kera69love: yeah Luna and Rei, I'm assuming that's who your referring to, tend to be more 'she's to lazy, crybaby, klutzy' and focus on the negatives versus what she has done to get them as far as she has. No that they claim team work but really it was her heart that pushed the team work forward.
smoon4409: glad you enjoy it, I love twisting the characters to show their weaknesses and strengths and how they play against each other and the situations. But good twists to show how their characters develop and evolve.
sabina21: you shall find out soon enough.
3 reviews, nice, lets see how you like what's going to happen next, and thank you again to my great beta 'Masterray5'!
The devil within ch.6
Evil Endymion POV
I have to hand it to her, when my Usagi wants to she can give you a good wallop. Didn't matter she was a tiny little thing, didn't matter she could remind you of a barking Chihuahua that wasn't going to let up. She was fierce, determined, and overall, a force to be reckoned with, one I knew these people here didn't see as much of a threat as she was. She could easily use that to her advantage.
I even made sure she got a good hit in so they could see a tinge of it. Perhaps however I shouldn't let them see too much of what she was capable of. Lest they up their game on her before she was ready for it. I touched the bruise on my face. It still stung from where I told her to hit me. There was a nasty bruise that signaled how hard the moon wand slammed into me. If I do recall I actually flew and flipped over.
Hitting the chair in my path. That wasn't me exaggerating things. I didn't do it for the effect, no was purely her. I think she was using her own anger at the situation to help her hit me hard to make it look good and look good it did. I know Malachite was enjoying my defeat to a certain extent. I could barely touch the affected area without wincing at the pain of it. Her angry eyes were still in my mind's eye.
She didn't want to have to do it but still did it anyway. There was a youma that was trying to tend to the blast hit I took, but I kept gently pushing it, her, whatever away from me so I could deal with it myself. I could heal myself after all. Malachite was smirking just the slightest bit as he enjoyed my 'downfall'. Seeing me look somehow worse than when I first arrived gave his evil nega-self a sweet sort of satisfaction.
"Gloat much?" I respond, not upset by it but merely noting it. Malachite had this shit-eating grin of 'I told you so' on his face that I didn't comment on. I had bigger fish to convince of this and he was already thinking I messed up. It was good don't get me wrong, but he wasn't the ultimate one to convince. The witch with red hair who stalked in with her staff in hand was. She was torn trying to gauge my damages to see how I reacted to them.
Thankfully it was a low-level hit from Usagi in her Moon form so I knew the damage was more cosmetic at best and not severe. She wouldn't want to do that. I should amend that; she won't have to do that. Beryl was almost gleaming. As if seeing me in pain was something she had expected. I was a little stunned by that but perhaps there was more to meet the eyes on her expression.
She inspects the wound over and sees the nice bruiser Moon left me. She frowned. She went to grab my chin to better examine it but out of reflex, I stopped her. She narrowed her eyes at me.
"The area is still sensitive," I explain.
Even Malachite backs me up, "It'll be tender for a few hours." Though his backup is more along the lines of 'I told you so' Beryl eases up on her being rebuffed from me.
Personally, I don't want her hands on me at all, but she doesn't know that. "I see you've met the Moon Senshi." She regards me, purposely eyeing me for my own reaction. There's a mixture of happiness and anger in her own eyes. I see that she looks around my person and I realize she's looking for her prize I didn't come back with. I give her a small sigh of sounding defeated but nothing more.
I don't want to give anything away as I cover my bigger wound up and try to do my own bandages. Her next words are expected, "I had a feeling you'd come back empty-handed. Now it's time to take advantage of things and go for the kill."
I stop myself from looking at her with 'I want to kill you' eyes as I don't want to give away how I feel about that. I'd rather die than let anything happen to Usagi.
I stop the need to strangle her as I'm not in a position to do so and even Mamoru on the inside warns me to tread lightly with this. I grip the seat I'm on, well if you could call it that. It was more like sitting on a flatter version of the chamber I was in for the 'brainwashing'. Probably for better, easier, steadier access to wounds. Like mine. We could heal yes but some wounds needed to have attention on them for quicker healing or else even the negaverse would be dealing with losing out on more energy conservation.
