DISCLAIMER!! Sigh I don't own Sailor Moon, or any of the Sailor Scouts for that matter, I just added in me and my friend Megan. Oh, and James and Guillermo. Its pronounced Gee-air-moe. Heh. R&R PLEASE!!
"Waaake up!! It's time for breakfast. Everyone is waiting downstairs. Time for food, Lita's cooking." Shouted Megan from the foot of Trish's bed. She had on a huge smile and looked very pleasant this morning for some reason.
"Are you actually excited about wearing that short skimpy dress, or have you gone completely and totally insane?" Trish grumbled as she started to climb out of bed.
"I've been insane Trish, you should know that. I don't know, I just didn't get a lot of sleep last night, so I've been up practically all night long and it has made me HYPER!" Megan jumped up onto Trish's bed and started to jump on it to make sure she was up; that only made Trish laugh.
"Alright, I'm up. Let me slip into my jeans and shirt and I'll be down in a minute, ok?" Megan nodded, grabbed Trish's rabbit, and ran out the door to slide down the banister. Trish laughed, got up, went to her closet and donned a pair of blue jeans, and a button up light blue dress shirt. After sliding on her shoes, brushing her hair and teeth, she went downstairs where everyone was waiting for her impatiently.
"Alright, we need to get going, we were supposed to be there 13 minutes ago. They are going to go crazy. I called and had them prepare something for you to eat, oh, and your secretary called Trish, she said something about a buyer, so your personal assistant will be waiting for us at the palace." Said Darien. He ushered everyone outside where they had two limousines waiting to take them to the palace.
When they had arrived at the palace they had a delegation waiting for them. There were five ambassadors, and five priests and priestesses waiting for them at the top of a large set of stairs.
"Your Majesty, King Endymion, we have been waiting for you. Where have you been?" asked the priest for Earth.
"Do you question me? Things happened and we couldn't make it to the palace on schedule. I am sure that you are all well prepared for this circumstance. Lady Trishari hasn't eaten, and my wife is tired. And where are the maids to take care of the ladies?" said Darien in his superior-than- thou-art voice. All of the priests and priestesses bowed their heads and took a step back.
"They are inside awaiting the young royalty, Your Majesty. May I introduce my colleagues and I? I am Ambassador Edward, for Earth. These are the ambassadors for the other planets, hand picked by the peoples. Ambassador Althea of the Moon, Ambassador Percival of the planet Mercury, Ambassador Franklin of the planet Mars, Ambassador Shriara of the planet Jupiter, and Ambassador Kirian of the planet Venus." The robust man in brilliantly colored robes of good quality bowed as well as he possibly could and stepped back.
"Well I am sure that the Ambassadors of Venus and Jupiter will not be needed. The princesses will take over those duties to help them learn the ways of others." Said Darien, he led everyone up the stairs and through the palace doors, not noticing the wide-eyed, open-mouthed astonishment from the two spoken of ambassadors.
"But, your majesty, we have been picked by the people." Spoke Shriara. Her dark emerald robes of velvet swirled around her feet as she spun to follow.
"I believe I have spoken. If you wish to remain ambassador you might think to speak with the royal family of those planets and decide then. Until that time, we are late and needful of rest." He spoke those in an imperial tone, and then he inclined his head slightly before leading them to a side room that happened to be a library where they awaited the priestesses and priests to come in with the maids.
"Darien, that was, splendid!" squealed Serena. Darien chuckled and hugged her before he kissed her and told her to follow the priestess dressed in flowing white robes.
"Be good while I'm gone, and don't go destroying any countries ok?" she joked. The others looked at her oddly, but Darien just shook his head and chuckled.
"My Ladies? I believe that it is time to get you all ready." Said one of the maids. She looked meekly at the floor, and wore a dark gray dress that looked quite comfortable. "Alright, lead the way." Said Amy. The maid looked up in a shocked expression before nodding toward the priestess.
"You are supposed to follow her, though she cannot tell you herself. The priestesses of the planets have sworn vows of silence until they have royal couples ruling again." Amy nodded and motioned for the priestess dressed in flowing blue robes to lead on. That is how they all went, Rei following the priestess with red robes, Lita the one with green, and Mina the one with yellow.
"I suppose we just strip right here and have done with it?" asked Trish. James rolled his eyes and motioned to two younger looking novices.
"I suppose you have sworn vows of silence too?" asked Megan. She was shocked to hear the girlish giggles from the two of them at the comment.
"No my lady. Those are only sworn by full priestesses, we are but novices sent to show you the ways to prepare yourselves." They were both young, probably around 17 or 18 years of age, and they both wore white robes with a single strip of color around the bottom of them. One had an orange one, the other green.
"Well, do you have names then?" asked Trish. They both nodded. "I'm Shanna. I'm a novice of Jupiter. I should be able to take my vows this spring though." She said hopefully. Trish nodded and waited for the other to introduce herself.
"I'm Casey, novice of Venus. Like Shanna, I should be taking my vows this spring. If not then it will be in the summer." Casey lowered her eyes to the floor as she asked them to follow her and Shanna, and then led them up a set of stairs, and down a long hallway with colored doors all along it.
"Lady Megan, this is your room." Said Shanna. She opened the door and led her in, shutting it after them. "Yours is right here, Lady Trishari. I am to help you ready yourself, make sure you are comfortable, and help you prepare yourself spiritually." Casey said as she led the way into Trish's bedroom.
It was actually a suite of rooms, a small receiving room, library, bedroom, and parlor. There was also a small shrine through another door, which was used to pray to the spirits of the home planet.
"Are the rooms suitable for you? I can see if they will prepare others." Said Casey. Trish nodded and sat down at the little vanity as Casey went to go get her maid. After the young girl had come back with the older woman she lit a few candles and went into the small temple to begin the cleansing rights.
