"I Walk Alone"
Rating: R
Genre: General/Drama
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, but if I did, I'd own Diamond without a doubt!
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.
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Chapter 2
The following morning was chaotic for Diamond.
He had received several questions from the local civilians about the mysterious object in the sky the night before. Some people asked if it was an attack from Endymion's kingdom, others asked if was some satellite that fell from outer space. "What did it look like?" he asked.
"It was green!" one woman answered.
"And it had spikes!" a man replied.
"And it looked it like was made out of glass!" another man said.
"Did it look like a crystal?" Diamond asked.
"Yes!" the civilians exclaimed.
Great, he thought. They had to come last night. "There's nothing to worry about," he assured the people. "It's one of our visitors that will be here sometime this week." He clenched his teeth and muttered a curse. "They'll definitely get it when they show up."
Quartz was standing outside the room and heard the entire conversation. He was scared to tell his father about the object he saw that night. If he heard about what his son saw when he was supposed to be sleeping, Diamond would go crazy. In addition, Quartz had a feeling that the diplomats who would be coming by the Crystal Palace shortly were more than just diplomats. More like…
"What's going on here?" Quartz's mind snapped back into reality and saw Rini looking at him with curious red eyes. "Why are there people in the Palace?"
"It's nothing," Quartz answered. "They're here because of something that happened last night, and I am afraid I saw it too."
"What was it?"
"I can't tell you. Dad will get frustrated. He's already stressed out enough."
"I won't tell him. I promise."
Quartz shot an angry glance at his sister. She never kept her word when it came to Quartz. The moment his back was turned he would surely be ratted out in less than an hour. Rini loved to get him into serious trouble, just like every other younger sibling. "Since when do you keep your promises?"
"Quartz, I mean it this time!" Small Lady groaned. "I don't want you to get grounded during your birthday. Dad would push back the ceremony until your punishment is over. Besides, the quicker you get the throne, the quicker I can get in line behind you. Now, tell me: what did you see last night?"
The silver-haired teenaged sighed and replied, "It looked like a big floating green crystal in the air. That was it."
Rini stared at him in fear. She could recall anything that happened in the 20th Century, even though she was reborn. She remembered a spaceship with a similar description. Rubeus used to have one of those, she thought. But Dad said that there was no one else from Nemesis who could attack us. "Was that it?"
"Yeah. And it was heading toward Endymion's kingdom. I don't know why though, but I have no idea why everyone is freaking about it. Dad is gonna go fucking insane before I turn eighteen over something that was probably meaningless."
The pink-haired princess began to panic and quickly ran away from her older brother. "I think I hear Mom calling me," she called. "I'll see you later!" She ran down the hallways toward the room where the brother of the four sisters was reading a book with Sapphire. Something meaningless, my ass, she thought. She remembered exactly what Rubeus's spaceship used to look like.
She burst the door open, startling both the older brother and the Blue Prince. "Small Lady, you scared us," Sapphire gasped.
"Rubeus, you had a spaceship that was made out of green crystals, right?" Rini asked.
The redheaded man nodded. "Yes, I did. Why do you ask?"
"Several people have been talking about seeing something similar to it. They found it floating in the air last night! Even Quartz saw it!"
Rubeus closed his book fast, shocked and frightened. "Damn it! I thought they would attack us!" he bellowed.
"Who?" Sapphire asked. "There's no one left on Nemesis who would dare to come to Earth."
"Don't you have your cousins, your majesty?"
The Blue Prince thought long and hard about other relatives. He couldn't recall other family members from Nemesis, being the fact that he never went on business trips unlike his older brother. "I'm afraid I don't…" Then it finally hit him. He was told when Diamond took his father's throne that there were three other cousins who would be right behind him. But the problem was the fact that he had never met them before. "Wait, I do have some cousins, but I don't know who they are!"
"I'm sure the king would know."
"Daddy cannot know this!" Rini said.
"He probably does," Sapphire said. "He knows them more than I do, and I think that is why he has gone mad." He stood up and walked toward the doorway. He turned to Rini and said with a wiry smile, "I'll talk to him." He walked out of the room and headed directly toward the throne room where he found Diamond alone and drinking his usual red wine. "They're here, aren't they?"
"I'm afraid so," the White King replied reluctantly. "This is not what I wanted for my son's birthday."
"I know. What are we going to do about it?"
"I don't know. The Scouts are on alert, and we have the Starlights coming in sometime today. We need all the help we can get. God knows when they'll pull an attack behind our back!"
The Blue Prince nodded in agreement. "And who are we looking at?"
"Garnet, Amethyst, and Topaz, Emerald's siblings," Diamond replied. "Remember those three? They were so jealous of me becoming the leader of our family."
"I should have known. I don't know them personally since Emerald didn't introduce them to me, but I believe you told me they're very strong, especially Garnet. You said he is the oldest of the trio and most stubborn person on Nemesis."
