I don't own Sailor Moon. All characters (Except for a few) are the property of the great creator of Sailormoon Naoko Takeuchi and the companies that own Sailor Moon. Only the story and new characters are mine.
Hi yes I know it's been a long time. But my well of ideas ran dry. Meaning I didn't know what to write. And I still don't. Well, here's the third chapter of "A Kingdom's Tale" by me Sailor Star Dust.
A Kingdom's Tale
By: Hikarino Hoshi
a.k.a.
Sailor Star Dust
"Ahhhh!!!!!" screamed Sulo as Mars' attack burned into her chest.
"Nice one Mars, but I can do better!" Jupiter shouted. "Jupiter Thunder Crash!!!"
"Right! Mars Fire Ignite!!!"
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!!!"
"Mercury Bubbles Blast!!!"
The Inner senshi attacks had struck Sulo full blast and she dissolved into a pile of dust. Later the inner senshi met in the Senshi training room where they were discussing the current events and attacks.
"I miss the Outers so much!" Mina said. "I can't believe they had to be sent to the meeting on Neptune!"
"I know how you feel Mina;" Lita confined, "I mean even though they will only be gone for three weeks I'll miss having Amara around to spare with."
"And I'll miss conversing with Michelle. She and I have an all-out swimming race four weeks from now."
"I'm surprised Amy." Raye told her. "I didn't think you liked competing with anyone."
Amy blushes and changes the subject around to Princess Selenity.
"What about Selene's Birthday?" Amy asked. "She'll turn sixteen soon."
"Well what about it?" Raye asked.
"Raye you remember the curse!" Mina exclaimed then intoned. "On her 16th birthday. The princess of the moon will be given a red rose. Selenity will prick herself and die!!!"
"But didn't Oriana alter the curse so Selene will only fall asleep instead of die?" Lita asked trying to recall what she had been told after the senshi's first triumphed over an invader.
"True Lita, true. But remember we want Selene to remain awake, if her 16th birthday passes without incident then she'll be safe." Amy reminded everyone. "It is our job to keep Selene out of difficult situations. If not we would not be authorized in standard procedures of the security."
"Yeah whatever, but Selene's birthday is coming all too soon." Mina told them. "Besides I still got some birthday presents to buy. Not to mention a new dress."
"Sounds great count me in for it Mina."
"Me three. What about you Amy?" asked Raye.
"I have already gotten Selene's gift picked out. So I won't be joining you."
"Oh come on don't be an old fuddy duddy. Have some fun Princess Amanda. It won't kill you." Mina said.
"Well... alright. But I want to get finished with my book on Equations of Sub-dimensional Factors."
All of the Inner Solar Princesses except for Amy got sweatdrops over their heads and shouted. "Amy! Have some fun!" With a few protests from the Mercurian Princess they set off for some shopping. And maybe some adventure.
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Later that day. About 3 hours before Selenity's party. The girls were walking back to the palaces loaded down with bags. Amy was glaring at them saying something while the others looked as though the need a long break.
"Amy we're sorry! We didn't mean too!" Lita claimed as Amy went on about their bad conduct at the stores. Though Lita wasn't a bit sorry for punching that jerk for hitting on her. "We won't ever do it ever again!"
"That's what you always say Lita! It's not good for senshi to lose their tempers so quickly." Amy reprimands."We are suppose to set standards and follow rules not break them."
Mina sighed as she listened to Amy reprimand them for getting into a fight with some boys at the stores. "Amy it wasn't -our- fault those guys were hitting on us. We -only- did what was right." ~Besides you weren't the one who received a slap on the behind from them.~ Mina thought.
"What was right? You call knocking out 2 guys and sending the other 5 to a hospital right?!"
~Uh oh...~ thought Raye as she saw Amy's face turn red in anger. If they wanted to have any fun in the future they had better fix things and quick!
"You're right Amanda." Raye said. "We really should have known better than to fight civilians." ~Even though I'm not a bit sorry I sent 3 of those guys to the hospital. That's what they get for pinching me.~
"Yeah, we weren't exactly even tempered today. It's probably on account of the coming events." apparently Mina also took note of Amy's anger signs. "There's been a lot of pressure on us to keep Selene safe."
