Hi, everybody!  What's going on?  Guess what?  I got the Sailor Moon R and S 
movies!  *insert scream of delight*  Go me!  I'm so happy!

A little warning, this chapter is *really* short.  I'm sorry.  When I 
originally wrote and posted this, I had just had my appendix removed.  The 
next chapter is the final one and it is longer!

Enough with that!  I still want more mail people!  PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
Pretty please!

This chapter is dedicated to...Lisette!  My pen pal and friend!  She's a 
great writer and you should go read her stories!  They get ya thinking!  
Really, my brain hurts after trying to figure that girl out!  (Well, theirs 
gotta be a brain there before it can hurt!)  Oh, thanks for the link to that 
site!  I'm gonna go there again! :)

Okay!  I think you've had enough of my babbling!  I sure have!  -_-;

DISCLAIMER: You wouldn't believe me if I said that I *did* own it.  Well, 
would ya?  I didn't think so!

RATING: PG- Yea!  There will be action in here!


NOWHERE TO RUN, UNABLE TO HIDE
CHAPTER 11


Darien was the first to wake up the morning after the revelation of the Dark 
Moon.  He smiled as he glimpsed down at the woman seemingly peacefully 
asleep in his arms.  Planting a butterfly kiss on her lips, he pulled his 
dark green blazer off and placed it over her sleeping form. Darien stood up 
and stretched.  Despite what had happened the day before, he had slept 
better then he had in years.

A small movement in the corner where Serenity and Endymion were caught 
Dariens' eye.  King Endymion stood up and stretched much the same as Darien 
had, and put his cape over his wife and daughter.  Endymion turned his head 
and gave a small smile; Darien smiled back, and the King motioned to the 
door.  The two men walked out of the room, leaving the sleeping soldiers to 
there dreams.

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Shortly after leaving, Endymion led Darien to the dinning room that they had 
eaten in last night.  "Coffee?" he asked his younger self.

"I'll probably need it for later," Darien stated with a small smile.

A moment later Endymion returned with two cups of coffee and sat down in the 
chair across from him.  After several minuets of awkward silence, Endymion 
decided to speak again, "Did you sleep well?"  'Now that was lame, Endy!'

Darien looked up over his mug, "A lot better then I have in a long time.  
You?"

Endymion smiled, "I always sleep better when she is with me."  He got a far 
off expression on his face as he spoke, "God, I never even knew how much I 
missed her."

Darien smiled too, "I know.  When I broke up with Serena, it was then that I 
realized just how much she means to me.  I never knew she was that special 
until she wasn't mine."

Endymion put down his mug and lowered his head, "I'm sorry for what I did to 
you two.  I didn't want to, but I had to.  It was no picnic when I went 
through what you did."  He gave a small chuckle and looked up at Darien, "I 
swore to myself that I wouldn't do it.  There was no way.  But I had to.  No 
matter what, I had to make sure that the past remained the same, so that the 
future would."

Darien closed his eyes.  It was strange to hear what he felt and what he 
thought coming from another person.  Even if he would turn out to be that 
person one day, it was still quiet weird.  "I don't blame you for what you 
did, I'm going to have to do it one day too, right?"

"Hopefully."

"I sure wouldn't want my past self to blame me when I have to do this.  Even 
though I swore not to, I know I will."

"Thank you."  Endymion set his mug down on the table and gave a quirky grin. 
  "Shall we go and try to wake them up, or let them sleep longer?  Though, I 
don't know how Serenity could possibly sleep more.  She was in that crystal 
for over a month."

"Is she still Serena at heart?" Darien asked.  Getting an affirmative nod 
from Endymion he smiled, "There's your answer.  She's still Serena; just 
more graceful and better mannered."

"If either of them heard you say that, they'd probably kill you!" came Mars' 
voice.

"No kidding!" Mina said as she took her seat from last night.  "They'd 
murder you for talking about them like that!"

One by one, the Sailor Scouts and cats came in.  The only people missing 
where Serena, Serenity, and Rini.  They were *really* surprised about that.  
"Those Meatball Heads," Mars muttered under her breath.  "No matter how old 
she gets, she never knows how to wake up."

Raye looked at her future self in some-what disbelief.  "She *still* has 
trouble waking up in the morning?!" she asked in disgust.

Mars snorted, "Yeah, still!"

"It's getting late," Luna from the future told them.  "There could be an 
attack at any moment.  We need them awake, now!"

"If you're talking about Mommy and Mama, good luck!  Mommy's even worse in 
the future then she is in the past!" Rini called over the other 
conversations.  "As hard as that is to believe!" she muttered under her 
breath, stifling a giggle.  She walked over and pecked both Endymion and 
Darien on the cheek before she sat down for breakfast.

Endymion and Darien excused themselves from the table and went to the 
control room to wake up Serena and Serenity.  As they were walking out, the 
girls caught part of what Endymion was telling Darien, "If we can't wake 'em 
up the normal way, we could always try Rayes' and Lunas' favorite way."

"Screaming at the top of out lungs until they wake up?" Darien asked.

The others in the room laughed as Endymion and Darien made a quick escape 
from the fire warriors' wrath, and the cats' claws.

