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Sailor Twilight stood there, dumbfounded for a minute as Oriana, Sailor Chibi-Moon, Sailor Chibi-Chibi, and Sailor Saturn rushed to her side. Oriana reached Sailor Twilight first and thought she saw a dark crescent moon where Sailor Twilight's tiara had been, but Oriana blinked and it was gone.

"So, Lady Nightmare is real." was all Sailor Twilight could say as another tiara formed around her head. Before any of the other girls could respond, a holographic image appeared where the Three Nightmares had been. Lady Nightmare stood there, surrounded by her minions, laughing menacingly as destruction ruled about her. All five of the girls stood there, eyes transfixed on the image, searching for answers to the questions that clouded their minds.

A thundering boom averted their attention from the image, all except Sailor Twilight. Failure appeared with her dark orb in hand.

"Tiana!" Oriana tried to warn the sailor scout, but it was too late. Failure cast her orb, capturing Sailor Twilight in it.

"Wha...?" Sailor Twilight asked as the orb enveloped her.

"Ha, I gotcha now, as for the rest of you..." Failure remarked, snapping her fingers. Oriana and the remaining sailor senshi fell into a deep sleep as Sailor Twilight cried out desperately for help.

"Oh, shut up you brat, they can't hear you, they're sleeping!" Failure teased as the orb containing Sailor Twilight and her disappeared.

"Well boys, I got our treasure." Failure announced upon her return.

"And a treasure she is." Hate commented, looking up from his game of solitaire.

"Oh, wow. You actually did something right all by yourself Failure." Death said, without even looking up from the maps and charts he studied. Failure snapped her fingers and the orb containing Sailor Twilight became ropes around her ankles and wrists, and a linen gag in her mouth.

She whimpered and struggled against her restraints as Failure said, "There Hate, she is all ready for you. Oh, and child," Failure added with a sneer, "I do hope you are comfortable, your binds are made from the strongest rope infused with Negaverse energy, just to be sure that you cannot escape."

Hate glided over to Sailor Twilight and cupped her face in his hands. "Alas! What beautiful eyes!" he exclaimed as he removed the linen gag from her mouth.

"Before you are sent to the transformation chamber, I must steal a kiss from such a stunning creature." Hate whispered, leaning in to Sailor Twilight's face.

"Get away from me, you pig!" she shouted and spat in his face. In anger, he rocketed off to the top of the room, cursing. Sailor Twilight's anger level rose so high that it caused her to transform back to Tiana, the powerless teenager.

"You will pay for that mistake my sweet." Hate warned, "You could have been my queen once Lady Nightmare returned and gave me the world to rule. But now you shall be a servant to the Three Nightmares. Off to the transformation chamber with her!" Death and Failure dragged Tiana out of the room as Hate finished wiping her spit off his face.

"Tiana! Oh, how I have failed you!" Oriana cried when she awoke from Failure's sleep attack. The hologram still remained, and now it showed Lady Nightmare's and Tiana's unknown pasts to Oriana.

