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The Return of Prince Demando	By : Kimiski Category: Sailor Moon > Het - Male/Female Views: 10959 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 12

Deception
Revised Edition

"Your highness, the prince requests your attendance in the dining hall for breakfast." Night had come and gone all too soon for Usagi's liking. It was the first real time she had gotten sleep without fearing she would wake to Demando's shadow towering over her, thanks to Yumeno, who kept her company through the evening.
But eventually morning came, or at least what was considered morning. Just as Usagi had seen Crystal Tokyo for the first time when she arrived with Chibi-Usa to the 30th Century, the Earth was covered in bleak darkness. She could not longer see the sunrise, and had to rely on someone to wake her.
"Right," she said dully to a girl wearing the same coffee cream dress as Yumeno. This girl had long blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail and wore the same earrings like everyone else in the palace, even all the maids. Usagi tried talking to some of the maids to see if they had similar experiences to Yumeno's, but she seemed to be the only one here besides Demando, Safiel and herself who had a mind of their own. The others were empty as if they had no soul, programmed to follow orders like a robot.
Usagi sighed from a chair that sat in a corner of the room, not wanting to go down for breakfast and see him. She fell into her new habit of blankly watching the feathered earrings away back and forth as the maid walked around the room. Now, she did that anytime a maid would enter to clean or to bring her things like clothing.
"Your highness?" Usagi snapped out of her trance when the blonde walked over to her, carrying a light blue gown and her now clean pajamas she had worn at the Hikawa Shrine before coming out to meet Demando. "The prince would like you to wear this." The maid handed the blue gown to Usagi and put the pajamas on the bed. She bowed then backed away out of the room leaving her to change.
Silently Usagi began unlacing the back of the white gown from the night which she just decided to sleep in, when the door opened causing her to swing around and clutch the dress back against her body.
"S-sorry." Yumeno said staring at Usagi's panic stricken face. The black haired beauty shut the door behind her as she walked inside the room. "I didn't mean to startle you."
"It's alright. I just thought you were him for a second." Usagi put the white dress on the bed after slipping out of it and began to pull the blue one over her feet and past her waist. Yumeno walked behind her, helping pull it over her chest and zipping the back. She raised the silk sleeves allowing Usagi to easily slip her thin pale arms into them. "Thanks."
"You seem to be in a lot better conditions since you've gotten a good night's sleep."
"Mm." Usagi silently agreed. She wasn't sure whether she would call it a good night's sleep or not. True she didn't feel physically exhausted anymore, but her dreams made her feel as if her body still had not gotten the full amount of sleep it desired. It felt as though her mind was resting somewhere between consciousness and the dream world. She had never had so many different dreams in one night, and wasn't sure if she found them something to look forward to, or to be saddened by. Either way, it looked as if during her slumber she would be seeing her friends again. "I had many dreams last night, about my friends."
"Oh? Were they good dreams?"
"I'm not sure. But…" She paused for a second, remembering one dream with crystal clear vision. "They all overlapped with one another, but I remember one thing perfectly. But, it was strange." Usagi turned around when her new dress was snugly on her and looked into two pools of ice blue that were Yumeno's eyes.
"How was it strange?"
"I remember instead of seeing my friends, my view changed as if I was among them, looking out with my own eyes. We were walking through a dark maze of sorts and we turned a corner, and all of a sudden it started glowing green."
Yumeno started intently at her saying nothing. When a few moments of silence passed Usagi broke the silence. "Ah er, it's no big deal or anything. I just thought it was interesting I dreamt something like that since you mentioned waking in a green lit room when you arrived here."
"There's no such thing as coincidence, especially in the world of dreams." Yumeno said seriously. "More importantly, what do you make of your dreams Princess Serenity?"
"Call me Usagi. And what do you mean?"
"U-Usagi…" Yumeno blushed slightly. "I mean, does the fact that you are dreaming of your friends memories mean nothing to you?"
