In the darkness I am alone
Seeing nothing, feeling everything
I fear for my sanity
Yearn for feeling
Reach out to touch something not there
I feel the pain of loss
I feel disappointment in my shortcomings
Yet I have hope
For one day to be free
To run, to laugh, to feel happiness
In the darkness I lay
Looking to a non-existent sky
And I scream my frustration
I stop feeling my own pain
I strain to hear in the darkness
I hear similar cries
All filled with pain
I then realize I am not alone
For someone is never truly alone
Souls always intertwine in darkness and in light
--DARKNESS, sugarhigh maniac
Hey! Chapter 15 was my last chapter that I am going to write under R. My book is just too puny to be under R so I am placing it back under PG-13. If anyone disagrees with me and thinks that my book should stay in R, please notify me with a reason and parts in my story to back it up. The part in where Usagi and Hiiro are in the bedroom together doesn't count because 'Titanic' is rated PG-13 and it shows: naked people, people having sex in cars, mass destruction, and mass death. My book only contains some of these qualities [Only Usagi's fake family is dead, no mass destruction, and there has only been a bus and the Tsukino car.] And just to let you know, this IS a Hiiro/Usagi story. Now only one more thing to add... Thank you sugarhigh maniac! That's a really cool quote! And I have a question, how does a sugarhigh maniac come up with such a cool quote? I'm only joking : P, on with the story! ^-^
*I don't believe in disclaimers
Chapter 16: Revelation
Usagi looked through her sodden eyes. How long had she sat on this bed? An hour? Two hours? She looked at the boy sitting on her patio.
"Shinu," She inquired. He turned his head to her. To show she had his attention. His back was against the wooden railing and he had one leg bent and his arm draped over it. His other leg laid straight and his other arm in his lap. His head tilted to the side and hair slid slyly into his face. "I want you to explain what is going on and why you were screaming at my mother. Those things you said..."
"It is all very complicated. But I'll start off with the most basic fact," he paused, "I want you to know that everything you have been told was a lie. The only thing that's true is that you are Serenity's daughter, you're princess of the moon, and you are Sailor Moon." He swung his head back to the sinking moon. The silence was only broken by blowing leaves.
"If I were to believe you, what would be the truth?" She crawled off the bed and put the crystal and locket in her uniform's only pocket. She walked to the glass door and leaned against it gently with her arms folded across her chest.
"It is a sick truth." He warned.
"It is better to know the truth than to know none at all." She said with a solid face.
"Okay. Don't interrupt or I will never finish." He looked at the blue eyes which no one possessed but her, those heavenly eyes, and then he began. "Long, long ago, your mother descended to Earth for the annul ball which was held every year at the time of good harvest. Her own mother had died from assassination only 5 months before the ball and she was still very aggrieved. But when she cast her young eyes upon a middle-class, hard- working harvester, she fell in love. Together they lived and ruled over the kingdoms of the moon. And then they created you. When you were 14 you went to the annul ball, we met when you fell and were crying behind a bush. You were hurt because your clumsiness made you trip over your own shoe. It might have been fate that night, because we talked until the morning sun and we sat under a big weeping willow. It was your first time to see the sun rise from Earth. And then we kissed."
He could see her blush in the darkness. It must have been horrible not to remember any of this... he began again. "We didn't see each other until the next ball, when you were 15. We talked more and more. You had become quite a lovely woman. After you were 16 and we had been together for a third night, you stayed on Earth for three days with me. When you went back to the Moon Kingdom, you couldn't stand to stay there and you came back during the black moon. Your mother believed it was because you loved to bathe in the Earth water. For three hundred years past, you pretended to take a bath in the waters and I would come see you."
He threw his hair back and dug his fingers through it ruthlessly. His eyes watered and then he forced himself to continue. "If you recall, your father was an Earthling and did not have the lifespan as long as a moon person's. He died when he was a wrinkled old man at 60 years old and your mother was heart-broken, but she knew she must forget him and raise you. 300 years after our first ball-"
"How are you going to live to 300 years and my father only 60 if you are both earthlings?" She inquired. She thought that this would prove it a lie if he couldn't answer, but he did.
"My mother was Lunarian." She cast him a questionable glance. "It means she was from the moon, just like yours...we are both half breeds." He added, "And what did I ask of you? Not to interrupt..." He smiled playfully, "Anyways, 300 years after that first ball together, you announced to me that you were taking me to the moon. I was so frightened you wouldn't believe it!" He gave a small, sorrowful, chuckle. "You brought me to the moon, my first visit ever. My mother had told me so many wonderful stories of tall buildings and pillars and grace and beauty-"
He stopped for a second and realized that he could never sum up all the things he was told. "My mother told me many, many things on her death bed. You see, she was ill for the last three years of her life; she could have lived so much longer with me if it were not for the plague which wiped out a third of the population in Europe-"
"The Black Death." She said.
