Amy had enough, she has always been the goodie-goodie type, never
allowing herself to have any real fun.
Hummm, thought the senshi of ice as she pondered what she should wear, she didn't feel like wearing her typical type skirt and blouse, too proper, she wanted to do something wild, something outrageous, something completely new. Picking out a black mini-skirt and a tight fitting black tank-top she put those on with a pair of nice sandals, she was ready. Oh wait, something is missing. Amy wanted to look like the cool type of girls that she sometimes saw at school, she really did. And what did the 'cool' girls usually do? Put on lots of makeup.
Amy tried her hand at it, she has never worn make up before and was surprised to find that she did pretty good. She looked stunning, although very different; the only thing that seemed to remain unchanged was her hair, the usual blue and short. For the intelligent and creative Amy it was no problem to think of something to do with her hair. Parting it at the side she flipped most of it to one side of her head, making her look more sophisticated and stylish, perfect.
The look was done, now, she needed a date, and well, a date was something she didn't have. Amy never had too many friends to begin with so when it came to finding a date, she was out of luck, no amount of intelligence could help her out of this one now.
'Oh well' she thought 'guess I'll have to go by myself'
She got her purse and stormed out of the door slamming it shut behind her. Amy was in the mood for some action, it was surprising what a little change of appearance could do to a person's mood. The club was just down the street, and the negaverse was quiet, not a word from them in over a whole week, Amy felt like she cold afford to have some fun.
The music was too loud, the people were mostly drunk, and she was all by herself. Amy wanted to have some fun, but it appeared that it was not her lucky day; the young mercurian was not having any fun at all.
'Well, I might as well have a drink, maybe that'll cheer me up.' Thought Amy as she ordered herself a tequila, she had never drunk before, so she had no idea what tequila even was. After five shots and some time, the music started to catch up with her, Amy started to feel a little better and she found out that it wasn't that loud and not that very hot in here. She started to move to the beat, but she kept bumping into people constantly, her legs felt wobbly and she found that she didn't care about anyone's complaints.
Nephrite was watching the people dance, humans, such ridiculous creatures. Beside him was Jaedite who was looking more annoyed then he usually was.
"Are you done looking at these idiots, why not just drain them and be over with it?" he asked angrily. He wanted to get out of here, this hot atmosphere; it was reminding him of something he didn't want to remember.
"What's the matter with you, I thought a descendent of Mars should like a hot hell-hole like this" teased Nephrite. He never passed up an opportunity to taunt the younger general about his Martian heritage. Good thing that Jaedite didn't know about Nephrite being from Jupiter, otherwise he might've made up a comeback by now.
"I don't say anything about your background, do I Nephrite? Or maybe I should?" Jaedite eyes set on fire with internal anger. Martians, such hot tempers they all have, thought Nephrite.
"Chill out, I was only joking, we'll be out of here as soon as their energy reaches its peak. By the way, have you heard from Zoicite and Malachite, I heard they were after the rainbow crystals, are they doing any good?" on the other hand, thought Nephrite after he changed the topic, maybe Jaedite did know about his background after all.
"They've got five, they need two more to get the imperial silver crystal, I think we should try harder, we need energy and we need lots of it."
"True, queen Beryl will not be too happy if they complete their task and we don't" Nephrite was not really worried though, they were right on track.
Draining clubs was perfect, the energy levels were high and the sailor scouts never showed up here, it was as if this part of the population was so abandoned by the society that even the scouts didn't bother with them. In one week they have gathered more energy then they have in the past year, and unlike Jaedite, Nephrite could tell that Queen Beryl was impressed.
"Jaedite, while we are stuck in this dump, why don't you at least try to have some fun, they maybe human but they are still women. And with our powers you can have any and every one of them, you know." Nephrite sighed.
He was older then Jaedite, he could understand why the younger guy would not like being stuck here, but there was nothing they could do for now, he would have to get adjusted. He himself was content for now, his energy kept everyone at a distance from him.
"Right, have fun, whatever you say oh mighty Nephrite. I'll just be your slave and do what you say, maybe bring you your slippers at night." Apparently in his current mood Jaedite reacted even to someone suggesting that he should do something.
"That would be most helpful." countered Nephrite smirking at Jaedite who has decided to get up.
Jaedite gave his companion the dirtiest of looks he could bring up but all that has done was make the guy laugh.
Amy was dancing with two guys at the same time, she didn't even know who they are and she couldn't care less either. That is until she bumped into someone who wasn't dancing at all. He was just walking through the crowd and for some strange reason they just all let him pass.
"Wha?" Jaedite looked at the girl who bumped into him. This couldn't be, Amy, the girl who was Sailor Mercury, here?!
"Why don't you watch where you are going!" yelled Amy causing Jaedite to raise an eyebrow, she didn't seem to know who she was talking to. "Hey, you're kinda cute, wanna dance?" she wrapped her arms around his neck. Jaedite's eyes widened in shock, was she completely delusional? It took him another moment to realize that she was, she was completely drunk. This could be interesting, he thought as he wrapped his arms around her waist and started to move to the beat going along with the girl.
"Come with me." he whispered in her ear influencing her just a little with his power. She obliged with no resistance following him to where Nephrite was sitting.
"Guess who I caught, you really meant it when you said that I could have them all!" Nephrite had his eyes closed when Jaedite came up. He shook his head at the generals' exited tone of voice, youth, and a few minutes ago he was saying that he wanted to get out of here. He opened his eyes bored but almost jumped up when he saw who it was that was clinging on to the younger general.
