Tenshi-Hotaru: Thanks for voting, and for reviewing!
MercuryDestiny: Thanks for your review!
Shadow Fox2: Thanks for reviewing!
DevilWench: Why, Thankyou* Thanks for your review!
Dr.Cricket: Thanks for reviewing!
Kaiya:Thanks for your review!
About the couples, they've been decided:
Ami/Quatre
Minako/Duo
Makoto/Heero
Rei/Wufei
Setsuna/Trowa
and Of course
Usagi/Mamoru
I do feel most comfortable writing those couples, so they're gonna stay. Thanks to all those who gave me suggestions!
Chapter 3
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Ami woke up Sunday morning around 9:00. She sat up and stretched. Picking up the phone on her bed side table, she started to dial Rei's number. She had probably been awake a while now.
"Hello?"
"Hello Rei, It's Ami."
"Hi Ami! What's up?" Rei asked.
"I know this is a bit strange on my part, but I'm calling to tell you I'll have to be a half hour late for the meeting at 7:00 today," Ami said.
"You? Late? Why?"
"Well, James is having his family over to meet my mother and I. They'll be here until about 7:00, and then I'll need time to get over to the temple," Ami explained.
"James's family huh? They flying in from England?"
"That's the plan. Then they're staying at the place James rented out for himself until the wedding. Supposedly it's just his mother, father, sister, and his sister's husband. Oh, and their baby, James's nephew," Ami explained.
"Oh, but doesn't your mother want James to meet her family too?"
"James met my mother's brother. My grandmother is coming the day before the wedding with my uncle," Ami said.
"Oh, ok. But I have the feeling you didn't just call to tell me all this," Rei said.
"My mother wants us to go shopping for dresses tomorrow. That includes Rini and Hotaru as well. Err...just warn everyone to be at their best behavior before I get to the temple today, alright?"
"Sure. Well, I'll let you go now. See you later!"
"Yeah, bye." Ami walked out of her room to find her mother, still in her pajamas, rushing around and cleaning everything.
"Mom?"
"Hmmm? Oh Ami, glad your up. Could you help me clean this place up? I never realized how unclean it was. Just look at this table, we'll have to buy a new one..." her mother kept speaking but Ami blocked her out.
"Calm down Mom. It's just James's family, and if they're as great as James is, you'll have no problem," Ami told her. Her mother considered this for a moment before swiping the table one last time and putting everything away.
"They'll be here at 4:00. They want to sit and talk, then have dinner. What should I make?" Ami shrugged. She stood up.
"I'm going to change."
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Ami opened her room door and walked in. She paused as soon as she had walked in through the door. She wasn't alone. Not wanting whoever it was to think she knew they were there, she calmly closed the door behind her, an unreadable look on her face. She walked over to her bedside table, that had a small drawer. Opening it up, she started to rummage through it noisily, hoping to look innocent.
When nothing happened, Ami slowly approached the window and looked out casually, then yelped when she saw someone hanging from it.
"Ami, are you alright," her mother called.
"Yes, um...I just tripped and was startled," Ami called back. She turned back to the figure hanging onto her window for dear life.
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Duo was bored. So he picked up his communicater.
"I'll just go hang out with everybody back in the other demension, since no one will do anything here," he said to himself, preparing to push the one button he ussually pushed. He frowned. There were so many, why did only one work teleporting into that demension? What were the others for? He pushed a blue button that was more to the side of the communicater that looked like a calculater, and dissapeared.
He had appeared in the sky, and had fallen right next to an apartment building. But Duo would not go down so easily. He had grabbed an open window ledge at the side of a building, and clung on. He could hear someone moving around inside the room, then Ami had walked up to the window, and yelped when she saw him. She had called out something to her mom, then turned to look at him, offering an icy glare.
"Duo, get in here," she whispered fiercely, grabbing his arm and pulling him in through the window.
"I-," she cut him off.
