Prologue
Before the world that we know today existed there was a time long ago when our galaxy enjoyed a time of great peace. Approximately ten thousand years ago the nine planets of the Milky Way Solar System were united in a cosmic alliance. Each of the planets was inhabited by a vast civilization with technology and wisdom that far exceeded anything that we would have in today's society.
This period of time would come to be known as the Silver Millennium and had been in existence for well over a thousand years. Across the span of the solar system, the planets and their inhabitants enjoyed the beneficial trading and co-operation that had become common practice in their everyday lives and each of the different civilizations prospered to a significant degree as a result.
On each planet of the Silver Millennium there was a kingdom with a ruling family. On each planet, the king and queen of each kingdom communicated with the governing body that oversaw all that took place in the solar system. This central kingdom was located on the moon of the third planet known as Earth. The Royal Family of the Moon Kingdom consisted of the wise and fair Queen Serenity and her compassionate and free-spirited daughter Princess Serenity.
Queen Serenity possessed the Silver Crystal, which was the most powerful magical artifact in the known universe. She used the crystal only in defence of her kingdom and allied planets and never for trivial or petty tasks. To assist her, the Queen had many advisors in her court including the two talking cats, Luna and Artemis, to help her deal with the daily issues that constantly plagued her kingdom and the planetary alliance.
Princess Serenity, in turn, had her own group of advisors who also acted as her personal guardians and best friends. These guardians were actually the princesses from several of the planets in the solar system. Unlike the future princesses of Earth, the princesses of the planetary kingdoms during the Silver Millennium were not merely ceremonial figure heads but were actually given very important duties.
The princess' chosen for the sacred and honoured duty of protecting and advising Princess Serenity were from the four planets closest to the Sun—Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. In addition, the four princesses of the Outer Solar System, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Pluto, were tasked with protecting the galaxy from any outside threats and invasions from alien or extra-dimensional beings. To ensure stability, the Moon Kingdom itself had taken on many important responsibilities to ensure the continued peace and stability of the strong planetary alliance. Among its many duties was the supervision over the still developing human race on planet Earth.
The Earth Kingdom was united in it's entirely with none of the national borders or different territories that would later appear during the second age of humanity. Everyone worked together to complete the tasks that needed to be done regardless of creed, race or gender, for the betterment of the human race. Its ruling family that watched over the kingdom consisted of only one person, Prince Endyimon. He had assumed the role of sole ruler after his mother and father passed away after contracting a deadly disease. He did not want to take his much loved father's role and preferred to remain in his current role of prince of Earth.
The Prince had as his friends and trusted advisors, the Four Kings of Heaven, Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite and Kunzite. They were most powerful warriors in the kingdom and each of them put their complete trust in the kind heartedness of their master and his noble intentions for the continued progression of the human species and their kingdom.
As a mandatory condition of Earth's entry into the planetary alliance the Prince had requested that no human female be taken to be a guardian for Princess Serenity. His reasoning behind this decision was that he did not want to put any of his subjects in harm's way and it was not his place to force one of his people into a life of burden and possible danger. Queen Serenity firmly insisted that Earth must at least have a chosen protector but they would not be one of the Princess Serenity's guardians. Prince Endyimon agreed to that term and proceeded to volunteer himself rather than ask someone else to shoulder that responsibility.
The Prince's personal nomination and Queen Serenity's acceptance of it caused some controversy among the Silver Millennium`s inhabitants because males were forbidden from becoming guardians to the Princess as well as hold the title of Sailor Soldier. It was for those reasons that no Sailor Earth was ever created during the Silver Millennium or in the eons that followed. They were also the basis of why the Princess of Jupiter was selected to be the fourth guardian of Princess Serenity.
Near the end of the Silver Millennium a malevolent amorphous entity that came to be known as Queen Metalia erupted from somewhere inside the Sun's core and appeared on Earth. This spirit's evil nature began to infect the hearts of the people of the Earth Kingdom by preying on the deep resentment they had inside their hearts towards the citizens of the Moon Kingdom, known as Lunarians, because of their extended lifespans. Queen Metalia also fed off the anger the humans had towards their ruler because it had been widely rumoured that Prince Endyimon had fallen in love with Princess Serenity.
It was expressly forbidden for Earthlings and Lunarians to be romantically together for reasons that had long since been forgotten. That single act of betrayal from their prince, whether it was true or not, mixed with the existing jealousy the humans possessed and provided the perfect environment for Metalia to exert its full and powerful influence over them.
It corrupted a wise sage by the name of Beryl, who was the chief advisor to Prince Endyimon. This particular position in the kingdom had given her a large amount of political influence over the realm's people and complete control over the Earth Kingdom's armies. Beryl's first act as Metalia's servant was to crown herself Queen and use its power to brain-wash the Four Kings of Heaven to act as her generals along with the servant Metalia had personally created for Beryl Apachite, who was to be her Grand General.
