Hey, peeps, ChibiMercury here, hee hee. Any ways, I finally got a new story out! And another dialogue, hee hee. Any ways, I do not claim ownership to Sailor Moon when I write my stories and dialogues. It was created by Naoko Takeuchi. So please do not sue me!! hee hee. Oh yeah, this is my first attempt at a romance novel, although since I am not too good a writer at that, it'll probably turn to an adventure or something or drama by the time it's finished. Okay, thanks a bunch, and I'd like to thank: Luna & Artemis, who have been really kind to post up all of our Sailor Moon related fan fics! Masked Maiden, who is a good friend and a nifty writer. Go read her storys, they really are nifty! Mage of the Eternal Flame, who reads my stories and tells me what he thinks. And to all of the reader peoples that read my stories. [No Way! Reader people reading stories?!] Yea! Thanks. I Promise; Prologue "I'm so happy to be with you," her voice, like a soft melodic tune rung softly in his ears and he couldn't help but to blush in pleasure. He didn't know how he'd get along with out her, she was the light of his life, the sole reason for his existance. His bread and butter. He sighed with contentment and wrapped his arms around her a little tighter. "I love you, too," he whispered back, and they kissed softly in the moonlight as the moonbeams danced gently with their hair as if they were at a grand dance in the ball room. The stars shone with a certain magic like mini-silver crystals in the dark, spotted sky, pure beauty, that's what it was. And I'm not afraid to tell you since it was. The sky seemed endless, and made for the two of them, and a star winked at the two as they stood in their mist of euphoria. They stood by the large lake which was covered with a beautiful, mysterious, and eerie fog, but neither noticed the guesture, they only saw each other. They kissed each others lips for the longest time, each hoping the magic wouldn't end. She bent her neck up and stood on her toes. He bent down slightly since their heights were greatly different. And then they touched lips gracefully again. It was a picture-perfect moment. One you want to capture forever. And they didn't let go. All he could feel was her warmth, her breath, her life, and he was supremely content witht that. He sighed with euphoria and the two stood like a painting in a star-speckled arrangement. It was a picture of love, love that had been kept alive for over a thousand years, and thousands of years to come. It was them. As it was meant to be, always. The kiss was perfect, it seemed to last forever, but now she needed her breath, it was smothered with kisses. He pulled his lips closer to her own, and she really really needed to breathe. "Please, let me go," she tried to speak, but their lips were enclosed and she couldn't pull back. His breath fell softly over her neck, but still she couldn't breathe. She tried to struggle like a floppy fish out of the water, pushing and squirming, but he held her firmly. Her eyes grew wide and frantic. Was it possible he was trying to strangle her? Why wouldn't he let her free? She tried to wiggle and squirm free, but even a klutz like her couldn't break this special moment. And that was odd enough. She bit down on his lip in attempts to free herself. Gee, how she needed a breath. Just one gulp would do, anything. This was worse than underwater swimming and she was pretty good at that, I think. But I'm not too sure so I won't say a word. And she really couldn't breathe, so she bit down on his soft lips, she didn't want to hurt him, but if she didn't, she would die longing for a breath. She bit into the soft flesh, tearing it ever so slightly, but still he didn't draw back. She felt the blood trickling from his lips, and she realized with frozen horror that she must have hurt him really bad. The blood slipped onto her and dripped slightly down her chin. She tried to wipe it off; it was too disgusting and it was tickling her, but she still couldn't move. "I can't breath" she cried to herself, and as her lungs grew more needy and her head pounded louder, she repeated that, "I can't breath, God, I'm going to die because my boy friend is obsessed with kissing me. It's flattering, but I need to breathe!" And she felt the whole delicate display swirling around in dizziness. She felt her eyes close and she gave in to the death call. "Just one breath..." She felt herself tumble in dizziness. As she fell within the depths of darkness, a bright and single thought squirmed to her mind. "If I transform in my scout form," she thought with a smothered realization, "I can break free from him." Her head was beginning to feel swollen from lack of breath, everything was so dizzy. She tried to move, but couldn't. She tried to breath, but couldn't. She tried to do something, anything, but couldn't. She wiggled around without effects, and she struggled to grip her broach; "Moon Cry...crystal Pow...." Everything was going black and swirly, "Come," it whispered, "Join us in Eternal Darkness..." darkness... where you belong.... darkness..... give in.... death..... goodnight.. breathless...... 