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First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Main Dining Hall In The Rainbow Springs Palace
Rainbow Springs, Moon Kingdom, Moon
November 23, 986
Several hours later, Serena then knocked on Princess Sylvia's door. And after Princess Sylvia then
said that she could enter her new Rainbow Springs Palace chambers, she soon did so. Princess Sylvia was
currently getting ready for the upcoming day, after having slept for at least five or six more hours, most
likely. She was now doing her hair when she also let Serena into her new chambers there. After letting
Serena into her new chambers there, she then resumed doing her hair with her full attention again.
In front of a mirror, Sylvia had been putting her hair up into a bun. Which she'd often done before
in her life, though not at least half the time. She normally preferred to wear it down whenever possible in
her life, though. But she might not always be able to wear it down whenever she was training as a Sailor
Scout on the other side of the Moon, for all the obvious reasons. This time, though, wouldn't be one of
those times, if she didn't want to put it up at all. She did choose, however, to wear it up, at least on the
current day. Even if she didn't actually have to do that.
Serena said, "I wonder if the others will be very surprised to see you here with us, if they don't
already know that you're now here with us, Sylvia. I think they'll generally be happy to see or hear that
you're over on this side of the Moon now for the first time in your life."
"I think they will be, Serena. You didn't tell anyone else that I'm here who doesn't already know
that, did you?"
"No, though I must honestly admit that I almost decided to wake up a number of them to tell them
that, of course."
"Raye, Lita, Mina, Amy, Destiny, and Bethany, at least?"
"Yes. But Mom told me not to, so I didn't. I didn't really want to get in trouble with her for
disobeying her about such things. Or at least I didn't want to do so right now, Sylvia. So I actually didn't
bother anyone else who doesn't yet know that you're here now."
"I see. Well, thank you for doing what your mother told you to do, then, Serena."
Then as Sylvia finished getting ready for the day, she talked only a little bit more with Serena about
various things that were at least a little important to them both at the current time. She did this only as long
as it took her to finish getting ready for the day. Then she soon left her chambers behind with Serena. That
done, she and Serena went all the way to the main dining hall in the palace in complete silence. For they
really didn't want to give away the fact to their fellow Princesses that Sylvia was now on the grounds of it,
before they at least got to the main dining hall of it for their morning meal, if they could possibly avoid doing
so at all for at least that longer, if not longer, of course.
Eventually, they were all in it, and they all soon joined Dorothy Catherine Gallenski in it, who was
finishing up her preparations of breakfast for everyone else who she already knew was on the grounds of
the palace. Serena saw D.C. first, and she then silently signaled her to be completely quiet. So D.C. then
did so here, in fact, even though she didn't yet know why, of course.
As soon as D.C. did so, then, Serena had Sylvia step out of a darker area of the main dining hall,
so that D.C. could see her well enough. Serena and Sylvia then began helping D.C. put all the food and
drinks on the necessary tables in that dining hall, and they all finished doing so just before all the rest of the
Princesses began showing up there in it as well. Serena and Sylvia were sitting in their seats at Serena's
table just before the rest of the Princesses began arriving in the main dining hall. And Serena had
intentionally not yet fully illuminated her table's lantern, so as not to give away the upcoming surprise that
related directly to Sylvia, of course. But all the other necessary tables were, of course, fully illuminated in
the main dining hall. As Princesses began filing into the main dining hall, they were eventually joined there
by Luna and Artemis, who'd slightly overslept in their respective beds. Eventually, all the Princesses were
in the main dining hall, in their proper seats at their respective tables. Even those who ate at the same table
with Serena in it.
As soon as Raye sat down, and she was sure that all the other people who'd already eaten at it
were where they should be in it, she then asked, "How come our table is not fully illuminated yet, Serena?
I know you're hiding something, Serena. What are you hiding?"
"Girls, please look under your plates for a second, or feel under them, and I'll shed some light on
the matter in very short order." She had placed bits of parchment under each of her tablemates' plates
except for Sylvia's, for the obvious reasons, of course. As they did as she told them, Serena then slowly
increased the light that the lantern was shining out of it onto the table. Not too fast, for she didn't want them
to see Sylvia at least until they'd each found the bits of parchment under their plates and looked at or felt
them well enough.
