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Chapter 13

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"Bzzzz." Ami tiredly swatted the air, her eyes still closed. "Bzzz, bzzz bzzz bzzz." Ami sat up with a huff, swating away the fly next to her ear. She was about to lay back down and fall asleep again, after all she had hardly slept the night before. She was however reminded of why she was there. Standing up, she looked around her. It was still early morning. The pilots were all sleeping soundly. All except Duo. He was in a restless sleep.



Ami reached over to him, and shook him, but he didn't wake. She felt his forehead. He was burning up. She sighed. She felt terrible. They had followed her to help her, and now she was useless to help them. If only Julliana would listen to reason. Heero stirred. He soon was sitting up.

"Are we heading to find Quatre now. Are we going to the final destination," he asked.

"It just about time now," she told him. She raised her wand in the air.

"Mercury Crystal Power!" The bright light woke Trowa and Wufei up. Heero grabbed Duo.

"Ok, do you know what direction we're headed," he asked.

"Yes, but-" Mercury started. She was cut off.

"You are all SO slow," Julliana said, appearing in front of Mercury.

"We'd be a lot faster if Duo was healthy," Mercury snarled.

"I like it better this way, it's nice and quiet," Julliana said offering a cruel smile. Wufei turned red.

"Listen you stupid onna if you don't-" he was cut off and sank to his knees, the same pain just like what had happened in that store that time was happening again. Julliana had her hand in a fist.



"Stop it Julliana," Mercury said, smacking her hand. Julliana released her fist with a laugh.

"Don't speak that way to me. Or you will suffer and die just like he will," she said pointing at Duo.

"Since you are all so slow, and I want to get this done with, I am transporting you to the palace," she said, with a snap of her fingers. Everything around them seemed to spin, and they appeared at the front hall of the Mercurian Palace. She steadied herself. Trowa swayed back into the wall. Mercury expected him to fall through, but that didn't happen.

"You'll find that the palace is quite solid," Julliana's voice echoed through the walls, "becasue the palace is still here. However, the images that are about to fill it are not." The place came alive. People rushed in all directions.

"Beryl is attacking! Evacuate!" There were screams of terror. All four of Beryl's armies, led by each general, were in the palace. Beryl stood laughing.

"The first planet to fall will be Mercury. Then the rest of the planets, until the whole silver milenium is destroyed!" Beryl looked around, as servents ran around screaming and being struck down.

"Now, to find the Lia and her brat," she said to herself, walking down the hallway and striking down those who got in her way.

Meanwhile Ami and her mother were sprinting down the hall, away from the crowds.

"Hurry Ami, we must be quick," her mother said, grabbing her wrist and moving her ahead of her.

"Beryl is only a bit behind us mother," Princess Ami said, her visor open over her eyes.

"I know, if I can just make it to the control room to send you to the moon," her mother said.

"I'm not leaving you! I'll transform and help fight."

"Ami, talk reasonably. Your henshin wand has been broken in half, you'll have to get a new one on the moon. Our troops are dead!" Her mother stopped running to look at her. Ami met her eyes.

"Honey, Beryl attacked in a square around our castle. Our troops were divided and sent out to each location, and after your father died the last of our troops were brought to the celebration, as protection. They were killed as well. There is nobody left, I have to fight, and get you to the moon!"

"What about the other planets, won't they help?" Her mother shook her head.

"There troops were supposed to be here weeks ago. Mars has broken out into a civil war, and Jupiter's people are going through an uprising. The other planets are already also being attacked. They have nothing to spare," the queen paused, and started to move towards the control room, Ami following.

"This planet has always gotten by on it's own anyways. If we fall, we fall with all our honor. You and the other princesses are our last hope for the Silver Millenium. The moon will be last. Serenity will train you well," she took a breath, "just do this for me, OK?" They reached the control room. Queen Lia gasped. The door was busted open, and everything was destroyed.

"Ami, can you fix it? can you?"

"I don't know, if I could it would take at least a half hour," Ami replied unsurely.

"NO," the queen said angrilly, slamming her fist into the wall. She calmed her breathing, and looked up at Ami.

