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First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Inside Lita's Chambers In The Rainbow Springs Palace
Rainbow Springs, Moon Kingdom, Moon
December 4, 986 - December 5, 986
Periodically, then, over at least the next few nights, after they'd all had their suppers, Sylvia
and the rest of the Princesses would host slumber parties of their own, whenever possible. During
each of those slumber parties, they often continued to add to the story that Sylvia had just started not
long before. Most of the contributing to that story was done by Sylvia, due to the fact that she was
the first one to start telling the story in question, of course.
They continued doing this at least until the night before Lita's birthday began, if not longer
than that. By now, the story was already in its third scroll, with most of the copying of it being done
by Amy. And with the end of that third scroll coming up rather quickly, for the related telling of that
story had been going on for at least twelve to fifteen hours spread out over that length of time, after
Sylvia had originally begun telling it in her Rainbow Springs chambers.
It was now an hour before local midnight on the night before Lita's birthday. And Lita
currently had the floor, in a manner of speaking, as it related to that story. Which meant, of course,
that she was now adding to it. While Raye was writing down everything that Lita was now adding
to it, as quickly as Raye could write it down easily enough. Periodically, Lita would have to pause
at least long enough for Raye to write down the necessary words for the story, for all the obvious
reasons, of course.
Lita was currently telling the story's fiftieth chapter, and she was now saying, "Sailor Bellasina
then soon encountered several monsters attacking the Peruscotia Palace in Sylleskita, and they were
rather powerful, from what she could currently tell. So she found Sailor Clarissa elsewhere in the
Sylleskita area of Scoslanor, a country that shared a common border with Yalisomia on her world.
Sylleskita was only about five Terran statute miles away from the Scoslanoran border with Yalisomia,
and about twenty or so such miles away from where Sailor Bellasina came from in Yalisomia as
Sirashiki, an average Yalisomian peasant girl. But she'd still had reason to meet at least once before
in her life with the young Scoslanoran Princess Catrimusa. For her parents were traders that traded
on both sides of the Edislasol River near Sylleskita. They'd met just after Sirashiki had found herself
in a rather isolated series of caves near Sylleskita, and had stumbled onto a crystal called the Juniper
Crystal, as she'd later find out. After Sirashiki had found that crystal, and began handling it, she
eventually began to feel herself disappearing from where she was in those caves. As she did so,
Princess Catrimusa saw her doing so somewhere nearby in those caves. And not yet understanding
why Sirashiki was disappearing from them, she then tried to keep her from disappearing in a very
strange manner like she was now doing. And while she did so, she too began disappearing from them
herself. As did all the things that she and Sirashiki had with them when they'd begun disappearing
from those caves, as a matter of fact."
Lita took a sip of some milk and ate a few cookies for a few moments, before she continued
adding to the story. She then said, "After they'd both disappeared from those caves together, they
eventually materialized in a jungle halfway across their world. In that place, Princess Catrimusa
found another crystal called the Hummingbird Crystal. And when she began handling it, a series of
mirrors began appearing around her and Sirashiki. People that they'd never met before in their lives
then eventually began coming out of those mirrors. Among them, was the current ruler of the Moon
Kingdom, who was, if I'm not mistaken, Queen Abigail I, who ruled about one hundred or so years
before the beginning of the Silver Millennium. And Queen Abigail I then soon said, as soon as she'd
found a nearby bench to sit on that'd appeared within the circle made by the aforementioned mirrors,
'I am Queen Abigail of the Moon Kingdom in the Sol solar system of the Milky Way Galaxy. And
I see that you both have now found the Juniper and Hummingbird Crystals that have been missing
from our Moon Kingdom for 850 of our years. If you'd both allow us to have them back, I and my
current companions will make you Sailor Scouts, as our reward to you two for returning them both
to us. Supposing, of course, that you both want to become Sailor Scouts.' Of course, Sirashiki and
Catrimusa were curious to see what that'd entail for the both of them. And they asked Queen Abigail
what it'd mean for them to both become Sailor Scouts, as well as what they'd be able to do as Sailor
Scouts for as long as they were also Sailor Scouts in their respective lives. So Abigail then told them
both what they wanted and needed to know from her. And her current companions also did the same,
whenever necessary. Eventually, then, Abigail had made copies of the crystals in question, by using
her Imperium Silver Crystal to do so. Then, after she asked them if they both wanted to become Sailor
Scouts, and they both said they'd be honored to become Sailor Scouts, Abigail initiated them both as
Sailor Scouts. She did that with her making Sirashiki a Sailor Scout first, then Catrimusa moments
later. She made Sirashiki the Sailor Scout Bellasina. And she made Catrimusa the Sailor Scout
Clarissa. Not long after she did so, she and her fellow Moon Kingdom people then stepped back into
their mirrors, and left the scene. After Abigail left them, Sailors Bellasina and Clarissa had begun
training in that jungle for a while, until they were eventually able to make their way out of it easily
enough to allow them to get to a port in the country where they'd found themselves. Some length of
time later, they eventually made it back to their own continent. And after doing that, they eventually
parted from each other, promising to stay in touch with each other as often as possible in the future,
God willing, of course. And they then often were away from each other for at least the next few years.
At least until some trouble arose from monsters in the area of the Peruscotia Palace in Sylleskita. She
then found Catrimusa elsewhere in the area as Catrimusa was training in one of her underground
retreats there as Sailor Clarissa. She found her in a place that only she and Catrimusa knew that
Catrimusa was currently using as a secret place for her solo training as a Sailor Scout."
Then, about thirty minutes later, Lita passed the story along to Poruzuka, who then ran with
it until about a minute or two after local midnight, when a canister from the other side of the Moon
suddenly flew through an open window in Lita's Rainbow Springs Palace chambers. When Poruzuka
saw that canister fly into Lita's chambers, she then stopped telling the story as quickly as she could
do that. Poruzuka then had Raye stop recording the story immediately, if Raye hadn't already done
so. Raye had immediately stopped recording in the story's fourth scroll, just as soon as she realized
that Poruzuka had stopped telling it. Then she left a removable marker in that place, of course, while
Lita had her roll up the story's fourth scroll, which had been begun not long after Lita had passed the
story off to Poruzuka. When Raye did that, Lita then brought the canister to one of the larger tables
in her chambers. For it was rather large, as if it'd possibly have quite a few things in it.