Raye and several of the other Princesses now at Serena's table then read or felt the words, "I have
a surprise for you all, which you might all like me to share with you and your fellow Princesses. A certain
Princess from somewhere off the Moon is now here, and she'll now be training with us for at least a little
while, if not a long while. She arrived on the Moon within the last day or two, and then came here not too
long afterward, when Mom sent her here to be with us for a time. She'll be part of my team of Scouts, at
least until further notice. As for Darien and Rolando, they are also on the Moon. Though not on this side
of it. They came to the Moon with that Princess and her three siblings, while she was in her own Sailor
Scout state of being. On the other side of the piece of parchment, there is a piece of fabric pinned to it with
a series of pins. If you can't guess her identity by the time that you finish this message, then you should be
able to guess it when you either feel or see that piece of fabric. Serena out." Then Serena's message to
them ended completely. The aforementioned Princesses then soon turned over their pieces of parchment
and found the pieces of fabric pinned to each of them, of course.
Destiny soon said, "It can't be. Princess Sylvia just went back to Earth not long ago. And there
were no trips planned in the near future between the Earth and the Moon, so how can she be here? I don't
understand how." As Destiny said that, Serena translated her words for Bethany's benefit, of course.
"Yes, Destiny, she's here. And she'll be staying with us for a time, believe it or not. She's now
sitting in the seat that we'd left open at our table for a while. She arrived here in this palace not long ago."
Serena then translated those words for Bethany's benefit as well, of course. And as she did so, she
continued communicating for a time with the rest of the Princesses also in the main dining hall with her, as
well as both cats. After she and them then did so for a while, Serena eventually decided to say a blessing
over all the food and drink that D.C. had earlier prepared for the consumption of all the Princesses and
both the cats for their respective breakfasts. And then she did so. After she did so, she finally let everyone
in the main dining hall begin consuming their respective breakfasts, whatever they might be, of course. Even
herself, for all the obvious reasons.
As they all ate, D.C. eventually said, "So you're the Princess I'll actually be training against, at least
at first, Sylvia."
"It appears that's the case, Dorothy."
"I hope that we can train well enough with each other, then, Sylvia. I can't wait to see just how
good you actually are as a Sailor Scout."
"So do I, and I really do hope that we get to train quite often with each other, whenever possible,
of course, Dorothy."
"With you as Skyhorse?"
"Yes, and with you as Neptune Gamma, or whatever other identity or identities that you might ever
actually have as a Sailor Scout."
"I'm not always going to be Neptune Gamma?"
"I don't think so."
"Then, if I'm not, who'll I probably be, Sylvia, supposing that things somehow work out well enough
for me to be one in the future?"
"I heard the name 'Sailor Katrina' mentioned in my dreams the last time I was asleep. And this
Sailor Katrina looked a lot like you, if not entirely, Dorothy."
"Am I the only one you saw in your dreams that might have at least one other Sailor Scout identity
in the future?"
"No, Dorothy. Junior Sailor Uranus Alpha should become, I think, Sailor Herschelata. The new
Sailor Uranus will probably be the current Junior Sailor Uranus Beta. Junior Sailor Uranus Gamma should
be Sailor Portia, I believe. Junior Sailor Neptune Alpha could become Sailor Dolphina, Junior Sailor
Neptune Beta could become Sailor Neptune, Junior Sailor Saturn Alpha could become Sailor Megaringa,
Junior Sailor Saturn Beta could become Sailor Saturn, and Junior Sailor Saturn Gamma could become
Sailor Florence."
"Who else could have at least one different identity, if not more than one, Sylvia?"
"Well, let me see here, Dorothy." She thought for a moment, then continued, "Junior Sailors Pluto
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma should have new identities, as should the Beta-level Scouts from Mercury,
Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, I believe. I think Junior Sailor Pluto Alpha will be Sailor Cometa, Junior Sailor
Pluto Beta will be Sailor Pluto, and Junior Sailor Pluto Gamma will be Sailor Trammeyna. As for Junior
Sailors Mercury Beta, Venus Beta, Mars Beta, and Jupiter Beta, I currently think they will be, respectively,
the Sailors Rocketara, Aurorata, Blossom, and Daphne, if my dreams from my last sleeping period are
sufficiently accurate in each of their natures."
"And Corona and Eclipse?" asked Serena.
"If they survive long enough to serve as Sailor Scouts in the future, I think they still will be the Sailor
Scouts Corona and Eclipse. Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus, at least, if not others as well,
should eventually get promoted to full Sailor Scout status, if they survive long enough to do so somehow.
