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First Kisses?

AThe Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story

Main Dining Hall In The Rainbow Springs Palace

Rainbow Springs, Moon Kingdom, Moon

November 19, 986

Sometime later, then, all the Princesses who were now present on the palace's grounds and hadn't yet been in its main dining hall there eventually entered it, so that they could have their supper there. Luna and Artemis were already in it when they got there. Bethany and Destiny were he last of the Princesses to arrive in it. For they'd been a little delayed when Destiny had a little bit of unexpected trouble with her hair after she'd taken a short bath a little while earlier. It'd had some knots in it. And she also wanted to put it up for once in her life, which she often didn't do in it. So she had to spend a little more time than she'd planned to on her hair, of course. But eventually all the Moon Kingdom Princesses who were now on the palace's grounds were once again in the main dining hall.

By the time that Bethany led Destiny there, then, Serena and the other girls were chatting with each other and both cats at least a little bit while they waited for Serena's twin sisters to show up there. They were all waiting for the twins' arrival, so that everyone could then eat their suppers, and do so while they all sat at the same tables they'd sat at earlier that very day. Bethany soon brought Destiny back to the same table that they'd used, earlier in the day, at lunchtime. After which, she soon sat down at it as well. Of course, it was the exact table that Serena was now at, because they'd both eaten near her then. Bethany soon put Destiny in the exact place that she'd been in at the table earlier. And she herself then sat down in the same seat that she'd been in earlier. Every Princess, including, of course, Bethany and Destiny, sat in the exact seat that she'd been in during her earlier lunch period. Which made it much easier for Destiny to know where everyone else was in the main dining hall. After Bethany placed Destiny in the necessary seat at their table, she removed the cord from both their temporarily-connected wrists. She did that so that they'd be able to reach for things without either of them, or both of them, having to worry about bumping hands or other parts of them needlessly, if it could be avoided at all.

Bethany would be able to have both hands free to sign to others if she wanted. And she could touch Destiny's hands or other necessary parts of Destiny much easier than if they were still connected together by the cord, of course. Bethany would also be able to leave the table to get other things for other people and the cats in the main dining hall, if the need ever arose, or if she wanted to. Destiny would still be able to hear Bethany or other people and the cats move about in it, in fact. But she'd probably stay pretty much where she was while she and the rest of her companions were still having their suppers in the main dining hall.

As before, once D.C. had accounted for all her fellow Princesses and both cats, she began distributing the necessary food and drink items to her companions, before she took some of them for herself. By the time that she finished serving her fellow Princesses and both cats, everyone else was in the same place that they'd been earlier, just before Serena said a blessing over all the food and drinks that they'd had for lunch then. She took her own seat at the necessary table no more than a minute or two later.

Then Serena said another blessing over the food and drink items that D.C. had just made for the suppers of everybody now in the main dining hall. After she did so well enough here, everybody soon began to consume their suppers, as they then saw fit. Quite often, they all conversed with each other as they did so, by the way.

Serena said, "I got another message from Mother just before I came here for supper, everyone."

"Oh?" asked Raye.

"Yes. Darien has made plans to be on the Moon within a week, if possible. He sent a canister to Mother just before I came here. She teleported another canister to me in my chambers to tell me that. She told me not to expect to see him for at least two or three weeks, though. Mother wants us to stay here on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon, at least until December 6, if not even longer than that. That is, if we don't have to leave here for any reason whatsoever. True, it'll mean that Princess Lita won't be able to be on the other side of the Moon by the end of her birthday, if that's the case, of course. But that's what she wants us to do. I don't like it, obviously. But we'll just have to postpone any plans that we had for her birthday that we might have had for it on the other side of the Moon, if we don't do them on this side of the Moon instead then. Supposing that we all don't have to leave here at all for any reason whatsoever, girls. However, I do hope next year, if there is a next year for us, like I'm thinking that there will be for us, that we can have a lot of fun on her birthday next year."

