Luna sat silently looking out of her pet carrier door. She had left with Serena, because it was her duty, but it wasn't only that it was also the fact that she loved Serena like a daughter, and now they were going back. She looked at all the luggage on the plane and thought back to when she had been reassigned to Serena.
The Queen sat down with an air of authority surrounding her, but even with the obvious air, it didn't intimidate the two felines standing in front of her. For Queen Serenity was truly serene and it caused anyone who came it contact with her to be perfectly at ease, which happened to be the way she wanted it.
She looked at her two advisors and said in a soft, yet commanding voice, "You two are now to be reassigned."
The Luna looked over at her companion, shared a confused look, and said, "But my queen, why?"
Serenity looked at her friend and smiled, "Because, my friends, you two are my most trusted subjects and I need you to do me a special favor."
"Serenity, you have known us since we were born you know we would do anything for you," answered Artemis.
"That is what I was hoping you would say. Luna, Artemis, I'm pregnant."
"Why Serenity that's wonderful! When did you find out?" Luna gushed for one of the first times in her life.
"Yes, it is wonderful! Now, the Kingdom will have an heir! But, Serenity, who is the father? I have not noticed you being close to any man lately," added Artemis.
"Thank you both. To answer your question, Artemis, that is why you are here," Serenity paused, then continued, " you see the father is, Zeus."
Artemis and Luna both stared shocked at the Queen, neither one able to move or think until finally Artemis managed to utter a shocked, "How????"
The Queen looked as if she had suspected this question and said, "It was an alliance between the gods and mortals you see he wanted children, and when he met me, we fell in love."
"Children?"
"Oh, did I not mention that? I'm having twins," said the Queen happily and you could practically see the happiness radiating off of everything around her.
"But, my queen, that still does not explain what we're doing here," said Luna logically as always.
"Well, Luna, no others are ever to know about this. You see, the children will be born gods. Each of you will be a guardian when they are born. You will watch over them and be there for them, because they will live longer then I or any human," answered Serenity.
"But if they will out live you, then they will definitely out live us."
" No, Luna, you see by taking this favor, you will be come immortal in order to help them." She paused, "Do you accept?"
The two felines looked at each other and answered, "By the Moon, we do, and do not worry Sere for we will watch over your children."
"I know you will, Luna. Now, I have two things for you. Luna, you will be guardian to the Princess Serenity who is the Goddess Artemis, and Artemis you will be guardian to Prince Andrew who is the God Apollo. There will be a time when they will need to be in their ultimate forms, so now I give you both the power to release their dormant powers, so when they are needed just release their power, but beware Luna, for Serenity will not only be the Supreme Princess of the Moon, but also the Princess of the Gods."
She had released Serena's power about 2 months ago, right after Terra was born, due to the fact that the Negaverse was becoming active again, and now she knew why the Queen had told her to beware, because the power that Serena had when she was in her Sailor Universe form was greater then all of the villains that the scouts had fought put together. Luna sighed and said to herself, "Please Zeus watch over your daughter."
Lita looked around. The scouts were having one of their monthly meetings and, as always, she was bored. Lita looked at a pile of mangas lying neatly stacked on the floor and quickly pushed them over, silently hoping that maybe Serena would appear at the top of the pile laughing her head off at the stupid story lines.
"Hey Li, why in the world did you do that? Now I'll have to yell at Chad to get him to pick those up!" demanded Rei.
"Sorry, Rei, but I was hoping that Sere might appear or something," Lita sighed. She knew that Serena was headed back home as they spoke, but she wished that the scouts could all be joined once again, and it was lonely at meetings with out Sere's cherry personality.
"It's OK. I've been doing things like that lately too. The other day I found myself making a triple hot fudge sundae in hopes it would bring Sere running into the kitchen," Rei sighed sadly, then changed the subject, "Amy didn't you say there was something you wanted to tell us?"
Lita wasn't surprised at Rei's subject change. Rei never let anybody know how she really felt, because she was afraid of what they would think. Lita had tried to tell Serena that all the scouts were sorry but every time she even mentioned them, Serena would hang up the phone or change the subject, though lately she wasn't too sure that the scouts were sorry or not. Lita quickly snapped out of her thinking state as Amy answered, "Oh yes. Yesterday night around midnight, my computer sensed a large amount of negative energy in the outskirts of Tokyo."
Mina looked at Amy and said, "Which means.?"
"V, it means that the Negaverse is back and it looks like they're stronger than ever." She paused, "Guys you're definitely not going to like this but it looks like they're stronger then us put together."
"You mean that they're stronger then both the inners and outers put together?" asked Lita.
"No, just about as strong, but you know as well as I do that the outers won't help us. You're the only one the talk to and they don't fight anymore."
"Can you blame them? I mean every time that they bring up Serena you cut them down. You do know that she is their princess too, don't you?" she looked at them. They didn't even look ashamed of what they did. Lita stood up and added, "If you guys ever get any feelings then call me. I'm outta here." After Lita walked out, the three remaining scouts just stared at each other without emotion.
Artemis was sitting behind the counter while waiting for Andrew to help some customers with their orders, when Lita walked in. She looked as if she was mad at the whole world. Quickly he ran over to her. As she scooped him up she said, "Artemis I'm completely with you guys now. I am tired of the scouts, I just can't take it anymore the don't even look as if they're sorry for what they did to Sere!"
"I know it's sad, isn't it? They still think that Serena just left them there to die while she played some video game," Artemis agreed.
"Hey Drew could you give me a soda? I could really use it!" asked a weary Lita.
"Sure Li," he said as he looked at her lovingly. He gave her a smile and quickly handed her a cold drink. She took a long drink, then smiled back as they kissed passionately.
"So, now your going after my brother, huh Li?" said an amused voice, as the couple broke off their kiss in shock.
