By: Cosmos Star
Rated: PG13
Chapter: 5, The Book Of His Life
Disclaimers: I DON'T OWN SM.. IF YOU DONT KNOW THAT THEN YOU
SHOULDNT BE READING THIS. Sailor Moon belongs to Naoko Takeuchi...
Please don't sue me.
Aaah… Tomorrow there is school… Benchmarks are this week (I didn't notice till yesterday) Hahaha… Right now its 5:00 in the morning! I accidentally woke up at 4:20 today. I didn't go back to sleep because I was afraid I would not wake up again. If I use Serenity instead of Serena… I'm sorry, I'm going to switch off… (its mainly cuz I forgot this was Searching for you, I'm used to be working on Mixed Time )
Serena
She woke up, yet something in her head is throbbing. She found her self in a very glorious room. It was a man's room though. She can tell by the smell of it. 'This smell is so familiar.'
She got out of the very comfortable king sized bed. Serena scanned the room, searching for a clue of that can tell where this place is.
'Obliviously, you are not going to find the address. An address at a time like this wouldn't help you in the first place!'
Around the room there are vases of red roses on every table. There are swords hanging on the wall. There are many books in the shelf. A big brown desk was near the window. Finally she came across the balcony.
Serena opened the doors and stepped outside. When she looked at the view, instead she found a kingdom. It's like another world out side the balcony. 'This is like my balcony. The whole kingdom is outside of my balcony.' There were people, many of them. Some were smiling. Some children were playing. Some people were happily chatting with each other. Everybody looks very happy. Of course there are the sad faces and the beggar on the streets.
The fresh air, the shining sun, this was indeed earth!
'This is the real thing! Mom, I'm finally here!!' she thought happily.
When she was satisfied of the view, she went back inside because it was getting a little bit chilly. She went back and picked up a book that was on the desk. The book was pretty thick and there is no title on it. It just has a red crimson on the middle of the book. She examines the book and opened it to the first page.
January 1, 938
Today, I just got this new journal. A New Year means a new journal. Kunzite and Zoisite was on duty to guard me today, but I told them to go and enjoy the kingdom. They believe me (for once) and went away. So I went to the Lake with Silver. The weather was good today. A little cloudy and breezy, the ideal weather to spend time alone! Although, whenever I'm there I think of 'her' only.
There will be a ball tonight. The traditional ball has been going on for over 50 years in the Golden Kingdom. Something I don't look forward to. How horrid you can imagine if I have to dance with ANY of those so called young lady.
It feels somewhat different tonight. It's a new moon. The moonlight won't reach me tonight. How I am going to miss you! Yes, I have realized when the moonlight can't reach me, my nights are dreamless.
-Darien
'So this is his diary? I must really be intruding his privacy. I know I shouldn't read it… But…' She flips a few pages and reads a new entry. She hated this feeling already. The feeling of guilt yet she loves finding new things about him.
February 5, 938
I just had another dream of my Moon Princess. She was breath taking, even though I can't see her face. I wonder if I'm ever going to meet her in real life. Well, I won't marry anyone except her.
It was Mother's birthday today, so there was another great ball. Everyone in the kingdom came. Ugh, every one of those girls tries to get me to dance. All of them are leeches who want power! I know that is not fair for every single woman there, but I'm starting to think that is true!
I wish I can just go to sleep and dream about my sweet Moon Princess. Ah, it brings me great peace to think about her.
-Darien
"Moon Princess..." She rolled that so familiar title out of her tongue. 'How is this possible?!' Then she flips to the back of the book. It was empty. She flips through the pages and finds the last entry. She was a little hesitant on whether of not she should read it.
'Maybe he fell in love with the great image of that goes along the title the Moon Princess… I'm nothing like he described. He will be so disappointed when he finds out I'm the Moon Princess…' her thoughts fades as she reads another page.
