The Will of the Ring
Chapter Ten
by Makura Koneko
"Uh-uh, don't say a word. We had a bet, remember?" Serena held up a finger as Raye opened her mouth,
expression wild and eyes blazing as she stepped in front of Serena the moment she entered the long hall.
Grinning, Serena reminded her. "If I was up and about by today, you couldn't yell at me," she said. Raye
froze and scowled.
"I never agreed to that, and you know it!" Raye growled. Serena giggled and batted her eyes innocently.
Raye softened, and grabbed her best friend in a tight hug. "Just don't ever scare us like that again…" She
whispered while holding her princess tight, blinking back tears.
"I promise." Serena said. They released each other, teary eyed, and Raye kissed her on the forehead in a
very rare, very big-sisterly fashion. Raye stepped away, revealing Serena to the circle of Senshi and
Fellowship members. Gandalf was there as well, smiling widely, standing slightly apart to watch. They were
all standing out in a large clearing that was more of a room made out of tree trunks and moss for the most
exquisite of rugs, a long table running the entire length of the clearing-room.
The Senshi, Boromir, and the Hobbits all looked at her and Raye hesitantly, as if not sure if it was safe to
approach them yet. Serena laughed, and held out her arms. With a collective cry they all rushed towards her
at once, and Raye and Legolas were forced to back off. Haruka claimed Serena first, engulfing her in a tight
hug and alternately telling her how stupid she was and how precious she was.
It was a good while before Haruka could be persuaded to release her, and Serena was passed to Boromir for
a big, lifted-up-of-the-ground-and-twirled-around bear hug. He set her down, kissed her on the forehead,
and while the act was purely brotherly in nature, Haruka still saw red and had to be restrained by Aragorn
and Raye both.
Legolas, he was surprised to find about himself, wasn't far behind.
"We were so worried!" Ami said tearfully as Serena embraced both her and Hotaru.
"I told you I'd be up and about in no time!" She said and smiled at a tearful Hotaru. The young teen nodded
and wiped her eyes with the sleeves of the pale lavender gown, the gown that seamlessly went from a fitted
bodice to a flared, floor length, flowing gown edged in a white ribbon embroidered with dark silver
filigrees.
Serena wore a similar gown of the most faded, almost white, pink and pale gold, the sleeves alike to the
sleeves of her new Senshi uniform; angel sleeves, and slited from the shoulder seam down to an inch above
the seam of the edge of the sleeves. Both sides of the slits on both sleeves were edged in the same delicate
pattern that was made out of a filigree in pale gold thread. The same pattern was along the heart shaped
neckline and hem of the seamless bodice and flared, full skirt. Pale gold and white ribbons were wound
around her buns and interwoven with her hair-streamers that fell to her ankles.
"You are a vision of loveliness, lass," Gimli told her as he came up and hugged her tightly, a most out of
character act reserved only for her to welcome her back.
"Thank you, Gimli," Serena returned the embrace and kissed him on the nose, causing him to 'huff' as he
stepped away and turned bright cherry red. Serena giggled.
""It is good to see you well, Serenity, and looking like the princess you are," Aragorn told her, taking her
hands in his and kissing them like a prince would a lady's, smiling at her with all the joy his heart felt at
seeing her awake and well. Legolas came up beside her and touched her elbow. She looked over her
shoulder up at him and smiled, both with her mouth and her eyes. Legolas smiled back in the same fashion.
Boromir wasn't the only one that noticed this exchange, and he looked at Aragorn to see that his king had
noticed it as well.
"You are the Moon Princess Ami told us about?" Serena turned to see a man -not a boy- that was only half a
foot shorter than she was.
"Yes, I am, in a way," She said. She noticed the golden ring on a chain around his neck. "You must be
Frodo," She said, reaching out and flicking the ring. To the surprise of everyone present, the Ring glowed a
soft silver-gold for a brief moment before fading…
"Mother's staff used to do that whenever she touched it," Serena said, seemingly surprised she even
remembered. "It must have been made out of Moongold, too…"
"You remember about the Moongold, Serena?" Hotaru asked.
