Serenity
By: GoddessMoonLady
Chapter 3
Disclaimers: I don't own Sailor Moon or the Basic story line. I just wrote the details sooo don't sue me okaaayyy???!!!
This story is a cross between Sailor Moon and Anastasia with my own little twists and turns thrown in. so enjoy!!!
33333333333333333333333333333333333333 3 June 31st, 2001 S.M. (Silver Millennium) 33333333333333333333333333333333333333 3
It has been seven years since a kind man named Demeatry Romanoff left a poor, startled eight year old girl named Serena at an orphanage in the care of the Headmistress, Miss Minchin. Well, a lot hasn't happened since we left the poor girl. She is fifteen now and has blossomed into a beautiful young woman with pale skin, amazing Silver-blue eyes, and long golden hair in a ponytail that when taken down dragged the ground two Inches behind her. She wore a filthy brown dress that went only to her ankles and was ripped and patched in several places, a very old cloak that has bean ripped and patched as well, and an ugly brown hat on top of her head. She is heading toward the front gates with Miss Minchin while waving good bye to all the others at the orphanage. Here is where we rejoin Serena.
*************************THE MINCHIN ORPHANAGE'S FRONT GATES*******************
"Serena, its time you left us and made your own way in this world!" said a grouchy Miss Minchin, "You have been nothing but trouble since you got here! Little Miss Serena! Acting like the Princess of the Moon or something instead of the nameless no account you are!! It's about time you took your place in this world! In place and in line! I got you a job in the dress makers shop in Moonan. You go strait down this path till you reach the fork in the road. Take the South road. You will be expected to be there by 5:30 this evening." She instructed opening the gate.
"But I don't want to work at a dress shop. I want to find my family." Serena whined
"I told you to forget it you can't even respect my orders. After all these years that I have fed you, dressed you..."
"Kept a roof over my head." interrupted Serena mockingly
"How is it that you can remember all that yet you have no clue who you where before you came to us?" asked Miss Minchin cruelly
"I do have one clue." Serena said fiddling with the palm sized locket around her neck.
"Yes, I know the locket. You had better get going if you want to make it to Moonan by 5:30." said Miss Minchin pushing Serena out and closing the gates, "Be grateful that I took care of you for seven years!!" With that she turned and headed back inside.
***********************************THE ROAD**************************************
Serena started walking down the road. When she got soo far she stopped and mimicked Miss Minchin.
"Be grateful Serena." she mimicked, "I am grateful! Grateful to get away!!" she yelled, Then she turned and continued walking to the fork in the road.
"Hmmm..." She looked at the sign. An arrow pointing south said Moonan and another pointing north said Serenitis. "If I go south I'll be Serena the orphan forever. But if I go north.... Whoever gave me this music box must have loved me." she said to herself, "Which way!? Give me a sign!!" she yelled sitting on a big rock.
All of a sudden the wind picked up and blew her hat right off her head. It blew the hat three blocks toward Serenitis with Serena running to catch it. The wind finally died and the hat fell softly to the ground. Once Serena retch the hat she dropped to her knees, panting.
"Stupid wind!!" she yelled aggrivatedly, "I was waiting for a...." she stopped as the realization hit her, "Sign" she finished in a whisper.
"Okay if I'm supposed to go to Serenitis then I shall go to Serenitis." she said standing up, her mind was made up she would search for her family. As she was walking she hummed a melody that was very familiar though she didn't know why or where she had heard it.
In about an hour she had retch the gates of the city.
**************************************SERENITIS***************************** ******
Once inside she reread the inscription on the back of the locket for the thousandth time since she was eight:
Serena May this locket always lead you to me. Love, Endy of earth
Once finished reading she closed her eyes. *Hmmm... I wish I knew who End was. If I can find him then he can tell me who I am.* thought Serena
She opened her eyes and decided to look for a way to Earth. She walked for about twenty minutes when she found an old teleporter. The man running it looked like he'd seen better days.
