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Chapter 9

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Ami walked down the steps the next day. Quatre waved to her. She waved back nervously, and kept walking. She was suddenly feeling giddy around Quatre. A crush? Ami was unsure. She had always liked Quatre, but recently she was thinking more of their friendship. Which wasn't good, because she was from a different demension.

At the breakfast table, tensions were high. It seemed that everyone but Duo and Quatre were glaring at Ami, and she was losing her appetite.

"I'm done. Tell the cook breakfast was very good," Ami said, standing and pushing her plate away.

"But you've hardly eaten anything Ames. You eat like a bird," Duo objected, stuffing some more egg in his mouth.

"Yes Ami. You need to develop better eating habits," Quatre lectured.

"I eat fast," Ami said, sending a glance toward the 3 still glaring gundam pilots and Julliana and leaving the room.

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Ami wasn't having a good day. Every time she was in the same room with Quatre or anything alone with anyone the other pilots, discluding Duo, would get defensive.

"What is your problem!," Ami finally told Heero angrilly.

"Hn." Not that Ami expected a different reply. Every time she passed Wufei he would start talking about how weak she was, and when she tryed to take seclusion in the library, Trowa would silently glare at her with his one uncovered eye.

As close as she had grown to any of them, it was quikly drifting away. The next day was no better.

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Ami woke up and stretched. The rain was coming down so hard she couldn't even make out shapes from the view outside of her window. The house was strangely chilly. She put on a pair of jeans and an oversized sweater.

Once she was downstairs, she could tell something was not quite right. Most of the curtains were closed, and servents rushed around in a flurry, repeating ,"Where is he? Where is he?"

Ami had a sinking feeling she knew what was happening. She walked cautiously around the corner, her heart caught in her throat. A maid she recognized sat in the living room. She looked at her eyes. They were normal. They weren't under Julliana's spell. Ami didn't like the direction this was headed.

"Ami," a soft voice said. She spun around. Duo stood behind her, but he didn't wear his ussual grin.



"What's happening?"

"We're all in the next room, come on. These crazy servents will get in the way," he said, grabbing her wrist and dragging her to the kitchen. The ran was very loud in the kitchen, since it was hitting the screen door. All the doors besides the one Ami and Duo had come through leading into the kitchen were closed and locked.

After she stepped in, Duo closed and locked it. In the room stood Wufei, Heero, and Trowa. No Quatre, and no Julliana.

Heero silently handed her a piece of paper.

-Don't worry for his safety Mercury. He will be safe with me. For you it is a very different story. If you

don't do as I command then I will destroy this world. It is not an empty threat. Because you know I am stronger than you. You know you can't win. So whether you come or not you will die, and I will have my revenge. The only thing it effects is the people of this world. Can you find my base? I'm sure you feel like Alice in Wonderland right now, lost and unable to figure out how to get to where she needs to go. Feeling frustrated because you wonder if you'll ever make it home? Are you getting the hint yet? Here's another. Reinactment.-

-Julliana-

She looked up at Heero with a questioning glance. He snatched the paper from her and put it on the counter, turning his icy glare at her.

"None of us had any idea what the note meant. Which narrowed it down to you," he said in his ussual monotone.

"Why are you asking me?"

"Don't play dumb onna. Things have been turned upside down since you entered this house. I have been going crazy trying to figure you out! What does Julliana mean!," Wufei bellowed.

"I-" Ami stopped, when she heard a startling sound. The sound of a gun's safety being clicked off. She turned around, and felt the cold metel of a gun pressed against the back of her head. Heero. She took a deep breath and tryed to calm herself.

Trowa had one pointed at her as well, and Duo. Actually, Duo looked insane. He was a mess, and his hand trembled viloently as he held the gun.

"I thought you were my friend."

Ami decided Heero wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger, and she owed them the truth. Now more than ever.

"Kill me and you'll never hear where Quatre is," she said calmly. Duo and Wufei automatically lowered their guns.

