Chapter 6
"Shh! Shh! Listen!" Diana warned the other fairies as she lit the candles on the cake.
"It's Serena!" said Rini. "She's back! Enough of this foolishness!" ordered Luna as she turned the color of her outfit back to white while Rini turned her outfit back to pink and then put away the dishes while Luna put the dress in the kitchen.
"Make it white." said Luna as she turned the color of the dress back to white.
"Now hide! Quick!" Luna told the other fairies as she dragged Diana over to the staircase where they hid.
"Pink!" whispered Rini as she changed the dress's color to pink before she too hid on the staircase with Diana and Luna.
"Aunt Luna!" yelled Serena as she happily skipped to the cottage.
"Good gracious! Who left the mop running?" Luna asked as she noticed that the mop was still mopping the floor.
"Stop, mop!" ordered Rini causing the mop to drop onto the floor.
"Aunt Luna!" said Serena happily as she opened the top half of the cottage door.
"Diana! Rini!" said Serena happily as she entered the cottage, put her stuff down and then closed the bottom half of the cottage door. As Serena began to look around for her aunts, Morg peaked through the opened half of the door and then began to spy on Serena and the fairies.
"Where is everybody?" Serena asked curiously as she walked into the kitchen and then gasped in surprise. "Oh!" said Serena happily as she walked over to the dress and the cake.
"Surprise! Surprise!" yelled the fairies happily as they walked out of their hiding place.
"Happy Birthday!" Diana happily to Serena as the others grinned.
"Oh, you darlings!" said Serena happily as she hugged each of the fairies.
"This is the happiest day of my life!" Serena happily told the fairies causing them to grin.
"Everything's so wonderful!" said Serena happily as she twirled around.
"Just wait till you meet him!" Serena happily told her aunts.
"Him?" Diana worringly asked.
"Serena!" Rini scolded.
"You've met some stranger?" Luna asked.
"Oh, he's not a stranger. We've met before." Serena happily told her aunts.
"You have?" Luna asked in shock. "Where?" Rini asked.
"Once upon a dream." Serena happily told them as she began to sing and dance with Diana.
Serena: I know you
I walked with you
once upon a dream
I..
"She's in love!" Diana worringly told the other fairies.
"Oh, no!" said Rini sadly.
"This is terrible." Luna told Rini.
"Why?" Serena asked curiously.
"After all, I am fourteen." Serena told them as she thought that they thought that she was too young.
"It isn't that, dear." Luna told Serena.
"You're already betrothed." Diana explained to Serena.
"Betrothed?" Serena asked.
"Since the day you were born." Rini explained to Serena.
"To Prince Endymion, dear." Diana told Serena.
"But that's impossible. How could I marry a prince? I'd have to be-" Serena tried to tell her aunts but was interupted by Rini.
"A Princess." Rini told Serena.
"And you are, dear." Diana told a shocked Serena.
"Princess Serenity. Tonight, we're taking you back to your father, King Kallen." Luna told Serena while Morg listened from behind the opened top half of the cottage door.
"But...but I can't! He's coming here tonight. I promised to meet him." Serena told the fairies as Morg flew away.
"I'm sorry, child. But you must never see that young man again." Luna ordered Serena.
"Oh, no! No!" Serena told them as she began to cry and then back away from Luna.
"I can't believe it! No! No!" sobbed Serena as she ran straight to her room and then began to cry on her bed leaving three distraught fairies behind her.
"And we thought she'd be so happy." said Rini sadly as tears fell down Luna's face.
Meanwhile at the Moon Castle, King Kallen worringly watched the sun set from the balcony of the ball room while his good friend King Fenrir stood near by, smoking a pipe.
"No sign of her yet, Fenrir." sighed King Kallen sadly.
"Of course not. It's a good half-hour til sunset." King Fenrir told his friend as he put out his pipe.
"Aw, now, come, man! Buck up! Battle's over. Girl is as good as here." King Fenrir told his friend as King Kallen walked over to him.
