Love Finds A Way
Yes, I know that's probably the most uncreative title you've ever heard, but the story's better than that. I think this is my favourite chapter! It's also the longest.
As we stood, waiting to attack, I whispered to Michiru as quickly and quietly as I could. "Michiru, if you want to get out now, I'll tell them that I bribed you to tell everyone I'm innocent. Your name will be cleared." She almost turned to look at me. "Haruka, you know I'd never do that. I believe what I said. You know I love you. Through anything. Always. Forever. I squeezed her hand, and felt a lump rise in my throat. "I love you too."
Just then, one of the guards took a flying leap at me. I knocked him to the ground with a well timed karate kick, and stepped on his face while I blew away a wave of others with 'World Shaking.' Behind me, Michiru knocked out another group with "Deep Submerge.' Then, a young man called Maurice grabbed her.
I was to busy trying to strangle someone with a piece of rope I found, (and kick off the few people that found trying to hurt me more interesting than watching the show Maurice was putting on) to help Michiru. He tried to kiss her, and she headbutted him as hard as she could. His lip started bleeding, and it looked like his nose would too. He sneered at her. "Feisty little bitch, aren't you?" She spat in his face. "Buddy, you have no idea." Before he had time to do anything, she wrenched her arm out of his grip and grabbed her mirror. Forgetting for a moment what it could do, she whomped him hard over the head with it. He fell to the ground, unconscious.
Realising what she'd just hit him with, she blushed slightly, checked to make sure not that many people had noticed, held up the mirror and yelled: "Submarine reflection!" Realising that I had my sword, I yanked it out, plunged it into someone's chest, and wrenched it out again, before yelling "Space sword blaster!" Blood splattered everywhere. Through the mad adrenaline rush I was feeling, I dimly noticed all the other senshi had arrived. The inners and Tuxedo Mask where standing on a tree branch beside Usagi, and the other outers were loyally fighting by our side.
"It's impossible!" I panted to Michiru, over the sound of Saturn holding people down with her glaive, and Pluto whacking them repeatedly with her Time Key. As I spoke, I managed to get rid of another wave of black uniformed cadets with another world shaking. "The more we get rid of, the more appear!" Michiru slammed the mirror on top of someone else's head, and replied. "I know. Even with Saturn and Pluto helping we can't get rid of them!" At that moment, a sickeningly sweet voice rang out from above us, and we looked up. The army stopped fighting to look up as well.
Usagi and her hangers on were still up in that tree. Tuxedo Mask, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus stood glaring at us with looks of pure hatred on their faces. Miss Moon, however stood smiling at us. Smiling! She fell off the branch when Mamoru removed his arm from around his shoulder for a second, and immediately jumped to her feet, always keeping that creepy smile in place. "Well then, if that simple task is too much for you, the 'most powerful' of the senshi, then I guess I'll just have too relieve you of your duties! Moon Princess Halitation!"
The last thing I saw before everything blacked out was her sneering face. The last thing I heard was Michiru, who, for some reason, grabbed my hand and whispered 'destiny.' ------------------------ Maybe an hour later, I woke up back at the castle, only to find myself in chains and being led up to an execution platform that had obviously been set up in a hurry. Michiru was already chained up there. Hotaru and Setsuna, for once not hiding their tears, stood in the 'audience' crying pitifully. We'd failed. We were going to die anyway, after all our efforts. I looked despairingly at Michiru. She must have resisted coming up the platform, because guards stood either side of her, and she had a slightly swollen lip, and a badly cut ankle, which was bleeding everywhere.
The preacher said the last rites, and stood as far away from us as he could. Everyone was acting like we had the plague and they didn't want to catch it. Once he moved away, the executioner raised the sword over Michiru's neck. In an instant, she lashed out, and kicked him as hard a she could were no man ever wants to be kicked. I dissolved in silent laughter as he fell on the ground, clutching his crotch and moaning in pain. The laughter stopped when he stood up with difficulty, moved away from a very angry Michiru, and decided he'd get rid of me first.
He stood were I couldn't do any thing to him, and swung the sword down. I squeezed my eyes cut and waited for the blinding pain. It never came. After a few seconds I opened my eyes again. The sword had stopped a few centimetres away from me. Everyone in the hall was listening to the pounding footsteps coming closer and closer. The heavy doors swung open and slammed against the wall.
