A MOON LEGACY
Book 1: Star Crossed Friendships
Chapter 1: Moon Child
Written By: AngelSweetie
Copyright 2002
E-mail: m_angeleyes@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: Okay I don't own Sailor Moon or any of it's characters and even if I did what makes you think that I'd turn the whole story into a perverted, bisexual, homosexual, men turning into girls, girls being boys storyline. (As you can see I'm very deeply scarred. It has wounded me for life)
~*~*^Chapter1: Moon Child^*~*~
Silvery laughter could be heard echoing off the Moon Palace's walls, as the three year old princess ran through the Palace corridors and hallways, dodging servants and guards in their wake. The little girl's happiness radiated from her body and could be felt by anyone who was anywhere near the princess. Bernard, one of the Moon Palace's royal guards, chuckled as the little golden haired child flew past him. Everyday throughout the past year it was like this, but he never grew tired of watching the little princess run and laugh like it was some game to her. "Good day Bernard!" The little girl exclaimed in her babyish voice. She kept running without waiting for his reply. Bernard laughed as he saw the little princess run through the columned walls and into the Palace gardens. Even though the princess was three years of age, everyone could tell that she would one day become a beautiful young lady.
Bernard shook his head amusingly; "Gods help that girl when she becomes the right age to marry."
He knew that there would to be many young men, from all over the universe that would be delighted to take the hand of the almighty Moon princess.
Giggling to herself, little Serena walked into the gardens, giving herself time to catch her breath. She wandered through the gardens aimlessly, coming to a halt in front of the white roses from Earth. She had no idea why, but the roses always enchanted her. Despite the numerous times she came to visit them they always seemed to pull her into a trance of reverie and awe. Serena sighed to herself contentedly, as she took a stem and tucked it into one of her golden buns, and then leaned down to smell the rest. It was then she noticed a smaller rose bud not in full bloom yet. It looked like as if it didn't belong to the rest of the bunch and so Serena instantly felt sorry for it. She cupped the tiny bud in her own small hands. "Come out little one," she whispered, closing her eyes. "I promise that when you do, you will stand far more taller and greater than the rest of your brothers and sisters."
The little rose bud obeyed at Serena's command, and it indeed grew taller and more radiantly than the rest of its family. As the rose bloomed, so did the little princess' smile. She stood there admiring her work for a few minutes then fled back into her game, leaving the unnaturally big rose still at bloom. Still too young to understand, Serena held great powers within her, as her own mother did. Serena could see things others just took for granted.
She could sense things normal people would not even take a second glance at. She could do little things, like making roses bloom, but yet there was a greater entity of power that she held within her. She was one of the far more gifted Lunarian royalties.
*****
The leaves in the Palace gardens soon dropped slowly towards the ground, marking the first day of autumn. The flowers all went into hiding once more, waiting until spring would come and bring them back to life. The wind blew cool air, sometimes picking up dead leaves and throwing them about. Little Serena, now four years of age, watched sadly as she saw her last rose loose its last white petal. It drifted slowly down towards her and into her open palm. Tears soon appeared behind the princess' blue crystal eyes and ran down her soft, pink cheeks. The Moon princess began to sob. No matter how many times autumn came and went, Serena always felt sad whenever the flowers in her gardens, particularly her roses, began to fall away for winter. She disliked waiting for her flowers to bloom again.
"No, please roses do not go. I shall miss you all very much." The young girl pleaded, clenching the last stray petal in her little hand, shiny tears still running down her cold cheeks.
Too heartbreaking to see anymore flowers fall, the golden haired child started to run out of the gardens, unaware of a root sticking above ground. As she ran her shoes instantly caught the stray root, and so the little princess tripped and fell onto the cold floor in a small heap.
Her silent sobbing began to grow more melancholy as she cried out with pain. Her hands and knees began to sting with strong ache. She bought her left hand up to inspect it and saw with awe blood beginning to ooze out, she began to panic, she had never felt in her whole life, pain. The young princess was always in the watchful eye of her mother and if not, others. They always healed her whenever she got hurt, but without anyone to aid her, Serena felt great pain she had never experienced before. She wailed loudly, but her cry was unheard of. No one came to help her. Rain soon erupted from the misty, gray skies above her and within a matter of only a few seconds, the young princess was drenched from head to toe.
Thunder soon began to roar ferociously, winds started howling like hungry beasts and lightning striking the ground randomly but also dangerously close to the injured princess.
Serena shrieked, hating the loud and boisterous noises that the thunder and lightning were making, but she couldn't get away from her worst nightmares because she was too stunned of the pain she still felt. Loud cries soon racked her little body, despair and hopelessness taking over her. She tried to move but she remained frozen in shock, the only thing that moved at all was her golden hair that whipped against her face as the strong wind blew.
"Why are you crying? Are you hurt?" a young boy's voice suddenly breezed into the little girl's mind.
Serena stopped crying instantly, feeling warm and protected inside. She looked around but saw no one. However, she knew that he existed and he was there to help.
"I can not get up because I have hurt myself. I am crying because of the thunder and lightning," Serena explained to the mysterious voice.
"Is that all?" the voice scoffed. "Well then, try and get up. I promise you, you will not fall." The voice ordered. Serena did as she was told, trusting the voice in her mind. She had no idea why but somehow deep in her heart she knew that the voice would never let her down. She stood shakily, resting her good hand on the tree for support. The Moonchild wobbled a bit but slowly stood to her full height.
