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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 any further ado, let's get on with the next chapter of this story of mine here, if
that's all right with you here, readers. Please do read, review, and enjoy, if at all possible, quite
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First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Inside Serenity's Chambers In The Crystal Palace
Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon
November 23, 986
After Skyhorse left her in the Crystal Chalice Garden for at least a while, Queen Serenity spent at
least the next hour there thinking over at least a few things that were currently concerning her to some
degree in her life. Knowing she wouldn't likely be summoned from that garden for a while made her a little
happy. This was because she'd have at least a little time to herself, before she went back to her own
chambers elsewhere on the Crystal Palace's grounds. When she'd eventually spent enough time there after
Skyhorse left her alone in it, she then soon returned to her own chambers on the palace's grounds, going
by the way of the main dining hall on them when she did so, in fact. For she then actually had this sudden
urge to get herself an early morning meal prior to local dawn. And this was mainly, if not entirely due to
the fact that she now knew that she was carrying more than one baby inside her womb, as she'd done at
least one time before, of course.
She then ate several pepperoni and several hamburger pizzas, half a large black cherry, black
walnut, raisin, and watermelon pie, and two medium-sized bowls of potato salad and fruit salad each. With
all that food, she also drank two tall glasses of chocolate milk, two tall glasses of white milk, four tall glasses
of orange juice often mixed with prune juice, and two tall glasses of oolong tea, with some cinnamon, lemon
juice, and cocoa mixed into each glass of oolong tea, as she saw fit to mix those three items into her tea.
By the time that she was finally done eating and drinking all the things that she'd just made up for herself
because of that urge to feast, she was, of course, quite full, for the obvious reasons. She returned to her
own chambers again soon after she returned all her dirty dishes to wherever they needed to be in the main
dining hall. And she soon took a short nap for as long as her babies would then let her do so.
But she was up again by two hours before local noon would arrive again in the Moon City area of
the Moon. After she woke up, her husband soon did. For Serenity had woken him up from a nap he'd
decided to take after he, Rolando, and Darien had finally gotten all three of Sylvia's siblings settled well
enough in their chambers on the Crystal Palace's grounds. She'd just woken him up after she'd begun
pacing quite a bit in her chambers. She was trying to figure out how to handle things once the quintuplets
eventually arrived in the Moon City area of the Moon, if they even did so, of course. And she was quite
nervously pacing in her chambers as she did so. Which eventually woke her husband up from where he
was sleeping in their bed.
Eventually, after watching her pace quite nervously in her chambers, while he was sitting up in their
bed, he asked, "Serenity, what's the matter?"
She said, "Husband, I'm really worried about how we're going to handle things if and when these
babies get born. And I fear that you'll not always be around to help me take care of them well enough.
I'm sure you know why by now, my dear love."
"God will provide a way for us to do that, if it's truly His will that we have any or all of the babies
we now have growing inside you, dearest love. True, I may not always be around as they each grow up.
But if I'm not, I hope to eventually meet you again someday in the Celestial City. Supposing, of course,
it's His will that we'll both end up there with Him, and with anyone else who belongs there as well."
"I don't want to lose you because of the Negaverse, Daniel."
"If it's meant to happen, it'll happen, whether any of us like it or not. I don't want it to happen too,
of course. For I'd really like to see Serena get married and have at least one child. But if it happens, Niti
love, it'll happen no matter what we try to do at all in order to prevent it from happening. If any or all of
your dreams and/or visions are then sufficiently accurate in their respective natures, you may have to give
up our very own Moon Kingdom to save Serena and as many other people as you can. Whether they're
good or bad, won't you?"
"Yes, I believe so." Serenity finally sat down in a nearby chair in her chambers, so that she could
rest her feet for at least a little while.
"You'd sacrifice yourself and our Moon Kingdom, at least, to save as many of our people as you
could then possibly save?"
"In a heartbeat, Daniel. I really don't want our dear Serena and her crowd to lose their futures, if
I can possibly keep it from happening. Even if it means the Moon Kingdom must be sacrificed, and even
if it means my death, I'll save as many of them, if I can't save all of them, as I can possibly save for at least
the time being from death. I really don't like the idea of having to do it, of course. But I'll still do it, if I feel
I absolutely have to, and if I possibly can, Daniel. As long as they manage to survive somehow, if at all
possible, I'd be happy enough, I think, with what I'd done in my life up to that time. And I'd also be quite
glad to go to the Celestial City someday, if it was truly God's will that I ever end up there someday."
"And be with me and Mother, perhaps?"
"If she's there, I think I'd not mind seeing her again in actual reality, Daniel. It's been so long since
she fell asleep around Serena's birthdate, if not on it, Daniel."
"I know that, Serenity. And I still miss her very much, just as you do too. And I know that you
also miss your parents very much too."