Once the Earth Kingdom was completely under her thrall it was at that point that Beryl launched an attack on the Moon Kingdom during one of the many formal balls that were often held in the Moon Castle. During the festivities, the people of the Moon Kingdom were caught completely off-guard and quickly fell under the onslaught of the invading forces of the now newly named "Dark Kingdom". In defence of the Moon Kingdom, the Princess' four guardians engaged Beryl's strongest warrior the Ultimate Shadow but were easily defeated and killed by one of its powerful energy blasts.
The Outer Sailors, having been recalled by Queen Serenity from their posts on their home planets, battled the advancing enemy soldiers to no avail. With the final defeat of the Inner Sailors the Ultimate Shadow began to lay waste to what still remained of the Moon Kingdom. At the rate of the destruction it was causing even if the Outer Sailors were able to halt the enemy's advance and finally defeat them, it would still be considered a pyrrhic victory. Sensing that all was lost Sailor Saturn, the most powerful of the Outer Sailors, decided that it was best to cut their losses and erase the Dark Kingdom from existence and in the process, erase any trace of Moon Kingdom or the Silver Millennium. She reasoned that it was better to do that rather than let their enemy continue on and attack other innocent people or planets. She raised her Silence Glaive and began to preform her Death Reborn Revolution attack. Large yellow energy ribbons formed in the sky directly above her which acted as the signals for the beginning of the end of the Moon Kingdom.
Meanwhile, at that exact moment in another part of the Moon Kingdom, Queen Serenity had just witnessed her only daughter, Princess Serenity and her lover, Prince Endyimon, get killed by a blast from the Ultimate Shadow. This single act, the loss of her daughter was the final straw for the kind-hearted queen. She raised the Crescent Moon Wand that had the Silver Crystal embedded in it. She knew that she had two options: destroy the Dark Kingdom and doom all the fallen members of her kingdom to the emptiness of death or seal Queen Metalia and all her servants away so that her people could be one day be reborn in the planet Earth's future and have a second chance to live in peace.
Her love and grief for her daughter made the choice an easy one for her. She chose to seal the evil ones away and send her kingdom's population to the future. She held back her tears of sadness as she mentally and physically prepared herself for her own impending death which would be the price in order to use the Silver Crystal to the extent needed to fulfill her wishes. It was common knowledge that The Silver Crystal would tax her body beyond its physical limitations and ultimately kill her in the end.
The crystal began to glow as the power stored inside it rapidly built up. It collected the energy that it needed from to carry out its master's final wishes. When the correct level of force was finally reached the ground around Queen Serenity began to rumble and shake. At the same time bright flashes of light and balls of concentrated energy sprung out of the Silver Crystal and moved across the remnants of the Moon Kingdom. All of the Dark Kingdom's forces stopped dead in their tracks and began to scream and panic as they immediately begin to feel their bodies being physically and violently sucked inside the body of the powerful Silver Crystal. After about two minutes all that remained of the Dark Kingdom's invading force was the Ultimate Shadow that still hovered high above the Moon Castle.
The crystal switched its offensive tactic in order to deal with the Dark Kingdom's greatest monster. With the majority of the Dark Kingdom's forces now sealed away which included Metalia itself the Ultimate Shadow's power had begun to rapidly weaken. This sudden drop in strength caused it to immediately stop its devastating rampage of destruction across the Moon Kingdom and more specifically the Moon Castle. With the monster now stationary for the moment the Silver Crystal began the task of encasing all the fallen members of the Moon Kingdom in hundreds of golden energy bubbles. One by one the simmering semi-transparent spheres slowly floated upwards and began their long journey towards Earth.
As she watched the orbs containing her subjects leave to start their new lives on the beautiful blue planet that she had watched over for decades Queen Serenity's final act was to turn her attention back to the Ultimate Shadow and trap it inside the crystal with the rest of the Dark Kingdom. She knew this would take the last bit of her physical strength but she had no choice. Even in its present state it was still far too dangerous to roam free. She raised the Crescent Moon Wand one last time and the crystal shot three large spheres of concentrated energy up at it. In a last act of defiance, the monster roared as it was split into the seven smaller monsters that comprised it. Without wasting a second, the Silver Crystal immediately sucked the smaller creatures safely inside it with the rest of the Dark Kingdom's followers. Immediately after that the crystal itself broke apart into seven small shards of various colours and quickly vanished from sight into the Earth's atmosphere. These seven pieces of the Silver Crystal would later come to be known as the Seven Rainbow Crystals and would play a huge role in the millennia to come.
