Title: Moon Kingdom
Author: Nekkyoo Ema
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own these charries, but I wish I did. However, I do own the storyline. If you want to steal... just ask. ^_~
Note: Well, someone actually did get the language, but she didn't leave an e-mail address, so you all will have to keep on trying! Don't worry, you'll get it at some point. I still don't know if this will be a Hiiro/Usagi fic, but leave your comments in the reviews. ^_^ *Ties her hair back* Woo, let's get to work!
Oh, she is going to sing so the words will be like this:
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lyrics, lyrics
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"She's been out a long time..." Duo said quietly.
Quatre looked at Usagi, "she is severely exhausted from something."
"But what?" Trowa asked.
"Who knows," Quatre and Wufei said at the same time. They all looked at the "sleeping" girl on the couch who had been out for almost thirty minutes.
"Someone will have to watch over her. ...To make sure she doesn't get exhausted too much again." Duo suggested. Trowa, Hiiro, Wufei, and Quatre all turned to look at Duo with slightly shocked faces. "What?" Duo asked. Apparently he didn't know that he had made a smart suggestion for once.
"I'm not looking over some weak onna that can't even keep herself from being exhausted," Wufei finally said as he walked out of the room.
Quatre sighed, "I'll be busy most of the week helping Ririna with her diplomatic duties. What about you guys?"
"The circus is opening this week, I'm needed," Trowa said. He wanted to look after his friend, but the circus was something that needed and depended on him.
"Duo? Hiiro?" Quatre asked.
"I have to do some things." Duo said, a little sad that he was not able to take care of Usagi.
'Oh, Allah,' Quatre thought, "guess that leaves you, Hiiro. Unless there is something else you are needed for?"
Hiiro knew he should say that he had something to do, but he didn't. So, "I'll do it," was all he said in an almost inaudible tone of voice.
"Okay," Quatre said. 'This will certainly be interesting. Hiiro doesn't have the patience for someone like Usagi. And he acts like he doesn't have a caring bone in his body, yet he does.' The little Arabian thought as he and Duo left the room.
It was only ten minutes later when the Lunarian Princess woke from the world of blackness. "Aj... my head," she muttered as she placed a hand on her head. She started to sit up when two hands pushed her back down. "What the..?"
"Stay there," Hiiros gruff voice said from above her.
Usagi opened her eyes and smiled slightly at Hiiro, "two words that did not consist of 'Hn,' good job. ...What happened?"
"You passed out. I was assigned to watch over you for who knows how long to make sure you don't do it again."
'I need to get some energy from the moon rays. But there is snow everywhere. How am I going to achieve this little problem?' Usagi thought to herself. 'Somehow I have to get outside without using my power and get some energy.' She sat up, slowly this time and continued to think about it. 'It is no use. I shall just have to come up with a plan tomorrow after I have rested.' Usagi finally thought.
"So... I am kind of hungry. What about you, Hiiro?" Hiiro just nodded slightly in response and carefully she walked out the door with him leading the way.
When she was passing Quatre's conference room she overheard him talking about the Princess Ririna girl she had met. 'That is it!' Usagi thought, 'if I revert to Serenity, then I will be able to suppress Nysno until I have the energy I need!'
Soon she would have to put her plan into action. Very soon.
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"...and that is how I stopped the mob," Endyimon told Minako. She quickly snapped out of her half sleep, half listening mode and smiled.
"How nice," she said. 'Great Gods, kill me,' she thought. Minako was all to close to killing the Prince of the Earth if he did not stop talking incessantly about himself.
"Minako-hime, can you come here for a moment, please?" Aphrodite asked from the doorway.
"Pardon me," Minako said so sweetly she could have caused herself to get cavities. "Yes, Mother, what is it?"
"Nothing really, you just looked like you wanted to die in there. Why don't you go find something else to keep you busy, Selene and I will keep the Prince entertained." The Goddess said to her only child.
Minakos eyes lit up, "thank you, Mother!" She hugged her mother, then ran off with a giggle to her room where she could talk with Serenity.
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"He really doesn't ever stop talking about himself, does he?" Serenity said into her semi-translucent window-like thing that showed Minakos picture.
"No, and it is getting annoying. Mother saved me this time, but she cannot keep doing that. It will get to obvious that I do not want to be around the snooty guy." Minako replied into her own semi-translucent window.
"I have a plan for how I will get energy. See, it snowed down here early, so I will have to stay like this and try to suppress Nysno so I can soak up some rays, then I will try to get back without getting snow on myself. Think it will work, Nako-chan?"
