Selenity opened her eyes slowly and found herself gazing into Elios' amber depths. He brushed his lips against her's, and she blinked slightly a few times.
"What time is it?" She murmured, pulling herself closer to his warmth. "Noon." Pulling herself still closer to him, she buried her face in his shirt.
"See, normally I would get up, but I don't really care to at the moment." Selenity mumbled, and felt him shake as he chuckled lightly to himself.
"What about Gwen? You locked her up in her room as I seem to recall." Elios commented. "Mother would have let her out awhile ago; she's curious, and probably found us asleep in here." After a moment, she asked; "Does... does it bother you that I'm not exactly... well to put it mildly, a maiden?" He sat up, and she leaned against him, her eyes never straying from his. "Mai... Selenity, the fact that you are not as innocent as I once thought does not bother me in itself, but the fact that someone hurt you like that... well that does bother me, more than I'd care to say. You're still the same person you were when I met you, and I still love you, even if I can't be your first. You're still my maiden, and you always will be." Their lips met slowly, and before they did, Selenity murmured; "You're still my first kiss."
Elios kissed her gently at first, but he soon brushed the tip of his tongue against her soft lips, and she parted them, allowing him entrance to her mouth. Selenity unclasped his collar at his throat and proceeded to then unbutton his jacket. He gladly shed it and unlaced the back of her dress, but as she began to dispose of that, and as his lips traveled to her throat, an explosion rocked the palace. Though the palace kept shaking, Elios knew it wasn't an earthquake, and so he pulled Selenity against him to keep her out of view from whoever might look into the window. At the same time, he pulled the cord at the base of her dress back through the holds, and they bolted through the doorway, leaving his jacket rumpled on the floor of Selenity's room.
Selenity stopped in the doorway and put a hand behind her to steady herself. Elios caught her just when she feared she might not fall against the wall. A young man of about eighteen stood close by. He was tall with spiked hair and eyes of the deepest blue, eyes that she had only seen on one other person. "Surprised, Selenity? Surely you knew it was only a matter of time before we were reincarnated?" From behind him came three other figures; a girl about her own age with green hair, another young man with dark hair and eyes, and a last with red hair and eyes gave her playfully vengeful looks. If it hadn't been for Elios holding her up like he was, Selenity would have fainted by then. As if those three weren't enough, a last young man strode forth and tore his cloak from around his body. "Don't like the odds? Well that's unfortunate, but you'll soon be fighting alongside us again." Selenity shook her head. "I am loved, there is nothing that you can do to make me go back to Nemesis!" The reincarnated man with white hair smirked. "That so? I'm sure that if we told you where your daughter was, you'd oblige us." Elios' grip tightened around her waist. "I don't understand what is going on here, but I know that you should never trust your enemy when it comes to personal matters."
"You must be the Prince of Elysian, I am Prince Quartz, and I screwed your girlfriend in a past life." Quartz called from his position ten feet in front of them. "Quartz, if you're trying to get yourself killed, you're doing a damn good job. The Diamond I remember would never do such a foolhardy thing!" Again, Elios' grip tightened, and she tilted her head to the side to look up at him. Brushing her fingers down his cheek, she whispered for him to calm down. "Well we're all a little different from our previous forms, now aren't we? See, Peridot doesn't disgust me the way Emerald disgusted Diamond, and Peridot has a bit of a thing for you where Emerald barely offered Sapphire a glance. Now, I find myself cutting my losses with regards to Neo Queen Serenity, and looking toward some girls slightly closer to my age, i.e. Peridot and Princess Selenity."
"Where is Gwen?" Selenity demanded angrily. "I'm right here, Mommy." Gwen walked up from behind her, and Selenity glared at Prince Quartz. "Leave us alone!" Sapphire's reincarnation snickered. "Well, Quartz, it would appear that the kid isn't yours; she's too young." Quartz groaned. "Butt out of it, Onyx! Remember my name Selenity, you'll be screaming it one of these nights, when the moon is black as pitch." Then, the five reincarnated members of the Black Moon Family disappeared. Selenity's legs gave way, and Elios used the same technique that he had used earlier that day in order to pick her up. Sobs wracked her body as she began to cry harder than any of the other times.
