Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ To Trust and Love Again ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4

~ Duo's Dream ~

"Come on, Quatre."

"Shingnami, are you forgetting that you're supposed to be at Saturn?"

Shingnami scratched the back of his head as he stared blankly at Quatre. "Um, I am?"

"Quatre," a girl that looked like Aphrodite came walking up to them. Her stomach was swollen, and looked like she was about to give birth at any given moment, "Queen Serenity wants you and Shingnami at the palace."

"Why?"

"Because of a new alliance with Earth."

Quatre took a hold of her hand and the couple began to walk towards the breath-taking castle. "Come on, Shingnami."

~ End ~

Duo woke up with a start as his cobalt eyes looked at his alarm clock. He let out a groan as he laid back down and went to sleep.

~ Dream ~

"King and Queen Saturn, Prince Shingnami and Prince Quatre are here."

He looked around at the darkened halls and at his comrade, "You know, this place feels like home." He let out a chuckled as he saw Quatre's skin pale and shook his head, "You okay?"

Quatre looked back at him and gulped, "It feels so . . ."

"Cold?"

Their heads turned to see a young girl with shoulder length raven hair that mirrored the color of death. Her violet eyes twinkled with death and life as she looked at her planet's visitors. "Prince Quatre and Prince Shingnami welcome to Saturn."

Quatre bowed and smiled, "Hello Princess Saturn, Serenity sends her hellos."

Shingnami winked at her, "Death be not prouder for finding a beauty such as yourself."

She rolled her eyes in annoyance and smiled at the two, "So, is it true that Queen Serenity is going along with the alliance between Earth?"

Quatre smiled and all fears of death vanished as he began to talk to his sister's friend and chuckled silently at his best friend. "Hai. She can't wait to see you, Saturn."

"I was just there last month." She smiled at him.

"Wow . . . this is so cool!"

Quatre shook his head as he watched his friend stare at a fountain with black water flowing freely. Saturn rushed up to him and grabbed a hold of Shingnami's hand, "Don't touch the sacred waters of Saturn."

He smiled and looked back at the fountain, "What's so sacred about these waters?"

"Because, it tells us who wasn't supposed to die."

He stood tall with his scythe in hand, "Look, I choose who dies. That's why they call me the God of Death."

"And it's because of your stupid decisions that makes the royalty of Saturn give life back to those who you killed!"

"It's my job and part of their destiny."

Quatre took a step back as he saw a black flame flicker in Saturn's eyes, and chuckled to himself as he watched the two bicker about death. "It's everyone's destiny to die . . . but you get bored and decide to take a life away because you think it's their time."

Shingnami glared at her as his grip tightened around his scythe, "Listen Babe, when they die it is their time to do so."

"Says who?"

"Me."

Saturn balled up her fists as she continued to keep her eyes on his cobalt eyes, "Why you . . ."

"Princess Saturn, is that any way to talk to our guests?"

Shingnami snickered as he watched the Princess of Saturn cringe at talking to him with hatred in her soft-spoken voice. He bowed at the queen and marveled to himself at the thought on where Princess Saturn gets her looks. "Now I know where your beautiful daughter gets her looks from. A pleasure to meet you, Queen Saturn."

She winked at her daughter and smiled back at him, "Why, what a charmer." She flipped back her raven hair and smiled at Quatre, "Welcome, Prince Quatre." She motioned for them to follow her and her daughter, "How is Queen Serenity?"

Quatre looked up at her ageless skin and chuckled. "Wanting to pull her hair out due to Serenity."

"The alliance for Earth, I'm presuming?"

"Yes, your Majesty."

"Prince Quatre, how many times do I have to tell you that I don't like the formalities?"

"I'm sorry, Queen Saturn."

"I'll forgive you." Gesturing for her travelers to sit down, "Please, sit." Shingnami sat on the right side of Saturn while Quatre sat on the left. Shingnami grinned like he was on cloud nine and chuckled lightly as he noticed the princess grumbling and saying a few words in her tongue, Satarian. "I am sure you are wondering why I've asked you to come."

