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Strange Days
Chapter 04
By: Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(C)2003
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It was early morning and the sun was just peeking out over the horizon an decided to look in one girl with blonde hair as she was sleeping. She was blonde and unlike most girls, for one she snored and giggled in her sleep. This morning the sun was enough to peek around her curtains and focus on her eyes. The made Usagi roll over and kick the blankest and sheets off her in an attempt to get away from the invading light. She also started to shiver as the covers on her bed fell on the floor. They meowed angrily and cursed her a few times before they started to move around on their own.
She groggily woke up enough to notice this, shrugged and decided that sleep was more important than her comfort. Luna, who was entangled in the sheets and blankets, was more than a little annoyed with her charge this morning, as demonstrated by using several old type Silver Millennium curse words to express their displeasure. The girl had stayed up last night watching a movie with Mamoru and fallen asleep in his lap, Luna still wasn't sure what had happened after that since she had been asleep long before that.
The girl could not sleep peacefully either, no, she had been worried about Ami all night as well and this had added to the list of things that Luna didn't want to repeat. An annoyed Usagi was a sight to behold and her nervous pacing had even gotten to Mamoru after awhile. The movie had been his idea to calm her down, and it had, until she had jumped in on a conversation with Mercury and Venus as she tried to track down that girl they had wronged. Luna was of the opinion that Mars was right, after all even if she was harmless if she was dead she wouldn't be in their way.
She had to constantly remember that this age wasn't as harsh as the one she came from and a lot more trusting. Usagi's attitude on this was constantly surprising her too. Luna could care if the enemy survived the encounter, especially if they had started it. Usagi seemed to think differently though and Luna had to respect that, but it didn't stop her from cursing the girl while her back was turned.
After that things had gotten a little better and had settled down again after Mercury had signed off. After going to bed, Usagi had done her usual nightly ritual of tripping around the room, falling down a dozen times, put on her pajamas and hit the sack only to be asleep in less than five seconds. After crawling out from under the dresser and double checking to see if the girl wasn't going to jump up and step on her like she did last week.
Luna had hopped up on the bed by her feet and soon followed her into dream land. Then it had happened at around two in the morning, a knocking at the door leading out to Usagi's little balcony. Luna had gotten up to gripe at or scratch whoever had the guts to wake her up at this time in the morning and looked around the edge of the curtain, claws extended. She saw a dishelved Sailor Mercury standing there, shuddering and shivering.
Luna had gasped, got her attention by tapping on the glass with a claw and motioned for her to wait while she woke up the 'grouchy one'. It had taken nearly 5 minutes to make her even coherent, this included biting her foot, jumping up and down on her, and licking her nose until she sleepily threatened to de-fur her if this wasn't important. After jumping up and down a few more times Usagi had finally rolled up and went to open the balcony door.
Mercury had rushed in and collapsed at Usagi's feet looking like all the demons of hell were after her. Luna had been surprise she wasn't crying, but something in the girl's eyes told her it was something. She had briefly wondered if the original Sailor Mercury's personality had finally returned, but soon tossed that idea. It wasn't supposed to happen for a long time yet.
This had woken up Usagi enough to be alert and decisive, she spent a minute helping her friend over to the bed and sat her down. Ami was latched onto Usagi and wouldn't let go for anything, as if she thought she would die if she did, Luna had never seen anything like it. Usagi could feel her friend's pain and held her for nearly a half hour before she calmed down enough to talk. Ami turned a solid red and buried her face in Usagi's stomach and shuddered as she told them what the girl had done to her and shocked Luna and Usagi speechless.
"That...That's horrible!" Usagi gasped out.
"I don't know what to do Usagi, I've never encountered anything like it..." Ami said quietly.
"She'll pay!" Usagi said her eyes burning with fire.
"She raped you..."
"That's just it Usagi, I don't know if it can be considered that." Ami stated quietly.
"What?!"
"All she did was brush her finger tip across my body, she never even touched me...there. She seemed more interested in barely touching me as she kissed me."
"No matter what she did, it was still rape!"
Ami shuddered again and buried her head in Usagi's shoulder. It was at this point that Luna noticed the smell emanating from Ami and padded a little closer to confirm what her nose was telling her. Luna coughed a couple of times and kept her mouth shut since she was no longer as worried about Mercury as she was other things. Then Luna noticed that the smell was getting stronger the longer Mercury was in being held in Usagi's arms.
"There's more isn't there Ami?" Luna asked.
"H-hai..." Ami whispered.
"There's more!?" Usagi all but yelled.
Ami shuddered again and backed off from Usagi and glanced down at Luna and let out a longing sigh that confirmed Luna's thoughts. She fiddled with the hem of her dress and tried to calm herself, it was obvious to Luna what was going on, but Usagi missed it completely. "T-the thing is t-that I enjoyed what she did to me, a lot, and I can't get it out of my h-head." Ami admitted and hung her head and turning so red that Luna thought she might faint.
Usagi gaped at the friend for several seconds before she started to smile and her grin wasn't the kind one gives a friend, but one of those almost evil ones that said a person was thinking some pretty perverted thoughts. Usagi giggled a little and sprouted horns and a little devil tail as she sidled up to Ami. Luna hung her head and wondered what she was up too.
"You enjoyed it?"
"Hai."
"Then why are you here? You should be looking for her and returning the favor..." Usagi said in a stage whisper. Luna's fur sprang up at the advice, shocking her completely. Then she facefaulted off the end of the bed.
"I tried to, really I did, spent most of an hour running all over the area looking for her, but she had simply vanished. Plus she wants to meet with you sometime." Ami said quietly.
"I don't swing that way Ami." Usagi said with a grin. Luna took another header off the bed, since when had the walking disaster area learned how to be witty?
Amy just smiled and reached into her pocket and pulled out a small piece of paper and handed it to Usagi. The same note that Amy had left taped to her nose.
Taking the note, Usagi and Luna scanned through it:
Scouts:
It took a while but I decided that I wasn't going return the favor of attempting to kill you from behind, as you did me. Instead I well be visiting each of you separately and having a little fun with you. I may scare you, I may play with you, or I may make you regret ever meeting me. This last is reserved for Sailors Jupiter and Mars because of their insistence that I would kill all of you if I lived. Bullshit!
Amy Lee
"She is going to be visiting us separately? What can we do if she decides to do to us what she did to Ami?" Usagi asked Luna.
"Go with the flow?" Ami said quietly and turned bright red as she realized that she had said that out loud.
"Ami!"
"Heh, sorry, it just slipped out. Whatever she did to me is still hitting me a little bit. According to my computer scans, my body released a large amount of Endorphins into my system and it will take several days for them to go back down to normal levels. Until they do I will be...um...very receptive to certain things." Ami said uncomfortably.
"So you can still feel what she did to you?"
"Yes..." Ami answered as Usagi leaned in close and looked at her with those giant innocent eyes. This made Ami start to sweat as her body started to respond to the lust that was driving her mad, only her strength of will was keeping her from jumping her friend right there and then.
"Usagi cut it out!" Luna said.
"Don't be mean Luna, I'm just trying to have some fun." Usagi pouted.
"Ah...right." Ami let out with a gasp and tried to slow her beating heart.
"Ami, lets call it a night, you seem to have calmed down and I really need my sleep." Usagi pointed out suddenly when she sensed that her friend needed some time to calm down now that she had talked things out and delivered the message.
"Of course Usagi, I really should be heading home myself." Ami said as she stood on wobbly knees. Usagi stood as well and led her down stairs and let her out the front door. Usagi waved good bye and quickly dashed back up stairs.
After that Usagi headed back up to her room, but not before she made a slight detour via that kitchen to grab a banana off the counter. As she stepped into the room Usagi noticed a slightly familiar odor that she tried to place. She had smelled it somewhere before and after racking her brain she gasped and covered her nose. She shivered slightly as she finally recognized it. She hopped over the bed and opened the door to her balcony to let some fresh air in while hoping that the room would air out by morning.
"Luna if she enjoyed what this Amy Lee did to her, why was she acting the way she was when she came in?"
"Shock."
"Shock, why, she said it was a lot of fun and that she was still feeling whatever it was that Amy did to her."
"Shock can take many forms Usagi. This Amy Lee person stripped Ami of her control and used it against her to do whatever it was she did. People react differently to certain kinds of actions, some good some bad, it just depends on the person. Ami wouldn't have been chosen to be a Sailor Scout if she wasn't strong enough to survive what this Amy Lee did. So don't worry, she'll pull through."
"...Okay..."
"Don't think about it to hard, Ami will survive this, but right now we need to set things up tomorrow to have a scout meeting and inform everyone about this."
"Do we tell the Outers?"
Luna looked up in surprise. Usagi rarely asked such good questions. "I think we should, even though we haven't heard from them in some time."
Usagi walked over to the open door and watched moon as she thought about what was going on. Or that is what Luna thought. She made it a point to never find out what was going through Usagi's mind. The last time she had tried to understand her charge had ended in a lot of pain. With a shrug Usagi hopped into bed and wrapped the sheets around her and got comfortable, shrugged and was instantly asleep while Luna grumbled about meatball headed teenagers, claws, and silk bras.
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Following Sailor Mercury had been child's play for Amy as she sat on the roof of Usagi's house and grinned evilly. She already had several plans in mind for her 'revenge' on the Scouts. She had one of them converted already, so if she ever wanted to make the others belong to her completely she wouldn't have to try to hard. But that went against what Amy wanted to do to them. So she decided that she would just visit each of them separately and see how things went from there, and if they did attack her again she would have something to hold over them.
Amy was even more surprised to remember that Mercury had a name similar to hers, the only difference was in how they were pronounced. The instant she had heard it she'd had to make an attempt to not bang her head against the roof as she suddenly remembered the names of her favorite Anime from her own world. It had been far to long since she had watched anything on it.
"Amy, what are you doing?" Asked Midory.
"What do you mean?"
"You are supposed to be causing as little harm as you can until we can find a way home."
"You haven't noticed?"
"What is that?"
"There was a major temporal shift the instant I crossed over and it has been growing ever since."
"Then you should be doing even less to this world than you already are..."
"No, I will not sit back and do nothing as a world is shredded to pieces because of me. I'm having a little fun and making sure my presence is more beneficial than harmful. And if this world is destroyed, I want to go out with a bang and in battle or in bed with a petty girl."
"Come on Amy, you know better than to do that." Said Aho.
"Come on you two, where is your sense of adventure?"
"You know as well as I that if we stay here too long or if we will cause to much change..."
"Midory, we have already caused to much change, can't you feel the difference? It happened long before we woke up in that crater, something from one of the core worlds is here and has been making changes for a long time now. I have feeling that this world would have been getting a visit from me eventually anyway, I'm just having a little fun while I'm here."
"That may be Amy, but it hasn't happened yet so you should keep a low profile while your here or until you are called."
