pilot06-cosmos: Thankyou! Incase you didn't already read the review I wrote for your poem, I'll repeat. Your poem was beautiful! Keep on writing!
DevilWench: Thanx, and thanx for reviewing!
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minimerc: Oh....... a cliff hanger. I actually didn't want to leave it at that, but I was writing so late at night, so I posted it and got it over with* Thankyou for your review!
Kaiya: Me? Kill poor Ami-chan? I wouldn't! ::glances around nervously:: :) Thanks for reviewing!
Tenshi-Hotaru: Oooops, guess I better work on typos then! Thanks for your review!
PLEASE READ: I'm going to try to speed up progress on this story, and eventually finish it during Christmas break. I don't want to be working on any fic after Christmas break, since I'm going to have to really hit the books because of my exams after that (Ah yes...the wonders of high school exams ). The more reviews I get, the faster I update, since I ussually wait until I have at least 5 or 6 reviews on a chapter before even beginning to write it. So please, if you read, remember to review, or you're going to have to wait a month after christmas to even see an update, until I've finished my exams!
Chapter 13
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Mercury took a cautious step away from the pair, careful not to bump into the force field behind her. Her essence? Her element? Her mind quickly began to recall the last note. -Use your element to save you or die of it.- How? Did that mean that she could use her ring to heal Noko and Koto? Well...Noko no, but perhaps Koto? She only got a bad feeling from Noko. But it had been the same with Julliana, hadn't it? A bad feeling, and she had turned out to be good. She shook herself out of her thoughts as Noko and Koto landed on the ground about 10 feet from her.
"That's it buddy! You're messing with the wrong people," she heard Jupiter declare.
She turned to look behind her. Wufei punched the force field angrilly. She could here Mars muttering the words of an attack, but her eyes were focused on Quatre. They made eye contact, and he approached the spot where Mars's attack had just been drained by the force field, and placed his hand on it. She placed her hand over where his was.
"Touching, but you're wasting time," Noko declared, snapping his fingers. The same gold box appeared in his hands. It opened up on it's own, a white light shining through. It covered the room, and once it hit Mercury, turned from white to blue.
Mercury looked around, helpless. She felt a tug at her stomach, almost pulling her forwards, and felt her transformation flicker. She closed her eyes, and tried to resist. No, she couldn't go like this- she wouldn't.
"Don't let them, fight it," she heard Quatre say from behind her, sounding desperate. Her friends were all causing a ruckus, pounding on the force field, and she even heard them attempt a sailor teleoport. They could not get in.
A concentrated blue light shot out of the gold box in Noko's hand right at the gem on her tiara. Of course, the tiara's gem was the key to it all. Her head began to pound, and she struggled to raise her numb hands to cover it, trying to block the beam of light. It wasn't just light, as it turned out. The beam cut through her hands and arms. She fell over to the right and struggled to find her footing as Noko tried again. Mercury, still on the floor, against the force field, threw her hands up again. Again, it cut into her skin, and Koto knew her resistance would not last much longer.
"Ready to die, Merc?" Koto asked this with much amusement in his voice.
"Not. . .yet!" Mercury shouted angrilly. The gem on her tiara glowed blue, before exploding in a brilliant flash of light. Mercury's eyes went blank. Everyone shielded their eyes from the light,and when it faded, Noko and Koto were trapped in ice, which was quite an understatement. The whole area was ice. There was only a small section where Ami and her friends stood that wasn't frozen. The force field had also fallen, and her transformation was gone. Ami turned to Pluto, feeling weak. Quatre grabbed her arm to keep her standing.
"What just happened? I know you know."
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Ami stood in front of the door to her apartment, collecting herself befor entering. Her arms were all wrapped up, from her elbows down, because of the cuts she had recieved from that blue beam Noko had shot at her, which consequently nearly tore up all of her skin on her arms. She had borrowed a long sleeved shirt from Rei to cover it up, and she could tellas she pulled her sleeves down, that the one Usagi had wrapped was poorly done, while the one Michiru had wrapped was very efficient. Her side had been re-wrapped, and then they had all taken care of other injuries they may have had recieved.
According to Pluto, it appeared that some part of Ami had not been willing to let her die, therefore ignighting much of her strength. According to pluto, what had happened was not even a quarter of the power she could have emmited. She ran her fingers through her hair in an attempt to make it look more presentable. She had been gone all day, it wouldn't please anyone if she walked in with messed up hair and look, as if she had been fooling around with Quatre or something. She blushed at the thought, but shook her head and straitened up. She had at least washed up at Rei's house, and warmed up. Good...almost innocent.
