Hey everybody! Well, in my opinion that was the best chapter I've writen so far. What will happen next? You just have to read on. Love and War Author: Guardian Mercury Email: artie5794@yahoo.com Rated: PG-13 part VIII- I'm Back Darien arrives at the communications room and stands before the monitor. On the monitor, he sees his sister, Tracy talking to a servent. Darien asks her what's wrong and she says that nothing is wrong and that she has good news. A few minutes later, he closes the communication and heads toward Selenity's room. "Tracy, what is it? Mike said it was urgent. Am I needed at home for some reason?" "Everything's fine Darien, don't worry. Shawn brought back the last of the Dragonballs last night." "Excellent. Bring them here Tracy as soon as possible. I can have a room prepared for you. Also, give Krillin my thanks." "Really, I can live on the Moon!" "I'll talk to father, now go pack." Serenity and Tranquility and getting in a little training while Misato is looking on. They're working on some simple sparring and weapons training. As they're sparring, Serenity is able to land a few good shots oh her brother and beats him. Misato sits there, laughing at Tranquility. "That's called a corkscrew punch, its aimed at the ear snd really hurts if you can land it. Give it a try." "Who showed you that Tran?" "Goku did Misato." "Like this Tranquility?" "Yeah. Here's your staff." "I don't think I'm ready." "Remember, use the staff for offense as well as defense." When they finish, Serenity helps Tranquility up and Misato continues laughing and teasing Tranquility. Serenity is giggling while watching the two of them and she puts her staff away. The three of them head toward Selenity's room and on the way, Serenity asks if the two of them have picked out a date for the wedding yet. "Up you go." "Not bad, not bad at all." "You let your sister beat you tran, that's so embarrassing." "Give me a break Misato, she's just gotten that much better." "So, have you guys decided on a wedding date?" "June 30th." "Our birthday!" "I know, that's why Misato picked it." Tranquility leans over and gives misato a peck on the cheek. Serenity is smiling while watching the two of them. Raye, Mina and Selenity come running up to them, they look very excited about something. Misato asks Selenity what is so exciting however, she has to wait for Selenity to catch her breath. "Serenity! Tranquility! Misato!" "Who is that?" "Mina, Raye and your sister Tranquility." "They seem excited about something. Selenity, what's so exciting?" Selenity calms down and tells everyone about the Dragonballs and Serenity gives Selenity a hug. Misato asks if Selenity knows when Goku will be back and Selenity just tells them to be outside in 20 minutes. "Goku's coming back! Darien told me they found the last of those Dragonball things last night." "That's great Selen! Have you told Mother yet?" "Not yet Seren?" "When will he be back?" "I don't know Misato, just be outside in 20 minutes guys." Darien and the three remaining Generals are are waiting in the landing deck for the ship with the Dragonballs and Darien's sister to arrive. Once the ship lands, he and the generals head toward the ship, as the door opens, two guards step out and stand by the door. As they see Darien approaching, they bow in respect to him. Tracy steps out of the ship and runs over to Darien to give him a hug. "As you were." "Hello Prince Darien. Pleasure to see you again." "Darien!" "Hi Tracy, how was the trip?" "Okay I guess, so is this the Moon?" "Yeah. I'll give you the tour later. Right now, let's get the Dragonballs out so we can wish Goku back." Darien looks over at the ship and sees two servents carrying a crate out of the ship. He instructs them to put the crate over by the main gate of the palace. He thanks them and the guards and they return to the ship and leave. Darien takes Tracy inside and shows her the room she'll be in. "Are those the Dragonballs?" "Yes Prince." "Place them over by the main gate and be careful with them. If one breaks, we're all in trouble." "Well, we must be getting back to Earth, good-bye Prince, Princess." "Tell Father Tracy got here okay and I'll contact him in a few days." Yes Prince." Everyone is outside the main gate, waiting for Darien and Tracy to arrive. When they arrive, Lita asks Darien what everyone's doing there and what is in the crate. Before he explains anything, Darien introduces Tracy to everybody and then starts to explain what's going on. "Hey Darien, what's going on?" "You'll see Lita, oh everybody this is my little sister Tracy." "Hi everyone!" "Hi Tracy. I'm Queen Serenity and these are my daughters, Serenity and Selenity," "So, what's going on Darien? Me and Neflyte were doing something." "And what would that something be?" "What is that supposed to mean Mina?" "We're going to bring Goku back Lita." "How?" Darien turns around and starts explaining what's going to happen. He's looking at Selenity the entire time, who looks like she's about to cry. He then turns back around