Chapter 13
Usagi and the others sat around the dining table eating quietly, the only one who didn't eat was Naneshi. No, she had turned down the offers and all just to sit there quietly watching them as if she wasn't actually seeing any of them. After the last meal, they adjourn to the library to talk.
Here again, Naneshi stood while the others sat. Usagi thought it was the most curious thing since the manor belonged to her.
After the introductions were made, Daranara tuned towards her sister. "Hymir, where's Wel?"
Naneshi didn't reply she just stared coldly at her younger sister.
"Hymir," Dawn, who had detransformed and wearing an earth outfit, which were jeans and a golden shirt, said annoyed, "your princess asked you a question. You must answer it."
Naneshi's dark blue eyes narrowed, "I heard her Star, I'm not deaf." She folded her arms and regarded her half-sister as if she was something to inspect for bugs or some type of flaws.
"Where is he?" Dara pressed.
"Obviously, Princess, he's not here, if he was he would be here, now wouldn't he?"
Naneshi slid farther into the shadows, "But of course, I haven't yet located his whereabouts so the answer to your question is, I don't know."
The Senshi noticed that Naneshi was treated her sister as if she was less than what she was. That alone made them wonder about the girl's loyalty. Diamond and the other members of his group excused themselves, saying that they needed more sleep. Emerald had said she had a date so did Rubeus. And so, they left the Senshi alone.
With them gone, Naneshi still did not take a seat, she opted to standing with her back towards the wall.
"Why are you acting like this?" Mira demanded, "You know those two are soul mates, like the council says! And even you said the same thing!" She narrowed her light magenta eyes at the dark senshi. "hat do you have against them anyway Hymir?" She asked, "You've been acting this way since.." She groped for words, "...since Helena cursed you and that was before they even meet let alone knew of the others existence!"
"I have my reasons, Justice, though," Naneshi told her, "I do not believe that you would be able to comprehend them to the fullest extent of their purpose because of limitations to your own mind that can not handle them."
Melfina blinked owlishly, "What does that mean, Hymir?"
It was Daranara who answered in a low and almost broken hearted voice, "It means she hates me and she believes us to be infer to herself."
Naneshi blinks at her sister and shrugs, "Believe whatever you want, Princess, it means not to me nor does it hold any threats or reason, it was petty but I will not apologize for it."
"Ok, Question." They all looked at Minako who stood up. "What is your problem with them?" She asked looking at her. "You're her sister for crying out loud, even if she's your half-sister, you should be comforting her! Not degrading her!!"
"Ice cannot give comfort to anyone." Maya said softly looking at her leader with sad eyes, "She has no heart so she gives no comfort to any if at all." She looks over at Usagi and the others, "She's a good leader because she is trained to be ruthless. Also because she is not a true princess like most of the senshi in this galaxy."
"She's a bastard of the King, that's why she's even trained at all." Mira quoted. "You see with her around Daranara doesn't have to be a senshi at all, she could train to be the queen in our world while Hymir is her warrior and guard."
Dawn glared angrily at the girl, "She's damn good at it too. Slaps us around like a real army until we're ready to drop dead."
\Naneshi shrugs when a few uneasy glances came her way. "If you're not the conqueror than you are the conquer. I don't want to be beaten because I can't fight to the best of my abilities, I want to lose because someone either has good luck or their better than me."
Mira rolls her eyes, "And that's why we were half dead that time you made us run fifty-two miles!"
"Wuss."
"Shut up the both of you!" Daranara yells at her two guardians, "Hymir, quit baiting them, and the rest of you ignore her, like always." She calmed down a bit and looks at the Sailors, "They're always fighting like this."
"It's ok, we're the same way." Usagi smiles kindly at the girl.
Naneshi narrowed her eyes at them. She didn't like this and yet again her friends, if she had any, always flocked to Dara, her sister because of her charms. It made her sick some times to be given guard duty over her half- sibling. She also thought it was because the gods wanted to be cruel. She knew that she could never be truly happy, never. She had no soul mate because she had no soul. At least that was what she was told.
