Total Eclipse- Minako's story



	Part four
	By: Zellie

	"Beyond the door, there's peace I'm sure..." -Tears in
Heaven by Eric Clapton




	I woke up later that evening, just in time to get ready for 
that party. The evening had already come and I realized I was hungry
as I gazed out at the cooling outside world. There was a quiet knock 
at my door, the Ami slipped in to check on me.  She hadn't started to
get ready yet either. My stomach growled and I thought back to when
I had eaten that day. I hadn't. Ami walked over to my bed and pulled
out her scanner. I looked up at her and smiled. "Hey Ami, you don't 
have to worry about me. You go ahead to that party. I'll make it if I can."
	"That's why I'm here, silly, to see if you're fit enough to go."
She said as she was rapidly doing calculations and such. "Wow."
She said as she brought up some numbers on her computer. She 
put a hand on my forehead. "It seems like it should be wrong, but it's
not...Minako, your energy levels are higher than they were before!
That's so strange...You're a puzzle, you know that?" She smiled and
 I looked up at her with a quizzical look on my face.
	"Ami-chan, do you know if we're having a banquet or 
not tonight, I'm so hungry." I asked while my stomach growled again. 
	"Uhh...I'm not sure, actually. But eat something just in 
case. You haven't eaten all day, have you?" I shook my head.
"Mina!" Ami clicked her computer shut. "Why aren't you eating right?" 
I blinked. Eating right? But I was, as far as I knew anyways. It wasn't
like I was anorexic or anything. I ate well enough, just not always
breakfast, nessicarily. 
	"I'm eating fine. I just didn't have time for breakfast
before training today, and then I've been asleep all day...so how
could I have eaten anything?" Ami looked at me then sighed. 
	"I guess you're right." Then she prepared to leave.
"Look, I'll see you in a little while, okay? You're still planning on
going, right?" I nodded. "Alright, then I'll let you get ready." I smiled.
	"Thanks, Ami-chan." She waved and then walked out, 
closing the door behind her. I sighed. She cared so much. I pulled 
the covers back, why this seemed like such a chore, I'm not sure, but
it was.  They felt incredibly heavy and I had a hard time standing up
also. I felt incredibly dizzy. I shook it off and walked over to my closet. 
There were a few nice dresses in there. The others girls had tons,
but I only had a few, as their parents helped them to get new ones 
and I didn't get the financial support they did. I felt like I had been
thrown in the story about the little girl who had been orphaned after
her father had sent her to a boarding school, where she tons of stuff,
then lost it all and had to work for her board and she was considered
a "charity student." Ironicaly, I think it's called "A Little Princess." Hmmm...
	I found a nice soft satin blue gown that had some small 
flower designs on it. The dress was a pale blue and I had matching
shoes, luckily. I also had some blue roses hair pieces and I put my
hair fully up with these, leaving a few pieces out, which I curled. I had
some nice earings, that sparkeled in any light and I put my locket 
on. I hadn't worn it in so long. After Kunzite had given it to me, I had
slipped a picture of my mother in there. I left the other side open.
He was right, I didn't need a picture to remember him by.
	As I was putting a little makeup on, a pale pink 
lipstick, and a little blue eyeshadow, there was another knock
at my door. I opened it with caution, not wanting it to be anyone
I didn't want to see, yet. Luckily, it was Rei. I smiled. 
She walked in. Rei looked georgous as usal. She always
managed to look exoctic, also. Rei had a red dress on that was
strapless, and backless. It was embroidered on the top half, and the 
bottom flared out a little with some different colors edged along the 
bottom. She had swept a side of her hair back with a tiger lilly and 
she looked amazing. I thought that compared to her I looked destitute.
	"Hey, Rei." I gave her a small hug. "You look wonderful."
She smiled back. 
	"I'm glad to see you up and around. I wasn't sure
you were going to make it tonight. Usagi was flipping out
earlier. She had us all a little worried for you, although I think
she went a tad bit overboard with what actually happened." Rei
pushed some of her hair behind her ear.  "So...you hear about 
your little boyfriend?" I shook my head.
