Fire's Heart
Ahknee/Kitteen
(Disclaimer: . . . .Think of a witty one yourself, I'm all out of it.)
Yatta, here's chapter thirteen! Hope you folks enjoy it. I think, stressing that word, that someone will be time traveling again, but I won't say who. Mwaha.
I've been typing this chapter crippled, I had a paper cut on one of my fingers for half of the time and it BURNED whenever I used it to type! Grrr.
I swear that someone has been slipping happy pills or something into my food for the past few weeks, I've been laughing more than usual.
I've come to a conclusion. February and March are my official idiot months.
To all my wonderful reviewers: I'd love to compile a long, great set of supplies to all my wonderful reviewers out there, but sadly, I'm on a time limit for this and, thusly, cannot type the reviews up. Ah well. The responses will be back next chapter!!
Okay, now, onto the chapter!
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Rei nearly collapsed from exhaustion; she had been walking for about a day straight with only breaks to grab some edible fruit from trees or to drink from some fresh water from streams she ran across. She could almost picture how messed up she looked. Her clothes were so dirty and torn in so many places it seemed as if she was wearing dirt or mud or something akin to that, and her hair was probably so tossled it would most likely take an hour of washing it in water and another to comb it out back to how it was.
'I hate wild life. . . .Where could my pen have gone. . .?'she pondered, finally collapsing onto the ground with a groan. It was night. She needed rest. And the ground was so much more comfortable than she thought imaginable. . . .
"No!"she sat bolt upright, "I can't fall asleep, otherwise something will come out of the trees and eat me for a midnight snack!"
But her body refused to move from that position. She was too exhausted. She had never gone this long without sleep in her lifetime. . . . But she knew she had to go on. It was survival of the fittest out here - as corny, cliche, and reality show-like it may sound - and she had to prove her worth if she wanted to live to see her next birthday and to see the smiling faces that her friends would greet her with when she returned home, and the huge grin her grandpa would have at her finally being back to help tend the shrine.
She had to survive this. She had a life to go back to. She had people she cared about, and she needed to see them again. Besides, she had to survive to help keep up her duties, as much as she would hate to. It was her job, and she would keep to the promise she had kept so many years ago to her late Queen.
Rei stood up, new defiance and a will to go on shining brightly within her eyes. She was supposed to be the one who kept the team going emotionally anyway, wasn't she? She could keep this up! She had had tougher training sessions when she went to train at that mountain! She had the willpower.
And she marched on, her steps heavy from exhaustion and wear, but she kept on going, knowing that there was still something out there for her to live for.
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"So, run this. . . .plan by me again. . . ."Ami sighed out, rubbing her temples. These two made the plan sound more confusing than it was, and Makoto wouldn't say a peep about it. Maybe she was confused by it, too.
"Well, we go the Rei's cousin's house thingy, then we invesigate since we got some tracks of Rei's powers there, and then we move on out from there!"Minako explained.
"Ah."Ami nodded before turning back to the computer and typing away furiously. "Until you can formulate a more logical plan with better steps, I'll be investigating for any time-wavess that could possible make readings of Rei's magic so old."
"Um, right."Usagi nodded.
Ami continued to type, her eyes never leaving the screen as the two blondes in the room began to plot a more 'logical plan with better steps'.
Makoto decided that cooking would help pass the time, and also figured that the gang was pretty hungry around now, so she headed off into the kitchen to whip something up for the group.
A minute passed, the only sounds being the muffled ones of Makoto preparing food in the kitchen and the speedy click-clacking of Ami's typing.
"I think I've found something. . . ."Ami said softly, waving the others over and calling for Makoto to come in the room.
"Like what?!"Usagi asked, staring at the jumble on the screen with technical terms she couldn't really understand (or, morally, comprehend) as well as her blue-haired friend.
"I was scanning the information and data I had gathered when we visited that shrine of Rei's cousin, and I found the weirdest signature of energy. . . .Similar to that of Setsuna's powers.
