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The beginning in the end ch.22
Rei POV
I've been consulting the great fires for days now. I know there's worthwhile reasons to grant the generals back into their bodies and to give them a second change, but I know I feel as I do regarding giving them a chance for a reason. It's bad enough that our first major boss fights were with Jadeite, my love in the past life we had but to bring them back and expect all to be forgiven JUST to fight this new enemy is too much to ask of me.
I keep going to the spirit guides, asking them for alternative ways to beat back this new darkness that is intent on hurting the world by hurting us in the process. Yet I've been given no reprieve from this. They keep showing me glimpses of us all fighting together as one. Its barely there but I can make out our forms just barely. It agitates me. I don't want to work with him again. I can't, not after everything he put us through…put me through.
He got in under my own nose. He gained my grandfather's trust, and some of mine, enough to work for us. He was mysterious and even though part of me was definitely attracted to him when he was here, I held hesitance due to my feelings of trusting men. I knew it was in place for a reason and not just because of my father's ways. So, when he turned out to be part of the dark kingdom, I was actually happy that we got to fight him.
It was like my feelings of distrust were validated by his admittance as evil. I hated that I was right though to. For once I wanted to be wrong cause of the odd connection, I felt to him. I knew I felt some sort of something towards him. I was a tad too young and naïve to understand the feelings I had but now that I do, I kept it to myself that I had started to like him back then. That I wanted to see if things could happen.
I didn't want to admit to liking him due to how he also set off my alert for danger. I wasn't the type of girl to like the 'bad boy'. Yet he was that type or radiated it and it irked me that I wanted to see that unwanted impulse through. I was so glad when we never saw him again because it was to me further proof that men couldn't be trusted. It was one of the reasons why I held such caution over Usagi wanting to be around Mamoru as Tuxedo Mask BEFORE we found out who he really was.
There's a method and reason to what some might call paranoia. However, it was there for a reason and I still stand by my reason as to why Usagi should have stayed away from Tuxedo Mask at the time. We really didn't know anything about him, and she was going off of her hormones. Not off of her gut as she tried to convince us of. Or as Mamoru would say, she used her heart.
No Mamoru it's called hormones, she wanted you and she trusted you in your alter form because of it. I refuse to believe she could, or anyone could fall in love that quickly or easily. Granted they did turn out to be lovers from the past life as did we all with the generals but what are the odds of that actually happening for so many millions of people in life. That's not how it works and yet Usagi refused to accept my warning.
She kept going with her heart and fine it worked out last time but that doesn't mean that THIS time it will. I still feel that resurrecting the generals will be a mistake even if the spirit guides suggest it in our war against the evil princess. My gut tells me they will betray us again. They did it before. I felt my nose twitch as if an oncoming mist in my eyes were coming. I wanted to ignore it as I gave up at the fires and decided to take a walk outside.
I felt the cool breeze of the season hit me as I let it help to calm me just the slightest bit. The reporters were thankfully far from the temple grounds and only by the sidewalk outside. "At least most of the have some modicum of respect for sacred ground." I mutter as I feel a new presence near me. I turn my head to find Minako in a light summer dress standing around. Almost as if she were merely enjoying the rays of sunlight.
"Beautiful day today huh?" she says not bothering to look at me. I nod, "Yes…it is." Before I can ask her what she's doing here as there is no meeting and we didn't make any plans she says, "You know Rei I really hold a lot of respect and trust in your logic." I look over to her as she keeps looking out towards the scenery, not towards my direction at all yet her discussion and focus is on me.
It's enough to keep me engaged and not ask to much as I feel there's a point to her sudden visit today, "You have a good eye for things, a good sense of what's necessary in a fight and you know when it's necessary to pull back and to move forward. You can even see it when certain enemies are no longer enemies and are just victims themselves or were being used and can be healed." I didn't speak though as she seemed to be intent on her words.
"I guess that's why you're the senshi of war. You already have some form of precognitive battle formulations in your head." I can't help myself now, despite her warm words her stance gives off an air of having something else to say. "Where are you going with this?" I ask her as she finally glances over towards me, her form still leaning against the building as if there's something bigger to be told.
"Rei as trustworthy and as logical as you are, as much as you're an amazing senshi and care for those around you and would do anything for us as the rest of us would for you, there are also some faults you have to. Like the rest of us do." I nearly narrow my eyes at her as I continue to listen hoping that there's a point to this sudden criticism, she's giving me. What brought it on all of a sudden?
