Chapter 31

The Mars Saga

by Candy aka solarsun

Chapter 31: Found

Curled up tears were falling from her blue eyes in the corner. Mina didn’t know how long she had been in this weird closet and why she had been brought here. They couldn’t have possibly known she was a scout. Mina didn’t remember saying anything along that lines. So why…

She remembered Kunzite and the look on his face when he had said that he had always loved Beryl. Somehow Mina knew that wasn’t true! Somehow…

Blinking her fuzzy memories that told her she hadn’t been the princess, the fuzzy dreams that had told her that her true love had been and was still Kunzite began to trail through her minds eye. Thoughts of her past life seemed to be springing through her head. It almost give her a headache. These new memories where of balls, of parties, of dances, of kisses. Of a time where there was a royal birthday party with the four living royal members sitting at the front of it.

..Wait a minute…four members?

Mina blinked trying to concentrate on the new memory given to her. A tall woman in a red robe with a royal crown on her brow. There was a taller man in a purple/black robe next to the older woman, holding the queen looking woman’s hand. Mina assumed that this must be their queen and king of the universe just by the way they stood, where they stood, and the crowns on their heads…

It was odd though. With what had happened a while ago they figured out that Hotaru must be the princess. She had been affected by the spell that they had been warned about and she was the only one affected. So was their a sister? Because in her memory there were two girls stand by the queen and king. The king obviously from Saturn, that made sense with his purple and black robes, the crown on his head…but..

But for some odd reason the feeling Mina got from this memory is that it wasn’t the KING that was the head of it all. It was the queen. The queen in red standing beside her husband. She held an air of importance around her.

And the two girls, Mina tried to remember with this new memory. One of them was definitely shorter. Maybe a younger sister….

And…

It was Hotaru, dressed in purple and black much like the king, probably her father. Beside her stood the older and taller girl, dressed in red. The older sisters face didn’t seem to be coming to her as she wanted it to.

Mina frowned rubbing the side of her head. This memory was trying to tell her something, something very important.

If the king didn’t have the air of importunacy around him unlike the queen and he was wearing black and purple and so was Hotaru…

Did that mean Hotaru ISN’T the princess they where looking for and the princess they where looking for…

Red.

Mars…

Raye sat back in her room in full temple garb taking a deep breath. Following that man yesterday didn’t help them at all but she was sure he knew something about why Mina disappeared. Her instincts have never been wrong with this sorta thing. Leaning her head back on her bed she gazed up at the roof of her room. What the hell was going on?!

A red cat’s face came into her view as she gazed up at the ceiling. Demos smiled her cat teeth visible.

“You shouldn’t beat yourself up so much,” Demos giggled hoping on her lap.

“And you should stop eyeing my crows,” Raye smirked looking down at the cat.

“Well I am a cat,” Demos smiled looking over at the picture of everyone on the desk. “Anything new about Mina? There must be something we can do.”

Shaking her head Raye took a deep breath trying to relax a bit. Maybe a vision would come to her now that would tell her were Mina was being held. She was worried about her friend. Mina didn’t have the memories they had that could at least help her with the decisions that they had to make being scouts. Luna and Artemis wouldn’t allow the others to remember it like they had. Raye did understand why. It would very well confuse them much like her, Serena, Darien, and Amy where confused. Lita, Mina, and Hotaru didn’t have that problem.

Though Raye felt that they probably will get their memories back soon enough but till that time it made things a bit simpler to have them go without especially with Hotaru. The pain she had to go through during the first memories of being reborn was horrible enough and now she’s their princess and hiding from her own father.

“I don’t know..” Raye muttered quietly thinking about their blonde team mate. This never happened in the time before. None of this happened. Why now? What the heck happened that one day to cause all this? If only they could go back to the way it was before. Serena was a beautiful and talented princess. One that saved their world by the love she held for everyone, whither they were hateful or loving toward her. She was the perfect princess and now they had that taken away from them. Hotaru was also a very loving and caring girl, also probably will be their wonderful princess like Serena had but the poor child shouldn’t have to deal with all this! Hotaru should be able to live with her father in peace without evil trying to destroy both of them and the love they have for each other. Maybe that’s the curse of being the princess…

“Hey Raye, Demos,” Artemis’s voice chimed in as he entered her room. A sad look was on his features. “May I stay with you guys till Mina is back? The apartment is quiet and I can’t really open the cans to feed myself.”

“Sure,” Raye smiled petting Artemis on the head. “I guess one more cat around the temple won’t be so bad. Just don’t try and attack the crows.” Smirking Raye stood up brushing her miko’s uniform off and walking toward the door. “I’m going to go talk to Amy about this.”

Artemis looked down. “Thank you Raye.”