If I have guessed correctly, then there is a time rip in that well house, but where exactly within is not clear. I managed to see some of Rei's power signature walking to there, and then it just disappears within the wellhouse. So, Rei walked right into some time portal that was unauthorized. Also, since the power signature is only a couple of days old, it means that the much older track was obviously one she made in the past era."Ami replied.
Makoto nodded in some understanding, trying to make all of what she had gathered from Ami more simple, and thought aloud, "So, basically, in that well house there's a time rip Rei entered, and the rip leads to the past. Fun."
With Makoto's simple statement, everyone in the room who didn't understand Ami's explaination finally had it dawn upon them.
"So, we go into the well house and look for where the rip is??"Minako asked, "If so, then this is easier than I thought it would be!"
"Possibly not. . . ."Ami said, sighing, "Minako, you remember when that old man said to stay away from the well house, right? Well, he and hs family must know of it, then. They probably keep it under watch as much as they can."
"If you think the plan out carefully, you could probably sneak in at night, when everyone's asleep."Luna finally spoke.
All heads turned to the furred feline that had been their guardian for what seemed like forever.
"You actually want us to sneak onto someone else's property, Luna?"Usagi asked teasingly, "And I thought you were supposed to teach us some of those morals not to go into other people's yards. . . . "
"This is a rescue mission, is it not?"Luna shot back, "If it isn't, then I wouldn't have dared suggested it!"
With that outburst from the dark feline, it was decided. They would sneak into the well house that night, find out where the rip was, and see if they could go in, all the while praying Setsuna wouldn't sense their activities of messing with time.
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Michiru played with Hotaru's hair, attempting to find a style that looked right on the pale girl.
It was a calm night at the resident mansion of the outer senshi, who were enjoying the peaceful evening in front of a nice, warm fire. It was one of those perfect nights, and nothing could possibly disturb the peace and quiet.
"AHHHH!"
Well, almost nothing.
Haruka looked up from the magazine she was reading, wondering what Setsuna had screamed about from the kitchen. Sending a glance to Michiru, it was decided on who would go by that single look. Haruka to the rescue! Well, not really, but she just thought that to amuse herself whenever one of her house mates let out a piercing scream that could, quite possibly, make the population within a one-mile radius go deaf.
Heading for the kitchen, she peered her head around the corner to see Setsuna, Time Staff in hand, standing atop a chair and pointing her giant key for a staff at a large. . .cockroach.
"Setsuna, it's a bug. Get over it."Haruka gumbled, about to turn around and head back to the living room, but Setsuna stopped the blonde.
"For your information, it isn't a bug, it's a rather large insect, anf it's gross!"Setsuna whimpered. jumping off of the chair and flying straight for the other woman (vaguely reminding Haruka of that movie, 'Children of the Corn' with those freaky kids flying about). Upon arrival to her destination, the Time Guardian cowered behind the blonde's back, of course, after whapping her upon the head for calling that horrible, 'gross' insect a normal, everday bug. This thing was a born killing machine! It would take over the universe, Setsuna knew it.
It was another normal night at the mansion of the outer senshi. And it was very fortunate that a cockroach happened to distract the Guardian of Time, for it allowed the inner senshi to sneak into the well unnoticed.
(Dang there goes the serious stuff, right out the window over there. See? It's lying on the lawn below. -_-;)
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"So, um, who goes first?"Usagi asked, peering around the well house, "Well, when we find the time rip, that is."
"My computer says it's located down there. . . ."Ami said softly, pointing into the vast, dark depths of the well.
"We have to jump down there??"Minako shuddered. "Count me out."
"You can't back out now, unless you choose to stay out here and get caught."Ami reminded. It truly was much too late to back out, they had found out so much! It was only a matter of time until they would find Rei and the group would be a whole again.
"I'll go first."Makoto volunteered.