"Jerk," all of them mumbled at the same time.

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Darien and Endymion walked into the room that their loves' were asleep in.  
Separating, the two walked to their respective loves.

Endymion knelt beside Serenity and brushed a strand of golden hair out of 
her face.  'I almost forgot how soft her hair was.  How beautiful her voice 
was... God, how I missed you, Love.'  Leaning down, he planted a small kiss 
on her lips.  As he began to pull away, Serenity chased him and locked him 
into a passionate kiss.  Several moments later they separated.  Casting a 
glance over her husbands' shoulder she saw that Serena and Darien were doing 
the same thing that they had just been doing.

Breaking their own kiss, Serena and Darien smiled at each other and turned 
to their future selves.  "When's breakfast?" Serena and Serenity chirped 
happily.

Darien and Endymion laughed.  "About half and hour ago!" Endymion told them 
with a smile.  "I don't know how you can sleep so much, Serenity.  You've 
been asleep in that crystal for over a month."

Serenity held his hand and looked away sadly.  "It wasn't asleep.  But I 
wasn't awake.  It was..." she shook her head.  There was really no way to 
describe what she had felt.  "Well, I'm starved!  Let's eat!"

"YEAH!" Serena chimed in while grabbing Darien's hand and running out of the 
door.  Smiling Endymion and Serenity followed them, at a more...normal pace. 
  Serenity shook her head.

"We won't tell them that you do that every morning, ok?" Endymion whispered 
to her as they walked down the hall.  Serenity shot him a look before 
quickening her pace and passing him.  Endymion walked faster trying to catch 
up with her.  Serenity giggled and stepped her pace up to a jog.  Endymion 
jogged up to her and she managed to break into a full-fledged run.

Laughing, the two raced to the dinning room.  Before they reached it though, 
Endymion managed to catch up with Serenity.  Wrapping his arms around her 
waist, he pinned her against his body.  She didn't struggle; she didn't want 
to.  Turning around in his arms, Serenity looked up at him and smiled her 
million- dollar smile.  Endymion bent down so that their lips barely touched 
and...

"Mommy!  Daddy!  Knock it off!  And I thought Serena and Darien were bad!"  
Turning the couple saw their five-year-old daughter standing near the 
entrance to the dinning hall, with her hands on her hips and desperately 
trying to conceal a smile.  Not that *that* was working.  The small girl ran 
to her parents and wrapped her arms around their legs.  Endymion bent down 
and gathered their child in his arms.  She hugged him back and giggled as 
her mother began to tickle her stomach.  Laughing and talking, the family 
walked into the room where the others were.

"Took ya long enough!" Mars snorted.  "What were you two doing?  Making out 
like these two were when they came in?" she asked motioning to Serena and 
Darien, who were too busy blushing at Mars' remarks to yell back.

Before any of them could open their mouths, Lita and Jupiter came through 
the large double doors that led to the kitchen and set down two more plates 
of pancakes and eggs.  As usual, Serena and Serenity dug in.  They sat down 
and lifted their forks...

****BOOM!****

The sudden explosion rocked the entire Crystal Palace.  Serena was thrown 
out of her seat as well as almost everyone else who was sitting down.  Those 
who were standing up also fell down, somewhat less gracefully then the 
others.  "What in the world?!" Venus yelled as she picked her self up.

"COME ON!" Mercury called as she ran out of the room toward the control 
room.  Darien helped Serena up and Serenity grabbed Rini as they ran out of 
the room.  She didn't want to loose her daughter again.  She couldn't.

Another explosion rocked the palace as the warriors were running.  Serena 
grabbed a hold of Darien's arm to keep herself from falling, but only 
managed to cause herself to slam into a wall.  "Owie!" she yelled, her eyes 
filling with tears.  She fought them back; this was no time to cry, she had 
to help.

Upon reaching the control room Endymion and Serenity began to act like the 
rulers they were.  "Mercury, see what it is that's hitting us and try to 
find its weakness!  Amy, help her!" Serenity called to them.  The two blue 
haired women nodded and went to work at the control stations.

Endymion gave a nod, "I think we're going to need all the Sailor Scouts we 
can get," he told them.  Everyone from the past nodded.

"MERCURY STAR POWER!"

"VENUS STAR POWER!"

"JUPITER STAR POWER!"

"MARS STAR POWER!"

"MOON CRYSTAL POWER!"

In flashes of lights and ribbons, the six teenagers were no longer their, 
but the legendary champions of justice, the Sailor Scouts.

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Rini looked around frantically for something important.  She knew that this 
person had to hide, because the Soldiers of the past couldn't see her.  At 
least not yet.  She was on the other side of the palace with out anyone 
else.  Rini had gone to see her briefly last night, but only for a short 
time.  She knew that her friend must be terrified right now.

'I won't be gone long,' she thought as she ran out of the control room and 
down the hall to her friend.

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Rini ran as fast as her five year old legs would carry her.  She hadn't been 
very worried when the attack had first started, but now she was not only 
worried-she was terrified!  Her breath came in quick pants as she ran 
faster.  Another wave of attacks rocked the palace and Rini gave a small 
scream.  It was just like before.

