Usagi awoke the next morning, the bright morning rays of the sun gently streamed onto her bed. Usagi got up out of her bed and went to her closet. She quickly dressed herself and brushed her long blonde hair. She tied it back into a long blonde braid and quietly left her room.

She went over to Seiya's room and opened it a crack and peeked inside. She heard snoring and saw a sleeping figure on the bed. She shut the door and walked down the hallway.

She walked down to the library and started walking along the rows and rows of books that lined the walls. She found him, Taiki that is, he was sitting in a chair near a window, the morning sunlight streamed onto an open book that he had on his lap, he was deeply reading and didn't notice when Usagi walked up to him.

"Ohayo, Ojisama Taiki." Usagi said quietly, trying not to startle him.

Taiki placed a bookmark in the book and looked up. "Ohayo Usagi-san."

"How are you this morning?" Usagi took the seat next to Taiki.

"I'm all right. Is anything wrong Usagi-san?" Taiki shut the book and turned towards Usagi.

"Well, there is," Usagi sighed. "You see, it's about Seiya . . ."

"I know, Usagi-san." Taiki smiled and lowered his voice. "Seiya told me last night at dinner, he said that because Yaten knew, I should know as well. We do not keep secrets from each other." Taiki smiled.

"Then what do you think about it?" Usagi sighed, relieved that she didn't have to explain it herself.

"I think," Taiki's eyes glimmered. "That if he loves you as much as he says he does, then he is close to just transporting you off the planet, without a word to Queen Kimiko."

"Really? He told you that?" Usagi's eyes grew wide with surprise.

"Iie, I could tell just by the way he talked about you. To tell you the truth, I'm not that surprised, I could tell that he felt something towards you when he introduced us. His eyes betray more then he means to say." Taiki smiled and then frowned. "I do see that you might have a problem about the Queen, though."

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about." Usagi recalled the harsh way that the Queen had talked to her. Usagi swallowed. "Ojisama Taiki?"

"You can just call me Taiki, we might become related." Taiki smiled.

"Taiki-san, I need to know if there was a place that I could go, maybe a planet that was far away?" Usagi's eyes glimmered with pain.

"Why? Do you need a place to go with Seiya?" Taiki's voice became even quieter.

"You could say that."

"Ah, then I know a perfect place for you, it is a nice peaceful planet, the people produce textiles mostly, you would blend in well there. No one would think about searching for you there."

"Tell me more about it," Usagi nodded, taking in all of Taiki's information.



Seiya awoke suddenly, he had a nightmare about getting married to Princess Kakyuu. Seiya shuddered and then suddenly realized that it was morning.

*'Oh! I must have fallen asleep. Usagi must have had a really long chat with the Queen.'* Seiya quickly dressed and left his room. He knocked on Usagi's door, but got no reply, so he opened it. He saw that se was not sleeping on her bed, so he decided to go and look for her. He thought it a bit odd that she didn't see him, but he figured that the Queen wanted another audience with her in the morning or something, so he went looking for her. He asked every palace servant he came across if they knew where Usagi was. They usually blushed and shook their heads, but finally one knew.

"I saw her in the library, Ojisama Seiya. She was talking with Ojisama Taiki."

Seiya quickly went to the library, to where Taiki would normally sit and read every morning. He spotted Usagi and Taiki, deep in conversation and he approached them. "Oi, long time no see!" He smiled.

"Seiya, Ohayo." Taiki looked up and smiled.

"Ohayo Seiya-san." Usagi looked up and forced a smile.

"Can you excuse us for a moment, Taiki?" Seiya took Usagi's hand and helped her stand up.

"Of course, I'll still be here." Taiki opened his book back up and started reading.

Seiya took Usagi to another window with chairs and then sat down.

"How was your meeting?" Seiya was, frankly, a little nervous about what his Queen said to Usagi.

"It was, a meeting, to say the least." Usagi looked up into the eyes of her love, Usagi just couldn't bring herself to tell him that his Queen viewed her as a threat to the marriage of Seiya and Kakyuu and wanted her off her planet. "She wanted to know if I was all right, because I missed dinner."

"That was nice of her." Seiya grinned. "I'll go and try to talk to her about us, as soon as I can schedule it, okay?"

"Hai," Usagi sighed and tried to be happy for Seiya, the man she loved with all of her heart. Seiya took Usagi's hand and kissed it, after giving it a gentle squeeze. "Things will work out, this is *our* fairy tale, and we can do whatever we want with it."

Usagi smiled at the wonderful words he used to express their love. "Hai," was all she could manage to reply, even though tears started forming in her eyes.

"Don't cry," Seiya wiped her eyes, and had to use all of his willpower not to kiss her. He wanted to kiss her tears away, he wanted to make it so she never cried again, except for joy. Seiya deeply loved this girl, his Kirro Maiden.

