Ami ran towards her house. She was late. Again. Damn that man anyway.
He was always making her late. No matter how much she swore to herself
that she wouldn't let him this time, somehow she always ended up staying
just a minute too long.
She smiled slightly as she ran down the street towards her house. Zoicite had simply appeared in her life one day and refused to leave. She could still remember how at the beginning of her semester a year ago he had plopped himself down next to her and talked all during lecture. She had been so furious with him. Granted all the Professor had really done that day was go over the syllabus and course outline but that hadn't made her any nicer to him. But despite all her best efforts to ignore him, he had not taken the hint and actually had had the audacity to ask her out at the end of the lecture.
And after she had carefully explained to him all the reasons why she did not date while in school he had asked her out again. She hadn't known whether to laugh or scream at this point, though she had been leaning more towards screaming. And the entire time he just stood there, grinning at her like a moron. A quick glance at the clock behind him confirmed that she now only had five minutes to make it all the way across campus for her next class. He had made her late the very first time she met him.
In desperation she had tried to step around him but he had blacked her exit.
"What will it take to make you go away?!" she almost yelled at him.
"Your phone number." was the prompt reply.
"Fine!" Ami recited her number as quickly as possible and, seeing her opportunity, had actually leapt over one row of seats and made a mad dash for the door. She had been late to her next class.
That night, she had gotten a phone call. It had been him. She had been sure that she had spit out her phone number for anyone to catch but she had never encountered Zoicite before. After several minutes of him asking her out, her refusing and them his asking her out again she had finally relented, agreeing to a date, convinced that the man on the other end of the phone was a complete lunatic.
But she had gone on that first date anyways. Mostly from curiosity but determined not to enjoy herself. But Zoicite had forced her to have a good time. The man wouldn't take no for an answer and forced her to do a bunch of random, impetuous things like cartwheels in the street that left her blushing furiously but laughing breathlessly.
And at the end of the date he had kissed her, quickly before running off, yelling that he'd see her soon. She had spent a good part of the night laying in bed trying to convince her mind to stop thinking about Zoicite and let her go to sleep but her mind stubbornly refused and kept flashing scenes at her from there date and especially the kiss at the end. It was enough to make her feel like an idiot with a teenage crush. Not that she had much experience dealing with things like this. She hadn't dated a lot back in Japan and now here she had always told herself that she was too busy for a boyfriend. And it wasn't like there were a lot of guys fighting for that position.
The next day, she had been sitting in the front row of another one of her classes when a gorgeous blue violet was suddenly in her field of vision. Turning, she was confronted once again with the grinning features of Zoicite.
"What are you doing here?" she had exclaimed.
Sticking the violet behind her ear Zoicite said "I have this class too, silly."
She had just gapped at him. She had kind of assumed that since he was just a...a..goof off that he wasn't all that smart. But the more she got to know him, the more she realized she had found someone who was incredibly intelligent. He was actually going to school for biomedical engineering, and a lot of their classes overlapped each other. And he turned out to be her greatest competition for the top slot in test scores. As their relationship had progressed it had become an almost ritual between the two of them that the person with a lower score on a test they both had took the other one out to dinner.
Snapping herself out of her reverie, Ami sprinted up the stairs of her porch, flying past Kristin, one of her roommates.
"Hey Ami! You mom called! And did that blonde girl ever find you?" Grabbing her work clothes and shoving them into her bag she yelled back, "What girl?"
"There was some blonde girl looking for you earlier today but I told her you had class and then had to work tonight so maybe she'll just come back."
"Hmm..." Ami tried to think of anyone who might have been looking for her matching that description and finally gave up, shrugging, "Don't know who it was but if it's important I'm sure they'll come back.
* * * * *
Serena sat in her hotel room trying to think.
Why could nothing ever be simple? All she had wanted was to find her friend but now she had to deal with this, what ever this was.
Serena stood up and began to pace in front of the window. Why couldn't she remember what had happened in that last, final fight with Beryl? She knew her memories had been erased but she thought that they had all been returned when she had become Sailor Moon again. She could remember everything up till the very end fine but when she had used the crystal to destroy Beryl...there was something important that had happened, something she knew that she needed to remember but just couldn't.
And then there were her memories from the Silver Millennium. The good parts she could remember clearly but she still felt like her mother's magic was blurring some of the more horrible things that had happened. And she couldn't afford to not remember. She needed the truth about the Generals who fought with Beryl. In many ways it was like trying to remember a dream. You knew, just knew, that the memories were right there, just below the surface but you couldn't quite grasp them.
And why had her mother done this to her? It was one thing to try and let Serena and the scouts live normal lives here on Earth by not letting them remember the Moon but once they were forced to fight again, her mother had no right to still try and protect them by hiding their memories from them. What she needed now was in those memories, damnit!
