the devil within

by max333

When Tuxedo Mask's past identity is revealed, he's ripped from his beloved arm's while injured, and kidnapped to the negaverse where Prince Endymion is born. Yet things are not as they seem to the majority on either. Wanting his beloved Moon by his side he makes his own agenda, but is he truly playing both sides of the field or is he really one over the other? Find out more inside.

11. training for two & suppressed memories

sabina21: you all will soon find out, not to many spoilers now.

AvatarUzumaki: oh definitely, Usagi needs to do it more often. And why not, in a sense, she wants to still believe that Luna can change and be more understanding and respect her. So she tries her best to please those she can while still doing what she knows is right.

smoon4409: thank you and here you go. 😊

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The devil within ch.11

Evil Endymion POV

I shot another bolt of darkness at her but she dodged it. She was getting quicker at her training these days. That was good. I shot another one at her as she flipped herself around it just before it would have connected. I watched as she took a breath in, her chest heaving as I saw the sweat begin to form beneath her work out attire. The padding of her sports bra was covered for the fact her nipples had to be a bit hard from the work out.

Usagi and I had been working out on her hand-to-hand combat and dealing with my attacks for a few hours every night that we got the chance to. She was improving steadily and I could tell she was getting better and better at it. At first when we began to train, she would transform but I declined her ability to do so. Her words were 'the girls and I always transform to train so we can use our powers'.

I nodded to her on that one as an understandable approach till I told her "and that's fine for them but we are going for a more hard-core training session. Usagi we're talking about you being able to handle Beryl and Metallia. The girls are meant to get you there for YOUR final fight."

I saw it dawn on her the first time I said that. How she realized the point I had of why I wanted her to be able to fight better than the rest.

I continued with, "So yes while training with the girls is good and necessary when you get to the big boss your going to need the strength of fighting without the use of your powers. I want you to be stronger than the rest. Fighting with your powers in a battle can only get you so far. I want you to be stronger, faster and more resilient without using them.' she nodded and said 'so we train without them."

She nodded as we continued. I wanted her to be one of the best out there, the best to stand beside me as Queen and to be recognized as such. Right now, part of her team didn't see that within her. They saw what they initially met still and she was so much more than that now, but she needed to see it for herself first. I wanted her to train without powers so her own confidence level would go up for herself.

She'd trust her own body more, trust her own intuition better, trust in how her body worked and what she could do better. I wanted to push her but not to her limits. She still had a breaking point and I wanted her strong, not broken. I'm glad she understood that as we continued to train and work out. I feel that my approach is strengthening her inner core more so than training with just her powers.

I can see it in how she moves, how she dodges the attacks given. Yes, I'm using my powers BUT I want to make her work on improving her overall performance and not just on how to use her powers. She gets that practice with the girls, this is bare bones basic only on a dark level of building one's self up to be better. I'm sure if both Makoto and Rei did it themselves, they'd understand it and encourage it, BUT, no one knows the levels she training under nor do they know it's with me.

If they did, I'm sure there would be fireworks of epic proportions going on, so she kept silent about it while I worked to improve her inner core. Besides it was a nice break from training her with her crystal. I could feel its power whenever it was emanating around, but kept my distance so it didn't view me as a threat. I didn't need it to 'accidentally' blast me to keep its mistress safe, not that I would blame it.

I threw another power ball at her as she ducked it into a set of splits that I couldn't help but admire. She bounced back up like a damn pro and earned even more respect from me on it as I smiled in pride at what she was getting done. "If we were at the Olympics, I'd be clapping my hands at that. Not many people can jump into splits and jump back up and be ready to fight some more."

She smiled and went to hit me. I was glad she was getting more and more used to offensive attacking versus just offensive. It showed me the level of comfort she was gaining. I dodged the first few strikes she sent my way, then got nailed on the fourth upper cut before she spun around and kicked me in the gut. I backpedaled a few feet before she kicked me again and this time, I hit the ground. I rolled backwards to get back up and faced off against her.

No powers this time, as I wanted her to try to focus on hand-to-hand combat since she was going to her martial arts training with Makoto. I wanted her to incorporate that into her fighting out here too. Makoto was good with it already but I wanted Usagi to get to that level if not better than her. We met three blows for three blows as our arms kept meeting in the middle before I caught her left arm.

