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Chapter Two: Lost and Found
Ami woke up early the next day with the gentle rays of the sun in her face. It was six a.m. She was an early riser, that and the fact that she had important matters to attend to caused her to get up immediately and without hesitation.
She walked next door into the bathroom and ran the shower water. It was *very* cold. There was still no hot water so she had to be *really* quick. After about two minutes of it and she couldn't stand the cold any longer, she got out and immediately transformed back into Sailor Mercury.
"Mercury Crystal Power!" She shouted with her hand and transformation pen in the air. Thankfully the sailor fuku's were always clean and looking new with every transformation, so at least she wouldn't have to worry about clean clothes. In a flash of sparkling blue colour, Ami changed back into Sailor Mercury.
She then brought out her blue visor and computer, and began to search for the large pink monster that still held Trunks..........It wasn't on her radar scans. "Kuso! Where the hell is it!" She cried out as she was getting *more* than a little annoyed at it's absence, and not really caring about her choice of language either. It was bad enough that she had spent the night without so much as properly looking for that monster while Trunks was probably suffering, but now she had to wait even longer.
She let out a tired sigh of defeat. Just then her stomach growled. 'Might as well get something to eat.' Mercury thought to herself. 'Then maybe I'll be able to think straight.'
She headed downstairs and into the kitchen where she found all of the canned foods, mainly on the floor. After looking around, she found a fruit cocktail and decided that it would be good for breakfast. Mercury found a can opener and a spoon on the floor, ran them under the cold water to clean them off, opened the can and began to eat.
She was leaning her back to the counter, and while eating she couldn't help but continually glance over at the dirt pile in the corner. It just made her nervous, and she was getting a strange vibe from it. 'What is it about that stupid dirt pile?' She thought while getting annoyed at herself for being so jumpy over nothing. 'Maybe I should clean it.' She thought. *'No, don't go near it!' * Her subconscious shouted sternly.
Mercury just shrugged her shoulders and did as she was told. After a few minutes she checked her computer and visor again for any sign of the monster......Still nothing. She put her computer away but left her visor on and continued to eat. It was then she noticed how filthy the place was. 'I'll tidy this place up a bit until my scans can find that monster.' She decided while eyeing the trashed place with a hint of disgust. At least it would keep her occupied for a time.
When Mercury was done she put the utensils that were on the floor into the sink and threw away all of the broken plates and drawers. She wanted the place to be a little clean for when she brought Trunks home. She then put everything that wasn't broken in its respective place. The table could be fixed later. She swept up a bit, being careful not to go near the pile of dirt since she continually got a strange vibe whenever she so much as went near it.
When she was done cleaning the kitchen and the creature was still no where to be seen on her scans, she walked into one of the offices being used to storage, and grabbed a box full of bandages, needles, pain killers and peroxides. The things she would most likely need when she found Trunks.
She then took it to his parents room. 'That room has a nice big bed that would be good for him to use if he's badly injured.' She thought to herself while still walking. Just because she thought that she shouldn't use it doesn't mean that Trunks shouldn't. It *was* the room his parents used to share after all. When she finally got there, she grabbed the doorknob and turned it, but it wouldn't open. Her eyebrows rose in slight confusion. She'd gotten in there easily enough the day before, what could be wrong?
Mercury gently set the box down and grabbed the door handle again, this time putting some of her weight into it.....Still nothing. She kicked the door in frustration. "Stupid thing is jammed." She muttered angrily. She then remembered something. Looking down at the foot she used to kick the door she realized that it was the same one she had hurt the day before. She gave a small smile. 'At least my foot is all better.' she thought while trying to look on the bright side of things.
Mercury sat down next to the box of medical supplies and began to think about what she would do. 'He can't go in his room, it's trashed. And I'm not putting him on a sofa if he's injured, and all of the other rooms are packed with too much stuff. I'd never be able to move all of those boxes by myself.' She thought gloomily. She brought up her legs, put her arms around them and rested her chin on her knees still thinking of what to do until the solution came to her.
'I'll just have to put him in the room I picked for myself.' She decided. 'I can sleep on the sofa downstairs and he can have the bed.' That decided, she picked up her box of supplies and headed back for the guest bedroom and placed it gently on the floor next to the bed. Her visor still showed nothing so she continued to clean up in pure annoyance. Where in the name of Kami was it?!?
Mercury was fully aware that she wasn't going to get the place looking brand new even if she had a full month of cleaning time, but she still tidied up as much as she could. She wasn't a neat freak, but the place looked too badly beat up for her to just leave it alone and live in for two weeks. This continued until about eleven thirty and there was still no sign of the monster on her scans.
Sailor Mercury was well known for her patience, but enough was enough! No-one could be this patient when there was a life at stake. That thing could be on the other side of the world for all she cared! She was going out to look for it! It was better than just sitting around looking for things to occupy her mind on. Staying any longer than this with someone's life at stake would be enough to drive anyone insane!
She dropped what she was doing and walked determinedly towards the front doors and unlocked them. She couldn't help but crack a grin. 'At least I won't have to climb through a broken window when I get back.' She thought in amusement, before continuing on down the sidewalk connected to the driveway.
Mercury walked down the dead street as calmly as if she was taking an everyday morning stroll. There was *no* way that she was going to panic over nothing like she had done yesterday. That was by far the most embarrassing thing she could have ever done. Good thing there no-one around to see it. She continued to walk, keeping an even pace on the sidewalk with her hands behind her back, looking at all of the demolished houses. Some were only just barely still standing, while others were knocked over. With the roofs resting on lawns with pipes and broken boards laying all across their own respective lawns and even in the middle of the road in some cases. Mercury had even seen a bathtub sticking out of the concrete in the middle of a road.
'Still no sign of that stupid monster.' Mercury thought bitterly after checking her visor for the five hundredth time. It was going on noon now, and she was getting more angered by the second. She continued her walk though, trying to be as patient as she could while still thinking about how that young man was probably still suffering. The only sound being made as she went was the gentle whistle of the wind passing through dead trees with their dead leaves.
Mercury soon found herself walking passed a rather large church, with a look that said how beautiful it must've been before all this terror occured. It's parking lot was completely full, she guessed that it must have been due to the people knowing they were about to die and quickly running for the church to get in some last minute prayers to Kami for help. A sad thought, but it was most likely true.
The bell from the belltower was smashed into the windshield of one of the cars, causing the back to be stick out in the air while the front of the car remained pinned into the ground. The large cross that *was* above the two main entrance doors, was currently on the front steps, completely smashed. "I wonder why there's no bodies around." She thought aloud to herself.