"I wasn't trying to deceive anyone," she started. Wufei snorted.

"Really I wasn't. It's hard for me to explain, but I'll tell you everything if we sit down alone," Ami told them.



They seemed to be considering what she was saying, and only Heero kept his gun pointed at her.

They sat down at the kitchen table.

"I guess I should start from the very begining, but keep in mind there are some parts of this story even I'm unsure of. It started thousnads of years ago. Well, thousands of years ago in a different demension. You know how you guys have space colonies? Well..." Ami told them about the silver millenium, and everyone looked skeptical.

"Yeah right onna," Wufei snapped. Ami sighed.

"It doesn't matter whether you believe me or not," she said, and continued with her story. She told them of her demension and how Pluto had come to her and told her about the woman that was after her and was trying to take over the mansion and kill everyone. When she was finished, Duo frowned.

"What do you mean take over the mansion?"

"Quatre has slowly been signing over piece by piece of this estate to Julliana, but he had no idea. However if I don't go to where her base is, Julliana will attack this Earth. I don't think I can beat her with my powers and save the world. My goal is to try and get Quatre out, then face Julliana alone," Ami explained.

"The onna can't be that strong. Onna's are weak. You're talking crazy," Wufei told her with a frown.

"Am I? Remember that time at the mall when you suddenly thought you were having a heart attack, or when the chandelier fell and nearly killed Heero? Who do you think was responsible?" They all looked ate each other.

"She missed. If that's the best she can do, then-" Heero started.

"That didn't even take more than a drop of her power. Julliana didn't miss. She was trying to scare me, so when I shoved you out of the way, she let me save you. With a movement of her finger she could have made the chandelier fall more to the left, and it would have killed both of us. And another point, the servents. They were all under her control. They could have killed us at any time."



Everyone grew silent for a moment.

"The servents are under her control?"

"They were. She freed them once she returned to her base. I suppose she had no use for humans."

"If she wants you dead so badly, why didn't she just kill you then," asked Duo.

"This fued is from thousands of years ago. From when the planets were fighting Beryl. I'm guessing she wants to torture me," Ami shrugged," my memory's are limited. I don't remember much." Everyone blinked at Ami for a second.

"I still don't believe you. Your story is so far-fetched," Wufei said with a roll of his eyes.

"Really, although I do commend you on your imagination," Trowa added for the first time.

"If I can prove it to you, will you let me go to the base," Ami asked.

"If you can prove it to us, you can go to this MAGICAL base somewhere around the galaxy and use your MAGICAL powers to save the world from DOOM," Duo said sarcastically, then pretended like he was hiding from something, and shrankunderneath the table. Ami smirked.

"Fine, I will," she said. She reached behind her and pulled out her henshin stick from out of no where. EVeryone frowned at this, and Heero held up his gun closer to her face. Ignoring the gun, she got out of her chair and threw her hand in the air.

"Mercury Crystal Power," she said in a low voice, so she didn't have all the servents trying to look in through the door.

Everyone stared at Ami as if she were crazy when she didh that. ut a split second after she said it, water flowed from the tip of the wand, circling around Ami. There was a bright flash of light, and everyone shielded their eyes. When it was over, in place of Ami stood a woman in a strange foku. It took only a moment to realize it was Ami.

Duo jumped up from where he had been under the table.

"Where did the water go? WHY aren't YOU wet!"

Ami rolled her eyes, and pulled out her computer. Heero looked stunned, but kept his gun pointed at her.

"Oh put the gun down Heero. That gun is hardly a threat. The only reason I let the three of you point your guns at me was so that you would have a false sense of security and let me explain," she said, tapping her earing. A blue visor appeared over her eyes. It had been quite a while since she had used it, and Ami smiled to herself.

They looked at her strangely.

"I bet you wrote that note yourself. Then you gave us a fake story and now you want to kill us," WUfei said angrilly. Ami was a littl taken back.

