It was never easy for Serena to live her life at home and school. Now she's going into her 11th grade year of high school, has moved for the last time to a town in North Dakota and is fed up and wants a change in reality! But how is she going to do that when her father hates her so much he becomes violent, and she has all of this unwanted attention at school, making her the one thing that she could possibly care less about and is constantly in the way; being popular. There is also a secret about Serena that she doesn?t know yet, and a group teens searching for their Princess from so long ago. So how can Serena try to change her life with all of this going on?

rating: PG13

Character/Pairing: Serena

When You Wish for Change

By: SailorMoon489

Chapter 1

Chapter One: New Beginnings

The car ride was excruciatingly long, as we drove from Maryland all the way to North Dakota. I was just too intent on my music and daydreaming while staring out the window to even notice my brother snoring next to me. I am now 16 years old and my birthday was June 30th. Today’s date is August 17th, 2008.

When I had gotten back from the hospital, my father had stopped beating me, well actually now he just completely ignores me, and I am fine with that. Sammy told me the reason why we were moving to North Dakota was because dad’s business had moved and they paid for everything. They even paid for the house, hotel rooms and gas for the long road trip that we are now on.

We have been on the road for four days now, and mom says that we are almost there. She said that we would have gotten there sooner if my father didn’t stop for a pit stop two different nights so we could stay at hotel and rest for the night. It was after the second day of driving dad made us stay and sleep at a motel. Sam and I shared a room while my parents were in the room next door to us, arguing.

I was glad that Sammy was fast asleep, as I heard my parents using foul language and she was threatening for a divorce, again. We all know that my mother would never actually divorce my father; she always said that just to shut him up and it always worked. My mom also knew that dad never liked me. She always told me that it wasn’t my fault and that it was the genes that ran through her family. So for every first born on my mother’s side of the family is or was a girl. My dad wanted one child… a boy.

While I was listening in on my parents’ arguing; going from the move to his job, to his son and then to me. Once again I’m hearing them fighting about me. I’m glad that my mother actually loves and cares about me. But it’s hard to see any kind of good emotion when we are together as a family.

It’s like as if there is a gray cloud hanging above us, just threatening to turn in to a hurricane at any second, ready to destroy anything in its path. It was always my father’s fault. If my mother knew how much pain he has put me through, she would know the truth behind all of the lies.

But I want to keep my family together at all costs! Not just for me, but mainly for Sammy. He deserves to have a loving and caring family.

Taken out of my thoughts, I felt a small tap on my shoulder. It was my mother telling me that we have arrived to the new house. I nodded my head as I took my earphones out of my ears and turned off my iPod. I was sitting in the seat on the left hand side of the van, so when I got out I would be facing the road and the other houses in the neighborhood.

I closed my eyes as I slid open the car door. When I stepped out of the van I took in a deep breath of the nice warm fresh air. The sun was giving out a nice warm light.

When I decided that it was time that I saw my new home, I still had my eyes closed, turned around and slowly opened them. I was speechless. The house was huge and beautiful! The house was two stories, white, sort of Victorian styled, and sort of old. But all in all, I liked it.

My mother came over to me and handed me my backpack and some of my other bags that were easy to carry.

“So, how do you like it?” asked my mother with some excitement in her voice.

I honestly don’t know how long it has been since the last time I smiled because I was happy, but this was one of those moments.

“Mom, this house… it’s… it’s…” I couldn’t find the words to say. I was rendered speechless again.

“Tell me what you think when you see it inside? Your room is the room with the balcony,” when my mother said that, again, I was rendered speechless once more! She knew me so well…

So we quickly walked inside, eager to see what it looks like and my mind went wild! I was just truly and honestly blown away! This house was amazing, with a grand staircase when you first walked in. A dining room, living room with a huge fire place, and a patio in the back with Japanese and rose gardens and a gazebo filling the backyard plantation… this house was so unbelievable!

“Mom this house is amazing!” I said as I quickly turned to face her as we stood in the main entrance to the house, standing in front of the large staircase.

“Just wait until you see your room,” my mother said with a large grin on her face.

Even more whelmed then before, I dropped the two bags in my hands, back pack still on my back, and ran up the stairs. I could hear my mother laughing and yelling to me “It’s the second one down on the left!”

