Author's Note: Hey everyone, I started this story ages ago now and have been wanted to update and complete it for a while now and finally, I'm doing it. I'm sorry for the all the waiting that I have made people do and hopefully I'll salvage it as best I can. I have gone through half of the chapters and rewritten them and I'm going to hopefully finish the story.

Story Description: This story is the first in a trilogy known as 'The Voyages of a Princess,' as it is basically my interpretation of the Silver Millennium period and what Serenity/Serena/Usagi goes through. This is the first and is known as 'One Moonlit Night,' and portray's Princess Serenity's life on the Moon Kingdom before she meets Endymion/Darien/Mamoru. Endymion/Darien/Mamoru is apart of the trilogy but he does not appear until the second story.

Anyway, hopefully you'll all enjoy and please review to let me know what you think.

Thanks and with love, daisyboo xx

Summary: Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom has a life of responsiblity and obligation and must wed someone who she does not know but with the love of another and the events that follow, can she survive her fate or will she eventually crumble and fall?

Disclaimer: I do not own sailor moon or any of the characters, only the ones created by my own imagination.

Chapter One

Today was the day and it had finally come. The day in which the young princess had been destined to achieve. The day in which she had been born for and the day that would make her mother more proud of her than in an entire lifetime. However, the young princess did not want this day to ever come. She did want peace and freedom for her kingdom and she knew that in order to achieve that, she would need to give her life to her people. She knew the duties that came with her position and the obligation that she had to look after her people. Their best interest was what the princess strived for but at times she resented the obligation that come with her position. The princess however did not hold it against them or her mother as it was not their fault that she had been chosen to be their princess. But the obligation and duties that she had weighed heavily upon her heart and sometimes they all became too much for her. She would cry sometimes at the loss of a life that she knew she would never know. The princess had always wanted to have the deepest love that was portrayed in fairy tales and that kind of love was one thing that the young princess valued greatly. Love was the one thing that the princess wanted more than anything and she knew that it would forever be just beyond her reach. Also, if today ever happened, she knew that her dream of finding a partner who loved her for herself and not for her kingdom was growing smaller by the second. She wanted a pairing that was equal and bound by faithfulness and love. To be full of happiness and laughter with romance high on the agenda. But the young princess would never get anything like that and she was destined to her life of responsibility and obligation.

However, the mother of the princess was the person who had made this decision for her daughter and the consequences of this decision was that the princess would lose her freedom and her right to choose. Queen Serenity was the princess' mother and she was the ruler of the amazing kingdom of the Moon. Queen Serenity was the most magnificent ruler to ever grace the Solar System and she was one of the most beautiful women too. She was tall and slim with impeccable style and co-ordination and had the sweetest personality ever. Her once golden hair that was now almost silver was always tightly styled into the national style of her kingdom and her grey-blue eyes always sparkled like diamonds. She was a magnificent ruler and everyone within her kingdom and throughout the universe greatly admired and respected her. The main reason for the universal respect and admiration was that this queen had been the founding person to establish the vital organisation known as the Silver Millennium. The Silver Millennium was an organisation that incorporated all the planets of the Solar System as members and with this organisation came the peace that the Solar System desperately needed. Before the founding of this treaty, the Solar System had constantly been in conflict with each other and Queen Serenity had established a relative peace between all the different nations. The planets of the Solar System were deeply indebted to the lunar queen and to honour the agreement each nation gave to the alliance their daughters to protect and honour it. All daughters of the Silver Millennium had special powers that allowed them to transform into warriors and protect their alliance. However, the warriors were divided into two teams with the first team destined to protect Queen Serenity's daughter while the other, protected the Solar System on the furthest reach of their territory. Queen Serenity had been deeply touched at how each planet had shown their commitment to the alliance by donating their most precious treasures and Serenity too agreed to donate her most precious treasure to the cause. Her most precious treasure was her only daughter and heiress to everything that she owned, Princess Serenity and the agreement made was that once Serenity reached a certain age, a suitor would be selected and they would wed. The agreement also entailed that the suitor chosen would be within the interest of the alliance, their kingdom and the people but not Serenity.

While the conflicts had been raging however, Queen Serenity had used the powers of her Imperium Silver Crystal to banish all evil from the Solar System and peace had been granted to all. All the nations approved of Queen Serenity's actions and for the most part, the Silver Millennium had been successful with no amount of evil being found anywhere. However, in the midst of all the peace, nine out of the ten kingdoms had fully accepted the Silver Millennium, with the kingdom of Earth being the only exception. Earth had not decided to accept the Silver Millennium because they feared that the Moon Kingdom was trying to take control of the entire universe and with this rejection, Earth began to get shunned by its neighbours, which led the Earth to becoming the outsider and then more so, the enemy. The Moon Kingdom and Earth held a bitter hostility between them from that day on, which was fuelled by the lies that people fed to the kingdoms about each other. Earth thought that the Moon Kingdom was a strong controlling dictatorship that ruled with fear and apprehension, when in fact; the Moon was the complete opposite with Queen Serenity's gentle ways. While, the Moon thought that the Earth's people were arrogant and selfish for refusing the offer of the Silver Millennium and that idea too was ridiculous as the Earth people or Terrans were friendly and pleasant. However, as the Silver Millennium began to take affect, the trade and hospitality between the nine members of the alliance greatly rose and the Earth had bitterly missed out on the benefits of being apart of it. So, as it happens, the Moon Kingdom was the centre of the Silver Millennium realm but all members were as equal as each other with Queen Serenity leading the cause. And, as the years wore on, the hostility between Earth and the Moon Kingdom intensified and contact between Terrans and Lunarians was forbidden by both Queen Serenity and the King and Queen of the Earth.

