AN: Been a while, but here it is.











Chapter 23











Renity stood in front of a huge painting of the royal family of the white moon. She looks it over seeing herself in the painting. It had been a huge shock the rocked the white kingdom.



The king had allowed, even demanded, that the halfling would be in the painting. She smiled a little at the memory.



*~* Flashback*~*



*~ One year after the fire ~*



Renity held tightly to Ori's hand. It had been a year since she had came to live with him and his family and still, she was afraid.



Orion looks down at the little girl, who seemingly attached herself to his hand, worriedly. She hadn't spoken more than two or three sentences in a year. It worried him so because she was so small and so thin, like she hadn't been eating right, which she hasn't.



He shook his head, *One problem at a time. * He thought to himself as he led the halfling through the plush hallways with pictures hanging on the walls.



He stopped in front of a set of doubled doors. He looks down at the wide silvery eyes of the black child and kissed the top of her head. "I have a surprise for you Renity."



At those words, her eyes wide even more(if that's possible!) at this statement and her smile was just as big. "Really?!"



He nods, "Yes, but you'll have to be patient, it'll take hours of sitting for, but once it's done, you'll love it."



She nods her head vigorously, "Ok!"



With that, he opens the door.

Renity's demeanor changed instantly as they walked into the room, her head was slightly bowed and she hid behind him more. They were there, all of them; the Queen and the Princess, with their guards and a few artists; all mingling about, talking, sharing information, and laughing.



Renity didn't like it too much, but didn't dislike it. To her, it was the perfect place to be, but also she felt out of place and wished to be home.



"Orion, you're finally here!" Queen Serenity came up to him and kissed him. She looks down and smiles warmly at the child, "Hello there Renity, how are you?"



The little girl looks up shyly, "ok.." a moment of silence, "You?"



"I'm fine, go and sand with the others, ok? Just so they can paint us."



Renity squeaked and held on to Orion's hand even stronger. She was absolutely terrified of him leaving her, even for a moment.



"Actually, love..umm" He gave his wife a boyish smile that he knew would work, "I would like Renity to be in the picture also."



The room went absolutely still and eerily quiet around them as the Queen blinks once, then twice. She shook her head, "But, Orion, you know that this is only for the family."



He shifted gears, "Sere," He looks at the frightened little girl then at his wife and his daughter who came over with her friends and their families. "I want to adopt her. I want her to be apart of our family." He sighed and went to sit down, with Renity trailing after him. "She has no one and needs a home." He told them.

He was sitting in a chair with Renity standing beside him; her head still bowed making herself small, not wanting to be hurt.



Serenity's eyes soften at this and finally she nods, "Ok, have it you're way." She walks over and kisses him, "We can keep her."



Princess Serenity looks at her friends and then at the scared girl. She went over to the younger girl and smiles brightly at her, "I'm gonna be a big sister!" She exclaims before swinging Renity around, "Cool!"



And for the first time in her life, here in the White Kingdom, she felt loved, happy, and cherished. She had a new family and hopefully, friends.



*~* End of Flashback*~*





Renity shook her head and sighs, *Those few years before Ori's death was..the best times in my life. If only he were still around.. *



"Hey, who's the kid in the picture with Mommy, Grandma and Granddad?" Chibiusa asks, as the group came up behind her. "She's so small and kawaii!"



Renity flashed them a smile, "That's me when I was five. Around that time, Ori had announced that he would adopt me, since I had no one and nowhere to go."



Serenity looks at her, "so, you are my adoptive sister, eh?"



She nods, "Your exact words at the time were, 'I'm gonna be a big sister!' over and over again."



The two shared the same look for a moment, until Renity looks away with a frown on her face.



There was draft there, behind the painting. She touched the painting where she, as a little girl, stood next to Orion. "Renity...I've always wondered why he called me that?" She murmured to herself and jumps back as the portrait moved revealing a passageway.



"What the-?" They drew closer, inspecting it.



Renity didn't wait for them to declare it safe, she walks in and pauses, "Come on."



They looked at each other as the half Black Lunarian disappears from sight.

"When on the moon.." Setsuna mutters as she follows the rest of them.





They walked for a while before finding Renity waiting for them. The passage was alit with torches that seemingly go on forever.

"Took you long enough." She said curtly. "Let's go."

After an hour or so of walking, Ami looks around, analyzing on what this could mean.

"Why is it so long? And why is it hidden so well?" She wonders out loud, "What could the Queen be hiding?"

To her surprise, Renity answers her. "They were hiding the real intentions of the kingdom. The people didn't know, most of the military leaders didn't know.."

"Know what?" Endymion asks, "What's down here?" They neared a dead in, at least to most it would have been. She turns to them, "This is were they take orphaned children. At least the ones I've met where orphans."

Her expression was blank like a sheet of paper; nothing portrayed any emotions at all. "I was part of a special group of children. There were seven of us. Each of us were from a different planet, different nobilities. And..we all had certain powers."

"How could my mother approve of such a thing?!" Serenity was appalled. Nothing she could have image in her past life would be like this.

"Funny thin is," Renity gave her a crooked smirk, that didn't reach her eyes. "The military didn't tell her about it until Queen Tokitora, your mother," She nods to Setsuna, "found out about it when she was looking through the time stream. It was right before the attack, I heard them talking in the library, they had said that the Seven, which we were known as, were to be sent to the future. Six of us were to be killed on the orders of the queen herself, and I...."

