Chapter 5: Aphrodite and Flowers
*Mina*
I'd have to say that the trip back to mars was a pretty, um..., different one. Malachite and I pretty much stayed up the whole time exchanging stories about our battles that we had fought as though we were exited little boys. We were both freaks in that kind of way. Loved fighting, sword fights mainly, fist fights when it suited, and we loved the thought of fighting for a just cause and winning. That especially. As I told my story about how me and Rei killed the king, I moved across the floor, reenacting the deadly dance. Malachite chuckled and rose to his feet to sweep me off mine.
"That dance there, my queen, is a very seductive one."
"Oooo...." I giggled,
"I see my swordplay has turned you on."
"More than you know," he said seductively, "more than you know."
*Rei*
I choked up a sob that was trying to escape when I saw his eyes. They looked dull at first, like the life was sucked from him and then, they lit up and sparkled. If I hadn't had my sword drawn at the time and used it for support, I would have fallen down. I almost collapsed right where I was standing, unable to hold back what I was feeling.
"Oh my god." I whispered as my eyes began to tear up.
"Don't do that yet. You have to get me out." He said to me. I knew he was right so I tried to pull myself together. It worked but it was a little bit shaky. I finally got over to his cage and broke the lock. He slowly pushed the door open and stepped out. We stood there, about a foot from each other, just staring. His vibrant blue eyes were staring into my deep purple ones, lost in each others' gaze. His once golden hair was all ruffled and messed up. Personally, I thought he had never looked better, hair-wise and stuff, other than that, he was pretty messed up. I guess it was just the longing attraction.
He, finally, moved one hand up to brush away some of the hair that was in my face and I put my hand on his and leaned into his touch. I closed my eyes, fighting back tears of happiness to feel his touch again. I couldn't win though and I began crying almost hysterically. I put my face on his solid chest and wept as he held me.
"Oh, Rei, don't cry. Why are you crying?" I stopped for a moment and looked up at him. "Oh, you don't blame yourself for this do you?" he asked. I just shook my head even though I did blame myself. "It's alright now. I am going to be ok. Ok?" he asked as he pulled my head from his soggy shirt, or what was left of it. "Now, all better. Let's see about getting out of here." he said as we began the journey back to the ship to mars.
*Mina*
soon after his last statement, we were, yet again, wrapped up in each other's embrace, and in Rei's words, sucking face. He did a good job of it. Kissing that is. That's not all he's good at, but I'll leave those details to myself. No, we hadn't had sex at all yet, believe it or not. I know how erotic I made my story sound but it wasn't much. Like I said, no sex. Really, we were gonna wait until the wedding was over and then the war started so there was no way we could pull that off. But I wasn't soon before either of us could stand it any longer. But that was on mars. The trip back was just plain flirtatious gestures and pretenses of what was to come. Heh, he was sweet and a smooth talker. He soon had me under his complete control and pinned against a wall. I couldn't say that I didn't like it. Hell, I loved it. The thought of being dominated completely just brings a tingle to my spine. He did enjoy what he could do to me at the time, which left huge hickeys.....everywhere, pretty much. Not that I minded. He had such gorgeous silvery white hair and I could get lost in his steel gray eyes. The way he looked at me made my heart melt. He told me once that I was the only one who had broken through to his heart and soul. That was the day he left. I still remember it but it's not important now. Now he's with me all the time. Heart and soul: we belong together forever.
*Rei*
I guess I can say it was almost impossible to get him out of there. He could barely walk and neither could I. But we finally made it. on the trip back, I cleaned and bandaged all of his wounds. I know it hurt him a lot. I could see it in his eyes but he never said or did anything to show pain. I guess that's something he learned over the years of being tortured.
"How can you just sit here and take this?" I asked.
"You have a very gentle touch," was his reply. "How did you escape?" he asked. "What? From the whore house?" I asked. "I got thrown out and the Endymion picked me up disguised as you."
