Author's Note: I was flipping through most of my stories and I realized I don't really have too many centered on Serena and Darien, back during the Silver Millennium. I do have 'At First Sight' but that was my first story I wrote on Sailor Moon. I wrote the first half of this fanfic as me narrating it, like what happened in the past years. I also put in lots of fables and myths, with some Greek legends since we all know that the origin of Sailor Moon comes from these myths anyway. But what I did was to change most of the story as we know it and I hope you all don't mind. So I hope you enjoy this story and E-Mail me what you thought.
By: SailorPerfect
Prologue: History of the Legends
Once, not long ago, the Silver Millennium existed on the Moon, with several planets aligned to them and the Queen Serenity standing as it's just and wise ruler. She was a beautiful woman with a kind heart, but a powerful spirit. Hundreds of years passed, until one day she was delivered of a daughter, a child she named Selenity and who would one day take her place and rule the kingdom. Many whispered of the origins of the child, but no one dared ask who could have fathered her. She had the features and coloring of her mother and absolutely no resemblance to any man in the Silver Millennium.
As the years passed, the child grew, more perfect in featuring then even her mother had been. And just as time went by and she grew more perfect, her powers grew as well, frightening to some, but never causing her mother to even blink. The Queen seemed to expect these changes, but others were terrified. The Queen had never shown such immense power at such a young age. Some even believed the child was more powerful then her mother. Suspicion grew, so much that people suspected the father could be Nemesis, King of Earth and wreaker of havoc. Nemesis was a powerful man, but evil at heart. It was in him people thought the Queen could have had a secret affair, but it was never confirmed.
No one believed it could be true because Nemesis had a wife, a small woman who had borne him twins, two sons, Ares, the older of the two, and Endymion, the younger one. The Queen was a woman who had strong beliefs and morals, and also respect for others.
The years went by and one day a strong power came, erupting across the universe and causing a war to break out. Nemesis took the lead, coming to the Moons aid when this evil, known as Chaos, threatened to destroy the Silver Millennium and everything it had created. As the war took a climactic turn, as the clouds of dust caused by the warriors rose and seemed to swallow them, they cleared days later, revealing the bodies of several men on the plains of the Moon, among them Nemesis and the Queen.
Many mourned the passing of the Queen, but several were relieved of the death of the King of Earth. He had long since instilled fear into the hearts of his people. They saw finally a time ahead where fear would no longer rule.
The Queens daughter, now eighteen years old, took over the Moon after her mother's death. On the Earth, Ares took over after his father, naming his twin brother Endymion his head General and Ambassador.
Months after the Millennium War, Endymion went to the Moon to speak with the new Queen, meeting Selenity and instantly falling in love with her beauty. They spent hours together, talking and laughing. Before he left to return to Earth he proposed marriage, thrilled when she accepted. There engagement and future set, he departed for home.
In the weeks following peace seemed to rule once again, with memories of the war far behind. Endymion made plans to return to the Moon, excited to see his future bride. He boarded a shuttle from Earth and left.
He never arrived.
Selenity grew frantic when she realized the shuttle seemed to have disappeared. A search was launched by both the Moon and Earth, sending every possible man and pilot in search of him.
And as time passed, he was never found. Eight months after the search had began, Selenity and Ares, both exhausted and miserable, gave up the search, naming Endymion for dead. He was buried on Earth, in an empty casket, and both people who had relied on him so much went on with there lives.
A monument was built in honor of a young Prince on both Earth and the Moon, for a man who had been unable to finish his life. People would look to it and remember to cherish every moment they had, every moment with there loved one.
And as several years went by, years of peace and prosperity, his memory faded into time and history.
But they never should have forgotten him, a Prince who had died young...
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