Hello, moonies!
This story is for you all, so enjoy it!

Sailor Moon and all the stuff involving it was created by the great
Naoko-sama, not me! But, in the other hand, the story and some characters
like Arda, Etlio, Calice and Hyperion are mine, not their names cause I'm
borrowing them from Greek mythology and Tolkien's universe. I know that
there are like 1000 Hyperions, but I'm not taking that name from any fic,
so, don't blame me.

Well, if you want to say anything about the story, or just need something,
e-mail me to:
susyte@hotmail.com

Thank you to all my readers! I love you all!

Sincerely,

Lady Susyte

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Rising of a Silver Utopia
By
Lady Susyte

Part I: Never say Never...

Chapter III


It was almost midday and Serena was in her favorite garden writing in a
little book, with the sunrays shining over her head making her even
prettier. The flowers of all kinds and colors were all in full blossom
and at last, it was summertime.
-Hi, Serena! -said the princess' best friends: Princess Amy of Mercury,
Princess Lita of Jupiter, Princess Rei of Mars, and of course, Princess
Mina of Venus.
-Hi, gals! -said Serena grinning as her friends entered the gazebo in the
middle of the rose garden.
-So? What are you writing? -asked Amy sitting next to her.
-This? -asked Serena pointing the little book as the girls nodded-. This,
my dear friends, is a list of all the stuff I'll do when I become queen.
-And what are you going to do? -asked Rei a little skeptical.
-First of all, I'll create a law that will forbid parents to obligate
their daughters to go to balls -said Serena smiling.
-So the ball was a mess, uh? -asked princess Jupiter sitting on a bench.
-Oh, yes, it was awful...at least for me: Mina had a great time with this
guy Malachite -said Serena winking at her friend.
-Tell us all about him, Mina -said the three girls making the blond to
blush.
-Ok, as Serena told you, he's called Malachite, he's twenty-four, and
he's very handsome -said Mina with dreamy eyes.
-Is that true? -asked Lita looking at Serena.
-Well, he's not my type, but yes, he's kinda cute -answered Serena calmly.
-And what about you, Serena, did you meet any guy yesterday? -asked Rei
curious.
-I don't think so -said Serena blushing as she remembered the man in the
black armor-. All men were such a bunch of dumbs, but, who cares! At least
I'll never have to go to that place again.
-Remember what they say: never say never -said Amy looking wise.
-Yeah, now, let's go and train! -said Serena standing up with her
transforming brooch in her hand.
-All right! -said the girls following her out of the gazebo and walking
to the training arena.
The five princesses transformed into their warrior forms: the sailor
scouts, and they started fighting:
-Ok, Mina will fight against Amy, and Rei will fight against Lita, and
then the winners will fight to see who'll confront the great princess
-said Serena holding her scepter in her right hand. She was dressed as
her ultimate form: eternal sailor moon while her friends were as their
super forms.
They trained 'till lunchtime, when they got into their normal selves and
walked to the dinning room to meet Serenity, Luna and Artemis for dinner,
the surprise was when Serena entered the room and didn't find her mother.
-Luna, where's my mum? -asked the princess a little concerned.
-Don't worry, your highness, she'll be here any second from now.
Luna was a beautiful and clever woman, a little younger than her mother
was, with long black curled hair arranged in the royal hairstyle, with a
pair of deep cerulean blue eyes. Actually, Luna was Serenity's cousin and
was ambassador of the Moon Kingdom in the inner solar system, and the
queen's councilor. Artemis, in the other hand, was a young man of about
thirty, tall and good looking with long white hair and blue eyes. He was
Queen's Margery of Venus younger brother, so he was Mina's uncle and also,
ambassador of the Moon for outer solar system. Margery was Serenity's
husband younger sister who got married to King Eros of Venus, so Serena
and Mina, more than just friends, were cousins.
-Sorry for my delay -said Queen Serenity entering the room.
-Mother! I was worried about you -said Serena hugging her mum.
-Serena, you sound as if you were my mother -said the queen smiling at
her daughter.
The five princesses and the queen took their sits in the big table were
the two ambassadors were sitting already. The food were served and
drinking a little gulp of her wine, the queen asked:
-So, Serena, how was the ball last night.
-Pretty much what I expected -answered Serena with a little smile in her
face-. I've survived.
All the girls laughed at Serena's answer and with a huge smile in her
face queen Serenity continued:
-I'm so happy you're yourself again, Serena, and thanks to you, our
relationship with Earth is going much better.
-Really? -asked the moon princess smiling-. That's great!
After that, everybody went silent and lunch went by calmly as every day.
That day, the inner sailor scouts were about to leave the moon to go to
their own planets, except for Princess Mina who was staying for a few
days more, so in the afternoon, Serena went to say goodbye to her best
friends.
-I'll miss, you gals -said the moon princess hugging each one of her
friends-. I hope you'll come here for my birthday.
-Of course will do that -said Rei.
-Yeah, Serena, and if you want, you can come to Jupiter and visit me
-said Lita
-Take this Serena: this book is very interesting. You can read it so you
won't get bored -said Amy giving her friend a philosophy book.
-Thank you Ames, but I don't think I'll get bored with all my royal
duties -answered Serena smiling and then, a ray of light involved each of
the scouts transporting them into their planets.
The young princess walked to her room before her friend's departure and
with a heavy sight she sat down in her couch with the book Amy gave her.
She looked at it and read the name out loud:
-'The Little Prince'
Serena smiled and said to herself:
-A book about a prince! How opportune!
Then she started reading silently as the sun went down behind her back
