Now we will meet the three daughters for Queen Serenity that I mentioned in the ending notes for the last chapter here, folks. They will be caught up in the adventure as well, and their presences will help everyone survive what is to come later in the story, for sure.

With no further ado, here's the next chapter, then. TUS out.

Inside Sylvia's Future Imperial Palace Chambers

Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon

August 7, 174 BC

Meanwhile, as Amy and several other young females were meeting in Amy's future Imperial Palace chambers with each other for a while, in Sylvia Wakefield's future Imperial Palace chambers, the three girls who were also the Sailor Scouts Twilight, Starhawk, and Nightwalker were meeting with each other. And it was now just a few minutes after Amy and her current companions had begun meeting with each other as well, elsewhere in the Imperial Palace. It was now within an hour after King Jason and Queen Eve had eventually left the main ballroom behind for their very own chambers in that palace.

The girls now appeared to be a little older than Serena was now in her life, if not more than a few years older than her. At the very most, they all looked like they were fourteen or fifteen Terran years of age, most likely. Laura was the tallest of the three girls. And she had dark brown hair that normally looked almost black, but not quite black, in its nature. That hair of hers, when worn completely down and free, would normally fall to a point about two-thirds, at most, down her back from her shoulders. But normally, she would wear it in a ponytail whenever possible, or in braids with ribbons woven into them as well, if she didn't wear it in a ponytail in her life. Laura's favorite colors were blue, gold, and pine green. And she'd often wear them, whenever she could wear them in her life. But pine green was not one of the colors that she wore when she had to, or wanted to, wear her Scout uniform. She had to wear blue, gold, black, red, orange, and white on her uniform. Even if she didn't really like some of those colors much at all, if even a little bit at all. She had pins on each of her shoulders, just as several of the Scouts had on theirs, when she wore her uniform. Those particular pins were just like the symbol that would often appear on her forehead at times of great stress for her in her life. This, of course, was for all the obvious reasons.

Laura was, in the time that she'd been taken from by the vortex, the Sailor Scout Twilight. And she was most likely from the late 20th or early 21st Centuries AD, as a matter of fact, as were her sisters Shari and Rocío. She came from there, just as her other two current companions had earlier done in the exact same way that she had done so. She and her sisters had come from the future, and they'd certainly come from no earlier than 1987, but most likely no earlier than 1991 or so, in any case at all.

Laura was near the door of Sylvia's future Imperial Palace chambers, and her two current companions were sitting on one bed facing her, waiting to see what she would say and do next while they were still with her there. Laura was sitting in a chair draped with a rug recently made by one of Queen Eve's maidservants, and she was holding a cup of pink lemonade in her left hand, as she sat in that chair. Laura had her right leg draped over the right armrest of the chair, and her left leg was hanging over the front of the chair. Currently, Laura was wearing a wreath of daisies and tulips, a mostly blue sweater, stonewashed black denim jeans, and pine green pumps laced with gold ribbons wherever possible. The wreath of daisies and tulips was on her head, just above her hairline, and about where her tiara might rest when she was in her Scout state as Sailor Twilight. Her right hand was currently resting on her right knee, as she faced her sisters.

As for Shari, she was almost as tall as Laura was, but not quite, for Laura was at least two inches taller, if not more. She now had hair of a rather deep shade of auburn, and it fell to just barely above her waist, at most. That was whenever it was completely down and free, of course. But normally, she'd wear it in two braids or in a moderately-sized bun. She often liked to ride horses, paint, or write in her life, whenever she could do one or more of those things in it. Her favorite colors were navy blue, white, and cardinal red, for sure, at least, if not also some shades of brown and/or green, in it. She was several hours younger than Laura, and a few hours, at most, older than Rocío, in it. Her symbol was at least a hawk's head with a star on it, if not an entire hawk's body with a star on it, and it'd at least sometimes appear during times of great stress for her in her life, if not all the time. She often liked to wear sundresses, sweaters, skirts, and sneakers whenever she could possibly wear them in her life. Weather and parents permitting, of course, for all the obvious reasons, in it. She wasn't much for swimming, however, unlike her younger sister Rocío. She was more the type of girl who preferred to curl up with a good book, ride horses, paint, garden, or write, whenever she had enough free time to do any or all of those things in her life. Occasionally, she had also been known to play a little chess in it, but not most of the time, for she wasn't the kind of girl who often wanted to play very complex games in her life, like chess could often be for people.

As for Rocío, she was often the most interested in doing water-related things in her life of the three girls who were now present in Sylvia's future Imperial Palace chambers. Whenever her current situation was suitable enough for her to do so, she could often be found either swimming or sailing, in her life by other people in it. When they did so, she was most commonly found sailing on lakes, rivers, or oceans near her home, if there were such bodies of water close enough to it in her life. When she couldn't sail, she could sometimes be found swimming at nearby athletic clubs close enough to her home to allow her to do so. Her favorite colors were turquoise, purple, orange, and black. She was also the most tanned of the three girls alone now with each other. As of the current time, though, in Sylvia's future Imperial Palace chambers, she was brushing out Shari's hair with a black walnut-handled brush, and she was wearing a mostly turquoise nightgown with some purple trim on it.