"Are you hurt?" He had scraped his elbow from where he had hit the wall, and showed it to her. She walked off to get something for it. He realized she probably knew what he had happened already, and that was why she hadn't asked what had happened. He sat down in a white wicker chair in the corner of her room and waited until she returned a minute later, closing and locking the door behind her. Picking up the hydrogen peroxide, Ami approached him.
"Now now Ami. It's just a little scrape, it really doesn't need that," he whispered, backing up.
"But this'll stop the bleeding," she reasoned, "now stop being a baby." He stood still as Ami applied it, then she gave him a band aid.
"Ok, um...gimme your communicater," she said. He placed it in her hand. While she was pressing stuff on it, Duo stared at her.
"Nice pajamies, Ames," he said. She looked down at herself briefly, remembering she was still wearing her blue pajama's. Then she turned back to the communicater. Putting it in his hand, she told him to push the blue button again.
"I'm hungry." She sighed. She pushed it for him and Duo dissapeared. She quickly changed and walked out of her room just as the doorbell rang. Duo stood outside it looking confused.
"What did you do?"
"Wouldn't you like to know," she answered, just as her mother walked up behind her, fully dressed and grinning.
"Oh, it's one of your friends from the arcade. Hello young man. Duo, right? Come join us for breakfast, there's plenty!" Her mother ushered him in. Duo seemed to visibly brighten at this. They sat down at the table and Duo began to eat quickly.
"My, he sure does eat a lot," her mother said. Duo finished before them and leaned back in his chair. His goofy expression was replaced by one of thought, which was not common for Duo, but Ami was sure it was seen when he fought with his gundam.
"Ami, Miss Mizuno. You're both girls. Can I ask you something?" They both looked up at him, an almost identical frown on their faces. The only difference between Miss Mizuno and Ami was their hair color.
"Of course you can," Aiko finally said.
"Ok, cool. Now, how do I get a girls attention," he asked. They both stared at him. He continued.
"Like, I'm not sure if she notices me. I think she just thinks we're friends," he said.
"Is this Minako you're talking about," Ami asked. He nodded. Aiko seemed to get excited, causing Ami to groan.
"So you like this girl? Do something extreme, something she'll notice for sure. Prove to her that you really do like her! Do something WILD!" While Aiko voiced her opinion, Ami's mouth hung open in disbelief. Duo seemed to be listening to what her mother was saying. Ami was mouthing NO to him from behind her mother, but Duo paid her no mind.
"That's right. I will show Minako I like her and win her heart," Duo said, standing on his chair and pumping his fist into the air. Aiko jumped up and clapped hapilly. Ami threw her head down on the table in frustration, as her mother and Duo talked excitedly. Maybe it wouldn't be so much of a disaster...
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Aiko smoothed out her shirt and dressy pants nervously, as Ami finished putting the pot on the oven.
"Calm down mom. They'll be here soon, so just sit down and relax," Ami told her mom, walking calmly past in a pair of black pants and a blue t-shirt.
"Oh Ami. I really wish I could be as easy going as you in times like these. So calm, always keeps cool," her mother said, sitting down.
'Only ussually,' Ami thought, placing some napkins on the table. Her mother nodded in approval. 'Amazing, she's like a different person,' thought Ami. The doorbell rang. Her mother jumped up to answer it.
"Hello. Come on in," her mother said very calmly and brightly. Ami stood up.
"Oh James, so this is Aiko," a british accented voice said. Someone enveloped Aiko in a hig.
"Welcome to our family," an older woman's voice said. The guests stepped in. First was an old woman, with very little grey hair, mostly white. Obviously James's mother, whom had James's father's arm in hers. Then their was a woman a few years younger than James with brown eyes and light hair. A little boy about 5 years old stood holding her hand, and on her other side was a man with black hair and green eyes, whom Ami assumed was her husband. James walked in right after them, kissing Aiko on the cheek and beggining introductions.
"This is my mother Anna, my father Goerge, my sister Lisa, her husband Kevin, and their little boy Joseph," he said.
"I'm not little," Joseph voiced. Everyone smiled.
"And this is Aiko, and her daughter Ami," James finished.
