Hey, this is the last chapter. I have a lot of things to tie up in this chapter, so it's going to be VERY long, but I don't have time to do another chapter before I go on vacation, so I have to finish it now. Enjoy this very long chapter! Sorry for typos, but this chapter was majorly rushed.
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Chapter 15
"Get up Saturn," Mercury said, lightly touching her shoulder, "they'll be fine. At this moment, I'm guessing they're better off than you are."
Saturn stood and turned to look up at Mercury.
"Why?"
"Because you two got stuck with me, and the enemy has been after me, no one else. So I'm sorry in advance."
Wufei said nothing as he watched the two. Saturn shook her head.
"Don't even say that."
The carnival music suddenly stopped, and the three began to look around.
The rides all stopped moving, and everything was still.
"What now," Saturn asked, as Mercury opened her visor.
"Have you seperated the scouts," Master asked as Greg and Siruto bowed deeply in front of him.
"Yes Master. They are all in the amusement park," Siruto responded.
His master raised an eyebrow. "I thought you said that you seperated them."
"Oh, pardon HIS grammer Master," Greg cut in, smiling at Siruto evily, "the amusement park is no ordinary place. It has about 7 parallel dimensions. So the scouts won't meet up unless they know how to jump dimensions."
Master nodded.
"Brilliant. Now you don't have to waste your time setting up different places to keep them. It's one in the same, only they are divided. Now where is the Mercury scout?"
"She is in the original demension of the amusement park. Shall we take you there?" Siruto asked quickly, cutting off Greg.
"No no," Master said, "I want you to rough her up a bit first. For at least an hour, you must keep the senshi entertained. Then you can bring Mercury to me. All will be revealed to her, and she will be too weak to stop me from stealing her powers."
"How shall we do that," Greg asked.
"However you want. The senshi are yours for the next hour. Just make sure that Mercury is alive, hurt so it's easy, but breathing when you bring her to me," Master said, and Siruto and Greg glanced at each other. Master dissapeared, leaving the two alone.
"How shall we do this," Siruto asked.
"I say we find out just how much the senshi and pilots really know about each other," Greg said, "and then once they realize they know nothing, they'll all seperate and fight with each other!"
"Even though I hate you, that was brilliant," Siruto said. The two dissapeared.
Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, and Mini-Moon all walked together through the amusement park.
The rides were still on, and the scary music didn't help anything. Because Moon and Mini-Moon were jumping at every sound.
Mamoru sighed.
"Girls, please. I'll warn you if you're in any realy danger."
"Right," the two said, and the three kept walking.
Before the two knew what was coming, Mamoru had tackled the two to the floor, as a beam of light flew over their heads.
"I thought it was going to be a verbal warning," Moon cried as she sat up and rubbed her head, "Thanks."
The three turned to see two youma. The youma were dressed as clowns, and smiling.
"Aww, they would be cute if they weren't holding those laser guns," Mini-Moon said.
Venus and Duo were holding hands as they walked cautiously through the amusement park. Duo had his gun out and he was walking in front of her, looking around carefully, taking notice of every detail.
Venus had never seen Duo like this. He was so cool, so calm, so...sexy. She liked it.
The two walked silently.
"Why did the music stop," Duo suddenly asked. Venus grew more alert.
"Someone's here," she said.
Suddenly, a different, loud music started up, and the two followed the sound.
They arrived in front of a big, wooden stage. On this stage was a round, wooden wheel. It was flat, and the two walked over. The music had stopped. Venus touched the side. It was sturdy, it wouldn't turn.
"Strange," she muttered, and Duo nodded.
"I say we get out of here," he said, and Venus agreed, the two about to walk off. Suddenly something latched onto her wrist, and she gasped. Duo stopped when he heard her, and turned around. There was a metal cuff on Venus's wrist. It was attatched to the big wooden circle.
She began to tug at it, at first lightly, then in a more panicked way. Duo ran over and he tugged too.
"I'd use my crescent beam to zap it off," she said, "but I'm afraid I'll hurt my wrist in the process."
"I can try to shoot it off," Duo offered, readying his gun.
"Alight. Don't hurt me," she said, turning her face away so that her hand didn't shake at all when she watched.
"Don't worry," he said, "I happen to have very good aim."
Duo readied his gun, aiming right for the chain, and fired. A small beam of purple light came from the gun and hit the chain, but it didn't break. Venus turned to stare at her chain.
"Uh oh."
"Indeed it is," a voice said, and Siruto jumped from a pole he had suddenly appeared on in front of them.
"Very good, my youma. Now do as we discussed."
A purple youma wearing a ring master's outfit emerged form the shadows, and Siruto dissapeared.
"Today, I have a great show planned for you," it said, and before Duo could react, both of his hands became chained o the wooden backgound, and his gun clattered to the ground. Venus's free hand was chained as well, so the two stood chained next to each other, wondering what they had gotten themselves into.
"What is this," Duo asked angrilly.
"This is a game," the youma said, "and losers die."
Venus and Duo looked at each other.
"Here's what we're going to do. I ask questions, you answer right or get zapped. Ready? Good. Question 1, this is directed at Venus. Venus, tell me the origin of Duo's name."
Venus paused. Duo never discussed his past with her. They were in trouble now.
"I need an answer," the youma snarled.
"Is it...was it his father's name," she guessed more than answered. The youma smiled.
"Wrong!" Venus and Duo both screamed loudly as they were electrified.
It stopped, and the youma smiled.
"Duo, give her the answer, and maybe I'll make the next question easier." Duo groaned slightly but nodded.
"I was a war orphan living on L2. I had a friend named Solo, whom was killed, so I named myself Duo, meaning two, Solo and myself. I was taken in by the Maxwell Church, which is where I got my name from."
Venus nodded, suddenly feeling very sad. It seemed that the joker of the pilots had a horrible past.
"Good. Now this question is for Mr. Maxwell. Why is Venus called Sailor V?"
"Um...a short form," Duo guessed.
"Wrong again!" The two screamed again as they were zapped longer this time.
"Venus, your answer."
"I used to live in England. I fought crime there as Sailor V after a talking cat, Artemis found me. I met a guy there, who was a re-incarnation of someone I loved form my past. Before he died, he told me I had a past as well, and told me about the Moon Kingdom, and how I was Sailor Venus. I was also informed I would forever be without love. This encouraged me to come to Tokyo and assume my real senshi identity, Sailor Venus."
"Venus, why does Duo fight as a pilot?"
"Because he...because he wanted to help those who helped him?"
"Hmmm, kind of close, but still WRONG!"
The two were too beat to even scream when they got zapped this time. They simply slumped over.
"It- It's because I...wanted revenge.The Maxwell church was destroyed, and I wanted to destroy the people who did it. I never wanted anotherorphan to go through what I went through.So I met the man who made the gundam Deathschythe, and vowing revenge, I... became Shinigami," Duo said, it hurting him just to talk.
Venus held back tears and looked up painfully at the youma.
"Alright. Time to die now."
"No." Venus growled as she tugged uselessly at her chains, "just kill me. He's been through enough." Duo's mouth fell open as he stared at Venus. She had her head bowed in resignation for what was coming.
