ACT 9

I knew that what had happened when the Pegasus truly proved to us all his loyalty to our cause against the new enemy had taken its toll on us all. Each of the girls bracelet's had been changed they were still silver but the charms upon it were now golden in color and the jewel within the center of the heart shaped center had changed no longer being clear like a diamond. Ami's stone was now blue, Rei's red, Makoto's green and Minako's orange. All of the girls had confessed that they could feel the new power that the Pegasus had given them, but their where no words to call upon, as if something else was needed for this new power to be fully realized. But despite all of this I somehow managed to still talk everyone into a stress free day for all of us, one where we wouldn't have to think or worry about our new enemy down at the local beach.

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"I have to admit this was a great idea Usagi-chan," Minako said laying to my left her hair up in a loose bun, a pair of overly large shades hiding her eyes as well as most of her face her two piece orange bikini with white stripes allowing her to soak up the rays of the sun. "It is nice, though I wish you would have worn something a little more… safe Mina-chan," Rei-chan said glaring daggers at someone who was gazing at Minako though I couldn't blame her seeing the look in the young man's eyes, even with Rei's skin tight one piece red swimsuit was most likely not helping things . "Oh no, he's coming over here and he isn't alone," Mako-chan said wearing a dark green two piece sports bathing suit looking at the same boy that Rei-chan had spotted though as she said he wasn't alone and had a group of his friends with him.

"Akai," I whispered looking over at a patch of sand near us at Nephrite who seeing the men heading towards us sighed but stood from were he had been laying to block the path of the man who had been eyeballing Minako-chan and his two three friends who were eyeballing the rest of us. "Sorry boys, but these ladies are spoken for," Akai said letting just a bit of his true nature as a Shitennou come through causing the men who had looked ready for a fight to quickly deflate their anger and step away with out incident though the leader of the group did say, "damn, fine man whatever you can have them," as they walked away. "Thank you Nephrite. I am sorry Mamoru talked you into doing all of this," I said with a warm smile as the last of the Shitennou simply nodded.

"I think it's rather sweet of you to do this for us Nephrite," Ami's voice said before Nephrite could reply to what I said causing him to turn towards her his eyes widening and a faint hint of red coming to his cheeks as he looked at Ami in her dark blue one piece suit the water seeming to glisten off of her skin after her swim, Chibi-usa by her side in a pink one piece a star and moon pattern round rubber tube securely around her middle. "Well um, yes Ami-chan but keeping creeps like those away from you… and the others of course is more than worth it," Nephrite said, all of us noticing the long pause he had made when speaking about protecting Ami-chan before adding us as well though none of us said anything as Ami-chan simply giggled as Chibi-usa with a large grin on her face came to set down beside me underneath the umbrella that we had set up with our large beach towel when we first arrived getting here before Nephrite had hence his reaction to Ami, who he had not seen because she had wanted to go for a swim as soon as we arrived.

But when I looked up again I could see that poor Ami-chan was in the same situation as Nephrite as she was staring at him, just as intensely as he was at her. With a quick glance at Rei-chan, Mako-chan and Minako-chan I realized that they were all smiling and had noticed the same thing that I had, but none of them were doing anything simply setting their and I knew that none of them were going to do anything to help Ami-chan or Nephrite and simply set by, but I couldn't let the two suffer. "It is hot out here, don't you think," I said drawing everyone's attention to me. "There is a little stand nearby we can get some drinks their," Ami-chan said. "That's a good idea, come on Chibi-usa," I said standing as she nodded and did the same all of the girls following me to the little stand I had been talking about were we all got iced tea or water.

