She was sixteen, the first time she transformed in the famous superhero Sailor Moon almost a year ago. A talking cat was the first sign that something is about to happen. Then again, seeing monsters was also a sign.
She was a girl with bright blue eyes that sometimes were covered by her bangs, small mouth with pink lips, and her most famous feature was waist long golden hair. She usually had it in two pigtails, coming out of small pompoms made out of hair on her head. Looking closer one could see few freckles on her nose and cheeks. By most standards, she can be considered a beauty, but she never thought of herself like that. In Serena's opinion, she was average looking.
Luna, the talking cat, was a black feline with a golden crescent moon on her forehead, if you call it that way. Luna explained Serena, the human form of Sailor Moon, that she was from an ancient civilization that lived on the Moon, in a time long long ago when there were kingdoms and life on all the planets in the Solar System. Luna had taken a form of a cat, as her original form would have pointy ears and catlike irises, too uncommon in the human world on Earth.
Luna told Serena that she was one of the once legendary Senshi, protectors and the strongest warriors of the Solar System. Although her memories were still a bit foggy, as she was in suspended animation for better part of the last Millennia, and only awakened couple of weeks before their first meeting. For now, she only knew about finding the Senshi and expressed hope to Serena that her memories will come back eventually. Luna had told her that once the other Senshi have been found they can start looking for the Princess, who will help to defeat the youmas.
The blonde girl often daydreamed about the people living on other planets in the past. She accepted her role as a warrior, however she still did not understand how she was the first one to give a transformation brooch, she was not fit enough to be a fighter. Even in PE classes she was below average. Only pure luck had allowed her to turn the first youma she faced into dust. A voice in her head saying to use her tiara, a part of her uniform, and she managed to save the innocent people and get away only with minor scratches on her knees and palms.
After the first battle, she signed up for self-defence classes. Surprising her family and people around her. They were used to see her klutz out and sleep in on weekends. After the first two weeks, she showed first sign of improvement in PE classes. She even got up in the morning on weekends to go for a run in the neighbourhood.
Serena was a friendly girl, everyone knew her, but the only person she could call a friend was Naru. But she did slowly distance from her, not wanting to put her in harm's way even by accident. Naru was not dismayed about this, she sensed Serena was changing, and their interests were too different to begin with. Serena was upset to lose her only friend, but she still had friendly relationship with her and everyone else. The blonde understood that now she had a different future ahead of her, even if it was one she did not chose, she felt content by protecting others.
There was also Andrew and his girlfriend Reika, a couple that worked in a local game arcade/café in their free time. Andrew's family owned the arcade, also few more in the city and elsewhere in Japan. Since Andrew will take over the business his father had decided that this one, that was Serena's favourite, should be fully managed by Andrew. Serena liked to hang out and play video games before her self-defence classes, it left the feeling that she was a normal person. A feeling she welcomed with open arms.
She had met Andrew when she was fourteen and was looking for a place to hang out after school. Serena had decided to take a different route on her way home, a route that was longer and she had never regretted her decision. The Arcade was a fun place to be, Andrew and Reika were a cute couple and Serena was hoping to have such a relationship one day. That is until the day she first transformed in Sailor Moon. After that day she had an unending battle with herself whether to allow to fall in love.
The Arcade had one minus, though, a certain someone named Darien or more preferred term used by Serena – Jerk. He was in the same school as her, and an old friend of Andrew, who was attending a private school. The fact that he was Andrews's friend was revealed only later on. This individual, as Serena sometimes called him in her mind, was only two years older than her but still managed to speak to her as she was a mere child. The girl admitted that she was only fourteen, but always reminded him that he was only sixteen. They had did this strange relationship were they were always having verbal fight with each other, often ending in full out shouting that strangely enough was soon a constant part of Arcades everyday life. This was their routine since the first day they met.
