Chapter 14: Something Wicked...

Something had changed. Something very momentous had changed within their group. For the first time. Hyacinth thought that Diamond had lost his mind. It had been over seventy-three years since Kaitou's expulsion from the Earth and members of the Black Moon Movement, have all but abandoned it in favor of having food and money.

While he and a few others stayed on to keep everything in repair and clean, yet there was no use for it. He even contemplated on selling some of it off but he always stopped himself. Now though, he simply worked like the others in odd jobs he could get that hadn't been replaced by robots or the automatics. Those kinds of jobs were few and far between.

For now, he worked as a Host in the District. He and Emerald worked at the same one, though while she was popular for some reason, he had only moderate success.

Though, he did wish that everyone would stop comparing him with the missing Prince Darius.

Right now, he was sitting across from another bubble head woman that had just noticed the same exact thing- again.

"I mean it's like, totally uncanny how you like look like him and stuff." She was saying holding up her phone, "Weird, kinda like the Prince and the Pauper you know?"

"Yeah, really." He resisted the urge to roll his eyes, " Anything else new that you like, Keiko?"

She tilts her head a bit, smiling vapidly, before blinking as an annoyingly sweet song started playing on her phone/ "Ah, like one second!" She moves off to answer it. "OMG-Jane~ you won't believe it!"

That does it. He thought getting up, "Excuse me, I have something unfinished to do."

"Oh, will I see you later, Daisuke?" She looks up at him with pleading eyes. "Jane totally wants to like meet you!"

"Uh..sure." He shook his head a bit with a smile, "Bye, Keiko." With that he left the place as fast as he could. Gods, of all the crazy crap that was happening these days!

Not to mention, Diamond's becoming nuts, Sapphire's starting to get way into his projects and now? Ugh! Who the hell was that guy anyway?

Hyacinth loosens the tie he wore and unbuttons a few of the buttons on his shirt. "Just who the hell is Darius?" He grumbles and rubs his temple as a dull ache began to throb slowly. "And...who is that guy? Maybe that's Darius."

He was thinking about his dreams, the ones that have become more persistent this year than any other. Something about a white haired person but he could never make them out.

"This has got to be the most suckiest day of my life." He kicked a can heading down the familiar path to home. He hoped to whatever there was above that Opal wasn't in yet. Over the months, she had become so...so..invading would be a word here. Everywhere he was in that complex there she would be watching him.

It was unnerving.

All he wanted right now was to relax. Relax and try to sleep without any dreams.

"So, do you wish to know the truth?"

Hyacinth turns to see a strange person covered in a cloak standing far from him. "Who are you?"

"I am known as Wiseman." The cloaked figure moves towards him, "And I can show you everything you ever wanted to know. Who you are, what happened to you, and why you have no family."

Hyacinth steps back a bit. There was something really strange about this man. Something was warning him to run from it, but he couldn't see any reason to do so. Skeptical he tilts his head to the side a bit watching him.

"And why should I believe you? What reason do you have in revealing this crap to me?"

Wiseman chuckles, "Oh I have every reason to reveal what everyone has hidden from you- Prince."

"Prince?" He frowns even more, "Whoa whoa whoa, I'm not a prince of anything!" However he couldn't help but feel that it was not entirely wrong. "I..don't believe I am."

Wiseman merely offers his hand to him, "Come with me, and I will show you everything you have ever wanted to know. And when you have seen it all, I'll grant you a wish. Any that you desire."

In the back of his mind he felt he shouldn't do this, yet for the life of him, Hyacinth didn't have anything left to lose. What was there for him? A life of sleeping around and getting paid for it? Of listening to the whining of those girl all the time? Of having to clean up behind Rubeus and the others?

He was no one and this guy was offering him a way to be someone.

He took the stranger's hand and he fell into darkness.

Wearing her sailor uniform, Chibiusa sighs and looks out over the city from where she stood at the highest point of it all. Her parents were busy again. Actually everyone was busy and she was left to her own devices save for Diana. Though Diana was currently in the kitchens at the moment.

She sighs softly hugging the Luna Ball for a while longer. She thought about how they'll never really see her brother again. Even then would he even welcome it? She closes her eyes and remembered from before how it was just before he disappeared.

He hadn't liked her. He hadn't even wanted to be around her at all and would always give her such looks...

She was sure that she was the reason he ran away this time. She just wasn't sure how.

Now their parents were sad because he was gone and nothing she could do could cheer them up. Especially her daddy. She couldn't do anything to make him really smile like he used to.

She sniffs slightly at these thoughts and rubs her eyes a bit. Though blinks again seeing dark dots in the distance.

The Luna ball beeps a few times as if trying to analyze it too.

"What is that?" Chibiusa mutters walking closer as if she could see it better. "I can't see it. It's too far..."

"Beep Beep.. UFO. Beep." Luna P replies.