As we were walking back towards our spot on the beach a young man with yellowish orange hair accidentally ran into Ami-chan causing her to drop her iced tea to the ground none of us having seen the young man whose eyes were hidden by a thick pair of dark sunglasses though by the expression on his face it was clear that he was sorry for what had happened. "My deepest apologies ma'am," he said a charming smile coming to his lips though to me their was something deeper more predatory about that smile that unsettled me and I could tell it unsettled Ami-chan as well. "Please, ma'am allow me to make it up to you. I have a private beach not to far from here that I would gladly allow you to see," he said. "I'm sorry, but I can't," Ami-chan replied. "I could never go anywhere without my friends and I don't even know you sir," she said as the man sighed. "I understand, perhaps I can find another way to somehow make this up to you, until then," the young man said and with a wave he left.

"I don't like that guy," Nephrite said his fists clinching in anger as he watched the young man who had bumped into Ami-chan walk away. "It's ok," Ami said taking his hand into her own causing him to calm down. "He was a little strange but he was only trying to make up for what he had done," she added with a warm smile as Nephrite took a deep breath but nodded his head in agreement. "I know lets rent one of the boats, forget this even happened ok," Ami-chan said and Nephrite nodded his head in agreement as the two made their way hand in hand to go rent one of the boats the rest of us simply watching them go with smiles on our faces. "Aw," Minako-chan said as Rei-chan rolled her eyes but was still smiling. "Want to go for a walk on the beach Mina-chan," she asked causing Minako to turn towards her with a smile and nod as the two of them went in the other direction. "Kind of makes you wish Motoki-kun and Mamoru weren't busy today ne, Usagi," Mako-chan asked me as I nodded though I didn't really mind. "Come on lets go swimming," I said to Chibi-usa and Mako-chan the two quickly agreeing as we headed for the water leaving Ami-chan, Nephrite, Minako-chan and Rei-chan alone to their own devices.

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As I gently rowed the boat that myself and Ami had rented I couldn't help but to look at her gazing out over the still waters below us a peacefulness exuding from her very core, but in a way I could understand why; she is the sailor guardian of water so in a way she was in her element. The peaceful moment was ruined when we both noticed the fin of what we both thought was a shark heading for us before we saw that it was only a dolphin being ridden by the same young man who had bumped into Ami only about an hour ago. "Ah, funny running into you once again ma'am," he said. "You really must let me pay you back for what happened earlier," he said as I gritted my teeth in frustration, my fists clinching in anger as this complete stranger flirted shamelessly with Ami. "That is nice of you but really there is no need for that," Ami said with a small almost calculating smile as if she were trying to work out the pieces of a puzzle together in her head.

"So, just leave her alone already," I said speaking up drawing the young man's attention to me glaring just as much at me as I was at him. But as we tried to out stare each other for reason's I couldn't explain I felt myself being tipped backwards as if by an invisible hand into the water that seemed to weight me down not allowing me to swim back to the surface and as my vision began to go dark I was certain I saw the silhouette of a feminine figure moving towards me in the through the water around us.

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"I don't understand, why did you save him, what is he your boyfriend or something," the young man who led me to a nearby cavern after I had saved Nephrite from whatever had dragged him under the water unable to resurface and was now laying here on the floor of this seaside cavern unconscious and not breathing as I used CPR to try to revive him. "He is, close to me," I admitted to the young man my cheeks turning pink admitting my feelings to this stranger. "But even if he were not, he is still one of my friends, and I would do everything in my power to save him," I said breathing into Nephrite's lungs one more time tears of happiness coming to my eyes when with a cough Nephrite opened his eyes and looked up at me. "Ami," he said looking up at him as I threw my arms around him tears falling freely from my eyes as I said how glad I was to see that he was ok.

"Friendship, love, ha I don't need either one," the mysterious man said with a flick of his fingers his swimming trunk replaced with a familiar attire. "One," he said as a red board appeared behind me and Nephrite. "Two," he said as I found myself no longer on the ground beside Nephrite but confined to the board. "Three," Tigers-Eye said that predatory smile playing across his lips as my dream mirror appeared. "Well Mizuno Ami-san, you indeed proved a challenge, but at last I shall see if he resided within your mirror," Tigers-Eye said stepping closer to me forgetting about Nephrite but just as he was about to reach forward to grab my dream mirror a gloved hand closed like an iron vise around his arm and he turned wide eyed not to see my boyfriend Akai but Nephrite in his full Shitennou glory.

