Here is the chapter with the aforementioned ball in it. This should give everyone now present at least a little bit of entertainment before many of the people here find themselves in more unexpected places from the next chapter of this story. Though not all of them, of course, for obvious reasons.

With no further ado, then, here we go with the next chapter. TUS out.

Main Ballroom In The Imperial Palace

Moon City, Moon Kingdom, Moon

August 23, 174 BC

A little over two weeks later, King Jason and Queen Eve hosted a rather private ball for their guests from the future for the first time, if they'd not already done so at least once. The only sentients that were definitely were invited to the ball, besides all the necessary servants and both rulers, were the rulers' current guests in the Moon City area. And so were at least an equal number of young men that weren't yet old enough for military service with the Moon Kingdom, if not more than that. Or several, if not a lot of, older men who were most likely too old to actively serve quite well in the Moon Kingdom's armed forces, as a matter of fact.

This ball began just after local Earthrise in the area of Moon City on the Moon, on August 23, 174 BC. No servants at the ball were going to play music or sing. For none of the servants at the ball would be royal musicians. That was because quite a few royal musicians had just been assigned to some temporary duty in the local militia within the last week or so, at most. However, Eve had learned that several members of Serena's overall group could play music, and sing, quite well in their lives, since they'd come to the Moon City of 174 BC. When she asked them all if any or all of them would be willing to provide some music and songs for everyone else at the ball, they all agreed to see what they could do for her and King Jason, at least, if not for anyone else at all.

As already stated, then, the ball began just after local Earthrise, on August 23, 174 BC. It began when Jason and Eve ordered that it should begin. By the time they did so, several of the Princesses from the future who were now present in the Moon City area of the Moon had begun playing music and singing. After first making sure that their instruments were quite ready to play music, or that their voices were ready to be used for singing.

Michelle Gallenski, for instance, had tuned a violin quite well while she was still preparing to provide music for everyone else at the ball. She'd found a violin that seemed to be of rather good, if not better than rather good, quality. And within five minutes of picking it up, she'd tuned it exactly as she wanted it to be tuned. Then she began, if she'd not already done so, to practice a bit on it. So that when it was actually time for her to play for everyone else in the Imperial Palace's main ballroom, she could do so quite well.

Amy Anderson took up a flute, an oboe, and a clarinet, in that order. And she tuned them, while Michelle was tuning, and practicing with, the violin she'd just picked up a while before. By the time that Michelle was done practicing with the violin now in question here, Amy had them all tuned the ways that she actually wanted them to be tuned. Then she checked out the nearest piano. And she did the same thing, as other Princesses who were now in their overall group worked with other instruments, such as drums, harps, lutes, and guitars, for instance, if not other instruments as well.

The Princess who was also Sailor Calypso took up an accordion, a harmonica, a bassoon, a saxophone, and a banjo, at least, if not any other instruments as well. And she tuned each of them, as Raye Hino also worked at least briefly with a guitar and a few of the songs that she'd written since the vortex had brought them to the past with so many other people and cats. That Princess was, actually, Princess Jolata Morris. And she really was from the First Century AD, as a matter of fact. She could play music of many different kinds. But especially music that was of the Calypso variety. Her Sailor Scout name came from her favorite kind of music, which was of the Calypso variety, of course. It wasn't quite like the music of that variety that might someday be played on Earth in the future. But it was enough like it that Terrans might someday recognize it as basically being that kind of music. Her music of that variety, however, would have more of a lunar feel to it, most likely, in her life. It might be influenced by other musical styles, whether of lunar origin or not, of course. But it'd still be basically of the Calypso variety, just the same. That kind of music wasn't the only music style she could play quite well, however. Because she could play music that might remind Terrans of a later time than her own, at least a little bit, of Terran Jazz, Terran Bluegrass, Terran R&B, and Terran Gospel, musical styles, if not entirely of each of them or all of them.

