You've Got To be kidding!
Prologue
Princess Niobe Disclaimer: I did not create Sailor Moon: which is, the inspiration for this, however all of the characters and events herein contained came from my warped mind and thus belong to me!!!

Sunrise, if you could call it that, came sluggishly to Nemesis. This, of course was normal for the tenth planet of the solar system where days typically lasted many of what the Lunarians deemed days. This days long sunrise, served to give Nemesis the title of the Dark moon and the embodiment of the balance of duality that is all things. And it was through this seemingly endless twilight that Lady Neris, ruler of the Dark Moon walked aimlessly trying to dissipate her case of nerves. Today was the day! They would get an audience with High Queen Selenity, and hopefully have the chance to earn back the nobility and rights stripped from her family by her great grandmother's blindness to her husband's treason.

In the two ensuing generations the rest of the White Moon had distanced herself from the Dark Moon subtly at first but then with growing speed and tenacity quite efficiently alienating them from most trade and impoverishing the planet to the point of draining on the royal family's treasury to pay for food and clothing for their people. But today that would all change.

Slowly Lady Neris Became aware of a soft and sibilant voice inching it's way into her mind. It had been plaguing her since she had ascended to ruler ship of this small planet. Never the same twice it had threatened and begged her.

"Come to me my heiress you have much work to do." Today it was welcoming and pleading softly as a father might. Tightening her resolve she turned her back on the door to the royal family tombs and involuntarily shivered, she came closer to it each time the voice called.

"I really should get ready we leave for the hearing in only two hours and I must look my best." She thought mentally humming her favorite composition as loudly as possible to drown the voice and help her concentrate. She reached her rooms and imperiously summoned her servant to help her into the dress her mother's grandmother had worn to court functions.

Three hours later she stood outside the polished moonstone doors to the main audience chamber silently praying to any deity who would listen
"Please don't let me screw this up!" She was resplendently dressed in a Tudor style gown of black satin and velvet trimmed with the exquisite black opals Nemesis was famous for and the fabric was also woven by the textile artists native to her home. The perfect teardrop shaped black opal sparkled on her brow suspended there by fine imported Lunarian silver wire. Her hair was held half back by lacy black ornaments shaped to look like vines, the rest of it falling in a silvery cloud around her very slender body.

Slowly the shimmering doors parted to admit Neris and her entourage. At the head of the column the young ruler struggled not to let her nerves show. She stopped precisely twelve steps from the dais and dropped a deep and graceful curtsey toward the raven-haired woman on the throne before her. High Queen Selenity was truly as beautiful as they said her delicate features faintly elfin set with large, deep, blue, eyes that seemed to pierce through to your soul. She glowed with the touches of silver light that bore witness to the awesome power she had sole control over. Behind the throne five young women stood at a reverent distance from the woman they were sworn to protect with their lives if need be. Each was a princess in her own right and each was imbued with the power of an element. The extremely intelligent only child of the Lady of Mercury was water. The hot- tempered twin of Prince Rowan of Mars embodied fire. Rachel, the only girl child and heiress to the kingdom of Jupiter represented earth. The eldest daughter of the Lady of Venus represented air. And last but not least the youngest of the earth princesses, was spirit. All of them had a small measure of the power of the queen and were often sent to moderate disputes between royal houses or trading guilds and represented the queen when she could not be present.

Neris kept her eyes on the floor before her so as not to commit some great court sin as the Queen addressed her.
"Lady Neris, you have been granted audience to plead the case of your planet's reentry into the trading and government of the White Moon empire. I trust you are aware of the reason your trading rights and titles were stripped from your forbears?" she inquired.
"Aye your Majesty, My great grandfather tried to kill you and my great grandmother, ruler of nemesis before me, did nothing to stop it." Neris replied.
"Then, face me and plead your case, your voice will be heard and then we will decide."

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"I can't believe it!!!! Governor Queen Neris!!! All titles and privileges returned!! The most I expected was trading and reduced rank."

*** Over the next four years Nemesis rose to prominence in the empire the whole planet prospered. Riches poured in and out of the planet, tinted onyx, fine black opals and obsidian came from the mines; beautiful textile works were produced from imported Terran silks, all seemed well and perfect but the voice still would not leave Neris alone. And one cold gray morning during the 8 month long winter Neris was seen walking as if in a dream toward the doors of the royal family's tombs she had done this many times in the past moths so no one thought anything amiss and Neris had entered the tomb that only she had the key to.
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"W-why?" Selenity stammered as Neris stood before her holding the bloodstained obsidian knife that had finished first her guardians and then her.
"Because you are in my way, I want to rule the universe and you, the White Queen, are the only thing between me and my goal now give me the crystal!!!" Neris cried, a maniacal glint in her eyes. But, as she looked down she saw the Queen start to pulse with brilliant silver light.
"You cannot defeat me so easily!!!!" Neris cried, as her body began to crumble "I will be back mark me!"

"I know you will my sister" Selenity murmured "I will save my warriors to protect this place and maybe, just maybe to heal you." With that her body dissolved into silver light that the crystal drank in and the bodies of her guardians dissolved into colored light and it too was pulled into the crystal as a final flash of brilliant white light scoured the system clean, all was lifeless, the phoenixes of mars, the talking dolphins of Neptune and Mercury. All was dead save one tiny creature in Earth's oceans with her dying breath Queen Selenity had saved and restarted all of the planets in the system and maybe someday they would all return and be able to live in harmony as they once had, but the lingering spirits of Neris and her Great-Grandfather had other ideas.