"It sounds far-fetched, but seeing as that it is pretty much your only chance, I say it sounds about as good as it will get." Minako replied. She turned her head upon hearing a deep, masculine voice calling her, then looked back at the window. "Speak of the devil..."
"Oh, Gods, no. What does he want?" Serenity said, trying to not laugh.
"He wants to know why I am talking to myself. Should I tell him I am talking with you?" Minako asked. Serenity would have said no if another person had not popped into the view.
"Who, in the great name of Selene, are you?" Serenity asked the new person. She could see Minako slapping her forehead in the background and realized that she had just met her fiancée.
"You must be Serenity," Endyimon said with an almost ugly smile.
"You will not address me by just 'Serenity' you will call me by my title," Serenity replied back. She could now see Minako making choking movements in the background, where Endyimon could not see.
"Very well, Serenity-hime. How is your stay on Earth?"
"Just fine," Serenity replied. She did not like him already. For starters, he had just barged into her cousins room without even getting an answer; and secondly, he was quite rude.
"Usagi, who are you talking with?" Hiiros voice said from the other side of the door.
"Who is that? Why is that a man talking to you so informally?" Endyimon said, obviously a jealous person.
"Uh, no one, Hiiro. I will be out in a minute," Serenity replied. Then she looked back at Endyimon, "he is not talking to me informally, he is talking to me by the name I told them to call me and I do not like you giving me the third degree about it. Nako-chan, I will see you later. Good-bye," and with that the Princess stopped the transmission and changed back into Usagi.
"Who were you talking to in there? I know I heard someone's voice," Hiiro asked when she walked out of the room. It was almost nightfall, so she had to get her plan into action.
"I was talking with no one, Hiiro. But right now I am going to take a walk. Alone." She said.
"I'm not supposed to leave you alone," Hiiro informed her.
"Look, Hiiro, I have been doing just fine on my own since I woke up. I think I can handle going out for a short walk, okay?" Usagi protested. She could not have him coming with her, that would botch her whole plan.
"Fine. But don't let the others see you or we'll both be in trouble," Hiiro finally said. He was still going to trail her to make sure nothing happened, but he wouldn't let her know about it.
"Thanks, Hiiro!" Usagi said as she ran out the door faster then he would think she could. She hid in the shadows quickly and then changed into Serenity before jumping off the balcony and gliding to the ground. Upon touching the snow, she suppressed her Snow Goddess form, which was harder to do then she thought.
"Okay, all I have to do is soak up some rays. I think the best place will be by the lake where there are not many trees." Serenity said to herself, and to a listening Hiiro. She walked down the curvy path to the lake. "Great, just great. Clouds. Now I will have to wait."
She sat down next to the waters edge and looked at herself in the water. "I wish I could show them all what I was really like. But I cannot," Serenity said to herself.
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Look at me
You may think you see
Who I really am
But you'll never know me
Every day
It's as if I play a part
Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart
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She drug her fingertips threw the water to blur her reflection and waited for it to go back to still. Hiiro stood behind the trees only two feet behind her in awe. He couldn't believe his eyes.
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Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
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Serenity put her arms around her knees and pulled them to her chest. 'Just once, I wish they could see who I really am...'
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I am now
In a world where I
Have to hide my heart
And what I believe in
But somehow
I will show the world
What's inside my heart
And be loved for who I am
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She stared at her reflection in the water, then to the moons', which had come out, she was already soaking up the rays.
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Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection
Someone I don't know?
Must I pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
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Serenity was done soaking up all the rays she would need for the next couple of weeks she was on Earth, and was now just sitting there.
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There's a heart that must be
Free to fly
That burns with a need to know
The reason why
Why must we all conceal
What we think, how we feel?
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
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She lifted a hand and swiped at her nose which was starting to run from the coldness of the snow making her body feel cool. She stared long and hard at her reflection.
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I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
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"Why can I not show my friends here on Earth who I am? Why can I not tell them that I am the crowned Princess of the Moon Kingdom that is almost four thousand years in their past? And that when I am in my Usagi form, if I get touched by a moonbeam I will turn back into Serenity, into a fairy-like creature?! That I am a Snow Goddess when the snow touches me? Why?" Serenity said, the tears of her frustration finally flowing down her paled cheeks. She lied her forehead on her knees and cried.
Hiiro was stunned, 'she's a princess? From four thousand years ago? No wonder she doesn't understand things that happen in this time.' His head turned quickly when he saw a flash of light close to him.