"Such as?" I keep my voice steady, "One of your faults is your inability to forgive past doings." I sighed and looked away from her not wanting her to see my expression to well. I felt the way I felt for a reason, "You couldn't understand how I feel." Now I have a better understanding of what she was getting at. "I couldn't?" she asks in a way that suggests she does more than I realize. I only look to her in question, "I still remember when Malachite killed me in the past." I can see the empty tears hitting her eyes.
She wasn't sobbing, wasn't calling out in any real emotion. They were tears of recollection, of remembering what happened, wishing it hadn't but was glad she remembered all the same. "By the time I'd figured out that he was turned evil it was too late. I cursed myself for NOT seeing it sooner. I'd been so caught up in my training as the leader of Serenity's guardians." I couldn't help but think it was a good thing to be so focused on work.
Before I could tell this though she continued, "I let my duties become so primary that I let other sides of my life fall out of focus and didn't see it when they were taken from me." I could see the regret on her face as I just listened to her, "Then in this life, when I saw him again, I was torn and conflicted." Now I was curious, "Why?" I asked barely above a small voice as she looked back out at the scenery.
"Because I knew he was evil, yet I felt drawn to him. I knew there was something between us that I couldn't explain. When we found out the truth about them all of what they used to be to us I was torn. I wanted to save them. I wanted to give them all a second chance as I knew they were the ones we had at one point loved enough to want to marry, that they loved us to want to same things in life." I was both stunned and torn at how Minako was feeling.
On one hand she sounded as I felt, conflicted and torn yet I didn't want to bring them back, let them suffer for what they did to us. "Yet I knew we weren't in a position to be able to save them, not with Beryl's upcoming death looming near us. We needed as much power as we could to take her out. Plus, it didn't help that they were all killed before we could even think to save them." Her chuckle is dry.
My anger hits me hard at her words as I blurt out, "They didn't deserve to be given a second chance, they betrayed us." she looks at me with near disappointment. "They were brainwashed Rei, they themselves would never have willingly betrayed us as they did." Minako gives a slight defense to their actions. It's enough to anger me further, "You don't know that!" I can't help but become more angered by her now.
Her slight defense was as if she was taking their side and it upset me further. "Jadeite, Malachite all of them betrayed us the MOMENT they were brainwashed. They didn't love us enough to fight off that evil. And we were too WEAK to let them back in with open arms. It's what got us killed in the past." Granted it was the final battle with Metallia and Beryl leading her army that did it but still, we were weakened by our inability to fight our loves. Our love for them made us weak during that time.
"Is that what you truly believe?" Minako asked, partially horrified and partially stunned that I would believe such a thing. "I believe that the man I loved turned on me, and that he wasn't strong enough to fight off some bitch witch." I snapped completely fired up, "Then what would you call what happened with Mamoru getting turned evil? What about when Chibi Usa got turn evil for her brief stint? Do they not deserve our forgiveness either even though we granted them that a long time ago?" I'm stuck for words for a moment.
"That's different." I protest, "Mamoru is our prince to protect and Chibi Usa is Usagi's future daughter, the future of the royal line." Minako makes a face of accepting it till she then asks, "So how is Jadeite any different than two others that we've come to love and care about like family?" I couldn't help but spit out, "Because they didn't betray me! I wasn't sleeping with Mamoru; I wasn't planning a future with Mamoru like I was with Jadeite!"
I fully turned towards her and despite her lack of attitude towards me the words were all the same as far as I was concerned. "Plus, Chibi Usa ISN'T my future daughter! I was making all of these plans; I was happy, and he betrayed me when he became evil!" I can feel the tears begin to stream down my face as recollection hits me harder than I thought it would as I feel my emotions begin to make me louder.
Yet not to loud. Its only then that Minako takes a few steps towards me but doesn't go into hug or anything, I'm not in the right mind space for it anyways. "He turned evil, and it ruined us. It's no different than if he were to have left me for another woman." I stated as she shook her head no, "Its actually very different." She reasoned. I looked at her through my tears as I saw her still calm form.