"My, my, you have grown fond of interrupting!" He said with a grin that reminded her of Duo. She blushed a little and then waved her hand signaling him to continue. "But, yes, The Black Death. When she caught it, her flesh decomposed beneath her own face, her boils came up slowly, she died slowly and agonizingly, it was too much for a child to bear. Her blood from the moon slowed the process of aging, and it slowed the process of death from three days to three years. I was seven when she caught it, and I was ten when she begged me to end her suffering. I took a knife to her heart that night. And I never met my father. I was all alone living on the streets; I lived in the orphanage where my best friend and all the children died, except me. Everywhere I went, they called me Shinu because everyone I knew personally, died. [AN: Shinu=die] I was a small child wandering through the fields of death. I couldn't run away from it all. Everywhere I went, everyone died. I was a whimpering child afraid of the monsters that stalked me. I was afraid to sleep, because the monsters would purge themselves from the dark and grab me, I grew up alone-"
When he paused, she stood up from her position of leaning against the glass doors and walked to him. She sat next to him and wrapped her arms around him comfortingly. He didn't let the tears of remembrance spill, he had more to tell.
"I must get off the subject of childhood." He forced a smile as he held her hand in his lap. "My mother had told me many wonderful things of the moon. And everything she said was true. When I arrived in the courtroom where she held herself most of the time, you announced your love for me. She became enraged that you had fallen in love with a half-breed, even though you were one yourself. She wanted to wed you to a rich Lunarian. He was rich, but a big fat slob-" His frown of childhood faded as he looked at her disbelieving smile. "No! Literally, he was big fat and drooling! I saw him with my own eyes! What a sight it was. You brought me to your room and locked us in there. You were awful cruel to her in the way that you handled the situation."
"What do you mean by that?" She asked with a bigger smile.
"What I mean is that you made a bunch of noises that accompany sex while she was standing outside of you door screaming for you to open it. I was totally clueless to what was going on. I just watched you making the noises under the door. Finally, she threatened to blast it down and you opened it fully dressed. I was sitting in a chair on the other side of the room laughing helplessly, when you heard me you started laughing too. Then she let go of dignity and slapped you on your left cheek. All laughter was dropped and she stalked off. But you had succeeded in arranging our marriage."
"I actually did that to my mother? I invoked her wrath and chanced my ass by making sex-noises?!" She began to laugh as she said this. They both broke out in welcome laughter.
"You were already pregnant at the time, which no one knew until after the wedding and honeymoon. On the day of our wedding, everyone knew that she was jealous, they could see it. But no one believed it even though it was the most obvious thing on the moon." He then forgot all the previous laughter and stood up. "Come with me, I can't say this in words."
He led her into the bathroom. He filled the bathtub almost to the rim. It was dirty and dusty from not being cleaned or used in two months. She put a finger in the steaming water and pulled it back immediately. The water heater still worked on what little water they had left from two months ago, ha, that's kind of funny.
"Okay. I want you to look into the water and focus on the surface, you should see the images five seconds after I get in." She looked at him startled.
"Get in?" She didn't believe he could get in the scalding water. "It'll burn you horrifically! You could get hurt permanently!"
"Trust me, I wouldn't do this if it would mortally wound me. Just do what I told you to. Okay?" He looked at her right in the eye. And what beautiful eyes she had.
"Okay. Do you want some help to get in? It has a slippery spot-"
"No, I don't need any help. But thank you sincerely for offering." He slid his arms out of his leather jacket. She looked at the huge muscles in which he owned. He lifted his shirt above his head. The muscles moved every time he moved, they blended in with his skin. They were so large. He looked about 16, but his muscles looked like they had been used for hundreds of years, getting stronger every second. And the truth was, they were.
"Shinu? How old are you?"
"Too old to count." He said unzipping his pants. She turned away. "I don't mind if you look, we WERE married once, you know?" He said with an immodest smile.
She turned around and didn't look. She didn't care if they were married once, she was being modest. "How old were you when you stopped aging?"
"I was 16." He said simply as he slid down boxer shorts to his ankles. He went over to the steaming tub and lifted his foot above it. "Remember, count to five and look at the surface. Any other questions you have should be answered. But I know there will be many more questions though." He pulled his foot back and put it on the floor. "If I don't come up after the images are gone, I want you to leave me there. Don't pull me back up. Understand?"
