Chapter #1: The Fairytale Begins

As Queen Serenity holds her baby, she plans to sing a lullaby to Princess Serenity in hopes that this will help her to fall asleep. She looks into the princess' eyes, which teaches her to never lose the joy and comfort she feels when looking at her daughter. These are feelings that she never wants to lose and ones that she wishes her daughter to feel one day. She loves feeling the new joy spread throughout her body every time she looks at her precious daughter. Then she begins to say, "Hush now little one! Mommy's here! Don't you start crying on me now? And since you're so stubborn to go to sleep, mommy shall sing you a song in hopes that you will go to sleep. My close friend, Queen Gaia, taught it to me not to long ago in which she uses to sing to her son, Endymion, to sleep when since he was a baby. She still uses it on him even now. Anyway, here's how it goes!" She begins to sing:


I will tell you a story while you are in bed
You're just a baby but you'll understand
Babies can see things that others can't do
And they teach us something new


As little Prince Endymion sleeps, he experiences a weird dream. His eyes are closed and he hears a sweet melody in the far distance. Suddenly, his eyes snap open and he observes his surroundings. He sees a purple greyish mist surrounding him. Then he sharply turns around and sees a silhouette of a person who seems singing that sweet melody he hears. It looks like a little girl around his age that has long hair in shapes of ponytails. Then he squints his eyes to take a better look at her but can see nothing more than shadow covering her figure. He shakes his head in utter disbelief thinking that this is not real.


In your eyes open wide, there's a whole world to feel
All turns around, it's a dream or it's real


Suddenly, Endymion bolts right up in bed panting with beads of sweet dangling off his bangs. Realizing that it was just a dream and he's come back down to earth, he tries very hard to remember what she was singing. He recognized the song as a lullaby that his mother sing him to sleep with at night. But he knows that mysterious person wasn't his mother. Then he begins to wonder who this stranger could be. Why was she singing that particular song? How did she know it? And what was the significance of the song that she was singing? And just what did the dream mean? Then he goes over some of the lyrics in his mind that she sang trying to analyze them.


Welcome to earth, now you're part of the show
And I want to let you know

There is a fairytale for you
Hoping your dreams they will come true
And if you find a way
Please let me stay with you


After a while, Endymion grows weary and tired from thinking too much and falls back to sleep. But now he experiences a different dream. He's much older and feels like he protecting someone behind him for he is ready to draw his sword. There's another silhouette in front of him with long wavy hair and holding some sort of staff. He makes out that it is another mysterious female when he hears her callous laughter. Then it speaks to him and asks him in which side will he join. Then it tells him to be wise and join her side yet he feels that's it's the wrong thing to do. He has some unknown strong emotion to the person he's protecting behind him. But still, he begins to walk forward until he stops dead in his tracks when he hears that song again. It's the same voice but now she sounds a lot older. He turns around to gaze upon her again and she seems to be calling him back with the song that she's singing. Then the other mysterious figure calls out to him and he looks back at her. Here he stands and must now make a wise decision. He feels like the song strengthens him.


So the years soon will pass and you'll grow old and wise
Some fairytales will be turned into life
You'll have to find out the right thing to do
And what burns inside of you
There will be someone who'll try to change your way to live
But never mind baby just stand still
And for this reason I'm singing this song
Hoping that you will be strong


But he's still torn between the two of them since the angelic voice singing that song seems alluring to him and calling him back but there seems to be a magnetic pull between him and the other shadowy figure that he's trying very hard to dispel. Then he finally finds the strength within himself to break free of it and walks over to the owner of that beautiful angelic voice in hopes of seeing her face to find out what she really looks like since he really wants to find out who she really is. The other mysterious figure continuously yells at him but he ignores her and she finally disappears into the background. He approaches this wonderful stranger but her face is still covered with a dark shadow. Only the shadow upon her body disappears to reveal a beautiful, elegant dress that she is wearing. He takes her hands in his and the lavender mist surrounding them fades away to be replaced with a ballroom filled with people dancing. The shadow covering her face finally lifts only to be replaced by a party mask. He finally gives up on his quest in finding out her true identity and comments on how the lights from the chandeliers beautifully offsets the color on her blonde hair and her soft creamy skin. Then he begins to dance with her as she softly sings to the melody.


There is a fairytale for you
Hoping your dreams they will come true
And if you find a way
Please let me stay with you

There is a fairytale for you
Hoping your dreams they will come true
Life doesn't give the best
So find the rest in you

And growing, and growing, and growing, and showing you loving


Suddenly, an explosion is heard from outside. The ground rumbles and the windows rattle. Everyone stops dancing to see the bright light dancing across the windows of the ballroom. Endymion holds her tightly against him. He feels a strong need to protect his angel. 'Wait! Since when did she become my angel?' he thought to himself for a moment. He doesn't really know. But yes, she is his angel that he needs to protect with his life. He has some unknown attachment to her, a bond that he can't explain. But he feels comfort and at peace whenever he's around her, even now. He realizes that he like this feeling very much and never wants to lose it. So he comes to the conclusion that he wants to hold onto it as long as he can never to let it go. Suddenly, everyone starts to scream as the light outside gets brighter and the explosions getting louder. Then all the glass on the windows shatter and break and Endymion tightens his grip on her in order to shield her from this experience. But they both know that there is nothing they can do to stop it so they just stand there holding each other while they await their sealed fate. Her singing can still be heard but sounds nothing more than a mere whisper, as their whole world begins to turn white.


There is a fairytale for you
Hoping your dreams they will come true
Life doesn't give the best
So find the rest in you
In you

If your love is true


Now the dream leaves Endymion while he's left to reflect upon the song that she just sang and among other things as well. What was the significance of the dream? Why did she sing it? Why was the song the one that his mother sings him to sleep with at night? Why did he feel such familiarity around her when he was with her? And who she could possibly be? What was her true identity? These questions nagged him in the back of his mind all night long while he attempted to fall back asleep. But no matter how hard he tried to put them aside to get a good night sleep for what was coming up tomorrow so he could deal with it then, unfortunately, with no avail, he failed miserably. And so tonight, his mind was left with these persistent questions demanding to be answered for the duration of his sleep.


*~~~Back at the Moon Palace~~~*


Queen Serenity smiles once again at her daughter seeing the song that she sang has worked and that her little baby has fallin' asleep. She tucks her little one in bed and strolls off to her own bedroom to sleep and wake up for the upcoming celebration tomorrow. We leave seeing Princess Serenity smiling contently in her crib, as she revisits the world of dreams.


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Date: May 12, 2002