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Chapter name, Inside the Palace and Aris

The winner of guessing who Aris is, was Cats eye. She did more then what I asked and I thank her for that, I had no idea as to what she would look like out of her armor. Thanks again. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

Aris appeared in the hinds' forest in search of her, the golden hind, the one who protected the forest and it's inhabitants. She moved through the forest remembering all the time spent here when she was younger.

"I know you well Serenity and every where you use to hide when you were angry, sad, scared and most of all when you were lonely." She laughed and felt a presence watching her and she turned around. "I don't need you to follow me, I will not betray you!" She said as she glared at the man in the tree above and a few feet behind her. "You know what Serenity did to me!" She said

"I trust that you won't! I just noticed that you know this forest almost as well as the hind!" He said as a smile covered his lips. Aris shuttered.

"That smile of yours is creepy! Yeah, so?" She questioned then started "This forest is." She said as she turned around to face him completely. " My past is my past! You don't have to know anything after I left your house!" She yelled and disappeared quickly leaving Nester shocked.

"So you lied my little nymph, not telling me everything like you promised, how despicable of you, I shall find it out if I have to follow you every where." He said aloud while grinning. She shuddered again as he disappeared.

***ARIS***

She reappeared in the same spot she stood as soon as Nester had left.

'Go ahead and try Nester!' She thought as she walked toward the palace. As she came to the end of the forest she stopped and changed her form into that of Princess Serenity in human form. She walked out of the forest and up the palace steps. She walked into the palace and looked around sadly. 'If only this could have lasted! They were so great to me!' She shook her head and silently scolded herself. She moved toward the hall but as she did she saw the queen walking toward the room lost in thought and stopped walking.

The queen wore a simple but elegant gown that fell past her feet and dragged a little on the floor. At the top of the dress there sat a white bow held there by a crescent moon with the tips facing the sky. This was the birthmark of the royal family and Aris clutched her fist in anger. This left a bit of her cleavage showing and her shoulders held no sleeves like the young princess's. Her face was fair and gentle most of the time, but hard at this moment since she was lost in thought. Her eyes were a stormy gray with a hint of violet in them. Her eyes held knowledge and wisdom that from the look of her she should not know. On her forehead she held the royal birthmark. At the tips of moon there seemed to be chains that attached and went from there behind her bangs and up to each one her buns on each side of her head. The buns were small and left most of her hair trailing from the buns down her back.

Aris touched the buns that were on her head, form the disguise and sighed. 'I wish I had been born to you! I would have made a much better daughter then that disgrace, Serenity. She's a creature of the forest and a human. How can her mother love her and not shun her? My mother did when she. I mustn't think about that or her, she is after all dead.' Aris smiled and then regained her composer, as how a princess should look.

"Mother!" Aris said masking her voice as Serenity's. Queen Selenity looked up and a smile covered her face. She ran into the room and engulfed Aris in a hug, thinking it was her daughter. Queen Selenity ignored the shiver of fear that went up her spine when she hugged the girl.

"Serenity? Where have you been? It's been hours sense the ball ended." Her mother said concerned

"I was in the forest!" She stated inwardly smiling knowing all too well that the queen did not like her daughter in the forest.

"Serenity!" Said the queen as she let go of her daughter and stepped backward a foot. "How many times have I told you not to go into the forest when we have other planets visiting?" She said scowling. "They might find out who you are!"

Aris was shocked to say the least. 'She allows her daughter to be in the forest now? She never did when I was around. She was always afraid that an animal would hurt the princess.'

"I'm terribly sorry mother!" She said lowering her head.

"Well Serenity just to let you know the prince you were suppose to meet missed the ball as well." Queen Selenity said smiling.

"Really mother? Who was it?" She regretted the question as soon as she asked it.

"Why Prince Endymion of Earth, did you forget?" The Queen asked knowing too well that her daughter hated princes for the fact they were male and could not touch her.

