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"Mom, do I have to?" Adela asked.
The Queen sighed. Her daughter's thirteenth birthday was coming
soon,
and she wanted the child to be prepared to fight for herself and her
planet.
"Sweetie, it is a tradition to become a Sailor Soldier on your
thirteenth birthday," the Queen lied.
"But I do not like to fight. people always get hurt."
"Yes, people do get hurt, but if an enemy ever comes, you need
to be
prepared to defend yourself. Now, why don't you go up to your room
to
find something nice for the party tomorrow."
As the princess stepped up the stairs, Queen Lareina remembered
the
day the celebrated the birth of their daughter.
"How nice it is to see you Lareina."
"Yes Tokira. The child is in the third room."
"What is her name?"
"We cannot think of a name beautiful enough for her.
We were wondering
if you could tell us about the child's future so we could choose
the
correct name."
" What did she do during her first hour of life?"
" Actually, she just stared at me, with her eyes full of
trust. She
barely cried at all."
As the two women reached the room, the queen picked her up
and handed
her to Tokira.
"She loves quiet, serene places. Adela comes to mind."
The old woman was about to hand the child now known as Adela
back to
the queen, when she gasped.
"Tokira? What is wrong?!"
"This child, she will die on her fourteenth birthday. It
will be from a
great evil. She will be killed by a queen, a queen who wants nothing,
but
to rule the Universe."
"Is there anyway to change it? A way to at least give her
a longer
life?"
"If you train her to be a sailor soldier, then she will fight
the queen
until the day after her fourteenth birthday. Then she will die."
The Queen was haunted by that memory. She could not bear to think
of
her daughter having such a short life. Even if she would barely live
longer as a sailor soldier, she wanted to give her at least a few more
hours of life.