"Your also forgetting the 'Universal Law of Sacrifice', that also has some say in this world's future."
Amy winced and nodded.
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Her eyes were open, she knew that because she could see the Time Door standing there above her. Then there was the pain, it was a word she seemed to have underestimated. Every square inch of her body hurt, hurt beyond their worst tortures she had ever experienced. Even her hair hurt as she lay there and whimpered in pain, just to move her arm made her come close to fainting as she forced herself to sit up. When that proved to painful she just lay there for several seconds gasping for air, she could sense that something was seriously wrong, but needed to be on her feet to use the Key to find out what it was.
Setsuna moaned and rolled over onto her back with stifled scream of pain, tears ran down her face and into her hair as she lay there and gritted her teeth. She could feel the change in the very air around her too, she was no longer in her Sailor Scout uniform, and she was human again for some reason. She had never had this happen before, being a Scout seemed to always be enough to allow her to whether a change like this. Whatever had happened was possibly the worst thing in history, she couldn't make the changes she needed to anymore and that meant that Crystal Tokyo would soon be gone. Small Lady would be dead, perhaps never born, or something worse. She sobbed for hours and tried to come up with some idea of what to do, but nothing came to her except the pain whenever she tried to move.
She thought about it for some time trying to figure out what had happened to her and eventually decided that her body was just slightly out of phase with the time gate's influence. This had the effect of doing something as simple as moving around nearly impossible. The closest she could come to describing it would be to have every cell in her body rubbing up against a serrated knife and slowly shredding her as she struggled to stay in one piece. Setsuna glanced at the Time Gate and saw that it had shut itself and erected a magical barrier to keep people away since she was not there to guard it like she should have been.
"Ah SHIT!!!" She yelled. "Owwwweeee!"
In the distance there was a flash of dark energy and slight rumbling sound as a teleport gate forced its way into the domain of the Time Gate. A vile of black liquid appeared and fell to the ground where it broke open, spilling its contents all over the foggy ground. For several minutes it lay there sparkling in the ethereal light of the plain, then it shifted and began to move, or ooze its way toward the green haired woman groaning in pain several meters away. It was silent as it moved and it used its powers to mask it's presence from unwanted eyes...
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In the back yard of the Tendo Dojo Nibiki watched as Amy methodically danced her way through a kata she was designing from scratch. According to her, it would allow her to use her opponents Ki attacks against them, even recharge her own if she found herself low on Ki for some reason. Nibiki was a bit amazed at their new house guest, she was an enigma that she just couldn't understand and that always meant trouble. In a lot of ways she was like Ranma, an almost natural at martial arts and preferred to fight her way out of things, and yet on the other had she wasn't chasing the boy around the yard like Shampoo or Ukyo did all the time.
Her indifference to Ranma was having the opposite effect that she had wanted as well, even Nabiki could see that. She considered selling the information to the other girls, but decided to find a more profitable way to use this situation. It would take some thought but she figured she could come up with something to use. Ever since she had shown up, she had been warping the lives of all those around her. Ranma and Akane were a prime example of this, they had not fought in several days now and had been all but avoiding each other. Nabiki knew that they had canceled the engagement, but even that had not stopped the fighting between the two.
The only problem was that Ranma had been fighting with Amy every evening for the last few days and the only person that seemed to have even noticed was Nibiki. The fathers hadn't even noticed and they always took the time to try and force Ranma on Akane while trying to get the other girls to leave. She wasn't sure what was going on, but she had her suspicions and they were not good ones, could the two morons be using this to hatch some weird plan or something?
"Supper!" Kasumi called out.
Ranma bounced off the roof, who had been watching Amy as she practiced, dashed forward, grabbed Amy's hand and pulled her to the table just as Akane was coming down stairs. Amy, again attempting to give Ranma a better chance with Akane, yanked her hand back and glared at the boy. "Ranma, go and talk to Akane again, one of these days you won't put your foot in your mouth and make her angry." Amy whispered in his ear.
He nodded just as Akane mallet him off the property, over Nerima, and into orbit via Akane Air. Amy sighed and gave Akane this look that promised lots of pain if she continued to do things like this. Akane ignored her and glared daggers into Amy's back as she left to help Ranma when he landed.
"That was a bit harsh Akane." Nabiki said.
"The pervert deserved it!"
"What did he do?" Nabiki asked.
"He was trying to seduce yet ANOTHER girl into his harem!!"
Nabiki just shook her head and wondered again if there was something seriously wrong with her sister. She thought about mentioning something about the canceled engagement, but decided against it. It would only make the father's go crazy and there was no profit in that unless someone paid her to do it. "You need to learn to see the truth for what it is Akane."
"Just what is that supposed to meant?!"
"That you just launched Ranma out of the city because he was called into dinner." Nabiki said and walked over to the table.
Akane just glared at her. "Humph!"
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As soon as she was out of sight and several houses away, Amy flared her aura and lifted off the ground, she hovered there for several seconds before flying forward at incredible speeds. It wasn't long she spotted Ranma laying in the middle of the park, a geyser of water firing up into the sky from where he had landed. She was a little concerned that he wasn't moving, and landed to take a closer look. She ignored the amazed looks she was getting from those few people in the park that had witnessed her flying in, it wasn't all that important, Ranma was because he was her friend. He was at the bottom of a rapidly filling crater, turned female because of the water and in pretty bad shape.
Amy waded through the water and knelt down to roll Ranma over and get a better look at her friend's injuries. She noted the large bruise forming on the along her face and shoulders and across her chest. Ranma groaned and opened her eyes and almost choked at the expression of concern on Amy's face. The only person to ever show him any compassion or friendship had been Akane. He had latched onto her like a life preserver in the flow and ebb of his chaotic life, until he had grown tired of being hit all the time by her and called things off.
"Are you all right?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, I barely felt that." Ranma said cockily and winced.
"Oh sure my friend, that is why this giant bruise is forming all over you." Amy snapped back, trying and failing to keep from giggling.
"Heh, I guess Akane did go a little over board this time. Just how far did I make it?"
"Almost three miles."
Ranma was impressed, Akane's average hit usually sent him about half a mile or so. The only time she ever sent him further was when she was very mad at him. He groaned and wondered what he had done this time. It was always so hard to tell anymore. She just seemed to jump to some strange conclusion and then ...HAMMER TIME!
Helping Ranma to her feet, Amy steadied her as she wobbled a little before catching her balance. "Do you want to go home?"
"Not right now, whatever I did, Akane won't even tolerate me for several hours at least." Ranma said sadly.
"Hmmm...how about we go to Uchan's then?"
"Hey, great idea, I haven't had any of her stuff in weeks. Every time I even think of going there Akane mallet's me unconscious."
"Well," Amy smiles, "this time it's my idea."
Ranma is more than willing and they are soon roof hopping across Nerima. Because of how far Akane had hit Ranma it takes more than an hour to get there and walk inside, Ranma instantly notices that the place is busier then normal. The girl behind the grill is working like crazy as they enter and looks up with a smile as she sees him, but frowns when she sees Amy right behind him. Ranma doesn't notice though and takes up a seat at the front counter while he says hi to his other friend.
"Hi Ran-chan, I'll get you something as soon as I can."
"Take your time U-chan, 3 specials for me and the same for Amy here." Ranma says.
Amy looks the place over and decides that she likes it, though it is a little hard to tell when all available seats are taken up by the cheerleading team from Juban High, as the bus proclaims outside. She notices something as she looks all the girls over and smirks. Amy, feeling playful, taps Ranma on the shoulder and points to one of the girls sitting in one of the booths along the wall.
She was sitting in just such a way to allow anyone who wants to can see her panties and she didn't seem to notice. She whispers this to Ranma and points it out. She looks and instantly turns red when she gets an eye full of a blue silk panty. Amy giggles as Ranma starts to look around for the incoming mallet. Ukyo scowls and looks over at what had caused Ranma to react that way and pales for a second then blushes along with Ranma.
A few minutes later Ukyo brings their orders up and they stand at the counter chatting as they eat, talking about what they were planning to do over the next few days. Amy notices a small TV hanging in one corner with the news playing. Amy watches for a few seconds and realizes that they are playing a story on the Sailor Scouts, but the story finishes before she can figure out what is going on.
"You ever have any dealings with them yet?" Amy asks casually.
"Who?" Ranma turns around and looks at the TV. "The Sailors?"
"Yep."
"Not yet, I don't get over to Juban very much, why."
"They tried to kill me the other night when I went to the bank." Amy says conversationally.
Ranma blinked, "Did you try to rob it?."
Amy swats the back of Ranma's head. "Hey now, there was no need for that. I told them I would get revenge on them for trying to kill me in cold blood. They claimed that I was already trying to kill them even after I had saved on of them from being killed."
"What are you going to do?"
Amy grinned evilly, "Embarrass the hell out of them."
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Ami had a weird look on her face as she unlocked the apartment she shared with her mother, stepped inside, and headed into the kitchen. Her look was a little hard to describe since it was a look that she had never worn before. She was totally confused about what happened with that girl who had attacked her earlier, her feelings and desires were doing loops and twists around her logical mind and winning.
For this reason her mighty logic, that always helped her analyze situations like this was not working, instead she felt like she was flying through the clouds. Her body was thrumming with energy that she had never felt before and she never wanted it to end. What had been done to her?
Even though it had been about six hours sense Amy Lee had brought her to a mind blowing orgasm by touch alone, she had been thinking constantly of her sexual orientation. She had always considered herself completely heterosexual and only slightly curious about the other sex, in a perfectly healthy way, but what that girl had done something, and it had blown her mental circuits into tiny pieces. She stepped into the kitchen and got herself a glass of water and tried to distract herself from the images and feelings that were driving her crazy.
No matter how hard she tried she just could not get what happened to her out of her mind and just thinking about it was arousing her to levels she had never felt in her life. If that wasn't bad enough it was causing her to soil her panties at an alarming rate. She had already soaked through several pairs of panties in the last two hours.
The worst was the run from Nerima to Juban where she was in her Scout uniform. It was not designed to keep her arousal a secret. Ami blushed as she finished off the water. No they weren't designed for that. Her thighs had been literally drenched from things leaking out and there hadn't been a thing she could do about it. Transforming back had been a mistake too because she instantly had to change her panties, that pair had lasted all of ten minutes after she left Usagi's place.
Usagi had been so tired when she visited that she hadn't noticed a thing when Ami managed to grab a couple pairs of panties out of her drawer. Even Luna had missed that little bit of midnight robbery. Thoughts of what had happened to her plagued Ami on her to our track through the park as she headed home. It didn't help anything when she found that she was staying in a constantly aroused state, her body just wouldn't calm down enough to let her relax.