"Wow." he said. "So what happened then?"
"Well, we got even with all of the people who violated me and then went to kill my brother. That didn't blow over well, given he repented just as he was about to die and I healed him. He's now a changed man." was my reply.
"And for Endy?" he asked.
"He can rot in hell. I killed him. So now he's dead. Real dead. And the king, Cassius, is dead too."
"Well," he said, "I am very surprised, I guess is the word to say. I never saw a streak of violence in you. When I heard of what happened to you so long ago when they sold me here, I thought it was the end. I thought, 'I'm going to die here and I'll never see her again.' Horrible thought, but it's what I did think. Then the torture began. It was extremely painful at first but then, after about a half of a year, it didn't hurt. I only really felt mild pain. It was completely dulled. I felt almost nothing for the whole time after that. Until you walked in that room. I thought I died. I thought I was going to die. I swear my heart sped up so fast I thought it was going to explode. And then I saw you start to go to the floor. I thought to myself 'this is real and if she doesn't get off of that floor and open this cage, god knows what will happen.' that's why I was a little cold about the cage. But I am so glad to see you again. I have wanted to hold you for so long, it's almost unbearable. Oh Rei, how I have missed you." I couldn't handle it.
I began to cry again. This time, he pulled me onto the bed he was on and into his arms. "I may be bloody and bruised but I can still hold my girl." He said.
"Oh Jadeite, I have missed you too." I said as we held each other close and went to sleep.
*Mina*
the arrival on mars was a little more than I expected. The people were all lined up to see us exit the ship which was an oddity given that the Martians hated people from other planets and usually killed them on the spot. They were singing and cheering and throwing flowers. I thought it was very lovely until a huge bouquet flew through the air only to hit me right between the eyes rendering me completely unconscious.
I woke up screaming "no not the flowers!!!" and malachite was laughing at me. "It's not funny," I pouted sitting up in the bed. I looked around and saw that the Martian court had gone through large amounts of trouble to make the room as gold as possible. It was absolutely beautiful. Especially the bed. It had four golden posts that were carved out of only the best gold in the universe. The carvings were of twisted branches of a lauryl tree with leaves smushed onto it. Completely flawless. There was a canopy of dark blue above it. Velvet, I imagine. And the sheets were blue silk with a golden comforter. There were also heavy curtains to be drawn around the bed when the night air kicked in and light ones for any other time. There was golden marble flooring and a mosaic of Venus in the middle. It was an awesome sight and I just reveled in its beauty.
*Rei*
the trip was very pleasant for the most part, which happened to be the sleeping part. The landing was kinda rough and in the dead of night. The best time for sneaking a half dead earthling into the palace without him getting murdered. My people didn't mind the occasional Venusian but an earthling was crossing the line.
I had wondered if Mina and Malachite had fared well into the palace. I half expected to see his remains strung up on the walls and her giving my people a blood bath. To my relief, I saw neither. Half expecting to be seen by someone, I made my way rather quickly into the palace, almost unsure if he'd make it or not. I walked, with his arm over me for support, into the throne room and laid him down on the mosaic of mars.
"lie still now." I said.
"I didn't plan on moving," he replied.
"Well, you'll want to in a minute." I opened his new, clean shirt and put my hands by his heart. I closed my eyes for a moment and when I opened them, they were once again black. He looked so tranquil just lying there. I knew that he would be in unbearable amounts of pain in the moments to follow, but I had to do it. I hadn't the means to completely heal him like I needed to on the ship. I had just stopped the infections.
"I'm sorry," I whispered as I threw my head up toward the heavens, chanting in some dead language. A blot of light came streaking straight down into the floor, going right through him. He jumped but he couldn't move as much as he thought he could. The light grew and engulfed him. Then, it happened. He began to rise as in float above the floor. The healing had begun and could not be stopped. The brilliant white light continued to grow brighter and the palace began to tremble. The throne room already looked like hell but it would only get worse. Soon the beam of light made a ripple in it, shooting light from it's center, where he lay, outward, like a supernova. Then the rumbling stopped and he was gently lowered by the light as it grew less and less.
