In the last chapter, Serena and Raye had a rather private discussion
with each other about some very important things and people. And they
had this discussion of theirs in Raye's Imperial Palace chambers. They
had it before going to a ball in that palace's main ballroom, and they
conversed with each other at considerable length during it, in fact.
There is only one more chapter to put up for this story after this one and the next one. For this next chapter might be what you'd call Chapter 24, if you consider each section that I've put up for this story to be chapters of some sort. And if so, then the next chapter which will follow here is to be Chapter 24. This story is 26 chapter-like sections long, readers. So after this next chapter, there will only be two more such sections to put up to complete this story here. In this chapter, Serena will have some unexpected visitors, when she has an unexpected vision, in her Imperial Palace chambers. And she'll have this vision of hers on Christmas Day 986, as well.
Now, without any further ado, let's get on with the next chapter of this story of mine here,
if that's all right with you all here, readers. Please read, review, and enjoy, if at all possible, quite naturally enough, readers!
First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Inside Serena's Chambers In The Imperial Palace
Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon
December 25, 986
Some length of time after she then woke up again in her Imperial Palace chambers on Christmas Day about local noon, at the very earliest, Serena then experienced a vision in them. And in this vision, she saw four girls that she'd not yet met in her life. She didn't know them yet, of course,
but that'd not always be the case, if she ever met them.
Little did she know that she and a number of other people would be meeting them before another few weeks or months more passed for them in each of their lives. She and those she'd be meeting them with would likely find themselves in a place they'd all least expect to be in their lives,
for all the obvious reasons, of course.
And little did she know that she and her current companions would be meeting them in a place none of them had likely ever been in before, not even those who were actually from Terra, if that place was itself also on Terra. Of course, if that happened, then they'd have to do whatever they possibly could to make sure that they all eventually returned to the Moon Kingdom again, at least once more in each of their lives, if they somehow all survived long enough for them all to do that.
Serena was alone when she began experiencing this vision, and she was sitting in her bed as she did so. She'd just woken up about ten or so minutes before, and she'd been sitting in her bed,
reading one of her nearby scrolls there. Her attention was diverted from her scroll by a series of loud cymbal-like crashes out of thin air. She looked around her chambers for a few seconds, after hearing those sounds out of the air, and as she did so, the vision began appearing on a wall near the door of her chambers. Four girls about her age, if not a little older, then began appearing on that wall, after which they soon stepped away from it, and began walking toward her, as soon as they realized that they were visible enough to her.
Little did she know that she'd be meeting them at least once before the likely end of the Moon Kingdom, if not more. They all then stopped about five feet away from her, after leaving the area of that far wall in her chambers. They stood near the foot of her bed, and then one of them said, "Moon Princess Serena, expect the unexpected. We're from a land you know not of on Earth. We'll have a common enemy, I believe, and we'll be fighting them at least once together before four or five more of our years pass for us all in our lives. We're Princesses Zardiz Buzmura, Mara Zimak, Yazmis Takya, and Ginkya Rillis. I myself am Princess Mara Zimak, and we're all cousins to each other."
Serena then asked the girl who'd just spoken to her, "Princess Mara, how do you know of me?"
"The One True God of the Universe told us all of you. We have heard only the basic information about you and several other people in your life, I believe, Moon Princess Serena. We may actually meet somewhere on Earth, or we may not meet on Earth, but we'll all actually meet you, and anyone else you're currently with, when you meet up with us. I am Princess Mara Zimak, and I am the oldest of us four girls who are now visiting you in your chambers on the grounds of one of your Moon Kingdom's many palaces on the Moon. The short and stocky blonde girl next to me is Princess Yazmis Takya, and she's the oldest daughter of the third daughter of Emperor Isumelico and Empress Prakelena, who are our nation's current rulers. The brown-haired one is Princess Ginkya Rillis, and she's the youngest daughter of the second son of our nation's current rulers. Princess Zardiz Buzmura is the black-haired third daughter of the eighth son of them. Which leaves me, Princess Mara Zimak, the auburn-haired oldest daughter of my own parents, who are Crown Prince Ritolepano and Crown Princess Voriskana, the people due to lead our nation if something happens to our current Emperor and his Empress. My parents are next in line to lead our nation, for my father is the oldest child of the Emperor and Empress, of course."
