In my prime, I was the head of a kingdom that spanned an entire solar system. With my husband at my side, I was a just ruler. With compassion, understanding and grace, I held this kingdom together for a thousand years. This Silver Millennia was as close to a true utopia as this universe has ever or will ever see.
It wasn't always easy for me. Uniting nine worlds after a long, brutal war was hard enough. Then leading and governing such a diverse and large kingdom --! It was hard, so very difficult and trying. Even with all my might, and all the power of the Imperium Silver Crystal, the stress, the pain drained me. I never let it show of course. After the first hundred years, the people cam to see me as a symbol of the vitality of the Moon Kingdom. So in public, I smiled. In Court, I made choices and decisions with confidence and authority I never really felt. And in battle -- yes even utopia must wage war -- I fought with all the rage of a mother defending her young. And only at night, in my husband's arms, did I cry, show doubt or weakness. The Moon Kingdom needed me to be strong. But he only wanted me to be me. I loved him so much.
Then he left me.
It was an accident, a stupid little thing that ended almost a thousand years of marriage. A transporter accident on a diplomatic mission to the newly independent Sun Kingdom. When the news reached me, the citizens of nine worlds collectively held their breath. Would this be the event that would bring the great Queen Serenity down? Truth be told, it almost did. But my husband, now a memory, had left me one small gift. The Silver Crystal granted me immortality, but my husband gave me reason to want it.
My daughter, Serena.
I carried her as the kingdom said good bye to their king. I carried her when the courts of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter swore that they would provide her future royal guard
I gave birth. I raised her. Watched her grow. And through her, I found new purpose. My kingdom had been the be all end all of my life for nine centuries. Now, I was her mother first and a Queen second. I still endeavored to be the best ruler I could be. For someday, Serena would enter this kingdom as a woman, and find her own path in life. When that time comes, I swore, there would still be a Moon Kingdom waiting for her.
And when she found friendship in her royal guard, the Sailor Scouts, and found love in the arms of Prince Darien of Earth, my heart sang for her.
And then --
It all fell apart.
Beryl.
Damn you, Beryl.
From a dimension called the "Negaverse", she came. Her armies, her power, and her champion, The Invincible Shadow, over whelmed the combined forces of the entire Moon Kingdom. The royal guard, the Sailor Scouts, with their great power, only managed to slow them down on their final assault of the Moon. But against Queen Beryl's Invincible Shadow, even they were destroyed
She took my daughters friends from her.
Prince Darien fought alongside my army as the last line of defense between the armies of the Negaverse and the Silver Palace: the heart of the moon kingdom. Injured during the initial battle of Beryl's invasion, I could only watch the world I wanted for my daughter die. In a one-on-one battle with Queen Beryl, Prince Darien rejected her offer to switch sides and fought her with all the might he possessed. And lost.
She took my daughter's love from her.
The attack that felled the Darien came from Beryl's pet, the Invincible Shadow. Desperate to save him, my daughter was also caught in the blast.
She took my daughter's life!
The Silver Palace lay in ruins. All over my once great kingdom, soldiers of the Negaverse were taking over. My citizens were suffering, dying. And as I stared at my daughter's lifeless corpse, I didn't care about my world, my people, or my kingdom.
I just wanted my daughter to have another chance. To live. To laugh. To love.
In my weakened condition, I knew using the Crescent Wand and the Imperium Silver Crystal was suicide. And I was past caring. With three simple words, I summoned the crystal's full power. I cast you down, Beryl. I banished you to the Negaverse for a thousand years. With what was left of my life force, I used the Silver Crystal to cheat death, to reorder time. I sent my daughter, her love, and her court to the future to be reborn as ordinary humans, to live to have the future Queen Beryl took from them.
It was my last act I would ever take in my life. I forsake my entire realm for my child.
My name was Queen Serenity. This is not my story.
My daughter would become the hero named Sailor Moon. This is not her story.
On Earth, Darien had a sister named Marion.
On the orbital city that was the Capital of the Sun Kingdom, lived Marion's closest friend, Princess Heather
This is their story.