"Okay." She answered. He lifted his leg and put his foot in the water, which gave a silent sizzle. He submerged his thin muscular body totally under the water. "Five--four--three--two." She whispered. She didn't even say 'one' before the images scattered on the surface.
She saw a blade being hoisted above a woman's head. She felt like she was there herself. The air was thick and moist, just like the time when she had been to the moon once before. Lightning struck the ground and fire burst towards the woman.
Usagi turned to face the place where these two elements had erupted. There stood Raye and Makato. Next to them stood Ami and Minako. She looked down at her feet; she was standing on the moon.
"Guys!" She cried. "It's so good to see you again!" She ran to them and tried to get their attention. They were looking straight through her.
"Queen Serenity!" Raye called. "Please don't make us do this!"
"Mamoru died! I won't let little Serenity live through her husband's death! It's not fair that my love dies and hers lives!" Screamed the Queen in insanity.
"We are sorry that Mamoru is gone! We truly are! But don't lose control, Queen!" Ami shouted.
"Die!" The Queen screamed once more. She closed the palms of her hands and the crater in which Usagi's beloved friends stood collapsed in on them. The Queen turned, and there stood Shinu and herself. Usagi gasped.
"Give it up Shinu! I am too powerful for the likes of you."
"I will not let you harm my wife! Our daughter lies in her cradle never to bear her own children because you have driven your own jealousy and greed through her heart with a blade! Leave us be and you will not die this instant. Leave us to mourn."
She took a daring step closer to them, Shinu pulled the Usagi of hundreds of years ago closer to the edge of the crater. He stopped, knowing they were drawing to the boundary.
"I will kill you both! My love is gone and you should not be able to love if I am not able to!"
"You self-centered hag! How dare you say such things?! You chose your own fate!" The Usagi standing with Shinu screamed. "Mother! You had more time with Father than I! You should be happy that you had him!"
"And I suppose you want me to be happy of his passing also?! You want me to be happy that he is gone?! You want me to be happy that my daughter is planning to over-throw me and take my throne?" The Queen screamed.
"I love you mother! I would never over-throw you or take the throne or anything that your twisted mind comes up with!"
"We want you to leave us be!" Shouted Shinu in rage. "Your sorrow for your loved one has made you blind! This is your own daughter and you want her to be unhappy!"
"Mamoru!" Screamed the Queen madly. She thrust the blade in the air. It flew forward and drew closer every second. Shinu had hardly any time to react as he plunged forward to catch the knife with his own body. But he was too slow and it struck his hand and forced its way to the girl's heart.
He stared in awe as the girl fell. He caught her with his other hand and laid her head in his lap. He took his free hand and grabbed the handle of the blade.
"Serenity, I have to pull the blade out. Can you take it?" The girl nodded her head weakly. Then she gave a painful scream as the blade was pulled from her chest and his hand. "Serenity! I'm so sorry! Please stay calm. Don't move or you'll force more blood out."
"I love you." She whispered.
"No! Remember?! You said we'd never say goodbye? I love you! You have to stay here!"
"I'll see you later. In heaven maybe. I'll raise our daughter good. You'll see her when you get there."
He clenched his eyes closed and pulled her to his chest. "I love you, too." She reached her hand up to his face and wiped the stream of tears away. Then her hand fell limply on her chest. He stood up and laid her body on the ground.
"You will pay for your insane acts! Now is the time to beg for mercy! Or you will perish!"
The Queen ignored him. And began to walk away. He couldn't take it! This was too much! Another lost soul, like his mother... He crouched over the ground, spikes began protrude from his back. He stood up as a scaled, clawed, fanged, winged Dragon. He flapped his wings and rose into the air.
Serenity looked back then began to run as fast as she could. Then, remembering that if she lived, she would have no one to love her. She slowed down and let the giant beast dig its claws into her shoulders and above her heart. She wasn't dead yet. The dragon flew higher and higher until they palace seem like a speck. Then, she felt her heart fly as she was dropped. He let her go. She was falling, and when she reached the ground she would join her love...
A smile crept across her face and the great giant noticed it. "You think I would let you die that painlessly?!" He took a great dive and swung his tail back, then brought it forth making the queen's body land in two pieces.
An arrow took flight in the air and the whole kingdom stood, ready to take on the slayer of the Queen. Usagi stood and watched as the entire kingdom went up in flames. And how the flames danced! They went from one house to another, lighting it so the other flames could play on it too. The flames would burn for a year and three months, due to the Lunarian air.
