Half of you said I should raise the rating, and the other half said I should keep it. I'm gonna keep the rating for now and keep the fighting to PG.
oldestof3: Thanks for the review!
Kaiya: Thankyou for helping me out, I know I'm a wierd and paranoid author. Thanks for the review!
Lady Tomayo: Thanks for reviewing!
Shadow Fox: Thanks for reviewing!
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Chapter 16
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In the morning Ami rolled out of bed. The alarm clock was blaring in her ear. She reached over to turn it off once, twice, three times. Her hand kept missing. Finally she got frustrated and knocked it off the dresser.
The room got silent. She nodded as if in approval and started getting dressed. She grabbed her books and was about to exit the room when her communicater went off.
She sat down on her bed and turned on her communicater, unhooking it momentarilly from her wrist. A friendly face popped up on the screen.
"HI AMES!"
"Usagi! It's been a while! How are you?"
"I should be asking you that, off in a strange demension all alone. How terrible is it?" Usagi asked.
Ami smiled.
"Actually, it's not that bad. Not including all the youma attacks and fighting, it's kinds nice," she said, trailing off into thought.
"Nice?"
"Yeah, some of the people here are really nice. They're- interesting," Ami said, finally deciding on a word.
"Your soundng a little giddy Ami. I wonder what causes you to sound that way," Usagi said mysteriously.
Ami frowned.
"Giddy?" Ami asked.
"Yes, or maybe, it sounds like your in L-O-V-E! I know, because I know what it feels like," Usagi said.
"You sound like Minako, Usagi," Ami said suddenly exasperated.
"No, No," Usagi said, and continued to talk about the subject for another 5 minutes. For some reason, Ami got really frustrated.
"I have a busy schedule here and in Tokyo and don't have time for a subject such as love, I'm late for class," Ami said quickly, turning the communicater off and putting it on her wrist. She quickly exited the room.
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In Tokyo (haven't done that in a while).....
Usagi shrugged. What was up with her?
It was after school, there was a time difference, and Ami wasn't even in Japan in the other demension.
Usagi picked up her bag and left for the temple.
"Wait for me Usagi," said a voice. Luna.
As she left through the front foor, her mom gave her a funny look. She knew she was suspicious. It wouldn't be long now. Once the war hit, all of Tokyo would probably know their secret.
At the mizuno househould....
Ami's mother threw open another drawer. Her daughter was missing. She had been at a medical conference for two months. When she came back, she hadn't been able to see her daughter in between her work schedule. She had figured they just hadn't crossed paths, until a neighbor had come to her a couple of days later and told her that she hadn't seen any activity in the home for months, meaning Ami had never been there.
Her answering machine had been brocken while she was gone.
She looked around. The room was trashed. Things littered the floor as she had been searching for a clue to where her daughter had been for the afternoon.
She picked up the phone to call the police, not knowing someone was watching. It would do no good for Ami to go missing in the papers.
Pluto appeared behind her. Miss Mizuno started to turn, and felt a pain in her neck. Pluto shook her head as she hit the floor. Picking her up, she layed her down on Ami's bed.
Under these special circumstances, Pluto was entitled to use her magic. She swung her rod over Miss. Mizuno's body. Miss Mizuno would be aslepe for 5 days. 5 days was all Pluto needed.Ami would be back from the other demension, and the war will have started.
She picked up the phone.
"Hello, yes. miss.Mizuno is extremely over whelmed with work. She'll be taking a week off. Thankyou."
The phone rang after she set it down.
"Hello?"
"Hi, this is Secretary of Juuban school. Is Ami Mizuno back from her foreign exchange yet," said a proffesional tone.
"Is the school out for break?"
"Yes, they should be back in two weeks, after christmas."
"Oh, well, her foreign exchange program ends then, so yes, she will."
"thankyou, goodbye."
Pluto smiled at her genius.
Ami's mom at a conference, Ami at foreign exchange program. She was glad she had thought this through.
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Ami's Pov.
