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This is the third story of a series! Please go to my profile to start at the beginning, if you favor this couple and don't want to hear the rest... well I guess I can't stop you... but I warned you.
"I said punch the mannequin not give it a love tap," Rei said drilling Jedeite who was almost delirious with exhaustion. His head was down low and it took almost all his energy to look up at her.
"I will punch you if you don't give me a break soon!" he shouted clearly hitting a wall. He quickly went to jab at Rei but she was too fast sliding to his side and making a small but precise hit to his back making him crumble to his feet.
"Those kind of threats will get you nowhere. Just go and take a rest before you drool all over the training mats," she said rolling her eyes and flipping her hair over her shoulder as she walked away. Little did Jedeite know he was really getting a beating. Mars wouldn't even train her highest skilled fighter this hard! He didn't have to know that of course. Rei meet up with Chad who just entered the dojo, his eyebrow raised rather high.
"I've been meaning to talk to you alone," Rei said making sure Jedeite was out of ear shoot. "We will be bouncing around to different locations. I want one of them to be the Cherry Hill Shrine. Can you make sure it's ready for arrival soon?" Rei said looking at Jedeite while she spoke to Chad. It's best to keep her eye on him no matter what.
"Jedeite is the name given to your lover from your past life?" Chad looked over to Rei with a wicked grin and Rei's shoulders viably sank, damn… so he did know.
"Chad it's best not to get in the middle of that. He is a different man with different intentions," Rei spoke calmly almost like she has given this way too much thought. Of course she didn't expect Chad's reaction of a light chuckle.
"He might be a different person but he has the same intentions," he said before walking off back away from the training field and off to work, Rei tried to not give what Chad said any thought, it was very hard.
Jedeite felt like a raisin or something as equally shriveled up and down for the count. He was working muscles he didn't know he had! Having Rei as a personal trainer was far from exciting, actually if he knew how ruthless she could be he would of never gone on this trip with her. Not that anyone could consider running from Nohi a trip. All the same he did gain bits of encouragement from her small smiles when he did well and serious brooding when she would ignore him to talk to Chad. All the same he was learning a lot which made the grilling treatment worthwhile, not that he would tell Rei that.
"Jedeite you ready for dinner?" came a call from outside Jedeite door. He was surprised to notice himself half dressed.
"Um I will be soon..." Jedeite said rushing around to find a shirt, the last thing he needed was Rei reprimanding him for being late to dinner. He jumped out of his room buttons on his shirt all staggered and out of order but he was there. Rei just rolled her eyes,
"Next time try dressing like a proper person this is a Shrine not Mc Donald's," she said walking off down the hall with Jedeite grimacing behind her adjusting his shirt as he walked.
Something about Lita and Nephrite always confused Ami. Be it their way of completing each other sentences, how training together is romantic but the request Lita was making now really didn't make sense to Ami.
"Just don't tell anyone," Lita said trying to make her point very clear. Ami tilted her head to the side, so much people already knew about their relationship, why ask for secrecy now?
"...You just don't want Serenity to know," Ami hit it on the head and Lita obviously flinched at the arrival at the truth. "I guess I can spare you the torture of having your soul mate being taken away on the hour every hour being called away to do something that the queen really should be doing herself," Ami's eyebrow twitched her annoyance showing in the smallest ways.
Lita was quite taken back, every hour?
"Jesh, do you at least get more time off with him?" Lita asked hoping that appealing to Ami's romantic side might yield better results.
"None of us will get more days off until all the generals are back silly. We are moving in together though," Ami blushed slightly; moving in with someone is a big step. Lita patted her back encouragingly.
"That's great. Wait, to what house? It can't be any of your palaces surely," Nik can't even walk into the palace on Jupiter unless people will start asking questions. It's been bugging him.
"Well I'm not keeping my boyfriend hidden away like he is some secret," Ami gave Lita a serious look from over her shoulder. "But I will honor your wish to keep it secret. Of course Darien already knows and anyways this will work out for the best. I think Mina would kill me if she found out she is the last to meet her man," Ami thought aloud. Mina has been putting pressure on Ami to deliver Kunzite on her doorstep...