"No," he said, "leave her out of it. It's my fault I didn't tell her anything." Duo turned to her, "Sorry we never got that formal date you asked me for at the beach. I would have loved it. When you're free, run." The youma laughed slightly, not taking notice of Duo bringing his foot down towards his gun. He positioned it correctly, placing the front of his shoe just underneath the gun, where he kicked up, sending the gun flying into his hand, where he quickly shot at the wood the cufs were attactched to, freeing one of Venus's hands, whom had suddenly found the strength to break the other piece of wood holding the other chain.
"Sorry Duo," she said, bringing her hands together for an attack, "but it's not your day to die."
"Venus Crescent Beam, Smash!" Then she followed up with, "Veus love and beauty shock!" The youma couldn't even defend as it was dissingrated. Venus limped over to Duo, and the two broke him free, before slumping to the ground, side by side, very tired.
Jupiter and Heero walked next to each other. Heero was quiet, as usual, and any attempt Jupiter made at conversation was answered with a grunt.
"That's it buddy! We've been wandering this place for an hour, and you have yet to even speak to me! What is wrong with you! I thought you liked me like I like you, but I guess I was very wrong," Jupiter snapped, walking a few feet ahead.
Heero frowned. Perhaps he was too distant. But the reason he was distant was...because he acually did like her.
Jupiter was quickly gaining distance, so Heero speed up to close the gap between them.
"Wait."
"What," Jupiter snapped, turning around, only to gasp as something hit her side. She grabbed a hold of it and sank to the floor, feeling blood begin to soak her hand. Heero ran to her, and she grew pale.
"What was that," she said through clenched teeth as she sank lower.
"I don't know," he said, and he felt her going limp. How deep was that injury?
"Move your hand, let me see," he said, and she did so. It was very deep. He began to search for something to tie it with.
She grew paler.
"Stay with me," he said coldly, and she didn't respond. He attempted to use a softer voice.
"Makoto, stay with me. What will I tell your parents if you die?"
"Nothing," she said, managing to keep her eyes open as he untied the ribbon on her back, "they're dead."
"Oh," Heero said, cursing at himself for saying anything. If he could just keep her talking he would know if she was alight.
"My parents are dead as well. I mean, I never knew them."
"Why," she asked as he tied the cloth around her wait, looking around to try and figure out who attacked them.
"I don't know, I was raised by a man named Owin Lowe, whom killed a man named Heero Yuy. He wanted revenge for people making him do that. Then I was found by another man, who trained me better, and I took the name Heero Yuy."
"Oh," Makoto said, her eyes closing slightly, and Heero shook her slightly, trying to get her attention.
"Come on, don't you want your friends to see you well." She didn't respond, and he sighed angrilly.
"Why not me," he said angrilly, looking around for an enemy, which he soon spotted. A youma.
"Why you," the youma said with a snicker as it approached.
Heero grunted, "and why would I tell you?"
"Because," the youma said, "I shot her with poison." It held up a bottle. "And only I have the antidote."
Heero growled at the youma slightly, glaring, and it smiled wider.
"You were saying?"
"Life comes cheap, especially mine," he said, and the youma laughed.
"Well that's true."
"It is not," Jupiter said from the ground. Heero stood.
"Give me the antidote."
"Make me."
Heero pulled out his gun, and the youma fired something at him, which he avoided, as he shot the youma in the stomach.
"That hurt!"
It fired something at him, shocking him like he'd never felt and bringing him to the floor.
He stood, and approached the youma again, firing a second time. It responded, and blocked it. This went on, until Heero shot the youma in the head, shot it on a small gem on it's forhead. The gem shattered, and the youma dissingrated, dropping the bottle. Heero rushed over to get it, and ran back to Makoto. What if it was more poison? At this point, he prayed it was the antidote.
"Drink this," he ordered, and she didn't respond.
"Mako," he said, and she shifted.
"Drink." She opened her mouth, and he poured the liquid in. Jupiter became alert a minute later, and he helped her stand.
"Thanks. I'm sorry for yelling at you," she said.
"I'm sorry that I'm the way I am," he said, "but the war is still a big part of who I am. I can't just change, it will take time."
"I can wait," she responded, before she daringly leaned in to kiss him.
Mars and Quatre walked past the ferris wheel cautiously, remembering the previous hours events.
"This entire place is shut down, I don't understand why we can't find our friends. We dissapeared only to re-appear in the same place. Strange," she said, and he nodded.
"Don't worry, we'll find our friends," he said, and she smiled.
"So, while we're just waiting, I have a question. I've been really wondering about this, but I'm kinda shy to ask."
"What is it," he asked. Mars paused, before speaking.
"You're so nice and kind...and gentle. I can't see you fighting. Whatever brought you into that? What happened in your past? There's really so much I don't know about you," she said. He nodded.
"Well, I can try to explain to you," he offered, and she smiled.
"You see, my family originates from the middle east, but we traveled to the colony L4, where we prospered.I had 29 sisters-" he paused when Rei's mouth fell open, and continued. "I knew that to gain peace, we sometimes have to fight. I have a great respect for human life, but sometimes you just have to fight for what you believe in. My father let himself die rather than become a part of the war-" Qautre paused in slight anger, before continueing. "I try to avoid killing when it's unnecesary. Well anyways, one day I found some Gundam designs. They were of the original 5 gundams, and I began to work on Wing Zero, a gundam that's design had been considered too dangerous."
"Why," Mars asked, and Quatre continued.
"It had something called the Zero System in it. If you don't have great control over it, it controls you. I learned that the hard way, when I...when I accidently destroyed a space colony, and nearly killed Heero and Trowa before I got control of myself. It took me a long time to try and get over that. I'm still not over it. Heero was the one who trained me to use the Zero System again. After that I piloted Sandrock, and we destroyed the gundams when the war was over."
Mars gaped at him.
"I- I had no idea. That must have been horrible for you. The guilt."
"It is," Quatre responded, and Rei bit her lip, mentally cursing at herself. Quatre turned away, looking up at the sky, and she tentatively reached over to touch his hand. He turned to look at her, and she smiled.
"I won't say a word," she said, "now let's try to get out of here."
Quatre smiled and nodded, taking her hand as the two walked. They stopped abruptly in front of a large troop of youma.
"I'd like to hear about your past Mars," Quatre said, pulling out his gun, "and when this is over, I will."
Mars smiled, confident as the two turned to the youma.
"Uranus World Shaking!"
The two turned to see Uranus and Neptune running towards them.
"Finally someone we recognize," Neptune said.
"Let's get this over with," Mars said, as the youma attacked.
"Trowa! Move!" Trowa listened to Pluto's warning as he ducked, and rolled to the side. The two were facing Greg, whom was looking frustrated.
"That's it," he said, snapping his fingers, "I'm bored. I'm calling in a youma. I have someone else to attend to."
Pluto knew who he meant, and screamed. "No! You're fight is with us!"
"Said who," he snapped at her, "You? The all powerful, knowing Pluto! You're pathetic knowledge of the future will not help you here. I know that if you interfere where you don't belong, you will be punished." Greg dissapeared, leaving three youma, which all attacked instantly.