Opening up the door, she peeked inside. She had been gone all day, the clock on the table said 10:30. Everyone was asleep? The room was empty. She remembered that tomorrow her uncle and grandmother would arrive very early at the airport. Of course, everyone must have gone to sleep so that they would be able to wake up in the morning. She opened the door a little wiser, but stopped. It was far too easy. Her sly mpther must have had something planned. Working up her nerves, she opened up the door all the way and walked in. She made it past the table, no one yet. She was about to turn into the hall when 2 voices stopped her.
"Not so fast young lady."
She spun around to find her mother and James sitting stiffly next to each other on the couch at the wall. She hadn't seen them because of the dark. James reached over an turned on the light next to him. Ami felt like a troublesome teen returning home after an all-night party.
"Where were you. You were gone the entire day," asked her mother.
"I was...well you see....first I ran off because I saw Rei out the window on the street, waving to me. Then, I realized that I had left Usagi with the oven on at her house last night, which would have clearly become a total disaster, so Rei and I went to check there. Then Makoto called and invited us all to dinner. I lost track of time, and I'm sorry I ahould have at least called you all." Ami said, her voice going from unsure to confident and precise.
James and Aiko stared at each other in bewilderment, stumped at the quick explanation.
'Not bad,' Ami thought, 'Although perhaps I could have made up a different reason why Rei and I ran off. Hmm...seems I've stumped them as to what to do for punishment.' She smiled at how her mother and James silently debated, trying to act extremely confident in what they were about to do next. The smile quickly dissapeared off of her face when the two turned to her.
"Ah- well....do you promice never to do it again," her mother managed weakly, James nodding and saying ,"mmmhmm," along with her. Aiko turned to look back at James, and he gave a sheepish smile. the two turned to her.
"Yes, I promice," Ami said, although she knew the promice was empty. She knew it would happen again. For her, it would always be happening. Ami knew why her mother wasn't punishing her. The wedding was Saturday- tomorrow was Thursday. Her uncle and grandmother would be arriving tomorrow as planned. Perfect- more family filling up the house. Her mind wandered back to Noko- and Koto. After she had frozen them, she was sure that the energy of 1000 people they had stolen from was returned. That would mean that they needed more first. That gave her at least a day or two. What about the notes? She still had to figue out who was sending them.
"Ami?" A voice broke her out of her reverie, and she looked up.
"Are you alright? you don't seem quite together. Maybe you should get some rest, so tomorrow we can pick up your uncle and grandmother, bright and early."
Ami nodded and walked off, quickly saying goodnight.
James stared after her thoughtfully, before kissing Aiko on the cheek and saying goodnight as he headed to bed.
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Noko clenched his fist, and broke out of the ice containing his left arm. Noko was already free.
"Damn those Senshi! Damn the ice scout! Damn them all!"
"Calm down brother," Koto said, straitening his sleeve and collar. "We may have lost all of the energy we gathered, and she may have escaped, but we do have one advantage."
"What's that?"
"Her transformation flickered, didn't you see it? That was all we needed. She's the brat you fought with at that hall," Koto said, a strange smile coming to his face.
Noko laughed. "Excellent. First, we collect the last of the energy. Then, we get the senshi."
"Good."
"Oh...by the way brother. I found this after the Senshi fought us last and forgot to ask you about it. Do you know what it is," he asked.
Koto turned to face his brother, and stared with a keen eye at the crumpled piece of paper in his hand.
"No," he said coldly, turning away. His brother shrugged and walked away, throwing the small piece of paper on the ground. Once he was sure his brother was gone, he grabbed the small piece of paper off of the ground. The he proceeded to read it.
Your element is sacred. What saved you was your will to live. Stay close to the bride-to-be
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"Why didn't anyone wake me up!" Aiko screeched as she tore through the house, combing her hair and stuffing a sandwich into Joseph's open mouth, who was tired and had been crying all morning. James was buttoning up his shirt when he ran out of his room, Kevin behind him, with Lisa trying to straiten out his tie. Anna and Goerge were notdressed, still sipping orange juice in their pajamas.
"Jospeh has a fever," Lisa confirmed, wiping some tears from his eyes.