Standing in the living room Ami didn't even consider witnesses as she pulled off yet another soaked pair of panties and grabbed another pair from her subspace pocket. These went on is easily as any the others and she wandered around the apartment in a daze, her fingers lightly trailing across her lips as she recalled when Amy had kissed her, she shuddered and moaned softly at the effect.
Releasing a great sigh Ami flopped down into a nearby chair and brought her knees to her chest and tried to find a logical solution for this mess. There was nothing she could do though, her feelings would not let her focus past her hyper arousal enough to properly think this though. Her entire body was still pulsing with need, it was taking all she had not to strip right there and do something about it though. That girl had did this to her somehow, but she was just to out of it to think about how it was done. Leaning back, Ami curled up in the chair and slowly drifted off to sleep as her body pulsed in time with her heart.
Outside Amy hovered in the air outside the girl's apartment and blended in with the shadows so that no one would see her. Amy raised her arm and fired a thin beam of Ki into the girl's back, almost immediately she relaxed and went into a deeper sleep than what she had been in. Amy had gotten enough revenge on Mercury, besides she wasn't the Scout she wanted to punish the most.
Mercury was just a delightful side dish that she had snatched up for a little fun. If the girl did try to do something though, it wouldn't take much for her to activate the shiatsu points again. With that Amy flew into the sky and vanished before anyone could figure out where the red light was coming from.
It was a few hours later when Ami slowly awakened and opened her eyes to see her mother moving around the kitchen making them breakfast. She sat up and stretched to get the kinks out of her muscles from sleeping in that strange position. It had been nearly four days since she had seen her mother and Ami brightened up almost immediately.
She also noticed that her body was not as affected as it had been a few hours before. Though she could still feel herself pulsing in time to her heart it was not as powerful as it was. This made her morning as she stood up and finished working the kinks out of her system.
"Good morning." Ami's mother said from the kitchen as she saw her daughter moving around. "You must have had quite a night last night?"
"Huh?" Ami said intelligently.
Ami's mom comes though the kitchen smiling and points at the floor at the edge of the couch and her grins get bigger. Ami looks down and focuses her eyes on no less than four pair of soaked panties that she had accidentally dropped on the floor in her exhaustion earlier. She gasped and turned several shades of red as her blush covered her face and headed down her chest. "Um...well...um..."
"I would be very interested in hearing what could cause you to have that kind of reaction on you of all people?" Her mother said lecherously grinning at her only daughter.
"I...I...I...d-don't..."Ami said as she descended into total embarrassment. Her mother was a doctor and knew very well how human body worked and concocting lies was nearly impossible when he came to fooling her mother about her reactions.
"Was it a really, really cute boy?"
"I know, a really handsome movie character?"
"Perhaps a dirty movie?"
"One of your friends, hint, hint."
Ami stepped back from her mother, still blushing furiously and trying to come up with a plausible excuse for several pairs of damp and smelly panties on the floor. Her mother giggled at her and gave her a little push to get her to walk into the kitchen and take a seat at the table. What was worse, was that she was actually considering telling her mother the truth about what happened except for the fact that she had been a Sailor Scout at the time.
"So tell me what happened?"
"Well..."
"Don't be shy either, I expect my daughter to the very open about such things and anything they could set you off that strongly is worth hearing about if you ask me."
"Are you sure you want to know?"
"Definitely."
For a 15-year-old girl to have to sit down and tell her mother that a girl had turned you on more than any man ever could was very, very hard. Ami wasn't sure how to begin because her explanation had to be half truth and half lie, just enough to be believable without giving away her other secrets. So she fidgeted nervously, looking down at her hands as they started to sweat as she tried to get her thought in order.
"Tell me what he looked like."
"...it was a girl." Ami said very quietly, blushing to the root server hair.
"Oh really? Tell me about this girl and what she did that that could affect you so much."
"I actually don't know how she did it, only that all she had to do was touch me and I went off into lala land. I don't understand why it happened either." And so it went for the next 20 or 30 minutes as they ate breakfast, Ami became more and more embarrassed by what had happened to her, she had to start and stop several times as she detailed the night.
Her mother did not once insult her or condemn her for allowing another girl to sexually excite her. Instead she just sat there nodding and listened to her and offered some advise and interesting comments. Ami finished her explanation by pointing at the damp panties and explaining that she had borrowed several pair from her friend to keep from dripping down her own legs.
"You never said, but exactly how far did you get with this girl?"
"That's the strange part, all she did was step in close to me, run her finger along my body and while her other hand was cupping my face, and then she kissed me. Her other hand then roamed around my body and I went off like a firecracker and passed out on the spot from the sheer intensity of it." Ami, though still embarrassed, no longer had any fear of what her mother's reaction would be since she actually seemed to be encouraging her to talk about it more.
"Are you going to see this girl again?"
"Yes, but I don't know if anything will ever happen between us. I still need to find out why she did it in the first place." Ami said.
"Well if you do decide to go out with this girl just remember to enjoy yourself as you do so, there is certainly no need to be a so embarrassed about it." Ami's mother said as she stood up and began to gather up her coat and purse. "Thank you for the chat Ami, we haven't had one like it in a long time and I'm glad you decided to confide in me." With that her mother turned around, waved goodbye, and headed out for another 18 hour shift at the hospital.
Ami blinked as the door closed and shrugged, that was her mother alright. Here one minute and as peasant as anything, the next she was going to work and would disappear for days on end. That was about the norm for these things and Ami didn't expect to see her again anytime soon. That left her with only one thing to do...study!
She cleaned up the dishes and went to her room to read.
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It had been a week since Amy started to plan her revenge against the Scouts and she had recruited Ranma to help her out when it was needed. So far they hadn't done anything to them yet, but that was going to change today. Ranma and Amy had just decided that it would be a good idea if they were to head out and do a little recon of Juban while they had a few hours to kill. Amy needed to see if the information she had on the Scouts was still up to date even after all this time.
She had been on enough crossover worlds to know that not everything stayed the same from world to world. The biggest thing she wanted to know is what part of the known time line they were in. A bit of thought told Amy that they were around the last season, either before or after it to be exact.
She used the names the girls used for their attacks to figure this out, though Ranma didn't know about any of it. He had barely ever heard of the Sailor Scouts and he lived here. That meant that the Scouts were also still part of the rumor mill instead of out in the open. Ranma was a bit skeptical as he followed her, she had taken a few minutes to explain what she planned to do to the Scouts in retaliation for attacking her.
Ranma was a little nervous at first since he had never considered embarrassment a form of revenge, but he quickly got into the novelty of Amy's idea and wondered how it would work. They roof hopped into the heart of Juban and they were soon moving into the areas most recognized for having sightings of the Sailor Scouts, according to the guide book Amy had come across earlier. It was amazing what urban legend could spawn when it came to money and tourist attractions.
"Can I help you in any way? I still think your idea is a little extreme, but if you want to go though with it I'll help you."
"Are you sure you want to help me, Ranma?"
"Yeah." Ranma said as they stood on the roof of a 4 story school building at the edge of the Juban district, it was just tall enough to let the keep an eye on the entire area. Amy nodded and pointed to a school in the distance.
"That building is the Juban High School and is where some of the Scouts go to school in their civilian identities. They are like any other group of girls you've ever met, flighty, colorful, and boy crazy to extremes. They also turn into Sailor Scouts and kill monsters in their spare time."
"They don't sound all that tuff, they are just girls after all and if their like everyone else..." Ranma said.
"Their powers give them increased speed, strength, and enough power to blow up buildings just like the one we're on now. They are anything but weak Ranma, and I doubt that you could blow up a building, even with your Ki attacks.
Ranma shrugged, he knew he could do it, he had just never tired to and he never told her about Saffron and the blast that leveled an entire mountain. "What exactly are you planning for today?"
"Like I said, I am going to play several hentai jokes on them and embarrass the hell out of them or make them faint from pleasure. Since I have already gotten Mercury, I am planning to strike at either Jupiter or Venus next. Jupiter happens to go to this school, Venus goes to the just down the block."
"What about the others?"
"Moon, Jupiter, and Mercury go to that one a couple of streets over. Venus, goes to the one were standing on right now, and Mars goes to a private girl's school a couple miles away."
Ranma nodded and grinned, he liked this kind of revenge. It was better than what he was used to from Ryoga and Kuno at least, though he had no intention of ever doing against either of them unless he wanted to become a true pervert. This was going to be fun, Amy had already sketched out a couple of plans that had even had Akane edging away from her and mumbling about perverts.
Her hand had been trying to find an excuse to pull the mallet and pound Amy into the floor. Only the fact that Amy had been training her for some time now stopped her. When Amy saw how Akane was acting she smiled and reached into her coat to pull out a card and handed it to Akane with a leer.
The youngest Tendo hadn't taken good at all and started screaming about how Amy was giving girls a bad name with her perverted ideals. Her reaction had been one of the funniest things Ranma had seen in a long time, he had fallen over laughing at the look on her face.
This got him another hot trip to the pond by way of Akane's mallet as she was finally able to find a suitable target for her growing rage. Ranma had dragged himself out of the koi pond just as Akane stomped out of the room, he had picked up the card and read it and started laughing again.
"Pervert's Anonymous--20 minutes and counting without an impure thought...Oooh!" It was surrounded in little gold and red hearts and symbols to catch the eye of anyone that read the card.
Akane had been avoiding Amy ever since, even going to the point that she stopped training with her and called her names behind her back. Amy hadn't meant to a cause the reaction, it had just been a joke after all, but Akane hadn't taken it that way and was trying to get Amy thrown out of the house.
Even going so far as to try and pay Nabiki to refuse Amy the next time she wanted to pay the rent for another week. Nibiki was baffled about this since Amy's money was netting them quite a bit of capital, they'd even had enought o finally install some equipment the Dojo had needed for years now. Selling Amy's location to Akane for 1000 yen a shot was also making her some quick money.
To make up for the extreme reaction Amy had slotted Kasumi into Akane's training time instead, since the girl needed a decent sparing partner, much to Kasumi's delight and ...pain. It was unusual for the oldest Tendo to sport bruises, but Kasumi had taken a shine to Amy and they were now training with each other on a daily. Soun had noticed the bruises, declared loudly that he would kill whoever had hurt his little girl and broke down into tears, again. He had no idea it was Amy or what she was doing since Kasumi didn't want anyone to know about it just yet.
Amy still hadn't experience his demon head attack, but she felt it was only a matter of time before something happened. She wanted to learn the technique and to do that she needed to see it in action. Though Ranma had noticed Kasumi training with Amy, he had wisely decided to keep his mouth shut, after a little seductive threat on Amy's part. Threatening to kiss him got the most curious results at the best of times, and he was fun to tease.
Then there was the equipment that Amy had picked up a few days ago, he had never thought of some of the stuff she had picked up or had made for her. The day after their visit to U-chan's, Amy and Ranma had gone over to the Mall in Juban where she had some stuff available for pick up, a number of special orders.
