"Ah!" Serena cried out as she sprung from her comfortable pink bed. Within moments the little moon bunny was dressed and sprinting to school. Luna and Artemis watched from the rooftop as their beloved princess ran.
"That's the same girl who defeated Queen Beryl and the Negaverse," Luna stated amusingly as she watched her charge run to school. "Hard to believe isn't it Artemis?"
"Yeah, she can be a normal girl now that the Negaverse is behind us," Artemis responded.
"I have a strange feeling I'm forgetting something though."
"I know what you mean," Artemis said nodding his head. "Ever since Mina got back it's been weird. She keeps searching for someone, but she doesn't know who she's looking for. All she keeps saying is that someone is missing." Both Luna and Artemis sighed in defeat when they realized they weren't going to be able to remember whatever it was that they had forgotten. At least now they can continue watching over everyone without having to worry about youmas attacking. Of course this happy contentment meant to last. After only having one short week of peaceful bliss the city of Tokyo was shaken when what seemed to be a meteor smashed into the city.
"It's an earthquake!" Serena shouted as she hid under her comforter. The shaking had obviously woken her up. Luna ignored her screaming princess and went to look outside the window. She could tell something wasn't right. After a few moments the earthquake subsides and Serena rushes to the television to see if the earthquake had damaged any parts of the city. To her surprise the news reported informed that a meteor had struck in the city near her. "Luna it was a meteor," Serena said to her cat. Luna looked back at her and meowed. "Lets go see it." Within a flash Serena was dressed and out the door with Luna trailing behind her. When Serena arrived there was already a rather large crowd around the crater.
"Hi Serena," Ami greeted as she approached her fellow classmate.
"Hi Ami," Serena greeted back happily. "Big hole huh?"
"Big all right," Ami agreed as she looked upon the crater.
"Did the earthquake wake you up too?" Serena asked. Ami was about to answer when she saw Serena get pushed from behind. "Hey, quit your shoving will you!" Serena shouted, irritated by the rudeness of the person behind her. When she turned she was shocked to see another one of her classmates.
"Hey sorry, the crowd was pushing me from behind," Lita explained.
"It's okay Lita," Serena reassured her friend. "I heard you got into another fight again though."
"Don't ever mention that to me again," Lita responded aggressively. Immediately Serena put her hands up in defense.
"Okay, okay," Serena said trying to calm Lita down. Suddenly Serena felt as if she had hung out with both Ami and Lita at the same time before. In an attempt to think she looked down, but was immediately distracted by a piece of paper on the ground. "What's this?" Slowly Serena picked up the paper and read it. "Candy shop going out of business sale! What an incredible opportunity!"
"Yeah, sure it is to turn into a humongous chocolate blimp," Darien teased from behind her. Serena instantly smiled as the light teasing and turned to face him. "How's the empty Meatball Head?"
"Hey, the name's Serena," Serena shot back in mock anger as she stepped up to him. "You got a memory block you great big zero?" For the past week this had been their basic routine. A few insults thrown back and forth, a tiny bit of flirting, followed by some slight affection, yes this was their routine.
"Guess you don't mind having a meatball body to go along with that meatball head of yours huh?" Darien retorted with a glint in his eyes that didn't go unnoticed to Serena. Continuing with her mocked anger Serena turned her back to him.
"It's not your business." Chuckling to himself, Darien wrapped his arms around Serena's shoulders and leaned close to her ear.
"I guess you're right," he whispered in her ear. Serena stiffened at how close he was to her then suddenly she felt him shove her almost roughly forward. "So go pig!"
"As if!" was all Serena could respond with as she tried to calm her heated body. All Darien could do was laugh as he walked back to his apartment to go back to sleep. Within minutes everyone seemed to have seen their fill of the crater and the crowd quickly started to disburse.
The next day Serena's homeroom was abuzz with talk about the meteor and crater from last night. Since Molly and Melvin didn't go to see the crater Serena had to explain everything she saw to them, especially Melvin. When homeroom was half over their teacher, Miss Haruna, motioned for the class's attention. Naturally everyone in the class quieted and gave their teacher their full attention. They all knew how terrifying their teacher was when they didn't listen to her.
"Boys and girls I would like you to welcome two new students who have just transferred to our school, Alan and Ann Granger. They are brother and sister. I hope you'll all make them feel welcomed."
"What a hunky guy," Serena said in a low voice so only Molly and Melvin could hear her.
"Yeah, he's really dreamy," Molly agreed.
