Vampirates
By: Katie-lee Brady

Summary: her feelings get the better of her, and encouraged her to take a course in life based on a promise. But along the way, she finds out the truth of reasoning as well as the truth about herself.

Rate: M

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon nor do I assume I do. This is merely a random plot I thought of to which I used the Sailor Moon characters. . please don't sue *hands and knees* plsss.

I also do not own the character name of .Hack. I'm just borrowing the name, not character.

A/N: Okay, I've had a few people asking about Serena and Endymion's relationship. I'm not gunna make it obvious since there are a few things I want to happen. But in this chapter I have just put a few extra things in here to clarify a few things, and *wink wink* hint at a few things too :)

Chapter 5: Questions and Answers

After crying myself to sleep I awoke rather tired and stressed and sad. But I also awoke to a rather loud argument outside the cabins door.

"Why is she not ready!" a dark furious voice yelled; Endymion no doubt, I knew his voice anywhere, which bellowed through the cabin as his footsteps began to get closer.

"I'm sorry my lord, but the girls and I just couldn't continue to stay with her!" that was Mina's voice. I plea of sorts was heard in her words.

"For what reasons?" Endymion bellowed again, "what could she have possibly done? What could have possibly gone wrong! What brought this sudden change when you were so eager to get to know her?"

"I'm sorry my Lord!" Mina pleaded again, "But she wears the rose," her voice was stressed, "she is unmarked and yet she wears such a thing!" there was confusion hidden in her words, disgust was there too, "We cannot be around such a person of standards and purity... A cursed woman!" there was a two second pause, "I don't even know why you let someone like her on this ship! She will bring us too much trouble!" Mina yelled out in distress.

"Mina!" Endymion's voice came crushing down, silencing her, "you will not think, nor say such things!" there was another pause. I found I must have been getting into this argument, because I found myself leaning slightly.

I then heard a rather grasp from Mina, "I'm sorry milord! I had no idea!" her voice was in a rush. "I beg your mercy. I would not have done… sorry."

There was an odd silence that felt uncomfortable from here, and then I heard Endymion speak again. "Your actions are understandable, but do not assume everything I do is just random acts of inconsiderate things," his voice was lower, but annoyance was evidence, "just leave," he finally said before opening the door and closing, and with a click locked it.

I could tell by the light in the room it must have still been midnight or so. But I continued to lie on the bed in my position while I heard Endymion busy himself, moving stuff around the cabin. In total it was two seconds before he came to sit on the bed. I think he must have kicked one of the boxes on the floor and gave up; men. But I felt his weight on the bed just in front of where I laid.

Keeping my eyes closed I felt the weight shift and a slight, yet a soft touch was feathered on the side of my face. I opened my eyes slowly to see Endymion staring at me intensely with the softest features on his face, "what are you doing?" I asked softly as I realised his hand was caressing the side of my face.

"You have been crying," he said gently. There was a moment before he next spoke, but I couldn't help but feel the awkwardness in this moment. I did not understand what I meant to him, but obviously by the way he was treating and touching me, he did have some sort of capacity to care… which made me even more confused about the whole situation! "I would like to say on behalf of Mina her sorriness for saying such things and leaving you so suddenly earlier today."

I slowly looked around the room and back at Endymion, "Maybe I should be the one to apologise." There was a silence, so I continued, "everything was going so well, then all of sudden her aura changed and so did her personality, and she left with a scared look on her face…" I looked at Endymion with concern and horror on my face, "did I do something wrong? Offend her? Or was it my past or the fact I have not lived a life like she hoped… or… or."

"Shh…" Endymion lulled as he put his finger on my lips, "you didn't do anything. Stop being so worried," he glanced down at my body, "well… the dress still looks good… even as bed attired," he laughed to himself.

Gasping I raised myself up a bit, "sorry! I didn't mean to wreck it or anything, just there was nothing else to wear, and the other clothes from Madam Ral were dirty," I was blabbering, and I felt my cheeks go warm…

"shhh…" Endymion chuckled to himself. "It's alright, don't go getting worried over little things," he paused, "besides, all these boxes have new clothes for you… just they need to be put away, so tomorrow I'll show you around while the girls finish up in here putting everything away."

