him and Serena. This time his arms circled around her and they tumbled to the soft grass, both laughing and gasping for air.
Serena turned over under Darien to face him. She noticed that his haunted look that always seemed present was now gone from his eyes; a flushed face and a happy smile replaced it. Happiness surged through her when she realized that she was the one to put that look there. She smiled lovingly at him as he gazed back down at her; she traced her fingers down his strong cheekbone, memorizing his features. She silently wished for this moment to never end.
Suddenly, Serena became very aware of the way Darien's body pressed down over her own. Her eyes darkened with desire, her breathing became shallow, and her smile slowly died from her lips. She moved her arms around Darien's broad shoulders, pulling him closer to herself.
Darien immediately noticed Serena's change in attitude, for his own body had already begun to respond to her soft flesh underneath him. He wanted her, but he didn't want to scare her. His head slowly lowered towards hers when a scream ripped through the air.
Both quickly scrambled up and raced towards the source of the scream, wishing that it happened a few moments later. Then repremanding themselves for their selfish thoughts.
When they reached the scene, they found an ugly youma attacking a young red-haired woman.
"Darien, you need to go get help!" Serena yelled at the black-haired companion. She searched for a spot around her to transform.
Darien agreed, as he too searched for a spot to transform. "Meet me back at my apartment. Please be careful," Darien called before he disappeared into the trees.
Serena ran the opposite way, disappearing behind some foliage. She quickly pulled out her communicator, hitting the 'all-call' button. "We have a youma problem in the park," she quickly told the other scouts before she closed the connection and transformed into Sailor Moon.
"Hey you! How dare you attack an innocent woman!" A voice called out, startling the youma. "I stand for love; I stand for justice; and in the name of the moon, I shall punish you!" The form of Sailor Moon appeared from the bushes.
The youma looked up and growled at Sailor Moon. It dropped the woman, who quickly ran from the scene, and laughed insanely at the young scout's entrance. "I've been expecting you, Moon-brat!" Its voice was a low rumble, sending chills of dread down Sailor Moon's back. "Prepare to die!"
Its hand turned to liquid and formed arrows, which it shot at the lone warrior. Sailor Moon dodged all but one arrow, which nicked her shoulder. She grabbed her shoulder in pain, looking up to see more arrows heading for her. Fear shot through her, as she knew she couldn't avoid them.
Suddenly, she felt arms encircle her waist as she was lifted in the air and she was moved out of harms way. She looked up into the domino of Tuxedo Mask. Joy shot through her as she looked at his handsome features. "Tuxedo Mask!" she cried with delight, her arms encircling his neck.
Then Darien's face appeared in her mind and she knew that she had to let Tux go. She knew that no matter what she felt for Tux, she loved Darien more. Sadly, she whispered a thank you and moved out of his arms, turning back towards the youma, who was preparing more arrows.
Tuxedo Mask was confused by Sailor Moon's abrupt change in attitude, yet he shrugged it off as more arrows came shooting towards them. They dove separate ways to avoid them.
"Mars Fire Ignite!"
The youma screamed in agony as the fire hit it in the back.
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!" Jupiter yelled as electricity emitted from her tiara, sending it towards the youma.
The youma fell forward and Sailors Venus and Mercury yelled out, "Sailor Moon…now!"
"Right," Sailor Moon nodded, taking out her crescent moon wand and charged her own attack. "Moon Healing Activation!"
Sailor Moon's power coursed through the youma, expelling the youma, leaving the body of a young boy lying on the grass.
The scouts were just begining to relax when they heard clapping behind them. They whirled around, Sailor Moon moving unconsciously closer to Tuxedo Mask, to see Malachite hovering there with a benevolent smile on his face.
Sailor Mercury and Venus moved up next to their leader, eyeing the general wearily. Mars and Jupiter moved up next to Tux and stood ready to attack.
"Well done, Sailor Failures!" Malachite stooped clapping and grinned at them. "It is too bad that you fell right into our trap."