"What does all this have to do with me and those I might be with, if and when we ever meet,
Princess Mara?"
"I'm not entirely sure, Moon Princess Serena, but I do suspect that we'll all someday be fighting side by side with each other at least once in our lives. I don't know why, but I just have this feeling that we'll all eventually meet up with each other, and fight alongside each other against some common enemy of ours, whoever they may be."
"Do you know of Prince Darien?"
"Yes. We also know of your sisters Destiny and Bethany, as well as of your parents, and of Amy, Mina, Raye, Lita, Hannah, Alexis, Michelle, Susan, and Sylvia, at the very least. We also know of Rolando, in fact, Serena. There may be others we don't yet know of that we might meet up with later. But we do know of at least twelve Princesses, three Princes, and one Queen that we might meet up with later, if things work out to make such a meeting possible."
"And what do you think of this possibility, Princess Mara?"
"If it happens, then so be it. If not, then that's the way the cookie crumbles, I guess."
"Can I tell others about this vision in which I've seen you?"
"Only the people we know of, if you do. And if you do, then you must make them promise not to tell anyone else about it. For if you do, our future common enemy might hear about it somehow. I fear that you have several of their spies scattered all around your Moon Kingdom, and that they're trying to gain all the possible intelligence about it and you all in it, that they possibly can,
so that their people's invasion of your Moon Kingdom goes better for them than you'd naturally like it to go for them."
"The Negaverse?"
"Yes, we seem to hear that name often in a number of our recent dreams and visions, Moon Princess Serena," said Princess Ginkya.
"How are you girls able to appear to me, and talk to me now, then?"
"We are in the Crystal Chambers of the Imperial Palace in Cuzco, in a Terran nation you might call 'Peru' in about a thousand years, I think. We are in a chamber at least as large as your own chambers in the Imperial Palace of Moon City on the Moon, if not larger. Around us are a series of mirrors with various crystals on or near them, Moon Princess Serena. We all are actually, it seems, in two places at once. Are we totally solid there?" asked Ginkya.
Serena got out of her bed, and then she walked to where Mara was standing in her chambers,
just before she touched Mara's arm. Mara said, "Go ahead and touch my arm, Serena. It's all right. That way, you can know if we're making this stuff up, and if you're still dreaming in your chambers." So Serena then touched Mara's nearest arm, and she felt that it was about eighty or so percent solid, before she answered Mara's question.
Serena said, "No, you're not. You're mostly solid, but not entirely."
"If I'm not, then the others aren't likely completely solid either. Go ahead and touch them too just like you did me."
So Serena did so, and with the other three Princesses, she had basically the same results of her touching them. She told Mara so. Mara said, "We're not totally solid here either, Serena. We can currently see through each other. But anyone else who might see us in these chambers while we're in them will see and feel us as totally solid people. We're currently in these chambers back on Earth, and we must be projecting ourselves at least partly into your chambers. I hope you don't mind the intrusion into them by us."
"I normally don't like having my chambers invaded at all, girls."
"I understand fully. But for some reason, we got a message from God to appear in a vision to you in your chambers. Once this vision ends, you won't likely see us again until we actually meet in physical reality for the first time, I believe. I don't know if we'll all eventually see each other at least once on the Moon, but we might, of course, Serena, for all the obvious reasons. I wish we didn't have to come into your chambers like we did, but we had to, for God told us to," said Mara.
"All right. If God told you to, then I can let it slide, at least this time. But if you don't have to invade them in the future, please consider not doing so in it, girls."
Zardiz Buzmura said, "We'll try to keep that in mind, Serena," after she consulted briefly with her fellow Terran Princesses. Then she turned to Serena, and said, "Princess Yazmis Takya wants to ask you a question, Serena, if that's all right with you."
