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Chapter 2- Darien goes to the circus

Darien was studying his history homework about the Russian Revolution to keep his thoughts away from what had happened this morning. He went to Serena's house to pick her up for school, but from what he heard from Luna, Artemis, and Diana, she has not been seen since last night, neither has Rini. With this in mind, he tried to go to the other Sailor Scouts houses to see if they knew that their leader and their princess was missing in action, but his heart broke when he learned that the girls were no where to be found. He tried to look for any clues to where he could find the girls, but aside from the crows that have suffered a headache and Rini's item that she left behind on her desk, he was having bad luck.

Darien was sitting alone in Rini's room after trying to busy himself with schoolwork and making notes to keep the girls' homework for them when they get back. The cats were busy trying to search for any clues, but when they learned that there is nothing left behind by the girls, they wept quietly under the bed over the loss of their beloved Sailor Scouts. Darien puzzled over what could have happened in the middle of the night that made Serena disappear without even a note to tell Darien where she was. Then a thought came to him. "Of course, it has to be the Dead Moon Circus! They would be the cause of all this."

"Indeed, it is prince." Pegasus appeared inside of the orb right in front of him. Darien knew that the orb is how Rini and Pegasus talk to one another whenever she is upstairs in her room. Serena and Rini told him about that a while ago when they were hanging out at home.

"Pegasus, do you know anything about what happened to the girls?" Darien asks, full of concern.

The horse shook his head. "I don't. I have been trying to contact Rini throughout the morning, but I can't seem to reach her anymore. I think the Dead Moon Circus did something bad to them to make it so."

"Then I have to go back over there and get them out!" Darien stood up quickly and began to run out of the room before Pegasus stopped him.

"I wouldn't run in there without a plan prince. We don't even know what they will do to you if you decided to appear at the circus for a rescue mission. And you don't have the rod to protect yourself from the Lemures the Amazons have under their shadows."

Darien walks back to the desk and slams his hands on the opposite sides. "Then what do you think we should do?"

"First, if you plan on going to the circus, I would like to accompany you while I can speak to you through the orb. You will need my help most likely since that your girls are not here. Second, you will need to go unnoticed while you are inside to help me get my body back from Queen Nehellenia's clutches. For some strange reason last night while my physical body was still captured in her web, it seems to have lost its mechanism to keep me under her control." Pegasus explains.

"Why haven't you gone back to your body yourself?" Darien asks.

"I will explain that later while we search for the circus. For now, lets get going." Pegasus says as the light in the orb dims to nothing. Darien picks up the orb and walks out of the room, intent on searching for the circus tent.

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It didn't take long for Darien to finally locate the Circus tent where he and Pegasus can search for clues. Hiding the orb inside of his jacket, Darien took the time to look at the new posters that the circus had on display. All the posters ever said were about some sort of new entertainment that has just come to the circus today. Darien and Pegasus didn't know what the new entertainment could have in mind, but they suspected that it had something to do with the Sailor Scouts. "I have a bad feeling about this Pegasus." Darien whispered as he found his way inside of the tent.

It was dark inside of the tent with only the light of the outside being the only thing to light the way in the entrance. Darien walks cautiously while looking around for any enemy that might recognize him, but he found that there was no lemures so he took a breath. "Welcome to the new and improved Dead Moon Circus where we will provide you with endless excitement and plenty of opportunity to dream about what you could be like in the near future." Darien recognized the voice to be Hawk's Eye's as he appears in the room from the spotlight shining in his direction. "We hope that your stay has become as interesting as ours. Now onto the show! Turn your attention to the circus ring on your left..." Darien turns to where Hawk's Eye is pointing to while keeping his eye on the Amazon. He noticed that something about Hawk's Eye was off. Instead of seeing the overconfident, cunning attitude, Darien can see that Hawk's Eye's eyes looked like he was hypnotized and the way he looks around reminds him awfully of a unfeeling robot. "This is where our newest knife thrower Water's Eye will demonstrate her knife throwing skills to you all. Whatever distance her target is, she can exceed expectations. Now lets watch and see what she will show." The light shines down on the ring and it shows the person that Darien recognizes as Amy, the smartest one of the Sailor Scouts, but she has undergone a change that he can easily see.

