They arrived on Neptune a few hours later.
"It's nice to be out of that stuffy spaceship!"Venus cried, and ran toward the edge of the landing site, to look towards the ocean. "And I haven't seen the sea for such a long time."
"Uh, the Palace isn't really that far from the beach."Kunzite told her.
"Oh, but still! And I brought my bathing suit along!"she answered.
"I'd better see if anything has come up back on Earth."Kunzite said.
Venus stopped him.
"But we just got here!"she demanded. "Besides, if anything was wrong, Luna or Artemis would already have let us know."
Kunzite seemed to consider that.
"She's right."said Zoicite. "And also right about the sea. It's not like on Earth."
"Neither will lunch be!"Neptune said. "I've had something special prepared! Something specifically Neptunian!"
"Oh, yum!"exclaimed Serenity. "I'm starving!"
"You already ate on the ship! And plenty."Endymion told her.
"Oh, who cares!"she said.
Neptune smiled, and took Small Lady.
"So you're our princess. You're so cute!"she exclaimed.
"I know! I just can't wait until I have a baby of my own! I have to be the first one, after the Queen, of course, out of the rest of us!"said Venus.
Neptune smiled.
"I hope so."she said. "But let's go inside and have lunch."
They walked inside. Saturn greeted them.
"Did you was your hands?"Neptune asked her.
Saturn was still only eight, and she hardly stayed at her own Castle, enjoying alternating between staying Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. Among all the planetary princesses she was the youngest.
"Yes."she said. "And I changed my dress for lunch."she added.
She bowed to the King and Queen.
"Quite a little lady."Neptune said.
"Can I see the Princess?"Saturn asked.
Neptune kneeled down to let Saturn get a glimpse of Small Lady.
"She looks like she did, the last time I saw her."said Saturn. "She'll be my best friend!"
Everyone smiled.
"Of course!"Queen Serenity said.
"So, aren't we going to have lunch?"asked Venus. "I'm starving!"
"I thought the one who was starving was Queen Serenity."Mars said.
"What happened to you?"Neptune asked, just noticing Jadeite.
He moved stiffly, and had a few bruises on his face.
"Um, I…uh, fell."he said, quietly.
"A fall? It must have been a pretty bad fall."she said. "From the third floor, at the very least."
"Uh, it was down the stairs, actually."he said. "So, what are we having?"he asked, changing the subject.
Mars was digging her nails in his arm, a sign he knew meant she was close to losing her temper. And probably sooner than he expected.
"I think everyone's pretty hungry."he said.
"True! How rude of me!"Neptune said.
She took Saturn's hand, and led everyone towards the dining room.
"Have you heard anything from Luna or Artemis?"Kunzite asked, as they sat down.
"Ugh!"Venus groaned.
Neptune smiled.
"I don't think so. I would've been informed at once if that had been so."she said.
"Kunzite's obsessed. Apparently, all this, that there's no crime, hasn't been too good, for him. My guess is, he's bored."Nephrite said.
"He'd be more bored if he lived here."Neptune said. "There's nothing to do around here! Unless there's an invasion from outside. Which there isn't. So, just enjoy the sights."she suggested. "And I thought that Crystal Tokyo was doing just fine."
"It is."Nephrite insisted. "Only that Kunzite doesn't like not having enemies."
"I still think perhaps we should analyze the situation a little better."Mercury said. "Then, it could probably be just rumors people make up. That's always a possibility."she looked at Venus. "After all, half of what I always heard on Venus wasn't true at all. It was all…exaggerated. Maybe the only thing that happened was that someone borrowed something, and they forgot, or they gave it away, and forgot about that."
"I would be more inclined to think that, then anything else."Neptune agreed. "Although it's better to be safe than sorry, but I doubt it's anything serious. It couldn't be anything. Unless you have an imagination."
"I didn't know Kunzite even knew what an imagination is."Zoicite said. "He doesn't even know what a joke is, let alone, has any imagination. Except for battle strategies, of course, but those don't really take much imagination, do they?"
Kunzite looked sternly at Zoicite.
"It's true."Zoicite told him. "And everyone knows it, besides. After all, it's thanks to Kunzite, that things are so orderly in Crystal Tokyo, and on Earth."
With the last, Kunzite nodded.
"Then I really don't understand just what he's so worried about, if he's in charge. Anyway, if it'll help get that idea out of his head, then you should know, there was just another planet, just appeared beyond Pluto."Neptune told them. "So it's a little excitement we have here. Everyone on Neptune thinks it should be observed more carefully."
"A new planet?"Mercury asked.
Neptune nodded.
"But where did it come from?"
Neptune shrugged.
"No idea."