I dont own Makoto, Hotaru, Rei, Minako, Setsuna or the quote. But I do own everything/everyone else, and the plot.

Ok, I have the next chapter out... Hope you all like it!

Makoto - 18 Hotaru - 18(she is 1 month younger than Makoto) Setsuna - 22 Rei - 19 Minako - 19

'What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us'

The sunrise was beautiful, the mixes of the yellows, pinks, purples, oranges, reds and blues were spectacular.

That is the first sign.

The time will soon come.

The necklace will be needed.

The royal family of Dragonove, on the planet of Arovaon, met at the outer walls of their kingdom to be greeted by the royal families of the other countries. The family of elves that ruled the land were surrounded by guards and a crowd of villagers who lived around.

The King, King Seika, stood tall at 6', an average height for the tall male elves. He had long black hair tied into a low ponytail. He had hard, yet kind forest green eyes. Under his many dark blue robes, a sharp sword, covered in emeralds at the handle, rested. Anyone could tell, at first glance, that this elf was strong, protective, and a part of royalty, even without his crown.

The Queen, Queen Celesy, was a little tall for a female elf. Her height was 5'9". She had chestnut brown hair, also long, tied into a braid at the back. Her soft and gentle eyes practically told you who she was. Gentle, beautiful, kind, giving, conscientious and royal; all were details of the queen. Her tall slim body was covered in a long, light green gown. Around her neck lay a necklace of three emeralds, one which represented her husband, another which represented her daughter, and another which represented herself.

The Princess, Princess Makoto. An amazonian princess as some called her. She was as good with a sword as most of her guards were. In hand to hand combat, few guards can give her an actual challenge. Tall, like her mother, she stood at 5'8". She resembled her mother mostly, but she had her father's temper. She had emerald green eyes that once you look at them, the feelings they give out just wont go away. They stick with you forever. Her hair, also like her mothers, is chestnut brown. But Makoto keeps her hair shorter, a little past her shoulders, and in a high ponytail. Two strings lay in front of her ears, elf ears which held the famous rose earrings. Like her father, Makoto was short tempered. Also like her father, she sometimes does things without thinking. Other than her strength, temper, and doing without thinking habits, she is very kind, graceful, and beautiful, just like both of her parents. She wore a gown of dark green and a certain necklace around her neck. The Emeruka.

Three other royal families began to arrive.

One family, from the kingdom of Zenohara, stopped in front of the king, queen and princess of Dragonove to greet them. They also traded gifts of peace. They had given the Dragonove rulers a gold box which had magical powers. The powers, however, no one knew. The small golden box, called the Azuza, named after the woman who founded it in a Dragon's cave, is ancient and has many legends behind it.

In return, the family of Zenohara was given a 7ft tall silver statue of themselves together.

The King, a short, wise, and honorable man, named Atuka. He is the strongest human in all of Zenohara, Dragonove, Judarga, and Destelyn. But he is still no match for the elves and sorcerers. Mankind is usually known to be struck with greed, but this man, shows none. His black hair falls just past his shoulders, his red eyes strike fear to his enemies. His long dark purple robes are fastened together by a thick gold belt. On the side of the belt, you can see a long sword, waiting to be used. In his right hand, a long light purple staff that looks like a key, is held.

Queen Iwana of Zenohara is not a human, but an elf. She is about an inch taller than her husband, and has short light green hair in the front, but down to her knees in the back. Her black eyes have a hint of amber to them. There are stories that she has killed men with her eyes and the rest of her beauty. Men, elves, dwarfs and sorcerers would fall in love with her because of her beauty, but she would not love them back. Thus driving them mad until they went on killing rampages, and soon died themselves. She wore a pale red gown with a black sash around her slim waist.

Princess Setsuna was just as beautiful as her mother. She had crimson colored eyes and dark green, almost black, hair. Her hair fell just below her knees, and a part was in a bun in the back of her head. Because her father is a human and her mother is an elf, she has human ears and a few elf powers. Her body is also tall and slim like an elves'. A dark purple, almost black gown is worn.

The prince, prince Matteya is very young, about 4 years old now. He has dark green hair also, but not as dark as his sisters. His eyes are black with a hint of crimson to them. He has elf ears, very few powers, and is short and chubby. He looks the size of a 2 year old even though he is 4.

The family of Judarga stepped up next. A beautiful carriage filled with the most wild, rare and lovely flowers of the forest were brought in behind the family. It was their gift of peace. From the Dragonove family, they were given a carriage full of the best armors and gowns of all the kingdoms together.

Sadly, the king, father of her only daughter, had died in a battle with the 'neighborhood' Dragons a few years before. The widowed queen did not want to marry anyone else, but the king told her to marry someone powerful at his last moments with her. So she did. She married one of the most powerful sorcerers that she knew of. A sorcerer named Rune.