"Yes."

The Queen and King both looked at their daughter and at the young man who will be the next ruler to the underground. The Queen smiled at him, "My husband and I are searching for a suitor for our daughter to wed. We've asked you to come because we think you will be perfect for our daughter."

"What?!"

Saturn and Shingnami shouted and stood up to look at the King and Queen for the same reason. Shingnami looked at them with a black aurora slowing emitting from his body, "You think I'm right for your daughter?"

The King stood up and took over the situation. The King of Saturn also had raven black hair and a deep voice. "We've discussed this issue with your parents, Hades and Persephone, they both agree that you should take our daughter's hand in marriage." His black eyes looked at his daughter and knew he betrayed her. He watched her turn around to leave the throne room, and raised his voice loud enough for it to carry throughout the black marbled room, "Whether you two agree to this marriage or not, it is time for you to take the throne."

Saturn turned around with a black furry blazing in her violet eyes as she eyed her parents, "I WILL not marry to HELL! I'd rather die one-thousand times then live with . . . with Satan, himself!"

Shingnami watched her leave and felt her words pierce his heart. His head bowed to gather his thoughts, and as he looked up to meet the eyes of Saturn's parents, he slowly let go the black aurora as he spoke, "You and my parents both should have the decencies to console us about this. I swear to Hades, that I will not follow through with this alliance. I will not marry a bratty girl who gets everything she wants!" He picked up his scythe and knocked over his chair as he began to leave, "Quatre, lets go!"

~~~****

"About time this braided-baka gets the knot tied."

"Can it, Hephaestus." Shingnami turned around with his scythe in hand and his hood pulled over his head, "I'm in no mood."

"It can't be that bad. You two are perfect for each other."

"Quatre, how can you say that?" He turned around as he shifted his gaze to the window, "You fell in love with the goddess of love herself and chose to marry her. Me . . . my parents went behind my back and okayed the wedding date. I have to follow through because I don't want my powers over death stripped."

"Blackmailed."

Four heads turned to the doorway to see a cloaked figure walking towards them. The figure was poised and held an intense aurora of war around him. He pulled back his cloak to reveal chocolate brown hair and Prussian blue eyes. He wore silver armor and a black cape edged in gold and the underneath side a scarlet red. Shingnami smiled as he enveloped the stranger in a heart-warming hug, "AIRES!"

"Can't . . . breathe . . . Shing . . . nam . . . i"

"Sorry . . ." He let go and smiled at his friend, "What brings you to Saturn?"

Aires smiled at him and looked at the other occupants in the room. He looked back to him, "I wouldn't miss this wedding even if Olympus froze over."

"You say that like it's a good thing. Besides, you're the only one that's single."

"That's because I know to stay away from the royalties."

Shingnami wrapped his arm around Aires' shoulders, "You do know Quatre's sister is single . . ."

Aires quickly removed his arm and glared at him, "No. I refuse to stay out of the alliance."

"That's what I said, and look what's happening to me. I'll be married in fifteen minutes."

Aires chuckled at him as he began to walk towards the door, "But you need someone to keep you in line . . . after all the lives you take, she'll make sure they die when they need to die."

