This next chapter is where the real adventure starts to begin for many. Especially after strange things happen in the Crescent area of the Moon that draw the attention of the Scouts and several others in the area. What those strange things are, you'll just have to read this chapter to find out, of course. And once they happen, the Scouts and those with them will have found themselves in a time and/or a place that they've not ever been in before in any of their respective mortal lives, most likely.
They may recognize at least some things where and when they land, but much will be quite unfamiliar to them still, once they do, for sure. As for those they will meet during this adventure of theirs, you'll have to keep reading on to find out just who they are, and from where and when they each come from, of course.
With no further ado, then, folks, I'll give you the next chapter of Time Vortex One, and hope to see many of you commenting here at least once as this story's adventure is still being revealed, of course. TUS out.
Main Dining Hall In The Double Earth Palace
Crescent, Moon Kingdom, Moon
June 10, 987
Sometime after Serena and the rest of her current crowd left the South Garden behind for a while, a few of them, at least, eventually met up again with Serena in the main dining hall. Most specifically, they were Amy, Mina, Destiny, Bethany, Raye, and Lita. The other Princesses and both cats weren't there, when they all arrived there within twenty or so minutes, at most, of each other. Serena was the first of the Princesses to get there. And then Amy, Raye, Destiny, Bethany, Mina, and Lita, came in that particular order to the Double Earth Palace's main dining hall, in fact. Serena now was in the middle of consuming several slices of pepperoni pizza and at least one cup of orange juice, if not more than one, when Amy and Raye showed up first with her in the main dining hall. As she was about to take a bite of one of her slices of pizza, Raye said, "I see that Serena's hitting the food pretty hard again."
"Well, hello again to you too, Raye. I'm trying not to pig out here, of course, Raye. But I am quite hungry, even after having eight pieces of pizza, six pancakes, four eggs, three cups of orange juice, and two slices of pie, with one of those pieces being from an apple pie and the other being from a cherry pie."
"Serena, you can't be serious!"
"I am, Raye. I've had that while I was waiting for the rest of you to show up here, in at least ten to twenty minutes or so of time."
"Serena, I suppose you'd eat everything in this palace, if you could," said Raye.
"I don't think so. I couldn't eat the statue of Dad's mother, for instance, Raye."
"Princess Ruth, if I remember correctly?"
"That's right, Raye. Nor would I want to, if I could."
"But you seem to want to pig out on a lot of things," said Raye.
"Raye, that may be true, but it often seems that you want a whole lot of guys hanging alongside you, too."
"Not really, Serena. You can't be serious. The only two boys that I really want quite near me most, if not all, of the time are Chad and Darien."
"So you're saying that you don't actually want a lot of guys on your string, so to speak, Raye?"
"Nope. I'd not mind having Darien, but I'd also not mind possibly ever having Chad, as my future boyfriend and/or husband."
"Darien's mine, Raye. And I hope you never forget that, Mars girl."
"Only if he wants to be yours, Serena. What makes you think that you'll win him over me, besides your dreams and visions?"
"My heart, for one, and my mind, for another. He's mine. He cares deeply for me, I know. Though he may not always seem to show it, he really likes, if not loves, me by now, Raye."
"Then why does he call you a 'you-know-what,' Serena?"
"I suppose he does so for the same reason that any of the rest of you might call me that, Raye."
Lita said, "Raye and Serena, this is pointless discussion, if not arguing, right now, just about food and boys. I hope you two can think of something else to talk about here, at least for a while."
"Lita, that's not necessarily fair," said Raye.
"Can it, Raye, or I may actually have to get after you here. I don't really want to have to do that. But if I still have to do that here, I will. You can be sure of that, at least. There's no sense in getting us all riled up before we can all find out what we have to find out from our Peruvian friends, at least."
Then Raye and the other Princesses now present in the main dining hall all got themselves some food and drink to possibly consume before the planned meeting there, if they'd not already done so. Of course, those Princesses didn't also include Serena. But they did include Raye and the rest of Serena's current companions there.
Not more than twenty or so minutes after the last of them had gotten their food and drink for themselves, other Princesses began arriving in the Double Earth Palace's main dining hall. The first of those other Princesses to appear was Hannah. And she was followed rather closely by Alexis, Michelle, and Susan. Then came both cats, on Serenity's shoulders, followed several minutes later by eight young girls who were actually from the Terran nation of Peru, but who'd had to leave it behind, so that they'd not be killed by beings from the Negaverse. Or at least not killed then by beings from the Negaverse, if they'd ever be killed by such beings in each of their own lives.
Serenity got herself some food and drink, of course. And she let the rest of the Princesses in the main dining hall do the same. That was if they'd not already done so at least once before she'd gotten to the Double Earth Palace's main dining hall. Even the Peruvian Princesses were able to get themselves at least something to eat and drink for a little while, before the meeting would officially begin, in the applicable main dining hall, thanks to Serenity letting them do that.
