Crystal Tears Chapter 4: A Surprise for Jadeite
By Aisuru
aisuru_chan@yahoo.com
Amethyst was excited as she teleported with Jadeite and the Osaka-clone youma, Morgue, to the OSA-P. She held several silk pouches full of her gemstones. Each stone was set in gold or silver to formrings, earrings, bracelets, and necklace charms. Amethyst's grin grew larger as she thought of that old man. Although she had been scolded by Jadeite for killing him, his life-force energy would allow her to put the finishing touches on her youma.
Footsteps were heard descending a staircase, and the original Osaka walked through the door separating her upstairs apartment from the showroom. Amethyst looked back and forth between Morgue and Osaka. "Watch her carefully," she whispered to Morgue. "You need to copy her grace and elegance."
The youma nodded as if it understood. They watched as Osaka looked around the showroom, apparently deep in thought. She sighed, and then set about straightening displays and putting reduced-price stickers on the tiny price tags attached to each piece of jewelry. She was so deep in thought that she failed to notice the intruders.
Amethyst looked to Jadeite, and he nodded. She handed the silk pouches of energy-gathering jewelry to Jadeite, and pulled her purple energy-storage crystal out of a sub-space pocket. "Don't kill this one," Jadeite warned in a whisper. Amethyst nodded but kept her eyes on the crystal and her target. The gem held a swirling glow from the old man's energy she had trapped the night before. The glow intensified as she began to draw the energy from Osaka.
The woman gasped, probably feeling the chill associated with crystallographic energy draining, and tried to turn around. Amethyst increased the gem's pull on the woman's energy, and Osaka collapsed to the floor. Amethyst hadn't noticed Morgue approach the woman, but as the woman closed her eyes from exhaustion, her apparent twin leaned over her, curious. "Thank you for your energy," Amethyst said in her childish voice, feeling the swirls of the woman's energy within her
purple gem.
"Good job, Amethyst-chan," Jadeite said after checking the woman's pulse. "You didn't kill her."
"Why shouldn't I kill her?" Amethyst asked as Jadeite picked up the woman and carried her towards a downward staircase.
Jadeite felt a sudden burst of anger that she was questioning him, but stifled it when he realized she was just curious. "Well, if we killed humans every time we drained their energy, we wouldn't be able to drain their energy again," he replied. "Also, Metallia will need slaves when she is awakened. Humans would make good slaves for her." He carried Osaka down the stairs and into a basement storage room. The smell of cardboard and carbon paper from boxes of receipt pads filled the room.
"Someone had a memory of once being human," Amethyst stated, referring to a memory she had stolen during the long sleep. "Is that true? Did we used to be human?" Amethyst asked as Jadeite bound the woman's wrists and ankles with a course rope.
"We are no longer human," Jadeite answered her as he shoved a rag into Osaka's mouth before tying her gag. He stood and looked at the woman on the floor. Her red hair spilled around her on the concrete floor, her face was pale with energy loss. "We are no longer weak and without purpose. We serve the Dark Kingdom, and the energy of the Dark Kingdom now flows through our veins as our blood."
With Osaka out of the way it was easy for Jadeite, Amethyst, and the youma Morgue to exchange Amethyst's creations with the real jewelry. Amethyst gave Morgue some of the energy she had stolen from the old man and the real Osaka. "This should help you maintain your form as long as you stay calm," the child warned the monster-in-disguise, "but if you get over-excited your form will degrade."
Amethyst felt another rush of excitement; the first real mission of the
Dark Kingdom since the awakening involved her crystals and her youma!
When the time came to open the store to customers, Jadeite turned to Amethyst. "Now you and I go back to the Dark Kingdom. Let Morgue work in peace."
Amethyst wanted to argue with him; she had played a big role in this mission, and she wanted to watch! As she opened her mouth to disagree with him, however, Jadeite narrowed his eyes menacingly. Amethyst heeded the warning, stepping closer to Jadeite's side so he could teleport her back to the Dark Kingdom.
*****
Jadeite left Amethyst in his quarters under force field and teleported into Queen Beryl's throne room. He never left Amethyst in his quarters without the forcefield in place, a shield that prevented any other than him from entering and that also prevented Amethyst from leaving. Amethyst was an intelligent child, if child was even the right word for her, but Jadeite wouldn't put it past her to wander about the Dark Kingdom when his back was turned. She was too anxious to serve the Dark Kingdom, and was not content sitting alone in his quarters unless she was busy at a task.
"Has the Silver Crystal been found yet?" Queen Beryl was asking an assembly of Dark Kingdom citizens and youma.
"No," the assembly replied in unison.
"Our Great Leader needs energy. If we don't have the Silver Crystal we must use the energy of humans," Queen Beryl instructed.
'Here's my opportunity,' Jadeite thought, teleporting before her throne. "Queen Beryl-sama," he began, bowing deeply. "I, Jadeite, am ready. Morgue, one of my youma, is already gathering human energy."
Queen Beryl looked at her general with a critical eye. "You will bring it to me, Jadeite," she commanded.
