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Chapter 8
Ami, Wufei, and Greg wadded in the water, about 30 feet from Usagi and Mamoru, whom were now on shore, making a sand castle together. luna and Artemis, along with Diana, were sleeping on the blankets.
After a few silent minutes, Ami straitened up.
"This isn't much fun...maybe I'll swim later," she said, walking out. She grabbed her towel once she reached the blankets and dryed herself off entirely.
"Hey Ami, we're gonna get some lemonade from the stand over thre, want some," Minako asked, already headed towards the counter.
"Sure, I'll be right there, you can go ahead," Ami said. Minako, Heero, Duo and Makoto nodded and walked off.
Ami finished drying herself off and realaxed. Wufei and Greg were walking back, a large distance between the two. Greg almost tripped over Quatre, buried in the sand, and Quatre sat up instantly, Rei giggling at him slightly.
For someone whom could see the furture, Greg sure was unaware of what was coming at him that day. Ami sighed. He had been that way ever since they had left the apartment. Why had she turned him down anyways? She had given him several reasons, but she really didn't believe any of them...
She walked after the others, passing by a man in sunglasses with dark hair. He was in a pair of shorts, and he was on a chair, holding a big newspaper up over his face.
She noticed him look up at her, but decided it was just some pervert at the beach, and continued.
From his position on the hair, Siruto's hands tightened around the newspaper, crumpling it.
How he hated the Mercury scout. He quickly went to raise the paper befor Lara or her perverted boy toy saw him, but it was too late.
Lara stomped over, glaring. in a low voice, she asked.
"What areyou doing here?"
"Me? Oh nothing, just getting a tan," Siruto said, giving an evil smile.
"Look, master said that it was MY mission! not yours! Go get some energy or something!"
"Look, I am here to get energy. Besides, it's me that has a problem with the scout, why should someone so insignificant as you who doesn't care get the mission?"
"How would you know whether or not I cared about the scout's take down?" At his silence, Lara laughed. "Exactly, you don't. You know nothing about me."
Turning away, she followed Ami, and Josh got up and followed Lara, winking and snickering at Siruto, whom only growled in response.
Wufei dryed himself off, glaring at Greg the whole time as Greg watched Ami walk away. How he hated that foolish boy.Something about him made Wufei angry...he paused to look at Ami.
Something about her was not right either. She was hiding something, and despite the fact that Wufei thought that all woman were weak, he was drawn to her in a way he didn't understand. Why was he so interestedin the weak onna? He tried to dismiss itas his mission. After all, Heero had assigned them all toeachgirl at the mall, and either the rest of thepilots were flirting, or they were all trying harder than Wufei was to get information. He sighed.He would have to have even more alone time with the onna to find out anything else, which both pleased him and angered him...
Ami walked up to the counter, Josh and Lara having caught up to her, and ordered a fruity drink. Minako sipped at her lemonade as she and the others stood by waiting forLara and Josh to order. She was staring at the couple, and she knew that Makoto was too. Something about Lara and Josh was...just not right, and she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
They finished drinking, and Lara seemed to have just remembered something.
"I left something in my bag, can you come with me Josh," she said, and Josh nodded and followed her.
Lara made a sharp turn away from the blankets and away from everyone else's view.
"I just remembered our traps! We didn't even think to use them here to search for the hidden strength!"
"What about Siruto? When will he attack? He'll disrupt our plans!" Josh glanced over to wear he thought Siruto was last time.
"No you dope," Lara said, glancing around, "we wait until Siruto attacks to set them off, then it looks like his doing!" Josh smiled at Lara's suggestion.
"Alright then, let's set them up."
About a half hour later, Ami was bored of sitting.
"I wanna go swimming."
Wufei and greg looked up from their seats next to her on the grass.
"I'll go," Greg said.
"Me too," Wufei added.
"Hey," Lara piped up, "why don't you guys rent a jet ski? Me and Josh are! it's better than just swimming," Lara said. They all agreed and stood. Minako and Duo wanted to go onto the sand. Heero and Makoto went to go get a tan. usagi and Mamoru were now pretty much asleep, leaning against a tree, Usagi leaning on Mamoru. Rei and Quatre were now on the refreshment stand.
