I was lying in my bed going over the days events in my mind. We had all gone to the Thunder park, the largest and most beautiful park in the Moon Kingdom. Endy had taken us there as a treat since we had all been laying about the house acting bored. He showed us around the park and then we all split up, we were to meet again an hour later at the monument to the god of Jupiter. I went off with Endy who had decided we would be partners, we walked around the park for a while and he told me about eveything, then we sat down on a bench on the bridge by the pond where we were all going to meet. We just sat there for awhile and then Endy told me he thought I was beautiful. I was startled and jumped up off the bench, I turned around to see a confused expression on his face, he had just complimented me and I had acted so strangely. There was no way I could tell him I was princess of the Moon Kingdom, destined to marry one of the princes of the planets, so I decided I could have romance on Jupiter with this man, it would take my mind off the battle on the moon. Why had my mother not yet called us back, certainly they had won and the kingdom was safe, so why the delay? I stopped that line of thought and sat back down on the bench a little closer to Endy.
"Thank you Endy, you're quite handsome yourself you know"
He blushed and hung his head, I leaned down and looked up into his gorgeous hazel eyes. He sat back up and we both burst out laughing, we talked about everything from then on. He told me everything he had ever remembered of his old life, he told me about his journal and he told me about the terrible headaches he would get sometimes where he felt something pulling at him and he would faint, only to wake up a few hours later. I in turn told him as much as I could of my life, he listened attentively but I when I looked into his eyes I could see he knew I was hiding something from him. I was shocked to realize that it hurt me to lie to him, even to hold things back from him, but I had no other choice. We talked for hours and when the other groups got there they found us laughing and holding each other, tears of joy streaming down our faces. We pulled ourselves together and Endy took us on a tour of the shopping mall nearby, we held hands the whole time, somehow I felt safe with him, at peace and totally connected to him in some way. We ate lunch at the deli and shopped for three hours, Endy bought a pair of white-rimmed glasses that had no ear hooks, they seemed to stick to his face. I bought a new blue purse with crescent moons on it and a pair of crescent moon earrings. Endymion took us all back to the Cunninghams' where we found Mrs. Cunningham making dinner in the kitchen. We headed down the hall and everyone split up and went into their own room, everyone that is except Endy, Greg and I, we all went into Endy's room and sat down on his bed. Greg got the pont when we started staring at him and decided to go check on Amy, he locked the door behind him. We sat staring at each other for a long time, just thinking to ourselves and then Endy reached down and pulled a library book from under his bed. He opened the book to the first page and began to read, I just sat there and watched him. He couldn't seem to get far in his book because he kept glancing at me over the top and blushing, I sat down beside him and began reading over his shoulder, It was a book called 'The Sword and The Stone' and it looked like a pretty interesting story. I got a cramp in my leg and had to sit back, knowing I would miss the part he was reading, as if he knew what I was thinking he lay down beside me and held the book in front of both of us. "Read it to me?" I asked. He looked over at me and then turned his attention back to the book and started to read aloud in a strong, clear voice. I lost myself in his voice, the beautiful lullaby of his storytelling, I would remember the entire story later, but I would not remember hearing it at all. Soon I was resting with my head on his chest, I could feel the rise and fall as he breathed and he put his arm around me and continued to read. There was no way I could fall asleep like this, his voice filled with emotion when he read of a death or a birth in the book, as though he were a character within the story. If he was a character I thought then I will be too, I imagined myself into the story and found myself pulled away into the fantasy of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. When the story ended I just lay there wishing I could stay like this forever, never moving and never needing anything but this mans' love.
She was laying on my bed with her head resting on my chest, she was so beautiful. I could see her golden hair flowing down her back like ocean waves. I was reading 'The Sword and The Stone' to her when she fell asleep in my arms. I couldn't make myself get up and move her, I didn't want to wake her, so I let her lay there all night. Gazing at her in the morning with the dawn-light streaming through the window she looked like and angel, bathed in yellow-gold sunbeams. I was content to lay there with her in my arms all day. Wait a minute, what was I thinking! My mom would wake up soon to get the group ready for a trip to the water park. I couldn't let her find Serena in here with me! I make myself calm down and sat up slowly so I wouldn't disturb her. I lifted her off my bed and she stretched and shifted in my arms but didn't wake up. I carried her down the hall and laid her on her own sheets then carefully pulled the covers up over her slim body. I sat there for a moment gazing at her sleeping face then went to Amy's room and found Greg sleeping in a chair in the corner of the room. I woke Greg up and we headed back to our room, we stayed up and talked until seven and then flipped a coin for bathroom rights, I lost. I wrote everything that had happened last night in my diary as I waited and then took my turn in the bathroom. When I got out of the shower and finished brushing my teeth I opened a door and found a small group of nightgown-clad teenage girls glaring at me. I blushed and held tighter to the towel around my waist as I walked down the hall to my room. When I got there I found Greg sitting in a chair at my desk reading one of my library books, one called 'Royalty of the Moon Kingdom', a school book with the descriptions of the nine planets and their keepers. He didn't look up as I entered and I put on the pair of clothes I had lain on my bed before taking my shower. He slowly turned around and came to sit beside me on my bed, leaving the book open on my dresser. We stuffed some cash into our pockets and ran to the living room to play chess while the girls got ready to go. A long time later the girls filed into the living room, each had put on a bathing suit under their clothes and had made their hair just perfect. I rolled my eyes skyward and turned back to Greg to win another game. We'd played eight games of chess and Greg had only won once, strategies just paraded through my mind after each move I made and It seemed as though I couldn't lose. My mom came into the room and told us all to go ahead and get into the car, that she had to grab some cash and she would be right out, so we filed out the door and ran towards the car.
