Sailormoon- Another story revisited
by Aer_seph4eva
Chapter 1- Search for the stones. Mercury's quest. part 2
Thanks for the reviews you guys. I really do appreciate them so much. Well here's the next section. And don't worry, there is LOTS of Zoisite in this chapter.
"The Ki stone and the Kage stone. They're resonating," the ice senshi stated with awe as Han looked over her shoulder, curious to find out what was going to happen. Neither expected what came next. All of a sudden the ground violently trembled beneath Mercury's feet. The senshi too absorbed in her finding of the Zoisite stone was only aware until it was too late that the floor was crumbling beneath her. Letting out a high pitched scream, Mercury tried to move out of the way, but it was too late. In just a few seconds, the floor disappeared beneath her and she felt herself falling hearing Han's fading voice crying out her name before falling into darkness.
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"Ooof," Mercury cried out as she felt the icy cold impact of the ground against her bare thighs. Shaking her head to reorient herself, the ice senshi moved herself up on her elbows, wincing slightly when her she felt a ache in her shoulder muscles.
"Now that was rather graceful." Mercury commented sarcastically rubbing her sore ankle. "I must have been around Usagi-chan for too long," she mused, grinning slightly at the thought of how the blonde would have reacted to hearing her say something like that. Sitting up into a more comfortable position on the ice cold floor, it was only then that Mercury saw something out of the corner of her eye glisten on the ground just a few feet across from her. She blinked a few times, not comprehending for a moment, before scrambling on her hands and knees to reach the item, grasping the small stone within the palm of her hands and clutching it to her chest.
"I've got the Zoisite's Hi stone!" Mercury said happily to herself as she moved the stone up to her face, noting the purity of it's whiteness as it glowed a pale silver hue. Being the ever careful senshi she was, Sailor Mercury gave one last look at the stone, a small smile crossing her lips at the thought that she had completed her task and now that the sailor senshi were now closer to healing Mamoru, before planting the stone into her inventory.
"I wonder how everyone else is doing with finding the other stones?" Mercury stated absently, first thinking of her fiery friend Rei and her dowsing abilities. She would definitely have no trouble seeking the stone. But as for Makoto and Mina.... Even though Makoto had the power of controlling thunder and was such a pro at cooking and karate, she was never the type of person to search for something, well that's if you don't include dates, as she seemed to have as much patience as Rei like she had with Usagi. Mercury sweat-dropped as she recalled one of her memories of Minako when she was running so frantically over her house to find her other gold stiletto for a date, having no idea where she had left it before giving up and deciding with her strapped sandals. It was then during the blonde's date that Ami-chan just by chance had found Minako's shoe in her shower stall when she went to wash her hands in the bathroom.
'We're doomed.' The ice senshi groaned, bowing her head in a mock gesture of sorrow before moving her hands in an attempt to stand, letting out a short cry as her legs gave way and she fell back down on the ground.
"I guess my body cannot handle falling off a cliff 'twice'." The senshi mused to herself before laughing at her ridiculous statement looking above at the hole from where she fell and then the remembrance of a certain blonde.
Mercury's blue eyes dilated with shock as she looked up, but all she could see was the darkness of ice. "!!!!!!!"
"Han!" Mercury shouted, once again struggling to get to her feet, this time succeeding, stumbling once before gaining balance on her injured foot. She called the blonde's name again, but there was no answer.
"He must not be able to hear me," Mercury pondered, gnawing her bottom lip in thought.
"Either way, I will have to find a way out of here," the ice senshi concluded, checking once again that she held the Kage stone and the Hi stone were both in her pocket before turning around, taking in her surrounding and the one pathway that was on her left hand side. She wasn't aware of the dark shadow that crept past on her right nor the beam of energy that was heading straight towards her before it collided into her side.
"Aghhh!" Mercury gasped, her hands clutching her injured side as she turned to the direction where she heard faint chuckling. Her eyes stern and cold, as she saw a dark figure casually walk to her, causing Mercury to unconsciously to take a few steps back.
"Not so fast Sailor brat!" the figure called out gruffly as Mercury was beginning to make out features of her attacker and from the looks of it, she seemed female and human.
"Who...who are you?" Mercury stated in her most coldest voice, frowning in the direction of her enemy.
'Do not show fear. Do not let my enemy know that I am afraid. Do not...'
The figure drew her tongue slowly across her white teeth as she gave a predatory smile causing Mercury to shiver. "You should know that brat. I am here for the stone and to kill you."
