Lita made it home with some difficulty. She never noticed what happened to Luna and Artemis, all she knew is that they were no longer following her. It was so very fortunate that she lived alone, had she still lived with her parents they would have been worried sick about her. One glance at the calendar told her that she was away for two days, it seemed longer, so much happened in so little time!

Exhausted she fell on top of her bed. She was still bleeding and dirty, but she just wasn't strong enough to take a bath just yet. She clutched the transformation sticks in her hand firmly wondering what she was going to do with them. What she wanted to do was sleep, but she couldn't trust herself to fall asleep with these unprotected, the guardians knew where she lived, it would take them little time to find her here. Besides, sleep just didn't want to come to her right now, her head was too full of thought to sleep well.

Sighing she pulled herself up despite the pain and sat up against the backboard. She felt like she was no longer safe in her own house, she couldn't really stay here any more. Technically, the house was in her name, so an idea struck her, she could always sell it and move out. She looked around, so much stuff, so little time, she didn't have time or strength to get rid of all of this, she would just have to leave it as it was. Maybe that was for the better anyways, no one knew when she would need to come back here, it would be nice to have a place to stay in a tight moment.

Once again Lita fingered the transformation sticks running her fingers gently over their smooth surface. Moon. Mars. Mercury. Venus. They were all gone. It stung on the inside knowing that she will never see her friends again, and who's fault was it?!!! Gritting her teeth Lita swore that she will never be a pawn in this game again, she didn't have it in her heart to hate enough to swear vengeance on the guardians like many would have done in her place, her heart was too pure for that.

The first thing that Lita did next morning was pull out her saving and purchase a metal briefcase with coded locks, the really expensive type, the type in which people transported valuables, the bullet proof type, with locks that were far beyond Luna's and Artemis' skill to pick. An old friend of hers had a 'spy' shop as he liked to call it, he sold little gadgets that government officials used to the public, of course, he didn't cell anything special, but little things like a small sly cam, or a fancy briefcase were accessible. He gave Lita a weird look when she decided to invest in something so useless in his opinion, after all, what use did she have for an armoured briefcase?

As soon as the girl got home she placed the transformation sticks in the briefcase. It was not a big one, just a little bigger then a lunchbox, easy for carrying and easy for hiding. Locking it tight she examined the keys, they looked really complicated, not your usual simplified keys on most briefcases. Plus, there were four locks and four different keys to open them, as well as a code that only she knew. Lita got out a ball-chain and put the keys on it fastening them around her neck. 'Safe' she thought as she fingered the four small keys on her neck and repeated the numbers of the code.

Now she just had to hide it, but until she found a suitable place, she would not risk loosing these precious objects. Finally she placed the small briefcase into a small backpack so she could carry it around without being suspicious, zipped it up and locked the zippers with a small traveling lock. She didn't plan to carry it around for very long, that would be dangerous, but she needed to transport it somehow.

Lita sat by her window looking up at the sky. "This is too weird, I feel like I'm in a sci-fi movie or something" she closed her eyes, she felt so weak, so very drained, emotionally and physically, she didn't rest last night, and her strength just didn't want to come back to her. It was so hard, being on her own, she said that she wouldn't fight this war any more, but she was still so very stuck in it. Suddenly, it just occurred to her, now that there was no one to fight the negaverse, they were free to take over the earth... Suddenly looking out the window at the people walking outside acquired a new meaning to her, it was so very hard to believe that this life, these people, this civilization, it was coming to an end and they didn't even know it.

'Nothing I can do about it now...' thought Lita and closed her eyes so she wouldn't cry again, she was alone, they were no match for the negaverse when they were together, and what chance did she have now? Besides, she didn't even want to fight the negaverse any more, there was nothing else she could have done for the earth to begin with, there was nothing she could do for it now, only now she was one of the only few who knew what was going to happened so now she could think about her own survival. She didn't care about saving anything any more, she has lost a huge chunk of her heart back in the negaverse, it was very hard to care for anyone and anything when you were so hurt and abandoned, it was hard to save when you needed saving yourself and even harder to care about saving others when no one cared about saving you.

In any case, she needed to leave this place, she couldn't stay and be safe here any more. The guardians made it clear that they were willing to kill all of them in order to complete their mission, she was now standing in the way of them completing it, she didn't know how, but she almost had a feeling that there was some way they could harm her still. And she was sure, that if they had to, they would.

