Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Consequences: Book Two-An New Order ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

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Chapter One

How could he deny the truth? Reports were coming in from around the globe: everyone loved Endymion. He had the fairy-tale appeal, with his classical features and tall, dark, handsome looks that caught the eye. His ability to charm anyone and everything most definitely won over even the most critical individual.

So why was it so hard for him to get the Princess of Silver Millennium to accept his suit? After what had happened on the North Pole, when she kissed him and called him Endy, he though everything was going be as if was before their deaths. But no, was that ever the case when it came to women and their fricking hormonal problems and PMS.

That was yet to stand in the way of his perusal of the fair and rare lovely who just happened to be the Princess of the Moon.

"You know, Umino, Keats said it best 'There is a space of in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided the was of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted…'"

"You are paraphrasing, Sire."

"I believe he was describing that witch, the pale Queen of Silver Millennium."

"It was in the preface of Keats' Endymion." Umino told him. "And I do believe the poet was making a reference from a boy to a man and how the youth is caught up passionate revolutions of the spirit and mind as he tries to find himself in the chaos that his life is before he becomes a man."

"And I believe that you have spent too much time looking up sonnets to woo Naru with." Endy smirked as a faint blush appeared on the younger youth's cheeks.

"She likes them," the boy said haughtily, although his face was still aflame.

Endy laughed, "Don't get defensive on me, kid. You are my only contact with Serenity that she hasn't trashed. By the way, did she like the mangas I sent?"

"She thinks something is wrong with me." Umino reached into his back pocket and removed a hastily scrawled note. "She's sent a list of the ones she wanted this time."

Endy took the list and glanced over it before sitting it aside. "I don't get it. She's heir of the Solar System, future Queen, who should be studying and learning social and political protocol, but she's wasting her time reading comic books and playing video games."

"Sire, you play video games."

"Kingdom Hearts is a good game."

"You were suppose to give it to the Princess?"

"She's a girl, what does she need a fighting game for?"

"You told her about it in you last letter. By the way, Naru is getting jealous. She thinks I'm flirting with the princess."

"I'm not flirting."

"Then what are you doing?"

"Nothing. It's all good. I'm very PG when I write to Serenity, I am nothing but her friend, I am you."

Umino did not believe that but he couldn't come out and call his king a liar either. So he let the matter drop, for the moment.

"Has Kris returned from the Moon?" Endy asked after a short silence.

"An hour ago, Sire. He went to make his reports to Lord Artemis and Terran."

"You know Terran has a title now."

"He said you did that only to annoy him."

"And he was right." Endy grinned. "I'll make it a royal command."

"Please don't."

"I need my fun."

"We try to accommodate you as best as we can."

"Are you making fun of me?"

"I wouldn't dream of it."

"Damned little secretary. I'll show you."

"I am not playing anymore video games." He was not a secretary, damn it. He was the King's personal assistant and envoy, he was not a secretary!

"Then get your sword, kid. Artemis said you need to practice."

Umino sighed in defeat. "Sire, Lord Artemis says that Terran needs to practice."

Endy shrugged. He was getting bored. Artemis had him on house arrest, with Uranus and Neptune still running about trying to kill him and Pluto on the loose. Endy was not worried about his personal safety, he wanted the three witches to come after him, and it was just he did not want his people to die needlessly. And that they would do in order to protect him, the King.

Endy snorted contemptuously at the idea, but Artemis had a valid point. Endy did not want to start an intergalactic incident on his planet. Nor did he want to look like a bloodthirsty tyrant ( that would come out later.) For right now he was focused on bringing universal peace to his people and rebuilding the Golden Kingdom.

"The final reports came in today." Umino pointed to a satellite photograph on Endy's desk. The king picked it up and the studied the image closely. All the seers say that you will be able to raise Atlantis in three weeks."

"And with the work crews going twenty-fours for a week, I will be crowned in the Golden Palace." He put the photograph aside; he leaned back in his chair and stared up ceiling.

Atlantis. The Golden Palace. His friends, his family, his father, his mother…His mother. His mother had been the last ruler of the unified terran kingdom; she died at the hands of Beryl and Metallia trying to protect her world.

Did he really want to bring the fabled kingdom back to light? Was he strong enough to so if he chose to?

Endy had no doubt in his strength. The real question was did he want to see what was there?

"Endy, where are you, kid?"

He lowered his eyes just as his brother pushed open his office door. A full fledge smile made it's way to his face. "How is the intrepid Commander of the Imperial Forces of the Golden Kingdom?"