My time was running out. I wandered the halls like a ghost, not going to classes for the next couple of days. I realized I had only 5 days left to find the Jewel.
I went through my list on my computer. The search wasn't narrowed down much. There were still too many students to be checked.
I flung the back door open and sat down outside of the school, on a bench.. At least no teacher would see me this way. The classrooms were on the other end of the school, the auditorium was where I was. I only vaguely realized that it was December. December 15.
Would I be able to celebrate Christmas with her friends and family?
If I didn't find the jewel before the enemy did, I would never be able to save Tokyo.
I knew some tears brimmed my eyes and I dared not let them fall as I leaned back. I was weak. They had trusted me with the fate of the world and I had managed to let them down.
I felt something soft and and wet hit my cheek. A snow flake? The first snow anyone had seen this season. I knew everyone had been waiting ages for it to snow. The snow started to come down in flurries. Not really counting as snow, because it wouldn't stick to the ground unless the snow came down harder. Still...it was snow just the same.
I put my arms around my shoulders. I hadn't even remembered a coat. I was really out of whack today.
I heard the bell from inside go off. School had ended for the day. Everyone left to their rooms, and I saw a few poke their heads out the window to see the snow.
I wished I could be like them. Carefree. Nothing to worry about but Mid-terms. Something fell on my shoulders. Something heavy and warm.
I turned around. Heero ,Trowa, Quatre, and Duo stood behind me.
My coat.
"You left your room unlocked. Don't be so careless," Heero said gruffly.
"Thankyou," I said, ignoring his unhappy tone.
"Let's go inside Miss Ami, it's cold," Quatre said. I stood up.
"Alright, thankyou for coing out here." I started to move past them.
"Why have you been so wierd the last couple of days, Ami?" Duo grinned nervously when I turned to face him and answer his question.
"What do you mean," I asked.
"You've skiped all your classes, hung out all alone and have been typing on that computer every time I saw you. You hardly spoke two words to me in the past week," Duo continued, trying to make his point.
"It's cold. I'm sure you're all freezing and Wufei doesn't look like he's going to hold his toungue for another second," I responded, and walked inside.
They all walked in after me, I could hear there foot steps.
"Ami, come on. Oh, Miss told me to remind you that our midterms are next week and you haven't been in class. She says you have to study hard," he said.
"The midterms 5 days before Christmas?"
"Yup."
"I won't be here," I said quickly, shuffling away.
"What do you mean," this time it was Heero who spoke. We were alone now, in the cafeteria.
"I'm from a different demension. This isn't my world. Besides, there will be a war in my world. I have to go fight," I said, reasoning more with myself than anyone else.
I shook my head.
"I have to go."
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Narrater-
For the next few days, there were a few attacks, but no one could find the jewel. The last day Ami was to be in the demension, Trowa was attacked.
She transformed and ran outside, where it was happening. There was much snow on the ground, and Trowa lay in the snow. He struggled to get on his feet. Tavia was in front of him. She placed her hand in front of his forehead.
A light appeared.
Something small and diamond shaped came out of his forehead.
"The JEWEL," Tavia screeched, reaching over to grab it.
She let out a scream and let go.
"So cold....... it hurts," she said, grabbing the palm of her hand.
She couldn't touch it. She picked up a smal case and started to but the ice colered jewel in it.
Trowa started to have trouble breathing. No one had told Ami that would happen once it was removed.
She kicked Tavia's hand. Using her speed she grabbed Trowa and ran before she could react. Then she put the crystal inside Trowa's foreheda.
"Afcourse. I understand the message now. 'You are the jewel carrier'," Trowa said before blacking out.
Tavia looked angry.
"Hand him over!"
"No."
Tavia lunged at her.
Mercury was alone right now.
"Mercury Ice Daggar," she said. A large Dagger of ice formed in her hand. She swung at Tavia as if she had always known how and hit her in the shoulder. Tavia let out a scream.
So that was her new attack...
Mercury followed up with a kick to her face.
Tavia staggered back.