Perhaps that thing absorbed everyone on the whole planet, like it did with that handsome young man, and they're all trapped inside of it!
She quickly dismissed the ridiculous idea. If that were true then Pluto would have sent her to help everyone, not just Trunks. 'There's no animals to carry away or to eat at the dead bodies, so where are they?' She thought in confusion. Mercury was in no hurry to see her first dead body or anything. It just seemed a little strange that all of this wreckage was only a few weeks old and there was no sign that anyone had ever lived in this once proud looking city.
She was quickly losing track of the time while she wandered around in her thoughts, about dead bodies and evil creatures who attack and kill without mercy. Back home they still had the odd monster that would appear every now and then to try and suck up some poor defenceless guys energy, but they still had enough power to destroy them easily. Here that young man, Trunks had enough power that could give Saturn and Pluto a run for their money, and yet he still wasn't strong enough to defeat the thing that had killed his world.
Mercury didn't notice that she was now walking in the middle of downtown. 'How can anything be that powerful?' She thought to herself in awe. 'Hopefully I can just complete my mission and then get out of here!'
When she finally did notice where she was, Mercury stopped and peered into one of the clothing store windows. Judging from the dolls modelling the clothes inside that were still standing, fashion wasn't to different in this world compared to hers. A small smile appeared on her lips. She would have to come back later and take a look when she had the time. If Minako or Usagi ever found out that she passed up the chance to bring them all back free souvenirs from a different world then she would *never* hear the end of it.
"Maybe I should get some spare clothes for myself." Mercury thought aloud while still looking through the shop windows. After all, she couldn't stay in her Sailor uniform *all* the time!
There was still one other thing that bothered her, she still wasn't too sure if she would be explaining to Trunks how her powers worked when she met him, let alone what she really looked like underneath her sailor fuku. Pluto hadn't told her what to do when it came down to that. 'Perhaps I should tell him.' She thought. 'He is just like us after all. He's royalty of a dead race, has the ability to change his appearance, and he has fighting skills.'
Mercury had to give a soft chuckle at that last part. "O.K. so only Makoto and Haruka have the fighting skills that I'm thinking of, but the point still stands." She said out loud to herself.
She didn't have time to think about anything else, when her visor suddenly turned red and began beeping in her face, giving her the location of the monster. She quickly brought out her computer and immediately began to do a scan of the area. Mercury gasped at what she saw. It wasn't even two full blocks from where she was standing! 'Boy, Pluto, when you say a short distance you really mean it!' She thought in shock while taking off at a run to where it was located.
She was running fast in between the shops to save some time and distance, not wanting to lose the thing now that she had found it. Mercury suddenly came to an abrupt halt and looked up in both shock and fear on the sidewalk. There it was! Just floating there and doing nothing above the shopping mall.
Mercury's brows came together in confusion as she put away her visor, wondering what it was doing. Not moving, arms crossed and it's back toward her. Just *floating* there! She remembered what Pluto had told her: "You must convince it that you are worth absorbing." She gulped in fear over the lump in her throat, wondering what horrible things would happen to her if she didn't get absorbed by it.
Forcing *that* thought out of her head, she decided to continue on. "No time like the present." She whispered to herself, wanting to get this over with. She took off at another run and jumped easily onto the roof of a nearby candy store, landing in a kneeling position. It still hadn't noticed her.
The parking lot of the shopping mall was full of different coloured cars, but that wouldn't help her in the jump required to get to the roof of the shopping mall. It was too far. She noticed all the lamp posts in the mall's parking lot that were still standing. 'Maybe I can use those.' She thought while walking up to the edge of the store roof.
Mercury never did too much jumping around, so the idea of going such a far distance and having your aim to be *exact* or risk a serious injury did scare her a little. 'No time to think about that now.' She thought determinedly while trying to push thoughts of herself all battered and bruised on a hard concrete floor out of her head. She took a deep breath and positioned herself for the jump.
She took her first great leap and thankfully, hit her target, landing safely on the top of the lamp post. She took another leap, and then another and another. Until finally she reached the mall rooftop.
Mercury breathed a sigh of relief before she took a look above her, and she nearly did a double take to the ground! 'That thing still can't see that I'm here!' She thought somewhat angered at the monsters stupidity. It looked a whole lot bigger than what Pluto had shown them. Mercury noticed this now that she was so close to it.
It was a round shape, wearing strange puffy white pants with a black vest and yellow gloves. It had a mean looking frown on its face too. Mercury's heart beat quickened as well as her breathing, suddenly remembering that this was the thing that killed everyone on this earth. 'Don't be a coward!' She inwardly shouted while mentally slapping herself out of the little trance she was working herself into.
'I need to get its attention.' She thought to herself while realising there was only one way to do that. 'Only one way I can think of.' A sad smile appeared on her face as if this was the last thing she was ever going to do.
"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!!"
She called out her attack aimed directly at the monster, but it didn't even flinch. Mercury put a lot of energy into that attack, and when the water she was spraying at it died down she was shocked to find that it was looking down directly at her, with a smile on its face that would shatter a mirror.
"Looky!" It said excitedly. "Someone new to pway wiff!!" Mercury just barely managed to jump out of the way, as the pink monster swooped down at her and punched the spot that she had been standing in less than a second earlier. Leaving a deep crater in the roof. It slowly turned its head toward her with that same evil smile. Now *that* scared her!
She fearfully gathered more of her energy and prepared for another attack. "MERCURY AQUA MIRAGE!"
She yelled out loudly, as a blue ball with the Mercury symbol on it appeared in her hand. She quickly launched it at her attacker, and it was headed straight between his eyes until it simply raised its chubby arm and swiped it away like it was nothing at all!
Mercury gasped in horror. 'That was one of my strongest attacks!' She thought while almost shaking in total fear. 'What am I up against?' she thought in disbelief.
"You a funny lady!" The pink thing pointed at her and practically laughed while saying it. Mercury's face became set in a deep scowl, which was unusual even for her! 'There is *no* way I am going to back down from this!' She thought determinedly while getting ready to attack it again.
"MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY!!"
A shining blue harp appeared in her hands from out of nowhere, and she began to play the strings professionally, causing streams of quickly moving pressured water to come out and attack the monster with each note that she played. Once again it just stood there as if she was doing no more than just shooting feathers at it, but this time something was different. She could see that it had a completely blank look on its face once the water had settled.
Mercury was fully aware of how far the intelligence of the thing stretched, but she had never seen it look like that, even in the images that Pluto had shown to her and the others back home. "That very nice." It stated simply.