Still, though, it wasn't nearly enough of a distraction for me to not want to kill her. Her eyes were gleaming with the very thought of Usagi being dead. Her very words make me want to snap her neck before she knows what hit her. However, as Mamoru reminded me, I'm in the heart of this place and have no real backup. No weapons other than myself and my side was wounded for good reason and part of my own powers are going into healing it.
I calm my anger towards her down so I can better focus on myself and utilize it to my advantage. I continue to look down before slowly meeting her eyes telling her, "I may not have returned with the crystal, but I did return was some damming information on it." I make sure to sit fully up now, feeling both my natural powers and the nega powers kicking in that much more to heal me as a natural response.
I see her eyes shift to my bare torso as she admires what she sees. Taking a moment to enjoy the view as she did. Something tells me she didn't do this with her other generals and somehow it makes me feel a bit more objectified. Yes, I was fit and proudly so. I worked out regularly before and after my capture. Didn't mean that I didn't feel like a piece of meat in her eyes, and I definitely didn't like it.
I can honestly say I'm a tad surprised none of the generals were curious about the Senshi themselves, but perhaps that was due to the hatred that was ingrained into them from the time they were brainwashed themselves. Perhaps it prevented basic human needs from being felt from them towards anyone that wasn't from the negaverse...or towards anyone in general. You were so ingrained with completing the task at hand that anything sex-related was discarded as useless unless it proved useful towards the task.
Even then the negaverse didn't want 'feelings' to get involved and begin to compromise the mission. So yeah, Beryl was probably the only one that had the freedom to her own basic human desires in here, other than myself…nothing that anyone knew that last part.
"Only she can wield it," I tell them, getting her mind off of my torso as I was feeling uncomfortable with how she was practically and virtually licking them.
Even Malachite was beginning to feel my discomfort and giving me some sympathetic eyes, even if it was momentarily. A glimmer of his own self showed through even if it was only momentary. My words make her pause though.
Her eyes narrowed on me again. "Not possible," She dismisses with ease not wanting to give it more thought or merit and even though she's not wrong it doesn't stop me from completing my own objectives.
She continues with, "Metallia herself said once evil touches it, the crystal becomes evil in and of itself and once I lay my hands on it, I can use its power to bring our powerful ruler to life and rule this world with an iron fist. No one would dare to stop us with its power and we will be triumphant with my image and power spread through the world." The image of her clenched in anger as if she were holding it right then and there was a sight to be seen.
She truly did look deluded and a bit bat shit crazy as she looked to be off in her own little fantasy world. Malachite looks to be agreeing with her until he sees how she's reacting to her own words, as she's somehow, momentarily slipped into her own little world of 'I'm the Queen of it all, bow down and kiss my feet you cockroaches'. I refused to let her get a glimpse of just how crazy she appeared to me.
Even the youma in the area kept their heads down and slowly backed out of the room. Malachite kept his words to himself, but I had a feeling he was catching onto how delusional she sounded. Not that he'd admit to it as he too could sound just as crazed and delusional as she could at times, but that was the negaverse talking, not my brother in arms. However, I'm pretty damned sure even IF the negaverse wasn't in Beryl, she'd still sound this way. Further proof of her delusional state of mind.
Malachite, however, when he was himself, was one of the most rational, hardworking, no nonsensical people I'd ever met. The only person who successfully pulled him from his logical perch of reasoning down to a more 'human' level as Jadeite would call it was Minako, or Princess Venus. She alone held the touch needed for him to see things differently and to accept flaws in certain plans.
I think that came through from her being the leader of the Senshi, she was a natural-born one that Malachite saw a kinship in. Not that he admitted it, to begin with, but it was there. It's what ultimately formed a bond between them. What brought them together. Now that he was here, I know Minako must be trying her damndest to accept that he's gone. I fully intend to repay the Senshi of Venus and all the inner planets for helping to protect my home planet from foreign invaders by giving them their lovers back.
