Prologue
Ten thousand years ago the Earth and Moon housed great civilizations. The Moon Kingdom, known then as the Silver Millennium, oversaw the development of the still primitive human race on the planet Earth. The humans longed for, and resented, the immortality of the beings living on the Moon. A malevolent force known later as Queen Metallia appeared and made good use of the simmering hatred and jealousy that the humans had. She corrupted them and created the Dark Kingdom whose forces plunged the two spheres into war.
Queen Serenity, ruler of the Moon Kingdom, watched in horror as her kingdom's four guardians, the Sailor Soldiers Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus fell before the advancing enemy's forces. The queen was then devastated to see her only daughter, Princess Serenity, and Princess Serenity's lover, the Prince of the Earth Endymion, brutally killed. Surrounded by death Queen Serenity had a choice to make: obliterate the enemy here for all time and consign the spirits of her kingdom's protectors and daughter to the emptiness of oblivion forever or seal the enemy away and allow the souls of those she loved dearly to be reborn on Earth at some point in its future. The love in her heart made her choose the latter option, dying in the process because of the physical toll put on her body by the Silver Crystal but still firmly believing that the sailor soldiers and her daughter could finally live full and happy lives in the future. However, she knew that should the great evil that she had just sealed away ever reawaken once more those brave warriors would have to take up the battle in her stead and protect the innocent people of Earth.
In the present day the evil of the Dark Kingdom did indeed awakened and the time came for the Sailor Soldiers to be called upon to fight once again against their ancient enemy in the forgotten war. The first of the Sailor soldiers to awaken, Minako Aino, was a typical teenage girl who was more interested in going out on dates or sneaking into pop concerts than fighting for peace and justice. But thanks to a magical pen given to her by a talking white cat named Artemis, one of the few survivors from the long-forgotten war of the past, she was able to unlock the power that was her birthright, the power of Sailor Venus. She became the super heroine known as Sailor V, or Idol Soldier to the public. She battled against the monstrous forces of the mysterious Dark Agency, an organization dedicated to manipulating pop stars and idols in order to extract the energy from Japanese teens for some mysterious purpose. When she finally destroyed the Dark Agency Sailor V learned that it was merely a front for the reawakened Dark Kingdom. Realizing that the stakes were now raised and the great war of the past was once again threatening to engulf the world of today she finally fully embraced her true destiny as Sailor Venus and resolved to locate the other reborn Sailor Soldiers and restore the memories of their former lives as well so that they could all meet the threat of the Dark Kingdom head on.
The legend of Sailor V and her adventures quickly became well-known across the vast country of Japan. The celebrity status the young hero achieved made quite an impression on a klutzy teenage girl named Usagi Tsukino. She grew to idolize Sailor V and wanted nothing more than to be just like her. However this most seemingly unheroic young lady finally got her wish one day when she ran into a talking black cat named Luna. Like Minako Aino before her she too was to become a Sailor Soldier known as Sailor Moon through the help of a magical brooch.
Usagi muddled her way through her first few battles with the Dark Kingdom with the help of Luna and a dashing and mysterious figure known as Tuxedo Mask by night and Mamoru Chiba by day. Being a soldier of "love and justice" was not a job Usagi wanted and as the Dark Kingdom's minions continued to wreak havoc across the city of Tokyo Usagi greatly feared that she would have to shoulder the burden of battle alone. Fortunately through her encounters with the Dark Kingdom she discovered other people that shared the same destiny as her, two young teenage girls that also possessed the pre-determined birthrights that granted them the powers and responsibilities of being a sailor warrior. Ami Mizuno became Sailor Mercury the warrior of water and wisdom, Rei Hino, the soldier of fire and passion known as Sailor Mars and finally Makoto Kino, the embodiment of strength and courage as Sailor Jupiter. Minako Aino the crusader of love and beauty would be the last to join the group and together, the five of them re-formed the Sailor Soldiers team with the solemn duty of protecting planet Earth and its inhabitants from the forces of darkness.
