10
I rounded yet another corner of the dark castle, shivering slightly as I realized that I desperately needed to find some clothing.
" Princess...the Prince has asked for your company." A beautiful green haired, emerald eyed woman said as she suddenly appeared in the hallway with me.
" Who are you?" I asked softly, truthfully taken aback by her beauty. " You're beautiful." I whispered softly, not realizing I had stated my comment out-loud, until the green haired beauty blushed. I smiled as she gifted me with the award winning smile.
" Please follow me." She said softly. " I am Emerald." She added as she began to walk down the hallway. I slowly followed after her, not knowing what else to do, not really having anything else to do either.
" So kind of you to join me Princess." Diamond purred to me as I stepped into the massive dinning room. Emerald closed the doors behind me while I remained silent as I stood only a few feet from the doors.
" Please do sit down." Diamond said softly as he rose and pulled out a chair from the table. I slowly walked towards him, but then stopped, pulling down the bottom of the coat, so that it covered as much of me as possible. I heard Diamond laugh softly at my little act to preserver some of my modesty.
" No need to be shy Princess, I will see you naked before the week is over." I gasped and looked up, my eyes locking with Diamonds, unable to believe his audacity.
" You don't believe me?" Diamond asked with a raise of his eyebrow before he closed the distance between us. Before I could think to stop him, Diamond had slipped his arms around me, and was kissing me as passionately as Darien use to. I gasped when I heard myself moan because of Diamond's kiss. I felt the smug smile that crossed Diamond's lips before he broke the kiss. " Come." He whispered before he picked me up, hugging me to him as we walked through the dinning room doors, passing Emerald.
As I glanced into her deep green eyes I realized that she was in love with Diamond. While Diamond carried me through the corridors I couldn't help but admire the fact that all of his followers loved him deeply.
" Who are you?" I asked softly, knowing I had once asked him the same question earlier.
" No one." He replied to me, his soft answer startling me with the depth of its truthfulness.
" If you are no one, then how is it that you know who I am?" I asked as Diamond pushed open a door and set me inside a dimly lit room.
" Who doesn't know of the famed Queen Serenity?" Diamond asked in reply.
" Queen Serenity was my mother, all knew of her and her infinite kindness. It does not surprise me that you would think that I am her. I do admit that I was her daughter in a past life. In this life, in the here and now, I am simply a school girl." I stated , still hoping I could somehow talk my way out of the situation.
" Princess, I don't know why you insist upon denying who you are?" Diamond said rather exhaustedly, as if he was disappointed the I was still resisting him. I shook my head at my thoughts, wondering why I choose to believe that I was resisting him, instead of trying to escape him.
" Let me go." I whispered softly as I took a step back from this white haired beauty of a man.
" I can not do that." He told me softly as he closed the distance that I was vainly trying to place between us.
" Please... just let me go. I swear I won't do whatever you think I will do. Please just let me go." I begged softly, hating myself for begging like this. In the few seconds that had elapsed I had realized that I wanted Diamond. Something about this blue eyed man, something about this cocky Prince had appealed to me. I wanted Prince Diamond. As I looked around, I realized we were in a bedroom, and the sight of the bed made my heart skip a few beats and a light blush rise to my cheeks.
" Tell me you don't want me." Diamond told me as he placed his hand upon my shoulder, stopping me from backing up farther.
" I don't want you." I replied in a voice that shook and belayed the meaning of my words.
" Tell me you want me." He said with a smile as he brought his lips a few inches from mine. I began to tremble. As his lips brushed against mine I felt my pulse race even faster. I closed my eyes for a split second and I saw Darien's smiling face. I saw red roses, and white opera masks, top hats and black canes.
" I don't want you." I heard myself say before I felt the disappointment radiate from Diamond and then found myself alone.
" You can tell me you don't want me all you like Princess." Diamond said as he stood in the doorway, the light flaring behind him, making only his ice eyes visible.
" You can shake and tremble in disbelieve every time I come near you. But know this Princess, if you know nothing else. A few seconds ago, had I tossed you on that bed and proceeded to make love to you, you would have let me. You can mumble Endymion's name all you like, preserve his memory all you wish, and pray for your Prince to come." I saw Diamond touch a thin gold chain around his neck, I caught sight of the gold crescent moon dangling from the chain. " No matter what Princess, you are mine." Diamond left me alone with those last words, the door clicking closed behind him, telling me that I was by myself.
End...
11
Darien walked down the almost deserted street, his eyes glued to his feet as he stumbled over his thoughts. He knew that Raye and the girls were at the temple, trying to figure out how to find Serena.