"Good, see I told you I will not let you fall," the voice continued. "Now hold out the hand you have cut and close your eyes. Then concentrate with me in healing your wound."
Serena nodded, obediently. She closed her eyes as she felt her powers as well as the boy's energy start to meld together to heal her wound. Once she opened her blue eyes, she saw that her cut had disappeared, completely. "Well now…um…" "Serena," the princess said.
"Well now Serena looks like you are all better. You better hurry back before you catch a cold."
Serena nodded, the storm all forgotten. "Thank you so much…err…May I ask what is your name?" Serena asked.
The voice hesitated before answering, "Darien…you may call me Darien."
Serena smiled gratefully at the boy who had just rescued her, even though she couldn't see him, she knew that the boy acknowledged her smile because she could feel him grinning back at her. She hurried back into the crystal palace, her dress and hair-dripping wet. Though she could not see the boy she knew that he was near and would always be there for her to count on. The two had shared a very special bond in a matter of minutes, a bond of telecommunication that took others to learn for a long and hard time.
However, both achieved it at such an early stage and without any trouble at all.
The princess became ill the very next day because of her being under the rain for far too long. Her mother had found her collapsed on the main hall floor, with her damp clothes sticking onto her like a second skin. It wasn't too long until Serena caught a cold and then a fever. Serenity was at her daughter's side throughout the whole time as the palace herbalist took care of the Moonchild's medicine. During the nights, Darien checked in to see how his newfound friend was feeling but found her fast asleep. He, as well as everyone else in the Moon palace, became worried for Serena when she did not get better the following week.
Early one morning, as Serena was again dozing off because of the medicine she took, Darien mind tapped into her head.
"Come out and see!" He said to his feverish friend.
Serena blinked, still feeling weak and strained, it took her some time to recognize the familiar voice. "Darien? Is that you? I am sorry but I am unwell to go outside." She replied, her voice lacking strength. She coughed once as her eyes began to close once again.
"Believe me Sere, you will feel much better when you see this," Darien urged.
Serena suddenly felt a little strength returning to her as she moved out of her bed. She saw that her mother was still sitting beside her bed, but she was fast asleep. Careful not to wake her, Serena moved to get her thick robe and slowly crept to the glass windows that lead up towards her balcony. Once she reached the outside world, a soft gust of wind blew across her face, as if kissing her good morning. She shivered, not because of the cold but because of knowing that Darien was there for her, once again. It was as if Darien was giving her the strength to go outside. "What am I exactly seeing?" Serena asked, tiredly. Although she felt a little stronger she still felt sick. "Look around you Sere," Darien said.
Serena looked around and could instantly see why Darien had told her to come outside.
The sun was slowly rising, its rays streaking the pinkened sky. The world smelt of fresh rain, little droplets of water still covering the lush grass. The birds nearby sang their sweet melody and the most mystic and wondrous thing of all, that took her breath away, was the rainbow that stretching across the pink sky. Serena gasped at the beauty of it all, feeling a whole much better than a while ago. Strength and magic slowly returning back to the little Moonchild.
"This is beautiful Darien," Serena gushed after a while.
Serena could feel Darien smiling back at her, "I know. All of Earth can see that rainbow."
The moon princess furrowed her brows, 'Earth? He lives on Earth?' she thought to herself, puzzled. It was against all rules to communicate or even think about the Terran land of Earth. Something had happened long time ago that strained the relationship between the Moon and Earth and so that was why most people within the Silver Alliance did not commute with people from Earth.
"Yes, I come from Earth. Do you not?" Darien asked confused at what Serena had said.
Serena blanched, she forgot that Darien could read her thoughts just as well she could read his. "Uh…yeah…well actually I live somewhere near Earth." Serena replied after a while. It wasn't exactly a lie but a white lie nevertheless.
"Where?" Darien asked, becoming both defensive as well as confused. He had always presumed that Serena lived on Earth like he did. Always erasing the fact that she could be someone from outside his home planet because it was the fact that Terrans were the only people that could communicate telepathically, with the exception of the other royal monarchies in the other planets, of course, but Serena was too sweet and innocent to be one of those superior and snobby princesses he most disliked. So he always thought that Serena was of his Terran planet, he knew though that she was very rich, probably of noble blood by the way she described her home.
Serena began to feel uneasy; she couldn't say she lived on the Moon because she knew that it would break her friendship with the young boy, not to mention getting into serious trouble by her mother if she ever found out that she was communicating with a Terran.
Sensing Serena's discomfort, Darien decided to go against his own question.
"Do not worry about it. Let's just let things be, shall we?" Darien said in a more gentle tone.
Serena nodded, relieved. "I guess some things should be left hidden until it is ready to be revealed, right?" Serena replied. She sensed Darien nodding, agreeing with her. They stayed quiet for the remaining minutes, peaceful in each other's company. Serena took in a deep breath, refreshing her tired lungs with fresh air. She still felt uncomfortable knowing that Darien was a Terran, but he had saved her when no one else would, and so she was forever in his debt. Though she knew that she could not let anyone else know about him.
"Serena!" Her mother's urgent voice rang out from her room, disturbing her reverie.