She had a little money saved up, she was saving up to go to university, but that didn't seem likely now and she needed that money more then ever now. She decided to only take what she could fit in her backpack which was practically nothing, one change of clothing and a few small personal items that held sentimental value to her. She could only console herself that all her things were still accessible to her here if she needed them.

Not allowing herself to stall, Lita has closed the door of her house that very afternoon, not even waiting for evening. In case she was being spied on, she didn't look like she was going somewhere far, with a small backpack that is. And of course, no one needed to know what a hefty sum of money she has withdrawn from the bank earlier and was now carrying in that backpack.

Lita wondered aimlessly the streets of Tokyo almost memorizing the surroundings. She wondered where could she go, she didn't want to stay here, too many memories, it took all her willpower just not to cry whenever she passed an old hangout or some place rose a memory of her doing something there with the other scouts. Finally exhausted, late in the evening Lita flopped down on a bench and watched the starts start appearing in the darkening sky.

"Lita..." the girl jumped to her feet at the sound of her name, the first thing coming to her mind was that the guardians have found her, but surely they didn't expect to still try and talk her into cooperating any more, that would have just been laughable.

"You shouldn't walk around untransformed, for that matter, you shouldn't walk around in the open at all." She recognized the voice and she expected to see Darien, or at least Tuxedo Mask, but she was surprised to see Prince Endymion in his full dark glory.

"What do you want?!!!" she snapped at him feeling extremely vulnerable in her human form, she wanted to be a scout now, much good that would do her against Darien, but it was better then nothing. Her fingers were itching for her transformation stick, but she was afraid to loose her focus on him knowing just how fast he could move when he wanted to.

"Relax, I'm not here to try and harm you in any way. I just wanted to warn you not to expect a pair of house cats to come after you and what you are carrying in that backpack"

Lita growled, so he knew, but then again, that wasn't much of a surprise, he had a thing for spying on people, but then again, that must mean that the guardians knew too.

"And what am I to expect to be coming after me, a negaverse monster?!" she asked sarcastically.

"No, quite worse, you are to expect the true guardians to be coming after you, at their full power"

Lita blinked confused "What do you mean at their full power?"

"I'm not completely sure on the details, but I've been remembering things about the silver millennium lately, when I saw you return alone I almost lost it, I don't know how, but I can't transform into Tuxedo Mask any more, when I tried I transformed into my original form. When I did, I started remembering, some things about the guardians you might want to know."

Lita allowed her guard to drop just a little bit, but not that much. The only reason she was really trusting Darien at all was because he had a reason to help her, his beloved Serena was gone because of them. Now, come to think of it, it made sense for him to become Prince Endymion now that Serenity was gone.

"Well then, tell me, what is it that you remembered about them?"

"How about you transform and we get out of here first, people are starting to stare"

Lita smirked eyeing his ancient looking armour. Moments later Sailor Jupiter was before him, looking a little strange clutching on to a very normal looking backpack. They chose a tall roof to sit on looking over the city.

"I don't remember some details, but I believe that the very reason that they are in cat forms is because they were punished. Luna and Artemis were originally both very high ranking officers in Silver Millennium, as well as partners and lovers. Luna was much less respected then Artemis was because of her low birth, but she cared little about what people thought of her as long as she was with Artemis, I remember her as being very devoted to him. She had a pure heart and didn't care for the frequent insults that befell her, but it irked Artemis. I believe he had a certain sense of pride and he took it as personal insult that anyone would dare to say anything about his choice of partner.

I don't remember the exact circumstances, but I seem to remember an incident that got both of them trapped in the cat fur. Queen Serenity was having yet another ball and there, one of the nobles insulted Luna in public. Artemis has lost it and seeing as he was quite powerful, he chose to use that power and what resulted was a death of someone quite important. Both Luna and Artemis were condemned to spend the rest of their lives in cat fur.

It just happened that the war followed and then Queen Serenity was out of options, she could not turn them back as at that point she did not have enough power, and they were still loyal to her, obsessively loyal, or at least Artemis was. She entrusted the powers of the planets to them and made them guardians. I don't remember much more, but there was a condition, that in case of an emergency, if the mission is jeopardized they will be able to take their human forms again. It's been ages since Queen Serenity passed away, her magic must've disintegrated because it doesn't look like they will be taking their cat forms again, the spell is not strong enough to bind them again."