"Oh, my dear Princess. What has thou so sad?" A woman, with long black hair done up with two odango-like balls on either side of her head; and yellow dress with black under-lining and a yellow ribbon around her neck, asked. The most intriguing thing about her was the crescent moon symbol turned up on her forehead.
"Luna!" Serenity exclaimed as she jumped up to hug the woman. "How did you get here? I thought that we could only venture to Earth when the full moon came around."
"Yes, that is true, my Princess. But I used my own powers to transport myself here. I could not just watch you cry in confusion." Luna replied.
"Luna... I want to tell them. I want to tell them so much. But I cannot because it would put the Moon and thyself in danger, would it not?"
Luna gave a small laugh, "oh, child. Is that what has thou so down? Well, that shall be easily fixed. I do not see why you cannot tell the friends of yours who you are. They certainly pose no threat. But I have to say this to you before I go: Endyimon has somehow gotten your Mother to move up the marriage to the day after you arrive home."
"No! No, I will not marry that man! I talked with him earlier today, he is nothing by an egotistical jerk! I will protest all the way to the alter if I shall have to, Luna. Please, you have to convince my mother that I will not marry him!"
"Serenity-hime, I will tell your mother, but what reason do you have not to marry him other then the previous said?" Luna asked.
"I do not know what it is, but every time I am around one of my newfound friends I get this... pain in my heart. It is like someone is toying with my emotions or something quite like it. And whenever he is not around, the pain seems to be just a little worse."
"Oh, dear," Luna started, but was quickly interrupted.
"What? What is it, Luna?" Serenity asked.
"Serenity-hime, I think you may be falling in love. Or possibly you already have. Whoever it is, you better snap out of it. You have to return to the Moon in two weeks to marry. No matter what."
"Luna, you cannot just fall out of love! It does not work like that. What would you have said if I had told you that you should not love Artemis because he was someone that I did not approve of?"
Luna sighed, "I would have said exactly what you have, Serenity-hime. I must go now, but I will leave you with two things. One, I will try my hardest to convince your mother that this marriage is not good;" she then quieted her voice, "and two, someone has been listening to us, I think. Good-bye, my Princess." Then in a flash of light, Luna was gone.
Serenity closed her eyes, trying to sense who it was that was listening. 'Hiiro... I should have known he would follow me. Does this mean he has heard everything I have said?' She thought. "Hiiro, come out, I know you are there."
'Who could she love? It must be Duo or Trowa, she is around them most of all and they get along the best,' Hiiro thought. He heard her call to him from where she stood and he stiffened.
"Hiiro, I know thou art there, please show thyself," Serenity said in her most regal tone of voice. She watched as Hiiro walked out to stand three feet from her.
"A princess?" Hiiro finally said. Serenity's features went to those of guilt.
"I... I wanted to tell you..." she started, "but I did not know if it was safe."
"So Duo really wasn't making up the story of him seeing you on the Moon that day without a suit on and looking just as you do now? And I yelled at him for making up insane stories when they were true?" Hiiro accused.
Serenity held her head in shame, "I guess the spell did not work right," she said. "I wish I had never come to Earth. I should have just stayed on the Moon being miserable and apparently now betrothed to a jerk."
"What are you babbling about?" Hiiro asked.
"I always want to come to Earth for it has many things the Moon does not. I hid my identity from everyone because I did not want to endanger the moon, but now it looks as if I should have never come at all."
Hiiro still didn't know why she was saying what she was saying. Or what she was talking about at all really, "why shouldn't you have come?"
"Hiiro, I was not supposed to fall in love with an Earthian, it is pretty much forbidden because Lunarians are immortal and it would not be fair, nor a happy thing to see the Earthian you love to grow old and you stay almost the same age as you were when you first met."
"Oh," was all Hiiro could think of to say at the time.
"Lets go, I think I have to explain some things to the others," Serenity said, almost in full depression about it. She quickly walked along the path to the house and opened the door, "Quatre, Trowa, Duo, Wufei, could you all come here please, I have to tell you something!" she yelled out from the front foyer.
Soon everyone was looking at Usagi, who had changed back into her Earthian form to prove her point.
"Everyone, I have to tell you the truth about myself." Usagi started. She took at deep inhale of breath and exhaled it slowly, "I am the crowned princess of the Moon Kingdom four thousand years in your past. I was walking on a moonbeam to come to Earth when it was shaken and I fell into your world. Many years in the future from the time I was supposed to be in.
"I chanced upon Ririna, and then a fawn told me that you had a house here, Quatre and she led me to it. I am also a Snow Goddess named Nysno, and that is why I kept yelling at you about the snowballs, Duo.