I trapped it between both of mine before grabbing for her throat. I wanted her to know where the enemy would try to go for and she knew me well enough to know that she needed to react fast when they went for it. She grabbed my offending thumb and bent it back till I had to admit that it was either holding the position or risking her legitimately breaking it before I released just enough for her to bend my whole arm back.

I grunted just enough as she removed my hand from the vicinity of her throat before using the movement to slam her fist into my face causing my whole head to rear back from the force before she kicked out at my knee, the bent in portion, and knock me down till I was on my knees before she jumped on me and went to put me in a head lock. This could be tricky for anyone to be put into.

If one wasn't trained, they wouldn't know how to get out of it, BUT, if they were they could use a few tricks to slip out and gain the upper hand. I got up off the ground, her still clinging to me like a monkey as I tried to shake her off but to no avail. She's doing a good job of trying to knock me out or get me to tap out but she's still not applying enough force to actually do some damage which is understandable.

This is just training after all. Right when I have the momentum to knock her off she swings herself up, over my head and kicks me in the gut, making me fall back while she herself falls down. Both of us flip back up at the same time as she goes to kick me. Having had enough and knowing we were nearing the end of the training session, I caught her leg, swung her around to be under me as I pushed us both to the ground.

At this point, we were both breathing hard, and not really looking forward to getting back up. "I think we can call it an end for today," I tell her.

She nods, "I agree." Here's the hilarity to the situation, were now both tired from training BUT, as I feel her body underneath mine, another part of me wakes up and has some demands to be met. I see the way Usagi responds to feeling him pressing into her.

Her breathing is slowly decreasing as mine is and while there's sexual tension in the air from the work out were also both very-

"As much as I hate to break up the moment here I'm beyond thirsty." She says as I laugh, "Yeah me to."

I roll off of her as we both get up and go to the gym bag I have out here for us. I give her a water bottle with protein filled electrolytes to help her out as I gulp mine down pretty fast.

We both take a moment as we drink up. "That was as exhausting as it was invigorating," she tells me. I agree yet I see the hopefulness in her eyes paired with sadness.

"What's wrong?" I ask, seeing she's been caught she sighs. "I was wondering earlier why training with the girls didn't feel as productive as this does but then I knew why."

I motion for her to tell me as she takes a hefty gulp of water.

"When the girls and I train there's a certain level of always watching your back that you get," I nod as she goes. "In some cases it's both Rei and Makoto jumping at me from behind. I used to get hit pretty decently and just narrowly miss an incoming attack from Ami or Minako, then usually afterwards if I give the motion to ease up as it is just training, Rei calls me a baby for calling a 'time out'."

She pauses to take another long drink as I turn away from her, a dark shadow of anger passes over my face as I mentally stew over Rei's attitude towards her. Despite being a good friend to her Rei still has to have negative, unhelpful remarks towards her during training, and disguises it as 'positive reinforcement'. It's one thing if Usagi wasn't trying but she works her butt off and doesn't get any positive feedback from some of her best friends. I was debating on making plans for Rei once I took over my planet.

As much as I wanted to do something, preferably a plan that involved her facing a punishment dealt with Usagi in some form, Usagi wouldn't have it. No matter how hard Rei can be on her, Usagi is just to damned good at times for her own good. "Yet when we practice, if I need a break, you give it. Then we go again at it not to long afterwards BUT the fact is that you don't verbally beat me down and I feel more progress with you." There's a fearful admittance to that I can tell as I step up to her.

"You've basically been training with them for so long you'd expect things to already be improving over with them than with me." I can see a hint of surprise in her face along with wondering if she's hurt me with this.

"No worries, I get that. If anything, I think it works better to train a person with repeat strokes over time, get you into repeat motions so that it goes into muscles memory." She looks relieved I get it.

I take her in my arms. "Usagi, you're incredibly strong, even before I came along. You really just need to see it for yourself and to grow as a person from it. My training gets into your core, it strengthens not just this..." I squeeze the muscles in her arms, sides, and shoulders before touching her head. "But also what's in here," I place my palm over her heart before touching her forehead. "This is where your strength comes from."

She looks up at me as I continue. "If you beat both of these up, you'll run out of steam but if you nurture it, if you give it the space and time to grow both will become greater weapons than this," I held her slightly bloodied up fist. She really did crack me a good one. "Why do you think I have you train with the crystal for a few hours before we do this?" I ask her as she answers, "To be strong enough to beat Beryl."

