Blueeyeddevil06, thank you for being my beta.

The seventh day had ended later than Zoisite had expected. At almost the last minute, he decided he didn't care about leaving D Point quietly.

That caused him to need to do some quick planning. He wanted to unsettle Beryl and leave her unsure of herself and her ability to control others.

Partially, he was pissed. Try as he might, he hadn't been able to figure out how to get information on the Golden Crystal or how she would awaken King Elis.

He opened the door behind her throne. She wasn't there for the first time in his memory. He figured she was off preparing Elis.

He almost gagged when he walked into the room. He felt the sickening pervasive feeling of dark energy in the room.

He realized this was Metalia. He didn't know what made him so sure. Maybe it was a hope. He didn't want her to have access to more than one source of this sickening power.

No one was there. He knew no one would know, so he fled. He didn't want to risk angering it and having it pour an overwhelming amount of dark energy into him. He wanted to return to Darien and Amy.

He exited the room and found Beryl, seemingly distracted, coming into the throne room.

He paused and asked her, "And how's King Elis?"

She smiled at him, "Still power-hungry and more than willing to fuck me. It's going well."

"He's awoken?"

"He's waking up. Patience, it will take time."

"And does he still have the Golden Crystal?" He'd already spent thirty minutes searching her room for evidence, and he'd come up blank. Now he decided he could be blunt. It didn't matter anymore for him to stay undercover.

"How do you remember that?!"

"You mentioned it once," he lied. "I pay attention to every word you say, my Queen. I live to serve you."

She narrowed her eyes at him, "I don't remember ever mentioning it to anyone!"

"Then how would I know if you didn't tell me? I exist only for you."

"I wouldn't be able to wake him with Metalia's power if he still had the Golden Crystal. It's too pure," she said that word as if it disgusted her, "to work with dark energy. He'll now have the same source of power you do."

"But he'll remember his past?" Damn. He just realized he slipped.

She flew into a rage. "I knew I didn't tell you about the Golden Crystal! How do you know there even is a past?!"

He watched her start to strike out at him with her power, but he disappeared from the throne room a split second before it hit him. If it had connected, he'd have been lost to the evil power again. It had been close.

He reappeared in their bedroom. Amy was asleep on their bed and perfect.

It had been close, but he made it home to her. And now, he wouldn't leave again. He knew he wouldn't be able to make himself.

She was just too perfect. His water nymph was lying there on top of the covers, looking so sexy. She was wearing a black teddy. The black in contrast to her hair made it look even more blue. This was the power he wanted to be affected by, drown in, lose himself entirely in. Her power over him floored him, and he never wanted it to end.

He stripped off his clothes, dropping them to the floor, not caring what happened to them. He wanted her. He then walked over and placed his hand over her mouth as he huskily whispered into her ear, "Shhh, don't scream. At least not until I have you screaming in pleasure. I can't believe I happened upon such a tasty treat." He knew she had a dark, kinky side. She'd proved that when he had angry sex with her, and then she asked for it again for her birthday. He wondered if she would enjoy the role-play of the sexy stranger sneaking into her room.

He removed his hand, and her eyes drank in his nakedness, "I'm so glad I left the window open. Come on, and let's have some fun." She then crooked her finger at him, beckoning him to her.

He swallowed hard and smiled when her eyes flicked to his hard cock, and she licked her lips. He then crawled onto the bed, kissing her toes first and then up one long sexy leg. He was inching his way up to her. He then raised his head to look her in the eyes and said, "How could I resist such a vision? I wonder if you're a screamer."

"Only if you do it right." He chuckled at her response.

"Then you're about to scream yourself hoarse." He then nibbled on her inner thigh.

"Oh, I sure hope so."

"If you start making noise, will someone come running, or are you entirely at my mercy?" He then trailed his tongue over her inner thigh where he had been nibbling.

"Oh, no. No mercy. I don't want you to have mercy on me. I don't want you to hold back."

He slowly began working her sexy black teddy down off her shoulders, trailing kisses over her as he did.

"Are you sure it's safe to let a stranger have you like that?"

"I don't want safe. I want wild and dirty."

"Well, then fuck this thing," he said, referring to what she was wearing. He then ripped it, pulling it off her body. "It was taking too long to get that off you."

"I just bought that for my boyfriend," she teased.

"I'm sure he'd agree it needed to come off too," he teased back.

She playfully rolled her eyes at him. "Fine, I think you probably have an uncanny insight into how he thinks, sexy stranger."

"No man would want anything between him and your sexy body. It's not a hard guess."

"Speaking of hard… impressive," she said, looking at his cock.

He grabbed one of her breasts and moaned into her ear, "Speaking of impressive. Your boobs are enormous." He then licked the other one. "I'm so happy I happened upon you. You're going to love what I can do to you."

"Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Time to get to the fun part already." After all, she'd missed him, and while she loved the sexy banter, she missed sex with him too.

He roughly spread her legs and thrust his hard cock deep inside of her. He locked eyes with her and said, "I'll taste your body later. Right now, I need you." He breathed in harshly as he felt her around him, squeezing him. The banter slipped, and he said, "I need you to make me feel clean again. I can't ever go back there again. Not when I've experienced your light."

She caressed his face and said, "Make love to me, Zoisite. You're safe now with me. Safe and so loved. I fell in love with you in two lifetimes, Zack."

He chuckled and kissed her neck. "What more could I ask for?"

They then spent hours making love, touching, and tasting each other. They finally fell asleep in the early hours of the morning.