She looked in a rage as she started firing blast after blast at her. Ami dodged them quickly with her speed, and Tavia looked surprised.
"You fool! You wil die!"
Mercury realized that tavia was pretty fast as well as she circled around her, trying to catch her off guard. She continued firing attacks at Mercury.
Mercury decided on a long shot as she ran.
"Mercury Ice Dagger!"
The dagger appeared. She found she could fire several of them. With her speed, she knew Tavia had no chance.
Tavia hit the floor. She reacted different than Ami thought she would. She started to laugh, and a little blood leaked from her mouth.
"I can't believe- you actually...beat me," she said. She went limp and her body dissapeared.
Mercury shook her head. She grabbed Trowa and dragged him inside. Wufei and Heero were there in a second, followed by Quatre and Duo.
Trowa woke up.
"Congratulations Trowa. You have the Jewel," Mercury said. they were in the library, now deserted because everyone was finishing there finals in class so they could go home for christmas break.
"I couldn't breathe when she removed it," he said, dusting himself off and sitting down in a chair.
Mercury nodded.
"I figured as much. I have to leave tomorrow and I have to figure out a way to get the jewel out of you without hurting you," she said.
"Why can't you take Trowa with you and have Pluto get it," Duo said.
"To my demension? We're going to be attacked there."
"Yeah? Then take all of us as moral support for Trowa," Duo continued.
"But you could get hurt," she protested.
"We've been in plenty of attacks," Heero and Wufei said at once. Quatre nodded.
Mercury sighed.
She clicked on her tiara and automatically felt her legs give out from underneath her.
"Ami, are you Ok," Quatre asked.
She held her head for a second.
"Fine," she said, getting up and slumping over to a chair as well.
She had over done it with the speed and the new attack.
Pluto appeared.
"I agree with your theory Ami. if we can all put our heads together we can get the jewel out without harming Trowa. Be ready to leave tomorrow. And I warn you, a day after you arrive, Tokyo will be a mess. It is up to you to evacuate Tokyo so the enemy doesn't hurt anyone."
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I hope I didn't confuse anyone! Please review!
oldestof3: Thanks for the review!
Kaiya: Thankyou for helping me out, I know I'm a wierd and paranoid author. Thanks for the review!
Lady Tomayo: Thanks for reviewing!
Shadow Fox: Thanks for reviewing!
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Chapter 16
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In the morning Ami rolled out of bed. The alarm clock was blaring in her ear. She reached over to turn it off once, twice, three times. Her hand kept missing. Finally she got frustrated and knocked it off the dresser.
The room got silent. She nodded as if in approval and started getting dressed. She grabbed her books and was about to exit the room when her communicater went off.
She sat down on her bed and turned on her communicater, unhooking it momentarilly from her wrist. A friendly face popped up on the screen.
"HI AMES!"
"Usagi! It's been a while! How are you?"
"I should be asking you that, off in a strange demension all alone. How terrible is it?" Usagi asked.
Ami smiled.
"Actually, it's not that bad. Not including all the youma attacks and fighting, it's kinds nice," she said, trailing off into thought.
"Nice?"
"Yeah, some of the people here are really nice. They're- interesting," Ami said, finally deciding on a word.
"Your soundng a little giddy Ami. I wonder what causes you to sound that way," Usagi said mysteriously.
Ami frowned.
"Giddy?" Ami asked.
"Yes, or maybe, it sounds like your in L-O-V-E! I know, because I know what it feels like," Usagi said.
"You sound like Minako, Usagi," Ami said suddenly exasperated.
"No, No," Usagi said, and continued to talk about the subject for another 5 minutes. For some reason, Ami got really frustrated.
"I have a busy schedule here and in Tokyo and don't have time for a subject such as love, I'm late for class," Ami said quickly, turning the communicater off and putting it on her wrist. She quickly exited the room.
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In Tokyo (haven't done that in a while).....
Usagi shrugged. What was up with her?
It was after school, there was a time difference, and Ami wasn't even in Japan in the other demension.