I smile. "That's one of them. I guide you through it because I know that there's a strong connection between you and the silver crystal. I want you to be stronger in all departments, not for anyone else but yourself. That bond you have with it will win this war. So, at my place, your mind, heart and bond gets stronger. Out here we work on your core and body so that it's not all a mental work out. All areas need to be taken care of."

She nods and accepts this as she tells me, "You're a great instructor."

I smirk. "It's helpful that I have a hot and oh so willing vixen as my one and only student."

She gives me a gently slap to the arm before we both give in and kiss. It's meant to be simple and sweet but it never does end with simple and sweet with us. The kiss slowly becomes something neither of us can walk away from as I back her up into the tree where I hide the gym bag.

It gets pushed to the side as our kisses become more heavily passionate. I strip off her sports bra that unhooks in the back as she lifts up her arms to allow its release. Her yoga pants, which give her more freedom of movement, are usually a cross between a pain to deal with and a delight to deal with since there are no buttons or zippers. Just pulling and stretchy fabric as I go to pull them from her.

It's then that I encounter a surprise for this evening. No panties. This stops me in my tracks as she sees what's caught me up. The blush hits her cheeks hard. "I wanted to try something new and since my fuku doesn't technically have underwear, kind of more like a stretchy bathing suit slash - " I couldn't take it anymore. Know that she was BARE under there this WHOLE time was to much for my male induced hormones to take.

Even Mamoru was having a 'cannot compute' processing issue, though his own arousal was easy to tell as it was my own too. He was more than encouraging of her learning more defensive actions and seeing her in her work out outfit really help out. So, to know that she had been fighting bare under her yoga pants and had even trimmed and shaved herself for him made us stand more erect for her.

We dropped to our knees as I spread her legs further apart to enjoy her sweet nectar that began to flow out from any slightest touch that I gave her. She began to move her body in tune with my tongue as she gave little whimpering mewls of encouragement and believe me, as I was on my knees out here in the dark, tongue deep in her cervices, licking her up like cat to milk, listening to her sounds, knowing there was no other human life around but us, I was going to take as much as she would give.

I grasped her rear cheeks in my hands and lifted her legs up onto my shoulders, still kneeling by the way, and sat her essentially in front of my face while I gorged out on her. She leaned back against the tree but her hips gyrated towards my mouth as I happily ate her out. I pushed a finger against her nub and felt her whole frame begin to rack as she was already on the edge and ready to dive over.

I used two of my fingers to angle her clit up towards me and sucked hard while she gave a shouting scream to the air. She rarely did that even at my place. Fear of being overheard usually kept her quiet so this was a rare treat. Especially when I hear her shout my name. I couldn't help the small grunt of annoyance at hearing Mamoru's name but the added vibration helped as she began to seize around me.

Besides I am Mamoru so it wasn't that bad. I wasn't jealous of myself...even if it was a tad annoying. As she came down from the surprise to even her, high that she was on, she pulled her legs from my shoulders and as I went to stand up she pushed me down. Before I could get up from my back she pulled at the waistband of my own work our bottoms and tugged till 'he' was free from confinement and began to stroke him.

Any annoyance at her for saying 'Mamoru' fell to the side as she gently yet greedily pumped and began to feed him into her mouth. I couldn't stop my hands from going to her head as she pumped herself over him. Her tongue doing wicked things that I wouldn't think before being with her that she knew how to do. As her tongue swirled around him, I could feel him growing bigger than he already was when I was down on her.

So big that she was pumping him with her mouth on him and for that I had to give a small smirk to. Just as she used a tiny bit of teeth to tease the edge I already wanted to be in her, yet she was unrelenting on having me in her mouth, "Usa..." that's when she did something I didn't think was possible for her just yet. She for about three very long yet short seconds deep throated him and her tongue touches my balls.

I knew right then and there that even as she came back up that she did that to make up for saying 'Mamoru' earlier. Even though he had no issues with it, of course why would he, I, on the other hand, who refused to see it as jealousy, hold a slight issue with it. I shouldn't and I know I shouldn't as he was me and I was him...am him. Yet I couldn't ignore the part of me that did get jealous of her calling his name out.

