It was dark in the park, but the street lamps lit the park through the moonless night. The small figure lying on the ground suddenly moved, and a shadow of black shot from all sides and extinguished the lights, sending her into darkness.

Morphing, the short girl grew as she stood, tall and beautiful and vicious. Her hand clasping a cracked jewel. "Finally, finally I have a body again!" Black Lady says, smiling. In the pool there was a faint reflection of something that couldn't possibly be real.

"'Elysion'? So that's where she was trying to go. Hmph. Maybe I'll send 'Helios' a hello." She smiled, kneeling down before the pool her shadows swirled around her on the ground, climbing up her legs and forming strange markings as they swam on her skin. Dipping her hand into the pool, they bled out onto the water, turning it an inky black.

Taking both hands, she scooped some into her hands and tossed it into the air, droplets forming into little diamond shaped figures all a same ink black.

"Yes mistress?" They spoke, hovering in the air, awaiting their order.

"Find out what has allowed me back into this world, and locate the planetary guardians." She said, standing at full height, "Now!"

They swirled in the air like insects forming assort of wind tunnel before vanishing into the dark sky. "Now, time to reclaim my place." Taking the Imperium Crystal in hand, she raised it above her head with both hands and closed her eyes.

To the moon kingdom. She thought, and an instant later her body had vanished, metastasizing on the surface of the moon. The crystal palace of the moon kingdom was a hollow skeleton on the moon and neither the surface not the crystals glowed as they should.

"Strange." Black Lady said, stepping forward. The Imperium Crystal in her hand didn't glow either, a soft muted shade emitting from it was nothing like it should. Taking the black gem from her earring, she tossed it towards the palace, and it slowly turned black, inky shadows like before seeping into it and filling it, creating something else.

"Arise, my black castle, my time has come." She spoke, wrapping the chain on the Imperium crystal around her wrist, she marched into her castle without a second thought.

-0-0-

Days pass before the sentries return to the palace, Black Lady seated on her throne flicked her wrist and they transformed into people.

"Queen, the guardians are parted, Sailor Moon and her lover are frozen in their own crystal tomb." They said.

"What else?" Black Lady asked, knowing full well that there had to be a reason as to why she had been able to take over.

A whistle sounded outside of the palace, it cut through the walls straight to her, the sound was both a warning and a greeting.

"How? He died!" Black Lady said, standing and marching through her palace to the main gate, in the space above she could make out the black shard headed right for her palace.

"Prince Diamond!" She called, it hit the ground with a loud thunk and echoed, dust rising and settling after a long while. From the side, the huge black shard cracked in two and there he stood.

"My apologies, queen of the white moon, for not sending my regards sooner. I see you're well." He spoke, walking towards her, he looked the same as he had before, his harsh gaze hadn't changed a day.

"I'm surprised to say the least," Black Lady said, he came close and took her hand, pressing his lips to the back of her hand. "I was sure that Sailor Moon had exterminated you."

"Needless to say," he held her hand as he stood beside her, "that was less than sufficient. I'm glad I could have been of service."

"You did this?" Black Lady said, taking her hand from his, aware that for a moment, he almost had the Imperium Crystal in his grasp once more.

"I'm not after the jewel, and yes. Disrupting the moon's field was child's play, and in this time, Queen Serenity has yet to take the throne and the guardians are so weak when separated." Prince Diamond said.

"And you're plans for this century?"

"To take what is ours."

"'Ours'?" She asked.

Quickly he had her in his arms, his lips to hers, pulling back a moment later, "What is rightfully mine, will be yours as well. My queen." He said.