This new 'King' was not very much liked. He was cold, bitter, and selfish. But, he was often out traveling the rest of the world, so no one was always unhappy. With him not around, there was much more freedom to the villagers, servants, and even to the Queen and Princess. The sorcerer had long grey hair and a long beard, even though he was not old at all. His red eyes were always narrow and glaring, making permanent wrinkles in between his eyebrows. He was very tall and covered in black robes.

The Queen, Queen Haru, was beautiful, just like the rest of the Queens. She had medium length blonde hair tied into a low bun in the back of her head and hazel eyes. She was half dwarf, half elf. She was short, but not dwarf- like short. Had small pointed ears and was not hot tempered at all. She had some elf powers. Her thin body was covered in a yellow gown. A gold brace around her upper arm was very visible. She wore it every day of her life. This was because it was given to her by the real King, the one she loved, King Asaichi, before he died.

The only daughter, Princess Minako, was a medium height, long blonde haired, crystal blue eyed beauty. Her blue eyes are clones of her father's blue irises. She misses her father very much. She loved him. He was always there for Minako and her mother. But the new 'King' hasn't been there for any of her or her mother's needs. She hates the sorcerer. She hates him. And that is all there is to say. The orange gown fit perfectly around her slim body. She, like her mother, has small pointed ears and few elf powers.

The next and last family to greet them was the Destelyn family of five: Three sons, one daughter and a father, the King. The Queen, a half elf, half human, was very ill, and two months after she had her only daughter, she died.

The King, a short, pudgy dwarf named Takeo. Bad tempered, kind, and loud. If you listened hard enough, you can hear him from a mile away... His small, wide body was covered in purple, black and grey robes and an axe hanging at his side. He had black and grey hair, and a long mustache. His eyes were brown and soft. This dwarf always had a smile on his face and was always thankful for everything that he had. Especially his children.

Prince Akira, the eldest, bravest son. He was tall and muscular and ALWAYS had a sword and shield with him. He had human ears, no powers, and was also loud, but not as loud as his father. He had black hair with grey streaks and brown eyes. He wore a dark purple robe.

The second oldest Prince, Prince Daichi had grey hair with black streaks. He was short, thin, with elf ears, few powers and was neither quiet, nor loud. His eyes were violet-brown. He wore a dark purple robe.

The second youngest child, prince Takendo, was medium height and chubby. He had small pointed ears, a few powers and was pretty quiet. He had long black hair with violet eyes. He wore a dark purple robe.

The youngest of all four children was a daughter. Princess Hotaru. All of her mother's, the Queen's, sickly life, she had hoped for a raven haired daughter. Two months after her dream came true and she gave birth to the raven haired, violet eyed, Princess Hotaru, she died. Now, Hotaru looks more like her mother than anyone, the same hair, eyes, skin color, and illnesses too. Hotaru is usually VERY quiet. She has small pointed ears, few powers, medium height and thin. Even though she was so sickly, she hid it very well. No one besides the family of Dragonove, the Princesses of Judarga and Zenohara and her own family knew of her illnesses. She was very kind and would never hurt anything unless in defense. She wore a dark, dark purple gown with a light purple sash around her waist. Around her neck was a gold chain. On the gold chain, in the middle, was a big garnet, her birthstone.

The gift of peace they were to give to the family of Dragonove was already given not long ago. The Emeruka. In return, they had received what the Queen had wanted most while she was still alive: Half of the Lily Forest, the most beautiful, enchanted, safest forest in their world.

After the greeting was over, they all walked inside to the throne room. A large table was placed and 12 more chairs were added. They all took their seats. Right away, the families were talking while villagers and knights filed into the room. Makoto, Rei, Setsuna and Hotaru were all good friends and had visited each other a lot over the years. None had any love interests or many other friends besides the other, so when they didn't visit each other, they were pretty lonely, but usually kept themselves occupied with their own hobbies.

"Hey guys! I've missed ya!" Makoto yelled as she hugged each of them.

"Hey" The others chorused. "I haven't seen you in a long time. Where have you been lately Mako-Chan?" Hotaru asked looking at her best friend.

"Oh, I've been sort of busy. My parents made me go to the Kingdom of Flasentant six days ago, I just got back yesterday. The Prince there was so annoying. He's only 8 and he kept asking if I wanted to play house with him!" She said with a laugh. The others joined in too.

Minako opened her mouth to say something but was cut off by an announcement from Makoto's father.

"Attention everyone! My family thanks you all for coming here on this beautiful day! After dinner, EVERYONE, including my people, may join the ball that shall take place! So now, let us make a toast!" The strong King said lifting up his glass. At that moment, the Queen also stood up, raising her glass.

"A toast to peace throughout our kingdoms!" She yelled with a beautiful smile showing on her face.

As if on cue, all of the other people in the large room stood and lifted there glasses. "To peace throughout our kingdoms!" They all chorused loud and happily, except for one...

