In the last chapter, Serena's four recent visitors from Terra in her
recent vision met in one of the visitors' Imperial Palace chambers in
Cuzco, Peru. They did this before eventually agreeing to meet in a
garden elsewhere on that palace's grounds, and parting for a while.
They also agreed to meet there in their respective Monitor uniforms,
just in case Serena and several members of her crowd showed up there
anytime in the near future. And then they parted, just as soon as the
need or the desire to do so arose for them all in their lives.
In the next chapter, Sylvia will converse periodically with God, her siblings, and at least one or two other people in her life. And she will prepare to be part of the Scouts' adventure to Peru, as well. By the end of this next chapter, she'll no longer be in her Wakefield Castle chambers, in fact, readers. For she will be on her way to Peru, through God's transporting her there rather suddenly.
Now, without any further ado, if we may, let's get on with the next chapter-like section to this particular story, people. I hope that you all enjoy it quite a bit, of course. And that you'll all quite often read and review it as well, obviously enough. Remember, standard disclaimers will apply here, wherever necessary, readers. So let's get on with the story again, readers, if we may then do so, of course!
A Rather Hostile Takeover
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Crusader Garden In Wakefield Castle
Jerusalem, Israel, Earth
January 29, 987 - January 30, 987
Meanwhile, as Serena was napping in her bed, back on Earth, and on the grounds of Wakefield Castle in Jerusalem, Israel, there, Princess Sylvia Wakefield was working in a garden. Most specifically, she was now working on a number of her roses and other kinds of flowers most likely too numerous to mention at the current time. Mainly on her roses, though she was planning to check on a number of her other kinds of flowers later, if she got that chance later that day or sometime the following day.
She was now working on a rosebush of flowers that she'd recently planted, and which she'd planted in her garden not long after she'd returned from the Moon the first time that she'd been there in her life. Queen Serenity had secretly given her at least a few seeds for plants native to various worlds in the Moon Kingdom. And Queen Serenity had thought that they might grow rather well in Sylvia's own garden back on Earth. Shortly after returning to the Earth for the first time from the Moon, Sylvia had then planted those seeds in her garden.
Sylvia had maintained a garden in Wakefield Castle from a very young age. And she'd called it the Crusader Garden from the start. Only a rare few people were normally allowed to be in her garden. For when she'd begun it on the grounds of Wakefield Castle, she'd insisted very strongly that should be the case. Her parents couldn't normally enter it without her prior permission or her prior knowledge. For she'd also insisted just as strongly that they shouldn't be normally able to invade her privacy by doing so. Her siblings often could be in her garden, in fact, as could a few of the Wakefields' servants. Whenever she was away, she'd sometimes let her siblings know that she'd be away for at least a little while, as well as at least one or two of the servants who she'd often not mind them being in her garden without her prior permission or her prior knowledge.
The kind of rosebush that she was currently working on was a rosebush of the Belinda Cromeke variety. And she worked on it until it was almost 9 at night, if not later than that. As she did so, she then saw something suddenly streak across the sky like a comet. It headed rather straight for her chambers in the palace. And it flew through an open window in them which Sylvia had intentionally left open to air out her chambers at least a little bit while she was otherwise occupied on the grounds of Wakefield Castle. She wondered what'd just entered her chambers through that open window. But she was glad that she had her chambers secured from the inside, so that nobody would easily be able to enter her chambers without her consent or knowledge.
Shortly after she woke up, she'd left her chambers through a window. Specifically the one she'd swung to a trellis from its sill, as a matter of fact. She'd swung to that particular trellis. And she'd descended down it behind a rather large rosebush with many roses on it. Eventually, she'd gotten underground, and had made her way underground to just under her garden. When she was sure that nobody else was currently in her garden, she soon came out of the tunnel that ran from somewhere near her chambers to somewhere near that garden of hers. She exited that tunnel by pushing a boulder to one side of it, so that she could leave it again. She exited that tunnel, after which she then replaced that boulder in front of that tunnel, of course.
Sylvia had been in her garden already for about three hours or so, if not longer than that, when she saw that something had just flown into her chambers while she was still in her garden. She worked on a number of her plants for at least a little while longer, though. And she did so at least until she heard a voice in her head that then said, "Sylvia, return to your own chambers within twenty minutes. You're needed elsewhere for a time. And I have to talk to you in your chambers before you leave here again."
When she heard that voice, she then finished whatever she was doing, just as quickly as she then could do so. And then she quite quickly stowed away all her garden-care items in the required places. Then she went to the boulder which she'd earlier put back in front of the tunnel in question that ran to just under her garden from somewhere near her chambers in Wakefield Castle. And she then rolled it to one side. With that done here, she then entered that tunnel, pulling the boulder back into its proper position in front of it, as she did so. She made it down to the bottom of that tunnel no more than a few moments later. And she transformed into her Sailor Scout state as Junior Sailor Skyhorse, for at least the time being. Minutes later, she then appeared at the bottom of the tunnel near where she'd be going back up to her chambers again. Then she soon began rising until she was at least high enough to access the ladder that'd bring her to the surface well enough. Several more rather brief moments later, she was at the surface again below her chambers. After she was, she then rolled another boulder back into its proper position to hide the necessary tunnel. Up the trellis she went, using the very same blanket-made rope she'd earlier used to get down to the ground below her chambers in Wakefield Castle. After getting there, she soon swung to the necessary window's sill. And eventually, she climbed back into her chambers. Five minutes later, after she transformed back out of her Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Skyhorse, the voice spoke to her again. It was God speaking to her, as a matter of fact.