"I'll do what I can to save all the people that I can, if and when the Negaversers come here, of
course. But you know that I may not be able to save everyone else, I'm sure, Daniel."
"I trust you to do the best that you can, no matter what the cost to us and/or our Moon Kingdom,
Serenity. Even if I'm already gone when you do that, of course. I know that you can be a good parent,
even without me around, given enough of a chance to do that, of course. Especially if it's God's will that
you're able to be one, to anyone you're then taking care of like that in your life."
"Whether they're our children or not?"
"Of course, Niti darling. That's what I believe very strongly. And nothing that ever happens to
either of us is ever going to change my opinion about such things. Even if I actually am lost to you for a
time, Serenity. Or to any of our children, our friends, and our people, as a matter of fact. So don't ever
fear that I'll ever think otherwise of you in our lives. Both on this side of falling asleep and on the other side
of falling asleep, Serenity. And I'll never love any other woman in my life more than I ever love you."
"Even if you're in your immortal body?"
"I believe so, Serenity. True, once we get upstairs to the Celestial City, if that's where God
chooses for us to be when our mortal lives are over forever, we'll never die again. We'll be eternally alive,
if He sees fit to allow us to get upstairs to His Celestial City, whenever we ever want to be in it, forever."
"Do you mind if I go to the other side of the Moon for a while?"
"Fine with me, Serenity. You're intending to bring Sylvia there, if you can, or to send her there, if
you can't go yourself, I'm sure."
"Yes, I'd not mind doing that, if I can do the former. But I may not be able to do that, for the
obvious reasons, of course. I may have to do the latter, instead of the former, of course."
Then he talked for at least a little while longer with her, before she said that she should probably
take a bath or a shower before she met up again with Sylvia later on. Daniel understood why, of course.
And he quite readily agreed with her, even going so far as to help her out by getting her some clothes to
wear as she went to her bathroom to get ready for that bath or shower. As she prepared to bathe or
shower, he got some clothes for her from her closet. She then took those clothes from him, just before she
closed her bathroom door, so that she could shower or bathe in complete privacy. And she sent him out
of her chambers, so that he could check up on a few things for her while she was otherwise occupied in
her bathroom. Of course, when he left her chambers, she bolted the door of them quite securely behind
him. And then she went back to her bathroom, so that she could take the necessary shower or bath in
them. She chose to bathe for a while. After which she then dressed as quickly as she could, and got ready
to meet up with Sylvia later, of course.
As soon as she got done with her bath and got dressed, she then did her hair. Then she gathered
up all the things that she'd likely need in the near future when she went to meet at least with Sylvia in the
Sailor Scout Garden, before she too left her own chambers, of course.
She was in the Sailor Scout Garden about ten minutes before she'd hoped to meet up with Sylvia
again. And she found at least a few things to do while she was waiting for Sylvia to show up there in her
Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Skyhorse. While she was still alone in that garden on the
grounds of the Crystal Palace, she also transformed herself into her own second-power Sailor Scout state
of being as Sentinel Serenity. After doing that, she then sat down on a bench near the pillar she'd need to
access later on. She did that here so that when Sylvia showed up there as Skyhorse, she'd eventually be
able to bring her to an underground cavern below the Crystal Palace's grounds.
She waited for a while longer, until Sylvia eventually showed up in that garden, as Serenity had
wanted her to do later on in the day. Of course, when Sylvia got to that garden, she was also in her own
Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Skyhorse.
After Skyhorse eventually arrived in the aforementioned Crystal Palace garden in the necessary
manner, Serenity then talked to her briefly there, just before she had Skyhorse turn around for a little while.
That was so that she could access the hidden console under the top of the nearby pillar, of course. After
she did that, she then accessed that console, input the necessary codes into it, and put the top of the pillar
back on. With all that then done, she allowed Skyhorse to turn around again so that she was facing Sentinel
Serenity once more. Then Sentinel Serenity led Junior Sailor Skyhorse over to a nearby boulder. And she
had her help move it to one side, so that they'd eventually be able to get Junior Sailor Skyhorse, at least,
if not also Sentinel Serenity, over to the other side of the Moon in the required manner. With that done,
Sentinel Serenity then led Skyhorse into the tunnel behind that boulder, after first giving her a suitable
enough torch to see in that tunnel well enough. After they and all their current things were sufficiently inside
that tunnel, then, Sentinel Serenity soon palmed a certain brick on one of the nearby walls of that very same
tunnel, in fact. She did that here just so that the aforementioned tunnel would hopefully be quite hidden
from the view of the necessary people. And so that it'd also hopefully stay that way while she then led
Skyhorse to the underground cavern below the Crystal Palace's grounds, of course.