After dinner, the family of Dragonove walked into the decorated ballroom. The huge room had soft dancing music playing in the background. The monstrous pale green walls looked like they were made out of crystal, just like the floors. Soon, the other families and villagers came flooding in. Talking and dancing were going on everywhere. Setsuna, Hotaru, Makoto and Minako were all talking in a corner. Each getting asked to dance every other second. A few were lucky and got to dance. But most didn't have the pleasure because the girls really wanted to catch up with what's been going on with the other.

When the ball was about half over, the girls decided to go walk around. Every once in a while, they spotted a cute guy and gaped over him for a little while, then moved onto the next. They did this for about 45 minutes, then they headed for the balcony. On there way over, Makoto spotted a girl. She appeared to be human, but from looking at her tall slim elfin body, you could tell she was half elf. The girl was kind of tall, but not as tall as Setsuna or herself, and, even though Setsuna was older than her by four years, Makoto was taller than her too, but not by much. The stranger had long raven hair. Her violet eyes looked like they were glowing from the light of the white chandeliers. She stood in a deep red gown with white gloves. A silver necklace with a red stone lay around the bottom of her neck. A small frown was plastered onto her face and she looked like she was looking for something, or someone. Suddenly, she turned her head and made eye contact with Makoto. Makoto, for some reason, could not turn away, she just watched as the raven haired beauty made her way, quickly to herself.

Makoto looked around for her friends, they were gone. They must have not noticed that she had stopped. They are probably outside already.

"Excuse me; you are the Princess of Dragonove, are you not?" The shorter girl asked. Slowly, Makoto nodded. "And you are...?"

"I am Hino Rei. I live in your kingdom. I have urgent news that I MUST speak with you about, now." The girl, now known as Rei, said.

"What is this...news..?"

"It must not be talked about here, who knows whose ears are listening to us now. Do you know of anywhere private we may speak?" She asked.

"Uhh...um, well, there's my room, but-"

"Perfect! We'll go there then!" Rei said quickly and pushed Makoto towards one of the many exits. On her way out, Makoto spotted Hotaru and Minako. They were looking around, probably for her...

Makoto took Rei to her room and shut the door. Almost immediately, Rei went to the balcony, shut the doors and the curtains. "No one can see me here, we have to be careful."

Makoto looked at the girl suspiciously. After about five minutes of watching Rei go around making sure everything was safe for her. She had enough.

BANG

Makoto knocked her fist against the wall, hard. "Everything is safe enough for you, now tell me what is so urgent!" Makoto yelled, her hot temper was kicking in. Rei, knowing better than to make this Princess really angry, sat down on the bed and took off her necklace.

"Well, this necklace was founded by my great grandmother in the lake of Cudanes, over in the Kingdom of Cederasian. It was passed down to my mother, and now to me. I got it last year for my birthday, when I turned 19. This necklace is not ordinary like how I thought it to be. Once I got it last year, things changed for me. It was like I could see the future. I would look at it, hold it, concentrate on it. And it would show me things, important things. Like what it had showed me the other day..."

Rei stopped and looked at Makoto, who was staring at the necklace with a questionable expression. When Makoto realized Rei had stopped talking, she looked up.

"Aren't you going to continue?"

Rei nodded. "This world is in great danger because of what you have around your neck." She informed seriously, pointing to the Emeruka. Makoto looked down, then took the necklace off and stared at it.

"The Emeruka? Why? How?" Makoto asked, looking at the beauty sitting next to her.

"Someone is coming to take it away. Someone cold-hearted and evil. He wants power. But he doesn't know how much power he's going to get. He doesn't understand the true power of the Emeruka. He'll destroy everything, including himself without knowing it." She said, looking towards the floor.

"What do you mean? Who is it?" Makoto asked.

"I don't know who he is. But this necklace had given me a vision. I will tell you about it." Rei continued. "Everything appeared to be normal. People were laughing and dancing and talking. Everyone was happy. You were there, with your necklace. You were happy too. Suddenly, everything went dark. There was a scream, your scream. A male's voice echoed. He said something, but I could not make it all out. I know he said the words Emeruka, Makoto, world, and power. Then the lights went on, and my vision skipped time. It showed the end of the world. It showed all of the creatures...elves, humans, dwarfs, animals, sorcerers, faeries...all dying. It showed the lands crumbling. The world, disappearing." Rei finished. Then put her necklace back on.

"You need to keep that safe and away from this Kingdom, from all of these Kingdoms..."

Makoto nodded and put the necklace back on. Suddenly the door opened.

"Are you serious!" Minako yelled, bursting through the door. Setsuna and Hotaru followed slowly.

"Aaahhh! How could you of heard? You were not supposed to hear!" Rei yelled standing up.

"Well ya know! I would of found out anyway since it's going to be happening!" Minako yelled back.

Suddenly, the lights went out and a scream was heard...

So, wutcha think? Ya like it so far? I hope so! The G-boys should either be in this by the next chapter or the one after... Most likely the one after tho... Yes, the scouts I have not mentioned yet will be in this, but they most likely wont have big parts.. Well, PLEASE REVIEW!

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