Hi everybody!  It's me, again.  With yet another episode of Universal.

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I want to thank Doug for his constant comments, even the complaints.  After
all, he's kept reading it.  I also want to thank all the new writers.  I love
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Sailor Moon Universal

Chapter Nine  The Prophecy Revealed


Darien stared at the little girl in his arms, and then at the two who
were standing in front of him grinning, and gulped.  "Our..." was all he
managed to get out.

"Daughter, yes," Serena said, smiling at the picture they made.  In the
beginning she had been jealous of how much time they had spent together,
but now that she knew of the bond between them, she was just happy.
Besides, she knew the bond would always include her.

"I think I need to sit down," Darien said.  Still carrying Reenie, he
walked into the living room and sat on the couch.  Serena nestled next
to him while Travis took the chair he had been sitting on when Darien
came in.

"How long have you known?  Why didn't you tell me?  How come none of the
girls know?  And," Darien looked up suddenly, "if you knew the girls
were having dreams, did you know about mine as well?"

Serena thought for a second.  "A week and a half, you weren't here, they
aren't talking to me and yes.  Did that answer all of your questions?"
she asked grinning slightly.  Travis was trying to hide his own grin.

"How long have you known I've been having that dream?" Darien asked
quietly, hugging Serena to him with one arm.

"Two days after the fight with the other Scouts," she said, sobering
quickly.  "We were trying to figure out why the Scouts would do that to
me, and Artemis said that Mina had been having nightmares.  Reenie said
you had been having them as well, so we went and asked the Sisters if
Rubeus could do something like that.  Catsy said that the Wiseman could
influence people through their dreams and that he had already laid one
on Prince Endymion.  It explained a lot, but I was still mad at you for
trying to take care of it by yourself."

Darien pulled back a little and looked at her.  "Andrew told me that you
knew I was alive.  How?"

"Apollo reminded us that the bond we shared couldn't go one way.  We
would have known if you had been seriously hurt, the same way you always
know when I am."  Serena looked at him.  "By the way, why did you
disappear for so long?  We were starting to worry you had been
captured."

So Darien explained, about the cliff village and the caves, the
challenges and the Earth Gem.  He even told them the Prophecy.  Serena
was more interested in another part of his story.

"You can become Sailor Earth.  How cool!  Let me see, please?" she
begged.

"Yes Daddy, transform, please?" Reenie added her voice to Serena's.

"Please, please.  Come on, for us," they both pleaded.

There was no way he could resist the two of them when they ganged up on
him like this.  "All right!  Geesh, you two are dangerous together.  I
can certainly see the resemblance."  The girls grinned at each other as
Darien put Reenie down and stood up.  He moved to the center of the
room, conscious of the five sets of eyes watching him.  He raised the 
hand wearing the opal into the air and cried out, "EARTH GEM POWER!"  
Everyone watched in fascination as the red, green, blue, and white 
lights flew around him.  When it was over, a black and green version of 
Sailor Sol stood there.

"That is so totally awesome!" Serena exclaimed.  "What are your powers,
do you know?" she asked.

"No.  I understand Tuxedo Mask is stronger, but this form can aid you in
things like teleports or Sailor Planet Power.  It's got some powers of
its own, I know, but I don't think I'll know what they are until I fight
in it.  Which I hope I never have to do," he added as he transformed
back to Darien, "I much prefer Tuxedo Mask."

"You're right, Tuxedo Mask is much more dashing," Serena said
thoughtfully.

"Hey!"  Travis put in, "Does that mean you don't think my Sailor Sol
form is dashing?  I am hurt to the quick," he added melodramatically.

"If you start with the formal language, you will be hurt, quick." Serena
laughed at him.

"How do you two change into the Sailors of the Sun?" Darien asked as he
sat back down.

"We use the Sun Stone," Travis said, taking out his necklace and showing
it to Darien.  "If we add Duo to the end of my activation words, it
knows there are two of us and can transform us both."

