ok more explicit sex stuff...you have been warned again.



Chapter 7: See Between the Lines

*Mina* when I woke the next morning, I felt like I got hit by a truck and yet, Malachite was moving about as though nothing was wrong. He just had this satisfied look on his face. Men, pft. Who gets them? Well, I was basically the goddess of love, I should know. Anyway, I had heard that the first time would hurt, but no one said anything about the morning after. I felt like I had been participating in the Chinese Torture Olympics. I deserved a medal! I bet I looked like crap too. He finally noticed I was awake as staring at him. He turned around and flashed one of his true smiles, "Angel, you are awake." "Unfortunately," I groaned as I rubbed my eyes. When I regained my eyesight, I saw that he was standing in the doorway looking at a beautiful Martian sunrise. His hair was gently waving in the breeze and the robe he wore was as well. He looked like a god like that. I just stared at him, taking in all of his features over and over again until he turned around. "Mina, come over here. I want you to see this." I reluctantly got out of bed and went over to where he was standing. "Look," he said, pointing out to the horizon. The blood-red peaks of the mountains were shining like rubies and then a burst of gold and bright red flooded the sky as the sun came up. My jaw dropped, "wow." I stood there in absolute amazement at the sunrise. "I've never seen that before," I confessed. "I haven't either," he said. "Then why'd you drag me out of bed?" I complained. "I had a hunch," he said. "You and your hunches," I mumbled as I made my slow way back to the bed. I squeaked in surprise as two strong arms went around my waist. He picked me up and put me down on the bed then crawled up on top of me, supporting his weight with his arms. "Mina, I know I hurt you last night," he began. I gave him that "well, no shit" look and he continued, "let me make it up to you." "Umm....ok, I guess," I replied and not a moment too soon he was kissing me deeply. My hands went through his hair as he made his way, kissing, downward. I began to tense up and I started getting a little nervous. He looked up at me with concern, "just relax. Don't worry. This shouldn't hurt a bit." I felt a little better but not much. I did relax like he asked me to and the nervousness subsided. He slid his hand up the inside of my robe and split it open to reveal a strip of my naked body. He gave me a reassuring smile and then continued to kiss my stomach, ever so slowly going down. He finally decided he'd kept me waiting long enough and stuck one finger in me and then two. It hurt a teeny bit at first but that was just soreness. After sufficiently torturing me with his talented hand, he pushed it to another level. He kissed the inside of my thighs and then stuck his tongue in and flicked it around. It was absolutely wonderful compared to the horrible experience of the night before. He soon brought me to climax and then came back up to my face. " Is that better angel?" he asked smiling. "Yes," I said, returning the smile. "Good," he said as he wrapped his arms around my waist. "Let's stay in all day." I couldn't argue with that and so we stayed in be all day long....

*Rei* "princess......princess....." a somewhat taunting voice whispered in my ear. I slowly opened my eyes, realizing who the voice belonged to. "Hmm.....my princess," he somewhat moaned in my ear. "You are a nuisance in the mornings. Did you know that?" I stated. "Of course, my love. But it is also said that I am extremely romantic and great in bed." I laughed, real hard. "Who told you that?" I said. "Why, you did I believe," he said cooly. "So it is. And every word of it is true. You're a philanderer and an animal all rolled into one." "Grrr.....," he growled playfully. "Like that, my fire goddess?" he asked as he began kissing my neck and I threw my head back. "Oh yeah." I moaned under him. He began to growl lowly again and nipped at my neck and shoulder. "Like that?" he asked. "Oh yeah," was all I could say. His touch was like magic. I felt everything. Every kiss. Every touch. It was perfect. "Oh god, what you do to me is almost too much." Jadeite said as we danced again. "Oh god," I moaned and demanded, pulling on the back of his neck and his shoulder, "give me more." "As you wish, princess," he pretty much grunted in-between pushes. I pulled up closer to his face as he began to push harder into me. My fingernails dug into his back as I was reaching a climax. As soon as I did, I gave a really loud moan and collapsed onto the bed followed by him onto me. "Well," I said after a moment of silence for us to catch our breaths, "that was even better than last night. He sighed and began to chuckle, "oh, hell yeah. That was better but in a different sense, more pleasing." "Oh yeah,"I agreed. "We got pretty loud there for a while," I said. "Yeah, I wonder if anyone heard us," he said with an amused tone. "Oh well, I really don't care if anyone heard us or not. It was great," he said wrapping an arm around my waist and pulling me in closer to him. "I wonder if you left any bite marks," I said thoughtfully. He scoffed at that and said playfully rubbing his back, "I know you left a mark. But I wonder if I am bleeding from your claws in my back." He smiled at me and I smiled at him, "I'm sorry." "Nah, don't be. Besides we both like it rough and that includes biting and clawing," he said. "Hmm...I wonder how our friends Mina and Malachite are," I said thoughtfully. "I don't know. Rumor has it that she's a virgin, or at least she was until last night. It had to happen before she went back to Venus. No Venusian queen has been crowned a virgin." "I though she was queen," I said, puzzled. "No. Not until the coronation ceremony. Right now, she's just princess. But his case is different. He's already a king but by withdrawing from his position as king on Vega, he became prince again, at least until the coronation. But like I said before, I think our little innocent friend isn't so innocent anymore." "Oh really," I said, drawn in by his knowledge about all of this, "how do you know all of this?" "I had a nice long talk with Malachite yesterday morning while you two were still sleeping. They have the room right next to ours, you know. Anyways, do you remember before they took me away?" "Yes, but what are you talking about?" I asked. "Hmm, I was, what? 18? no I think I was 17. Yeah that was it. 17. What an age." "What are you getting at?" I asked. "Do you remember that day under the tree?" he asked. "Of course I do," I blushed, "how could I forget?" "I didn't want you to forget," he said, putting on hand on my face, brushing the hair away, "I haven't' forgotten." I smiled at him and he kissed me. "It was the day before they took you away," I said. "Yes, but do you remember what else?" he asked. I giggled a little bit and said, "of course I do silly. One of the most important days in my life. I cherished that day and many others while I was in that hell hole." "Do you remember what I said to you?" "Yes," I stated, "every word." He gave me a smile and said, as he began kissing my neck again, "it's still true."



