A Lost Love: Part 5 By: Abbie Serena had been in the Black Forest now for about 5 months, and had gotten to know everyone very well. She had new friends, new family, and really a new life. The only thing she didn't have was a new boyfriend. She couldn't give up on Darien. She wouldn't give up on Darien. Almost every night she would sit in her window and look up at the stars, listening to her star locket. Sometimes Gohan would watch her silently, but know one ever heard the whole story behind that locket, Serena refused to talk about it. Although it had really started to get to her that she couldn't be Sailor Moon here, so why should she be the Moon Princess, or Darien's lover any more? But she just couldn't forget about Darien! She finally made up her mind. Since she knew that if she forgot about Sailor Moon, she would forget about Darien, so she had to become the legendary Sailor Moon again. But this time it had to be here. She figured she could just be a crime fighter, a lot like Super Sayin Man. But she found this to be the most logical thing to do, because she couldn't forget her mission. ***In the city*** "AHHHHHHHH!" a woman in the bank screamed bloody murder as a man in black got out a gun. "Hand over the money and no one gets hurt!" he said sternly. "Now everyone on the ground!" he demanded. The bank manager got to the safes, and got out all the money and goods. The robber had a sneaky smile now. "Hurry up! Give it to me!" he shouted. "Not this time pal!" a shadowy figure stood in the door way. "That's what you think!" he said as he grabbed the bag of money. The figure in the doorway stepped forward into the light, and reveled herself. It was a pretty young girl in a mini-skirt, with long blond hair. She raised her hand and stared doing different poses. "I am Sailor Moon! You should be ashamed, stealing for these defenseless people like that! I stand for love and I stand for justice! And in the name of the Moon?I will punish you!" the mysterious warrior yelled. The robber snickered. "Am I suppose to be afraid of a little girl in a mini-skirt? Really kid, move before I blow your brains out!" he said holding up the gun. "If this is our hope of not getting killed, then I think we are done for," whispered one of the bank workers to another. "Not on my time bud! Moon?Tiara? Magic!" the girl took the tiara from her head and threw it at the robber. The robber stood and looked at it like it was a toy, and then knocked it away. "That's it?" he snickered. "You wish! Tiara, trap him!" she said as the tiara stopped in mid air and turned around. "What?!" the tiara wrapped around the robber before he new what was happening. "You sneaky little?!" he yelled. He struggled with the tiara and finally got free. "Epp! Not good!" the girl squealed as she jumped just in time to miss the bullet flying at her. "I don't think so girly! Your not getting away that easy!" he yelled as he shot the gun again. The Sailor Moon was about to jump out of the way, when suddenly someone stepped in front of her. "No!" she yelled, thinking that the person was shot. "What do you think your doing? Picking on this poor girl! Well, I wont stand for it!" the man in front of her was fine. He had caught the bullet! Then Sailor Moon recognized the outfit. It was Super Sayin Man. She all the sudden felt disappointed. "Uh oh!" the robber yelled, for he knew this familiar face. He tried to run, but it was no use, for Super Sayin Man was too fast. "Damn!" the robber said as he was caught. "Your going to jail," Super Sayin Man said. All the people in the bank started cheering for there hero. After the police came and took the robber away, Super Sayin Man approached Sailor Moon. "What are you doing? Are you trying to get yourself killed?" he said, a little disappointment in his voice, a lot like a parent. "I was doing fine, until you came along!" she yelled. "Serena, this isn't Tokyo, and these aren't your 'Nega monsters.' This is really dangerous stuff," he said calmly. "Don't you think I know that? I just had to be?needed again. Ya know feel I was special. I needed to become Sailor Moon, the legendary princess warrior again," she said back to him. "But Serena?really, your gonna get hurt," he tried to rationalize the situation. "I fought and died as Sailor Moon, you don't think I didn't get hurt? I don't care about getting hurt," she explained. "Really though Serena, you don't need to be Sailor Moon here, there's no point in it," he tried to explain this, but it wasn't working. "NO! I do need to be Sailor Moon! You don't understand! You'll never understand!" at that Serena ran off crying, leaving Super Sayin Man to stand alone. 'He's right, I don't need to be Sailor Moon here. They don't need me, when they have him! But I just have to be Sailor Moon. Why can't he understand that?!' she thought to herself as she detarnsformed in an alley. Then she ran into the forest crying? That night Serena didn't come home. Gohan was feeling extremely guilty for getting on to her like that. He was getting really worried too. He had called all of Serena's friends and none of them knew where she was. He even called Trunks and Bulma, they hadn't seen her either. He finally resorted in calling his parents. 