"Does that mean you can both be Sailor Moon?" he asked absently as he
looked over the miniature sword.  He looked up to find everyone staring
at him in astonishment.

"Only one way to find out," Serena said excitedly as she hopped off the
couch.

Travis got up as well and the two stood facing each other as Serena
pulled out her transformation locket.  "The words are 'Moon Crystal
Power'," she said to him.

"I know that," he answered back.  "Just don't forget the Duo."

They both took hold of the transformation locket.  "MOON CRYSTAL POWER
DUO!" they cried.  Feathers and ribbons surrounded the two, and when
they could be clearly seen again, there stood two Sailor Moons.  The
original looked as she always did, red, white and blue with crescent
moon earrings and jewels on her hair.  Beside her stood a male version.
Blue pants, white shirt, with red sleeves, belt and shoes and a blue
headband with a crescent moon on it.  The main difference in their
costumes, not counting that she was wearing a very short skirt and he
was wearing pants, was the fact that the male had a white scabbard on
his left side, holding a long sword.

Reenie clapped her hands in delight.  "Neat, now you can both be Sailor
Moon or Sailor Sun."

"This day is just full of surprises, isn't it?" the female Sailor asked,
looking at her counterpart.

They detransformed and sat back down.  Darien handed the sword back and
Travis looked at it, remembering something.  "I'm interested in this
prophecy, Darien," Travis said, "What language did you say it was
written in?"

"An ancient rune that I was forced to learn while growing up," Darien
said lightly.  "Why?"

Travis held up his little sword.  "SUN STONE POWER!" he called.  When
the light had fallen back to bearable levels, he handed the sword to
Darien.  "Did they look like that?"

"Yes," he said excitedly, "these are the same kinds of runes.  This must
be part of the prophecy. It says:

               'Two Earths, two Moons, two Suns
                Though only three survive.
                Three stones consumed,
                Three stones resumed,
                Three stones that did arrive.'"

"What the heck does that mean?" Serena asked.  "Luna, Apollo, do you
know anything about this?"

"It sounds slightly familiar, but I don't have any real memory of it,"
Luna said slowly.

"I must agree," Apollo added, "It sounds like something I've heard
about, but I don't recall anything specific."

"Well, maybe the two Moons and two Suns are us when we duo," Travis
suggested.

"Maybe," Serena agreed slowly, "I bet the three stones are ours.  You
know, the Moon Crystal, Sun Stone, and Earth Gem."

"I agree," Darien nodded, looking at her strangely.  Everyone else had
had time to get used to her occasionally saying something intelligent,
and just nodded their heads in agreement.

Travis got a pencil and paper and wrote down the prophecy, having Darien
repeat it several times to make sure he got the whole thing correct.
Then he made copies and passed it around.

Serena stared at hers for a long moment before speaking very quietly,
"I wish Amy were here to help."

Everyone except Darien froze.  This was the first time she had said
something like that since the argument.

"Or Raye, she might be able to see something in the fire," Serena
continued in the same quiet voice.  She looked up to see them all
watching her and blushed.  In an even quieter voice she said, "I miss
them so much."

"I thought you were still mad at them," Travis said in a voice almost as
quiet.

"I am, but I'd forgive them if they asked me to.  But they don't even
try to talk to me anymore.  I guess they really don't care."  Serena
looked down at her hands clasped in her lap.  Darien put his arm around
her and Reenie climbed into her lap as Travis flushed.

"Well, um, I kind of told them not to come near you again," Travis
admitted shamefaced.

"What?" Serena asked, surprised.

"You were crying, and I was very angry at them.  I tracked them down and
told them the best thing they could do would be to stay away from you,"
he mumbled.

"Travis!" she exclaimed, "What if they wanted to apologize?"

"Hey," he tried to get himself out of the situation he was obviously in,
"Artemis agreed with me.  He told them they should stay away too."

Serena's eye were blazing.  "You mean all of this time, they might have
wanted to say they were sorry, but you kept them away?  How could you,
Travis?"

