"Where are they?" Queen Selenity pondered.
"Don't worry Selenity, they will be back." Replied Queen Gia.
Just then they all walked in. Everything and everyone went completely quiet. As everyone looked up towards them., Endymion shot Tyron a dirty look just to find Tyron staring daggers at him. No one seemed to notice this except Queen Selenity, she also noticed Princess Serenity's worried glance. So being the understanding Queen that she is she orders Tyran to sit between Mercury and Jupiter, and Endymion to sit between Mars and Serenity.
"I feel love and hate between four different people." Venus whispered to Serenity. "Tell me who the hate feelings are coming from, because I know where the love is." She said the last part with a small wink. Serenity just looked at her cousin with a smile.
"Attention everyone, my husband would like to make a toast." Announced Queen Selenity. She then nudged King Richard's shoulder. "Umm, yes I would like to make a toast... to my dearest friend King Damion his family and planet Earth. May they live forever in peace." Stated King Richard. Smiling at his three friends sitting across from him.
"Thank you King Richard for your kind words." Replied Queen Gia. Everyone then sat down and began eating their three-course meal. Serenity could feel that someone was watching her so she looked up expecting to see Endymion looking at her. Instead it was Tyron and the look her gave her was one of the creepiest things that she had ever seen. He looked like a hungry lion waiting for revenge on its enemy.
Dinner continued just like always, with the three courses and the boring old gossip. So naturally when she was given permission to leave she didn't argue. The other four Inner Princesses went to the dress room so they could get masks for the ball that was going to start shortly. Prince Tyran disappeared which didn't hurt Princess Serenity's feelings one bit. Her mother and the Queen went to the library, the two Kings went to the armory, and she went to the balcony. For it was one of her most favorite places to be, because you could see Earth from there.
"It's so beautiful." She stated to no one in particular. She loved the Earth and spent hours staring at it. In her mind it was like a blue diamond.
"It's only beautiful from up here, trust me on that one." Someone said from behind her. She whirled around and came face to face with Prince Endymion.
"Ahhhh" She screeched.
"Ouch that was my ear Sere, sheesh if you don't want me around all you have to do is say so." Said Endymion.
"Ohh I'm so sorry I didn't mean to scream like that it's just that I thought you were someone else." She replied. He gave her a funny look and shook his head.
"Who in the solar system has you this worked up?" He questioned with a mix between puzzle and interest on his face. "Come on you can tell me, I won't do anything rash like Princess Mars." He pleaded obviously interested.
"I thought that you might have been your cousin." She stated.
"Tyran?" He asked
"Yes, he kind of freaked me out at lunch. Plus I always get funny vibes from him. I don't trust him." She said feeling herself blush from his intense stare.
"Do you want me to tell him to leave you alone? Cause all I have to do is threaten his worthless life and that'll be all she wrote." Said Endymion, and boy did he look pissed.
"NO, I mean, no. If you pester him about it he's liable to do something stupid and get me into trouble." She looked really frantic when she said this, and for some reason Endymion got the feeling that there was more to this than what meets the eye.
"Sere, is their something that you might want or need to tell me about you and Tyran?" Asked Endymion being careful not to sound too pushy.
"Not really it's just that about a year ago Tyran started to come around and for the longest time everyone wanted me to date him but for some reason it never felt quite right. So I broke it off and he was pretty mad for a while but then he just up and forgot about it." She said. She had this really uneasy look on her face, and she began to jump whenever she heard something. The tree moved beside her and she jumped straight into Endymion's arms. He caught her and held onto her feeling this strong urge to protect her. He pushed her behind him and walked over to the tree, which was very high to be growing on the moon.
"Is anyone in this tree. If you are it would be in your best interest to come out now." He ordered. Then all of a sudden a black cat jumped out of the tree and landed gracefully on her feet of course. The strange thing about this cat was that it had a crescent bald spot on its forehead.
"LUNA, ohh Luna I haven't seen you in almost a week. How are you?" Serenity asked her cat.
"Sere, why are you talking to that?" Endymion asked.
"THAT WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT, I have been called many things but THAT is not one of them." Replied the cat. Endymion was astonished, speechless even.
"Endy you might want to pick your chin up off the ground now." Serenity said almost bursting with laughter. Just then the cat said some words in Lunarian and started to grow. Within five minutes the former cat was now a human, a female human.
"How do I look?" Asked the human cat.
"You look fine Luna, but you might want to borrow some of my clothes. This is no weather for that outfit." Stated Serenity giggling. Luna looked down at her yellow dress, which was very low-cut and very short. Realizing this she began to blush furiously.