When everyone was dead but Shinu, he became human again and lifted the princess who had vowed to raise his child in heaven into his arms. He began to walk towards the burning palace with a sorrowful limp. An arrow had passed through his left leg during the battle. But he ignored it and the flames as he walked to a cradle. He took bloody sheets from it and set the woman and the bundle on the bed in the room lit by fire. He pulled back one of the blankets to reveal that inside the bundle was a newborn child.
"May you rest in peace my darling." He said as he took the bed sheet and covered her. It looked like a peaceful scene. The delightful little flames lighting up the room where mother and child sleep peacefully for an eternity.
A small white light came from the chest of the woman. And at the same time, four more lights of red, orange, blue, and green entered the room.
"Go my darling and loyalty to her. You five shall live happily on Earth. I will find you again one day, trust me."
Usagi felt a pull in her back. Then she was back, looking at the surface of the water. She couldn't believe it! No! None of that ever happened, she was dreaming and this was one big lie.
'That's it! This is a big joke that some one's playing! It's not funny!!!' She thought. Then she realized that blood had consumed a majority of the water. 'Shinu told me not to lift him out of the water, but I have to! It's overflowing and he's bleeding!'
Just as reached in the water to pull him out, he sat up.
"Shinu! You're bleeding, are you alright?" She asked in concern. He showed her his hand, there stood a scar as big as the blade she had seen.
"Is that from the blade?"
"Yes, the metal was from the moon so it stays there to remind me every second of that day." He looked at her beautiful eyes. She felt drawn to him, his good looks, his past. She felt like she owed him something... "And you see, now that I have drawn those images in this water, if I submerge my hand, it bleeds." He showed her, and it bled out of control, but when he lifted it above, it immediately stopped.
She leaned in closer to him, he stood up and grabbed a towel and then her attempt was failed. She sat on the toilet lid and watched him get dressed once more. When he was finished, he walked out with Usagi at his heel.
He sat down against the railing where they were before. She leaned against his shoulder and he held his hand to the moon. A bright light shone through his hand and all doubts in her mind were erased.
"It just seems so unreal that could have ever happened." She whispered. He showed her the scar from the arrow, which triggered a question in her mind. "How did you become a dragon? I can't do that and we are both half-breeds like you said."
"You never asked what my father was." He said with a grim frown, "My father was a Dragon. When I was three, my mother found out that he had been slaughtered a month before my birth." He brushed his hair behind his ear. "My ears are pointed, I have to have long hair to protect myself."
"So you aren't even human?" She said. He nodded. There was an awkward silence and then she broke it with a whisper, afraid to be any louder. "My mother called her lover Mamoru. Does that mean that-"
"It means that the man that got you sent to boot camp is your father. And that means that he has tricked you all this time into thinking you're supposed to be his wife. But it's not true. The separation of the two caused both of them to go insane. But I forced myself to stay sensible when you died, I knew that I would see you again."
"You've ruined the whole plot!" Screamed a familiar voice. "Now come on, Shinu! I know that you didn't waste your time to find her just to die when you get her back!" Usagi looked around, and then she saw the origin of the voice- Mamoru. He was standing on the railing.
"What are you doing here?" She found herself saying in anger.
"I'm merely rescuing my foolish daughter from a dragon." He said innocently.
"Shinu! What are you doing?!" She shouted in panic as he got up.
"I'm ending this madness that revolves around him tonight! Quickly, give me your locket and the eight-pointed crystal." She took them out of her pocket and handed them to him. He held them for a second in the hand with the scar and then gave her back a red locket. It had a dragon in the middle and flames bordering the edge. "I want you to use that to get back to Hiiro and the others at your boot camp, you're safe there. Now go!"
"Shinu, I want to give you something for all this trouble you've been through tonight just for me." She stood up and kissed him on the lips that had told her so much. "Thank you, Shinu."
She stood back, held the locket, and disappeared. When she was able to see again, she saw the familiar room. She remembered that it was nighttime and it was total darkness. They were all asleep. She snuck over to Hirro's bunk and woke him. He was tired and irritable, sleep was a function that he required to operate correctly. But he wrapped his arm around her after he realized who it was, and then he kissed her forehead. She snuggled up to his chest and held him tightly.
'Damn it,' she thought, 'tomorrow's Monday!' But she forgot that quickly as Hiiro took the clips out of her hair and let her odangos down. He then straightened her hair and whispered to Duo that she was back. Duo seemed happy enough, but he rolled over quickly and went to sleep. She wrapped her arm around him and fell to sleep so great, it would be a shame to wake up.
~Okay! Sorry to end it here! But I have to tell you that the next chapter will begin with Shinu and Mamoru! You can look forward to them! And I have to say that it took me quite a while to update because I was lazy, and I had a lot to write. Please Review! See ya'll next chapter!