The very last thing Queen Serenity saw as she died was the trail of energy bubbles that contained her daughter, Prince Endyimon, and her fallen kingdom's subjects slowly drift towards Earth. Far away at the solar system's centre, the sun's yellow light reflected off the reflective surfaces of the orbs which made them twinkle and shine as they moved silently through space. She felt her hand drop and the Crescent Moon Wand slipped from her fingers. As it struck the ground the only survivors of the Dark Kingdom's attack, Luna and Artemis were encased in containment cylinders. They went into suspended animation as the cylinders floated upwards and followed the stream of energy orbs headings towards Earth.
Minutes earlier Sailor Saturn and the other Outer Sailors bared witness to the sealing of the Dark Kingdom by Queen Serenity but were unable to stop the destructive process that Sailor Saturn had already put into motion. Her ultimate attack reached its climax and an incredible wave of destructive energy shot out in all directions from her position. It instantly levelled any physical structures that were still standing and thoroughly wiped out all traces of the Moon Kingdom from existence. However, the annihilation wave did not stop there. It continued out into outer space as it followed any energy connection to the Moon Kingdom and struck the other planets of the Solar System. At an incredible speed, the devastating power of Sailor Saturn's attack spread over each of the planets' surfaces. In seemingly no time at all it effectively and completely destroyed each of the individual kingdoms on them. Only the planet Earth was spared since it now housed the Silver Crystal. This was due to the crystal's power being the only thing that surpassed Sailor Saturn's. None of the Outer Sailors did not see any of this as they were encased in the energy orbs at the same time the rest of the Moon Kingdom was and transported with them to Earth.
Ten millennia later the Dark Kingdom finally managed to release themselves from their prison and quickly began a campaign to rebuild what they felt they had lost through Queen Serenity's final actions. Apachite began to slowly plunge the world into chaos by causing global unrest in the forms of wars and economic turmoil as well as creating huge natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes to both kill and further distract the human race from the Dark Kingdom's other operations. Queen Beryl ordered her other generals, the Four Kings of Heaven, to begin collecting human energy so they could revive their ruler, Queen Metalia, to her full power.
Luna and Artemis were awakened from their long sleep by the Dark Kingdom's return and they began their task of searching for the reincarnated Sailor Soldiers who had been reborn into this time period by a new set of parents. Artemis managed to find the first one, a young girl named Minako Aino. Under his guidance and mentoring she battled a sub-organization of the Dark Kingdom known as the Dark Agency as the heroine Sailor V.
About a year after that Luna encountered first, Usagi Tsukino then Ami Mizuno, Rei Hino and finally Makoto Kino. These girls would become Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter respectively. During this same time period the newly re-formed Sailor team would gain two new powerful male allies: the mysterious Tuxedo Mask, who was actually the orphan, Mamoru Chiba, who lost his second set of parents in a car accident and the human-alien hybrid known as Carnage. Sailor V would also later join up with them and take her rightful place as Sailor Venus, the second in command of the Sailor team after Sailor Moon.
Together they battled the Dark Kingdom for almost a year before they were finally able to destroy Queens Metalia and Beryl and bring the threat they posed finally to an end for all time. Or so they had though. The past year had many surprises the two biggest ones were that Usagi was actually the reborn form of Princess Serenity and was given the power and disguise of a Sailor warrior in order to keep her safe from the Dark Kingdom as she battled them. In the same occurrence, the second surprise was that Tuxedo Mask was actually Prince Endyimon and Serenity's former beloved. When the final battle was over and the Dark Kingdom fell they all emerged victorious but at a very steep cost.
During the events leading up to the epic confrontation every single one of the Sailors and Prince Endyimon had been killed by the Dark Kingdom's forces until only Sailor Moon had remained. Using the Silver Crystal she was able to unleash its full power and defeat Queen Beryl before succumbing to the physical effects of such an incredible act just like her mother had. Her single dying wish was to go back and live as she had been one year earlier before she had become Sailor Moon.
The crystal granted her wish and in the process it revived her, all of her friends and Prince Endyimon to life but with no memories of any of the events of the past year. With the danger over; the rest of the world continued on as it normally did with only those six individuals affected by the last remnants of the Silver Crystal's power. Only Carnage, Luna and Artemis retained the memories of the Dark Kingdom since they had been outside the crystal's energy influence. Choosing to not complicate the girls' new lives with his presence Carnage chose to leave Japan and his love Makoto, to once again travel the globe and secretly protect it from the forces of evil alone.
