AN- I forgot to mention this earlier. For those of you who would like to see all the dubbed Sailor Moon episodes again, they are all on For the first two seasons (as in those dubbed by DiC) you just need to type in sailor moon and the English episode number in the search box. For example if you want the episode called, "Day of Destiny," type in sailor moon 40 in the search box. If you want to see the third and fourth season, type in sailor moon and the Japanese episode number. So, just as a reminder from the second season to the third season it jumps from episode 82 to episode 90. Yeah, they also have all three Sailor Moon movies in English. You just type in sailor moon plus the name of the movie. I hope this information is useful for those who didn't already know. Also, sorry for the long hiatus, I was really busy this last week,

Disclaimer- I do not own any of the Sailor Moon characters

Chapter 5- How to Tell a Prince Off

In Serena's Room after the Duel

"You guys were awesome!" Serena said as she rummaged threw her gowns.

"Thank you!" Raye said as she painted her toenails…red. (AN- duh)

"I'm just glad you shut up Jadeite," said Mina as she helped Serena choose a dress.

"Unfortunately, Sailor Mars shut Jadeite up, not Princess Rachael. He'll still be an idiot around me," said Raye sadly.

"Hey, but we've made lots of progress. Serena got already got herself a proposal!" Lita said.

"Yes, and even I've got some kind of hold on Zoicite," said Amy.

"Amy! Wow, good for you girl!" said Mina, which caused Amy to blush.

"How does this look? Is it prince-conquering material?" asked Serena holding up a gold-colored ball gown.

"Perfect!" said Raye said after a sigh of relief. She could never understand why it took Serena so long to pick a dress. It always took Raye about five seconds to pick a dress, and she still looked gorgeous.

Serena got dressed quickly, and Sophia put her hair up in a messy bun. (AN- it still looks pretty though) "I'm already to go!" Serena proclaimed. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Are you girls decent?" a voice called out (AN- couldn't help but put some Pirates of the Caribbean in there)

"Yeah," yelled Lita.

"We're coming in!" said an unfamiliar voice that made Raye jump up. In burst in, Hayden, Abby, Isaac, and Raye's older brother, Rainier. Raye jumped up to hug her brother. Friedrich toddled in a few moments later.

"I thought you weren't coming, Rain," said Mina.

"It made me mad that Mum and Dad made me miss the festival," said Rainier.

"Hey, but somebody had to stay behind and watch over the kingdom, and who better than the Crown Prince?" asked Raye.

"You suck," said Rainier.

"So, I guess since Hayden's escorting Abby, so then you're escorting me, right?" asked Raye.

"Yeah," said Rainier somewhat glumly.

"You're showing so much enthusiasm, Rain," said Lita, laughing.

"If your brother's escorting Abby then who's escorting you, Amy?" asked Mina. "Zoicite?"

Amy blushed. "You've got to be kidding me. No, Hayden's escorting both of us," she said. Mina nodded.

"What about you Lita? Isaac can't obviously escort the Crown Princess of the Moon and his sister," said Mina.

Lita blushed in embarrassment. She shot a mortified look at Friedrich. "Friedrich," she whispered. The entire room, minus Friedrich and Lita, burst out laughing. She looked at Mina furiously. "Well then Lumina, who's escorting you? Mal-Mal?"

"Who's Mal-Mal?" mouthed Isaac to Serena. Serena didn't reply because she couldn't stop laughing.

Mina looked embarrassed. "Well, I, um, don't currently have an escort," she said. Lita looked at her apologetically.

"Hey, if Raye doesn't mind, I'll escort you, too, Mina," said Rainer kindly.

"Yeah, that's fine with me," Raye said.

"Well, if you're sure then, ok," Mina replied happily.

There was a knock at the door. It was King Ares of Mars. "Kids, it's time to go to the ball. You know the order," he said as he walked back out.

"Yes, sir," said Hayden. "Princess Abigail, daughter of King Ares and Queen Vesta of Mars, and Princess Amelia, daughter of King Hermes and Queen Athena of Mercury," he said as he bowed deeply to Abby and Amy, "may I have the pleasure of escorting you to the ball?"

"With pleasure kind sir," Abby said giggling while Amy said, "Whatever," while rolling her eyes. The girls each took one of his arms and walked out of the room.

