Hello! Welcome back. I see that you are interested in reading more of my story. Well, in that case, thank you! In this chapter, there might be one or two words that can be offending to little children but I hope that you are mature enough to handle it.
Disclaimer: Sailor Moon doesn't belong to me. It belongs to Naoko Takeuchi but this story belongs to me, all the new characters, and any storylines. Anything in these brackets is something that I said... as a viewer of this story. And I am sure that you know what those star thingies are for... * *
Chapter 2
"I just love being outside!"
"We all know you do." Her friends grinned at her.
"It was unfortunate that we couldn't bring our horses, but at least the guards aren't following us."
"The only reason why the guards aren't here is that we are." Rei told her. "There isn't anything that we couldn't handle!"
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?"
Serenity groaned. "Except that."
"What do you want?" She sighed, turning around. Sure enough, there he was, although he was in a pair of pants and white shirt. He brought his four friends with him, whom stood around him like a protective shield.
"I wish to apologize for yesterday's misunderstanding. I hope, milady, which you will forgive me." Endymion bowed and presented her a box wrapped with a red bow.
She was stunned by the change of attitude. She stammered a thank you and took the box, looking at it with a mixture of shock and suspicion. He urged her to open it, to see if she liked it. She untied the bow and opened the box, peering at its contents. She screamed and dropped the box, showing them what was inside.
Worms. Slimy, red worms.
The men laughed as they watched the women gasp and back away from the box. Serenity was being fussed over by her friends, while they glared at the men.
"Yesterday wasn't enough for you? You want more? I'll give you MUCH more!" Makoto grabbed a green wand as it came out of nowhere. She strode forward, but was stopped by a hand on her shoulder.
"No, Mako. We can handle him the way we are." Rei said. The four women surrounding their friend nodded in silent agreement. "I'm taking HIM." She indicated Endymion.
"No, I am." They turned around and found Serenity looking back at them with determination in her eyes. They nodded again and started attacking the men before them. The eight women took on the man's companions, leaving him to face the girl.
Endymion grinned. 'This is too easy,' he thought. 'They are going to get what they deserve. No one injures my pride and gets away with it.' He looked at the Serenity and she just stared back at him.
"You are not much without your friends, are you?" He taunted. She still didn't do anything, but only stared at him. It was becoming uncomfortable. With a growl, he launched a kick that missed her completely. 'She moves fast, for someone who is a servant.'
He whirled around and attacked. He attacked with all he had, but he couldn't get her. It seemed as though she know what he would do even before he did. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that his friends weren't having much luck in their fights either. His friends were receiving, rather than sending bruises. At least he haven't received any, but that was only because Serenity wasn't fighting back. He didn't want to imagine what would happen to him if she did fought back.
"What in the name of Serenity is going on?!"
Everyone stopped only because the women had stopped. And the women had stopped only because of the voice, which was full of command and familiarity. They all turned and found a woman in a yellow dress with flashing blue eyes and long dark-blue hair that was styled into four small buns at each side of her head. The most outstanding feature about this woman was the yellow crescent moon on her forehead. She strode forward and the women stepped forward to greet her.
"Luna." They chorused and executed a perfect group curtsy.
"What are you doing here?" Luna exclaimed, hugging Serenity. "Did those men hurt you?"
"Hurt me?" Serenity asked. "Well, they didn't... hurt me."
"But what are you doing? It looks like a fight to me."
"Well, umm... my friends are showing me a new kind of move." Serenity said with a smile. "It was pretty cool."
"You know that the Queen doesn't like you training." Luna said.
"Please, Luna." Serenity begged. "Don't tell. Please! Please... Luna..."
"Fine! Fine!" Luna threw her hands up in the air. "I wouldn't tell."
"Thank you!" Serenity hugged her. "I knew that you would understand."
Luna sighed and turned around. "But I am not responsible for anything that might go wrong, okay?"
"Umm... okay." Serenity nodded and Luna walked away. "Let's go now." She looked at her friends. "Are you coming?"
Her friends nodded and walked off behind her. Once in the safety of the palace walls, Minako exploded.