...26 years ago, Queen Beryl combined all her servants to create a foolproof monster to defeat the Moon Family. The result was a Small Lady Nightmare. Queen Beryl did not realize just how strong Small Lady Nightmare was until a temper tantrum of Small Lady Nightmare brought down half of the Queen Beryl's palace when Small Lady Nightmare was five. Immediately after, Queen Beryl put Small Lady Nightmare in her own palace under the care of a failed experiment of the Negaverse queen's. Failure was fifteen years old when she began to care for Small Lady Nightmare. Queen Beryl also supplied a playmate for Small Lady Nightmare, a little boy named Death, who, whenever he touched something living and pure, it died. When Small Lady Nightmare was ten, she mixed all her hate that she felt towards the world and others with some Negaverse energy and ended up with Small Hate. Queen Beryl kept Small Lady Nightmare happy, but a secret as well. Queen Beryl was afraid that Small Lady Nightmare could be easily manipulated to rebel against Queen Beryl and take over the throne. Queen Beryl knew this was possible, and that Small Lady Nightmare was far stronger than the queen herself. Small Lady Nightmare became Lady Nightmare upon her sixteenth birthday, and also gained the ability to transport wherever she wanted within the Negaverse at her own free will. She also learned to make herself invisible whenever she wanted to as well. As the years passed on, Lady Nightmare's playmate Death and her fell in love with one another, but kept it to themselves. They did not think it was possible for them to be able to love, or even if the other felt the same way. But one day, Death told Lady Nightmare of his love for her and she told him how she felt too. It was a love/hate relationship, always bickering and yelling, then making up afterwards. Years passed on without any outsiders knowing of Lady Nightmare and her three nightmares, as she referred to them as. One day she decided to plot revenge against Queen Beryl for her concealment and then planned to take over the world and the Negaverse. She was twenty-four at the time and wanted to be younger so she could live longer. She had found out about a crystal that had incredible powers that Queen Beryl had hidden in a chamber one day when listening in on one of the queen's meetings with her advisors (Lady Nightmare was invisible.). Lady Nightmare decided to find this crystal and use it's power to make her younger and more beautiful, enabling her to take over the world with ease and be beautiful at the same time. She found the crystal, but did not know that it was the Neo-Eternal Youth Crystal that had once belonged to Queen Serenity. In fact, it was supposed to be Queen Serenity's second daughter's star seed, but before she could finish creating her second daughter, Queen Beryl stole the Neo-Eternal Youth Crystal. Queen Serenity's second daughter was to be the symbol of purity, never-ending love, and hope, a light to brighten a dismal and hurtful world. Her second daughter would have lived as long as there was hope in the hearts of people and love in the earth. Queen Serenity saw that the world would need a sign of hope when evil began its reign. But Queen Serenity's hopes and dreams were dashed when she found that the crystal had been stolen. Lady Nightmare did not know that the crystal was the Neo-Eternal Youth Crystal, or that it came from the side of love and justice. So when Lady Nightmare demanded that the crystal make her younger and more beautiful, it did what she commanded, but since it was pure goodness, she was transformed into Tiana Hikaru, or Sailor Twilight. Tiana does not know of her past, she was told that her parents died in a plane crash when she was a baby. Sailor Twilight has no recollection of a past either; she just remembers things from fourteen years old on, just like Tiana (Sailor Twilight is the senshi form of Tiana.). If Sailor Twilight were subjected to large amounts of Negaverse energy, the crystal's workings would be undone, in a way. Lady Nightmare would return, but Sailor Twilight would still exist (they would become separate entities.). The Neo-Eternal Youth Crystal would supposedly reside somewhere within Sailor Twilight, but no one knows where, or even if it is true. All that is known is if Lady Nightmare ever returned from her dormancy, she would be bent on finding the crystal and twisting it's powers so she could throw the world into utter chaos...

"We are surely doomed." Oriana whispered as the scenes flashed before her very eyes.

Death and Failure dragged Tiana to the transformation chamber and strapped her to the wall inside. "Let me go now, or you will surely regret it." Tiana spat at the trio.

"But this is so much more fun." Death chimed. Failure turned the Nega-Energy Reactor on, and bolts of Negaverse energy flowed through Tiana. She screamed in pain as her body tore into two separate forms. A light shown in the center of one of the forms neckline, while the other was becoming a Negaverse monster.

'What's going on?" Death asked, dumbfounded. As Tiana's division was completed, the two forms became clear. On the right, Sailor Twilight stood for a brief moment before she disappeared. On the left stood Lady Nightmare, eyes closed, fist clenched as if she was in deep thought.

"Nia!" Death exclaimed, running towards her.

Her eyes flew open and she muttered "Death?!" and she ran towards him as well.

They collided somewhere in the middle and kissed passionately for a moment. Then Lady Nightmare slapped Death and demanded, "What took you so long?"

"My sweet, we looked everywhere, but..." Death tried to reason with his love's temper.

"But what? You could not find me for two years while trying, but when some sailor nit-twit comes along by chance, then you can find me!" she yelled, the palace walls shaking.

"I'm sorry, I tried everything I could, but how could I know that you were trapped inside a goody-goody sailor scout's body?" Death replied, attempting to sound as innocent as possible.

