Sailor Moon: Hidden Memories

Chapter 1

The Polaris Star System

Silver Millennium:

Long ago, in a beautiful blue crystal palace on one of the planets in the Polaris Star System, a young dark-skinned girl...a Lady to be exact, sat huddled on her palace bedroom floor, trembling in fright as she listened to the death and destruction happening all around her. Her parents were missing, but she knew in her heart they were not dead, they just COULDN'T be! They were supposed to come back for her after they told her to hide in her room, but they never did. It's been hours...so many hours since she had last seen their terror filled faces. Could it be? Could they be really dead if they didn't come back? The girl didn't want to think it. Most of the people in the palace were either dead or abandoned it, trying to preserve their own lives. The young Lady Anja was alone, alone and frightened beyond anything she had ever been through in her young life. No one was there to comfort her, to tell her everything was going to be alright. No one besides her faithful companion Dief. Outside, another series of explosions rocked the once exquisite palace, and the young girl let out a small scream and inched closer the black-furred dog.

"The Dark Kingdom... The Meerages...They're killing everyone," Anja whispered in terror. "Dief, I'm scared." She put her arms around the black dog's neck. Fear like none other gripped the young dark skinned girl's heart, making her tremble again like a leaf.

"We'll be safe," he assured her. "Tevra promised you. Trust Tevra." The guardian dog was going to say something more to comfort her, but another blast of negative energy suddenly hit the palace, shaking it down to its very foundation. Lighting lit outside the window, and thunder boomed outside. Anja buried her face in Dief's fur, sobbing. She could hear men yelling, women screaming, and swords clashing. She suddenly thought about her missing friend, the handsome Tevra.

Tevra Illumate was the youngest son of the second highest-ranking family in the Polaris System. Anja was 13, Tevra was 5 years older, but age didn't matter to them. They loved and cared for each other in a way much deeper than anyone understood, despite their age differences. Tevra was tall and muscular, with very dark brown skin and brown eyes. He was 18 and had a great military career in front of him. As young as he was, he was already highly skilled in military combat and determined to rid Polaris of the problems that plagued it. From since the first reportings of the forces of Meerages and the Dark Kingdom converging on their system, Tevra was one of the first soldiers who were more than willing to sacrifice his life to save his home, as well as the ones he cared for.

Anja let her mind travel back to the time she had last seen him. It was the night he'd set off to face the Dark Kingdom and the evil King Meerages. He'd had at least a thousand men under his command and was so confident that Anja let her fear slip away for the first time in months. "Wait for me, Anja, love," he'd said. "I'll come back for you,"

"I will, I promise," she replied. She had always admired the brave young man from since she first met him when she was 9, and he 14. They've done so much together...exploring the centuries old palace she lived in as well as exploring the forests and cave systems that the planet of Beauty was known for. As she grew older, she came to realize that she was indeed in love with him. She may have been young, but she knew in her heart what she felt for Tevra. It was like nothing she could explain. Every time he was around, she felt she could just be herself and laugh and be free. "Good then, my Anja. I go to protect us all- have faith. I'll be back, and the Dark Kingdom will be defeated. Wait for me." He gathered her in his arms, hugged her close, kissed the top of her head, then turned and bellowed, "Move out!" to the soldiers waiting not too far away.

Three weeks had passed since Tevra had left, but the Dark Kingdom still carried on with their attacks- like now. Anja was terrified. She didn't know what would happen to her if the Dark Kingdom managed to break though the shields that protected her home. But she was even more scared or Tevra's sake. He'd disappeared without a trace. Even though all of his soldiers had been found.....well, their bodies had been found at least, Tevre's had not. Anja still held on to the vague hope that he was still alive, and knew she would wait for him forever.

Anja felt the Dark Kingdom hammering on the castle, rattling the weakening magical shields that protected it, trying desperately to get through. Thunder rumbled, lightning struck outside, and with a sickening cracking sound, the shields broke ---

Anja screamed long and loud in terror, sure that at moment, her young life would end--

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Manhattan

Present Day:

Anna Kendon sat upright in bed, sweat pouring down her forehead. Her cousin Tanya, awakened by her scream, jumped up in surprised from her bed not too far from Anna's and quickly rushed over. Their two dogs, Marco and Diefenbakar, rushed into the large room the two girls shared. "Anna, what's wrong? You were screaming!" Tanya looked at her cousin with alarm and concern. From as long as Tanya had lived with her, Anna was always the one to show her brave side, even in their toughest situations. But she had never done something like this before, and it scared the shorter girl greatly.

"I'm fine, I think," Anna replied slowly, picking up a stuffed animal from her bed and cuddling it tightly. "I just had another nightmare. I don't remember much of it, though..."

