A/N: I don't own Sailor Moon, so don't sue.
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The Queen of the Sun stole a glance at her daughter as she watched the girl with the second cousin of the Prince of Earth, and the future ruler of Atlantis. Arianna was the princess and her daughter was a lovely girl with eyes that shone a deep gold and hair that might as well have been spun from the precious metal. Something though, was bothering the queen, causing her to believe that they would never marry in this life, no matter how in love they were. The prince, Collin, was nicknamed Angel, and was now eighteen- years-old, while Arianna was sixteen. The Queen of the Moon, Queen Serenity had warned her of the curse set on her also sixteen-year-old daughter, Princess Serenity. Queen Nehelenia and Queen Beryl were a growing threat to the Silver Millenium. The two had, on the day of the moon princess' birth, said that they would attack on her sixteenth birthday.
It didn't help matters either that Earth was actually almost at war with the planets in the Silver Alliance. The Queen actually had been kept quite in the dark when it came to her daughter and Angel. Neither of the young lovers knew that they were being watched by her, and nor did they know that everyone in the palace was also keeping from them the fact that they knew about their relationship. That evening, they were to go to the Palace of the Moon, so that Arianna could do her part in being Sailor Sunrise and make sure that Serenity was safe, as the Princess' coming of age ball was also that night. The bell to come in for supper rang, and the queen smiled as Angel gave her daughter a hurried kiss and teleported back to Earth.
The queen was surprised when her daughter was already seated, and glanced at the cook. "She came running right in, what an appetite this girl has." She nodded and sat down. "Are you ready to go to the Moon Arianna?" The girl nodded, and ate hungrily. When she was done, Arianna ran out the door and up the stairs in a blur of gold and sparkles. "I wonder if Serenity has to put up with this?"
Not far off on the Moon, Princess Serenity was running around the Palace in her normal princess gown. "Serenity! Come back here, you can't just go running up to Endymoin, then everyone will know about what you've been doing behind your mother's back." Cried Princess Mina as she caught hold of the princess' train and stepped on it so that the blonde fell to the floor. "I suppose that you are right, but I actually was running to see Arianna, she's coming soon." Luna and Artemis groaned behind them; between the three blondes, she would have her hands full trying to keep them from pulling pranks, not to mention that cat, Apollo. "Lovely, another meatball head." Princess Raye appeared. Princess Arianna sported a different kind of hairstyle than Princess Serenity, as she wore her hair up in one ball in the back, but it had one braid around the meatball. It symbolized that she was below the family of the Moon, but above the family of Pluto, which wore their hair in one meatball without the braid. It astonished Raye and the rest of the princesses that the three families of women had so much hair. Not that the other girls didn't also have long hair, theirs just didn't trail across the floor when they let it down. "Will she be singing, I love it when she sings?" Raye also didn't like that Arianna had a much better voice than her, therefore the girls remained rivals, though not quite enemies, as they got along when they needed to, and they had very similar interests. "Mama said that she would be singing in honor of me. I don't know what though, maybe they had something new written for me or something."
Just then, a loud 'crack' was heard, and they ran to the entryway. Arianna and her mother, as well as their personal guards were standing there. "Arianna, honestly, were you trying to make us all deaf?"
"Well I didn't know that it'd sound like a bunch of shattering glass; it was your idea that I transport us here, and not you!" Queen Serenity moved into the entryway from the other side. "Welcome Selenity, come, I wish to show you the guest list; it is to be a surprise for the girls." Princess Serenity grinned and showed them a parchment labeled 'Guest List' from behind her back. "Oh, all right, then let's get to it." Arianna and Serenity exchanged glances, and suddenly they were running down the hallway with a long list trailing behind them. Princess Lita and Princess Amy looked at each other and shrugged, taking off and grabbing the other two princesses by the arms. Soon, the Outer Princesses would be there as well, and then the real fun would begin.
