Scout Hideaway
11/05/00
Serena writes:
I don’t know whether to rejoice at the appearance of the Moonlight Knight
or not. He dispatched of that monster so quickly today. And he was right.
It did feel good to see that monster destroyed. Maybe Sailor Venus can
rest easy, wherever she is.
What also feels good is that for the first time in this conflict, I guess we’d call it a war, the Sailor Scouts are on the offensive. We have a chance to finally free this world from the terrible destruction and tyranny of our enemy.
Yet that doesn’t mean we can sit around and diddle like we used to. We have to be active. We have to plan and prepare. I’m probably going to lose a lot of sleep in the process.
In the last month, we’ve already done a lot of planning. From what Amy tells us, this whole year wasn’t supposed to happen the way it did. Somehow, our enemy altered time with the Pluto Star Crystal and led us into this “alternate reality.” From what Amy says, we have to find and destroy the Pluto Star Crystal. I hope she’s right.
If she is, I can see my family again. Heck, I even miss Sammy. God, it’s been forever since I could bring myself to think about them. I miss my mother’s muffins and pancakes. She was so good at making them. And it’s been forever since I’ve had a decent meal, much less a hot one. I’ll have to be sure to be more thankful next time I sit down to her cooking. I miss my dad, too. I miss the way he always came upstairs to see me after work, or how he took his days off to take Sammy and me places. Like that time we went to the virtual reality arcade. Okay, so there was a monster there, big deal. And maybe Darien didn’t remember me, so what? I still had a good time. I haven’t been back since. I’ll have to take Sammy after all this is over. He and I haven’t just hung out before. He might like that.
I wonder if the house falling on them hurt? I hope not, but if Amy is right, they won’t even remember it. We’ll see Mina and Lita again. All of ourfriends will be alive again.
And Darien. I wonder if it’ll be tough for him to approach me after I watched him die. The Moonlight Knight remembers, I hope Darien doesn’t.
I’m glad Rei is back. It just makes our job so much easier. We haven’t bickered about anything since she got back. The other day, we sat down and talked about Mina and Lita for a while, but it was all good stuff, like the time we all had the flu and Mina tried to help us. Rei tells me she understsands now that it wasn’t my fault. She’d just been upset at Mina’s loss. She didn’t want to accept that it was Mina’s choice to die, and I guess I don’t blame her. I didn’t want to accept it either, but Mina made me.
Rei said she was proud of me. She said I did a good job holding Earth. She was glad I didn’t try to rescue Lita from her own fate, and reminds me often not to mourn over her. Lita was sworn to defend me, after all. It was her destiny.
Maybe if I’m patient, we’ll succeed and put these things to right again. I miss Mina’s smile and Lita’s unfaltering loyalty.
Amy has been pushing herself hard over the last month to work out a real plan. Rei has to help me make sure she at least eats. She’s started to get weaker as she moves into the third month of her pregnancy. She’s lost weight again, and I’m not sure she’ll survive too much longer the way she’s going.
She cries a lot. I have to comfort her, but she doesn’t like it. She chooses just to bottle it up than let it out. She was always just like that. She’s being less secretive about the information she has, anyway, and I guess that’s the most important thing.
Serena looked up, and shook her head, disagreeing with herself.
No, it’s not the most important thing. The most important thing is that my Amy is sick. And she’s sick because she was raped. And that rape would never have happened had this whole year not happened. Mina died because she was depressed about her parents being killed. Artemis sacraficed himself because he could not longer live knowing that Mina was gone. Luna died because she felt the need to help Artemis and Lita. Lita was killed because she had to make sure I lived to fight another day to rid the world of our enemy. Darien died defending me from the Negaverse.
Amy’s torment, my friends’ deaths, they all come down to the actions of the negaverse. It is no one’s fault but theirs. I must, no, I swear to annihilate the enemy before they can do any harm. Even after the last of our enemies are vanquished, I will do whatever is necessary to safeguard the Earth and the life of my friends. I resolve now to the destruction of the Pluto Star Crystal and the restoration of peace on this shattered planet.
Earth.
My home.
“Right.” Serena nodded fiercly, and got up to follow her friend.