The Forgotten One

Chapter 9

Flashback...

They were in a crowded bedroom, a group hovered around a lavish bed, in it laid a woman, the queen of Earth. A doctor came over with two small bundles in his arms which he put into the queen's arms.

"Congratulations Magesties! Its twins, a boy and a girl. Not only that they both seemed to have aquired crystals. The boy possesses the Golden Crystal signifying his succession to the throne as we suspected, but the girl also carries one, an obsidian crystal. It seems she will be a leader in her own right."

The queen looked up at her husband, the king, who was looking down at her love evident in his eyes. "Oh Endymion, they're perfect." The monarchs looked down at the two newborns and smiled. The rest of the people in the room quietly left to leave the royal family in peace.


A Few Years later...

"Now presenting the royal family, King Endymion and Queen Terra!" Applause rose in the ballroom as the King and Queen made their way down the stairs which spiraled down into the room. "And now celebrating their twelfth birthdays is Princess Celeste and Prince Endymion II" An even louder applause came from the crowd as the two royal children came down the same set of stairs their parents had come down, arm in arm. Both children had ebony coloured hair and looked very similar the only difference between the two other than their gender was that the princess had streaks of silver in her hair and had grey eyes whereas the young prince had deep midnight blue ones. There was a mix of emotions from the two of them. Princess Celeste was excited because for the first time there was going to be people from the Moon Kingdom there! The relationship between Earth and the Moon had been strained for the past few decades but both kingdoms were working toward peace and this party was a first step to relations between the two worlds. They had all heard about how exotic the Lunarians were and Celeste for one was excited to see what they were like. Not only that the Moon Princess Serenity was supposed to be there with her mother the queen and her guardians the princesses from the other planets, she was happy to have other girls there close to her age that she could hang out with. This was precisely the reason that Prince Endymion was dreading this party. The fact was he knew that he was going to be required to interact with the young moon princess and he was not interested in doing anything of the sort. She was supposed to be THREE YEARS YOUNGER THAN HIM for goodness sakes, he was so much more mature than that he didn't want to be in charge of entertaining a foolish immature brat of a princess.

"Endy, be nice now. You never know they could be really fun!" Celeste whispered to her brother noticing the slight scowl on his face and jabbing him in the side.

"Yeah right. Fun. Well at least the guys will be there too. They can suffer with me." Celeste rolled her eyes and gave up. The guys of course were her and Endymion's guardians, Malachite, Zoicite, Nephrite, and Jadite, and were Endymion's best friends as well. The two reached the bottom of the stairs and joined their parents who were standing with a tall woman, obviously Lunarian, with her pale face and silver hair pulled into a strange hairstyle with pigtails flowing to the ground with buns on top.

"Celeste, Endymion, this is Queen Serenity of the Moon Kingdom." Thier mother introduced the woman and they bowed/curtsied respectively.

"Nice to meet you, and may I say happy birthday as well," the queen smiled her voice sweet and musical, "I would like you both to meet my own daughter, Princess Serenity." With that she motioned and a young blond girl, with the same hairstyle as her mother, came up beside her.

"Hello, its nice to meet you and happy birthday," the young girl smiled shyly looking up through her eyelashes. Celeste smiled and looked over at her brother, she held in a laugh when she saw the look on his face, a mixture of shock and awe, and he couldn't take his eyes off the blond princess' bright blue ones.


Six Years Later...

Celeste rolled her eyes as she saw her brother slip away on the transportation pad. He was off to the moon once again no doubt. He had been slipping away more often lately to go see Princess Serenity. At first she hadn't agreed with the two of them seeing each other and had refused to help him sneek visits with the princess. Things had started to turn bad between the Moon and Earth again and Endymion and Serenity had been forbidden to see each other, but eventually she caved seeing how happy the princess made him and how in love they were she couldn't take that away from him. Luckily she was one of the only people who could travel to the Moon and planets because of being a sailor scout. Grimacing anger welled up in her again, it wasn't fair! She didn't want to be held down by duty and responsibility. She may not be heir to the throne like her brother was, but instead she was supposed to be some special Sailor Scout destined to protect the solar system from evil and to make sure the rest of the sailor scouts were safe. This caused tension because of the rebels on Earth and how the relations with the Moon was frowned upon, but supposedly it was her duty. Stupid word, even her best friend, Princess Trista, Sailor Pluto, was never around anymore because of it. She had to be at the Gate of Time more often now to fill her 'duty' as the guardian of time.

Suddenly Jadeite ran up to her anxious.

"Princess, the King and Queen are looking for you and the prince. Something has happened, the rebels have started attacking the castle!"

"What! Endymion is on the Moon I have to go get him we'll be there soon!" Jadeite nodded and ran back towards the castle. She quickly stepped onto the transportation pad and went to the Moon.

She stepped off the identical pad looking out into the cool greyness of the Moon. It was so different here, calm, and had a very serene beauty to it, so different from all the different competing colours on Earth. Shaking her head she went off in search of her brother. She found them easy enough walking in a deep part of the castle gardens. Jogging up she interupted placing a hand on Endymion's shoulder.

"Princess Serenity," she greeted the blond princess, now fifteen and had grown up to be a very beautiful woman, "I'm sorry Endymion but we have to go. The rebels are attacking, mother and father are waiting for us." Shocked he looked at the Moon Princess she nodded her understanding and wishing them both to be safe she watched the two run back to the transporter.

Once they were back on Earth, they entered the castle through a back entrance. Once inside they heard sounds of fighting.

"How could they have gotten inside so quickly?"

"I don't know but we have to get to the throne room quickly." As she said this, Celeste quickly transformed into her scout form, Sailor Guardian, it seemed that she would finally be putting all her training into action.

They had almost reached the throne room when they met up with one of the royal guards. He stopped them quickly.

"Prince, Princess! Thank god you are here! The rebels breached the walls and we couldn't hold them back. They seem to have magic on their side we can't fight them. The Generals are missing and the King and Queen are dead. We mus fall back, regroup!" then thrusting a sword into Endymion's hand, "you are the King now Endymion."

AN: Ok so heres the first part of the flashback it may be a long one I keep adding things in. Hope you like it please review they make me happy and its my birthday tomorrow so I'd like to be happy :P.