invading the whole room with a delicate red and orange light. Suddenly,
princess Serena felt asleep in the comfortable couch and then...she
started dreaming...
She saw a man dressed in a golden armor, his face covered by a helm,
riding a white horse heading to a battle, but then, a black ray encircle
the man hitting him as a thunder and suddenly, he fell from his horse
lifeless. Serena saw herself heading for the man dressed in a white gown,
but when he took him in her arms, he wasn't dressed in gold: instead his
armor was black the same as his hair.
The princess woke up, tears in her eyes, and a strange felling in her
heart. She got into a sitting position and cleaning her eyes with her
handkerchief she thought:
-That dream again. What in this world can that mean?
Before Serena could answer that question, Luna entered the room and said
with a light smile in her face, she said:
-Princess, dinner's ready.
-Come on, Luna, you can call me Serena -the young lady said walking
towards the door.
The two ladies were walking down the aisle when Serena suddenly stopped
looking directly into the wall.
-Luna, may I ask you something? -said the princess shyly.
-Of course, Serena, what is it? -answered the lady standing next to the
girl.
-Why there are no pictures of my father hanging on the wall with the
other ones?
-Well, dear, when king Hyperion died, your mother got very sad, so she
ordered the servants to burn every single thing that remembered her of
him -said Luna sadly.
Serena didn't answered, she just started walking once again to the dinning
room.
The small family ate silently as always, but when Serena was about to
leave the hall, Queen Serenity took her arm softly and said:
-Dear, I need to talk to you.
Then, the two ladies when to the queen's chamber where they sat down near
the window. Serena stared silent at her mother waiting for her talk.
-Serena, there's something important I need to tell you -said queen
firmly.
-What is it, mother? -asked the princess a little concerned.
-Remember that at lunch, I said that our relationships with Earth were
going better? -asked the queen as the princess nodded-, well, I just said
that because Luna and the scouts were there.
-What do you mean? -asked Serena.
-You'll see, our relationship with earth is getting worst and worst -said
the queen looking straight into the blue planet.
-And what's exactly the problem -said Serena a little confused.
-Well, the Moon isn't a planet, but a satellite, so, since Hyperion's
death, earthlings had been saying that our kingdom should be part of
Earth, since it's orbiting it instead of the sun.
-They can't do that! The Moon Kingdom is independent and sovereign! -said
the princess hitting the table with both hands as she stood.
-Calm down, Serena -said the queen softly-. When your father was ruling,
everything was alright, but when he died and I assumed the throne, they've
started to threaten us with a war, just because they don't accept the
fact of having a woman ruling. Because of that, they take us as a weak
opponent.
-That's the greatest amount of crab I'll ever heard -said Serena sitting
once again-. You're a great queen and a great ruler! It doesn't matter if
your a woman or whatever.
-Anyway, I've been talking with King Etlio and Queen Calice and we've
agreed on making a treaty between both world, and I need you to go to
Earth and sign it -said the queen looking at her daughter.
-But, I thought that was Luna's duty -said Serena.
-Technically...yes, but the Earth royalty has demanded one of the member
of the royal family to sign that -answered the queen- but, since I'm busy
attending moon problems, I need you to go in representation of the moon
crown, anyway, you'll be the queen someday.
-I'll do it mother, I won't disappoint you -said the princess firmly.
-I now you will no -said the queen with a light smile on her face-, now,
I need you to get ready. You'll be leaving in five days and you'll be
staying as long as you need to ensure peace.
-Sure, mum, now, may I leave? -asked the princess.
-Of course, dear. Good night -said the queen kissing her daughter
forehead.
-Good night, mother -answered Serena smiling before leaving her mother's
chambers.
Princess Serena went to her own room after taking every single book about
politics and diplomacy available on the palace library. She putted the on
a table in her chambers and sat on her chair to study every detail about
that treaty, but it didn't matter how hard she worked in concentrate, her
mind was with the man dressed in the black armor she met at the ball.
-Who's him, anyway? I've never met some that annoying in my whole life!
-thought Serena out loud trying focus in her book-. No, Serena, you need
to concentrate in the treaty! The treaty!
She started reading again the article, but after several attempts to take
out of her mind that silly guy, she closed the book thought.
-It's getting late, maybe I should go to sleep...but I'm not sleepy at all,
gosh! I need to do something to clear my mind!
It was a hot summer night in the moon, so Serena decided to do something
to clean her mind and her body: after standing up, Serena went to her
bathroom and opened the window taking a long look into the gardens, then
she put her hair in a single bun, and taking all her clothes off, she
steeped inside her huge marble bathtub and clutched in the warm water
surrounded by lots of fragrant pink rose petals.
-This is so tranquilizing -though Serena listening the night sound from
her garden.
Serena rested her head in her arms facing the window, and glancing at the
blue sphere hanging in the sky as sapphire surrounded by indigo velvet
said to herself:
-I wonder...if someone out there thinks the same as I do, or am I a
lonely soul in the universe. Sometimes I fell that I'll never find anyone
to spend my life with.
The princess finished her speech with a deep sigh before stepping out of
the tub and surrounding herself in a big puffy towel. Even when she had
everything, she couldn't help but felling empty inside of her, and
emptiness no one, not even her best friends, were able to fill.