Shingnami heard his friends laugh at him while patting him on the shoulder as they walked out the door to join their friends to witness the underworld and Saturn unite.

"I need to take your scythe."

"You're not taking my scythe."

"But your grace, I must. It's law."

He glared at the King Saturn, "The law can go to Hell, it's my wedding too you know!" He heard the King Saturn sigh and cleared his throat. Wondering why, he looked up to see his wife and queen to be marching down the isle with slow steps. Even Aphrodite isn't this gorgeous. He noticed her hair was twisted up and being held by skull hair-clips. He chuckled to himself as he knew they were a match made in Olympus. He smiled at her and chuckled as he noticed her light pink lips frown.

"Princess Saturn and Prince Shingnami, you two come together to form an allegiance and to rule both Saturn and the Underworld. Take upon these vows that you will do what you must to make sure this allegiance does not fall. You two shall protect one another for you are the last to rule Underworld and Saturn and do everything that you must to keep these two places safe - that they shall not fall into the hands of evil if it may ever come." King Saturn looked at them and handed them two silver bands, "Take these rings." He watched Shingnami delicately place the ring on Saturn's pale hand, "These rings represent the promise you shall keep to the vows that are bestowed upon you." He watched Saturn place the ring on Shingnami's left finger and began to speak, "You, my kiss your queen to be."

Shingnami lowered his scythe and gulped as he looked into her violet eyes. He could see uncertainty, fear, betrayal, and worries. He smiled a smile only meant for her as he lessened the space between their lips, and whispered for only her ears to hear, "I'm afraid to . . ." and he kissed her.

"I pronounce-"

Shingnami held up his hand and looked at the King Saturn and their guests, "Before he pronounces us King and Queen, I would like to give my queen a gift." He smiled at her and gave her a wink as he noticed her eyes fill with curiosity. He closed his eyes as he held his scythe before him and began to chant a language only he would understand. As he chanted a forgotten language, a dark purple color began to cover his scythe. He opened his eyes and tapped his scythe on the ground. He caught two scythes and one was still glowing the dark purple color. He grinned as he looked back at Saturn and handed the glowing scythe to her, "For you, Beautiful."

He watched her take the scythe with a quivering hand and watched the dark purple permeate to her soul. He also watched her close her eyes and smirked to himself as he watched her white wedding dress turn into a black dress with a rounded collar that touched the back of her head, and flowed freely to the ground with a slit on the front of the dress reaching her mid thigh. Dangling skull earrings adorned her earlobes and black army boots that reached her knees. Saturn opened her eyes and examined her new look with a smile. She tightened her grip around her scythe and looked at him, "Thank-you." She kissed him on the lips and looped her left arm through his right arm.

King Saturn looked at the new look his daughter wore and looked at his son-in-law with a proud smile. "I pronounce to you, King Shingnami and Queen Shingnami of the Underworld and also Neo-King Saturn and Neo-Queen Saturn!"

Shingnami looked at his queen and wife with a devilish grin, walked up to her and scooped her up in his arms. "You won't regret this, Saturn," he said as he carried her princess-style out of the throne room.

