Disclaimer: Sailor Moon and the characters belong to their rightful author Naoko Takeuchi.
Signs:
"speaking"
' thinking'
[telepathic]
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Hidden Princess
Eliame
Chapter 0.7
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While the stranger slept his exhaustion away in her bed, Moonlight ate her lunch and headed out into the forest for herbs. She wouldn't return to the market place today and sighed, thinking about having to ask her friend to do it as she would have to ride to the Lord's castle in the next days to fulfil her duty to his people at the court. The palace had its own healer so she was assigned to serve the lord of the village she lived in after she had got the reputation in her and the nearby villages to be the best healer around.
She had already been asked several times if she wouldn't like to live at the Lord's court but she felt more content near the forest and the Earth Palace. Why she couldn't tell but the townspeople grew quite fond of her with time. When she had told the Lord her reasons for preferring the village over the court he had understood but asked her to visit twice a year in the cold winter months and in the hot summer months. She had agreed to the offer and found it quite refreshing to visit the court twice a year. Still she felt bad that her friend would have to return to the market in the next few days. Moonlight would have liked to be able to have a calm afternoon in town but now it seemed that she would have to pass it with searching for herbs while she waited for the stranger in the hut to wake up.
She didn't have much time as he would likely awake in about two hours. Going at a fast pace she reached the clearing where the herbs grew quickly and crouched down searching for the once she would likely need for her trip. In the summer she often had to look after people who collapsed because of the sun burning on them the whole day. They were always grateful when she help and Moonlight loved to heal. After some time she looked up at the sky and saw the sun beginning to set.
The healer jumped up in surprise before she swiftly turned and began to return to the hut. She hadn't noticed with the birds singing around her, that time had flown by. When the young woman entered the hut she was relieved as she saw the man on her bed just beginning to stir. She put the bag with the herbs on the small table and then walked over to the fire setting on a water to cook. Then she walked up to the bed with a cup of cold clear water. Sitting down on the edge she waited for the stranger to open his eyes. Letting some of her energy flow around her she tried to calm him before he woke. As she looked closer at him for the first time she saw that the man was broadly built, strong looking and in his late thirties. He had dark blond hair and the crest of the Lord of her village was embroidered on his riding shirt.
He was definitely a messenger, trained so that he could defend himself if attacked by bandits. As Moonlight found the ring hanging on a chain around his neck to not be lost she immediately knew that the man was married. She hoped that his wife wasn't worrying to much but just then her thoughts were stopped as the stranger opened his dark eyes and looked at her in surprise. "Am I dead?", he asked uncertainly and Moonlight chuckled. Molly had told her more than once that if she used her strange healing power she gave of a white glow letting her look like an angel with a halo. The healer always had to laugh at the description and the question the stranger had asked she had heard more than once. "Definitely not, sir, and I would have to be ashamed of my humble self if I would have to bring your wife such bad news.", was the soft but amused reply of the beautiful young woman that looked back into the startled man's eyes.
After a minute she began to smile and offered him the cup she had in her hand before she got up, the mysterious glow, the stranger had mistaken as the halo of an angel, vanished. Still he was surprised by the beautiful and graceful woman that somehow managed to hold everything about her calm when she wished. Suddenly the man registered what she had said and looked up to meet the back of her head which was turned to the fireplace. "How do you know that I am married, my lady?", he asked suddenly and the young woman looked back to him, smiling again after she had taken the water of the fire.
"I have seen your ring, kind sir. And you may call me Moonlight. What is your name stranger and why did you find your way to this village, if I may ask?", she questioned while she poured to cups of herbal tea. The man on the bed was once again startled by the woman before him as a regal aura appeared about her. But he quickly dismissed it answering her instead. "You may. My name is Frederick Narri from Lord Castal's court. I have come in search of the healer of this village. May I see her? The news I bring is urgent.", he told her suddenly impatiently and Moonlight smiled at him in understanding.
"You have already seen the healer, Sir Frederick.", was her simple reply as she handed him the cup of tea. The messenger looked confused but he was only met by another soft smile before she spoke up again. "What is that matter that has to reach me so urgently, Sir Frederick?", she asked as she set down in the chair at the fireplace. ' This woman is full of surprises.', the stranger thought to himself. He had awaited an old and wise crone to be the well known and respected 'Gentle Healer' and now there was a young woman sitting before him. 'But a remarkable one, I might add.', he told himself before explaining the reason for his search for her.
