AN: The long awaited chapter.

Check Chap 1 for disclaimer.







Chapter 16













Kuroshi fell asleep in her bed, not bothering to get undress or to at least get under the sheets.

Today had been a taxing day with having to watch Chibiusa and the other children, than was offered a job as a spy, again, but had declined.

She was surprised by the amazing amount of energy that Chibiusa had.

*She probably gets it from her mama. * She thought sourly, remembering all the times she heard Serenity screaming and yelling and running all over the palace when they were little.

Of course, she never had any fun. From the time she turned eight, she had been training to become a spy or a soldier. The military leaders found that she was very useful since King Orion had died a couple a months back.

She rolled over and closed her eyes, determined to get some sleep. But even in her dreams, she was haunted by the King's death.

***

Unknown to Kuroshi, a man watched her sleep, as she tossed and turned and occasionally whimpered in her sleep. He felt a smile tug at his lips. Yes, he would get her.

He looked down at his hands that held a special gift for her.

Quickly, so as to not be detected, he jumped into her room, making sure to be quiet as to not awaken her. He left his gift and quickly left. He had to hurry it wouldn't wait much longer.

***

But too bad for them all as the shadow watched amused at this. He was right to wait, it would make them relax more so he could sneak in later and get the rabbit.

He frowned, he'd have to do something about that prick of a husband she had and her guardians; not to mention the black lunarian. She was the most dangerous on of them all. She'd have to go first.

But not yet, at the moment, he was highly interested in who it was that was in her room. Maybe he can use it to his advantage...



***

~*Dreaming*~

Renity walked down the hallways of the palace. She was now eight, and was looking for Ori to play with since no one wanted to play with her.

She walked towards a half-opened door, her ears twitched a little as she her his voice. She peeped through the creak and watched as he talked to a man that was in uniform. At first, she didn't understand what he was saying, she couldn't hear him too well but finally understood him.

"No." Orion said again, "I will not use a child as a weapon. It is wrong and immoral. She's only eight years old, Galador, not old enough to know about this kind of thing.

"Your Majesty," Galador sat down, "She is only but a half-breed. And even if she was a full black Lunarian, I still say that we should train her to be a spy. It would be helpful to our kingdom to know what the others are up to." He leaned forward, "Besides, what's one kid worth against a thousand white lunarians anyway?" He asked, "She's a mistake to our kind and the fact that you have taken her in is wrong in itself." He glared at his king. "You should've left her where you found her."

Never in his entire had Orion heard such hatred and malice in anyone, except in evil beings. He stared at him, "Galador, if you continue to persist in this, then your services will not be needed." He told him, "Is that understood?"

Galador stood and clenched his teeth, "Yes, your majesty."

"Dismissed."

Renity hid quickly as the mean man left, muttering under his breath.

She cautiously walked into the room, her little slipper feet hardly made a sound. "Ori?" She said softly.

Orion's gaze fell on the little girl and wondered how anyone would hate this child just because she was a half-breed? She was sweet, shy, like any eight-year-old child.

"Yes, Renity?"

She gave him a shy smile, "Could you play with me?"

"Where are Sere and the others?" He asked letting her sit in his lap.

She pouted, " They don't want to play with me cause they're training."

He nods, though he knew that Serenity and the others didn't care much for her. "Let's go out to the garden."

After a game of tag and hide and go seek, Orion called the little girl to him.

"Renity, look at this." He held a dark blue rose in his hand.

"What is it?" She asked curiously.

"This flower, back where you're from, is a courtship flower given to a lady when a man seeks her for a bride." He told her and gave it to her, "Then over a week time, he'll ask her to marry him and if she says yes, than they'll get married and have lots a little kids."

"Wow!" She grinned up at him, "I hope I get one." Than after a moment she looked at the rose, "does this mean you'll marry me?" She asked innocently.

He laughed and lifted her up in the air, "No, but a boy might want to. You're very pretty Renity, so I think any boy who resists you is a fool."

She looks up at him, "Than you're not a fool." She stated.

"Why's that?" He asked with a smile, "I am, after all, a boy."

She frowned at him, "No you're not, you're Ori."

That got him laughing all the way back to the palace.



It was night and Renity was fast asleep in her bed, with her stuff cat, Titan. It was then that she heard it, a soft voice, like a song, drifting in her room. She got up and walked out of her room in a trance like state, following the beautiful melody.

At the same moment, elder Venus and Mercury were on a late night patrol and saw the little black lunarian, walking in her light blue nightgown, hugging a stuff animal.

"Mercury," Venus looks at the woman with pale blue eyes, " What's going on?" She asked as the bounded off after the little girl.

"Hold on, I'm doing a scan." She pressed her earring and the visor appeared over her violet eyes.

Venus was able to catch Renity, who struggled against her, trying to get to where ever the song was coming from.

