DISCLAIMER
As usual, "Sailor Moon" and all related characters
are copyrighted by Naoko Takeuchi, Kodansha, TOEI
Animation and other agencies.
The Saga of Mercury story is copyrighted by me, however
content in some chapters is based on the Mercury
Knight Stories as described in the Chapter 1 Introduction.
******
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******
The Saga of Mercury
Chapter 10
Do You Remember When?
"I almost failed you, my queen," Morphonia
pleaded to Queen Sorinya.
"It is my fault, Morphonia," Sorinya replied.
"I was too busy planning something for Sailor
Mercury and the other scouts, I didn't realize
that they had those other knights with them...
You have done well so far, Morphonia, now I
want you to find a perfect moment when Amy and
Greg are isolated. Take care of Greg first to
get him out of the way, and then take Amy out!"
Morphonia looked down at her Negamoon necklace
that was nearly shattered from the last attack.
Then she looked at Sorinya. "Yes, my queen."
Meanwhile...
All eleven members of the sailor team finally
found something they could eat at the Crown.
Especially Serena...
"Yummy, yummy, yummy! Three servings of Ice
Cream in one day! This is so good! Mm-mm,"
Serena yelled as she dogged down on her banana
split sundae. She stuffed a whole banana into
her mouth. "MANT MOME MARIEN?"
Darien, with sweatdrops on his head, gently
shook his head.
Rini and the others were just staring at
Serena, waiting to finish.
This was her second sundae of the night.. and
she had a chocolate soda float in between.
When it was all over, Serena wiped her mouth
with a napkin and yelled, "YAY! DELICIOUS...
BURP!!!"
Everyone had sweatdrops on their head now. Greg
was holding his head in disbelief.
When Serena finally finished, everyone went
downstairs to say goodbye.
Serena, Darien, Rini, Raye, Chad and Luna left
in one direction, while Lita, Ken, Mina, Jamie
and Artemis went in another direction.
That left just Amy and Greg together.
Amy blushed and smiled at her handsome knight.
"Greg... can..." She almost looked away. "Can you
walk me home?"
Greg replied, "NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!"
Amy's eyes bulged.
"Just kidding!!!" Greg laughed.
"Whew!" was Amy's response. "For a second, you
scared me!"
"But first," said Greg, "I was wondering if you
have just a LITTLE bit of extra time on you
tonight. I've got time before the last bullet
train leaves. I want to take you somewhere."
"Really?" said Amy. "I wonder where someone
with beautiful chocolate eyes like you would
take a blue-haired freak like me?"
"Blue-haired freak? On the contrary," said
Greg, "you look like..."
Greg stopped to study Amy for a moment. Amy was
wearing a ruffling, ruby red skirt that went
down below her knees, a ruby red pullover
sweater, a blue vest which was open, white
knee-high socks and red Taryn Rose shoes. Amy's
eyes were seeking a response from Greg.
"You look like... a beautiful, gorgeous, blue-
haired... genius."
Amy covered her head with her hands, blushing
like crazy. Greg removed her hands from her
face, and said, "Get use to that, because I
want you to keep your eyes closed and covered
until we get to where I want to take you..."
"Okay," Amy said, "but first..."
Amy was looking at Greg's evening attire. Greg
was wearing nice blue denim jeans with a brown
belt, a long-sleeved yellow dress shirt, shiny
black dress shoes and a very expensive Bulova
watch.
"You look like.. uh.. you.. you look like.. oh,
Greg, why can't I find the right words for you
tonight?"
"Come on, you can," said a smiling Greg, "just
think a bit more."
"Okay.. you... you really look like.. a knight in
shining armor."
Greg laughed. "Works for me! Okay, you cover
your eyes and I'll lead you toward the
surprise."
Amy followed suit. When her eyes were closed,
Greg put his arm around her and started leaning
forward. Amy took his indication, and started
walking. Greg then turned her in the right
direction and led Amy down the block.
As the two of them got close to the area, Amy
started to hear calliope music and started
smelling the salty, buttery aroma of fresh
popcorn.
"Is this the circus?" asked Amy, eyes still
closed.
"Well, no, but you're close," said Greg.
Greg stopped Amy and turned her to face the
entrance.
"Ready, Ames?"
Amy nodded her head in excitement.
"OPEN!"
Amy opened her eyes, and then gasped in
amazement.
"An amusement park!" Amy said in delight.
"Not just any park.." said Greg, "10-Ban Land.
Do you remember this place? This was where.."
Greg stopped when Amy turned her head to face
him.
