Haha! I told you it would be out this week! I kept my promise! Thanks go to everyone who emailed me. EMAIL ME YOUR COMMENTS! If you don't know the legend/key (whatever you want to call it) yet- go look back at the previous chapters. Well, guess what! By the time you read this I'll officially be? 14!! Yup, March 4th was my b-day! Also? March 4th also happened to be the Science Olympiad State Tournament for my state! I hope we do ok!! Anyway, since I don't remember this episode *that* well it's gunna be a little different, and the events might be out of order. Enough chit- chat! Read Calynder's (I know I spelled that wrong) "Closed Palms"; it's the BEST story! Read anything by Sorceress, Keeper of the Jade, and Nancy Nguyen. And Broken Wings by Setsuna M. And anyone on the SMRFF list, they're a great (crazy yeah but?) buncha supportive, creative gals (I'm pretty sure there aren't any guys on the list)! Kami/Kami-sama- God Senshi- soldier Youma- monster Fuku- suit (sailor suit) Nani- what Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z. Never has never will. Get over it people. I HATE disclaimers. Don't sue, I don't have any money. Get it? Got it. Good. ------------------------------------------------------ The Real Serena Tsukino Chapter 5 by: BlackIris3 email: blackiris3_chan@yahoo.com rated: PG/PG-13? I remember when Luna gave me back my memories so I could save Molly from that first cardian. I cried for the rest of the night. Father had given me a chance to be normal, "?until you are once again needed," he had said. I didn't want to be needed again, especially so soon. Those damned aliens; that damned meteor! If they were going to try and steal humans' energy couldn't they have waited just a *little* longer?! And to top it all off, no one else remembered. The rest of the world? As far as they were concerned, the past year never happened! The other senshi? Wha..? Negaverse? Is that a new video game or something? They didn't even remember me! And worst of all, Darien? Beryl who? Serenity; Endymion? Nope, never heard of them. Then that witch Ann kept trying to get *my* Darien as *her* boyfriend and her weird (handsome, yes, but definitely weird) brother kept following me around (the word stalker comes to mind?), fawning over me as if I was a goddess (no pun intended). I couldn't take it. The VR-Theater, the play, everything! At least after a while, the other senshi got their memories back and joined in the fight. But without Darien, I was heartbroken. And that Moonlight Knight guy, why did he seem so familiar? You know, I really should've suspected there was something wrong with Ann and Alan. Noooo, I had to find out the hard way? I guess in the 2 years I've been a way from the gang, my senses and instincts have dulled a bit. Maybe I was actually growing into the life and attitude I had faked at my mother's bidding. Oh Kami, I hope not! I think of them so often, every day in fact; my old friends, how I miss them. I usually think of them now, as the Doom Tree's branches grabbed Darien and me. I was so jealous before when I saw Darien with a bouquet of flowers; the flowers he planned to give Ann. I felt so betrayed. I had been sent by the senshi to check out Ann and Alan after having a small amount of my energy drained by the strange plant in Alan's bedroom. A science project he was working on, Alan had said. A science project can't do that? So I was outside their building and then came Darien. I tried to warn him, tried to tell him they were dangerous, that he shouldn't go up there. He thought I was just jealous. Sometimes I want so much to hate him for everything he puts me through; I don't deserve it. But I can't hate him; I love him too much. My old friends would probably be disgraced with me. They would probably wonder why I would take Darien's abuse, and why I would go back for more. They would wonder why I loved him at all. Ugh? That damn tree? it's taking all my energy. "Serena, grab my hand!" Darien calls to me. I reach and reach, almost? our fingertips are touching? and his hand is kicked away. "Get your filthy hands off her!" "You have no right to talk to Darien that way!" "Oh yeah?!" I hear bickering; I think its Ann and Alan. Alan wants the tree to let me go and drain Darien and Ann wants the opposite. So naturally, what would the tree do? Drain us both of course. Then I feel myself falling and someone catching me. Kami-sama, I'm so weak? I think the tree likes my energy; of course it does, who wouldn't like a goddess' energy? I was put down on the floor and I see Darien laying some ways away from me. "Doom Tree! Since they refuse to separate, drain both their energies!" 