I looked away from Endymion and laid myself down again, "can I ask you question?" I asked slowly, not meeting his gaze.

"Hmm…" he mused for a moment, "after I clean up, you can ask me as much as you like," he suggested as he moved from the bed towards the bathroom door, "deal?"

I finally build the courage to look at him, "okay," I mumbled at I watched him close the door and out of sight. I just made myself comfortable on the bed again and tried my best not to break down again.

I must have dozed off while waiting for Endymion because it was close to sunrise, and Endymion lay besides me with his steady breathing and closed eyes. I was still on my side and Endymion had put an arm around me while I was sleeping, so I wasn't going anywhere. But it gave me time to think. I mean… Endymion was being quiet intimate with me, and I hardly knew him. We hardly knew each other! Yet… there was a feeling there that was like… like we had known each other sometime ago… but there was a gap there… it was hard to explain, but this feeling was telling me that we must have known each other somewhere. This reflects back to the main problem of my feelings. I was drawn to him constantly, and while he is around my headaches and dizziness are gone, and when he is gone, I am in pain, but feel free because when I am with him I want to hit him and yell at him when he pushes me too far. It is all just too complicated; I sighed.

I was just about to try and free myself of Endymion's grasp when there was a slight tug to his arm and a muffled mumble. "What are you thinking about?" Endymion said again in a much clearer tone.

"Umm…" I paused. Tell him the truth? "Nothing much… just wondering though, really."

"Hmm… wondering about what my dear?"

"What exactly I mean to you for you to protect me like this?" my voice held a hinting note for him to explain, but his answer was short.

"Hmm… and?" he asked again, "surely there must be more than one question on your mind."

I took a moment to really think about everything, "Well let's start with the questions I had earlier?"

"As long as you don't detour from the fact I want to know what is one your mind, but sure. What is your question?"

"Questions," I corrected him. It was funny, because he raised a brow and let a sigh out, "first… what Mina said… to me… and not that I mean to eavesdrop, but what she said to you too… it bothers me. What did she mean by me as a person?" I paused for two seconds, "she said I'm cursed? What did she mean?" I looked him straight in the eyes, "and what does this rose," I pulled the locket out, "really mean to her?" my eyebrows were furrowed in confusion and interest, but my voice was solid.

Endymion let a sigh out and shuffled his weight as he sat upright in the bed against the headboard. As he moved I moved myself away from him, but still sat on the bed at the other end. "Mina is… weird. She has theories, and absolutely nothing to back up these theories. But honestly, I have no idea what that rose means to her, and what she is thinking. Honestly, I do not understand what she was going on about."

I processed what he said and I was NOT happy! Before, when he was just outside the door with Mina he sighed as if he understood her and she didn't need to continue… so what the hell was he going one about? Obviously something was up and no one was telling me anything! And my proof? His aura! It changed colour.

"I do not know why you lie; but I will not stand for it!" I said rather forcefully as I stood from the bed, glaring daggers at him. "Why will you not tell me the truth?" not only was my vision going spotted like last time in the city when I was angry, but Endymion's aura had changed to intermingling colours that collided and sometimes mashed together… which interested me greatly, but my mind was still on the miss answered questions.

"Serena," Endymion has slowly spoken, his presence in the air like feathers, trying to calm the mood down, but every time I got mad, there was a ball of fire in me that needed release, and it was super hard to contain it. "Please calm yourself down! If you release your anger out here, I do not think the ship can withstand it."

"Then tell me the truth!" I demanded breathing heavily to contain my anger back in me. I learnt when I was just 13 that every time I got angry there was a raging war in me and a huge explosion was a cause of it. But around 15 I learnt to channel the anger somewhat to contain it. But I had only successfully contained it back twice… out of countless times. This really frustrated me.

