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The Kiss of Death

By: Miss Jessica Rabbit

Chapter 2: To Become Something Great

Serenity: Beginning of chapter – almost 11, middle to end of chapter 14.

Endymion: Beginning of chapter – 13, middle to end of chapter 16.

Recap:

In a village far from the palace…

Serenity awoke with a start as cold water was splashed on her face.

"W-who are you?" asked the confused and nervous princess.

"I am Jafari, but you may call me Master."

"Why do you want me to call you that?"

"Because my dear, I'm going to train you."

"Train me? To do what?"

"hehe Why, to kill, of course."

Chapter 2: To Become Something Great

"What! I can't kill! I'm… I'm… oh my…"

"Is something wrong my dear?"

"No! I'm just too mad to think… I hope." She mumbled the last part more to herself than him, but he heard anyway.

"I need you to do something for me." Jafari asked with a smirk.

"What?"

"Tell me… your name."

It was a simple question really, but to her, it was a question that brought on fear and confusion. For it was thea question in which she had no answer.

"I… I… I don't know," she began with a voice trembling with fright and eyes wide with confusion, "…I can't remember anything. Why do I have no memories?"

"You were orphaned in an accident. It was a fire. Your whole house was burning down. I managed to save you, but no one else. I'm sorry, but your parents died in it. But hey, it's not like you remember them anyway, so I see no reason for being sad." He lied as he gave her false memories and a whole new life, very well knowing that the reason she lost her memories was the hit to her head with the hilt of his sword. However, he never intended for her to gain amnesia in the process, so it shocked him – but he hid that shock well.

"Well, what is my name? What shall I go by?"

"Your name? I don't know that. There was no one around who knew you. I think I shall call you…" he looked her over while thinking of something that would suit her as being her actual name, "ahh, Usagi seems like a good name for you."

"Usagi?"

"Yes, it means rabbit. And well, with your hair like that, you look like a bunny, so it suits you well."

"Hmm…'Usagi.' I like it Jafa-um, I mean Master."

"Well Usagi, it's getting late and we have to get up with the sun to start your training."

"Master, why do I have to train? I don't want to kill people!" she yelled with tears swelling in her eyes.

-SLAP-

Usagi's head flew to the side as she fell to the floor.

"Your first lesson Usagi:" he said while lifting her chin so she would look in his eyes while bringing his face unnervingly close to hers, "don't EVER question your Master." With that, he lifted her up by the neck and through her onto the bed then strode out of the room while he whispered a "sleep well" before slamming the door.

Usagi laid there in total shock.

'Can I trust him? One minute he's so kind and telling me of how he saved my life, and the next he's (she put her hand gently where he had slapped her and winced)…and he wants to make me a killer! I don't know if I can take a life! This doesn't feel right! None of it does! But, he already said my family's dead and nobody around my burning house knew me… so I guess… I have no choice. Either become an assassin… or live on the streets with no one to protect me. I guess I'll just have to learn to… protect myself. That way I won't need anyone at all. Just me.' She thought while drifting to sleep. It was a dreamless sleep. Except for a faint sweet melody playing in the distance of her absent dream. It sounded almost like… a locket's song. It seemed so forgotten, yet unforgettable all at the same time.

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Right as the sun was beginning to rise and touch Jafari's eyelids, he awoke.

Jafari was a somewhat older man, maybe in his 60's. This made him extremely wise in many aspects of life, but mainly the aspect of killing. He was a master at all fighting techniques and weaponry. Some would call him – invincible.

He was tall, maybe 6'2", which towered above Usagi's 5'6". He had all his hair pulled into a high ponytail, revealing his pirate-like earrings that dangled from his lobes. He had a very rugged appearance; unshaven with bushy eyebrows adorning his taut face. His hair was almost all gray with the exception of two black highlights that started at the hair behind his temples, and went in with his ponytail. He always wore the same thing: a white dress shirt and beige pants with black boots and a long coat which concealed many of his weapons that he never left home, or his bedroom for that matter, without.

He awoke and got dressed and ready for his day with Usagi.

'I don't know why I don't just kill her like I was paid to do. Am I really getting to be that much of a softy that I can't kill one puny Princess. I guess it's better this way. If it weren't for me kidnapping her, I wouldn't have anyone to pass the trade on to. It's gonna be pretty weird having a woman around the house that I can't screw. Oh well, guess I better wake her up and start training her. I have a feeling she's gonna be a lot of work.' He sighed as he walked to the door of the room he had given her, crashing through the door. The loud noise of the door hitting the wall made Usagi jump up into a sitting position and squeak.

"Calm down, it's just me." he mumbled in annoyance. "Here, put these on." he tossed an outfit much like his own – with the exception of it being fitted for a woman and lacking a coat – and left the room, closing the door behind him.

"You better hurry up and make me breakfast!" he yelled from outside her door. "Don't think I'm gonna train you for free! You're gonna pay me through work. All my meals are now your responsibility."

It didn't take long for him to learn she couldn't cook. He felt like an idiot when he didn't remember Princess' never had to lift a finger. 'Oh well, this'll just be something else she'll learn from me.' he thought while cautiously easting the "eggs" she made for him. 'Wow, never met anyone who burnt an egg before.' he thought while swallowing and cringing at the same time.