I almost cracked a smile as I heard the small cackle of laughter hit Beryl. When he was back to being himself again, I think Malachite would fully agree with me on her mental state.
"Not unless the Moon Senshi is dead. It's protected till then." I tell her as I hide my smirk by biting the inside of my cheek as she gets enraged. Her anger starts to cloud over as I make sure to shift and point to my damaged area.
Wincing for a slight effect as I let her see the damage done. It's clear she's unhappy I have 'proof' of why I'm right and why I'll need more time. "Why do you think this happened?" I begin to explain, showcasing I got the damage for this reason. After all, I had to have something for proof of my attempt on Moon...they didn't need to know the truth of how it got there. It would completely undermine my purpose. Besides, it was the only way to prove I was able to get close to her without actually hurting her.
"I got my hands on it and it repelled me away," I winced moving back into place. I could see there was doubt in her eyes though, so I added on to make sure the point was driven home. "I don't believe it's at full power yet but that's only a matter of time."
It's at this point that her face falls a bit, anger in her features. She jerks her face from me. Nearly whipping it to the side so fast I wonder if she gained whiplash from it. She paces about like a panther in a cage. Turning her whole head as if upset that grabbing the crystal isn't going to be as easy as she thought it was. I don't know what illusion she was under that grabbing it was EVER going to be easy. It's the Imperium Silver Crystal handed down through the generations to the Royal Moon Family.
Of course, it's going to take everything needed to remove it from the owner. Looked what happened when Queen Serenity used it last, it got separated into the rainbow crystals taking out the shadow guardians while putting Metallia to sleep and stopping the war Beryl came in with. I fully intended to make sure what Beryl wanted was never going to be and as long as I can keep up this ruse, she'll NEVER get her hands within sniffing distance of it. The closest she'll get to it is if it's when she's dead by Moon's hand.
"This is problematic but not impossible." She begins to pace about, even more, trying to figure out how to get the crystal now with this new information she's received. I use more of my powers to heal me up as she mutters to herself angrily, "There has to be a way…"
Malachite clears his throat as if to let her know he's around without startling her. He sticks his nose where it didn't need to be but, his next words give me an idea, unbeknownst to him of course.
"It sounds like we simply need to remove it from the Moon Senshi's person, kill her then it's yours for the taking." I smile a tad knowing how to make this work to my advantage perfectly.
I look to Malachite with a small shred of a smile as I tell them both, "Actually that works perfectly."
Both are stunned that I'm agreeing with him as it's fairly well known by now that he and I don't agree on much if at all, but Malachite shifts from stunned to 'finally for once you're using your brain and listening to ME'. Not that he knows why I'm agreeing but he doesn't need to. I see Beryl smiles at this, her hope at my beloved's death is painful to not react as I want to, BUT…I have to utilize this to my goals here and for this, I have a plan that will give me what I need more than anything.
Time with my love while protecting her, AND time to build up my own powers so I can help finish this nega-bitch off. The added petty bonus is I'd be able to consummate my relationship with her now in this life as we've thus been denied of it so far especially once Beryl had me kidnapped. I couldn't reacquaint myself with my princess and I wanted to...badly. I felt cooped up in here and wanted to see her again.
I missed my love so much, even though I just saw her, I only got the chance to be with her briefly as our time was severely limited, so this provided me the perfect opportunity. "I can get it off of her, but it will require time, more time, and..." Here was going to be my biggest gamble, "Seduction."
I can see the wheels turning in Beryl's head as she realizes what I'm planning on doing here. They go from 'reasonable', 'wish not but if I have no choice' to 'wait…what?' as she looks to me to see if I'm serious. As she sees that I have a stone chill expression on my face of how I feel about my plan, making sure to mask any type of 'happiness, giddiness, or love' that I feel, she seems less enthusiastic about the new plan of action. I make sure to leave my face emotionless, a blank mask of indifference if you will.
