Betrothed to a Jerk
Rating: PG-13
Author Note: Thank you to all of you who have thus reviewed. For those of you I have yet to hear reviews from, that's the only way you're going to get me to update. Excuse me from not updating in May. I was planning on working on the story in the last weekend of May, but my grandmother's sudden death kept me busy. But anyhow, if you wish me to update for the next chapter (after this one of course), I want 10 or more reviews.
Thanks~
Here's your updated chapter :) Enjoy.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Endymion carried Princess Serenity in his arms to the barracks with his friends close by.
"Well, I for one wouldn't think that that sleeping Princess could cause anyone harm at all...Why did you play that trick on her? The last person I remember you doing that to was Princess Beryl of the Dark Moon..." Jedite laughed with the others, then continued. "Remember how mad she was when she had to tell everyone that instead of you sleeping with her, she fell asleep on the couch in the library...." By now, Endymion and his four friends were dying laughing.
Endymion smiled.
Zoicite added, "You watch out Endy, one day one of your pranks will come back and bite you in the as--"
Malachite grinned. "Yeah, Endymion, you better watch out. Some of those girls are pretty, but they gotta whole side of them that they hide so you can't get to it. They're mean and rough."
"Like I said, it'll come back and bite you in the ass!"
Sweat drop moment... "ZOECITE!"
*~ Flashback ~* Princess Beryl looked up at Prince Endymion coyly through thick black lashes. Feigning a look of innocence, she asked, "Do you think I'm a pretty girl, Prince Endymion?"
Endymion was taken aback. 'Did she just ask me what I think she did?! What a stuck up...And she thought I'd fall for that...' But instead he said aloud, "Sure, Beryl. But one second, I'll be right back. I'm going to go see where that servant went with our wine." He got up and practically fled the room, despite Beryl's attempt to put herself in his lap.
Princess Beryl sighed and nodded vaguely. 'I'll have you yet, my Endy.' She though wistfully as she stared after his muscular retreating form.
Slipping into the kitchen, Endymion found two wine glasses and poured some dark red wine into them. After adding another little nameless ingredient to Beryl's glass, he made his way as slowly as he could back to the library, where he found Beryl batting her eyelashes at him.
"I was ever so worried you were lost. I was about to come find you myself, I was." She told him innocently as he handed her a wine glass.
Endymion cleared his throat from laughter and smiled. "Then I had better run while I have the chance..." He murmured to himself.
"What was that, sweets?" Beryl asked.
"Oh, nothing, nothing at all, darling. Now, let's drink to...,to....," He paused in thought until a wide smile broke his contemplating look, "to us."
"Oh-Kay." She agreed and downed her glass while Endymion downed his. "Mmmnnn...That was...so..." Before she could even finish what she was going to say, Princess Beryl was out cold, sleeping.
It took every ounce of control Endymion had not to strangle the woman while she was sleeping. Instead, he quieted his laughter and headed towards his bed chambers.
*~ End of Flashback ~*
"Endymion!" Zoicite yelled in his ear, making him drop Serenity, who landed on a bail of hay.
"oOF." Escaped Serenity's lips, as she looked around groggily. "Where am I?" She eased her weight onto the back of her elbows and frowned. "Oy, I should have guessed the four idiots and their moronic leader."
Four mouths hung open. And Endymion looked confused.
However, one mouth began talking. "I knew she wasn't no angel! She was the one who kicked me outside the palace on the night of the ball..."
Serenity covered her mouth with her hands, trying to supress her laughter. When she calmed herself down, she eyed the one who said she had kicked them. "Let me see your shin." She told him.
Obediently, Jedite lifted his pant leg, revealing a large blue, purple bruise.
"Well, I warned you didn't I?" She asked with her brow's raised. IT was as if she said. I told you so.
"Here, Jed., let me see it." Endymion told him.
"No." Serenity said as she got off the hay.
"Um...Endymion, I'm scared. You just gave her a day's worth of sleeping medicine and she is up walking...?" Zoicite whispered.
Serenity smacked her head and glared at the five men. "When are you going to realize that I'm not some normal Earth girl? I'm Lunarian, boys. And not JUST Lunarian, I'm Royal Lunarian, and that means I have inherited powers to keep me from getting poisoned. Sure they affect me some. But in the long run, the effects I have from poison and medication are mild compared to the true effects."
Kunzite laughed and slapped Endymion's back. "Looks like you have a challenge on your hands."