"Go ahead, Princess Yazmis Takya."
"Are you currently dating anyone?"
"Not at the moment, and I doubt that I will for at least a few more years, Yazmis, but if you're asking if Darien is spoken for, then I think I have to say, 'Sort of, but not entirely, at least not currently on an official basis. For we'll be boyfriend and girlfriend to each other in the future, if we're not already. And we'll have such a relationship at least once, if not more than that, in the future. God willing, of course. We may even marry each other, and have a family together, in the future, at least once in our lives.' Don't get me wrong, Yazmis, you might be a nice girl and everything, but I really care very deeply for Darien in my life, and I don't want to ultimately lose him to another girl, of course. I won't say you can't chase him, if you ever meet him, at least as long as we're not married to each other, but I probably won't like it if you do that at all."
"You mean like when Raye might chase him too?"
"You know about that, Yazmis?"
"All four of us do, Serena."
"Part of your learning about me and others before you came here in a vision to me in my chambers?"
"Yes, Serena. We know at least that and a few other things about you and several other people in your life. Granted, we don't know everything about you all, at least not yet, if we ever will, but we do know those things about you and several other people in your life."
"Like what?"
Mara answered, "Like your mother is expecting multiple babies, for instance. They'll all arrive healthy, I believe, Serena. And they won't be entirely like either Destiny or Bethany, if they're girls. I believe that you'll have at least two or three more sisters, Serena, within the next three to six months, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know exactly when, but I think that you'll do so."
"I'd not be surprised if that turns out to be the case, Mara."
"Why not?"
"Because I discussed that very possibility with my mother a few days or so ago, Mara."
"I see." Then Mara and her fellow Terrans who were currently visiting Serena in her chambers conversed with her only for a little while longer, before Mara eventually said, "Serena, we'll need to leave you now, for we have other things to do at the current time. It's getting near morning here, if it's not already that time, or later than that time. And we have other things we either want to, or need to, do today before nightfall comes here to our part of Earth. Remember, you're not to discuss this vision with anyone else in your life that we don't know of. And if you discuss it with anyone at all, you're only to discuss it with the people we've said that you can, if at all possible. And anyone who you discuss it with is not to mention it to anyone else that we've not yet mentioned to you here in your chambers. If any of you do so, the Negaverse, if that's who our common enemy will be, might somehow be able to cause a whole lot of trouble for your own Moon Kingdom's people and for those of us who are actually from Earth. Even Darien, of course."
"So, if I don't want them to get after us so much, if it can possibly be avoided at all, I'm not to discuss this visit of yours with anyone else who you don't already know of? Especially for Darien's sake, at least?"
"Correct. The same thing is true, of course, for anyone else that you talk to about this visit of ours that we know of already. Even for Darien, who you've already said that you really care for in your life to us."
"Understood," Serena finally said. After she said that, then her visitors began turning away from her, so that they could return to the wall on which they'd earlier appeared in her chambers. Before they could get all the way there, she asked them, "How'll I know you when I see you again, if I ever do see you again, as you're all thinking that I, at least, will someday do, Mara?"
"Look for girls with face paint and feathers in their hair, as well as mostly golden snakeskin armbands on our left arms. If you see four girls that look like us, and you see those things, then you should be able to recognize us, I think. Agates will be hanging from those armbands, and if you see them, then you should be able to see us from about twenty or so feet away from you and anyone else you're with when you see us next."
"What color will the feathers be, Mara?"
"Most of them will be bright red, cobalt blue, or light green, with a few black or silver feathers mixed in with them as needed, so that you'd be able to see them easily enough, Serena."
"Understood, Mara."
"And if we see you with anyone, and you're not having to fight them, when we meet, then we're to expect that they're your companions?"
"Yes, Mara."
"Very well. We know at least a bit about what the people we already know of look like, if not entirely. And you expect to be in your normal Moon Kingdom or Earth states of being?"
"Yes, but how do you know about us having other states of being?"