Aris held her breath. 'Endymion? But the Moon and Earth are at war, why would they be up here? Why Endymion?' she thought

"Serenity? Asked the queen a bit concerned. Her daughter was not usually accepting to the thought of a prince coming. "What is wrong?" She asked as she placed her hand on her daughters' shoulders. Serenity looked up with glowing eyes and the queen stepped back horrified. "What did you do with my daughter?" She asked realizing that the thing in front of her was not her beloved child.

"Why I have done nothing Selenity!" Aris said returning to her original form and balling up her fist. Selenity covered her mouth as she recognized the young woman in her presences.

"Aris?" She asked as she rushed forward to engulf the girl in a hug. As her arms where about to encircle the girl, Aris flung her hand into the queen's chest and ripped out the moon that was at the top of her dress, then she shoved the queen to the floor. The bow that was at the top of her dress came unraveled and fell to the floor. The top of her dress showed off more cleavage now. The queen heaved and held her hand where the moon had been.

"Now the crystal is mine and I can become you!" Aris said darkly. The moon slowly changed shape and formed into a small silver crystal. She placed the crystal in the middle of her chest and her dressed changed into the queens with the bow then the crystal changed back into the crescent moon. She smiled at the shocked look of the queen then she changed her face and hair to match that of the queen. "Now what shall I do with you? There can't be two queens and plus in order for me to get you're daughter..."

"No! Leave Serenity alone, she's done nothing to you!" Screamed the queen. Aris narrowed her eyes at the queen.

"She's done a lot to me, she was the one born to you from you're true love, she was the one blessed with the beauty of a goddess, she was the one who got all she wanted, she was the one that was granted to be your heir, she was the one that had you to love her and for all those things she will pay!" She held her hand above the queen and the queen vanished. "Have fun in the dungeon you never use!" She said bitterly. She stared at the spot that Serenity had been in for quite some time. When the outers and Mace walked into the room they were looking at her strangely.

"Queen Selenity?" Asked Sailor Uranus as she stepped closer to the queen. Aris looked up and smiled, knowing that the disguise was perfect.

"Yes, Sailor Uranus?" She asked masking her voice for the queens.

"Have you seen Serenity or the inners since you talked to her last night?" Asked Sailor Uranus.

"No!" Aris said.

"Shall we go look for her?" Asked Sailor Neptune.

"Yes, and I will accompany you!" She said sounding worried. She turned from her position and headed toward the door, as she got closer to the door she saw Serenity.

"Serenity! Where have you.." Queen Selenity stared then stopped. Worry appeared in her features and she said changing her voice to a concerned tone "Quickly get them inside, follow me!" She turned and walked into the palace, holding herself back from changing and killing the young princess

The four men walked past Endymion and Serenity, and the queen led then into the palace and down the wing that all the sick or wounded inhabited when needed. She opened a door and walked inside. The outers and Mace followed.

"Place two of them in here, Sailor Neptune please look at them and see what is wrong." Queen Selenity commanded.

"But, You're majesty, should I not get the healer?" She asked halfway into the room.

"Ah yes, I'm sorry Sailor Neptune, I'm so worried my mind has left me, I'm not thinking properly." Said Queen Selenity holding her hand to her mouth to hide her smile. Sailor Neptune looked at her a moment then quickly went and got the healer of the palace, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Mars were placed into a room across the hall from Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus. When the healer reached the wing he went in each room and then came into the hall and reported to all.

"The young ladies seem to be doing fine, there are a few injuries that need to be checked over and bandaged, and I still have to check more thoroughly for broken bones. They shall all live and I will get on that quickly.

"Thank-you! But Serenity will attend to them so you may leave" Said Queen Selenity. The healer looked shocked.

"But your majesty, it has to be done."

"Please leave, my daughter will deal with them." The healer stepped up to the queen and whispered into her ear.

"You know Aris you should not so openly use the fact the princess can heal, most do not know of it and I know the healer did not. I also know that I did not tell you!" He said then stepped back and looked at her. The queen glared at the healer and waved her hand for him to leave. He did so.

