8
Diamond smiled at me and then waved his hand. The room suddenly flared to life as a picture was projected in the middle of the room. I turned around fearing what I would see. Diamond walked up behind me, I could feel his breath upon my neck as I stared at a hologram of the future me.
" You were saying?" Diamond asked me coolly as his arm slipped protectively around my waist causing me to lean back against him slightly.
" What do you want?" I asked fear clutching at me but knowing I could do nothing except talk my way free of this bewitching prince's arms.
" You." Diamond whispered against my neck before his lips softly kissed the nape of my neck.
"Why?" I demanded, my voice shaky as I found myself leaning back more into Diamond's warm embrace.
" I love you...I have always loved you since the moment I first laid eyes upon you. I need you...I want you." Diamond spoke into my ear causing me to shake; unable to stop my heart from beating a little faster from his words. I shook my head and groaned as I forced myself to break free of his threateningly tender arms.
" You can't have me." I said hating myself for even allowing his words to touch my heart.
" Lady...." Diamond said softly as I saw the wicked grin that graced his lips. " Why do you deny me? I know you want me." Diamond said with such sureness in his voice that it made me gasp in shock. " Tell me you don't, so I can prove that you do want me." Diamond whispered to me as I felt his fingers lightly stroke my cheekbone.
" Let me go." I said softly; finding myself wanting to yield to his arms, wanting to yield to his words, and hating myself with every want of my foolish heart.
" I can not...and you do want me to." Diamond said cockily before his hand dropped from my face and he turned leaving me alone in the massive throne room.
" Do as you like. There is no escape." Diamond's voice told me as I slowly slide to the ground unable to believe what was happening to me.
"Endymion...my love." I whispered before I felt the tears begin to fall down my face. " How can I call you my love when three seconds ago I would have yielded to that man's mouth had he but kissed me?" I asked myself as I vainly tried to wipe the tears from my face only to have more tears slip free of my eyes. " What do I do...how could I have...oh god..." I said as I dropped forward my hands catching myself upon the floor as I sat upon my knees and hands watching my tears fall to the marble floor below me.
Tuxedo mask leapt at the spot where Serena had once been standing. " No...." Darien cried as he morphed back into his street clothes and fell to his knees feeling the first of many tears slide down his face. "No...no....no...." He chanted to himself as the other Sailor Senshi stood shocked and unable to move while they silently watched Darien cry.
" What do we do?" Raye was the first to speak as she took a step towards Darien, deeply concerned for her one time lover.
" I don't know...I could try to find her energy signal but considering how we haven't been able to track their energy so far, I don't think that I would find her." Amy said as she pulled out her small mini-computer and began to run statistics.
" Darien..." Raye said softly as she dropped to her knees besides the seemingly broken man.
Darien said nothing as he slowly rose to his feet and walked off into the forest sadness and pain clinging to him tightly.
"Darien." Raye called again a she rose to follow after the ebon-haired man only to feel Lita's restraining hand fall upon her shoulder.
" Let him go." The tall girl said before Raye nodded and turned back to face the other girls.
" As bad as this might sound, this might be exactly what Serena and Darien need." Mina said softly as Amy closed her computer and put it away, shaking her head when the other girls looked to her.
" No luck...it's almost as if they have never been here." Amy said softly.
" This isn't good. We have got to be able to do something." Raye said as her hands clenched and she cast one last look into the forest where Darien had disappeared.
End....
9
I slowly stopped crying realizing the futileness of my tears. " There has got to be a way out of this place." I whispered to myself as I looked around and then slowly began to walk towards what looked to be a doorway.
" Looking for something?" A male's voice called out to me as I entered a large dimly lit room.
" A way out." I said sarcastically as my eyes fell upon a raven haired man with sapphire blue eyes. " Darien?" I whispered hopefully as I stared at the man unable to believe that it could be my love. I sighed in disappointment as the man stepped into a spot of light and I saw that he was not Darien as I had hopped.
" Sapphire." The man said coldly to me as if guessing the wave of my thoughts. " You are not the first to mistake me for the Prince of Earth." Sapphire said as I clearly read the malice in his gaze, malice that was directed at me.
" I apologize I meant no offense." I said softly as I looked down at the ground.