"Wait Mina will be last what about Rei? I mean she's on that mission unless," Lita trailed off and her eyes got bit as Ami avoided eye contact. "You didn't!" Ohhhh Rei would never consent to such a mission if she knew.
"Hopefully she will be gone long enough to forget about me throwing her into a life threatening situation," Amis head sank low, it was the only way!
"No amount of time will make her forget that Ami," Lita said frankly.
Jed's Dream Land…
Jedeite moved his sword so fast it looked like he was cutting he air, the swift movements were so precise no one could be taught these skills, it would have to be in their blood. With Jedeite's long family line of protecting the king he was expected to be the best. Then why, why now!?
"You want to try again?" the voice was almost cat calling in tone. It claimed victory and challenged him all at the same time. Jedeite snarled, if this girl wasn't so damn good looking he would beat her up on the sport. Oh he isn't the type to go light when fighting girls; actually he believes females can be trained to be level or even superior fighters for their multi tasking ability. So he was no holds barred when the darkly mysterious sailor guardian asked for a fight. Well three fights later and he has yet to lay his sword on her.
"Of course I want to try again! I'm going to try until I fall over from exhaustion, I'm going to try on and off the field, and then, in the night when you least expect it. I will creak into your room and fight you then!" he said brandishing his sword around as if it was a sign of his honestly.
"I guess I must beat you again and again until I break your resolve," she said swishing her sword marking new fight. Jedeite smiled, like he knew something she didn't,
"But my lady. My resolve can't be broken. It's my one redeeming quality," and with that the fight started again expert skill mixed with well times attacks kept this battle going for goodness knows how long.
Jedeite awoke with a start, damn it all to hell! These dreams were starting to get annoying. Oh it was cool having some dream word where you some powerful general. When people respect you skills and do what you want but ever so often he has dreams with a dark female. Jedeite can only really see her as a dark blob, almost like his mind hasn't decided about how she will look so it keeps it shrouded in mystery. For Jedeite the whole thing is a big headache and every morning he wakes up it feels like his skull is cracking open just a little more. Jedite rubbed his face with is hands, these dreams they were affecting him so much now. He can almost feel the sensations, he knows the voices, they echo in his brain almost like the dream hasn't ended and he has some cognition about how they continue.
His eyes wondered over to the clock and grunted in frustration. If he didn't get up now Rei would certainly beat him, scold him and then beat him again. With that thought he made his way through a groggy morning routine. This is has been going on for so many days he couldn't count, at this point he wanted the Nohi to find their location so he would be spared from the torture. When Jedeite got out on the field to train he was quite shocked to see Rei training very hard. Well it was either training or a very out numbered attack. From Jadeites eye there was at least ten different monks surrounding Rei just looking for the best moment to strike. The speed of her attacks seemed inhuman, with her standing so still for so long and then to burst out in a flurry of kicks punches and flips all the monks were in the ground certainly worse for wear.
"You are such a good house guest, come in, beat everyone up, leave," Jedeite said adding a raising his eyebrow for show. Rei abruptly turned around to face him slightly surprised to see him. She looked to the men on the ground and it seemed to inform them to leave. They shuffled, limped, and crawled away as fast as they could.
"I made sure they signed a release form," she said scrunching up her face clearly finding him obnoxious. Of course she found him annoying heck even his stupid raised eyebrow was lighting the fire with in her and since she can't use her powers this isn't a good thing. "Today you are training with Chad, so. Go... Somewhere else," she said abruptly turning and walking fast in another direction. Ah the classic Rei tactic, the snap and run. First you say something really sharp and slightly demanding and then you bolt out of the room so they can't say anything. It has worked for centuries! Well, that was until she meet Jedeite,
"I don't want to work with Chad, he smells, why can't we train like normal? We have no clue when Nohi will attack again and me waltzing with Chad won't help," Jedeite was hot on Rei's heals. Rei's blood was already boiling, to have someone second-guess her judgment was pushing her mental limits. She stopped abruptly and turned making Jedeite slam into her, she didn't budge. She stood there like a tree, well an angry glaring tree but rooted to the spot all the same. Jedeite was taken back, she was hot, to the touch. Even her cloths felt like they were easily 200 degrees, Rei took his confused pause to her advantage.
