Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Golden Hind ❯ The Surprises part A ( Chapter 2 )

Well here is the disclaimer I don't own Sailor Moon or any of the stuff I used from Hercules.

On with the story, The Surprises Part A

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Sailor Saturn walked down the hall toward Serenity's bedchamber. She was holding herself back from running. She hadn't seen Mace in about 3 years and she couldn't wait. The thought of seeing him made her start running. Halfway to Serenity bedchamber she sensed something and stopped. She closed her eyes, made her staff appear and concentrated. A life in the near by town was dying slowly from poison. She opened her eyes and quickly appeared in the princess bedchamber, surprising Serenity.

"Saturn, is something wrong?" She asked concerned.

"A life is about to be lost Serenity." Saturn said quickly. Serenity bowed her head ringing the dress, for Saturn, in her hands.

"I know, but if I venture into the town I might get touched. There are many men in the town." Saturn walked up to Serenity and placed one of her gloved hands on Serenity's bare hand. Serenity stopped wringing the dress and handed it to Saturn. The dress was a light violet and was very long. It had double spaghetti straps on each shoulder and each was covered with jewels.

"Its beautiful Serenity, thank-you!" She held the dress up to her in front of Serenity mirror. "Serenity, I think that you should heal him."

"I think so too, since it was…"

"Your fault?"

"Yes, you sensed the poison from my arrow?"

"Yes! Serenity, go heal him I will cover for you, but you must not be gone for longer then needed, my magic only holds up for so long." Saturn walked up to her and hugged her. "Go Serenity."

"Thank you, Saturn, could you transport me to the middle of the forest?" Serenity asked.

"I was asked earlier and could sense the mans best friends' pain in his heart, but because of my fear I said no, but I really should do it. I have a feeling that I might too far away being here."

"Okay Serenity, but you have to tell me where Mace is."

"Oh Saturn I completely forgot! With me thinking about that man that got wounded." Saturn's face dropped.

"He's been waiting in the garden you're always in for 30 mins." Saturn looked at her surprised.

"You scared me, I thought you'd forgotten to teleport him here."

"Oh Saturn, I would never forget a promise." They hugged.

"While I'm still Saturn, lets get you transported to the forest." Saturn held her glaive out in front of her. "Take hold of the glaive." Saturn commanded. Serenity turned into the Golden hind and took a hold of the glaive. "Be careful Serena!" Saturn closed her eyes and began to concentrate. Soon the hind disappeared. Saturn opened her eyes and whispered, "Be careful princess, and thank you." She hugged the dress with one arm.

Hotaru came out of the room no longer in her scout uniform, but in the dress Serenity had let her borrow. She ran all the way to the garden, as she reached the steps she stopped and searched for Mace and found him with his back to her. He was dressed in the royal armor of Saturn. She walked down the steps as quiet as a lion stalking pray. She came up behind him and when she was about to put her hands over his eyes he turned around, grabbed her by the waist and pulled her into his lap.

"You still the best soldier, next to me."

"Oh my little lioness, how I have missed you, three long years."

"I'm missed you!" She tried to move but he held her in place.

"Mace? May I see your face, you still wear your helmet." He took one of her hands from around her and removed his helmet. His long white hair fell down his tan face and went down to the middle of his back. His violet eyes were directed at her and her alone.

"You' re more beautiful then the last time I saw you."

"Mace you're more handsome then I remember." Hotaru wrapped her arms around his neck and ran her fingers through his hair. Mace pulled Hotaru closer and was about to kiss her when they heard a strange call for help.

"NO! Serenity!" Hotaru jumped from her loves arms, stood and looked toward the forest, then she turned to look back at Mace. "I'm sorry love, but the princess needs me." She turned toward the forest again.

"SATURN PLANET POWER!" She instantly wore her warrior outfit again. "I'm sorry Mace, but I must go!" she said not looking at him. Just as she was about to jump into the air, Mace grabbed her hand.

"I'm going to!" She turned to look at him and saw him with his helmet back on and his sword drawn.

"Right lets go!" She jumped into the air with Mace running on the ground behind her. She made her glaive appear in her hand and started searching for Serenity.

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The hind appeared in the forest and started to see if Darien was still in the forest. Suddenly a branch behind her cracked and scared her. She turned and saw a human form, but didn't recognize it as Darien, and took off.

"Wait… wait… I'm not here to harm you!" yelled Darien.

The hind took off looking behind her and appeared in a clearing, right in front of Nester.