As I walked in, I screamed. Everything was already place. My bed was there with its red sheets and black with a large silver rose printed on the comforter. My walls were painted black with a huge and beautiful painting of a silver rose bleeding in red on the wall over my bed. The carpet on my floor was black and some of my other walls had some of my movie and band posters on them. I had gotten a new desk for my laptop and for me to have a place where I could study. The desk was painted in a deep blood red.

There were some doors in my room which I had no clue as to what is behind them. And so curiosity killed the cat and I just had to look. Behind the door that was opposite from my bed was my own personal bathroom! It was painted all silver and had a large black carpet, shower curtain and toilet seat. And so I went to check the other door, which was a huge walk-in closet! But as I walked in, I happened to noticed yet another door. And like I said before, curiosity killed the cat; I opened it and walked inside.

It was beautiful and just what I have been dreaming about my whole life!

Ever since I was three my mother had signed me up for piano lessons and I loved it! And now I’m standing in the room with the balcony that looks over the front yard with a grand, black oak, piano! I’m so over whelmed right now, I think I might cry.

“So… how do you like it?” I hadn’t noticed my mother come in to my new bedroom since I had opened the door.

“Mom… this is… AMAZING! Thank you so much!” I said as I lunged at her for a huge bear hug.

“But there is one more surprise,” I looked at her as if she was crazy.

“What?” I was really excited and was really nervous to know what the next surprise was.

“This,” my mom said as she pulled out a black cat with a bald crescent moon spot on her forehead.

“Mom you got me a cat?!” I said disbelieving as she gently handed me the sweet little cat.

“Well your father and I thought that you might want a friend after the final move,” I was cradling the small cat in my arms as she told me that.

“This was dad’s idea?” I simply asked.

“Well, to be honest sweetie, no. But it was he who had agreed with me on the idea,” we both had a small laugh for a few minutes. Then we just took a moment of silence to just look around at our new surroundings.

“I guess that I should go thank him, huh?” I asked breaking the silence between us.

“Yeah, I think that would be a good idea,” she said agreeing with me.

“Can I do it later on? I’m feeling kind of dizzy from all of this excitement,” I said while I went to put the sweet little cat down on her scratching post/bed/home.

“Yes, I think that is a good idea,” mom then gave me a hug and kissed my cheek. While she was walking over to the door to leave the secret room, she turned back to me, “Serena, do you want to be home schooled for a little bit more, or do you think you’re ready for public school again?”

When she asked me that, I had no clue what to think. Ever since I went to live in the mental facility at the hospital, I have been home schooled and if I stayed with home schooling, I should be graduating high school this year. But maybe and hopefully things would be different.

“Umm… we could try home schooling for a few more weeks if not for the next month, and if you feel like you’re ready, you just tell me if and when you want to go back to public schooling,” mom said right before she left.

I didn’t know what to do or think at the time. So I picked up my new cat and walked back to my bedroom. When I looked at the clock, it read something like 9:45am.

“I think we should get some sleep, eh?” I asked the cat as we both lay down on the bed, I got under the covers and the cat slept at my feet on top of the covers.

Nightmares; are they all true or are they all just made up just to psych you out?

Some have meanings and others don’t?

Are they all just about what you fear or dread the most? Or are they about something random that you have never heard about?

My dreams make no sense, they have no meaning, and the only thing they cause is just confusion. Yes they are bone chilling scary, but really… could there be something more to the dream then just confusion over all when the dream is done?

I usually get the feeling that there is someone out there that hates me so much; they decided to give me all of these unmeaningful dreams. They have no end and just keep going every night. Same people with the shadowed faces but in a different dream. But sometimes I get dreams of my father getting drunk again but this time he can’t control himself and I end up getting really hurt and almost to the point of dying. And I also get some dreams about Cady telling me something important. It’s like as if she’s trying to tell me what is about to happen to me and the world in the mere future.

Waking up; is waking up from any dream telling you that you’re safe? Because if that’s true… then why do I feel the opposite of safe?

Is waking up in a cold sweat and heavy breathing a sign of safety? Or is it the sign of the devil trying to conquer over you through your dreams?

