The Spoils of War- part 2 By Karsa Rated PG-13 for disturbing images of war that may be to much for younger children Sailor Moon is copyright © 1992 Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha, TOEI Animation. English Language Adaptation © 1995 DiC Entertainment. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Princess Serenity skipped happily down the hall, smiling at the palace servants who said hello as she passed them. They were nice to talk to.. sometimes.. but not now. Now, she had a bigger destination; Mars-hime's room. Arriving outside the fire senshi's door, she knocked briefly before throwing open the door, catching Mars totally unaware. Princess Mars jumped and roughly shoved the picture she had been staring at under her bed. Serenity grinned at her friend. "Mars-hime.. what were you looking at just now?" Mars, looking uncomfortable, grabbed a huge textbook on pyrotechnics and opened it to a random page, failing to notice it was upside-down. "Um.. the Latin lesson for tomorrow," she said, glancing at the page quickly. "Really?" the moon princess asked, taking the book and turning it over. " 'When setting explosions on stage, one must always be prepared to put out any afterfires..' " Serenity read aloud. "A Latin lesion from an upside-down book on pyrotechnics?" "Is there something you need, Serenity-hime, or did you come here just to bother me about Jed-er- just to bother me?" "I came here for a reason, Mars-chan. Endymon is coming up for a visit!" "Will his generals come with him?" "No.. they need to hold down the front.." "And Mercury-hime's birthday ball is only a few days away.. when does Endymon come? And when will he be departing?" "He will arrive tomorrow.. and leave in three days," Serenity said sadly, "after he has pleaded his case to my mother." "But that is the day of the ball!" Mars exclaimed. "I know," Serenity responded. "And he will leave before it commences. We both know King Aries would never speak to mother again if she let a man from earth come to his little girl's birthday ball." Mars giggled. "Does Mercury-hime know you call her 'Daddy's Girl' behind her back?" "Of course! And Venus knows I call her 'Love Child' and you can guess who helped me think up 'Electrolyte'. It was Jupiter-hime herself. Just like you're Hothead." Mars laughed and hit her best friend with a pillow. "You're a big meanie, Serenity-hime." Serenity laughed back. "Hey! That's my line!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Wyatt hugged Natalie tightly. "You'll write me, wont you, beloved?" she whispered. "Of course, my love.. every day," he told her, kissing her again. "Oh, Wyatt.. why do you have to go?" "There is a war, Natalie. If I don't fight for our planet, who will? Sure, there are others.. but.." "But you're doing what you think is right. Of course, Wy.. that's why I love you so much.." "Hey!" came a shout from the transport driver. "Would you two finish with your goodbyes already? The prince is expecting us tomorrow, not next year!" "Yes, of course, sir," Wyatt responded, before turning back to Natalie. "I love you, Natalie, and I always will," he told her, slipping his class ring off his finger and putting it on hers. "When I come back.. will you marry me?" "Oh! Of course I will!" she cried, throwing her arms around his neck. "How sweet," the transport driver said, rolling his eyes. "Now, will you PLEASE get on?" "Yes.." Wyatt replied, lifting his knapsack and climbing onto the transport. "Good bye, Natalie!" he called, hanging out the window. "I love you!" Natalie ran behind the transport, waving all the way until Wyatt had disappeared over the horizon. As she turned to go home, Natalie thought about how she a Wyatt had first met. Wyatt's older brother, Jedite, had been friends with Natalie for over a year before he introduced them. Jed and Nat want to the same school, where Jed was a senior and Nat was a sophomore. .They had met while skipping a pep rally, having both decided to hide in the Freshman English room. After they became aquatinted, they were fast friends. Both thought the moon and the rest of the planets were stuck up, though Jed somehow knew, and was dating the Princess of Mars, and both really enjoyed acting. Nat and Jed had been walking home from school, with Jed, as usual, talking about Mars-hime. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Oh, yeah.. did I tell you that the Princess has agreed that if, and when, we get married, I get to pick one bridesmaid.. would you do it?" Jed asked. Nat looked at her best friend strangely. "Well.. I'll do it on one condition. There has to be a cute usher." Jed thought about that for a second. "Well, there's Serenity and Endymon.. Venus and Kunz, Mercury and Zoi, Jupiter and Neph.. Wyatt! You can walk down the isle with Wyatt!" "Whats with all the royality? And who's Wyatt?" Nat asked. "I'm marrying Princess Mars, Nat. Think about it. A Wyatt.. well, you know my little brother who goes to private school?" "Is he cute?" Jed blinked. "I'm supposed to know? He's a Sophomore.. like you!" Nat gave Jed a dirty look. "Don't get any ideas, Jed. I'm NOT dating your brother." "Then why'd ypou ask if he was cute?" "Casue I'm a chick, Jed. The automatic responce is to ask if someones cute. That does NOT mena I want his sexy body or whatever," Nat explained "At least meet him, Nat! Pleeeeese?" Jed begged. "Fine. But I don't have to like him.." Jedite nodded "Okay, Natters. How's next Friday? It's his birthday." "Alright, fine. But this is only cause you're making me.." It had seemed like forever before that Friday had come. After fixing her hair just right, Nat had gone to the broad field between the two houses, and sat underneath the huge willow tree where she ALWAYS met Jade. About five minutes after she had gotten there, Jade had finally shown up, with Wyatt in tow. "Sorry were late, Nat. Wyatt wasn't awake yet," Jed explained, giving his little brother an evil look. "But then, it is before noon, so we can't be to picky, can we?" Wyatt yawned and grinned, nodding his head in agreement. Natalie made a mental not of how cute he looked when his blond hair fell across his eyes.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- And that's the end for this week! Sorry its short, but its less purple, right? J I'm in school now, so I'll grab a second to wrote when I can.. but that's when I can. All for now! Much thanks to Svetty-sama and Mame-sama (JuliaBean) for helping me figure the Japanese out for this part. LYLAS! "-hime" means "Princess" for those of you who don't know. And "Ja ne" means "See you later" Lesse.. if you're down here, you must like my story, right? Please write to tall me. I've had a awful week and I just found out I can't audition for the school play (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) becuase the auditions are on Rosh Hashana, and now my father is trying to decapitat the drama teacher.. I hate High School. I really do. Okay, I'd better go now. Thanks for reading.. Karsa (kt2003@yahoo.com)