and calls upon the Eternal Dragon and the Dragonballs start glowing. everyone is scared except Darien, who has seen this before. After a momment or two, the Eternal Dragon appears. "Okay guys, everyone in the universe is born with one wish. You can wish for anything with these balls and it will be granted." "How do they work Darien?" "Well Selenity, I'm first going to call upon the Eternal Dragon." "The Eternal Dragon?" "Yes Malichite. The Eternal Dragon is the one that grants the wish to the person." "I follow that." "Now Selenity, when I do that, you'll use your wish to wish Goku back to this demension." "This demension?" "Yeah Jedite, when a person dies they go to a different demension, its complicated. Ready?" "Sure, I guess." Darien stands in front of the Dragonballs and they then begin glowing, then the Eternal Dragon appears. Selenity is very scared and is grabbing onto her brother. She eventually asks for her wish and its granted. The Dragon then returns to the Dragonballs and disappears. The seven balls shoot out in different directions. "I call upon the Enternal Dragon to arise and grant me my wish. Now, arise Dragon!" "Who has summoned me; what is your wish?" "Ah!" "I do not have time for this, what is your wish?" "I, ah, please Mr. Dragon, I wish for Goku to be alive again." "Your wish has been granted." In another dimension, Goku who had been wandering around gets a strange feeling in his head. After a minute he realizes what must have happened and starts flying towards where he appeared. "Now where am I? It's the same place I was the last time I died. Huh; Darien must have used the Dragonballs again to wish me back. I better get going." In the Negaverse, Saffir reports to Queen beryl on what has just happened and their planned attack. He tells her that they're all ready for the attack and just need the command. "What do you have to report Saffir?" "The attack is all prepared and ready to go. All we need is your approval." "Good, anything else?" "The Sayian named Goku has been brought back to life by use of the Dragonballs." "Really, then we must take care of him in this attack." Back on the Moon, everyone stands there, surprised at what happened. Amy, turns around and runs away crying, which no one seems to notice because they're amazed at what happened. Mina, finally asks Darien a question, which he answers fairly easially. Everyone starts heading back inside while Selenity heads over to Darien and gives him a kiss. "So, how long will it be until Goku comes back?" "About eight days or so." "Darien, thanks." "You're welcome Selenity." Amy is in her room crying on her bed. She'll still having a hard time taking whats happened lately. With what Matt did and now Zoicite gone she feels totally devestated. There's a knock at her door and Amy wipes her tears away then lets Mina in. Mina sits down next to Amy on her bed. and puts her arm around her to try to comfort her. "W-Why did he do that, why did she have to take him; WHY!" "Amy, can I come in?" "Mina, sure." "Why are you crying?" "Because of everything that's happened. Beryl taking Zoicite, Matt, everything." "Go on and cry. Hey we wished Goku back." "That's good." Amy puts a forced smile on her face and gets off her bed. She then starts to head toward the library to read, which usually helps her relax. On her way, she runs into Serenity. "Hi Amy, feeling any better?" "Oh Serenity, I didn't see you. Yeah, I'm on my way to the library to read. It helps me relax." "Oh, then I won't keep you. Hope you feel better Amy." "Thanks Serenity." Neflyte is standing outside in the garden looking at Earth. He gets this strange feeling that someone's watching him and turns around quickly. Prince Diamond comes out from the shadows, arms folded against his chest. The two of them get in a little arguement then a small fight. *Hmm, someone's watching me* "Who's there? Some yourself!" "Hello Neflyte." "Who are you!? How do you know my name?" "That means nothing to you. You're coming with me." "The hell I am! Uranus, Stone Eruption!" The ground starts shaking while Neflyte starts closing his fists. Rocks begin to rise from the ground and Neflyte extends his arms toward Diamond, he opens his hands and sends the rocks at Diamond. Diamond extends his hand and defects Neflyte's attack back at Neflyte, knocking him out. "You should've just come with me, then no on would have gotten hurt." With that, Diamond walks over and picks up Neflyte's body and disappears back to the Negaverse. When he arrives, he takes Neflyte over to some type of machine and hooks neflyte up to it. He then goes to find Queen Beryl, who is on her throne instructing Zoicite. "Soon you will be a loyal general to the nagaverse, haha!" "Zoicite, I want you to go with Saffir on the upcoming attack to continue your training." "Yes." "Beryl." "What is it Diamond?" "I have captured the general named Neflyte and he is currently being brainwashed." "Good, monitor his progress." Lita has been walking around the whole day for Neflyte. She has circled the