TCC Book IV: A Rather Hostile Takeover

by The Universal Storyteller

Book 4 of at least 7, if not more. Its series is set mostly during the MK's Silver Millennium! 20 Chapters now up! Story Finally Complete after more than a decade of unplanned delay in completing the posting of it! Editing and/or revising of all chapters will begin once all chapters of First Kisses? are edited and/or revised, most likely, folks. TUS out.

6. Chapter Six

In the last chapter of this story, Queen Serenity and several other Scouts were divinely transported to Earth, after they had prepared for their next adventure as Scouts there. Serena was among them, in fact. As were Queen Serenity's cats Luna and Artemis. God would be putting them on Earth for a time to be with several young Terran Princesses from a land that would later be known as Peru in the future.

In the next chapter of this fourth story, Moon Princess Serena and several other sentient beings will most certainly meet up with each other in short enough order. And they all will meet up with each other in a particular garden of a Peruvian Empire palace's grounds. They then will be meeting with each other there for a time, before they all part a while later. That's so that they'll then be able to do whatever eventually comes to each of their minds, most likely, as well. And from then on, their periodical mutual association with each other will begin to develop in each of their respective lives. This will be for reasons that might or might not yet be obvious to them all in their lives, in fact.

Now, without further ado, if we may, readers, let's get on with the next chapter of this story here. For there are still plenty more chapters to put up for this particular story here. And I'd really prefer to put them all up in their proper order, just as soon as I possibly can, in fact. If you like what you see, or feel the need to do so, then please don't be afraid to read, review, and enjoy my related story chapters here, readers. I await your rather clean, rather courteous, and rather constructive, comments about this story and its related parts, and about its related series, as well. Supposing, of course, that any or all of you all would ever feel the need or the desire to put up any reviews for any or all of my various stories, for the obvious reasons, people. Remember, standard disclaimers will still apply here, if and whenever the need arises. However, I still would hope and prefer that you all not steal my own original characters and settings here, for I've spent many hours working on them for quite a few years, in fact. Now, let's get on with the story here again, everyone. And I really do hope that you all will continue to read and enjoy it, for it's obvious that you all haven't recently reviewed any of my fan fiction work here on , readers! It would be real nice to get some clean, courteous, and constructive reviews, though, just the same, people. Now to the story!

A Rather Hostile Takeover

A The Chrysanthemum Chronicles Series Story

Rainbow Garden In The Imperial Palace

Cuzco, Peru, Earth

January 29, 987 - January 30, 987

Meanwhile, as Serena and her current crowd were being brought to somewhere else in the Universe, specifically to Earth, it was now about 7:15 pm in the evening of January 29, 987, for several young Terran Princesses from the nation that Serena and her crowd were all being brought to now in the Universe. Of course, their nation was on Earth, because they'd never actually left Earth in a physical sense before. Though that might not always remain the case, if they ever got the chance somehow to be elsewhere in the Universe at least once. Whether or not they ever wanted to be off it at all in any or all four of their own lives.

At the current time, Princesses Mara, Ginkya, Yazmis, and Zardiz were all basically enjoying themselves just as much as they then could in the Rainbow Garden. While they were still remaining rather alert, just in case anyone would come their way somehow while they were there, of course. They were often talking to each other as they enjoyed themselves. And they all remained rather alert, in the Rainbow Garden on the Imperial Palace's grounds in Cuzco. They all were currently still in their respective Monitor uniforms, of course, as they all did those things in that particular garden.

Suddenly, they heard a moderately loud hum near them in the sky above the garden. And a hole seemed to open up in the sky above it. Mara was the first of the Princesses to see it, in fact. And she soon motioned to her fellow Monitors to head for that location as quickly as they could do so safely enough, if they weren't currently walking right next to her in that garden. The hole was about twenty feet or so in average diameter. And it was mostly red with a black ring surrounding its entire area. As it hung in the sky about twenty or so feet above the tallest plants and trees in the garden, Mara and her fellow Monitors moved to that location as quickly and as safely as they could, for various reasons too numerous to mention. By the time they got about ten feet away from the transportation zone now being formed between the hole in the sky and the ground below, several people and two cats soon began falling out of that hole. Starting with Queen Serenity, behind some shields that God was now using to hide Queen Serenity and all her present companions from current view in the garden in question at that time. Five feet closer to it, Mara and her fellow Monitors were forced to stop approaching the zone in question, for their own safeties, while that zone was still in use. As they realized they'd not be able to get closer while Queen Serenity and her companions were all being brought down to Earth by God, they then stopped approaching it immediately. And they all sat on four nearby benches, with one bench being for each of them here, as well. And they waited for that transfer zone to become inactive, of course.