It was irrational I knew that. Yet there was the evil part that rationale it as her wanting the not so evil Mamoru made me want to press her deep throating me longer. Those three seconds in the back of her throat as pre-cum developed on my tip and got washed away down her throat were well worth it. So much so that when she pulled back for that breath of air, I pressed her back down.

Yes, I gave in and pressed for more as she shot her eyes up to me and though she compressed her hands into my thighs giving me a signal that it wouldn't last long, she held for as long as she could. Fine it was only for about five more seconds but feeling her muscles in the back of her throat as I looked down at her and saw her give me this devilish grin made me grip her head so hard that I thought I was going to cum right then and there.

So, when she grabbed my hands and pinned them to my sides and came up for air while giving the tip a finishing lick, I acted. My impulse control was in charge now and my restraint was evaporated with her wicked mouth. I hauled her to her feet so fast she didn't have time to giggle at it. There was no time to register the fact that she was about to get her brains fuck into oblivion, only feel it when I knocked her off her feet, pounced and ripped away at any clothing that was left of her.

I held her pinned beneath me, nearly smothering her with my body as she gasped and panted from the heat between us. I made mine disappear as she tried to remove them but was unsuccessful as I had her pinned still. Before she could get words out, I pushed her legs apart and thrust home into her. Her mouth opened wide at the sudden intrusion. Her legs came around me to welcome me in, but I know I stunned her with my quick abruptness as I slammed into her despite the finesse.

I gave her hard grinding strokes that had her mouth open in both pleasure and slightly shocking pain I knew was only adding to her pleasure. She looked at me with a renewed ecstasy expression on her face. It wasn't often I expressed my more dominant side like this. I tried to keep a balance of it but right now, the balance was temporarily ruptured. I hooked my hands behind her bent knees and pushed upwards.

Now touching her shoulders, I leaned forward and pressed myself more urgently into her. The pace now began to increase as I kept up the hard grinding slams into her heat sheath. My own knees bent as I power drove myself into her. I couldn't stop the guttural moan that came out when she clamped her muscles down around my member. I rotated my head around as I tried to keep my focus up.

I knew she was trying to gain back some form of control in this, but right now, that wasn't going to happen. Right now, as I jammed my hips against hers and felt her walls begin to convulse around mine yet retreated before an orgasm could completely form, I was the one in control and I was going to keep it that way. I kept going, plunging her little petite hips further into the grass beneath us as she was literally moving on the grass.

My body had more moving power to it than I thought it did. I couldn't help the smirk I had in play when I moved up a notch and anchored her to me more firmly than before. I wanted to be as deep in her as possible. The sheer tightness that came from her, when she clenched her muscles around me made me ache for more of her. I thrust in harder and faster than before as her body was giving its own demands to be sated too.

I gripped onto her wrists again showing her I wanted still to make sure she was okay. Her response was to lift up her lower legs and slip them up over my shoulders. I felt them both hitting my neck as I watched her smirk at the control she was developing. I couldn't tell you how much of a turn-on that was. I felt like my length grew within her that much more, stretching her out that much more.

I do believe she felt it too as her orgasm was about to descend. Not yet. I flipped our positions around again. Now she was on her stomach, legs spread out wide as possible as her ass formed this wonderful shape of two globes. I grabbed them and slammed them for good measure as she grunted with the need to have me back in her as the position switch did pull me out of her, but for good reason.

Keeping her legs pushed up and mounting her like a lion would his mate as I plunged in heedlessly again and angled my own hips to keep hers in place. I pinned her down once more as I held her in, thrusting till she grunted, cried out and finally after nearly a dozen thrusts that would have easily bruised a normal human woman, heard her scream out her orgasm. It was a beautiful sound to hear.

The muscles locked me into her, which pulled on the last stretch of my own control and pushed me over the edge too. Unable to stop myself, nor caring to, I jackhammered my cock into her, hearing the slaps of my hips to her rear on repeat as I let out a growling roar that I know scared off any nearby critters that heard us. My seed emptied into her so deeply, that I knew for a fact that any condom I would have worn would have been useless.

A condom couldn't hold back what I had for her. Not as I kept pressing and slamming into her, prolonging the pleasure as much as possible before I ground one last time in her and leaned in, her body breathing in heavily deeply as was mine. I couldn't help the word that came out next and I didn't care to, "Mine." I wrapped my arms around her and held her close. Cherishing these moments, we had.