Arianna and Serenity gasped for breath outside the princesses' chambers, and then walked into the amazing entryway. It had little stars floating around in it, and had been made as a very small model of the universe. To the left of the room were Serenity's rooms, and then going out from her's in order of rank were Arianna's, Trista's, Mina's, Hotaru's, Raye's, Alex's, Lita's, Michelle's, and Amy's. On the door to each room was their respective astrological symbol. Arianna's was a circle with a dot in the center. "So let's have a look at that list, shall we?" She asked Serenity, who nodded and dropped down into a beanbag chair with a crescent moon on it. Arianna followed suit and sat in her chair, as did the other present scouts. "Let's see here, shall I read them?" The others nodded eagerly and she began. "Well first there is all of us and our mothers, then the outers, and then the rest of the people." She said, pulling Luna onto her lap while Apollo jumped onto Arianna's lap, and Artemis onto Mina's.
"Who are.?" Mina asked with very little restraint on her apprehension. "Prince Endymoin of Earth." Lita sighed. "You are so lucky." Serenity smiled and continued. "Prince Collin of the Terran Continent of Atlantis."
"Oh, dibs on him!" Mina said and sighed, but Arianna shook her head. "No, he's mine." Mina scrunched up her nose. "And why is that?" Asked the Princess of Love and Beauty. "I. Um, can I trust you guys? That was stupid to ask, of course I can! We're, the Prince and I, are involved." They all gasped. "What, it's not a sin!" Serenity said, coming to her defense. "You're right, on with that list of yours." Raye snapped, and they ignored her obvious anger. "Then there are Malachite, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Jedite." Immediately, the girls chose which of the generals were theirs to flirt with. "Mine's Malachite." Said Mina, and Amy blushed as she said; "I always thought that Zoicite was cute." They all giggled. "Nephrite for me, now there's tall dark and handsome!" Lita chimed in. "Jedite isn't so bad." They were all avoiding the fact that they would not even really be able to go near them since they were only there to have the Moon Kingdom prove that it could be hospitable.
Then, the Outers entered the room, and snatched the list away from the princess. "Hey!" They all hollered at Alex, though Arianna especially loudly. "The rest of these guys are too old for you five, let the older princesses handle them." Raye smirked and fire swirled around her pointer finger and shot out at the list, turning it to ashes immediately. "Why don't you guys all get comfortable in your rooms and change for the ball? It starts in. forty-five minutes! Shit!" Serenity swore, and they all gawked. "I'm sorry, but we have to hurry, just bring all of your things out here and we will do makeovers." Arianna ran into her room, which was sparkling with diamond-shaped lights and changed into her dress. It was velvet on the chest part with a corset-like false vest. The fabric went down to the floor and rippled like molten gold. The sleeves melded themselves to her arms with magic, as there had been no way to attach them since they wanted the look of separated sleeves. They were made out of sheer silk and were plastered to her arms for an inch until they flared outwards like two feathers. At her back, golden wings sprouted until they looked like butterfly wings with gold, silver, and red dancing around in them. She walked out, and was very happy when she noticed all of the looks of envy she was receiving. "When I got home from my sweet sixteen, mother had this new estate and ball gown waiting for me."
Soon, the lounge was littered with makeup, curlers, straighteners, and waxing strips. "Ow!" Arianna screeched as Princess Serenity tore a strip off of her leg. "It's the price of beauty!" Serenity glanced at her watch. "Let's go to the ball room." They quickly discarded everything into either the trash or their rooms. Then, they walked to the entryway and received looks of annoyance from Queen Serenity. "You girls have just barely made it. Open the doors!" She projected her voice across the room, and they followed her into the ballroom and sat on their thrones, which branched out in order of their planets from the center, where the Lunarian Princess' throne sat. Arianna was all the way on the end of the left side, so when she slipped off and joined Angel, not many people noticed. Princess Serenity soon left her throne and ended up dancing with Endymoin, which lead up to going to the garden, which lead up to making out on a bench not far from where Arianna and Angel were doing the same thing.
