Sun still shimming over head the glistening city of Crystal Tokyo, stood the Crystal Palace. It stood beautifully, towering over all that was before it. Outstretched beneath it was the city of Crystal Tokyo, the Neo Tokyo that was brought out of an eternal sleep by Serenity. It's lush green hillsides brough even more beauty to the large city. The palace's wide span sent a shimmer of light far off into the reaches of space. Inside this beautiful city is a story. A story unlike anything that Tsukino Usagi had ever faced before. A story that would change history itself. A story that would change not only the world, but the universe...
"Hey! Usagi-chan!" A tall brown haired girl was wading in the shallow end of the huge pool inside of the crystal palace walls. Her tall lenthy body was onyl half-way submerged in the cystal clear blue water. Serenity smiled as she stepped out of the dressing room. Her slender body dawned a light pink bathing suit. With a sparking sheer over her suit to block her very light skin from the sun's rays. She smiled over at her best friends. Four girls were over in the pool area. The borwn haired girl in the pool. A long black haired girl was also in the pool. Up on the side of the pool was a short blue haired girl reading a book with her sunglasses on. And a happy blonde was running after a little blonde haired girl around the pool's edge. There was another group of adults that were residing on the other side of the pool, but Serenity figured that was the way that they liked it. A very tall dark green haired girl was looking out over the pool. Two semi-tall girls, an aqua haired girl and blonde girl, were there also. The two stood hand in hand watching over a little black haired girl slightly older than Small Lady. This is the way it should be Serenity thought. We can only be happy like this... This is the way that everything has to stay, this is the way that everything will be all right. Everything is fine. It's prefect.
"Ne! Ordango-atama!" Rei teased as she shouted out to her friend. "Are you going to come in here and join us? Or are you just going to sit there with that dumb look on your face all day?" She stuck her tongue out teasingly as Serenity ran over to her friend's by the pool side. Serenity jumped into the pool to join Makoto and Rei, along with her other lifelong friends, and her family. It seemed like one of those days you never want to let go. In the middle of summer when the sun is it's brightest, when the breeze is just barely threre. The wasn't a cloud in the sky. As Rei splashed Serenity with water Serenity smiled as she looked up into the sky. She was there with her former senshi, she was there among her people, and mostly she was there with her family. The day was truly prefect.
In the far off solitude of space however, there was a different story brewing. One with a child left motherless. She was a forgotten and lonely child. She was never really taken care of by her mother, she didn't know who or if she had a father. Her mother was taken from her when she was very young, she didn't know anything of her mother, only what the shadows in her heart told her. Only what the chaos that had raised her told her. She was going to eventually get revenge, revenge on those who had hated her mother so. Her mother hadn't done anything wrong either. She perused her dream, she wanted to be with the one that she loved, only there was a cruel and unhearted Princess in the way, in the end her mother was trapped, like she was now. In the far reaches of space, without anyone to guide her. Maybe that's when she was born, all she knew was one day she woke up and her mother wasn't there, she knew that her mother had gone to fulfill her wanted destiny. Only... Her mother never came back. She lived the rest of her life on her own, the hate welling up inside, the need for vengeance growing... And today, was that day.
"So, where is it?" A tall sleek woman asked the servant bowing beneath her. The hall was suddenly silenced, all that were in attendance in the great hall looked over at the young woman asking the question. Her hair was a dark red, her slender body was perfectly shaped with a purple
dress flowing off of her every curve. Her eyes, a cold, deep, piercing green; her nose, small. Her eyes were pointy, almost elven, an inherited trait from her mother. Also inherited from her mother were small, demonic horns protruding from her shoulders. In a word, she was exquisite, flawless perfection. She stood over the servant with superiority, evident by the way she sneered and held her head high. She tossed her hair back over her shoulder nonchalantly, annoyance clearly spelled across her face. She made a wiggling gesture with her fingers as she extended her hand towards the servant.
"Give it to me. Now." She said as she stared down at the woman, her eyes betraying the excitment she was trying so desperately to hide. The servant woman looked up slightly at the girl, her face half covered and smirked as she surrendered the black necklace to the young woman. She then stood up and stalked out of the silent corridors of the hall, her hood flipping back while her purple hair flowing as she vanished. The red haired girl cocked her head back as she skeptically looked at the woman walking away.
"I felt a power from within her, but no matter, I have gotten what I have asked for and now I will complete was I was asked to do long ago." She held up a staff in the air. The room suddenly darkened as the staff's dark energy swirled around the room. The staff seemed to be nothing but a stick with an entwined branch wrapped around the top half of it. The woman motioned from something and two males quickly pulled a large chest out from a well hidden spot. The dark power soon enswarmed the box and the lid burst open revealing a box of pure ashes and soot.
"Yes, that's right, you know your master well, do you not?" The young girl smirked as she now held the staff with both hands she swung it over her head, her eyes now a solid glowing yellow color. She looked as if she were possessed, and yet, she had total control.
"You who were denied your destiny! You who was vanquished before your task was through! Power of chaos that was banished to every heart of the humans, now I summon you! Take your true self! With these ashes that are left of you, TAKE FORM!"