When Princess Mara Zimak and the rest of her Peruvian Princesses felt that they'd had enough quiet time after getting themselves things to eat and drink, Mara said, "Queen Serenity, if you want to officially begin this meeting of ours, go ahead."
"Thank you, Princess Mara. I now call this meeting to order, and I wish complete silence from all who don't have something to discuss here at the present time."
"Even us, Mother?" asked Serena.
"Yes, of course, even you girls." Serenity was referring to Serena, Amy, and Raye, at least, if not also Lita, Mina, Destiny, Bethany, Hannah, Alexis, Michelle, and Susan.
"Very well, Mother. Amy, Raye, and I, at least, can continue our discussion later, I think, if it's God's will that we ever resume it."
"Thank you, Serena. Now if you Peruvian girls want to begin telling us what you feel you need to tell us here, please go ahead and do so, Mara."
"Thank you, Queen Serenity." Mara looked around at all of her current companions from the Moon Kingdom for a few seconds, and then she began speaking of strange things that'd been happening of late in or near Crescent on the Moon. She said, "It seems that strange things have been happening near here of late. Things like strange electrical storms, or various phenomena that we're not quite familiar with in our lives, at least not yet. Also it sometimes seems like whirlpools are often appearing in the areas near here, or at least things that look and act a lot like whirlpools, people."
"Can you describe them adequately enough?" asked Serenity.
"Sometimes, they seem to shine in many different colors. And they often seem to give us glimpses of places I don't think any of our people have ever been in before, if we'll ever be in such places," said Mara.
"Mara, what do you think might be causing such phenomena in this area of the Moon?"
"I don't know for sure, Queen Serenity. But I'd not be all that surprised if the Negaversers we're up against have at least something to do with each of them, I believe."
Serenity considered the chances that their Negaverser enemies could be causing such strange things to happen, at least in the Crescent local area of the Moon, if not elsewhere in the Moon Kingdom. And she did so for at least a few moments after Mara had just answered her last question. After doing so, she said, "I don't think the Negaversers currently have anything to do with these phenomena, Mara. But, of course, you all know that I could be wrong about them. They've been known to cause strange things to happen in the past whenever we've had to deal with them before. Granted, we ourselves may have faced them in battle only a few times, at most, and at least once, in any case. But I don't currently think they might be responsible for the strange things that have been happening in this area of late."
"Then what might be causing them, in your opinion, Queen Serenity?" asked Princess Ginkya Rillis.
"I don't know, Ginkya. And I wish I did. That way, I might know what we'd have to do to keep them from continuing to happen, if they're not natural phenomena here in the Universe. Certain phenomena are natural, I'm sure, and some aren't. Those that aren't natural most likely have a cause relating at least partly, if not totally, to the presence of any number of sentient beings in this Universe, I believe."
That sparked a considerable amount of discussion among all the sentients now in the main dining hall of Crescent's Double Earth Palace. Whether those sentients were feline, human, or humanoid beings, it still did so. And it did so for at least an hour, if not longer. But it wasn't the only thing that they discussed while they all discussed their current situation in the Crescent area of the Moon.
Eventually, Serenity and all her companions decided they should probably patrol in the Crescent area of the Moon for a while, if they were able to do so. That was, of course, if they were Monitors and/or Scouts. That naturally excluded Luna and Artemis, however, for they were cats. And cats almost never were Scouts in the Moon Kingdom, if they'd ever been. No cat in the Moon Kingdom was actually a Scout. Or at least not as of the current time. But they often lived with girls who were actually Scouts in it, just the same.
Even before the beginning of the current Silver Millennium in the Moon Kingdom, it'd been very rare for a cat to be a Scout in it. To the best knowledge of the people of the Moon Kingdom, ever since the formation of the Sailor Scouts, only one cat in at least every forty million, maybe, had been a Scout of any kind, if that. Maybe even fewer cats than that in the Moon Kingdom had ever been Scouts of any kind. But nobody really knew for sure, beyond a reasonable shadow of a doubt, just how many cats in the Moon Kingdom had ever been Scouts of any kind. Or at least not at the current time in the Moon Kingdom, anyway.
Serenity and her current companions all left the Double Earth Palace's main dining hall in very short order. Even Luna and Artemis did so. But they didn't necessarily go with any of their human or humanoid associates when they left the main dining hall there for at least a little while. Serenity let Luna and Artemis do whatever they wanted to do, at least for a little while, if not longer than that, before she and the rest of her companions left the main dining hall there behind. Serenity and her remaining companions soon transformed themselves into each of their respective Scout states. Or for those that had at least two such states, into one of them, if not another one of them. Meaning at least Serenity, of course, if not anybody else as well in each of their own lives. Serenity, as a matter of fact, transformed herself into her own Royal Sailor Serenity state as a Scout. That was so she could patrol in the area of Crescent on the Moon with the rest of her current human or humanoid companions there, in very short order.