After "breakfast," they went to his training room. It was extremely large and didn't look like it would fit in the little cottage he called home. Weapons of all kinds hung on the walls and plenty of targets were lined up against the wall directly across from the door they entered through. Some of the targets were round, but many were made to look like the human body and filled with something that matched an average humans weight.

He started her up on what would become her daily routine.

Every day would be the same without much variation:

5am – Breakfast (made by Usagi)

6am – Tai Chi to make the brain more alert.

7am – Grappling

8am – Kung Fu/Tai Quon Do

9am – Swords (Katana as well as Medieval great-sword)

11am – Lunch (via Usagi's cooking)

12pm – Knife throwing (taught on both round and man-like targets)

1pm – Pressure Points (taught on the man-like targets)

2pm – Shakrum (AN: the Frisbee thing that Xena uses! )

3pm – Fighting Staff

4pm – Whips and Morning Star

5pm – Bow and Arrow (taught on both round targets and man-like targets)

6pm – "Jafari's Assassin Tricks" (Yep, this one was named by Jafari himself. It's a time where he teaches Usagi things that he learned through out the years. A few of them are: spitting alcohol into a torch to throw the flame and light some one on fire, plucking out your opponents eyes, and ripping off limbs – all of which were mainly taught on the man-like targets.)

7pm – Bathe (in separate rooms you perves!) to Relax the Muscles After Vigorous Training.

8pm – Dinner (once again made by Usagi.)

9pm – "Alone time" – Jafari mainly gave her this time to herself for her to relax and reflect on the days events. She just couldn't stay up past 11pm so she would be well rested for the next day of training.

He was surprised to find that she was a very fast learner. By the time she was 14 he started to add things to her training. Now the knife throwing time included him throwing knives at her for her to catch. Quickly, he began to have her do all her training blindfolded in order for her to learn how to sense the attacker and their attacks. He hated to admit it, but now – even at 14 – she surpassed him. He knew what it was time for – her first kill.

He had arranged for her to be hired instead of him the next time he was approached for a hit. If she did well and didn't freeze – like most of them do their first time – she would replace him fully.

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Jafari was waiting at a back table of a pub in the bad part of the village waiting for his client.

A man in his forties with sleek brown hair walked in with a stoic expression (clearing this wasn't his first time hiring an assassin) and walked straight to Jafari.

"So Chaucer, who is it and how much?" Jafari inquired while leaning back and crossing his arms over his chest to relax… obviously never one to beat around the bush with useless small talk.

"Sir Willington. Twice as much as last time." He said with the same stoic expression.

"The Governor's son?" Jafari replied laughing in disbelief.

"Let's just say I'm working my way up to the Governor. I just want him to suffer first." Chaucer replied with a smirk.

"Whatever you say." He said with a wry grin.

"I trust you to get the job done?" Chaucer asked while placing the sack of gold coins on the table. (The amount of money in the sack of coins would equal that of 50 million US dollars.)

"Oh, I won't be doing it, but you can still trust it to get done. I'll collect the other half after I bring you his head." (That's right. Since he's the number one assassin he gets 100 million for just one kill! I told you number one's important! )

"What do you mean you won't be doing it? You're the only one I trust." Chaucer replied with a nervousness in his voice.

"Then you have my word, you can still trust me… just now you will also trust the 'project' I've been working on"

"Who?"

"That's not for you to know." He replied while he stood up and began to walk to the door to leave.

"Who! I demand to know!"

Jafari said nothing. He just laughed without even looking back.

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Endymion, now 16, sat in Serenity's room on her bed. Every year since that infamous day, the Earth Royals and Endymion's four Generals came to the Moon four times a year – every three months – to check up on the Queen and as well as Serenity's guardians and all the others greatly affected by her kidnapping, namely Luna and Artemis and the Outer planet guardians (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto). They tell stories of funny things she did. They never spoke of her in the past tense. It was always "she IS such a blessing" and never "she WAS such a blessing" since they all still held hope within them.

Her room was never touched – except by the mourners who would come to just remember her, everything was still how she left it.

'Her pillow still has her smell' he thought as he held it close to his chest and buried his face in it. He did as he always did in her room – wept for his missing half.

The rose she gave him remains by his bed in his room, and as she promised, it never wilted – unlike his heart. (He even had a rose garden and fountain put in at the Earth's palace to match the one of the Moon Palaces so he could always feel close to her.) He remembered the day that he confessed his love for her – it was the best day of his life. That day, he remembered telling her that absence makes the heart grow fonder, and as much as he believed it then, he believed it more now. His love for her had grown immensely. However, as intense the love is, only reflects that of the pain.

Well, there you have it… chapter 2! Hope you all enjoyed it. If you find that things are being rushed it's because I'm trying to make the main bulk of the story when she… well, there's no need to get into that now. Just know that it's gonna get REALLY good and VERY dramatic! Lot's of action too! Heck, you saw all that training she did for everyday (she never had a vacation – sux to be her), you could only imagine how good she is at this job now! Well, review and I hope to see you around at chapter 3… "The List."

By the way, if you are having any trouble with any of these concepts, like the list for example, feel free to ask in a review and I'll be more than happy to answer. Most likely though, everything you need to know has already been explained in the story. The HUGE explanation of the list is in the next chapter, which mainly deals with the list and who's important when it comes to the list – which is how the chapter got the name "The List." See ya then!