Episode 4: Enemies and Newfound Friends
Chapter #10 The Enemy Draws Closer
Meanwhile, King Beryl and his minions were also on their way to the Moon Palace to kidnap all the princesses one by one starting with the Princess of the Moon, but lucky for them the princesses were all in one place. An easy capture.
"This is your most ingenius plan ever!" said Emerald, one of King Beryl's minions. Emerald had long green hair. All of King Beryl's minions, wore a silvery black chain with a black upside-down crescent moon around their foreheads. They were traveling on a large ship, rowed below the deck by hundreds of oarslaves taken by village raids. The oarslaves were both men and women of any age. They were poorly fed and very thin and some were very sick. Sapphire, the slave driver, was a tall, musclely man with messy, blue hair and of course the Negamoon symbol chain around his forehead. He had a very long leather whip that he would lash out at under-working slaves.
"Get a move on!" Sapphire would yell and crack his whip. There was row after row after row of oarslaves. Sapphire would walk up and down them inspecting each team of four oarslaves to an oar. Sapphire walked down the gloomy scene. He came to a stop at one of the oars.
"Well, well. Princess Hotaru. Not feeling so high and mighty now are we." Sapphire criticized a girl who looked about 13. She was short, thin, and had knotted jet black hair that was cut off at her shoulders. She had dark purplish-black eyes that were red from lack of sleep. She had a chain tiara not unlike Serena's, but instead of the moon symbol, it beared the Saturn symbol, which looked like a fancy 'h' with a cross at the top. She was wearing what looked like a purple party dress that was ripped several times at the base and around the arms. The back of the dress was torn open and showed many red and pink scars from lashings of Sapphire's whip.
"Listen, Sapphire. Just because you kidnap me, feed me slop fit for dying pigs, make me row this stupid boat around, lash me with your stupid whip, and threaten to kill me for ransom doesn't make you all high and mighty either, now does it?" Hotaru scowled back at Sapphire.
"Why you little! You won't have a back when I get through with you! No one insults Sapphire of the NegaMoon and walks away unharmed! Take this one down to the pit! And don't take her out until she is as thin as a splinter!" Sapphire yelled. Just then a new slave was was being brought in to take Hotaru's rowing place. Hotaru's chains that attached her wrists to the oar, and feet to the hard, wooden bench were unlocked and the new slave was locked in and started rowing. It felt good to get them off. But the good feeling was cut short by two large hands grabbing her by the shoulders.
Chapter #11:Hotaru in the Pit
She was painfully dragged down the rows of oarslaves and down a flight of wooden stairs and thrown down into a hole in the ship's floor. She landed on the bottom of the hole with a thud. Hotaru had never been in the pit before. It was a long, narrow, dark hole ending at the bottom of the ship. It was so dark that she couldn't see her hand in front of her face. While in the pit she would never be fed. She was hardly fed outside the pit any way. She had dealt with starvation from the moment she was kidnapped on her way to her best friend's 10th birthday party. She was ten when she was abducted. She had spent three long, hard, painful years rowing the ship and starving. Hotaru sighed.
"I've really gotten myself in a fix now. That stupid Beryl. He thinks he can just go around abducting children all he wants but he can't! If I ever escape I'll show him how it feels to be starved and lonely and.. and.." Hotaru started sobbing. Hotaru wept and sobbed. Then she felt her forehead growing hot. "Huh?" Hotaru stopped crying. "Help me. Help me!" Hotaru cried. The tiara glowed with a purple light. What Hotaru didn't know was that the tiaras that all the princesses wear were telapathically linked to each other. Hotaru started sobbing again. "Help me! Help me!" Hotaru cried. Just then, Serena's forehead started growing hot also.
"Owch!" Serena yelped. Help me! Help me! Hotaru's voice flooded into Serena's mind.
"Serena! Your tiara! It's glowing!" Amy cried. Serena's tiara was glowing with a white light.
"Do you hear that? Someone's crying!" Serena told Amy. Amy's Mercury tiara started glowing with a aquamarine light. Then Rini's with a pinkish glow. Then all the princesses that were at the ball's tiaras were glowing. A dark blue, marine blue, dark red, emerald, bright red, and orange light flooded into the white ballroom. Help me! Help me! Hotaru's voice flooded into the minds of all the princesses. The orchestra stopped playing. The lights died out after a few seconds. "That sounded like a cry for help. We should try to find out who that was." Serena said. "We should gather all the princesses that heard that and work out a plan!"
