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Chapter 14

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~Last Time~

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

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

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Mercury tensed. She couldn't believe she had lived in the same house with Julliana for nearly a month, and she and everyone else so far were still breathing. Julliana was insane. There was clearly no going back. She would have to stall. Her friends could arrive any time that night.



She walked to the center of what used to be an old grand hall, where Quatre stood frozen in place. He met her eyes briefly. She nodded at him. He couldn't nod, but Mercury knew he understood that she meant to try to stall. She was working on a plan.

"Julliana, unfreeze Quatre. There's no where in here to run, you've sealed off all of the exits," Mercury pointed out.

"You're in no position to be making demands," Julliana snapped.

"I know, but you see, if you kill him and keep him frozen there while you do so, you won't see his tortured expression, and you won't be able to hear him screaming. Don't you want to kill us nice and slow, for your revenge?" Mercury suggested. Quatre looked at Mercury as if she had grown two heads. She gave him a reassuring smile. Julliana considered this.

"If you think this is going to help you both to escape, it won't. But you're right about one thing, it won't make me pleased unless I hear screams," she said. She snapped her fingers, and Quatre could move. He turned to face JUlliana and backed up next to Mercury.

"Awww, isn't that nice. You two look so cute together I could barf," Julliana laughed. She raised her hand to attack them.

"Er, don't you think we'd make better slaves than corpses," Mercury asked quickly.

"Um...nah. I prefer corpses," Julliana said, raising her hand again. She directed a hit at a pillar next to them. They both got out of the way as the pillar crumpled to the ground. She aimed for the one behind them, and it came crashing down, this time a narrower margine of escape.

"She's toying with us," Mercury whispered to Quatre. He nodded. Mercury knew that Julliana wanted them to be afraid before she killed them. She wanted to terrorize them until their last breaths. But Julliana was mistaken. Stalling on killing them, making it like a game, would be her down fall. Mercury had known Julliana would do this. She had waited a 1000 years to kill her, so it was probably the most important thing to her that she would ever do. She would want to make it perfect.

Julliana continued knocking down pillars, Mercury and Quatre dodging.

"If you destroy the palace while you're in it, that really won't do you much good," Mercury called. Julliana seemed to consider this.

"Correct as ussual Merucry. I'll just have to aim for you." Julliana reached as if grabbing something from the air. A tiny ball of purple light, smaller than the palm of Julliana's hand formed. Then, it took shape slowly. At first, it reminded Mercury of Usagi's discus after it changed from a tiara, but then it changed again. Sharp, flat spikes, made entirely out of energy, sprouted from the sides. It turned black.

With a laugh, Julliana thrusted the discus toward them. They both jumped in opposite directions out of the way. It hit the wall, but it didn't dissapear. It bounced off and with even more speed then what Julliana had used throwing at them, came at them again. They got down, and before they knew it had speed up even more and was coming right at Quatre.

"Look out!" Quatre screamed as it hit his arm. As soon as it hit him, it dissapeared. He clutched his arm. Mercury looked at it. His hand was covering it and still blood leaked down the side. Quatre removed his hand from his arm. It wasn't as bad as she had thought. It had only skimmed his arm, it wasn't a direct hit. He wasn't bleeding badly. She sighed in relief.

Julliana found his injury quite hillarious.

"Well, I missed Mercury. Let's see how you do with these," Julliana raised her hand again, and a discus formed, but it divided into five. She released them, but this time it was like they were centered on Mercury. She ran around frantically, but they only aimed at her and as Mercury ran, she realized it was the 6th time they had bounced off of the wall. She couldn't stop to even use her powers.



She rolled to the ground as one came near her head, but jumped up a split second after when when came crashing at her towards the ground, bouncing off and speeding up, if possible, even more. Mercury knew she had no where to run when each one of the five came at her a different way. She feebly covered her face, her arms crossed in front of it.

Each discus hit her, and as if planned, each of her legs and arms were hit, and one hit her in the stomach. They faded away. Mercury was glad she had protected her face and head, but not so happy about the rest. Blood poured from each wound like Mercury had never seen. She looked up at Julliana, who was suppressing a laugh.

"A direct hit. Does it hurt Mercury," she asked, unable to hold it in any longer and cracking up. Mercury bit her lip.

"No," she lied.