Kris snorted, "With nothing better to do, you start making up fancy titles, little brother?"

"Artemis won't let me out of the house." Endy told him. "He thinks I'll get a booboo if a blade of grass hits me in the face."

"Well, we got something here that will shake you from your gloomy mood." He nodded to Umino as he dropped down into a chair. Kris tossed a cd case onto Endy's desk. His brother glanced at him and the disk questioningly. "Troy was going to bring this to you, but I was already on my way up."

Endy's left brow rose slightly. "What is this?"

"This has just come in from the California Bureau of Investigations and the FBI." He placed a portfolio and a CD case on the crowded surface. "Sailors Uranus and Neptune were located in Los Angeles, California three hours ago."

The King's blue eyes went hard. "So they escaped once more?"

Kris nodded.

"Did they contact anyone?"

"Only a pawn shop dealer on Hollywood Boulevard," Kris reported. "Apparently, Neptune sold a violin."

"I want that instrument brought in for analysis." Endy rose abruptly and stalked over to one of the many windows that overlooked the gardens.

Kris and Umino exchanged a look. "Drew is en route to fetch the violin and he's going to go over the surveillance evidence more thoroughly when he gets there." Kris moved into Endy's chair and loaded the disk into his computer. "This new detection system Princess Athena Diana and Troy developed is amazing. It works faster than a physic and is 75% more accurate." He was looking at a digital copy of the pawnshop security tape. A woman of average height with short black hair with a violin case appeared. Kris couldn't see her face; sunglasses obscured half of her face. There was nothing about her that really stood out. She looked average and plain but what gave her away was her stance. Her back was straight; her head was held high and proud with a haughty, regal manner that reminded him of Eros. (God, he missed her already.) He pulled his thoughts away from the Venusian Queen and focused his attention on the woman on the screen. Everything about the woman screamed wealth and social privilege. Her movements were refined and graceful, like a dancer. She could have been a terran born society princess who had fallen on hard times or an alien. No one would have really known just by looking at this recording. That was why they had the detection device.

"It works really well, sir," Umino chimed in. He had been apart of the team that brought the Mercurian technology to Terra and had been one of the trainers to task force assigned to finding the two Senshi. "Lord Zoisite was certain that our agents in the area were able to locate them faster this time and they had a better lock on their energy patterns than with the method of using our psychics. With the data picked up on the scanners, we can feed the information into our home systems and store it in the satellite memories. We can now track them anywhere in the world!"

"And the beauty of this, the non-terran would never sense this system was locked on to them." Kris glanced at his brother to see if he was paying attention.

"That's true, my Lord." Umino shook his head. "The scans are being run from satellites positioned all around Terra. It was designed upon the principles of GPS systems but tracks non-terran energy and picks up the Senshi planetary signatures. Princess Athena Diana of Mercury assured us that a Senshi would never notice the scans while she or he were on Terra."

"That's good to know," Kris murmured, "Just by looking at this security image, I can't tell if this woman is terran or not. Endy, you want to take a look at this?"

Silently, Endy joined his brother. He peered into the screen and frowned. Even through her disguise, Endy could see the woman's true form. "I don't know what you are talking about, but I can see her just fine."

"So can we." Kris was exasperated. "I meant without the scanners, we wouldn't be able to tell if she was terran or not."

But that was not what he meant. Endy looked at his brother sharply. "Wait a minute. You can't see what I see?"

A worried frown marred Kris' brow. "What is it that you can see? Maybe I'm missing something?"

He pointed at the monitor. "Her. The condensation follows her like a vapor trail. The way the water in those fish tanks-even the liquid lapping at the edges of his coffee cup-all responds to her presence. I'd wager she doesn't even know she's doing it."

Kris studied the monitor for a moment and turned to his brother. "You can see all of that?" he asked skeptically. "But how?"

Endy looked like the cat that caught the canary. "It must have happened when Serenity did whatever it was that she did in the North Pole." He nodded to himself.

"You mean when she turned her hair white?"

"Yeah." He pushed Kris aside and clicked on an icon at the bottom of the screen to display a chart. "Something happened to me as well that day. I just haven't shared it with anyone."

Kris surged to his feet; his pale eyes were blazing with barely contained rage. "It's been over a year since that day!" he exploded. "What the hell were you thinking, Endymion? What if you were exposed to an alien virus? Damn it, you could be dying right now-"

Endy gave him a long-suffering look. "Shut the hell up," he snapped, "No one yells at me, not even my mother. She knows, like everyone else, I'd knock the hell out of her and you are no exception, Kris. Now sit your tall ass down and look at the chart. Sheesh, you son of a bitch." With a sudden snarl, Endy kicked over his wastebasket and started yelling. "Goddamn it, motherfucker, why the hell can't they just get the hell off my planet and leave me the fuck alone?"