Mara said, "God told us, just in case the need would arise for you to be with us when you weren't in your normal Moon Kingdom or Earth states of being. We know that several, if not all, of you are Sailor Scouts. But we don't know what your actual identities are as the same, if any or all of you have any such states of being at all."
Then Ginkya said, "Mara, we have to go now, or we'll be late for our next commitment, I think."
"Serena, we know you'll likely have at least a few more questions for us all. But any answers we might have for those questions of yours are going to have to wait to be voiced by us for at least a little while, for all the obvious reasons, of course. I don't like it any more than you might. And I'm sure that my three fellow Princesses feel the same way. But that's just the way things will have to be for at least a little while, I think. Or at least until we all can actually meet with each other in a physical sense, at least, and not just in this manner. May God bless you and all of your people rather well, at least until we ever meet, if we ever do, in each of our respective lives in His very own Universe." Then each of the girls touched the wall seconds later. And moments later, they had all disappeared from it, after they'd walked into the wall in question, of course. Several loud cymbal-like crashes rather effectively punctuated their rather quick departure from her cabin to end the vision she'd just experienced in her own chambers.
After the vision ended, and her visitors had left her alone again, in her chambers, she then sat in her bed for at least the next few minutes. She sat there just trying to make at least some reasonable sense of her just-ended vision, if not longer than that. Eventually, she then got out of her bed, and went to her bathroom, where she then got herself a little water to drink. That done, she then went to her bedside table and picked up her locket.
She thought for a moment, then she suddenly decided to transform into her Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Moon. After doing that, she then signaled several other people with her locket, by tapping it in a certain pattern. She told them to meet her in their Sailor Scout states, where applicable, in the Hebron Garden of the Imperial Palace within the next half hour or so, if at all possible. Destiny, Bethany, Amy, Raye, Lita, Mina, Sylvia, and Serenity then acknowledged receiving such a message from her by tapping their lockets again in the same pattern as she'd summoned them with, after having tapped them so that they could receive that message from her in the first place, of course. They only tapped those lockets of theirs, though, whenever they were far enough away from certain other people who didn't yet know that they were secretly also Sailor Scouts,
of course.
After her mother Queen Serenity then tapped off her locket, Moon then tapped her locket again to close the communications channels that she'd used just moments before. That done, she then soon left her chambers, after checking her own appearance at least once more in one of her mirrors. And she, for once, didn't waste any time in getting to the necessary garden elsewhere on the Imperial Palace's grounds in Moon City.
There is one more chapter to this story after the next one. In the next chapter, or what might pass for Chapter 25, Serena will discuss the vision that she had in Chapter 24 with several other Scouts. Including her mother, in fact. This discussion of the vision will take place in the Imperial Palace's Hebron Garden, as well. And there will also be a Christmas Day/Night party and ball, of course, for all the obvious reasons, here. What she and the other Scouts will say when they have that discussion there, though, you'll all just have to wait and see, until that chapter gets put up as needed on , in fact. Rest assured, though, people, that this vision of Serena's that she'll discuss as needed will still hint at the Sailor Scouts' next adventure. Or at least the next adventure of those Scouts who are close enough to each other in Serena's life, that is. This particular story here will have a total of 26 chapter-like sections in it, readers.
I will brief you all more, as this story's end comes even closer, as needed, in fact. But the rest of this story and its related series will still take at least some time to put up here, just the same, readers. For I have not yet completed the series, even though I've written at least partly into the seventh volume of this series, if not totally into it. Six volumes are complete. The seventh volume in this series is in progress, as of the current time. And the Moon Kingdom hasn't yet fallen at the point that I am now at in its series. When I finish getting the first six volumes of this story series up, I will start to upload the seventh one. And then we can go from there, once you have seen all that I'll have by that time for "The Chrysanthemum Chronicles" story series, readers. I don't expect to be able to start uploading the seventh volume in the series for at least a few weeks or months, though, however. For each volume in this particular story series of mine here is generally of good size, whenever possible, in fact, readers. There are many more things yet to come in this series. But if I say too much more than that right now and right here, you might choose not to continue reading this series, I think. For I might then be spoiling it for you all here, obviously enough, of course. 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!