Now it seemed like I had turned into the irrational one while she was appearing more level- headed. I knew I was a bit of a hot head but still. "You however are looking for a reason to validate your continued hatred of him by tying him to other crimes despite the fact that he wasn't himself." I roll my eyes at her. "It's true." I protest even though I'm not looking directly at her making even myself wonder how much of my own words I'm believing, "How so?" I looked back at her.
"Did he decide to voluntarily go to Beryl?" she asked then paused as I opened my mouth to refute it but couldn't. "You know that's not…" I try but she puts her hand up, "Did he voluntarily go to Beryl?" I sighed and hated how this conversation was going, "No." I answer, "Did he NOT fight off her powers with his own till he was bested. Beryl was a very powerful witch." I sighed, knowing the truth of it.
"She wasn't some random seer or something Rei, she was a powerful witch that was being aided by a more powerful force of evil. Jadeite, the generals, none of them one on one stood a real chance against her." I didn't say anything, wanting to stew further in my anger but feeling it dissipate a little bit despite my best efforts. Only sheer stubbornness and originating anger was keeping it up really now.
"I know…but still they – he could have fought harder." I try to protest, "They did all fight Rei." She now walks up to me as I see the senshi leader she's becoming. Usagi's been gradually becoming more of the future Queen she's meant to be while her second in command Minako is becoming the front liner she was meant for. "They went down swinging. Then evil took over them and turned them into shadows of their former selves." I turned from her not wanting to admit to it.
"Their memories were wiped of us and replaced with only the need or care to serve their new Queen, brainwashed for the next thousand years to be stuck by her side unknowing that they were ripped away from their loves…us." I turned back around to see she hadn't moved a muscle to be closer, "I feel so betrayed still. I can't let go of that. If I do then if it happens again, I'll be hurt all over again." I try to show her how I feel.
"I'd rather die before I let another man hurt me like that again." I tell her spitefully. She doesn't protest the action, probably because she sees it for what it is. Pure anger, stubbornness, and past issues that I never really worked through. "You can't ask me to forgive him. Not after everything." I feel resolute in what I say yet her next words make me rethink them, "I don't want you to forgive him for him." I look at her confused at her point then.
"Rei, forgiveness isn't for him, it's for you." I felt overwhelmed yet calmed by her words, "It's not so you let them, or rather him, off the hook, it's so you have peace of mind. So, you can move on and live your life to be the best version of yourself. To NOT let yourself get dragged down and fester over the past." The anger dissipated, "Your more than your anger at men for what's happened to you." I nodded knowing she was right.
"I've held onto it for so long." I tell her, "To protect myself from pain in the future." I add on as she assures me, "There's always the risk of pain in the future, yet when you do that, you're also preventing yourself from feeling happy in ways that we as your sisters in arms as your friends can't give you." I nod knowing she's right, yet I don't want to admit to it. Yet I can feel my stubbornness seep away.
"When Usagi and Mamoru bring them all back I'm not saying welcome him with open arms, or to forget about what happened in the past, I'm saying forgive him for yourself so that you can find inner peace and so that you can see if a second chance is in the works. Only you can make that happen." She tells me as she pat's me on the shoulder before leaving out. I catch her though, "Wait, how'd you know?" I ask as she glances back towards me.
"I could feel your pain." The moment Ami brought up bringing the generals back I could feel it surface. Just like I could feel Usagi's pain when she was telling us what happen to her when Mamoru was evil. I wanted to talk with you about it…in privacy." I nod thankful she did it that way then realize what she means, "Your powers are expanding." She smiles, "All of ours are, into our daily lives." She then turns to me.
"Rei, we're going to need everything we have to fight this ancient evil. She's stronger than any foe we've faced before and we've faced our fair share of evil." That I had to agree with, "We've always beaten back the evil by ourselves though. Or at the most with the outers. We've never needed anyone else for our previous enemies." I try yet I know it's a failure, as Minako has been right about nearly everything said.
"She's not like our previous enemies and you know this." As Minako leaves out, going out a different way than the front due to the reporters I'm left to ponder if my anger towards what happened is really out of pain or out of more fear than anything. I've been holding onto so much that I've never even really dated to much before. Am I cursing myself to be alone because of my own stubbornness and fear?
I go back inside the temple and back to the fires realizing that perhaps with this conversation having happened perhaps a consultation with the great fires would be wise. I sit down and begin my chant and hope that my questions will be answered though something tells me I already know the answer to them. Is Minako really right on things or am I justified in why I hold onto the pain and anger? The fire lights up as I see the answers that I somehow already knew were there but didn't want to accept.