Seeing nothing, feeling everything
I fear for my sanity
Yearn for feeling
Reach out to touch something not there
I feel the pain of loss
I feel disappointment in my shortcomings
Yet I have hope
For one day to be free
To run, to laugh, to feel happiness
In the darkness I lay
Looking to a non-existent sky
And I scream my frustration
I stop feeling my own pain
I strain to hear in the darkness
I hear similar cries
All filled with pain
I then realize I am not alone
For someone is never truly alone
Souls always intertwine in darkness and in light
--DARKNESS, sugarhigh maniac
Hey! Chapter 15 was my last chapter that I am going to write under R. My book is just too puny to be under R so I am placing it back under PG-13. If anyone disagrees with me and thinks that my book should stay in R, please notify me with a reason and parts in my story to back it up. The part in where Usagi and Hiiro are in the bedroom together doesn't count because 'Titanic' is rated PG-13 and it shows: naked people, people having sex in cars, mass destruction, and mass death. My book only contains some of these qualities [Only Usagi's fake family is dead, no mass destruction, and there has only been a bus and the Tsukino car.] And just to let you know, this IS a Hiiro/Usagi story. Now only one more thing to add... Thank you sugarhigh maniac! That's a really cool quote! And I have a question, how does a sugarhigh maniac come up with such a cool quote? I'm only joking : P, on with the story! ^-^
*I don't believe in disclaimers
Chapter 16: Revelation
Usagi looked through her sodden eyes. How long had she sat on this bed? An hour? Two hours? She looked at the boy sitting on her patio.
"Shinu," She inquired. He turned his head to her. To show she had his attention. His back was against the wooden railing and he had one leg bent and his arm draped over it. His other leg laid straight and his other arm in his lap. His head tilted to the side and hair slid slyly into his face. "I want you to explain what is going on and why you were screaming at my mother. Those things you said..."
"It is all very complicated. But I'll start off with the most basic fact," he paused, "I want you to know that everything you have been told was a lie. The only thing that's true is that you are Serenity's daughter, you're princess of the moon, and you are Sailor Moon." He swung his head back to the sinking moon. The silence was only broken by blowing leaves.
"If I were to believe you, what would be the truth?" She crawled off the bed and put the crystal and locket in her uniform's only pocket. She walked to the glass door and leaned against it gently with her arms folded across her chest.
"It is a sick truth." He warned.
"It is better to know the truth than to know none at all." She said with a solid face.
"Okay. Don't interrupt or I will never finish." He looked at the blue eyes which no one possessed but her, those heavenly eyes, and then he began. "Long, long ago, your mother descended to Earth for the annul ball which was held every year at the time of good harvest. Her own mother had died from assassination only 5 months before the ball and she was still very aggrieved. But when she cast her young eyes upon a middle-class, hard- working harvester, she fell in love. Together they lived and ruled over the kingdoms of the moon. And then they created you. When you were 14 you went to the annul ball, we met when you fell and were crying behind a bush. You were hurt because your clumsiness made you trip over your own shoe. It might have been fate that night, because we talked until the morning sun and we sat under a big weeping willow. It was your first time to see the sun rise from Earth. And then we kissed."
He could see her blush in the darkness. It must have been horrible not to remember any of this... he began again. "We didn't see each other until the next ball, when you were 15. We talked more and more. You had become quite a lovely woman. After you were 16 and we had been together for a third night, you stayed on Earth for three days with me. When you went back to the Moon Kingdom, you couldn't stand to stay there and you came back during the black moon. Your mother believed it was because you loved to bathe in the Earth water. For three hundred years past, you pretended to take a bath in the waters and I would come see you."
He threw his hair back and dug his fingers through it ruthlessly. His eyes watered and then he forced himself to continue. "If you recall, your father was an Earthling and did not have the lifespan as long as a moon person's. He died when he was a wrinkled old man at 60 years old and your mother was heart-broken, but she knew she must forget him and raise you. 300 years after our first ball-"
"How are you going to live to 300 years and my father only 60 if you are both earthlings?" She inquired. She thought that this would prove it a lie if he couldn't answer, but he did.
"My mother was Lunarian." She cast him a questionable glance. "It means she was from the moon, just like yours...we are both half breeds." He added, "And what did I ask of you? Not to interrupt..." He smiled playfully, "Anyways, 300 years after that first ball together, you announced to me that you were taking me to the moon. I was so frightened you wouldn't believe it!" He gave a small, sorrowful, chuckle. "You brought me to the moon, my first visit ever. My mother had told me so many wonderful stories of tall buildings and pillars and grace and beauty-"
He stopped for a second and realized that he could never sum up all the things he was told. "My mother told me many, many things on her death bed. You see, she was ill for the last three years of her life; she could have lived so much longer with me if it were not for the plague which wiped out a third of the population in Europe-"
"The Black Death." She said.