"Dreaming of their memories?"
"Yes."
"No I just assumed…" Usagi looked away. "I've dreamt of them before, you saw it yourself. I just figured it became stronger like this because, they're gone…" The last word of her sentence quietly faded into nothingness.
Yumeno walked forward closing any distance between them. She pulled Usagi against her chest, wrapping her arms around her. "It's alright." She moved her right hand upward and slowly started caressing Usagi's forehead as she swept her golden bangs backwards. "Shh…"
"You say I'm dreaming of their memories? How?" Usagi asked sleepily into Yumeno's chest.
"I…" Yumeno quickly broke the hold she had around Usagi.
"What's wrong?" Usagi asked holding onto her comforts arm.
"So it is the same… a dark maze?"
"Eh?"
"I'm sorry, nothing's the matter. I should go. If I take any more of your time Demando will grow angry." Yumeno smiled at Usagi. "I would like you to show me your dreams from now on, if that is alright with you? When you wake in the mornings."
"Okay." Usagi nodded as Yumeno picked up the white gown and pajamas off the bed to go hang up. "Could I, keep those with me?" She pointed to the pink top and pants with small white bunnies jumping over a moon that the dark haired woman held in her arms. "They were a gift from Mamo-chan." Yumeno handed the pj's back to Usagi who sat on the bed with them in her arms.
"Wherever your friends are, I'm sure they're watching over you." The door closed leaving Usagi to flop onto the bed clutching the bundle of pink. It was her last link to the outside world, proof that she wasn't just living in a nightmare. She once had a life surrounded by the people she loved on a beautiful Earth.
Stretching her fingers over the dyed cotton fabrics trying to lose herself in her memories, she stopped when she felt something hard inside one of the pockets. "Hm?" Usagi sat upright bringing the pajamas onto her lap. She slipped her right hand into the pants pocket and pulled out a small dark rock with an etching of a black crescent moon. "This is!"
"Your highness?" The door clicked open and Usagi hurriedly shoved the crystal under her bottom. The blonde maid from before walked inside, standing in front of the open door. "If you are finished changing, I can escort you to the dining hall."
"I'll be right out." The maid bowed and walked outside shutting the door behind her to wait on the other side. Usagi picked the crystal back up, shoved it down the front of her dress and left the room.
The dining room was four flights up from the room Usagi was staying in. It was set at the topmost part of the golden castle and there were no walls. Instead, the circular rooms' sides were completely made of glass, so Usagi was surrounded by the black darkness that was the death of her planet.
"Do you like the scenery?" Usagi's eyes followed the voice, which she knew led to Prince Demando. He sat at one end of a long golden table much like the one she had seen on the space ship.
She wanted to comment on how she hated his taste in view but instead replied, "yes," with the liveliest voice she could muster while lying through her teeth.
"Having second thoughts on staying?" Demando was quick to pick up on her tone.
"No." She answered a little too quickly. "I mean, I'm still used to seeing sunlight." This time she tried harder to keep sarcasm from entering her voice.
"You'll get over that. Sit here." As she was about to sit in the chair opposite on the other end of the table, Demando gestured to a chair placed next to him. "I want you next to me." Usagi stared at him for a moment before getting up from her half-sitting position and walking the length of the table to his side. The blonde maid pulled out a chair for he to sit, then pushed her up against the table.
Another maid Usagi had never seen before walked over to the table carrying food on a couple golden trays. She set the food in front of them, filled a couple golden goblets with red wine and left after bowing to both of them, Usagi watching as she went.
"Something interesting?" Demando, who had finished sipping some wine, had not taken his eyes off of her the whole time.
"These maids, how many are there?"
"I'm not sure. However many are needed to keep this castle running."
"Are they… humans?" The prince stared deeply into her eyes before answering.
"No. They are dolls."
"Dolls?" Usagi asked surprised.