"Why didn't you just tell them that you are the Moon Princess?" She asked. "That would make them back off!"
Serenity shook her head. "No."
"But why—"
"As long as they don't know who I am, I am still able to strike at them anyway I wanted." Serenity said. "If mother finds out, she would criticize me about being a princess and all of those things."
"So as long as she doesn't know," Ami nodded, "You are still able to fight them without the Royal decree or anything of that sort."
"Yes." Serenity smiled evilly. "They liked presents, don't they? Well, we are going to give them one." She looked at her friends. "Who's with me?"
A chorus of agreement echoed through the halls.
The next morning, Serenity and her friends discussed the plan for revenge in Serenity's room.
"This morning, I had written a note to that baka." Serenity said.
"What does it say?" Makoto asked.
"It tells them to come to the shed in the garden." She answered. "It also says that if they don't come, they had admitted defeat to us because they are too chicken to fight us."
"Brilliant!" Minako cheered. "So what do we do?"
"Well, here is the plan..."
"Ready?" Serenity whispered at Rei, who stood at the door.
"Wait!" Rei stepped back. "Okay, now I am ready. Here they come!"
The five men walked up to the shed looking around. Shrugging, they walked through the door and—
SPLAT! Something wet and sticky poured down on top of them.
"What in the world—" Endymion cried and smelled it. "This is honey!" He shouted. "Those—"
"You like something even sweeter?" A voice asked and they turned around to see Serenity and the girls hold a bag of something and a fan.
"What are you going to do with that?" Kunzite asked, stepping back. Minako turned on the fan full blast and Makoto held up the bag so they could see the contents.
Feathers. A huge bag full of feathers.
"Stop!" Jadeite yelled.
"Too late."
Makoto poured the bag over the fan, blowing it at the five men. They tried to run but the gallons of honey poured over them caused them to slide across the ground and trip over one another.
"Hey!" Serenity yelled. "Here is something to cool you down!" She pulled out a water hose.
"Dear lord..." Nephrite screamed. "Don't you dare to that and—"
Serenity smiled and turned it on. A blasting stream of water struck them and they fell again. When they got back up, they ran for the door as fast as they could.
"Chickens!" Rei called and placed her hands on her hips in an imitation of one with the cooing. Pretty soon, all the girls are doing it and Ami pulled out a camera.
"Smile!" She called and snapped a picture of the men retreating. "This one goes on the town newspapers!" She declared.
Endymion and his generals has never felt so humiliated in their lives before. The honey sticks like glue and the feathers gathered in clumps on their hair and blowing into their faces. The water was even worse. It drip off their bodies, causing a trail to fall behind them. The girls have to choose the back shed in the garden and when the men came out, people are already moving around, doing their work. Even though they tried to ignore the men, that didn't stop a couple of giggles, muffled by their hands and some very shock stares.
Endymion wanted to die. He just wanted to sink into the ground and bury himself.
"Can this day get even worse?" Zoicite asked, wiping his face with his hands.
"Umm..." Jadeite said, "I think it just did." He pointed behind them and they saw something that made their eyes go wide.
Bees. A whole hive of bees.
"Run!" Kunzite hollered and they ran for their lives, the bees right after them.
"A bunch of chickens on the run in the palace walls? Could you imagine?" Queen Serenity looked at the front page of the town newspaper and shook her head. "What are teenagers these days going to come up with?"
Serenity looked at Ami and they both started giggling.
"Oh, let me guess." Queen Serenity gave them both a look. "You have something to do with this."
"It's not our fault that they gave us worms as a present!" Serenity protested. "We are only getting revenge."
"How many times did I tell you that you shouldn't do things like that to people?" Queen Serenity folded the newspaper. "This time it was honey and feathers. What would be next? Acid and spears?"
"Mother! I wouldn't so something that dangerous! It was just supposed to be a little fun." Serenity said and stood up. "I would not try to do something like that again." That week, they had pester the men with tricks, some small, some big. Once, they had fixed the water pipes in the men side of the palace so that the hot water would become cold and the cold water would be hot. Then they switched the door numbers so that they would walk into someone else's room. Both tricks had been a success.