Queen Selenity turned more toward everyone and smiled softly, the spoke before anyone else had a chance. "Thank-you gentlemen, But I have to ask you to leave." The queen said. The men stared at her shocked, but the scouts stood behind the queen, along with Mace.

"May I ask why your majesty!" Question Nephrite as he looked at the door Sailor Jupiter occupied.

"I can not have the scouts identities revealed to you, unless they wish it so." She stated. Everyone stared at the queen. 'Jeez, how does she speak like this all the time? It's so hard to put the sentences together properly, not to mention separating two words that can be joined.'

(A.N. I didn't think they would know what a conjunction was so I tried to explain it best I could)

"Sailor Uranus, please escort the gentlemen out the door!" Commanded the queen, as she walked down the hall to get her daughter. She stepped out the door and stood in shock as she saw Endymion with his arms wrapped around Serenity's waist, her arms around his neck. She gulped down her anger and spoke.

"He's touching you Serenity?" The Queen asked Astonished. They looked over to her both with beat red faces, Endymion released Serenity and she released him.

"Yes mother, he can touch me and not change me, isn't it wonderful?" Serenity asked rushing to her mother. Queen Selenity bowed her head and shook it from one side to the other. She smiled wickedly and shook her head, suddenly thinking of something. She smiled quickly then looked to the princess masking her anger as disappointment.

"I'm sorry Serenity, but it is not as wonderful as you presume." Queen Selenity said in a depressed voice. Serenity stopped a few feet from her mother.

"What do you mean?" Serenity asked.

" I shall tell you later, right now we must attend to the scouts, your healing didn't work as well as it normally does." Queen Selenity said, before she turned around and moved through the palace doors, where she came to a sudden stop and with out turning around she spoke, "The young man with you and his friends will have to leave, they can not know the scouts identities." With that said the queen slowly walked back into the shadows of the palace. She passed the outers and Mace as Sailor Uranus pushed the men to the door.

Aris smiled inwardly. 'Sailor Uranus was always the first to protect me and always was the toughest warrior. Why couldn't I have been the princess?' a frown appeared on her disguised lips. Sailor Neptune noticed.

"Queen Selenity?" The queen looked up, "Is something wrong? You look so sad."

"You will see when you step out the doors!" She lied and walked down the corridor that the scouts were in. The generals were shoved toward the door when Endymion's voice was heard.

"I won't!" He said softly then yelled, "Generals, we must leave." Sailor Uranus shoved the men out the door harder.

"Hey, stop pushing!" Yelled Nephrite, he being the one closest to the strong female and receiving most of the impact from the shoves.

"Not until you leave, like the Queen asked!" She commanded.

"Sailor Uranus, must you be so harsh?" Serenity asked. Sailor Uranus looked over to her for the first time, with a questioning look.

"You're highness, what are you doing? The scouts need your attention!" Asked Uranus sweetly.

"Very well! Please escort the Terrains to the town." Serenity asked nicely.

"I will do no such thing, I am sorry your majesty, but I do not associate with the people from Earth." She said disgustedly. Sailor Uranus now donned a small frown as she took in why the queen was so sad. Sailor Saturn walked out of the palace doors, with Mace behind her.

"We shall escort them, your highness!" Sailor Saturn chimed in as she bowed along with Mace. Serenity looked to her and smiled. Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune turned to them shocked. Sailor Saturn just smiled at them and walked down the stairs.

"Thank you Sailor Saturn." Serenity said gratefully hugging her friend. She released Sailor Saturn, turned around and looked at Endymion, who stood next to his generals. He avoided looking at her. She walked up to him.

"Please, look at me!" She begged. He looked at her and she smiled at him, which caused him to smile. "Thank you!" She wrapped her arms around his neck and he looked shocked, then she pulled his head down to hers and kissed him passionately. She broke the kiss, as he was about to wrap his arms around her. "I hope to see you soon." She said as she let go of him and walked passed a shocked Sailor Uranus. Sailor Uranus quickly followed the princess and started asking questions. Sailor Neptune followed staying quiet.