" Darien!" Raye said in surprise as she watched the blue eyed youth open the door to the temple room. The other three girls in the room turned and smiled warmly despite the fact that Darien looked like hell warmed over.
" Where is Rini?" Darien asked softly as he kneeled next to Lita giving her a slight half-hearted smile.
" At school still, why?" Raye replied as she softly touched Darien's hand. Without looking the ebon haired man shook off the priestess's touch and looked at Mina.
" Rini has the key to time. In order to save Serena we must travel through time." Darien said softly before he stood and left the temple as quickly as he had appeared.
" Okay... well that was...weird to say the least." Lita said, trying to break the sudden silence that had descended with Darien's departure.
" I've never seen him so forlorn." Raye's words were the final straw that broke Mina's back.
" Raye shut the fuck up! We all know that you damn well want Darien. Would you stop focusing upon using this time to your advantage and take three seconds to worry about Serena?" Mina shouted, her fists slamming down upon small tea table, making the china shake, and tea slosh onto the polished wood.
" But..I.." Raye stuttered.
" She has a point. Ever since Serena was taken three days ago, you've suddenly been paying more attention to Darien's moods. I've even noticed you touching his arms at times, taking advantage of his low defenses right now. You and him might have once been a hot little item, but right now, despite them being broken up, Serena and Darien are the hot little item of our group." Amy said softly, startling everyone with her words, her unusual bluntness, and the simple fact that she had spoken.
Raye bowed her head, her raven hair falling over her eye line. " When Darien and I were dating, we discovered that we could never really be anything other than good friends. Sure at one point I wanted to fuck his brains out so to speak." Raye paused, her downcast eyes missing the slight smile that her choice of words brought to Mina's lips.
" After our first kiss, me and Darien ended up laughing. We didn't feel any sparks when our lips touched, it felt like a kiss that I would give Grandpa." Raye tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear and slightly looked up and at the other girls who she considered her sisters. " Darien told me that he wanted Serena, and so we stayed together in the hope that our relationship would make Serena jealous. Her feelings for Darien were odious from the start, and we had hoped that by making her jealous it would force Serena to admit how she really felt about Darien."
Raye looked at Amy. " The only reason I've been concerned about him, and focusing upon Darien since Serena left is because I worry about him. I consider Darien my brother, just as I consider you all my sisters. I touch his arm out of concern. I can feel the pain radiating off of him, the anger in him, the anguish and the depression that he has kept well capped inside of his soul. I sense people's emotions." Raye paused and shot the rest of the girls an angry look. " Next time you accuse me of trying to take my friends future husband from her, just remember that not everything I do is for personal gain as you all seem to think." With her anger vented, Raye rose to her feet and left the small temple room, leaving the rest of the Senshi to themselves.
Darien turned the corner, tears in his eyes as he regretted his actions. He shook his head and ran a hand through his hair as he tried to calm himself down. Without looking the Earth Prince made his way towards Rini's school.
" She shares your look." The sultry voice of an elegant woman caught Darien off guard causing him to jump slightly in fear before he found the owner of the voice.
Emerald straightened from her position of leaning against the wall of a building. She flashed Darien an award winning smile and flicked the black feather fan closed in her hand. " You're pretty pretty Princess looks just as you look." Emerald purred at Darien as she walked towards him.
" Who are you?" Darien asked of the black haired female, who possessed emerald eyes that cut into him deeper than any other woman's eyes had ever.
" As of this moment I am your Allie." The woman replied as she slightly curtsied before Darien. Her slight form of respect caused Darien to wonder even more about this elegant beauty before himself.
" And in a day, who will you be?" The blue eyed Prince asked as he tilted his head slightly, to avoid the glare of the sun that was preventing him from getting a better look at the woman in front of him.
Emerald laughed her grating laugh, causing Darien to flinch in pain. Although he hid his pain well, Emerald still saw the flinch of the man before her.
" Your enemy." Emerald said softly letting some of her anger edge her voice. She couldn't believe that she had to resort to these methods for Diamond. She loved the white haired prince with all her heart, but luring this earthling into a trap was beneath Emerald's power and she knew it. Without letting her dark thoughts enter her eyes Emerald turned leaving Darien to decide upon his own whether or not to follow Emerald.
" What Princess are you referring to?" Darien asked as he automatically followed Emerald.
" Princess Serenity." Emerald replied softly before she turned down a dark alleyway.
The startled gasp from Darien made the NegaMoon Warrior smile in pleasure, she hadn't thought that her task was going to be this easy.
