Authors Notes: Chapter 14 is here!
Thanks for the wait things have been busy but I didn't forget you! I hope everyone enjoys the chapter and after this post I will have to begin writing, most of these chapters up until now have been edits, so the ending of this fic is as much anticipated by myself.
Most chapters after this one will have mature themes of sorts along the way of either language or situations - please be advised!
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Mara and Miyuki are not part of the Senshi Universe but instead characters created by me for this story. I hope you grow to love them like I have.
Suki and Keichi are not part of the Senshi Universe but also characters created by me for this story. I don't like them so neither should you :P
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First and foremost I do not own any Sailor Moon character in this Fanfic. The only thing I can lay claim to are any/all characters that I have made up (which will be indicated in the chapters to come).
This Fic was written a few years ago (as you will notice with MOST of my fics) and I had just wanted a good Ami x Makoto story that wasn't 'oh hi, I like you we should do it' in three sentences. I wanted a bit more substance. As it stands this story isn't finished, not yet, but it will be because I can't just leave two of my favorite characters hanging like that!
Things to take note about reading this fic: I like their original Japanese names, some Japanese words are used, I have/will be putting my own personal spin on the Senshi Powers they have (as in, just how MUCH they can do), this is a YURI fic so be prepared for what that will entail, I will be having a few of our beloved Senshi breaking out of their safe zones, and finally - I just love Love.
Green eyes slowly opened and squinted as the sun danced across Makoto's once sleeping face.
Stupid sun not letting me sleep some more with Ami…
At the thought of her love, she rolled over to look at her lovers sleeping face, only to blink stupidly at finding the bed…
Empty?
A sense of emptiness filled Makoto's heart as she just stared at the place Ami should have been at when she woke up. She reached out to touch the indention on the pillow, hoping to find it warm. Uncontrollable tears came to her eyes as the icy cold temperature greeted her hand.
Why?
Why isn't she here?
Why would she leave me?
Makoto knew that Ami would leave once her mother returned home to spend sometime with her before college started. Tears rolled down Makoto's face at the thought of Ami being a two day drive away from her once school started. She knew that she had told Ami she could be strong but if she could barely handle waking up alone from the first night of their love making, then she doubted she could last a whole semester. She knew that Ami was new to the whole love and relationship game but the fact that Ami wasn't there in the bed with her after the milestone they had just crossed put so much hurt in Makoto's heart she just laid there and cried softly.
The turning of the doorknob cut Makoto's cries short as she watched Ami quietly open the door. She watched as the blue haired girl stripped out of her clothing and pick up the pink carnation from where she had set it down on the chair next to the door.
"Makoto will love this." She whispered to herself, lost in her own little world of how Makoto's face would look as she woke up.
Ami turned around to crawl in bed with her love only to freeze in place as she saw the look of utter devastation on Makoto's tear stained face.
"Makoto…" Ami gasped snapping out of her shock to get to her loves side.
"Was it another nightmare?" she asked, holding the taller girl to her in a rather awkward position hug.
"I was alone when I woke up…I thought…" she whispered.
Makoto could feel the smaller girl go rigid in her arms and then hug her tighter.
"Gomen nasai Makoto, I knew how you loved to sleep in and I didn't think you'd wake up before I got home. I wanted you to wake up to me holding your favorite flower, I am so sorry! I would never leave you." She whispered, her heart almost breaking at the realization that the look of devastation on her loves face was caused by her.
Makoto moved so she could better hold Ami and breathed a sigh of relief as she hugged the smaller girl.
"It's alright, Ami. I'm better now because you're here and that's all that matters. Though for future reference, waking up alone after we make love isn't a very good feeling." Makoto said with a slight smile.
"I'll make sure I remember that."
"Good because I don't think I could take another morning like that." Makoto laughed as she moved to kiss Ami's forehead.
"This is for you." Ami said with a blush as she presented Makoto with a pink carnation.
"It smells wonderful, Ami, thank you. It's almost as beautiful as you." She whispered into Ami's ear.
Ami smiled and moved herself into Makoto's arms, never wanting to leave. When she had woken up that morning she had watched Makoto sleep for what seemed like hours, her mind playing over and over the things they had shared that night. Ami couldn't believe the feelings she felt for Makoto, how deep and raw they were or at how badly she needed her friends touch, things she had always been uncomfortable with. Thinking of Makoto not being in her life simply didn't compute with the Senshi of ice, she knew from the minute she had admitted her love to Makoto that she would do everything in her power to make her love want to stay.