Over the following months they faced the worst that the Dark Kingdom had to offer. They were not alone in that trying endeavour thou. A mysterious and powerful being joined their ranks after saving Usagi from one of the many monsters that made up the Dark Kingdom's seemingly endless legions. This new warrior who was named Carnage, was actually an old ally of the Silver Millennium Kingdom on the Moon where the girls had originally lived many millennia ago. He trained the young ladies using his many years of battle experience and knowledge so that they were better suited when they launched their final assault against the Dark Kingdom's main base of operations.
When the time came for the final battle to occur the sailors found themselves to be easy prey for the DD Girls, who were the chosen Dark Kingdom servants to greet them out on the frozen ice and snow of the North Pole. One by one the sailors fell in battle and their lifeless corpses were put on display for all spectators to bear witness to. When Usagi was finally left all by herself she confronted the Dark Kingdom's leader, Queen Beryl and her brainwashed servant, Prince Endyimon in her throne room. The prince was actually her true love and former ally known as Tuxedo Mask before he had been captured and made into a servant of the Dark Kingdom. After a short but tough battle, Sailor Moon was able to reach the final bit of humanity left in him and purge the negative energy controlling him from his body restoring him to his normal gentle self.
This act insulted and infuriated Queen Beryl who then tried to kill them both with a surprise attack. Prince Endyimon deflected the incoming crystal spear with one of his characteristic red roses which continued on and impaled itself deep in Beryl's chest. This counter-attack caused Beryl to retreat and seek assistance from the Dark Kingdom's true ruler the newly revitalized Queen Metallia. The infusion of Metallia's energy into Beryl's body caused Beryl to grow to an enormous size.
Sailor Moon having escaped from the internal realm of the Dark Kingdom's main base, confronted Beryl on the frozen ice sheets of the Earth's surface. Channelling the strength and spirits of her fallen friends as well as her other friend Carnage (who was at that point, defending their home city of Tokyo from Beryl's final assault), she was able to harness the full power of her ultimate magical item the Silver Crystal. This allowed her to create a massive pink and black sphere of concentrated energy that vaporized both Beryl and Metallia and ended the threat that they posed to the world for all time.
The nature of the Silver Crystal's power allowed for it's user to be granted one single wish. However the physical toll on the human body that was required to use the crystal was well beyond what the human body could withstand. Just before Usagi died she silently wished that she could go back and live her ordinary life with her friends as they had been doing before the Dark Kingdom appeared in their world. In a bright flash of light the crystal flared and the entire world went black.
When the light reappeared and illuminated the Earth once again everything seemed to be back to where it had been previously. Usagi and her friends were all alive and well and doing what they normally did on a daily basis. There was one major consequence from the crystal's usage. All of their memories had been erased and they seemingly were living as they had been one year in the past. Since Carnage and their guardian cats Luna and Artemis had been outside of the crystal's power perimeter, their memories remained intact. Realizing that his presence would only complicate the girls' lives and not wanting to draw them back into the seemingly-endless struggle of protecting this planet Carnage decided to leave Japan and his girlfriend, Makoto so that they could all live in peace as they were originally intended to.
After three months it became necessary for Luna to reawaken Usagi and the other girls as Sailor Warriors when the Doom Tree and its servants came to Earth in search of human energy for their continued survival. With their reawakening the girls' memories were restored and they remembered everything that had happened involving Carnage and the Dark Kingdom.
As they battled against the Doom Tree and its cardigan monsters they tried to find out what had exactly happened to their friend and teammate during that fateful night. Artemis and Luna's description of what had happened when Queen Beryl sent her remaining armies to the city on a mission of murder and mayhem had made the girls assume the worst. The horrible reality that he had also fallen in battle just as they had but was not restored due to him being too far away from the Silver Crystal's energy output.
When the Sailors finally learned the true identities of the Doom Tree's servants they confronted them and an epic battle ensued. As it turned out the Doom Tree was not inherently evil but had been merely corrupted by its surrounding environment. Alan and Ann who were just babies when the Tree left their previous planet, had known nothing but malice and aggression and were raised to believe that is how life was supposed to operate. Sailor Moon used her Moon Sceptre and its healing properties to cleanse the negative energy from both the Tree and Alan and Ann filling them up with the power of love and compassion in its place. After which Alan and Ann took the sapling that was all that was left of the Tree following the purge and journeyed back out into outer space so that they could find a new world to raise the sapling and start their lives over again.