As they did so, Queen Serenity and her companions soon engaged some parachutes that they'd brought with them, after Queen Serenity had provided them for her cats, her Princesses, and herself, just before leaving the Moon with them all, courtesy of God, of course. All of them engaged those parachutes by the time they got within about five feet of the nearest tree and plant tops in the garden. They landed in an open area of the garden in question near a fountain about five minutes after the last of them had engaged their parachute easily enough. Queen Serenity was the first to land, followed by Serena, Destiny, Bethany, Hannah, Susan, Lita, Mina, Raye, Alexis, Michelle, Artemis, Luna, and Amy, in that particular order. Amy had been the last of them to land because she'd been caught up by a sudden updraft. And she'd also decided to circle the landing zone at least once as best as she could, for reasons that were likely too numerous to mention at the current time. Eventually all the Moon Kingdom royals had landed safely enough in the landing zone, as had Luna and Artemis, of course. And after they all realized this, they soon began taking off their parachutes, for the obvious reasons. After they were all sufficiently free of them, and after they'd all adjusted to being on a world again, God soon shut off the shields that He'd used to hide the Moon Kingdom people and both cats from view for a while, while He'd been bringing them down to Earth as He'd planned to do some length of time earlier.

It took all those people and both cats a few moments to adjust themselves to being in a new setting in their lives, of course. And when they did so, they soon spotted Princesses Mara, Ginkya, Yazmis, and Zardiz sitting on benches near them in the garden that they were now in on Earth. The first of the Moon Kingdom people to speak was Serena, and she said, "Hello, girls. I hope you've all been rather well since our only previous discussion with each other in my chambers."

"Hello, Serena. It's nice to finally meet you in actual physical reality, Serena." Mara rose from her bench, and went to shake Serena's hand, in a manner of friendship. "I trust that all these people and cats are your companions."

"Yes, Mara. They are, as a matter of fact."

"I don't see Darien here, nor do I see Rolando or Sylvia, Serena."

"I hope we'll see them soon enough, but I don't hold out much hope for it right now, Mara."

"Would you care to introduce us to all your companions now?"

So Serena did so, and when she introduced Raye to them, Mara said, "Hello, Raye. I hope that you get to sing quite a bit in the future. I'll tell you later exactly how I know that you're actually a singer, and a composer, too, if I get a chance, but not right now. For it's not exactly the proper time of day here for a whole lot of private chatting with anyone. It's about 7:30 pm or so now, in fact. And we don't often spend a lot of time having private chats with most people after about 6:45 pm or so around here."

Then Serena eventually finished introducing all her current companions to the four Peruvian Empire Princesses that they'd all just met. After which, Mara soon said, "I suppose you'll all want to rest for a while, at least, before we talk to each other more later."

Queen Serenity said, "I think that's a very good idea, Princess Mara. I suppose you have chambers which we can use at least until then."

"Yes, as a matter of fact, we do. But, for your own safeties, at least for a while, we'll have to put you in ones that are considerably distant from others here in this palace of ours, of course. I hope that you can understand why. And you people can all call me and the rest of us by our respective first names, whenever possible, as a matter of fact, Queen Serenity."

"Sure thing, Mara. You really don't want to invite unneeded trouble from those who might not really like you all that much here in Peru, if I'm not mistaken."

"Correct, Queen Serenity. Can we call you all by your first names, as well, Queen Serenity?"

"I suppose you probably could all do so here, whenever possible, Mara. But that's only if my companions don't mind you doing so, of course."

"And if you're in your Sailor Scout states of being?"

"Please call us by our proper Sailor Scout names, whenever possible, Mara. This is so that if we're all indeed going to be fighting the Negaverse while we're all still with you, they don't easily, if ever, learn the names that we'd normally use in our non-Sailor Scout states."

"Agreed," said Mara.

"What's a Monitor, by the way, Mara?" This was a question from Amy.

"A Monitor's usually a female warrior in our nation, if not always. Your female warriors are normally Sailor Scouts, are they not, Amy?"