"Much like the ones you fought at Tokyo Tower, except slightly more advanced."
"Like the ones at Tokyo Tower? So you created all these dolls here as well?"
"What has made you so interested in these maids I wonder, Serenity?"
"Nothing." She responded a little too quickly once more. "I was just curious how there were people here, but they're not real people."
"Those of Earth are dead. You are the only remaining survivor Serenity. I thought you knew this."
"I do." Usagi choked as if trying to break a watery surface for air as Demando slipped his hand across her lap and upward.
"Were you hoping to discover that I had allowed some to live to serve us? To learn that some connection to Earth still existed?"
"No." Usagi gripped onto the prince's hand that rested on her lap. "I didn't think anything like that. I really was, just curious about where they came from. This is my home now." Demando smiled placing his free hand under her chin.
"We will rebuild a new Earth, a new kingdom the way it should have always been destined to be."
"Yes." The word caught in Usagi's throat as Demando pressed his lips against hers, sucking any air required for speech. She inhaled heavily as Demando pressed further, gripping tightly onto her hand and tilting her chin back as he kept advancing. Usagi crushed her eyelids together as tight as she could, and willed her mind to wonder to Mamoru. She wrapped her right arm around the back of Demando, slipping her fingers into his hair but it was no use. "Mamoru…" Her insides screamed. "Forgive me, please…"
"I understand, Usa-ko…"
"Eh?" Her eyes snapped open, scanning the room frantically with her whole body and completely abandoning her previous physical situation.
"What are you doing?" Asked an agitated Demando.
"I could have sworn…. nothing. I'm sorry." She refused to meet his eyes.
"Do not apologize with words Serenity; you know what pleases me." He lifted her chin back into the air and resumed where he left off.
After breakfast Usagi was allowed to wonder around the castle accompanied by one of the maids while Demando went off to do something on his own. She tried to follow him at first, but the maid made her stay back and he got too far ahead.
"You don't have to follow me." Usagi stopped in the middle of one of the hallways and turned around to address her keeper.
"I am to service the future king and queen of this castle. His majesty Prince Demando ordered me to care after you." Usagi sighed. Snooping around the castle while being followed by someone who served Demando was nearly impossible. This was probably exactly how Demando wanted it which made Usagi all the more eager. If there was something he didn't want her to find, she wanted to find it all the more. "Hmm, you say…" Usagi started scratching her head. "That you're to serve the king and queen right?"
"That is right your highness."
"Then, that would include me right?"
"Yes your highness."
"So if I said, 'As queen of this castle I order you to go do something else' you would…" Before finishing her sentence, the maid bowed to Usagi and began to walk away. She started after the maid dumbfounded.
"No way... it actually worked." Usagi grinned to herself before continuing down the hall and turning a corner. "That's one designer flaw I'll have to make sure Demando doesn't find out about."
Usagi continued to walk around the golden palace for what seemed like a couple hours. She ran her fingers along the walls most of time as she went, feeling and looking for anything out of place, but nothing had jumped out at her. All the doors she found were unlocked and led to nothing but another room and definitely didn't lead to anything that looked like a mysterious dark maze.
"This isn't getting me anywhere." Frustrated by her endless search with no promise of any results soon to be found, Usagi leaned against the cool wall and closed her eyes. "There has to be some clues in this castle somewhere. It wouldn't hurt if I found where Demando is keeping the Silver Crystal either."
"Kitten…"
"Ah I feel sleepy again. This castle is sucking my energy like the time I was on Nemesis with the Black Crystal."
"Kitten…this way…""Haruka!" Usagi jumped off the wall and started down the hall before her, but there was nothing there but more dark pathway and ascending golden walls. Usagi felt her body shiver and she wrapped her arms around her. "Again? I keep hearing their voices like in my dreams. I guess I'm going insane here after all…" Usagi thought.
