Ami, a blue haired princess from Mercury typed away on her computer. There was something odd she was looking at. Recently she'd become interested in the Greek Mythology and other legends of the Earth. They would be heading to that forbidden planet soon anyway so a little research wouldn't hurt. She was surprised they actually had information on the Earth at all considering no one was allowed to go there. Much of it was interesting and she'd begun comparing it to very early journals and history of her own planet. There was a very strange thing she was starting to understand here.
Minako came into the room and sat down beside the girl, "Are you done packing yet?" the blond asked quietly. She got a small nod in response but the blue haired girl just kept typing on her small compact computer. "What are you looking at now?" the blond tried again hoping for a little bit of conversation. They'd be heading out tonight, when the Moon shined it's brightest on the Earth, they would be going to the forbidden planet. Why it was forbidden exactly no one knew but they had to go. The five of them from the inner planets would have to go in order to hide from the evil that was lurking somewhere on the dark side of the Moon.
"I...I think, we may have..." Ami was stumbling in her words, this was something very strange to even suggest. A notion such as this would get laughed at in the High Courts if anyone heard her.
"May have what? Is there something wrong?"
"I think... we originally came from the forbidden planet." the blue haired princess said, looking to her friend.
"That's impossible, no one's allowed to even go there so how could we come from there?" the blond asked confused and perplexed by such an idea.
"Well... for some reason we have all this information about the Earth. Nothing really recent most of it's very old history, which means at one time we must have been able to go to that planet or we must have originally come from there. Look, there's all these legends about different types of cultures and people and... and a lot of these characteristics match up with our own planets of people." she tried to explain.
"Ok I agree if we have this information on the Earth than we must have been able to go there once but just because we share certain characteristics doesn't mean anything," Minako shook her head at such an idea.
"But listen, there's a lot more to it than that. Supposedly around the time that the city of Atlantis sank, Mercury was being colonized. I found it in a few journals. They said they came from a different planet, one that had rejected them. It doesn't say which one but the characteristics of those people match up perfectly with those that most Mercurians tend to have. Not only that but later on in Earth's history when the Roman's came they changed a lot of the Greek's God's names. Mercury was Hermes, the one of knowledge and medicine." this information she had found earlier and was now working on where the other planets would have come from.
"Just a coincidence. You'd need a little more than that."
"But I have more than that. Everytime a certain group of people goes missing from the Earth or stops being spoken of another planet was being populated in some way. Minako your own planet talks of love and Aphrodite all the time. Well herself and her followers disappeared from Earth's history around the same time Venus' population rose in great numbers. Also Venus is the Roman's name for Aphrodite." Ami explained, glad to see some belief in Minako's eyes now.
"Ok... maybe that's a bit more than coincidental but what about the other planets. Have you figured out who they may have been when on Earth?"
The blue haired girl nodded, "For the most part I think the Moon was populated by the Goddess Selene's followers, Mars was populated by Ares' followers along with a number of warriors, Jupiter ended up being the home of the Amazons, Uranus by a group of people who dwelled in the desert, and Neptune by Mermaids and Sirens."
"What about Pluto and Saturn?"
"Well those two I'm not sure about. According to the Roman's names, Pluto was the god of death and Saturn was the god of time. Which is just the opposite for the senshi who lived there. I suppose they could have just switched the names for some reason but I'm not really sure. I'd have to do a lot more digging. That goes for where they came from on the Earth too..." Ami sighed. Those two planets were hard.. especially when very little was known about them to begin with. She just didn't have the information to compare anything too. They'd only spoken to the senshi of the outer planets very breifly a couple of times too and both Pluto and Saturn were very quiet.
"Well I'm afraid we don't really have time... Makoto is making our last dinner here. She claims it'll be the best one we've ever had from her and it should be because we don't know when we'll be able to come back." Minako wasn't happy with this, neither were any of the other senshi, "I'm just making sure everyone remembers the rules of what we can and can't pack."
Ami nodded, "Only what we need and as little as possible. If we like we can take one small item that reminds us of home but nothing with symbol of our home on it in the event anyone should see it."
"At least someone remembers..." the blond mumbled.
"Did you have trouble with some of the others?"
"Well I had a hard time parting with some things too, I'll admit but Serenity was the one who wanted to take every single thing she had with her."
"What about Luna and Artemis. Are they coming as well? Last I heard they hadn't made up their minds."
Minako shook her head, "They are staying here with the Queen to help her. It would look suspicious if those two came with us. Remember everyone thinks we're going to the outer planets for further training. They are a lot stronger than us so it makes sense. And since the outers have to stay at their posts anyway no one will even think to ask."
Ami sighed shutting her computer. "I guess we'd better go see if Mako-chan is done making dinner then. We only have a few more hours here and I'm sure everyone will want time to take one last look at this place. I just wish I could have a chance to see Mercury one more time before we leave. I haven't been there for at least six months."
The blond nodded, "I know what you mean. Since we all got called back from our visits home no one has seen their homes for at least that long. Except Serenity. This will be hardest on her. She's visited our planets but never really been away from home in the same way."
The two of them stood and left the room. One last meal here, a few hours and they would be leaving the Moon. They would go to the one place no one would expect, the forbidden planet of Earth. Only the Queen and her two advisors knew of this. They were as prepared as they could be to go but even so that wasn't much comfort to them. They would be hiding within the enemies planet... the one that hid now on the dark side of the Moon somewhere... at least they suspected so. Who their enemy actually was was unclear however the Earth was their enemy as well. They had refused to join the alliance with the Moon and even declared war upon them. Though no actual fire was exchanged with anyone... but something was lurking around somewhere on the Moon and they could only suspect the Earth to be the reason for their current situation.
