TADA! Yeah yeah, I know last night I posted saying I'm a lazy ass,
but I noticed that this was good enough! So there ya go! P.S. There is
going to be another chappie!
Thanks:
To all my friends who will never read this, as I would die from emarassment.
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Elena Chamberlain: *Sigh* I give up I can't write a lemon...
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"Lady Minako, my Queen." A young herald said, walking into the throne room of the Lunar palace. Behind him, was a young woman, her Senshi uniform clean and new, but her body dirty and worn from long battles. Her hair had lost its natural shine; her eyes were dull, losing their playful glitter.
"Princess? Did your venture on Earth not go well?" The Queen said rising quickly and standing in front of her honored guest. "Madame, my forces will gather here and here on your doorstep shall the fate of our world be decided. I will lead the assault and fight on the front line. You will stay here with Serenity and guard the Silver Imperial Crystal. All will be lost if it is taken, you must take it with you when you die."
"When I die, Minako?"
"Everyone will die. You will die at the very end, left with two, and you must send them to Earth to find reincarnations in the future. You shall live within the shrine room and sleep there in a state of half-dead, until the day I call you by reclaiming my sword." "Lady, talk to the Queen with more respect!" a guard called out advancing upon Minako, yet shied away when she glared at him out of the corner of her eye. He felt his heart freeze, and retreated backwards to his post.
"Minako is exempt from that rule." The Queen said waving her hand. "I would appreciate it though if you were a slight more positive though."
"I told you the truth, as I heard from the sage Beryl, as Rei saw it in the magic fires, as I saw it in the wells of knowing. The girls know not of these misfortunes other than the fact that I am gathering them here for the battle. Now my Queen, Makoto, as I'm sure she has told you, has planned a rather large banquet as a celebration before out days of training. She would kill me if I didn't come, or came like this, so I must shower and dress before the sunsets. I'll see you in a few hours." With that, the Venusian bowed and exited the throne room, walking towards her room.
"I wish that girl will find happiness in the next life, she's done so much for all of us." The Queen sighed to herself, sitting back down on her golden chair. "And a bubblier disposition would compliment her fine."
A few halls away Minako was walking more aimlessly then when she started, hoping to run into someone she knew. The only news of her friends that reached her ears were whispers by the maids about how each young Princess now had a General counterpart whom they loved, except Venus, who had shown up that day alone. Suspicions of Serenity and the Prince were rising, yet none of the chattering young people had seen the two together other at dinners. Minako smiled to herself, glad that both blonde princess kept a tab on their love life.
"You took too long Minako!" A call came from a higher floor. Minako looked up to see Luna looking down on her from the railing three stories above. The blonde jumped onto the banister before leaping upwards, landing next to the advisor of the Moon Queen.
"You are going to talk to him now aren't you?" Was the first thing that fell from Luna mouth after she hugged the Venusian.
"Depends on which him." Minako scoffed. "I can not avoid either one at the banquet tonight, and I shall not see either out of my own free will until tomorrow. For now I am going to bed, I really do hate sleeping in trees more then twice a week."
"Promise me you will talk to Artemis?" Luna asked as Minako turned to walk away. "He has yet to talk to me, let alone me, he will talk to no one anymore, he used to answer the Queen, but he avoided so many questions that he might has well been silent. He spends a great deal of his time in his room, doing nothing, he eats only once a day, and Minako... last night I heard him cry."
"It was probably a trick of the wind." Minako said in a stern voice, the last comment had sent a pang through her heart. Of course Artemis was always soft-hearted, but no one saw him cry, he pushed aside all extreme emotions to discus with Minako, and her alone. Knowing someone had heard him cry would devastate him more than the thing that he was crying over. Minako knew that fact all too well, and planned to use it to threaten him to talk to Luna again, therefore become the happy man he was again.
Without a hesitation to think about her guardian, Minako stalked down the hall, now wishing not to see any one she knew. Upon reaching her room, she entered and locked the door before falling on the bed and sleeping comfortably for only a few hours before three maids knocked non-stop on her door, whishing to help her dress for the feast. Sleepily opening her door, the maids pushed inside, practically picking Minako up and striping her of clothes, before dropping her into the bathtub in the large bathroom adjacent to her room. She sat there and allowed the maids to wash her body and clean her hair. They soon finished and hauled her out of the tub to be dried.
"My lady?" the eldest maid asked.
"hm?"
"Are you feeling alright? Are you ill perhaps?"
"I'm fine, why?"
"You didn't fight against us like last time our Queen asked us to come and prepare you."
