Atashi no ai, konbanwa da. Saigo ni.

For the first time since she disappeared with Cleomedes. . . she opened her eyes. Her vision was immensely impaired. Every time Serenity looked to the left or right, everything blurred in a trail behind it (a/n: It's like the effect of being really drunk). She felt lightheaded, and damp. Serenity closed her eyes again, and collected herself. When she reopened them, she saw her surroundings much more clearly.

The stones were black. They were wet with God-only-knows what. There were cuffs everywhere. She was most definitely being held captive in a prison cell.

That's when Cleomedes came in. From the left wall, opening the large iron-bar door. Casually he asked "How are you feeling, my love?", batting his eyes. What the hell, was he homosexual?

"Prince Cleomedes, if I am your love. . . why are you holding me in a prison cell?" She tried to speak sarcastically, but she was weaker than she thought. It came out casually.

"My dearest, I couldn't have you trying to go home. I also had to secure a room where contact to the outside world in no way could be made. Wouldn't want your pesky Mum or boyfriend making a terrible mess of my beautiful, intricate plans, would I?"

"What plans?"

"Oh you know, this and that sort of things. Either way, would you like to be taken to your new, permanent home?" He was obviously trying to seem sly and evil. Whatever, as long as it got Serenity out of this God-forsaken cell.

"Yes Cleomedes, I would very much like to." She said overly-cute with a big, toothy, over-the-top grin. But who can deny the Princess Serenity? Certainly not Cleomedes.

"Ah, and another thing, if you're going to address me formally, I'd prefer you address me as 'King Cleomedes' instead of Prince. I understand I haven't quite made the full requirements for King just yet, but soon enough my pet, soon enough. In return, I will no longer refer to you as 'Princess Serenity' but 'Queen Tranquility'. How does that sound? Fair?" He seemed eager, it was cute.

"I'll humour you Cleomedes, but don't think I've taken much of a liking to you and your kidnapping antics." And with that, she stuck her tongue out at him, suggesting what she had said was a joke. Cleomedes laughed heartily. It was an endearing, strong laugh. It reminded Serenity of Endymion's own laughter. She felt a pang in her heart, but quickly disregarded it. She was mad at him, after all.

Cleomedes unlocked Serenity's hand-cuffs, helped her up, and walked her out of the cell. The journey to Serenity's room was a four-story nightmare. Especially in her current state. She was almost glad she'd never have to leave the damn room. The spiral staircase would have made her queasy on both trips up and down. Thankfully this go, Cleomedes was there to help her if she grew faint or fatigued.

"Well my Queen, here we are." Cleomedes stated, standing in a corridor, in front of a black wooden door. The corridor was black. Dark green and black tapestries decorated the walls. Serenity, had always heard Charonians didn't like the light, but this seemed a bit extreme.

Back on Earth. . .

"Well sir, we know where she is. What's the issue?" Zoisite asked incredulously. Minako stood next to him, and stated plainly, as if the Shittennou had witnessed the entire affair upstairs "Cleomedes might do something terrible if Endymion just, shows up and tries to rescue the Princess. Not to mention, Endymion is pretty terrible at challenging people to sword duels without sounding like a complete and total. . . phony."

"Hey, I didn't sound that bad, did I?" Endymion's insecurity showing right through his voice.

"No, not bad, completely and utterly moronic doesn't even do your idiocy justice." Rei still being harsh. Kunzite eyed her, suggesting that if she continued to insult the Prince like that, there'd be some trouble.

"Okay that's aside the point you guys. Serenity is probably crying her eyes out and scared witless right now. What're we going to do about it?" Makoto slammed her fist on the table, calling order back to the congregation of royals. Jadeite snapped to attention, and stood up.

"I think there's not much of another way to do it. Kunzite is our best swordsman. Sure Endymion's been trained, but not by Kunzite. I think we can wait it out a day, and Endymion, during this time, non-stop training with Kunzite. After that, we'll escort you to Charon on a 'diplomatic trip'. If Cleomedes refuses rationality, you'll be ready to strike him down. We'll also have Zoisite explain the importance of eloquence and intelligence in your speech to you."

"Jade, I'm a fine speaker thank you very much." Endymion said indignantly.

"Riiiiight. I suppose your definition of 'fine' here on Earth is very different than it is on Mars." Rei stated, rolling her eyes. The memory of Endymion's "valiance" in Serenity's room really made her confident in his eloquence.

"Okay, I think we're really, really done knocking on my failed attempts at heroism upstairs, 'kay?" Endymion asked, obviously fed up. "I mean, it's not like it'll get us anywhere anyways."

"On the contrary, if we annoy you enough about it, it might fuel your drive to not be so lame in future sword-duel-challenge-attempts." Minako pointed out.

"I agree Endymion. You'll be thinking on it all night I'm certain. And the more you think on it the more disgusted you'll become with your weak attempts and therefore. . ." Ami went on a large rant after this about brain cells on suchnot. No one in the room comprehended a single word she said. All words were lost on them.

After a few more hours working out the finer details in the itinerary of the coming day, the four princesses parted ways with Endymion. The Shitennou escorted the ladies to their rooms, and bid them goodnight.

End Chapter

a/n: Okay so I know it's been like how many months now? You're prolly like "IT TOOK YOU 5 MONTHS TO WRITE THIS P.O.S CHAPTER?!?!". . . and you know what? Yeah. It did. Especially since I opened it up a week ago, read it 8 times over, and still failed to remember where the hell I was going with this. The good news is, now that this (albeit really short) chapter is up, I can move on with the story. Leaving off on that note. . . please for the love of jesus dont flame me too much XD