Loudly, Jedite complained. "Endymion, get your butt over here and heal my leg."
"Jed. shut up I'm coming." Endymion said as he walked around his friends to him.
"No. I'll do it." Serenity told them.
"How?" Zoicite asked.
Serenity smacked her head again and rolled her eyes. "Like this." Walking over to Jedite, she placed the tip of her index finger to her crescent moon ,which turned silver and made the tip of her finger glow silver, and then placed it gently in the center of the bruise. Closing her eyes, she furrowed her brow and slowly the bruise began to fade away. And for a second, right after she opened her eyes, they were silver, but as soon as she blinked, they turned crystal blue again.
Endymion turned to Serenity. "You didn't tell me you could heal."
"You didn't ask. Oh yes. Arn't we here for some sort of..duel?" She asked playfully.
Zoicite smiled widely, a look that clearly said, "I told you so..."
Impatiently, Serenity put her hands on her hips, placed a vague expression on her face, and tapped her foot. "I'm waiting."
Endymion unsheated his sword and stood in a 'ready' stance, while Serenity still stood there looking at him annoyed.
This time, his friends stood back out of the way. If Endymion was beaten by this girl, they wanted nothing to do with his defeat, otherwise, he'd kill them...
Now, it was Endymion's turn to be annoyed. "I'm ready, and you're still standing there?"
Serenity put her hands down. "You don't have to transform?"
"...transform?" all five of the men asked.
Serenity raised her eyebrows. "Oh, well, it'll only take a second. Hang on." She inclined her head back and placed her right index finger to her crescent moon. It began to glow and emit a bright white light. While the men shielded their eyes, Serenity began to transform into her Sailor suit. Unlike her Sailor Moon form, her battle suit consisted of long white pants, a white doublet (sleeveless tunic),her hair went up into a high pony-tail, with white boots. Her crescent moon was silver instead of gold. And at her waist, a sword was sheathed. 'Eclipse' as she called her sword, one side of the blade was black and the other was silver. On the hilt of the sword was a white handle and on the end a crescent moon was inscribed.
All the men could do is stare. And Serenity looked amused.
Drawing her sword from it's sheathe, Serenity leaned on it, lackadaisically. Yawning noticeably, she mocked the men. "Well?" She asked.
Endymion shook his head. Was he seeing correctly? Did she just draw a sword as long as his?
Jedite's jaw dropped as the Princess played with her sword, running her fingers along the edges, testing it's sharpness. He slapped Endymion's arm. Not even trying to be quiet, he asked, "Man…am I seeing what I think I'm seeing? Is that a GIRL holding and managing a SWORD as big as yours?!"
No one said anything, but Serenity laughed. "You idiot," she told him. "I am a girl, and that doesn't mean I wouldn't be able to hold a sword. Forget this talk. Let's battle."
Endymion and Serenity both lifted their swords to show good sportsmanship, then the battle began. At first, Endymion let Serenity attack. But soon, he realized, that when he thought her blows would come unsteady and weak, he was dead wrong. Her blows came fast, accurate, and strong. While she was very fast, he was stronger. Soon, she began to come very close to taking the sword right out of his hand. A change in positions was needed. As soon as Endymion saw the opportunity to attack, he did. Slowly, he began backing her up with each blow. While she could dodge the blows easily, she had to take extra care because his blows were the hardest she had ever seen. Suddenly, she tripped, falling backwards, and dropping her sword. Endymion smiled, and lowered his sword to her neck, so she would have to admit defeat. However, Serenity had no intention of letting Endymion win this easily. Endymion didn't even see it coming when Serenity's foot came out of no where and kicked his wrist, making his sword skid across the floor away from him. Immediately after he was unsworded, Serenity swung her other foot around and knocked him off his feet, promptly knocking the air out of him as he hit the floor. While Endymion was struggling for oxygen, Serenity was groping blindly behind her for her sword, however, one of Endymion's friends kicked it out of her reach. As her hand landed on the foot that had just kicked it out of the way, she turned around to look at whose foot it belonged.
Endymion looked over to see what was happening. 'Hurry you fool! You cannot lose this. Hurry! While she's distracted!'
All Serenity felt was two hands placed roughly on her shoulders pulling her onto her back. Endymion was on top of her, holding her down. His face only inches from hers…
"It can all end right now, Serenity…I know you want it as much as I do. Just give in." Endymion whispered softly, looking deep into her eyes, attempting to allure her into a false sense of security.