The girls looked up in confusion as they noticed the body of the young boy fade into nothing.
Tuxedo Mask edged closer to Sailor Moon, hoping to shield her from any attack. 'I have a bad feeling about this,' he thought to himself.
Suddenly, Malachite's grin widened and black energy cuffs formed over the scout's wrists. The cuffs sent massive black energy coursing through their body, instantly bringing them to their knees and screams from their lips.
As Sailor Moon struggled with her cuffs, Tux dropped to his knees in front of her. He quickly grabbed onto the cuffs in an attempt to pull them off, but the energy coursed through him, blowing him back away from them.
"Tuxedo Mask!" Moon screamed as she watched the masked man shake his head in an attempt to clear it. She looked over at her friends.
"Jupiter, Mars!" She cried out as she watched her friends struggle to remove their own cuffs. "Venus, Mercury!" She saw that Mercury was losing strength fast.
She looked up when she heard the sound of laughter. She saw that Zoicite had joined Malachite and was rotating five small orbs in his hand. Tears coursed down her face as she looked down at her cuffs in desperation. 'I have to get these off. I have to help them,' her mind screamed.
Tuxedo Mask had also noticed Zoicite's arrival. He looked closer at the orbs and noticed that they each had a symbol on them, one for each scout. He looked over at Sailor Moon, his heart filling with pride when he noticed that she had crawled over to Mercury and was trying to help the scout remove her cuffs. 'She is really brave.'
He looked back up at Zoicite and focused on the round orbs. An idea struck him and he slipped a rose out, aiming it for the middle one, the one with the symbol of the moon.
Catching the generals off guard, the rose hit and shattered the orb with the moon symbol on it. And by shear luck, it shattered the one with the symbol of Mercury on it as well.
"No!" Zoicite screamed in frustration.
Malachite cursed under his breath, sending a dark wave of energy towards Tux, who barely avoided it.
Tuxedo Mask quickly looked over and noticed that Sailor Moon and Mercury were free from the cuffs. He sighed with relief, before he moved to dodge another attack from Malachite.
Moon ran to Venus and began to tug on her cuffs, ignoring the black waves of energy hitting her gloved hands, scrorching her skin underneath. She grimaced as she saw Venus begin to slump from the drain.
"Sailor Moon, leave me. Save yourself and Mercury," Venus pleaded, her blue eyes locking with Sailor Moon's.
"Never," Moon told her friend and began to tug harder, more desperatly.
Meanwhile, Mercury was running a computer scan on the cuffs. "I got it!" She cried out in joy. "Those globes in Zoicite's hands are controlling the cuffs. Sailor Moon aim your tiara for those."
"Okay." Sailor Moon's hand moved up to her tiara. "Moon Tiara..."
"Too late!" Zoicite's evil laugh cut through Sailor Moon's attack phrase.
Sailor Moon felt a body slump against her, she turned to see Venus had passed out against her. Looking up in horror she saw that Mars and Jupiter had feinted as well. "NO!" she screamed, reaching for her tiara again, just as Malachite reached for Zoicite's shoulder.
"Let's go!" he shouted to the blond general.
"But we don't have them all!" Zoicite shouted back, obviously angry that the plan had not gone as they wished.
"She will follow us and she will bring him with her."
With that the generals disappeared, taking the three unconscious scouts with them.
Sailor Moon's tiara flew through the petals where Zoicite had just occupied.
"Nooooo!"
The cry peeled from Sailor Moon's lips as she fell to her knees, pounding her white gloves on the grass in frustration.
Mercury and Mask quickly ran to her side.
"Sailor Moon, I got a good reading on their energy signature. If I can trace it, we can find their base of operations. Then we can rescue the other scouts." Mercury said hopefully, placing a hand on her trembling leader's shoulder.
"That is just what they want!" Moon slammed her fist into the grass again. "This whole thing was a trap!"
Tears streamed down her face as she turned quivering blue eyes to Tux's face. "They were going to use us to lure you to them."