But I think that, first, they'll each have to be promoted out of their current Sailor Scout level as Junior Sailor
Scouts, and past the Sailor Scout level of Cadet Scout, which is the Sailor Scout rank one rank higher than
any of us are currently serving as Sailor Scouts in, as I'm sure most, if not all, of you already know. I think
that after we get enough training with each other here on this side of the Moon, we'll soon all be promoted
to the Sailor Scout level of Cadet Scout, and then we'll probably end up at the Sailor Scout Academy near
Mount Serenity for a while, so that we can finish training with each other just before our enemies will
eventually invade the Moon Kingdom to conquer or destroy us all, if they can. And I think that just before
they get here to the Moon, we'll all be promoted to full Sailor Scout status by the necessary people here
on the Moon."
Then Serena changed the subject, at least slightly, when she said, "And I wonder if we'll be able
to be with all our friends when they come here to the Moon."
"I'm reasonably certain that many of you, if not all of you, will be able to do that. However, I don't
yet know if Destiny and Bethany will be in the Moon City area of the Moon when they come here. I really
hope that they are, of course, when the Negaversers actually come here. But they may or may not be for
any reason whatsoever. I fear that if they aren't close enough to where Queen Serenity will be, they may
be lost to us forever, and so may any other people that aren't close enough to her at such a time."
"And we don't really want that to happen," said Mina.
"Correct, Mina. I even fear that I'll be on the Moon when they come here. And if they come here
while I'm on the Moon, then I fear that I may eventually find myself in a period of dormancy, after I return
to Earth in an unplanned manner. Question is, if I do so, will I be copied on my way back to it? And if I'm
copied at least once, will my Alpha version end up in the Tokyo Zone, or will it end up in the Jerusalem
Zone, of my home planet? I hope that if I'm copied, my Alpha version will return to Israel again after the
end of the Moon Kingdom. If I'm not copied, I wonder where I'll be spending most, if not all, of my period
of dormancy."
"And if you're copied, then do you think the rest of us may be too?" asked Amy.
"I suppose that it's possible, of course. How likely, I'm not sure. Maybe you could give us your
best guess about such things, Amy," Sylvia eventually answered.
"I'd think that there's at least some chance that a strange and unexpected occurrence or series of
such occurrences could happen while we're being transferred to Earth, everyone. Some of us could be lost
before we are, or while we are, or we might all survive the transfer process to Earth. I'm not exactly sure
at the current time. It's hard to predict everything that might happen in such a situation, if and whenever
it came to pass for us. We could all end up in different dimensions, and never be able to find each other
easily enough, or at least not for a considerable length of time. For all I know, we could end up in any, or
more than one, of at least fifty to sixty alternate realities, dimensions, or timelines. We could all end up
together in the same place, or we could all end up in places where we'll never see each other again, even
in a million lifetimes. I don't really know. All I know is that it's hard to predict the future for most people,
and that it's hard to handle both the past and the present at times in each of our lives. The past determines
everything that comes after it, and the present is all that we currently have control of to at least some
degree. We influence the present by considering the past, and we make the future by how we handle both
the past and the present. The things in the past can't yet be changed, I believe, if they'll ever be able to be
changed by anyone, but we can surely do what we can to protect the past, the present, and the future, from
any unnecessary interference from anyone who is not working under God's orders in them, if it's at all
possible for us to do that."
"Is that what you really believe here, Amy?" asked Sylvia.
"Yes, I really do believe that we can entirely make our own futures by the way we each deal with
our respective pasts and our respective presents. Or at least to some degree, if at all possible, if the former
is not actually able to be done at all by us somehow."
"So you don't actually believe that the future is completely set in stone, in a manner of speaking,
then?" This came also from Sylvia.
"No, I don't, in fact. How could love be so spontaneous for people, as it often is, if it were, as you
say, 'Set in stone', Sylvia?"
"I see what you mean. But don't you normally want everything to be just a certain way whenever
possible, Amy?"
"Why, sure, Sylvia. But even I know that isn't always possible, of course. Even if I might prefer
it to be otherwise. I'd like to know as much as I can about any guy I might actually ever want to date
sometime in the future, of course. But Serena and a number of other people in my life think that I should
at least sometimes go with the flow, and see what comes my way that I might least expect to come to me
in it. I think they mean in at least potential romantic relationships, if not in other parts of my life as well."
"That's right, Amy. As Serena, Lita, Mina, Destiny, Bethany, myself, and several other people who
are also parts of your life have at least occasionally tried to tell you, Amy, we think that you should at least
do that in potential romantic relationships, if not other parts of your life as well. Not all the time, mind you,
I believe, but still quite frequently in the future, whenever possible in it," said Raye.
"Understood. But I hope that you girls realize that may not often be very easy for me to do, Raye."
