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Chapter 5

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"So you've met Julliana," said Setsuna.

"Yes, I did. My question is why you didn't warn me that she was after Quatre! This complicates everything!" Setsuna laughed.

"I'm sorry, but I couldn't reveal to you that much."

"How will I sace him from her then," Ami asked.

"Well, my suggestion is to try to get close to Quatre. Then he won't fall so easily for Julliana's spell," Setsuna suggested.

"How can I compete!"

"Ami, calm down, look, just don't transform in front of her and you'll be fine. She won't touch you in front of the pilots. Try not to be in the same room with her alone."

"I can't transform today, what if she attacks me! Breakfast was difficult enough!"

"All I can tell you is to try to do your best."

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Ami left her room, keeping her communicater on her wrist.

She walked outside onto the patio, where everyone sat. She was about to sit down, when she heard someone call her name. The gardener. She hadn't spoken to her in over a week. She was about 15 feet from the patio, crouched in the flower bed.

"Miss Ami, I haven't talked to you for a while. Come see the garden I've been working on all week," the old woman said, giving her that same kind smile. Ami had no idea why she was still hesitant. She approached and stood next to her.

"Come sit, get some dirt on your hands," the woman said laughing slightly, grabbing Ami's wrist and pulling her down to the floor on her knees. Ami shuddered from the womans grasp, but the woman seemed oblivious as she passed Ami some seeds.

She used her hands to scoop up a small plot of dirt. She ushered for Ami to put the seeds inside. Ami did so, and covered it with the dirt, pating it down gently.

The Gundam Pilots and Julliana sat and talked on the patio. Quatre watched Ami as her and the gardener talked, crouched down next to the flowers. Julliana continued to talk, oblivious to the fact that no one was paying attention.



"I'm supposed to kill you," the old woman said to Ami quietly, making her jump slightly, but try to act calm in front of the others watching. The womans pupils were red if you looked close enough.

"You've known Quatre's family for many years, I'm sure you weren't always like this," Ami said softly.

The old womans eyes changed back to normal. "Help us. She's controlling almost everybody, and those that are left are next. She plans to make a dark army to take down this earth and you!" Still quiet but rushed.



"What do you mean?Is she already that powerful," Ami asked, sounding a little surprised that she was able to get to so many.

But the woman's pupils returned to red and she continued weeding her garden, the evil taking her over and her self unable to break through it.

Ami frowned. This was a little more complex. Now she couldn't trust any of the workers. What if some of them happened to put something in her food?



She stood, placing a fake smile on her face.

"Nice speaking with you Miss Jenkins," she said, dusting her kness off and walking away.

She walked back to the patio and sat down.



A maid with brown hair and green eyes offered her a drink. Ami was about to accept it, but when she looked at the maid very closely and saw that her pupils were a very dark shade of red, although it was almost un-noticable, she shook her head.

"No thanks, I'm not thirsty," she said.

"Oh no, I'm sure you are. It's humid out here," the maid said, offering her the glass again.

"No, really i'm fine," Ami said, pushing the glass away. The maid frowned, and from the corner of her eye Ami saw Julliana steaming.

"Ya know what, I'll take it," Quatre said to the maid.

"Ok," the maid said. Julliana shot a warning glance toward the maid.

"Yes, give the drink to Quatre," Ami said sending a secretive smile to Julliana.

"No, no master Quatre, wouldn't you prefer some iced tea," the maid said nervously.

"I think he wants that drink," Ami said.

"Well, Iced tea sounds good though," Julliana interfered.



"Well, now that you mention it, iced tea does sound pretty good," Quatre reasoned.

"Yes, um, bring Quatre some iced tea," Julliana said, standing," I'll be right back."

She walked inside, and the maid followed. Now Ami was sure they had given up on poisoning her, trying to avoid a situation such as this one happening again.

From the glare Julliana have her when she walked inside, Ami assumed Julliana planned on making her death long and painful. And although this thought wasn't normally comforting to a person, it made Ami relax slightly that the attack wouldn't catch her too off guard.

Heero stared at the scene that went on before him. He excused himself and stood up. He walked into the kitchen silently. He watched Julliana argue with the maid in the dining room, although the maid showed Julliana respect.

"How could you try to offer that poison to him!" Julliana spoke harshly. The maid lowered her head. What Heero didn't know was that because of her powers Julliana knew he was in the next room.

"Who hired you to do this," Julliana said with fake anger.

"But y-," the maid seemed to catch on. "Ami hired me."

