Ch 3: Moonchild

Since our beloved prince absolutely refused to stop seeing the moon princess, we had to up our security measures to make sure the two of them never met again. Nephrite and I would stay with the prince while Zoisite and Kunzite looked out for the moon princess. We debated with the king whether or not the secret entrances should be sealed off. Ultimately, it was decided that the entrances were too valuable for an escape. In addition, Endymion would not be able to sneak off using them with us overwatching him.

I would like to say that it is extremely infuriating that we even had to do this in the first place. This all could've been avoiding if the prince had just broke up with Serenity and apologized to the Earth's court. But no, he just had to act like a spoiled brat and remained as stubborn as a mule.

The moon princess didn't help things either. Every single night, she would come down to Earth and ask to see Endymion. Here's the encounter with her that Kunzite told me about:

"Oh, hello, Kunzite!" the moon princess cheerfully waved in his direction. "I didn't expect you to be out this late."

"We've been having to work late shifts these days," Kunzite replied.

"Why, what happened?"

"Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom, if you are here to see Prince Endymion, I'm afraid that cannot happen any longer."

"What?" she asked with a faltering smile.

"By the order of the Earth's courts, you and Prince Endymion and no longer allowed to see each other or even be near each other without supervision. If you are here for anything else, I would recommend that you do it at daytime or make an appointment by either us or by mail."

"But… why?" she asked softly, looking like she was about to cry. At this point, Kunzite felt sorry for her.

"The Court of Earth wills it and has passed it into law," Kunzite answered. After some seconds of silence, he continued with, "I think you should leave now."

Silently and without a word, she went back to her home.

However, Princess Serenity, like the prince, would not give up on the prospect of being together. The day after:

"What about sending letters to one another?" she pleaded.

Kunzite sighed but his face did not betray his emotions. "What kind of letters?" he asked.

"Kunzite, for the love of all things holy, just tell her no," Zoisite said. He turned towards the princess.

"No, you cannot see the prince. No, you cannot be near him. No, you cannot give any letters to him. And no, we will NOT relay any messages to him. You know why?

It's because there is a goddamned rule put into place that states people from the Earth and Moon Kingdom cannot fall in love with each other or the gods will punish us! It's because the Earth's court and everyone else is looking like they want to kill us! It's because people are rioting in the streets demanding the prince's head! It's because the prince is also as stubborn as you and refuses to take any responsibility! It's because we constructed a plan to keep you away from the prince at all costs to prevent this situation from going even more downhill than it already has! It's because of all those fucking things!"

He then sat down and ran his hands through his hair.

"Zoisite," Kunzite began.

"Listen, Kunzite, I know what you're thinking but it's not going to work. Endymion doesn't understand. And she," Zoisite pointed to Serenity. "doesn't understand either. They both don't understand that their actions have consequences! They both don't realise they broke the biggest rule and have doomed us all because of it!"

"We'll make plans to calm everyone down," said Kunzite. "Everything will be fine. Just a few days ago you said that Nephrite was being silly about the world ending."

"Well I give up. The entire world's changed over a week. Nothing can put it back into the way it was. Not anymore."

"I'm sorry," the princess whispered. If Zoisite had heard her (he did), he didn't respond.

"I think I'll head home now," she announced and began to leave.

The princess of the moon would come down to Earth each and every night to try to get in contact with Endymion. It was just becoming annoying and tiring. Even with the explanations about the conflicts between the Moon and the Earth, she was unrelentless. You'd think that as a princess she should've known better!

Anyways, one of us had an idea to have the princess give letters from us to the queen. We had our suspicions that Beryl was sabotaging attempts to reach the Queen Serenity and what better way to make sure than to send letter through a direct connection.

"So how about it?" Zoisite asked Princess Serenity. "A favor for a favor. You give our letters to your mother and we'll give your letters to our prince. The same thing applies to responses. We'll only give you Endymion's response if we get a response from your mother."

The two of them locked eyes with one another. After a while, Serenity nodded. Zoisite gave her parchment, ink, and a feather to write her message. With hope in her eyes, she quickly scribbles down words onto the parchment.

Zoisite walks to where Kunzite is, sits down, and rests his head on his palm. He looks towards at Kunzite, who says and does nothing. Silent words are exchanged. They really shouldn't be doing this, but it was necessary to try to prevent the upcoming war. There was going to be a war, no doubt about it. The entire world was at stake. If only the two would-be rulers could understand.

The rest of the scene was silent. The princess finished writing and gave it to Zoisite and he gave her a letter for her mother. She leaves without a word and the two guards decided to rest for the night.

Unfortunately, there was no response from the queen. So we tried again. And again. And again. We sent her letters for an entire month and there was no response. Was she trying to piss us off or something? Were we not important enough? After a month, we gave up. We hadn't told anyone else that we had tried this. It was a good thing we didn't because this would've just added more fuel to the fire.

As time went on, the two royals stayed the same and the unrest was becoming more and more. Riots, fruit being thrown, chants for the prince's head for his betrayal, etc. Sometimes, I would've liked to point at the crowds and say to Endymion, "You see this? This is all your fault. This could've been prevented if you had just listened to us." But I didn't. And I'm not about to either.

When we told this story to the Sailor Senshi, we found out that it was Venus who told Serenity to keep on trying.

"So it was all your fault!" Nephrite and I yelled and pointed at her.

She recoiled back and laughed nervously. "Well, it wasn't exactly my fault. And besides, I'm the descendant of the goddess of love! Those two were destined for one another!"

"Couldn't it have waited another life?" asked Zoisite. "The political climate on Earth made it that the two even being near each other would've caused an execution and a war."

"I didn't know it was as serious as you said it was," Venus replied.

"Did your princess tell any of you about what we said?" questioned Zoisite.

"Yes…" she nodded.

"And you still told her to go to Earth and try to be with Endymion," Nephrite stated.

"Um, yes."

The three of us glared at her with murderous intent, or that's at least what she said it was.

"So you just ignored all of our warnings?"

"I mean, when I asked the queen about it, she said that everything was going great on Earth and that there was nothing to worry about."

"The queen? The queen said that?" Nephrite repeated. Venus nodded in the affirmative.

He turned towards the princess and asked, "Your mother did get our letters, right?"

"Um, I think so," she answered.

I was lost in thought after that and drowned out the resulting vulgarity from Nephrite. It was unbelievable. We wasted an entire month trying to reach out to the queen without a single word back towards us. Lying to her own subjects about our world that was doomed from her own inaction. That might've meant that she did ignore the communications from the Earth's court. So Beryl might've been innocent in that regard. Even without our letters and the attempted communications, the queen should've known what was going on. We had argued that they had too much surveillance on the Earth.

She should've known about her daughter sneaking off to Earth every night. She should've known that her daughter had a romantic relationship with our prince. She should've known about the tension between the two kingdoms. If she didn't know, then she was more incompetent that any ruler I've ever heard of. And if she did know, why did she allow it to happen? Why did she allow it to continue? Why did she allow the entire Silver Millennium to fall because of two people? Why?