Trowa pushed Pluto to the floor out of the way of an attack.
"This is the wrong time to ask, but why will you be punushed," he asked on his feet and shooting at the youma, whom all were injured, for the moment.
"I think you already know, nameles soldier." Trowa turned to face her.
"How did you know that? Did one of the others tell you?"
"You tell me," she said, and he studied her.
"What else do you know about me?"
"I know that when Trowa Barton was killed, you stepped forwards and took his place. I know you worked in a traveling circus as a clown. I know you had often gone into enemy bases to sabotage." The two ducked from an oncoming youma attack, and Trowa fired his gun three times at every youma, Pluto firing her Deadly Scream attack as well.
"And I know nothing about you," Trowa stated, as Pluto knocked him to the floor to avoid attack this time. But she did not get off of him.
"We'll just have to fix that," she said, as the two turned their heads to look at the youma.
Mercury continued to scan the area, looking for any sign of an enemy. Nothing yet, although the carnival had a strange power signature.
The readings on her visor suddenly spiked, and she shouted to the younger senshi. "Saturn! Watch out!"
However, Saturn was slow to realize what was happening, and Mercury took the opportunity to help. She knocked Saturn to the floor, the two of them roling to the right as a huge fireball zoomed past them.
Wufei ran over to the two who began to get up, Saturn sending Mercury a thankful look as they turned to face their enemies.
Both Siruto and Greg stood in front of them. Siruto had fired the attack, and Greg was watching, arms crossed and emotionlessly.
"Good Mercury, I'm afraid that computer of your is quite a weapon," Siruto said, and he snapped his fingers, causing the mini-computer to suddenly explode, the visor across her eyes begining to crackle and eventually exploding as well, into little shards of energy and dissapearing. Mercury gasped and stared at the other two with worry. Wufei frowned. Siruto hadn't even attacked, just snapped his fingers.
"Well Ames, Master said we had to bring you back alive. He didn't mention the others. Plus, he did say we should rough you up a bit first," Greg said, speaking for the first time. Greg and Siruto shared a look at that moment, not a look of trust or friendship, but more of hateful understanding.
Before she could blink, the two suddenly raced forwards, not at her but at Wufei and Saturn. Wufei turned, ready for them, and cut Greg across the stomach with his newly improved katana.
Greg frowned deeply at Wufei, before blasting him to the ground.
"If it's a fight you want, Wufei, you'll have it. I hated you from the moment I met you," Greg said coldly, getting into a fighting stance. Wufei stood and did the same. "Likewise," Wufei snapped, preparing to fight.
Meanwhile, Siruto attacked Saturn, Mercury runing to help her since she knew Wufei could handle himself. Siruto flew at Saturn very quickly, and Mercury jumped in front of her, spreading out her right arm as a warning to Saturn not to try anything.
"Get out of the way Mercury. You'll have your turn to die later," Siruto said, glaring at her.
"Leave her out of it. If you have a problem with me, then fight me. Late night attacks and hurting my friends won't make you look stronger," she said, and he laughed.
"Honorable Mercury, but foolish. I prefer to play dirty anyways," he said, more than one meaning behind his words as he gave an evil smile, rushing at Mercury with a kick to her head. She rolled to the side to avoid it, and Saturn was left standing alone for a minute, before running away from Siruto. He followed, seemingly enjoying flying after her as she struggled to keep a distance from him.
She only had one good offensive attack, and it would kill her and everyone else around her if she used it.
Mercury was on her feet in a moment's time, attacking. "Mercury Ice Storm!"
Siruto screamed when he was attacked, being surrounded by ice as Mercury ran towards Saturn. He instantly broke out of it.
Wufei was having problems of his own.
Greg had created a sword out of his powers, with a sharp metal blade and vines wraped around the handle. At first Wufei seemed to be the better swords man, defending everything Greg tried and landing some hit sof his own, however time soon proved that not only was Greg reborn with super human strength and skill, but he also had the ability to learn and mimick what he saw. So he let Wufei have the first few hits, watching his technique, before begining to copy him, and add his own style and powers to it, quickly matching Wufei and even gaining the upper hand.
Greg tried to cut off Wufei's head at one point, bringing the sword down quickly and stealthily, but Wufei blocked, and Greg jumped back before charging at him again, aiming again for his head. Wufei went to block that area, when suddenly Greg changed positions and where he was aiming at in mid air, slashing Wufei's side very deeply. Unlike the inhuman Greg, that hurt Wufei, and he collapsed to the ground, feeling blood leaking down his side and leg. And his side had just healed form it's last injury. Wufei growled, trying to stand and using his sword as leverage, but Greg was obviously bored of swords and fair play, and he simply opened his palm and blasted Wufei back to the ground.
Siruto lunged upon Mercury once he broke from the ice, grabbing her by the shoulders and knocking her to the floor as he flew, keeping a firm grip on her as he did so, dragging her across the ground of the amusement park at least 30 feet before stopping, and then sitting on her legs, pinning her arms down by her sides. Mercury groaned lightly as she could tell her back was hurt pretty badly, and struggle to move.
Saturn, whom was getting up off of the ground began to run over, but Greg grabbed her by the collar and threw her on the ground next to Wufei, whom was struggling to stand. Greg floated down to standing next to the still sitting Siruto, whom was simply glaring down at Mercury. She returned the same hateful glare, still struggling to get up.
"Amazing," Siruto commented, "what one woman is making us do. We are losing our souls for our lust and revenge, over one woman."
"Strange what evil ways her mind works," Greg commented, crouching down next to Siruto. Mercury frowned at him.
"Calm yourself Greg. She wants you to get all mad and worked up."
"Yes yes, that's what she wants."
"I want you to let me up," she snapped, glancing over at Wufei and Saturn, one of whom was too exhausted to move and the other which was hurt.
"Oooh, cat has claws," Siruto said, and Mercury finally managed to kick him off of her, getting to her feet and backing away. She was bout to run towards Wufei and Saturn when Siruto and Greg stood in her way. She backed up again. Perhaps if she could distract the two, she could come back for her friends. After all, they seemed ready to kill the two.
Mercury took off running in the direction opposite of her friends, and the two laughed.
"Oh, so she wanted to make it interesting. Let's follow," Greg said, and Siruto nodded, the two landing on the ground and running after her, which Mercury wasn't sure whether it was a good or bad thing.
She ran into a big black building, made partly of drapes, not sure of what it was but hoping she could lose the two inside.
She cursed once she had entered. It was a funhouse, practically a mirror maze. They would have the advantage in here, being that there was two of them.
She walked cautiously past the mirrors, turning into another room, with even more mirrors, in a circle. She turned around thinking she had seen something, only to find nobody. Now she was scared.
She heard something to the right of her, and spun around again, to find nobody. This was a bad idea, she had to get out of here. Which way had she come from?
"Mercury, over here," a voice said, and she saw Siruto's reflection in the mirror in front of her. She spun around to face him, only to blasted into the mirror she was in front of, throwing her hands over her head to survive the crash. She fell into it, breaking the glass. The shards fell around her, and then the big mirror tipped over. Mercury had only a second to look up before re-covering her head as it fell on her. She groaned as she knocked the mirror, feeling blood leaking from her already hurt back and from her arms, the exposed parts of where the glass had hit.
