Nehelenia's Void Eternity
Chapter 10
Author's note: Nice! Finally, the tenth chapter. As you can tell, this story has taken a turn for the grim, and shall continue to do so in this chapter, and Chibi-Usa's own darkness inside surfaces during this chapter. To any who have continued to read this, wow. Thank you! So far you have tolerated part of my insane writing. Lmao, here goes.
Serena sighed, her eyes looking to the others, gauging their facial expressions, they remained in shock, but she was ready for the next to awaken from its seemingly sleep state of shock that they were in. Ah. There. Ami raised her sea- colored eyes to meet Serena's, then they just froze there. Nearly unblinking. Serena sighed, and spoke to the blue haired girl. "You loved to swim, you are water incarnate. So tell me, what do I do with you?" Serena's hand reverted back to normal, the sword like fingers turned back into normal human ones. She lifted up her hand to examine it more closely, while also keeping a close eye on Ami. "…." That was all Ami could do, before she began to collapse. Serena wanted to run to her, before she fell. To her surprise she was there a second later, supporting the girl in her arms. Her eyes glanced over the others. Mina was looking over the two, and she carefully watched the emotions flash on their faces as they registered the full extent of her punishment to them. Serena turned away, and tapped Ami lightly on the cheek with a finger, until the girl opened her eyes. Instantly, Serena felt Ami's fear when they met eyes. She smiled at Ami. "This unsettling fear that you feel in your spine will do, but I also must still rectify judgement…." Serena paused in thought. "Ah!" Serena snapped her fingers. "I will turn you into what you are. What you where born to be, only I will see you reborn." Serena helped the girl stand, but raised the other hand to caress Ami's face. "I will give you a gift, a gift and a curse." Serena stood back from the girl a few steps and spread her arms open wide. As if instantly, the moon reappeared, and then was immediately shadowed as the moon turned dark, red like a rich wine. Serena looked up to the moon as a pale, pure curved line of light appeared, gracing the moon's form. Serena spread her hand, palm faced towards a freaked out Ami, and a blue power that looked like the sea itself spread out in waving lines from her palm towards her target. "I told you I would cause you to fall, so you could raise again. And I name you from this day forwards, my Undine." Ami became enveloped in this power from Serena, then it cut off from her palm and it Burst with light into a pillar of power, Ami's silhouette vaguely seen through it. "You are the sea. And the sea shall be you, You will feel the joys and pains of any and all in the sea. You shall be anything you wish, as long as the sea is with you, by your side. Do not think this a gift, nor a complete curse." The pillar exploded, and like water, its explosion splattered all over the ground, and Ami stood in the midst of it all, looking down at her hands in surprise. All over her arms, light blue markings on her arms shone and thrummed lightly with their own life. Ami's surprise and awe where cut short by her screams. She fell to the ground, as a million visions spun in her head, of places, people, and the sea itself. She watched, through one of her visions, as a fish had its head cut away from its body while it was still alive. She clutched her head as waves of agony rippled through her. Serena turned away just in time to just barely dodge a well thrown punch to her face. Mina threw another one at Serena with the opposite fist. Serena caught that one, and held Mina there for a minute. "So, you wish for love, but it never comes." Mina didn't answer, and tried pulling her fist back. It didn't budge, nor did Serena's hold wane. "You shall be loved, but you will feel the pains of love as well, Mina." Serena's grip intensified, and then with a heave, threw Mina backwards, and she landed hard on the ground, unconscious. "U-Usako…" Serena turned to the voice, and found the man she once loved sitting up against a wall, gazing at her with eyes that where clouded over with pain and hurt, and new wounds that would scar for live, more than likely. Damn, she still loved him, those eyes could eat away at you. She walked over to where he was sitting. "You know what comes to you next." She spoke those words as if they were like glass, carefully placing each on its own pedestal, well understood. He raised his head slowly so he could see her better. "And what will you do?" Serena shook her head. "No, no. It is about what you will do, what you will choose to do., but I have chosen you." Darien's confused expression made Serena smile. She kneeled down carefully in front of him before placing a single kiss on his lips before pulling back and whispering "I cannot love you anymore, but I choose you. Lead them well." Darien tried to get up, but his eyesight failed and he fell back on the wall, before giving in to unconsciousness. Serena was about to channel the energy to send her back to the VoidLands, but a familiar voice called to her. She spun around. Oh dear. Chibi-Usa, or rather, her daughter, stood before her. She watched her daughter's eyes focus on all the unconscious, scared, and shaken people around her. She watched the emotion's on her face as she registered whom they were. Chibi-Usa's eyes darted around, as if looking for someone else. After a moment, Serena understood. She was looking for the person who did this to all of Scouts. "Chibi-Usa?" Her daughter snapped her scared eyes to look up to Serena's own. "I did this."