violence and swearing
Chapter 8: To Hell
*Mina* Rei set off with Jadeite that night and left Malachite and I all alone in the castle with the exception of the workers and her brother. He was a very nice man. I would almost have said that they were twins. Actually, I could have swore they were. They had the same raven hair and dark, stormy eyes. He was about five inches taller than her, broad shouldered and kingly. He had a commanding voice deeper than Jadeite's and a look in his eye that could bring cities to ruin or young women to blush.
"So, Mina," Ares began, "are you also going to go to the moon?" "Yes," I answered absentmindedly. "I have heard a lot about you, princess." "Oh?" I asked curiously. "Inquisitive aren't we," he said before adding with extra confidence, "you know, curiosity killed the cat." I could have strangled him right there. The same freaking arrogance. He looked much like Endymion just sitting there all high and mighty. Inside I was seeing myself choke him to death while outside I wore a brilliant smile. "Well," I said, "I must go now for we depart soon." "Well, when you reach the moon could you see to it that my sister gets this?" he said holding a silver letter with black inscriptions of some secret code or language of the royals of Mars. I quickly stuffed it into my robe as I walked out of the room. If I had known what it had said, I would have given it to Rei immediately, but how was I to know?
*Rei* when we arrived on the moon, we were greeted by serenity and her mother. "Rei!" sere cried as she ran up to me and gave me a hug. "Wow sere! That was completely different from the cold hello I got on Mars," I said sarcastically. "Gee Rei. Rub it in why don't you?" she said as she put my arm in hers and led me to my room. "Well, here we are!" she said as we stood outside an elaborate mahogany door with carving of a great fire in it. "Great, isn't it?" "It's awesome sere," I said running my hand over the flames. As I did, I felt intense waves of heat like the fire was coming to life. "Well, I am glad you like it," she said. "Now, lord Jadeite-" "I stay in there," he said and then added to the confused Serenity, "with her." "Um... oh. Ok, yeah. Sure," she stammered. "Thanks Sere," I said as both Jadeite and I entered the room. "Bed diving!!!" I hollered as I ran, dropping my things and jumping onto the bed only to bounce back up and land on my back. "What?" I asked when I rolled my head to the side and looked at Jadeite. He was still standing where I left him, bags and all, with one cocked eyebrow and a funny look on his face. "Nothing," he said beginning to walk toward the bed. "You are just so weird." He began to laugh. "What's so funny?" I said smiling and trying to be serious at the same time. "You are," he said before dodging a pillow and me. I flung a pillow at him and he shielded himself with his arm. I flung it again and that time he was not so lucky. "Muahahaha!!!" I laughed semi-evilly and we both burst out laughing at it. I then jumped off the bed and onto his front, knocking him down onto his back on the soft plushy rug in the middle of the floor. "Ouch," he coughed. I had knocked the wind out of him and we both started laughing again and he with difficulty. The laughing died down to smiles and he brushed some hair out of my face before he pulled my head down to his and kissed me. "Feel better now?" I asked. "Actually," he paused, "yes. And now it's your turn!" he cried pushing me off and then tackling me. I squealed and we began wrestling until it ended up as a game of tickle torture, which was not fair because he wasn't ticklish.
*Mina* Malachite never liked trips. Especially ones so close to earth. It drove him nuts being so close to his most hated enemy. Yeah, Vega and earth were enemies. Not now, but they were. So anyway, we got to the moon about a day after Rei did and were greeted in much the same manner. My room was, of course, right next to Rei's. It had a beautiful big oak door much similar to hers only lacquered in gold and with a scene of spring with blossoming crape myrtles and butterflies and young sparrows and blooming daisies and daffodils. "Oh!" I exclaimed plastering my body to it. This surprised Malachite and Serenity much. "Feel the love!" "Does she normally do this?" I heard serenity ask. Malachite gave her a dumbfounded look as he shrugged his shoulders and replied: "your guess is as good as mine." To this I laughed. I didn't normally do that but I really liked this door. I felt connected to it, like it was a part of me. I smiled and then backed away and opened it. My golden hair swung around my body and I giggled before entering the room followed by an amused Malachite. "Why Malachite, my dear, am I that entertaining?" I asked. "Yes, as a matter of fact you are," he replied.
