Chapter Ten: Silver Maiden / Mako's Sorrow
Jaedite held out his hand and a flaming kodachi appeared in his grip. He stood still, as the wolf lept toward him. Quickly, he moved up one step and swung his hand toward in a slick motion and instantly cut the wolf down its body. Blood split from its side and Jaedite flicked it off from his blade in one quick swipe.
Minako cheered cheerfully and clapped about as she watched the couple fight. "Rei didn't lose her touch, and Jaedite is something else! They make such a great team!" She stared starry eyed at the two and that caught Makoto's attention. She gripped the pole under her and sighed.
Usagi watched with anger, jealously, and was slightly thankful that atleast one of them had some magic left in them. Watching Jaedite, it was the first time she was thankful for him.
Rei smiled and ran up to her opponent. "Aku Ryo-"
"Silver Stars!"
Rei flinched when she heard the wolf call an attack and three stars spun toward her. She felt Jaedite wrap his arms around her waist and slammed to the ground. He looked up at her. "Are you alright?"
"What the hell..." she groaned and sat up. "That thing... just talked!" The two wolves stood beside each other, their eyes glowing silver. Rei, still on the ground, took out a scroll and held it tightly. "What... did you do with Ami?" When it didn't answer her back, she frowned. "What did you do with AMI!"
"We already took her silver heart; That's all we need for now," said the one on the right.
"Her Silver Heart?" Makoto said from atop the swing set.
"Yes. She was only silver, sadly, but it will add greatly to our powers. Thank you for running away and leaving her." The first one looked up at the girls with one eye. It sounded somewhat female.
"What did you do to Ami?!"
"Which one are you talking back?" said the second. "The girl or the child?"
Usagi quickly looked up from Mamoru's arms. "There was a child?"
"Yeah. The one with black hair and purple eyes-"
"HOTARU?!"
Makoto frowned and jumped down from the swing pole. She held up her fists and tears streamed down her cheeks. "Silver Maiden!" The first wolf looked up at her and frowned. "Show yourself!"
It closed it's eyes, and the clouds split from the moon. In seconds, the body of the wolf was replaced by a beautiful girl, with phantom colored hair and silver eyes. She knealed on the wolf beside her and her hair covered her right eye; she white dress flew down to her ankles. "Makoto." She thought with a smile. "Kunzite's... girlfriend?"
Everyone turned their attention to Makoto, who stood furiously with red, tight fists. Letting go of Mamoru, Usagi took a step forward and looked over at the girl. "What did you do to Hotaru? What about Ami? Tell us!"
Makoto closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. "Usako. You obvisiously don't care about Kunzite."
She looked up at her, Mamoru did the same. "Mako..."
"Miss, do you claim to be Silver Maiden as Makoto stated?" Minako asked as she joined Usagi's side. Her blue eyes widened with the scence of thrill of the upcoming battle.
"Yes, I am Silver Maiden." She turned and petted the wolf that sat beside her. "I came here for power. Crystal energy. I was drawn to the Senshi of Destruction and the Senshi of Ice first." She smiled at the silver coated beast that came running from behind. It's eyes glowed blue. "Ah, I see you took the power of that girl. Good job." Silver Maiden laughed evilly and faced the group of girls. "Your end will come soon. I will be back for the orange light." Holding out her hand, a silver orb formed in her palm.
Rei took out a scroll and began to run for Silver Maiden. "Aku Ryo.." She let it fly. "Tai Sen!"
Before it could pierce Silver Maiden, she swished the blue orb to her side and vanished, leaving the fire to continue casting to the sky.
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Usagi sat on the couch of the Hikawa Temple next to Mamoru in silence. Minako brought her knees to her chin and rested her cheek on them with her eyes closed; Rei paced back and forth in the room while Jaedite leaned against the wall with folded arms.
It was three in the morning now, and with the sudden shock of the missing Hotaru and Ami, everyone was silent in disbelief. Minako cried silently to herself as she remembered the encounter of the wolves, wishing she would have stopped to help poor Ami. She shook back the tears. "Sailor Venus would never leave her friend behind. Maybe... I'm not Sailor Venus anymore."
Everyone seemed to have put their differences aside about the whole running away incident, but it was still vaguely in their minds. Rei only wondered why the girls didn't say a word about her being able to use magic. "You can use that magic if you are Sailor Mars or not," she remembers Jaedite telling her. Now, she believed him.
Everyone's heads quickly turned to the door when it slowly slid open; their tears followed along. Setsuna and Chibiusa soon appeared in the doorway and without saying a word, the little girl burst into tears. She hid her face in her father's shirt while Usagi patted her back chanting, "The girls will be okay. We'll get them back."
Setsuna just stood in the doorway and until the moonlight shined through the window, did Jaedite notice she was crying. He instantly ran to her and she rested her forehead on his shoulder and stood shivering, while he touched her cheeks and whiped her tears away. It was only after an hour, once everyone began to fall asleep in their position, did they notice Makoto wasn't with them.
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Makoto leaned against the railing and looked to the distance of the lake. Few cars zipped by on the rode beside her, but when they did, they all stopped to look. Her hands were cold as ice as she took breathes of the white air and pretended to hold it in her hand for a while. And looking up to the sky, she could only see one person in every single black cloud.
"Kunzite..."
Memories of him quickly filled her mind and the fact the person that killed him stood in front of her two hours ago made her shake with anger. She pounded her fist against the cold railing repeatedly until her fist was no longer white. "I should have killed her, but I couldn't. I didn't have my power..." she remembered the battle, the fierce fighting Rei and her lover, Jaedite, taking on the two wolves; fighting for something more, something... hidden.
"I couldn't stop her before... and I can't stop her now..." Tears rolled down her cheeks and splashed onto the railing. She watched it instantly turn to ice, as she took out her communicator and tossed it into the water. Then, she quickly turned and walked down the road, keeping one eye on the lake the whole time.
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It was a quiet morning when Rei opened her eyes to find she was back at home. She sat up and found herself changed into her night shirt and her clothes from yesterday folded neatly on the chair opposite the bed. Without calling his name, Jaedite walked into the room with a toothbrush stuck in his mouth, a towel hanging around his neck, and his black boxers on. "Morning, Rei," he mumbled as he switched the toothbrush to a different side of his mouth. Blue soap surrounded his light pink lips.
"Jaedite... when did we get home? I don't remember a thing."
Jaedite put up a finger and walked from the room, then in seconds came back in as he cleaned the soap from his mouth. "We came home after 4 a.m. Mamoru drived us because you were sleeping." He looked down at the covers. "I dressed you, also, and put you to bed."
"Oh." Rei stared at him. There were bandages wrapped around his right arm from his shoulder to his elbow. She gasped and inched closer. "What happened?!"
He touched the bandages gently. "From the battle yesteday."
She sat up in shook and gripped the covers in her hands. "That wasn't a dream?"
He laughed lightly and shook his head. "No. It wasn't," then he touched his lip, "I don't know why, but my lip was sore also. Maybe that wolf did more damage to me than I thought."
Rei leaned forward and touched the bruise on his lip, then kissed him gently. "...did that hurt?"
He looked up at her and stared, then shook his head. "Not much."
Fweh. Sorry this chapter seemed a little shorter than the rest. The company today was overloaded. -=glares at the boys in the house=- I hope you all enjoyed this chapter!