Hey what;s up? heh, heh, I know it's been a while,since i last sent you "taking back the night" -Formerly-forgoden@aol.com -now garriso1@ixnetcom.com -but here's the latest one, can you post it up> id really appreciate it!thanx! On with the next part……. Serena was at first homesick to be gone from her friends and family in Tokyo but here she found like she was needed here for some reason, this place looked like a nightmare compared to Tokyo, but the near by ocean and t he atmosphere made her feel oddly, at home. San Franciso seemed like a fantastic city….TAKING BACK THE NIGHT-CHAPTER 1 Darkness, shadow, she had known all of these, yet none had compared to what she felt at this dreary moment. Serena looked over the bridge with a tear in here eye. She felt alone, always alone. Was she a pawn is some ga me of cosmic oddities? She looked down at the crescending waves as they crashed among the shores. "Mother, I remember now" She was a fool with nowhere to go to, five years old, With a cat for a guide. Luna looked at her shining princess, God , she looked so innocent, yet so......regal? Was that the word? She struggled to find the right w ord, the word that would sum up who she was, or where she belonged. She always wanted to be a normal girl, yet, she was born with the responsibilities of a seemingly demigod. Serena seemed so innocent, so full of life, it would be a shame when she had to do what Serena feared most, raise her to be a leader. "Serena, it's time". "Time to what, Luna? She giggled a soft laugh as she looked at the hills filled with flowers in the moon's endless gray hills under the observatory. "Time to grow up"she said softly. From there, she lead Serena to the palace grounds. Azrael, her father welcome her to the grounds. "Welcome dear child!" he grumbled a mighty laugh, as Serena rushed into his arms, Az rael, her father. he always had a dark side, one that seemed to come from the Negaverse........ Where did that come from? random memories of Serena's former childhood flashed through her mind as she looked at the waves below.... Vinneus laughed a harsh, sharp, laugh, as he realized all his plans were slowly becoming a reality. That fool Azrael, didn’t know the plans, or the dark future that was in store for him. "Vinneus! Come here! I have need of you". Vinneus slowly oozed himself to where Azrael stood. "How may I serve you master"? the irony of this statement was not lost to Vinneus as he muttered foul cursings under his breath. "I need you to go to that fool-Tuxedo Mask, and kill him". "Why master?" "He is getting in the way of my plans for the domination of this pathetic planet" "I am your will Azrael" and with that Vinneus disappeared in a multitude of shadows. "Excellent, thought Azrael, with Vinneus on a foolhardy plan, I can see what that bothersome troll is up to" And with that statement, Azrael followed to where Vinneus disappeared off to. Who was he? A puppet to be mastered? A statue to be molded? He was all of these, and yet none of these. Vinneus, spat at the ground at the pointless task that he was assigned. First of all, he had to find this Tuxedo Mask fool, and correct him, or if necessary, kill him. He was sick of being treated as an underling, wasn't he a person too? He felt betrayed at his own warring emotions and betrayed at his lack of servitude. Lack of? Wasn't it he who got Sailor Moon to leave Tokyo? Wasn't it he who was a genius? Yes. that must be it, he thought, I am merely a scholar trapped in a world of do-gooders, and a buffoon named Azrael. With a sigh of res ign, he left for His hunt to destroy Tuxedo Mask. Darian stared up at the sky and found himself…regretting..? Yes, regret for what he had done to Serena. He didn’t know what to or where to go to search for Serena but he knew that Serena always talked about liking to be near the ocean, and liking to see brochures of San Francisco? Where did that come from? He had a vision of impending danger, as he stared up at the night sky, he saw visions of Serena falling into an unending abyss near a bridge by a city. It looked like San Francisco? Well his visions had usually helped him in the past, (except for him and Serena’s relationship) he went and booked the next flight to San Francisco. "See anything yet Rei?"asked Mina "No, let me try to concentrate please!" Rei stared into the fire and prayed fervently to it, "Great fire, tell me where Serena Tsukino is! We need to find her! Visions, of a girl falling into an abyss, near a great tower ….and a man standing in the distance looking on from the top tower of the bridge..She saw flashes of a short wiry little man in the distance laughing as if it was some gigantic game for his own amusement, and a taller man , aloof, with a neutral expression, no telling of whose side he was on, and another seeming to fill the whole fire, a man with spiky hair….All of a sudden the figure spoke, "Get out of here! This is my realm of meditat ion in this dimension! How dare you invade my domain, priestess! For this you have earned a reckoning of impending doom, beware the angel of death!" and with that he disappeared, and the fire, with a life of it’s own fl ashed itself out of existence! "My god , she murmured, never before had she encountered a force so, awesome, and very large and apparent. It was truly a game that she had to win…she bit her lip and found herself in a very disappointing position. "What is it, Rei? asked Ami "Ami !Can you tell me when there is the next available flight to San Francisco? Oddly, she had been to this place when she was a little girl, she was then on a vacation into the United States with her grandfather who was attending some memorial service for World War 2.Oddly, She had recognized it as if she herself had lived there for a long time. Ami typed several things in her computer as she used her fierce intelligence to book the next flight to San Francisco. The circle was about to begin........