A/N: It's been quite awhile, so sorry, I really am. Life has been just a bit hectic. Well here is a hopefully awaited chapter and enjoy!
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Title: Becoming Another
Chapter Nine
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A year had passed in Elision. Bunny had been changing at a more accelerated rate recently, within the sweet summer months they now experienced. But it only strengthened Helios's worry that something far more dangerous was happening to her. It seemed that soon, what they saw as Bunny in the beginning, before she laid any of her delicate fingertips on the golden crystal, would be gone. Princess Serenity of the Moon will have truly died a thousand years ago without a reincarnation. Scary? A bit.
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" C'mon Kunzy! Pretty please?! Sets is busy with Helios somewhere and I have no one to train with!" Bunny pleaded pitifully, giving Kunzite her puppy dog pout. He chuckled and shook his head yes in defeat.
" Alright fair princess. But we just got done with training two hours ago. Are you sure your body has relaxed enough?" A worried look crossed his face, but left just as soon as she zapped him again with her now patented blue static shock.
" General Kunzite, as leader of this team, I demand for you to never call me princess again! Do you understand this time? I'd hate to have to kill you." The look in Bunny's eyes showed she was quite serious and with out a second glance, hopped on her now adult Dox, double the size he was, and rode off.
- Smart Kunzite…- He sighed, annoyed with his own stupidity and found Bunny and Shields were already five hundred yards away. Kunzite took off with out another thought and flew threw the air, wingless, and tried to catch up. He didn't catch up.
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" Your getting slow Kunzite! More training for you sir…with weights I think…yes, weights will help to make you much faster! But forget that for now, sword fighting is what were doing here today!" Bunny looked so eager and from the air she pulled out her sword that she used as Meta Earth. Shields yipped with excitement got into a defensive position.
" Shield's, stand down boy. Let me take him on alone alright?" Bunny winked at Shield's, who looked a bit worried but did as told and laid down in the grass.
" Being fearless are we?" Kunzite swung his massive sword in arches, exercising his arm.
" I am fearless!" Bunny charged forth with lightening speed and swung at him with force Kunzite didn't think she possessed.
That's when he felt it.
It was like her aura had changed over night and the energy patterns that were once Bunny, the old Bunny, were non-existent. The change caught him off guard and the sword's blade came a few millimeters from his tanned skin. Kunzite looked up startled and saw her victorious smile as she flipped over his shoulder and behind him. Only a fraction of a second later did he feel the sharp tip of her blade touch the center of his back and her chuckle.
" I can't wait for the battles to start, but you Sir Kunzite, need to train more. Weights, heavy ones, not those light things you've been using. Ten tons is really nothing you know." Bunny relaxed her stance and sliced the air with her sword, the cuts were fast and you would have never noticed she had actually made fifteen strokes in under a second.
" Come on Shield's! So much for training! Kunzite, I suggest you get to work." She jumped onto the fox creature's back and off they rode towards the palace.
- She is changing…I haven't noticed because…because my emotions wouldn't let me look hard enough to notice her slipping away….- Kunzite ran a hand through his hair and went flying off to find Helios and Setsuna.
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" Shields, we have a problem boy." Bunny paced back and forth by the railing of her terrace. Shields lifted his head in curiosity and blinked it's silver eyes, watching her pace.
" Well, you see buddy, the battles haven't started yet. I need them to start! But how? You see?, it's a problem!" Bunny paused in her pacing, letting her creamy white hand drop down by the other to need the silky fabric of her sundress.
" What do you think Shields?" Her brown eyes focused on the green beast and smiled when he yipped and barked a few times. It seemed she could actually understand her four-legged friend.
" Oh! I see! Very brilliant my friend, brilliant indeed! And you still being a baby! Good boy!" Bunny threw him some cake that came with her afternoon tea and grinned at his canine ways.
- Now to distract Helios…tomorrow though would be better, it being so late and all.- Bunny giggled and called her Dox to come and be brushed before dinner.
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" So you've finally noticed? It's frightening to watch her change before you and know it's unstoppable." Helios walked along, hands behind his back as he walked to dinner with Setsuna and Kunzite.
" Frightening is an understatement! And how do you know it's unstoppable?! Can't we stop her from becoming…another person?!…" Kunzite walked ahead a little, irritated he couldn't do anything. Helios suddenly looked shocked and stopped in his tracks, but it was quick and fleeting. And Setsuna almost missed it. But her eyes were keener than ever, she saw everything that could be seen. The garnet haired woman put a gentle hand to the guardian's arm and looked at him worriedly.
" What is it Helios? Something Kunzite said shocked you. Please tell me." Her voice was soft and calm as usual and her sharp red eyes pierced him subtly.
" It's nothing Setsuna. Could you ease poor Kunzite's mind? He looks frazzled from all this information." Helios looked out the window to advert her gaze and saw her nod from the corner of his blue eyes.
- Siria, I see what you did…It has become more than just another battle now…- Helios walked on behind his two companions as Setsuna consoled Kunzite out of thinking the love of his life was slipping away forever.
Even though that might really be true.
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A/N: A short, mystifying chapter for you all. Sry for the long wait, school's becoming such a hassle, along with my missing dog being found and stuff. New chapter will be up soon! Promise! Please review!!
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