	"What he do now?" Rei smiled an evil smile.
	"He brought his friends with him..." She looked at me 
with this look in her eyes which I had never seen in her eyes before.
"Mina-chan, two words: they're hot! Wait, four words: they're really
freakin' hot!" I grinned as she fake fanned herself. I hadn't met
these other "cuties" yet. 
	"Really?" She nodded in excitement. 
	"We better get going! It's starting really soon." She
grabed my wrist and pulled me towards the door.
	"Wait! I'm not done yet!" I pulled my arm back 
and walked quickly back to my dresser. I finished putting my
makeup on and slipped a smiple gold chain bracelet on. 
	"Ready now?" Rei asked a tad bit impatient.
	"Yep." I said as I walked out the door. We started 
on our way to the ballroom, the two of us that had been inseprable
since childhood. If we were going to make an entrance this night,
we were going to do it  together.  I was still so hungry, but I didn't
have a choice now, I had to wait some more. 
	Music swelled from the ball room as we entered. I
glanced around me, a little nervous. I hadn't been to one of these
in a while, and hope I didn't forget how to act.  I looked around
to see if I could spot any of my friends. That was when I saw him.
My father, he was walking around in the crowd. He seemed to be a
little anxious. I grabbed Rei's arm. "Rei, Rei!" I pracitcally hissed at 
her, trying to keep my voice low. 
	"What?" She asked, pulling her arm away from my grasp. 
	"Rei, my father's here. I just saw him!" She glanced
around the crowd. He was coming straight for us. Suddenly I 
felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see Usagi right behind me.
	"Move over." I moved over a little to fit her in the
group. "Just keep quiet, got it? Follow me." I nodded. My father
was almost upon us. 
	"Thanks!" I whispered to her. I smiled and watched as
he came up to Rei. 
	"Hello, Rei." She smiled. 
	"Hello, " Rei noticablly tensed. I could tell it, anyways. 
	"How have you been? I haven't seen much of you since
Minako dissappeared." Dissappeared. It seemed so strange to me.
I hadn't dissapeared. Then it seemed as if my father had read my mind. 
"Do you want to know something, Rei? I don't think she was killed. I think 
that they're hiding her from me. I want my little girl back. They had no right
to take her from me to begin with. She is still my responsibility. Do you
know the truth, Rei?" If Rei could have gotten any tenser, she did. 
Then he turned and looked at Usagi and I. "Introduce me to your
friends." Rei swallowed. He looked me over. I looked back at him, 
with curiosity. I would have glared at him if I could. How could he put
people in positions like that? Espically my friends. It was wrong and
it made me angry.  Usagi just stood a little taller, and I glanced at her. 
	"Well, this is her highness, Princess Serenity. We call her
Usagi, though." Rei turned and pointed to Usagi. He kissed her hand
and I had to do everything in my power not to either vommit or kill him. 
Then he turned to me again. 
	"Who's this lovely little one?" Rei sent a quick glance in
my direction. I stepped back a little. 
	"She's my sister, sir." Usagi spoke up. My father's
face registered surprise. 
	"Really? I didn't know the Lunarians had two girls. Well, 
what's your name, and I appologize for not being more responible." I 
had to think on my toes, something I did quite frenquently actually.  I smiled. 
	"My name is Faith." I extened my hand out to him. 
He kissed it and seemed to glare at me. Then he looked me over 
again. "Excuse me, but is there something wrong?" I asked as polietly 
as I could. He shook his head. 
	"No. My applogies, my lady. You just remind of my 
daughter, that's all. I miss her, I really do." Oh no! My mind began to
race. What had I done to make him think that? This couldn't be happening!
He sighed. "Well, Rei, if you ever want to tell me anything, please do.
If you'll excuse me, ladies, I should be on my way home now. I've done
what I had to." He went past us and left. I glared at him the entire way. 
Usagi elbowed me and that brought me back from my trance of sorts. 
