For Love or Destiny

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Key:

"___": dialogue
'___': thought
~*~*~*~*~ : scene change/dimension change

AN: Hello! I'm glad that people enjoyed last chapter!

Major props to my beta-reader Aivame! There is no way that this fic would be as great as it is without her ideas, grammatical checks ::sweatdrop::, and all around evil advice! Thanks other half of my brain!


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Last Time:

"You can't. Only she can. This is her mission alone."

"But what of the monsters? How can she search the globe alone for this with them running around?" Makato asked crossing her arms over her chest.

"She won't be searching the globe…" at her pause the senshi all breathed a sigh of relief. "She will be searching in another dimension. I am merely here to show her the way…"

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Chapter One: What's Behind Door Number One?


"What?" all of the senshi screamed in unison. It was uncanny how their voices all raised to the same pitch and octave, while shouting the same word…scary if one thought about it for too long. Michiko simply smiled at the young girls.

"Yes…her mission will take her into a world of which you have never dreamed."

"But alone…" Usagi trailed off, her gaze turning to Ami. Michiko followed her gaze and looked at her daughter who was still sitting as stiff as a board.

"I'm afraid so. I do not like it any more than you do. However, she will not be alone in this world. She will meet many new friends and allies." Michiko said with a hint of a smile on her face.

"Senshi…you can trust her. She will not lead you astray." Luna spoke up quietly. Artimas nodded. Rei sighed.

"Okay…what do you need us to do?"

"Nothing. Just stand back and close your eyes." Michiko said. The senshi all looked at her then each other questioningly before doing as she asked. The formed a circle around the bed that their friend was on, and all closed their eyes. Michiko walked to her daughters side and grabbed her hands. She looked around and made sure that all the senshi's eyes were closed. "Concentrate on her having a safe journey. She will need your power."

"Hai." They all said their eyebrows furrowing together in deep concentration. Each senshi began to glow in their respective colors. Usagi a bright silver, Rei a red, Makoto, a jade/green, Minako a bright orange, and Mamoru a navy blue. Michiko too closed her eyes and she began to glow as well. Her aura was the same color that was still surrounding her daughter.

The light completely enveloped the senshi of ice and the other senshi had to cover their eyes from the bright flash that Ami emitted. When they opened their eyes again, she was gone, a slight wrinkle in the sheets the only sign that she had been there.

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Where am I? I think to myself looking around the nearly pitch black room. The only light coming from under several large doors. What is this place?

"This is the Hall of Time…much like the one that Pluto guards."

"Who's there?" I call out to the voice.

"The exception is that these doors lead to other realms whilst Pluto's are merely possibilities of yours." The voice answers instead. I don't understand! I think, frustrated at everything in general. Suddenly my stomach begins to clench together as if I had just been punched. I grab my stomach and sink to my knees.

"The poison is strong in you, young one." The voice whispers. Poison?

"Kaasan! My kaasan was there! She gave me this chance…at life." I trail off, still not quite sure of anything else.

"Yes, it is time young one. You must choose the door, the door of your destiny, the door that will lead to your cure."

"I have to choose? But how do I know which one?"

"You know…trust your heart, it will not steer you off course."

"I know?" I was beginning to panic. I hated to make decisions like this under this kind of pressure. My life, my entire universe's future depended on this decision. I couldn't think!

"Then don't…" the voice trailed off, disappearing back into the darkness that surrounded me. . Don't think? How could I not? I was the senshi of wisdom! My entire power revolved around the powers of the mind and logic! I'm not Usagi or Minako! I couldn't just trust my heart. I didn't have senses like Rei, and I didn't have a fighters instinct like Makoto…no, all I had was my brain. I could feel tears falling down my flushed cheeks.

"I don't have a choice…" I whisper to myself, "I must choose." I stand upright and look around me; the doors all look the same to me. Not one stands out more than another does. There was a long hallway with several doors right next to one another. Further down the hall, it split into an east and west branch, with more doors lining that hallway. "Must be a maze of doors in here…" I mutter not too amused at my current predicament.

