How can you see into my eyes, like open doors?

Leading me down into my core

Where I've become so numb,

Without a soul

My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold

Until you find it there and lead it back

Home

-Evanescence (Bring Me to Life)

~AMI~

It was a great relief to get out of the ship. She had no idea that she had to go with Minako to get the others. The trip was boring, cramped, and filled with ideas of defiance.

None of them wanted to do the job but their parents sold them to the Lunar Queen.

Rei was a nice for the most part. She was a little hotheaded but overall she had nothing against her. Though she must say that Rei's spiritual beliefs were a little archaic. However, that wasn't her place to judge.

While they traveled it seemed that Minako took interest in Rei. Ami didn't know if she should even bother with them. Love was more of Minako's area of specialty.

The castle grounds were beautiful. Rows of flowers as well as a variety of other plants adorned the landscape. It was a contrast to how things were on Mars.

Thick dark mahogany doors opened and out stepped the King and several servants. The King was a handsome man, tall, brown hair, neatly trimmed beard, and a warm feeling that seemed to radiate from him.

"Welcome, Princesses of Mercury, Venus, and Mars, come and take of our food and wine," the King of Jupiter said. There were servants with trays of various foods and goblets of wine. "Please excuse my niece, she is off on some business."

Ami remembered reading about this custom. It was the Law of the Hearth, partake of my bread and mead and you have my protection while in my home. Each planet had their own version of this, on Mercury it was salt, bread, and either wine or water.

Each Princess ate something and drank of the wine.

The wine was sweet, fragrant, and smooth, it was everything she expected from a planet known for their wine. They were widely known for their produce as well and she could see why.

"It is alright. I have some things that I need to talk to you about," Minako said. The king bowed and kissed her hand. A slight blush came across her face.

"Fair enough, shall we go in then?" the king asked. He began to lead her away. "As for the rest of you, I welcome you to use the training facilities as well as the guest areas." The two walked through the doors.

"Well, I guess it is time to see what you can do," Rei said.

"What?" Ami asked.

"Let's go to the training area," Rei said.

"O-okay," Ami said. Rei led the way, or rather she was next to the servant guiding us to the training area.

The area seemed to be in use, there were a few dummies that lay on the ground destroyed. On the far edge of the room a tall brunette was squared off with a training dummy with a guy watching her. There was also a large dog, possibly a wolf, sitting next to the man watching her as well. She was like a goddess, beautiful and strong.

Ami watched as the woman punched the dummy and demolished it in one swing.

"YES! ONE HIT KO!" the man cheered. He leapt into the air.

The wolf looked over to them and bared his fangs. A loud growl followed. It got up and ran toward them.

"REVOLUTION, SISTERE!" the brunette yelled. The wolf stopped dead in its tracks and lay down. She ran over to them and offered her hand. "Sorry, he's normally calm." Rei and Ami shook her hand.

The blue haired girl stood there staring at the brunette. She could feel her face grow warm as it reddened. All logical thought fled her. Her heart raced with every second that passed. W-why do I feel this way?

"I am Princess Makoto," she said smiling at them.

Ami tried to regain her rationality, starting by looking away.

The wolf picked up on her emotions, or that's what she thought, so he approached Ami and sat in front of her. He tilted his head then raised his paw. She shook his paw.

"I'm Princess Rei of Mars and she is Princess Ami of Mercury," Rei said. It was a good thing she introduced them, because that gave Ami time to gather her thoughts. "Are all of these dead dummies your casualties?"

"Eh heh, I guess they are," she said.

"So what's that you got?" Rei asked.

"That is a secret weapon I've been working on," Kido said. He approached the Princesses. "It's a power fist."

"Interesting, how do they work?" Rei asked.

"If I may, Princess Makoto," Kido said. Makoto removed the gauntlets and handed them to Kido. "I'll get a practice dummy and I'll show you how they work." Rei followed the man but she turned and winked at Ami.

So many things were going through Ami's head. Was this a setup concocted by Minako? She didn't know what to think about the situation and how perfect things were. Where was her savior?

The wolf nuzzled her hand. She looked at him and smiled.

"It looks like Revolution likes you," she said. The brunette knelt down patting Revolution on the head.

"I've never seen a wolf," Ami replied.

"So you're from Mercury? You're a long way from home," she said.

"I know, I'm approximately 5.8 AU away from home," Ami replied.

Makoto gave her a blank look of confusion. She then smiled and laughed, "You really are from Mercury,"

"So would you be my guide around here? I would like to know more about you…I mean more about your culture and so on," Ami asked. She almost exposed her feelings, but hopefully her recovery was good enough that she doesn't pick up on her.

"Uh I guess I can," she said. Her face showed a slight blush.

Is she blushing because of what I said or is it cause she feels the same way? Ami thought as she tried to downplay her feelings.

"Kido, I'll be back later for the power fists," she called out. The man nodded his head and bowed. "So what do you want to see?"

A/N:

Originally I wasn't going to cater to ships but reading stuff made me change my mind.

I had to check on the distance between Mercury and Jupiter. AU (Astronomical Unit) is a scientific measurement for measuring distance in space.

I must thank my dear friend for helping me get inspired to write for Ami. It's hard to write for a genius when you are as dumb as I am.

Another of my friends, who is a beta-reader, stated that she doesn't like me now cause she dislikes all the ships I'm using.

Also note I am like the GRRM of fan fiction. I will kill your favorite characters in order to progress the story. So be warned. I might kill a character soon.