	"Good job! You handled that so well!" Rei sighed as if she
had been holding her breath for an hour. "The only thing is I don't think
I've ever seen you glare at anyone like that!" Usagi seemed to be in a
different world. *You'd glare like that if you knew him the way I do,* I 
thought to myself. 
	"I can't belive him! But I think he's seriously sorry, Mi. 
It looks to me that he truly wants his little girl back." Rei looked at 
me and I looked at the floor. Usagi looked back at Rei then out
towards the door. 
	"Do you think it's time to tell him?" Usagi asked quietly. 
	"No! You're not going to tell him anything!  He doesn't 
mean it. He tried to kill me you guys! Kill me! He's just going to do the 
same thing again if he finds out about this! You don't know is temper, 
you don't know how hard he can hit! You don't understand!" I was so 
afraid they would tell my father. I was practicly crying and I was furious.
I couldn't go back to him. He didn't love me and he never had. He had 
loved my mother and that was the last thing I was. "You can't do that to 
me! Please...don't..." Rei and Usagi exchanged worried glances.
Finally after a long slilence between us Rei spoke up. 
	"Fine we won't. I don't like it much, but we won't, alright?"
I nodded. "Now, let's go find Makoto and Ami. Maybe they'll be with
those guys I was telling you about. " Usagi glanced around a bit, 
then smiled a happy, peaceful smile. 
	"You two go ahead. I have other things to do." 
	"Fine. Com'on, Minako." Rei dragged me off to a corner
where Mako and Ami was. Kunzite was there also, as were his 
friends. Although I had heard about them I had never seen them with 
my own eyes. Rei was right. They were good looking. In fact they were
very good looking. It seemed to me that Rei had already claimed a 
certian one, as Makoto had also. I followed her and stopped just
short of Kunzite. I stood feeling all of a sudden timid. Makoto was 
laughing with a young man that had rather long brownish wavy hair. 
Ami was deep in conversation with a tall blone, who also had rather
 long hair. Rei rushed over to the side of another tall blonde, only 
this one had short hair. He had blue eyes, too, where the other had
green.  Kunzite turned to me. He smiled. I loved the way he 
smiled. He looked so happy to see me. 
	"Hey.  I'm glad you're here and that you're feeling better." 
He pulled me closer to him, then in front of him.  "Guys! Hey!" The
boys turned to look at him. 
	"Yeah?" One of them asked. Kunzite looked down at
me and smiled. His eyes sparkeled a vivid blue that seemed to 
capture all the light in the room. He looked back at the awaiting boys.  
	"This is Minako." They all stopped what they were doing
and stared.  One of them smirked.
	"Really?" I looked up at Kunzite. He looked a little worried.
"Gosh. I'd have thought she'd be a little taller. You make her seem like
a sunflower!" I rasied an eyebrow. The blonde with the short hair said this.
	"Sunflower?" I asked. The others smirked. He waved
his hand. I stopped leaning against Kunzite. I was anything but
short and I was about to show them not to mess with me. Kunzite but
his hand on my shoulder keeping me back.
	"Let me introduce you." He said as he sighed an
exhasperated sigh. "The really immiture one is Jedite. He 
seems to have taking a liking to your friend Rei." He whispered
this last part to me. I glanced at her and smiled. Jedite blushed a
little. "Then, the one talking to my dear Makoto is Nephlite." 
Nephilte bowed slightly. Makoto grinned like a chesire cat. 
Mental note: brown and brown, Neph. Like attracted to like: 
Jedite. I thought to myself. "Lastly, is Zoisite." Zoiste
waved and continued his conversation with Ami. They
looked really involved in a debate. Just what Ami needed.
Mental note: Long blonde Green: Zoi. "Got it?" I smiled and 
nodded. "Now if you don't mind, gentlemen, ladies, I will take
my Minako, and let you be." He took me by the shoulders and 
herded me out to the beach. He laughed when we got there. 
"They're impressed with you. Really." He sighed and I sat down
on the shore.  Kunzite soon joined me. The tide was coming 
up just a bit benath my reach and sometimes I could feel the 
water even brush up against my fingers on the shore. 	
