The
Last Two Moon Beads
Serena had been staring at the moon
beads all day. She had found fourteen moon beads now and she only needed to
find two more moon beads. But something bothered Serena; she didn’t know what
would happen to all the moon beads once she found them all. Would she get to
keep them, or would they all disappear? These two questions were stuck in her
mind. Serena remembered all the times when she found the moon spirits and got
them back into their moon beads. It had taken five months for Serena to find
the beads. But now the search for the moon beads was coming to an end, and it
felt so soon for Serena.
Just then a maid came into Serena’s
room and told her to get ready for tonight. Tonight a ball was being held in
the palace, and as usual all the servants were getting the castle ready for it.
But Serena couldn’t even think about the ball tonight because her search for
the moon beads was nearly finished with. “Is something wrong, your highness?”
the maid asked Serena. The maid noticed that Serena wasn’t even looking excited
about the ball. “Oh I’m just thinking about something, it’s nothing really”
said Serena, trying not to worry the maid. “Okay” replied the maid. Serena
decided to just concentrate on getting ready for the ball, instead of thinking
about the moon beads.
Suddenly there was a thud noise
coming from outside. “What was that?” asked Serena. “Oh that would be the men
placing the new statue in the castle grounds” the maid answered. “A new
statue?” said Serena. “Oh yes,” said the maid “a new statue was ordered to be
placed in the castle courtyard for decoration”. “That’s interesting” said
Serena. Hearing about a new statue in the court yard gave Serena a thought that
maybe that statue would have a moon bead. She asked the maid if she had enough
time to see the statue right now. “Sorry your highness, but your mother needs
to speak to you and your sister after you’ve finished getting ready” said the
maid. “Okay” said Serena. Serena was disappointed that she wasn’t able to check
the new statue out now. But there was nothing she could do except wait till she
would have the chance to see the new statue.
Hours later the ball had begun.
Musicians had started playing music and everyone had begun dancing. Queen Luna
was watching everything from the throne and Princess Serena and Princess Diana
were enjoying themselves with dancing and talking with the guests. Even though
Serena was enjoying the ball, she still wanted to have a quick look at the new
statue in the courtyard. After finishing a dance with someone, she excused
herself for a while. Since everyone was distracted with the ball, Serena used
this as a chance to go and look at the new statue in the courtyard.
The new statue in the courtyard turned
out to be a statue of a prince and princess holding hands with each other. “This
is the loveliest statue that I have ever seen” said Serena, who was admiring it
a lot. She looked at the base to see if there was a bead and there was. But to
Serena’s surprise, there were two beads instead of one. “I can’t believe it,”
said Serena, in surprise, “I’ve found two beads instead of one. This just
leaves with finding the last two moon spirits, wherever they are”. Serena
looked at the moon bead bracelet on her right wrist, which she had been wearing
the whole time. “Then my quest will be over”.
Serena ran back to the ballroom, and
luckily no one knew that she had sneaked out. At that moment her sister Diana
walked up to her and told her that a prince a princess wanted to see her. The
prince was very handsome and the princess was very beautiful. “We are honoured
to meet you Princess Serena” said the prince, bowing to her. The princess
curtsied to Serena. “I am honoured to meet you too your highnesses” said
Serena, curtsying to them. “If you please I would like to have the next dance
with you Princess Serena” said the prince. “I would be delighted your highness”
said Serena. Serena and the prince took each other’s hand and they had a wonderful
dance together. When the dance was over, the prince asked Serena if he and the
princess could meet with her alone outside for a while. Serena was confused but
agreed with the request, so she, the prince and the princess went outside.
They went, where no one could see or
hear them. “What did you two want to talk to me about?” asked Serena. “We
wanted to talk to you alone because you have our beads” answered the princess.
As soon as the princess said that, the dull moon beads that Serena hid in the
sash of her dress began to glow. Then the prince and princess began to glow and
their hair both turned white and the clothes they were wearing both turned
white and silver. “Are you the Moon Prince and Moon Princess?” asked Serena.
“Yes and we are back into our true forms thanks to you Serena” said the Moon
Prince.
At that moment, the moon bead
bracelet glowed and then all of the moon spirits came out of the beads. The
Moon Unicorn and Moon Pegasus turned out to be the Moon Prince and Princess’s
animal partners and they were happy to see them. This was an amazing site for
Serena; all of the moon spirits were there in front of her. The moon spirits
turned to Serena. “You have our gratitude Serena” said the Moon Knight, bowing
to her. “Ever since we lost our friend Celina and got separated, we feared that
we would never be together again” said the Moon Fairy. “But we don’t anymore
thanks to you Serena” said the Moon Sorceress. “Yes it is thanks to you that
all of us moon spirits are all together again, after being separated from each
other for so long” said the Moon Maiden. All of the moon spirits thanked Serena
for finding them and for finding their beads. “I’m happy to see that all of you
are together again,” said Serena “and I’m sure Celina, up in heaven, is happy
too. But now that you are all together again, what are all of you going to do
now?” “We don’t know,” replied the Moon Prince “we don’t know what we should do
from now on”. Serena could see that the moon spirits felt lost, but she didn’t
know what to do for them.
Just then a white dove appeared and
dropped a piece of paper towards Serena. She caught it and found that it was a
message. It read; ‘I will reclaim the moon beads on the next full moon’. Serena
looked at the moon; tonight was a three-quarter moon, so the next full moon was
tomorrow night. “I don’t know who sent this,” she said to the moon spirits “but
it seems someone is searching for all of you”. Serena and the moon spirits had
no idea who sent the message, nor did they have any idea of what was going to
happen tomorrow night. All they could do was wait and see what would happen.
The moon spirits went back into their beads and Serena just went back to the
ballroom.