palace grounds three times but can't find him. She's starting to get a little worried with everything thats been going on lately. She finally decides to ask the stars to find out where he is. "Where in the name of Jupiter is that guy! I've looked over this place and I can't find him. Maybe the stars can help me." Lita starts asking the stars and when the stars show their answer, she collapses to her knees and screams. Darien, who is passing by on his way to Tranquility's room hears her scream and runs over to ask her what's wrong. "I ask the stars of the heavens, I need to know where Neflyte is. NO! NO!" "Lita, Lita what's wrong?" "He's gone Darien, Neflyte's gone." "Gone, gone where?" "The Negaverse. They came and took him." "Oh my God." Lita starts crying and Darien takes her head in his hand and kisses the top of her head. he pats her head and tries to calm her down by assuring her that everything will be okay. "There, there Lita. We'll get everybody back, don't worry. Come on." Later on, everyone is in the confrence room discussing Neflyte's and Zoicite's disappearances. Darien and Serenity lead the the meeting and they all try to come up with some kind of plan. "Okay everyone, Neflyte has been taken by Queen Beryl. All of us have to be very careful from here on so no one else gets taken." "That's right Darien, both you two especially. Girls, you also have to be ready, Beryl may target you." "Got it Serenity." A week has passed and everyone is in the throne room awaiting the queen. Queen Serenity, followed by another woman and Amy. Queen Serenity stands in front of her throne while the other woman, who you can tell is royalty, is on her right. Amy is on Queen Serenity's left. Everyone quiets down as Queen Serenity begins to speak. "Hello everyone, before we begin I'd like to introduce a good friend of mine. This is Queen Aurora of Mercury." Queen Mercury has blue hair and looks a lot like Amy however, her hair is long, to about shoulder length. She's wearing a beutiful ice blue dress with Saphirre jewelry and a silver necklace with a blue heart in the middle like the heart of the ocean necklace, which gives her the powers of Mercury. On her head shes wearing a simple saphire crown and on her fore head is the sign of Mercury. "Hello Queen Aurora." "Hello, Prince Darien right?" "Yes." A few minutes later, Matt is brought into the room, his arms chained behind his back. He is brought before the queen and a guard tells him to kneel before the queen. When he doesn't, the guard kicks him in the back, causing Matt to fall to his knees. Queen Serenity looks down at Matt with no emotion on her face. "Lets go buddy, move it. Now, kneel before the Queen; I said kneel!" "Ugh!" Queen Serenity stands there and tells everyone what Matt's punishment will be. Then Queen Aurora tells them what will happen from Mercury's perspective. Everyone is in an uproar thinking that worse should happen to him, Queen Serenity holds her hand up thus quieting everyone. "Matt, because of your previous actions, you are to be stripping of all rank and imediate removal from the royal army. You also will be banished from the Moon entirely." "Because of your foul acts against my daughter, the planet Mercury banishes you and sentences you to the planet Zaul for eternal imprisioment." "Kill him!" "Did she just say Zaul Mina?" "The prision, no one has ever survived there Raye." Amy, walks up to Matt and stares at him. He says something to Amy and gives her a grin. Amy looks down at him and back fists him in the face. "Hi Amy. Love the dress." "Shut up!" "Amy; I've never seen her do that?" "I know Malichite, its kinda scary." Once everone is dismissed and Matt is returned to the dungeon, Mina and Malichite are sitting in his bedroom talking about everything that has been going on lately. "What happened Malichite, its like everything's exploded and we can't stop it." "I know, first Zoicite, then Goku, the attacks pick up and finally Neflyte. We have to get this under control somehow." "What happens if you're taken? I don't know if I could live with that? I'd be completly destroyed." Malichite looks at Mina who has tears in her eyes. He puts his arm around Mina and pulls her toward him, he assures her that it'll be okay. Malichite lifts Mina's chin and looks into her eyes, he bends down and gives her a reassuring kiss. When they break the kiss, Mina gives Malichite a big hug and holds him tightly. Malichite puts his arms arm Mina and smiles at her. "Listen, the only way that Beryl's going to get me is if she drags me off to the Negaverse. And in order to do that, she'll have to practically kill me, you don't have to worry." "You sure?" "Yes, don't worry." In the Negaverse, Saffir is standing before Queen Beryl recieving his final instructions. When she finishes, he bows his head and disappears. "Any final instructions my Queen?" "Yes, I want you to try to capture Princess Serenity, Princess Selenity and or Prince Darien." "May I ask why my Queen?" "I'll be able to use them and demand the Silver Crystal