The Voice of an Angel – November 17, 2002
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Hello, everyone! After long, hard, strenuous work, I did it! I finished that blasted story in… in better time then as of late, however, not the best time in the world. I worked hard and long and I hope you are going to enjoy this chapter. (Okay so I didn't work so long or so hard… but… I worked) Anywho… Ami's finally here and I thought I would be able to wrap this up quickly… but fate hates me and for some reason this story is going to be a heck of a lot harder then I thought… so…. Look for a lot more from this chick!
SPECIAL:
Thanks for all your support, everyone. Without you I would have quit this fic a long time ago. It's you who keep me pushing to my limits! THANK YOU! ::Hugs everyone:: DOMO ARIGATOU! GRACIAS! MERCI! I LOVE YA!!
PS: Remember, I don't own Sailor Moon!
Have fun!
Chapter 25: Aoi no Hikaru (Shine of Blue)
Makoto stared at Taiki as he fussed with his hair in the mirror. She was already pretty close to him, since she talked with Ami and him almost everyday, but learning of his senshi powers, it seemed as if they had grown even closer.
"You're making more of a deal out of this then I would, Taiki," She said calmly.
He turned to look at her, raising an eyebrow in disagreement. "Oh?"
"Yeah… I mean, you see Ami everyday don't you?" Makoto said, shrugging and sitting at the end of his bed.
Taiki whipped around faster then a lightning bolt. He stared with wide eyes as Makoto. "Who said anything about Mizuno-san?"
"Moshi Moshi? Where have you been, Taiki? Ami is Sailor Mercury."
This news, although slightly common to Makoto, was all new to Taiki. Needless to say, there was a slight reaction coming from him.
"HOLD IT! AMI-SAN is… is… MY mercury!?"
Makoto raised an eyebrow, "Yours? Well… yeah. I guess you could say that."
He blinked ferociously as he stared at the green-eyed woman in front of him. "Anou… is this true?"
Makoto made a face, "No," She said sarcastically, "I'm just joking." She quickly turned serious, "Now exactly, why would I joke about something this serious?"
He just stood there and blinked in surprise at her.
"Please… don't tell me you didn't know…"
"I didn't."
Makoto gasped, "Oh my! I'm sorry Taiki, I didn't mean to be so rude!"
"Anou…" He stood there blinking for a moment. Why hadn't he seen it before? Ami was… Ami was beautiful… smart… perfect… and now his. He smiled lightly. He could already feel her in his arms.
"Mercury…" He smiled.
"You're gonna make me sick," Makoto removed herself from his room and proceeded to the living room, leaving him alone.
Minako sat on the couch, flipping through a magazine. She looked up and grinned from ear to ear as Makoto entered the room.
"I told you he was disgusting, didn't I?" She laughed. She'd adjusted to Makoto being a Sailor Senshi better then she had expected. It was almost like it was some kind of club that they were both happy to be in.
Makoto made a face. "Yeah… but you didn't tell me that he was that disgusting!"
"He's been like that all day! I'm glad Mercury is coming soon… then we get to see the two of them make kissy faces at each other," Makoto laughed, pouting her lips together in a fish-like, kissy face.
"Ew… you're right…"
The two of them laughed heartily. Then in that same minute, the mood became serious as Minako turned to Makoto, her grin completely gone.
"You ever what's going to happen after all of us… come together?" She asked, her eyes falling to the floor.
Makoto breathed in deeply as she thought about it, "Not really… I wish I did though… It's going to be so different…"
Minako nodded slowly, "Yeah…"
"Oh, chin-up, you two," Luna said, jumping from the entertainment system, "Things are going to be alright, and soon the Earth will be returned to it's rightful owners."
Minako and Makoto both forced a smile and nodded, "Hai!"
"That's the spirit you two!"
"Ohayo Gozaimasu!*" A voice called from the entryway (*Good Morning). Three sets of eyes turned to see a raven-haired, violet-eyed beauty standing there, she bowed lightly before slipping off her shoes and entering the living room. "How is every one doing?"
"We're well, what about you, Rei?" Luna asked calmly.
"I'm fine, are we waiting for Taiki?" She asked, sitting down.
"Hai… he's taking forever!" Minako crossed her arms over her chest and snarled slightly in the direction of his room.
"What do you expect? After all… it is his Mercury," Yaten said, coming in from the hall. "Have you guys seen Mamoru?" he questioned.
"Mamoru?" everyone blinked.
"Come to think of it…" Rei mused, "I really haven't seen him as of late…"
MAMORU: She's holding me hostage!!! Help!! Damn Authoress!!
XAPHRIN: Who… me?? Now… why would I do that?
MAMO: I don't know!! YOU TELL ME!? Maybe you just want my BODY!
XAPH: (Pats him on the head) Now don't get full of yourself, I only forgot about you!
MAMO: Oh… great! -_-;;
"I'm ready!" Taiki nearly bounded from his room to the front door. He looked at all of them irritably, "Well, what are we waiting for?"
Everyone sweatdropped, "Great…"
Taiki rapped heartily at the door, his heart in his throat. Mercury was just a door away… why couldn't he be with her NOW???