"I thought it was best.  You weren't in any condition to talk to them at
the time.  I just didn't think they would stay away for this long."
Travis looked steadily into her eyes.  Serena dropped her eyes. She knew
he was right. She would not have been able to handle them those first
couple of days. The wounds had been too fresh.  "Lita did ask that if we
saw the Princess, we should tell her she was sorry."

Serena nodded slowly.  "I remember."

"Amy was standing watching you, up where you couldn't see her, that day
I got back.  I would say she had been doing it a lot, just trying to
keep an eye on you," Darien said.  "When I asked her what had happened,
she almost collapsed."

"Amy?!" Serena asked, shocked.

Darien nodded as Luna put in her own observations.  "Artemis has been
saying that Mina is depressed and sometimes calls out in her sleep,
asking you to forgive her."

Serena sank her head into her hands.  "I need to talk to them," she said
very slowly.

"Are you sure?" Travis asked.

She raised her head and nodded even as she leaned closer to Darien and
hugged Reenie, seeming to take strength from knowing the people in this
room loved her.

"I'll go with you," Darien volunteered immediately.

"No, I've got to do this myself."  She grinned slightly as she looked at
all the concerned faces surrounding her. "I might need you here when I
get back, though.  Especially since the first person I'm going to talk
to will be Raye."

"Raye!" came from everyone.  Reenie managed to get the first new word
in.  "Why Raye?  She's the only one we don't 'know' wants you back."

"That's why, Reenie.  From what you guys say, I would say the other
girls are sorry.  Raye's the only one I can't be sure about.  The one
I've never been sure about," she added almost inaudibly.

She stood up.  "Well, better go before I lose my nerve."

"Good luck," Travis said.

"We'll be here when you get back," Darien added supportedly.

"It'll be all right, Mommy," Reenie chirped up, "You'll see."

"I hope you're right, Small Lady, I hope you're right."  She left the
room, then stuck her head back in as Travis started to open his mouth.
"And do 'not' follow me, or send Apollo or Luna to do so."  She left as
Travis closed his mouth and looked after her in annoyance.


As Serena got closer to the temple, her apprehension increased and her
steps slowed.  When she was at the bottom of the steps she stopped.
*Come on, Serena, you've faced Beryl, Alan and Ann, and Rubeus, you can
face Raye too.* Constantly encouraging herself, she walked up the steps
and reached the courtyard.  No one was there.  She walked inside, her
steps leading her to the place where Raye always went when confused or
needing guidance, the Great Fire.

As Serena walked towards the meditation room, her heart was beating fast
and her breath was getting shallow.  She stopped in front of the door,
to try to gather her courage one more time.  As her hand reached to open
the door, she could hear Raye's voice and stopped to listen.  She didn't
want to talk to her in front of anyone else.

"Great Fire, please tell me what I can do to make Serena forgive us,"
Serena almost stopped breathing altogether, as she heard Raye's words,
and a little of the fear she was feeling was transformed into relief.

She walked into the room as Raye dropped out of her meditation.
Serena's eyes widened with disbelief as she saw a single tear glimmer in
the light of the fire.

Raye stared into the fire for another long moment.  Her voice was filled
with defeat as she spoke to herself, "Why won't it answer? Maybe...maybe
there 'is' no way to make her like us again."  Her head shot up as she
suddenly sensed she was not alone.  She spun into a crouch, ready to
tear apart whoever dared to disturb her.  It took a long moment for her
mind to come up with a name for the person standing there.  For a long
moment, Raye thought she was dreaming as she stared at Serena.  Then
Raye saw her eyes.

Serena's eyes had always been the windows of her soul, usually filled
with laughter and love, sometimes with sadness or anger.  It had always
been easy to tell how she was feeling with just one look.  Never before,
in all the moods Raye had seen Serena in, through all the fights they
had had, never had she seen what she saw now.  Fear and wariness.  Of
her.

