Name of the Storyline: Blossoming Love
Name of the Creator(s):  Yamichan16 and RadicaleEdward124
Forum: Silver Millennium 
Plot Summary:  
Luna and Artemis both want to leave their home planet Mau to find a better life. Queen Serenity is out on a search to find trustworthy advisors so she travels to different worlds. She stumbles upon the two and sees the good in their hearts. She asks them to join her kingdom as advisors and they both say yes. The two of them meet for the first time when they arrive on the moon. Artemis is taken by Luna's beauty and it's love at first site. However Luna is dedicated to her new duty and doesn't notice Artemis attraction towards her. Artemis notices and is determined to win Luna's heart. 
Details on any necessary information: This is a basic RP of how Luna and Artemis met and fell in love each other. They do not know each other until they arrive at the Moon Palace. The RP starts off with their arrival at the Moon Palace. Luna and Artemis can change between their cat forms and human forms. This is a RP between Yamichan16 and RadicaleEdward124.
Restrictions:
Cannon: Luna and Artemis. Queen Serenity, Princess Serenity and all of the senshi will be NPC. No villains.
Otaku: N/A

Artemis was standing in the grand entrance in the palace. He glanced around at awe. He was impressed on how big the place was. He then was greeted by a maid who informed him that the queen was waiting for him in the lounge. Artemis nodded and followed the maid. They walked off into right and the maid opened a door. Artemis saw the queen sitting on a couch sipping some tea. She looked up and gave him a warm smile.

"Thank you, dear," she said to the maid. "You may leave us be."

The maid just bowed and walked away. Artemis remained at the doorway looking at his surroundings. It was nicely sized room and had pretty future. There was a lot purple. He wondered if the queen liked purple.

"Artemis," spoke Queen Serenity. "Please take a seat." She then pointed an arm chair that was sitting across from the couch.

He walked over to the chair and took a seat and said, "I want to thank you again for allowing me to take such a position."

The queen just smiled at him again and spoke, "I trust that you can handle the job?"

"Yes."

"Good. Now, please help yourself to some tea." She then gesture toward the tray of tea cups which had a plate of nice looking sweets sitting next it.

Artemis grabbed a tea cup with his hand and was glad he deiced to show up in his human form. He took a sip of the tea and placed the cup back on the table. He then glanced around noticed it was just them.

"Your, highness where is my coworker Luna?" He asked. When he met the queen and accepted the job she mentioned that he would be working another mau. A girl named Luna. Artemis has never met this Luna before. He felt quite anxious about it.

"Please call me Serenity," She answered softly. "As for Luna she has not arrived yet. So we'll wait for her."

"I see..."

"In the mean time why don't we have a nice chat and help ourselves to some sweets?"

Artemis smiled and chuckled a little. He was happy that he was working for a nice person.

Luna was sure she was late. She didn't like being late, but then when you take forever deciding to come as a Human or a cat, then just as long messing with your hair, you're going to run a late. "I just hope I'm not to late." She said to herself, her always bare feet padding through the halls. She made her way to the main hall where she thought she needed to be, but was greeted by a maid. 

"The queen changed her mind and wished you meet you in the lounge." The young maid smiled and lead Luna to where the Queen was waiting.  

"Ah Luna." Queen Serenity said, "Thank you for showing her the way. You can go." The Queen dismissed the Maid. "Have a seat and join us Luna." 

Luna nodded and gracefully sat down in the chair offered." This is Artemis." The Queen continued. "You will be working with him." Luna glanced over to the other Mau. Taking a moment to take in his appearance, she then smiled and tilted her head to one side. 

"It's a pleasure to meet you Artemis." She said. "I'm so glad to be working with you."

Artemis looked up when the door to the lounge opened. The same maid brought in a young girl who had long black hair and bright blue eyes. She was wearing a long yellow dress with a black skirt underneath. He can tell she was Mau. So this must be Luna he thought to himself. He was stunned by her beauty and felt his heart go a flutter. 

He went into a slight daze and was quickly brought out of it, when he heard Luna speaking to him. He just smiled at her. " Like wise." He wanted to tell her he thought her name suit her, but he couldn't speak anymore. He was lost with words. He have never met anyone who left him speechless. He just looked back at the queen and took a sip from his tea cup.

Luna listened closely as she and Artemis were given their first set of duties. They were going to arrange a Royal Dinner Party and baby sit the young Princess Serenity at the same time. Luna smiled at the queen. She had spent a little time with the baby princess when she first arrived and she loved the child. "It will be an honor, my lady." Luna said.

