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Mist interwove through the climbing vines and in between the white roses blossoming upon the wall. The fountain in the center of the garden was thickly cloaked in the mist as well, slick in the predawn light.
She was half mesmerized, half terrorified to there. She seemed to be far from her home and family and in a spiritual plain filled with ghosts. She watched the mist twist and slither about leaving dew drops glistening on the petals. She quietly made her way to the fountain and sat there on the wet lip.
In her hands, her gift played a lonesome lullaby. It's song echoed throughout out the garden and eased her. She began to hum along with it.
Suddenly the image warped and she stood on a dune looking back to her home.
Fire. Ruins... By the collapsed pillar...
A corpse.
Beside it, a shining token...
The crystal.
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Usagi yelped and rocketed from her bed and face first into the floor. Across from her, Ami shifted and sat up to stare at her.
"Usagi...what happened?" she yawned. "Did you have another bad dream?" she asked moving to get up and go to her. Usagi quickly nodded as she jumped up from the floor.
"Uh huh, nothing to worry about, Ami..." she looked at the door. "Go back to sleep, Ami, I think I'll just take a little walk around the hallways."
Ami blinked and nodded. "You sure you don't want more sleep?"
And go back to those nightmares? she thought as she shook her head and walked out the door. Her bare feet plodded softly against the floor as her mind wandered.
Behind her, the doors swung open and she heard three separate gasps of shock. She turned to look back at the closest-Haruka gaped up at the man. "Your-Your Highness!"
Usagi froze as her blood ran cold. The S-Skeit...
Before she could utter a word, the lady Michiru grabbed her arms and swept her away with a demure "Good day, your highness." as took Usagi with her. Usagi allowed her to lead her along the corridor. She had just insulted the Skeit himself...and he had flirted with her!
Her impromptu meeting with the Skeit still played across her mind, five days after the entire incident had happened. She sighed and reached into her shirt and withdrew her golden locket and began to hum a tune absent mindedly. She entirely missed the shouts of a hurried maid from behind her as she ran to catch up.
"Usagi!" shouted Ann. "Damnit, bun head, slow down!"
Usagi blinked and turned back to see her run to her. Ann, while a bit rough around the edges and jealously possessive of her family, was a good girl and Usagi found herself becoming fast friends with her. "Need something, Ann?"
Ann huffed and pulled out a thick envelope from her the folds of her shirt and handed it to her. "Here, it's orders for you."
"From-?"
"Idiot!" she hissed. "Not from him. From the head matron!" She shook her head at her. "Just don't talking about our leader so loudly!"
Usagi opened the letter and scanned the first few lines. She stopped and her eyes flew back to the beginning again. Ann raised a brow as she did this again and again.
"What? What can that bad?" she asked and froze as the letter fell from Usagi's frozen fingers. "Usagi?"
"...I'm to be...transferred to be a maid to the Head Wives..."
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Usagi reported to Kunzite that the Skeit had flirted with her after he had left Minako, Michiru, Haruka, and Setsuna had agreed with this. And now, Usagi had told him that she was to be a maid to the Head Wives.
The opportunity was too good to pass up; the head wives were all loyal to Diamond so he couldn't turn one to become a spy-but a maid to a Head Wive-! The very thought of how much information could be found was tantalizing.
That's why he was so desperate to find another maid instead of Usagi to be a maid to the head wives; despite his better senses, he was fond of Usagi and didn't want her to get hurt-that and Usagi really didn't get so close to the Skeit. And besides what if she was uncovered as a spy? The thoughts were leading him in circles.
He hated circles he decided.
That was what Nephrite told Mamoru.
Mamoru sat with his forehead in his head wondering aloud why the hell things never worked his way. Nephrite had a worried expression on his face. "Don't worry, Mamoru, you'll just get grey hairs."
Mamoru glared up at his friend who was trying to smile at his own joke. "Nephrite, you're a key figure in a rebellion-you're the one who's going to get grey hairs."
"No, I won't," he told him cheerily. "Because I don't worry about it. Besides, it's more your rebellion then mine."
Mamoru chuckled and shook his head. "Why do I bother?"
"The rebellion or worrying?"
"Both."
"Because Diamond is a bad ruler-and it's just the way you are." he grinned. Mamoru sighed and leaned back.
"You're right, everything will be fine." he murmured. "With thought it all through enough right?"
"Right!" agreed Nephrite. "Besides, you got me, Jadeite, Kunzite, and Zoisite!" The two sat and talk, sitting on two bales of hay in the stables just chatting since they had nothing better to do when Zoisite appeared out of nowhere sitting at Mamoru's side causing both men to jump.
"When'd you get there?" asked Mamoru, staring at the strawberry blonde man who grinned cheekily.
"For a while." he chuckled and both Mamoru and Nephrite shook their heads at him. His smile dropped and his face became serious. "I have news."
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Endymion sat from across his low table and raised a brow as a familiar cloaked figure tossed open the flap to the tent. The figure stalked to the table and stopped in front of him.
"I have important news, your highness."
Now both brows went up. He dismissed his servants with a careless gesture of the hand and then waved him to sit. "What is it, to send you here in such a hurry that-"
"You're to called back to court."
Endymion froze. "...truly?"
"Yes, milord." ground out. "Diamond's puppeteer wants you were he can see you."
"The Wise Man..." grumbled Endymion. "Damn. There goes the alibi."
The figure sighed and shook their cowled head. "You don't think I know?"
Wai, a short chapter because I wanted to get the story moving. Hey! Everyone go read Tsuki no Himitsu, please! It's my baby and the more reviews I'll get the more I'll continue! Hmm, the story's get close to the climax soon!
Friends1004-Not only does he have a thing for Usagi, he's making her a maid to his head wives to see her more often. XD Yay, more roses! Hey, maybe I can do the Tuxedo Mask thing with tossing roses! (tosses a rose at one of her muses. Stabs her. Yuki: O.O...Medic!)
whitey9h-I know the feeling. (beats homework away with a stick) And so you know, my teachers DID get together and assign homework! Evil English teachers!
Sapphire Midnight-. I'm glad you liked it! Wai, I'm so proud.(swells) Kunzite and Minako is one of my absolute favs...I'm eighteen, next year I get to be nineteen too. Look! More dreams! Try and figure those out.(actually, forget it-I'll explain it sooner or later.)
KeraJeir-Silly little Usagi, talking down the Skeit. The dream was just kinda...spur of the moment. So I ran with it.
AprilSailormoon-More's on the way, and here's a development with the Usagi/Diamond subplot!