I could feel her getting comfortable. The training mixed with sex really knocked us both out as sleep was ready to take us both out. Yet I still had a narcissistic, obnoxious...among other things Queen to report to. I hated that I had to leave her. I trailed my hand across her face as I kissed her, "One day very soon, and we'll be like this together without anyone stopping us." I know I threw her off a bit with that but I could feel Beryl calling me.

I had started to be gone for too long as it was. If I was gone for much longer, she was going to become suspicious. I couldn't afford that. I waived her form away, shimmering her back to Mamoru's bed for the rest of her night's sleep. Made sure her bag for tomorrow was there so she could go to school and not have any issues. I stood up and relished the scent of her on me for a moment before shimmering myself over the nearby lake.

Taking a dive in I swam around for a few moments. I made sure to also effectively kill off any remanent of her scent AND kill off any chances of getting hard again. That's when I heard Mamoru in there. Oh there's a choice, just not a great one. I rolled my eyes at him as I shimmered out and put some clothes back on. It's beyond a bad choice. This is the life we must lead to get rid of the vile creature that stole our kingdom from us.

Do you think I enjoy staying away from our beloved? To not wake her up every morning as I want to? To have to go back to that hell hole that those youma call home? I demand of him. There is no choice here. I remind him as he then says...you know there is but I also understand your need to kill Beryl...let me ask this though, will killing her solve everything?

Now I was curious. Meaning what? I demand.

He says...let's face it in the end, after Beryl's dead and your, we're 'healed' the Terrain Kingdom is still going to be gone. It won't have brought anyone back.

I sigh knowing he's right...No it won't but...it doesn't mean that by doing this we won't get justice for what we've lost, what everyone lost. This isn't about vengeance or revenge...it's about balance and making things right. This will make it right as it should have been.

Usagi POV

What happened last night was an incredible way to end a training session. Granted I was still so sore from all of it, bruises even still were there from some of the dark power strikes I had barely dodged, tired as hell since we were up till all hours of the morning between training and the rough, amazing sex, but I felt renewed and happy. I didn't even care that I was tired, truthfully, I wasn't even feeling it yet.

I might still be too happy and riding that high. I also felt better about myself and more confident in my abilities. I threw my clothes on this morning, once I woke up at Mamoru's or rather Endymion's place, and left for school from there. It was thankfully closer so I wasn't at to much risk of being late for classes. So, when I see Ami during my first class, I'm almost reluctant to talk to her till she comes up to me once the class is over.

"Hey Usagi..." she's both seemingly reluctant to give the information but at the same point straight forward. "There's going to be a meeting after school today, Makoto and I happened upon some information you need to hear, but not here. Rei's not here with us and you three need to hear it."

I nod sensing this is too important to try to talk about in the ladies' room especially if even Rei hasn't heard it yet.

I agree to it despite my issues with Luna right now as I'm assuming she's the third party that doesn't know to. The classes for the rest of the day go by fine, nothing out of the ordinary, just a pressing need to know what's going on after school is out, but I will admit I do feel more focused on my classes lately. I even answered some questions that my teachers were surprised I was paying attention to.

I was surprised too, but I think they were definitely more shocked than I was. So, when the end of the day came up, I was both anticipating and dreading what this meeting would be about that even Luna or Rei didn't know what was going on. I do need to talk to Luna though. See if she's ready to listen more or if she's still in this 'I'm right your wrong mode'. We both need to be adults about this.

I walk in through the door as both Minako and Makoto are smiling in welcome. The walk to the temple couldn't have been longer but I also debated on the steps for a moment before I gave in and went up. Luna looked to be pouting a bit as Rei was using her nails to clean under the other ones. A show of both her need to keep busy and her boredom. "Can we get on with this?" she asks once I arrive.

"Take a seat Usagi," Artemis encourages. I sit by Minako and Makoto as Artemis goes into detail about the Earth's Council. It was obvious that all but Rei, Luna, and myself had heard this as they had no reaction to hearing it yet for myself, Rei, and Luna it was shocking news. I had no idea what level things had gotten to on earth for the counsel to have been essentially disassembled as Beryl had done.