"I'm just a little preoccupied." Minako said raising her arms to allow the maids to slip a pale pink dress over her head. She was surprise at how fast the three women worked, in the short time she had been talking they had dried her body, put on her underwear and now preparing all her accessories and hair.
"You look lovely Princess Venus," the three women said bowing before her half an hour later.
"Um, you may leave." Minako said in her monotone. The maids shrank away towards the door and with a quick glance behind them left her. Minako sighed and walked to the window, watching the Earth rise and the sun slowly set.
"I should leave now if I don't want to have to make a big appearance at the dinner." She muttered to herself. The young princess walked through the castle which was in almost a panic of preparation. Upon reaching the grand ballroom she was surprised to find that almost half of what she was told were the expected guest, had already arrived and were gaily chatting and sipping glamorous drinks. Pleased that almost no one had seen her yet, and that neither Kunzite nor Artemis were there she retreated to a corner.
"So you plan to kill him?" a familiar but not so friendly voice came from Minako's side. She turned her head slowly, and her cold blue eyes met the slightly angered eyes of General Jadeite.
"What are you talking about? Do I look ready to kill anyone? This is a night for Makoto's celebration, not my war ragging."
"Then go and see him."
"Who damn it?"
"Kunzite."
"Why the hell would I want to kill him?"
"You are killing him from the inside, out Minako." Jadeite said "He loves you and is now in a room in the same building as you yet you do not let him know you were here. When I saw him yesterday morn, he looked almost fragile. He thinks you might be dead, or mortally injured in some desolate place. If you don't do something soon, he might kill himself. He has a flask hidden on his person at all times, and I dare not think of what deadly substance is hidden within it."
"Don't fret so General." She replied in a harsh tone. "I promised myself I would talk to him tomorrow, so I will talk to him then."
"And if he sees you tonight?"
"I will speak to him if such an occasion arises, yet I seriously doubt he will come tonight from what I have heard the maids chattering."
"Hum, well we shall see." Jadeite said giving her one last cold glance before stalking away towards Rei, who was glancing between him and Minako with a look of worry. Minako turned her back on the couple and stared out the window, her arms crossed in the most unlady like fashion she could muster. Soon the dancing started and she became deaf to the requests of nobles to dance.
"Ah, salvation." She muttered to herself as she noticed that the grand doors to the courtyard were open ad very few guests had ventured out. After twenty minutes of walking in the maze of gardens, Minako found herself in the lily section of the garden, a man was sitting on the bench, his back to her, but she knew who he was all to well.
"Princess?" Kunzite whispered, as she had attempted to quietly exit.
"General." She whimpered, trying to sound cold, failing miserably.
"Are you really here?" he said standing up slowly. Minako stared into his eyes and seeing his sadness, his hope and his love for her, lost control of her will to stay away and ran into his arms, wrapping hers around him. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks in joy, Jadeite had scared her with the thought of Kunzite committing suicide. She vowed to herself never to let the silver-haired general alone again.
"Is my goddess crying?" Kunzite whispered, lifting her face gently. Bending down, he kissed away her tears. Holding her tighter, he whispered in her ear, "I missed you."
"I'm glad you are okay." She whispered snuggling her face back into his chest.
"You are glad I'm okay? I've been worried sick about you going onto a planet in the middle of a huge war with no one to accompany you and now you say you are glad that I am okay? Minako, I think that is my line." He laughed.
"You do know you are laughing right?" Minako said trying to remember when the last time the stern general laughed. Thinking about it she found she didn't care, his laugh was almost as charming to hear as his voice, and for right now nothing mattered as long as the two of them were together.
"I know very well I am laughing." he said looking down on her and smiling. "You are one of the few people to hear me laugh as I'm sure I'm one of the few to hear you giggle. Oh Minako, promise you'll never leave me again."
"I promise as long as you do the same, remember, I will leave you one day, but we will find each other in the next life." She said wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him down for a kiss. After a few seconds, Minako pulled away, sensing another aura close at hand. She pulled away from Kunzite's now loose grasp on her, ignoring the fact that his lips were trailing down her neck.
"Minako?' he questioned sadly as her warmth left him.
"Shhhh..... someone else is here." She whispered calmly. Apparently the spy heard, as a bush rustled, the man hiding behind it attempting to run. Minako was no match for him though, she ran forward and springing over the bush, landed on the man. Sitting up she found she was straddling his waist... and that could be a bad idea.
"Artemis..." she whispered.
"Your Highness, you must act more lady-like then to jump over bushes, and you are certainly never allowed alone with a man before you are engaged." her guardian said back hotly, refusing to make eye contact with her.
