Title : Wipe Out
Fandom : Sailor Moon (anime) Dark Kingdom
Pairing : Kunzite / Zoisite
Rating : a bit of violence and hints of sex
Copyright : Zoisite, Kunzite, Sailor Moon and the rest are the property of Naoko Takeuchi and Toei Animation, if I recall.
Author's notes : the "pattern" for a while will be to alternate narration by Zoisite / Shiro and Kunzite, one chapter each. This one is by Kunzite and his chapters are usually shorter than Shiro's own.
Chapter 2 : Spells
His breath is quiet and slow for a long while, but I know he's not sleeping yet. He must be extremely confused. I feel so, too, and unlike him I know what happened. Even if I'm not really sure of how and why it did.
I usually don't need much sleep, and can even do without if necessary, but the Ginzuishou drained me... Yet a diffuse pain comes in throbs from my hands and prevents me from sleeping.
I used a spell to reduce the intensity of signals coming through my arms nerves, but despite what I told Zoisite, I didn't completely suppress them. I need to be able to hold things, and some spells do require specific moves.
Zoisite's care seems to have done some good, though - if anything, it distracted me quite pleasantly from pain for a moment...
I will stay awake until the pain fades enough. I have too many things to do before I could get some rest anyway.
Lying on my back, I analyze Nephrite's protection spells. They're not good enough if I've been able to find the mansion that easily. I reinforce them with my own inventions, adding to it elements that I know will disturb Beryl's magic.
Damn woman. I really wanted to believe that Queen Metallia couldn't have been so mistaken in choosing her as her vessel, but she made it impossible. Apart from the day where she broke Morgaine's barrier and freed Metallia, and the information she provided on the Earthian Kingdom, I can't think of any occasion where she was more helpful than damageable to us.
Zoisite - no, Shiro - finally fell asleep. The house secured, I give myself a respite to watch him in the dark. Being born in the Dark Kingdom has some advantages. Night vision is one of them. I don't have to risk awakening him by creating light to gaze at his beauty.
Since he didn't age once he became one of us, he shouldn't look younger than when he was Zoisite, but he does in a way. Or maybe he just looks less dangerous.
Not that it was ever a good idea to consider him as safe. I smile as I remember his wicked attacks and feels a bite in my heart. As if I had one.
What has he lost exactly when the Ginzuishou healed him? Has it just erased Metallia's influence, or also changed his human personality to make him more... moral, the way the Senshi are?
I hope not. I will have to check that. A more heroic Shiro would never accept to stay with me, I'm afraid. Though I'm not sure it would make a difference, with the time we've left.
Anyway, we need human identities. I go back into the ethereal plane to track the spells that Nephrite used to create his human persona.
I have to admit that I'm impressed by these. They deal with those tricky devices that they call computers and altered their data.
I usually avoid them because they are very sensitive to energy. Nephrite obviously was more at ease with refined art craft than with raw power, as his star spells indicated.
Too bad for him that he never took Zoisite seriously enough. I don't think he realized that it was not just for his pretty face that I had chosen him, but also because he had a real talent for fencing, and even better, a mind for scheming and magic.
I replicate his spells and adapt them to create birth records, school files and bank accounts for me and Zoisite. I have to make sure that Shiro's needs will be covered whatever happens to me, now that he has lost his powers.
My task is made more complicated by the precautions that I take to avoid leaving traces that Beryl could detect.
That work of precision achieves to exhaust me. When my spirit leaves the ethereal plane, I find myself breathing harshly. I wanted to make the mansion more comfortable before giving up to sleep, but I'm too tired.
I wonder what the Senshi are up to, and if Beryl managed to get the Ginzuishou from them. I don't know what I should hope for. Both sides will want us dead, now. I just wish for days, or weeks, before it ends.
--- to be continued ---
