Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Things can Change ❯ Here's to You ( Chapter 12 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Serena froze standing out in front of Molly’s doorway hearing a voice. “Serena.” She spun around but no one was in the hallway. “Serena.” Her eye’s widened, who was calling her. In a moment of fear she closed her eyes and when she opened them she found herself no longer in Molly’s apartment hallway but in some strange place that reminded her of the…no impossible. “Hello, Serena.”

This time when Serena turned around she was face to face with a woman that reminded her of herself. “Who are you?” The woman chuckled and moved so that she was hugging Serena.

“My name is Serenity. I was the Queen of the Moon Kingdom.” She said finally in a soft voice.

“Why do I feel like I know you?”

“You’ll know in time my dear.”

“Okay.” Serena whispered not able to think of any arguments. Serenity took Serena’s hand and led her to a bench. When sitting down Serena stared at her not sure how to break the silence, though she didn’t have to for Serenity finally did.

“You need to break this spell that he has over you.”
“What spell? Who?” Serena said wide eyed.

“Jedite, you know this is not what you want to do.”

“How would you know?” Serena said indignity. Serena crossed her arms over her chest and turned the away from Serenity. ‘How would she know what I do and don’t want to do? I want to…’ Serena froze not able to complete the thought because something in the back of her mind wouldn’t let her say she wanted to go with Jedite. Why?

“Serena do not make hasty decisions, it is not wise and will result in you being hurt in the end.” Serenity whispered into Serena’s ear petting her head gently. “Take some time to realize things. Your looking at things through someone else’s eyes. You can’t see it but if you think like yourself then the spell he has cast on you will disappear. Be careful.”

“What?” Serena didn’t understand it sounded like she was saying goodbye already. Tears had started to well in Serena’s eye’s before for some unknown reason and now started to flow freely. She closed her eyes and wiped at them and when finally they had subsided and she opened her eyes, she was back in the hallway, no longer on the moon nor any sign that that had just happened.

Serena leaned against Molly’s door her eyes wide. There was no way that could have been just a dream, no way. It had been to real and that woman, Serenity, had seemed so familiar to Serena although she couldn’t place how. “Break a spell that I’m under? How.” Serena sighed and walked back into Molly’s apartment.

Molly sat on the couch and looked up when Serena returned. Serena walked over to Molly and sat down beside her. She laid her head on Molly’s lap and stared blankly ahead of her. Molly smiled slightly and put her hand on Serena’s head. “Were not going.” Serena heard Molly say. Serena smiled, Molly always knew she didn’t have to ask this time. Serena nodded.

“I need to think. Things are going so fast…I was told when I was younger of how things could change at the drop of a hat but…I never thought that, that could be true.”

“Go see the others that’ll clear things up. I don’t think that there is anything that I can do. I’m afraid this has nothing to do with me and everything to do with the other girls.” Molly started to tear up and Serena hugged her. “If you don’t go see them things will spiral even more out of control, go now.”

Serena nodded and ran out of Molly’s apartment before she just crawled up on Molly’s couch and decided never to get up again. She ran until she couldn’t run any more and found herself at Rae’s temple. Serena slowly dragged her feet up the steps, each leg felling like they weighed a ton. When she found herself at the top she walked to where they usually had the meetings.

No one was there though. In fact as Serena looked around inside looking for any sign of life she found none. Serena’s heart sunk and she left after no luck on a second search. Then Serena went to Amy’s. Yet as many times as she knocked she had no answer there. Then Lita’s and Mina’s and Even Darien’s and again she had the same result. Serena ran from Darien’s and ran until she reached the crown arcade. Afraid that Andrew wouldn’t be there she ran across the street her eyes blurred with tears.

Serena fell in the middle of the street and had a hard time picking herself up because she couldn’t see. The next thing she knew she heard a car and then arms were around her picking her up. Serena felt herself being carried and tried wiping her eyes but the tears kept coming.

Finally though Serena was able to see and found herself in the backroom of the Crown Arcade. She blinked and then found Andrew beside her dabbing a cloth with water at the sink. He walked over and took hold of her leg. She looked at him confused and then looked down at her knee, it was bleeding from a cut she must have gotten when she fell.

“Andrew?”

He looked up at her smiling as he gently dabbed the cloth at her knee. “Are you okay Serena?” She nodded and looked at him he looked like he always had, with minor exceptions from having just saved her. When he sat the cloth and her leg down she leaned forward resting her head on his chest. “Serena.” He whispered as she started crying. He wrapped his arms around her gently looking at her concerned.

She threw her arms around his waist and held onto him as if he was the only thing holding her to this world. She sobbed and he waited for her to calm down. As Serena cried her eyes out to him she remembered when she had first met him, how she had had such a crush on him. If she wasn’t so sad she might laugh at that now. He was now her older brother that she had never had and she loved him for he was just like Molly. He knew the right things to do to help her.

“Everyone’s gone.” She whispered finally her tears slowed and slowly subsiding.

“That’s because their all out looking for you.” He replied. This caused her to look up, her eyes wide.

“What?”