The two jackets were works of art and the armored inner linings even more so. Ranma had made a couple of comments about her odd tastes in clothing, but that had changed as he began to see what they were use for. Unfortunately Amy had been a bad mood due to something Akane had said to her that morning and took it out on Ranma for opening his mouth at the wrong time. So she had reached out and tapped a shiatsu point in his chest.
He had collapsed to the floor in astonishment as his body went numb and refused to support him anymore. "Wha...What the hell did you do?!"
"That was pretty easy Ranma, I mean aren't you supposed to be a great martial artist?"
"What did you do?!"
"Shiatsu point, it numbs the muscles of your body for several minutes and leaves you open to an attack. Now that I've demonstrated that, here is the reason why I had this coat made up Mr. Arrogance. My coat's serve 3 functions Ranma...
1: It is a kind of armor and can withstand a great deal of damage
2: It is for strength training because it weighs quite a bit
3: and finally it is for making me look good in a fight."
Amy's jackets were made of a thick silk and decorated with pictures of a flaming dragon while edged in golden flames, the thing was a bit showy, but she liked them that way to draw attention to her and not what she was doing. The linings were made out of Kevlar and had hundreds of little pockets stitched into the outer lining. Ranma had watched with a weird expression on his face, while still not being able to move, as Amy took the lining and laid it out on the floor of the store and pulled a large bag of lead from her subspace pocket and sat down to insert the lead weights into the pockets.
"Weighted clothing?" He croaked out.
"Yeah, I usually wear a pair of boots with hundred pounds weights in them, a 50 pound belt, this 200 pound jacket, and if I'm really in the mood to train I have a pair of shoulder braces that I can get up to 500 pounds or more."
"How can you stand with all that?"
"I've worked my way up to it over the years and my body is really adaptable to high stress situations."
Amy stood up and casually drew on the now 200 pound coat and buttoned it up the side with the little red gold buttons. The rest of the weights and the extra coat went into her subspace pocket right in front of an astonished sales clerk's face that had no idea what Amy wanted the funny clothing for. Amy had wiggled a little to settle the weight and grinned down at Ranma, it had been a few weeks since she had worn one of these and she had been losing her edge.
Feeling Ranma had learned his lesson she knelt down, smirked at him and jabbed him in the stomach. His body twitched once and the feeling returned all at once. It was a little painful, but he did keep his insults down to a minimum for the rest of the day. This just happened to be what Amy wanted in the first place.
"You do know that is a handicap don't you? You won't be able to fight as well as you usually do." Ranma pointed out.
"Yep, my full speed should be slowed by about half and my punches should be hard enough to knock a normal fighter off their feet without even trying." Amy said, quickly adjusting to her new clothing. It wasn't her usual armor, but she had learned to improvise over the years. They were able to make better forms of training clothing where she came from, this primitive stuff just wasn't as durable as what she was used to.
They had spent the next couple of hours wandering the mall picking up odds and ends that Amy thought might come in handy against the Sailors. The porn shop had been an eye opener for Ranma and he had fled before they passed the first stack of tapes. From there Amy had dragged him to some other places, just for fun she had dragged Ranma into a dress shop, after tossing a glass of water at him, and played dress up for a half hour or so.
She had protested at first, but a quick challenge had made her put her all into it. She had managed surprise Amy with just how much knowledge Ranma really did have when it came to this stuff. Amy had a ball watching Ranma strut around in a black cocktail dress and no bra, the little wiggle had been worth the wait in Amy's book.
Amy hadn't known noticed it, but Ranma had been watching her as well. He was just amazed that anyone could like him, especially with his curse, and yet she seemed to like him either way and that made him feel special in a way the tomboy didn't. Akane's temper had been getting on his nerves lately, but he had no idea how to deal with her, and they had technically broken up eve if they were still trying a little. He just couldn't bring himself to deal with her the way Amy had the other day when she had punched the girl unconscious for hitting him with the mallet.
Even when he was mad at her over hurting Akane she had insisted that she had done the right thing, the fight had turned into a pretty good sparing session somewhere along the way and he never had gotten a chance to protect Akane's honor. Amy was also able to hold her own against him in their sparing matches and that had impressed him more than a little, he was used to girls trying to do anything to get close to him. Amy didn't work that way, she was her own person and worked the way she wanted to. Now he was getting to get to know her fun side and actually enjoying himself, as a girl.
Ranma had lost himself in the roll of having fun and didn't even seem to care that he was girl anymore. Even eating at the food court around all the people wasn't bothering him very much. They were eating ice cream and giggling like any pair of school girl when his behavior had hit him squarely in the stomach. He had paled and turned a disgusted look at himself and fled to the nearest bathroom and turned himself male as quickly as he could. Amy had caught him as he came out of the men's bathroom, gave him a sad look that made him feel bad, and handed him his drink.
"Lets head back to the dojo Ranma." Amy said as they started to leave the mall.
"Amy, I-I'm sorry..."
"Ranma, you are your own worst enemy, did you know that?"
"Huh?"
"Your curse isn't that bad, it really isn't."
"I hate my curse."
"I don't think so Ranma, you have adjusted to it very well. You know how to walk correctly. You can put on the most vapid impression of an air headedness I have ever seen..." Amy said with a giggle and tried to copy him from a few minutes before when they had been getting ice cream.
"But Amy..."
"Ranma, I like you, male or female, you are a good friend in either sex and able to handle any kind of combat situation better than most anyone I have ever met. So long as you act like yourself you can open up and have fun like any teenager, but then your giant Ego rears it's head and you revert back to the flawed upbringing your father instilled in you."
"...You needn't go quite that far..."
"Ranma, have you ever considered why a lot of the girls you meet up with, fall for you?"
"Where did that come from?"
"Have you?"
"Yeah...and I can't figure it out either..."
"By making you do nothing but train in Martial arts for the last 10 years, you never had time to interact with others. Your one of the most stubborn people I have ever met, that reaction back there is a prime example of what I mean."
"Hey, I'm not that bad..."
"You attract girls because you are so very naive Ranma that makes girls flock to you, you don't hit on every girl you meet, you respect their wishes and try to help them whenever you can. Girls like that, it also helps that you're are quite cute, innocent, and allot of fun to be around. You do what you want and don't worry what others will say, that makes you something special. As a girl you are even more so, too."
"What?! You expect me to enjoy being a girl!" Ranma gripped. "You...you...unsexy tomboy!"
"Oh please Ranma, you were having as much fun as me and you can't deny it. You never even hesitated or flinched when I told you that you were beautiful in one dress or another and you were free with your compliments as well."
"Um..." Ranma paled...not liking where this was going.
"Ranma, your dislike of switching sex is a habit that you developed to make others see you in a certain way. I don't buy it for a moment. Humph!" With that Amy dumped her soft drink over Ranma's head and ran off giggling. Of course he, now she, had gasped and run off after her as she made her way out of the mall, across the parking lot, and took to the roofs.
They ran all they way back to the dojo and Amy had Ranma laughing again by the time they arrived. He had a new respect for his friend because he had remembered something during the little run after about 2 miles into the run, and that she was sporting that super heavy coat and...OUT RUNNING him as they hopped from roof to roof!
He had also been running over their conversation in the back of his mind and wondered if Amy may have had a point. Why had he been avoiding his curse so much? Especially after having it for over two years now. Amy was just plain confusing to him, she was an enigma that just fascinated him, and she was strong, fast, intelligent, pretty...blush..."Uh oh..."
Ranma tripped over the edge of a building and took a header right into someone's pool with a massive belly flop, scaring the girls who were sunbathing beside the pool and drenching them completely. Amy, upon hearing the giant splash, had angled back to check on him. Upon landing beside the pool, Ranma had surfaced and glared at her while gasping for air and treading water. Amy fell down laughing hysterically. The other girls had just gaped and soon joined Amy laughing at the water logged Ranma as she sputtered and climbed out of the pool.
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Makoto Kino was walking along, heading over to Rei's temple for a meeting, when she saw something out of the corner of her eye and looked up just in time to see two red haired girls jumping from roof to roof as they moved across the bounded away from the area. It was possibly the most amazing thing she had ever seen in her life, how anyone could jump and run like that was a complete mystery.
Then she recognized the one in front, but the second girl was a mystery, she didn't have a clue who she was. Then she remembered the note Ami had mentioned at the meeting a few days ago and quickly pulled out her communicator and hit the 'all call' button.
"Everyone, I just spotted Amy Lee and another girl roof hopping near my apartment building."
"They were doing What!?" Rei screamed.
"Were they doing anything else Mako?" Ami asked.
"Not that I could see, I'm trying to catch up with them now." Makoto said as she ran after the two girls.
"Be careful Makoto, Amy Lee has sworn to get revenge on us for that attack you and Rei pulled. We know she isn't going to kill us, but she will pull something on us if she catches us alone." Luna advised, it was her sole duty and she did it so well.
"I still blame Rei for this mess, if she hadn't jumped the gun we could have new friend and ally right now instead of someone that wants to turn us into sex toys." Usagi said as she grabbed the communicator from Luna. Makoto blushed as the people around her head that and started talking and pointing at her.
"Shut up MEATBALL HEAD, I still think she should be neutralized in some way."
Makoto dashed into an alley to get away from all the people talking about her, glanced around. She transformed into Sailor Jupiter and quickly jumped to a nearby roof in an attempt to keep an eye on Amy Lee or the other girl as they moved away. They were no where in sight though and after a few minutes looking she had to give up for a moment. She brought her communicator out again and called everyone again. "I don't see them anymore, should I keep looking?"
"Yes, we need to apologize to her!" Usagi said.
"No! Stop her before she starts to kill us! My visions are telling me to be very careful with this one, she is dangerous." Rei yelled.
"Rei, we have no proof of that!" Usagi yelled.
"She threatened us!"
"Jupiter had just blasted her in the back! She was mad at us, we need to get on her good side again."
Bickering ensued.
Sailor Jupiter turned off her communicator. She just didn't feel like going through that argument again, she was jumping to another roof even as she put it away. She had felt bad ever since she had thrown that shot, but she wasn't about to back down now. Unlike the others, she liked a good fight and looked forward to the various monsters that showed up every now and then and this Amy Lee was proving to be interesting. The others thought she was crazy for thinking that way, but she preferred the challenge to being bored in peaceful times.
Then, Jupiter spotted them several roofs away looking out over the city talking to themselves, one of them looked like she had just fallen in the canal. She quickly plotted a jump pattern and moved into action. She wasn't in the right place during a jump and missed it when the shorter red head pointed in her direction. It took a few minutes, but she managed to make it to the building and land without a sound on the edge of the room behind them. Dashing to the edge of a small wall, she edged her way around and looked around carefully. What greeted her made her curse under her breath.
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To Be Continued...