"Endy," Kris snapped.

"What?" He was just getting himself worked up into a good lather and didn't welcome the interruption.

Kris ignored the surly tone. "I'm going to tell Artemis that you need be checked out."

"I'm fine, damn it."

"No, you're crazy," Kris said mildly.

Endy shot him a withering glare.

"We aren't talking about your mental status, little brother." Standing up, he picked up the portfolio and the information he had printed out. "From your own observations, your personal changes raises some questions and we might have better insight into what's going on with Uranus and Neptune by finding out what's going on with you."

And here Endy was ready to tell Kris to go do naughty things to himself. It was never fun when someone said something that made complete sense after a personal insult. Sulking, Endy dropped down into his now vacated chair and pouted.

"I don't care what has to be done. I want every law agency on Terra equipped with this new technology. I want those two rogue Senshi found before my coronation. My people don't need to witness their King beheading two psychos on television."

"It takes a nut to know another," Kris muttered.

"What was that?" Endy snapped.

Umino turned away to hide the grin on his face.

"Stop snickering, Umino," the mentally unstable King growled. "Go do what you were told, you whipped little monkey."

Umino stopped laughing, but he couldn't keep the grin off his face. "I am on it, Sire," Umino said, bowing.

"Oh, Umino, has there been any news about concerning temporal disturbances?" Kris asked the youth before he left.

Umino was halfway out the door, but he turned back, shaking his head. "No, sir. The shield the King created with the Golden Crystal has not been disrupted and the psychic monitors have not felt anything connected to the Planet Pluto."

Endy swore, "So the bitch is still out there, somewhere?"

"Our Lunar contacts have also come up negative as well, your Majesty," Umino reminded him. "Queen Serenity's search of the rogue Senshi is ten times more aggressive than Terra's, but she has still come up empty-handed."

"Who is the Lead Psychic on Silver Millennium?" Endy asked.

"Princess Bellona of Mars, Sire."

Endy frowned, "I thought she had suffered a mental collapse due to a soul poisoning by Pluto."

Kris nodded, "She did but is now recovering. Mentally, Bellona is at 100% . The damage done to her body is taking longer to heal. Jamie's been bringing back reports of her recovery when he come back from his visits."

"In the past, she and Jade were married, and they worked well together back -" Endy said softly, almost to himself. "I wonder if Ares would allow her to come to Terra and work with our people?"

"I'm afraid that is not a possibility at present, Sire," Umino said. Endy gave him a questioning look. "Princess Bellona has been taken to Mars for another round of treatment…"

"Damn." He switched back to the security image of Sailor Neptune. "I have to do something that will draw those two out."

"Endy, we can't risk having a repeat of Middle East in one most populated cities in the world." Kris warned.

Endy looked away, out at the vast forest and mountains that hid he and his followers from the world. Ancient magics were at work here, magic that was older than his grandfather's kingdom. The house was built directly on top of an ancient ruin and the land was guarded by eight megaliths from all sides. Here, amongst all of this magic and the ancient spells, he was safe and protected. Yet outside this mystical borders, his people were at the mercy of two madwomen. Two powerful, confused women who could appear anywhere in the world and level a city of any size before defenders could be put in place.

Tiredly, Endy rubbed at his eyes. He wanted to rant and yell at anyone. He did not need this kind of aggravation. Not now. Not when he was on the verge of claiming his birthright.

He slammed a fist down on his desk, hard. The old wood underneath whined in protest.

"Endy?" Kris asked worriedly.

Endy had lowered his hand from his face. He still faced the window, giving his brother a view of his sharp profile. Hard, sapphire eyes, lightly tinted with lavender stared unblinking at the forest beyond the mansion stonewalls.

"I will not allow my people to suffer needlessly." His voice shook with barely controlled fury. "I don't why Pluto has decided to target me. I don't what she has to gain by bringing this star system war, but she will not take Terra from me. Umino." He barked.

The younger youth raced forward, "Yes, sire?"

"I want you to send a message to Silver Millennium, directly to Queen Serenity. "In this message tell the Serenity that I am going to find those two witches. They will be tried by a terran court and then executed."

"Endy, are you mad?" Kris cried out in horror.

