Sailor Moon: Sailor Cosmos

Chapter 11: Story of the Sun - Part 1

Thousands of years ago, three kingdoms ruled alongside one another, all far away, but close enough that they could see each other--the Silver Millennium of the Moon, the Golden Kingdom of the Earth, and the Platinum Eon of the Sun. These three kingdoms ruled isolated, never truly knowing the people of the others.

The people of the Sun were granted with beauty, elegance, and warmheartedness creating peace within the star. Hidden within its first layer, the Corona, the kingdom lived without any disturbances. The King of the Sun, Helios, ruled with a kind, but stern heart. He had a daughter, the princess, Dia, known as the Great Radiance of the Sun because everywhere she went, warmth and light went as well.

She grew up healthy within the castle, with golden, wavy hair that barely touched her shoulders, and learned so much about her own kingdom and the others throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. The ones she loved the most were the planetary kingdoms. She would spend hours with her tutors, Sol and Circe.

"Sol-sensei, Circe-sensei, can the Sun really do that? Can it bring light to the entire galaxy?" a young Dia asked her teachers.

"Why of course! Even places light years away and in the darkest of areas in this galaxy can see just a small sliver of our light and know that it is the Sun that burns the brightest. It is a very important source of energy and hopes to the planets of our solar system," says Circe.

"Hope?"

"A feeling of trust. Something you, Dia-sama, aspire for or wish for with all your heart, princess," Sol explains it to Dia. "It is another thing we, the people of the Platinum Eon, live with. Hope, that our future queen will be the best she can be for the good of her people."

Dia smiles beautifully with joy, "I promise to be the greatest queen!"

"I'm sure you will," Circe brought in a big white orb, "now, let's recapitulate the planets and their people."

The orb hovered before the princess as she named the planets that were shown to her, "Pluto, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Earth..."

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A few years pass by as the princess grew more beautiful and radiant, her hair, now wavier, had extended down to just above her waist, though it is not yet time for her coronation, the princess makes an effort to learn more about her country and its people.

Dia opened her eyes, sitting up in her bed. She looked to her window and the orb she kept in her bedroom chamber. Every day in her golden silk sleeping gown she would twirl around in her gold and white themed room and then go to her seeing orb to explore the galaxy she called home. Today, instead of looking into her orb, she went to the window pane and gazed upon the view of the kingdom. She loved that she could see the rest of her world from just a window in the castle, and that was when she got an idea. "Maybe today I'll go outside the castle again today," she said. She had only gone out once before and she didn't go far before being seen and taken back to the castle.

Dia walked into another room in her chamber and came out dressed in a cream high-low gown. She brought out a cape to disguise herself with. She put it around her and pulled the hood over her head. "Yosh, let's go...," Dia exited her chambers, closing the doors very quietly. She looked from side to side, left and right to check if any guards were around. None. She was all clear.

She quietly tip-toed through the castle. She obviously was not got there the front entrance, it was a dead give away, so she continued to think where to sneak out from. Then she thought of something, the balcony to the garden. It was low enough for her to climb down and back up, it was perfect! She honestly wondered why she didn't think of it before. Though it was full of servants and a literally a maze, it was the least guard area of the castle and she knew it better than the back of her hand. She took off the cape and stuffed it in her dress. She figured she'd walk around the garden and be seen by a few servants, so they'd think she was in the garden if she wasn't in her room. Dia had a secret place that she could sneak in and out between the chrysanthemums and the hedge on the far left of the garden.