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: No one has gotten the language yet, but by the end of this chapter I will tell you because I think that it has gone on long enough. ^_^ You will all kick yourselves for not getting it. ...Well, maybe not, but anyway...
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Recap:
"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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Serenity's cheeks turned a slight red hue as she looked at the four remaining teens, "I, uh... I am not going to tell you all just who it is. It would be mean to the other three."
"C'mon, Bunny, tell us who it is," Duo half whined half requested.
At that, Minako somehow turned the semi-translucent screen around so Quatre, Duo, Hiiro, and Wufei could see her not-so-happy face. "You all should be ashamed of yourselves! Asking Gi-chan to tell you who she loves right here, right now is incredibly rude of you. Maybe I should just render you all love-less! And I do have the power to do so, since I am the daughter of Aphrodite."
"Nako-chan, you would not really do that, would you?" Serenity asked her cousin.
"If I had to, I would." Minako stated boldly. "They cannot just ask you flat out who it is you love, it is rude. Anyways, love works in mysterious ways. Got to jet, the jerk is calling. ...Hurry back!" With that the transmission ended and Minako was gone.
Serenity looked at the four ex-pilots, then walked past them back into the house and went straight for her temporary room. "How can things be so complicated in my life. It is not fair sometimes." She said to herself. "I am only sixteen, Mother, I am not ready for marriage! I do not even like the man. I love someone else," the Lunarian Princess said as she flopped down on her bed, her face on the pillow.
"Looks like we both came here for the same reason: to get away from the trouble of home." Serenity heard her brother say.
"What trouble could you have had? You were eleven," Serenity said, her voice muffled by the pillow. She felt him sit down on the bed next to her.
"Being the crowned prince of a kingdom is not as easy as it looks, Sere-chan," he said.
"Oh, and being the crowned princess is easier?" Serenity said sarcastically.
"No, I guess it is not. Do you know why I left and never came back?" Hiroshi asked as he cleared Serenity's hair from her face.
"No, you never told me," she replied, turning her face slightly so she could see his.
"I left because I did not want the pressure and duties of a crowned Prince, plus... I saw it as a way to get out of an arranged marriage." He said.
"That is part of the reason I come here. But I did not know Mother would arrange a marriage without even talking to me about it first." Serenity said quietly.
"She tends to forget the details and feelings of others when it comes to certain things she thinks will be best for the Kingdom. But just think, when I go back, maybe mother will call off the marriage. Then you can be with your Earthian."
"It would be unfair to Hiiro. I age by millennia and he by years," Serenity said, she then gasped when she realized she had said the name.
Hiroshi smiled, "don't worry, I won't tell." He said as he got up and left his sister to sort things out.
'Nako-chan, what do I do? I do not even know if he even likes me...' Serenity thought.
'Want me to go dream hopping?' Minako replied.
'I guess, but do not get to carried away, I know what happens to you when you do.' Serenity informed.
'I won't.' Minako said as she went off to dream hop.
~Hiiros Dreamland~
"Wow, Hiiro has odd dreams..." Minako said to herself as she looked at the maze-like dream world. She looked around to see if she could find the maker of the dream, but did not see him. "Where is that boy?" She questioned herself. She jumped up on the top of the maze wall and finally saw him. Jumping over to him she smiled. "Hi, there."
Hiiro quickly grabbed up his gun and pointed it at her. "Who are you?"
"Hmm... I did not know you could project things into your dreams, Hiiro," Minako said with thought. "Oh! Do you not remember me from earlier? Well, in any case, I am Minako."
"Why are you in my dream?" Hiiro said in his soldier monotone.
"Came to ask you a question." Minako replied. She watched as the scene changed from a maze to the inside of Quatre's house. She nodded as if approved. 'I wonder how he has the ability to project things like this in such detail. It certainly is a talent,' she thought.
Hiiro scowled at her and she returned the gaze with an annoyed one. "You can at least be nice to me," she said, "but I came to ask you what your feelings are for Gi-chan."
"Your Aphrodite's daughter, you should know already." Hiiro replied sarcastically. He had long since put the gun away.
Minako rolled her eyes, "I know what they are, now I just want to hear them. Is that so hard for you?"
"It doesn't matter anyway. She will be gone in two weeks and be married to that guy." Hiiro said.
"My mother never marries anyone if one does not love the other. It is her rule as the Goddess of Love. She knows that Gi-chan does not love Endyimon," Minako replied, somehow hoping that Hiiro would tell her his feelings.
