[August 16 - Juuban Park]

"It's over now, creep!"

Sailor Mercury had the youma cornered. The other Senshi were still a good five minutes away, and she had been ordered to wait... but, it was made of fire. What did she have to fear? Her bubbles had kept it disoriented and confused. With one pending blast of ice, she'd have it finished off for good. For once, Mercury wouldn't have need to trouble anyone!

The youma was indeed in a bind. It couldn't burn what it couldn't see, and that bubbly mist was a pain. Still... there was one thing it could try... since the Senshi was so sure that she could defeat it, the youma had a feeling that would prove easy to exploit.

It gave a pained roar, one that it felt would have warranted an acting award of some kind... if sub-dimensional monsters were ever awarded such things. (Sadly they seldom were.)

"Repent and douse yourself in water!" As it hoped, Mercury's confidence was kindled even further. She approached closer, and concentrated as she drew her gloved arms close. She could the monster clear as day thanks to her visor. It was time for her to finish it while she had the chance!

"Shine, Aqua-"

As the monster saw the formation of ice that was sure to be its doom, it took action. "Inferno Spiral." It still couldn't see her, but with the wide reach of its close range attack, it had no need to.

"..Illu-..." Her visor picked up on the spike in energy far too late. Ami had no time to even finish speaking her attack, much less release it. She was left with a panicked cry drowning out the rest as pillars of flame shot up from all around the youma, tendrils of fire swiftly engulfed her from head to toe.

As Mercury's eyes forced themselves shut, she felt the flames licking at her skin and tried to hope for a painless end. There was no escaping a massive attack with that wide a radius!

She was half right. She didn't feel any pain. None at all... that was strange... then when the flames died down, and Mercury blinked her eyes open, she only briefly wondered why she was still alive.

Moments later part of her wished she wasn't. From her toes to her ears, each and every inch of fabric Mercury had worn was burnt to ash. Her tiara was intact. The rest was gone.

Ami Mizuno was left utterly defenseless, and it was a horrified moment of beholding her own complete nudity before she thought to conceal it with her shaking arms.

"H, how dare you...!" Trying to cling to her pride, as the bubbles vanished, she stared at the youma with a defiant gaze. "T, they'll be here soon, and stop you, you know...!" Despite her intense blush, Ami took hold of that fact, and managed to keep herself from feeling completely hopeless. "...you w, won't get away with this, no way can you fight them all!"

As if realizing the truth of the fair-skinned, deliciously bashful girl's words, the youma gave a 'tsk' sound, then shook its head before extending a hand to the cowering girl. "Maybe not... but you won't be safe either! You'll wish I'd burnt the rest of you after this...! No one but strangers will find you now!"

"W, wait, what do you mean by-...NOO!" Ami shrieked and rose her arms to instinctively cover her face, the feeling of her breasts left exposed soon making her regret the action, but even that humiliating feeling was soon beyond her notice. A bright light had appeared beneath her, and with a cry of panic, Ami vanished into it.

By the time the Senshi arrived, all they found were faint traces of energy... and oddly enough, a few scraps of a vaguely familiar, burnt blue Senshi uniform.

[August 17 - Early Morning - ?]

Ami awoke suddenly, sitting upright on a cold, stone staircase.

Her first panicked realization was that she was still very naked.

The second was that a girl maybe one or two years her junior was looking down at her.

If it wasn't for her hairstyle, Ami might have thought the robed girl was Rei.

However, she'd never seen her before.

Maya Fey blinked repeatedly at the sight of the cowering girl before her. First she noticed the pretty tiara.

Then the curves of her breasts, and a whole lot else. It was around then Maya realized the pervert was naked, and screamed.

[To be continued...]