Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ A Clash of Royal proportions ❯ Explanations and Plans ( Chapter 4 )

A Clash of Royal Proportions

Chapter 4

Explanations and Plans

Darien stared at the smirking princess before him, how could he have been so stupid, even with her hair down she looked like the queen. " Well are you going to get up off the ground or what? As much as it amuses me to see you face down in the dirt, my mother wants you to be comfortable and I don't think being on the ground would be all that comfortable." The princess said, hands on hips a huge evil smirk on her lips. Darien resisted the urge to retort and stood, brushing himself off. In the mean time the queen was standing there, eyes wide, blinking and looking from one to the other as if she missed something. " What, what's going on here? Oh no Serenity, don't tell me you've started that again!" The prince looked on wide-eyed as the queen went from grace to three-year-old girl. She wailed at her daughter who just stood there, one hand on hip and the other held her head. "Mother, don't do this please! Yes I'm going to do what I always do; I do NOT want to be married. Especially to that JERK!" Serena said pointing straight at the prince. Darien saw red, how dare she call him a jerk; he was a prince for god sake! But before he could bombard her with a barrage of insults, she turned on her heal and stormed off.

"What's her problem?" Asked a bewildered prince, he looked over to the queen who was shaking her head. "Serenity, does not want to marry. She has driven away all of the suitors that have come to ask for her hand, in… interesting and inventive ways so to speak." The prince could hear the queens' unsteady and uncomfortable laugh and cocked an eyebrow inquisitively. "What do you mean, interesting and inventive?" Darien asked taking a seat, from what he had seen it would take a while to explain it all. And so the queen filled him in on all of the ways her daughter had chased away any suitor, her hot headed temper and her knack for finding out anyone's weakness, no matter how well hidden it was kept. After her long-winded explanation, she looked over and couldn't help but laugh; the prince was once again as white as a sheet. He quickly shook his head to bring him back to reality and turned to the queen. "Well your highness, she's in for a rude awakening, because I don't give up so easily and I have a few tricks up my sleeve as well." And with that the prince rose from his seat and went to get ready for the upcoming ball.

~~~~~~ In Serenity's room ~~~~~~~

"Argh! That arrogant, pompous, long winded, good for nothing, freak show of a prince! How DARE he treat me like that! I'm personally going to make his life a LIVING HELL!" The princess was furious, not only was her honor at stake, but her pride was as well. "Serena, you can't do that and you know it, the queen would be furious and you know what she can and WILL do if you so much as batter an eyelid wrong!" Her ever wise and annoying guardian said. Serena looked over and could have sworn that Luna was smirking; well, as well as a cat could smirk anyway. " Argh! Your right as usual Luna, well I better get ready, I don't want Mr High and mighty to wait too long and I know mother will be furious if I don't look my best. Why does my mother have to be so infuriating! " Serena let out a cry of frustration and went to find a dress to wear. She spent all of five minutes finding a dress and a further hour and a half getting ready. When she emerged from the bathroom she was a vision to behold.

Her pale blue dress hugged all the right places, and flared out around her waist to fall into a pool at her feet. The bodice was incrusted with diamonds and sapphires in a pattern of stars and a moon in the center. It was a sleeveless dress that had silver trimming around the top edge of the dress, and she wore her mothers crescent moon earrings and matching necklace. Her hair was in the traditional royal family style, with small sliver roses and jewels strategically placed. Her natural beauty was enhanced by a small amount of silver eye shadow and the smallest amount of light pink lip-gloss. "Serena words can not express how beautiful you look, even the goddess Selene would be put to shame." Serena looked over at Luna and blushed, she really didn't need Luna telling her that, she was already uncomfortable as it was.

*Knock knock* Serena walked over to the door and opened it to be greeted by four familiar faces. "Mina, Lita, Amy, Rei you all look so beautiful, and I mean that guys." She couldn't help but giggle as all of her friends blushed seemingly on cue. Mina, the princess of Venus was wearing a long off the shoulder orange dress, with gold hearts flowing over the bodice, her hair was done in the usual way, except instead of a bow she had her mothers heart shaped flowers, native to only her planet. Lita, princess of Jupiter was wearing a long forest green, spaghetti strap dress; it had small flecks of sliver which made it shimmer and her hair was let down to frame her face, instead of her usual rose earrings, she wore her mothers silver lightning bolt earrings. Amy, the princess of Mercury was wearing a deep blue dress that looked like ice crystals and shimmered in the light, she also wore the flower of reasoning, an flower made of ice, again native only to her planet. And Rei, the princess of mars wore a long red dress that tied up around her neck, there was a slit up along the side to mid thigh and her back was left open. She also wore a flower from her native planet, it was a vibrant red flower that seemed to burn with intensity, but it didn't give off any heat, it was one of the most beautiful flowers Serena had ever seen.

`Well Serena, Are we gonna stand here all day or are we going to go to the party?" Rei was the only one of the group who always picked on Serena, but she knew deep down that she only did it because she cared. "Well girls, first I need your help on something." At the mention on the princess needing help all ears perked up and she was surrounded before she could say `boo!' "What, what do you need our help with?" all eyes stared at the princess waiting to find out what she needed help with. "Well you see it's that arrogant prince that came here from earth, I want to get rid of him, but I need your help guys." The mention of the prince and wanting to get rid of him all girls backed away quickly. "Woh, woh, backup there girly, we are NOT helping you get rid of the prince." Mina said shaking her head from side to side and waving her hands in the air. Serena did the only thing she could think of, she put on the ol' puppy dogface and water works. " But guyyyyyys you have to help me, pleeeeeeease. I'll do anything, I just want him Outta here, pleeeeeeease." Serena looked up at them with big puppy dog eyes and they caved in two seconds flat. "Ok, ok, we'll help you Serena, just stop looking at us like that will ya." Rei said trying hard not to laugh.

Serena jumped up in two seconds flat and squealed with delight, "Well, here's what we're going to do…" and she told them what she had planned. After about half an hour of talking and careful planning the room erupted into a booming sound of laughter. "Oh my goodness Serena, that is the best plan you've come up with yet. I have to admit it, but this is going to be fun to watch, and at least I get to help out with this one." All eyes turned to Amy in shock, no one have ever heard her talk this way before. Amy went a bright shade of crimson and she stuck her tongue out at her friends, "What, didn't you know that I could have fun. It may look like it but I'm not all study and work you know. I do know how to have fun. Why do you think I'm not betrothed yet?" Amy said with a smirk on her face that the girls thought alien to her. The laughing subsided and they heard the trumpets announcing the arrival of guests. "Well we best be off then now won't we." Serena giggled and she and her friend walked to the ballroom and to the fun that awaited them there.