"I will!" Yelled Endymion as soon as he got over the shock. Sailor Saturn giggled. That was the last heard by the fair princess as she was interrogated by the tallest of the Sailor Senshi.

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After everyone had left the room in front of the palace doors, Queen Serenity stepped out of the shadows of one of the corridors and stepped out the palace doors. She stepped down onto the first stair and stopped.

"Thank-you Sailor Saturn! You've been a lot of help!" A light engulfed her and left the stairs empty. She appeared in the hallway of the wing the scouts were in. She walked to a door and turned the handle.

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"How can he touch you? How is that possible? Why are you letting him touch you? Have you not heard the stories of the royalty on Earth? Where were you all night?" asked Sailor Uranus in a rush

"I'm not sure, but it has something to do with his blood. Because, his touch feels wonderful. Yes I have and from what I have seen the stories are wrong and are meant to deceive us. I was out looking for him, got myself captured, the scouts came to save me, were hurt, he saved me and then his generals helped with the girls, and that is why I was not back until this morning. Now please stop acting like my mother." She said in a huff.

Sailor Uranus stopped walking at the last comment and stared after the princess as she walked down the hall to sick wing.

"Don't take it to heart, she is after all growing up!" Said Sailor Neptune. Sailor Uranus turned to her.

"I know, but it is so hard for me to believe that she has found someone else to place in her heart besides her friends. It's also hard to remember that I'm just her guardian and not her mother," Sailor Uranus said looking to Sailor Neptune and then to Serenity as she walked into one of the rooms, in search of her mother. The room she walked into was like a waiting room.

Sailor Neptune placed her hand on Sailor Uranus Shoulder and stood next to her. Then a bloodcurdling scream was heard from the room Serenity was in, they rushed to the door to find it locked. Sailor Uranus started to ram it and heard yet another scream. She rammed it harder one more time hearing the door let out a loud creek.

"Serenity!" Screamed Sailor Uranus as she slammed through the doors she rammed it once again. As soon as she was in the room she saw something she never expected to see. Aris, her former friend pinned Serenity to the wall, holding her by the neck. Serenity was unconscious. Off in the corner there was a maid with an arrow in her. She was breathing heavily and had her hand wrapped around the shaft of the arrow.

Aris was a good 7 inches taller then that of Serenity's 5'3. She had long brown hair, with blonde streaks in it pulled into a high braid that fell above the bends of her knees. She had two long wisps of hair coming down each side of her face, stopping above her chest. She had a small circlet around her forehead. Her eyes were a brilliant shade of forest green. Around her neck the straps of her shirt crisscrossed and tie in the back. The shirt she wore showed her midriff and laced up the sides and tied below her armpits. She also had small golden circles across her stomach. Below her birthmark she wore a sword on her hip and attached to the leather strap holding the sheath was the moon that used to be on the queen's dress. She wore a leather skirt that resembled Trojan Armor. She wore leather boots that started at the bottom edge of her skirt and laced halfway down. Around each of her ankles she wore the same emblem as on her forehead. She wore a cloak on her back, tied around her neck with a small crescent moon pin.

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She walked into the room completely oblivious to the maid was placing towels and other objects for healing. She took a hold of the moon and ripped it from the clothing restoring her to Aris, only she no longer wore her armor, she then attached the moon to her the strap that help her sword around her hip. The cry from the maid brought on that her façade was now over, everyone would know she was back. She growled at her own stupidity and held out her hand. A recurred bow appeared and she clutched it, then she made an arrow appear and smoothly and quickly shot the maid. The maid clutched the arrow and tugged on it slightly, thinking it would come out easily before she slowly sunk to the floor. When she hit the floor she released the arrow and glared up at Aris

"You should never have made you presences known to me, you might have lived much longer!" Aris bitterly growled, the bow disappearing into thin air. She never looked at the maid.

"Yeah I suppose, but then again I never did have a way of being on you're good side." She said drawing in her breath through gritted teeth; she then winced from the pain.

