In the last chapter, Serena had another unexpected vision, as she was
in her Imperial Palace chambers. In this vision, she saw and conversed
with four girls about her age. They came to her in the vision, and
conversed with her about various things that'd likely happen for her
and others in the future. They conversed with her for at least a while,
before her unexpected visitors in the vision left her alone again in
her Imperial Palace chambers. And now Serena was even more worried
about the future for her and others, even if she wasn't apparently
showing it at the current time, in fact.
There is only one more chapter to put up for this story after this one. For this next chapter might be what you'd call Chapter 25, 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 25. This story is 26 chapter-like sections long, readers. So after this next chapter, there will only be one more such section to put up to complete this story here. In this chapter, Serena will discuss her latest unexpected vision with several other Scouts, including her mother, in fact. And she'll do it sometime before a Christmas Day/Night party and/or ball, as well, readers.
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! Remember, there will only be one more chapter of this story after this one here. For the story is going to end with the next one after this one. And then it will lead into the next one, which will be called "A Rather Hostile Takeover," for your information, people. If I say any more here about these things, though, I might be running the risk of ruining the end of the story, until you finish this next chapter here, at the very least, I think. So let's get on with the story here now, if you all don't mind too much, of course!
First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Hebron Garden In The Imperial Palace
Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon
December 25, 986 - December 26, 986
By the time that she was met by several other Sailor Scouts in the Hebron Garden of the Imperial Palace, it was now about an hour or so past local noon, but not later than about two hours after local noon, in the area of Moon City on the Moon. She was sitting on a bench near the main fountain in that garden when they joined her there then. And she was facing toward that fountain, as she sat on that bench there.
Mars was the first of the other Scouts she'd just communicated with to see her on that bench. As soon as she got close enough to where Moon was sitting on that bench in the garden, she asked, "All right, Moon, what's the story? Why haven't you shown up yet in the main ballroom, so that everyone can begin opening their gifts?"
Moon said, "I had a vision in which four girls about my age appeared in my chambers and talked to me, in my chambers."
Royal Sailor Serenity said, "Please describe this vision, Moon."
So Moon described this vision that she'd just recently experienced as Serena in her own Imperial Palace chambers. And whenever she thought that one of her fellow Scouts was about to interrupt her describing of that vision with at least one question of their own, she said, "I'll answer all your questions when I finish telling you about my vision, and not before. So please save your questions until I'm done, so that you get my whole story down to the best of my ability to tell it." Reluctantly, of course, at least on the part of Mars and Skyhorse, the other Scouts remained quiet, so that she could finish telling her story. As she told it, though, Mercury was taking it down, for all the obvious reasons, to the best of her ability to do so.
It took Moon at least twenty or so minutes to tell her story to the other Scouts who were present with her currently in the Hebron Garden of the Imperial Palace, but eventually she finished telling it to them. Then, as promised, she fielded several questions from them about it, and anything else that came to mind while they were doing so.
Serenity finally said, "Then I suppose we better do what the Terran Princesses from some other place on Earth have suggested that we do, for the obvious reasons, girls. We can tell Hannah, Alexis, Michelle, and Susan about Serena's vision, as well as Princes Daniel, Darien, and Rolando, but nobody else, if we can possibly avoid it. But if we tell anyone else about it, besides those other seven people, it could mean more trouble for us much quicker than we'd like to have it here in the Moon Kingdom. I believe I can trust Serena to not mention it to anyone other than the proper people, at least this time, for I'm certain that she really doesn't want to see anything bad happen to Darien, if it can possibly be avoided at all."
"Yes, that's right, Mom. I'm not going to blab it to anyone else who doesn't need to know about it, for once. For I don't want to see my honey get hurt by anyone else, if it can possibly be avoided at all. Sure, I may blab about a whole lot of things in my life, and Raye would probably call me a 'Meatball Head' for doing so, but this time, at least, I won't blab about my recent vision any more than I have to, if I can possibly avoid it at all."
"You're right, Moon. I probably would call you that, if I were just Raye. But as we all know,
I'm Junior Sailor Mars right now."
"That's true, I guess, Mars, but deep down, you're still Raye Erica Hino, just as I am, deep down, still Serena Ruth Teresa Hope Rose Moon."
Corona asked, "Moon, how are you going to make sure that you don't blab it to anyone else who doesn't need to know about your recent vision?"
"I don't know, but I just know that I have to remain as quiet as possible about it, at least for Darien's sake, if not anyone else's as well. For if I blab needlessly, and something happens to him that somehow causes the future to change so much that he's not part of my life forever, and that he's never my husband and the father of Rini, at least, I may never forgive myself. I couldn't imagine never seeing him again in the future, if worst comes to worst for all of us here in the Moon Kingdom, or many of us, if not all of us."