She turns, and faces the wall; "I was to be put in suspended animation until it was time to wake up."



"What happened to the other six?" Rei asked, not really sure she wanted to know.

"What do you think, Sherlock?" She tossed over her shoulder then focused her attention on the wall.



"Trinity, Serenity. Code name, Kuroshi. Six-eight-nine-nine-one-oh." Then she held her hand against a particular block as something scanned her right eye.

The wall opens and reveals another security measure. "Silence and death are inevitable. 'Tis the mercy of the strong to destroy the weak and stupid; Kuroshi is not weak, nor stupid."

The wall opens again to reveal an elevator. They all crammed in.

She faced the inside as they looked around

"Sector six: The SEVEN computer room."

The elevator slid smoothly down the shaft, giving no indication of what floors they passed.

"Renity," Serenity turns towards the woman, "why didn't you tell us this before? And what are we looking for, exactly?"

Renity looks at her and gave them a sad smirk, "Would you have believed me if I told you that I was your adoptive sister? I think not." She turns away, "At any rate, we are looking for some scrolls. They are very, very old. They were given to our ancestors, the Firsts, the scrolls of Lambda and Dambda"

Setsuna's eyes widen, "But they are nothing but a myth! I should know," her eyes narrowed a little, "I've been looking for them for a long time now."

Renity grinned, "Good for you, but I think you've been looking for them in the wrong places." She turned back around.

The cart finally stopped and opened up to the senshi and Onyx. They were about to go that way when Renity shouts, "Don't go that way, you idiots! Follow me!"

To their amazement, she walked straight threw the seemingly, metallic wall and disappears.

They looked at one another before venturing after the halfling.



The sight that greeted them astounded them. Hundreds of computer consoles lined the main floor. Dust so thick that you could leave a footprint in it.



In front of them was console, also thick with dust.

Renity walked right up to it, pressing buttons the lit up the console, bring the system to life with its quiet beeping sound and the flicking of colors as her hands danced across the board.

Onyx and the others walks up behind her, watching her with mild fascination as a small pad slid out of the console.

With out a second thought, she places her hand there, allowing it to be scanned. Ami, of course, was in heaven. There were so many computers she could crack into and get all the information that she hungered for.

In silence, Renity turns, nearly forgetting her guest, and walks down the spiral metal staircase, hardly paying anyone any attention.

"Renity," Endymion began, "if you guys were so unhappy here, if you were so unhappy here, why didn't you leave? Runaway?"

She steps off the stairs and stares silently at the consoles on the main floor, humming and glowing softly that it was almost a lullaby.

"And go where?" She asked quietly, "Even if I had land, money, and a little power back on the dark side of the moon," She looks at them, "I couldn't leave them behind. I couldn't leave here because I've lived here for so long that I don't know anything about where I came from. What customs or whatnot, it's like..." She turns away again, "Like a black American trying to go back to Africa. You've descended from that place, but you don't know it or the language too well."

"Well, what are we to do?" Rei asks, wrapping an arm around herself, "It's such a sad place with few good memories."

"True." She nods and sat down in the dust-covered chair, sending dust into the air as she cleans the screen. "We've always stuck together when something bad happens." She gave them a brief smile, "I was the youngest, and smallest of all the children. They often protected me and taught me things that the instructor never could and in return, I'd try my best to help them."

"With what?" Chibiusa asks looking over her shoulder, "I mean, what would they need help for?"

She smiled a little at it as she typed fast, "No one is immune to dreams, rabbit." She told her as the information flashed by and the security codes were bypassed, "I soothed their nightmares, help them sleep at night. Things that happened before they had arrived here was almost or worse than what had happened to me." She fell silent as she typed some more then finally got up.

"Here it is, the piece of the scroll... Dambda." She whispered and scans it, "It seems that each of the palaces were given the opposite that they seemingly represented. Here, we have Dambda, the dark scroll, and there is Lambda, the light scroll."

"What does it say?" Setsuna asked trying not to betray the excitement in her voice.



" 'And so shall it come to pass that the Earth and Moon shall fall and a new era would begin, stealing the glory that was once theirs.' She read.

*Interesting * She thought and continues to read.

" ' But there will come a time when a darkness shall shadow over the light and reign supreme. The leader, once good, shall be dark as night with a soul corrupted to the core unleashing and evil that will rival the likes of the Great Chaos. Only one creature stands in the way of this great demon's path to ultimate glory. A being that if swayed to the light shall destroy the darkness. This being is the mediator. The being is neither light nor dark, but is both, shall see who shall reign and who shall perish.

Tread carefully here, great demon, or the being shall be your down fall.



-Scroll of Dambda



She looks at them with a puzzled look, "I wonder what it means." She mutters, "Looks like we'll have to sneak into the dark moon's and look for it."

Onyx shook his head, "No we don't."

She turns towards him, a smile tugging at her lip, "How so?"

He nods, "I happen to know, as a fact, that your family was entrusted with the scrolls. Likely, they must have put them somewhere safe and away from danger."

She frowns, "You many be right, but the fire nearly destroyed everything."

He wraps an arm around her, "Renity-love, it'll be there. It has to be for surviving since the Firsts were around."



She nods, "Hope you're right."



An: Lame chapter I guess, but I'm working on it! R&R