Wishful Thinking

Prologue

"Serenity!" I hear a voice yell behind me as I run through the palace halls.

I stop and turn around rapidly to see my friend and protector, Mina.

"Mina, please don't stop me! You know that I love him dearly!" I cried as she stepped towards me.

"Serenity, I'm sorry, but you are to be married to someone else! Plus, you are our princess. I must do whatever it takes to keep you safe! The Moon Kingdom needs you and I can't protect you on Earth!" she exclaimed as she put her hands on my shoulders.

I looked down as tears started to flow unwillingly down my cheeks. I turn from Mina and stare at my reflection in the window. I stare at my long flowing white dress, my wavy floor-length silver hair, my eyes, as blue as the oceans I see on earth, and the glowing, yellow crescent moon on my forehead, which represented my royal name. I watch as my reflection reaches up and removes the tiara, and I look down to stare at it in my hands. Then I turn back to Mina.

"Sometimes I wish I wasn't the Moon Princess," I whisper as I stare into her green eyes.

"Why would you say that, Serenity?!" she asked me as she took the tiara out of my hands and places it back on top of my head. "Everyone loves you and is so proud of you. You being the princess makes everyone happy!"

"That's the thing! I try so hard every day to make everyone happy, but when I try to make myself happy, Mother or Luna, and even you, try to stop me. My heart yearns to be with him! Can't you see that? How would you feel if I kept you away from Kunzite? You can see the love I hold for him in my heart! You're the love goddess's daughter, for crying out loud! You can sense when someone is in love. Can't you sense our love for one another?" I cried as I fell to my knees.

"Yes, I can, but I don't want you to get hurt. If anyone from Earth were to find out about you, they would most likely have you killed, and the same goes for him if your people found out. I don't want you to have your heart broken. I love you, Serenity, and not just because I am your sworn protector, but because you are my best friend. Even before me and the other girls knew who you were and what we were destined to do, we loved you dearly. You understood us as we understood you. We are all princesses from our own respective planets; princesses who were born to protect the future Queen of the entire Galaxy. I know it hurts, but I can't allow you to see him anymore. It is too dangerous!"

"I'm sorry, Mina, but I love him." I whispered as I called upon my power and teleported to Earth.

Before I was fully gone, I heard Mina scream out my name.

"Serenity!"

A few seconds later, I found myself in a beautiful garden; the garden that belonged to the Earth Prince. I walked off towards our meeting spot. When I got there, I sat down at the fountain and waited for my prince to come. I was running my hands through the water when I heard something crack behind me. I jumped up and turned around to see my prince smiling in front of me.

"Endymion!" I cried as I threw myself into his waiting arms.

"My precious Princess Serenity, what are you doing here? I thought you weren't coming back until tomorrow. Not that I don't want you here, I'm just surprised," he asked me as he wrapped his arms tightly around me.

He pulled back to see tears streaming down my cheeks.

"Serenity, what's wrong? What happened?!" he asked, wiping the tears away.

"Oh Endymion, it's horrible! My mother has finally decided that I should marry Prince Diamond! She has planned the wedding for tomorrow!" I cried as I buried my face in his broad chest.

"What? But I love you! You can't marry him!"

"I know. I love you too. I don't want to marry him, but mother is forcing me! What am I going to do?"

"Let's run away together!"

"What? But all the other planets know who I am and everyone on Earth knows you. We have nowhere to go."

"I didn't think of that. We can disguise you as a human, and you can come to the palace and I can pretend to not know you then fall in love with you, and then I can ask my parents for your hand in marriage."

"Oh I love you, Endymion! That's a wonderful idea!"

"I love you, too, Serenity!" he whispered, leaning down and placing his lips upon mine.

"What have we here?" an unfamiliar voice called out from behind us.

We jumped away from each other and I turned to see a female with bright flaming red hair.

"Lady Beryl, what are you doing in my private garden?" Endymion demanded.

"Excuse me for intruding, but your parents sent me out here to find you. They need to speak to you about something very important, but it would appear that you are very busy at the moment," she sneered as she glared at me.

I hugged onto Endymion as he stood protectively in front of me. While Beryl glared at me, her eyes zeroed in on my crescent moon mark. She gasped.

"Your majesty, step away from that woman! She is from the moon!" she yelled as she stepped forward.

Endymion stepped back with me stepping with him.

"Beryl, you stay away from her. I know perfectly well who she is. She is my true love!"

"What?! No, you are mine and only mine! Your parents just approved our betrothal!"

"What?!" he yelled. "I told them that I will not marry you!"

"We will see about that. Let's see what your parents say about that. No, wait, I think I will take action into my own hands!" she yelled as she called forth a black ball of energy and was about to throw it at me.

"Beryl, don't you dare hurt Serenity!" he cried.