"Taiki… you don't have to breakdown the door… jeez…" Minako said from behind him. He spun around and glared at her.
"Oh, shut up…"
Makoto grinned, "She has a point you know."
"You shut up too," He pouted, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Hai?" The door swung open to reveal a slender, blue-haired woman, with shining blue eyes.
Taiki's heart fluttered, "MERCURY!" He jumped forward and embraced the woman, holding her tightly, while nuzzling his face into her hair, "I've missed you so much… I just want to hold you…"
Everyone just stared, their sweatdrops not big enough to show on their heads.
"You are so… beautiful…" He whispered.
"Anou… excuse me… do I-" She began.
"Hush," Taiki interjected, "I know it doesn't make sense… but I love you."
"Um… Taiki… you should REALLY let her go…" Minako cringed deeply.
"You shut up," He hissed, holding the woman tighter.
"No… Taiki, we're SERIOUS…" Makoto began nervously.
There was a gasp and a scream from the doorframe. "PERVERT! PERVERT!" A high-pitched voice yelled, "SOME ONE IS MOLESTING MY MOTHER!!!"
Taiki's head snapped up to come face to face with…Ami.
"ECCHI!" She swung a frying pan at his head, hitting dead-on, and knocking him to the floor, then out of consciousness.
"Okay…" Makoto said, looking at Taiki, then at Ami's mother, then at Ami, "Remind me never to tick you off…"
Ami's mother readjusted her dress and brushed herself off, then looked at Taiki on the floor and blinked, "Well… I suppose we should bring him in. Mako-chan, will you do the honors?"
"Hai, Mizuno-san," Makoto grabbed his left ankle and drug him inside the apartment with ease.
"Oh no… Taiki-sempai…" Ami stared at the frying pan in her hand, then at Taiki. "I didn't mean to do it, mother, really!" She pleaded, "I thought he was molesting you…"
Ms. Mizuno just laughed, "Don't worry Ami. No harm done… he'll just have one heck of a headache…"
Minako shrugged, "We told him not to do it, but was he wouldn't listen…"
Rei chuckled as she stared at the man on the floor.
"So, what brings you three lovely ladies to our humble abode? I haven't seen much of your two trouble-makers lately," Ms. Mizuno questioned, smiling brightly at the three girls.
"Well," Makoto said, smiling pleasantly at Ms. Mizuno, "We came to talk to, Ami." She shot an urgent look at the blue-haired girl.
Minako nodded, "Yep… we have some problems… so…"
"Well, alright," Ms. Mizuno smiled, "Let me know if you need anything."
"Could you tell us if flat-head over here wakes up?" Minako said, jerking her thumb in the direction of Taiki.
Ms. Mizuno laughed in response then nodded, "Of course."
"Come on, Ami… we need some privacy," Minako grabbed her friend's wrist and drug her into the girl's bedroom.
"What's all of this about?" Ami questioned as Makoto locked the door, "Why were all of you over here? Including Taiki-sempai?"
Makoto grinned, "What, you don't trust us?"
"No," Ami said flatly.
"Awe, we're hurt," Minako smiled sitting next to Ami on the bed.
"Okay, Ami… We can't keep beating around the bush, w have to tell you exactly what's going on," Makoto said, looking serious all of the sudden. Ami blinked at her sudden change of mood.
"What is it?" She questioned worriedly.
"Ami, You are a Sailor Senshi," a voice said from her foot. Ami jumped about ten feet in the air and nearly clung to her ceiling in fright.
"WHAT IS THAT!?" She yelped, pointing at the cat. "It TALKED!?"
The cat sighed, "Why is everyone so surprised that I can talk? You know it's not that big of a deal…"
"I think it is!!" Ami yelped again.
"Ami you have to calm down, what we're telling you is fairly important," Makoto said, picking Luna up in her arms.
"Well, what are you telling me?" She asked, glaring at the possessed cat in Mako-chan's arms. Luna jumped down and next to Ami.
"As we've said before, Ami, you are the Sailor Senshi, Sailor Mercury," The cat spoke in an eerily calm voice.
"I'm a what… a Sailor Senshi…?" She just blinked heavily.
"You are… as well as I am," Makoto grinned, "And Mina-chan."
"You are… too? But this doesn't make any sense… I mean… I…" She breathed in very deeply. "How can I be a sailor senshi?"
Luna blinked calmly, "You show the characteristics. You are Sailor Mercury…"
"Mercury?" Ami questioned.
"Hai…" Minako said, "I'm Sailor Venus and Makoto is Sailor Jupiter."
"And I'm Sailor Mars," The young, raven-haired woman spoke from behind her two companions.
"And I'm… Sailor Mercury…" She thought for a moment, "Anou… what did Taiki have to do with all of this…"
"Well…" Makoto tried to keep a straight face but ended up in endless fit of giggles, "Well… Taiki is a Sailor Senshi too!"
Ami made the most amusing face ever, then blinked ferociously for about three minutes, "He's… a Sailor… Senshi…"
Luna glared at Makoto as Rei tried to hold in her giggles. "Now, how are we supposed to explain this situation to her."