"I'm sorry, Fenrir but after fourteen years of worrying, never knowing." King Kallen explained to his friend. "The past! All in the past!" King Fenrir told his friend as he clapped his hands causing a minstrel to run into the room and over to the two kings while trying not to spill a tray that held a wine bottle and two small cups.
"Tonight, we toast the future with something I've been saving for fourteen years." King Fenrir told his friend as he snatched the wine bottle from the minstrel who had already poured a small glass of wine. King Fenrir then chuckled as he poured some wine into two golden goblets.
"Here!" said King Fenrir as he handed his friend a goblet.
"To the future!" toasted King Fenrir.
"Right, Fenrir. To the future." agreed King Kallen as he and his friend began to drink some of the wine along with the minstrel.
King Fenrir who began to sing: Skumps!
King Kallen who also began to sing: Skumps!
King Fenrir: A toast to this night
King Kallen: The outlook is rosy
King Fenrir: But the future is bright
Both as the minstrel began to play: Our children will marry
Our kingdom unite
Skumps, skumps,
skumps
"Ah! Excellent vintage!" sighed King Fenrir happily as he and King Kallen along with the minstrel drank more wine.
"And now, to the new home, eh?" King Fenrir told King Kallen who began to walk away from his friend.
"New home?" King Kallen asked his friend curiously as he turned around.
"Children need a nest of their own, what? A place to raise their little brood, eh?" King Fenrir told his friend as he held out the wine bottle near the minstrel.
"Well, I suppose, in time." agreed King Kallen as the minstrel poured more wine into his glass.
"Of course! To the home!" toasted King Fenrir as he and King Kallen began to sing once more.
King Fenrir: Skumps!
King Kallen: Skumps!
King Fenrir: A toast to the home
King Kallen: Once grander, by far
The a palace in Rome.
"Uh, let me fill up your glass. Ha! Ha! That last was all foam." King Fenrir told his friend as he poured more wine into King Kallen's glass and then began to sing with his friend once more.
Both: Skumps, skumps, skumps
The two kings then began to laugh as the minstrel began to play his guitar foolishly. King Fenrir then began to clap his hands once more causing the minstrel to stop playing.
"The plans!" King Fenrir ordered causing the minstrel to run over to King Kallen with a parchment in his hands that had sketches of a castle on it. The minstrel then began to sway back and forth as he showed the parchment to King Kallen. "Well, what do you think? Nothing elaborate, of course. Forty bedrooms, dining hall. Honeymoon cottage, really." King Fenrir explained to his friend. "You-you mean...you're building it already?" King Kallen asked his friend curiously.
"Built, man! Finished! Lovebirds can move in tomorrow." King Fenrir told his friend.
"Tomorrow? But, Fenrir, they're not even married yet!" King Kallen told his friend.
"I'll take care of that tonight. To the wedding!" King Fenrir told his friend as he was about to pour more wine into King Kallen's glass but King Kallen moved his glass.
"Now, hold on, Fenrir. I haven't even seen my daughter yet and you're taking her away from me." King Kallen told his friend as wine poured into the minstrel's guitar which had been placed in the middle of the two kings by the minstrel who was still holding it.
"Getting my Endymion, aren't you?" King Fenrir asked.
"Yes, but.." began King Kallen who was then interupted by King Fenrir.
"Want to see our grandchildren, don't we?" King Fenrir asked as the minstrel walked off carefully with his wine filled guitar.
"Of course, but.." King Kallen tried once more but he was interupted once more by his friend.
"Well, there's no time to lose. Getting on in years. Ha! Ha! Ha!" laughed King Fenrir causing his friend to look at him sternly.
"To the wedding!" cheered King Fenrir as the minstrel fell under the table.
"Now, be reasonable, Fenrir. After all, Serenity knows nothing about all this." King Kallen told his friend.
"Well?" King Fenrir asked.
"Well, it, it may come as quite a shock." King Kallen told his friend who began to spit out his wine.