Raye felt something inside of her break.  Of them all, she had been the
one who had seen the least of Serena after the argument.  She had never
truly believed that Serena 'could' hate them; she had thought the others
were just being overly sensitive.  She knew that Serena had too much
love in her to hate anyone.  But even that would have been more bearable
than this.  'Anything' would have been better than knowing that Serena
was actually scared of her.

Raye let out a strangled sound and pulled her eyes away from the person
who had been her friend.  She tried desperately to keep the tears of
pain from showing.  She had never dreamed she could hurt another person
that badly.  Especially Serena.

Serena's heart softened and the fear left her eyes as she saw Raye
almost collapse to the ground.  She walked over and kneeled next to her.
"Raye?" was all she said.

"Go away!" Raye whispered brokenly.  Serena's head shot up in surprise,
disappointment and hurt.  She started to get up.  "Please, just go away,
I don't want to hurt you anymore," Raye continued.

Serena gently laid her hand on Raye's shoulder.  Raye jerked as though
she'd been shot.  "Raye.  It's all right, Raye," Serena said softly.

"No, it's not alright!" Raye said savagely.  "We're supposed to protect
you, not hurt you.  And...and you're never supposed to be afraid of
'us'.  We don't deserve to be your Scouts anymore."  Raye fumbled in her
robe and took out her transformation pen.  "Here, take it!  I shouldn't
have it, it's obvious that I've failed you."

"No!" Serena said sharply, "You are one of my Scouts and nothing will
ever change that!"

"We changed that!" Raye almost shouted back, still not looking at
Serena.  "We changed it when we told you we didn't want you to fight
with us anymore.  AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY!"  She did shout this time.

"I do," was Serena's answer.

"What?" Raye's head jerked up and she stared once more into Serena's
eyes.  This time she didn't see much of the fear, there was still a
little, but it was almost covered by her normal good humor.

"I said, I know why you turned on me like that.  At least I think I do."
She looked seriously at Raye.  "How have your dreams been lately?"

"My dreams?" Raye asked musingly.  It didn't take her long to understand
what Serena was saying.  "Do you mean, someone was giving me those
dreams? The ones where someone got hurt because you were so clumsy and
where I never became a priestess because I spent so much time around
you?  They were all given to me to break us up?  AND I FELL FOR IT?!"
Once more Raye was shouting as her temper exploded, "WHO?!"

"The Wiseman, Rebeus' boss," Serena answered, she had drawn back a
little when Raye started shouting but stayed where she was.

Raye saw the fear come back into Serena's eyes and forced herself to
calm down.  She turned to stare into the fire for a long moment and only
turned around when she was sure of her control.  "Are you sure?"

"Fairly.  We know he has the ability to do so.  We know he did so to
Darien, and we know all of you were having nightmares.  What do 'you'
think?"

Raye looked down.  "I think we owe you an apology.  Especially me.
You're right, you know, it was the dreams that made me start wondering.
They just kept happening, night after night, until I had to wonder if
they might be true.  I'm...sorry," she said haltingly, it was obviously
hard for her.  "I never meant to hurt you."

The last of the fear left Serena's eyes and heart.  It was obvious that
Raye meant every word she had said.  Serena's eyes shone as she
impulsively hugged Raye.  Raye was surprised at first, but that didn't
stop her from hugging back the friend she had almost lost.

"I've missed you, Raye," Serena finally said, "I haven't had a good
argument in weeks!"

Raye burst into laughter that was very close to tears as she sat back.
Serena was grinning madly.  "How long have you known?" Raye asked.

"About a week and a half," Serena answered absently, still thinking
about the apology Raye had given.

"A week and a half?  And you just now told me?" Raye started in an
argumentative tone.  She suddenly realized that that might not be the
best way to speak to her right now, but Serena's answer put that worry
to rest.

"Hey, you weren't talking to me!" she answered, strangely happy that
they were fighting again.

"Well if you'd told us, Meatball Head, we would have been speaking to
you earlier."

"As if you'd have believed me!  You wouldn't believe me if I said today
was Monday."