Laura said, "Rocío, I wonder what it's going to take to allow us all to get back home to our own time period."

"I don't know, Laura. And I wish I did. I miss being with Eduardo, and I wonder if he's missing me now. I promised that I'd try to meet him by seven pm at the local movie theater to see a just-released movie premiere there, and not long after I did so, you and several others asked me to meet you near school, for some strange things had just seemed to happen there. I came there, in my Scout uniform, of course, and met you there with Shari, while you two were also in your Scout uniforms. We investigated the area of our school for a while, then we were suddenly whisked away from our time period by the time vortex that has brought us all here to the past, Laura. But of course, you probably should already know all this by now, if I'm not too mistaken here."

"Perhaps you're right, Rocío. But sometimes, I get distracted by things, and that makes me forget things I might not otherwise forget. Like where I might have planned to meet up with Nathan whenever we date in our lives, for instance."

Shari asked, "Do you think that you'll ever marry Nathan someday or not, Laura?"

"I don't know, Shari. As you know, being a Scout can often make having a love life at least a bit more difficult. Don't you think that I'd rather prefer not to have to fight against any number of evil beings in my life, instead of having to fight them whenever they want to get after those of us who are Scouts and the beings we're all supposed to protect to the best of our respective abilities to do so in our lives?"

"I suppose so, Laura. Jason often wonders why I'm not always available to date him, and so do Anthony, Robin, and Dennis. I've not kissed any of them before, and I'm reasonably certain that they all don't yet know that I'm a Scout at certain times in my life. And I hope that if that's true, they all don't find out for quite a while."

"For the obvious reasons, Shari?"

"Of course that's what I mean, Laura." When Rocío tapped her on the shoulder, Shari rose from the bed, and she went over to where her things were piled elsewhere in those chambers. She rummaged in them, until she found a mostly navy blue nightgown for herself to wear. She took that nightgown out, and went in the bathroom area of Sylvia's future chambers, so that she could eventually change into it, of course. That was after she made absolutely sure that she had all the things she'd need while she was still in the bathroom, prior to her finally retiring for the night to her own designated sleeping area in those chambers.

While Shari was getting ready for bed, Laura and Rocío talked a bit more with each other. And while they did so, they mainly conversed about several of the other people they'd encountered since they'd been brought to the current time in the Moon Kingdom's history. That time, of course, was 174 BC, and they were now in the Moon City of that time on the Moon, because of the fact they'd been brought there rather unexpectedly with several other sentient beings by the time vortex now in question here.

Rocío said, "Sailor Chrysalis seems to be rather nice, from what I can tell of her at the current time, Laura. I wonder who she is whenever she's not in her Sailor Scout state of being. She seems to be at least a little familiar to me at the current time, for some yet-unknown reason. Also Sailor Peppermint seems to be rather interesting, if her hair is any indication at all. I wonder why her hair is like it is."

"You mean you wonder why her hair's the colors that it is, of course?" asked Laura, as she finished the rest of her pink lemonade.

"Yes, I do, Laura. You know I do. It's not every single day that you see people with hair that's not basically one color or shade, or whatever term is appropriate here, Laura. You don't see a lot of people with hair that isn't some shade of blonde, brown, black, or red, I think. Do you?"

"No, I guess not." As Laura said this, she rose from her chair, and left it. She brought her empty glass, which had just moments before contained at least some pink lemonade, over to a nearby table upon which sat an empty pitcher. Of course, that pitcher had contained pink lemonade, but due to the fact that all three of the girls had drunk all of the pink lemonade in question that had been in it, it was now quite empty. She set her now-empty glass next to that pitcher, and went over to where her things were in their currently-shared chambers. By the time that Shari left the bathroom of them minutes later, Laura had retrieved a nightgown and several items from her belongings in those chambers of theirs.

While Laura was getting ready for bed in the bathroom area of them, Shari and Rocío briefly conversed with each other, mainly about boys and men, as a matter of fact. That was if they didn't converse entirely about boys and men, of course. They were alone with each other again for only about ten minutes or so, before Laura returned to the main area of them, so that she could also get some sleep in them.

Minutes after Laura returned to the main part of them, only one light remained lit. That was because the three girls had just extinguished all the other lights in the required chambers, so they could hopefully each get at least six hours of sleep, if not more, during the current night.

One more short chapter remains before the real action begins. As a matter of fact, the next chapter will have one of the first balls ever in the history of the Moon Kingdom since its founding, if not the first one, and this one will be a private ball with only certain people allowed at it for certain very important reasons. This will probably tie into certain future events later on, but I haven't yet decided that in my planned timeline for this particular story series of mine here.

Until next time, then, I'll close this. TUS out.