She set her cup down and turned to Artemis. "If you're ready I can show you to our new offices." her smile was reflected in her eyes. "And introduce you to the Princess." She said with a slight giggle. The little blond babe was by far the cutest creature Luna had ever encountered, and she lived where kittens were a common site.

Artemis almost choke on his tea when, Luna spoke to him. He put down his cup and just nodded. So they would be baby sitting the princess? If he remember correctly she was just a baby which didn't thrill him one bit. He had no experience with watching children especially small ones. 

'This should be interesting,' he thought to himself. Artemis looked at Luna and gave her a small smile. "Lead the way, Luna. "

Luna smiled and lead the white Mau to the nursery. There in a crib lay the still infant princess of the moon. her blond hair falling around her face in those iconic pigtails. "Here she is." Luna said leaning over and gently picking the baby up. "Artemis, meet Princess Serenity of the Moon Kingdom." She smiled and held the baby so that Artemis could see her. She opened her eyes and burped at them. Luna giggled and smiled at the royal child. Looking up at Artemis, her eyes held a brightness and wonder that she didn't know was there. "Would you like to hold her?" she asked.

Artemis blink twice when Luna asked him to hold her. He has never held a baby before. He looked down at the young princess. She smiled at him and he couldn't help, but smile back. She was too cute!! He nodded his head and Luna placed her in his arms. She helped him hold her in the proper way. Princess Serenity beam up at him as she tried to play with his long hair.

"She's something isn't she?" He said to Luna. "Hopefully it won't be too hard to babysit. I have you ever taken care of a baby?"

"Oh yes. There were several kittens on Mau that I cared for. I miss them but this was such a wonderful opportunity i couldn't pass that up." She smiled at Artemis. "You might make a good dad one day." She said off handed. "Well let's get the princess fed, we can talk about the party while she eats and plan some of the details while she's napping." She turned to Artemis. "Does that sound like a plan?" she asked smiling bottle for the princess in hand.

Artemis felt his face flushed for a bit when Luna said he would make a good dad one day. He never thought about being a father before. He just smiled and nodded his head. So the two of them fed the baby princess and put her to sleep. After she drifted off into dream land, the two maus sat down on a couch that was in the room.

"So," Artemis spoke softly so he didn't wake the baby princess. "What ideas do you have in mind for the party?"

Luna talking animatedly about all the ideas she had for the party. Her eyes were bright and her voice carried more than a hint of excitement. She wanted a little dancing and mingling, so the party goers didn't feel confined to a chair. She wanted traditional foods served, unless that is they suck, she added, in which case they could find something more appealing to those in attendance. 

Luna's necklace hit her knees and she leaned forward and picked up her sketch book off the table to show Artemis what she had been working on before she started getting ready to meet him. On the pages were rough sketches of the Grand Ball room and Dining room. Scattered around the paper, were little squares and circles with notes jotted near or on them to represent what each shapes table would hold. 

"I'd like to have a theme." Luna said her voice, softer now, almost lost in thought. "But not a theme that will over power anything. "She said placing her finger to her chin and tilting her head to the side. "Something light and soft like earth or moon light." She said her eyes growing distant as she was lost deeper and deeper to her thought processes. "Something like Moonlight legends.." She trailed off now lost in her own world of party planning.

Artemis looked through Luna's sketch book. He was impressed with her drawings. Despite them being rough sketches. He couldn't draw a stick figure to save his life. He liked how Luna planned to set up the ball room and the dinning room. Again she impressed him. 

"Moonlight legends?" Artemis repeated back as he handed back her sketch book. He had no clue what that meant. "Are you talking about urban legends of the moon or earth?" He shifted in his chair a bit trying to make sense of out the theme. "Well I'm sure there is a library here. Maybe we could look up on the information on the moon? Not so sure about Earth seeing how the moon doesn't have good history with the blue planet."

Luna's brow furrowed in confusion. "Urban legends?" she tilted her head and looked at the other Mau."No I meant like silver and pearl white with gold accents, and" she paused trying to find the right words." you know moonlight-ly" she said waving her hands round. "I don't know where you got Urban Legends from." she said crossing her arms over her chest. Sometimes she just didn't get boys. 

The infant princess started fussing and Luna was on her feet and at the crib in moments, the princess in her arms. "Quite now, little moonbeam." She cooed at the child in her arms.

Artemis felt like a complete idiot when Luna explained her idea. He can't believe he thought she was talking about urban legends. Why didn't he understand her idea at first? It was a brilliant idea to use moon like colors as the theme. He just laughed it off as Luna went to go comfort the princess.