'Ring, ring' "Hello?" his mother picked up. "Mom, have you seen Serena anywhere?" Gohan asked quickly. "No, what's wrong? Is she missing?" Chichi asked with worry in her voice. "Yeah, she ran off today when we got into a fight," he said remorsefully. "What could you have said to make her run off like that?" Chichi wondered. "I'll tell you later, mom. Can you put dad on?" he asked. "Sure sweety," she said as she put down the phone. A few moments later Goku picked it up again. "Hello?" he said. "Dad! Have you seen Serena?" Gohan asked in a frenzy. "Hold on Gohan! What's wrong?" Goku said calmly. "She's been missing since this afternoon, and she hasn't come home yet," Gohan said. "Well, where did you see her last?" Goku asked. "I saw her at the bank, and we got in a fight and then she ran off crying. And she was running towards the forest," Gohan quickly explained. "Oh man, I think I have seen her actually," Goku said. "WHERE?!" Gohan yelled. "I think today when I was in the forest training. I thought I heard something near the stream, and I looked over there and there was someone sitting there washing some blood off there hands crying. I was gonna go over to who ever it was and help, but they left before I got there," Goku said, with concern. "Oh my god, she was hurt! I didn't even know!" Gohan yelled. "What happened anyway? I mean how did she get hurt?" Goku asked in curiosity. "I'll tell you later, right now meet me on the edge of the forest, near the stream," Gohan said quickly. "OK," Goku agreed. ***At the stream*** "Gohan is that you?" Goku asked the shadowy figure. "Yeah, it's me dad," he said as he switched on a flashlight. "Now, show me where you saw her," Gohan got strait to the point. "All right, follow me," Goku said walking into the forest. "So what DID happen, Gohan?" Goku asked while they were walking. "Well, she's got this crazy idea that she can be Sailor Moon here, and fight crime," he started. "So, what's wrong with that?" Goku asked. "She'll get hurt that's what! She doesn't know how to fight criminals, she only has her magic," Gohan lowered his tone after the first line. "Oh," Goku replied. "Let's just find her?" Gohan said. "Good idea." Once they got to the spot Goku had seen her? "Was it here?" Gohan asked. "Yep right here, I remember the big rock right there. That's where she was sitting," Goku said pointing to a big rock. Gohan went over to inspect it. "Oh shit, there are bloody hand prints all over this thing!" Gohan punched the rock and it broke into pieces. "It's ok, we'll just split up and look for her, she couldn't be too far?" Goku suggested. "Right, meet me back here in 30 minutes," Gohan said as he ran off in one direction. Goku nodded and ran in the other direction. They both searched the forest frantically for Serena. "Serena? Serena?" Goku called out. He listened carefully for answer. Nothing. Then he suddenly heard something in the tree above him. He looked up and saw a sleeping figure on one of the main tree branches. He flew up there and found it was Serena. He looked her over, and found that her side had been bleeding, there was a deep cut. But that was the only major thing, besides a few cuts, probably from the tree. "you poor thing?" he said as he quietly picked her up and flew back to the creek to find Gohan. When he got there, Gohan was already waiting for him. "Thank god you found her!" he said with a huge sigh of relief. "She exhausted, and she has a nasty cut on her side, it almost looks like a bullet wound, but the bullet missed a little," Goku said. "Damn! I knew she hadn't jumped out of the way in time for that first bullet!" Gohan said angrily. "Bullet?" Goku asked. "Never mind, thank you so much dad. But I need to get her home, so I'll see you tomorrow. Bye," Gohan waved goodbye as he flew off with the sleeping girl in his arms. The next morning Serena woke up with an excruciating pain in her side. "Ohhh?" she groaned as she sat up in her bed. "Wait a minute. How did I get here?" Serena asked to herself, since she was alone in the room. But then Gohan walked in. "Hey, you better lay back down. That side of yours is pretty bad," he commented as he walked over to the bed and set a wet clothe and some gauze by the bed. "Gohan?" Serena said as she lied back down. "Yes?" "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be mean to you yesterday, and I'm sorry for being a burden on you like I have. I mean, you have been nothing but nice to me, and I haven't cared at all, I just dismiss it as if it were something that didn't matter. You always look out for me, you saved my life, two times, and I have been just plain rude. But I did a lot of thinking last night?" Serena said stopping to think a little and take a breathe. "Serena it's ok. I know exactly what you mean, and trust me, you haven't been rude, I've just been over protective. At first I could see that it was ok, because you were new and didn't know much about this place, but now you know and you don't have to be babied," Gohan replied. "Thank you for trying to make it ok, but it's not. But any ways, like I said I did a lot of thinking last