She needed to talk to Darien and the other scouts. Maybe if they all got together they could remember something that she could not. But how could she tell the scouts that the men they had once defeated might still be alive? That Beryl might still be alive? How could she tell Darien that the men that had once been his Generals were still out there? How could she explain to her scouts that the men they had loved in another lifetime and then killed, were possibly back, possibly healed?
But she wasn't going to not tell them. The scouts were her friends, her family in more ways than one and the people that she trusted above all others. She couldn't expect them to trust her, to believe in her as their leader if she lied to them. And she would not lie to them. They deserved better. They were true warriors. People who did not flinch away from confrontation. And if she couldn't save them from having to fight this battle she could at least stand beside them as they did.
* * * * *
Ami listened to the message on the answering machine from her mother after work and frowned.
Why would her old school be trying to find her for a reunion? She hadn't actually graduated from there. She had taken several exams that equaled out to be the same as graduating so that she could attend school here in Germany but that didn't mean that her old school would acknowledge her as a graduate from there. Maybe they had gotten their records screwed up or something like that.
She'd just have to talk to her mother about it later. Right now she still had some reading to do for her classes and she was already tired from work. And she had to get it done because Zoicite owed her dinner for getting two more points than him on her biology midterm.
* * * * *
The next morning Serena packed her bag and checked out of the hotel. She needed to go home and talk to the others. As much as a part of her was screaming at her to stay and keep an eye on things, she had committed herself to a team now and those teammates of hers needed to know what was going on.
Glancing one last time towards Ami's campus, Serena teleported home from the deserted alley.
As the light faded, from deeper back in the alley, a human body was dropped with a soft thud and a pair of red eyes stared at the place where the girl had disappeared and smiled, evilly, revealing a flash of white fangs, before disappearing in it's own flash of light.
* * * * *
Hey! Okay, this is actually a little shorter than I usually shoot for but I couldn't resist stopping there. What can I say, I wanted to do a semi- cliff hanger. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this. It was mostly Ami/Zoicite so let me know if you like that or not. All mistakes are intentional. I swear. THough if you point them out to me i'll be sure to fix them asap.
And to my wonderful reviewers:
BenRG: Got you panting, huh? lol. I think I'll take that as a good thing. Anyways, yes, the villians are going to start coming out more openly and you'll have to suffer through one or two of my attempts at action/fighting scenes though I have an interesting one floating around in the back of my mind right now.
Shinigami: Yes! We've got a Ami/Zoi supporter in the group! As for them being clones, I have no idea about the blleding green thing. The crystal idea is actually a combination of the movied the Dark Crystal, and that thing that the rainbow crystals was supposed to form in the anime.
PrincessSerena66: I promise to read your fic as soon as I find some time. I have been swamped with school here recently and only managed to write this chapter because I needed to keep sane. But I swear I will read it soon.
Adyen: *bows* I have always relied upon the complements of strangers
Kaji: lol. Sure sure. You just go ahead and think what you like about the villians. hee hee, and I'm glad you like getting a response from me. There are just so many thing's people write to me in reviews that I want to respond to. And besides, I get to give all those evil little hints about the story. ;)
MoonWonderer: I hope you like where I am going with the generals here. If people really hate Zoicite, that may change how the rest of the story goes. So let me know, pleease?
lazzykane: Yea, I'm sorry about the horrible delays in getting chapters written. But I'm still alive and writing, I promise.
Bluejello: Thanks! And yea, I am going to do the whole family thing here soon to but that is going to be an on going thing, that will slowly pop up here and there.
Lil-PrincessK: Thanks. I'm still trying to give Serena that fun-loving quality without making her a total ditz. Actually, I'm sorry to say that some of the things that I have her doing in this story as sort of comedy relief things are actually things my friends and I have done. *grins sheepishly*
S. L. Butterworth: I really hope you like how I do this general plot line. Let me know though if you don't. Critisism is a good thing, I swear. hee hee. As for Lita, she's out there somewhere, kicking some butt and she'll show up soon.
Random Reader: Well, I could say blame the university for my lateness of writing but writing is what I do to keep sane. Anyways, thanks for the awsome review! History of English Language, huh? I'll take your word on that being interesting.
Venus Smurf: Hey! Alright, you have to let me know if Serena's little monologue thingy sounds like your story. For some reason, as I wrote it I kept thinking of your Roommates story. I am really sorry if I copied any of your ideas. I tried not to. Maybe I'm just being paranoid but let me know what you think. I don't want to steal you stuff, conciously or unconsiously. Anyways, hope your break was awsome. And I agree, Serena, Mina, and Rei together need someone smart and someone to act as a buffer from them all killing each other.
