Romance Under the Moon

Another fine day in Tokyo, at least it would be if Serena weren't running down the street trying to get to school after oversleeping again.

"No!" she panicked "I'll be late again!" Then she was stopped at an unusual sight of a traffic jam. Police cars stopping drivers at the four-way intersection and questioning them.

"Is something going on today?" She asked and behind her approached Molly who had recovered after getting her energy drained but she seemed depressed she just waltzed past Serena with a sad look on her face.

"Hey!" Serena called. "Good Morning Molly!"

"Good morning." Molly said monotoned.

"What's wrong?" Serena asked, catching up to her.

Molly remembered what happened Nephrite said she was the cutest then he demanded her to reveal herself as Sailor Moon.

"I don't understand." she thought, "What in the world does Mr. Stanton think of me?"

"Molly snap out of it, we're going to be late!" Serena said, pulling on her arm. Soon Serena and Molly arrived in the classroom. Ms. Haruna hadn't arrived yet so this meant good news for Serena.

"Hey!" Melvin called approaching Serena. "Have you heard, the first princess of the Diamond Kingdom is visiting Japan."

"Diamond Kingdom?" Serena asked.

"It's the country that produces the most gems in the world." Melvin said. "I heard they're holding a dinner party tonight at the embassy."

"So, that's why they were doing all those inspections." Serena said.

"Princess Diamond will be inheriting the legendary secret treasure. Of her kingdom, to the world for the first time at the dinner party." Melvin said.

"Secret Treasure?" Serena said. "I wonder how amazing it could be?" Then she clutched her head thinking hard. "It's no use! I can't imagine it!"

"I'll go look at it and let you know." Molly said, still monotoned. "My family runs a jewelry shop, remember? So, I got a hold of a special invitation to the dinner party."

Wow! Serena chimed. "You're so lucky! I wish I could go!"

Back at Serena's house Luna was reading the newspaper

"The Mystery of the century will be revealed tonight! Princess Diamond visits Japan with the world's greatest secret treasure of the Diamond kingdom's royal family!"

"Secret treasure?" Wondered Luna

In the Dark Kingdom the word of this gracious event didn't take long for Queen Beryl to hear.

"Legendary treasure of the Diamond Kingdom." she said "It could be the legendary silver Crystal."

"I shall look into this." said Zoisite. Then Nephrite appeared in a red fire. "Nephrite don't interfere! Searching for the legendary silver crystal is my job!"

Earth is under my jurisdiction. Nephrite said.

"What!" Said Zoisite angered

"I will look into it, please send me!" Requested Nephrite

"Nephrite." said Queen Beryl, "if the Diamond Kingdom's legendary secret treasure turns out to be the Silver Crystal it will be a pleasant surprise. With the power of the Silver Crystal, we shall revive our great ruler. Our Dark Kingdom will rule the world!"

"But my lady." Zoisite said peeved

"Nephrite, what is your plan?" Beryl asked.

"I have a new way of taking care of business. Just watch." Nephrite said.

"Nephrite has failed every time, except once!" Zoisite shouted. "Why did you assign him this? He has also failed with the assistance of Knuckles and Eggman and his incompetent Flunkies."

"He's in a tough situation, and he is very desperate now." Beryl said.

Zoisite left and he teleported to Beryl's fourth general Malachite. He wore the same uniform as the other generals but he had a big black cape, he had pale eyes with white hair. Zoisite was shaking in his arms and Malachite was stroking his hair, it was safe to assume that they were lovers.

"Zoisite." Malachite said softly. "The impatient always lose."

"But Malachite."Zoisite groaned.

"Nephrite can be ousted any time we please." Malachite replied. "We shall take this opportunity to see just how skilled he is. With the appearance of Eggman and the chaos Emeralds, a grand opportunity has presented itself to us. Hmhmhmhm"

After Class at the Hikawa Shrine Ami, Rei, Luna, and Serena were discussing the huge event coming up.

"What? A Princess?" Rei asked.

Luna was explaining the one explaining the situation. "Yes. I think this princess could be the princess we've been looking for."

"Well." Ami said. "We can't completely ignore Luna's intuition. I think we need to look into this."