Makoto shrugged, "I dunno."
"Obviously."
"Maybe, we'd better skip to the 'initiation'," Minako suggested. Luna nodded.
"I suppose that's all we ban do. Ami-san?" She questioned.
Ami blinked one last time before snapping out of her reverie and looking down at the talking black cat. "Hai?"
"Place your hand on my forehead please…."
"Doushite*?" She questioned, looking at her friends, who nodded at her solemnly (*Why?).
"Trust us, Ami-chan," Minako said softly. Everyone nodded and Ami placed her hand on the black cat's forehead.
"Just close your eyes and be calm, Ami-san," The cat said, "You may feel a slight burning pain on your forehead…"
Seiya poked his head in to the room, looking around for the being.
"I'm here," Said a voice from the sofa, "And Usagi is asleep." Two golden eyes turned to catch his gaze.
"So you've come…"
"As have you. Your decision then?"
"I don't have much of a choice… I accept your offer."
There was an eerie silence that floated around the room. Kaoraan rose to her feet with a rustle of taffeta. Her low-cut, warmly colored dress suited her well, and for a moment Seiya thought she looked very beautiful.
"Then I will arrange your departure…" She quickly removed herself from his presence, finding him vile and uncouth.
'I hope I did the right thing,' He thought to himself, as he watched the pompous, conniving wench take her leave, 'Usagi… damnit, Usagi… I love you so much… I can't bear to see you like this.'
He cast a worried glance over at the sleeping form in the bed. She just turned in her sleep and sighed.
"Usagi-chan…"
"Oh," Rei laughed, "I remember that! Taiki looked so funny in a canary yellow dress!" Everyone broke into fits of giggles.
Ami remembered so many things, and when she was with these three, it felt just like old times. Back in the days when she was a princess, and a guardian.
Everyone suddenly smiled at each other suddenly.
"It feels good to be together," Ami stated.
"Memories are coming back quicker and clearer, too," Minako stated.
Luna nodded from their feet, "Hai. They should, all the senshi have been found. Once we all gather… then all the memories will resurface, and the princess will be awakened."
Ami looked at Luna calmly, "And then we will retrieve her and Seiya?"
"Hai. Seiya… I'm so worried about him. He'll fret over Usagi, and Xavier… Xavier despises Seiya with a deep passion," She sighed deeply, "If he is alive it is just barely."
Everyone was solemn for a few long moments.
"Do we know for sure that he's alive?" Minako's voice was so quiet as she asked.
Tears rushed to Rei's eyes at the accusation. What if he was dead? She would know! Surely she would know!
"I know he's not dead!" Rei stated through her tears, then turned and yelled at the blonde, "It's treason for you to say that he is! He's alive and I know it!"
Everyone blinked at her. What was she saying? This wasn't something you could consult the scared fires about… could it be that… she loved Seiya?
"Anou…" She whispered, "Gomen…"
"Rei, are you-" Makoto didn't have time to finish her sentence. The door burst open and in rushed a tall man with cobalt eyes and chestnut hair.
"Mercury!"
Ami suddenly grew a conniving glint to her eyes.
"Excuse me, sir, who are you?"
Taiki fell to the floor at her feet. "Mercury! Ami! It's me… Taiki!"
Ami was forcing down gales of laughter, at the moment. She just forced herself to blink blankly at the man at her feet.
"Excuse me, sir, do I know you?"
"ARGH! LUNA!" He grabbed the cat by the scruff of it's neck and picked it up so it was eye-level with himself. "Is she the RIGHT girl!? CAUSE IF SHE ISN'T….!?"
"Oh, come now, Taiki," Said a pleasant, almost whimsical voice from his side, "You don't want me thinking that there's another girl in your life, do you?"
He whirled on the petite, blue-haired beauty and smiled. "Ami?"
"Konncihiwa, Taiki," She stated with a smiled, "How are you?"
He picked her up and held her close to his chest, "Ami… how come I couldn't see it before? You were right in my arms… and I pushed you away…"
"I forgive you." She smiled up at him and he smiled sweetly back down.
"Hello!" Minako stated loudly, "Some people would like to keep their lunch here!"
"Oh, shove it," Taiki said, then grabbed Ami and kissed her deeply. Ami was his now… and soon everything was going to be that utopian bliss it had been, before the end of the silver days.
Xavier sat calmly at a black marble table. His eyes were sullen and he looked tired. The man across from him just smiled maliciously.
"And? Do you wish to obtain my army?" The man said, his voice was cracking, as if he was old and smoked hard cigarettes his entire life.
Xavier thought for a while longer, "And you ask for my Princess… in return for your army? You fool, don't you realize that the whole reason I want you army is to keep my princess?" His voice was harsh like poison, but it did not phase his companion.
"Then, if I may be so bold as to request, your General, Kaoraan, I believe her name is?"
This Xavier considered deeply. All this man was asking for was Kaoraan… he could deliver such a price. Kaoraan was nothing much to him, only his princess mattered.
Xavier sneered frightfully, holding out his had in delight, "You have a deal."