"Pleased to meet you," Ami said, following her mother's example by shaking everyone's hand. Everyone smiled at her. They all proceeded to sit down. Her mother rushed off to get some tea & coffee, while Ami sat with the guests. Soon they were engadged in conversation, and Ami could tell James was pleased with how well it was going. Her mother came back with the drinks, and Lisa started telling them stories about James when he was younger.
Ami liked James's family. Lisa was a bright person, 32 years old. She was always smiling, and loved telling stories. Kevin, Lisa's husband, owned a restaurant back in England. He did share some recipes with Ami, which she hoped to surprise Mako with. Goerge and Anna were old, but they didn't act like it. Anna wanted to climb a mountain some day, and see all of Tokyo, and Goerge wanted to bungee jump, which he had tried to do several times in England off high buildings, and had been arrested and waited for James to come bail him out. This surprised Ami, but she figured it was better than them sitting around the house all day and knitting or complaining.
Soon the food was ready, which everybody enjoyed. After dinner, they sat down. It was already 7:00, and they seemd to be sticking around. Today was an important training session, and her mother would kill her is she left early.
"Oh, Aiko. I meant to mention something to you. The place I'm rentiing out, I have to be out two whole days before the wedding, so you won't be able to reach me there. We'll probably be staying at a hotel so you can reach me on-" Aiko cut James off.
"Don't blow your money on a hotel. We have 2 extra rooms besides mine and Ami's. You, Kevin, and little Joseph can share a room, and your parents can have the next. As for Lisa, Ami has a fold out bed in her room she wouldn't mind sharing with her. My brother and mother will be arriving here two days before the wedding. Then my brother can share with the guys and my mother will stay in my room." Nobody wanted to intrude, but Aiko talked them into it. Lovely, now the house would be full two days before the wedding. Ami checked her watch. 7:15. She kept quiet.
"Excuse me one moment," she stood up and went to her room. She opened her communicater to tell Rei she'd be late, when it went off.
"Ami, plans changed! Please say your on your way. Youma attack. We've never fought anything like this before, we need help," Makoto's voice said. Ami closed her room door.
"I'm still at home. I don't know how I'll get out of here, I'll think of something!" Ami grabbed her cell phone and dialed her home number. The phone rang.
"I'll get it," Ami called from her room.
"Okay," her mother called back. She waited a minute, as if to prove she was on the phone, before coming out of her room.
"Mom, everyone. I hate do this, but Usagi's home alone and she burned her stomach and arm when she was trying to make tea. I have to go help her," she said, making her voice sound apologetic.
"Oh no, that's terrible. Does she need to go to the hospital," Aiko asked.
"I don't know, I don't think so. Anyways I'm taking some burn medication for her. I'm sorry everyone," she said.
"That's alright, go on now," Anna said. She noded and was quickly out the door. She sprinted down the steps and ran down the street. Once arriving where Mako had indicated, she transformed. Everyone was already there, dodging some sort of attack thrown by about 20 youma. They didn't look like anything Ami had ever seen. They looked like shadows one minute, and then after someone looked at them, they would start to take that person's form. Soon, the senshi were confused as who to hit and who was their team mate. They looked relieved when Ami arrived.
She pulled out her computer, and could easily spot the decoys. She started to point them out to her friends, when she was blasted into the wall by a youma taking the shape of Venus. Mars ran to help her, and she had just stood up when she was knocked back down. It wasn't Mars, it was a youma. She kicked it out of her way and proceeded to tell Mamoru which person was a youma, when he was blasted into the wall by a Uranus decoy. Finally, she made it to the real Neptune and showed her that all surounding her were youma.
Moon, Saturn, and Mini Moon stood next to each other, trying to fend off the approaching youma, and Venus and Jupiter stood back to back, surrounded. Mars and Uranus were attacking youma, trying to end it quickly. Mercury took a step back to try to survey the scene, when somethung grabbed her by the neck. Looking at the decoy of Neptune, it changed to look like her. It lifted Mercury up into the air, cutting off her oxygen. She struggled to get free, kicking at the youma. It didn't even flinch.