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Strange Days
Chapter 04
By: Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(C)2003
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It was early morning and the sun was just peeking out over the horizon an decided to look in one girl with blonde hair as she was sleeping. She was blonde and unlike most girls, for one she snored and giggled in her sleep. This morning the sun was enough to peek around her curtains and focus on her eyes. The made Usagi roll over and kick the blankest and sheets off her in an attempt to get away from the invading light. She also started to shiver as the covers on her bed fell on the floor. They meowed angrily and cursed her a few times before they started to move around on their own.
She groggily woke up enough to notice this, shrugged and decided that sleep was more important than her comfort. Luna, who was entangled in the sheets and blankets, was more than a little annoyed with her charge this morning, as demonstrated by using several old type Silver Millennium curse words to express their displeasure. The girl had stayed up last night watching a movie with Mamoru and fallen asleep in his lap, Luna still wasn't sure what had happened after that since she had been asleep long before that.
The girl could not sleep peacefully either, no, she had been worried about Ami all night as well and this had added to the list of things that Luna didn't want to repeat. An annoyed Usagi was a sight to behold and her nervous pacing had even gotten to Mamoru after awhile. The movie had been his idea to calm her down, and it had, until she had jumped in on a conversation with Mercury and Venus as she tried to track down that girl they had wronged. Luna was of the opinion that Mars was right, after all even if she was harmless if she was dead she wouldn't be in their way.
She had to constantly remember that this age wasn't as harsh as the one she came from and a lot more trusting. Usagi's attitude on this was constantly surprising her too. Luna could care if the enemy survived the encounter, especially if they had started it. Usagi seemed to think differently though and Luna had to respect that, but it didn't stop her from cursing the girl while her back was turned.
After that things had gotten a little better and had settled down again after Mercury had signed off. After going to bed, Usagi had done her usual nightly ritual of tripping around the room, falling down a dozen times, put on her pajamas and hit the sack only to be asleep in less than five seconds. After crawling out from under the dresser and double checking to see if the girl wasn't going to jump up and step on her like she did last week.
Luna had hopped up on the bed by her feet and soon followed her into dream land. Then it had happened at around two in the morning, a knocking at the door leading out to Usagi's little balcony. Luna had gotten up to gripe at or scratch whoever had the guts to wake her up at this time in the morning and looked around the edge of the curtain, claws extended. She saw a dishelved Sailor Mercury standing there, shuddering and shivering.
Luna had gasped, got her attention by tapping on the glass with a claw and motioned for her to wait while she woke up the 'grouchy one'. It had taken nearly 5 minutes to make her even coherent, this included biting her foot, jumping up and down on her, and licking her nose until she sleepily threatened to de-fur her if this wasn't important. After jumping up and down a few more times Usagi had finally rolled up and went to open the balcony door.
Mercury had rushed in and collapsed at Usagi's feet looking like all the demons of hell were after her. Luna had been surprise she wasn't crying, but something in the girl's eyes told her it was something. She had briefly wondered if the original Sailor Mercury's personality had finally returned, but soon tossed that idea. It wasn't supposed to happen for a long time yet.
This had woken up Usagi enough to be alert and decisive, she spent a minute helping her friend over to the bed and sat her down. Ami was latched onto Usagi and wouldn't let go for anything, as if she thought she would die if she did, Luna had never seen anything like it. Usagi could feel her friend's pain and held her for nearly a half hour before she calmed down enough to talk. Ami turned a solid red and buried her face in Usagi's stomach and shuddered as she told them what the girl had done to her and shocked Luna and Usagi speechless.
"That...That's horrible!" Usagi gasped out.
"I don't know what to do Usagi, I've never encountered anything like it..." Ami said quietly.
"She'll pay!" Usagi said her eyes burning with fire.
"She raped you..."
"That's just it Usagi, I don't know if it can be considered that." Ami stated quietly.
"What?!"
"All she did was brush her finger tip across my body, she never even touched me...there. She seemed more interested in barely touching me as she kissed me."
"No matter what she did, it was still rape!"
Ami shuddered again and buried her head in Usagi's shoulder. It was at this point that Luna noticed the smell emanating from Ami and padded a little closer to confirm what her nose was telling her. Luna coughed a couple of times and kept her mouth shut since she was no longer as worried about Mercury as she was other things. Then Luna noticed that the smell was getting stronger the longer Mercury was in being held in Usagi's arms.
"There's more isn't there Ami?" Luna asked.
"H-hai..." Ami whispered.
"There's more!?" Usagi all but yelled.
Ami shuddered again and backed off from Usagi and glanced down at Luna and let out a longing sigh that confirmed Luna's thoughts. She fiddled with the hem of her dress and tried to calm herself, it was obvious to Luna what was going on, but Usagi missed it completely. "T-the thing is t-that I enjoyed what she did to me, a lot, and I can't get it out of my h-head." Ami admitted and hung her head and turning so red that Luna thought she might faint.
Usagi gaped at the friend for several seconds before she started to smile and her grin wasn't the kind one gives a friend, but one of those almost evil ones that said a person was thinking some pretty perverted thoughts. Usagi giggled a little and sprouted horns and a little devil tail as she sidled up to Ami. Luna hung her head and wondered what she was up too.
"You enjoyed it?"
"Hai."
"Then why are you here? You should be looking for her and returning the favor..." Usagi said in a stage whisper. Luna's fur sprang up at the advice, shocking her completely. Then she facefaulted off the end of the bed.
"I tried to, really I did, spent most of an hour running all over the area looking for her, but she had simply vanished. Plus she wants to meet with you sometime." Ami said quietly.
"I don't swing that way Ami." Usagi said with a grin. Luna took another header off the bed, since when had the walking disaster area learned how to be witty?
Amy just smiled and reached into her pocket and pulled out a small piece of paper and handed it to Usagi. The same note that Amy had left taped to her nose.
Taking the note, Usagi and Luna scanned through it:
Scouts:
It took a while but I decided that I wasn't going return the favor of attempting to kill you from behind, as you did me. Instead I well be visiting each of you separately and having a little fun with you. I may scare you, I may play with you, or I may make you regret ever meeting me. This last is reserved for Sailors Jupiter and Mars because of their insistence that I would kill all of you if I lived. Bullshit!
Amy Lee
"She is going to be visiting us separately? What can we do if she decides to do to us what she did to Ami?" Usagi asked Luna.
"Go with the flow?" Ami said quietly and turned bright red as she realized that she had said that out loud.
"Ami!"
"Heh, sorry, it just slipped out. Whatever she did to me is still hitting me a little bit. According to my computer scans, my body released a large amount of Endorphins into my system and it will take several days for them to go back down to normal levels. Until they do I will be...um...very receptive to certain things." Ami said uncomfortably.
"So you can still feel what she did to you?"
"Yes..." Ami answered as Usagi leaned in close and looked at her with those giant innocent eyes. This made Ami start to sweat as her body started to respond to the lust that was driving her mad, only her strength of will was keeping her from jumping her friend right there and then.
"Usagi cut it out!" Luna said.
"Don't be mean Luna, I'm just trying to have some fun." Usagi pouted.
"Ah...right." Ami let out with a gasp and tried to slow her beating heart.
"Ami, lets call it a night, you seem to have calmed down and I really need my sleep." Usagi pointed out suddenly when she sensed that her friend needed some time to calm down now that she had talked things out and delivered the message.
"Of course Usagi, I really should be heading home myself." Ami said as she stood on wobbly knees. Usagi stood as well and led her down stairs and let her out the front door. Usagi waved good bye and quickly dashed back up stairs.
After that Usagi headed back up to her room, but not before she made a slight detour via that kitchen to grab a banana off the counter. As she stepped into the room Usagi noticed a slightly familiar odor that she tried to place. She had smelled it somewhere before and after racking her brain she gasped and covered her nose. She shivered slightly as she finally recognized it. She hopped over the bed and opened the door to her balcony to let some fresh air in while hoping that the room would air out by morning.
"Luna if she enjoyed what this Amy Lee did to her, why was she acting the way she was when she came in?"
"Shock."
"Shock, why, she said it was a lot of fun and that she was still feeling whatever it was that Amy did to her."
"Shock can take many forms Usagi. This Amy Lee person stripped Ami of her control and used it against her to do whatever it was she did. People react differently to certain kinds of actions, some good some bad, it just depends on the person. Ami wouldn't have been chosen to be a Sailor Scout if she wasn't strong enough to survive what this Amy Lee did. So don't worry, she'll pull through."
"...Okay..."
"Don't think about it to hard, Ami will survive this, but right now we need to set things up tomorrow to have a scout meeting and inform everyone about this."
"Do we tell the Outers?"
Luna looked up in surprise. Usagi rarely asked such good questions. "I think we should, even though we haven't heard from them in some time."
Usagi walked over to the open door and watched moon as she thought about what was going on. Or that is what Luna thought. She made it a point to never find out what was going through Usagi's mind. The last time she had tried to understand her charge had ended in a lot of pain. With a shrug Usagi hopped into bed and wrapped the sheets around her and got comfortable, shrugged and was instantly asleep while Luna grumbled about meatball headed teenagers, claws, and silk bras.
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Following Sailor Mercury had been child's play for Amy as she sat on the roof of Usagi's house and grinned evilly. She already had several plans in mind for her 'revenge' on the Scouts. She had one of them converted already, so if she ever wanted to make the others belong to her completely she wouldn't have to try to hard. But that went against what Amy wanted to do to them. So she decided that she would just visit each of them separately and see how things went from there, and if they did attack her again she would have something to hold over them.
Amy was even more surprised to remember that Mercury had a name similar to hers, the only difference was in how they were pronounced. The instant she had heard it she'd had to make an attempt to not bang her head against the roof as she suddenly remembered the names of her favorite Anime from her own world. It had been far to long since she had watched anything on it.
"Amy, what are you doing?" Asked Midory.
"What do you mean?"
"You are supposed to be causing as little harm as you can until we can find a way home."
"You haven't noticed?"
"What is that?"
"There was a major temporal shift the instant I crossed over and it has been growing ever since."
"Then you should be doing even less to this world than you already are..."
"No, I will not sit back and do nothing as a world is shredded to pieces because of me. I'm having a little fun and making sure my presence is more beneficial than harmful. And if this world is destroyed, I want to go out with a bang and in battle or in bed with a petty girl."
"Come on Amy, you know better than to do that." Said Aho.
"Come on you two, where is your sense of adventure?"
"You know as well as I that if we stay here too long or if we will cause to much change..."
"Midory, we have already caused to much change, can't you feel the difference? It happened long before we woke up in that crater, something from one of the core worlds is here and has been making changes for a long time now. I have feeling that this world would have been getting a visit from me eventually anyway, I'm just having a little fun while I'm here."
"That may be Amy, but it hasn't happened yet so you should keep a low profile while your here or until you are called."