I sigh softly to myself for the hundredth time in days, I didn't know how long I had been in Prince Diamonds castle, I only knew that it was impossible for escape. I had discovered upon the first day that my broach had been taken, I assumed that its disappearance had something to do with the Silver Imperium Crystal housed inside the broach.
During what I assumed was day, I was left alone to wander the castle's dark corridors. At night time, I was always invited to dine with Prince Diamond. Always it was the hauntingly beautiful woman named Emerald who invited me to dine with Diamond. I was assuming that three days had passed since my capture, since I had dined thrice with Diamond.
The fourth day was no different than the other days that had passed. I awoke to find a clean simple dress of dark gray or black laying upon the foot of the massive four post bed that I slept in. Black knee high boots, or flat gray shoes were also present, along with undergarments. Black lace corsets, black lace bras, and black lace panties. Everything was black lace, and in the back of my mind I knew that it was Diamond who chose these clothes for me, it was Diamond who wanted to see me clad in only black lace undergarments.
This day I was wearing a knee length black dress of what felt like heavy silk. The sleeves were long and tapered out so that my hands were covered, the neckline was high, almost a turtleneck in style. My feet clicked softly in the two inch flat heeled shoes that I wore, black lace ran up my legs, neat bows tied under my knees, the lace attached to the shoes, making me look like a gothic ballerina. My hair was down, braided instead of up in the usual "meatball" style that Darien loved.
" Don't you look lovely." I heard Sapphire crone to me as I turned a corner. I stopped in mid-stride, not knowing how to react. I curtsied and bowed my head slightly. My little form of respect made Sapphire laugh at me, cruelly so.
" The Queen of Earth dares to pay respect to a little insignificant thief like me?" Sapphire asked me, taunting me with his words. I arched an eyebrow and looked slightly confused.
" You're a thief?" I asked softly as I raised from my curtsy. Sapphire snarled at me, realizing that he had let something slip.
" Yes, I'm a thief. That's why you condemned me to begin with." I shook my head at his words, unable to believe that I had condemned him.
" I condemned you? What did I condemn you to?" I asked as I took a step closer to him.
" Hell! Hell, Princess. You condemned us to hell!" Sapphire screamed at me, disappearing in a flash of brilliant cobalt blue light before I could stop him to question him more.
End...
I rounded yet another corner of the dark castle, shivering slightly as I realized that I desperately needed to find some clothing.
" Princess...the Prince has asked for your company." A beautiful green haired, emerald eyed woman said as she suddenly appeared in the hallway with me.
" Who are you?" I asked softly, truthfully taken aback by her beauty. " You're beautiful." I whispered softly, not realizing I had stated my comment out-loud, until the green haired beauty blushed. I smiled as she gifted me with the award winning smile.
" Please follow me." She said softly. " I am Emerald." She added as she began to walk down the hallway. I slowly followed after her, not knowing what else to do, not really having anything else to do either.
" So kind of you to join me Princess." Diamond purred to me as I stepped into the massive dinning room. Emerald closed the doors behind me while I remained silent as I stood only a few feet from the doors.
" Please do sit down." Diamond said softly as he rose and pulled out a chair from the table. I slowly walked towards him, but then stopped, pulling down the bottom of the coat, so that it covered as much of me as possible. I heard Diamond laugh softly at my little act to preserver some of my modesty.
" No need to be shy Princess, I will see you naked before the week is over." I gasped and looked up, my eyes locking with Diamonds, unable to believe his audacity.
" You don't believe me?" Diamond asked with a raise of his eyebrow before he closed the distance between us. Before I could think to stop him, Diamond had slipped his arms around me, and was kissing me as passionately as Darien use to. I gasped when I heard myself moan because of Diamond's kiss. I felt the smug smile that crossed Diamond's lips before he broke the kiss. " Come." He whispered before he picked me up, hugging me to him as we walked through the dinning room doors, passing Emerald.
As I glanced into her deep green eyes I realized that she was in love with Diamond. While Diamond carried me through the corridors I couldn't help but admire the fact that all of his followers loved him deeply.
" Who are you?" I asked softly, knowing I had once asked him the same question earlier.
" No one." He replied to me, his soft answer startling me with the depth of its truthfulness.
" If you are no one, then how is it that you know who I am?" I asked as Diamond pushed open a door and set me inside a dimly lit room.
" Who doesn't know of the famed Queen Serenity?" Diamond asked in reply.
" Queen Serenity was my mother, all knew of her and her infinite kindness. It does not surprise me that you would think that I am her. I do admit that I was her daughter in a past life. In this life, in the here and now, I am simply a school girl." I stated , still hoping I could somehow talk my way out of the situation.