" God! Spare me your pity Princess." Sapphire shouted at me causing me to jump in fright before I felt his hand lock around my wrist. " I should kill you here and now. I hate you and your kind. I hate your fucking future. Maybe I should spare the Earth from your damnable innocence and kill you now." Sapphire said as he dragged me after him and thrust me towards a massive black crystal, but did not let go of my wrist. I stumbled but managed to not fall as I felt the black crystal seemingly hum louder from my nearness.
"See that Princess? That's your future." Sapphire said coldly as I felt him step besides me and look fondly at the black gem. " That's what will become of your precious Crystal Tokyo."
" What is it?" I asked softly as I tried to pull my wrist free of his grasp, he grinned wickedly and squeezed my wrist tighter until I felt something pop. I yelped in pain, only to have his laughter cut me deeper than the pain that now ran through my arm.
" Death." He whispered softly in reply to my question before he let my wrist go, and spun to face me. " More precisely, your death." He growled softly to me.
I shivered as I read the contempt and anger in his gaze. " Why...." I stuttered out softly.
" Why not?" He replied coldly with a raise of his eyebrow. I whimpered softly and tried to take a step back from him, when I felt a wall of flesh stop my retreat.
" Sapphire, leave her alone." I heard Rubus crone out in a bored tone.
" I didn't do anything more than frighten her a little." The sapphire eyed man said as he took a step back and turned away from the ruby eyed man behind me and disappeared in a swirl of light and wind.
I heard Rubus sigh softly before his fingers softly took my injured wrist in his hand. He raised my wrist slightly and looked at it, inspecting the damage done. I studied his face unable to believe that no marks marred his face. Rubus was completely healed from the previous battle.
" Are you in pain?" He asked softly, his voice and his gestures unnerving me slightly.
"Noo...noo." I stuttered as he softly began to bind my wrist with a piece of muslin, that he had produced from thin air.
" If Diamond asks, say you fell. Sapphire is his brother, but you are his love. Diamond will kill Sapphire for harming you, even in this slight way." Rubus softly ruffled my hair.
" Don't know what that old man sees in you though. Personally I like my women with some meat and muscle. That Jupiter is more my taste." Rubus said with a wink before he turned and left me once more to my own devices.
As Rubus left I had to smile slightly at his departing comment. " Lita would so kill me..." I said softly at the idea of finding Rubus and telling him that Jupiter also fancied him, like he fancied her. I shook my head and turned to try and find a way out of this seeming maze of a dark castle.
Darien sighed as he sat down upon his couch, where only hours before Serena had sat. " My love..." He whispered softly out-loud as he felt another tear slip down his cheek. He wiped away the salinity as he buried his face in his hands feeling helpless.
" Where are you My Princess?" He softly whispered to the universe.
" In the future." Darien jumped as he heard his voice answer himself. The startled Earth Prince looked up from his hands and saw a vision of himself dressed in a lavender tuxedo displayed upon his big screen television.
" Who the hell are you?" Darien asked, shock making him slightly angry. His future self laughed softly at Darien's question and then bowed.
" You...in about a million years." The lavender Darien replied as he straightened from his bow. " King Endymion of Earth."
Darien nodded and then relaxed. " Stranger things have happened." He whispered to himself. Darien gasped as he finally recognized the voice from his dreams. " You!" Darien shouted at his future self.
Endymion nodded. " Yes, I sent you the dreams."
" Why?" Darien demanded as he found his fists clenching.
" I thought that if I could separate us in the past, than her future would not become what it is..." Endymion bowed his head as he blinked back tears. " I was trying to save her, just her. But it seems that by saving her, I doomed her."
" Do you know where she is?" Darien asked as he found he could not hate his future self for doing what he thought was right. For trying to save Serena.
" She's in the future. In Prince Diamonds castle." Endymion replied as he looked at Darien again, all signs of tears gone from his handsome face. " Rini has the key to The Time Gate. Bring the other Scouts and Rini to the future. Once you are here I can tell you how to rescue your Serena." Endymion closed his eyes in pain as he remembered his Serena.
" Once you rescue her; I will show you why I wanted to save her in the past, from the future that awaits her." Endymion bowed one last time and then the television screen went blank.