Later on that night as I lay in bed, Malachite stood at the window of the balcony. "Malachite, what is it?" He held his hand up in a motion for me to be quiet. "Shhh... do you hear that?" "Hear what?" I asked. "Um... nothing," he said. "It was probably just the wind." But it wasn't the wind. It was a foul voice of some demon sorceress haunting his thoughts and slowly driving him to the brink. That night I had a evil dream. It was of the demon sorceress. I saw her chanting to some unknown deity and my Malachite in chains upon a wall. He was yelling and screaming to me for help and was in pain. He kept pleading with me to make it stop. To make her stop. But I couldn't. There was nothing I could do, so I cried. I broke down and cried at his blood stained feet. He wiggled and threw his head back in a tortured cry and I wept harder. Then the demon woman laughed. It was a menacing laugh filled with hate. She walked over to him and unchained him from the wall. He immediately fell to the ground and balled himself up like a slave in fear of the wrath of the master. Right as she raised a whip to hit him with I jumped with awakeness. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa," said a calming voice. "What's wrong?" "Nothing," I said leaning into his embrace. "Nothing. Just a really bad dream." Or was it?
*Rei* life was pretty good for the next couple of weeks. We trained on weekdays and were free on weekends. I was dealing pretty good but things kept getting weirder and weirder with Mina and Malachite. Really, it was just Malachite, but I had come to suspect that she may have been the cause of his problems..... but, she wasn't. I was handling his weird spells for a while until one day when it just got to out of control. About a month after arrival, I was walking down a hallway all by myself when I was approached by Malachite. "Rei," he said demandingly. "What?" I answered a little crudely with some attitude. Big mistake. The next thing I knew he had thrown me against the cold stone wall and pinned me there. "You want to try that one again?" he said through gritted teeth. I glared at him and spit in his face. Another big mistake. He then threw me to the floor. I hit my head on the fall almost rendering me unconscious. I groaned and curled up only to feel the kick of a hard boot in my side. "You bastard," I growled and spit blood out. "What was that?" he yelled at me. "I said," getting to my feet as best as I could, "you bastard." And I kicked him as hard as I could in the chest before taking off running in a mad sprint. "You little bitch!" I heard him screech as he came flying down the hall at incredible speeds. The entire terrifying time I ran, hoping that Jadeite would be in the room and save me from this horrible monster. "Help!!" I wailed as I approached my door and began banging on it. My cries for help became more ardent as I turned to see Malachite still yet gaining on my halted position. I began to cry and sank to the floor. I braced myself for whatever he was to unleash on me and right as he came upon me, the door opened and quickly shut as Jadeite pulled me in. I was leaning on it when I felt the crash of a heavy body against it. I heard a low pissed off growl followed by his voice. "You can't hide in there forever and he won't always be around to save you, you bitch!" At that word, I let myself go. I fell to the floor on my side and began weeping in heaving sobs. I know Jadeite was talking to me but what he said was completely unclear. I was out of control and I didn't care. I felt him put a hand on my shoulder ever so gently before he put it on my face and then, using both arms, picked me up and put me in the bed. By then, I had gained a little control back and heard his soothing voice as he climbed in bed beside me and wrapped his arms around me in a tight, reassuring embrace. "Rei, Rei, Rei, my sweet Rei," he sighed. "Tell me please, tell me, what happened?" "I....I," I began, "I don't know." "It's ok if you don't want to tell me right now or at all even. It doesn't matter at all as long as you are safe." I leaned into his chest and began crying again and cried myself to sleep.
