Erm. Yeah. A Sailor Moon/Lord of the Rings crossover. That should be warning enough. Done after a prompt in the LJ Shitennou Ai Angsty April. I find this very eerie to read, always makes me want to apologize loudly to the LotR fans... but on the other hand, I'm fascinated. Just think of the possibilities... The Fellowship of the Seshi... The Two Tokyo Towers... The Return of the King... this would be really cool. Yeah, I'd really like to see that.
The world has changed.
I feel it in the water.
I feel it in the earth.
I smell it in the air.
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Much that once was, is lost.
For none now live who remember it.
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It began with the forging of the great star seeds.
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Four were given to the Shitennou,
Immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings.
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Seven to the youma:
Great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls.
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And nine, nine star seeds were gifted to the race of men who above all else, desire power.
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For within these star seeds was bound the strength
and the will to govern each race.
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But they were all of them deceived;
for a crystal was made.
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In the land of the Moon, in the ashes of Mare Serenitatis,
the Dark Lady Serenity grew, in secret, a mysterious silver crystal to control all star seeds.
And into this crystal she poured her cruelty, her malice and her will to dominate all life.
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One silver crystal to rule them all.
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One by one, the free planets of the Solar System fell to the power of the silver crystal.
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But there were some who resisted.
A last alliance of Men and Shitennou marched against the armies of the Moon.
And on the plains of Mare Serenitatis they fought for the freedom of the Solar System.
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Victory was near,
but the power of the silver crystal could not be undone.
It was this moment, when all hope had faded,
that Endymion, son of the King, took up his father's sword.
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Queen Serenity, the enemy of the free peoples of the Solar System, was defeated.
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The silver crystal passed to Endymion, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever.
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But the hearts of men are easily corrupted,
and the silver crystal has a will of its own.
It betrayed Endymion to his death.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten, were lost.
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History became legend, legend became myth,
and for two-and-a-half thousand years,
the silver crystal passed out of all knowledge.
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Until, when the chance came, it ensnared a new bearer.
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My precious...
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The silver crystal came to the creature Beryl, who took it deep into the tunnels of the Dark Kingdom.
And there, it consumed her.
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It came to me, my own, my precious...
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The silver crystal brought to Beryl an unnatural long life.
For five hundred years, it poisoned her mind.
And in the gloom of Beryl's cave, it waited.
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Darkness crept back into the forests of the world.
Rumor grew of a shadow in the East,
whispers of a nameless fear.
And the silver crystal perceived:
its time had now come.
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It abandoned Beryl.
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But something happened then the silver crystal did not intend.
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The Legendary Silver Crystal was picked up by the most unlikely creature imagineable:
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What's this?
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A school girl, Tsukino Usagi of Juuban, Tokyo.
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A brooch?
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For the time will soon come when girls will shape the fortunes of all...