As soon as Lita did so, everyone else soon gathered around that table in her chambers, for all
the obvious reasons, of course. And they only backed off from it when Lita insisted that they do so,
of course. She wanted and needed enough space to be able to handle the contents of that canister in
the required manners, of course. And if they were too close to that table, she'd possibly not be able
to do so without possibly bumping into or accidentally smacking her companions with any or all of
the contents of that canister. So, even if they'd prefer not to do so, they all soon backed up enough to
suit Lita to a sufficient enough degree.
As soon as they did so, Lita then eventually began opening and withdrawing the contents of
that canister, starting, of course, with all the things near or at the top of that canister. The canister
turned out to be from Serenity and a number of other people that Lita knew well enough in her life,
but mainly from Serenity, Daniel, and Darien, who probably knew her the best in her life except for
Lita's relatives and her fellow Princesses from anywhere in the Moon Kingdom. This, of course, was
for all the obvious reasons.
Lita then soon had the canister completely empty of all the things that'd just come her way in
it. Among them were two scrolls. One was marked for her, and one for Serena. Lita opened the one
for her partway, and after she did so, she soon silently read, "Before you read any further in this scroll,
Lita, Serena is to read her scroll from me to her aloud, as Amy translates the words of it into sign
language for Bethany's benefit." Of course, Lita told Serena that before she could read any further in
her own scroll, Serena had to open hers and read it aloud to all their current companions in Lita's
Rainbow Springs Palace chambers.
So Serena opened her scroll, and read aloud, of course, "Serena, you girls are to report to the
Double Earth Palace in Crescent for a period of at least one week, starting on December 21, 986.
You'll all need to bring at least one gown for a ball, or a series of balls, around that time. You'll then
be met in the South Garden of that palace by Princes Daniel, Darien, and Rolando, and myself, at
least, if not by others as well. You'll also be excused from your training sessions for as long as I deem
necessary while you're all on the Moon City side of the Moon. We'll then spend a few days, at most,
at the Double Earth Palace there, before we return to the Imperial Palace by Christmas Eve. We'll all
remain in residence there, at least until I decide that it's again time for you to resume your training
sessions again on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon. And we'll hopefully have a lot of fun while
you're here on the Moon City side of the Moon, if all goes sufficiently according to plan for all of us,
of course. Supposing, of course, that it's truly God's will that we do so, for at least a little while."
Serenity didn't say much more than that, before she signed off in Serena's scroll. After Serena
informed all of her companions of that fact, she then rolled up the scroll that her mother had sent her
in Lita's canister, for the obvious reasons, of course.
When Lita saw her do so well enough, then Lita began reading her scroll again rather silently,
so that everyone else wouldn't know what Serenity was saying to her in it, if Serenity didn't want her
to tell them what she was saying to her in it. Periodically, Serenity did allow Lita to share certain
information with all of her current companions in Lita's chambers, but not always. Eventually, then,
Lita did finish reading her scroll, and she rolled it up again, of course. That done, she then soon
opened a somewhat large tin of recently-made cookies straight from the main dining hall in the
Crystal Palace. Cookies which had been made, as a matter of fact, by Queen Serenity and several of
the Princes who were currently in the Moon City area. Most of them were likely chocolate chip
cookies, while others were filled with raisins, dates, and many other items, as Serenity and her fellow
bakers of those recently-made cookies had decided to put in any of the cookies currently in question.
In that tin of recently-made cookies, there were about 100 or so cookies, give or take about a dozen
or so either way. Certainly not more than about 120 or so cookies, though, in any case. After she saw
what was in that tin, she soon closed it up again, so that the others with her now wouldn't ask her for
any of them for at least a little while longer, most likely.
Besides the scrolls and the cookies, there were at least two dozen roses in the canister, as well
as a few wrapped gifts of various sizes that Serenity had told Lita not to open in the presence of any
of her current companions in her chambers. Lita took those things into her hidden alcove, and soon
had them socked away where not even any of her current companions would likely be able to find
them easily enough. This, of course, was for all the obvious reasons. Then she returned to the main
area of her chambers, after which she was soon asked to transform into her own Sailor Scout state of
being as Junior Sailor Jupiter. Not knowing why yet, she did so, even though she didn't understand
why her current companions would want her to do that at all.
As she did so, all her fellow Princesses did the same, and then they blindfolded her. Her
companions then gathered up at least a few of the things that they had with them currently in Lita's
chambers, and enough of Lita's things as well, after they did so. Then all of them led her to the room
where they'd all first come to the Rainbow Springs Palace, and moments later, after Moon first cleared
it with Serenity in the necessary manner, Moon and Neptune Alpha soon set coordinates on a console
there for a location still on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon. That done, they began assembling
themselves on the necessary tiles in that place, Even Jupiter, of course. Moments later, all of them
then began teleporting from that place to the aforementioned location elsewhere on the Rainbow
Springs side of the Moon. Within five minutes after they began doing so, they all materialized near
a beach elsewhere on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon. And so did all their things. It was a
somewhat bright lunar night when they did so. And they'd gone to a location roughly northwest from
Rainbow Springs when they teleported from the Rainbow Springs Palace there. The Earth was rather
high in the sky. And a rather bright comet was heading in a direction that'd make it cross the Earth
in the lunar skies above that location within the next few hours, at most. This comet was Comet Lita,
in fact. And it normally showed up about every two years around Lita's birthday. And this was the
case now, as well.
They'd all decided to bring Lita to the place where they now were, so that Lita could best see
her comet as it crossed the Earth in the lunar skies above them. They were now near the Night Owl
Beach on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon, which was a beach in the area of Mount Chrysalis
there on that side of the Moon. Mount Chrysalis was about five Terran statute miles away. And it
was still visible, due to the Earthlight now shining on it. The beach was on the Chrysanthemum Sea
on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon. And it was to the east of that sea on the Moon. Mount
Chrysalis was about five miles further east of where they'd all materialized near that beach, then.