Finally, the light was faded and he lay on Mars, cleaned and unscathed. Strength replenished and wounds healed, there was not a trace of anything that had happened to him. I stood for a moment, growing extremely weak. Just as he sat up to face me, completely renewed, I passed out.
*Mina*
I first noticed the big light but then, the whole palace began to move under my feet. I was terrified. I ran to malachite and threw myself at him. He held me and told me it would be alright. I felt so safe in that moment. Then I felt it. Like a ripple. No more like a bubble growing swiftly in size. It raced toward us at lightening speed. I braced myself for the hurt but all I felt was warmth. Then I knew. I knew exactly what was going on.
"Rei," I said.
"What did you say?" malachite asked.
"Hmm..Rei. She's healing him," I replied.
"Oh." was the only reaction out of him I got.
"Who's him?" he finally asked. I wrinkled my nose at the question.
"I don't know. She's never said his name. It beats the hell outta me."
"Hmm...my queen, let's go to bed. It has been a long night and a long journey."
"Yes." I agreed letting him take my hand and lead me to bed(no we didn't do it yet). Then, curled up in each other's arms, we slept the night away.
*Rei*
thank the gods that his speed was replenished as well. He got there just in time to catch me from falling to the hard marble floor. Man that would have hurt like a bitch. But anyway, he pulled me close to him saying something like he was sorry, what the hell for beats me. He tried to stand up for a moment, expecting to fall to the floor again, and was amazed that he stood with perfect balance and strength.
He then decided that leaving me on the floor was not the best idea so he picked me up and cradled me in his arms. Confused about where to go, he headed for where he remembered my old room to be. He hit the nail right on the head, so to speak. He opened the door to my room and went in.
It was a pretty room. Simple yet beautiful. Red was everywhere. My bed resembled that of Mina's but where her's held trees, mine held fire. And right in the middle of the room there was a circular stand with fire blazing in it. He pulled back the red comforter and black satin sheets on my bed and, after removing my shoes, placed me in it. I "slept" rather peacefully until I awoke later on in the morning.
*Mina*
"ahhhh!!!!!I'm gonna drown!!!! help!! help!!!" I screamed as I woke up. I quickly realized that I was not going to drown. I felt kinda dumb and mumbled "oh" right after I realized that it was only my lover trying to wake me up in a spit bath. Very sweet but kinda weird too. I shivered a little bit. The french doors to the balcony were open and the Martian morning was not hospitable to warm-climate people. In other words, it was colder than a bitch, as Rei would so bluntly put it. "I'm a little cold" I said with a quivering voice.
He giggled a little bit at me, "a little. Dear, you sound as though you are freezing to death." and with that he got up, which made it even colder, and shut the doors. I immediately felt a bit warmer. He then came back over to the bed where I was then completely wrapped up in the blankets like a cocoon.
I heard his deep laughter and, from his perspective, quite muffledly said, "it's not funny." "Oh, yes it is." he said, still deeply amused. "If you could only see what you look like." I tried to protest and finally got my head out of the blankets.
"Well, at least I am warm." I stated, matter-of-factly. "So poo on you."
He laughed again at my childish behavior and tugged at the blankets. "Well, Mina, I could help in making you warmer too you know."
I popped my head back out and said, "ok, if you can fit in here, you are welcome." I smiled and popped my head back into the blanket bundle. In one quick movement, though, all of my work on my cocoon was destroyed. I squeaked as he pulled the blankets up in the air and jumped in the bed before they fell back onto it. As soon as he was laying down, I wrapped myself around him, taking in his warmth, still under all of the blankets. I don't know how in the hell the Martians can put up with such weather. Venus is so much warmer, like 200 times warmer. But then again, we are closer to the sun and that has a lot to do with it. I bet Rei would sweat to death on Venus. That would suck.