"I believe many of our female warriors are Sailor Scouts, but not all of them. Maybe not even half of them are Sailor Scouts. I don't know the exact percentage, right off the top of my head. But I think that at least four or so percent of our female warriors are Sailor Scouts in our Moon Kingdom, if not more."

Amy then looked at Queen Serenity for confirmation here. And Queen Serenity soon nodded at her, to confirm Amy's current thoughts about such things in the Moon Kingdom. Amy then asked, "Mara, do you think that you could all bring us to the chambers you spoke of just now? For if I'm not mistaken, several of my companions are at least a little tired, from what I can tell about them right now. Including Serena, I think."

Mara and her fellow Peruvian Princesses saw this was indeed true of at least a few, if not all, of Amy's current companions. So Mara then asked, a few seconds later, "Sure, I think that we can do that now. Is it all right if at least one of us picks up some of your things right now?"

Queen Serenity and her current companions looked at each other for a few seconds, at least. And then Queen Serenity answered Mara's question, "I think we can handle our own things, at least for the most part. But if you want to handle the cats' things, I think that we can let you do that."

"Very well. And for the cats' things, whose room should they be put in, Queen Serenity?"

"My chambers here in your Imperial Palace, if that's not a problem for any or all of you girls."

"As you wish. And the other things?"

"We'll handle them ourselves, if you just show us to the necessary chambers, Mara."

"Would any or all of your young girls mind sharing chambers with each other, Queen Serenity?"

"Why, Mara?"

"Because many of the chambers here in this palace of ours have been in the process of being renovated, or aren't available at the moment, for various reasons that are likely too numerous to mention at the current time here. And because such things are true currently, we may have to put pairs of girls together, at least, if not trios or quartets."

After she considered that possibility for a few moments, Queen Serenity then said, "What do you say, girls?"

"Fine with me, if I get to be with the twins," said Serena.

"Fair enough for me, Serena. Let it be as you've just said, then, Serena. Amy and Raye, would you mind sharing chambers with each other?" asked Queen Serenity.

"Fire and Ice, together?" asked Raye.

"Actually, don't you mean 'Fire' and 'Water' together, Raye?" asked Amy. "That's what our names might mean elsewhere on Earth, I think."

"Whatever, Amy. Are you sure that'd really be wise?"

"It'll be fine with me, if it keeps you and Serena from arguing with each other so much while we're here."

Mara said, "The famous Serena-Raye rivalry, if I'm not mistaken."

"My, we're just full of surprises today, aren't we, Mara?" asked Raye.

"If you say so, Raye. If you say so. I'll let you all know exactly how we know about it later, if I get a chance to do so too then."

"I suppose so, Mara," said Amy, moments later.

"Yes, I suppose you're right too, Amy. No sense in Raye and Serena fighting each other too soon, if it can possibly be avoided before the Negaverse people get here to try to act against us, if they actually do so, I think."

"Fine, I'll share chambers with Amy. I was hoping for one of the twins or Queen Serenity, though. That was if I had to share chambers with anyone else here. But I'll share them with Amy, I guess, if I really have to," said Raye.

"All right. That leaves Lita, Mina, Hannah, Alexis, Michelle, and Susan in the process of assigning you all to chambers in the palace here. Who'll volunteer as well to share chambers with someone else?"

Lita said, "Mina often shares chambers with me whenever the need arises. I'd not mind doing the same here, if the need arises again for us both while we're with you here in Peru."

Mina said, "And keep the light on at night so much while you're reading your romances? I hope not, Lita."

"Mina, Queen Serenity didn't let me bring them with me on this adventure of ours."

"Really?" asked Mina, quite surprised now, as a matter of fact, as was now quite evident on her face. Mina's face was now showing a look of great surprise, for she'd really not expected that from Queen Serenity here. At least not as it pertained to Lita at the current time, anyway.

Queen Serenity said, "Yes, Mina. I actually made her leave them back where we came from."

"You say Lita likes romances?" asked Ginkya.

Mina answered, a few seconds later, with just a little bit of twinkling now becoming rather apparent in her eyes, "As a matter of fact, she does, Ginkya."

"Mara occasionally has written stories and poems in her life, and I rather strongly believe that at least one of those stories and/or poems is of a sufficiently romantic nature, at least in the writing of the same thing or things that I'm just telling you about here now."

"I see. Mara?"

"Yes, Lita?"