"Well, you better not." Queen Serenity said and stood up. "I have a meeting with the Prince Endymion and the Generals this afternoon. I must go and get ready."
"Prince Endymion?" Serenity asked.
"Yes, Prince Endymion." Queen Serenity replied and walked out. "See you later, girls."
"What should we do for the rest of the day?" Ami said and stretched.
"Let's go to the gardens? We could read, run, get some exercise…"Rei suggested.
"Agreed!" Serenity cheered and stood up. "Well, come on! Let's go! I can't wait to be out of this stuffy palace!"
"Good afternoon, Prince Endymion and your Generals." Queen Serenity said and gestured at the seats at the long conference table. "Please sit down."
They sat down and Queen Serenity notice something. "Why, Prince Endymion. You look so tired today. And your generals don't look any better either." She looked carefully at the bags underneath their eyes and the way they were sitting.
"It is just... just... insomnia, your Highness." Prince Endymion answered and stifled a yawn.
"Is it because of the rooms? Aren't they comfortable to your liking?" Queen Serenity asked. "I would go and change them if you wanted to—"
"No, they are fine." Jadeite said.
"I know that it was selfish of me to ask you to come here." Queen Serenity said sadly. "I shouldn't have done that."
"No, your Highness," Endymion began, "It was the fact that we are so worried about what Queen Beryl might do next that we are getting so little sleep."
"Oh, alright." Queen Serenity nodded.
Half an hour later, they decided to go to the gardens for a break.
Serenity and her eight friends were sitting underneath a shady tree and just enjoying themselves when she felt someone watching them.
Spinning around, she faced Endymion and said, "The day was so bright, but of course I knew that a black cloud was going to block up my sun."
"I want you and your friends to stop playing all those pranks on us." Endymion demanded.
"Pranks? What pranks?"
"Don't act innocent, servant. I know that it was you who did all of those tricks." Jadeite snapped. "I couldn't get a single night's sleep."
"And isn't that too bad." Makoto sneered.
"I know. It's a shame that it have to make you so worried." Jadeite shot back.
"I wanted you to stop doing them." Endymion repeated. "I mean it. If you don't, then—"
A little girl passed them and she tugged on her mother's arm. "Look, mommy!" She exclaimed loudly, pointing in the direction of the five men. "Chickens! It are the chickens!"
"No, darling," her mother said softly, but loud enough to hear, and shook her head, "Don't say 'it are the chickens'. Say, 'THEY are the chickens'."
"Yes mommy!" The girl smiled and waved at the men. "Bye, chickens!"
The five men turned horror-stricken faces to the eight girls, who broke up in laughter.
"How did they know about it?" Kunzite demanded.
"Oh, didn't you know?" Rei picked up the day's newspaper. "It's in the town newspaper." She handed it to Endymion, who stared down on the first page with shock. On it was five men running away with honey and water over their bodies and feathers sticking out everywhere. The headlines read:
CHICKEN ON THE RUN INSIDE CASTLE WALLS! HIDE ALL OF YOUR CHICKEN FEED!
"Chicken!" Serenity teased and imitated one.
"Don't say to me!" Endymion grabbed her arm and tossed her to the ground. She collapsed to the floor with a cry of pain and shock. Her friends rushed to her side immediately and tried to help her up.
"How can you do such a thing?" Hotaru was touching her friend's arms to see if she had broken any bones. "Pushing a girl on the floor!"
"Why, she shouldn't have said that!" He shouted at her. "Why did you have to print it in the newspapers?"
"What is going on here?" A voice cried as the Queen rushes to her daughter on the floor.
"Thank god!" Endymion said and pointed at Serenity. "She just printed this in the newspaper after play so many thousand tricks on my generals and I!"
"Do you even know who she is?" Queen Serenity said.
"NO!"
"Well, she is my daughter, Princess Serenity." She answered. "Princess of the Moon."
"You must be jesting with us, Your Majesty." Endymion made a choking noise even as he was forced to admit to the truth when Queen Serenity shook her head.
