SHIPPERS AN: Darien/Serena Scouts/Generals (but very very very slight, hardly ever mentioned)
I Wish They Could See Past the Mask
Prologue
Reincarnation n rebirth of a soul in successive bodies; one of a series of such transmigrations.
Life in unfair. A well known and astute saying. In one lifetime, you could be the princess and heir to a vast empire across the solar system. Then, when eternal happiness and prosperity are only an arm reach away: BAM! War is declared, everything your ancestors have worked for is reduced to a pile of rubble, your friends and the love of your life are slaughtered before your eyes and you end up bruised, battered and kneeling before the one who ruined your life as she tells you that everything you've been promised since you were born is gone and your entire destiny is no longer. Then she kills you. Slowly. In reality it takes about 10 minutes, but every minute felt like an hour of agony.
So ends one life, and another begins. One without the responsibilities and burdens of nobility. Blissful freedom for six years, despite your inability for school work. The upside to reincarnation is you don't remember your previous life… at least, you're not supposed to.
I'm one of the rare exceptions to the rule apparently.
When I was six years old I read a book about Greek Mythology, one story in particular caught my attention: Selene and Endymion. The myth about the love between the moon goddess and a man from Earth. A myth based on my previous life. As a child I remembered almost everything: death and war as well as love and friendship. Most importantly, I remembered that if my mother Selenity did use the Imperium Silver Crystal to bring me back she had probably inadvertently saved Beryl as well.
A decade passed with few major incidents, I had decided to keep my knowledge secret and hopefully avoid another confrontation with Beryl or the Negaverse. The first such confrontation had already extracted a heavy enough price in blood.
Then Luna arrived. My mother's advisor had been brought back along with myself and whoever else. But she didn't have full memories of the Moon Kingdom as I did, instead she told me that I was the Sailor Scout of the Moon and destined protector to the Moon Princess. The same day, I met Endymion's rude and obnoxious reincarnation, as well as Tuxedo Mask. Neither of which, to my irritation, remembered me.
In conclusion: Beryl and the Negaverse were back and wrecking havoc, my fiancée didn't remember me and had decided to make my life a living hell, my supposed advisor convinced herself that I was a stupid cry-baby, the rest of my protectors turned up and assumed the same and I could not find that damned Silver Crystal anywhere!
But, despite all this, I was alive. The Negaverse hadn't figured me out although they still tried to kill me, the scouts didn't treat me like a delicate piece of spun glass (as they had previously) and I was learning how to protect myself.
It could have been worse. And it did become worse. In keeping my identity as Serenity a secret, suspicion arose and loyalties were questioned. People switched sides and old friends were called in to deal with the damage.
After all this, I'd better not be reincarnated again!
JRK: Hello, welcome to the wonderful world of rewriting. The world where you wake up, look at the story, and cringe in horror at the writing, the Mary Sues and wonder where the hell you learned English. I'm still not happy with the prologue rewrite but it's better than the old one anyway. Will slowly work my way through the rest of this story, some should stay the same. The plot won't change though. Thanks to all my reviewers for motivating me to keep up with this. The reason for the late work (i.e. 2 years later) is due to exams and unhappiness with my writing style.