"Are you sure? Are you sure it doesn't hurt like anything you've ever felt before," Julliana asked with a nasty smlie. Mercury kept her knees from giving out from underneath her. Already Quatre was approaching her, a concerned look on his face. Since Mercury gave no responce, Julliana continued.

"The thing that is most special about this attack is not just the extreme pain, but the amount of blood. Normally, a person hit DIRECTLY with one will bleed to death in ten minutes. However, you've been hit with five. Still, since you are a senshi and are superior to a normal human in strength and healing, I'll give you fifty minutes to an hour before you die from the blood loss. My own invention. The one thing I am most proud of though, is the fact that you can't pass out when it's happening. The poison added to it keeps you awake until you die, so you die in pain." Mercury realized that her and Qautre's only hope was for the scouts to arrive before Mercury was apsolutely unable to fight. She stood up straiter.



"Don't take me lying down Julliana. I'll fight you until I can't fight anymore," Mercury snapped.

"I don't understand. I know your Ami, but why are you dressed like that? What's going on," Qautre asked. Julliana seemed to be finding a lot of things funny, because she cracked up at this.

"I forgot, poor Qautre doesn't have a clue. Well, you know Ami Anderson, your fathers best friends last daughter? She doesn't exist. This is Ami Mizuno. She has been living in your house deceiving you for over a month," Julliana said. Quatre looked surprised, but quickly recovered.

"It sounds familiar, Miss Julliana," he said, looking at Julliana and exadgerating the miss. She smirked.



"I wasn't trying to deceive you. I'll explain later," Mercury told him. She had forgotten just how little Quatre knew.

"I think you should explain now, since you both won't live until later," Julliana said. She moved her hand in a circle motion, and Mercury's mouth opened up.

"I tricked you for the fun of it," Mercury said. She grabbed her mouth, but it refused to comply.

"Infact, I poisoned Duo, and I knocked that chandelier down," Mercury said. She looked at Julliana angrilly.

"He's not going to fall for that Julliana. And stop making me say those lies," Mercury said. Julliana shrugged.

"It was fun while it lasted," she said, forming another energy discus in her hand. Quatre had looked thoroughly confused, but backed away when he saw the discus.

"I don't know what's going on Ami," he whispered, "but I'm trusting you." Mercury nodded, feeling much better. They dodged the discus's this time, and Julliana got sick of throwing them. She put both her hands at her sides, and raised them to just above her neck, and moved them forwards slowly. A black bow formed in her hands, and an arrow appeared. She picked it up, suddenly smiling. Mercury frowned at this. A bow and arrow?

Julliana pulled back the string, and they both get ready to dodge. When she fired the arrow, it split into 6 more, and all were aimed at Mercury. They just missed her, as she struggled to get out of the way. Those cuts from the discus's were really starting to get to her. Julliana shot an arrow again, and this time it branched out into ten. She managed to dodge 6 of them, but 4 of them hit Mercury this time. She screamed and fell back. They dissapeared right away.

Mercury stood up and right away fired a 'Mercury Ice Storm' in Julliana's direction. Julliana was frozen solid.

Julliana was starting to get restless. She struggled to break out of the ice. It started cracking around her. Mercury and Quatre backed up farther, towards the back wall. She sighed in frustration as Julliana broke the ice.



"You BRAT! I'M FREEZING!" Julliana angrilly started firing some type of lightning attack at them. Mercury and Quatre were too busy dodging to notice.

"I do want to end this before your friends arrive." Julliana smashed her fist into the stone ground. They heard a rumble. The center of the room's floor started to collapse from underneath them. Julliana floated into the air to avoid what was happening. Mercury saw the floor falling apart from beneath their feet. She noticed with her visor that only the center was breaking, and where they were standing was also cracking.

Qautre looked panicked, looking around. The area right next to them was still seemingly solid. Mercury didn't have a chance to save them both, but right when they started to fall, she gave Quatre a hard shove in that direction. He stumbled and fell backwards into the area that wasn't breaking. Mercury only glimpsed this as she fell.

The palace had a space underneath. Possibly storage or a basement for the troops. Maybe even a jail. Julliana floated down, nodding in approval at the rubble and stone covering Mercury. She could have been anywhere. Julliana spotted a glimpse of blue in one of the piles. She raised her hand, and pointed at the area. A small ball of light formed at the tip of her finger and she fired one after another there. It was very silent. Qautre peered over from the top, looking shocked.