"Serenity?! You're telling me that she is the Moon Princess? I won't allow that moon brat to steal you away from me!" she yelled as she threw the energy ball at me.

"No, Serenity!" Endymion yelled as he jumped in front of me.

I screamed as I saw the energy ball hit him in the chest. I ran forward and caught him as he fell to the earth.

Mina, help! I screamed in my mind.

Princess, we are coming. Hold on!

Suddenly I heard a pop and I spotted my guard: Mina, Raye, Amy, and Lita. I watched as palace guards, including Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite, and Kunzite, arrived and started to attack the women standing protectively around me and my fallen prince. The girls gasped as they saw their loves attack them, but they still called forth their powers and threw them into the swarm of guards. I looked down at the dying man in my arms. I stared into his eyes as tears ran down my cheeks.

"Endymion, please don't leave me. I can't live without you!" I cried as I laid him in my lap; his blood turning my dress red.

"I'm sorry, Serenity. Don't forget that I love you. I promise I will find you in the next life, and I will cherish you dearly. I love you, Princess. Good-bye, my lo-" suddenly his body went limp in my arms.

"No!" I screamed as I cried for my dead prince.

I heard a snarl and looked up to see Beryl glaring at my Senshi. My eyes widened with horror as she threw energy balls at every single one of them. I screamed as they fell to the ground; some dead, some very wounded.

"Kill the ones that are still alive," Beryl demanded.

My eyes met with Mina's, who was slowly trying to crawl towards me. I screamed her name as a Kunzite stepped forward and slammed his sword into her back, piercing her heart.

I'm sorry we failed you, princess…sister… I heard Mina's voice fade away from my mind.

Suddenly, I was surrounded by guards with their swords pointed towards me.

"Unhand our Prince, Princess Serenity of the Moon!" Beryl demanded as I saw the king and queen run towards us.

"What has happened here?!" the king demanded.

"Your majesty, you son was murdered by the Moon Princess; the woman that is holding him now!" Jadeite reported.

"What?!" the queen cried.

"He lies, your majesties," I started," they were not here when he was wounded. Yes, I am the Moon Princess, and I was in love with your son. All my life, I had wished to visit the beautiful planet in the sky, and finally one day, I snuck away from the palace and teleported here in this very garden. When I got here, I spotted the prince and fell instantly in love. I wanted a better look so I walked closer to hide behind a rose bush. I stepped on a branch, and he turned and saw me. I turned to run away, but he called out for me to stop, and I did. He asked for my name and I told him. At first, once he found out that I was the Moon Princess, he was cautious, but I told him that I meant no harm, and that I was just merely curious about Earth. He soon became my friend. Then one day he confessed his love for me, and I confessed my love to him. Then this morning, my mother announced to the kingdom that I was to marry Prince Diamond. So I ran away to come see Endymion. He and I were planning on disguising me as human so he could ask you for my hand, but then Beryl showed up. She thought I was a threat, and told Endymion to get away, but Beryl tried to kill me with an energy ball, but he jumped in front of me and the energy ball hit him in the chest. That's when my guards came to protect me, but your guards killed them when they were only trying to protect me.

"I didn't kill your son. I was in love with him, and I would never hurt him," I finish as more tears ran down my cheeks.

Then I looked to the generals.

"How could you kill your loves after you swore you would never harm them? They loved you and gave you their hearts, and you killed them!" I screamed at them.

The queen stepped forward and kneeled down beside me. She then wiped a tear away from my cheek. Then she stood and turned towards Beryl.

"Is this true, Beryl? Did you kill my son; your fiancé?!" she demanded.

"I-I didn't m-mean to!" she stuttered out.

"Guards, take her away!" the king demanded.

Two guards walked forwards and grabbed Beryl, but before they could carry her away, she disappeared into a puff of smoke.

"Find her and kill her!" the king demanded.

"The rest of you, lower your weapons," the queen whispered as she turned to me and as the guards stepped away.

Then suddenly I heard screaming. I looked to the generals who were holding their dead loves.

Then Zoisite turned to me.

"We're sorry, Princess. Beryl was controlling us. We could see everything we did, but we weren't able to break free from her spell," he cried as he stroked Amy's cheek.

"I'm sure that if they were still alive, they would forgive you."

Then I looked down into Endymion's face.

"I will be with you soon, my love," I whispered as I grabbed his sword and pointed it towards my chest.

"No, Princess Serenity!" I heard the queen and king yell as I plunged his sword into my heart.

And as I was dying, I wrapped my arms once again around my prince.

The last thing I heard as I died was my mother and Luna screaming my name.

Over 100,000 years later

3rd POV

"Push, Ilene, push!" Ken shouted.

A married couple of three years delivers their first born child: a 6 lb., 9in, blue eyed baby girl. As the mother holds her blue eyed angel, she whispers: "Serena, our little Serenity."