Serenity was drowning in eyes that kept coming closer and closer. Just before the distance between them was closed, someone started laughing, breaking Serenity out of her dreamlike state. Blinking her eyes, she saw Endymion leaning in towards her, and just in time, she turned her head. Only for Endymion to plant a sloppy wet kiss. "Never!" She yelled defiantly. Fighting him off her, Serenity pounded her fists into his chest. "Get off me!"
"Forfeit then!"
"Never!" She finally got on top, where she began to beat him mercilessly, all the while Endymion and his friends dying laughing. "You stinking, rude, obnoxious, snide, womanizing…" Each insult came with a punch to some part of his upper abdomen. But the last one hurt the most. "And you know what I hate most about you. You think you're so great and you're going to win, but your not!" And then she punched him in the nose.
Endymion stopped laughing. That hurt. That had hurt A LOT.
Serenity had gotten up and went to grab her sword. The end was near for Endymion.
Telepathically, Endymion sent a message to his friends. "Stop her!"
Two arms grabbed each side of her and pulled her down to the ground. Meanwhile, Endymion got up and dusted himself off. "Tie her up over there."
They tied a rope around a wooden rafter in the ceiling and tied the end to Serenity's wrists, so her hands were above her head. "I demand you release me."
Endymion gave her a bemused look. "You would do well to remember not to make demands to me, princess."
"If you don't let me go, right this minute, I'll tell your mother!" Serenity threatened.
"And how do you suppose you'll get to her?" He mocked.
That shut Serenity up. No one said anything…
Time passed…. And passed…………And passed some more…..
Finally, Serenity drifted to sleep leaning her head on her outstretched arms.
Endymion grinned. Lucky for him, the beauty talked in her sleep. "Serenity…" he called gently.
"Wha?" she asked in spite of her sleepy visage.
"You want to go to bed? You want this to be over?"
"Yea…Go to bed…Over…" She murmured.
"Then say the word. Forfeit."
Everyone held their breath.
"For--" she started then hesitated. Opening her eyes, she glared at him. "Eat dirt!"
Endymion smacked his head. This is going to take a while.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
To be Continued…
Rating: PG-13
Author Note: Thank you to all of you who have thus reviewed. For those of you I have yet to hear reviews from, that's the only way you're going to get me to update. Excuse me from not updating in May. I was planning on working on the story in the last weekend of May, but my grandmother's sudden death kept me busy. But anyhow, if you wish me to update for the next chapter (after this one of course), I want 10 or more reviews.
Thanks~
Here's your updated chapter :) Enjoy.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Endymion carried Princess Serenity in his arms to the barracks with his friends close by.
"Well, I for one wouldn't think that that sleeping Princess could cause anyone harm at all...Why did you play that trick on her? The last person I remember you doing that to was Princess Beryl of the Dark Moon..." Jedite laughed with the others, then continued. "Remember how mad she was when she had to tell everyone that instead of you sleeping with her, she fell asleep on the couch in the library...." By now, Endymion and his four friends were dying laughing.
Endymion smiled.
Zoicite added, "You watch out Endy, one day one of your pranks will come back and bite you in the as--"
Malachite grinned. "Yeah, Endymion, you better watch out. Some of those girls are pretty, but they gotta whole side of them that they hide so you can't get to it. They're mean and rough."
"Like I said, it'll come back and bite you in the ass!"
Sweat drop moment... "ZOECITE!"
*~ Flashback ~* Princess Beryl looked up at Prince Endymion coyly through thick black lashes. Feigning a look of innocence, she asked, "Do you think I'm a pretty girl, Prince Endymion?"
Endymion was taken aback. 'Did she just ask me what I think she did?! What a stuck up...And she thought I'd fall for that...' But instead he said aloud, "Sure, Beryl. But one second, I'll be right back. I'm going to go see where that servant went with our wine." He got up and practically fled the room, despite Beryl's attempt to put herself in his lap.
Princess Beryl sighed and nodded vaguely. 'I'll have you yet, my Endy.' She though wistfully as she stared after his muscular retreating form.
Slipping into the kitchen, Endymion found two wine glasses and poured some dark red wine into them. After adding another little nameless ingredient to Beryl's glass, he made his way as slowly as he could back to the library, where he found Beryl batting her eyelashes at him.