"Sure we do, Amy. And we do actually respect you for often being just like that. But there's no
reason not to go with the flow at least every so often, whenever you possibly can go with it. Yes, we know
that you often prefer everything to be predictable, but life is never completely predictable, Amy. As
evidence of that fact, consider this, if you will. How likely would it have been for you to leave Mercury and
be here on the Moon if you hadn't been a Princess or of some other royal rank from your world? And if
you'd not actually had such a rank from your own world, just how likely would it have been for you to
somehow be able to leave Mercury for certain other worlds besides the Moon here in the Moon Kingdom?
Plus, factor in the chances of an average Mercurian being able to meet people like us anywhere else in the
Moon Kingdom. Much less somehow being able to meet actual royals from anywhere at all in the Moon
Kingdom, as well?"
"Not likely, on any count, I believe, if I'm not too mistaken here, Raye."
"Then do you accept the fact that you possibly could have never met any of us who aren't actually
from your world, if you had been just an average Mercurian?"
"Yes, I see that. But just how does that prove life is unpredictable, then, Raye?"
"Have you been able to do things that you never expected to be able to do in your life?"
"Yes. Like see at least part of a world in another galaxy in the Universe, for instance."
"And meet up with a whole lot of other people from anywhere else in the Universe, such as us, in
your life?"
"I suppose so, Raye."
"Then that logically enough proves my current point of discussion here, I believe, Amy. Life is
thereby unpredictable, at least to some degree, anyway."
"I concede the current point of discussion to you here, then, Raye."
Then everybody eventually finished each of their breakfasts, if they hadn't already. And as soon
as Serena realized that, and dismissed them, Princesses soon began filing out of the main dining hall as soon
as they could. Only a few Princesses stayed behind to clean up afterwards, of course. While the others
did as they wished until they'd have to report for their next training sessions anywhere on the Rainbow
Springs Palace's grounds. Serena and her sisters stayed behind with Sylvia to clean up after everyone else,
and they soon had all the dishes done and put away in the necessary places elsewhere in the main dining
hall. Sylvia had gathered up the dirty dishes, after they'd led Destiny and Bethany to where they'd need
to do those dishes, and left them there. After Sylvia handed her each of the dirty dishes, Bethany did the
washing, and Destiny the drying, of each of those dishes. After Destiny got done drying each of the dishes,
Serena then put each of them away, once Destiny handed them to her.
After they'd all done those dishes for a while, they all eventually finished doing them, and then
Serena soon let them all go to their respective chambers for a while as well, before they'd each have to
report for that morning's later training session anywhere on the grounds of the Rainbow Springs Palace.
She was the last of the four Princesses, then, to leave for her own chambers, once she did that. She told
them as they were leaving the main dining hall, though, to be in the Palace's South Courtyard within another
two or three hours, at most, before she let them leave it. Of course, she did that for all the obvious reasons
here, when she did so.
After she was then left alone in the main dining hall, she sat down at a table for at least a few
minutes more, so that she could think about certain things in private, before she left for her own chambers
elsewhere in the palace. She decided to have a few of the available robots on the Rainbow Springs
Palace's grounds begin to prepare lunch for everyone. And when she decided to do that here, she also
then went to a nearby storage area in the palace, and she retrieved only as many robots as she thought
she'd have to program in order for them to prepare enough food for everyone else now in residence at the
palace, of course. She retrieved three robots, and she then programmed them to prepare lunch for 24
Princesses and two cats, of course. Though not with complete success, in fact. For when it came to
programming robots to do certain tasks, she wasn't always quite successful in doing so. At least
occasionally, she could program at least one robot well enough to do a task, but not most of the time, or
even half the time. This time, though, she was able to do it with less difficulty than she normally had
whenever she tried to program at least one robot to do at least one certain task, if not more than one such
task. She programmed them all to make up quite a bit of food and drink for herself, her fellow Princesses,
and both cats, before she then left the main dining hall again to finally return to her chambers again for a
while. Little did she know what might or might not actually happen while she and the rest of her current
companions on the Rainbow Springs Palace's grounds were away from the main dining hall of it, for all the
obvious reasons, of course. Only time would then tell, of course, exactly what'd actually happen while that
was still the case here.
When she then got back to her very own Rainbow Springs Palace chambers, she spent at least the
next hour or two doing whatever else she felt she had to do in them, whatever it might be. No matter what
it was, she did whatever she felt needed to be done in them, while she could still do them before her next
training session with Neptune Alpha. Mainly, then, she basically read her scrolls or worked on at least one
thing that she was making for Lita's birthday in a few weeks, if not more than one thing for it.
I really do hope that you all have enjoyed the first two stories in this particular story series, and the
first fifteen 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!
