People, this is my first primarily Silver Millennium Era-set "Sailor Moon" fan fiction series. This story and others in the series will have its chapter divisions marked by location and date inserts like the one that you will find below this section, unless I decide otherwise. I've been working on stories in its series for at least a few years now. There will be plenty of places that the Scouts and their relatives will go in this series. Some of them, you might not even expect until you actually hear of them, in fact. I really hope that you'll enjoy all the stories that are in this story's story series, of course. For the most part, readers, if not entirely, the actual stories, in single-file form, are about the length of a typical novel, at least whenever I've been using half-inch margins all the way around, I think.

This first story will at least set the scene, if not also largely introduce the main villains that the Scouts will have to face in battle, in fact. And it will most likely provide at least one possible back story for at least a few of the characters, as well. Like possibly even Queen Serenity, for example. But I better not say too much more about the story here, I think, or I might ruin it here for you. Please feel free to read, review, and enjoy this story here, if at all possible, of course.

All standard disclaimers that I have already used so far with any of the various stories that I now have on fanfiction dot net will apply. For your information, all of the characters that you may not actually recognize well enough in this story are original characters of mine, unless otherwise stated, in fact. So please don't steal my original characters from this story or any others, for that matter.

Now without further ado, let's get on with the story once again, if that's all right with you here, readers. And I hope that if you've read the first three sections of this story here, that you've enjoyed what you've read of it so far. More will come as time allows, of course. And I really hope to add all of the remaining chapters for this story at least, by the end of April, at the latest. That's so that all of you people on who've followed the story well enough, and often enough, will be able to eventually read the whole story here, of course. Please read, review, and enjoy, if at all possible, quite naturally enough, for all the obvious reasons, readers!

The Beginning of It All

A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story

Inside Raye's Chambers In The Imperial Palace

Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon

June 12, 979

After a good six or so hours of sleep had been put under her belt, Serena woke up in her bed again. She quickly changed into other clothes. And then she went to the same dining hall she'd gotten her bedtime snack from several hours before, for her breakfast. She had her breakfast consumed within twenty minutes after entering that dining hall. And after taking her dishes to the necessary people elsewhere in that dining hall, she then hurried to Raye's chambers.

She soon knocked on Raye's door seven or eight times just as hard as she could. And Raye actually came to her door almost immediately after Serena had just woken her up with her knocking on Raye's door, of course.

Raye asked Serena, just as soon as Serena had then joined her in her chambers, "Why did you knock on my door just now, Serena?"

"I have some news about my twin sisters."

"Oh, Serena?" Raye bolted her door as securely as she could. For she somehow then sensed that Serena really wanted to talk to her in private.

"Destiny's blind, and Bethany's deaf."

"Are you sure?"

"That's what Mom told me." Serena then spent at least the next ten minutes, if not even longer than that, with Raye discussing what she now knew about her sisters. And what she'd most likely have to do in the future to help them out. She also said, during that very discussion, "Raye, I'm afraid."

"Of what?"

"That I'll not be able to help them both out quite as much as I'd like in the future."

"Then I suppose the rest of us will just have to try to help you out with them as much as we possibly can in the future, if at all possible."

"Do you know anyone else who's blind or deaf, Raye?"

"Not at the moment, Serena. But I've known them in the past. My paternal grandfather's father was both deaf and blind, in fact, Serena. That was until he left his mortal body behind about eighteen or so Terran months ago. He left it behind as your comet passed between Mars and Phobos on its way back to the area of the Moon about eighteen or so Terran months ago."

"I see. Thanks for listening, Raye. At least I don't think I'm actually being a Meatball Head right now to you."

At least sometimes, whenever one of the Princesses was at least a little mad at Serena, most especially Raye, they'd then call Serena a 'Meatball Head'. For the way she often wore her hair, it often looked like she had a pair of meatballs on her head near her temples. Of course, that wasn't necessarily a very nice nickname for Serena. And when Serena was called that, she'd normally not like it very much, for the obvious reasons. Darien had also been known to call her that in the past, when he'd been mad at her for any reason whatsoever. But he didn't call her that very often. Or at least not as often as the other Princesses might when they were with Serena. However, Serena's parents never called her that, in fact. Even whenever she was being a brat in a particular situation that Serena normally had to deal with in her life.

"No, I don't think you're being that right now to me, Serena. Should we actually tell the other girls about your twin sisters being either deaf or blind, as the case might be, then, Serena?"

"Might as well. They're likely going to find out about them being deaf or blind eventually. So we might as well tell them as soon as we can about Destiny and Bethany being either deaf or blind, as the case might be for either of them."

So Serena and Raye agreed to tell the other Princesses as soon as they could about Destiny being blind and Bethany being deaf. They agreed to do this for all the obvious reasons, of course. And they did so before they left Raye's chambers again, of course.