Usagi picked up her bag and left for the temple.
"Wait for me Usagi," said a voice. Luna.
As she left through the front foor, her mom gave her a funny look. She knew she was suspicious. It wouldn't be long now. Once the war hit, all of Tokyo would probably know their secret.
At the mizuno househould....
Ami's mother threw open another drawer. Her daughter was missing. She had been at a medical conference for two months. When she came back, she hadn't been able to see her daughter in between her work schedule. She had figured they just hadn't crossed paths, until a neighbor had come to her a couple of days later and told her that she hadn't seen any activity in the home for months, meaning Ami had never been there.
Her answering machine had been brocken while she was gone.
She looked around. The room was trashed. Things littered the floor as she had been searching for a clue to where her daughter had been for the afternoon.
She picked up the phone to call the police, not knowing someone was watching. It would do no good for Ami to go missing in the papers.
Pluto appeared behind her. Miss Mizuno started to turn, and felt a pain in her neck. Pluto shook her head as she hit the floor. Picking her up, she layed her down on Ami's bed.
Under these special circumstances, Pluto was entitled to use her magic. She swung her rod over Miss. Mizuno's body. Miss Mizuno would be aslepe for 5 days. 5 days was all Pluto needed.Ami would be back from the other demension, and the war will have started.
She picked up the phone.
"Hello, yes. miss.Mizuno is extremely over whelmed with work. She'll be taking a week off. Thankyou."
The phone rang after she set it down.
"Hello?"
"Hi, this is Secretary of Juuban school. Is Ami Mizuno back from her foreign exchange yet," said a proffesional tone.
"Is the school out for break?"
"Yes, they should be back in two weeks, after christmas."
"Oh, well, her foreign exchange program ends then, so yes, she will."
"thankyou, goodbye."
Pluto smiled at her genius.
Ami's mom at a conference, Ami at foreign exchange program. She was glad she had thought this through.
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Ami's Pov.
My time was running out. I wandered the halls like a ghost, not going to classes for the next couple of days. I realized I had only 5 days left to find the Jewel.
I went through my list on my computer. The search wasn't narrowed down much. There were still too many students to be checked.
I flung the back door open and sat down outside of the school, on a bench.. At least no teacher would see me this way. The classrooms were on the other end of the school, the auditorium was where I was. I only vaguely realized that it was December. December 15.
Would I be able to celebrate Christmas with her friends and family?
If I didn't find the jewel before the enemy did, I would never be able to save Tokyo.
I knew some tears brimmed my eyes and I dared not let them fall as I leaned back. I was weak. They had trusted me with the fate of the world and I had managed to let them down.
I felt something soft and and wet hit my cheek. A snow flake? The first snow anyone had seen this season. I knew everyone had been waiting ages for it to snow. The snow started to come down in flurries. Not really counting as snow, because it wouldn't stick to the ground unless the snow came down harder. Still...it was snow just the same.
I put my arms around my shoulders. I hadn't even remembered a coat. I was really out of whack today.
I heard the bell from inside go off. School had ended for the day. Everyone left to their rooms, and I saw a few poke their heads out the window to see the snow.
I wished I could be like them. Carefree. Nothing to worry about but Mid-terms. Something fell on my shoulders. Something heavy and warm.
I turned around. Heero ,Trowa, Quatre, and Duo stood behind me.
My coat.
"You left your room unlocked. Don't be so careless," Heero said gruffly.
"Thankyou," I said, ignoring his unhappy tone.
"Let's go inside Miss Ami, it's cold," Quatre said. I stood up.
"Alright, thankyou for coing out here." I started to move past them.
"Why have you been so wierd the last couple of days, Ami?" Duo grinned nervously when I turned to face him and answer his question.
"What do you mean," I asked.
"You've skiped all your classes, hung out all alone and have been typing on that computer every time I saw you. You hardly spoke two words to me in the past week," Duo continued, trying to make his point.
"It's cold. I'm sure you're all freezing and Wufei doesn't look like he's going to hold his toungue for another second," I responded, and walked inside.