End...
Diamond smiled at me and then waved his hand. The room suddenly flared to life as a picture was projected in the middle of the room. I turned around fearing what I would see. Diamond walked up behind me, I could feel his breath upon my neck as I stared at a hologram of the future me.
" You were saying?" Diamond asked me coolly as his arm slipped protectively around my waist causing me to lean back against him slightly.
" What do you want?" I asked fear clutching at me but knowing I could do nothing except talk my way free of this bewitching prince's arms.
" You." Diamond whispered against my neck before his lips softly kissed the nape of my neck.
"Why?" I demanded, my voice shaky as I found myself leaning back more into Diamond's warm embrace.
" I love you...I have always loved you since the moment I first laid eyes upon you. I need you...I want you." Diamond spoke into my ear causing me to shake; unable to stop my heart from beating a little faster from his words. I shook my head and groaned as I forced myself to break free of his threateningly tender arms.
" You can't have me." I said hating myself for even allowing his words to touch my heart.
" Lady...." Diamond said softly as I saw the wicked grin that graced his lips. " Why do you deny me? I know you want me." Diamond said with such sureness in his voice that it made me gasp in shock. " Tell me you don't, so I can prove that you do want me." Diamond whispered to me as I felt his fingers lightly stroke my cheekbone.
" Let me go." I said softly; finding myself wanting to yield to his arms, wanting to yield to his words, and hating myself with every want of my foolish heart.
" I can not...and you do want me to." Diamond said cockily before his hand dropped from my face and he turned leaving me alone in the massive throne room.
" Do as you like. There is no escape." Diamond's voice told me as I slowly slide to the ground unable to believe what was happening to me.
"Endymion...my love." I whispered before I felt the tears begin to fall down my face. " How can I call you my love when three seconds ago I would have yielded to that man's mouth had he but kissed me?" I asked myself as I vainly tried to wipe the tears from my face only to have more tears slip free of my eyes. " What do I do...how could I have...oh god..." I said as I dropped forward my hands catching myself upon the floor as I sat upon my knees and hands watching my tears fall to the marble floor below me.
Tuxedo mask leapt at the spot where Serena had once been standing. " No...." Darien cried as he morphed back into his street clothes and fell to his knees feeling the first of many tears slide down his face. "No...no....no...." He chanted to himself as the other Sailor Senshi stood shocked and unable to move while they silently watched Darien cry.
" What do we do?" Raye was the first to speak as she took a step towards Darien, deeply concerned for her one time lover.
" I don't know...I could try to find her energy signal but considering how we haven't been able to track their energy so far, I don't think that I would find her." Amy said as she pulled out her small mini-computer and began to run statistics.
" Darien..." Raye said softly as she dropped to her knees besides the seemingly broken man.
Darien said nothing as he slowly rose to his feet and walked off into the forest sadness and pain clinging to him tightly.
"Darien." Raye called again a she rose to follow after the ebon-haired man only to feel Lita's restraining hand fall upon her shoulder.
" Let him go." The tall girl said before Raye nodded and turned back to face the other girls.
" As bad as this might sound, this might be exactly what Serena and Darien need." Mina said softly as Amy closed her computer and put it away, shaking her head when the other girls looked to her.
" No luck...it's almost as if they have never been here." Amy said softly.
" This isn't good. We have got to be able to do something." Raye said as her hands clenched and she cast one last look into the forest where Darien had disappeared.
End....
9
I slowly stopped crying realizing the futileness of my tears. " There has got to be a way out of this place." I whispered to myself as I looked around and then slowly began to walk towards what looked to be a doorway.
" Looking for something?" A male's voice called out to me as I entered a large dimly lit room.
" A way out." I said sarcastically as my eyes fell upon a raven haired man with sapphire blue eyes. " Darien?" I whispered hopefully as I stared at the man unable to believe that it could be my love. I sighed in disappointment as the man stepped into a spot of light and I saw that he was not Darien as I had hopped.
" Sapphire." The man said coldly to me as if guessing the wave of my thoughts. " You are not the first to mistake me for the Prince of Earth." Sapphire said as I clearly read the malice in his gaze, malice that was directed at me.
" I apologize I meant no offense." I said softly as I looked down at the ground.