Heero frowned. It had been suspicious the way Ami had kept insisting on giving the drink to Quatre.

"Look, why did you do it?" Julliana was doing a good job acting, making herself sound suspicious of the made.

"She payed me lots of money. I'm sorry," the maid said again, looking down and putting her face in her hands. A few sob like sounds came out.

"It's alright. Look, nobody knows. We'll keep it a secret, if you promice to help me prove that Ami is trying to kill Quatre. He will never believe the poisoned drink story, she's too smart. She'll trick him out of believing that. All we need is to work together and keep Ami away from Quatre. I just know she's after his money!," Julliana told the maid.

Heero walked outside. As soon as he left, the maid raised her face from her hands. What was thought of as sobs was actually soft laughs.

"Heero will tell his friends, and they won't leave Ami alone now. In a week, I'm sure we'll have her in the position we want her in. In the mean time, I have some bonding to do with Quatre, because of what Ami did I think i'll make her death slow and painful. As soon as I have the estate. Just like she ruined my life, I will ruin hers."

The maid nodded and left.

Julliana stepped outside and sat down next to Quatre. Heero excused himself, and grabbed Wufei saying he'd like a word with him.

"Geez what's with all you guys? Everyone wants to talk to someone, what do I not know," asked Duo.

"A lot of things," Ami said under her breath. Trowa heard her and smirked, but silently turned back to his book.

Julliana leaned in next to Quatre and started talking to him in a seducing way. Quatre wasn't easily swayed by this and just smiled at her.

Ami knew that Trowa and Duo were with Julliana and Quatre, so it was safe to look around and see just how many workers were taken by Julliana's evil, and afcorse get the others out of the estate until the evil was gone.

She walked around the house, pausing to look in doorways and such. Every servent she saw, she approached and looked at them, speaking cassually. She hadn't come across anybody who was still good untill she came across one of the many sutting rooms in the house. Two maids sat next to each other on the couch. The brown haired one was older, and the blonde was younger. The brunette held a small black crystal, and she held it out to the blond haired maid.

"Come on Diana, take it. You'll be stronger, just put it in your hand, and nobody will ever mess with you again!"

"Oh, but Susan, it's just a crystal. It can't do that," said Diana.

"Just take it," Susan said, her voice growing cold.

"Susan.."

"PUT IT IN YOUR HAND, YOU HAVE TO WILLINGLY TAKE IT!"

Diana reached for the crystal, and Ami took action just then. She ran up to them and knocked the crystal from Susan's hand. It smashed on the floor and black smock rose from where it landed. Susan looked up at her with a deadly glare.

"Diana, Mr. Winner wanted me to tell you that you'll be having some vacation time now," Ami said.

"Really?" Diana seemed to forget about Susan and she jumped up excited.

"I'll go pack!"

She rushed from the room a bounce in her step.

The brunette, Susan stood up and looked at her with those cold eyes.

"Go ahead Ami. Tell Winner about the evil servents. About our eyes, tell him to look at our eyes," she snarled.

Ami frowned. Could Quatre even see their eyes?

"So, it's just people with powers that can distinguish you guys from the good ones," Ami observed.

"Close. People who believe that their is a future for our mistress's dark realm, and people whom appose it. You have to really believe that all this exists. The powers, the re-incarnations. If not, you can't see it," Susan responded.

Ami opened her mouth to say something else, but the maid snapped her fingers revealing normal clothing, well, normal depending on how you looked at it.

It consisted of a pair of tight forest green pants and a revealing top which looked more like a vest without a shirt underneath.

"And my name isn't really Susan, it's Lea. I am one of the original followers of our Mistress, not the fools we've picked up in this demension. If you see me in my maid uniform then feel free to address me as Susan. I'm not allowed to kill you, but it might be fun to ruff you up a bit, Huh?" She approached Ami.

"Sorry, but I don't have time," Ami said, backing away.

"Nonsense, you just lost us a possible good minion. I believe you deserve punishment," she said, rushing at her with a kick aimed at her head.

Ami ducked down and sent a kick at her side, which made contact since she was off guard. She hit the floor, but stood up laughing.

"Show me your true power. Transform."

They heard footsteps.

"This is the non-formal sitting room," they heard Quatre say. He was showing Julliana around. Ami dusted herself off and the Lea snapped her fingers, her outfit returning along with her personality as Susan.

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Pretty short, but I have some plans for the next chapter and they wouldn't make sense in this one. The next chapter will be out much sooner and be much longer.