"Serenity, we have to stop for a moment." She sat up, and he suddenly looked serious. "I'm listening." He sighed, and she became worried. "Serenity, Beryl has attacked Earth, she did so a month ago, and not much later, Nehelenia attacked Elysian, which currently has no priest to protect it, though my second cousin had taken it upon himself to do so. I am afraid that your kingdom will be the next to be attacked." She gasped as she saw the night darken suddenly, and a low cackle could be heard from around them. "I have to warn my mother!" Endymoin nodded, and they ran inside to tell her. "Mother, Beryl is on her way here!" The palace began to shake savagely, and everyone screamed. "Please, everyone remain calm and please stay inside." The Sailor Soldiers were already transformed. "Sailor role call!" Queen Serenity called them off randomly. "Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Sunrise. Sailor Sunrise, I repeat, Sunrise? Where is that girl?" They had each nodded at their names. "You'll have to fight without her, go now Soldiers." Princess Serenity, Prince Endymoin, and the Terran Generals followed them.
Arianna sat bolt upright at the sound of laughter. "Angel, did you hear that?" He nodded, eyes wide, and they ran to the front of the palace, where she saw that the other Sailor Soldiers were already ready.
SUNRISE STAR POWER!
She transformed, and ran to them. "I'm here guys!" She then spotted her best friend Serenity and yelled. "Get inside Princess!" Then, a hideous voice rang out. "That will not be necessary, as all of you will die no matter where you hide." They turned to see Beryl. "Where is Nehelenia?" Sailor Sunrise called. "In the unguarded Elysian." She looked to Angel. "Guys, I'm going to Elysian." They all shouted at once. "No!"
"You can't!"
"We need you!" She shook her head. "No, if Elysian doesn't pull through, none of us will. Elysian governs our dreams, and without those, we will die." Sailor Sunrise took Angel's hand, and they disappeared, leaving behind the startled solar cat.
In Elysian, the once lush landscape was parched, and the ground was cracked and burnt. Arianna took her Sun Staff and pointed it at Nehelenia. "You have ruined the beautiful land of dreams, and I will not stand for it; I am the Pretty Suited Soldier Sailor Sunrise, and in the name of the Sun I will punish you!" She laughed and Sailor Sunrise dodged a blast of black energy, pulling Angel down with her. "Solar Flare!" Hastily, she shot the golden energy at Nehelenia, and the witch fell backwards. More dark energy surrounded them, and she planted her staff in the ground. "Angel, this might knock me out, it might even kill me, but it might kill you too if you're too close, so run as fast an as far as you can." He nodded solemnly and sprinted away from her. "Nuclear Fusion!"
Nothing happened at first, but then a ball of golden light grew out of the top and went around her. The walls of it then burst into flame, and grew outward over the plains until there was nothing left in the core of the Earth besides herself. "Angel." She whispered, knowing that she had killed him with her attack. She de-transformed and slumped to the ground. The absence of her friends on the moon was also apparent to her, and she looked up to see Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of Time standing before her. "Trista, what news have you of the others?" She shook her head, and Arianna sobbed into her hands. "They're all dead." Sailor Pluto sat down next to her.
"Arianna, even if they died, you saved us all, you defended Elysian when it needed defending. Collin will be reborn like the others in a thousand years, and it won't seem so long since a day here is two hundred years on Earth. Atlantis has sunken to the bottom of the ocean, but someday, you will bring it back, and it will be the same as it was a few months ago, before the attack of Beryl. Now you have to serve as protector to this place until an heir is born, and it might take awhile, but you can do it. You just have to start with rebuilding the shrine and creating new shrine maidens. Then, you must make Elysian as lush and beautiful as it was when the last priest still resided here." Arianna nodded, and put up her hand. Golden light flowed from it, and an enormous temple appeared, along with a lovely lake, and flowers and trees of all sorts. Some shrine maidens sat in the gardens and some were attending a large amount of Pegasi. "Your day draws to a close, farewell Arianna, we shall meet again, and I know this, because I have come from three thousand years into the future." Arianna smiled just a little, and proceeded to the shrine, where she knew a warm bed waited for her.
