A/N: WELL THIS WEEKEND I AM GOING OUT OF TOWN BUT I WILL TRY TO GET ANOTHER CHAPTER UP BE4 THEN I REALLY DO LIKE ALL THE REVIEWS THAT I BEEN GETTING THANKS TO EVERYONE XXX
At the banquet hall, everyone was there. Queen Serenity had invited several nobles, all the princesses and their princes and Setsuna's father. Normally the queen would have invited commoners also, but there was a touch of confidentiality to the celebration. Setsuna didn't mind, because there were Serena, Amy, Lita, Raye, Mina, Alexandra, Michelle, and Helen, Endymion, Gregory, Kenneth, Chadwick, Anthony... And Lazarus?! He must not have had anywhere else to go she assumed. Setsuna sat down between her father and Lazarus so that the festivities could begin. As soon as she sat down the food was brought. It was eggplant parmigiana.
OH YUCK! Setsuna thought disgusted. She disliked any type of dish that had eggplant in it. It was just her luck that they would have it in her honor. She looked helplessly at her father. He sternly whispered in her ear, "Eat it, Setsuna." She shut her eyes tightly and bravely took a bite. Beneath the breadcrumb coating, the eggplant had a mushy texture, and a blandly putrid taste. It was slimy all the way to her stomach when she swallowed it. She poked at it with her fork, and decided to eat it because she didn't want to offend Queen Serenity.
After a while, to avoid eating, Setsuna turned her attention to the queen. She asked, "Queen Serenity, who is the former Guardian of Time? Could it be my mother?" The queen sighed and shook her head. Her reply was, "I'm sorry dear, but your mother isn't the Guardian of Time." Her father became saddened and continued, "Setsuna, I've told you before that your mother passed away while giving birth to you." Setsuna looked away from her father and was silent. To ease the silence, or perhaps because she was hungry, the Moon Princess broke the silence by saying, "May I please have another serving of the eggplant parmigiana?" Setsuna looked at the Moon Princess and couldn't help but smile. She was a funny looking creature, with odd pigtails, like her mother's. She, as well as the other princesses, was at least 5 years younger than Princess Pluto. It was a lonely world that Setsuna had grown up in, but at least she had become accustomed to it.
After everyone had finished eating, music began to play and there was dancing. Princess Pluto watched all the couples form, and felt as though she didn't belong. She couldn't even talk to the Princess of Saturn, Helen, because she left after she felt a bit faint. As she watched she noticed how each couple had their own personality.
The Mars couple was extremely erratic, off again-on again. At that moment, poor Prince Chadwick was getting an earful because he had accidentally grazed Raye's foot with his own.
Amy and Gregory of Mercury both shined with intelligence and innocence as they caught each other's gazes.
The Jupiter duet, Lita and Kenneth, were so cuddly, as if they had known each other forever. .