"Chad is trained in the martial arts and knows the katana very well. We need you to know more then how to swing a gun around. If you work hard today then it will go back to the both of us training tomorrow," she said trying not to move, he simply nodded and walked away back down the path he found her on so Rei could cool down.
Jedeite was using his wooden Katana as a crutch. Rei was right; this Chad guy really knew his stuff. After an hour of going over correct stance they started working on light sparing and have been all day. Over all Jedeite's form is a mess, he prefers the slash and burn method with the katana and it's been leaving him open to all of Chad's attacks. Chad tried not to show much reaction to Jedeite but overall he couldn't help but notice Jedeite has assimilated Rei's hotheaded temper and impatient attitude. Without a warning Jedite lunged at Chad. Jedeite's over extended arm threw him into the fight, he was easily blocked and hit with a counter attack that sent him staggering on another direction.
"How, do you do it?" Jedeite asked out of breath glaring over to Chad who looked almost bored with the exercise.
"Martial arts have structure. They give you skill and mental balance. There are rules to a fight. You have yet to follow one, so you have yet to win," Chad said in a calm tone, oh Jedeite wanted to ring this guys neck.
"Why follow the rules when a surprise attack works better?" Jedeite lives by the skin of his teeth. No amount of form and mental balance has helped him win. No, just good old-fashioned wit and fast action brought him success.
"This martial art is thousand of years old. I don't think you could come up with an attack that was a 'surprise' now again! And this time use the stance, clear your mind and then find the best attack," Chad demanded holding up his training sword starting the attack stance. Jedite sighed deciding to listen to the guy for once and see what the result was. After standing back up he did as requested focusing on Chad's sword tip, then his grip on the hilt, his mind noted Chad's posture and stance. When Chad moved to attack Jedeite's body moved quite on its own turning slightly to the left and before he knew it his attacker was disarmed. Chad didn't know what to be shocked by, the fact that Jedeite just won or the fact that he used a move only advanced fighters knew. Jedeite smirked, more like a shit eatting grin; he was going to boast about this till the sun went down.
"Well I think I got this down! Perfect time too, looks like dinner will be ready within the hour. I wonder what Rei is doing," he said causally walking off the mat dropping off the sword and waving. Chad looked over to Jedeite as he slyly excused himself, who was this guy really?
Rei was surprised to see Jedeite walking back from the training building. With his stubborn attitude she thought he might be there all night.
"Did you give up on Chad or did Chad give up on you?" she asked sitting down some paperwork. Jedite's resentment for the question was evident on his face,
"I'm sure it was a little bit of both. All in all I beat him in one round so I jumped ship before I lost again," he said leaning over the back of her chair to look at what she was reading. Rei smiled, that was certainly a Jedeite tactic.
"You won once? Well then I'm sure you totally prepared for world-class fighters. And as you die from multiple stab wounds you will look up and wonder why you didn't train for five more minutes," Rei said looking off in the distance he mind wondering a little too much. Jedeite's eyebrow went up,
"Has anyone ever told you that you are a little morbid?" Rei turned to look at him, her sly smile adding to the effect.
"Most people dare not tell me any of my faults. I guess they value their life too much," Rei picked up her paperwork and went to walk off to her room. "Dinner will be ready soon, you should go shower. You stink," with that she kept walking and disappeared behind a wall. Jedeite snarled has she ever been pleasant for one moment of her life? He decided to stomp off to his room to shower and change.