"How in the name of all evil did you.?" he didn't finish when he noticed Amy's clouded over eyes and her unstable posture "She's drunk, isn't she?"
"Yes, and she threw herself at me, I didn't even do anything."
Nephrite moved over to let Jaedite sit. The younger general threw Amy on the couch before sitting down himself.
"So what should we do with her?" he asked Nephrite looking at the girl who rested her head on the older guys' lap.
Nephrite looked at the girl in his lap, she looked like she has fallen asleep A senshi, the one who was supposed to be the smartest of the five was being this careless, it was surprising. He stroked her cheek with his finger, she stirred a little but did not open her eyes.
"Ever notice how the sailor brats are prettier then regular humans? She is so vulnerable right now, we could destroy her right here, rid ourselves of one annoying scout. No more mercury power, no more scanning through our forces, no more handy little computers and genius minds, too easy, don't you think?"
"What are you getting at Nephrite, I don't understand."
"Let's take her home, the others are bound to come looking for her, who knows, she could be useful."
"Yeah, well, do whatever you want with her, I'm going to go get some fresh air."
Nephrite just nodded as Jaedite left again. He looked down at the girl resting her head in his lap, he'd never think that he would ever find himself in this situation. Oh the wonders of alcohol, maybe he should get the rest of them drunk too. The thought made him laugh, would the proud Sailor mars or the defiant Jupiter throw themselves at him the same way mercury did? He stroked her cheek absentmindedly again until he heard her moan and lean in into his touch. Gods, she was actually enjoying this, he wondered what fun it would be to clear her head now and show her just what she was doing, but he didn't think that would be such a good idea.
Just for the sake of seeing what will happen he leaned down and pressed his lips against the mercurian girls' in his lap. Cold and smooth as ice, he had never thought that he would enjoy kissing his mortal enemy, but then again, who cared right?
At that moment a dark crystal that hung around his neck reacted. He saw Jaedite walk in from outside, it was time.
"About time, I was getting bored."
"What were you doing anyways?" asked Nephrite standing up and picking up Amy in his arms "looking for more drunken sailor scouts?"
"Very funny, very funny, lets get it over with and get out of here" said Jaedite as he commanded a monster from the negaverse to come forward and suck the whole crowd dry. Yet another raid was successful and they got to take out a sailor scout too, queen Beryl would be pleased. The two generals disappeared and reappeared in the negaverse. Amy was peacefully sleeping in Nephrites' arms unaware of the danger she was in.
"What are you going to do with her?" asked Jaedite as he was about to proceed to give queen Beryl with the energy they have collected.
"Just keep her here for now, don't tell Beryl, she doesn't need to know this, not yet at least." He turned around and proceeded to walk to his quarters.
Jaedite smirked. 'Scout lover, well, have fun, she's out of my way, so I guess I can't complain.'
He disappeared to report to queen Beryl, he'll just say that Nephrite was held back to clean up or something, she'll believe him, with the progress they have been making lately she was no longer watching them 24/7.
Nephrite walked into his room, like the rest of the negaverse, it was dark and gloomy, but when did that ever bother anyone in there. He carefully placed Amy on the bed, he didn't want to wake her up just yet, she should be given at least the opportunity to enjoy her peaceful sleep, it would most likely be her last one. Nephrite didn't know why he was being considerate, but he was.
He took away Amy's transformation stick and sat beside her on the bed leaning against the backboard and looking down at the senshi of ice, she really was pretty. Nephrite thought that Jaedite would probably call him insane for even thinking something like this. It was funny how queen Beryl paired them up, the calm, reasonable and composed Malachite in charge of the arrogant and hotheaded Zoicite and himself in charge of the equally hotheaded Jaedite. Malachite had more experience then he himself did, but Zoicite had less then Jaedite, he was absolutely dependent on Malachite unlike Jaedite who would most likely be able to hold his own if he was ever left alone. It was interesting how Queen Beryl organized them into teams of two equally balancing both in power.
Nephrite's thought's were interrupted when Amy stirred on the bed she was lying on. She moaned and then slowly opened her eyes, she still couldn't comprehend very well. She sat up rubbing her eyes, she had a horrible headache. With a groan she shut her eyes shut clutching her head.
"My head.remind me not to ever do that again." she mumbled apparently not aware there was someone there to answer her.
"I don't think I will have to, you will have no trouble remembering." Answered Nephrite amused by the senshis' cluelessness.
Amy opened her eyes and froze, she knew that voice, she was sure she did! She jumped up turning to face Nephrite who was just smirking at her.
"What have you done to me?! Where am I?" she reached for her transformation stick, but of course it was not there.
"Me? Do anything to you? I didn't do a thing mercury, if you recall you were the one who got so drunk that you threw yourself straight into Jaedites' arms" the smirk never left Nephrite's face, it was too amusing seeing the usually composed mercury act like this.
"No. you're lying. I couldn't, I would've not!" but the pain in her head stopped her flow of thought.she did, she remembered she did.but throw herself into Jaedites' arms, she couldn't believe that, it was too outrageous. Amy paled, she was going to be sick, what would the others think...oh mighty Mercury protect me she prayed.
She was helpless, absolutely helpless and Nephrite didn't need to tell her where she was, she already knew.