"Kill you? All this time, I've been here trying to save you," she stuck her nose in the air, "some appreciation!" She started scanning tha area, and landed on the note. Once under her scanner, she could see that only from Julliana's touch as the note was written, it radiated evil, or as Rei would call it, bad or negative vibes.

Ami had this feeling something bad was going to happen. Her and the other scouts senses weren't nearly as advanced as Rei's, but Ami still did get that sick or bad feeling when there was a battle coming or evil nearby. At the moment Ami felt both. She reached over to pick up the note, and re-read it carefully. The reinactment. Julliana had mentioned something like that during their conversation in the library. But a re-inactment of what, and where?

She clicked her earing, letting her visor close. Then she clicked her tiara twice, and her foku turned back into what seemed like a ton of water, before falling to the floor and revealing her in her normal clothing, evaporating on impact.



"Tell the servents that they all have the rest of the week off, and to be out of here in a half hour. Tell them Quatre called and said that he was at his friends house and would be home soon," Ami instructed.

"Why?"

"Don't ask questions. Just do it," Ami snapped. Duo left to go tell the servents.

Heero kept his gun pointed at her. She turned to look at him. Slowly, he lowered his gun.

Thunder struck outside the screen doors. Ten minutes later, the house was empty except for them.

Ami sat down in a chair in the kitchen, and re-read the note. Again, and again. The only clue she could find was reinactment.

Lightning and thunder struck at once again, startling Ami and making her drop the note on the floor. She shook her head.

"Just thunder and lightning."

Re-inactment. She picked up the note and placed it on the table. Everyone but Duo had left the room, searching for more clues.

Opening her communicater on her wrist, she pushed a button and Duo heard some scratching.

"What is that," he asked.

"My communicater," she said, pushing a few more buttons.

"So that's why you always wore that watch."

"Amara," she said, finally able to connect with one of them.

"Ames is that you?" The voice was in a rush.

"Yeah, what's the hurry?," Ami aksed, standing up and starting to walka round the kitchen.

"I forgot that it was my day to pick up Rini and Hotaru from their day camp," Amara responded, and heard the jingling of car keys.

"Well I won't hold you up. Can you just connect me directly to Setsuna?"

"Sure, Bye Ames," Amara said, and there was a scratching sound until another voice came on.

"Ami?"

"Yes. I'm in need of some answers Setsuna,"

"So Julliana blew her last fuse?"

"If you know, then how about you help me figure out where she's keeping him," Ami said.



"Are you sure you want to do this Ami?"

"You kind of sent me to a different demension to do this," Ami responded. A laugh was heard.

"Ami. You know that Julliana posseses great powers. Greater than yours. You've watched her in action. Can you realy win?," Setsuna asked. Ami sat down again with a huff and considered this.

"No I can't. I know I can't. My plan was just to free Quatre and lead Julliana to a different place. Maybe get her to leave the poeple of this demension alone," Ami said.

"I'm sorry Ami. I was unaware of how powerful she was. I was ignorant. When I first sent you I never imagined that Julliana would show up at the mansion, or that she could feel anything in the cold heart that had grown even colder every passing year. I'm sorry I didn't send anyone with you, but I felt it was your own battle. I forgot that what made us strong and helped us to beat every enemy that we came across was our teamwork. If I were more worthy in my position as guardian of time, this never would have happened. "

"Setsuna. You have it harder than all of us do, and I am honored to have you as my friend. What you do is difficult, and you do it well."

"Thankyou Amo, but it's my fault. So I'll send the other scouts to to that demension," Setsuna told her.

"When will they arrive?"

"Not for three days. There have been so many rogue youma attacks. Pods left over from years back. It'll take them three days to get rid of all of them," Setsuna explained.

"In other words..."

"You have to go ahead on your own. Quatre will be under her control and this world will have a threat if you don't. You have to be able to survive for three days on Julliana's territory before they arrive."