It's the only way I can make it look like I legitimately am doing it for the sole purpose of our mission here. I have Malachite's belief in what I'm taking from his plan and he sees the merit of it. What's even better about this is that it was initially thought up by Malachite and being that he's her top general he's got a foot in the door of her taking his plans into serious consideration making it that much harder for her to say no to.
I can, however, see the jealous wheels turning in her head. She wants the crystal BUT she doesn't like the idea I'll have to seduce her most hated rival to get it. She frowns, unable to help herself. "What are you suggesting?" she begins, her voice is uneasy as I hid my grin away from everyone that was currently in the room. More youma had come in and somehow this interaction as they know of how she 'crushes on me'. By now as least. It's kind of hard NOT to figure it out as I was captured and 'brainwashed', not to mention the fact that instead of being treated still as a subservient I was now joined in the ranks of her generals. So yeah it was obvious she held something other than 'professional' means to want me here.
No one breathes anything about this though, not in fear of her wrath, BUT…it doesn't mean that this particular situation isn't something amusing for them to watch as she's metaphorically being placed in a corner that I know she doesn't like. One in which a good plan is being presented and she's NOT going to want to use it.
Her own selfish needs always did have repercussions that she didn't want to admit to. I take notice of the few youma that come back to simply watch and see how she'll react to this seduction plan.
"Simple," I answer her, making myself sound uncaring and yet full of arrogant promises of what I can deliver to her. Maybe not too arrogant but enough so that it sounds like it's a no-brainer. "I'll seduce the Moon Senshi, and once the crystal is off her person, I kill her and take the crystal back to you."
I hold a completely blank face, making sure to mask my true intentions and ensuring that all she sees is the sole focus on her prize and our win. I can see her trying to find another solution, trying to avoid this from happening as she's knowingly too selfish to want this plan to go through.
However, despite her selfish need to keep me from my Moon Senshi, she wants that silver crystal too, if not possibly more. I may have piggy-backed onto Malachite's idea to get the crystal from her, but it didn't mean that it wasn't a damned good plan, to begin with. I just needed to convince her of it because otherwise, it would be hard to keep Usagi safe while under my own guise and keep the truth about my secret.
Hard but not impossible. Malachite rolls his eyes at this but interjects regardless, "While I normally hate Endymion's ideas as they are usually lacking in logic, this one has merit."
Beryl looks at him with a slight edge to her face that speaks of 'back down' towards him. A silent order if you will that he faces off against for a few moments as he tactic fully adds on, "Once she's in a vulnerable position…"
He looks to me on that as if to insinuate the intimacy of the position which further pisses Beryl off. Even though it would be in that exact frame of which would be the easiest to do something to get the crystal. Malachite is absolutely right and it's clear that she doesn't want ANYONE besides herself to be intimate with me, even if it's to get closer to the silver crystal, even though Malachite's words put further emphasis on how WELL that can work.
I mean let's be real about this, for as long as mankind has been on earth and other planets, both men and women alike have used this method for gaining what they want. It's worked in governments, in nations all over. Beryl just hates the idea of someone getting what she wants even if it's part of a very reasonable, well-thought-out plan to get the other thing that she wants most in this world.
It's quite comical from an outsider's perspective to see this unfolding. Dare I say it, if someone was watching this as if it were a TV show they might even snuggle up on the couch while eating a snack or bag of popcorn to enjoy this. To enjoy a quiet cackle while staying as silent as possible to hear her next words or better yet what more we could say to convince her of the joint plan she is obviously hating on.
The back and forth was certainly entertaining enough to capture the attention of some of the youma around so I didn't doubt that it would happen. Moon might even get a kick out of hearing about it.
"Endymion can kill her and since she'll be in a state of total trust…"
I agree with him as a level of trust is necessary to be intimate with someone. Even if it were a fling or one-night stand, you're talking about some level in there.
