A/N: Thank you for hanging in there with the story...I know, last week was crazy and this one is too but I couldn't leave you without a new chapter, well here it is...I hope you like it and leave me a lovely review. hugs and kisses for you all and again, thank you for being there...at hard times like this for me it really means a lot.

Divinity: A question of Honor

Chapter twenty nine


The afternoon sun danced across the sky slowly, the young prince stared at the white clouds come across the warm star blocking the bright rays for some small periods of time. He sighed for the tenth time, Leonidas turned to see him and smiled to himself; he could tell the young boy was nervous and didn't know what to expect of the place he was heading and knew he was not going to go back home for a long period of time; interrupting his thoughts, he cleared his throat.

"We are almost here…" Leonidas' strong voice startled Endymion's thoughtful state.

Endymion tried to look at the surroundings from the small window of the carriage but saw nothing but the deep woods. It had been almost eight hours of journey and they seemed to be finally at the camp, a few minutes later Endymion watched with awe all the people he could see training near a large lake while others were seemed to be doing some meditation.

The carriage finally stopped; Leonidas was the first to step down and saluted a man who was already waiting for them at the entrance of the camp.

"General Leonidas, long time no see" a man with a dark beard and a low ponytail said.

"Rumalos, yes it's been a while" Leonidas answered and smiled at him. The other man smiled in return when he saw the young prince step out of the small carriage "So it's true, His Highness was sent to train with us"

Leonidas nodded and placed his hands on the prince's shoulders "Your Highness, this is General Rumalos, third in command of the Royal Army and he also is in charge of training new soldiers. He is your new authority"

Endymion nodded "Good day, General" the young man said. Rumalos arched a brow and nodded "Your Highness" and then turned to see Leonidas "For how long is he going to stay here?"

"All the training" Leonidas said.

Rumalos pursed his lips and turned to see the prince "Once you enter this training camp your title will disappear"

Endymion looked at the man with a serious expression and nodded, his nerves were trying to betray him. He was starting to wonder if his decision was the best he could ever made in his life, the man in front of him seemed everything but nice and he was almost positive that his title would not completely disappear in this place, in fact it could be used against him.

Rumalos seemed like he was a tough man, his features were rough. A tall and a little bigger than Leonidas and his father, his dark green eyes showed years of experience and so a small scar he had on his right brow; Rumalos had square shaped face and a strong jaw, thin lips and a slight sided nose, maybe because it was one of his war wounds. Even though he had a dark beard he had reddish brown hair that contrasted with his tanned skin.

Chuckling he placed a hand on Endymion's shoulder as a welcoming gesture "Well…I guess it is time to say goodbye to General Leonidas as well, you won't be back to your precious home for quite a while"

Endymion turned to look at Leonidas and smiled "Thank you Leonidas…we will see each other soon"

Rumalos turned to look at one of the sergeants who were standing behind him "Take His Majesty to his tent"

The sergeant nodded his head and led Endymion to where the others were resting in their tents, Leonidas watched Endymion walk away with the sergeant and felt some kind of emptiness in his heart, he felt like he was leaving something very dear to him. Endymion was after all, his godchild, but if he was feeling that way he could imagine how his parents were feeling specially his queen.

"I want to talk to you before I leave…" Leonidas said.

"Of course" Rumalos crossed his arms in front of his chest.

"His Majesty wants to be informed of his progress, I will be coming without the prince knowing of course… in order to not disturb his training" Leonidas said.

"Of course, I shall inform His Majesty of any detail but I must be clear with something" the man said.

"Yes?"

"His Highness will be treated like any other soldier in here, there's no special treatments for anybody…just the same way they did with His Majesty… you know how this is…King Odell's orders" Rumalos scratched his nose.

"He is aware of that and wishes the same thing" Leonidas reassured.

"Very well, so then…leave everything in our hands" Rumalos said, extending his hand out to Leonidas which he took in gratitude before turning to go back to the carriage that would take him back to the palace.

Endymion entered the tent after the sergeant and took in his surroundings "This is where you will be sleeping" the tall man said "Make yourself comfortable tonight because tomorrow will be a long day" the blonde man left the tent.

The prince walked to his assigned cot and put his bag on the floor, watching in awe at all the people that was there waiting to be a soldier just like him. Rumalos caught up with him minutes later "Your Highness, welcome to your new home for the next several years"

"You are aware this is a place where you won't receive any special treatment just because you are our Prince…don't you?" the man asked.

