Prologue
                The Negaverse War
                 by Rick Federle
                         
     
          Azmaria paced her chambers, or her cell as she thought of
     it, often with a grimace of distaste.  When the Negaforce had
     ordered her to capture the Guardsman, she'd been forced to obey. 
     But nothing had kept her from leading his friends to rescue him.
          Twice the Negaforce had faced the Sailor Scouts.  The first
     time it had possessed Queen Beryl in order to augment her power,
     leaving behind only a spark of what composed it behind.  When
     Beryl had been killed in battle against Princess Serenity and her
     guardians, the Negaforce had nearly been obliterated as well.
          It had taken the Negaforce over three years to regenerate
     the damage done, and then it only succeeded in repairing the
     damage so that the Warrior of Light could nearly obliterate it again. 
     The Negaforce's last encounter with the Sailor Scouts had virtually
     destroyed it altogether.
          Unfortunately for her, they hadn't finished the job.  Life
     would have been so much less complicated if they had.
          After the group had left, the Negaverse had broken out into
     a civil war.  Those still controlled by the Negaforce on one side and
     those who's control had been lost on the other.
          While most of the servants who served the Negaforce
     willingly had died with Beryl in her abortive attempt to conquer the
     Earth, many who had remained after the Queen's death still served
     the Negaforce willingly.  Seduced by the promise of power and the
     desire to do whatever they wanted to whoever they wanted.
          Azmaria was disgusted by the thought.  She served the
     Negaforce because she had to, she was compelled to, not because
     she liked to.  Her primary concern now was the people who had
     twice survived a near destruction of the Negaverse.  She'd do
     whatever it took to keep them alive.
          And free from the Negaforce.