Hello, any people who may read this, I'm The Universal Storyteller. This particular story will be the first of many primarily Silver Millennium-related "Sailor Moon" stories from me, I hope, here on fanfiction dot net. I'll accept constructive criticisms, of course. But I won't accept any flames, especially with strong language with them. So if you happen to use strong language with me, your reviews will be ignored. Always, and completely, as a matter of fact. With this story of mine here, at least, this will be your only warning, if at all possible. And please don't bother ever asking me for any transgender, male-male, female-female, or hermaphroditic kinds of romantic, or so-called romantic, relationships relating to the applicable characters for this or any other stories of mine here on fanfiction dot net. For such requests from my readers here will be always and completely ignored as well. For I don't ever personally believe in them for protagonists in my stories, at all.
People, this is my first primarily Silver Millennium Era-set Sailor Moon fan fiction series. This story and others in the series will have its chapter divisions marked by location and date inserts like the one that you will find below this introduction section, unless I decide otherwise. I have been working on stories in its series for at least a few years now. There will be plenty of places that the Scouts and their relatives will go in this series. Some of them, you might not even expect until you hear of them, in fact. I hope that you'll enjoy all the stories that are in this story's story series, of course. For the most part, if not entirely, the actual stories, in single-file form, are about the length of a typical novel, at least when I've been using half-inch margins all the way around, I think.
This first story will at least set the scene, if not also largely introduce the main villains that the Scouts will have to face in battle, in fact. And it will most likely provide at least one possible back story for at least a few of the characters, as well. Like possibly even Queen Serenity, for example. But I better not say too much more about the story here, I think, or I might ruin it here for you. Please feel free to read, review, and enjoy this story here, if at all possible, of course.
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The
Beginning of It All
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
A Garden In The Crystal Palace
Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon
June 30, 977
It was a day like none before for a certain Princess on the Moon. For this would be the day when she'd first knowingly meet other Princesses from elsewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy's Sol system in her life. It was her first birthday. And she'd been born elsewhere in the Crystal Palace to her parents on the night of June 30, 976. She'd been born about two hours before local midnight in the Moon City local area on the Moon, just as the Sun had set, the Earth had risen, and a comet called "Serena" had crossed the lunar sky above the Crystal Palace in Moon City. Moon City was, in fact, the capital city of the Moon Kingdom.
Since her own birth, she'd already knowingly met a good number of people in her life. Besides her parents, of course, for all the obvious reasons. She'd been born to the Moon Kingdom's Queen Serenity and Prince Daniel, while her father Prince Daniel had otherwise been occupied with a certain somewhat unpleasant situation elsewhere on the Moon. She was born during his absence. For he'd been called away from Moon City when he'd learned that his mother Princess Ruth had suffered a heart attack in one of the various Moon Kingdom's palaces on the Moon. During his absence, Serena had been born to her parents. And not long after she had, Princess Ruth had herself fallen asleep in the aforementioned palace that she'd suffered her heart attack in. Princess Ruth had done that at least partly due to the complications that had resulted from that very heart attack, if not completely due to them, not long after her granddaughter Serena's birth.
Serena Moon had no siblings, at least as of the current time. For she was currently the only child of her parents, if she'd not always be, in her life. Her full name was Serena Ruth Teresa Hope Rose Moon. For she'd been given four middle names during her christening ceremony in a certain Moon City-area cathedral. She was the Moon Kingdom's Moon Princess, due to her current rank in the Moon Kingdom as her mother's chosen successor.
It was now early in the afternoon of June 30, 977. And she was about to receive an unexpected visit from someone she'd not seen for at least five or six Terran months, if not longer. This visitor of hers would be bringing four other people with him. And she'd learn that she'd be growing up with all of them on the Moon in the Moon Kingdom for as long as it was possible for them to grow up with each other there.
This unexpected visitor of hers was a teenaged Prince from the Earth's nation of Japan, a Prince who was named Darien. And he'd bring four Princesses from elsewhere in the Moon Kingdom to meet knowingly with her for the first time in each of their lives. These four Princesses that he'd bring with him then to meet Serena would be from the planets of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter.