"Even her precious Senshi won't be able to stop it from happening." For once both Malachite and I agree on this topic and for once Beryl is stuck on how to avoid THIS from happening as it's a good one. I take a good look at Beryl's face though. As unwavering as she usually is, this is not what I had hoped for. She knows it's a good idea, both of us are in agreement on it yet it seems that her own spiteful jealousy might be a bigger obstacle than I gave credit for as I see it churning inside of her like a tidal wave trying to break free.
She huffs in a less than dignified manner, "I don't like it."
I swallow the growing lump in my throat. "Wh - "
I can't even finish one word as she snaps back at me, "I don't have to give you a reason! I'm the Queen!"
Her temper was definitely getting the better of her, her jealousy was stronger than I had predicted. I had thought she'd go along with it as I thought her need for the crystal was stronger. Perhaps I was mistaken.
"Just find another way." She turns around and goes to leave. I'm unwilling to let this rest though and I press my luck with this further as I make my voice louder, capturing her attention as well as that of the youma listening in as well, "This is the best option we have, and it's got more of a pass rating than a fail, so why try and find another way which will just take up more time and energy when this is more of a winning option."
Her lips purse in response and I know I'm pushing my limits here.
"Don't you want the crystal sooner rather than later?" At this point even Malachite looks at me with 'are you trying to get your ass killed?' as I'm essentially standing up to Beryl and giving her lip at the same time. He seems to flip a switch and shrugs his shoulders in a manner befitting that of 'on second thought go ahead and let her kill you.' Beryl stalks back towards me as I hop off the medical table thing I'm on.
The damage has been limited now as I'm naturally healing. I'm just barely taller than her as her heels make her nearly six feet. She grabs my chin in her hand even as I wince from the pain. I go to pull my face away, but she remains steadfast. She's not happy with my slight insistence nor of my counter-resistance of how I am about what she says. As far as she sees it you don't counter her plans and when she says 'no' or 'jump' you don't resist.
I may have pushed too far with my words as she's now actually upset with me. "Never doubt my want over that crystal…"
I didn't say anything, letting my silence speak for me as she gripped my bruised face tighter.
"But you, my dear prince…" The word 'prince' was spoken with such annoyance as if she were letting her feelings from before the war ever happened in on this. "Will learn your place by my side."
A warning I could tell as she hisses her last words at me, spittle hitting me square on the face before stalking off, upset as she is she knows both Malachite and I are right about this. All the youma in the area scattered off and ran like their lives depended on it. The show now over as Malachite walked up to me. I wiped the slight amount of her saliva from my face, disgusted by anything of hers being on me.
Malachite was grinning a bit, probably enjoying that I got yelled at for once and he got to revel in it for a bit. "I gotta say your either really ballsy or dumb as shit to actually question her on that," He remarks.
I retorted back, "I prefer to think of it as asking the right questions at the right time…" He nods considering my words and actions despite his obvious dislike of my presence here still.
Now I have something I know he's going to be rather not wanting to answer me on, "And what's that about me being by her side?"
As far as he knows that I know, I'm similar to him, another general in this army of hers. I, however, want to know what he thinks of this or what he knows, I might be able to use it to my own benefit, knowledge is power after all. He addresses me directly as he straightens himself out.
"It means once she has the crystal and those Senshi are dead and we take over, you're going to be her bitch in the sack too…and that's if she hasn't already pressed for that."
I keep my face schooled in this as I respond to his words with, "And if I say no?"
Malachite thankfully knows what I mean by 'no'. Doesn't matter if it's a guy or a girl, 'no' means 'no.' There's no double standard crap around here.
He smiles in response, "Don't say no. She brought you into this she can take you right back out."
I shrug him away from myself and go back to my room. I'm aggravated that Beryl is making this tougher on me now. The added anger helps to fuel me as I use it to help strengthen my own powers, making them stronger. I can feel them all coursing through me as I even feel Mamoru growing stronger with them.
