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Chapter 18: The Devil's Lair

Serenity moaned as she woke up, her body felt strange not like her own. She could still feel the pulsing black energy from the mark Diamond had left on her, and her two crescent moon marks burned slightly in protest.

She could tell immediately that she wasn't aboard Endymion's beloved ship anymore. The room wasn't gently rocking back and forth like it usually did, and the room was cold. The feeling of evil around her was so intent that she knew that her disappearing had not been a dream. All day she'd felt that evil mark on her skin tugging her away to some other place. Slowly pulling from Endymion and last night it had simply taken her body to where ever she was now.

Serenity sat up looking around her seeing she was in some kind of bedroom; everything was black. Serenity shivered at the evil in the air and when she looked down she saw someone had changed her clothes. She was wearing dress where the sleeves didn't even cover her shoulders but fell around her upper arms. The bust was glittering with jewels that formed a small line that traveled down the dress. There were two large wholes in the dress that she knew had been purposely put there. The wholes were on both side of the dress revealing half of her ribs and went all the way down to her hips. The rest of the dress was white, but Serenity looked at the neck line uncomfortably. It was so low you could plainly see the mark Diamond had left on her, and the back plunged dangerously low as well. Serenity decided almost immediately she hated the dress, the dress was elegant, but it made her feel like she was a doxy getting ready to entertain a customer. She wanted to take it off and find something else, but she wasn't sure if there was anything else and at the moment the door to the room opened.

"I see that you are awake Serenity," spoke a voice that Serenity had never wanted to hear again. Not really wanting to she looked over by the door to see that Diamond was standing there looking immaculate as ever.

"Where have you taken me Diamond?" Serenity asked trying to not let her voice tremble. Like it or not she was scared of being alone with him, Endymion wasn't here to protect her this time, and as always the stench of evil assaulted her.

"You are at my palace Serenity, just like you were suppose to be. Now if you come along with me we can get down to business." he said gesturing for her to get up and follow him.

"I will go no where with you Diamond," she hissed at him.

"You will either come with me by yourself or I will force you Serenity," he spoke casually. Serenity thought about it for a moment then determined that she was going to end up going with him either way. She hopped off the bed and followed him into the hallway careful to keep some distance between them.

The castle was a creepy as the room she'd been in, it seemed almost everything was a dark color. She didn't see any other people around except for a few guards which made her skitter away nervously.

Diamond soon led her into another room where the feeling of evil escalated sharply. Serenity backed away from the room nervously, but two guards who had been following them shoved her into the room. She stumbled in trying to put some distance between her and the guards, but as the doors shut behind her she wished she hadn't.

The walls of the room were draped in either red or black velvet, some had pictures depicted on them. The pictures were of blood and death or many people in crude sexual positions. Serenity shuddered this room was evil, or where evil was performed and she sorrowly wished she wasn't in it.

There was a stone tablet in the center of the room draped in red silk, and Serenity could see chains and shackles attacked to it. On one of the far walls there was a small alter, but the splatters of blood on it told Serenity that she didn't want to know what that alter was used for.

She saw Diamond pull on a robe of black silk and stood by the stone table, "Serenity come here," he said.

Serenity with horror realized he was talking about the table, she turned to run out of the room, but the two guard at the door catch her and lifted her off her feet. Serenity kicked, screamed, and clawed, but nothing could get them to put her down. Serenity soon found herself being stretched out upon the stone table with the guards securing her wrists and her ankles. They tightened the chains so she was unable to move, and spread eagle on the table.

Serenity shut her eyes not wanting to see their gloating faces above her. She heard the guards move away and Diamond's evil laugh bounced of the walls.

"And here you are Serenity at my mercy," he said staring down at her triumph in his eyes. His hand reached for her an gently traced a pattern on her cheek, Serenity flinched away from his touch.

"What are you going to do to me?" Serenity asked greatly fearing the answer.

"I'm going to make you mine, in every way possible," Diamond said.

"What exactly dose that mean? It has something to so with the horrendous mark you left on me doesn't it?"

"Ah, yes the mark," he said tracing it loving with his finger. He walked over to the alter, next to it was a cage of doves. Diamond ruthlessly grabbed a dove from the cage and picked up a knife. Serenity shut her eyes and turned away as he slit the doves throat easily. He tossed the carcass away after he'd drained all the blood into a wooden bowl on the alter.

He immersed his hand in the blood a gleeful look crossing his face. His spoke in a low and ugly language that sent shivers up her spine and the sense if evil in the room was bombarding all of her senses, everything in her telling her to get out, to run.

He turned back to her and began walking back to the table, blood dripping off of his hands. He stood beside the table grinning down at her.

"The marks my dear Serenity bind you to me. The more and more I put on you, the more subtle you become to my will. You will soon obey me in all things, and you will be mine until the day we die. The first mark brought you to me and the others will win me your absolute obedience."

"It will never work," Serenity said trying to sound strong, but even she doubted herself in her mind.

"Of course it will, I've seen it done. My father used the exact same marks on Endymion's mother when he brought her back here," he said evilly.

"You're lying Endymion told me he saw both of his parents die," Serenity denied it immediately, it couldn't be true.

"It is not so hard Serenity to create an illusion, what Endymion saw that day was an illusion of his mother's dead body. My father killed Endymion's father then took his mother for his own. When she wouldn't cooperate he created this spell and recorded it in his book. So you see Serenity it will work," he said laughing.