"My, my, you have grown fond of interrupting!" He said with a grin that reminded her of Duo. She blushed a little and then waved her hand signaling him to continue. "But, yes, The Black Death. When she caught it, her flesh decomposed beneath her own face, her boils came up slowly, she died slowly and agonizingly, it was too much for a child to bear. Her blood from the moon slowed the process of aging, and it slowed the process of death from three days to three years. I was seven when she caught it, and I was ten when she begged me to end her suffering. I took a knife to her heart that night. And I never met my father. I was all alone living on the streets; I lived in the orphanage where my best friend and all the children died, except me. Everywhere I went, they called me Shinu because everyone I knew personally, died. [AN: Shinu=die] I was a small child wandering through the fields of death. I couldn't run away from it all. Everywhere I went, everyone died. I was a whimpering child afraid of the monsters that stalked me. I was afraid to sleep, because the monsters would purge themselves from the dark and grab me, I grew up alone-"
When he paused, she stood up from her position of leaning against the glass doors and walked to him. She sat next to him and wrapped her arms around him comfortingly. He didn't let the tears of remembrance spill, he had more to tell.
"I must get off the subject of childhood." He forced a smile as he held her hand in his lap. "My mother had told me many wonderful things of the moon. And everything she said was true. When I arrived in the courtroom where she held herself most of the time, you announced your love for me. She became enraged that you had fallen in love with a half-breed, even though you were one yourself. She wanted to wed you to a rich Lunarian. He was rich, but a big fat slob-" His frown of childhood faded as he looked at her disbelieving smile. "No! Literally, he was big fat and drooling! I saw him with my own eyes! What a sight it was. You brought me to your room and locked us in there. You were awful cruel to her in the way that you handled the situation."
"What do you mean by that?" She asked with a bigger smile.
"What I mean is that you made a bunch of noises that accompany sex while she was standing outside of you door screaming for you to open it. I was totally clueless to what was going on. I just watched you making the noises under the door. Finally, she threatened to blast it down and you opened it fully dressed. I was sitting in a chair on the other side of the room laughing helplessly, when you heard me you started laughing too. Then she let go of dignity and slapped you on your left cheek. All laughter was dropped and she stalked off. But you had succeeded in arranging our marriage."
"I actually did that to my mother? I invoked her wrath and chanced my ass by making sex-noises?!" She began to laugh as she said this. They both broke out in welcome laughter.
"You were already pregnant at the time, which no one knew until after the wedding and honeymoon. On the day of our wedding, everyone knew that she was jealous, they could see it. But no one believed it even though it was the most obvious thing on the moon." He then forgot all the previous laughter and stood up. "Come with me, I can't say this in words."
He led her into the bathroom. He filled the bathtub almost to the rim. It was dirty and dusty from not being cleaned or used in two months. She put a finger in the steaming water and pulled it back immediately. The water heater still worked on what little water they had left from two months ago, ha, that's kind of funny.
"Okay. I want you to look into the water and focus on the surface, you should see the images five seconds after I get in." She looked at him startled.
"Get in?" She didn't believe he could get in the scalding water. "It'll burn you horrifically! You could get hurt permanently!"
"Trust me, I wouldn't do this if it would mortally wound me. Just do what I told you to. Okay?" He looked at her right in the eye. And what beautiful eyes she had.
"Okay. Do you want some help to get in? It has a slippery spot-"
"No, I don't need any help. But thank you sincerely for offering." He slid his arms out of his leather jacket. She looked at the huge muscles in which he owned. He lifted his shirt above his head. The muscles moved every time he moved, they blended in with his skin. They were so large. He looked about 16, but his muscles looked like they had been used for hundreds of years, getting stronger every second. And the truth was, they were.
"Shinu? How old are you?"
"Too old to count." He said unzipping his pants. She turned away. "I don't mind if you look, we WERE married once, you know?" He said with an immodest smile.
She turned around and didn't look. She didn't care if they were married once, she was being modest. "How old were you when you stopped aging?"
"I was 16." He said simply as he slid down boxer shorts to his ankles. He went over to the steaming tub and lifted his foot above it. "Remember, count to five and look at the surface. Any other questions you have should be answered. But I know there will be many more questions though." He pulled his foot back and put it on the floor. "If I don't come up after the images are gone, I want you to leave me there. Don't pull me back up. Understand?"