"I suppose we'll have to take a different approach," her mother said, turning to look at her. Ami nodded. They sprinted down the hall, into the main room, where the King had kept all of his armor and weapons. The queen threw Princess Ami a sword, and then grabbed one herself.

"Your father taught you how to use a sword, right Ami?," her mother asked. Ami nodded.

"Good, let's go. I have to get to my room to get my sceptor, and we have to be able to protect ourselves," her mother said. Ami nodded. They ran down the marble hallway, into the terror in themiddle of the palace. The queen swung at Beryl's soldiers as she passed with skill, knocking many out of their way and away from others. Princess Ami also used her sword, but she wasn't extremely confident in her abilities and used it less than her mother.

The two burst into the queens room, and her mother ran into the back room where she had her sceptor stashed. Ami stood tensely at the door watching out for any soldiers.

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Meanwhile, in the back of the castle Julliana and David stood together. David slashed the last soldier there.

"I'm going up to the main floor to see if the Queen and Princess are alright," he told Julliana, starting to move away from her. She grabbed his wrist.

"No, don't go. Stay here safe with me!" He fought free of her grasp.

"It would be apsolutely disgraceful of me to stay here when the whole palace is attacked and many unarmed," he told her.

"It's about Ami, isn't it? Our whole world revolves around AMI! Stay here, I've made a deal with Beryl that ensure's our lives! After the Queen and Ami are dead, nothing will stand in the way of my family ruling. Look," she paused, and formed a ball of black energy in her palm. She closed her palm.

"This is the deal you made with Beryl? To let her kill everybody so that you could take over the thrown? There is no one left to RULE! Besides, a deal made with Beryl is not a deal at all. She will betray you and kill you after your co-operation! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get going and-" she cut David off again.

"It is about Ami! Don't make excuses! You've always felt something for her! I knew it the other night," Julliana's voice grew dangerously low. "I've made mistakes, but so have you! Up until the king found you, you were stealing and living on the streets. Not that I like the king, mind you. Stay." David shook his head at Julliana.

"This is what I hate about you. You get jealous over the stupidest things, and right now while you're holding me up, people are dieing!" David stormed away.

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Meanwhile, Beryl was still walking around the castle, disturbingly calm. She destroyed things in her path, knocking down pillars as she walked. HSe moved up to the second floor.

"Queen Lia," she called in a sing song voice, killing a servent scuttling by her on her way up the steps. Ami heard the footsteps nearing the room, she knew they were Beryl's.

"Mother, hurry," she whispered fiercly. Her mother emerged from the room, looking around. Her sceptor was in her hand.

"This way Ami," her mother whispered. She led her down the hall. Ami looked around. Beryl's footsteps were steadily approaching. Her mother paused. She looked as if she thought it was over. Ami grabbed her mothers arm and led her down a different hall, doubling back and heading the opposite direction.

"What are you doing," her mother asked.

"Trying to create confusion," she whispered, and leaned against a wall. She knocked 3 times. Her mother stard at her as if she were crazy, but understood when the wall moved. Ami grabbed her mother and dragged her inside just as Beryle walked by.

"Which hallway did they go down? Was it this one? Or the other one.." Beryl's voice trailed off as she walked away.

"Ami and her mother ran down the hall they were currently in to their left.

"Now, this hall opens up into the east wing," Ami told her.

"That's near the control room," her mother said. Ami said nothing to this. They emerged from the darkened hallway, to find it empty, strangely enough. Her mother headed towards the control room, but paused. Somebody was standing right next to her, looking gleeful and smiling sickly.

"Hello Lia." The queen started to back away from Beryl, but Beryl struck her to the ground. The queen jumped to her feet and backed up.



"So, this is your brat," she said, moving towards Ami. Queen lia took this opportunity to blast her iwth her sceptor. Beryl was frozen, but she quickly broke free of the ice.

"This is the best you've got? You know your husband was the only one who ever really learned to control the sceptor. You used it only once before, if I recall. You could never harness it's true powers just by using twice," Beryl said darkly.

