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The end in the beginning ch.19
Mamoru POV
I immediately take the defensive against her as I prepare for a fight. I refused be tossed aside this time. At least not so easily as before. So, when she presents nothing more than a relaxed stance, I get curious, still wary but curious. "Relax my sweet prince. I have no want to harm you…unless you're into that." The subtle smile on her face makes me gulp in revulsion as I push it down so I can talk to her.
"I merely wish to chat, though by your stance I'm guessing that my welcome is going to be less than hospitable." I can't help but dart my eyes about the entire area warry of transforming even this time of the morning. The moon is out, giving me some amount of comfort as I'm hoping that Usagi can sense my unease even when untransformed. I look back to her after my few brief seconds of looking around and see she noticed it.
"Don't worry, I'm only after those meddling girls. Most notably that piece of trash princess from the moon. I wouldn't want my future king to be harmed in this, so your identity won't be exposed…unless you give me no choice." Judging by the seriousness in her tone as well as the lack of exposure in her eyes I can see she's telling the truth. The girls have a point on her mental state and now I wonder if there's another underlying psychosis.
It's not my area of expertise though. However, just because someone is sociopathic, or psychotic doesn't prevent them from making sound decisions. They may be murderous or even revel in it, but they still make sound decisions. Perhaps I could actually reason with her and see if I can sway her since she seems bent on getting towards me. Perhaps I could use that to my advantage in this display of power.
"Your entrance into our world was less than welcoming. You sent a monster into attack us on several occasions already and attacked innocents to. You want a hospitable welcome, try a different, less lethal measure of entry." I tell her. My voice slightly cutting as I remind her of her atrocities committed so far. She merely smiles as if were talking about something as mundane about the weather.
"I had to get your attention somehow. It just so happened you were always with HER when it happened. Always with HER." Her voice turned from relaxed to a cutting sneer at the end when she spoke of Usagi. As If Usagi was a rock in her shoe. I try to remain civil but her disregard and attitude towards my future wife has me closer to the edge of snapping at her. I hedge just slightly closer towards her.
I attempt to maintain more civility. "Look I may not remember you from that time, but from what I've heard I wasn't interested either way. So, do what's best and leave us and this planet alone from your plans. If you want to live hospitably you can but you have to understand that all we have ever wanted is peace." My words seem to have fallen on deaf ears though as she starts to laugh at me.
Like genuine laughter of belittlement and I hate it. "Oh, sweet Endymion, or Mamoru now, right?" she corrects as I grit my teeth and clench my fists. Her voice is like nails on a chalk board, so I respond in kind to her tone, "What do you want?" I demand of her. The small smile she presents blurs as does she as she seemingly blurs herself in front of me. I'm so startled by it I back up a few steps.
She laughs again then looks me up and down. Though this time it's not in a 'I want you look' it's more like a 'something is up with you' expression. "You've become delusional under her spell." She says as if it's the conclusion she knew all along. I nearly sigh at this. Not another infatuated woman again. "No worries though, you'll be out of it soon enough. For now, I just want you to remember me." She adds on.
I'm about to rebuff her words when she touches my forehead with her fingers. I'm filled with nauseating pain that nearly brings me to my knees. Its then that sudden flashes of images appear before me. Images and memories that were far buried under others as I see them. She removes her hand and gives me space to work through the new images passing by my eyes. The pain behind them is as real as her figure before me.
Once the pain begins to subside things become so much clearer. Though instead of the feel I know she's expecting I feel how I really felt about her all that time ago and to be honest it's not far off form how I feel about her presence now. I can't help but narrow my eyes at her, "I remember you." I tell her as she smiles. "We did have an interesting back and forth banter." Clearly, she's remembering things differently than I did.
Or and this is probably the stronger theory, she saw things between us definitely different than what I did and lived through her twisted version of events. I couldn't help but look down at her as I spoke, "Interesting is putting it lightly." I knew my words became terse towards her as I recalled in more vivid detail what she was like, "You were trying to hit on me every chance you got even when I told you I had already chosen another and wasn't interested." The memories were coming back with more clarity.