"Also, if a moonbeam touches me while I am like this, then I will turn back into Princess Serenity. I am betrothed to an egotistical prince named Endyimon, and my mother in the Goddess of the Moon, Selene. I am to go back to the Moon when the full moon come around again in this world and then I shall be married under much protest." She finally finished.
Everyone, but Hiiro, looked at her with blank faces. Then Duo was the first to crack and he started to laugh.
"Oh, that was a good one, Usagi! Great joke." Duo said. Soon everyone was laughing, with the exception of Trowa who was just slightly laughing.
"It is no joke, Duo." Usagi said.
"Yeah, sure it's not, Usagi. You have no proof that you are what you just said." Duo said, still laughing.
"Really?" Usagi opened the door and everyone stopped to watch her, they could see her walk out and standing the light of a moonbeam. She started glowing and soon changed into her true form. "Anything else you want me to prove? Or do you need to ask a billon questions?"
"What about the 'Snow Goddess' junk you were talking about?" Wufei asked.
Serenity went over the some snow on the ground and touched it with her fingers, changing her into the woman Hiiro had talked to a few days prior.
Nysno bowed her head, "hello, I am Nysno."
"Whoa, she really *wasn't* joking," Duo said in awe as Nysno reverted back to Serenity.
"I really wanted to tell you all this before, but tonight when Luna came and I asked her about it... she said it would be okay for me to tell." Serenity said. "I did not plan on getting stuck here on Earth for a month, I was only to be here for two days."
Trowa, who had been silent the whole time, walked up to Serenity. "Sere-chan?"
"Trowa, what the heck?" Duo and Quatre asked almost at the same time.
Serenity gasped and her eyes widened, "no way! ...Is it really you?"
"Is he really who?" Hiiro asked, thoroughly confused as were the rest of the ex-pilots.
"Yes, it is really me, Sere-chan. I thought it was just a joke when you said your name was Serenity... but it is really you." Trowa said.
"We thought something had happened to you when you never returned. Minako and I were so sad then." Serenity replied.
"Will someone please tell us what the hell is going on?!" Wufei finally yelled.
Serenity, Trowa and the rest of them looked at the Chinese teen. "Only one person was ever allowed to call me Sere-chan. That person was my older brother." Serenity explained. "I just never knew that it was Trowa... he has changed a lot since I saw him last..."
"...So that would make Trowa like a Prince or something?" Quatre asked.
"Actually, it makes him heir to the throne when our mother passes on," Serenity informed the Arabian. "Why did you never return?"
"It is the curse, Sere-chan. It was probably never told to you, but if you were on Earth for two months you could not return to the Moon until someone of Lunarian blood came and took you back with them."
"You have waited almost eight years for someone? I cannot believe you survived all this time. Will you come back with me?" Serenity asked.
Trowa smiled, "yes. It is about time that I came home. Plus, I have a jerk to save you from."
Serenity slapped her palms together, "oh, thank the Gods." All of the sudden a translucent window popped up in front of Serenity.
"Gi-chan, I do not know if this is bad time, but something has happened." Minako stated.
"What happened, Nako-chan?" Serenity asked worriedly.
"I know who you love!" Minako said as she flashed her famous V-sign.
Serenity wanted to smack her cousin, "NAKO-CHAN! I hate it when you do that! You... oh nevermind." She said exasperatedly, "oh. Look who found me, or I found him, I do not know," she pulled Trowa into view and Minako gave her a questioning look.
"Who is that?" She asked.
"Maybe you will remember if you see him like this," Serenity said as she changed Trowa back into his Lunarian form.
"Prince Hiroshi?!" Minako shrieked. Hiiro, Duo, Quatre, and Wufei watched in interest and confusion.
"I see you have grown up, Minako-hime." Hiroshi said with a smile.
Finally Hiiro could not wait any longer. "Serenity, I have a question."
Serenity looked to Hiiro, "yes, what is it?"
"When you were talking to that Luna person, you said that you were in love with someone out of us five. Obviously it can't be Trowa since he's your bother. So who is it?" Hiiro said.
"Yeah, who is it?" Duo asked curiously.
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Dun, dun, dun! *^_^* I felt like being weird by making Trowa her brother. I hope you girls/guys don't mind, I thought it seemed cool. Anyway, I thought it would be a fun cliffie for now. Plus, I'm at my page limit. See you next chapter! OH! And if you guess the language, you'll have to leave an e-mail address for me to contact you at. 'Kay? 'Kay! Jaa!
