Ok, hi there. This is the ex-Sailor MJBR. I mean, I'm still the same person, but I've got a different name. I go by the name Lamie now. You know, it's been almost 2 years since I updated last. That is really pathetic. I'm sure anyone who read this regularly has abandoned me and my story. I think I've grown to fear fanfics; I'm afraid that I will portray the characters innacuratly. I started writing this story in my freshman year of high school. I'm a senior now. Whoa. Ok, it's been a while, but here I go...

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Serenity was ready to greet all the visitors to the moon. At least, all the royal visitors. So many people had come to the moon for the ball and carnival, there would be no way she could greet them all. Tenchi, Aeka, Sasami and their parents arrived first. Then all the four princesses from Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus arrived with their parents. The prince, king and queen of Earth also arrived around the same time. It wouldn't be untill almost sunset when the royal familiar from Antar finally arrived. Everyone was there, and it would be peaceful soon- Serenity was so happy.

"Serenity," a voice said, gloomily.

"Artemis, what's wrong?" she asked, turning around to face her mother's advisor.

"I'm sorry I have to ask you this, but your mother doesn't want you here when Vegeta and his family show up. She's afraid they may bring less than friendly people with them. Like ones with intentions to hurt or even kill. Your mother-"

"I'm not going up to my room this time."

Artemis quickly glanced around. "Ren," he said in a whisper, so people around them wouldn't hear. "If you weren't around when I was supposed to tell you this, say at the carnival outside of the palace walls, then you wouldn't have to stay in your room."

Serenity smiled. "Thank you, Artemis." She walked through the crowd, and when she got to the walls, she ran out of there and decided to disguise herself, just in case someone saw her. She took her hair out of the usual odangos and simply let it fall around her shoulders. Thankfuly her dress, a red one with white trim, wasn't too fancy that a normal person could have been wearing the same thing. It was fun to be out on her own for once, but she wished someone was there with her. She walked around the carnival for a while, but she was so deep in thought, that she wandered right out of the crowds. She arrived at a large green field where five children were running around, playing. This field seemed to be in a small valley, like a bowl. Serenity walked down the hill, almost to the bottom. When she got there, she sat lay down on the grass and stared at the sky. It was a very pale sky that day. The blue was almost white, and the clouds seemed even darker blue than they usually were. She lay there staring for almost an hour before a shadow hovered above her. "You better have a damn good reason as to why you're here," a young woman's voice said, teasingly.

Serenity sat up and saw a somewhat familiar face. "You're... Ryoko, right?"

"Mm-hmm."

"Tenchi's friend."

"Yup."

"Sit down?"

Ryoko did. "Why are you way out here? I mean, all the events are back at the castle, aren't they?"

"I-" Serenity really didn't feel like revealing her weakness, which her mother made up, to someone who was so tough like Ryoko. "I wanted to get away from all the people. I'm just kinda sick of 'em."

"I get'cha." She leaned back and looked up at the sky. After a few seconds, she asked, "What was Tenchi like when he was younger?"

"Wha- Tenchi? Well, he was a lot like he is now... only younger." She was silent for a while, then, "He and Zan used to play tricks on Vilandra, Aeka and I."

"He did? That doesn't sound like him."

"Oh, he stopped. Yeah, right after Vilandra punched him in the nose. It was so funny."

Ryoko giggled. "And he stopped?"

"Yup, he got Zan to stop, also. It was after that that he developed a crush on Vilandra."

"Does he still-"

"Oh, no. No. Even if he did, Vilandra has some secret, and I'm almost certain that it's a guy she wants to keep hidden for some reason. She keeps sneaking off."

They sat there, sometimes they stood up and walked around, sometimes they lay down on the grass, but wherever they were, they talked for almost 3 hours straight. For a long time, Ryoko just wanted to know more and more about Tenchi, but eventualy she let herself get off that topic.

The sun had begun to set when Serenity stood up and dusted herself off. "I should be getting back soon. The ball will be starting soon, and I'm sure that my mother will notice if I'm not there. Then she'll think I was kidnapped and it'll be a war all over again. "

"I'll see you there." Ryoko said as Serenity walked away.



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By the time Serenity got back to the palace, guests had begun to arrive for the ball, and she had to sneak in the back door. Once she got past the kitchen and the servants quarters, she was almost tackled by Luna. "There you are. We've been so worried. Artemis and I have been covering for you, but we can't keep it up any longer. Get upstairs and get dressed before your mother thinks you've been kidnapped again."