"Stop Julliana," he called. She looked up at him.

"I'll deal with you in a minute," she said, turning back to what she was doing. She walked along the rubble, looking for Mercury. She couldn't be dead yet. Or could she? There wasn't the slightest bit of sound down there. No, Mercury couldn't be alive. She had fallen at least 20 feet, maybe more. The basement was practically a dungeon. Not to mention she had probably been killed by all the giant rocks falling down with her. Julliana relaxed. Her revenge had been taken. Ami was dead. She could finally rest now.

Something hit Julliana from behind, and she was frozen again, but this time it was a giant block of ice around her, and Quatre knew it would take Julliana MUCH longer to break out of this one. He looked to where the blast had come from. Mercury was underneath a very large pile of rocks. She was halfway out, only her head, shoulders, arms, and up to just above her hips was free. She struggled to get out.

"Stop struggling, you'll only hurt youself more Ami," Quare called. He looked for a way to get down there. There were many high piles of rocks. He quickly used those to climb down, and ran over to where Ami was. He started to remove rocks so she could free herself.

"Thanks," she said, as he pulled her out the rest of the way.

"No, thankyou, for pushing me out of the way before I fell too," he told her. She struggled to get to her feet, but found she couldn't. Quatre looked her over. The first five injuries she had received dripped blood all over her foku, and then there were those stupid trick arrows Julliana had shot at her. Also, along with the fall, Mercury had managed to sustain a ton more injuries: scratches, bruises, and cuts from all the falling rocks. Her forehead was bleeding severely, and her side, right next to where one of the discus's had been thrown, had been punctured and was also leaking blood all over her foku. He also suspected there was a cut in the back of her head.

"Ami, I think you should sit still, or your injuries are going to get worse," Quatre told her.

"Yeah right, and act like sitting ducks until Julliana breaks the ice she's in? Not likely," she said. Quatre sighed. She was acting unnusually stubborn. He grabbed her arm and placed his arm around her back to help her stand. they heard a loud crack. The ice around Julliana shatered. She turned to face them, an almost inhumane expression of rage on her face.

"I'm going to kill the both of you now, and I will be quick this time!" Julliana threw her hand out in front of her, and the area shook. More rocks from above them fell. Mercury and Quatre lost their footing and fell. Julliana squeezed her fist tightly, and both Quatre and Mercury struggled with what Wufei earlier had. Mercury had both her hands in front of her on the ground. She looked at them. Her ring was on her finger. It was a healing ring, but at the moment the stone was glowing, and the symbol was too.

"Healing, Julliana needs to be healed," she whispered to Quatre.

"W- what," he said in a pained voice. Mercury knew he was suffering from the heart attack, and wouldn't last much longer. Ami Mizuno knew a lot of things. Ami Mizuno could do all of her school subjects better than her teachers, she could analyze a situation pretty quickly. Ami Mizuno knew she was no-where near to Julliana's power. Yet, until now, Sailor Mercury had never felt pity for an enemy. She had never looked at her enemy as human. Sailor Mercury was a fighter, while Ami Mizuno was the one with the heart. Right now, Ami Mizuno was taking charge, not Sailor Mercury, and she was thinking of all the evil that plagued Julliana's heart.

She stood up with a lot of effort, pushing all the bad things Julliana had done to her to the back of her mind. Her ring glowed brilliantly in the dark room. The light from her ring again burst, making Julliana stop what she was doing and look at her curiously. She could hear Quatre taking raged breaths from behind her.

"I'm sorry, Julliana, that you feel so much hatred in your heart," she said, stepping forwards,"this fued should have ended long ago. We both could have stopped it before it got this far. You have killed many, and involved countless innocence into this game, your game. You live fueled on power and hatred. With this, you can never rest. Even if you kill Qautre and I, the evil and the pain in your heart will not dissapear. This whole battle is fought over ridiculous reasoning. I'm sorry David died, but that was just a tragic loss," Ami paused to take a deep breath, and continued.

"I'm sorry no one helped you, but I'm going to try now. Just know that the first mistake you ever made, the reason we are here now, and so many lives have been wasted, is because of the power you asked of Beryl. The power that plagued you. Many deaths, including a certain one you haven't quite been able to get over, could have been avoided, but you're human, you're a person just like Quatre and I, and people make mistakes. As long as you know that I can heal you."