The Queen of the Sun stole a glance at her daughter as she watched the girl with the second cousin of the Prince of Earth, and the future ruler of Atlantis. Arianna was the princess and her daughter was a lovely girl with eyes that shone a deep gold and hair that might as well have been spun from the precious metal. Something though, was bothering the queen, causing her to believe that they would never marry in this life, no matter how in love they were. The prince, Collin, was nicknamed Angel, and was now eighteen- years-old, while Arianna was sixteen. The Queen of the Moon, Queen Serenity had warned her of the curse set on her also sixteen-year-old daughter, Princess Serenity. Queen Nehelenia and Queen Beryl were a growing threat to the Silver Millenium. The two had, on the day of the moon princess' birth, said that they would attack on her sixteenth birthday.
It didn't help matters either that Earth was actually almost at war with the planets in the Silver Alliance. The Queen actually had been kept quite in the dark when it came to her daughter and Angel. Neither of the young lovers knew that they were being watched by her, and nor did they know that everyone in the palace was also keeping from them the fact that they knew about their relationship. That evening, they were to go to the Palace of the Moon, so that Arianna could do her part in being Sailor Sunrise and make sure that Serenity was safe, as the Princess' coming of age ball was also that night. The bell to come in for supper rang, and the queen smiled as Angel gave her daughter a hurried kiss and teleported back to Earth.
The queen was surprised when her daughter was already seated, and glanced at the cook. "She came running right in, what an appetite this girl has." She nodded and sat down. "Are you ready to go to the Moon Arianna?" The girl nodded, and ate hungrily. When she was done, Arianna ran out the door and up the stairs in a blur of gold and sparkles. "I wonder if Serenity has to put up with this?"
Not far off on the Moon, Princess Serenity was running around the Palace in her normal princess gown. "Serenity! Come back here, you can't just go running up to Endymoin, then everyone will know about what you've been doing behind your mother's back." Cried Princess Mina as she caught hold of the princess' train and stepped on it so that the blonde fell to the floor. "I suppose that you are right, but I actually was running to see Arianna, she's coming soon." Luna and Artemis groaned behind them; between the three blondes, she would have her hands full trying to keep them from pulling pranks, not to mention that cat, Apollo. "Lovely, another meatball head." Princess Raye appeared. Princess Arianna sported a different kind of hairstyle than Princess Serenity, as she wore her hair up in one ball in the back, but it had one braid around the meatball. It symbolized that she was below the family of the Moon, but above the family of Pluto, which wore their hair in one meatball without the braid. It astonished Raye and the rest of the princesses that the three families of women had so much hair. Not that the other girls didn't also have long hair, theirs just didn't trail across the floor when they let it down. "Will she be singing, I love it when she sings?" Raye also didn't like that Arianna had a much better voice than her, therefore the girls remained rivals, though not quite enemies, as they got along when they needed to, and they had very similar interests. "Mama said that she would be singing in honor of me. I don't know what though, maybe they had something new written for me or something."
Just then, a loud 'crack' was heard, and they ran to the entryway. Arianna and her mother, as well as their personal guards were standing there. "Arianna, honestly, were you trying to make us all deaf?"
"Well I didn't know that it'd sound like a bunch of shattering glass; it was your idea that I transport us here, and not you!" Queen Serenity moved into the entryway from the other side. "Welcome Selenity, come, I wish to show you the guest list; it is to be a surprise for the girls." Princess Serenity grinned and showed them a parchment labeled 'Guest List' from behind her back. "Oh, all right, then let's get to it." Arianna and Serenity exchanged glances, and suddenly they were running down the hallway with a long list trailing behind them. Princess Lita and Princess Amy looked at each other and shrugged, taking off and grabbing the other two princesses by the arms. Soon, the Outer Princesses would be there as well, and then the real fun would begin.
