Broken
Serenity was banished from her village and is found by the Prince of Earth. At first, he treats her like he would a younger sister. As they both age, he finds that his feelings for her are more then he thought. Is he willing to let her go when the time comes?
Chapter 1: Banished
Serenity sat there on a stump, her knees under her, her head bowed. Tears streamed down her dirty face as she sat there, looking at her hands. She was dressed in a gray dress that was covered in earth and ripped in several places. But she didn't care about her looks, at least anymore.
"Are you ready for your trial?" Asked a brown haired woman with emerald green eyes wearing a beautiful dark green dress that flowed to her knees, on her feet just a sole and vines up to her knees.
"Yes." Serenity replied meekly, sliding off the stump and following the tall girl through the trees. When she got to another clearing, there were many more girls watching her as she entered, a very men here and there. Serenity just looked at her dirty bare feet as they made tracks in the dirt, her tears marking themselves in it once in a while. The tall girl lead her to a woman sitting in a stone throne decorated with beautiful flowers, taking her place on the right side of the beautiful woman occupying the seat.
"Serenity, you know why you are here, correct?" The woman's sweet voice asked. Serenity just nodded, unable to look upon her queen in her time of her greatest shame. "Oh, you do?" The Queen replied.
"Yes. I broke a law." Serenity said, her voice small.
"You did more then break a law, Serenity. You practically helped kill half of our people!" The Queen said. Tears began to fall faster from Serenity's once beautiful cerulean blue eyes that were now gray.
"I didn't know! You must believe that I was tricked! She said she was going to help us! How was I to know she was going to betray my trust?" Serenity asked, looking up.
"You're supposed to be my daughter! You're supposed to sense these things! How could you not see the evil in her? I could feel it the moment she walked into here while you didn't know until it was too late! How dare you the right to bare my name!" Queen Serenity said.
"But mother, she understood me! She welcomed me without suspecting anything because I was the Princess. No one is my friend, mother! I fell so easily to being her victim because I didn't know any better! You never cared enough about me to teach me things! All you've ever done was bare me and give me a name. I developed on my own! I was blind to not see through her tricks!"
"Don't you dare talk to me like that! You're still one of my subjects, daughter or not, and will respect me. Now we'll just get this over with." She looked over at a very beautiful girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes who was wearing an orange dress. "Minako." She said. Minako looked at Serenity with tears forming in her eyes and handed over a staff. The whole court gasped.
"Mother, please! I beg you to reconsider!" Serenity cried out. Queen Serenity looked at her daughter and rose the staff. "Mother!" Serenity dropped to her knees, her tears falling faster.
"I banish you Serenity! You are no longer allowed to ever step foot in these sacred parts again!" Queen Serenity called out, her voice booming. She stood up and raised her staff above her head.
"Mother, please don't go through with this! She's just a child, your child! My sister! Please don't do this to her! I'll take her punishment for her! Just please don't!" Minako yelled, rushing forward and taking her crying sister in her arms, her own eyes filled with tears.
"Move out of the way, Minako." Queen Serenity said, looking down at her two blonde haired daughters. It pained her very much to be banishing her own child, her baby, but it had to be done. She had just lost half of her subjects, three of her daughters, and even her husband. It was be unjust if she let her child be forgiven while people were mourning, even though the royal family was doing the same.
"Mother! You can't do this!" Minako yelled. "Please! Don't! Forgive her!" Minako began crying harder. "Please mother. Don't do this." Minako spoke in a quieter voice.
"Rei, pull her off!" Queen Serenity ordered a girl with long dark hair and violet eyes wearing a short ruby red dress. Rei walked over to her two sisters, fighting her own tears as she tried to pry Minako from Serenity. Finally, the two blondes were in too many tears to hold on longer. Minako went to run back but Rei restrained her, letting a tear fall. Minako gave up and just sobbed, Rei embracing her.
"Mother." Serenity whispered, looking up at her mother. But Queen Serenity couldn't handle anymore pleas so she slammed her staff down, light coming from the gem atop it and hitting Serenity, who screamed. It lasted not even a minute, but it seemed like forever to everyone watching this sad incident. Those who were to witness couldn't even bare to do so.
"Serenity!" Ami, Makoto, Rei, Minako, Haruka, and Hotaru all cried out as they watched the once beautiful silver wings of their sister dissolve, her body itself disappearing. Suddenly, there was no more of the once beautiful young fairy princess named Serenity.
"Mother, bring her back!" Makoto cried out, her emerald green eyes shimmering with tears.