*Mina* "I heard a scream," I said sitting up in bed feeling a presence of someone in my room. "As did I," the voice of the queen Selene sang in my room. There was a pause and then I heard heavy footsteps in the hallway, fastly approaching my door. "He is coming, therefore, I must go," and with that, she left. "Huh," I said to myself, "weird." Then the door slammed open against the far wall. Malachite trudged in angrily and slammed his fist into the desk in the corner of the room, breaking it and splinters of wood flying through the air. "Dammit!!" he howled and stormed over to me. He saw my terrified expression and immediately changed his tune. His expression softened and he reached a hand out to me. I recoiled into a ball and pulled the covers up to my nose. This angered him again and he ripped them off of me and way out of my reach. I began to shake and tears were tugging at my eyes but he didn't sway. "Don't cry," he demanded through gritted teeth. "Why do you cower from me?" I whimpered. "Oh, my love, do not worry. I am fine. I will not hurt you," he said. I shook my head a little bit and whimpered again. "Come on sweetheart, I'll make things right with you," he said in a different tone and leaned over to kiss me. I pulled away from him and he became enraged. "You little bitch! What's wrong with you?! Why won't you have me?!" Every time he yelled, I flinched and began to cry. "You'll have me or-" "Or what?" I asked through hurt tears. "Or what?! You'll force me? You'll make me do it?" He growled and pulled me flat underneath him with no hope of escape. He ran his head down next to my neck. I could feel his hot breath on it and it made me sick to think about it. He was a monster. A complete monster. And he had tried to kill Rei. I knew it. I knew it in my heart. And I knew that if I didn't comply with him, he'd kill me too. I let out a scream when he ripped my clothes off. I didn't mean to but I got a slap across my face for it. I put a hand up and where his hand hit my face began to go numb. I began to hear the soft pitter-patter of careful feet in the hallway. I heard soft chanting outside my door and Malachite looked at it in wonder for a minute and then in anger. He got up and charged toward it and just as his hand touched the knob he was greeted with a jolt of electricity. "Linquo non haec conclave, malus quidam," I heard Rei command and then a rich tenor laugh rang out. Malachite growled low and made a run at the door. I cringed when I heard the wood splinter but Malachite was still in the room. He put a hand up to where the door had been and tried to thrust it through but each time, it knocked him back off his feet. "Son of a bitch," he retorted. "Payback's a bitch isn't it?" Jadeite sarcastically sang.
*Rei* "My Rei," Jed said as we reentered out room for the night. "Do you think he'll back off?" "No," I said laying down. I heard him sigh heavily and then he laid down behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist. "One can always hope though." "Yes." one could always hope, I thought as I drifted off to sleep.
*meanwhile* in the midst of the night, as Rei was sleeping, the magic restraining Malachite to his room weakened, allowing him to leave. He angrily stalked down the hall way and sat outside her door, waiting for the dawn to come and for his chance to reap his revenge.
*Rei* I woke to an empty bed and a red rose with a note.
"Rei, I have gone to the gardens to speak with Queen Selene. Hope you slept well. I am sorry for not being there when you wake. I will return by 6 tonight. Stay out of trouble. ~love~ Jadeite"
"Well, he can certainly write a letter," I muttered sarcastically as I began to dress myself. I felt an ominous presence as I walked toward the door and I reached for my sword. I unsheathed it quietly and stepped lightly to the door. With my sword ready to swing, I opened the door. Nothing. I stepped out a few feet and heard the ruffle of clothing and took of in a mad sprint. I heard heavy footsteps behind me and knew not to look back. He was gaining on me. I saw the intersection of two hallways and was about to make a dive to the right when, out of nowhere, I ran right into Mina. I screamed and she screamed as we collided. "Oh shit!" I yelled as I realized that I could not escape Malachite this time. "God dammit!" I yelled again as I tried to get up only to be tripped again by Mina. "I'm sorry Rei," she said. "I didn't see you. I didn't mean to-" she was cut short by Malachite blazing past to grab me by the waist and my shrill screech. "It's over bitch," he said as he dropped me to my knees. With one quick motion, he grabbed a handful of my hair from behind me, yanked my head back, and slid his sharp sword across my neck. Blood came out everywhere and the last thing I saw was Mina screaming hysterically before I slid to the ground in a slump and the blood and life poured out of me.
