TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS I'VE BEEN THROUGH
Neko Majikku
Chapter One: Mercury Joins Death
Rated: PG-13
"This should fairly interesting, you know," the man stood beside The Woman and watched the scythe blade. "Who's first?"
"Sailor Mercury..." was The Woman's reply.
The Man smirked. "The genius of the Senshi? This should be good. Can I tag along?"
"If you must." The Woman gazed at her scythe. She watched Mercury, considering her options against the intelligent Senshi child.
Ami strode down towards her home as night fell over Tokyo. She had her nose in a book and her mind twelve miles away at Rei's. Rei had called them over to inform them she was having a bad feeling about the aura of Japan. Something was going to happen. No one could figure out what, though. And thus they decided to keep their eyes open and be on guard.
Rei had said that she woke up that morning from a horrible nightmare. She said that the world turned dark and a demon stood in the center of the destruction caused by it. A dark-cloaked woman with black wings and a large scythe bigger than her by a long shot. Cold wind surrounded this woman; her being was nothing but cold itself. Rei said this woman was oddly familiar and yet completely unknown to her. Only her presence was recognizable. Before Rei woke up in a cold sweat and quick heart, the thing had said something Rei couldn't hear or understand. But it wasn't a good thing to say.
That was why Rei called the Sailor Senshi to an emergency meeting around the Great Fire. Rei spent two hours trying to read before Senshi had to leave and then the rest of the day with in and out visitors. And yet she found nothing. Only one thing happened that day, and Ami was there to see it. The Fire died. It had been out since then. Rei told Ami that the Fire never went out nor was supposed to. But it did somehow and no one could figure out why. Just that the Fire had turned black a split second then died in a flash. Ojisan Hino was perplexed and scared. He was probably still chanting prayers of confession for anything he had ever done where the Fire once was. Rei said whoever was in the dream didn't want them to know anything because she could feel a vision coming just before the Fire disappeared.
Ami sighed heavily, dropping into her bed. When will it end, she thought.
I am swimming, how I love it. I'm home... On my planet... Watching the stars above as I move gracefully about the pool... A boy, familiar and comforting, is watching me with pleasure in his kind eyes... I climb out as I sense a bad feeling wash over me. Two guards come into the pool area. They look upset somehow. I pull my robes over my bathing suit and gaze at them with worry. "What is it?" the man, the boy with kind eyes, asks.
"Your Highness...The Dark Kingdom is here." Replies one of the Guards with a choked sob. "There is no hope for Mercury."
A cold sensation came over me, not from the news but something else. A woman stands just behind the Guards, watching the man and myself. She is cold and dark but still oddly familiar. "What is it?" I ask her, taking a step forward towards her. She remains still. Gazing right into my eyes with her pained red eye.
The ground shifted and I fell forward. A piece of the Palace tumbled on the Guards and the Woman, but she had passed through it and still stood watching me. Finally, she spoke... "Only a few Terrans..." Her gaze turns to the man and she disappears in a flutter of her tattered black wings that were still so elegant no matter what. The cold breeze that somehow follows her like Death passed and she was gone. The man with the kind eyes helped me to my feet and held me. It felt wonderful.
"We will see her again, beloved," he said and another part of the Palace collapsed, falling straight for us as we await our deaths. She was right, we are not Terrans and we did not survive...
Ami sat up in her bed and gasped for air to fill her tight lungs. What had all that meant? Something... Ami picked up a sheet of paper and wrote down what she could remember from that dream: "the man with the kind eyes" and got out of bed. Two. It was two in the morning and she was leaving her home, alone, to discover the calling. Should she contact the Senshi? No... No... Only she should be the one to go.
"Mercury Crystal Power!! MAKE UP!!" Ami cried once she was from earshot of anyone awake at the penthouse she and her mother dwelled in. Mercury ran south, the direction the sense came from, and soon came upon the abandoned construction site.
"He-hello?" Mercury slowly turned, scanning over the skeleton of a museum with her computer and shaking like a leaf. "He- hello?" Something blipped across her screen and was gone again before it could get a hold on whatever that was.