"I was ever so worried you were lost. I was about to come find you myself, I was." She told him innocently as he handed her a wine glass.
Endymion cleared his throat from laughter and smiled. "Then I had better run while I have the chance..." He murmured to himself.
"What was that, sweets?" Beryl asked.
"Oh, nothing, nothing at all, darling. Now, let's drink to...,to....," He paused in thought until a wide smile broke his contemplating look, "to us."
"Oh-Kay." She agreed and downed her glass while Endymion downed his. "Mmmnnn...That was...so..." Before she could even finish what she was going to say, Princess Beryl was out cold, sleeping.
It took every ounce of control Endymion had not to strangle the woman while she was sleeping. Instead, he quieted his laughter and headed towards his bed chambers.
*~ End of Flashback ~*
"Endymion!" Zoicite yelled in his ear, making him drop Serenity, who landed on a bail of hay.
"oOF." Escaped Serenity's lips, as she looked around groggily. "Where am I?" She eased her weight onto the back of her elbows and frowned. "Oy, I should have guessed the four idiots and their moronic leader."
Four mouths hung open. And Endymion looked confused.
However, one mouth began talking. "I knew she wasn't no angel! She was the one who kicked me outside the palace on the night of the ball..."
Serenity covered her mouth with her hands, trying to supress her laughter. When she calmed herself down, she eyed the one who said she had kicked them. "Let me see your shin." She told him.
Obediently, Jedite lifted his pant leg, revealing a large blue, purple bruise.
"Well, I warned you didn't I?" She asked with her brow's raised. IT was as if she said. I told you so.
"Here, Jed., let me see it." Endymion told him.
"No." Serenity said as she got off the hay.
"Um...Endymion, I'm scared. You just gave her a day's worth of sleeping medicine and she is up walking...?" Zoicite whispered.
Serenity smacked her head and glared at the five men. "When are you going to realize that I'm not some normal Earth girl? I'm Lunarian, boys. And not JUST Lunarian, I'm Royal Lunarian, and that means I have inherited powers to keep me from getting poisoned. Sure they affect me some. But in the long run, the effects I have from poison and medication are mild compared to the true effects."
Kunzite laughed and slapped Endymion's back. "Looks like you have a challenge on your hands."
Loudly, Jedite complained. "Endymion, get your butt over here and heal my leg."
"Jed. shut up I'm coming." Endymion said as he walked around his friends to him.
"No. I'll do it." Serenity told them.
"How?" Zoicite asked.
Serenity smacked her head again and rolled her eyes. "Like this." Walking over to Jedite, she placed the tip of her index finger to her crescent moon ,which turned silver and made the tip of her finger glow silver, and then placed it gently in the center of the bruise. Closing her eyes, she furrowed her brow and slowly the bruise began to fade away. And for a second, right after she opened her eyes, they were silver, but as soon as she blinked, they turned crystal blue again.
Endymion turned to Serenity. "You didn't tell me you could heal."
"You didn't ask. Oh yes. Arn't we here for some sort of..duel?" She asked playfully.
Zoicite smiled widely, a look that clearly said, "I told you so..."
Impatiently, Serenity put her hands on her hips, placed a vague expression on her face, and tapped her foot. "I'm waiting."
Endymion unsheated his sword and stood in a 'ready' stance, while Serenity still stood there looking at him annoyed.
This time, his friends stood back out of the way. If Endymion was beaten by this girl, they wanted nothing to do with his defeat, otherwise, he'd kill them...
Now, it was Endymion's turn to be annoyed. "I'm ready, and you're still standing there?"
Serenity put her hands down. "You don't have to transform?"
"...transform?" all five of the men asked.
Serenity raised her eyebrows. "Oh, well, it'll only take a second. Hang on." She inclined her head back and placed her right index finger to her crescent moon. It began to glow and emit a bright white light. While the men shielded their eyes, Serenity began to transform into her Sailor suit. Unlike her Sailor Moon form, her battle suit consisted of long white pants, a white doublet (sleeveless tunic),her hair went up into a high pony-tail, with white boots. Her crescent moon was silver instead of gold. And at her waist, a sword was sheathed. 'Eclipse' as she called her sword, one side of the blade was black and the other was silver. On the hilt of the sword was a white handle and on the end a crescent moon was inscribed.
All the men could do is stare. And Serenity looked amused.