She has three loops of hair right alongside her head and her hair has turned a darker shade of color. She has a simple pale shade of blue for her suit and a small dark blue skirt that has points on the edges to match her hair. Her high heeled boots are in the same color scheme as well. She also had some dark blue eyelid makeup and a small light sky blue circle on her forehead. She has some light blue pearls in her hair and a light blue circle in the center of her suit. She picked up some knives that were on the floor and looks around for her target, after finding it within range at the top of the tent, she throws her knife hard and fast in the air. The audience was amazed at the swiftness of her attack. No average knife thrower would be able to keep their knives in the air to get the target. When another target came by to the entrance of the tent, Amy, without looking to see where the target was, swung her next knife over her shoulder and it hit the bulls eye. The crowd went wild after that.

"Thank you for the show you have given us Water's Eye." Hawk's Eye said as the light dimmed from the ring and Amy disappeared in the darkness. "Now view the ring on your right. This is where our newest hypnotist, Love's Eye will show how powerful her mind abilities really are. For this one we will need volunteers for her to work on." Darien wondered with suspicion on what they did to mess with Mina. When the light shined on the ring, no one was there. Hawk's Eye dimmed the light and then called out. "Come on Love's Eye, we are not here to play hide and seek! CereCere, bring her in here!" A moment later, Mina appeared right behind him with a hypnotized CereCere in toe as she beckoned Hawk's Eye to join her in the ring.

"Are you kidding me? I am busy here girl! Go test out your volunteer in the ring right away! And don't come back up here to get me to join you." Hawk's Eye said, watching as the girl playfully pouted and went to do her job. Darien took a look at Mina's outfit and cringed over what the Dead Circus crew had done to her. She had very high boots that just about reach to her waist. Her dark orange skirt took on a flowing leafy look and her long sleeves had orange ribbons tied to her shoulders. Her stomach and cleavage is exposed. The colorful bra she has on just about made Darien turn his gaze away from the sight of her. 'Merciful moons! Why did they have to make her look like one of those pole dancers?! This is not what Mina would have wanted.' He thought to himself and gulped silently. The eye mask that Mina usually has has undergone a change to dark orange and her red ribbon in her hair is gone, replaced with two orange ribbons on the ends of her hair with some orange jewels.

"I am not sticking around for this act." Darien said to himself and takes this as his cue to leave and find Pegasus' physical body. He doesn't know whether he would handle what the Dead Circus did to his girls or not, but he knew that he didn't want to find out for a while at least. The audience didn't pay any heed of him leaving the show as he slips into another room of the tent to start his new mission. "Okay Pegasus, tell me where to find your body."

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It took them quite a while to find Pegasus' body inside of the tent, nearly 5 minutes in on the search. Pegasus was keeping a lookout for any sign of Zirconia or Queen Nehellenia, but there was no sign of either of his enemies. It was almost as if like a nightmare they have vanished without a trace. He couldn't decide if this was a good thing or a bad thing and he intends to find out once he gets his body back.

They found the body tangled up in the spider webs as it just hangs around in the looming darkness of the tent. To Darien, it almost looked like Pegasus' body was like a puppet on strings waiting for someone to come play with him. He placed the orb right in front of the body watching as the horse used his magic to disappear from the orb and heads straight for his body. Darien took out one of his roses and cuts the very thin parts of the web that cold no longer hold onto the body anymore and when Pegasus' body slips through the sticky substance Darien caught his body before it slams in the ground.

"Thanks for the help prince." Pegasus said as he struggles to get himself back up on his feet, his arms and legs felt a bit numb from not putting them in use for so long. Darien helps him to his feet and dusts off the rest of the cobwebs that are still hanging onto his clothes. "Now lets go back to the show and study who we are up against."

"Um Pegasus..." Darien started to say before Pegasus shushed him and told him to call him by his real name. "Helios, now don't you think this will be a good time to explain what you wanted to tell me before we came here."

Helios stopped for a moment, realizing that Darien was right. "Alright. I will tell you, but only if you promise to keep it between us." Darien swore his promise that he won't tell anyone else and waits for Helios to continue. "I think the reason Queen Nehellenia's spell on me has relinquished its hold is because something has happened to her. The only two ways I could be free from her are to either find the golden mirror and get me to return to the body willingly or to kill the one who has unleashed the spell in the first place. Queen Nehellenia has most likely been killed by her latest creations who she tried to take control over."