"My Lord knows that you will depart from your village in a week and will start preparations for travelling soon, but he has send me with the urgent request of you leaving immediately and following me to his castle as quickly as possible for the Lady has unfortunately fallen ill. He wishes you to take a look at her. My lord is terribly worried and the Prince and his guardians as well as the Queen of the Moon and the Sailor Senshi will arrive at his court in two days. If we ride through and only take a short rest at the night camp of the royalty we could manage it in one and a half days. I ask you to accompany me in wishes of the Lord.", the messenger related and at the mention of the Moon Queen and the Senshi as well as Endymion something stirred inside Moonlight but she immediately made her decision and got up to get her things. She would definitely go with Sir Frederick.
" You shall finish your tea, you will need your strength, while I get the necessities I will need to accompany you.", she ordered softly before she took her riding clothes and vanished for a minute. She returned clad in riding-pants and a comfortable blouse. She was met by the stranger who had stood up and was looking at her gratefully. She packed her bag with some bread, herbs, ointments and two bottles of water. Quickly distinguishing the fire she drew out a silver cloak with the same sign of the leave and moon embroidered as on the dress she had worn earlier. Frederick hadn't noticed it before in the half darkness of the hut. The young woman slung the cloak over her shoulder as she did with her bag, bow and quiver which surprised Frederick again.
He quickly picked up his cloak and sword and together they left the hut after she had written a letter that would inform the townspeople and her friend about the reason for her absence. He mounted his horse and waited for the healer to vanish to somewhere and reappear with a horse, but she stayed were she was and only whistled two times. The stranger looked at her confused but the young woman only smiled. Suddenly they heard neighing coming from the forest and Moonlight ran into its direction giving the man on the horse a soft. "Follow me, kind sir." 'She is fast.', the messenger thought amazed before following her. Only thirty foot into the forest a white horse suddenly emerged from the trees and the young woman mounted it with out halting it in his pace. 'Truly remarkable.', it shot through the man's head riding behind her.
The young healer immediately told her horse to go into a gallop and the two riders and horses vanished completely into the forest as the sun began to set lower and lower. As Moonlight and Frederick rode through the forest and around the palace to then continue their journey into the direction of the Lord's castle, which lay in the opposite direction of the village, the healer began to try to figure out what exactly the mention of the Moon Queen and the mysterious Senshi had stirred in her. She had heard quite a few stories about the four princesses who had been sworn to protect the lost Moon Princess, but still she had the feeling that their was more to the mystery of the missing princess and their vow. She also was confused as she felt herself somehow connected to the five royals.
Thinking harder about it some images suddenly flashed through her mind. They showed a silver haired, graceful-looking and beautiful woman with the same hairstyle the princess in her dream had worn. The obviously queen had soft lavender eyes and a strong regal but at the same time warm aura about her. The young healer also saw four young girls supposedly about twelve years like the chased dream princess, to whom she oddly felt strongly connected to. One of the four girls had a intellectual look about her with black-bluish hair, clad in an ice blue long-sleeved dress that fit at her waist before it flared out.
In the next flash Moonlight distinguished a lively looking blond with sparkling blue eyes. She wore a red bow to hold some of her hair up while the rest cascaded down her back to her waist. She wore a simple orange summer dress. The forth flash that came to the healer's mind somehow brought an amused smile to her lips. A fiery looking black haired girl with violet eyes and highlights in her hair flashed up clad in an for a twelve year old seductive looking blood red dress. The last picture that passed her mind was of a girl that had drawn her brown hair into a high ponytail and had spitting green eyes. In her Greek styled dress and with her tall stature, she reminded Moonlight of an amazon.
After letting the images flash through her mind several times she was shaken from her daze by her companion, asking her if she was alright. She just nodded surprised. 'What were these pictures?', she asked herself before she began to concentrate on the path. As they left it and rode over the fields so as to avoid Trental, her dream of the recent night flashed through the healer's mind again. Was it really a memory? Was she a princess that had been lost? But she didn't know of any princess being lost. Just then the sun set behind the horizon while Frederick got her attention once again.
" We should reach the camp when the moon is halfway up the sky.", he told her and Moonlight nodded. Then suddenly a thought struck her. She knew of a lost Princess. The Moon Princess. But she couldn't possible be her, could she? 'Don't be ridiculous, Moon. You may have lost your memory at the same time as she has been lost, but you are surely no princess.', she told herself strictly, quickly dismissing the thought but they still continued to nag her at the back of her mind. She didn't know how close she was coming to the truth of her lost past. Trying to concentrate on something else she began to ask herself if she would see the prince again at the camp. She didn't admit it to herself but she wanted to see him again badly and still silently began to wish for him to recognise her, even if she knew that he wouldn't be able to realise that she was their as she would have to wear her cloak due to the anonymous way they travelled.
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That was it for Chapter 7. Chapter 8 is up as well.