"Yes," Amy said softly to him with a smile,
"this is where we revealed our true feelings
for each other and had our first date."
"That's right! It was also the time that Tuxedo
Mask almost swallowed me up in a black crystal
for good.. but I don't want to remember that.."
Amy grabbed Greg's hand tightly. "Shall we,
sir?" she asked.
"I was about to ask you that!" Greg responded.
The two of them walked into the Amusement Park.
It was 9 PM, and they really knocked themselves
out, riding on every single ride.
When it was close to midnight, when the park
was scheduled to close, Greg and Amy made it
onto one final ride... the Ferris wheel.
"This is the best part!" Amy said to Greg as
the Ferris wheel started to rotate.
A clear night sky with many stars could be seen
easily from inside the cab. Greg and Amy were
holding each other close now, and staring at
each other intensely. Greg then looked out
another window... for another spectacular view of
the sky. Greg then looked at the time on his
Bulova watch, looked back outside, and said to
Amy, "Yep, right time. Amy, look behind... oh,
okay, wait until we get high enough again..."
The cab rotated all the way down, passed, and
then went back up again. The Ferris wheel
stopped while Amy and Greg's cab was at the
very top, to let out riders from another cab
below.
"Okay, now Amy, look at the sky over there.
Notice anything? About 25 or 30 degrees from
the horizon, and slightly right of center?"
Amy looked in the area that Greg was looking
at. Clusters of stars were twinkling brightly
out there... but there was one very bright spot
that wasn't twinkling at all.
Amy said, "That over there... that's not a star...
that's a planet..." Amy gasped. "No, it couldn't
be! Is that..."
"Yes," Greg responded, "that's Mercury. You
know... it's funny to think that we're here right
now, and yet a long time ago, we were out
there," he said, pointing to the planet. "The
news from this morning said that Mercury would
be the brightest in about 75 years..."
"It's beautiful," Amy said, almost shedding a
tear.
"You know, there's something else that's very
bright and very beautiful..." Greg said, as he
turned Amy's head towards his. "It's you. I'm
not the one to hide my feelings anymore... I care
about you very much, and I just want to let you
know that I would not do anything to harm you,
not like I did a while ago when I almost killed
you. You, Amy Mizuno, are the brightest star in
my life."
"Greg.." Amy said as she brought her head closer
to Greg's.. "Please... kiss me."
Greg nodded his head, then closed his eyes and
leaned forward.
Piercing screams from the outside shattered
their peace.
Amy and Greg snapped out of their "trance" and
looked out the window.
"What are those people running from?" said
Greg.
"Do you see a dark shadow slithering on the
ground?" said Amy.
"Yes... but why is everyone running away? There
are many people, why don't they just stomp on
it or something?"
The shadow slithered further underneath until
it went out of view from the cab high above.
Greg started, "Now what do you suppose that
thing..."
Suddenly, the glass in front of them shattered..
and in slithered Morphonia. Morphonia wasted no
time, driving the sharp nails from her other
good hand straight into Greg's chest.
"UHHH!" went Greg, who collapsed out of the
chair and onto the floor of the cab.
Amy gasped in horror.
Morphonia then turned to Amy. "Amy Mizuno.. now
that you're all alone, and your sweetheart is
out of the picture, you're mine for the
taking!"
Amy went into her pocket and pulled out her
transformation pen. But Morphonia swatted it
away with her fin. The pen went flying over
Amy's head and landed behind her seat. When Amy
tried to reach back for hit, Morphonia started
to clutch both of her hands on Amy's throat.
Morphonia started to squeeze the life out of
Amy.
Amy was struggling to breathe and starting to
turn blue. She looked at Greg, who was starting
to turn pale from the nails that were driven
into him. Then she looked at Morphonia.
Amy was starting to pass out.. until she
thought, I must do this for him.. and then, in a
quick attempt, lifted up her left leg and
kicked Morphonia straight in the chest. The
kick shattered the Negamoon jewel on
Morphonia's necklace.
Suddenly, tremendous amounts of energy started
to surge through Morphonia. Morphonia screamed
and wailed in agony.
When it was all over, Morphonia was moon dust.
Amy took big breaths.. deep breaths.. and thought
to herself, that simple?
Then she turned to Greg.
"GREG!" Amy yelled. "Don't do this to me
again!"
Greg was violently shaking in shock, his skin a
pure white.
"You're bleeding internally!" yelled Amy.
Greg then clutched Amy's shoulder and struggled
to speak.
"Sha.. Sha.."
"What is it, Greg!!"