Darien didn't say anything as he considered what Helios might be saying is true. There could be some sort of pull that the girls did to eliminate the queen while they were brainwashed. He also knew this to be true in retrospect of rescuing Helios from his prison; if the queen was still alive, she would have killed him right at that moment for trying to steal the boy back.

Helios tapped Darien's shoulder to get him back to the real world. "I think in the meantime, we better stay low in getting to know what the Sailor Scouts have now become in order to figure out how to save them from this spell they are under."

"What could be worse than a knife thrower and a hypnotist that is showing off her abdomen?" Darien was afraid to ask. Helios didn't answer as they went back to see the rest of the show. But along the way, they spotted someone who is just about ready to head for the stage. A girl with brown hair tied up in a ponytail who the boys believed to be Lita or Sailor Jupiter as she is called when she puts on the suit. Her barrette is actually a little light green rose that sits on top of her head while her shoulders are protected by some sort of armor pieces of the same color. Her skin is tanner than what her skin was before and Darien wondered on how that changed overnight, quite possibly it was the magic on the spell that was placed on the girl. Much like Amy and Mina, Lita's forehead has the Dead Moon Circus circle in the same color as her roses. Speaking of roses, she has two of them on her waist like they are a dress design while two more rested on her wrists and for her suit she just has a small light green undergarment hiding underneath her dark green strips of the dress she wears on her body with a colorful green top to cover her chest. Unlike the girls who have the high boots, Lita is wearing light green sandals.

Lita, or what appeared to be her, turned to look at the boys who are just coming into the room with either a look of concern or of disbelief at the act Darien is doing. He looked like he wanted to puke. "Oh dear, another person who seems to have misplaced his appetite for the show. I apologize in advance if you seem to be not up for the show they have in there. That will simply not do for our first timers. Come with me and I will show you a much more extravagant entertainment to soothe your sickness." Not wanting to ignite the girls irritation for disobeying her command, the boys followed her to another tent where it appears to be much for roomier for the audience to watch the show. "We have just changed up this room so that our customers can feel like they are at home. Please choose any seat you like and my girls RayeRaye, SerenSeren and RiniRini will give you the best we have to offer."

Helios gave his thanks as he hoists Darien to take a seat at one of the lounge chairs that Lita had provided for them. Darien didn't know whether he should ask if Lita remembered who he was for he feared that she would probably not due to the magic spell cast on her so he said nothing. He even suspects that when she mentioned the names of the girls she listed, he with no doubt figured that Lita has a different name as well while at the circus. Maybe while he recuperates he can think up a plan to get Rini and Serena out of the circus.

The sound a music-box is swimming in his ears starts off quiet in the background but then it grows louder and louder as he and Helios looks around in the dark room but there was not very much light showing who would be coming in the darkness. That is until they spot a figure in the shadows twirling in the shadows as the person passed underneath the one spotlight in the middle of the ring. There wasn't much to see from the figure besides the silhouette of a skirt and the ballerina shoes, but Darien caught a glimpse of the rabbit-like ponytails on the young girls head.

"Rini." Darien whispered, trying not to shutter at the sight of the girl before him as the lights began to switch on to show her form. As expected, Rini looks like she is in a pink suit with a skirt to go with her look. Her legs are covered with the long white socks and the dark pink flat shoes adorned her feet. On her skirt she has a dark pink heart in the middle of her thin belt and a big dark pink ribbon was tied to the back of her waist. The insides of her bracelets are dark pink while the pearls around it are a lighter color. Her top of the dress has some strips of dark pink and her light pink necklace is shining bright against the harsh light. Her shoulder pads, like Lita, have a dark shade of pink and on her hair she is shown to have lots of pearls. On her forehead is a heart shape from where the circle should have been but it is not, Darien thought that perhaps the spell changed in order to better suit the girl to be under its control. Even more striking is her hair. It is still short and a little bit poofy but it looked like her hair is flowing in the wind like how Serena's hairstyle is. The music-box she is dancing to is just about hypnotic to the boys if they listened to it for too long. She began to move her long legs from the left to the right as she lifts them up with much grace and beauty and then twirls on her tiptoes. While she is doing this, she can be heard singing.