"You're a brave sould, Mako! I bow down to your mighty brave-ness."Minako said, doing a mock-bow to the tall brunette, who sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Unless you choose to get me a crown, throne, and kingdom, then stop your groveling and so I can get this over with!"Makoto muttered darkly. "Otherwise, I promise you, I'll shove you into the well!"
"Okay, okay!"Minako said, backing away, "Go on, jump into there! Good luck, hope you come back safe!"
"Hey, what the he-"Makoto began, but Minako shoved the brunette into the well before she could finish. "Ack!!"
"You act like such children!"Ami sighed, continuing to type furiously at her computer.
"Um, guys?"Makoto's voice sounded out from the bottom of the well. "It didn't work, and since a cetain someone -I won't name any names- shoved me in, I landed flat on my butt! I'm going to kill!"
Minako whimpered. She could almost feel herself being pummeled into the dirt. Heck, she might as well just toss herself onto the ground right now!
Makoto's threat was empty, though, seeing as the brunette would never purposely injure any of her friends. After all, the ones she had now were the only real ones she'd ever had, because everyone would always start becoming scared of her because of rumors that stated she was a rogue who would beat anything that breathed into the ground if they crossed her path.
Climbing out of the well, Makoto rubbed her sore behind.
"Never do that again Mina. . ."Makoto grumbled, swatting at the blonde, who ducked with a small squeak just in time.
With the fairly startling new revealtion on the fact that they couldn't go through the well (well, at lesat Makoto couldn't), Ami began running more scans on the worn out old thing.
"Usagi, link arms with Minako and jump in, please."the blue-haired girl commanded.
"W-why us?"Usagi whimpered slightly.
"Well, I believe that if someone -or someones, in this case- with high enough energy levels jumps into the well, it will activate and send the jumper through time. Plus, if you can go through, then you both can come back out and Makoto and I can jump in with you two."
"Well, okay. . . ."Usagi said, clambering onto the edge of the well and glancing into the darkness below hesitantly. "Boy, I want this to work and I don't all at the same time. . . . ."
"Me too, Usa, me too."Minako said, gulping as she stared down into the well. "But oh well! I'm sure that it won't hurt if we end up in a pile at the bottom of that pit called a well!"
Usagi sent a glare in her friend's direction, not liking the image of getting landed upon after falling onto hardened dirt. "I so get to land on top."
"Aww, why?"
" 'Cause I'm your princess and you can't let me get hurt."
"Lame excuse, very lame excuse. Now, JUMP!"Minako said, shoving the other blonde into the well before grabbing ahold of her wrist and falling in after.
Makoto peered into the well and her eyes widened as a blue hue started to emit from the bottom of the well. "Ami, it's working!"
The hue faded, and the two blondes ended up in a pile at the bottom of the dark well, with Minako sitting on Usagi, who lay flat on her stomach, face buried within the dirt.
Ami peered into the well. "Well, I was close enough! Makoto, you go in, with them, too. Both of you, climb out and try again with Mako!"
The process was repeated, Makoto saying she was NOT going to let herself end up at the bottom of the pile if it didn't work, and the same blue hue, this time a bit brighter, shone out from the bottom of the well. Somewho, Usagi ended up half-stuck and half-unstuck in the ground, with only her torso sticking out.
"Ami, FIX THIS!"she screeched, not liking the idea of having her legs stuck in one time era and her torso in another.
"I am, I am!"Ami replied, finaly sticking her computer into her pocket and jumping into the well herself, hoping that this time, they would go through the well.
The blue hue brightened considerably, and, if you were to have stood outside of the well house, you would have seen a bright blue light emit from the cracks between the wooden structure before all things became dark again.
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*bows* There you go! Here was chapter thirteen for all of you! I hope you enjoyed it. Whoooo, I think those Reeses I had earlier are starting to make me a bit. . ..hypped up. O_o;
Well, tune in next chapter, same time, same place! (Gee, how cheesy did that sound?) The fun's just beginning, the plot's only beginning to unfold, and will we ever hit the climax of the story?! Well, we will, but not for a while, I don't think. . . . .
