Title: An Unsuitable Match
Part: Prologue
Author: W.bymeeh
Rating: G
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*Author's Note: Just to warn you, I've definitely messed 
around with the storyline here.  I'd love to hear 
feedback and comments...please!    =)  

*Disclaimer: These characters aren't mine, so don't sue me!  
I have nothing worth suing for anyways.  Also, the story in 
this form is mine, so please don't take it without 
permission!  Thanks.  


			Prologue

	Queen Serenity was running.  
	Outside the palace, the sky was dark with the evil 
powers that had come to attack the moon.  The walls within 
shook as it absorbed each hit that came from Metalia's 
forces.  And yet, all Queen Serenity could think of was the 
little baby cradled in her arms.  Although the palace had 
not yet been breached, each hit took Serenity's power down 
a notch as she struggled to keep the shields over the 
palace up.  
	"Not yet," she thought determinedly.  
	Another blast of power shook the building to its 
foundation, and Serenity fell to her knees.  Breathing 
raggedly, she struggled to stand up again.  She half-ran, 
half-limped her way to the enormous double-doors leading 
into the throne room.  One of them had been left open, 
abandoned long ago when the evacuation had begun.  She 
feebly pushed her way through and, gathering her last 
remaining strength, walked calmly up the twin thrones.  	
	Serenity placed her baby daughter in a wicker basket, 
and tucked her blanket around her.  Tears started to form 
in her eyes, but she refused to let them fall.  She seated 
herself in her throne, and closed her eyes as she began to 
concentrate.  
	The palace of the King and Queen of Earth...the place 
where the princesses of the other planets had been sent 
merely an hour ago...thank God that they were safe now, the 
Queen couldn't possibly transport all of them now, 
considering her waning strength...just enough to ensure the 
safety of her beloved daughter...
	The queen visualized the palace...and tried to find 
people who would love and take care of her child...not the 
royal family...the life of royalty was too harsh and 
demanding for her daughter...she wanted her to be happy and 
loved...a couple came into view...servants of the 
palace...lonely...they wanted a daughter, so desperately...
	She hesitated, and stared at her scepter, and then 
at her infant daughter.  Did she want her daughter to inherit 
her position as future queen of the moon?  She knew now, 
that this was not a decision she could make for her daughter.  
Her daughter was bethrothed...to someone who was to be her
soul mate.  But now, it seemed, that that would not be...
Not when the Moon Kingdom had been destroyed...and without a 
kingdom there was no princess...and Serenity knew that she 
would not be able to be there to oversee a new birth.  
Perhaps it was better for her daughter to be able to choose 
her own way in life, her own life, instead of being 
dictated by powers and politics that required alliances.  
Even the soul mate of her daughter...Metalia had changed 
everything.  If they were meant to be, they would somehow 
find each other.
  	It had been so hard, she remembered.  Sacrifice 
after sacrifice for the good of the kingdom...losing the 
one she truly loved for the sake of duty.  She did not 
want that for her daughter...she knew that the Silver 
Millennium was over...Serena would not have to bear the 
burden of a title...she closed her eyes and touched her 
daughter's head with her wand.  'Let her powers be 
dormant,' she thought.  'Unless she truly wants and 
needs to be who she was born as...'  
	The Queen opened her eyes.  Having picked her 
daughter's destination, she came to the most difficult 
part...having to say goodbye.  She leaned over and kissed 
her baby daughter, who sighed in her sleep.  Baby Serena 
has slept soundly throughout the entire attack.  The Queen 
placed her star locket around her daughter's neck, and 
closed her eyes.
	A blinding flash of light appeared, and when it 
dimmed, the basket had disappeared.  The Queen fell to the 
floor, and the shields around the palace came crashing 
down.  
	"One more thing..." muttered the Queen grimly.  
	She picked up her scepter, abandoned at her side, and 
she raised it above her head.  	
	"I call upon the power of the moon!"  
	An enormous sound similar to the shattering of a 
thousand pieces of glass was heard, and with a loud shriek 
the forces of Metalia were locked away...the sky was clear, 
and the dust of the battle began to settle...
	In the throne room, Queen Serenity lay still on the 
floor.  "Serena..." was her last thought.

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