Sailormoon- Another story revisited
by Aerseph4eva
Chapter 1- Search for the stones. Mercury's unexpected reunion
Senshi/Shitennou
Sailor scouts/ Prince Darien's generals
Hey you guys. Aerseph4eva is still alive! I know that it is somewhat shocking, but hey I had the sudden urge to update this fic since I have been having ideas on some new ones. As for this chapter, this will be the conclusion of the Switzerland event and the reunion between the ice shitennou and senshi. Anyone excited. I know I am.
Now on with the fic!!! !
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The first thing Ami realised when she woke up was the sharp pain which laid, nestled in her side. Opening her eyes slowly, the sailor senshi struggled into a sitting position, wincing at the effort.
"Wh...where am I?" Ami thought wearily, seeing nothing but darkness and icy walls surrounding her from all corners, making her feel somewhat unease with claustrophobia.
She pulled the blanket closer around her.
'Blanket?'
Blue eyes widened in surprise as she stared down at the grey cloth in her lap which she soon realised was a cape. Lifting it higher to her vision, Mercury turned the article of clothing around, trying to make sense of whose it was and where it came from.
"It can't be Han's, then where did it come from?" Ami mused, rubbing her fingers against the soft, silken fabric which seemed to glisten in the dim light. A sweet scent tickled her nose, and it only took her moment to realise that the scent was rising from the cloak in her hands.
"It smells of cherry blossoms." Ami said to herself, taking another sniff to make sure her senses was correct.
"Then....who does this cape belong to.....?" Ami thought to herself as she tried to recount what happened before she fell into unconsciousness. The thought suddenly froze in her mind at the realisation of what happened, causing Sailor Mercury's face to dramatically pale.
"The Zoisite stones!" She cried out in alarm, pulling the material off her lap and sifting through her pockets for the spiritual items. Quickly rising to her feet, sapphire eyes soon glazed over with worry as she searched around her, finding nothing but ice surrounding her.
"Oh no! I have lost the Hi Stone and the Kage Stone," The girl cried out in alarm, on the verge of hyperventilation at the further remembrance of the dark woman who fought her earlier.
"That Nabul woman must have stole the Zoisite stones...'
Mercury felt her balance give way as she fell to her knees. Her shoulders shuddered in revulsion. Her hands fisted against the blue skirt of her fuku, as she tried to take control of her thoughts. "I won't be able to save Mamoru-san now....I have failed.. I have lost the Zoisite stones..." Mercury said softly, bending her head down in shame, oblivious to her surroundings. "I have failed them. The Sailor senshi, Usagi-chan, Mamoru-san. I have lost the Zoisite's stones."
"Why would you want a pair of rustic pebbles when you could have the real thing?"
Mercury's head whipped up in surprise at the sound of a familiar male voice.
"It can't be..." Mercury gasped, her eyes dilating in surprise. At the entrance of the cave stood a dark figure, who slowly stepped into the light. Dressed in layers of grey, the male stepped forward taking one step towards her, then another towards her fallen form.
Mercury felt her voice catch in her throat as she saw the blond advance closer towards her, each feature and colour becoming more prominent to her till her was standing no further than seven feet away from her. Long, sun-kissed hair fell in multiple waves and gentle curls over one shoulder, and a familiar grey uniform, trimmed in jade green piping. His emerald eyes twinkled down in amusement, and Mercury, for that split second could not speak.
"Zoisite...?.....It....can't be...." the girl gasped, her hand rising over her beating heart.
The blond's lips quirked upwards from her complete shock at his entrance. "No it's the Easter Bunny, who else would pay to have such great skin as mine?" Zoisite said with a laugh, as he dropped the wood he had in his hands to the ground and went towards the surprised Sailor senshi.
"How are you feeling petal? Are you alright? You're not hurt, are you?"
Zoisite eyes warmed with concern as he bent down at the girl's side.
Mercury could all but blink. 'Petal?'
"!"
The blond smiled softly at the ice soldier's silence and so moved his advance forward, reaching out a hand to gently brush his beloved's cheek with the back of his knuckles. "Yes my darling blue petal, I'm here," Zoisite breathed, his voice thick with emotion as he stared into his Princess's eyes with an raw intensity that Mercury had never felt before.