She struggled to her feet to find Siruto was gone, and looked around for an exit. She could see another hallway in the dark from where she stood. Heading towards there, it lead to an even bigger hall of mirrors. Dark, with several turns and dead ends.
This wasn't right...she had come in another way, hadn't she? She continued to scan the area.
"Ames, what's your hurry?" Someone loomed over her, and she could see who it was in the mirror.
"Gotcha," Greg said, grabbing her around the waist from behind.
Mercury froze, unsure of what to do. He hadn't hurt her yet. Should she knock him off right away? Struggling to move, she found it wasn't an option, and he smiled wider, which she could dimly see in the mirrors around her. Should she pursuade him to help her? To abandon his master?
"Forget about your master, Greg. Help us, your real friends," she said, unable to break from his steely hold.
"Don't try to make me betray Master," he said, and she felt his grip tighten, and she gasped slightly at in incredible amount of force he had used that moment.
"I think she's roughed up enough, huh Siruto?"
"I agree," Siruto said, jumping down from where he had been sitting, on top of a mirror. "Now you come with us. Who knows, maybe if master is pleased he will let me keep her to myself after he gets the strength."
Greg snorted. "You? Master will probably kill you when this is over! You've betrayed him enough times. I am his true pride, his elite warrior. If he gives Mizuno to anyone, it will be me. Besides, you've already tried to kill her. Master would rather kill her himself than have you do it."
"You hold your toungue in my presence, you brainwashed puppy! Go, go, run off to master now!"
"I think it's you who should be running now Siruto," Greg said, glaring at Siruto. The two seemed ready to kill each other. Siruto reached over and grabbed Mercury's arm, pulling her roughly from Greg's grasp. Greg growled.
"She's mine! You let her go!"
"No she's not! If Mercury belongs to anybody, it's me!"
"I belong to no one," Mercury shouted, freeing her arm from his grasp and falling to the floor. The two ignored her as they argued.
Mercury did the only thing she could. She made a run for it. She ran out a side door, and nearly crashed into Wufei and Saturn, whom had managed to get up and come look for her.
"Are you alright," Wufei asked her.
"I should ask you the same thing," she said, and a shout was heard from the fun house. The two had realized she was gone.
"Let's get as far away from them as possible," Saturn said, and the other two agreed as the trio took off towards a part of the amusement park they had yet to enter.
However, Siruto and Greg were quick to put aside their differences once they realized she was gone, and took off after the three at lightning speed.
As the three ran, they stopped short when turning a corner because Siruto and Greg appeared right in front of them.
"Enough of these games," Siruto said, snapping his fingers. Chains appeared on he arms and legs of Wufei and Saturn, but not Mercury.
"You three are coming with us."
The three felt very light headed for a moment, before a black light surrounded them and they dissapeared, only to re-appear in a humungous room, made entirely of stone.
Mercury landed in the middle of the room, Siruto and Greg appearing behind her, and she turned to look at the back of the room, where all of her friends were chained up.
Duo and Venus were chained together, back to back, the first ones on the right side, followed by Heero and Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, Moon and Tux. Mask, Mars and Quatre, Pluto and Trowa, Mini-Moon recently joined by Saturn, and then Wufei on his own. They were all injured pretty badly and all looked very tired. Jupiter groaned and focused on the center of the room, where Mercury was.
"Oh no," she said with agroan, realizing that they were all down and had been seperated.
"Your friends put up quite a fight," a voice said, and Siruto and Greg automatically bowed very deeply. Mercury frowned, and the room lit up, all of the torches on the walls coming alive, and she could see what was next to her. A red carpet, leading up a darkened throne.
The last torches at the front lit, and she could finally see who was speaking. A man who looked to be in his very early twenties came down the steps. He had blue eyes much like Mercury's, and black/blue hair, so it was much darker than hers. He was smirking. He wore an outfit of all black, complete with a cape in the back and gold stitching at the colar and sleeves.
"Yes, it was a brilliant fight Senshi. I was watching from right here. All of you possess great talent. Too bad you have to die, you would have made great warriors. A brilliant fight, however you still lost in the end. Do you know why?" He did not wait for an answer before continueing, his confident voice heard crystal clear throughout the entire room. "Because in my world, on my land, no matter what the outcome of a fight is, no matter how valiently the person fights, you still lose."
He approached Mercury, Greg and Siruto getting down to their knees from where they bowed behind her. Mercury took a deep breath from where she sat on the floor, her back killing her as she did so.
"So we finally meet, Ami," he said, giving her a hate-filled lookand she frowned at him.
"Who are you?"
At her question, he tipped his head back and laughed, his laughter echoing through the room. Wufei sat up from where he was, suddenly alarmed, as well as the other senshi, watching with great worry and intrigue.
He stopped laughing and lowered his head closer to her but still above her as he spoke.
"How typical. Typical of Ami, sweet Ami, because of everybody loves INNOCENT PERFECT AMI!" He grabbed a hold of her hair and forced her to stand, letting go and glaring.
Mercury was stunned. She really didn't know what to say. Sure, she'd had enemies that had minions that got very personal, but this was ridiculous.
"My name is Anthony. I am the rightful heir to the thrown of Mercury," he said, waiting for a reaction from her. She simply frowned at him, completely confused. He smiled at this.
"So they never told you the truth? No matter, little sister, I will show you now."
Mercury gasped, and she could hear her friends at the back all simultaneously do the same.
"You're Ami's brother," Moon stated increiously. He appeared in font of her, and Mercury spun around, for dear that he would hurt her friends.
"Yes! I am! Would you like to see what they did to me on Mercury? Would you like to see how my thrown was stolen?" He got right up in front of Moon's face, and she trembled slightly, Mamoru holding her hand tightly.
He stared at their hands.
"Ah yes, young love. I never had that either," he said, turning away from the two, where Moon clearly let out a relieved sigh.
He snapped his fingers, and a mist filled the room, before they were all watching what looked like a vison.
Flashback---
It began with a woman with blue hair and blue eyes, wearing a beautiful gown as she descended down the steps of a palace.
"That is the Queen of Mercury, Athena, our mother,"Anthony said, and Mercury watched with new interest.
At a carriage at the bottom of the steps stood a man with black hair and brown eyes.
"That is the stupid king of Mercury, unfortunately, our father, Robert." He smiled at the queen and the two climbed in the carriage, talking excitedly.
"Honey, why are you smiling at me like that," the King asked, and her smile grew wider. They arrived at a hall, where they were seated right away. A waiter offered the Queen a glass of wine, and she said no.
"But you love your dinner time glass of wine," the King said, before realization dawned on his face.
"You're-" he stopped there and looked around, not wanting to give it away. She nodded.
"I am." King Robert reached over and kissed his wife, and the scene ended there, re-opening when the Queen and King sat in a small room with an old woman. She was very gifted in spiritual powers, known as the caretaker of spiritual affairs at Mercury. The Queen had been having a difficult pregnancy, constantly sick and in extreme pain, and the doctors could medically find nothing wrong with she or the baby. So the King and Queen sat in this room alone with the woman, looking for answers.