"Have you actually written such stuff before?"

"At least once?"

"Of course."

"Yes, I have, Lita. But I've never completed anything yet like that which is longer than about ten scrolls or so in length. I'm in the eighth scroll of my writing of the sixth story in the Legendary Chronicles of Monitor Zatherisa right now, and most of the stories in that series of stories are usually about four to six scrolls in length."

"And is this series mainly a series of romances?"

"It's got at least some romantic elements, in fact. But it's not entirely consisted of them, Lita. That's because Monitor Zatherisa doesn't often get to have much of a social life, due to her being a Monitor in that story series. Can you understand why that might be the case?"

"I think so, Mara."

"I don't suppose that being a Junior Sailor Scout is often easy on your social lives either, girls?"

Lita answered, "No, it often isn't easy on them, of course."

"Mina, will you share chambers with Lita, then, while you're here?"

"If she promises to try to be considerate to me whenever I want to get to sleep, I think I can do that, Mara."

"Lita, do you promise to try to do that?"

"I suppose I can, Mara. But knowing me, that might not be possible for me to do all the time, I think."

Mina considered that here for a few brief moments, and then she said, "All right, I'll accept that, for I think I know you quite well so far in our lives. But if you don't try to do as you've just said that you'll try to do, whenever possible, don't be all that surprised if I get upset at you while we're here, Lita."

"Understood, Mina."

"All right, I'll pair up with her, if I have to, and I'll share chambers with her here in your Imperial Palace, for as long as necessary."

"As you wish. Anyone else?"

Alexis said, "I'll share with Michelle, if she'd not mind doing so with me."

"Michelle?"

"If Susan will agree to do the same as well, I'll then share chambers with Alexis, at least while we're here, and if the need arises."

"I suppose that's acceptable. Somebody will need to make sure that you two don't raise a ruckus with your running around here, like you often do, whenever possible, back where we come from. But if I do that with you, what about Hannah? Where'll she have to sleep, then, if we'll all have to share chambers with each other, while we're all here in this Imperial Palace of theirs?"

"I suppose that she could share chambers with someone else, Susan," said Alexis.

"Like who, Alexis?"

"Queen Serenity, perhaps?"

"Hannah? What do you say?"

"Fine, I'll share with Queen Serenity, if the others don't want to share with me."

"It's not that, Hannah. It's just that we'd rather be together as often as possible while we're here."

"You're afraid of me, Alexis."

"How can that be?"

"You often don't like being with me back where we come from. You, Michelle, and Susan, at least, seem to be afraid of me. Like I might know something that would most likely scare the living daylights out of you all, maybe, I think."

Queen Serenity suddenly said, "Enough, girls. We'll discuss this at some length later. Hannah, I'll share chambers with you, if that's all right with you now."

"As you wish, Queen Serenity. At least someone apparently wants to actually be with me while we're still here in Peru, it seems."

"Okay, Hannah. You can share chambers with me, then, while we're here. Is that all right with you, Mara?"

"If that's how you want it, Queen Serenity, so be it. What about Susan, Alexis, and Michelle, then?"

"Let them share chambers with each other, if they want or need to, then. But I'll still have to talk to them later, if at all possible, while we're all here in Peru with you all."

"As you wish. We'll put those three girls of yours in the same chambers, and see how long it takes for them to start arguing with each other, if they'll ever do so while you're all here with us in Peru."

Alexis was about to say that she'd likely not argue with Michelle and Susan during their current adventure, but Queen Serenity stopped her from doing so with a certain look. Specifically the one that didn't leave any doubt that Queen Serenity wouldn't be happy with Alexis if she did so with their hosts, at least not at the current time. And which was also the one that let Alexis know in no uncertain terms that Queen Serenity would brook no disagreement from her with either Queen Serenity or their hosts, without Alexis risking trouble of some kind from Queen Serenity at any time during their current adventure in Peru.

Hearing no further comments from anyone else, Mara then said, "It shall then be as you all have said, at least in terms of who you'll be sharing chambers with here, for at least as long as the need arises for you all to do so. These chambers may not be as luxurious as the ones you have back in the Moon Kingdom might be. But for us, they're still often quite luxurious, at least, compared to what other people of our nation normally live their lives in when they're not otherwise occupied during them."