Mercury looked at it in confusion, before suddenly understanding what it meant and looked down to the shining blue harp that was still in her hands. She smiled brightly as an idea came to her. 'Maybe I can use this to my advantage.' She thought happily. Perhaps she could trick it into absorbing her using her harp. She then brought her fingers up to the strings and began to play a soft song, not calling out an attack with it, just playing, and watching as the creature became more and more absorbed in the song.
'I've heard about how music can calm the souls of even animals, but who would have thought that it would have worked on such an evil creature!' She thought, happy that something good was finally going her way. Mercury continued to play her song, keeping her gaze on the now relaxed monster who had taken a seat on the rooftop, listening to her melody in an almost trance like state. She couldn't help but crack a grin. This was getting to be too easy!
"Do you like it?" She asked curiously. The monster just nodded it's ugly head for a response. Satisfied, Mercury immediately stopped playing, and the harp disappeared. *This* got the monsters attention pretty quick.
"Why you stop?" It asked with a deep scowl on its face. "It's a real shame." She simply said, lowering her head as if saddened. "What is?" It asked in confusion.
"Well, it's just that... no, it's nothing. Forget it." Mercury said trying to get on the monsters nerves. She was doing a very good job of it. "Tell me NOW!!" It demanded angrily. She could've sworn that she saw steam coming out of its ears in it's rage, but she just ignored it and continued on with her plan.
"Well you see," Mercury began, a little nervous now that she had done such a good job of ticking the thing off. "I just need a safe place to play. My harp won't work unless I can have that, and because of the condition of the world I am having trouble finding one." She said, hoping the monster would fall for the stupid sounding lie.
"What 'bout here? It working now." It asked.
"Well, it's just that because of the damage you did to the planet, soon it will stop working even here." Mercury said, hoping that the monster was catching on to what she was hinting at. "That is unless you know of a place where I can play my songs? Somewhere safe?.....Where you can always hear me? Hmmm?"
The pink thing smiled at hearing this. "I know somewhere!" He stated while jumping up in the air excitedly. Before Mercury could even blink, flaps of pink skin stretched out from its stomach grabbing her roughly, and quickly pulling her into its stomach. She didn't even have time to let out a yelp of surprise or fear at how fast it was.
For a moment everything went black, and when Mercury woke up she was on a soft floor, in a strange looking pink room that looked as if it would collapse at any moment because of how rounded and crooked it looked. Mercury quickly got to her feet, seeing the mist surrounding her on the floor. She was very grateful that her blue boots went to the knees, not wanting to see what she was really standing in, much less what she was *laying* in not one minute ago. She put her hand up to her nose and kept it there. The room smelled like old laundry, and she couldn't help but crinkle her nose in disgust.
"You can play now?" asked the monster from outside. Mercury gasped in surprise, and nearly jumped in the air in her shock. She didn't know that she would be able to speak with the thing from the inside of it. She quickly overcame her surprise. There was no time to for that right now. "Ya, I'll play now." She replied with a hint of ice in her voice.
"MERCURY ICE BUBBLES FREEZE!!"
The monster couldn't even defend itself against her attack, especially since it was from the inside. It's whole body was instantly turned to pink ice. Quickly bringing out her computer and visor again, she did a scan and was pleased to see that the creature was completely frozen from the inside out. It was unfortunate to see, however, that the rays of the sun outside gave her a time limit before the monster thawed out and had complete control again. Fifteen minutes to be exact.
'Better than nothing.' she thought before heading towards the opening that led into an awkward looking and relatively BIG hallway. Mercury took no real time to look around though. She needed to find Trunks and get out of here before that creature woke up. Using her computer for a guide, she quickly found Trunk's location and headed in that direction. It was *really* cold.
"You a mean lady!!" Screamed the monster. "That hurt!" Mercury was so startled that she nearly dropped her computer and almost slipped on the floor of ice. Evidently, the thing was still awake under the layer of ice she put it in. "Well it's not like you don't DESERVE IT!!" Mercury screamed back boldly while thinking of all the people it had killed.
"You trick me! You pay now!!" Screamed the monster again furiously. Mercury was both a little surprised and afraid to hear the cracking sounds of the ice walls that she had created. It was trying to brake loose! Thankfully nothing happened, and the monster just let out a series of loud curses and insults, which sounded pretty funny, considering they came from a voice that could belong to a two year old.
Mercury just chuckled softly and ignored the monster, who was now in a fit of rage, from that point on. She only had only ten minutes left before the creature thawed completely and took revenge on her for tricking it. She continued on though, going somewhat slowly yet as fast as she possibly could. The floor was covered in slippery ice, and she didn't want to fall.
Thankfully she found Trunks within two or so minutes, and the sight he was in made her want to faint or cry or even do both! He was unconscious, Bleeding out of everywhere, and hanging from the ceiling!! Mercury was suddenly *very* glad for causing the heartless monster even a small amount of pain for what it did, and could only wish that she could do more.
She quickly ran up to him, forgetting about the risk of falling as she looked him over in complete horror and worry. She didn't need to check him for a pulse. The steamed breath coming from his mouth was enough to tell her that he was indeed alive, but that's exactly what bothered her. On closer inspection, she could see him shivering in his unconscious state. His face was paled and his lips were blue, and the blood on him had turned to small trickles of ice that his own body heat couldn't even melt.
'Ami, you stupid baka!' She shouted at herself angrily, and then called herself many other foul names for not thinking of what freezing the monster would truly cause. It almost made her cry, the idea that she was causing him more pain, even if it was for his own good in the long run. She reached up to try and grab at the binds that were holding him, but it was no use. He was too high up for her to reach that far even on her toes.
Mercury quickly looked around the empty room, searching for something, *anything* that would help to get him down. Five minutes left, and the cracking of the ice walls she had created were telling her that she was running out of time fast! She walked around him, trying to see if there was anything she could get to let her reach his binds.
Mercury suddenly stubbed her foot against something hard, and she quickly looked down, hoping it would be something she could use to help him. Looking beneath the haze on the ground, she could make out the outline of the sword she had seen the young man use in the clips Pluto had shown them. Smiling triumphantly, Mercury wasted no time in dislodging it from the ice, picking it up and buckling it around her.
'This is perfect! I can reach the binds using this!' She thought, still smiling like an idiot. She brought out the long sword and with one quick and *careful* swipe, managed to cut his pink flesh binds. The monster outside screamed in what Mercury could've sworn was sheer pain in what she'd just done. 'Good.' She thought nastily as she quickly caught Trunks's heavy form.