"You are lucky mercury, had Jaedite not found you, you would've been drained completely with the rest of them, and had I not said that I wanted to keep you, he would've destroyed you. He has no sympathy for the likes of you." Nephrite spoke calmly looking at the girl who was now on her knees clutching her head. She apparently was not taking this too well.
"Why didn't you destroy me? You could've easily done so, do you have sympathy for the likes of me?" she whispered knowing that Nephrite's acute hearing would allow him to hear her clearly.
"I have no need to destroy you senshi. My job is not to destroy you, it is to keep you from ruining our plans, I can do that by taking away your transformation stick. And I do happened to have some sympathy for you, you are fighting a loosing battle."
Tears ran down Amys' face, how stupid was it of her, she just wanted to have some fun, she just wanted to be a bad girl for a change, she didn't want this. And to make it worse her head was killing her. Seeing her pain Nephrite stood up and walked up to the crying girl.
"Stop that, crying will not change anything for you, right now I have no pity for you, you are being pathetic. You were stupid enough to get careless, and now you are crying at my feet. That is no way for a princess of mercury to behave. Stand up." He spoke slowly and calmly, but there was a hardness about his usually pleasant voice that demanded obedience. Amy suddenly became scared getting up slowly, what in hell was he talking about, she thought that he would enjoy seeing her cry at his feet. Yet his words were not taunting, more like the kind of thing one might say to get you thinking.
Nephrite extended his hand putting his hand on the back of the girls' head and used one of his less used powers. Amy felt the pain in her head drain from her, everything became more clear, why was he doing this?
Unfortunately, her fear became more clear too, she was so much more aware of her situation.
"There is no reason for you to suffer needlessly, someone like Zoicite might enjoy seeing that, but not me and if I see you crying again I'll knock you out." said Nephrite calmly dropping his hand and walking over to a table. He sat on a chair and started meditating on his dark crystal making it more powerful.
"Nephrite?"
The general opened his eyes.
"What are you planning to do with me, if you are not going to destroy me?"
"Probably use you as a bait for the others, they are bound to come after you eventually." he looked at her wondering what her reaction might be.
Amy sank down on the floor, this was all her fault, this was not even a sick plan on the behalf of the negaverse, it was just the result of her own stupidity, she set herself and the others up for this. In fact, the generals have spared her, not something she has ever done with their creatures. It was only natural that her friends would want to help her, they should just leave her though, they would be putting themselves in danger now because of her stupidity.
"Please.please don't do it.Do anything to me, but please, please don't use me to lure in the others.please." mercury was pleading him, there was nothing else she could do now, only beg him, beg him not to punish her friends for her stupidity.
Nephrite stared in surprise, was he really seeing what he was seeing, or hearing what he was hearing? Was a sailor scout begging him for mercy?
"Your name is Amy right?" he asked a question that seemed out of place in this situation.
Amy looked up startled and nodded.
"Come with me, I want to show you something." He stood up and waved his hand. A passageway appeared in the wall and he walked through it.
Amy didn't have much to do, and she didn't want to get Nephrite angry, for all she knew he could still destroy her. She watched as his black cloak trailed behind him (the same kind malachite wears only black, my little invention) as she followed him to what looked like a balcony. She looked on with a feeling that was almost awe, the sky was blood red, everything seemed dark and corrupted, a whole city twisted in its' shape and color lay below. This was the first time she has seen what negaverse actually was.
Nephrite stepped aside to let her pass in front of him, surprisingly, looking as she did now, she didn't even look out of place here. He came up right behind her and put his hands on her shoulders feeling the girl tense up. Nephrite only now noticed just how much taller he was then her, standing there beside him, she looked so vulnerable, not like a threat to him at all. He leaned down and whispered in her ear
"See that, this is my home, this is where I lived for so very long. Ever seen my Queen, maybe I should introduce you to her." He moved his hand from her shoulder and held it up in front of both of them projecting her an image of Queen Beryl in her hideous throne room, then the image disappeared. "She is evil, you know, look down there" he pointed at the city below "they don't know what happiness is, all they have ever done as I did, was serve that woman on the throne, if you scouts don't destroy us when we fail, she does.I loose to you, I die by her hand, can you blame me for trying every way I can to survive?" Amy was shocked, this place was hideous, seeing this, she could understand just a bit better why the generals were so cruel. There were monsters all over, only a few inhabitants here resembled anything human. Amy was so into her thoughts that she didn't even notice when Nephrite pulled his arms around her, until he whispered right in her ear again. "Can you blame us for being what we are when we have lived our entire lives in here.you know, I'm not from around here, want to know where I am from?" he asked quietly. 'Not from around here?' thought Amy, what does he mean?
"Where?" she asked quietly lowering her eyes and shockingly she didn't want him to remove his arms from around her, she was afraid that one of the flying monsters might swipe her away.
"Jupiter."
The answer came like a shock to her, he was from Jupiter? But how? This couldn't be, could it?
"Then why do you serve the negaverse, I thought that the negaverse destroyed Jupiter" she whispered completely confused now.