Nephrite heard Beryl in a rage and was drawn to the throne room despite his better instincts. The only reason he dared go in was that it was Zoisite's name she was cursing, not his.

He walked in, not bowing this time. He was afraid to take his eyes off of her and leave himself exposed to attack. She was unpredictable when she was angry. "What may I do for you, my Queen?"

"Kill all the fucking Sailor Scouts! I want them dead, dead at my feet and bleeding! I want to see their mangled corpses laid out on my floor. I'll paint my throne with their blood!" Her eyes were wild, and her hair was in disarray. "And then," she added, "I want Zoisite on his knees before me, begging for his life. I'll rip his throat open with my bare hands!"

"As you wish, my Queen." He paused, daring to ask, "What has Zoisite done?"

"He abandoned me like Kunzite! I want them all dead!" she shrieked, grabbed her hair, and pulled. "I want everyone dead!"

Nephrite slowly backed out of the room. Beryl was losing it, and her generals, it appeared.

Beryl couldn't calm down even hours later. She was still furious that Zoisite had managed to escape from D Point without her being able to reinfect him with dark energy. He had remembered, and now she was down to one loyal general. Granted, he was the only one who had managed to injure a sailor scout seriously, but it had also lost her Kunzite.

She paced when he left, unable to track him without Metalia's power in him. She wanted to strike out and destroy something. But what?

Then a smile spread across her face. She needed to have sex with Elis, Takashi, in this life. His desires in this life ran very similarly to the ones in the past, and a rough fuck would help her expel some of her anger. That and she could slip in a bit more dark energy. Every bit got him a little closer to his old self.

She appeared at his home in the middle of the night and knocked on the door. When he answered, he gave her a wicked grin, "Good. I was just thinking that I wanted to play with you."

She stepped into his home, dropped her dress. She hadn't bothered wearing underwear. "Time for your fun."

He thrust two fingers up into her cunt. "You have your fun too, Beryl." He used his fingers to pull her to him and bit her breast. "You fucking love it when I'm rough."

"True. It's why I showed up tonight."

He looked at her with eyes clouded with lust. "You're the best fuck I've ever had." He then reached around with his other hand and spanked her hard, and she moaned. "You love that. I love feeling you get wet when I spank you." He then spanked her again, feeling her drench his fingers.

She grabbed his hair and forced him to look her in the eyes, "Don't you dare take it easy on me tonight. I need to be fucked hard. I've had a shitty day, and I need rough sex to get all the anger out."

"You're perfect." He then pulled out his fingers, licked them, and shoved her front first against the wall. He grabbed her hair and yanked, "Ass out." When she listened, he released her hair, dropped his pants, and thrust into her cunt.

Next, he grabbed her ass and dug his fingernails roughly into the perfect globes of her butt, leaving nail marks. He then fucked her hard against the wall with her face pressed against it. "I'm going to fuck you so many times tonight. Before you came, I took viagra, knowing you'd show up tonight. My stamina will be amazing." He then punched her lower back so she would clench around his cock. "Fuck, that feels good!"

Beryl spent the night being fucked by Elis, and it released the tension in her. She still had a problem, but something about how he had sex with her relaxed her and made her feel more herself.

By the time she left the next morning, walking funny, she had infected him with more dark energy. He was becoming more like Elis. She knew because, before she left, he asked to see the bite marks he'd left all over her body.

Nephrite sat in his room at D Point and pondered what it meant that two generals had left Beryl. Zoisite had seemed so steady, yet he'd pressed him to start asking questions. He also hadn't been competing for Beryl's approval like the rest of them had. Why? What did Zoisite know that he didn't? Did he understand why Kunzite left?

He touched his lips and thought about kissing that beautiful woman and her reaction to him. She kissed him willingly then asked him to leave because she didn't want him to die. The kiss they shared was just perfect.

Why did she affect him like that? Why did his loyalty to Beryl dissolve when she asked him to leave and no longer fight?

Was she to him like Sailor Venus was to Kunzite? No. That beautiful woman couldn't love him. Damn, did that fact make his heartache? He wanted her to love him, to be thinking about him right now. Was she?

Lita stood working on her homework for culinary class. As she prepared her Wagashi*, she thought about Nephrite healing her and then leaving when she asked him to. It warmed her insides to know she did have an effect on him. The heartstopping kiss was just icing on the cake.

Zoisite walked to his prince's apartment, holding hands with his beloved. It was a good day that wouldn't end up with him having to ever go back to D Point.

They knocked on Darien's and Serena's door and were welcomed in warmly. Before Darien could say anything, Zoisite bowed low and said, "The Golden Crystal is yours, my Prince, and Metalia is a sentient mass of dark energy."

Darien smiled at Zoisite, "Rise, General Zoisite. I'm glad you set out to accomplish what you had wanted to. Well done."

He stood and said, "I don't know how she is waking Elis. I just know she has begun the long process. I only wish I had more for you."

Serena smiled at him and placed her hand on his arm, "But you've done so much, Zoisite. Well done. You have done so well. Thank you. It's important to know that Darien has the Golden Crystal. That means we both have more power we can tap into."

She gave him a sassy grin and said, "Plus, you've served me well by making Sailor Mercury very happy. I'm pleased she has you back."

"That, my Princess, was hardly a sacrifice. I adore her, always."

*Wagashi (wa-gashi) are traditional Japanese confections that are often served with green tea, especially the types made of mochi, anko (azuki bean paste), and fruit. Wagashi are typically made from plant-based ingredients. They are complicated to make.