" Princess, I don't know why you insist upon denying who you are?" Diamond said rather exhaustedly, as if he was disappointed the I was still resisting him. I shook my head at my thoughts, wondering why I choose to believe that I was resisting him, instead of trying to escape him.
" Let me go." I whispered softly as I took a step back from this white haired beauty of a man.
" I can not do that." He told me softly as he closed the distance that I was vainly trying to place between us.
" Please... just let me go. I swear I won't do whatever you think I will do. Please just let me go." I begged softly, hating myself for begging like this. In the few seconds that had elapsed I had realized that I wanted Diamond. Something about this blue eyed man, something about this cocky Prince had appealed to me. I wanted Prince Diamond. As I looked around, I realized we were in a bedroom, and the sight of the bed made my heart skip a few beats and a light blush rise to my cheeks.
" Tell me you don't want me." Diamond told me as he placed his hand upon my shoulder, stopping me from backing up farther.
" I don't want you." I replied in a voice that shook and belayed the meaning of my words.
" Tell me you want me." He said with a smile as he brought his lips a few inches from mine. I began to tremble. As his lips brushed against mine I felt my pulse race even faster. I closed my eyes for a split second and I saw Darien's smiling face. I saw red roses, and white opera masks, top hats and black canes.
" I don't want you." I heard myself say before I felt the disappointment radiate from Diamond and then found myself alone.
" You can tell me you don't want me all you like Princess." Diamond said as he stood in the doorway, the light flaring behind him, making only his ice eyes visible.
" You can shake and tremble in disbelieve every time I come near you. But know this Princess, if you know nothing else. A few seconds ago, had I tossed you on that bed and proceeded to make love to you, you would have let me. You can mumble Endymion's name all you like, preserve his memory all you wish, and pray for your Prince to come." I saw Diamond touch a thin gold chain around his neck, I caught sight of the gold crescent moon dangling from the chain. " No matter what Princess, you are mine." Diamond left me alone with those last words, the door clicking closed behind him, telling me that I was by myself.
End...
11
Darien walked down the almost deserted street, his eyes glued to his feet as he stumbled over his thoughts. He knew that Raye and the girls were at the temple, trying to figure out how to find Serena.
" Darien!" Raye said in surprise as she watched the blue eyed youth open the door to the temple room. The other three girls in the room turned and smiled warmly despite the fact that Darien looked like hell warmed over.
" Where is Rini?" Darien asked softly as he kneeled next to Lita giving her a slight half-hearted smile.
" At school still, why?" Raye replied as she softly touched Darien's hand. Without looking the ebon haired man shook off the priestess's touch and looked at Mina.
" Rini has the key to time. In order to save Serena we must travel through time." Darien said softly before he stood and left the temple as quickly as he had appeared.
" Okay... well that was...weird to say the least." Lita said, trying to break the sudden silence that had descended with Darien's departure.
" I've never seen him so forlorn." Raye's words were the final straw that broke Mina's back.
" Raye shut the fuck up! We all know that you damn well want Darien. Would you stop focusing upon using this time to your advantage and take three seconds to worry about Serena?" Mina shouted, her fists slamming down upon small tea table, making the china shake, and tea slosh onto the polished wood.
" But..I.." Raye stuttered.
" She has a point. Ever since Serena was taken three days ago, you've suddenly been paying more attention to Darien's moods. I've even noticed you touching his arms at times, taking advantage of his low defenses right now. You and him might have once been a hot little item, but right now, despite them being broken up, Serena and Darien are the hot little item of our group." Amy said softly, startling everyone with her words, her unusual bluntness, and the simple fact that she had spoken.
Raye bowed her head, her raven hair falling over her eye line. " When Darien and I were dating, we discovered that we could never really be anything other than good friends. Sure at one point I wanted to fuck his brains out so to speak." Raye paused, her downcast eyes missing the slight smile that her choice of words brought to Mina's lips.
" After our first kiss, me and Darien ended up laughing. We didn't feel any sparks when our lips touched, it felt like a kiss that I would give Grandpa." Raye tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear and slightly looked up and at the other girls who she considered her sisters. " Darien told me that he wanted Serena, and so we stayed together in the hope that our relationship would make Serena jealous. Her feelings for Darien were odious from the start, and we had hoped that by making her jealous it would force Serena to admit how she really felt about Darien."