I really do hope that you all have enjoyed the first two stories in this particular story series, and the
first thirteen 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!
have on fanfiction.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 any further ado, let's get on with the next chapter of this story of mine here, if
that's all right with you here, readers. Please do read, review, and enjoy, if at all possible, quite
naturally enough, readers!
First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Inside Serenity's Chambers In The Crystal Palace
Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon
November 23, 986
After Skyhorse left her in the Crystal Chalice Garden for at least a while, Queen Serenity spent at
least the next hour there thinking over at least a few things that were currently concerning her to some
degree in her life. Knowing she wouldn't likely be summoned from that garden for a while made her a little
happy. This was because she'd have at least a little time to herself, before she went back to her own
chambers elsewhere on the Crystal Palace's grounds. When she'd eventually spent enough time there after
Skyhorse left her alone in it, she then soon returned to her own chambers on the palace's grounds, going
by the way of the main dining hall on them when she did so, in fact. For she then actually had this sudden
urge to get herself an early morning meal prior to local dawn. And this was mainly, if not entirely due to
the fact that she now knew that she was carrying more than one baby inside her womb, as she'd done at
least one time before, of course.
She then ate several pepperoni and several hamburger pizzas, half a large black cherry, black
walnut, raisin, and watermelon pie, and two medium-sized bowls of potato salad and fruit salad each. With
all that food, she also drank two tall glasses of chocolate milk, two tall glasses of white milk, four tall glasses
of orange juice often mixed with prune juice, and two tall glasses of oolong tea, with some cinnamon, lemon
juice, and cocoa mixed into each glass of oolong tea, as she saw fit to mix those three items into her tea.
By the time that she was finally done eating and drinking all the things that she'd just made up for herself
because of that urge to feast, she was, of course, quite full, for the obvious reasons. She returned to her
own chambers again soon after she returned all her dirty dishes to wherever they needed to be in the main
dining hall. And she soon took a short nap for as long as her babies would then let her do so.
But she was up again by two hours before local noon would arrive again in the Moon City area of
the Moon. After she woke up, her husband soon did. For Serenity had woken him up from a nap he'd
decided to take after he, Rolando, and Darien had finally gotten all three of Sylvia's siblings settled well
enough in their chambers on the Crystal Palace's grounds. She'd just woken him up after she'd begun
pacing quite a bit in her chambers. She was trying to figure out how to handle things once the quintuplets
eventually arrived in the Moon City area of the Moon, if they even did so, of course. And she was quite
nervously pacing in her chambers as she did so. Which eventually woke her husband up from where he
was sleeping in their bed.
Eventually, after watching her pace quite nervously in her chambers, while he was sitting up in their
bed, he asked, "Serenity, what's the matter?"
She said, "Husband, I'm really worried about how we're going to handle things if and when these
babies get born. And I fear that you'll not always be around to help me take care of them well enough.
I'm sure you know why by now, my dear love."
"God will provide a way for us to do that, if it's truly His will that we have any or all of the babies
we now have growing inside you, dearest love. True, I may not always be around as they each grow up.
But if I'm not, I hope to eventually meet you again someday in the Celestial City. Supposing, of course,
it's His will that we'll both end up there with Him, and with anyone else who belongs there as well."
"I don't want to lose you because of the Negaverse, Daniel."
"If it's meant to happen, it'll happen, whether any of us like it or not. I don't want it to happen too,
of course. For I'd really like to see Serena get married and have at least one child. But if it happens, Niti
love, it'll happen no matter what we try to do at all in order to prevent it from happening. If any or all of
your dreams and/or visions are then sufficiently accurate in their respective natures, you may have to give
up our very own Moon Kingdom to save Serena and as many other people as you can. Whether they're
good or bad, won't you?"
"Yes, I believe so." Serenity finally sat down in a nearby chair in her chambers, so that she could
rest her feet for at least a little while.
"You'd sacrifice yourself and our Moon Kingdom, at least, to save as many of our people as you
could then possibly save?"
"In a heartbeat, Daniel. I really don't want our dear Serena and her crowd to lose their futures, if
I can possibly keep it from happening. Even if it means the Moon Kingdom must be sacrificed, and even
if it means my death, I'll save as many of them, if I can't save all of them, as I can possibly save for at least
the time being from death. I really don't like the idea of having to do it, of course. But I'll still do it, if I feel
I absolutely have to, and if I possibly can, Daniel. As long as they manage to survive somehow, if at all
possible, I'd be happy enough, I think, with what I'd done in my life up to that time. And I'd also be quite
glad to go to the Celestial City someday, if it was truly God's will that I ever end up there someday."
"And be with me and Mother, perhaps?"
"If she's there, I think I'd not mind seeing her again in actual reality, Daniel. It's been so long since
she fell asleep around Serena's birthdate, if not on it, Daniel."
"I know that, Serenity. And I still miss her very much, just as you do too. And I know that you
also miss your parents very much too."
