Prologue



	Hello, my name is Somika and I'm 15 years old.  I used to live on the 
Moon Kingdom, until it was destroyed.  If you will listen, I will tell you my 
story.

	My journey started when the Moon was being invaded by Queen Beryl.  I 
was three at the time of the invasion.  She has succeeded in capturing my 
world, then moved on to my mother's world in the past, way before I was born 
and she was still a little girl of 6.  I was hoping to be destroyed along 
with my family because I could do nothing to stop her and her reign of evil.  
Unluckily, my wish was not answered, because just before she blasted our 
world into dust, my mother's trusted advisors, the Starlights, took me away.  
I was in my crib, sleeping, and my mother and father were outside trying to 
stop her evil when she came and got me.  I was raised in the past, and 
Starlights were my mother and father.  This was before they were ever known, 
and are still known, in the galaxy as fighters of good.

	A few years later, she attacked again.  I was seven when she attacked 
for the second time.  My grandmother was still alive and I rejoiced each time 
she saw me and held me in her arms.  I had now way of knowing that my world 
was destroyed and that my grand-mother was holding me.  All I experienced in 
her arms were the same warmth and friendship I had with my mother.

	While I was staying at the palace as a playmate for Rini, Queen Beryl 
attacked again.  I was playing in her room and I felt slight tremor.  I got 
scared and ran from the room, crying for my mommy and daddy.  Then I stopped 
and saw the Starlights, the Inner Scouts, the Outer Scouts, and King Endymion 
and Neo-Queen Serenity fighting for the Moon.  I sat on the swing, crying, 
and silently wished for a way home (I had been told just before the fight that 
the Starlights weren't my true parents).  Sailor Pluto appeared and asked if 
I really meant what I said.  I nodded and said I would do anything to see them 
again (I also had flashbacks and dreams of my former parents, and then I knew 
that they must've been my parents).

	After I told her what I wished for in the whole world, then she wisked 
me off to the Time Gate.  She brought me before it and told me that my trip 
would be long and difficult.  My answer to her was that I didn't care if it 
was, as long as I would see them again.  Sailor Pluto seemed pleased by my 
answer and gave me a mysterious key with a blue stone on the handle.  She told 
me that it was the Time Key and, if I thought my quest was too difficult and I 
didn't want to travel anymore, that I just had to say "Time Key, take me to 
the Time Gate!".  Then I would be wisked off back to her, sent to where ever I 
chose, and would live there with the people from that time.

	She knew it was hard for me, so she said she would give me some time by 
myself in a replica of the playground that I was in before she came to me.  I 
shook my head and told her no, and that i was ready now.  she asked me one more 
time if I wanted to go, and I told her, once more, that I would do anything to 
see my family.  Sailor Pluto had no choice but to obey, so she pointed her 
staff at a strage door with interesting, but strange symbols on it.  She told 
me that, in order to reach what I most desired, I had to travel on the long 
walkway inside the door.  I bowed, said my good-byes, and ran toward my destiny.

	I've been traveling the far reaches of each dimension in search of my 
family, and I hope that, one day, I will find them.  Don't know when, don't 
know where, but I would find them.

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