A Forgotten Princess Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own Sailor Moon or any of their characters used in this ficy. *Cries* I do however own Melody Thead, Star, all the knights, and All the evil little baddies herein, save one who is a Sailor Moon Character. *Smile* So maybe I'm not so bad off after all! lol Enjoy the fic!

Time and Place: The entire story is centered in Tokyo with a few flashbacks to the past and the Kingdom on the Moon, and will have no connection time- wise with the Anima or the Manga.

Prelude

Serena walked out of her last class on Friday feeling very happy for a change. There hadn't been a monster sited for three days, she had a date with Darien tonight, and Rei was having all of the scouts sleep over at the temple tonight. Life was grand.

Just as she was almost home, Serena felt her communicator beep. 'Man! Just when things were going so well!' "This is Serena, what's up?" Seeing Lita's face on the communicator's screen, Serena could see that whatever it was it wasn't good.

"Serena, there's a monster attacking the hospital. We need you over here like two minutes ago! Please hurry!"

"Alright Lita, I'm on my way!" Sliding into an alley, Serena whispered, "Nova Moon Power!" A white light surrounded her, and silver bubbles rose to cover her. As gold bubbles passed her body, her shirt and skirt appeared. Then white bubbles appeared and her shoes and locket appeared. Then her symbol appeared at her forehead and her tiara and earrings appeared. With hands in a prayer-like stance, Nova Sailor Moon's transformation was complete. But something was different this time that no one would notice, not even Serena, until much later. Her hair and eyes had changed color! Her once blond hair was now lilac and her clear blue eyes were now a soft pink!

People in the street watched in awe as she flew overhead looking for her friends. Her lilac shirt was hemmed in silver and her silver skirt was hemmed in lilac. Her tiara was gold with her symbol inside of the pink jewel. A silver heart graced the middle of her bow and served as her locket and symbol. Her front bow was silver but her back bow was lilac. Her earrings were gold hearts. She was a beautiful sight to behold, especially since her long lilac hair was blowing behind her in the soft breeze.

As Nova Sailor Moon flew down the street, a sudden light appeared from nowhere and blasted her down to the street floor. 'Now where did that come from?' Looking up Nova Sailor Moon noticed that a woman was standing on top of a nearby building. Flying back up to the strange woman's level, Nova Sailor Moon noticed that her face was familiar.

"Who are you and what do you want?"

"My name is Blossom and I'm your worst enemy. You may have survived my last attack on you, Princess! But you won't survive this one. Freezing force!"

Nova Sailor Moon noticed that as the woman said this, she froze and couldn't move at all. "Hey! What've you done to me?"

"Nothing, I'm just going to leave you with a little present!" While Blossom was saying this, she floated over to Nova Sailor Moon and plunged a knife into her back left shoulder. Then Blossom disappeared, blade and all, and Nova Sailor Moon could move again.

Ignoring her pain and forgetting the woman who'd caused it, Serena headed over to the hospital. The monster had flattened the top three floors and was now trying to flatten the scouts. Ami and Mina were bleeding from side wounds and Rei was fighting with her right arm broken. Lita was the only one who didn't have serious injuries. Nova Sailor Moon jumped onto the roof of the hospital and shouted, "Rainbow Hope Destroy!" Lilac hearts flew out of her hands and blasted the monster to dust!

As the scouts turned to her, Nova Sailor Moon could tell that something was wrong. Lita and Ami both started yelling at her at the same time.

"Where were you? Lita called you ten minutes ago!"

"I thought you had this late thing under control! Don't you care about what happens to us?"

Nova Sailor Moon tried to explain to her friends what had happened but they wouldn't listen to her.

"We've heard enough excuses Serena. We decided a while ago that if you left us hanging again that we would do this. I think I speak for all of us when I say that you are no longer the leader of the Sailor Scouts and we don't want you in our group anymore!" Lita looked over at the other scouts who shook their heads in agreement. "Hand in your locket and don't ever talk to us again!"

When Serena heard this she started to cry. "Why wont you even listen to me?" Drying her tears, Serena continued, "If that's how you all feel then fine! You can have this silly old thing and I won't ever come back to you." The building started to shake with the force of Serena's anger, as she continued to talk. "I'm leaving and you all can just fend for yourselves!" With that said Serena tore off her locket, and threw it at Lita, and said, "Here you have it! You've always been a better leader anyway!" Then she turned and walked slowly down the stairs. She heard the group's collective cry as they saw the blood on her shirt that was trailing down her back and legs. "Serena! Wait!" Without stopping, Serena exited the hospital and walked home.

Serena ran up to her room and ripped off her fuku and looked at the wound on her back in her bathroom mirror. It was still bleeding, so she put some alcohol on it and covered it with a bandage. Putting on clean shorts and a shirt, Serena decided to head out to the park. Walking to the park gave Serena time to think about what she wanted to do now. 'I guess the only thing I can do is leave. My family's suppose to go see our relatives in three days, so I'll just tell mom and dad that I want to leave early. They won't care. Then I'll go..to America. The last place anyone would look for me.' When she got to the park, Serena sat on a bench and continued making her escape plans. Then out of nowhere Blossom reappeared before her!

"So do you like my present? No? Well here, let me give you another one!" She flew at Serena and knocked her out. "That's gonna leave a mark! Oh well...now what to do?" Then Blossom disappeared and Serena was found and taken to the hospital by a man with dark brown hair.

When she awoke, the man gave her a necklace that he said he found next to her in the park. Little did he know what he was giving her. He also told her the doctors had said that she might have amnesia. After trying to help Serena remember her name, he decided that she did have amnesia and offered to let her live with him. Serena agreed to this because she didn't have anywhere else to go. Three weeks later Ken took Serena home with him and gave her the name Melody.

That was five years ago. Now Melody is a happy resident of downtown Tokyo, who works at a school down the street. She loves her class and she likes almost all the people she works with. Her life was happy and carefree. All that was about to change.