"Yes General I am aware of that…" Endymion said as serious as he could.

"Very well, because in this place you won't sleep in comfy beds or eat glorious food. You barely sleep and you eat what you can so…this is real training" Rumalos said and gave him his new uniform.

Rumalos turned to look at the other young men inside the tent "Listen up, this is Endymion…he's our new soldier, so you will share your tent with him from now on, I expect a good behavior from all of you"

"Yes General!" six boys said in unison.

"The sun is starting to set, we will continue our training tomorrow at dawn so you better start sleeping" Rumalos said, his strong voice echoed the light tent and left.

"Yes General!" everyone said in unison again.

Endymion sat on his cot and took off his shoes in silence, two boys walked up to him "You better keep your shoes on…"

Endymion turned to look at the boy who said it "They tend to wake us up in the middle of the night when they hear some strange noises" the boy had short blonde hair and green eyes, he seemed to have Endymion's same age or even a little older. Endymion put his boot on again and smiled "Thank you"

"I'm Jadeite" he extended his hand out to the prince, Endymion shook his hand "And this is Nephrite" the blonde boy pointed with his thumb at the brown haired boy next to him "Hello" he said "I didn't hear your name well, you are...?"

"Endymion" the prince said, looking at the two young men with curious eyes.

"Hey! Just like the Prince" Jadeite said.

"That's because he's the Prince Jadeite" another person joined the conversation.

Endymion turned to look at another boy around his age as well; he had tanned skin and a very light hair color, like silver. His grey eyes gave the young man and the prince a cold look.

Jadeite turned to look at Endymion with a shocked expression "You are Prince Endymion?"

Endymion rubbed the back of his neck "I rather be called Endymion…"

"Hm… I wonder how much are you going to last in this place…" the young man said coldly.

"I plan to stay all the time I need to stay" Endymion answered the same way; he wasn't sure why he was being so rude and without knowing him. True, he couldn't expect to have friends right away because he never had friends of his own age and because of that, he was always in his own world studying and learning everything he could learn.

The white haired young man crossed his arms in front of his chest and laugh with sarcasm "I don't think a prince like you could actually hand all the tasks they give us…I think you will receive a special treatment just because you are a royal" his voice was so cold that it could be compared to a blade.

"I won't receive any special treatment and I don't want one, I'm just another soldier, just like you" Endymion snapped, he was starting to get annoyed but this boy's attitude.

The young man raised his brows in surprise and chuckled "Oh? so you have a temper…I am by far the best soldier in this training camp and I highly doubt you will ever surpass me" the young man turned and left the tent.

Jadeite rolled his eyes "That's Kunzite…he's always like that, very competitive…"

"Tell me about it… it seemed like he didn't like me to be here" Endymion said looking at the tent's entrance.

"Nah, don't worry…he's always like that, I think he just felt threatened" Nephrite said, moving his hand as a gesture to try to dismiss Kunzite's harsh words.

"I don't see why, I am like any other person here…" Endymion said, his eyes were still looking at the tent's entrance and tried to understand why somebody could be cold like him, he thought he could never ever be like him.

Nephrite sat on his cot next to Endymion's one, his chocolate brown hair was long and curly, his eyes were green as well but only a darker shade of green compared to Jadeite's light ones, he had fair skin and compared to his comrade Jadeite who was younger and had a funny personality, Neprhite seemed to be a little older than the prince.

"I'm so tired…" Jadeite laid on his cot and crossed his arms behind his head.

"Yes, me too" the prince sighed and covered himself with one of the blankets and quickly fell asleep.

The next morning a general went to each tent and woke the boys with a loud yell "It's time to wake up, up, up, up!" the man clapped his hands to make even a louder noise. All the boys in the tent woke up knowing their usual routine, except one.

Endymion opened his blue eyes and sat on his cot quickly gasping and startled, he got scared by the general's loud yell and noise, putting a hand on his chest he tried to calm down and then remembered he was no longer back at home, Endymion flinched a little and rubbed the back of his neck making him also remember he was no longer in his very, very comfortable bed.

"Here we go again…" Nephrite said with a sleepy voice while rubbing his eyes, Endymion did the same and tried to adjust his eyes to the light of the candle that one of the generals lit "You're the new one?" asked the man when he returned to the tent to make sure everybody was up "Here" the man left a small package on his cot.

Endymion nodded and frowned a little "What is this?" he asked.

"Your uniform…its cold but you'll get used to it" Jadeite said.