"I really am sorry, Makoto, I never meant to hurt you. I guess I'm still really cold…" Ami tried to finish her sentence until her cell phone rang.
Rolling over to get it from the night stand, Ami laid on her back to answer the call.
"Moshi moshi?"
"You know, for being such a smart student and things, you sure do forget to call your mother like she asked you."
"Mother? Gomen for not calling…"
Makoto listened to the two Mizuno's talk for a few moments until a wicked, wicked idea sprang into her mind.
Well, if I had to wake up alone this morning then she's not getting an easy phone conversation with her mother.
Makoto looked at Ami, smiling the most evil smile she could conjure as their eyes connected. In a flurry Makoto pinned Ami down as she lay next to her, using her legs to spread the smaller girl's legs.
"Well, I'm glad things are going well with you and Makoto. Have you heard from your other friends?"
There was silence on the other end.
"Ami? Are you there?"
"H…hai…" she replied rather breathily, her eyes squeezed shut as Makoto gently used her fingers to stroke her nether region.
"Ami, are you busy? Do you need me to let you go?" her mother asked with a devious smile on her face.
"Iie, everything…is fine…really…" she all but moaned into the phone as her eyes pleaded with Makoto to stop or at least wait till she was off the phone.
Makoto just shook her head, mouthing to her love that it was paybacks for her finding an empty bed when she woke up.
The older Mizuno tried hard to not laugh at what she was hearing from her daughter over the phone, the obvious making itself known. She wondered for a moment if she should be mortified or upset, but truthfully she wasn't. She had hoped for a time that Makoto would be a deeper part of Ami's life and now that it was happening, it made her truly happy for her little girl.
"Well, then I'll give you a call later today when you two aren't trying to make love to one another or…"
"Mother!" Ami all but screamed in shock but mostly pleasure, into the phone.
"Come now Ami…" her mother began to say but realized she had horrible timing and released the pent up laughter she had.
"Go have fun Ami, I'll talk to you later." She managed to say between laughs and hung up before her daughter could say anything.
Ami all but threw the phone from her body when she heard her mother hang up, calling to the various Gods as the passion flared its way through her body. She couldn't believe what Makoto could make her feel.
"Find it hard to talk to your mother?" Makoto whispered in her ear.
"Yes…I felt…naughty…" she said between gasps.
Makoto smiled and moved her head down to take Ami's nipple in her mouth, gently sucking on it.
"Mako…"
Makoto heard the tone in her lover's voice and released the mouth hold she had on her lover, looking her in the eyes.
"Have I done something wrong? Have I hurt you?"
"Iie. I want…I mean, I would like…if you…um…to touch me…errr…your fingers…" Ami stuttered so horribly she was shaking with embarrassment.
Makoto pulled Ami closer to her, silencing her mouth with her own, kissing her deeply as she moved her fingers to Ami's opening, gently caressing the entrance. Ami moaned deeply into Makoto's mouth, giving her approval of what she wanted. Makoto gently slid one finger into her lover, being careful to just gently rub the barrier she felt deep within Ami.
Ami could feel her virginity bend with the gentle pressure Makoto was applying. Suddenly she was afraid, it was a big step and she loved Makoto but could she really lose herself that fast? Was she ready?
Passion flared once again in Ami as it fought with the thoughts in her mind. Makoto sensed a change suddenly in Ami and removed her fingers from her lover, looking deep into blue eyes.
Makoto could see the fear and uncertainty radiate from the eyes she so loved to look into and felt a pang in her heart. She thought Ami had wanted her like that, wanted them like that….and now she was unsure?
Ami could see the conflicting emotions dance their way across Makoto's face and realized she had done something to hurt Makoto.
"No, don't say anything, it's fine Ami. We'll continue this when you're ready so don't worry." Makoto said as she released her love and pulled on her green robe as she left the bed.
"Makoto…I…"
"I know and it's fine, I'm going to go shower now, we needed to get out of bed anyway."
Ami watched the door close behind the Senshi of lightening and sighed deeply to herself, ashamed suddenly that she would be afraid of something they had done the night before. Just as she was going to fall deeply into self thought and berating, her cell phone rang.
