Chapter 2: The As Of Yet Unnamed Chapter.

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Xavior flattened himself against the wall and tried his best to hide as she rushed past him. Amazingly, it worked. She rushed right past, more than likely with more important things on her mind... like an 8-foot tall flaming demon. Making sure to stay as hidden as he could while keeping up with her, he traced behind her. At one point he actually had to dive behind a locker when she spun around, the thought perhaps now fully hitting her that maybe the footsteps she heard weren't only her own. Then she was back on the run and Xavior was after her again, until he finally hit the group of fleeing students, cut off by the same thing they'd be running for. It didn't speak, but there was a flickering waver to it that looked almost like laughter when Ami rushed up. "Hey! That's Sailor Mercury!" Chris said. "Check that out!"

"Sailor Mercury? What are you talking about?"
"Local legend, new kid, bunch of superheroes or something close.. Seem to show up whenever we have problems of the demonic kind, long as it's happening around Juuban." Chris answered with another sagely nod.

"Anyone know who they are?"

"Not to my knowledge, Xav, sorry."

Well... looks like I know something you don't know, Chris old buddy old pal. Xavior smirked slightly. "Oh, alright, too bad. Usual superhero deal of protecting your identity, I suppose."

"Makes sense."

"Mercury... Aqua... Rhapsody!" Huge waves of water suddenly washed over the demon, which recoiled, steam hissing from his body.

"You know... I'm not a huge fan of water. I think I'm gonna finish this before you do anything like that again!" The demon's arm shot out, growing several feet as it shot towards Sailor Mercury, who dived out of the way.

"You missed! I think I'm going to be the one to finish this fight! Mercury Bubbles Blast!" A stream of bubbles flew at the creature, which blocked them with the arm it had just shot at Sailor Mercury.

"You should have stuck to the other attack! It was a lot better." With this he shot out the arm again, waited for Sailor Mercury to dodge, and then brought it back around. Sailor Mercury dived when she realized what was happening, but the arm still struck her side and she was thrown into a wall. "Owww... That really stung... I guess I'll take your advice and stick to the other one! Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!" The waves crashed into the demon, which lost the arm it was attack with. "My arm! Ouch! Still... not bad, girl, but not enough!" The fire demon shot its other arm past her, dug its hand into the wall, then shot itself at Sailor Mercury. Suddenly the entire room was covered in fog. "Oh... tricky, aren't we? It's not gonna save you, though." The demon's remaining arm shot out and began spinning around the room, slowly growing longer as it did. "Eventually my arm's gonna grow enough to hit you! There's no way to avoid it!"

"Okay then, I'll try this!" Sailor Mercury waited for the arm to pass her then ran up to the monster. "Mercury... Aqua... RHAPSODY!" Waves slammed directly into the monster, quickly dousing him completely. "Phew... a few more moments and that arm would have come around again... That was a close one."

Sailor Mercury ran off, the fog fading just as she got into an empty classroom and transformed back into Ami, then ran back out. "What happened to the monster? I got a bit turned around..." She turned to the nearest person, who happened to be Xavior. "Hey, you're the guy from this morning! Xavior, right?"

"That's me. And you're Ami Mizuno, right?"
"Yeah... did you see what happened to that monster? That really big flaming demon? I wasn't there... Got turned around."

Funny how you know what it looked like when you weren't there, Ami... "Sailor Mercury showed up and took it out, actually. It was pretty cool."

"Sailor Mercury showed up? Wish I had been there."

"Yeah, me too. It was pretty cool how she finished him off... you shoulda seen it."

"You could see it through the f-"

"Ha! Got you. Now there's just the matter of begging you not to erase my memory."

"You figured it out? How?"

"Number of things, actually... One, I saw you transform. Two, your unfortunate slips of the tongue. First how you managed to know what the monster looked like even though you weren't there, or so you said... and second you knew about the fog."

"I've got to watch what I say... Wait... you saw me transform?"

Xavior nodded. "Yep, sure did."

"This definitely throws everything off... as far as I know, nobody knows the identity of any of the other Senshi..."

Xavior looked at her quickly. "Do you know them?"

"Um... no, not at all! For all I know, they might live in completely different cities!" Ami said quickly. "We meet sometimes at a local shrine... and as far as I know the others have only shown up in Juuban, so I think they live here... but I have no clue who they are!"

"If you say so... I'll keep your secret, alright? Just don't, like, turn me into an ice cube or something and I'll keep my mouth shut."

"Really? You will! Thank you!" She smiled. "Thanks a lot, Xavior!"

"Feh, I know how the superhero business works. I read a lot of comics before I moved up to Japan... And the big thing was that if any of their identities were found out, there was always trouble. Families were threatened... In short, it was never good."

Ami nodded. "Well, in any case, thanks!"

"No problem. See ya later!" Xavior ran off down the hall. Well... probably have off school tomorrow, anyway. There's always that I guess.

Sure enough, an announcement was given a few minutes later that because of extensive damage on the top floor, where the monster had apparently been first, and some on the bottom floor, there would be no school for a couple days. Chris suddenly showed up in front of him. "Have a pleasant talk with Ami?"

"I know what you're insinuating, and you're an idiot. Just so you know."

"That hurts. You cut me real deep there, Xavior."

"You'll live." Xavior grinned. "So, where's the other Musketeer? We seem to have lost Roger."

"You know, you're right... I wonder where he got to? He disappeared right around the time when that guy burst into our room!"

"Yeah... I wonder where he got to..." I wonder... nah, no way! He couldn't have...

Roger hid in one of the lockers until he was sure there was no one around... and then cracked it open. No way... That nerd Ami Mizuno is one of the Senshi? Sailor Mercury? I can't believe it...

A/N: And now... the first cliffie of the story! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Hold your applause. If you want. I'll gladly accept it anyway. And for RySenkari... this may be the only chapter I can get done before you arrive... but I might get 3 done before you get back from Disneyworld... I might not... but I'll gonna try like hell! I'm also gonna try to come up with a name for this chapter.