Jedeites dream
The stairs were barely lit, only small fires every few feet went down the hall but he didn't need the light. The soft hand holding his was clasping him tight as it dragged him further into the abyss. He stopped on the stairwell hidden in the dark he pulled the hand toward him and in turn had a female body crashing against his. He took this moment to passionately kiss the woman he had now against the wall clearly too impatient to make it to their final destination without claiming her lips. The girl pulled back, even though he could tell she didn't want to, "If we stop here we will get caught," her breath was hitched but she didn't sound worried. "Let us get caught," Jedite said in a rough voice pressing his body closer to her and more into the shadows of the stairs. Oddly enough the girl let out a seductive chuckle, "But Jedite, if we get caught, you will be put to death, and I will be the one filling out the sentence."
Jedite bolted straight up, he was in a cold sweat, the covers falling off his body as he sank forward elbows resting on his knees and he ruffled his hair in frustration. That didn't feel like a dream. He found himself absentmindedly touching his lips. He almost felt like the girl in his dream had just kissed him, he could still feel the warmth of her body on his. This was stupid, how in the hell could a dream affect him so much. He looked over to the wall next to him, Rei was still asleep, clearly not bothered by his jolt. He flopped back down in his bed, turning on his side in frustration. He wasn't going to worry Rei with these dreams, not until he found out who this dream girl was and why she was haunting him with rough kisses and demanding allure. He ruffled his covers in frustration closing his eyes, why can't he dream of fluffy bunnies?!
Jedeite walked out of his room still slightly groggy. He bumped into Rei in the hallway,
"Oh sorry," he said altered his path and walked into the wall. "Oh sorry," he said in the same tone and wobbled down the hall. Rei raised an eyebrow, she was sure he went to bed the same time she did, he has never been so out of in the morning.
"Hey Chad," Jedeite said blankly sitting down at the breakfast table. Chad looked up to Rei who was just walking in holding a glass of green liquid. Rei sat down the glass in front of Jedeite and then touched his shoulder softly.
"You should drink this," she said leaning close to Jedeite's ear and then sitting down as Jed picked up the glass and took a drink promptly gagging.
"What the hell woman! This isn't something to drink! It's something to eat!" he said tipping the glass upside down as the thick contents plopped on the table.
"So good to see you in the waking world and don't waste that drink. It costs more then all our meals combined," Rei said smirking brightly, if it was possible. "What kept you awake so late?" Rei couldn't help but ask. Jedeite's mumbled reply clearly announced that he didn't want to talk about it and the subject was closed when food was delivered.
"My intelligence informs me that the Nohi group is due to attack this shrine soon. Make sure your prepared to leave here around mid-day," Chad said casually grabbing some rice out of his bowl.
"Took them long enough. You know when I was working for them we would of attacked days ago!" Jedeite said his mouth full of grilled fish and leaks as he pointed his chopsticks at Chad trying to make a point.
"Well you were the strategy analyst for them. They are still recovering from the loss," Rei said before eating up her fish not really noticing what she said could be considered a compliment. "We will train right after breakfast I'm sure they won't wait till the afternoon. They made that mistake once and we got away in the dark," Jedeite's shoulders slumped at the thought of more training made him tired.
"So we have to train more? I'm going to use up all my energy before the day is over!" Jedeite said glaring over to Rei but before she could retort Jedite held up his hand, "I know I know drink more of the sludge," he said then while looking repulsed at the idea, drank more of the thick liquid.
"Ok, so I'm going to assume Chad taught you enough for you to escape death. I'm also going to assume you didn't pay attention. So take the start of with a fight stance," Rei said out on the training field as Jedeite grumbled, great another day of torture. Suddenly Rei's face went cold serious and turned sharply looking at the sky. Jedeite looked around confused, he heard a faint noise in the air but saw nothing. The more he listened the louder it got until he looked up into the sky and saw a helicopter flying overhead. "Oh those pompous villains," Jedeite said turning to watch the helicopter get closer and prepare to land just yards away from where Rei and Jedeite were training.