In the meantime, she was playing in a garden on the grounds of the Crystal Palace, which was one of the main Moon Kingdom palaces in the Moon City local area on the Moon. Her mother Queen Serenity was otherwise occupied with certain unavoidable Moon Kingdom-related business at the current time. But she was still being watched in the garden by at least three or four of her mother's maidservants, for the obvious reasons. All those maidservants were all within about twenty or so feet of her, at all times, of course, as she played in that garden somewhere on the Crystal Palace's grounds.
As Princess Serena was playing in a sandbox in that garden, she was soon joined in the garden by the aforementioned Terran Prince and his four companions, when they came up behind her. As they neared her, this Prince from Earth began singing softly. But not so softly that she couldn't hear him do so.
As she began to hear him singing in the garden, she thought, "It can't be him. I wasn't expecting him to show up here on the Moon for quite some time yet. Though I really hoped that he'd be here in time for my birthday." She then looked over her left shoulder. And she tried to find him with her eyes. It took her a few seconds, at least, to do so. And then she spotted him coming out from behind a large rock elsewhere in the garden.
When she saw him, she stood up, and began jumping up and down a bit. She did this for a few seconds, at least. And then she left the sandbox to run to him. She soon yelled, "Prince Darien, you're back now! Whee!"
"Yes, I'm back, Princess Serena. And I've brought some people with me this time. You might have seen them before, Princess Serena. But then again, you might not have."
"People for me, the Moon Princess?"
"Yes and no, Serena."
"I don't understand, Prince Darien."
"They're not from the Moon. But you'll evidently be seeing much of them for a good long time, God willing, of course, Serena."
"Huh?"
"Their parents have sent them here to the Moon for at least the next few Terran years. For their parents think that they should spend most, if not all, of their childhoods with other people who aren't from their respective planets or moons in the Moon Kingdom."
"Oh? Does that mean that I have to leave the Moon too, then, Darien?"
"No, Serena, it doesn't mean that. For your mother Queen Serenity needs you here with her. These other children with me will apparently be growing up with you. And they'll be your royal Court, I believe, Princess Serena."
"Does Dad know this?"
"Yes, Princess Serena, Prince Daniel's well aware of this being the case. For not more than a day or two ago, from what I've learned from Queen Serenity in the meantime, your mother told him about this being the case."
"Pick me up, please, Darien," Serena then said. So Darien did so. "How are you of late, Darien?"
"Just fine, Princess Serena. These girls here are the Princesses of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter."
"Oh, is that so here?"
"Yes, Serena. Would you like me to introduce them to you now?"
"Sure. But let's go somewhere where it's not so hot for a while, first."
"Okay, I suppose we can do that. Just let me tell your watchers where we'll be for a while, first, though, for all the obvious reasons."
"Agreed." Darien then beckoned to Serena's current watchers. And he indicated that they should come to where he was talking to Serena for a moment. Her watchers then did so. And he promptly told them that he'd be borrowing Serena for at least a little while, for the obvious reasons.
That said, he then placed Serena on his shoulders. While the other four Princesses with him waited for him to lead them elsewhere on the Crystal Palace's grounds. He then had his other four companions follow him to a royal nursery elsewhere in the Crystal Palace.
Five minutes later, then, Darien led his current companions besides Princess Serena into that nursery. After which he had them all sit on a large carpet there wherever they chose to sit on it, as long as they stayed close enough to him while they did so. That done, he then set Princess Serena down in the middle of the carpet. And he himself sat down next to Serena on that carpet.
Darien's current five companions then all eventually found comfortable enough positions for themselves on it, for the obvious reasons. And they all did this as they all obeyed Prince Darien's orders to stay close enough to him on the carpet in question, of course. Then Princess Serena asked him who their four other companions were on the carpet.
He said, "I'll introduce them to you one at a time. Come here, Princess Amy."
A dark-haired toddler about a Terran year old then arose from her position on the carpet. And she toddled to him as he sat on the carpet in the midst of all five girls now with him there. Princess Amy toddled into his arms, then Darien said, "Princess Serena, this is Princess Amy. She's from Mercury. She was born in Mercury City on Mercury about a Terran year or so ago, at most. She'll be spending quite a bit of time with you in the future, I believe, in your respective lives."