Serenity ran up the carpeted stairs while attempting to put her hair up in its usual odangos again. It was near impossible with her running so she gave up once she reached the top of the stairs and decided to wait until she was in her room. Once she burst through her door, she saw that her dress for the ball had already been laid out. It a dark pink color with a low v-neckline and loose, transparent black sleeves. There was black embroidery along the neckline and at the bottom hem of the dress. Serenity thought the dress to be somewhat depressing; the black embroidery reminded her of vines that had once grew and twisted beautifuly in a garden but had now died and turned black. She would have wanted to pick out another dress, but time was short, so she wore it anyways. She quickly put her hair up in the two buns and left her room. She ran down the corridor outside of her room, almost slipping on the smooth red rug several times. She ran down the back stairs of the palace, back into the area of the kitchens. Several servants looked at her in confusion as she continued her mad dash to the main ballroom. She went sliding through the open doorway of the ballroom and barely had time to stop before sliding into her mother.

"Serenity!" she gasped, half in anger at seeing her daughter run so recklessly into the room, half in relief that her daughter was ok.

"I'm sorry, mother," Serenity said, still trying to catch her breath from the run.

"I've been forced to make our guests wait out in the gardens for you."

"Again... very sorry."

"Well, I'll alert Luna that we're ready for them to enter the ballroom."

Serenity got her first glimpse at the room as her mother finally let go of her. It had been changed significantly since she saw it last. Instead of the simple dual thrones at the north wall of the room (the larger one belonged to the queen, and the smaller one was Serenity's), there were similar arrangements on the west, east and south walls of the enormous square room. She could only assume that they were there for the royal guests from Antar, Jurai, and Vejita-Sei.

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The first thing Bra noticed when she arrived on the Moon, was that everyone seemed to be hesitant to approach her and her family. She knew that they had reason to be scared. Her's wasn't the most peaceful race in the universe. But she didn't care. She wanted to find that spot in the garden she found last time she visited the Moon. She was worried that her father would keep her from leaving his sight, but when one of the queen's advisors said that refreshments would be served in the gardens before the start of the ball, Bra rejoyced. She was sure that in the complexities of the flowers and hedges, she could break away from her parents to try and find the fountain that was warm in the winter. It would be much harder to find this time, since it was very warm out, but she decided to just trust her instincts to find it.

For a while, she stumbled around through the crowds of people attending the ball, but then she managed to get away from everyone. The voices of the people trailed away as Bra looked through the maze. It was getting darker because the sun was setting,but a light remained in the sky- The Earth. She thought it looked very pretty, like a big blue marble or something. After almost a half hour of running into dead ends, Bra eventually came across what looked like it could have been the doorway to her little oasis. The entranceway that had once held up a door, before she came along and kicked it down, was growing over with foliage. She was a bit hesitant to enter since she had her hair and outfit perfected for the ball; she didn't want to have it ruined by pushing though thorny plants. "Oh well," she gasped in a breath of air before quickly dashing through the plants. Once through, she checked her hair and dress to make sure everything was ok. When she had affirmed that she was still looking her prettiest, and let out a heavy sigh.

She looked around. Everything was almost the same as when she had last been there, except now there were at least 10 times more flowers in bloom. She hiked up her dress to keep it from getting torn or dirty and walked over to the pond. She stuck her index finger in. It was still very warm. She had a strange urge to take her dress off and go swimming. But she stopped short when she heard her brother calling for her. "Bra! Where are you!?" He was really close to where she was. She ran back through the doorway into the main asiles of the hedge maze.

Trunks was walking, trying to find his sister. He was in mid-step when she seemed to jump right out of a hedge 5 feet in front of him. "Gah!" he yelled. "What are you doing?"

"Um, nothing?"

He narrowed his eyes at her. "It doesn't matter." He grabbed her wrist and began dragging her along. "Come on, the party's starting."

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Liz sat at home with her head in her hands- a sure sign of defeat....

Elsevan had received an invitation to the Startica-Peace ball on the Moon. He took his daughter along in hopes that she would find someone rich to marry. Tess wouldn't care who she married, as long as he had plenty of money to keep her happy. Liz had to help in the alterations to Tess's three gowns for the ball. And during the process, Liz was forced to listen to the mindless dribble that Tess talked about, mostly about all the eligable rich men that would be at the ball. "Of course, there will be four princes there who are around my age! Prince Tenchi, Prince Trunks- though he is from Vejita-sei, and I don't fancy living there. They're all so brutal there... Prince Endymion- but he's engaged to the Moon princess, and there's no hope of breaking that arrangement... And the one I think I will have the most luck in winnin' over, Prince Zan. He's a quite the looker!" Tess continued to ramble on and on about an article she read in a magazine about Prince Zan. "Have you ever seen Prince Zan before, Lizzy?"