"I've got shotgun!" Greg yelled and the rest of us jumped into the back of the car, I ended up sitting next to Serena In the back seats with Amy to my right and Michiru beside her. It was a long three-hour drive and we talked all the way to the park, when we got there it was total chaos, everyone wanted to do something different, so we split up into groups. My mom was going to stay by the wave pool and read her book, Michiru, Haruka and hotaru headed off to the rapids, Greg, Amy, and Aurite went to the swimming pools, and Serena and I went off toward the big slides. We had a wonderful time and ended up doing everything at the park, we had planned it out between us and it turned out great, the only ride we didn't get to go on was the rapids ride which Haruka and the others said was awesome. We met at the wave pool and my mother drove us back home, we ate dinner at a french restraunt in the square and then went home for a quiet evening and bed. I spent another night reading to Serena and she fell asleep with me again, the next day the two of us decided to go to the park for a picnic. Serena was laying down next to me on our blanket with her head in my lap eating when all of a sudden she sat upright and said she had to go find a lady's room. I told her I would wait for her but I felt something pulling at me to follow her. I saw her heading toward the fountain in the center of the park and crouched down behind the bushes. All of a sudden a huge monster jumped out from behind a tree. He was as tall as the trees in the park and his skin glinted in the sunlight, he had a large diamond in the center of his forehead with a black sword engraved on it, he had huge red eyes and a monstrous body of metal. I looked to where Serena had been moments ago, wishing she was somewhere safe, had made it out of the park when I saw her running straight toward the monster. I looked on in fear and amazement as she transformed before my very eyes. She was beautiful, she had large silver wings spread out behind her back, her hair was tied up in two round buns to the sides in back of her head, like two round meatballs with pigtails streaming behind. Her hair was still that beautiful blonde color, but an aura of gold seemed to surround it, in fact the golden aura shimmered around her entire body. She had a silver bejeweled tiara on and a long white gown that flowed like water around her ankles as she moved. In her hands she held a large pink scepter with a heart on top, a crescent moon imprinted in it's center. An exact replica of the crescent moon symbol which had appeared on her forhead.
I transformed into Supreme Moon Angel and ran off to do battle with the monstrosity, I charged toward the monster and used my 'Spiral Love Burst' with my scepter but the energy at it's tip fizzled and finally guttered out. The monster saw my hesitation and began it's attack, I had no time to recover form my mistake, and I watched as the monsters' black energy ball hurtled toward me. I was going to die.
I couldn't think of anything but the beautiful blonde angel who was about to be killed. I felt something inside me snap and I gave in. Bright colors shimmered round' me and then I was wearing a cape and a decorative breastplate with a swordbelt. I had on metal shoulder guards that should have been terrible heavy, but seemed light as air. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON! I thought, but I didn't have time to think it over as I was flying straight for the girl. I had no idea what I was doing but I remembered doing this before. I grabbed the girl and flung her away from me as the energy ball loomed nearer.
I am going to die, I thought. All of a sudden a large black shape grabbed me and threw me aside. The energy ball reached the spot where I'd been standing just a moment ago and exploded. As the bright spots faded from my eyes I ran to the spot where the energy ball had exploded. Lying facedown in the dirt was a young man in a cape with a lightweight breastplate and swordbelt on. I rolled him into my lap and was about to remove his mask when he jumped up and ran off into the woods. He looked like prince Darien I thought, but Darien is dead, so who could this new protector be? I had almost forgotten Endy and I stood up and noticed the people coming toward the battleground staring at me. I ran off into the trees and shed my transformation. I reached our picnic spot and found Endy sleeping on our blanket. I sat down beside him and watched as he stretched and woke up.
