Ryoko: I'm here this time around and I'm updating the story this time, so enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon, but Aurora and Athena belong to me.

Sailor moon: Beginnings

Chapter 3: New Name

A year has passed since Aurora meet the Outer Guard and Tokina came. Aurora's fifth birthday has come and Aurora is sitting in front of her mother. Both of them are sitting on a bed.

"Mother, I've noticed that me and Rini seem to get confused when somebody calls us by our princess names."

The queen nods and Aurora looks back at her. The girl didn't really look like her mother at all. The queen has blonde meatball hair and if she were standing up, it would brush against the ground. On the queen's head is a crown with three hears on it. In the middle of the biggest heart is a ruby gem. The queen's eyes are crystal blue and are soft yet filled with much wisdom. While Aurora's dress touches the ground, it doesn't have any bows on the back. The queen's dress reaches the ground and trails out behind her as she walks and it has bows on the back. Also while Aurora dress circle neckline is silver, the queen's is gold.

"Mother. I was wondering if I could change my princess name."

The queen looks surprised.

"To what?"

"Neo Princess Silver. Since silver is my favorite color and me and Rini won't get confused anymore."

"Princess Silver? Has a nice ring to it. All right. Silver it is."

Aurora smiles and both girls stand up. The queen takes Aurora's hand and both walk of the room and down the hallway.

"Aurora, what do you think of Tokina?" The queen asks in a soft voice.

"I'm not sure. She's distant and looks to be conflicting with herself. Like she has a secret and won't tell."

"A forbidden secret maybe?"

"Maybe." Aurora agrees.

The day passes and Aurora is shoed out of the palace by her mother. Aurora decides to go to another planet. She walks over to the teleporter building and decides to go to Neptune. The instant she steps out of the building on Neptune, she's hit with mist. She walks on and locates the palace. She walks into the beautiful aquamarine building and looks around.

"Neptune? Guardian Neptune?" Aurora calls.

"Serenity?" Neptune's voice calls from upstairs.

Aurora smiles and walks over to the spiraling staircase. She walks up the stairs and into a room. She looks around and finds Neptune brushing her hair.

"Hi Neptune."

Neptune turns around and smiles.

"Hey. What are you doing here?"

"I was shoed out of the palace, so I came here."

Neptune smiles and stands up. She gestures for Aurora to sit down and the girl does.

"So how old are you?" Neptune asks.

"Five." Aurora answers, looking at Neptune through the vanity mirror.

Neptune takes Aurora's hair down and it trails down to midback. Neptune starts brushing it and starts a conversation with Aurora.

"Five? You have to be at least six!"

Aurora laughs and tilts her head back to look at Neptune upside down.

"You need to pay more attention." Aurora says, though not in a sarcastic or mean tone.

Neptune smiles and tilts Aurora's head forward so she can finish her hair.

"Michelle?"

Neptune looks at Aurora through the mirror.

"How old are you?"

Neptune's eyes sparkle and she smiles.

"Didn't your mother ever tell you it's impolite to ask a woman her age?"

"OH!" Aurora says, looking down and blushing.

Neptune laughs.

"I'll answer. I'm 23."

Aurora looks up and turns to Neptune with a quizzical look.

"You look 16."

"As does Uranus." Neptune says, laughing.

Aurora nods and Neptune puts her hair back up in the meatball hairstyle.

"Oh? Did you know I'm changing my name?" Aurora asks.

Neptune walks in front of Aurora and gets down on her knees beside her.

"No. What are you changing your name too?"

Neptune starts putting a little make-up on Aurora's face.

"I'm changing my princess name to Princess Silver."

"Nice name and has a good ring to it."

Aurora closes her eyes as Neptune puts some eye shadow on. Aurora opens her eyes and blinks.

"So why are you changing it?"

"Stop confusing me and Rini."

Neptune nods and gestures to the mirror. Aurora looks and smiles.

"Oh wow."

Aurora has some pink blush on her cheeks and has dark blue eye shadow on her eyes to bring out her pale eyes, but it's done so it looks like a professional did it.

"Why don't we go back?"

Aurora smiles and stands up. She smiles up at Neptune and takes her hand. Neptune smiles and both walk out. As they walk, Aurora notices Neptune is in her princess form. Neptune leads Aurora to the teleporter building and both teleport back to Earth. Aurora likes visiting the other planets of her friends, but she likes the Earth more.

"Are you ready?" Neptune asks.

"No." Aurora answers nervously. ' Neptune smiles and leads Aurora to the palace. They go inside and a few minutes later a full-blown party is going on. Aurora is having fun with Tokina, Rini, and Saturn. The time for Aurora's announcement has not yet come and Aurora is happy. The four girls are currently in Aurora's bedroom and Tokina is messing with Aurora's hair.

"So, how does it feel to be a year old?" Saturn asks from her place on the bed edge.

"I don't know." Aurora answers.

"Oh? I think your going gray." Tokina speaks up.

"Huh?" Rini and Saturn ask at the same time.

"I think she's going gray." Tokina says again.

Aurora turns around and feels a slight pain in her head from Tokina pulling a hair from her head. Aurora looks at the hair strand in Tokina's hand. But it's not gray; it's a sparkly gray.

:"It's silver!" Aurora says, half shocked.

All the other occupants of the room look more shocked then her. Aurora gets up and goes over to her full length mirror. From the bangs around her crescent moon to the tips of her hair faint tints of silver are able to been seen.

"What the?"

"Maybe it's to make you more distinguishable with your name change."

Aurora nods in agreement with Saturn's comment.

"Girls! It's time!" They hear a man's voice say.

The four sigh and walk out of the room. They walk together down the stairs and to the main hall where the queen is waiting for them.

"Do I really have to do this?" Aurora asks softly as the other three girls go to their seat.

"Yes." The queen answers.

Both mother and daughter walk to the end of the table and Aurora looks around.

"I feel so short and nervous."

"Aww come on."

The queen picks Aurora up and the girl blushes in embarrassment. Not at the treatment from her mother, but for being the one to make the announcement. As Aurora looks around at all of her sailor friends, her eyes fall onto the necklace on Mars' neck. It's a red crystal and Aurora sets her eyes on it, though all the scouts had one.

"Go on Aurora." The queen says softly.

"Umm.well I've notice lately there's been some confusion lately when mine and Rini's names are called. So I've decided to change my name from Neo Princess Serenity to Neo Princess Silver."

Everyone in the room cheers and Aurora falls back against her mother in a faint.