"Sha.. Shabon.. Wand.. use.. use it.."
Amy thought, and then realized that the Shabon
Wand would heal Greg. She reached back and
grabbed her transformation pen, yelled "MERCURY
STAR POWER!" and, immediately after she
transformed into Sailor Mercury, put the pen
over Greg and said "SHABON HEALING ACTIVATION!"
The transformation pen changed itself into the
Shabon Wand, and showered stars and bubbles
onto Greg. The nails that were stuck in Greg's
body disappeared, and Greg's skin tone started
to return to normal.
Greg regained his composure, then smiled and
said, "You... almost lost me again!"
Sailor Mercury de-transformed and helped Greg
back to his seat in the Ferris wheel cab. By
this point, the Ferris wheel was starting up
again, and stopped when their cab reached the
bottom.
"My heart is aching," Greg said, clutching his
chest with both hands.
"Oh, no," Amy replied. "I'd better get you to a
doctor."
"But I thought YOU were the doctor!"
"Greg, this is no time to play!"
The attendant opened the door. Immediately
after all of the moon dust spilled out onto the
ground, Greg handed the attendant yen... lots of
yen! "Keep going until I tell you to stop,"
Greg said to the attendant. The attendant
stared at the yen, which was more yen than he
made in a week, and then nodded his head,
smiling joyfully. He shut the door and
restarted the Ferris wheel.
"GREG! Several more times?! How could you do
that when your heart is aching?"
"Amy..." Greg said, removing his hands from his
chest and wrapping his arms around Amy.
Amy started to get the message.
"My heart is aching, all right..." Greg said.
"It's aching.. for you.. I love you Amy, you're
everything to me."
"Oh Greg," Amy said, staring at Greg's face.
"I.. I love you."
Then Amy held Greg tightly and whispered,
"Then.. now.. and forever.."
They closed their eyes and leaned forward.
They kissed softly and passionately as their
Ferris wheel cab went around and around under
the twinkling stars of the night sky... and the
brightness emanating from their home planet.
****************************************
End of Chapter 10
In the next chapter, Greg will face up to his
fears... of swimming.
As usual, "Sailor Moon" and all related characters
are copyrighted by Naoko Takeuchi, Kodansha, TOEI
Animation and other agencies.
The Saga of Mercury story is copyrighted by me, however
content in some chapters is based on the Mercury
Knight Stories as described in the Chapter 1 Introduction.
******
You can view released chapters in PDF format by visiting
the official web site of this fanfic, at:
http://members.aol.com/jrhorse98/sagaofmercury/index.html
You can also view these chapters at:
http://www.fanfiction.net
http://www.moonromance.com
http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic
http://www.fandomination.net
Chapters are also posted weekly at the Sailor Moon newsgroup:
news:alt.fan.sailor-moon
******
The Saga of Mercury
Chapter 10
Do You Remember When?
"I almost failed you, my queen," Morphonia
pleaded to Queen Sorinya.
"It is my fault, Morphonia," Sorinya replied.
"I was too busy planning something for Sailor
Mercury and the other scouts, I didn't realize
that they had those other knights with them...
You have done well so far, Morphonia, now I
want you to find a perfect moment when Amy and
Greg are isolated. Take care of Greg first to
get him out of the way, and then take Amy out!"
Morphonia looked down at her Negamoon necklace
that was nearly shattered from the last attack.
Then she looked at Sorinya. "Yes, my queen."
Meanwhile...
All eleven members of the sailor team finally
found something they could eat at the Crown.
Especially Serena...
"Yummy, yummy, yummy! Three servings of Ice
Cream in one day! This is so good! Mm-mm,"
Serena yelled as she dogged down on her banana
split sundae. She stuffed a whole banana into
her mouth. "MANT MOME MARIEN?"
Darien, with sweatdrops on his head, gently
shook his head.
Rini and the others were just staring at
Serena, waiting to finish.
This was her second sundae of the night.. and
she had a chocolate soda float in between.
When it was all over, Serena wiped her mouth
with a napkin and yelled, "YAY! DELICIOUS...
BURP!!!"
Everyone had sweatdrops on their head now. Greg
was holding his head in disbelief.
When Serena finally finished, everyone went
downstairs to say goodbye.
Serena, Darien, Rini, Raye, Chad and Luna left
in one direction, while Lita, Ken, Mina, Jamie
and Artemis went in another direction.
That left just Amy and Greg together.
Amy blushed and smiled at her handsome knight.
"Greg... can..." She almost looked away. "Can you
walk me home?"