The advisor began to pray, pulling out strange Mercurian beads and blessing the Queen and King as she prayed.
She held it over the Queen for a long time, and brought the beads back to her hands, holding her palms out as they sat in them.
Her eyes opened wide all of a sudden, as she stared at the Queen in shock.
"I just had a vision," she said, looking at the Queen. "Your baby is what is hurting you. It is a demon."
"That is ridiculous," the King said, standing.
"My King, please listen. That baby is evil-"
The King growled, and the Queen somehow found strength to stand.
"A baby is the purest, most innocent form of life! It cannot be evil!" The Queen suddenly grabbed her stomach when she shouted this, feeling weak and sinking to the ground, the King grabbing his wife and looking worried.
"It can be, and it is. That baby will bring the downfall of the entire kingdom."
"We never should have come here,"Queen Athena said, and the King agreed.
"Wait. Let me show you what I mean," the advisor said placing her hands on their foreheads.
They saw the queen holding the baby boy, giving a tired smile as she passed him to the king.
They saw the boy at five years old, a handsome yet sneaky boy. He was very quiet as he sat in his lesson. He began to day dream, and the instructor asked him to pay attention. He did not, and the instructor smacked his knuckle with a ruler. The scene shifted to a few moments later, where the boy was using an adults strength as he starngled his instuctor to death. They showed the Queen walking in, and being frightened at the dead body.
"Mommy," he said as he approached, "it was an accident." They scene shifted to the King out in the dead of night, burying the body to protect their son from being blamed for anything. That same year, Ami was born, so he now had a sister, whom he was jealous of.
He used to just push her and take her toys, causing her to cry, but when she turned five and he turned ten, there was an accident, or so everyone thought. The two were playing in the gardens, and he sughested to her that they go play in the forbidden part of the gardens, teh end past the gate towards the cliff.
"I don't know brother, Mommy said we weren't allowed," she said, and he growled.
"No wonder you're such a loser. Do you always listen to what mommy says?"
"No," she said, wanting her brother to like her, and followed him.
He told her they'd play catch, and he threw the ball too far, near the very edge of the cliff leading to the rocky waters below, and asked her to get it. She approached the edge unsurely, reaching for the ball, and couldn't reach it.
"Get closer," he said, and she gave a scared nod and did that. The ground where she stood was unsteady however, and it broke off, her catching the cliffs edge.
"Anthony! Help me!"
He walked over to the edge, and stared down at her, as she trembled, trying to hold on.
"Help me!"
He looked like he was going to help her, but he didn't. One of her hands slipped, and she had her right arm holding her up.
She stared up at him, completely confused, as he raised his foot and stepped on her other hand, causing her to scream, and eventually let go, falling to her death. He stared again at where she had fallen, looking pleased, before walking away. He splattered some water from the palace fountain under his eyes, and ran inside, acting upset and screaming for help, because Ami hadn't listened to him about playing on the other side of the fence, and had fallen. The whole kingdom mourned, and the King and Queen never looked at hime the same again.
It showed the boy a few years later, seriously injuring children as they fought in the palace gardens, and killing again, this time a young Venusian duchess that was his age whom was playing his ball. The king and queen could not hide it, and the entire solar system was in an uproar.
Venus and Mercury fought over the death of the royal, and Venus declared war, because the King and Queen refused to banish their son for the crime. Many were killed.
When the boy was fifteen, he made a deal with Beryl, whom wanted all of the planets, but mostly the Moon. He gained more power. Since she was trying to recruit the generals of Earth, he promiced her that he would take care of Mercury, and he did. He stabbed his mother as she was reading in the palace library one night, and when his father came in and found the body, he killed him too, leaving Mercury defenseless.
The advisor gazed at the king and queens shocked faces.
"If the boy lives- this will happen," the king said, and the advisor nodded.
"You have trusted me to predict evil and see future's for many years my king. Please do not let the fact that this is your future son cloud your vision, my King. If you care about your life, about your wife, and your future daughter, as well as your kingdom, you will do what I say."
The king and queen looked at each other, and back at the woman.
"What must we do," the king asked.
"What must you do? Simple, you my king, must strangle the baby after the queen gives birth. No one else must be there. Tell everyone it was a still born. Five years from now, you will give birth to a girl, name her Ami."
The two nodded nervously and left. When it came time for the baby to born, only the king stayed with the queen. No one helped to deliver the baby, only the inexperienced king.
The king looked at the child and back at his wife.
"I- I guess I have to do it now," he said, and his wife nodded, tears brimming her eyes. The king placed his hands on the crying baby's neck, and began to apply presure, his wife now crying, but he soon realeased his hands.
"I- I can't. I cannot strangle my own child," he said collapsing to the floor and leaving the baby on it's blanket.
"What now," the queen asked.
The King looked up.
"Perhaps he cannot stay in the palace, where he will hurt us and the kingdom, but we can still spare his life. We'll say he was still born, and please the advisor. Then we will give him to someone else to raise, outside of Mercury, outside of the Solar System, where he will not be influenced by Beryl. Say goodbye to your son, Athena. I will take the baby to be adopted now. Tell everyone I was upset and left to clear my head."
End of Flashback---
Everyone was shocked, to say the least.
"So, my father gave me to an old woman living on a planet in another solar system. She was very happy to have me, since she had never had any children of her own. However, she had an accident. You see, when I was ten, Beryle came to find me. She knew what had happened some how, and I was shown the truth. So I killed the old woman, and then Beryl gave herself a new name and identity, and pretended to want to adopt me. She took me to the negaverse, where I realized my ultimate potential. Then the stupid queen of the moon sent you all to earth, and since I was destined to be part of the court, I was sent there too, with Beryl. Then Beryl showed what an idiot she was and lost toall of you. I gained power the next four years, until I re-emerged as the great King I am today."
Mercury was stunned. He turned to her.
"Now Mercury, I'm afraid I must have that strength of yours. It is imperative for my kingdom that I have it."
"Why is that," Mars asked.
"I might as well tell you all now. You see, the reason Mercury has been showing these strange powers, is all because of Crystal Tokyo. In the prophecy for Crystal Tokyo, it says...any takers on that?" He walked past the senshi, stopping at Mini-Moon.
"You know little one. Why don't you share with the class?"
Mini-Moon trembled, but nodded.
"In order for there to be a Crystal Tokyo, the earth must freeze over until the 30th century. When the people awaken, there will be no more wars between the humans. They will all unite, under one Kingdom, Crytal Tokyo."
"What else," he said, and she continued.
"Crystal Tokyo can only happen if the earth is frozen over. And the Senshi of mercury is destined to do that, no one else. For five years before she freezes the earth, she qill exhibit strange powers, starting when she is eighteen. When she is 23, her powers will be at their maximum potential, and she will freeze the earth, bringing forth Crystal Tokyo."
"Very good. Extremely accurate little one," he said, walking away. "I will steel her powers and freeze the earth, and when Humanity re-awakens, the will awaken to find me, their true king."
"You're insane," Mercury said, and he turned to her. "Am I? How typical of you to say that. You weren't the one exiled from your family. I was written out of history. Everyone loved you. Now, show me some of your strength-" Anthony was cut off.