She smiled slightly as she ran down the street towards her house. Zoicite had simply appeared in her life one day and refused to leave. She could still remember how at the beginning of her semester a year ago he had plopped himself down next to her and talked all during lecture. She had been so furious with him. Granted all the Professor had really done that day was go over the syllabus and course outline but that hadn't made her any nicer to him. But despite all her best efforts to ignore him, he had not taken the hint and actually had had the audacity to ask her out at the end of the lecture.
And after she had carefully explained to him all the reasons why she did not date while in school he had asked her out again. She hadn't known whether to laugh or scream at this point, though she had been leaning more towards screaming. And the entire time he just stood there, grinning at her like a moron. A quick glance at the clock behind him confirmed that she now only had five minutes to make it all the way across campus for her next class. He had made her late the very first time she met him.
In desperation she had tried to step around him but he had blacked her exit.
"What will it take to make you go away?!" she almost yelled at him.
"Your phone number." was the prompt reply.
"Fine!" Ami recited her number as quickly as possible and, seeing her opportunity, had actually leapt over one row of seats and made a mad dash for the door. She had been late to her next class.
That night, she had gotten a phone call. It had been him. She had been sure that she had spit out her phone number for anyone to catch but she had never encountered Zoicite before. After several minutes of him asking her out, her refusing and them his asking her out again she had finally relented, agreeing to a date, convinced that the man on the other end of the phone was a complete lunatic.
But she had gone on that first date anyways. Mostly from curiosity but determined not to enjoy herself. But Zoicite had forced her to have a good time. The man wouldn't take no for an answer and forced her to do a bunch of random, impetuous things like cartwheels in the street that left her blushing furiously but laughing breathlessly.
And at the end of the date he had kissed her, quickly before running off, yelling that he'd see her soon. She had spent a good part of the night laying in bed trying to convince her mind to stop thinking about Zoicite and let her go to sleep but her mind stubbornly refused and kept flashing scenes at her from there date and especially the kiss at the end. It was enough to make her feel like an idiot with a teenage crush. Not that she had much experience dealing with things like this. She hadn't dated a lot back in Japan and now here she had always told herself that she was too busy for a boyfriend. And it wasn't like there were a lot of guys fighting for that position.
The next day, she had been sitting in the front row of another one of her classes when a gorgeous blue violet was suddenly in her field of vision. Turning, she was confronted once again with the grinning features of Zoicite.
"What are you doing here?" she had exclaimed.
Sticking the violet behind her ear Zoicite said "I have this class too, silly."
She had just gapped at him. She had kind of assumed that since he was just a...a..goof off that he wasn't all that smart. But the more she got to know him, the more she realized she had found someone who was incredibly intelligent. He was actually going to school for biomedical engineering, and a lot of their classes overlapped each other. And he turned out to be her greatest competition for the top slot in test scores. As their relationship had progressed it had become an almost ritual between the two of them that the person with a lower score on a test they both had took the other one out to dinner.
Snapping herself out of her reverie, Ami sprinted up the stairs of her porch, flying past Kristin, one of her roommates.
"Hey Ami! You mom called! And did that blonde girl ever find you?" Grabbing her work clothes and shoving them into her bag she yelled back, "What girl?"
"There was some blonde girl looking for you earlier today but I told her you had class and then had to work tonight so maybe she'll just come back."
"Hmm..." Ami tried to think of anyone who might have been looking for her matching that description and finally gave up, shrugging, "Don't know who it was but if it's important I'm sure they'll come back.
* * * * *
Serena sat in her hotel room trying to think.
Why could nothing ever be simple? All she had wanted was to find her friend but now she had to deal with this, what ever this was.
Serena stood up and began to pace in front of the window. Why couldn't she remember what had happened in that last, final fight with Beryl? She knew her memories had been erased but she thought that they had all been returned when she had become Sailor Moon again. She could remember everything up till the very end fine but when she had used the crystal to destroy Beryl...there was something important that had happened, something she knew that she needed to remember but just couldn't.
And then there were her memories from the Silver Millennium. The good parts she could remember clearly but she still felt like her mother's magic was blurring some of the more horrible things that had happened. And she couldn't afford to not remember. She needed the truth about the Generals who fought with Beryl. In many ways it was like trying to remember a dream. You knew, just knew, that the memories were right there, just below the surface but you couldn't quite grasp them.
And why had her mother done this to her? It was one thing to try and let Serena and the scouts live normal lives here on Earth by not letting them remember the Moon but once they were forced to fight again, her mother had no right to still try and protect them by hiding their memories from them. What she needed now was in those memories, damnit!