Drawing her sword from it's sheathe, Serenity leaned on it, lackadaisically. Yawning noticeably, she mocked the men. "Well?" She asked.
Endymion shook his head. Was he seeing correctly? Did she just draw a sword as long as his?
Jedite's jaw dropped as the Princess played with her sword, running her fingers along the edges, testing it's sharpness. He slapped Endymion's arm. Not even trying to be quiet, he asked, "Man…am I seeing what I think I'm seeing? Is that a GIRL holding and managing a SWORD as big as yours?!"
No one said anything, but Serenity laughed. "You idiot," she told him. "I am a girl, and that doesn't mean I wouldn't be able to hold a sword. Forget this talk. Let's battle."
Endymion and Serenity both lifted their swords to show good sportsmanship, then the battle began. At first, Endymion let Serenity attack. But soon, he realized, that when he thought her blows would come unsteady and weak, he was dead wrong. Her blows came fast, accurate, and strong. While she was very fast, he was stronger. Soon, she began to come very close to taking the sword right out of his hand. A change in positions was needed. As soon as Endymion saw the opportunity to attack, he did. Slowly, he began backing her up with each blow. While she could dodge the blows easily, she had to take extra care because his blows were the hardest she had ever seen. Suddenly, she tripped, falling backwards, and dropping her sword. Endymion smiled, and lowered his sword to her neck, so she would have to admit defeat. However, Serenity had no intention of letting Endymion win this easily. Endymion didn't even see it coming when Serenity's foot came out of no where and kicked his wrist, making his sword skid across the floor away from him. Immediately after he was unsworded, Serenity swung her other foot around and knocked him off his feet, promptly knocking the air out of him as he hit the floor. While Endymion was struggling for oxygen, Serenity was groping blindly behind her for her sword, however, one of Endymion's friends kicked it out of her reach. As her hand landed on the foot that had just kicked it out of the way, she turned around to look at whose foot it belonged.
Endymion looked over to see what was happening. 'Hurry you fool! You cannot lose this. Hurry! While she's distracted!'
All Serenity felt was two hands placed roughly on her shoulders pulling her onto her back. Endymion was on top of her, holding her down. His face only inches from hers…
"It can all end right now, Serenity…I know you want it as much as I do. Just give in." Endymion whispered softly, looking deep into her eyes, attempting to allure her into a false sense of security.
Serenity was drowning in eyes that kept coming closer and closer. Just before the distance between them was closed, someone started laughing, breaking Serenity out of her dreamlike state. Blinking her eyes, she saw Endymion leaning in towards her, and just in time, she turned her head. Only for Endymion to plant a sloppy wet kiss. "Never!" She yelled defiantly. Fighting him off her, Serenity pounded her fists into his chest. "Get off me!"
"Forfeit then!"
"Never!" She finally got on top, where she began to beat him mercilessly, all the while Endymion and his friends dying laughing. "You stinking, rude, obnoxious, snide, womanizing…" Each insult came with a punch to some part of his upper abdomen. But the last one hurt the most. "And you know what I hate most about you. You think you're so great and you're going to win, but your not!" And then she punched him in the nose.
Endymion stopped laughing. That hurt. That had hurt A LOT.
Serenity had gotten up and went to grab her sword. The end was near for Endymion.
Telepathically, Endymion sent a message to his friends. "Stop her!"
Two arms grabbed each side of her and pulled her down to the ground. Meanwhile, Endymion got up and dusted himself off. "Tie her up over there."
They tied a rope around a wooden rafter in the ceiling and tied the end to Serenity's wrists, so her hands were above her head. "I demand you release me."
Endymion gave her a bemused look. "You would do well to remember not to make demands to me, princess."
"If you don't let me go, right this minute, I'll tell your mother!" Serenity threatened.
"And how do you suppose you'll get to her?" He mocked.
That shut Serenity up. No one said anything…
Time passed…. And passed…………And passed some more…..
Finally, Serenity drifted to sleep leaning her head on her outstretched arms.
Endymion grinned. Lucky for him, the beauty talked in her sleep. "Serenity…" he called gently.
"Wha?" she asked in spite of her sleepy visage.
"You want to go to bed? You want this to be over?"
"Yea…Go to bed…Over…" She murmured.
"Then say the word. Forfeit."
Everyone held their breath.
"For--" she started then hesitated. Opening her eyes, she glared at him. "Eat dirt!"
Endymion smacked his head. This is going to take a while.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
To be Continued…