Serena said something smart for a change. "Princess Diamond is surrounded by lots of bodyguards, and we can't get into the hall that the dinner party's being held at."

"We know all that!" Rei said, annoyed. "Our mission is to use our brains to find a way around that, remember!"

"Rei you don't have to pin me down with such a scary look!" Whine Serena starting to tear up.

"Don't cry to gloss things over!" Rei yelled.

"Anyway, let's go to an area close to the dinner party tonight." Ami said. "We'll wait for a chance to check whether Princess Diamond really is the princess we've been looking for."

Serena and Luna began to walk home.

"Serena." Luna instructed. "I need you to have a more passionate sense of duty!" Then when she arrived at home she noticed that her dad was all dressed up.

"Dad why are you all dressed up?" Serena asked.

"I'm going to the diamond party embassy." Father said.

"What?" Serena yelled. "The dinner party? No fair I wanna get in, too!"

"There's a magazine reporting, it's work!" Father explained. "I'll tell you everything when I get back." He walked out the door.

"Oh I know!" Serena said hit with an insight.

"What are you going to do?" Luna asked Serena to look out her disguise pen.

"Please don't!" Luna pleaded.

"Moon Power! Turn me into a pretty princess!"

Her hair style stayed the same, she gained a white dress with rose blossoms around the chest line, also a pink parasol.

"Look at my dress!" Serena cheered. "It's wonderful!"

"Honestly." Luna sighed. "You can't use the disguise pen like some kind of toy."

"You're wrong!" Serena said. "I have a mission. I did this so I can find out if Princess Diamond is the princess we've been looking for."

"Really?" Luna asked with doubt Serena continued to dance around in her dress oh this is useless.

After a couple minutes Serena arrived at the Embassy.

"So this is the place for the dinner party."

Serena approached the front gate on the way she passed Rei and Ami, Rei wore a black dress while Ami wore a blue dress.

"Serena!" They called but she ignored them.

"Excuse me Miss?" The doorman called. "Where's your invitation?"

"I am the princess of the Ivanovich kingdom!" Serena said, in a sophisticated tone.

"What? Ivanovich Kingdom?" The doorman said, flipping through the book, Serena just walked in. She walked into the great hall and saw the big dance strangely all the men looked similar to Tuxedo Mask. "Wow! A masquerade! It's like something from a foreign movie!"

Molly was there as well and she wore an ocean blue dress, and she looked sad.

"This is perfect." Nephrite said seeing Molly he approached her. "Excuse me Miss, would you please dance with me?"

What he said as he took her hand.

"It's me." Nephrite said softly, and he lifted his mask.

"Maxfield Stanton!" Molly said happily.

"Did you come here with your mother?" He asked

"Yes." Molly said.

"I never expected to see you here." Nephrite said. He pulled her into a waltz "You have made my day."

And then they began to waltz across the room.

"Oh Lucky Molly." Serena groaned. watching them. "She already found a partner." She walked backwards and bumped into two guests and they spilled a drink on her dress, Serena panicked and darted out the door.

Down the hallway Tuxedo Mask was sneaking about.

"If I can get a hold of the silver crystal." Tuxedo Mask thought. "I will surely find out who I am." He saw Serena making her way down the hall.

"Wait." He thought, more looking at her. "In the distant past I have seen her before."

Then Nephrite led Molly outside towards the balcony, they were holding hands.

"Mr. Stanton is so wonderful." Molly thought. "I don't care what happens to me anymore."

"You are like a star shining in the heavens!" Nephrite said. "Please close your eyes." Molly did so. And he sent some dark magic at Molly "Now you are under my control."

The Dancing in the great hall continued Serena just stood by and watched the dancing.

"I transformed into a princess, but it's no fun if I'm alone." Serena thought.

"Would you care to dance?" Said a man approaching her. Serena looked and the man offering his hand was none other than Tuxedo Mask.

"Tuxedo Mask!" She shouted in her head. She took his hand and they began to dance, "No way It can't be? It's like a dream!" In fact People began to surround and watch those two dance. "This is so strange." a curious thought raced through her head. "I feel like I've danced with him before, a long time ago."

