Well everyone, this is the chapter! The Scouts meet the Generals! I hope you guys enjoy it. I would like to thank Moonlight Lilly for all her help Feedback is always appriciated. Normal disclaimers apply Author: Guardian Mercury rated: PG13 email: Smerc8@aol.com Love and War Part IV- The Party "Wow, this is great!" "You said it Mina. I can't wait for them to get here." "What do you think the prince will look like Seren?" "Well I heard all of his guardians are pretty hunky also Amy." The girls continue to fantacize over what the prince and the guardians will look like. Tranquility comes over to the girls after a few minutes of them waiting. Serenity turns to her brother and sees that he has a worried look on his face. "What is it Tran?" "These four people-looking things just appeared in the sky and threatened to destroy mother. Four guards died by an energy blast while defending her and Selen." "What did they look like?" "The one that attacked mother had red hair and was very ugly Raye. A white hair guy attacked Selen." The girls look at each other and nod in agreement. Luna comes running in yelling at everyone. They all turn around to see why Luna's so excited. "It has to be Beryl guys." "You're right Amy." "Girls!" "What is it Luna?" "We have major trouble outside, come on." Darien and crew just landed and begin walking toward the palace gate. They look around and see what a mess everything is from the fight that's going on. "Wow, what a mess. they must have just got done with a fight or something." "No Zoicite, they're in the middle of one. Look, the palace seems to be holding up okay." Neflyte looks over to his left and sees Queen Beryl, the others and a bunch of youmas attacking the palace. The soilders are trying the best they can to fight back but aren't having very much success. "By the Gods, Darien, everyone look over there." "What is it? What the hell are those things!?" "I don't know Jedite, and I don't want to." The girls all transform and start running toward the palace gate. As they run by the gate, Sailor Jupiter falls behind and notices six men, being held outside the gate. She recognizes one of them as Goku. "Wait a second, that was Goku. Guards, unhand them!" "I'm sorry miss Jupiter, our orders come from the queen herself." "You know I have the authority to over ride her orders now release them!" The guards release the guys and Sailor Jupiter takes off after the other Scouts. the guys, who are completly stunned as in what just happened, stand there motionless. "Jedite, hit me." "Huh?" "Hit me. Ouch!" "Why'd you want me to do that?" "I wanted to make sure i wassn't dreaming." "Not here even 10 minutes and you have a crush on a girl, jeez." Neflyte gives Zoicite an ice glare and they all go inside the palace. A servent shows all of them to their rooms. The guys all meet in Darien's room to talk. "Well, now what?" "I say we go try to help in that fight outside Zoicite. The Moon Kingdom's forces didn't look in to good of shape." "I'm with Jedite." They go to join the fight outside and notice that the fight is getting worse for the Moon Kingdom every minute. Malichite surveys the area and then comes up with a plan. "Looks like they're losing and losing bad." "You got that right Zoicite." "Jedite, Zoicite you guys take the left. Remember on top of your regular weapons, you have your powers. Jedite from what I've seen, fire works well on these guys." "Got it!" "Neflyte and I will take the right. All of you remember, no one here knows us and they won't know what side were on, use caution." "Darien and I will go over to the girls we saw earlier and try to find out what's going on. Any problems, contact everyone on the communicator immediatly." The guys all split up and put their plan into action. Darien and Goku start running toward the Scouts then Goku stops along with Darien. They notice something then Goku fires an attack at one of the beings in the sky. "You think those are Serenity's guardian's?" "Got me Darien, we'll- stop!" "What?" "Over there." "That one in the blue is injured, and that guy's about to finish her off." *His power level's about the same as mine, this should be easy.* "Ki attack!" the blast Goku throws flies right by Diamond's head. Darien takes out one of his roses and throws it, blocking Diamond's attack. They then run over to where the Scouts are to see if they're okay. "Who shot that!?" "Goku, boy are we glad to see you." "Who threw that!?" "That would be me." "And who are you?" "I am Goku a Sayian warrior." Diamond hovers there thinking to himself then offers Goku a proposal. Goku declines and the two of them go at it for a few minutes while the others watch. Diamond disappears after a few minutes, leaving Goku to return to the fight. "A saiyan huh, I've heard of your kind. We'll leave this pathetic excuse for a kingdom if you join us." "No way, I will never work for you." "Too bad, you would've made a great Nega-warrior." "Get him