"I Walk Alone"

Rating: R

Genre: General/Drama

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, but if I did, I'd own Diamond!

Summary: Sequel to "Diamond's Misery Whip." Almost turning 18, Quartz is about to face the truth about his parents' relationship. He meets the man who was supposed to be his sister's father until Diamond stepped into Serena's life. Not only does he encounter Darien, he also meets other relatives from the Negamoon family and helps them finish what his father left behind in revenge of being lied to.

Chapter 1

In the controls room of the Crystal Palace, a handsome middle-aged man with long silvery white hair kept a close eye on the radar that covered the entire area of Crystal Tokyo and large sections near it. He had been staring at it for a long time, perhaps all day, but there was no sign of any intruders. He had felt a strange presence earlier that afternoon, a presence that was far too dark for his former evil side. He still had the Negamoon blood in him, but thanks to the healing of the Silver Crystal, he was able to rid the power of the Dark Crystal he had possessed for years thanks to Wiseman.

But what he was feeling was more like an unwelcome visit from Nemesis, his home planet. And he knew that even at his age there were several relatives, more like cousins, who were still alive.

"Where are you?" he asked under his breath.

"Diamond?" From behind, his wife, the elegant Neo-Queen Serenity, was in her nightgown with her blonde hair hanging down over her slender body. "What's wrong?"

"I am afraid my worst dream has come true," he answered. "I can sense that my cousins are coming this way, but the radar isn't picking anything up."

"Cousins? I thought there were only you, Sapphire, Emerald, Rubeus, and the four sisters!"

"There's more in my family. You have Emerald's three younger siblings: Garnet, Amethyst, and Topaz, two brothers and a sister. And if you thought Emerald was obnoxious, you have yet to meet these three. They mean serious business to me, and I hate it when they feel like they have to make a visit."

Serenity wrapped her arms around Diamond's waist and rested her head against his shoulder blade. "Can we forget about this until the morning?" she asked.

"What if they come in an hour or so? Serenity, we must be on our feet!"

"I'll have the Outer Sailor Scouts on alert until the morning comes. Then, I'll switch them over with the Inners. After all, the Outers are stronger."

"Very true," Diamond agreed. "Hopefully, I'll get some sleep tonight. I haven't been able to catch a wink or two for days."

"Is it from stress?"

"And anxiety. Serenity, my love, I don't want anything bad to happen right now. Our son is about to become a legal heir to my throne, and if I don't make it until his eighteenth birthday, he's not going to get it. I have to be alive to pass the crown down to him." He turned around and faced her. "Serenity, I love you and Quartz and Small Lady. And with my cousins coming by, this means trouble. I am afraid the Negamoon is alive and well in the worst way possible."

"Damn it," the queen cursed. "We got Endymion and his wife to worry about already. Can't life get any worse than this?"

"I'm afraid it just did." The king of Crystal Tokyo held his wife in his arms and said with a deep sigh, "Let's go to bed and forget about the whole thing. Maybe it is my imagination since I'm so worked up and everything." He found Serenity playing with his white jacket, her skilled fingers undoing the buttons and tracing the lines on his chest. "Serenity," he groaned, "stop that."

"Why?" She asked with a seductive wink.

"Because anyone can see us having sex in the controls room,"

"Honey, everyone will know to leave us alone. Besides, the children are in bed. I don't think we'll wake them up."

The White King rolled his eyes and shook his head. He knew his wife was right, and he might as well give up this battle. After all, he relished every moment of sex with Serenity. His pale hands went behind his wife's back and unzipped the back of her nightgown while he kissed her for a long time. The gown pooled at her feet, her back exposed to the open doorway... Where someone could see them…

… Someone like Rini, their thirteen-year-old daughter. She was supposed to be sleeping, and yet she was standing outside the room with a glass of white milk in her hand. She watched her parents in horror and embarrassment and hollered, "Get a room!"

Serenity reached down and slipped back into her nightgown while Diamond began to fasten up his jacket. "What are you doing up, young lady?" they asked sternly, trying to hide the blushes on their faces.

"I couldn't sleep," the pink-haired princess replied. "I was going to get a drink from the kitchen, and I could hear you two doing something in here, and then I found you guys making out."

"How could hear us?" Diamond asked.

Rini pointed to the vent at the right corner of the room. "Remember, the vent here leads to the kitchen."

Serenity's face turned into a deep shade of red. "I forgot about that."

"And we almost had it going on," Diamond groaned. He winked at his little wife and added, "Maybe we should get a room, and this time lock the door so our sneaky little daughter won't see us."

"Dad, that's sick!" Rini stormed out of the room, taking another sip of her white milk, and headed back to the kitchen.

"That's one way to keep her away," Serenity giggled.

"She is right, though," Diamond said. "I think I'm ready for bed, but I don't want to sleep yet." He carried his wife to their bedchambers for a bit of privacy. Rini walked by their room and rolled her eyes in disgust when she heard what was happening on the other side of the door. "Dad is in his forties, and he is still having sex with Mom?" she asked. She looked at the floating Luna P ball behind her and giggled. "My time will come when I'm married to Helios, won't it?" They headed back to Small Lady's bedroom in hopes for a good night's sleep.

Quartz, however, laid in bed while staring at his ceiling. He couldn't help but wonder about the strange presence he was feeling. He was receiving the same bad vibes as his father was a while ago, and he couldn't fall asleep, not even for an hour. It was another restless night for him.

The wind blew into his room, the cold air stinging his face. He looked outside his open window and noticed something strange was in the air. Grabbing his white robe, he ran into his mother's gardens and watched the object fly slowly in the night sky. It looked like a crystal, more or less, but he felt an evil aura coming from it. "What's going on?" he asked. He watched the object float further away from the Crystal Palace, and as it finally disappeared from his line of vision, he went back inside his home.

Meanwhile, two men and a woman stood beside the doorway of their spaceship within the darkness. A man dressed in maroon smirked when he saw a good look at the soon-to-be crowned heir of Crystal Tokyo. "So, that's Diamond's treasure, huh?" he asked.

"One of his two precious treasures," the woman in violet replied.

"Too bad they won't see it coming," the man in orange snickered.

The crystal spaceship floated away toward another kingdom on the Earth surface where soon two former rivals will join as one in the attempt to overthrow the White King of Crystal Tokyo.

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