Usagi POV
It has been a long month for us all now as we each work to improve on our powers and focal points. Mamoru and I have been steadily increasing the training where we can and feeling improvements whenever we spar. I can feel my reaction timing increase and soon enough the outers join in on our training routines as we spar all together. I can feel how were steadily getting stronger and faster.
Mamoru and I are working hard to get strong enough to bring the generals back but there does seem to be a block and thankfully there hasn't been any attacks since the last one but there does seem to be an emerging pattern. I know Ami's been working on it for the past few weeks as she's been putting the data all into her computer. I've been coming up with my own theories though while working back at school.
That has been both great and bad at the same time. Little miss preppy cheerleader has been doing all that she can to get us kicked out by aggravating us. I never knew someone who could hate another so much that they were making it their mission in life to make someone else miserable not to mention she seemed to hold a sway over the faculty that made me seriously question who she really was.
For a brief moment she reminded me of Ann and how she used to be, but she had a jealous obsessive issue with Ail. Knowing their history how I get it but back then it was really weird to see them interact. I mean she hated me, but it was really because she saw me in the way of what she wanted. To have Ail as her love and to NOT see anyone else while also having Mamoru on the side since he was nice to her.
Though in my defense I wasn't trying to be in her way, Ail just happened to grow affectionate towards me and this infuriated her several times. It hadn't matter either that I held no affection towards him, he did towards me and that was reason enough to hate me. Sort of like how I hadn't actually done anything to this mysterious princess, but she still held a hatred towards me for what happened to her a thousand years ago.
I hadn't even truly gotten to know her back then, yet I was the center focus of what she hated because of what I had. I tried to make another comparison between the mysterious princess and the cheerleader who for whatever hateful reason swore retribution onto me, wondering if there was a reason for the sudden appearance of both in our lives. One similarity that I noticed, besides the seemingly unending hate, and both of them showing up in our lives around the same time was her ability to get away with things.
It was almost as if she were untouchable or something and that just didn't really happen where we were at. Similarly, the princess we're all on a hate bashing bend of considering, is getting the media on her side of things by trying to make us look bad. She's already gotten half of us to expose ourselves what's next? At least with the cheerleader of this scenario the girls, Naru, and Umino all hung out together to have each other's backs.
It wasn't that we couldn't handle ourselves, far from it, it was more like we didn't want the pot to get stirred as we were avoiding getting kicked out again, so we developed a 'group buddy' system to hold the other back from doing what she wanted us to do…act out. We did refuse though to re-route our whole lives at school just to avoid her though. Even Ami was adamant that we NOT uproot how we traveled just to do so.
To do that would be to give her more power and make her come at us harder. We didn't want to do that. We made sure to act as if nothing was wrong despite the many heads that turned whenever we walked by other students. Classes were back to a new norm that felt good and even Miss. Haruna smiled at seeing me back. I was still taking my online classes and decided to be safe in case we got kicked out again, to take on extra credit assignments.
It sucked but it worked. I was just weary of the evil princess and what she was doing. At least when she wasn't attacking us. There had been several in places we had formerly beaten enemies before. It was something that made us all curious. Yet the time in between, the wait till she would attack again was the worst part. We hated it. Its why we were training so hard, we wanted to be prepared and NOT be taken by surprise.
So, all throughout the month we were training continuously. Taking breaks when needed to NOT burn out but still, we trained so we could sharpen our skills and reflexes. It's not until our next meeting that we present what's been going on in trying to get the generals back to everyone hoping for a solution. We can't quiet figure it out as we want to make sure that it's not just temporarily bringing them back as Mamoru did last time.
That was so short of a visit with them that the girls never got a chance to see them as anything more than visages, almost like ethereal beings really and that wasn't enough to do anything to get them bonded, not especially with the time restraints. Plus, we have to make sure their cleansed first, AND unable to be turned again. Their natural connection to earth and being from here originally made them unfortunately more susceptible.
I mean the girls and I were human now to BUT we were originally from different planets and the moon. We have those bloodlines running through our veins. The generals do have magic in their bloodlines to but being from earth makes them as suspectable to witchery as any of us would be to similar circumstances from the moon or other planets. Granted we have overcome many times when we first started out from being tricked or turned evil.