Ami turned her head away from his gaze, which felt like it was penetrating into her very soul. She believed that his passion filled stare would be forever imprinted into her mind.
Zoisite noticed her strange reaction, turned her chin so that her frightened gaze was upon him once more. "Something wrong, little one?" The golden haired shitennou asked softly, his voice deep and husky that Mercury couldn't help but shiver with unease to the new sensations which were crawling up and down her spine, and the butterflies which fluttered in her stomach.
'Why is he so close? Why is he touching me? What is his plan?...What....'
Mercury opened her mouth a few times, in an attempt to speak. "What...why are you doing this?!" the Ice soldier asked, getting her composure back as Zoisite moved back to sit on his heels, looking at her in earnest. "How are you alive?" Mercury added coolly, once again wary of her surroundings and her 'past enemy' kneeling beside her as if he were one of her loyal friends.
The blond stared back at Mercury as if gauging her expression. "You freed me my angel, and if it weren't for you, I'd be forever trapped in the spiritual stones," Zoisite replied, reaching out a white gloved hand to clasp Ami's hand in his, his eyes locking on the girl's face all the while.
The sailor senshi blinked, digesting the information in slowly before gasping at the remembrance of the Hi and Kage stones.
"The stones! Where are they?" Mercury asked, feeling confused on what had exactly happened to make Zoisite appear, and feeling embarrassed at the heat of the Zoisite's large palm around her small and delicate hand, and the scent of cherry blossoms which encircled the air that was making her feel somewhat light-headed.
"With yours truly." Zoisite responded, patting his pocket on his trousers. Mercury frowned, yet was relieved to know that Nabul had not taken them after she fell unconscious. At the remembrance of the dark haired villain, the senshi resolve hardened, curious to know what had exactly happened during the time she was out cold.
""What happened? What happened to Nabul? How exactly did you come back?" Mercury asked, raising her intellectual sapphire eyes to meet intense emerald.
Zoisite shrugged. "Not a lot. I played around with Nabul a bit, and then she ran away. And as I said, when the Zoisite Hi stone and Kage stone merged with one another, somehow, its magical power brought me back!"
Mercury's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "But how-," she began before being paused by a gloved hand which moved onto her lips followed by the blond's face, which stopped mere inches from her own.
Zoisite smug grin fell slightly as his voice turned into a more subdued tone. "Sometimes the gift of magic should not be questioned, but cherished for the miracle it creates," the shitennou said softly, leaning his face ever closer to Mercury who felt frozen with coyness. "Don't you agree Mercury?" Zoisite all but breathed, raising his hand from Ami's lips to then trace his fingers down the side of her cheek.
Ami suddenly felt at loss for words, as all the moisture in her mouth dried up. "I...I..."
Zoisite's grin moved back to his face, moving his face slightly forward to inhale the scent of the shocked sailor senshi before moving back to his original kneeling position. "Enough with this talking; You need your rest after fighting against the walking fashion disaster," the blond responded, leaning back on his hands, on which his hands met cloth. Moving his eyes from Sailor Mercury to take a side glance at his discarded cape, Zoisite picked up his silver material and placed it in his lap, eyeing the jade trim which adorned his royal shitennou cloak.
Mercury couldn't help but crack a smile at the blond's upbeat attitude, although she knew there were many more questions she needed to ask. "You mean Nabul?"
Zoisite nodded. "The fashion police should have her arrested for that getup, 'pu-lease', rolled up high collars were so last season," Zoisite stated within a cheesy accent which caused Ami to giggle despite her nervousness of talking with a past enemy. However, she still felt self conscious, causing her to shuffling backwards when she felt the blond move closer.
'Something is not right.'
Green eyes narrowed in suspicion. "You're doing it again." Zoisite stated in a deadpan voice, leaning back to gauge the senshi's expression.
Mercury blinked in bemusement. "What?"
The blond shitennou folded his arms. "You keep moving away from me. Why?"
Mercury couldn't help but choke at the sudden urge to gasp. "I...you-" the senshi began hesitantly, her voice rising into an embarrassed high pitch squeak. "-you're making me feel uncomfortable...I....I don't know you....Zoisite...you were my enemy and I-" she continued on, yet was interrupted as Zoisite, in that instant reached out for Mercury's hands and tugged forward causing the Senshi to fall forward in surprise and into the lap of the blonde haired shitennou. Mercury's fazed at the surprise, looked up from her uncomfortable position and into the eyes of the blond leaning over her, his eyes bright with unhidden emotion.