"You want to know why? Maybe I'll tell you, give you a little lesson on your own history. There were five of us, five young boys, we were only children serving queen Serenity. Me, Jaedite, Malachite, Zoicite and Endinion. We were all from different planets, a contribution from each planet, a gift to the queen of the moon. Earth was the only planet that gave its prince to the Queen. The other rulers of each planet all had sons as well as daughters, but none of them wanted to give up their children, they picked someone elses' children to give to the moon. They took us away from our families, I was only seven, Malachite was ten, we were the first ones to be sent to the moon. We spent two years there until the other two kingdoms sent in their so called contribution, Jaedite who was then old enough to come at the age of seven and Zoicite who was only five. We stayed there, we trained there, until only a month later a war broke out.
We were only children, and you know what we were expected to do? We were expected to sacrifice our lives for your queen. She was still young then and this was not the war that destroyed the moon, it was a lie that the Silver Millenium was a time of complete peace, as long as there is no fighting on the moon itself, then that means that there is peace for them. The five of us were taken prisoners and sold to the negaverse as slaves. We soon learnt to survive in our own way. We grew stronger, we moved up in rank, we became generals but we have always hoped that someone will come for us, that someone will rescue us. But guess what, the planets of our home solar system, or rather, their rulers, they have abandoned us. And so have the oh so kind Queen Serenity. All we have ever known was hate, pain, and destruction, ever since we were so young, and you think that it is wrong for us to serve the negaverse, is it wrong for us to serve the darkness when the so called light threw us right into it?"
Nephrite finished his tale and Amy just stared in front of her in shock. She couldn't believe this could be true. She didn't want to believe this was true, but one thing she knew was true, the generals were not from the negaverse, all the creatures from the negaverse looked at least somehow demonic. The four generals looked beautiful if not for their cold eyes and hearts. Amy was beginning to think about the fact that it might not even be their fault. Where there were only darkness and light before in her life there were now beginning to show up shades of grey. Where she thought light was purity she thought now that it might not be as pure as she used to believe. Where she thought darkness was evil she was now beginning to see that it is only trying to survive, or at least the creatures that live in its' shadow do.
Amy shook her head, she could not comprehend that this was true, she couldn't believe that queen serenity would send five year old children to war.
"Maybe, maybe they couldn't rescue you, maybe there was no way to rescue you?" she tried desperately.
"We thought so Mercury, that is until they came for Endimion. Soldiers broke in, they fought of the guards took him and left us. I can still remember Zoicite holding onto a soldiers' arm, a mercurian soldiers' arm crying and begging to take him with them. And I remember that soldier pushing the crying child away. We were nothing to them, they got their prince, they could've taken us home, but they didn't."
"I don't understand, if they could've, why didn't they?" Amy was shocked by what Nephrite was telling her. She turned around to look at him and she could still see the hurt in his cold eyes, deep inside there was still hurt. She even forgot who Nephrite was, who she was, she was feeling for him.
"They didn't want us back, if we were taken back, first, it would be known that there was a war, second it would be known that moon kingdom is sending children to die, second other things about the moon kingdom would have been uncovered."
Nephrite looked at the shocked Amy and could tell that she believed him, somehow she could see beyond his ice.
"Zoicite would kill me for this, he is a mercurian and he never forgave you know." said Nephrite watching the girl closely.
Amy looked down, somehow she couldn't bring herself to hate these men any more, knowing what has happened to them, what her own home government done to them. Zoicite, a mercurian? That psychopath was a mercurian? Well, she couldn't blame him, he was through a lot, wasn't he?
"If you were so wronged when you were so young by our kingdoms, why are you then standing here telling me this, I thought you would want to destroy me?" asked Amy.
"I don't think you knew the whole story Amy, and look around, look around all the ugliness here, can you blame me for looking at you and wanting to keep you here with me, you are very beautiful Mercury."
Amy all of a sudden became very aware of Nephrites' arms around her. He couldn't, could he? What did it matter, she was alive, she could be dead, this man was still her enemy, he could still do anything to her he wanted, her priority was to stay alive.
Amy couldn't help but shiver a little, she has never been this close to anyone, any man that is. She guessed that you couldn't call Nephrite a boy any more, he was much older then her.
"Nephrite, if you don't use me as a bait I'll stay with you, I'll do anything you want, please." she looked up at him. She knew from the start that she has doomed herself, she wasn't ever going back home because she has seen the negaverse and would be able to show the others the way had they let her go, she was only hoping now, that she could save her friends.
Nephrite looked down at the girl, Amy, she wasn't even afraid any more, she was just worried about the others, suppose he could live with this.
"You care too much about them for your own good Mercury, do I have your word that if I don't tell the scouts you are here and not use you to lure them in, that you will not leave my side, not even if they find you on their own and come for you?" he looked her deep in the eyes being completely serious.
Amy was startled, was he actually going to agree. She was startled because she didn't think he would, considering that he could still do anything to her without her wanting it or not.
"You have my word Nephrite." she said after some thought. It was painful to give this promise, it hurt so much, but she had to save the others.
'I'm sorry my friends, I'm so sorry.' she thought as tears once again fell from her now closed eyes. Amy felt herself being drawn closer to the 'evil' general she has learnt to hate in the past. Strong arms wrapped around her holding her too gently. It was wrong, he wasn't supposed to be nice to her, she wasn't supposed to feel for him, he was supposed to destroy, she was supposed to hate him.but they didn't.
She cried freely now despite his warning to knock her out if she did, but he didn't try to, he just held her. Amy held on to her once enemy, perhaps still enemy, and all she could tell was that if he continued to hold her like this, perhaps she could make it through this somehow.
AN: Well, I can leave of right here, or I can continue, tell me if I should. I am such a fan of weird couples, poor Amy.