"We'll stay with him honey. We're not dressed yet," said Anna, and Goerge patted his lap. Jospeh ran and sat on his lap, his tears subsiding.
"Good," Aiko looked around.
"Ami! Are you wearing jeans to see you grandmother and uncle at the airport?"
Ami looked at her mother in bewilderment.
"Should I be wearing a prom dress or something?" Her mother shook her head in dismay and she opened the door.
"Ready guys?" Replies of yes followed and she walked out, everyone following.
Aiko's triumphant smile dissapeared once she had reached the car and tried to start it.
James opened up the top but couldn't figure out what was wrong. He turned to ask Ami something, but noticed a black smudge on her arm.
"What's that Ami," he asked.
"Hmm? Oh- nothing," she answered, pulling her sleeve down lower.
"Now what," Aiko said, sitting down in tha car with the door open, "the airport is twenty minutes away when we drive!"
"Um...I think Mamoru is off this week. I can call and see if he can give us a ride," Ami started. AIko looked like she was about to object, when she added, "we can always wait half an hour for the city bus thta heads up there."
"Oh- alright dear, go ahead and call," Aiko said. Ami nodded and walked inside like normal, but as soon as she was out of view, she opened up her communicater, trying to rub off the motor oil she had gotten on herself while unhooking the parts. She had made James suspicious alright.
"Alright guys, everything is as planned, although I don't see the point of this," she said. The voices of Usagi, Rei, Makoto, Minako, Rini, Hotaru, Michiru, Haruka, and Mamoru answered.
"We have to keep you away from Noko and Koto!"
"Guys!"
"So...you did ruin your moms car, right?" Usagi asked.
"No Usagi, I unhooked a few things, which I'm planning to fix once I'm back from the airport. Now, I believe the plan was that Mamoru come and pick us up, and then I accidently run into the rest of you at the airort, right?"
"Right," another voice answered. Quatre's.
"Hey, the pilots are coming too? Alright, my mom's gonna be wondering where I am. Mamoru, you're on the next block, right?"
"Right."
"Alright, see you guys."
Ami walked back outside.
"Mamoru was at the arcade, he'll be here in a couple of minutes." As Ami said, a couple of minutes later, Mamoru pulled up.
"Uh oh- a sports car. Mamoru, there's only room for one person in front and two in the back," James said. Mamoru nodded, and called out something behind him. Haruka pulled up next to him, Michiru in the seat next to her.
"It's not much bigger then Mamoru's, but I guess two cars are better than one," Haruka said. Ami sat next to Mamoru, and her mother and James sat in the back. Then Lisa and Kevin sat in the back of Haruka's car.
They were off. Ami and Mamoru chatted politely, about the weather and topics that would keep her mother and James happy. Twenty minutes later, they arrived. Haruka and Michiru let Kevin and Lisa get out, then made up soem excuse to leave and drove off. Ami knew that they were going to go around and come back, according to plan. Her friends must have heard something was going to happen to be this suspicious.
Mamoru, polite as ever, and of course still sticking with the plan, offered to wait with them and parked the car to head inside. The four headed inside, and Ami and Mamoru snickered at usagi, who hid peering at them from behind a plant. When James and Aiko turned to look at them, they straitened up.
"So, when's the plain arriving," Ami asked, changing the subject.
"In a couple of minutes, I suggest we move towards the terminal, since it is at the other end of the airport," Aiko said. Lisa and Kevin nodded.
They walked towards the terminal, and every few minutes, she would see one of her friends, although less conspictuous than Usagi. Some of them would be standing as if waiting for someone in one of the terminals, others sitting in the small cafe's they had along the sides, and the last few flipping through magazines uninterestidly. She knew that they were waiting for something, an attack from Noko and Koto? Were they spread out so that they could watch every area of the airport? She looked next to her at Mamoru.
He looked normal, but every few seconds he would look over at her family, and look around at the peopel around them. Smooth, they had placed him with her to help guard her family. Who had come up with this crazy, but very brilliant plan?
"Ah, here we are. Terminal 5E. The plain should be arriving any minute. Ami honey, could you grab me a coffee from that cafe over there," Aiko said, as Lisa and Kevin sat down.
"I'll go with her," James offered.
"No no, sit down and relax, I'll get you a coffee too," Ami said.