"Sailor Mercury..." There were five voices, slightly off in time with a woman's in front, leading it all. Mercury faced the origin but picked up nothing on her scanners as something came into view. A large, deadly, double-bladed scythe...
"Who-who are you?" Mercury mustered her courage and glared at the cloaked figure with the deadly weapon.
The figure pulled off the hood and revealed the same red, pained, eye and scarred mask. Her black hair tumbled to land on the dirt and still stretch a foot or two. "Do you know who I am?" she asked calmly, emotionlessly.
"N-no... You look familiar... But I can't remember your name..." Mercury took an attentive step back and shut her computer. It wasn't going to help if it couldn't pick up The Woman. "Who are you?"
"I am the Judge, Mizuno Ami..."
"Judge of what?" Mercury asked, amazed that this woman knew her other identity but wouldn't let on.
"Judge..." was all she said.
"She's the Judge of you." Said another voice. A man lay out on one of the metal frames, watching Mercury with wise, interested eyes. "Princess." He added with a bow of his head, causing hair to fall over his careful eyes.
"Of me?" Mercury asked. She glanced back at where The Woman was, but saw nothing.
"I'd be careful, if I were you..." sang the man.
Mercury couldn't react before she slammed into a cold wall and arms held her wrists, waist, and ankles to it. She stared in amazement at the dark room.
Again The Woman appeared, The Man beside her. "I tried to warn you." The Man said with a sigh.
"What now?" Mercury asked.
"You should not have let yourself be distracted, Sailor Mercury, and been more attentive to your enemy. You lose." The Woman pointed her scythe at Mercury and her henshin pen embedded itself into it. The blue of Mercury's symbol was the only color to the woman's weapon.
"Is there hope?" Ami muttered, as she felt suddenly exhausted.
"There is... Perhaps the others will do better."
Mercury felt cold as she turned to a familiar sleep. A conscious kind of sleep that only a few people have ever had to experience in their lifetime. Like that of the Heart Crystal... An alive Death...
Neko Majikku
Chapter One: Mercury Joins Death
Rated: PG-13
"This should fairly interesting, you know," the man stood beside The Woman and watched the scythe blade. "Who's first?"
"Sailor Mercury..." was The Woman's reply.
The Man smirked. "The genius of the Senshi? This should be good. Can I tag along?"
"If you must." The Woman gazed at her scythe. She watched Mercury, considering her options against the intelligent Senshi child.
Ami strode down towards her home as night fell over Tokyo. She had her nose in a book and her mind twelve miles away at Rei's. Rei had called them over to inform them she was having a bad feeling about the aura of Japan. Something was going to happen. No one could figure out what, though. And thus they decided to keep their eyes open and be on guard.
Rei had said that she woke up that morning from a horrible nightmare. She said that the world turned dark and a demon stood in the center of the destruction caused by it. A dark-cloaked woman with black wings and a large scythe bigger than her by a long shot. Cold wind surrounded this woman; her being was nothing but cold itself. Rei said this woman was oddly familiar and yet completely unknown to her. Only her presence was recognizable. Before Rei woke up in a cold sweat and quick heart, the thing had said something Rei couldn't hear or understand. But it wasn't a good thing to say.
That was why Rei called the Sailor Senshi to an emergency meeting around the Great Fire. Rei spent two hours trying to read before Senshi had to leave and then the rest of the day with in and out visitors. And yet she found nothing. Only one thing happened that day, and Ami was there to see it. The Fire died. It had been out since then. Rei told Ami that the Fire never went out nor was supposed to. But it did somehow and no one could figure out why. Just that the Fire had turned black a split second then died in a flash. Ojisan Hino was perplexed and scared. He was probably still chanting prayers of confession for anything he had ever done where the Fire once was. Rei said whoever was in the dream didn't want them to know anything because she could feel a vision coming just before the Fire disappeared.
Ami sighed heavily, dropping into her bed. When will it end, she thought.