He was *so* heavy! It was still cold in there, but Mercury broke a sweat just standing with him. She put the sword away safely on her back to get a better grip on him, and then took off running as fast as her legs would carry her to a wall closest to the outside, not caring at all if she slipped and fell. She just had to get out of there before it could brake free from her spell.
One minute left. "You not going to get out of here!!" Sang the monster happily, as it felt the ice around himself melt and get weaker. Mercury just ignored him as best as she could. She had gotten what she had came for, and now after all of this, there was no way she was going give up! Finally she reached an outer wall. Mercury didn't bother to put Trunks down as she called out her attack.
"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!!!"
A giant hole blasted straight through Majin Buu's stomach, and he screamed out in the sheer pain and agony of it as the still frozen form of his insides smashed easily under the pressure. Mercury quickly jumped out of the cold and cruel creature that had killed this world, and into the sunlight and warmth of the outside, with Trunks's unconscious and heavy form still on her back.
Due to the weight that came with her passenger however, she couldn't land on her feet as gracefully as normal, and she quickly lost her balance under the pressure and fell on her stomach. The cement road was hard and unforgiving as it painfully knocked the wind right out of her. She ignored it though, and quickly got to her feet, knowing that the monster would start looking for them at any second now, once it recovered from it's injury.
"MERCURY BUBBLES BLAST!"
A fog, that never looked so beautiful in all the times Mercury had used it appeared quickly as she called for it, providing the *much needed* cover against the monster that was currently in a rage for being tricked, stolen from and then attacked. She could still easily make out where it was due to her viser, and was very grateful to see that after it looked around for a moment and spotted nothing, it turned and headed in the opposite direction of both her and Capsule Corp.
With a large sigh of pure relief, she turned around and went back towards the young man whom she rescued. She decided to take a moment to catch her breath before she took her heavy cargo the long walk back to Capsule Corp. She got down on her knees and gently rested the young mans head on her lap. Taking off her gloves, she did a quick inspection of his injuries. She was happy to see that a majority of the blood on him was not new. Just old blood, probably from some of the old and halfway healed wounds he'd had before he was captured by that heartless monster!
A quick inspection from her computer scan said that while he had no infections, he was low on energy, and would definitely be weak for a while. Taking his hands into hers, she noted that he was still freezing cold. "I'm such an idiot." She thought dryly to herself out loud. Not one ounce of forgiveness in her voice for the wrong she felt she had done to him. In her haste to try and get him out of there, she only succeeded in hurting him more. She started to gently rub his hands, trying to bring some warmth back into them while not noticing the deep bruises that almost completely covered them. Even when he winced slightly in pain.
She was also unaware that her fog was slowly beginning to disappear, not that it mattered since the pink monster was gone. When she felt she was done with his hands, Mercury brought her own hands to his cheeks to try and warm him there.
She suddenly felt him stir and was shocked as he did. 'That's amazing!' She thought in slight disbelief. 'I'd have thought he'd be out of it for days!'
"Hey, it's ok now." She whispered to him soothingly. "Everything is going to be fine now. You're safe."
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Trunks was in a *lot* of pain... but he felt... safe. Cold.....but safe. For the fist time in a long time. He could feel his hands becoming warmer too, they were hurting like Hell though. Then that warmth spread to his cheeks. He was trying to move and trying to open his eyes...But it hurt like hell when he made the attempt.
Then he could hear a wonderful voice. He couldn't make out too much of what was being said, but it was being said calmly and gently... soothingly. 'I must finally be dead.' He thought, happy and sad about it at the same time.
He tried to think about what the voice had said again, ignoring the pain that it caused in his head. "...O.K. now..............s going t....... fine........u're safe." Trunks believed that voice. It was a beautiful voice. He wanted so much to open his eyes and see who it belonged to. After trying again with all his might, he finally managed to open his eyes.
It was only just a little, but the pain the sun gave him almost killed him, *if* he wasn't already dead. Looking around, he wasn't prepared for what he saw. Eyes even bluer than his own looked down at him with a mixture of worry and amazement on the beautiful face of the owner. There was a fog like cloud surrounding them, but the sun had managed to sneak into a few spots. One of which was directly behind her, giving off an almost halo like appearance. She also wore some strange kind of jewellery on her forehead, and her sky blue hair highlighted her features perfectly.
"Oh wow," Trunks said, in a voice just above a hoarse whisper. "A real live tenshi."
"Tenshi?" She said in confusion. "But I'm not an angel." She stated to him softly.
He didn't hear her though. Trunks had passed out again.
To Be Continued...........................................
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A.N: Once again I would like to thank everyone who is reviewing me, and I still hope to get many more. And to answer one of those reviews that I received from the second chapter, I would like to say thank you to that person for reading and telling me how much he/she enjoyed it. You see, this is not a fic that I'm just writing up and posting. Most of this is already done and posted on another site. But I never received any reviews for it, and we all know how that can be *very* uninspiring when writing.
I actually did receive a review once to be truthful, but only after I stopped writing after the fourth chapter was up. I was planning on finishing it, but for the moment I just *stopped*. I then received an e-mail, asking me if I was done the story and just didn't post it, because he/she thought it was good and wanted to read the rest of it. Needless to say I was ecstatic! My very first review! I e-mailed back saying that it wasn't done, but still in progress and that I would try to finish it. It was just the lack of time I was having with my job. I then posted chapters five and six, but no more reviews came in. ;_;
Soon I found this site and thought it was the best! I could post all my stories and people would tell me what they thought of it and where they noticed some mistakes that were being made. It makes things easier on an author to know that their work is actually being read and appreciated.
Those six chapters on that other site are actually quite awful! Lots of spelling and grammar mistakes were made! Not to mention how awful I was with the descriptions! I was actually amazed that I wrote such a piece of garbage and that people could actually enjoy it =P It's also a lot longer than what I had expected it to be. I thought that it would be done at five chapters, but I guess I was wrong! Anyway I thought that I would take those chapters and correct the mistakes I found, and make the emotions seem more realistic for when I posted them here. That's why it's still taking some time to get these chapters up, because of the corrections that are needed.
Anyway I'm rambling here, so to answer that person who reviewed me and said he/she was reading the story on that other site (you know who you are ^_^) Thank you. But Chapter seven won't get posted until I'm done with these corrections. Then I'll finish posting on both sites.
Yes. It's hard to believe, but I really *am* still working on this and a chapter seven has been started quit some time ago, but once again the lack of time as well as the other stories that need attention have been taking away from the attention that this story needs. I'm not even halfway done that chapter yet! Sorry, but I'm just lazy I guess! =P
Well this certainly was a *long* Authors Note!!!! that's all I got to say for now ^_~ Bye!