"No, Prince Endymion," Queen Serenity said. "She is my daughter."
"Are you ill, Your Majesty?" He inquired.
Queen Serenity opened her mouth to answer, but Serenity cut in. "No, PRINCE Endymion," she snapped. "My mother is not the one that is ill... you are! Ill at mind and ill at heart... let's put in ill-mannered also!"
"Who are you to speak to me—"
"Princess Serenity, that's who!" Makoto said, glaring at him with fire in her eyes.
"PRINCESS SERENITY, PRINCESS MAKOTO, PRINCE ENDYMION!" Queen Serenity exclaimed with disbelief. "I can't believe how immature you are all acting! Especially you!" She looked at the Outer Senshi, who stood underneath a nearby tree. "Do you possibly believe that what you are doing is correct?" She paused. "We are here to work together against the Negaverse, not fight one another!"
"But it's not our fault!" Minako protested. "They started it!"
"It doesn't matter who started it!" Queen Serenity said. "I am going to end it now." She took a deep breath and considered the punishment. "Your punishment would be that you must spent everyday in each other's company until Serenity's birthday. Luna would supervise you and if anyone of you causes a disagreement, Luna would be able to issue you any orders she wishes."
"WHAT?!"
"You have to be nice to one another also. That means letting ladies go first, bowing and curtsying to one another upon arrival, and keep all of your manners with you at all times." Luna said. "And for those who don't understand, it means that you must be ladies and gentlemen."
"When does this starts?" Jadeite asked in a shaky breath.
Queen Serenity looked at them and smiled. "Now."
"WHAT?! You can't—"
"Yes, I can. I AM the Queen, no?" Queen Serenity smiled and put a serene look on her face. "I trust you understand the rules?"
They all held blank looks on their faces. Queen Serenity smiled again. "The skies are getting darker. I think that you must retire. Your punishment begins tomorrow at the crack of dawn."
She turned around and everyone either curtsied or bowed as she passed them. As soon as she is out of earshot, they turned to one another with fury.
"It's all YOUR fault for getting us into this!" Rei shouted at the men.
"No, it's all your fault! If your FRIEND here isn't the princess, we wouldn't be in trouble now!" Jadeite shouted back.
"Isn't that just too bad." Makoto said sarcastically.
"I know, right?" Nephrite gave her a mocking smile.
"ENOUGH!" Luna shouted. "You better stop doing that right now if you don't want me to start giving out punishments!"
"Umm... excuse me," Endymion said with an innocent look on his face, "But haven't you heard that the Queen said that punishments starts tomorrow? Today isn't tomorrow yet, or haven't you noticed."
"You are—"
"Yes, I know. I am the best." He smiled again.
"You ignorant baka!" Serenity shouted at him. "Do you even know who she is?"
"Your nanny?"
"NANNY?!" Luna cried. "HOW DARE YOU! I am the Queen's ROYAL ADVISOR!"
"Yes and I am the frog prince."
"You should be." Serenity retorted. "But just cut out the prince part."
"Okay, unless you want me to start the punishment today, you may continue arguing." Luna said sweetly. "And I would be MORE than happy to give you the delightful job of scrubbing all the servant restrooms."
"Shut up, you old hag."
Ten minutes later, Endymion found himself all wet on the floor, a dirty brush in his hand, nearly hitting his head on the bathtub when he slipped.
The next morning, everyone found themselves at the breakfast table, eating breakfast and glaring at one another across the table. Except for Endymion. Instead, he found himself nodding into his plate of pancakes, when...
"Why do you have all those bruises, Prince Endymion? And why are you so tired looking? Didn't you get enough sleep last night?" Queen Serenity asked with a concerned look.
"Whh..at? Nani?" He asked sleepily and noticed that everyone was staring at him. "What happened?"
Queen Serenity gave him a weird look. Kunzite nudged his prince and whispered, "She just asked you why you have so many bruises and why you look so tired."
"Oh!" He said. "Umm... the bruises? I umm... tripped, yeah that's it, I tripped! Yeah, I tripped when I got out of my bed today."