"No, I don't want to! Don't make my do it!" She whispered, and felt Elios' lips against her forehead. "He will die before he puts his hands on you again, Maiden."
"No! Absolutely not!" Endymoin roared. "Endymoin, he is the only person that can keep Selenity safe, and I doubt that they'll be doing anything risqué with the guards posted outside the door. Elios is in sync with her; if something were to happen to her during the night, Elios would know in less than a second. The guards will not be able to hear all that goes on in there, and we both know that they only a little sharper than marbles." Serenity might have been right, but Endymoin wasn't about to let any man sleep in the same bed as Selenity, even if he trusted him with his life, as he did with Elios. "What bothers me is that we might have done something risqué had we been in the same circumstances at their ages." She sighed. "Selenity is a responsible person; she has a daughter to play role model for; she might do a lot of things, but when it comes down to it, I don't think she would try to jeopardize that." Endymoin rolled his eyes. "Fine, but if they slip up once, I'm sending Elios away until Selenity is twenty-one!"
Meanwhile, Selenity lay in Elios' arms while she herself cradled a sleeping Gwen. "Elios, when are you leaving?" She felt him sigh. "I'm not, not until I am certain that you and Gwen will be safe while I am gone." Gwen seemed taken with Elios, and he with her, so Selenity hoped that perhaps Gwen might like Elios to be around more often. "Now do you see why he scares me? Always, he speaks of hurting people and never helping them." He took her hand and kissed her fingertips. "I can't get over the fact that he hurt you like that... you have such a good heart, and look what happened to you; it isn't fair." Selenity sighed. "But look at what I've gained; I still have my parents, and now I have Gwen and you. Life hasn't been completely horrible, Elios, and I can at least be thankful for that. I'm in love, and not many people can say that, so I think I've made off all right." Elios cupped her cheek, and she pulled his mouth down to her's.
Gwen's eyes fluttered open, and when they focused, she giggled and turned away from the sight above her. Moments later, she was lifted up off of Selenity's lap, and ventured to look upward again. "I think we'd better get something to eat, what do you think sweetie?" Gwen nodded, realizing that Mr. Elios was holding her at the moment. As soon as Selenity was on her feet however, Mr. Elios passed her back to her mother.
"I'm tired." She said, after yawning. "Can you make it to dinner?" Mr. Elios asked with a laugh, and she closed her eyes. "Unh unh." Selenity hefted her up so that her cheek was on Selenity's shoulder. "You want to go to bed?" Even as she shook her head, trying to be a big girl, her eyes became heavier, and the last thing she noticed was Selenity closing the door behind them.
Prince Quartz was currently sitting and watching the whereabouts of Princess Selenity when the door banged open behind him.
"Quartz, you ass!" Onyx hollered. "And how may I help you, Onyx?" His brother slammed the door shut behind him. "You've no tact, you know that? You've made things twice as difficult now, because the entire galaxy is worried over their darling!" Quartz raised an eyebrow. "Princess Selenity is their darling? Oh this is rich, we simply must kidnap her now; Black Lady shan't resurface to turn on them, but if we have her, we will be able to ask for anything we want in ransom."
"Damn you! All you want is to have her again! You'd sacrifice us all for that!" Onyx countered. "And what if that's all true? She belongs to me; I took her, and I will take her again!" Quartz stood and opened the door. "The way you treat women is abominable, for her sake, I hope she never lies under you again." He angrily cuffed Onyx and pushed his brother out the door. "In the future, you'll hold your tongue unless you wish for me to splice you in two!"
"Are you serious?" Selenity asked in disbelief. "We believe that it would be beneficial for you, but if you two betray our trust..." Endymoin cut her mother off. "You won't see each other again for another four years." Selenity and Elios both flushed. "My liege, I swear that I won't take advantage of Selenity... I'm not like Prince Quartz." She winced, and he squeezed her hand, which he had been holding under the table. "I pray not, good night, and remember also that there will be guards outside the door." Selenity bit her lip, but it was only to hold back a grin.