Endymion frowned "But I already have one..." he grabbed the tunic and pants and felt the stiffness in them, gulping he said slowly "It is cold…"

"The uniform you say it's your 'formal' uniform, you will use it in special occasions and once we get out of here" Nephrite said "This one is the uniform we use to train"

"Oh" that's all Endymion could say and looked again at the uniform in his hands "I believe I do not have another option then…"

Jadeite laughed, he was putting on his own light tunic and tied a knot on his waist with his dark blue belt that came along with the uniform "I know…it is raspy as hell, but it's better than being naked"

Endymion sweat dropped "I believe so…"

Nephrite was tugging his pants under his brown boots "And you have to dress very fast before the sergeant comes back" he chuckled.

Endymion sighed and took his own clothes off and put on the stif and raspy uniform. Yes, he was now officially a soldier in the royal army.

The general did what Nephrite said he would do, once he made sure everybody was dressed he motioned them to walk outside the tent. The morning breeze was cold since it was still dawn; the sun hadn't come out yet and they were already starting their usual routine. Endymion walked out of the tent with Jadeite and Nephrite and joined the group that was starting to get ready for their usual excersices.

"Well, well, well…the prince had to wake up this early?" a cold and sarcastic voice said, Endymion recognized it and turned to look at Kunzite "Is this how you are every day?" Endymion frowned.

"I am how I need to be, so bug off" the young man with white hair passed by, pushing the prince with his shoulder.

"You are being way too harsh Kunzite…remember he is after all our prince" another blonde soldier said.

Kunzite sighed "I do not care much about that, in this place he is like everybody else…besides I do not need to be sweet and be friends with spoiled people"

The blonde boy shook his head "If he's here it must be for a reason…it's strange, I feel like I need to go and talk to him" he said softly and slightly confused, it was some kind of attraction, like a need to look after his safety.

Kunzite turned annoyed "What are you saying Zoicite? He's just the prince…no big deal…"

Zoicite shook his head softy and frowned "No…it goes way beyond the fact that he's a royal…it's a deeper issue, it's a feeling I have inside my chest…I don't know how to explain it" the blonde man turned to look at the prince with a serious expression "…besides he doesn't look like he's spoiled at all" Zoicite said again.

"What is wrong with him?" Endymion look at Kunzite and then back at the brown haired man next to him.

"Kunzite is being ridiculous" Nephrite said, the blonde boy at his side shrugged his shoulders "He's always like that when someone new comes in" Jadeite pursed his lips.

"You mean he acted the same way towards you when you got here?" Endymion asked curious.

Jadeite placed his index finger on his mouth and made a thoughtful frown "Um, now that you mention it…no"

Endymion sweat dropped "Oy…Jadeite, then why do you say he is always like that when somebody new comes here?"

Jadeite chuckled and scratched the back of his head "Well…he is a very strange man…"

"Stop the chit chat and let's start with our training" General Soufalos said out loud, his long sandy hair was tied in a low ponytail "Off we go, start walking!" he yelled.

Hundreds of young men were training to become the new generation of warriors, the new army who would protect the Golden Kingdom and Earth. Every morning it started with a two hour long walk no matter the weather conditions, they had to keep their training; one day it could be raining while another day could be extremely hot or even snowing. Not everybody could keep up with the rhythm of the exercises and many of them stopped in the middle of the training to try to catch back their breath.

Half the way many had stopped because of the exhaustion, others were panting "Come on you lazy cows move on! Move on!" one of the generals said out loud. Endymion for the very first time was starting to learn that a warrior was more than just a man with a sword in his hand, ready to attack.

Days could be gone as they come, quickly and unnoticeable because of the extensive routine. The first months they would walk for hours and practice concentration exercises, one of them was to get in the freezing water and concentrate to its maximum level until they stop feeling the cold water numbing their body. Of course, the first times Endymion felt like the freezing cold water were like knives cutting through his body and almost thought he could never overpass the test, but after several times, he learned.

After a while, Endymion entered the tent soaked and trembling, Jadeite laughed "Concentration exercise?"

"Damn! They put me under the waterfall and its freezing!" Endymion said while drying himself with a towel. Since the day he got there Jadeite and Nephrite were his tent mates and started to become close friends, they forgot about the fact that he was the earth prince and started to treat him like one of them. But there was still some rivalry with Kunzite and every time he had to join the same practice as him there was trouble, guaranteed.

It didn't matter how many times the young prince tried to settle a truce with the white haired man but it never worked, Kunzite was too stubborn to actually think he could be friends with him, month after month and year after year he tried but with no avail until one day Endymion got tired and simply stopped trying.

