Sapphires through the Mist-12
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The next morning, everyone lazed about, waiting for the arrival of Galaxia.
Ami was telling more stories about the past, and how silly they had been in those days.
She was about to start on the story about the ice rink when Galaxia appeared in a burst of golden light right in the middle of the control room; which was where everyone was.
Duo was the only one who appeared to be startled.
"Holy shit!" he shouted, leaping away from the golden senshi.
He paused and stared at her for a minute. "Hey, aren't you that evil senshi?"
Realizing what he just said, he freaked out. "OMG! We're gonna die!"
Ami chuckled. "Calm down Duo. Galaxia's not evil!"
"But...but...all the stories said she was!"
Ami grinned. "And those same stories said, one, she was dead, and two that we were perfect solders! And you know we're not."
Duo paused in his jumping from foot to foot and thought about that.
"I guess you're right. You would know more about what's gong on than me" he said while plopping himself backing his seat next to Heero, who merely smirked at everyone.
Galaxia merely watched the display with amusement. 'What a goof ball!'
Shaking her head, Ami turned back to Galaxia. "Do you have the placement?"
Galaxia nodded. "It's a terren type planet that went by the name of Tranescon."
Ami nodded solemnly. "Can I have the coordinates? It won't take me must a few minutes to input it into the data base and hade the whole thing up and ready to go."
Galaxia nodded and handed her a small disk.
Grasping it in her hand, Ami thanked her for her help. Then she went back to her spot at the holo projector and inserted the disk. She clicked a few buttons and made sure that the coordinates were properly set in.
Then she programmed a small remote that she could use when the fighting began.
After programming the destination and the remote, Ami wrapped up her part in the mechanics. And she pulled out a power source that she would be using on the other planet.
"Alright, all the data is in. All we have to do is get it, and Saturn to Tranescon with out Saturn herself noticing what we're doing."
That would be the hardest part.
Ami knew that Saturn mistrusted her already. None of the guys could get her there. For all she knew they were still ignorant of the workings of the senshi.
That left the Starlights, and Galaxia.
There was no way Ami could send Galaxia. Saturn would do much worse than kill her. She did kill her parents and her own self before. There had to be some bad blood there.
So that left the Starlights.
They seemed to know what Ami was thinking when she looked between them and Galaxia.
Star Fighter sighed. "I guess that luring her in will be our job."
"I wish there was another way, but there isn't. I'm sorry."
"Hey Ames, it's not a problem. I'm sure you'll figure out a way to make sure this goes off with out any causalities" Fighter said with confidence.
Ami smiled sadly at them. "I think I already have a plan."
As Ami explained her idea to the others, they thought it was pure brilliance.
The Starlights would show up at Quatre's, all roughed up, say they had been attacked by seven people using strange magics on Transecon.
Saturn will figure that it had to be the seven who attacked and killed her parents, and she'll head that way on her own.
A simple plan, but one that had few ways of failing.
"Now" Healer said with distain, "How are we going to appear roughed up? Saturn can see beyond illusions easily."
Fighter smirked at her blond companion. "We'll just have to rough ourselves up! With a little help from our friends of course."
Healer blanched. 'I am so not going to like this!'
With the combined magical and physical powers of everyone present, the Starlights got pretty banged up.
"OK! Enough!" Healer had called through his split lip. "I think they'll get the message!"
The others nodded.
"Ok. You three go get Saturn's attention, Galaxia and I are going to get this hunk of junk to Transecon."
"Hey!" Duo shouted. "What about us?"
Ami frowned. "We can't take you with us. We don't have enough energy to spare. And more than likely, you'll get yourself killed by a blast from Saturn if you go."
Duo pouted.
"Sorry Duo. That's not going to work this time."
Duo pouted even more.
However, Trowa and Heero nodded their heads. They might not like them going with out them, but they knew that they were right. Trowa down right loathed the idea.
Before Ami could leave, Trowa pulled her aside to speak with her privately.
"Ami..." he started. "Come back safe."
Ami hugged him tightly. "I'll come back as safe as possible. But dealing with an angry dark Senshi is tricky business. But if we pull this off right, then I'll be back with out a scratch."