"You don't want to lose Darien forever?"
"You've got it, Eclipse and Corona. If it can possibly be avoided at all, I don't ever want to lose him forever. He's my dream guy, no matter how many other cute guys I may ever chase before I marry him sometime in the future."
"What would you do to be with him?"
"Almost anything, if not anything at all, Mars. I'd probably even die for him if I had to, and if I could, in order to save him, if at all possible, somehow."
"And do you think that he'd do the same?"
"I'd hope so, but I'm not yet sure if he'd do that, Mercury, if I'll ever be."
Moon then walked over to a nearby rosebush in the garden, and plucked a rose from it, as carefully as she could, using a nearby snipper of sorts to do that. She soon held the rose up to her face for a few seconds, and then as soon as she'd smelled it enough here, she said, "My feelings for him are at least as strong as this rose's cinnamon and chocolate smells are, if not stronger. This is a Belinda Cromeke variety of rose that is usually found near the Moon's North Pole, and which often grows in places near the pole where the ice pack is thinnest, or non-existent. This rosebush's ancestors, as a matter of fact, came from an underground cave in one of those places. Using genes from both of its parents, a seed was eventually produced. This seed was then carried by an underground stream that brought it most of the way to Moon City. One of the former rulers of the Moon Kingdom then found that seed on a trip they'd taken to the place where they'd found that seed, and they then brought the seed here to be planted in this garden. And this seed then produced this rosebush. This rosebush has now been providing roses for at least half the Silver Millennium, if not even longer than that, in fact. And ever since its seed's planting, the smells of this rosebush's roses have often become stronger, instead of weaker. I think that when these roses' smells get the strongest that they possibly can get, the Negaverse will be about able to invade our Moon Kingdom, if they haven't already done so. The smells of this particular rose are very strong, but I think that they are not yet strong enough to warn us about the Negaverse's likely coming. I'll bring this rose to each of you. And you can all actually smell it, if you want to."
Moon then did that here, and everyone now with her did smell the rose now in question here. Even her mother Serenity. Then Mars said, "You really do care for him that much, Moon?"
"Yes, Mars, I do. I'll never give him up at all, if I can possibly avoid it, and if I don't have to,
to anyone else. And I'd be with him if worst comes to worst for us here in our lives, at least once, if not more, if at all possible, Mars. Even if it means I'd die, I'd be with him, if at all possible."
"You care for him even more than possibly succeeding me as the leader of our people, Moon?"
asked Serenity.
"Yes, Mother, I really do care for Prince Darien that much, at least right now. I think that I'd rather have him near me, than to be the leader of our people in the future, if I ever had to choose. At least at the current time, I do. Hopefully, I'll never have to choose one over the other, though."
"Agreed. But if you do, then what?"
"Then, Mom, I guess I'll have to cross that bridge if and when I ever face it in the future."
Then Moon and all her current companions soon ended their discussion of Moon's recent vision as Serena, and they then went to the main ballroom of the Imperial Palace for at least the next few hours, if not longer. They spent at least three to four hours there, if not longer, during which time they all finally received all the gifts that had been put under or near a tree there for each and every single one of them.
That done, they all soon returned to each of their respective chambers with their new gifts for at least a little while. And they didn't show up elsewhere on the grounds of the Imperial Palace while they did so. They only showed up when it was time for the next ball to begin in the main ballroom of the Imperial Palace, and not before then.
The following ball lasted for several hours, at least, until about two or so hours after local midnight. When they all got too tired to stay in the main ballroom of the Imperial Palace, they all eventually left it, if they'd not already done so by about two or so hours after local midnight. Serena was the last one of them to leave the main ballroom, and she left it with Prince Darien, who then walked her to her chambers in them, before she got too tired to do that herself. He escorted her to them, and as soon as he saw that she was safely in them, he left her alone again. He then slipped out of her chambers rather silently, as soon as he was sure that nobody else would see or hear him leave them. He then silently went to his own chambers, and he retired for the rest of the local night.
There are to be no more chapters to this story after the next one. In the next chapter, or what might pass for Chapter 26, Serena will have to say goodbye for at least the time being to several of her Terran friends, if not all of them. If not for good, that is. She won't want to, in fact, but circumstances which will be sufficiently beyond her control well enough will force her to do so. And she will wish they didn't have to go away again, for at least a little while, obviously. But they will have to do so, in order to hopefully help her and her people survive much easier when the end of the Moon Kingdom comes to pass, in fact.