"Try, something tells me this could be important," Dief urged. Dief and Marco were the most unusual dogs in the world; they could talk and think like humans. But then, Tanya and Anna were pretty unusual too. They were really Sailor Sirius and Sailor Polaris, two guardians of peace and justice that carried on the legacy started by the original Senshi in Japan.

Anna concentrated and set down her stuffed caramel-colored teddy bear. "I remember there was a... a storm... and a great battle going on. I think it was right before my father...during the Silver Millennium...sent me to the Sirius Star System to stay with you... after our forces temporarily held off the attacks of the Meerages and the Dark Kingdom. I remember there was a man...a very handsome man." She thought some more. "That's all I can think of," she finished.

"It's probably nothing," Tanya said reassuringly, putting a hand on Anna's shoulder. At least, she HOPED it was nothing. It's been over a year now since Tanya came to America and the two girls changed into Sailor Senshi to defeat King Meerages. They were in the 11th grade now, juniors in high school by American standards, just as Usagi and the other Inner Senshi were second year high school students in Japan. From since the battle with Meerages ended, the girls had lived relatively peaceful lives, dreaming of the future and their goals. Tanya was the most glad for it, for all she wanted to do was just be a normal girl...a girl with normal hopes and dreams. Now with the terrible dreams Anna was having, it looked like the time of peace was ending, and her heart sank a little at that thought.

"Yeah... probably," Dief agreed doubtfully, giving Marco a worried glance. "But this is the third one this week."

"I'm probably just nervous about the competition," Anna said. "Let's all go back to sleep, we have school tomorrow."

She and Tanya said goodnight, and Anna shut off her light and layed down in bed. But she didn't get any sleep for the rest of the night...memories of the nightmares still plagued her mind. What does all this mean? the girl thought to herself. With a sigh, she turned over and willed herself to fall asleep. But it was an unpeaceful sleep as images of the nightmare and what she had just learned flashed through her mind over and over again. Would the nightmares ever stop? Does it mean that something terrible was going to happen? By time morning came, Anna still didn't know the answer to those questions, but she hoped she would...soon.

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In outer space, a small vessel was heading toward Earth at an incredible speed. It's driver at the controls was a very tall woman with wavy, dark green hair, red eyes, and pale white skin. Determination was set on her beautiful yet cold face as she looked at the coordinates and noticed Earth was now very close. She nodded and continued on her course. For too long now, Valera's distant relative, King Meerages, had been silent. No more commands came to her as she waited outside this small solar system, and she wanted to know why. According to the measurement of time on the third, small blue and green planet called Earth, it's been over a year since she last heard from him. Then, a signal suddenly erupted from the Earth planet, calling her to it. Something must have happened, she just knew it. After long moments, the small ship approached Earth's atmosphere, and she turned on the stealth mode to hide herself from the humans that may be scanning space.

The green-haired woman had heard about the technologies the Earth people have finally come up with, and she didn't want her presence known just yet. She had work to do at the moment. Things to find out... mostly about King Meerages...and things to plan. The ship turned north about half an hour later and expertly broke through the limitless sky over the North Pole, where the signal she was following came from. She touched down with no complications and pressed some buttons on her navigating post to open the side door to the ship. Immediately, cold icy wind blasted in, and walking to the opening doorway, Valera flicked her hands and materialized a warm bubble barrier around herself over. As she stepped into the light, her perfect, hour glass figure swayed sassily in her tight fighting, black body suit. Thanks to the magical bubble, Valera never felt any of the biting cold. After walking forward from the ship for a few moments, Valera stopped before a large and deep hole in the icy and snowy ground.

Valera levitated herself up in the air, then slowly descending down into the icy, ravaged depths. Once down, she found a large cave opening, icicles all around. "It was here, that the great Queen Beryl set up her Dark Kingdom?" Valera asked herself, surprised. She shrugged and took out the homing device used to find the machine...or whatever it was...that sent out the signal she had been tracking from space.

She then continued on through the icy maze inside. After what seemed like forever, the black-clad woman finally saw bright light and entered what could be only a large throne room, where Queen Beryl herself once received her Dark Kingdom generals and issued her orders. What once radiated negative energy and teamed with Dark Kingdom monsters and soldiers was now dead and cold, nothing left. Valera turned to her left and saw what remained of the throne Beryl once sat upon.

Valera shook her head, disappointment on her beautiful yet evil face. Then, the device she held in her hand blinked louder and she pointed it to the far left of the ravaged throne. The device at once signaled that the source of the frequency was found. The green-haired woman passed the throne, then up to the far left. Her eyes narrowed as what she saw was nothing but an icy wall. But...the device couldn't be wrong, it couldn't! Flicking her wrist to burst the warm bubble around her, she then pushed against the wall, and it suddenly gave way a moment later. It was actually a false wall, and inside was a dark small room.