She hated it when Tess called her Lizzy. "No," she mumbled while adding the last bit of lace from the bottom hem of Tess's last gown. Tess had explained to Liz that black lace was "it"

"Here, I'll show you." Tess abruptly stepped away, moving the dress she was wearing along with her. Liz slipped as Tess did this and she pricked her finger with a needle she was using to sew.

"Ow," Liz softly groaned before sticking her finger in her mouth to suck off the blood. Before she knew it, there was a magazine thrust in front of her face.

"Page 47," Tess said, getting ready to have her dress adjusted again.

Liz put the booklet down and picked up the needle she had dropped.

"Go ahead, look!" Tess instructed. Liz opened the magazine out of pure frustration. She'd look if it got Tess to shut her fat mouth. Liz flipped through the pages and stopped on page 53. She had gone too far, but she never made it to page 47, because she saw page 49... It was a picture of the person she had come to know and love as Max. She looked at it for the longest time... Why was Max in this magazine? Especially in an article about the Prince of Antar?! At first, she thought that maybe it was just a shocking coincidence. But it was impossible. Identical twins don't even show that much resemblance. It didn't take her long to realise that the Max she knew was actually Prince Zan.

.....So now it was the day of the Startica-Peace ball. Elsevan and Tess had already left so that they could arrive early. And so Liz sat at the kitchen table, feeling utterly hopeless. A million thoughts ran through her head: plans on what she would wear, how she would get there, that she'd show up and tell Max- er, Zan, that she knew the truth about him, that she'd tell him that she loved him. The plans would have worked; if she had an extensive wardrobe, a way to get from the Earth to the Moon on such short notice, and assurance that Zan would return her affections.

She had wanted to go to the ball so much before, but now, she had to go. If only there were a way. But there wasn't. Cinder 'lisbeth was at a complete loss.

"Liz! Hey, Liz!" There was a sudden hushed female voice calling her name.

At first Liz thought she was hearing things. Then she looked up to see a girl no older than 20 with dark blond hair standing in the kitchen. Liz let out a short, strangled yell.

"Oy, don't get all jumpy. I'm here to help you."

"Who are you?" Liz demanded, her eyes wide and wild.

"I'm Maria. Your fairy god-sister."

"You're kidding." Liz lowered her eyebrows.

"I wish I was. But, since I don't get Michael in this story, I'm stuck being the fairy god-sister. So, lets get this show on the road. Stand up."

Liz was much too dumbstruck to object. She stood up and backed away from the table a little.

"Follow me." Maria walked out of the kitchen and into the dining room. Liz followed. On the dining table, there was a trunk filled with some of the most beautiful dresses Liz had ever seen.

"W-wait, don't you have, like, a magic wand you need to wave, or something like that?"

"I wish," Maria scoffed. "Pick one," she pointed to the trunk.

Liz rummaged through the chest for a few minutes before pulling out a silver dress.

"Lovely decision. Here's some shoes-" Maria suddenly had a pair of matching shoes. Liz had no clue where they came from, but she allowed Maria to set the shoes on the pile of silver dress she held in her arms. "You can go change and get ready. When you're done, I'll be waiting at the hill you meet Max at."

Liz was really baffled by the entire situation, but she decided that this was her chance and she should grab it before it was too late. After Liz had bathed and put on the dress and shoes, she left the house and walked the familiar path to the hill. Maria was sitting on the ground at the base of the hill, looking very impatient. She yawned and pointed to the top of the hill. Liz looked up. There was a small ship that would probably fit only two people at the most. "You can take that. Don't worry about, like, driving or anything. It's fixed so that it'll go right where you need to be on the Moon." Maria pulled herself to her feet.

"Wow, um, Maria.... How can I ever thank you?"

"It's my duity. I'm your fairy god-sister. Now go. Wait any longer and it'll be over before you get there."

Liz began to walk up the hill. She was halfway when she called down to Maria, "Do I need to be home before midnight or something?"

"Naw, just be home before anyone notices you're gone. Shouldn't be too hard. When you see your stepfather and sister leaving, be sure to leave about the same time. That ship'll travel here a faster than them, but just enough to give you enough time to change back to normal. I'll be back tomorrow night." Maria took off running from the hill into the woods and Liz continued climbing up the hill and then she stepped inside the ship. She had barely sat down in one of the two seats before the door closed automatically, and she could feel the ship lift off from the ground. She was on her way to the Moon.

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That's a pretty long chapter... for me, anyways. If you've read this, could you answer me something? Does it seem like my writing style has gotten any better from the earlier chapters? I just want to know if my writing has changed over the last couple years.

Please review. I'm desprate!

:-)