'In Eternal Darkness...' where you belong.... in darkness... ..... "NO!" she yelled at herself in her head and then gathered the last of her energy, her final chance. If she failed, she wouldn't survive she feared, "Power!" She made it, she had a chance. And that sole fact gave her a revitalizing restart. She might be able to win! Win back her breathing rights, her life. She tried to jump, but still he held her body. But it didn't seem like her Darien (monster) any more. It was more like a (monster) a terrible negaverse creep. Since she was transforming, she had rights to her Moon Wand. She would have to help the pathetic kissing death creature. And then she felt a ribbon of light wrap tightly around her body, she felt renewed, and pure. She tried to stretch and express her freedom and purity, yet still he held her. As she was nude in her transformational phase she felt his fingers (claws) dig into her breast as if in attempts to stop her from becoming the lovely solider of love and justice and she tried to yelp in pain, yet still she couldn't breath. The fingers (claws) dug sharpfully and painfully into her, like a million little bee stings, clawing, clawing, clawing! And they kept injecting themselves into her breasts, as if they were happy to punish her. As if, like her, they spoke a speech as if she, Serena, was the villainous creature, "Join us in Eternal Darkness..." Over and over it whispered, over and over it dug into her now bleeding body. She felt blood trickle from the wounds on her breast, yet there was nothing she could do to stop it... "Please," she thought as she felt the flesh ripped on her face, too, like a blender. Pain, excruciating pain. Why did it have to happen to her? "Please, no more!" She felt it rip through her lungs and tried to scream in displeasure. Yet he held her so she spoke none. "SAILOR MOON!" A voice? Of course it was. A soft and stern voice.... Luna? (Darien) (monster) But what was Luna (Darien) (monster) (Negacreep) doing here? She then noticed she could breath and she gulped down the air like a starving child who has been without food for days. Ah, what a beautiful resourse she took for granted! As long as she lived, oh, she would never take breathing for granted! Never, it was much too precious, she realized now. Never take it for granted, she vowed, but food was another thing. She then realized their was body still smeared across her face in bloody clumps. "What a klutz you are!" Luna cried at the half-asleep girl. Sailor Moon didn't really give a care. All she knew was that Darien had released her to give her some sweet air. "What if your Mum had come up here and seen you lying in bed, with all that blood across you, too! You look like a vampire, you really need to stop biting your mouth so hard in your sleep. In fact, you need to stop all of those bad habits, you'll get caught one day you realize." The cat (wretched animal) yowled in anger. "Bed" Sailor Moon thought, (no, by the lake, with Darien.) (monster) (negacreep.) and she slowly opened her pellucid, sapphire eyes. The room was too dark, and too blurry. So she blinked a few times in the darkness, yawning and waiting to see her Darien's face, the beautiful lake, the star spankled sky. She gave a startled yelp relizing that it was not Darien's precious face in front of her, but Luna's. She noticed that she wasn't by the lake with him either, no, not at all. She was in bed. Bed, like Luna had said. But why? It wasn't making any sense, she could still feel the warmth of her boyfriend's body, the tightness that he had held her with moments ago. She still felt the love, the pain..... "No," she mumbled, "I want to go back to Darien..." "Klutzoid!? Did you hear me? You transformed in your sleep again! What if your Mum or Sammy sees you when this happens? Serena, you need to be more responsible!" Serena stifled a yawn and peeked a look at the clock; 6:58 the red digital letters glowed in a menacing fashion as if to say, "Never thought you'd see these jolly old numbers when you woke up, eh?" and of course she didn't expect it; she never woke up before eleven o'clock-- at the earliest, "Luna? What the hell are you doing getting me up at this hour?!!" Luna sighed with a sweatdrop over the feline's head. "Serena, I heard you transform. I tried to stop you, I jumped on you, but you didn't wake up, so I scratched you in your face. It was the only way I could get you up--" "Did you realize how much that hurts?!" Sailor Moon yelled and threw the cat off of her bed in frusteration and fury with all her anger bubbling over. She tossed the cat with all the strength she dared use. "Well, could you at least detransform back before some one sees you," Luna sighed with dizziness as she picked herself up from Serena's clothes-filled room. The room really was like a jungle, and she, Luna, was a small dragonfly with the horrible Serena preying upon her. And so Serena did. It was a Saturday ("Thank goodness," Serena had proclaimed, "I don't know what I would do if I had to go to school with these horrible