He said, "Sylvia, I'm sending a number of you to a land you don't yet know about. Even though you've seen much of Earth so far in your life, I know. I'm sending you and others to another continent on which none of you have ever set foot. This continent's mostly in the Southern Hemisphere of Earth. And I'm sending you to a land called the Peruvian Empire. You'll meet up with people you've never met before, and others that you've met up with at least once. You and others will have to do what you can to protect the Peruvian Empire and its people from serious, if not deadly harm, to the best of your respective abilities. An evil force will seek to gain a foothold of some sort in your part of My Universe. And you and others will have to oppose them as much as you can in it."
"God, is this evil force the Negaverse, by any chance?"
"Yes, My child Sylvia, it is. You and others will be meeting up with each other there. You're to work with them to the best of your ability to do so, and they're to do the same with you, if at all possible."
"May I ask who those people might be?"
"I'm sorry, Sylvia. But you'll just have to wait and see. If there are people there in Israel who don't really like you all that much, in fact, if they somehow know who you're going to meet, then they could possibly use that information against you, your siblings, and/or anyone else who is quite sufficiently close to you besides your parents. I understand you may not like it very much. But I won't tell you who you'll be meeting with elsewhere on Earth. And if I'm not telling you, then I won't tell anyone else who you'll be meeting with who they'll be meeting with, if they don't already know somehow."
God and Sylvia then conversed in private with each other for at least a little while longer,
before God said, "Be in your normal state of being in the Hall of Mirrors by 12 pm tomorrow, in the Jerusalem, Israel, local area of Earth. And be alone, when you do so here, Sylvia. I'll talk to you again then, if I haven't already done so, about certain things by then tomorrow morning."
Then God soon said, just before He eventually quit talking to her, "Enjoy the rest of the night,
and the following morning, then, Sylvia, if you possibly can. Sleep well, My child, and may many pleasant dreams come your way tonight."
Sylvia then went to where the thing that had come through her window earlier was now resting on the floor near her bed. It was a large canister with three smaller canisters inside it. She opened all the necessary canisters. And she soon examined each of their contents for a while. As expected, there'd been canisters from Darien, Rolando, and Queen Serenity. She handled each of them as she'd need to handle them, after she'd examined all their contents to a sufficient enough degree. Of course, whenever the need arose for her to do so, she put some of the things from them in the secret underground cavern she knew of under or near Wakefield Castle.
After she did so, she then wrote a note for her siblings, just in case they came to her chambers while she was elsewhere in God's Universe. In it, she told them, essentially, that she was going to try to spend at least a week or two with Junior Sailor Skyhorse and other mutual friends of theirs. Of course, she didn't tell them that she was also secretly Junior Sailor Skyhorse, and who she might be meeting with while she was away from Wakefield Castle. But she told them that she'd hopefully be back in the Jerusalem area of Israel within the next few weeks or months, at the very latest. She told them that she didn't know if, when, and where she might be able to meet up with those certain friends of theirs, in the Universe. And it was still true, even after she'd just finished talking in private with God sometime before, in her very own Wakefield Castle chambers.
She had a feeling that her siblings wouldn't like the fact that she'd likely not be around in the local area for a while, if she wasn't too mistaken about her latest trip to try to meet up with friends of theirs, of course. But she still realized that if she wasn't, it likely couldn't be helped, for all the obvious reasons.
Eventually, she signed that note, as Sylvia. And she then put it in a place where her three siblings would likely be able to find it, but where nobody else but her siblings might be able to find it, and access it easily enough. Then she soon began preparing for her likely trip to the Peruvian Empire elsewhere on Earth, getting all the things that she'd most likely need to bring with her to there together, as quickly and as easily as she could do just that. With that done, she then hid all of those things in her hidden alcove, at least for the time being, if not elsewhere on or under the grounds of Wakefield Castle. Later, she'd be taking all those things with her when she was able to get away from Wakefield Castle easily enough sometime very soon afterward. Supposing, of course, that she was currently able to do so at that time, if it was ever somehow possible for her to do just that in her life.
She wrote at least a few more notes, which she soon deposited under the various doors of her siblings and a few of the servants. This she did so that her animals, her garden, and other things of hers would hopefully be taken care sufficiently well in her absence, while she was elsewhere in the Universe. She didn't say more than she absolutely had to say in them, of course. And after she wrote them and delivered them to the necessary people's chambers in Wakefield Castle, she soon went to the main stable on the grounds of Wakefield Castle.
She was greeted very briefly by a few nearby grooms, after she then went there. And after she was, she soon said to them, "Reuben and Timothy, I'm going to be taking my horse Moonlight Serenade out for a while. Not a word to my parents or anyone else who we can't trust to keep my secret ride on him secret sufficiently well. I really don't expect to be back before 6 tomorrow morning here in the Jerusalem area of Israel. Have the south drawbridge down no later than 7 tomorrow morning, and no earlier than 6:40 tomorrow morning. I'll most likely show up around the time that I'll want you two to have the south drawbridge lowered by, if not earlier. Keep it down until no later than 7:20 am in the morning, if I'm not back by then. If I'm not back by 7:20 am, I'll return later to this castle through a secret underground cavern, if at all possible. And then I'll somehow gain access to this main stable through it, if I can. Specifically Cavern Eight, you two. Have a blue flag in that cavern if it'll be safe for me to show in the main stable by 9:30 am tomorrow, just in case I have to access the castle's grounds through it. Have a black flag if it'll not be safe for me to do so by then, if that's true for me as well. I hope to return, though, by 7:20 am, you two. Remember, not a word to my parents or any of the people who don't like me much here in Israel, at least, you two. Or I'll likely be rather upset with you both."