A sly smirk turned up the corners of the terran King's lips. "I'm setting a trap."

"But this," Kris went on, "This almost affront to the most powerful monarch in the Solar System. The Queen may see this as an informal declaration of war. You cannot send something like that to Silver Millennium."

Endy waved his brother's concerns away. "The Queen asks that Eros and Nike be allowed to come to Terra and assist with the investigation. I have been delayed in my response, but now, I am going to tell her Majesty to go straight to hell.

"Endy-" Kris growled menacingly.

"Careful, brother, I could take your attitude as a sign of disrespect." Endy flashed him a smug grin.

Kris glared at him. "Forgive me, your Majesty, I was not thinking at the moment," he sneered.

"Believe me, Kris. I know what I am doing. I will never endanger Terra or my people in a fit of pride." Endy turned back to Umino. "Could you clean that up a bit? I don't want either the Queen or her council to think I'm being disrespectful."

"You don't want the Princess to think that, you arrogant, selfish little bastard," Kris muttered.

Endy shot him a look. "I heard that."

Kris feigned astonishment. "Really, Endy? I didn't think you would."

"Your mother is coming in tomorrow and she's bringing a few of her friends and their daughters."

Endy winced. "Oh hell no."

Kris chuckled as they left the young king to his misery. "If I were you, Endy, I prepare for a fight on all fronts."


*******

It was a year since Pluto walked into the Gates of Time and sealed them. Queen Serenity of Silver Millennium was at a loss as to how they would ever find the rogue Senshi who could move through time and dimensions. Of course, she was able to seal the power of Pluto's garnet orb, but that was not enough. Over the centuries, Pluto had mastered the time streams and could move through them at will. Most likely she was hidden within the past. At least, it was the only explanation the Moon Queen could come up with it.

Serenity tried to release the tension building within her. The Outer Senshi were needed to track Pluto, they were the only ones who were capable of such a task besides Eros. She was not about to send her Supreme Military commander in the vortex of time and risk losing her. The people of Venus would never forgive, nor would she be able to forgive herself. She refused to put any of the Senshi in that sort of danger, which meant for the moment, Persephone was standing at the Gates. She had been there as sentinel since the return to the Silver Palace and would remain until Pluto's return. Persephone would execute her on the spot.

"My Queen?"

Serenity looked up as the door of her private chambers opened. Athena Diana entered and bowed.

Straightening in her chair, the silver-haired Queen forced a smile to her face. "What is the news from Terra now?"

Athena Diana placed the transcribed message on her desk. "King Endymion refuses to have more Senshi on Terra yet he does thanks you for the offer of assistance. He believes that this is a terran issue and will not involve the rest of Solar System in this conflict. He says that the Senshi of Neptune and Uranus will stand trial for crimes committed against the planet and its people."

Serenity nodded. "And yet, he asks for my daughter to return to his planet and be his Queen when in the same breath he promises death to her people." She sighed wearily. "What type of game are you playing at Endymion?"

"Will there be a message in response to this development, my Queen?" Athena Diana asked respectfully.

Serenity drew herself up regally. "Yes. Tell the pompous little jackanapes that his suit for my daughter's hand has hereby been formally rejected by me, the Queen of Silver Millennium, etc, etc." A cruel smile pulled at her lips as she thought of his screams. "Then we'll see if he refuses my will."

Athena Diana fought back the smile. "I shall relay the message immediately."

"Please do." The Queen her back to the Mercurian Crown Princess. Her attention wondered to her daughter. "Oh, and Athena, please send the Princess to me if you happen to come upon her."

"I take it that the Princess is not pleased with the latest changes to her schedule?" she asked with a wry smile.

"No, she is not." She glanced back the other tall, slender girl with a wryer smile. "Her tutors are adamant that Serenity should build her own court and I am in favor of it as well. In the past, Serenity enjoyed court life and mingling amongst the courtiers. But now she treats it all as if it were a chore. She doesn't even try to hide her contempt for the court and is short with many of the young men who could become her suitors. And outside of the Senshi, she is not trying to make any friends."

"Shall I talk to her, your Majesty?"

The Mercurian Princess did not miss the sudden look of hope in the Queen's worried lavender-gray eyes. "Could you, Athena Diana?"

"I will do my best, your Majesty." Athena Diana bowed low at the waist with her right arm crossing her heart.

She was taken completely off guard when the Queen threw her arms about her. "Oh, thank you. If you manage to get Serenity interested in the court, I will be most pleased."