After they'd all soon materialized near that very beach, Moon then said, "Jupiter, please close
your eyes until we say otherwise. We need to remove your blindfold. And we don't want your eyes
to be suddenly subjected to bright lights when we take off your blindfold." So Jupiter closed her eyes,
and then Moon slowly removed her blindfold. After doing so, she had Jupiter very slowly open them,
for the obvious reasons, of course. As Jupiter did so, her eyes adjusted just as slowly to the darkness
that was still around her and all her current companions. And also to the light from the Earth and the
aforementioned comet, of course.
Jupiter soon found herself on a little hill near that beach, and then she said, "Moon, what are
you girls up to now?"
"Look above your head, Jupiter, and you'll see why we brought you here to this place. We
brought you here to see something you haven't likely seen for about two or so years. And to make it
possible for you to go swimming with us, if you want to, for a while."
"Where are we, then, Moon?"
"Near Night Owl Beach in the area of Mount Chrysalis on the Rainbow Springs side of the
Moon."
"Of course, in order to go swimming, I'll need a swimsuit."
"Already taken care of, Jupiter. We brought at least one of your swimsuits with us when we
brought you here."
"You got some of my things while I was blindfolded?"
"Yes, but not anything you'd not likely ever want us to get into, of course, Jupiter."
"Next question is this, then. Do we still need to be in each of our respective Sailor Scout
states, Moon?"
"Not until about six in the morning, Rainbow Springs time, at the very earliest, Jupiter.
Which'll hopefully allow us at least five or so hours of us doing whatever we want to do here before
we have to return to Rainbow Springs again, for the obvious reasons, of course. However, Destiny
and Bethany should probably stay in theirs, so that they don't hurt themselves while we're all
swimming, for all the obvious reasons, of course."
"Has Queen Serenity actually cancelled our morning training session for today, Moon, by any
chance? And if not, when are we supposed to begin it?"
"No, but she has postponed its start about two hours past its normal starting time, if not more.
She wants us training by two hours before local noon, if at all possible, though, Jupiter."
Then Moon had Jupiter and her other companions follow her to a large cabin near the beach,
and bring their things along with them to it. So she and all of her companions did so. Even Corona
and Eclipse did so. And after they got there, all of the Scouts soon changed into their swimsuits.
Even Corona and Eclipse, who stayed in their respective Sailor Scout states of being while their fellow
Scouts transformed out of each of theirs.
Eventually, then, all of them went to the beach. And they all soon began swimming in it there.
Except for Luna and Artemis, who normally didn't swim very well in anything larger than a small
pond or lake in their lives. Even Corona and Eclipse did so, while they were still in their Sailor Scout
states of being. Corona had left one of her pairs of glasses in the cabin. And the other pair, which
she was now wearing, would, depending on whether or not she was in the nearby water, would be
either a pair of glasses or a pair of goggles, as the situation might require her eyewear to be in it. This
would be the case so she could still see while she was in the water or out of it. That was because
she'd decided to put her power locket on the strap that was now running between the earpieces of the
glasses she was now wearing, which was the pair with black walnut wood earpieces. She hung that
power locket just below a ponytail she'd put her hair in right after supper the previous night. Yet still
where she could reach it easily enough, of course.
Lita and all her fellow Moon Kingdom humanoids then swam for a little while, at least until
her comet began to really get close to the Earth in the lunar skies. Then they quickly hurried back
onto the beach, and onto nearby benches on it. Several moments later, as the last of them sat down
on those benches, Comet Lita then got within a degree of the Earth in the lunar skies above their
heads. For at least the next few minutes, if not at least the next hour, they all then watched Comet
Lita cross the Earth, as most, if not all, of them had planned to do so. And they did this at least until
Comet Lita then got too far away from them to see it easily enough, because a large cloud had just
passed in front of it while they were still watching Comet Lita. The cloud wasn't very thick here, in
fact. But it was still rather large. For it covered at least a bit of the sky as it headed toward the
opposite horizon from the direction that it'd come their way at first. Which then meant that it headed
primarily to the south, which would be to their left, due to the fact that they'd been facing mainly
toward the west, in order to see Lita's comet for a while.
After Comet Lita vanished from their sight behind that cloud, Serena and her sisters then
asked all their companions to return to the cabin for a while. So they did so, and then Corona and
Eclipse eventually did transform out of their respective Sailor Scout states of being again. Of course,
when they did so, Destiny became blind again, and Bethany became deaf again. As they returned to
their usual non-Sailor Scout states, Destiny's eyes turned gray again. And Bethany's ears, essentially,
turned themselves off, at least in a manner of them allowing Bethany to hear what all her other
companions were now saying as they were all in the area of Mount Chrysalis on the Rainbow Springs
side of the Moon.
When Princess Destiny was in her Sailor Scout state as Junior Sailor Corona, her eyes were
usually a rather attractive medium brown color. But they could sometimes lighten, or darken,
themselves, or even change their main color, as her situation as a Sailor Scout might ever require them
to do at a particular time whenever she was in her Sailor Scout state as Junior Sailor Corona.
Normally, though, they'd not do either of those things whenever she was in her Sailor Scout state of
being as Junior Sailor Corona. She didn't ever have to think about changing her eye color. For her
body would generally do it without any prompting from her mind or heart to do so, if the need ever
arose for her eyes to change from their normal medium brown color that she'd have for them whenever
she was in her Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Corona. She'd not yet had any reason to
change her eye color from its master color that it'd had whenever she'd previously been in her Sailor
Scout state of being, nor had her body or her eyes. But that might not always be the case, of course,
for all the obvious reasons. Even if it wasn't always the case, she still wouldn't have to ever think
about changing her eye color if she didn't want to.
But when she wasn't in her Sailor Scout state, her eyes were always gray again, and she was
completely blind, at least in a physical sense. That didn't mean her mind's eyes were blind, of course.
It just meant that her physical eyes were unseeing again, whenever she was not Junior Sailor Corona,
and she was just Princess Destiny, in her own mortal life that she was now spending in God's very
own Universe, of course.