"What time is it?" She murmured, pulling herself closer to his warmth. "Noon." Pulling herself still closer to him, she buried her face in his shirt.
"See, normally I would get up, but I don't really care to at the moment." Selenity mumbled, and felt him shake as he chuckled lightly to himself.
"What about Gwen? You locked her up in her room as I seem to recall." Elios commented. "Mother would have let her out awhile ago; she's curious, and probably found us asleep in here." After a moment, she asked; "Does... does it bother you that I'm not exactly... well to put it mildly, a maiden?" He sat up, and she leaned against him, her eyes never straying from his. "Mai... Selenity, the fact that you are not as innocent as I once thought does not bother me in itself, but the fact that someone hurt you like that... well that does bother me, more than I'd care to say. You're still the same person you were when I met you, and I still love you, even if I can't be your first. You're still my maiden, and you always will be." Their lips met slowly, and before they did, Selenity murmured; "You're still my first kiss."
Elios kissed her gently at first, but he soon brushed the tip of his tongue against her soft lips, and she parted them, allowing him entrance to her mouth. Selenity unclasped his collar at his throat and proceeded to then unbutton his jacket. He gladly shed it and unlaced the back of her dress, but as she began to dispose of that, and as his lips traveled to her throat, an explosion rocked the palace. Though the palace kept shaking, Elios knew it wasn't an earthquake, and so he pulled Selenity against him to keep her out of view from whoever might look into the window. At the same time, he pulled the cord at the base of her dress back through the holds, and they bolted through the doorway, leaving his jacket rumpled on the floor of Selenity's room.
Selenity stopped in the doorway and put a hand behind her to steady herself. Elios caught her just when she feared she might not fall against the wall. A young man of about eighteen stood close by. He was tall with spiked hair and eyes of the deepest blue, eyes that she had only seen on one other person. "Surprised, Selenity? Surely you knew it was only a matter of time before we were reincarnated?" From behind him came three other figures; a girl about her own age with green hair, another young man with dark hair and eyes, and a last with red hair and eyes gave her playfully vengeful looks. If it hadn't been for Elios holding her up like he was, Selenity would have fainted by then. As if those three weren't enough, a last young man strode forth and tore his cloak from around his body. "Don't like the odds? Well that's unfortunate, but you'll soon be fighting alongside us again." Selenity shook her head. "I am loved, there is nothing that you can do to make me go back to Nemesis!" The reincarnated man with white hair smirked. "That so? I'm sure that if we told you where your daughter was, you'd oblige us." Elios' grip tightened around her waist. "I don't understand what is going on here, but I know that you should never trust your enemy when it comes to personal matters."
"You must be the Prince of Elysian, I am Prince Quartz, and I screwed your girlfriend in a past life." Quartz called from his position ten feet in front of them. "Quartz, if you're trying to get yourself killed, you're doing a damn good job. The Diamond I remember would never do such a foolhardy thing!" Again, Elios' grip tightened, and she tilted her head to the side to look up at him. Brushing her fingers down his cheek, she whispered for him to calm down. "Well we're all a little different from our previous forms, now aren't we? See, Peridot doesn't disgust me the way Emerald disgusted Diamond, and Peridot has a bit of a thing for you where Emerald barely offered Sapphire a glance. Now, I find myself cutting my losses with regards to Neo Queen Serenity, and looking toward some girls slightly closer to my age, i.e. Peridot and Princess Selenity."
"Where is Gwen?" Selenity demanded angrily. "I'm right here, Mommy." Gwen walked up from behind her, and Selenity glared at Prince Quartz. "Leave us alone!" Sapphire's reincarnation snickered. "Well, Quartz, it would appear that the kid isn't yours; she's too young." Quartz groaned. "Butt out of it, Onyx! Remember my name Selenity, you'll be screaming it one of these nights, when the moon is black as pitch." Then, the five reincarnated members of the Black Moon Family disappeared. Selenity's legs gave way, and Elios used the same technique that he had used earlier that day in order to pick her up. Sobs wracked her body as she began to cry harder than any of the other times.
