Death Can Not Stop True Love
Chapter Eight: I've Lost Him
"Just in Time." Serena looked up. Zentraff stood before her. He looked happy that he was getting what he wanted. The look on his face made Serena want to scream. How could he look like he was the happiest man on earth and have no love for life at all? It disgusted her.
"Shouldn't you be in the hospital? You don't look so good. Your very pale, but that must be from the blood lost.' Zentraff laughed.
"Where's Endymion?!" She yelled. She wasn't going to let this idiot get to her. She had to be strong no matter how much it hurt.
"Oh. So you want to see your Prince. Well, I guess I'll let you see him before I kill you." Zentraff snapped his fingers and a light shone against the far wall. Darien was hanging from it by his wrists. He was burned and cut badly. He needed help. He needed her.
"Endmyion!!!" Serena yelled to him. A single tear ran down her cheek at the sight that lay in front of her. Darien lifted his head. His face was cut and bleeding. His eyes filled with fear and pain, but the light that Serena had come to love was missing in his eyes. Did he have any hope lift?
Serena stood. She wasn't going to let him down. "Let him go! You have what you want. There's no reason for him to be here!" Serena yelled, trying to keep any emotions out of her voice.
"I'll make you a deal. I'll let you say your good-byes, I'll even let you have and whole hour to do it. But I don't let HIM go until your DEAD!" Zentraff growled.
Serena wasn't sure. She knew he was just going to kill Darien, but the hour would give them time to form a plan. "Deal, but you have to leave us along for the full hour." She saw the look Darien gave her but ignored it. She knew what she was doing.
"Deal." Zentraff snapped his fingers and Darien dropped to the floor. Then he disappeared.
Serena ran at a dead run towards Darien. She fell down beside him and rolled him onto her lap.
"Serena." Darien's voice was no more then a whisper. He stared at her. The eyes that had once been filled with fear and pain where now filled with warmth and passion, though the pain still linger. He groan with pain, but not as bad as Serena's had been the day before. His lip was bleeding and his face was cut.
Serena lifted him into her arms. He held on tight. He breathed her in. He longed for her, just as she longed for him.
"I'm right here, Darien." Serena kissed his forehead. "It's going to be okay. I promise." She felt so much like crying, but didn't want to show that she was scared. She wanted to be brave, for him.
"I'm so sorry, Serena. This is all my fault." Darien's eyes were filled with un shed tears . He felt like his heart had been torn away from him. He couldn't believe that he let this happen. And now, Serena was going to pay for HIS mistakes.
Serena faced him, holding him in front of her. He looked like he was in deep emotional pain. More then she was last night. "Why?" She asked lovingly, trying to reassure him that she was there for him.
"Because I wasn't strong enough to defeat him. He surprised me last night, about twenty minutes after you fell asleep. He forced me to write that note and said if I did anything to wake you, that he would kill you right before my eyes." Darien's emotional pain grew. How could he have been so stupid last night to let himself get captured? But he was too afraid to think about that. He was afraid of losing Serena again and Afraid of having to watch her die.
Serena stroked the hair out of his eyes. She wasn't sure how she could comfort the growing pain that could be seen in his midnight blue eyes. His pain was far beyond her help now. She knew why he was scared. She was scared about the same thing. She didn't want to lose him. This whole situation was affecting him mentally, and she knew it. She could she it written clearly in his eyes. She was afraid it was going to drive him crazy, or worst. "I wont let it happen. I wont let him near me or you. Not again."
Serena realized what she had just said. 'Not again'. She wasn't sure where that had come from. Maybe it came from the back of her mind. The part of her who knew who Zentraff was.
"He told you." Darien's eyes filled with concern, but the fear still remained.
"No. I'm not sure where that came from. Zentraff has always seemed familiar to me, but I can remember where I've seen him. Maybe that Moon. But what ever it was, it must have been bad." Serena was scared. It must have been terrible, since her mind was hiding it from her.
"Zentraff told me. Some of it anyways. But I don't know if it's true or not." Darien confessed.
Serena then shot him a concerned look. He didn't look like he was happy with what he had heard. She could see that by the look in his eyes. "What did he say?" She wasn't sure she wanted to know. Darien didn't like what he had heard one bit and she was sure she wasn't going to like it either.
"I do remember him, Serena. But only his name and who he was. He was one of my best friends. One of my guards, besides the four generals. He never did like you very much. I never could understand why. According to him, he warned me that falling in love with you was the biggest mistake in my life. But he takes of me as thought I was some dark warrior who slathered innocent people for pleasure. His story of things doesn't make sense. He said that you had turned me soft and weak. Then I turned on him to protected you." Darien stared at the icy cold floor.
"I don't believe that's true, Darien and you know it. You were Earth's shinning Prince. Who ruled his kingdom with kindness. Just like my Mother ruled hers'." Serena tried her best to comfort him.
"Oh, really. I don't feel like Earth's shinning Prince." He stared up at her. She could plainly see the hatred in his eyes. 'What did Zentraff do to him?' She thought.
