Disclaimer: All characters belong to Nako Takeuchi, I am just a fan who creates the crazy situations and stories of this fanfiction. Comment are welcome and greatly appreciated so that I may become a better writer.
Queen Serenity sat alone in her throne room. The silence inside the room was defining and unnerving but she needed time to think. Her daughter would be turning thirteen at the end of the month and she had still not told Princess Serenity why this birthday would be more important than the any other birthday she has had or will have, despite Princess Serenity's constant questioning. It was on this birthday that Princess Serenity would find out about her senshi, her guardians.
It had been necessary when the Princess was born for the Queen to set up a special guard detail for her daughter in addition to the usual palace guards. Queen Serenity feared for her beloved daughter and although nothing had ever happened before, it did not stop her from wanting to do everything in her power to protect the Princess. She had hoped that she would never need to call upon that special guard but the powers of the evil Queen Metalia were growing stronger. Queen Serenity found it necessary to now call her daughter's guards to the Moon Kingdom.
The planetary princesses would be arriving later this month and the Queen had not yet prepared her young daughter for the news that she would be receiving. It would be a tiring few days, from preparing for Princess Serenity's ball to informing the young planetary princesses of their destiny. There was no telling how any of the princesses would react, including her daughter. To uproot and change their lives so dramatically... The Queen would praise them highly if they were able to accept their destiny with dignity and grace. It was more than Queen Serenity could ever ask of someone so young.
There is no time like the present, Queen Serenity thought as she walked through the white marble doors that closed off her throne room to the rest of the castle. The clicking of the Queen's steps echoed off the marble floors and walls. It made sneaking up on her daughter impossible. When the Queen walked into Princess Serenity's bedroom she found the young Princess sitting at her window seat staring out towards the blackened sky and towards Earth. She seemed so unhappy and it hurt the Queen to know that there was nothing she could do.
Without turning around to find out who had entered her rooms, for only The Queen and the maids were allowed on the same wings as the bedchambers, Princess Serenity began to speak, it seemed to herself rather than to her mother.
"Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you had not be born as royalty? I often have, especially on nights like this. When the sky is so clear and I can see the bright blues of the Earth's oceans and vivid greens of the land. I want to know what it is like to feel the beach sand and the ocean's breeze. Earth is so different, so alien from my own Lunarian home. It is different but it is a difference that I would like to experience for myself rather than be content with reading about it in a book or hearing about it from the many merchants that travel between Earth and the Moon."
The sadness was so lucid in the princesses voice that it nearly brought her mother to tears.
"Serenity, my darling daughter, what has you feeling this way? Is it that you are growing restless in the castle all day?"
"There is that. But there is also something else. I know it sounds strange but there is something on Earth that calls to me. I can feel it but yet I know not what it is." Confusion clouded the young girls eyes.
"Serenity, I can not tell you what it is you seek. I can only hope that you will find it one day. However I did come with some important news. There are four young princesses coming to court at the end of the month. They are about your age." The Queen was deliberately trying to avoid telling her daughter the purpose of their visit but she knew all to well that Serenity would ask. Sure as the Queen knew, the Princess asked.
"Serenity, dear, please promise to hear me out. Times have changed since I was your age. Evil forces are growing stronger yet. You have heard of the Outer Senshi, comprising of the Sailors Uranus, Neptune and Pluto?"
"Of course mother, they defend the solar system from external forces. Just recently the princesses of their respected planets completed their training and became the new senshi for their planet. Why do you ask?"
"The young princesses I have invited to court, and to attend the ball on behalf of your birthday, are the princesses of Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. My intentions are to ask that they become the senshi of their planets."
"Oh, that would be a great hon-"
Before Princess Serenity could finish her sentence the Queen added five words that stopped the young girl in mid word.
"And Guardian Senshi to you"
"Mother, you cannot. I cannot feel responsible for the lives of other princesses. Please, you cannot ask that of them." Princess Serenity said with pleading eyes on the verge of tears. She knew her mother was only thinking of her daughter's safety but she could not let her mother place her well being above that of others.
"Serenity, my darling, I will not force them to make that decision. If they accept they will begin training. If not then they are free to go home and return to their normal lives. I will make no decision when it comes to placing your well being before others."
"Thank you mother for your consideration, both of my well being and that of the princesses decisions. I feel tired. If you will excuse me I think I will retire to bed. Good night mother" Princess Serenity said while walking towards her bed.
The Queen took the hint and left her daughter's room, closing the enormous white marble doors. Once the doors were closed and the Princess had locked them from the inside, the Queen turned to leave and retire to her own chambers. Just as she had stepped away from the doors she could here her daughter inside crying. The Queen understood why her daughter was shedding the tears. Four young girls, no older than the Princess herself, would be in charge of defending Serenity's life. A single tear escaped from the Queen's eye as she walked down the long white hallway to where her own chambers were located.