When I woke up it was about 2:30 in the afternoon. My new cat was still sleeping at the foot of my bed. ‘I still need to name her,’ I thought in my head as I got up from my bed and stalked towards my bathroom.

I then looked at myself in the mirror and I could tell that I didn’t sleep too well when I took that nap.

I then decided that I should take a shower and wash up. After I turned on the water, stripped out of my awesome ripped jeans and black tank-top, I then stepped into the nice warm hot shower. It was very relaxing and it helped me wake up more.

When I got out I wrapped myself in a large silver with black polka doted towel that my mother had probably picked out. I had noticed that all of my stuff was unpacked and put away. All of my make-up, hair, and bathroom supplies was out and neatly placed all over my sink. I smiled to myself while I was brushing my teeth.

After that I blow-dried my hair and straightened it and put on some black eyeliner. Then I put my dyed black hair up in a high messy ponytail bun.

I was still wrapped tightly in my towel when I exited my bathroom to my bedroom. When I got out, once again I had noticed something. Everything was unpacked and put away! So I quickly went over to my dresser to get some underwear and a bra. Then I went over to my walk-in closet and picked out what I was going to wear for the rest of the day.

I decided to wear a pair of my favorite worn out and ripped jeans and my favorite band’s tour shirt, AnOnYmOuS. I guess you could say that I’m one of those Goth girls that shop at places like Hot Topic and Spencer’s and that also dye their hair black and wear dark make-up. Well yeah I guess you can say that I am that. But I don’t wear the slutty clothes that they sell there and I don’t wear my make-up dark at all. I just like to wear band t-shirts, tank-tops, jeans and dark clothes in general. I do have three pairs of sweat pants and some college sweat shirts. I also have like four jackets that are black and green, plain black, black and red, and black and purple.

Black isn’t my favorite color though. My favorite color is pink, but I would never admit that out loud or to anyone for the matter. My mother doesn’t even know what my favorite color is… she just thinks that it’s some kind of dark color or black.

When I had gotten back home from the hospital, I thought that everything would go back to the way it used to. But when my father started to ignore me and just pretended that I didn’t exist, I was hopeful. But I then had to quickly remind myself that things like that I should never hope for, because it was always useless.

When I was finished with getting my clothes on, I then went back to my dresser and got out a pair of black ankle socks and put on my black low top converse. I then went to see where my cat was and couldn’t find her.

“She probably went to go get something to eat I guess…” I said to myself as I walked out of my room and down the stairs and into the kitchen to find my mother starting dinner.

“Hey mom,” I apparently startled her and she nearly almost knocked over the pot she was using to cook dinner in. “Sorry,” I apologized for making her jump.

“It’s okay… So how are you feeling?” she asked as she took a break from cooking to talk with me and looked at me straight in the eye to make sure that I wasn’t lying.

I’m really good at lying. Everyone believes me, but my mother can see right through me whenever I go to open my mouth to talk. So telling her the truth was the only way out from her giving you a lecture on why lying is bad and that’s why Pinocchio’s nose grew so long, because he was a terrible liar.

“Okay… I guess,” okay so maybe that wasn’t the truth but still, I think she bought it.

“Okay sweetie. Dinner will be ready in about an hour or so,” see I told you that she would buy it!

“Okay… hey mom?”

“Hm?”

“Do you think that it would be okay if I went into town?”

“Yeah, sweetie, it’s fine with me, but not today okay?” I could understand what she meant by that. We were new to the town and we needed to unpack the rest of our stuff. And I wasn’t really planning on going into town today. I was thinking more of the day after tomorrow?

“Yeah, I was thinking more of like the day after tomorrow… if that’s alright with you,” I needed parent permission. Usually I would be all over with going to new and different places for a change in scenery and just to get away from some people. Like back in Maryland right after I got back from the hospital, I would always walk over to the park and spend most of my days there on the swing set in the playground or I would be shooting hoops on the basketball court.

My mother was eyeing my funny and then walked over to me and put her hand on my forehead.

“Mom… what are you doing?” I asked about her sudden actions.

“I thought that you might have a temperature… whenever you say you want to go somewhere you usually just go not caring what I or your father says… granted you never listen to him…” the last part was not audible for me to hear because it was in too low of a whisper that I don’t think anyone for the matter would ever be able to hear her!