"Are you saying that they are just two criminals, condemned and then redeemed because she had no one else to turn to?"

"To put it bluntly yes, well, Luna has never done anything wrong, but Artemis, there is more to him then he shows, I remember him to be less nice then he appeared to be in this time. I believe it is an act, I sincerely believe that Luna is not a bad person, she must be hurting on the inside as we do, but she will do anything for Artemis, I think that never changed."

"You say that they are not planning on becoming house cats again, and that they are quite powerful now, have you seen them?"

"Would you like their pictures?"

"You are kidding, right?" Darien passed her two photographs, taken from a bad angle, but they were visible quite clearly. A young beautiful woman with long curly black hair done in odangoes, big bright blue eyes and an almost childish face stood beside a man with narrow grey eyes and long white hair. She wore a yellow and black dress and he was clad purely in white. "Is that Luna and Artemis?!" Lita could hardly believe that these two beautiful looking people were the guardians. She looked carefully at Artemis' angular handsome face, his narrowed silver eyes, the determined and almost annoyed expression that he wore.

"Is that how he really looks?" she frowned, the way they carried themselves, or the way Artemis carried himself, it was just how Darien said, he looked proud and she did not doubt that he was indeed powerful. Luna just looked sad, Lita had no doubt that on her own Luna would not be doing what she was doing, but yet, she did not have it in her mind to forgive the female guardian. She knew what she was doing, she was perfectly aware and she still did it, she didn't care that it was Artemis who influenced her, it didn't matter, Luna has chosen her path long ago, that is, if what Darien said was true.

"So, they are the people I have to watch out for?"

"Yes, I believe they will be coming for the power, you must be aware of them, if you do fight, I have one advice, show them no mercy...they will show you none" Darien stood up ready to leave "they never showed us any" he whispered before he disappeared leaving Lita quite puzzled, and even more concerned.

In the meantime, Artemis and Luna were going through her things back in her apartment. "You do realize that this is useless, she would not leave them lying around, she would not even stay here, she's not stupid you know?!" Artemis sounded irritated, Luna insisted that they come here and check it out just in case.

"Yeah, I know, I'm just putting of the inevitable" she sighed and dropped a random article that she was holding.

"Look around Luna, what would you have us do, leave these people to die? We are running out of time and choices, I'm not that fond of what we are doing myself, but I have a mission and I will not fail."

Luna nodded quietly, to someone, she was not going to argue, not only because of her loyalty to Artemis, but also because she knew he was right, they couldn't afford to loose the entire Earth to the negaverse because they pitied a few young girls.

"Let's go, we have a scout to catch, let us just hope that Endymion did not get to her first, this will already be difficult enough without his interference." Artemis jumped out of the window followed closely by Luna, there was nothing left to find here.

Back in the negaverse major preparations were taking place. Troops were being gathered to launch an attack. Finally, Zoicite and Malachite have found all the crystals and Jaedite and Nephrite have gathered enough energy. The scouts were out of the way, the stage was set, now it was the time for the actors to take their places.

Amy was left alone in the room seeing as all the generals had troops to organize. She paced the quarters back and forth countless times, the observation orb flickered between different scenes in the negaverse and most of what was happening revolved around an upcoming attack.

She spied on Lita a few times too, it appears that unknowingly, by giving her the transformation sticks she has put her in permanent danger. Amy was cursing herself over and over again, she didn't intend for this to happen! Somehow, she knew that she had to fix this, but she wasn't sure how. There were a few facts that both her and Lita agreed on, one of the facts was, that no matter what, the Earth was doomed and it was up to them to choose if they were going to be doomed with it or survive.

So much time has passed since Amy has walked the Earth, she did not consider her momentary appearance on Earth as an actual visit. To say the truth, she wanted to go back, but she wasn't sure if she actually wanted to stay there. She changed the orb scene to see what Nephrite was doing. As she was expecting, he was organizing troops like he was supposed to do. She never realized just how many men he commanded, for some reason it made her feel almost flattered, to know how high of a standing he had here and how close she was to him. It seemed weird to think of it this way, but it appeared that through him, she had quite a high social status in the negaverse too.