Trowa smiled at her. "Good. Because when you get back, I plan on taking you out to dinner."
Ami gave him a one hundred watt smile. "I'd better come back unharmed then. I wouldn't let a dinner with you slip by so easily."
The light hearted banter between the two served to lighten the tension and lessen the worries of all the people present.
Less than a minute later though, all the senshi left in flashes of light to their respective places.
'Please don't get hurt Ami.' Trowa prayed as he waited for their return.
When Mercury and Galaxia arrived on Transecon, she looked around at the splendor that the planet showed.
Deep emerald green plant life covered the entire area.
'It's a shame that it's going to be destroyed soon.' Mercury thought sadly. It was a really pretty sight.
Mercury quickly set up the holo projector and its auxiliary power source.
Then she flipped on the power and set up the holograms of the seven people.
Mercury looked at them clearly for a moment. All seven of them were non descript.
You could tell that they were pretty, but once you weren't looking at them you wouldn't remember what they looked like.
Mercury herself might have seen them when she was out shopping and never even knew it.
Stealing herself against pity, Mercury set up the fighting sequence.
It was going to be more of an interactive simulation than just a recording. And Mercury could control when the fight ended with the remote control.
Mercury let the holograms 'wander' until Saturn arrived. It looked at if seven people were just walking around, pacing, and chatting. Though there was sound, it made no real sense to anyone who really listened to it.
Then she hid herself and told Galaxia to hide herself as well.
"Don't come out unless there is no other choice" She had told her.
Galaxia nodded and hid in the under brush.
Mercury looked at the sky and prayed that everything would be alright.
Moments later, Saturn arrived, a dark aura surrounding her.
Mercury heard her screech in rage as she saw the holograms.
'So far, so good' Ami thought as another blast shook the planet.
Peeking out from her hiding space, Mercury smiled at herself for a well thought out plan.
Saturn was wearing herself out against the light generated villains.
After a few more ground breaking blasts, she decided to check on Saturn again.
She was drooping on the ground, exhausted. But the determination and desperation in her face said that she was going to give one final blast that would make or break her.
Carefully, Mercury moved her remote control so she could signal the end of the battle.
Saturn's last blast would 'kill' the seven.
As Mercury watched the dark energy engulf the holograms, she hit the remote to portray the 'deaths' of Saturn's foes. Including death screams.
When the dust cleared, Mercury saw the prone form of Hotaru.
Wide eyed, Mercury ran over to her friend.
"Hotaru? Hotaru! Can you hear me?" she asked frantically.
Wide purple eyes opened slowly.
"Thank you Mercury."
Mercury looked at the girl and wondered what she meant by that.
"What do you mean Taru-chan?"
Hotaru waved her hand impatiently. "For the holograms. Saturn just needed to fight. She didn't care if they were real or not."
Mercury was shocked. "I'm sorry."
Hotaru looked at her friend and mentor. "What for?"
"For trying to deceive you."
Hotaru smiled at her. "You did the only thing you could have. Saturn wanted revenge and nothing I could do or say could stop her. At least this way you exhausted her enough for me to regain control."
Mercury smiled wanly at the girl next to her.
With down cast eyes, Hotaru added, "I'm the one who should be sorry."
Mercury looked at her in surprise. "What for?"
"For letting Saturn get out of control. For letting her get everyone so uptight that they snapped at you.
Mercury hugged the girl tightly. "It's alright. I know you did your best. Saturn isn't the easiest to control on a good day."
Hotaru sniffled. "Still...Thank you for bring me back."
"You're welcome."
As Hotaru began to cry into Mercury's uniform, Mercury herself noticed the golden senshi wave good bye and vanish.
'Bye Galaxia. And thank you' Mercury said, more to herself than anything.
When Hotaru was calm again, they both stood and in a flash, they teleported themselves back to Crystal Tokyo.
Duo was the first one to see the exhausted women.
He shouted for the others to hurry up as he made a dash for Mercury and Hotaru.
When he reached them, he gave a nervous glance at Hotaru. He didn't know if she was herself yet or not.
Mercury smiled. "It's Hotaru. Not Saturn."
Indeed, Duo had just noticed the girl looked miserable.