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First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Main Dining Hall In The Rainbow Springs Palace
Rainbow Springs, Moon Kingdom, Moon
November 23, 986
Several hours later, Serena then knocked on Princess Sylvia's door. And after Princess Sylvia then
said that she could enter her new Rainbow Springs Palace chambers, she soon did so. Princess Sylvia was
currently getting ready for the upcoming day, after having slept for at least five or six more hours, most
likely. She was now doing her hair when she also let Serena into her new chambers there. After letting
Serena into her new chambers there, she then resumed doing her hair with her full attention again.
In front of a mirror, Sylvia had been putting her hair up into a bun. Which she'd often done before
in her life, though not at least half the time. She normally preferred to wear it down whenever possible in
her life, though. But she might not always be able to wear it down whenever she was training as a Sailor
Scout on the other side of the Moon, for all the obvious reasons. This time, though, wouldn't be one of
those times, if she didn't want to put it up at all. She did choose, however, to wear it up, at least on the
current day. Even if she didn't actually have to do that.
Serena said, "I wonder if the others will be very surprised to see you here with us, if they don't
already know that you're now here with us, Sylvia. I think they'll generally be happy to see or hear that
you're over on this side of the Moon now for the first time in your life."
"I think they will be, Serena. You didn't tell anyone else that I'm here who doesn't already know
that, did you?"
"No, though I must honestly admit that I almost decided to wake up a number of them to tell them
that, of course."
"Raye, Lita, Mina, Amy, Destiny, and Bethany, at least?"
"Yes. But Mom told me not to, so I didn't. I didn't really want to get in trouble with her for
disobeying her about such things. Or at least I didn't want to do so right now, Sylvia. So I actually didn't
bother anyone else who doesn't yet know that you're here now."
"I see. Well, thank you for doing what your mother told you to do, then, Serena."
Then as Sylvia finished getting ready for the day, she talked only a little bit more with Serena about
various things that were at least a little important to them both at the current time. She did this only as long
as it took her to finish getting ready for the day. Then she soon left her chambers behind with Serena. That
done, she and Serena went all the way to the main dining hall in the palace in complete silence. For they
really didn't want to give away the fact to their fellow Princesses that Sylvia was now on the grounds of it,
before they at least got to the main dining hall of it for their morning meal, if they could possibly avoid doing
so at all for at least that longer, if not longer, of course.
Eventually, they were all in it, and they all soon joined Dorothy Catherine Gallenski in it, who was
finishing up her preparations of breakfast for everyone else who she already knew was on the grounds of
the palace. Serena saw D.C. first, and she then silently signaled her to be completely quiet. So D.C. then
did so here, in fact, even though she didn't yet know why, of course.
As soon as D.C. did so, then, Serena had Sylvia step out of a darker area of the main dining hall,
so that D.C. could see her well enough. Serena and Sylvia then began helping D.C. put all the food and
drinks on the necessary tables in that dining hall, and they all finished doing so just before all the rest of the
Princesses began showing up there in it as well. Serena and Sylvia were sitting in their seats at Serena's
table just before the rest of the Princesses began arriving in the main dining hall. And Serena had
intentionally not yet fully illuminated her table's lantern, so as not to give away the upcoming surprise that
related directly to Sylvia, of course. But all the other necessary tables were, of course, fully illuminated in
the main dining hall. As Princesses began filing into the main dining hall, they were eventually joined there
by Luna and Artemis, who'd slightly overslept in their respective beds. Eventually, all the Princesses were
in the main dining hall, in their proper seats at their respective tables. Even those who ate at the same table
with Serena in it.
As soon as Raye sat down, and she was sure that all the other people who'd already eaten at it
were where they should be in it, she then asked, "How come our table is not fully illuminated yet, Serena?
I know you're hiding something, Serena. What are you hiding?"
"Girls, please look under your plates for a second, or feel under them, and I'll shed some light on
the matter in very short order." She had placed bits of parchment under each of her tablemates' plates
except for Sylvia's, for the obvious reasons, of course. As they did as she told them, Serena then slowly
increased the light that the lantern was shining out of it onto the table. Not too fast, for she didn't want them
to see Sylvia at least until they'd each found the bits of parchment under their plates and looked at or felt
them well enough.