"I especially remember the last time that you were around, your headstrong father argued with my father on the insistence that I drop Serenity for you. I also remember the outrageous demands he had for my father. The sheer ignorance." I cannot help but let my princely side come out as I feel that part of me want to curse out her very existence. I can see that she sees and hears it to as she's both marveled at seeing my prince side and gulps in a slight motion to. Had I not been me I might not have caught the motion.
"He declined and kicked him out and I made sure you went with him." I added on as she lost her smile at the memory hits her. Perhaps a little bit differently than mine did. "I see that you recall our last confrontation." She sneers at me. At least this wasn't directed towards Usagi. "We did have a first nice greeting. I recall my father even mentioned that we were to marry." She tells me making me visibly shudder at the thought of that having become a reality in any sense of the word just the slightest in front of her.
"That obviously wasn't going to happen." I tell her as she looks upward at me. Her voice turning near desperate as if she were trying to get something through my head as she stated with slight exasperation, "That's only because you were tainted by that moon witch. Both you and your parents were." She looks off as if she knew the source of her problems and they all laid with Usagi. She had no idea how deluded she was which also made her that much more dangerous of a foe. I had to be careful.
"You all had become weakened by listening to their foolish notions. 'Join the silver alliance'." She mocked in a voice that I'm assuming was from Queen Serenity, my princess never once spoke those words to my parents nor to me. While she encouraged it yes, she never once said join us. She merely wanted to get to know me as a person and that was one of the things that made me fall in love with her.
She was interested in me and NOT my title. "Become part of us all." She kept ranting. I noted that I was now glad I ran into her. I can use this as an opportunity to get to know her better. See what else she's planning by letting her talk to me. She's open to it so why not use it? Especially as I discreetly slip my finger down my wrist and hit the alert button on my own communicator that thankfully looks like a regular watch.
"Allow me to correct your information. We weren't weak, we just saw the bigger picture and it was a hell of a lot bigger than earth." I tell her as I can see her shaking her head slightly. Her voice then gets a higher pitch to it. It's as if her mental state is beginning to wear upon her. I could only have wished at some point than rather than have focused on power and myself that she could have been given a chance at a normal life…with proper therapy and medication to be taken when needed.
I know for a fact that there are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people with mental problems that range from simple ones to full blown out ones like hers that lead productive, healthy, highly functioning, capable of achieving amazing possibilities that can change the face of humanity for the better, non-murderous lives. However, that is not the case with her as she's obviously displaying.
The power that she has along with her unfortunate upbringing have corrupted her entirely and much like with Beryl whom I distinctly recall muttering before my wounds overcame me were a refusal to accept that she couldn't have me and had lost. Despite her powers and despite Metallia's evil in me I still at the end of the day, chose Usagi and protected her at the risk of my own life.
So, when it comes to this woman, I don't see her willing to ever submit to Usagi performing a healing on her. Ever. "You were just under that witches spell. You're still under it." She rolls her eyes as if there's a powerful spell form a thousand years ago on me. "Once I free you from her binding, I will show you what a truly powerful and rightful princess turned Queen to your throne looks like and is because it certainly isn't that naïve moon bitch!"
The hit happens without me even realizing it. She was within range and close enough with all of her preening about that she was within range enough for me to slap her across the face. Now mind you, I try to maintain that your never to hit a woman. There isn't a good reason to…not unless she does something that earns it. Like to hit you first…multiple times and it's in defense, I after all don't want to hold any double standards.
However, I'm against a person who beats on a female simply because she's seen as weaker and can't fight back. I nearly apologize to her but remember in that instance WHY I hit her. I feel no remorse nor any regret that I did it. The shock is completely in her though. "I was raised to not hit a lady, but you are certainly NO lady." I tell her, anger and venom in my voice to render an elephant dead.
I can't help but continue to lash out at her, voice packed with poison towards her. "And just so you know." I step into her space making her back up just the slightest as she stops being stunned that I slapped her and probably to stunned to realize that I was moving towards her but not in a way she'd probably prefer. I guess there's something she didn't see coming from me and damn did it feel good to do it. Not to hit a woman mind you but to hit an evil, murderous bitch that is intent on harming innocents and the love of your life.
