Nothing Upon a Forbidden Waterfall:
{ Amelie's gets a secret admirer}
Viewing of the latest scores from that's week graded exams or tests were posted outside the center for all to see in an open fashion. Finding the pen names that all the cram school attendees use would be hard for anyone who didn't know the actual person. Wasn't much of a problem for Andor and Amelie since they stuck with the names Hermes and Mercury. Which started to be found in number one and number two slots by everyone looking at the scores. This led to a rumor about the two being in some form of a romantic relationship that revolved around knowledge. Spread through the cram like a wildfire within a week since the attendees attend classes at different times. Reach the ears of Andor and Amelie during a self-study period in corner of the cram's school computer lab. Just another subject had the two completely stumped and not really caring if people thought they were dating.
"Do you know who this Mercurius is?" Andor asked the other.
"Why are you asking?" Amelie couldn't look at the other him.
The tension that was between the two of them was quickly forming before envelopes always showing up in Amelie's shoe locker. Didn't start Andor since Amelie never really paid attention to such cutesy notes written in colored ink. Not even when the envelopes started coming in Amelie's favorite scents as the days went by for the two of them. Did Andor bat an eye since still, Amelie didn't show an interest in what was still being left for her as time went on. Fact that she now had a small collection she did put away in the recycle nor did she get rid of even one of the still-sealed envelopes. That was what bothered Andor when he came across her across all stuffed in a pencil pouch with zipper pull.
"I am worried Mercurius is turning out to be a new romantic led for you." Andor looked away from the envelopes.
He gathered he study supplies after checking the time on the wall clock that hangs in a near by corner for all to see. Saying the next class covering Calculus and AP math started in 30 minutes on the second floor of the very building. Wanting to make it on time to get one of the good seats in the first rows to look at the board to take clear notes was a must.
"I'll meet your to walk you to the train station." He was up and out of his seat.
"I thought we were going to get ice cream?" Amelie asked watching him.
"At the moment," Andor was looked at the pencil pouch. "I think you need some space."
"...but" She tried to assure him to stay.
He ended up bowing to her out of gratitude for keeping him company over this short break over his usual behavior toward Amelie. Promising he would text her about being done through their phone so he wouldn't get in Mercurius' way. Which didn't sit right with Amelie since she left the pencil sitting on the table when she hurriedly gathered her things, and chased after him. Not caring if she heading to a class she hoped she could sit in on in order to talk sense to him. Left two to travel through the building with image of him being chased by her as they were having a lover's quarrel. This had everyone talking pictures of the two every time they stopped at stair case and brief eye contact. Had silence the two shared before they started walking up again had everyone guessing something went down.
"I wish our fellow student body weren't gossips." Andor noticed the flashes from phones.
"Mina, Uncle Nephrite, Tremolite, and Actinolite are so going to be all over this." Amelie already knew of the chain that was forming.
"Ciprian, my step- mother, Il-Seong, and Dann are doing the same." Andor kept walking.
He stopped once more upon with arm stretching out to stop Amelie from following him any further onto the third floor. He knew something had to be wrong with there to be only one class room freely opened with no signs of anyone else . Which showed when he couldn't hear voices of the others that usual showed up before him for the class. Gentle tap on his out stretched arm's shoulder from Amelie left to him to turn his head and see she was holding her Star Power Stick.
"Are you sure about this?' He asked slowly lowering his arm.
"Trust me." Amelie came to ask of him.
He sighed ended up leading the rest of the way to the opened door and had his lingering doubts answered when he first entered. Worry he felt about Amelie and him being only ones coming in was thrown out when he saw other students. They were all in a state of slumber and scattered throughout the room with iara sitting on a corner of the teacher desk. Dressed in a stilted pencil skirt with barely button up white shirt with her cleavage showing and this round toed Stilettos. Way she wore a pair of glasses not meant for her face or eyes wasn't helping. Had Andor tighten his grip strap of the bag he had hanging off his shoulder when he walked into room.
"Cram school students your target now?" He came to ask her.
"More like which one of them was sleeping with your Calculus teacher," She pointed toward the corpse behind the desk."Feeding from him was barely worth anything."
"You going to try something me?" Andor wasn't revealing Amelie.
What he got was a laugh out of the siren as she pointed out that he didn't seem to be falling for her telepathic song. Had her figuring that his feelings for a daughter of a Sailor Guardian weren't romantic or more one- sided on his part. Had him about to answer when he was shoved out the way by an upset Amelie with a few words about Andor.
