Chapter 1: The Dark Moon Princess
(Prologue to Truth About the Past if you read my other one)

There she was. Staring back at herself. The daughter of the Moon Princess that rebelled. The queen of power and darkness. The lineage to the moon, that bore the the blackest of hair and the most striking violet eyes that could ever be seen. And the new symbol that the stone her mother had created had placed on her forehead. The crescent moon, shaded darker; the symbol of the forgotten and the abused. Her mother loved to rescue the unfortunate that felt pain and wanted equivalence; power...

And yet here she was, staring at her ruby red lips in a mirror, fifteen years old and trapped in a room where no other person could be found. She'd heard of protection but this was straight prison.

She could hear Eclipta now in her head; "Your mother is protecting you! The whole universe is set out against us because they think we are dangerous. We are, and they should believe we are a threat, but never mind. Your mother wants to keep you safe. When the time comes...bla bla bla." She rolled her eyes and got up. Her long black and lilac fitted gown brushed the floor to her bed. Her vanity and a trunk of her belongings made the otherwise dark room full.

She jumped back onto it. Her long black hair spread across the bed, her two tails of hair only held half of her hair up in her pointed odangos, while a third bun in the back, trailed down the immense amount ebony hair she had.

The point being; she knew she was a goddess. Her mother had lineage from the moon; goddesses of the serene. That meant so did she. She had the looks, and her mother had bestowed her the confidence and prowess of a lioness...something Eclipta would like to account for but her cat like nagging did nothing but make her want to put her hands to her ears. She didn't deserve to be locked up like this. Not at all.

"Melaena?" The door creaked and the sound of paws echoed on the dark crystal floor.

"...yes?"

"Good your awake."

"Of course I am awake. Why I am i dont know? Its not like i do anything around here?"

"You'll do plenty soon enough. Once your mistresses are in order, they can teach you more about your powers. When your mother gives me the go ahead I will give you her notes on teleportation as well..."

"Then I can teleport out of this room..." Melaena mumbled.

"What?" Eclipta gave her a eye. Her cat eyes stared with a glow, as she sat larger then most cats, a graphite black grey.

"Nothing." She rolled her eyes.

"Why don't you practice your predictions? You know I didn't give you that glass orb for nothing..."

"This thing?" Melaena took it in her palm. It was smaller than most glass orbs for predicting, so much so it sat easily in the palm of her hand.

"You'll get your mothers eventually you know. That one is just enough to practice." Eclipta reminded. She knew the real reason Queen Esmeray didn't give her a larger, more powerful one was that she didn't want her daughter foreseeing some of the things she had. The future was a delicate balance that had already been thrown off.

"Fine." Melaena placed the small orb on its stand by her bed.

"Meanwhile, please no more distractions. I'll have someone come in to serve you soon..."

"I don't need to be served...I need to be courted."

"I already told you, your mother has a suitor in mind for your future. I refuse to let any boy in the presence of yourself as a Princess. You have a Prince to await your hand..." Eclipta shifted her eyes... "If only your mother's oath really does work..." She thought.

"Fine. Ill be here staring at this...ball thing." She slumped to her bed, rolling her eyes.

"You really are as headstrong as your mother..." Eclipta left turning out of the room.

Melaena looked to her globe. Her tiny purple glass globe, sitting on the grey silver pedestal. Pathetic. She'd stared at that thing for hours at a time and all she'd ever seen was fog. How her mother did it she didn't know... she could move objects, control the dark crystal's power with strong energy that even her mother applauded...and EVEN Eclipita did...but teleporting and predictions. Seeing things in little glass balls was not her .. her...

She looked harder. Did she see a shape? She got off her bed and moved closer? Things moving in the globe...objects? People. Two young men...entering their home? Nobody came here unless her mother wanted them too...it was dark and hidden from any other planet or person, misted by the dark crystal, farther in space then the other black moons her mother was creating. These men, hard to notice their faces, one with ...dark hair the other, lighter. Men? In these walls, and she didn't know about it?

"Knock Knock"

"Come in..." Melaena smiled. "The servant...of course..." She looked to see the girl, the less powerful, minor of her mother's servants, clearly not adapt in the use of the dark crystals powers. The girl that always used the seal to make sure Melaena couldn't interupt her mother's meetings...yes as if she was a child. The seal...

"My dear, could you please come here? I have something to ask?" Melaena smiled, as the servant obediently came closer, the purple key seal dangling around her neck.