But what shocked me the most, and made me forgot all about my strains to contain my anger, which vanished, was when Endymion got up and hugged me. Not a normal hello hug, but a deep tenderly hug that was rather tight. His chin was on the top of my head and his arms were tight around me. "Serena, please," he whispered.

"I need to know! I want to know," I stressed, "you want me to stay here with you, and yet you will not tell me why! Just what exactly am I to you? To everyone here?" he tried to say something, but I cut him off, "ever since coming onboard this ship I have disrupted the men here as you say, and I have made the girls scared of me! I just want answers! Is that so hard to ask for?"

Endymion was still holding me, "okay," he said in a sigh, "I'll tell you what you want to know," he pushed me to arms lengths, "but do not say I didn't warn you."

"Warn me about what?" I looked at him with curiosity written on my face.

"What I will tell you, you will probably not believe, and more to the point, make fun of the seriousness and what fears me; is that it may get you angry," he said in a smooth serious tone.

"Then don't judge! I can be very serious as well. Now tell me what I want to know!"

Sighing again, he let go of me and remained standing in front of me. "Mina and the others did not mean to disrespect you. They just feel and know the difference of classes between the two of you. Secondly, it is not meant in a bad way, not by any means. And the rose… it is a symbol… a gift given by mates to symbolise their… relationship to each other," he sighed again and looked at me, "are you with me so far?"

I nodded, "yes I am." I looked at him with furrowed brows again, "so I was right? About the fact that I disgusted Mina about my upbringing and such?"

Endymion lightly chuckled, "no. you misunderstand. You see," he paused; thinking about what to say, "That has nothing to do with it. Mina herself didn't have the best upbringing either, but what I mean about the classes is the fact that you have a possession that symbolises more power and wealth then you will ever imagine."

"What possession?" I looked at him with a raised brow. Was he thinking straight?

"The rose me dear," he simply reply with a board tone.

"What about it? What… why is it so special or whatever? It's just a locket a friend gave me when I was younger," I don't think he understood how worthless this locket was in whatever terms he was talking in.

"My dear," Endymion leaned closer to the bed edge, "that rose means more than you think! It's not some locket some boy gave you. It's a talisman that intertwines two souls together! A symbolic union that holds power over a great many things! And yet, you stand there telling me it is… useless?" there was a snort of sorts that came from him cutting me off from what I was going to say, "THAT 'rose' is the symbol of the Estelle true gods! Only given to those of the main royal families. For someone to have such a thing means there is an arrangement of sorts between two people concerning it."

I looked at him with wide eyes, "then why would someone like me have it?" I gasped again, "how did you know it was given to me by a boy?" I slightly backed away from him. What he was telling me just completely scared me!

"Serena," he whispered, "Like I said, you would not believe me," he looked away, "but when we Estelle creatures are young, we have better senses, better everything. But what I am saying is that locket holds everything you need to know. But for that knowledge to be learnt, you need to open yourself up and be ready for anything." With that Endymion walked himself back to the bed and placed himself under the covers.

His aura seemed to go a deep depressing blue. If I understood him right… which I don't think I did… he knew exactly who I was! But the question to me still remained, who was he? He reminded me so much of Darien when I first met him… but the more I knew him… he was different. But how else would know the locket was given to me by a boy unless he knew… but wait… I did tell Mina about it.

"Endymion?" I turned to him slowly speaking softly, "You must understand why I am like this, but it's hard to be nice when no one tells me anything," I sighed, "but I WANT to know about this! What does this rose really mean? What of Estelle? Is it real?" I sat on the bed on the edge looking at Endymion as his eyes followed me.

"Well," he said pushing himself up in a sitting position, "what do you want to know about it first?"

"Everything! Myself…" I leaned towards him without realising, "what kind of place it is! The people there!" my eyes were wide in interest.