"Okay do I have a limit or restriction?" Luna asked with a teasingly naughty grin.
"No just don't get any fur balls on anything okay." Said Serenity. Luna shook her head and smiled. Then she bowed and walked off.
"Your cat it it..." Stammered Endymion. Who still hadn't caught up.
"Ya I know, the problem is trying to get her to shut up." Serenity said under her breath.
"WHAT" yelled Luna, from all the way down the hall.
Nothing Luna, anyway let's go to the ball." Serenity said dragging Endymion away.
"Wow Mars you look real hot today, can I have this dance?" Asked Sir Chad one of the Elite Martian Nights.
"I don't know Sir, I mean what would people think about me dancing with a knight?" Asked Mars obviously teasing. Sir Chad just smiled, grabbed the petite princess and started dancing.
"Look at Pyro, why don't I get to dance with anyone?" Pondered the Jovian princess.
"Maybe because you don't look inviting, thunder bolt." Teased Venus. Who herself had no date.
"Please Venus if she looked like you I'd avoid her to." Mocked Mercury who had to dance away from Venus' wild verbal and physical attacks.
"Please ladies why can't you act your age?" Questioned Aphrodite the Venitian Queen.
"Sorry mother." Venus apologized. All four princesses bowed, but when the Great Queen of Love and Beauty walked off her teenage daughter once again began to chase the small Mercurian princess with books, chairs, and anything else that she could get.
"LOOK ISN'T THAT ENDYMION." Some girl yelled. Immediately every woman in the ballroom looked up with searching eyes filled with lust. They didn't have to look long though because there he was in the middle of the ballroom dancing with Princess Serenity.
"HEY GUYS IT'S THE MOON PRINCESS." Yelled some guy most likely a knight. Soon everyone in the palace was watching the couple waltz to the most beautiful song on the moon.
"Why does Serenity always get the good ones?" Whined Jupiter and Venus.
"Actually guys if I'm not mistaken it's you two that, 'always get the good ones', as you so desperately put it." Stated Mercury with a bit of resentment. Venus once again knocked the princess of ice in the head.
"You know she's right V." Admitted Jupiter.
"Ya but she didn't have to say it like that, I mean she made it sound like we took all those suitors from Serenity." Defended Venus. It was a known fact that their were many suitors for the Moon princess, but as soon as they laid eyes on the goddess' of Love and Nature they attained the attention span of a lost puppy who just found his mom. Soon the dance was over and everyone was making his or her way towards the two.
"We gotta get outta here before we get stampeded over." Shouted Endymion. The two just barely got out. They headed for the fountain in the front of the palace.
"Endy I was wondering."
"What's up Sere?"
"Well..."
"Well what?"
"WhenareyougoingbacktoEarthandwillIbeabletoseeyouagianafteryouleave." She rambled. "I mean I don't want to wait another five or ten years before I get to see you again." She explained close to tears. She had her head in her hands sobbing now and you could just see her body trembling with each tear she shed.
"Sere my darling I might not go back home. If all possible I might just stay here with you on the moon." He said cradling her in his arms.
"You would give up the wonders of Earth for me?" She questioned against his chest.
"As lame as this might sound, I would give up anything for you." He replied. She looked up at him smiling a smile that could light up the Negaverse.
"That's my Sere." He said playfully. You could see both of their blushes from Pluto.
"Well isn't that nice. The happy little couple." Stated a voice in the shadows.
"Who's there? Come out now." Ordered Endymion. He possessively put his left arm around Serenity and drew his sword with his right.
"That measly weapon won't stop me Endymion for I have more power than you could ever imagine." Taunted the voice. Suddenly a blast came from the shadows and Endymion jumped in front of Serenity. When the blast hit him he went flying backwards with her in his arms.
"Serenity are you okay my love?"
"Yes what about you?"
"I'm fine. Woah hey, give her back." Shouted Endymion as the dark figure used some sort of magic to pull Serenity away from him.
"Ever since you were born you've gotten everything that should've been mine, so now I'll take something that belongs to you." Screeched the shadow man as he flew away. "Endy help me." Was the last thing that Endymion heard before the two vanished into a dark portal.
Serenity awoke in a beautiful room with pink walls and a flowery smell. She looked around only to find that there were know doors. Then all of a sudden one materialized, and the shadow man walked in only this time he wasn't in shadows.
"Tyran, I demand to know what is going on." Yelled the frustrated and confused girl.
"Do you really want to know?" He replied.
"Well if I didn't then I wouldn't have asked to begin with, now would I." She shot back.
"Well since your wondering I might as well tell you. It all started when...