"Enough about it to know I'm the only one that can destroy anything made of it." She sighed and blew a
strand of her bangs out of her eyes. "Figures." She huffed.
The Senshi laughed, though no one else was quite sure what was so funny.
"We should eat," Legolas said. "We will be summoned to see Galadriel soon."
"Ooooh, food!" Serena squealed. Remembering their fifth day with her, when she'd still be unconscious,
remembering the way they had -unintentionally- woken her, Boromir, Gimli, Aragorn, and Legolas laughed.
It was the Senshi's turn to look confused as they all approached the table and sat, and began to partake of
the food already laid out as they began to talk about the minor things of their trips. Unsurprisingly, Serena's
stories received the most laughs.
"And I still don't get why you got all weird when I asked how many girlfriends you've had, Legolas."
Serena asked casually. Whether or not she chose to say that particular thing at the exact moment the
aforementioned elf was taking a drink was unclear. He choked, and did his best to compose himself as two
Senshi, a wizard, four hobbits, and a human found themselves choking on bits of food or their own laughter.
Under the table, he poked in her the ribs, promising pay back later.
"What?" Serena asked in exasperation. "What did I say? It was a valid question!" Everyone just shook their
heads in amusement. Serena looked around in genuinely innocent confusion. "What?"
Again, nothing but chuckles and shaking heads. Piqued, but only temporarily, Serena gobbled at the desert
on her plate.
"Hey, Legolas?" Serena asked. He looked at her, prompting her to ask her question with a nod. "When I was
playing little-miss-sick up there, and you had me drink that weird water, you said something. I'm not stupid
enough to not know you probably told me to drink, but you called me something, and I wanna know what
language it was; it wasn't the one you and the guys used on the trip, and it was pretty."
"That was my native tongue," Legolas told her with a small smile. "And I called you little white dragon.
Elle nim'loki."
"Dragon?" Serena squeaked. "Me?" Legolas laughed.
"Yes, dragon. An elegant, beautiful, magical creature, rare, exquisite, a gift to all who even look upon her.
Yet dangerous, determined, willful, and very, very loyal." He flicked his finger over her nose affectionately.
"Dragon. Lailoki."
(AN: Thanks to B'Jammin for reminding me of Smaug… In regard to that, I don't know about all you, but
if I were the last of my kind and had people trying to kill me and take my treasure, I'd be pretty grumpy,
too!!!)
"Neato…" Serena said, her eyes wide, her desert forgotten. Her eyes got wider and sparkled with
excitement. "Could you teach me?" She asked, her voice soft and filled with hope. Legolas grinned.
"Of course," he said, his smile widening as Serena let out a squeal and wiggled in her seat.
"Okay, okay," She said. "Before you do, though, what's my name in your language?" Her eyes, wide and
soul-filled, looked at him, and he didn't notice when his smile widened even more.
"Tarien Serenithil," He said after a brief moment of thought. " 'Tarien' is 'princess.' Serenithil means
'loving peace of the moon.' Serenity."
"Cool!" Serena said. "What about this?" She tapped her crescent moon insignia on her forehead.
"Ithilin. 'Golden Crescent Moon.'"
"How the heck did you fit 'Golden Crescent Moon' into 'Thilini?' Serena frowned. Legolas couldn't help
but grin.
"Ithilin, Serena, not 'thilini." He said. "And my explanation is difference in languages. Think about it. What
is Sylvan for golden crescent moon?" Serena fought to remember…
"It's…Ithilai…" Her eyes widened. "Ami-chan wasn't kidding when she remarked about the similarities
between the languages of the Lunarians and Elves… Speaking of which, what do you call Lunarians? Or do
you just call them that, Lunarians?"