Chapter 8: To Hell
*Mina* Rei set off with Jadeite that night and left Malachite and I all alone in the castle with the exception of the workers and her brother. He was a very nice man. I would almost have said that they were twins. Actually, I could have swore they were. They had the same raven hair and dark, stormy eyes. He was about five inches taller than her, broad shouldered and kingly. He had a commanding voice deeper than Jadeite's and a look in his eye that could bring cities to ruin or young women to blush.
"So, Mina," Ares began, "are you also going to go to the moon?" "Yes," I answered absentmindedly. "I have heard a lot about you, princess." "Oh?" I asked curiously. "Inquisitive aren't we," he said before adding with extra confidence, "you know, curiosity killed the cat." I could have strangled him right there. The same freaking arrogance. He looked much like Endymion just sitting there all high and mighty. Inside I was seeing myself choke him to death while outside I wore a brilliant smile. "Well," I said, "I must go now for we depart soon." "Well, when you reach the moon could you see to it that my sister gets this?" he said holding a silver letter with black inscriptions of some secret code or language of the royals of Mars. I quickly stuffed it into my robe as I walked out of the room. If I had known what it had said, I would have given it to Rei immediately, but how was I to know?
*Rei* when we arrived on the moon, we were greeted by serenity and her mother. "Rei!" sere cried as she ran up to me and gave me a hug. "Wow sere! That was completely different from the cold hello I got on Mars," I said sarcastically. "Gee Rei. Rub it in why don't you?" she said as she put my arm in hers and led me to my room. "Well, here we are!" she said as we stood outside an elaborate mahogany door with carving of a great fire in it. "Great, isn't it?" "It's awesome sere," I said running my hand over the flames. As I did, I felt intense waves of heat like the fire was coming to life. "Well, I am glad you like it," she said. "Now, lord Jadeite-" "I stay in there," he said and then added to the confused Serenity, "with her." "Um... oh. Ok, yeah. Sure," she stammered. "Thanks Sere," I said as both Jadeite and I entered the room. "Bed diving!!!" I hollered as I ran, dropping my things and jumping onto the bed only to bounce back up and land on my back. "What?" I asked when I rolled my head to the side and looked at Jadeite. He was still standing where I left him, bags and all, with one cocked eyebrow and a funny look on his face. "Nothing," he said beginning to walk toward the bed. "You are just so weird." He began to laugh. "What's so funny?" I said smiling and trying to be serious at the same time. "You are," he said before dodging a pillow and me. I flung a pillow at him and he shielded himself with his arm. I flung it again and that time he was not so lucky. "Muahahaha!!!" I laughed semi-evilly and we both burst out laughing at it. I then jumped off the bed and onto his front, knocking him down onto his back on the soft plushy rug in the middle of the floor. "Ouch," he coughed. I had knocked the wind out of him and we both started laughing again and he with difficulty. The laughing died down to smiles and he brushed some hair out of my face before he pulled my head down to his and kissed me. "Feel better now?" I asked. "Actually," he paused, "yes. And now it's your turn!" he cried pushing me off and then tackling me. I squealed and we began wrestling until it ended up as a game of tickle torture, which was not fair because he wasn't ticklish.
*Mina* Malachite never liked trips. Especially ones so close to earth. It drove him nuts being so close to his most hated enemy. Yeah, Vega and earth were enemies. Not now, but they were. So anyway, we got to the moon about a day after Rei did and were greeted in much the same manner. My room was, of course, right next to Rei's. It had a beautiful big oak door much similar to hers only lacquered in gold and with a scene of spring with blossoming crape myrtles and butterflies and young sparrows and blooming daisies and daffodils. "Oh!" I exclaimed plastering my body to it. This surprised Malachite and Serenity much. "Feel the love!" "Does she normally do this?" I heard serenity ask. Malachite gave her a dumbfounded look as he shrugged his shoulders and replied: "your guess is as good as mine." To this I laughed. I didn't normally do that but I really liked this door. I felt connected to it, like it was a part of me. I smiled and then backed away and opened it. My golden hair swung around my body and I giggled before entering the room followed by an amused Malachite. "Why Malachite, my dear, am I that entertaining?" I asked. "Yes, as a matter of fact you are," he replied.