Chapter #12: The Gathering
Serena, Amy, and Rini searched the ballroom for all the princesses. They found ten princesses out of the eleven that were. The princesses introduced themselves.
"I am Serena of the Moon." Serena said.
"I am Amy of Mercury." said Amy.
"I'm Rini of Chibi Moon." Rini said. There were three girls about 14, Serena's age. The first was a tall girl with long brown hair that was pulled back in a ponytail and tied with an emerald green ribbon that matched her dress.
"I am Lita, Princess of Jupiter." she said.
The second was a girl with waist length ebony black hair and a scarlet red gown.
"I am Raye, Princess of Mars." she said.
The third was a slender girl with waist length golden blond hair tied back with a big orange bow that matched her dress.
"I am Mina, Princess of Venus." she said.
There were also three girls about sixteen too. The first was an elegant looking girl with brilliant blue eyes and turquiose hair that matched her gown.
"I am Michelle, Princess of Neptune." she said.
The second actually looked somewhat of a boy in a dark blueen dress. She had very short cut blond hair and blue eyes.
"I am Amara, Princess of Uranus." she said in a rough masculen voice.
The third was a tall, more mature looking, girl with emerald green hair, marronish eyes, and a scarlett gown.
"I am Trista, Princess of Pluto." she said.
And finally, the tenth princess was about 2. Rini was holding her.
"Where is the Princess of Saturn? Hotaru? Didn't she come?" Serena asked.
"Don't you know? Hotaru, hasn't been seen for three years." Amara said in her rough tomboyish voice.
"Maybe.. Maybe she's the one who was crying." Serena suggested. "That is a very good possibility. There is a good chance that it was Hotaru." Amy said.
"But what if it wasn't Hotaru there are billion and billions of people in this solar system alone. How will we ever find out who it was if it wasn't Hotaru?" Lita inquired.
"I don't know." Amy answered. "I think I can figure this out. But can we go somewhere private? There 's people staring at us." She whispered.
Chapter #10 The Enemy Draws Closer
Meanwhile, King Beryl and his minions were also on their way to the Moon Palace to kidnap all the princesses one by one starting with the Princess of the Moon, but lucky for them the princesses were all in one place. An easy capture.
"This is your most ingenius plan ever!" said Emerald, one of King Beryl's minions. Emerald had long green hair. All of King Beryl's minions, wore a silvery black chain with a black upside-down crescent moon around their foreheads. They were traveling on a large ship, rowed below the deck by hundreds of oarslaves taken by village raids. The oarslaves were both men and women of any age. They were poorly fed and very thin and some were very sick. Sapphire, the slave driver, was a tall, musclely man with messy, blue hair and of course the Negamoon symbol chain around his forehead. He had a very long leather whip that he would lash out at under-working slaves.
"Get a move on!" Sapphire would yell and crack his whip. There was row after row after row of oarslaves. Sapphire would walk up and down them inspecting each team of four oarslaves to an oar. Sapphire walked down the gloomy scene. He came to a stop at one of the oars.
"Well, well. Princess Hotaru. Not feeling so high and mighty now are we." Sapphire criticized a girl who looked about 13. She was short, thin, and had knotted jet black hair that was cut off at her shoulders. She had dark purplish-black eyes that were red from lack of sleep. She had a chain tiara not unlike Serena's, but instead of the moon symbol, it beared the Saturn symbol, which looked like a fancy 'h' with a cross at the top. She was wearing what looked like a purple party dress that was ripped several times at the base and around the arms. The back of the dress was torn open and showed many red and pink scars from lashings of Sapphire's whip.
"Listen, Sapphire. Just because you kidnap me, feed me slop fit for dying pigs, make me row this stupid boat around, lash me with your stupid whip, and threaten to kill me for ransom doesn't make you all high and mighty either, now does it?" Hotaru scowled back at Sapphire.