from Queen Serenity. I've also heard Prince Darien is a formidable fighter, he could be very useful." "We won't fail you my Queen." Later that day, there's a loud rumbling in the distance. Darien is outside picking flowers for Serenity. When he hears it, he gets a strange feeling in his head and draws his sword. "Huh, what was that? Show yourself!" "Darien, what was that noise?" "You okay?" Darien turns around and sees Serenity and Jedite running toward him. The two of them stop when they see that Darien has his sword drawn. He puts his sword away and assures them that he's okay. The three of them begin walking inside as the rumbling gets louder. "Serenity, Jedite." "Whoa Darien, put the sword away." "Huh, oh sorry. What is it?" "We came to see if you're okay. We heard the noise and thought.." "Don't worry, I'm okay. Come on, we have to have a meeting. Confrence room in 10 minutes." The three of them head in different directions to get everyone. While Serenity is looking around, she checks in the training room and sees Amy, working with Mina. Amy somehow easially defeats Mina and Serenity then speaks up and tells them about the meeting. *Whoa, she's gotten a lot better.* "Hey Amy, Mina; you almost done?" "Yeah." "Mina, give her some type of a fight. Don't be so easy on her." "I'm not going easy on her Seren. I'm going all out and she's still beating me." "Whoa, anyway we have a meeting in the conference room in 10 minutes." "Okay Seren." Darien finally arrives and they get the meeting underway. he first runs through everything that has happened lately to refresh everyone's minds then gets right to business. "Sorry about that guys. I was at the observatory." "Looking at what Darien?" "Well, that's what I have to tell everyone about Jedite. That noise we heard earlier, that was a disturbance in space. That means there could be another attack." "Not again. Anything else Darien?" "No Mina, this meeting was basically to tell everyone that another attack may be coming." "I'm sick of Beryl. We ought to attack for a change." "Oh one more thing guys, everyone watch their backs." "Got it." Everyone leaves and Mina and Malichite head toward her room. He looks out the corner of his eye and notices Mina has a worried look on her face. he can tell that something is bothering her and asks her what it is. she keeps walking and doesn't give him an answer. When they arrive at her room, Malichite opens the door and they both go inside. *Hmm, something's on her mind.* "Ah Mina, you want to tell me what you're thinking?" *Wonder how I should do this?* "Huh, sorry Malichite. I didn't hear what you said." When they get in Mina's room, she goes over to and opens her jewlery box on top of her dresser. Inside the box is the bracelet Malichite had given her when he proposed to her. She picks it up and looks at it for a second then turns around and puts it in Malichite's hand. He looks at her very confused and isn't sure what the gesture that just happened meant. "What are you doing Mina?" "Here." "Why are you giving this back to me?" *Is she saying no?* "Well, you have to have it so that you can give it to me at our wedding." "Our wedding. So that means the answer's yes?" "Yes. Yes, I'll marry you." Malichite picks Mina up and twirls her around in a circle then gives her a hug. He looks down into her blue eyes and kisses her. They stand there just holding each other, quietly talking. "Mina that's great!" "Yeah. I saw the look you had on your face when I gave that back to you, I never saw you so worried." "That was because I thought you were going to say no." After a minute or two, they here a huge explosion that comes from outside. They two of them run outside to see youmas attacking the palace. The other scouts had already gotten there with Darien and Serenity and Selenity. "What was that Malichite?" "I don't know but we better go check." Mina transforms once she's outside and sees atleast 50 youma fighting and goes to join in. Malichite notices Saffir in the sky and fires an attack at him. "Whoa. I think Beryl wants to put us away." "Yeah Venus. You head over to Mercury, I'll stay here and take out that guy in the sky." "Okay." "Pluto, Death Swirl!" A ball of energy forms in Malichite's right hand. when its large enough he throws it at Saffir and it expands into a cyclone. Before it can reach Saffir though, he blocks it with a blast. This surprises Malichite and the energy shot by Saffir collides with him, knocking him backward. "Man that hurt. Hmm, pretty powerful guy; hope I can take care of him." Sailor Jupiter is fighting off youma as fast as she can. She's fighting with all of her anger and rage because of what happened to Neflyte. sailor Mercury is totally amazed as she watches Sailor Jupiter fight. "That's it guys, you're all going down for what you did to Neflyte! Jupiter, Thunderstorm Crash!" As she finishes saying this, a black cloud fills the sky above all the youma by her. Sailor Jupiter then closes her eyes, clinches her fists and thrusts them down at the ground. This