"Maboroshi no Ginzuishou... Maboroshi no Ginzuishou..." The voice was deep and throaty, frightening, but somehow deeply hypnotic.
The raven haired woman sat up in her bed, pulling her sheets to her chest. The window was open and a breeze drifted into the bedchamber and ruffled the gauzy white curtains of her four post bed, letting moonlight fall upon the bed's occupant. Her blue eyes, normally the same clear color as the planet which she ruled, were glazed over with sleep so that she did not notice the shadow hidden amongst all the others in the room which slowly crept toward her.
"How is it that this planet has no crystal of its own? Why is it that even though the moon must orbit the Earth, that small pearl is the one with greater power?" The shadow was right beside her, reaching to wrap its insubstantial hands around her brain.
"Why...?" The young woman questioned in a voice that did not seem to belong to her.
"The Earth does not even have a sailor senshi like the lesser planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter..." She was being covered by shadow now, not moonlight. Soon it would own her completely. "Why is that?"
Her lips once again formed the question. It was something she had thought of before. Why should the planet she ruled have neither crystal nor senshi when all the others had one or the other? Her cheeks flushed crimson and her delicate lips formed a scowl. "I should be the one to hold the power..."
"There is a way," the shadow told her.
"How!"
"Will you help me steal the Moroboshi no Ginzuishou? Will you let me help you make the Silver Crystal your own?"
Normally she would have been suspicious of such an offer, but the young queen of Earth had been caught off guard and she was now completely under the shadow's control. She parted her lips in an ugly grin, "Yes."
Author's Notes:
Ooooo~ So scary! I bet some of you can hazard a guess as to just who that shadow is, huh?
General Info: Mare Serenitatis is a fanfic about Queen Serenity (Princess Serenity/Usagi's mother during the Silver Millenium) when she was still a young girl. Yes, back when Queen Serenity was still Princess Serenity and the Silver Millenium did not yet exist. This is a story of the 17-year-old princess of the Moon and her four senshi, Aiko, Princess of Venus (the current Sailor Venus), Acacia Thrush (the current Sailor Jupiter), Prudence Chiemi Kasei (the current Sailor Mars), and Liana Liara la Mercury, or Riri (the current Sailor Mercury.) Though this story I seek to entertain, as well as explain some of the things left out of the manga, like why things were so bad between the Earth and the Moon during the Silver Millenium and what the relationship between Queen Serenity and Nehellenia was. I hope you enjoy the story and that you will come to like some of the original characters found within and start to care about their fates.
Credit: Mare Serenitatis is based on a now dead RPG of the same name. The RP was started by a girl named Mikomi and the original concept belongs to her. Queen Serenity, Nehellenia, and the Sailor Moon universe, of course, belong to Naoko Takeuchi. Acacia Thrush belongs to my good friend Chmia, who was in the original RP with me and nice enough to allow me to put her into my fanfiction. :3 All the other characters belong to me.