"Moshi moshi?"
"Ami-chan? I was calling with good news but you sound upset, everything okay?"
"Mara-chan, hai, everything is fine." she lied.
"I don't believe you for a moment but I won't push you. I wanted to say that that Yuki and I will be in town tomorrow if you two wanted to meet us at the little ice cream shop you're always at."
"The Crown? Sure, we'll be there, what time?"
"How's ten?"
"Not a problem. If I remember correctly the rest of our friends are coming into town as well tomorrow."
"I take it the rest of the Senshi?" she said with a giggle.
"Hai." a blush crossed her face.
"Okay, well we'll all hang out and have a fun time if they're in. See you then!" Mara said, a little worried.
"Ja." Ami said and hung up.
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"Come on Mina, we're going to be late if you take any longer!" Rei yelled to her girlfriend from the door.
"I'm coming!"
"We have to pick up Usagi-chan as well." she said getting her keys.
"Tell me why again?"
"Because her Mamo-chan has to help Motoki do some things on his day off."
"Right, right." Mina said as they climbed into the car and headed to Usagi's house.
There was an enjoyable silence between the two Senshi's as they made it to their Princess's house, knowing that once she got into the car silence wasn't an option.
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"Makoto, we're going to be late."
"I'm not going."
"What? Why?" Ami asked, confused.
Makoto opened the door to the bathroom, her large body taking up most of the frame. Blood ran from her nose.
"What happened?" Ami asked wiping the blood from love's nose.
"I can't transform back to how they're use to seeing me. I've been trying all morning and the only thing to show for it is a bloody nose." she frowned as blood spurted from her nose as she tried again.
"But your cousins are there waiting for us..."
"And so are the rest of them, I'm not ready for them to see me like...this."
"But Mako, I think you're beautiful." Ami said as she hugged her love.
"I'm glad you think so, but I'm just not ready, not yet." she hugged her own love back, glad that their misunderstanding from the other morning had been solved but still feeling like something was wrong.
She'll tell me when she's ready, won't she?
Ami knew that she would never get Makoto to leave the house if she wasn't ready and it wasn't in her nature either to force someone to do something they weren't ready for either.
"Okay, I'll go by myself but when they all want to triple date you're coming." she pointed at Makoto as she pulled out of the hug.
"Ami, I don't think that..."
Makoto saw the look Ami had on her face and just sighed. Ami was right, she shouldn't be afraid of her friends because they would love and support her no matter what.
"You win but don't let it get to your head." she smiled.
"Do I ever?" a grin of her own crossing her face.
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"Cute little place they have here."
"Yeah, I was in it with Makoto before we went to the hot springs."
Mara and Miyuki sat at a small table big enough for another couple as they waited for Ami and Makoto. They hadn't been there long before Mara noticed two blondes and a dark haired girl come into the shop running up to them.
"Ami-chan! Makoto-chan!" Usagi yelled as she leaped over the table to hug Ami.
Miyuki watched the blonde girl hug her girlfriend with interest, coming to the conclusion that she had mistaken her for Ami.
Well, that's not very hard to do when Mara has all of her hair under a hat.
Mara didn't really know what to do with the blonde girl so she simply just sat there, looking at her laughing lover.
"It's not funny." she said.
Usagi bolted from the woman she was hugging wide eyed and blushing.
"You're not Ami-chan!" she gushed.
"No she's not, I am." said a voice behind the group.
They all turned to look at Ami, who was smiling, and gasped as they turned back to look at the other couple.
"That mean's you're not Makoto." Rei said.
"Afraid not." Miyuki said with a smile.
"Then who are you?" Mina asked.
"Miyuki, Mara, these are my friends Usagi-chan, Rei-chan, and Mina-chan. Guys this is Miyuki-chan, Makoto's cousin, and her girlfriend Mara-chan." Ami said with a smile.
"Sugoi! You look just like them!" Usagi gasped.
"Well, almost like them." Mara said as she removed her hair from her hat and stood next to Ami.
"Wow, Ami-chan, I've always wondered what you'd look like taller, fuller, and with longer hair." Minako said as she looked over Mara.
"Hey!" Ami and Miyuki said for two different reasons.
"I don't mind you looking but the scrutiny you're giving my girl…"
"…is making her jealous." Mara finished for her love.