Serena began to panic, "I am sorry Darien, but I must go now. Thank you so much for this, it was truly amazing." Serena said quickly as she saw her mother's figure moving towards her, she couldn't let her mother find out about her Terran friend, at all costs.
"Not a problem Sere, have a nice day. Shall we do this again? Tomorrow perhaps?" Darien suggested. Serena nodded, eagerly. "Looking forward to it. Good bye."
The telepathic connection between the two soon dissipated, but Serena could still feel Darien's warm presence near her, she smiled knowing that.
"Serena! Dearest, what are you doing out here??" Serenity called, concern and panic evident in her voice. She walked towards her golden haired daughter and bent down to look closer at her daughter's face. "Are you feeling much better, my little one?" Serenity asked looking into Serena's big blue eyes. Serena nodded. Queen Serenity sighed happily, all the built up anxiety leaving her body. She then leaned over to hug her daughter, sparkling tears forming around her light blue eyes. Serena pulled back a little as she saw her mother crying, "What is wrong mama?" Serenity smiled, "Nothing my little one, nothing is wrong anymore."
Serena smiled and embraced her mother, "That's good," she replied into her mother's ear.
Down below the balcony, servants and guards stopped their daily duties to glance at the more beautiful scene, far greater than the sunrise and the morning rainbow, on the palace's balcony. The two figures looked almost angel like, with their long white and golden hairs bellowing around them both and their white dresses dancing with the wind, rippling softly about them like the sea. The sun outlining their bodies with golden light. People couldn't help but marvel at the two.
*****
Serena giggled happily as her flowers from her gardens began to bloom once again.
Spring had come earlier than she had expected and so her pretty flowers were growing much more rapidly than anticipated. Her face glowed with joy as she saw each bud blossoming.
The golden haired Moonchild spent the first few days of spring working in her gardens. There was no need for shovels and spades, however, because all the little princess had to do was concentrate hard on her powers and there would be flowers growing everywhere in front of her eyes. But out of all the flowers in her gardens, she had more difficulty with regenerating her white roses. In fact she nearly drained her powers by causing only ten small buds to bloom. She had no idea why they were so hard to grow by her magic that in the end she decided to let them grow themselves naturally.
The little girl wiped her forehead causing a dark dirt smudge to appear on her creamy skin as she continued arranging the Fire Lilies from Mars. Somewhere behind her, someone giggled. She looked up, astonished, but saw no one. At first she thought it was Darien playing one of his tricks on her again but she couldn't feel him and she knew she nor Darien hadn't mind tapped each other.
She stood from her crouching position and whirled around to see a girl with light blue eyes, twinkling with mischief, staring back at her. Serena shrieked with surprise. The girl laughed even harder. "Who…who are you?" Serena asked the laughing girl, taking a step backwards. The girl didn't reply, she just stood there and laughed.
Serena became confused and took another step back a little afraid of the mysterious girl. Once the laughter had ceased the girl regained her composure and curtsied respectfully at the bewildered princess. "Sorry princess, but you looked so ridiculous with that smudge on your face that I could not contain myself." The girl with blue eyes replied, wiping tears of laughter.
"You are too kind," Serena replied dryly. "You scared me half to death. Who are you? This is my special place, who gave you authority to come here?" The little Moonchild demanded, feeling protective of her gardens from the strange intruder.
"I offer you my apologies again princess, I did not mean to insult you." The girl replied, sounding genuine. Serena sniffed, "It is all right. What is your name?"
The girl bowed her head, her light blonde hair falling to her face, "I am princess Mina from the planet Venus. I am your first cousin, princess." The girl informed Serena.
Serena's eyes opened wide with shock, "My…my cousin?"
The blonde girl nodded, a cheerful smile playing about her face. "Your mother, who is my aunty, wanted to keep it a surprise for you. But I wanted to meet you so badly that I ran straight from the Warp Holes to the gardens where your mother told me I would find you, I just had to see for myself what my new cousin looked like," The girl informed the little Moonchild, excitedly.
Serena grinned, "I guess I must have looked pretty funny for you to laugh like that,"
The girl giggled, "I guess so, princess."
"So your name is Mina?" Serena asked her blonde haired cousin.
She nodded, "Yes, I am pleased to meet you, princess. Looking at you seems like a mirror image of me. Do you not think that we look the same?"
Serena took a step forward to inspect her new cousin closely; she had to admit it even to herself that the girl did look a lot like her.
To an untrained eye, people would almost think that the two blonde haired princesses were sisters, if not twins. They both had the same cerulean coloured eyes and the same openness in their faces. The only way the two could had be distinguished from the other was that Serena had muted gold hair which were always held up into two balls atop of her head with the rest of her long hair falling behind her back, while as her cousin had a lighter shade of long, blonde hair which was tied with a red bow.
Serena nodded after a while, "I guess we do look alike." She confirmed. The young Moon princess' smile bloomed into a heavenly grin. "We're going to have so much fun this spring, you and I! I haven't got one friend here that is the same age as me and is also a girl! I'm very pleased to meet you."
The Venusian princess nodded, "I know what you mean, Venus is so boring when you have no friends. Luckily though we have each other this whole spring!"
The afternoon was filled with wild giggles and laughing outbursts as the two newly found cousins played and ran together as if they had really been close sisters instead of newly acquainted cousins.
