ASSASSIN, Prologue
By: Shari Hirtle
Email: Odango2001@aol.com
Rating: PG

September 6, 2000

     HELLo Everyone! It’s been quite a while hasn’t it? Well, I’m 
back and 
I’ve got a new story here, I hope you like it! It takes place during 
a time 
where there are princesses and princes, but it is not the Silver 
Millennium, 
all right? Well now, I think we’re all set, so read on!

Disclaimer: All SailorMoon characters do not belong to me, they belong 
to 
Naoko Takeuchi and some other people, everyone else belongs to me.

~*~

     “Its a boy, My Queen! A beautiful baby boy,” Yuuko, Queen 
Serenity’s 
personal servant, said excitedly as she cleaned up the baby and handed 
it to 
her queen.

     Serenity happily took the small bundle smiling while two other 
servants 
helped the king up off the floor - he had fainted after the first push.

     “Is it over yet?” King Henry asked a bit groggily.

     “Henry!” Serenity said angrily.

     “Oh, uh, I’m sorry Dear. Uh, what is it?” he walked over to 
his wife 
and sat down.

     “It’s a boy, the Crown Prince,” she said as the baby slowly 
opened its 
eyes.

     Everyone gasped. Its eyes....

     “Henry,” Serenity whispered as she put her hand on her 
husband’s arm, 
“look. Look at his eyes, they’re so… *cold,* what’s wrong with 
them?”

     The baby looked up at his parents with cold ice blue eyes and 
large 
silver-ish grey pupils, they held a great amount of what seemed to be 
hatred.

     “He stares up at me with such hatred,” Henry said sadly, 
looking away 
from his son.

     “What’s wrong with my baby?” Serenity cried to her 
priestess, Hoshi.

     Hoshi walked up and carefully took the baby, looking into its 
eyes, 
“Evil eyes, hating… cold… like--”

     “Kori,” Serenity finished for her, taking back the baby, 
“that’s what 
I shall name him. Kori.”

     “Hmm… Ice, it fits, yes… but may I add a name, Your 
Majesties?” Hoshi 
asked.

     “Yes, of course.”

     “Oni.”

     “Demon?!” Henry exclaimed, “don’t you think that’s a bit 
extreme? I 
mean, after all he IS our son.”

     “No, not extreme at all. He will cause trouble in the future, 
the name 
Oni belongs to him,” Hoshi said and walked out of the room, leaving a 
crying 
Queen and a confused King.

~*~
5 years later

     “On-- Kori, your new baby sister has been born! Your parents 
would like 
you to come meet her,” Yuuko said to the young prince. He frowned and 
stood 
from the ground, walking with Yuuko back into the palace and leaving 
the poor 
baby bunny he had been chasing. Kori was not happy about having a 
sister, he 
hoped she would not bother him and keep her distance.

     At 5 years old Crown Prince Kori Oni Tsukino was as cold as ever 
and 
caused much trouble, just as Hoshi had said. He chased small, weak 
animals, 
hardly ever obeyed his parents, and was extremely anti-social. His dark 
hair 
fell to his ears in curls and his skin was pale as a sheet of paper. 
His eyes 
were still the cold ice blue they had been when he was born and his 
pupils 
had darkened a bit, but still had that silver-ish look to them.

     Yuuko opened a door and motioned for Kori to go in. He walked 
inside to 
see his mother holding a baby and his father being helped up off the 
floor 
(again).

     “Kori, I would like you to meet Usagi, your new baby sister,” 
Serenity 
said quietly, tired from the delivery.

     “Usagi, what a lovely name… yes, I like it very much,” Henry 
said as he 
stared into the tiny face of his daughter.

     “She is too small… and she is bald,” Kori said, arms 
crossed, looking 
at the small newborn.

     Serenity laughed, hiding her frown, “She will grow, My Son, and 
she will 
soon have hair. Would you like to hold her?”

     “No,” Kori said bitterly, as if his mother were supposed to 
know that 
he would not want to hold such a thing.

     Serenity looked at her son sadly then up at Henry who just sighed 
and 
shook his head.

     Suddenly, Baby Usagi was moving slightly and opening her eyes, 
“Oh, let 
us hope…” Serenity whispered to herself, biting her lip while 
waiting to see 
her daughters eyes.

     Bright cerulean sapphires! Serenity smiled happily and let out the 
breath she had not known that she was holding. 

     Usagi looked at everything and everyone in the room with 
amazement, her 
small mouth in an ‘o’ shape. Her wide eyes landed on the smiling 
faces of 
her mother and father, then to Kori and she smiled.

    “Microscopic, bald, *and* toothless, ugh!”

     “Oh come now, Kori, I think she likes you!” Henry said with a 
laugh.

     Kori leaned closer to Usagi and she suddenly grabbed a strand of 
his 
hair that had fallen into his face. He yanked it away and jumped back, 
everyone laughed.

     Kori frowned and left the room quickly, he had already decided 
that he 
hated his new sister.