Eliame
Signs:
"speaking"
' thinking'
[telepathic]
----------------
Hidden Princess
Eliame
Chapter 0.7
----------------
While the stranger slept his exhaustion away in her bed, Moonlight ate her lunch and headed out into the forest for herbs. She wouldn't return to the market place today and sighed, thinking about having to ask her friend to do it as she would have to ride to the Lord's castle in the next days to fulfil her duty to his people at the court. The palace had its own healer so she was assigned to serve the lord of the village she lived in after she had got the reputation in her and the nearby villages to be the best healer around.
She had already been asked several times if she wouldn't like to live at the Lord's court but she felt more content near the forest and the Earth Palace. Why she couldn't tell but the townspeople grew quite fond of her with time. When she had told the Lord her reasons for preferring the village over the court he had understood but asked her to visit twice a year in the cold winter months and in the hot summer months. She had agreed to the offer and found it quite refreshing to visit the court twice a year. Still she felt bad that her friend would have to return to the market in the next few days. Moonlight would have liked to be able to have a calm afternoon in town but now it seemed that she would have to pass it with searching for herbs while she waited for the stranger in the hut to wake up.
She didn't have much time as he would likely awake in about two hours. Going at a fast pace she reached the clearing where the herbs grew quickly and crouched down searching for the once she would likely need for her trip. In the summer she often had to look after people who collapsed because of the sun burning on them the whole day. They were always grateful when she help and Moonlight loved to heal. After some time she looked up at the sky and saw the sun beginning to set.
The healer jumped up in surprise before she swiftly turned and began to return to the hut. She hadn't noticed with the birds singing around her, that time had flown by. When the young woman entered the hut she was relieved as she saw the man on her bed just beginning to stir. She put the bag with the herbs on the small table and then walked over to the fire setting on a water to cook. Then she walked up to the bed with a cup of cold clear water. Sitting down on the edge she waited for the stranger to open his eyes. Letting some of her energy flow around her she tried to calm him before he woke. As she looked closer at him for the first time she saw that the man was broadly built, strong looking and in his late thirties. He had dark blond hair and the crest of the Lord of her village was embroidered on his riding shirt.
He was definitely a messenger, trained so that he could defend himself if attacked by bandits. As Moonlight found the ring hanging on a chain around his neck to not be lost she immediately knew that the man was married. She hoped that his wife wasn't worrying to much but just then her thoughts were stopped as the stranger opened his dark eyes and looked at her in surprise. "Am I dead?", he asked uncertainly and Moonlight chuckled. Molly had told her more than once that if she used her strange healing power she gave of a white glow letting her look like an angel with a halo. The healer always had to laugh at the description and the question the stranger had asked she had heard more than once. "Definitely not, sir, and I would have to be ashamed of my humble self if I would have to bring your wife such bad news.", was the soft but amused reply of the beautiful young woman that looked back into the startled man's eyes.
After a minute she began to smile and offered him the cup she had in her hand before she got up, the mysterious glow, the stranger had mistaken as the halo of an angel, vanished. Still he was surprised by the beautiful and graceful woman that somehow managed to hold everything about her calm when she wished. Suddenly the man registered what she had said and looked up to meet the back of her head which was turned to the fireplace. "How do you know that I am married, my lady?", he asked suddenly and the young woman looked back to him, smiling again after she had taken the water of the fire.
"I have seen your ring, kind sir. And you may call me Moonlight. What is your name stranger and why did you find your way to this village, if I may ask?", she questioned while she poured to cups of herbal tea. The man on the bed was once again startled by the woman before him as a regal aura appeared about her. But he quickly dismissed it answering her instead. "You may. My name is Frederick Narri from Lord Castal's court. I have come in search of the healer of this village. May I see her? The news I bring is urgent.", he told her suddenly impatiently and Moonlight smiled at him in understanding.
"You have already seen the healer, Sir Frederick.", was her simple reply as she handed him the cup of tea. The messenger looked confused but he was only met by another soft smile before she spoke up again. "What is that matter that has to reach me so urgently, Sir Frederick?", she asked as she set down in the chair at the fireplace. ' This woman is full of surprises.', the stranger thought to himself. He had awaited an old and wise crone to be the well known and respected 'Gentle Healer' and now there was a young woman sitting before him. 'But a remarkable one, I might add.', he told himself before explaining the reason for his search for her.