"We call them Ithili'Quessir, moon-elves. And their kingdom, your kingdom, we call Celenithil Ardiwuil;
Silver Moon Kingdom."
"Ooooh…pretty…" She thought for a moment. "How do you say 'of?'"
"As in, 'I am of the woods?'" Legolas verified at her nod. "Then it is simply 'en.'"
"And 'the?'"
"Iln."
Serena pursed her lips in her own personal, adorably thoughtful expression. "Then I am Serenithil, tarien en
iln Celenithil Ardiwuil." She said carefully, then translating it for herself; "'I am Serenity, princess of the
Silver Moon Kingdom.'" She looked at him, her eyes filled with question, and at his nod and pleased smile,
she perked, grinning brightly, eyes shinning with triumph.
Before another word was spoken, the doors to the long 'hall' -more like lacy gates, actually- was opened
and an elf in official looking robes entered.
"The Lady will see you now," He said. Serena rose, and her Senshi rose with her along with everyone else.
"The Lady will see Serenity," The elf clarified after seeing this. "And Serenity alone. For the moment." He
looked to Serena, whom now looked nervous. "Are you Serenity?"
"It's Princess Serenity to you, elf," Haruka growled. Ami touched her elbow, a silent signal that meant
'behave.' Serena backed up Ami's motion by giving Haruka a pleading glance that begged her not to cause
trouble and to not make any enemies before turning to the elf and stepping away from the table.
"Lead the way." Serena said, the invisible shroud that all royalty wore settling on her shoulders, giving the
way she moved and spoke the air that she had borne thousands of years ago, and now wore again. She was
every bit Sereithil, tarien en iln Celenithil Ardiwuil, and she knew it.
"Again, a being of great importance has brought great evil to this place," The ethereal woman turned from
what looked like a birdbath, plain in looks compared to the magnificent city that surrounded the small,
round impression five feet below normal ground level. But it seemed to have an aura of it's own; it sang of
magic, strong, ancient magic that Ami-chan no doubt would have love to find the source of.
Serenity, as she stood at the top of the gently curving steps that lead down into the open-ceiling-cellar type
place, was pretty sure that if Ami-chan were to trace the magic of the 'birdbath' it would lead straight to the
unearthly woman that was looking at her with something akin to mixed compassion and wary sorrow in her
eyes.
"Indeed I do, my lady." Serenity said, her princess-ness taking over in the time when Serena would have
panicked, wailed, apologized repeatedly and tearfully over and over for whatever it is she had done. "But I
also bring with me the means to destroy that evil for all time."
"Your promise is filled with more promises, Lady of the Moon." Galadriel stepped away from the 'birdbath'
and took a tall, slender ivory pitcher and dipped it into the small pool that was cupped in the hollow of
section of the wall that jutted out; tiny waterfalls fell over rocks and through vines to add to the ripples that
formed when the Lady of the Wood filled the pitcher from it.
"Indeed it is." Serenity walked down the steps. How Galadriel knew that once the Ring was destroyed, she
meant to go after Sauron, she didn't know. How she knew that that had been what Galadriel had meant by
'promises within promises,' she didn't know that either. But somehow Galadriel knew, and Serenity knew
enough about the ways of such ethereal beings as Galadriel -heck, Serena was one when she needed to be!-
not to question it, just accept.
"Come, look into my mirror." Galadriel bid her. Serenity got the feeling, as she stepped down from the last
step, that this was a gift given more rarely than the title of elf friend. As Serenity neared the Mirror of
Galadriel, the elf queen lifted the pitcher and poured a long, steady, crystalline stream of cool water to
splash down into the 'birdbath.' The water rippled, when the flow stopped, then became unnaturally still.
"What shall I see, Lady?" Serenity asked.
"As I have told others before you, even the wisest of beings cannot always tell."
"But you can." Serenity said, noting that she had not claimed otherwise. "You are not a 'being,' and you are
beyond what mere mortals conceive as 'wise.' You are something more." It was not a question.