'She probably thinks I'm a fool,' he thought to himself and looked down at his feet. 'Wait... what I am saying? Why does it matter if she thinks I'm a fool?' He looked up and watched Luna rock the princess back and forth in her arms to calm her down. He couldn't help, but smile. 'Luna is very kind, Artemis.. She wouldn't think you're a fool.'

Luna swayed with the little princess in her arms. She smiled and cooed as the baby played with her moon shaped necklace. She always felt so at peace holding the small child in her arms, she wondered if she would feel the same if she had children of her own. She had many suitors back on Mau, but she always turned them away. Then she was focused on caring for the kittens in her charge. It was easy enough work and they always had enough fund to feed and care for everyone properly, but they were still children and children needed looked after.

Luna cooed at the princess again, and took her pendant out of the child's toothless mouth. She turned in her swaying and caught sight of Artemis watching them. She blushed just slightly and turned away. She smiled down at the princess. "He's such a silly cat, isn't he?" she asked the princess softly,"Silly foolish cat." In response the princess, emitted a high pitched laugh and babbled in whatever baby's spoke in, smiling at the dark haired cat in human from.

Luna swayed absently looking out the window, watching as the Earth rose in the distance. After a bit, Luna looked down and saw the princess had fallen back to sleep. Gently so not to wake the child again, Luna made her way over to the crib and laid the sleeping princess inside, before joining Artemis at the table again. "OK," She softly. "Where were we?" She asked looked at the other Mau.

Artemis and Luna spent the whole night planning for the party. They got everything down to the last detailed. The only thing left to do was to set up the ballroom. The two headed off to bed and planned on getting up super early since the party would be tomorrow night. 

So the next morning Artemis rolled out of bed and look at himself in the mirror. His hair was complete mess. That was the down side to having long hair. He grabbed the comb off the dresser and started to comb out the knots. He then got dressed and headed down to the ball room. As he was walking he let out a small yawn. Artemis loved the morning and wondered what the morning would be like on the moon. He passed a window and caught a glimpse of the sky. He saw the sun and the earth raising and found that quite amusing. Artemis made it to the ballroom and glanced around. He saw the palace help bringing in the supplies for the party, but no sign of Luna. He found a chair and sat down to wait for her. 

RING! RING!
RING RING!

A hand shot out from under the blankets and stuck the alarm clock with a force so great it cracked the glass on the front, but silencing the annoying sound. The blankets shifted and settled back down and a soft almost purr could be heard from with in. For a few moments all was quite and peaceful in the well furnished room. A small shaft of light spilled into the room from a slight opening in the curtains, giving off the only light in the room. A full length mirror stood at one end of the room reflecting back the lack of movement in the room. A yellow dress was neatly laid out near the mirror and the sheen from the gold jewelry could be detected by an observant eye.

BUZZ! BUZZ!
BUZZ! BUZZ!

A pillow soared across the room towards the new source of annoyance and dark blue eyes still filled with sleep blinked from under the blankets. Luna shifted and sat up, the blankets falling in a pool around her. Curly black hair was more of a messy halo around her head. Eyes slitted against the little light in the room, Luna stretched and yawned, pawing at her eyes to rub the sleep from them.

BUZZ BUZZ!!
BUZZ BUZZ!!

With a groan Luna threw one white leg out from the warmth of her blankets and bed, followed by the other. With great effort the Mau woman got out of bed, with little care for her appearance. Without thought she grabbed the offending clock and threw it will all her might out of her room and into the hall, slamming the door behind it. With a small satisfied smile, the dark haired cat woman shuffled back to her bed and with a light thud fell back into the small ocean of pillows and blankets, pulling the later over her head and drifting back to sleep with a light purr the only sound in the room. All thoughts of what the day would hold far from she sleep addled mind, Luna fell back into her dreams.

Artemis was sitting in his chair titling it backward. He wondered what was taking Luna so long. Did girls always take their time to get ready? He glanced at the grandfather clock that was in the room and saw that an hour has gone by. He then got up and headed back toward his room and Luna's room. Artemis wanted to see what was taking her. They had work to do! The party was tonight!

When he got to her room, Artemis knocked on the door. There was no answer so he knocked louder. Again no answer. Artemis let out a sigh of frustration. He opened the door slowly and saw that Luna was still asleep in her bed.

"Oi!" He cried and approached her bed. "It's time to get up!"