Thanks to all who reviewed me! Highly appreciated! And I hope you all like this one!
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Chapter Two: Lost and Found
Ami woke up early the next day with the gentle rays of the sun in her face. It was six a.m. She was an early riser, that and the fact that she had important matters to attend to caused her to get up immediately and without hesitation.
She walked next door into the bathroom and ran the shower water. It was *very* cold. There was still no hot water so she had to be *really* quick. After about two minutes of it and she couldn't stand the cold any longer, she got out and immediately transformed back into Sailor Mercury.
"Mercury Crystal Power!" She shouted with her hand and transformation pen in the air. Thankfully the sailor fuku's were always clean and looking new with every transformation, so at least she wouldn't have to worry about clean clothes. In a flash of sparkling blue colour, Ami changed back into Sailor Mercury.
She then brought out her blue visor and computer, and began to search for the large pink monster that still held Trunks..........It wasn't on her radar scans. "Kuso! Where the hell is it!" She cried out as she was getting *more* than a little annoyed at it's absence, and not really caring about her choice of language either. It was bad enough that she had spent the night without so much as properly looking for that monster while Trunks was probably suffering, but now she had to wait even longer.
She let out a tired sigh of defeat. Just then her stomach growled. 'Might as well get something to eat.' Mercury thought to herself. 'Then maybe I'll be able to think straight.'
She headed downstairs and into the kitchen where she found all of the canned foods, mainly on the floor. After looking around, she found a fruit cocktail and decided that it would be good for breakfast. Mercury found a can opener and a spoon on the floor, ran them under the cold water to clean them off, opened the can and began to eat.
She was leaning her back to the counter, and while eating she couldn't help but continually glance over at the dirt pile in the corner. It just made her nervous, and she was getting a strange vibe from it. 'What is it about that stupid dirt pile?' She thought while getting annoyed at herself for being so jumpy over nothing. 'Maybe I should clean it.' She thought. *'No, don't go near it!' * Her subconscious shouted sternly.
Mercury just shrugged her shoulders and did as she was told. After a few minutes she checked her computer and visor again for any sign of the monster......Still nothing. She put her computer away but left her visor on and continued to eat. It was then she noticed how filthy the place was. 'I'll tidy this place up a bit until my scans can find that monster.' She decided while eyeing the trashed place with a hint of disgust. At least it would keep her occupied for a time.
When Mercury was done she put the utensils that were on the floor into the sink and threw away all of the broken plates and drawers. She wanted the place to be a little clean for when she brought Trunks home. She then put everything that wasn't broken in its respective place. The table could be fixed later. She swept up a bit, being careful not to go near the pile of dirt since she continually got a strange vibe whenever she so much as went near it.
When she was done cleaning the kitchen and the creature was still no where to be seen on her scans, she walked into one of the offices being used to storage, and grabbed a box full of bandages, needles, pain killers and peroxides. The things she would most likely need when she found Trunks.
She then took it to his parents room. 'That room has a nice big bed that would be good for him to use if he's badly injured.' She thought to herself while still walking. Just because she thought that she shouldn't use it doesn't mean that Trunks shouldn't. It *was* the room his parents used to share after all. When she finally got there, she grabbed the doorknob and turned it, but it wouldn't open. Her eyebrows rose in slight confusion. She'd gotten in there easily enough the day before, what could be wrong?
Mercury gently set the box down and grabbed the door handle again, this time putting some of her weight into it.....Still nothing. She kicked the door in frustration. "Stupid thing is jammed." She muttered angrily. She then remembered something. Looking down at the foot she used to kick the door she realized that it was the same one she had hurt the day before. She gave a small smile. 'At least my foot is all better.' she thought while trying to look on the bright side of things.
Mercury sat down next to the box of medical supplies and began to think about what she would do. 'He can't go in his room, it's trashed. And I'm not putting him on a sofa if he's injured, and all of the other rooms are packed with too much stuff. I'd never be able to move all of those boxes by myself.' She thought gloomily. She brought up her legs, put her arms around them and rested her chin on her knees still thinking of what to do until the solution came to her.
'I'll just have to put him in the room I picked for myself.' She decided. 'I can sleep on the sofa downstairs and he can have the bed.' That decided, she picked up her box of supplies and headed back for the guest bedroom and placed it gently on the floor next to the bed. Her visor still showed nothing so she continued to clean up in pure annoyance. Where in the name of Kami was it?!?
Mercury was fully aware that she wasn't going to get the place looking brand new even if she had a full month of cleaning time, but she still tidied up as much as she could. She wasn't a neat freak, but the place looked too badly beat up for her to just leave it alone and live in for two weeks. This continued until about eleven thirty and there was still no sign of the monster on her scans.
Sailor Mercury was well known for her patience, but enough was enough! No-one could be this patient when there was a life at stake. That thing could be on the other side of the world for all she cared! She was going out to look for it! It was better than just sitting around looking for things to occupy her mind on. Staying any longer than this with someone's life at stake would be enough to drive anyone insane!
She dropped what she was doing and walked determinedly towards the front doors and unlocked them. She couldn't help but crack a grin. 'At least I won't have to climb through a broken window when I get back.' She thought in amusement, before continuing on down the sidewalk connected to the driveway.
Mercury walked down the dead street as calmly as if she was taking an everyday morning stroll. There was *no* way that she was going to panic over nothing like she had done yesterday. That was by far the most embarrassing thing she could have ever done. Good thing there no-one around to see it. She continued to walk, keeping an even pace on the sidewalk with her hands behind her back, looking at all of the demolished houses. Some were only just barely still standing, while others were knocked over. With the roofs resting on lawns with pipes and broken boards laying all across their own respective lawns and even in the middle of the road in some cases. Mercury had even seen a bathtub sticking out of the concrete in the middle of a road.
'Still no sign of that stupid monster.' Mercury thought bitterly after checking her visor for the five hundredth time. It was going on noon now, and she was getting more angered by the second. She continued her walk though, trying to be as patient as she could while still thinking about how that young man was probably still suffering. The only sound being made as she went was the gentle whistle of the wind passing through dead trees with their dead leaves.
Mercury soon found herself walking passed a rather large church, with a look that said how beautiful it must've been before all this terror occured. It's parking lot was completely full, she guessed that it must have been due to the people knowing they were about to die and quickly running for the church to get in some last minute prayers to Kami for help. A sad thought, but it was most likely true.
The bell from the belltower was smashed into the windshield of one of the cars, causing the back to be stick out in the air while the front of the car remained pinned into the ground. The large cross that *was* above the two main entrance doors, was currently on the front steps, completely smashed. "I wonder why there's no bodies around." She thought aloud to herself.