Ahknee/Kitteen
(Disclaimer: . . . .Think of a witty one yourself, I'm all out of it.)
Yatta, here's chapter thirteen! Hope you folks enjoy it. I think, stressing that word, that someone will be time traveling again, but I won't say who. Mwaha.
I've been typing this chapter crippled, I had a paper cut on one of my fingers for half of the time and it BURNED whenever I used it to type! Grrr.
I swear that someone has been slipping happy pills or something into my food for the past few weeks, I've been laughing more than usual.
I've come to a conclusion. February and March are my official idiot months.
To all my wonderful reviewers: I'd love to compile a long, great set of supplies to all my wonderful reviewers out there, but sadly, I'm on a time limit for this and, thusly, cannot type the reviews up. Ah well. The responses will be back next chapter!!
Okay, now, onto the chapter!
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Rei nearly collapsed from exhaustion; she had been walking for about a day straight with only breaks to grab some edible fruit from trees or to drink from some fresh water from streams she ran across. She could almost picture how messed up she looked. Her clothes were so dirty and torn in so many places it seemed as if she was wearing dirt or mud or something akin to that, and her hair was probably so tossled it would most likely take an hour of washing it in water and another to comb it out back to how it was.
'I hate wild life. . . .Where could my pen have gone. . .?'she pondered, finally collapsing onto the ground with a groan. It was night. She needed rest. And the ground was so much more comfortable than she thought imaginable. . . .
"No!"she sat bolt upright, "I can't fall asleep, otherwise something will come out of the trees and eat me for a midnight snack!"
But her body refused to move from that position. She was too exhausted. She had never gone this long without sleep in her lifetime. . . . But she knew she had to go on. It was survival of the fittest out here - as corny, cliche, and reality show-like it may sound - and she had to prove her worth if she wanted to live to see her next birthday and to see the smiling faces that her friends would greet her with when she returned home, and the huge grin her grandpa would have at her finally being back to help tend the shrine.
She had to survive this. She had a life to go back to. She had people she cared about, and she needed to see them again. Besides, she had to survive to help keep up her duties, as much as she would hate to. It was her job, and she would keep to the promise she had kept so many years ago to her late Queen.
Rei stood up, new defiance and a will to go on shining brightly within her eyes. She was supposed to be the one who kept the team going emotionally anyway, wasn't she? She could keep this up! She had had tougher training sessions when she went to train at that mountain! She had the willpower.
And she marched on, her steps heavy from exhaustion and wear, but she kept on going, knowing that there was still something out there for her to live for.
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"So, run this. . . .plan by me again. . . ."Ami sighed out, rubbing her temples. These two made the plan sound more confusing than it was, and Makoto wouldn't say a peep about it. Maybe she was confused by it, too.
"Well, we go the Rei's cousin's house thingy, then we invesigate since we got some tracks of Rei's powers there, and then we move on out from there!"Minako explained.
"Ah."Ami nodded before turning back to the computer and typing away furiously. "Until you can formulate a more logical plan with better steps, I'll be investigating for any time-wavess that could possible make readings of Rei's magic so old."
"Um, right."Usagi nodded.
Ami continued to type, her eyes never leaving the screen as the two blondes in the room began to plot a more 'logical plan with better steps'.
Makoto decided that cooking would help pass the time, and also figured that the gang was pretty hungry around now, so she headed off into the kitchen to whip something up for the group.
A minute passed, the only sounds being the muffled ones of Makoto preparing food in the kitchen and the speedy click-clacking of Ami's typing.
"I think I've found something. . . ."Ami said softly, waving the others over and calling for Makoto to come in the room.
"Like what?!"Usagi asked, staring at the jumble on the screen with technical terms she couldn't really understand (or, morally, comprehend) as well as her blue-haired friend.
"I was scanning the information and data I had gathered when we visited that shrine of Rei's cousin, and I found the weirdest signature of energy. . . .Similar to that of Setsuna's powers.