Zoisite stared at her for a silent moment, before loosening his grip on the girl's arms. "Ami,-chan..... don't you remember our secret escapades during the Silver Millennium...the times I went to Mercury to search for you...." the blond began, his voice steady and calm, as if testing the waters. He knew that there was a unbalance in their relationship and that it was seen evidently within their communication.
'The planet Mercury and Gemini is the sign of communication, and has been connected to my spirit ever since I became a shitennou...Yet for me to have broken connections of communication to the senshi princess of Mercury, something is indefinitely wrong...' A flash of darkness flickered in Zoisite's eyes with his troubling thoughts which went unnoticed to the ice senshi who held her mouth agape at the surprise of her revealed identity.
Ami's eyes dilated in horror. 'He...he...know my name.....'
"What...what are you trying to say and how do you know my identity?!" Mercury responded, her voice weak with the inability to lie against the convictions of her name.
Zoisite rolled his eyes, starting to get annoyed with the lack of mental contact between his partner. "Cause dearest, I was courting you, and if I'm not mistaken I still am."
Mercury's face dramatically paled, her body feeling suddenly limp within the shitennou's lap. "!!!!"
The blond shitennou blinked in confusion at the girl's action, coming up to the assumption that the ice senshi was merely play around with his intelligence like that of their usual mental games. Yet he had to admit that Ami had never created such a tension in their relationship as she was creating now, and he knew she wasn't the type to play deceptive games, unless..... she wasn't being fallacious....for she was telling the tru-- Zoisite didn't even want to finish that thought.
'No....How is it possible?' Ami blinked, trying to sort out the questions which whirled within in her mind, her emotions feeling suddenly numb, like her element. She tried to process the data in her head, yet kept on coming up with a blank. She knew that not even her Mercury computer could help her to evaluate an justifiable answer upon Zoisite's words.
"But what...what about Kunzite?" Ami gasped, the first thought which slipped from her lips as she roughly lifted herself off and out of the blond's hold, shuffling backwards in discomfort at her apparent confusion to understand the situation.
'Weren't they a couple?'
'And aren't they evil?'
'They only wanted the Ginzuishou?'
'Is this just a sadistic ploy of Zoisite's behalf to manipulate me to expose my weakness so that he can defeat me?'
'What is going on?'
Zoisite raised his eyebrow in curiosity at the mention of his leader's name and the apparent confusion and strain which was forced upon Ami as she said the strongest shitennou's name. "What about that stick in the mud?" Zoisite asked lightly, in an attempt to relieve the tension.
It didn't succeed.
The blond's strange response added more questions to the confused sailor senshi. "But weren't you..." Mercury began, pausing as she felt all her words clog up in her throat.
"Weren't I what Princess?" Zoisite pressed on in a gentle tone, wanting to get to the head of the problem with their communication.
Ami couldn't help but cringe at his sweetness.
"Weren't you.... in love with him?"
Zoisite went suddenly silent, as if the senshi had sprouted a pair of meatballs upon her head."..............."
Mercury said nothing, as the blond stared as if he was looking through her.
"You're joking?" Zoisite said in surprise as his face then fell into a face vault, his green eyes bugging out in surprise at the girl's accusation. 'Of all the unexpected questions....an affair.....with 'Kunzite the cold'....?!?!' The blond shook his head as the platinum haired shitennou came into his mind. Intense, cold piercing eyes which displayed the spirit of his impenetrable heart. Aloof from friendship, and frigid in love. The Ice King, ruler of the four heavenly warrior of Endymion, who loved no-one, needed no-one, and served only to the loyalty life servitude of his Prince. And Ami thought that he was in love with him... "What! Oh I don't even want to think about the mental pictures. That is just so....ugh!.....Sure maybe if I swayed that way and I was really, really lonely, don't forget beyond desperate and deranged, I may find Kunzite the slightest appealing to me....but Kunzite....gah....how did your mind think up of such twisted and perverse imaginations? Is this what this was all about Ami, that you thought I was having an affair with my leader?"
Ami's face went red as a cherry suddenly feeling unsure of her knowledge.