*Mina* we finally had to drag our lazy selves out of bed to eat. my stomach was killing me. i thought i was going to puke but since i hadn't eaten yet, it would have been near to impossible. we slowly made the long descent down the stairs to be greeted by the succulent, yet torturing smell of food. i wanted to faint from the smell of it. when i turned the corner to see what was in the kitchen, i really did wish that i had stayed in bed. there was Princess Serenity herself. she was clad in her normal white dress with the gold at the top and such. "glad to see someone is finally up," she snorted. i was almost taken aback by the rudeness in her voice. "umm, Sere, what brings you to mars?" i asked timidly. "we'll get to that," she said, stirring her drink. "when?" "when rei gets down here," sere answered. "I'm here," rei stated as she walked through the door, dragging a half-asleep jadeite behind her. "you two know each other?" i asked, puzzled. "oh yeah, me and rei go way back. you see that man she's with?" sere asked and pointed at jadeite, "my cousin." "barely," jadeite retorted, apparently disgusted to see her. "yeah, Sere and i used to play together as children before my brother tried to kill me and jadeite." "oh," i said, bewildered. "let's get down to business, shall we?" Sere asked. "rei, you caused a lot of hell between the outer and inner planets by killing King Cassius and Prince Endymion. it's caused a riot on earth. for one, they hated Endymion but they don't want Darien on the throne either. civil war is about to break lose. and as for saturn, it's gone to hell. no king. no heir. not much of an army left. they are in civil reform as well as civil war and uranus, being as close as it is to saturn, is on the verge of declaring war on the inner planets as a whole. and if i am right, you have been on uranus, too. correct?" sere asked. "yeah," rei said softly, looking at the ground and rubbing one of her arms nervously. "so you came all this way just to say that?" i asked. "no," sere chuckled, "oh no. i came because i wanted to know if mars and venus stand with the moon or alone." "venus stands with mars," i stated, proudly. "mars will stand with venus and the moon. it is the least i can do for all of the damage i have caused. i'm sure my brother will agree," rei said flatly. "good. be on the moon in one week. no longer. are we clear?" sere asked. we all nodded gravely and she left. "well, that was a bit weird," i said to break the silence. "yeah," jadeite agreed, "she didn't seem too happy." "you didn't seem to happy either. what's between you and her?" malachite asked. "bad past," jadeite started, "i used to be forced to come here to mars with her so she an rei could play when they were children. i hated it and i took it out on sere by picking on her all of the time, until i fell in love with rei. then i became nice and sere started being a bitch about it and picked at me all of the time," he paused, "and then, sometimes i'd leave without her and come here alone to see rei. i don't think she's ever forgiven me for it."

*rei* seeing sere was somewhere between a wake up call to reality and a complete shock Then the thought dawned on me. i knew what i had to do. "come," i said to jadeite, taking his hand. "where are we going, princess?" he asked in a melodical tenor voice. my heart melted every time i heard it. i smiled, "soon enough you will know." "ooo... a surprise?" "yes, a surprise," i said as we entered a large chamber with weapons wall to wall and armor in the middle. his eyes widened. "so you are actually going to go through with this?" i took his hand again and leaned on his arm, "yes." he looked around and began walking toward the sword in the middle; my sword. "would you look at this one," he stated in awe. "you like it?" i asked and he nodded, running his hand along it. "it's mine," he quickly withdrew his hand and went to another. my stuff was my stuff. just like that. and no one messed with my stuff. "how about this one?" he asked drawing a bluish silver sword from the wall. "yeah, that one's ok," i replied. "good," he said with a smile and took the sheath from the wall as well. it was made from a special metal found deep withing the core of mercury. it's blade would never dull or falter. my head swam with thoughts and visions when he held the sword in the light. with every glint and sparkle, i saw a part of a battle of some sort. the ground was stained with blood. i ran through all i knew. it could be a part of the past: the Great Death of Mars before the Rebirth of Mars. then i knew. it was not the past. not the present. it was the future. what would be. i smirked at an image i saw. horrifying and gruesome, i enjoyed it much. the just death of an evil person. "are you ok?" i heard him say and i snapped out of my daze. "um, yeah, yeah. i'm ok," i paused and began walking. "lets go. it takes two days to get to the moon. we leave tonight." "but she's just gone today and we've got seven days!" Jadeite exclaimed. "we leave tonight." i restated and he sighed, thoroughly annoyed. finally he threw his arms up, unable to deny me. "fine, we leave tonight."