"I'm pleased to meet you, Princess Amy. I hope someday that I can eventually see your world in person, in fact, Princess Amy."
"I don't know, Princess Serena, but maybe we can find some way to visit it someday in the future. That is, if the Sun isn't making my world too hot or too cold at any such time in the future. You see, my world's the closest known world to Sol, Princess Serena. It's often a quite hardy person that can survive on my world easily enough when it gets either too hot or too cold on my world for any reason whatsoever. Most of Mercury's population often lives below ground, so as not to be subjected to great extremes of heat or cold at various times of the Mercurian year of my world. You see, my world orbits Sol in 88 Terran days, my parents have told me. Which then means that my world orbits Sol about four times in a Terran calendar year. I don't know, though, how often your Moon orbits Terra in such a year well enough yet."
"No big deal, is it, Princess Amy?"
"I don't know yet, Princess Serena. Only time will ever tell if it'll ever be a big deal, though, Princess Serena."
"I hope we're friends for a very long time, Princess Amy."
"So do I, Princess Serena."
Then Princess Amy, once she got permission to do so from Darien, returned to where she'd been sitting on the carpet, for the obvious reasons. That done, Darien in turn introduced the other three Princesses with him, Serena, and Amy to Serena, for the obvious reasons. After Amy was sitting again, he then introduced Princess Raye from Mars to Princess Serena from the Moon.
That done, he then let Princess Serena and Princess Raye talk to each other for a while, of course. After they'd done so for a while, and after Raye got permission to return to her own place on the carpet in question, Princess Lita of Jupiter was next to be introduced to Serena by Darien, of course.
Princesses Lita and Serena then talked quite excitedly with each other as they got acquainted with each other, at least on a basic enough level, for at least a little while. This, of course, was for all the obvious reasons. That stayed the case for at least ten to fifteen minutes, until they'd felt they'd talked with each other long enough. Lita then got permission from Darien to return to her own place on the carpet currently in question in the nursery they were all now in.
Eventually, of course, Princess Serena of the Moon and Princess Mina of Venus did the same things too, for the obvious reasons, before they too got too bored talking to each other for at least a little while, of course. And they then returned to their respective places on the carpet of the royal nursery currently in question somewhere in the Crystal Palace. Then all five of the Princesses soon fell quite soundly asleep on that very carpet in the royal nursery in question somewhere in the Crystal Palace.
After they did so, Darien got up from the carpet and he walked over to a nearby shelf with scrolls on it. Then he took a scroll off that shelf. He began reading it, while he watched the five girls sleeping in the royal nursery, for a while. This he did for at least an hour until they began to stir on the carpet in question. When they did so, Darien then returned the scroll he'd been reading to the shelf from which he'd taken it earlier.
The first of the Princesses to stir on the carpet was Serena, followed shortly thereafter by Raye, Lita, Amy, and Mina. For just after Serena had woken up, she'd begun bawling because she'd not yet seen where Darien was currently in the room. That bawling of Serena's had woken up her fellow Princesses just after she herself had done so. She had this often-unpleasant habit of bawling unexpectedly when things weren't exactly as she thought they should be in her life. And this would likely continue to be the case for many more years to come in the future. And it'd not always help her make friends, for the obvious reasons. But it was still the way she was, at certain times of her life. Especially in times of sufficient stress, as it'd already been since her own birth, and as it'd likely be for the rest of her own life, if things went sufficiently as expected for her in the rest of it.
Raye soon said, "Serena, shut off the waterworks, please."
"I want my Prince Darien. I want my honey!"
By this time, Lita had woken up, due to Serena's bawling. "He's your honey, Serena?" She said this as Darien finally picked Serena up again.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, Lita, he is. He didn't tell you how I acted around him at my christening ceremony?"