We're not immune to it, however we've had years of time and practice to sharpen our skills and minds as we're able to prevent that from happening. The generals have been in essential 'comas' for all this time. You can't instantly stop a mind control from happening. It doesn't work that way. Look how I used to be compared to now. Major change and development. I've grown and these guys will need a little help to be able to help.
Just like I, we all, needed help in the form of training, and years of mental stamina to handle what we've endured. That won't be easy to do for them as we have such a powerful enemy so making sure they can't be swayed is necessary till they themselves can become strong enough in their own rights to NOT turn evil again. So, when we told this this at the temple, having waited till everyone got there and was seated we expressed our progress.
I watched all the girls as they listened to both of us and what we had discussed as well as looking for ideas and options to get the generals back to life and prevent them from being turned again, something I knew that was needed. Mamoru even decidedly suggested, "So as we've been trying to come up with a solution I was wondering, what about a bond between each general and the girls?" his suggestion is met with unease throughout all the girls.
Especially Rei, "Look I'm all for saving the world, it's our duty and above all I want to do it and doing this is necessary against the new threat, but that's a LOT to ask. I mean send me to flame broil this witches' ass I'll do it in a heartbeat. No questions asked but that..." Even Minako seems to agree a bit, "Rei has a point, the bonding that you're looking to do is ONLY if we've already developed a bond with them…in this life." He nods understanding. Its Rei who seems to be feeling a certain way this evening about things.
"Besides you and Usagi were bonded and that didn't do jack to keep you from turning." Rei's words are a bit harsh even for her. "That's not fair Rei. He and I weren't bonded as we are now." I pull his hand into my own and hold it as I can sense his unease. He's not thrilled to have his past mishaps thrown in his face so harshly so. "Things have changed for all of us, but I do see the first bit of your point." I tell her.
She looks away, "Sorry Mamoru but it's true. You and Usagi were bonded, and you were still turned evil." Mamoru seems to have had enough as he retorts back, "Look Rei, I get that you were hurt by Jadeite. All of you were by the generals in one way or another..." he glances around the room, so they all know he's being serious and not excluding anyone, "And I'm not excusing it or saying what they or even I did was okay cause it's not, but Usagi is right, we weren't bonded then as we are now. Things are different."
Rei looks away, a little chastised as she is now. "So, what do you all think?" I ask as Ami point out, "What about Jadeite?" we all but especially Rei looks to her, "What do you mean?" I ask before Rei can say anything, "Didn't Jadeite have powers connected to magics himself?" Ami asks as Rei sighs, "From what I remember…yeah. Why?" her voice nearly growls out the question aimed at Ami.
She ignores it however as she turns to Mamoru, "You have the stone for him, but do you recall what happened to Jadeites original body from this life?" that's when we watch Mamoru wrack his brain for a moment, "I briefly recall seeing an icicle version of him in the dark kingdom." Then as he thinks more on it, "If I remember correctly, I asked Malachite about it. Apparently, he was sentenced to a fate worse than death for his repeated failures to eliminate you all." I look at Mamoru in concern.
"A fate worse than death?" I ask as he turns to me, "Frozen by Beryl's powers. In an eternal coma." I looked towards Rei as she nearly snarled, "How is that a fate worse than death?" I saw Mamoru look to her, "He was never allowed to be free to die Rei. Never allowed to be at peace with loved ones. Never allowed to die so that he could be reborn and be given a second chance. Never be allowed to return to the woman he loved. A fate worse than death." The way Mamoru looked at her spoke volumes.
Jadeite was prevented from moving on or from being able to be reborn even through the stone, "That's why we're having a problem. His spirit is in the stone but since his physical body was encapsulated, entombed he was never allowed to die. The other generals were literally killed but his body wasn't." Ami agrees with my assessment, "It makes perfect sense. So now we simply need to go to where his body is at and free him." I can literally see Rei's eyes widen before a glance at Minako seemed to shut her up a bit.
"Fine." the Rei gets a look in her eyes and the tiniest hint of a smile appears for all of a second before she erases it, "Wait, we can't. When we destroyed Beryl the whole of the dark kingdom was obliterated." we think on that as both Luna and Artemis come inside. I wonder if they heard any of what we were talking about when Luna speaks up, "That may be true, but it doesn't mean that what was once there isn't buried underneath all that icy rubble." were all a little shocked by that as Artemis adds to it.