"That's because today is Wednesday!"

"See, I told you you wouldn't believe me!  You never do!"

"Well, if you'd talk sense, I might believe you more often."

"Yeah, right!"

Amy, Mina, Lita, and Artemis walked up the steps to the temple.  As they
got closer they could hear voices raised in argument.  Mina looked at
the others.  "That sounds like Raye and Serena!"

"It couldn't be. She's probably just yelling at Chad again," Amy said
sadly.

Artemis, however, had been listening intently, and his ears were better
than his human companions.  "It 'is' Raye and Serena," he told them,
"and it sounds like one of their regular arguments."

"Let's go see.  Maybe she'll talk to us again!" Lita exclaimed, almost
running into the temple.  The others followed quickly.  As they went
into the temple, they could understand the voices.  It definitely was
Serena and Raye.

"You said Darien was having dreams too," Raye's voice came through
easily and the others stopped suddenly and looked at each other.  Almost
in one voice they whispered, "'Dreams'?"  Raye's voice was louder than
that as she finished.  "Does that mean you've finally gotten back
together with him?"

"Why?  You want to steal him back?" Serena's voice answered.

"No.  I just want to know how your new boyfriend, Travis, took it."

"Well, if you'd been talking to me, I would have told you he wasn't my
boyfriend."

"Hey!  He's the one who told us to stay away from you!"

"Yes, I know.  He told me today, I could have strangled him.  Though he
was right at first.  I wouldn't have been able to handle talking to you
those first couple of days.  It still hurt too much.  Even knowing you
were being manipulated didn't help."

The other three had reached the doorway to the meditation room.  They
looked in to see Serena and Raye kneeling across from each other.

Mina was the first to speak during the silence after that statement.
"Would it help if we said we were sorry?" she asked quietly.

Serena and Raye jerked around.  Serena stared at the three girls
standing in the doorway and fear flashed through her eyes.  The girls
saw it and once more cursed the way they'd talked to her that day.  They
started to leave, pain crossing their features. Like Raye, they couldn't
believe they had hurt her so much that she was actually afraid of them.
But Serena nodded very slowly.  "I think it might," she said softly.

They walked into the room and settled down around Serena.  Amy spoke
first, "I'm sorry, Serena.  I didn't really think you were that
immature.  I know how much you've grown in the last year.  I never meant
to really hurt you, I just... just..."

"Started to believe what the dreams were saying," Lita finished for her.
"I dreamed that you had a klutz attack and caused me to hit innocents,
including Ken."

"I dreamed that you were pulling my grades down, and your lateness
caused one of us to get hurt," Amy added, filled with shame.

"I was the worst one," Mina said slowly.  "I didn't really have dreams
about people getting hurt.  I dreamed that I was the leader of the
Scouts on the Moon, because you never fought then."  Mina's eyes filled
with tears.  "I was just being selfish and I'm so sorry."  She burst out
crying.

Serena immediately went over to her and hugged her.  "I understand," she
whispered.

Amy spoke again, "And then it seemed as if everything you did, just
reinforced the worries we were having."

"And we just got madder at you," Raye said.

"Why didn't you talk to me about the dreams?" Serena asked from her spot
next to Mina.

"I don't know about the others, but at first I was ashamed that I could
have dreams like that about you," Lita said.  "I knew you wouldn't have
done anything like that and I just tried to put it out of my mind."

The others murmured agreement.

"We didn't talk to each other about them either.  I'm sure if we had, we
would have figured out we were being manipulated," Amy said.  "By the
way, who gave us the dreams?  And how did you know about it?"

Serena answered, "The Wiseman is Rubeus' boss, and he has the ability to
influence people's dreams.  As to how I know, when Artemis said that
you, Mina, had been having strange dreams, Reenie remembered that Darien
had as well.  So we went and asked the Sisters if Rubeus had the ability
to give people dreams.  They said that he didn't, but the Wiseman does.
They also told us that Rubeus stays in a spaceship, high above Tokyo,
most of the time.  That's why we couldn't find his base."