Duo nodded as he took the smaller woman from Mercury.
Trowa was the next to come flying out of the broken structure.
He caught Ami as she dehenshined and began to collapse from lack of energy.
"So...Where's dinner going to be at?" Ami muttered happily as she fell asleep in Trowa's arms.
Trowa, shaking his head, carried the blue haired love of his life into the building after her friend.
The next day when Ami woke up, she looked for two people first off. Trowa sat right next to her, asleep. And Hotaru was lying down across from her, also asleep.
Nodding to herself that everything was in order, Ami leaned against Trowa and fell back asleep.
When everyone was awake, they all decided to head back to Quatre's.
Ami was a bit nervous at that. Even if he didn't mean it, he still did kick her out.
After an hour of four people telling her that it was going to be alright, Ami went to her room and collected the things she wanted from her old life.
Mostly all her pictures. But there were a few books thrown in there.
As Ami had done, Hotaru had also gone to her room and retrieved her belongings.
Pictures of her with her parents and the others. Her favorite lamp. And a small slip of paper that lay in the dust.
~*~*~*~* The note*~*~*~*~
~Taru-chan, There are things in life that can not be stopped or changed no matter what you do. The only real thing you can do is accept that and move on with your life. What happened that day was one of those things. It was time for Crystal Tokyo and the Sailor Senshi of this universe to end. Nothing is supposed to last forever. Please my little one, be happy and live your life. With the death of Usagi, your immortality has also fled. Find your self some one who can love you for the wonderful person you are. And stop your crying! We'll always love you! Good bye my little one.
With love, Setsuna
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Hotaru laughed. Trust Setsuna-mama to know that she's crying.
Reading the letter had alleviated the last bits of anger and regret that she had.
Setsuna was right. Nothing is supposed to last forever. Knowing that she, Ami, Makoto, and Rei had a chance to live as the others didn't, made her grateful.
Life just might not be so horrible after all.
When Hotaru rejoined the others, she showed Ami the note that Setsuna had left.
Ami smiled slightly. "All this time, I thought that she was surprised at the attack. But I guess she knew all along."
Ami paused and looked at the new sky. "So. I guess this means that the Senshi are dead now. We get our greatest wish...to be normal humans again."
This time Ami's smile was a full sunny one. "Life is looking better all the time."
Hotaru smiled with her friend.
After all that, that, they all headed back to Quatre's.
On the way, Ami was experimenting with her powers over ice.
Most of her power was gone, she couldn't form her attacks anymore, but she could still make things very very cold.
When she asked Hotaru about her own powers, Hotaru shrugged. "All my attacks are gone, but I can still heal. I guess we were supposed to have innate powers no matter what."
Ami smiled. Although she wanted to be normal, she had grown used to having powers over ice. And to lose them completely, would have crippled her until she could learn some other type of defense.
"Thank you Selene!" Ami whispered to the moon goddess, for letting them keep as least part of their powers.
When they got to the door, Ami started panicking. 'What if he's still mad? What if he still wants me gone?'
Ami would have run off, except that Trowa had a firm grip on both her shoulders.
Quatre was the one to open the door looking haggard. When he caught sight of the two women, he nearly fainted of relief.
"OMG! Ami! Hotaru!" he cried as he reached out to pull them into a hug.
"See?" Trowa whispered into Ami's ear when Quatre released them.
Ami blushed, embarrassed.
"REI! MAKOTO! THEY'RE BACK!!" Quatre hollered.
It sounded like a stampede coming down the stairs when Rei and Makoto rushed down to see them. Wufei followed at a more moderate pace, although it was still almost a run.
After apologies, mostly to Ami for how they all treated her, everyone wanted to hear what happened.
When Rei and Makoto heard that Saturn was really in control all that time, they looked at Ami apologetically.
"We should have listened to you." Rei said softly.
"You always could see a situation better than any of us could." Makoto added.
Ami smirked and nodded her head triumphantly.
"You don't have to rub it in!" Makoto cried through her laughter.
Over the next few years, life was idyllic. All the former Senshi had gotten jobs at what their natural aptitudes were best at.
For Rei, she, with the help from Quatre, open a dojo for girls only.