"Well, only two people can fit on a jet ski," Ami said, as they approached the dock renting the jet ski's.
"Um...you and I can ride one, and Wufei can ride another," Greg said as Wufei looked up sharply.
"Yeah, fine, come one," Lara said, grabbing Josh's hand and running towards teh rental.Her and Josh asked for three. Before the otehrs got there, she placed a small, almostinvisible blue gem on both the jet ski's. Whoever was driving would have quite a shock in a moment.
Wufei got on one, and Greg drove, Ami holding his waist frombehind.
Lara chuckled as she climbed on hers withJosh. She and Josh had been placing the traps around the beach, the little gems, for the past twenty minutes. It was only a matter of time untilSiruto acted, and when he did, all hell would break loose.
Greg put the key in the ignition and turned it, the chain going around his wrist. Wufei did the same. The two looked at each other. Lara and Josh had already spead off. A sense of dread filled Ami, as the jet ski's started up with a burst.
Before Ami could offer a warnign to either of them, the jet ski's took of at the same time, and Ami was lurched backwards, gripping onto greg as her head was thrown back then forwads painfully.
"Greg lease, this is no race," Ami tried to say over the sound of the Jet ski. They turned right, and the waves smashed against them, throwing he jet ski's up every time.
Ami supressed a scream and clung to Greg tightly. Not that she wasn't a great swimmer, but this was dangerous for all of them. Screams suddenly reached her ears. She looked over at the shore, now farther than she thought, and could see peopel running around in a panic. A man stood hovering above the beach. Siruto.
All of a sudden, something that seemd like an electric shock pulsed through the crowd, causing lowder screams of agony. From what Ami couldnt see, the gems Lara and Josh had put had been activated when Siruto had unleashed his youma, all looking like he had done it.
Ami suddenly heard a groan from in front of her. Ami looked over Greg's shoulder, shielding her eyes slightly from the water. Was he having some sort of a vision? There was a small blue gem on the handle bar, almost pulsating energy. All of a sudden, it exploded in light, causing Greg and Ami to scream. Next to them, they heard Wufei do the same. In the front, Greg got the shock.
He slumped from his seat, falling off the edge, unconsious. The key fell from the hole, and as the jet ski turned off it crashed into a wave. The jet ski flipped over as it hit the wave, turning over on it's side as it hit the water with a thud. Ami was frantic as she flew off of the jet ski, wondering where Greg had been thrown off during the few moments he was unconsious. Landing with a splash in the water, she momentarilly got the wind knocked out of her as she sank, and swam to the surface before she drowned ,emerging and taking a deep breath.
Where were Greg and Wufei? Were were they? She looked around for the shore, and saw that they were VERY far away, and the beach her friends were on was 100's of meters away. She froze. Greg and Wufei must have sank, being unconsious.
Taking a deep breath, she swam under again, frantically searching for their bodies. She thought she spotted someone in the depths of the murky water. As she quickly neared, she saw it was Greg. She grabbed a hold of him and tried to maintain her air.She quickly swam to the top, coming up with a huge burst from teh water and taking a deep breath. She placed Greg over one of the jet ski's, and took in another deep breath, looking for Wufei as she swam. Farther down, towards the opposite side, she thought she spotted someone. Wufei had been under so long, Ami was worried as she neared the unmoving sinking victim.
She grabbed hold of his arm, and tiredly began to swim back up to the surface, which was now very far away. She felt like her lungs were going to burst about a quater of the way there. She had never been under this long. She had to save herself and Wufei though. She continued, but found her eye lids drooping.
'No Ami, not now. You can't pass out now,' she told herself as she struggled. Her attempts were futile, as she soon realized that she wouldn't make it. She felt her muscles stiffen as she began to sink slightly, her eyelids closing more.