*Mina*
I'd have to say that the trip back to mars was a pretty, um..., different one. Malachite and I pretty much stayed up the whole time exchanging stories about our battles that we had fought as though we were exited little boys. We were both freaks in that kind of way. Loved fighting, sword fights mainly, fist fights when it suited, and we loved the thought of fighting for a just cause and winning. That especially. As I told my story about how me and Rei killed the king, I moved across the floor, reenacting the deadly dance. Malachite chuckled and rose to his feet to sweep me off mine.
"That dance there, my queen, is a very seductive one."
"Oooo...." I giggled,
"I see my swordplay has turned you on."
"More than you know," he said seductively, "more than you know."
*Rei*
I choked up a sob that was trying to escape when I saw his eyes. They looked dull at first, like the life was sucked from him and then, they lit up and sparkled. If I hadn't had my sword drawn at the time and used it for support, I would have fallen down. I almost collapsed right where I was standing, unable to hold back what I was feeling.
"Oh my god." I whispered as my eyes began to tear up.
"Don't do that yet. You have to get me out." He said to me. I knew he was right so I tried to pull myself together. It worked but it was a little bit shaky. I finally got over to his cage and broke the lock. He slowly pushed the door open and stepped out. We stood there, about a foot from each other, just staring. His vibrant blue eyes were staring into my deep purple ones, lost in each others' gaze. His once golden hair was all ruffled and messed up. Personally, I thought he had never looked better, hair-wise and stuff, other than that, he was pretty messed up. I guess it was just the longing attraction.
He, finally, moved one hand up to brush away some of the hair that was in my face and I put my hand on his and leaned into his touch. I closed my eyes, fighting back tears of happiness to feel his touch again. I couldn't win though and I began crying almost hysterically. I put my face on his solid chest and wept as he held me.
"Oh, Rei, don't cry. Why are you crying?" I stopped for a moment and looked up at him. "Oh, you don't blame yourself for this do you?" he asked. I just shook my head even though I did blame myself. "It's alright now. I am going to be ok. Ok?" he asked as he pulled my head from his soggy shirt, or what was left of it. "Now, all better. Let's see about getting out of here." he said as we began the journey back to the ship to mars.
*Mina*
soon after his last statement, we were, yet again, wrapped up in each other's embrace, and in Rei's words, sucking face. He did a good job of it. Kissing that is. That's not all he's good at, but I'll leave those details to myself. No, we hadn't had sex at all yet, believe it or not. I know how erotic I made my story sound but it wasn't much. Like I said, no sex. Really, we were gonna wait until the wedding was over and then the war started so there was no way we could pull that off. But I wasn't soon before either of us could stand it any longer. But that was on mars. The trip back was just plain flirtatious gestures and pretenses of what was to come. Heh, he was sweet and a smooth talker. He soon had me under his complete control and pinned against a wall. I couldn't say that I didn't like it. Hell, I loved it. The thought of being dominated completely just brings a tingle to my spine. He did enjoy what he could do to me at the time, which left huge hickeys.....everywhere, pretty much. Not that I minded. He had such gorgeous silvery white hair and I could get lost in his steel gray eyes. The way he looked at me made my heart melt. He told me once that I was the only one who had broken through to his heart and soul. That was the day he left. I still remember it but it's not important now. Now he's with me all the time. Heart and soul: we belong together forever.
*Rei*
I guess I can say it was almost impossible to get him out of there. He could barely walk and neither could I. But we finally made it. on the trip back, I cleaned and bandaged all of his wounds. I know it hurt him a lot. I could see it in his eyes but he never said or did anything to show pain. I guess that's something he learned over the years of being tortured.
"How can you just sit here and take this?" I asked.
"You have a very gentle touch," was his reply. "How did you escape?" he asked. "What? From the whore house?" I asked. "I got thrown out and the Endymion picked me up disguised as you."
"Wow." he said. "So what happened then?"
