Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Alone ❯ Chapter 22: Dedication ( Chapter 22 )

Alone

By Selenity Jade

Chapter 22: Dedication

Rated: R

 

Disclaimer:  I don't own SM.  I don't know if I really want to own SM...  After all, it would be a pain to be famous.  ^_^

 

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Endymion stared at the picture in his hand in surprise.  "This is her?"

 

Diamond nodded.  "Yes.  This is the girl that will become Neo-Queen Serenity.  Her name is Tsukino Usagi."

 

Endymion frowned as he glanced up at the Prince of Nemesis.  "She looks very..."  He paused, searching for the word.  "Innocent."

 

Diamond scowled.  "Looks can be deceiving!  She is the one who banished you here!  Took over your planet!" he snarled.

 

The dark prince frowned down at the picture again, uncertain.  How could this girl be the one to destroy my life?  She's sweet, cheerful, and painfully innocent...  Endymion knew something wasn't right.  He knew he was probably being lied to, but he wasn't certain if everything was a lie, or if most of it were true.  And if it were true, he had every right to hate this little girl.

Yet the feeling he got as he gazed at her picture was not hatred.  It was not hatred at all.

 

"Fine, Diamond.  If she is the one responsible, then I will kill her," Endymion stated if only to appease the man who had him at his mercy.  For now.

 

The white-haired prince nodded.  "Good.  You will work with my brother, Sapphire, and Black Lady.  Together, you are to lure the Sailor Senshi out and capture their leader, Sailor Moon, who is that girl."

 

Endymion hesitantly nodded in acquiescence.  "Fine."  Though sailor girls do not seem to be the name of any sort of group with darker intentions.  It is too... cute.  What the hell is going on?  And who is this Black Lady?

 

"You are dismissed," the arrogant Nemesis Prince stated, waving his hand.

 

Endymion scowled at his assumption, but left anyway without a word.  He traveled the long, labyrinth-like halls towards the basement.  He allowed his thoughts to wander along the way. 

 

He wasn't certain any of them would tell him the truth.  And he knew his position here was very precarious.  But he couldn't get over the nagging feeling that something wasn't right.  There were definitely things they weren't telling him or they were completely lying to him.  How could someone named Serenity of all things be that evil?

 

But then again...

 

Names had no meaning on a person's personality, unless they changed it of course.  She could simply have been named by her parents and grew up as an evil sort of child.

 

Though the 'Sailor Senshi' idea also led him to believe they weren't the evil that Diamond was depicting them as.  That name would have been picked by the all the Senshi.  It sounded too much like a school girl's fantasy, not like a group of girls hell-bent on taking over the world.

 

He'd follow along for now, but he'd keep his eyes and ears open to other little hints.  He would not be used like some mindless puppet.  After all, he was the prince of the Earth.  He would be ruler there.  No one ruled him.

 

No one.

 

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"Endymion," a voice interrupted as he entered the large, spacious room.  He glanced around for the owner of the voice to find the blue-haired man that he knew to be Sapphire.

 

"Sapphire," he greeted reluctantly.  He could never be sure of this man.  He seemed so utterly loyal to Diamond and yet something was off.  There was real love there.  Real love between brothers, brothers brought even closer together because of pain and isolation.

 

Diamond, however, seemed to be breaking that bond of kinship.  And Endymion was sure that Sapphire felt it.

 

The black-haired prince absently wondered if he had had a sibling he had loved back on Earth.  He couldn't remember anything.  But he had once loved someone there, of that he was certain.  He felt it deep inside his heart.  And he knew it wasn't a sibling.  It was a lover, or a wife, or someone so important to him that he would have died to save her or him.

 

If this Neo-Queen had destroyed his love, this love he could not remember, would that be the reason he had been found alone on Nemesis?  He didn't think he would have left someone that important to him alone there.  Not willingly.

 

This love of his must have been killed.

 

And for the first time since he had awakened, Endymion felt the first stirrings of vengeful hatred towards the innocently named queen.

 

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Serenity glanced up as the King walked into the room.  He looked sober and a bit sad, and the newly awakened Princess found herself worried about him.  "What's wrong, Endymion?" she asked, feeling awkward calling this man by her love's name.  They were the same man though, so it wasn't as weird as it could have been.

 

But it was just as painful as she still wasn't over the feeling of his dying body in her arms.

 

He blinked and smiled slightly at her.  "It is nothing to concern yourself over.  I am just worried about my wife."

 

She nodded in understanding.  "I'm sure... when we defeat them, the spell will wear off and she will awaken."

 

"I hope so, Serenity," he said with a sigh.  "In any case, shall we go?"

 

Sighing, she nodded.  "Yes."

 

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Sailor Star Fighter watched helplessly as the King and the young Princess walked into the Time Gate and disappeared.  She hoped they would survive to save both worlds.  But that was out of her hands now.  Her job was to combine her powers with the other Senshi, the Outers, her own Starlights, and the Inners to strengthen the barrier around the palace.

 

That was the only thing they could do for the precious Queen they all loved.

And they would do it until their lives ended.

 

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AN:  I know it's extremely short, but the ending fit well there. 

 

Lovies!