After she went blind again, Serena tied her left wrist to Bethany's right wrist, so that Bethany
could again lead Destiny wherever the need arose for them both to go soon enough. That done, the
girls then had Lita close her eyes, after having her sit at a rather large table in the cabin. And Raye
and Amy soon brought out a large cake with the help of Serena and Mina. The four aforementioned
Princesses then set it down on the table just in front of Lita. They did that so that Lita could blow out
the candles that were on it, once they were lit from a torch on the nearest wall of the cabin, or from
Raye's fingers, as the case might be, for the obvious reasons, of course. That done, the four of them
soon had Lita open her eyes rather slowly, as everyone then said, as loudly or as enthusiastically as
they each could, "Happy tenth birthday, Princess Lita!"
Lita wasn't surprised that all of her companions had done so. But to be kind, she didn't act
like she wasn't surprised at all. But she actually acted as if she hadn't expected them to do that at all.
To tell the whole truth of the matter, she wasn't really expecting a surprise birthday party. But she
was expecting that they'd say to her what they just had all said to her, of course. For she already knew
that it was now her birthday, for the obvious reasons. And she was now glad that she'd made it to
there, at least, in her life, of course.
After they all had wished her a happy birthday, Lita said, "Thank you, girls and cats. I just
hope that I have a whole lot more of them in the future. At least while we're still here in the Moon
Kingdom, that is."
Then she prepared to blow out the ten candles on her cake. But first, she made a wish that she
and all her friends and relatives would survive the coming of the Negaverse to the Moon Kingdom,
if at all possible. Granted, she also knew such a thing might not be possible, for all the obvious
reasons, of course. But she still wished that she and all of the aforementioned people would survive
the eventual coming of the Negaverse to the Moon Kingdom. After she made such a wish, and kept
it to herself, she then bent forward, so that she'd be able to blow out those candles on her cake, and
she blew them all out in one attempt.
Then her companions brought her some other gifts that they'd had socked away in the cabin
for some time. It took her about an hour to open them all. And most of the gifts were scrolls with
stories on them that'd either been written or bought by certain companions of hers. Other gifts
included at least one bracelet, as well as other pieces of jewelry. And some cooking-related items
were also among the gifts that she also received while she was in the cabin with all of her current
companions. After she received all those gifts, then, she soon put them with the rest of her things
that'd been brought to the area some length of time before, of course. That done, Lita thanked all her
current companions for her new gifts. And they all smiled big smiles when she did so.
Eventually, though, everyone did have to return to the Rainbow Springs area of the Moon.
So they then gathered up all their things, if they'd not yet done so. And they returned with all of them
to the place where they'd materialized near the beach. That done, they all soon transformed into their
respective Sailor Scout states of being, if they hadn't done so already. Of course, only the Princesses
would actually change their look here. This was because Luna and Artemis would stay in cat form
while their two dozen companions transformed into their respective Sailor Scout states of being.
Serena was the first to transform into her Sailor Scout state, and Winnie was the last. But eventually
all of the Princesses were in their respective Sailor Scout states of being. Even Princess Sylvia, who,
of course, became Junior Sailor Skyhorse again.
When that was done, Moon then had everyone stand in the same locations in which they'd
earlier materialized near the beach, so that they'd all return to the exact same coordinates that they'd
left the grounds of the Rainbow Springs Palace from. Of course, because Jupiter had been blindfolded
when she showed up near the Night Owl Beach in the area of Mount Chrysalis, she'd have to be
blindfolded. That was so that the necessary security system for the Rainbow Springs Palace wouldn't
think her to be an intruder, instead of someone that was allowed to be there, for all the obvious
reasons. So even though Moon would've preferred not to have to do it again, she blindfolded Jupiter
once more. That done, she then contacted the security system for the Rainbow Springs Palace, and
accessed it. She then lowered the shields for it so that she and the rest of her current companions
could teleport into it again, of course. She set a time limit of ten minutes, at most, for the shields to
remain down so that they could teleport into it again. After which the shields would automatically
kick back on to protect the palace and its grounds as well as they possibly could protect them.
That done, Moon soon had Luna and Artemis take up positions near her, of course. Then she
began the necessary teleportation process by saying her Sailor Teleport phrase. And after she did so,
all her fellow Scouts did the same, no matter who they were. Skyhorse was the last of the Scouts to
do so here. For she'd been the last to do so before.
Moments later, then, all of them materialized in the exact same locations that they'd been in
when they'd left the Rainbow Springs Palace's grounds in like manner. When they all realized that
well enough, Moon then said, "You have a few hours free before we have breakfast, at most. I
suggest that you all use them as wisely as you can. I don't necessarily care how you use them, in fact.
But I still do suggest that you all use them as wisely as you can. I'll want you in the main dining hall
within two or three hours. I think it's now about five or so hours past midnight here in the Rainbow
Springs area of the Moon. So I think I'll want you in the main dining hall no later than three hours
before local noon. Maybe even sooner than that. Because Mom wants us training by two hours
before local noon, if at all possible, I may call you sooner than three hours before local noon. Just so
that we can all have enough time for us to eat all our breakfasts in it, before we all have to start
training again here as Sailor Scouts." Moon said this just before she and the other Scouts transformed
out of their respective Sailor Scout states again.
All the other Princesses soon said to Serena, after they too had transformed out of those Sailor
Scout states of theirs, "Understood, Serena." Then they soon began leaving the room, so that they
each could have at least a little time to themselves, if they wanted it. The last one of them to leave
was Sylvia. And she stuck around a few minutes after all the other Princesses except for Serena and
herself had left it. Even Luna and Artemis had left it by then. Serena and Sylvia sat down on a bench
near the console that Serena and Poruzuka had earlier accessed to allow the Scouts to teleport onto
and off the Rainbow Springs Palace's grounds. And they soon began talking to each other for a
while.
In the next chapter for this story, Serena will converse at least somewhat with Sylvia, and
others as well. But mainly with Sylvia, whenever possible. Also there will be at least some training
that'll have to be done as well by any of the Scouts who'll be present on the Rainbow Springs
Palace's grounds, in fact. But for you to know all of what will go on in the next chapter, you;'ll just
have to wait and see. And you probably will need or want to review for this story if you want it to be
uploaded quicker than it has been of late, I think.
Serena and several others will be in this story's next chapter, as well, people. How so? You'll
all just have to read to find out, readers! I really do hope that you've enjoyed the first two stories in
this particular story series, and the first seventeen 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 last eight chapters after the next one 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.