Queen Lia looked around. She saw someone standing by the wall in the corner carrying a sword. David. She nodded at him, and he waited for her signal.

"I believe this time beryl," Queen Lia said calmly, "you have under estimated me." A smile crept onto her face. Beryl frowned.

Queen Lia raised the staff and blasted Beryl through three walls before she stopped. She ushered David in.

"She'll only be out a few minutes. Take Ami to the control room, guard her until she fixes the machine, and you can both teleport to the moon, your our last hope from the silver millenium. The last with Mercurian blood running through their veins. Tell, her that, and tell her I say goodbye."

"Mother, no."

"Go to the control room Ami, goodbye."

"Mother..."

"I am still Queen. As my last duty, I order you to go to the control room." Ami met eyes with her mother for a second, before nodding and leaving with David. As soon as they left, Queen Lia tensed. Beryl came out of the wall she had been plunged into looking furious.

"Admiral last sentiments, Lia."

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David and Ami ran into the room, and Ami started uunhooking wires and re-attaching wires, trying to find wires that weren't broken.

"There are some loos bolts, do you see a wrench in here? We don't need to be accidently transported out of the Solar System," Ami told David. He nodded. He started looking around for one.

"Where's Julliana," Ami asked.

"She's found her own way to survive," he snapped, passing her the wrench. The princess nodded and took it. She started to type on the computer, trying to access travels to the moon. It finally opened up, and she pushed the start button. It would take 2-5 minutes for the portal to appear. David looked around tensely.

"What's wrong?"

"I thought I heard footsteps." However David was right. Two of Beryl's soldiers appeared at the door.

Ami backed up, in hopes of avoiding the fight, but David was soon over powered,so she grabbed her sword and fought as well. Ami was having difficulty with whom she was fighting. He was incredibly skilled, and she had only been taught the basics by her father. She was soon pushed against the wall.

"Nothing personal Princess, but these are my orders," a familiar voice said. Zoisite removed his disguise. Ami's mouth flew open.



"And before you call me a traitor, I'm going to set you strait," Zoisite was saying this as his sword pushed against hers, Ami fighting to keep the sharp blade away from her heart. "Beryl promiced us a better era. Not the one we live in now, with false promises of security. Beryl and us will create a new kingdom."

"You fool," Ami said, before rolling to the side, her strength giving out and the sword striking the screen behind her. He pulled it out and got ready to fight again. David had knocked out the guy fighting him and moved on to help her. He fought Zoisite for a minute, before being over powered and knocked away, his sword broken in half. Zoisite raised his sword to stab at Ami, and Ami shielded herself with her arms, knowing it would do no good. After a moment, she heard laughter, and looked up with horror. Julliana had just stopped at the doorway.

"David NO!" Julliana had screamed.

"No." Ami had said, disbelief flooding her voice. David had Zoisite's sword in his side. He looked up at Ami weakly, a look of sudden understanding crossing his face. The lights behind Ami indicated that the portal had been opened. With one look at the expression on Zoisites face, one of utter delight, he ruffly shoved Ami in through the portal. She let out a cry of protest, and upon falling, heard David speak.

"If I go, you're going with me." Picking up a piece of his broken sword, he stuck it in Zoisites leg, bringing him to his knees. He couldn't reach Zoisites heart from his position on the floor. He picked up Ami's forgotten sword from the floor, but before he could hit Zoisite with it, David Kano died. Julliana stood shocked at the doorway, before furious tears began to fall from her eyes.

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The scene around them fell. They were now in the remains of the Mercurian Palace. Mercury stood with the other pilots, looking stunned. Duo had woken up abut 10 minutes ago, and Mercury feared it was near his end, unless something was done quickly. He was shaking violently and muttering things they couldn't understand.

"Woops, look like Duo here is meeting his end," said Julliana, appearing in front of them. She was smiling mischivously.

"I still don't understand Julliana. Why did you hate Ami before the fact that David may have liked her came up," Wufei asked.

"5 generations before myself, Ami's family stole the crown that rightfully belonged to us," Julliana said angrilly.