The next chapter will lead into the next story, which will be the fourth volume of the series,
people. For it will be the last chapter of First Kisses? here, in actual reality. A Rather Hostile Takeover 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, people. 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. For this next chapter might be what you'd call Chapter 25, 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 25. This story is 26 chapter-like sections long, readers. So after this next chapter, there will only be one more such section to put up to complete this story here. In this chapter, Serena will discuss her latest unexpected vision with several other Scouts, including her mother, in fact. And she'll do it sometime before a Christmas Day/Night party and/or ball, as well, readers.
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! Remember, there will only be one more chapter of this story after this one here. For the story is going to end with the next one after this one. And then it will lead into the next one, which will be called "A Rather Hostile Takeover," for your information, people. If I say any more here about these things, though, I might be running the risk of ruining the end of the story, until you finish this next chapter here, at the very least, I think. So let's get on with the story here now, if you all don't mind too much, of course!
First Kisses?
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Hebron Garden In The Imperial Palace
Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon
December 25, 986 - December 26, 986
By the time that she was met by several other Sailor Scouts in the Hebron Garden of the Imperial Palace, it was now about an hour or so past local noon, but not later than about two hours after local noon, in the area of Moon City on the Moon. She was sitting on a bench near the main fountain in that garden when they joined her there then. And she was facing toward that fountain, as she sat on that bench there.
Mars was the first of the other Scouts she'd just communicated with to see her on that bench. As soon as she got close enough to where Moon was sitting on that bench in the garden, she asked, "All right, Moon, what's the story? Why haven't you shown up yet in the main ballroom, so that everyone can begin opening their gifts?"
Moon said, "I had a vision in which four girls about my age appeared in my chambers and talked to me, in my chambers."
Royal Sailor Serenity said, "Please describe this vision, Moon."
So Moon described this vision that she'd just recently experienced as Serena in her own Imperial Palace chambers. And whenever she thought that one of her fellow Scouts was about to interrupt her describing of that vision with at least one question of their own, she said, "I'll answer all your questions when I finish telling you about my vision, and not before. So please save your questions until I'm done, so that you get my whole story down to the best of my ability to tell it." Reluctantly, of course, at least on the part of Mars and Skyhorse, the other Scouts remained quiet, so that she could finish telling her story. As she told it, though, Mercury was taking it down, for all the obvious reasons, to the best of her ability to do so.
It took Moon at least twenty or so minutes to tell her story to the other Scouts who were present with her currently in the Hebron Garden of the Imperial Palace, but eventually she finished telling it to them. Then, as promised, she fielded several questions from them about it, and anything else that came to mind while they were doing so.
Serenity finally said, "Then I suppose we better do what the Terran Princesses from some other place on Earth have suggested that we do, for the obvious reasons, girls. We can tell Hannah, Alexis, Michelle, and Susan about Serena's vision, as well as Princes Daniel, Darien, and Rolando, but nobody else, if we can possibly avoid it. But if we tell anyone else about it, besides those other seven people, it could mean more trouble for us much quicker than we'd like to have it here in the Moon Kingdom. I believe I can trust Serena to not mention it to anyone other than the proper people, at least this time, for I'm certain that she really doesn't want to see anything bad happen to Darien, if it can possibly be avoided at all."
"Yes, that's right, Mom. I'm not going to blab it to anyone else who doesn't need to know about it, for once. For I don't want to see my honey get hurt by anyone else, if it can possibly be avoided at all. Sure, I may blab about a whole lot of things in my life, and Raye would probably call me a 'Meatball Head' for doing so, but this time, at least, I won't blab about my recent vision any more than I have to, if I can possibly avoid it at all."
"You're right, Moon. I probably would call you that, if I were just Raye. But as we all know,
I'm Junior Sailor Mars right now."
"That's true, I guess, Mars, but deep down, you're still Raye Erica Hino, just as I am, deep down, still Serena Ruth Teresa Hope Rose Moon."
Corona asked, "Moon, how are you going to make sure that you don't blab it to anyone else who doesn't need to know about your recent vision?"
"I don't know, but I just know that I have to remain as quiet as possible about it, at least for Darien's sake, if not anyone else's as well. For if I blab needlessly, and something happens to him that somehow causes the future to change so much that he's not part of my life forever, and that he's never my husband and the father of Rini, at least, I may never forgive myself. I couldn't imagine never seeing him again in the future, if worst comes to worst for all of us here in the Moon Kingdom, or many of us, if not all of us."
"You don't want to lose Darien forever?"