They all walked in after me, I could hear there foot steps.
"Ami, come on. Oh, Miss told me to remind you that our midterms are next week and you haven't been in class. She says you have to study hard," he said.
"The midterms 5 days before Christmas?"
"Yup."
"I won't be here," I said quickly, shuffling away.
"What do you mean," this time it was Heero who spoke. We were alone now, in the cafeteria.
"I'm from a different demension. This isn't my world. Besides, there will be a war in my world. I have to go fight," I said, reasoning more with myself than anyone else.
I shook my head.
"I have to go."
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Narrater-
For the next few days, there were a few attacks, but no one could find the jewel. The last day Ami was to be in the demension, Trowa was attacked.
She transformed and ran outside, where it was happening. There was much snow on the ground, and Trowa lay in the snow. He struggled to get on his feet. Tavia was in front of him. She placed her hand in front of his forehead.
A light appeared.
Something small and diamond shaped came out of his forehead.
"The JEWEL," Tavia screeched, reaching over to grab it.
She let out a scream and let go.
"So cold....... it hurts," she said, grabbing the palm of her hand.
She couldn't touch it. She picked up a smal case and started to but the ice colered jewel in it.
Trowa started to have trouble breathing. No one had told Ami that would happen once it was removed.
She kicked Tavia's hand. Using her speed she grabbed Trowa and ran before she could react. Then she put the crystal inside Trowa's foreheda.
"Afcourse. I understand the message now. 'You are the jewel carrier'," Trowa said before blacking out.
Tavia looked angry.
"Hand him over!"
"No."
Tavia lunged at her.
Mercury was alone right now.
"Mercury Ice Daggar," she said. A large Dagger of ice formed in her hand. She swung at Tavia as if she had always known how and hit her in the shoulder. Tavia let out a scream.
So that was her new attack...
Mercury followed up with a kick to her face.
Tavia staggered back.
She looked in a rage as she started firing blast after blast at her. Ami dodged them quickly with her speed, and Tavia looked surprised.
"You fool! You wil die!"
Mercury realized that tavia was pretty fast as well as she circled around her, trying to catch her off guard. She continued firing attacks at Mercury.
Mercury decided on a long shot as she ran.
"Mercury Ice Dagger!"
The dagger appeared. She found she could fire several of them. With her speed, she knew Tavia had no chance.
Tavia hit the floor. She reacted different than Ami thought she would. She started to laugh, and a little blood leaked from her mouth.
"I can't believe- you actually...beat me," she said. She went limp and her body dissapeared.
Mercury shook her head. She grabbed Trowa and dragged him inside. Wufei and Heero were there in a second, followed by Quatre and Duo.
Trowa woke up.
"Congratulations Trowa. You have the Jewel," Mercury said. they were in the library, now deserted because everyone was finishing there finals in class so they could go home for christmas break.
"I couldn't breathe when she removed it," he said, dusting himself off and sitting down in a chair.
Mercury nodded.
"I figured as much. I have to leave tomorrow and I have to figure out a way to get the jewel out of you without hurting you," she said.
"Why can't you take Trowa with you and have Pluto get it," Duo said.
"To my demension? We're going to be attacked there."
"Yeah? Then take all of us as moral support for Trowa," Duo continued.
"But you could get hurt," she protested.
"We've been in plenty of attacks," Heero and Wufei said at once. Quatre nodded.
Mercury sighed.
She clicked on her tiara and automatically felt her legs give out from underneath her.
"Ami, are you Ok," Quatre asked.
She held her head for a second.
"Fine," she said, getting up and slumping over to a chair as well.
She had over done it with the speed and the new attack.
Pluto appeared.
"I agree with your theory Ami. if we can all put our heads together we can get the jewel out without harming Trowa. Be ready to leave tomorrow. And I warn you, a day after you arrive, Tokyo will be a mess. It is up to you to evacuate Tokyo so the enemy doesn't hurt anyone."
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I hope I didn't confuse anyone! Please review!