Author's Ramblings: This is the result of an idea that I've been toying with for over a year now. I finally, in a burst of author inspiration, decided to settle down and write it out as it simply will not go away. This was completely written by me, incorporating the tips and suggestions given to me by my editors into the story to make it more pleasing to the eye.

Special thanks and credits go to Fairdrea and Pokahydee, for helping me with the grammatical errors, title and prologue and focusing my ideas.

This story is dedicated to my friends and family, and those who have stood by me since February 2002. Through my bad writing, horrible update habits and long disappearance. I do plan on ending all my stories and this is just a distraction until inspiration for each and every one strikes me.

Prologue

And God proceeded to say, "Let light come to be." Then there came to be light. After God saw that the light was good. And god brought about a division between the light and the darkness. And God called the light Day and the darkness Night and there came to be an evening and there came to be a morning, a first day.
Genesis 1: 1-5

The darkness is always chased by the light. The light is always chased by the darkness. They are a perfect balance; each complimenting the other, for even in the darkness there is light, and even in the light there are shadows.

The two were never enemies, choosing to live in harmony with each other. But over time, part of the darkness grew tired of being just part of the darkness and equal to the light; it sought to be the predominant one. It wanted a new order. One where it was in control, doing what it wanted to do, never sharing with the light. Its mind became corrupt and clouded with thoughts of power and glory. It had become evil, letting its desire for total control consume it. It slowly but surely took control of the darkness and then, when it had gathered enough strength, it started its attack on the light. It came to be known as chaos, for it threw the order and peace that had prevailed for so long, into total confusion.

But it realized that it couldn't do everything alone. It needed some form of aid. So it created assistants to help it organize its forces. They were in the form of men, each having destructive powers all of their own, and each one different from the other. There were 5 in all and they became like sons to chaos, helping it with its plans of conquest. These men came to known as kings because each controlled a portion of the darkness.

And even they realized that they would need help. They also realized the drawbacks of creating their own help from chaos' past experiences. They had created their own minions only to have them turn against them, for example, Queen Metallia. She had turned away from them and formed her own hierarchy which was bent on taking over from chaos. Not that she would go out-right and saying that. She had worked her way up and had gained their trust enough to allow her to manage her own force of her own. Now she was secretly planning on taking over. It was because of incidents like that, that they realized they needed better servants. Not totally evil, but not totally innocent either.

They needed to steal and corrupt portions of the light in order to strengthen their own forces. So they created 5 chaos crystals, designed to convert its owner into its creator's servant. Each crystal held a special power, the ability to unlock the hidden power of the intended and help them focus it, much like the Imperial Silver Crystal. But unlike its counterpart, it would then lock the memories of the holder and replace it with detailed instructions of what their purpose and mission is. They would forget their families, friends, loved ones and past experiences, retaining only the basics like language, interaction skills and all they needed to function from day to day.

The crystals looked like colored diamonds, each one reflecting its creator. Three of elements, fire, ice, lightening, and then black and crystal clear gems representing the light and darkness. These crystals would merge into and with it's owner and wait patiently, inactive inside of them until called forth and activated. All the kings save one, sent out their crystals to hunt for their new owners; persons with powers from the light. And when the time was right they would go and look for the persons in which the crystals were implanted.

But one of the kings, the leader of the group, decided that it was better to select his assistant more carefully. He needed to choose wisely, as this person would not only serve him, but become closer to him than anyone else. He wanted someone suitable, someone powerful, and someone trustworthy. He waited and watched patiently, for the right person to be born. And that wait ended just over a thousand years ago.

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During this time the light had been strengthening as well since it knew something was happening to the darkness. The light had also created its own assistants, in the form of gods and goddesses. They were the governing body of the light. And a few gods and goddess in particular was highly regarded and leaders to the rest. The most respected of them was the goddess Selene, who like the rest of them, had created races and set up kingdoms for themselves.

While the other gods were oblivious to the changes in the darkness, two gods and one goddess in particular were in tune with what was going on with the light and darkness. Hades, Cronos and Selene all felt an ominous change within the darkness and knew that it was only a matter of time before all hell broke loose.

Selene was the Queen and sole ruler of White Moon Kingdom. She decided to take over after seeing her descendants, one after another, fail to make the kingdom prosper and drive it almost into the ground. She grew tired of watching them fail time after time, and she knew that she needed to stop it, for the good of her kingdom and people. So she and the other goddesses, who were also tired of the very same thing, with the best interest of all the planets in mind, formed a united kingdom called the Silver Millennium.

Now the queen and the other goddesses wanted to experience things as a mortal would, with none of the special benefits of being immortal except for her power. Queen Selenity longed for a family of her own, they all did. They also wanted heirs who would replace them, since they knew that they couldn't run the kingdom forever and the bodies they had made for themselves were getting older and their time as mortals was short.