"Why do you hide inside your dreams,

When there is death waiting at the seams,

All I see is empty glee

No more happiness for me

It feels good to dance all day

To spin to twirl to go away

Dreams are not real

They don't possess the same means as death

How will I dream when all I get is emptiness?

Will death be my friend when I meet its embrace?

I will wait when that time comes"

Darien and Helios covered their mouths to keep from gasping in horror. Rini sounded like she was messed up not only in her calm and deathly gaze but even her song sounded like she is seeking a death-wish. Helios personally thought that this is not what his precious maiden should be thinking about in her dreams. When he tried to get her to turn his way by sending signals into her head, all he got was her blank state as if whatever he is doing is not working.

The music-box that was playing the music for the ballerina quieted down and she vanished inside of the shadows. Just when someone else was going to come up to the stage and perform for the audience, Darien couldn't take it anymore and tried to flee the room, only to find that Serena was standing beside the exit as she watched him in a disapproving glare. From what he could see of his princess she underwent a change as well. Her hair is surrounded in a mess of buns on top of her head, not just her regular buns, but numerous ones that have wrapped up her long flowing hair across from one another. She is much more tanner than before and her hair is decorated with some white pearls on her head. Some white feathers are on her shoulders and it almost hides the neckline with a yellow ball in the center of her throat. Her suit and her skirt is white but the middle section of the suit is colored gold from her chest to the end of the skirt. Her shoes awfully reminded Darien of Sailor Uranus' shoes but Serena's was white while the outer Sailor Scout had darker ones.

"What do you think you are doing leaving my daughters show?" Serena said in a low tone as she glares at the boy in front of her. She blinks her eyes at him and Darian could see that her eye shadow is white like the rest of her uniform. "Don't think that you can play clueless with me. I know of the reason why you are here."

Darien couldn't help but challenge her with a question of his own. He had to keep himself together to not fall down to the ground in sight of the girl. "Do you now? Or are you just saying this just to scare me back into watching Rini doing her death dance? I am not falling for any of this Serena-"

Her face scrunched up as Darien could feel the sudden urge to cower in fear of her. He really wasn't sure what was going on with his body but it is not obeying him in standing up to her. "I don't answer to that name any longer! You should know a great deal that I will not allow this type of behavior while my daughter and I are entertaining our guests. I am SerenSeren and that is how I am to be in my new Dead Moon Circus!"

She turned her attention to Helios who is scared stiff from watching Rini on the stage and shrugged her shoulders. "I don't care in the least of what happens to you mister. You took up too much space in that tent where the queen had coddled you up like you were her precious toy she doesn't want anyone else to play with. Still I should thank you for getting yourself out of there and to give us more room to do our show. But if you keep making goo-goo eyes on my star pupil you will have to undergo a lot of changes to fully join in our circus. And trust me, you would not like what we have in stored for newcomers who want to try." She snaps her fingers in the air and shouts on top of her lungs. "Tiger's Eye! Show these two ungrateful customers outside where they can spend the rest of their boring lives in the real world. Their dreams don't have what we are looking for."

Darien tried to protest, to make Serena listen to him, but his words died down in his throat as he tried to say a good comeback to jog her memory of him. Whatever he wanted to say, she wasn't going to let him do it. As he and Helios are escorted out of the circus by Tiger's Eye, he took a quick glance to see if the amazon was brainwashed like his friend Hawk's Eye, but he noticed that the man had no empty hypnotized look in his eyes. He didn't want to get his hopes up that Tiger's Eye would go easy on him and Helios so he remained quiet as they spotted the light at the end of the tunnel.
Here is the second chapter! Hope you liked how I introduced the new villains one by one. We have yet to see what Sailor Mars has in stored for the story but she will not show up until the next couple of chapters. Next chapter will be coming soon! Stay tuned!

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soseztheleadr's avatar
That is definitely NOT the Serena that Darien fell in love with.
Somehow, he needs to snap her and her fellow Scouts out of their brainwashed states.