"Okay." She answered. He lifted his leg and put his foot in the water, which gave a silent sizzle. He submerged his thin muscular body totally under the water. "Five--four--three--two." She whispered. She didn't even say 'one' before the images scattered on the surface.
She saw a blade being hoisted above a woman's head. She felt like she was there herself. The air was thick and moist, just like the time when she had been to the moon once before. Lightning struck the ground and fire burst towards the woman.
Usagi turned to face the place where these two elements had erupted. There stood Raye and Makato. Next to them stood Ami and Minako. She looked down at her feet; she was standing on the moon.
"Guys!" She cried. "It's so good to see you again!" She ran to them and tried to get their attention. They were looking straight through her.
"Queen Serenity!" Raye called. "Please don't make us do this!"
"Mamoru died! I won't let little Serenity live through her husband's death! It's not fair that my love dies and hers lives!" Screamed the Queen in insanity.
"We are sorry that Mamoru is gone! We truly are! But don't lose control, Queen!" Ami shouted.
"Die!" The Queen screamed once more. She closed the palms of her hands and the crater in which Usagi's beloved friends stood collapsed in on them. The Queen turned, and there stood Shinu and herself. Usagi gasped.
"Give it up Shinu! I am too powerful for the likes of you."
"I will not let you harm my wife! Our daughter lies in her cradle never to bear her own children because you have driven your own jealousy and greed through her heart with a blade! Leave us be and you will not die this instant. Leave us to mourn."
She took a daring step closer to them, Shinu pulled the Usagi of hundreds of years ago closer to the edge of the crater. He stopped, knowing they were drawing to the boundary.
"I will kill you both! My love is gone and you should not be able to love if I am not able to!"
"You self-centered hag! How dare you say such things?! You chose your own fate!" The Usagi standing with Shinu screamed. "Mother! You had more time with Father than I! You should be happy that you had him!"
"And I suppose you want me to be happy of his passing also?! You want me to be happy that he is gone?! You want me to be happy that my daughter is planning to over-throw me and take my throne?" The Queen screamed.
"I love you mother! I would never over-throw you or take the throne or anything that your twisted mind comes up with!"
"We want you to leave us be!" Shouted Shinu in rage. "Your sorrow for your loved one has made you blind! This is your own daughter and you want her to be unhappy!"
"Mamoru!" Screamed the Queen madly. She thrust the blade in the air. It flew forward and drew closer every second. Shinu had hardly any time to react as he plunged forward to catch the knife with his own body. But he was too slow and it struck his hand and forced its way to the girl's heart.
He stared in awe as the girl fell. He caught her with his other hand and laid her head in his lap. He took his free hand and grabbed the handle of the blade.
"Serenity, I have to pull the blade out. Can you take it?" The girl nodded her head weakly. Then she gave a painful scream as the blade was pulled from her chest and his hand. "Serenity! I'm so sorry! Please stay calm. Don't move or you'll force more blood out."
"I love you." She whispered.
"No! Remember?! You said we'd never say goodbye? I love you! You have to stay here!"
"I'll see you later. In heaven maybe. I'll raise our daughter good. You'll see her when you get there."
He clenched his eyes closed and pulled her to his chest. "I love you, too." She reached her hand up to his face and wiped the stream of tears away. Then her hand fell limply on her chest. He stood up and laid her body on the ground.
"You will pay for your insane acts! Now is the time to beg for mercy! Or you will perish!"
The Queen ignored him. And began to walk away. He couldn't take it! This was too much! Another lost soul, like his mother... He crouched over the ground, spikes began protrude from his back. He stood up as a scaled, clawed, fanged, winged Dragon. He flapped his wings and rose into the air.
Serenity looked back then began to run as fast as she could. Then, remembering that if she lived, she would have no one to love her. She slowed down and let the giant beast dig its claws into her shoulders and above her heart. She wasn't dead yet. The dragon flew higher and higher until they palace seem like a speck. Then, she felt her heart fly as she was dropped. He let her go. She was falling, and when she reached the ground she would join her love...
A smile crept across her face and the great giant noticed it. "You think I would let you die that painlessly?!" He took a great dive and swung his tail back, then brought it forth making the queen's body land in two pieces.
An arrow took flight in the air and the whole kingdom stood, ready to take on the slayer of the Queen. Usagi stood and watched as the entire kingdom went up in flames. And how the flames danced! They went from one house to another, lighting it so the other flames could play on it too. The flames would burn for a year and three months, due to the Lunarian air.
