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First Kisses?

AThe Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story

Inside Serena's Chambers In The Rainbow Springs Palace

Rainbow Springs, Moon Kingdom, Moon

November 19, 986

Serena spent most of her free time before she'd have to get ready to train again either praying or napping, if not all of it doing either or both of those things. She quite earnestly prayed for at least one more sister and for at least one brother, if not for more than one baby of either genders or both genders. And she also hoped that if she did somehow get to have at least one more sibling, if not more than one more, that they'd all be both sighted and hearing, of course. Even though she was well aware of the possibility that might not happen, as it hadn't happened at least twice with her twin sisters.

She didn't think that her mother would have a lot more children, if any at all. But if her mother did, she did hope that she'd be able to help quite a bit with them all. Little did she know that she could have at least a few more siblings. Only time would tell how many her mother would have after enough time had passed in each of their lives. Whether she had only one, or she had more than one, somewhere on it. But she did realize that her mother would most likely not have any more after that time had passed in each of their lives, no matter how many she had at some later date. Mainly due to the fact that her mother was now in her early to middle forties. And if enough of her recent dreams and/or visions were sufficiently accurate, she'd not likely have enough time to be able to have any more children before the Negaverse would probably come to invade the Moon Kingdom eventually. She realized that there might be a very good chance that her mother would do what at least some people on the Moon might call "Shooting the Comet." Which meant that her mother might produce a maximum number of babies in what might be her last-ever shot to produce children while she was still in her child-bearing years anywhere on the Moon. Or at least a near-maximum number of babies. Which usually meant at least three children for the woman currently in question on the Moon. Only a rare few women in the currently-ongoing history of the Silver Millennium had ever produced more than eight children in a single batch of babies. And most of those women were from the Moon Kingdom's current royal line. Such a thing normally only happened about once every few generations, if not more rarely than that, on the average. Such a thing, though, hadn't happened for at least the past eighty or so years, if not longer than that. And Serena didn't know if her mother would be the next Moon Kingdom woman to do that or not. Or at least, she didn't know yet if her mother would have more than just a few babies.

Eventually, though, she left her chambers again so that she could train again as a Scout. That was even though she did so rather reluctantly, of course. On the way to the necessary area of the grounds, she met up with Raye, Amy, Lita, Mina, Destiny, and Bethany.

Raye said, "I see you've been busy napping and praying."

Serena asked, "How can you tell, Raye?"

"Your hair's all tousled, and your face is a little wet, Serena. Just a little, but it's still wet. Were you crying while you prayed?"

"No, I wasn't. I just washed my face, and I sweated a little more than I expected while I was praying. A pillar of fire appeared rather close to me while I was praying, and God was there in the pillar while I prayed to Him. He talked to me from inside the pillar while it was about two feet away from where I was kneeling near my bed in my chambers. He told me things I can't yet tell to any of you girls who aren't actually my sisters. I can tell Destiny and Bethany, but not you, Amy, Lita, or Mina right now. The same thing goes for all the Outer Scouts here with us, plus Bridget, Chloe, Beatrice, and Aurora. Luna and Artemis talked to Him just before He talked to me, and what He told them, He also told me."

"I see, Serena. Can you give us all a little hint, then, what He told you, Serena?"

"No, Raye. I can't. Otherwise, there'll be serious consequences for me and for anyone I tell about the things He told me not to reveal to any or all of the unnecessary people until further notice. Especially me, of course. As for Destiny and Bethany, I can tell them what He told me, for they're my sisters. Mother also knows what He just told me and both of the cats. For she was praying to Him at the same time that I was. And she soon told me to obey Him, not long after she learned that from Him. So I'll obey Him, and I'll obey her, for all the obvious reasons."

Raye soon asked, "If He says that you can reveal those things to us, will you?"

"Yes. But only if He says so, Raye. So there's no way I'm going to tell you what He told me, if I don't have His permission to do so. Don't even think about nagging me about those things. For if you do, I fear that you'll find yourself in some trouble that you never really wanted to find yourself in. If and when I can ever reveal to you girls other than Destiny and Bethany what He told me, Mother, Luna, and Artemis, then I'll most certainly consider the possibilities of doing so. But only if you girls don't nag me about them at all."

So Raye and the girls didn't nag her about whatever God had earlier told her, her mother, and both of the cats. Even though they were at least a little curious about what He'd said to Serena, Serenity, Luna, and Artemis, at least, of course. Moments later, Raye, Lita, Amy, and Mina left the Princesses from the Moon alone, so they could all be at the necessary courtyard on the grounds when Moon, Corona, and Eclipse showed up there sometime later.

When Destiny and Bethany asked about such things, just after they were left alone with Serena again, Serena said or signed to her twin sisters, "Come to my chambers after everyone else most likely goes to bed, and I'll tell you what God told me, Mother, Luna, and Artemis, you two. I don't want to say anything that I don't have to say about them right now, Destiny and Bethany. Come about twenty or so minutes before local midnight, and I'll tell you then what He told the four of us. When you come, please make sure that you're both not being tailed to my chambers, for all the obvious reasons. Even if you have to have Luna and Artemis help you do so, please make sure that you're both not being tailed to my chambers by any of the other Princesses here. I hope you can do that easily enough, of course, you two."

