Chapter 5: The day after yesterday.
'What is wrong with her?' The handsome prince of the Earth thought. 'I can't really understand that woman!' He tried to recall their talk an hour ago over and over again and he still couldn't figure out what went wrong.
"Sweet princess, I am here to hear your answer to my request last night." Prince Endymion said in a deep husky voice.
"Good morning, Prince Endymion. How was your sleep?" Princess Serenity asked, sipping her tea with Princess Minako.
"It went well, thank you." He answered, still waiting for her reply.
"That's good." She said, nodding. After a long moment of silence, Endymion once again asked.
"What was your answer, Princess?"
"I'm sorry. What was your question?" Serenity asked innocently, while Minako giggled at the scene.
"My request last night." He replied, obviously oblivious at Minako.
"What request?" She continued. Her sliverish brows furrowed in confusion. Minako silently enjoys watching her cousin played the part of aloof woman- She was proud, of course, because she had taught her that- and the handsome man who began to look exasperated at his situation.
"Us spending time together today." He said, sighing.
"Mmm..." Was the only sound as Serenity's reply.
"Princess?"
"No." She answered simply and sipped her tea as if that one word left her parched.
"What do you mean?" The confused prince asked.
"I said, no, I will not spend some time with you today."
"Can I ask why?"
"Because I don't want to and I have so many things to catch up." She explained.
"How about tomorrow?" He asked again.
"I shall think about it. Good day, Prince Endymion." She said, dismissing him from their presence.
'Damn that woman!' He thought grimly.
"Somebody woke up in the wrong side of the bed." Nephrite said as they watched their Prince paced the floor several times for a whole hour, "What's wrong with him?" He continued and the only answer he got was a shrugged from his friends.
"Yo Endy, What's cooking your ass off?" Asked Jadeite. Endymion stopped to look at Jadeite and mumbled something incoherently under his breath and resumed pacing.
"Anybody heard that?" He asked and once again, a couple of I-don't-knows and shrugging was the only answer they could give.
"Endymion, if there is bothering you, you can tell us, maybe we could help." Kunzite offered and still, no answer.
"I think I have an idea of why our prince is angry." Pulling his reading glasses off from the bridge of his nose, Zoicite finally lifted his head from the book that he was engrossed in reading. Three faces turned to him, waiting.
"The Princess refused the Prince on spending time with him today." He said a matter-of-factly.
"Bwahahahaha hahahaha!" Jadeite laughed suddenly, "Our Prince had been turned down by a woman!" He gasped out between laughs.
It was very surprising indeed for the Prince who have never had any trouble getting any woman he sets his sapphire eyes on. Most women practically throw themselves at his feet and some might go as far as stripping naked if the prince as so asked. However, the Princess of the Moon was definitely different. Oh yes, since she came home from who-knows-where she was definitely different. She was no longer the unsightly little girl of the past, but a stunning young woman of the present.
"Umm... Jadeite? I suggest you to shut up before Endymion kills you." Advised Nephrite as he noticed the Prince shooting Jadeite daggered looks.
"Bwahahahaha! I would never believe it! Ha ha ha ha! She will do you well, Endymion. She is not some ha ha ha ha! Ninny that you keep in your-" Jadeite boisterous exclamation was abruptly cut off when he was nearly hit by a flying vase.
"Hey! You almost hit me. You should watch where you throw things or you might hurt someone." He scolded; face flushed and eyes wet from laughing.
"I AM trying to hit you, you old gowk! But you know, you're right I better watch where I throw things, because I missed." Endymion snapped. He was definitely pissed at his fire guardian. Once his busy mind registered that the mocking laughter were directed at him, his patience could no longer contain its irritation and automatically threw the first object in range.
"Come on, Endy. I was just... just joking. Yeah, that's right. Hey! Stop!" He cried as the Prince continues to throw things at him.
"I was completely wrong to think that there is more from that coconut shell you called brain, Jade. You know better than to mess around with Endymion when he is really pissed." Nephrite commented, sighing.
"He's hopeless." Said Zoicite, shaking his head.
"And dead." Kunzite added as they watched Jadeite ran for his life.
"You never told me what your betrothed really looked like." Sailor Venus complained as she charged first.
"Yes, I did." Serenity said as she blocked her opponent's attack.
"No, you said he is handsome, but you never told him he is drop dead gorgeous." Venus breathed out as she charged once again.
"Well, how should I know he grew from handsome to gorgeous? I wasn't here for eight years and three months, remember?" Serenity reminded, lifting her sword for defense and swung her sword to strike her opponent.
"Well, now you know. If I have a fiancée like him, I would have come home faster than the cupid's arrow." The fighter of love swung her sword also at the same time. Sounds of metal clashing vibrated around the training room.
"Mina, you are ALWAYS faster than the cupid's arrow when it comes to good looking men." Serenity swung her sword abruptly as she saw the weakness in her opponent and knocked the sword from her cousin's grasped.
"Peace." At sword point, Venus cried out in surrender, "You really are very good at this, Sere. Makoto must be very proud of you."
"Of course, I am her best student AND I was the only one who could ever defeat her in sword fighting." She said proudly.
"Whatever. Anyway, what are you gonna do?" Sailor Venus asked as she powered down to Minako.
"About what?" Serenity asked, puzzled.
"To your hunk of a fiancee." Minako answered.
"Oh him. Mmm..." Serenity wiped her face with a towel and handed Minako hers. "Honestly, I have no idea, but I was thinking of playing around with him for awhile."
"You're planning something, are ya?" Minako asked, giggling as she saw mischief in her cousin's silver eyes.
"Well, you know what Amy always say, "First hand experience is more effective if you want to know something" in this case, I am making an exception and going to try it for myself." Serenity replied.
"Do you think he'll still gonna talk to you after you turned him down this morning?"
"Of course, he is not the type of person who gives up easily. Besides, who can resist my charm and good looks?" Serenity seductively wiggled her cute behind that transforms Minako's girlish giggles into smothering laughter of delight. It was true, once Serenity transformed in to what she was today, almost any man who sees her would do anything just to get her attention. After the banquet, every person who was invited began spreading the news of the arrival of the princess and the incredible changes in her appearance. No one who would ever thought that the beautiful young woman was the same girl from the past.
"Let's chill out for now, but tomorrow, cousin, tomorrow he will experience some Martian, Venutian, Mercurian, and Jurian customs." She winked.
A/N: A little FYI for my peeps, I'll be changing my penname, so if you haven't put me in your alert or favorite lists please do so now, because you aren't gonna find fires-breath2 soon. Laters!