"Lord Anthony," Siruto said boldly, "can I have Mercury afterwards?"
Mercury gaped at him, and worst of all, the Master was considering it.
"No," Greg said, "my lord, I have been nothing but loyal. Let me have her."
"You two can work it out amongst yourselves when I'm done with her," he said flipantly, "perhaps you'll find out why Siruto is so intrigued by you, sister. But for now, the strength. How shall I make you mad? Pain?" Siruto and Greg looked like they were going to object, and master shut them up instantly.
"Don't worry, she'll still be breathing enough to scream when I'm done with her," Anthony said, and Mercury looked horrified as the scouts and pilots gaped at Anthony. "For now, you two get in the sidelines, with the youma." The two nodded and moved aside.
Anthony appraoched her, and Mercury backed up right away. Uranus knew that if Mercury wasn't killed by Anthony now, she'd have pure hell when Siruto and Greg got to her.
"Mercury! Run! Get as far away from here as possible," Neptune shouted as all of the scouts and pilots began to struggle in their chains.
"Shutup," Anthony said, turning back to Mercury.
Mercury took a chance and attacked her self.
"Mercury Ice Storm!"
Anthony growled as he was attacked, frozen solid. She ran over to her friends, about to freeze their chains so that they could break out of them.
"FOOL!" They heard a cracking sound as Anthony broke out of all of his ice, screaming angrilly as he shivered.
"Now you'll really feel pain!" Before Mercury could move, he had fired a blue beam of light at Mercury's back, knocking her to the floor and making her already badly bleeding back worse. She struggled to her feet, but he was in front of her in an instant, grabbing her by the collar and throwing her against the opposite wall.
Wufei began to struggle against his chains fiercely, breaking one side from the wood post on the wall, but not the other.
"It's not too difficult to break," he told the others, and Heero and Jupiter instantly began to try and break their chains, the other following.
"Oh no you don't," Siruto said, as he and Greg flew over to the group, restraining them from breaking the chains.
They heard Mercury scream from the other end of the room, and everyone looked up, including Greg and Siruto.
"Damn it, he's killing her," Greg said.
"We can help, you know," Duo said, and the two turned to stare at him.
"You want Ami, right? Well if we attack the lord now, you can have her, alive," Duo said.
While Duo and the others tryed to convince Greg and Siruto to unhook their chains, Mercury was fighting a losing battle. She struggled to crawl away from Anthony, but he was faster, and wouldn't stop his assault.
"Show me the strength! NOW!"
"Why do you want Ami so badly anyways Siruto," Venus piped up while they tried to convine them, "I mean, I know Greg always kind of wanted Ami, but why you?"
Heero nodded as Venus and Duo kept the two talking. He and Jupiter were trying to pick their locks, while Wufei was tugging hard at his. Greg approached them.
"Why? I loved her from the moment I saw her," Siruto said, looking angry, "but I wasn't allowed to. I was a commoner. I began to obsess. I found every picture of her I could and lined my room with them. I snuck into balls to glimpse her face. I left her letters and lillies. Of course the wench was less than pleased. She called on the royal guard, said she was scared or osmething." Siruto shrugged, "I really wasn't scary. My letters weren't all that threatening." Venus somehow doubted that, but urged him to keep talking as the others worked on their chains.
"So anyways, the palace guard had the whole area guarded. But I was smarter than them, I was," continued Siruto proudly, "I made a bet with one of Beryls followers. I destroyed 10 out 50 palace guard troops and got into her room. I spilled my whole heart out for her. She wouldn't even give me a smile! Then the rest of them came in and arrested me. I was crushed, broken, at the edge of my sanity. I knew that one day I'd have my princess. When the Mercury Palace fell, I escaped and joined Lord Anthony, with the promice of one day having her, dead or alive."
"Wow, you must have meant past the edge of your sanity," Mars commented.
"Why you little-" Before Siruto could attack, the group simultaneously broke out of their chains. Siruto looked around for Greg, and found him helping the last few scouts out of them.
"Traitor!"
"No," he said, "Mercury will be mine, whether you live through this or not!"
Everyone ran at Anthony and Mercury, while Greg and Siruto began to fight, punching and kicking at each other through their shouts.
"Why aren't you showing any strength," asked Anthony as he punched Mercury in the stomach. She fell over to the side, compltely exhausted. She was worse off then when Siruto had beat her now.
"Mars flame sniper!" A flaming arrow came his way, but Anthony simply waved his hand and it went out. The scouts all stopped at one spot.
"You're kidding, we free ourselves and he puts up a force field," Quatre said, banging against the invisible wall.
Mercury coughed up blood as Anthony turned to look at her friends.
"Of course, why didn't I realize sooner. Your strength emerges when someone hurts your friends," he said, and Mercury gasped and looked up. The force field dissapeared and Anthony stood in front of Mercury, arms crossed as her friends approached. They stopped about ten feet from him when they realized he was smiling.
Behind him, Mercury was dragging herself to his right, away from behind him. He didn't care.
"Sorry, well actually, I'm not sorry, but this really had very little to do with the rest of you," he said, sweeping his hand past them, electrifying them. Mercury looked up to hear their screams, and screamed herself.
"No!"
He turned to her.
"Oh, you liked that one, huh? How about this?"
More screams filled the room as he did it again, and Mercury struggled to her feet, pushing his arms to stop him, before falling over herself.
"Come on, you can do better than that. Save your friends Mercury," he said.
"No Mercury, don't do it. If you do, it'll be the end of all of us. Stay calm, stay calm," urged Sailor Moon. Mercury knew she was right, but she had no control.
Again, he attacked her friend, and they were all on their knees or completely laying down.
"I think one more would do the trick," Anthony said, raising his hands, and Mercury closed her eyes, unable to control it any longer. Again, her eyes went black, and she stood up, seemingly possesed. She grabbed Anthony's arm, and he screamed. "Get off of me, let go!"
He opened his palm, said a chant quickly, and a strong wind took over the room, as a light circled Mercury, going from her to his palm. He was smiling. So much power, it was unbelievable.
Finally, he stopped, and she collapsed to the floor, her transformation gone, back to Ami. She struggled to get up, feeling dizzy now, and Anthony laughed.
"I've done it! I win!"
Ami crawled over to Wufei, whom was getting to his knees.
Suddenly, Anthony began to cough and shiver.
"What-" he paused to cough, "is this?"
He coughed, and sank to his knees.
"I've never felt this way before!"
"It's a lot to handle, isn't it," Mercury said, watching him with no pity from where she lay.
"It feels like I'M FRICKEN BEING RIPPED APART!" Anthony began to scream, unable to handle the pain, rolling around on the ground. She and her friends weakly managed to stand, and they suddenly heard no noise coming from Greg and Siruto. As soon as they turned to look, Greg's body as thrown at Ami, knocking her to the floor. She groaned, and Wufei rolled the body off of her. Jupiter checked the pulse, and shook her head.
"Sorry Ames." Tears sprang to Ami's eyes. Greg was dead- again. They could hear Anthony trying to get himself under control behind them- unsuccesfully.