"Sweetheart, then I don't blame you, I blame Failure. She could never do anything quite right. I guess Queen Beryl was right when naming Failure." Lady Nightmare apologized to Death as Failure's face turned red, either from embarrassment or anger.

Failure decided to regain her standing with her mistress by mentioning, "Lady, that sailor nit-twit is Sailor Twilight, and I believe she has your crystal. You don't have it, do you? No, I did not think so. So I think you need to get back at that sailor brat for taking those two years from you and get your crystal back."

"Why, very good, Failure. You are right, I do not have my crystal and I want it back!" Lady Nightmare turned to Hate, "I want you to go get my crystal back, and I do not care if Sailor Twip-Head is alive or not. Understood?"

"Yes ma'am." Hate said with reluctance as he zoomed off in pursuit of Sailor Twilight.

Sailor Twilight appeared to Oriana, Rini, Ci-Ci, and Hotaru later that night in their dreams as Lady Twilight (Sailor Scouts can appear to others in their dreams, but only as lords and ladies). She was in a long, flowing, shimmery, navy blue gown, and her hair was flowing in the still air. "I am still alive," Lady Twilight said to the sleeping girls, "But I must depart for a quest. I am to defeat Lady Nightmare and her minions before her wrath is upon the world." As she spoke, Hate zoomed in behind her.

"What do you want?" Lady Twilight demanded of Hate as he stood there, trembling.

"I -I am here to join your side, La-Lady Twi-Twilight. Lady Nightmare, De-Death, and F-Failure are seeking the Neo-Eternal Youth Crystal, which you possess. I want to help you, well, because, I h-have fallen in l-love with you Lady." Hate replied, stuttering.

Lady Twilight stood there for a moment, staring at Hate. Then she told him "Close your eyes". Unclasping her star charm necklace, she added, "Neo-Eternal Youth Crystal, my light and my soul, please give this boy a new life, another chance. Let his former sins be washed away by your pure, good light."

Bright light surrounded Hate and after it faded, Hate was no longer a Negaverse monster. He was Lord Orion. In senshi form he would be Prince Orion, keeper of the stars. His human name was Orin Russell Gareth, or the Little Red-Haired King of the Dawn. He would have powers that pertained to the dawn.

"Now, Lord Orion and myself must depart on our quest. I will send for you when the time has come for you to play your part in shaping the earth's future. Until then, rest and do not use your strength unless it is absolutely needed. This will be a tough battle. Oh, and Oriana, I believe it is time you are granted your senshi powers. You have proven yourself worthy many a time." Lady Twilight stated, her melodious voice leaving a faint echo in the girls' minds.

Lord Orion and Lady Twilight left the sleeping girls dreams and prepared for the upcoming battle. "Neo-Eternal Youth Crystal, Make Up!" Tiana called as the crystal's light enveloped her. After the transformation, Sailor Twilight stood in her fuku. Orin, not knowing what to do, stood there nervously.

"The time will come when you will earn your transformation key, but for now...Neo-Eternal Youth Crystal, Starkeeper Make Up!" Sailor Twilight commanded, as Orin became Prince Orion. In his hands were a sword and shield.

Then Sailor Twilight's expression became distant and she spoke in a majestic voice, as though she was being possessed "You will learn how to use those when the time comes. Now I shall give you a glimpse of what will come. The battle will begin easy, foes will fall with barely any strength, but an act of courage turns deadly when a sacrifice is made. Others shall then join the fight and bring a comrade back from the abyss. When all seems in favor of the senshi, the past shall rear it's head, and more struggles will come. Just as all hope appears to be lost, a visitor from the future comes and brings a surprise to the senshi. That surprise will bring hope and new power to the scouts and they will have renewed hope in their hearts to battle with."

Sailor Twilight then fell limp and Prince Orion caught her before she hit the ground. Slowly, her eyes fluttered open and she gazed towards the sky and said "Mother?"

"Huh? Umm...Twilight, are you okay? You went into a trance of sorts and talked about the battle, but it was very obscure. Now you just said 'Mother'. I thought you did not remember your past." Prince Orion questioned of Sailor Twilight.

She responded dreamily "I-I'm fine, I just had a flashback to my mother, but I don't know how I knew it was her. We should get moving though if we are going to defeat Lady Nightmare."