The Proposal

It was supposed to be a very simple trip. More like a vacation actually.

Earth was joining the Silver Alliance and its nearest neighbor (and the Alliance's ruling body) had personally extended an invitation to the planet for Queen Serenity's Silver Jubilee celebration. They were supposed to show up, drink with the rulers of the galaxy, dance with beautiful women from nine other planets, and represent their own planet by exuding dignity and respect at all times.

Instead, their crown prince had barely bowed to the Queen before practically stumbling halfway up the dais to an equally-mesmerized Princess Serenity. Years later, the happy couple will call that moment, "Love at first sight."

Everyone else will remember it as, "That time we almost destroyed the palace and nearly killed each other."

Endymion's foot had just grazed the first step when Venus, vigilant and quick as every, shrieked and sent out a beautiful gold chain made of barbed light aiming to wrap around his waist to hold him away from her charge...instead finding itself wrapped around Kunzite's sword as the general guarded his liege. As Endymion moved up to the next step, Nephrite sent out a solar flare to knock the leader of the senshi on her ass...right before Sailor Jupiter grabbed Venus' falling chain and hurled down a vicious lightning bolt through it, shocking Kunzite's sword with such insane ferocity that it sent him flying, taking Nephrite and part of the delegation from Mercury down with him.

As Jupiter charged for another bolt, this time to incapacitate Endymion, Jadeite fired a beam from his palm, catching Jupiter right between the eyes...on her tiara...as she was charging. Jadeite will later admit that he did not time that moment very well. The air crackled for a second before violent green streaks lighting flew off to every direction, striking the floors, the columns and a very unfortunate representative from Venus.

Amongst the terrified and scandalized screams of the court, Mars had summoned her bow, sending one flaming arrow into Jadeite's arm and another one aimed for Endymion's foot (Just to stop him, she swore) as it landed on the third step. Instead of lighting the Earth prince's foot on fire, however, it was stopped short by a shield of razor-sharp blossoms that Zoicite then redirected at the High Priestess of Mars' pretty face. Mercury intervened then, freezing the blossoms in midair before they could shred her sister-senshi's body, and then redirecting the shards at Endymion who, amazingly enough, remained handsomely oblivious as he continued to gravitate towards the equally clueless Serenity as though their closest protectors and friends weren't starting an interplanetary incident around them.

Jadeite practically sprinted to his Prince's side, cleanly swiping Mercury's projectiles in one swift slash of his sword. He turned to Endymion to try to talk some sense to his seemingly-hypnotized friend as Mars nicked another arrow, this time aiming for the Earthlings' heads, "Diplomacy be damned." She declared even as Mercury let out a strangled cry and moved to tug at her sister senshi's arm before one of her best friends actually killed a member of a dignitary party, let alone-

"Endy!" Jadeite yelled, "Snap out of-"

Mercury's tug had damaged Mars' aim and Jadeite actually yelped when the fiery arrow lodged into his ass, falling to the ground in pain.

"Gods you're amazing." Endymion blurted out to Serenity, stepping over Jadeite's writhing body, "Will you marry me?"

Princess Serenity of the Moon let out a breathy little laugh and said, to the horror of ten planets, "Of course I will!"

Needless to say, the throne room erupted into the greatest chaos that any of the planets had ever witnessed.

Well, except Chaos itself, of course.

...

But this did come pretty close.

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