"I can do that," Ami told her," just tell me where they are!"

"You already know Ami. Look over the note again, and don't just think about the last word," Setsuna said.



"I will. Thanks Setsuna," Ami told her, closing the communicater.

She picked up the note, and skimmed it again. Nothing. She read it carefully. Like Alice in Wonderland. That day when she had found the little door on the closed side of the mansion. And she had forgotten about it. A little door, like the one Alice had found.



She jumped up, startling Duo who was still trying to understand what was happening. Ami ran from the room.



"Hey Ames! Wait up," Duo called. He ran after her, knocking into Heero. Heero stood and ran after the two, and when they passed Wufei and Trowa, they followed to see what the commotion was about.

Ami ran to the other end of the mansion, to the G wing. It had been two weeks. How could she ahve forgotten?

"Ami! No one goes there! Come back here," Duo called, taking a deep breath. Ami ignored him and rounded the corner. She walked down the hallway, finding the same room as before. How quant that the weather was the same as last time.

She opened the door and entered. The same little door was at the other side of the room. Everyone entered in soundlessly afterwards. She got down on her knees in front of the door. The small door.

Something she hadn't noticed the first time. The door had a circle with a handmark edged into it. In the dark last time, she hadn't seen it. She reached again for the handle. Still locked. But...

Wufei had switched on the lights and they all circled around her. Ami reached over and placed her hand in the circle. Her hand fit just perfect, but nothing happened. SHe rolled her eyes at how silly she was, starting to move her hand, she suddenly stopped. A blue light formed around the circle. SHe removed her hand. The light got brighter until they all had to shield their eyes.

The door swung open. Ami cautiously peered inside. At first she saw only darkness. Then she caught something from the corner of her eye. Another door? Only this one was large. Ami crawled through the first doow, a tight fit but she managed.

"Ames, don't go in there. You don't know what's in there," Duo protested. They heard Ami sneeze.

"Dust," she responded.

Heero smirked, despite himself. Ami walked over to the door and opened it up. It revealed a forest. As soon as she closed the door to tell the pilots, a scroll of paper fell to the floor in front of her.



She picked it up. In the darkness, she couldn't read what it said. She poked her head and hands out of the small door to read the note. It read-

-You found the portal to the planet Mercury. The reinactment begins now-

"This is it guys," she told them.

"How did you know about this door," Wufei asked.

"I found it a couple of weeks ago. When I ran into you," she said, pointing at Trowa.

"Oh," everyone said at once. Ami smirked.



"Ok, I'm gonna go now," she said, starting to crawl backwards. Duo grabbed her wrist.

"You can't beat Julliana Ami. I heard you talking to that woman on your communicator," he said.

"No, I can't. But I have no other choice, goodbye," Ami reasoned, crawling back towards the door.

She poked her head back in.

"Oh, and one more thing. I don't know if I can re-open this door if and when I get back this way. Don't close it, and don't come after me. I dont know what's on Mercury," she told them, dissapearing again.

They all sat silently for a while.

Sat.

Sat.

Sat.

Sat.

Sat.

Behaved themselved like dignified young gentlmen, and sat.

Sat, and sat.

"Did she really expect us to sit still and not follow her? Come on, we're us," Duo said, standing. There were murmers of agreement. Heero crawled through first, then Trowa, and Wufei. Duo went last. He got stuck in the door.

"Help me out guys, I'm stuck," he whined.

"Cut down on the donuts and chocolate Maxwell," Wufei said, grabbing one of his arms with an ashamed look on his face. Heero grabbed the other arm, Trowa watching and smirking.

After a minute of pulling, they gave one final heave and Duo flew inside.



"Owwwiee."

Wufei rolled his eyes. They opened the door and peaked inside. A forest. Steping inside, they looked shocked. They were in space. On Mercury. Ami hadn't been kidding around. But they seemd to be in the middle of a forest. Lost.

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