“Yeah… Hey have you seen my cat?” it had just dawned on me that I haven’t seen my new cat for about over an hour now and I was starting to get a little worried.

“Yeah sweetie, she just finished eating… you haven’t named her yet?”

The black cat with the golden crescent moon heard us talking about her and walked over to us from her water bowl. I picked her up in my arms and held her tight. But not so tight that she couldn’t breathe or move, just tight enough so she wouldn’t fall from my arms.

She looked up at me with curious eyes and I got this weird sense of déjà vu as we just looked into each other’s eyes.

‘Do I know this cat from somewhere? And if I do… then why do I keep thinking that it used to be a person that I once knew? Cady, maybe, could she have been reborn but into a cat’s body? Now I must be going crazy!’ I thought to myself.

“Uh… Hey mom, I think that I’m gonna go hangout in my room and work on my piano until dinner is ready… okay?”

She wasn’t paying any attention as she was too intent on making dinner once again.

“Yeah, sure honey, but just be sure that you are down here before your brother and father get back,” this had caught my attention.

“Why? Where did they go, mom?”

“They went to the store to get something. Sammy said that it was going to be a surprise for you and that it was for the both of you. Your father only agreed to—”

“It because it was Sammy’s idea. Yeah mom I got it. And I’ll be back down stairs when they pull into the driveway,” I finished for her and then headed up the stairs and back into my bed room.

When I was back in my bedroom I quickly went to the room that you could get to only through my closet. I closed my closet door and locked my music room door so no one could hear the conversation that was about to happen and was about to blow my mind away!

The first thing that I did once I got into the room was put my cat down on her scratching post and then I went to take a seat at my piano. I was actually planning on working on my piano skills but I’m starting to rethink that idea at the moment.

So for about close to ten to fifteen minutes I just sat there staring at the music for my exercises for piano…

Then I was snapped out of me thoughts as I heard a voice talking to me.

“Your time is now and we have a lot of work to do. Training and all, that is,” I looked around the room looking for the person that the female voice had come from.

Then my cat got up, jumped down to the floor and started to walk over to me and jumped on to my lap and looked me straight in the eye.

“My name is Luna and you are the reincarnation of my princess from the time of the Moon Kingdom, Princess Serenity. You are also the chosen leader of the Sailor Scouts, Sailor Moon, guardian of the Moon and protector of Earth until the Prince is found,” Luna then jumped from my lap and did a flip with glitter emitting from her, falling to the floor and forming into two different objects. A pink circle brooch with a golden star on it had formed. With a red, blue, green and orange dot surrounding it and at the top of the star was a little golden crescent moon. And a necklace had also formed with a small real white diamond star and pink diamond crescent moon.

“The Brooch is for you to transform into Sailor Moon and this was the necklace that you wore when you were Princess Serenity from so long ago,”

I just looked at Luna dumbfounded and speechless. I then picked up the necklace and held it in my hand. Next I picked up the brooch and I could feel its power seeping into my veins and start coursing through my body and through my blood. I had my eyes closed as I felt the power within me. It felt very relaxing. When I opened my eyes again I looked back at Luna. This had to be some kind of crazy dream. No way could I feel this kind of power in real life!

“You won’t get your memories back until the time is right. Your scouts and guardians don’t have too much of their memories back either. The only thing that I was told that they know is of you. But even then they only know that you are the only being in the universe that can contain, control and use the Silver Imperial Crystal,” Luna said very seriously.

“Are you joking?! This has to be some kind of crazy minded dream! I need to tell Mom to stop giving me those sleeping pills; they’re starting to make me go crazy!” when I looked back to Luna, she seemed frustrated. Shaking her head she walked around in a little circle and then faced me once more.

“No Serenity, this is no dream,”

“Okay… then PROVE IT!”

“Okay, hold up your brooch, and shout ‘Moon Crystal Power, Make-UP!’” I just eyed Luna suspiciously and then held up my brooch. And put the necklace on my piano.

“Moon… Crystal… POWER MAKE-UP!” after I said those words… I was starting to regret it. I was incased with a nice warm pink light… but when I looked down and at my body… my clothes were gone! But I am grateful that the light is very blinding.