Goku!" "Where'd he go?" The fight continues and slowly ends. The Scouts return to the palace while Darien and the guys look at the battlefield. There are dead soilders and youma all over the place. "I don't know what we stumbled into but I think it's something big." "Yeah, I think you're right Neflyte." "Well, lets head back to the palace, maybe the queen can make some sense of this for us." The guys enter the palace and try to find out where the Scouts went. As they wander around the palace looking for the queen, they look at the design of the palace and are amazed. "The design of this place is absolutly amazing I'm sorry Darien but, the design of this place blows your palace away." "I'm not offended Jedite, I agree completly." As they walk around the hallways they soon come accross Queen Serenity, who is talking to Tranquility. She introduces him to them and they introduce themselves. She then tells them what the fight was they fought in. "Wonder how we'll know what the queen looks like?" "It shouldn't be to hard to determine who she is Malichite. I think that's her there." "Queen Serenity." "Oh Goku, pleasure to see you again." "Again?" "Yeah, the day I "disappeared", I was here helping in another battle." "Oh this is my son, Tranquility." "Pleasure, I am Prince Darien and this is zoicite malichite, Jedite, Neflyte and Goku." Tranquility shakes everyone's hand and they all head to there respective rooms to get ready for the dance that night. "Pleased to meet all of you." "There's a party tonight at 7:00 in the ball room. I insist that you attend. Formal introductions will be made then." It's now 7:00 and everyone is in the palace ball room at the party. The guys have decided to wear their uniforms except for Goku, who is wearing his armor, that's a lot like Darien's. They are all standing over by the punch bowl talking. "Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like were sticking out a bit." "That's probably because we're not dancing Neflyte." "Sorry Malichite no one here interests me- I take that back." "What Neflyte?" "That one in the green." Neflyte points over to where Lita is talking to Raye. They're discussing the last attack and then Raye points out Jedite and Neflyte across the room. "I don't know about you raye but I'm getting sick of these attacks. We don't even know what they want." "I know Lita. If it wasn't for Goku and his friends, we'd all be dead probably." "Good point, I wonder who his friends were?" "Boy, check him out." "What? "The blonde over by the wall." "Hmm, I like the brown haired guy myself." Everything qiuets down and the Queen is introduced and she introduces the generals, Darien and Goku. After everyone is introduced, the party continues and everyone starts dancing again. "Presenting her Royal Highness, Queen Serenity with her daughters Princess Serenity, Princess selenity and her son Prine Tranquility." "Thank you, welcome everyone. Tonight we have some special guests here, General Jedite from Saturn, general Neflyte of Uranus, General Zoicite of Neptune and general Malichite of Pluto. Also tonight we have Prince Darien of Earth here and his friend, Goku." Darien and Goku stand speachless by the table with the rest of the guys. Zoicite and Malichite try to snap both of them out of their trances by shaking them then snapping their fingers in front of them. "Darien, Goku?" "Hey you two, wake up." "Huh, oh sorry Zoicite." "Darien, what happened?" "Nothing, i just-." "Just what?" "Just saw then most beautiful girl I've ever seen Jedite." "Same for me Malichite." They all decide to walk around and mingle with everyone. Darien and Goku walk around and soon see Serenity and Selenity talking. They both go up to them and ask them if they'd like to dance. Darien asks Serenity and Goku asks Selenity. "So why are we standing around here guys? Lets go mingle with everyone. Maybe get a few dances in." "Good call Zoi, lets go." "C-ya guys later." "Boy, I don't know about you but Princess Serenity knocked me out." "Same happened to me with Princess Selenity." "Well, lets go talk to them." "My I have this dance?" "Of course." Darien and Serenity begin dancing along with Goku and Selenity. As they're dancing, Darien introduces himself and they begin quietly talking to each other. "You dance very well Princess." "Oh thank you, please just call me Seren." "Okay Seren, and my name is Prince Darien." "Nice to meet you." "You know, you have the most unique hairstyle I've ever seen." "My friend Raye nags me about it sometimes." "Well i won't I really like it." "Thank you. Is that your friend dancing with my sister." "Yes, his name's Goku. He's been my friend since we were six." Darien and Serenity both stare at each other and get lost in each other's eyes. Serenity's heart starts racing and then they decide to go take a walk. "Hey, you want to go take a walk?" "Sure, i can show you the flower garden. It's beautiful." Goku and Selenity are dancing and