Reuben and Timothy then agreed to do everything that she'd just told them to do here. After which, Sylvia soon left on her currently-chosen horse. She rode her horse Moonlight Serenade to a rather secluded retreat of hers near Jerusalem, but not too near Jerusalem. After she did so, she then soon spent a few hours trying to enjoy herself as much as she could while she was there. She even decided to swim for a while in a little pool of hers there, after putting her horse in a stable area there moments before. After she was sure that he was taken care well enough for at least a while, she then soon decided to swim in that pool.
Sylvia periodically swam alone in that little pool until about 1:30 in the morning of January 30, 987. She eventually went into her little cabin near that same pool, and she then went to her bedroom in that rather cozy cabin. She slept for at least a few hours in her bedroom there, before she then arose from that bed of hers. And she then went to her cabin's kitchen area. She rather quickly and rather efficiently then made herself some breakfast. After which she soon consumed it, of course, before she'd naturally have to ride back to Wakefield Castle again.
After Sylvia had her breakfast at about 5:45 in the morning, she then went out to her stable area. And she checked on her horse, of course. After taking care of him as needed, she soon gathered up all the things that she'd have to bring back from her rather remote retreat, no matter what it was. And she then put them on her horse whenever necessary, of course. Then she soon set off again back on her very own Moonlight Serenade for Wakefield Castle, as she'd earlier planned to do. She arrived back in front of the required drawbridge only about four minutes after 6:40 am. And she was across that drawbridge within another two minutes, after she saw that it was down just as she'd wanted it to be between 6:40 am and 7:20 am. She soon brought Moonlight Serenade back to the main stable area. And she removed all her things from off his back, of course. She quickly stowed all those things of hers that she'd taken off him in a cart under some hay. At least long enough for her to unsaddle him, and take care of him enough, so that he'd be able to enjoy the rest of the day, at least, if she wasn't with him then. After she took care of him in the required ways, she then brought the cart to another part of the main stable area on Wakefield Castle's own grounds. And she soon palmed a certain brick on the nearest wall of that stable area. Part of the wall slid to one side, in fact. And she then pulled the cart into a tunnel behind where that wall would normally be. After doing that, she took a torch off the wall somewhat randomly. And she soon palmed another brick on the left side of the tunnel as she'd entered it. That soon made the wall slide back into its normal position in front of that tunnel. A few moments later, at most, she was then in the secret passageway between her alcove and a secret underground cavern, after she'd dropped a few things off in that secret underground cavern.
After a few more minutes passed, and she was sure that nobody else would actually be able to see, to hear, or to detect her, somehow in her alcove, she then exited that secret passageway of hers for her alcove. Of course, she also brought her remaining things back to her alcove with her. She left some of them in her alcove. For she'd likely not be needing them. Or she'd not be able to bring them with her wherever she was likely going to go in the very near future, whatever the case might possibly be, either for them or for her. Everything else that she didn't leave in her alcove, she then brought back into her chambers with her, of course.
Five minutes after she did so, she then heard a few knocks on her door. All three of her siblings were outside her door, when she opened it to see who was outside her chambers at the current time. She then let them all in, of course. And when they were all sufficiently inside her chambers, behind a bolted door, she then said, "Kids, I'm going away again, and I expect to somehow leave this castle by local noon, I think. If you all look behind my Royal Crescent Seashell Quilt, some length of time after dinner, you'll all see a vault. In this vault, there's a single note for all three of you from me. You're not to share its contents with anyone else, not even any of our servants, if you can possibly avoid it, after you all read it. You're only to lift that quilt after you three eat dinner with Mother and Father, and no earlier than that. When you then do so, you're all to be absolutely alone here in my chambers, for the obvious reasons. You're to slide the picture of me and Junior Sailor Skyhorse to one side behind that quilt first, then the small shield behind that picture to one side, in order to access that vault. You're not to say a word, if at all possible, to let them or any other people around here know that I'm going away for a time. I don't know how long I'll be gone, when I'll be able to get back, and in what condition I'll ever return here in, if I ever do return here somehow. If they ask about where I might be today, at least, then I want you all to say, simply, 'Sylvia's now searching for things for her garden, or for quilting supplies. But we're not exactly sure which it is right now, and where she'll be searching for those things for herself.' And as a matter of fact, you wouldn't be lying about that. For I'll be looking for such things for my garden or for my quilting sessions, whenever I possibly can be. I've got a rather long way to go to get those things, I think. And it may be several weeks or months, before I can return with such things for myself, at least, kids. I'll return to you all as soon as I can, if it's at all possible for me to do so. And eventually, if at all possible, and if God wills it, we'll all somehow leave here and somehow get away from those who don't really like us all that much here in Israel."
She talked with them for a little while about various things of at least some importance to them all in their respective lives, then she eventually said, "Kids, I have another commitment to attend to shortly. And I'll need you to leave me alone for a while, so that I can get ready for it now. Becky, besides you, me, and a few of the grooms, Moonlight Serenade won't let anyone else ride him at all, normally. While I'm gone from here to wherever I've gone, I want you to exercise him at least once a week, if at all possible. Tell him his main mistress is off on another journey elsewhere. And that you don't know when I'll return here to him. He may not like it very much here. But he'll eventually accept it, I think, if things go sufficiently well for all of us here in Wakefield Castle he trusts well enough. Uly, I'm putting you in charge of Princess Caralina, at least for the time being. But you'll still likely need help with her from Reuben and Timothy, at least, if not other servants of ours as well. She'll probably want to run for a while within the next two or three months, if I don't return by then. For she's almost old enough to be paired up with Great Sea's Edge or Moonlight Serenade, I think. I hope to actually return before then, Ulysses. But if I'm not back here by late April or early May, I want you to try to pair her up with Moonlight Serenade, if at all possible. Moonlight Serenade has that white blaze on his nose that I'm hoping will be passed along to his descendants at least every once in a while. And Princess Caralina has the characteristics of an excellent racer, which I want passed along to her descendants as well, if at all possible. Plus her mother was the daughter of Glorious Conquest and Crystal Dream, two well-known former warhorses once owned by General Simon Termilicus, who was once King Isaac's highest-ranking general before his death about five to ten years ago."