"Your also forgetting the 'Universal Law of Sacrifice', that also has some say in this world's future."
Amy winced and nodded.
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Her eyes were open, she knew that because she could see the Time Door standing there above her. Then there was the pain, it was a word she seemed to have underestimated. Every square inch of her body hurt, hurt beyond their worst tortures she had ever experienced. Even her hair hurt as she lay there and whimpered in pain, just to move her arm made her come close to fainting as she forced herself to sit up. When that proved to painful she just lay there for several seconds gasping for air, she could sense that something was seriously wrong, but needed to be on her feet to use the Key to find out what it was.
Setsuna moaned and rolled over onto her back with stifled scream of pain, tears ran down her face and into her hair as she lay there and gritted her teeth. She could feel the change in the very air around her too, she was no longer in her Sailor Scout uniform, and she was human again for some reason. She had never had this happen before, being a Scout seemed to always be enough to allow her to whether a change like this. Whatever had happened was possibly the worst thing in history, she couldn't make the changes she needed to anymore and that meant that Crystal Tokyo would soon be gone. Small Lady would be dead, perhaps never born, or something worse. She sobbed for hours and tried to come up with some idea of what to do, but nothing came to her except the pain whenever she tried to move.
She thought about it for some time trying to figure out what had happened to her and eventually decided that her body was just slightly out of phase with the time gate's influence. This had the effect of doing something as simple as moving around nearly impossible. The closest she could come to describing it would be to have every cell in her body rubbing up against a serrated knife and slowly shredding her as she struggled to stay in one piece. Setsuna glanced at the Time Gate and saw that it had shut itself and erected a magical barrier to keep people away since she was not there to guard it like she should have been.
"Ah SHIT!!!" She yelled. "Owwwweeee!"
In the distance there was a flash of dark energy and slight rumbling sound as a teleport gate forced its way into the domain of the Time Gate. A vile of black liquid appeared and fell to the ground where it broke open, spilling its contents all over the foggy ground. For several minutes it lay there sparkling in the ethereal light of the plain, then it shifted and began to move, or ooze its way toward the green haired woman groaning in pain several meters away. It was silent as it moved and it used its powers to mask it's presence from unwanted eyes...
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In the back yard of the Tendo Dojo Nibiki watched as Amy methodically danced her way through a kata she was designing from scratch. According to her, it would allow her to use her opponents Ki attacks against them, even recharge her own if she found herself low on Ki for some reason. Nibiki was a bit amazed at their new house guest, she was an enigma that she just couldn't understand and that always meant trouble. In a lot of ways she was like Ranma, an almost natural at martial arts and preferred to fight her way out of things, and yet on the other had she wasn't chasing the boy around the yard like Shampoo or Ukyo did all the time.
Her indifference to Ranma was having the opposite effect that she had wanted as well, even Nabiki could see that. She considered selling the information to the other girls, but decided to find a more profitable way to use this situation. It would take some thought but she figured she could come up with something to use. Ever since she had shown up, she had been warping the lives of all those around her. Ranma and Akane were a prime example of this, they had not fought in several days now and had been all but avoiding each other. Nabiki knew that they had canceled the engagement, but even that had not stopped the fighting between the two.
The only problem was that Ranma had been fighting with Amy every evening for the last few days and the only person that seemed to have even noticed was Nibiki. The fathers hadn't even noticed and they always took the time to try and force Ranma on Akane while trying to get the other girls to leave. She wasn't sure what was going on, but she had her suspicions and they were not good ones, could the two morons be using this to hatch some weird plan or something?
"Supper!" Kasumi called out.
Ranma bounced off the roof, who had been watching Amy as she practiced, dashed forward, grabbed Amy's hand and pulled her to the table just as Akane was coming down stairs. Amy, again attempting to give Ranma a better chance with Akane, yanked her hand back and glared at the boy. "Ranma, go and talk to Akane again, one of these days you won't put your foot in your mouth and make her angry." Amy whispered in his ear.
He nodded just as Akane mallet him off the property, over Nerima, and into orbit via Akane Air. Amy sighed and gave Akane this look that promised lots of pain if she continued to do things like this. Akane ignored her and glared daggers into Amy's back as she left to help Ranma when he landed.
"That was a bit harsh Akane." Nabiki said.
"The pervert deserved it!"
"What did he do?" Nabiki asked.
"He was trying to seduce yet ANOTHER girl into his harem!!"
Nabiki just shook her head and wondered again if there was something seriously wrong with her sister. She thought about mentioning something about the canceled engagement, but decided against it. It would only make the father's go crazy and there was no profit in that unless someone paid her to do it. "You need to learn to see the truth for what it is Akane."
"Just what is that supposed to meant?!"
"That you just launched Ranma out of the city because he was called into dinner." Nabiki said and walked over to the table.
Akane just glared at her. "Humph!"
**********
As soon as she was out of sight and several houses away, Amy flared her aura and lifted off the ground, she hovered there for several seconds before flying forward at incredible speeds. It wasn't long she spotted Ranma laying in the middle of the park, a geyser of water firing up into the sky from where he had landed. She was a little concerned that he wasn't moving, and landed to take a closer look. She ignored the amazed looks she was getting from those few people in the park that had witnessed her flying in, it wasn't all that important, Ranma was because he was her friend. He was at the bottom of a rapidly filling crater, turned female because of the water and in pretty bad shape.
Amy waded through the water and knelt down to roll Ranma over and get a better look at her friend's injuries. She noted the large bruise forming on the along her face and shoulders and across her chest. Ranma groaned and opened her eyes and almost choked at the expression of concern on Amy's face. The only person to ever show him any compassion or friendship had been Akane. He had latched onto her like a life preserver in the flow and ebb of his chaotic life, until he had grown tired of being hit all the time by her and called things off.
"Are you all right?" Amy asked.
"Yeah, I barely felt that." Ranma said cockily and winced.
"Oh sure my friend, that is why this giant bruise is forming all over you." Amy snapped back, trying and failing to keep from giggling.
"Heh, I guess Akane did go a little over board this time. Just how far did I make it?"
"Almost three miles."
Ranma was impressed, Akane's average hit usually sent him about half a mile or so. The only time she ever sent him further was when she was very mad at him. He groaned and wondered what he had done this time. It was always so hard to tell anymore. She just seemed to jump to some strange conclusion and then ...HAMMER TIME!
Helping Ranma to her feet, Amy steadied her as she wobbled a little before catching her balance. "Do you want to go home?"
"Not right now, whatever I did, Akane won't even tolerate me for several hours at least." Ranma said sadly.
"Hmmm...how about we go to Uchan's then?"
"Hey, great idea, I haven't had any of her stuff in weeks. Every time I even think of going there Akane mallet's me unconscious."
"Well," Amy smiles, "this time it's my idea."
Ranma is more than willing and they are soon roof hopping across Nerima. Because of how far Akane had hit Ranma it takes more than an hour to get there and walk inside, Ranma instantly notices that the place is busier then normal. The girl behind the grill is working like crazy as they enter and looks up with a smile as she sees him, but frowns when she sees Amy right behind him. Ranma doesn't notice though and takes up a seat at the front counter while he says hi to his other friend.
"Hi Ran-chan, I'll get you something as soon as I can."
"Take your time U-chan, 3 specials for me and the same for Amy here." Ranma says.
Amy looks the place over and decides that she likes it, though it is a little hard to tell when all available seats are taken up by the cheerleading team from Juban High, as the bus proclaims outside. She notices something as she looks all the girls over and smirks. Amy, feeling playful, taps Ranma on the shoulder and points to one of the girls sitting in one of the booths along the wall.
She was sitting in just such a way to allow anyone who wants to can see her panties and she didn't seem to notice. She whispers this to Ranma and points it out. She looks and instantly turns red when she gets an eye full of a blue silk panty. Amy giggles as Ranma starts to look around for the incoming mallet. Ukyo scowls and looks over at what had caused Ranma to react that way and pales for a second then blushes along with Ranma.
A few minutes later Ukyo brings their orders up and they stand at the counter chatting as they eat, talking about what they were planning to do over the next few days. Amy notices a small TV hanging in one corner with the news playing. Amy watches for a few seconds and realizes that they are playing a story on the Sailor Scouts, but the story finishes before she can figure out what is going on.
"You ever have any dealings with them yet?" Amy asks casually.
"Who?" Ranma turns around and looks at the TV. "The Sailors?"
"Yep."
"Not yet, I don't get over to Juban very much, why."
"They tried to kill me the other night when I went to the bank." Amy says conversationally.
Ranma blinked, "Did you try to rob it?."
Amy swats the back of Ranma's head. "Hey now, there was no need for that. I told them I would get revenge on them for trying to kill me in cold blood. They claimed that I was already trying to kill them even after I had saved on of them from being killed."
"What are you going to do?"
Amy grinned evilly, "Embarrass the hell out of them."
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Ami had a weird look on her face as she unlocked the apartment she shared with her mother, stepped inside, and headed into the kitchen. Her look was a little hard to describe since it was a look that she had never worn before. She was totally confused about what happened with that girl who had attacked her earlier, her feelings and desires were doing loops and twists around her logical mind and winning.
For this reason her mighty logic, that always helped her analyze situations like this was not working, instead she felt like she was flying through the clouds. Her body was thrumming with energy that she had never felt before and she never wanted it to end. What had been done to her?
Even though it had been about six hours sense Amy Lee had brought her to a mind blowing orgasm by touch alone, she had been thinking constantly of her sexual orientation. She had always considered herself completely heterosexual and only slightly curious about the other sex, in a perfectly healthy way, but what that girl had done something, and it had blown her mental circuits into tiny pieces. She stepped into the kitchen and got herself a glass of water and tried to distract herself from the images and feelings that were driving her crazy.
No matter how hard she tried she just could not get what happened to her out of her mind and just thinking about it was arousing her to levels she had never felt in her life. If that wasn't bad enough it was causing her to soil her panties at an alarming rate. She had already soaked through several pairs of panties in the last two hours.
The worst was the run from Nerima to Juban where she was in her Scout uniform. It was not designed to keep her arousal a secret. Ami blushed as she finished off the water. No they weren't designed for that. Her thighs had been literally drenched from things leaking out and there hadn't been a thing she could do about it. Transforming back had been a mistake too because she instantly had to change her panties, that pair had lasted all of ten minutes after she left Usagi's place.
Usagi had been so tired when she visited that she hadn't noticed a thing when Ami managed to grab a couple pairs of panties out of her drawer. Even Luna had missed that little bit of midnight robbery. Thoughts of what had happened to her plagued Ami on her to our track through the park as she headed home. It didn't help anything when she found that she was staying in a constantly aroused state, her body just wouldn't calm down enough to let her relax.