Raye and Serena then left Raye's chambers for the chambers of each of their fellow Moon Kingdom Princesses who they were familiar enough with already in their lives. They first went to Lita's chambers. And they told her what they'd both agreed to tell her about Destiny and Bethany. Lita then joined them as they went to Amy's chambers next, followed not long afterward by a trip to Mina's chambers, after Amy had left her chambers with them. The four of them then told Mina about Destiny and Bethany being what they each were. And then Mina joined their little group of Princesses, for the obvious reasons. After Mina did so, the five of them soon arrived at Serenity's Imperial Palace chambers. Serena knocked on her mother's door. And she asked if she and her friends could then see Destiny and Bethany again.

Serenity said, "Hold on. I'll be there in five or so minutes. Your father's getting dressed right now, Serena. When he's dressed well enough, I'll be at the door. And I'll let you five in to see Destiny and Bethany."

So the five Princesses waited outside Serenity's chambers for at least five minutes, if not longer, until she opened the door to them, and let them into her chambers. She and Serena then led them to Destiny and Bethany's cradles. And the other Princesses gathered near them, for the obvious reasons. Serenity took Bethany out of her cradle and handed her to Daniel, so that they could see Bethany well enough for the first time in their lives. After she did so, she then took Destiny out of her cradle and sat down on a cushion near it. When she did so, Daniel did the same. Then Serenity and Daniel let Raye, Amy, Lita, and Mina look over Destiny and Bethany as much as they wanted to. This they did as they talked to the Princesses more about them as well.

While they were then doing so here, Luna and Artemis eventually arrived outside Serenity's chambers. As soon as Serenity knew they were there, she then had Serena let them in. Luna and Artemis went almost immediately to Serenity, who they'd not seen for a few days, because they'd just both been visiting a few of Luna's relatives in Crescent's Double Earth Palace elsewhere on the Moon.

Relatives of Luna's that had been born in the same litter with her, as a matter of fact. Luna had been born in a litter with five other kittens about fifteen or so years before, to the cats named Apollo and Iris, who'd been really good friends to Queen Serenity when she'd still been a Princess of the Moon Kingdom. Apollo and Iris had been killed when Queen Serenity's parents had been. They'd been killed about fourteen years before when the Moon Kingdom Ship Crescent had been destroyed by the unexpected explosion of its hyperspace engines. Those engines had exploded just as the ship was about to leave the Sol system for another solar system elsewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy on a diplomatic mission of some importance to the Moon Kingdom. There'd been no survivors of the ship's destruction. Which had then forced Princess Serenity to become the Moon Kingdom's new Queen, for all the obvious reasons. And it then meant that Luna and her siblings would never see their parents again in their mortal lives in a physical sense, of course.

Apollo and Iris had been Princess Serenity's guardian cats until their unexpected deaths. And they'd both been among Serenity's closest friends ever until then. They'd both helped her parents raise her up in the way that she'd most likely have to go in her life. And they'd been really close friends to Serenity ever since they'd first met her.

Their daughter Luna and her feline friend Artemis had served Serenity just as they had, once they'd been lost in the explosion of the M.K.S. Crescent. And they'd most likely continue to do so for as long as they could. But they didn't know that Luna and Artemis would actually serve as guardian cats to any other Princesses or Queens of the Moon Kingdom, for all the obvious reasons, if at all possible, in the future.

And ever since Serena's birth, Luna and Artemis had helped Serenity and Daniel begin to raise her up in the way that she'd most likely have to go in her life. Once Raye, Amy, Lita, and Mina entered the picture as well, they did the same thing with them as they were already doing with Serena, for the obvious reasons.

And now, just a few years later, they'd begun to become really close to all five of the aforementioned girls, of course. This was for all the obvious reasons. And only time would tell if they'd also be able to do the same thing for Destiny and Bethany, of course.

At the current time, though, they went to where Serenity was holding Destiny in her arms. And Luna asked, "How are you now, Queen Serenity, and who are the girls that you and Prince Daniel are now holding in your arms?"

"Luna, my dear friend and guardian cat, we're holding my twin daughters Destiny and Bethany. Daniel's holding Bethany. However, Destiny's blind, and Bethany's deaf. Serena already knows about them being that. And so do her fellow Princesses here in this Imperial Palace of ours. I'll be counting on them and you to help Daniel and I to raise them up as well as we all can. Do you two think that you can do so well enough?"

"I suppose we could try, Niti. Of course, we can't necessarily make any promises other than that, for the obvious reasons. But I suppose we could indeed try to help you all do so. It's not going to be easy, of course, for all of us to do so, I think."

"I know, Luna. But since they'll need our help for at least a while, of course, we'll all have to try to do whatever we can for them as long as we still have them with us all in our lives. Same thing goes for you too, Artemis."

Artemis and Luna then spent at least the next few minutes looking over both of the twins, for the obvious reasons, and getting acquainted well enough with them, also for those very reasons. This they did until Serenity let them leave her chambers again, of course.

I suppose that I'd better stop here now. For this will be where the next part of the story will take up from, in fact, readers. I hope that you have so far enjoyed the story, if you've gotten this far, and that you'll continue to read it, once I put more of it up here on fanfiction dot net. I don't know how long it will take me to get each story in this series up fully on fanfiction dot net. But it might take a while for each story in this series, just the same, readers. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller" signing off here. Happy reading, and God bless, and all that, of course, readers! Over and out!