"But...in the Negaverse..." she began pausing mid sentence as she saw the shitennou tense, his eyes darkening.
"Negaverse? What about those enemy scum?" Zoisite all but growled, his shocked yet cheerful manner dissipating instantly as his calculating shitennou side took over.
Ami felt her thoughts fall silent once again. 'Zoisite said the Negaverse is his enemy. How can that be?' To Mercury, it seemed hard to even recognise the man before her as the sinister and dangerous shitennou that scared and taunted her in the past. At the remembrance of his relationship with her and the senshi, Mercury's face narrowed to a frown. It seemed in her mind that there were two Zoisite's. The one that was sitting before her now, and the one in her memory during the never-ending battles against the Negaverse Shitennou.
Mercury's eyes glazed over with coldness, as her mind bared the image of Urawa-kun (Greg) in a pained Daimon state brought back feelings of mistrust towards the blond beside her. She needed to know whether or not this was the same shitennou in an act from her time, or perhaps a new side of Zoisite who fought for love and justice. "What are you trying to accomplish Zoisite?" Ami said slowly, keeping her voice icy and indifferent like that of her element.
'I can't let my feelings misjudge the situation. This could be a devious plan of his. Don't get caught up with your emotions. He may appear friendly now....but the past.....'
Zoisite's face went stern, his jovial attitude silent.
"What is going on Ami-chan?"
Mercury winced. 'He said my name again..'
Ami chewed her lip, once again feeling the nerves rise up within her. " Urrr...Zoisite.......,"
Zoisite smile fell once again, seeing the transformation of emotion upon the senshi's face and recognising it instantly. Mistrust. "What's the matter princess?" the blond shitennou asked in confusion, leaning forward to place a comforting hand upon Mercury's shoulder. However the ice senshi evaded his touch and shuffled backwards so that she was more than just a polite distance away.
".......what are your intentions. Where do your loyalties lie Zoisite?" Mercury replied in a wintry voice, slowly moving to her feet so that she was standing above the blond shitennou in a confident and unyielding manner. She had to know whether Zoisite was a friend or a foe.
The blond's eyebrows raised up surprise at her actions and further to her sudden question, suddenly feeling a strange aura sweep through the cave.
"What brought this on Mercury?" Zoisite said, slowly, knowing that there was a tension within the air, and he didn't have to be a psychic like Nephrite to know he was in a dangerous position with the senshi standing above him.
Mercury said nothing, trying to fit her most unfeeling expression upon her face. "..............."
Zoisite knowing that there was no way he could turn this strange conversation around, relented to the ice senshi's wishes. Raising one knee off the ground, and then the other, the blond haired shitennou rose slowly to his feet.
Placing his right hand over his heart, Zoisite bent his head down, causing his curled strawberry blond locks to create a shadow over his vision. Then moving his eyes upwards to his blue eyed goddess, Zoisite began to speak his code of honour. "I live to serve my master Endymion, the Prince of Earth and his loyal subjects. Through the code of the shitennou, the four heavenly Kings, I fight against those who try to harm Endymion and his subjects of Earth."
Mercury said nothing, feeling the genuineness of his words seep into her heart. 'Then the spirit of the shitennou were telling the truth.....they aren't truly evil but unfortunate pawns possessed by Queen Beryl and Metallica.'
Raising his head once again Zoisite stared at Mercury, waiting for her response. After hearing nothing, he voiced a question which he was curious to know since he felt himself connected back to his Earth. "May I ask you a question, Mercury? Where is Endymion?"
Ami frowned, knowing that she had heard that name somewhere before. She registered it instantly as fragmented memories of the memories came to her mind from the Silver Millennium "Is Endymion, Mamoru?" Mercury asked.
"Mamoru?....yes," The blond responded with a nod.
"He is ill," Ami began being careful on what to say.
Zoisite face gained a puzzled expression. "Ill?"
Mercury nodded. "Yes, During a battle against Sin, he was viciously attacked with negative blast, and the only way to heal him is through the....."
"-use of positive energy from those who are most loyal to him," Zoisite finished already knowing the cure. Ami gaped, surprised at the knowledge of the shitennou, as it showed more truth that the shitennou was indeed loyal to that of Mamoru and not of the Negaverse.
"Where is he?" Zoisite asked, bending down to pick up cloak before clipping it upon the bright emerald epaulettes upon his shoulders.