Standing in the living room Ami didn't even consider witnesses as she pulled off yet another soaked pair of panties and grabbed another pair from her subspace pocket. These went on is easily as any the others and she wandered around the apartment in a daze, her fingers lightly trailing across her lips as she recalled when Amy had kissed her, she shuddered and moaned softly at the effect.
Releasing a great sigh Ami flopped down into a nearby chair and brought her knees to her chest and tried to find a logical solution for this mess. There was nothing she could do though, her feelings would not let her focus past her hyper arousal enough to properly think this though. Her entire body was still pulsing with need, it was taking all she had not to strip right there and do something about it though. That girl had did this to her somehow, but she was just to out of it to think about how it was done. Leaning back, Ami curled up in the chair and slowly drifted off to sleep as her body pulsed in time with her heart.
Outside Amy hovered in the air outside the girl's apartment and blended in with the shadows so that no one would see her. Amy raised her arm and fired a thin beam of Ki into the girl's back, almost immediately she relaxed and went into a deeper sleep than what she had been in. Amy had gotten enough revenge on Mercury, besides she wasn't the Scout she wanted to punish the most.
Mercury was just a delightful side dish that she had snatched up for a little fun. If the girl did try to do something though, it wouldn't take much for her to activate the shiatsu points again. With that Amy flew into the sky and vanished before anyone could figure out where the red light was coming from.
It was a few hours later when Ami slowly awakened and opened her eyes to see her mother moving around the kitchen making them breakfast. She sat up and stretched to get the kinks out of her muscles from sleeping in that strange position. It had been nearly four days since she had seen her mother and Ami brightened up almost immediately.
She also noticed that her body was not as affected as it had been a few hours before. Though she could still feel herself pulsing in time to her heart it was not as powerful as it was. This made her morning as she stood up and finished working the kinks out of her system.
"Good morning." Ami's mother said from the kitchen as she saw her daughter moving around. "You must have had quite a night last night?"
"Huh?" Ami said intelligently.
Ami's mom comes though the kitchen smiling and points at the floor at the edge of the couch and her grins get bigger. Ami looks down and focuses her eyes on no less than four pair of soaked panties that she had accidentally dropped on the floor in her exhaustion earlier. She gasped and turned several shades of red as her blush covered her face and headed down her chest. "Um...well...um..."
"I would be very interested in hearing what could cause you to have that kind of reaction on you of all people?" Her mother said lecherously grinning at her only daughter.
"I...I...I...d-don't..."Ami said as she descended into total embarrassment. Her mother was a doctor and knew very well how human body worked and concocting lies was nearly impossible when he came to fooling her mother about her reactions.
"Was it a really, really cute boy?"
"I know, a really handsome movie character?"
"Perhaps a dirty movie?"
"One of your friends, hint, hint."
Ami stepped back from her mother, still blushing furiously and trying to come up with a plausible excuse for several pairs of damp and smelly panties on the floor. Her mother giggled at her and gave her a little push to get her to walk into the kitchen and take a seat at the table. What was worse, was that she was actually considering telling her mother the truth about what happened except for the fact that she had been a Sailor Scout at the time.
"So tell me what happened?"
"Well..."
"Don't be shy either, I expect my daughter to the very open about such things and anything they could set you off that strongly is worth hearing about if you ask me."
"Are you sure you want to know?"
"Definitely."
For a 15-year-old girl to have to sit down and tell her mother that a girl had turned you on more than any man ever could was very, very hard. Ami wasn't sure how to begin because her explanation had to be half truth and half lie, just enough to be believable without giving away her other secrets. So she fidgeted nervously, looking down at her hands as they started to sweat as she tried to get her thought in order.
"Tell me what he looked like."
"...it was a girl." Ami said very quietly, blushing to the root server hair.
"Oh really? Tell me about this girl and what she did that that could affect you so much."
"I actually don't know how she did it, only that all she had to do was touch me and I went off into lala land. I don't understand why it happened either." And so it went for the next 20 or 30 minutes as they ate breakfast, Ami became more and more embarrassed by what had happened to her, she had to start and stop several times as she detailed the night.
Her mother did not once insult her or condemn her for allowing another girl to sexually excite her. Instead she just sat there nodding and listened to her and offered some advise and interesting comments. Ami finished her explanation by pointing at the damp panties and explaining that she had borrowed several pair from her friend to keep from dripping down her own legs.
"You never said, but exactly how far did you get with this girl?"
"That's the strange part, all she did was step in close to me, run her finger along my body and while her other hand was cupping my face, and then she kissed me. Her other hand then roamed around my body and I went off like a firecracker and passed out on the spot from the sheer intensity of it." Ami, though still embarrassed, no longer had any fear of what her mother's reaction would be since she actually seemed to be encouraging her to talk about it more.
"Are you going to see this girl again?"
"Yes, but I don't know if anything will ever happen between us. I still need to find out why she did it in the first place." Ami said.
"Well if you do decide to go out with this girl just remember to enjoy yourself as you do so, there is certainly no need to be a so embarrassed about it." Ami's mother said as she stood up and began to gather up her coat and purse. "Thank you for the chat Ami, we haven't had one like it in a long time and I'm glad you decided to confide in me." With that her mother turned around, waved goodbye, and headed out for another 18 hour shift at the hospital.
Ami blinked as the door closed and shrugged, that was her mother alright. Here one minute and as peasant as anything, the next she was going to work and would disappear for days on end. That was about the norm for these things and Ami didn't expect to see her again anytime soon. That left her with only one thing to do...study!
She cleaned up the dishes and went to her room to read.
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It had been a week since Amy started to plan her revenge against the Scouts and she had recruited Ranma to help her out when it was needed. So far they hadn't done anything to them yet, but that was going to change today. Ranma and Amy had just decided that it would be a good idea if they were to head out and do a little recon of Juban while they had a few hours to kill. Amy needed to see if the information she had on the Scouts was still up to date even after all this time.
She had been on enough crossover worlds to know that not everything stayed the same from world to world. The biggest thing she wanted to know is what part of the known time line they were in. A bit of thought told Amy that they were around the last season, either before or after it to be exact.
She used the names the girls used for their attacks to figure this out, though Ranma didn't know about any of it. He had barely ever heard of the Sailor Scouts and he lived here. That meant that the Scouts were also still part of the rumor mill instead of out in the open. Ranma was a bit skeptical as he followed her, she had taken a few minutes to explain what she planned to do to the Scouts in retaliation for attacking her.
Ranma was a little nervous at first since he had never considered embarrassment a form of revenge, but he quickly got into the novelty of Amy's idea and wondered how it would work. They roof hopped into the heart of Juban and they were soon moving into the areas most recognized for having sightings of the Sailor Scouts, according to the guide book Amy had come across earlier. It was amazing what urban legend could spawn when it came to money and tourist attractions.
"Can I help you in any way? I still think your idea is a little extreme, but if you want to go though with it I'll help you."
"Are you sure you want to help me, Ranma?"
"Yeah." Ranma said as they stood on the roof of a 4 story school building at the edge of the Juban district, it was just tall enough to let the keep an eye on the entire area. Amy nodded and pointed to a school in the distance.
"That building is the Juban High School and is where some of the Scouts go to school in their civilian identities. They are like any other group of girls you've ever met, flighty, colorful, and boy crazy to extremes. They also turn into Sailor Scouts and kill monsters in their spare time."
"They don't sound all that tuff, they are just girls after all and if their like everyone else..." Ranma said.
"Their powers give them increased speed, strength, and enough power to blow up buildings just like the one we're on now. They are anything but weak Ranma, and I doubt that you could blow up a building, even with your Ki attacks.
Ranma shrugged, he knew he could do it, he had just never tired to and he never told her about Saffron and the blast that leveled an entire mountain. "What exactly are you planning for today?"
"Like I said, I am going to play several hentai jokes on them and embarrass the hell out of them or make them faint from pleasure. Since I have already gotten Mercury, I am planning to strike at either Jupiter or Venus next. Jupiter happens to go to this school, Venus goes to the just down the block."
"What about the others?"
"Moon, Jupiter, and Mercury go to that one a couple of streets over. Venus, goes to the one were standing on right now, and Mars goes to a private girl's school a couple miles away."
Ranma nodded and grinned, he liked this kind of revenge. It was better than what he was used to from Ryoga and Kuno at least, though he had no intention of ever doing against either of them unless he wanted to become a true pervert. This was going to be fun, Amy had already sketched out a couple of plans that had even had Akane edging away from her and mumbling about perverts.
Her hand had been trying to find an excuse to pull the mallet and pound Amy into the floor. Only the fact that Amy had been training her for some time now stopped her. When Amy saw how Akane was acting she smiled and reached into her coat to pull out a card and handed it to Akane with a leer.
The youngest Tendo hadn't taken good at all and started screaming about how Amy was giving girls a bad name with her perverted ideals. Her reaction had been one of the funniest things Ranma had seen in a long time, he had fallen over laughing at the look on her face.
This got him another hot trip to the pond by way of Akane's mallet as she was finally able to find a suitable target for her growing rage. Ranma had dragged himself out of the koi pond just as Akane stomped out of the room, he had picked up the card and read it and started laughing again.
"Pervert's Anonymous--20 minutes and counting without an impure thought...Oooh!" It was surrounded in little gold and red hearts and symbols to catch the eye of anyone that read the card.
Akane had been avoiding Amy ever since, even going to the point that she stopped training with her and called her names behind her back. Amy hadn't meant to a cause the reaction, it had just been a joke after all, but Akane hadn't taken it that way and was trying to get Amy thrown out of the house.
Even going so far as to try and pay Nabiki to refuse Amy the next time she wanted to pay the rent for another week. Nibiki was baffled about this since Amy's money was netting them quite a bit of capital, they'd even had enought o finally install some equipment the Dojo had needed for years now. Selling Amy's location to Akane for 1000 yen a shot was also making her some quick money.
To make up for the extreme reaction Amy had slotted Kasumi into Akane's training time instead, since the girl needed a decent sparing partner, much to Kasumi's delight and ...pain. It was unusual for the oldest Tendo to sport bruises, but Kasumi had taken a shine to Amy and they were now training with each other on a daily. Soun had noticed the bruises, declared loudly that he would kill whoever had hurt his little girl and broke down into tears, again. He had no idea it was Amy or what she was doing since Kasumi didn't want anyone to know about it just yet.
Amy still hadn't experience his demon head attack, but she felt it was only a matter of time before something happened. She wanted to learn the technique and to do that she needed to see it in action. Though Ranma had noticed Kasumi training with Amy, he had wisely decided to keep his mouth shut, after a little seductive threat on Amy's part. Threatening to kiss him got the most curious results at the best of times, and he was fun to tease.
Then there was the equipment that Amy had picked up a few days ago, he had never thought of some of the stuff she had picked up or had made for her. The day after their visit to U-chan's, Amy and Ranma had gone over to the Mall in Juban where she had some stuff available for pick up, a number of special orders.