"Um gomen! I just can't get over the similarities between you guys!" Minako blushed.
"Well why don't we sit back down and chat for awhile until my cousin gets here?" Miyuki motioned for the group of girls to join them.
"Makoto won't be joining us this time, I'm afraid." Ami sighed sitting in the same row as her newest friends.
"Is everything alright? You two aren't fighting are you?" Rei asked.
"Iie, she's just…not herself today…is all and just needs to sleep." Ami said, trying her best not to totally lie to her friends.
Mara and Miyuki looked at one another knowing as they looked to Ami to confirm their thoughts.
"Oh, did you wear her out Ami-chan?" Usagi smiled evilly.
A blush more vibrant than the three Senshi had ever seen swept across Ami's face as she thought about their love making a few days before.
"Ami-chan!" All three Senshi gasped.
Questions and laughter ran abundant for the remainder of the meeting at The Crown until Mara and Miyuki had left to go check on Makoto.
"Are we still on for date tomorrow with all of us?" Rei asked Ami as she finished off her second malt.
"Hai, do you guys know where we're going so we can meet you there?"
"The French place that Makoto-chan works at, I've been dying to eat there." Mina said.
A brief flash of disgust flashed across Ami's face at the thought of what happened that night that seemed so recent when it was weeks ago.
"Sure, we'll meet there."
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"I can't. I've tried all day and I just can't, I'm not ready."
"But…"
"No! I don't know why this happened, why I can't go back to what I used to look like, but I want it back! I don't like looking like this; I don't like looking like a huge freak! I just want to be normal." The angry words reverberated down the hall.
Miyuki and Mara sighed, what could they tell her?
"It's because of Ami-chan." Mara said.
"What?" Makoto spun to look at them.
"She made you complete, she was the missing puzzle in your life. When you became complete you took the form she most loved."
"How could she love this body? I'm five million times taller than her and I'm bulky."
"I don't know but it's what her heart chose. Shouldn't you be a little thankful for it?" Miyuki asked lying on the bed.
Makoto sighed and sat down on the floor where she stood. Of course she was thankful that Ami loved her for what she looked like, more importantly for who she was deep inside. Though Makoto herself did not like what she saw in the mirror each day.
"It makes me happy that she feels that way but I don't like what I see, I'm tired of ducking to get into doors, having to buy a whole new wardrobe, or the fact that if I want to lay on top of Ami in anyway my form smothers her!"
Ami had heard raised voices when she had come home from the meeting with the other Senshi. Her heart broke that Makoto felt that way about herself.
"If I'm going to be this freakishly large I might as well be a man!" Makoto spat.
"Makoto…" Ami whispered to herself from outside their bedroom door.
"Listen to yourself, Mako! I can't believe what I'm hearing." Yuki spat back just as loudly.
"You don't know what it's like to be this tall, this broad. I want to be as small as Ami, I feel like I'm going to break her every time I touch her, she's so delicate and soft. We're supposed to go on a triple date with the people you met today and I don't want to be different. For once I want to be just like everyone else." Tears started to well up in Makoto's eyes.
"What does Ami think?" Mara asked as she went to cuddle her friend.
Ami's ears strained till she heard the response Makoto was going to give, she knew she shouldn't be listening like this but…
"How should I know? I do good just to know what she's feeling at all these days. I thought I was in the right spot with her but the other day…it doesn't matter, I was wrong…we made up but there is still something there, something she's not telling me. Pushing her to tell me won't get the answer either; it will only make her close up even more."
Ami's heart felt that familiar pang in it, knowing well that it meant she had hurt Makoto yet again. Makoto was right; there was something she wasn't telling her, something she could hardly think about with herself.
How can I tell her that I'm scared?
How can I make her understand these feelings scare me?
How can I…
The blue haired girl nearly jumped out of her skin when she felt her phone vibrate from the hidden pocket in her skirt. It was a new text message and it was from Mara.
"Wherever you are, come home, Mako's upset."
She tucked her phone back into her pocket and stood up facing the barrier that stood between her and the other people inside. Taking a deep breath she knocked three times on the door and let herself in.
"I'm home." She said smiling to everyone.
"Welcome home." Three voices in unison spoke.
"Everyone missed you today, Mako; they want to see you."