The violent waves of energy threw all that were in attendance back, the woman with the stick fought to keep her balance and control of the spell as she slowly took the tip of the staff and hit the opening of the box. There was a shock wave of energy that threw her back. She screamed as she slammed into the tall stone chair behind her. She was barely able to look up and see the lifeless form of a human being in the place of where the ashes had been. She evilly smirked as she tried to stand herself up.
"This... This is the beginning... Sailor Senshi. You... Took my mother's life from her, now I'll be able to stop you. Now.. She will be able to stop you. I, Jenneyl, will make sure of that. Arise... Arise Queen Metallia, also in your other form Beryl, my ill fortuned and destiny deprived mother."
Serenity giggled as she sat back into one of the lounging chairs. She had been watching Endymion and Small Lady playing in the pool. Endymion was throwing Small Lady into the air and catching her. They continued playing as Serenity had gotten out and wrapped a towel around the bottom part of her body. She looked back up into the sky, smiling and content.
"What?" She said as she squinted and looked a little harder into the day sky. A small dark colored spot was right around where the sun. She leaned back up and looked more intently as it seemed to grow.
"Momma!" Small Lady's cry came and snapped her out of her staring state. She turnned her head quickly to her small daughter.
"What is it honey?" She said as her daughter ran over to her, tears brimming in and around her eyes. The little girls pink hair was bobbling up and down as she ran to her mother as she held out her outstretched arms, wanting her Mother's comfort.
"Momma, I fell... And I scrapped my knee!" The small child cried as she climbed up into her mother's lap. Half sobbing half hoping for her mother to take care of her wound.
"Okay okay" Serenity stood up carrying her sniffling daughter into the pool house room that was about 100 yards away. She openned the door and set her daughter down on the couch that was near the slidding door. She quickly located a kit with some bandages.
"Are you have fun today Small Lady?" Serenity asked her daughter thoughtfully as she wrapped the little girl's scrapped up knee. The little girl seemed to have totally recovered from her wound was lightly chatting with her mother.
"Yes! Having you and Poppa and Auntie Ami, Rei, Mako, Minako, Michi, Puu, Uncle Ruka and Hotaru-chan all together is wonderful! Not to mention that I get to play with my cousins!" She smiled giddily and her mother was finishing up binding her wound. That is how Small Lady referred to them, the Senshi's children. To her, they were her cousins. Family. The way she saw them, and the way she'd always see them.
It had happened sometime ago that Serenity had pretty much adopted her Sailor Senshi as sisters. But as each one of them married and moved back to their own home planets to colonize everything had gotten somewhat quiet. It was always supposed to be that the senshi were to stay in Crystal Tokyo and protect the queen. Serenity would have none of this. It wasn't fair that her friends should be deprived of a full and wonderful life on account that she needed protecting. She had already set up barriers where needed and she only wanted her friends happiness. Yes, having them all back certainly was a treat. Besides there had been nothing to protect her from since Galaxia, and that was an eternity ago, when they were all 18. Chaos had been sealed, it was locked in the hearts of all humans, where it was supposed to be. But something... Serenity quickly looked up, there was something wrong. That feeling her her heart, she felt as if something had been taken from it.
Serenity's happy thoughts and fears were quickly interupted as a scream emerged from the pool area. Followed by many yells and shouts. Serenity stood up quickly as she turnned to the door. People were running away from the area quickly and there was a huge commotion and panic. Everyone running to their homes, back and forth. Serenity's eyes widened as she looked around and saw the fear in people's eyes, in their screams. No! No... this is.. it can't be...
"Mars! Make sure Serenity it okay!" Serenity heard Haruka yell out to Rei. But Serenity had already bolted for the door as soon as she saw her people running around. She knew something was happening again. Something that shouldn't have, but was. her life was supposed to be "normal" she was supposed to just beable to live her life and not have to fight anymore. No more fighting! That's all she ever wanted!
"Small Lady! Stay here!" She turnned and gave her daughter a worried look that Small Lady returnned as she headed out the door. She'd never seen her Mother like this before. She was scared, and she didn't dare disobey her Mother.
"Mars!" Serenity yelled as Rei ran her way. Rei had barely reached Serenity before an ear deafening ring had sounded out that made the senshi drop to their knees and the glass nearby shatter. The entire crowd was temorarily imobilized and everyone had stopped in their tracks. Serenity's eyes moved to the sky to see the small dark spot had grown huge, and was heading right their way.
"Small Lady!" Serenity had turnned back to see if her daughter had been cut by the glass shattering inside the pool house.
"We need to get you back inside!" Rei said as she took hold of Serenity's arm and started to forcefully move her back to the secure location of the pool house. At the same moment however the sky had turnned completely black and the winds now suddenly raged out of control. The Senshi had buckled down to keep from flying away. Suddenly at the heart of the storm a small evil giggle had started very quietly. Serenity was looking up and was preparing to find a new evil to face a new obsticle she had to over come, a new way that she had to find her destiny. Instead when she looked up she found the past. A past that always haunted her, a past that had come back.
"Beryl..." Serenity said as she eyes blanked out and a look of pure horror washed over her entire face as she fell to the ground.