She needed to talk to Darien and the other scouts. Maybe if they all got together they could remember something that she could not. But how could she tell the scouts that the men they had once defeated might still be alive? That Beryl might still be alive? How could she tell Darien that the men that had once been his Generals were still out there? How could she explain to her scouts that the men they had loved in another lifetime and then killed, were possibly back, possibly healed?
But she wasn't going to not tell them. The scouts were her friends, her family in more ways than one and the people that she trusted above all others. She couldn't expect them to trust her, to believe in her as their leader if she lied to them. And she would not lie to them. They deserved better. They were true warriors. People who did not flinch away from confrontation. And if she couldn't save them from having to fight this battle she could at least stand beside them as they did.
* * * * *
Ami listened to the message on the answering machine from her mother after work and frowned.
Why would her old school be trying to find her for a reunion? She hadn't actually graduated from there. She had taken several exams that equaled out to be the same as graduating so that she could attend school here in Germany but that didn't mean that her old school would acknowledge her as a graduate from there. Maybe they had gotten their records screwed up or something like that.
She'd just have to talk to her mother about it later. Right now she still had some reading to do for her classes and she was already tired from work. And she had to get it done because Zoicite owed her dinner for getting two more points than him on her biology midterm.
* * * * *
The next morning Serena packed her bag and checked out of the hotel. She needed to go home and talk to the others. As much as a part of her was screaming at her to stay and keep an eye on things, she had committed herself to a team now and those teammates of hers needed to know what was going on.
Glancing one last time towards Ami's campus, Serena teleported home from the deserted alley.
As the light faded, from deeper back in the alley, a human body was dropped with a soft thud and a pair of red eyes stared at the place where the girl had disappeared and smiled, evilly, revealing a flash of white fangs, before disappearing in it's own flash of light.
* * * * *
Hey! Okay, this is actually a little shorter than I usually shoot for but I couldn't resist stopping there. What can I say, I wanted to do a semi- cliff hanger. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this. It was mostly Ami/Zoicite so let me know if you like that or not. All mistakes are intentional. I swear. THough if you point them out to me i'll be sure to fix them asap.
And to my wonderful reviewers:
BenRG: Got you panting, huh? lol. I think I'll take that as a good thing. Anyways, yes, the villians are going to start coming out more openly and you'll have to suffer through one or two of my attempts at action/fighting scenes though I have an interesting one floating around in the back of my mind right now.
Shinigami: Yes! We've got a Ami/Zoi supporter in the group! As for them being clones, I have no idea about the blleding green thing. The crystal idea is actually a combination of the movied the Dark Crystal, and that thing that the rainbow crystals was supposed to form in the anime.
PrincessSerena66: I promise to read your fic as soon as I find some time. I have been swamped with school here recently and only managed to write this chapter because I needed to keep sane. But I swear I will read it soon.
Adyen: *bows* I have always relied upon the complements of strangers
Kaji: lol. Sure sure. You just go ahead and think what you like about the villians. hee hee, and I'm glad you like getting a response from me. There are just so many thing's people write to me in reviews that I want to respond to. And besides, I get to give all those evil little hints about the story. ;)
MoonWonderer: I hope you like where I am going with the generals here. If people really hate Zoicite, that may change how the rest of the story goes. So let me know, pleease?
lazzykane: Yea, I'm sorry about the horrible delays in getting chapters written. But I'm still alive and writing, I promise.
Bluejello: Thanks! And yea, I am going to do the whole family thing here soon to but that is going to be an on going thing, that will slowly pop up here and there.
Lil-PrincessK: Thanks. I'm still trying to give Serena that fun-loving quality without making her a total ditz. Actually, I'm sorry to say that some of the things that I have her doing in this story as sort of comedy relief things are actually things my friends and I have done. *grins sheepishly*
S. L. Butterworth: I really hope you like how I do this general plot line. Let me know though if you don't. Critisism is a good thing, I swear. hee hee. As for Lita, she's out there somewhere, kicking some butt and she'll show up soon.
Random Reader: Well, I could say blame the university for my lateness of writing but writing is what I do to keep sane. Anyways, thanks for the awsome review! History of English Language, huh? I'll take your word on that being interesting.
Venus Smurf: Hey! Alright, you have to let me know if Serena's little monologue thingy sounds like your story. For some reason, as I wrote it I kept thinking of your Roommates story. I am really sorry if I copied any of your ideas. I tried not to. Maybe I'm just being paranoid but let me know what you think. I don't want to steal you stuff, conciously or unconsiously. Anyways, hope your break was awsome. And I agree, Serena, Mina, and Rei together need someone smart and someone to act as a buffer from them all killing each other.