Chapter Four

Maxfield Staton sat in his mansion, looking around at the beautiful decor that had been paid for while he was staying here to complete his mission. He let out a laugh as he moved into the room that was hidden from everyone else. There he continued to look at the old journals and the old photographs. It was amazing how he could collect these objects even though the past had been so long ago. He smiled, looking at the Princess of Jupiter held in his arms so protectively. These days had been beautiful, and filled with bliss.

She had belonged to him and it seemed that she had already forgotten. He let out a growl and remembered who had been the one to destroy him. She did. When she was found as a senshi at the age of sixteen. She took this chance to destroy him while he was doing his bidding for Beryl. It was strange how things turned out. They had been so much in love and now that things were able to go back to normal, she was already in love with another.

There were plenty of reasons why he should forgive her. She had forgotten her past, except for the parts Serenity's cats wanted them all to remember. Rather then searching for the missing information, she continued to live her life as it was. This angered him. He was still in love with her and the pain hit hard. When he found this out, the person to help him come back was the one and only Fiore. He hadn't really remembered how he knew this man except for the simply fact that this man wanted to senshi dead.

He was sent her under a disguise to bring the two children back to Fiore so they could be used as bait against the senshi to help bring their destruction. Nephrite had made a promise to lure the woman to hand over the child and then make the last move. It seemed as if she was single but he knew that he couldn't let that get in the way. She wasn't the woman he had fallen in love with. He had fallen for the princess, not a mortal woman that worked hard for everything she wanted.

The music still played in his head as if it was yesterday and things seemed to move fast for him while he sat in his chair with his eyes closed, humming what he heard in his head. He smiled to himself, remembering how they both met and the way he had wanted her so badly yet she acted as if he never existed. With a sigh, he tried to forget about her without even knowing she was only burrowing deeper in his soul...

Makoto let out a long sigh. The tension began to grow as she sat there on the jet with the thoughts continuing to dwindle in her mind. Something terribly wrong was going on and she was annoyed over the fact that she hadn't been there to protect the newly born princess. Over the communicator, Minako reassured her that everything was going to be alright and the baby would be found. Makoto felt somewhat alright but after what had happened didn't sit right with her.

"Are you alright Makoto?" asked Quatre. She shuffled around her seat for a moment until she felt somewhat comfortable.

"As much as I'll ever be..." she saw the questionable look from Quatre and knew she was to explain. "My friend, where I live, had her child a month before mine; a little girl as well named Chibi-usa. It only seems that she has gone missing and my friends are worried over it."

He seemed to understand and slowly turned to see Hiiro staring down at the child as if pondering something. Quatre was relieved to see that they were all getting along. He remembered how things ended last time and how Makoto had blurted out to Duo she had been drunk and went home with someone that night and Hiiro found her that morning. But, something didn't seemed to hold up to her story...

Wufei picked up the child that started to coo softly at him and he smiled while Makoto sat grumpily in her chair.

"I believe she may be hungry," said Wufei, watching her take his finger and try to put it in her mouth only for him to pull it away before she could. Makoto nodded, taking the child and moving into another room where she locked the door behind herself.

"Is everything alright?" asked Trowa, looking at Hiiro as his eyes lingered on the door.

"Yes," responded Hiiro and took a seat next to Duo whom looked at him smugly.

"Do you believe the child is from that guy she went home drunk with? The time frame works into it," said Duo, looking down at his calculations. Hiiro nodded.

"Perhaps...we just need to get her to talk," he said. Duo smiled as he pulled out a vile.

"I can make her talk," he responded. Hiiro glared in his direction and hit him upside the head.

"And harm the child as well? Where do you think the child feeds from?" asked Hiiro.

"A bottle?" asked Duo. Wufei let out a laugh touched his friend's arm.

"You seem to know rather little about the woman sitting in the other room...or more like any woman. She is breast feeding the child, why else would she leave the room? You need to educate yourself Maxwell," replied Wufei and took a seat near Trowa and Quatre...

The craft landed just in time as they quickly started to unpack while Makoto walked around the garden to gather herself in the frustration going on. She stopped suddenly to see a person standing in the middle as if to be waiting for her.

"It seems you have forgotten what's happening," came the deep voice. Makoto growled as she looked at the man in black, his hair pulled back and a mask covering his face.

"Who are you?" she growled. He laughed at her and started to walk closer, the smirk never leaving his face.

"Who do you think I am?" Quickly, Makoto pulled the stroller behind her protectively.

"Give me back the princess," demanded Makoto. He continued laughing as a monster appeared in front of him.

"Show me what you got," he said, moving out of the way so she could look at the monster of pure gray as if it had no face. Just pure muscle. She let out a sigh, knowing she didn't want to do this here or now. No way was she going to fight this thing, all she wanted to do was protect her child. Quickly she started running with the stroller in front of her to get away from whatever this thing was. The man from before appeared in front of her and laughed, grabbing the front of the stroller as the child started to cry.

"It looks like you have no other choice princess...or should I call you queen since you do have a heir to your throne..."

"Get away from me!" Makoto tried to jerk the stroller away only to feel the large hands pull her and throw her over its large shoulders. She gasped for breath as she hit harm into a nearby bush, the force pushing her threw it. Slowly, she moved to her feet as the monster came at her again and again, throwing her around like a rag doll. She landed in front of the man in black whom laughed at her.

"I thought you were going to put up a fight for your daughter...perhaps I should let you live to see what happens now that I have her?" he asked. Makoto spat as his feet, watching him frown at her actions. "I see how you would like it princess...a little more roughened up so you don't remember what's going on?"

The monster came from behind and picked her up off the ground by her hair and then threw her once again. Bullet shots came out of no where as Hiiro ran ahead of the others, trying all that he could to protect them both.

"I believe this is over then," said the man and made his beast disappear. He held the crying child in arms and looked down at Makoto with a grin before disappearing...

AN: I apolgize. I'm going off the manga version but I was using Nephrite's name from the anime series.