Serena asked this because she'd really acted up during her christening ceremony about 51 weeks before. And she'd even climbed up on Prince Darien's lap during it, for reasons that likely weren't yet evident at that time, at the very least, if not also at the current time. She'd run her hands over his face while she'd been on his lap, as well. That she did for a while, before she'd acted up in other ways during her own christening ceremony. But that didn't mean that Prince Darien was angry at her, of course, due to the fact that he was now with her and four other Princesses in one of the royal nurseries somewhere in the Moon City-area Crystal Palace in the Moon Kingdom on the Moon.
"No, he didn't. But that doesn't make him your honey!"
"Want to bet, Jupe?"
"Ain't old enough, Moonie."
"I'm going to be seeing a lot of him in the future, and we're going to get married someday."
"No way!" This from Raye. "He's mine."
"What makes you think so? I've been seeing him often enough in my dreams at night for quite some time, Raye."
"Because he gives me lots of toys and things. And he likes talking to me quite frequently, whenever he can find the time to do so."
"That doesn't make him yours, Raye," said Mina, who'd just woken up seconds before. "And, Serena, from what I know of him, he doesn't like it all that much when girls bawl quite loudly. He told me that you've been known to bawl quite loudly in the past."
"Are you sure that Luna and Artemis didn't tell you that instead, Mina?" asked Serena.
"Yes, I am, Serena. Amy herself was even with me as he told me that. Right, Amy?"
"That's right, Mina." This from Amy, who'd woken up just before Mina had done so.
"I can't believe my honey would actually say such things about me to anyone else."
"I'm afraid he did so, Serena. And then Mina told Raye and Lita that you've been known to bawl quite loudly at the most inappropriate times in your life."
"Well, if so, Merc, I've often had a good reason, I think."
"Yeah, right! Sure, Moon Babe! We weren't all born yesterday. Who do you think you're trying to fool, Serena?"
"I'm telling you the truth, Mars girl!"
"We'll see, won't we? For it looks like we're going to be seeing a lot of each other in the future. But know this, Serena. I don't like it when I get woken up unnecessarily by bawling babies all that much. So, whenever we're around each other, at least for a while, please try to control your fits of loud bawling to at least some degree, if you possibly can. That way, we might all have better chances of developing better friendships with each other in the future that we're evidently now going to be spending here on the Moon with you."
"I can only promise that I'll try to keep my bawling from getting too loud whenever I can. I can't promise that I'll always succeed in doing so whenever I do bawl in the future, but I can promise I'll try to keep the loudness of my bawling down as much as possible whenever I can."
"Fair enough, Serena," Raye finally said, after apparently realizing that she'd likely not be able to get Serena to do better than that when it came to her fits of loud bawling. This was apparently for reasons not yet evident to her in her own mortal life that she'd now be spending much of on the Moon. Or that she'd likely not be able to do that for at least a little while, of course, if ever, as they spent enough time with each other in the future.
Then Serena said, "Darien, I wonder if Daddy and Mommy are going to throw me a birthday party today."
"Today's your birthday, Serena?" asked Raye.
"Yes, Raye, I'm one Terran year old today. I was born two hours before midnight a Terran year ago. And when I was, I saw the Sun, the Earth, and a comet at the same time. Those were the first three things I ever saw."
"Sure, Serena. It's not safe to look at the Sun, Serena." Amy, who already was quite smart, as would eventually become evident to all of her current companions, after enough time had passed, said these things here, as a matter of fact. Supposing, of course, that it was truly God's will that such a thing should someday ever become sufficiently evident to the rest of her current companions, for the obvious reasons.
"Well, Amy, the Sun was setting at that time, the Earth was rising, and the comet Serena passed just above the Earth as it rose in the lunar sky outside my mother's bedchamber in this Crystal Palace here in Moon City."
"Oh. I didn't know that. Who told you that you'd seen the Sun, the Earth and Comet Serena all at the same time when you were born?"
"Nobody had to tell me, Amy. I somehow knew then that I'd seen the Sun, the Earth, and Comet Serena at that time. Though I didn't yet know what they were called when I was born. And if I'm not mistaken, Comet Serena's going to return to the lunar sky within the next six or seven Terran months, at most."
"So you're saying that the orbital period of Comet Serena's usually around 1.5 or so Terran years?"
