~Alrighties, this is my very first fan fiction. I love to write, but I've never actually had the chance to sit down and write for myself, rather than for school or something required. But enough with my life story and onto what you really came here for. Please R&R, good or bad. I know there's not much to it just yet, but I will add on as soon as I get a new part.~

**Disclaimer~ I don't own or take credit for Sailor Moon or any of the characters previously featured in the Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon series. So please don't sue me or anything! ^^; I do, however, take my claim to Sailor Faith and this story, because well, I made it up! ^_^**

Bright rays from the sun peeked through the window and onto the fair face of Princess Serenity. After taking a deep breath, she awoke and sat up in bed slowly, stretching her arms out beside her with a small grunt. "Time for another day to start... After breakfast, that is."

The princess swung her legs to the side of the bed with ease, snuggling her feet into a pair of fuzzy white slippers that matched the robe that she was about to put on over her nightgown. She closed her lively blue eyes and licked her cherry lips with her perky, pink tongue as the smell of homemade pancakes wafted by her nose. Her eyes burst open and she ran from her bedroom, skidding to a halt as she entered the kitchen area. "Pancakes...?"

One of the servants, Kiyo, glanced over to Serenity with a shake of her head, just as she was placing a plate of steaming pancakes in front of the princess's chair, "You're getting better and better at this every morning. Here you are, highness."

Serenity sat down and began to eat her pancakes mouthfuls at a time. In

between every couple of bites, she washed down the pancakes with a swig of crisp, cold milk. In no time flat, she had finished her breakfast and was heading back down the hall to her room. She patted her stomach as she entered her room, moving to her closet. "A full stomach and all for what? Lessons today... Pfft. There's got to be some way to get out of those boring classes."

She brushed aside the fancy dresses for formal affairs as well as some of her more casual dresses, leading to a small shelf in the rear of the closet. Upon the shelf rested a raggedy brown, hooded cloak. One of her eyebrows perked up as an idea came to her mind. "Hmmm, how about a little visit through the city today? I'm sure there's something much more interesting there."

She lifted the cloak out from the closet and held it up in front of her, "This should cover me up well enough and if I wear my hair down, no one'll be able to tell who I am! I knew learning how to sew from Makoto would come in handy..." She turns the cloak back and forth to get a good look at it, turning her nose up slightly. "...It is pretty ugly though. It'll be perfect!"

Within moments, she changed into a casual, light lavender colored dress and tamed her mid-calf length golden blonde hair with a brush. She glanced herself over in her full-length mirror, frowning. "I have to tie my hair back somehow, but nothing too glamorous since I'm just going to the city."

An idea stuck as she located a simple hair band on her dresser. "Low ponytail it is then!" She wrapped the band around her hair loosely at the nape of her neck and then turned to look in the mirror once again. "Finished. Now, someway to get out of here without drawing too much attention..."

She walked out of her room, the cloak draped over her arm, and she tiptoed no more than two steps down the hall when she heard a stern voice calling out to her from the opposite end of the hall.

"Highness? Where do you think you're headed?" Serenity turned around to find Kiyo standing with her hands upon her hips. "I do believe that lessons are this way, miss."

Serenity placed a hand behind her head with a nervous titter, "Oh of course! I know that Kiyo! I was just going... going... going outside to get some fresh air before lessons started. I need as much sunlight as I can get before I'm cooped up in there all day, wouldn't you say?"

Serenity's eyes widened in anticipation as Kiyo seemed to think the idea over. The servant gave her shoulders a shrug and then turned around. "Well, I suppose you're right. Hurry up with it though, you understand?"

Serenity gave a mock salute and turned her heels, heading to the front doors. Oddly enough, she did not run into any others on her way out of the palace. Thinking to herself, "Must be my lucky day! In any case, I better not take too many chances. On with the cloak."

The young lady slid the cloak on over her head and wiggled it down over her body, leaving the hood upon her head. The cloak hung baggily on her slender body and it drug on the ground just slightly, but nonetheless, made her look much like a commoner. She jogged down the front steps and slipped through the gates unnoticed. Within few minutes, she had reached the busiest portion in the heart of the Moon Kingdom: the marketplace.