Chapter Thirteen:

When a grunt was heard in Raye's room everyone turned to look at Sage who slowly opened his eyes. His hand slowly went to his head and as he felt a bandage h closed his eyes again. "Damn it." He whispered and soon quickly shot up forgetting the throbbing pain in his body as he remembered Milany and Lita. "Where are they?" He asked as he looked at everyone.

"Sage calm down." Rowen whispered. "There in another room. The outer and Raye are in the sacred fire room while Hotaru, Cye and Serena are looking after Milany. Ryo, mina and Amy are with Lita. They are ok." He reported as he walked closer to his friend. "You should get some rest. We had to heal you a few hours ago."

Sage looked up at him and sighed.

"Yea man." Kento added. "It looked like you took a bad hit."

"What happened?" Mia asked as she and Mira stepped into the room. "Lita woke up but refuse to say a word."

"I want to see her." He whispered as he started getting up, but Rowen pushed him back down gently. "You are in no position Sage. Rest for…"

"No, Rowen." Sage cut in.

"Sage you are not leaving here until you get some rests. They are fine." Rowen insisted.

Out of defeat, Sage lay on his back once more and tried to get some rest but the thought of Lita and Milany hurt wouldn't leave him alone. "Are you sure they are ok?" He asked again, just to make sure.

Mira walked up to him and placed her hand on his shoulder. "They are ok, Sage. Don't worry so much." She whispered.

Sage turned his face to look at the wall as he sighed. Slowly his eyes closed.

"You four come on." Amara's voice suddenly was heard. She had silently staid at the door and made sure she was hidden from view. The concern Sage had shown for her princess was a genuine concern and it made her doubt herself on trusting him.

Everyone but Sage turned around to see the blonde walk away.

"Is she always like that?" Kento asked as he frowned.

"Only to those she does not trust," Mia said. "And so far it looks like you guys especially Sage have to find away to prove to her and Michiru that you can be trusted. She won't listen to anyone until she sees it."

Rowen rolled his eyes. "That would be easy." He spoke with a hidden sarcasm. "Common lets go."

Once they were in the sacred fire room they meet up with everyone but Milany, who was still sleeping on Raye's bed. Lita had separated herself from the group and staid to the far right corner. "Since you all are going to be fighting in this battle, I guess you are to know what happened a thousand of years ago." Michelle said as she looked at the inners and Ronins. "But we will shorten it."

"You all know Takiru, right?" Hotaru asked.

"Yea what about him?" Ryo asked.

"Takiru and Jokitsu are bothers, but what you don't know was that they were both royalty of Jupiter. In other words they are the queen's older brothers." Mira explained as best she could. Shock was well shown on the audience's faces as they looked at the women in front of them. "Jokitsu was originally suppose to be king of Jupiter, but since the queen held the spirit of Jupiter in her she was made queen."

"This enraged the two men but they took it silently. When Jokitsu heard that the queen was pregnant with an heir to the thrown his anger grew even more. One day he suddenly vanished and took Takiru with him. They both made allies with beryl. Years later all three attacked with their own armies. In the process they had managed to capture my…the rest of the guardians and turned them against us." Mia whispered and looked away from Ryo when she had almost mentioned her first love.

"On that day both king and queen died but before the king had died he had wounded Jokitsu severely. Takiru would have killed Ken under Jokitsu's order with I didn't send him to the moon queen Serenity." Amara spoke.

"I was running down the hall when I heard Jokitsu talking. I ran towards where he was. I saw him in front of Mako but he thought it was Lita. He was still wounded but managed to hold his own." Hotaru said. "I hid and waited for him to make his move and when he did I attacked. Although he was too powerful for me I managed to escape and sent Mako to the moon. Shortly the outers and the guardians died with the planet."

"Ken, and Mako met Lita down at the moon palace only to find that it was under attack. Everyone died that day and was sent to earth in a thousand years in the future. Now you know what happened and why Takiru and Jokitsu want Lita dead. She is the next to rule, Jokitsu won't allow that and he wants revenge for what the king had done to him." Michelle whispered.

