Chapter 4


Danielle opened the door to her hotel room only to hear music blaring, 
and see a yellow rose fly past her face. It hit a dart board on the wall 
in the 20 point circle.

"Nice try," she encouraged, "keep practicing." 

Another flew by, by accident, as the 15 year old turned. "Oh, hi Mom. 
You surprised me."

The rose hit the target dead center.

"All right, bulls-eye!" Motoki cheered, "The Chartreuse Fox scores 
again!"

Danielle laughed, "See? I told you. You're concentrating too hard. Just 
throw, and it should come naturally."

"Right," he said in a long drawn out manner as he shut the CD player 
off. " So, how did it go at the palace?"

"Fine...until I went too hard on Sailor Mars while showing them my 
powers."

"You mean you actually beat Rei?!" Motoki's face lit up.

"Well, she was just doing some friendly practice. I'm still trying to 
switch out of the 'win or die' fighting mode."

"Hmm, yeah I know what you mean. Well, now that you're back, I'm going 
down to the game room to work on my aim some more."

"All right," she threw him the mask, raised her index finger to her face 
and tilted her head , "Just remember to use the darts, not roses when 
you're in public." 

 "I know, I know, but why can't you just tell them already? Covering up 
our identities is getting annoying," he whined as he slid the mask onto 
the bridge of his nose.

"I'll have to tell everyone the truth about me and Endymion eventually, 
but I don't think the world is ready for it yet."

"Humph," Motoki said as he left.

"Be back by 5 so we can look at apartments after dinner!" she called 
after him.

"Kay!" He waved his hand over his shoulder.

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"Endymion, there you are!" Neo-Queen Serenity caught up, and began to 
walk with him, "I've been looking for you."

"I was showing Danielle around the palace," the king said.

"Oh really?" she replied less than enthusiastically.

"You know, you've been really hard on that girl ever since she came 
here. She's very kind and friendly. I just can't see why you guys seem 
to have a problem with her."

Serenity was getting worried, "Is there something going on between you 
two?"

"What?! Serenity come on," he put his arm around her. "You know me 
better, 
I'd never do that."  His voice hardened just a little, "But I won't lie 
to you, I think she has something to do with those images I've been 
getting. I get the feeling that somehow Danielle and I were 
really........close," He zoned out as if recalling some distant memory 
from a dream.

She put her head on his shoulder and thought, "Now I really don't like 
this; when he gets feelings like this, they're usually right."

"Serenity," Endymion smiled, "I told you. You don't have anything to 
worry about."

She looked up into his eyes; he wasn't lying. 

"Anyway, you're right," she said, remembering earlier, "We have been too 
hard on Danielle, so we're planning another ball to cheer her, and us, 
up a bit."

"Good idea," King Endymion agreed, "So what have you planned so far?"

"Well you see....." 

She explained the details.

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"Wow! You're good at that!" a girl said to Motoki after his third 
winning game of darts.

"Thanks, I've been practicing," he replied.

"So I see."

Motoki turned and looked into the most deep violet eyes he had ever 
seen; this girl was very pretty. She had blue hair, part of it braided 
and wrapped around her forehead, and the rest in a thin ponytail that 
stopped at her shoulders. She was also a senshi. There was a red clasp 
on a turquoise shawl that had a wide white stripe towards the neck. Her 
raindrop earrings, tiara gem and skirt were turquoise, and her choker, 
bows, knee high boots and elbow bands at the end of the gloves were 
purple. Andrew guessed that she was about the same age as he.

"I notice you're wearing a mask," she commented, "Any connection with 
the mysterious new senshi the other juniors and I have heard about?"

"Yeah, she's my mom," he said proudly.

"Really? Then we have something in common: Sailor Mercury's my mom."

"Cool. Guess you have a pretty big reputation to live up to, huh?" 

"No, not really," she tilted her head, "What makes you think that?"

"Well, I mean, I thought you would, because I kinda feel that I do, 
seeing as I'm King Endymion's-" Motoki stopped. "Idiot! You're blowing 
Mom's cover!" he thought. 

"Your King Endymion's what?" she asked curiously. 

"Ne......never mind. Hey, do you want some Coke or something?"

The young senshi became curious, but didn't bother prying; she wanted to 
get to know this cute blonde better, and doing that would only chase him 
away. She did bring up another point after they got their drinks, 
though.

"Why do you two wear masks?"

Motoki didn't want to get pushed into this corner. He didn't want to lie 
to her either, but there wasn't much of a choice, "You'd have to ask my 
mom. All I know is that she doesn't want people to see what I look 
like."

"Why not?"

"Don't know. My name's Motoki by the way." (AN: Isn't he good at 
changing subjects?)

"Oh I'm sorry," she giggled, "I forgot to ask. I'm Sailor Charon."

Charon took a sip of her drink, "Hey, do you have any special powers or 
anything, I mean being the son of a senshi and all?"

"No," he lied again. He knew if he told her the truth, it would link him 
with Endymion, "Not that I know of."

"Oh, I thought you might. Well, I've got to get back to the palace 
before Mom has a coronary. I guess I'll be seeing you again." 

"I hope so," he said as she left. "She's cute; a bit nosy, but cute."