Eventually, by the time that Jason and Eve ordered that the ball should begin, all the Princesses who were going to play music were already beginning to do so. While Raye was singing, Amy and the other musicians were playing music that Raye had scored, at most, three days before, with all the needed instruments in mind. She'd scored them just after realizing that the other assembled Princess-rank musicians could actually play those instruments quite well. Of course, she was already at least somewhat familiar with Amy and Michelle, and their abilities to provide music, at least to some degree. But as for the others now in their larger group, she'd not yet known of their respective abilities to do the same. Or at least she'd not yet done so, before she heard them play from a considerable distance away from her chambers, even while they were in their own. After hearing them play, however, she soon decided to score music that they could play while she sang several of her newest songs. Then she scored them, of course, and waited for an opportunity to provide the music she'd just scored, to the necessary people. That opportunity came when Jason and Eve eventually invited Raye and the rest of her current overall group of visitors to a private ball in the main ballroom, of course.

While several of their fellow Princesses then either sang or played elsewhere in the main ballroom, Serena and several other people began dancing in it with each other. Including, of course, all of the young men that were now here at the party. Supposing that they were then somehow able to do that for any reason at all while they were there with Serena and everyone else in the main ballroom, quite naturally enough.

Even Serenity did a little dancing in the main ballroom with at least one of the males now in it, whenever she felt like doing so. And she often did so to please Serena, Destiny, and Bethany, if she could possibly did so. They often asked her to dance with several of the available males in the main ballroom. For they really wanted to make sure she still had at least a little fun while they were all stuck in the past of the Moon Kingdom's own history. Granted, they didn't want her to forget about their lives in their own time period. But they still wanted her to have at least a little fun while they were in the time period that they were all now in here on the Moon. Serenity only danced, though, every so often. For she still wasn't quite as young as she once used to be.

The majority of the dancing for the four aforementioned Moon ladies, meaning Serenity, Serena, Destiny, and Bethany, was done by the three younger Moon ladies. This was just because of the just-mentioned fact that had to do at least a bit with Serenity. And most of that dancing from those three Moon ladies was done by Serena, for the simple reasons being that she was both hearing and seeing. Unlike either Destiny or Bethany, who were either blind or deaf, as the case might be for them both, at the current time.

Serena often danced with young males that looked a lot like Darien, but not always. Sometimes, she danced with males that looked like younger versions of her dad. But if she did so, she didn't know that yet, if she ever would know that, in her life. That was because her dad hadn't really told her much about what he'd looked like when he was about Serena's current age. That was if he'd ever done so before in the slightest degree, of course. But as far as Serena could currently recall, he'd never told her that much about his own childhood, if anything at all about it.

While Serena danced with several males during the ball, all the other Princesses who weren't playing music or singing at the ball often did the same. But not necessarily as often as Serena continued to dance on the main ballroom's floor. Eventually, even the musicians and singers did get to dance a little bit. Though not always when music was being played or songs were being sung in the main ballroom. This, of course, was for all the obvious reasons, as one might logically expect at a ball like this.

The Princesses often conversed with each other and both of the Moon Kingdom's rulers as of the current time, whenever they could do so. But they didn't normally talk to their various dancing partners at the ball. For they didn't know how much they should generally converse with them, at least for the most part. Mainly because of the fact that they all really wanted to do what they could to make sure that each of them returned to their own proper time periods in the Moon Kingdom's own history someday, if it was ever possible for any or all of them to do just that in it.

Eventually, when enough people got tired of dancing in the main ballroom at the current time, Jason and Eve ended the ball. And they did so no less than ten or so minutes before local midnight in the Moon City area of the Moon. After they then did so, the main ballroom emptied out rather quickly, like within five or so minutes, at least for the most part. By the time that Jason and Eve left the main ballroom for their own chambers in the palace, the only people besides themselves who actually were still remaining in it were several of their servants. Those servants were now beginning to clean up any messes that the people at the ball had made during it, if they'd not already begun to do so, when Jason and Eve finally left the main ballroom behind for the rest of the local night.

Now that a lot of people have had some fun for a little while in this story, at least, it's just about time to get to the real adventure for it. That real adventure will begin in the next chapter. There will be at least two long chapters to follow in this story, if not more, in truth. What will happen for the Scouts? Where will they go? When will they go? Will they be able to return safely enough to their proper time periods in history, whenever those may be?

The answers to those questions lie further on in this story, of course. So you'll just have to read on to find them out, folks.

I did say buckle up, for it's going to be a wild and crazy adventure that we're going to see many people having here, after all. And I hope you find it rather exciting and enjoyable to see how the Scouts and their allies interact with each other, and how they try to deal with the things they'll have to deal with during this adventure of theirs, as well.

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