Usagi looks up at Naneshi, feeling the dark senshi's graze on her. When crystal blue met azure, she froze and felt a shiver go down her spine. Naneshi was a fearsome person. Her eyes were colder than ice in winter and a thousand times worse than death.
"So, what are we to do?" Melfina asked the group.
"Fight." Naneshi told them, "Train and fight."
Mira rolled her eyes," UHH UHHH, Hymir." She told the girl, "I'm not doing that again."
"Same here." Dawn agreed, "Your training courses are too long and they hurt after we're through. Nope, I'll pass."
"Same for me." Maya agrees with the others.
Melfina nods as well, "I want to see the town."
Daranara nods as well, "Yes, this planet is very interesting, Hymir." She tried to smile at her sister but it faltered. "Besides, we might find Welkin while we're out anyways."
"I don't believe I gave you a choice." She told them steely, "Fun and games are for later, right now you're out of shape. You need to shape up or die because that's what it all amounts to in the end."
Maya made a face, "Quit being so melodramatic, Seraphina ."
"I told you to never, ever call me that. The only ones that ever call me that was my Mother. Even King Rhys never called me by that name and you know it, Nimbus!" In a split second Maya was hanging by her neck, "Have I made myself clear, Princess Maya of Nimbus? Or do you need a little more help?"
"Seraphina! Put her down now!" Daranara commands using her most Queenly way of command, "Or else -I'll-.."
Seraphina/Naneshi drops the girl who was now on the floor, and turns toward her spoiled sister. "Or you'll do what Princess? Hmmm?"
Daranara and Seraphina stared at each other, "Or I'll cut you from the Senshi." She finished with an air of dignity. "I swear by Nephritides I will."
Something strange happened, Seraphina's eyes grew darker and the air was thick with magic that radiated from her. "And allow the possibility of me working for Helena, who, by the way, is back?"
"She's back?!" Daranara seemed thrown off balance by this, she had not thought that the wicked bitch of the west would be back to reign and cause mischief. She knew then that Seraphina was the only one who could combat that bitch.
"You bitch." Mira swore, "You knew and didn't tell us?!"
Seraphina gave out a bitter laugh, "Oh yes, I knew." She announced, "I haven't told anyone who she was just that I knew that she was around."
"Why didn't you tell us?!" Usagi demanded.
"Yeah," Haruka agreed, "This is our home! And you, an invader from the outer reaches of our system didn't tell us?!"
"No, I didn't because I wasn't sure so get off your damn high horse!" She told her, "If you and the others have been doing your jobs than none of this would have happened! If you have monitored the system like I did the you would've known so in all of this, it wasn't my damn fault but your own."
"Oh shut up, Sera-.." Seraphina shot a deadly glare at Dawn.
"Hymir." Dawn corrected, "You should've told someone than and there, instead of waiting!"
Seraphina calmed down, and stares at the people in the room. Maya was still on the group with Melfina with her. Mira was next to Maya as was Dawn and Daranara. Usagi and the others were strategically in a type of formation where Usagi was covered in all bases as were Mamoru.
Seraphina flicks a strand of blue and black hair behind her shoulder. "Well, Princess, I'll be taking my leave." She told them, "I will tell James to show you to your rooms." She looks at the Senshi, "I believe you should be getting home before your parents, if you have any, get worried."
She did a mocking bow towards her sister, "I'll see you ladies bright and early in the morning."
"Hey!"
Seraphina looks over her shoulder." Yes?"
Mira's eyes still glittered with anger, "What makes you think you can make us do this?!" She demanded, "I don't want you as leader."
"As do I." Maya agreed.
"Unless you girls can do better, I'm all you've got since our precious Princess doesn't know shit about warfare." She felt a faint smile touch her lips, just the tiniest bit. "You know that warfare and death are my specialties, not yours. And if you want to go anywhere out of this manor, you will do as you're told. Understand?"