"Let me do the talking. And try not to get killed," she yelled over to him, her hair being blown every which way due to the helicopters engines. Jedeite gave her an annoyed look but didn't complain he didn't have his gun on him and this practice Katana wasn't going to do much damage. The helicopter landed rather effortlessly and one by one men in dark cloaks came out of the helicopter. As more and more came out Jedeite was starting to wonder how they all fit into the darn thing. There were at least twenty men all coming out and lining up like troops waiting for inspection. The last person that arrived had a traditional yakata in black with gold embroidery work that spelt out Nohi and in ancient Japanese.
"The welcoming committee is here. A bit smaller then last time," Rei said her natural fighting aura was growing with the anticipation of the upcoming fight.
"We are the trained Katana specialists in the Nohi group. Oh there is more coming later but we will have the honor of killing you first," said the man in the center stepping forward and stopping at this invisible line marking his territory. Jedeites eyes got big, they sent a specify group after them? Nohi is a large organization with many fighters waiting for a command. Some are known as specialty fighters, these groups are sent in to do what they do best. He has never herd of a group being sent out who didn't do their order perfectly. If there was a time for Jedeite to be worried for his life, it would be now.
"I guess we had better win fast," Rei said taking her stance to mark the start of the fight. Jedeite wanted to tell them Rei is crazy, negotiate, bribe, buy... anything! These people are some of the best in the world at Katana. There is no way they could in. The leader of the group bowed and with one swift movement sent two fighters out of the line and over to attack. Jedeite ducked at the first swing this guy took at him, a simple wooden Katana was no match to his opponent's sharp blade. Rei on the other hand already won herself a real sword and was working on the next fighter clearly much more skilled at fighting with a Katana then Chad could ever be. Rei turned back to look at Jedeite and let out a sigh of annoyance, he was still on the same fighter, lucky not dead.
"Here you idiot take a real katana and concentrate!" she shouted throwing him a katana and lucky for him caught it rather well. Already there was a group of three men on Jedeite and if he didn't start winning he wasn't going to be living. 'Ok just stop, relax and do that cool thing you did earlier,' Jedeite told himself trying to forcing himself into a hyper level of concentration. Suddenly one of the fighters lunged to attack and Jedeite without thinking flourished his wrist and twisted is blade around blocking the move and finishing off the fighter. The other two took a step back suddenly realizing they weren't fighting a rookie. Jedeite smiled his grin wasn't sweet,
"I think I know how to fight now," and with that Jedeite quickly went on the attack defeating fighters at the same rate Rei was clearly mastering the swordsmanship quickly. Rei checked up on him again and smiled; at least there was a perk for Jedeite slowly getting his memories back. Rei now knew she could put all her attention into fighting, which was good because she was fighting four at a time right now. One by one the skilled fighters dropped and after a while there was just the leader of the pack waiting to fight.
"Jedeite quickly get on the helicopter and take out the pilot, we don't want him flying away," Rei said as Jedeite quickly ran to the helicopter to take care of the pilot.
The leader stepped forward; he was certainly cool for having all of his men bleeding on the ground.
"I see you have been well trained but my master knew styles not normally practiced," the man unsheathed his blade revealing a very ornate design.
"Oh and who was this master you seek of?" Rei said starting to walk a circle as she analyzed the situation.
"His name was Kizura," the wicked smile grew, clearly this man had a lot of pride in his master.
"Ah Kizura the world renowned katakana champion. Well let's see what he taught you!" she shouted as she started her attack. There was no other warning to her attack then her shouts as she quickly moved into place her blade was not a katana but an extension of her arm. Jedeite stepped back out of the helicopter just as Rei did a back flip to avoid the Nohi leader's blade. Clearly this guy knew what he was doing.
"Don't mess up!" Jedeite shouted encouragements her way.
"Not helpful!" Rei shouted back clearly distracted by Jedeite's wild hooting and hollering. The leader of the group struck while the iron was hot. The slash was quick and Rei's shirt was cut, lucky for her he only got her cloths but Jedeite didn't know that.