"Fate must be laughing at me." whispered Amy as she looked at Nephrite and smiled lightly. She was growing more and more fond of him and now, it was more then just her promise that was keeping her here. She didn't want to leave Nephrite behind and it almost irked her the attention she noticed he was getting from Molly back on earth. Molly was never her close friend, just an acquaintance, Serena's friend, Amy never would have thought that she would ever be jealous of that girl! For that matter, she never considered herself a jealous type in the first place, the negaverse must be having a negative influence on her.

In a swirl of blue mist Amy was gone and appeared behind Nephrite to personally observe the preparations. Right now, all the soldiers who were coming were registering and some of them were already being assigned tasks and positions. Amy noticed the curious looks she was getting from the young men and women, they weren't human and some of them looked very non-human, but most of them did have a humanoid appearance and it bothered Amy how young some of them looked. But of course, she knew that some of these species aged differently so some of these were much older then they appeared. At least there weren't any children as far as she could see in the ranks.

"Amy, what are you doing here?" the name got a few snickers in the lines, but Amy was already used to this, more then half the time, anyone she met thought that she was a boy, a boy with a name Amy would have been funny, if she actually had been a boy.

"Just come to visit you, why, do you want me to leave?" she pouted cutely and wrapped her arms around his shoulders from behind resting her head on his shoulder. Nephrite was sitting down when she did so otherwise she would have to stand on her toes to place her head on his shoulders seeing as he was much taller then her.

A few gasps and whispers were heard in the lines. Well, she made it obvious that she wasn't a boy, and from how she acted with Nephrite it was obvious that she was someone important and powerful. Immediately anyone who was snickering earlier stopped and looked like they wanted to be somewhere else.

"Of course not, I missed you, sit with me." Nephrite pulled her down on the bench with him and observed with some amusement the uncomfortable shifting of the men in front lines. "What's the matter with all of you, you never seen a woman before?" he asked the few who were shifting uncomfortably.

"N-no sir, I mean, yes we have, we are just not used to having one here, I mean, we didn't know that you had..." at that moment the one who was speaking turned completely red.

Amy let out a small laugh but then pretended to look hurt "Well, I see that your men don't appreciate my presence here, I should probably leave then and go somewhere I am welcome."

Nephrite smirked, a few weeks ago Amy would have never dared to tease someone like this, especially in front of a big gathering of young men like this, it just went to show how much one's environment can influence one's actions.

"See what you've done?! Now you made her upset!" Nephrite played along.

"Sir! Oh no sir, I mean, miss, you don't have to leave, you are very welcome to stay, I mean, that is if Lord Nephrite wants you to stay, I was just, I mean, I meant you were, I mean you are very beautiful, and I was just..." he turned completely red now not knowing what to say and accompanied by a chorus of laughter.

In the past, this would have made Amy blush and feel ashamed and shy, but right now she felt more at ease with her emotions, less constricted my social norms and more able to just laugh at a display like this.

"It's ok, I was just kidding. Don't mind me and go on with whatever you are doing, I've already delayed you enough"

"No you didn't, we weren't doing much" Nephrite rolled his eyes "we are here because we have to look like we are preparing for the attack, in all truth, we were ready five months ago." More snickers followed the comment but it appeared that Nephrite allowed only so much humour for his troops and one stern look from him silenced anyone who was still laughing.

Amy smiled and laid down on the long bench placing her head in Nephrite's lap. "You look rather tired for someone who is only pretending to be doing something." "I kind of am, it's not really work, but it's a lot of hassle, Queen Beryl makes it harder then it has to be. I don't see why she didn't just let all of us go in there at once, and then worry about the crystals turning up, the woman has no sense, it would have been so much easier to find the crystals if the earth was already under her rule." Nephrite shook his head playing with Amy's hair and mindlessly observing how one by one each soldier registered with a gnome-looking man at a desk.

Amy closed her eyes enjoying his touch. "What's going to happened to Earth now?"

"Not much, we go in, ruin the current government, introduce some foreign plant species, cast a shadow over the world, infect the people with nega- energy, place a few officials to replace the old government and then move on."

"No big explosions, no genocides, no destroying the whole world?"