Serena was overjoyed to have a newfound friend the same age as her and the Venusian princess was glad to meet her cousin finally. The two had sparked a long lifetime of friendship, one that was needed to continue the alliance between the great White Moon and the sister planet of Venus. The two, along with the other first-born princesses of the Inner planets, were the new generations of the Silver Millennium and the new protectors of both the White Moon and the Silver alliance.
*****
"Please someone, help me!" Serena screamed at the top of her lungs as she ran through the green, lush garden maze. She had wondered into the forbidden maze that morning and couldn't find her way out, it was beginning to get dark and so she began to panic. Sweat beaded her forehead as she continued to run, turning and twisting at each corner.
The young five-year-old princess shrieked once again as she rounded a dead end with an evil looking gargoyle staring back at her with it's dark stony eyes. She backed away slowly, never taking her eyes off the evil creature, then turned and started to run the other direction. Tears soon began to threaten her blue eyes and it wasn't long until it streamed down her rosy cheeks. She wished that her cousin was with her but Mina had already left to go back to her planet for the new year.
Serena closed her eyes as she dashed around the maze aimlessly; feeling disheartened as each way she turned was another dead end. She finally gave up when she came to yet another halt at a dead end. She sat down in dismay and began to sob, her little body shaking uncontrollably.
Her mother had told her to never step into the maze without a grown up but Serena had disobeyed. She wanted to go into the garden maze because she was feeling sad and bored because her only playmate had gone back home as soon as spring had passed. Also because she couldn't make contact with Darien, it had already been over two weeks since she last talked to her close friend.
The young Moonchild was soon engulfed with a great deal of loneliness and concern for Darien. It wasn't like him to leave her alone without saying a word.
Serena knew that Darien was a boy of great importance. She had concluded that he must have been of noble blood in Earth because he was always away in business trips; he also had his own four generals to look after him. For the past year he was always leaving to go some place with his father. But he always told her when he was leaving and why, but this time it was different. He never turned up for any of their usual morning meetings. Serena felt betrayed and hurt.
The little birthmark on her forehead soon began to glow dimly as all her emotions started to mix together, her sobbing beginning to grow worst. The golden birthmark increased each time a new tear; a new sob escaped from the little princess' body. Serena began to cry even harder and as a result, the golden light bloomed into a great beam that shot towards the darkened skies. The energy that was produced was simply incredible.
"Serena?" A familiar voice asked with great concern.
Serena sniffed, as she tried to get her crying under control. "Darien… is… that… you?" She asked in between deep breaths.
"Serena are you hurt again? What is wrong? Please do not cry Sere I am here now. It will be alright," Darien cooed as his warmth began to comfort the sniffing child.
"I thought you had left me," Serena whispered, tears appearing once again. His voice was so soothing to her ears.
She could feel Darien shaking his head, "Of course not Sere. I apologise for not talking to you these past few weeks but some thing came up that I had to attend to. I will never leave you or let you fall again. I give you my word, Sere."
Serena could tell that her friend was being sincere, so she nodded and dried up her big blue eyes. The crying instantly ceased at the sound of Darien's voice. "I missed you so much Darien!" she exclaimed, her voice filled with warmth.
Darien was caught at her outburst but smiled gently. "Me too, I really missed speaking and joking with you. Now tell me what is wrong?"
Serena got up from her sitting position and told Darien the whole story.
"I see, well I might have to fetch someone to help you then, huh Sere?" Darien replied.
Serena became confused, "How ever will you manage that?"
Darien grinned, "Believe me Sere, I have my ways."
Serena waited patiently as Darien began his summoning spell, and it wasn't long until a great white stallion with a male rider on its back, appeared from the left corner. Serena stood and quietly murmured her thanks to Darien. He had saved her once again from the pain of loneliness; she only wished that she could return the favour.
~*~*~*~
(Earth)
Darien smiled seeing that his summoning spell actually worked, his exertion in the Endowment Rooms actually paid off, he knew that his generals would had been proud of him if they had seen him.
Darien's grin became even wider knowing that Serena was safe and unhurt. He was panicked when he felt her crying and instantly blamed himself for her pain. He hated to see his close friend in pain even if it was only minor. He vowed to protect her even though he couldn't see her in real life. He felt a great bond between himself and Serena, their friendship growing stronger and closer each day. Since day one he had met the mysterious girl he felt great powers and wisdom concealed within her and found that he was somehow obligated to keep her safe. However, he had nearly failed in protecting and helping her.
"How could I have been so stupid?" The young Terran boy muttered to himself putting a hand on his forehead. The only reason why he didn't tell Serena that he had left for another trip was because this time he went to a small planet in the southern part of Pluto, which was much too far for even him to communicate with Serena. But he knew Serena all to well, he knew that if he had told her she would had insisted on talking to him through telecommunication even though it was very dangerous. Darien smiled; Serena was too stubborn for her own good.
His deep blue eyes soon grew heavy as he stared out into the night skies, the White Moon's glow illuminating his whole quarters. He found comfort looking at the Moon; its rays were like a guardian to him during the night. He couldn't understand why such a beautiful planet so close to his own, couldn't be trusted by his people. He heard from his mother that the Lunarians were of great powers and were very mysterious people. She had described them as beautiful mortal angels, whatever that meant. Darien yawned sleepily and soon fell into a deep slumber, but not before checking up on Serena one more time, he found her already fast asleep.