Greg replied, "NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!"
Amy's eyes bulged.
"Just kidding!!!" Greg laughed.
"Whew!" was Amy's response. "For a second, you
scared me!"
"But first," said Greg, "I was wondering if you
have just a LITTLE bit of extra time on you
tonight. I've got time before the last bullet
train leaves. I want to take you somewhere."
"Really?" said Amy. "I wonder where someone
with beautiful chocolate eyes like you would
take a blue-haired freak like me?"
"Blue-haired freak? On the contrary," said
Greg, "you look like..."
Greg stopped to study Amy for a moment. Amy was
wearing a ruffling, ruby red skirt that went
down below her knees, a ruby red pullover
sweater, a blue vest which was open, white
knee-high socks and red Taryn Rose shoes. Amy's
eyes were seeking a response from Greg.
"You look like... a beautiful, gorgeous, blue-
haired... genius."
Amy covered her head with her hands, blushing
like crazy. Greg removed her hands from her
face, and said, "Get use to that, because I
want you to keep your eyes closed and covered
until we get to where I want to take you..."
"Okay," Amy said, "but first..."
Amy was looking at Greg's evening attire. Greg
was wearing nice blue denim jeans with a brown
belt, a long-sleeved yellow dress shirt, shiny
black dress shoes and a very expensive Bulova
watch.
"You look like.. uh.. you.. you look like.. oh,
Greg, why can't I find the right words for you
tonight?"
"Come on, you can," said a smiling Greg, "just
think a bit more."
"Okay.. you... you really look like.. a knight in
shining armor."
Greg laughed. "Works for me! Okay, you cover
your eyes and I'll lead you toward the
surprise."
Amy followed suit. When her eyes were closed,
Greg put his arm around her and started leaning
forward. Amy took his indication, and started
walking. Greg then turned her in the right
direction and led Amy down the block.
As the two of them got close to the area, Amy
started to hear calliope music and started
smelling the salty, buttery aroma of fresh
popcorn.
"Is this the circus?" asked Amy, eyes still
closed.
"Well, no, but you're close," said Greg.
Greg stopped Amy and turned her to face the
entrance.
"Ready, Ames?"
Amy nodded her head in excitement.
"OPEN!"
Amy opened her eyes, and then gasped in
amazement.
"An amusement park!" Amy said in delight.
"Not just any park.." said Greg, "10-Ban Land.
Do you remember this place? This was where.."
Greg stopped when Amy turned her head to face
him.
"Yes," Amy said softly to him with a smile,
"this is where we revealed our true feelings
for each other and had our first date."
"That's right! It was also the time that Tuxedo
Mask almost swallowed me up in a black crystal
for good.. but I don't want to remember that.."
Amy grabbed Greg's hand tightly. "Shall we,
sir?" she asked.
"I was about to ask you that!" Greg responded.
The two of them walked into the Amusement Park.
It was 9 PM, and they really knocked themselves
out, riding on every single ride.
When it was close to midnight, when the park
was scheduled to close, Greg and Amy made it
onto one final ride... the Ferris wheel.
"This is the best part!" Amy said to Greg as
the Ferris wheel started to rotate.
A clear night sky with many stars could be seen
easily from inside the cab. Greg and Amy were
holding each other close now, and staring at
each other intensely. Greg then looked out
another window... for another spectacular view of
the sky. Greg then looked at the time on his
Bulova watch, looked back outside, and said to
Amy, "Yep, right time. Amy, look behind... oh,
okay, wait until we get high enough again..."
The cab rotated all the way down, passed, and
then went back up again. The Ferris wheel
stopped while Amy and Greg's cab was at the
very top, to let out riders from another cab
below.
"Okay, now Amy, look at the sky over there.
Notice anything? About 25 or 30 degrees from
the horizon, and slightly right of center?"
Amy looked in the area that Greg was looking
at. Clusters of stars were twinkling brightly
out there... but there was one very bright spot
that wasn't twinkling at all.
Amy said, "That over there... that's not a star...
that's a planet..." Amy gasped. "No, it couldn't
be! Is that..."
"Yes," Greg responded, "that's Mercury. You
know... it's funny to think that we're here right
now, and yet a long time ago, we were out
there," he said, pointing to the planet. "The
news from this morning said that Mercury would
be the brightest in about 75 years..."
"It's beautiful," Amy said, almost shedding a
tear.
"You know, there's something else that's very
bright and very beautiful..." Greg said, as he
turned Amy's head towards his. "It's you. I'm
not the one to hide my feelings anymore... I care
about you very much, and I just want to let you
know that I would not do anything to harm you,
not like I did a while ago when I almost killed
you. You, Amy Mizuno, are the brightest star in
my life."