"Ok Friedrich," Lita said while sighing, "I think its time for us to go," Friedrich nodded and offered his sister his arm in the most "gentlemanly" way he could. Then, they walked out of the door. Rainier, Raye, and Mina followed soon after, followed by Isaac and Serena. They descended down the stairs when they were announced. Isaac and Serena opened the ball with a waltz. Darien kept looking longingly at them as he watched Serena gracefully waltz with the Jovian Crown Prince. Abby and Hayden followed the suit and danced.

While they were waltzing, Isaac suddenly asked, "Can I confide something in you, Serena?"

"Sure I guess," she said. "But don't you think it would be better if you confided in Lita or your mom?"

"Well, I can't talk to my mom they way I can talk to you and the girls, and Lita will just tease me," he said.

"Ok, then shoot," she said.

"Well, I've met a girl," he started to say.

"Really, who is she?" she asked excitedly.

"Her name's Sarah," he replied. (AN- I'm not sure if this could be seen as a religious allegory, but just in case, I thought I should mention that there is no religious allegory here. I'm Hindu)

Serena looked confused for a moment. "I didn't know there were any princesses in our galaxy named Sarah. Most of the ones from the asteroids have long names like Antonia or Dominica, or something like that," she said.

Isaac blushed for a moment. "Well, she's not a princess. She's a countess," he said.

"Really the countess of what?" she asked as Isaac twirled her around.

"She's the countess of this very small district on Jupiter. You wouldn't know. She's not a rich countess. In fact, some peasants are richer than her," he said.

Serena took a deep breath. "Isaac, do you think she will make a good queen of Jupiter? Will she love your subjects as you do?" she asked.

Isaac smiled slightly. "Yes, she will. I am certain of it," he said.

Serena laughed. "Then what's the big deal?" Isaac laughed, too.

Meanwhile with Darien and the Generals

"Can you believe how awfully close that guy is to Serena?" Darien said angrily.

"Why do you care?" asked Jadeite.

"No particular reason," answered Darien as he helped himself to some appetizers.

"Is it just me or are the princesses avoiding us?" Nephlyte asked.

"I'm sure they are. Why would they dance with lowly generals?" asked Zoicite.

"We are not lowly," Malachite growled as he saw Mina dancing with a duke from Mars. "We are Terran generals, which in the grand scheme of things, are above Lunarian dukes! We are certainly allowed to dance with princesses!"

"Uh, Malachite, are you ok?" asked Jadeite.

"Just fine, why do you ask?" Malachite asked.

"No reason," Jadeite said, chuckling when he saw Mina dancing with the Martian duke.

Now with the Princesses, minus Serena and Mina

"This sucks!" Raye said.

"What sucks, Raye?" asked Lita.

"Well, we cannot dance with the only semi-good looking guys in this room because Serena has forbidden us to do so!" Raye cried.

"Wow, Raye, I didn't know you were so upset over the generals," laughed Amara. Raye shot her a deadly look.

"Hey, am I banned as well from dancing with the generals?" asked Michelle suddenly.

"Uh, Michelle, why would you want to do that?" asked Amy.

"I just want to see what the big deal is," answered Michelle.

"You wouldn't dare…" said Raye.

"You'd better believe it. Besides, no offence, but it's very boring to just stand over here doing nothing. As a princess, it looks very, um, how shall I put this? It will look like I am very old and that no man wanted me. (AN- people I know all about Uranus and Neptune. I'm just putting this dialog in a princess form. You know that people will talk if an older princess doesn't get married. Oh, and for those who do go by the English story line, which by the way is fine with me because I've never seen the Japanese version, I'm just omitting out any kind of relationship between Neptune and Uranus whether if its family or sexual. Don't flame me for this! I hope you understand and don't hate me.) So, girls, please forgive me. Anyways, it looks like Mina is having fun," said Michelle.

"But Mina will dance with any guy, regardless of his ugliness," Raye whined.

"Quit it, Rachael, I'm going. You girls want to join me?" Michelle asked Amara and Trista.

"No thanks. I am not bailing out on my friends," said Amara.

"Thank you, Amara." said Raye. "What about you, Trista?"