"Garnet can defeat me if I am caught off-guard." The king bit his lip as he remembered a time when he was twelve at a family reunion. He was invited to play several games with his cousins, and he lost every single one of them to Garnet when he used to be the winner above other children. He remembered the words his cousin would say to him whenever they met.
"You're nothing but a loser, Diamond. You will never win."
The White King sighed in anger and took another drink of his wine. "I will win," he murmured.
"What did you say, Diamond?" Sapphire asked.
"Oh! I was just reminiscing about some bad memories."
"Like the time when you lost to Garnet at the family reunion?"
"Don't bring that up again!" Diamond snapped, unable to hide his embarrassment. His brother was the only other person who remembered the incident too well. Of course, Sapphire wouldn't tell a soul that his oldest brother cried to their father because of Garnet's rudeness.
Serenity was too busy tending her flowers that morning, unaware of what was happening inside the palace. It was indeed a beautiful day. Clear blue sky above the Crystal Palace, the warm sun shining down on her, and the birds were chirping sweetly in the trees. The roses had some morning dew on the petals. Not too far away, the garden fountain was flowing with the sound of a small waterfall filling in the quiet peace of nature.
While the queen was examining the white roses and humming the enchanted melody of the Moon Kingdom, she noticed three shadows were coming up behind her. She turned around and jumped in fear. There were two men, one in maroon and one in orange, and a woman in violet standing too close toward her. She trembled when her gaze landed upon their foreheads.
They wore the inverted black crescent moon insignia, the symbol of the Black Moon family.
"Your majesty," the man in maroon said, "we are sorry for intruding on your time, but we have just arrived from Nemesis for some business matters."
"And what would those matters be?" Serenity asked. "Peace? Trade?"
"Family. I believe one of our relatives is taking the throne shortly as part of his eighteenth birthday, am I not right?"
"I don't believe you were invited. Diamond would have told me."
"Diamond never told you about us?" the woman asked. "That's such a pity. He doesn't speak about his own cousins!"
"Who are you?"
"I'm Amethyst and the man in orange is Topaz. Garnet is in the maroon, and he is the oldest. You might know of our older sister Emerald. We're her younger siblings. May we see our other relatives, including Diamond and the prince?"
The queen hesitated, but before she could speak, Diamond's voice filled the entire garden. "Stay away from my wife!" he bellowed.
Garnet rolled his eyes when he saw his cousin quickly strolled along the sidewalk. "Well, well, well. It looks like we are not welcomed here thanks to our immature cousin," he sneered.
"You stay away from my family! Get out of here!"
"We're not going anywhere, and that is final. We want to see your son become king." Garnet turned toward his two siblings and added, "After all, we're family, and family sticks together."
"Well, I'm sending this part of my family back where they came from," Diamond threatened in a dark voice. "Get out before I make you!"
"Forget it, Diamond," Topaz said. "We're here to see Quartz. Now back off and leave Garnet alone."
The White King sighed and walked next to his wife, glaring at his cousins. "I know you're here for something else," he said, "and when I find out it's more than just seeing family but rather something worse, your heads will be mine. And I always get what I want. Do I make myself clear?"
Amethyst laughed, throwing back her violet head back. "You think you can send us back home just for assuming that we would do something bad? For Orion's sake, we just arrived here! You think we'd do something horrible by now? All we were doing was nothing more than a conversation with your wife. Diamond, dearest, you have never changed one bit."
"What do you mean? What's going on?" Serenity asked her husband.
"Nothing," Diamond answered. "Don't worry about it."
"My queen, your husband is just being a sore loser," Garnet mocked. "He thinks we're here to continue what we started at that family reunion when we were just twelve. That is why he never tells you about us. He is an embarrassment to our family."
"Shut the hell up, Garnet! I am not being a sore loser!"
"You call crying to your daddy not being a sore loser?" Topaz asked.
Diamond's anger rose to its zenith, and he walked away with his fists clenched to his sides. Serenity tried to follow him but it was no use. He was already walking up the staircase. She turned to the three siblings and asked, "Why did you do that to him?"
"We're just having fun!" Garnet replied.
"You call that fun?" The queen's blue eyes were filled with anger. It didn't take her that much to make her angry, being a fierce soldier, a leader of a city, and a mother of two teenagers. "Get out. You are not welcomed here in the name of the White Moon." She quickly marched back to the Crystal Palace where she found her husband leaning against the doorway. She took his pale hands into hers and read his sorrowful expression on his face. "I'm sorry," she apologized.
"It's not your fault, Serenity," Diamond said, holding his wife in his arms. "I was afraid this would happen." He couldn't stop thinking about the look Garnet was wearing. His brown eyes were filled with torment and mockery. He was always like that toward Diamond in or outside of competition. He better not lay a hand on Quartz or Small Lady, he told himself, or he will hear it from me.
You know the drill.
TheGoodWitchoftheNorth