"No, too much energy would be wasted if we did that, Earth will become yet another negaverse colony, ultimately ruled by Queen Beryl and ultimately forgotten by her and at the mercy of the few who will be placed in charge of it."

"You got any idea who will be placed in charge?"

"I have a few ideas actually, a few war lords who want to retire want to stay on Earth. Malachite wants to stay too actually, but even Queen Beryl has enough sense not to send Zoicite there, therefore he might not get his wish."

"Why would Queen Beryl care about what Zoicite does?" "She wants to be able to have some use for Earth's population, usually, what happens is that once in a while Queen Beryl leeches energy from the planets under her rule, a big population means a lot of energy, and if Zoicite is there, the population will be on a steady decline if you know what I mean."

"Yeah" Amy laughed, somehow picturing Zoicite going nuts on Earth and then Queen Beryl fuming because he destroyed all her subjects was funny. Maybe Amy has been away from Earth for too long, but she didn't think of herself as part of it any more, she didn't care as much, and down there, there was only one person she really cared about now.

"In any case, if Malachite stayed there, it would be a good thing for Earth, he seems sensible and he is not a cruel type."

"He can be." Nephrite countered, he too wanted Malachite to stay on Earth, but for a different reason then Amy did, he felt threatened by Malachite's presence, he saw how Amy was drawn to him. He didn't blame Amy though, she was just seeking guidance and Malachite indeed could provide her a certain comfort that he himself couldn't, what bothered him was that Malachite compared Amy with Zoicite and therefore was drawn to her, but in a different way then Amy was. Nephrite suspected that Malachite liked Amy and he didn't like that. Something about the eldest and most powerful general was intimidating, and the faith that Amy was starting to have in him, Nephrite felt that if Malachite got the idea in his head, he could steal Amy away from him.

"What do you mean?" Amy opened her eyes and propped herself up to look up at him better "Malachite-sama was very nice to me and he is fair to his subjects, he is withdrawn and therefore he would not meddle in Earth's affairs much, and he is quite wise too."

It irked Nephrite how Amy referred to Malachite as lord, it irked him how well she spoke of him, more and more he wanted to be rid of the other general, despite of all the respect he had for Malachite he did not want Malachite near his Amy.

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

"No, it's fine, it's just, you should be a little more careful around Malachite. Zoicite hates you and Malachite cares for Zoicite too much, if something happens, Malachite will be on his side."

"Oh...I see. Well, I knew that much, but that is personal, that has nothing to do with Earth, he would still be good in charge of it. And you still haven't told me what you meant when you said that he can be cruel, I haven't seen him display any unnecessary cruelness yet."

"He can be vengeful and he can be merciless when it suits him too."

"Still better the Jeadite." She smirked and then pulled herself up wrapping her arms around his neck. "Nephrite, dearest, I need to ask you a serious question" she leaned in close.

"Yes?" he was a little confused.

"Are you jealous?" she was grinning a very un Amy like grin.

"What?! Whatever gave you that idea?!" he almost paled, was he so obvious? When did it happened that she started to be able to read him so well?!

"In that case, you won't mind if I pay him a visit" Amy smirked and in a swirl of icy mist was gone from Nephrite's grasp leaving him staring at the space where she was a moment ago.

Nephrite clenched his fist tight, he was angry at himself now, he made it obvious and she used that to her advantage. It occurred to him that she was becoming more and more like an inhabitant of the negaverse and more so, more and more like the rest of the generals. He wasn't sure if she even realized, but she was already starting to subconsciously seek out people's weaknesses and attack them. That's what she was doing to him, unconsciously, she was starting to read him and use what she knew to manipulate him.

Nephrite thought back to try and figure out when this started to happen. Now that he thought of it, Amy has been doing it to Jaedite too, the only other person she was enough in contact with. She unconsciously was using many things that she found out about Jaedite against him and to get her way, the more one knew about someone, the easier it was for one to manipulate that someone.

For the rest of the day, Nephrite was in a not so great mood, he liked Amy the way she was, and while he knew that it was inevitable for her to change somewhat in this place, he did not want her to become completely like them, it would not be her if she became as manipulative, cold and self centered as the rest of them were for the more part.

Nephrite was torn between two decisions, and it seemed that whichever one he made, he would be loosing Amy somehow.