Makoto ran in, yelling, "HEEEEELP!" And being followed by a very angry Usagi, who was wildly brandishing a huge machine gun. Where the hell did she get that? As she ran, Usagi yelled, "She slept with Mamo-chan! I'll kill her!" Everyone stared, there jaws almost hitting the ground. Finally, someone ran after Usagi, and gently pulled the machine gun out of her hands, and police jumped on her. She was instantly arrested. "Now do you believe us?" I growled. The judge standing in front of us was still gaping at Usagi. "I-I guess I have no choice but to let you go. Keep out of trouble now." With that, he unlocked the chains and we walked away. Everyone will have plenty to gossip about tonight. ------------------------ "SETSUNA!" I yelled later that night. "Yeah?" She said appearing in my doorway, twirling her time key. It knocked a lamp off a table and she stuck it behind her back, whistling innocently. The lamp shattered. I smirked at her. "As much as that lamp cost, I don't care, but Michiru will probably kill you. That was her favourite lamp." After we were unchained, she and Hotaru had hugged us for ages. It practically took a crowbar to pry them off us. Thankfully, they'd stopped now. The remaining inners had grovelled at our feet for forgiveness. I still had to think of a creative way to punish them, though.
Turning to Setsuna, I said: "I have the perfect revenge for Minako, Makoto and Ami!" I started whispering in her ear. "Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, what do you think about this?" I asked, quickly showing her something out of my pocket. She looked at me, eyes shining. "Oh, Haruka, you aren't." I nodded happily. "Yeah, I think I've waited long enough!" "Oooooohh, I'm so happy for you!" She squealed. "Okay." I said shakily, slipping it back in my pocket. "Here goes nothing." She grabbed my shoulder. "Oh, Haruka? Don't be shocked when you find her. She's acting a little weird." ------------------------ "Hi Haruka!" Said Michiru excitedly. I watched her for a moment, one eyebrow raised. She was certainly acting very weird. Well, she doesn't usually hop around on one leg, flapping her arms. Something was very wrong. Anyway, like I mentioned before, she was hopping up and down on a fold out bed, flapping her arms and singing that song from the lion king. The lion sleeps tonight, or something like that. She fell off the bed, and staggered over to a chair, giggling. "Ummm. Michiru?" She giggled again. "Yeah?" "Why don't you drink some water to sober up, and then come speak to me while you're sober, huh?" She drank the glass of water I handed her, and I left the room, with Michiru singing 'I'm a little teapot" behind me. ------------------------ I was sitting in our room 5 minutes later, reading a Simpson's comic book, when a much more sober Michiru yelled from outside the door. "SETSUNA! WHY DID YOU BREAK MY LAMP!? COME HETRE AND GLUE EACH INDIVIDUAL PIECE BACK TOGETHER! RIGHT NOW!" She opened the door and flopped face first onto the bed. "Why did you want to talk to me?" I looked up from my comic and grinned. She had a small hangover. "Do you wanna have a celebratory dinner? You know, for having our names cleared?" Her eyes widened and the hangover seemed to disappear instantly.
"Sure," she yawned, "I'm gonna sleep now." She closed her eyes and flopped back down onto the bed, and I went back to reading. ------------------------ After Michiru woke up, we settled on a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo that we used to go to. For some reason, the dress code there was kimono. We took off the crowns (a band of 24 carat gold with a jewel set into the front, topaz for me, sapphire for Michiru.) that we had to wear all the time, not including when we were on the run, and dragged kimono we hadn't worn for ages out of the cupboard. Mine was a simple navy blue and yellow man's silk kimono, but Michiru's was beautiful. It was a white silk kimono with a cherry blossom tree decorating one side of it. The tree trunk started at the ham, and the very top branches just brushed the neckline. Michiru looked stunning.
Since we had regained our titles (Queen) we teleported down to Earth. When we were finally seated in our private room, we fooled around for half an hour, until our food arrived. When the waiter left, I knelt beside Michiru and pulled the little black box I'd shown Setsuna earlier out of my sleeve. She looked at me with understanding. I gulped. "Michiru Kaioh. would you.would you. would you marry me?" She looked at me and started to laugh, while nodding happily. "What!? What's so funny?!" Still laughing, she removed a black ring box from her sleeve and placed it gently on the table. "Ohhhh." I said, laughing myself.
When we managed to stop laughing, we exchanged rings. Mine was a simple band of gold, with a topaz carved into the shape of the symbol of Uranus, and hers was the same, only she had a sapphire carved into the shape of the symbol of Neptune. I hugged my new fiancée, and started to tell her all about my plan to get revenge on the inners. She loved it.
Only one chapter to go! *happy dance* It's short, but not quite as short as the last chapter. It sort of takes place maybe two months after the proposal.