Hummm, thought the senshi of ice as she pondered what she should wear, she didn't feel like wearing her typical type skirt and blouse, too proper, she wanted to do something wild, something outrageous, something completely new. Picking out a black mini-skirt and a tight fitting black tank-top she put those on with a pair of nice sandals, she was ready. Oh wait, something is missing. Amy wanted to look like the cool type of girls that she sometimes saw at school, she really did. And what did the 'cool' girls usually do? Put on lots of makeup.
Amy tried her hand at it, she has never worn make up before and was surprised to find that she did pretty good. She looked stunning, although very different; the only thing that seemed to remain unchanged was her hair, the usual blue and short. For the intelligent and creative Amy it was no problem to think of something to do with her hair. Parting it at the side she flipped most of it to one side of her head, making her look more sophisticated and stylish, perfect.
The look was done, now, she needed a date, and well, a date was something she didn't have. Amy never had too many friends to begin with so when it came to finding a date, she was out of luck, no amount of intelligence could help her out of this one now.
'Oh well' she thought 'guess I'll have to go by myself'
She got her purse and stormed out of the door slamming it shut behind her. Amy was in the mood for some action, it was surprising what a little change of appearance could do to a person's mood. The club was just down the street, and the negaverse was quiet, not a word from them in over a whole week, Amy felt like she cold afford to have some fun.
The music was too loud, the people were mostly drunk, and she was all by herself. Amy wanted to have some fun, but it appeared that it was not her lucky day; the young mercurian was not having any fun at all.
'Well, I might as well have a drink, maybe that'll cheer me up.' Thought Amy as she ordered herself a tequila, she had never drunk before, so she had no idea what tequila even was. After five shots and some time, the music started to catch up with her, Amy started to feel a little better and she found out that it wasn't that loud and not that very hot in here. She started to move to the beat, but she kept bumping into people constantly, her legs felt wobbly and she found that she didn't care about anyone's complaints.
Nephrite was watching the people dance, humans, such ridiculous creatures. Beside him was Jaedite who was looking more annoyed then he usually was.
"Are you done looking at these idiots, why not just drain them and be over with it?" he asked angrily. He wanted to get out of here, this hot atmosphere; it was reminding him of something he didn't want to remember.
"What's the matter with you, I thought a descendent of Mars should like a hot hell-hole like this" teased Nephrite. He never passed up an opportunity to taunt the younger general about his Martian heritage. Good thing that Jaedite didn't know about Nephrite being from Jupiter, otherwise he might've made up a comeback by now.
"I don't say anything about your background, do I Nephrite? Or maybe I should?" Jaedite eyes set on fire with internal anger. Martians, such hot tempers they all have, thought Nephrite.
"Chill out, I was only joking, we'll be out of here as soon as their energy reaches its peak. By the way, have you heard from Zoicite and Malachite, I heard they were after the rainbow crystals, are they doing any good?" on the other hand, thought Nephrite after he changed the topic, maybe Jaedite did know about his background after all.
"They've got five, they need two more to get the imperial silver crystal, I think we should try harder, we need energy and we need lots of it."
"True, queen Beryl will not be too happy if they complete their task and we don't" Nephrite was not really worried though, they were right on track.
Draining clubs was perfect, the energy levels were high and the sailor scouts never showed up here, it was as if this part of the population was so abandoned by the society that even the scouts didn't bother with them. In one week they have gathered more energy then they have in the past year, and unlike Jaedite, Nephrite could tell that Queen Beryl was impressed.
"Jaedite, while we are stuck in this dump, why don't you at least try to have some fun, they maybe human but they are still women. And with our powers you can have any and every one of them, you know." Nephrite sighed.
He was older then Jaedite, he could understand why the younger guy would not like being stuck here, but there was nothing they could do for now, he would have to get adjusted. He himself was content for now, his energy kept everyone at a distance from him.
"Right, have fun, whatever you say oh mighty Nephrite. I'll just be your slave and do what you say, maybe bring you your slippers at night." Apparently in his current mood Jaedite reacted even to someone suggesting that he should do something.
"That would be most helpful." countered Nephrite smirking at Jaedite who has decided to get up.
Jaedite gave his companion the dirtiest of looks he could bring up but all that has done was make the guy laugh.
Amy was dancing with two guys at the same time, she didn't even know who they are and she couldn't care less either. That is until she bumped into someone who wasn't dancing at all. He was just walking through the crowd and for some strange reason they just all let him pass.
"Wha?" Jaedite looked at the girl who bumped into him. This couldn't be, Amy, the girl who was Sailor Mercury, here?!
"Why don't you watch where you are going!" yelled Amy causing Jaedite to raise an eyebrow, she didn't seem to know who she was talking to. "Hey, you're kinda cute, wanna dance?" she wrapped her arms around his neck. Jaedite's eyes widened in shock, was she completely delusional? It took him another moment to realize that she was, she was completely drunk. This could be interesting, he thought as he wrapped his arms around her waist and started to move to the beat going along with the girl.
"Come with me." he whispered in her ear influencing her just a little with his power. She obliged with no resistance following him to where Nephrite was sitting.
"Guess who I caught, you really meant it when you said that I could have them all!" Nephrite had his eyes closed when Jaedite came up. He shook his head at the generals' exited tone of voice, youth, and a few minutes ago he was saying that he wanted to get out of here. He opened his eyes bored but almost jumped up when he saw who it was that was clinging on to the younger general.