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First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Inside Lita's Chambers In The Rainbow Springs Palace
Rainbow Springs, Moon Kingdom, Moon
December 4, 986 - December 5, 986
Periodically, then, over at least the next few nights, after they'd all had their suppers, Sylvia
and the rest of the Princesses would host slumber parties of their own, whenever possible. During
each of those slumber parties, they often continued to add to the story that Sylvia had just started not
long before. Most of the contributing to that story was done by Sylvia, due to the fact that she was
the first one to start telling the story in question, of course.
They continued doing this at least until the night before Lita's birthday began, if not longer
than that. By now, the story was already in its third scroll, with most of the copying of it being done
by Amy. And with the end of that third scroll coming up rather quickly, for the related telling of that
story had been going on for at least twelve to fifteen hours spread out over that length of time, after
Sylvia had originally begun telling it in her Rainbow Springs chambers.
It was now an hour before local midnight on the night before Lita's birthday. And Lita
currently had the floor, in a manner of speaking, as it related to that story. Which meant, of course,
that she was now adding to it. While Raye was writing down everything that Lita was now adding
to it, as quickly as Raye could write it down easily enough. Periodically, Lita would have to pause
at least long enough for Raye to write down the necessary words for the story, for all the obvious
reasons, of course.
Lita was currently telling the story's fiftieth chapter, and she was now saying, "Sailor Bellasina
then soon encountered several monsters attacking the Peruscotia Palace in Sylleskita, and they were
rather powerful, from what she could currently tell. So she found Sailor Clarissa elsewhere in the
Sylleskita area of Scoslanor, a country that shared a common border with Yalisomia on her world.
Sylleskita was only about five Terran statute miles away from the Scoslanoran border with Yalisomia,
and about twenty or so such miles away from where Sailor Bellasina came from in Yalisomia as
Sirashiki, an average Yalisomian peasant girl. But she'd still had reason to meet at least once before
in her life with the young Scoslanoran Princess Catrimusa. For her parents were traders that traded
on both sides of the Edislasol River near Sylleskita. They'd met just after Sirashiki had found herself
in a rather isolated series of caves near Sylleskita, and had stumbled onto a crystal called the Juniper
Crystal, as she'd later find out. After Sirashiki had found that crystal, and began handling it, she
eventually began to feel herself disappearing from where she was in those caves. As she did so,
Princess Catrimusa saw her doing so somewhere nearby in those caves. And not yet understanding
why Sirashiki was disappearing from them, she then tried to keep her from disappearing in a very
strange manner like she was now doing. And while she did so, she too began disappearing from them
herself. As did all the things that she and Sirashiki had with them when they'd begun disappearing
from those caves, as a matter of fact."
Lita took a sip of some milk and ate a few cookies for a few moments, before she continued
adding to the story. She then said, "After they'd both disappeared from those caves together, they
eventually materialized in a jungle halfway across their world. In that place, Princess Catrimusa
found another crystal called the Hummingbird Crystal. And when she began handling it, a series of
mirrors began appearing around her and Sirashiki. People that they'd never met before in their lives
then eventually began coming out of those mirrors. Among them, was the current ruler of the Moon
Kingdom, who was, if I'm not mistaken, Queen Abigail I, who ruled about one hundred or so years
before the beginning of the Silver Millennium. And Queen Abigail I then soon said, as soon as she'd
found a nearby bench to sit on that'd appeared within the circle made by the aforementioned mirrors,
'I am Queen Abigail of the Moon Kingdom in the Sol solar system of the Milky Way Galaxy. And
I see that you both have now found the Juniper and Hummingbird Crystals that have been missing
from our Moon Kingdom for 850 of our years. If you'd both allow us to have them back, I and my
current companions will make you Sailor Scouts, as our reward to you two for returning them both
to us. Supposing, of course, that you both want to become Sailor Scouts.' Of course, Sirashiki and
Catrimusa were curious to see what that'd entail for the both of them. And they asked Queen Abigail
what it'd mean for them to both become Sailor Scouts, as well as what they'd be able to do as Sailor
Scouts for as long as they were also Sailor Scouts in their respective lives. So Abigail then told them
both what they wanted and needed to know from her. And her current companions also did the same,
whenever necessary. Eventually, then, Abigail had made copies of the crystals in question, by using
her Imperium Silver Crystal to do so. Then, after she asked them if they both wanted to become Sailor
Scouts, and they both said they'd be honored to become Sailor Scouts, Abigail initiated them both as
Sailor Scouts. She did that with her making Sirashiki a Sailor Scout first, then Catrimusa moments
later. She made Sirashiki the Sailor Scout Bellasina. And she made Catrimusa the Sailor Scout
Clarissa. Not long after she did so, she and her fellow Moon Kingdom people then stepped back into
their mirrors, and left the scene. After Abigail left them, Sailors Bellasina and Clarissa had begun
training in that jungle for a while, until they were eventually able to make their way out of it easily
enough to allow them to get to a port in the country where they'd found themselves. Some length of
time later, they eventually made it back to their own continent. And after doing that, they eventually
parted from each other, promising to stay in touch with each other as often as possible in the future,
God willing, of course. And they then often were away from each other for at least the next few years.
At least until some trouble arose from monsters in the area of the Peruscotia Palace in Sylleskita. She
then found Catrimusa elsewhere in the area as Catrimusa was training in one of her underground
retreats there as Sailor Clarissa. She found her in a place that only she and Catrimusa knew that
Catrimusa was currently using as a secret place for her solo training as a Sailor Scout."
Then, about thirty minutes later, Lita passed the story along to Poruzuka, who then ran with
it until about a minute or two after local midnight, when a canister from the other side of the Moon
suddenly flew through an open window in Lita's Rainbow Springs Palace chambers. When Poruzuka
saw that canister fly into Lita's chambers, she then stopped telling the story as quickly as she could
do that. Poruzuka then had Raye stop recording the story immediately, if Raye hadn't already done
so. Raye had immediately stopped recording in the story's fourth scroll, just as soon as she realized
that Poruzuka had stopped telling it. Then she left a removable marker in that place, of course, while
Lita had her roll up the story's fourth scroll, which had been begun not long after Lita had passed the
story off to Poruzuka. When Raye did that, Lita then brought the canister to one of the larger tables
in her chambers. For it was rather large, as if it'd possibly have quite a few things in it.