I will become strong enough to help her kill Beryl, I will become stronger than Beryl. I feel my eyes becoming darker than usual. Once I'm stronger than Beryl I can kill her, take this throne and smash it for destroying my kingdom. The negaverse will pay for the sins of both Beryl and Metallia. My anger helps to strengthen me further as I work to create the device needed to allow me to see Usagi…soon my love soon.
Usagi POV
I yell out my final 'haya!' as I reach the end of my martial arts class with Makoto. We are both pretty sweaty when we come out of it but both of us feel better from it. I've been utilizing the mental strength gained from this to work on strengthening the connection and power up from the silver crystal to me. it's been all I've been doing since my encounter with 'Evil Endymion' my Endymion…the one in the same that I've been in a mental debate over.
It's been weeks now that I've been training, nearly three to be precise. There's been very little interference from the negaverse. Nothing by Endymion himself BUT several from Malachite as he's tried to follow out and execute orders to get my crystal. Endymion himself has made sure to have some bad timing when he 'helps' him out. It's usually an interruption from when Malachite is getting too close.
Not that I can't handle him myself, but Endymion is protective of me even when on the other side, supposedly. There was even an occasion when Malachite got his hands wrapped around my throat and tried for the crystal. He grabbed for it and just before he could find out that the lie Endymion told was in fact a lie, I used one of the martial arts moves and head-butted him so hard we both were bruised from it.
I think I stunned him with that move as Endymion laughed at the situation. "Hey better you than me," he chuckled at him.
Malachite got so upset at Endymion it gave me a chance to blast him with the moon wand far enough away to get some space between us. Plus, it hurt Malachite badly enough to fall back and run to the negaverse…figuratively speaking. Once he was gone Endymion threw me a wink and left too.
Yet there were only two occasions where we saw them, and mostly it was me as the primary target. I knew they wanted the crystal but they were fighting more for it now than ever before and I hadn't had the chance to see Endymion alone since the first time we ran into each other so I kept scrambling for a way to get him alone so we could talk…again. Unfortunately, no instances came up so I did what I could do, worked out.
I needed to fill my head up with work so I don't think about being unable to see him. I'm just glad to know the hit I gave him didn't damage him thoroughly as I originally thought I had, that is before Minako assured me that he was fine or else the 'love bond' she felt would be broken and it wasn't so I had that hope left. So, as we left, I saw a flier for ice skating and saw an opportunity to have a friendly outing for all of us.
"Check it out, we should all go," Makoto smiles at the flier. "Yeah, we could use a break from all the crap that's been going on."
I smile agreeing with her as we contact the other girls and decide to do it today before it gets dark out. Being a lovely Saturday that it is, we head on over there and notice the strangeness of the requests of the fliers out and about.
"Free lessons for groups of five," I mutter to myself.
It is strange and does make me wonder if this means it's something from the negaverse or just a strange gimmick to get people in. I've seen something similar before that had NOTHING to do with the evils of that world, just the evils of the corporate world. Strangely enough not that different though even the negaverse tends to have a little something called 'integrity' to a degree. So, this is still on the could be maybe not a too strange bit.
We get inside and wait for the others to arrive as we sign in as a group of five as requested before renting out skates. We had already grabbed long sleeves and whatnot from our lockers at the studio where we were training at some we already had our layers on, gym bags were now in little cubbies by the rink as different groups were already being given their lessons. I looked around, trying to spot Endymion when I caught sight of a shadow.
I tried to look at it more closely to see if it was him but got distracted by Rei and Ami coming in, Minako in the tow behind them as she was grabbing her skates now too. "This'll be so much fun." Ami exclaimed, "I haven't done this in years." She was clearly thrilled to be here and it was hard to not be excited as well. Perhaps this wasn't a nega-threat after all. That's when Rei brought up the strange rules for getting the free lessons.