She found cracks in the foundation of the so-called best and most powerful men and women on Earth and exploited them all. I could remember now at certain points seeing my moon mother getting a touch frazzled and upset over how the council was acting to her pleas. She had no idea that Beryl had gotten in till it was too late. Despite being banished from the inner kingdom no one counted on the council members visiting houses of 'ill repute'.

They walked right into her trap and didn't even see it. I recalled Endymion back then having arguments with some of them about wanting to bring her back in. They had felt that she was needed for 'secretarial purposes' but Endymion refused and even called out their judgment for wanting her there. That's when I lapsed into a memory. I must have suppressed it till Artemis started to talk.

Endymion had called one of the council members into his office to discuss matters when the member himself suggested using Beryl for 'stress relief' since wedding planning must be making him tense. I had initially thought that Endymion was venting about our wedding when the council member said, "It's what I do."

I remember being in shock as I had met the council member's wife. A timid shy woman that was currently pregnant with their second child. Yet he seemed not to care. Seeing Endymion's reaction and hearing his next words made me realize that I had heard wrong about his stress. "I'm not stressing over wedding planning, I'm stressed that the very woman whom I want out of this kingdom is the very woman you want to be giving a front-row seat to at council meetings."

Beryl. I remembered watching with rapid interest as Endymion went on. "Now why would you insist on her being there as an 'assistant' when the only thing she's assisted in doing is being your whore." I cringed at his crassness till the other council member rose up to his feet. "You could use her in the bedroom as I do. Besides, what could that moon princess possibly offer that a trained one doesn't?"

I remember getting upset till Endymion smarted off to him. "I think letting Beryl into your bed has affected your critical thinking and skills as a leader. I can only imagine how much worse you are as a husband and father."

The council member got upset with him and from what I remember demanded, "Highness I'd hate to think that the Prince of The Earth was questioning my honor as a council member."

Yet Endymion that I remember was being cool about it. Aloof even. He responded, "Can't question something that which doesn't exist." Which pissed the member off something fierce. I recall seeing the council member throw his chair to another end of the room in his fury where Endymion stayed calm and collected and only remarked, "Funny you seem to be angrier about your honor as a council member was questioned versus your ability to be a good husband or father."

The last thing I recalled what hearing the man say, "Being a husband and a father comes second to my duties...that role is only long enough to send the brats to school. I have no need for family."

Endymion was really calling a lot of the members of his father's Council out before the war broke out. So many of them were manipulated so deeply by Beryl that she was essentially using them as pawns in her game of chess against us.

The worst part was that she won that fight. Endymion, his parents, and my mother were only a few people that fought the war from the inside out. His guards tried to help too, but Beryl had smaller wars breaking out on earth. Rioting was happening and villages were being massacred, I had a feeling now as I recalled these smaller memories that Beryl was setting all this up. Her endgame back then hit me so hard I gasped gaining the attention of Artemis who looked at me as if realizing I just remembered.

I looked at him with tears brimming in my eyes and he knew that I remembered things. "What do you remember?"

Even Rei was too shocked by the expression on my face to make a remark. I swallowed and told them what I remembered.

"Unbelievable," Makoto remarked, upset herself by it. "I think I get now what lead to it."

Everyone looked at me. "Beryl couldn't get to us on the inside..." I began.

"We were well protected, insulated but, she got to the council instead. She broke us down from the inside out. She began to start riots on earth to pull Endymion's guards out to fight off rebels, to pull them further from the kingdom so she could get closer to getting inside."

Artemis narrows his eyes as does Luna as she recalls now. "I remember that. A few meetings were rescheduled due to lack of security."

Artemis nods as I tell them, "Beryl used the riots to scatter Endymion's guard, to get them further from possible means of help, she was getting stronger due to her own power source and overpowered them through her dark magic. When they came back they had already been influenced by her. She put the final touches on them since she'd managed to get back inside the Terrian kingdom."

This made Ami add, "And once she was back inside the kingdom gates she could slip wherever she wanted to and was able to manipulate more council, more people to her plight and round them against us."

Rei narrowed her eyes, but not at me, at what she realized as well, "Beryl wasn't just scattering them, she was building more forces to join her in taking over."