"Yes, your Majesty," Athena Diana said stiffly as she disengaged herself from the Queen. She bowed to her again and then quickly left to start on her task. Handing the message off to one of her assistants, Athena Diana returned to her suite near the east tower. Along the way, she exchanged pleasantries with the a few people and waved to her distant cousin from Saturn. She cut around the immaculate spring garden, where a group of young Venusian ladies were laughing and singing with a few handsome young men in the Imperial livery of the Queen.

This was truly a different world from the one she had known on Terra when she was little Mizuno Ami. Pausing a moment to look at Terra rising in the horizon, she refocused her sight until she could see Japan, then Tokyo, and finally Juuban. Marie Mizuno was still there. She had forgotten about her daughter and the ex-husband who used to come around. Moving on with her life, Marie was completely focused on her work and research and she was finally happy. Athena Diana did not begrudge her for being happiest this way. At peace with herself and her life, Athena Diana was happier too. She was with her father, the man who, in her past life, was her only parent because her mother had died shortly after giving birth to her. She had her kingdom. Athena Diana loved her home world and her subjects. In return, the people of Mercury welcomed back their Princess with warm and joyful hearts. She had her friends. Being a Senshi was the most important thing to her, next to becoming Queen in her own right someday. More so, she had Troy in her life.

She couldn't help but smile as she remembered their latest rendezvous on her world. He was everything Athena Diana remembered him to be and more. He had hinted at marriage and to her surprise, the subject did not put her off. Of course, they were putting the matter aside because of the current events on Terra. The rebuilding of the Golden Kingdom, among other things, had to be considered before they could start shopping for rings. However, it was nice to know that she and Troy were on the same wavelength.

With a happy and very contented sigh, Athena Diana hurried to her tower. Stepping through the portal that concealed the entrance, she stopped abruptly at a noise emanating from deep inside. She drew her bow and notched two arrows as she proceeded forward. Frowning, she concentrated on the sound when she heard it again. The noise was coming from her salon. She paused and listened again. Smiling, Athena Diana put her weapon away as she went to see what her soul sister had gotten into this time.

*******

Princess Serenity was in the east tower to escape her chaperone and her court. Her etiquette classes, music practices and dancing lessons were driving her up the wall but the rest was just making her crazy. She was expected to be graceful all the time. That was easy since she was no longer competing with Terra's gravity to stay upright. She was to be soft-spoken, elegant in her speech and manners and nice to everyone, even if they were getting on her nerves. She was learning politics, something she had never enjoyed in any lifetime, and the endless royal protocols required for one of her distinguished station. It all succeeded in making her one very bored Princess.

That was why she was in Athena Diana's apartments. She was hiding from herself and everything else by trying to be Bunny for a little while longer. One way was reading her mangas, which were shipped to her by Umino every two months. They weren't safe in her rooms, especially since Patricia retained complete access at all times. Her former teacher was now one of her tutors. Being Ms. Haruna, she believed that her Royal Highness' time was better spent reading the old histories of the Silver Millennium and the Philosophies of Selene instead of reading mangas.

Athena smiled down at the diamond-white head of her best friend before tapping her between the pale buns.

Sere's mask of annoyance was quickly replaced with a happy smile as she bounced up and embraced her friend.

"Hello, Serenity," Athena greeted as she returned her hug. "Your mother is looking for you."

"Athena, when did you return?" Sere asked, launching into a thousand questions. For the moment, she chose to forget about her mother as she sat back on the mound of cushions covering the floor. "How was Mercury?"

"Fine," Athena said, taking a seat beside her. She picked up one of the discarded mangas and flipped through it. "My father has done so much to revive the culture of our world and the people are pleased with his endeavors."

"And what about you?" Sere asked. "Before you left, you said Lord Zoicite would join you?"

Athena Diana nodded. "He did," she replied evenly. "And Troy and I had fun together."

Sere smiled gently as she took her friend's bluish-tinged hands, "Do you think it is love?"

Athena laughed. "There is something between us. I don't want it to be a carryover from our past and I think he feels the same--"

"So you are taking it slow, to see if it's real or not?" Sere said insightfully.

Athena looked at her and nodded, "Yes. That's what we are doing."

The white-haired girl sighed wistfully. "I wish Endymion were half as generous and attentive towards me as Troy is to you."

Athena could say nothing. King Endymion was turning out to be a callous bastard in many ways. He walked roughshod over his advisors, treating them all like they never had an original thought. He was just as callous towards those who were supposed to be his closest friends. Surprisingly, the people of Terra accepted the tyrannical young King and let him have his way. Athena was more than halfway convinced that the bastard got by on his damned looks with his own people. His complete lack of respect for her Queen and Princess made her and her sister Senshi want to go to Terra and beat him within an inch of his life.