"Yes. I expect to see it at least six or seven times before I'm a teenager here on the Moon, if I can."
Then the five Princesses conversed at greater length with each other and with Prince Darien, for the obvious reasons, for at least a little while. But when Darien heard a certain sequence of bells being rung, he then said, "Girls, we need to go to this palace's main ballroom within the next hour, at most. I'll take you to Serena's chambers, so that some royal maidservants can get you dressed better for a certain occasion in that Crystal Palace ballroom. I myself have to get dressed for that occasion as well."
So each of the Princesses left the royal nursery with him. He brought them all to Serena's Crystal Palace chambers within the next five to ten minutes, most likely. When he got there with them all, he was soon met at the door by Elizabeth, Honey, and Denise, who then took charge of all five Princesses, for the obvious reasons. He then left, of course.
Fortunately for all the Princesses, all their dresses had been laid out on Serena's bed while Darien was with them all in the royal nursery they'd just left not long before. Each Princess would wear a different colored dress, so that they'd be easier to identify in the ballroom they'd soon be going to.
Serena would be wearing a white dress, and she'd also be having pink ribbons in her hair, so that her long blonde hair wouldn't always be in her eyes while she was with the other Princesses in the aforementioned ballroom of the Crystal Palace. And Elizabeth would put those ribbons in her hair, as well as put that white dress on her, for the obvious reasons.
While Elizabeth was taking care of Serena, Honey would take care of Amy and Raye. And Denise would do the same thing with Lita and Mina. First Honey would prepare Amy for the aforementioned occasion in the proper Crystal Palace ballroom, and then she'd do the same thing with Raye. And while Honey did those things with Amy and Raye, Denise would first get Lita, then Mina, ready for the necessary occasion in the Crystal Palace's main ballroom.
Amy would be in aquamarine blue, Raye in crimson, Lita in hunter green, and Mina in yellow and orange, when they went to the occasion in question with Serena in white and Darien in a black tuxedo. And after much struggling with their restless charges, Elizabeth, Honey, and Denise were eventually able to get them all quite ready for the occasion that'd soon be taking place in the main ballroom of Moon City's very own Crystal Palace.
When they were finally able to do so, they then summoned Darien to Serena's chambers again. They did that so he could take all five girls all to that ballroom. And as they waited for him to come back to Serena's room, they made at least doubly sure that all five Princesses were quite appropriately dressed, for all the obvious reasons.
Several minutes later, then, he knocked on the door of Serena's chambers. And Elizabeth let him into them, once Honey and Denise said that she could do so. With that done, Elizabeth then brought him to where the Princesses had all been sitting in Serena's chambers while they'd waited for him to arrive there to pick them all up.
That done, she then asked him, "Are you glad to know that all five of these Moon Kingdom Princesses are now together here on the Moon, Darien?"
Darien thought for a few seconds, then said, "Sure, Elizabeth. I'm glad to finally see them all together here on the Moon. I don't yet know why well enough, if I'll ever know why in the future. But I'm still glad to see them all here for some yet-unknown reason to me."
Then, after all five Princesses said they were ready to go to the Crystal Palace's main ballroom, Darien then led them out of Serena's chambers, for the obvious reasons. Of course, he couldn't carry all of them at once. He could only pick up one, of course. And this time, the Princess in question that he picked up was Princess Raye. For she got to him first before Serena could do so. He then carried her in her arms out of Serena's chambers. And he had the other four Princesses follow him to the aforementioned Crystal Palace ballroom. Of course, Serena didn't like having to toddle and crawl her way to the ballroom in question. But because she'd not been able to reach Darien before Raye did, she had to stay near the other three Princesses who Darien wasn't currently carrying to that ballroom, for the obvious reasons.
I suppose that I'd better stop here now. For this will be where the next part of the story will take up from, in fact, readers. I hope that you've so far enjoyed the story, if you've gotten this far, and that you'll continue to read it, once I put more of it up here on fanfiction dot net. I don't know how long it will take me to get each story in this series up fully on fanfiction dot net. But it might take a while for each story in this series, just the same, readers. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller" signing off here. Happy reading, and God bless, and all that, of course, readers! Over and out!