A/N: I don't own sailor moon. If you find any mistakes please tell me. I'd appreciate it.
Chapter 3: The twins
The last rays of light vanished behind the horizon. One by one the stars appeared in the sky. Their soft light shining down on the few people still awake.
The halls of the palace were cast in a mixture of shadows and light, giving them a mystical appearance.
The sound of soft hurried footsteps broke the silence. Two shadows quickly scurried down the halls.
Their destination seemed to be a small tree made out of different shades of moonstone.
The whole ornament glowed with a steady light that came from within the tree which gave it an ethereal appearance. It was just as alive as any other plant. The trees roots grew along its alcove without seeming to need things like earth and water.
The smaller one of the shadows gently blew at the leaves of the tree which rustled softly in the breeze before its light grew even brighter and spread into the palace wall, underlining the cracks, the texture and the design of said wall. A few more times the light pulsed through the cracks, texture and design before slowly starting to change the walls design. Then gaining more speed the light changed the design more rapidly. Shortly afterwords the light returned to the tree which in turn returned to its normal glow leaving the room to be cast into shadows once more.
But instead of a wall there now hung two incredible beautiful curtains which carried the most magnificent designs on it. There were magical animals like the qilins and phoenix who were moving about the eternal world on the curtains. Trees and flowers of every kind grew there only adding to the magical affect. The colors of the threads used on the animals and plants shone and shimmered brightly.
The two small figures paid no heed to the picture, having seen it many times before and quickly checked once if the coast was clear before hurrying past the curtains to the hallway behind it. The hallway was painted in the same style as the curtain. The moving animals and the growing plants were drawn across the whole corridor and with the other plants claiming the walls or standing in a alcove it was just as mystical in its own right as the moon or the other planets.
Not pausing to watch as the curtains returned to their original state with a simple white-blue flower drawn on it, they hurried on.
As they approached a door at the end of the corridor their steps slowed down to a more casual pace.
Carefully to be sure they couldn't be heard they slowly opened the door and entered just as silently. Moving to the mirror that covered the entire opposite wall, the one that had opened the secret hallway, picked up a stone that had lain in front of the glass in a bowl and placed it in a hole in the mirror.
The moment the figure pulled her hand back it faded into the mirror, making it transparent.
Eagerly the two looked at the group of people that were seated on pillows under the open sky around a table discussing something they were told was of great impotence and not fit for young children to hear no matter who they were.
"The people of the sun are growing angry. Epically your cousin. He is demanding you let your daughters try and set foot on suns ground to identify the new high princess, your highness.", the voice of one of Serenity's fathers advisers echoed through the small room.
Immediately another voice spoke: " Never! We are all aware should they not be the suns heir, the spell the old King placed around the sun will kill them." The shadows looked at each other, they had never heard Luna speak to some one else like that before.
The next hours they all fought with each other never listing to what the others had to say. Some demanded the queen should fulfill her fathers requirement by marring some one "worthy" of the sun and leave the moon behind along with her children. Others said she should marry somebody she liked and produce an heir to the sun and be done with it.
Few had strong magical strength or strong spiritual powers and those that did knew that one of the twins was the sun heir and the other of the moon. They only wanted to know which one of them was which.
Finally Artemis had enough of the ridiculous arguing: "There has never been two heirs before so one of the twins would be the true moon heir. Perhaps the other is the sun heir and has been claimed but we simply missed the sighs. We should wait and ask the twins themselves before we decide to do something rash. We are all adults and should not act like little children throwing a tantrum because we didn't get what we wanted. Use your brain people. The sun is obviously pleased with the twins or she would have told the high Queen otherwise."
The shadows who had heard Artemis scold the other adults had started giggling and missed the rest of the conversation.
For the next thing they knew was that the high Queen who had kept quiet during the meeting, agreed with Artemis and ended the discussion before leaving, the others following her lead.
Well the hour hadn't been a complete wast of time. They had after all found out that no one knew who the twins represented.
It was really easy they knew.
The dark revealed it, as long as there was light the twins both had white-blond heir.
In the dark though the sun princess Suna and the moon princess Nuray had different hair then the other.
While the older sister Suna had hair that glowed golden with a hint of red in it, the younger sister Nuray had glowing white-blue hair just like the moon symbol on her forehead.
"Suna, do you think we should tell them?" whispered the shadow that had placed the crystal in the mirror.