"Yes," he answered, and teleported away.
*****
Jadeite was supervising the inflow of energy in a dark chamber in the Dark Kingdom. A large glowing ball levitated above his open hand. "The stupid humans are greedier than I could have hoped," he smirked to himself. "Amethyst has become a very useful commodity. And to think that Zoicite wanted to kill her before investigating her potential value to the Dark Kingdom." The energy Morgue was stealing from the wearers of Amethyst's jewelry would be given directly to Queen Beryl for the spirit Metallia. It would bring power to the Dark Kingdom and power to himself. A small part of him recognized that the more influence he had in the Dark Kingdom, the more protection he could provide to Amethyst.
As these thoughts were running through his head, a slight complication had occurred in the OSA-P. Without warning, the ball of glowing energy flickered and vanished. Furious that anything might be disrupting the flow of energy into the Dark Kingdom, he teleported directly to the basement storage room in OSA-P. A wide-eyed Osaka looked up at him, trying to scream against her gag and struggling against the ropes that bound her. "I don't have time to deal with you," he said with a snarl. He reached his hand towards her and sucked up the energy she had regained while unconscious Jadeite then ascended the stairs to the OSA-P showroom.
The first thing Jadeite noticed was a heavy, sickening feeling of positive energy that filled the air. It was nauseatingly familiar, reminding Jadeite of the energy the generals had encountered during their battle on the moon a thousand years before. Jadeite shook his head to clear the memories, and looked around. The deep gashes in the wall and floor told Jadeite that Morgue had not maintained her Osaka form. Morgue, however, had vanished. Jadeite couldn't even sense the rogue spirit that the youma had been formed around. A few glass display cases had been smashed, as if someone had pushed them over in a struggle. Several customers, all woman, littered the splinted hardwood floor. They still wore Amethyst's gems, but without Morgue to channel the collected energy they would wake up soon.
Jadeite had been so enchanted by the large ball of energy he had been gathering that he had failed to separate it from the incoming energy as it arrived into the Dark Kingdom. This meant that all of the collected energy had dissipated. All of his hard work had come to naught, and he had no idea what had disrupted his plan. Frustration turned to fear as Jadeite realized that he would have no good excuse to give Queen Beryl about his failure. "Stupid humans," he scowled as he teleported away.
*****
Author's notes:
I know, this chapter wasn't very long! You might want to read "A Long Day for Osaka-san," a one-part fanfiction that shows this OSA-P collection mission from Naru's mother's point of view. It is posted on www.moonromance.com right now. Maybe I'll move it to fanfiction.net eventually.
By Aisuru
aisuru_chan@yahoo.com
Amethyst was excited as she teleported with Jadeite and the Osaka-clone youma, Morgue, to the OSA-P. She held several silk pouches full of her gemstones. Each stone was set in gold or silver to formrings, earrings, bracelets, and necklace charms. Amethyst's grin grew larger as she thought of that old man. Although she had been scolded by Jadeite for killing him, his life-force energy would allow her to put the finishing touches on her youma.
Footsteps were heard descending a staircase, and the original Osaka walked through the door separating her upstairs apartment from the showroom. Amethyst looked back and forth between Morgue and Osaka. "Watch her carefully," she whispered to Morgue. "You need to copy her grace and elegance."
The youma nodded as if it understood. They watched as Osaka looked around the showroom, apparently deep in thought. She sighed, and then set about straightening displays and putting reduced-price stickers on the tiny price tags attached to each piece of jewelry. She was so deep in thought that she failed to notice the intruders.
Amethyst looked to Jadeite, and he nodded. She handed the silk pouches of energy-gathering jewelry to Jadeite, and pulled her purple energy-storage crystal out of a sub-space pocket. "Don't kill this one," Jadeite warned in a whisper. Amethyst nodded but kept her eyes on the crystal and her target. The gem held a swirling glow from the old man's energy she had trapped the night before. The glow intensified as she began to draw the energy from Osaka.
The woman gasped, probably feeling the chill associated with crystallographic energy draining, and tried to turn around. Amethyst increased the gem's pull on the woman's energy, and Osaka collapsed to the floor. Amethyst hadn't noticed Morgue approach the woman, but as the woman closed her eyes from exhaustion, her apparent twin leaned over her, curious. "Thank you for your energy," Amethyst said in her childish voice, feeling the swirls of the woman's energy within her
purple gem.
"Good job, Amethyst-chan," Jadeite said after checking the woman's pulse. "You didn't kill her."
"Why shouldn't I kill her?" Amethyst asked as Jadeite picked up the woman and carried her towards a downward staircase.
Jadeite felt a sudden burst of anger that she was questioning him, but stifled it when he realized she was just curious. "Well, if we killed humans every time we drained their energy, we wouldn't be able to drain their energy again," he replied. "Also, Metallia will need slaves when she is awakened. Humans would make good slaves for her." He carried Osaka down the stairs and into a basement storage room. The smell of cardboard and carbon paper from boxes of receipt pads filled the room.