"Hai, it's true. Even our moms are coming to this party, since they were here when the curse was placed." Lita told everyone. "They plan on seeing the spell through. For better or for worst."
After a few minutes of chit chat the four Inner Senshi left to attend other matters, but not before agreeing to meet later in front of the meeting chamber to fetch Selenity and take her to the ballroom for her surprise party.
~It was tough this year.~ thought Mina as she gathered her things and headed for her chambers. ~But we pulled it off. Selene probably thinks her parents are off on business and that we forgot.~
"Mina!" yelled a girl with blonde hair pulled into buns on each side of her head with the rest of her hair coming out of those buns. She was wearing a white gown with an emperor waist decorated with gold curlicues.
"What cha got there?" asked Selenity.
"Nothing Princess just did some shopping with the other senshi."
At the word 'shopping' Selenity started to peek into one of the bags. Fortunately for Mina, she picked the bag with the two volleyballs.
"What's this for?"
Mina nearly broke down and told Selene about the surprise party when she saw Selene's face fall. But she knew the others would kill her if she did.
"It's for volleyball practice Selene." Mina explained. "I'm the team's star player."
"Oh..." Selene could believe it. Mina, the girl who was almost like her in every way, including looks, forgot today was her birthday. Selene's eyes started to water as she thought of how everyone had rushed off today on -important- matters and left her all by herself. Even Luna and Artemis had left her alone. Selene came out of her thoughts just in time to here Mina excuse herself.
"Listen Selenity. I really must go. I have something I forgot to do. I'll see you tonight."
"Alright Mina." Selenity replied as Mina disappeared around the corner leaving Selenity feeling very alone.
She didn't like feeling alone. "Well if they're all busy that means they won't notice if I'm gone!"
Selenity smiled at the opportunity to go down to earth for a quick visit before the meeting in less than 2 hours. Pulling up her long skirts Selene did a very unprincess-like thing. She ran down the halls towards the teleportation room.
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An hour later Selenity was walking down a pathway in the middle of a field of flowers. She always loved going to the Earth. The flowers always seemed to be bright as if to tell the world to let go of their troubles, and they perfume the air with their scents. The sun shined brightly on the earth, unlike the moon where the sun never shined brighter than the earth's morning sun.
Selenity sighed wishing she had been born on the earth. "It's so beautiful here...I wish I didn't have to go back."
"It is lovely isn't it? Did you run away too?"
"Huh? Who's there?" Selene asked. "What do you want?"
"Whoa! Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you!" said the voice.
"Well where are you?"
"Over here." Came the reply as a young woman with deep auburn hair and sparkling sea green eyes leapt from a tree a few yards away from her. She was wearing a long blue-green dress with long sleeves, tied around her waist was a silver sash carrying two pouches. And by the way they were jingling, Selene figured they contained coins. When the young woman reached Selene, she realized the woman was no older than she was.
"Good day to you. What are you doing here alone?" asked the woman. "Did you run away?"
"Good day. As a matter of fact, I did not run away. I just went out for a walk without telling anyone." Selene replied.
The woman laughed. "Then I guess we both didn't tell anyone we left. Oh, by the way my name is Nicole. What's yours?"
"My name is Selenity, but my friends call me Selene."
"Would you like to come to the fair with me Selenity?" Asked Nicole. "I'd love the company before my parents come looking for me."
"It would be my pleasure and please call me Selene."
Meanwhile back on the moon. Everyone was in a frenzy, ever since Luna discovered the princess missing.
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"Ok here's what we do." Oriana yelled so everyone could hear her. "Adrienne, Briana, Celeste, and I will check our planets for her. Serenity you contact Dysis, Marina, Lorriane, and Gabrielle to tell them what's going on and have them check their planets as well."
"It's possible that Selenity could have decided to visit Amara, Michelle, Trista, and Hotaru. So tell them as well." Adrienne spoke up.
"Right, now what about us?" asked Lita. "What are we suppose to do while you guys run off to look for her?"
"Just stay here in case she returns." Celeste ordered before joining the other Queens for the teleportation and communication rooms.