Raye and several of the other Princesses now at Serena's table then read or felt the words, "I have
a surprise for you all, which you might all like me to share with you and your fellow Princesses. A certain
Princess from somewhere off the Moon is now here, and she'll now be training with us for at least a little
while, if not a long while. She arrived on the Moon within the last day or two, and then came here not too
long afterward, when Mom sent her here to be with us for a time. She'll be part of my team of Scouts, at
least until further notice. As for Darien and Rolando, they are also on the Moon. Though not on this side
of it. They came to the Moon with that Princess and her three siblings, while she was in her own Sailor
Scout state of being. On the other side of the piece of parchment, there is a piece of fabric pinned to it with
a series of pins. If you can't guess her identity by the time that you finish this message, then you should be
able to guess it when you either feel or see that piece of fabric. Serena out." Then Serena's message to
them ended completely. The aforementioned Princesses then soon turned over their pieces of parchment
and found the pieces of fabric pinned to each of them, of course.
Destiny soon said, "It can't be. Princess Sylvia just went back to Earth not long ago. And there
were no trips planned in the near future between the Earth and the Moon, so how can she be here? I don't
understand how." As Destiny said that, Serena translated her words for Bethany's benefit, of course.
"Yes, Destiny, she's here. And she'll be staying with us for a time, believe it or not. She's now
sitting in the seat that we'd left open at our table for a while. She arrived here in this palace not long ago."
Serena then translated those words for Bethany's benefit as well, of course. And as she did so, she
continued communicating for a time with the rest of the Princesses also in the main dining hall with her, as
well as both cats. After she and them then did so for a while, Serena eventually decided to say a blessing
over all the food and drink that D.C. had earlier prepared for the consumption of all the Princesses and
both the cats for their respective breakfasts. And then she did so. After she did so, she finally let everyone
in the main dining hall begin consuming their respective breakfasts, whatever they might be, of course. Even
herself, for all the obvious reasons.
As they all ate, D.C. eventually said, "So you're the Princess I'll actually be training against, at least
at first, Sylvia."
"It appears that's the case, Dorothy."
"I hope that we can train well enough with each other, then, Sylvia. I can't wait to see just how
good you actually are as a Sailor Scout."
"So do I, and I really do hope that we get to train quite often with each other, whenever possible,
of course, Dorothy."
"With you as Skyhorse?"
"Yes, and with you as Neptune Gamma, or whatever other identity or identities that you might ever
actually have as a Sailor Scout."
"I'm not always going to be Neptune Gamma?"
"I don't think so."
"Then, if I'm not, who'll I probably be, Sylvia, supposing that things somehow work out well enough
for me to be one in the future?"
"I heard the name 'Sailor Katrina' mentioned in my dreams the last time I was asleep. And this
Sailor Katrina looked a lot like you, if not entirely, Dorothy."
"Am I the only one you saw in your dreams that might have at least one other Sailor Scout identity
in the future?"
"No, Dorothy. Junior Sailor Uranus Alpha should become, I think, Sailor Herschelata. The new
Sailor Uranus will probably be the current Junior Sailor Uranus Beta. Junior Sailor Uranus Gamma should
be Sailor Portia, I believe. Junior Sailor Neptune Alpha could become Sailor Dolphina, Junior Sailor
Neptune Beta could become Sailor Neptune, Junior Sailor Saturn Alpha could become Sailor Megaringa,
Junior Sailor Saturn Beta could become Sailor Saturn, and Junior Sailor Saturn Gamma could become
Sailor Florence."
"Who else could have at least one different identity, if not more than one, Sylvia?"
"Well, let me see here, Dorothy." She thought for a moment, then continued, "Junior Sailors Pluto
Alpha, Beta, and Gamma should have new identities, as should the Beta-level Scouts from Mercury,
Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, I believe. I think Junior Sailor Pluto Alpha will be Sailor Cometa, Junior Sailor
Pluto Beta will be Sailor Pluto, and Junior Sailor Pluto Gamma will be Sailor Trammeyna. As for Junior
Sailors Mercury Beta, Venus Beta, Mars Beta, and Jupiter Beta, I currently think they will be, respectively,
the Sailors Rocketara, Aurorata, Blossom, and Daphne, if my dreams from my last sleeping period are
sufficiently accurate in each of their natures."
"And Corona and Eclipse?" asked Serena.
"If they survive long enough to serve as Sailor Scouts in the future, I think they still will be the Sailor
Scouts Corona and Eclipse. Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus, at least, if not others as well,
should eventually get promoted to full Sailor Scout status, if they survive long enough to do so somehow.