Three years have passed since Endymion joined the army; the first one was crucial and deadly to him because he was new to all the tests and training methods; the soldiers treated him differently because he was the Earth prince and they thought he was another spoiled brat, nobody would speak to him and much had to do with Kunzite of course, but Jadeite and Nephrite have become close since that day, with time they all started to notice he was just a normal boy who went there for the same reason as them and started to become accepted and treated him as an equal.

Kunzite still gave him the cold shoulder and did some things to him, the first year he would hide his clothes or his shoes making the prince go out and train barefoot or without a shirt and get punished because of that. On the second year, Kunzite became one of the best soldiers in the army and of course that gave him a certain range and helped some of the generals with the group training, so when he could, he would give everybody a recess while he ordered the prince to run a few more laps or do a hundred more pushups, on the third year the rivalry got more physical and had a few fist encounters. What Kunzite didn't know was that with those pranks, Endymion was starting to become stronger and one day he would get his revenge.

Endymion couldn't understand why Kunzite was a cold man; sure, the man was very talented and he was the best of the army so far, he had perfect skills in sword fighting, he was good in concentration and excellent in martial arts; Kunzite was starting to become what Endymion wanted to be, an ultimate warrior.

"You still can't get used to that freezing water don't you?" Nephrite said from his cot, chuckling.

"It was worse when I first came here…" Endymion sighed and started to change his clothes to another set of pants and clean dry shirt.

"I heard they are going to give Kunzite a medal…" Jadeite whispered, rolling his eyes.

"Oh wopee…" Endymion said sarcastically, sitting on his cot.

Jadeite laughed "It seems he has done another thing to you…"

Endymion sighed and ran a hand through his dark and wet hair "You know…the usual"

"But you can't deny the man is good" Nephrite said.

"He's very good if he's not the best" Endymion said slowly.

"Do you really think he can do better than you?" Nephrite asked the prince with a frown, leaving his book aside.

"I don't know if he can, but at least it shows…" Endymion laid on his cot and sighed "I need to try harder…"

"Why does this means so much to you Endymion? I mean... it is understandable for us but… you? You could have trained at the palace, sleep in a comfy bed without the necessity of being put under a freezing waterfall" Jadeite asked confused.

Endymion sighed; looking at the tent's ceiling he smiled "I think we all are the same… I could have trained that way but what kind of example would be to the ones that are here trying training asses off to become the best. I didn't want that…"

Nephrite smiled "Hey Endymion, how does it feel to be a prince?"

Endymion turned to look at Nephrite with wide eyes and shrugged his shoulders "Nothing, really. Just like any other person, I must live under certain rules…"

"Is it difficult?" Jadeite asked curious "I mean, they must be watching everything you do…"

Endymion chuckled "You get used to it…and you learn how to find time for yourself"

"Dinner will be served in five minutes!" a man opened the tent to say to the men inside and walked away.

"Finally! I'm starving!" Nephrite stood up quickly from his cot, Jadeite and Endymion followed.

"Mmm I can already smell the sweet taste of an uncertain meal" Jadeite said, rubbing his stomach. Nephrite turned to look at the blonde man and laughed "What are you saying?"

"The food they give us here can be really disgusting sometimes, admit it. It can easily be confused with vomit sometimes" the blonde soldier commented.

"That's disgusting Jadeite…besides you eat it anyways" Endymion laughed.

The three formed the line where they were serving the food and took a wooden like plate "I don't care if its vomit, I will eat it anyway…I'm hungry" Nephrite whispered.

"You guys are quite disgusting" Endymion said, while he waited his turn.

"Oh come on Endymion, don't tell me it doesn't look like vomit!" Jadeite said out loud pointing at the spoon one of the cooks had in his hand.

"And you will eat it all or I will shut it through your butt hole!" the cook said and served the food on his plate.

Endymion and Nephrite held the urge to crack laughing at what the cook said to Jadeite "Alright, alright…I'm hungry anyways…" Jadeite muttered.

The three went to sit near the fire, Nephrite was playing with his food and sighed "I think I was overreacting when I said I would eat anything…"

Endymion took the first bite and closed his eyes, Nephrite looked at him with wide eyes "What are you doing?"

Endymion chewed a couple of times and swallowed it, opening his eyes he looked at the man with brown hair "What does it looks like I'm doing? I'm eating…"

"Is it good?" Nephrite asked.