"Excuse me sir, but I would like to go to Earth. Could you please send me there?" asked Serena meekly
"You got Planetary travel papers?" asked the man in a gruffly voice while looking down his nose at the beautiful girl in rags that had addressed him.
"Planetary travel papers?" questioned Serena
"No Planetary travel papers, no teleport! "said the man rudely, shoving serena out of the way and causing her to stumble and fall to the ground.
"Pss... You want travel papers? See Darien at the Old Palace he can help." whispered an old woman in rags, "But you didn't hear it from me."
"Oh, OK, Thank you, soo much." Serena whispered back, Then she stood and walked away in search of the palace.
*************************************THE PALLACE*********************************
Darien and Artimas were talking in the Queens study,
"How are we ever going to find a girl to play Serenity?" asked Artimas
"It's simple we find a girl that looks like the princess and teach her what to say." answered Darien
"Hmm... I guess that will work, but what if Queen Serenity sees threw the act?" wondered Artimas
"Then we'll just play it off and say that we were sure it was her." said Darien simply
**** In the mean time Serena was just reaching the gate of the Pallace.
"Hmm... It's locked." she said shaking the gate. She looked to her right and saw a branch hanging over the wall to the courtyard. She smiled and walked over to the spot by the wall. She jumped up and grabbed the branch. Swinging over and landing on her feet. She headed for the main doors.
The Main entrance to the Palace was boarded. She searched hoping to find one that was loose. She grabbed a board and pulled as hard as she could, then suddenly without warning the board gave way and she went flying back.
Once inside the doorway she removed her ugly old cloak and hat.
"Wow, this place is huge." Serena said, looking around her, "It looks as if it hasn't been cleaned in years."
She wondered down the hall looking in amazement at all the expensive family paintings, excellent statues, and handmaid pottery that lined the hallway. She kept walking till she came to a grand staircase that led to the Ballroom floor.
At the top of the stairs, on the wall hung a gigantic gorgeous painting of a woman, couldn't be any older then twenty-five, with long lavenderish, silver hair in a strange style, there were two balls of hair on the sides of the top of her head with one long stream of hair flowing from each ball falling down her back, she had silverish, ice-blue eyes with shining silver crescent moons in them, and a gold cresant moon, the symbol of the Royal Moon Family, in the center of her forhead. She was holding a little girl, about five or six, with long golden hair drawn up into the same style as the women's. She had warm silverish, crystal-blue eyes, with the same silver crescent moons in them, and the same crescent moon in the center of her forehead. She was wearing a simple sky-blue dress, with puffs of cloth on her shoulders for sleeves.
"Hmmm.... that must have been the Queen and Princess." Serena thought out loud, "I can't place it but that painting looks soo familiar, it's like I have seen it before, somewhere...."
She then went down the stairs and onto the Ballroom floor. She closed her eyes and imagined herself at a Ball surrounded by people dressed in long beautiful gowns of all different colors that shined like the sun, and a string cortet playing a beautiful waltz. She danced in a very gorgeous pearl-white dress to her imaginations music. But when she opened her eyes she was back in the run down old Ballroom and her old rags.
"Huh... back to rotten reality. I wish I lived like that." she said to herself wistfully, looking at the Ballroom floor.
**** Meanwhile in Queen Serenity's old study, Darien and Artimas where deep in thought.
"huh? Did you hear that?" Darien asked suddenly
"Hear what?" asked Artimas startled out of his thoughts.
"I thought I heard footsteps coming from the Ballroom." Said Darien, standing
"Well, then lets find out, shall we?" Artimas asked, standing as well.
The two men left the study and headed for the Ballroom. They entered through one of the Ballroom's main doors and decended the staircase. When they reach the landing where a painting of a man with brown hair, dark blue eyes, wearing a silver tuxedo with gold buttons, and holding the little girl from the painting Serena had saw hang, he saw Serena sitting in the middle of the Ballroom floor.