"Probably." Tux nodded, covering her gloved hand with his own. "I am the only one that they couldn't make one of those globes for."
"That is only because they don't know the truth about you."
The three weary warriors turned to see Luna and Artemis walking towards them.
"And what is the truth?" Mercury asked, her eyes narrowing.
"Tuxedo Mask is the scout of Earth," Artemis answered.
"Not to mention, the Prince of Earth as well," Luna added.
Mercury gasped slightly. Then her body felt weak, she crumpled to the ground unconscious, detransforming into her civilian form in the process.
"Amy!" Sailor Moon cried in alarm. Cradling the girl's head in her lap, she ran her fingers through the unconscious girl's blue hair, turning an alarmed look to the cats and Tuxedo Mask. 'Please let her be alright,' she thought to herself.
"Her pulse is a little fast," Tux said after he checked the frail girl's pulse. "But I think that she will be fine. She was just exhausted and the last final shock didn't help."
Tux was a bit shocked himself to discover that Sailor Mercury was one of Serena's friends.
"We better get her to a safe place where she can rest," Luna commented. She looked over at her young charge in concern. "You should get some rest yourself. You look exhausted."
"We can take her back to my apartment," Tux nodded towards Amy. "And you can rest there for awhile too."
"Agreed." Artemis nodded.
Sailor Moon nodded, reaching down to pick up her limp friend. She looked up, her eyes dull and lifeless. "Lead the way."
Her voice too seemed dull and lifeless. Tuxedo Mask felt his heart sped up as he watched the scout. He turned away leading the way out of the park. 'She reminds me so much of Serena. I see the same strength in them both. I am just glad that Serena doesn't have to face the horrors that this scout faces every day.'
He shook his hand to clear his thoughts away from the young warrior and turned them more towards her girlfriend. 'I hope that she doesn't freak out too much about Amy. Not to mention that Sailor Moon will be there. And I guess I'll have to tell her about me being Tuxedo Mask.'
'So much for meeting Darien at his apartment,' Sailor Moon thought as she followed Tux out of the park, turning to make sure that the cats were following her. 'Amy is hurt and the others have been kidnapped.'
A tear fell down her face as she tried to ignore the increasing weight of Amy's body on her own weakening one.
Tuxedo Mask turned to look over his shoulder. 'She looks too small to be carrying Amy all the way to the apartment.'
He turned around and faced the scout. He scooped Amy out of her arms and looked at her tear-stained face. "We should travel by roof top to avoid being seen. Do you think you can do that?"
For a second, she looked doubtful, until she looked down at Amy's limp body. She turned her eyes back to his and nodded. She turned and scooped up the cats, and looked up at him. "Let's go."
Tuxedo Mask's eyebrows rose when he suddenly realized that these were the same two cats he had seen with Serena yesterday. And the way Sailor Moon picked up the cats was identical to the way Serena had yesterday. Comprehension dawned on him as some of the puzzle pieces fell into place.
"Serena?"
Sailor Moon gasped, her jaw dropping open. "How... how do you know my name?" Her eyes narrowed and her body went tense with sudden unease.
"Calm down, Sailor Moon," Luna purred in her ear. "It isn't easy to fool the one you love."
Sailor Moon gasped. 'Is it true? Is he...' She stepped forward slowly, her hand coming up to his domino. "May I?"
At Tux's nod, she removed his mask with trembling fingers. She met the midnight-blue eyes of the man she adored. 'He is.' Slowly, a smile spread across her face, as several puzzle pieces fell into place for her as well. The light slowly began to return to her eyes as she gazed in his.
"I guess I don't have to call you with some lame excuse on why I didn't show up to your apartment." She joked, tilting her head to the side.
Tux smiled back at her. "At least now, I don't have to worry about you freaking out about Amy."
At the mention of Amy, Sailor Moon's face became grim. "Let's go. We'll talk when we get her settled." She lovingly put the mask back over his eyes.
She turned her attention to Luna. "We need a plan." Her eyes hardened. "I need to save my scouts."
To be continued...