"See me? You told them?" Angry eyes turned to sad blue ones.
"Iie, I would never do that to you. They want us to meet them at your restaurant for dinner tomorrow." She whispered, lowering her eyes from the angry ones that bore into her.
"I'm sorry; I'm just having a problem with….this!" Makoto pointed to what she saw in the full length mirror in front of her.
"I know and it's okay. I just wish there was something I could do for you." It was true; she hated to see Makoto hurting, even if it was her fault.
There was silence in the room that seemed to weigh deeply on every ones thoughts. Very slowly and carefully Mara and Miyuki left the room with thoughts that left them uneasy. Makoto and Ami heard them leave but made no move to tell them bye, their own thoughts consumed them.
Makoto was angry, angry at anything that would let her. She wanted to be normal, to be feminine, just anything than what she looked like now. She was hurt and confused about what Ami was really feeling about what happened between them the other day.
"Please, tell me what really happened the other day, I know that there is more than what you're letting on." Makoto turned to softly look into blue eyes.
I can't tell you…I don't know how…
Ami tired to find a way to say she was afraid but it almost didn't sound good enough even though it was the truth.
Makoto waited patiently for an answer as she saw Ami struggling to find the words to tell her.
"I…" she started.
Makoto walked up to the blue haired girl and carefully took her hands into her own.
"It's okay, Ami, you can tell me anything. I would rather you tell me the truth and it hurt than live a lie."
"I'm…scared." The smaller girl all but whispered.
"What are you scared of? Scared of me? Scared of our relationship?" Makoto's worst fears were playing through her mind as she tried to not convey those thoughts to Ami.
Once again there was a deafening silence in the room and as Ami removed her hands from Makoto's grasp, Makoto knew her fears were coming true. Mustering up the courage she didn't have, Makoto nodded her head as she took a step back.
"You can tell me when you're ready, until then, I don't think it would be smart for us to sleep in the same room so you can have my bed and I'll take the couch." She stated trying with all her might not to cry.
The pang shot its way through Ami's heart once again as she raised her head to look at Makoto. Makoto's bangs hung in her face obscuring her eyes but there was no mistaking the tear stains on her cheeks. Ami cursed her cowardice and took a step toward Makoto, to try and tell her that it wasn't what she thought, but stopped in her tracks as the Senshi of Lightening shook her head and walked to the door.
"I'm going out for awhile, if you need anything then use the communicator to call me or the others."
Ami stood in the bedroom for a moment and ran after Makoto to stop her, knowing that her being alone when she was upset wasn't the smartest thing in the world. The slamming of the front door told her she was too late.
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"What do you mean she left?"
"We…had an argument and she left…that was four hours ago and I can't get a hold of her." Ami said with concern deep rooted in her voice as she talked to the others over their communicators.
"Should we go and look for her or just let her blow off steam? You know how she is when she gets upset." Mina stated.
Ami listened to her friend's debate over the communicators but her thoughts were with Makoto and what could be keeping her from coming home, no matter how upset she might be.
"I think that if she's not back by morning that we should. If something was really bad she'd call or we would feel her transform." Rei explained.
"You're right! I haven't felt anything all day so she's just taking her time, Ami-chan." Usagi tried to comfort the Senshi of Ice.
With a sigh Ami finished talking to them and turned off her communicator with another sigh. She was new to relationships but this was something completely unknown to her, the rollercoaster ride a relationship could be.
I guess I have a lot to learn still…
Slowly moving her way to the bedroom to change into her pajamas blue eyes came across a green communicator. Fear immediately ran through her body as she picked it up and saw that it truly was Makoto's communicator.
Why would she…
Ami knew that something was wrong, she could just feel it. Without even thinking she put the communicator in her pocket and left the apartment, determined to find her upset friend.
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Makoto sat on the swings at the park idly kicking the dirt, her once angry thoughts gone as sad ones took over. She knew that the relationship she started with Ami hadn't gotten off on the right foot. Ami finding out about what she really looked like, her powers, the whole mess with that…boy…, and everything else that had happened.
No wonder she's scared, I guess I would be too…
The coldness she felt from the swings chains made her think of all the times Ami and herself had studied or hung out there while all the others were doing things of their own. The park was where they all had said good-bye to one another before they had left for college; it was also the place where Ami and she had said their second good-byes as well.