"Kitten!""Yeah Haruka?" She looked back over to the direction of the voice smiling to herself, and then gasped. "Haru… ka? Haruka!" Usagi ran as fast as she could, holding the blue gown she wore above her knees so she wouldn't stumble over it. She was surely seeing things, there was no way Haruka could be alive, calling out to her, leading her down the hallway. Her ghostly image appearing and disappearing as Usagi chased it down hallways and around corners, no longer paying any attention to where she was actually going.
"Kitten…"
"Haruka wait! Wait!" Usagi spun on her heel as she turned the next corner only to find herself face to face against a gold wall, a dead-end. "Haruka?" Usagi ran her fingers across the wall panting heavily. "Damn!" She slammed her fist against the wall. "Damn!" Again. "Damn it!" And again. She continued panting heavily, spreading her fingers over it and resting her forehead against it. "Haruka… everyone…"
As Usagi rested, she began to feel like she was slowly sinking. Her body leaning forward, as if her mind was in a state of dizziness. She ignored it until she no longer could, aware that she wasn't just imagining any of it. She opened her eyes just in time to see the gold wall pass her eyes and come crashing down against a cold stone floor.
"Did I just, go through the wall?" Behind her where the golden wall once was, was nothing but stone which mimicked the floor she had helped herself up from. As far as she could tell in the darkness, there was nothing around her but more stone, and nothing in front of her but a stone pathway, and in the distance, a faint glowing green light. Without a second thought, Usagi walked onward.
It was like a maze, a dark maze which soon split into different winding paths. Usagi stayed straight cautiously following the torches on the wall that glowed green, which were soon joined by many different doors. She was curious, but something told Usagi to keep on the path she had chosen.
As Usagi's path came to its first and only two-way split, she stopped for a moment before turning left and deviating from her original path. A great deal of green light was ahead, a bunch of torches in one particular place. The light got closer, and Usagi could see that the pathway had ended. She was now in a room.
"A green lit room! Could this be where Yumeno- ouch!" Down by her leg Usagi noticed she had bumped into the sharp corner of a golden table unlike the ones she had dined at. And next to the table was… "Eiyahh!" She screamed, knocking backwards into several things she could not see that went crashing to the ground and creating a loud echo all around the room and down the pathway.
Dead bodies lay littered across the ground, one piled on top of another. There were more, piles of bodies in the various corners of the room. Usagi continued stumbling backward when she stepped on something that delivered a loud cracking noise. Jumping slightly, she looked down to the floor and saw something that resembled dry clay.
"Clay?" Usagi cautiously moved closer to the bodies. "They're dolls?" Just like the dolls from Tokyo Tower… "So is this where they make those maids?" Shethought. Wanting to look around more closely, Usagi pulled one of the torches off of the wall.
The room's space was mostly occupied by the clay bodies all over the floor, as well as the flat golden table in the center of the room. Behind the table was a small bisque box, its lid to its side, full of golden studded earrings with black feathers hanging off of them. Instantly, Usagi dropped to her knees to examine the earrings and then looked at the bodies, none of which were wearing any. As she raised the torch higher into the darkness, something else caught her interest.
Where it seemed a chunk of stone was missing, inside the stone wall sat a black crystal, with a crescent moon etched into it. Usagi pulled out the rock she had kept in her dress and compared the two. Besides the one she just found being slightly smaller than the original, they were exactly the same.
"Damn that arrogant prince, I've told him time again he must not strain that body. Just because it is thee most advanced." Usagi froze at the sound of a male voice she did not recognize. There was no doubt whoever it belonged to was heading into the same room, and the only exit was the entrance. She hastily shoved both the crystals back into the front of her dress and tried to blow out the torch which remained lit, so she threw it as far away from her as possible.
Trying to be as quiet as possible, Usagi slid behind a stack of dolls as a pair of loud clacking footsteps and the sound of a flapping cloak entered. The cloaked men picked up one of the many dolls lying on the floor and laid it on the table. If she timed it perfectly, the next time he bent over for something she could slip past him without being caught. As she was positioning herself to crouch out from behind the dolls, something that glittered gold in the hand of the man caught her attention.