Mara and her three fellow Peruvian Princesses soon escorted their guests to various chambers elsewhere on the grounds of the Imperial Palace of Cuzco, Peru, on Earth. And after they did so, they soon returned to the Rainbow Garden to see if anyone else at all would also show up there later on as well. Like maybe Sylvia, for instance.

They then waited in it, even past local midnight, so that if anyone else showed up there in that Imperial Palace garden, they'd be able to meet up with them shortly after that person or those persons did so at all. Even Sylvia, for example, of course.

Speaking of Sylvia, she began showing up there, in the exact same manner that Serena and her current crowd had earlier shown up there, shortly after 4 am local time, in fact. And she did so in the same exact general area of the garden that Queen Serenity, and others who'd been with her earlier, had actually landed in it. Maybe not in the exact same location, of course. But in the same exact area, of it, just the same, Sylvia showed up there just after 4 am local time.

About half an hour or so later, then, at most, she was also escorted to some chambers elsewhere in the Imperial Palace. As a matter of fact, she also ended up in the very same chambers that Serena and her twin sisters were now assigned to in it. Which, quite naturally, soon made Serena, Destiny, and Bethany quite happy, of course.

When she did, Destiny suddenly said to both of her sisters, "I now smell traces of at least one Belinda Cromeke rose's smell on someone else. And they're not actually from the Moon." She said this here, just because Serena and Bethany hadn't yet seen or smelled Sylvia when she entered the three Moon girls' chambers.

Serena and Bethany soon turned around, or they woke up, as the case might be for either or both of them. And they soon said, "Destiny, you're right. But how do you know?" They still hadn't seen Sylvia in them, however, so that was why they asked Destiny that question just then.

"I slightly smell the smells of some mint tea and at least one horse, if not more than one horse, as well, you two."

"It can't be her, can it?" asked Serena.

"Who else do you know in our crowd that normally likes riding horses as much as she does, Serena, besides a certain guy or two in them, if not more, maybe? Or who might occasionally, at least, have green mint tea in her free time, as a matter of fact?" Bethany then saw Sylvia well enough here, and vice versa. And Bethany then agreed to keep Serena from turning around in the chambers for as long as she could while Sylvia came closer to her and her sisters in them for a while, after Sylvia gave her a questioning look as if to suggest that line of questioning from her to Bethany.

"Not many people, I think, Destiny," said Serena.

"So who might that leave, then, Serena?"

"Sylvia and a few other people, at most."

"And who likes to paint, garden, and make quilts, often?" asked Sylvia, who was now close enough to hear the conversation currently in question in the chambers the four of them were now in together. She asked this through Bethany, who silently translated for Destiny, in the necessary manners, for the obvious reasons, mainly so that Serena wouldn't hopefully guess who was now in their chambers too soon, of course. By now, Bethany and Sylvia had already exchanged at least one rather brief glance with each other. But still without them both tipping Serena off that Sylvia was now in their chambers, while Destiny often spoke the words that Bethany and Sylvia were saying to each other, if she thought that Serena wasn't currently able to see the girls do that at all well enough.

"That'd likely eliminate Estella and Tracy, at least," said Destiny.

"And who has auburn hair and blue eyes?" This was again from Sylvia, of course.

"Goodbye, Beatrice, Bridget, and Winnie," commented Bethany, through Destiny, via some more silent touching of hands, at least.

"And a brother named Ulysses?" queried Sylvia, rather silently.

"Goodbye, everyone else in our crowd except one other person," said Destiny, rather directly.

By now, Sylvia was right behind Serena. And she then said, in sign language to Bethany, who then told Destiny what Sylvia had just said to Bethany, "A certain Scot would know who I am by now, I think. Even if he actually didn't see me by then."

Serena asked, "I wasn't expecting for her to be here anytime soon. She can't be here now, can she?"

Finally Bethany and Destiny could remain silent, or calm, enough no longer. And Destiny soon said, "Turn around, Serena, and see if your eyes do actually deceive you now. I can't actually see her right now, of course. But I know she's there, just the same."

So Serena turned around completely. And several seconds later, she then registered sufficiently well that Sylvia was indeed with them all now in their chambers. She still was quite surprised, of course, to find that out. Even after she'd considered the chance that she and the other Princesses of the Moon Kingdom might meet her on their next Sailor Scout adventure in God's very own Universe. She said, "Sylvia, it's so nice to see you again so soon after we last saw each other. But I don't see the boys with you this time, for some reason."

