A pair of hands with long, slender fingers and fingernails that were painted a dark maroon color slowly work their way around a crystal ball. A pair of eyes, glowing softly and looking very much like those belonging to a snake stare at the ball, watching the group of young scouts and Darien walk into the temple. A deep laugh, malice and evil evident in every chuckle, resonated through the dark chamber. "So, it seems that Sailor Lilith has retrieved her memories. Her reviving the memories of the other scouts could definitely cause a problem. But, it's nothing I can't handle; I refuse to let the crystal join again... I'll stop those girls if it's the last thing I do."

The group sat in the temple, all of them waiting for Emily to explain how and why she was there. Clearing her throat, Emily slowly stood up and began. "I know that you're all wondering exactly who I am, and I'm guessing you're just as confused as I am. But then, I guess it doesn't surprise me all that much, considering how we all just sort of bonded so quickly and felt a... connection... of some kind." All the girls just sort of nodded in agreement, bracing themselves for the memories they were sure would be coming back to them soon.

"Ok, so who exactly are you? I mean, we all know that you're Sailor Lilith, but how? Where do you fit in with the Silver Millenium?" Lita asked slowly. The rest of the group nodded their agreement; they all had the same questions. Emily wasn't exactly sure how to explain everything to them, so she just started with what she knew. "Ok, I know that this is going to be a bit confusing, and you may doubt what I say, but just let me finish and hopefully it will all make sense in the end." Taking in a big breath, Emily began, "Here on Earth, I'm Emily Allen, and I become Sailor Lilith: Protector of the innocent and companion of the Sailor Scouts. In the Silver Millenium, I was Princess Emily. I grew up on Lilith, the second moon of Earth, where Queen Serenity had a cousin who was queen there and agreed to raise me." Serena, ever full of questions, "But then who were your parents?" "Well, you see, I had a twin sister, but the rules of the planet I was born on said that the royal family could only have one child, so my parents sent me to Lilith to save me. The final day of the Silver Millenium, my true mother sent for me, and I was to meet her on the moon, at Princess Serena's birthday party. Well, I met my mother just as the Moon was attacked, she quickly explained why she wasn't the one to raise me, and then gave me my transformation brooch and sent me with my beloved knight, Drake, to escape. I never got to meet my twin sister, and she never even knew about me... until now." Emily, with tears in her eyes, walked over to Serena and took her hands in her own. Serena stared at Emily with wide eyes. "Serena, we're twins, and I just know that our mother's dying wish was that we would each find happiness, with each other." The two girls embraced, laughing and filled with happiness.

Even as the two girls were hugging, the others got skeptical looks on their faces and Rei finally decided to speak up. "You were obviously able to convince Serena you're telling the truth easily, but the rest of us still aren't convince you're speaking the truth." Sighing, Emily took off the locket that Sailor Pluto had given her, and opened it up. "I figured that it would be harder to convince you all, and Sailor Pluto gave me this locket, that belonged to my mother, to help me prove that what I've said is true. All the Scouts looked into the locket and watched the 'movie' of Emily's life. They all came out of watching it completely convinced, and excited about the newest member of their group. "Welcome to the group! I can't wait to get to know you," Mina exclaimed, even as she gave Emily a big hug.

Tears welled up in Emily's eyes, as she realized that everything was going to be all right. Just then, Drake came running up the stairs. "Emily! I can't believe you left this morning without me." Then, realizing they were all looking at him, Drake suddenly turned beet red and got embarrassed. "Oops, I guess I interrupted you guys." Everyone laughed and went to greet the new knight. Emily and Serena just stood together, hand in hand, looking at each other with happiness in their eyes, each planning what to do with her new sister.

Later that day, Rei was praying to the sacred fire, as she always did, and searching for any hints of a new enemy. Even though there had been peace for a while, with only a few monsters left behind after the Negaverse was defeated, Rei was ever cautious of the fact that they still may be out there, just waiting for the right opportunity to attack. Suddenly, Rei was consumed by images flooding her mind, they all flashed by quickly, jumbled together with Rei just barely able to make sense out of them. When she woke up, Rei was lying in front of the fire, cold sweat covering her body. Her head throbbed, but she tried to sort out all that she had seen. There was a women, her face in shadow but her eyes glowing red; a tall man with shaggy dark hair and evil eyes; but, the images that most haunted her mind were those of a group of four men. These men were all too familiar to Rei, and she was confused as to what she saw could mean. Nephrite, Jaedite, Zoisite, and Kunzite had been there, each wearing armor that closely resembled that of the knights from Earth when they all lived in the Silver Millenium.

"So she has seen it. I suppose it's time I paid a visit to the Sailor Senshi, I have put to much on Princess Emily's shoulders, it's now my turn to make some explanations," Sailor Pluto said to herself, watching as Rei sat dazed and confused after waking up from her vision. "I had hoped we'd have more time, but I may have to recruit the outer scouts and be prepared for a long battle, I only hope that we are able to prevent the dark futures I see." Sailor Pluto slowly began walking towards her home of sorts, which was close to the gates. Inside her home, she opened a closet and activated a robot that looked like a sailor scout. "Melissa, it's time for you to guard that Gates of Time for me once again, I have a duty to my princesses to fulfill, and I need a lookout at the Gates so I can know when trouble starts." The robot bowed to Sailor Pluto, and flew to the gates, where she stood, ever vigilant, a wary and alert look on her face.