Yes, I know that's probably the most uncreative title you've ever heard, but the story's better than that. I think this is my favourite chapter! It's also the longest.
As we stood, waiting to attack, I whispered to Michiru as quickly and quietly as I could. "Michiru, if you want to get out now, I'll tell them that I bribed you to tell everyone I'm innocent. Your name will be cleared." She almost turned to look at me. "Haruka, you know I'd never do that. I believe what I said. You know I love you. Through anything. Always. Forever. I squeezed her hand, and felt a lump rise in my throat. "I love you too."
Just then, one of the guards took a flying leap at me. I knocked him to the ground with a well timed karate kick, and stepped on his face while I blew away a wave of others with 'World Shaking.' Behind me, Michiru knocked out another group with "Deep Submerge.' Then, a young man called Maurice grabbed her.
I was to busy trying to strangle someone with a piece of rope I found, (and kick off the few people that found trying to hurt me more interesting than watching the show Maurice was putting on) to help Michiru. He tried to kiss her, and she headbutted him as hard as she could. His lip started bleeding, and it looked like his nose would too. He sneered at her. "Feisty little bitch, aren't you?" She spat in his face. "Buddy, you have no idea." Before he had time to do anything, she wrenched her arm out of his grip and grabbed her mirror. Forgetting for a moment what it could do, she whomped him hard over the head with it. He fell to the ground, unconscious.
Realising what she'd just hit him with, she blushed slightly, checked to make sure not that many people had noticed, held up the mirror and yelled: "Submarine reflection!" Realising that I had my sword, I yanked it out, plunged it into someone's chest, and wrenched it out again, before yelling "Space sword blaster!" Blood splattered everywhere. Through the mad adrenaline rush I was feeling, I dimly noticed all the other senshi had arrived. The inners and Tuxedo Mask where standing on a tree branch beside Usagi, and the other outers were loyally fighting by our side.
"It's impossible!" I panted to Michiru, over the sound of Saturn holding people down with her glaive, and Pluto whacking them repeatedly with her Time Key. As I spoke, I managed to get rid of another wave of black uniformed cadets with another world shaking. "The more we get rid of, the more appear!" Michiru slammed the mirror on top of someone else's head, and replied. "I know. Even with Saturn and Pluto helping we can't get rid of them!" At that moment, a sickeningly sweet voice rang out from above us, and we looked up. The army stopped fighting to look up as well.
Usagi and her hangers on were still up in that tree. Tuxedo Mask, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus stood glaring at us with looks of pure hatred on their faces. Miss Moon, however stood smiling at us. Smiling! She fell off the branch when Mamoru removed his arm from around his shoulder for a second, and immediately jumped to her feet, always keeping that creepy smile in place. "Well then, if that simple task is too much for you, the 'most powerful' of the senshi, then I guess I'll just have too relieve you of your duties! Moon Princess Halitation!"
The last thing I saw before everything blacked out was her sneering face. The last thing I heard was Michiru, who, for some reason, grabbed my hand and whispered 'destiny.' ------------------------ Maybe an hour later, I woke up back at the castle, only to find myself in chains and being led up to an execution platform that had obviously been set up in a hurry. Michiru was already chained up there. Hotaru and Setsuna, for once not hiding their tears, stood in the 'audience' crying pitifully. We'd failed. We were going to die anyway, after all our efforts. I looked despairingly at Michiru. She must have resisted coming up the platform, because guards stood either side of her, and she had a slightly swollen lip, and a badly cut ankle, which was bleeding everywhere.
The preacher said the last rites, and stood as far away from us as he could. Everyone was acting like we had the plague and they didn't want to catch it. Once he moved away, the executioner raised the sword over Michiru's neck. In an instant, she lashed out, and kicked him as hard a she could were no man ever wants to be kicked. I dissolved in silent laughter as he fell on the ground, clutching his crotch and moaning in pain. The laughter stopped when he stood up with difficulty, moved away from a very angry Michiru, and decided he'd get rid of me first.
He stood were I couldn't do any thing to him, and swung the sword down. I squeezed my eyes cut and waited for the blinding pain. It never came. After a few seconds I opened my eyes again. The sword had stopped a few centimetres away from me. Everyone in the hall was listening to the pounding footsteps coming closer and closer. The heavy doors swung open and slammed against the wall.