The Space Senshi glared at her angrily, "Damn you, Hymir!" Mira swore, "If you weren't the King's bastard than we wouldn't have to go through this."
"Yes, well," Seraphina nods, "Blame this all on daddy because he's the one that trained me." She sneers, "I'm a fucking soldier, princesses, not a damn princess. I'm only half-royal, so you're stuck with me as I am you. So blame this one on him. Cause I know what you wish for me to be, I know what you want."
"Oh?" Maya raised a purple brow, "And what is that."
"You wish you didn't have to do this, you don't want to be a senshi, you hate killing any living thing." She explained, "I bet you even wish me dead or that I was more like Dara. But I'm not. I wasn't raised to be softer and kinder to the world, I was raised to kill and I do a good damn job of it. So quit bitchin' and get to bed, I'm going to start you out running at five. You've got six hours at the most to do this." And with that she left.
"Bitch." Dawn spat.
Usagi looks at them, "I'm sure that she only means well." She said quietly.
Daranara looks up at the blonde, "That girl is out to destroy us, Princess Serenity." She stood up helping up her friend, "She hates me because of what I am, and wishes that I hated her too."
"But?" Kunzite prodded. "You don't?"
She shook her head, "I can not, she is my sister, for better or worse. I will always love her no matter what she does."
Dawn frowned at her princess. "How can you love ice?"
"Yeah," Maya chimes in, "How do you love some bastard of your father's that's obviously a killer?"
Daranara frowned at the two senshi. "Because I knew her before you came and before father started to train her." Her graze slips to the closed door, "Once, long ago, Seraphina was a child like me."
AN: That's it. Well, I know Naneshi/Seraphina has an attitude problem, but it's justified. So, anyway I was thinking on focusing more on the Space Senshi's past a bit. But, we'll just have to wait and see.. Until next time...............R&R
Usagi and the others sat around the dining table eating quietly, the only one who didn't eat was Naneshi. No, she had turned down the offers and all just to sit there quietly watching them as if she wasn't actually seeing any of them. After the last meal, they adjourn to the library to talk.
Here again, Naneshi stood while the others sat. Usagi thought it was the most curious thing since the manor belonged to her.
After the introductions were made, Daranara tuned towards her sister. "Hymir, where's Wel?"
Naneshi didn't reply she just stared coldly at her younger sister.
"Hymir," Dawn, who had detransformed and wearing an earth outfit, which were jeans and a golden shirt, said annoyed, "your princess asked you a question. You must answer it."
Naneshi's dark blue eyes narrowed, "I heard her Star, I'm not deaf." She folded her arms and regarded her half-sister as if she was something to inspect for bugs or some type of flaws.
"Where is he?" Dara pressed.
"Obviously, Princess, he's not here, if he was he would be here, now wouldn't he?"
Naneshi slid farther into the shadows, "But of course, I haven't yet located his whereabouts so the answer to your question is, I don't know."
The Senshi noticed that Naneshi was treated her sister as if she was less than what she was. That alone made them wonder about the girl's loyalty. Diamond and the other members of his group excused themselves, saying that they needed more sleep. Emerald had said she had a date so did Rubeus. And so, they left the Senshi alone.
With them gone, Naneshi still did not take a seat, she opted to standing with her back towards the wall.
"Why are you acting like this?" Mira demanded, "You know those two are soul mates, like the council says! And even you said the same thing!" She narrowed her light magenta eyes at the dark senshi. "hat do you have against them anyway Hymir?" She asked, "You've been acting this way since.." She groped for words, "...since Helena cursed you and that was before they even meet let alone knew of the others existence!"
"I have my reasons, Justice, though," Naneshi told her, "I do not believe that you would be able to comprehend them to the fullest extent of their purpose because of limitations to your own mind that can not handle them."
