Sapphires through the Mist-9
angelicmayuka: People can be very dense when it comes to the people they love. So it makes a bit of sense. I am going to try making it a Wufei/ Hotaru pairing, if I can work it out that way. =)
luv slayer: I'm not sure how many senshi are left, those are the ones who showed up though! ^-^' Plus, I was too lazy to search out more names. =)
Melody's Song: I am sure of the pairing. Sorry. And Saturn is cool. She and Merc are my all time favs! Thanks for the review!!!!! =)
Sailor-Tsunami1: Yes oh great one! I shall update! How about now? =)
Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING!
NOTE: If this chapter makes no sense...sorry...I'm all crispy sunburned again, so my brain is all addled.
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While the others sat arguing what they think should happen, Mercury sat in thought.
Omega thought that Saturn should be destroyed, but everyone became very angry at her suggestion.
If Saturn was destroyed, so would Hotaru, and this wasn't her fault.
The Starlights, and Galaxia thought that if worse comes to worst, that Saturn should be sealed away until proper control could be regained.
Trowa listened, but said nothing. None of the options presented interested him. It wasn't the girls fault.
'All this wouldn't be happening if those bastards hadn't attacked us!' Mercury thought angerly. 'This is yet another thing for them to pay for!' Then it hit her.
"Why don't we just give Saturn what she wants?"
Everyone looked at her in confusion.
Mercury scowled at them.
"She wants to kill the ones who killed her parents, so if she did, wouldn't she become complacent once more?"
Galaxia sighed. "It would be a good plan, but there's one thing wrong with it."
"And that would be?" Mercury asked icily.
"Out of the seven who attacked you, only two of them survived the destruction of Crystal Tokyo."
Mercury looked at her confused. "All of them were in good health when we fell."
This time it was the Starlights who answered. "By the time we heard your distress signal, and got to Earth, the world was in shambles.
And after you had fallen, the youma's allegiance to the seven evaporated. They turned on their masters. Only the stronger two survived until we got there."
The galactic council put them in jail for slaying Neo Queen Serenity and her Senshi."
Mercury growled in outrage. "You were there and you didn't wake us up?"
Star Fighter sighed. "We tried. Noting we could do would wake any of you up. We couldn't even budge your coffins!"
Mercury sighed in annoyance. "Well, anyways, why can't we let Saturn loose with the two who are left?"
Star Healer looked at her and shook her head. "They were human remember Merc? They were Mortals."
Mercury's face froze. "So all of them are dead then."
"'Fraid so"
"Well, there goes my bright idea." Mercury huffed in annoyance.
"I'm curious." Trowa spoke up, his voice cutting through the silence.
Everyone looked at him.
"Why not use holograms? I saw some at the ruins of Crystal Tokyo. Why not make her think that she's fighting these people when she's really not?"
Star Fighter looked at him in amazement. "Merc, you have some competition for genius of the cosmos!"
"It could work" Omega muttered.
Mercury nodded. This was another reason her counterpart didn't fight very hard against bring him along. He was very intelligent.
"We could have it set up in about two and a half weeks. But we need all the information we can get to program the holograms." Mercury said tonelessly.
Omega nodded. "I can get that. I'm not head of the council for nothing!"
"Good. I'll salvage the holo projector from Crystal Tokyo. Where should this 'Battle' take place? It can't be on Earth. Saturn will destroy it with her anger powering her attacks."
"I shall take care of that Mercury." Galaxia said sadly. "There are a number of terrain type planets that I left uninhabited."
Mercury shook her head in acceptance as they all rose. "Once I have the data, I shall program it to lead her to the planet you choose. Hopefully, after she's done, we will have our Hotaru back."
They all nodded to each other and vanished.
Mercury and Trowa arrived back in the middle of one of Quatre's gardens.
After dehenshining, Ami slumped slightly to the ground. "This is going to be a lot of work" she muttered.
Trowa smiled at her. "You're not going to be doing this alone."
"I know" she said irritated. "I just hope this won't back fire on us. If she finds out that it's all an illusion, she'll really flip. I'm not sure who could stop her then!"
"We'll just be very careful then. Now..." Trowa continues while picking up the slumped goddess. "I believe we have some ruins to search?"
Ami huffed, amused. "I do believe we do. Will Quatre let us go there?"
Trowa shrugged. "Don't think he could stop us. He has no hold over me and you can teleport."
Ami looked at the sky in seriousness. "I could teleport both of us, but that would exhaust my ability for a few days. We can leave as soon as I've recovered from the latest jaunt."
Trowa looked at her confused. "Didn't you just teleport the both of us twice in one day?"