"I'll come with you," Mamoru said, obviously eager not to sit with her mother and James for the res of the time. They walked down the hall until they reached the cafe. At a table there sat Makoto and Quatre. Ami waved and walked to the counter. After ordering for herself and her mother and James, she set there drinks down and walked over, Mamoru following.
"Good job, why did you guys do all this?" Ami asked as soon as she had sat down. Makato chuckled.
"Greg called Usagi yesterday, said he'd had a terrible vision about the airport. He said Noko and Koto would strike here, really bad. Wanted to make sure we were prepared so-" Makato was cut off by another voice.
"So I devised a brilliant plan to stop them," Usagi said. Ami nearly choked on her coffee. Usagi had a pot with a plant on it tied onto her head.Ami realized that Usagi had been crouched behind a plant, but the top of the plant had been from the one on her head.
"You did Usagi?"
"Mmmhhhmmm. I divided everyone all over the airport and. . .came up with this brilliant disguise!" Ami stared at Usagi, bewildered.
"So...maybe I should just get my mom and James their coffee," Ami said.
"I'll come with you, Ami. Your parents don't know anyoen else is here- no need to make them suspicious," Mamoru said, following her and waving goodbye to Usagi. As they walked out of the cafe, others walked in, all blinking at the srange girl with the plant tied onto her head. Ami spotted a familiar piece of paper in the corner. She scrambled over to pick it up, nearly dropping the coffee's in the process.
"What is it," Mamoru asked.
"Another note." She read it, and Mamoru peered over her head to read it as well.
Your element is sacred. What saved you was your will to live. Stay close to the bride-to-be.
"That's the fourth, if I'm correct Ami. The bride-to-be. Your mother," Mamoru concluded. They both quickened there pace. As soon as they arrived back at the terminal, her mother and James rushed over to grab their coffee's.
"Oh good, coffee!" Her mother exclaimed, taking a long gulp. James laughed.
"Don't worry about your mother honey," James told Aiko. She looked up at him.
"She'll love me!" Ami nearly choked on her coffee as she watched the two. Her mother and James seemed to be the perfect match...
"Aiko! Get your butt over here and give you mother a hug!"
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Sorry it's not long, but it's been almost a month since I updated because of school, so I figured I'd give you a little something to read. Please review!
DevilWench: Thanx, and thanx for reviewing!
Dr. Cricket: Thanks, and thanks for reviewing!
minimerc: Oh....... a cliff hanger. I actually didn't want to leave it at that, but I was writing so late at night, so I posted it and got it over with* Thankyou for your review!
Kaiya: Me? Kill poor Ami-chan? I wouldn't! ::glances around nervously:: :) Thanks for reviewing!
Tenshi-Hotaru: Oooops, guess I better work on typos then! Thanks for your review!
PLEASE READ: I'm going to try to speed up progress on this story, and eventually finish it during Christmas break. I don't want to be working on any fic after Christmas break, since I'm going to have to really hit the books because of my exams after that (Ah yes...the wonders of high school exams ). The more reviews I get, the faster I update, since I ussually wait until I have at least 5 or 6 reviews on a chapter before even beginning to write it. So please, if you read, remember to review, or you're going to have to wait a month after christmas to even see an update, until I've finished my exams!
Chapter 13
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Mercury took a cautious step away from the pair, careful not to bump into the force field behind her. Her essence? Her element? Her mind quickly began to recall the last note. -Use your element to save you or die of it.- How? Did that mean that she could use her ring to heal Noko and Koto? Well...Noko no, but perhaps Koto? She only got a bad feeling from Noko. But it had been the same with Julliana, hadn't it? A bad feeling, and she had turned out to be good. She shook herself out of her thoughts as Noko and Koto landed on the ground about 10 feet from her.
"That's it buddy! You're messing with the wrong people," she heard Jupiter declare.
She turned to look behind her. Wufei punched the force field angrilly. She could here Mars muttering the words of an attack, but her eyes were focused on Quatre. They made eye contact, and he approached the spot where Mars's attack had just been drained by the force field, and placed his hand on it. She placed her hand over where his was.
"Touching, but you're wasting time," Noko declared, snapping his fingers. The same gold box appeared in his hands. It opened up on it's own, a white light shining through. It covered the room, and once it hit Mercury, turned from white to blue.
Mercury looked around, helpless. She felt a tug at her stomach, almost pulling her forwards, and felt her transformation flicker. She closed her eyes, and tried to resist. No, she couldn't go like this- she wouldn't.