I finally decide to just listen to my heart, my instincts. I mean all senshi…people have them, right? Well, I would find out. I close my eyes and twirl a few times in a circle. With my eyes still closed, I started walking, not stumbling once, to my shock. It felt as if my feet were not my own, that they had their own mind. They lead me to a door down the west wing; it was the seventh door on the right side of the west hall. I tried to look around, thinking about maybe choosing another door, but my body would not allow it, my hand slowly raised to the handle and turned the knob…


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Ami awoke to find herself lying in a patch of leaves. Blinking rapidly to try to get the sleep out of her eyes, she stretched her arms over her head and sighed.

"What a strange dream." She said to no one in particular. "Where am I?" she asked, finally realizing that the leaves that she was currently resting in were not from any trees that she had ever seen before. "It…it wasn't a dream…" she finished in a whisper. Slowly moving to a standing position, she began to spin in a slow circle, taking in her surroundings. To the east the woods seemed to get thicker, the west held mountains, to the south Ami heard what sounded like water and to the north, a worn path.

Common sense dictates that when lost in the woods, one should take the path most traveled, hoping that exactly as it sounds, one will find another person. However, this lost person was a senshi, the senshi of ice and wisdom. A natural born swimmer and friend of the water. She was also on the lookout for a certain flower, so, Ami moved towards the south. Her steps slow, her ears always tuned, listening for the slightest sound. Nothing more than birds and forest creatures answered her silent pleas.

"I wonder what creatures this world holds?" she mused to herself. "Do people as I know it even exist here?" These heavy questions weighing on her heart, she made her way deeper into the forest towards the sound of rushing water. Finally, the source of the water was discovered as Ami stumbled upon a large lake. The source of the rushing sound was a waterfall, about twenty feet high. The entire scene was beyond words. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.

Making her way to the edge of the lake, Ami knelt down by the water and tentatively touched her fingers to the cool water. The water had a calming effect on the ice senshi, as it always seemed to have. She was in her element here. Spotting a large rock that sat next to the water, Ami decided to ponder her situation while having the wonderful feeling of cool water running on her feet.

Climbing onto the rock, she carefully slid her pumps off her feet, and rolled the skirt of her dress up. Swinging her feet absentmindedly in the chilly lake, she sighed deeply and stared at the now setting sun. It was almost dusk when she had arrived and now, the sun was setting. Fairly soon it would be dark, and Ami still had no means of shelter. However, no thoughts such as these crossed her mind. While near her element, there seemed to be almost no worries. A yawn soon escaped the senshi's mouth and she blinked a few times trying to clear her head.

"What? I seem to have zoned out there…" she trailed off, removing her feet from the now freezing water. The once cooling wind, was now freezing with the sun down. Quickly rolling her skirts back down and sliding her pumps back on her feet she stood and stretched. Looking around her, she began to worry about her current condition. She was alone, in a strange dimension, with no clue of what kind of people or creatures inhabited it, in the dark. Her dress was not helping to keep away the chill either.

Fortunately, the cold was not something that she need concern herself. Seeing in how she was the senshi of ice, her body temperature was normally at least three degrees colder than everyone else's was. The cold was not something that bothered our young friend. No, the fact that she was alone, in the dark seemed to scare her much more. Curling into a fetal sitting position, she hugged her knees to her chest and placed her head on her bent knees. Unconsciously she began to rock herself back and forth, trying to keep the nightmares at bay. Ami was beginning to frighten herself with all of her dark thoughts, so she began humming a song that her mother had once sang to her as a young child on Mercury.

The starry night sky soon seemed to fade into the light pink and red of the early dawn. That in turn, faded into the bright blue sky of day. Ami still kept her weary perch, not having moved once during the night, besides her ever present rocking. The song, now cracking from her dry throat. She seemed to be in somewhat of a trance, not even noticing the change of day. What seemed hours later, the senshi of wisdom finally seemed to snap out of it. Looking around her, she decided that she needed to find the cure and fast. She could feel the poison fighting her mother's and friend's magic.

Climbing of the rock, she bent down and dipped her hands into the cool water for a drink. Once she had her fill, she stood and began to trace her path back to the clearing that she had woken in yesterday. Deciding that now was the time to take the path most traveled she slowly made her way back, keeping her eyes peeled for the mysterious plant that was her cure. With only a vague description and the assurance that once she found it she would know, she continued her fruitless search. Growing frustrated, she began glaring at the plants, hoping that they would somehow morph into the needed flower.