"In Japan," Mercury replied, placing more trust towards the shitennou as the cogs in her head whirled, and so far she couldn't sense any negative energy emanating from the blond shitennou.
Zoisite blinked, pausing from the attention of his cloak to look up at Mercury.. "Japan? Where is-"
"It is quite a distance from here. It is on another continent," the senshi finished.
Zoisite nodded in understanding. "I need to see Endymion and heal him from darkness. I need to know what is going on," the blond enforced as he finished the attachment and pushed material back, feeling it cascade down his back. "How can we get there?"
"Well....I teleported from Japan to Switzerland," Ami responded, her arms falling to her sides.
Ami felt her face flush at the blond's scrutiny.
"What?" she asked.
"You have used a lot of energy, have you got enough to channel a teleport?" Zoisite asked, taking a step forward to the senshi.
"I'll be fine," Mercury responded, knowing that she felt slightly fatigued, yet she had revitalised a part of her energy when she was unconscious.
Zoisite continued forward till he was standing right before her. Then with no from of warning he reached forward and pressed his hand over Mercury heart, clutching the girl's left breast in his hand. Ami squealed out in surprise, her eyes bulging in horror as she did the first thing that came into her mind.
Zoisite jerked backwards, rubbing the growing redness upon her cheek. His green eyes looked shocked at Mercury's hand which still was poised, her digits trembling in the air.
"Zoisite!" Ami gasped out in alarm, moving backwards from the blond shitennou, her heart panting with fast beats of energy which pulsed within her, not realising the new found energy inside of her.
"I'm sorry princess," Zoisite said, shocked at the senshi's action, feeling the cold air sting his cheek. He could think of no time that Ami had reacted with such a violent response, to such a trivial thing as sending his energy. He knew he had done it countless times before with her, and so was bewildered by the fact that his princess reacted in such a dramatic manner.
"I was only sharing my energy with you-" Zoisite responded, confused from Ami's obvious distress towards his charitable actions. "What's the matter Ami-chan, you can tell me?" the blond asked, moving forward and reaching toward Ami's shoulder just to have her evade his hand.
Mercury vigorously shook her head, moving backwards in fright, her voice feeling laboured and un at ease. "No-" she began, yet Zoisite continued to advance, and see moved backwards till she hit the back of the cave wall.
"Ami....why are you acting like this?" Zoisite asked, his voice wracked with pure concern and worry. Ami turned her head to the floor, biting her lip in trepidation, feeling foreign emotions inside of her that she was fighting to control.
Her throat felt choked up with emotions and her eyes blurred.
'Why am I acting like this? I am a Sailor Senshi,' Mercury thought to herself as her hands grazed the back of the wall behind her, refusing to look into the blond's eye. 'It's because he is my enemy' her conscious tried to counter. 'He is a danger, regardless what he may say'. However Ami knew to herself that there was a deeper and more darker reason. She was afraid. Her rapid, pounding heart was enough proof of it.
' Not because he was an enemy. But....because he was a man.... and..... I have no experience on how to respond to his advances....I'm afraid...Hermes help me....I don't know what to do...I'm frightened...I.....' Her mind froze on the spot when she felt two hands descend on her shoulders, and she looked up to see Zoisite standing before her, his face no further than a few inches away from hers.
Blue eye dilated in horror. "Keep away!" Mercury shrieked out in alarm, using her strength to push the shitennou backwards, who surprised by her actions, stumbled backwards with a shout. Zoisite's head whipped upwards, his eyes wide in surprise and confusion, as he stared at the blue sailor suited solider who was glowering at him in a vicious manner.
Her hands moved on their own accord and it wasn't until she heard the mystical words pass her lips that she realised she had executed her senshi attack "Shabon Spray!"
Zoisite could all but blink as he saw the light resonate from the senshi's hand before it was propelled towards him, that he could barely defend from the blast. "Ami-agh! Wait!" Zoisite cried out in alarm, as the ice cold spray hit his shoulders head on, before thickening around him a hazy mist.
Mercury seeing her chance, pushed herself off the wall and dashed around the surprised blond, her body unseen against the smokescreen of her ice vapour which clouded the air.