"Don't let them, fight it," she heard Quatre say from behind her, sounding desperate. Her friends were all causing a ruckus, pounding on the force field, and she even heard them attempt a sailor teleoport. They could not get in.
A concentrated blue light shot out of the gold box in Noko's hand right at the gem on her tiara. Of course, the tiara's gem was the key to it all. Her head began to pound, and she struggled to raise her numb hands to cover it, trying to block the beam of light. It wasn't just light, as it turned out. The beam cut through her hands and arms. She fell over to the right and struggled to find her footing as Noko tried again. Mercury, still on the floor, against the force field, threw her hands up again. Again, it cut into her skin, and Koto knew her resistance would not last much longer.
"Ready to die, Merc?" Koto asked this with much amusement in his voice.
"Not. . .yet!" Mercury shouted angrilly. The gem on her tiara glowed blue, before exploding in a brilliant flash of light. Mercury's eyes went blank. Everyone shielded their eyes from the light,and when it faded, Noko and Koto were trapped in ice, which was quite an understatement. The whole area was ice. There was only a small section where Ami and her friends stood that wasn't frozen. The force field had also fallen, and her transformation was gone. Ami turned to Pluto, feeling weak. Quatre grabbed her arm to keep her standing.
"What just happened? I know you know."
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Ami stood in front of the door to her apartment, collecting herself befor entering. Her arms were all wrapped up, from her elbows down, because of the cuts she had recieved from that blue beam Noko had shot at her, which consequently nearly tore up all of her skin on her arms. She had borrowed a long sleeved shirt from Rei to cover it up, and she could tellas she pulled her sleeves down, that the one Usagi had wrapped was poorly done, while the one Michiru had wrapped was very efficient. Her side had been re-wrapped, and then they had all taken care of other injuries they may have had recieved.
According to Pluto, it appeared that some part of Ami had not been willing to let her die, therefore ignighting much of her strength. According to pluto, what had happened was not even a quarter of the power she could have emmited. She ran her fingers through her hair in an attempt to make it look more presentable. She had been gone all day, it wouldn't please anyone if she walked in with messed up hair and look, as if she had been fooling around with Quatre or something. She blushed at the thought, but shook her head and straitened up. She had at least washed up at Rei's house, and warmed up. Good...almost innocent.
Opening up the door, she peeked inside. She had been gone all day, the clock on the table said 10:30. Everyone was asleep? The room was empty. She remembered that tomorrow her uncle and grandmother would arrive very early at the airport. Of course, everyone must have gone to sleep so that they would be able to wake up in the morning. She opened the door a little wiser, but stopped. It was far too easy. Her sly mpther must have had something planned. Working up her nerves, she opened up the door all the way and walked in. She made it past the table, no one yet. She was about to turn into the hall when 2 voices stopped her.
"Not so fast young lady."
She spun around to find her mother and James sitting stiffly next to each other on the couch at the wall. She hadn't seen them because of the dark. James reached over an turned on the light next to him. Ami felt like a troublesome teen returning home after an all-night party.
"Where were you. You were gone the entire day," asked her mother.
"I was...well you see....first I ran off because I saw Rei out the window on the street, waving to me. Then, I realized that I had left Usagi with the oven on at her house last night, which would have clearly become a total disaster, so Rei and I went to check there. Then Makoto called and invited us all to dinner. I lost track of time, and I'm sorry I ahould have at least called you all." Ami said, her voice going from unsure to confident and precise.
James and Aiko stared at each other in bewilderment, stumped at the quick explanation.
'Not bad,' Ami thought, 'Although perhaps I could have made up a different reason why Rei and I ran off. Hmm...seems I've stumped them as to what to do for punishment.' She smiled at how her mother and James silently debated, trying to act extremely confident in what they were about to do next. The smile quickly dissapeared off of her face when the two turned to her.
"Ah- well....do you promice never to do it again," her mother managed weakly, James nodding and saying ,"mmmhmm," along with her. Aiko turned to look back at James, and he gave a sheepish smile. the two turned to her.