"Why does it matter if I love her? She is just going to be gone in two weeks no matter what and she probably will never come back." Hiiro said almost quietly.
"Ah-ha, so you do love her." Minako said triumphantly. Hiiro glared at her and she smiled, "you still have two weeks with her. Why don't you just try to make the best of it. Maybe something will change and you guys can be together."
Hiiro scoffed, "I doubt it."
"Hey, you never know until you try," Minako said, then disappeared from his dream to let him have his rest.
~Out of Hiiros' Dreamland~
Minako decided she would just hint her cousin a little about Hiiros feelings since she had tricked him to get them out of him. 'This could get complicated...' she thought.
A week before Serenity and Hiroshi were going back to the moon Quatre held a little dinner party. Serenity found that she liked being herself around the ex-pilots much more now that they had adjusted to her walking around with fairy wings and a crescent moon on her forehead.
"I wish I did not have to go back. Back to the Moon where a fiancée I do not even like waits, back to a place where birds never sing, to a place where my life is watched by everyone..." Serenity said to herself as she dressed in a silky dark blue dress that reached the floor and her hair was flowing down her back as it usually was.
"Dinner's just about ready, Bunny." Duo said from the other side of her bedroom door.
Serenity walked to the door and opened it. "Okay, I'm ready."
"You look nice, Bunny," Duo said with a grin.
"Thanks, Duo." Serenity replied. "Oh, by the way, I forgive you for the snowballs." She said with a wink. Duo laughed and they walked into the dining room. "Wow, Quatre really goes all out, doesn't he?"
"Yeah, really," Duo said as he looked at the nicely done dining table.
"Sere-chan, sometimes I forget how much you've grown up." Hiroshi said from their left.
Serenity turned and smiled at him, "you have been gone a long time."
Quatre entered the room, followed by Wufei and Hiiro. The Arabian host smiled warmly at them, "dinner's ready everyone."
The talk during dinner was nothing of big importance. But Serenity kept mostly quiet.
'Only a week left here, and of freedom. I hope that somehow Roshi-chans' coming home will change things up a bit. He is going to have a lot of explaining to do to Mother about why he stayed on Earth instead of coming back on the moonbeams,' Serenity thought. 'I will miss all of these guys. But I guess home awaits and I cannot avoid my duties.'
"Would you like anything else, Bunny?" Duo asked from beside her.
"No, thanks, Duo." She replied. 'I guess I still do not really know who I am. And if I do, then I have yet to realize it. I still need to know the reason why I conceal what I think and feel...'
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Minako switched from foot to foot as she waited outside the door of the throne room where her mother was trying to convince Selene not to have Serenity marry Endyimon. So far it was not going to well. She looked up hopefully when she heard the door opening.
"I am sorry, Minako-hime. I could not convince her," Aphrodite announced.
Minakos face fell, "well, then maybe I can!" she said in determination as she walked past her mother and into the Throne room. "Queen Serenity, I know you think this marriage is for the best, but it is not. Serenity-hime does not love Endyimon, she loves another. You cannot just force a marriage on a sixteen year old girl when she is not even ready for it!"
"Minako-hime, it is not your place to say things like that." Queen Serenity informed her.
"I do not care, you Highness. I know what my cousin is feeling, I know her thoughts, her dreams, her *wishes*," Minako protested, "I know that she does not, nor will she ever, love Endyimon! You may be her mother, but you do not know the things that go on inside of her head. She has dreams of staying on Earth to be with her love, but she knows that would displease you so she is coming home. But you know just as well as I that my mother will not marry to people is one does not love the other."
Aphrodite tried not to smile at her daughters hard-headedness and Selene looked quite shocked.
"Look, you Highness," Minako said with a sigh, "I do not see the point of you making Serenity marry when she is not the heir to the throne anymore."
"She is not the heir to the throne? That is not possible, Minako-hime. She is my only child, thus she is the heir." Selene replied.
"She is not your only child! Hiroshi has been found... meaning he is now the heir to the throne. You cannot deny him of it because he was trapped on Earth until Serenity showed up!" Minako explained.
Selenes' eyes went as wide as the Moon upon hearing this, "Hiroshi is alive?"
"Yes, I talked with him. He is alive and all grown up." Minako replied. There was a murmur that Hiroshi was alive in the room and soon it was like a ripple effect and everyone in the Palace knew that the Prince lived.