There is only one more chapter to put up for this story after this one and the next one. For this next chapter might be what you'd call Chapter 24, if you consider each section that I've put up for this story to be chapters of some sort. And if so, then the next chapter which will follow here is to be Chapter 24. This story is 26 chapter-like sections long, readers. So after this next chapter, there will only be two more such sections to put up to complete this story here. In this chapter, Serena will have some unexpected visitors, when she has an unexpected vision, in her Imperial Palace chambers. And she'll have this vision of hers on Christmas Day 986, as well.
Now, without any further ado, let's get on with the next chapter of this story of mine here,
if that's all right with you all here, readers. Please read, review, and enjoy, if at all possible, quite naturally enough, readers!
First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Inside Serena's Chambers In The Imperial Palace
Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon
December 25, 986
Some length of time after she then woke up again in her Imperial Palace chambers on Christmas Day about local noon, at the very earliest, Serena then experienced a vision in them. And in this vision, she saw four girls that she'd not yet met in her life. She didn't know them yet, of course,
but that'd not always be the case, if she ever met them.
Little did she know that she and a number of other people would be meeting them before another few weeks or months more passed for them in each of their lives. She and those she'd be meeting them with would likely find themselves in a place they'd all least expect to be in their lives,
for all the obvious reasons, of course.
And little did she know that she and her current companions would be meeting them in a place none of them had likely ever been in before, not even those who were actually from Terra, if that place was itself also on Terra. Of course, if that happened, then they'd have to do whatever they possibly could to make sure that they all eventually returned to the Moon Kingdom again, at least once more in each of their lives, if they somehow all survived long enough for them all to do that.
Serena was alone when she began experiencing this vision, and she was sitting in her bed as she did so. She'd just woken up about ten or so minutes before, and she'd been sitting in her bed,
reading one of her nearby scrolls there. Her attention was diverted from her scroll by a series of loud cymbal-like crashes out of thin air. She looked around her chambers for a few seconds, after hearing those sounds out of the air, and as she did so, the vision began appearing on a wall near the door of her chambers. Four girls about her age, if not a little older, then began appearing on that wall, after which they soon stepped away from it, and began walking toward her, as soon as they realized that they were visible enough to her.
Little did she know that she'd be meeting them at least once before the likely end of the Moon Kingdom, if not more. They all then stopped about five feet away from her, after leaving the area of that far wall in her chambers. They stood near the foot of her bed, and then one of them said, "Moon Princess Serena, expect the unexpected. We're from a land you know not of on Earth. We'll have a common enemy, I believe, and we'll be fighting them at least once together before four or five more of our years pass for us all in our lives. We're Princesses Zardiz Buzmura, Mara Zimak, Yazmis Takya, and Ginkya Rillis. I myself am Princess Mara Zimak, and we're all cousins to each other."
Serena then asked the girl who'd just spoken to her, "Princess Mara, how do you know of me?"
"The One True God of the Universe told us all of you. We have heard only the basic information about you and several other people in your life, I believe, Moon Princess Serena. We may actually meet somewhere on Earth, or we may not meet on Earth, but we'll all actually meet you, and anyone else you're currently with, when you meet up with us. I am Princess Mara Zimak, and I am the oldest of us four girls who are now visiting you in your chambers on the grounds of one of your Moon Kingdom's many palaces on the Moon. The short and stocky blonde girl next to me is Princess Yazmis Takya, and she's the oldest daughter of the third daughter of Emperor Isumelico and Empress Prakelena, who are our nation's current rulers. The brown-haired one is Princess Ginkya Rillis, and she's the youngest daughter of the second son of our nation's current rulers. Princess Zardiz Buzmura is the black-haired third daughter of the eighth son of them. Which leaves me, Princess Mara Zimak, the auburn-haired oldest daughter of my own parents, who are Crown Prince Ritolepano and Crown Princess Voriskana, the people due to lead our nation if something happens to our current Emperor and his Empress. My parents are next in line to lead our nation, for my father is the oldest child of the Emperor and Empress, of course."