"Yes, I promice," Ami said, although she knew the promice was empty. She knew it would happen again. For her, it would always be happening. Ami knew why her mother wasn't punishing her. The wedding was Saturday- tomorrow was Thursday. Her uncle and grandmother would be arriving tomorrow as planned. Perfect- more family filling up the house. Her mind wandered back to Noko- and Koto. After she had frozen them, she was sure that the energy of 1000 people they had stolen from was returned. That would mean that they needed more first. That gave her at least a day or two. What about the notes? She still had to figue out who was sending them.
"Ami?" A voice broke her out of her reverie, and she looked up.
"Are you alright? you don't seem quite together. Maybe you should get some rest, so tomorrow we can pick up your uncle and grandmother, bright and early."
Ami nodded and walked off, quickly saying goodnight.
James stared after her thoughtfully, before kissing Aiko on the cheek and saying goodnight as he headed to bed.
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Noko clenched his fist, and broke out of the ice containing his left arm. Noko was already free.
"Damn those Senshi! Damn the ice scout! Damn them all!"
"Calm down brother," Koto said, straitening his sleeve and collar. "We may have lost all of the energy we gathered, and she may have escaped, but we do have one advantage."
"What's that?"
"Her transformation flickered, didn't you see it? That was all we needed. She's the brat you fought with at that hall," Koto said, a strange smile coming to his face.
Noko laughed. "Excellent. First, we collect the last of the energy. Then, we get the senshi."
"Good."
"Oh...by the way brother. I found this after the Senshi fought us last and forgot to ask you about it. Do you know what it is," he asked.
Koto turned to face his brother, and stared with a keen eye at the crumpled piece of paper in his hand.
"No," he said coldly, turning away. His brother shrugged and walked away, throwing the small piece of paper on the ground. Once he was sure his brother was gone, he grabbed the small piece of paper off of the ground. The he proceeded to read it.
Your element is sacred. What saved you was your will to live. Stay close to the bride-to-be
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"Why didn't anyone wake me up!" Aiko screeched as she tore through the house, combing her hair and stuffing a sandwich into Joseph's open mouth, who was tired and had been crying all morning. James was buttoning up his shirt when he ran out of his room, Kevin behind him, with Lisa trying to straiten out his tie. Anna and Goerge were notdressed, still sipping orange juice in their pajamas.
"Jospeh has a fever," Lisa confirmed, wiping some tears from his eyes.
"We'll stay with him honey. We're not dressed yet," said Anna, and Goerge patted his lap. Jospeh ran and sat on his lap, his tears subsiding.
"Good," Aiko looked around.
"Ami! Are you wearing jeans to see you grandmother and uncle at the airport?"
Ami looked at her mother in bewilderment.
"Should I be wearing a prom dress or something?" Her mother shook her head in dismay and she opened the door.
"Ready guys?" Replies of yes followed and she walked out, everyone following.
Aiko's triumphant smile dissapeared once she had reached the car and tried to start it.
James opened up the top but couldn't figure out what was wrong. He turned to ask Ami something, but noticed a black smudge on her arm.
"What's that Ami," he asked.
"Hmm? Oh- nothing," she answered, pulling her sleeve down lower.
"Now what," Aiko said, sitting down in tha car with the door open, "the airport is twenty minutes away when we drive!"
"Um...I think Mamoru is off this week. I can call and see if he can give us a ride," Ami started. AIko looked like she was about to object, when she added, "we can always wait half an hour for the city bus thta heads up there."
"Oh- alright dear, go ahead and call," Aiko said. Ami nodded and walked inside like normal, but as soon as she was out of view, she opened up her communicater, trying to rub off the motor oil she had gotten on herself while unhooking the parts. She had made James suspicious alright.
"Alright guys, everything is as planned, although I don't see the point of this," she said. The voices of Usagi, Rei, Makoto, Minako, Rini, Hotaru, Michiru, Haruka, and Mamoru answered.
"We have to keep you away from Noko and Koto!"
"Guys!"
"So...you did ruin your moms car, right?" Usagi asked.
"No Usagi, I unhooked a few things, which I'm planning to fix once I'm back from the airport. Now, I believe the plan was that Mamoru come and pick us up, and then I accidently run into the rest of you at the airort, right?"
"Right," another voice answered. Quatre's.
"Hey, the pilots are coming too? Alright, my mom's gonna be wondering where I am. Mamoru, you're on the next block, right?"
"Right."
"Alright, see you guys."
Ami walked back outside.
"Mamoru was at the arcade, he'll be here in a couple of minutes." As Ami said, a couple of minutes later, Mamoru pulled up.
