Sailor Nemesis
Chapter 22
Her heart stopped for a few seconds. She wasn't sure she had heard right. Did he just say her father was the late King of the Dark Kingdom? When she was little she barely remembered but as she was walking down the halls of the Moon Castle, her people keep on saying the King was dead, their enemy was dead, but she just didn't get it. This was just too much to take, was what he just told her the truth?
Was he, James once Endymoon, eldest Prince of Earth, her once upon a time beloved, telling her lies, or was it the truth? Some of it she knew was the truth! The part about her having the power of the Dark Kingdom was a little far fetched though. Her mother the Queen of all that was good, in love with the enemy, she just couldn't see that. It just couldn't be true, because her mother was against TABOO things, this was a TABOO love.
TABBO love, so many thoughts and images ran through her head. She gasped, that was it, why her mother didn't do anything. Why she didn't try and stop her daughters when they fell in love with the Princes of Earth?
It was because she couldn't say anything; she had done the same, no not the same she had done worse. She fell in love with her enemy. The Princes were never on the Earth's side (which was the Dark Kingdom's side) during the war, they were on the Moon's.
Her eyes grew big and she almost fell, he caught her. "Let's not faint now Princess, I had thought you didn't know how, you told me once that was what girly girls did, now have you changed?."
Well he got what he wanted with that statement, a reaction, an angry reaction at that. But just like he wanted the color returned to her face and the first time in what seemed to him like hours, she exploded, he smiled.
"You…" her eyes were so huge, but to his horror her eyes almost changed from blue to black. But she stopped herself. She took a deep breath and remembered rule one. She closed her eyes and then when she opened her eyes his face had turned from smiling and teasing to serious.
Her eyes when he looked into them were the same as when he met her for the third time. The site still haunted him to this day, her wet; no she was soaked to the bone from the rain. Her eyes were lifeless like she was dead; he shook his head to clear the haunting image.
"Why?" he was startled by her voice, it was the same as before just like her eyes. He knew the only way to protect his heart from the sight before him was to do the same as her.
"Why did I tell you? Is that what you were going to ask?"
She continued to stare, but a few seconds later she tilted her head to the side slightly. It looked like she was thinking; she closed her eyes and said with the same voice she used before.
"My mother, if what you said is correct, was in a TABOO relationship, she had a TABOO love, not with some powerless weak human," he flinched, "but her true enemy. She did nothing to us, to her daughters when we made the mistake of falling for humans because she couldn't do anything because she had done much, much worse." He flinched again.
She sighed and he turned his head away. "But then the humans turned against us, they attacked us, but again the two human Princes weren't against us but fighting this war with us."
She saw this time he flinched big time, he looked at her and his eyes said go on. She obliged what his eyes told her to do.
"But you were no where to be found. Why? Where were you when your brother, your only family left died by the hands of your own people?"
The sound of her voice hurt more without the emotion in them. "So that's it huh? You want to know why I disappeared just as the fighting started. Tell me where were you when you the Silver Millennium was getting destroyed my little Dragon Princess?"
She flinched not at what he said she did, but at that nickname he gave her, he would smile but he was upset not at the fact she asked the question, but at the fact that she was saying he didn't do anything, he just stood by and watched not lifting a finger.
"Dragon Princess," he added that just to see her twitch, "You ask me this question that questions my honor, but you say nothing of what 'you' did during this war."
Her glaze when it locked to his seemed to burn into his skull, his glaze did the same to hers. She lowered her eyes in defeat, he was shocked and stunned, she surrendered, and he was more then surprised.
"My mother…wait a minute, what are you doing? You already know about what happened, yet why are you asking me? You know everything don't you?"
He was shocked, how did she figure that out (not the knowing everything of course, he didn't like what was the color of her underwear he wouldn't ever know, and if he asked he would probably die)? He must have overlooked her powers, there must be a part of her great power that he had overlooked, there was a lot of it, and everyone would miss something.
"To be honest I never wanted to tell you, but you figured out a little huh? Yes, there is a reason why I never entered the war; you could say it was kind of the same as yours I suppose."
'Tell me! I have a right to know." She was stunned at herself, these words, and this knowledge, where was it coming from? It didn't matter she told herself as long as she was getting answers.
"You have more right to these answers then you realize my love. Sigh you didn't enter the war because well, tell me what side would you have fought on with the knowledge of your lineage now? You are the heir to both Kingdoms so how could you fight on one side without betraying the other? You sure as hell couldn't fight on both. Though if one is to argue, they could say only pure-bloods can be true heirs, but they are wrong."
He walked to the window and looked out, she looked from behind his shoulder, and there was nothing out there.
"Where are we?"
He turned around and said, "We are neither here nor there, we are in a temple that is how do I put it?"
"Are you saying this is like where Pluto used to be? When she guarded the Door of Time? Are we in one of the Time Dimensions?" She thought to herself, that was why they were unaffected by time.
He looked thoughtful, she commented inside her head, which in reality he knew the answer; he just wasn't sure how to answer all of her questions.
"Yes, we are in one of the Time Dimensions, which is why this place is unaffected by time."
She nodded, she believed him, and it made a lot of sense.
"I have so many questions, where do I start? Why did you not help in the war? The humans joined together with the Dark Kingdom, your people were the humans,. The only person from Earth was your brother and he sided with the Moon. What was your role in that battle long ago?"