Forgotten Moon

This is my first ever fan fic. I chose Sailor Moon because it is one of my all time favorite animes ever. I hope all of you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I warn you that I might not be completely loyal to the character's personality. But I do promise to be as loyal as I can possibly be without detracting from my creativity.

Sailor Moon and all the characters of the show do not belong to me.

Chapter 1

As Darien walked home he wondered how he could have let his life turn into this monotone. He did the same thing every day. Over and over the same cycle played. He got up in the morning, showered, had breakfast, and then went to classes. After classes you would find him at Le Ruban Rouge, The Red Ribbon, a fancy French restaurant only ten blocks from his apartment.

He had worked there for the last three years. He had gotten the job when he was fifteen. Though at first they had been hesitant to hire a fifteen year old.

The manager turned out to be a nice guy and he decided to give a kid who was down on his luck a chance. And he had not regretted his decision. The boss thought Darien had turned out to be one of the hardest working waiter he had ever had. But though Mr. Yama was a nice person he would never admit to Darien that he was such a great worker, because that meant having to give him a raise.

Darien thought the job was great the only downer, he thought as he looked the suit bag that he was carrying at his shoulder, was having to wear that ridiculous penguin suit , or tuxedo as everyone refered to it. But he knew that he resembled a penguin when wearing it.

Every woman, including the owner's wife and daughter and all the female customers that frequented the resteraunt, could not help but notice how attractive Darien looked in the tuxedo. He was the waiter that recieved the most tips. He did not realize how incredibly appealing in a costume that he hated to wear.

Then there were the shoes. They were the most oppressive shoes on the planet. Before he started working at Le Ruban Rouge he had not know that shoes could be oppressive, but know he knew. The shoes were what helped him get into character every afternoon. He almost forgot about the suit that he was forced to wear each night, but he shoes were a constant reminder that he was just a waiter, that he was just an actor in that fancy atmosphere.

Darien could have easily have passed as on of those rich snotty people that dined at Le Ruban Rouge. He looked the part even without the tuxedo. His hair was the color of the ebony darkness, one could easily get lost in it's silkiness. Many girl had in the past. It was especially attractive when a stray lock of his hair would fall into his right eye.

His eyes where the deepest color blue, many have referred to it as "midnight blue with a touch of the jewel of the sea, sapphire." His lashes were envied by the opposite sex.

One could easily see him as the son of some aristocrat, since Darien had what people call "aristocratic futures." He was not vain about his looks because he was not the type to worry about them. He had not been raised to be vain and arrogant thought he had learned it later on in his life, after the accident, after having to live on his own.

As he thought this Darien looked down because he suddenly felt like something was pressing his toes closer together and he realized he had forgotten to take those horrible shoes them off. He had no idea how he could have forgotten to remove the shoes, especially since they were always at he back of his mind, since they were such a burden to him. He had a strange feeling all day. Almost as if something was going to occur, but his life was so routine that he highly doubted that.

It was too late to go back and change them now, the restaurant would be closed. He almost hated to take the shoes into his apartment and contaminate it with their aura of richly haughtiness. But he had no other choice; he had nowhere else to store them.

As he looked down at his moving shoe incased feet he came to the entrance of a park. He had walked this path so many times before that he did not even have to look up to know where he was. But today something made him look up. He looked at the sign. The sign he had gazed upon what seemed like a million times since he began to work at the restaurant.

The Silver Park. The sign proclaimed. Darien has found out that the reason that the park had been called that was because of the lake that stood in the middle of the park. This lake had been here many centuries, according to the legend. The park had been situated in the same area of the city for so many decades.

Their was a legend that many centuries ago the lake had been here, but then it had not been a just a small lake but a great wondrous lake.

It is said that a beautiful princess came down from the moon on a silver beam of light. Her name had been Serenity and she had been the only daughter of the Queen of the Moon. They ruled he Silver Kingdom which encompassed all of the planets.

Each planet has its own princess. There had been eight princesses in all, because the planet Earth had not had a princess but a prince. His name has been Endymion.

Princess Serenity had been engaged to the princes since they were barley able to walk. Princess Serenity was talented in may thing, but she was also very stubborn. When she found out at the age of thirteen that she was engaged to a Princes she had never even met, she told her mother, Queen Serenity, that she would not marry the Prince.

Her mother was wise and knew not to argue with her daughter but she did not agree with her either. Queen Serenity knew that it was written in the stars that those two would be together, but she did not want to burden her daughter with that information at such a young age.

Four year later, when the Princess was seventeen she knew that she only has one year before she would be forced to marry Prince Endymion, and she still had never met nor seen him, had not even had any type of communication with him what so ever.

She decided that it was time to take her life into her own hands. Princess Serenity was going to go to Earth find the Prince and convince him not to marry her. She told herself that if she had no success in getting out of the marriage she would at least have met the prince and should would have her say in what type of marriage they would have.

So she arrived on Earth on a silver moonbeam with her truster adviser a cat named Luna. But she was no ordinary cat, she was a direct decedent of the talking cats of the Silver kingdom. They were a rare species that only existed on the moon. In fact there were only two of her kind. Her, Luna, and Artemis.

Luna was a beautiful creature with gorgeous and shiny, silky fur. She had a crescent moon on her fore head and many say that was the reason for the cats' power of talk. Artemis was the male of the species.

