"Mom, please don't go... please!" Ursa said, holding on to her mother's hand as she laid there in bed. Her once, youthful appearance was now ghost pale and her eyes had a small sadness in them. For the past couple of months, Lareina as been coughing up a storm, her skin, once so soft and perfect, now blotchy and white. Lareina looked up at her daughter, which looked so much like her when she was younger. She wasn't dying because of old age, on the contrary; she was very young. She was dying from an unknown illness that she picked up from somewhere. This disease was incurable, no vaccine for it. So she would just have to take it, which was like her attitude.

She pulled something out of her shirt pocket. As she brought it up next to her, it started glowing. It was a rare pearl, which was passed down from generation to generation. She took Ursa's hand and placed the gem into her palm, squeezing it tightly.

"I want you to have this... please take care of it."

"Oh, mom. Why did this have to happen?" Ursa said, her eyes swelling up with tears, only to fall down her cheek and drip of her chin.

"I, I don't know Ursa... but things just happened like that, don't worry about me." She said, smiling. Another cough interrupted her delicate grin. Her chest stopped rising and falling, just staying in the stage it was just at. Lareina's eyelids fell over those orbs of dark blue. Her face, having no expression in it any more. Ursa saw this and fell over her mother's chest and wept. Her tears forever stain that satin dress of her mothers.

"No mom, don't go! I can't let you go..." sighing she got up and looked at the pearl in her hand, still having that shimmering glow to it. "...I will mom." She said, promising herself she would take care of the gift from her mother.

"Stop right there Ursa!" Shouted her brother, entering in the doorway. Right beside him was their uncle, a devilish look on his face. "Hand that pearl over to me right now!" He said, walking towards Ursa, about to take the pearl by force. Ursa pulled away, and stood up.

"What are you doing?!" Ursa said, looking at her brother's eyes now filled with hate. "Mom, gave this to me." She continued, looking at her mother, laying there. "Now she is gone, and you weren't there! What kind of brother are you?"

"One, that deserves to be king."

"What are you talking about?"

"Who do you think is going to take over the position as king of these moons? You sure aren't, so just give me the pearl and everything will be fine."

"Why should I? This pearl has nothing to do with our kingdom."

"Oh, younger sister, I forget that mom didn't tell you the secret to it, no matter if you don't give it...then I will have to kill you for it."

Ursa took a step back, almost tripping over her chair, but quickly regain her balance. "You're not getting this, and you're certainly not going to kill your own sister!" She glanced over to her uncle who didn't say anything yet, just staring at Ursa. "Io, you have to help me here. You have to!" She screamed tears of fear streaming down her face.

"What's wrong niece? Can't hand your brother the simple little pearl? Dear child, I pity you. Such a small task, I would have been sure you could complete it." He made little clicking noises in his throat, and walked up next to Ganymede.

"Have you both gone insane?" Ursa shouted, running past them in time before they could grab her. She looked around for Kya; she would be with her against this. Or she wouldn't? She was gone at a friend's house to spend the day with. Ursa ran out into the courtyard, the lilies dancing in the soft wind. She still clenched the pearl in her hand; she said a prayer to herself. "Oh why can't I just go to a different world? Earth would have been a good place to live. I bet they don't have betrayal and everything is peaceful there...just like I read in the books." As soon as she said this, a bright light filled the whole courtyard, and no sooner than a blink of an eye, she was gone. Disappeared into nothingness. Then, Ganymede and Io ran out into the courtyard, a couple of guards behind them.

"Where did she go!?" Io shouted to Ganymede. "I thought you said she went here!"

"She did! I swear." Ganymede growled, looking around the field. "Oh no." Ganymede said, blinking, realizing something. "That pearl has the power to teleport any one to anywhere... she probably wished for something and now she is there."

"YOU IMBECILE! HOW COULD YOU LET HER GET AWAY?!" Io shouted at Ganymede. "Oh well, we will have to search everywhere... starting now! Guards, make an all out search for Ursa! Check Europa and Ganymede!" He walked away from them, muttering to herself. "My plan was going perfect till my sister gave her that pearl..."