"You can say whatever you want to about me, but don't you say anything about my love. She's an amazing woman who has made sacrifice after sacrifice for innocent people all over. She's risked her lifetime and time again, more than I care to count, for the safety of this planet and those she cares for, died several times over now and STILL came back for more." I can't help but tower over her just the slightest as I watch her face become bitter.
"THAT is the markings of a true princess to be next to me on the throne. One who knows that it's the people that make the king and Queen, NOT the other way around!" I can see her bitterness at knowing full well that there's no part of her in that description whatsoever. All parts of me, the civilian, the prince, tuxedo mask, all of them feel strongly on this as I watch her deflate just a bit at my cutting words.
I can see for the briefest of moments that I've gotten through to her. The bitterness leaves for a moment behind her angry eyes, as acceptance of what she isn't seeps through. For a moment I can actually see regret and sadness for what she can't have, and I can see the sliver of humanity within her. I can see her pain and the slightest bit of defeat that all she's doing is for nothing and for a brief near two seconds of time I think maybe there's hope for her after all. That maybe she can be helped…be healed.
That maybe…just maybe Usagi can help her…and that's when I see the change happen. In those few fleeting moments of acceptance her anger, her rage and bitterness replace her acceptance and force it out, never to return again as I can practically see it being visibly snuffed out of her. As if her anger and rage killed it off in a moment and that her humanity of what she's doing wrong was killed off.
It's replaced by a thunderous expression as those raging emotions not only resurfaces but come clawing back at full force never to let the acceptance take place in her again as the last part of her humanity is driven out and replaced by something far more dangerous and even haunting. I had unknowingly found that part in her and within the near blink of an eye it was snuffed out like a flickering candle in the night.
For that part of her I actually felt pity. Now there was nothing left that I could see of her decency. Hell, even Diamond had shown some decency when he saved Usagi's life, despite having kidnapped her and his attempt to force himself on her, he showed a shred of humanity by giving his life for her. She however, held no humanity left and it was ever so present on her face as she leveled a glare at me.
"The fact that you believe that load of bull is evident proof of how deeply she had her claws in you. She's sunk them in so deep you can't see past her lies." She snaps, so I tell her with as much honesty as I can muster, "It's the truth. No bull." Instead of listening to my words though, she looks away as if she's disappointed by this meeting she essentially sprung on me, "I promise you Mamoru I'll free you from her, but it will take time."
Her words make me respond, "There's nothing to be freed from. I promise you that. I've been pulled into mind games before and been mind-fucked before, trust me I'm not under anyone's control and I like to keep it that way." Memories of how Beryl had me as her personal bitch with Metallia controlling me came to mind along with when Wiseman turned my future daughter into a puppet for his conduit and her then twisted, thanks to him and his mind control, desires, made me a conduit for her plans.
I still shivered with disgust at what happened during both durations. I wasn't going to let that happen…ever again. So, when she scoffed, I narrowed my eyes at her, "Oh but there is, and I will deliver you from it." She tells me as she proceeds with, "Don't you understand when it comes to us, I know the truth of how things were supposed to happen?" it's when she raises her hands and clenches her fists that I can't help but double over in pain.
I back away several feet as I stumble for a few moments. The pain is worse than the previous hits from her. It takes my strength to even be able to look at her as she walks up towards me. I can see how she's looking at me and to be honest its pissing me off that she's not even afraid of me. I am after all tuxedo mask, the earth prince, I should be able to strike fear into our enemies as the girls do yet she doesn't look at me in fear.
Rather she looks at me as if I'm the one who needs the help not her. this must have been how Usagi felt when Diamond took her. He didn't look at her in fear, at least from what she described, but in want as he wanted her by his side. Yes, Beryl wanted me to, but she wanted to control me, this particular cunning princess didn't seem to want to control me but 'free' me which only led into how deluded she was.
I'm not even sure Beryl was this crazy and she was crazy! So, when she walked up to me and took my face in her hands, I tried to pull away, but I was too weak to do so which just pissed me off even more. "Don't you understand why I wanted you to have your memories back? She obviously blocked them from you." She says as if trying to plead with me. I try to get the words out that she needs to hear.
That they never did all have their memories from the moon and earth back. We never did get all of them. Only the ones that told us what we needed to know. There were still gaps here and there that came to us as time went on. I don't remember every dignitary meeting I was in as a teen or young adult, yet I know I was in the majority of them as part of my training to become king after my father.