Julliana seemed to be listening to what Mercury was saying. Something she had said seemed to have really hit her. Mercury stepped forwards again, and her ring flared, covering her and Julliana with it's light. She detransformed back into her blue jeans and t-shirt, and felt apsolutely drained, but stood still, pouring as much of her energy as she could into healing Julliana, which wasn;t as easy as she had thought. Finally, Julliana stopped resisting the healing and gave in. A minute later, the whole room was bathed in light.

Ami looked up a moment later. It was very quiet. She felt someone touch her arm. Quatre moved forward. Julliana stood in front of them, looking still and serene.



"You apologized one to many times, Ami. I'm sorry as well. Thankyou for helping me. The door is open."

Julliana smiled one last time, and faded away.

"Where did she go, Ami?" Quatre asked.

"She's finally resting," Ami said. She turned to look at Quatre, but before she could say anything, she felt her legs give out from underneath her. Quare grabbed her arm before she hit the ground. She looked down at herself. She had just now changed out of her foku, and blood was already stained onto her clothes. She had, on top of everything else used all of her energy into powering her healing ring.

Ami heard a voice she recognized immediatly, and had been missing. She looked up. All of the scouts: Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn, and Tuxedo Mask were on top in the one area that wasn't broken. She started to get really dizzy.

"Ami," Sailor Moon called.

"Mr. Winner is there as well," she could hear Pluto saying. They all jumped down, landing perfectly and running over to them. Relief was the one thing Ami felt and she relaxed, feeling herself swaying and sinking nearer to the floor. Quatre kept a hold on her as she sank, and she could hear everyone talking at once. She could only make out a few words, and thought she heard Quatre explaining something, probably along the lines of what was happening, to her friends.

"Ami? Can you hear us? Say something to show us that you can hear me," she heard Neptune say. Ami looked up at her blankly, only partly understanding the message, but able to trace who the voice belonged to. She forced her mouth open to say something, but only a slight whisper came out. She lowered her head, letting it fall to the side. The effort of keeping it up was too much.

"Has she fainted?" Darian asked. She heard Quatre explaining about what Julliana had earlier said about the discus.



"Oh my, look at all the blood," exclaimed Venus.



"Considering what Mr. Winner has explained to us, we'll need something to stop the blood flow for the first five really dangerous wounds," said Darian. Sailor Moon untied her ribon on the back of her uniform, and 4 other senshi did as well. Someone grabbed her and set her down in a leaning position against the wall. She looked up for a moment to see that it was Uranus and Jupiter who had done so.



Pluto wrapped the ribbons on quickly, and while she was doing so, she could hear Sailor Moon speaking to Venus. She sounded flustered and upset.

"The entrance of this palace collapsed already, and we have to get out of this place to teleport. We're already drained of energy and have two people to carry with us when we teleport back. We need to be in clear view of the Earth before teleporting," explained Venus to the rest.

"Which demension are we teleporting to," asked Saturn.

"I don't know if we even have enough power to teleport all the way off of this planet," said Mars.

"If.....I c-could suggest," Mercury managed to whisper. The closest ones, Moon, Uranus, Quatre, and Pluto bent down close to her to hear.

"The door opened, Quatre tell them," Ami's whispered hoarsly. Everyone else just kind of blinked, not quite undestanding.

"The door," Quatre said," we came here through a small door in my house, and once we stepped through it, it closed behind us and dissapeared. But I'm sure it's still their. When Julliana died, she told Ami that the door was open. She probably opened the door. You can use the last of your powers to teleport to where the door is, since from what I understand Pluto can't use her time gate powers," Quatre said quickly.

"Of course, how could I have forgotten," Pluto said, smacking herself in the forehead.

"Ok then, we can teleport from right here then," Jupiter said. Ami knew her suggestion had pleased them, but what had Jupiter just said? She felt two hands grab her and she tensed, squeezing her eyes shut.

"Relax Ames, it's just us. We're teleporting out of here," Venus said, and she opened her eyes and looked up. Venus had her left and Darian had her right as they helped her stand. They looked at her as if she was going to fall any minute, and they were right. No sooner was she on her feet with the both of them supporting her when the pain got to her and her legs couldn't support her. She started to sink, but they kept a firm hold on her.

"Someone carry Ami, she can't stand," she heard Sailor Moon saying. She heard someone volunteer, and someone grabbed her and carried her piggy back style. It was Jupiter.