"Why you little! You won't have a back when I get through with you! No one insults Sapphire of the NegaMoon and walks away unharmed! Take this one down to the pit! And don't take her out until she is as thin as a splinter!" Sapphire yelled. Just then a new slave was was being brought in to take Hotaru's rowing place. Hotaru's chains that attached her wrists to the oar, and feet to the hard, wooden bench were unlocked and the new slave was locked in and started rowing. It felt good to get them off. But the good feeling was cut short by two large hands grabbing her by the shoulders.
Chapter #11:Hotaru in the Pit
She was painfully dragged down the rows of oarslaves and down a flight of wooden stairs and thrown down into a hole in the ship's floor. She landed on the bottom of the hole with a thud. Hotaru had never been in the pit before. It was a long, narrow, dark hole ending at the bottom of the ship. It was so dark that she couldn't see her hand in front of her face. While in the pit she would never be fed. She was hardly fed outside the pit any way. She had dealt with starvation from the moment she was kidnapped on her way to her best friend's 10th birthday party. She was ten when she was abducted. She had spent three long, hard, painful years rowing the ship and starving. Hotaru sighed.
"I've really gotten myself in a fix now. That stupid Beryl. He thinks he can just go around abducting children all he wants but he can't! If I ever escape I'll show him how it feels to be starved and lonely and.. and.." Hotaru started sobbing. Hotaru wept and sobbed. Then she felt her forehead growing hot. "Huh?" Hotaru stopped crying. "Help me. Help me!" Hotaru cried. The tiara glowed with a purple light. What Hotaru didn't know was that the tiaras that all the princesses wear were telapathically linked to each other. Hotaru started sobbing again. "Help me! Help me!" Hotaru cried. Just then, Serena's forehead started growing hot also.
"Owch!" Serena yelped. Help me! Help me! Hotaru's voice flooded into Serena's mind.
"Serena! Your tiara! It's glowing!" Amy cried. Serena's tiara was glowing with a white light.
"Do you hear that? Someone's crying!" Serena told Amy. Amy's Mercury tiara started glowing with a aquamarine light. Then Rini's with a pinkish glow. Then all the princesses that were at the ball's tiaras were glowing. A dark blue, marine blue, dark red, emerald, bright red, and orange light flooded into the white ballroom. Help me! Help me! Hotaru's voice flooded into the minds of all the princesses. The orchestra stopped playing. The lights died out after a few seconds. "That sounded like a cry for help. We should try to find out who that was." Serena said. "We should gather all the princesses that heard that and work out a plan!"
Chapter #12: The Gathering
Serena, Amy, and Rini searched the ballroom for all the princesses. They found ten princesses out of the eleven that were. The princesses introduced themselves.
"I am Serena of the Moon." Serena said.
"I am Amy of Mercury." said Amy.
"I'm Rini of Chibi Moon." Rini said. There were three girls about 14, Serena's age. The first was a tall girl with long brown hair that was pulled back in a ponytail and tied with an emerald green ribbon that matched her dress.
"I am Lita, Princess of Jupiter." she said.
The second was a girl with waist length ebony black hair and a scarlet red gown.
"I am Raye, Princess of Mars." she said.
The third was a slender girl with waist length golden blond hair tied back with a big orange bow that matched her dress.
"I am Mina, Princess of Venus." she said.
There were also three girls about sixteen too. The first was an elegant looking girl with brilliant blue eyes and turquiose hair that matched her gown.
"I am Michelle, Princess of Neptune." she said.
The second actually looked somewhat of a boy in a dark blueen dress. She had very short cut blond hair and blue eyes.
"I am Amara, Princess of Uranus." she said in a rough masculen voice.
The third was a tall, more mature looking, girl with emerald green hair, marronish eyes, and a scarlett gown.
"I am Trista, Princess of Pluto." she said.
And finally, the tenth princess was about 2. Rini was holding her.
"Where is the Princess of Saturn? Hotaru? Didn't she come?" Serena asked.
"Don't you know? Hotaru, hasn't been seen for three years." Amara said in her rough tomboyish voice.
"Maybe.. Maybe she's the one who was crying." Serena suggested. "That is a very good possibility. There is a good chance that it was Hotaru." Amy said.
"But what if it wasn't Hotaru there are billion and billions of people in this solar system alone. How will we ever find out who it was if it wasn't Hotaru?" Lita inquired.
"I don't know." Amy answered. "I think I can figure this out. But can we go somewhere private? There 's people staring at us." She whispered.