However, Queen Serenity's daughter who was the official princess of the cause and future ruler of both the Moon kingdom and Silver Millennium was one of the most spectacular treasures of the Universe and many ventured to the planet in the hopes of maybe just glimpsing her ethereal beauty. She was beautiful, magical and breathtaking and her name was Princess Serenity or Serena to her closest friends. Serena had been conceived during her parents' short marriage that only lasted for six months as Serena's father had been killed by the evil that had surrounded the Solar System, which could possibly have been Serenity's reason for founding the Silver Millennium. However, Serena had not been alone as Serenity and Zach, who was Serenity's husband and Serena's father, had another child. They had a son who they named James and he was their first child. James had been conceived during Serenity and Zach's long engagement and born out of wedlock. James' birth had been carried out this way as Serenity and Zach met and fell in love on their very first meeting and after a few months of being together, had reached the most physical step of their relationship. However, conflict and quarrels separated the young couple before they could elope and Serenity was sent back to the Moon. The Lunarians had been deeply against their relationship as they thought that Zach's who had been a citizen of Earth, a Terran, had not been good enough for their ethereal ruler but Serenity had defied the odds and stayed with him nevertheless. However, once she was back, her pregnancy was revealed and even though Serenity was ridiculed deeply, James was born. Serenity loved her son deeply and after eighteen months of being apart, Zach was allowed to join Serenity on the Moon and they married instantly in a small intimate ceremony. Zach and Serenity were thrilled that they were finally allowed to be together but destiny was against them and after only six months of being together, Zach was killed.

Serenity was distraught and in her grievance, she devoted herself to her son. He was the light of her life and after a month of Zach being gone, she discovered that she pregnant for a second time. Serenity was thrilled at the discovery of her second child and after nine months, Serenity gave birth to a daughter who she named after herself but nicknamed Serena. Serena was the lift that James and Serenity needed but tragically after seventeen years of living, James breathed his last breath. Serena had been fourteen at the time of her brother's death and was just as distraught as her mother. James had idolised his sister and she him but James had violently been taken from Serenity and Serena. In their grief, Serenity and Serena came together and grew closer as they mourned for their loss but Serenity knew that she now must make assurances for her kingdom. Serenity had raised her daughter as a lady and as a ruler and one day she would marry a noble prince and the Moon dynasty would continue. This wish that Serenity had for her daughter was about to come true, as she had arranged the engagement of her daughter to the Prince of Neptune, Diamond. Diamond was the second son of King Bowen and Queen Elena and Serenity had met with Bowen and Elena and they had arranged the match. They had signed and agreed and both Serenity and Diamond's parents believed that they had created the perfect match. However, Serenity had decided not to tell her daughter just yet as she knew that Serena would not take the news lightly as she could have a temper on her at times. But Diamond was due to arrive at the Moon Crystal Palace in just three days time and Serenity decided that now was the time to break the news to her daughter.

"I will not do it Mother," came the raised voice of the Moon Princess as Serenity broke the news of her betrothal to her daughter.

"Serena, please," begged the lunar queen as she pleaded with her daughter.

"I will not do it Mother," Serena argued again, "a betrothal and without discussing it with me. Why?"

"It's for your own good, Darling. I have met Diamond and he is an honourable man."

"Yes, but I have not Mother. I will not marry a stranger," Serena said defiantly.

"Serena, Darling," the queen said as she tried to make her daughter see sense, "Diamond is worthy of your hand and a lot of marriages are created in the way in which you are about to wed him."

"Yes but, Mother, not all marriages are created this way. Your marriage to my father was not. You both had the choice to marry whom you wanted, who you loved and I want to be able to have the same freedom. I want love, free love not forced," Serena explained adamantly to her mother as tears began to emerge from her sparkling blue eyes.

"Sweetheart," the queen said tenderly as she held her arms out to her daughter, "do you not trust my judgement?"

"Of course Mother," Serena sobbed as she walked into her mother's embrace.

"Diamond is a worthy man, Serena and he will care for you and protect you, when I no longer can."

Serena began to sob into her mother's slender arms.

"I know that this is not your idea for a basis of marriage, Serena, but this union will furthermore enhance our alliance with the Silver Millennium and as its princess it is your duty and obligation to your people and future kingdom to do this."

Serena stared horrified at her mother with her large blue eyes blazing.

"I'm sorry Darling, but the decision is final and Diamond will be arriving in three days."

Serena gave her mother one last look and then she quickly exited the room in which her and her mother had had their heated discussion.

"I'm sorry Sweetheart," Queen Serenity whispered as she watched her daughter exit the room, "I really and truly am sorry."