"And you want to try to make sure that at least one of her descendants might be able to be a rather well-known warhorse?" asked Ulysses.
"If possible, yes, Uly. I don't want her paired up, if it can possibly be avoided, with Great Sea's Edge. For he often shows his darker side by going after other horses near him. Especially horses that seem to be having more success getting paired up with mares than he's currently having in his life. Besides, I think he's too old to produce good horses anymore. The last time he was bred with another mare, that mare nearly lost both her foals and her life. She was barely able to survive the process of giving birth to those twin foals. And she has never been the same as she was before she was paired up with him. I fear that he ruined her for future use as a breeding mare when he was paired up with her. I don't think that we'll see any more foals for Celestial Realm's Promise, at least not for a long while, if ever again. Mother and Father may want Princess Caralina to be paired up with Great Sea's Edge. But you're to do your very best to make sure that she isn't, if you possibly can do so. I intend for her to be paired up with Moonlight Serenade, and him alone. He doesn't have quite the temper that Great Sea's Edge does. And he doesn't usually get jealous with other horses when they get paired up with each other. Occasionally, of course, he might. But not as much as Great Sea's Edge has already been known to do in the past. He should be able to be paired up with a mare just a little while before Princess Caralina should be able to be paired up with a stallion for the first time. I think, that if he and she often get paired up with each other, they might also produce several foals of multiple colors. Specifically in the colors that the Sailor Scouts' uniforms are usually in, I think."
"Are you hoping for at least one purple horse, Sylvia, then?"
"If God sees fit to make that possible, why not, Uly?"
"I just think that it'd be weird to have a purple horse, Sylvia. That's all I'm saying right now."
"Understood, Uly. If I'm not back in time, then I want you to do whatever you can to take care of Princess Caralina and Moonlight Serenade, no matter what it is, if you can. Under absolutely no circumstances, if at all possible, are you to let them pair Princess Caralina with Great Sea's Edge, Ulysses. Even if you have to take her abroad, do whatever you can to protect them both in my absence, especially her. For I fear that if she's paired up with Great Sea's Edge, she won't be able to survive to term. And her foals will also die, if that's true here, because of it. If I don't return by June, you three are to head straight for our nearest port, and board the first ship for Japan that you can. Even if you have to bring any number of my horses with you when you do so. Martha, in my absence, you, Phyllis, and Tryphosa are to work in my garden whenever possible. You three are the only ones I want working in my garden while I'm out of the area for a time. I don't care if you work together in it or not. But I want you three to work in it while I'm gone. Becky, you're not to work in it at all, even if one or more of the three of them are unable to work in it during my absence. At least while they're all still alive. Only if they're all dead, will you be able to work in my garden. For the garden won't produce for you if you work in it otherwise. God has promised me this, after I learned that I'd be going away again to some place I've never likely been to before. I don't really expect trouble here in this area that might kill Martha, Phyllis, and/or Tryphosa, of course, Becky, but I'd still not really be surprised, all that much, if it ever happened to come here somehow in my absence from the Jerusalem local area in Israel."
Sylvia soon dismissed her siblings, who rather reluctantly left her alone again in her chambers. She spent only a few more minutes gathering up all her necessary things. And she put them on another cart from a storage room near her chambers. She loaded up that cart, and after she was sure that everything else in her Wakefield Castle chambers was as she still wanted it in those chambers, she eventually left them behind. She did this only after securing her door rather well against those who didn't know how to get into it easily enough, and who might want to gain unnecessary access to it, at all, for all the obvious reasons, of course. She buried a key deep in the soil of a potted plant just outside her chambers in such a manner that only her siblings and a rare few of the Wakefields' servants would easily enough be able to find that key, if they knew it was there at all. Then she finally set off for the Hall of Mirrors in her normal state of being, just as God had directed her to do during her earlier chat with Him the night before. Moments after 11 am, she was no longer in the Hall of Mirrors. For she'd left them as God had said that she would, for a place that she'd never yet been to in actual reality. She was on time for that meeting with God there in the Hall of Mirrors. And within five or so minutes after 11 in the morning of January 30, 987, she was on her way to wherever He'd be bringing her to elsewhere in His very own Universe, wherever that place might be in it at all.
A Rather Hostile Takeover will still take at least some time to put up here, just the same,
readers. For I've not yet completed the series, even though I've written at least partly into the seventh volume of this series, if not totally into it. Six volumes are complete. The seventh volume in this series is in progress, as of the current time. And the Moon Kingdom hasn't yet fallen at the point that I am now at in its series. When I finish getting the first six volumes of this story series up, I'll then start to upload the seventh one. And then we can go from there, once you've seen all that I'll have by that time for "The Chrysanthemum Chronicles" story series, readers. I don't expect to be able to start uploading the seventh volume in the series for at least a few weeks or months, though, people. For each volume in this particular story series of mine here is generally of good size, whenever possible, in fact, readers. There are many more things yet to come in this series. But if I say too much more than that right now and right here, you might choose not to continue reading this series, I think. For I might then be spoiling it for you all here, obviously enough, of course. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller" signing off here. Happy reading, and God bless, and all that, of course,
readers! Over and out!