"You've got it, Eclipse and Corona. If it can possibly be avoided at all, I don't ever want to lose him forever. He's my dream guy, no matter how many other cute guys I may ever chase before I marry him sometime in the future."
"What would you do to be with him?"
"Almost anything, if not anything at all, Mars. I'd probably even die for him if I had to, and if I could, in order to save him, if at all possible, somehow."
"And do you think that he'd do the same?"
"I'd hope so, but I'm not yet sure if he'd do that, Mercury, if I'll ever be."
Moon then walked over to a nearby rosebush in the garden, and plucked a rose from it, as carefully as she could, using a nearby snipper of sorts to do that. She soon held the rose up to her face for a few seconds, and then as soon as she'd smelled it enough here, she said, "My feelings for him are at least as strong as this rose's cinnamon and chocolate smells are, if not stronger. This is a Belinda Cromeke variety of rose that is usually found near the Moon's North Pole, and which often grows in places near the pole where the ice pack is thinnest, or non-existent. This rosebush's ancestors, as a matter of fact, came from an underground cave in one of those places. Using genes from both of its parents, a seed was eventually produced. This seed was then carried by an underground stream that brought it most of the way to Moon City. One of the former rulers of the Moon Kingdom then found that seed on a trip they'd taken to the place where they'd found that seed, and they then brought the seed here to be planted in this garden. And this seed then produced this rosebush. This rosebush has now been providing roses for at least half the Silver Millennium, if not even longer than that, in fact. And ever since its seed's planting, the smells of this rosebush's roses have often become stronger, instead of weaker. I think that when these roses' smells get the strongest that they possibly can get, the Negaverse will be about able to invade our Moon Kingdom, if they haven't already done so. The smells of this particular rose are very strong, but I think that they are not yet strong enough to warn us about the Negaverse's likely coming. I'll bring this rose to each of you. And you can all actually smell it, if you want to."
Moon then did that here, and everyone now with her did smell the rose now in question here. Even her mother Serenity. Then Mars said, "You really do care for him that much, Moon?"
"Yes, Mars, I do. I'll never give him up at all, if I can possibly avoid it, and if I don't have to,
to anyone else. And I'd be with him if worst comes to worst for us here in our lives, at least once, if not more, if at all possible, Mars. Even if it means I'd die, I'd be with him, if at all possible."
"You care for him even more than possibly succeeding me as the leader of our people, Moon?"
asked Serenity.
"Yes, Mother, I really do care for Prince Darien that much, at least right now. I think that I'd rather have him near me, than to be the leader of our people in the future, if I ever had to choose. At least at the current time, I do. Hopefully, I'll never have to choose one over the other, though."
"Agreed. But if you do, then what?"
"Then, Mom, I guess I'll have to cross that bridge if and when I ever face it in the future."
Then Moon and all her current companions soon ended their discussion of Moon's recent vision as Serena, and they then went to the main ballroom of the Imperial Palace for at least the next few hours, if not longer. They spent at least three to four hours there, if not longer, during which time they all finally received all the gifts that had been put under or near a tree there for each and every single one of them.
That done, they all soon returned to each of their respective chambers with their new gifts for at least a little while. And they didn't show up elsewhere on the grounds of the Imperial Palace while they did so. They only showed up when it was time for the next ball to begin in the main ballroom of the Imperial Palace, and not before then.
The following ball lasted for several hours, at least, until about two or so hours after local midnight. When they all got too tired to stay in the main ballroom of the Imperial Palace, they all eventually left it, if they'd not already done so by about two or so hours after local midnight. Serena was the last one of them to leave the main ballroom, and she left it with Prince Darien, who then walked her to her chambers in them, before she got too tired to do that herself. He escorted her to them, and as soon as he saw that she was safely in them, he left her alone again. He then slipped out of her chambers rather silently, as soon as he was sure that nobody else would see or hear him leave them. He then silently went to his own chambers, and he retired for the rest of the local night.
There are to be no more chapters to this story after the next one. In the next chapter, or what might pass for Chapter 26, Serena will have to say goodbye for at least the time being to several of her Terran friends, if not all of them. If not for good, that is. She won't want to, in fact, but circumstances which will be sufficiently beyond her control well enough will force her to do so. And she will wish they didn't have to go away again, for at least a little while, obviously. But they will have to do so, in order to hopefully help her and her people survive much easier when the end of the Moon Kingdom comes to pass, in fact.
The next chapter will lead into the next story, which will be the fourth volume of the series,
people. For it will be the last chapter of First Kisses? here, in actual reality. A Rather Hostile Takeover 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, people. 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!