	"Kunzite, did you see my father?" I asked while
watching the tide. "He interrogated Rei. He said that he thought
they were hiding me somewhere. He's right. But Usagi
saved me and told him that I was her sister.  He's always asking
about me to the Queen. She said she was sorry, but there was 
nothing she could do to help him. Rei said that she thought it was 
time we told him the truth. I wouldn't let them. I don't want to go through
that. I don't think they will ever be able to understand. I doubt any
of those other girls have gone through any of that. Kunzite, I don't
want him to find me. I don't want to have to go back to his abuse, his 
berrating ways. I can't handle that again." I watched the water and the 
reflection of the Earth in the water. I smiled  a little. "How does it feel to 
see the earth from this point of view?" 
	"Nice." Kunzite turned my head so that he could look 
me in the eyes.  "Minako." I tried to pull away. "Mina-chan, he's
not going to find out. If he does, I'll get Jedite to mess with his mind. 
He's trained in that stuff. We'll make him think it was only a dream
or something. I'm not about to watch you go through that living hell 
again. Do you understand me?" I nodded. "Good." Then he kissed
me. He hadn't kissed me since that last day back home. It threw 
me off a little. I had not been expecting something like that in the 
least. He drew away from me and I looked at him, almost sadened.
"The locket. You still have it." He said as he looked down and noticed it. 
	"Yeah. I only wear it on special occasions. I didn't 
want to see anything happen to it." I reached up and held on to it. It gave
me comfort knowing that it was still safely on me. The feeling that I was
only a child ran through me again. "Kunzite, you don't think I'm to young
for you?" He stopped drawing designs in the sand and looked at me. 
	"How many times to I have to go through this? Of course
I don't. If I did I would have broke up with you before. I will tell you
this one more time and I hope you will understand me." He grabbed
my shoulders.  I felt a little scared. I had mad him angry. I hadn't ment to. 
I just couldn't help feeling a little insecure.    
	"I-I'm sorry." I said afraid he would do something weird to me. 
	"No, you just haven't realized yet. That's all.  I love you 
Mina-chan. Nothing is going to change that. Do you understand 
me yet?" I shook my head not wanting to believe this was true. 
 "Geesh! What do I have to do to prove it to you?!" 
	"I-I don't know...I'm just...scared, I guess." I had 
started shaking. I never could figure out why I felt so uncomfortable 
that night. 
	"What do you have to be afraid of? I'm here to protect you,
not hurt you, Minako." I nodded. What was wrong with me? I didn't 
understand what my mind was doing to my heart. I had started crying.
I whiped the tears away from my face savagely. "Mina, Mina stop it.
Stop crying. What's wrong? I can't help you if I don't know what's the
matter with you." 
	"I'm not really sure." I said through my tears. I didn't
know why I kept doing this. "My heart and my body long for you,
I crave your touch, I love the feeling I have when I'm around you,
but my mind keeps telling me I'm wrong, that this isn't right, that 
I don't have a right to love you...I don't understand it!" I had become
so frustrated. Maybe this was a backwash from all the years I had
kept this pent up inside me. Kunzite was a saint for going through
all the things I made him go through. And through it all he kept
cheerful, and understanding, and caring. I needed to be held by
him that moment. He seemed to sense that and wrapped his arms
around me. I clung back to him, thankful for the warmth and strength
he seemed to eminate.  "Why can't I just enjoy this?" I accedently
thought aloud. I think my mind was beging to catch up with the rest
of me. He looked down at me.
	"What?"I snuggled closer to him. "Minako..."
	"It's okay, now. I think I can let this happen to me.
I think it's alright for me to fall for you." He smiled. 
	"I knew you'd come around to my way of thinking, 
eventually." 
	"There's one condidtion, though. I want you to promise
you will always love me. " He tried tro speak. I put a hand up to his
lips. "Wait, I'm not done yet. I want you to swear that you won't hurt
our children, either, if we ever have any, that is. And never leave
me alone again..." 
