(It is well after the Crystal Millennium)


"Gotta (pant) Get (pant) To School." Serena panted, racing down the sidewalk. She was daughter of Renee and Helios. Her parents were currently in the hospital because of some odd disease that had struck a couple nights ago. Serena had spent the night at her parent's bedside and woken to find that she was late for school. Her cat, Selene, raced alongside her atop a high cement wall. When Serena got in view of the school she stumbled, a scream caught in her throat. The entire school was in flames, swarms of firefighters spraying long streams of water of water onto the blaze, which only seemed to make it burn brighter. Serena didn't recall racing across the busy street, or hurdling the police barrier right beside her friend Mina, whose mother was the Principal of the school. Then they scaled the wall around the school playground and raced across the basketball courts. "Mother!" Mina wailed as she reached the blaze. Serena stopped well short of it, staring up at the top floor of the school, straight at the principal's office. "Mom!" Mina cried in half relief, half-horror as she saw her 52-year-old mother hurtle out of the window of her office TWO stories up, getting out just ahead of a REALLY ugly creature. "Mom! Watch out behind you!" Mina yelled, and the elder Mina looked behind her, straight into the creature's eyes. A bright flash emanated from something in the elder Mina's breast pocket, forcing Serena and the younger Mina to shield their eyes. When the light cleared Sailor V stood before them. "Cool! Sailor V!" they shouted. Sailor Venus smiled and made a V sign to them, then went flying as the monster landed a powerful punch. Sailor Venus back flipped and landed atop the swing set. "Venus Love and Beauty Smash!" she shouted, the symbol of Venus flying at the monster. The monster smirked and swatted it away like a fly. "What the-" Sailor Venus managed to gasp before she was impaled on the monsters sword. "Take this and run!" She screamed and threw her Henshin wand to them. Mina snagged it and she and Serena made a break for it. They hurdled the fences and barriers easily and raced down the street and away. Behind them the monster landed on a police cruiser and crushed the hood. "Damn it! The Queen will not be pleased..." the monster muttered. All over the city the same thing was happening, the original Sailor Scouts were murdered and their offspring escaping with their Henshin wands. The scene was different at the hospital, where it was extremely quiet. "I had a feeling this would happen, but not when. I apologize." A voice floated out of the shadows next to Helios' hospital bed. "It is not your fault. Do not blame yourself. Take these to the new Scouts...tell them of Beryl...make them strong." Helios said softly, voice growing weaker by the second. Finally his eyes shut for the final time, his Golden Heart Crystal falling to the bed, the Imperium Silver Crystal beside it. "You have my word, master." The voice said as a black-gauntleted hand reached from the shadows to carefully scoop these items up. He hit the button to call the Nurse several times and leapt out the window. The nurse threw open the door and screamed, fainting.

(Beryl is back, and more powerful and ever, and the scouts are dead. Now who will step up to the challenge? Tune in next time on Sailor Moon~ Beryl's Return)