Same with Serenity at her mother's palace, yet she doesn't remember all of them. Not even Luna and Artemis who were the first to wake up remember everything. So, no nothing was locked away because of a specific someone, things were locked away cause we all had gone through a trauma when the great silver millennium war happened. It happens! Usagi's past self-committed suicide after I was stabbed to death by Beryl's crazed self-going after her.
My generals were turned and forced to turn on their wives, the senshi as they had to struggle with fighting their husband now turned enemies and try to destroy Metallia at the same time only to be overwhelmed in the fight as we all were. Of course, some memories were locked away! It's the brains way of processing the information overload and accepting what happened and why it did. Then storing it away so that when you're ready to remember you can but there would also have to be a trigger.
Not that I could tell her this as she pulls me face closer towards her. The pain is so bad I just want to transform. I even get ready to pull out a rose and damn exposure to hell when she says, "My dear prince, you were promised to me as I was to you. Your father at one time promised mine that we would marry and be together. My father held up his end of the bargain. Just because he became more ambitious doesn't mean that he wasn't right in matching us up." I grasp at her hand to try to remove it from me.
However, I then notice something. The reason why I can't transform as easily as I would have, other than exposure, she's draining me of my own energies. That's when I see her eyes momentarily flash to gold. She's tapping directly into the golden crystal using me as a conduit in the process. She's however then notices that I have spotted her little scheme in this and gives a near hollow smile, "I'm only taking what is mine." She increases the flow as I can feel my energy now being drained.
This is a bitch to go through. "What I was promised during my first visit to your parents kingdom so long ago. That Moon bitch took you from me. We were destined to be together my dear prince. Surely, you've noticed that I'm working to ruin her yet there's been no mention of you at all. No mention even of Tuxedo Mask." It hits me once she says it that there's a point. I notice that she has only been targeting Usagi and the girls have really been collateral. I just thought she hadn't caught up to me yet.
Now I know the truth. It makes me all the more furious with her for what's she's doing not just to us but to the innocents out there that need saving from the monsters that invade our world. I can't understand her logic in this. "You're causing so much harm and for what?" I begin, grunting the words out as she continues to take my energy but now that I know she's stealing it I begin to fight back harder on it.
Pulling it away slowly so that I can transform and beat her back cause right now, between the pain I'm in and her theft of my energy I don't have it in me to transform just yet. I have to work harder against her. "A kingdom that went down over a thousand years ago? For a reborn prince that loves and has ALWAYS loved another? The power that you have will not win you what you seek." I tell her, trying to steal away time so I can gather my own power up only to have her grip my face tighter in her hand.
"I cause the damage I do because it will hurt her, and I have suffered for over a thousand years far away from the man that I was promised. Suffered alone in silence and darkness while that moon witch got to bask in the glory of being with you!" her voice rose as did her anger at what she deems an injustice done to her personally. "So yes, I want her to feel every ounce of pain that can be delivered." She snaps at the end.
However, I know what that silence and darkness would do to my Usako…my dear sweet Usako who has only ever loved and cared for others. She doesn't deserve one ounce of that after all that she's done for all of us and then some. I use this as strength to further what I want to do, break the hold she has on me. I push her power back into her and hit her wrist to break the hold she has as I push her back away.
The pain in my gut is still searing but less than before now that I've regained some power back and pushed her away. I couldn't help but growl as I spat at her, "You dare hurt her further and I will deliver you pain even you couldn't imagine." My fury gave me more strength to fight off against the pain within me as I was less bent over than before and was now barely touching my gut from it.
However, she sees this, she sees how my fury at her to be there for Usagi is helping me and twists her fist around. Such a simple movement yet it nearly sent me to the ground in agonizing pain. I could feel the bile rising up from the pain trying to find a way to alleviate itself as I just barely stand my ground in front of her. "Mind you tongue dear prince; sorry you go by Mamoru now right…Mamoru my quarrel isn't with you it's with her." I grit through my teeth as I try to talk but the pain is agonizing. I refuse to let her know just HOW badly this feels as I force myself further up.