causes lightning bolts to strike each of the youma, vaporizing each. "In the name of Jupiter, you will be punished!" Sailor Mercury runs over to Sailor Jupiter, totally amazed at what she just saw. She asks her how she did that attack and Sailor Jupiter says that it must have been because see was fighting with her anger. "Jupiter, how did you do that? I've never seen that attack before." "Yeah I know Mercury. I guess it was because I'm so angry at them for taking Neflyte." "Possibly." "Do you know how many of these things are left?" Sailor Mercury checks her computer for a second then answers Sailor Jupiter's question. she sighs and then pushes Sailor Mercury out of the way and destroys another youma that was about to attack. "I really can't say Jupiter. My computer isn't giving me a reading." "Get out of the way! Jupiter, Thunderclap Zap!" Jedite and Sailor Venus are fighting off youmas and trying to attack Saffir. When they attack Saffir, he blocks the attacks with a force field around him. He fires five energy blasts at both Jedite and Sailor Venus, which connect and knock them into and through the palace wall. Venus staggers to her feet and a yellow light starts growing in her hand, a minute passes then she thrusts her hand toward Saffir. Numerous hearts head toward him, intending to make a cage. "Jedite, any ideas?" "No sorry, just keep fighting." "Jedite!" "I'm okay. Try attacking that guy." "Okay, Venus, Hearts Encase!" "Venus, you need a hand?" Sailor Mars runs over to where Jedite and Sailor Venus are. After Sailor Venus tells her what happened, ahw looks at Saffir, flames in her eyes. The attack Sailor venus tried had no effect on Saffir at all. Sailor Mars throws an attack at Saffir and knocks Saffir to the ground. She then turns back to Jedite to see if he's okay. "You okay?" "I'm fine Mars." "What happened? That does it, you are history!" "You scare me." "Mars, Lava Balls!" Sailor Mars closes her eyes and two fireballs form in her hands. She begins continually throwsing fire balls at Saffir, knocking him to the ground. "Ah!" "There, take that!" Selenity and Serenity are fighting side by side; protected by Darien and Tranquility. The two princesses are using numerous basic attacks and their powers with some success. "How you fairing over there Selenity?" "I'm doing okay Tranquility. They just keep coming." "I know Selen, Moon Beam Annaliation!" Serenity continuously fires a beam out of her hands and out of the crescent moon on her head. She's able to destroy youma fairly easially with this attack. Just entering this demension, Goku is moving as fast as he can. He can tell that a battle has already started and who was hurt. He senses that Selenity is okay and keeps moving. *Come on, gotta move it. Another battle has started already. I can't sense Neflyte's or Zoicite's energy, where are they? Selenity seems okay, as do everyone else. Hang in there guys, I'm coming as fast as I can!* Back on the Moon, Sailor Venus and Sailor Mercury have gotten banged up some from the youma. They're uniforms are torn in the back and Sailor mercury's bow in the front has been torn off. "Mercury, you okay?" "I think so. My back hurts though." "We have to do something." "I know, Mercury Bubbles, Freeze!" Sailor Mercury freezes the youma in front of them with her bubbles and Sailor Venus gets ready to attack the frozen youma with her crescent beam. "Venus Crescent Beam, Smash!" "Good, job, guys." "MALICHITE!! Sailor Venus runs over to Malichite to see if he's okay. He has numerous cuts on his face and his uniform was torn in numerous places. Five of his ribs are broken and his strength is going. "I'm okay Mina, you two, have to, protect the, princess. Go, I'll be fine." "But-" "Mina, go." Sailor Venus gets up and reluctanty goes off with Sailor Mercury to keep fighting. Malichite sits up and watches her run away. "Good luck Mina." Goku is almost at the Moon when he can feel someone's energy dropping. He tried to go faster in hopes of getting there sooner. *I can feel someone's energy dropping, that better not be Selenity. I could never forgive myself. Gotta step on it!* Sailor Mars is tending to a wound Sailor Jupiter has suffered and wasn't paying attenion A youma comes up from behind and attacks her with a punch to the middle of the back. She collapses to the ground and sees the youma looking over her. He starts to charge up an attack when an energy blast from no where hits it and destroys it. "Wha, where'd that come from?" Selenity, Darien and Serenity look over to where Sailor Mars is and see something coming in the sky. As it got closer, Darien can tell it was a person. The person lands on the Moon and looks over at the three of them. Selenity sees who it it is and tears start to well up in her eyes. "Whats that in the sky Darien?" "I don't know Serenity." *I think its a person.* "It- It's Goku!" "G-Goku, is it really you?" "Yes Selenity, I'm back." So, how was that? I feel that's a good place to leave it at. Part 9 will be out soon. Comments are always welcome!