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Queen Selenity fell in love with a general from another nearby solar system. When they first met, she didn't exactly look upon him favorably. He had arrived in their solar system in a barely running space ship. It was so broken down, that at first; the scanners thought that it was drift metal from one of their ships. But as it passed Jupiter, it became apparent that it was a ship. It fell and landed on the moon a week later.

The ship was searched by guards and found to have a male occupant. How anyone could survive in that thing for so long was beyond them. So he was nursed back to health by the medical staff, also being guarded night and day by 5 or 6 guards at a time.

He had a horrible attitude and the mannerism of a barbarian when he first woke up. He was unrefined, harsh and ruthless which they weren't used to such being gentle and peaceful people. He got better swiftly and the doctors were amazed by his appetite. He ate so much that they honestly thought he would pop from all the food.

When Queen Selenity learned of his recovery, she summoned him to her. Just by the way he walked in she could tell he was a very proud and arrogant man. His head held high, and dressed in clothes typical to their culture.

That first meeting was..........disastrous. He recognized that she was important and while not disrespecting her, didn't cooperate at all. He answered the questions he wanted to answer and sometimes even answering questions with questions. Really quite frustrating.

But while the queen was annoyed with him, she was also quite curious about him. After that fiasco, they talked again in more personal settings. This time it was a bit different. There was actual solid communication between them.

Over a period of days, Queen Selenity offered to provide him with a new ship to go home with, but he refused. He was set on using his old one to get home. So she offered to repair it for him, which he accepted since the technicians there didn't actually want him touching their tools.

The work took a while to complete, about two months. During these months, Selenity learned about the circumstances which caused him to be drifting in their solar system.

Selenity also fell in love with the mysterious man. He was rather nice once you got the know him and actually paid attention to her, and had no hidden motives like many of her other suitors. And he himself was quite taken with her as well. Never had he met a woman as delicate and beautiful and as fair as she was.

This was the typical whirlwind romance. They fell in love hard and fast. But there was a problem.

You see it wasn't a good idea for them both to be with a person that wasn't of their race/class.

In fact he could be demoted from his position as general for it. And she wouldn't be as respected as she once was if anyone knew that she loved a mere general, much less foreigner. But they didn't care. The night before he left, he persuaded her to lie down with him and they slept together for the first and last time, making sure every precious moment was savored to the last. The next day, before the first rays of the sun reached the peak of the tallest tower, with one last kiss they promised they would never see each other again.

When he left, she didn't even go out to say goodbye for fear of what people would say. Instead, she opted to view his departure from her bedroom window, heart in pieces at the loss of her only love.

A month later she found out that she was pregnant. In the midst of that joyous occasion came sadness. She had to get married quickly although she did not want to, for once a lunarian gives her heart to another, she will remain faithful to that person until her death. She and her child's honor were at stake. So she did, to the king of another nearby solar system.

After they were married, she forced herself to sleep with him twice, just so she could say that the baby was her husband's. And while it was tragic, fortunately he died 3 months later in a crash. Seven months later she gave birth to a daughter. She was small so it was easy for serenity to say that she was two months pre-mature.

And so it came to pass, that the White Moon Kingdom had an heiress. Her royal highness, Princess Serenity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The leader of the dark kings knew Selene or Queen Selenity as she wanted to be called now, very well from the reputation she had. She would have been perfect, but her mind and will were too strong to control with his crystal, and not to mention her power and all the other gods he'd have to deal with. But the child of Queen Selenity would be perfect. And he could almost foresee that she would be almost equal in strength to her mother when she grew up. So the leader of the kings decided that her child would be perfect. He bided his time, knowing full well he was no match for the goddess right then and not wanting to ruin his plans even before he had started. So he waited until after her child was born and implanted the crystal in her. The goddess Selene sensed the chaos crystal within little princess Serenity, her own offspring, and she was faced with a difficult decision. She knew that there was only two ways to get rid of it. Either kill her daughter or let her daughter rid herself of it.

She didn't inform the other gods about what had happened but put a spell on her daughter to seal the crystal so that it didn't take control of her until she was old enough to fight its effects. Queen Selenity may have been unable to destroy it but she wasn't about to kill the only thing that was most precious to her in the world. Princess Serenity was the only one who could ever over come the power of the crystal inside of her.

When the princess was 16 just before her 17th birthday and being officially announced as the next in line to the throne, the white moon kingdom and the Silver Millennium was attacked by the evil Queen Metallia and her daughter Queen Beryl, destroying everything in their wake.

The queen of the moon was forced to use all her life-force just to kill off the enemy save her beloved daughter and the other princesses of the kingdom. She sent them 1000 years into the future to live in what she hoped would be peace.

But the Lord of the darkness found out and bided his time until it was to awaken the chaos crystals holders.........

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