"I'll do what I can to save all the people that I can, if and when the Negaversers come here, of
course. But you know that I may not be able to save everyone else, I'm sure, Daniel."
"I trust you to do the best that you can, no matter what the cost to us and/or our Moon Kingdom,
Serenity. Even if I'm already gone when you do that, of course. I know that you can be a good parent,
even without me around, given enough of a chance to do that, of course. Especially if it's God's will that
you're able to be one, to anyone you're then taking care of like that in your life."
"Whether they're our children or not?"
"Of course, Niti darling. That's what I believe very strongly. And nothing that ever happens to
either of us is ever going to change my opinion about such things. Even if I actually am lost to you for a
time, Serenity. Or to any of our children, our friends, and our people, as a matter of fact. So don't ever
fear that I'll ever think otherwise of you in our lives. Both on this side of falling asleep and on the other side
of falling asleep, Serenity. And I'll never love any other woman in my life more than I ever love you."
"Even if you're in your immortal body?"
"I believe so, Serenity. True, once we get upstairs to the Celestial City, if that's where God
chooses for us to be when our mortal lives are over forever, we'll never die again. We'll be eternally alive,
if He sees fit to allow us to get upstairs to His Celestial City, whenever we ever want to be in it, forever."
"Do you mind if I go to the other side of the Moon for a while?"
"Fine with me, Serenity. You're intending to bring Sylvia there, if you can, or to send her there, if
you can't go yourself, I'm sure."
"Yes, I'd not mind doing that, if I can do the former. But I may not be able to do that, for the
obvious reasons, of course. I may have to do the latter, instead of the former, of course."
Then he talked for at least a little while longer with her, before she said that she should probably
take a bath or a shower before she met up again with Sylvia later on. Daniel understood why, of course.
And he quite readily agreed with her, even going so far as to help her out by getting her some clothes to
wear as she went to her bathroom to get ready for that bath or shower. As she prepared to bathe or
shower, he got some clothes for her from her closet. She then took those clothes from him, just before she
closed her bathroom door, so that she could shower or bathe in complete privacy. And she sent him out
of her chambers, so that he could check up on a few things for her while she was otherwise occupied in
her bathroom. Of course, when he left her chambers, she bolted the door of them quite securely behind
him. And then she went back to her bathroom, so that she could take the necessary shower or bath in
them. She chose to bathe for a while. After which she then dressed as quickly as she could, and got ready
to meet up with Sylvia later, of course.
As soon as she got done with her bath and got dressed, she then did her hair. Then she gathered
up all the things that she'd likely need in the near future when she went to meet at least with Sylvia in the
Sailor Scout Garden, before she too left her own chambers, of course.
She was in the Sailor Scout Garden about ten minutes before she'd hoped to meet up with Sylvia
again. And she found at least a few things to do while she was waiting for Sylvia to show up there in her
Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Skyhorse. While she was still alone in that garden on the
grounds of the Crystal Palace, she also transformed herself into her own second-power Sailor Scout state
of being as Sentinel Serenity. After doing that, she then sat down on a bench near the pillar she'd need to
access later on. She did that here so that when Sylvia showed up there as Skyhorse, she'd eventually be
able to bring her to an underground cavern below the Crystal Palace's grounds.
She waited for a while longer, until Sylvia eventually showed up in that garden, as Serenity had
wanted her to do later on in the day. Of course, when Sylvia got to that garden, she was also in her own
Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Skyhorse.
After Skyhorse eventually arrived in the aforementioned Crystal Palace garden in the necessary
manner, Serenity then talked to her briefly there, just before she had Skyhorse turn around for a little while.
That was so that she could access the hidden console under the top of the nearby pillar, of course. After
she did that, she then accessed that console, input the necessary codes into it, and put the top of the pillar
back on. With all that then done, she allowed Skyhorse to turn around again so that she was facing Sentinel
Serenity once more. Then Sentinel Serenity led Junior Sailor Skyhorse over to a nearby boulder. And she
had her help move it to one side, so that they'd eventually be able to get Junior Sailor Skyhorse, at least,
if not also Sentinel Serenity, over to the other side of the Moon in the required manner. With that done,
Sentinel Serenity then led Skyhorse into the tunnel behind that boulder, after first giving her a suitable
enough torch to see in that tunnel well enough. After they and all their current things were sufficiently inside
that tunnel, then, Sentinel Serenity soon palmed a certain brick on one of the nearby walls of that very same
tunnel, in fact. She did that here just so that the aforementioned tunnel would hopefully be quite hidden
from the view of the necessary people. And so that it'd also hopefully stay that way while she then led
Skyhorse to the underground cavern below the Crystal Palace's grounds, of course.
I really do hope that you all have enjoyed the first two stories in this particular story series, and the
first thirteen 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!