"Venus!" Mercury looks at her, "There seems to be a frequency pitch that is in tune to her brain waves. Its source is unknown at the moment, but it was definitely meant for her."

"Come on, we have to get to Orion. He's the only one that deals with her."

Orion sat in the room, as Renity tried to find a way out, by now the song was staring to drive her mad and she began to break things, yelling, trying to get to the song.

"Renity!" He shook her trying to snap her out of it. "Come on, Renity, wake up!"

But still the small girl struggled, "Let me go! Let me go! She's calling me! Let me go!" She cries.

Elder Mars with Mercury and Venus looks at him. He shrugged and held the girl in place.

"Who's calling you, Renity?" He asked urgently, "Who is it?"

"Baba! Baba!" She cries, "Mama! Baba!" tears coarse down her cheeks.

Then the song turned sorrowful and images appeared in her mind. Her parents' corpses were burning in front of her, reaching out with their inflamed hands.

That's when she started to scream. An ear-piercing scream that caused the senshi to fall to their knees and halfway knocked Orion out cold.

"Mercury!?" Venus yells.

"Her voice is emitting a high frequency sound!" Mercury yells over the noise. "It's a defense mechanism that the black lunarians have, especially at this age when they start to mature!"

"Nice nature lessons, Sishiya." Mars mutters. "Now how do we stop her from blowing our brains out?!"

Just then the other Sailors arrived to help, and immediately covered their ears, "Why is she screaming!? Doesn't she know that she'd kill us this way?" Jupiter asked.

"We have to shut her up." Uranus said, "Or else we're dead."

Serenity went over to her husband helping him us.

By now, all the glass in the room and the next two-dozen rooms was shattered.

"Mars!" Orion shouts, "Knock her out!"

Mars jumps and made a connection with the child to see what she was seeing. Then she understood why she was screaming in the first place. At eight years old, wouldn't you be screaming if you saw your parents burning up and reaching for you?

Renity suddenly dropped, her screaming stopped just as abruptly as it had begun. Orion shook his head, trying to get the ringing sound out of his head. "Gods, she has a pair of lungs on her."

"No kidding." Jupiter helped Mars up as Orion picks up Renity; limp body.

"What did you see?" Venus asked.

"Is was a vision of her parents burning to death, but they were reaching out for her."

"That would make any kid scream." Jupiter mutters.



Two weeks later...

"Ori! Ori, wake up! Wake up Ori!" Renity yells.

Orion laid on the ground, still as death. He wasn't breathing or moving.

Renity didn't know what to do she didn't know what happened. All she saw was that he fell to the ground and had started shaking then went deadly still. His eyes were open and unmoving, his hair still tousled from the fall.

"Renity?!" Uranus came running over to the girl. "What is-." She stopped, her sea green eyes widen as she saw that the king was dead.

"What happened?" She heard a voice from behind her. She turned to see that it was the other senshi and the Queen.

Queen Serenity rushed to her husband's side, leaving Princess Serenity standing there staring at her father.

Renity was crying so hard that she started to have the hiccups. It was then that everyone turned to her.

"What happened to my Papa?!" Princess Serenity shook the younger girl. "What did you do to him? What happened to my Papa!!?!?!" She screams.

Renity didn't answer, only cried more.

"Princess Serenity!" A strict voice lashed out, "Release her at once! She did nothing to your father, nor does she have the capabilities to do so."

"But Mama-" She whimpered.

"Now."

She backed off but glared at the black lunarian child.

Renity flinched when a hand touched her back and looked up at Pluto. "Now, young one, tell us what happened."

Renity stuttered and stumbled out the story, but in the end they got the message. Someone cast a curse on the King, killing him.

A day or two later, the kingdom was in mourning over their loss. Renity didn't even go to the funeral, she knew she wouldn't be welcomed nor did she want to go. Ori was dead, just like her parents, all because of her.

It was also then when the Captain came in and started her training: as a spy to the kingdom.

~* End of Dream*~

Kuroshi awoke, feeling more tried then she did when she fell asleep. She still remembered her dream, though the others seemed to have forgotten about it. It seemed to her that Queen Serenity had erased all traces of herself, growing up at the palace, from the Senshi's minds, even Endymion's and the cats'.

But as she grew more aware of her surroundings, she spotted two pale blue flowers and a small box. She picked up the box and opened it. Inside laid a ring. It was a heart shaped stone with diamonds around it. The stone was a dark purple; so dark that it was almost black. The ring itself was silver.

She gapped at it and then looked at her window. Who could've done this?



In a room down the hall, Serenity was having a hard time cooping with the fact that Endymion might leave her for someone else. She had only seen him on occasions and that he never touches her anymore. Doesn't kiss her enough or hug her. It was as if he was waiting for something, for what, she didn't know. All she knew was that something was wrong. *I have to do something! * She thought, *I need to know..does he still love me? *



AN: That's it for now. Writer's block for a while. SYL, R&R.