March 28, 938
Today I finally met her at the lake. I couldn't believe my eyes! She was right there, appeared out of no where! She looks so innocent, pure, beautiful, amazing, and angelic even better than the dreams. There are no words that I can use to describe her. I should really go more often to that lake.
She got in trouble by a couple of bandits. Those idiots! How dare them to lay a hand on her! I was ready to snap each single of their lives. Yet, I know the responsibility of a prideful knight. Their leader may be number three in the Kingdom, but you know I'm number one. After she was release, she ran to me. On the way, she tripped and landed on my arms. What a great feeling it was to have her in my arms! Then she fainted. Now, she is sleeping on my bed. She is such an Angel.
Oh!! If this was a dream, I rather have her stay by my side forever than every waking up!
-Darien
"So I'm in his bedroom?" She said to her self. She wanted to read more, but she hears footsteps coming. She puts the book back where she found it.
The door flung opened.
Okay, I was about to leave it off here… But that would not be so fair. It's so short anyways. (And I'm not that mean, rite?)
"Darien?" Serena asks, making sure he was there.
"Serena, you are awake... Are you okay?" Darien face looks really worried. He rushes closer to her, in case she would fall again.
"I'm okay... but what your arm? Are you okay???" Serenity was dead worried.
"Oh, I heal quickly... so don't worry about it..." He smiles reassuringly. In his heart he was so happy that he cared for her.
"But Darien, blood was coming out of it! Let me see..." Serena argued childishly. There was no way for Darien to get out of this now. She was determined to check what damage she cost to him.
"It's okay really. It heals really quickly" Darien reassured her.
"Please let me see... It was my fault that you got injured anyways... so please..." she begged him. Tears started to appear in the corner of her eyes. She gave him a look that he couldn't say no to.
Darien finally gave in. "Okay..." he unwrap the bandage. It was a little bit hard to unwrap it, so Serena helped him. She did it very carefully and gently.
"I'm sorry" she whispered.
Then she finished unwrapping. She couldn't believe what she was seeing. There was nothing under the bandage. Not a single one of his skin cells was out of place. There were no traces of a wound if it hadn't been his sleeve that was torn apart and was stained with blood.
"What happened?" She asks, bewildered.
"I told you that it's okay. I heal faster than normal humans," he added.
"How?"
"Magic" he simply replied.
"Can I?" Serena asks for his permission, hesitantly.
"Sure."
Then Serena let her hand wonder his. Darien was enjoying this every second. Every single of her touch is like nothing he ever felt before.
Silence.
"So what happened?" Serena asks while looking at her surroundings.
"Umm... you don't remember anything?" he asked hopefully. He hoped that she wouldn't remember a group of idiots.
"The last thing I remembered was... When you won against that man and then they release me... After that it's all blank..." Her voice fades.
'So you do remember them, I'm sorry Serena,' he felt he was responsible for them in the first place. It was, after all, his planet.
"Well, the bandits ran away. You fainted, so I brought you here..." Darien explains.
"Is this your house?" she doubted it was one. In what house can you find a room like this with the greatest view out side the balcony!
"My house? House? Umm... I wouldn't call it that... There are many more people that live here and it's a little too big to be called a house..." Darien answered nervously.
"A mansion?" Serena guesses.
"Not exactly..."
"Where is this?"
"This-"
knock-knock.
Darien looked at the door. He hesitated. After a few moments he said, "Come in!"
Then a girl about Serena's age walked in. She doesn't look like a servant. She had a long brown wavy hair. Her appearance doesn't suggest any clues either.
"Who is she? Is she your sister?" Serena asks. Serena looked so jealous at the girl.
'No, she isn't his sister. There is no familiarity between them at all. What is this feeling? Jealousy? I've never felt this way before… Why do I feel a rage of jealously?'
"No, she is not my sister. I don't have a sister. Let's find out." he answered Serena. Then he looked at the girl again and said "What is it?"