As soon as Lita did so, everyone else soon gathered around that table in her chambers, for all
the obvious reasons, of course. And they only backed off from it when Lita insisted that they do so,
of course. She wanted and needed enough space to be able to handle the contents of that canister in
the required manners, of course. And if they were too close to that table, she'd possibly not be able
to do so without possibly bumping into or accidentally smacking her companions with any or all of
the contents of that canister. So, even if they'd prefer not to do so, they all soon backed up enough to
suit Lita to a sufficient enough degree.
As soon as they did so, Lita then eventually began opening and withdrawing the contents of
that canister, starting, of course, with all the things near or at the top of that canister. The canister
turned out to be from Serenity and a number of other people that Lita knew well enough in her life,
but mainly from Serenity, Daniel, and Darien, who probably knew her the best in her life except for
Lita's relatives and her fellow Princesses from anywhere in the Moon Kingdom. This, of course, was
for all the obvious reasons.
Lita then soon had the canister completely empty of all the things that'd just come her way in
it. Among them were two scrolls. One was marked for her, and one for Serena. Lita opened the one
for her partway, and after she did so, she soon silently read, "Before you read any further in this scroll,
Lita, Serena is to read her scroll from me to her aloud, as Amy translates the words of it into sign
language for Bethany's benefit." Of course, Lita told Serena that before she could read any further in
her own scroll, Serena had to open hers and read it aloud to all their current companions in Lita's
Rainbow Springs Palace chambers.
So Serena opened her scroll, and read aloud, of course, "Serena, you girls are to report to the
Double Earth Palace in Crescent for a period of at least one week, starting on December 21, 986.
You'll all need to bring at least one gown for a ball, or a series of balls, around that time. You'll then
be met in the South Garden of that palace by Princes Daniel, Darien, and Rolando, and myself, at
least, if not by others as well. You'll also be excused from your training sessions for as long as I deem
necessary while you're all on the Moon City side of the Moon. We'll then spend a few days, at most,
at the Double Earth Palace there, before we return to the Imperial Palace by Christmas Eve. We'll all
remain in residence there, at least until I decide that it's again time for you to resume your training
sessions again on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon. And we'll hopefully have a lot of fun while
you're here on the Moon City side of the Moon, if all goes sufficiently according to plan for all of us,
of course. Supposing, of course, that it's truly God's will that we do so, for at least a little while."
Serenity didn't say much more than that, before she signed off in Serena's scroll. After Serena
informed all of her companions of that fact, she then rolled up the scroll that her mother had sent her
in Lita's canister, for the obvious reasons, of course.
When Lita saw her do so well enough, then Lita began reading her scroll again rather silently,
so that everyone else wouldn't know what Serenity was saying to her in it, if Serenity didn't want her
to tell them what she was saying to her in it. Periodically, Serenity did allow Lita to share certain
information with all of her current companions in Lita's chambers, but not always. Eventually, then,
Lita did finish reading her scroll, and she rolled it up again, of course. That done, she then soon
opened a somewhat large tin of recently-made cookies straight from the main dining hall in the
Crystal Palace. Cookies which had been made, as a matter of fact, by Queen Serenity and several of
the Princes who were currently in the Moon City area. Most of them were likely chocolate chip
cookies, while others were filled with raisins, dates, and many other items, as Serenity and her fellow
bakers of those recently-made cookies had decided to put in any of the cookies currently in question.
In that tin of recently-made cookies, there were about 100 or so cookies, give or take about a dozen
or so either way. Certainly not more than about 120 or so cookies, though, in any case. After she saw
what was in that tin, she soon closed it up again, so that the others with her now wouldn't ask her for
any of them for at least a little while longer, most likely.
Besides the scrolls and the cookies, there were at least two dozen roses in the canister, as well
as a few wrapped gifts of various sizes that Serenity had told Lita not to open in the presence of any
of her current companions in her chambers. Lita took those things into her hidden alcove, and soon
had them socked away where not even any of her current companions would likely be able to find
them easily enough. This, of course, was for all the obvious reasons. Then she returned to the main
area of her chambers, after which she was soon asked to transform into her own Sailor Scout state of
being as Junior Sailor Jupiter. Not knowing why yet, she did so, even though she didn't understand
why her current companions would want her to do that at all.
As she did so, all her fellow Princesses did the same, and then they blindfolded her. Her
companions then gathered up at least a few of the things that they had with them currently in Lita's
chambers, and enough of Lita's things as well, after they did so. Then all of them led her to the room
where they'd all first come to the Rainbow Springs Palace, and moments later, after Moon first cleared
it with Serenity in the necessary manner, Moon and Neptune Alpha soon set coordinates on a console
there for a location still on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon. That done, they began assembling
themselves on the necessary tiles in that place, Even Jupiter, of course. Moments later, all of them
then began teleporting from that place to the aforementioned location elsewhere on the Rainbow
Springs side of the Moon. Within five minutes after they began doing so, they all materialized near
a beach elsewhere on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon. And so did all their things. It was a
somewhat bright lunar night when they did so. And they'd gone to a location roughly northwest from
Rainbow Springs when they teleported from the Rainbow Springs Palace there. The Earth was rather
high in the sky. And a rather bright comet was heading in a direction that'd make it cross the Earth
in the lunar skies above that location within the next few hours, at most. This comet was Comet Lita,
in fact. And it normally showed up about every two years around Lita's birthday. And this was the
case now, as well.
They'd all decided to bring Lita to the place where they now were, so that Lita could best see
her comet as it crossed the Earth in the lunar skies above them. They were now near the Night Owl
Beach on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon, which was a beach in the area of Mount Chrysalis
there on that side of the Moon. Mount Chrysalis was about five Terran statute miles away. And it
was still visible, due to the Earthlight now shining on it. The beach was on the Chrysanthemum Sea
on the Rainbow Springs side of the Moon. And it was to the east of that sea on the Moon. Mount
Chrysalis was about five miles further east of where they'd all materialized near that beach, then.