"Well," he started, "Firstly, you my dear are most definitely an Estelle Goddess; part of the Estelle royal family so to speak." Still leaning in interested, my eyes were fixed on him as he spoke, "As you know there is little known about Estelle… because technically it is a secret world of creatures and beasts. This world was once straight humans. But the Estelle creatures had learnt to escape their world and had entered this world. Those who leave Estelle are known as traitors and are banished from re-entering. BUT like all things, there are exceptions of sorts to those laws. But eventually the creatures form Estelle had learnt to live with the humans here and begun to re-create and eventually as other Estelle people learnt of their acceptance here, more become to break the laws and leave. But more to the point, Estelle is a world of mazes. At the very centre there is a castle and cities… but going out further from the castle, there are more dangerous terrifying places. It is a beautiful, but deadly land."

"How do you know so much about Estelle? Have you been there?" I asked, "I understand as… vampires you yourselves are in league with the gods there… but you are also outside of Estelle? Banished now right?"

"Yes Serena," he said with a slight smile on his lips, "but my reason for leaving is much deeper than just freedom. To which the exceptions of welcoming someone back applies to me; hopefully," he laughed.

"What do you mean?" I asked quickly, 100% interested.

"I left that place as a young boy to search for my soul mate… since when young, our senses are far greater than any elders."

"Did you find her?"

"I did… but I lost her again," he looked away, "when I found her, she had lost her memories… she did not know who I was… and so I left her a gift in hopes she would find me one day," he looked back at me, "but even so… I do not give up hope that one day I will have her back."

What he said sounded rather fishy to my ears… much similar to what happened to me… but most certainly he couldn't be Darien, "Endymion?" I looked him in the eyes; losing myself in his endless midnight blue eyes. I felt at ease and safe… but what did I want to ask him again? What was it I wanted to know? Was he my Darien? No. he couldn't be. They were completely two different people and when I confronted him about taking him he had said… that he didn't kidnap anyone… but… but what if… no. There was no way in heaven or hell that this man was my Darien.

"Do not stress yourself on me," he smiled again, "but it is sunrise, and I for one should be sleeping, so if you do not mind, I would most definitely like to get a bit of sleep," he said softly.

"Oh my goodness," I gasped, "I'm so sorry… I'm just not used to this sleeping pattern," I argued.

"It's alright my dear," Endymion chuckled, "just rest at least," he pattered the bed next to him, "tomorrow we shall spend the day together on top deck, so I shall answer anymore questions then," he smiled, "but for now, rest."

I nodded and slipped myself under the covers of his bed. I thought for awhile more about what he had said… My feelings were betraying me. As I always do, I slipped back to my past when I first met Darien; the feelings I felt. Although I knew nothing about him, I felt safe, and that I knew him somehow. And for some reason, I'm getting these same feelings from Endymion… but for some reason my consciousness would not accept him as being Darien… So who was he? What was he to me? Our pasts almost seemed similar… a feeling as if they were intertwined… but surely one would know if they had found their true soul mate? Right… So I'm almost certainly 100% positive that if Endymion somehow found his soul mate he would have to know… right. But how could he be so sure she would go looking for him? Why he was not looking for her? All this thinking was making me sleepy, and the more I tried to find reason in all this, sleep had found me and took my thoughts away.

I don't think I must have been sleeping very well, because there was a feeling in my stomach, and then I heard loud thunderous footstep heading towards the cabin. I felt myself twitch and then felt Endymion shoot straight up in bed groaning. Precisely once he let a sigh out, there was a knock at the door; rather loud continuous knocks.

"MY LORD!" the voice stumbled out, terror was obvious in his voice.

In one sweeping, fast movement Endymion was out of the bed and at the door, "what is it?" he whispered dangerously as he open the door. I couldn't see the person at the door because of the angle… but his voice seemed rather young. "What is the problem? Why is everyone restless?"

There was a silence, and heavy breathing, "its Lady Lita," his voice trebled as he mentioned the name, but Endymion merely nodded and closed the door.

Turning to me he groaned, "We will need to postpone our little walk today on the deck, we have company," he said walking towards the bathroom; his aura radiating in a brilliant red of anger and annoyance.

But funny enough, this seemed fun to me; to see Endymion like this. Well… I just hope everything turns out fine... but I couldn't help but think back to the poor boy before… and his trembling voice… just who was this Lady Lita?