~~~***

"So, how's married life?"

Shingnami looked at his blond-haired friend and groaned, "It would be great if I could get myself out of the death house."

"Death house?"

He looked at his friends and sighed, "Yeah, I can never do anything right."

"How long have you two been married?"

"Three weeks."

"I'm sure she's still getting adjusted to the whole ordeal." Quatre looked at him as he noticed he was silent, "Shingnami?"

He looked up with a look of heartbreak, "Quatre, I swear she hates me and wishes that I would freeze over with Hell, and it hurts to know that I love her and she'll never return my feelings."

Quatre looked at him with wide eyes, "You mean you love her? You've only known her for a month and three weeks."

"But it's different, Quatre. When I created that scythe, I knew her and I were meant for each other. If only she knew why I gave her that scythe."

"Why did you?"

"Because, I knew she could handle my powers and would help her in protecting your sister, Quatre. I did it because I knew my parents were right about how perfect we are. I feel a sense of belonging when I'm around her." He let go a sigh and stood up, "Well, I'll see you around. Her and I need to head back to Saturn and see her parents."

~ End of Duo's dream ~

He woke up scratching his head as he replayed the dream he just had, "What a dream." He let go of yawn and stretched his muscles from his nightly sleep and glanced at his alarm clock to see a silver wedding band resting on top of the alarm clock. What the Hell. He reached out for the band and picked it up to examine it. It's cold like death itself.

~~~~~****

Pain filled azure eyes looked at a tear-drop figure, bloody fingers held the delicate jewel. "Inas tura lazuway dore. Suto inath miruculaes honto ne hanas teru (Crystal hear my plea. Take me away from all this pain). Inas tura lazuway dore (Crystal hear my plea)."

"Jupiter?"

"Hmmm?" Emerald eyes squinting at their surroundings and saw a comrade leaning over her, "Venus?

"Thank Aphrodite that you're alive!"

Jupiter began to look around the park to see her other comrades gone, "Where's Mars, Mercury, and Sailor Moon?"

Venus shook her head and sat down while transforming into her civilian clothing, "I don't know. The last thing I remember was hearing Darien . . ."

Jupiter looked back to where she saw Mars standing last, and back to Venus, "I'm going to kill that Son of a Bitch, I swear to Zeus and Jupiter . . ."

"You're not the only one," she watched her friend stand up and change back to her civilian form, "Lita, but right now we have bigger problems, like what happened to Mercury and Mars."

~~~~~****

"Helios, is there some way you can disguise yourself?"

Helios looked at his prince and nodded his head, "Hai." A light blue color surrounded his body and quickly disappeared to leave a boy around Heero's age with chocolate brown hair and azure eyes wearing baggy jeans and a blue and white baseball shirt with a blue baseball cap, "How's that?"

Heero looked him over, and began to walk down the sidewalk. "It will do."

Helios sprinted his way to his prince and stopped as he felt something familiar, "She's coming."

Heero looked back at him with a raised eyebrow, "Who?" As Heero turned around he noticed a body laying on the ground. "Nande kuso?" He took out his gun and used the barrel to examine the unconscious girl and felt a lump forming in his throat. "Helios, come here."

Helios walked over to him and let out a gasp, "What in the Hell happened to her." His blue eyes studied the girl over as recognition dawned on him, What happened Serenity?

Heero still using the barrel of his gun and lifted the girl's face. He could see a nice bruise forming on both of her cheeks with some form of cut and gravel mixing in the opened flesh. His eyes traveled down the rest of her body to see blood seeping through the material to her outfit and burns covering her legs and arms.

~~~~~****

~ Same Time ~

"Venus and Jupiter," Pluto said as she stepped out of her portal in Lita's apartment, "you two must come with me."

Mina looked up at the Time keeper and knew it had to be something serious if she stopped here without the outers, "What is it?"

"Serenity-hime. She had enough energy to teleport herself to another dimension, and I need you two to look out over her."

Mina looked at her friend and back to Pluto, "We'll go." Holding her transformation pen up, and let go a sigh, "Pluto, did Darien actually . . ."

Pluto looked away and heard the two scouts transformation phrase. She looked back and began to create a portal, "The outers will be on their way, when we arrive, I'll give you more details."

"What happened to Mercury and Mars," Jupiter asked with anger slowly showing in her emerald eyes, "and WHY couldn't you stop Darien from doing what he did!"

Pluto looked at her, "Jupiter, I feel your fury just as much, but I was permitted to do so."

"You could have done something! You're the Guardian of Time and you're supposed to help PROTECT our PRINCESS!"

"Jupiter, even I have limits in protecting our princess. Now let's go before anything else happens to her."

~~~~~****

"Do you think we should take her back to Quatre's mansion?"

"Helios, how am I going to explain to them who you are let alone how I found her?"

Helios chuckled as he looked back down to the princess, "Easy." He looked up with a smile on his face, "I am Heath, your biology partner. As for her, tell them that you found her the way you did." Helios looked up to see a garnet orb come down and watched his prince fall unconscious. "Pluto, Jupiter, and Venus what a pleasant surprise."

Venus and Jupiter looked at Pluto then at the stranger only to see a light blue color surround the young man and recognition took place, "Helios!"

"Hai. Now," he turned back and picked up their princess, "I suggest you get her some medical attention and quick. She's lost a lot of blood as is."

"But," Jupiter took her princess and felt her heart crash to the sight that's before her, "what are you doing here and who is he?"

Helios chuckled as he walked over to his prince, "Things will be revealed soon, but for now, you girls must get going."

