"What does it say Sapphire?" Emerald asks, getting impatient as Sapphire reads the message that was just delivered.
"Well Emerald it seems that today is your lucky day." Sapphire says as he hands Emerald the message and watches as a satisfied smile spreads across her face.
Endymion was still sitting at his desk a couple hours after the fight with Serenity when Ami and Zoisite walk in looking nervous.
"Ami, Zoisite what can I do for you?" Endymion says briefly looking up from his papers. Ami nudges Zoisite with her elbow and Zoisite starts rubbing the back of neck trying not to look at Endymion.
"Um, well….see the thing is…..um, what I mean to say is…."
"We can't find Serenity." Ami says cutting Zoisite off. Endymion lets out a little chuckle making Ami and Zoisite look at each other with concerned expressions.
"Don't be ridiculous, she's somewhere in the palace. I'm sure you just missed her." Endymion says going back to whatever he was doing before.
"That's the thing Endymion no one has seen her for a few hours now. Jadeite saw her with Rei earlier and Rei left a little while ago, she said she was going into town. But here's the thing, Rei was driving a wagon into town with some cargo and we were thinking that it may be possible Rei snuck Serenity out." Zoisite says his eyes downcast. As he spoke Endymion got increasingly tense.
"So it may be possible that my wife, my unborn child, and my baby sister are all outside of the palace's protection with two homicidal maniacs on the loose?" Endymion stands up and pinches the bridge of his nose. "I want everyone searching for them. Send a team to the market, also check any place where they could have a picnic. Serenity was talking about going to have one today. I want them found…immediately. We have to find them before Emerald does."
"Aren't you glad I convinced you to come now?" Serenity, sitting cross-legged and munching on some carrots, asks Rei. Rei opens her eyes and looks up at Serenity from her spot lying on her back.
"You know I really am. I forgot how nice it was getting out for a while. I don't know why Endymion was freaking out about it." Serenity starts picking at the grass.
"Maybe he just didn't want to spend time with me." Rei sits up on her elbows.
"Serenity, don't be ridiculous! You and I both know that Endymion over-reacts to every little thing. He's always been like that with you and he has just gotten worse since you found out you were pregnant. I'm sure once the baby finally comes he'll get the stick out of his ass and things will go back to normal." Serenity smiles and looks up at the clear blue sky.
"I don't know Rei that stick up his ass does have its advantages. The more protective he gets of me the crazier he gets in bed." Serenity winks at Rei who just looks grossed out.
"Serenity! That's just wrong! I don't want to know that about my brother!" Rei sits and playfully shoves Serenity who loses her balance and stops her fall in a jerking motion. Rei and Serenity look at each other and start laughing hysterically. They were still laughing when the green light surrounded them.
Lifting off of the ground Rei and Serenity clutch at each other in a combination of surprise and terror. They could see the ground zooming below them as they approach a daunting mountain. It had only taken them seconds to reach the mountain, a bare structure that seemed to shy away from the heavens, the tip curling down toward the hell that lies within it, and in the few seconds it had taken them to reach the mountain they had gone from pure happiness to complete dread. It was as if the mountain was a poison to the land. The lush green of the forest grew brown the closer it got to the mountain until it was completely barren at the base, the few trees that had managed to grow on the mountain were withered and dying. At the darkest part of the mountain is an opening that Rei and Serenity are flown into.
Entering at the top they are pulled down the center of a tunnel, a set of cascading stairs wrapped around the cave's wall. Reaching the bottom they are once again moved this time to a whole dug out of the wall with a cot and bucket the only things inside. They are dropped on the floor, the green light dissolving and as soon their feet reach the ground a steel gate is slammed across the opening locking them in. A figure emerges from the shadows and Serenity gasps bringing a hand to cover her mouth.
"Emerald!" Rei moves slightly in front of Serenity doing all she could to attempt to protect Serenity and her niece or nephew. Emerald just faces them with a huge smile across her face and a crazy look in her eyes.
"Serenity, I'm so glad you could come." Confusion is added to the terrified looks of both Rei and Serenity.
"But I don't understand. How did you escape?" Emerald lets out a barking laughter that echoes off the walls.
"Sweetheart, I've been out of that prison for almost five months now, didn't your precious Endymion tell either of you?" Rei and Serenity look at each other, and then back at Emerald. "Oh this is perfect! So not only do I get to kill both of you, but neither of you saw it coming! Ha! Of course Rei you were just a happy coincidence it was really Serenity I wanted, after all she is the one who ruined my life."
"What are you talking about? I didn't do anything!" Serenity blurts out.
"YOU DID EVERYTHING!" Emerald screams back, a piece of hair moving to the front of her face. Moving the hair so it is back in its proper place Emerald continues on as though her outburst had not happened. "And I am so glad we have been brought together for this last time. And the timing couldn't have been perfect. I was just going to kill you, baby or not, but look at you now. You look just about to pop. So now I think I might change my plan up a bit. I mean can you imagine how it would feel dying with the knowledge that you're leaving behind a devastated husband who will never get to see his child or you ever again, which was always part of the plan. But now for the best part. Now when you die you'll leave your little precious baby to me. And you can be sure that your baby will grow up hating you. They'll spend their entire life cursing you and your sniveling husband. And that's the knowledge that you'll die with, that that child you have carried inside of you for nine months will despise you and will rejoice in your death. As for you Rei, you can stick around until the baby is born. After all I need someone to do the dirty work for me, you can't actually expect me to deliver a child! But once that is done" Emerald makes a slashing motion across her neck. And with that she turns and walks away her laughter echoing behind her. Leaving a sobbing Serenity and Rei comforting her with her own tears running down her cheeks.
AN: Don't hate me! I'll get out the next part ASAP
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