Zoisite head whipped from side to side, seeing nothing but whiteness. "Mercury! Mercury! Where are you! Mercury!!!" he called out in worry, running towards the sound of the moving footsteps only to end up crashing against a hidden wall.
"Agh," he groaned, feeling a slither of blood trickle down the side of his chin, yet made no move to rub it away, as he tried to acute his ears to hear where Mercury was.
"Ami! Ami!" Zoisite called out, turning around in a 360' angle as the fog began to slowly dissipate around him. But as his vision cleared, there was only the darkness of the tunnel and the sound of the cold winds to greet him.
The blond blinked, looking down at his jacket which had traces of frost along its creases of his arms. "Damn it! Damn it!" Zoisite raged as he turned and sprinted towards the entrance.
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Mercury continued to run, not caring which direction she went. Trees flashed past her, and she wasn't even aware when pairs of overgrown branches nicked against the bare skin of her arms and face. Her vision blurred as she recounted what had exactly had happened inside of the cave, and what Zoisite said, what her enemy did to her. Stray tears escaped the corners of her eyes, as she raised a hand to the place where Zoisite had touched her intimately, and she couldn't fight the urge to cry. All she had on her mind was to get away, before her emotions exploded and she would end up in a sobbing heap. She was afraid as she did not know how to react. His charm was overpowering. His scent was too intoxicating. His emerald green eyes were too infinitely pure to take even a small glance at, less become swallowed by their depths. The touch of his hands were too warming and too welcome from a stranger. He was too much of a beautiful creature to fight back against...and Ami knew she couldn't fight against this enemy, not in this unfocussed and emotional state she was in now.
She soon had to stop as she felt the lactic acid in her legs build up to levels that caused her to drop to her knees in agony. Her sobs came out in frantic gasps of breath, heating the cool air into gentle wisps of smoke. The sight of the fog caused greater pain upon the sailor senshi, knowing that she had left him in the cave and that he would more than likely be practically furious with her and at this moment, on his way to get her.
"I have to get out of here, out of Switzerland," Mercury said, wiping the tears from her eyes as she tried to get her breathing back to normal levels.
"-and then maybe I will be able to defeat him if the rest of the Sailor senshi are here to back me up." However, the more the ice senshi thought of her plans, the more her face scrunched up as new tears made their way down her face.
Her face fell to pieces once again at the realisation of another thought. "Zoisite has the stones."
"I can't. Usagi-chan believes in me to bring back the stone, and the rest of the senshi are believing in me to bring it back to Tokyo," the girl moaned, as her shoulders sagged downwards.
"I need to fight this." Mercury muttered, looking down at her gloved hands which had clenched themselves into the snow.
"I have to be strong, but what should I do?" she asked herself hearing nothing but the whistling of the wind reply to her call.
"I need to get the stones. That's all that matters," Mercury said as she slowly rose to her feet, turning around to face her trek of footprints that she knew he was following.
So Ami waited, and for her second meeting with the blond shitennou .
It didn't take long.
His form appeared in the distance, the shades of grey materialising with each step till Ami could recognise the green border lining the cuffs of his jacket, and even see the slight twinkle of his jade earrings which peaked from beneath the curls around his ears.
But even though he ran, his breath was even. His long ponytail and cape whipped in the breeze, while his curly blond bangs swayed within the vision of his handsome face. Zoisite upon recognising Mercury began to run towards her however paused mid step when he saw the way the senshi was standing, as if ready for a fight.
They were standing at least fifteen feet away yet Ami's quiet voice rang out and managed to reach the blond's ear. "Zoisite, give me the stones," Mercury said in a soft tone as she shifted her feet into a fighting stance, her visor instantly materialising down the side of her face.
"Ami...." Zoisite breathed, feeling beyond confused with the entire situation. 'My lover, trying to fight me? What is coming to this world?'
"Mercury.....we need to talk, please, I do not know what I have done wrong and I don't like seeing you act this way....." Zoisite began, taking a few careful steps forward, watching for the senshi's reaction. ".....I need to know why are you doing this....what have I done to hurt you.... " the blond's voice fell silent, as he dug his hands inside his pockets from the chilly wind.
