Chapter 6

Rei and Ziosite stood outside the White Moon Palace looking at the distant mountain. "I can transport us there much faster than we can walk." Ziosite suggested.

"Let's just get this over with," Rei said with a sigh stepping closer to Ziosite. Within seconds they appeared at the base of the mountain path.

"Should we split up to cover more ground?" Ziosite asked.

"No way!" Rei shouted her eyes flashing with a bright fire, "I'm not letting you out of my sight!"

"Alright," Ziosite said, raising his hands in surrender, "Then we will walk together, side by side so that neither one of us deceives the other."

"Fine," Rei snorted flipping her raven hair over her shoulder.

They ascended the mountain in silence. Rei focused on the movements on the right side of the trail, and Ziosite focused on the left side. From time to time Rei would sneak a look over at Ziosite. He's fairly feminine isn't he, she thought, but despite that he's BEAUTIFAL! Rei shook her head violently trying to get the thought to disappear.

Ziosite caught her looking at him out of the corner of his eye. "Did something fall in your hair?" he asked still facing forward.

"WHAT?" Rei squealed turning bright red.

"You shook your head," Ziosite replied, "Did something fall in your hair?"

"NO!" Rei said stopping to rage, "Why were you watching me?"

"I wasn't," Ziosite replied coldly turning to face Rei, "You were watching me until you shook your head."

"How would you know I was watching you unless you were watching me?" Rei accused, fire burning brightly in her eyes.

"You were looking right at me," he said, "It's hard not to notice when your head is turned to face me."

"SO?" Rei spat.

Ziosite reached up and grabbed Rei's chin pulling her face closer to his, "So if you like what you see, I'm right here."

Letting go of Rei, Ziosite turned and continued up the path, leaving Rei standing behind him in shock. Why in the world did I just do that? Ziosite asked himself, Why is it that all of this feels familiar.

Rei stood staring at Ziosite walk ahead in shock. What the HELL was that for? Rei screamed in her head. She stood still watching the back of Ziosite's honey blond head. Movement to the right of the trail just behind Ziosite caught her attention. What looked like a gigantic lizard was hiding in the bushes, it's green scales acting like camouflage. It opened its beaked jaw ready to attack.

"ZIOSITE GET DOWN!" Rei screamed running towards him.

"What?" Ziosite turned confused.

Rei tackled Ziosite to the ground seconds before the lizard like creature bit into the space where Ziosite had been standing. When Rei landed she quickly stood back up to face the creature. Seeing the beast as it lumbered out from its hiding place to attack.

"YOUMA TAISAN!" Rei yelled, summoning a ball of fire an shooting it at the beast.

The creature roared, sending out a wall of energy that threw Rei backwards into a tree.

"REI!" Ziosite yelled crawling to the defeated Rei, "Rei are you ok? REI! WAKE UP!" Ziosite checked her pulse; it was there, but very faint and wavering. Rei, hang in there please. Ziosite begged, I just need to destroy that thing that hurt you.

Ziosite stood and faced the beast, sword drawn. As the beast opened up his jaw to attack again, a force, almost identical to the force that hit Rei, flew from the side of the trail into the beast's face. A wild looking man appeared out of the forest, ax swinging wildly at the beast. Within moments the beast reeled backwards defeated. As soon as the carcass fell onto the ground it seemed to evaporate into a glimmering gold smoke that surrounded the bizarre warrior.

"Who are you?" Ziosite demanded straightening his stance and tightening his grip on his blade.

"I am the Bjoatr, dragon slayer of Skyrim," he said in a deep harsh voice, "Who are you, and what is this place."

"I am Ziosite," his tone confident and almost king like, "A Shitennou of the Earth. This is the White Moon kingdom, home of King Endymion of the Golden Kingdom, and Queen Serenity of the Silver Moon Kingdom. The castle is just past the valley at the base of this mountain. I request that you attend counsel there as soon as you can."

"I will be there," the large man replied, swinging his ax onto his back, "I will meet you there."

The man ran off down the hill. It's too dangerous to travel with Rei injured and too dangerous to teleport her as well. Ziosite thought kneeling beside Rei; we'll have to stay here until she's able to move.