"You mad at me Artie?" she whispered, sounding hurt.
"No, never at you." he said, his eyes softening.
"Then if you don't mind, I was here to discuss matters of battle with the General. Shall I speak to you in the morning?"
"Yes of course, I shall await you in your chamber after the morning meal." Artemis murmured, not hiding his anger in the slightest. Minako bent over and hugged him tightly before removing herself from him and walking to Kunzite's side. The two walked away as the guardian slowly stood up and walked solemnly to the castle.
"Ah, damn it all." Minako whispered to herself, clenching her hand into a tight ball. Kunzite looked at her with sad eyes, sure Artemis was his nemesis for staying with Minako, but the cat was her friend and not one that Kunzite would want harmed for his beloved's sake. Besides, the guardian's injured emotional state was weighing heavily down on the Venusian princess.
"Kunzite," Minako murmured, "I know this sound be a time for celebrating but we have a problem on our hands. The world is about to fight for good or evil, or more like life or death."
"On the ground we walk on now." Kunzite commented softly.
"Yes, I suppose one of the others told you?"
"No, I have had dreams of a battle, or really you running into war. I thought I was reminiscing of when I first saw you, but I realized that we were not on Venus. The thought just came to me that you stopped running past the dead corpses near the seal of the moon on in the front of the palace here."
"We only have tomorrow and the next day to train before we rest for the finial battle... that is unless Metallia finds a new weapon she just can't wait to destroy us with." Minako said coldly before shivering slightly. Who knew what this evil comet-sent being could bring to her worlds?
"We'll just have to kill her first then." Kunzite said, wrapping his arm around Minako's shoulders and guiding her towards the light of the banquet. "See Seren? I told you they were a couple." A small whisper was heard from the shadows.
"Makoto! You're the one who won't admit you are doing things with Nephrite!"
"Seren, don't squeal so load! Minako will hear you! And besides Rei is FAR worse then I!"
"Did you notice that promise ring Zoicite gave Ami?"
"Mhn... I want one too..."
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Hehehe that's the end... oh Chappie 12! Chapter 13 will be the destruction chapter!.... once I fill in the blanks, got the Metallia battle done... now for the training *sigh*
Thanks:
To all my friends who will never read this, as I would die from emarassment.
AznAnimeAngel: YAY! YOU USED UBER CORRECTLY! Hehhe Glad ya like! Suspense is fun... I think there is some even in the last chapter... lol
Elena Chamberlain: *Sigh* I give up I can't write a lemon...
Optical _______: Forgot your name and my connection shut down. THANK YOU FOR REVIEWING AGAIN! AND YOU TOO ELENA PERSON! *tear tear* I just love seeing your notes appear like that in my mail box!
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"Lady Minako, my Queen." A young herald said, walking into the throne room of the Lunar palace. Behind him, was a young woman, her Senshi uniform clean and new, but her body dirty and worn from long battles. Her hair had lost its natural shine; her eyes were dull, losing their playful glitter.
"Princess? Did your venture on Earth not go well?" The Queen said rising quickly and standing in front of her honored guest. "Madame, my forces will gather here and here on your doorstep shall the fate of our world be decided. I will lead the assault and fight on the front line. You will stay here with Serenity and guard the Silver Imperial Crystal. All will be lost if it is taken, you must take it with you when you die."
"When I die, Minako?"
"Everyone will die. You will die at the very end, left with two, and you must send them to Earth to find reincarnations in the future. You shall live within the shrine room and sleep there in a state of half-dead, until the day I call you by reclaiming my sword." "Lady, talk to the Queen with more respect!" a guard called out advancing upon Minako, yet shied away when she glared at him out of the corner of her eye. He felt his heart freeze, and retreated backwards to his post.
"Minako is exempt from that rule." The Queen said waving her hand. "I would appreciate it though if you were a slight more positive though."
"I told you the truth, as I heard from the sage Beryl, as Rei saw it in the magic fires, as I saw it in the wells of knowing. The girls know not of these misfortunes other than the fact that I am gathering them here for the battle. Now my Queen, Makoto, as I'm sure she has told you, has planned a rather large banquet as a celebration before out days of training. She would kill me if I didn't come, or came like this, so I must shower and dress before the sunsets. I'll see you in a few hours." With that, the Venusian bowed and exited the throne room, walking towards her room.
"I wish that girl will find happiness in the next life, she's done so much for all of us." The Queen sighed to herself, sitting back down on her golden chair. "And a bubblier disposition would compliment her fine."