Arianna and Serenity gasped for breath outside the princesses' chambers, and then walked into the amazing entryway. It had little stars floating around in it, and had been made as a very small model of the universe. To the left of the room were Serenity's rooms, and then going out from her's in order of rank were Arianna's, Trista's, Mina's, Hotaru's, Raye's, Alex's, Lita's, Michelle's, and Amy's. On the door to each room was their respective astrological symbol. Arianna's was a circle with a dot in the center. "So let's have a look at that list, shall we?" She asked Serenity, who nodded and dropped down into a beanbag chair with a crescent moon on it. Arianna followed suit and sat in her chair, as did the other present scouts. "Let's see here, shall I read them?" The others nodded eagerly and she began. "Well first there is all of us and our mothers, then the outers, and then the rest of the people." She said, pulling Luna onto her lap while Apollo jumped onto Arianna's lap, and Artemis onto Mina's.
"Who are.?" Mina asked with very little restraint on her apprehension. "Prince Endymoin of Earth." Lita sighed. "You are so lucky." Serenity smiled and continued. "Prince Collin of the Terran Continent of Atlantis."
"Oh, dibs on him!" Mina said and sighed, but Arianna shook her head. "No, he's mine." Mina scrunched up her nose. "And why is that?" Asked the Princess of Love and Beauty. "I. Um, can I trust you guys? That was stupid to ask, of course I can! We're, the Prince and I, are involved." They all gasped. "What, it's not a sin!" Serenity said, coming to her defense. "You're right, on with that list of yours." Raye snapped, and they ignored her obvious anger. "Then there are Malachite, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Jedite." Immediately, the girls chose which of the generals were theirs to flirt with. "Mine's Malachite." Said Mina, and Amy blushed as she said; "I always thought that Zoicite was cute." They all giggled. "Nephrite for me, now there's tall dark and handsome!" Lita chimed in. "Jedite isn't so bad." They were all avoiding the fact that they would not even really be able to go near them since they were only there to have the Moon Kingdom prove that it could be hospitable.
Then, the Outers entered the room, and snatched the list away from the princess. "Hey!" They all hollered at Alex, though Arianna especially loudly. "The rest of these guys are too old for you five, let the older princesses handle them." Raye smirked and fire swirled around her pointer finger and shot out at the list, turning it to ashes immediately. "Why don't you guys all get comfortable in your rooms and change for the ball? It starts in. forty-five minutes! Shit!" Serenity swore, and they all gawked. "I'm sorry, but we have to hurry, just bring all of your things out here and we will do makeovers." Arianna ran into her room, which was sparkling with diamond-shaped lights and changed into her dress. It was velvet on the chest part with a corset-like false vest. The fabric went down to the floor and rippled like molten gold. The sleeves melded themselves to her arms with magic, as there had been no way to attach them since they wanted the look of separated sleeves. They were made out of sheer silk and were plastered to her arms for an inch until they flared outwards like two feathers. At her back, golden wings sprouted until they looked like butterfly wings with gold, silver, and red dancing around in them. She walked out, and was very happy when she noticed all of the looks of envy she was receiving. "When I got home from my sweet sixteen, mother had this new estate and ball gown waiting for me."
Soon, the lounge was littered with makeup, curlers, straighteners, and waxing strips. "Ow!" Arianna screeched as Princess Serenity tore a strip off of her leg. "It's the price of beauty!" Serenity glanced at her watch. "Let's go to the ball room." They quickly discarded everything into either the trash or their rooms. Then, they walked to the entryway and received looks of annoyance from Queen Serenity. "You girls have just barely made it. Open the doors!" She projected her voice across the room, and they followed her into the ballroom and sat on their thrones, which branched out in order of their planets from the center, where the Lunarian Princess' throne sat. Arianna was all the way on the end of the left side, so when she slipped off and joined Angel, not many people noticed. Princess Serenity soon left her throne and ended up dancing with Endymoin, which lead up to going to the garden, which lead up to making out on a bench not far from where Arianna and Angel were doing the same thing.