"My Lord knows that you will depart from your village in a week and will start preparations for travelling soon, but he has send me with the urgent request of you leaving immediately and following me to his castle as quickly as possible for the Lady has unfortunately fallen ill. He wishes you to take a look at her. My lord is terribly worried and the Prince and his guardians as well as the Queen of the Moon and the Sailor Senshi will arrive at his court in two days. If we ride through and only take a short rest at the night camp of the royalty we could manage it in one and a half days. I ask you to accompany me in wishes of the Lord.", the messenger related and at the mention of the Moon Queen and the Senshi as well as Endymion something stirred inside Moonlight but she immediately made her decision and got up to get her things. She would definitely go with Sir Frederick.
" You shall finish your tea, you will need your strength, while I get the necessities I will need to accompany you.", she ordered softly before she took her riding clothes and vanished for a minute. She returned clad in riding-pants and a comfortable blouse. She was met by the stranger who had stood up and was looking at her gratefully. She packed her bag with some bread, herbs, ointments and two bottles of water. Quickly distinguishing the fire she drew out a silver cloak with the same sign of the leave and moon embroidered as on the dress she had worn earlier. Frederick hadn't noticed it before in the half darkness of the hut. The young woman slung the cloak over her shoulder as she did with her bag, bow and quiver which surprised Frederick again.
He quickly picked up his cloak and sword and together they left the hut after she had written a letter that would inform the townspeople and her friend about the reason for her absence. He mounted his horse and waited for the healer to vanish to somewhere and reappear with a horse, but she stayed were she was and only whistled two times. The stranger looked at her confused but the young woman only smiled. Suddenly they heard neighing coming from the forest and Moonlight ran into its direction giving the man on the horse a soft. "Follow me, kind sir." 'She is fast.', the messenger thought amazed before following her. Only thirty foot into the forest a white horse suddenly emerged from the trees and the young woman mounted it with out halting it in his pace. 'Truly remarkable.', it shot through the man's head riding behind her.
The young healer immediately told her horse to go into a gallop and the two riders and horses vanished completely into the forest as the sun began to set lower and lower. As Moonlight and Frederick rode through the forest and around the palace to then continue their journey into the direction of the Lord's castle, which lay in the opposite direction of the village, the healer began to try to figure out what exactly the mention of the Moon Queen and the mysterious Senshi had stirred in her. She had heard quite a few stories about the four princesses who had been sworn to protect the lost Moon Princess, but still she had the feeling that their was more to the mystery of the missing princess and their vow. She also was confused as she felt herself somehow connected to the five royals.
Thinking harder about it some images suddenly flashed through her mind. They showed a silver haired, graceful-looking and beautiful woman with the same hairstyle the princess in her dream had worn. The obviously queen had soft lavender eyes and a strong regal but at the same time warm aura about her. The young healer also saw four young girls supposedly about twelve years like the chased dream princess, to whom she oddly felt strongly connected to. One of the four girls had a intellectual look about her with black-bluish hair, clad in an ice blue long-sleeved dress that fit at her waist before it flared out.
In the next flash Moonlight distinguished a lively looking blond with sparkling blue eyes. She wore a red bow to hold some of her hair up while the rest cascaded down her back to her waist. She wore a simple orange summer dress. The forth flash that came to the healer's mind somehow brought an amused smile to her lips. A fiery looking black haired girl with violet eyes and highlights in her hair flashed up clad in an for a twelve year old seductive looking blood red dress. The last picture that passed her mind was of a girl that had drawn her brown hair into a high ponytail and had spitting green eyes. In her Greek styled dress and with her tall stature, she reminded Moonlight of an amazon.
After letting the images flash through her mind several times she was shaken from her daze by her companion, asking her if she was alright. She just nodded surprised. 'What were these pictures?', she asked herself before she began to concentrate on the path. As they left it and rode over the fields so as to avoid Trental, her dream of the recent night flashed through the healer's mind again. Was it really a memory? Was she a princess that had been lost? But she didn't know of any princess being lost. Just then the sun set behind the horizon while Frederick got her attention once again.
" We should reach the camp when the moon is halfway up the sky.", he told her and Moonlight nodded. Then suddenly a thought struck her. She knew of a lost Princess. The Moon Princess. But she couldn't possible be her, could she? 'Don't be ridiculous, Moon. You may have lost your memory at the same time as she has been lost, but you are surely no princess.', she told herself strictly, quickly dismissing the thought but they still continued to nag her at the back of her mind. She didn't know how close she was coming to the truth of her lost past. Trying to concentrate on something else she began to ask herself if she would see the prince again at the camp. She didn't admit it to herself but she wanted to see him again badly and still silently began to wish for him to recognise her, even if she knew that he wouldn't be able to realise that she was their as she would have to wear her cloak due to the anonymous way they travelled.
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That was it for Chapter 7. Chapter 8 is up as well.
Eliame