“It’s no problem Artemis, anything to help,” Raye smiled walking out of her room quietly shutting the door behind her.

Rubbing her head Raye turned the corner spotting her grandfather talking to Darien in the distance in the yard towards the stairs. Flushing she frowned ducking around a corner. When will he leave her alone? Hotaru was his past love, his princess,

Not her. Turning she forgot about trying to walk towards Amy’s and decided to go find something else to do, to keep her away from him and his incessant bothering of her. Couldn’t he accept their fate like she had? They were never in love! Why did he keep trying?

Raye found herself crying. Tears trailing down her face as she was behind the temple.

It hurt. Couldn’t he see that?! For them to be destined would mean she not Hotaru would have to be the princess, and there was no way that could happen! She had never been affected by the psychic attack. Never felt anything once. Why o why couldn’t she have been affected. Then things could be better.

Awoken late at night the personal servant of Beryl hurried Destanance along the hallway to the royal hallway where the doors of Beryl’s bedroom, heavily guarded, sat. Destanance had an idea of what was going on. Hopefully it wasn’t anything to bad, like Beryl knowing about her and her curse.

“Hurry, the queen needs your help,” The waiting woman said turning a corner and down the last hallway to Beryl’s chambers.

Destanance walked past the guards and into her elaborate room, to see Beryl laying in her bed, looking very pale and a trickle of dry blood gracing the corner of her lips.

“It seems to have gotten worse,” Beryl’s doctor muttered toward her in the corner of the room away from Beryl who was asleep.

“What do I need to do?” Destanance muttered thinking about how she can alter a spell so it would temporary help the queen but still allow her curse to finish it’s duty.

“Something to help her, anything. Her body is very sick and I don’t know how much it can handle now.”

“…Destanance…” Beryl’s weak voice croaked out. “I need time, time to finish this…I need the crystal..then I can banish away…cough this…”

Yeah time. That’s exactly what Beryl didn’t need. Destanance nodded quickly leaving the room to head to her room to make something that will make her seem healthy for a bit longer. Then..

Then the final piece and death shall be delt.

“You could leave now and still exact revenge on her in the name of your fallen family,” The voice in her head muttered.

“I want to see her suffer, and die.” She muttered quietly under her breath entering her room.

Nephlite took a sip of his coffee glancing over at the door that Kunzite kept the blasted woman in. It took forever to make the girls and men who followed him yesterday to leave him alone. Today he was sure they would probably send someone to follow him like they did yesterday. Actually he could already feel one of the few people that were following him waiting outside on the street. It was the tallest of the girls, the brunette who had talked to him before.

The one who had laughed at him yesterday.

Frowning he stood up and decided to leave. If that woman finds Mina here they could very well get in trouble with the local government and it’s harder to hid something from them then just the locals in the area. Easier to erase one mind then ten minds and get rid of paperwork to boot.

So Nephlite stood up from his seat at the table and put on his shoes and coat heading out of the door not saying anything to Kunzite on the way out. Instantly he spotted the taller woman trying to hid herself in a snow hat and sunglasses trying to blend in with a crowd across from the apartment building. She stuck out like a sore thumb. Smirking he chuckled at himself for her dumbness.

Walking down the street he could feel her following behind him a distance but not far enough to actually loose him..

Maybe he could play this little game. Another smirk came upon his lips as he saw a very popular mall near him and quickly rushed off towards it.

Ever since he came in contact with that girl, with that woman Kunzite had been having weird memories, thoughts, visions and dreams. Nothing seemed real or right about any of it. Visions of Beryl, of that woman, of the man in the cloak and mask. Nothing seemed right.

It was that stupid woman’s fault for doing this. She must have cast a curse on him or something. The little witch. She needed to fix this or be punished for what she did!

Standing up from the spot on the floor next to his grand piano he walked toward the closet that he was holding her in and glanced through the door to see her sitting in a corner, playing with something on the floor. She seemed innocent enough but looks could very well be deceiving.

Opening the door he grinned walking in the room…

Hearing the door unlock Mina glanced up to see Kunzite standing there with a very angry scowl on his face. It was something that she didn’t like at all on him. He looked much more pleasant when he had a grin from ear to ear while playing his piano.

“..Kunzite..” That woman’s voice muttered toward him as if she was pleading for him to understand something he fully well knew the truth of.

“How the hell did you know my name? How the hell are you playing with my mind?!” He yelled growing angrier and more frustrated at his inability to create the music that he was trying to for his Queen. It was this blondes fault! Every since she was brought into their headquarters he wasn’t able to write anything!

Anything!