"Then he is the heir to the throne." Selene confirmed. Minako smiled, thinking she had saved her cousin from marrying Endyimon. "But that will not stop the marriage, we need this alliance with the Earth to go threw."
"But Queen Serenity," Minako started to protest.
"No buts, Minako-hime. This marriage *will* proceed as planed." Selene said in her regal voice.
Minako turned and ran from the room, 'at least I can say I tried. How can she do that to her own daughter!?' she thought. She ran into her room and started up a link with her cousin.
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'I tried, I tried so hard to get her to change her mind, Gi-chan. I even told her that Hiroshi was alive... but you still have to marry Endyimon.' Minako said to her.
Serenity, who had a fork halfway up to her mouth, dropped it with a clatter onto the plate. 'What?! What is her reason?'
'She... she said that the alliance was needed between the Earth and Moon.' Minako said.
'Does she think I am some sort of thing that can just be thrown around like a doll?' Serenity practically screamed, 'she shall defiantly get a piece of my mind when I return!'
Everyone was looking at Serenity, who had gotten their attention when she dropped her fork. Now they were watching her face twist in anger.
'Gi-chan, I do not think you will be able to change her mind. I tried everything, as did my Mother!' Minako replied.
'I am NOT ever going to marry that pompous jerk! If I have to remain on Earth, I will! At least here I would be close to Hiiro.' Serenity said.
'If you do not come back, something could go wrong!' Minako protested.
Serenity opened up a small transmission window, "You listen to me, Minako. You go tell my mother that there is no way on Earth or the Moon that I will be used as a 'delegation agreement' at all. If she has something to say about it, she can take it up with me upon my return. You got that?" She said with sternness in her voice that none of the ex-pilots had ever heard before.
"Got it. See you in a week." Minako said as the window closed out.
"Excuse me, I have to go blow off some steam," Serenity said as she stood up, bowed her head, and walked out of the room. She entered her room and immediately put her face into her pillow and screamed at the top of her lungs in frustration.
"Mother, you are not being fair! I am no longer the crowned princess, you cannot rule my life anymore!" Serenity said to herself, "I hate not being able to have a normal life."
"There is no such thing," a familiar voice said from Serenity's doorway.
Serenity sighed, "well a life down here is more normal then the one I have on the Moon."
"You can change you life, but first you have to accept that fact that life is not normal and it sucks sometimes."
"What do you know?" she asked furiously, "you are not watched all the time by people just waiting for you to do something that would not please your mother and then go report it to her. And I know for certain you are not betrothed to jerk!"
"You're right. I'm not," he replied, "but I do love someone that is betrothed to a jerk."
Serenity looked up from her pillow quickly, but Hiiro was already gone. She took a guess as to where he would be and transported herself there. "Did you mean it?"
"What?" Hiiro asked, not showing that he was little surprised.
"What you said back there," Serenity said as she stood in front of him searching his Prussian eyes.
"Yes," he answered. "But I also know that you will be leaving. That's why I didn't say anything before."
Serenity hugged him, resting her head on his shoulder, "maybe things can be changed. I could stay here..."
"And watch me grow old without you? You wouldn't like that." Hiiro interjected.
"There has got to be a way to make me mortal..." Serenity said, "I just don't know what it is."
Hiiros arms encircled her small waist, "you have to go back, Serenity. It's your duty."
"I am tired of things being my 'duty.' I just want to be a teenager," she replied.
"But you're a Princess, being a teenager is a little harder." Said Hiiro.
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Two days before the full moon, Serenity had packed up her 'belongings' in her subspace pocket and was sitting on the comfortable couch in the library. She had spent every day with Hiiro, but now she was just by herself, trying to think of a way to convince her mother that the marriage was a bad idea.
'What am I going to say? 'Mother, I will not marry because I love an Earthian and he loves me'? That will never work... she thinks what she is doing is the best for me and the Moon.' Serenity thought. She looked up moon, it was almost full. It would be complete in a night or two. Whenever it was, she would know it. It was in her blood to know when the moon was full.
"Think of anything yet?" Hiroshi asked when he saw his sister in deep thought.
"Not a thing. She will not go for any of the reasons I have of not wanting to marry Endyimon. What am I going to do, Roshi-chan?"
"I don't know. Maybe you can convince her by just talking about it," he replied.
"That is what I am hoping for," Serenity replied. "The moon is going to be full tomorrow night..."
"Yeah, I can tell," Hiroshi replied, "are you going to be okay?"