"Makoto, what is done is done. I will have no more talk of what just happened." Queen Serenity said as calmly as she could. She felt a complete emptiness in her, as she knew her daughters were feeling. She was sure that her people felt it was well, but they couldn't be feeling it as the Royal family were.
"Mother, please!" Minako cried.
"Minako, no! Now returned to your daily lives, or I'll be forced to eraser your memories of her so that you will work better." Queen Serenity threatened. When she saw no one was going to answer her, she turned to walk away.
"Then take away my emptiness and let me forget her!" Minako cried out boldly as her mother approached the steps of their palace. Queen Serenity turned around and looked at her.
"Is that how you all feel? Do you all wish to forget her like Princess Minako?" Queen Serenity asked everyone witnessing.
"Yes!" Ami shouted loudly. Everyone looked at the normally shy blue haired princess but soon enough, shouts of agreement came from the crowd.
"Mother, it is only fair that you wipe our memories so that we will not mourn after her. She would not have wanted us to mourn." Haruka told her mother, standing before her sisters. The Queen let out a sad sigh and with one quick move of her staff, the whole kingdom, including herself, forgot about their banished princess. Like nothing at all happened, every person in the crowd went to their jobs and homes. The princesses all walked into the palace together, talking happily. The Queen followed her daughters, giving each a smile, and began her daily business.
"Endymion, where have you run off too?" Kunzite called out to his prince as they traveled through the woods. Endymion was a very adventurous prince of 19 and often wandered away from his four generals to look around for any danger he could get himself into. He was very strong and loved to challenge himself, although Kunzite often got annoyed by it because if the prince were to ever get hurt (which never happened), it would be mainly his neck.
"Give it up, Kunzite. He'll return to us when he's found something dangerous to do and has done it." Zoicite told the lead general.
In order, it went Kunzite, Nephrite, Jaedite, then Zoicite. Kunzite was the oldest with white colored hair to his shoulders and steely gray eyes. Nephrite was just a few months younger with wavy auburn hair to his shoulder and brown eyes. Then Jaedite, with his short blonde hair and blue colored eyes. Finally, Zoicite with his long blonde hair that was kept in a ponytail and green eyes. (A/N: At least, I think that's their order! I just set them up by the senshi they're paired with. If I got it wrong, tell me!)
"Really Kunzite. It's very unlikely that he'll get hurt. I can't ever remember a time in my life since we started protecting him at birth when he has gotten hurt. He's strong against everything." Nephrite commented. Kunzite merely sighed.
"He's still the Crown Prince of Earth." Kunzite muttered. "If he so much as spills one drop of blood, the King will have each of our heads, mine first."
"You worry too much." Jaedite laughed.
Meanwhile, the prince was busy riding about with his black stallion, testing the horses skills by jumping over large fallen trees and wide and deep ditches. He sensed that his horse was tired and rode him over to where there was a spring flowing to allow him to rest and get a drink. Endymion affectionately patted the horses neck and leaned down to cup some water in his hand, splashing it to his face. Suddenly, a sound caught his attention.
"Did you hear that, Storm?" Endymion asked his horse, looking around. He tied the horses reigns to a tree branch and began to walk where his ears lead him. It wasn't long until he came to clearing where he saw a young woman sitting on the ground with long, golden blonde hair flowing all around her, her hands to her face. She looked around 15 or 16.
"Miss, are you alright?" Endymion asked. He felt stupid asking it because she wouldn't be crying if everything was fine. But it was still courteous to ask her. Endymion approached her and he could see her clothing. It was torn and covered in dirt, as were her arms and legs. "Miss, do you need help?" Endymion asked, kneeling down next to her.
"It's all gone." She whispered. She pulled her hands away from her face and Endymion could see the beauty of her face. Her features were soft and she had gray eyes, tear streaks showing the soft ivory skin under the dirt.
"What's gone?" Endymion asked.
"Everything. My home and village is gone! I'll never see my sisters again!" The girl cried, new tears falling down her face.
"Are you lost?" Endymion asked, slightly confused. She looked at him, her sad expression breaking his heart. He didn't even know this girls name and already he felt a tremendous amount of sadness for her.
"In a sense, yes. I can never go home again. My people and sisters will are forget me! I will never get to see them again. Oh, why did I have to be banished?" She asked herself, looking up as if asking the sky.
"Why were you banished?" Endymion asked, trying to get some information from her. From what he had gathered, she was very close with her sisters and her home.