In the next chapter, Sylvia will converse periodically with God, her siblings, and at least one or two other people in her life. And she will prepare to be part of the Scouts' adventure to Peru, as well. By the end of this next chapter, she'll no longer be in her Wakefield Castle chambers, in fact, readers. For she will be on her way to Peru, through God's transporting her there rather suddenly.
Now, without any further ado, if we may, let's get on with the next chapter-like section to this particular story, people. I hope that you all enjoy it quite a bit, of course. And that you'll all quite often read and review it as well, obviously enough. Remember, standard disclaimers will apply here, wherever necessary, readers. So let's get on with the story again, readers, if we may then do so, of course!
A Rather Hostile Takeover
A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story
Crusader Garden In Wakefield Castle
Jerusalem, Israel, Earth
January 29, 987 - January 30, 987
Meanwhile, as Serena was napping in her bed, back on Earth, and on the grounds of Wakefield Castle in Jerusalem, Israel, there, Princess Sylvia Wakefield was working in a garden. Most specifically, she was now working on a number of her roses and other kinds of flowers most likely too numerous to mention at the current time. Mainly on her roses, though she was planning to check on a number of her other kinds of flowers later, if she got that chance later that day or sometime the following day.
She was now working on a rosebush of flowers that she'd recently planted, and which she'd planted in her garden not long after she'd returned from the Moon the first time that she'd been there in her life. Queen Serenity had secretly given her at least a few seeds for plants native to various worlds in the Moon Kingdom. And Queen Serenity had thought that they might grow rather well in Sylvia's own garden back on Earth. Shortly after returning to the Earth for the first time from the Moon, Sylvia had then planted those seeds in her garden.
Sylvia had maintained a garden in Wakefield Castle from a very young age. And she'd called it the Crusader Garden from the start. Only a rare few people were normally allowed to be in her garden. For when she'd begun it on the grounds of Wakefield Castle, she'd insisted very strongly that should be the case. Her parents couldn't normally enter it without her prior permission or her prior knowledge. For she'd also insisted just as strongly that they shouldn't be normally able to invade her privacy by doing so. Her siblings often could be in her garden, in fact, as could a few of the Wakefields' servants. Whenever she was away, she'd sometimes let her siblings know that she'd be away for at least a little while, as well as at least one or two of the servants who she'd often not mind them being in her garden without her prior permission or her prior knowledge.
The kind of rosebush that she was currently working on was a rosebush of the Belinda Cromeke variety. And she worked on it until it was almost 9 at night, if not later than that. As she did so, she then saw something suddenly streak across the sky like a comet. It headed rather straight for her chambers in the palace. And it flew through an open window in them which Sylvia had intentionally left open to air out her chambers at least a little bit while she was otherwise occupied on the grounds of Wakefield Castle. She wondered what'd just entered her chambers through that open window. But she was glad that she had her chambers secured from the inside, so that nobody would easily be able to enter her chambers without her consent or knowledge.
Shortly after she woke up, she'd left her chambers through a window. Specifically the one she'd swung to a trellis from its sill, as a matter of fact. She'd swung to that particular trellis. And she'd descended down it behind a rather large rosebush with many roses on it. Eventually, she'd gotten underground, and had made her way underground to just under her garden. When she was sure that nobody else was currently in her garden, she soon came out of the tunnel that ran from somewhere near her chambers to somewhere near that garden of hers. She exited that tunnel by pushing a boulder to one side of it, so that she could leave it again. She exited that tunnel, after which she then replaced that boulder in front of that tunnel, of course.
Sylvia had been in her garden already for about three hours or so, if not longer than that, when she saw that something had just flown into her chambers while she was still in her garden. She worked on a number of her plants for at least a little while longer, though. And she did so at least until she heard a voice in her head that then said, "Sylvia, return to your own chambers within twenty minutes. You're needed elsewhere for a time. And I have to talk to you in your chambers before you leave here again."
When she heard that voice, she then finished whatever she was doing, just as quickly as she then could do so. And then she quite quickly stowed away all her garden-care items in the required places. Then she went to the boulder which she'd earlier put back in front of the tunnel in question that ran to just under her garden from somewhere near her chambers in Wakefield Castle. And she then rolled it to one side. With that done here, she then entered that tunnel, pulling the boulder back into its proper position in front of it, as she did so. She made it down to the bottom of that tunnel no more than a few moments later. And she transformed into her Sailor Scout state as Junior Sailor Skyhorse, for at least the time being. Minutes later, she then appeared at the bottom of the tunnel near where she'd be going back up to her chambers again. Then she soon began rising until she was at least high enough to access the ladder that'd bring her to the surface well enough. Several more rather brief moments later, she was at the surface again below her chambers. After she was, she then rolled another boulder back into its proper position to hide the necessary tunnel. Up the trellis she went, using the very same blanket-made rope she'd earlier used to get down to the ground below her chambers in Wakefield Castle. After getting there, she soon swung to the necessary window's sill. And eventually, she climbed back into her chambers. Five minutes later, after she transformed back out of her Sailor Scout state of being as Junior Sailor Skyhorse, the voice spoke to her again. It was God speaking to her, as a matter of fact.