Wufei muttered a lot of curses when he heard about it and challenged her to a fight.
Rei openly smirked about it, especially when she agreed to his challenge.
Wufei lost the fight to Rei. It wouldn't have been so bad if had just been her. But her entire class had been there. Wufei didn't show his face around there any more.
As for her love life, she had been dating Quatre, only until he asked her to marry him. Their wedding was going to going to be held the next summer. And it was going to be a small one as both agreed.
Makoto had opened her own restaurant where she was head chef. The popularity of said restaurant was quickly growing. And she was just about to open another restaurant.
She was still single, but there was rumor that she had been seeing one Millardo Peacecraft, whom she had run into when he was escaping his sister at a ball that Quatre had forced them all to attend.
Hotaru had gotten a job as an antiques dealer. Her affinity for life and death helped her place how old an object is.
Somehow, to the surprise of all, she and Wufei had started to date.
As to how that turned out, only time will tell.
She and Trowa had been happily married a while back and were expecting the birth of their first child.
Everyone was ecstatic about it. Especially the two parents.
As for her job, Ami had become a computer programmer. Her holographic games were the top sellers as were her holographic stories. The most popular of which was the legend of the Sailor Senshi.
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The End. I hope you all enjoyed this story! Many thanks to all who reviewed! And more thanks to Sumi Toshino who prompted me write this! On a sadder note, I don't think I'll be writing any more until fall at the earliest. I'm going to be at boot camp all summer and they don't allow any electronics there. And then it's off to Nuke school. So if you hear about any nukes going off....Whoops! ^-^ (I hope you all can tell I'm just playing around with the nukes going off! I don't' want anyone yelling at me for that!!) Ja people! I love you all!
~DevilWench~
SailorKagome: Thank you very much!!! =)
Airlady: ::Hugs:: Thank you for the compliment! =)
angelicmayuka: You shall see how many chapters are left in this very chapter! =)
Sailor-Tsunami1: Glad to know you like my work. =)
Melody's Song: Glad to amuse! It's my hobby! =)
GracedAngel1854: I have time to write because I'm not in school. I graduated last year and I'm waiting till I go to Navy Boot camp at the end of next month. Other than that, I have nothing to do but help my parents reconstruct the house. ^-^8
ladytigera21: Sequel? O.O Anyway...I always finish my stories! Just read and see!
Disclaimer: You ask, I tell. I don't own anything but me brain.
I feel so loved. I have more reviews at this point in time than any of my other stories! ::Wipes away a tear:: Thank you all!
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The next morning, everyone lazed about, waiting for the arrival of Galaxia.
Ami was telling more stories about the past, and how silly they had been in those days.
She was about to start on the story about the ice rink when Galaxia appeared in a burst of golden light right in the middle of the control room; which was where everyone was.
Duo was the only one who appeared to be startled.
"Holy shit!" he shouted, leaping away from the golden senshi.
He paused and stared at her for a minute. "Hey, aren't you that evil senshi?"
Realizing what he just said, he freaked out. "OMG! We're gonna die!"
Ami chuckled. "Calm down Duo. Galaxia's not evil!"
"But...but...all the stories said she was!"
Ami grinned. "And those same stories said, one, she was dead, and two that we were perfect solders! And you know we're not."
Duo paused in his jumping from foot to foot and thought about that.
"I guess you're right. You would know more about what's gong on than me" he said while plopping himself backing his seat next to Heero, who merely smirked at everyone.
Galaxia merely watched the display with amusement. 'What a goof ball!'
Shaking her head, Ami turned back to Galaxia. "Do you have the placement?"
Galaxia nodded. "It's a terren type planet that went by the name of Tranescon."
Ami nodded solemnly. "Can I have the coordinates? It won't take me must a few minutes to input it into the data base and hade the whole thing up and ready to go."
Galaxia nodded and handed her a small disk.
Grasping it in her hand, Ami thanked her for her help. Then she went back to her spot at the holo projector and inserted the disk. She clicked a few buttons and made sure that the coordinates were properly set in.
Then she programmed a small remote that she could use when the fighting began.
After programming the destination and the remote, Ami wrapped up her part in the mechanics. And she pulled out a power source that she would be using on the other planet.