Book 1: Star Crossed Friendships
Chapter 1: Moon Child
Written By: AngelSweetie
Copyright 2002
E-mail: m_angeleyes@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: Okay I don't own Sailor Moon or any of it's characters and even if I did what makes you think that I'd turn the whole story into a perverted, bisexual, homosexual, men turning into girls, girls being boys storyline. (As you can see I'm very deeply scarred. It has wounded me for life)
~*~*^Chapter1: Moon Child^*~*~
Silvery laughter could be heard echoing off the Moon Palace's walls, as the three year old princess ran through the Palace corridors and hallways, dodging servants and guards in their wake. The little girl's happiness radiated from her body and could be felt by anyone who was anywhere near the princess. Bernard, one of the Moon Palace's royal guards, chuckled as the little golden haired child flew past him. Everyday throughout the past year it was like this, but he never grew tired of watching the little princess run and laugh like it was some game to her. "Good day Bernard!" The little girl exclaimed in her babyish voice. She kept running without waiting for his reply. Bernard laughed as he saw the little princess run through the columned walls and into the Palace gardens. Even though the princess was three years of age, everyone could tell that she would one day become a beautiful young lady.
Bernard shook his head amusingly; "Gods help that girl when she becomes the right age to marry."
He knew that there would to be many young men, from all over the universe that would be delighted to take the hand of the almighty Moon princess.
Giggling to herself, little Serena walked into the gardens, giving herself time to catch her breath. She wandered through the gardens aimlessly, coming to a halt in front of the white roses from Earth. She had no idea why, but the roses always enchanted her. Despite the numerous times she came to visit them they always seemed to pull her into a trance of reverie and awe. Serena sighed to herself contentedly, as she took a stem and tucked it into one of her golden buns, and then leaned down to smell the rest. It was then she noticed a smaller rose bud not in full bloom yet. It looked like as if it didn't belong to the rest of the bunch and so Serena instantly felt sorry for it. She cupped the tiny bud in her own small hands. "Come out little one," she whispered, closing her eyes. "I promise that when you do, you will stand far more taller and greater than the rest of your brothers and sisters."
The little rose bud obeyed at Serena's command, and it indeed grew taller and more radiantly than the rest of its family. As the rose bloomed, so did the little princess' smile. She stood there admiring her work for a few minutes then fled back into her game, leaving the unnaturally big rose still at bloom. Still too young to understand, Serena held great powers within her, as her own mother did. Serena could see things others just took for granted.
She could sense things normal people would not even take a second glance at. She could do little things, like making roses bloom, but yet there was a greater entity of power that she held within her. She was one of the far more gifted Lunarian royalties.
*****
The leaves in the Palace gardens soon dropped slowly towards the ground, marking the first day of autumn. The flowers all went into hiding once more, waiting until spring would come and bring them back to life. The wind blew cool air, sometimes picking up dead leaves and throwing them about. Little Serena, now four years of age, watched sadly as she saw her last rose loose its last white petal. It drifted slowly down towards her and into her open palm. Tears soon appeared behind the princess' blue crystal eyes and ran down her soft, pink cheeks. The Moon princess began to sob. No matter how many times autumn came and went, Serena always felt sad whenever the flowers in her gardens, particularly her roses, began to fall away for winter. She disliked waiting for her flowers to bloom again.
"No, please roses do not go. I shall miss you all very much." The young girl pleaded, clenching the last stray petal in her little hand, shiny tears still running down her cold cheeks.
Too heartbreaking to see anymore flowers fall, the golden haired child started to run out of the gardens, unaware of a root sticking above ground. As she ran her shoes instantly caught the stray root, and so the little princess tripped and fell onto the cold floor in a small heap.
Her silent sobbing began to grow more melancholy as she cried out with pain. Her hands and knees began to sting with strong ache. She bought her left hand up to inspect it and saw with awe blood beginning to ooze out, she began to panic, she had never felt in her whole life, pain. The young princess was always in the watchful eye of her mother and if not, others. They always healed her whenever she got hurt, but without anyone to aid her, Serena felt great pain she had never experienced before. She wailed loudly, but her cry was unheard of. No one came to help her. Rain soon erupted from the misty, gray skies above her and within a matter of only a few seconds, the young princess was drenched from head to toe.
Thunder soon began to roar ferociously, winds started howling like hungry beasts and lightning striking the ground randomly but also dangerously close to the injured princess.
Serena shrieked, hating the loud and boisterous noises that the thunder and lightning were making, but she couldn't get away from her worst nightmares because she was too stunned of the pain she still felt. Loud cries soon racked her little body, despair and hopelessness taking over her. She tried to move but she remained frozen in shock, the only thing that moved at all was her golden hair that whipped against her face as the strong wind blew.
"Why are you crying? Are you hurt?" a young boy's voice suddenly breezed into the little girl's mind.
Serena stopped crying instantly, feeling warm and protected inside. She looked around but saw no one. However, she knew that he existed and he was there to help.
"I can not get up because I have hurt myself. I am crying because of the thunder and lightning," Serena explained to the mysterious voice.
"Is that all?" the voice scoffed. "Well then, try and get up. I promise you, you will not fall." The voice ordered. Serena did as she was told, trusting the voice in her mind. She had no idea why but somehow deep in her heart she knew that the voice would never let her down. She stood shakily, resting her good hand on the tree for support. The Moonchild wobbled a bit but slowly stood to her full height.
