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12
"Forgive him Princess. He is the youngest of us and does not yet know how to control his anger at times." I heard Rubus speak to me, his voice coming from behind me. I slowly turned to face the flamed haired young man. "Do not ask me to forgive him. I can not forgive someone for hating me for something that I have done to him. I am only sorry that I do not know what to say to make his pain stop." I whispered softly, confused over what I had discovered from Sapphire's slip of a tongue. I bowed my head in thought, wondering over what could have possibly happened in the future. I heard Rubus growl in anger. "Damn you, do you have to be so fucking saccharin sweet?" Rubus demanded of me, making me jump slightly in fear. I bowed my head more, blushing slightly. "I'm...I'm... sorry." I offered softly. My stuttering caused Rubus to laugh slightly. "I guess you can't help it. You did sentence us to hell, but we couldn't hate you. We understood why you did it. You were trying to protect Crystal Tokyo, we couldn't fault you for trying to save the people from more hell than they had already been through." Rubus paused, blinking slightly, his head bowing as he struggled to continue. "In a thousand years, Earth will enter into an ice age, and all will fall asleep. One day you will come from god knows where and awaken the Earth, thawing the ice. After all have been revived you will create a Utopia. A world free from evil, from darkness and free from any whom can harm others. "Rubus paused and then bowed, flashing me a half smile as he rose. I noticed the tears in his eyes; I broke eye contact with him, unable to bare the pain in his eyes.
"We are from the NegaMoon. We are a royal family. On Earth we were no one, but that didn't matter to us. When the ice thawed we resumed our lives.
Under your rule we were supposed to convert. We refused. As punishment for not wanting to change we were sent away, we were sent to a dead star. A dead planet." Rubus paused, pain and anger clearly displayed upon his face. He shook his head and then forced himself to talk through the anger and pain.
"We were all young and found ways to survive. Diamond has and will always be our Prince. Sapphire is his brother, and it is Sapphire that endured the worst since he was the youngest."
"The sisters?" I asked softly, my voice causing Rubus to look up from the spot upon the floor that he had been staring at. He smiled slightly as he remembered the four sisters.
"The sisters are witches, and by your law, outcasts. They were sent to the dead planet with us. The hundred of us formed a world, cultivated the land and learned to live despite the lack of everything that existed upon the planet." Rubus paused and fingered at the gold crescent moon that dangled around his neck. It was the same necklace that Diamond wore. I assumed that the moon was a symbol of their court, their world.
"So you managed to survive even after I sentenced you to death?"
Rubus laughed softly at my question. "Once again you remind me that despite what you have done you are truly a kind person."
I opened my mouth to utter an apology for what my future self did to Diamond's court and countless others. Rubus raised his hand forbidding me to speak.
"We were happy Your Majesty. Despite the harshness of the world we endured and we were happy. But Diamond, something happened to Diamond. He had never been an evil man in any respect. His family along with mine, Emerald's and the others of our world were Priests and Ninja's, or what would be called those names upon Earth."
My eyebrows knit together as I struggled to follow Rubus's words and make sense of them.
"I confuse you with my ramblings don't I?" Rubus asked before he leaned back against the wall and crossed his arms over his chest. "Allow me to explain everything.
We came to Earth because a dark force had destroyed our Universe, leaving us homeless. Upon our planet we were masters of stealth, magic and a host of other skills. Skills that upon your Planet were labeled as Dark Arts and such. But to our kind they were good and noble things to partake in.
Sapphire was a master, a form of Ninja. Upon your planet our powers, our beliefs, our way of life was considered wrong when back upon our planet we were considered the good guys.
When you came and ordered us to be good, we refused because we were not evil. That is why Sapphire is so upset, so angry, because we were insulted and called the evil ones when we were never evil."
I covered my mouth as I fought to believe what I was being told. I was shocked by the fact that what Rubus said may be true, that in the future I could make such a mistake and sentence so many people to a death upon a dying planet simply because I had misunderstood their powers.
"This misunderstanding is why we came to the past." Rubus said as he pushed away from the wall and closed the distance between us.
"I know that I've been cruel in my fights with you and the other Senshi. I've done a lot of things that I regret and it is only by having you here in the castle that I understand and see that we should not be here and He must be stopped."
"I don't understand."