"That's untrue. I remember everything now. Mercury was a mess before my ancestors stepped up to rule. Julliana's ancestors were also trying to get the crown, but for different reasons. Her family wanted power. They wanted to rule the entire solar system. So my ancestor James stepped up to the crown, and the poeple adored him. He ruled for an entire year before Julliana's family rebelled. His competetor for the thrown, Dren attacked him one night. They fought, and James acidently killed Dren. He had kicked him away from him and Dren's head had connected with the bed-side table. Angered by their loss, Julliana's family attacked one of James children, James eldest. At the time, James eldest was five, and he was killed," Ami puased to take a lojng breath.

"This started a horrible fued between the two families, until one generation before my father took the thrown, my grandfather, and tryed to befriend Julliana's family. They reacted strangely to this. So our family was on speaking terms with them, since we didn't need anyone else to be murdered. We invited them to all our banquets, our balls, our celebrations, and they still raised their children to hate our family and the current rulers of the thrown. Then Julliana met David, a young man my father had taken off the streets. He was bitter at times, but ussually very kind hearted and Julliana instantly fell in love with him. You know the rest from there. That's why you hate me, and if you want my honest opinion. That's proving to me how much of an idiot you really are!"

Julliana looked dumbfounded. Duo looked really bad now. Heero set him down on the floor. She regained her posture. Snapping her fingers, a door appeared out of no where. Out of it stepped Quatre.

"Julliana, for Duo's sake I will make this short and sweet. Duo, Quatre, and the other pilots have nothing to do with your messed up mind games of revenge. If you hate me, then fight ME. Why kill off everyone else. They are not involved. This is a ridiculous battle fought over a 1000 year old hate and a fued between two families who should have had the guts to resolve it a long time ago. You can start right here. Heal Duo."

"It's not just about our families, although that plays a big role. Because of you, David died. It was all your fault!"

"Julliana...," a voice said. It was Quatre speaking. His eyes were normal, Mercury was sure he was not under control.

"Julliana, heal Duo please," said Quatre.

"What, no!"

"Come on, please? Heal him and send everyone else home julliana. They don't belong here," Quatre said in the same flat tone. Julliana sighed.

"Fine, fine. I am going to have to brain wash you again when this is over." She reached into thin air and produced a small bottle.

"This is the antidote," she said flatly.

"Why thankyou Julliana," Mercury said in a fake sweet voice, snatching it from her hand. SHe scanned it on her visor. No poison in it.

"Ofcourse not," Julliana said, and Mercury thought she heard her say something about Duo choking on it on the way down. Mercury handed him the bottle, he was wide awake.

"Drink it," she ordered him. He nodded and gulped it down. Everyone watched him for a second, before he suddenly perked up.



"Wow, I feal great! What is that stuff? Magic?"

"That's precisely what it is, now get going!" Julliana had lost her temper too quickly this time. She snapped her fingers and the pilots save for Quatre dissapeared, gone back to their demension. As soon as she was distracted Quatre ran across the room to where Mercury stood. Or he tryed. With on movement of her hand, Julliana had Quatre stuck in place in the middle od the vast room.

Mercury approached Julliana cautiously.

"Julliana, if you don't mind me asking, how do you have all this power? Beryl only gave you a little," Mercury asked.

"It's quite simple. When describing me, Pluto didn't say I was a killer for nothing. I killed powerful people, and using this," she held up a small black object in her hand, "stole their powers. Aftre I kill you, having the power to control ice and some water will be a great asset. When your friends arrive, they'll die too. Then I will really have controled the solar sytem, by mastering every senshi's specific power." Julliana was insane. She was power- crazed, and hse looked right now as if she had a 1000 people's blood already resting on her hand.



"And you, you have been so much trouble. So much more than you are worth," Julliana scowled at Quatre angrilly.

"Now now Julliana, don't do anything rash," Mercury said tentively.

"Rash?! How about I kill the both of you, and hand you bodies up as decoraqtions for your friends when they arrive. Does that sound like a well thought out decision?"

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