Sailor Pluto opened a portal, and stepped out into an apartment, where three women stood staring at her, obvious shock on their faces. "Setsuna?! What are you doing away from the gates?" Michiru asked. "It is time for us to join our princesses, they are going to need our help very soon." Pluto responded, as she detransformed and became again Setsuna Wright. "Right. Wait... did you say 'princesses'? When did our princess become plural?" Haruka asked, as Michiru and Hotaru nodded in agreement, the same looks of confusion on their faces. "I have much to tell you, and not much time to fill you in. I will tell you everything, then we must join the Sailor Scouts once again to save the universe." Pluto sat down with the three and began to tell the story of Sailor Lilith and the evil that was about to begin its attack on the scouts.
The group of young women, Drake and Darien were all in the park playing soccer. The only one not present in the game was Rei, everyone left the temple after she'd agreed to come after she had scryed the fire. "You guys, does it usually take Rei this long to scry? I mean, we've been out here for a few hours, I'm getting kind of worried." Emily said, even as Rei came running down a hill just to the side of the field they were playing on. "You guys! We've got a problem, I think we should go back to the temple and talk." Rei yelled as she came to a stop in front of the group. They all started their way back to the temple, each one with thoughts of worry, excitement, dread, and fear as to what was going to happen next.
Rei gathered the group inside the biggest room they had in the temple. Each person looked to her, and she dreaded what she was going to have to tell them. We've had peace for so long, why do I have to be the one to end it? Why was I the one given this power to scry? Just when we were starting to piece our lives together, the Negaverse strikes again...

"Rei? Are you going to tell us what's wrong?" Amy asked, snapping Rei back into a reality she wished to escape. "I'm sorry, I was just thinking. Ok, I was sent various visions, and I can't even understand them all, but there are a few that I was able to piece together, and we can just hope the rest come to me later. The first image was one of a tall and slender woman, her eyes were blood red and she was sitting on a dark throne, with a young man with shaggy, light brown hair standing beside her. I'm guessing that they're this new evil. Then, the next thing I saw were Jaedite, Nephrite, Zoicite and Malachite. They were all dressed like generals of Earth's army, back from during the Silver Millenium." Rei took a chance to look up at all the shocked faces once she'd finished her speech.
"Well, at least now we know what to watch for when it comes to our enemy, but what do the four generals of Beryl have to do with anything?" Lita asked. The rest of the group just shrugged their shoulders, no one knowing the answer to the question that rested within all their minds. "I think I can answer that question, as well as any others you may have." The group turned around, and there, standing in the doorway, were Sailor Pluto and the Outer Sailor Senshi. "Sailor Pluto? I thought you were going to leave everything to me?" Emily asked, wondering what she'd done wrong. Sailor Pluto de-transformed, as well as the other three, and walked over to Emily and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, Princess, you did nothing wrong. It was I who was wrong, trying to make you do all the work. I was just putting off the inevitable, I knew that I would eventually have to come back, there was no way I'd leave you girls to fight this incredible power alone. After all, you two are my princesses, and it is to you I owe my allegiance, even before the Gates of Time." Serena and Emily, both with tears in their eyes, ran to Setsuna and hugged her, choking back sobs.

"Sailor Pluto? Emily, how is it you know her?" Drake asked, a confused look in his eyes as he turned from Emily to Sailor Pluto, or rather, Setsuna.

"I'm sorry Drake, I wanted to tell you, but I didn't think it was the right time. Setsuna's been visiting me in my dreams and telling me how to go about this entire thing." Emily walks over to Drake and hugs him.

"Setsuna, why is it you're here now? I mean, we've faced enemies before and have managed without your help." Amy asked.

"Yes, you've faced enemies before, but none have been this powerful. I suppose I'm going to have to give you all better explanations if I expect you to defeat this evil. This evil sorceress, Velana, was an ancestor of Queen Beryl, an evil that was trapped away centuries before Beryl came forth and tried to control the universe. She knows of something that only I know of, the Queen trusted me with this information and told me that a time would come when both princesses would be together and a new power would grow. She told me that the Silver Imperium Crystal was split into two halves. She put one half into Princess Emily when she sent her to Lilith, that way, when it was really needed, the princesses would already be connected, they would have an even greater bond. Together, these two halves are an unstoppable force that can defeat any evil. Unfortunately, the Queen said that the only way to activate this power is within you two, that it would not work until the time was right and you two had... found something. Her explanation became vague there and she would only say that the rest would be revealed with time." Setsuna finished, hoping she'd made herself clear.

"You mean, all this time, I've only had half the crystal?" Serena asked.

"Yes." Setsuna answered

"But, if with just half the crystal, Serena was killed from use of it's power, what will the consequence of this power be?" Lita asked, finally voicing her concern.

"I'm not sure. The Queen told me to reveal no more to you, and I don't know myself, she said that 'All will be understood when the time comes' I only hope that no great sacrifices must be made." Inwardly, Setsuna prayed she was doing right by not telling the group the rest, that they would make it through what must be given in order to save the universe.

"So much is happening. Why is it happening so fast? I don't understand... I thought you said we'd have more time!" Emily cried, tears forming in her sky blue eyes. Drake put his arms around her, doing what he could to comfort the woman he loves.

"You all should go home and get a good nights sleep, I guess you haven't realized how late it's gotten. We can all meet tomorrow and discuss these new findings." Asteroid said, walking in with Luna and Artemis.

"Asteroid? What are you doing here?" Emily exclaimed.

"We'll talk later, for now, everyone just needs to get some much needed rest." Asteroid said, sounding more like a father than anything.

"That's a good idea, you kids should go home." Michiru said smiling, trying to lighten the mood.

The group all went their separate ways, and went home to sleep. While their bodies rested, their minds wandered into dreams and nightmares all about this new evil and the journey that awaited them. None of them could have begun to fathom the nightmare they would end up living in order to save all life.