The Story

Now, we all probably know the story of Sailor Moon, but in case  you didn't or you forgot or you want to prove somebody wrong or need a detail somewhere, this is what this page is for! ^_^

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
Actually, it wasn't far away. It was our own galaxy and our own Solar System.
The planets in our system all had kingdoms and the Moon in particular had the Silver Millenium. Its Queen was Queen Serenity, and she had a daughter named Princess Serenity. The people of the Moon were kept eternally young by the power of the ginzuishou, the holy crystal of the moon.
Princess Serenity had her guardians, the inner planetary sailor senshi. Sailor Pluto was guarding the Gates of Time and Sailors Uranus and Neptune guarded the Silver Millenium from outside invaders. Then Serenity fell in love with the prince of Earth, Endymion.

One particular year, the sun was unusually active (sunspots,etc). That activity proved to be the end of the Silver Millenium. It awakened an ancient demon, Metallia. She was bent on getting the ginzuishou. She used Queen Beryl as a host and together they brainwashed the people of Earth into thinking the people of the Moon were evil. Only Prince Endymion remained in his right state of mind. He tried to convince his people that they were being mislead, but Metallia was too strong. Even his four trusted generals were under Metallia's spell. Metallia, in Beryl's form, killed Prince Endymion.Princess Serenity just happened to be on the scene and she was heartbroken. What happens next varies between the anime and manga versions.

Manga:
In the manga, Princess Serenity was so upset about losing her love that she stabbed herself through the heart with a sword made of gizuishou, the very sword that was supposed to be used by her guardians to protect her. Queen Serenity tried to seal Metallia away by using the ginzuishou, but she was traumatized by losing her daughter and the seal was ineffective. Then she used the remains of her powers to send the Princess, Endymion, the inner senshi, luna, artemis,and Sailors Uranus and Neptune to the future, and Sailor Saturn proceeded to silence the Silver Millenium.But Beryl was reincarnated as well as the senshi, and unsealed Metallia in the future.

In the anime, Princess Serenity was kinda desparate and ran after Endymion's corpse, which was being taken away for Beryl's...enjoyment. So Beryl killed her too. Queen Serenity managed to use the ginzuishou to stop them and send the prince, princess, inner senshi, cats, and Uranus and Neptune to the future. But for some reason she also had to send Beryl and Metallia to avoid killing the prince and princess. But Metallia's demons destroyed the Silver Millenium.

**When all this happened, Sailor Pluto was still guarding the Gates and Sailor Saturn was hibernating until she was needed to end another era.**

And so, they were all reborn together and the good guys (gals) won. Then the good guys(gals) beat a whole bunch of other bad guys and then when all the bad guys were gone, the prince and princess got married and had kids and the other good gals/guys followed their dreams and they all lived happily ever after.