"Good, see I told you I will not let you fall," the voice continued. "Now hold out the hand you have cut and close your eyes. Then concentrate with me in healing your wound."
Serena nodded, obediently. She closed her eyes as she felt her powers as well as the boy's energy start to meld together to heal her wound. Once she opened her blue eyes, she saw that her cut had disappeared, completely. "Well now…um…" "Serena," the princess said.
"Well now Serena looks like you are all better. You better hurry back before you catch a cold."
Serena nodded, the storm all forgotten. "Thank you so much…err…May I ask what is your name?" Serena asked.
The voice hesitated before answering, "Darien…you may call me Darien."
Serena smiled gratefully at the boy who had just rescued her, even though she couldn't see him, she knew that the boy acknowledged her smile because she could feel him grinning back at her. She hurried back into the crystal palace, her dress and hair-dripping wet. Though she could not see the boy she knew that he was near and would always be there for her to count on. The two had shared a very special bond in a matter of minutes, a bond of telecommunication that took others to learn for a long and hard time.
However, both achieved it at such an early stage and without any trouble at all.
The princess became ill the very next day because of her being under the rain for far too long. Her mother had found her collapsed on the main hall floor, with her damp clothes sticking onto her like a second skin. It wasn't too long until Serena caught a cold and then a fever. Serenity was at her daughter's side throughout the whole time as the palace herbalist took care of the Moonchild's medicine. During the nights, Darien checked in to see how his newfound friend was feeling but found her fast asleep. He, as well as everyone else in the Moon palace, became worried for Serena when she did not get better the following week.
Early one morning, as Serena was again dozing off because of the medicine she took, Darien mind tapped into her head.
"Come out and see!" He said to his feverish friend.
Serena blinked, still feeling weak and strained, it took her some time to recognize the familiar voice. "Darien? Is that you? I am sorry but I am unwell to go outside." She replied, her voice lacking strength. She coughed once as her eyes began to close once again.
"Believe me Sere, you will feel much better when you see this," Darien urged.
Serena suddenly felt a little strength returning to her as she moved out of her bed. She saw that her mother was still sitting beside her bed, but she was fast asleep. Careful not to wake her, Serena moved to get her thick robe and slowly crept to the glass windows that lead up towards her balcony. Once she reached the outside world, a soft gust of wind blew across her face, as if kissing her good morning. She shivered, not because of the cold but because of knowing that Darien was there for her, once again. It was as if Darien was giving her the strength to go outside. "What am I exactly seeing?" Serena asked, tiredly. Although she felt a little stronger she still felt sick. "Look around you Sere," Darien said.
Serena looked around and could instantly see why Darien had told her to come outside.
The sun was slowly rising, its rays streaking the pinkened sky. The world smelt of fresh rain, little droplets of water still covering the lush grass. The birds nearby sang their sweet melody and the most mystic and wondrous thing of all, that took her breath away, was the rainbow that stretching across the pink sky. Serena gasped at the beauty of it all, feeling a whole much better than a while ago. Strength and magic slowly returning back to the little Moonchild.
"This is beautiful Darien," Serena gushed after a while.
Serena could feel Darien smiling back at her, "I know. All of Earth can see that rainbow."
The moon princess furrowed her brows, 'Earth? He lives on Earth?' she thought to herself, puzzled. It was against all rules to communicate or even think about the Terran land of Earth. Something had happened long time ago that strained the relationship between the Moon and Earth and so that was why most people within the Silver Alliance did not commute with people from Earth.
"Yes, I come from Earth. Do you not?" Darien asked confused at what Serena had said.
Serena blanched, she forgot that Darien could read her thoughts just as well she could read his. "Uh…yeah…well actually I live somewhere near Earth." Serena replied after a while. It wasn't exactly a lie but a white lie nevertheless.
"Where?" Darien asked, becoming both defensive as well as confused. He had always presumed that Serena lived on Earth like he did. Always erasing the fact that she could be someone from outside his home planet because it was the fact that Terrans were the only people that could communicate telepathically, with the exception of the other royal monarchies in the other planets, of course, but Serena was too sweet and innocent to be one of those superior and snobby princesses he most disliked. So he always thought that Serena was of his Terran planet, he knew though that she was very rich, probably of noble blood by the way she described her home.
Serena began to feel uneasy; she couldn't say she lived on the Moon because she knew that it would break her friendship with the young boy, not to mention getting into serious trouble by her mother if she ever found out that she was communicating with a Terran.
Sensing Serena's discomfort, Darien decided to go against his own question.
"Do not worry about it. Let's just let things be, shall we?" Darien said in a more gentle tone.
Serena nodded, relieved. "I guess some things should be left hidden until it is ready to be revealed, right?" Serena replied. She sensed Darien nodding, agreeing with her. They stayed quiet for the remaining minutes, peaceful in each other's company. Serena took in a deep breath, refreshing her tired lungs with fresh air. She still felt uncomfortable knowing that Darien was a Terran, but he had saved her when no one else would, and so she was forever in his debt. Though she knew that she could not let anyone else know about him.
"Serena!" Her mother's urgent voice rang out from her room, disturbing her reverie.