After they'd all soon materialized near that very beach, Moon then said, "Jupiter, please close
your eyes until we say otherwise. We need to remove your blindfold. And we don't want your eyes
to be suddenly subjected to bright lights when we take off your blindfold." So Jupiter closed her eyes,
and then Moon slowly removed her blindfold. After doing so, she had Jupiter very slowly open them,
for the obvious reasons, of course. As Jupiter did so, her eyes adjusted just as slowly to the darkness
that was still around her and all her current companions. And also to the light from the Earth and the
aforementioned comet, of course.
Jupiter soon found herself on a little hill near that beach, and then she said, "Moon, what are
you girls up to now?"
"Look above your head, Jupiter, and you'll see why we brought you here to this place. We
brought you here to see something you haven't likely seen for about two or so years. And to make it
possible for you to go swimming with us, if you want to, for a while."
"Where are we, then, Moon?"
"Near Night Owl Beach in the area of Mount Chrysalis on the Rainbow Springs side of the
Moon."
"Of course, in order to go swimming, I'll need a swimsuit."
"Already taken care of, Jupiter. We brought at least one of your swimsuits with us when we
brought you here."
"You got some of my things while I was blindfolded?"
"Yes, but not anything you'd not likely ever want us to get into, of course, Jupiter."
"Next question is this, then. Do we still need to be in each of our respective Sailor Scout
states, Moon?"
"Not until about six in the morning, Rainbow Springs time, at the very earliest, Jupiter.
Which'll hopefully allow us at least five or so hours of us doing whatever we want to do here before
we have to return to Rainbow Springs again, for the obvious reasons, of course. However, Destiny
and Bethany should probably stay in theirs, so that they don't hurt themselves while we're all
swimming, for all the obvious reasons, of course."
"Has Queen Serenity actually cancelled our morning training session for today, Moon, by any
chance? And if not, when are we supposed to begin it?"
"No, but she has postponed its start about two hours past its normal starting time, if not more.
She wants us training by two hours before local noon, if at all possible, though, Jupiter."
Then Moon had Jupiter and her other companions follow her to a large cabin near the beach,
and bring their things along with them to it. So she and all of her companions did so. Even Corona
and Eclipse did so. And after they got there, all of the Scouts soon changed into their swimsuits.
Even Corona and Eclipse, who stayed in their respective Sailor Scout states of being while their fellow
Scouts transformed out of each of theirs.
Eventually, then, all of them went to the beach. And they all soon began swimming in it there.
Except for Luna and Artemis, who normally didn't swim very well in anything larger than a small
pond or lake in their lives. Even Corona and Eclipse did so, while they were still in their Sailor Scout
states of being. Corona had left one of her pairs of glasses in the cabin. And the other pair, which
she was now wearing, would, depending on whether or not she was in the nearby water, would be
either a pair of glasses or a pair of goggles, as the situation might require her eyewear to be in it. This
would be the case so she could still see while she was in the water or out of it. That was because
she'd decided to put her power locket on the strap that was now running between the earpieces of the
glasses she was now wearing, which was the pair with black walnut wood earpieces. She hung that
power locket just below a ponytail she'd put her hair in right after supper the previous night. Yet still
where she could reach it easily enough, of course.
Lita and all her fellow Moon Kingdom humanoids then swam for a little while, at least until
her comet began to really get close to the Earth in the lunar skies. Then they quickly hurried back
onto the beach, and onto nearby benches on it. Several moments later, as the last of them sat down
on those benches, Comet Lita then got within a degree of the Earth in the lunar skies above their
heads. For at least the next few minutes, if not at least the next hour, they all then watched Comet
Lita cross the Earth, as most, if not all, of them had planned to do so. And they did this at least until
Comet Lita then got too far away from them to see it easily enough, because a large cloud had just
passed in front of it while they were still watching Comet Lita. The cloud wasn't very thick here, in
fact. But it was still rather large. For it covered at least a bit of the sky as it headed toward the
opposite horizon from the direction that it'd come their way at first. Which then meant that it headed
primarily to the south, which would be to their left, due to the fact that they'd been facing mainly
toward the west, in order to see Lita's comet for a while.
After Comet Lita vanished from their sight behind that cloud, Serena and her sisters then
asked all their companions to return to the cabin for a while. So they did so, and then Corona and
Eclipse eventually did transform out of their respective Sailor Scout states of being again. Of course,
when they did so, Destiny became blind again, and Bethany became deaf again. As they returned to
their usual non-Sailor Scout states, Destiny's eyes turned gray again. And Bethany's ears, essentially,
turned themselves off, at least in a manner of them allowing Bethany to hear what all her other
companions were now saying as they were all in the area of Mount Chrysalis on the Rainbow Springs
side of the Moon.
When Princess Destiny was in her Sailor Scout state as Junior Sailor Corona, her eyes were
usually a rather attractive medium brown color. But they could sometimes lighten, or darken,
themselves, or even change their main color, as her situation as a Sailor Scout might ever require them
to do at a particular time whenever she was in her Sailor Scout state as Junior Sailor Corona.
Normally, though, they'd not do either of those things whenever she was in her Sailor Scout state of
being as Junior Sailor Corona. She didn't ever have to think about changing her eye color. For her
body would generally do it without any prompting from her mind or heart to do so, if the need ever
arose for her eyes to change from their normal medium brown color that she'd have for them whenever
she was in her Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Corona. She'd not yet had any reason to
change her eye color from its master color that it'd had whenever she'd previously been in her Sailor
Scout state of being, nor had her body or her eyes. But that might not always be the case, of course,
for all the obvious reasons. Even if it wasn't always the case, she still wouldn't have to ever think
about changing her eye color if she didn't want to.
But when she wasn't in her Sailor Scout state, her eyes were always gray again, and she was
completely blind, at least in a physical sense. That didn't mean her mind's eyes were blind, of course.
It just meant that her physical eyes were unseeing again, whenever she was not Junior Sailor Corona,
and she was just Princess Destiny, in her own mortal life that she was now spending in God's very
own Universe, of course.