"Finally, I will be able to create another one like the one from Kinmoku with this."
"What?" Without thinking, Usagi gripped onto the unstable stack of dolls, alerting the man that he was not alone as the dolls fell to the ground, some smashing into pieces.
"Who's there? Show yourself!"
Usagi dove from the gravity bound bodies to behind the table opposite of the cloaked man, who was approaching her previous hiding spot. Praying he would not turn his back the last moment, she sprinted out of the room and back to the path split into two. She turned the corner sharply and continued to sprint down the pathway she would have taken if she had continued going straight, never once looking back. As she came to a tall staircase, she took the stairs two at a time, reaching a door atop them; she flung it open and snapped it shut behind her.
There was no time to catch her breath as she felt someone gripping her wrist, holding back no intention of hurting her.
"How the hell did you get onto this ship!" Usagi looked up into the violet eyes of a furious Prince Demando.
"I- arh!" Usagi winced as he threw her up against the door; hand still on her wrist, twisting it. "Nng."
"How did you get here? Answer me now! Did you come through there? Answer me!" He pressed against her harder, twisting her wrist even more. "What are you up to?"
"I brought her here your highness!" Demando turned around in a heated rage to see a black haired maid standing there.
"Yumeno…" Usgai uttered silently.
"Please forgive me your highness; I did not know I wasn't allowed to bring the princess aboard. Her highness expressed a wish to look around all places of her new home, so I brought her up here through the maid's portal. I am sorry." Demando let go of Usagi, who grabbed her hurting wrist, and walked over to Yumeno. She stood still and proper as he gazed at her with uncertain suspicion.
"You are a maid?"
"Yes your highness."
"You seem different then the others."
"I would not know your highness; I am simply here to serve the future king and queen of this castle." Yumeno bowed slightly then regained her artificial pose. Prince Demando looked back over to Usagi who was glancing from one of them to the other.
"See the princess back to her room and do not bring her onto this ship again. Also, see to it that the room is cleaned and fresh sheets are placed on the bed. Starting tomorrow night, I will be joining the princess for bed. After all…" Demando's cape fluttered in the wind behind him as he turned back to his princess. "I did say that it was our room." He slid his hand across her neck and into her hair before bending over and kissing her deeply. Usagi had only just placed her arms around his back when he broke his kiss and walked away from them, glaring at Yumeno as he left.
"Usagi?" Yumeno jogged over to her grabbing her hands, which she still had out in the position of an embrace.
"I won't be able to deceive him anymore, not at this rate. Especially if he starts sleeping with me, he'll… I can't. That's one thing I can't do."
"Usagi I'm sorry, this is all my fault."
"Your fault?"
"I should have told you sooner not to go looking for that room. Earlier today, I saw it in your dreams and knew it to be the same room. I was also looking for it, but you found it before me."
"I, didn't really mean to go looking for it. I was looking for something that could tell me possibly what's going on here, but… It was more shown to me."
"Shown to you? What do you mean?"
"I saw my friend. One of my friends was there, and she showed me the way."
"Usagi-"
"No, I know it was real! It had to be! I also knew exactly where to go when I was there. Speaking of which, Yumeno, down there I found something, and there was a man who spoke of you…"
"Shh!" Yumeno pressed a finger against Usagi's lips. "This is not the place to speak, we must do it elsewhere, follow me." Holding onto Usagi's hand, Yumeno led her down the black marbled hallway inside the space ship which floated above the castle.
"Safiel." A deep male voice called out from the shadows.
"Yes?" Safiel manifested out of nowhere, kneeling to the darkness from which the male voice spoke.
"Follow them."
"Yes, Doll Maker." Safiel faded, the gold studded earring the last to vanish, gleaming against the dark marbled wall behind him.
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