"Dreamy shmeamy," Melvin stated with jealously laced in his voice, "but they look pretty smart. Maybe they'll join the Dissection Club?" Suddenly he was hit in the back of the head.
"Dissect yourself Melvin," his girlfriend, Molly, said in annoyance.
"Huh?" was all Melvin could come up with. He was never good at witty retorts.
"Don't you just love his hair?" Molly complimented as she went back to swooning.
"Just his hair?" Serena responded back. "I love the whole package." Soon the bell rang for homeroom to end. Everyone filed out to go to their next class. Serena, Molly, and Melvin were shocked to find out the Ann had their next class with them. Instantly the three of them wanted to know more about her. After talking to her for a short bit they found out that she had come from France.
"Melvin she's not interested in any of your boring club," Serena chastised. Melvin was always trying to get people to join one of his geek squad clubs.
"Well I had to ask," Melvin responded pitifully. Suddenly a soft melody could be heard in the air.
"What lovely music," Molly said as she turned her head to hear it better. Ann instantly turns agitated.
"Yeah it's beautiful," Serena agreed as she too turned her head to hear it better. "Romantic."
"I love the flute," Molly added before she and Serena went to go looking for the source. Down the hallway they find Alan playing his flute and surrounded by a bunch of girls. The two girls stop and stare dreamily at Alan as he played. Upon seeing this Melvin instantly gets jealous again.
"I can play the flute too you know," Melvin states and suddenly begins to play the flute rather terribly. Molly instantly snatches the offensive instrument and hits him behind the head with it.
"Get a life Melvin!" Molly shouted which caused Alan to stop playing his flute. Slowly he turned his gaze to the direction of Serena and Molly.
"She's so lovely. I've never felt anything like this before in my entire life," Alan commented to himself and walked over to them. "Who are you?"
"Are you talking to me?" Molly asked happily.
"Molly's my girlfriend!" Melvin shouted as he jumped in front of her, but Alan wasn't paying attention to Molly, but Serena.
"Allow me to introduce myself, my beloved," Alan said with grace. "My name is Alan." Both Molly and Melvin turn to Serena in surprise. Of course Serena went mushy from his romantic voice and looked at him with stars in her eyes. "Your beauty radiates from you like the scent from a rose. Please say I can play for you." If it was possible Serena's eyes had even more stars in them.
"Play anything you like," she responded dreamily. Just when Alan was about to play he noticed Ann down the hall staring at him threateningly. "Something the matter?" Serena asked when she notice Alan hadn't moved. Seeing him looking past them, they all turned to see Ann behind them.
"Who are you playing for Alan?" Ann asked with venom in her voice.
"No one," was Alan's quick reply before walking off. The rest of the day was rather uneventful and poor Luna had to endure the chattering of Serena that evening as she talked to Molly about Alan. Thankfully Luna's sensitive ears picked up the sound of screaming not too far from her home. Naturally she went to investigate it and was quickly joined up by Artemis. The two ran in the direction of the scream. When they got their they realized they were too late and found a very drained young woman.
"Oh no," Luna said as she approached the heavily breathing woman. "Looks like the Negaverse is back."
"Looks like we have to revive the scouts," Artemis quickly states. Luna drops her head in sadness at his words.
"Do we have to?" she asked almost pitifully. She really hoped the girls would be able to enjoy being normally for a little longer.
"I don't think we can handle this on our own," Artemis answered sadly. Suddenly they heard another scream close to Molly's house. The two quickly run to the scene to find it in Molly's room. Instantly they began attacking the plant like youma, but sadly their attacks didn't do much.
"It's too strong," Luna states just before she sees Serena enter Molly's room. She had been on the phone with Molly and heard her scream. "Serena!"
"A monster!" Serena screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Run Serena!" Luna shouted and instantly Serena stopped screaming.
"Luna's talking to me," Serena flatly stated then suddenly her face lit up. "I must be having that dream again! I'll just do what I always do!" Suddenly Serena turned towards the youma with confidents. "Hey you keep your petals to yourself because if you don't I will punish you!"
"Serena this isn't a dream!" Luna shouted angrily at her charge as the youma began to approach her.
"I'll distract it while you reactivate Sailor Moon!" Artemis shouted before jumping at the youma's face. He clawed its face a few times before jumping off and leaping out the window. Luna watched the youma chase after Artemis and silently hoped that he would be all right.
"That's strange," Serena said to herself which caused Luna to focus her attention on Serena again, "they usually attack me and I destroy them."