"Darien come on. You know that you are. Your Prince Endymion of the Golden Kingdom. Zentraff can't take that away. It's your birthright." She held him tighter. She couldn't understand why he was acting so strange.
"I may have the memories, Serena, and I may look like him. But I an NOT Endymion. He died along time ago on the Moon protecting Princess Serenity." Darien shook his way free of Serena's grip and huddled next to a wall.
Serena stared at him in shock. Tears filled her eyes. Zentraff had to have done this to him. But how did he make Darien denial 'who he was'. He had to have done something terrible to him. Or made him relive something terrible.
'I've lost him', Serena thought to herself. "So you're just going to let Zentraff get the better of you. Are you?!" Serena yelled, feeling lonely and betrayed. "What did he do to make you denial who you are?!"
"I'm not denying anything!" Darien snapped.
"Yes you are! You are Prince Endymion, the ruler of Earth and the man that I fell in love with! And you if you just want to give that up, then you are also denying who I am! You denial everything we are and what we fight for. We fight for love... and for justice, but if you just want to give up on who you are and what we've been through then.... Then were over!!" It hurt Serena so much to say that, but she loved Darien and she thought maybe he would tell her what happened if she threatened to leave him, though she would never.
Darien rubbed his head in confession and frustration. His mind was fighting. Fighting over who he was, and what he... loved. "I can't... I can't fight anymore." Darien started to cry.
Serena crawled up to Darien and put his hand in hers'. Then she smoothed his hair. "Darien, what did he show you?" Serena asked. Concern for him filled her eyes and her heart.
"You really want to know Serena. Ha. I thought that seeing Endymion like this would teach you... Never to ask for things you don't want." Serena whipped her head around towards the doors. Zentraff stood there with evil in his eyes.
He sent a surge of dark energy towards her. She tried to duck in cover, but it was too late. Pain filled every inched of her. She tried to scream, but no sound came out. She tried to move, but she couldn't. Darkness consumed her. She felt herself being pulled away to another time, another place.
"Darien!"
Darien caught Serena in his arms. She lay lifeless there. She still breathed and her heart still beat, but her mind was gone. Her lips were cut and on her forehead glowed her crescent moon. He held her limp body close. "Why did you have to do that to her? She didn't need to know!" Darien snarled angrily at Zentraff, who was grinning in satisfaction.
"She was asking for it." Zentraff walked over to him. His long black cape bellowed behind him. He knelt down beside Darien, but Darien moved a few inches away.
"Stay away from her!" Darien was in no mood for fun and games. He didn't want Serena to suffer through what had happened to him.
"My dear old friend. You should just get rid of her while she's down. She's put you through enough suffering. If she hadn't come along, you would have been ruling the whole Universe by now! Kill her!" Zentraff yelled. He tossed a dagger to Darien and he caught it. "Rip her heart out. Then you can fulfill your density and rule Earth. You don't need her! Get rid of her!"
Darien held the dagger unsurely. Time seemed to slow down until it was only Darien the dagger and Serena moving. Did her really need Serena? Ruling the Universe wasn't a bad idea. But something felt wrong about it. Suddenly, Memories came rushing through his head. Him and Serena walking through the park, When he left for Canada, how hard it was for Serena when Queen Beryl had control over him, and so on.
Darien was about to cut through Serena with the dagger until his eyes fell upon her face. She looked so peaceful, like she usual did while she slept. Her golden hair fell across her glowing crescent moon in an attractive manner and Darien found that there was no way her could kill her. He did need her. He loved her more then he himself had realized until now. He made his decision.
Time started again. Darien knew exactly what he had to do. "Kill her!!!" Zentraff yelled.
Darien trusted the dagger. It slice through flesh and a scream filled the silence of the room. But it wasn't Serena, it was Zentraff. Darien had thrown the dagger at Zentraff.
"How could you? She's the symbol of your torment. No me!" He howled.
"You're just trying to confess me, Zentraff. If it wasn't for you we would have survived the war on the Moon!' Darien yelled.
Darien knew he would have to kill Zentraff in order to save Serena, but could he kill someone who used to be his friend. Could he live the rest of his life with that knowledge?
Darien gentile laid Serena down on the cold floor and stood. Zentraff stood as well. He covered the hole in his gut with his right hand. "So, you're going to fight me to the death again. I would have though you learned your lesson the last time I killed you.' Zentraff laughed.
Darien knew that Zentraff would try to kill Serena while she was out. He was going to have to protect her the best he could, although it didn't help much on the Moon.
Zentraff attacked. Darien bent down and tripped him as he ran. Zentraff fell hard to the ground, smacking his head in the process.
The real problem was, Zentraff had a sword, and Darien didn't. Zentraff charged again, slicing the sword through the air. Darien dived out of the way, but the sword sliced his shoulder as it flew by.
Darien landed hard. He came up to his knee. And gripped his shoulder. 'I have to try and distracted him. Other wise I might lose Serena forever.'