"Hey!! How did you get in here?" he yelled while running down the stairs two by two.
**Serena looked up startled by the sudden shout. When she saw the young man running toward her she jumped up and ran. She got to the landing where she had came in when he caught ahold of her wrist to stop her.
"Wait, wait, wait, I just want to know how you got in and why you are here." He said breathing rigidly. When he looked up he was shocked by what saw. She looked a great deal like the little girl in the portrait.
"Are you Darien?" Serena asked, she had always been rather blunt and just came out and said what she wanted.
"That depends on who's looking for him." Darien responded
"My name is Serena and I need to get to Earth. People on the street said that you could help me." She introduced herself.
Suddenly Darien got an idea. "Yes, I could help. But you see I only have three teleporter passes. One for me, and one for Artimas. Darien said waving the passes above her head as she tried to get one.
"Well, then who's the other one for?" Serena asked, tired of trying to snatch one.
"The last one is for her, Princess Serenity." Darien said gesturing to the little girl in the portrait.
"The plan is to reunite the princess with her mother, Queen Serenity." explained Artimas
"So... Serena, is there a last name that goes with that?" Darien asked switching gears slightly.
"You know what, this is going to sound silly, but I don't know my last name. As a matter of fact I have very little memory of my past. I was found laying on the ground unconscious behind the castle when I was eight years old." Serena said, a little embarrassed.
"Hmm... " said Darien and Artimas nodding to each other knowingly.
"You know you do resemble the Princess a great deal." said Darien
"Yeah, right. I look just like the princess." Serena said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"No, really, you have the same amazing Silver-blue eyes with silver crescents, the same golden hair, and the Queen's gentile hands." Said Darien, examining her.
"And you want to go to Earth to find your family and the Princess's only family is on Earth." said Artimas in a low and gentile tone.
"Ever thought of the possibilities?" Darien asked
"That 'I' could be royalty. Well, it's kind of hard to see yourself as a Princess when your sleeping on a damp floor. But, yeah, I guess every lonely little girl would hope she's a Princess." Serena answered thoughtfully
"And somewhere one little girl is." Said Artimas in the same low voice as before.
Darien looked at his watch. "Well, we would love to help, but the third pass is for the Princess. Good luck." He said as he picked up Artimas and started down the stairs and back across the Ballroom floor.
Serena stood staring at the portrait thinking to herself as Darien walked the long distance across the Ballroom.
** "I'm telling you were walking away too soon. Why didn't you tell her about the money?" Artimas rambled on as Darien carried him across the Ballroom.
"Shhh... Why give away a third of the reward when all she want's is to get to Earth. I have it all worked out." he said slowing his walk, "Three, Two, One..."
"Darien!!" Came Serena's sudden yell.
"Right in the palm of our hands." Muttered Artimas as Serena caught up with them.
"Yes, did you call me?" Darien asked ignorantly.
"If I don't remember who I am, then whose to say I'm not a Princess, right?" said Serena stopping in front of them.
"Mmhmm... "
"And if I'm not the Princess the Queen will certainly know, right?" Serena continued
"Right"
"But if you are the Princess, then you'll finally have found you're family." Artimas stated
"You know, he's right, either way it gets you to Earth, right?" Darien asked
"Right, then lets do this." Serena said with growing excitement.
"Ok, but there are a few things you must learn before we go to Earth. You see you have to make Luna, the Queen's advisor believe you before you can even see the Queen." Artimas informed her.
TO BE CONTINUED......
Wow!!!! Serena's going to see if she's the Princess!!!!!! Maybe we'll learn what happened to the real Princess... And What about this Darien character? Hmm... What happened to Endymion????? What of the Sailor Scouts? You'll just have to wait and see. hehe...
Well, how was it? Comments, Questions? I wanna know!! Send them all to goddessmoonlady@earthlink.net. I really wanna know what you think so E-mail me. Now!! Please!!!???