"Venus Aqua Mirage!" (is that the attack?) Mercury felt the youma's grip loosen, and she kicked it away, landing on her knees and tking a deep breath. She sent a thankful look at Neptune, who smiled and punched a Jupiter decoy. Mercury ran over to Mamoru, who took her hand and stood up. They looked around.
"This could go on a while," Mercury told him, raising her hand to attack.
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2 hours later, it was over. Ami checked her watch. 9:45. She hoped everyone had left a while ago. he walked home quickly, and peaked through the door. They were all still there, laughing and speaking. Lisa had a sleeping Jospeh in her lap.
She leaned against the wall outside the door. She couldn't let them see her. Her forehead was bleeding severly, which would be gone in the morning but not now.
"Well, Joseph's tired, I think that's our que to go. We've over stayed our welcome anyways," Lisa joked, standing and grabbing Joseph. Everyone followed this example. Aiko opened the door, and Ami quikly covered the gash on the left side of her forehead with her bangs.
"Oh Ami, you're home. How's Usagi," asked her mother.
"She's good. It wasn't that serious, it'll probably all be gone by tomorrow. You know usagi, guess she just panicked," Ami said. Aiko nodded. Everyone bid them goodbye and they left.
"How's popcorn and a movie sound," her mother asked once she had closed the door.
"Well I'm kinda tired," Ami started, but seeing the look of dissapointment on her mother's face, added, "but I think I can sit through one movie." Her mother brightened. They changed into their PJ's and Ami tended to her forehead before her mother noticed.
'So this is what it would have been like after a battle had my mom always been around,' thought Ami, sitting down, 'tiring, but still better than coming home and finding the house empty. Better than being lonely.'
Ami went to sleep quickly that night, making sure to note to herself that tomorrow would be a long day. Dress shopping with her mother and friends. Little did Ami know it was not only a long day awaiting her, but should have been considered illegal.
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??? There will be some more romance for everyone in the next chapter. Please review! I know it's not that long...
MercuryDestiny: Thanks for your review!
Shadow Fox2: Thanks for reviewing!
DevilWench: Why, Thankyou* Thanks for your review!
Dr.Cricket: Thanks for reviewing!
Kaiya:Thanks for your review!
About the couples, they've been decided:
Ami/Quatre
Minako/Duo
Makoto/Heero
Rei/Wufei
Setsuna/Trowa
and Of course
Usagi/Mamoru
I do feel most comfortable writing those couples, so they're gonna stay. Thanks to all those who gave me suggestions!
Chapter 3
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Ami woke up Sunday morning around 9:00. She sat up and stretched. Picking up the phone on her bed side table, she started to dial Rei's number. She had probably been awake a while now.
"Hello?"
"Hello Rei, It's Ami."
"Hi Ami! What's up?" Rei asked.
"I know this is a bit strange on my part, but I'm calling to tell you I'll have to be a half hour late for the meeting at 7:00 today," Ami said.
"You? Late? Why?"
"Well, James is having his family over to meet my mother and I. They'll be here until about 7:00, and then I'll need time to get over to the temple," Ami explained.
"James's family huh? They flying in from England?"
"That's the plan. Then they're staying at the place James rented out for himself until the wedding. Supposedly it's just his mother, father, sister, and his sister's husband. Oh, and their baby, James's nephew," Ami explained.
"Oh, but doesn't your mother want James to meet her family too?"
"James met my mother's brother. My grandmother is coming the day before the wedding with my uncle," Ami said.
"Oh, ok. But I have the feeling you didn't just call to tell me all this," Rei said.
"My mother wants us to go shopping for dresses tomorrow. That includes Rini and Hotaru as well. Err...just warn everyone to be at their best behavior before I get to the temple today, alright?"
"Sure. Well, I'll let you go now. See you later!"
"Yeah, bye." Ami walked out of her room to find her mother, still in her pajamas, rushing around and cleaning everything.
"Mom?"
