Chapter 7
Ami sat in her room contemplating life. It wasn't as though she didn't love life, she did love her life. She occasionally missed her absent father and she missed her workaholic mother as well. But she had her friends.
Ami was still the genius of the group. She had got them through high school and now it was college. It wasn't as though she didn't have time now to be a Senshi but it was hard to be a senshi and a medical student all in one. This new enemy had her spooked.
Ami stood up and walked out of her apartment building. She walked down the road until she came to their old high school. It felt like ages ago that she had actually visited this place. She walked over to old tree in the back.
"Hello Ami" said a voice behind her. Ami turned around and there was Greg or what looked like Greg.
"Greg what are you doing here?" Ami asked him.
"Well to be honest I'm not really here...well not the Greg you know. I'm am General Ryo of the Mercury Army. I am an image of the past life of Greg, your friend." said the image before her.
"Why have you come to me?" Ami asked him.
"Its hard to be a Senshi Ami, I know you always thought it was your destiny. And it was. But it was hard, even harder now that you live in a time where people you once knew are dead. I knew you a millennium ago, I pined for you but you were another's and that is how destiny works" he said. "But to me you were always the Princess before the Warrior and the Scholar before the Princess. I remember you mother scolding you one time for not listening to state affairs while you were reading up on neurons. But your people always came before yourself...and Serenity came before it all" he explained.
"Greg...Ryo...why are you telling me this?" Ami asked confusion dancing in her blue eyes.
"Because it is time you realized that you are more than a Scholar and more than a Warrior you are a Princess. The respected leader of a planet" he said.
"But my people are dead!" Ami exclaimed in a fevered voice.
"That may be or not...I do not know...but I do know that you need your ultimate power to defeat the enemy without it you will not survive my Princess" said Greg. As he said this a glowing blue orb appeared in his hands and he released it into Ami.
Ami began to float in the air as ice crystals formed around her. As she landed on the ground she became Queen Ami of the Planet Mercury. But with this new power came her memories...Ami began to cry. To cry for her love lost, her peoples deaths and her Princess. She cried until she was dry. As she looked at Greg he smiled a knowing smile.
"It is good to know that you are whole. With this gift comes greater responsibility and with this comes greater danger and hope. Be sure to follow your heart my Princess and it will lead you right" said the image as it began to fade away. "I loved you my Princess and I will love you until the end" the image said as it went away.
Ami opened her eyes and she was again underneath the cherry tree weeping. As she started to walk away Queen Ami melded into Ami Mizuno and they became one.