“…Kunzite,” She muttered again looking fearfully at the man that had been in her dreams for so long. He was the man that she had been in love with in the past. He was also the man that she wanted even now. The man standing before her proved to herself that she wasn’t the princess they were looking for because to feel the way she was feeling for this supposed stranger would go against who they were looking for. There wasn’t much she could do right now.

But…

But she had to do something. He was so lost. Her Kunzite was in such pain from just looking at her, from believing the lies he had been brainwashed to believe. Mina couldn’t stand it a moment longer.

“Come back to me Kunzite,” Mina then muttered, tears beginning to build in her eyes as she slowly stood up toward him. The movement seemed to create even more fear in his eyes as he took a step back, forgetting she was the prisoner here.

“Stay away from me WITCH!” He screamed taking another step back but this time tripping on a loose mat on the floor behind him, falling backwards but his eyes still on Mina who seemed to hold a very sad, very worried expression on her features.

Why?

Why?!

Walking calmly over Mina bent down slowly reaching her hands out to cup his face, lost in the moment and forgetting slightly what kind of danger she really could be in if he acted to protect himself.

“Kunzite, I don’t know what’s going on. Hell I don’t know how I even got here. I figured you brought me here to your house because of something. Well Kunzite..” She smiled lightly trying to ease what ever was causing his pain. “I’m no danger to you, because..because I love you Kunzite. I remember many things of my past life and most of them are with you.

You Kunzite. Not Beryl. Not our Princess we’re searching for but you, my only love. Don’t be afraid.”

Leaning in she closed the gap between them with a kiss on the shaking mans lips.

Something about that kiss, about the situation triggered a flood of memories in Kunzite’s head.

It was to much!

Kunzite couldn’t handle the images, the flood of this evil witches images! Quickly he summoned an ice sword before he could make sense of what was going on. None of this was right and he had to end it!

Then there was blood on his hand. Running along the blade of his sword.

And THEN it finally hit him…

Mina…princess of Venus…his LOVE…

“MINA!” Kunzite yelled letting go of the sword but only to find it sticking in her side of her abdomen.

His sword! In her!

What the hell was going on?! It was like he had just woken up from a very bad dream into a even worse nightmare!

“I’m glad..” Mina muttered weakly falling to her knees. “I’m glad you remembered…remembered my name Kunzite…I’m..gla…”

With that the girl fell to her side unconscious on his lap. Horrified Kunzite pulled his sword out of her only to find she wasn’t healing like she used to back on the moon.

But for some reason he couldn’t sense the moon about him. He was on Earth and the look of the room they were in was unlike any on Earth or the Moon that he could remember. What the hell happened?!

He had to get her out of here. Somewhere where she can get a healer to help stop the wound.

O god the wound. Why would he hurt her?!

Slowly he picked Mina up and carried her through a door only to find himself in the middle of a weird street. The ground was like stone everywhere he looked, different shades of it though. There was tons of people around though, walking in weird clothes.

“..s..someone! Please!” Was all Kunzite could get out. Where ever he was he could possibly get help from the locals. It was his only hope.

Her only hope!

Turning people started to gather around him. He was looking for anybody he knew, but with so many people he couldn’t really look at any specific one for to long.

That’s when he heard a voice he had known. It was she who was his loves guardian and it was she who had helped get them together.

He could see her violet eyes and raven black hair moving through the crowd. Even though she never stood very tall she always did stand out in a crowd.

“MINA!” A scream came past her lips.

“..Help me…Help her princess! She’s your only hope! I failed!” Kunzite got out before the stress of the situation finally overtook him and he fainted, holding his beloved close.

Raye stood there in shock. She had been trying to avoid Darien so she ended up sneaking out of the temple to head to Ami’s house but along the way she took a different route to double check that weird mans house while he was gone only to find Kunzite with a very injured Mina in his hands.

Asking for her help of all things! And..and not only that…

Calling her Princess!

Once she snapped back into her right frame of mind she glared at the watchers around her.

“Cell phone now!” She demanded. “Call an ambulance! Don’t be stupid!” Bending down she looked at the wound that was in Mina’s side.

It was deep.

Gazing up she checked on Kunzite as well. He seemed to have just passed out due to stress or something so she wasn’t to worried about him.

Standing up Raye quickly had to leave. She had to call the others to tell them she found Mina and she couldn’t very well do that in the middle of a crowd.

Besides, she could hear the ambulance’s sirens already coming. There wasn’t much she could do for the wound now.

(authors notes)

Ok it’s been far to long with this update but now I’m in a writing mood. To all who are just finding this series! Yay welcome! To all who have been waiting for an update…sorry . Life get’s very busy for me. Since my last update I got a job, a car, moved, and a whole bunch of other stuff. As a sort of a apology I made this update big and hopefully within the next week will have another chapter out for you all.

Please review before you go and as always thanks for taking the time to read one of my stories!