"I basically killed half of my people, three of my sisters, and my father. Although it wasn't with my own hands, it feels as though it was!" She looked down at her hands and clenched them tightly, her knuckles white through the dirt. "Mother was right to be ashamed of me. How could I not have seen it coming? How could I not have seen her evil?" She whispered.
"I'm not sure if I should trust you, but I'm going to take you back to my palace anyways. You to get clean and rest." Endymion suggested.
"I would rather just lie here and die, thank you." The girl said, lying down on the ground as she continued to cry. Endymion frowned.
"Please come with me. After you are clean and rest, I bet you'll feel better." Endymion said.
"I can never feel better. I've done a terrible thing." She whispered. "I just wish I could forget what happened."
"Please come." Endymion insisted. She turned and looked at him. The sincerity in his eyes made her agree, following him over to where his horse was.
"Wow. What is this?" She asked, placing her hands on Storm's back.
"You've never seen a horse before?" He asked. She shook her head, running her hand over the horses body. "Wow. I've never meet someone who has never seen a horse. Where are you from?" Endymion asked as he untied the horses reigns.
"A sacred village. We don't have any of these around there. The only animals we have are small ones." She said. "What is this ones purpose?"
"You ride him. He's a mean for transportation." Endymion said. Her eyes sparkled with interest and he laughed. "What is your name, anyways?"
"Huh?" She asked, turning to him. "Oh, my name. Well, as of now, I don't have one. When I was banished, Mother said that I didn't have the right to carry her name so I guess I'll have to find one myself." She said.
"Well, in any case, my name is Endymion and my horses name is Storm." Endymion said.
"Those are nice names." She said to him. "You have rabbits around here!" She said happily, pointing to a bush where a white bunny was coming from.
"Yes." He replied simply. He watched as she approached it in a normal pace, not at all cautiously. "You shouldn't touch it. It could bite you." Endymion warned her.
"That's silly." She said, kneeling down and petting the young rabbit. It allowed her to pick it up and nuzzled her hand. She giggled at it and hugged it. Endymion watched her with an amazement as she played with the bunny, smiling.
"I think I've thought of a good name for you." Endymion said.
"What?" She replied, looking at him with an interest.
"Bunny." Came his reply. She smiled brightly.
"I like it."
-end of chapter!
Please tell me what you thought! I'm going to try to get the next chapter out REALLY soon! Thank you for reading!
Serenity was banished from her village and is found by the Prince of Earth. At first, he treats her like he would a younger sister. As they both age, he finds that his feelings for her are more then he thought. Is he willing to let her go when the time comes?
Chapter 1: Banished
Serenity sat there on a stump, her knees under her, her head bowed. Tears streamed down her dirty face as she sat there, looking at her hands. She was dressed in a gray dress that was covered in earth and ripped in several places. But she didn't care about her looks, at least anymore.
"Are you ready for your trial?" Asked a brown haired woman with emerald green eyes wearing a beautiful dark green dress that flowed to her knees, on her feet just a sole and vines up to her knees.
"Yes." Serenity replied meekly, sliding off the stump and following the tall girl through the trees. When she got to another clearing, there were many more girls watching her as she entered, a very men here and there. Serenity just looked at her dirty bare feet as they made tracks in the dirt, her tears marking themselves in it once in a while. The tall girl lead her to a woman sitting in a stone throne decorated with beautiful flowers, taking her place on the right side of the beautiful woman occupying the seat.
"Serenity, you know why you are here, correct?" The woman's sweet voice asked. Serenity just nodded, unable to look upon her queen in her time of her greatest shame. "Oh, you do?" The Queen replied.
"Yes. I broke a law." Serenity said, her voice small.
"You did more then break a law, Serenity. You practically helped kill half of our people!" The Queen said. Tears began to fall faster from Serenity's once beautiful cerulean blue eyes that were now gray.
"I didn't know! You must believe that I was tricked! She said she was going to help us! How was I to know she was going to betray my trust?" Serenity asked, looking up.
"You're supposed to be my daughter! You're supposed to sense these things! How could you not see the evil in her? I could feel it the moment she walked into here while you didn't know until it was too late! How dare you the right to bare my name!" Queen Serenity said.
"But mother, she understood me! She welcomed me without suspecting anything because I was the Princess. No one is my friend, mother! I fell so easily to being her victim because I didn't know any better! You never cared enough about me to teach me things! All you've ever done was bare me and give me a name. I developed on my own! I was blind to not see through her tricks!"
"Don't you dare talk to me like that! You're still one of my subjects, daughter or not, and will respect me. Now we'll just get this over with." She looked over at a very beautiful girl with long blonde hair and blue eyes who was wearing an orange dress. "Minako." She said. Minako looked at Serenity with tears forming in her eyes and handed over a staff. The whole court gasped.