***

Prince Endymion loved swords, not as mortal weapons, but as his very own
form of art. Everyday he spent at least three ours practicing alone or
with his generals, but now, he needed time to think, so he was alone in
the training area with his sword and his troubled mind. He spent the
whole afternoon trying to focus is his movements, but he couldn't help
but thinking in the blond princess from the ball.
-Hey, dud. What are you doing? Fighting against your imaginary friend,
Flippy? -asked Malachite laughing as he entered the room.
-Yeah, and as I see, Flippy's winning -odd Zoicite laughing as well.
-Ha, ha, ha, that's so funny -said the prince in a sarcastic tone as he
put his sword down-. I was just practicing my skills
-Hey, no offence, but you need to concentrate more in your movements
-said Jadeite-. You body were here, but your mind were traveling along
the universe.
-I know. I have too many thing in my head -said the prince putting his
sword back into its sheath.
-Endymion, I just seen your father and he told me he needed to talk to
you -said Nephrite.
-Oh, no! Not the "you need a heir" chat again! -said the prince upset.
-Calm down. I don't think it's about that; today I've heard him talking
to Queen Serenity -said Malachite.
-Queen Serenity? That sound like troubles to me -said the prince putting
on his cape-. I must go.
Endymion left the training room and went to king Etlio's office. He
entered and finding his father sitting on his chair, looking outside the
window, he said:
-Father, Nephrite told me you needed to talk to me.
-Yes son, have a sit -said the king turning to face the prince-. You'll
see, our relationship with the Moon Kingdom is not too good, so I talked
to queen Serenity about making a treaty and I need you to sign it.
-So, am I going to the moon -asked Endymion.
-No, the moon delegate will arrive in five days and you'll be in charge
of everything involving that treaty, but of course, Mordreon will help
you.
-I don't need his help -said the prince firmly.
-Mordreon has been helping me since I was your age, and I trust him very
much. I'm sure you can learn a lot listening to his wise advises -said
the king unpleased with his son's commentary.
The prince just nodded and left the room with a serious look on his face.
Outside the office, he found Malachite whom, concerned with Endymion
expression, asked:
-What's wrong?
-Nothing, is just that I can't understand why they can't just leave the
moon people to rule themselves -answered the prince a little upset.
-Why don't you talk to your father about that? -asked the general.
-He doesn't care. I don't think he'd change his mind because of something
his silly son told him. Anyway, that's Lord Mordreon job: to fill my
father's brain with pure crap -said the prince walking towards his
bedroom-. Malachite, if you don't care, I'd like to be alone, and please,
tell everyone to leave me alone.
-Aren't you going to eat dinner? -asked Malachite confused.
-No, I'm not hungry at all, answered the prince as he entered his own
room closing the door behind his back.
Endymion sat in his desk and opened one of his books trying to study but
he couldn't do anything but think about all his troubles, such as
marriage, heirs, Mordreon, the lady from the picture and of course, that
blond girl.
-What the heck is wrong with me! -though the prince out loud closing the
book hardly-. My life sucks! Sometimes I wish I could be king now so I
can change things in this palace.
He walked to the balcony with his gaze locked in the nigh sky sighed
trying to free his poor oppressed soul, then, he entered his room once
again and taking a large box on the table, he opened it taking out his
old telescope. Prince Endymion loved to spend the long clear nights
looking at the sky using that artefac, because in his own twisted world,
it was literally a way to see the world from an other perspective. He
stayed hours glancing into the stars and the planets, but when he looked
at the moon he sighed and said out loud.
-I wonder if some out there thinks like me, or am I a lonely freak locked
in his own twisted thoughts. Sometimes I think I'll never find anyone to
spend my life with.
But a little voice inside his head told him:
-Never say never...

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