The agony has grown more than before but is now being tamed once more by my own powers forcing it down and out. Now that she's no longer touching me, I can grasp onto my own powers to heal and stop the pain. I was very thankful that I had been training with my crystal or I'm not sure this level of pain to deal with while talking to a foe would have been possible. I will beat her though, even if it means dealing with this a little bit longer.
"This deal was made long ago by two higher royals than even us." She actually looks a tad wistful at it as if it were merely a memory of yesteryear and NOT over a thousand years ago that it happened. "She's the one who snuck down here and dug her claws into you." I found this nearly ironic as I can't help but spew out, "Claws into me? Look who's talking, your claws are tearing a hole in my gut."
She shakes her head as if I'm the one not grasping the point, "She poisoned you and your family against the ambitions of my father and I. We could have become the greatest royal couple that ever lived, yet here we are now, a thousand years later, your kingdom, the place where you grew up gone, your parents' dead, and all for what? For her? Does that really make it worth it that she be allowed to receive happiness considering all the pain she's caused with her selfish actions?" I was in disbelief of how she painted Usagi.
One would think that Usagi was the bad guy in this story, that she was the monster at the end of the book, and for this cunning bitchy little princess I guess in a way she was. She has her mind so twisted around this she can't see that she's the monster in her own story. She's talked herself into thinking its Usagi. "You know that's NOT what happened!" I couldn't help but rebuttal, regaining more footing as my powers tamed down the pain enough in my gut to move. I made sure to make it look bad though still so I could use it to my advantage.
"Yes, she did sneak to earth, but I was the one who caught her." I tell her, "I could have turned her in, but I didn't because I saw something in her that day. Something that I've never seen in anyone else since which is why our love has stayed true for so long despite the many obstacles that have come our way. We fell in love that day. Naturally. No spells, no magic, just us. But that was something you nor your father could accept was it." I tell her, my voice becoming calmer now yet full of conviction.
She pursed her lips towards me, "Once you knew I had chosen her you couldn't accept it and like Beryl, you rejected the notion that I had picked my chosen princess, My Serenity over the both of you. You both felt it had to do with something else that Serenity was the enemy. Neither of your egos would accept anything less." I can see there's a spark of acceptance, not of everything but of a part of it.
Or maybe rather than acceptance it was the factor that I called her out on her egotistical bull, either way her grip on me faltered just a bit so I kept going hoping that more would get loosened up, "Your father may have tried to barter a deal over a thousand years ago, but you had a choice to. Once you knew that I had picked another you could have gone and sought out someone to love you for you, and someone that would have wanted to be with you." I tell her hoping that by pointing all of this out it will sway her.
I saw her gaze turn away from me as if in thought before it went back towards me as if in a near trance yet not really. It was hard to configure her feelings in the moment, she kept so much hidden yet with me she revealed more and more. "In my family when we make a deal with someone, we keep our end of it, and we EXPECT no less than the same from the person we make the deal with."
She made it sound so logical yet there was no logic in this, only the knowledge that this was a deal that was never finalized as I declined it. "Our fathers made a decision an incredibly long, time ago, too long to remember how many longs go into that sentence so you see my dear prince…" she begins looking at me as she regards my stance in this little discussion were having…if you could call it that.
"You rightfully belong to me and I to you. So, the real decision you have to make is would you really deny me when you know it would just mean more attacks? More exposure? More people hurt because of the denial that you're in that's she's causing all of this? Think about it." Her words however stroke a fire in me. I can't help nor do I want to help but snap at her in my own fury over her words towards my Usagi.
"The pain she's caused?" I demanded of her nearly shocked by her level of psychosis to be talking like this. "Wow…your delusions are worse than I thought of you truly believe that." I see her begin to sneer at that, yet I let my words continue to spill out, "She's only freed people from the manipulation of others. She's rescued so many people. Save so many lives. The only one who's in denial right now is you."
She bitterly looks away from me and my words as they undoubtedly strike a nerve within her, yet I don't care. She deserves to hear all of this. Hell, maybe it will help. I think this only to hear her say, "When I save you from her, I will grant you one pardon, and that's that when I do, I will erase her from your memories." That catches my ears as I look to her. the thought of NOT remembering my Usagi ever again makes me feel slightly panicked but I half to keep my composure on this.