He was a creature of pure white silky fur and her too had the crescent moon embedded on his forehead. While Luna lives on the moon with her mistress, Princess Serenity, Artemis lived on the Planet Venus. He had been a gift to the Princess Mina.

Queen Serenity had taken one look at the Princess Mina and she had see a mirror image of her own daughter, Princess Serenity, who had been born just a couple months after Princess Mina. (She had not been able to see the baby until then because she had still been in a most uncomfortable condition, ancient and all) She decided to give each girl one of the two cats that had also just been born that year.

The two cats were the last two of their kind for a terrible plague had taken the lives of the few that lived on the moon. A baby Princess Serenity had fallen in love with little kitten Luna and they had been inseparable ever since. That is why Luna accompanied her on her journey.

When Princess Serenity arrived on Earth, she came down right at the center of the lake. No one was around, or so she thought, so she floated across the water to the land. But she did not realize that a man was watching.

You see the man had been napping under a willow tree near the lake. The man had become exhausted after traveling for many days. He had set out on a journey to save his kingdom from an evil enemy and after a glorious victory he was on his way home.

He had been but a three hour horse ride away when his horse had collapse of exhaustion and he had realized how tired he really was. He had taken his horse to drink from the lake then he had tied him some yards away to graze and he had himself laid down to take a rest under a willow tree that allowed shelter from the heat of the blazing sun.

It was some time later that he was waken up by the bright silver beam. As he gazed at the direction where it was coming from he was transfixed by the most beautiful lady floating down from the beam.

Princess was unaware that any one was watching her. She had no idea where she was and she was beginning to regret having taken such a rash decision as coming to Earth. She remembered that Earth was bigger than the Moon and it certainly had more people. But she had to try. Because the beam would not come back for her for another 7 days. She had one week to find Prince Endymion and convince him that she was not the girl for him.

She gazed around at her surrounding and she was even more frightened because there was nothing anywhere except water and trees. She turned to Luna to ask her what to do and before she could even for a word she heard a noise (perhaps it was a snap of a twig of the ruffling of leaves).

The noise sounded really close and she turned in the direction that it was coming from and she stood transfixed. Before her was the handsomest man she had ever seen. He had the blacked hair and deepest cobalt eyes she had ever seen and they were trained right on her. She could not move, she could not breathe. But for some reason she was not frightened. As she looked at him she realized she felt the safest she had ever felt in her life, she even felt safer than she did in her own room.

Luna spoke, she had broken the spell because both Princess Serenity and the stranger turned to look at her. The stranger was surprised to have heard a talking cat. While Princess Serenity was not sure what she felt.

The last several moments had been a mystery to her. Luna and Princess Serenity carried on a conversation while the stranger watched in amazement. Suddenly he found his voice and asked, "Who are you?" Princess Serenity did not want to give away her identity so she called herself Serena.

She told him she was on a quest to find a man. At he seemed to break out of the spell he was in. 'of course,' he thought to himself, 'a beauty like her had to be taken, and she is probably deeply in love with this fool.' When he found himself hating this unknown man that she had mentioned he knew that he had fallen deep.

He might be stubborn and prideful, but he was no fool. He knew what was going on. He had fallen in love instantly. He should have know it would happen this way, after his mother had warned him many years ago.

When he was small he had been warned by his mother that when he saw the girl that was meant for him he would fall in love and know it. Even though she had know this, she and father had still gone ahead and arrange him marriage. They had both told him that if he could find this girl before his fiancé turned eighteen then they would sever the engagement and he would be free to marry the woman he loved.

And here she was right in front of him and she was in love with some one else. Suddenly he remembered that all she had said was that she was looking for a man, she had not specified that she had any relation to this man, so he still had a hope. He figured out a plan in that moment. He would volunteer to help her and he would do every thing in his power to make her fall in love with him.

The story goes on to tell how he took a detour to his home that would last three days instead of three hours. She did fall in love with him even though she did not know that he was the man that she had gone to Earth to convince no to marry her.

She did not know who he was because all he told her was that his name was Darien. When they got to his castle he confessed his identity as well as his feeling for her and asked her to marry her. She looked at him in astonishment then she laughed.

Endymion thought she was mocking him and he almost left her, when she too confessed her identity. Prince Endymion was astonished too, but then Princess Serenity told him her reason for arriving at Earth. He was totally heart broken at that moment expecting a rejection to come at any moment, but he was pleasantly disappointed because she told him that she loved him.

They planed to marry the day of Princess Serenity's eighteenth birthday. But on the day of the wedding the plants came under attack. They were both killed but Queen Serenity cast a spell with her remaining powers after having defeated the evil force that had killed her precious daughter. She placed Luna and the spirit of her daughter and the spirit of Prince Endymion that would allow then to be together in another time.

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Darien stood in the entrance to the park and wondered if the story had any truth to it. His grandmother would always tell him that tale before he went to sleep. He knew that he had been named Darien after the prince in the tale. When he moved into the city he had found the park and he had been surprised to find that on the stone gate at the entrance to the park there was the tale inscribed, though condensed, of course.

He began to walk again. Taking the path that he usually took to get to the other side and to his apartment. But when he came to a fork in the path, the right leading straight through and the left leading toward the small lake in the middle of the park, for some reason he was drawn in that direction. As he got closer to the lake he noticed noise. He began to walk faster and suddenly heard what sounded like a scream.

to be continued............