"If I am not, you and everyone else shall know it," Serenity said with sorrow in her voice. She looked back up at the moon and remembered what it had looked like when she had gone there with Duo. It looked so dead and uninhabited. 'Is that really the future for the Moon? A dead, desolate piece of rock floating in space? Or is the Kingdom just hidden from peoples eyes?'
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The night of Serenity and Hiroshi's departure, all of the ex-pilots came to watch them make their journey home.
"I will try to come back, no matter what happens," Serenity said to Hiiro as they talked away from the others.
"This is for you, I don't know if you have CD players up there though," Hiiro said as he handed her a CD.
"We don't, but I can listen to it with something like a CD player," Serenity said. "I will miss you a lot, Hiiro."
"I'll miss you too. Visit me in my dreams sometime, okay?"
"No problem," she said. They shared a kiss before walking hand in hand back to the others.
"Ready, Sere-chan?" Hiroshi asked.
Serenity took a deep breath, "as ready as I will ever be, lets go. Good-bye everyone!"
"Good-bye, Serenity. Bye Trowa," everyone but Hiiro said. The Perfect Soldier just watched them walk up the moonbeam before turning to walk back to the mansion.
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"Gi-chan!" Minako said as she saw her cousins walk off the moonbeam. She ran over to them both and gave them a hug each.
"Hey, Nako-chan," Serenity said a bit depressed.
"Aw, come on now, Gi-chan... you have to cheer up a bit or your mother will not take you seriously." The Venusian Princess said. She then spotted the CD in her cousin's hand. "What is that?"
"Hiiro gave it to me, I was going to listen to it before I went to see my mother. Roshi-chan, I think you should go see Mother first. She will want to talk with you, most likely."
"Yes, wish me luck." He said before walking off towards the Throne room.
"Well, lets go listen to that thing," Minako said as she transported them to Serenity's room.
The Lunarian Princess put the CD into her player and turned it on, soon a song started flowing from it.
"Baby, I knew at once that you were meant for me
Deep in my soul I know that I'm your destiny
Though you're unsure, why fight the tide
Don't think so much, let your heart decide
Baby, I see your future and it's tied to mine
I look in your eyes and see you searching for a sign
But you'll never fall, 'Til you let go
Don't be scared, of what you don't know
True to your heart
You must be true to your heart
That's when the heavens will part
And baby, shower you with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell you no lies
And when you're true to your heart
I know it's gonna lead you straight to me
(Got to be true to your heart)
Someone you know is on your side can set you free
I can do that for you if you believe in me
Why second-guess, what feels so right
Just trust your heart, and you'll see the light
True to your heart
You must be true to your heart
That's when the heavens will part
And baby, shower you with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell you no lies
And when you're true to your heart
I know it's gonna lead you straight to me
(Got to be true to your heart)
(Ya know it's true) Your heart knows what's good for you
(Good for you) Let your heart show you the way
(Ya know it's true) It'll see you through
(Got to be true to your heart)
Girl, my heart is driving me to where you are
Well, you can take both hands off the wheel and still get far
Be swept away, enjoy the ride
You won't get lost
With your heart to guide you.
True to your heart
You must be true to your heart
That's when the heavens will part
And baby, shower you with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell you no lies
And when you're true to your heart
I know it's gonna lead you straight to me
(Got to be true to your heart)
True to your heart
You must be true to your heart
That's when the heavens will part
And baby, shower you with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell you no lies
And when you're true to your heart
I know it's gonna lead you straight to me
(Got to be true to your heart)
When things are gettin' crazy (crazy)
And you don't know where to start (to start)
Keep on believin', baby (baby)
Just be true to your heart
When all the world around you (baby)
It seems to fall apart (apart)
Keep on believin', baby (baby)
Just be true to your heart
(Got to be true to your heart)"
Serenity looked close to tears by the end of the song, as did Minako.
"Dang, girl, I wish I had a guy like him..." Minako said, "lets go convince your mother that he is the only man for you and that Endyimon is a pompous jerk."
"Yes, lets." The determined Princess said as she and Minako walked from the room, ignoring all the hellos and the calls from the Earthian Prince who was behind them.
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^_^ Hehe, okay, that is all for now! Now it is time to tell you what language Serenity was speaking. It was Swedish! I am half Swede so I figured 'why the hell not?' And made it Swedish. Well, there is still more to come. See you next chapter! 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: No one has gotten the language yet, but by the end of this chapter I will tell you because I think that it has gone on long enough. ^_^ You will all kick yourselves for not getting it. ...Well, maybe not, but anyway...