Siruto, uninjured, approached at lightning speed, grabbing a hold of Ami's wrist and pulling her from her friends, towards him.
"I beat him. I am claiming my prize," he said, Ami's limp body falling against him as he glared at the other scouts.
Ami only weakly struggled.
The others limped over.
"She's not a prize...she's a person, she has a name" shouted Wufei, limping to stand ahead of the group and surprising the others.
Venus looked at Pluto, shocked. How could they not have seen it before? Wufei cared for Ami.
Sailor Moon's eyes softened, and she looked up at Mamoru.
"Well I'm terribly sorry about how you feel, but Ami and I will just be going."
"No you won't be," Wufei said simply, readying his katana.
Siruto laughed. "Oh please, you're going to fight me? You're injured, I'm not. Let's just say I won," Siruto said.
"Hold it right there," Sailor Moon said, stepping up next to Wufei, "Ami has more than one friend willing to fight. You want Ami you fight me to."
"And me," Duo said, stepping forwards.
Uranus stepped next to them, glaring, as the rest of the senshi and pilots followed, all in a line infront of him.
Ami turned her head to look at her friends, clearly appreciating what they were doing as everyone approached. Siruto looked around for help, but he had killed Greg. Encouraged by her friends, Ami pushed away from him, but he caught her wrist, and he was practically holding her up by her wrist.
"No, you're staying with me," he growled, and she shook her head, trying to pull away but unable to stand by herself.
"Stop right there," he told her advancing friends, "or she's done for." To prove that he was serious, he pulled out a small knife and turned her to face her friends, putting the knife against her neck.
Ami stared at Wufei when he did this, and Wufei shook with anger.
"I see you getting all angry over there. Don't think I'll do it? Let's show an example," he said, turning Ami to face him as he lowered the knife to her face. Her friends screamed when he did this, Mini-Moon covering her eyes,and then Ami's screams followed as he cut her face, concentrating as if he was carving something. Ami's face was held still by his one hand as he carved with the other, and when he was done, he turned her back around, and they saw what he had done. He had carved an 'S' on her left cheek, representing his name, his claim. It was leaking blood down her cheek, and she was now involuntarilly crying.
"I can't believe you just did that," Mars shouted, Pluto's fist tightening.
"If you were smart, you'd let me take her now, unless you want me to kill her now. Believe me, Lord Anthony already hurt her very badly, it would be too easy."
"How about you stop this nonsence and let her go before I cut off your head," Wufei threatened. Siruto raised the knife to Ami's neck in response, and he backed down.
Siruto turned Ami over to face him once again, holding her up by her shoulders. He forced Ami to look up at him, grabbing her face, and leaning down, began to kiss her, through her struggling, just to make a point in front of her friends.
Wufei looked like he was going to explode at that point, his grip on his katana tightening until his knuckles turned white, unable to do anything. "I see you all enjoyed that," Siruto said, "and I can do whatever I want with her. She's mine."
"You're sick," Mamoru said, and Siruto smiled at him. "Thankyou," he said, and continued, Ami struggling more violently now, giving him a hard time. He used the arm that wasn't holding her face to then punch her in the stomach, her cry of protest ringing in her friends ears. He grabbed her arm and held her firmly to stop her from shaking from the punch, and a trail of blood fell from the right side of Ami's mouth after he punched her.
"Oooh, I like that," Siruto said, and this time Saturn covered her eyes as he leaned down and licked the blood up, hearing her friends all begin to cough, ready to gag at the sight before them. He was looking at Wufei, doing it slowly as if daring him to do anything, showing him the knife again.
A few tears trailed down Moon's face as she realized that Ami was suffering now, and that they could do nothing about it without risking her life.
Ami was shaking now, more from fear than pain, and Siruto traced his finger from where he cut her face, down her neck andchest, looking at her lustfully. Ami raised her weak hand to stop him, and he simply smiled.
"What? If not now, then later." Ami fought a bit harder when he said that, but it was ineffective.
"That's it," Uranus said, taking both Saturn and Mini-Moons hands, "you two go watch Greg," she said. Venus would have laughed at how over protective Uranus was being if not for the seriousness of the situation.
"Please let her go," Quatre pleaded, feeling Mars tense from next to him.
"No. And don't think I'm not watching all of you. If one of you tries to attack, she gets it," Siruto said, raising the knife again.
"Then attack him," Mercury managed, "I'd rather die."
"Aw, that's no way to talk," Siruto said, kissing Ami, and by this point she could no longer give resistance, "We'll live a long, happy life together...whatever you want you can have," he said.
"Then...I-I want you to let me go," she said, and he smirked.
"Well...anything but that," he said, and kissed her again, bringing his toungue into her mouth this time and seemingly planning on doing that for a while. More tears streaked down Ami's face as she struggled, and she did the only thing she could. She bit his toungue.
"Ow! You bitch," he said, slapping her hard, bringing her to her knees as she grabbed her face.
"Good, on your knees, just how I like you."
"You Jackass," Mars yelled, unable to stand it anymore.
"Ah ah ah," he said, bringing the knife to Ami's shaking form. Mars bit her lip.
"Now no one will tear us apart," he told her. "Not even you Ami, will tear us apart. I said I'd have you no matter what."
"You can't have me," she managed to say, "Never...I will kill myself before I go with you." Siruto growled at her.
"I have gone to hell and back to have you, and I will."
Anthony's screams grew louder behind them and Siruto turned to look.
"Alright Ami. Now he won't bother us," Siruto said, however Anthony wasn't going down that way. He staggered over to Ami and Siruto. Ami began tocrawl towards her friends, tears streaming down her face, andthey all moved forwards. Anthony and Siruto were talking in hushed voices, as if Anthony was trying convince Siruto of something.
She reached the person in front, Wufei, shaking and crying more as he crouched down next to her, helping her sit up, her friends surrounding her, some of them on the floor next to her, others standing weakly around her.
"You alright," Wufei asked, and for some reason she cried more, gripping his arm tightly. His eyes softened instantly, and all her friends could do was stare from Ami to Siruto, wondering how they had ever let that go on for so long, and still knowing that at the risk of Siruto killing her, they had done all that they could have.
Moon rubbed the un-injured part of Ami's back, completely pale after what they had just witnessed, and Ami's crying calmed down a little. If Sailor Moon was pale, then Mini-Moon and Saturn were white. Uranus had her hand gripping tightly on Saturns shoulder, while Saturn watched sadly. Mamoru held Mini-Moon. No one attacked Siruto or Anthony. Anthony was hurting, and the two were arguing. Maybe they would kill each other. But now was not the right time to attack, maybe in a few minutes, once the senshi gathered enough strength for an attack.
Ami touched her face where he had carved the 'S'. What if it scarred? Then she would forever have his imprint on her face, never be able to forget, not for one second.
Neptune and Trowa helped her stand, and she sank instantly.
Wufei carried her instead, and the othrs nodded. "Walk towards any exit Wufei. Get her out of here, she's had enough," Pluto said.Wufei nodded and did so, injured but still much better off than she was.
"Hey! You scum! Stop argueing and get ready to pay," Jupiter shouted, "You hurt our friend!"