A few halls away Minako was walking more aimlessly then when she started, hoping to run into someone she knew. The only news of her friends that reached her ears were whispers by the maids about how each young Princess now had a General counterpart whom they loved, except Venus, who had shown up that day alone. Suspicions of Serenity and the Prince were rising, yet none of the chattering young people had seen the two together other at dinners. Minako smiled to herself, glad that both blonde princess kept a tab on their love life.
"You took too long Minako!" A call came from a higher floor. Minako looked up to see Luna looking down on her from the railing three stories above. The blonde jumped onto the banister before leaping upwards, landing next to the advisor of the Moon Queen.
"You are going to talk to him now aren't you?" Was the first thing that fell from Luna mouth after she hugged the Venusian.
"Depends on which him." Minako scoffed. "I can not avoid either one at the banquet tonight, and I shall not see either out of my own free will until tomorrow. For now I am going to bed, I really do hate sleeping in trees more then twice a week."
"Promise me you will talk to Artemis?" Luna asked as Minako turned to walk away. "He has yet to talk to me, let alone me, he will talk to no one anymore, he used to answer the Queen, but he avoided so many questions that he might has well been silent. He spends a great deal of his time in his room, doing nothing, he eats only once a day, and Minako... last night I heard him cry."
"It was probably a trick of the wind." Minako said in a stern voice, the last comment had sent a pang through her heart. Of course Artemis was always soft-hearted, but no one saw him cry, he pushed aside all extreme emotions to discus with Minako, and her alone. Knowing someone had heard him cry would devastate him more than the thing that he was crying over. Minako knew that fact all too well, and planned to use it to threaten him to talk to Luna again, therefore become the happy man he was again.
Without a hesitation to think about her guardian, Minako stalked down the hall, now wishing not to see any one she knew. Upon reaching her room, she entered and locked the door before falling on the bed and sleeping comfortably for only a few hours before three maids knocked non-stop on her door, whishing to help her dress for the feast. Sleepily opening her door, the maids pushed inside, practically picking Minako up and striping her of clothes, before dropping her into the bathtub in the large bathroom adjacent to her room. She sat there and allowed the maids to wash her body and clean her hair. They soon finished and hauled her out of the tub to be dried.
"My lady?" the eldest maid asked.
"hm?"
"Are you feeling alright? Are you ill perhaps?"
"I'm fine, why?"
"You didn't fight against us like last time our Queen asked us to come and prepare you."
"I'm just a little preoccupied." Minako said raising her arms to allow the maids to slip a pale pink dress over her head. She was surprise at how fast the three women worked, in the short time she had been talking they had dried her body, put on her underwear and now preparing all her accessories and hair.
"You look lovely Princess Venus," the three women said bowing before her half an hour later.
"Um, you may leave." Minako said in her monotone. The maids shrank away towards the door and with a quick glance behind them left her. Minako sighed and walked to the window, watching the Earth rise and the sun slowly set.
"I should leave now if I don't want to have to make a big appearance at the dinner." She muttered to herself. The young princess walked through the castle which was in almost a panic of preparation. Upon reaching the grand ballroom she was surprised to find that almost half of what she was told were the expected guest, had already arrived and were gaily chatting and sipping glamorous drinks. Pleased that almost no one had seen her yet, and that neither Kunzite nor Artemis were there she retreated to a corner.
"So you plan to kill him?" a familiar but not so friendly voice came from Minako's side. She turned her head slowly, and her cold blue eyes met the slightly angered eyes of General Jadeite.
"What are you talking about? Do I look ready to kill anyone? This is a night for Makoto's celebration, not my war ragging."
"Then go and see him."
"Who damn it?"
"Kunzite."
"Why the hell would I want to kill him?"
"You are killing him from the inside, out Minako." Jadeite said "He loves you and is now in a room in the same building as you yet you do not let him know you were here. When I saw him yesterday morn, he looked almost fragile. He thinks you might be dead, or mortally injured in some desolate place. If you don't do something soon, he might kill himself. He has a flask hidden on his person at all times, and I dare not think of what deadly substance is hidden within it."
"Don't fret so General." She replied in a harsh tone. "I promised myself I would talk to him tomorrow, so I will talk to him then."
"And if he sees you tonight?"
"I will speak to him if such an occasion arises, yet I seriously doubt he will come tonight from what I have heard the maids chattering."
"Hum, well we shall see." Jadeite said giving her one last cold glance before stalking away towards Rei, who was glancing between him and Minako with a look of worry. Minako turned her back on the couple and stared out the window, her arms crossed in the most unlady like fashion she could muster. Soon the dancing started and she became deaf to the requests of nobles to dance.