"You will not touch so much as a hair on her head," Nephrite said as Tigers-Eye actually paled as he locked his orange-yellow eyes with the cold calculating blue of Nephrite's. "Who, who are you," he asked as Nephrite smiled. "Commander of North America, I am a Shitennou of my master Endymion. Nephrite," he said pulling his blade from his side as Tigers-Eye backed away from him his whip coming to his side. "And don't forget about us," familiar voices said from the entrance to the seaside cavern. "We are the pretty guardians of love and Justice," "Sailor Moon," "and I am Sailor Chibi-Moon." "And we are the Sailor Senshi," "Sailor Mars," "Sailor Jupiter," "Sailor Venus," "and in the name of the moon we shall punish you," all of the girls said as one. "Why, why must you always interfere," Tigers-Eye said his fear allowing him to escape from Nephrite's grasp as he came to my side trying to free me from the shackles holding me.

"You can take care of this my Remless. The screaming human pump, Ponko," he yelled as a very strange Remless wearing tight kimono with a large red and white ball appeared and Tigers-Eye made a hasty retreat freeing me from my bonds as the Remless swallowed the balls and asked, "Red or White, you must chose. Red or White," and I heard Chibi-usa say as Nephrite say as if it were a question. "White," only for the Remless to smile. "Wrong," as it predicted a red ball that it threw and which exploded but all of the girls got out of the way though just barely. "Red or White, you must chose. Come on now Red or White," it asked again and this time the answer came from Minako-chan. "We refuse to answer Remless. Chibi-usa now," she said looking at the smallest of us all who nodded. "You don't want to answer than I will destroy you with my Silver ball," the Remless said repeating its name again and again as a large ball started to form in its hands. "Pegasus! Help protect everyone's dreams," she said as the Crystal Carillion chimed and the Pegasus appeared blinding the Remless and breaking its spell. "Moon Gorgeous Meditation," Usagi-chan said wasting no time one the Kaleido-Moon Scope was in her hands.

"Stage Out," Ponko screamed before vanishing in the way that all Remless did. "Are you alright ai," Nephrite asked me as all the other girls rushed over towards us his question causing me to turn a pretty shade of red because it was the first time he had called me "love" as a nickname. "Hai, I am fine," I said looking up into his eyes as he looked down into mine our lips meeting in a tender kiss as I heard in the background Usagi-chan, Chibiusa-chan Rei-chan, Mako-chan and Minako-chan say, "aw, how sweet," all at the same time as myself and Nephrite broke apart from our kiss, my cheeks as pink as Chibi-Moon's hair and Nephrite's as red as an apple all the girls congratulating us on finally taking a step they all knew until this moment we hadn't done in our relationship, our first kiss.

{ N O T E }

And so ends Act 9. I hope everyone enjoyed the Ami-chan and Nephrite goodness that was to be found within this act of my story. Any true fan of Sailor Moon should know exactly who is the next target of The Dead Moon Circus that I will be writing about so I won't even bother saying just whom it will be, but what is the PGSM twist I will spin for the next act I am working on; well that my friends is for you to figure out.

So until my next act;

I remain a . . .

KuRSeofTime

PS

Does anyone know which commander Kunzite was in the Sailor Moon Manga. I know that Jadeite was the commander of the Far East, Nephrite the commander of North America and Zoicite the commander of Europe. But I just can't find any information about what commander Kunzite was. If any one knows please tell me, as I want to use the information just as I did in this act with Nephrite when he scared poor Tigers-Eye pretty much senseless hee, hee, hee.

Anyway any and all help will be appreciated domo arigato!