Raye wasn't happy about being left behind. "This isn't fair! They're looking in all the wrong places! She's probably on earth and they expect us to sit still?"
"I agree with Raye. Selene probably -is- on the earth." Amy said. "And no one's bothering to look there."
"So we simply take matters into our own hands." Mina replied. "Let's transform and teleport there."
"Hai!" Agreed the other three. The girls then transformed into their Sailor uniforms.
"Venus Power!"
"Jupiter Power!"
"Mars Power!"
"Mercury Power!"
"Sailor Teleport!"
The four inner senshi disappeared in a collage of blue, red, green, and orange lights as they teleported to the earth in order to look for the Moon Princess. Meanwhile on the earth Selenity and her new friend, Nicole, were having a blast at the fair.
"This has been the greatest!" exclaimed Selene. "I've never seen so many people having fun!"
Nicole giggled at Selene's enthusiasm. "Yeah, I'm sorry it has to end though. I should be getting home." Nicole said sadly. "But before I go I want to give you this. It's a rose, you seem to like them."
Selene smiled as she excepted the rose. "Thank you! No one's ever given me a rose before."
Nicole smiled back at her. "Well, I'm glad I was the first."
Suddenly Selene pricked herself. "Ouch!"
"Hey are you ok? You look pale." Nicole said. "Hey! Selene get up! What's wrong?" Nicole started to panic as Selene collapsed. "Oh my goodness. Someone help!" She looked around and noticed they were alone. "This isn't good. I've got to get help. Don't worry Selene I'll be right back."
Nicole quickly got up and started running back to the fair, when suddenly lights appeared in front of her. She could just barely make out shapes in the light, and before she could stop herself she had collided with the figures.
"Gahh!" "Ouff!" "I'm so sorry!" "That's fine, but get your foot out of my face!" "Stop moving!" "Let me up!" "As soon as she gets off of me!" "Ouch! That hurts!" "Sorry!"
After a few minutes of this Nicole and the figures finally detangled themselves (Like you don't know who they are :-)). Nicole couldn't help but stare at them. They were wearing the oddest outfits she had ever seen. And they were wearing the exact same thing except in different colors. They each were wearing white bodices with different colored scarves tied around their necks with matching short skirts. Right where the scarves would have been tied there were bows, and there was another bow at the back of their skirts right where their bodices and skirts met.
"What are you staring at?!" snapped the one in red.
"Now just calm down. We do look a bit peculiar in our uniforms." said the one in blue.
"Besides you're scaring her." reprimanded the one in green.
"Excuse me. Miss." Nicole turned to see one in orange looking at her, and she looked incredibly similar to Selene. "We're looking for a girl. About 16, with long blonde hair done in two odangos up on her head."
"You mean Selene? Oh thank the stars!" exclaimed Nicole. "She collapsed and I don't know what to do!"
"She COLLAPSED!!!" shouted the one in red.
The one in green ran up to Nicole and grabbed the front of her dress. "What in Jupiter's name did you do to her!"
"Let her go right now!" the orange one yelled at the green one. "We don't want to harm her."
"Fine!" said the one in green. "But if I fine out she had anything to do with Selene collapsing I will shock her to death with my lightning."
"Not if I kill her first." the red one was glaring hatefully at Nicole.
"Now don't jump to conclusions. We have to fine out the story first." The blue one laid a hand on red one's shoulder.
"Right." agreed the orange. "Now take us to her and explain along the way. By the way, I'm Sailor Venus. The one in red is Sailor Mars, the green one is Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Mercury is the one in blue."
"All right this way. And I'm Nicole." Nicole led them to Selene as she explained what happened. In turn Venus explained the curse to Nicole.
"I feel terrible. If I had known about this curse I would have never given her that rose."
"Don't feel bad Nicole." Jupiter said. "You didn't know. Selene doesn't even know."
"But it's still my fault she's the way she is now."
"It's alright we don't blame you!" Mars said. "So lay off the subject already!"
When the senshi got to Selenity they formed a circle and were preparing to teleport.
"Wait!" Nicole yelled. "How do you break the curse? Maybe I can help, since I got her in this mess."
