The Silence
A Sailor Moon Fanfiction
By: Bekah-chan
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Nooooooo!!!!!!!!! It's NOT MINE!!!!! (Sailor Moon, I mean) *sob*
Chapter 2:
The Warrior did not often allow herself to dream of the past. She felt the need to keep an eye, albeit a sleeping one, on the current Princess. But, in times of peace, she could let her mind drift back to the few bright memories of her long life. And to thoughts of the one friend that almost made up for eons of solitude.
*****Moon Palace---- Middle of the Silver Millennium:
Serenity slowly peeked around the corner to make sure the coast was clear. No one was in sight.... Good! She carefully eased into the hall and began to tip-toe down it, glad that she hadn't run into anyone. It just wouldn't due for one of the servants to see her as she was now, which was far removed from her usual appearance of refined demure. It would also be a bad thing if one of her parents saw her, the dress she was currently wearing (which she had 'borrowed' from one of her maids) would send her mother into a fit. And her father, even though she had told him what she was doing, might be surprised that she was actually doing it. Princesses were not supposed to clean, this was a well established tradition. But sometimes traditions had to be changed, and Serenity felt that she needed to do this, it was important.
The Moon Princess continued to creep quietly down the hall, trying to remember the right passage to turn down. She admonished herself for not paying closer attention when her father had shown her the way the day before. Finally she found the door she had been searching for, and pulled the key that opened it out of her pocket. As she fit the key in the lock she remembered earlier that morning when she had requested it from her father. It had taken awhile to convince him but, after she had fully explained her reasons, he had reluctantly given the key to her keeping, reminding her that no one outside the royal family must know of it. She smiled, grateful to have such an understanding father.
Checking once more to assure herself that she was unobserved, Serenity slipped into the now open door and closed it behind her. Sighing the princess turned to look at the room she remembered well from yesterday. It was exactly as she had last seen it, the Warrior of Destruction and Rebirth was sleeping peacefully in the middle of a room shrouded in dust. It was the dust that had inspired the princess' current adventure. She just couldn't stop picturing the lonely room with it's sole occupant, and the choking dust. She finally decided that, even if Saturn wasn't aware of her surroundings, no one deserved to sleep in such a dirty room. And, if the servants weren't allowed to come clean here, than the princess would have to do it herself, it was that simple. And, now that she was here, she had better get started.
It was then that Serenity realized she had a *big* problem....... She had forgotten to bring a broom! *gasp*
*****A Few Hours Later:
Serenity sat with a tired sigh, pushing her white hair off her brow, and leaving a streak of dust in it's place.
"Whew! That was hard," she sighed again. She now had a healthy appreciation for the work of the palace staff. She hurt all over, and was *way* too sweaty, defiantly not a princess-like condition. But it had been worth it, the room was now spotless. The Princess leaned back on the bench that was Saturn's resting place.
"Well," she told her silent companion, "it's done! You are now sleeping in a new and improved *clean* room." Serenity knew that it was silly to talk to a person who had been asleep for centuries, but she did it anyway. She felt in Saturn a kindred spirt, and somehow knew that the Warrior could hear at least some of what she said. So, while she rested, the princess told the sleeping Soldier about the palace and her life in it. She could have stayed there for hours, just talking, if she had not noticed that the light was fading. It was time to leave.
"I have to go now," she said as she stood, "I'll try to come back tomorrow, if not then the next day." she smiled, "Thank you, you're a good listener." she giggled.
Serenity took a last look at the room before she left, and came to another decision:
"This place needs a comfy chair," she would have to pilfer one from the library. Then she could visit her friend in comfort.
*****Tokyo--- Present Day:
Sailor Moon quickly jumped to the next rooftop in line, careful not to look down. That was the first lesson she had learned, the hard way, about this method of travel: 'Never look down'. She shouldn't even be using this mode of transit, since it was not Sailor business, but she was LATE!! Darien was coming to her house to have dinner and be introduced to her family, and she wasn't there! Darien was going to be there all alone at the mercy of her overprotective father, Eeeep! She had to get there, post haste, so she had transformed and taken to the rooftops. She only hoped that Luna never found out. If her guardian ever discovered she had done this, she would get yelled at, even if it wasn't her fault! Which it wasn't! How was she supposed to know that the arcade had a new Sailor V game in today? She had only stopped to take a look! And she had only stayed a few.......... Hours. ^_^;; Well, they should warn people when a new Sailor V game is coming out! She could have planned some time for it!
"It's too late for regrets now," she realized as she neared her neighborhood, "I just hope Darien is still in one, handsome, hug-able, cuddly, piece when I get there!"
But when Sailor Moon was only a few minutes from her house she stopped suddenly, sensing that something was wrong. Hearing a scream she looked down at the alley below the building she stood on, and noticed a woman who was about to get mugged by a pair of teenage 'hooligans'. *sigh*
"A super-heroin's work is never done!" As she dropped down on the two unsuspecting criminals, she began her trademark speech:
"STOP!! Right There! I am Sailor MOON! Campion of LOVE and JUSTICE............"
To Be Continued ^_^