-Ema
Author: Nekkyoo Ema
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own these charries, but I wish I did. However, I do own the storyline. If you want to steal... just ask. ^_~
Note: Well, someone actually did get the language, but she didn't leave an e-mail address, so you all will have to keep on trying! Don't worry, you'll get it at some point. I still don't know if this will be a Hiiro/Usagi fic, but leave your comments in the reviews. ^_^ *Ties her hair back* Woo, let's get to work!
Oh, she is going to sing so the words will be like this:
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lyrics, lyrics
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"She's been out a long time..." Duo said quietly.
Quatre looked at Usagi, "she is severely exhausted from something."
"But what?" Trowa asked.
"Who knows," Quatre and Wufei said at the same time. They all looked at the "sleeping" girl on the couch who had been out for almost thirty minutes.
"Someone will have to watch over her. ...To make sure she doesn't get exhausted too much again." Duo suggested. Trowa, Hiiro, Wufei, and Quatre all turned to look at Duo with slightly shocked faces. "What?" Duo asked. Apparently he didn't know that he had made a smart suggestion for once.
"I'm not looking over some weak onna that can't even keep herself from being exhausted," Wufei finally said as he walked out of the room.
Quatre sighed, "I'll be busy most of the week helping Ririna with her diplomatic duties. What about you guys?"
"The circus is opening this week, I'm needed," Trowa said. He wanted to look after his friend, but the circus was something that needed and depended on him.
"Duo? Hiiro?" Quatre asked.
"I have to do some things." Duo said, a little sad that he was not able to take care of Usagi.
'Oh, Allah,' Quatre thought, "guess that leaves you, Hiiro. Unless there is something else you are needed for?"
Hiiro knew he should say that he had something to do, but he didn't. So, "I'll do it," was all he said in an almost inaudible tone of voice.
"Okay," Quatre said. 'This will certainly be interesting. Hiiro doesn't have the patience for someone like Usagi. And he acts like he doesn't have a caring bone in his body, yet he does.' The little Arabian thought as he and Duo left the room.
It was only ten minutes later when the Lunarian Princess woke from the world of blackness. "Aj... my head," she muttered as she placed a hand on her head. She started to sit up when two hands pushed her back down. "What the..?"
"Stay there," Hiiros gruff voice said from above her.
Usagi opened her eyes and smiled slightly at Hiiro, "two words that did not consist of 'Hn,' good job. ...What happened?"
"You passed out. I was assigned to watch over you for who knows how long to make sure you don't do it again."
'I need to get some energy from the moon rays. But there is snow everywhere. How am I going to achieve this little problem?' Usagi thought to herself. 'Somehow I have to get outside without using my power and get some energy.' She sat up, slowly this time and continued to think about it. 'It is no use. I shall just have to come up with a plan tomorrow after I have rested.' Usagi finally thought.
"So... I am kind of hungry. What about you, Hiiro?" Hiiro just nodded slightly in response and carefully she walked out the door with him leading the way.
When she was passing Quatre's conference room she overheard him talking about the Princess Ririna girl she had met. 'That is it!' Usagi thought, 'if I revert to Serenity, then I will be able to suppress Nysno until I have the energy I need!'
Soon she would have to put her plan into action. Very soon.
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"...and that is how I stopped the mob," Endyimon told Minako. She quickly snapped out of her half sleep, half listening mode and smiled.
"How nice," she said. 'Great Gods, kill me,' she thought. Minako was all to close to killing the Prince of the Earth if he did not stop talking incessantly about himself.
"Minako-hime, can you come here for a moment, please?" Aphrodite asked from the doorway.
"Pardon me," Minako said so sweetly she could have caused herself to get cavities. "Yes, Mother, what is it?"
"Nothing really, you just looked like you wanted to die in there. Why don't you go find something else to keep you busy, Selene and I will keep the Prince entertained." The Goddess said to her only child.
Minakos eyes lit up, "thank you, Mother!" She hugged her mother, then ran off with a giggle to her room where she could talk with Serenity.
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"He really doesn't ever stop talking about himself, does he?" Serenity said into her semi-translucent window-like thing that showed Minakos picture.
"No, and it is getting annoying. Mother saved me this time, but she cannot keep doing that. It will get to obvious that I do not want to be around the snooty guy." Minako replied into her own semi-translucent window.
"I have a plan for how I will get energy. See, it snowed down here early, so I will have to stay like this and try to suppress Nysno so I can soak up some rays, then I will try to get back without getting snow on myself. Think it will work, Nako-chan?"