Serena began to panic, "I am sorry Darien, but I must go now. Thank you so much for this, it was truly amazing." Serena said quickly as she saw her mother's figure moving towards her, she couldn't let her mother find out about her Terran friend, at all costs.
"Not a problem Sere, have a nice day. Shall we do this again? Tomorrow perhaps?" Darien suggested. Serena nodded, eagerly. "Looking forward to it. Good bye."
The telepathic connection between the two soon dissipated, but Serena could still feel Darien's warm presence near her, she smiled knowing that.
"Serena! Dearest, what are you doing out here??" Serenity called, concern and panic evident in her voice. She walked towards her golden haired daughter and bent down to look closer at her daughter's face. "Are you feeling much better, my little one?" Serenity asked looking into Serena's big blue eyes. Serena nodded. Queen Serenity sighed happily, all the built up anxiety leaving her body. She then leaned over to hug her daughter, sparkling tears forming around her light blue eyes. Serena pulled back a little as she saw her mother crying, "What is wrong mama?" Serenity smiled, "Nothing my little one, nothing is wrong anymore."
Serena smiled and embraced her mother, "That's good," she replied into her mother's ear.
Down below the balcony, servants and guards stopped their daily duties to glance at the more beautiful scene, far greater than the sunrise and the morning rainbow, on the palace's balcony. The two figures looked almost angel like, with their long white and golden hairs bellowing around them both and their white dresses dancing with the wind, rippling softly about them like the sea. The sun outlining their bodies with golden light. People couldn't help but marvel at the two.
*****
Serena giggled happily as her flowers from her gardens began to bloom once again.
Spring had come earlier than she had expected and so her pretty flowers were growing much more rapidly than anticipated. Her face glowed with joy as she saw each bud blossoming.
The golden haired Moonchild spent the first few days of spring working in her gardens. There was no need for shovels and spades, however, because all the little princess had to do was concentrate hard on her powers and there would be flowers growing everywhere in front of her eyes. But out of all the flowers in her gardens, she had more difficulty with regenerating her white roses. In fact she nearly drained her powers by causing only ten small buds to bloom. She had no idea why they were so hard to grow by her magic that in the end she decided to let them grow themselves naturally.
The little girl wiped her forehead causing a dark dirt smudge to appear on her creamy skin as she continued arranging the Fire Lilies from Mars. Somewhere behind her, someone giggled. She looked up, astonished, but saw no one. At first she thought it was Darien playing one of his tricks on her again but she couldn't feel him and she knew she nor Darien hadn't mind tapped each other.
She stood from her crouching position and whirled around to see a girl with light blue eyes, twinkling with mischief, staring back at her. Serena shrieked with surprise. The girl laughed even harder. "Who…who are you?" Serena asked the laughing girl, taking a step backwards. The girl didn't reply, she just stood there and laughed.
Serena became confused and took another step back a little afraid of the mysterious girl. Once the laughter had ceased the girl regained her composure and curtsied respectfully at the bewildered princess. "Sorry princess, but you looked so ridiculous with that smudge on your face that I could not contain myself." The girl with blue eyes replied, wiping tears of laughter.
"You are too kind," Serena replied dryly. "You scared me half to death. Who are you? This is my special place, who gave you authority to come here?" The little Moonchild demanded, feeling protective of her gardens from the strange intruder.
"I offer you my apologies again princess, I did not mean to insult you." The girl replied, sounding genuine. Serena sniffed, "It is all right. What is your name?"
The girl bowed her head, her light blonde hair falling to her face, "I am princess Mina from the planet Venus. I am your first cousin, princess." The girl informed Serena.
Serena's eyes opened wide with shock, "My…my cousin?"
The blonde girl nodded, a cheerful smile playing about her face. "Your mother, who is my aunty, wanted to keep it a surprise for you. But I wanted to meet you so badly that I ran straight from the Warp Holes to the gardens where your mother told me I would find you, I just had to see for myself what my new cousin looked like," The girl informed the little Moonchild, excitedly.
Serena grinned, "I guess I must have looked pretty funny for you to laugh like that,"
The girl giggled, "I guess so, princess."
"So your name is Mina?" Serena asked her blonde haired cousin.
She nodded, "Yes, I am pleased to meet you, princess. Looking at you seems like a mirror image of me. Do you not think that we look the same?"
Serena took a step forward to inspect her new cousin closely; she had to admit it even to herself that the girl did look a lot like her.
To an untrained eye, people would almost think that the two blonde haired princesses were sisters, if not twins. They both had the same cerulean coloured eyes and the same openness in their faces. The only way the two could had be distinguished from the other was that Serena had muted gold hair which were always held up into two balls atop of her head with the rest of her long hair falling behind her back, while as her cousin had a lighter shade of long, blonde hair which was tied with a red bow.
Serena nodded after a while, "I guess we do look alike." She confirmed. The young Moon princess' smile bloomed into a heavenly grin. "We're going to have so much fun this spring, you and I! I haven't got one friend here that is the same age as me and is also a girl! I'm very pleased to meet you."
The Venusian princess nodded, "I know what you mean, Venus is so boring when you have no friends. Luckily though we have each other this whole spring!"
The afternoon was filled with wild giggles and laughing outbursts as the two newly found cousins played and ran together as if they had really been close sisters instead of newly acquainted cousins.