"Hmmm? Oh Ami, glad your up. Could you help me clean this place up? I never realized how unclean it was. Just look at this table, we'll have to buy a new one..." her mother kept speaking but Ami blocked her out.
"Calm down Mom. It's just James's family, and if they're as great as James is, you'll have no problem," Ami told her. Her mother considered this for a moment before swiping the table one last time and putting everything away.
"They'll be here at 4:00. They want to sit and talk, then have dinner. What should I make?" Ami shrugged. She stood up.
"I'm going to change."
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Ami opened her room door and walked in. She paused as soon as she had walked in through the door. She wasn't alone. Not wanting whoever it was to think she knew they were there, she calmly closed the door behind her, an unreadable look on her face. She walked over to her bedside table, that had a small drawer. Opening it up, she started to rummage through it noisily, hoping to look innocent.
When nothing happened, Ami slowly approached the window and looked out casually, then yelped when she saw someone hanging from it.
"Ami, are you alright," her mother called.
"Yes, um...I just tripped and was startled," Ami called back. She turned back to the figure hanging onto her window for dear life.
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Duo was bored. So he picked up his communicater.
"I'll just go hang out with everybody back in the other demension, since no one will do anything here," he said to himself, preparing to push the one button he ussually pushed. He frowned. There were so many, why did only one work teleporting into that demension? What were the others for? He pushed a blue button that was more to the side of the communicater that looked like a calculater, and dissapeared.
He had appeared in the sky, and had fallen right next to an apartment building. But Duo would not go down so easily. He had grabbed an open window ledge at the side of a building, and clung on. He could hear someone moving around inside the room, then Ami had walked up to the window, and yelped when she saw him. She had called out something to her mom, then turned to look at him, offering an icy glare.
"Duo, get in here," she whispered fiercely, grabbing his arm and pulling him in through the window.
"I-," she cut him off.
"Are you hurt?" He had scraped his elbow from where he had hit the wall, and showed it to her. She walked off to get something for it. He realized she probably knew what he had happened already, and that was why she hadn't asked what had happened. He sat down in a white wicker chair in the corner of her room and waited until she returned a minute later, closing and locking the door behind her. Picking up the hydrogen peroxide, Ami approached him.
"Now now Ami. It's just a little scrape, it really doesn't need that," he whispered, backing up.
"But this'll stop the bleeding," she reasoned, "now stop being a baby." He stood still as Ami applied it, then she gave him a band aid.
"Ok, um...gimme your communicater," she said. He placed it in her hand. While she was pressing stuff on it, Duo stared at her.
"Nice pajamies, Ames," he said. She looked down at herself briefly, remembering she was still wearing her blue pajama's. Then she turned back to the communicater. Putting it in his hand, she told him to push the blue button again.
"I'm hungry." She sighed. She pushed it for him and Duo dissapeared. She quickly changed and walked out of her room just as the doorbell rang. Duo stood outside it looking confused.
"What did you do?"
"Wouldn't you like to know," she answered, just as her mother walked up behind her, fully dressed and grinning.
"Oh, it's one of your friends from the arcade. Hello young man. Duo, right? Come join us for breakfast, there's plenty!" Her mother ushered him in. Duo seemed to visibly brighten at this. They sat down at the table and Duo began to eat quickly.
"My, he sure does eat a lot," her mother said. Duo finished before them and leaned back in his chair. His goofy expression was replaced by one of thought, which was not common for Duo, but Ami was sure it was seen when he fought with his gundam.
"Ami, Miss Mizuno. You're both girls. Can I ask you something?" They both looked up at him, an almost identical frown on their faces. The only difference between Miss Mizuno and Ami was their hair color.
"Of course you can," Aiko finally said.
"Ok, cool. Now, how do I get a girls attention," he asked. They both stared at him. He continued.
"Like, I'm not sure if she notices me. I think she just thinks we're friends," he said.
"Is this Minako you're talking about," Ami asked. He nodded. Aiko seemed to get excited, causing Ami to groan.
