Let me be your Rose In December
And I'll be standing here, until spring comes and the snow melts away
Let me be your Rose In December
I'll stand here forever, loving you, as a rose in december
- Halestorm (Rose in December)
~MINAKO~
Her heart ached as she lay in bed. Darkness consumed her room as she tried to bring herself back to life. However, she wished death upon herself. She lost Rei again.
Rei left her.
Minako was once again a prisoner. Not only because she was prisoner on Pluto, but a prisoner of her own heart. The pain wouldn't go away.
She wouldn't eat, nor would she drink. Her will to live without her true love was gone. Nothing meant anything to her. The revolution was for naught and now she's paying for her sins.
The door opened but she didn't look. It didn't matter who it was.
"I knew Venusians were known for love, but I never knew you relied on it," a girl said.
Minako could hear footsteps on the ground but she stared at the ceiling.
"You thought love could conquer the spirit of a Martian?" the girl asked.
"I am hers and she is mine," Minako said.
"You forget that she had to make a choice and she's probably wallowing in the heartache," the girl said.
Minako lay in silence.
"She is lost but now she's with a friend or at least that's what I have been told," the girl said. "A Uranian a friend to a Martian, I must say the Queen has a way of getting sworn enemies to work together."
"What is going on?" Minako turned to look at the girl standing bedside.
The girl had pitch black hair and lavender eyes. She was pale and petite. Her raiment was of dark armor.
"The question is why are you here?" the girl asked.
"I thought I could be free," Minako sat up.
"You were free," the girl said. "Free to roam, free to do as you pleased, free to love, and all you had to do was ask."
"Why were their memories wiped?" Minako asked.
"To make it fair. Not all of them had memories meant to be remembered," the girl reached in her pocket then tossed Minako a hilt of a sword. "You remember, because you are the leader. Haruka remembers more than she lets on. Both of you are leaders."
"This hilt," Minako said.
"A gift from Haruka. She says remember the words of the rebel princess," the girl said.
I don't bow to the white bitch, she smiled as she remembered the phrase that started a war. Minako stood up and headed for the door.
"Where are you going?" the girl asked.
"I'm going to find my Martian cause I won't bow down to anyone. Not the fucking bitch of Pluto, not the White Bitch, nor will I bow to my enemies," Minako said. "I will do what needs to be done because I want a brighter future, not because someone told me to."
She ran out the door. Minako killed all soldiers in her way as she made her way to the spaceport.
As she rounded a corner she ran into Setsuna. She was clad in dark armor and she had two scimitars. The Princess of Pluto bull rushed Minako.
Minako sidestepped Setsuna but ended up with a gash across her abdomen. She dropped to the ground holding her wound.
Setsuna walked up to her and held a scimitar to Minako's throat. Her face was expressionless as she stared down at the wounded Minako.
"I guess a dead Venusian princess is better than a live prisoner of a fallen kingdom," Setsuna said.
As she moved her arm to swing the scimitar, Minako raised up the broken sword and saved herself. Then a squad of Lunarian soldiers surrounded the pair.
Minako dropped her arm and fell back. She could feel warm arms catch her. A lock of snow white hair landed on her shoulder. Her eyes wandered up to see who had caught her.
Artemis held her as the guards apprehended Setsuna. He looked down at her wound and frowned. His hand waved across her face and she felt a calmness came over her.