A pillow flew from the bed towards the voice, she hoped hitting the disturbing creature. "It's far to early to be getting up." A mumble emitted from under the covers. She had been having such a nice dream too. She was at the party and Artemis had asked her to dance, blushing she nodded and let him lead her to the dance floor. To her it had seemed like the world stopped and all there was anywhere in the universe was her and him. "THE PARTY!" The may woman shot out of her bed and across the room to her dressing room to don her clothes. She dressed quickly and readied for the day. "Oh no! I forgot!" She fretted to herself and she rushed out of the smaller room, her hair still a mess from sleep. "Hi Artemis." She paused when she finally noticed him. "What are you doing here?" She asked tilting her head to the side.

Artemis dodged the pillow at once. He watched it hit the wall and looked back at Luna. Who knew such a kind mau could turn into a beast when woken up? He was debating what would the best way to be wake her up, but Luna sprung up shouting out about the party. He watched her jump out of bed and quickly go into her dressing room to get ready. He couldn't help, but laugh at Luna. 

Once she came out of the dressing room, she looked shock to see him standing there. This made him laugh even more. He clear his throat at once. "I was wondering what was taking you so long so I came check up on you. I must say you have a good arm."

Luna blushed brightly. She wasn't sure if she had thrown the pillow or not, but now that her fellow Mau had said so, she felt embarrassed. She was suppose to be a lady and she was suppose to be well not throwing pillows at people. "Sorry about that." She muttered, "Anyway," She said quickly changing the subject."We have work to do, in less time now that I've set us back." She grabbed Artemis' hand and darted out her door leaving the pillow on the floor. 


She lead them through the halls of the palace with ease till the arrived at the ballroom, where they would start setting up for tonights event. "Ready to get to work?" She smiled at her new partner.

"Of course!" Artemis smiled when they arrived in the ball room. The two got straight to work right away. They hung up directions, tasted food, approved the music, ect. They didn't stop once and was able to have everything ready to go an hour before the guests arrived. 

Artemis went back to his room and got ready for the party. Before he hopped into the shower, he went into the closet and looked through his clothes. He wasn't quite sure what to wear and why he is debating is odd. He never really cared about what he wore before, but for some reason he wanted to look good for the party. When he finally found the right outfit, he placed it down on the bed and went into the bathroom to take his shower.  

After his shower, he dried off and blow dried his hair. Having long hair can be such a pain sometimes. He then got dressed and headed out of his bedroom. He made his way to Luna's room. He promised her that they would walk to the ball together. When he got to his door, he just stood there before knocking. He wondered if he should wait a bit. Girls do take longer to get ready after all. 

"I bet she picked out a nice dress," He thought to himself. "What?" He shook his head. "Why did I think that?" 


He just took a deep breath and knocked on the door anyways. He hoped tonight will run smoothly.

Luna parted ways with Artemis and went back to her room. She had an hour to get ready but at this point in her day she was wide awake and ready to go, and since she had picked out her dress last night she wouldn't have to worry about that. She pulled the shimmering purple gown of her closet. Like her usually dresses it was high in the front and long it the back, with a lacy under dress that fell to the floor in the back and mid calf in the front. the selves here shear and shimmering purple, with just a hint of yellow gold though out. She would wear her usually jewelry and she would tie gold dusted purple ribbons in her long hair, letting the ribbons trail down her back with the rest of her hair. She smiled and went to take a shower herself. She showered then sat at her vanity to apply the little makeup she would wear and do her hair.

With the ribbons placed perfectly and her makeup light and just noticeable in the right light, she stepped out of her towel and into her dress. She easily slipped into the gown with ease. She then slipped her necklace on over her head, and started to slip the rest of her jewels when there was a knock at the door.

Padding over to the door she smiled when she opened it to find Artemis. "Hi." she said with a smile. "I'm just about done." She said walking back to the vanity and putting her earrings on, and she slipped a gold bangle set over her hands that made a clinking noise when she moved her hands. She lifted her foot to the stool in front of her vanity and clasped her anklet on. Still bare foot she stood and took one last look at herself in the mirror. With a smile to herself she turned to Artemis, "Ready to go?" she said with her smile brighter and her eyes filled with stars.

Artemis nearly jumped when Luna answered the door. He wasn't expecting her to respond so quickly. He nearly blushed, when he got a good look at her dress. When she asked if he was ready, he could only managed to nod his head. He wanted to hold out his arm for her to grab, but he decided against it. They weren't that close yet. So they marched forward side by side to the ballroom. As the got closer to the ballroom they could hear loud happy voices. The guests were be arriving. 

Once they entered the ballroom, they were greeted by Queen Serenity. She gave them a warm smile. 

"The place looks stunning," She spoke kindly. "Since you two worked so hard I want you to enjoy yourselves this evening. So don't worry about a thing. I'll be the host tonight. Now! Go off have some fun! Grab a bite to eat. Maybe join in on the dancing." She gave them a wink and went back to greeting the guests.

