In the crack of dawn…

King Endimion awoke and unknown to Neo queen Serenity he left the palace walls. He hadn't left a note as he knew Serenity wouldn't have cared anyway.

He dressed himself as a prince so people couldn't recognize him. (If they did he could just say that he was a guard that roamed the village from time to time doing trades.)

He headed out into the windy atmosphere where there were icy blasts that kept abusing his face. He sighed. It seemed that the weather was always like this as it was reflected on Serenity's star seed's purity. Right now she was dark and cold so the climate was too.

In the morning…

Serenity stirred and rubbed her forehead. She just had a dream of her past, when she was a Sailor Scout fighting for justice. She chuckled to herself. Ever since she had become queen she had been able to get the most expensive items.

'It's so corny being a scout, (with that ridiculous speech.) When one could have lavish perfumes and silk pillows instead,' she thought.

When she noticed that Endimion wasn't around she decided personally to go to Small lady's room. (It was always the maids that would usually visit the room in the morning.)

'Hello my angel,' Serenity awoke Small lady by taking off the blanket and folding it.

She decided that she should be extra nice to her, today.

'Mummy has a present for you,' Serenity crooned.

When Small lady heard the word 'present' she was extremely surprised. Her mother more often than not forgot her birthdays and Christmases. For a day with nothing happening and for Serenity to buy a present for her was unusual.

Serenity bought in the mirror and showed it to Small lady.

'Mum, that mirror looks familiar.' Small lady cocked her head and searched through her memory. (It had been over a millennium when she last seen it.) When she realized what it was, Serenity was already summoning up the face.

'Come Small lady, touch the mirror.' Small lady didn't want to do it but since she so desperately wanted to spend time with her mother, she hesitantly took a step forward. With her shaking hand she slowly reached for the mirror.

Every second that Small lady's hand was edging for the mirror, Serenity's smile grew wider.

When the hand met its fate and the final moment of contact happened. There was a tendril of blackness that reached for her.

The face appeared and turned towards Serenity.

It hissed 'You've completed my task,' while more black tendrils crawled around Small lady.

Small lady air supply was cut off just to make sure that she couldn't scream for help. Small lady began clawing for her throat, trying to rid herself of the evil roots.

When the tendrils had stopped growing, Small lady was covered in them. When she felt that she was being choked to death it was all over.

She felt her body get lighter and she started to drift away.

Where Small lady once stood there stood a lady of twenty with reddish pink hair. Her eyes were lined with black and overall she looked more seductive and dark.

Serenity clapped her hands together. She examined the lady and then she realized that her daughter's soul was gone. It was replaced by the face in the mirror. She also knew that it couldn't be reversed now that her daughter had unofficially died.

'How is it mirror-san?' Serenity bowed down to kiss her foot.

'Don't call me mirror-san,' the figure stood there with her hands on her hips.

Serenity's head jerked up.

'My name is Dark lady now,' Dark lady ran her hands through the body.

'May I thank you, this container is wonderful,' Dark lady complimented her.

At the boundaries of Crystal Tokyo…

The scouts and King Endimion were trudging through a pile of snow knee deep. They all were shivering, especially Saturn who was the youngest.

'It's never been this bad,' Saturn commented and she blew another sneeze.

Mars was fortune enough to have the power to control fire. She kept a flame running besides her. She would've shared the flame except they didn't know how to control fire and could've all been burnt.

When they finally reached the outside of Crystal Tokyo it was immediately warmer. There they sat and ate the lunch that Jupiter had made.

'This is great!' exclaimed Uranus.

Jupiter, who had a slight crush on Uranus (because of her appearance as a boy) blushed.

At they had all hungrily finished their sandwiches they sat in a circle to discuss matters. Darien was the first to bring it up.

'I don't think that Serena is suited to being the queen anymore, now that she's consumed with darkness.' King Endimion announced.

The scouts nodded in agreement. They all were thinking of how to get rid of Serenity. Mars, who was partially glad that Serenity was like that (they were always enemies ever since they were fifteen) raised her voice.

'I think that we should go to Helios, after all he is the guardian of King Endimion and he knows how to give advice.'

Sailor Venus raised her hand.

'I agree,' she voted. Then one by one the scouts all raised their hands.

Darien looked around.

'To Helios it is, then,' he said as he stood up, ready to take flight.

Outside the palace walls…

There were many angry people kicking the gates as they demanded rightful wages. Serenity heard it but didn't pay the slightest attention but Dark lady poked her head out the window.

'It's just another riot,' Serenity told her as she filed her nails.

Dark lady wasn't use to the amount of noise as she had spent the last millennium of her life in a quite room in the mirror. She clasped her head in aggravation.

'Make them stop!' she ordered.

Serenity bowed her head as she immediately took the order into consideration.

'Yes, my master,' she whispered.

She then walked outside and flew onto the palace roof. She spread her black wings to its full span which looked threatening.

Everybody stared fixedly at her. They noticed the drastic change in her appearance, from a white angel to a black devil. Then the crowd was consumed with fear and they started to run away, soon the place was filled with screams of children and shrieks of frightened mothers that were looking for their children.

They desperately ran to get out of the city but were caught up in the snowstorm. (The scouts had more resistance to the cold than the normal people.) Before long many people were frozen in the ice or paralyzed in a black orb.

She raised her hand for the final blow.

'Darkness eternal sleep,' she called out.

Soon the whole place was filled with black electric waves and everybody's eyelids drooped and they were asleep.

Serenity dusted her hands.

'Easy problem, easy solution,' she said to herself.

She returned to Dark lady in triumph. She reported to Dark lady that she had finished the task. Dark lady rewarded her with a beautiful black necklace which she told Serenity to keep.

She said to Serenity that the previous person used the necklace well. Dark lady then gave Serenity a choice.

'Either you can create a dark circus or give yourself eternal life,' Dark lady informed her.

Serenity contemplated.

She thought that it would be boring living forever with no entertainment so she chose the dark circus.

'To create the dark circus you need a live being and the capability of the live being determines the capability of the warrior.'

Serenity bowed her head in appreciation.

'Yes, I know now,' she said.