However it would later become necessary for the Sailors to be needed again as new threats to the Earth emerged one after the other. Luna and Artemis re-awakened them and they began their lives as Sailor warriors anew. They battled first the Doom Tree who needed human life energy to survive and then the Prince of demons Gaap, shortly afterwards. It was during the struggle with Gaap that Carnage returned to Japan and rekindled his relationship with Makoto. Immediately following Gaap's final defeat circumstances beyond their control caused Carnage to leave Japan again with the promise that he would return and stay with Makoto permanently.
The Sailors had little time to rest after their battle with the demon lord as they were quickly thrown into the war with the Black Moon clan that arrived from the Earth's future. It was during this adventure that they learned of the future events to come and how they would all play a huge role in them. They were warned by Sailor Pluto that they could do nothing to stop the upcoming actions that would herald this new era for planet Earth but could only accept them as being part of something much bigger and ultimately beneficial for the planet's existence.
The appearance and ensuing war with the Death Busters marked the re-introduction of all of the Outer Sailors to their true identities and destinies as Sailor warriors. Sailor Pluto was the first as she made her appearance known to the Inner Sailors during the Black Moon war. She was followed by Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune and then finally, Sailor Saturn as they fought against the Death Busters. For reasons not yet revealed, the Outer Sailors chose not to participate in stopping the Dead Moon Circus for various reasons but later returned to assist in halting the ambitious campaign of Sailor Galaxia and her servants from conquering all of the known universes.
Like in the second battle with the Dark Kingdom all the Sailors were killed except for Sailor Moon and the Starlights, who were a trio of Sailor Warriors from another galaxy. Sailor Moon was able to reach the tiny sliver of goodness that was still inside Galaxia which gave her the strength that allowed her to expel the source of all evil Chaos, from her body. With Galaxia restored to her former benevolent self all the star seeds she had captured during her campaign, which were the internal power crystals located in all Sailor warriors or chosen guardians of planets and other outer space objects such as stars and asteroids, were released. This allowed the Sailor warriors of the Milky Way solar system to be revived as well as Prince Endyimon who had been killed since he was the representative of the planet Earth.
The Sailors enjoyed a few weeks of peace before trouble once again reared its head. As they were escorting Mamoru the civilian name of Prince Endyimon to the airport, they found themselves caught in a battle between an unknown monster and their newly returned friend and ally, Carnage. In an unrelated turn of events, the Outer Sailors were also at the airport and together, they were able to defeat the creature. It was then that Carnage told them all that something very bad was going coming and they needed to be prepared.
The Earth's main defence organization the Illuminati Council, had just been eliminated and he had been nearly killed in the process. He showed them a file folder that he had taken just before the building had been destroyed. Inside it, the file contained photos and information about secret meetings and operations conducted by servants of their ancient enemy the Dark Kingdom.
Using the intelligence from the file the Sailors broke into two teams. One team was to go to Canada to lead an assault on the Dark Kingdom's new base of operations and the other was to learn the connection between the Dark Kingdom and Rei's father, who was one of the people seen in the photographs. When all the pieces finally fell into place the Sailors learned that their enemy was in fact, Apachite, the last surviving general of the Dark Kingdom. However the biggest shock for them came when the second mastermind revealed himself. It turned out to be none other than Edward Ashford the leader of Carnage's former employer, the Illuminati Council. It both angered and surprised the Sailors to find out that a human being was responsible for this ultimate betrayal and for willingly leading everyone on the planet to slaughter.
In the end thou Apachite double-crossed everyone and launched his own attack. He had secretly managed to take control of Earth's nuclear and missile armaments using Edward Ashford's computer program and successfully carried out a crusade of death and destruction. However at the very last possible second, Sailor Moon used the Silver Moon Crystal, the evolved and more powerful form of the Silver Crystal, to encase the entire population of Earth in crystal cocoons. This protected everyone from the radiation, fires and shock waves that occurred as a result of the devastating nuclear holocaust. Following the desperate plea from Eternal Sailor Moon, the Silver Moon Crystal kept everyone in their protective shells while the Earth healed itself. They all waited approximately nine hundred years before the crystal first released Sailor Moon and everyone else, shortly thereafter.
As the Sailors and Carnage re-adjusted to being 'alive' again and the new world they now found themselves in they began to explore the land they had once known as Japan. During their travels they found other survivors who decided to follow them and enjoy the company of others in this strange new world.
A week after being restored to life Makoto and Sean, the human half of Carnage, found a huge geological formation while out scouting the terrain that struck a personal memory for Makoto. She raced back to collect the others and led them back to the specific spot. Upon seeing the seemingly impossible mountain of semi-transparent crystal the same memory flashed through each of their minds.
This was the same Crystal Palace that they had all seen when they had travelled to the future to battle the Black Moon clan. This was meant as a sign that this was the start of what the future king had called the Crystal Millennium and that the capital city of the new Earth Kingdom Crystal Tokyo, was to be built on that very spot.
End of Prologue…