"A spaceship!  No wonder my computer couldn't get a reading on it.  I'll
have to recalibrate to take that into account," Amy started mumbling to
herself as she pulled out her computer.

Serena laughed.  "It's good to be with you again.  I've missed you all.
Even the pyro here."

Amy flushed and put up her computer just in time to receive an almost
smothering hug from Serena.  She wasn't about to complain, even if
Serena 'was' cutting off her air supply.

Serena crawled over and hugged Lita as well, then she bounced to her
feet.  "Come on," she said, "I've learned a lot of things in these last
few weeks and I think you should hear about them.  Well?  Come on!" she
called back over her shoulder as she almost danced out of the room.

The others lost no time in hurrying after her.


Serena led them up the hill.  Although none of them had ever been there
before, they figured out they were going to Travis' house, because no
one else they knew lived up there.  Their eyes grew wide as they saw the
mansion.  Serena led them inside.

"I'm back," she called out as soon as she walked inside.

"Did you talk to her?" a voice called out from the room they were
heading towards.  Serena walked through the doorway and the others
followed slowly.  Mainly, they were gawking at the house.  Their stares
quickly moved to the room they were entering.  To their surprise, they
saw Darien and Travis sitting comfortably, almost next to each other.
The second thing they saw was the large stuffed falcon on the mantle.

"Of course I did, Muffin," Serena answered, plopping down next to him.
"I said I would, didn't I?"

Reenie was the first one to notice the five standing in the doorway.
"You're back together!" she yelled, delighted, getting up and throwing
herself into each one's arms.

Travis stood up.  "Have a seat, ladies, and I'll get something for us to
drink."

"And eat," Serena put in.

"Of course, did you ever have any doubt?" he laughed.

During this, Artemis had hopped off of Mina's shoulder, where he had
been listening quietly, and went over to talk to Luna on the fireplace
hearth.

Serena suddenly didn't seem to know what to say as the others sat down.
She fiddled with her shirt for a few minutes before jumping to her feet.
"I'll go help Travis," she said brightly.  As she rushed towards the
kitchen, Travis came out.  Not watching where she was going, Serena ran
right into him, spilling the drinks and snacks all over the place and
herself.  Everyone burst out laughing.  They couldn't help themselves.
It even looked like the stuffed falcon was trying to keep from laughing.
Serena's face screwed up into a pout.

"WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she wailed.  "Why are you
laughing at me?  It's not funny!"  They just laughed harder.  It had
been so long since they had been able to really laugh that they just
couldn't stop.  Even Darien was trying his best to restrain himself as
he went to pick Serena up off the floor.  Serena stomped off to get
changed as the others laughed themselves out.

When Serena finally came back out, the mess had been cleaned up and no
one was laughing, out loud at least.

"So, what did you want to tell us?" Raye asked from her seat on the
hearth.

"Oh, just that Travis is my twin brother, Prince Tranquillity, Reenie is
Darien's and my daughter from the future, and I've been Sailor Sun for
the past week and a half."  Serena grinned as she dropped the
bombshells.

This time it was Serena's turn to burst out laughing as she watched them
try to work through what she had just said.  Travis, Darien, and Reenie
joined her as the girls started asking questions.

"Your brother?" "Prince 'Tranquillity'?" "What do you mean, your
daughter?" "How could you be Sailor Sun, if you're already Sailor Moon?"
The questions were coming so fast that it was impossible to tell who was
asking what.

Serena was laughing too hard to answer, so Travis got himself under
control.  "Yes, I am her twin in both this time and last.  If you think
Tranquillity is a funny name, imagine how I felt growing up with it.
Our mother was the Queen of the Moon and our father was the King of the
Sun.  Because of that I am Prince of the Moon and the Sun and she is
Princess of the Moon and the Sun.  That is what allows us to both become
the Sailors of the Sun."

"But why?" Lita asked, confused.