Destiny and Bethany silently conversed with each other for just a little while, just in front of Serena, by touching their hands together as needed here, before Destiny said to Serena, "Serena, we both understand. We'll do what you just told us to do, to the best of our respective abilities. Even if we have to have Luna and Artemis help us do so, we'll still do what you just told us to do. We'll knock on your door five times rather quickly when we come to it. We'll wait for you to come to the door for five or so minutes, at most, perhaps, before we start heading back to our respective chambers."

"Fine with me, girls. But be very careful that both of you girls don't either hurt yourselves or get needlessly followed, even if you have to transform into your respective Scout states, to my chambers by the people who aren't yet supposed to know what God told me, Luna, Artemis, and Mother sometime earlier. In any case, don't use lethal or near-lethal force, unless it's absolutely necessary, against anybody who you might see following you, if anyone is following you toward my chambers. Certainly not against a fellow Scout, of course. If you have to stop by the room where our powers are currently being stored to at least some degree, let me know as soon as you can, girls."

"Understood, Serena," said Bethany.

"All right. Now let's get ready to resume our training here. Even though you know I'd prefer for us all to train on the Moon's other side, of course."

So Serena and her twin sisters did as their situation now required them all to do while they were still on the RSP's grounds. And they all soon powered up as needed here. Which then meant Serena soon became Junior Sailor Moon, Destiny Junior Sailor Corona, and Bethany Junior Sailor Eclipse, as might be appropriate enough for them all in each of their own lives here, in fact.

After they did so, Moon eventually sent Corona and Eclipse back to the exact same areas in which they'd trained earlier that very day, so that they could each train again as needed here for each of them. She did that once the three of them had all met up briefly with all the other Scouts who were now able to train with each other. Only D.C. wouldn't have to train as a Scout yet. That was due to the current absence of Sylvia from the Moon's Rainbow Springs side. After she did so, she was alone again for at least a while, once all but one of her fellow Scouts had left her alone again in that part of the palace's grounds. Of course, the only Scout now with her when that happened was Neptune Alpha.

Moon said, "I see you're here, Neptune Alpha. I hope you're really ready to train hard before supper tonight. For I intend to take you down as much as I possibly can in this training session."

"Nothing against me, personally?"

"But of course, Neptune Alpha. It's just that we all need to train rather hard for at least a while. You, me, and any other Scout who's now with us anywhere here in this palace, of course. Believe me, I don't really want to do this. But it looks like I may really have no choice in this matter. And I think the same is true for all of the rest of you Scouts that are with me and the cats now here in this palace and on its grounds."

Then Moon and Neptune Alpha soon called each of their respective teammates who were just about to resume their earlier training sessions with each other. They each said whatever they had to say to them, before they both eventually signed off. And then they also began training with each other again here, quite naturally enough.

Moon and Neptune Alpha rather intensely trained with each other for at least the next few hours, with short breaks during their current training session with each other. As they then did so, they also knew, quite well indeed, that each of their teammates were doing the same thing now with each of their current opponents, in various places all over the RSP's grounds. Eventually, though, they both began to get rather tired during such a training session that they were now having with each other. When they finally felt that they'd both trained with each other enough during it, they said, soon enough, to each other, "Let's stop, at least for now, and let's pick this up later, if possible. I think that there's no real sense in us all literally killing ourselves with our training before each of us has at least a little bit more time to rest and eat for a while."

With no disagreement at all about that from either of them at all here, they soon decided to have the rest of their now-training teammates do the same thing, before they were all too tired to do so well enough. All such teammates of theirs quite readily agreed to do so in very short order. After Moon and Neptune Alpha heard that was quite true for the rest of their fellow now-training Scouts here, Moon immediately ordered all of them to stand down for at least the rest of the night, if possible. Those same Scouts then all did exactly as she'd just told them to do here.

The last of the Scouts to power down was Moon, for all the obvious reasons, of course. And she only did this after every other Scout who was also anywhere on the grounds did so. Even Neptune Alpha. After she did so, she soon sent Poruzuka to her chambers. She did this so that Poruzuka could rest a while before supper was due to be served, if Poruzuka really wanted to do that in the intervening time between now and then. Poruzuka didn't argue with her at all before leaving for her own chambers. Which made Serena quite happy indeed. And as Poruzuka did so, Poruzuka waved briefly at Serena, as if to say, "Great training session here just now, Serena. Hope we get to do it again sometime in the very near future." Serena watched that happen, and then watched Poruzuka leave for her own chambers, before she too returned to her own chambers.

I really do hope that you all have enjoyed the first two stories in this particular story series, and the first five chapters of this third story, if you've actually gotten this far. And that you'll all continue to read its related story series, of course, once I put even more of it up here. The other chapters of this third story in the series will be up shortly, if at all possible, readers, for your information. I really don't know yet just how long it'll still take me to get each story in this series up fully here. 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!