Ami smiled at him. "Being at Sagittarius Zero star replenished all my energy. I knew it would."
"Oh. I guess there's a lot to learn about being a Senshi then."
Ami giggled. "Yep! I'm still learning what all I can do, and I've been up and around for a little more than a thousand years."
Trowa's smile slipped a bit at the mention of how old she was. 'Even if she could possible love me, her immortality would eventually separate us.'
The thought saddened him for the rest of the day, despite Ami asking him what was wrong.
After an hour, she left him to his thoughts.
'I wonder what is bothering him.'
Ami cursed under her breath. She couldn't figure out what was bothering the man she loved.
Ami had done it. She had admitted that loved the usually silent man.
'But honestly, how could I possible not fall for him? He's smart, kind, and he's always there for me!'
Ami sighed frustrated. 'But, I know that he doesn't like me in the same way.'
Ami laughed at the irony. 'All those times I ribbed Usagi about Mamoru in the beginning, and now I find myself in the same position!'
Ami went into the pool room, intent on swimming. But instead, she just sat in the bench and stared at the water, hoping it would give her some advice.
When nothing came to her, she stormed out of the room. Unfortunately, on her path to her room was Hotaru.
Ami smiled at the young girl. "Hey, Hota-chan!"
"Ami..." Saturn said.
Ami froze. "Saturn" She acknowledged.
"Where were you?"
Ami smiled blissfully back at her. "I was out with Trowa."
Saturn's eyes narrowed, searching for anything false in her statement.
Turning sharply on her heels, Saturn made to leave. "Ami." She said as she was walking. "Don't interfere with my plans."
Ami said nothing. She stood there, trembling slightly.
Ami decided that she didn't want to go to her room anymore. As quietly as she could, she slipped out of the house/mansion, into the garage.
While she was looking over the many vehicles that Quatre kept, her eyes rested on a royal blue motorcycle with matching helmet.
'Perfect' Ami thought, glad that she had made Haruka teach her to ride them.
Ami didn't have a destination in mind. She just wanted to feel the speed.
"No wonder Haruka loved to race. It is freedom in itself." She whispered to the winds.
Just the feel of the bike beneath her and the wind rushing past her made Ami feel free of her burdens. If only until she returned home.
Pausing the bike on the side of the road that overlooked the ocean, Ami stared at it's vastness.
It was very tempting to never return; to leave her problems for someone else to deal with.
'But I just can't do that. That is not who I am.'
With a heavily sigh of burden, Ami turned the bike around and headed back to the mansion.
She wasn't calling it home anymore. The air there was so oppressive, that it was hard to breath.
It had gotten so bad, that Duo and Heero had left. So Makoto was upset. Her two new buddies were gone. And she blamed Ami. Just for the fact that she had been saying that something was wrong.
Like that had anything to do with it.
No one else had left as of today. Wufei and Quatre were defiantly irritable.
It was full dark when Ami got back.
Her semi decent mood vanished the second she entered. Everyone who was still living in the mansion was standing there glowering at her. With the exception of Trowa. He was just frowning.
"What?" she asked irritably.
"Where were you?" Rei snapped.
"None of your god damned business" Ami shot back.
"Ami..." Quatre said, anger threading through his voice. "You must tell some one when you leave the house by yourself."
"Fine" Ami spat. "I'm leaving. As pretty a cage as this is, it's still a cage!"
"You leave, you can't come back" Quarter hollered.
Ami spun around to face them. Her eyes angry. "Gee willikers, why the hell would I want to stay with people who hate me!" she shouted. "It's not as if any of you even care!"
As she spun back around to leave, she caught sight of Saturn. She was smiling gleefully.
Mentally, Ami flicked her off, and then walked out to the gates, everyone watching her to make sure she left. 'Good riddance' she thought. 'The only one I'll miss will be Trowa, and apparently, he won't miss me!
Why the hell did I take him with me to the meeting? He'll probably tell Saturn what's going on.'
A tear fell from her eye. 'I cry too much' she mused.
Ami decided to teleport herself to the ruins. Since she didn't have to take Trowa, she could get herself there in no time flat.
In a flash of blue, Ami disappeared from everyone's view. All but one person was happy about that.
Sure, Trowa was angry, but not about her disappear like that, rather, he angry at himself for making her sad. And he didn't want her to go. But as he surveyed the people around him, he saw that they all did.
'Why though?' he asked himself. 'Not even Quatre would do something like this!'
Sorrow filled, Trowa went up to his room, the one across from his goddess's.
He looked at her door sadly. 'Where did you go? Did you go to the ruins?'
He vowed that early the next day, he would go after her.
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That's is. I would like 5 reviews this time so... REVIEW!!