~~~~~~ In the Ball Room ~~~~~~

"PRESENTING HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS SERENITY. AND HER AUNTERAGE, THE PRINCESS LITA OF JUPITER, THE PRINCESS MINA OF VENUS, THE PRINCESS AMY OF MERCURY, AND THE PRINCESS REI OF MARS."

All was silent in anticipation of their arrival, no one at the ball other than the queen had seen the princess in her all her royal beauty. As they entered gasps could be heard from ever direction, and you could see the looks of lust in the men's eyes and the daggers of jealousy from the ladies. Serena looked around as if trying to find something and smirked when her eyes gazed upon the princes' back. She strolled up to the princes and tapped him on the back, "Is that anyway to treat the entrance of one of the guests of honor?" the princes spun around and went into complete shock. /Oh my god! She's absolutely gorgeous, damn it, now I know why the others were so easily fooled. / Darien thought to himself. The princess smirked at his staring and thought, / this is going to be easier than I first thought. / And without so much as a good bye she disappeared into the crowd, leaving behind a very stunned and very determined prince. He would find her, and he would show her that he is not leaving, no matter what she threw at him.

Yes I know, not a very long chapter and kinna boring, but I'm suffering from writers block at the moment so bare with me please ^_^'. Oh what does Serena have planned? I know I said this chapter was the one where the fun began, but that was before I got writers block ~,_,~. Oh well, the next chapter will take a little bit longer because of study, and it will be longer because it's the first chapter of them playing pranks on one another, lets just say Darien ends up in a lake…lol. Thank you to everyone who reviewed, that gives me inspiration to write (this chapter result of too much study ~_~, gotta have a break) I hope to get lots more reviews, and I promise then next chapter will be the best one yet. So REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW!!! Please *looks at reader with big puppy dog eyes* Well see ya next time readers, another reason this chapter wasn't as good as the rest is because I finished it at 1:30 in the morning *sigh*.

Sayonara *does peace sigh and grins widely*