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Recap:
"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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Serenity's cheeks turned a slight red hue as she looked at the four remaining teens, "I, uh... I am not going to tell you all just who it is. It would be mean to the other three."
"C'mon, Bunny, tell us who it is," Duo half whined half requested.
At that, Minako somehow turned the semi-translucent screen around so Quatre, Duo, Hiiro, and Wufei could see her not-so-happy face. "You all should be ashamed of yourselves! Asking Gi-chan to tell you who she loves right here, right now is incredibly rude of you. Maybe I should just render you all love-less! And I do have the power to do so, since I am the daughter of Aphrodite."
"Nako-chan, you would not really do that, would you?" Serenity asked her cousin.
"If I had to, I would." Minako stated boldly. "They cannot just ask you flat out who it is you love, it is rude. Anyways, love works in mysterious ways. Got to jet, the jerk is calling. ...Hurry back!" With that the transmission ended and Minako was gone.
Serenity looked at the four ex-pilots, then walked past them back into the house and went straight for her temporary room. "How can things be so complicated in my life. It is not fair sometimes." She said to herself. "I am only sixteen, Mother, I am not ready for marriage! I do not even like the man. I love someone else," the Lunarian Princess said as she flopped down on her bed, her face on the pillow.
"Looks like we both came here for the same reason: to get away from the trouble of home." Serenity heard her brother say.
"What trouble could you have had? You were eleven," Serenity said, her voice muffled by the pillow. She felt him sit down on the bed next to her.
"Being the crowned prince of a kingdom is not as easy as it looks, Sere-chan," he said.
"Oh, and being the crowned princess is easier?" Serenity said sarcastically.
"No, I guess it is not. Do you know why I left and never came back?" Hiroshi asked as he cleared Serenity's hair from her face.
"No, you never told me," she replied, turning her face slightly so she could see his.
"I left because I did not want the pressure and duties of a crowned Prince, plus... I saw it as a way to get out of an arranged marriage." He said.
"That is part of the reason I come here. But I did not know Mother would arrange a marriage without even talking to me about it first." Serenity said quietly.
"She tends to forget the details and feelings of others when it comes to certain things she thinks will be best for the Kingdom. But just think, when I go back, maybe mother will call off the marriage. Then you can be with your Earthian."
"It would be unfair to Hiiro. I age by millennia and he by years," Serenity said, she then gasped when she realized she had said the name.
Hiroshi smiled, "don't worry, I won't tell." He said as he got up and left his sister to sort things out.
'Nako-chan, what do I do? I do not even know if he even likes me...' Serenity thought.
'Want me to go dream hopping?' Minako replied.
'I guess, but do not get to carried away, I know what happens to you when you do.' Serenity informed.
'I won't.' Minako said as she went off to dream hop.
~Hiiros Dreamland~
"Wow, Hiiro has odd dreams..." Minako said to herself as she looked at the maze-like dream world. She looked around to see if she could find the maker of the dream, but did not see him. "Where is that boy?" She questioned herself. She jumped up on the top of the maze wall and finally saw him. Jumping over to him she smiled. "Hi, there."
Hiiro quickly grabbed up his gun and pointed it at her. "Who are you?"
"Hmm... I did not know you could project things into your dreams, Hiiro," Minako said with thought. "Oh! Do you not remember me from earlier? Well, in any case, I am Minako."
"Why are you in my dream?" Hiiro said in his soldier monotone.
"Came to ask you a question." Minako replied. She watched as the scene changed from a maze to the inside of Quatre's house. She nodded as if approved. 'I wonder how he has the ability to project things like this in such detail. It certainly is a talent,' she thought.
Hiiro scowled at her and she returned the gaze with an annoyed one. "You can at least be nice to me," she said, "but I came to ask you what your feelings are for Gi-chan."
"Your Aphrodite's daughter, you should know already." Hiiro replied sarcastically. He had long since put the gun away.
Minako rolled her eyes, "I know what they are, now I just want to hear them. Is that so hard for you?"
"It doesn't matter anyway. She will be gone in two weeks and be married to that guy." Hiiro said.
"My mother never marries anyone if one does not love the other. It is her rule as the Goddess of Love. She knows that Gi-chan does not love Endyimon," Minako replied, somehow hoping that Hiiro would tell her his feelings.
