This story and its related series are perhaps going to be at least a bit darker and at least a bit more mature than my various other Sailor Moon-related stories from other series of mine. At least in terms of their basic content, I think. But they still won't be too adult for most people here on fanfiction dot net, maybe. At least in terms of how they might often think of most stories like this one or any related ones to it, that is. Perhaps most people might consider various other stories enough like this one and sufficiently-related ones to be, at the very most, roughly T-ish in nature, at least in terms of their basic content, if not in any other ways as well. But I'm still going to be rating it, or them, at least a little bit, if not a lot, higher than that, just to be sufficiently safe here, people. Better for me to be rating something too high than to be rating it too low, of course.
Don't expect any or all of the known SM canon characters to be in this particular story and/or series after the soon-to-follow Prologue, people. Or at least not for quite some time, if at all. This story and/or series will certainly not involve them in it for quite some time, if at all, for reasons that'll become quite evident in due time, by the way. So there'll be absolutely no sense in asking for a Serena/Darien (Usagi/Mamoru or Serenity/Endymion) pairing in it, at least. Among many other pairings that won't actually be present either in it. This story and its related series may vary quite considerably indeed from at least one, if not more than one, version of Sailor Moon's canon, for that matter. Or it may not. That still remains to be seen here, of course.
With all that said, then, I'll close this fairly brief opening, and get on with this particular story's Prologue, people. Then all the other chapters of it and/or its related series will be posted, in their respective turns, just as soon as I possibly can post them each up on fanfiction dot net, for all the obvious reasons.
Prologue: End of Dreams, Beginning of Silence
It was the end of dreams, and the beginning of silence, when my longed-for hopes of great peace were shattered that last day and night on Earth's Moon. And at that particular time, I and many other people like me were then all at least a few million light-years away from my society's home planet in another Galaxy of the Universe. We were, most specifically, from somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy of it. I and several of my society's people had all come there sometime earlier on a planned diplomatic-style mission from our own solar system to the Milky Way Galaxy's Sol System, while we were all still not expecting any trouble of any kind or kinds at all from anyone or anything that came from somewhere else in the Universe. We had all come there together just a little while before that time, at most, fully expecting great peace and brand-new diplomatic ties with that same solar system's own Moon Kingdom. But it was just not to be, in fact, as an extremely evil force then invaded the entire Moon, with very little or no prior warning, as far as we all then knew. And it literally destroyed its still-habitable surface in whatever ways it then could do just that somehow. Many of us eventually were quite unexpectedly caught up in the rather great turmoil that last day and night of the Moon Kingdom's known history up to that particular time in the Universe. And we soon were periodically forced to fight against monsters from that evil force in attempts to protect ourselves from them somehow. We didn't actually expect it to happen exactly as it did, and neither did our hosts in the Moon Kingdom. But the sheer numbers of those various beings that then invaded the Moon Kingdom was much more than either we or the countless people of the Moon Kingdom had actually expected there to be. They had expected quite severe trouble from those very same beings, unlike us. But not quite as much trouble as we and they all then found ourselves dealing with that last day and night of the Moon Kingdom, for that matter.
When they eventually attacked that last day and night, it was during a grand ball. Many of our Moon Kingdom hosts were quite soon afterward called away to fight, but their mortal enemy was just too strong for them, in many ways, by the way. They each gave their attempts at fighting their all, in whatever ways they then could, and many fell, before we ourselves found us quite unexpectedly fighting their mortal enemy as well. I and many of my friends also fought, quite reluctantly, after first transforming ourselves into Warriors of a sort similar to many of our hosts. But we also actually failed to somehow defend ourselves quite well enough to then survive against those same monsters. I reluctantly watched all my friends fall, one or more at a time, often, before I also found myself soon quite overwhelmed by many of them beyond any defensible enough state of being. Many monsters soon proved sufficiently resistant to any attempts I made to defend myself or the very last surviving members of my current traveling party. I eventually fell rather near the Moon Kingdom's own Queen, just as a red-headed, and purple-dressed, evil witch of some yet-unknown sort to us all quite suddenly blasted her eldest daughter and that daughter's beloved older boyfriend. Perhaps ten or so seconds after that, at the very most, then, I most definitely knew no more at the present time, at least. For I was no longer sufficiently conscious of anything or anyone at all on or around the Moon Kingdom's Imperial Palace, by the way. For all obvious enough appearances, I was now quite deceased, at least as far as most people might then be able to tell well enough. But the actual truth of things was quite otherwise, as I'd find out many long years afterward. And only once the Moon Kingdom's own enemy finally awakened from a long period of unplanned imprisonment caused by the Moon Kingdom's Queen in a manner we didn't know of at that time, but would eventually learn of later, as enough time came to pass for us and many others elsewhere in the Universe.
It would take more than a millennium for us to learn of that manner, if we ever did. But until then, at least, a great silence would generally reign for many sentients of assorted kinds, wherever possible, anywhere else in the Universe. Even for me and the rest of my earlier traveling party, in fact.
So ended my rather brief time on Earth's Moon, much to my regret, and to the regrets of many others, in a rather sudden disaster of Universe-shaking proportions. And so ended any chance that I would see home again for a very long time, if ever, as well, for that matter.
So ends this story's Prologue. The first real chapter of this particular story should follow in very short order, I think. I'll await your opinions about this story here, in the meantime, of course, people. The Universal Storyteller out.