see Serenity and darien go outside they then continue talking and soon Goku heads over to the punch bowl to get some punch for Selenity and himself. "Look at them." "Yeah, I think she finally found the right guy." "Yeah, i've never seen him so happy." "So has anything changed since I was hear last?" "What do you mean?" "I was here for a short time, when Sailor Jupiter broke her leg." "That was you who saved her?" "Yup." Goku arrives at the punch table and meets malichite and Jedite there. They talk for a few minutes and Goku pours two glasses of punch. He then turns around to head back to Selenity. "Hey you two, you guys having a good time?" "Sure am, I met this great girl standing over there in the blue dress. Her name's Amy, and she has the most beautiful blue eyes. Almost like saphire's." "Well that's good, how'd you two meet?" "I asked to dance you moron!" "You mean you finally built up the guts to ask a girl to dance." "Ah shut up Malichite! You meet anyone tonight?" "That gorgeous blonde in the orange there. Her name's Mina." "Wow. I may think you're a pain sometimes Malichite but, You have excellent taste." "Well, the Princess awaits, excuse me." Goku returns to Selenity and gives her the punch. They both sip their punch and soon Tranquility and Misato. come over. "Here you go." "Thank you, oh Tranquility. Goku, this is my brother Tranquility and his friend Misato." "We met earlier." Jedite is dancing with Raye as the music continues to play. They then go sit down on a bench in the garden to talk. "Your a very good dancer Miss Raye." "Thank you, and please just call me Raye." "I've never been to Mars, what's it like." "Well, it's nice for the most part, however when we have wars they get real bad and sometimes last a long time. What's Saturn like?" "Well, it's very dark, we don't get a lot of sunlight. The rings around the planet we use as raceways." "That sounds fun." "Oh one more thing, no one dies." "What! You mean you're immortal." "Well, Saturn is the god of Rebirth so everyone on the planet is reborn when they "die". I however lose that ability when I leave the planet and, I can cure any injury." "You want to see the rose garden?" "Sure." Lita is standing along side neflyte talking as the party ends. They part company for the night and head to their rooms. "So you can read the stars?" "Yup, one person every 100 years is born with the ability." "Wow, well the party's ending, will I see you tomorrow?" "Of cours Miss Lita." The girls all meet in Serenity's room to talk about the party that night. They're all telling their stories to everyone and giggling about the party. "So, how'd everyone like the party tonight?" "I loved it. Especially with the guy I met." "Really Mina, lets hear it." "Well his name is Malichite and he's from Pluto. He's really hot. What's Prince darien like?" "He's sweet, warm and caring. We went for a walk and he told me about Earth, which sounds really nice. The reason they all came was to help us he said." "Ah Selenity, I don't mean to be rude but, Goku doesn't really look like a hman." "He's a saiyan Raye." "What are they?" Amy speaks up and tells everyone what a saiyan is. Then the rest of the girls tell their stories and decide to go to bed. "They're a special type of warrior Mina. Very few are left in the galaxy. A the light of the full moon, they transform into a huge beast that destroys anything." "What hasn't that happened then?" "Saiyans are born with tails. If they lose their tail, they lose that ability." In Darien's room. the guys are going over their night with each other. Everyone is there except for Zoicite. "I am very impressed with you two. Getting Princess Serenity and Princess Selenity." "I don't know wether to hit you or thank you for that remark Jedite." "Anyway, who was that black haired girl in the red you were talking to." "Her name's Raye, she's great. She's from Mars and can do all sorts of things with fire." "I already told you guys about Mina so, I'm going to bed." The next day, everyone meets for breakfast in the dining room. The guys all sit next to the girls they met the night the night before. "Hey everyone!" "Hi Raye you're in a good mood." "Sure am Selen." "Did anyone here a loud crash last night." "As a matter of fact yes, Seren." "Do you know what it was Tranquility?" "I asked Misato here this morning and she didn't kow either." "It sounded like something was broken." Zoicite walks in last and has no expression on his face. He's a total mess and sits down next to Amy. "Zoicte, what happened!" "Yeah, you look like hell." Zoicite looks over at Amy and struggles to say something. Finally gives her orders and everyone leaves. "I-I don't want to talk about it." "You sure buddy?" "Yeah Goku." "Well everyone, we have a long day so be at the training hall in 15 minutes." "Yes your Highness." So, any idea what that noise was, or why Zoicite looked in so bad of shape? You'll just have to keep reading to find out.