"Because you didn't want Sailor Moon to fight with you, and I knew how
much danger you'd be in without me," Serena answered when she stopped
laughing.  "I couldn't let you get hurt, just because I wasn't there.
So when we found out we could 'Duo' our powers to both became Sailor
Sun, we decided to help out as someone you and Rubeus wouldn't
recognize."

The next hour was spent explaining what had happened to all of them
during the last several weeks.  Darien was forced to transform into
Sailor Earth again, just so the girls could see.  They were all a little
surprised when the falcon added his comments.  Apologies, explanations
and demonstrations, not to mention a little gossip filled the hour.
Then they started to talk about the prophecy.

Amy programmed the prophecy into her computer as everyone looked at the
copies Travis and Darien had made for them while Serena was gone.

Travis said, "We're pretty sure that the three stones are Serena's Moon
Crystal, my Sun Stone, and Darien's Earth Gem, but we don't understand
any of the rest of it."

"That cave I was in showed that all of the planets had Scouts, maybe
that's the nine Scouts," Darien put in.

Mina shook her head.  "But that's nine Scouts of nine planets, this says
there's only five planets."

Lita seemed to be counting in her head, "Hey, that's what we've got
here!" As the others looked at her she continued, "We've got Scouts from
the five inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter.
That's five planets.  Two Scouts from the Sun, which isn't a planet and
two from the Moon, which also isn't a planet.  Nine Scouts, five
planets, see?"

"I suppose it could be," Serena said slowly, the others murmured
agreement, "but I thought we were in the next part, 'two Moons, two
Suns'."

"I hope not, I really don't like the line after that," Darien's voice
was worried.  "'Though only three survive.'"

"No one says you can be in only one part, Meatballs for Brains," Raye
put in sarcastically.

"I guess that means I'm more important than you, don't it?" Serena
answered saucily.

Mina jumped in to defuse the argument.  "Amy, what does your computer
say?"

"It's still working on it, but I don't think we have enough data," Amy
said seriously.  "Serena, can I see your transformation locket?"

"Sure," Serena responded, taking it out.  "Why do you want it?"

"Well, from what you said, one part of the prophecy was found under the
Earth Gem, and one part on the Sun Stone Sword.  So wouldn't it be
logical for there to be a third part around the Moon Crystal?"

"I suppose so, but I've never seen anything like those runes on the
locket.  Or anywhere else for that matter," Serena answered.

Amy looked the locket over minutely, before suddenly transforming to
Sailor Mercury and using her visor.  "They're there, I think," she said.
"But they're 'under' the Crystal.  Even at highest magnification, I can
barely tell that they are there."

Serena took the locket back and holding it in one hand, kept the other
hand about three inches above it.  It was obvious to everyone that she
was concentrating very hard, even her crescent moon started glowing from
the amount of concentration she was using.  Suddenly the Crystal rose
out of the locket and settled in her upper hand.  Serena sat back with a
sigh, wiping sweat off of her forehead and handing the locket to Mercury
once more.

Everyone except Mercury was staring at Serena.  She just grinned
mischievously causing Reenie to start giggling.

Mercury looked at the runes written in the locket.  Her computer
translated it easily.  "Okay everyone, I think this is the rest of the
prophecy.  It says:

             'When power into the child is cast,
              The Universe is safe at last.'"

"The child?!" Everyone said, looking quickly at Reenie.  Serena picked
her up and held her tightly.

"Calm down, Serena.  It might not have meant Reenie," Travis said,
trying to calm his own worries.

Serena just looked up at him for a moment and then recited, "'Three
bloodlines and four crowns'".

"Of course," Darien answered pulling both Serena and Reenie into his
arms.

"You're right," Apollo said from his perch on the hearth.  "I had
forgotten, but that prophecy is one of the reasons your parents got
married, Travis."

"And why Queen Serenity was so happy when the Princess fell in love with
a prince of Earth," Luna added, "It added the third bloodline and the
third crown."