"So you like this girl? Do something extreme, something she'll notice for sure. Prove to her that you really do like her! Do something WILD!" While Aiko voiced her opinion, Ami's mouth hung open in disbelief. Duo seemed to be listening to what her mother was saying. Ami was mouthing NO to him from behind her mother, but Duo paid her no mind.
"That's right. I will show Minako I like her and win her heart," Duo said, standing on his chair and pumping his fist into the air. Aiko jumped up and clapped hapilly. Ami threw her head down on the table in frustration, as her mother and Duo talked excitedly. Maybe it wouldn't be so much of a disaster...
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Aiko smoothed out her shirt and dressy pants nervously, as Ami finished putting the pot on the oven.
"Calm down mom. They'll be here soon, so just sit down and relax," Ami told her mom, walking calmly past in a pair of black pants and a blue t-shirt.
"Oh Ami. I really wish I could be as easy going as you in times like these. So calm, always keeps cool," her mother said, sitting down.
'Only ussually,' Ami thought, placing some napkins on the table. Her mother nodded in approval. 'Amazing, she's like a different person,' thought Ami. The doorbell rang. Her mother jumped up to answer it.
"Hello. Come on in," her mother said very calmly and brightly. Ami stood up.
"Oh James, so this is Aiko," a british accented voice said. Someone enveloped Aiko in a hig.
"Welcome to our family," an older woman's voice said. The guests stepped in. First was an old woman, with very little grey hair, mostly white. Obviously James's mother, whom had James's father's arm in hers. Then their was a woman a few years younger than James with brown eyes and light hair. A little boy about 5 years old stood holding her hand, and on her other side was a man with black hair and green eyes, whom Ami assumed was her husband. James walked in right after them, kissing Aiko on the cheek and beggining introductions.
"This is my mother Anna, my father Goerge, my sister Lisa, her husband Kevin, and their little boy Joseph," he said.
"I'm not little," Joseph voiced. Everyone smiled.
"And this is Aiko, and her daughter Ami," James finished.
"Pleased to meet you," Ami said, following her mother's example by shaking everyone's hand. Everyone smiled at her. They all proceeded to sit down. Her mother rushed off to get some tea & coffee, while Ami sat with the guests. Soon they were engadged in conversation, and Ami could tell James was pleased with how well it was going. Her mother came back with the drinks, and Lisa started telling them stories about James when he was younger.
Ami liked James's family. Lisa was a bright person, 32 years old. She was always smiling, and loved telling stories. Kevin, Lisa's husband, owned a restaurant back in England. He did share some recipes with Ami, which she hoped to surprise Mako with. Goerge and Anna were old, but they didn't act like it. Anna wanted to climb a mountain some day, and see all of Tokyo, and Goerge wanted to bungee jump, which he had tried to do several times in England off high buildings, and had been arrested and waited for James to come bail him out. This surprised Ami, but she figured it was better than them sitting around the house all day and knitting or complaining.
Soon the food was ready, which everybody enjoyed. After dinner, they sat down. It was already 7:00, and they seemd to be sticking around. Today was an important training session, and her mother would kill her is she left early.
"Oh, Aiko. I meant to mention something to you. The place I'm rentiing out, I have to be out two whole days before the wedding, so you won't be able to reach me there. We'll probably be staying at a hotel so you can reach me on-" Aiko cut James off.
"Don't blow your money on a hotel. We have 2 extra rooms besides mine and Ami's. You, Kevin, and little Joseph can share a room, and your parents can have the next. As for Lisa, Ami has a fold out bed in her room she wouldn't mind sharing with her. My brother and mother will be arriving here two days before the wedding. Then my brother can share with the guys and my mother will stay in my room." Nobody wanted to intrude, but Aiko talked them into it. Lovely, now the house would be full two days before the wedding. Ami checked her watch. 7:15. She kept quiet.
"Excuse me one moment," she stood up and went to her room. She opened her communicater to tell Rei she'd be late, when it went off.
"Ami, plans changed! Please say your on your way. Youma attack. We've never fought anything like this before, we need help," Makoto's voice said. Ami closed her room door.