"Well, we got even with all of the people who violated me and then went to kill my brother. That didn't blow over well, given he repented just as he was about to die and I healed him. He's now a changed man." was my reply.
"And for Endy?" he asked.
"He can rot in hell. I killed him. So now he's dead. Real dead. And the king, Cassius, is dead too."
"Well," he said, "I am very surprised, I guess is the word to say. I never saw a streak of violence in you. When I heard of what happened to you so long ago when they sold me here, I thought it was the end. I thought, 'I'm going to die here and I'll never see her again.' Horrible thought, but it's what I did think. Then the torture began. It was extremely painful at first but then, after about a half of a year, it didn't hurt. I only really felt mild pain. It was completely dulled. I felt almost nothing for the whole time after that. Until you walked in that room. I thought I died. I thought I was going to die. I swear my heart sped up so fast I thought it was going to explode. And then I saw you start to go to the floor. I thought to myself 'this is real and if she doesn't get off of that floor and open this cage, god knows what will happen.' that's why I was a little cold about the cage. But I am so glad to see you again. I have wanted to hold you for so long, it's almost unbearable. Oh Rei, how I have missed you." I couldn't handle it.
I began to cry again. This time, he pulled me onto the bed he was on and into his arms. "I may be bloody and bruised but I can still hold my girl." He said.
"Oh Jadeite, I have missed you too." I said as we held each other close and went to sleep.
*Mina*
the arrival on mars was a little more than I expected. The people were all lined up to see us exit the ship which was an oddity given that the Martians hated people from other planets and usually killed them on the spot. They were singing and cheering and throwing flowers. I thought it was very lovely until a huge bouquet flew through the air only to hit me right between the eyes rendering me completely unconscious.
I woke up screaming "no not the flowers!!!" and malachite was laughing at me. "It's not funny," I pouted sitting up in the bed. I looked around and saw that the Martian court had gone through large amounts of trouble to make the room as gold as possible. It was absolutely beautiful. Especially the bed. It had four golden posts that were carved out of only the best gold in the universe. The carvings were of twisted branches of a lauryl tree with leaves smushed onto it. Completely flawless. There was a canopy of dark blue above it. Velvet, I imagine. And the sheets were blue silk with a golden comforter. There were also heavy curtains to be drawn around the bed when the night air kicked in and light ones for any other time. There was golden marble flooring and a mosaic of Venus in the middle. It was an awesome sight and I just reveled in its beauty.
*Rei*
the trip was very pleasant for the most part, which happened to be the sleeping part. The landing was kinda rough and in the dead of night. The best time for sneaking a half dead earthling into the palace without him getting murdered. My people didn't mind the occasional Venusian but an earthling was crossing the line.
I had wondered if Mina and Malachite had fared well into the palace. I half expected to see his remains strung up on the walls and her giving my people a blood bath. To my relief, I saw neither. Half expecting to be seen by someone, I made my way rather quickly into the palace, almost unsure if he'd make it or not. I walked, with his arm over me for support, into the throne room and laid him down on the mosaic of mars.
"lie still now." I said.
"I didn't plan on moving," he replied.
"Well, you'll want to in a minute." I opened his new, clean shirt and put my hands by his heart. I closed my eyes for a moment and when I opened them, they were once again black. He looked so tranquil just lying there. I knew that he would be in unbearable amounts of pain in the moments to follow, but I had to do it. I hadn't the means to completely heal him like I needed to on the ship. I had just stopped the infections.
"I'm sorry," I whispered as I threw my head up toward the heavens, chanting in some dead language. A blot of light came streaking straight down into the floor, going right through him. He jumped but he couldn't move as much as he thought he could. The light grew and engulfed him. Then, it happened. He began to rise as in float above the floor. The healing had begun and could not be stopped. The brilliant white light continued to grow brighter and the palace began to tremble. The throne room already looked like hell but it would only get worse. Soon the beam of light made a ripple in it, shooting light from it's center, where he lay, outward, like a supernova. Then the rumbling stopped and he was gently lowered by the light as it grew less and less.