Mercury shook her head, her face falling to the ground, as if the purity of the snow could give the answers the ice warrior so desperately wished to know. She clenched her hands at her sides, as she willed herself to look at Zoisite again, relieved to know that she was able to maintain the butterflies in her stomach when he stood so far away. Keeping her face firm, she began. "It's too complicated to explain at this time....I am not the same Ami that you know. I have no memories of this past you describe Zoisite and so I have none of you...All I can remember of you is all the times you tried to hurt me and my friends for the nijizuishou
.....and we weren't friends...nor acquaintances......we are enemies...." Ami tried deny the thought when she saw the blond flinch at her words.
Zoisite shivered in discomfort, not from the temperature but at the weight upon his lover's words. "Enemy?...Ami, I don't understand you. I would never ever dream of hurting you or your friends..." Zoisite began to protest, advancing forward yet pausing again as Mercury raised her arm up.
Mercury shook her head, sadness creeping back into her voice. "............Lots of things have happened Zoisite, and I don't think I should be the one to tell you what happened."
"Why not my love!?!" The blond exclaimed, his anger bubbling to the surface. "I need to know what has happened so I can help sort it out! I know something has changed, for you to even feel reluctant to even speak to me....Mercury tell me....Please my princess...I need to know...." he pleaded, taking even more closer steps towards Mercury till he was standing no further than five feet away from her. He moved his hands out to reach towards her again.
"Please....don't..." Mercury said softly with a gentle shake of her head. It was only when Zoisite looked down at the girl's slight trembling frame that he realised what was wrong with his princess.
His eyes darkened with realisation. "You are afraid of me....." Zoisite said in a deadpan voice.
Blue eyes widened in surprise at the accusation. "No I am not afraid of you," Mercury countered however her voice wavered and Zoisite knew his observation was correct.
The blond looked in the senshi's eyes and found the answer there. "You are lying," he responded, sounding hurt. "Please...Mercury.....I won't hurt you....you know me......we made a promise on the Moon at the party of the Silver Millennium,.....why won't you tell me what's going on?"
Mercury chewed her lip, contemplating what to say. "I just don't fully trust you," she said simply, going for the honest approach as there was no other way to get out of her situation.
"I am not the same person. A thousand years has moved since the Silver Millennium. Everything's changed." Mercury moved her face upwards, looking beyond the height of the trees and towards the white skies where snow flakes where slowly making their meandering path from the sky to the ground she stood upon.
"I am not this Mercury you speak of, and I am offended how you call me your lover when all I know of you is spite and malevolence toward my friends and me. That you attacked Mamoru and was apart of Queen Beryl's scheme of collecting energy for the Negaverse to destroy Earth."
Zoisite all the while was quiet, digesting the information, his face refraining from showing any emotion, however his skin had paled dramatically towards the ending of Mercury's speech. "................"
"What can I say...?" The blond said after a moment, with a shrug, his voice sounding unusually strange and subdued to his own ears.
Mercury looked down at his tone and gasped at the apparent look of betrayal and horror on his face. ".........Zoisite..." Mercury breathed however Zoisite did not respond, his eyes blank as if he was trying to collect the feelings within his mind.
"You said you wanted my Zoisite stones...here," Zoisite said, picking up the items out of his pocket and eyeing the pieces as if they were saying goodbye to vital parts of his being. He then rose his pain filled eyes up to Mercury's and tossed his stones forward towards the ice senshi, who caught the stones easily.
Zoisite stood stoically, saying nothing as his eyes said all the emotions that his heart wished to tell. "Goodbye my beautiful ice princess..." the blond breathed, the words becoming lost in the winds. His figure turned slightly but Ami caught onto the sparkle of tears which trickled down his face.
And in that instant, he were gone, leaving a swirl of weeping cherry blossoms falling to meet the crushed snow.
Mercury stood silently as the snow fell around her, fluttering the skirt of her fuku and the bangs of her hair. The stones glistened in her white palm as her eyes gazed at the pink petals upon the snow.
"Zoisite..........."
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What do you guys think? I feel really sorry for Zoisite. Just imagine being reunited with your past love just to be rejected and despised.
One could say that I was being somewhat exaggerative with the emotions . some of you guys may be thinking why Mercury had such a dramatic response. But if you think about it, think of all of Ami's relationship with men in the anime and the manga. There isn't many, and I refuse to say that Urawa and Ami have a full fleged relationship, since they are both so shy and embarrassed around each other.
Please review. I would very much appreciate it.
Ja ne
Aerseph4eva
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