We look at her as she leans forward with anger in her eyes. "She takes out a few villages to lure the kingdom's top guards out especially since they wanted to silence the matter of Beryl once and for all by going themselves especially if they already tried to send out regular guards, but are overcome, she then infects them with her dark magic. They don't know as now she's back in the kingdom using said magics to get there faster."

At this point, Minako takes over the growing theory. "Once she was back inside, she had full access to whomever she wanted. When she couldn't manipulate the royal family, she went after the council and got them to..."

That's when her hand flew to her mouth as a memory hit her. Artemis looked down as if he KNEW what she just remembered. She looked at him, "You already knew, didn't you?"

It wasn't an accusation, more of a realization. He looked up to her, "Yes, unfortunately."

She sighed as I asked her, "Knew what?"

Minako turned to me, "Beryl got the council so twisted in their beliefs, making them so twisted in the darkness that she convinced them to kill the royal family. Endymion had already left for the moon by that point so he didn't know."

I knew I already knew but I had to ask, "Did they succeed?" my voice was low.

Her voice was equally low. "The king died first, defending his wife before she made it to the transport where we communicated, mortally wounded and sent one last message before death took her from her own wounds as well to prepare."

It stung me to hear that about his parents, and he probably never even found out what happened. The enemies were at our gates not too long afterward and struck them down.

"How do you remember that?" Rei asked Minako. "I certainly don't."

Minako looked over at her, "I was in the room when the communication came through. Beryl's forces thanks to her influence and dark magic were already there through. They needed the transporter to get to the moon. Beryl used her magic to make it big enough and gave it the ability to bring them all there."

My eyes shut as I realized I had wondered how they got there. We knew that they had taken out the Terrian kingdom, but we never really got to HOW they got to the moon kingdom. Not especially how they got through the protective shield that surrounded the moon kingdom.

"I remember that," I speak up, my voice sounded low and almost cracked from the emotions I'm feeling so I clear it a bit. "We never really had the chance to think about any of it cause everything happened so fast."

I look up at them. "It's how they got in, how we were overcome so quickly, Beryl needed the transporter we used to meet up that was outside the kingdom's walls but still within the protective dome we had. So she created all the issues to pull guards away from it so she could use it to get to the moon kingdom. It would never have been so defenseless. It was normally heavily guarded."

Luna interjects, "I can't believe we didn't even think about that." She looks at me with a mixture of pride and complete shock as I thought about how this all came to be. The pride faded though as the shock remained.

I got slightly annoyed with this and asked in a low tone. "Can you please stop looking at me like I'm a regular cat that learned how to use the toilet for the first time?"

Without missing a beat she remarked, "Can't, the fact that you thought of it and that right there are both equally shocking things."

Rei, unable to help herself, gives a small smirk. I look over to see that Luna is contemplating perhaps her own words now.

"Having second thoughts?" I ask her, hoping I'm right. She glances in my direction, "There may be more validity to your words than I previously gave them credit for."

Her admittance has me hoping again that she will understand my stance. I know I shouldn't hold out this hope but I can't help it. I want to be able to talk to Luna again, she brought me into this, she's been a source of advice and despite our recent viewpoints, I do value her council.

"At the end of the day…," Luna begins as even Artemis looks at her with hope in his eyes, she looks up to us all. "I still feel that I'm right about Endymion."

I feel my heart deflate like a popped balloon.

"I'm sorry but if anything knowing that now just further submits to me that I'm right about him. He cannot be trusted."

I'm torn emotionally and mentally here. I begin to laugh and cry at once, feeling like a break is about to happen. Makoto goes to comfort me, "I thought maybe finally hearing this would make you see things, Luna." I don't even glare at her.

I let her see my disappointment in her. "Endymion knew how bad she was and came to us beforehand. He was around his own generals after they'd been manipulated by Beryl and he came to fight for US. He DIED protecting ME and you still cling to this ridiculous notion that he's on Beryl's side and not fighting for us still. I'm just so done right now...when you're ready to accept that your wrong and jump up off that high horse you're so proudly sitting, I'll be waiting."

As I get up to leave I see that all but Rei are getting up to leave too. "

You don't have to leave just because I am," I assure them, not wanting it to seem like I'm putting a divider in this.

"Were not," Ami assures me. "I have cram class, Makoto had martial arts, so do you and Minako have homework, this was just news that couldn't wait."

I hoped she was right as I nodded and even gave Rei a, "Have a good evening." before leaving.