"Greg.." Amy said as she brought her head closer
to Greg's.. "Please... kiss me."
Greg nodded his head, then closed his eyes and
leaned forward.
Piercing screams from the outside shattered
their peace.
Amy and Greg snapped out of their "trance" and
looked out the window.
"What are those people running from?" said
Greg.
"Do you see a dark shadow slithering on the
ground?" said Amy.
"Yes... but why is everyone running away? There
are many people, why don't they just stomp on
it or something?"
The shadow slithered further underneath until
it went out of view from the cab high above.
Greg started, "Now what do you suppose that
thing..."
Suddenly, the glass in front of them shattered..
and in slithered Morphonia. Morphonia wasted no
time, driving the sharp nails from her other
good hand straight into Greg's chest.
"UHHH!" went Greg, who collapsed out of the
chair and onto the floor of the cab.
Amy gasped in horror.
Morphonia then turned to Amy. "Amy Mizuno.. now
that you're all alone, and your sweetheart is
out of the picture, you're mine for the
taking!"
Amy went into her pocket and pulled out her
transformation pen. But Morphonia swatted it
away with her fin. The pen went flying over
Amy's head and landed behind her seat. When Amy
tried to reach back for hit, Morphonia started
to clutch both of her hands on Amy's throat.
Morphonia started to squeeze the life out of
Amy.
Amy was struggling to breathe and starting to
turn blue. She looked at Greg, who was starting
to turn pale from the nails that were driven
into him. Then she looked at Morphonia.
Amy was starting to pass out.. until she
thought, I must do this for him.. and then, in a
quick attempt, lifted up her left leg and
kicked Morphonia straight in the chest. The
kick shattered the Negamoon jewel on
Morphonia's necklace.
Suddenly, tremendous amounts of energy started
to surge through Morphonia. Morphonia screamed
and wailed in agony.
When it was all over, Morphonia was moon dust.
Amy took big breaths.. deep breaths.. and thought
to herself, that simple?
Then she turned to Greg.
"GREG!" Amy yelled. "Don't do this to me
again!"
Greg was violently shaking in shock, his skin a
pure white.
"You're bleeding internally!" yelled Amy.
Greg then clutched Amy's shoulder and struggled
to speak.
"Sha.. Sha.."
"What is it, Greg!!"
"Sha.. Shabon.. Wand.. use.. use it.."
Amy thought, and then realized that the Shabon
Wand would heal Greg. She reached back and
grabbed her transformation pen, yelled "MERCURY
STAR POWER!" and, immediately after she
transformed into Sailor Mercury, put the pen
over Greg and said "SHABON HEALING ACTIVATION!"
The transformation pen changed itself into the
Shabon Wand, and showered stars and bubbles
onto Greg. The nails that were stuck in Greg's
body disappeared, and Greg's skin tone started
to return to normal.
Greg regained his composure, then smiled and
said, "You... almost lost me again!"
Sailor Mercury de-transformed and helped Greg
back to his seat in the Ferris wheel cab. By
this point, the Ferris wheel was starting up
again, and stopped when their cab reached the
bottom.
"My heart is aching," Greg said, clutching his
chest with both hands.
"Oh, no," Amy replied. "I'd better get you to a
doctor."
"But I thought YOU were the doctor!"
"Greg, this is no time to play!"
The attendant opened the door. Immediately
after all of the moon dust spilled out onto the
ground, Greg handed the attendant yen... lots of
yen! "Keep going until I tell you to stop,"
Greg said to the attendant. The attendant
stared at the yen, which was more yen than he
made in a week, and then nodded his head,
smiling joyfully. He shut the door and
restarted the Ferris wheel.
"GREG! Several more times?! How could you do
that when your heart is aching?"
"Amy..." Greg said, removing his hands from his
chest and wrapping his arms around Amy.
Amy started to get the message.
"My heart is aching, all right..." Greg said.
"It's aching.. for you.. I love you Amy, you're
everything to me."
"Oh Greg," Amy said, staring at Greg's face.
"I.. I love you."
Then Amy held Greg tightly and whispered,
"Then.. now.. and forever.."
They closed their eyes and leaned forward.
They kissed softly and passionately as their
Ferris wheel cab went around and around under
the twinkling stars of the night sky... and the
brightness emanating from their home planet.
****************************************
End of Chapter 10
In the next chapter, Greg will face up to his
fears... of swimming.