Hearing sounds of a struggle, she picked up her pace to see what was going on. Once she neared where the sound was coming from she slowed her pace and crept the rest of the way. Crouching down in the bushes, she looked out in the opening of the forest to see the source of the disruption. There before her very eyes were two young men. One had the oddest hair she had seen in her life. It spiked out in all directions, and was the color of the night sky without the stars to brighten it. The other's hair was limp, but the color was a rich lavender. Both had a body to die for.

Their muscles bulging, Ami openly gawked at the two teens in front of her. They were apparently fighting with each other. Their intent didn't look malicious, more like sparring. Like her and the senshi often did. Only this was far more intense then any senshi training she had ever undergone. Their moves were so complicated yet each executed them so fluidly, as if they had been fighting their entire lives. They were so fast that she could hardly follow them with her eyes and she doubted that even her Mercury computer would have much more luck.

Stepping back in shock, her left foot landed on a tiny twig, snapping the small branch under her weight. She froze hopping that they did not hear the sound over their fighting, panting and yelling. Unfortunately for her, they did. They stopped mid punch/kick and turned in the direction that the sound had come from.

"Good ears…" Ami mumbled to herself, and before she could blink, she was being held up by her shoulders by the purple haired teen.

"Who are you?" The other boy asked her, cocking his head to the side. She couldn't get over how innocent he looked, like Usagi-chan. When she didn't respond at first the boy holding her, began to shake her.

"He asked you a question." He growled at her. She could not find the same innocence in this boy's eyes, and hoped that he would listen to the other one.

"Who do you think she is Trunks?" The black haired boy questioned his companion. So…the one holding her name was Trunks.

"Goten, you baka. Now she knows my name." He scolded. "Goten" scratched his head in confusion.

"But now she knows my name too…" Trunks rolled his eyes.

"Yes, because you already told her mine!"

"Um," she squeaked out, "Would you mind terribly putting me down? You are starting to hurt me," she said quietly. Trunks seemed to just realize how tight his grip once and dropped her immediately,

"Gomen…I don't think we have to worry about you attacking us, ne?" Trunks said with a chuckle. She just shook her head and stood up from her position on the ground, dusting her dress off as she stood.

"What is your name?" Goten asked.

"Oh, gomen. I'm Mizuno Ami." She said blushing.

"Hello, Mizuno Ami." Goten said taking my hand and brusquely shaking it. She sweatdropped, as did Trunks.

"Her name is Ami, Goten no baka." Trunks said.

"Oh." Ami couldn't help but laugh at Goten. He was so adorable.

"Let's get her back to Capsule Corp." Trunks said. "You aren't lost are you?" He asked as almost an afterthought.

"Kind of…" she trailed off, not sure as how to approach the subject of her being from a different dimension.

"How can you be kind of lost?" Goten asked. Ami shrugged.

"It's a long story."

"All right then, well, let's get back to C.C. anyway." Trunks said. He scooped her up into his arms, and was about to take off, when she popped him upside the head.

"Put me down! What do you think you are doing?" Ami screeched at him.

"Well, unless you can fly, then I suggest that you shut up and hold still!" Trunks growled at her.

"Fly? Nani? You two can fly? But you don't even have wings." Ami stuttered.

"We don't need them." Goten said, raising into the air, Trunks right on his heels. Ami squeaked and held onto Trunks' neck like a lifeline. Trunks chuckled and sped up, trying to frighten the young girl. Goten, gaining speed to catch up to them, turned to look disapprovingly at his friend.

"That's not very nice, Trunks." Goten said with a pout. Trunks shrugged.

"True…but it's fun." A smirking Trunks chuckled. Goten shook his head.

"You're just like your Otousan, Trunks."

"Thanks." Trunks said with a laugh. About ten minutes after their flight had started, the two teens touched down in front of a large yellow dome building. Trunks dropped Ami, but she was still clutching onto his neck, her eyes shut tight and her head buried in his shoulder. "We've landed." Trunks said looking down at the girl. Ami slowly opened her eyes and looked around. When she realized that they had stopped moving, and were in fact on the ground, she immediately let go of her death grip.