Chibiusa glances at her, "UFOs? But, we know every spacecraft..." She trails off unsure what to say. "Wonder what-"

That's when the explosion happened and everything lit up around her. Chibiusa cries out, shielding her eyes from it. "What's happening?"

"Chibiusa!" Hotaru was running to her, "Hurry inside!"

"Hotaru, what's going on? what are those things?" The young girl asked frightened as the dark haired young woman pulls her along. "Why is this happening?"

"It's the enemy." Hotaru said, "They've attacked. You need to go with Diana and find a safe place to be."

Chibiusa glance at her before stopping in the hallway, "But what about you and everyone else?" Her crimson eyes glances at her with concern, "You'll get hurt!"

"We're Sailor Soldiers, Small Lady." Hotaru smiles at her, "It's our job to protect you. Now go on. Diana's waiting for you."

"Hotaru..." She lingers for a while longer before nodding and turning to run.

Hotaru breathes out making sure the princess was safe before she went to find the others. This is bad, she thought to herself as the ground shook with another explosion. When did they get the technology to do this?

"Four more have appeared!" Ami- now as Sailor Mercury- said as her hands danced over the board. " The readings are off the chart!"

"Jupiter, how is division seven doing?" Uranus asked but she cringes hearing the screams in her headset, "Damn it! Division five down!"

"We'll have to face them." Venus said with an angry look, "We can't allow it to continue. " She turns in the seat, "Tell divisions One, three and eight to combined. Get the airships in the air now. Neptune how is the state of emergency going?"

"We're getting as many people out of the wards as possible." Neptune replies, "But the causalities is numbering high. They're not playing here. We have to take them out before the death toll goes well over two thousand!"

"Right." Venus gets up, "Ok we'll help them out. Outer Team, you go out there first. See if you can get one down. The rest of us will state here to defend the castle."

"What about the King and Queen?" Saturn said preparing to leave. "Surely they-"

Venus shook her head, "We need to conserve their energy. They are the ones that'll be left with the crystals if this gets to be too much for them."

"Of course." Pluto said before moving to leave, "Let us go."

"I wonder, "Mars began breathing out but couldn't shake this awful feeling she had, "what made them do this now?"

"I don't know." Jupiter replied,"But whatever it is, it's gotta be something major."

She sighs holding tight to her husband with her eyes closed. She can't believe this is happening to them. They had more time didn't they? Chibiusa was only three hundred! She shivers as she felt another trimmer shake the crystal walls.

"Mamo-chan." She looks up at him worriedly, "What are we to do? They're attacking earlier than expected!"

"I don't know." He answered but brushes her hair, "But whatever it is, we'll face it together, Usako."

She leans up to kiss him, "I love you."

"I love you too." He returns the kiss softly though prayed silently that this would all end.

That's when they felt it. A massive wave of dark energy that seems to have flooded the entire room. It sent chills down their spines as they glanced up to see who it was. Who could have come into such a sacred place with that enormous about of dark energy with them?

Instinctively, Endymion pushes Serenity behind him holding his cane out. Many would've thought of it as a comical sight, if one didn't now just exactly how deadly and powerful the king of earth really was.

"How sweet." A mocking voice says to them, "I think I have cavities."

"Who are you?" Serenity demands from behind her husband leaning to see who it was. "You have no right to be here!"

"Oh?" There was a chuckle as the person walks in, "I don't do I? Well, I suppose it was a matter of time before you have forgotten me at all."

Endymion only watches him, his eyes narrowed a bit trying to see where this twenty year old had the right to say that. But as he studies him, his eyes slowly widens in realization as to where he had seen him before. He was familiar yet not and everything from the short somewhat well kept hair to the shoes that had a dull shine to it screamed familiarity.

Yet he almost wished it didn't.

The man claps slowly with the mocking smile on his face as he walked towards them. The black dress pants laid over his black shoes which tapped almost too loudly on the crystal floor.

"Methinks the man has figured it out!" He laughs, "I always knew you were the real brains behind the two of you. Gods know she hadn't a head for it."

"Mamo-chan?" Serenity looks towards her husband with confused worried eyes. "What is he talking about."

"Look at him." Endymion couldn't believe it. He just couldn't. "Look at his face, Usako. You'll understand then."

Frowning, she looks at the man in his red-orange shirt that was half hazardously button and the black crystal earring in his right ear. But she studied his face. His face that was far too familiar as she looked at it every day in both her own mirror and in her husband's. His eyes, she thought to herself. It can't be!

"Darius..." She covers her mouth with her body trembling from shock but tears gathered in her eyes, "Darius, it's you. Where have you been?" She moves from behind her husband despite his protest and wanted to run quickly towards her missing son, "We were so worried!"

"Tch, as if." That cold hateful look in his eyes stopped the white queen in her tracks. "If you were, you would've known years ago that I was in this very city. But you didn't care. You had your perfect princess daughter. Well, don't worry mother." He smiles but it only sent chills down the parents' spines, "I'll take -good- care of that brat!"