"Forget it Raye. I'm going with Michelle on this one. That Malachite is kind of cute. Besides, when you are the Guardian of Time, you don't get to do this kind of thing very often. So, I'm going," said Trista.

She and Michelle went and asked Malachite and Zoicite to dance. They accepted because it was their duty to do so. The girls were princesses after all, even if they weren't the ones the generals had feelings for, and they had an obligation to them. So, that was the story for the entire night. The princesses avoided Darien and his generals. All they had to do is get other dance partners, which wasn't as hard as they thought. Every duke, earl, count, and lord wanted to dance with a princess, and as princesses they had obligations to dance with every man who asked them. Only Serena refused a dance, and that was from Prince Diamond.

They went to bed that night extremely satisfied. However, they also realized they were a little sick of people (the generals included) all together. They had to play the roles of gracious princesses for too long and they wanted some alone time.

The next morning they woke up, and they planned to spend the day by themselves. They went to breakfast and had polite conversations with the men, who were leaving later that night. After breakfast, the girls all scattered without telling the guys where they were going. Raye went to the Fire Room and put a big sign on the door that said "DO NOT DISTURB!" Jadeite was slightly heartbroken. He had anticipated a day of bugging Raye. Amy went to her lab and put a similar sign on the door. Zoicite had planned to do some lab work with her and was confused by the sign. Nephlyte had spent the entire day looking for Lita, who had magically disappeared. Actually, she and Mina had gone to the training ground as Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus to do some training. Malachite spent the day working on the departure plans.

With Serena

Serena went to her favorite place to work- the rose garden. She had brought along some political work she had been neglecting the last few days. Darien found her in the garden deeply engrossed in her work. He sat down beside her on the bench. "What are you doing?" he asked.

"There's a new bill on sanitation control that affects the northern part of the Moon. I'm trying to push for faster action on making this a law," she replied.

"Wow, you actually do government work?" he asked incredulous.

Serena looked up. "Of course, I'm going to be the Queen of the Moon someday. I need to be prepared for that," she answered. She looked at his confused face. "Don't you do stuff like that at all?"

"No, why would I? That's my parents' job. Why should I care about political and governmental stuff like that?" he asked.

"Because you are going to be the King of the Earth one day. I think your people deserve a competent ruler, and as the crown prince you owe them that," she said.

"I will be competent. I mean, I will have guys like Malachite to assist me. So, why should I be worried?" he asked.

"Well, for starters you shouldn't depend on others to rule for you. You will be king. I mean, don't you even care?" she asked.

"Not really," he answered shrugging his shoulders. "I'm happy the way things are right now."

"Well you know that they are not going to be that way all the time. And furthermore…you know what? Forget it. I'm wasting my time trying to explain it to you," Serena said. She started to go through her files again.

"No, please continue," Darien said. "I want to know what you were going to say."

"Well," Serena said as she looked up, "Right now, you're parents are working their butts off to secure some kind of alliance with the other planets in the Silver Alliance. Why do you think you are even here? And by the way, just so you know the alliance has nothing to do with any kind marriage. Anyways, if you become the kind of king that you just said you were going to be, well then all those alliances will be broken."

"What do you mean?" asked Darien.

"Well, you may think that Hayden, Isaac, Mina, and I are your friends now. However, I am not going to risk putting my people in danger by being the ally to a planet with a ruler that doesn't care, and trust me the others won't either," she said.

"What? Why?" Darien asked unbelievably.

"Figure that out for yourself. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to talk to some people about the details of the party for next week," Serena said while getting up.

"What party?" Darien asked while getting up.

"Well, not that you care, but every other month, my parents and I throw a party for underprivileged children on the Moon. As their rulers, we owe them something. However, I couldn't imagine you doing something like that. Why should you care about giving the poor children of Earth one day where they can forget that they are poor and just be kids? Of course, when your king somebody else can do that for you, can't they?" Serena asked. She was furious by now and couldn't bear to look at him. She walked away in a huff.

Darien flopped back down on the bench and put his face in his hands. He knew that Serena was right. "Man, I screwed up whatever little chance I had with her. I have to fix it!" he thought.

When it was time for them to leave, the princesses gave a simple curtsy and nothing more to the generals. The bowed in response and went through the transporter back to Earth.

AN- Please review this chapter. I didn't get any reviews for the last chapter!