"It sounds far-fetched, but seeing as that it is pretty much your only chance, I say it sounds about as good as it will get." Minako replied. She turned her head upon hearing a deep, masculine voice calling her, then looked back at the window. "Speak of the devil..."
"Oh, Gods, no. What does he want?" Serenity said, trying to not laugh.
"He wants to know why I am talking to myself. Should I tell him I am talking with you?" Minako asked. Serenity would have said no if another person had not popped into the view.
"Who, in the great name of Selene, are you?" Serenity asked the new person. She could see Minako slapping her forehead in the background and realized that she had just met her fiancée.
"You must be Serenity," Endyimon said with an almost ugly smile.
"You will not address me by just 'Serenity' you will call me by my title," Serenity replied back. She could now see Minako making choking movements in the background, where Endyimon could not see.
"Very well, Serenity-hime. How is your stay on Earth?"
"Just fine," Serenity replied. She did not like him already. For starters, he had just barged into her cousins room without even getting an answer; and secondly, he was quite rude.
"Usagi, who are you talking with?" Hiiros voice said from the other side of the door.
"Who is that? Why is that a man talking to you so informally?" Endyimon said, obviously a jealous person.
"Uh, no one, Hiiro. I will be out in a minute," Serenity replied. Then she looked back at Endyimon, "he is not talking to me informally, he is talking to me by the name I told them to call me and I do not like you giving me the third degree about it. Nako-chan, I will see you later. Good-bye," and with that the Princess stopped the transmission and changed back into Usagi.
"Who were you talking to in there? I know I heard someone's voice," Hiiro asked when she walked out of the room. It was almost nightfall, so she had to get her plan into action.
"I was talking with no one, Hiiro. But right now I am going to take a walk. Alone." She said.
"I'm not supposed to leave you alone," Hiiro informed her.
"Look, Hiiro, I have been doing just fine on my own since I woke up. I think I can handle going out for a short walk, okay?" Usagi protested. She could not have him coming with her, that would botch her whole plan.
"Fine. But don't let the others see you or we'll both be in trouble," Hiiro finally said. He was still going to trail her to make sure nothing happened, but he wouldn't let her know about it.
"Thanks, Hiiro!" Usagi said as she ran out the door faster then he would think she could. She hid in the shadows quickly and then changed into Serenity before jumping off the balcony and gliding to the ground. Upon touching the snow, she suppressed her Snow Goddess form, which was harder to do then she thought.
"Okay, all I have to do is soak up some rays. I think the best place will be by the lake where there are not many trees." Serenity said to herself, and to a listening Hiiro. She walked down the curvy path to the lake. "Great, just great. Clouds. Now I will have to wait."
She sat down next to the waters edge and looked at herself in the water. "I wish I could show them all what I was really like. But I cannot," Serenity said to herself.
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Look at me
You may think you see
Who I really am
But you'll never know me
Every day
It's as if I play a part
Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart
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She drug her fingertips threw the water to blur her reflection and waited for it to go back to still. Hiiro stood behind the trees only two feet behind her in awe. He couldn't believe his eyes.
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Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
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Serenity put her arms around her knees and pulled them to her chest. 'Just once, I wish they could see who I really am...'
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I am now
In a world where I
Have to hide my heart
And what I believe in
But somehow
I will show the world
What's inside my heart
And be loved for who I am
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She stared at her reflection in the water, then to the moons', which had come out, she was already soaking up the rays.
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Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection
Someone I don't know?
Must I pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
~~
Serenity was done soaking up all the rays she would need for the next couple of weeks she was on Earth, and was now just sitting there.
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There's a heart that must be
Free to fly
That burns with a need to know
The reason why
Why must we all conceal
What we think, how we feel?
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
~~
She lifted a hand and swiped at her nose which was starting to run from the coldness of the snow making her body feel cool. She stared long and hard at her reflection.
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I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
~~
"Why can I not show my friends here on Earth who I am? Why can I not tell them that I am the crowned Princess of the Moon Kingdom that is almost four thousand years in their past? And that when I am in my Usagi form, if I get touched by a moonbeam I will turn back into Serenity, into a fairy-like creature?! That I am a Snow Goddess when the snow touches me? Why?" Serenity said, the tears of her frustration finally flowing down her paled cheeks. She lied her forehead on her knees and cried.
Hiiro was stunned, 'she's a princess? From four thousand years ago? No wonder she doesn't understand things that happen in this time.' His head turned quickly when he saw a flash of light close to him.