"Yeah, I thought it was strange too but what company doesn't have a rule or policy we don't agree with?" she frowned at me a little bit extra before ignoring me. Now that was strange as she wasn't usually so cold towards me. At least in a while, she hadn't been. Perhaps she was upset I had spoken up my mind those few weeks ago, we hadn't talked about it since then, but I just thought I gave her something to think about.
It seemed like she was still upset with me for it. Before I could further focus on it our team got called in. I looked back over, and the shadowy figure was gone. My gut stirred. Something was going to happen. I just didn't know what. Just as we get on the ice it hits me that I need to work on strengthening up my ankles and letting them adjust to moving differently on the ice. I skate around the perimeter several times as my group gets their lesson in. right now though, I'm just trying to keep on my skates and off my rump.
I get so focused on it and one the mysterious shadow that I saw I had lost track of time. I get into a rhythm eventually and by the time I look up proud that I did it and on my own of being able to stand on the ice without help. Granted by lap four, I notice that most of everyone is gone. I stop without anything around me and wonder at what point during my laps did I zone out this much to not notice it was getting near empty.
All that was left was Makoto on the ice with one of the ice dancers Misha, I think. I go over to them or at least I head off into their direction when Misha changes and reveals himself to be a youma instead.
I mutter to myself, "So much for a normal day's event." I look around and the rest of the rink is empty and even the rest of the girls left. I go to grab my communicator when Endymion's hand covers mine.
I look up and want to smile when I wonder what's going on. The conflict hits me before I snuff it out for the moment.
"I'll help but you have to hit me good again, so he doesn't suspect," he tells me.
I nod and transform. I slip back onto the rink and right as the dancer turned youma is ready to strike Makoto I knee him in the back and use one of our practiced martial arts moves to swing around and push and kick him away from her.
"Go!" I shout to her, making sure to not let it be known who she is either as she takes off, obviously angered as she gets ready herself to transform. It would aid in her healing to as I saw she had a few self-defense wounds on her from fighting against them both. Pretty damned good for not being at all transformed. Both of the dancers turned youma's faced off against me as I utilized what skill level, I had on ice to fight against them.
It wasn't much at all till Endymion in his Tux form showed up. They seemed stunned by this, "Aren't you on our side?" the eager to be by her partners side youma asked.
Tux smiled at her near charmingly, "Of course, but what's the fun in sitting on the sidelines?"
She seems to get in the mood for it as she then says, "Heard you two were pretty good back in the day on the ice. Care to make it interesting?"
I was not but the longer time it bought to give Makoto a chance to get away or transform was the better option for me. Plus, I needed to heal these people. Tux and I worked together as he kept tossing me up and about, as I threw my tiara out at them, I was trying to tie them together to be able to heal them as one but they were moving so damned fast. That's when I see Luna off to the side as Jupiter jumps back into the fray.
"Jupiter's back, she'll help." I go to make a move when Malachite comes in and uses his powers to make the fans run much faster than fans should be able to. The cold gets so bad that I can't move my arms to try to do much of anything.
"This is how things should have been done…," he told us calculatedly. The cold was so bad that even the dancers turned youma were too cold to move to attack us anymore.
"Enjoy your frozen hell Sailor Moon and Sailor Jupiter. Endymion, I can't say it's been a pleasure, I'll send Beryl my regards when I bring her the crystal back." He shimmers out before anyone can try to attack him. The cold gets almost unbearable and I can't handle much of it. It has always been a weakness of mine, my body's tolerance for the cold is really low so it comes as a welcome relief when Tux pulls me up under his cap for a moment to get some amount of relief from the cold.
I take the few moments and build up my healing power. "When I hit the fan and release the cold use your powers to get the dancers, heal them," he mutters through grit teeth as it's that damned cold for all of us. Once Tux releases an attack towards the fan it's destroyed and lets up on the cold right at the same time, I let loose the healing power and let it hit the youma. They get healed within seconds flat as they return to their natural states.
The rest of the girls arrive in time to see Tux nod his top hat and shimmer away, though something tells me that he's not as far away as he wants us to believe. I spin back around and see a disgruntled Jupiter, "You could have waited till after I got to shove a bolt up his ass."