"So you're saying the three bloodlines are the Moon, Sun and Earth royal
lines.  And the crowns are the Moon Kingdom, Sun Kingdom, and Kingdom of
Earth, right?" Mina asked, lightening the confusion they were all
under.

"Then what's the fourth crown?" Lita asked, still slightly confused.

"Crystal Tokyo," Serena, Travis, Darien, Luna, Artemis, Apollo, and Amy
all answered at once.

Reenie looked like she was about to cry.  She wasn't sure exactly what
the prophecy meant. All she knew was that her parents were very worried
about her, and that scared her.

Amy got to work inputting the new information to her computer.  When she
was finished the computer started giving out its answer.  "Listen up,
everybody.  The computer says that the prophecy must take place in the
future.  That the two Earths are King Endymion and Darien.  The two
Moons are Neo-Queen Serenity and Serena, the two Suns are King
Tranquillity and Travis.  At least that's the information it has."

"But we can't go to the future!" Lita exclaimed.

"Yes we can, Lita," Reenie answered, "The Crystal Time Key that Puu gave
me will take us back."

"Who's Puu, Reenie?" Mina asked in a soft voice.

"She's the Guardian of Time and she tries to take care of me," Reenie
answered happily.

"PLUTO?!" the three guardians exclaimed.

"I thought Sailor Pluto was just a myth!" Luna said excitedly.

"Sailor Pluto?!" everyone practically yelled.

Artemis replied to that, "Sailor Pluto is supposed to be the Guardian of
Time but no one has ever seen her."

"'I' see her all the time," Reenie said proudly.

"So is she the fifth planet?" Raye asked for once not having many smart
remarks.

"I thought we agreed that Earth was the fifth planet," Lita said, after
all it was her theory.

"I don't think that's right anymore, Lita.  Reenie, do the Sailor Scouts
exist in the future?" Raye asked intently.

"You guys?  Yeah, of course you do," Reenie answered brightly.

"So we have two Scouts of each of our four planets and Pluto.  Nine
Scouts, five planets," Raye said, sure that she was right.

"I disagree," Lita said angrily.

"I'm tired of talking about this," Serena whined.  "Let's do something
else."

"Ice cream shop?" Travis asked.

"Yeah!" Serena and Reenie yelled.

"Serena, Travis!  This is serious Scout business," Luna said.  She'd
started expecting better of the two.

"Chill, Luna, I don't think we're going to get anything else done right
now," Serena said as she walked out.

"We're only going to argue if we keep on like this," Darien agreed as he
got up, "and we really don't need another fight right now."

The others reluctantly agreed.

As the group headed towards the ice cream parlor, they heard the sounds
of the one thing they did not want to deal with right now.  A droid on a
rampage.

Reenie ran off to hide as the Scouts got ready to fight.

"MERCURY STAR POWER!"
"MARS STAR POWER!"
"JUPITER STAR POWER!"
"VENUS STAR POWER!"
"SUN STONE POWER DUO!"

The Scouts looked surprised as Sailor Sun and Sailor Sol stood there.
Sailor Sun explained, "We were trying to fool Rubeus, too, you know.
That hasn't changed."

The six Scouts and Tuxedo Mask ran towards the sounds of screaming.
However, when they got there, they found an empty parking lot, with not
a droid in sight.

"Hey, where's the fight?" Sailor Jupiter exclaimed.  Then they heard it.
One very familiar scream from back where they'd come from and coming
closer.

"Reenie!" Sailor Sun and Tuxedo Mask yelled.  Suddenly, standing there
in the middle of the air was Rubeus.  And he was holding a squirming,
pink haired little girl.

"I finally have her.  And now the Universe will be mine," he said as he
disappeared.

The last thing they heard was Reenie's voice, "Mommy! Help me!"

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Well that's it for yet another one.  I want to thank Daniel and Suzanne,
for reminding me that Raye didn't seem very worried about the fight with
Serena.  Most of this Chapter came from that idea.

Chapter Ten will be called Reenie's Rescue.  What else?

Jendra@aol.com