Disclaimers: I don't own Sailor Moon or the Basic story line. I just wrote the details sooo don't sue me okaaayyy???!!!
This story is a cross between Sailor Moon and Anastasia with my own little twists and turns thrown in. so enjoy!!!
33333333333333333333333333333333333333 3 June 31st, 2001 S.M. (Silver Millennium) 33333333333333333333333333333333333333 3
It has been seven years since a kind man named Demeatry Romanoff left a poor, startled eight year old girl named Serena at an orphanage in the care of the Headmistress, Miss Minchin. Well, a lot hasn't happened since we left the poor girl. She is fifteen now and has blossomed into a beautiful young woman with pale skin, amazing Silver-blue eyes, and long golden hair in a ponytail that when taken down dragged the ground two Inches behind her. She wore a filthy brown dress that went only to her ankles and was ripped and patched in several places, a very old cloak that has bean ripped and patched as well, and an ugly brown hat on top of her head. She is heading toward the front gates with Miss Minchin while waving good bye to all the others at the orphanage. Here is where we rejoin Serena.
*************************THE MINCHIN ORPHANAGE'S FRONT GATES*******************
"Serena, its time you left us and made your own way in this world!" said a grouchy Miss Minchin, "You have been nothing but trouble since you got here! Little Miss Serena! Acting like the Princess of the Moon or something instead of the nameless no account you are!! It's about time you took your place in this world! In place and in line! I got you a job in the dress makers shop in Moonan. You go strait down this path till you reach the fork in the road. Take the South road. You will be expected to be there by 5:30 this evening." She instructed opening the gate.
"But I don't want to work at a dress shop. I want to find my family." Serena whined
"I told you to forget it you can't even respect my orders. After all these years that I have fed you, dressed you..."
"Kept a roof over my head." interrupted Serena mockingly
"How is it that you can remember all that yet you have no clue who you where before you came to us?" asked Miss Minchin cruelly
"I do have one clue." Serena said fiddling with the palm sized locket around her neck.
"Yes, I know the locket. You had better get going if you want to make it to Moonan by 5:30." said Miss Minchin pushing Serena out and closing the gates, "Be grateful that I took care of you for seven years!!" With that she turned and headed back inside.
***********************************THE ROAD**************************************
Serena started walking down the road. When she got soo far she stopped and mimicked Miss Minchin.
"Be grateful Serena." she mimicked, "I am grateful! Grateful to get away!!" she yelled, Then she turned and continued walking to the fork in the road.
"Hmmm..." She looked at the sign. An arrow pointing south said Moonan and another pointing north said Serenitis. "If I go south I'll be Serena the orphan forever. But if I go north.... Whoever gave me this music box must have loved me." she said to herself, "Which way!? Give me a sign!!" she yelled sitting on a big rock.
All of a sudden the wind picked up and blew her hat right off her head. It blew the hat three blocks toward Serenitis with Serena running to catch it. The wind finally died and the hat fell softly to the ground. Once Serena retch the hat she dropped to her knees, panting.
"Stupid wind!!" she yelled aggrivatedly, "I was waiting for a...." she stopped as the realization hit her, "Sign" she finished in a whisper.
"Okay if I'm supposed to go to Serenitis then I shall go to Serenitis." she said standing up, her mind was made up she would search for her family. As she was walking she hummed a melody that was very familiar though she didn't know why or where she had heard it.
In about an hour she had retch the gates of the city.
**************************************SERENITIS***************************** ******
Once inside she reread the inscription on the back of the locket for the thousandth time since she was eight:
Serena May this locket always lead you to me. Love, Endy of earth
Once finished reading she closed her eyes. *Hmmm... I wish I knew who End was. If I can find him then he can tell me who I am.* thought Serena
She opened her eyes and decided to look for a way to Earth. She walked for about twenty minutes when she found an old teleporter. The man running it looked like he'd seen better days.