Galadriel's smile was soft as she closed her eyes and bowed her head slightly, neither confirming nor
denying Serenity's words.
Serenity stepped forward, and looked into the mirror.
An eye that she knew all too well glared out at her. It faded slightly, at least the colors, but its presence was
as strong as ever. It seemed to recede, taking up it's place in the background as it, too, seemed to watch the
events unfold before it...
Beryl lashed out at a terrified princess...
A prince saved his beloved by giving his own life...
The Princess followed him into death, willingly...
A warrior of the Moon was born.
A weapon discovered, a Crystal reclaimed.
The Warrior of Love killed Beryl, the engravings on the Sword of the Moon flashing brightly...
Brightly...
Brightly...
Oh, so, brightly...
The words bore into Serenity's mind, even as she did not know their meaning...
The Eye took over the image once more, lashed out at her. But, just as in her dream, Serenity held her ground.
"Leave me alone!" She cried out, whether in her mind or out loud, she didn't know and didn't care. "I am
not yours, not now, not ever! Be gone!"
Like a beacon of light slashing through the darkness, Serenity felt warmth surround her, warmth and
protection, and with it came strength. With that strength, Serenity pulled herself from Sauron's grasp...
The mirror flickered, and died, mere water once more, and Serenity, breathing hard, found herself once
again in the real world. She realized almost immediately what that warmth and protection and strength had
come from; she was standing, gasping for air, eyes wide, with her back to Legolas's chest and his arms
wrapped around her tightly; he had helped her pull herself from the mirror, both in mind and body.
"Breathe, belle'loki...breathe, little dragon." He told her, murmuring the words softly so as not to startle her.
Slowly, Serena closed her eyes and paced her breathing as Luna had made her do so often...
"I'm okay," She said. She looked at Galadriel. Her eyes were closed as if in pain. Slowly she opened them,
smiled softly, her eyes filled with tender warmth. Serenity saw a flicker of her mother in those eyes, and it
made her heart ache.
"You will do," The Lady of the Wood said softly. "You fulfill your promises. You will do just fine. Do not
let us down, Lady of the Moon, for the fate of all rests on your keeping your promises. All of them." Her
eyes bore into Serenity's, holding a secret meaning to that last statement, a meaning Serenity was drawing a
blank on... I will understand in time, she realized, and nodded. Galadriel looked past her to Legolas.
"Guide and guard her, Legolas Greenleaf," She said to him. "She will need you." She smiled at Serenity
once more. "Now go. You will need your rest for the tasks ahead of you. You have but to ask for anything
you desire, and it shall be yours."
Galadriel's words echoed in her mind as they -she and Legolas- nodded respectfully to the Lady of the
Wood, turned, and left, Legolas helping her still trembling frame up the steps, she slipping deep into
thought.
Once upon a time, Serena would have begun drooling and leaping for joy before demanding five double hot
sundaes on the spot....Serenity was terrified that that girl might be dying...
No, not dying, she realized. Child-Serena, the Serena so many loved and looked to for cheer and hope,
would die if she were the one to make this quest. But Serenity...Serenity would prevail. And so it was
Serenity she must be until she completed the tasks ahead. Only then could Child-Serena safely re-emerge.
Serena was not dead, simply sleeping, and Serenity had taken over, for the sake of all.
Serenity frowned. No, not truly Serenity. At least, not the Serenity that she remembered herself as; almost as
childish as Child-Serena, just a bit more ladylike. No, she wasn't even fully Serenity anymore, not when she
was like this...
Then who was she?
She touched the locket at her throat...
Serena was not strong enough to endure such a task for as long as she was required to, so she slept, deep
within the Moon Princess's soul. Yet Princess Serenity had been heading towards doing the same for a long
time. She still existed, but she was the daughter of Sauron, a danger to all who were near during this quest
for that simple fact.