"Serenity, we have to stop for a moment." She sat up, and he suddenly looked serious. "I'm listening." He sighed, and she became worried. "Serenity, Beryl has attacked Earth, she did so a month ago, and not much later, Nehelenia attacked Elysian, which currently has no priest to protect it, though my second cousin had taken it upon himself to do so. I am afraid that your kingdom will be the next to be attacked." She gasped as she saw the night darken suddenly, and a low cackle could be heard from around them. "I have to warn my mother!" Endymoin nodded, and they ran inside to tell her. "Mother, Beryl is on her way here!" The palace began to shake savagely, and everyone screamed. "Please, everyone remain calm and please stay inside." The Sailor Soldiers were already transformed. "Sailor role call!" Queen Serenity called them off randomly. "Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Sunrise. Sailor Sunrise, I repeat, Sunrise? Where is that girl?" They had each nodded at their names. "You'll have to fight without her, go now Soldiers." Princess Serenity, Prince Endymoin, and the Terran Generals followed them.
Arianna sat bolt upright at the sound of laughter. "Angel, did you hear that?" He nodded, eyes wide, and they ran to the front of the palace, where she saw that the other Sailor Soldiers were already ready.
SUNRISE STAR POWER!
She transformed, and ran to them. "I'm here guys!" She then spotted her best friend Serenity and yelled. "Get inside Princess!" Then, a hideous voice rang out. "That will not be necessary, as all of you will die no matter where you hide." They turned to see Beryl. "Where is Nehelenia?" Sailor Sunrise called. "In the unguarded Elysian." She looked to Angel. "Guys, I'm going to Elysian." They all shouted at once. "No!"
"You can't!"
"We need you!" She shook her head. "No, if Elysian doesn't pull through, none of us will. Elysian governs our dreams, and without those, we will die." Sailor Sunrise took Angel's hand, and they disappeared, leaving behind the startled solar cat.
In Elysian, the once lush landscape was parched, and the ground was cracked and burnt. Arianna took her Sun Staff and pointed it at Nehelenia. "You have ruined the beautiful land of dreams, and I will not stand for it; I am the Pretty Suited Soldier Sailor Sunrise, and in the name of the Sun I will punish you!" She laughed and Sailor Sunrise dodged a blast of black energy, pulling Angel down with her. "Solar Flare!" Hastily, she shot the golden energy at Nehelenia, and the witch fell backwards. More dark energy surrounded them, and she planted her staff in the ground. "Angel, this might knock me out, it might even kill me, but it might kill you too if you're too close, so run as fast an as far as you can." He nodded solemnly and sprinted away from her. "Nuclear Fusion!"
Nothing happened at first, but then a ball of golden light grew out of the top and went around her. The walls of it then burst into flame, and grew outward over the plains until there was nothing left in the core of the Earth besides herself. "Angel." She whispered, knowing that she had killed him with her attack. She de-transformed and slumped to the ground. The absence of her friends on the moon was also apparent to her, and she looked up to see Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of Time standing before her. "Trista, what news have you of the others?" She shook her head, and Arianna sobbed into her hands. "They're all dead." Sailor Pluto sat down next to her.
"Arianna, even if they died, you saved us all, you defended Elysian when it needed defending. Collin will be reborn like the others in a thousand years, and it won't seem so long since a day here is two hundred years on Earth. Atlantis has sunken to the bottom of the ocean, but someday, you will bring it back, and it will be the same as it was a few months ago, before the attack of Beryl. Now you have to serve as protector to this place until an heir is born, and it might take awhile, but you can do it. You just have to start with rebuilding the shrine and creating new shrine maidens. Then, you must make Elysian as lush and beautiful as it was when the last priest still resided here." Arianna nodded, and put up her hand. Golden light flowed from it, and an enormous temple appeared, along with a lovely lake, and flowers and trees of all sorts. Some shrine maidens sat in the gardens and some were attending a large amount of Pegasi. "Your day draws to a close, farewell Arianna, we shall meet again, and I know this, because I have come from three thousand years into the future." Arianna smiled just a little, and proceeded to the shrine, where she knew a warm bed waited for her.