"He's just hurt I have a secret admirer," Amelie huffed and she clenched her study materials to her check. "You look like someone from those Adult videos about teacher- student relations."
"Yet another one that hasn't fallen for my song." iara removed the glasses.
"Why would I?" Amelie shouted. "Our relationship status is none of your business."
"Then your haven't figured out how my song works?" She placed the glasses on the desk.
Andor grabbed an angry Amelie by the arm and pulled her out way of the iara when the siren sprung to her heeled feet. Speed which siren moved across the place between the desk and them in 3 1/2 inch heels and the way she position her webbed hand. Out of the way a upset Amelie went suddenly with her books, pencil case, and folder of notes dropping out of her arms. As she witnessed Andor using his oxford fabric and exquisite streamlined stitching messenger bag. Crunching sound of his binder filled with notes, A4 text books, pencil case, medical term flash cards, and other study items.
"You didn't have to do that!" Amelie huffed at him.
"Worth it," He tugged at his bag. "It's stuck."
iara went on to ignore the senseless chatter between the humans as she tried take the first few steps back with her nails. Came to a stop when field of small white drooping bell-shaped flowers with six petal-like tepals in two circles. Appeared under her only her heeled feet with a temperature of the room becoming lowered to the below 20°C.A frost started to settled within the corners of the room and on the bodies of the still unconscious forms of the students. Chill in the air ended up effecting only her when she felt her body start to shiver and redness start to appear on her sensitive skin.
"Can't have you getting a way," Phatom Sailor Funna joined them. "I hope this place of ice is alright for you two."
"Shut up!" iara yelled at her when she retracted her hand.
What iara pulled was bloody nail beds on waxy/ harden stumps of a pinkish hue that were once her fingertips. Her skin had long lost it's warm glow and peachy coloring with flakes of her scales showing through. What she stared at was unkind reminder of eldest member of her family looked with their faded beauty. One that her backing away as she trembled out of fear of looking like as she cradled her hand. Taking on a kneeling position as she was already begging Andor and Amelie to not lay a hand on her. Didn't help when Andor dropping his bag onto the ground had her looking up. Two separate spheres that color the shade of blue stood side by side levitated into the air before her. What she watched fade a way and leave behind Sailor Mercury and Knight Froze now stood behind her.
"She's already looks defeated." knight Froze crossed his arms.
"I think we still need to keep an eye on her." Sailor Mercury suggested.
"I have already altered the ones about her appearance." Phatom Sailor Funna informed them.
"Really?" knight Froze and Sailor Mercury asked her.
Imagining their friends and family flipping out over appearance of a Phatom Sailor Funna trying to inform them of presence. Brought a smile to one at thought being amusing as the other stepped forward with a hand on her hip. Sailor Mercury made sure to keep her distanced for what she wanted to ask the siren before someone came running in.
"Why are you doing on all this?" She wanted to know why iara left the carnival.
"You know what it's like to move from place to place with smothering brother?" She hissed back. "On going routine of performing for ignorant tourists and clueless masses. That see you as nothing but a form of mindless sea life without a care as take pictures with you."
"From what Mer told us," Sailor Mercury never recalled Met speaking ill of Carnival. "You guys seemed to be taken of care and have freedom."
Not wanting to carry on a conversation with Sailor Mercury any more and growing more desperate to get out of this room. She was angry that they didn't fall for her song nor was she able to inflict some kind of damage onto them. Leaving her to to think of thing to get away before she dragged back to preforming for pocket change and noise human children. She slowly to rest on her heeled feet with a plan on what she was going to to get pass them appearing in her mind.
"I am going to miss these heels." She started to ease her feet out of them.
"What?" knight Froze turned toward her.
At his face one of iara's stiletto heels were fling at him when she a clean and shift turning kick to send her foot wear at him. Made him trace links of chain to the spine of his lexion to quickly draw fourth a defensive means to protect himself. Chilled gush of air that flew from the pages of leather both cover and moved with the fingers of his glove to before him.
"Cold Bolt!" He quickly acted using the already existing cold with mix of magical essences from his book with left-hand fist with his pointer finger and thumb sticking out. Laid before his other hand with a thumb and index finger touch while the other fingers of the hand are held outstretched. He tugged that hand back quickly to trigger a bullet effected being shot out at the shoe. Ended up encasing the shoe in ball of pure ice that hit the ground inches form him.