Later on that night as I lay in bed, Malachite stood at the window of the balcony. "Malachite, what is it?" He held his hand up in a motion for me to be quiet. "Shhh... do you hear that?" "Hear what?" I asked. "Um... nothing," he said. "It was probably just the wind." But it wasn't the wind. It was a foul voice of some demon sorceress haunting his thoughts and slowly driving him to the brink. That night I had a evil dream. It was of the demon sorceress. I saw her chanting to some unknown deity and my Malachite in chains upon a wall. He was yelling and screaming to me for help and was in pain. He kept pleading with me to make it stop. To make her stop. But I couldn't. There was nothing I could do, so I cried. I broke down and cried at his blood stained feet. He wiggled and threw his head back in a tortured cry and I wept harder. Then the demon woman laughed. It was a menacing laugh filled with hate. She walked over to him and unchained him from the wall. He immediately fell to the ground and balled himself up like a slave in fear of the wrath of the master. Right as she raised a whip to hit him with I jumped with awakeness. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa," said a calming voice. "What's wrong?" "Nothing," I said leaning into his embrace. "Nothing. Just a really bad dream." Or was it?
*Rei* life was pretty good for the next couple of weeks. We trained on weekdays and were free on weekends. I was dealing pretty good but things kept getting weirder and weirder with Mina and Malachite. Really, it was just Malachite, but I had come to suspect that she may have been the cause of his problems..... but, she wasn't. I was handling his weird spells for a while until one day when it just got to out of control. About a month after arrival, I was walking down a hallway all by myself when I was approached by Malachite. "Rei," he said demandingly. "What?" I answered a little crudely with some attitude. Big mistake. The next thing I knew he had thrown me against the cold stone wall and pinned me there. "You want to try that one again?" he said through gritted teeth. I glared at him and spit in his face. Another big mistake. He then threw me to the floor. I hit my head on the fall almost rendering me unconscious. I groaned and curled up only to feel the kick of a hard boot in my side. "You bastard," I growled and spit blood out. "What was that?" he yelled at me. "I said," getting to my feet as best as I could, "you bastard." And I kicked him as hard as I could in the chest before taking off running in a mad sprint. "You little bitch!" I heard him screech as he came flying down the hall at incredible speeds. The entire terrifying time I ran, hoping that Jadeite would be in the room and save me from this horrible monster. "Help!!" I wailed as I approached my door and began banging on it. My cries for help became more ardent as I turned to see Malachite still yet gaining on my halted position. I began to cry and sank to the floor. I braced myself for whatever he was to unleash on me and right as he came upon me, the door opened and quickly shut as Jadeite pulled me in. I was leaning on it when I felt the crash of a heavy body against it. I heard a low pissed off growl followed by his voice. "You can't hide in there forever and he won't always be around to save you, you bitch!" At that word, I let myself go. I fell to the floor on my side and began weeping in heaving sobs. I know Jadeite was talking to me but what he said was completely unclear. I was out of control and I didn't care. I felt him put a hand on my shoulder ever so gently before he put it on my face and then, using both arms, picked me up and put me in the bed. By then, I had gained a little control back and heard his soothing voice as he climbed in bed beside me and wrapped his arms around me in a tight, reassuring embrace. "Rei, Rei, Rei, my sweet Rei," he sighed. "Tell me please, tell me, what happened?" "I....I," I began, "I don't know." "It's ok if you don't want to tell me right now or at all even. It doesn't matter at all as long as you are safe." I leaned into his chest and began crying again and cried myself to sleep.