Amy giggled lightly at Nephrite's behaviour, she could see how he would be threatened by Malachite's presence, after all, lately, she has been paying quite a bit of attention to the older general. But it wasn't like that, it was true that Amy liked Malachite, but not the way that Nephrite thought she did, she did not like him like a man, she liked him like almost a father, or older brother since Malachite looked a little too young for her to think of him as a father.

She chose to walk down the hall to the room she shared with Nephrite. She had no idea where Malachite was and she intended to use the orb to find him. She was getting better at sensing energies from a distance and seeking out where their owners were, she could find Nephrite almost anywhere as long as he wasn't too far away, but she wasn't that good yet, and she didn't feel like concentrating for a long time, in all this commotion it would be twice as hard to find him.

She found him finishing with the last of his own troops, he seemed to work a little more efficiently then Nephrite, either that, or he had less men. He probably did, but then again, his men looked to be of better quality then Nephrite's. Well, whatever, she didn't care about that, there was something that Nephrite brought up that she wanted to talk to Malachite about.

Teleporting to stand behind him she waited for quite a bit of time for him to finish until he acknowledged her.

"Malachite-sama" she bowed to him respectfully. It was almost laughable to her how Nephrite would be jealous, after all, she had way too much respect for Malachite to ever even think about suggesting something like that!

"Hello Amy, want to talk about something?" Malachite pulled out a chair for her as he himself sat down at the table and automatically two wineglasses appeared and a bottle of red wine.

"Thank you." Amy bowed again before she sat down and took a dip of wine to still her nerves, talking to Malachite calmed her down in the end, but in the beginning, she was always nervous around him. She completely disagreed with nephrite though, she couldn't picture Malachite as the cruel and merciless type, sure, he did what was beneficial for him, but then again, almost everyone did, that was no reason to call him cruel.

She took another sip of wine noting that it was actually pretty strong before she started speaking.

"Everyone is preparing for an attack. Nephrite told me what will happen to Earth, but I don't care about that so much, it already has a corrupted government, no one down there will miss it much anyways. What I wanted to talk about was, Nephrite mentioned that you wanted to stay on Earth when the fighting, if you could really call it that since there won't be that many to fight, is over."

"Malachite observed her for a few moments sitting back in his chair and sipping his own wine.

"It's true, I'm tired of running around completing Beryl's meaningless quests. Earth is a beautiful place, even if beryl casts a shadow over it, and introduces new species to it, it will still remain more beautiful then here. And I don't care for this meaningless fighting either." He took another sip.

It was just as Amy thought. Malachite was not really fond of Queen Beryl, he was not fond of being controlled by her, and he saw most fighting that was not personal as a waste of time.

"I was just wondering, Nephrite said that you might not get to stay."

"Yeah, Beryl wants me around, I'm useful to her and she's using Zoicite as an excuse."

"Well, if she was to loose that excuse, would she have to let you stay?"

"Perhaps. Amy, do you want me gone?" he leaned on the table closer to her rolling his wineglass between his fingers and looking at her carefully. He didn't expect her to want to be rid of him so soon, did Nephrite say something to her to make her want to be rid of him? It suddenly bothered Malachite and he wanted to know the cause.

"Not at all Malachite-sama!" she smiled and averted her gaze, he was looking at her so strangely, like he was studying her or something. "I just thought that if you were in charge of Earth I would be able to go down there. If someone else was, most likely I would not be welcome."

"Ahhh," Malachite leaned back in his chair sipping his wine once again "I see," he felt relieved "well, in that case, how would she loose the excuse?"

"Zoicite seems preoccupied when I'm around, too preoccupied with trying to destroy me to waste his energy on randomly killing people." She smiled again, but it was a much shyer smile then she usually had on her smile lately.

"You realize that would require you exposing herself to her, not a very safe thing to do. Queen Beryl would have to know about you and about the circumstances surrounding you and Zoicite in order to loose her excuse."

"Yeah, I know, but she would find out eventually, I've been popping in and out of places, people are starting to talk about me, eventually it would reach her."

Malachite wasn't so sure about that, Amy could have lived her whole life here without Beryl knowing, that woman didn't know what went on right under her nose unless it was shoved right up there, she would not have known, but Amy doesn't need to know that, she was practically volunteering to get him a planet to rule.