"Excuse me sir, but I would like to go to Earth. Could you please send me there?" asked Serena meekly
"You got Planetary travel papers?" asked the man in a gruffly voice while looking down his nose at the beautiful girl in rags that had addressed him.
"Planetary travel papers?" questioned Serena
"No Planetary travel papers, no teleport! "said the man rudely, shoving serena out of the way and causing her to stumble and fall to the ground.
"Pss... You want travel papers? See Darien at the Old Palace he can help." whispered an old woman in rags, "But you didn't hear it from me."
"Oh, OK, Thank you, soo much." Serena whispered back, Then she stood and walked away in search of the palace.
*************************************THE PALLACE*********************************
Darien and Artimas were talking in the Queens study,
"How are we ever going to find a girl to play Serenity?" asked Artimas
"It's simple we find a girl that looks like the princess and teach her what to say." answered Darien
"Hmm... I guess that will work, but what if Queen Serenity sees threw the act?" wondered Artimas
"Then we'll just play it off and say that we were sure it was her." said Darien simply
**** In the mean time Serena was just reaching the gate of the Pallace.
"Hmm... It's locked." she said shaking the gate. She looked to her right and saw a branch hanging over the wall to the courtyard. She smiled and walked over to the spot by the wall. She jumped up and grabbed the branch. Swinging over and landing on her feet. She headed for the main doors.
The Main entrance to the Palace was boarded. She searched hoping to find one that was loose. She grabbed a board and pulled as hard as she could, then suddenly without warning the board gave way and she went flying back.
Once inside the doorway she removed her ugly old cloak and hat.
"Wow, this place is huge." Serena said, looking around her, "It looks as if it hasn't been cleaned in years."
She wondered down the hall looking in amazement at all the expensive family paintings, excellent statues, and handmaid pottery that lined the hallway. She kept walking till she came to a grand staircase that led to the Ballroom floor.
At the top of the stairs, on the wall hung a gigantic gorgeous painting of a woman, couldn't be any older then twenty-five, with long lavenderish, silver hair in a strange style, there were two balls of hair on the sides of the top of her head with one long stream of hair flowing from each ball falling down her back, she had silverish, ice-blue eyes with shining silver crescent moons in them, and a gold cresant moon, the symbol of the Royal Moon Family, in the center of her forhead. She was holding a little girl, about five or six, with long golden hair drawn up into the same style as the women's. She had warm silverish, crystal-blue eyes, with the same silver crescent moons in them, and the same crescent moon in the center of her forehead. She was wearing a simple sky-blue dress, with puffs of cloth on her shoulders for sleeves.
"Hmmm.... that must have been the Queen and Princess." Serena thought out loud, "I can't place it but that painting looks soo familiar, it's like I have seen it before, somewhere...."
She then went down the stairs and onto the Ballroom floor. She closed her eyes and imagined herself at a Ball surrounded by people dressed in long beautiful gowns of all different colors that shined like the sun, and a string cortet playing a beautiful waltz. She danced in a very gorgeous pearl-white dress to her imaginations music. But when she opened her eyes she was back in the run down old Ballroom and her old rags.
"Huh... back to rotten reality. I wish I lived like that." she said to herself wistfully, looking at the Ballroom floor.
**** Meanwhile in Queen Serenity's old study, Darien and Artimas where deep in thought.
"huh? Did you hear that?" Darien asked suddenly
"Hear what?" asked Artimas startled out of his thoughts.
"I thought I heard footsteps coming from the Ballroom." Said Darien, standing
"Well, then lets find out, shall we?" Artimas asked, standing as well.
The two men left the study and headed for the Ballroom. They entered through one of the Ballroom's main doors and decended the staircase. When they reach the landing where a painting of a man with brown hair, dark blue eyes, wearing a silver tuxedo with gold buttons, and holding the little girl from the painting Serena had saw hang, he saw Serena sitting in the middle of the Ballroom floor.