But I think that, first, they'll each have to be promoted out of their current Sailor Scout level as Junior Sailor
Scouts, and past the Sailor Scout level of Cadet Scout, which is the Sailor Scout rank one rank higher than
any of us are currently serving as Sailor Scouts in, as I'm sure most, if not all, of you already know. I think
that after we get enough training with each other here on this side of the Moon, we'll soon all be promoted
to the Sailor Scout level of Cadet Scout, and then we'll probably end up at the Sailor Scout Academy near
Mount Serenity for a while, so that we can finish training with each other just before our enemies will
eventually invade the Moon Kingdom to conquer or destroy us all, if they can. And I think that just before
they get here to the Moon, we'll all be promoted to full Sailor Scout status by the necessary people here
on the Moon."
Then Serena changed the subject, at least slightly, when she said, "And I wonder if we'll be able
to be with all our friends when they come here to the Moon."
"I'm reasonably certain that many of you, if not all of you, will be able to do that. However, I don't
yet know if Destiny and Bethany will be in the Moon City area of the Moon when they come here. I really
hope that they are, of course, when the Negaversers actually come here. But they may or may not be for
any reason whatsoever. I fear that if they aren't close enough to where Queen Serenity will be, they may
be lost to us forever, and so may any other people that aren't close enough to her at such a time."
"And we don't really want that to happen," said Mina.
"Correct, Mina. I even fear that I'll be on the Moon when they come here. And if they come here
while I'm on the Moon, then I fear that I may eventually find myself in a period of dormancy, after I return
to Earth in an unplanned manner. Question is, if I do so, will I be copied on my way back to it? And if I'm
copied at least once, will my Alpha version end up in the Tokyo Zone, or will it end up in the Jerusalem
Zone, of my home planet? I hope that if I'm copied, my Alpha version will return to Israel again after the
end of the Moon Kingdom. If I'm not copied, I wonder where I'll be spending most, if not all, of my period
of dormancy."
"And if you're copied, then do you think the rest of us may be too?" asked Amy.
"I suppose that it's possible, of course. How likely, I'm not sure. Maybe you could give us your
best guess about such things, Amy," Sylvia eventually answered.
"I'd think that there's at least some chance that a strange and unexpected occurrence or series of
such occurrences could happen while we're being transferred to Earth, everyone. Some of us could be lost
before we are, or while we are, or we might all survive the transfer process to Earth. I'm not exactly sure
at the current time. It's hard to predict everything that might happen in such a situation, if and whenever
it came to pass for us. We could all end up in different dimensions, and never be able to find each other
easily enough, or at least not for a considerable length of time. For all I know, we could end up in any, or
more than one, of at least fifty to sixty alternate realities, dimensions, or timelines. We could all end up
together in the same place, or we could all end up in places where we'll never see each other again, even
in a million lifetimes. I don't really know. All I know is that it's hard to predict the future for most people,
and that it's hard to handle both the past and the present at times in each of our lives. The past determines
everything that comes after it, and the present is all that we currently have control of to at least some
degree. We influence the present by considering the past, and we make the future by how we handle both
the past and the present. The things in the past can't yet be changed, I believe, if they'll ever be able to be
changed by anyone, but we can surely do what we can to protect the past, the present, and the future, from
any unnecessary interference from anyone who is not working under God's orders in them, if it's at all
possible for us to do that."
"Is that what you really believe here, Amy?" asked Sylvia.
"Yes, I really do believe that we can entirely make our own futures by the way we each deal with
our respective pasts and our respective presents. Or at least to some degree, if at all possible, if the former
is not actually able to be done at all by us somehow."
"So you don't actually believe that the future is completely set in stone, in a manner of speaking,
then?" This came also from Sylvia.
"No, I don't, in fact. How could love be so spontaneous for people, as it often is, if it were, as you
say, 'Set in stone', Sylvia?"
"I see what you mean. But don't you normally want everything to be just a certain way whenever
possible, Amy?"
"Why, sure, Sylvia. But even I know that isn't always possible, of course. Even if I might prefer
it to be otherwise. I'd like to know as much as I can about any guy I might actually ever want to date
sometime in the future, of course. But Serena and a number of other people in my life think that I should
at least sometimes go with the flow, and see what comes my way that I might least expect to come to me
in it. I think they mean in at least potential romantic relationships, if not in other parts of my life as well."
"That's right, Amy. As Serena, Lita, Mina, Destiny, Bethany, myself, and several other people who
are also parts of your life have at least occasionally tried to tell you, Amy, we think that you should at least
do that in potential romantic relationships, if not other parts of your life as well. Not all the time, mind you,
I believe, but still quite frequently in the future, whenever possible in it," said Raye.
"Understood. But I hope that you girls realize that may not often be very easy for me to do, Raye."
