Chp 1 - Him

Dreamer

"Diamond give it to me."

"No you have to earn it. You will never have it till you earn it."

"But I did. Father gave it to me. It came from mother."

"No he gave it to me. Don't you remember?"

Diamond yanked the opal like stone out of the way and clutched it in his hand. I fell to the ground on my hands and knees. Mother had left it for me before she had died. Diamond was slightly bigger since he was the older of us both. He didn't look like father or mother. I picked up my hand and saw the scrape that had started to form from the force of the gravel walkway. I shook off the pain and in doing so out of the corner of my eyes I saw her. Something was drawing me to her. Her eyes it was her eyes. They looked like she wanted to play. I stood up as watched as she was watching us. I went to the closest rose bush. My mother had these on Earth as well. I picked the prettiest one I could see. Just like my mother taught me. I broke the stem and left Diamond to fend for him self. He was coveting the stone that Father had given to me. He had entrusted it to me. I wandered over to the young girl. She was from the Moon. She had silver hair like the Queen and King. I was not much older than her yet she sat by herself outside.

I walked up to her and handed her the rose.

"Endymion, Diamond it's time to go." My father called. I ran off. She was going to say something but I didn't dare anger my father. I presented myself behind him as he was talking to the King of the Moon.

"The moon kingdoms help will be much appreciated in this last battle. The uprisings and evil that has infiltrated Earth is not something that I have taken lightly. The Earth may not agree but I am their King and I feel this is best. The earth's crystal will remain here for it's safety. If it should disappear the Earth will be destroyed.

"I have sent some of my guard already for you to Earth. They are travelling to middle Earth now and should be there by the time you arrive home. I as well will follow soon to assist. We have seen this evil before. How it manifested on Earth I don't know."

"Excellent. Thank you. My son hopefully will be back on the Moon in the coming years. I hope we can both witness the marriage of the Moon and Earth together to unite our people as one."

"I believe that it will be done. Serenity is young now but she will understand in time that this will unite us and all the planetary alliances will follow suite. There will be peace."

"She will marry Endymion."

"Father I want to marry her." Diamond said. "I must marry her." He spoke peeking around father. He smirked at me and looked at the King of the Moon.

I watched my father's eyes start to glass over as Diamond smiled greedily. He had the stone in his hands and was telling it what it wanted. He was controlling father. I didn't dare move from my spot out of fear that he would control me. I watched father's eyes glass over in front of the Moon King and then he corrected himself to say Diamond would be the one Serenity would marry.

We left shortly after that. When we did leave the young girl was still sitting there with the rose that I gave her. She was starring at it so intently. There was something about her. Something about those big eyes.

I woke with a start. I was dreaming of the moon girl again. Why now? I was in the Palace that much I knew. My mother gone. Died in the war when the palace was hit. I put my head in my hands. The dream I had was so vivid it felt real. It always felt real. I got in so much trouble in my younger years searching for her. Searching and dreaming. Doing things I shouldn't have just to see her in my dreams.

I don't remember going to the moon as a child. Yet I searched for her. It had to have been a dream. It had to have been. I stood from my bed and headed to the window. These days the Earth was peaceful around the castle but there was so much unrest everywhere else. I had thrown the curtain open and let the sunrise in. The moon disappearing as the sun peeked up. The green of Earth's trees and shrubs vibrant in the summer weather.

I would be traveling to the end of the Earth to the planetary travel commission. Father needed me to pick up and escort the Princess of the Moon to her future home here at the palace with my brother. He had told me something else which it was done in private. He had asked me to find and locate the golden Earth crystal. My dream had a opal like stone that Diamond had taken from me. It was not golden like father had stated. How was I going to find this crystal and get it to father with out my brother knowing. Did he know something was going on? Something I could see so plainly but when I stayed around the palace my views changed to that of my brother. Was he controlling me as well?

Diamond was power hungry. He controlled everything he did. Excelled at everything he did. But he did teach me to go after what I wanted. In the years after my mother died I learned to battle and fight if something evil should return to earth. I was assigned 4 General Knights who also happened to be my friends outside of the palace. I was pleased with their progress and they had their own guard to run. I was given orders and they help me complete them. This was no exception. Kunzite would go to the Moon with 4 of his staff and bring the Princess and her court here to Earth. I would make sure nothing would be in their way.

I bathed and dressed and headed to where my father usually was in the mornings. He didn't sleep well and hadn't since mother died. I entered the solarium where my mother's roses remained in bloom since her death.

"Father." I called out.

"Yes Endymion I am here." He came out from behind a rose bush carrying a red rose. The rose triggered memory of the dream I had just had. My brother was nowhere to be seen thankfully. He would I'm sure have destroyed the beautiful memory.

"Are you ready for today?"

"Yes. I will keep her safe Father."

"She has a guard that is her court. The Moon Queen will no doubt have letters for myself."

"Father?"

"Yes Endymion."

"Was there an opal stone of Earth at one time? I recalled that you had given me one at one time."

"No I don't think so. There was a dark crystal but it was destroyed when the Moon King died here on Earth."

"Alright Father I better go I need to travel a few days to get to the Planetary travel crossway."

"Yes my son. Go and get your bride?"

"Father?" My bride?

"I mean your brother's bride. Keep her safe."

"Yes sir."

He had said my bride and then corrected himself. My dream he had done the same thing. I left him standing there and in the doorway stood my brother. I glared at him and walked by without a word. He was as usual looking like he was scheming to do something he wanted father to proclaim for him. He was not the King yet but he wanted it badly enough. I don't know how much he had heard and I didn't care at this point but I left out of the palace with my General Knights waiting for me in another town. We were headed for the end of the Earth as it seemed.