Perhaps that thing absorbed everyone on the whole planet, like it did with that handsome young man, and they're all trapped inside of it!
She quickly dismissed the ridiculous idea. If that were true then Pluto would have sent her to help everyone, not just Trunks. 'There's no animals to carry away or to eat at the dead bodies, so where are they?' She thought in confusion. Mercury was in no hurry to see her first dead body or anything. It just seemed a little strange that all of this wreckage was only a few weeks old and there was no sign that anyone had ever lived in this once proud looking city.
She was quickly losing track of the time while she wandered around in her thoughts, about dead bodies and evil creatures who attack and kill without mercy. Back home they still had the odd monster that would appear every now and then to try and suck up some poor defenceless guys energy, but they still had enough power to destroy them easily. Here that young man, Trunks had enough power that could give Saturn and Pluto a run for their money, and yet he still wasn't strong enough to defeat the thing that had killed his world.
Mercury didn't notice that she was now walking in the middle of downtown. 'How can anything be that powerful?' She thought to herself in awe. 'Hopefully I can just complete my mission and then get out of here!'
When she finally did notice where she was, Mercury stopped and peered into one of the clothing store windows. Judging from the dolls modelling the clothes inside that were still standing, fashion wasn't to different in this world compared to hers. A small smile appeared on her lips. She would have to come back later and take a look when she had the time. If Minako or Usagi ever found out that she passed up the chance to bring them all back free souvenirs from a different world then she would *never* hear the end of it.
"Maybe I should get some spare clothes for myself." Mercury thought aloud while still looking through the shop windows. After all, she couldn't stay in her Sailor uniform *all* the time!
There was still one other thing that bothered her, she still wasn't too sure if she would be explaining to Trunks how her powers worked when she met him, let alone what she really looked like underneath her sailor fuku. Pluto hadn't told her what to do when it came down to that. 'Perhaps I should tell him.' She thought. 'He is just like us after all. He's royalty of a dead race, has the ability to change his appearance, and he has fighting skills.'
Mercury had to give a soft chuckle at that last part. "O.K. so only Makoto and Haruka have the fighting skills that I'm thinking of, but the point still stands." She said out loud to herself.
She didn't have time to think about anything else, when her visor suddenly turned red and began beeping in her face, giving her the location of the monster. She quickly brought out her computer and immediately began to do a scan of the area. Mercury gasped at what she saw. It wasn't even two full blocks from where she was standing! 'Boy, Pluto, when you say a short distance you really mean it!' She thought in shock while taking off at a run to where it was located.
She was running fast in between the shops to save some time and distance, not wanting to lose the thing now that she had found it. Mercury suddenly came to an abrupt halt and looked up in both shock and fear on the sidewalk. There it was! Just floating there and doing nothing above the shopping mall.
Mercury's brows came together in confusion as she put away her visor, wondering what it was doing. Not moving, arms crossed and it's back toward her. Just *floating* there! She remembered what Pluto had told her: "You must convince it that you are worth absorbing." She gulped in fear over the lump in her throat, wondering what horrible things would happen to her if she didn't get absorbed by it.
Forcing *that* thought out of her head, she decided to continue on. "No time like the present." She whispered to herself, wanting to get this over with. She took off at another run and jumped easily onto the roof of a nearby candy store, landing in a kneeling position. It still hadn't noticed her.
The parking lot of the shopping mall was full of different coloured cars, but that wouldn't help her in the jump required to get to the roof of the shopping mall. It was too far. She noticed all the lamp posts in the mall's parking lot that were still standing. 'Maybe I can use those.' She thought while walking up to the edge of the store roof.
Mercury never did too much jumping around, so the idea of going such a far distance and having your aim to be *exact* or risk a serious injury did scare her a little. 'No time to think about that now.' She thought determinedly while trying to push thoughts of herself all battered and bruised on a hard concrete floor out of her head. She took a deep breath and positioned herself for the jump.
She took her first great leap and thankfully, hit her target, landing safely on the top of the lamp post. She took another leap, and then another and another. Until finally she reached the mall rooftop.
Mercury breathed a sigh of relief before she took a look above her, and she nearly did a double take to the ground! 'That thing still can't see that I'm here!' She thought somewhat angered at the monsters stupidity. It looked a whole lot bigger than what Pluto had shown them. Mercury noticed this now that she was so close to it.
It was a round shape, wearing strange puffy white pants with a black vest and yellow gloves. It had a mean looking frown on its face too. Mercury's heart beat quickened as well as her breathing, suddenly remembering that this was the thing that killed everyone on this earth. 'Don't be a coward!' She inwardly shouted while mentally slapping herself out of the little trance she was working herself into.
'I need to get its attention.' She thought to herself while realising there was only one way to do that. 'Only one way I can think of.' A sad smile appeared on her face as if this was the last thing she was ever going to do.
"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!!"
She called out her attack aimed directly at the monster, but it didn't even flinch. Mercury put a lot of energy into that attack, and when the water she was spraying at it died down she was shocked to find that it was looking down directly at her, with a smile on its face that would shatter a mirror.
"Looky!" It said excitedly. "Someone new to pway wiff!!" Mercury just barely managed to jump out of the way, as the pink monster swooped down at her and punched the spot that she had been standing in less than a second earlier. Leaving a deep crater in the roof. It slowly turned its head toward her with that same evil smile. Now *that* scared her!
She fearfully gathered more of her energy and prepared for another attack. "MERCURY AQUA MIRAGE!"
She yelled out loudly, as a blue ball with the Mercury symbol on it appeared in her hand. She quickly launched it at her attacker, and it was headed straight between his eyes until it simply raised its chubby arm and swiped it away like it was nothing at all!
Mercury gasped in horror. 'That was one of my strongest attacks!' She thought while almost shaking in total fear. 'What am I up against?' she thought in disbelief.
"You a funny lady!" The pink thing pointed at her and practically laughed while saying it. Mercury's face became set in a deep scowl, which was unusual even for her! 'There is *no* way I am going to back down from this!' She thought determinedly while getting ready to attack it again.
"MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY!!"
A shining blue harp appeared in her hands from out of nowhere, and she began to play the strings professionally, causing streams of quickly moving pressured water to come out and attack the monster with each note that she played. Once again it just stood there as if she was doing no more than just shooting feathers at it, but this time something was different. She could see that it had a completely blank look on its face once the water had settled.
Mercury was fully aware of how far the intelligence of the thing stretched, but she had never seen it look like that, even in the images that Pluto had shown to her and the others back home. "That very nice." It stated simply.