While on Mercury, Athena had heard of his extravagant gifts to the Princess while ordering the Queen away from his planet at the same time. This thing with the Neptune and Uranus was just going to make things worse. Troy had confided to her that Endymion was going to execute the two Senshi. If he did so, Endymion was asking to start a war in the Solar System. The Kingdom of Uranus would want retribution on behalf of their Queen and Styx of Neptune would not sit idly by if something were to happen to her niece. With Uranus and Neptune demanding action, Queen Serenity would have no choice but go to war against Endymion. No one wanted to see that happen but, with Endymion's behavior, war was looming on the horizon.

The Senshi had to be on Terra. Besides stopping the imminent war, they had to learn more of Pluto's betrayal.

Before he destroyed the spirit of Rei, King Ares had encountered a complicated bit of brainwashing in the girl. Implanted deep within her soul, it was encrypted and set to trigger in case events deviated from Pluto's original plans. If she had been left unchecked, Rei would have reacted to what had happened in some way. Thank the Goddess, they never found out how.

Lying down, Sere rested her head on Athena's right leg as she read her manga. Athena looked down at her Princess and had a thought.

"Sere, how would you like to go to Terra?"
"I wouldn't mind," the Princess said absently. "I would like to purchase my own mangas because Umino hasn't been sending me any interesting ones. And I would do just about anything to get out of the palace. Ms. H and company are killing me with all this pointless work they call royal education. But I can't go, Mama wants me to stay away from Terra until Endy stops being a pompous ass."

Athena couldn't help but smile at her Princess' simple but accurate description of the Terran King. Curiosity got the better of the Princess. Rolling onto her back, she looked up at her sister. "Why should I go to Terra, Athena?"

A serious expression appeared on the Mercurian's face. "We have a situation with the Outer Senshi," she said gravely. "We fear that Pluto has brainwashed Queen Atalanta of Uranus and Lady Xanthe of Aglaia, Senshi of Neptune."

Serenity frowned. "I don't truly remember Lady Xanthe. I thought only the heirs were the Planetary Senshi."

"This is why you should pay attention to your linage tutor as well as history, Serenity," Athena scolded gently. "You must know the royal lineage of all the planets and Neptune is the most complex. Xanthe's mother was the twelfth daughter of the King Okeanos and Queen Tethys of Neptune. Their eldest daughter, Styx, inherited the throne, but she was not a Senshi. Her youngest sister, Princess Kalypso, was revealed to have a Sailor Crystal. Therefore, she became the Senshi of Neptune. Lady Xanthe is her daughter."

"But the ruler is meant to be the most powerful on their home worlds," Serenity insisted.

Athena shook her head. "The people of Neptune have learned to live without that. Besides, it frees the ruler and allows him or her to focus solely on their planet. The same is done on Pluto and a few of Jupiter's moons. Pluto is a republic and it's guardians descend from the former royal line, but the monarchy was abolished before the second Great War in this system."

Serenity thought about it for a moment before nodding to indicate her understanding. "Alright, Atalanta and Lady Xanthe are on Terra, possibly behaving under the influence of Pluto? Why not let the terrans capture them and then send them here?"

"Endymion wants to kill them." She watched the horrified look spread on her Princess' face. "If he were to do that, it will be considered acts of war by their home worlds. Also, they are our only hope of finding Pluto before she attacks."

"Are you sure that Pluto will attack us?" Serenity asked, a look of sadness appearing in her blue-gray eyes.

Athena smiled sadly at her friend and brushed Sere's bangs from her eyes. Eyes, once the colour of the richest sapphires, were now sleet-colored gray slowly fading to silver. Her once silvery-blonde locks were as white as the Lunar surface and her complexion was just as pale. Even Serenity's features had changed, but then so had everyone else's since the migration.

Serenity sat up abruptly, the silk of her gown rustling slightly as she folded her legs under herself. "We have to save them."

Athena nodded. "Endymion will not allow us on Terra-"

Serenity stood up, forgetting her mangas as she started for the door. "We will go to Terra and save them. And we will stop this foolishness. The Universe will not go to war, because we will find our sisters and bring them home. Endymion would never deny me, especially if I give him what he wants most in this universe."

Athena's eyes went wide as her Princess' statement registered in her mind. "Sere, are you mad?" she demanded incredulously.


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