One after another one. Every day that turned into weeks and then they bled into months, they failed.

Beryl was not a happy Queen. She's nearly beaten the last general to death over his faliures, along with a few of the youma that dared to cross her path during her time of rage.

The only good thing just happened to be the fact that Beryl still held control over Endymion. He was defiant with her at times, mainly since his focus was clearly on the Moon Princess and getting the Silver Crystal.

Beryl stormed into the meeting room of her castle, where Endymion was already there, observing old manuscripts from the library. "Another failure has occured. Kunzite just cannot handle doing his job properly and the moon brat is still running around!" She appeared to throw a fit like a child, as Endymion thought that's what she looked like. A child with toys she doesn't know how to handle them.

"Well, that sounds like a personal problem." He never even glanced up fron the manuscripts. It infuriated her further.

"Okay then, Endymion. If you're so clever, why don't you come up with a plan to kill the moon brat and her little underlings? Hm? How come you haven't stolen her crystal yet?!" She yelled. "If you cannot come up with a plan to get that crystal by the end of this week, I'll make sure you stay dead this time!"

He smirked at this. "So does this mean that anything I do to achieve this goal is fair game?" He asked, a smug look on his face.

As angry as she was with him, she was still fairly smitten with the man. "Yes, fine. Whatever you need to do that is necessary for our ruler Metalia in getting that crystal."

InternaIly, Endymion frowned at this statement. He could care less about Metalia. His only interest was getting the crystal to regain something he had lost. He just couldn't remember what he was looking for.

"Alright then, 'your highness.'" Even the nearby youma could hear those air quotes. Beryl left the room, leaving Endymion to his thoughts.

"This woman cannot manage to do much on her own without manipulating others... As powerful as she is, she doesn't put it to good use." He walked through the halls of the castle, dark interior decorations at every turn. The Prince eventually came to the room of the coffins where he saw the jewels of Jadite, Nephrite, and Zoicite through the glass. There was forth one prepared for Kunzite.

He did not know why, but this made him angry to a certain degree. Kunzite could be incompetent, of course, but to be prepared to kill him upset the prince.

Endymion knew he never really held any feelings of friendship towards the general, but something was different.

"He plan is to take over with Metalia, who will, with no doubt about it, betray her." His mind figured. Then a smirk slowly creeped onto his face.

"Perhaps if one were to... get rid of her, in a way... and just take all of Metalia's power..." They had no idea what they were doing. The problem that they were in this who operation needed to be taken care of.

He was certain he needed the crystal to do it, but the Moon Princess wouldn't just hand it over.

She was going to be dragged here if need be, he decided.

Usagi skipped happily to Hikawa shrine, as late as ever. So far, today had been one of those days where things just tended to go right. English had a substitute, so the teacher did not notice her sneak in or that Usagi had marked herself present since she came in after roll was taken, one of her tests was postponed and moved to a date for next week, and her mother, along with Makoto, had made her a nice big lunch.

She knew she'd get an earful from Rei, but hey, not even she could bring down her mood.

Walking to the door, she slid it open and her smile instantly fell. She wasn't greeted by the girls, but by Yurichiro talking with... Endymion.

Now, seeing him after the past few months of him trying to kill her, that brought her mood down.

"Oh, hey Usagi!" Yurichiro greeted, seeing as he heard the door open.

"Hey, Yurichiro... Um, where are Rei and the others?" Usagi asked, feeling Endymion's eyes in her, but she focused her attention on the other male in the room.

"Oh, right, they actually went to look for you. Said it was something urgent."

She understood why. "I took a different route from my usual one... Okay. I'll l go look for them! Thanks!" She took one glance into Endymion's red eyes before taking off to go find the girls.

It didn't take long, she found them outside of Crown, talking loudly.

"Girls! Sorry! I took a different route than the one I normally take..!" Rei rolled her eyes, but then her face switched to a serious expression.

"Endymion--!" Usagi interrupted her.

"Is in the city... I know..." She sighed. Thinking about it did not help her at all. She loved him and missed him, but he's been forcefully pushed into the dark by Beryl.

"Okay, glad you know. So what are we going to do about him?" Minako asked, checking around them, making sure no one was listening.

"Let's go the the... center. It's better to speak in secret." Ami spoke up. "Minako, isn't there a back way to the center?"

"Yes. Of course."

After the got to the Command Center below Crown Arcade, they discussed the matter that is Endymion.

Usagi tuned out most of the conversation as her mind wandered to the memories of Mamoru Chiba before the whole thing happened.

The day she lost him to the Dark Kingdom. It made her cry everytime she thought about him.

"Odango Atama!" Rei shouted in her ear.

"Gah! Sorry!" She smiled and blushed a bit, embarrassed.

"We're on high alert now! A youma has been released into the city!" Rei said. Usagi immediately stood up with them and they transformed before heading into the area where the youma was causing terror.

"Welcome, Sailor Guardians!" The jumbled voice of the youma proclaimed. Endymion looked over the chaos from a building above them, eyes on Sailor Moon.

He was sure to send in a youma that could easily be defeated. All he needed to do was follow Moon to wherever she goes when she's done doing whatever it is she does for the day.

Endymion assumed it would be planning intensely on how to take down the Dark Kingdom.

After he saw her be the lastone to detransform, he followed behind the group from a reasonably far distance so he wouldn't be noticed.

The few things he did not expect to see of the leader of the scouts was to see her go into a place called "Crown" and devour an entire meal within a few minutes.

It amzed and confused him.

After he saw the girls part ways, he stayed his distance as he followed the Moon Princess back to her home.

How none of the other generals thought of this, he had no idea. Once he saw her enter her house, he jumped down and hid by the wall. He noticed the name plate read "Tsukino" and he figured he had enough information for now. He may just make a visit soon.

After all, he needed to get rid of Beryl soon.

Usagi couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable as she made her way home. The feeling of being watched never left her, and she felt wary, even when entering her own house.

"Usagi. I heard about what happened from Minako..." Luna said as the girl closed the door to her room.

"Yeah..." Usagi collapsed onto her bed, wondering what he could suddenly want. What the evil witch sent him to do.

She finished some of her homework, got ready to rest for the day, and climbed into bed, the feeling of eyes on her never leaving.

Endymion watched before his plan had formed and finalized in his mind. He smirked before disappearing, teleporting back the the Dark Kingdom and him figuring that he'll act the next morning, so he can hurry up and get this plan in action.

I know it's stupid to start a new fic when I planned on bringing back "Personality Swap" and "Sailor Who" is also being worked on. This idea has been in my head for a long time.