"What does all this have to do with me and those I might be with, if and when we ever meet,
Princess Mara?"
"I'm not entirely sure, Moon Princess Serena, but I do suspect that we'll all someday be fighting side by side with each other at least once in our lives. I don't know why, but I just have this feeling that we'll all eventually meet up with each other, and fight alongside each other against some common enemy of ours, whoever they may be."
"Do you know of Prince Darien?"
"Yes. We also know of your sisters Destiny and Bethany, as well as of your parents, and of Amy, Mina, Raye, Lita, Hannah, Alexis, Michelle, Susan, and Sylvia, at the very least. We also know of Rolando, in fact, Serena. There may be others we don't yet know of that we might meet up with later. But we do know of at least twelve Princesses, three Princes, and one Queen that we might meet up with later, if things work out to make such a meeting possible."
"And what do you think of this possibility, Princess Mara?"
"If it happens, then so be it. If not, then that's the way the cookie crumbles, I guess."
"Can I tell others about this vision in which I've seen you?"
"Only the people we know of, if you do. And if you do, then you must make them promise not to tell anyone else about it. For if you do, our future common enemy might hear about it somehow. I fear that you have several of their spies scattered all around your Moon Kingdom, and that they're trying to gain all the possible intelligence about it and you all in it, that they possibly can,
so that their people's invasion of your Moon Kingdom goes better for them than you'd naturally like it to go for them."
"The Negaverse?"
"Yes, we seem to hear that name often in a number of our recent dreams and visions, Moon Princess Serena," said Princess Ginkya.
"How are you girls able to appear to me, and talk to me now, then?"
"We are in the Crystal Chambers of the Imperial Palace in Cuzco, in a Terran nation you might call 'Peru' in about a thousand years, I think. We are in a chamber at least as large as your own chambers in the Imperial Palace of Moon City on the Moon, if not larger. Around us are a series of mirrors with various crystals on or near them, Moon Princess Serena. We all are actually, it seems, in two places at once. Are we totally solid there?" asked Ginkya.
Serena got out of her bed, and then she walked to where Mara was standing in her chambers,
just before she touched Mara's arm. Mara said, "Go ahead and touch my arm, Serena. It's all right. That way, you can know if we're making this stuff up, and if you're still dreaming in your chambers." So Serena then touched Mara's nearest arm, and she felt that it was about eighty or so percent solid, before she answered Mara's question.
Serena said, "No, you're not. You're mostly solid, but not entirely."
"If I'm not, then the others aren't likely completely solid either. Go ahead and touch them too just like you did me."
So Serena did so, and with the other three Princesses, she had basically the same results of her touching them. She told Mara so. Mara said, "We're not totally solid here either, Serena. We can currently see through each other. But anyone else who might see us in these chambers while we're in them will see and feel us as totally solid people. We're currently in these chambers back on Earth, and we must be projecting ourselves at least partly into your chambers. I hope you don't mind the intrusion into them by us."
"I normally don't like having my chambers invaded at all, girls."
"I understand fully. But for some reason, we got a message from God to appear in a vision to you in your chambers. Once this vision ends, you won't likely see us again until we actually meet in physical reality for the first time, I believe. I don't know if we'll all eventually see each other at least once on the Moon, but we might, of course, Serena, for all the obvious reasons. I wish we didn't have to come into your chambers like we did, but we had to, for God told us to," said Mara.
"All right. If God told you to, then I can let it slide, at least this time. But if you don't have to invade them in the future, please consider not doing so in it, girls."
Zardiz Buzmura said, "We'll try to keep that in mind, Serena," after she consulted briefly with her fellow Terran Princesses. Then she turned to Serena, and said, "Princess Yazmis Takya wants to ask you a question, Serena, if that's all right with you."
"Go ahead, Princess Yazmis Takya."
"Are you currently dating anyone?"