"Mother, please! I beg you to reconsider!" Serenity cried out. Queen Serenity looked at her daughter and rose the staff. "Mother!" Serenity dropped to her knees, her tears falling faster.
"I banish you Serenity! You are no longer allowed to ever step foot in these sacred parts again!" Queen Serenity called out, her voice booming. She stood up and raised her staff above her head.
"Mother, please don't go through with this! She's just a child, your child! My sister! Please don't do this to her! I'll take her punishment for her! Just please don't!" Minako yelled, rushing forward and taking her crying sister in her arms, her own eyes filled with tears.
"Move out of the way, Minako." Queen Serenity said, looking down at her two blonde haired daughters. It pained her very much to be banishing her own child, her baby, but it had to be done. She had just lost half of her subjects, three of her daughters, and even her husband. It was be unjust if she let her child be forgiven while people were mourning, even though the royal family was doing the same.
"Mother! You can't do this!" Minako yelled. "Please! Don't! Forgive her!" Minako began crying harder. "Please mother. Don't do this." Minako spoke in a quieter voice.
"Rei, pull her off!" Queen Serenity ordered a girl with long dark hair and violet eyes wearing a short ruby red dress. Rei walked over to her two sisters, fighting her own tears as she tried to pry Minako from Serenity. Finally, the two blondes were in too many tears to hold on longer. Minako went to run back but Rei restrained her, letting a tear fall. Minako gave up and just sobbed, Rei embracing her.
"Mother." Serenity whispered, looking up at her mother. But Queen Serenity couldn't handle anymore pleas so she slammed her staff down, light coming from the gem atop it and hitting Serenity, who screamed. It lasted not even a minute, but it seemed like forever to everyone watching this sad incident. Those who were to witness couldn't even bare to do so.
"Serenity!" Ami, Makoto, Rei, Minako, Haruka, and Hotaru all cried out as they watched the once beautiful silver wings of their sister dissolve, her body itself disappearing. Suddenly, there was no more of the once beautiful young fairy princess named Serenity.
"Mother, bring her back!" Makoto cried out, her emerald green eyes shimmering with tears.
"Makoto, what is done is done. I will have no more talk of what just happened." Queen Serenity said as calmly as she could. She felt a complete emptiness in her, as she knew her daughters were feeling. She was sure that her people felt it was well, but they couldn't be feeling it as the Royal family were.
"Mother, please!" Minako cried.
"Minako, no! Now returned to your daily lives, or I'll be forced to eraser your memories of her so that you will work better." Queen Serenity threatened. When she saw no one was going to answer her, she turned to walk away.
"Then take away my emptiness and let me forget her!" Minako cried out boldly as her mother approached the steps of their palace. Queen Serenity turned around and looked at her.
"Is that how you all feel? Do you all wish to forget her like Princess Minako?" Queen Serenity asked everyone witnessing.
"Yes!" Ami shouted loudly. Everyone looked at the normally shy blue haired princess but soon enough, shouts of agreement came from the crowd.
"Mother, it is only fair that you wipe our memories so that we will not mourn after her. She would not have wanted us to mourn." Haruka told her mother, standing before her sisters. The Queen let out a sad sigh and with one quick move of her staff, the whole kingdom, including herself, forgot about their banished princess. Like nothing at all happened, every person in the crowd went to their jobs and homes. The princesses all walked into the palace together, talking happily. The Queen followed her daughters, giving each a smile, and began her daily business.
"Endymion, where have you run off too?" Kunzite called out to his prince as they traveled through the woods. Endymion was a very adventurous prince of 19 and often wandered away from his four generals to look around for any danger he could get himself into. He was very strong and loved to challenge himself, although Kunzite often got annoyed by it because if the prince were to ever get hurt (which never happened), it would be mainly his neck.
"Give it up, Kunzite. He'll return to us when he's found something dangerous to do and has done it." Zoicite told the lead general.
In order, it went Kunzite, Nephrite, Jaedite, then Zoicite. Kunzite was the oldest with white colored hair to his shoulders and steely gray eyes. Nephrite was just a few months younger with wavy auburn hair to his shoulder and brown eyes. Then Jaedite, with his short blonde hair and blue colored eyes. Finally, Zoicite with his long blonde hair that was kept in a ponytail and green eyes. (A/N: At least, I think that's their order! I just set them up by the senshi they're paired with. If I got it wrong, tell me!)