"No, I don't want to! Don't make my do it!" She whispered, and felt Elios' lips against her forehead. "He will die before he puts his hands on you again, Maiden."
"No! Absolutely not!" Endymoin roared. "Endymoin, he is the only person that can keep Selenity safe, and I doubt that they'll be doing anything risqué with the guards posted outside the door. Elios is in sync with her; if something were to happen to her during the night, Elios would know in less than a second. The guards will not be able to hear all that goes on in there, and we both know that they only a little sharper than marbles." Serenity might have been right, but Endymoin wasn't about to let any man sleep in the same bed as Selenity, even if he trusted him with his life, as he did with Elios. "What bothers me is that we might have done something risqué had we been in the same circumstances at their ages." She sighed. "Selenity is a responsible person; she has a daughter to play role model for; she might do a lot of things, but when it comes down to it, I don't think she would try to jeopardize that." Endymoin rolled his eyes. "Fine, but if they slip up once, I'm sending Elios away until Selenity is twenty-one!"
Meanwhile, Selenity lay in Elios' arms while she herself cradled a sleeping Gwen. "Elios, when are you leaving?" She felt him sigh. "I'm not, not until I am certain that you and Gwen will be safe while I am gone." Gwen seemed taken with Elios, and he with her, so Selenity hoped that perhaps Gwen might like Elios to be around more often. "Now do you see why he scares me? Always, he speaks of hurting people and never helping them." He took her hand and kissed her fingertips. "I can't get over the fact that he hurt you like that... you have such a good heart, and look what happened to you; it isn't fair." Selenity sighed. "But look at what I've gained; I still have my parents, and now I have Gwen and you. Life hasn't been completely horrible, Elios, and I can at least be thankful for that. I'm in love, and not many people can say that, so I think I've made off all right." Elios cupped her cheek, and she pulled his mouth down to her's.
Gwen's eyes fluttered open, and when they focused, she giggled and turned away from the sight above her. Moments later, she was lifted up off of Selenity's lap, and ventured to look upward again. "I think we'd better get something to eat, what do you think sweetie?" Gwen nodded, realizing that Mr. Elios was holding her at the moment. As soon as Selenity was on her feet however, Mr. Elios passed her back to her mother.
"I'm tired." She said, after yawning. "Can you make it to dinner?" Mr. Elios asked with a laugh, and she closed her eyes. "Unh unh." Selenity hefted her up so that her cheek was on Selenity's shoulder. "You want to go to bed?" Even as she shook her head, trying to be a big girl, her eyes became heavier, and the last thing she noticed was Selenity closing the door behind them.
Prince Quartz was currently sitting and watching the whereabouts of Princess Selenity when the door banged open behind him.
"Quartz, you ass!" Onyx hollered. "And how may I help you, Onyx?" His brother slammed the door shut behind him. "You've no tact, you know that? You've made things twice as difficult now, because the entire galaxy is worried over their darling!" Quartz raised an eyebrow. "Princess Selenity is their darling? Oh this is rich, we simply must kidnap her now; Black Lady shan't resurface to turn on them, but if we have her, we will be able to ask for anything we want in ransom."
"Damn you! All you want is to have her again! You'd sacrifice us all for that!" Onyx countered. "And what if that's all true? She belongs to me; I took her, and I will take her again!" Quartz stood and opened the door. "The way you treat women is abominable, for her sake, I hope she never lies under you again." He angrily cuffed Onyx and pushed his brother out the door. "In the future, you'll hold your tongue unless you wish for me to splice you in two!"
"Are you serious?" Selenity asked in disbelief. "We believe that it would be beneficial for you, but if you two betray our trust..." Endymoin cut her mother off. "You won't see each other again for another four years." Selenity and Elios both flushed. "My liege, I swear that I won't take advantage of Selenity... I'm not like Prince Quartz." She winced, and he squeezed her hand, which he had been holding under the table. "I pray not, good night, and remember also that there will be guards outside the door." Selenity bit her lip, but it was only to hold back a grin.