~DevilWench~
angelicmayuka: People can be very dense when it comes to the people they love. So it makes a bit of sense. I am going to try making it a Wufei/ Hotaru pairing, if I can work it out that way. =)
luv slayer: I'm not sure how many senshi are left, those are the ones who showed up though! ^-^' Plus, I was too lazy to search out more names. =)
Melody's Song: I am sure of the pairing. Sorry. And Saturn is cool. She and Merc are my all time favs! Thanks for the review!!!!! =)
Sailor-Tsunami1: Yes oh great one! I shall update! How about now? =)
Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING!
NOTE: If this chapter makes no sense...sorry...I'm all crispy sunburned again, so my brain is all addled.
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While the others sat arguing what they think should happen, Mercury sat in thought.
Omega thought that Saturn should be destroyed, but everyone became very angry at her suggestion.
If Saturn was destroyed, so would Hotaru, and this wasn't her fault.
The Starlights, and Galaxia thought that if worse comes to worst, that Saturn should be sealed away until proper control could be regained.
Trowa listened, but said nothing. None of the options presented interested him. It wasn't the girls fault.
'All this wouldn't be happening if those bastards hadn't attacked us!' Mercury thought angerly. 'This is yet another thing for them to pay for!' Then it hit her.
"Why don't we just give Saturn what she wants?"
Everyone looked at her in confusion.
Mercury scowled at them.
"She wants to kill the ones who killed her parents, so if she did, wouldn't she become complacent once more?"
Galaxia sighed. "It would be a good plan, but there's one thing wrong with it."
"And that would be?" Mercury asked icily.
"Out of the seven who attacked you, only two of them survived the destruction of Crystal Tokyo."
Mercury looked at her confused. "All of them were in good health when we fell."
This time it was the Starlights who answered. "By the time we heard your distress signal, and got to Earth, the world was in shambles.
And after you had fallen, the youma's allegiance to the seven evaporated. They turned on their masters. Only the stronger two survived until we got there."
The galactic council put them in jail for slaying Neo Queen Serenity and her Senshi."
Mercury growled in outrage. "You were there and you didn't wake us up?"
Star Fighter sighed. "We tried. Noting we could do would wake any of you up. We couldn't even budge your coffins!"
Mercury sighed in annoyance. "Well, anyways, why can't we let Saturn loose with the two who are left?"
Star Healer looked at her and shook her head. "They were human remember Merc? They were Mortals."
Mercury's face froze. "So all of them are dead then."
"'Fraid so"
"Well, there goes my bright idea." Mercury huffed in annoyance.
"I'm curious." Trowa spoke up, his voice cutting through the silence.
Everyone looked at him.
"Why not use holograms? I saw some at the ruins of Crystal Tokyo. Why not make her think that she's fighting these people when she's really not?"
Star Fighter looked at him in amazement. "Merc, you have some competition for genius of the cosmos!"
"It could work" Omega muttered.
Mercury nodded. This was another reason her counterpart didn't fight very hard against bring him along. He was very intelligent.
"We could have it set up in about two and a half weeks. But we need all the information we can get to program the holograms." Mercury said tonelessly.
Omega nodded. "I can get that. I'm not head of the council for nothing!"
"Good. I'll salvage the holo projector from Crystal Tokyo. Where should this 'Battle' take place? It can't be on Earth. Saturn will destroy it with her anger powering her attacks."
"I shall take care of that Mercury." Galaxia said sadly. "There are a number of terrain type planets that I left uninhabited."
Mercury shook her head in acceptance as they all rose. "Once I have the data, I shall program it to lead her to the planet you choose. Hopefully, after she's done, we will have our Hotaru back."
They all nodded to each other and vanished.
Mercury and Trowa arrived back in the middle of one of Quatre's gardens.
After dehenshining, Ami slumped slightly to the ground. "This is going to be a lot of work" she muttered.
Trowa smiled at her. "You're not going to be doing this alone."
"I know" she said irritated. "I just hope this won't back fire on us. If she finds out that it's all an illusion, she'll really flip. I'm not sure who could stop her then!"
"We'll just be very careful then. Now..." Trowa continues while picking up the slumped goddess. "I believe we have some ruins to search?"
Ami huffed, amused. "I do believe we do. Will Quatre let us go there?"
Trowa shrugged. "Don't think he could stop us. He has no hold over me and you can teleport."
Ami looked at the sky in seriousness. "I could teleport both of us, but that would exhaust my ability for a few days. We can leave as soon as I've recovered from the latest jaunt."
Trowa looked at her confused. "Didn't you just teleport the both of us twice in one day?"
Ami smiled at him. "Being at Sagittarius Zero star replenished all my energy. I knew it would."