"Gomen…" she trailed off.

"It's…" Trunks was interrupted by a shout coming from the front door of his home.

"Trunks Vegeta Brief, you will explain this very instant why you were out training when you are still grounded." A feminine voice hollered from the door. Trunks groaned.

"Awww, Okaasan, I told you already that teacher hates me."

"I don't care! You will get a hundred on that next test or so help me Dende…" She trailed off. A giggle permeated the front yard of Capsule Corp, a giggle that came from a certain blue haired young girl. "Trunks! Why didn't you tell me you had a girlfriend?" Both Trunks and the girl blushed a beet red.

"Okaasan!!! She's not my girlfriend."

"No, we found her in the woods." Goten said piping up. The girl bowed to the woman who was obviously Trunks' mother.

"Konichiwa, Brief-san. I am Mizuno Ami." Bulma started at the girl's manners.

"Ohayo. There is no need for such formalities dear. Unless you work for me, call me Bulma." She said walking over to shake hands with the young girl. Ami smiled and shook Bulma's hand. "Now, where did you come from?"

"Um, well…" Ami started not sure as to how much to tell these people. However, she could feel that her time was running down.

"She said she was kind of lost." Goten supplied. Bulma turned to look at Goten then back to Ami.

"Kind of lost?" She said quirking an eyebrow up in confusion. Ami paled.

"Uh, yes well you see, it's like this…" Ami couldn't finish her sentence, for her stomach began to clench together in pain and she was forced to take a knee. She clutched her arms around her aching stomach and closed her eyes to the pain.

"Ami, are you okay?" Bulma asked. Trunks and Goten also neared the downed girl. Ami held her hand up to stop them from touching her.

"Don't come any closer…please." She choked out. When she was satisfied that they were far enough away from her; she closed her eyes in concentration, instead of in pain. She began to reach deep into her subconscious for her power as a Mercury Senshi. Finding enough to keep her on her feet, she began to bring it out, a blue energy glowing around her. Bulma, Trunks and Goten backed up even further, afraid of what she would do. When she had finally managed to pull the poison back into remission, she opened her eyes and stood up.

"Who the hell is this?" A very gruff voice yelled from behind Ami. Ami turned, startled and saw a rather short, well built, man with jet black, flame like hair that shot from the top of his head, and danced majestically around in the slight breeze that had picked up. He stalked up to her and lowered his eyes into a glare.

"Konichiwa…I think…" Ami trailed off, not sure as to what to think of this new man.

"Vegeta! Be nice to our guest." Bulma scolded her mate.

"And how do you know this guest?" Vegeta growled, his eyes never leaving Ami.

"We just met her." Bulma said. Vegeta raised his eyebrows.

"What was that strange power I just saw then?" He asked the trembling girl in front of him.

"Um, well, I guess I don't have a choice do I?" she stumbled to herself.

"Of course you do dear," Bulma started. "Why don't we go sit down and discuss this over a nice hot cup of tea?" Ami nodded.

"That would be great, thanks."

"Well, come on then, if you three want to stop gawking and learn anything follow us." Bulma said to the three men who were either glaring at Ami or blinking confusedly at the spot that she had just been standing.

Once the tea was brewed and everyone was more or less comfortably seated in the living room, Ami began to speak.

"Where do you want me to begin?" she asked.

"Where did you come from girl?" Vegeta barked at her.

"Ah, yes…well you see, I'm sort of, well no I am from a different dimension. A parallel one at that." Ami whispered quietly.

"Really? I always had the hunch that parallel dimensions existed and not just parallel timelines." Bulma mused to herself.

"Nani? You mean this doesn't surprise you?" Ami asked.

"Iie, not really. You see a few years ago…well nearly 18 actually, my son, not the Trunks that you see now, but my son from the future came back to warn us of an enemy that would soon descend upon us. Son-kun, a great warrior was to die before the androids attacked, from a heart disease. So Mirai Trunks brought back medicine that had been developed for the disease, so that we would have another warrior to fight the monsters." Bulma explained.

"Wow, and I thought we were the only ones with future kids coming to visit." Ami said taking a sip of her tea.