Makoto ran in, yelling, "HEEEEELP!" And being followed by a very angry Usagi, who was wildly brandishing a huge machine gun. Where the hell did she get that? As she ran, Usagi yelled, "She slept with Mamo-chan! I'll kill her!" Everyone stared, there jaws almost hitting the ground. Finally, someone ran after Usagi, and gently pulled the machine gun out of her hands, and police jumped on her. She was instantly arrested. "Now do you believe us?" I growled. The judge standing in front of us was still gaping at Usagi. "I-I guess I have no choice but to let you go. Keep out of trouble now." With that, he unlocked the chains and we walked away. Everyone will have plenty to gossip about tonight. ------------------------ "SETSUNA!" I yelled later that night. "Yeah?" She said appearing in my doorway, twirling her time key. It knocked a lamp off a table and she stuck it behind her back, whistling innocently. The lamp shattered. I smirked at her. "As much as that lamp cost, I don't care, but Michiru will probably kill you. That was her favourite lamp." After we were unchained, she and Hotaru had hugged us for ages. It practically took a crowbar to pry them off us. Thankfully, they'd stopped now. The remaining inners had grovelled at our feet for forgiveness. I still had to think of a creative way to punish them, though.
Turning to Setsuna, I said: "I have the perfect revenge for Minako, Makoto and Ami!" I started whispering in her ear. "Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, what do you think about this?" I asked, quickly showing her something out of my pocket. She looked at me, eyes shining. "Oh, Haruka, you aren't." I nodded happily. "Yeah, I think I've waited long enough!" "Oooooohh, I'm so happy for you!" She squealed. "Okay." I said shakily, slipping it back in my pocket. "Here goes nothing." She grabbed my shoulder. "Oh, Haruka? Don't be shocked when you find her. She's acting a little weird." ------------------------ "Hi Haruka!" Said Michiru excitedly. I watched her for a moment, one eyebrow raised. She was certainly acting very weird. Well, she doesn't usually hop around on one leg, flapping her arms. Something was very wrong. Anyway, like I mentioned before, she was hopping up and down on a fold out bed, flapping her arms and singing that song from the lion king. The lion sleeps tonight, or something like that. She fell off the bed, and staggered over to a chair, giggling. "Ummm. Michiru?" She giggled again. "Yeah?" "Why don't you drink some water to sober up, and then come speak to me while you're sober, huh?" She drank the glass of water I handed her, and I left the room, with Michiru singing 'I'm a little teapot" behind me. ------------------------ I was sitting in our room 5 minutes later, reading a Simpson's comic book, when a much more sober Michiru yelled from outside the door. "SETSUNA! WHY DID YOU BREAK MY LAMP!? COME HETRE AND GLUE EACH INDIVIDUAL PIECE BACK TOGETHER! RIGHT NOW!" She opened the door and flopped face first onto the bed. "Why did you want to talk to me?" I looked up from my comic and grinned. She had a small hangover. "Do you wanna have a celebratory dinner? You know, for having our names cleared?" Her eyes widened and the hangover seemed to disappear instantly.
"Sure," she yawned, "I'm gonna sleep now." She closed her eyes and flopped back down onto the bed, and I went back to reading. ------------------------ After Michiru woke up, we settled on a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo that we used to go to. For some reason, the dress code there was kimono. We took off the crowns (a band of 24 carat gold with a jewel set into the front, topaz for me, sapphire for Michiru.) that we had to wear all the time, not including when we were on the run, and dragged kimono we hadn't worn for ages out of the cupboard. Mine was a simple navy blue and yellow man's silk kimono, but Michiru's was beautiful. It was a white silk kimono with a cherry blossom tree decorating one side of it. The tree trunk started at the ham, and the very top branches just brushed the neckline. Michiru looked stunning.
Since we had regained our titles (Queen) we teleported down to Earth. When we were finally seated in our private room, we fooled around for half an hour, until our food arrived. When the waiter left, I knelt beside Michiru and pulled the little black box I'd shown Setsuna earlier out of my sleeve. She looked at me with understanding. I gulped. "Michiru Kaioh. would you.would you. would you marry me?" She looked at me and started to laugh, while nodding happily. "What!? What's so funny?!" Still laughing, she removed a black ring box from her sleeve and placed it gently on the table. "Ohhhh." I said, laughing myself.
When we managed to stop laughing, we exchanged rings. Mine was a simple band of gold, with a topaz carved into the shape of the symbol of Uranus, and hers was the same, only she had a sapphire carved into the shape of the symbol of Neptune. I hugged my new fiancée, and started to tell her all about my plan to get revenge on the inners. She loved it.
Only one chapter to go! *happy dance* It's short, but not quite as short as the last chapter. It sort of takes place maybe two months after the proposal.