After she went blind again, Serena tied her left wrist to Bethany's right wrist, so that Bethany
could again lead Destiny wherever the need arose for them both to go soon enough. That done, the
girls then had Lita close her eyes, after having her sit at a rather large table in the cabin. And Raye
and Amy soon brought out a large cake with the help of Serena and Mina. The four aforementioned
Princesses then set it down on the table just in front of Lita. They did that so that Lita could blow out
the candles that were on it, once they were lit from a torch on the nearest wall of the cabin, or from
Raye's fingers, as the case might be, for the obvious reasons, of course. That done, the four of them
soon had Lita open her eyes rather slowly, as everyone then said, as loudly or as enthusiastically as
they each could, "Happy tenth birthday, Princess Lita!"
Lita wasn't surprised that all of her companions had done so. But to be kind, she didn't act
like she wasn't surprised at all. But she actually acted as if she hadn't expected them to do that at all.
To tell the whole truth of the matter, she wasn't really expecting a surprise birthday party. But she
was expecting that they'd say to her what they just had all said to her, of course. For she already knew
that it was now her birthday, for the obvious reasons. And she was now glad that she'd made it to
there, at least, in her life, of course.
After they all had wished her a happy birthday, Lita said, "Thank you, girls and cats. I just
hope that I have a whole lot more of them in the future. At least while we're still here in the Moon
Kingdom, that is."
Then she prepared to blow out the ten candles on her cake. But first, she made a wish that she
and all her friends and relatives would survive the coming of the Negaverse to the Moon Kingdom,
if at all possible. Granted, she also knew such a thing might not be possible, for all the obvious
reasons, of course. But she still wished that she and all of the aforementioned people would survive
the eventual coming of the Negaverse to the Moon Kingdom. After she made such a wish, and kept
it to herself, she then bent forward, so that she'd be able to blow out those candles on her cake, and
she blew them all out in one attempt.
Then her companions brought her some other gifts that they'd had socked away in the cabin
for some time. It took her about an hour to open them all. And most of the gifts were scrolls with
stories on them that'd either been written or bought by certain companions of hers. Other gifts
included at least one bracelet, as well as other pieces of jewelry. And some cooking-related items
were also among the gifts that she also received while she was in the cabin with all of her current
companions. After she received all those gifts, then, she soon put them with the rest of her things
that'd been brought to the area some length of time before, of course. That done, Lita thanked all her
current companions for her new gifts. And they all smiled big smiles when she did so.
Eventually, though, everyone did have to return to the Rainbow Springs area of the Moon.
So they then gathered up all their things, if they'd not yet done so. And they returned with all of them
to the place where they'd materialized near the beach. That done, they all soon transformed into their
respective Sailor Scout states of being, if they hadn't done so already. Of course, only the Princesses
would actually change their look here. This was because Luna and Artemis would stay in cat form
while their two dozen companions transformed into their respective Sailor Scout states of being.
Serena was the first to transform into her Sailor Scout state, and Winnie was the last. But eventually
all of the Princesses were in their respective Sailor Scout states of being. Even Princess Sylvia, who,
of course, became Junior Sailor Skyhorse again.
When that was done, Moon then had everyone stand in the same locations in which they'd
earlier materialized near the beach, so that they'd all return to the exact same coordinates that they'd
left the grounds of the Rainbow Springs Palace from. Of course, because Jupiter had been blindfolded
when she showed up near the Night Owl Beach in the area of Mount Chrysalis, she'd have to be
blindfolded. That was so that the necessary security system for the Rainbow Springs Palace wouldn't
think her to be an intruder, instead of someone that was allowed to be there, for all the obvious
reasons. So even though Moon would've preferred not to have to do it again, she blindfolded Jupiter
once more. That done, she then contacted the security system for the Rainbow Springs Palace, and
accessed it. She then lowered the shields for it so that she and the rest of her current companions
could teleport into it again, of course. She set a time limit of ten minutes, at most, for the shields to
remain down so that they could teleport into it again. After which the shields would automatically
kick back on to protect the palace and its grounds as well as they possibly could protect them.
That done, Moon soon had Luna and Artemis take up positions near her, of course. Then she
began the necessary teleportation process by saying her Sailor Teleport phrase. And after she did so,
all her fellow Scouts did the same, no matter who they were. Skyhorse was the last of the Scouts to
do so here. For she'd been the last to do so before.
Moments later, then, all of them materialized in the exact same locations that they'd been in
when they'd left the Rainbow Springs Palace's grounds in like manner. When they all realized that
well enough, Moon then said, "You have a few hours free before we have breakfast, at most. I
suggest that you all use them as wisely as you can. I don't necessarily care how you use them, in fact.
But I still do suggest that you all use them as wisely as you can. I'll want you in the main dining hall
within two or three hours. I think it's now about five or so hours past midnight here in the Rainbow
Springs area of the Moon. So I think I'll want you in the main dining hall no later than three hours
before local noon. Maybe even sooner than that. Because Mom wants us training by two hours
before local noon, if at all possible, I may call you sooner than three hours before local noon. Just so
that we can all have enough time for us to eat all our breakfasts in it, before we all have to start
training again here as Sailor Scouts." Moon said this just before she and the other Scouts transformed
out of their respective Sailor Scout states again.
All the other Princesses soon said to Serena, after they too had transformed out of those Sailor
Scout states of theirs, "Understood, Serena." Then they soon began leaving the room, so that they
each could have at least a little time to themselves, if they wanted it. The last one of them to leave
was Sylvia. And she stuck around a few minutes after all the other Princesses except for Serena and
herself had left it. Even Luna and Artemis had left it by then. Serena and Sylvia sat down on a bench
near the console that Serena and Poruzuka had earlier accessed to allow the Scouts to teleport onto
and off the Rainbow Springs Palace's grounds. And they soon began talking to each other for a
while.
In the next chapter for this story, Serena will converse at least somewhat with Sylvia, and
others as well. But mainly with Sylvia, whenever possible. Also there will be at least some training
that'll have to be done as well by any of the Scouts who'll be present on the Rainbow Springs
Palace's grounds, in fact. But for you to know all of what will go on in the next chapter, you;'ll just
have to wait and see. And you probably will need or want to review for this story if you want it to be
uploaded quicker than it has been of late, I think.
Serena and several others will be in this story's next chapter, as well, people. How so? You'll
all just have to read to find out, readers! I really do hope that you've enjoyed the first two stories in
this particular story series, and the first seventeen 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 last eight chapters after the next one 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!