Valera reached into her large utility belt and took out a small flashlight. Light then filled the whole room that was dark for so long, and Valera let out a startled gasp at what she saw. There was a large crystal casing standing in the center, and inside, his eyes and mouth still wide open in a silent scream, was a young, dark-skinned man, looking to be about 18 to 20 years old. He was tall, about a little over 6 feet, very handsome, and had a muscular body. His chest was bare and he wore dark grey pants. Encased in a small hole at the feet of the crystal casing was the small black orb that sent out the signal. Valera silently walked up and bent down to pick up the orb. Immediately the top of it slid open, and the holographic image of King Meerages appeared on top of it.

"Valera, I trust that the only person to see this is you," the man's booming voice said. "If you had come to Earth, and found this, then that means that somehow, something had gone wrong in our plans, and I was..." Disgust was evident in the man's voice. "defeated," His icy blue eyes flashed red with anger. "In this room, you will find my most trusted, powerful, and loyal soldier. He is our key to conquering this world and exacting our revenge. I kept him hidden from the other senshi just in case I was defeated. Use him, and use him well. He is our secret weapon. His name is Onyx, and he has been conditioned and brainwashed into our thinking. He has been turned on our side when he was captured during the failed seige of the Polaris Star System during the Silver Millennium."

The holographic image nodded his head. "His strength and loyalty is incomparable now. Even though I may not be there to see our victory, we WILL defeat the Sailor Senshi and those of the White Moon Kingdom once and for all!" The evil man threw back his platinum blonde head and laughed loudly. Just as suddenly as it began, the hologram and transmission then ended, and King Meerage's image disappeared in a shimmer. Valera was saddened slightly at the thought of losing her King...the one man she allowed herself to secretly love, but when she turned to the man Meerages indicated, hope filled her once more.

"Well, well, aren't you the lucky one!" Valera smiled wickedly. Still holding the orb, she walked up to the crystal casing and laid a hand over the man's crystal covered bare chest. She threw back her head, her green hair falling over her back, and also let out a loud and annoying laugh. She finally stopped laughing after a few moments and shook her head to get her thoughts together. Enough games now, there was work to be done!

She bent down and set the orb into another opening right under the feet of the man that fit the orb perfectly. She touched a button and straightened up while she backed far away. For a moment, nothing happened, but then the small orb began to glow hot red. The glowing got brighter and bigger until it covered the whole crystal casing. Then, the casing began to crack and split apart, and finally, it exploded. The dark-skinned man inside fell forward and slumped on the hard and cold floor as he was freed from his icy prison. Valera was just about to come forward and help him stand up when the man's body jerked and began to tremble. A second later, he slowly moved onto his hands and knees. With jerky movements, he sat up on his knees, threw his head back, and let out a long and pain-filled scream.

When it ended, he wrapped his arm around himself and looked around as he trembled heavily from the cold. I...I'm...alive? he thought desperately, gladly feeling the cold and the pain, which told him that yes, he was indeed alive.

"Well, hello there!" said Valera huskily. The man snapped his head to the side at the sound of her voice, and gave the woman a long and hard stare.

"Who... Who are you!" he demanded, his eyes narrowing. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "Who... am I?" he then asked softly. His name. Why couldn't he remember his name? The woman chuckled and walked ever so slowly up to him. The man, still kneeling, had to look up to Valera's face. Confusion washed all over the man's mind, and try as he might, he couldn't remember anything about how he got to this place or what happened to him. He shivered from the near freezing temperature in the room and he ragged breaths came out in fogs.

"I'm Valera," the woman said, pointing to herself. She squatted down to eye level with the man and looked deep into his eyes. "And you are Onyx, the best general and agent to the great might of the Dark Kingdom!" When she finished her introduction, the man only looked at her in complete confusion. Valera sighed and straightened up, then took the man's hand in her own. "Come, we have much to plan for," she said with a sly smirk.

A tingling sense of recognition came into Onyx's mind as he looked around once more at his surroundings. The icy wall, the cold temperatures...yes...something was familiar here. But he had no time to think of it as the woman pulled him along to the back of the large throne room. Somehow, Onyx felt as though he couldn't trust this woman, but he shook it off. If what she said was true, then he had no choice but to go along with her until he can figure things out for himself. Still a little confused, he allowed the woman to take her to wherever her destination was. Somehow, in some way, the answers will come to him. But he had no time to figure out when or how as the strange woman began to tell him her plans, the icy winds blowing harshly outside.

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To Be Continued.

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