scratches all over me!") and after she had showered, finding it impossible to fall back into sleep, she dressed and ate. Maybe she would go shopping today. "Yea!" Serena giggled on her way out the door. Luna looked up in minor curiousity, it was normal for Serena to go around screaming for no reason. "I have to get Mina a gift!" Luna's ears perked up at the mention of a scout, "Her? Why?" "Gosh, Luna," Serena looked down in slight irritation, "Don't you listen to a n y t h i n g?" "Oh dear," Luna said in sarcasm, "You're right, I don't listen to anything!! Dear Lord, take me away, I'm acting too mcuh like Serena!" Serena gave an annoyed look at the feline, "Ha ha, sooo funny. No, but, Mina and her boyfriend have been going out for a whole month now!" "And so you need to celebrate? Why don't you get Artemis anything, then? The poor guy will feel lonely if Mina gets a gift and he doesnt." "Luna?" "Nothing, I just don't see why one month deserves gifts. I mean, if Mina had kept her goldfish alive for a month, I could see how you might congradulate her.." "Why does everyone bug me about my goldfish?!! Be thankful they were alive for the week they were, and leave it at that! Gosh, you treat me like I can't do anything!" Luna blushed, "Not true! You're just too lazy, that's all. Besides, one month isn't anything to celebrate about. You and Darien have been for over a thousand years! And you don't see the scouts cluttered around your window with presents!" "Ha ha ha," Serena giggled and skipped out onto the sidewalk, "they're waiting for him to pop the question!" Luna sighed in exasperation, "Serena, you're only fifteen. You'll be lucky if the two of you are still alive in a year!! I mean with all the negaverse running around, and Hurricane Serena..." "LUNA!!!" "Any ways, I doubt that anything will happen to Mina, she's not as klutzy as you, she doesn't transform in her sleep, and she's very cautious. A good role model for you, Sailor Moon..." "Can it, Caped Kitty, you're speeches are starting to sound cornier than Tuxedo Mask's!" "WHAT?!" Luna looked at Serena in horror; that was a bad insult in her book of kitty disses. But all during the day, a nagging voice nipped at the edges of Serena's mind, even as she laughed and had fun throughout the day. (come join us in...) (in....) (in....) In what? She couldn't seem to remember, no matter how hard she tried. But with her being Serena, it was soon pushed aside when she found an ice cream parlour. ----- He nuzzled her cheek and toyed with her bangs and earings, feeling the softness of her hair, her body, of her. Nothing made him more happy than to spend time with her. Even her name sounded like paradise; Mina. It sounded like an angel from heaven, and he breathed her name over and over in contentment; Mina, Mina, Mina, Mina, Mina, Mina. He could say it forever, just as long as she was near. She was like his sunshine, so happy and gleeful. She should stay with him, they made a good couple. And maybe she would. "I'm so glad I ran into you," she laughed quietly and pulled his face closer to hers in a soft whisper. "Ditto." He breathed back in a dream-like state and felt for her lips. A few months earlier she had literally ran into him, like a bulldozer, knocking them both to the ground. She had jumped up quickly, muttering an apology of "late for school, sorry, gotta go..." and dashed off as quickly as she had come. Almost like that Speedie Gonzala's mouse thingy, you know, the fastest mouse in all Mehico. Now that Mina thought of it, it was a Serena Act. Wasn't that how Serena had met Darien? She wondered, but quickly remembered that, no, Serena had met Darien when she threw a test on his head, although she had run into him countless numbers of times after that. They were silent then, waiting in each other's embrace for eternity to come. But all was peaceful for the time being. He stroked her hair as she played tongue wrestling. "Promise.... promise you'll be with me forever," he longed for her like no one he had ever known, and this promise seemed vital to his survival. He looked into her sapphire eyes with a pleading puppy dog look, she had to promise him this, had to. He doubted he could survive if she refused. "I promise." She whispered back almost immediatley and the two embraced in another kiss, wrapping their arms tighter and tighter in embrace, "I promise that somehow, some way, I'll always be with you." She squeezed out the last words, even though he was choking her, she was content because he was like no one, no one she had ever met before. And the scout of love and beauty meant it like nothing else she had ever said. She meant it like she was against the negaverse, like she was sure she was Venus, like she was to always protect the moon princess no matter what may happen. And he smiled a genuine smile and wrapped his arms tighter around her porcelin body. She gave a soft 'oof' and he released her, but kissed her more, longing for her to be his, forever. Always, Mina (angel) and he would be together. Always. And she said so herself. And she meant it. End Prologue.