Melfina blinked owlishly, "What does that mean, Hymir?"
It was Daranara who answered in a low and almost broken hearted voice, "It means she hates me and she believes us to be infer to herself."
Naneshi blinks at her sister and shrugs, "Believe whatever you want, Princess, it means not to me nor does it hold any threats or reason, it was petty but I will not apologize for it."
"Ok, Question." They all looked at Minako who stood up. "What is your problem with them?" She asked looking at her. "You're her sister for crying out loud, even if she's your half-sister, you should be comforting her! Not degrading her!!"
"Ice cannot give comfort to anyone." Maya said softly looking at her leader with sad eyes, "She has no heart so she gives no comfort to any if at all." She looks over at Usagi and the others, "She's a good leader because she is trained to be ruthless. Also because she is not a true princess like most of the senshi in this galaxy."
"She's a bastard of the King, that's why she's even trained at all." Mira quoted. "You see with her around Daranara doesn't have to be a senshi at all, she could train to be the queen in our world while Hymir is her warrior and guard."
Dawn glared angrily at the girl, "She's damn good at it too. Slaps us around like a real army until we're ready to drop dead."
\Naneshi shrugs when a few uneasy glances came her way. "If you're not the conqueror than you are the conquer. I don't want to be beaten because I can't fight to the best of my abilities, I want to lose because someone either has good luck or their better than me."
Mira rolls her eyes, "And that's why we were half dead that time you made us run fifty-two miles!"
"Wuss."
"Shut up the both of you!" Daranara yells at her two guardians, "Hymir, quit baiting them, and the rest of you ignore her, like always." She calmed down a bit and looks at the Sailors, "They're always fighting like this."
"It's ok, we're the same way." Usagi smiles kindly at the girl.
Naneshi narrowed her eyes at them. She didn't like this and yet again her friends, if she had any, always flocked to Dara, her sister because of her charms. It made her sick some times to be given guard duty over her half- sibling. She also thought it was because the gods wanted to be cruel. She knew that she could never be truly happy, never. She had no soul mate because she had no soul. At least that was what she was told.
Usagi looks up at Naneshi, feeling the dark senshi's graze on her. When crystal blue met azure, she froze and felt a shiver go down her spine. Naneshi was a fearsome person. Her eyes were colder than ice in winter and a thousand times worse than death.
"So, what are we to do?" Melfina asked the group.
"Fight." Naneshi told them, "Train and fight."
Mira rolled her eyes," UHH UHHH, Hymir." She told the girl, "I'm not doing that again."
"Same here." Dawn agreed, "Your training courses are too long and they hurt after we're through. Nope, I'll pass."
"Same for me." Maya agrees with the others.
Melfina nods as well, "I want to see the town."
Daranara nods as well, "Yes, this planet is very interesting, Hymir." She tried to smile at her sister but it faltered. "Besides, we might find Welkin while we're out anyways."
"I don't believe I gave you a choice." She told them steely, "Fun and games are for later, right now you're out of shape. You need to shape up or die because that's what it all amounts to in the end."
Maya made a face, "Quit being so melodramatic, Seraphina ."
"I told you to never, ever call me that. The only ones that ever call me that was my Mother. Even King Rhys never called me by that name and you know it, Nimbus!" In a split second Maya was hanging by her neck, "Have I made myself clear, Princess Maya of Nimbus? Or do you need a little more help?"
"Seraphina! Put her down now!" Daranara commands using her most Queenly way of command, "Or else -I'll-.."
Seraphina/Naneshi drops the girl who was now on the floor, and turns toward her spoiled sister. "Or you'll do what Princess? Hmmm?"
Daranara and Seraphina stared at each other, "Or I'll cut you from the Senshi." She finished with an air of dignity. "I swear by Nephritides I will."
Something strange happened, Seraphina's eyes grew darker and the air was thick with magic that radiated from her. "And allow the possibility of me working for Helena, who, by the way, is back?"