The two jackets were works of art and the armored inner linings even more so. Ranma had made a couple of comments about her odd tastes in clothing, but that had changed as he began to see what they were use for. Unfortunately Amy had been a bad mood due to something Akane had said to her that morning and took it out on Ranma for opening his mouth at the wrong time. So she had reached out and tapped a shiatsu point in his chest.
He had collapsed to the floor in astonishment as his body went numb and refused to support him anymore. "Wha...What the hell did you do?!"
"That was pretty easy Ranma, I mean aren't you supposed to be a great martial artist?"
"What did you do?!"
"Shiatsu point, it numbs the muscles of your body for several minutes and leaves you open to an attack. Now that I've demonstrated that, here is the reason why I had this coat made up Mr. Arrogance. My coat's serve 3 functions Ranma...
1: It is a kind of armor and can withstand a great deal of damage
2: It is for strength training because it weighs quite a bit
3: and finally it is for making me look good in a fight."
Amy's jackets were made of a thick silk and decorated with pictures of a flaming dragon while edged in golden flames, the thing was a bit showy, but she liked them that way to draw attention to her and not what she was doing. The linings were made out of Kevlar and had hundreds of little pockets stitched into the outer lining. Ranma had watched with a weird expression on his face, while still not being able to move, as Amy took the lining and laid it out on the floor of the store and pulled a large bag of lead from her subspace pocket and sat down to insert the lead weights into the pockets.
"Weighted clothing?" He croaked out.
"Yeah, I usually wear a pair of boots with hundred pounds weights in them, a 50 pound belt, this 200 pound jacket, and if I'm really in the mood to train I have a pair of shoulder braces that I can get up to 500 pounds or more."
"How can you stand with all that?"
"I've worked my way up to it over the years and my body is really adaptable to high stress situations."
Amy stood up and casually drew on the now 200 pound coat and buttoned it up the side with the little red gold buttons. The rest of the weights and the extra coat went into her subspace pocket right in front of an astonished sales clerk's face that had no idea what Amy wanted the funny clothing for. Amy had wiggled a little to settle the weight and grinned down at Ranma, it had been a few weeks since she had worn one of these and she had been losing her edge.
Feeling Ranma had learned his lesson she knelt down, smirked at him and jabbed him in the stomach. His body twitched once and the feeling returned all at once. It was a little painful, but he did keep his insults down to a minimum for the rest of the day. This just happened to be what Amy wanted in the first place.
"You do know that is a handicap don't you? You won't be able to fight as well as you usually do." Ranma pointed out.
"Yep, my full speed should be slowed by about half and my punches should be hard enough to knock a normal fighter off their feet without even trying." Amy said, quickly adjusting to her new clothing. It wasn't her usual armor, but she had learned to improvise over the years. They were able to make better forms of training clothing where she came from, this primitive stuff just wasn't as durable as what she was used to.
They had spent the next couple of hours wandering the mall picking up odds and ends that Amy thought might come in handy against the Sailors. The porn shop had been an eye opener for Ranma and he had fled before they passed the first stack of tapes. From there Amy had dragged him to some other places, just for fun she had dragged Ranma into a dress shop, after tossing a glass of water at him, and played dress up for a half hour or so.
She had protested at first, but a quick challenge had made her put her all into it. She had managed surprise Amy with just how much knowledge Ranma really did have when it came to this stuff. Amy had a ball watching Ranma strut around in a black cocktail dress and no bra, the little wiggle had been worth the wait in Amy's book.
Amy hadn't known noticed it, but Ranma had been watching her as well. He was just amazed that anyone could like him, especially with his curse, and yet she seemed to like him either way and that made him feel special in a way the tomboy didn't. Akane's temper had been getting on his nerves lately, but he had no idea how to deal with her, and they had technically broken up eve if they were still trying a little. He just couldn't bring himself to deal with her the way Amy had the other day when she had punched the girl unconscious for hitting him with the mallet.
Even when he was mad at her over hurting Akane she had insisted that she had done the right thing, the fight had turned into a pretty good sparing session somewhere along the way and he never had gotten a chance to protect Akane's honor. Amy was also able to hold her own against him in their sparing matches and that had impressed him more than a little, he was used to girls trying to do anything to get close to him. Amy didn't work that way, she was her own person and worked the way she wanted to. Now he was getting to get to know her fun side and actually enjoying himself, as a girl.
Ranma had lost himself in the roll of having fun and didn't even seem to care that he was girl anymore. Even eating at the food court around all the people wasn't bothering him very much. They were eating ice cream and giggling like any pair of school girl when his behavior had hit him squarely in the stomach. He had paled and turned a disgusted look at himself and fled to the nearest bathroom and turned himself male as quickly as he could. Amy had caught him as he came out of the men's bathroom, gave him a sad look that made him feel bad, and handed him his drink.
"Lets head back to the dojo Ranma." Amy said as they started to leave the mall.
"Amy, I-I'm sorry..."
"Ranma, you are your own worst enemy, did you know that?"
"Huh?"
"Your curse isn't that bad, it really isn't."
"I hate my curse."
"I don't think so Ranma, you have adjusted to it very well. You know how to walk correctly. You can put on the most vapid impression of an air headedness I have ever seen..." Amy said with a giggle and tried to copy him from a few minutes before when they had been getting ice cream.
"But Amy..."
"Ranma, I like you, male or female, you are a good friend in either sex and able to handle any kind of combat situation better than most anyone I have ever met. So long as you act like yourself you can open up and have fun like any teenager, but then your giant Ego rears it's head and you revert back to the flawed upbringing your father instilled in you."
"...You needn't go quite that far..."
"Ranma, have you ever considered why a lot of the girls you meet up with, fall for you?"
"Where did that come from?"
"Have you?"
"Yeah...and I can't figure it out either..."
"By making you do nothing but train in Martial arts for the last 10 years, you never had time to interact with others. Your one of the most stubborn people I have ever met, that reaction back there is a prime example of what I mean."
"Hey, I'm not that bad..."
"You attract girls because you are so very naive Ranma that makes girls flock to you, you don't hit on every girl you meet, you respect their wishes and try to help them whenever you can. Girls like that, it also helps that you're are quite cute, innocent, and allot of fun to be around. You do what you want and don't worry what others will say, that makes you something special. As a girl you are even more so, too."
"What?! You expect me to enjoy being a girl!" Ranma gripped. "You...you...unsexy tomboy!"
"Oh please Ranma, you were having as much fun as me and you can't deny it. You never even hesitated or flinched when I told you that you were beautiful in one dress or another and you were free with your compliments as well."
"Um..." Ranma paled...not liking where this was going.
"Ranma, your dislike of switching sex is a habit that you developed to make others see you in a certain way. I don't buy it for a moment. Humph!" With that Amy dumped her soft drink over Ranma's head and ran off giggling. Of course he, now she, had gasped and run off after her as she made her way out of the mall, across the parking lot, and took to the roofs.
They ran all they way back to the dojo and Amy had Ranma laughing again by the time they arrived. He had a new respect for his friend because he had remembered something during the little run after about 2 miles into the run, and that she was sporting that super heavy coat and...OUT RUNNING him as they hopped from roof to roof!
He had also been running over their conversation in the back of his mind and wondered if Amy may have had a point. Why had he been avoiding his curse so much? Especially after having it for over two years now. Amy was just plain confusing to him, she was an enigma that just fascinated him, and she was strong, fast, intelligent, pretty...blush..."Uh oh..."
Ranma tripped over the edge of a building and took a header right into someone's pool with a massive belly flop, scaring the girls who were sunbathing beside the pool and drenching them completely. Amy, upon hearing the giant splash, had angled back to check on him. Upon landing beside the pool, Ranma had surfaced and glared at her while gasping for air and treading water. Amy fell down laughing hysterically. The other girls had just gaped and soon joined Amy laughing at the water logged Ranma as she sputtered and climbed out of the pool.
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Makoto Kino was walking along, heading over to Rei's temple for a meeting, when she saw something out of the corner of her eye and looked up just in time to see two red haired girls jumping from roof to roof as they moved across the bounded away from the area. It was possibly the most amazing thing she had ever seen in her life, how anyone could jump and run like that was a complete mystery.
Then she recognized the one in front, but the second girl was a mystery, she didn't have a clue who she was. Then she remembered the note Ami had mentioned at the meeting a few days ago and quickly pulled out her communicator and hit the 'all call' button.
"Everyone, I just spotted Amy Lee and another girl roof hopping near my apartment building."
"They were doing What!?" Rei screamed.
"Were they doing anything else Mako?" Ami asked.
"Not that I could see, I'm trying to catch up with them now." Makoto said as she ran after the two girls.
"Be careful Makoto, Amy Lee has sworn to get revenge on us for that attack you and Rei pulled. We know she isn't going to kill us, but she will pull something on us if she catches us alone." Luna advised, it was her sole duty and she did it so well.
"I still blame Rei for this mess, if she hadn't jumped the gun we could have new friend and ally right now instead of someone that wants to turn us into sex toys." Usagi said as she grabbed the communicator from Luna. Makoto blushed as the people around her head that and started talking and pointing at her.
"Shut up MEATBALL HEAD, I still think she should be neutralized in some way."
Makoto dashed into an alley to get away from all the people talking about her, glanced around. She transformed into Sailor Jupiter and quickly jumped to a nearby roof in an attempt to keep an eye on Amy Lee or the other girl as they moved away. They were no where in sight though and after a few minutes looking she had to give up for a moment. She brought her communicator out again and called everyone again. "I don't see them anymore, should I keep looking?"
"Yes, we need to apologize to her!" Usagi said.
"No! Stop her before she starts to kill us! My visions are telling me to be very careful with this one, she is dangerous." Rei yelled.
"Rei, we have no proof of that!" Usagi yelled.
"She threatened us!"
"Jupiter had just blasted her in the back! She was mad at us, we need to get on her good side again."
Bickering ensued.
Sailor Jupiter turned off her communicator. She just didn't feel like going through that argument again, she was jumping to another roof even as she put it away. She had felt bad ever since she had thrown that shot, but she wasn't about to back down now. Unlike the others, she liked a good fight and looked forward to the various monsters that showed up every now and then and this Amy Lee was proving to be interesting. The others thought she was crazy for thinking that way, but she preferred the challenge to being bored in peaceful times.
Then, Jupiter spotted them several roofs away looking out over the city talking to themselves, one of them looked like she had just fallen in the canal. She quickly plotted a jump pattern and moved into action. She wasn't in the right place during a jump and missed it when the shorter red head pointed in her direction. It took a few minutes, but she managed to make it to the building and land without a sound on the edge of the room behind them. Dashing to the edge of a small wall, she edged her way around and looked around carefully. What greeted her made her curse under her breath.
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To Be Continued...