"Alright, all the data is in. All we have to do is get it, and Saturn to Tranescon with out Saturn herself noticing what we're doing."
That would be the hardest part.
Ami knew that Saturn mistrusted her already. None of the guys could get her there. For all she knew they were still ignorant of the workings of the senshi.
That left the Starlights, and Galaxia.
There was no way Ami could send Galaxia. Saturn would do much worse than kill her. She did kill her parents and her own self before. There had to be some bad blood there.
So that left the Starlights.
They seemed to know what Ami was thinking when she looked between them and Galaxia.
Star Fighter sighed. "I guess that luring her in will be our job."
"I wish there was another way, but there isn't. I'm sorry."
"Hey Ames, it's not a problem. I'm sure you'll figure out a way to make sure this goes off with out any causalities" Fighter said with confidence.
Ami smiled sadly at them. "I think I already have a plan."
As Ami explained her idea to the others, they thought it was pure brilliance.
The Starlights would show up at Quatre's, all roughed up, say they had been attacked by seven people using strange magics on Transecon.
Saturn will figure that it had to be the seven who attacked and killed her parents, and she'll head that way on her own.
A simple plan, but one that had few ways of failing.
"Now" Healer said with distain, "How are we going to appear roughed up? Saturn can see beyond illusions easily."
Fighter smirked at her blond companion. "We'll just have to rough ourselves up! With a little help from our friends of course."
Healer blanched. 'I am so not going to like this!'
With the combined magical and physical powers of everyone present, the Starlights got pretty banged up.
"OK! Enough!" Healer had called through his split lip. "I think they'll get the message!"
The others nodded.
"Ok. You three go get Saturn's attention, Galaxia and I are going to get this hunk of junk to Transecon."
"Hey!" Duo shouted. "What about us?"
Ami frowned. "We can't take you with us. We don't have enough energy to spare. And more than likely, you'll get yourself killed by a blast from Saturn if you go."
Duo pouted.
"Sorry Duo. That's not going to work this time."
Duo pouted even more.
However, Trowa and Heero nodded their heads. They might not like them going with out them, but they knew that they were right. Trowa down right loathed the idea.
Before Ami could leave, Trowa pulled her aside to speak with her privately.
"Ami..." he started. "Come back safe."
Ami hugged him tightly. "I'll come back as safe as possible. But dealing with an angry dark Senshi is tricky business. But if we pull this off right, then I'll be back with out a scratch."
Trowa smiled at her. "Good. Because when you get back, I plan on taking you out to dinner."
Ami gave him a one hundred watt smile. "I'd better come back unharmed then. I wouldn't let a dinner with you slip by so easily."
The light hearted banter between the two served to lighten the tension and lessen the worries of all the people present.
Less than a minute later though, all the senshi left in flashes of light to their respective places.
'Please don't get hurt Ami.' Trowa prayed as he waited for their return.
When Mercury and Galaxia arrived on Transecon, she looked around at the splendor that the planet showed.
Deep emerald green plant life covered the entire area.
'It's a shame that it's going to be destroyed soon.' Mercury thought sadly. It was a really pretty sight.
Mercury quickly set up the holo projector and its auxiliary power source.
Then she flipped on the power and set up the holograms of the seven people.
Mercury looked at them clearly for a moment. All seven of them were non descript.
You could tell that they were pretty, but once you weren't looking at them you wouldn't remember what they looked like.
Mercury herself might have seen them when she was out shopping and never even knew it.
Stealing herself against pity, Mercury set up the fighting sequence.
It was going to be more of an interactive simulation than just a recording. And Mercury could control when the fight ended with the remote control.
Mercury let the holograms 'wander' until Saturn arrived. It looked at if seven people were just walking around, pacing, and chatting. Though there was sound, it made no real sense to anyone who really listened to it.
Then she hid herself and told Galaxia to hide herself as well.
"Don't come out unless there is no other choice" She had told her.
Galaxia nodded and hid in the under brush.
Mercury looked at the sky and prayed that everything would be alright.
Moments later, Saturn arrived, a dark aura surrounding her.
Mercury heard her screech in rage as she saw the holograms.