I smile knowing she meant the youma version of the dancer, "As amusing as that would have been you know I had to."
She relents as I see Luna standing there.
"Everything okay?" I ask her as she looks to me, "You may have a small point about his motives." Though she still looks off to where he left off skeptically. I can see that both she and Mars look in his direction that he's disappeared into with skepticism. As Mercury helps Jupiter around a bit I tell the girls, "I've gotta head home." They nod as the rest decide to do the same and leave out.
I run in his direction but not seeing him I sigh and figure I lost him. Heading back to my parent's place I jump up to the next building and take a moment to breathe and get more air back into my lungs. That's the one thing I hate about the extensive cold. Feels like it steals not just my heat but my breath to. Once I regain it, I feel someone around me. Yet my protective instinct doesn't go off, instead as I turn around I find Tuxedo Mask there. Or this evil version of Endymion, depending on how you look at it.
"You fought well tonight for someone who was freezing," he pulls his cap off and puts it around my shoulders.
"I hate the cold," I tell him as he pulls me in for warmth. I crane my neck upwards and find myself starring into the pools of his eyes. Yet he doesn't say anything, just leans in and kisses me as if his life depended on it.
I wrap my arms around him and enjoy it as I feel my own natural warmth rise up and the heat from him helping to warm me up. The cap falls to the ground as we get wrapped up in each other. The kiss breaks if only momentarily as he says, "I missed you so much. Being in the nega-verse is soul-crushing. The only thing that gets me through it is when I get to see you."
I can't help but kiss him back.
"I wish you didn't have to pull the double agent bit in there but I know it's for the good of this fight cause I'd love nothing more than to be with you as often as possible."
Our lips meet again as we get caught up in the passions between us. I debate on if this is the best idea for us but realize at the moment as we walk back from the edge towards the center where we have more room that there is no place I'd rather be than in his arms.
Instinct takes over as I let my hands wander over his body. As he does the same thing to me we both become steadily consumed by the love we have for each other. It becomes clear that neither of us is leaving this rooftop anytime soon. When breathing becomes essential again I can read the question in his eyes before he even asks it.
"I know that we have yet to be together in this life...Usa..." he begins as he kisses me. "So, I understand if this is too fast for you..."
I can hear the pain in his voice at denying us both this if I so choose to. "But kami – sama I want this and you more than the air I'm breathing..."
I smile.
"But if it's too much too fast please tell me so I can stop." I look deeply into his eyes as I see all the love in there for me. There's a hint of Mamoru still deep in there that I can see. He's not just the nega-evil version of Endymion. He's still himself and there's no way on earth that one who's truly evil would say those loving words and be pulling themselves back as he is.
"Endymion..." despite wanting to call him Mamoru I know now's not the time. Yet as I look into his eyes, I know Mamoru can tell I'm talking to both sides of him. "My only concern is that if you're gone for too long Beryl will seek you out," I expressed.
He nods, "She does like to keep the leash on me tight, but..." he caresses my face. "I don't want to see an opportunity go to waste when I have the chance. Tonight is that chance to be with you."
His gentle touch soothes me even with the threat of Beryl's leash on him. "Even if only for a little bit. Even if it's just being in your arms it's enough for me."
He holds me wrapped in his arms as if to prove that he's not angling for more. Yet that doesn't mean that he would stop it if I did. After all, we never got to be together in this life and we both miss that. We miss each other. Not just from the past life but in this one too, I have a strong feeling we were on our way to being together, past history or not and we were both being denied this by our current predicament. "I just need to be in your presence."
He kisses me again as I smile.
"Then let's make these moments count." I hadn't planned to have sex this evening, not even close and yet the magnetism is too strong to ignore. We pull each other in and slowly but surely our hands begin to explore further. The need between us grows as does the pile of clothing as neither of us de-transforms. After all, we'll need to leave off this roof in some form and I can't leap across tall buildings without being a Senshi.