"And what about Nephrite, he wouldn't like that, you know."

"Probably, he said that after this Queen Beryl will be moving on to some other planet she wants to conquer, and I'm not sure I want to go that far."

"You want to stay on Earth then?" something sparkled in Malachite's cold silver eyes, but nothing showed on his face.

"I don't want to leave Nephrite, but if Earth is under the negaverse rule, then I won't really be leaving him since it takes less then a second to teleport back and forth within the negaverse boundaries."

"Well, you should talk to him about it first, he would have to introduce you to Beryl if you know what I mean, after all, if you just show up in front of her, she will not believe you."

"Maybe, or maybe not, does Beryl know that I wasn't among the scouts when they were captured?"

"Probably not, she never bothered to look at them."

"Well, you could tell her that I was the scout that you chose, not Lita."

"Oh, I see." Malachite smiled lightly, Amy quite lived up to her reputation as the smart one, she has thought this out already. "In that case, there is going to be a gathering tomorrow, she is calling a meeting right before the invasion, apparently wants to look like she knows what she is doing, I can being you in then, if you act the part, you can be sure that Zoicite will too."

"Will you tell him?"

"Yeah, I don't want him to mess it up by saying something he isn't supposed to say."

"But will he go along?"

"He is getting a planet practically to himself and many shots at destroying you, I'm sure he will."

Amy nodded, she wasn't planning to stay Zoicite's target, plus, she was sure that with Malachite ruling Earth Nephrite will be welcome there so she would be safe. She would get to watch out for Lita and her family down there, be with Nephrite, visit her home and be sure that Earth is relatively safe with Malachite. If this worked and Beryl fell for it, then Malachite would be appointed the leader of Earth and everything would be much better then she thought it would have been.

Amy and Malachite talked for a little longer until he suddenly informed her that Zoicite was coming back which is when she chose to hastily say goodnight and leave.

Nephrite was back in his room waiting for Amy to return. Jaedite just left after Nephrite talked to him about what he noticed was happening to Amy. It made him even more thoughtful since Jaedite outlined nicely for him just how much they have changed here and he realized if they have changed, what made him think that Amy wouldn't too?

Nephrite was almost ready to make the decision he was thinking about earlier. When the earth was taken over, despite what the guardians told the scouts, not so much would change, at least not so drastically as they have described. So if he suggested that Amy stay there, then perhaps she wouldn't change quite so much. He didn't want her to change, he liked her the way she was, he liked her the sweet and pure girl she was, he didn't want the negaverse to corrupt her.

Suddenly she appeared in a swirl of sparkling blue mist, she looked so beautiful when she teleported. Suddenly he wasn't sure any more, he could not have her so far away, maybe perhaps he could stay on Earth with her then. After all, unlike with Malachite, Queen Beryl will not have any objections to him being in charge.

Amy smiled at Nephrite and lay down beside him snuggling against him, he seemed suddenly less worried then he was before.

"You seem happier." She commented.

"I am, why wouldn't I be when you are near." He pulled her closer again feeling more at ease, yes, that's what he would do, he would suggest it tomorrow, a planet, a beautiful woman at his side and away from Malachite, it would be perfect. He would have told her about his decision to stay on Earth now, but he wanted to make it a surprise for her tomorrow.

Amy smiled being happy that Nephrite was happy. She didn't want to tell him her plan just yet. She noticed how much Malachite seemed to bother him lately and she was sure that Nephrite would be happy to hear that Malachite would no longer be anywhere near him. Amy went to sleep feeling pretty ok, no one would get hurt, and Nephrite would be happy for her for being able to stay in her homeland as much as she wished, after all, he has been feeling guilty because she was not able to go down there for so long, everything was going to be fine.

AN: do I see a major misunderstanding happening between Amy and Nephrite? Yes I do, so, whatever is going to happen when their ideas contradict? You'll have to read and find out. I'm terribly sorry this took so long, I had a major writers block. And yes, it looks like Amy and Nephrite will have some problems to work out. Evil author me, Muahahahaha!!!! I want lots of reviews people, reviews motivate me to write faster and if you give me some ideas for the next chapter hopefully I'll be able to avoid yet another writer's block. And I will be writing side stories to this featuring the adventured of Moon, Mars and Venus, so watch out for those!