AN: Gomen ne, minna! I haven't updated in a while, you know, with clubs and music and other stories which I seem to be having a familiar writer's block... (Very, very strange isn't it?) Well, I'll tell you this, this chapter is going to b a little boring but it has to happen for great things to come! R&R Enjoy!







Chapter 12



Serenity sat in the parlor, thinking about the past month when she was held in that cabin. It had been a week since she had came home. The media went crazy with the story since she had returned.

These days she spent more time with her daughter, her friends, and most of all Kuroshi.

Kuroshi has yet to tell her why she rescued her or why she was still hanging around. She was shocked when she found out the Kuroshi was a black lunarian, which was rarely seen in the Moon Kingdom. She also learned that Kuroshi wasn't the black lunarian's name, but she wouldn't tell her what it really was.

Serenity picks up her teacup and takes a sip of the sweeten peppermint tea and sighs. She wished that she could be with her husband, Endymion, but lately, he's been away. She saw him now and then in the palace, but now he's hardly ever home.

*Doesn't he want me anymore? * She thought sadly. *Does he think that I'm tainted? Is that it?*

She remembered that Ami, the senshi of ice, had told her after she had checked her out that she would be able to have more children if she so desired.

There was a knock at the door, snapping the regal queen from her dark musings.

"Come in."

Kuroshi walks in towards the queen. She still wore her hair in the same hairstyle as the queen. She wore faded blue jeans and a black shirt with black tennis shoes.

"Kuroshi," Serenity smiles at her, "what a pleasant surprise." She gestured to a chair on the other side of her. "I thought you went out or something."

Kuroshi shook her head, "No, it was nothing like that."

Serenity eyed the other woman who mirrored her. "So, what is it that you want of me?" she asked.

Kuroshi looks down and seemed to blush. (If you can tell a black woman is blushing)

"Well, there is something I've been meaning to ask you." She told her, "It's sort of a tradition on the moon when a black lunarian lives on the white side of the moon. Sort of an unwritten law."

"So, what is it that you want?" She smiled at the woman, "You saved me, whatever you want will be grated as long as it is within my power to do so."

"Well, you see..." She began nervously...



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A shadow watches them as they talk. It is intrigued by what the black lunarian was saying to the white one.

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Kuroshi told Serenity exactly what she wanted and Serenity obliged.

"But under one condition." Serenity told the black lunarian. "Tell me, what is your real name and what are you to the Moon kingdom?"

Kuroshi consider this then sat back down. "My name is Serenity." She said, "And I used to be a spy for your kingdom as well as my own."

"Serenity?!" Her silvery blue eyes widen, "But-but only those from my family have that name and the hairstyle."

Kuroshi chuckles. "True, but mine have been around longer than your family." She sighs, "To tell you the truth, I am the supposedly last of my kind, so you understand why my request is very important."

Serenity nods, "True, so, why is your name Serenity anyway?"

Kuroshi shrugs, "Why is your name Serenity as well as your daughter's?" She retorted.

She shook her head and dropped the subject.

Kuroshi looks at her watch, briefly, and stood up. "I'll see you around." Then left the queen to her musings.



Meanwhile outside, a sinister shadow plots against them, knowing that this might destroy them all if not physically then mentally or emotionally it will.

Laughing insanely the figure disappears back to write down and plan more.

AN: What the..? What is that thing? I'm the author and even I don't know! Hehe.... Until next time......R&R