"No…" Endymion made a disgust face and chuckled.

Jadeite scratched his head "Then why are you eating it?"

"Because I'm hungry! I spent I don't know how many hours under a freezing waterfall…" the prince said laughing.

"Sometimes I truly forget you are a prince at all" Jadeite said looking at his food and did the same thing his friend was doing.

"Hmm…well now, aren't the prince and his servants? How are you taking it Your Highness…eating crappy food, sleeping on crappy cots under a cold tent, are you planning on leaving us soon?" Kunzite chuckled.

Endymion rolled his eyes "What do you want?"

"I'm just asking…there is no need to be mad…" Kunzite stood in front of the prince, Zoicite appeared next and sighed "Kunzite come on, leave him alone…"

"Zoicite?" Kunzite turned to look at the blonde man "Are you defending the brat?"

"Hey! Have some respect!" Nephrite raised his voice.

"I won't have any respect for a brat who is here pretending to be a soldier…who claims to be my prince!" Kunzite spat on Endymion's boot.

"Kunzite, stop it already!" Zoicite said.

"You are on my seat, now fuck off!" Kunzite said with a cold and threatening voice.

Endymion looked at him with a dead glare "I've been taking too much shit from you over the past three years and I'm getting sick of it"

"Oh? and what are you going to do? I'm better than you. You are a prince and are below me…how pity…now, move out of my way!" Kunzite raised his voice this time.

"Make me!" Endymion said.

"Fine!" Kunzite threw his plate and punched him in the face, sending the prince fall on his back.

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" a soldier said from behind and in a matter of seconds everybody was watching the two men fight against each other.

Endymion stood up and realized his lip was bleeding and looked at the white haired man standing proudly in front of him "I'm sick of you!" Endymion threw one fist landing on Kunzite's cheek, making him bleed as well.

"You will be sorry!" Kunzite threw himself against the prince and started the exchange of fists.

Jadeite and Nephrite tried to break the fight while Zoicite tried to hold Kunzite "Kunzite come on, stop it!"

"I will kill this bastard! Nobody hits me in the face and lives enough to tell somebody!" Kunzite kept saying while he was fighting with the prince.

Rumalos appeared minutes later "What is going on here?" he yelled and stepped into the fight, stopping Endymion's fist with his hand.

"Kunzite started" Nephrite said.

"I don't care who started…you both will have a punishment for this behavior. To the waterfall!" Rumalos ordered.

"But General, the water is freezing there right now! It's colder than it normally is!" Jadeite tried to reason with the general.

"I don't care, they should have thought of that before starting this nonsense. I'm the one who gives the orders here; you both will go to the waterfall and stay there until I call you back!" Rumalos said, looking at both men.

Endymion stood up and started walking to where he was ordered to go, Rumalos put a hand on his shoulder "Your Father will know about this tantrum of yours" Endymion felt his heart skip a beat by the mention of his father and felt ashamed of himself and thought about what he would say, what his mother would say, knowing this it would break his mother's heart because he made a promise to her before coming to this place.

Endymion and Kunzite started to walk to the waterfall in silence; Rumalos followed them "You will get in there with everything on"

"But my boots will get soaked!" Kunzite discussed.

"And do you think I care?" the general said "That is what you get for fighting like wild animals"

Endymion sighed and walked silently to the river and stood under the freezing water of the waterfall without saying one word or complains; Kunzite widened his eyes in shock and had no other option but to follow him.

"I will come back to see if you already cool down and I hope to find you the same way you are right now…because if I find you fighting again you will pay the consecuences" the general said with a cold voice and started to walk back to the camp, leaving Endymion and Kunzite alone under the running water.

"You will pay for this…" Kunzite said trembling.

Endymion had his eyes closed and didn't look like he was freezing at all, Kunzite looked at him amazed "Aren't you freezing?"

Endymion opened his eyes and turned to look at Kunzite "I'm here all the time; I'm used to it already"

Kunzite frowned "Are you here all the time?"

"Yes, thanks to you" Endymion said and closed his eyes again; Kunzite analyzed his words and widened his eyes in shock. The prince was stronger than he thought, but in a matter of seconds the jealousy and bitterness filled his heart and dismissed the thought. He tried to close his eyes but he couldn't help it, the water was too cold to let him even think, opening his eyes he turned to look at the prince again in his serene state.

"Ugh…" Kunzite sighed and tried to wait with patience the moment to step out of the water.


I do not own Sailor Moon, just this plot and some of the characters. Thank you.