	"Deal." He smiled down at me. I gazed into his eyes 
becoming completely lost in their depths. For some reason, Kunzite
managed to amaze me every moment. He could be so gentle, yet he
knew how to push you to your best without easing up on you. I think that
if it hadn't been for our early years training, I wouldn't have been as strong
as I  had become. After I had becoe lost in the moment, a sudden breeze
caught me by surprise. It was a cold wind, which was entirely unusual.
I looked at Kunzite, with puzzlement in my eyes as a shiver ran down 
my back.  My dress rustled behind me, and I felt an eerie, evil presence
behind me. I closed my eyes and swallowed and held Kunzite close 
to me. I was begining to feel sick again. "Minako, do you feel that?
I didn't think the Moon was supposed to have cold winds." I shook my head.
	"It's not." He grabbed my arms and pulled me up. 
	"Let's get back, I don't like the way this is out here." He began
to drag me back to the ballroom, when I pulled back and stopped. 
	"Wait...I think there's something out here..." Suddenly the
ground began to shake underneath  me. I was still holding on to Kunzite's
hand, and held it tighter.  I turned half around to see if there was anything
behind me.  There was a large, dark shadow spreading across the sky
and ground.  I looked above me to see a huge black winged dragon-like
creature desending upon us.  It gracefully landed right in front of me. The
creature turned its head towards me and hissed. I could see directly into
its blood red eyes. I could see directly into its soul. It had an evil black
soul, and ratiated dark energy. Suddenly, I was paralized with fear. 
	"Why won't you ever listen to me?" Kunzite said. He was
now standing directly behind me, still holding on to my hand. "Can we
leave now? We're going to need help fighting this." He started running
again, but I couldn't move. "Minako! Let's go!" This last time my hand
slipped from his and he didn't realize I wasn't behind him.  I still remained
staring at the creature. It was calling me closer to it. I took a hesitant
step forward. It encouraged me to continue with its mind.
	 Kunzitehad reached the palace I could tell beacuse
I could sense the others comming. I could barely hear their
voices calling my name as they ran to where I was. 
They continued to advance, but in my mind, the creature and
I were all alone. It looked sad and I felt compelled to make it feel
etter. I took another step. Makoto was leading the pack, I could 
hear her voice the clearest. She was right behing me. I sensed
her stop short, just within three feet of me. I glanced back, seeing,
but not exactly. I knew she was there, but her form did not place
in my mind. She was a little out of breath. 
	"Minako? Mina-chan are you alright?" 
She sucked in a breath and I nodded. 
	"It wants help." I whispered. I felt like I was deprived
of full concious thought. I advacned a few more paces. The
creature stared directly into my eyes willing me toward it. 
I could feel my subconcious mind resisting its call, but my 
mind was set on being there to help the poor thing. I could feel
its breath against my hand as I reached out to touch it. 
	"Minako!" Makoto distracted me for a moment and
I turned back to look at her. I gave her a confused look as if to
say, 'why do you want to stop me?' She looked afraid, but I felt
no emotion as I turned back to the creature and heard her 
screams.  Now Usagi was with her. Their voices created an
eerie duet in the silent night. I set my hand on the creature's 
snout, not knowing exactly what I had done.  "Minako!" That was the
last sound I can remember hearing. 
	The air around me filled with energy, it was strange,
yet poweful in a way that made my body tingle. I felt  my hair unravel
and there was a force far greater than I had ever encountered before.
I turned around to see Makoto and Usagi blown back by the force, 
Makoto into a tree. I didn't see her get back up. Ami knelt next to her
and looked up to see me, fear in her eyes. Rei looked as if she had 
seen a ghost. Kunzite and his boys were standing in a group, Kunzite
watching, looking as if he were in as much pain as I felt rushing
through my body. It wasn't that I felt the pain, I could just sense
that something was happening to my body. I followed Rei's gaze 
which landed behind me. I turned to see the creature becoming larger.
I willed it down, not wanting it to hurt my friends. I looked down at myself
to see that my clothes had changed. The creature willed me to get 
onto it's back. I couldn't help myself, and obeyed.  Then we weren't 
by the sea any longer, I looked around me to see darkness and 
black marble around me. We were decending into an opening in
a large court. The creature landed gently. It willed me off its back
and I stood infront of it, my hand resting on it's neck. 