Lita's next birthday would be December 5, 986, and she'd be ten years old then. Supposing, of course, that she was able to live at least that long, and nothing or nobody killed her in the meantime, for any reason whatsoever, in the known God-created Universe. Even if she couldn't get back to the Moon City side of the Moon by the end of her birthday, though, it might actually turn out that she might indeed enjoy it at least a little. But only time would tell if that'd be the case, quite naturally enough.

"Serena, I was planning on going shopping on my birthday before my birthday ball then, at least."

"I know that, Lita. But if we can't get back there by the end of your birthday, then either we'll have to postpone our plans for that day, or we might have to take care of them over here. I think if you can't show on the Moon City side of the Moon on your birthday, Mom will postpone or move your birthday ball until a later date. She told me that there are going to be many more balls and fireworks shows that are cancelled for as long as she sees fit to cancel them."

"And what do you think about that, Serena?"

"Lita, I don't like it, of course, at least to some degree. I think that it's great to have balls and fireworks shows quite often on the Moon. But it seems increasingly likely that we'll have to deal with the Negaversers at least one more time in each of our lives. And if any number of dreams and/or visions that a number of us Moon Kingdom citizens are sufficiently accurate, we may have no more than a few more years to do what we can to be ready for them when they come to invade our own Moon Kingdom. You may not like it, just as I already don't. But I'd be willing to stake my life on the chances of them coming to the Moon someday in the future. As a matter of fact, I may even be doing that now. And I may be doing the same thing with a whole lot of other people, I know. But I'm becoming even more sure every single day that they'll eventually come to the Moon. And that they'll probably kill me and Darien when we try to be together for at least a little while. I have this very strong feeling that both Darien and I will really be blasted by one of the Negaversers, if not more, and Mom won't let us lose our futures, if at all possible. Supposing that we get blasted by that evil Negaverser or by more than one evil Negaverser."

"We don't want you to die, Serena."

"If God actually makes it possible enough, Mother will save me somehow, I think. And she'll also save as many of us as she possibly can, no matter who we might or might not be. Whether we're good or bad, I'm sure. Destiny, I see myself somehow surviving. But I still don't know about all of the rest of you girls. I see Darien surviving just like me somehow. I see at least a few of you saved by her as well. But I don't know yet how many of us, if she can't save all of us, that she'll be able to save, if she trades the Moon Kingdom for as many of our futures as she can save from the end of our Moon Kingdom and its Silver Millennium. I can't even identify entirely who exactly might survive somehow the end of the Moon Kingdom. Darien and I will both somehow survive, though, I believe. As will Amy, Raye, Lita, Mina, Susan, Alexis, Michelle, and Hannah, at the very least. That's if I'm not too mistaken about the future, of course. Quite honestly, I really don't know about the rest of you Princesses, though. Luna and Artemis should also somehow survive as well, I think, everyone."

"What if we all somehow survive the end of the Moon Kingdom, then, Serena?" asked Winnie.

"Then you might end up somewhere on Earth at least once, if not more than once, I think. We may not all end up in the same general areas on it, after we leave the Moon, or we could. I don't know if I'll be able to see you all again at least once more after the end of our dear Moon Kingdom. But, of course, I hope I do, Winnie."

Everyone spent most, if not all, of the remaining time that they were all eating their suppers together in relative silence. For they all wanted to get to bed before it was rather late at night, so that they'd be able to get enough sleep before they trained again at least once more.

Eventually, everyone finished eating their suppers together. As soon as they could after doing so, they each left the main dining hall again. D.C. asked her sisters to help her with washing all the dirty dishes before bedtime, so her sisters rather readily agreed to do that with her. She didn't ask anyone to help her other than her sisters, in fact. So everyone else eventually left the main dining hall again.

Serena went to her chambers for a while, and she basically killed at least a little bit of time until her sisters would again come to them, so that she could meet with them as had earlier been planned. She did whatever came to her mind, while she was waiting for her sisters to come back to her own chambers later.

I really do hope that you all have enjoyed the first two stories in this particular story series, and the first seven 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!