She couldn't let the two of them go down like this, could she? Frantically, Ami gave one final attempt to swim up before water completely filled her lungs. With one final burst of strength, Ami saw a blue light encircle her and Wufei, and se had swum to the surface before she knew it. The light dissapeared as she emerged from the water, taking a deep breath as she did so. Greg was shifting around on the jet ski, coughing. Ami placed Wufeion the other one, taking deep, pained breaths. Greg looked up, his eyes glassy.
"God...what happened? It felt likeI was being electrified." He coughed some more. Ami felt like her lungs were going to explode from how hard she was breathing. She checked on Wufei. He wasn't breathing at all. He had been under so long without air. her eyes glassed over.
"He needs help, we have to get to the nearest shore," Ami said between coughs, tiredly climbing on the jet ski Wufei was on and starting it. Greg nodded, still coughing and did the same. They rode to the nearest shore, still far from the chaos, and Greg colapsed onto teh beach, breathing heavilly. Ami felt like doing the same as she pulled Wufei onto the sand. He needed CPR.
So she did so, Greg breathing heavilly besides her.
She opened his mouth and breathed in, then placed her hands together on his chest and applied pressure.
"12345," she whispered to herself as she did so, repeating the process over and over. She felt like crying when it didn't work. Finally, when Ami felt like giving up, Wufei shifted and began to cough. Sitting up, he coughed up a bunch of water. Ami sighed in relief, and collapsed onto the sand, breathing heavilly.
"Thankyou Ami. Are you alright," Greg asked, moving towards her.
"Yeah...I just...need a minute," she said in between breaths.
Wufei regulated his own breathing.
"Yeah...thanks," he said reluctantly. Ha hated to admit that he had needed help, especially HER help,but he did.
Ami struggled to her feet, Greg helping her and Wufei managing to get up himself.
"We have to get to the beach...there's been an attack. That's why you two were hurt," she explained. The three looked over, distantly, there seemd to be some comotion on the beach.
"Fine, but I'm too tired to walk back. We're taking the jet ski's there," Greg said.
"Don't you think those cursed machines have done enough damage," Wufei asked. Greg shrugged. Ami walked over to one, and climbed on, starting it and throwing the two off of arguement.
This time, Wufei hopped on with Ami, while Greg started the other one.
They took off towards the beach. Meanwhile...
Minako screamed as she threw off whatever that gem thingy was that Siruto had shocked her with. There was chaos on the beach, it was littered with unconsious people and youma walked around, draining energy. Strangely enough though, that blue gem did not drain her energy.
She and Duo jumped inside the woman's locker room, empty now of beach goers, and hid. She saw that Makoto and Heero were there. Heero was unconsious.
On the otehr side of the beach, Quatre carried an unconsious Rei past some youma towards the small forest area beyond the beach, where he set her down, worry evident on his face.
Usagi and Mamoru ran, hand in hand, down the beach away from a youma out for their energy.
Behind them ran the three cats: Luna, Artemis, and Diana.
Ami, Wufei, and Greg turned off the jet ski's about 30 feet form the shore.
They hopped out trying to be unnoticed as they tiredly made their way for the shore, concerned only for their friends.
Ami paused, she noticed Siruto on the beach with some youma about another 40 feet away from the shore. If he saw her, he could reveal her, in front of Wufei.
"There's Usagi and mamoru," Greg whispered, directing her gaze at the couple now running from an injured youma, towards the locker rooms.Something caught Ami's eye. She turned to see Lara and Josh. They wereboth sitting cross legged on the pavement, behinda bunch of plants. They were chatting almost...casually.
"Come," Siruto finally anounced, "quickly. We were lucky today. The sailor Senshi...were not here."
"Think again!"
Siruto looked up to se ethe senshi Neptune and Uranus standing next to each other. Apparently, on of theother senshi had called them, unable to get away from the others.
Before Siruto could blink, he was attacked. By the senshi, and they didn't even touch his youma. They aimed ta him for a reason. He let out an anguished cry and fell to the floor.
"You...you pathetic! You-" Siruto was injured, and stopped himself there, dissapearing. The youma all did the same before they were killed.
Ami, Greg, and Wufei began to search for their friends.
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