Aris turned to the maid and looked at her for the first time and narrowed her eyes, then she growled, "Lyf"

"I never thought you would recognize me!" She said sarcastically.

"How could I forget you, you were the only thing in this whole palace I hated, you were the only one, next to Sailor Saturn, that made my life a living nightmare." She stepped closer to Lyf. " Now I can kill one of the problems, the next will be arriving shortly and she will soon be dead as well!" She slowly bent down and reached her hand out to choke Lyf, but as soon as the door opened she stood straight up and turned around, to see Serenity closing the door and not bothering to look at Aris or Lyf. Aris quickly reached for the moon, but somehow her feet went out from under and she clunked to the floor. At this sound Serenity turned around and looked to where Lyf sat, she clutched the arrow in her and had a smile on her lips, as she gazed at the person lying on the floor. Aris looked up and looked to Serenity to find her staring at Lyf I shock. Aris slowly crawled closer to Serenity and was kicked to the floor after moving a few centimeters. Aris looked back to see the maid smiling at her, amusement dancing in her eyes.

"I didn't tell you could move, Aris!" She said angrily trying to draw the princess to realize that someone else besides her was here. Serenity screamed as Aris stood and kicked Lyf into the corner. Lyf slouched over and blacked out as the arrow was knocked through her shoulder and the tip pinged the wall.

Serenity ran to Lyf, ignoring Aris. As she was about to bend down, Aris reached out, clutched the princess's throat and pulled her from the ground holding her in the air. Serenity struggled to get Aris's hand off her throat.

"Well, Well, The Golden Hind, caught finally and by none other then her former sister!" Serenity looked at her pleadingly. Aris threw her up against the wall at the same time someone banged into the door. Serenity hit her head and blacked out. Aris loosened her grip on the young blonde's neck, allowing Serenity to breath. Lyf groaned as she came back into conciseness and felt the pain in her shoulder. Aris looked to the door, looked back to Serenity and growled as the door flung off one of it's hinges and entered Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune.

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Aris turned around and glared at the scouts. " So glad you could make it!" She smiled as she let Serenity fall to the floor. She landed with a loud thunk. "Oops I dropped Serenity!" The scouts stepped forward, but halted as Aris picked Serenity up and swung her over her shoulder. Aris turned completely around and faced the scouts.

"Aris? What are you doing?" Asked Sailor Uranus shocked.

"Getting rid of the only person who could take everything from me!" Aris growl, as she was about to let Serenity fall to the floor again.

"No! Don't drop the princess, you'll kill her!" Yelled the maid, as she stood up from the floor with a broken arrow in her hands and a bleeding wound in her shoulder. She took a shaky step forward and almost fell to the floor, but she managed to stand and walk a few more steps.

Aris glared at her and snarled, "How in the of Ares can you still be alive? The hinds blood is supposed to kill instantly!"

"He he! I'm a woman on the moon! The birthplace of the young princess! Almost all women are immune to the hind's blood. Not to mention since you left, I became the closest maid to that of Serenity and trained with her warriors" Aris took a step back and dropped the princess. The maid tried to move to catch the princess, but Aris held her back. Aris awaited to here the sound of the princess hitting the floor, but only the sound of a breaking glass entered her hearing.

'The maid is in front of me and the sailor's are still near the door. Then who?' She turned around to find.

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Sorry to leave a cliffhanger, I hope you enjoy the chapter and please review. This story is slowly coming to an end. I'm not sure how many more chapters I shall have, but defiantly no more then 10. The next chapter will be out soon, but I can't say when. School starts in a few days and well then I will have work, pep band, Latin quizzes and more homework, I also will have to take the Act again, and I will also have to find the schools I wish to go to. So I shall try to post during my last year of high school. Well I hope you enjoy. Cats eye is the maid, Seeing as how she was the only one who answered my question. I'm glad one person reads my notes, anyway thanks to you wonderful reviewers. Since it took so long and I gave you short chapters here is an extra long chapter. I still managed a cliffhanger though.