"She's back?!" Daranara seemed thrown off balance by this, she had not thought that the wicked bitch of the west would be back to reign and cause mischief. She knew then that Seraphina was the only one who could combat that bitch.
"You bitch." Mira swore, "You knew and didn't tell us?!"
Seraphina gave out a bitter laugh, "Oh yes, I knew." She announced, "I haven't told anyone who she was just that I knew that she was around."
"Why didn't you tell us?!" Usagi demanded.
"Yeah," Haruka agreed, "This is our home! And you, an invader from the outer reaches of our system didn't tell us?!"
"No, I didn't because I wasn't sure so get off your damn high horse!" She told her, "If you and the others have been doing your jobs than none of this would have happened! If you have monitored the system like I did the you would've known so in all of this, it wasn't my damn fault but your own."
"Oh shut up, Sera-.." Seraphina shot a deadly glare at Dawn.
"Hymir." Dawn corrected, "You should've told someone than and there, instead of waiting!"
Seraphina calmed down, and stares at the people in the room. Maya was still on the group with Melfina with her. Mira was next to Maya as was Dawn and Daranara. Usagi and the others were strategically in a type of formation where Usagi was covered in all bases as were Mamoru.
Seraphina flicks a strand of blue and black hair behind her shoulder. "Well, Princess, I'll be taking my leave." She told them, "I will tell James to show you to your rooms." She looks at the Senshi, "I believe you should be getting home before your parents, if you have any, get worried."
She did a mocking bow towards her sister, "I'll see you ladies bright and early in the morning."
"Hey!"
Seraphina looks over her shoulder." Yes?"
Mira's eyes still glittered with anger, "What makes you think you can make us do this?!" She demanded, "I don't want you as leader."
"As do I." Maya agreed.
"Unless you girls can do better, I'm all you've got since our precious Princess doesn't know shit about warfare." She felt a faint smile touch her lips, just the tiniest bit. "You know that warfare and death are my specialties, not yours. And if you want to go anywhere out of this manor, you will do as you're told. Understand?"
The Space Senshi glared at her angrily, "Damn you, Hymir!" Mira swore, "If you weren't the King's bastard than we wouldn't have to go through this."
"Yes, well," Seraphina nods, "Blame this all on daddy because he's the one that trained me." She sneers, "I'm a fucking soldier, princesses, not a damn princess. I'm only half-royal, so you're stuck with me as I am you. So blame this one on him. Cause I know what you wish for me to be, I know what you want."
"Oh?" Maya raised a purple brow, "And what is that."
"You wish you didn't have to do this, you don't want to be a senshi, you hate killing any living thing." She explained, "I bet you even wish me dead or that I was more like Dara. But I'm not. I wasn't raised to be softer and kinder to the world, I was raised to kill and I do a good damn job of it. So quit bitchin' and get to bed, I'm going to start you out running at five. You've got six hours at the most to do this." And with that she left.
"Bitch." Dawn spat.
Usagi looks at them, "I'm sure that she only means well." She said quietly.
Daranara looks up at the blonde, "That girl is out to destroy us, Princess Serenity." She stood up helping up her friend, "She hates me because of what I am, and wishes that I hated her too."
"But?" Kunzite prodded. "You don't?"
She shook her head, "I can not, she is my sister, for better or worse. I will always love her no matter what she does."
Dawn frowned at her princess. "How can you love ice?"
"Yeah," Maya chimes in, "How do you love some bastard of your father's that's obviously a killer?"
Daranara frowned at the two senshi. "Because I knew her before you came and before father started to train her." Her graze slips to the closed door, "Once, long ago, Seraphina was a child like me."
AN: That's it. Well, I know Naneshi/Seraphina has an attitude problem, but it's justified. So, anyway I was thinking on focusing more on the Space Senshi's past a bit. But, we'll just have to wait and see.. Until next time...............R&R