"Oh, my dear Princess. What has thou so sad?" A woman, with long black hair done up with two odango-like balls on either side of her head; and yellow dress with black under-lining and a yellow ribbon around her neck, asked. The most intriguing thing about her was the crescent moon symbol turned up on her forehead.
"Luna!" Serenity exclaimed as she jumped up to hug the woman. "How did you get here? I thought that we could only venture to Earth when the full moon came around."
"Yes, that is true, my Princess. But I used my own powers to transport myself here. I could not just watch you cry in confusion." Luna replied.
"Luna... I want to tell them. I want to tell them so much. But I cannot because it would put the Moon and thyself in danger, would it not?"
Luna gave a small laugh, "oh, child. Is that what has thou so down? Well, that shall be easily fixed. I do not see why you cannot tell the friends of yours who you are. They certainly pose no threat. But I have to say this to you before I go: Endyimon has somehow gotten your Mother to move up the marriage to the day after you arrive home."
"No! No, I will not marry that man! I talked with him earlier today, he is nothing by an egotistical jerk! I will protest all the way to the alter if I shall have to, Luna. Please, you have to convince my mother that I will not marry him!"
"Serenity-hime, I will tell your mother, but what reason do you have not to marry him other then the previous said?" Luna asked.
"I do not know what it is, but every time I am around one of my newfound friends I get this... pain in my heart. It is like someone is toying with my emotions or something quite like it. And whenever he is not around, the pain seems to be just a little worse."
"Oh, dear," Luna started, but was quickly interrupted.
"What? What is it, Luna?" Serenity asked.
"Serenity-hime, I think you may be falling in love. Or possibly you already have. Whoever it is, you better snap out of it. You have to return to the Moon in two weeks to marry. No matter what."
"Luna, you cannot just fall out of love! It does not work like that. What would you have said if I had told you that you should not love Artemis because he was someone that I did not approve of?"
Luna sighed, "I would have said exactly what you have, Serenity-hime. I must go now, but I will leave you with two things. One, I will try my hardest to convince your mother that this marriage is not good;" she then quieted her voice, "and two, someone has been listening to us, I think. Good-bye, my Princess." Then in a flash of light, Luna was gone.
Serenity closed her eyes, trying to sense who it was that was listening. 'Hiiro... I should have known he would follow me. Does this mean he has heard everything I have said?' She thought. "Hiiro, come out, I know you are there."
'Who could she love? It must be Duo or Trowa, she is around them most of all and they get along the best,' Hiiro thought. He heard her call to him from where she stood and he stiffened.
"Hiiro, I know thou art there, please show thyself," Serenity said in her most regal tone of voice. She watched as Hiiro walked out to stand three feet from her.
"A princess?" Hiiro finally said. Serenity's features went to those of guilt.
"I... I wanted to tell you..." she started, "but I did not know if it was safe."
"So Duo really wasn't making up the story of him seeing you on the Moon that day without a suit on and looking just as you do now? And I yelled at him for making up insane stories when they were true?" Hiiro accused.
Serenity held her head in shame, "I guess the spell did not work right," she said. "I wish I had never come to Earth. I should have just stayed on the Moon being miserable and apparently now betrothed to a jerk."
"What are you babbling about?" Hiiro asked.
"I always want to come to Earth for it has many things the Moon does not. I hid my identity from everyone because I did not want to endanger the moon, but now it looks as if I should have never come at all."
Hiiro still didn't know why she was saying what she was saying. Or what she was talking about at all really, "why shouldn't you have come?"
"Hiiro, I was not supposed to fall in love with an Earthian, it is pretty much forbidden because Lunarians are immortal and it would not be fair, nor a happy thing to see the Earthian you love to grow old and you stay almost the same age as you were when you first met."
"Oh," was all Hiiro could think of to say at the time.
"Lets go, I think I have to explain some things to the others," Serenity said, almost in full depression about it. She quickly walked along the path to the house and opened the door, "Quatre, Trowa, Duo, Wufei, could you all come here please, I have to tell you something!" she yelled out from the front foyer.
Soon everyone was looking at Usagi, who had changed back into her Earthian form to prove her point.
"Everyone, I have to tell you the truth about myself." Usagi started. She took at deep inhale of breath and exhaled it slowly, "I am the crowned princess of the Moon Kingdom four thousand years in your past. I was walking on a moonbeam to come to Earth when it was shaken and I fell into your world. Many years in the future from the time I was supposed to be in.
"I chanced upon Ririna, and then a fawn told me that you had a house here, Quatre and she led me to it. I am also a Snow Goddess named Nysno, and that is why I kept yelling at you about the snowballs, Duo.