"Really Kunzite. It's very unlikely that he'll get hurt. I can't ever remember a time in my life since we started protecting him at birth when he has gotten hurt. He's strong against everything." Nephrite commented. Kunzite merely sighed.
"He's still the Crown Prince of Earth." Kunzite muttered. "If he so much as spills one drop of blood, the King will have each of our heads, mine first."
"You worry too much." Jaedite laughed.
Meanwhile, the prince was busy riding about with his black stallion, testing the horses skills by jumping over large fallen trees and wide and deep ditches. He sensed that his horse was tired and rode him over to where there was a spring flowing to allow him to rest and get a drink. Endymion affectionately patted the horses neck and leaned down to cup some water in his hand, splashing it to his face. Suddenly, a sound caught his attention.
"Did you hear that, Storm?" Endymion asked his horse, looking around. He tied the horses reigns to a tree branch and began to walk where his ears lead him. It wasn't long until he came to clearing where he saw a young woman sitting on the ground with long, golden blonde hair flowing all around her, her hands to her face. She looked around 15 or 16.
"Miss, are you alright?" Endymion asked. He felt stupid asking it because she wouldn't be crying if everything was fine. But it was still courteous to ask her. Endymion approached her and he could see her clothing. It was torn and covered in dirt, as were her arms and legs. "Miss, do you need help?" Endymion asked, kneeling down next to her.
"It's all gone." She whispered. She pulled her hands away from her face and Endymion could see the beauty of her face. Her features were soft and she had gray eyes, tear streaks showing the soft ivory skin under the dirt.
"What's gone?" Endymion asked.
"Everything. My home and village is gone! I'll never see my sisters again!" The girl cried, new tears falling down her face.
"Are you lost?" Endymion asked, slightly confused. She looked at him, her sad expression breaking his heart. He didn't even know this girls name and already he felt a tremendous amount of sadness for her.
"In a sense, yes. I can never go home again. My people and sisters will are forget me! I will never get to see them again. Oh, why did I have to be banished?" She asked herself, looking up as if asking the sky.
"Why were you banished?" Endymion asked, trying to get some information from her. From what he had gathered, she was very close with her sisters and her home.
"I basically killed half of my people, three of my sisters, and my father. Although it wasn't with my own hands, it feels as though it was!" She looked down at her hands and clenched them tightly, her knuckles white through the dirt. "Mother was right to be ashamed of me. How could I not have seen it coming? How could I not have seen her evil?" She whispered.
"I'm not sure if I should trust you, but I'm going to take you back to my palace anyways. You to get clean and rest." Endymion suggested.
"I would rather just lie here and die, thank you." The girl said, lying down on the ground as she continued to cry. Endymion frowned.
"Please come with me. After you are clean and rest, I bet you'll feel better." Endymion said.
"I can never feel better. I've done a terrible thing." She whispered. "I just wish I could forget what happened."
"Please come." Endymion insisted. She turned and looked at him. The sincerity in his eyes made her agree, following him over to where his horse was.
"Wow. What is this?" She asked, placing her hands on Storm's back.
"You've never seen a horse before?" He asked. She shook her head, running her hand over the horses body. "Wow. I've never meet someone who has never seen a horse. Where are you from?" Endymion asked as he untied the horses reigns.
"A sacred village. We don't have any of these around there. The only animals we have are small ones." She said. "What is this ones purpose?"
"You ride him. He's a mean for transportation." Endymion said. Her eyes sparkled with interest and he laughed. "What is your name, anyways?"
"Huh?" She asked, turning to him. "Oh, my name. Well, as of now, I don't have one. When I was banished, Mother said that I didn't have the right to carry her name so I guess I'll have to find one myself." She said.
"Well, in any case, my name is Endymion and my horses name is Storm." Endymion said.
"Those are nice names." She said to him. "You have rabbits around here!" She said happily, pointing to a bush where a white bunny was coming from.
"Yes." He replied simply. He watched as she approached it in a normal pace, not at all cautiously. "You shouldn't touch it. It could bite you." Endymion warned her.
"That's silly." She said, kneeling down and petting the young rabbit. It allowed her to pick it up and nuzzled her hand. She giggled at it and hugged it. Endymion watched her with an amazement as she played with the bunny, smiling.
"I think I've thought of a good name for you." Endymion said.
"What?" She replied, looking at him with an interest.
"Bunny." Came his reply. She smiled brightly.
"I like it."
-end of chapter!
Please tell me what you thought! I'm going to try to get the next chapter out REALLY soon! Thank you for reading!