"Ah, salvation." She muttered to herself as she noticed that the grand doors to the courtyard were open ad very few guests had ventured out. After twenty minutes of walking in the maze of gardens, Minako found herself in the lily section of the garden, a man was sitting on the bench, his back to her, but she knew who he was all to well.
"Princess?" Kunzite whispered, as she had attempted to quietly exit.
"General." She whimpered, trying to sound cold, failing miserably.
"Are you really here?" he said standing up slowly. Minako stared into his eyes and seeing his sadness, his hope and his love for her, lost control of her will to stay away and ran into his arms, wrapping hers around him. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks in joy, Jadeite had scared her with the thought of Kunzite committing suicide. She vowed to herself never to let the silver-haired general alone again.
"Is my goddess crying?" Kunzite whispered, lifting her face gently. Bending down, he kissed away her tears. Holding her tighter, he whispered in her ear, "I missed you."
"I'm glad you are okay." She whispered snuggling her face back into his chest.
"You are glad I'm okay? I've been worried sick about you going onto a planet in the middle of a huge war with no one to accompany you and now you say you are glad that I am okay? Minako, I think that is my line." He laughed.
"You do know you are laughing right?" Minako said trying to remember when the last time the stern general laughed. Thinking about it she found she didn't care, his laugh was almost as charming to hear as his voice, and for right now nothing mattered as long as the two of them were together.
"I know very well I am laughing." he said looking down on her and smiling. "You are one of the few people to hear me laugh as I'm sure I'm one of the few to hear you giggle. Oh Minako, promise you'll never leave me again."
"I promise as long as you do the same, remember, I will leave you one day, but we will find each other in the next life." She said wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him down for a kiss. After a few seconds, Minako pulled away, sensing another aura close at hand. She pulled away from Kunzite's now loose grasp on her, ignoring the fact that his lips were trailing down her neck.
"Minako?' he questioned sadly as her warmth left him.
"Shhhh..... someone else is here." She whispered calmly. Apparently the spy heard, as a bush rustled, the man hiding behind it attempting to run. Minako was no match for him though, she ran forward and springing over the bush, landed on the man. Sitting up she found she was straddling his waist... and that could be a bad idea.
"Artemis..." she whispered.
"Your Highness, you must act more lady-like then to jump over bushes, and you are certainly never allowed alone with a man before you are engaged." her guardian said back hotly, refusing to make eye contact with her.
"You mad at me Artie?" she whispered, sounding hurt.
"No, never at you." he said, his eyes softening.
"Then if you don't mind, I was here to discuss matters of battle with the General. Shall I speak to you in the morning?"
"Yes of course, I shall await you in your chamber after the morning meal." Artemis murmured, not hiding his anger in the slightest. Minako bent over and hugged him tightly before removing herself from him and walking to Kunzite's side. The two walked away as the guardian slowly stood up and walked solemnly to the castle.
"Ah, damn it all." Minako whispered to herself, clenching her hand into a tight ball. Kunzite looked at her with sad eyes, sure Artemis was his nemesis for staying with Minako, but the cat was her friend and not one that Kunzite would want harmed for his beloved's sake. Besides, the guardian's injured emotional state was weighing heavily down on the Venusian princess.
"Kunzite," Minako murmured, "I know this sound be a time for celebrating but we have a problem on our hands. The world is about to fight for good or evil, or more like life or death."
"On the ground we walk on now." Kunzite commented softly.
"Yes, I suppose one of the others told you?"
"No, I have had dreams of a battle, or really you running into war. I thought I was reminiscing of when I first saw you, but I realized that we were not on Venus. The thought just came to me that you stopped running past the dead corpses near the seal of the moon on in the front of the palace here."
"We only have tomorrow and the next day to train before we rest for the finial battle... that is unless Metallia finds a new weapon she just can't wait to destroy us with." Minako said coldly before shivering slightly. Who knew what this evil comet-sent being could bring to her worlds?
"We'll just have to kill her first then." Kunzite said, wrapping his arm around Minako's shoulders and guiding her towards the light of the banquet. "See Seren? I told you they were a couple." A small whisper was heard from the shadows.
"Makoto! You're the one who won't admit you are doing things with Nephrite!"
"Seren, don't squeal so load! Minako will hear you! And besides Rei is FAR worse then I!"
"Did you notice that promise ring Zoicite gave Ami?"
"Mhn... I want one too..."
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Hehehe that's the end... oh Chappie 12! Chapter 13 will be the destruction chapter!.... once I fill in the blanks, got the Metallia battle done... now for the training *sigh*