"Your parents are expecting you to be at the dining room in right now, you're hi-"
"I'll be right down..." Darien sharply cuts her sentence off. There was no way Serena was going to find out his identity this way.
"They request you to come right away, your highness," The young lady bowed as she finishes her sentence.
"Then tell them that Serena is coming too," he instructed.
"Yes, your highness," the young lady bows once more.
"You may go," Darien said. Then the girl bow down and left.
Yes, for those of you that have read this story before, I know the chapter ends here, but it's still too short! XD So I'm adding another chapter!
After the girl left, there was silence. Darien wasn't sure what to say.
"What did she mean by the 'your highnesses?' Are you important or something?" Serena asked curiously. Those words are thrown to her everyday.
"Uhh, I'm somewhat related to the royal family of the Earth," he covered quickly. He hated lying to her.
Serena stared at him. There was something that he was hiding, and she knew it right away.
"I think you should get change into something more proper... unless you want to stay in that dress..." he said hopefully to change the subject that they were on.
"Dress? More proper?" She looked down at what she was wearing. Then she started to blush furiously. Her clothes have changed into a night dress, in other words, a very revealing dress.
"I'll ask someone to help you dress," he made motions to get up from his seat.
Then she just realizes that her hands were still wondering around his. She gradually moved her hand. Next, her cheeks turn crimson red.
'Don't move your hand.' Darien thought, missing her warmth already.
"Sorry..." her voice piped up.
"Its okay," he gave her a reassuring smile, "I'll call someone right now to help you dress."
Serena nodded. Darien went out the door. She sat back down on the bed. She liked this adventure, but she fell in love with a man from another planet. Not just from any other planet, it's the one planet that is forbidden. She knew that her mother will not allow this relationship.
'I miss home, but I can't go home... I don't want all this to end. Mother must be worried.'
The door opens again to reveal Darien. He looked somewhat troubled.
"Serena, I can't do this," Darien rushes to hug her. He embraces her tightly as if she was going to disappear.
"Darien?" Serena was confused. Was he going to end everything already? When she finally falls in love?
"I can't do this," his voice breaks out.
"Do what?" Serena was afraid. 'What If I have to leave already?'
"I can't lie to you any longer," he still wouldn't let her go.
"Lie? You've been lying to me?" Serena's heart sank. Although those words came out of her mouth, she did not let go of his embrace.
"I am so sorry. But please, let me give me a chance to explain," Darien begged. It was the same voice he used to beg her to stay.
Serena knew very well that she could not refuse that look. She closed her eyes tightly. She hated liars. All of them. 'At least he wants to tell you now. You have some things that you lied to him about. It may be the same reason. Let him explain,' her heart whispers. She buries her head his warm embrace.
"Okay, but I don't want any more lies," her words were such irony against her. She has lied from him, but he knew, right?
"I'm… I'm the crown prince of the Earth," he finally decides to let it all out.
Serena's eyes widen. 'An exact condition like mine?!'
"The Crown Prince of the Earth," she repeated. There was no emotion in her voice except the fact that is she was greatly shocked by the information that was just given to her.
"Serena, I beg of you for your forgiveness! I'll give you anything," he begs.
Serena lets go of his embrace. She knew in her heart that she has to forgive him. She has forgiven him the moment that said he has been lying. She looked away from his begging eyes.
'You think it was coincidence?'
"Darien… Can I ask you a question?"
"Of course," his heart not was ready to take the consequences of his actions.
"Why did you do it? Why did you lie to me?" Serena spoke with great softness in her voice.
"You know, I was really stunned the first time I met you. Not only because you were beautiful, but I think it was partly because of the fact that you don't know who I am before. This whole royalty thing, I would give it away to someone else if I can, but I can't. I just feel so caged," His voice drifts.
"It was finally the day when there was freedom. There were no burdens on my back. No more responsibility. Staying in the great palace just makes you feel so…" Serena continues for him.
"Locked up," Darien finishes for her.