"REI!" Jedeite jumped out of the helicopter faster then he has ever moved in his life blade in the air. The Nohi attacker barely had time to react and couldn't really keep up with this refreshed Jedeite. Rei was quite taken back with Jedeite suddenly stepping in and fighting a master. She didn't stand shocked for long and took this time to grab up their bags and throw them in the helicopter. Pushing the poor dead pilot out f the seat Rei quickly familiarized herself with the controls. Just in time, in the distance Rei could see a fleet of cars creating a barreling dust trail. Rei started up the engine and jumping out of cockpit to see Jedeite still fighting strong.
"Finish him off Jed! The Nohi troops are almost here!" Rei shouted over the swooping sound of the helicopter blades slowly reaching max speed. Jedeite's concentration didn't weaver and with several quick movements the Nohi katana specialist crumpled at Jedeite's feet. Not a second too soon, already the Nohi trucks rumbled up past the Shrine gate and started shouting all over the training field. Jedeite knew it was time to get out of the shrine, funny because he wasn't really that sad for leaving such a mess for Chad to clean up. The Nohi was isolating their fire at Jedeite who was running like a wild idiot to the helicopter. Just a few steps away from the helicopter Jedeite's eyes shot open in shock. The sting grew from is leg up his body to his brain till he recognized he had been shot in the leg. Jedeite grabbed onto the door of the helicopter and pulled himself into the cab,
"Go! Fly! Now!" he shouted to Rei wincing in pain as he stood on his good leg and pulled the Gatling gun into position and started shooting roundhouse bullets down at the now sitting ducks. The Nohi trucks in the back of the fleet pulled into a hasty reverse and changed plans to follow the helicopter by road.
"Of all the moments to get shot you have to pick now?!" Rei barked back at Jedeite who was getting his last shoots to the trucks.
"I didn't decide to get shot in the leg princess!" he shouted back his pain feeding his frustration. The helicopter got a round of bullet hits on the back underbelly of the aircraft sending the whole helicopter on tilt. Suddenly the control board started beeping and flashing like they had won the lottery. Rei quickly pulled her attention back to the controls and slammed her hands down on the control panel clearly frustrated.
"They hit our fuel tank we won't be able to get very far at all with the rate we are loosing gas. We have to make an emergency land," Rei said quickly trying to control the helicopter to save the last of the fuel they had. Jedeite looked out the open hatch door and saw the residential district of the city. The helicopter was flying low, too low and the Nohi trucks were quickly catching up to the limping helicopter. "This is all citizens homes Rei this is not safe for us to land and escape," Jedeite said leaning over to Rei and wincing in pain.
Rei flipped one last switch and quickly jumped from her seat and to the large gun, "We aren't landing. This helicopter is going to crash," she said attaching something to the end of the gun; Jedeite quickly recognized it was a zip line. They were going to shoot down the zip line into some unsuspecting house and crash the helicopter.
"No Rei, we can't. This is normal citizens homes and what if the helicopter blows up a house!" Jedeite was weighing up the losses; the ends didn't justify the means.
"Get shot once in the leg and now your a softy," Rei said its a smile. A smile! Of all moments to get gitty like a schoolgirl she picks now. With a quick random shot down at a building the anchor shot into the upper floor of a two-story building. "Go," and with that Rei gave Jedite a not so light shove and he found himself barreling down the zip line and crashing through a window. Now bloody from the glass and staggering with a hurt leg Jedeite looked around and felt very out of place with the modern furniture.
"Put your hands where I can see them," the lady's hands were shaking in fear but she held a rifle and Jedeite thought it best to do what she said. Rei came soon after Jedeite crashing through the then very broken window, a bit more graceful then Jedeite but still a rough landing.
"Um Rei we have company," Jedeite said slowly raising his arms surrendering to the middle aged woman who looked more scared then he did. Rei stepped out to see what the issue was and instant walked straight at the lady.
"Molly is that you?" Rei asked looking into the red-haired woman's eyes.