Then Molly walked to the back to the embassy. She had an ominous look on her face, it appears she was walking to the bedroom of the princess.

"Wait!" The two door guards said halting Molly. "Who are you!"

"I'm Molly, I'm a friend of Princess Diamond!" Sadly though the guards bought it.

Molly walked into the room, the Princess was sitting at the mirror, She looked a lot more average for a princess, she had short brown hair, a small gold tiara with a red gem in the middle. Complete with a red dress, but the big, odd thing about her appearance is the fact she wore a pair spiral glasses like Melvin.

"Princess." Her attendant called. "Someone calling herself your friend.." But Molly just barged right in.

"I'm Molly," Molly said loudly. "May I come in?"

"Please." The Princess answered, the doormen left and the Princess approached them. "You seem like a fun person. May I help you?"

"All I want is the legendary secret treasure!" Molly pleaded.

"That old thing?" The Princess questioned. "It's just a gem that our guards spotted in the back of our hedge maze recently. We saw something red placed there. But that's not really the real treasure though"

Then Molly sent the dark magic into the princess, and Molly Fainted

"We heard noises in here, is everything ok?" The doormen said, checking on them. They saw Molly on the floor. "What's going on here?"

"Move!" The princess shouted darting out the door knocking down the doormen, "The legendary treasure is mine!"

"Princess!" Called the doorman. "Has she lost her mind?"

Back at the great hall there was a great vibration and it stopped the dance. Luna walked inside the room and leaped into Serena's arms.

"Princess Diamond has gone to the balcony with the secret treasure!" Luna said quietly so no one could hear her.

Serena had to leave Tuxedo Mask and she dashed to the balcony where the Princess was getting ready to throw the jewel box containing the treasure, Nephrite was standing at the bottom holding his arms out getting ready to catch it.

"Princess Diamond! Please wake up!" Serena said lunging for the princess's arm. The princess moved to the side and kicked her in the chest and it knocked her over the balcony. She was falling until someone grabbed her arm.

"Tuxedo Mask!" Sailor Moon cheered.

"Both of you can fall and die together!" The Princess laughed at them. Luna was watching and she lunged at her face and brought her to the ground.

"Grr. Tuxedo Mask!" Grumbled Nephrite. "You're always in my way! Of course It's lucky that you will die with a beautiful princess!" He got ready to cast some magic at them.

"Fire Soul!" and a fireball shot out at Nephrite stopping his magic. Nephrite used his hands and stopped the fire.

"My Tuxedo Mask will live on forever!" Sailor Mars said, appearing with Sailor Mercury.

But Tuxedo Mask was losing his grip and his balance he ended up going over the edge with Serena. Luna leaped off the princess's face and took Serena's Parasol. She threw it to Serena and it opened up and Tuxedo Mask and Serena floated to their safety.

Nephrite decided to make a run for it.

"Stop!" Tuxedo Mask yelled, giving chase, but Sailor Mercury stopped him.

"Who are you?" She asked.

"I would like to know that as well." Tuxedo Mask said. He hung his head to the side. "To do that I must solve the mystery of the legendary Silver Crystal." He took the Chaos emerald out of his pocket. "Not even this, the ultimate jewel couldn't help me."

This stunned everyone.

"Are you an enemy or our ally?" Sailor Mercury asked.

"If we are looking for the same thing, I could be your enemy." Tuxedo Mask explained. He then leaped over the fence and ran off.

"Serena now!" Sailor Mercury called for her to transform.

"Moon Prism Power Make Up!"

People inside the embassy began to crowd around the princess's unconscious body.

Nephrite was hiding behind a stone column outside the gate.

"Come to life!" Nephrite said back at the Embassy the Princess Rose.

"Clear the way!" She ordered. "Any who disobey shall be sacrificed to the great ruler!" She used the dark magic and put everyone asleep.

Then the Sailors approached them

"I am the Soldier of love and justice, Sailor Moon!"

"Likewise, Sailor Mercury!"

"And Sailor Mars!"

"I'll never forgive you for possessing the innocent Princess Diamond!" Sailor Moon said.

"The secret treasure, the silver crystal, is mine!" The princess snickered. She opened the jewelry box and inside was a radiant purple crystal.