"Tell us if you get tired and need to switch carrying Ami," Sailor Moon told her.

"Don't worry Odango, Ami's really light, not like you were that day we lost Darian to Beryl," Mars answered, and Sailor Moon got really angry and red in the face.

"Girls, can we not argue and concentrate on teleporting so we can get Ami some help," lectured Pluto.

"Right," they both said. Quatre frowned at the scene, and Neptune gave him a gentle shove into the center of their circle. He nodded. Everyone glowed their own planetary colors, save for Ami and Tuxedo Mask, and they dissapeared.

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They re-appeared in a darkened forest.

"Creepy," Venus and Saturn said. They got quiet as they walked, and Ami's raged breaths were the loudest sound. Ami closed her eyes, trying to ignore the pain, but nothing was quite working. They walked until Sailor Moon cried out.

"Owww," she rubbed her nose, "I walked strait into the open door!" Quatre walked through the door, followed by Jupiter carrying Ami and then everyone else. They were all in the small room between the tiny door leading to Quatre's house and the door leading back to Mercury. Quatre searched the door for a handle and remembered that there wasn't one.



"Ami, when Julliana brought me here, she opened the door a differnet way," Quare said.

"Yeah," she said quietly and reached for the door. She placed her hand in the circle, and it lit up and swung open. Quatre crawled through first, and Jupiter set Ami down and Quatre pulled her through the doorway. Then the rest of them crawled through.

"Where is everyone," called Quatre. Heero, Duo, Wufei, and Trowa came running into the room.

"Quatre!"

"What happened to Ames?"

"What about Julliana!"

"..."

"Jupiter, you're bleeding," exclaimed Sailor Moon.

"That's not my blood, that's Ami's having leaked through the cloth's we tied," Jupiter said, and everyone detransformed.

"So then what julliana said was true?"

"How could it be, according to Mr. Winner it's been over an hour."

"That doesn't sound right."

"What time is it then!"

"Must everyone argue?"

"We're not arguing!"

Everyone was talking at the same time again. Ami frowned up at everyone. Her eye lids felt heavy. She was down on the floor next to a very tired looking Quatre, who was holding her steady by her shoulders.

"You ok, or should I alert someone of our presence," he asked. Ami felt a lurch in her stomach. The pain seemed to triple.

"N-no. I don't think I am," she answered quietly.

"Hey," he said loudly. Everyone turned to look at them. They all looked like they had just acknowledged their presence, and started to approach.

"We're sorry."

"Let us help."

"Yeah." Everyone said. Something caught Ami's eye. She looked up. A small portal, no bigger than a hand opened up above them. From it fell a small porcelin looking bottle. It was empty though. It fell right into Ami's hand. Everyone peered at it closely. Ami especially seemed to find it interesting.

"What is that," asked Usagi. Even Setsuna seemed puzzled. Then to everyone's surprise, the tiny bottle slipped from Ami's hand and Ami leaned back. It smashed to bits on the ground, and Ami's head lowered, and her hand fell limp. Everyone jumped up at this. Then it got extremely silent.

"Maybe she's just putting her head down to rest, like she did earlier," Hotaru suggested hopefully.

"Ami," Usagi squeeked. Quatre felt short of breath as he looked down at her.

"What happened Setsuna?" asked Rei. Even Setuna couldn't explain. Haruka felt for Ami's pulse.

"You guys, I think she actually passed out," she said.



"I thought she couldn't," answered Minako.

"Well, let's not think about that now. We have to be quick. Her pulse was weak," she felt again, "and growing harder to find."

Everyone quickly filed out of the room. All that were left were Setsuna and Usagi.

"That was really lucky," Usagi said.

"I don't think it was just luck. You see, had that bottle not suddenly appeared out of nowhere, Ami would have died right then. Even I don't know what's going to happen now, so you better go help everyone," Setsuna said. Usagi nodded and ran off. Setsuna stood silently in the middle of the room for a minute, before looking up.

"Nice save Julliana," she said with a smile, walking out of the room.

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I am extremely proud of the length of this chapter. If there are any typos or gramatical mistakes, I apologize. I went over the story a few times, but I could have missed some things. I think there's going to be one chapter after this and it'll be over, so please review! Also, remember I tried my best if this chapter doesn't please you!