Authors Note: Sorry this chapter took so long to get out. Had a little writers block and having my little toddler running all over the house getting into things while his dad was at work made life a little interesting. Hope you like this chapter.

Disclaimer: I only own the story, not Sailor Moon.

Chapter 14

"This isn't good." Lita whispered to Serena at the sight of their soon to be former comrade. "Do you want to get out of here before he recognizes who you are?"

Serena nodded as Andrew came over to where they were sitting at the counter.

"You can go through the back, if you want to." Andrew whispered to her. "Oh, and your food is on the house. I'll let Katri know about the recent development once you're gone." He turned to look at Darien and Akusai who were heading towards the counter. "Hey Darien, do you want your usual?"

"Not today, Akusai and I will have lemon water, thanks Drew." Darien smiled at his best friend as he and his fiancé turned to go sit in a booth. "Oh, have you met Akusai yet?"

"No, hi I'm Andrew and welcome to the arcade." Andrew introduced himself to the newcomer. "I hope I can get to know you better before you and Darien get married."

Akusai nodded briefly, but never said a word. Lita looked at the woman and just felt like punching her face in a few times just for showing her face around as the very person she hurt by dating Darien sat by her in silence.

"Oh, hi Lita." Darien finally noticed her sitting next to a young woman who he didn't recognize. "I haven't seen you in the last few months. How are you?"

Before Lita could respond Akusai spoke up glaring at her. "Darien, is this the other girl you were dating when we met?"

Before Lita could respond the doors chimed again and caused Serena to straighten up even more than when Darien had entered.

"Actually she just happens to be one of Serena's best friends." Katri walked up to the small group. She looked directly at Akusai and glared her down. "So you're the one who caused Serena to run away."

Akusai looked the newcomer in the eye. "Do I know you from somewhere?"

Katri knew in that instant who Akusai really was. "Actually you do, and let me just say this so that you know clearly who I am." Katri walked closer to Akusai so that only she would hear the next words to come out of her mouth. "You better stay away from Endymion or else the next time you see me I will send you right back to the Silver Millennium and make sure that you feel my wrath just as you did the last time you pulled similar stunts. Get the picture?"

Katri stepped back once more and turned to look directly at Lita and Serena. "Lita, please make sure she gets home safely, I have some bigger matters to attend to right now than the rules you two have just broken. Michiru will be informed of your pending arrival." She then turned back to Akusai glaring at the woman once more. "You never did a great job at learning to pick your battles. I guess that this is just one more thing I get to defeat you at."

Akusai glared at Katri remembering exactly who she was. "So you actually survived everything. Just know this, Katriana, this time I am the one with the upper hand. The princess lost this time, she can't win against me."

"She can and will." Katri turned and looked at Darien. "Oh, by the way Serena says hi."

Katri walked back towards the mansion, her anger seething as she realized what was truly going on. And to top it off Serena and Lita both deliberately disobeyed her. This was becoming a bad day and it wasn't even half over. She pulled out her cell phone and called up the mansion.

"It's me. I need to get some anger out of my system. Tell Serena to meet me at the gym in twenty minutes. She is going to truly see what it means to spare." Katri ordered Michiru once she answered the phone.

"I'll let her and Lita know. They just arrived and told us what happened before you sent them our way." Michiru replied calmly. "What else happened at the arcade to make you this angry?"

"I just figured out who Akusai is and it is something best kept quiet for the time being. I need to do a little more digging before I reveal what I know." Katri told her before hanging up the phone.

Katri remembered Akusai's eyes anywhere. Those same eyes haunted her ever since the day she heard that the Moon Kingdom had been destroyed. She vowed to make those who helped in the destruction pay and it looked like she might actually get the chance she had been patiently waiting for. Only time would tell if she was truly going to be able to take revenge for Serenity's death.

She wasn't usually a violent person, but those eyes brought all of the pain and guilt she had been feeling for all these years back to the surface. She knew Akusai recognized her and knew exactly what she had been talking about, now the only question that remained was if she was going to act upon the realization or not. Katri knew she would, she always acted upon her emotions and never once thought things through.

At least this time it would be her downfall. This time, Katri would be the one to win.

Akusai slammed the door of her apartment in fury. All of her hard work was almost foiled due to one small problem, Katriana. She had fully hopped that the girl was dead with the rest of the Moon Kingdom court, but apparently she was wrong. Luckily for her, Darien didn't hear a word of what Katri had said to her.

That would have caused some really big problems for her if he had heard the small exchange. Of course Katriana made sure to cause some problems with her little message to him as she walked out the door. He called off his date with her and immediately went home stating that he needed some time to himself. Akusai was beginning to get a little worried with him.

She could only hope that he would still marry her at the end of the month like they planned. Everything was falling into place like planned and soon she would have the victory that was lost to her and her cause so long ago. This time though, she would achieve that victory. Katriana could only suspect who Akusai was and for the time being that would work in her favor.

Katriana wouldn't give up until she figured every little detail out, but at the moment the woman had a bigger issue to deal with than her. The little Moon Princess was more defiant now than she had been during the Silver Alliance and that was causing undo stress for the former captain of the royal guard.

Luckily all that she had to do was wait and keep up the hope that Katriana would not focus on her until it was too late. And too late it would be. Akusai looked in the mirror and smiled to herself. Soon, the little Moon brat would lose the unknown battle and she would win, just as she would have so long ago. But this time there was no one there to stop her, not even Katriana would be able to stop her. This time Endymion would be hers.