Sailor Moon was the heroine of the future. She fought with magic and wands and her friends and the will of
her heart. She didn't belong in this time, and so she, too, slept.
So who was she, now?
It was then, as she reentered the hall where everyone still was chatting and picking at more deserts and
snacks, that the Lady of the Moon, the Tarien en Celenithil Ardiwuil, Princess of the Silver Moon Kingdom,
knew what to call her new warrior form and her new self...
"I am Celenithil..." She whispered.
"What?" Legolas looked at her; the others hadn't noticed them yet.
"My new name, while I'm here." She said, looking up at him. "The name of my new Senshi form. Celenithil.
Silver Moon." She grinned shyly. "What do you think?"
No one asked about the coincidence that 'Celenithil' meant the same thing in both Elvish and Sylvan- the
language of Lunarians.
"I think it's perfect, and so are you." With an unusually spontaneous fashion, he kissed her on the nose, then
lightly on the lips before pulling her into a tight hug. She snuggled into his arms for a moment, before she
pulled away, smiling, cheeks flushed, and pulled him out of the shadows of the entry way so that her friends
may see that they had returned...one of them in more than one way.
"Now that we're all up," Sam spoke up. "Shouldn't we have a meetin' o' sorts to decide what to do now? Th'
Rings still gotta go."
"Our small hobbit friend is correct," Gandalf approved Sam's words. "I believe a council of our own is in
order."
"Then a council we shall have!" Serena declared, grabbing two pastries off a platter on the table and handing
one to Legolas. "Lets go! We can have our secret meeting in my treehouse...room...place...whatever you call
it." Laughter was heard at the cute expression she made at not knowing the proper name. Merry and Pippin
choked at the words 'secret meeting,' and the hobbits laughed at something of their own.
"What?" Serena asked them. The Hobbits, and the Fellowship, exchanged glances, remembering the last
'secret council meeting' they'd been to, and all laughed and chuckled again. Serena was piqued, and so
Legolas took it upon himself to explain it to her. When he got to the part of retelling Pippin's words, 'Righto.
Now, where are we going?' after pledging to follow his friend wherever he may go, Serena couldn't hold
back any longer, and doubled over laughing.
"It wasn't that funny," Pippin protested. Serena giggled.
"Sure it was," She teased. "But it's part of who you are, and I doubt any of us would ever want to change
that." She ruffled his hair and bent to give him a hug. The Hobbit grinned brightly, turned, and stuck his
tongue out at Merry as if to say 'I got one and you didn't.' Merry's response was to whack him upside the
head as he passed, saying, "Come on, now we haven't got all day."
The others laughed, and followed.
"First off, I need to do some scans," Ami said once they had all entered and settled themselves around the
'treehouse' that had been assigned to Serena during her stay. "To determine how long we have till your
second shell begins to-"
"My what?" Serena interrupted. Ami and the other three Senshi exchanged glances.
"You'd better sit down, Koneko," Haruka told her. Serena sat.
"Serena…" Ami began, fidgeting. "Okay, I'm going to start from the beginning… For us, about a week ago,
we had that sleepover, remember?"
"Yes, it's been a week for me, as well." Serena nodded. She frowned and looked at Legolas. "At least I
think it's been a week since I arrived here. How long was I out?"
"Only a day," He assured her. Satisfied, she prompted Ami to continue.
"Well, to make a long story short, you fell asleep on the couch," Ami plunged forward. "And we were going
to let you sleep, but then you started screaming…we tried to wake you…we had to hold you down, you
were thrashing so. We couldn't wake you.
"To once again cut this short, we eventually figured out that, somehow, your spirit, your essence, your
mind, your…your core, I suppose, was torn from your body and taken…some place else. Your body
assumed the state of a sleep so deep it was almost a permanent coma.
"Meanwhile, we tracked your essence across over one hundred billion years back in time to…now." Eyes
widened at the large number Ami gave, but no one disputed it; for the great beings of the universe, time was
nonexistent.