If I have guessed correctly, then there is a time rip in that well house, but where exactly within is not clear. I managed to see some of Rei's power signature walking to there, and then it just disappears within the wellhouse. So, Rei walked right into some time portal that was unauthorized. Also, since the power signature is only a couple of days old, it means that the much older track was obviously one she made in the past era."Ami replied.
Makoto nodded in some understanding, trying to make all of what she had gathered from Ami more simple, and thought aloud, "So, basically, in that well house there's a time rip Rei entered, and the rip leads to the past. Fun."
With Makoto's simple statement, everyone in the room who didn't understand Ami's explaination finally had it dawn upon them.
"So, we go into the well house and look for where the rip is??"Minako asked, "If so, then this is easier than I thought it would be!"
"Possibly not. . . ."Ami said, sighing, "Minako, you remember when that old man said to stay away from the well house, right? Well, he and hs family must know of it, then. They probably keep it under watch as much as they can."
"If you think the plan out carefully, you could probably sneak in at night, when everyone's asleep."Luna finally spoke.
All heads turned to the furred feline that had been their guardian for what seemed like forever.
"You actually want us to sneak onto someone else's property, Luna?"Usagi asked teasingly, "And I thought you were supposed to teach us some of those morals not to go into other people's yards. . . . "
"This is a rescue mission, is it not?"Luna shot back, "If it isn't, then I wouldn't have dared suggested it!"
With that outburst from the dark feline, it was decided. They would sneak into the well house that night, find out where the rip was, and see if they could go in, all the while praying Setsuna wouldn't sense their activities of messing with time.
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Michiru played with Hotaru's hair, attempting to find a style that looked right on the pale girl.
It was a calm night at the resident mansion of the outer senshi, who were enjoying the peaceful evening in front of a nice, warm fire. It was one of those perfect nights, and nothing could possibly disturb the peace and quiet.
"AHHHH!"
Well, almost nothing.
Haruka looked up from the magazine she was reading, wondering what Setsuna had screamed about from the kitchen. Sending a glance to Michiru, it was decided on who would go by that single look. Haruka to the rescue! Well, not really, but she just thought that to amuse herself whenever one of her house mates let out a piercing scream that could, quite possibly, make the population within a one-mile radius go deaf.
Heading for the kitchen, she peered her head around the corner to see Setsuna, Time Staff in hand, standing atop a chair and pointing her giant key for a staff at a large. . .cockroach.
"Setsuna, it's a bug. Get over it."Haruka gumbled, about to turn around and head back to the living room, but Setsuna stopped the blonde.
"For your information, it isn't a bug, it's a rather large insect, anf it's gross!"Setsuna whimpered. jumping off of the chair and flying straight for the other woman (vaguely reminding Haruka of that movie, 'Children of the Corn' with those freaky kids flying about). Upon arrival to her destination, the Time Guardian cowered behind the blonde's back, of course, after whapping her upon the head for calling that horrible, 'gross' insect a normal, everday bug. This thing was a born killing machine! It would take over the universe, Setsuna knew it.
It was another normal night at the mansion of the outer senshi. And it was very fortunate that a cockroach happened to distract the Guardian of Time, for it allowed the inner senshi to sneak into the well unnoticed.
(Dang there goes the serious stuff, right out the window over there. See? It's lying on the lawn below. -_-;)
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"So, um, who goes first?"Usagi asked, peering around the well house, "Well, when we find the time rip, that is."
"My computer says it's located down there. . . ."Ami said softly, pointing into the vast, dark depths of the well.
"We have to jump down there??"Minako shuddered. "Count me out."
"You can't back out now, unless you choose to stay out here and get caught."Ami reminded. It truly was much too late to back out, they had found out so much! It was only a matter of time until they would find Rei and the group would be a whole again.
"I'll go first."Makoto volunteered.
