• Chapter 1

    I walked to Cyrus's office with a few grunts. My heart pounded nervously. What was going to happen to us?

    Earlier this week, Saturn and I played a trick on Cyrus and Mars. Now we were paying for our crime.

    Saturn knocked on the hard steel door that entered into Cyrus's huge room. Mars looked through a small window on the door, then unlocked it for us. Saturn and I walked in. Our grunts waited outside the door.

    Cyrus rose up from a black swivel chair behind a large desk. Saturn and I kneeled as he stood above us.

    Cyrus looked down at our humbled bodies on the ground. "Saturn, Mercury, get up. Why don't you two explain that little prank of yours to Mars and I?"

    Saturn looked up at Cyrus. I also raised my bowed head. "Master, Mercury and I were working on the Galactic bomb as you ordered us to..."

    Cyrus cut us off with a snap of his fingers. "Never mind, I don't want your stupid explanations. I know what you two have done. You set the bomb here in my office. When I opened the door it blew up, and it took my grunts several days to clean this place. That time was WASTED!"

    Saturn shuddered. He could tell how upset our boss was, and that itself was rare.

    Cyrus took another step towards us. "Mercury, Saturn, I know you two like being Commanders, and I expect more than these childish pranks from you two. So... You two will be excluded from the next mission, and for the rest of this month, you two will be working as grunts. Jupiter, Mars, and Charon will take your place. Grunts, leave me."

    We left the room, horrified at our demotion. "I can't believe we're forced to be grunts for this month!" I exclaimed. I pulled my long navy blue hair out of a ponytail holder and let it fall over my shoulders in waves.

    Saturn bowed his head. "To pull the prank we did, and then to be punished- we just got what we deserved."

    I looked at Saturn sadly. "Satu, why are you always so hard on yourself?"

    Saturn looked away from me. He knew I only called him Satu when I was very worried. "Mercury, you've just recently become a Commander. When you've worked for Team Galactic for as long as I have, and get to understand who Cyrus truly is..."

    He leaned his head against the cold metal wall and sighed deeply.

    I stepped closer to him and gently put my arms around him. I was surprised he didn't try to shake me off. Instead, he turned around and hugged me back. I could feel him breathing deeply, his muscular chest heaving, the warmth of both our bodies comforting him. After awhile, he let me go. "Thanks mercury, I needed that."

    He turned away from me and walked to his room.

    I began heading towards my own room, confused. Who was Cyrus really? Obviously we were evil, but what Saturn had said changed my thoughts about everything. It was as if Cyrus was going to hurt Saturn more than he already had. Saturn had never been an extremely happy person, but I'd never seen him this down either. There was no one to talk to, and though I needed answers, I couldn't bother Saturn.

    I unlocked the small room I had been given, laid down in my bed, and fell into a restless sleep.


    End of Chapter one.... If you guys like this I will post chapter 2! ^_^ All comments are appreciated!