MistyWing: I'm back with a new story and this time it's not just about Serenity and Endymion. I have included the senshi and the generals! This is only the chapter that gives you the background of the story. I will update with the first chapter before the new year, so please tell me what you think in your reviews.And by the way, I'm not sure if this is the title I want to stick with, so maybe halfway through this story the title may change. Haven't put too much thought into giving it a decent title, so I thought anything would have to suffice.

Disclaimer: Sailor Moon belongs NOT to me.

Meaning of a Red Rose

Preview

A soldier before a diplomat, a soldier before a princess, and a soldier before a law-abiding citizen; that was the entity that Serenity had adopted after her mother past away long ago. Serenity had been too young then--only twelve--so she had not known about the repercussions if she hadn't taken her mother's place immediately after the late Queen Selenity's funeral. Too young had she also been to understand that the ministers and the present queen were mingling in dark affairs and black laws that would soon defile her world that her ancestors of a grand and honorable lineage of Lunar monarchs had built to love and cherish.

Queen Beryl was now the queen. She had been the Moon's queen for over ten years. When she took the throne for the first time it had been issued to the people that her role would be temporary. Princess Serenity had been the rightful heir by birthright, but whatever those men had decreed in the past had been forgotten over the years and now the peace was left to crumble with the White Legacy. Those men, who made that promise to the people, were gone as well, dead or shipped off.

The princess had been forgotten and was now shrouded in a mystifying castle, sheltered in her safe and luxurious rooms. People would recognize her when she walked by, but they paid her no respect because she was what she was. She was one of Queen Beryl's and anybody who belonged to the queen should just someday perish the same way fallen kingdoms and fallen worlds had to perish right after Queen Beryl swept them clean of life. Princess Serenity was Queen Beryl's precious stone. The queen cared for no other female other than her darling niece, daughter of her older sister. The people believed that the family tie was the lone reason why Queen Beryl trusted and adored her niece when in truth there was no room for love in the flame-haired queen's heart. She had only her niece and the lust for men.

Her ministers were all female. All the maids, cooks, castle guards, enlisted soldiers of the royal army, and court carriers were female. Women in all the corners of the galaxy wept for their husbands, sons, grandsons, brothers, and nephews. Husbands, sons, grandsons, brothers, and nephews had been, for over a decade, ripped out of the arms of helpless women and shipped to places where their muscles and hard work were put to use over machinery and landscape. Some of them only saw their beloveds once a year and others never saw their beloveds ever again. Midwives, who did not hand over baby boys right after birth, were beheaded. Families hiding males were locked away or lynched.

Under Queen Beryl's reign the men were slaves. The women were their masters. The men were the tools and the women were the proprietors. The ideal of matrimony for a man and woman was condemned. Even a show of affection to the opposite sex of either sex was forbidden and punishable.

These were the dark ages that Queen Beryl had worked so hard to sustain. Yet, a thin strip of light, a trace of the White Legacy, had somehow broken through the darkness as the Princess Serenity came of age. The light had brought a hope to the hearts of men and women alike; Hopes which throbbed and reminded the people that there was once a world of light. Sailor Moon, they called her. She embodied the light that was the hope, which in turn, was the image of freedom. They spoke of her as the Soldier of Light. And if there was anybody that the queen could hate, it was a rebel like Sailor Moon.