'So far, so good' Ami thought as another blast shook the planet.
Peeking out from her hiding space, Mercury smiled at herself for a well thought out plan.
Saturn was wearing herself out against the light generated villains.
After a few more ground breaking blasts, she decided to check on Saturn again.
She was drooping on the ground, exhausted. But the determination and desperation in her face said that she was going to give one final blast that would make or break her.
Carefully, Mercury moved her remote control so she could signal the end of the battle.
Saturn's last blast would 'kill' the seven.
As Mercury watched the dark energy engulf the holograms, she hit the remote to portray the 'deaths' of Saturn's foes. Including death screams.
When the dust cleared, Mercury saw the prone form of Hotaru.
Wide eyed, Mercury ran over to her friend.
"Hotaru? Hotaru! Can you hear me?" she asked frantically.
Wide purple eyes opened slowly.
"Thank you Mercury."
Mercury looked at the girl and wondered what she meant by that.
"What do you mean Taru-chan?"
Hotaru waved her hand impatiently. "For the holograms. Saturn just needed to fight. She didn't care if they were real or not."
Mercury was shocked. "I'm sorry."
Hotaru looked at her friend and mentor. "What for?"
"For trying to deceive you."
Hotaru smiled at her. "You did the only thing you could have. Saturn wanted revenge and nothing I could do or say could stop her. At least this way you exhausted her enough for me to regain control."
Mercury smiled wanly at the girl next to her.
With down cast eyes, Hotaru added, "I'm the one who should be sorry."
Mercury looked at her in surprise. "What for?"
"For letting Saturn get out of control. For letting her get everyone so uptight that they snapped at you.
Mercury hugged the girl tightly. "It's alright. I know you did your best. Saturn isn't the easiest to control on a good day."
Hotaru sniffled. "Still...Thank you for bring me back."
"You're welcome."
As Hotaru began to cry into Mercury's uniform, Mercury herself noticed the golden senshi wave good bye and vanish.
'Bye Galaxia. And thank you' Mercury said, more to herself than anything.
When Hotaru was calm again, they both stood and in a flash, they teleported themselves back to Crystal Tokyo.
Duo was the first one to see the exhausted women.
He shouted for the others to hurry up as he made a dash for Mercury and Hotaru.
When he reached them, he gave a nervous glance at Hotaru. He didn't know if she was herself yet or not.
Mercury smiled. "It's Hotaru. Not Saturn."
Indeed, Duo had just noticed the girl looked miserable.
Duo nodded as he took the smaller woman from Mercury.
Trowa was the next to come flying out of the broken structure.
He caught Ami as she dehenshined and began to collapse from lack of energy.
"So...Where's dinner going to be at?" Ami muttered happily as she fell asleep in Trowa's arms.
Trowa, shaking his head, carried the blue haired love of his life into the building after her friend.
The next day when Ami woke up, she looked for two people first off. Trowa sat right next to her, asleep. And Hotaru was lying down across from her, also asleep.
Nodding to herself that everything was in order, Ami leaned against Trowa and fell back asleep.
When everyone was awake, they all decided to head back to Quatre's.
Ami was a bit nervous at that. Even if he didn't mean it, he still did kick her out.
After an hour of four people telling her that it was going to be alright, Ami went to her room and collected the things she wanted from her old life.
Mostly all her pictures. But there were a few books thrown in there.
As Ami had done, Hotaru had also gone to her room and retrieved her belongings.
Pictures of her with her parents and the others. Her favorite lamp. And a small slip of paper that lay in the dust.
~*~*~*~* The note*~*~*~*~
~Taru-chan, There are things in life that can not be stopped or changed no matter what you do. The only real thing you can do is accept that and move on with your life. What happened that day was one of those things. It was time for Crystal Tokyo and the Sailor Senshi of this universe to end. Nothing is supposed to last forever. Please my little one, be happy and live your life. With the death of Usagi, your immortality has also fled. Find your self some one who can love you for the wonderful person you are. And stop your crying! We'll always love you! Good bye my little one.
With love, Setsuna
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Hotaru laughed. Trust Setsuna-mama to know that she's crying.
Reading the letter had alleviated the last bits of anger and regret that she had.