Ziosite quickly set up a crude camp, building a fire and clearing an area to lay Rei down, resting her head on a pile of leaves. Looking at the area around where Rei fell, Ziosite found a small red computer. Opening up the little computer Ziosite saw a message from Ami, asking when they would be returning to the palace. Ziosite sent the quick reply that they would be back the next day. An hour passed and Ziosite checked Rei's pulse again, it was finally strong and even. Ziosite decided to take the opportunity to find the river to fill up his canteen for drinking water.

Rei woke up looking at the green leafs swirling around in circles above her head. She blinked her eyes quickly making the spinning stop. As soon as the world stopped spinning, Rei sat up and crawled over to the nearest tree and looked around the clearing. There was a fire, and a clearing where she had been laid down, other than that, there was no sign of Ziosite. Her head was throbbing, but slowly Rei also realized that the creature was gone too. Did the monster get Ziosite? Rei started to panic, looking around for any little sight of the man. Why do I care? It's not like he's a friend or anything, he's the enemy. He can't be gone! No, please no. Rei put her hand over her eyes trying to hold in the tears that where pushing to escape.

As Ziosite walked back into camp he could see Rei sitting against a tree. "How are you feeling?" he asked kneeling beside her.

"I'm fine," Rei moaned, "Just tired and thought you took off on me."

"No, I was here. I just went to the river to get water." He reassured her giving her the canteen.

"Where did that thing go?" Rei asked before taking a sip from the canteen.

"Some man, I think the same man Nephrite says he saw killed it," he said, "I moved the bones off of the path not too long ago."

"Oh, okay then," Rei said, sounding tired as she let her guard down.

"You should rest," Ziosite said looking at the darkening sky. "Personally, I'm exhausted as well."

"Ok," Rei replied quietly already falling back to sleep.

Ziosite sat next to Rei, resting his head on the tree. His eyes closed for a minute, though he knew that he wouldn't be able to sleep for a while, not until he knew Rei would be absolutely alright. After a moment, he could feel an arm reach around his waist. Ziosite jumped eye's flying open only to see Rei cuddling up to him still completely asleep. Why does this feel so familiar? Ziosite asked himself before relaxing. He ran his fingers through her soft raven hair, clearing out leaves and twigs. She's pretty damn strong for such a pretty little thing. Ziosite sat thinking through the day before he dozed off, still stroking Rei's hair.

The Dream

"ZIOSITE!" Rei screamed happily throwing her arms around his neck.

"How's my Rei?" He asked returning her embrace and burying his face in her hair.

"GREAT!" Rei said, "I'm just happy that the Golden Kingdom and White Moon Kingdom are joining together! We can all finally be together, Ami and Nephrite, Makoto and Jedite, Minako and Kunzite, and you and I. All in one Kingdom!"

"That's true," Ziosite replied calmly, taking a step back to look at Rei in her red formal dress she only wore when Serenity held court. "But, Beryl, she's jealous, dangerously so. I don't know what she's planning, but it could tear the Kingdoms into two again. It could tear us apart."

Rei looked down crossing her arms in front of her. "I know," she responded quietly, "But I'll keep fighting! I will NEVER forget you!"

"I know love," he said with a horrible feeling coming over him, "Hopefully we'll prevent all of this. But Beryl is getting powerful, and if she succeeds, we may forget everything that we know."

Ziosite opened his eyes slowly, letting them adjust to the bright morning light. That wasn't just a dream, he sighed, letting the memory settle into his mind, lifting a mist on the past that he hadn't noticed until then. Rei was still asleep against his chest, eyes tightly closed, almost like she was having a nightmare. I'll let her sleep, she needs it, Ziosite thought, though, I hope her dreams aren't horrible.

"Ziosite, are you awake?" Rei whispered

"Yeah, thought I thought you were still sleeping," Ziosite replied.

"I just woke up, from, the weirdest dream," she said, tightening her hold of Ziosite, "But I think… I think it was a memory."

"Then, that means Beryl won," he sighed letting his head drop and his honey colored bangs hang in his face.

"I didn't mean to forget you!" Rei sobbed into his shirt.

"I know," he replied starting to shake, "I didn't mean to forget you either, and as soon as we return to the White Moon Palace, I will swear my loyalty to Endymion once again. I will NEVER serve Beryl again!"

"Then, let's go home," Rei said, wiping the tears from her cheeks. With a bright flash they sat on the Palace steps. They stood, turning in unison to walk back into the dining hall they'd left the day before, where'd they had left as enemies, and returned as who they truly where.

A/N: Yes, a long chapter! Expect more like this.