"What..." Mercury gasped with alarm, blinking a few times to make sure that she had heard right. It took a moment for the words to sink in, and when they did, Mercury recoiled back, before realising her mistake as she saw how her attacker smirked in amusement. The ice senshi mentally reprimanded herself, that she had made the enemy aware that she was afraid.
The woman's laugh was cold and harsh like that of a tempest's winds and Mercury couldn't suppress another shiver.
"That's right Sailor Mercury. I'm gonna so enjoy killing you," And with that, the woman charged towards the surprised senshi who only just managed to dodge her attacks by mere fluke, stumbling over feet more than once as she evaded, razor-sharp ice crystals aimed at her.
"Who...who are you?" Mercury gasped out when she felt a sudden cold wind form around her, feeling like they were freezing her very insides, causing her to drop to her knees.
The female figure moved a lock of blue hair behind her ear. Her cobalt eyes sinister and hungry for the need to land the fatal blow. "It's unimportant to you Sailor Mercury since you won't be alive much longer," the woman spat, looking down at Mercury with such disdain that mercury now wished that she had her friends beside her to help. She struggled to her feet.
'I thought Apsu said that these Sailor Senshi were formidable. There's nothing formidable about them. They're nothing but weaklings," the fighter frowned, somewhat annoyed due to lack of challenge and that her fun will soon be over. Being too caught up within her thoughts, the female fighter was unaware till it was too late as the sound of water and cold foam form around her legs and a burning coldness shocking her nerve endings all throughout her body.
"I did it," Mercury smiled to herself as she saw her attacker almost lose her balance from her Shabon Spray attack..
"Shine Aqua Illusion!" Mercury cried out, following on her attack with a set of ice cold bubbles, watching as her enemy fell down to one knee, drawing back the sweat from her forehead, but to her alarm she watched the woman rise to her feet again, a look of fierce determination on her face.
"Heh...you're good Mercury. But not good enough," The woman spat, folding her arms, her demeanour now calm and composed. "But..... since you impressed me, I'll let you have my name Sailor bitch."
"My..." She placed her hands against her chest.
"Name..." She felt the element of ice surround her.
"Is..." The ice condensed before forming into a small ball into her hands.
"...Nabul of the Oppositio Senshi!" And with that, Nabul unleashed aimed her hands at Mercury who didn't have enough time to move as she crossed her arms in front of her face in a futile attempt to defend herself from the blast. Mercury was hit head on, the strength of the blast knocking the ice senshi at least a few feet backwards into a wall. She sat there stunned for a moment, her eyes glazed over with pain as she saw a pair of black army boots stop before her, and a skin tight uniform in dark navy. Nabul was standing right in front of her.
"This the end for you Sailor Mercury. See you in hell!" Nabul shouted as she reached down and lifted the weakened senshi by her neck, amused by the girl's futile struggles as she tried to get herself out of the iron grip. Nabul then threw Mercury, off to the side watching as the ice senshi skidded across the ice floor, before falling limp like a rag doll.
She watched as the Hi stone and Kage stone fell out of her pocket and bounce across the floor, to then lie a few feet away from her, knowing that she just didn't have the strength to fight of the wicked Nabul.
"I'm so sorry everyone. Mamoru-san, Usagi-chan...." she whispered, her eyes focussing at the stones on the floor that she knew would soon be in the possession of the enemy and it was all of her fault. Mercury's face contorted with pain before thudding against the ground, knocking her out cold.
"Goodbye Sailor Mercury." Nabul cackled as she moved her hand to her lip, kissing a single digit as a cold steam began to rise from her finger before turning into a crystal shard, emanating a black glow. A dark grin crept across her face as she pointed the crystal down towards the unconscious senshi.
"Death freeze..." Nabul cried out with glee as she moved her hand back then forwards, letting go of the dark energy watching with interest as it headed towards Sailor Mercury, and since Mercury was unconscious, Nabul knew that there was no way that she could defend herself. That was why she was more than surprised when she saw a shard of ice appear out of no-where and deflect her attack, knocking it into a nearby wall. Nabul just stood there and stared at the hole in the wall then at the unconscious senshi..
"What the fuck? How did she bloody do that?" Nabul cursed, knowing that she hated missing her target, especially easy ones.
"How could she deflect my attack in her unconscious state?" the female fighter questioned with bewilderment, before shrugging. "No matter. She's as good as dead here anyway. Now I will claim my prize." Nabul turned to look down to where the Zoisite stones had been left but to her surprise they had vanished.