"I must have drifted off" he mumbled.
"My head hurts terribly and I can't remember dreaming" he said, still a little groggy.
"shhhhh" I whispered. "We have plenty of time."
He lay back down and I stretched myself out beside him resting my hand on his chest. We lay there for hours just thinking to ourselves. Who could my new protector be if Darien is gone, I wondered. I put that thought aside for later and approached the most important issue. Why had my attack failed, I hadn't noticed any strange energy vibrations about the creature, so what happened? If my transformation worked all my powers and attacks should be fine. I decided to stop thinking about the bad things and start on the good. I had finally admitted to myself that I was in love with Endy. I didn't care if he wasn't royalty, I loved him and wanted to be with him forever. I tilted my head back and stared at his calm features. His broken nose had only partially healed and it was still a bit crooked, but he was still a terribly handsome young man. He must be a few years older than me, I thought, but that doesn't matter. Somehow he could always make me laugh, even when I was in a terribly bad mood. When he talked to me I didn't want him to stop, for I feared I may not hear that strong voice again. And when he touched me he was surprisingly gentle. While he wasn't built exactly he had some pretty nice muscles, not to mention a six pack! He was perfect, his eyes the color of the sky right after a storm, a light gray with bits of blue sprinkled in them. His hair was black and wavy, cut short just above his ears and buzzed down the back of his neck. He was about a head taller than me and his skin was as smooth as silk. He was the perfect guy and he was hers. Thought neither of them had said anything aloud the others seemed to acknowledge them as a couple. The girls didn't go near trying to attract Endy's attention and the guys kept their distance from me. (although there wasn't much reason to worry about that since Greg was the only other male in the house and he was Amy's boyfriend) Still it seemed like the others understood what was going on and kept a respectfull distance. Endy and I got closer and closer as the days went by. We took long trips to the park, or went to eat a fancy dinner at the mall together. We could talk for hours about absolutely nothing, but we had the most fun when we just sat together silently. As the weeks began to pass by I started to worry about my mother. What could possibly be going on at the palace? Why had Queen Serenity not called for the refugees to return? I hated myself for wanting to leave Endy, but I couldn't stay here forever, could I? I could tell Endy knew something was wrong and it killed me each time he asked what was wrong and I had to lie and tell him nothing. It made me cringe inside when I looked at him and saw his hurt-filled eyes. He loved me and couldn't understand why I would lie to him. But I couldn't tell him. After the incident in the park with the daemon there had been several attacks on Jupiters' innocents. No one was ever seriously hurt thanks to the mysterious Sailor Soldiers who appeared to defeat the daemons. It was beginning to worry me. I could transform into Supreme Moon Angel, but I couldn't use any of my crystal scepter attacks. All I had was my tiara which did very little damage, which brought me to another question, who was the strange warrior who kept coming to my rescue. The boy ran off every time he saved me and he kept defeating the daemons for me, using that brilliant white-gold sword to shoot energy beams at them. Who was he? Meanwhile Endy kept having these terrible migraine headaches. The doctor came and said he could find nothing physically wrong with Endy and that the headaches could come from stress. It hurt me to see him in such pain, and it seemed a blessing each time he passed out and became oblivious to the pain. When he was feeling better we went on with life, Endy started seriously courting me and we became almost inseperable. If Endy wasn't with me everyone asked where he was and wasn't he feeling alright? Also, Amy and Greg became the same way and soon we were going out on double dates with each other. I treasured the time I had on Jupiter, it was like a break from the responsibility of being a princess and I was sure the others' felt the same, but I still worried about the battle. What was going on?