"How in the name of all evil did you.?" he didn't finish when he noticed Amy's clouded over eyes and her unstable posture "She's drunk, isn't she?"
"Yes, and she threw herself at me, I didn't even do anything."
Nephrite moved over to let Jaedite sit. The younger general threw Amy on the couch before sitting down himself.
"So what should we do with her?" he asked Nephrite looking at the girl who rested her head on the older guys' lap.
Nephrite looked at the girl in his lap, she looked like she has fallen asleep A senshi, the one who was supposed to be the smartest of the five was being this careless, it was surprising. He stroked her cheek with his finger, she stirred a little but did not open her eyes.
"Ever notice how the sailor brats are prettier then regular humans? She is so vulnerable right now, we could destroy her right here, rid ourselves of one annoying scout. No more mercury power, no more scanning through our forces, no more handy little computers and genius minds, too easy, don't you think?"
"What are you getting at Nephrite, I don't understand."
"Let's take her home, the others are bound to come looking for her, who knows, she could be useful."
"Yeah, well, do whatever you want with her, I'm going to go get some fresh air."
Nephrite just nodded as Jaedite left again. He looked down at the girl resting her head in his lap, he'd never think that he would ever find himself in this situation. Oh the wonders of alcohol, maybe he should get the rest of them drunk too. The thought made him laugh, would the proud Sailor mars or the defiant Jupiter throw themselves at him the same way mercury did? He stroked her cheek absentmindedly again until he heard her moan and lean in into his touch. Gods, she was actually enjoying this, he wondered what fun it would be to clear her head now and show her just what she was doing, but he didn't think that would be such a good idea.
Just for the sake of seeing what will happen he leaned down and pressed his lips against the mercurian girls' in his lap. Cold and smooth as ice, he had never thought that he would enjoy kissing his mortal enemy, but then again, who cared right?
At that moment a dark crystal that hung around his neck reacted. He saw Jaedite walk in from outside, it was time.
"About time, I was getting bored."
"What were you doing anyways?" asked Nephrite standing up and picking up Amy in his arms "looking for more drunken sailor scouts?"
"Very funny, very funny, lets get it over with and get out of here" said Jaedite as he commanded a monster from the negaverse to come forward and suck the whole crowd dry. Yet another raid was successful and they got to take out a sailor scout too, queen Beryl would be pleased. The two generals disappeared and reappeared in the negaverse. Amy was peacefully sleeping in Nephrites' arms unaware of the danger she was in.
"What are you going to do with her?" asked Jaedite as he was about to proceed to give queen Beryl with the energy they have collected.
"Just keep her here for now, don't tell Beryl, she doesn't need to know this, not yet at least." He turned around and proceeded to walk to his quarters.
Jaedite smirked. 'Scout lover, well, have fun, she's out of my way, so I guess I can't complain.'
He disappeared to report to queen Beryl, he'll just say that Nephrite was held back to clean up or something, she'll believe him, with the progress they have been making lately she was no longer watching them 24/7.
Nephrite walked into his room, like the rest of the negaverse, it was dark and gloomy, but when did that ever bother anyone in there. He carefully placed Amy on the bed, he didn't want to wake her up just yet, she should be given at least the opportunity to enjoy her peaceful sleep, it would most likely be her last one. Nephrite didn't know why he was being considerate, but he was.
He took away Amy's transformation stick and sat beside her on the bed leaning against the backboard and looking down at the senshi of ice, she really was pretty. Nephrite thought that Jaedite would probably call him insane for even thinking something like this. It was funny how queen Beryl paired them up, the calm, reasonable and composed Malachite in charge of the arrogant and hotheaded Zoicite and himself in charge of the equally hotheaded Jaedite. Malachite had more experience then he himself did, but Zoicite had less then Jaedite, he was absolutely dependent on Malachite unlike Jaedite who would most likely be able to hold his own if he was ever left alone. It was interesting how Queen Beryl organized them into teams of two equally balancing both in power.
Nephrite's thought's were interrupted when Amy stirred on the bed she was lying on. She moaned and then slowly opened her eyes, she still couldn't comprehend very well. She sat up rubbing her eyes, she had a horrible headache. With a groan she shut her eyes shut clutching her head.
"My head.remind me not to ever do that again." she mumbled apparently not aware there was someone there to answer her.
"I don't think I will have to, you will have no trouble remembering." Answered Nephrite amused by the senshis' cluelessness.
Amy opened her eyes and froze, she knew that voice, she was sure she did! She jumped up turning to face Nephrite who was just smirking at her.
"What have you done to me?! Where am I?" she reached for her transformation stick, but of course it was not there.
"Me? Do anything to you? I didn't do a thing mercury, if you recall you were the one who got so drunk that you threw yourself straight into Jaedites' arms" the smirk never left Nephrite's face, it was too amusing seeing the usually composed mercury act like this.
"No. you're lying. I couldn't, I would've not!" but the pain in her head stopped her flow of thought.she did, she remembered she did.but throw herself into Jaedites' arms, she couldn't believe that, it was too outrageous. Amy paled, she was going to be sick, what would the others think...oh mighty Mercury protect me she prayed.
She was helpless, absolutely helpless and Nephrite didn't need to tell her where she was, she already knew.