Blue eyes dilated with shock and horror."!!!!!"
'They were there a minute ago and I sealed off the entrance so no-one could enter so how....'
She didn't have time to think further as she heard the sound of laughter behind her causing her to whip around instantly to almost fall over in surprise when she saw a male figure leaning against the wall, two crystals resting within the palm of his hands.
"Looking for these?" he said, laughter held within his forest green eyes as he raised the stones within sight of the blue haired fighter, waving them slightly as if to taunt her.
Nabul frowned, no-one dared mock her and lived to tell the tale.
"Who the fuck are you? Come into the light coward!" The warrior cursed angrily, moving into a stance to fight, ignoring the unconscious senshi for now since she had another task to accomplish, still some what surprised and curious to how this man had suddenly appeared and obviously was the one who intercepted her attack.
'Beat the shit out of this guy. Gain the Zoisite stone. Then finish Mercury off later.' Nabul made a memo into her head, watching the male figure warily, not understanding why she had the feeling that she had seen him before. She knew she couldn't recall ever seeing in all her lifetime such a ugly uniform in the colour of grey and lined with green, as if that would save its style. It was shocking that Nabul saw that he was a male, he looked so feminine due to his long, blonde, curly hair and if it weren't for his laugh, Nabul would have assumed he was a woman.
The blonde continued to chuckle to himself, pulling a face when he heard her talk.
"Now who the fuck of you? Sheesh, women have no manners today." the blonde commented, rolling his eyes in mock annoyance, continuing to laugh as Nabul's face began to redden with uncontrolled anger.
"Why!...Why...You!" She seethed as she fisted her hands at her sides. "BASTARD! Oh I'm so gonna kill you. I'm gonna rip off those pretty lips of yours and then frigging snap your neck in two and then...."
The blonde feigned a yawn, stretching his arms above his head with boredom. "Have you finished? Such vulgar words is unbecoming of a lady and I tire of your constant ramblings."
Nabul held her mouth open in shock for a few seconds.
"You are... you are... so..."
"Charming? totally irresistible? downright gorgeous? devilishly handsome?" the blonde added, flirtatiously twisting one lock of his honey blonde hair around his finger watching out of the corner of his eye waiting for Nabul to finally unleash her anger.
Nabul, tried to control her erratic breathing and calm herself, but the way that this man had the audacity to talk to her like the way she did, feeling her entire body quake with anger, summoning her energies into the palms of her hands.
"AAARGHH! DIE YOU CHAUVINISTIC SCUM!" Nabul screeched, as she unleashed a blast of ice crystals towards the blonde male who merely raised a single hand causing all the crystals to drop to the ground.
Emerald green eyes twinkled with mirth as effeminized lips drew into a large smirk.
"Heh all bark and no bite. Is that all you've got," he taunted easily dodging another set of crystals aimed at him.
"Grrrrr! Who are you!" Nabul screeched trying to summon a tempest around her before realsing that her magic energy had vastly depleted with all the attacks she had sent off towards the cocky blonde, and from how he was grinning, she knew that he provoked her on purpose.
flicking his ponytail over his shoulder, as he folded his arms over his broad chest.
"Why would you possibly want to know?" The blonde raised an eyebrow, "....Just to let you know. I 'don't' do one nighters if that's why you're asking."
If Nabul's face was red before, it had now became purple with fury.
"BASTARD!" She screeched as she tried to charge up to him which he easily evaded with a agile turn to the left.
"Now now, there's no need to get angry," the blonde laughed, dodging yet another ice crystal that almost clipped his hair.
"Alright. Since I'm such a nice guy, I'll tell you my name. It's Zoisite. Shittenou Zoisite."
Nabul paused mid attack. "Zoisite? As in the stone Zoisite?"
"If you mean these things yeah," Zoisite stated, looking down idly at the stones in his gloved palm before stuffing them into his pocket.
Nabul moved a step forward, her mouth set in a firm line. "Give me the stones." she all but growled.
Zoisite folded his arms, giving her a look as if to say 'as-if,'. "And why would I want to do that?"
"Just give them to me!" Nabul said angrily, stomping her foot for emphasis.
"Nuh uh. They've already been reserved by that darling girl in blue over there."
"What? You dare defy the Great Nabul?" Nabul screeched as she charged towards the blonde, not realising before it was too late as he dodged her attack, and that she didn't have enough time to come to a halt. Her body ran straight into the wall.