The room was in silence. A silence that was mixed with shock as the ten warriors tried to swallow the information given to them.

"So Jokitsu and Takiru are actually uncles of you three?" Amy asked as she looked at Ken, Mako and Lita. Ken and Mako nodded. Lita was staring outside the door dazed. She had purposely placed herself in a dream like state, not wanting to listen to the history once again. She suddenly stood up gaining all unwanted attention.

"Lita?" Hotaru called to her.

"I wish to be alone." She spoke firmly.

"Lita..."

"I mean it Amara." Lita whispered before walking out of the room.

"What was…?" Mina started talking.

"Out of the three of us she still blames her self for her parents death." Mako whispered. "She hadn't realized that it wasn't her fault. Though at this moment I do not think that's what troubling her."

~*~

Lita opened the door to where they had kept Milany and silently walked in. She knelt in front of her daughter's bed and brushed her hair from her eyes. "Mily." She whispered and kissed her daughter's forehead. "I'm so sorry you had to go through that." She whispered as she held her daughter's hand in hers. "I promise you won't. I'll keep you safe. You have your mother's words. I won't fail you like I failed my parents. I won't." She looked away as tears spilled from her eyes. Kissing her daughter's hand she stood up and left the room.

Slowly she walked down the hall as her mind thought back of the talk she and Sage had behind the temple before Jokitsu arrived. She knew he loved her and she didn't doubt it. But her mind always brought up the question: when the time came would he leave her and Milany? That's what she feared. She didn't want to get attached if that was going to happen but she couldn't stay away from him. He was like a magnet pulling her to him. She loved him.

Lita stopped walking when she came across another room and peered in it when she opened the door. On the bed she saw Sage. His back was to her as he slept peacefully or so she thought. When she stepped in, he turned to her and gave her a small smile. "Did I wake you?"

Sage shook his head softly. "No I already couldn't sleep." He murmured. He watched as she stepped into the room and sat at the edge of the bed and placed her head on his left shoulder. Worried of her behavior he wrapped his arms around her. "Lita what's wrong?"

"I'm scared Sage. Milany almost died. I don't know what I'd do without her." Lita replied in a broken whisper as she tried to pull back the sob that threatens to escape.

Sage took in a shaky breath as he let the words sunk in. "I…is she ok?"

Lita nodded. "She's sleeping." She answered his question. "Sage I'm scared. What if one of us dies. The other will follow shortly. I don't want to leave Milany with out her parents. Sage…"

"Lita stop it." Sage spoke firmly. "Nothing like that will happen. We will be there for Milany every step of the way. We won't die."

"How do you know?"

"I just do." He whispered to her as he caressed her back.

Lita raised her self up and slowly moved to face Sage so their face would only be an inch away. Without words they just looked at each other. They didn't feel like words were needed. Sage brought his left hand to her cheek right before she closed the space between them. Sage slowly let his hands slide down her body and encircle around her waist, pulling her closer. Allowing all their worries to vanish.

The door that had opened a few seconds ago closed in front of Serena. Slowly the blond turned around to face Hotaru, Rowen and Mina with a smile. "He'll be ok."

~*~

"Curse that woman!" Jokitsu yelled as walked into his room and face his broken mirror. "She will pay dearly for this scare. Damn her and that princess. I would have had her!!!"

Jokitsu took his time to calm himself down before a wicked smile crossed his lips. "Tomorrow they will pay and I will have my revenge."

~*~

"Anubis, it's nearing." Pluto whispered with anxiety as she watched the screen.

"I know Pluto I know."

"I need to be there. She's my princess. I need…"

"Pluto." Anubis turned to her. "Calm down. Remember you gave cronos your words."

"But she's MY princess!!!"

"Pluto calm down. Everything will be fine."

"What if everything is not fine Anubis? Are you telling me I should watch the person I should be with right now die? I won't."

"You know you'll punished for this."

"My duty to the princess comes first."

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Author's note: Hehehe, I know I shouldn't have ended it there but I didn't know what to write for this chapter at ALL. At least its four pages long. ^_^;;