"Let's get back to Taiki, I'm sure he has things to discuss." Seiya smiled and led Usagi away. ***

The daylight had quickly faded, and Usagi was outside standing on the balcony of the garden. It had a small terrace and Usagi was making most of the time she had alone. She sighed and placed her hands on the railing of the balcony, staring at the stars that speckled the sky.

'The stars at home, I miss them so much.' Usagi sighed and looked at unfamiliar constellations that had little meaning to her. Usagi sighed and ran her fingers through her bangs. Seiya had gone to try and schedule a meeting with Queen Kimiko, and there was only a week left before Kakyuu's birthday ball.

A calm wind blew from somewhere in the distance and Usagi shivered a little. She tried to regain some of her memories, the ones about her home, The Moon. She tried to remember about her old love, a tall dark and handsome man, but Usagi couldn't remember the facts about him.

*'His name was Mamoru, he loved me very much, but he wanted me to love again and start anew and that was what I did. I feel almost guilty about it, but it was what he would have wanted.'*

Usagi folded her arms across her chest and shivered.

Suddenly she felt an arm clamp around her waist and her mouth. Usagi tried to scream, but the hand blocked her screams.

"Don't try and scream, Missy. I have you held as tight as I can and I'm not letting you go until I get what I want." An evil, dark voice whispered into her ear, and Usagi shuddered as she tried to get away. She didn't want to know what this awful man wanted.

Usagi tried to scream "Help!" but it came out as a "hmmp!"

The man started bringing his arm higher up on her waist, and his hand started to wander along her body. Usagi tried to scream again, but the man had a death grip around her. The man brought his hand up to be breast and squeezed it through her dress. Usagi struggled further against the man, but still she couldn't seem to get away.

Suddenly, a power stirred inside of Usagi, a voice from inside her called out in protest.

"Don't let him hurt you, you have the power to stop it!" The voice called from inside of her.

"What power?" Usagi struggled against the man, whose vile hand had not been removed from her breast.

"Use your power!" The voice screamed inside of her, and finally Usagi let go and did what the voice wanted her to do.



A power flowed through Usagi's veins as she felt a hot symbol being burned into her forehead, it shined and gleamed and lit up the terrace. Usagi closed her eyes and felt the white hot power flow through her, and pushed it out of herself in a blast.

When Usagi opened her eyes, she was floating in the air and white light surrounded her.

"You have the power now," The voice inside of her seemed to smile. "Use it!"

"How dare you disgrace me!" Usagi raised a hand towards the man. He was sitting on the ground with wide eyes, he was surprised, to say the least.

Usagi let go of her power and the white, hot light slammed into the man, who yelled out in pain.

Usagi felt her blonde tresses flowing all around her, and she felt the symbol glowing hot with power.

"You deserve to be killed, for what you have done!" Usagi's words did not feel like her own, but Usagi couldn't shake the part of her mind screaming about violating someone as powerful and as high ranking as herself.

The man looked up at her; his clothes were still steaming from the blast she had already dealt him. He had a look of udder terror on his face as if Usagi was an angel of destruction.

"You will be spared this time, but next time, you will wish I had killed you now!" Another white, hot blast came out of Usagi, only this time it made the man freeze in place.

As Usagi dealt the last blow to the man, she felt the white light leaving her. She started to lower from the air, and she was slowly falling to the ground. The power was with her long enough to gently lie her on the ground, and then the power left Usagi, and so did her consciousness.



"Usagi? Usagi?" A voice seemed to drift on the edge of Usagi's consciousness. Usagi finally was released of the blackness that surrounded her, and she tried to open her tired eyes, but couldn't. She was being held in someone's warm arms, and it felt good because her body had seemed to go ice cold.

"Usagi?" The voice asked again.

Usagi's eyelids fluttered open and she couldn't recognize any real shapes, everything was blurry.

"Oh, you're alive! Thank goodness!" She was being held tighter. "You went as cold as ice, I was worried that you were dead!"

Usagi relaxed against the grasp of the man. It was Seiya; she didn't need to worry anymore, because he held her safe.

"I wouldn't know what I would have done if you had left me," Seiya pulled her closer and whispered into her ear.

"Is she alright?" Another figure ran towards them.

"I think so." Seiya sighed, a little happily.

"She still should go to the infirmary after I check her out." The girl's voice was gentle, but Usagi didn't want to leave Seiya. "Was she wearing this dress before?"

Seiya had picked Usagi up, he was going to bring her to the infirmary, probably.

"I don't think so, she also has that mark," Seiya observed.

Usagi tired to say something, but no words would come out of her mouth and her eyes ached, so she closed them and sighed gently.

"Stay with us, Kirro Maiden." Seiya whispered, only loud enough for Usagi to hear. Usagi nodded ever so slightly and sighed a sigh of relief.

*** [A/N: Now that I'm done with The Legend Of The Mother Emerald, I'll be working on this story a lot more. ^^ If you have any ideas about where the story is going, I'd like to hear them, I'm in a little rut. Arigato! R/R]