"If you don't mind my saying this, your highness, but you have splendid hair." Said the somewhat plump maid as she brushed Trish's long hair.
"Oh, your dress is hanging in the dressing room to air out and remain wrinkle free. Someone brought over all of the necessary accessories to go with it." Trish nodded and watched the maid in the mirror as her hair was brushed with great care. "Would you like to slip into a robe before I do your hair, my Lady?" she asked.
"Alright. Do you have a name?" asked Trish. The maid nodded and answered as she walked to the foot of the bed and picked up the long orange and gold robe of velvet to bring back.
"I'm Madeline, but you must call me Maddie." Trish nodded once more, and then Maddie helped her to undress and slip into the robe. After she had Trish sat down again she brushed all of her hair onto the top of her head and secured it with several bands of topaz silk.
After that she pulled several strands of topaz and pearls out of a large wooden box on the vanity and secured them around the tail and throughout the rest of her hair. Maddie brought two silver chains dotted with topaz and pearls around and put the small earrings attached to the ends into Trish's ears. After that she selected a few sections and braided them, securing them with small clips of topaz.
"Hair fit for a princess." Maddie said after she had finished Trish's hair. Trish looked at herself in the mirror and blinked with shock. She had never looked so regal and surreal.
"Now, we do the face. You have such lovely features that we do not want to cover them with muck. Let me clean this garbage off of you and correct it." Maddie walked to a tall pitcher and poured some water into a large bowl and dipped a rag into the lavender scented water, then came back and started to clean Trish's face off.
After just a few moments of gentle scrubbing it was all clean so Maddie went on to apply small amounts of this and a tad of that, until Trish's features were almost goddess-like.
"Tsk tsk, look at the time. We have to get you dressed and into the shrine to prepare yourself. Come along dear, it will only take a moment." Maddie pulled Trish up from her seat and led her into the dressing room that was quite large. The walls were lined with different styles of dresses and other assorted outfits befitting a princess.
"Here it is, My Lady, please step over here." Maddie instructed. Trish did as she was bid and allowed Maddie to completely strip her of clothing and proceed to dress her in a stark white silk chemise that fell just past her hips. After that came the dress, and then the small waist long cape was attached. Maddie bade Trish to sit down then she slid on gold sandals that criss crossed all the way up to her knee before tying off. Three gold bracelets were slid onto each of her wrists; all of them embossed with different symbols and gems.
"These are very sacred, they represent your duties to the planet and kingdom that you will be ruling over." Explained Maddie as she was putting each one of them on. Trish remained silent through all of this, and watched in wonderment as rings of topaz and gold were slid onto her fingers.
"These represent your ancestors. Each of them have been worn by different women who have ruled the planet."
"How do you know so much about all of this?" asked Trish. Maddie just smiled and shook her head as she led Trish out of the room. "No time for questions, time for you to be cleansed for the coronation. You go in, kneel next to the novice, and begin to pray to the planet about what it wishes for you to do while you are princess. It will tell you all. Trust me dearie. I will be waiting for you after you get back from the coronation. Good luck." Maddie said all of this quite quickly then she curtsied low and left the room hurriedly.
Trish blinked, then did as she was told, entering the small shrine and kneeling down next to the novice in front of an altar covered in candles and incense. She didn't say a word, just knelt there with her eyes closed and inhaling deeply to relax and get into the right frame of mine. After a few moments she had put herself almost in a trance like state that she and Megan had learned to do with meditation.
She didn't know exactly how to do it so she began small and started from there. She thought of the planet and asked herself in her mind what it wanted of her, how it wanted her to use her powers, and such. She almost yelped in shock as something answered her in the form of images and mutterings. She saw James standing behind a simple, yet ethereal throne of topaz and pearl. Sitting within the confines of the throne she was wearing a gown of simple ivory silk with topaz studding the skirt. She had a small half veil over the lower half of her face, it being a sheer white.
A chain of topaz that encircled her head secured it. Upon her head was a simple crown made of a band of gold that went across her head, with topaz and pearl dotting it on upraised portions of gold. The woman sat in regal elegance, and she could barely picture a small child, female from the look, hiding between James's legs and the throne. Trish knew instinctively that this was she and her family. All at once she knew what the planet wanted from her. Mina was to stay at the moon and Trish was supposed to run the planet as her mother once did.
It wanted her to fulfill what she was in the Silver Millennium: the crown princess of the planet. Somehow it had changed and Mina and everyone else had always thought that it was she. Only a few knew the truth of it, but Trish didn't want to take away from her sister. She didn't know how long it had been since she had first knelt there, but she was being shook slightly by Casey.
"Princess, it is time. You are supposed to follow me down to the main hall where it will be." She said softly. Trish nodded wordlessly and stood up slightly stiff, then followed the novice out of the room. She stopped in front of the vanity mirror and gazed at herself in wonderment. This wasn't how she was supposed to look at the coronation. She had to cover her face like her mother before her.
"Hold. I need something else before going. I have to have it or I cannot be seen in public. A veil; to cover my face. It is the custom of Venus that any princesses cover their face at the coronation and after. No one remembers because it was blocked, but the planet itself showed me. I MUST have that veil or I refuse to walk down for my coronation." She said with feeling. She felt such a change, like she was linked with the planet. But that is how the Crown Princess is supposed to feel, her link with the planet.
She wondered if Mina felt the same link. She sighed and waited for the novice to tell Maddie what she needed, and the maid went right to work. After a few moments she returned with a white silk veil, that had small silver embroidered stars all over it, and a chain of silver to attach itself.
"Is this what you wanted, My Lady?" asked Maddie. Trish nodded and sat so that the maid could secure it. Then she stood, walked into the small shrine for a moment, and then came back out to follow the novice to the main hall.