"Why does it matter if I love her? She is just going to be gone in two weeks no matter what and she probably will never come back." Hiiro said almost quietly.
"Ah-ha, so you do love her." Minako said triumphantly. Hiiro glared at her and she smiled, "you still have two weeks with her. Why don't you just try to make the best of it. Maybe something will change and you guys can be together."
Hiiro scoffed, "I doubt it."
"Hey, you never know until you try," Minako said, then disappeared from his dream to let him have his rest.
~Out of Hiiros' Dreamland~
Minako decided she would just hint her cousin a little about Hiiros feelings since she had tricked him to get them out of him. 'This could get complicated...' she thought.
A week before Serenity and Hiroshi were going back to the moon Quatre held a little dinner party. Serenity found that she liked being herself around the ex-pilots much more now that they had adjusted to her walking around with fairy wings and a crescent moon on her forehead.
"I wish I did not have to go back. Back to the Moon where a fiancée I do not even like waits, back to a place where birds never sing, to a place where my life is watched by everyone..." Serenity said to herself as she dressed in a silky dark blue dress that reached the floor and her hair was flowing down her back as it usually was.
"Dinner's just about ready, Bunny." Duo said from the other side of her bedroom door.
Serenity walked to the door and opened it. "Okay, I'm ready."
"You look nice, Bunny," Duo said with a grin.
"Thanks, Duo." Serenity replied. "Oh, by the way, I forgive you for the snowballs." She said with a wink. Duo laughed and they walked into the dining room. "Wow, Quatre really goes all out, doesn't he?"
"Yeah, really," Duo said as he looked at the nicely done dining table.
"Sere-chan, sometimes I forget how much you've grown up." Hiroshi said from their left.
Serenity turned and smiled at him, "you have been gone a long time."
Quatre entered the room, followed by Wufei and Hiiro. The Arabian host smiled warmly at them, "dinner's ready everyone."
The talk during dinner was nothing of big importance. But Serenity kept mostly quiet.
'Only a week left here, and of freedom. I hope that somehow Roshi-chans' coming home will change things up a bit. He is going to have a lot of explaining to do to Mother about why he stayed on Earth instead of coming back on the moonbeams,' Serenity thought. 'I will miss all of these guys. But I guess home awaits and I cannot avoid my duties.'
"Would you like anything else, Bunny?" Duo asked from beside her.
"No, thanks, Duo." She replied. 'I guess I still do not really know who I am. And if I do, then I have yet to realize it. I still need to know the reason why I conceal what I think and feel...'
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Minako switched from foot to foot as she waited outside the door of the throne room where her mother was trying to convince Selene not to have Serenity marry Endyimon. So far it was not going to well. She looked up hopefully when she heard the door opening.
"I am sorry, Minako-hime. I could not convince her," Aphrodite announced.
Minakos face fell, "well, then maybe I can!" she said in determination as she walked past her mother and into the Throne room. "Queen Serenity, I know you think this marriage is for the best, but it is not. Serenity-hime does not love Endyimon, she loves another. You cannot just force a marriage on a sixteen year old girl when she is not even ready for it!"
"Minako-hime, it is not your place to say things like that." Queen Serenity informed her.
"I do not care, you Highness. I know what my cousin is feeling, I know her thoughts, her dreams, her *wishes*," Minako protested, "I know that she does not, nor will she ever, love Endyimon! You may be her mother, but you do not know the things that go on inside of her head. She has dreams of staying on Earth to be with her love, but she knows that would displease you so she is coming home. But you know just as well as I that my mother will not marry to people is one does not love the other."
Aphrodite tried not to smile at her daughters hard-headedness and Selene looked quite shocked.
"Look, you Highness," Minako said with a sigh, "I do not see the point of you making Serenity marry when she is not the heir to the throne anymore."
"She is not the heir to the throne? That is not possible, Minako-hime. She is my only child, thus she is the heir." Selene replied.
"She is not your only child! Hiroshi has been found... meaning he is now the heir to the throne. You cannot deny him of it because he was trapped on Earth until Serenity showed up!" Minako explained.
Selenes' eyes went as wide as the Moon upon hearing this, "Hiroshi is alive?"
"Yes, I talked with him. He is alive and all grown up." Minako replied. There was a murmur that Hiroshi was alive in the room and soon it was like a ripple effect and everyone in the Palace knew that the Prince lived.
