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 : this one is special, as I wanted another point of view.
So it's Minako speaking (she happens to be my favorite inner Senshi,
and she is the only one who could guess what's spoken of here...).
Chapter 11 : Mystery
Aino Minako's diary.
Dear diary,
Today has been very strange.
You remember what I wrote earlier after we met Zoisite in civilian disguise, and what Kunzite told us about him? That he had lost his memories and his powers, and that they had both deserted the Dark Kingdom?
Ami had confirmed to us that he had said the truth at least about Zoisite's powers. And later that day, Zoisite also said the same thing about his memory loss.
Not that I would trust him usually, and I'd normally suspect that he had set that trap with the two youma who attacked us. But both of them did seem to try to kill him, and eventually he got nothing from us, and didn't attack us either.
So, I figured we should at least give him and Kunzite the benefit of the doubt, or at least turn our attention to the Queens.
I thought about it later, from what we had seen and what else Kunzite had said. In the Starlight Tower, he did confront Queen Beryl and said he would not fight for her any longer. And he protected Zoisite from her when she asked him to kill him.
He just refused to say if that had anything to do with him deserting, but... my intuition, or Venus, whispered something to me each time I saw these two together. Something in the way he spoke the name of Zoisite, maybe just the fact that there was something in his voice when he spoke of him... While I never heard anything but coldness in it.
From the first time we met, when Zoisite had set us a trap as a fake Sailor Moon. It was already unusual to see two Tennou working together. At that time, yet, while Zoisite had seemed to be concerned about Kunzite, it didn't look reciprocal.
Well today, after school, Artemis and Luna gathered us near the Starlight Tower, where an ice maze attraction had appeared. Ami's computer analyzed it as being of youma origin and draining people's energy.
When we entered it, we were soon caught by a teleportation spell. It was Kunzite.
When he asked for our assistance, the other ones all thought he was trying to fool us, but once again Venus suggested something other.
It is hard to believe that there might be a kind of corrupted love between two members of the Dark Kingdom, especially of the Shitennou. And especially these two ones.
The girls had told me that Nephrite, the Tennou who was killed by Zoisite before I joined them, seemed to have grown to like Naru. He even went as far as protecting her from Zoisite's youma. So, they are not completely immune to feelings.
But this only proved that Zoisite was remorseless enough to kill his own kind, joyfully even.
Kunzite's condition to his help only fueled more distrust from my fellow Senshi, as it was out of character for him, they say.
Could there really be something other than a twisted parody of love between two Tennou as ruthless as Zoisite and Kunzite? My mind tells me it can't, but my heart, and my Senshi intuition coming from my connection to Venus, says the contrary.
Maybe we shouldn't trust that, but no matter what it is, I think I can trust that Kunzite is now mad enough at Metallia and Beryl to turn against them.
I hope I am not making a mistake, because I convinced Usagi and the other girls to follow me on this one. If I am wrong, not only our lives, but the freedom of Earth, might suffer from it.
Tomorrow morning, we will take the path that he indicated to us, that according to him leads to an access to the Dark Kingdom. Artemis and Luna's first analysis confirms it, so we are taking the fight into the enemy's lair.
I don't know if we will come back at all.
Venus, be strong enough to shake the hold of evil on these two Tennou, for the destiny of Earth might depend on them now.
to be continued...