"As it is when Usagi made the wish on the silver crystal you were yourselves already dead at that point. The wish brought you back to life and brought your bodies back here. Gave you all the second chance at a normal life." Minako piped in now, "So why can't Usagi just WISH for the generals to come back to life?" Luna looks to her, "Cause when she made the first wish, she was at a major power up in her princess form with your added powers in the end to help her out." I recall that to.
"I made it right after Beryl was decimated. I remember falling back into my transformation and making it before I blacked out. I knew I was dead, but I still wished it." I tell them as Mamoru comforts me. "The crystal granted it as it knew there would still be more fighting that needed to happen going forward. It knew that you all were still needed in this world. Which is why I think that once you're able to get Jadeite's body you'll be able to bring back the generals and work towards defeating this princess." I nod as do most of the girls.
"So, what are we waiting for?" Makoto asks, "She's right, we have a window of opportunity, let's not waste it." Ami said ready to go now. I knew Rei would be the last one to get up to go but at least she did and that right now I was going to take as progress. We each took to transforming as we then huddled together and focused on where our battle with Beryl was. I was sure the entrance was blown away at this point.
Plus, we were much more accurate this time when it came to teleportation. We were better at a LOT of things compared to when we first started out. Once more I felt the icy chill as we arrived there. It was like a frozen tundra from hell. "I forgot how ridiculously cold it was up here." I couldn't help but grumble and despite Tux's best efforts his cape barely did anything to aid me from the brittle cold especially against these particular temperatures as we trudged along following Mercury in this.
"According to my readings the chamber he's at should be over there?" Mercury points to as we walk the block it seems to get there. We find a near completely hidden access point that if you weren't looking for it would have been passed up completely. We walk in and even though it's still cold it's not nearly as windy. I'm able to straighten out my shoulders and not have them pressed up near my ears for warmth now which was a relief. "Wow..." I hear the girls each marvel at the many monsters that are actually in here.
"How the hell was Beryl still in charge after all of these monsters were put in here?" Jupiter asks, "Probably out of fear." Mars replies before Tux adds on, "They were too afraid of her power. Even Malachite didn't argue with her whenever she decided that we had to work together and he HATED to work with me in here." the girls look to him, "Just cause I'm not proud of it doesn't mean that my time in here doesn't offer some insight." he defended.
"He's right. He'd know the ins and outs of Beryl's palace nearly as well as Beryl herself and I'm sure that if it was still standing today, he'd be able to know exactly where to go." he nodded at my words, "Right now though we need to find Jadeite so let's keep moving." as we do progress through the seemingly endless ice columns and tunnels give way to a deeper and dark portion of the icy tunnel.
It's there that we find what we're looking for embedded in the ice. "Damn..." Venus remarks seeing his form, "He looks utterly petrified." I can sense that while Mars isn't particularly happy to be here seeing his body, seeing his obviously terrified face and hearing Venus's words seems to melt a little part of her heart. I can actually see some amount of sympathy for him before she shoves it away.
She places her hand on the thick ice and feels for what's inside. "He is still alive." she assures, "But he's also in pain. Tremendous amount of pain." I can now see more of the sympathy coming towards her, "Not just by the wounds he sustained in our last fight but by the years of being here, he's been tormented by it. Endlessly." she adds as I ask walk up to her, placing my hand on her shoulder and gently, in a lowly voice ask, "Did you need a moment?" she glances back as she takes a second.
I can't imagine how this must feel for her. I don't know how I'd react if it were Mamoru in here instead, or what she must be thinking. After all she didn't know Jadeite as I knew Mamoru, not even close. The last time she saw him he was trying to kill us with planes being controlled by him and we tricked him into getting hit by them. We thought we'd killed him; we didn't know about this that happened.
"No and get ready." she finally mutters up her answer, "I'm going to melt this all and you need to be ready to hit him with your cleansing. I don't think he's going to be happy to see us when he's freed." I nod and step back as do the rest of everyone here. I watch as she calls up on her fires. She rages them at him as the ice melts away a great deal of it, but it doesn't break the seal completely as she stops.