"Umm, isn't that FALLING out of your bed?" Serenity sneered. "Got off the wrong side of the bed this morning?"
"Or no bed at all." Endymion muttered underneath his breath, low enough just for the Queen not to hear.
"Prince Endymion, why are your hands so red?" Queen serenity inquired.
"My hands?" He stared at them and shoved them underneath the tables. "I... burned them this morning... making... coffee!"
"But I thought you hated coffee?" Jadeite asked. "You see, you have barely even drink on drop out of the cup that Serenity had poured for you."
"I am afraid that she might have poisoned it." He muttered.
"What did you say?" Serenity asked with an innocent expression. "Don't you want everyone to hear what your comment was?"
Luckily, for him, Queen Serenity started discussing battle strategies and before he knew it, he was nodding off again.
"Prince Endymion, could you please pass the syrup?" Serenity asked.
"Huh? Syrup? What syrup?"
Serenity gave him a weird look. "The syrup right next to you. Oh, look. You have it on your face." She passed him a napkin, in which he dropped. As he bent to pick it up, Serenity kicked him under the table.
"OW!" He cried as he glared at Serenity, who had an innocent expression on her face. Everyone's attention was on them now.
"Are you okay, Prince Endymion? Did you hit your head under the table?" She inquired.
"No, I didn't hit my head. In fact, SOMETHING hit ME instead!" He shot back.
"Uh, uh, UH..." Luna smiled. "No arguing. Have YOU noticed that punishment starts today?" Luna asked and gave him a sweet smile that promised him more pain in the future.
"How can I forget that when you are contently nagging me about it... dear SWEET lady."
"I couldn't stop nagging you because you would forget." Luna smiled. "GENTLEMAN. Talk back to me one more time and I would make sure that your stay on the Moon," she gave him a feline like grin at him, "is VERY pleasant. So pleasant that you would want to come back every... single... year."
At the words "every single year", Endymion snapped his mouth close, and turning his attention back to his breakfast but it's obvious that his appetite is gone.
Serenity just smiles and hold up the coffee pot. "More coffee?"
Later that day, they gather in the Royal Garden.
"Remember, you have to act like ladies and gentlemen." Luna reminded them. "That means the men have to assist the ladies."
"Assist?" Endymion snorted. "What, couldn't they walk and stand by themselves?"
Haruka rolled her eyes. "No, the reason why we couldn't walk is because we are too busy laughing at you bastards to stand properly."
Luna gave Haruka a glare. "No cursing."
"Truthfulness is a moral." Michiru said, coming to Haruka's defense.
"That's true," Luna said thoughtfully. "And our Prince Endymion here would know that if he had read any of the many books about mannerism that I wrote." She grinned. "Why don't we punish him for his wrong-doing?"
"Which one?" Zoicite asked. "Because of what he said or because that he didn't read any of the books that you wrote?"
"Zoicite!"
"What? It's the truth!"
"Stop it, both of you!" Luna commanded. "Or I would have to give you both punishments."
Endymion glared at Zoicite. "Just wait till we are back on Earth... you just wait."
"Now, what kind of person would threaten his own friend?" Kunzite asked, coming up behind Endymion.
"One that isn't a person in the first place." Rei mumbled, loud enough for everyone to hear.
Before they know it, everyone was arguing with one another. Luna just about had enough. "EVERYONE! STOP IT!" She yelled. "I AM GOING TO GET GRAY HAIRS JUST FOR THIS THREE WEEKS THAT I HAVE TO ENDURE WITH YOU!" Everyone immediately fell quiet and she smiled. "That was easy enough."
They blew up again.
"YOU DESERVE TO GET GRAY HAIRS, YOU OLD HAG!"
"DON'T SAY THAT TO HER, YOU ILL-MANNERED IDIOT!"
"OH YEAH? WELL, I WISH THAT SHE GROWS WHISKERS TOO!"
"SHUT UP! MEN ARE SO STUPID!" I wondered who said that...
"WOMEN ARE WEAK! SO WEAK!" Uh oh...
"WHAT?! WHY YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Now, I hope everyone here is old enough to handle a little cursing...
