The Softest Snow Flake Part 5 Are you done yet? ‘Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a jail.’ “Well…um, maybe we could pull it out through our sub space pockets, out of our rooms!” Ami exclaimed, proud of herself. “After all, we do it with our pens, right?” This seemed logical to Rei so she tried. “Um, Ami? It’s not working…” Andrew looked on. Serena found herself sitting in the middle of the rose gardens, dressed as Serena again. Her eyes were slightly red and her face was down cast. She really hadn’t wanted for any of this to happen… Not now at least… ‘I never wanted to be the Princess… Why can’t someone else do it?’ she sighed and leaned back against a tall tree, closing her eyes and falling asleep. FLASH “Serenity, are you ok? Come on, speak to me Sere!” She forced her eyes open to find herself in her room back at the palace. “Endy?” she asked weakly. He was standing there, watching her, waiting for to wake up. “Sere, you’re ok! Do you remember what happened?” “I… I remember a field, and a storm. The shed got hit, and we were running… That’s the last thing I remember.” She replied and sat up slightly against the headboard. “My friend Andrew found us, or rather we stumbled into his cottage. Do you remember Andrew?” It took a minute, she was still half-asleep, but almost too suddenly, she remembered how they had gotten out of the storm. “Yeah, I remember. What day is it Endy?” “It’s Tuesday still I think.” He said wearily. “Endy, you’re exhausted. You take my bed and I’ll be sitting here in this chair when you wake up, ok?” Endymion was too tired to refuse, and fell into the bed the second she got out, asleep before his head hit the pillow. FLASH “Euh! Endy, are you..? Oh, I’m back…” Serena startled awake and it took her a minute to remember where she was. “What do you mean by back?” someone asked her. She looked up to see a girl who looked somewhat like her with long blonde hair up in a red ribbon sitting across from her. “Oh, it was just a very strange dream. My name’s Serena.” She said, holding out her hand. The other blonde shook it. “I know. My name’s Mina. I’ve been looking for you and the others for awhile now.” Mina said, standing up. “Huh? What others?” Serena asked. Was she the enemy? “The other Sailor Scouts. I’m Sailor Venus. Nice to meet you again Sailor Moon.” “Oh! Are you really Sailor Venus? Do you know Sailor V? She’s my idol!” Serena exclaimed, as the two started to walk together. Mina laughed. “Sure do! I actually was Sailor V before I became Sailor Venus and left to find you guys. Glad to meet a fan!” she said cheerfully. ‘Oh wow, Sailor V, in the flesh! This is so cool!’ “There are some problems going on in the group right now, aren’t there?” Mina asked finally. Serena slowed to a stop and nodded. “Yeah… I guess you know who else I am, huh?” “Yeah. I was going to help you out, pretend to be the princess for awhile, but there was nothing else you could’ve done. I’m proud of you for doing what was right. That took guts Serena.” Mina said sadly. There was silence for a moment as the two simply walked together. Finally, Serena burst out. “Oh, I just can’t stand this Mina! The looks on their faces, like I was someone totally different now and they didn’t know how to act, or what to do… Almost cold! And Darien! He practically freaked out! Ok, I mean he doesn’t know I’m Sailor Moon, but now he knows that Sailor Moon is the Moon Princess and I’ve started talking about myself in the third sense, and what am I going to doooooo?!” She wailed. Mina smiled at her. “The first thing, is to calm down. I’m sure if you talk to them, they’ll understand that you’re still just Serena, and you always have been. Also, we need to find Jupiter. She should have been here by now. The last thing I can say, is I have no idea what to do about Darien, but my best guess would be to talk to him too, but first lets talk to the scouts ok?” Mina asked comfortingly. Serena nodded dumbly and they headed for the Hikawa Jinga Shinto Shine. When they finally walked up the steps, Ami Rei and Luna were sitting by a small pond out to the left, talking in low voices. “Hey guys, look who I found! Or actually, she found me. Mars, Mercury, Luna, meet Sailor Venus.” Serena said, trying to sound like everything was still the same. “Sere, you’re back! We’re really sorry, I mean if I did something really wrong and insulted you, I, I, I’m really sorry meatball head.” Rei said, hanging her head slightly. “It’s ok Rei, I’m just the same old Serena I always was, so I don’t want anything to change, or I’ll have to erase your memories and I think I kinda need you guys.” She said smiling. Ami smiled too, and nodded. “Now Serena, are you going to tell us who’s who and what happened it the past? And we still haven’t totally met Sailor Venus here!” Ami giggled. This could take awhile. ~~~~~~~~~~~************~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darien sat down on the bench and stared out past the lake. There were a thousand questions floating around his head, and it was starting to make him dizzy, so he decided to sit down and sort them all out as best he could. He plucked the first one out of the air for consideration. ‘Why would Sailor Moon not tell us she was the princess?’ Well this looked like a good place to start at any rate. It seemed she was afraid maybe, of the new responsibility and the way they had acted towards her. The sailor scouts had always seemed to be a very close group of girls, and now out of no where they were bowing and deferring to her. She probably still had doubts about her own abilities too. One down, ten thousand to go. ‘Do I really have to do this now?’ Darien wondered. He waved his hand around his head, clearing it for the meantime, and looking rather strange to any passers-by. He sighed and leaned back against the bench deciding that even super heroes needed time to sit and watch the sunset. ~~~~~~~~~~~************~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After she had finally finished telling the girls who was who in the past and what had happened, she needed a breather, desperately. She left Mina to fill in any blanks she had missed and headed over to the park. After a few minutes of walking, she stopped finding herself standing behind Darien who was sitting on a bench by the lake. He didn’t know that Serena Tsukino was also Sailor Moon AKA the moon princess, so this must be terribly confusing to him. She could feel it from here, that even though he had set aside questions for a time, he was still thinking about them if only subconsciously. This too, could take awhile. Yeah, yeah, I know. It wasn’t terribly Waffy, or even waffy at all, but that comes up soon, in chapter six! It takes awhile and a few more great inspirations to write this one, so if you want it out earlier, send out your fics to smrff earlier, or give me your web site addy and post right after you write it! Yeesh people! http://www.geocities.com/~moonix moonklutz@yahoo.com 9237322 E-MAIL ME! AND MAKE IT FAST! I’m looking for any fan fic authors sites (Waff, mamo-chan usa only please!) to make a WAFF archive author listing page on my site. =) So send me some links! Luvs ya!~ Klutz Oh, thanks to Alicia Blade, PDWaldron, Crystal Heart and Mara.K for being my inspiration this week!