Prologue
A pretty young girl laid lazily by the roof above her bedroom, her lovely silvery-blonde hair spreading out underneath her. She seemed to be lost in thought as she gazed upon the countless stars in the cloudless night sky. There were so many questions and so many mysteries she had mind but no matter what she did, she knew she could never find the answers here in the town of Luxembourg.
Reaching from the inside of her bodice, she took hold of a silver necklace from which a large silver heart locket with a gem cut into a moon shape had the name Serenity engraved inside it. Serenity. That must've been the name that her parents gave her. Must've been, because she never knew who her real parents are. Serenity's adoptive mother, the kind old widow, Countess Lunamaria Victoire nee Cecille de Rupens, said that she found young Serenity, seventeen years ago during a lunar eclipse, wrapped in layers of fine onyx and ruby dyed silk. There was no note, or letter left, but just the necklace. The Countess Lunamaria and her husband Artemis Smith le Coupe de Rupens, then alive had not been blessed with a child of their own and so they happily adopted Serenity and raised her like she was their own flesh and blood.
Serenity was very grateful to the Rupens couple for adopting and raising her and so she loved them dearly. But still, she couldn't help but often think about her real parents. 'Didn't they love me? Why did they have to give me away to other people? Are they still alive? Where are they?' These questions she had often asked Countess Lunamaria and Count Artemis when she was a little girl, but they would simply smile at her and embrace her warmly.
With a small sigh, Serenity raised the locket up until it was at about the same eye level with the full moon. For as long as she could remember, she felt like she belonged to the night. She didn't know why but she felt more energetic and free, at peace whenever it was night time. Most especially during nights when there was a full moon, Serenity would sneak out of her room to go up the roof of their house and spend the night gazing at the majestic full moon. For some reason unknown, Serenity would feel a strong tug in her being, as if someone was calling her, searching for her, yearning for her. And tonight, that strange presence has gotten even stronger; almost as if that person was within yards away from her. Shrugging the strange feeling off as merely the chill she feels from the cold night air. Serenity decided to return to bed before the Countess finds out that she snuck out again and reprimand her as a mother would for a beloved daughter.