He said, "Sylvia, I'm sending a number of you to a land you don't yet know about. Even though you've seen much of Earth so far in your life, I know. I'm sending you and others to another continent on which none of you have ever set foot. This continent's mostly in the Southern Hemisphere of Earth. And I'm sending you to a land called the Peruvian Empire. You'll meet up with people you've never met before, and others that you've met up with at least once. You and others will have to do what you can to protect the Peruvian Empire and its people from serious, if not deadly harm, to the best of your respective abilities. An evil force will seek to gain a foothold of some sort in your part of My Universe. And you and others will have to oppose them as much as you can in it."
"God, is this evil force the Negaverse, by any chance?"
"Yes, My child Sylvia, it is. You and others will be meeting up with each other there. You're to work with them to the best of your ability to do so, and they're to do the same with you, if at all possible."
"May I ask who those people might be?"
"I'm sorry, Sylvia. But you'll just have to wait and see. If there are people there in Israel who don't really like you all that much, in fact, if they somehow know who you're going to meet, then they could possibly use that information against you, your siblings, and/or anyone else who is quite sufficiently close to you besides your parents. I understand you may not like it very much. But I won't tell you who you'll be meeting with elsewhere on Earth. And if I'm not telling you, then I won't tell anyone else who you'll be meeting with who they'll be meeting with, if they don't already know somehow."
God and Sylvia then conversed in private with each other for at least a little while longer,
before God said, "Be in your normal state of being in the Hall of Mirrors by 12 pm tomorrow, in the Jerusalem, Israel, local area of Earth. And be alone, when you do so here, Sylvia. I'll talk to you again then, if I haven't already done so, about certain things by then tomorrow morning."
Then God soon said, just before He eventually quit talking to her, "Enjoy the rest of the night,
and the following morning, then, Sylvia, if you possibly can. Sleep well, My child, and may many pleasant dreams come your way tonight."
Sylvia then went to where the thing that had come through her window earlier was now resting on the floor near her bed. It was a large canister with three smaller canisters inside it. She opened all the necessary canisters. And she soon examined each of their contents for a while. As expected, there'd been canisters from Darien, Rolando, and Queen Serenity. She handled each of them as she'd need to handle them, after she'd examined all their contents to a sufficient enough degree. Of course, whenever the need arose for her to do so, she put some of the things from them in the secret underground cavern she knew of under or near Wakefield Castle.
After she did so, she then wrote a note for her siblings, just in case they came to her chambers while she was elsewhere in God's Universe. In it, she told them, essentially, that she was going to try to spend at least a week or two with Junior Sailor Skyhorse and other mutual friends of theirs. Of course, she didn't tell them that she was also secretly Junior Sailor Skyhorse, and who she might be meeting with while she was away from Wakefield Castle. But she told them that she'd hopefully be back in the Jerusalem area of Israel within the next few weeks or months, at the very latest. She told them that she didn't know if, when, and where she might be able to meet up with those certain friends of theirs, in the Universe. And it was still true, even after she'd just finished talking in private with God sometime before, in her very own Wakefield Castle chambers.
She had a feeling that her siblings wouldn't like the fact that she'd likely not be around in the local area for a while, if she wasn't too mistaken about her latest trip to try to meet up with friends of theirs, of course. But she still realized that if she wasn't, it likely couldn't be helped, for all the obvious reasons.
Eventually, she signed that note, as Sylvia. And she then put it in a place where her three siblings would likely be able to find it, but where nobody else but her siblings might be able to find it, and access it easily enough. Then she soon began preparing for her likely trip to the Peruvian Empire elsewhere on Earth, getting all the things that she'd most likely need to bring with her to there together, as quickly and as easily as she could do just that. With that done, she then hid all of those things in her hidden alcove, at least for the time being, if not elsewhere on or under the grounds of Wakefield Castle. Later, she'd be taking all those things with her when she was able to get away from Wakefield Castle easily enough sometime very soon afterward. Supposing, of course, that she was currently able to do so at that time, if it was ever somehow possible for her to do just that in her life.
She wrote at least a few more notes, which she soon deposited under the various doors of her siblings and a few of the servants. This she did so that her animals, her garden, and other things of hers would hopefully be taken care sufficiently well in her absence, while she was elsewhere in the Universe. She didn't say more than she absolutely had to say in them, of course. And after she wrote them and delivered them to the necessary people's chambers in Wakefield Castle, she soon went to the main stable on the grounds of Wakefield Castle.
She was greeted very briefly by a few nearby grooms, after she then went there. And after she was, she soon said to them, "Reuben and Timothy, I'm going to be taking my horse Moonlight Serenade out for a while. Not a word to my parents or anyone else who we can't trust to keep my secret ride on him secret sufficiently well. I really don't expect to be back before 6 tomorrow morning here in the Jerusalem area of Israel. Have the south drawbridge down no later than 7 tomorrow morning, and no earlier than 6:40 tomorrow morning. I'll most likely show up around the time that I'll want you two to have the south drawbridge lowered by, if not earlier. Keep it down until no later than 7:20 am in the morning, if I'm not back by then. If I'm not back by 7:20 am, I'll return later to this castle through a secret underground cavern, if at all possible. And then I'll somehow gain access to this main stable through it, if I can. Specifically Cavern Eight, you two. Have a blue flag in that cavern if it'll be safe for me to show in the main stable by 9:30 am tomorrow, just in case I have to access the castle's grounds through it. Have a black flag if it'll not be safe for me to do so by then, if that's true for me as well. I hope to return, though, by 7:20 am, you two. Remember, not a word to my parents or any of the people who don't like me much here in Israel, at least, you two. Or I'll likely be rather upset with you both."