"Uh oh- a sports car. Mamoru, there's only room for one person in front and two in the back," James said. Mamoru nodded, and called out something behind him. Haruka pulled up next to him, Michiru in the seat next to her.
"It's not much bigger then Mamoru's, but I guess two cars are better than one," Haruka said. Ami sat next to Mamoru, and her mother and James sat in the back. Then Lisa and Kevin sat in the back of Haruka's car.
They were off. Ami and Mamoru chatted politely, about the weather and topics that would keep her mother and James happy. Twenty minutes later, they arrived. Haruka and Michiru let Kevin and Lisa get out, then made up soem excuse to leave and drove off. Ami knew that they were going to go around and come back, according to plan. Her friends must have heard something was going to happen to be this suspicious.
Mamoru, polite as ever, and of course still sticking with the plan, offered to wait with them and parked the car to head inside. The four headed inside, and Ami and Mamoru snickered at usagi, who hid peering at them from behind a plant. When James and Aiko turned to look at them, they straitened up.
"So, when's the plain arriving," Ami asked, changing the subject.
"In a couple of minutes, I suggest we move towards the terminal, since it is at the other end of the airport," Aiko said. Lisa and Kevin nodded.
They walked towards the terminal, and every few minutes, she would see one of her friends, although less conspictuous than Usagi. Some of them would be standing as if waiting for someone in one of the terminals, others sitting in the small cafe's they had along the sides, and the last few flipping through magazines uninterestidly. She knew that they were waiting for something, an attack from Noko and Koto? Were they spread out so that they could watch every area of the airport? She looked next to her at Mamoru.
He looked normal, but every few seconds he would look over at her family, and look around at the peopel around them. Smooth, they had placed him with her to help guard her family. Who had come up with this crazy, but very brilliant plan?
"Ah, here we are. Terminal 5E. The plain should be arriving any minute. Ami honey, could you grab me a coffee from that cafe over there," Aiko said, as Lisa and Kevin sat down.
"I'll go with her," James offered.
"No no, sit down and relax, I'll get you a coffee too," Ami said.
"I'll come with you," Mamoru said, obviously eager not to sit with her mother and James for the res of the time. They walked down the hall until they reached the cafe. At a table there sat Makoto and Quatre. Ami waved and walked to the counter. After ordering for herself and her mother and James, she set there drinks down and walked over, Mamoru following.
"Good job, why did you guys do all this?" Ami asked as soon as she had sat down. Makato chuckled.
"Greg called Usagi yesterday, said he'd had a terrible vision about the airport. He said Noko and Koto would strike here, really bad. Wanted to make sure we were prepared so-" Makato was cut off by another voice.
"So I devised a brilliant plan to stop them," Usagi said. Ami nearly choked on her coffee. Usagi had a pot with a plant on it tied onto her head.Ami realized that Usagi had been crouched behind a plant, but the top of the plant had been from the one on her head.
"You did Usagi?"
"Mmmhhhmmm. I divided everyone all over the airport and. . .came up with this brilliant disguise!" Ami stared at Usagi, bewildered.
"So...maybe I should just get my mom and James their coffee," Ami said.
"I'll come with you, Ami. Your parents don't know anyoen else is here- no need to make them suspicious," Mamoru said, following her and waving goodbye to Usagi. As they walked out of the cafe, others walked in, all blinking at the srange girl with the plant tied onto her head. Ami spotted a familiar piece of paper in the corner. She scrambled over to pick it up, nearly dropping the coffee's in the process.
"What is it," Mamoru asked.
"Another note." She read it, and Mamoru peered over her head to read it as well.
Your element is sacred. What saved you was your will to live. Stay close to the bride-to-be.
"That's the fourth, if I'm correct Ami. The bride-to-be. Your mother," Mamoru concluded. They both quickened there pace. As soon as they arrived back at the terminal, her mother and James rushed over to grab their coffee's.
"Oh good, coffee!" Her mother exclaimed, taking a long gulp. James laughed.
"Don't worry about your mother honey," James told Aiko. She looked up at him.
"She'll love me!" Ami nearly choked on her coffee as she watched the two. Her mother and James seemed to be the perfect match...
"Aiko! Get your butt over here and give you mother a hug!"
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Sorry it's not long, but it's been almost a month since I updated because of school, so I figured I'd give you a little something to read. Please review!