Eventually all the Moon Kingdom royals currently present on the Double Earth Palace's grounds had transformed into their respective Scout states, if they'd not already done so. And so had all of their Peruvian friends, also if they'd not already done so some length of time before the current time.
All the Scouts patrolled in the area of Crescent for a while. Nothing rather unexpected happened to any, or all, of them until just before they were about to return to the Double Earth Palace for a while. When they were about twenty or so minutes, at most, from reuniting with each other for the trip back to that Moon Kingdom palace, a very strange phenomenon that looked a great deal like a Terran tornado or hurricane began appearing in the sky quite near them. When they saw it, they all tried to keep themselves from being sucked into it. But none of them were able to do that well enough. They were all caught in that particular phenomenon. They were whisked into it. After they were, the phenomenon turned toward the Double Earth Palace. It eventually passed over that palace. When it did, it somehow managed to suck Luna and Artemis into it, as they tried hiding under at least a few bushes or trees. Then it turned away from the palace, after also sucking Luna and Artemis into it. It'd blown under those bushes or trees that Luna and Artemis had tried hiding under. But it'd not caused any damage at all to any of those bushes or trees anywhere in the Double Earth Palace's South Garden, quite strangely enough.
After it sucked Luna and Artemis into itself, it brought them both to where the Scouts were now in it, which was a globe-like container buried deep in the very core of itself. The Scouts were somewhat randomly spread out all over the inside of the globe, often in a state of near-weightlessness, if not in a state of total weightlessness. A few were in direct contact with the inside surface of the globe, while others were floating elsewhere in it. The inside of the globe contained a breathable enough atmosphere for all beings now within it, no matter what their place of origin was in the Sol System of the Universe's Milky Way Galaxy. No water was in the globe, and if they weren't in direct contact with the inside surface of the globe, they were either in contact with each other or with air. However, at least a few of the Scouts, if not all of them, either were asleep or were unconscious in it now. None of the Scouts were dead, which was quite fortunate for each of them and all the other beings in the globe. They'd know that soon enough, though, when the proper time came for them to learn it during their current adventure.
Moon was one of the Scouts who was now awake and sufficiently conscious, as were Royal Sailor Serenity, Mercury, and Jupiter, at least, if not anyone else as well, in the globe. When she realized that, Moon asked Royal Sailor Serenity, "Mom, what do you think's happening now?"
"I don't know yet, Moon. I wish I did, of course. But we'll just have to see where we'll end up, once this very strange phenomenon releases us wherever it chooses to do so, Moon."
As Moon talked with her mother, Mercury, and Jupiter, at least, if not any other Scouts as well, for a while, the strange vortex periodically traveled through time at least twice more, if not more. As it did so, it also briefly stopped at least once more before it finally released its captives in some other time and/or some other place besides their own respective times and/or places in God's very own Universe. It didn't drop off its various captives until it'd also briefly visited the 30th Century, if not also any other times and/or places, in that same Universe.
It'd gone to the 30th Century AD to grab Serena and Darien's potential future daughter Rini, at least, if not others as well. Then, after doing that, it reversed itself, and headed back in time at least once again, if not more. On the way to its final destination time and place, it somehow managed to grab several, if not all, of the most famous Sailor Scouts from the Moon Kingdom's past history, if they weren't from times and places that were even earlier than or later than the time and place it finally released all of its captives in. The time and place that it eventually deposited all of its captives in was the Second Century BC, somewhere around the time of the Moon Kingdom's founding, give or take a few months or years, at most, either way, most likely.
The time vortex eventually deposited them all in the year 174 BC, in the month of August. It deposited them there about two months after the founding of the Moon Kingdom, and just before the founding of the Sailor Scouts by the Moon Kingdom's rulers of that time in the Moon Kingdom's history.
After it deposited all of its captives in the Moon City area of that time, the time vortex soon vanished from their sights. When it did, all of its captives eventually saw each other again, if they'd not already done so by the time that it did that. Though most of them saw each other for a very brief time, before they all found themselves in the middle of several different groups of Scouts.
Okay, now that we're in the past, and many are now out of their proper time periods, how will their absences from them potentially affect this story series' timeline, and the future from this time on, folks? Will the history of the Moon Kingdom and/or other times change considerably or not? And if so, how might they do so, in truth? In order to find out the answers to those questions, you'll all just have to read on and find out.
And who the other Scouts are, and when and where they each were brought from in their lives, you'll have to keep reading to find out. Will they be able to work together to find some way that will allow them all to return to their proper time periods and places in history or not? Only time will tell, for sure, of course.
Until next time, then, I'll close this here. This adventure should hopefully provide a lot of fun times and all for many in this story. Or at least to some degree, anyway, it might do so, for some people in it, that is. But it won't necessarily be easy in many places for many, as well, of course, given the nature of certain things and/or beings in it, for that matter. TUS out.