"Serena," Luna said and looked down at her cat. Quickly Luna activated the crescent moon on her forehead and began flooding Serena's mind with past memories. For a few short seconds all of Luna's memories instantly became Serena's memories and Sailor Moon was born again. "Serena?" Luna questioned delicately, hoping the memories Serena had gain didn't overload her. Slowly Serena's eyes softened as she looked down at her guardian.
"Well now I know why I've been having those dreams for the past week," Serena said with a small smile. Luna didn't waste any time updating.
"Serena the Negaverse is back! You must be Sailor Moon again!"
"Moon Prism Power!" Serena quickly shouted and transformed into her alter ego. "Let's get that youma!" The two ran as fast as they could and arrived just in time as the youma had Artemis pinned down and was already sucking the energy out of him. Sailor Moon fought the youma for a few minutes, with the help of Luna, and eventually was able to destroy it.
"Artemis, are you okay?" Luna asked as she helped him to stand up.
"Poor kitty," Sailor Moon teased as she helped him to his paws.
"Hey Sailor Moon!" a male's voice called from up above her. Sailor Moon turned to see two green aliens floating in air. "Didn't know you were on our planet as well."
"Your planet?" Sailor Moon shouted angrily.
"That's right it's our planet," Alan replied in a cocky tone.
"Get use to it bitch," Ann added.
"You're the one who sent that youma!"
"Just our way of saying hi," Ann responded amusingly.
"See you later Sailor Moon," Alan said before they both disappeared.
"I'm glad you're back Sailor Moon," Luna said trying to cheer her up. She could tell Serena was a little stressed.
"I guess so," Sailor Moon sighed as she began to walk home. "No more shopping, pigging out, going to the mall, and dreaming about guys huh Luna?"
"Never stopped you before," Luna answered as she followed behind her. Sailor Moon suddenly stopped and turned to Luna with a smile.
"I suppose so," she said just before scooping Luna up and carrying the cat the rest of the way home. Thankfully for Serena tomorrow was Saturday so she was able to sleep in and when she was ready, got up and headed to her favorite care, The Crown. Serena felt great. For the first time in the past week she didn't have any odd dreams and soon she would find Mina and Rei. "Hey there's Darien," Serena said happily to herself. "Hey!" she shouted as she ran up to him. Darien turned to the sound of the voice and suddenly found Serena running into him with her arms wrapped around his waist.
"Whoa!" Darien shouted as he regained his balance. "You startled me."
"Did you miss me?" Serena asked lovingly as she snuggled closer to him.
"Um, Meatball Head are you okay?" Darien asked a little unsure.
"Okay if you want to be that way," Serena sighed as she took a half step back to look up at him. "You and I were meant to be together." Slowly a smile formed on Darien's face.
"So you finally went crazy from all the sugar you eat huh?"
"You don't remember," Serena whispered before lowering her gaze. It suddenly dawned on her that just because she had her memories back didn't mean he did and for that fact it didn't mean the others did either.
"Hey Serena, hang on to that guy for me will you?" Ann suddenly shouted from behind her. With a sad face Serena turned to see Ann in the middle of traffic.
"Oh, hi Ann."
"Not another crazy girl," Darien sighed before removing Serena from his waist. Instantly he felt a sense of lost, but decided to ignore it. "Look Serena I have to get to work. I'll see you later." With that said Darien took off in the direction he was originally walking.
"Why did you let him get away?" Ann stated in annoyance. "I nearly got myself killed trying to get over here!"
"Darien," was all Serena could say as she watched him jog off.
"His name is Darien?" Ann asked with a huge smile.
"Back off Ann," Serena threatened. "Darien is mine."
"Oh Darien is your boyfriend?"
"Well," Serena said a little defeated, "not exactly."
"Then he's not yours at all is he?" Ann said rather triumphantly. "He's up for grabs." Serena and Ann give each other cold hard stares before walking off in different directions. Serena knew now that Ann was her rival and since Darien didn't have his memories yet she would have to work hard to make sure Ann didn't get him.
Like all of you have asked I have started my part two from "Remember Me." Hope you all don't mind, but this will be the end of the story. So by the end of this story if any of you want me to make a part three I'm very sorry, but no. Also i must thank max333 for giving me the idea on Darien. It totally changed the direction I was going to go with this story. If any of you have ideas for the story as it goes on I'm open to hear them. :) Remember it's your reviews that keep me writing!