Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (the Ronin Warriors). Do not sue me, I am a very broke kitty.

PROLOGUE

Long ago on the face of the moon, there existed a peaceful and prosperous kingdom. A most gentle and graceful monarch, known all over the universe as Queen Serenity, ruled the kingdom. Her beautiful and loving heart was adored by thousands of inhabitants, but there were those who sought to conquer and command her vast empire. In the decade of doubt, many lashed out at the moon kingdom and sought to overthrow the good queen, but the queen remained strong and cast out all the evil that tried to destroy her home and her people.

After many battles, peace was restored to the moon kingdom, but with it came an epiphany that the queen would no longer be able to defend her precious planet alone. With great speed and determination, the queen set off to the planets of Mercury, Earth, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter to make peace with their leaders and form an interplanetary alliance. However, when Queen Serenity came upon these planets, she was very disturbed to find unrest and destruction rotting the planets and their people.

Befriending young peace-seeking warriors, whom she later named the starlights and rogues, Queen Serenity set course for her home planet, vowing to send help to once again bring their dwellings peace. Upon arriving back at the moon, Queen Serenity used her silver crystal, an ancient artifact forged of purity, to infuse the five pure elements of fire, water, electricity, earth, and air, with five virtues. The virtues molded and shaped the elements into five little baby boys that went scattering around the solar system to her warrior friends.

Knowing everything would work itself out in time, Queen Serenity conceived and gave birth to a daughter named Serena, and she adored her. Serenity taught her daughter of love, beauty, grace, peace, friendship, and purity, and in time, Serena grew to love her kingdom as much as her mother. Four orphans from the planets Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto were appointed as guards of the palace, while four young girls, about Serena's age, were appointed to protect the princess and teach her how to defend herself. As equally important, Luna and Artemis, the Queen's top advisors, were appointed to educate the princess about her home and about the rest of the universe.

Meanwhile, the young boys made good on Serenity's promise to the peace-seeking warriors, and changed their worlds with the aid of their unique elemental powers and strong-willed hearts. When word reached Serenity of the successes, she used the power of the silver crystal to solidify the peace the boys had fought so hard for. She also used the immense power to connect the hearts and souls of the planets to those of the boys that she had so tenderly molded as a precaution. For surely, such beautiful souls could breed nothing, but a universe of happiness. And so it was. A great era of love and joy spread through the galaxy. It seemed as though there would be everlasting harmony amongst the galaxy forever.

Most of the young boys that Queen Serenity sent to protect the planets fell in love with girls that served as Princess Serena's personal guard. In their own ways, they all became the crowned princes and princesses of their planets. All but one was smitten by his 17th year, and that one served the crowned prince of earth as both his loyal friend and bodyguard.

As Princess Serena approached her 16th year, Queen Serenity, deciding she didn't want her daughter to be burdened with ruling the kingdom alone, signed a decree that betrothed the princess to Prince Endymion of the planet earth. The document stated that the marriage was set for the day of Princess Serena's 18th birthday. Prince Endymion confided in his most trusted friend that he was madly in love with a princess on earth named Ai.

The boy sympathized with his Prince, but was otherwise oblivious to his friend's problems for he had never felt love. On Princess Serenity's 17th year, the young man and Prince Endymion went, unwillingly, to live on the moon. In this time, Queen Serenity hoped that the prince from earth and her princess would learn to love each other. However, Endymion's loyal guard and friend was smitten at first sight with the princess and Serena fell for him. Though they knew their love was wrong, they spent the year in love and in bliss.

As their year drew to a close, Princess Serena and the boy agreed to end their relationship for the sake of the decree, but they couldn't stop loving each other. On the eve of her 18th birthday, Princess Serena and the young man were the first to spot invading ships in the atmosphere of the moon.

A distress call was sent out from the moon to the allying planets. Many answered, and Queen Serenity even created war accessories, designated to the people closest to her heart and memories. There were four days of unending war and destruction. Finally, Queen Serenity took the silver crystal, and with it she sent her daughter and all those on her planet and those she had supported to a safe place.

With his waning strength, the boy reached for Serena and she reached for him, but their fingers slipped away from each other as they were sent into a deep sleep and thrust into a teleport with everyone else.

Centuries later, Princess Serena awakened, thanks to Luna, and became the champion of justice known as Sailor Moon. With the help of her loyal guards and friends, the sailor scouts, Serena conquered many foes and insurmountable evils, protecting the world and her crown. She made many friends and even turned some enemies around.

But she's fallen in love with the wrong boy from her past. Serena has attached herself to Darien, the former prince Endymion. Though their love is strong, it's nothing compared to the power of truest, purest love. So what happened to the boy?

He found the Planet Princes and fought with them as a brotherhood of samurai soldiers. They too have protected the world from wicked evils and grown to be a family, one that can seemingly conquer any evil.

But a new evil shall soon plague the earth, one that neither the sailor scouts, nor the samurai soldiers have ever imagined, and to face it, they must bind their hearts and once again leap into the uncertainty and unparalleled delights of true love.

Comments: *please withhold all rotten fruits and veggies until the end of my explaination…thank you* Ladies and gentlemen, I'm terribly sorry for disappointing you. I put a lot of thought into this story and after rereading what had already been written for the six-hundredth time I decided it was a bunch of grade A CRAP! I was so disgusted with it that I wanted to do it all over. I know I'm a waaaaaaay better author and I'm capable of giving you guys so much more than crap, so it's being rewritten. Don't worry though, I have big beautiful plans. The fic will remain rated M and if there are any questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact me.

As far as the story goes, this is being revised after I'm done with the rest of the story. I feel like the end sort of dies out. I was going to make this chapter an actual dialogue between characters, but I got fed up with it and threw my arms up yelling F*** it at my computer. (Poor Mac is so abused) At any rate, when I read this I can hear the voices of the outer senshis in my head. I'm not crazy, I think it really does enhance the experience though. Try it.

As always, please read and review. I thrive on your feedback. Thanks for sticking in there you guys.