The first time they met was a week after she had met Andrew, Serena spilled her milkshake on the Jerk. She turned to go and sit down in one of the booths, when her long hair somehow was caught in the bar stool at the counter, and she was yanked backwards from the pain of hair being pulled. Her milkshake however continued to move forwards onto the unsuspecting boy with dark hair. He was reading a book, slowly moving toward the counter and only looked up when something made his jacket and book wet and covered in pink sticky substance. Serena had apologized immediately and offered to pay for dry-cleaning and even buy a new book, but the dark-haired man refused all that and had called her the klutz queen. This offended Serena and she started to shout at him that this was an accident. After that no one remembered how it ended up like this but they have now officially started their relationship of dislike to each other.
A week later Serena determined that Darien, as she later found out was the boy's name, was a friend of Andrew and wanted to have at least a polite relationship with the guy she admitted was handsome. The individual, thinking that Serena was plotting something, called her Meatball head and poked at her hair pompoms, making it clear that he was making fun of her hair. The girl fumed at this and called him a jerk, and thus their dislike continued.
Despite the little known fact that each considered the other to be cute or handsome. Or that they developed a crush on each other over the next years to come. Serena was almost ready to admit that she liked him, but then she met the talking cat and, well, love did not seem to come first at that time.
Two years later, their relationship was still the same, but now Serena was also Sailor Moon, something that was known only by her and Luna. Darien was now first year in college, meaning that their regular shouting in the Arcade become a little bit less frequent. Unbeknownst to the blonde, Darien was now also a superhero.
After couple of battles alone, the first to come to her help was this masked guy, Tuxedo Mask. In the beginning, it seemed that they have different aims on why to fight the youmas. He always saved her, but other than that, she saw him only after the battle leaving in the distance. They exchanged few pleasantries while he was saving Sailor Moon or victims from the youmas.
Then a month later, Sailor Mercury, or Amy in her human form, joined Sailor Moon. Moon was battling a youma in her school when Luna appeared and told her she sensed a new Senshi being near, and set off to only to run into the hand of a blue haired girl. Luna sensed her aura and gave a transformation wand, and thus Sailor Mercury was added to their group.
This was also the first time the so-called Generals appeared. They introduced themselves as Jadeite, Zoisite, Kunzite and Nephrite after Sailor Moon, with the help of still shocked Sailor Mercury, had dusted the two youmas who were steeling energy from the students.
Sailor Moon thought that the four figures were also youmas, but their similar uniforms and more powerful auras as well looks indicated otherwise. They looked barely human, darks eyes without pupils or eye whites, their ears were long and pointy and faces seemed to have a mix of animal features in them that couldn't be distinguished. Long, sharp chins made their pale, almost ashen coloured faces look evil. Almost non-existent noses. At first Sailor Moon thought that they were some kind of form of reptiles, but she still was not sure. The generals had sharp teeth, their hands had long, and what seemed to be very sharp nails, looking almost like claws.
They stated that they were from the Dark Kingdom, looking for seven crystals and gathering human energy, their plan was to take over the world and destroy the reborn Moon Princess once she will be found.
When they had teleported away, Sailor Moon turned to Tuxedo Mask and asked what was his goal. He did not respond. With that she decided to risk and revealed that she was looking for the Moon Princess to protect her. Luna was surprised at her actions but trusted her judgement. Sailor Mercury stood and observed the scene before her, as so far she only knew that she had transformed in middle of classroom. Tuxedo Mask admitted in sharing the same goal and they decided to be allies. They agreed not to reveal their identities.
After this Luna had flashbacks from a time long before the present. They included the brief history that in order to find the Princess they needed all seven shards that together would form the Silver Crystal guide their way to the Princess and free them from the evil Queen.
In the next few weeks, Luna found Sailor Mars, or Rei, Sailor Jupiter, or Lita and Sailor Venus, or a girl named Mina. They worked together with Tuxedo Mask to gather the crystal shards, and before their travel to Artic the girls had three shards, Mask two, thus leaving the Generals with the last two.
Sharing the same faith the girls became quick friends with each other, as now there was someone they could tell their worries, and they knew that they could protect each other. But being a Senshi was not the only reason they become such close friends.
Now, almost a year later when Serena transformed in the Moon Senshi for the first time, the girls were having their final battle against Beryl. Only they seemed to be losing the fight, as Sailor Moon was helpless on her knees while friends in front of her were bleeding to their deaths.