The two looked towards the scouts, and Anthony saw that his ticket to freeing himself of the pain was being carried towards the exit. He appeared in front of Wufei and Ami, everyone running over, including Siruto.
"I can't, I can't control these powers. They are tearing me apart inside. I'm going to die of illness from these powers. Take them!" Anthony shouted.
He reached his hand over and touched Ami's bloodied face, Wufei trying to knock his hand away, but it was too late. A bright blue light exploded from his hand and Ami screamed as the power, the burden was suddenly within her again. Wufei had to let go of Ami from the force of the power, but it was alright. Because her power was about to be used, she was able to stand on her own now. Anthony looked like a huge weight had been lifted off of his shoulders.
"Alright, now then I'll just have to use you to freeze the earth and-"
Ami shook her head, and her eyes went black, as she placed her own bloodied hand on Anthony's face before he could object.
This time Anthony screamed very loudly, and Siruto stood there, shocked.
Anthony began to freeze up, turning to ice. From the way he was screaming, the scouts and pilots had a feeling he wasn't just being covered with ice, but that his insides were turning to ice.
Finally, Ami let go, and the ice statue of her brother stood for only a moment before crumbling to the floor.
"Sorry Brother." Ami looked ready to pass out then, but she had one more person to take care of.
She turned to the right of her, where Siruto stood, shaking. She approached him, and he did not move.
"Please Ami, no. I threw away my life for you, does that mean nothing to you? Don't kill me! Please!" Siruto collapsed to his knees begging. Ami looked reluctant to touch him, suddenly trying to fight her powers. Wufei walked up behind her, wondering what the problem was. The fool had hurt her, why shouldn't she do the same?
"You! You stay out of this," Siruto growled, throwing the small knife in his hand at Wufei's shoulder, who gasped. It had gone right in.
Ami shook her head.
"Siruto, you will never change. I remember you now, forceful and deadly to the core," she said, pulling the knife from Wufei's shoulder and dropping it on the floor, "I wish I was more sorry."
Ami bent down and planted a kiss on Siruto's forhead, him looking up at her shocked, before he realized what she was doing. Standing, she watched as the same thing that happened to Anthony happened to Siruto, his screams echoing off of the walls until he died.
Wufei, holding his shoulder, reached over and checked his pulse. Nothing. He was gone.
Her friends all approached, somewhat unsurely. Ami's power suddenly faded, and she fell backwards onto Wufei, him catching her with his uninjured arm.
"Ami?"
He shook her slightly, and got no reaction. Jupiter checked her pulse, and found it.
"She's alive!"
"Ouch! Did anyone get the number of that truck," a voiceleft of them said. They heard Sailor Moon give a relieved, tear filled laugh, and turned to look. Sailor Moon had her crystal out, and Greg was sitting up, healed and alive, Tuxedo Mask helping Sailor Moon up and she put the crystal away.
"Moon, you brought Greg back to life? Amazing," Duo said.
"I knew she wouldn't let him die," Mars said, giving her a smile.
"I'm sorry everyone. I didn't know what I was doing," Greg said, standing with Venus's help.
He approached an unconsious Ami. Reaching out, he touched her cheek where Siruto had carved lightly, removing his hand instantly, and traced his fingers down her limp hand, picking it up and holding it a moment. Everyone was silent, before he looked at Wufei, crouched next to Ami. Reaching over, he took Wufei's hand, and placed Ami's in it, before giving a small, sad, smile.
"Some things simply are not meant to be," he said quietly, and Wufei nodded, the two finally finding understanding with each other. Saturn and Mini-Moon glanced at each other, smiling, and Sailor Moon gave Tuxedo mask's hand a small squeeze.
Everything would be alright.
Ami opened her eyes, and sat up, grabbing her stomach when she did.
"Don't stress yourself, you're still injured," a voice said, and Ami looked next to her. She was on Rei's bed, and Wufei was siting at the edge next to her.
"Are you alright," she asked.
"I'm okay. We're all still injured, but we're mostly alright. You mom called. She'll be home in two days, she found the nearest flight. Knowing you, you'll be up and walking by then."
Ami smiled.
"I hope you're alright, after what happened," he said unsurely, looking around the room.
Ami looked out the window and back at him.
"Maybe not now, but I will be." Wufei smiled, leaning in towards herbefore tilting up her chin the gentlest way she had ever seen him do anything, and planting a light kiss on her lips. Ami blushed slightly, but couldn't hide her smile.
"What was that for?"
Wufei only smiled in response.
"You're feverish," he commented, placing a hand on her forhead.
Ami shiver slightly, but said she was fine.
"Do you want to see your friends?"
She nodded, and he walked over and picked her up.
"Oh no Wufei, your shoulder," she said, and he shook his head. "I'm fine."
He walked into the main sitting room of the temple, where her friends all sat, talking.
Looking up at her, they all smiled.
"Ames! You're up! How are you feeling," Usagi asked, bouncing over to her.
"Fine Usagi," she responded, and Duo and Wufei helped her sit.
The next few minutes were casual, stressed conversation, as if they were trying to keep away from certain issues.
They all stared at her as if she was sad constantly, and kept asking her if she needed anything.
Finally Ami put her hands up to stop them.
"You guys, please. I'm not a piece of glass. Talk about what you want, and stop bugging me every five minutes," Ami said with a laugh.
"But Ames, we don't want to upset you," Minako said. Ami shook her head.
"Look, what happened was bad. It was totally gross, and now it's over. Let's move on, let's all try and act like adults and not skirt around certain topics," Ami said.
She was met with silence, before Minako spoke up.
"You're trying to flaunt the fact that you're already eighteen, aren't you," she asked, and Ami laughed, Minako giving a huge grin.
Ami did stay feverish for another day after that, and Rei once again took care of her. It was a high of 108 this time, but she was okay the next day. She went home to see her mom, trying to convince Rei not to worry.
One month later...
"What is this crappe, come outside with me instead," Wufei was saying as he snatched a book from Ami's hand in the library. Ever since the last battle, they had been dating, and all of their friends had begun to date as well.
They all knew that Ami would eventually have to freeze the earth, but not until she was twenty three. And Wufei told her that he would stay with her. Ami's face had not scarred, lukily. She wouldn't have ben able to stand looking at it if that happened. Whiel her physical injuries were gone, her emotional ones had lasted much longer. Wufei knew that, her friends knew that. But she was healing.
Ami snatched the book back.
"That is by shakespeare," Ami said, "it's a classic."
"So, you can read later. Let's go enjoy the day now," he said, snatching Ami's book and setting it down on the page she was on. Ami nodded, staring straight into his eyes.
"You're right, let's go."
The two left the library, hand in hand.
The librarian walked over to the table to pick up the book. This one had a quote that was one of her favorites. She picked it up and began to read.
'Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.'
Thankyou to all who ready my story. To those whom reviewd, thankyou, and to those who read but did not review, that's okay too. I hope you all enjoyed. I do ask one favor. No matter how many times, few or many that you have reviewed this story, please review this last chapter. Thankyou, I had fun writing this story. And ofcourse, that last quote belongs to William Shakespeare.
