I do not own anyone in the WWE. I only own Luna. This is a Ministry/Later fanfiction with a very sadistic Deadman. You have been warned.

Chapter 4

For once, Luna was allowed to wear something more than a bra and underwear. She looked at her black gown and sighed. It would never be the same. Ever since the Undertaker took her the night of their black wedding, he was pure evil. She sobbed when she was alone and never knew that Christian was watching her.

Christian had saved his brother, Edge, from the darkness and was constantly in hiding from the Ministry. If the Undertaker ever got a hold of him…he shuttered as she played with her hair. She looked so melancholy these days.

Luna knew she was nothing more than a prize. Whoever had her, had the key to absolute power. She had learned that long ago from her mother. Her mother loved her dearly and when she had died, the Undertaker came for her.

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Flashback

Her mother looked at her daughter and sighed. "It is time you know the truth, child." A small sigh came from the young girl and she looked at her mother. "You are very special indeed. You are the key to absolute darkness and there are those who will want to possess you. To them, you are nothing but a prize for their success. But if you can find one who loves you and not what you are…then you have truly found happiness."

"Where is father, Mother?" The redhead asked. Her black eyes full of wonder.

"He is dead. Your mother is dying as well. The Lord of Darkness will come for you, my dear Luna. You were named for the ruler of the night…the moon. You have a gift, child, to deal with life. You do not need your hands." Her mother was all about the cryptic. She hugged her daughter. "I love you."

Her mother died and the Lord of Darkness appeared to her and grabbed her. "Your mother cannot protect you anymore, woman."

She struggled to no avail and she was taken to a dark room where she was stripped and thrust into new black clothing.

"You are now mine." The Lord regarded her coldly, clearly not caring that she had just lost her mother.

*~*~*~

Christian looked at her and realized that she was a woman who needed to be loved. She was a prize to these men and she would remain so, if she didn't try to get away. He would try to help her, but only if she wanted the help.
Still, she was alone. He stepped out of the shadows and knocked on the door. The door opened and he stepped inside, as the door shut with no help on its own.

"Christian?" Luna looked at the man and smiled. "I've missed your presence."

"I am here to help you escape. You need to leave before the Undertaker hurts you anymore." Christian said hastily.

"Christian, I can't leave him. He needs me as much as I need him." She touched his cheek. "I've missed you."

"What does he do for you? All he does is forbid you from doing things and he treats you like a whore." Christian didn't hear the Lord of Darkness come in. "He is poisoning you, Luna, and you need to leave before it is too late. I'll protect you."

"You can't protect me, but thank you for saying it." Luna did see her Lord, but kept talking to Christian. "I must stay. It is who I am. I have made my choice and you cannot hope to sway me from it."

"Luna, my love." Christian stopped and she flung the door open without getting up.

"Get out, Christian. My lord will hurt you if you don't obey my wishes." Luna looked at him coldly and he almost shivered under her scrutiny.

He left and Bradshaw closed the door and the Undertaker stepped from the shadows. He placed a hand on Luna's shoulder. "That was very brave of you, my dear." She looked down. "Luna, I will not punish you. You stayed and I can never thank you enough for it, my love."

She looked at him. "You love my power, not me." She got up from her place and he grabbed her arm. "Let go."

"Suddenly, you have a backbone? Do I have to break you again?"

"Let go or I will make you let go." He held on, so she flung him across the room without so much as a flinch. "My lord, today, your Mistress awoke. Be thankful and you will succeed in taking Vince's company." Her black eyes smoldered as she looked at him.

"My, you have grown." He sneered.

"You have no right to speak to me that way." She looked him square in the eyes. "Luna is no longer here. Your docile little lamb is dead and I have taken her place."

He was intrigued. "Who are you?"

"I am the darkness, your power. If you try to destroy me, it will not work. I have seen everything you've done to Luna and you will not go unpunished for it."

"What is my punishment?"

"You love sex so much, so you will get to watch me fuck the one man you never wanted Luna to fuck." She sneered. "My name is Nereza, 'darkness'."

She turned to leave, but found him in her way. "My dear Nereza. You will not pacify me, woman. If you want your freedom, you must fight your way through me."
She smirked and threw him into the door. "I win." She said, walking over him and out the door to a very surprised Bradshaw. "I'm leaving." She answered his unsaid question and walked down the hall to Christian's room.

She stopped before she got there, however. She was somehow drawn to the Lord of Darkness and she did not know why. She returned to the room and saw the true darkness in the Undertaker she was attracted to. Nereza knew she had to save him, but how could she? She knew he was drunk with power.

She sat down in his chair to his surprise and she looked at him coldly. "I am making you sick with power. You need to be healed. Ever since you married Luna, you have been like this." She stated.

"What do you care?" He sneered. "Isn't this what you wanted?"

"Not exactly." She answered, standing. "I wanted you to be happy. You are abusing your power and you can't see it." She looked at him. "You never used to manhandle Luna, even when you were angry. Sure, you would touch her, but she is a woman. She loved you and you desecrate her memory."

"Nereza, are you saying she is never coming back?" The Undertaker breathed.

"Yes, that is exactly what I am saying." She walked out of the room once more to hide her tears. She loved Luna, though it destroyed her to tell him that Luna had no chance to come back.

It was entirely up to Luna. She was still in Nereza's body, somewhere. She remembered the day Luna was born. Her mother had taken Luna to the doctor and in the waiting room, put Nereza into Luna from her own body. Nereza didn't remember how, but when Luna had a daughter, she would be put into that daughter from Luna. It was her curse from long ago.

She had never deserved the curse for loving the King of her lands, but when his wife found out, she had no chance. The wife was a witch; she had bewitched the King and tricked him into thinking Nereza was the witch. It was untrue until the Queen had cursed her to be the darkness everyone feared. She could never die and would be doomed to repeating her life over and over again.

Luna had been a quiet child and Nereza always protected those who she shared a body with. It was a maternal instinct from the previous shared body, and she would always protect Luna. If the Undertaker thought that Luna wasn't coming back, it would be better for him. Maybe it would jolt him out of the darkness.

*~*~*~

Months had passed and Nereza had cleansed the darkness out of everyone who had been in the Ministry of Darkness with the Undertaker. The Acolytes and Paul Bearer had thanked her. Edge had hugged her and she cautioned him against the Undertaker for he could try again. Mideon and Viscera had reacted as if they were in a deep sleep. Christian had never been tainted in the first place because Luna had saved him by Christian wanting to save her.

But no one had seen the Undertaker for a long time. He had disappeared the night he thought Luna would never come back to him. The truth was, at least to the Undertaker, that he loved Luna. They had been married in real life, too, not just the WWF. She knew that the Undertaker had forced her to wed him both in and out of the ring.

Finally, he came back late one night and Nereza was startled from her meditation. She ran to the door and he knocked the door down. Outraged, she had asked what he was doing in the hotel room.

"You're my wife." He answered and kissed her hard.

"You married Luna, not me." She sneered.

"Are you not in her body? If she is gone forever, at least I still have her body."

She threw him into a wall, grabbed her bag and ran. She had never run away from a man before, but she needed to find Christian. She knocked on his door and found him playing cards with Edge.

"Christian, I need to sleep in your room for awhile." Nereza felt the sweat on her brow.

"Why? What's up?" Christian hugged her and took her bag.

"He's back and he wants me."