Artemis was glad the Queen was giving them the night off. It will be nice to unwind and relax. He looked at Luna. "I'm going to grab something to eat. I just realized how hungry I was. Care to join to me?"   

Luna was glad for a night off, she knew they had worked hard to get everything ready and the ability to enjoy their work was a nice change of pace.

At the offer to join Artemis for a bite to eat, Luna's stomach answered for her, causing her to giggle. "I guess I didnt realize myself how hungry I am." She giggled. "I'd be happy to join you." she said with a light blush and a bright smile reaching to her eyes.

She knew exactly what would be available to eat at the party she and Artemis had taken care to pick the best food items they could for the event, but Luna wasn't sure what she wanted. She looked over the selection and settled on her favorite, tuna, the tuna row to be exact. She took a seat at a small table near the back of the garden wanting to stay close but far enough out that they could talk without having to talk over the music. There she waiting for Artemis to join her.

Artemis looked at the rows of food that was placed on the tables. Everything looked so yummy! He decided to try put a little of everything on his plate. He saw Luna heading toward a table that was in the garden. He followed her and sat down on the table that was across from her. He placed his plate in front of him and started to eat right away. As he was eating his noticed the planet Earth shinning down on them. Artemis looked up at Luna saw that she looked stunning in the light. He blushed slightly.

"Havi...," He quickly swallowed his food. " Having a good time?"

Luna looked up from her plate to see Artemis. Her heartbeat sped up and her breath caught in her throat. Lit by the soft light of earth his sliver white hair nearly glowed, and his brilliant blue eyes shone like sapphires in the pale light. " Y-yes." She stammered in answer to his question. She mental shook herself and found her composer again. "Its such a beautiful night I don't thinks we could have engineered a better night." She said with a  smile. She picked at the few bits left on her plate for a moment before she steeled her spine. "Artemis.." She started her nervousness sounding in her voice. She swallowed against the rising panic in her chest. "Care to dance?" She stammered out, shifting her eyes away, as she waited of the laugh that usually came in answer to questions like that when she asked them. She had been shunned on Mau that's part of the reason she had been so eager  to take the position here.  She could at last be herself without worry of what others thought.

The moment between his answer and her question seemed to drag on and on forever, for Luna, she began to wonder if he was going to answer her. She felt heat rising in her cheeks. What would she do if he said no? leave the party was the only proper thing she could thing of doing. Retreating to her room was the best option she thought. She readied herself for flight to her chambers, despite knowing his answer.

"Artemis....Care to dance?"


The mau sat in his seat staring at her awe struck. Did she just asked him to dance...? Back at home no girl looked twice at him. They thought he was a goofball or a loser. His mind began to race and so did his heart. 

'Could she be...?' He thought to himself. 'Interested...?'


The loud music from the ballroom brought Artemis back into reality. He realized that he was keeping the young lady waiting. He just smiled at her and stood up. Artemis then took her hand and led her back into the ballroom. Once the got into the ballroom, he grabbed her waist and pulled her closer to him. He then led them into the dance. This was Artemis first time dancing, but he  was quick learner from watching the other dancers. He just hoped he wouldn't step on her feet. Artemis guided them across the dance floor. He couldn't keep his eyes off her and didn't realize that the song ended.

Luna sat there waiting for what felt like forever before instead of answering her, Artemis stood, took her hand and lead them to the dance floor. She couldn't help but smile as she allowed him to guide her around the dance floor. 

She didn't care that they were still dancing after the song had ended Luna didn't want this moment to end. For some reason she was lost in his sapphire eyes, and the way they looked in the soft light. 

All Luna could mange was to smile up at Artemis like a school girl in love, but she couldn't be falling in love could she?

The two stopped dancing, but Artemis didn't let her go of her. He couldn't stop staring into her eyes and felt like timed has stopped. He didn't care about the party guests nor the queen. All that mattered to him was her. This moment was so magical and he didn't want it to end. Without thinking Artemis pulled her closer to him and moved his face closer to hers. Artemis was just about to kiss her until the queen called for Luna. She turned her head and Artemis ended up kissing the bottom on her ear.

He backed away quickly and made a dash for it. Artemis wasn't sure if Luna noticed that he kissed her ear, but he didn't want to find out. Once again he made himself look like a goofball. A hopeless romantic some people would call him back at Mau. Artemis ran back outside to the gardens. He went down the balcony and into the garden themselves. He looked around and saw that he alone so he transformed back into his cat form. Artemis then concealed himself in a bush. He hoped he could hide here until the party ended. So he sat there lost in thoughts about Luna and why he almost kissed her.