Trista looked at her princess with guilt and back to her two closest friends, "I must get back to the time gates," she stopped and handed Mina a piece of paper, "this is the address of your new home, and as to where you are, After Colony 196." She took out her garnet orb and created a portal, "The outer scouts will be there soon, and I'll join you as soon as I can. Good luck girls."

"At least she pointed us in the right direction."

Lita looked at Mina then straight ahead to see a mansion standing before them, "She has great taste, but I wonder why she picked a house so . . . HUGE!"

"Considering Amara and Michelle will be joining us answers that question." Mina began to walk towards a house that looks big enough to be the white house in Washington D.C. as her thoughts went back to the last battle and the guy Helios was with, "I never knew Pluto had it in her to knock a guy unconscious."

Lita looked back to her friend and shook her head, "Me neither, but we have more important things to worry about."

"Prince Aries?" Helios said as he gently shook Heero, "Prince Aries."

Heero slowly opened his eyes and felt a bump on the top of his head. Gently touching the bump, he winced as he felt his headache. "What happened?"

Helios looked at him and helped him to sit up, "I don't know. I saw something hit you and knocked you out. Before I could do anything, I saw nothing but black."

Heero looked at the spot where the girl was and looked at Helios, "Whoever it was took the girl."

"Then I guess it's out of our hands to help her." He helped Heero stand up and looked back to where he saw Pluto, Jupiter, and Venus went, "I just hope she'll be okay."

"Holy Shit!"

Lita looked at her friend and back to the foyer, shaking her head she continued to walk towards a bathroom, "Mina, we can look around later, but for now we need to take care of Serena."

"Gomen," Mina said as she began to follow Lita while looking around their new home. She found Lita take a left and followed to find her blue eyes looking at a garden tub, a separate shower to the side, and double porcelain sinks with golden faucets. She walked over to the tub and began to turn on the water, "I can see the Silver Imperium Crystal healed most of her wounds."

"Help me take off her clothes." Lita touched Serena's brooch and waited for her to change into her civilian clothes. Lita could feel her stomach become queasy as she saw bruises cover Serena's body and dried blood was caked on her right cheek along with her stomach. "I'm going to kill him, I swear."

Mina examined Serena over and felt anger and a sickening feeling feel her soul as she looked up at Lita, "I'll help you, but what could we have done?"

Lita looked at her and gave a bitter laugh, "You don't want to know." She gently placed her unconscious friend in the tub and took a washcloth to wipe the blood off her face and stomach. Their heads jerked up as they heard their phone ring; Lita looked at Mina, "Can you get that?"

Mina quickly dried off her hands and left the bathroom in search to find the phone. Who would be calling us? "Moshi, moshi. Aino, Mina speaking."

<Awe, Miss Aino how are you doing tonight?>

"Umm, good."

<I'm calling to let you know, your Gundams are ready and I would like you girls to come and test them out.>

Gundams . . . why couldn't Trista tell us more about this dimension? Think fast . . . "Great, can't wait to test them out."

<Will tomorrow work for you girls?>

Mina looked back to the bathroom as she watched Lita carry Serena to a bedroom, "No, Serena isn't up to par. Will next week be alright?"

<Tsukino, up to par, what are you talking about Aino?>

"She caught the flu virus and needs at least a weak to recover."

<Very well. Tell Dr. T that J called and would like to see her as soon as she returns.>

"I will J."

<That's DOCTOR J, to you, Aino.>

"Right, J. I'll tell Trista that you called, Ja!" She quickly hung up the phone and shrugged her shoulders. "So," she giggled as she saw Lita jumped, "how is she?"

Lita looked up after covering Serena up with some blankets, "Out of it, but I think she'll do okay." She turned around to look at her closest friend, "Who was on the phone?"

"Um, an old guy who goes by the name J."

Lita looked at her with a brown eyebrow raised, "Nani?"

"Yeah, something about Gundams being ready and he wanted to talk to Doctor T."