Serena was overjoyed to have a newfound friend the same age as her and the Venusian princess was glad to meet her cousin finally. The two had sparked a long lifetime of friendship, one that was needed to continue the alliance between the great White Moon and the sister planet of Venus. The two, along with the other first-born princesses of the Inner planets, were the new generations of the Silver Millennium and the new protectors of both the White Moon and the Silver alliance.
*****
"Please someone, help me!" Serena screamed at the top of her lungs as she ran through the green, lush garden maze. She had wondered into the forbidden maze that morning and couldn't find her way out, it was beginning to get dark and so she began to panic. Sweat beaded her forehead as she continued to run, turning and twisting at each corner.
The young five-year-old princess shrieked once again as she rounded a dead end with an evil looking gargoyle staring back at her with it's dark stony eyes. She backed away slowly, never taking her eyes off the evil creature, then turned and started to run the other direction. Tears soon began to threaten her blue eyes and it wasn't long until it streamed down her rosy cheeks. She wished that her cousin was with her but Mina had already left to go back to her planet for the new year.
Serena closed her eyes as she dashed around the maze aimlessly; feeling disheartened as each way she turned was another dead end. She finally gave up when she came to yet another halt at a dead end. She sat down in dismay and began to sob, her little body shaking uncontrollably.
Her mother had told her to never step into the maze without a grown up but Serena had disobeyed. She wanted to go into the garden maze because she was feeling sad and bored because her only playmate had gone back home as soon as spring had passed. Also because she couldn't make contact with Darien, it had already been over two weeks since she last talked to her close friend.
The young Moonchild was soon engulfed with a great deal of loneliness and concern for Darien. It wasn't like him to leave her alone without saying a word.
Serena knew that Darien was a boy of great importance. She had concluded that he must have been of noble blood in Earth because he was always away in business trips; he also had his own four generals to look after him. For the past year he was always leaving to go some place with his father. But he always told her when he was leaving and why, but this time it was different. He never turned up for any of their usual morning meetings. Serena felt betrayed and hurt.
The little birthmark on her forehead soon began to glow dimly as all her emotions started to mix together, her sobbing beginning to grow worst. The golden birthmark increased each time a new tear; a new sob escaped from the little princess' body. Serena began to cry even harder and as a result, the golden light bloomed into a great beam that shot towards the darkened skies. The energy that was produced was simply incredible.
"Serena?" A familiar voice asked with great concern.
Serena sniffed, as she tried to get her crying under control. "Darien… is… that… you?" She asked in between deep breaths.
"Serena are you hurt again? What is wrong? Please do not cry Sere I am here now. It will be alright," Darien cooed as his warmth began to comfort the sniffing child.
"I thought you had left me," Serena whispered, tears appearing once again. His voice was so soothing to her ears.
She could feel Darien shaking his head, "Of course not Sere. I apologise for not talking to you these past few weeks but some thing came up that I had to attend to. I will never leave you or let you fall again. I give you my word, Sere."
Serena could tell that her friend was being sincere, so she nodded and dried up her big blue eyes. The crying instantly ceased at the sound of Darien's voice. "I missed you so much Darien!" she exclaimed, her voice filled with warmth.
Darien was caught at her outburst but smiled gently. "Me too, I really missed speaking and joking with you. Now tell me what is wrong?"
Serena got up from her sitting position and told Darien the whole story.
"I see, well I might have to fetch someone to help you then, huh Sere?" Darien replied.
Serena became confused, "How ever will you manage that?"
Darien grinned, "Believe me Sere, I have my ways."
Serena waited patiently as Darien began his summoning spell, and it wasn't long until a great white stallion with a male rider on its back, appeared from the left corner. Serena stood and quietly murmured her thanks to Darien. He had saved her once again from the pain of loneliness; she only wished that she could return the favour.
~*~*~*~
(Earth)
Darien smiled seeing that his summoning spell actually worked, his exertion in the Endowment Rooms actually paid off, he knew that his generals would had been proud of him if they had seen him.
Darien's grin became even wider knowing that Serena was safe and unhurt. He was panicked when he felt her crying and instantly blamed himself for her pain. He hated to see his close friend in pain even if it was only minor. He vowed to protect her even though he couldn't see her in real life. He felt a great bond between himself and Serena, their friendship growing stronger and closer each day. Since day one he had met the mysterious girl he felt great powers and wisdom concealed within her and found that he was somehow obligated to keep her safe. However, he had nearly failed in protecting and helping her.
"How could I have been so stupid?" The young Terran boy muttered to himself putting a hand on his forehead. The only reason why he didn't tell Serena that he had left for another trip was because this time he went to a small planet in the southern part of Pluto, which was much too far for even him to communicate with Serena. But he knew Serena all to well, he knew that if he had told her she would had insisted on talking to him through telecommunication even though it was very dangerous. Darien smiled; Serena was too stubborn for her own good.
His deep blue eyes soon grew heavy as he stared out into the night skies, the White Moon's glow illuminating his whole quarters. He found comfort looking at the Moon; its rays were like a guardian to him during the night. He couldn't understand why such a beautiful planet so close to his own, couldn't be trusted by his people. He heard from his mother that the Lunarians were of great powers and were very mysterious people. She had described them as beautiful mortal angels, whatever that meant. Darien yawned sleepily and soon fell into a deep slumber, but not before checking up on Serena one more time, he found her already fast asleep.