Setsuna was right. Nothing is supposed to last forever. Knowing that she, Ami, Makoto, and Rei had a chance to live as the others didn't, made her grateful.
Life just might not be so horrible after all.
When Hotaru rejoined the others, she showed Ami the note that Setsuna had left.
Ami smiled slightly. "All this time, I thought that she was surprised at the attack. But I guess she knew all along."
Ami paused and looked at the new sky. "So. I guess this means that the Senshi are dead now. We get our greatest wish...to be normal humans again."
This time Ami's smile was a full sunny one. "Life is looking better all the time."
Hotaru smiled with her friend.
After all that, that, they all headed back to Quatre's.
On the way, Ami was experimenting with her powers over ice.
Most of her power was gone, she couldn't form her attacks anymore, but she could still make things very very cold.
When she asked Hotaru about her own powers, Hotaru shrugged. "All my attacks are gone, but I can still heal. I guess we were supposed to have innate powers no matter what."
Ami smiled. Although she wanted to be normal, she had grown used to having powers over ice. And to lose them completely, would have crippled her until she could learn some other type of defense.
"Thank you Selene!" Ami whispered to the moon goddess, for letting them keep as least part of their powers.
When they got to the door, Ami started panicking. 'What if he's still mad? What if he still wants me gone?'
Ami would have run off, except that Trowa had a firm grip on both her shoulders.
Quatre was the one to open the door looking haggard. When he caught sight of the two women, he nearly fainted of relief.
"OMG! Ami! Hotaru!" he cried as he reached out to pull them into a hug.
"See?" Trowa whispered into Ami's ear when Quatre released them.
Ami blushed, embarrassed.
"REI! MAKOTO! THEY'RE BACK!!" Quatre hollered.
It sounded like a stampede coming down the stairs when Rei and Makoto rushed down to see them. Wufei followed at a more moderate pace, although it was still almost a run.
After apologies, mostly to Ami for how they all treated her, everyone wanted to hear what happened.
When Rei and Makoto heard that Saturn was really in control all that time, they looked at Ami apologetically.
"We should have listened to you." Rei said softly.
"You always could see a situation better than any of us could." Makoto added.
Ami smirked and nodded her head triumphantly.
"You don't have to rub it in!" Makoto cried through her laughter.
Over the next few years, life was idyllic. All the former Senshi had gotten jobs at what their natural aptitudes were best at.
For Rei, she, with the help from Quatre, open a dojo for girls only.
Wufei muttered a lot of curses when he heard about it and challenged her to a fight.
Rei openly smirked about it, especially when she agreed to his challenge.
Wufei lost the fight to Rei. It wouldn't have been so bad if had just been her. But her entire class had been there. Wufei didn't show his face around there any more.
As for her love life, she had been dating Quatre, only until he asked her to marry him. Their wedding was going to going to be held the next summer. And it was going to be a small one as both agreed.
Makoto had opened her own restaurant where she was head chef. The popularity of said restaurant was quickly growing. And she was just about to open another restaurant.
She was still single, but there was rumor that she had been seeing one Millardo Peacecraft, whom she had run into when he was escaping his sister at a ball that Quatre had forced them all to attend.
Hotaru had gotten a job as an antiques dealer. Her affinity for life and death helped her place how old an object is.
Somehow, to the surprise of all, she and Wufei had started to date.
As to how that turned out, only time will tell.
She and Trowa had been happily married a while back and were expecting the birth of their first child.
Everyone was ecstatic about it. Especially the two parents.
As for her job, Ami had become a computer programmer. Her holographic games were the top sellers as were her holographic stories. The most popular of which was the legend of the Sailor Senshi.
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The End. I hope you all enjoyed this story! Many thanks to all who reviewed! And more thanks to Sumi Toshino who prompted me write this! On a sadder note, I don't think I'll be writing any more until fall at the earliest. I'm going to be at boot camp all summer and they don't allow any electronics there. And then it's off to Nuke school. So if you hear about any nukes going off....Whoops! ^-^ (I hope you all can tell I'm just playing around with the nukes going off! I don't' want anyone yelling at me for that!!) Ja people! I love you all!
~DevilWench~