" God! Spare me your pity Princess." Sapphire shouted at me causing me to jump in fright before I felt his hand lock around my wrist. " I should kill you here and now. I hate you and your kind. I hate your fucking future. Maybe I should spare the Earth from your damnable innocence and kill you now." Sapphire said as he dragged me after him and thrust me towards a massive black crystal, but did not let go of my wrist. I stumbled but managed to not fall as I felt the black crystal seemingly hum louder from my nearness.
"See that Princess? That's your future." Sapphire said coldly as I felt him step besides me and look fondly at the black gem. " That's what will become of your precious Crystal Tokyo."
" What is it?" I asked softly as I tried to pull my wrist free of his grasp, he grinned wickedly and squeezed my wrist tighter until I felt something pop. I yelped in pain, only to have his laughter cut me deeper than the pain that now ran through my arm.
" Death." He whispered softly in reply to my question before he let my wrist go, and spun to face me. " More precisely, your death." He growled softly to me.
I shivered as I read the contempt and anger in his gaze. " Why...." I stuttered out softly.
" Why not?" He replied coldly with a raise of his eyebrow. I whimpered softly and tried to take a step back from him, when I felt a wall of flesh stop my retreat.
" Sapphire, leave her alone." I heard Rubus crone out in a bored tone.
" I didn't do anything more than frighten her a little." The sapphire eyed man said as he took a step back and turned away from the ruby eyed man behind me and disappeared in a swirl of light and wind.
I heard Rubus sigh softly before his fingers softly took my injured wrist in his hand. He raised my wrist slightly and looked at it, inspecting the damage done. I studied his face unable to believe that no marks marred his face. Rubus was completely healed from the previous battle.
" Are you in pain?" He asked softly, his voice and his gestures unnerving me slightly.
"Noo...noo." I stuttered as he softly began to bind my wrist with a piece of muslin, that he had produced from thin air.
" If Diamond asks, say you fell. Sapphire is his brother, but you are his love. Diamond will kill Sapphire for harming you, even in this slight way." Rubus softly ruffled my hair.
" Don't know what that old man sees in you though. Personally I like my women with some meat and muscle. That Jupiter is more my taste." Rubus said with a wink before he turned and left me once more to my own devices.
As Rubus left I had to smile slightly at his departing comment. " Lita would so kill me..." I said softly at the idea of finding Rubus and telling him that Jupiter also fancied him, like he fancied her. I shook my head and turned to try and find a way out of this seeming maze of a dark castle.
Darien sighed as he sat down upon his couch, where only hours before Serena had sat. " My love..." He whispered softly out-loud as he felt another tear slip down his cheek. He wiped away the salinity as he buried his face in his hands feeling helpless.
" Where are you My Princess?" He softly whispered to the universe.
" In the future." Darien jumped as he heard his voice answer himself. The startled Earth Prince looked up from his hands and saw a vision of himself dressed in a lavender tuxedo displayed upon his big screen television.
" Who the hell are you?" Darien asked, shock making him slightly angry. His future self laughed softly at Darien's question and then bowed.
" You...in about a million years." The lavender Darien replied as he straightened from his bow. " King Endymion of Earth."
Darien nodded and then relaxed. " Stranger things have happened." He whispered to himself. Darien gasped as he finally recognized the voice from his dreams. " You!" Darien shouted at his future self.
Endymion nodded. " Yes, I sent you the dreams."
" Why?" Darien demanded as he found his fists clenching.
" I thought that if I could separate us in the past, than her future would not become what it is..." Endymion bowed his head as he blinked back tears. " I was trying to save her, just her. But it seems that by saving her, I doomed her."
" Do you know where she is?" Darien asked as he found he could not hate his future self for doing what he thought was right. For trying to save Serena.
" She's in the future. In Prince Diamonds castle." Endymion replied as he looked at Darien again, all signs of tears gone from his handsome face. " Rini has the key to The Time Gate. Bring the other Scouts and Rini to the future. Once you are here I can tell you how to rescue your Serena." Endymion closed his eyes in pain as he remembered his Serena.
" Once you rescue her; I will show you why I wanted to save her in the past, from the future that awaits her." Endymion bowed one last time and then the television screen went blank.
End...