	There were candles lit dimly around me creating and
casting shadows that surrounded me entirely. Now that I look back
at this experience I knew that they weren't really just shadows of creatures, 
they were the creatures themselves. I heard light footsteps in the hall. 
A woman with a long, black, flowing dress entered. The dress was 
slit in all the wrong places. She carried a tall staff in her hands. She
had equally long, black, flowing hair. I looked into her eyes and saw 
that she had a dark emerald color to her eyes that shone brightly 
against the marble and gold walls. She looked me over a few times
and nodded her aproval to the creature. 
	"Welcome, Aino Minako, leader of the infamous
Sailor Senshi. You are incredibly lucky to be here, take my asurance.
Please know that you are an honored guest in my humble kingdom." 
She sneered at me. I remained silent. This woman did not look  like
one to mess with, espically in my condition. "I am Lady Hyacinth,
faithful servant to the queen, Queen Beryl." She leaned the staff against
a wall.  "Come closer darling." She beckoned me to step forward. 
I stepped into the middle of the room. She circled me, and I realized
that the energy I had come in contact with earlier had caused me to
transform.  I felt like she was a preditor, and I was her prey, awaiting
my death. She stopped in front of me and held my face in her hands.
Her touch was ice cold. Lady Hyacinth stared deep into my eyes and
I felt uncomfortable, but remained standing tall. "Such a sweet
soul you have. Pure to the fullest meaning of the word. Your eyes hold a 
light that means so much. You radiate such energy! I have only heard
of energy like this, and that was only a rumor, or so I thought. Now
I know that such energy does exsist.  Hmm..." She circled me 
again, this time I followed her with my eyes. I was growing
increasingly more uncomfortable. I was alone in the Dark Kingdom.
"You remind me of my daughter. She was such a sweet girl, until the
evil took her over completely." Lady Hyacinth shook her head. She 
walked over to the wall and picked up her staff. "You are a magic 
user are you not?" I nodded. "Good, then follow me. We want to
see the extent of your powers." Thanks for telling me! She could
see some of my powers, but I would never show these evil witches
anything close to the real power I had. I could give them a taste of 
the Lunarian power I had aquired, which was my weakest form of 
magic, but it was still powerful. I snickered. They had no clue what
they were in for. 
	The halls, the floor, the celing, everything was black 
marble with highlights of gold in it. The kingdom would have been 
beautiful, had it not represnted such evil. I thought about what a 
shame it was really. I saw the evil hanging in the air. The cold, 
dampness that surrounded me made my skin crawl. Lady Hyacinth
had lead me to what looked like an arena of sorts. I looked around me,
cautiously. There were tons of shadow-people lining the stands.
In the middle of them all was a box of seats that were currently
unoccupied. In the far middle of the arena was a dias.  
	 Seated upon this was another woman, only this 
one appreared to be of higher stature. As we aproached, she 
stood up and stepped of the dias to greet us.  She extened her
hand, and Lady Hyacinth kissed it and knelt.  "Your highness, 
I have brought you the leader of the Sailor Senshi, the Moon
Princess' royal guard." The "queen" looked pleased with 
Lady Hyacinth.  She went through the same encircling routine 
that Lady Hyacinth had done.  I was not about to go through 
that again. I was not an animal on display. 
	"Good job, Lady Hyacinth." She went back to her
chair and sat. I held my composure and didn't glare at her.  
"She is one of the magic users, is she not?" Lady Hyacinth
stood and nodded. 
	"Yes, your higness."
	"Good. We she see what she's made of then. 
Send them in!" With a wave of her hand, doors around 
the arena began to open. Lady Hyacinth picked up her 
skirts (not that there were much there) and joined that witch
on the dias. I stood on edge,not knowing what was about
to happen to me.  The crowd seemed to anticipte their
arival way before I did. I glaced around me and two 
creatures were coming straight for me. I whipped around 
and polished one off, my senses beging to come back faster.
