Serena woke up with a cold sweat. It was still dark. She turned over on her side and tried to recall her memories of the dream she had before dawn…

***

"My daughter," a woman said, reaching out a hand. She looked just like Serena except aged and more important. Serena took it. "I have something for you to see."

She led Serena out of the Moon Kingdom and into a garden. She was confused, because the only garden she was ever seen in was a rose garden, as she daydreamed about the handsome Prince Endymion, but this garden was full of daffodils and chrysanthemums.

Her mother brought her to the center of the garden where a bench was, atop of a stone ground. Serena sat down gracefully and looked up at her mother with a confused look, but her mother was gone.

"Serenity." She jumped and looked next to her to see her mother again, sitting. "Serenity there is some news I must share with you."

"Oh, mother, why are we here?" Serena asked, almost angry.

"Serena, there have been a few changes on whom you're to marry," Queen Serenity stated.

At once Serena was heartbroken. She had finally convinced her mother to marry Prince Endymion, and the marriage was in four days. She got up out of her seat and walked as far away from her mother as she could, without being engulfed in chrysanthemums. Silent tears instantly flew down her cheek.

"Mother," she whispered. "I wish to wed Prince Endymion."

"I know you do, but I was having some thought about this," her mother said.

"But I love him!" Serena screamed as bigger tears flooded out.

Queen Serenity got up and walked over and put a hand on her daughter's shoulder.

"You don't know what love is." She sighed. "My daughter, we have had this plan since before you were born. We just can't cancel it for some teenaged boyfriend!"

Serena fell to her knees and tried to hide her face. "Who?" she asked very quietly.

"Prince Akio of the Solar Kingdom." Her mother brought Serena back up. "You must marry him. If you don't, then there will only be more wars between us. Do it for the sake of your people, and their people."

Serena sniffled. "But—" She sighed and looked at the distant Earth. There were no wars between the moon and earth, and it would do no benefit to marry Endymion, except for their hearts. "If I must."

***

Serena had fallen asleep as she was thinking about her terrible dream. She woke up to the sound of her alarm clock at seven. She opened her sleepy eyes and turned it off. Today she was sure not to be late!

She hurled herself up off her bed and over to her dresser, where she pulled out a cute white belly shirt that said 'Gorgeous' in bright blue letters on the front. Then she pulled out matching black pants that had 'Gorgeous' at the bottom.

After she had dressed, she brushed her hair and put it up odango style. Then she slipped on her sandals, swung her bag over her shoulder, and walked downstairs. Her brother, Sam, was still in his pajamas in front of the TV eating sugary cereal. He looked shocked to see her up.

"Serena!" he exclaimed, dropping his spoon. "What are you doing up?"

Serena ignored him and walked into the kitchen. Luna looked up at her from her kitten bed next to her food dish and meowed, also shocked. Her mother was making bacon on the stove and her father was reading the newspaper.

"Serena?" he asked, peering over it.

Serena also ignored him and sat down at the table. "Good morning to you too, guys!" she said smugly.

Mrs. Tsukino laughed as she put bacon on Serena's plate. "Good morning, sweet heart."

Serena smiled up at her mother. This mother and her future mother were completely different, except for the loving part. Mrs. Tsukino had no problem with her dating Darien. Queen Serenity, however, did mind.

"Thank you, mom," she said, eating her food greedily.

Sam came in with his empty cereal bowl and put it in the sink. Just then there was a knock at the door. He groaned and opened the door. It was Amy.

"Good morning, Sam," she greeted, without looking up at Serena. "Is Serena still in bed?"

"Actually, I'm not," Serena said, getting up and going over to her. Amy, too, looked shocked.

"Oh, hey, Serena," she said as they walked away from the house.

"I didn't want to be late for our meeting," she replied.

They walked to the front of the house where she saw Amara and Michelle in their red convertible. Amara looked over her sunglasses at Serena, but Michelle ignored her as she put on her make-up using the rear-view window.

Serena and Amy jumped over the door and into the back seat.

"Serena, what are you doing up this early?" Amara asked as she started to drive away.

"Bad dream," Serena said, forgetting the excuse she gave to Amy. "I didn't want to enter it again."

"Oh."

Michelle turned around and faced them. "Well, since Raye thought that you were still going to be sleeping, she postponed the meeting till noon. 'Til then we can meet Andrew at the arcade!"

"What was your dream about?" Amy asked, fumbling through her bag. Finally she drew out a Dream Dictionary book and opened it up.

Amara looked at it through the rear-view mirror. "Aw, come on, Amy! You don't actually think that mumbo-jumbo is real, do you?"

"As a matter-of-fact, I do." She turned to Serena. "Well? What are the main things."

"Well… there were lots of yellow flowers," Serena replied, forgetting the names of them, of course.

Amy flipped through the pages in her book. Michelle rolled her eyes and turned back around. Amara just shook her head and sighed.

Finally Amy stopped. "Well, there is nothing in here about yellow flowers, specifically. But there are three topics on it. Just flowers, or potted, or roses. Were they yellow roses?"

Serena painfully shook her head. "No. They weren't potted either."

"Well, just flower means 'love'." She blinked. "Are you sure they weren't roses? You know, for Darien."

She sighed and turned away to the window as they came close to the arcade and coffee shop. "I don't want to talk about it anymore. It was just a stupid dream."

Finally they stopped at the only space in front of the shop, behind a convertible yellow mustang. It looked so cool! Serena stared at it in awe when they got out.

"Are you coming, Serena?" Amy asked.

Serena blinked. "Oh, yes!" And she ran inside and looked around for Andrew. He wasn't, as usual, behind the counter, but over in a large crowd of people surrounding this one game. It seemed someone was getting a big score over there.

"Andrew?" she asked, tapping him on the shoulder.

He turned around, excitement in his eyes and smiled. "Hey, Serena, look at this fellow! He is getting a higher score than anyone!"

Serena wedged her way into the middle of the crowd to see this man, but she stopped dead in her tracks when she saw him. He looked so handsome, she thought she was going to faint. But if she did, she hoped he would catch her. He had yellow/blonde hair and large blue eyes that anyone would die for. He looked very strong, but his muscles seemed tucked away so he didn't look the least bit fat.

Quickly she blushed and turned away and out of the crowd. She was glad Darien didn't see her reaction to his looks.

Suddenly the crowd made a loud 'Ohhh!' and she heard the Game Over music play. The crowd then departed and went to their own games or went to have some coffee. The man just smiled and walked over to the counter, while Andrew went behind it.

"Hey, man, that was the best game I have ever seen!" Andrew exclaimed. He looked at Serena who was blushing by the door. "Serena, come over here!"

Serena gulped but went over and sat down next to him.

"Thanks, man," the handsome stranger said, then looked at Serena. Now Serena could tell that he looked no younger or older than Darien, and her heart jumped. "Hello, there," he said nicely.

Serena blushed again. "Hi."

"Friend of Andrew's?" Serena nodded. "Well any friend of Andrew's is a friend of mine!" He grinned, showing pearly white teeth.

"My name is Serena Tsukino."

"Well, Serena, my name is Akio Masuyo. Nice to meet you."

'Akio…' she thought to herself. 'That name was in my dream! Prince Akio.' She shook her head to get the thought out. 'A lot of people are named Akio,' she told herself. 'He's just one of them!' She looked up at him and sighed. 'And yet, I feel something strong between us…'

AN: well that was the first chapter. Please review!! I'd appreciate it, even if u disliked it ^^'