Just like when they first came...  'NO!' Rini told herself firmly.  'Sailor 
Moon and the others are here!  We're stronger!  We're braver!  They won't 
beat us!  Mommy and Daddy won't let them!'

Reaching her destination, Rini began to look for her tiny friend.  "Diana?" 
she whispered while quietly creeping into the room.  "Diana, where are you?" 
  She heard nothing.  Her tiny gray kitten didn't show her face.  Frowning 
Rini walked to the room that was adjoined to the one she was in.  "Diana...! 
  Come out!"

"Small Lady?" a timid voice asked.

"Yeah!  Come here, Diana!"

A small, charcoal colored kitten appeared from beneath a stack of pillows.  
She was shaking and her eyes were round as saucers.  Diana ran quickly into 
her mistresses awaiting arms and purred.  "I was worried!  Mama and Papa 
didn't come back after last night.  I thought something had happened."

Rini shook her head and placed the kitten between her 'rabbit ears.'  "No, 
everyone's alright.  We just didn't want Luna and Artemis of the past to see 
you right then.  Everyone from the past had already had a lot of shocks, and 
you were another one."

The two friends walked out together.  Rini quickened her pace as she 
realized how long she had been gone.  "I know," Diana replied.  "I just- 
LOOK OUT!" she yelled.

Rini gasped as she skidded to a halt in front of a black mass.  Gazing up at 
it, she could see nothing except this darkness.  Closing her eyes quickly, 
Rini hoped for it to disappear; it didn't.  A crazed laugh came to the 
child's ears.  Rini gasped.  She *knew* that laugh.  Quickly, she turned and 
ran back the direction from which she had come.

Blindly, the young Princess and kitten ran as fast as they could.  The two 
felt a coldness over come them.  It was bleak...black...heartless.  Death.  
Almost hellish.

"Hello, Small Lady," a cold voice boomed.  "Do you remember me?" it asked 
her.

Rini stopped.  She was frozen as the cold darkness invaded her senses.  She 
couldn't run.  She was physically unable to do it.  "Wiseman..." she 
whispered as a cold shiver ran up and down her spine.  It had to be him.  No 
one else felt that evil.

The laugh sounded through the black chamber.  "Correct, Small Lady," he told 
her as he appeared in front of her, his crystal ball being the only light in 
the room.  "And how are you, dear child?  Away from Mommy and Daddy I see."  
A throaty laugh escaped his cloaked hood.  "No matter.  Those pathetic 
rulers wouldn't be able to protect you anyways."

Rini tried to control her shaking, but she couldn't.  She hadn't been this 
scared for a long time.  She wasn't even this frightened when the Dark Moon 
first attacked.  The cat between her buns jumped from its perch and in front 
of Rini in a defensive position.  The hair on Diana's back stood on end as 
she hissed in an attempt to frighten the intruder.

Wiseman humphed, "Foolish Cat!"  Raising his arm, he directed a small, yet 
sufficient stream of energy at Diana.

With a yowl of surprise, the small kitten was thrown backwards into a wall.  
"DIANA!" Rini gasped, running over to her friend.  "Diana?" she whispered 
meekly as she reached the cat.  Lifting her up and stroking back the fur on 
her neck; Rini attempted to calm the kitten.  "Are you alright?" she asked 
quietly while tears streamed down her cheeks.  Her best friend had done 
that.  She didn't know it was in the small kitten.  Her friend.

Diana gave a pitiful moan, "Small...Lady...You must- run!" she told Rini.  
She wasn't much older then the bunny-bunned girl, but her parents had taught 
her enough about being a guardian that she knew that Rini had to get out of 
the room.  She had to protect her charge, her friend.  The Princess.  
"Please, Neo-Princess Serenity.  RUN!  RUN NOW!"

Rini felt tears coming to her eyes.  What Diana had just said was the same 
way that Luna talked to her mother and Serena.  It was in the 
'I-know-what's-best-for-you' voice.  Serena and her mother never listened.  
She knew she couldn't leave her best friend there alone with such an evil 
man.

"No, Diana.  We stay together," she told her confidently as she walked 
closer, "or we go together." She lifted the tiny form into her arms.  
Turning, Rini faced the Wiseman.

"You are as foolish as your mother, Rabbit!" he sneered.  "No matter.  You 
will all die!" he hissed.  Raising one bony arm towards Rini he directed his 
powers toward her and her guardian.  "You should have run," he whispered as 
he finished powering up, "while you had the chance!"

Rini tried to run, but found that her legs wouldn't move.  Looking up, she 
saw the power was coming right towards her.  Her cinnamon colored eyes 
became wide and frightened.  She screamed, but for some reason, her moonbeam 
didn't activate.

The darkness came screaming towards her, and no one even knew that the pink 
haired princess had gone to find her friend...

To be continued...

YES!  Stefanie's trademark cliffhangers are back!  I know, I know!  I'm so 
evil!

Anyway, Hope you liked it and I will have another chapter out next week, and 
by the moon and stars, it will be longer!  If not, may Selene protect me 
from all you nice people out there! ^_~

Hey, any guesses?

Hugs and Kisses,
Stef-chan