"Someone had a memory of once being human," Amethyst stated, referring to a memory she had stolen during the long sleep. "Is that true? Did we used to be human?" Amethyst asked as Jadeite bound the woman's wrists and ankles with a course rope.
"We are no longer human," Jadeite answered her as he shoved a rag into Osaka's mouth before tying her gag. He stood and looked at the woman on the floor. Her red hair spilled around her on the concrete floor, her face was pale with energy loss. "We are no longer weak and without purpose. We serve the Dark Kingdom, and the energy of the Dark Kingdom now flows through our veins as our blood."
With Osaka out of the way it was easy for Jadeite, Amethyst, and the youma Morgue to exchange Amethyst's creations with the real jewelry. Amethyst gave Morgue some of the energy she had stolen from the old man and the real Osaka. "This should help you maintain your form as long as you stay calm," the child warned the monster-in-disguise, "but if you get over-excited your form will degrade."
Amethyst felt another rush of excitement; the first real mission of the
Dark Kingdom since the awakening involved her crystals and her youma!
When the time came to open the store to customers, Jadeite turned to Amethyst. "Now you and I go back to the Dark Kingdom. Let Morgue work in peace."
Amethyst wanted to argue with him; she had played a big role in this mission, and she wanted to watch! As she opened her mouth to disagree with him, however, Jadeite narrowed his eyes menacingly. Amethyst heeded the warning, stepping closer to Jadeite's side so he could teleport her back to the Dark Kingdom.
*****
Jadeite left Amethyst in his quarters under force field and teleported into Queen Beryl's throne room. He never left Amethyst in his quarters without the forcefield in place, a shield that prevented any other than him from entering and that also prevented Amethyst from leaving. Amethyst was an intelligent child, if child was even the right word for her, but Jadeite wouldn't put it past her to wander about the Dark Kingdom when his back was turned. She was too anxious to serve the Dark Kingdom, and was not content sitting alone in his quarters unless she was busy at a task.
"Has the Silver Crystal been found yet?" Queen Beryl was asking an assembly of Dark Kingdom citizens and youma.
"No," the assembly replied in unison.
"Our Great Leader needs energy. If we don't have the Silver Crystal we must use the energy of humans," Queen Beryl instructed.
'Here's my opportunity,' Jadeite thought, teleporting before her throne. "Queen Beryl-sama," he began, bowing deeply. "I, Jadeite, am ready. Morgue, one of my youma, is already gathering human energy."
Queen Beryl looked at her general with a critical eye. "You will bring it to me, Jadeite," she commanded.
"Yes," he answered, and teleported away.
*****
Jadeite was supervising the inflow of energy in a dark chamber in the Dark Kingdom. A large glowing ball levitated above his open hand. "The stupid humans are greedier than I could have hoped," he smirked to himself. "Amethyst has become a very useful commodity. And to think that Zoicite wanted to kill her before investigating her potential value to the Dark Kingdom." The energy Morgue was stealing from the wearers of Amethyst's jewelry would be given directly to Queen Beryl for the spirit Metallia. It would bring power to the Dark Kingdom and power to himself. A small part of him recognized that the more influence he had in the Dark Kingdom, the more protection he could provide to Amethyst.
As these thoughts were running through his head, a slight complication had occurred in the OSA-P. Without warning, the ball of glowing energy flickered and vanished. Furious that anything might be disrupting the flow of energy into the Dark Kingdom, he teleported directly to the basement storage room in OSA-P. A wide-eyed Osaka looked up at him, trying to scream against her gag and struggling against the ropes that bound her. "I don't have time to deal with you," he said with a snarl. He reached his hand towards her and sucked up the energy she had regained while unconscious Jadeite then ascended the stairs to the OSA-P showroom.
The first thing Jadeite noticed was a heavy, sickening feeling of positive energy that filled the air. It was nauseatingly familiar, reminding Jadeite of the energy the generals had encountered during their battle on the moon a thousand years before. Jadeite shook his head to clear the memories, and looked around. The deep gashes in the wall and floor told Jadeite that Morgue had not maintained her Osaka form. Morgue, however, had vanished. Jadeite couldn't even sense the rogue spirit that the youma had been formed around. A few glass display cases had been smashed, as if someone had pushed them over in a struggle. Several customers, all woman, littered the splinted hardwood floor. They still wore Amethyst's gems, but without Morgue to channel the collected energy they would wake up soon.
Jadeite had been so enchanted by the large ball of energy he had been gathering that he had failed to separate it from the incoming energy as it arrived into the Dark Kingdom. This meant that all of the collected energy had dissipated. All of his hard work had come to naught, and he had no idea what had disrupted his plan. Frustration turned to fear as Jadeite realized that he would have no good excuse to give Queen Beryl about his failure. "Stupid humans," he scowled as he teleported away.
*****
Author's notes:
I know, this chapter wasn't very long! You might want to read "A Long Day for Osaka-san," a one-part fanfiction that shows this OSA-P collection mission from Naru's mother's point of view. It is posted on www.moonromance.com right now. Maybe I'll move it to fanfiction.net eventually.