"I thought that would work." she mutters so I try to help, "Let some of your rage into your power. Remember his entombment is from Beryl's power and spell." she nod's, "Right and if anyone is going to make him pay for things it's going to be me." she fires back and slams the icy with her fire once more. This time the heat is so intense we all back up several feet as she unleashes some of her anger out on it, or rather out on him as we see it melt to the point the surrounding ice is melting to.
Before Mars stops the ice breaks when Venus sends her love me chain into it. Clashing harshly into the last layer and wraps it around him to send him to the ground. No longer frozen in terror but now awake and looking beyond confused and nearly rabid from his state of mind for so long as he darts his eyes all over till, he locks them with Mars. "You." it's the only word he mutters as she coolly says, "Now."
I call out the words and hit him with the healing powers and thanks to his having been entombed for so long, he's unable to fight it off for long as he screams out before passing out. He reminds me of the few times that I did this on Mamoru when he was evil. He got the resurfacing of memories then passed out. It's the reason why Beryl kept such close tabs on him. She knew I'd be trying to save him.
It's also why I could never get to him once he was freed, it became temporary as I was out of energy and unable to protect him from her once more. Eventually I did but that was another time, "There's something about this that doesn't make sense to me." Jupiter says as Tux picks up Jadeites prone body. Just because the evil is out of him doesn't mean he remembers everything; we'll have to restore it back at home base...then have him stay at Mamoru's place till he can be allowed to leave out on his own.
"What's that?" I ask as we start to walk out, "If this new enemy is targeting our previous grounds where we destroyed or won against enemies why not do it here to? We beat Beryl and Metallia here." she asks as even Mars looks curious about it, "Because this place is deep, dark, dank. It's too small for her and dreary. It would have been considered beneath her. The city of Tokyo, the island of Japan itself, is in her mind's eye what she deserves." I answer as we step outside into the cold and link hands with Jadeite's unconscious form in the center.
We transport him and ourselves back to the grounds near the arcade and de-transform, rushing him inside through the back entry way. The day is turning into the evening as the time change from one side of the earth to the other is definitely throwing us off. I look at my phone and remember I have a shift starting up soon. "I don't have much time before my shift starts up." I tell them as he's being placed on the couch in the central control room.
"I'll ask Motoki to see if he can let you start a few minutes late. You need to finish this off." Minako leaves off for upstairs once she assures me that she'll talk to him. I nod and hold Mamoru's hand as we channel and focus our combined powers to finish Jadeite off. With Mamoru's hand on his head and mine over his heart we allow the power to flow through as we hold our other hands to each other.
We chant and work with our crystals to heal Jadeite's mind and allow the real memories that were suppressed in out while also building a mental wall in place to prevent anyone from being able to tap into it again. It's a little more time consuming than we thought it would be but eventually were about to get it done. He's still thankfully unconscious as Ami goes up to him and at Rei's insistence does at least two separate scans of his mind and body to make sure there's no hint of the evil that once resided there.
She even does her own aura check over him. I'm not sure if she's TRYING to find something or if she's just that fearful that something was missed, and he'll return to evil again. I ignore it for now as I have to get to my shift but go to Mamoru. "Once Ami's done a few more scans and Rei isn't looking ready to jump out of her skin take him back to your place to stay. I think he might be safer there." I didn't want to think that Rei would do anything, but past history mixed with unsolved issues added to her hot temper and I wanted to be safe.
He nods, "It'll look out for him and keep you updated. Get to work." he gives me a kiss before I head out and find Motoki wiping at the counter. "Everything okay?" he asks as I come around the counter, "Oh you know, bringing an old general of Mamoru's back from an eternal sleep to help fight the newest enemy...just another Tuesday, right?" I throw out there in low tones of course in a slightly sarcastic nature.
"Oh of course." he remarks till he then realizes what I said, "Wait what?" he asks so I nudge my head for him to follow me and give him a small run down of what we just did, "How does Rei feel about it?" he remembered how Rei was about him previously, "She's taking it step by step." I mutter out as he nods, "In any case you all are being proactive and that's a good thing." I nod, "Exactly." especially with how the news has been.
"Now go be proactive with the dishes. The dish washer broke and their starting to get a little backed up." I nearly roll my eyes at his tossing me the fresh towel for wiping them down, but instead I just smile, "Will do." as I walk to the back and begin to get the sponge suds up, I can't help feeling a new sense of assurance that things will be getting better...yet I know that things normally get worse BEFORE they get better.