"Hey!! How did you get in here?" he yelled while running down the stairs two by two.
**Serena looked up startled by the sudden shout. When she saw the young man running toward her she jumped up and ran. She got to the landing where she had came in when he caught ahold of her wrist to stop her.
"Wait, wait, wait, I just want to know how you got in and why you are here." He said breathing rigidly. When he looked up he was shocked by what saw. She looked a great deal like the little girl in the portrait.
"Are you Darien?" Serena asked, she had always been rather blunt and just came out and said what she wanted.
"That depends on who's looking for him." Darien responded
"My name is Serena and I need to get to Earth. People on the street said that you could help me." She introduced herself.
Suddenly Darien got an idea. "Yes, I could help. But you see I only have three teleporter passes. One for me, and one for Artimas. Darien said waving the passes above her head as she tried to get one.
"Well, then who's the other one for?" Serena asked, tired of trying to snatch one.
"The last one is for her, Princess Serenity." Darien said gesturing to the little girl in the portrait.
"The plan is to reunite the princess with her mother, Queen Serenity." explained Artimas
"So... Serena, is there a last name that goes with that?" Darien asked switching gears slightly.
"You know what, this is going to sound silly, but I don't know my last name. As a matter of fact I have very little memory of my past. I was found laying on the ground unconscious behind the castle when I was eight years old." Serena said, a little embarrassed.
"Hmm... " said Darien and Artimas nodding to each other knowingly.
"You know you do resemble the Princess a great deal." said Darien
"Yeah, right. I look just like the princess." Serena said, her voice dripping with sarcasm.
"No, really, you have the same amazing Silver-blue eyes with silver crescents, the same golden hair, and the Queen's gentile hands." Said Darien, examining her.
"And you want to go to Earth to find your family and the Princess's only family is on Earth." said Artimas in a low and gentile tone.
"Ever thought of the possibilities?" Darien asked
"That 'I' could be royalty. Well, it's kind of hard to see yourself as a Princess when your sleeping on a damp floor. But, yeah, I guess every lonely little girl would hope she's a Princess." Serena answered thoughtfully
"And somewhere one little girl is." Said Artimas in the same low voice as before.
Darien looked at his watch. "Well, we would love to help, but the third pass is for the Princess. Good luck." He said as he picked up Artimas and started down the stairs and back across the Ballroom floor.
Serena stood staring at the portrait thinking to herself as Darien walked the long distance across the Ballroom.
** "I'm telling you were walking away too soon. Why didn't you tell her about the money?" Artimas rambled on as Darien carried him across the Ballroom.
"Shhh... Why give away a third of the reward when all she want's is to get to Earth. I have it all worked out." he said slowing his walk, "Three, Two, One..."
"Darien!!" Came Serena's sudden yell.
"Right in the palm of our hands." Muttered Artimas as Serena caught up with them.
"Yes, did you call me?" Darien asked ignorantly.
"If I don't remember who I am, then whose to say I'm not a Princess, right?" said Serena stopping in front of them.
"Mmhmm... "
"And if I'm not the Princess the Queen will certainly know, right?" Serena continued
"Right"
"But if you are the Princess, then you'll finally have found you're family." Artimas stated
"You know, he's right, either way it gets you to Earth, right?" Darien asked
"Right, then lets do this." Serena said with growing excitement.
"Ok, but there are a few things you must learn before we go to Earth. You see you have to make Luna, the Queen's advisor believe you before you can even see the Queen." Artimas informed her.
TO BE CONTINUED......
Wow!!!! Serena's going to see if she's the Princess!!!!!! Maybe we'll learn what happened to the real Princess... And What about this Darien character? Hmm... What happened to Endymion????? What of the Sailor Scouts? You'll just have to wait and see. hehe...
Well, how was it? Comments, Questions? I wanna know!! Send them all to goddessmoonlady@earthlink.net. I really wanna know what you think so E-mail me. Now!! Please!!!???