"DO NOT SAY THAT TO MY FRIENDS!"
"Oooo! MISS-I-AM-SO-PERFECT-BECAUSE-I-AM-A-PRINCESS WANTS TO STAND UP FOR HER FRIENDS INSTEAD OF CARING FOR HERSELF ONLY!" Bad move, Endymion...
"WELL, MISTER-I-HAVE-NOTHING-BETTER-TO-DO-THAN-TO-ANNOY-PEOPLE-AND-SAY-THAT-HE-IS-SO-WONDERFUL BETTER SHUT UP BEFORE I DO SOMETHING THAT HE WOULD REGRET!" You better listen to her, Endymion...
"Ooooooooo! I AM SO SCARED THAT I AM SHAKING!" *smacks forehead* You idiot...
"YOU BETTER SHUT UP OR I WOULD DO MORE THAN MAKE YOU SHAKE!" Don't say that I didn't warn you, Endymion... *holds up STOP sign*
"MAKE ME SHAKE? YOU YOURSELF CAN HARDLY EVEN STAND!" *holds up DANGER sign*
"I CAN STAND BETTER THAN YOU BECAUSE I AT LEAST HAVE SOME PRIDE!" I think it's dying down...
"PRIDE? HA! YOU HAVE TOO MUCH, YOU DITZY IDIOT!" No... not anymore. Did I mention that men are STUPID?!
"When is this going to stop?" Go Ami!
"I WOULD STOP WHEN HE STOPS!" Alright... it's a peace offering, Endymion! Take it!
"YOU WOULD NEVER STOP BECAUSE YOU ARE LIKE A BROKEN RECORD! YOU NEVER SHUT UP!" I think I should call 911... *picks up phone*
"WHAT?!" *begins to dial rapidly* C'mon, c'mon... PICK UP!
"THAT IS RIGHT, YOU SNOBBY-SELFISH-NO-GOOD-TOO-FULL-OF-HERSELF PRINCESS!" Hello? Yes, I need some help. There is a fight going on here and I think I need some-- *looks back at the scene* Too late...
The sound of a slap echoes through the palace, a slap so loud that even Queen Serenity, who was sitting in the throne room, reading her papers, look up and asked her advisor, "Is that thunder?"
Outside, in the garden, everyone stood still, so still that you can hear a leaf falling from a tree. Haruka was the first one to break the silence by letting out a low whistle.
"You just... you just... you... just... SLAPPED me." Endymion sputtered, touching his red cheek.
Serenity placed down her hand, gasping for breath, her chest heaving heavily. "You deserved it."
"DESERVED IT?!" Endymion shouted, launching himself at her. His friends quickly held him back by the arms. "YOU SLAPPED ME FOR NO DAMN REASON!" Now, who believes that?
"You insulted my friends, not to mention that you insulted me!" Serenity glared. "Did you know that insulting the princess of the Moon is a DEATH punishment?"
"And did you know that slapping the prince of Earth is also a death punishment?"
"You are on the Moon now." Minako stepped in front of her friend. "When you are here, we are in charge."
"We do not care about how you Earthlings run the monarchy system but here, on the Moon, this is the way we run ours." Setsuna said and when she speaks, everyone listens. "But since you are here by the summons of Queen Serenity to protect the Moon, the death sentence is therefore lifted from you."
"Say 'thank you', Endymion." Zoicite urged him.
"Thank YOU." Endymion said in a sarcastic tone, brushing his friends away. His friends fell back, knowing not to bother him.
Serenity takes a deep breath and turns to Luna. "Luna, I think it's time we call it quits today. We shall continue tomorrow."
Luna have no choice but to listen to her mistress so she turned to Endymion and said, "That's it for today. We will continue tomorrow."
Endymion glared at Serenity and then stomped off with his friends trailing after him. A flash of lightning, followed by a clap of thunder, shattered through the atmosphere, a real one, this time. Serenity and her friends ran for cover inside the palace just as torrents of rain came down.
Thank you for reading! I am not quite done with the 3rd chapter yet but tune in for that too! E-mail me at shadowbluemoon@yahoo.com!