"But if I left my body behind in the future…" Serena blinked. Ami sighed, seeing she was going to have to
spell it out after all. Some things never changed.
"Your spirit, if exposed, without your body to protect it, before it is its rightful time to be eternally released,
well… Am I right that when you came to, you were in great pain?"
"Extreme." Serena said with a shudder.
"Reminiscent of…being skinned alive, maybe?" Ami fished around. Serena made a face.
"Eeeew…but if 'reminisc-orant' or whatever means 'a lot like' than, yeah." Serena made another 'icky'
face. "Yes, it felt like I was being skinned alive."
"It felt like that," Ami said. "Because…well, just as your skin protects the nerve endings just underneath
them, so does your body protect…spiritual nerve endings of your soul. When your body was gone, those
spiritual nerve endings were exposed. Most would die from the pain."
"You must have had one hell of a reason to keep yourself alive," Raye said affectionately. Serena grinned
and pointed to Boromir.
"It was him, actually, though I didn't even know his name," She shrugged. "All I knew was, one minute I
was jabbering with you guys, next, dreaming of ice cream sundaes, then I felt like I was being torn in two
-which I guess I was- then the pain went super triple on me… And then through it all I got this sensation
of…of being…needed. Someone needed me. So I had to live. I had to live. Because someone needed me.
That was really all that I was able to think… Actually, I really wasn't thinking-"
"And this is supposed to be a surprise because…?" Raye drawled sarcastically. Serena ignored her but for a
brief glare before continuing.
"I really wasn't having thoughts, just…feelings. And the one thing that sort of…made a pathway through
the pain was that someone needed me. Period. Therefore I wouldn't let myself die. Period. And I didn't. I
pushed myself into the real world-"
"You forced your soul to form a second body so you could survive in it…" Ami broke down Serena's half
finished sentence. Serena grinned sheepishly.
"I guess so…" The blonde said. She shrugged. "Anyway, I managed to stay awake long enough to get the
poison out of Boromir, heal his wounds, reach to the nether-realm, grab his soul, and tell it to high tail it
back to where it belonged." She threw him a wink, and Boromir just grinned and shook his head lightly.
"You touched the nether-realm?" Gimli sputtered. He wasn't the only one shocked.
"What?" Serena blinked. She looked at he Senshi and rolled her eyes. "Oh, c'mon, you guys, how do you
think I brought you back to life after Metallia? Duh." She giggled.
"I wonder why we never thought of it..." Ami mussed.
"Cuz there was no need to," Raye shrugged. "We were back, and glad of it, and we didn't want to jinx our
luck by questioning it."
"So it seems you owe him your life as much as he owes you his." Aragorn brought back the subject at hand
as he pushed away from the pillar he was leaning against to stand beside Boromir, whom was sitting on a
two foot high chest.
"If you mean to say we're even, then yup!" Serena said, face shining.
"But we aren't," Merry declared. He looked at Serena, a serious look on his face despite the eternal twinkle
that had returned to his eyes. "Pip and I still owe you and your girls," he nodded to the Senshi. "For saving
our rears from an Orc fire pit."
"Hey, hey, no debts, no owing," Serena said, waving her hands, embarrassed. Merry and Pippin exchanged
glances.
"Still, if there's ever anythin' we can do, just ask! Oh, and wherever you go to do the spell thingy to destroy
the ring, we're comin,' too. For you as much as for Mr. Frodo." Pippin pledged. Frodo grinned, eyes shining
with happy amusement. When he'd seen his friends strapped to the trees, the looks on their faces and in
their eyes before they'd seen him had put terror into his heart, terror far more terrible than even Sauron had
ever induced. To see them happy again was the greatest gift he'd ever been granted.
"So, what were the scans you had to make about my second-shell thingamajig?" Serena prompted, for once
returning to the subject rather than straying from it. Ami, after blinking in slight surprise, realized after
glancing at Haruka and Hotaru and Raye that she was not the only one that noticed.
