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many of Naoko Takiuchi's(did I spell that right?) ideas. Don't sue me,
after all I don't have enough to pay the money for it, and two, a lot
of the characters belong to me, except for a few slip ups.

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Chapter Nine: Truth or Nightmare



It was cold that night on the moon. The Sea of Cruelty was
bursting with negative activity. At the bottom of the sea a castle of
dark crystal stood, a mass of oxygen loomed around the castle. This was
made possible by spherical force field that would go unnoticed by an
onlooker. A tall male figure looked down over his empire. His eyes were
an unusual bright green, his long dirty blond hair was perfectly
groomed though this man's appearance was out of place
amidst the shadows. He retreated to the room at the other side of the
balcony. How long have I waited, waited to kill her? Was it once I was
born, or was it when I took this idiot's body? No one would ever
suspect me, the only people that would shall soon be dead, hopefully. I
could never trust my dear sister to do the best for me, she thinks it
is she that is his heir, but she is very mistaken, for it I that will
kill the Mist Child. His thoughts ended with hysterical
laughter.

At that moment his daughter came in the room, gagged, and her
hands tied behind her back. She kicked and screamed, anger boiling in
her eyes. The guards holding her left after the dark king magically
held her against the wall. She noticed that she could still move
slightly and used this to her advantage. She leaned forward and
concentrated her power to where her hands were bound. A beam of light
burst out but did nothing to the bonds.

He came over to her and pressed a dagger against her breast.
"Another outburst and this will go through your heart." He said icily.
The betrayal in her eyes suddenly turned to fear. "Nobody to save you
now, little one. It's too bad you couldn't remember your real parents,
they were so nice, good skilled fighters, but not good enough. And they
were left defenseless like you are now. Any last words, maybe to that
lover of yours." He laughed at the tear that ran down her cheek. He
removed the gag.


"If you dare hurt him you'll pay dearly!" whether or not she
noticed that dagger was slicing into her clothes she continued, "I
thought you were my father all this time and you are about to kill me!
And for what? What will this accomplish? Someone will stop you from
killing the rest of them, if that's what you're going to do. But yes I
_am_ defenseless, what kind of coward can't even stand up to his victim!"
Then she screamed as the dagger went deep into her skin, but instead of
piercing her heart it was just below it. Blood was quickly covering her
dress, her eyes were blank, there was nothing for her left to feel. He
was about to walk away when he smiled and turned around.

"Never insult your elders. Especially _me._" He grabbed the
hilt of the dagger and dragged it up into her lung. This time she
didn't scream, she was to consumed with breathing, but
gave up. "I love you, An-and-dy" then she died.

The dark king walked into a large, dark room where he sat upon a golden throne.
"Sister have you killed the boy?"

"No, they haven't been separated, it would be impossible." She
responded.

He could sense her fear, "You should've killed them both! You
have failed!"

"Brother, I will kill them at the right time, and now isn't the
time."

"Soon they'll be married and you will hardly find them
separable."

"Quite the contrary. . ."

"Never contradict me!"

She straightened, no longer cowering. "I can do whatever the
HELL I want! You have no control over me!"

"I'm sorry you feel that way sister." Just as he said that he
blasted her against the wall, he began to advance on her when he still
felt her life force. He became face to face with her. "Can you still do
whatever the hell you want, sister?"

"Yes." She stabbed deep into his shoulder with her nails that
were like knives. He roared. "I'm not so weak as you think brother."
She began to pull her nails from him to make another assult, this time
to his heart. He stopped her.

"Let us fight no more sister. We will destroy all that the girl
loves, then kill her, _together._" He particularly liked the last
touch, That will work long enough for me to destroy her, he thought.
He was right and he walked a bit away to make it look real, she
believed it, she was too power hungry and full of herself not to. The
she began to feel like her body was being invaded, which it was. Her
brother was starting to electrocute her. The lightning came

strongly up from the ground and consumed her.

"I am in charge sister, I do not tolerate failure,
insubordination, and most of all mutiny. And you know how I feel about
mercy." He told her this heartlessly. The darkness was now

filled with her agonized screams, until she died.

Then he teleported to a brightly lit room, it was the Chamber
of the Flame, the Elders conversed here and their magic lit candles
representing each planet's Clan. The candles normally

represented the peace of the planets, but they had become dim, and now
that he was in the room they died out completely.

"Afraid of the dark?" he said ruthlessly.

"Is that you Apollo?" the Moon Elder quietly asked.

"The name is Talleron." Talleron said and blasted an Elder
against the wall.

"Apollo, why do you go by this unknown name, and hurt us?" an
the injured Elder asked.

"I do this because Apollo is dead over nineteen years ago and I
killed him and my sister killed Pearl. I am Talleron, and I plan to
kill all of you." The Elders tried to fight but they lost in the end,
losing their lives.

Talleron walked out of the room and up the stairs to another
room. The door was locked of course, but he needed no key he teleported
into the room to find exactly who he had been looking

for, the Mist Child. But soon he found that she wasn't so much of a
child as he had thought; she looked rather lovely in the soft moon
glow.


Aquaria woke from her nightmare breathing heavily. "Crystallia,
and the Elders are. . ."

she looked towards the corner of the room and noticed the figure
immediately. It was Apollo,

Crystallia's father.

"Dead. I killed them." He looked deep into her eyes piercing
her soul.

"Talleron."

"Aquaria." He smiled walking closer to her bed. He knew that
she wouldn't scream, this was going to be easy for him, take her away
to be his queen, and of course kill Skyllan, she couldn't be contained
as long as Skyllan lived. "Come with me and be my queen."

"Never would I ever be a queen to a power hungry murderer, that
poses as someone's father, then kills them!"

"You think that you are so wonderful Aquaria, but you too are a
murderer. Remember all the lives that you took fleeing from Uranus,
even the lives of your parents. I am not so heartless as that but yet
you condemn me. You are the one that stole the heart of a young boy,

caging him until you saw that you still wanted him. So why do you call
me the poser, the murderer?" every word she winced at trying to find an
escape something else to pin it on, but she couldn't think straight.
Her memories molded into something other than what she had known,
turned her into a heartless murderer. Now he had her where he wanted
her. And he took his chance.

He firmly planted his lips upon hers, passionately kissing her.
Aquaria's mind dimmed, giving in, allowing the kiss, giving some of it
back. Sky I love you so much, was the only thought she had, but she
didn't know that she was betraying the one she loved, she had forgotten
that Talleron's lips were on hers and not Sky's, but she didn't care.
All she wanted was the darkness, smoothing over her body.

This is what he wanted all of his life, not the power, only
this, the passion. But the passion wouldn't last long knowing that she
would be asleep soon then he could take her away to his castle.


Five hours later Aquaria woke up, she remembered the dream clearly,
wiped off her lips with distaste. She looked around to see that she was
in her room, at her home on Pluto. Why shouldn't I be, I'll be
marrying soon so I should be getting prepared, even though we're not
engaged yet, he'll ask. Soon, she thought but something was out of
place here but she couldn't put her finger on it.

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