Greetings all and here it is, the Guardians of Selene; the second in the Book of the Renewal. Once more, it must be understood that, although the story itself is original, many of the characters within are not of my creation.
Draegyn
Aeons ago a Darkstar known as Metallia corrupted a mortal sorceress named Beryl and used her to circumvent the laws by which the Divine Stars existed. For Metallia served Kaos, the ultimate nemesis of the Heart of the Universe, and it desired nothing more than its own darkness spread throughout all of existence. To fulfil her master's desires Metallia urged Beryl to raise an army and attack a star system that was unprotected by any of the Heart's followers.
War ensued, all civilisation fell and life itself was near extinguished. The Heart's followers could not destroy Beryl for the mortals her machinations threatened but through the power of the Divine Star, Selene the Lady of Mystery and Queen of the Lunarians, both Metallia and Beryl were locked away from existence until such a time as the star system had recovered and could face the enemy on more even grounds.
To this end Selene's mate, Thanatos, the Lord of the Dead, released ten mortal souls that had recently entered his realm into his beloved's care. Selene and her people made themselves a sanctuary upon the moon of the single, surviving world that they may guard and protect the seeds of humanity as they struggled to return to their former greatness. So it was that centuries later, when Metallia and her slave escaped their prison, the heroes of the first war were reborn on the single, surviving world in their once teeming star system and succeeded where they had once failed. Beryl was killed and Metallia, herself, was destroyed by them.
In the Law Keeper:
Trouble on Earth forced Selene's watcher, her son Tranquillity, to call to his twin for aid. Serenity, Selene's champion and Guardian, answered her brother's request will due haste and found herself embroiled in a tangle of past, present and future that could herald the end of both her mother's rule, her own life and her universe.
The arrival of a mysterious child born of both human and Lunarian heralds a war that has spanned both time and space, thus breaking the bans of two Divine Stars. As the Guardian of one of those so sinned against and the ally of the second, Serenity needed to join with the mortal reincarnates to face the new foe, called the Darkmoon family, that threatened the Earth. Disguised as a human, her power bridled and concealed, she fought at the side of Darien Chiba and four girls who had named their fighting team the Sailor Scouts.
Even limited as she was, Serenity's power was enough to protected the child displaced in time and the Earth itself. Together the group of young mages captured several of the Darkmoon's warriors, Serenity and Darien accidentally merging minds in the process, and converted them to their own side. Then the Darkmoon, itself, approached the Earth, and its proximity to the blue world almost caused the planet to tear itself asunder. Hidden in light and aided by a mysterious golden power Serenity and her twin managed to buy them time and, while Tranquillity tended to the Earth, Darien, Serenity and the Scouts took the battle to the enemies' own lair.
Even as she began to hope that she could complete her mission without betraying herself she learned that the enemy was under the sway of yet another of Kaos' minions in an attempt to kill the heir of the Heart of the Universe and destroy any hope that the cosmos had for a renewal. With no other recourse she unveiled her true power and, with the aid of the Scouts and Darien, she neutralised the inhabitants of the Darkmoon and cleared their minds of the deceptions of the Darkstar known as the Doom Phantom.
With those of the Darkmoon no longer in the picture, Serenity prepared to die in a hopeless battle to stop the Doom Phantom from destroying the Earth in malice. However, Darien, the guardian of a relic called the Imperium Silver Crystal, had discovered that she was the very one that the Doom Phantom had come to kill.
Serenity was the future Heart of the Universe. Darien could not allow her to die and so gave her the crystal he protected and confirmed his suspicions correct when she proved that she was the one that his bloodline had awaited since the beginning of time. Wielding the crystal to unite their magicks in a manner only those possessed of soulbonds had been thought capable, Serenity, Darien and the scouts destroyed the Darkmoon and the Doom Phantom with it.
Victory came at a heavy price and, although Tranquillity, his own mate and the Guardian of Time were able to undo much of the damage to the Earth, not even the heroes of the day, mortal as they were, could be allowed to keep the knowledge they had gained of the workings of the Stars from Serenity. Serenity and her mother were forced to erase their memories.
With no knowledge of the greater reality, Darien and the Scouts were returned to Earth to be watched over by Tranquillity in secret. However, there was one occurrence that not even Selene, herself, had predicted. Changed by his association with Serenity past all understanding, Darien remembered.
Now, In the Guardians of Selene:
We see what became of Darien and exactly how accurate a seer he was.