The brown haired girl sighed to herself as she thought about what had happened at the apartment before she left. She knew that Ami had every right to feel the way she did; it was as if Makoto expected it, but she had not expected it to hurt as much as it did. No the pain she felt was something very familiar and yet so new to the taller girl.
She looked down at her watch and sighed yet again for the millionth time of the night.
I guess I should get back. Ami's probably worried and I don't have my communicator either. She'll be mad about that…
The swing set squeaked with the release of her weight as she began her trek home. She turned back to look at the swing set where it seemed all her dreams had happened but frowned when she saw something at the other side of the park. Squinting Makoto saw it was Ami, running as she was talking into her communicator but what really caught her eye was the dark something behind Ami. Makoto started running toward the smaller girl who didn't seem to notice the being that was following her.
"Makoto!" Ami yelled relieved when she had seen the girl leaving the park.
Makoto ignored the girl. With speed that would rival Haruka's Makoto reacted to the flash of silver that sped its way to Ami's back. Without even thinking she grabbed the smaller girl and spun so her shoulder took the full brunt of the knife that would have killed Ami.
Ami for her part was confused until she turned her eyes to see what looked like a long blade sticking through Makoto's shoulder. She turned to see what caused it but was suddenly flying through the air away from the scene to land roughly on the ground.
"Get out of here!" Makoto hissed sparing time to look at the smaller girl before turning her attention to the figure.
"Silly little humans, you think you can defeat me? The pain you feel now is only the beginning, I refuse to lose my dinner!" it hissed, stepping under the lamp light.
Ami gasped at the youma, its size making Makoto seem like a small child. The monster had the form of a werewolf and Ami realized the metal through Makoto's shoulder was the beast's claw.
Blood poured from the wound Makoto had in her shoulder as she ripped herself free from the grasp she was in. The pain was nearly unbearable but she knew she had to be strong, Ami might be in danger. Through pain hazed eyes she saw the creature take another swipe at her and dodged easily.
Ami watched Makoto mostly dodge the beast and she wished the girls would hurry up and arrive. She watched in fear as the one she loved battled the beast, a beast that Ami herself was no match for.
MERCURY STAR POWER!
"We're here Mercury!" Rei said as she and the other girl raced up to the now transformed Ami.
"We have to help Makoto, she's badly hurt and the youma she's fighting is immense!" she flipped her visor down to gather the information she needed to learn about the beast.
"That can't be Jupiter…" Mina stated as she watched the battle.
Usagi and Rei took a closer look and nearly dropped their jaws as they saw a very much larger Makoto. Her cloths had been nearly shredded from the near miss swipes of the youma and instead of a pony tail the brown hair was kept in check with a braid. As the girls stared in awe of the being that was their friend Ami's analysis was finally complete.
"Makoto, his back, it's his back!" she yelled.
Without even thinking Makoto transformed into her alter ego without a word, feeling her planets power coursing through her veins. Eyes sparking dangerously she fought the monster.
"Die!" she screamed as she released her deadly bolts of lightening.
The beast yelled in pain as the fur from his body singed and burned, hatred burning in its eyes.
"You will pay for that human!"
It ran full speed and pinned Makoto to the ground, leering mercilessly in her face. The rest of the Senshi reacted without a word, trying their hardest to remove the beast from their fellow soldier.
"SHABON SPRAY FREEZE!"
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!"
"VENUS LOVE ME CHAIN!"
"MOON SPIRAL HEART ATTACK!"
For what seemed like hours the girls attacked trying desperately to make the fatal strike at the youma's back.
"This…isn't…working…" Sailor Moon struggled to get out.
"He's too quick; we need a diversion of some sort." Sailor Mars said as the evaded another swipe of the claws.
"I agree. It seems everything we throw at him just isn't good enough." Sailor Venus complained.
The three Sailors were behind the other two Senshi who were trying desperately to give their friends time to think of a plan. Makoto pushed herself to her limits to try and bring the monster down, but he always seemed one step ahead of her. Out of the corner of her eye she watched as Ami desperately tried to keep up the pace the battle was demanding. Makoto's eyes went wide as she saw the youma catch Ami within his grasp.
"What do I have here? The girl who creates the ice, how delicious, you were the one I was wanting for dinner earlier." He sneered as he let his tongue cover her bare legs and then her arms.