"Er, right," The blue haired girl said. She looked at Serena with soulful eyes. "The reason I need to scans
is…" She blew out a breath in defeat at Serena's innocently unsuspecting face. She saw the way Legolas
stood beside her…did either of them realize it? Even Ami could see it… Could she really deliver this news?
But what choice did she have? Even if there wasn't a time limit, Serena would have to come to the future
anyway, find a way to make sure that, even without Darien, Crystal Tokyo, or something like it, would still
exist. Ami didn't allow herself to think of Rini. As annoying as the child could be, the thought of any child
dying, a child she had known so well, was more than she could bear at the moment.
"Aimes?" Serena asked. She was wary, now. She knew something was up. Ami had no choice but to tell her
now.
"Serena," Ami said reluctantly. "There's a slight chance I'm wrong, but…well…since this isn't your natural
body, and you don't really exist in this timeframe… I'm sorry, Princess, but in less than a month, your shell
will begin to disintegrate. And if your spirit isn't on its way back to its rightful body, in the future, at the
exact same time it starts to happen…"
No one even had to ask her to finish the sentence.
"Oh…" Was all Serena could say. No one else spoke; no words seemed appropriate. Four people were here
to take their best friend and princess away from nine other people she held dear. And those nine people had
just realized that they had, at most, four weeks to spend with the one they would all die to protect…
With realizations like that, what can one say?
Nothing, for silence reigned, as a single tear slipped down Serena's face at the same time she shoved away
from the bed post, and fled.
A single tear flew off her cheek, and landed on the hand of the elf prince that reached out to her as she ran
away…
To Be Continued…
YAY!!!!!!!!!!! I FOUND MY FLOPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big thanks to everyone who was so patient, and those
who stuck with me! Now, where did I find the floppy, you ask? *grumble mutter* In my notebook, the thing
I open EVERY DAY!!!!!!!! grrrrrrrrr..... Took me till this morning to think 'hey, maybe I stuck it in there at
the last minute...' *bonks head on desk* I'm blonde, what else can I say? *blows exasperated mushroom
bubble*
Anyhoo....
I NEED HELP WITH SOMETHING!!!!!!!
Okay, remember that part where Serena looks into Galadriel's mirror? And it says the words inscribed on
the Moon Sword (in the manga; not in the anime) flashed? Okay, I cannot for the life of me remember what
it said on the Moon Sword! Could someone pleeeeeeeeeease review/e-mail me with the script? Doesn't have
to be exact, just a general idea, though exact would be helpful.
Also, I'm dedicating this chapter to my new friend, Marie. She's a Japanese exchange student, and I swear a
real-life Usagi/Serena. She's so bouncy, and gets excited so cutely over the littlest things! You should have
seen her when I told her Marie was my middle name. ^^ Oh, and even though her name, in English, is
spelled 'Marie' it's pronounced 'Mah-dee-yuh.' ^^ She's teaching me Japanese, and she was impressed with
the few words I did know, since the words I knew I'd never heard said before, only seen them spelled, like
'konnichi-wa,' 'gomen nasaii,' ect. She's soooo cool!!!!!!!
*tears* I didn't reach my goal...though 400 is still good, ne? I didn't really expect to reach 500, though it
would have been nice.
NEW GOAL:
600 reviews by chapter sixteen! Think I can make it? PLEASE help me reach this goal at least!!!!!!
Pleeeeeeeeeease????
Oh, and for those of who whom are sniffing at me, I'm not doing the goal thing to get more reviews; it's a
way to keep myself interested in my own stories. I loose interest in even my favorite stories so easily, so this
is one more thing to keep me going, my determination to reach my self-set goals. Get it?
Anyhoo, enough chit-chat for one chapter! Ja ne till next time!
Hope Makes the Universe Shine,
Makura Koneko
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