"Oh. I guess there's a lot to learn about being a Senshi then."
Ami giggled. "Yep! I'm still learning what all I can do, and I've been up and around for a little more than a thousand years."
Trowa's smile slipped a bit at the mention of how old she was. 'Even if she could possible love me, her immortality would eventually separate us.'
The thought saddened him for the rest of the day, despite Ami asking him what was wrong.
After an hour, she left him to his thoughts.
'I wonder what is bothering him.'
Ami cursed under her breath. She couldn't figure out what was bothering the man she loved.
Ami had done it. She had admitted that loved the usually silent man.
'But honestly, how could I possible not fall for him? He's smart, kind, and he's always there for me!'
Ami sighed frustrated. 'But, I know that he doesn't like me in the same way.'
Ami laughed at the irony. 'All those times I ribbed Usagi about Mamoru in the beginning, and now I find myself in the same position!'
Ami went into the pool room, intent on swimming. But instead, she just sat in the bench and stared at the water, hoping it would give her some advice.
When nothing came to her, she stormed out of the room. Unfortunately, on her path to her room was Hotaru.
Ami smiled at the young girl. "Hey, Hota-chan!"
"Ami..." Saturn said.
Ami froze. "Saturn" She acknowledged.
"Where were you?"
Ami smiled blissfully back at her. "I was out with Trowa."
Saturn's eyes narrowed, searching for anything false in her statement.
Turning sharply on her heels, Saturn made to leave. "Ami." She said as she was walking. "Don't interfere with my plans."
Ami said nothing. She stood there, trembling slightly.
Ami decided that she didn't want to go to her room anymore. As quietly as she could, she slipped out of the house/mansion, into the garage.
While she was looking over the many vehicles that Quatre kept, her eyes rested on a royal blue motorcycle with matching helmet.
'Perfect' Ami thought, glad that she had made Haruka teach her to ride them.
Ami didn't have a destination in mind. She just wanted to feel the speed.
"No wonder Haruka loved to race. It is freedom in itself." She whispered to the winds.
Just the feel of the bike beneath her and the wind rushing past her made Ami feel free of her burdens. If only until she returned home.
Pausing the bike on the side of the road that overlooked the ocean, Ami stared at it's vastness.
It was very tempting to never return; to leave her problems for someone else to deal with.
'But I just can't do that. That is not who I am.'
With a heavily sigh of burden, Ami turned the bike around and headed back to the mansion.
She wasn't calling it home anymore. The air there was so oppressive, that it was hard to breath.
It had gotten so bad, that Duo and Heero had left. So Makoto was upset. Her two new buddies were gone. And she blamed Ami. Just for the fact that she had been saying that something was wrong.
Like that had anything to do with it.
No one else had left as of today. Wufei and Quatre were defiantly irritable.
It was full dark when Ami got back.
Her semi decent mood vanished the second she entered. Everyone who was still living in the mansion was standing there glowering at her. With the exception of Trowa. He was just frowning.
"What?" she asked irritably.
"Where were you?" Rei snapped.
"None of your god damned business" Ami shot back.
"Ami..." Quatre said, anger threading through his voice. "You must tell some one when you leave the house by yourself."
"Fine" Ami spat. "I'm leaving. As pretty a cage as this is, it's still a cage!"
"You leave, you can't come back" Quarter hollered.
Ami spun around to face them. Her eyes angry. "Gee willikers, why the hell would I want to stay with people who hate me!" she shouted. "It's not as if any of you even care!"
As she spun back around to leave, she caught sight of Saturn. She was smiling gleefully.
Mentally, Ami flicked her off, and then walked out to the gates, everyone watching her to make sure she left. 'Good riddance' she thought. 'The only one I'll miss will be Trowa, and apparently, he won't miss me!
Why the hell did I take him with me to the meeting? He'll probably tell Saturn what's going on.'
A tear fell from her eye. 'I cry too much' she mused.
Ami decided to teleport herself to the ruins. Since she didn't have to take Trowa, she could get herself there in no time flat.
In a flash of blue, Ami disappeared from everyone's view. All but one person was happy about that.
Sure, Trowa was angry, but not about her disappear like that, rather, he angry at himself for making her sad. And he didn't want her to go. But as he surveyed the people around him, he saw that they all did.
'Why though?' he asked himself. 'Not even Quatre would do something like this!'
Sorrow filled, Trowa went up to his room, the one across from his goddess's.
He looked at her door sadly. 'Where did you go? Did you go to the ruins?'
He vowed that early the next day, he would go after her.
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That's is. I would like 5 reviews this time so... REVIEW!!
~DevilWench~