Mercury looked at it in confusion, before suddenly understanding what it meant and looked down to the shining blue harp that was still in her hands. She smiled brightly as an idea came to her. 'Maybe I can use this to my advantage.' She thought happily. Perhaps she could trick it into absorbing her using her harp. She then brought her fingers up to the strings and began to play a soft song, not calling out an attack with it, just playing, and watching as the creature became more and more absorbed in the song.
'I've heard about how music can calm the souls of even animals, but who would have thought that it would have worked on such an evil creature!' She thought, happy that something good was finally going her way. Mercury continued to play her song, keeping her gaze on the now relaxed monster who had taken a seat on the rooftop, listening to her melody in an almost trance like state. She couldn't help but crack a grin. This was getting to be too easy!
"Do you like it?" She asked curiously. The monster just nodded it's ugly head for a response. Satisfied, Mercury immediately stopped playing, and the harp disappeared. *This* got the monsters attention pretty quick.
"Why you stop?" It asked with a deep scowl on its face. "It's a real shame." She simply said, lowering her head as if saddened. "What is?" It asked in confusion.
"Well, it's just that... no, it's nothing. Forget it." Mercury said trying to get on the monsters nerves. She was doing a very good job of it. "Tell me NOW!!" It demanded angrily. She could've sworn that she saw steam coming out of its ears in it's rage, but she just ignored it and continued on with her plan.
"Well you see," Mercury began, a little nervous now that she had done such a good job of ticking the thing off. "I just need a safe place to play. My harp won't work unless I can have that, and because of the condition of the world I am having trouble finding one." She said, hoping the monster would fall for the stupid sounding lie.
"What 'bout here? It working now." It asked.
"Well, it's just that because of the damage you did to the planet, soon it will stop working even here." Mercury said, hoping that the monster was catching on to what she was hinting at. "That is unless you know of a place where I can play my songs? Somewhere safe?.....Where you can always hear me? Hmmm?"
The pink thing smiled at hearing this. "I know somewhere!" He stated while jumping up in the air excitedly. Before Mercury could even blink, flaps of pink skin stretched out from its stomach grabbing her roughly, and quickly pulling her into its stomach. She didn't even have time to let out a yelp of surprise or fear at how fast it was.
For a moment everything went black, and when Mercury woke up she was on a soft floor, in a strange looking pink room that looked as if it would collapse at any moment because of how rounded and crooked it looked. Mercury quickly got to her feet, seeing the mist surrounding her on the floor. She was very grateful that her blue boots went to the knees, not wanting to see what she was really standing in, much less what she was *laying* in not one minute ago. She put her hand up to her nose and kept it there. The room smelled like old laundry, and she couldn't help but crinkle her nose in disgust.
"You can play now?" asked the monster from outside. Mercury gasped in surprise, and nearly jumped in the air in her shock. She didn't know that she would be able to speak with the thing from the inside of it. She quickly overcame her surprise. There was no time to for that right now. "Ya, I'll play now." She replied with a hint of ice in her voice.
"MERCURY ICE BUBBLES FREEZE!!"
The monster couldn't even defend itself against her attack, especially since it was from the inside. It's whole body was instantly turned to pink ice. Quickly bringing out her computer and visor again, she did a scan and was pleased to see that the creature was completely frozen from the inside out. It was unfortunate to see, however, that the rays of the sun outside gave her a time limit before the monster thawed out and had complete control again. Fifteen minutes to be exact.
'Better than nothing.' she thought before heading towards the opening that led into an awkward looking and relatively BIG hallway. Mercury took no real time to look around though. She needed to find Trunks and get out of here before that creature woke up. Using her computer for a guide, she quickly found Trunk's location and headed in that direction. It was *really* cold.
"You a mean lady!!" Screamed the monster. "That hurt!" Mercury was so startled that she nearly dropped her computer and almost slipped on the floor of ice. Evidently, the thing was still awake under the layer of ice she put it in. "Well it's not like you don't DESERVE IT!!" Mercury screamed back boldly while thinking of all the people it had killed.
"You trick me! You pay now!!" Screamed the monster again furiously. Mercury was both a little surprised and afraid to hear the cracking sounds of the ice walls that she had created. It was trying to brake loose! Thankfully nothing happened, and the monster just let out a series of loud curses and insults, which sounded pretty funny, considering they came from a voice that could belong to a two year old.
Mercury just chuckled softly and ignored the monster, who was now in a fit of rage, from that point on. She only had only ten minutes left before the creature thawed completely and took revenge on her for tricking it. She continued on though, going somewhat slowly yet as fast as she possibly could. The floor was covered in slippery ice, and she didn't want to fall.
Thankfully she found Trunks within two or so minutes, and the sight he was in made her want to faint or cry or even do both! He was unconscious, Bleeding out of everywhere, and hanging from the ceiling!! Mercury was suddenly *very* glad for causing the heartless monster even a small amount of pain for what it did, and could only wish that she could do more.
She quickly ran up to him, forgetting about the risk of falling as she looked him over in complete horror and worry. She didn't need to check him for a pulse. The steamed breath coming from his mouth was enough to tell her that he was indeed alive, but that's exactly what bothered her. On closer inspection, she could see him shivering in his unconscious state. His face was paled and his lips were blue, and the blood on him had turned to small trickles of ice that his own body heat couldn't even melt.
'Ami, you stupid baka!' She shouted at herself angrily, and then called herself many other foul names for not thinking of what freezing the monster would truly cause. It almost made her cry, the idea that she was causing him more pain, even if it was for his own good in the long run. She reached up to try and grab at the binds that were holding him, but it was no use. He was too high up for her to reach that far even on her toes.
Mercury quickly looked around the empty room, searching for something, *anything* that would help to get him down. Five minutes left, and the cracking of the ice walls she had created were telling her that she was running out of time fast! She walked around him, trying to see if there was anything she could get to let her reach his binds.
Mercury suddenly stubbed her foot against something hard, and she quickly looked down, hoping it would be something she could use to help him. Looking beneath the haze on the ground, she could make out the outline of the sword she had seen the young man use in the clips Pluto had shown them. Smiling triumphantly, Mercury wasted no time in dislodging it from the ice, picking it up and buckling it around her.
'This is perfect! I can reach the binds using this!' She thought, still smiling like an idiot. She brought out the long sword and with one quick and *careful* swipe, managed to cut his pink flesh binds. The monster outside screamed in what Mercury could've sworn was sheer pain in what she'd just done. 'Good.' She thought nastily as she quickly caught Trunks's heavy form.