"GET HER NOW!" Yelled Nester as soon as he saw her. The men started to charge at her and she let out a strange half human half deer cry, to let the scouts know that she needed help. As one of men with a spear was about to hit her, Darien came out in front of her and took a hold of the spear, yanked it forward, causing the guy to fall forward unexpectedly, he then used all his strength and threw the guy making him let go of the spear. Darien then threw the spear at a couple other guys headed for him and continued to fight them hand to hand.

Another man charged at him with a sword and just before the man plunged the sword into him, he bent down and when the man hit his shoulder he threw the man over his shoulder and the man landed at the base of a tree. 2 more men charged him and he did the same thing with them, both landing on top of the other man. A fourth man charged him with a staff. Darien grabbed the staff and swung the guy around a few time and then let go of the stick. After he let go of the stick the man flew into the three men that had finally gotten up and they all fell back to the ground with the fourth man on the top.

Two more men charged after the hind, but Darien moved in front of her just in time to knock the men away. The hind took off to her left, seeing this as an opportunity to flee. Unknown to everyone she hid behind a nearby rock.

"Get the Beast! Go after her! We'll deal with him later." Yelled Nester.

"This is wrong Nester, let her go!" Darien yelled after the man as they ran off in the direction the hind went. Nester hung behind in a horse drawn buggy.

"Never, we got the hind once, we'll get her again and when we do, you'll be dead, Endymion." Nester said just before he followed his men. Darien started to follow after them when he sensed someone behind a rock. He turned and Serena walked out from behind it.

"Serena, What are you doing here?" Darien asked surprised.

"Watching! You save her? She asked. She was wearing the same outfit she had been when she met Darien, except this time her hair was no up and had a braid on each side pulled into the back holding her hair behind her shoulders.

Authurs note: It resembles how Venus has her haired tied back.

"Yes, Of course I did, that's why I'm here. I was hoping she could help Kunzite." Darien said. He started to walk after Nester and his men.

"Wait, Don't go. I… you don't need her, I'll go with you." Serena stated slightly frightened.

"Your afraid to go into the village aren't you?" questioned Darien. "That's why you want your gift to be a secret."

"Yes, your right! I'm afraid of people. They are dangerous to any one that's not exactly like them." Serena stated firmly while closing one hand over the other and then switching hands every so often.

"It'll will be dark by the time we get into the village. No one will se you and even if they do I promise to take care of you." Darien said taking one of her hands. Serena sighed contently, his hands felt so wonderful. They stared to walk when Saturn landed in front of Darien and knocked him to the ground. Mace ran up a few mintes later.

"How dare you touch her? Serena are you alright?"

"Saturn, this is the man taking me to heal his friend." Saturn bent down and pulled the guy to his feet. Darien quickly took a protective stance in front of Serena.

"I'm terribly sorry!" She bowed to the man and jumped into a tree. Mace followed. "See you later Serena, and do be careful, he is after all a man." They heard her jump from tree to tree for a while and then the leaves stopped rustling.

"Who was that?" Darien asked surprised.

"A friend, who serves at the temple. Can we get moving, please I have another place I must be as soon as possible," Serena stated.

"Uh. Yeah" Darien started toward the village and Serena followed him.

They soon reached the village and headed to the healer's hut. Darien walked in first and hid Serena's form from the healer.

"Darien, he's still." He paused when he saw Serena walk into the room. "Oh, I need to get some water, if you need me." He said and started to walk toward the back door.

"Not a word that she's here." Darien said.

"What ever you say Darien!" The healer said before he walked out the back door to get water.

Serena walked over to the table that Kunzite was on and held her hands over his chest and healed the wound that she had caused. Darien watched from a safe distance. When she was done Kunzite aroused, saw her and touched her, causing her to turn into the hind. She looked at Darien.

"I didn't mean to deceive you."

"I take it this is why you were afraid to come into the village."

"Yes! Now if you'll excuse me!" She ran past him, out the door and headed back to the palace.

"Serena!" Darien called after her. She just ignored it. He was about to chase after her when the healer came back into the room.

"Darien, you already 30 mins late for the ball. I'll take care of Kunzite, you need to go, the ball is for you." The healer said.

"You're right, thanks for reminding me." Darien said, not sure of what to do. He decided in the end to attend the ball and find Serena sometime tomorrow or skip a little of the ball to find her. He got dressed in his silver armor that only covered his shoulders and went down to his knees. He wore a blue shirt under the armor that covered his arms and white gloves over his hands. He wore black boots up to his knees that covered the bottom of his armor.

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