"Release her you bastard!" Makoto yelled.
"I can't do that, I need to feed and there is nothing like the lust of a woman to satisfy my hunger."
Suddenly a fire burned within Ami that she couldn't control, a fire that burned with the same desire and passion that she had with Makoto.
Makoto heard the moans and cries of the passion induced Ami and a rage began to build itself within her.
"Ah, listen to that wonderful noise. Lust is such a wonderful thing!" the youma giggled as it cut away Ami's cloths, wrapping his tongue around her breast.
Something in Makoto snapped. A rage unlike anything she had ever felt herself experience ran through her entire being as she watched the youma have his way with the woman she loved. She screamed in rage as power built itself up within her, her voice seemed to shake the ground itself.
"Well, look at what we have here. Does this human mean something to you? It seems she does, how cute." The werewolf being laughed as he carelessly tossed Ami away, her body being caught by the three other Senshi.
"You…I…" Makoto tried to speak but the rage she felt hindered her.
The youma smiled evilly as he uprooted a tree to throw at the pest in front of him.
"How DARE you touch the woman I love, prepare to feel the wrath of the king of the Gods, Jupiter himself!" she screamed in the voice of Jupiter himself, releasing the most powerful Thunder Supreme Dragon she had ever called forth.
The beast laughed as he easily dodged the immense bolt of lightening and threw the tree into the information building that was behind Makoto to bring it crashing down on her.
Makoto felt the building coming down around her but called forth even more power as she made her dragon loop around to slice its way through the back of the werewolf youma and head right back to its source. The beast screamed in death throes before his body exploded itself back to the Negaverse.
Ami had reverted back into her street cloths and under control as she saw the Thunder Dragon slam Makoto deep into the building, creating a tomb.
"NO!" she screamed as she ran as fast as she could, creating massive spikes of ice to shatter the larger pieces of the building before they added to the already immense pile on top of Makoto.
The three Senshi desperately tried to dig their friend and loved one out of the rubble that seemed to never end. Ami desperately prayed to the gods to let her find Makoto.
"Guys, over here, it's her arm!" Mina yelled as she lifted a few more planks.
The scene that assaulted Ami's eyes made her instantly drop to her knees in disbelief. Lying under an enormous slab of concrete was Makoto, her arm seemingly reaching out for anything as a pool of blood began to flow from under the slab.
"…no…no…no…NO!"
Rei watched as Ami moved from the ground and desperately try to remove the boulder that covered Makoto. She desperately looked at the others who turned their eyes away, afraid that it already might be too late.
Ami strained and pulled at the slab that was taking the life out of Makoto. Countless times she fell, the ground slick with Makoto's blood and her own tears as she cried and screamed.
Usagi couldn't take it anymore and grabbed a hold of Ami, pulling her away from Makoto.
"It's no use; none of us can lift it off of her and if we destroy it, she will be hurt even worse. There is nothing we can do." She whispered, ashamed that as she couldn't save her friend or the woman Ami loved.
"No, we could do something, she can't die! Let me go, let me save her!" She screamed as she pulled again Usagi.
"Ami-chan…" Rei shook her head.
Ami collapsed on the ground sobbing uncontrollably as she reached for the cold hand of Makoto.
"Makoto…you can't…we haven't…I was so scared…please…Makoto…I need you…" she sobbed as she pulled on the hand.
The other three girls had tears in their eyes watching the Senshi of Ice cry and call to the only person who seemed to have melted the ice walls she had built around herself. They slowly began to walk away when they heard Ami gasp.
"She's alive! Her fingers grabbed for mine!"
They turned and saw Makoto's hand trying to grab and take hold of Ami's. Once again they watched Ami struggle and strain against the concrete that pinned her lover. Tears of frustration and determination flowed freely from Ami's eyes as she tried over and over again to free Makoto.
"Please! Give me the power I need to save her! Don't let her die, don't let the only thing that's ever mattered to me go! I need you, Mercury, give me the power!" Ami screamed into the night as she strained once more against the slab, her symbol beginning to glow.
She suddenly screamed and exploded with light as she transformed violently.
Her friends watched in awe as the petite body of Ami started to grow and lift into the air. The light Ami emitted from her body made her friends turn their eyes for a moment until the light dimmed. They saw Ami floating in the air, her symbol shining with such power that it seemed to flow to the slab that pinned Makoto and slowly start to lift it away.