"Ouch. That had to hurt," Zoisite said sarcastically, wincing slightly due to the sound of the impact, sighing over dramatically with mock-sympathy. The Oppositio senshi ran her hand against her forehead, feeling the large bruise against her temple and the sudden head-ache that was taking its toll.
Nabul spat out some blood onto the floor as she made her way to her feet again.
"SHUT UP!!!!!!! You're dead meat!!!!!!"
"Why are you still trying to hurt me. That's not a very nice," Zoisite said in a childish voice, trying to set his mouth into a pout before failing after he cracked up laughing. He could almost see the steam rising from the woman's ears as she clumsily moved into another fighting stance her chest heaving and shoulder's sagging from fatigue yet she still held a fire within her cobalt blue eyes.
'Hmmm, should I end my fun? Yeah. I think I've tortured this stupid woman enough, and besides, I need to check if my little Mercury is okay.' The blonde thought, his green eyes looking away from Nabul for a second to trail across the unconscious senshi lying against the wall. He instantly whipped his head around when he felt a growing amount of negative energy sparking of Nabul's hands.
"TAKE THIS!" Nabul screamed out, thrusting her arms forward and letting out the mass of dark energy towards the blonde general who merely stood there without fear.
"Zoi!" the blonde shouted raising his palm as he deflected her blast and sent it hurling back at her watching as she luckily managed to dodge past the blast, not without sacrificing a few strands of her blue hair.
Nabul blinked a few times as she looked down at some of her singed locks. "My hair!!! You'd definitely gonna get it now!"
'That's what you have been saying for the last five minutes,' the blonde thought mentally causing his grin to widen as he watched how her hands moved to throw yet another ice crystal at him. He laughed out loud as the shard of ice whizzed right over his head. He didn't even need to dodge it and Nabul's face began to redden with embarrassment with her obvious miss.
"Please..." Zoisite started, trying to stop his laughter. "Stop.... attacking me. No really...... Before you drive me into hysterics," the blonde finished, literally rolling around with laughter, ducking his head as he saw another crystal head towards his way that missed his body by a long shot.
'Man and I thought that Nephrite had a shoddy aim. I guess Mal was right, there ARE other people with crappier aim.'
"Hey hey calm down..." Zoisite stated raising both of his palms up to pause the blue haired fighter, his voice loosing it's cheery tone. " I'm being serious now. I can see that you are weakening. Just give up now or at least stop attacking me. You know that I am far too strong for you..... so seriously, if you want to live. I say you should go back to where you came from and pray that your master or mistress won't punish you too harshly." The blonde said, putting more emphasis on the last word drawing his lips into his usual grin as Nabul seethed silently, as if contemplating his words. She raised her eyes to his green ones. Anger, humiliation and exhaustion clearly seen within her blue coloured depths.
"You know that I will kill you Zoisite. Mark my words you blonde sissy, you will die." Nabul uttered under her breath however the blonde could clearly hear her, having attuned to hearing due to his duty as a Shittenou for Prince Endymion.
"Yeah yeah Nabooboo or whatever your name is. I'm so terrified," Zoisite commented sarcastically feigning a look of fear upon his face watching as the Oppositio senshi began to grit her teeth, as if to control herself, before wavering out of Zoisite's line of vision. And then, she instantly teleporting out of the cave and far away from the blonde general as she could. Zoisite moved to the side in an instant as he saw one final piece of ice heading his way and into the cave wall behind him, just barely missing the side of his cheek if it weren't for his sharp reflexes.
The general yawned and stretched, cracking his vertebrae in his back.
"Man I haven't had fun like that in a 'long' time," Zoisite chuckled, flipping back his blonde pony tail to the side, before grasping his honey hued curls and looking down at a singular lock and curling it around one of his slender fingers. He inspected it critically, a light frown etched on his face.
"I have never seen my hair look so bad. It sure does need a lot of conditioning. It's lost all of it's shine since I've been away," Zoisite pouted, uncurling the lock around his finger and tossing the ponytail behind his shoulder.
"Ah well Zoi. At least my hair will always have more tonality than Jadeite. I don't think that his hair has ever witnessed conditioner before... But enough about that," Zoisite rambled shaking his head to clear his thoughts, a certain blue haired senshi popping into his mind. " I have to see how my little Ami is keeping," the blonde general frowned, looking over his shoulder at the unconscious senshi before walking towards her and bending down to get a closer view of her. Although her fuku was torn in various places, and a few scratches and bruises had formed around the girl's knees and arms, Zoisite couldn't remember the last time he had seen such a beautiful sight. Her skin held a healthy cream tone and were so soft to touch albeit a tad cold. The girl's legs were firm and yet not over muscled, however not overly skinny, just perfect like that of the rest of her. Zoisite brushed his hand against Mercury's arm before rising it upwards to cup the girl's cheek and to stare infatuated at her coral pink lips that he had longed for, for over a millennia. His thumb brushed over her lower lip feeling it tremble underneath, even through the fabric of his white gloves.