When everyone was dead but Shinu, he became human again and lifted the princess who had vowed to raise his child in heaven into his arms. He began to walk towards the burning palace with a sorrowful limp. An arrow had passed through his left leg during the battle. But he ignored it and the flames as he walked to a cradle. He took bloody sheets from it and set the woman and the bundle on the bed in the room lit by fire. He pulled back one of the blankets to reveal that inside the bundle was a newborn child.
"May you rest in peace my darling." He said as he took the bed sheet and covered her. It looked like a peaceful scene. The delightful little flames lighting up the room where mother and child sleep peacefully for an eternity.
A small white light came from the chest of the woman. And at the same time, four more lights of red, orange, blue, and green entered the room.
"Go my darling and loyalty to her. You five shall live happily on Earth. I will find you again one day, trust me."
Usagi felt a pull in her back. Then she was back, looking at the surface of the water. She couldn't believe it! No! None of that ever happened, she was dreaming and this was one big lie.
'That's it! This is a big joke that some one's playing! It's not funny!!!' She thought. Then she realized that blood had consumed a majority of the water. 'Shinu told me not to lift him out of the water, but I have to! It's overflowing and he's bleeding!'
Just as reached in the water to pull him out, he sat up.
"Shinu! You're bleeding, are you alright?" She asked in concern. He showed her his hand, there stood a scar as big as the blade she had seen.
"Is that from the blade?"
"Yes, the metal was from the moon so it stays there to remind me every second of that day." He looked at her beautiful eyes. She felt drawn to him, his good looks, his past. She felt like she owed him something... "And you see, now that I have drawn those images in this water, if I submerge my hand, it bleeds." He showed her, and it bled out of control, but when he lifted it above, it immediately stopped.
She leaned in closer to him, he stood up and grabbed a towel and then her attempt was failed. She sat on the toilet lid and watched him get dressed once more. When he was finished, he walked out with Usagi at his heel.
He sat down against the railing where they were before. She leaned against his shoulder and he held his hand to the moon. A bright light shone through his hand and all doubts in her mind were erased.
"It just seems so unreal that could have ever happened." She whispered. He showed her the scar from the arrow, which triggered a question in her mind. "How did you become a dragon? I can't do that and we are both half-breeds like you said."
"You never asked what my father was." He said with a grim frown, "My father was a Dragon. When I was three, my mother found out that he had been slaughtered a month before my birth." He brushed his hair behind his ear. "My ears are pointed, I have to have long hair to protect myself."
"So you aren't even human?" She said. He nodded. There was an awkward silence and then she broke it with a whisper, afraid to be any louder. "My mother called her lover Mamoru. Does that mean that-"
"It means that the man that got you sent to boot camp is your father. And that means that he has tricked you all this time into thinking you're supposed to be his wife. But it's not true. The separation of the two caused both of them to go insane. But I forced myself to stay sensible when you died, I knew that I would see you again."
"You've ruined the whole plot!" Screamed a familiar voice. "Now come on, Shinu! I know that you didn't waste your time to find her just to die when you get her back!" Usagi looked around, and then she saw the origin of the voice- Mamoru. He was standing on the railing.
"What are you doing here?" She found herself saying in anger.
"I'm merely rescuing my foolish daughter from a dragon." He said innocently.
"Shinu! What are you doing?!" She shouted in panic as he got up.
"I'm ending this madness that revolves around him tonight! Quickly, give me your locket and the eight-pointed crystal." She took them out of her pocket and handed them to him. He held them for a second in the hand with the scar and then gave her back a red locket. It had a dragon in the middle and flames bordering the edge. "I want you to use that to get back to Hiiro and the others at your boot camp, you're safe there. Now go!"
"Shinu, I want to give you something for all this trouble you've been through tonight just for me." She stood up and kissed him on the lips that had told her so much. "Thank you, Shinu."
She stood back, held the locket, and disappeared. When she was able to see again, she saw the familiar room. She remembered that it was nighttime and it was total darkness. They were all asleep. She snuck over to Hirro's bunk and woke him. He was tired and irritable, sleep was a function that he required to operate correctly. But he wrapped his arm around her after he realized who it was, and then he kissed her forehead. She snuggled up to his chest and held him tightly.
'Damn it,' she thought, 'tomorrow's Monday!' But she forgot that quickly as Hiiro took the clips out of her hair and let her odangos down. He then straightened her hair and whispered to Duo that she was back. Duo seemed happy enough, but he rolled over quickly and went to sleep. She wrapped her arm around him and fell to sleep so great, it would be a shame to wake up.
~Okay! Sorry to end it here! But I have to tell you that the next chapter will begin with Shinu and Mamoru! You can look forward to them! And I have to say that it took me quite a while to update because I was lazy, and I had a lot to write. Please Review! See ya'll next chapter!