This is my first time posting here. If anyone shows interest in the prologue, I'll post some more. This story takes place sometime between the end of StarS and whenever Darien and Serena get married. It's been so long since I read/saw anything of the first series, so I might not have my SM facts straight. If I messed something up and someone points it out, I'll fix it. Hope you like it!
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In the Marinac Dimension, a woman sat alone on a chunk of space rock. On the rock was the only thing left of her kingdom: her throne. She hadn't had the power to protect it when it was destroyed. But that didn't matter. She would create a new kingdom. All she needed was to get the power to protect it. She already knew where she wanted it to be: on the site of another kingdom in a far off dimension. She had to get the kind of power that had kept that kingdom safe for so long. With that combined with her new power, she could keep her new kingdom safer than her old one had ever been. It would safer even than that other one had been, for the other was destroyed in the end as well.
"Talorius!" called the woman. She was watching a beautiful blue planet. That was where her kingdom would stand. Currently, however, she was eyeing that little dainty for another reason.
"Yes, my lady?" said a shadowy figure that floated beside the woman.
"See that planet? It is called Earth. The place is overflowing with positive emotions. Take some of those lovely hearts off of its hands, won't you?"
"Yes, my lady." The figure bowed.
"Talorius! I didn't dismiss you."
"Sorry, my lady."
"That planet has guardians. You know of whom I speak: the Sailor Soldiers. Take care to avoid them; I don't want my plans revealed. But if you come across one, then it couldn't hurt to...you know. Take their emotional cores."
"Of course, my lady."
"Dismissed."
The figure bowed again and vanished. Alone once more, the woman thought of the one wrench that could be thrown into the works: the planet's own Sailor Scout. If she miraculously turned up then Earth itself could fight back. Not just Scouts defending it, but the planet defending itself. The planet could put up a weak defense with the prince there, but it would take a Scout to really wake up the fire within. With any luck she wouldn't be alive. If Beryl did her job right back before the Sailor Scouts crushed the Negaverse...Well, she would deal with that when the time came. No use worrying about it at that moment. The woman assumed a comfortable position to watch Talorius in action. She needed those pure emotional cores to forge her crystal.
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(The Marinac Dimension, Talorius, and the woman on the throne are things I made up.)