Truth Be Told by Cat Woman CatWomanTM@aol.com 
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, my 
drama teacher was right.....foreshadowing is FUN!! Well, anyways.....I hope you 
like this chapter as much as I did writting it! If you have any problems, feel 
free to let me know. THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO ACTUALLY E-MAILED ME!!! I LOVE YOU 
ALL!! I have no idea what characters I out in this chapter.....I guess the 
blonde in me is finally showing even though I'm a brunette!! HA!! Well, 
whatever! I think you'll all probably know which characters are mine and which 
ones aren't! Well, HAPPY READING!! Insert> GENERAL DISCLAIMER AND COVERING OF 
THE REAR!! Truth Be Told Chapter 6 Rating: G "Serena.....something happened on 
the way to drop your Mother off at the transport." Darien said slowly walking 
towards me. A look of sure freight came over my face. "What happened?" I asked. 
I was trembling with fear. I couldn't move. Darien wrapped his arms around me 
and I knew. He didn't need say anything, yet he did. "Serena.....my dear 
Serenity.....Ares showed up just as we approached the site. Your other tried to 
fight him, but..........." Darien started but I shortly cut him off. 
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed as I hid my face in Darien's chest and started 
sobbing. The other scouts surrounded us wrapping their arms around Darien and I 
as they all started to cry but none as bad as I. The others didn't know what to 
do so they just stood their in shock at the horrid news that was just mentioned. 
The next day I went to the Academy for the last time accompanied by the others. 
We all walked inside and straight into Chyron's office. I didn't care what he 
would say. I just knew what I had to do. I looked at him fighting to hold the 
tears that were making my vision almost nonexistent back. 'I can't do 
this.....it's what Queen Serenity wanted of me! It meant so much to her that I 
complete this!' I though hoping someone would say something for me. "What Serena 
wants to ask, sir, is if would be all right for her to take a few days off from 
the Academy because of some personal distress she went through just 
yesterday!?!?" Amy asked. She was great. She always knew when to help and when 
to allow others to do thing or themselves. Chyron looked around at the rather 
large group in his office and immediately knew that it must be serious if it 
took such a large group to escort me and to have someone speak for me. "All 
right. If it must be so, than she has my permission for a leave of absence. But 
I expect her to be back no later than Monday morning!" Chyron was so 
understanding. I guess centaurs were just made that way, though. Everyone smiled 
and left except for Mina and I. "Thank you Chyron." I meekly said almost in 
tears. Mina put her arm around me and we walked out of his office and out of the 
Academy. "I'll see you around soon, I promise, OK?" Hercules was always 
concerned. I guess that's just one thing that I appreciated about him. He was 
always there for me.....always caring. I hugged him and went on my way back to 
the gates where Darien was waiting for us in his carriage. I got in followed by 
the others. "Serena.....are you sure you'll be all right in doing this? I mean 
if you want, I can....." once again, I cut him off. "Darien, I'll be fine. 
Besides, I'll have the scouts with me and there will be other people up there 
who can protect me from whatever may either be there or follow." I quickly said 
with an attitude. I didn't know why I was going through with this. I didn't know 
if I could take seeing all my people or the entire kingdom without the 
brightness behind it that my Mother contributed. I didn't know if I could take 
telling them the bad news without fear of breaking down myself. But I was going 
to go through with it anyway. I had to, it was my duty as future queen. We 
approached the transport site just in time to see something odd. A dark black 
circle began to appear just as I stepped out of the carriage. "Serena, watch 
out, that's one of things that happened just before your mother died." Darien 
said trying to warn me. I, unfortunately, wouldn't listen to him. As far as I 
was concerned, I had no reason to actually trust him. After all, he did dump 
me.......but I was over that! "Darien...I'll be fine!" I snapped as I walked 
closer and closer to the transport site. The black circle widened the closer I 
got. Finally, though, a dark figure stepped out, dagger in hand. "Well, 
well...look at what we have here! My precious little baby girl!" Ares said 
sarcastically. The other Scouts stepped out of the carriage and walked up behind 
me. "Don't call me that!" I snapped. He looked a little surprised that his 
'precious little girl' could show any sign of hatred. "Ouch.....that hurt!" once 
again sarcasm reared it's ugly head from my father's mouth. I sneered as I 