I am swimming, how I love it. I'm home... On my planet... Watching the stars above as I move gracefully about the pool... A boy, familiar and comforting, is watching me with pleasure in his kind eyes... I climb out as I sense a bad feeling wash over me. Two guards come into the pool area. They look upset somehow. I pull my robes over my bathing suit and gaze at them with worry. "What is it?" the man, the boy with kind eyes, asks.
"Your Highness...The Dark Kingdom is here." Replies one of the Guards with a choked sob. "There is no hope for Mercury."
A cold sensation came over me, not from the news but something else. A woman stands just behind the Guards, watching the man and myself. She is cold and dark but still oddly familiar. "What is it?" I ask her, taking a step forward towards her. She remains still. Gazing right into my eyes with her pained red eye.
The ground shifted and I fell forward. A piece of the Palace tumbled on the Guards and the Woman, but she had passed through it and still stood watching me. Finally, she spoke... "Only a few Terrans..." Her gaze turns to the man and she disappears in a flutter of her tattered black wings that were still so elegant no matter what. The cold breeze that somehow follows her like Death passed and she was gone. The man with the kind eyes helped me to my feet and held me. It felt wonderful.
"We will see her again, beloved," he said and another part of the Palace collapsed, falling straight for us as we await our deaths. She was right, we are not Terrans and we did not survive...
Ami sat up in her bed and gasped for air to fill her tight lungs. What had all that meant? Something... Ami picked up a sheet of paper and wrote down what she could remember from that dream: "the man with the kind eyes" and got out of bed. Two. It was two in the morning and she was leaving her home, alone, to discover the calling. Should she contact the Senshi? No... No... Only she should be the one to go.
"Mercury Crystal Power!! MAKE UP!!" Ami cried once she was from earshot of anyone awake at the penthouse she and her mother dwelled in. Mercury ran south, the direction the sense came from, and soon came upon the abandoned construction site.
"He-hello?" Mercury slowly turned, scanning over the skeleton of a museum with her computer and shaking like a leaf. "He- hello?" Something blipped across her screen and was gone again before it could get a hold on whatever that was.
"Sailor Mercury..." There were five voices, slightly off in time with a woman's in front, leading it all. Mercury faced the origin but picked up nothing on her scanners as something came into view. A large, deadly, double-bladed scythe...
"Who-who are you?" Mercury mustered her courage and glared at the cloaked figure with the deadly weapon.
The figure pulled off the hood and revealed the same red, pained, eye and scarred mask. Her black hair tumbled to land on the dirt and still stretch a foot or two. "Do you know who I am?" she asked calmly, emotionlessly.
"N-no... You look familiar... But I can't remember your name..." Mercury took an attentive step back and shut her computer. It wasn't going to help if it couldn't pick up The Woman. "Who are you?"
"I am the Judge, Mizuno Ami..."
"Judge of what?" Mercury asked, amazed that this woman knew her other identity but wouldn't let on.
"Judge..." was all she said.
"She's the Judge of you." Said another voice. A man lay out on one of the metal frames, watching Mercury with wise, interested eyes. "Princess." He added with a bow of his head, causing hair to fall over his careful eyes.
"Of me?" Mercury asked. She glanced back at where The Woman was, but saw nothing.
"I'd be careful, if I were you..." sang the man.
Mercury couldn't react before she slammed into a cold wall and arms held her wrists, waist, and ankles to it. She stared in amazement at the dark room.
Again The Woman appeared, The Man beside her. "I tried to warn you." The Man said with a sigh.
"What now?" Mercury asked.
"You should not have let yourself be distracted, Sailor Mercury, and been more attentive to your enemy. You lose." The Woman pointed her scythe at Mercury and her henshin pen embedded itself into it. The blue of Mercury's symbol was the only color to the woman's weapon.
"Is there hope?" Ami muttered, as she felt suddenly exhausted.
"There is... Perhaps the others will do better."
Mercury felt cold as she turned to a familiar sleep. A conscious kind of sleep that only a few people have ever had to experience in their lifetime. Like that of the Heart Crystal... An alive Death...