"Not at the moment, and I doubt that I will for at least a few more years, Yazmis, but if you're asking if Darien is spoken for, then I think I have to say, 'Sort of, but not entirely, at least not currently on an official basis. For we'll be boyfriend and girlfriend to each other in the future, if we're not already. And we'll have such a relationship at least once, if not more than that, in the future. God willing, of course. We may even marry each other, and have a family together, in the future, at least once in our lives.' Don't get me wrong, Yazmis, you might be a nice girl and everything, but I really care very deeply for Darien in my life, and I don't want to ultimately lose him to another girl, of course. I won't say you can't chase him, if you ever meet him, at least as long as we're not married to each other, but I probably won't like it if you do that at all."
"You mean like when Raye might chase him too?"
"You know about that, Yazmis?"
"All four of us do, Serena."
"Part of your learning about me and others before you came here in a vision to me in my chambers?"
"Yes, Serena. We know at least that and a few other things about you and several other people in your life. Granted, we don't know everything about you all, at least not yet, if we ever will, but we do know those things about you and several other people in your life."
"Like what?"
Mara answered, "Like your mother is expecting multiple babies, for instance. They'll all arrive healthy, I believe, Serena. And they won't be entirely like either Destiny or Bethany, if they're girls. I believe that you'll have at least two or three more sisters, Serena, within the next three to six months, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know exactly when, but I think that you'll do so."
"I'd not be surprised if that turns out to be the case, Mara."
"Why not?"
"Because I discussed that very possibility with my mother a few days or so ago, Mara."
"I see." Then Mara and her fellow Terrans who were currently visiting Serena in her chambers conversed with her only for a little while longer, before Mara eventually said, "Serena, we'll need to leave you now, for we have other things to do at the current time. It's getting near morning here, if it's not already that time, or later than that time. And we have other things we either want to, or need to, do today before nightfall comes here to our part of Earth. Remember, you're not to discuss this vision with anyone else in your life that we don't know of. And if you discuss it with anyone at all, you're only to discuss it with the people we've said that you can, if at all possible. And anyone who you discuss it with is not to mention it to anyone else that we've not yet mentioned to you here in your chambers. If any of you do so, the Negaverse, if that's who our common enemy will be, might somehow be able to cause a whole lot of trouble for your own Moon Kingdom's people and for those of us who are actually from Earth. Even Darien, of course."
"So, if I don't want them to get after us so much, if it can possibly be avoided at all, I'm not to discuss this visit of yours with anyone else who you don't already know of? Especially for Darien's sake, at least?"
"Correct. The same thing is true, of course, for anyone else that you talk to about this visit of ours that we know of already. Even for Darien, who you've already said that you really care for in your life to us."
"Understood," Serena finally said. After she said that, then her visitors began turning away from her, so that they could return to the wall on which they'd earlier appeared in her chambers. Before they could get all the way there, she asked them, "How'll I know you when I see you again, if I ever do see you again, as you're all thinking that I, at least, will someday do, Mara?"
"Look for girls with face paint and feathers in their hair, as well as mostly golden snakeskin armbands on our left arms. If you see four girls that look like us, and you see those things, then you should be able to recognize us, I think. Agates will be hanging from those armbands, and if you see them, then you should be able to see us from about twenty or so feet away from you and anyone else you're with when you see us next."
"What color will the feathers be, Mara?"
"Most of them will be bright red, cobalt blue, or light green, with a few black or silver feathers mixed in with them as needed, so that you'd be able to see them easily enough, Serena."
"Understood, Mara."
"And if we see you with anyone, and you're not having to fight them, when we meet, then we're to expect that they're your companions?"
"Yes, Mara."
"Very well. We know at least a bit about what the people we already know of look like, if not entirely. And you expect to be in your normal Moon Kingdom or Earth states of being?"
"Yes, but how do you know about us having other states of being?"
Mara said, "God told us, just in case the need would arise for you to be with us when you weren't in your normal Moon Kingdom or Earth states of being. We know that several, if not all, of you are Sailor Scouts. But we don't know what your actual identities are as the same, if any or all of you have any such states of being at all."