Raye looked at Amy. " The only reason I've been concerned about him, and focusing upon Darien since Serena left is because I worry about him. I consider Darien my brother, just as I consider you all my sisters. I touch his arm out of concern. I can feel the pain radiating off of him, the anger in him, the anguish and the depression that he has kept well capped inside of his soul. I sense people's emotions." Raye paused and shot the rest of the girls an angry look. " Next time you accuse me of trying to take my friends future husband from her, just remember that not everything I do is for personal gain as you all seem to think." With her anger vented, Raye rose to her feet and left the small temple room, leaving the rest of the Senshi to themselves.
Darien turned the corner, tears in his eyes as he regretted his actions. He shook his head and ran a hand through his hair as he tried to calm himself down. Without looking the Earth Prince made his way towards Rini's school.
" She shares your look." The sultry voice of an elegant woman caught Darien off guard causing him to jump slightly in fear before he found the owner of the voice.
Emerald straightened from her position of leaning against the wall of a building. She flashed Darien an award winning smile and flicked the black feather fan closed in her hand. " You're pretty pretty Princess looks just as you look." Emerald purred at Darien as she walked towards him.
" Who are you?" Darien asked of the black haired female, who possessed emerald eyes that cut into him deeper than any other woman's eyes had ever.
" As of this moment I am your Allie." The woman replied as she slightly curtsied before Darien. Her slight form of respect caused Darien to wonder even more about this elegant beauty before himself.
" And in a day, who will you be?" The blue eyed Prince asked as he tilted his head slightly, to avoid the glare of the sun that was preventing him from getting a better look at the woman in front of him.
Emerald laughed her grating laugh, causing Darien to flinch in pain. Although he hid his pain well, Emerald still saw the flinch of the man before her.
" Your enemy." Emerald said softly letting some of her anger edge her voice. She couldn't believe that she had to resort to these methods for Diamond. She loved the white haired prince with all her heart, but luring this earthling into a trap was beneath Emerald's power and she knew it. Without letting her dark thoughts enter her eyes Emerald turned leaving Darien to decide upon his own whether or not to follow Emerald.
" What Princess are you referring to?" Darien asked as he automatically followed Emerald.
" Princess Serenity." Emerald replied softly before she turned down a dark alleyway.
The startled gasp from Darien made the NegaMoon Warrior smile in pleasure, she hadn't thought that her task was going to be this easy.
I sigh softly to myself for the hundredth time in days, I didn't know how long I had been in Prince Diamonds castle, I only knew that it was impossible for escape. I had discovered upon the first day that my broach had been taken, I assumed that its disappearance had something to do with the Silver Imperium Crystal housed inside the broach.
During what I assumed was day, I was left alone to wander the castle's dark corridors. At night time, I was always invited to dine with Prince Diamond. Always it was the hauntingly beautiful woman named Emerald who invited me to dine with Diamond. I was assuming that three days had passed since my capture, since I had dined thrice with Diamond.
The fourth day was no different than the other days that had passed. I awoke to find a clean simple dress of dark gray or black laying upon the foot of the massive four post bed that I slept in. Black knee high boots, or flat gray shoes were also present, along with undergarments. Black lace corsets, black lace bras, and black lace panties. Everything was black lace, and in the back of my mind I knew that it was Diamond who chose these clothes for me, it was Diamond who wanted to see me clad in only black lace undergarments.
This day I was wearing a knee length black dress of what felt like heavy silk. The sleeves were long and tapered out so that my hands were covered, the neckline was high, almost a turtleneck in style. My feet clicked softly in the two inch flat heeled shoes that I wore, black lace ran up my legs, neat bows tied under my knees, the lace attached to the shoes, making me look like a gothic ballerina. My hair was down, braided instead of up in the usual "meatball" style that Darien loved.
" Don't you look lovely." I heard Sapphire crone to me as I turned a corner. I stopped in mid-stride, not knowing how to react. I curtsied and bowed my head slightly. My little form of respect made Sapphire laugh at me, cruelly so.
" The Queen of Earth dares to pay respect to a little insignificant thief like me?" Sapphire asked me, taunting me with his words. I arched an eyebrow and looked slightly confused.
" You're a thief?" I asked softly as I raised from my curtsy. Sapphire snarled at me, realizing that he had let something slip.
" Yes, I'm a thief. That's why you condemned me to begin with." I shook my head at his words, unable to believe that I had condemned him.
" I condemned you? What did I condemn you to?" I asked as I took a step closer to him.
" Hell! Hell, Princess. You condemned us to hell!" Sapphire screamed at me, disappearing in a flash of brilliant cobalt blue light before I could stop him to question him more.
End...