"Ahhh, my little Ami-chan. How I have missed you," Zoisite whispered as he leaned closer towards the girl, pulling in her cold form into his embrace hissing slightly with the shock of having her cold body pressed against his.
"Don't worry my little snow-angel, I'll warm you up." the blonde said in a whisper as he held the sleeping senshi to his chest with one hand. The other moving from her lips to delve into the softness of her midnight blue locks, stroking them gently as he heard a sigh filled with longing leave her cool lips.
"Gods Ami. You can drive me wild even while your sleeping," Zoisite whispered as he tried to control his breathing and erratic emotions. His eyes darkening with fervour as he stared down at the girl in his arms, struggling to keep his composure due to the passion that he had kept welled up inside him, ever since he saw the girl in the crystal palaces in the moon kingdom. He looked a few moments at her face, staring down at her long dark eyelashes pressed against her cheeks, his eyes darting down to her mouth once again as he saw with amazement as her pink tongue slowly poked through her lips and dragged innocently across her lower lip before going back to whence it came. Zoisite couldn't help but groan with need and partial disappointment to see how the ice senshi had not awakened. One thing he knew though, that his control had slipped, and that he had given into the natural instinct of nuzzling his face into the crook of the senshi's neck, inhaling the scent of the sea and a light floral fragrance that he always knew she carried. He shuddered slightly as he felt her shiver below him in her sleep.
It took every bit of effort for the blonde to pull himself away from Mercury realising that due to his excitement of being united with his lost love, he had forgotten how long she could have been out cold for.
"You dumbass Zoisite. She maybe the senshi of ice but no human can last out in the cold for ages in such skimpy attire." the blonde chastised himself running a hand through his hair at his stupidity. Biting back another curse, the blonde began to undo the buttons of his top before shrugging off the grey jacket and placing it upon Sailor Mercury. It looked down at her with concern wrapping the grey jacket around the girl, trying to ignore the chilling coldness that were numbing his arms.
"Now this is when I wish I had the powers of fire like pyro Jed or motor-mouth Mars," Zoisite groaned as he looked around but only seeing, ice, ice and more ice.
"Damnit. I can't leave Ami here but we both may freeze if I do not find some sort of warmth. Maybe if I could find some firewood outside..." Zoisite contemplated, rubbing his chin as he watched the sleeping senshi.
"But I can't risk it. Maybe if I wait for her to wake up. Yeah. My girlfriend always has the best ideas." the blonde decided to himself sitting down beside the sleeping girl and pulling her to himself, resting his chin against the crook of her neck. His hands tight against her waist as he tried to use what little warmth that was in his body to keep her warm. It was after a while that Zoisite decided that his idea was not working.
"Maybe I should try to wake her up. I can't remember if she was a morning person though. No..... I have to find some sort of way to start a fire cause I don't think that even I can last any second longer in this cold." Zoisite concluded to himself, moving himself out from under the sleeping senshi, standing to his full height, but not before wrapping his jacket around Mercury's shoulders and kissing her swiftly on the cheek.
"Here my little ice Koibito. I will be back soon." the blonde said softly, staring down at his beloved for a moment before turning towards the singular path that was towards his right.
"Don't wake up without me." Zoisite stated jovially with a wink, taking one last look at the pretty blue suited Sailor soldier before dashing down the iced passage, not once turning back.
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So what do you guys think of my portrayal of Zoisite? I don't really know why but the majority of Zoi/Ami fics have Zoisite as the well mannered, eligible bachelor, who is very well educated and all. I guess it is cause most people believe that he would have to be some sort of shy book worm due to Ami. On the contrary, why would Ami go for a personality like that, I don't know why, but I have always thought that if Ami were to have a b/f, she needs a guy who can teach her how to relax and loosen up. That there are actually quite a few more fun things to do other than studying. Also, I think that Ami needs to break her coyness and who is better to do that than a Zoisite who is rash and spontaneous, a quick thinker and who is charming and utterly adorable at the same time?
Anyway, please write your opinions in the review box on what you think of my portrayl of Zoisite.
Arigatou and Ja ne
Aer_seph4eva
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