Reuben and Timothy then agreed to do everything that she'd just told them to do here. After which, Sylvia soon left on her currently-chosen horse. She rode her horse Moonlight Serenade to a rather secluded retreat of hers near Jerusalem, but not too near Jerusalem. After she did so, she then soon spent a few hours trying to enjoy herself as much as she could while she was there. She even decided to swim for a while in a little pool of hers there, after putting her horse in a stable area there moments before. After she was sure that he was taken care well enough for at least a while, she then soon decided to swim in that pool.
Sylvia periodically swam alone in that little pool until about 1:30 in the morning of January 30, 987. She eventually went into her little cabin near that same pool, and she then went to her bedroom in that rather cozy cabin. She slept for at least a few hours in her bedroom there, before she then arose from that bed of hers. And she then went to her cabin's kitchen area. She rather quickly and rather efficiently then made herself some breakfast. After which she soon consumed it, of course, before she'd naturally have to ride back to Wakefield Castle again.
After Sylvia had her breakfast at about 5:45 in the morning, she then went out to her stable area. And she checked on her horse, of course. After taking care of him as needed, she soon gathered up all the things that she'd have to bring back from her rather remote retreat, no matter what it was. And she then put them on her horse whenever necessary, of course. Then she soon set off again back on her very own Moonlight Serenade for Wakefield Castle, as she'd earlier planned to do. She arrived back in front of the required drawbridge only about four minutes after 6:40 am. And she was across that drawbridge within another two minutes, after she saw that it was down just as she'd wanted it to be between 6:40 am and 7:20 am. She soon brought Moonlight Serenade back to the main stable area. And she removed all her things from off his back, of course. She quickly stowed all those things of hers that she'd taken off him in a cart under some hay. At least long enough for her to unsaddle him, and take care of him enough, so that he'd be able to enjoy the rest of the day, at least, if she wasn't with him then. After she took care of him in the required ways, she then brought the cart to another part of the main stable area on Wakefield Castle's own grounds. And she soon palmed a certain brick on the nearest wall of that stable area. Part of the wall slid to one side, in fact. And she then pulled the cart into a tunnel behind where that wall would normally be. After doing that, she took a torch off the wall somewhat randomly. And she soon palmed another brick on the left side of the tunnel as she'd entered it. That soon made the wall slide back into its normal position in front of that tunnel. A few moments later, at most, she was then in the secret passageway between her alcove and a secret underground cavern, after she'd dropped a few things off in that secret underground cavern.
After a few more minutes passed, and she was sure that nobody else would actually be able to see, to hear, or to detect her, somehow in her alcove, she then exited that secret passageway of hers for her alcove. Of course, she also brought her remaining things back to her alcove with her. She left some of them in her alcove. For she'd likely not be needing them. Or she'd not be able to bring them with her wherever she was likely going to go in the very near future, whatever the case might possibly be, either for them or for her. Everything else that she didn't leave in her alcove, she then brought back into her chambers with her, of course.
Five minutes after she did so, she then heard a few knocks on her door. All three of her siblings were outside her door, when she opened it to see who was outside her chambers at the current time. She then let them all in, of course. And when they were all sufficiently inside her chambers, behind a bolted door, she then said, "Kids, I'm going away again, and I expect to somehow leave this castle by local noon, I think. If you all look behind my Royal Crescent Seashell Quilt, some length of time after dinner, you'll all see a vault. In this vault, there's a single note for all three of you from me. You're not to share its contents with anyone else, not even any of our servants, if you can possibly avoid it, after you all read it. You're only to lift that quilt after you three eat dinner with Mother and Father, and no earlier than that. When you then do so, you're all to be absolutely alone here in my chambers, for the obvious reasons. You're to slide the picture of me and Junior Sailor Skyhorse to one side behind that quilt first, then the small shield behind that picture to one side, in order to access that vault. You're not to say a word, if at all possible, to let them or any other people around here know that I'm going away for a time. I don't know how long I'll be gone, when I'll be able to get back, and in what condition I'll ever return here in, if I ever do return here somehow. If they ask about where I might be today, at least, then I want you all to say, simply, 'Sylvia's now searching for things for her garden, or for quilting supplies. But we're not exactly sure which it is right now, and where she'll be searching for those things for herself.' And as a matter of fact, you wouldn't be lying about that. For I'll be looking for such things for my garden or for my quilting sessions, whenever I possibly can be. I've got a rather long way to go to get those things, I think. And it may be several weeks or months, before I can return with such things for myself, at least, kids. I'll return to you all as soon as I can, if it's at all possible for me to do so. And eventually, if at all possible, and if God wills it, we'll all somehow leave here and somehow get away from those who don't really like us all that much here in Israel."
She talked with them for a little while about various things of at least some importance to them all in their respective lives, then she eventually said, "Kids, I have another commitment to attend to shortly. And I'll need you to leave me alone for a while, so that I can get ready for it now. Becky, besides you, me, and a few of the grooms, Moonlight Serenade won't let anyone else ride him at all, normally. While I'm gone from here to wherever I've gone, I want you to exercise him at least once a week, if at all possible. Tell him his main mistress is off on another journey elsewhere. And that you don't know when I'll return here to him. He may not like it very much here. But he'll eventually accept it, I think, if things go sufficiently well for all of us here in Wakefield Castle he trusts well enough. Uly, I'm putting you in charge of Princess Caralina, at least for the time being. But you'll still likely need help with her from Reuben and Timothy, at least, if not other servants of ours as well. She'll probably want to run for a while within the next two or three months, if I don't return by then. For she's almost old enough to be paired up with Great Sea's Edge or Moonlight Serenade, I think. I hope to actually return before then, Ulysses. But if I'm not back here by late April or early May, I want you to try to pair her up with Moonlight Serenade, if at all possible. Moonlight Serenade has that white blaze on his nose that I'm hoping will be passed along to his descendants at least every once in a while. And Princess Caralina has the characteristics of an excellent racer, which I want passed along to her descendants as well, if at all possible. Plus her mother was the daughter of Glorious Conquest and Crystal Dream, two well-known former warhorses once owned by General Simon Termilicus, who was once King Isaac's highest-ranking general before his death about five to ten years ago."