continued to walk towards the transport site followed closely by the Scouts. I 
had just barely gotten past Ares when he grabbed my arm forcing me back in front 
of him. "Where do you think you're going? I hope you aren't going back to that 
little kingdom!!" Ares sneered. Oh how I wanted to kill him right there and 
then! "Yes, as a matter of fact.......DAD, I am going back home.....where I 
belong! I have to go there, and you know it, then again, that's probably why you 
did what you did!" and with that, I walked past him and onto the transport 
surrounded by the Scouts. We teleported out of there and landed in the Palace on 
the Moon. I looked around only to figure out that something was dreadfully 
wrong. The guards they......... The guards appeared to be dead. Amy ran over to 
one of them. She checked for any signs of life in them. "They appear to be 
alive, just a bit unconscious. I suggest we go look around and see what else 
there is." Amy said, looking at us all. I looked at around the room first at the 
Scouts, and then at the several unconscious guards. "We need to find out who did 
this, and we need to find out now! Now, let's go!" I said as I walked out f the 
room. I waited a few feet down the hallway for the others. They finally came out 
of the room. "I think we should split up. Take a tally of people dead, 
unconscious, ect. Then, we report back in the dining hall in, let's say, three 
hours." I suggested. Being back here, I felt a new power come over me. "Why so 
long?" Lita questioned. "Because of the size of this place. It's absolutely 
gigantic! We'll need to over as much ground as possible by nightfall. All 
right?" I answered. I looked at them as they all nodded in response. "Okay. Now, 
Mina and Amy will come with me and Lita and Raye will be together, all right!" I 
added. Once again, they nodded in response. We split up and began the search. 
When we finished, we met where we planned, in the Dining Hall. "What've we got?" 
I asked Raye and Lita. "We found 3 dead, 32 unconscious, and 65 alive. 
Unfortunately, when we questioned the alive ones, they were too afraid to 
speak." Lita answered looking around at us all. "Well, that's good. We found 5 
dead, 6 unconscious, and 52 alive. Once again, when we questioned the alive 
ones, we got the same response.....fear." Mina said. I approached my mother's 
chair remembering her in every way possible. I sat down and thought almost 
totally ignoring everyone else. They looked at me...I could feel their eyes. 
"Rena, what's wrong?" Mina asked as she walked over to my side. I looked up at 
her snapping back to reality. My eyes began to fill with tears as I looked at 
her and then all of them. I remembered all the fun times we used to have. The 
way we would all get in trouble and then try to get eachother out of trouble. 
The way we used to play jokes on mother. ............Mother, my dear, sweet, 
deceased mother. How I miss you! Mina bent over and hugged me as I sobbed into 
her shoulder. The others walked over to us and they all put their arms around 
me. Suddenly, a bright light broke through the dim lighting of the the room. It 
ran directly into me as the Scouts were lightly pushed away releasing me from 
their embrace. I was transformed into my true self..........Princess Serenity. I 
stood and composed myself. I looked around. I was still surrounded by the 
Scouts. "We have things to prepare for! We must prepare to tell the people of 
this kingdom of my mother's death and of the new threat. We also must prepare 
places in the palace for the unconscious and the wounded. And lastly, we must 
bury our dead, what few we have." I said as I immediately took control of the 
situation. I guess the royalty in me was finally kicking in. I looked around at 
all the surprised looks on my friends faces. "What?" I asked a little shocked at 
their looks. As we were about to leave the room, a baby tornado appeared just in 
front of the door blocking the only visible exit. The Scouts hid me from the 
tornado as a all figure appeared. He had bleached white hair and was wearing a 
white suit with silver accents. 
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Hmmm.....I WONDER who it could be? E-MAIL...E-MAIL...E-MAIL!!! I cannot BEGIN to 
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ummm.....well what I mean is...uh.....I have a little quote that I found and I 
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well, I'm a music freak and that so.....One of these days I'm gonna have to 
write about that! Well, anyways...here it goes: Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing 
Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. 
-Milton, Il Penseroso Just a small note.....When it refers to Pluto.....It 
doesn't mean Sailor Pluto/Setsuna! It refers to the Roman God Pluto, also known 
as the Greek God Hades!