"There's nothing you can do." stated Mercury. "The curse can only be lifted by the kiss of her true love."
"You're a nice person Nicole. I hope that you can forgive yourself and live a happy life without feeling sorry." Venus told her.
"It wasn't intentional. We forgive you and you should do the same. Jupiter Power!"
"Venus Power!"
"Mercury Power!"
"Mars Power!"
"Sailor Teleport!"
As the last light of the Sailor Teleport was fading Nicole heard the Sailor Senshi's voices. "Good bye Nicole. Don't worry about Selene we'll make sure she'll wake up."
Nicole nodded and said quietly. "I know. And I'll do everything I can to help."
Back on the Moon Kingdom.
"I couldn't find her Serenity." Celeste told the queen. "I'm so sorry."
"We didn't have any luck either." Lorriane reported.
"Argh!" Amara slammed her fist into the wall. "If only we were here. Selene wouldn't be missing."
"Amara don't blame yourself." Michelle tried to soothe her. "You didn't know she'd turn up missing."
Hotaru came running in with Trista. "Guys the inner senshi found her! Look!" Sure enough Amara and Michelle looked over to where Hotaru and Trista had indicated and saw the Inner Senshi appear with a sleeping Selenity.
"Goddesses! Where did you find her?" asked Serenity. "Why isn't she waking!" One look at the Inner Senshi's faces told her everything. "No, this isn't possible! No!" Serenity broke down into sobs.
"I'm so sorry Serenity." Adrienne hugged Serenity offering her condolence. The Inner Senshi took Princess Selenity to her bedchambers and de-transformed before meeting everyone back in the throne room.
"It could be centuries before Selenity wakes up!" exclaimed Amara. "When she does we'll be much older!"
"What can we do?" Lita asked. "It's not like we could slow down time or stop it."
"What you mean is, it's not like Dysis will slow down time or stop it." Trista said. "Though guarding the Gates of Time is my mother's job, I will one day take over and we are forbidden to stop or interfere with time."
"We understand. I just wish there was -something- we can do about it." Mina told her.
"Maybe there is." Oriana stated. "Though we cannot slow or stop time we can arrange for our kingdoms to sleep with Selenity."
Adrienne gasped. "You mean?"
"Yes, if we use our powers we could put our kingdoms into suspended animation." Oriana explained. "That way we wouldn't really be messing with the Time Continuum."
Dysis nodded. "And since I must guard the Gates of Time and do not leave except in times of great emergencies, I do not age as fast. I will therefore remain out of suspended animation to watch over those who will be."
"It's settled then." Celeste spoke up. "Let's begin the spell."
"Right!" Everyone shouted.
"We of Venus, born under Beauty, protected by Love." Oriana and Mina.
"We of Jupiter, born under Truth, protected by Thunder." Briana and Lita.
"We of Mars, born under Passion, protected by Fire." Celeste and Raye.
"We of Mercury, born under Wisdom, protected by Ice." Adrienne and Amy.
"We of Uranus, ruled by Strength, guided by Sky" Lorriane and Amara.
"We of Neptune, ruled by Elegance, guided by Water." Marina and Michelle.
"We of Pluto, ruled by Loyalty, guided by Time." Queen Dysis and Trista.
"We of Saturn, ruled by Spirit, guided by Silence." Gabrielle and Hotaru.
"Offer our power to place the moon into slumber true and deep!"
"I, Queen Serenity of the Moon, accept your offer. In this palace my daughter rests, in this hour, the land shall join her in sleep." Serenity continued. "All shall sleep until my daughter awakens with true love's kiss." (It's long and stupid I know, but it wouldn't have been fair to the other senshi and queens if only one of them got to say anything. Anyway...)
Soon the people of the Moon started falling asleep. Dysis silently bid the others farewell and slipped back towards the Gates of Time. Following the moon into slumber were Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and finally Pluto; waiting for their sleeping princess to finally awaken.
Originally I had planned on sticking everything into this chapter. But I may just stick it into a short final chapter, we'll see. Oh, I've long ago realized I don't like to write; that doesn't mean I can't though. Also learned I like graphics and coloring drawings, usually my own. It's a Geocities site and the member name is wzerogirl.