"Sure we do, Amy. And we do actually respect you for often being just like that. But there's no
reason not to go with the flow at least every so often, whenever you possibly can go with it. Yes, we know
that you often prefer everything to be predictable, but life is never completely predictable, Amy. As
evidence of that fact, consider this, if you will. How likely would it have been for you to leave Mercury and
be here on the Moon if you hadn't been a Princess or of some other royal rank from your world? And if
you'd not actually had such a rank from your own world, just how likely would it have been for you to
somehow be able to leave Mercury for certain other worlds besides the Moon here in the Moon Kingdom?
Plus, factor in the chances of an average Mercurian being able to meet people like us anywhere else in the
Moon Kingdom. Much less somehow being able to meet actual royals from anywhere at all in the Moon
Kingdom, as well?"
"Not likely, on any count, I believe, if I'm not too mistaken here, Raye."
"Then do you accept the fact that you possibly could have never met any of us who aren't actually
from your world, if you had been just an average Mercurian?"
"Yes, I see that. But just how does that prove life is unpredictable, then, Raye?"
"Have you been able to do things that you never expected to be able to do in your life?"
"Yes. Like see at least part of a world in another galaxy in the Universe, for instance."
"And meet up with a whole lot of other people from anywhere else in the Universe, such as us, in
your life?"
"I suppose so, Raye."
"Then that logically enough proves my current point of discussion here, I believe, Amy. Life is
thereby unpredictable, at least to some degree, anyway."
"I concede the current point of discussion to you here, then, Raye."
Then everybody eventually finished each of their breakfasts, if they hadn't already. And as soon
as Serena realized that, and dismissed them, Princesses soon began filing out of the main dining hall as soon
as they could. Only a few Princesses stayed behind to clean up afterwards, of course. While the others
did as they wished until they'd have to report for their next training sessions anywhere on the Rainbow
Springs Palace's grounds. Serena and her sisters stayed behind with Sylvia to clean up after everyone else,
and they soon had all the dishes done and put away in the necessary places elsewhere in the main dining
hall. Sylvia had gathered up the dirty dishes, after they'd led Destiny and Bethany to where they'd need
to do those dishes, and left them there. After Sylvia handed her each of the dirty dishes, Bethany did the
washing, and Destiny the drying, of each of those dishes. After Destiny got done drying each of the dishes,
Serena then put each of them away, once Destiny handed them to her.
After they'd all done those dishes for a while, they all eventually finished doing them, and then
Serena soon let them all go to their respective chambers for a while as well, before they'd each have to
report for that morning's later training session anywhere on the grounds of the Rainbow Springs Palace.
She was the last of the four Princesses, then, to leave for her own chambers, once she did that. She told
them as they were leaving the main dining hall, though, to be in the Palace's South Courtyard within another
two or three hours, at most, before she let them leave it. Of course, she did that for all the obvious reasons
here, when she did so.
After she was then left alone in the main dining hall, she sat down at a table for at least a few
minutes more, so that she could think about certain things in private, before she left for her own chambers
elsewhere in the palace. She decided to have a few of the available robots on the Rainbow Springs
Palace's grounds begin to prepare lunch for everyone. And when she decided to do that here, she also
then went to a nearby storage area in the palace, and she retrieved only as many robots as she thought
she'd have to program in order for them to prepare enough food for everyone else now in residence at the
palace, of course. She retrieved three robots, and she then programmed them to prepare lunch for 24
Princesses and two cats, of course. Though not with complete success, in fact. For when it came to
programming robots to do certain tasks, she wasn't always quite successful in doing so. At least
occasionally, she could program at least one robot well enough to do a task, but not most of the time, or
even half the time. This time, though, she was able to do it with less difficulty than she normally had
whenever she tried to program at least one robot to do at least one certain task, if not more than one such
task. She programmed them all to make up quite a bit of food and drink for herself, her fellow Princesses,
and both cats, before she then left the main dining hall again to finally return to her chambers again for a
while. Little did she know what might or might not actually happen while she and the rest of her current
companions on the Rainbow Springs Palace's grounds were away from the main dining hall of it, for all the
obvious reasons, of course. Only time would then tell, of course, exactly what'd actually happen while that
was still the case here.
When she then got back to her very own Rainbow Springs Palace chambers, she spent at least the
next hour or two doing whatever else she felt she had to do in them, whatever it might be. No matter what
it was, she did whatever she felt needed to be done in them, while she could still do them before her next
training session with Neptune Alpha. Mainly, then, she basically read her scrolls or worked on at least one
thing that she was making for Lita's birthday in a few weeks, if not more than one thing for it.
I really do hope that you all have enjoyed the first two stories in this particular story series, and the
first fifteen 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!