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Chapter 1 Leaving the shell

Rei looked around quietly, walking slowly through the halls of the moon kingdoms palace. They [Being Mina, Lita, Ami, Michele, Amara and Hotaru] were staying in the moon kingdom for now until their own homes could be restored. Trista came to visit quite often trying to help them remember what their homes were like. She was not able to fully restore their memories so now they were busy reading up on themselves, learning as much as they could before they were expected to take control again. Rei turned out of the hall and into the garden where she sat down, a large red book appearing in her lap. She opened it slowly, the pages all-blank. It took her a minuet to remember what she had to do. She pricked her finger and let a single drop of blood fall on the page. The blood spread, and curled into words, revealing her former self that she had long since forgotten. She read page after page, reliving the memories of wars and revolutions on her planet. It seemed that her people were quite the rebelist. She herself as a queen didn't seem too different. Her sight had made her a brilliant strategist back then. But.she was alone she noticed. She never courted anyone or met with anyone. In fact she had organized an attack against the moon kingdom and the other planets at one point in time. It looked as if her former self wasn't fond of any of the sailor scouts. This struck Rei to be strange because the memories that she had resurfacing as of late from the Scouts most resent adventures, they seemed to be her closet friends. She wasn't sure what she'd have done without them in many situations. Then the painful memories of Darien hit her once more.

"I don't need another friend." she mumbled to herself angrily. She looked at the transformation stick, which had ruined her life in so many ways. She grasped it tight and turned throwing it into the lake, damning it and everything about it. Little did she know that, that small stick held more of herself than she realized.

The stick hit the bottom of the lake glowing fiery red for a moment and then snapping in two. The red dust, flames, shimmer and shine that usually surrounded Rei during a transformation spread through out the water turning it all dark red and then pooling together, separating itself from the water leaving a warrior with Rei's image standing on the shores. Her Sailor Suit Black and red; and her eyes without any kind of shine or soul. This new sailor crept quietly along the grounds, the room Rei was staying in, and she peaked in and watched as Rei slept. The floor littered with her incantations, spells, and other shriveled up pieces of paper. In the center was the book Rei read from earlier. The sailor walked in silently and opened the book, pricked her finger and allowed a black drop of blood to fall onto the pages. The black blood did just what the red did, but it erased everything what the red had wrote.