"You are lucky mercury, had Jaedite not found you, you would've been drained completely with the rest of them, and had I not said that I wanted to keep you, he would've destroyed you. He has no sympathy for the likes of you." Nephrite spoke calmly looking at the girl who was now on her knees clutching her head. She apparently was not taking this too well.
"Why didn't you destroy me? You could've easily done so, do you have sympathy for the likes of me?" she whispered knowing that Nephrite's acute hearing would allow him to hear her clearly.
"I have no need to destroy you senshi. My job is not to destroy you, it is to keep you from ruining our plans, I can do that by taking away your transformation stick. And I do happened to have some sympathy for you, you are fighting a loosing battle."
Tears ran down Amys' face, how stupid was it of her, she just wanted to have some fun, she just wanted to be a bad girl for a change, she didn't want this. And to make it worse her head was killing her. Seeing her pain Nephrite stood up and walked up to the crying girl.
"Stop that, crying will not change anything for you, right now I have no pity for you, you are being pathetic. You were stupid enough to get careless, and now you are crying at my feet. That is no way for a princess of mercury to behave. Stand up." He spoke slowly and calmly, but there was a hardness about his usually pleasant voice that demanded obedience. Amy suddenly became scared getting up slowly, what in hell was he talking about, she thought that he would enjoy seeing her cry at his feet. Yet his words were not taunting, more like the kind of thing one might say to get you thinking.
Nephrite extended his hand putting his hand on the back of the girls' head and used one of his less used powers. Amy felt the pain in her head drain from her, everything became more clear, why was he doing this?
Unfortunately, her fear became more clear too, she was so much more aware of her situation.
"There is no reason for you to suffer needlessly, someone like Zoicite might enjoy seeing that, but not me and if I see you crying again I'll knock you out." said Nephrite calmly dropping his hand and walking over to a table. He sat on a chair and started meditating on his dark crystal making it more powerful.
"Nephrite?"
The general opened his eyes.
"What are you planning to do with me, if you are not going to destroy me?"
"Probably use you as a bait for the others, they are bound to come after you eventually." he looked at her wondering what her reaction might be.
Amy sank down on the floor, this was all her fault, this was not even a sick plan on the behalf of the negaverse, it was just the result of her own stupidity, she set herself and the others up for this. In fact, the generals have spared her, not something she has ever done with their creatures. It was only natural that her friends would want to help her, they should just leave her though, they would be putting themselves in danger now because of her stupidity.
"Please.please don't do it.Do anything to me, but please, please don't use me to lure in the others.please." mercury was pleading him, there was nothing else she could do now, only beg him, beg him not to punish her friends for her stupidity.
Nephrite stared in surprise, was he really seeing what he was seeing, or hearing what he was hearing? Was a sailor scout begging him for mercy?
"Your name is Amy right?" he asked a question that seemed out of place in this situation.
Amy looked up startled and nodded.
"Come with me, I want to show you something." He stood up and waved his hand. A passageway appeared in the wall and he walked through it.
Amy didn't have much to do, and she didn't want to get Nephrite angry, for all she knew he could still destroy her. She watched as his black cloak trailed behind him (the same kind malachite wears only black, my little invention) as she followed him to what looked like a balcony. She looked on with a feeling that was almost awe, the sky was blood red, everything seemed dark and corrupted, a whole city twisted in its' shape and color lay below. This was the first time she has seen what negaverse actually was.
Nephrite stepped aside to let her pass in front of him, surprisingly, looking as she did now, she didn't even look out of place here. He came up right behind her and put his hands on her shoulders feeling the girl tense up. Nephrite only now noticed just how much taller he was then her, standing there beside him, she looked so vulnerable, not like a threat to him at all. He leaned down and whispered in her ear
"See that, this is my home, this is where I lived for so very long. Ever seen my Queen, maybe I should introduce you to her." He moved his hand from her shoulder and held it up in front of both of them projecting her an image of Queen Beryl in her hideous throne room, then the image disappeared. "She is evil, you know, look down there" he pointed at the city below "they don't know what happiness is, all they have ever done as I did, was serve that woman on the throne, if you scouts don't destroy us when we fail, she does.I loose to you, I die by her hand, can you blame me for trying every way I can to survive?" Amy was shocked, this place was hideous, seeing this, she could understand just a bit better why the generals were so cruel. There were monsters all over, only a few inhabitants here resembled anything human. Amy was so into her thoughts that she didn't even notice when Nephrite pulled his arms around her, until he whispered right in her ear again. "Can you blame us for being what we are when we have lived our entire lives in here.you know, I'm not from around here, want to know where I am from?" he asked quietly. 'Not from around here?' thought Amy, what does he mean?
"Where?" she asked quietly lowering her eyes and shockingly she didn't want him to remove his arms from around her, she was afraid that one of the flying monsters might swipe her away.
"Jupiter."
The answer came like a shock to her, he was from Jupiter? But how? This couldn't be, could it?
"Then why do you serve the negaverse, I thought that the negaverse destroyed Jupiter" she whispered completely confused now.
"You want to know why? Maybe I'll tell you, give you a little lesson on your own history. There were five of us, five young boys, we were only children serving queen Serenity. Me, Jaedite, Malachite, Zoicite and Endinion. We were all from different planets, a contribution from each planet, a gift to the queen of the moon. Earth was the only planet that gave its prince to the Queen. The other rulers of each planet all had sons as well as daughters, but none of them wanted to give up their children, they picked someone elses' children to give to the moon. They took us away from our families, I was only seven, Malachite was ten, we were the first ones to be sent to the moon. We spent two years there until the other two kingdoms sent in their so called contribution, Jaedite who was then old enough to come at the age of seven and Zoicite who was only five. We stayed there, we trained there, until only a month later a war broke out.