"I'm still at home. I don't know how I'll get out of here, I'll think of something!" Ami grabbed her cell phone and dialed her home number. The phone rang.
"I'll get it," Ami called from her room.
"Okay," her mother called back. She waited a minute, as if to prove she was on the phone, before coming out of her room.
"Mom, everyone. I hate do this, but Usagi's home alone and she burned her stomach and arm when she was trying to make tea. I have to go help her," she said, making her voice sound apologetic.
"Oh no, that's terrible. Does she need to go to the hospital," Aiko asked.
"I don't know, I don't think so. Anyways I'm taking some burn medication for her. I'm sorry everyone," she said.
"That's alright, go on now," Anna said. She noded and was quickly out the door. She sprinted down the steps and ran down the street. Once arriving where Mako had indicated, she transformed. Everyone was already there, dodging some sort of attack thrown by about 20 youma. They didn't look like anything Ami had ever seen. They looked like shadows one minute, and then after someone looked at them, they would start to take that person's form. Soon, the senshi were confused as who to hit and who was their team mate. They looked relieved when Ami arrived.
She pulled out her computer, and could easily spot the decoys. She started to point them out to her friends, when she was blasted into the wall by a youma taking the shape of Venus. Mars ran to help her, and she had just stood up when she was knocked back down. It wasn't Mars, it was a youma. She kicked it out of her way and proceeded to tell Mamoru which person was a youma, when he was blasted into the wall by a Uranus decoy. Finally, she made it to the real Neptune and showed her that all surounding her were youma.
Moon, Saturn, and Mini Moon stood next to each other, trying to fend off the approaching youma, and Venus and Jupiter stood back to back, surrounded. Mars and Uranus were attacking youma, trying to end it quickly. Mercury took a step back to try to survey the scene, when somethung grabbed her by the neck. Looking at the decoy of Neptune, it changed to look like her. It lifted Mercury up into the air, cutting off her oxygen. She struggled to get free, kicking at the youma. It didn't even flinch.
"Venus Aqua Mirage!" (is that the attack?) Mercury felt the youma's grip loosen, and she kicked it away, landing on her knees and tking a deep breath. She sent a thankful look at Neptune, who smiled and punched a Jupiter decoy. Mercury ran over to Mamoru, who took her hand and stood up. They looked around.
"This could go on a while," Mercury told him, raising her hand to attack.
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2 hours later, it was over. Ami checked her watch. 9:45. She hoped everyone had left a while ago. he walked home quickly, and peaked through the door. They were all still there, laughing and speaking. Lisa had a sleeping Jospeh in her lap.
She leaned against the wall outside the door. She couldn't let them see her. Her forehead was bleeding severly, which would be gone in the morning but not now.
"Well, Joseph's tired, I think that's our que to go. We've over stayed our welcome anyways," Lisa joked, standing and grabbing Joseph. Everyone followed this example. Aiko opened the door, and Ami quikly covered the gash on the left side of her forehead with her bangs.
"Oh Ami, you're home. How's Usagi," asked her mother.
"She's good. It wasn't that serious, it'll probably all be gone by tomorrow. You know usagi, guess she just panicked," Ami said. Aiko nodded. Everyone bid them goodbye and they left.
"How's popcorn and a movie sound," her mother asked once she had closed the door.
"Well I'm kinda tired," Ami started, but seeing the look of dissapointment on her mother's face, added, "but I think I can sit through one movie." Her mother brightened. They changed into their PJ's and Ami tended to her forehead before her mother noticed.
'So this is what it would have been like after a battle had my mom always been around,' thought Ami, sitting down, 'tiring, but still better than coming home and finding the house empty. Better than being lonely.'
Ami went to sleep quickly that night, making sure to note to herself that tomorrow would be a long day. Dress shopping with her mother and friends. Little did Ami know it was not only a long day awaiting her, but should have been considered illegal.
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??? There will be some more romance for everyone in the next chapter. Please review! I know it's not that long...