Part 14: A Betrayer, A Lover, and A Deadly Promise To Keep

Esmeray was rejected from most other planets, but while visiting them became well aware of the rumors that were being spread. "Its evil!" "She's crazy!" "It's negative energy!" "She was always the different one!"
They made her angry. How could these people only see what was on the outside? How could the protective planets of the universe be so blind?

She spent her days embracing the crystal, and in it her power grew. She created her own castle on this small planet she called her home, and watched the worlds pass her by. Eventually her heart grew so lonely and she became so dependent on her new crystal her gold moon on her forehead became as black as the dark crystal. Yes, the dark crystal. That is what it would be called. And her home would be the Nega-Moon. Nega: to be denied. Nega: short for Negative. She was happy in knowing that she was just as good, if not better than other people with her new found power.

She continued to travel throughout the universe when her crystal reacted to a planet. Someone crying? And there it was. Earth. She drifted down it the planet. Here her crystal directed her, and she saw a young couple. A poor rejected family on the earth. A man named Topazite and a woman named Amathyste. They were brother and sister. They were named after jewels, but crying on the outskirts of the world because they were rejected from society; they were weird; they had bright colorful hair, they were poor, they were misunderstood. She saved them. She did not know why, but she sympathized for them. Like her, they seemed different from society and with that she went down to their home.

She appeared in front of them and told them that using her crystal they could become powerful. That they could live on her planet and be loved. She told them all they had to do was pledge alliance to her, to prove of their loyalty; so Esmeray knew she would not be cheated out of her own home again. They accepted. She renamed their family the Black Moon clan. They were the first of the people that Queen Esmeray took from their home planets and gave them new power and life on her own dark planet. Many other times she found lonely outcasts in societies and she saved them from unfortunate circumstances. They all lived together as the new race of the Nega Moon.

Years later she grew sick and tired of her planet being alone, and knowing her sister had great alliances with the 8 planets, she knew there was no way to protect herself from them. Unless…she looked down on the large blue and green planet. The Earth! Many people on the moon questioned the Earth because it had always kept its ties distant from the other planets. The Queen of the Earth was present in the making of the silver crystal, but did not assume an oath to the Queen of the Moon. Why? Because she did not understand the need for such an oath; an oath meant that you should kill yourself for the Queen if she is in danger, and if you didn't and betrayed her you could set yourself up for failure or being killed yourself. Promises between Planets are strong ones, so the Queen of the Earth kept her options open and let time tell if she would give such an oath. Some called it reasonable, others called it questionable. Either way this could be a window of opportunity for the Dark Queen Esmeray.

She lowered her small planet to the Earth, hovering in the above atmosphere, and sent down 3 spies of the Nega-Moon to search out if such an alliance could be made.

The 3 spies went down to the large palace of the Earth Queen. The Earth queen was young and although Queen, had yet to marry. Her parents died so she assumed the title of Queen with or without a lover when the time came. Her name was Gaia. Her palace was huge, and filled with flowered gardens and large trees surrounding the palace itself. She had dark brown hair that flowed to the ground in soft wavy strands. Her hair parted to the side and shaded part of h left eye. Her dress was a long elegant gown of emerald green with an off the shoulder straps that had leaf-like thin pieces of material. It was embroidered with gold throughout the dress with a golden crystal in the center between the breasts. Damien, who was one of the Esmeray's most loyal followers, was astounded by the beauty of this princess Gaia. He himself was a looker as well; had had Dark black hair and mysteriously dark eyes. He followed her around easily, and found that she was loved by many, and noticed that she did not have a similar life style as Esmeray. One day he was staring at her outside the window of her bedroom when he slipped off of the side of the balcony when she came outside unexpectedly. She saw him, but instead of asking the guards to escort him out, asked him what he was doing. He told her everything, he couldn't help it. Her soft green eyes pierced his dark black eyes and he couldn't hold back. She was happy he didn't lie. He leaned over to the princess and gave her a red rose that he had taken from her favorite garden earlier and at that he told her she was beautiful. From flattery to flirting they both spent the night talking away, ignoring their differences.

Meanwhile, the other 2 spies returned weeks later to Queen Esmeray. They told her that it seemed that because she was not an unfortunate soul like they had been, she may not agree to an alliance. She may not understand. When Esmeray realized that only 2 had returned she asked where Damien had gone. They said that after a few days he never returned to their meeting place outside the palace. She was angry. She figured she'd have to go find out for herself .

The next day Queen Esmeray left and came down to the Earth palace, and took visit to the earth Queen. Upon entering the throne room she was astonished to see that Damien had been sitting beside Gaia, in deep conversation.

"Damien!"

"Oh no, dear Queen Esmeray, pardon my absence!"

"Is this how you repay me? I give you power, and a new home. The moon rejected you also as it did me? Do you not remember? You were my devilish follower, and now you are tame?"

"I am not tame, I am in love."

"Oh well my mistake, but you need to return. You pledged an oath to me."

"AHEM." Gaia interrupted.

"oh yes, princess Gaia! I see you have taken my own for yours."

"No, he gave himself to me willingly! But I ask your pardon of him, I adore him so, dear Damien, I would like him to become my King!"

"Well such a request would come with a price, since that would mean his oath to me would be broken!"

"What price may that be?"

Esmeray looked at the princess. She was just about her age. Maybe a year or two older. But what is this? Her dark crystal gave her powers of deep insight, powers of foreseeing the close future and with that insight she realized something.

She smiled at Gaia and Damien. "Haha, you my dear Damien have been naughty have you not?"

"What are you saying my Queen?"

"I am not your Queen as i once was, as you have given yourself to her now, and may I add quite literally. Do not hide it princess, you know that you are now pregnant do you not? I could tell you what it is. A boy…"

**Damien can mean devil or can me to tame: hence the way that he was once a good dark Spy but had been tamed . **