The second creature advanced from behind me and I had 
to douse that one with a more powerful spell than the first. 
I had to avoid using such spells again.  I went through six or 
seven of these creatures before they were called off. 
"Well, well...very impressive." I glared at her. Luckily, I managed
to only use two spells through the whole battle.  "Take her 
to a room, she's proved very helpful..." 
	 I was taken to what seemed like a dorm.
I was very angry. I had been under the influence. I couldn't 
have protected myself from those damn creatures. They practically
killed me! I would have blown the place up on my own, had I the
power to do so. I was a prisoner there. Held in a damp, cold room
away from the ones I loved the most, with the chance to be -evil...
and end up hurting them. I didn't want to become brainwashed and
do something that wasn't me. It would never be me. Especially if 
I hurt someone...I wouldn't be used that way. I hated the fact that
I was being used at all.
	The room was dark and poorly furnished, cold and
damp. There was a small bed, a small dresser, and stool 
and a bedstand. I stood in the room, waiting to be left alone
so I could try and power down. Lady Hyacinth lingered on.
She looked as if she had something on her mind. I sat down
on the bed. A meager sheet covered a lumpy matress. It 
would be good to get home...if I ever did. I sighed and looked
at the floor. Black marble with gold highlights. Big surprise. 
Lady Hyacinth looked at me. I looked up at her wondering 
what she was still doing there. Then she spoke. "Miss 
Minako, would you do me a favor? Would you say something,
please?" I looked at her strangly, then sighed and nodded. 
	"Thanks for showing me to my room." I said
quietly. She looked very happy. I wondered what she 
as thinking. My saying something had never made 
anyone so happy before. 
	"Oh! Thank you Miss Minako!" It really
bothered me that she called me 'Miss Minako'. I guess
it was natural for her, after all she was a servant. She turned
and left the room. Then I was left alone. I powered down 
and found myself in my gown. I began to cry. I flopped over 
on the bed sobbing. I wanted to go home. It wasn't fair. How
could I have been so stupid to fall for that. Gosh, Kunzite had to
have been so angry at me. I couldn't stop these thoughts from
coming into my mind. They had to have been worried about
me. I guess it's easier to become depressed in the inner
recesses of the Dark Kingdom. I put my hand on my head
to try and stop the oncoming headache I was about to have.
I realized that my hair was down. But it was up earlier. What could
have caused my hair to fall down? I contemplated this for while.
Finally I realized that my clips must have fallen out when I 
touched that animal. They still had my clips....Could I still get back 
home if I concentrated on them? I decided not to try it until later. 
I could gather information while I was there. I had to slip out 
of my dress. I couldn't sleep in that thing no matter how hard
I tried. I unzippered it and shimmied out of it.  I let it fall to the floor
and slipped under the sheet of the bed. It was late and I needed
some sleep.  The satin sheets felt slimy. I curled up into a ball 
as much as I could so that it shut out the feel of the sheets.
	AsI floated off to sleep, I thought of my mother. Had she 
ever been through anything like this? I doubted it.  If she had, she 
probably handled it way better than I did. I just never thought my
mother could have gotten herself in the messes I managed to put
myself into.  She jsut seemed to reserved for my boyish ways. But
then I hadn't known her as a child so who's to say that she didn't?



	 
  
     
  
	~Notes From Zellie~
	        Hi! Ooo scary! Mina-chan in the Dark Kingdom... 
How awful! What'll happen to her? Will they turn her against her friends?
What exactly are their intentions? Who the heck is Lady Hyacinth? Is 
she really evil?  With Minako disappearing how will Kunzite react? Usagi? 
Stay tuned for the next part of TE to find out! 
	Okay was that ^ a big enough teaser for you, or was it just so
many questions that it made you head hurt? Whoops! There I go
again! Questions!  Well, I would love imput from  you all. What do
you want to see happen to the gang? My email is:
Lil_Venus@hotmail.com. Mail me or I might not be so quick to
get these out! heh heh heh... See you later, darlings. 
			~Zellie