"This way you will never be burdened with the knowledge that you were her bitch all this time. I will free you from the shell of a man you've become under her. You can take comfort in that knowledge when we ascend to the throne. It'll be as if she and her merry band of foolish ignorant senshi never existed." It sounds so promising on her end yet knowing the truth of what that is to live like makes me more angered than before.
To take away my memories of her, of my Usagi…I can't do that. I can't go through that bitter loneliness again. I lost her nearly twice before, once due to being reborn and the other due to Beryl trying to steal me for herself. That was a dark period of time for me. The second one anyways. So, the very thought of her taking my memories away and going through that again was hell for me.
I'm now bleakly wondering where the girls are at as I look around to transform. I'm ready at this point to say screw it if someone were to walk in on it because I need to do something to stop her and defend myself. I would try a power blast now, but I can't gain access to my crystals power not enough for a blast without being transformed, at least not at this low-level state of power that I'm currently at.
She's strong enough to steal a decent deal of it from me and I'm still weakened from it. I'm now cursing myself for NOT having practiced as much as I should have. I might have been able to knock her off her feet long enough to transform and give her full on attack. Instead' she has me at a disadvantage which I suppose is what she was aiming for. She wanted me alone so she could chat with me.
Have what probably passes for her as a civil conversation. It's when I feel my guts churning that I vaguely feel she still has a decent grip on my insides with her powers. My powers and connection to my crystal are at least holding off the hold and pain allowing my body to heal from her devilish attempts on me. So, I guess that's something. I can't help but grunt from the pain that is there though.
I know I've been through worse before, so I hold onto my composure and reach through my link, taking a brief few seconds to send a small SOS signal to Usagi. I should have done so earlier but I figured I could handle this devious princess. I felt foolish for once again letting my ego tell me I could handle her. While she doesn't have any intent to kill me...yet, it doesn't mean I wouldn't be able to piss her off enough to kill off the part of me that is fighting her. It's that fear that keeps coming back to me.
The fear that she will win in this round and take my memory of Usagi from me. Its mere seconds later though that I hear someone in my head. Malachite. It's so stunning that it takes the pain away by forcing more focus on his words in my head. A long-ago memory that I completely forgot about from a thousand years ago. Our training with my father on the golden crystal on how to resolve focus issues and strengthen them.
Remember your training Endymion...you're the only one who can maintain the focus. Find that part of your mind that helps to center you. Push out any external forces that are trying to control you from the inside out. Use your powers to push it out as your powers come from within, not just the crystal. His words help me to focus as I pick on the center focus of my mind. That's when I realize Usagi is my focus. I was able to knock this deluded princess back when my focus was centered on Usagi.
She's my center. Refocusing on her I feel more of my power building up. I feel more of my own will power overriding her hold on me. I look up to her and feel more in control than before as she's so in her own little demented world of anger and spit that she doesn't see I'm getting stronger even while she has her hold on me. Thanks' Malachite. "That is for the last few times you've spent making love to her when it SHOULD have been ME." I slowly begin to straighten myself out not letting her see it as she's focused on her own blinding rage.
"I'll forgive it for now since your clearly deluded being under her own magic. That silver crystal once I destroy it, after I take its power of course and add it to mine making me the most powerful being on not only the planet but the universe making EVERYONE bow down to me..." her eyes looked maniacal as she spoke of her intentions, "Only then will you be free from her pull." I let her spout her crazy ramblings as I will the golden crystals power in me.
Doing what I can to force her dark powers out as they feel like their tearing me apart from the inside out. I reach inside of myself to find the metaphorical hand of her dark powers and its grasp on me. Once I find it, using my own powers to pull it off without hurting me I yank hard breaking her hold, shocking her in the process and lash out at her. She backs away several feet as I throw a rose out at her striking her in the face.
She covets it before throwing me a glare as she sees the red rose sticking out of a nearby tree behind her. Almost as if slightly mocking her. As she looks back towards me the scratch heals up fairly quickly. I can actually watch as it disappears from her face and her hand as she did have it out in front of her as she had me in her grip. Her hold on me is definitely gone though, the pain is gone as I breath in normally now.