"You're a brave sould, Mako! I bow down to your mighty brave-ness."Minako said, doing a mock-bow to the tall brunette, who sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Unless you choose to get me a crown, throne, and kingdom, then stop your groveling and so I can get this over with!"Makoto muttered darkly. "Otherwise, I promise you, I'll shove you into the well!"
"Okay, okay!"Minako said, backing away, "Go on, jump into there! Good luck, hope you come back safe!"
"Hey, what the he-"Makoto began, but Minako shoved the brunette into the well before she could finish. "Ack!!"
"You act like such children!"Ami sighed, continuing to type furiously at her computer.
"Um, guys?"Makoto's voice sounded out from the bottom of the well. "It didn't work, and since a cetain someone -I won't name any names- shoved me in, I landed flat on my butt! I'm going to kill!"
Minako whimpered. She could almost feel herself being pummeled into the dirt. Heck, she might as well just toss herself onto the ground right now!
Makoto's threat was empty, though, seeing as the brunette would never purposely injure any of her friends. After all, the ones she had now were the only real ones she'd ever had, because everyone would always start becoming scared of her because of rumors that stated she was a rogue who would beat anything that breathed into the ground if they crossed her path.
Climbing out of the well, Makoto rubbed her sore behind.
"Never do that again Mina. . ."Makoto grumbled, swatting at the blonde, who ducked with a small squeak just in time.
With the fairly startling new revealtion on the fact that they couldn't go through the well (well, at lesat Makoto couldn't), Ami began running more scans on the worn out old thing.
"Usagi, link arms with Minako and jump in, please."the blue-haired girl commanded.
"W-why us?"Usagi whimpered slightly.
"Well, I believe that if someone -or someones, in this case- with high enough energy levels jumps into the well, it will activate and send the jumper through time. Plus, if you can go through, then you both can come back out and Makoto and I can jump in with you two."
"Well, okay. . . ."Usagi said, clambering onto the edge of the well and glancing into the darkness below hesitantly. "Boy, I want this to work and I don't all at the same time. . . . ."
"Me too, Usa, me too."Minako said, gulping as she stared down into the well. "But oh well! I'm sure that it won't hurt if we end up in a pile at the bottom of that pit called a well!"
Usagi sent a glare in her friend's direction, not liking the image of getting landed upon after falling onto hardened dirt. "I so get to land on top."
"Aww, why?"
" 'Cause I'm your princess and you can't let me get hurt."
"Lame excuse, very lame excuse. Now, JUMP!"Minako said, shoving the other blonde into the well before grabbing ahold of her wrist and falling in after.
Makoto peered into the well and her eyes widened as a blue hue started to emit from the bottom of the well. "Ami, it's working!"
The hue faded, and the two blondes ended up in a pile at the bottom of the dark well, with Minako sitting on Usagi, who lay flat on her stomach, face buried within the dirt.
Ami peered into the well. "Well, I was close enough! Makoto, you go in, with them, too. Both of you, climb out and try again with Mako!"
The process was repeated, Makoto saying she was NOT going to let herself end up at the bottom of the pile if it didn't work, and the same blue hue, this time a bit brighter, shone out from the bottom of the well. Somewho, Usagi ended up half-stuck and half-unstuck in the ground, with only her torso sticking out.
"Ami, FIX THIS!"she screeched, not liking the idea of having her legs stuck in one time era and her torso in another.
"I am, I am!"Ami replied, finaly sticking her computer into her pocket and jumping into the well herself, hoping that this time, they would go through the well.
The blue hue brightened considerably, and, if you were to have stood outside of the well house, you would have seen a bright blue light emit from the cracks between the wooden structure before all things became dark again.
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*bows* There you go! Here was chapter thirteen for all of you! I hope you enjoyed it. Whoooo, I think those Reeses I had earlier are starting to make me a bit. . ..hypped up. O_o;
Well, tune in next chapter, same time, same place! (Gee, how cheesy did that sound?) The fun's just beginning, the plot's only beginning to unfold, and will we ever hit the climax of the story?! Well, we will, but not for a while, I don't think. . . . .