Poor Endymion, he'll be devastated, Serenity thought. Serenity knew that what Diamond now said was true, but she would fight him with her very last breath. Endymion had marked her before him with the Goddess's mark, and that had to count for something. She would hold out until Endymion came to get her.

"So Serenity we'll start you off easy, if you don't fight it I imagine the dark energy will enter your body rather easily, so be a good girl and don't resist," he sneered down at her. Serenity spit in his face, and his expression turned thunderous. Without any warning he spoke several lines of that dark evil language his voice rising in a crescendo at the end.

His two hands grabbed her clamping down hard at the same time, his left and on her bare skin on her ribs, and his right hand on her right hip. Serenity screamed loud and long as she felt the dark energy rise up inside of Diamond then dive into her body through his hands. It burned like nothing she'd ever felt before, she was burning a relentless fire and there was no escape.

He pulled his hands away smiling down evilly at her hearing her screams echo off of the walls with a kind of satisfaction on his face. Serenity glance down through her tears and saw that indeed two more marks were glowing red into her skin their dark energy spreading out to posses her body. Before Serenity even had a chance to recover Diamond's hands grasped her arms, and the dark every was escalating into her body all over again.

She struggled in her bonds trying to desperately to get away. It burned and burned until Serenity was sure she would die. The dark energy was too much, the pain was too much, and it all wouldn't stop. Her skin had been branded by the most evil symbols and they tainted her with their evil.

The she felt Diamond at her feet and felt his hands on her skin as he unshackled her ankles. His hands no longer transferred the dark energy into her, but she felt frozen in a bucket of icy terror as he spread her legs even wider. With an evil smile an his face he rucked up the skirt of her dress and opened her to him.

"No!" Serenity shrieked trying desperately to close her legs. Annoyed by her struggling he leaned forward and slapped her. Serenity saw stars for a moment and that was all the time Diamond needed as he secured her legs even wider.

"You will not deny me now Serenity, I will take what is rightfully mine," he said freeing himself from his trousers. Serenity struggled, but being chained as she was she could barley move at all. Tears poured down her face as he felt him tilt her hips so he could enter her, and she felt him begin to move forward.

All of a sudden a golden glow erupted all around her and Diamond was thrown half way across the room. Serenity felt the chains holding her snap, broken, and she sat up weakly. She could barley move, she saw Diamond get up a furious look on his face.

"What magic is this?" he cried out starting to Serenity again.

"You cannot take me Diamond, I am already bound." Serenity panted trying to catch her breath.

"Bound, there is no possible way that could be," he snarled.

"Think again Diamond, Endymion and I have been engaged by the Moon Goddess Selene herself. He has marked me twice, and our souls are bound." Serenity said glaring up at him with hate in her eyes. Diamond let out a few choice curses, but he looked up at Serenity with an even scarier look on his face.

"It dose not matter Serenity, I will break those bonds if it's the last thing I do, you will be mine totally and completely. Guards take her away." he said turning back to the alter in a fit of rage.

Serenity felt herself being grasped by the to guards again and she was carried form the room. Her world was hazy and nothing seemed to focus in. The dark energy moving through her body was relentless, and the two marks Endymion had made on her let out a soft white energy to battle the darkness. The energy battle going on inside of her body was a little more than she could take, and she was unconscious before the guards reached her room.

Endymion couldn't eat, and he couldn't sleep, he put everything to action immediately. He was almost crazy with grief unwilling to believe he'd allowed Diamond to snatch Serenity from him so easily. The Generals eventually had to drug him so he wouldn't make himself ill. He got one full day of sleep and when he woke up he was anything but calm, but he was actually thinking now.

"This is where it starts, send messages to all of our ships and tell them to head for our station near Braeden. This war begins now." he said firmly to all of the Generals.

"Are you sure Endymion?" Malachite asked.

"Yes, when we storm that castle to bring back Serenity we begin this war with the upper hand. We must make the necessary preparations as fast as we can."

They'd been preparing for war for a long time, all the treasure they'd found as pirates helped finance them. The plan was to call all of their other ships from their raiding and have them return to the caves and arm themselves for battle.

The Generals went and did as they were told, knowing that there was nothing to stop Endymion, and many of them had been eager to fight. Everyone had lost something or someone when Diamond's father had conquered their country, and still held some of their people prisoner there now.

Endymion returned to his cabin and paced unable to even think about sleeping. He raged, he cried, and he damned himself in anyway possible.

I'll be damned if Diamond takes someone else away from me, Endymion thought fiercely. He stared out the window at the moon Serenity had spent so much time staring at. After he got her and made sure that she was safe he would have to send her back to Jericho, it was the only way that she would be safe until this war was over. He didn't know how long it would take, but he would come for her once it was finally over.

Just hang on Serenity, I would never leave you with him for long, and I don't intend to. I will get you back even if I must give up my own life to get you.

Serenity!

Far away Serenity jerked up in the bed she was lying in. She'd thought she'd heard Endymion calling out to her in her head. She could hear such sorrow and anguish in his voice that she began to cry as well. She would wait for him, but she was unsure if she could endure Diamond's evil ritual for much longer. She was worried once Endymion came there might not be anything left of her. Even now with only five marks upon her she struggled to keep form drowning under the dark energy inside of her. It would be so easy to just give up and give into it, but Serenity would fight, as she knew that Endymion would fight to get to her.