These headaches were getting worse and worse, and at the same time I felt like I was losing memory. Each time I passed out from the pain I felt as though I had only closed my eyes for a moment but if I looked at my clock it would show that I had been out for hours. When I passed out it wasn't like a regenerative sleep that made me feel wonderful when I woke up but a sleep that left me exhausted and ready for some real sleep. I started getting serious about Serena, I loved her and wanted her to be with me always, so I asked formally If I had her permission to court her. She agreed and we spent every moment we had together. Meanwhile I kept having visions, they always came after one of my terrible migraine headaches and I didn't always have a vision afterwards. Once I saw a beautiful blonde angel who looked a lot like Serena running toward a hideous monster. Suddenly a large black clad warrior ran out and pushed her aside, saving her life. I had several similar visions, and they were beginning to worry me. I could tell my mother was especially worried about my migraines and I didn't want to frighten her with these visions, so I told Serena. She looked startled when I explained each vision to her one after another and when I had finished she asked me if I knew who the warrior was. I told her I did not and she seemed puzzled, we spent so much time together, but I could tell she was still hiding something from me. She kept frowning to herself sometimes and I would ask her what she was thinking about and she would just say "Nothing, I'm fine" and leave it at that. It was killing me to think she didn't trust me, she could have told me anything and I wouldn't have cared, all I wanted was her love, I felt like without it I would die. Two years passed and I was eighteen years old, I had my drivers license and was now allowed to take my friends on special trips and rides into the countryside. I loved the special time i spent driving Serena around, sometimes we would just stop in the middle of nowhere and sit under a tree to talk or cuddle all afternoon. Then one night Serena came into my room wearing some terribly sexy pajamas. They were sheer white and almost see-through and both the pants and the shirt clung to every curve of her. On both sides there were slits that started at the waist and stopped beneath her breasts, the neckline was cut very low and exposed some of her cleavage. I couldn't help but admit that she was arousing in that getup and when she came to sit beside me on the bed I sat up and tried to look at her face and not the rest of her ( it was hard not to). I told her that I would take her to a special place tomorrow for her birthday and we could spend some more time together and she agreed. I hated to have her leave my room after so short an interlude, but I knew that if she had lain here in my arms all night dressed in that I might get carried away. The next day I drove her out to a waterfall at the Thunder-top river. I showed her the secret way to go behind the water and we ended up in the small cave behind. I went to the far wall and lit the lantern that I had put here the first time I'd discovered the cave. The light was reflected off the water and made the walls seem to writhe as though alive. We spent a few hours or more just talking and when it got on toward dinnertime I went to my car and brought back the picnic lunch I'd made for us. When we finished eating she asked me what I thought of her new nightgown and I told her she looked beautiful in anything. We decided to go skinny-dipping in the cool water and were soon splashing each other and just having a good time, somehow we ended up beside the pool on the rocky ground inside the cave and we made love. It was the first time for both of us but it was like magic. Her golden hair floated behind her head and her sweat-slick breasts rose and fell with her labored breathing. We woke up the next morning and took a bath together in the pool behind the waterfall, we got dressed, packed up and headed home. "I love you Serena" I told her on the ride home, she looked up with tears in her eyes and said "I love you Endymion" We rode in silence the rest of the way home. When we got there we knew something was wrong, Greg was holding Amy to him, hiding her tear covered face. The others were sitting in various chairs and sofa's crying softly. When we walked into the room no one looked up, they just pointed towards my mothers' room. What could have happened I thought, becoming more worried by the moment, we hurried down the hall and pushed open my mothers' door. "NOOOOOOOOOO" I screamed, my mother was lying on her bed her eyes open and glazed over, there were doctors hovering over her and when Serena asked what had happened they told us she'd had a heart attack. What could I have done to deserve this, I thought, what did I do wrong! I thought I had a wonderful new life and then just as it starts to get better my mother has to die! What kind of sick world is this! I ran from the room and out of the house, I had to get away, I didn't even think to take the car, I just ran and ran and ended up in the park by the pond. For a few minutes I debated throwing myself over the bridge and drowning, but I knew I couldn't do it, I'd hurt Serena terribly and I couldn't bear the thought of that. I just stood there crying for a long time and didn't look up when I heard the soft footsteps behind me, it had to be Serena come to comfort me, I didn't want to be comforted, I just wanted to hurt something. She stood beside me on the bridge and somehow it made me feel better just knowing she was there with me. I heard more footsteps approaching, harder ones and thought the others must have come with Serena. The footsteps stopped abruptly behind us and we both turned to see what the others were doing, but it wasn't the others. Serena turned maybe a second ahead of me and screamed, standing behind us was something like the monsters I saw the angel fighting in my visions. The thing reached for Serena and I couldn't stand it anymore I pulled together all the hate and anger I felt for my mother's death and ran towards the thing. Vaguely I heard Serena yell "NO Endy, don't" But I was in another world, I was hurting and angry and I couldn't stand the thought of losing another loved one. Suddenly something ran past me and threw a blast of pink energy at the creature, the thing cracked into a million pieces and turned into dust. I turned around to see the angel in my visions laying down in the grass, I lifted her head and she opened her eyes.
"Hi Endy" she said,
"So this is what you've been hiding from me Serena?" I asked.
"I'm so sorry Endy, I couldn't tell you, I thought you wouldn't love me if you knew.."
"Knew what, that you are an angel with special powers? That you fight monsters in your spare time! You're so much more than me, how could someone as amazing as you ever love someone like me!" I was angry and confused and I laid her back down on the ground. I backed away and she looked at me, tears running down her face. I ran from her then, ran from the woman I loved, I didn't stop I didn't even think of stopping the only thought in my mind was that if Serena was this angel, how could I ever hope to be with her?