Rubus nodded and then began to finish his story. "We were sent to the Dead planet. We imprisoned those that were truly evil and we formed our society. Life was good after we cultivated the planet and brought it back to life. We enjoyed the same sense of peace that those upon Earth knew.
Then one day about a year ago a stranger came to our world asking for help and a place to call home. We accepted him into our society. We trusted him and soon he was Diamond's advisor.
That's when the outcry's began. People started demanding that we take retribution against you and all that you did. Sapphire became incredibly angry and Diamond began his obsession with you."
Rubus took my hand into his and nodded for me to follow him. I couldn't really pay attention to how many hallways we walked down or what doors we entered, the castle was confusing and something about it had kept me from being able to really remember anything.
When Rubus released my hand I found us in the room that Sapphire had previously dragged me into.
"This crystal was once clear much like the Silver Crystal that you wear and wield. But no one other than the royal court is allowed to view it and thus no one other than the four of us would ever be able to see it change from clear to black.
When Diamond appointed his new advisor the poisoning began. The man claimed it was because the crystal was becoming stronger, preparing to give Diamond the energy that he would need in order to destroy you and your world."
Rubus extended his hand towards the crystal and I watched as a tendril of energy snaked out from the crystal in order to caress his hand. "It's cold and painful. It doesn't feel right, and every time that we use the Black Crystal we seem to become angrier, or more spiteful, or even more obsessive."
"That man wants to destroy you Serena, that's all that he has ever wanted. I don't understand why, nor do I know why. He is the one who brought us into the past in order to track down Rini. He is the one who made Diamond 'love' you. He is the one who made Sapphire want to destroy you upon sight. He is the one who keeps us here in the past where we don't belong."
"And what has he done to you, made you become?" I asked as I stepped away from the Black Crystal, unable to be close to it for so long. Something about the huge crystal made my skin crawl and made the room spin around me.
"Someone that I never wanted to be." Rubus said softly, refusing to reveal anything about himself.
"I'm the only one who refuses to come and bask in the energy of this Crystal. I've only used its powers when ordered to and even then I was never comfortable with using it more than I had too. I suppose that is why I can stand here and tell you who we are and that Diamond needs your help as do the rest of us."
I nodded, feeling like I would be free sooner than I thought. If I could find the man who controlled Diamond I would be back upon Earth soon, I could be back with Endymion.
Rubus turned and left the crystal room. I silently followed as he led the way into what I assumed was his room. Once the door was closed he faced me and pressed my locket into my hands.
"Do not use this until you have too. If anyone knows that it is no longer in Diamond's possession I will not be able to guarantee your safety. Diamond is in love with you but his new anger makes him irrational. He does things that he later wishes he had not done." Rubus warned before he turned from me and crossed the room. He sat down upon a chair in front of his balcony.
I almost crossed the room after him, he looked so beaten as he silently sat in his chair. I wanted to help him, but without the other Senshi to help me I doubted that I would be able to destroy the man who controlled everyone from the NegaMoon.
"How kind of you to do me the favor of betraying your King." A voice that felt colder than a glacier whispered from the corner behind Rubus. " Now I have what I need to destroy you. You who resisted me and the power of the Black Crystal. You who never carried anything other than love and respect within his heart." The voice whispered as the shadows began to form into what resembled the shape of a cloaked man.
I clutched my locket tighter as I slowly began to cross the room.
Fear flashed across Rubus's face as he raised himself from the chair and turned to face the voice that carried nothing but hatred for him.
"You can do nothing to me. Destroying me would anger Diamond." Rubus whispered as his skin began to glow faintly red.
The shadowed figure laughed as a ball of black energy began to collect in front of him. "You gave her back her locket. You gave her a means of escape. For that fact alone Diamond will be furious with you. If I kill you for allowing Serenity to have her locket Diamond will not care."
I fingered the top of the locket open and stroked the crystal, mentally trying to tap into some of its energy so that I would be able to help Rubus.
"Is this Diamonds advisor?" I asked as I stood behind Rubus.
"None other." Rubus whispered before he let loose an attack that should have destroyed the man before us. I was pushed back out of the way as Rubus charged for another attack.
A rain of black fire fell on top of us before Rubus could release another attack. "Fool." Was all that I heard before the force of an explosion hurtled me back against a stone wall. I felt a trickle of hot liquid slide down my neck before pain forced me into unconsciousness.
End...