night, after our fight. And your right. I don't know how to fight criminals. I can only use stupid magic, but I don't have any brute strength, or courage?" Serena paused again. "But Serena that's ok-," Gohan was cut off. "But, I want to learn." Serena stopped to see Gohan's reaction, then started again, "See I was thinking you could train me and all, since you and your whole family are martial artists and ya know your really good, I just wanna be strong and, well, helpful in battles, and I wanna be Sailor Moon, well, no I have to be Sailor Moon, so, Gohan, train me," she said as she sat up and looked strait into Gohan's eyes. "OK," he replied simply. "Come on really-wait, did you say ok?" Serena wasn't expecting this answer. "Yes, I'll train you. But you have to be willing, and you have to stick to it. Cause once you start, I won't let you out," he said with a serious look. "I know, and I'm prepared," Serena said with a nod. "This will be very severe training, I mean, if your not eating, sleeping, or in school, you'll be training with me (doesn't that sound familiar?) And if you don't like it, then you don't train," Gohan demanded, remembering the great training he got from Piccolo. "Isn't that a little severe? I mean, I was thinking more along the lines of 10 hours a week?" Serena reluctantly protested. "If you don't want to train my way then you won't train at all," Gohan sneered. He was actually being mean to her! Serena was surprised, but delighted at his determination. "OK, we'll do it your way," she agreed. "All right, we'll start tomorrow, be up and dressed by 4:45 am," Gohan said as he got up and started to leave the room. "OK?" Serena grumbled, very unpleased with the '4:45' part, but knowing not to protest, or he wouldn't let her train. After he left, Serena decided to take a nap, so she could get some sleep, before she had to wake up so early the next morning. While Serena was sleeping Gohan decided to go and consult with his father. "Hey mom! Do you know where dad is?" Gohan popped in the door of the Son household. "Oh! Hello Gohan, I didn't know you were coming over today," Chichi said turning from her pot on the stove. "Yeah, well, I really just needed to talk to dad, do ya know where he is?" Gohan asked scanning the room for his father. "Yeah, he's out back with Goten," Chichi said, returning to her stove. Gohan walked out the door and around to the back. Goten and Goku were sparing when he walked up. "TIME OUT!" Gohan yelled gaining the attention of the two warriors. "Oh, hey Gohan, what'd ya need?" Goku stopped attacking his other son and walked over to Gohan. "I just wanted to talk to you about something. Is that OK? Or are you too busy?" Gohan asked, referring to him and his brother. "Na that's OK, I was about to go inside and get a drink any way," Goten answered for his father. "Thanks," Gohan smiled at his brother as he went inside the house. "So what was it you wanted to talk to me about?" Goku asked as he wiped his face with a towel and sat down on a tree stump. "Well, I wanna know if I made the right decision?" Gohan said walking over to his father. "About what?" Goku asked, taking a sip of water from a water bottle. "Well, you know how Serena wants to be Sailor Moon, but she doesn't know how to fight??" Gohan paused to make sure his father was following him here. Goku nodded. "Well, she wants me to train her to fight, so that she can be Sailor Moon here," Gohan mumbled. "I see, and you told her that you wouldn't?" Goku assumed. "No, I told her I would," Gohan corrected. At this Goku almost spit out his water. Gohan was so protective with her, and now he was going to let her fight? "I knew I shouldn't have!" Gohan yelled in response to his fathers reaction. "No! I think it's wonderful idea! I just thought you would be all mean and strict about this, I mean, ya know!" Goku countered. "Well, I still don't know?" Gohan grunted. "Son, really, I think this is good. Now you won't have to worry as much about her, because you'll know that she can take care of herself," Goku said putting an arm around his son. "Ya think so??" Gohan said looking up to his father. Even though Gohan was taller he still looked up to his father. He loved him so much. He always had. And he always took his advise. "Yes, I do," Goku replied. "OK, I'll give it a try?" Gohan said as he stood from his seat next to his father. "Good." "Thanx a lot dad, it was really helpful talking to you!" Gohan waved goodbye and flew off. "Chichi has had way to much influence on that child?" Goku muttered as he walked back to the house. "I heard that!" Chichi yelled from the kitchen. "How!?" Goku grumbled to himself. "I heard that to!" Chichi yelled again. 'I swear! That woman is worse than Piccolo!' Goku thought. "I heard that to!" Chichi screamed. "WHAT?!?" Goku shook his head and tried to forget it. ********************************************************************** Well, how do you like it? Any way?if you can think of a good monster to put in this story PLEASE TELL ME! I have the whole thing planned out?I just don't have an enemy. So if you have an idea please email me at sailor_dragon97@hotmail.com. Thanx a lot! Bye!