Author's Note: This is the story of Queen Selenity, Serena's mother. Or at least my version. I mean because hardly anybody does stories about her, and I think she deserves some recognition and attention. Not just anybody gives up their life for their daughter. Right?

"Selenity!" A voice yelled angrily. It bounced down the hallways of the Moon Palace until it reached the ears of Selenity, a young woman only eighteen years old. Young, and mischevious.

Selenity, Selene for short, covered her mouth to keep in her giggles. The voice was the one of her mother, and it was angry because she'd just discovered what Selene had done to the newest suitor.

"I keep telling you," Hotaru said, shaking her head, "your mother would be absolutely ticked."

"Ah, but isn't that the beauty of it?" Selene said. She threw her magnificent head of pink hair back and laughed.

"Selenity, you've gone too far now!" her mother continued to yell. The sound of her heels hitting the marble floor drew closer and Selene ducked for cover behind a statuette of an angel.

"That's not going to work," Hotaru whispered. Selene giggled again and tugged the Princess of Saturn back behind the statue too. They stood perfectly still as the present Queen of the Moon stopped in front of it. She turned on her heel and gave the two a look that might as well have been their death certificate.

"I don't believe hanging the Prince of Mars on a hook by his underwear is very funny."

"But did you get a good look at it?" Selene chanced to ask.

"I believe the entire palace did!" her mother raged. "How could you do that?!"

Selene put on her innocent look. "Don't look at me, Haruka did it."

Haruka who was striding towards them from the opposite hallway stopped, spun around, and made a break for it. She caught Michiru along the way, whispered something to her, and then they both were running as far away from the scene as possible.

"But who put Haruka up to it?"

Selene shrugged.

"Don't lie to me! I know you did this, and I want it to stop. If you ever do anything like this again I'll pick your Prince for you."

Selene's face paled. "You wouldn't!"

Her mother narrowed her eyes and whispered harshly, "I would."

Selene couldn't answer this and Queen Diana the Third strode away, her long silver hair bouncing against her back with every defined stride.

"That witch!" Selene said stepping away from the statue. "She couldn't take a joke if it was given to her!"

Hotaru frowned. "You know she's right. Every Prince in the Universe thinks you are nothing but a troublesome brat."

Selene looked at Hotaru incredulously. Her mouth was open in shock until she closed it tightly, turning her lips into a thin line. She narrowed her eyes and balled her fists.

"YOU TRAITOR!" she screamed like only she could. Screechingly high, and terribly loud. She stomped away loudly leaving Hotaru twisting her finger around in her ear to make sure she could still hear out of it.

"Sometimes I worry about her and her mother," Setsuna said walking up from behind Hotaru. Haruka and Michiru joined the other two Guardians of Selenity.

"I do too," Michiru agreed.

"It seems they hate each other so much, they don't even realize what they have in common."

"Could you say something in this ear?" Hotaru asked still rubbing her left ear.

The other three guardians looked at her like she was crazy and walked away.

"I'm not joking! I think I may be going deaf!"

Their laughter filled the halls.

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At this particular time, known as the Gold Millenium, the Moon had been peaceful for near one thousand years. Ruled by Queen Diana and King Apollo they were going through prosperous and happy times. No wars, no famines, not even bad weather! The only thing that was looming over the Lunarian people was the fact that Princess Selenity would one day come to power. And none of them looked forward to that.

It wasn't that the Princess wasn't kind, she was plenty kind. It wasn't that she was spoiled, she wasn't. It was that she was still latched on to childish schemes and pranks. At eighteen years of age she hadn't even found a fiance. The faith in her ability to rule was shaken.

And the Queen and King knew this.

"Whatever are we going to do with her, Apollo?" the Queen asked pacing.

"Nothing."

"Nothing?!"

"Selene is just fine how she is. You may not see it but she cares for the people more than she cares for herself. You saw her when the Matsumoto twins were sick. She spent every waking hour with them until they got better. She even quaritined herself so that she could help them more!"

"But she is so immature!"

"That can change as easily as the tide. If and when she rules she'll realize her responsibilities. You know she will."

The Queen collapsed in the chair beside her King.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm positive my dear. You've got bigger things to worry about."

"Great," Diana sighed. "What now?"

"It seems yet another star has darkened and disappeared from the sky."

"And it is a dark power doing so?"

"Yes."

"Wonderful."

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A set of knuckles rapped against Selene's bedroom door and she groaned.

"Come in Haruka!"

The tall blonde from Uranus stepped in, as well as the rest of her guardians. They sat down in their usual positions; Hotaru cross-legged on the floor, Michiru on the bed beside Selene, Setsuna standing by the window, Haruka backwards in a chair.

"I guess you want to talk about the Prince of Mars and the fight with my mother."

"No," Setsuna said truthfully. "We want to talk about when you're going to get married."

"Married? You all are eighteen like me and you aren't married!"

"Yes," Michiru said, "But we are not going to rule one of the most powerful kingdoms in the Universe, are we?"

"No," Selene groaned giving in.

"It's not that we want to force you into anything, but if you don't choose someone soon your mother may very well go insane."

"Then let her!"

"You don't mean that," Hotaru said matter-of-factly.

Selene didn't bother to argue. She merely stuck her tongue out at Hotaru and crossed her arms over her chest.

"You can be like that," Michiru said standing up to leave. The rest followed suit. "But then you'll never find your true love."

The senshi closed the door behind them leaving Selene pouting much like she usually did. She shook her head and cursed silently under her breath. It was true that Selene was a hopeless romantic, always dreaming of true love and knights on white horses. But being introduced to suitor after suitor had made her get tired of the subject easily.

Another knock came from the other side of the door and Selene looked at it angrily.

"What?" she almost growled.

A maid looking quite shaken stepped in. "Dinner, milady."

"Oh," Selene said feeling like a fool. "So sorry about that."

"No problem, milady."

Selene slid off the side of her bed and the maid left. Selene followed still thinking about all the suitors she'd been forced to see. The Prince of Mars hadn't been the first. There had been the one from Jupiter, Venus, a few dozen stars, Mercury, Pluto...

Selene's list of suitors was cut short as she ran into someone and fell to the floor. Armor rattled as someone opposite from her landed with a thud too. She blinked to clear her vision of the spots forming and looked at the knight who she'd run into.

He stood up quickly and extended his hand, which she took gratefully. He helped her up.

"So sorry, Your Highness. Very clumsy of me."

"Yes, it would have been clumsy of you, if it hadn't been I who ran into you. I'm truly sorry."

The knight smiled contentedly. "Comes with the pink hair I presume," he said before walking on.

Selene recognized the insult and whirled around.

"Why you buffoon!"

"Buffoon?" The knight said turning. "Why I've never heard a Princess use such language!"

She glared at his through slitted eyes. "Apparently you haven't caused many Princesses to land flat on their behinds!"

The knight chuckled causing his beautiful blue eyes to sparkle. He removed his helmet revealing a mop of blonde hair, and bowed deeply.

"Forgive me, milady. I will never let you run into me again."

"Well, good!"

Selene started walking off before realizing what he said. She stopped and turned around, but the knight was long gone. She cursed silently at him, then continued on to dinner. A rude knight was the least of her worries. What her mother had planned was another thing entirely.

Author's Note: You like it?! I really do because I don't really have to follow any guidelines because not much is known about Selenity's teenage years and childhood. Review please to tell me if I'm wrong about anything, and to (hopefully) tell me you like it. Hopefully.