“No one could find you so we all went out looking for you. We were so worried something had happened to you.” The tears that would have fallen at these words Andrew spoke from Serena never came. She had been crying so much that she had no more tears left. Instead she looked at him unable to speak.

“The girls came by the arcade saying they were looking for you. They said things had kind of went bad and they wanted to apologize. Why hadn’t you told anyone your parents were gone?”

“Who told you that?”

“Your neighbor, we kept pounding on your door that we woke her up or something.” Serena hugged him a sad smile on her lips.

“I didn’t want anyone to worry, besides I can take care of myself.”

“It doesn’t look that way.” She looked at him confused. “I’m not trying to be mean okay? It’s just you look so thin and tired and only a few minutes ago you almost got yourself killed.”

Her head rested on his shoulder and he thought that she wasn’t going to say anything for a while. Then she spoke, “Yeah, I guess your right Andrew.”

He smiled and patted her head. “So are you still wanting to find the others?”
“Yes.”

“Then go down by the park, they were working their way up that way when I was helping them a little bit ago.”
“You were looking for me too Andrew?”

“Of course silly.” She looked up at him and then threw her arms around his shoulders in a tight hug.

“I’m sorry I didn’t mean to cause so much trouble for everyone.”
“Don’t worry about it okay. Just take care of yourself. I mean I love having the practice for being a doctor but I don’t think it’s such a good idea not to take care of yourself for my sake.” He teased her. She laughed and hopped down walking out the back way so she wouldn’t have to go through the arcade. She waved and smiled to him before walking towards the park. Who would she see first? What would she do if she saw Darien?

She didn’t have much time to think because the next thing she knew she was at the park and could already see the back of Rae’s head. She was showing around a picture to people and each of them shook their heads giving her apologetic looks. Serena took two steps and saw Lita. Six more and she saw Amy. Three more and she saw Mina. Four more and… she ran into someone’s back.

Serena blinked looking up as she fell down. Blue eyes stared down at her. Then she took in the black hair, tall figure and realized who it was. Oh shit. Serena had wanted to talk to the girls first and now here he was, the person who she wasn’t ready to face just yet.

A hand reached out to her and she took it. Serena stared at her own hand in his and noticed for the first time a black crystal band on her wrist. She did not own that nor did she put it on herself.

Now she stood, staring at him unable to speak, unable to do anything. Then he broke the silence, “Serena are you okay?” His words seemed to break the spell that was held over her and her eyes widened. She turned around and sped off running away from her as if some unearthly force compelled her to do so.

“SERENA!” Darien shouted after her but she continued to run. She could hear him running after her and she ran faster. She ran as fast as she could and beyond ignoring the rain that had started to fall faster and faster. Soon she could hardly see but still pressed forward. She could tell she was still in the park even amongst all the chaos.

Then there were arms around her and she and her captivator fell to the ground. There was a shattering sound that Serena momentarily forgot about as she struggled to make out her attacker. She gasped, Darien had managed to catch up to her. She was quiet and so was he for awhile, her on her back and he above her pinning her to the ground with his body. Serena sat up slightly bracing her body up with her elbows and looked to her side to see what had broken. She couldn’t see and fumbled slightly her hands getting muddy, her body soaked. Her hands brushed across it moments later and she found out it was the mysterious bracelet.

She looked at Darien and then held her head. What was going on? Memories seemed to be slurring in her head. Then she gasped throwing the bracelet pieces far away from her after realizing what was going on. It was from the negaverse and the only one capable of putting that on her was Jedite. He had tricked her, and tricked her good. As her mind slowly came to a stop with the slurring she realize that he had put this on her to make her see things that was not true. Altering things to make her hate her friends.

Tears sprung in her eyes and blended with the rain. She grabbed onto Darien and cried freely. “I’m sorry! Please just hold me for a while and then I’ll explain, but just please?” She asked wanting him to hold her before she told him what was going on, before he cast her aside disgusted with her. To her relief his arms wrapped around her and held her to him. She sobbed holding him tighter.

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A/N: Because I know your dying for this chapter I’m going to stop there. Okay I didn’t explain so well with the bracelet and it probably makes her sound like she just knows but really what’s going on is scenes from what she thought happened because of the bracelet blended with what really did before finally she remembered what really happened.

I hope this chapter doesn’t seem so rushed but I was trying to write a lot for you guys and not drive myself crazy with writing the same thing again that I’ve written about 4 other times. Yes that’s right 4. I had trouble saving in three times and then the fourth time I had it saved and almost done before I got another computer. And being the nice person that I was just rewrote this instead of trying to deal with that crappy old computer of mine that would of taken about two or three more days to set up and get uploaded.

Plus I kinda felt special being worshiped today by one of my reviewers and decided that I have been mean even though it’s my computer’s fault. I hope this chapter was to everyone’s liking and comments would be appreciated really. It lets me know what I’m doing wrong or right and makes me want to write more and make you all happy. Well I’ll shut up now since tomorrow is my first day of school, whoo.-rolls eyes- Oh and just as a side note the title refers to you guys, my lovely readers. V ^_^ V