Title: Counterfeit Cupids 

Part: Prologue

Author: Confused Elder

E-mail: carolyn.teinert@mciworld.com

Synopsis: Three servants of Cupid’s assistant decide to help their

master with the most difficult matchmaking mission of all: getting

Serena and Darien together.

Author’s note: This is my first fanfic. I’m not very talkative so on 

with the story.

                        Counterfeit Cupids


    Cupid has many servants. Surely you cannot expect him to do all that 

matchmaking and keep a decent household on his own! But only his most 

trusted servants help him on his true love/ soul mate missions. These 

matters are very delicate and must be handled with extreme care. That 

is why he left the toughest job of getting Serena Tsukino and Darien 

Shields together as naturally as possible to his right hand "man" Herbert.

    Oh, getting them together is harder than you think. You cannot control 

a person’s mind and heart. Only God can do that, and He allows us free

choice. All the Cupid team can do is plant suggestions and pray that 

the couple will take the hint.

    Herbert was a very old fairy and even though Serena and Darien were 

falling for each other, they were determined not to show it. So Herbert was 

stressed. He was so stressed that he had become an exhausted insomniac. 

He giggled and cried uncontrollably and became angry or depressed very 

easily. He gave them dreams, ideas and visions of a possible future. 

But, as said before, they were determined. It seemed they would rather

be miserable for the rest of their lives than admit they needed one another.

It just so happened that some very adventure hungry kitchen servants

who loved their master, Herbert, dearly noticed his plight.

    "We should help him!" exclaimed a fairy with fiery red hair and gold eyes.

    "How?" asked his sister, a fairy with pink hair and green eyes.

    "Perhaps..we could...um.. put him to sleep.."

    "What?" the girl screeched.

    "He does need some rest, Fluff," said another boy fairy with blue hair 

and teal eyes.

    "But..." Fluff began to protest.

    "Just listen!" Puff interrupted. "We could put him to sleep and do 

his work for him. The poor old guy is too exhausted to have much effect 

on that stubborn couple. If we succeed, we won’t get in much trouble 

and we may even get promoted!"

    "And if we don’t succeed?" Fluff asked.

    "The risk is worth it!" said Tibbles as he draped his arm around his

shoulder. "It’s okay if you don’t want to come, but we could use some 

feminine help. Please, Fluff."

    Fluff was blushing. She nodded.


    That night the fairies put a powerful sleeping potion in their master’s 

drink that was guarantied to make him sleep for at least 48 hours. When he 

was snoring lightly, they moved him to his bed and covered him up. Then

they hurried out of his room before Fluff could have a panic attack.

    "All right," said Puff, "Let’s start with dreams. I’ll take Darien; 

you two take Serena." Fluff blushed. "Later let’s meet at the fountain in 

the rose gardens and discuss our plans more. Oh, and Tibbles, you need 

to teach Fluff how to manipulate dreams. Fluff! Will you stop blushing 

like that?" he exclaimed. "You keep that up and we’ll start calling you 

Rosy!"

    Puff found himself hovering over Darien Shield’s bed around 1:00 a.m. 

The handsome 17 year old was obviously having a nightmare. Puff felt sorrow 

for a moment. He knew what went on in the nightmares. Then he smirked.

    "Good dreams are coming, Darien. Yup, very good dreams." He suddenly

grew from a height of 1 inch to one of 3 feet. He pushed back Darien’s black hair 

and rested his hand on Darien’s forehead. Puff concentrated and hummed for 

a moment. Then he withdrew his hand and watched with delight as Darien smiled

in his sleep.

    Meanwhile, Tibbles and Fluff were at Serena’s house. They whispered so

as not to wake Luna, the black cat with the crescent moon symbol on her head.

"You want to make physical contact with the recipient of the dreams. 

Then concentrate on the image you want them to have in their dreams," Tibbles

instructed. 

    "Do you have to come up with the whole dream for them?" Fluff asked.

    "No. Just start the thought and their minds usually take over. Here, try 

it on me."

    Fluff blushed as she raised her hand to his head. She concentrated and

then pulled back. Tibbles smiled at her.

    "Good job!" Tibbles said. Fluff blushed yet again. "Now for Serena." 

They turned to the 14 year old blonde in her bed and placed their hands on her 

forehead and concentrated. They grinned as they saw her smile.

    "Darien...," Serena whispered in her sleep. They gave each other a

high five and Luna stirred. 

    "Let’s get out of here." And they disappeared.