They stared at each other's eyes. It was quite amazing on how they knew what each other have been feeling.
"Darien, I ask you for mercy and forgiveness," she looks straight in his eyes.
"Serena?"
"I've been lying to you too. But it was necessary. I could not possibly let anyone know of it," tears were in her eyes. She was scared. What if he hated her for this?
"Its okay. If you are not ready to tell me, I'll wait for you," he comforted her.
"You promise to forgive me when the time comes?" she looks up into his eyes.
"I promise," Darien gives Serena a speck on her temple.
Serena embraces him tightly. She knew he wanted to know.
"Thank you," she smiles.
"Now, you should get changed. I don't know how long my father will wait for us in dinner," Darien looked at the time. He was greatly nervous. This was going to be the first time he brings another person to the dinner table with his parents.
Dining room
"Is he coming?" the king said impatiently.
"The prince said he will be down in a minute..." the girl from before answered.
"Okay, you may go," The queen gave her permission to leave.
"Thank you, your highness," the she bowed and walked the other way. Suddenly, she turned around again.
"Is there anything else?" the king asked surprised.
"Ummm, your highness. The prince also left a message to be delivered to you."
"Message? What is it then?" the queen answered.
"The prince said, 'Serena is coming too' " she said it carefully.
"What? Is there anything else he said?" The queen looks at the young woman before her. It was quite unusual for the servant to act this way.
"No, your highness. Ummm..." The browned hair servant had respect for the royal family, but she uneasiness would arouse when they are so close to you.
"What is it?"
"Well, this is not a message and it is none of my business your highness," she said it clearly.
"Hmmm, if this is none of your business, it might be ours', so please be quick."
"There was somebody else that was in the prince's bedroom chamber," she finally lets it all out.
"Somebody else? Who?"
The girl hesitated, and then she nodded.
"It was a young blonde girl in a night dress. She was beautiful. I don't know her name, but I have never seen her anywhere before. She was holding the prince's hand. That is all I know..." the girl closes her eyes tightly, hoping that they will ask no more of her.
"Thank you, you may go now," the king announces.
"Yes, your highness," She turn around and left.
"What does that mean?"
""The Serena is coming too"" the queen repeated.
"A girl in his room? In her night dress???" The king yelled, enraged.
"Calm down dear..." she tried to calm her husband.
"We must teach this boy some manners!" the wise king smack the dinner table with his fist.
"He is always late for his meals," the queen added instead of defending her own son.
"Plus he gave us a message that does not make any sense! Who the heck is Serena?!"
"Maybe it's something to do with his "Moon Princess"..."
The king started pacing. "A girl, a girl... A GIRL?! IN HER NIGHT DRESS?! WHAT IS THAT BOY THINKING??? HE IS NOT EVEN MARRIED?! NOT THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF HE WAS! I WILL NOT LET HIM HAVE A MISTRESS!" the king roared.
"A girl? Serena… That name sounds familiar," the queen suddenly stood up. Next she went to the pacing king. "If it's the Moon Princess... Serenity what are you thinking?" she whispers the name lowly.
"Serenity?" The king gave his wife a weird look.
The queen just nodded.
"Serenity? I do not see what she has to do with all this..." the king continued.
"The Moon princess..." the queen whispered.
The king gave her a blank look.
"Huh?"
"We have to contact her!" She started to leave for the communication room.
"Hold on, what are you saying? It does not make sense..." he grabs his wife's wrist gently.
"We have to confirm that she is the Moon princess. And in order to do that, we have to contact Serenity!" she looks back at her husband.
"Oh, but there is dinner, honey. Do it after dinner..." the king's stomach grumbles loudly.
"Okay. Where is that boy?"
To be continued...
I'll edit the next chapter as soon as possible... I can't believe it turned out to be this long… Although, it's still about the average length on Mixed Time. Lol Well, will it be a disastrous dinner? Or will the royal family of the earth behave themselves?
Next Chapter: It's Dinner Time…