"Then he is the heir to the throne." Selene confirmed. Minako smiled, thinking she had saved her cousin from marrying Endyimon. "But that will not stop the marriage, we need this alliance with the Earth to go threw."
"But Queen Serenity," Minako started to protest.
"No buts, Minako-hime. This marriage *will* proceed as planed." Selene said in her regal voice.
Minako turned and ran from the room, 'at least I can say I tried. How can she do that to her own daughter!?' she thought. She ran into her room and started up a link with her cousin.
~~
'I tried, I tried so hard to get her to change her mind, Gi-chan. I even told her that Hiroshi was alive... but you still have to marry Endyimon.' Minako said to her.
Serenity, who had a fork halfway up to her mouth, dropped it with a clatter onto the plate. 'What?! What is her reason?'
'She... she said that the alliance was needed between the Earth and Moon.' Minako said.
'Does she think I am some sort of thing that can just be thrown around like a doll?' Serenity practically screamed, 'she shall defiantly get a piece of my mind when I return!'
Everyone was looking at Serenity, who had gotten their attention when she dropped her fork. Now they were watching her face twist in anger.
'Gi-chan, I do not think you will be able to change her mind. I tried everything, as did my Mother!' Minako replied.
'I am NOT ever going to marry that pompous jerk! If I have to remain on Earth, I will! At least here I would be close to Hiiro.' Serenity said.
'If you do not come back, something could go wrong!' Minako protested.
Serenity opened up a small transmission window, "You listen to me, Minako. You go tell my mother that there is no way on Earth or the Moon that I will be used as a 'delegation agreement' at all. If she has something to say about it, she can take it up with me upon my return. You got that?" She said with sternness in her voice that none of the ex-pilots had ever heard before.
"Got it. See you in a week." Minako said as the window closed out.
"Excuse me, I have to go blow off some steam," Serenity said as she stood up, bowed her head, and walked out of the room. She entered her room and immediately put her face into her pillow and screamed at the top of her lungs in frustration.
"Mother, you are not being fair! I am no longer the crowned princess, you cannot rule my life anymore!" Serenity said to herself, "I hate not being able to have a normal life."
"There is no such thing," a familiar voice said from Serenity's doorway.
Serenity sighed, "well a life down here is more normal then the one I have on the Moon."
"You can change you life, but first you have to accept that fact that life is not normal and it sucks sometimes."
"What do you know?" she asked furiously, "you are not watched all the time by people just waiting for you to do something that would not please your mother and then go report it to her. And I know for certain you are not betrothed to jerk!"
"You're right. I'm not," he replied, "but I do love someone that is betrothed to a jerk."
Serenity looked up from her pillow quickly, but Hiiro was already gone. She took a guess as to where he would be and transported herself there. "Did you mean it?"
"What?" Hiiro asked, not showing that he was little surprised.
"What you said back there," Serenity said as she stood in front of him searching his Prussian eyes.
"Yes," he answered. "But I also know that you will be leaving. That's why I didn't say anything before."
Serenity hugged him, resting her head on his shoulder, "maybe things can be changed. I could stay here..."
"And watch me grow old without you? You wouldn't like that." Hiiro interjected.
"There has got to be a way to make me mortal..." Serenity said, "I just don't know what it is."
Hiiros arms encircled her small waist, "you have to go back, Serenity. It's your duty."
"I am tired of things being my 'duty.' I just want to be a teenager," she replied.
"But you're a Princess, being a teenager is a little harder." Said Hiiro.
~~
Two days before the full moon, Serenity had packed up her 'belongings' in her subspace pocket and was sitting on the comfortable couch in the library. She had spent every day with Hiiro, but now she was just by herself, trying to think of a way to convince her mother that the marriage was a bad idea.
'What am I going to say? 'Mother, I will not marry because I love an Earthian and he loves me'? That will never work... she thinks what she is doing is the best for me and the Moon.' Serenity thought. She looked up moon, it was almost full. It would be complete in a night or two. Whenever it was, she would know it. It was in her blood to know when the moon was full.
"Think of anything yet?" Hiroshi asked when he saw his sister in deep thought.
"Not a thing. She will not go for any of the reasons I have of not wanting to marry Endyimon. What am I going to do, Roshi-chan?"
"I don't know. Maybe you can convince her by just talking about it," he replied.
"That is what I am hoping for," Serenity replied. "The moon is going to be full tomorrow night..."
"Yeah, I can tell," Hiroshi replied, "are you going to be okay?"