Finally, the light was faded and he lay on Mars, cleaned and unscathed. Strength replenished and wounds healed, there was not a trace of anything that had happened to him. I stood for a moment, growing extremely weak. Just as he sat up to face me, completely renewed, I passed out.
*Mina*
I first noticed the big light but then, the whole palace began to move under my feet. I was terrified. I ran to malachite and threw myself at him. He held me and told me it would be alright. I felt so safe in that moment. Then I felt it. Like a ripple. No more like a bubble growing swiftly in size. It raced toward us at lightening speed. I braced myself for the hurt but all I felt was warmth. Then I knew. I knew exactly what was going on.
"Rei," I said.
"What did you say?" malachite asked.
"Hmm..Rei. She's healing him," I replied.
"Oh." was the only reaction out of him I got.
"Who's him?" he finally asked. I wrinkled my nose at the question.
"I don't know. She's never said his name. It beats the hell outta me."
"Hmm...my queen, let's go to bed. It has been a long night and a long journey."
"Yes." I agreed letting him take my hand and lead me to bed(no we didn't do it yet). Then, curled up in each other's arms, we slept the night away.
*Rei*
thank the gods that his speed was replenished as well. He got there just in time to catch me from falling to the hard marble floor. Man that would have hurt like a bitch. But anyway, he pulled me close to him saying something like he was sorry, what the hell for beats me. He tried to stand up for a moment, expecting to fall to the floor again, and was amazed that he stood with perfect balance and strength.
He then decided that leaving me on the floor was not the best idea so he picked me up and cradled me in his arms. Confused about where to go, he headed for where he remembered my old room to be. He hit the nail right on the head, so to speak. He opened the door to my room and went in.
It was a pretty room. Simple yet beautiful. Red was everywhere. My bed resembled that of Mina's but where her's held trees, mine held fire. And right in the middle of the room there was a circular stand with fire blazing in it. He pulled back the red comforter and black satin sheets on my bed and, after removing my shoes, placed me in it. I "slept" rather peacefully until I awoke later on in the morning.
*Mina*
"ahhhh!!!!!I'm gonna drown!!!! help!! help!!!" I screamed as I woke up. I quickly realized that I was not going to drown. I felt kinda dumb and mumbled "oh" right after I realized that it was only my lover trying to wake me up in a spit bath. Very sweet but kinda weird too. I shivered a little bit. The french doors to the balcony were open and the Martian morning was not hospitable to warm-climate people. In other words, it was colder than a bitch, as Rei would so bluntly put it. "I'm a little cold" I said with a quivering voice.
He giggled a little bit at me, "a little. Dear, you sound as though you are freezing to death." and with that he got up, which made it even colder, and shut the doors. I immediately felt a bit warmer. He then came back over to the bed where I was then completely wrapped up in the blankets like a cocoon.
I heard his deep laughter and, from his perspective, quite muffledly said, "it's not funny." "Oh, yes it is." he said, still deeply amused. "If you could only see what you look like." I tried to protest and finally got my head out of the blankets.
"Well, at least I am warm." I stated, matter-of-factly. "So poo on you."
He laughed again at my childish behavior and tugged at the blankets. "Well, Mina, I could help in making you warmer too you know."
I popped my head back out and said, "ok, if you can fit in here, you are welcome." I smiled and popped my head back into the blanket bundle. In one quick movement, though, all of my work on my cocoon was destroyed. I squeaked as he pulled the blankets up in the air and jumped in the bed before they fell back onto it. As soon as he was laying down, I wrapped myself around him, taking in his warmth, still under all of the blankets. I don't know how in the hell the Martians can put up with such weather. Venus is so much warmer, like 200 times warmer. But then again, we are closer to the sun and that has a lot to do with it. I bet Rei would sweat to death on Venus. That would suck.