'Oh man, not again?' That's when the senshi burst in. Oh thank Kami! But those aliens, they blast them away, over and over and over. Ok, I am *so* pissed right now. I weakly stood up and glared at the 2 aliens, "That's it. I won't have you blasting my friends and draining Darien's and my energy. I will punish you!" I shout my transformation and become Sailor Moon. The aliens are stunned. I walked over and kneel beside Darien, taking his hand. "Darien? It's me, Serena, Sailor Moon. Are you ok?" He weakly opens his eyes, "Meatball Head?" I grin and nod, "Yes! Oh Darien, do you- do you remember; about the Moon Princess and our kingdom?" He squeezed my hand, "Yes, my sweet." Ann was mad. Ann was very, very mad. She was saying something, but I couldn't hear her. "What's wrong Ann? Are you jealous because Darien dumped you?" Everyone turned to stare at the new voice- which just happened to belong to the Moonlight Knight. Now Ann was even angrier. "HE DID NOT!!!" Ann blasted him and he hit the tree, hard. There was a bright flash of light from the Knight. "What? He just... He just disappeared!!!" And it was true, he had. Ann turned back to us. "Relinquish your love for Darien and I might spare you." Ann calls, her voice dripping with arrogance. I stood protectively over Darien and glared at her. "I *never* denounce my feelings! True love cannot be defeated by the likes of you! Moon Scepter-" Ann screams angrily and shoots a blast of energy at Darien and me. I cross my arms over my chest in a slight defensive stance, still standing in front of my prince, protecting him as much as I could from the blast. It doesn't help. We were both blasted back, again and again until we're both screaming from the pain. I grabbed Darien's hand and we hit a large root from the tree. Pain. So much pain. Jupiter screams angrily. "You're *evil*! The only emotion you would know is HATRED! You don't have any *real* friends!" Ann looks at her, loathing in the depths of her red eyes, then turns back to us. She's going to blast us again. But to my utter surprise and dismay Darien scrambles up and shields me, much in the same manner as I had done for him. He fell back into my arms and I held him close to my chest, tears coursing down my checks. "It's ok Darien. We'll still have each other." "Pathetic." Ann growls. She's about to shoot us again but Alan stops her. I'm not sure what happened next. Everything goes crazy, and it's a bit of a blur. The tree goes insane and one of its branches strikes Alan. Ann cries his name in horror. She teleports to him when another branch tries to strike him again, but Ann forcefully puts herself in front of him, protecting him, her arms outstretched, crying, "No! You can't have him!" Tears are in my eyes and are cascading down my cheeks. She was struck down and Alan was up to grab her falling body. "Oh Alan? Please tell me, it's not like they said? You're my friend. You're the only real friend I've ever had. And I understand now, that you're the only one I could *ever* love." Alan was crying, Ann's body went limp. Another branch flew at them, Alan looked up sadly at the branch then returned his gaze to Ann, "I'll be with you soon, my love." I couldn't take it anymore. "STOP THIS NOW!" 'YOU THINK SO, SAILOR MOON?' "What? Wha- what was that?" ~~~~~FLASH~~~~~ I'm floating in space, looking down on a planet- pretty empty except for a small island housing the Doom Tree. (AN: This is where the story gets messed up cuz I forgot what happens in the show? -_-;) I looked around and saw Alan and all the others there too. "Where are we?" Alan looks over to me, "I-I don't know." "The Doom Tree? Is it possible we could be in the Doom Tree's mind?" 'YES, YOU'RE IN MY MIND. I WANT TO TELL YOU MY STORY..." The Doom Tree proceeds to explain the 2 aliens' and itself's origins, and how it was once not evil. It was a sad story. ~~~~~FLASH~~~~~ We were back on top of the apartment building roof. 