We were only children, and you know what we were expected to do? We were expected to sacrifice our lives for your queen. She was still young then and this was not the war that destroyed the moon, it was a lie that the Silver Millenium was a time of complete peace, as long as there is no fighting on the moon itself, then that means that there is peace for them. The five of us were taken prisoners and sold to the negaverse as slaves. We soon learnt to survive in our own way. We grew stronger, we moved up in rank, we became generals but we have always hoped that someone will come for us, that someone will rescue us. But guess what, the planets of our home solar system, or rather, their rulers, they have abandoned us. And so have the oh so kind Queen Serenity. All we have ever known was hate, pain, and destruction, ever since we were so young, and you think that it is wrong for us to serve the negaverse, is it wrong for us to serve the darkness when the so called light threw us right into it?"
Nephrite finished his tale and Amy just stared in front of her in shock. She couldn't believe this could be true. She didn't want to believe this was true, but one thing she knew was true, the generals were not from the negaverse, all the creatures from the negaverse looked at least somehow demonic. The four generals looked beautiful if not for their cold eyes and hearts. Amy was beginning to think about the fact that it might not even be their fault. Where there were only darkness and light before in her life there were now beginning to show up shades of grey. Where she thought light was purity she thought now that it might not be as pure as she used to believe. Where she thought darkness was evil she was now beginning to see that it is only trying to survive, or at least the creatures that live in its' shadow do.
Amy shook her head, she could not comprehend that this was true, she couldn't believe that queen serenity would send five year old children to war.
"Maybe, maybe they couldn't rescue you, maybe there was no way to rescue you?" she tried desperately.
"We thought so Mercury, that is until they came for Endimion. Soldiers broke in, they fought of the guards took him and left us. I can still remember Zoicite holding onto a soldiers' arm, a mercurian soldiers' arm crying and begging to take him with them. And I remember that soldier pushing the crying child away. We were nothing to them, they got their prince, they could've taken us home, but they didn't."
"I don't understand, if they could've, why didn't they?" Amy was shocked by what Nephrite was telling her. She turned around to look at him and she could still see the hurt in his cold eyes, deep inside there was still hurt. She even forgot who Nephrite was, who she was, she was feeling for him.
"They didn't want us back, if we were taken back, first, it would be known that there was a war, second it would be known that moon kingdom is sending children to die, second other things about the moon kingdom would have been uncovered."
Nephrite looked at the shocked Amy and could tell that she believed him, somehow she could see beyond his ice.
"Zoicite would kill me for this, he is a mercurian and he never forgave you know." said Nephrite watching the girl closely.
Amy looked down, somehow she couldn't bring herself to hate these men any more, knowing what has happened to them, what her own home government done to them. Zoicite, a mercurian? That psychopath was a mercurian? Well, she couldn't blame him, he was through a lot, wasn't he?
"If you were so wronged when you were so young by our kingdoms, why are you then standing here telling me this, I thought you would want to destroy me?" asked Amy.
"I don't think you knew the whole story Amy, and look around, look around all the ugliness here, can you blame me for looking at you and wanting to keep you here with me, you are very beautiful Mercury."
Amy all of a sudden became very aware of Nephrites' arms around her. He couldn't, could he? What did it matter, she was alive, she could be dead, this man was still her enemy, he could still do anything to her he wanted, her priority was to stay alive.
Amy couldn't help but shiver a little, she has never been this close to anyone, any man that is. She guessed that you couldn't call Nephrite a boy any more, he was much older then her.
"Nephrite, if you don't use me as a bait I'll stay with you, I'll do anything you want, please." she looked up at him. She knew from the start that she has doomed herself, she wasn't ever going back home because she has seen the negaverse and would be able to show the others the way had they let her go, she was only hoping now, that she could save her friends.
Nephrite looked down at the girl, Amy, she wasn't even afraid any more, she was just worried about the others, suppose he could live with this.
"You care too much about them for your own good Mercury, do I have your word that if I don't tell the scouts you are here and not use you to lure them in, that you will not leave my side, not even if they find you on their own and come for you?" he looked her deep in the eyes being completely serious.
Amy was startled, was he actually going to agree. She was startled because she didn't think he would, considering that he could still do anything to her without her wanting it or not.
"You have my word Nephrite." she said after some thought. It was painful to give this promise, it hurt so much, but she had to save the others.
'I'm sorry my friends, I'm so sorry.' she thought as tears once again fell from her now closed eyes. Amy felt herself being drawn closer to the 'evil' general she has learnt to hate in the past. Strong arms wrapped around her holding her too gently. It was wrong, he wasn't supposed to be nice to her, she wasn't supposed to feel for him, he was supposed to destroy, she was supposed to hate him.but they didn't.
She cried freely now despite his warning to knock her out if she did, but he didn't try to, he just held her. Amy held on to her once enemy, perhaps still enemy, and all she could tell was that if he continued to hold her like this, perhaps she could make it through this somehow.
AN: Well, I can leave of right here, or I can continue, tell me if I should. I am such a fan of weird couples, poor Amy.