Prologue
As the kingdom lay crumbling, the queen also lay dying, tears in her eyes for the fact she could not save her kingdom.
"Queen Serenity!" Two little cats, one white the other black, both with crescent moon shapes on their foreheads came running to her prone form.
"Luna, Artemis," She reached out to them. "What of the guardians?" too scared to ask what had become of her daughter.
"They are dead..." Artemis paused, tears in his deep blue eyes. "They fought with nobility and valor befitting." Luna hung her head sobbing quietly. Serenity closed her eyes, trying to bring up the courage to ask about her daughter.
"How about," Her breath caught, fresh tears ran down her face creating trails. "My daughter, Serenity?" The cats looked at one another with nervous glances, not sure if they wanted to tell her the truth.
"Well you see your Majesty..." Artemis started, but he couldn't finish.
"She may have been better off dead." Luna choked up looking ashamed and devastated.
"Luna, why do you say that?" The queen herself was taken aback at what the little cat said, but was wondered all the same why she would say such thing in the first place.
"Beryl, she has trapped the Princess in a secluded dungeon, and placed the iron..." Luna could not finish as she broke down further in tears.
"Your Majesty, Beryl has put a harsh spell on your daughter, one of the harshest of spells, one that any guardian would not dare to touch, one that only someone as evil as she is would even think of doing, The Iron Mask Spell..."