"And you want to try to make sure that at least one of her descendants might be able to be a rather well-known warhorse?" asked Ulysses.
"If possible, yes, Uly. I don't want her paired up, if it can possibly be avoided, with Great Sea's Edge. For he often shows his darker side by going after other horses near him. Especially horses that seem to be having more success getting paired up with mares than he's currently having in his life. Besides, I think he's too old to produce good horses anymore. The last time he was bred with another mare, that mare nearly lost both her foals and her life. She was barely able to survive the process of giving birth to those twin foals. And she has never been the same as she was before she was paired up with him. I fear that he ruined her for future use as a breeding mare when he was paired up with her. I don't think that we'll see any more foals for Celestial Realm's Promise, at least not for a long while, if ever again. Mother and Father may want Princess Caralina to be paired up with Great Sea's Edge. But you're to do your very best to make sure that she isn't, if you possibly can do so. I intend for her to be paired up with Moonlight Serenade, and him alone. He doesn't have quite the temper that Great Sea's Edge does. And he doesn't usually get jealous with other horses when they get paired up with each other. Occasionally, of course, he might. But not as much as Great Sea's Edge has already been known to do in the past. He should be able to be paired up with a mare just a little while before Princess Caralina should be able to be paired up with a stallion for the first time. I think, that if he and she often get paired up with each other, they might also produce several foals of multiple colors. Specifically in the colors that the Sailor Scouts' uniforms are usually in, I think."
"Are you hoping for at least one purple horse, Sylvia, then?"
"If God sees fit to make that possible, why not, Uly?"
"I just think that it'd be weird to have a purple horse, Sylvia. That's all I'm saying right now."
"Understood, Uly. If I'm not back in time, then I want you to do whatever you can to take care of Princess Caralina and Moonlight Serenade, no matter what it is, if you can. Under absolutely no circumstances, if at all possible, are you to let them pair Princess Caralina with Great Sea's Edge, Ulysses. Even if you have to take her abroad, do whatever you can to protect them both in my absence, especially her. For I fear that if she's paired up with Great Sea's Edge, she won't be able to survive to term. And her foals will also die, if that's true here, because of it. If I don't return by June, you three are to head straight for our nearest port, and board the first ship for Japan that you can. Even if you have to bring any number of my horses with you when you do so. Martha, in my absence, you, Phyllis, and Tryphosa are to work in my garden whenever possible. You three are the only ones I want working in my garden while I'm out of the area for a time. I don't care if you work together in it or not. But I want you three to work in it while I'm gone. Becky, you're not to work in it at all, even if one or more of the three of them are unable to work in it during my absence. At least while they're all still alive. Only if they're all dead, will you be able to work in my garden. For the garden won't produce for you if you work in it otherwise. God has promised me this, after I learned that I'd be going away again to some place I've never likely been to before. I don't really expect trouble here in this area that might kill Martha, Phyllis, and/or Tryphosa, of course, Becky, but I'd still not really be surprised, all that much, if it ever happened to come here somehow in my absence from the Jerusalem local area in Israel."
Sylvia soon dismissed her siblings, who rather reluctantly left her alone again in her chambers. She spent only a few more minutes gathering up all her necessary things. And she put them on another cart from a storage room near her chambers. She loaded up that cart, and after she was sure that everything else in her Wakefield Castle chambers was as she still wanted it in those chambers, she eventually left them behind. She did this only after securing her door rather well against those who didn't know how to get into it easily enough, and who might want to gain unnecessary access to it, at all, for all the obvious reasons, of course. She buried a key deep in the soil of a potted plant just outside her chambers in such a manner that only her siblings and a rare few of the Wakefields' servants would easily enough be able to find that key, if they knew it was there at all. Then she finally set off for the Hall of Mirrors in her normal state of being, just as God had directed her to do during her earlier chat with Him the night before. Moments after 11 am, she was no longer in the Hall of Mirrors. For she'd left them as God had said that she would, for a place that she'd never yet been to in actual reality. She was on time for that meeting with God there in the Hall of Mirrors. And within five or so minutes after 11 in the morning of January 30, 987, she was on her way to wherever He'd be bringing her to elsewhere in His very own Universe, wherever that place might be in it at all.
A Rather Hostile Takeover will still take at least some time to put up here, just the same,
readers. For I've not yet completed the series, even though I've written at least partly into the seventh volume of this series, if not totally into it. Six volumes are complete. The seventh volume in this series is in progress, as of the current time. And the Moon Kingdom hasn't yet fallen at the point that I am now at in its series. When I finish getting the first six volumes of this story series up, I'll then start to upload the seventh one. And then we can go from there, once you've seen all that I'll have by that time for "The Chrysanthemum Chronicles" story series, readers. I don't expect to be able to start uploading the seventh volume in the series for at least a few weeks or months, though, people. For each volume in this particular story series of mine here is generally of good size, whenever possible, in fact, readers. There are many more things yet to come in this series. But if I say too much more than that right now and right here, you might choose not to continue reading this series, I think. For I might then be spoiling it for you all here, obviously enough, of course. Until later, then, this is "The Universal Storyteller" signing off here. Happy reading, and God bless, and all that, of course,
readers! Over and out!