"That's no silver crystal!" Sailor Mars shouted.

"It's!" Luna gasped.

"A Chaos Emerald!" Sailor Moon gaped.

"Mercury call Sonic!" Luna ordered.

Sailor Mercury was typing on her computer. "Way ahead of you." She said.

The Princess Teleported down to the ground and luckily the Sailors were not far behind her and Sailor Mars readied an Ofuda.

"Rin, Pyo, Tou ,Sha ,Kai ,Jin, Retsu ,Zai, Zen! Begone, Evil spirit!"

The Princess saw what was about to happen and she threw the box over the gate. The Ofuda landed on her back and she fell and the dark magic flew out of her and the black fog revealed a red figure of Nephrite's face.

"Nephrite!" The Sailors shouted, then it began to cast a dark flux at them.

"Suffer and Die!" The image laughed.

Behind the gate Nephrite saw the box and opened it and saw what was inside.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He laughed so this must be the rumored Chaos Emerald. He heard running up the street. "So it must be that nuisance of a hedgehog and that fox."

Sure enough it's Sonic and Tails they both jumped over the gate and saw the situation.

"I can't move!" Sailor Mars cried.

"I can't die like this!" Sailor Moon shrieked.

"Leave this to me!" Sonic said, suddenly arriving with Tails. He charged at the image but he just went straight through the image and caused it no harm, but it did cause the magic to stop.

"Sonic and Tails." The image said.

"It's no good I couldn't beat it!" Sonic grumbled.

Sailor Mercury explained. "Yes! It has no solid form, that's why."

"Thanks for getting us out of that!" Sailor Moon said with gratitude.

"Not so fast!" The image shouted, and it began to shoot dark magic at all of them including Tails.

"I've been stopped!" Sonic shouted, struggling to move his legs. "This can't happen to me!"

"I'll see if I can do something about this!" Sailor Mercury said bravely.

"Bubble Spray!"

The Bubbles fended off the magic.

"How shameless of you to mislead Princess Diamond!" Sailor Moon announced. "In the Name of the Moon I shall Punish you!" Then she used her Tiara.

"Moon Tiara Action!"

The tiara flew and it destroyed the image.

"We did it!" They Cheered.

"Thanks." Sonic and Tails said in unison.

"Now where's the Chaos Emerald?" Sonic asked, searching the ground.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Nephrite laughed, they heard him but they could find his voice was on the air."

"Where are you!?" Tails called.

"You think you have won." Nephrite said. "But the treasure the Chaos emerald has found its way to me! HAHAHA!"

"No!" Sonic said. "Now the Dark Kingdom has one emerald. But let's not worry we can get it back, but now this means you should keep the emerald with you three at all times."

"Yes." Sailor Mercury said with concern. "We must keep our strengths equal."

"And he will use that chaos emerald after all, why wouldn't he?" Sailor Mars said, Sonic and Tails ran over the gate and back to their home.

The princess has awoken and her glasses fell off revealing her green eyes.

"Princess, are you all right?" Sailor Moon asked.

"What happened?" She asked.

"Excuse me!" Luna said. "Are you our princess?"

"I need my glasses!" She said searching the ground. "I cannot see without them. She found them and put them on."

"Excuse me." Luna called to her again. "You are the princess are you?"

"AHHH!" She screamed "A Talking Cat!" And she fainted again.

"I guess not!" Luna sighed.

Back at the Princess's bedroom Molly has awoken.

"Oh!" she said, shaking her head, "what have I been doing?" She wondered.

"Now they've done it." Sailor Moon said with the others reverting back to their normal selves.

"Why?" Ami asked.

"He took the treasure, the ceremony is ruined!" Serena grumbled.

"Oh." The princess said, waking up again. "Sorry but no he didn't we just decided to show off that Gem because it looked prettier. We still have the original treasure." The princess walked inside and put the real treasure in another gem box.

The ceremony continued as it turns out the treasure was really a 200 Karat diamond statue of the first Diamond Princess.

"Looks like we're back to square one of our search for the princess." Luna sighed, hanging her head.

"Don't worry." Rei said. "But now we will need to up our game here."

"Indeed." Ami said.