"Darius what are you-!" However before she could even get the words out, he sent out energy blasts directed towards them. Endymion had moved as fast as he could to protect her, taking the brunt of the blast as he gritted his teeth to not cry out in pain.

"Mamo-chan!" Serenity looks from him to her son in astonishment, "Darius why? Why are you doing all this?" Tears flowed freely from her eyes as she held her husband close, "Why would you hurt us like this? We're your family! We loved you!"

"Lies!" He hissed raising his hand, "I was spare. An unwanted. You made that ample clear to me Mother. So I'm here to return your generosity." He chuckles holding both hands up, "Good bye."

The two only hand time to gasp as the energy blasts soared towards them. Neither of them could dodge this, they knew, and clung to each other tightly to bear the pain that would come.

However, nothing came, and they cautiously look up to see why.

"What..?" Serenity rubs her eyes but she saw the back of the pale priest. "Helios..."

"Tch, what are you doing here?" He shook his hand. It was very strange to channel all that energy in but he didn't mind. It had felt so good to revel in their pain. Their shock. You see me now, was his thought before his gaze switched to the priest.

If anything, he became even more infuriated with him. Lies. Nothing but lies in this fucking rock of a palace.

Helios steps towards him, that serene look never wavering from his face even though inside he was frightened. He had failed again. Another one had fallen to darkness. Why? Why did She put them through all this? What was the point?

"My prince, please come to your senses." He said in a quiet voice that still somehow managed to be loud in the room, "If you do not, you will be abandoned by the earth and the golden crystal will be forever lost to you. "

His face twists in fury as he raised his hand again, "I don't care any more! Everyone's abandoned me. They've all forgotten I even exist what's more more to forsaken me to the darkness that has embraced me so lovingly? " He smirks, "No one gives a lying fuck about the Golden Crystal. You know that and I know that. I also know that I'm nothing but a pawn to you, Helios."

He walks forwards for a moment before he vanished. The rest of them frantically look around to see where he had gone. It wasn't until Endymion looks back at Helios did he see the Priest dangling from his son's hand with the other ready to blast him.

"Darius- No!" He moves, but his back pained him as he does so. He wasn't young any more but Endymion struggled to get up even as his back bled more.

"Mamo-chan." Serenity watched but finally she also rose, "We have to save him. He doesn't.. this can't be our son!"

"There.. you see it?" He pants, "The black moon..they had him. They somehow got him." His heart constricts for a moment. Not his son.. not Darius..

"You never cared about me. Just like them. Just like all the others you used me for your own gains!" He brought Helios's face close to his own, "And you lied to me in my face. Your the worst of them."

Helios couldn't understand this. He hadn't lied! So why? Why did he believe this? Staring at the face that was so furious at him his golden eyes widen even more. No.. no it couldn't be. His mind wanted to refuse it but he couldn't believe this. Why hadn't he seen it before?

Because he had never seen him during his teenage years. His own mind replied. He had never...

"Darien..." The word passed his lips before he even had time to stop them. The coloring may be different but the face.. it was the same! Why? Why did Darius..?

"Looks like you can't even remember my name right." He said but kissed the priest roughly before flinging his body towards his parents. "You're lucky I don't have time to deal with you!"

"Stop right there!"

He turns just in time to see flames flying towards him. He held up his hands creating a quick shield allowing him time enough to disappear.

"Where did he go?" Jupiter looks around but she cautiously ran over to the heap of bodies. "Are you guys alright? Who was that?"

Even as Endymion sat up slowly with Helios, his wife seemed almost frozen still in shock as everything came back rushing to her.

"Darius.." She sobs softly, "That was Darius..."

She knew she had to hide but, Chibiusa didn't know what else to do. Her Mama and Daddy were in the med wing and everyone was saying that Darius was evil. She squeezes her eyes close holding Luna P tightly. She had to find someone to help. They needed more help.

The entire city had been destroyed or most of it. She wasn't sure but a lot of people died. Swallowing she looks around the now empty crystal hallways. A lot of the people were down in the lower levels. They were hiding out and people were leaving Crystal Tokyo all together. Running to the mountains not far from here.

"It can't be Darius." She said to the sphere. "He..he wouldn't do that!"

Looking around she decided to go to the one place she knew that would help. Mama's crystal. It was powerful enough to save them wasn't it? She remembered the stories they told her about it. About how anyone praying to it would receive a wish if it's strong enough.

She shivers as she neared the room. She had to. For them. For her big brother.

Yet even as the pink haired child neared the room she felt something- no someone- was behind her. She turns, her crimson eyes wide as her mouth opens to scream.

"Hello...Rabbit."

An: Alright, I actually -finished- this one and started on the sequel. So yeah, no changes will be made. decided it would actually work with me here so I'm going to update the chapters here while continuing on with the sequel else where. Either way, forewarning, latter chapters are going to be...uh..questionable at best. Weak-stomaches do not need to read on.