12
"Forgive him Princess. He is the youngest of us and does not yet know how to control his anger at times." I heard Rubus speak to me, his voice coming from behind me. I slowly turned to face the flamed haired young man. "Do not ask me to forgive him. I can not forgive someone for hating me for something that I have done to him. I am only sorry that I do not know what to say to make his pain stop." I whispered softly, confused over what I had discovered from Sapphire's slip of a tongue. I bowed my head in thought, wondering over what could have possibly happened in the future. I heard Rubus growl in anger. "Damn you, do you have to be so fucking saccharin sweet?" Rubus demanded of me, making me jump slightly in fear. I bowed my head more, blushing slightly. "I'm...I'm... sorry." I offered softly. My stuttering caused Rubus to laugh slightly. "I guess you can't help it. You did sentence us to hell, but we couldn't hate you. We understood why you did it. You were trying to protect Crystal Tokyo, we couldn't fault you for trying to save the people from more hell than they had already been through." Rubus paused, blinking slightly, his head bowing as he struggled to continue. "In a thousand years, Earth will enter into an ice age, and all will fall asleep. One day you will come from god knows where and awaken the Earth, thawing the ice. After all have been revived you will create a Utopia. A world free from evil, from darkness and free from any whom can harm others. "Rubus paused and then bowed, flashing me a half smile as he rose. I noticed the tears in his eyes; I broke eye contact with him, unable to bare the pain in his eyes.
"We are from the NegaMoon. We are a royal family. On Earth we were no one, but that didn't matter to us. When the ice thawed we resumed our lives.
Under your rule we were supposed to convert. We refused. As punishment for not wanting to change we were sent away, we were sent to a dead star. A dead planet." Rubus paused, pain and anger clearly displayed upon his face. He shook his head and then forced himself to talk through the anger and pain.
"We were all young and found ways to survive. Diamond has and will always be our Prince. Sapphire is his brother, and it is Sapphire that endured the worst since he was the youngest."
"The sisters?" I asked softly, my voice causing Rubus to look up from the spot upon the floor that he had been staring at. He smiled slightly as he remembered the four sisters.
"The sisters are witches, and by your law, outcasts. They were sent to the dead planet with us. The hundred of us formed a world, cultivated the land and learned to live despite the lack of everything that existed upon the planet." Rubus paused and fingered at the gold crescent moon that dangled around his neck. It was the same necklace that Diamond wore. I assumed that the moon was a symbol of their court, their world.
"So you managed to survive even after I sentenced you to death?"
Rubus laughed softly at my question. "Once again you remind me that despite what you have done you are truly a kind person."
I opened my mouth to utter an apology for what my future self did to Diamond's court and countless others. Rubus raised his hand forbidding me to speak.
"We were happy Your Majesty. Despite the harshness of the world we endured and we were happy. But Diamond, something happened to Diamond. He had never been an evil man in any respect. His family along with mine, Emerald's and the others of our world were Priests and Ninja's, or what would be called those names upon Earth."
My eyebrows knit together as I struggled to follow Rubus's words and make sense of them.
"I confuse you with my ramblings don't I?" Rubus asked before he leaned back against the wall and crossed his arms over his chest. "Allow me to explain everything.
We came to Earth because a dark force had destroyed our Universe, leaving us homeless. Upon our planet we were masters of stealth, magic and a host of other skills. Skills that upon your Planet were labeled as Dark Arts and such. But to our kind they were good and noble things to partake in.
Sapphire was a master, a form of Ninja. Upon your planet our powers, our beliefs, our way of life was considered wrong when back upon our planet we were considered the good guys.
When you came and ordered us to be good, we refused because we were not evil. That is why Sapphire is so upset, so angry, because we were insulted and called the evil ones when we were never evil."
I covered my mouth as I fought to believe what I was being told. I was shocked by the fact that what Rubus said may be true, that in the future I could make such a mistake and sentence so many people to a death upon a dying planet simply because I had misunderstood their powers.
"This misunderstanding is why we came to the past." Rubus said as he pushed away from the wall and closed the distance between us.
"I know that I've been cruel in my fights with you and the other Senshi. I've done a lot of things that I regret and it is only by having you here in the castle that I understand and see that we should not be here and He must be stopped."
"I don't understand."