"That hurt." though I'm pretty sure she was more mentally and emotionally wounded than physically hurt by it. "Believe me, there's no power that can manipulate me again. I already had that happen once with an enemy." Technically twice when Chibi Usa was also temporarily evil... "It was the worst time of my life to be Beryl's bitch to do what she wanted. I've made my mind a lot sharper since then." which was the truth.
If I hadn't, I might have already have given in to the hold she had on me. I have grown stronger since both occasions. "You may hold grand power, but I hold greater power." I refocus and sense my golden crystal light up within me. I can feel my eyes shining with the intensity of it. I can tell she's seeing it herself as I heal myself from the damage, she did cause within me. Now at full strength again I get ready to blast her with a much more painful dose than what the rose has to offer as I want her to be in pain now to.
As if sensing what I'm about to do she seems to debate things before saying, "Do your best not to waste your last bit of time with her. It would be best to say your farewells to her while you can." she sounds so convinced of what she's going to do. Yet I see there's no cockiness within her at her words, nor arrogance to her voice as she speaks towards me. Only what she believes to be cold hard truths and it's hard not to be upset by it.
I can't help but verbally lash out in anger at her proclamation. "When are you going to get it through your thick, deluded head?" I demand of her, my prince side coming out as I seethed in anger towards her, "I love her. In each lifetime I've only ever held love for her!" I nearly sneer towards her. "I never even cared for you and currently after everything you've done to those that I love; I hold no real forgiveness for you." I tell her spitefully.
"That's for my love to decide. She does have a big heart and tends to favor an enemy if she sees good within them. We've saved many before in the past. Though I can't say she'll find any favorable qualities within you. I on the other hand can't stand you." my own words hold more venom than I thought they could. I see her bitter face at my words though. She walks up closer, not raising her hands as she presents a civil front.
"Strong words from the might earth prince..." she gets closer to me as I remain on guard. She doesn't seem to care that I could strike out again at her, yet I present a front of the same appearance. Yet I have NO intention of letting her me close enough to get her hands on me...not again. "Yet you want to know what I hear..." She nearly smiles at me. Despite my declarations she's still smiling at me.
"Strong feels are in there to." I have to nearly chuckle on that as I tell her, "Yeah strong feels of disgust and loath...at this point I don't want Usagi to try to save you. It'd be a waste of her enemy and efforts." she bitterly smiles at my words. Though I fail to mention that I knew I watched her humanity get snuffed out by her anger and rage earlier. Those feelings are clearly gone right now, and I need to keep her talking.
Find an opening to attack her. "Actually, more like the feelings that are associated with the beginning of things. Like the beginning of a love story, ours…not the ending of one." that's when I hear the girls coming in as she vanishes with a smile aimed at me from my sight. The girls and Moon touch down and when they take a look around and are assured that there's no one else around I see Moon moving in towards me.
"What happened? I sensed something was off and came over as quickly as I could." she asks me as she looks where the other princess once stood. "I could have sworn I saw her." she mutters, "You did." the girls all look to me now, "And not a scratch on you." Mars notes, I nod, "Exactly." I look back to Moon, "That mystery woman, I remembered more about her." I tell her as they all gather around.
I look around and know that even if the paparazzi and civilians aren't around, I don't want HER to still be lingering around and overhear us, "We should go someplace safe to talk." I advise as even Mercury agrees, "He's right, this area is to open." Mars turns to her, "The temple still has a small media circus out front." Venus steps in, "Command center then. No one knows about it or where it's at."
We all nod knowing it's our safest bet right now as they scatter. I transform myself, finally, and dart out and away to. Travelling while taking a few extra detours just to be safe to the central control. Not wanting to take any chances. I want to be as far away from where that bitch had me near dead to rights, and now recalling some of my training with Malachite makes me remember that I trained with all of my generals.
In various forms of combat and magical training. It makes me wonder if there's a way to bring the generals back so that I can train better than before and have my friends my brothers back with me and even gives the girls their husbands back. There's, obviously still some holes in our memories and with the generals around I...no we can all can fill the gaps up and become even stronger than before. I can be the type of king this world needs, and the type of warrior fit for my Moon senshi...my Usagi.