Then Ginkya said, "Mara, we have to go now, or we'll be late for our next commitment, I think."
"Serena, we know you'll likely have at least a few more questions for us all. But any answers we might have for those questions of yours are going to have to wait to be voiced by us for at least a little while, for all the obvious reasons, of course. I don't like it any more than you might. And I'm sure that my three fellow Princesses feel the same way. But that's just the way things will have to be for at least a little while, I think. Or at least until we all can actually meet with each other in a physical sense, at least, and not just in this manner. May God bless you and all of your people rather well, at least until we ever meet, if we ever do, in each of our respective lives in His very own Universe." Then each of the girls touched the wall seconds later. And moments later, they had all disappeared from it, after they'd walked into the wall in question, of course. Several loud cymbal-like crashes rather effectively punctuated their rather quick departure from her cabin to end the vision she'd just experienced in her own chambers.
After the vision ended, and her visitors had left her alone again, in her chambers, she then sat in her bed for at least the next few minutes. She sat there just trying to make at least some reasonable sense of her just-ended vision, if not longer than that. Eventually, she then got out of her bed, and went to her bathroom, where she then got herself a little water to drink. That done, she then went to her bedside table and picked up her locket.
She thought for a moment, then she suddenly decided to transform into her Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Moon. After doing that, she then signaled several other people with her locket, by tapping it in a certain pattern. She told them to meet her in their Sailor Scout states, where applicable, in the Hebron Garden of the Imperial Palace within the next half hour or so, if at all possible. Destiny, Bethany, Amy, Raye, Lita, Mina, Sylvia, and Serenity then acknowledged receiving such a message from her by tapping their lockets again in the same pattern as she'd summoned them with, after having tapped them so that they could receive that message from her in the first place, of course. They only tapped those lockets of theirs, though, whenever they were far enough away from certain other people who didn't yet know that they were secretly also Sailor Scouts,
of course.
After her mother Queen Serenity then tapped off her locket, Moon then tapped her locket again to close the communications channels that she'd used just moments before. That done, she then soon left her chambers, after checking her own appearance at least once more in one of her mirrors. And she, for once, didn't waste any time in getting to the necessary garden elsewhere on the Imperial Palace's grounds in Moon City.
There is one more chapter to this story after the next one. In the next chapter, or what might pass for Chapter 25, Serena will discuss the vision that she had in Chapter 24 with several other Scouts. Including her mother, in fact. This discussion of the vision will take place in the Imperial Palace's Hebron Garden, as well. And there will also be a Christmas Day/Night party and ball, of course, for all the obvious reasons, here. What she and the other Scouts will say when they have that discussion there, though, you'll all just have to wait and see, until that chapter gets put up as needed on , in fact. Rest assured, though, people, that this vision of Serena's that she'll discuss as needed will still hint at the Sailor Scouts' next adventure. Or at least the next adventure of those Scouts who are close enough to each other in Serena's life, that is. This particular story here will have a total of 26 chapter-like sections in it, readers.
I will brief you all more, as this story's end comes even closer, as needed, in fact. But the rest of this story and its related series will still take at least some time to put up here, just the same, readers. For I have not yet completed the series, even though I've written at least partly into the seventh volume of this series, if not totally into it. Six volumes are complete. The seventh volume in this series is in progress, as of the current time. And the Moon Kingdom hasn't yet fallen at the point that I am now at in its series. When I finish getting the first six volumes of this story series up, I will start to upload the seventh one. And then we can go from there, once you have seen all that I'll have by that time for "The Chrysanthemum Chronicles" story series, readers. I don't expect to be able to start uploading the seventh volume in the series for at least a few weeks or months, though, however. For each volume in this particular story series of mine here is generally of good size, whenever possible, in fact, readers. There are many more things yet to come in this series. But if I say too much more than that right now and right here, you might choose not to continue reading this series, I think. For I might then be spoiling it for you all here, obviously enough, of course. 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!