"If I am not, you and everyone else shall know it," Serenity said with sorrow in her voice. She looked back up at the moon and remembered what it had looked like when she had gone there with Duo. It looked so dead and uninhabited. 'Is that really the future for the Moon? A dead, desolate piece of rock floating in space? Or is the Kingdom just hidden from peoples eyes?'
~~
The night of Serenity and Hiroshi's departure, all of the ex-pilots came to watch them make their journey home.
"I will try to come back, no matter what happens," Serenity said to Hiiro as they talked away from the others.
"This is for you, I don't know if you have CD players up there though," Hiiro said as he handed her a CD.
"We don't, but I can listen to it with something like a CD player," Serenity said. "I will miss you a lot, Hiiro."
"I'll miss you too. Visit me in my dreams sometime, okay?"
"No problem," she said. They shared a kiss before walking hand in hand back to the others.
"Ready, Sere-chan?" Hiroshi asked.
Serenity took a deep breath, "as ready as I will ever be, lets go. Good-bye everyone!"
"Good-bye, Serenity. Bye Trowa," everyone but Hiiro said. The Perfect Soldier just watched them walk up the moonbeam before turning to walk back to the mansion.
~~
"Gi-chan!" Minako said as she saw her cousins walk off the moonbeam. She ran over to them both and gave them a hug each.
"Hey, Nako-chan," Serenity said a bit depressed.
"Aw, come on now, Gi-chan... you have to cheer up a bit or your mother will not take you seriously." The Venusian Princess said. She then spotted the CD in her cousin's hand. "What is that?"
"Hiiro gave it to me, I was going to listen to it before I went to see my mother. Roshi-chan, I think you should go see Mother first. She will want to talk with you, most likely."
"Yes, wish me luck." He said before walking off towards the Throne room.
"Well, lets go listen to that thing," Minako said as she transported them to Serenity's room.
The Lunarian Princess put the CD into her player and turned it on, soon a song started flowing from it.
"Baby, I knew at once that you were meant for me
Deep in my soul I know that I'm your destiny
Though you're unsure, why fight the tide
Don't think so much, let your heart decide
Baby, I see your future and it's tied to mine
I look in your eyes and see you searching for a sign
But you'll never fall, 'Til you let go
Don't be scared, of what you don't know
True to your heart
You must be true to your heart
That's when the heavens will part
And baby, shower you with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell you no lies
And when you're true to your heart
I know it's gonna lead you straight to me
(Got to be true to your heart)
Someone you know is on your side can set you free
I can do that for you if you believe in me
Why second-guess, what feels so right
Just trust your heart, and you'll see the light
True to your heart
You must be true to your heart
That's when the heavens will part
And baby, shower you with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell you no lies
And when you're true to your heart
I know it's gonna lead you straight to me
(Got to be true to your heart)
(Ya know it's true) Your heart knows what's good for you
(Good for you) Let your heart show you the way
(Ya know it's true) It'll see you through
(Got to be true to your heart)
Girl, my heart is driving me to where you are
Well, you can take both hands off the wheel and still get far
Be swept away, enjoy the ride
You won't get lost
With your heart to guide you.
True to your heart
You must be true to your heart
That's when the heavens will part
And baby, shower you with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell you no lies
And when you're true to your heart
I know it's gonna lead you straight to me
(Got to be true to your heart)
True to your heart
You must be true to your heart
That's when the heavens will part
And baby, shower you with my love
Open your eyes
Your heart can tell you no lies
And when you're true to your heart
I know it's gonna lead you straight to me
(Got to be true to your heart)
When things are gettin' crazy (crazy)
And you don't know where to start (to start)
Keep on believin', baby (baby)
Just be true to your heart
When all the world around you (baby)
It seems to fall apart (apart)
Keep on believin', baby (baby)
Just be true to your heart
(Got to be true to your heart)"
Serenity looked close to tears by the end of the song, as did Minako.
"Dang, girl, I wish I had a guy like him..." Minako said, "lets go convince your mother that he is the only man for you and that Endyimon is a pompous jerk."
"Yes, lets." The determined Princess said as she and Minako walked from the room, ignoring all the hellos and the calls from the Earthian Prince who was behind them.
~~
^_^ Hehe, okay, that is all for now! Now it is time to tell you what language Serenity was speaking. It was Swedish! I am half Swede so I figured 'why the hell not?' And made it Swedish. Well, there is still more to come. See you next chapter! Jaa!
-Ema