He was *so* heavy! It was still cold in there, but Mercury broke a sweat just standing with him. She put the sword away safely on her back to get a better grip on him, and then took off running as fast as her legs would carry her to a wall closest to the outside, not caring at all if she slipped and fell. She just had to get out of there before it could brake free from her spell.
One minute left. "You not going to get out of here!!" Sang the monster happily, as it felt the ice around himself melt and get weaker. Mercury just ignored him as best as she could. She had gotten what she had came for, and now after all of this, there was no way she was going give up! Finally she reached an outer wall. Mercury didn't bother to put Trunks down as she called out her attack.
"SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!!!"
A giant hole blasted straight through Majin Buu's stomach, and he screamed out in the sheer pain and agony of it as the still frozen form of his insides smashed easily under the pressure. Mercury quickly jumped out of the cold and cruel creature that had killed this world, and into the sunlight and warmth of the outside, with Trunks's unconscious and heavy form still on her back.
Due to the weight that came with her passenger however, she couldn't land on her feet as gracefully as normal, and she quickly lost her balance under the pressure and fell on her stomach. The cement road was hard and unforgiving as it painfully knocked the wind right out of her. She ignored it though, and quickly got to her feet, knowing that the monster would start looking for them at any second now, once it recovered from it's injury.
"MERCURY BUBBLES BLAST!"
A fog, that never looked so beautiful in all the times Mercury had used it appeared quickly as she called for it, providing the *much needed* cover against the monster that was currently in a rage for being tricked, stolen from and then attacked. She could still easily make out where it was due to her viser, and was very grateful to see that after it looked around for a moment and spotted nothing, it turned and headed in the opposite direction of both her and Capsule Corp.
With a large sigh of pure relief, she turned around and went back towards the young man whom she rescued. She decided to take a moment to catch her breath before she took her heavy cargo the long walk back to Capsule Corp. She got down on her knees and gently rested the young mans head on her lap. Taking off her gloves, she did a quick inspection of his injuries. She was happy to see that a majority of the blood on him was not new. Just old blood, probably from some of the old and halfway healed wounds he'd had before he was captured by that heartless monster!
A quick inspection from her computer scan said that while he had no infections, he was low on energy, and would definitely be weak for a while. Taking his hands into hers, she noted that he was still freezing cold. "I'm such an idiot." She thought dryly to herself out loud. Not one ounce of forgiveness in her voice for the wrong she felt she had done to him. In her haste to try and get him out of there, she only succeeded in hurting him more. She started to gently rub his hands, trying to bring some warmth back into them while not noticing the deep bruises that almost completely covered them. Even when he winced slightly in pain.
She was also unaware that her fog was slowly beginning to disappear, not that it mattered since the pink monster was gone. When she felt she was done with his hands, Mercury brought her own hands to his cheeks to try and warm him there.
She suddenly felt him stir and was shocked as he did. 'That's amazing!' She thought in slight disbelief. 'I'd have thought he'd be out of it for days!'
"Hey, it's ok now." She whispered to him soothingly. "Everything is going to be fine now. You're safe."
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Trunks was in a *lot* of pain... but he felt... safe. Cold.....but safe. For the fist time in a long time. He could feel his hands becoming warmer too, they were hurting like Hell though. Then that warmth spread to his cheeks. He was trying to move and trying to open his eyes...But it hurt like hell when he made the attempt.
Then he could hear a wonderful voice. He couldn't make out too much of what was being said, but it was being said calmly and gently... soothingly. 'I must finally be dead.' He thought, happy and sad about it at the same time.
He tried to think about what the voice had said again, ignoring the pain that it caused in his head. "...O.K. now..............s going t....... fine........u're safe." Trunks believed that voice. It was a beautiful voice. He wanted so much to open his eyes and see who it belonged to. After trying again with all his might, he finally managed to open his eyes.
It was only just a little, but the pain the sun gave him almost killed him, *if* he wasn't already dead. Looking around, he wasn't prepared for what he saw. Eyes even bluer than his own looked down at him with a mixture of worry and amazement on the beautiful face of the owner. There was a fog like cloud surrounding them, but the sun had managed to sneak into a few spots. One of which was directly behind her, giving off an almost halo like appearance. She also wore some strange kind of jewellery on her forehead, and her sky blue hair highlighted her features perfectly.
"Oh wow," Trunks said, in a voice just above a hoarse whisper. "A real live tenshi."
"Tenshi?" She said in confusion. "But I'm not an angel." She stated to him softly.
He didn't hear her though. Trunks had passed out again.
To Be Continued...........................................
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A.N: Once again I would like to thank everyone who is reviewing me, and I still hope to get many more. And to answer one of those reviews that I received from the second chapter, I would like to say thank you to that person for reading and telling me how much he/she enjoyed it. You see, this is not a fic that I'm just writing up and posting. Most of this is already done and posted on another site. But I never received any reviews for it, and we all know how that can be *very* uninspiring when writing.
I actually did receive a review once to be truthful, but only after I stopped writing after the fourth chapter was up. I was planning on finishing it, but for the moment I just *stopped*. I then received an e-mail, asking me if I was done the story and just didn't post it, because he/she thought it was good and wanted to read the rest of it. Needless to say I was ecstatic! My very first review! I e-mailed back saying that it wasn't done, but still in progress and that I would try to finish it. It was just the lack of time I was having with my job. I then posted chapters five and six, but no more reviews came in. ;_;
Soon I found this site and thought it was the best! I could post all my stories and people would tell me what they thought of it and where they noticed some mistakes that were being made. It makes things easier on an author to know that their work is actually being read and appreciated.
Those six chapters on that other site are actually quite awful! Lots of spelling and grammar mistakes were made! Not to mention how awful I was with the descriptions! I was actually amazed that I wrote such a piece of garbage and that people could actually enjoy it =P It's also a lot longer than what I had expected it to be. I thought that it would be done at five chapters, but I guess I was wrong! Anyway I thought that I would take those chapters and correct the mistakes I found, and make the emotions seem more realistic for when I posted them here. That's why it's still taking some time to get these chapters up, because of the corrections that are needed.
Anyway I'm rambling here, so to answer that person who reviewed me and said he/she was reading the story on that other site (you know who you are ^_^) Thank you. But Chapter seven won't get posted until I'm done with these corrections. Then I'll finish posting on both sites.
Yes. It's hard to believe, but I really *am* still working on this and a chapter seven has been started quit some time ago, but once again the lack of time as well as the other stories that need attention have been taking away from the attention that this story needs. I'm not even halfway done that chapter yet! Sorry, but I'm just lazy I guess! =P
Well this certainly was a *long* Authors Note!!!! that's all I got to say for now ^_~ Bye!