"Also, if a moonbeam touches me while I am like this, then I will turn back into Princess Serenity. I am betrothed to an egotistical prince named Endyimon, and my mother in the Goddess of the Moon, Selene. I am to go back to the Moon when the full moon come around again in this world and then I shall be married under much protest." She finally finished.
Everyone, but Hiiro, looked at her with blank faces. Then Duo was the first to crack and he started to laugh.
"Oh, that was a good one, Usagi! Great joke." Duo said. Soon everyone was laughing, with the exception of Trowa who was just slightly laughing.
"It is no joke, Duo." Usagi said.
"Yeah, sure it's not, Usagi. You have no proof that you are what you just said." Duo said, still laughing.
"Really?" Usagi opened the door and everyone stopped to watch her, they could see her walk out and standing the light of a moonbeam. She started glowing and soon changed into her true form. "Anything else you want me to prove? Or do you need to ask a billon questions?"
"What about the 'Snow Goddess' junk you were talking about?" Wufei asked.
Serenity went over the some snow on the ground and touched it with her fingers, changing her into the woman Hiiro had talked to a few days prior.
Nysno bowed her head, "hello, I am Nysno."
"Whoa, she really *wasn't* joking," Duo said in awe as Nysno reverted back to Serenity.
"I really wanted to tell you all this before, but tonight when Luna came and I asked her about it... she said it would be okay for me to tell." Serenity said. "I did not plan on getting stuck here on Earth for a month, I was only to be here for two days."
Trowa, who had been silent the whole time, walked up to Serenity. "Sere-chan?"
"Trowa, what the heck?" Duo and Quatre asked almost at the same time.
Serenity gasped and her eyes widened, "no way! ...Is it really you?"
"Is he really who?" Hiiro asked, thoroughly confused as were the rest of the ex-pilots.
"Yes, it is really me, Sere-chan. I thought it was just a joke when you said your name was Serenity... but it is really you." Trowa said.
"We thought something had happened to you when you never returned. Minako and I were so sad then." Serenity replied.
"Will someone please tell us what the hell is going on?!" Wufei finally yelled.
Serenity, Trowa and the rest of them looked at the Chinese teen. "Only one person was ever allowed to call me Sere-chan. That person was my older brother." Serenity explained. "I just never knew that it was Trowa... he has changed a lot since I saw him last..."
"...So that would make Trowa like a Prince or something?" Quatre asked.
"Actually, it makes him heir to the throne when our mother passes on," Serenity informed the Arabian. "Why did you never return?"
"It is the curse, Sere-chan. It was probably never told to you, but if you were on Earth for two months you could not return to the Moon until someone of Lunarian blood came and took you back with them."
"You have waited almost eight years for someone? I cannot believe you survived all this time. Will you come back with me?" Serenity asked.
Trowa smiled, "yes. It is about time that I came home. Plus, I have a jerk to save you from."
Serenity slapped her palms together, "oh, thank the Gods." All of the sudden a translucent window popped up in front of Serenity.
"Gi-chan, I do not know if this is bad time, but something has happened." Minako stated.
"What happened, Nako-chan?" Serenity asked worriedly.
"I know who you love!" Minako said as she flashed her famous V-sign.
Serenity wanted to smack her cousin, "NAKO-CHAN! I hate it when you do that! You... oh nevermind." She said exasperatedly, "oh. Look who found me, or I found him, I do not know," she pulled Trowa into view and Minako gave her a questioning look.
"Who is that?" She asked.
"Maybe you will remember if you see him like this," Serenity said as she changed Trowa back into his Lunarian form.
"Prince Hiroshi?!" Minako shrieked. Hiiro, Duo, Quatre, and Wufei watched in interest and confusion.
"I see you have grown up, Minako-hime." Hiroshi said with a smile.
Finally Hiiro could not wait any longer. "Serenity, I have a question."
Serenity looked to Hiiro, "yes, what is it?"
"When you were talking to that Luna person, you said that you were in love with someone out of us five. Obviously it can't be Trowa since he's your bother. So who is it?" Hiiro said.
"Yeah, who is it?" Duo asked curiously.
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Dun, dun, dun! *^_^* I felt like being weird by making Trowa her brother. I hope you girls/guys don't mind, I thought it seemed cool. Anyway, I thought it would be a fun cliffie for now. Plus, I'm at my page limit. See you next chapter! OH! And if you guess the language, you'll have to leave an e-mail address for me to contact you at. 'Kay? 'Kay! Jaa!
-Ema