"I know that, Serena. We may meet up with them later. Or we could miss them for most, if not all, of what now appears to be our next adventure as Sailor Scouts. I just don't know, or at least not yet, that is, if we'll be able to see them any time in the very near future."

"Do you think we'll see them before we leave here again, Sylvia?"

"It's possible, I suppose. For if I'm actually here with you now, don't you think that it might even be possible for us to do that somehow, Serena?"

"I suppose you're right, Sylvia. I do wonder why the boys didn't show up here with you, though. They came with you the last time you visited us on the Moon, if I'm not mistaken."

"And the time before that, if you count that as well."

Destiny then said, "Sylvia, Serena's been wishing quite a bit that she was able to see Darien of late, of course."

"Would she be Serena, most likely, if she weren't, whenever he's not near her at any time in her life?"

"Probably not, Sylvia," said Destiny. "She's really got a thing for Darien, as you should already know by now."

"And has she been seeing Rini quite a bit in her dreams since I'd last left you a few weeks ago on the Moon?"

Bethany answered this, and said, "It really seems so, Sylvia. Of course, Darien's often in such dreams of Serena's, when Rini's in them."

"I see. Serena, do you have anything you want to say about such things right now?"

"I'm worried that I'll never get to marry Darien and have Rini someday in the future."

"Oh?" asked Sylvia.

"What if something goes wrong, and something happens to us that would make such a potential future never actually come to pass for us at least once, if not more?"

"Like?" asked Sylvia.

"What if something happens between the end of the Moon Kingdom and our emergences or births in the 20th Century? And we never actually do get to be together with each other in the future as I'd most likely want us to be at least once in it? What if I survive and he doesn't? What would that mean for Rini, quite possibly?"

"Could it mean that she never exists in the future?"

"I think so, Sylvia. She's a very important part of any futures that I've seen in which I might eventually wind up with Darien, I believe. If something happens either to me or to Darien, it could very well be the case that she'll never exist any particular time or place anywhere here in God's very own Universe."

"And you want to be a mother someday, if at all possible, Serena?" asked Bethany.

"Yes. I don't know yet if I could be as good a mother as Mom is to us. But I still do hope that I could be eventually, if not right away, of course."

"And if she has a similar hairstyle to you?"

"Then so be it, Bethany. But I don't really know exactly how come she might eventually have pink hair, instead of some other color of hair, at least not yet. I don't know any pink-haired people in our family, I believe, at the current time, and I don't think I ever have, girls."

"Hasn't Mom ever told us at least once of Grandma Margaret, Serena?"

"What about her, Bethany?"

"Didn't she say that her mother was a pink-haired girl from a very young age, before she became a Scout?"

"Come to think of it, I do now remember Mom saying something about that a few years ago."

"And when she became a Scout, her hair eventually started to change color from the kind of pink that you're seeming to think that Rini might have to somewhere between the colors of purple and blonde, with some streaks of pink still remaining in her hair for the rest of her life. Mom told us a few years ago then, if I'm not mistaken, that when she herself was growing up in our Moon Kingdom, her mother's hair was mostly purple. With some blonde and some pink in it, up until just a few years before Grandma Margaret fell asleep when her ship exploded suddenly," commented Destiny, just then, when Bethany told her that she could say something to Serena, of course.

"So you're saying that if Darien and I might have Rini in the future, she might inherit it from her great-grandmother's part of the family. Which, of course, would be on Mother's and my side of the family, Destiny?"

"I believe that's what I'm saying."

"Destiny, do you think that'll mean that Rini will also inherit the powers of Sailor Peppermint, Mom, and me, as a Sailor Scout, eventually?"

"I don't know, Serena. She could, or she could not. Only time will tell if that's ever the case for her, if and when she ever exists anywhere here in God's very own Universe. I hope, though, that if you do actually have her, I'll eventually be able to see her as well, of course. And I'm reasonably sure that Bethany would love to do the same if she got the chance to do so in her life."

Then the four girls spent at least the next few minutes chatting with each other, and catching up with each other as best as they could while doing so, before all of them eventually went to sleep in their new chambers on the grounds of the Imperial Palace in Cuzco, Peru. They all stayed asleep at least until about 10:30 am local time. And they all only woke up after Raye and a number of other girls came into them to try to wake up the girls in them that they'd already come to Peru with not long before.

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!