Then swirls of blue, red and white ribbon were wrapping itself around my body. The white had turned into a bodice, the blue turned in to a really short skirt that I am never going to get use to. And finally the red turned into a pair of boots that went up to my knee that have little golden crescent moon on the tip of them, and the red also turned in to two bows.

I could feel something form on my forehead, neck and ears. I quickly ran over to my closet and grabbed the full length mirror. I was in so much shock, that I think I could burst into tears right then and there.

I had a golden tiara on my forehead with a golden crescent moon on it. On my neck, I had a red choker that also had a golden crescent moon in the middle of it. The earrings, of course, were also golden crescent moons. But what terrified me the most was what I saw on my head that graced down to my calves. It was golden and something that I haven’t seen in four years. My old hair! Memories came back, but surprisingly they weren’t as bad as I thought they were.

My memories of Cady played in my head and a small smile graced my lips as I just stared at my reflection in the mirror. So my hair was back up in its old style, odangos and all. But each ball of hair had a large ruby on it. So it would complete my sailor look.

“Now do you believe me?” asked Luna as she stalked over to me.

“Not fully… but I think that you would want my trust more than me believing you,”

“Yes, that is correct,”

“Okay then you have 25% of it right now,” and so a small smile graced her little kitty features.

“Okay now back to what I was saying about the Silver Imperial Crystal—”

“What is the Silver Imperial Crystal?” I asked. Those three words sounded so familiar to me… where have I heard it before?

“It is the strongest crystal known to mankind that holds the power to control and conquer the whole universe. It’s so powerful that in one blast it could destroy a planet. The only problem is, is that we do not know where it is. That is why we need you, Princess. You are the only one who knows how to find the crystal. But know this, once the evil that we are up against finds out that you are alive; they will do everything in their power to capture you and get the crystal for themselves. If the Silver Imperial Crystal falls into the wrong hands, this world will cease to exist!” said Luna more urgently this time.

“So let me guess, you want me to fight this evil as Sailor Moon but keep my Princess identity a secret from everyone?” I questioned. I wasn’t enjoying this one bit, but getting the chance to fight to save the planet and not get in trouble for it sounds like fun! But knowing that I might die is one of these battles wasn’t a very pleasant thought either. If you haven’t noticed, I use to get into fights all the time as a kid. So this is kind of a good thing for me.

“Well technically yes and technically no. Your scouts must know that you are the princess. But they won’t know from the first meeting. They would need to see me with you—”

“Well what if I don’t want them to find out? What if I just want to fly solo for the fighting? Or maybe I could just help them out, ‘cause you did tell me that my power is very strong. So I could just help out. I’m not really a team person. In fact I’ve only had one friend my whole life but she…” did I really want to tell Luna about what had happened with Cady? No, “… she moved away and I haven’t seen or talk to her since. So I don’t want to get too close to them, because I don’t want to go through that kind of pain ever again. Do you understand me?” Luna just looked at me eyes wide. “Now can you please tell me how I get out of this slutty thing?”

“Grab on to your bow,” I did that, “Now pull up then down and think in your head, De-Transformation,” I did just that and I turned back into my regular old self with short black layered hair.

I got up from where I was sitting and put the brooch into my front pocket in my jeans and then walked over to my balcony. While I did that I put my Moon Princess necklace on.

“I do not understand your highness. Your guardians will want to know that you have been born in this time and are so far safe from any danger. And from what I can recall from my memories of the Moon Kingdom, you and your guardians were really close and were sister-like best friends. Especially you, Mars and Venus. Just meet them and see for yourself,”

“Okay, I’ll think about it. But I still don’t want them to know anything! Just remember one thing Luna; I will never be safe no matter where I am or who I am with. And I can protect myself. I am just doing this because I think that this is a dream and that maybe fighting the monsters that come here will be fun and will take my mind off of most things…” I trailed off as I saw my dad and Sammy pull into the driveway. “Well I guess I should go down stairs now. We will finish this after dinner,” then I quickly made my way down the stairs and into the kitchen to help set up the dining room table for our first dinner here in our new home in New Salem, North Dakota.

To be continued...