"Mirage Wave!" Mercury had to quickly placed her left hand in front of her forehead to right before the gemstone of her tiara, and bring her fingers facing forward. Her other hand stayed held out at her side with her gloves fingers slightly of water molecules were pulled from the surrounding area to before her. Two separate water spouts form that curtain and crossed each other. Before shooting out toward the show flung at her and freezing it place.
Distracted the two from when a barefoot iara ended up getting pass them and out of the reach of Phatom Sailor Funna. Turning toward the frozen tentacles that were ever extending outside the class room's doorway by minor inch. Tips barely touching the very clothes that iara wore when she stopped in place to stick her tongue out before she turned away.
"See ya." She would end up running away.
Sailor mercury had to stop Knight Froze from running after iara since the only way in and out of the classroom was blocked. By Phatom Sailor Funna's ice tentacles and by now iara got a good distanced away from them with out trying.
"We also need to check other students for signs of being fed upon," A another reason was added. "Now come on."
When Knight Froze toward back that he watched Phatom Sailor Funna collect iara's discarded nails along side her frozen shoes. Left Knight Froze to make a request ghostly senshi in the room about taking a forgotten pencil pouch in library. Put a smile on her face when she lifted up one of her wristlet covered hands to us series of cloud puffs to fly pouch to her. Which was amusing to Knight Froze and had Sailor Mercury curious how passing system of cloud worked. When she watch a cloud float passed her head as it carried the pencil pouch full of Mercurius love notes to her. That dropped into gloves hands of Phatom Sailor Funna while she also collected nails embedded discarded bag.
"I'll be going with these," Were last words the two were told. "Continue on protecting each other."
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A person who was behind the Mercurius would come to reveal Kou Daiki waiting in front of Nunobiki Shakuson-ji Temple in Komoro, Nagano Prefecture. He was dressed very casually as to not attracted attention since becoming an idol. Baseball cap and sunglasses were the best covered he could come up with as he stood there and waited for Amelie. He knew the letters he had been left in her show locker at her cram school every time he remembered to swing by. The lingering hope she got his last one to meet here had him worrying since he hadn't seen her. The rumors found in most gossip magazines and online forums about her being in the company of an unknown person. Slowly started to piss him off as he turned away when a group of girls still in their uniforms walked past him. He had to pull down the bill of the hat before the telepathic song that started as a hum made him turn to bare-foot women.
She never gave her name when the last thing he felt was his throat started to heat up from the inside out and he was losing consciousness. Her intentions to feed on him were interrupted when the same group of girls he avoided was walking by. One called the EMS with her phone as others noticed that Daiki was slightly been thinned out by the barefoot women. Led to him being taken to neatest hospital with Mer slipping past all forms of security at that hospital. Stepping into the room the young man was decompressing in after treatment to get fluids back into him. Making sure he closed the door and removed the covering he had on his face as he approached the occupied bed. Stopping he drew back the curtain and look up the IV drip and heart mentor before reaching out to the collar of Daiki's gown.
"They say he was lucky," A voice startled him. "Those girls came along at that right time."
Up Mer looked up to see the fabled Sailor Funna in clothes she now wore was a pink and teal, sweetheart neckline, sequined, mermaid style, evening-dress. Thigh-high slit down the left down of the attached skirt showed one of her bare feet. That was wrapped in a wiry ribbon made of woven animal fur and skin that from her knee to the ends of her toes. She wore in a loose braid resting on the left side of her bare shoulder with the same ribbon woven into her hair. Looked like her more civilian form and sitting on the edge of the bed in white. One of her hands was stretched out to Daiki's hand and sorrowfulness in her eyes was the most visible thing he could see.
"I hear you gathering pieces of my sister?" He finally spoke.
"Shards of her illusions and remands of ancestor visiting, She pulled at the bag. "Her shows and nails."
"What about the direct magic of transformation?" Mer asked her.
"Meaning..." She didn't understand.
Mer ended up pulling the sleeve of his sweater to reveal his morphing his skin into scales without fully changing the natural change. He covered back up and spoke about giving her what allowed him to become a merman to stop his sister.
"You know the risk?" She asked him.
He closed his eyes not caring about becoming completely human or losing his connection to his homeworld, his family, and even senshi guardian. Along with losing one of many things that Saualpite admitted he liked about him when he was in the water. As long as it gave Reika and her friends the strength they needed to stop his sister before she took more lives.
"Do It!" Was the last thing he came to tell her.