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THE EARTH ROYALTY, Chapter Twelve

The cousins all stared at their leader. He was obviously in another mental conversation with Serena. He had had many with her after the park conversation. Finally, they were getting somewhere; Serena was allowing them to all talk to discuss the new threat.

The Sailor Scouts were insisting on having it on their on territory, Raye's temple. Darien agreed as it seemed that his apartment could hardly cope with just his cousins there. Bill, Beth and Nora were to go to the home of the StarLights and bring them to the temple, where everyone else was waiting.

The royalty all exited the apartment and went their different ways. Toni said that she had to go somewhere. So, Julie, Alex and Darien talked excitedly as they neared the temple. They saw Amy, Lita and Mina approached from a different direction. At the bottom of the stairs to the temple Darien introduced them to his cousins and they continued up the stairs as a friendly group that they once were.

At the top, they found the rest of the scouts assembled, all in high spirits. Holly ran and jump-hugged Darien as they stopped in front of the group. He automatically put his arms around her and said, "Sorry, Hols, he's gone to fetch the StarLights."

"How did you know that I was going to ask that?" She asked puzzled.

The cousins laughed, "Because you always greeted Darien liked that when you couldn't see Bill." More laughter.

"Hey," Julie's voice called, "You're not meant to have fun without us!"

"Yeah, especially without the clown!" Nora called with her arm linked with Julie. All turned to see Bill and the girls walk up to greet their old friends. Bill put his arms around Holly, while Alex did the same to Trista, with Mina and Lita practically dragging Darien to sit down by them.

"I thought you were bringing the StarLights." Serena said in the direction of the newcomers.

They turned and saw no one behind them, "Excuse us, I think they're still at the bottom." The two girls walked back down the stairs while everyone else got themselves comfortable.

A murmur of surprise escaped the mouths of those who did not know the identities of everyone. When nothing had been said for a while. Darien took charged.

"Welcome, Sailor Scouts, meet the Sailor StarLights. StarLights, these are the Scouts and my family the royalty of Earth. Everyone, close your mouths and sat back down."

Everyone did. Serena sat next to Mina who had Darien in an arm link with Lita on the other side of him. Raye sat next to her with Amy on her other side while Taiki occupied Amy's other side, followed by his brother Yaten and then Seiya who stared openly all around him. Julie sat by him with Nora on her other side with Bill and Holly and then Alex and Trista with Amara and Michelle completely the circle, sitting by their leader, Serena.

Toni appeared from thin air by Darien's side and bent down to explain something to her leader. It was still silent but Lita moved up to allow Toni some space so she could sit by Darien.

When they had finished talking, it was still silent.

"Umm, could one of you explain how come you all are the Sailor Scouts and why you call yourselves the royalty of Earth?" Taiki asked.

"Sure," Mina replied and Amy was about to start when Toni interrupted her.

"Only if you first tell us why you are Sailor StarLights." She spoke sharply.

"Why should we go first?" Yaten spoke also with an edge to his voice.

"Because," Darin spoke up, "We all know each other's history and why we are we, but we have no idea where you came from."

"Darien that's not exactly true, I have no idea that you ever had cousins before." Raye said.

"That's a good point Raye, but you did once know and you will hear it after we have had the explanation from these people." Alex stated.

Yaten still didn't like the idea but Taiki cut him off, "Look we have always wanted to help the Sailor Scouts and now we are, so just let us tell our story and then hear theirs." He spoke to his brothers, noticing one had been silence and staring at Darien and Serena.

"A couple of years ago, we saw an article talking about the Sailor scouts and a strange black shape that just appeared in Tokyo and grew. It suddenly disappeared and we knew that they must have destroyed it. Besides singing, we always had another dream, to save the world and from that day, we always wanted to help the Scouts. So we started to train, we practiced hand-to- hand combat in our home and leant aiming skills. But we did not have any energy attacks like you all have and it disheartened us. We stopped practicing and turned back to music. As we grew more and more famous, we travelled more and almost forgot about it until one night, about a year ago, when a shooting star caught Yaten's gaze.

"He wished that we could become like the Sailor Scouts. And so did we. Three balls of light appeared in front of each of us and they became a transformation stick. As we held them, the information we needed to utilise them just came to us and from then on we became the guardians of the Stars. We came to Tokyo to find the Sailor Scouts and help them." Taiki paused and then added thoughtfully, "However, we did not expect to have such a hospital welcome." He smirked over at Amara. "Sailor Uranus I presume."

Everyone laughed and Darien suddenly said, "You can only guess who is who." Taiki nodded. "Well I am Prince Endymion of Earth and I rule over all the Earth with the help of my cousins. I control and create natural disasters as my special power."

"I'm and Princess Antonia of North America. My special power is that location and that is how we knew that you and the StarLights were one."

"I'm Sailor Jupiter, the princess of Jupiter."

"I'm Sailor Mars, the princess of Mars."

"I'm Sailor Mercury, princess of Mercury."

"Sailor Star Maker."

"Sailor Star Healer."

"Sailor Star Fighter."

"Princess Juliana of Asia with invisibility as a special."

"Princess Leonora of Europe with the gift of power shields."

"Prince William of Africa with the touch of life and the love of a beautiful princess of death by my side."

"Sailor Saturn, princess of the planet of death, destruction and rebirth. Also leader of the Outer Scouts."

"Prince Alexander of Australia controlling the minds of many."

"Sailor Pluto, Guardian of Time."

"Sailor Uranus, Guardian of the Skies."

"Sailor Neptune, Guardian of the Seas."

"Sailor Moon, Princess Serenity, heiress to the throne of the Moon, leader of all the Scouts, current yielder of the Imperium Silver Crystal."

"And lastly me, Sailor Venus, leader of the Inner scouts."

"So let me get this straight," Yaten said, "You are all royalty of your respective continent or planets?"

"Man Yaten, you're SO quick!" Taiki said, with sarcasm dripping off his every word. Silent laughter rang in the heads of many.

Amy looked at the three brothers. "How come you are male now and yet you become, um, female when you transform?"

This time the laughter was open from many. Darien and Serena were trying not to laugh and almost succeeded but they looked at each other and burst out laughing, something that did not go unnoticed by Seiya, who still hadn't spoken.

"Well, when we wished, we wished to be like the Sailor Scouts, and you all most certainly girls, so we transform into them. Quite a shock I can tell you when you look down at yourself and see a bulge in the top half of your body rather than the bottom half." Taiki smiled and once again laughter was heard.

"When you have all stopped laughing, I believe that your own stories need to be told. Especially yours Darien." A stern voice was heard from behind Mina. Darien reached behind her and picked up two cats; one black with a stern face while the other was white who seemed to be laughing.

"Hi Luna, it's good to see you too." Darien smiled at the black cat.

"Yeah come on Darien, we want to hear your story." Lita looked at him.

"Ok, hear it is." He had everyone's attention as he told of the Silver Millennium era with Serena's assistance to tell the story of the Moon and Earth. And then later the story of the scouts and Tuxedo Mask and all their battles that they had faced together, before he left to go to America.

"Before I left for America, I had dreams of a girl that I had no idea who she was. In my dreams I would forever be hugging her and telling that I love her, even though I knew I would never be unfaithful to Serena, in this time and the past. When I reached the university, I met my roommates and this girl, the one of my dreams. After a brief period of trying to avoid her, we eventually spoke and together we uncovered the secret. She was my cousin, the one that I was closest to. Together we fought against Anno and the depression that I fall into. After our summer exams, we came here after we had pushed Anno away from the thoughts of controlling North America. And the rest, you know."