*Mina* "I heard a scream," I said sitting up in bed feeling a presence of someone in my room. "As did I," the voice of the queen Selene sang in my room. There was a pause and then I heard heavy footsteps in the hallway, fastly approaching my door. "He is coming, therefore, I must go," and with that, she left. "Huh," I said to myself, "weird." Then the door slammed open against the far wall. Malachite trudged in angrily and slammed his fist into the desk in the corner of the room, breaking it and splinters of wood flying through the air. "Dammit!!" he howled and stormed over to me. He saw my terrified expression and immediately changed his tune. His expression softened and he reached a hand out to me. I recoiled into a ball and pulled the covers up to my nose. This angered him again and he ripped them off of me and way out of my reach. I began to shake and tears were tugging at my eyes but he didn't sway. "Don't cry," he demanded through gritted teeth. "Why do you cower from me?" I whimpered. "Oh, my love, do not worry. I am fine. I will not hurt you," he said. I shook my head a little bit and whimpered again. "Come on sweetheart, I'll make things right with you," he said in a different tone and leaned over to kiss me. I pulled away from him and he became enraged. "You little bitch! What's wrong with you?! Why won't you have me?!" Every time he yelled, I flinched and began to cry. "You'll have me or-" "Or what?" I asked through hurt tears. "Or what?! You'll force me? You'll make me do it?" He growled and pulled me flat underneath him with no hope of escape. He ran his head down next to my neck. I could feel his hot breath on it and it made me sick to think about it. He was a monster. A complete monster. And he had tried to kill Rei. I knew it. I knew it in my heart. And I knew that if I didn't comply with him, he'd kill me too. I let out a scream when he ripped my clothes off. I didn't mean to but I got a slap across my face for it. I put a hand up and where his hand hit my face began to go numb. I began to hear the soft pitter-patter of careful feet in the hallway. I heard soft chanting outside my door and Malachite looked at it in wonder for a minute and then in anger. He got up and charged toward it and just as his hand touched the knob he was greeted with a jolt of electricity. "Linquo non haec conclave, malus quidam," I heard Rei command and then a rich tenor laugh rang out. Malachite growled low and made a run at the door. I cringed when I heard the wood splinter but Malachite was still in the room. He put a hand up to where the door had been and tried to thrust it through but each time, it knocked him back off his feet. "Son of a bitch," he retorted. "Payback's a bitch isn't it?" Jadeite sarcastically sang.
*Rei* "My Rei," Jed said as we reentered out room for the night. "Do you think he'll back off?" "No," I said laying down. I heard him sigh heavily and then he laid down behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist. "One can always hope though." "Yes." one could always hope, I thought as I drifted off to sleep.
*meanwhile* in the midst of the night, as Rei was sleeping, the magic restraining Malachite to his room weakened, allowing him to leave. He angrily stalked down the hall way and sat outside her door, waiting for the dawn to come and for his chance to reap his revenge.
*Rei* I woke to an empty bed and a red rose with a note.
"Rei, I have gone to the gardens to speak with Queen Selene. Hope you slept well. I am sorry for not being there when you wake. I will return by 6 tonight. Stay out of trouble. ~love~ Jadeite"
"Well, he can certainly write a letter," I muttered sarcastically as I began to dress myself. I felt an ominous presence as I walked toward the door and I reached for my sword. I unsheathed it quietly and stepped lightly to the door. With my sword ready to swing, I opened the door. Nothing. I stepped out a few feet and heard the ruffle of clothing and took of in a mad sprint. I heard heavy footsteps behind me and knew not to look back. He was gaining on me. I saw the intersection of two hallways and was about to make a dive to the right when, out of nowhere, I ran right into Mina. I screamed and she screamed as we collided. "Oh shit!" I yelled as I realized that I could not escape Malachite this time. "God dammit!" I yelled again as I tried to get up only to be tripped again by Mina. "I'm sorry Rei," she said. "I didn't see you. I didn't mean to-" she was cut short by Malachite blazing past to grab me by the waist and my shrill screech. "It's over bitch," he said as he dropped me to my knees. With one quick motion, he grabbed a handful of my hair from behind me, yanked my head back, and slid his sharp sword across my neck. Blood came out everywhere and the last thing I saw was Mina screaming hysterically before I slid to the ground in a slump and the blood and life poured out of me.