'SAILOR MOON, A FAVOR?' "Yes?" 'REMOVE ALL THE NEGATIVE ENERGY I'VE BEEN POISONED WITH OVER ALL THESE YEARS?' 'Of course. Moon Scepter ELIMINATION!" The Tree went up in a blaze of cleansing light, and then it was gone. "Oh no! I killed the tree!" "No, Sailor Moon, you healed it. And look! That young sapling is what remains of the tree." I look up to see the Moonlight Knight. "The Moonlight Knight? But you disappeared!" The Knight sighed, "Sailor Moon, Serena, Moon Princess?" I gasped, 'You know all that?!" "Yes, and now it's time for me to show you who I am." He pulled off the cloth covering his face, I think I could've fainted. "Darien? I don't understand." The Knight smiled. "I'm not Darien, but his courageous soul that fights the Negaverse. In the last battle with Beryl, Darien lost his memories. But somewhere deep inside him, he knew he had to protect you. So I was created. But now that Darien has regained his memories his body can no longer sustain me. Good bye, princess." Tears were in my eyes. He had loved me that much? The Moonlight Knight flew down to Darien's body, and became translucent, ghost-like. The soul merged with the body and my Darien was whole again. He stood up shakily and I ran into his arms, crying happily into his chest. Our arms were around each other's waist, and I was lost in the scent of roses that always seemed to follow my Endy around. I was totally oblivious to everything, sobbing happily into Darien's torso. "Ann!" A heart-wrenching sob awoke me back into harsh reality. I moved my head to look at the melancholy site my weary eyes were met with. A heartbroken Alan held Ann's limp body, weeping delectably. He clutched her body tighter, crying her name over and over. "A-Alan?" The voice was small and weak. "Ann?" "Oh, Alan! I love you!" They wept together, in each other's arms, content. I smiled. "Oh Alan, look! The Tree!" We all turned our heads to see the tiny sapling, bursting with life, love, and energy. Ann gently picked it up and smiled through her tears. "We've been given another chance. We can start over, together, the right way this time." Alan wrapped his arms around her waist. "We can find our own planet, Ann, and make it our home. Just you, me, and the Tree." They were going to leave. I would probably never see them again, somehow that thought saddened me. As they were leaving, they finally acknowledged us. The senshi had revived and were standing behind Darien and me. They waved as they left our atmosphere, and then they were gone, forever. I had a feeling that would be the last I'd ever see of them. Our paths wouldn't cross again in the future; that I was sure of. I turned to look at Darien, who was smiling lovingly at me. "Soooo? what's the scoop about you guys?" "Yeah, are you guys and item?" "Inquiring minds want to know!" Darien and I sweatdropped. Talk about killing the mood. "Well, I *did* just remember 2 minutes ago?" Darien blushed. Then he smiled and took out a rose, and transformed into Tuxedo Mask. He picked me up, gently but swiftly, and we escaped our audience. We finally came to a halt at the park and he gently set me on my feet, though he did not remove his arms around my waist. I snuggled up against his chest, "Oh Darien, I've missed you so much! I-I love you." Darien buried his head against my silky, golden mane. "I love you too, Sere." I stared into his eyes, those endlessly deep oceans of the sky at midnight. He traced my jaw-line and cupped my chin, slowly descending his lips to mine. And finally, *finally*, after over a thousand years, our lips touched. And the empty feeling I had felt in my heart and soul, even before I reclaimed my lost memories back in the DB dimension, vanished. This is what had been missing in my life. He made me feel whole, something I had never felt before. I was not alone anymore, never again. I had Darien, and he had me. Forever. *Nothing* can keep us apart now.' Famous last words. ----------------------------------------------------- Do you like it, hate it? Email me with your comments. I'm gunna put the DBZ gang in here next chapter, they're gunna visit Sere! That's when the story's really gunna pick up. Send me your comments . Thx! Luv ya. ~BlackIris3