"You mean your son came to visit as well?" Bulma asked clearly shocked.

Iie, I think I should perhaps explain my dimension first. I saw your son and Goten training in the woods earlier. And from your explanations I assume that your family and friends are your planet's protectors?" at Bulma's nod she continued. "Well, my friends and I are our planet's protectors, only instead of pure power and strength, we use magic. We are each guardian and protector of our respective planets. A millennia ago in our dimension we were all princesses of our planets and were called to the moon to protect the princess of the Silver Millennium, Serenity-hime. The five of us grew very close and became the best of friends. Well, one day an evil witch named Beryl attacked with the help of Metallia and took over the kingdom. Serenity-hime's Okaasan used the ginzuishou to send her daughter and her court to earth to be reborn many years later. When we would be needed again.

"Well, as luck would have it we were called upon again, for Beryl returned from her banishment. The first to emerge was Tsukino Usagi, or Sailor Moon. She is the reincarnation of Serenity-hime. She is the one who wields the ginzuishou now. I was the next senshi to appear Mizuno Ami, senshi of Mercury, Ice, and Wisdom. I control the power of ice and water. The next senshi was Hino Rei, senshi of Mars, Fire, and War. She controls the power of fire, and can see the future through her sacred fire. Next, Kino Makoto, senshi of Jupiter, Thunder, and Strength. She is by far the strongest of us at hand to hand combat. And finally Aino Minako, senshi of Venus, Love and Beauty. I'm sure you can guess her powers.

"Tuxedo Mask also emerged, he is the reincarnation of Serenity-hime's lover and betrothed, Endymon no ouji. He is known as Chiba Mamoru today. After we defeated Beryl, again, we lost our memories for a short period of time. However, peace didn't last, as it never does and we were forced to be called on again. Luna and Artimas our guides restored and memories and after we beat the next wave of evil, decided that it be best if we kept our memories. Well, as for the future child, the Black Moon family was tormenting the future…our future.

"Their leader was in love with Neo-Queen Serenity, or Usagi-chan in the future, her daughter, Chibi-Usa or Chibi-Moon in senshi form, traveled to our past to seek aid. If the enemy gained the ginzuishou that Chibi-Usa had taken by accident, our future was doomed. We also met another senshi, the senshi of Pluto. She is the keeper of time and space. She controls the flow of time in our dimension, so that she can fix things like the Black Moon family. She prevents a lot of problems from even forming." Ami paused to take another sip of her drink.

"What of the other senshi?" Vegeta asked.

"What other senshi?" Ami questioned.

"Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. All are planets in this solar system, I assume they to be in yours as well." Vegeta said rolling his eyes.

"Well, they are, and I'm sure there are senshi from there, but they have not emerged yet, or perhaps they were not reborn. I really couldn't tell you." Ami said.

"Well, then why are you here? It's obvious that you defeated the Black Moon family correct?" Bulma asked. Ami scowled and nodded.

"Yes, we defeated them about a month ago. But as I said, peace does not last. A new enemy has emerged. This time much stronger than our last. Only our most powerful attacks have any effect on them at all. They don't even want anything. They are not like our last enemies who wanted revenge on Usagi-chan for her past life, or were in love with her future self. They have no purpose, they just kill and destroy." Ami stopped, allowing a few tears to fall down her flushed cheeks,

"I…I was wounded severely in my last battle. But, the youma that I was fighting was also injured, and our blood mixed. Apparently, it is highly toxic to those with either Mercurian or Venutian blood in them. I have been poisoned and I will not last much longer without the antidote. Which, is in this dimension. So, my Okaasan from my former life, and my friends sent me to a place full of doors. Each leads to a dimension, and only one holds the cure. I chose this door, I only hope that I chose right. My heart told me that it was here, and so here I am." Ami finished with a sad smile. Bulma too had tears running down her face, Vegeta remained stotic, and both Goten and Trunks looked shocked.

"How can we help?" Bulma finally asked, taking Ami's hands and holding them in her own.


TBC!

So? How can the Z senshi help? Will Ami ever find the plant in time? Is she even in the right dimension??? Find out that and more next time! Please read and review!

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