Ami grabbed her head in pain as her mind seemed to make her feel the weight of the slab being lifted but she forced her power to move it, destroy and crush it with the power she now controlled with her mind. Blood began to drip from her nose as she cleared the rubble with a telekinetic force she seemed to now possess.
When the light finally faded from her symbol, she woozily made her way to Makoto and began to cry once again. Blood seemed to soak its way completely through Makoto fuku and the pulse she felt from her love was weak.
"She's alive…hospital…we need…" Ami tried to speak but her world was getting fuzzy.
"Ami-chan…you okay?"
Ami tried to answer but she collapsed to the ground in exhaustion, her world fading to black with Makoto on her lips.
0o0o0
"Thanks Mizuno-san, I don't know what they would have done if you hadn't have come." Usagi said to the woman who looked like an older Ami.
"I was flying home today as it were, I'm just glad I was here." She said with a strained smile, worn out from working on Makoto after she had seen to Ami.
"Why don't you three go home and if something comes up, I'll call you. They'll probably sleep for a few days, Makoto-san for sure."
Wearily the girls left and left the older Mizuno alone with Ami. Tears of frustration slipped from darker blue eyes as she watched her bruised daughter sleep. So many questions were on the tip of her tongue, why was she hurt? Why was Makoto so destroyed? Why did Makoto look so different? Why didn't Makoto keep her Ami safe?
She shook her head to make the last thought go away. Of course Makoto protected her daughter, why else would the brown haired girl be so broken? With a sigh Ami's mother lay her head down on the bed Ami slept on, just in case the girl woke up and needed her for something.
It must have had something to do with their alter egos…
She thought to herself before exhaustion claimed her.
0o0o0
"MAKOTO!"
Dr. Mizuno woke with a violent start to the sound of her daughter releasing a gut wrenching scream.
"Ami! Ami! Calm down! Makoto-chan is fine!"
Ami struggled against her mother for a few moments before she realized she was in a hospital. Her mother breathed a sigh of relief as Ami sunk back into the hospital bed only to once again scream out, this time in pain. Dr. Mizuno watched blood spurt from her daughter's nose as she grabbed her head in pain and her body…
"Ami you're growing!" she gasped.
Once the pain in her head was under control and the blood wiped from her nose, Ami opened her eyes slowly to see her mothers face full of disbelief. A frown came to Ami's face at the insistent staring her mother was giving her.
"Mother…" she started to say but grabbed her throat quickly.
My voice!
Once again the smallest of the Senshi opened her mouth to speak only to find the voice she had known for twenty years was gone, replaced with a somewhat deeper voice.
"Ami, what's happened to you?" her mother asked, gently reaching out to take her daughters hand.
"Help me to my feet."
Her mother did as she was told, grabbing her daughter around the waist but nearly dropping her to the floor when she felt the muscle underneath. When Dr. Mizuno stood back and looked at her child, she couldn't believe what she saw.
"Ami...you're at least…six foot…"
Blue eyes searched for a full length reflective surface and nearly choked when she saw herself. Yes, her height had drastically changed but so had her muscle density. Ami noticed that she was no where near the size of Makoto in either respect but she was definitely a lot closer than she ever had been.
"What happened to me?"
Her sigil began to glow once more as her head felt as if it would explode from the pain as she reverted back to her old self. Her sigil still glowing, her mother watched as a figure began to come from the light it was emitting. The most beautiful woman she had ever seen stood before her and Ami, her robes and hair gently blowing from an unfelt wind.
"Servant of Mercury, rise." The woman's voice sounded like the gentle fall of snow and ice.
Ami did as she was told with the help of her mother and looked upon the woman before her.
"Who…"
"I am the one who gave you the power you desired to save the servant of Jupiter."
In a rush the blue haired girl remembered Makoto and desperately looked around for her, the memories flooding back into her mind.
"The one you seek lives, but barely. I have given you the power of Mercury, Senshi of Ice, use the power well."
The woman suddenly disappeared without another word, leaving the two Mizuno women with a lot of questions and hardly any answers.
Authors Notes: And so it has begun...
Thank you everyone for your kind words and encouragement in this fic, it means a lot!
Chapter 15 to follow in the days/weeks.