Rubus nodded and then began to finish his story. "We were sent to the Dead planet. We imprisoned those that were truly evil and we formed our society. Life was good after we cultivated the planet and brought it back to life. We enjoyed the same sense of peace that those upon Earth knew.
Then one day about a year ago a stranger came to our world asking for help and a place to call home. We accepted him into our society. We trusted him and soon he was Diamond's advisor.
That's when the outcry's began. People started demanding that we take retribution against you and all that you did. Sapphire became incredibly angry and Diamond began his obsession with you."
Rubus took my hand into his and nodded for me to follow him. I couldn't really pay attention to how many hallways we walked down or what doors we entered, the castle was confusing and something about it had kept me from being able to really remember anything.
When Rubus released my hand I found us in the room that Sapphire had previously dragged me into.
"This crystal was once clear much like the Silver Crystal that you wear and wield. But no one other than the royal court is allowed to view it and thus no one other than the four of us would ever be able to see it change from clear to black.
When Diamond appointed his new advisor the poisoning began. The man claimed it was because the crystal was becoming stronger, preparing to give Diamond the energy that he would need in order to destroy you and your world."
Rubus extended his hand towards the crystal and I watched as a tendril of energy snaked out from the crystal in order to caress his hand. "It's cold and painful. It doesn't feel right, and every time that we use the Black Crystal we seem to become angrier, or more spiteful, or even more obsessive."
"That man wants to destroy you Serena, that's all that he has ever wanted. I don't understand why, nor do I know why. He is the one who brought us into the past in order to track down Rini. He is the one who made Diamond 'love' you. He is the one who made Sapphire want to destroy you upon sight. He is the one who keeps us here in the past where we don't belong."
"And what has he done to you, made you become?" I asked as I stepped away from the Black Crystal, unable to be close to it for so long. Something about the huge crystal made my skin crawl and made the room spin around me.
"Someone that I never wanted to be." Rubus said softly, refusing to reveal anything about himself.
"I'm the only one who refuses to come and bask in the energy of this Crystal. I've only used its powers when ordered to and even then I was never comfortable with using it more than I had too. I suppose that is why I can stand here and tell you who we are and that Diamond needs your help as do the rest of us."
I nodded, feeling like I would be free sooner than I thought. If I could find the man who controlled Diamond I would be back upon Earth soon, I could be back with Endymion.
Rubus turned and left the crystal room. I silently followed as he led the way into what I assumed was his room. Once the door was closed he faced me and pressed my locket into my hands.
"Do not use this until you have too. If anyone knows that it is no longer in Diamond's possession I will not be able to guarantee your safety. Diamond is in love with you but his new anger makes him irrational. He does things that he later wishes he had not done." Rubus warned before he turned from me and crossed the room. He sat down upon a chair in front of his balcony.
I almost crossed the room after him, he looked so beaten as he silently sat in his chair. I wanted to help him, but without the other Senshi to help me I doubted that I would be able to destroy the man who controlled everyone from the NegaMoon.
"How kind of you to do me the favor of betraying your King." A voice that felt colder than a glacier whispered from the corner behind Rubus. " Now I have what I need to destroy you. You who resisted me and the power of the Black Crystal. You who never carried anything other than love and respect within his heart." The voice whispered as the shadows began to form into what resembled the shape of a cloaked man.
I clutched my locket tighter as I slowly began to cross the room.
Fear flashed across Rubus's face as he raised himself from the chair and turned to face the voice that carried nothing but hatred for him.
"You can do nothing to me. Destroying me would anger Diamond." Rubus whispered as his skin began to glow faintly red.
The shadowed figure laughed as a ball of black energy began to collect in front of him. "You gave her back her locket. You gave her a means of escape. For that fact alone Diamond will be furious with you. If I kill you for allowing Serenity to have her locket Diamond will not care."
I fingered the top of the locket open and stroked the crystal, mentally trying to tap into some of its energy so that I would be able to help Rubus.
"Is this Diamonds advisor?" I asked as I stood behind Rubus.
"None other." Rubus whispered before he let loose an attack that should have destroyed the man before us. I was pushed back out of the way as Rubus charged for another attack.
A rain of black fire fell on top of us before Rubus could release another attack. "Fool." Was all that I heard before the force of an explosion hurtled me back against a stone wall. I felt a trickle of hot liquid slide down my neck before pain forced me into unconsciousness.
End...