The Silence

A Sailor Moon Fanfiction

By: Bekah-chan

Rating: PG



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Disclaimer: Nooooooo!!!!!!!!! It's NOT MINE!!!!! (Sailor Moon, I mean) *sob*



Chapter 6:

When Pluto had been gone for awhile, Saturn decided that the rest of the Scouts would be needed. With her mind she sought out the Sailor of Mars. She knew that she couldn't talk to Rei Hino directly, there just wasn't a strong connection there, they had never met, in this life anyway. Instead she sent, to the only member of the Inner Senshi that was psychic, the feeling that she, and the rest of the Inners, needed to be at the Princess' house *NOW*. Luckily Mars was doing a fire reading and open to this kind of thing. When she felt that her message had been received, she switched her attention back to the slightly amusing reaction of the Princess' current family when the Guardian of Time appeared out of nowhere.



*****Moon Palace---- Silver Millennium:

Serenity sat, once again, at the conference table. This time, however, she did not have any trouble staying awake. Rather she had to keep herself from laughing, this had to be the funniest peace summit she had ever been to. On one side of the table: Representatives of Venus, including the hapless emissary who had fallen asleep in his soup, and started this whole mess. On the other side of the table: Representatives of Jupiter, including the emissary who had taken such offence at, what Serenity had begun to call: The Soup Snoring Incident, or 'SS Incident' for short.

This was the third, and hopefully last, day of meetings. If nothing else went wrong, they would sign the treaty today. The Princess had valiantly refrained from laughing for three days, but now they were reading the final draft of the treaty, and her whole body hurt from holding back the laughter. It was just so *funny*!! How could grown men get into a situation such as this? Serenity struggled to pay attention, turning any escaping giggles into demure coughs, she knew her parents would quiz her when it was over, it was a affair of state and therefor part of her education. No matter how silly it was.

She managed to get the main points of the treaty, sans the flowery language. Point one: Venus agreed to restrict the soup-snoring emissary to desk duty on his home planet. Point two: Jupiter agreed that the SS Incident was *probably* an honest mistake, and regardless, they *probably* shouldn't have attacked that convoy. They also promised never to attack a convoy from Venus again. Point three: The Moon Palace promised not to *ever* serve soup to people who hadn't slept in 24 hours. Serenity hoped she could hold the hilarity in until the treaty was signed.



*****Moon Palace---- Later That Day:

Serenity ran down the halls, gasping for breath. Ahead of her she could see her destination, she was almost there! She quickly whipped out her key, opened the door, and ducked inside. She had made it!!! She leaned back against the now closed door, and let the laughter out. Soon she was rolling on the floor, tears of mirth streaming down her face. She just kept seeing the emissary from Venus' face when he was forbidden to ever eat soup again, on penalty of death!! She hoped the poor man hadn't been very fond of soup!!!

=Amused Question= Saturn wanted to know why she was laughing.

"The.....*gasp*.......emissary....*wheeze*.........from V-Venus........*cough*........has been for-forbidden.....*deep breath*.... from ever eating soup again!!" and she was off, barely catching enough breath to keep laughing, but unable to stop. As she was kicking her feet in a rather un-Princess-like way, she heard a noise that made her stop laughing altogether. Had Saturn just..... giggled?



*****Tokyo---- Present Day:

Pluto was, understandably, in shock. This was not normal for her, and when things weren't normal, Pluto fell back on the courtly manners that had been ingrained in her when she lived in the Silver Millennium. So, when she stepped out of the time portal, she addressed her future Queen with all formality:

"Princess, you are needed." she even curtsied, a little.

"Princess who?" this question came from the other side of the room. When Pluto looked that way she saw the Princess' family staring at her. Serena's mother had asked the question, but they all looked a little stunned.

Part of Pluto (a part that wasn't A: reliving the 'Saturn Event', or B: suppressing terror so she could get the job done) noticed that 'the Princess' family is present' and the thought 'Oops!!' were synonymous. But the rest of her couldn't be bothered with that now. Serena's family were due to find out this week anyway.

"Princess Serenity," Pluto answered, gesturing toward Serena with her Time Key. Everyone's eyes snapped back to Serena who, to her family's surprise, got up gracefully *gasp* from the couch, and, pushing Darien gently aside, walked a few steps to stand in front of Pluto. Her carriage seemed to change until she looked regal, even standing there in her mussed, and blood stained, school uniform.

"Why am I needed?" she asked softly.

"I.....I'm not sure," Pluto confessed.

"Not sure?" Darien had come to stand supportively behind Serena.

"Oh!" Pluto said, "My Prince!" she curtsied again, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you there." Darien's eyebrows rose in disbelief. Pluto? Not notice something?

"What is going on?" he demanded.

"Darien," Serena covered his hand, which was resting on her shoulder, with her own, "It's okay." she turn back to Pluto, who, she now observed, was shaking.

"Pluto, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, your Majesty," she insisted.

"Then, tell us what happened," Serena's voice was still soft, but everyone in the room heard the order behind the request.

"Sh.....She," Pluto paused, gathering her slightly scattered self control, "She woke up."

"Who?"

"Saturn."

"The Soldier of Destruction?" Serena asked. Pluto nodded. Serena shook her own head in denial, both hands coming up to cover her mouth. The moment Pluto had said 'Saturn' Serena's mind had been flooded with the knowledge of *who* Saturn was and *what* she would do if she were ever awakened.

"Is this the end then, is it over?" she asked Pluto.

"I don't think so," the older Scout reassured her, "the whole thing was rather odd, actually."

"Pluto?" Serena was getting impatient, was the world going to end, or not?

"Yes, my Liege?"

"Tell us *exactly* what happened."



To Be Continued ^_^